1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:22,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:22,635 --> 00:00:27,155 Speaker 1: think Vladimir Putin just sent Trump to not very carefully 3 00:00:27,195 --> 00:00:31,235 Speaker 1: coded messages and to borrow the stylings of Vice President Harris. 4 00:00:31,435 --> 00:00:34,475 Speaker 1: One began with the letter F and the other began 5 00:00:34,595 --> 00:00:39,195 Speaker 1: with the letter you. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskoff, as I 6 00:00:39,235 --> 00:00:42,875 Speaker 1: assume you know, has confirmed to Bloomberg News that Bob 7 00:00:42,915 --> 00:00:47,635 Speaker 1: Woodward's book is right that Trump did send tests and 8 00:00:47,795 --> 00:00:51,595 Speaker 1: testing machines early in the COVID Nightmare of twenty twenty 9 00:00:51,915 --> 00:00:55,995 Speaker 1: to Putin, but quoting Peskoff, but about the phone calls, 10 00:00:56,195 --> 00:01:01,675 Speaker 1: it's not true. Putin just outed Trump as a liar 11 00:01:02,635 --> 00:01:08,715 Speaker 1: twice in different direcrections, confirming what he wanted, denied denying 12 00:01:08,755 --> 00:01:14,635 Speaker 1: what he wanted. Confirmed on Tuesday, Trump's spokesmodel Stephen Chung 13 00:01:15,235 --> 00:01:17,595 Speaker 1: insisted the report that in the window that must have 14 00:01:17,635 --> 00:01:20,115 Speaker 1: been between March thirty first and May seventh, twenty twenty, 15 00:01:20,355 --> 00:01:24,115 Speaker 1: Trump took COVID tests meant for and desperately needed by 16 00:01:24,235 --> 00:01:28,115 Speaker 1: Americans and sent them to Putin for Putin's personal use. 17 00:01:28,835 --> 00:01:31,555 Speaker 1: He insisted that was just a story Woodward had made up. 18 00:01:32,195 --> 00:01:34,995 Speaker 1: The Kremlin spokesman might as well have called the fatuous 19 00:01:35,115 --> 00:01:39,035 Speaker 1: Chung a liar, and Trump with him. We thus know 20 00:01:39,115 --> 00:01:43,075 Speaker 1: that Peskov's words also add to the logical extrapolation that 21 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:47,435 Speaker 1: somewhere an American must have died because Trump stole the 22 00:01:47,475 --> 00:01:50,435 Speaker 1: test that might have saved him and diverted it instead 23 00:01:50,475 --> 00:01:54,715 Speaker 1: to our greatest enemy in this world. The idea that 24 00:01:54,755 --> 00:01:58,435 Speaker 1: it was just one American denied the test and denied 25 00:01:58,475 --> 00:02:01,595 Speaker 1: his life that could have led to help that could 26 00:02:01,595 --> 00:02:05,115 Speaker 1: have saved him. That thought is in fact Louter Chrisley 27 00:02:05,435 --> 00:02:10,195 Speaker 1: small c Conservative at a time when ten thousand of 28 00:02:10,315 --> 00:02:14,275 Speaker 1: US were dying per week because of Trump's utter mismanagement 29 00:02:14,355 --> 00:02:19,675 Speaker 1: of and disinterest in the pandemic. Moscow's denial that Putin 30 00:02:19,715 --> 00:02:22,155 Speaker 1: and Trump have spoken in the last four years, meanwhile, 31 00:02:22,435 --> 00:02:26,755 Speaker 1: the estimate from Woodward's source was seven times, also paints 32 00:02:26,795 --> 00:02:29,715 Speaker 1: Trump as a liar. It was Trump, after all, who 33 00:02:29,715 --> 00:02:32,115 Speaker 1: insisted to the world in the debate with President Biden 34 00:02:32,275 --> 00:02:36,155 Speaker 1: that he spoke to Putin about Ukraine after this nation's 35 00:02:36,155 --> 00:02:40,675 Speaker 1: withdrawal from Afghanistan in August twenty twenty one, but before 36 00:02:40,795 --> 00:02:44,715 Speaker 1: Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February twenty twenty two, it 37 00:02:44,875 --> 00:02:49,075 Speaker 1: was Trump who name dropped Putin while ushering an aid 38 00:02:49,155 --> 00:02:52,275 Speaker 1: out of his office at Merrik Krapshak earlier this year, 39 00:02:52,315 --> 00:02:55,275 Speaker 1: according to Woodward, insisting he had to have a private 40 00:02:55,555 --> 00:03:00,995 Speaker 1: call with the Russian dictator just to dig Trump's metaphorical 41 00:03:01,115 --> 00:03:05,475 Speaker 1: grave on this a little deeper. Here comes j to 42 00:03:05,555 --> 00:03:10,395 Speaker 1: the rescue of Trump's post presidency dialogue with Putin. Jd 43 00:03:10,555 --> 00:03:13,955 Speaker 1: Vance says, quote, even if it's true, is there something 44 00:03:13,995 --> 00:03:17,555 Speaker 1: wrong with speaking to world leaders? No? Is there anything 45 00:03:17,555 --> 00:03:24,035 Speaker 1: wrong with engaging in diplomacy unquote Obviously not if you're 46 00:03:24,075 --> 00:03:26,915 Speaker 1: a diplomat, if you are an elected official of the 47 00:03:26,995 --> 00:03:30,315 Speaker 1: United States, if you are not violating the Logan Act 48 00:03:30,515 --> 00:03:35,395 Speaker 1: by freelancing in international affairs, especially if you're contradicting American policy, 49 00:03:35,555 --> 00:03:38,515 Speaker 1: which Trump not only confesses to daily but boasts about. 50 00:03:38,675 --> 00:03:41,635 Speaker 1: Trump is not some sort of international statesman nor American 51 00:03:41,675 --> 00:03:45,235 Speaker 1: spokesman at this point. He's a guy selling bibles on TV. 52 00:03:46,955 --> 00:03:48,835 Speaker 1: But the Logan Act isn't the point here, and not 53 00:03:48,995 --> 00:03:51,675 Speaker 1: just because it is a toothless law that has never 54 00:03:51,755 --> 00:03:55,195 Speaker 1: resulted in a successful prosecution, and has not even resulted 55 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:59,475 Speaker 1: in an unsuccessful prosecution since the year eighteen fifty two. 56 00:03:59,635 --> 00:04:04,075 Speaker 1: As Aaron Blake usefully notes in The Washington Post, throughout 57 00:04:04,075 --> 00:04:08,715 Speaker 1: his time occupying the White House, Trump continuously accused Barack 58 00:04:08,755 --> 00:04:13,155 Speaker 1: Obama's second term Secretary of State John Kerry of speaking 59 00:04:13,315 --> 00:04:18,195 Speaker 1: to Iran and continuously insisted Carrie was breaking the law 60 00:04:18,195 --> 00:04:21,275 Speaker 1: when he did so, and continuously pressured his own Department 61 00:04:21,355 --> 00:04:25,835 Speaker 1: of Justice to prosecute Carrie. And while that DOJ managed 62 00:04:25,875 --> 00:04:29,795 Speaker 1: to stall Trump, it did investigate Carrie while Trump and 63 00:04:29,835 --> 00:04:34,515 Speaker 1: his dirigible Mike Pompeo kept up public pressure. In September 64 00:04:34,515 --> 00:04:39,475 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Pompeo said Carry was undermining US policy and 65 00:04:39,515 --> 00:04:44,755 Speaker 1: he called it unseemly and unprecedented. Almost simultaneously, Trump wrote 66 00:04:44,955 --> 00:04:49,195 Speaker 1: John Kerrey had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian regime. 67 00:04:49,795 --> 00:04:53,075 Speaker 1: The next May, Trump said Carry should be prosecuted on that. 68 00:04:53,315 --> 00:04:57,355 Speaker 1: In March twenty twenty, Trump literally accused Carrie of violating 69 00:04:57,395 --> 00:05:02,795 Speaker 1: the Logan Act. So Trump says he's done the same 70 00:05:02,875 --> 00:05:06,155 Speaker 1: thing he tried to get Trump prosecuted for, only with 71 00:05:06,275 --> 00:05:10,435 Speaker 1: Vladimir Effing Putin, and Vance is vague about whether or 72 00:05:10,475 --> 00:05:11,995 Speaker 1: not it happens, but says it would be fine if 73 00:05:11,995 --> 00:05:15,755 Speaker 1: Trump has kept talking to the dictator and Putin's spokesman 74 00:05:15,835 --> 00:05:21,115 Speaker 1: says it never happened, and Trump's minions deny he sent 75 00:05:21,155 --> 00:05:24,715 Speaker 1: Putent COVID tests, and putin spokesman says, yeah, he did too. 76 00:05:25,675 --> 00:05:28,075 Speaker 1: And this matters not only because it is added to 77 00:05:28,115 --> 00:05:31,395 Speaker 1: that list of events that proves Trump has no connection 78 00:05:31,475 --> 00:05:36,995 Speaker 1: to morality or reality or patriotism, but maybe more importantly, 79 00:05:37,035 --> 00:05:40,355 Speaker 1: it really is a reminder in public from Putin to 80 00:05:40,395 --> 00:05:45,955 Speaker 1: Trump as to who owns whom. Trump continuously drops Putin's 81 00:05:46,035 --> 00:05:49,515 Speaker 1: name as if they are buddies. Who knows, maybe they 82 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:53,835 Speaker 1: met at mass murdering dictator night school, and he keeps 83 00:05:53,875 --> 00:05:57,555 Speaker 1: doing it as if such references somehow helped Trump's image 84 00:05:57,755 --> 00:06:02,555 Speaker 1: with thinking Americans. I think Putin, by confirming what Trump 85 00:06:02,595 --> 00:06:06,795 Speaker 1: denied and denying what Trump can firmed, is reminding Trump 86 00:06:07,835 --> 00:06:33,715 Speaker 1: you should only speak when you are spoken to. Kamala 87 00:06:33,755 --> 00:06:39,275 Speaker 1: Harris has raised one billion dollars since becoming the Democratic 88 00:06:39,315 --> 00:06:45,155 Speaker 1: presidential candidate. Is that a lot in retrospect? The corruption 89 00:06:45,275 --> 00:06:50,515 Speaker 1: and cash before Citizens United was the good old days? 90 00:06:51,275 --> 00:06:54,595 Speaker 1: But somebody is going to raise a billion dollars in 91 00:06:54,675 --> 00:06:57,395 Speaker 1: just eighty one days if somebody is in position to 92 00:06:57,515 --> 00:07:00,715 Speaker 1: buy the election with saturation advertising and get out the 93 00:07:00,795 --> 00:07:05,115 Speaker 1: vote efforts. You want it to be your candidate billion 94 00:07:05,195 --> 00:07:08,075 Speaker 1: dollars more than a billion in fact, per the New 95 00:07:08,155 --> 00:07:11,955 Speaker 1: York Times sources, is more than Trump has raised in 96 00:07:12,115 --> 00:07:15,875 Speaker 1: all of twenty twenty four. Harris's figure is just since 97 00:07:15,915 --> 00:07:22,795 Speaker 1: the afternoon of July twenty first most fastest two polls 98 00:07:22,875 --> 00:07:26,875 Speaker 1: of note yesterday you Gov for The Economist National closed Tuesday. 99 00:07:27,115 --> 00:07:30,075 Speaker 1: Harris forty nine, Trump forty five. And that is with 100 00:07:30,315 --> 00:07:34,235 Speaker 1: Trump's Stoog's, Stein and West in the mix, Harris by four. 101 00:07:35,355 --> 00:07:38,035 Speaker 1: But far more interesting something done by a new polster 102 00:07:38,155 --> 00:07:43,395 Speaker 1: called Blueprint for the website The Bulwark. It polled Republicans 103 00:07:43,395 --> 00:07:48,115 Speaker 1: and independents who had supported Nikki Hayley, and Trump is 104 00:07:48,155 --> 00:07:52,235 Speaker 1: only getting forty five percent of them, and Kamala Harris 105 00:07:52,275 --> 00:07:57,075 Speaker 1: is getting thirty six percent of them. Lemming's gonna Lemming, 106 00:07:57,195 --> 00:07:59,555 Speaker 1: of course, But the interesting number here is that in 107 00:07:59,595 --> 00:08:02,875 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election, these same voters had gone for 108 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:07,435 Speaker 1: Trump by fifty nine to twenty eight. Trump won them 109 00:08:07,755 --> 00:08:11,675 Speaker 1: the disaffected Republicans by thirty one points. In twenty twenty, 110 00:08:11,835 --> 00:08:16,915 Speaker 1: he is winning them by just nine points. Now. Haley's 111 00:08:16,955 --> 00:08:20,395 Speaker 1: support in the Republican primaries this year was twenty percent 112 00:08:20,435 --> 00:08:23,795 Speaker 1: of the vote's cast, just under four million, four hundred 113 00:08:23,835 --> 00:08:27,115 Speaker 1: thousand votes. If the polling numbers are correct, and this 114 00:08:27,195 --> 00:08:30,715 Speaker 1: is obviously a vast oversimplification, I mean, the polling numbers 115 00:08:30,715 --> 00:08:33,955 Speaker 1: don't even account for nearly a fifth of Haley's supporters 116 00:08:33,955 --> 00:08:37,835 Speaker 1: who are apparently undecided. But if it's even vaguely correct, 117 00:08:37,875 --> 00:08:41,115 Speaker 1: just for context, just for a ballpark figure, it would 118 00:08:41,115 --> 00:08:45,355 Speaker 1: mean that out of four million, four hundred thousand Republicans 119 00:08:45,395 --> 00:08:49,155 Speaker 1: and independents in this subset, Trump is only getting a 120 00:08:49,155 --> 00:08:53,115 Speaker 1: net total of three hundred and twenty thousand votes out 121 00:08:53,115 --> 00:08:58,515 Speaker 1: of four point four million. Any poll which suggests that 122 00:08:58,595 --> 00:09:01,995 Speaker 1: more than one third of any subset of Republican voters 123 00:09:02,035 --> 00:09:05,875 Speaker 1: is voting for Kamala Harris is not just an important poll, 124 00:09:06,675 --> 00:09:19,275 Speaker 1: but a goddamned important poll. The other headlines Trump Again, 125 00:09:19,435 --> 00:09:21,915 Speaker 1: Kitty kittied out of the second debate with Harris, and 126 00:09:21,915 --> 00:09:24,275 Speaker 1: by the end of his social media post, he apparently 127 00:09:24,275 --> 00:09:26,475 Speaker 1: thought he was writing some kind of business letter, because 128 00:09:26,475 --> 00:09:29,995 Speaker 1: his last sentence reads, quote, thank you for your attention 129 00:09:30,115 --> 00:09:36,195 Speaker 1: to this matter. I don't know Trump got laughed at 130 00:09:36,315 --> 00:09:39,995 Speaker 1: on one podcast. Sure you heard that. It was like 131 00:09:40,115 --> 00:09:42,995 Speaker 1: when it happened at the United Nations. He clearly convinced 132 00:09:43,035 --> 00:09:46,115 Speaker 1: himself they were laughing with him. They were chanting boomp. 133 00:09:47,355 --> 00:09:51,475 Speaker 1: On a different podcast, Trump claimed nine hundred million people 134 00:09:51,875 --> 00:09:55,035 Speaker 1: saw his interview with Elon Musk. By next week it'll 135 00:09:55,075 --> 00:09:58,835 Speaker 1: be nine hundred billion, or that may be what Musk claims. 136 00:09:58,915 --> 00:10:03,395 Speaker 1: Rumors continue to fly that Leon really does think he 137 00:10:03,475 --> 00:10:09,475 Speaker 1: can get into the white He parasitically that he will 138 00:10:09,595 --> 00:10:13,035 Speaker 1: run the government while Trump is just the front man. 139 00:10:15,275 --> 00:10:17,035 Speaker 1: You may have noticed by this point that I'm not 140 00:10:17,075 --> 00:10:20,835 Speaker 1: particularly fond of Trump, but between the two of them, 141 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:23,955 Speaker 1: Trump is the smarter one. If Musk thinks that Trump 142 00:10:23,995 --> 00:10:28,995 Speaker 1: will let him actually run anything. Also, it's been confirmed 143 00:10:29,035 --> 00:10:33,435 Speaker 1: Trump's special Bibles the only ones that fit the head 144 00:10:33,435 --> 00:10:36,595 Speaker 1: of the Oklahoma State school Boards requirement for the mandatory 145 00:10:36,635 --> 00:10:42,755 Speaker 1: Bibles in public schools in Oklahoma. They are made in China, China. 146 00:10:42,955 --> 00:10:48,235 Speaker 1: They cost three dollars to make and here your price, 147 00:10:49,035 --> 00:10:54,435 Speaker 1: just fifty nine ninety nine. Those are the sort of 148 00:10:54,435 --> 00:10:59,435 Speaker 1: things that eventually send people to jail and more evidence. 149 00:10:59,475 --> 00:11:02,075 Speaker 1: That's funny now because it shows how stupid Trump is 150 00:11:02,195 --> 00:11:05,195 Speaker 1: and how he never learns, not even from public heath amiliation, 151 00:11:05,555 --> 00:11:08,395 Speaker 1: but is also ominous because at underscores his knee jerk 152 00:11:08,435 --> 00:11:13,315 Speaker 1: reaction to criticism, which is to prosecute it. Trump again insisted, 153 00:11:14,275 --> 00:11:17,355 Speaker 1: and I believe the first time he insisted it was 154 00:11:17,595 --> 00:11:22,755 Speaker 1: in twenty eleven or twenty twelve, that television news organizations 155 00:11:23,115 --> 00:11:28,155 Speaker 1: all have licenses and that the licenses can be revoked. 156 00:11:29,475 --> 00:11:33,115 Speaker 1: This time it's sixty minutes and CBS, and as usual, 157 00:11:33,275 --> 00:11:36,915 Speaker 1: it is as if he's heard the criticism of him 158 00:11:37,435 --> 00:11:41,355 Speaker 1: somewhere in the background, in this case criticism of the 159 00:11:41,395 --> 00:11:45,115 Speaker 1: same washing of his increasingly incoherent language, and assumed they 160 00:11:45,155 --> 00:11:47,675 Speaker 1: couldn't be talking about him, they have to be talking 161 00:11:47,675 --> 00:11:50,835 Speaker 1: about somebody else. Quote. I've never seen this before, but 162 00:11:50,915 --> 00:11:55,915 Speaker 1: the producers of sixty minutes sliced and diced parentheses, cut 163 00:11:55,955 --> 00:12:01,395 Speaker 1: and pasted Kamala's answers to questions which were virtually incoherent, 164 00:12:01,475 --> 00:12:04,075 Speaker 1: over and over again, some by as many as four 165 00:12:04,115 --> 00:12:06,235 Speaker 1: times in a single sentence or thought, all in an 166 00:12:06,235 --> 00:12:11,275 Speaker 1: effort possibly illegal as part of the news division which 167 00:12:11,435 --> 00:12:15,555 Speaker 1: must be licensed to make her look more presidential or 168 00:12:15,555 --> 00:12:18,435 Speaker 1: at least better. It may also be a major campaign 169 00:12:18,475 --> 00:12:21,635 Speaker 1: finance violation. This is a stain on the reputation of 170 00:12:21,675 --> 00:12:24,395 Speaker 1: sixty minutes that is not recoverable. It will always remain 171 00:12:24,435 --> 00:12:26,955 Speaker 1: with this one storied brand. I have never heard of 172 00:12:27,035 --> 00:12:28,915 Speaker 1: such a thing being done in news. It is the 173 00:12:28,995 --> 00:12:31,235 Speaker 1: very definition of fake news. The public is out of 174 00:12:31,315 --> 00:12:35,435 Speaker 1: major in immediate apology, like a major apology, please and 175 00:12:35,555 --> 00:12:39,475 Speaker 1: a major award. This is an open and shutcase and 176 00:12:39,595 --> 00:12:46,635 Speaker 1: must be investigated starting today. That's the great sixty minutes 177 00:12:46,675 --> 00:12:51,755 Speaker 1: brand that he backed out of the interview with. There 178 00:12:51,795 --> 00:12:57,555 Speaker 1: are no news licenses. You don't need one. No license 179 00:12:57,595 --> 00:13:03,875 Speaker 1: for your pet fish Eric either. One assumes this starts 180 00:13:03,915 --> 00:13:08,155 Speaker 1: somewhere in the nineteen fifties when young, somewhat less crazy 181 00:13:08,235 --> 00:13:11,795 Speaker 1: Donnie Trump finds out that individual television and radio stations 182 00:13:12,035 --> 00:13:15,555 Speaker 1: are licensed by the government to operate over public airwaves. 183 00:13:16,235 --> 00:13:19,915 Speaker 1: And since he never grows intellectually beyond that point, he 184 00:13:19,995 --> 00:13:24,355 Speaker 1: thinks that the license's CBS owns to operate Channel two 185 00:13:24,395 --> 00:13:26,195 Speaker 1: in New York and Channel two in LA and Channel 186 00:13:26,235 --> 00:13:33,635 Speaker 1: sixty two in Detroit are somehow news licenses. But then again, 187 00:13:33,675 --> 00:13:36,355 Speaker 1: if Trump actually understood what was happening, given the clumsiness 188 00:13:36,355 --> 00:13:38,915 Speaker 1: of our nation in defending itself against him, we would 189 00:13:38,955 --> 00:13:42,875 Speaker 1: be in real danger. Even in an America in which 190 00:13:42,875 --> 00:13:45,755 Speaker 1: Trump's all too obvious affection for Hitler and the Nazis 191 00:13:46,235 --> 00:13:49,075 Speaker 1: is actually exceeded by the psychoses of so many of 192 00:13:49,115 --> 00:13:52,555 Speaker 1: his supporters, it would seem to be obvious that the 193 00:13:52,675 --> 00:13:58,235 Speaker 1: last thing that even pro Nazi trumpest idiots would want 194 00:13:58,275 --> 00:14:05,195 Speaker 1: to do would be to invoke February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine. 195 00:14:05,195 --> 00:14:08,035 Speaker 1: February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine was the day when at 196 00:14:08,075 --> 00:14:11,995 Speaker 1: the previous Madison Square Garden at eighth Avenue and fiftieth Street, 197 00:14:12,275 --> 00:14:17,675 Speaker 1: also nowhere near Madison Square, the German American Bund held 198 00:14:17,675 --> 00:14:21,435 Speaker 1: a rally, and twenty thousand showed up for a thinly 199 00:14:21,555 --> 00:14:26,915 Speaker 1: veiled American Nazi rally, complete with a giant image of 200 00:14:26,955 --> 00:14:33,395 Speaker 1: George Washington surrounded by swastikas. The problem was, of course, 201 00:14:33,395 --> 00:14:36,435 Speaker 1: that the event was so close to the media nerve 202 00:14:36,515 --> 00:14:41,835 Speaker 1: centers of nineteen thirty nine that coverage was everywhere radio, 203 00:14:42,155 --> 00:14:49,235 Speaker 1: every newsreel, every imaginable way of communicating the news, and 204 00:14:49,355 --> 00:14:53,275 Speaker 1: much of the nation the next day became newly aware 205 00:14:53,955 --> 00:14:59,075 Speaker 1: that there were twenty thousand Nazis in New York. More 206 00:14:59,115 --> 00:15:01,395 Speaker 1: impressively was that part of the nation that did not 207 00:15:01,555 --> 00:15:06,755 Speaker 1: become newly aware the garden was night surrounded by one 208 00:15:06,835 --> 00:15:12,395 Speaker 1: hundred thousand anti Nazi protesters who three times nearly broke lines, 209 00:15:12,475 --> 00:15:17,355 Speaker 1: manned by just under twenty five hundred police. As it was, 210 00:15:17,435 --> 00:15:20,395 Speaker 1: the Nazi image in New York received fatal damage when 211 00:15:20,435 --> 00:15:24,995 Speaker 1: a former Navy officer now Plumber's assistant named Isidore Greenbaum 212 00:15:25,435 --> 00:15:29,195 Speaker 1: sneaked inside the garden and, able to contain his rage 213 00:15:29,235 --> 00:15:34,355 Speaker 1: no longer, rushed the stage all by himself, him versus 214 00:15:34,515 --> 00:15:38,755 Speaker 1: nineteen thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine Nazis who did 215 00:15:38,795 --> 00:15:41,875 Speaker 1: not know what to do next, and after a few 216 00:15:42,035 --> 00:15:46,435 Speaker 1: flailed punches at Greenbaum, a handful of police stopped all 217 00:15:46,475 --> 00:15:50,835 Speaker 1: of them pulled Greenbaum out. He was uninjured and fined 218 00:15:51,875 --> 00:15:58,155 Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. With that as the history of pro 219 00:15:58,235 --> 00:16:03,035 Speaker 1: fascism and pro despotism and pro Nazism in New York 220 00:16:03,075 --> 00:16:07,715 Speaker 1: City at Madison Square Garden, what have Trump and Garden 221 00:16:07,875 --> 00:16:11,155 Speaker 1: and New York Knicks and Rangers owner James Dolan Dunn, 222 00:16:11,635 --> 00:16:16,875 Speaker 1: They have scheduled a Trump Nazi rally on October twenty 223 00:16:16,875 --> 00:16:22,515 Speaker 1: seventh at Madison Square Garden. They hope to get twenty 224 00:16:22,635 --> 00:16:26,315 Speaker 1: thousand people exactly as many as attended the German American 225 00:16:26,395 --> 00:16:32,435 Speaker 1: bund Swastikafest on February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine. The means 226 00:16:32,475 --> 00:16:35,475 Speaker 1: of ticket distribution is unclear. If it is like previous 227 00:16:35,555 --> 00:16:39,835 Speaker 1: Trump rallies, it could easily be sabotaged by phony registrations 228 00:16:40,395 --> 00:16:44,515 Speaker 1: or even swamped by counter protesters who managed to fake 229 00:16:44,555 --> 00:16:49,155 Speaker 1: their way inside. Apart from the impact on Dolan's sports teams, 230 00:16:49,555 --> 00:16:52,155 Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a lot of authoritarian white trash 231 00:16:52,235 --> 00:16:54,715 Speaker 1: running the hockey franchise, but I'm beginning to think the 232 00:16:54,795 --> 00:16:58,035 Speaker 1: Knicks players may not be happy about sharing their building 233 00:16:58,115 --> 00:17:02,915 Speaker 1: with the ever increasingly racist Trump. Apart from that, there 234 00:17:02,995 --> 00:17:05,475 Speaker 1: is the second half of the nineteen thirty nine disaster 235 00:17:05,755 --> 00:17:09,795 Speaker 1: that Trump and especially this idiot clown Dolan need to 236 00:17:09,835 --> 00:17:12,955 Speaker 1: think about, and think about real hard, in time to 237 00:17:12,995 --> 00:17:15,835 Speaker 1: cancel this thing before it is too late for them. 238 00:17:17,115 --> 00:17:24,595 Speaker 1: Twenty thousand inside, with five times as many outside Madison 239 00:17:24,635 --> 00:17:31,595 Speaker 1: Square Garden waiting for them. Oh and compared to the 240 00:17:31,635 --> 00:17:35,035 Speaker 1: old Madison Square Garden at eighth and fiftieth, the new 241 00:17:35,075 --> 00:17:40,435 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden sitting atop Penn Station, has far more 242 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:47,795 Speaker 1: open room and space to stand around and wait in. 243 00:17:49,115 --> 00:17:58,515 Speaker 1: And good luck to you James Dolan. Maybe he'll open 244 00:17:58,555 --> 00:18:01,515 Speaker 1: for Trump by singing, and then most of the twenty 245 00:18:01,555 --> 00:18:05,675 Speaker 1: thousand people will leave and there won't be trouble. By 246 00:18:05,715 --> 00:18:07,795 Speaker 1: the way to clear up a previous point and make 247 00:18:07,875 --> 00:18:11,475 Speaker 1: a new one with the same topic, Lemmings like Trump 248 00:18:11,515 --> 00:18:13,875 Speaker 1: idiots showing up in the heart of Manhattan without thinking 249 00:18:13,915 --> 00:18:16,075 Speaker 1: they may be out numbered five to one or worse, 250 00:18:16,715 --> 00:18:21,875 Speaker 1: do not actually commit mass suicide. They do sometimes, it 251 00:18:21,955 --> 00:18:26,635 Speaker 1: turns out, accidentally kill themselves in large numbers because their 252 00:18:26,675 --> 00:18:30,795 Speaker 1: instinct to migrate in order to mate is so strong. 253 00:18:31,675 --> 00:18:35,195 Speaker 1: To put it non scientifically, they sometimes don't look where 254 00:18:35,235 --> 00:18:39,675 Speaker 1: they're going. There's a cliff. There's a cliff. Never mind. 255 00:18:39,915 --> 00:18:42,795 Speaker 1: So the comp with Trump cultists still fits, just in 256 00:18:42,835 --> 00:18:48,235 Speaker 1: a different way. Also of interest, here more news about 257 00:18:48,275 --> 00:18:51,955 Speaker 1: another one of my axes. Nah, not that one, I know, 258 00:18:52,115 --> 00:18:55,195 Speaker 1: not that one, the one between them, the one with 259 00:18:55,275 --> 00:19:00,675 Speaker 1: the husband in trouble. Also, Jesse Bruno Waters and Steven 260 00:19:00,755 --> 00:19:05,795 Speaker 1: Nosferatu Miller suggest men can attract the lady by wearing 261 00:19:06,235 --> 00:19:11,635 Speaker 1: their Trump support on their sleeves. Maybe at Madison Square Garden. 262 00:19:12,115 --> 00:19:14,955 Speaker 1: I'm not going to give my main joke away, but 263 00:19:15,075 --> 00:19:21,235 Speaker 1: it rhymes. Well. Here's coincidence, it rhymes with Deutschland, Deutschland 264 00:19:21,315 --> 00:19:28,235 Speaker 1: uber ales. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown 265 00:19:28,635 --> 00:19:30,675 Speaker 1: with Keith Alberman. 266 00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:48,595 Speaker 2: This is Sports Senate. Wait, check that not anymore. This 267 00:19:49,555 --> 00:19:53,755 Speaker 2: is countdown with Keith Alberman. 268 00:19:53,475 --> 00:20:05,515 Speaker 1: From Sports Central centered newsdesk Tonight Dateline, New York, twenty 269 00:20:05,595 --> 00:20:09,035 Speaker 1: twenty four. Lester Patrick Award for Service to Hockey in 270 00:20:09,075 --> 00:20:13,875 Speaker 1: the United States No. Of America goes to Sam Rosen 271 00:20:15,875 --> 00:20:18,435 Speaker 1: for being my first boss. I mean, I know that 272 00:20:18,555 --> 00:20:21,635 Speaker 1: very few people besides Sam could have survived being my 273 00:20:21,675 --> 00:20:26,195 Speaker 1: first boss. But still a major award for that. Oh. Actually, 274 00:20:26,235 --> 00:20:28,715 Speaker 1: it goes to the individual who has done the most 275 00:20:29,115 --> 00:20:33,155 Speaker 1: to grow hockey in this country, and Sam who has 276 00:20:33,155 --> 00:20:35,315 Speaker 1: been the voice of the New York Rangers so long 277 00:20:35,355 --> 00:20:37,915 Speaker 1: that when he was my first boss a mere forty 278 00:20:37,955 --> 00:20:40,515 Speaker 1: five years ago, he had already been the backup play 279 00:20:40,555 --> 00:20:43,955 Speaker 1: by play announcer for the Rangers for two years, got 280 00:20:43,955 --> 00:20:46,715 Speaker 1: the TV job full time in nineteen eighty four and 281 00:20:46,715 --> 00:20:48,915 Speaker 1: has been doing it ever since, and is scheduled to 282 00:20:49,035 --> 00:20:50,395 Speaker 1: retire at the end of the season. 283 00:20:50,515 --> 00:20:50,755 Speaker 2: Yeah. 284 00:20:50,795 --> 00:20:55,395 Speaker 1: I'll believe that when I see it. Lester Patrick. Meanwhile, 285 00:20:55,555 --> 00:20:58,235 Speaker 1: who began playing big time hockey in nineteen oh four, 286 00:20:58,675 --> 00:21:01,715 Speaker 1: helped start the sport on the West Coast and was 287 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:04,035 Speaker 1: the first coach of the Rangers in nineteen twenty six. 288 00:21:04,235 --> 00:21:06,715 Speaker 1: Famous in Game two of the nineteen twenty eight Stanley 289 00:21:06,755 --> 00:21:10,315 Speaker 1: Cup Finals, the Rangers goaltender was knocked cold by a 290 00:21:10,435 --> 00:21:13,755 Speaker 1: shot and there were no backups in those days, so 291 00:21:13,875 --> 00:21:16,275 Speaker 1: Lester Patrick, at age forty three and having never been 292 00:21:16,315 --> 00:21:20,715 Speaker 1: a goalie in his life, donned the unconscious goalies uniform 293 00:21:20,875 --> 00:21:23,715 Speaker 1: and played goal for the rest of the game. The 294 00:21:23,835 --> 00:21:26,955 Speaker 1: Rangers won that game in overtime against the Montreal Maroons 295 00:21:27,275 --> 00:21:30,635 Speaker 1: and then went on to win their first Stanley Cup. Coincidentally, 296 00:21:31,035 --> 00:21:35,075 Speaker 1: Sam broadcast that legendary Lester Patrick game in nineteen twenty 297 00:21:35,115 --> 00:21:38,235 Speaker 1: eight on radio, and Leicester was Sam's first color man 298 00:21:38,515 --> 00:21:41,675 Speaker 1: with the range Wait. I think that No, that's that's it. 299 00:21:41,835 --> 00:21:46,875 Speaker 1: That's it, sorry, Sam, That's that's a typo. I think 300 00:21:46,915 --> 00:22:12,755 Speaker 1: it's a typo. Congratulations, Samola still ahead of us on 301 00:22:12,795 --> 00:22:17,715 Speaker 1: this initiative countdown. Following this Tony da Koppel's story, It's CBS. 302 00:22:18,835 --> 00:22:21,475 Speaker 1: He attacks an author during an interview and CBS News 303 00:22:21,595 --> 00:22:23,835 Speaker 1: is ready to suspend him or fire him or something, 304 00:22:23,875 --> 00:22:25,875 Speaker 1: and then the owner of CBS says no, I like 305 00:22:25,955 --> 00:22:29,835 Speaker 1: the interview, and she talks to him directly, and the 306 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:31,875 Speaker 1: next thing you know, there's a recording of the meeting 307 00:22:31,915 --> 00:22:35,875 Speaker 1: with his bosses yelling at him, and that goes public. 308 00:22:36,435 --> 00:22:38,595 Speaker 1: And so everything over there at CBS News is an 309 00:22:38,715 --> 00:22:43,755 Speaker 1: fing mess. You may know this, maybe you don't. I 310 00:22:43,755 --> 00:22:45,835 Speaker 1: haven't seen it mentioned a lot. You know who Tony 311 00:22:45,875 --> 00:22:50,595 Speaker 1: Diacoppel's wife is, right, well, yes, you're correct. The odds 312 00:22:50,675 --> 00:22:53,595 Speaker 1: are six to five that whoever it is, it's one 313 00:22:53,635 --> 00:22:56,395 Speaker 1: of my exes. And if you place that bet in 314 00:22:56,395 --> 00:22:58,595 Speaker 1: this case, you won. Because he's married to Katie terror 315 00:22:59,515 --> 00:23:01,515 Speaker 1: And when Katie Urr first asked me to write her 316 00:23:01,555 --> 00:23:03,835 Speaker 1: Trump book for her, and when I said, we'd never 317 00:23:03,835 --> 00:23:06,555 Speaker 1: get away with that, people would recognize how I wrote. 318 00:23:06,875 --> 00:23:10,955 Speaker 1: When the book finally came out, she essentially erased me 319 00:23:11,075 --> 00:23:14,155 Speaker 1: from it, and later told me she had done so 320 00:23:14,155 --> 00:23:18,915 Speaker 1: so she would not anger her new husband, Tony Dakoppel. Honestly, 321 00:23:18,955 --> 00:23:21,155 Speaker 1: if my exes continue to make this much news, I'm 322 00:23:21,155 --> 00:23:26,075 Speaker 1: gonna have to assign them uniform numbers. The Katie book 323 00:23:26,195 --> 00:23:30,435 Speaker 1: story coming up in More Things I Promised not to tell, 324 00:23:32,515 --> 00:23:36,995 Speaker 1: should give them numbers number one hundred and seventy four. First, 325 00:23:37,515 --> 00:23:39,595 Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. The 326 00:23:39,675 --> 00:23:41,955 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Donning Kruger 327 00:23:41,955 --> 00:23:47,035 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst person in the world, 328 00:23:49,475 --> 00:23:55,555 Speaker 1: the Brons. Maria Bartiromo the stupidest person in America. It's 329 00:23:55,595 --> 00:23:58,635 Speaker 1: one thing to deny facts every day, to say up 330 00:23:58,675 --> 00:24:02,795 Speaker 1: is down, to lie and propagandize and make Tokyo rows 331 00:24:02,835 --> 00:24:07,155 Speaker 1: look like Edward Armoureau. To sell your soul for I 332 00:24:07,195 --> 00:24:10,515 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what she gets out of it. Shoes, 333 00:24:10,675 --> 00:24:12,675 Speaker 1: I don't know what she gets out of it. She's 334 00:24:12,715 --> 00:24:15,115 Speaker 1: on Fox Business. It doesn't pay as well as the 335 00:24:15,635 --> 00:24:18,595 Speaker 1: original Fox crack channel. I don't know what she gets 336 00:24:18,635 --> 00:24:22,035 Speaker 1: out of it. But beyond all that, to get owned 337 00:24:22,675 --> 00:24:27,555 Speaker 1: again and again on your own show by your own guests, 338 00:24:28,075 --> 00:24:30,515 Speaker 1: even the ones from your own Nazi party who are 339 00:24:30,555 --> 00:24:35,195 Speaker 1: supposed to be there helping you bullshit America day after day? 340 00:24:36,035 --> 00:24:40,275 Speaker 1: How is she possible? Maria Bartiromo says, condescension dripping from 341 00:24:40,275 --> 00:24:44,675 Speaker 1: her nose, that FEMA is out of money, reading a 342 00:24:44,715 --> 00:24:47,795 Speaker 1: list of complaints against the administration off the teleprompter in 343 00:24:47,835 --> 00:24:51,795 Speaker 1: front of her as her guest, The Republican Congressman French Hill, 344 00:24:52,075 --> 00:24:54,315 Speaker 1: and what the f kind of name is that? Nods? 345 00:24:55,115 --> 00:24:59,035 Speaker 1: She repeats, how is FEMA out of money? Which is 346 00:24:59,075 --> 00:25:03,675 Speaker 1: when Congressman Hill snaps and Congressman Hill, a Republican, says 347 00:25:04,035 --> 00:25:08,395 Speaker 1: FEMA is out of money. I can't show you this. 348 00:25:08,395 --> 00:25:11,755 Speaker 1: This is a podcast and that's video. But Maria Bartiromo 349 00:25:11,915 --> 00:25:16,555 Speaker 1: was so shocked by the unauthorized truth from french Hill 350 00:25:16,835 --> 00:25:20,795 Speaker 1: that her eyes and eyebrows shot up so fast her 351 00:25:20,915 --> 00:25:27,395 Speaker 1: fake eyelashes fell off. The runner up worser, Senator Marco Rubio. 352 00:25:28,275 --> 00:25:34,235 Speaker 1: That's Mark Rubio, the Mitt Romney of Maria Bartiromo's. This 353 00:25:34,395 --> 00:25:36,955 Speaker 1: is why spending the entirety of your wasted time in 354 00:25:36,995 --> 00:25:40,955 Speaker 1: the Senate quietly sowing the seeds of doubt that anything 355 00:25:40,995 --> 00:25:44,075 Speaker 1: a Democrat says could be true, that anything the federal 356 00:25:44,115 --> 00:25:46,995 Speaker 1: government says must be a lie. Why that's going to 357 00:25:46,995 --> 00:25:50,355 Speaker 1: wind up not just killing innocent people, but killing many 358 00:25:50,395 --> 00:25:53,835 Speaker 1: of the people who voted for you. Last Friday, Marco 359 00:25:53,915 --> 00:25:59,315 Speaker 1: Rubio responded to the government monthly employment data release by writing, quote, 360 00:25:59,515 --> 00:26:04,875 Speaker 1: another fake jobs report out from the Biden Harris government today. 361 00:26:05,315 --> 00:26:07,995 Speaker 1: All the fake numbers in the world aren't going to 362 00:26:08,035 --> 00:26:12,675 Speaker 1: fool people. Unquote, I'm actually a US Senator, despite my 363 00:26:12,755 --> 00:26:19,395 Speaker 1: behavior suggesting I'm something closer to a lunatic. When the 364 00:26:19,435 --> 00:26:22,555 Speaker 1: President came back at Marco Rubio for lying like that, 365 00:26:22,955 --> 00:26:26,635 Speaker 1: Rubio doubled down on his allegations that it was a 366 00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:32,595 Speaker 1: fake jobs report out of the government. Then suddenly Marco 367 00:26:32,715 --> 00:26:37,995 Speaker 1: Rubio's feed turned into please to Floridians to follow what 368 00:26:38,035 --> 00:26:41,675 Speaker 1: the government says. Do what the government says. Follow government 369 00:26:41,675 --> 00:26:45,755 Speaker 1: instructions to the letter. Get out of Florida. There's a hurricane, Well, 370 00:26:45,755 --> 00:26:48,995 Speaker 1: why would they do that. On Friday, he's telling them 371 00:26:48,995 --> 00:26:51,235 Speaker 1: the government lies to them all the time and all 372 00:26:51,275 --> 00:26:55,195 Speaker 1: government information is fake. On Monday, he's telling them, well 373 00:26:55,555 --> 00:27:00,275 Speaker 1: except for right now. Last April this torp Rubio issued 374 00:27:00,315 --> 00:27:03,515 Speaker 1: a press release praising his own op ed at the 375 00:27:03,515 --> 00:27:07,755 Speaker 1: Federalist site, which is itself devoted to telling everybody that 376 00:27:07,795 --> 00:27:11,035 Speaker 1: the government is lying to them. The press release begins 377 00:27:11,115 --> 00:27:15,675 Speaker 1: quote icee y am I. Rubio takes on elites for 378 00:27:15,755 --> 00:27:19,595 Speaker 1: defending the deep state. Elites love the deep state because 379 00:27:19,635 --> 00:27:23,555 Speaker 1: they loathe the American people. US Senator Marco Rubio are 380 00:27:23,875 --> 00:27:29,035 Speaker 1: Florida that are for Rubio. It comes as no surprise 381 00:27:29,075 --> 00:27:32,075 Speaker 1: that America is self proclaimed newspaper of record, is leading 382 00:27:32,115 --> 00:27:35,715 Speaker 1: the charge to defend the deep state left wing elites. 383 00:27:35,755 --> 00:27:38,235 Speaker 1: This is all the press release. Left wing elites want 384 00:27:38,235 --> 00:27:40,675 Speaker 1: to protect the deep state because it shields them from 385 00:27:40,675 --> 00:27:45,515 Speaker 1: accountability as they pursue their own agendas. That's four uses 386 00:27:45,675 --> 00:27:49,075 Speaker 1: of the deep state and three different references to the 387 00:27:49,115 --> 00:27:53,595 Speaker 1: elites at the start of his press release, and Rubio 388 00:27:53,635 --> 00:27:59,675 Speaker 1: insisting to his constituents that those people the government loathe 389 00:27:59,755 --> 00:28:05,235 Speaker 1: the American people quote unquote, but he thinks his voters 390 00:28:05,395 --> 00:28:08,755 Speaker 1: will be smart enough to listen and do what the 391 00:28:08,795 --> 00:28:15,715 Speaker 1: government says. Just about hurricanes, Marco, how smart could your 392 00:28:15,755 --> 00:28:21,675 Speaker 1: constituents be, after all, they voted for you as a worser. 393 00:28:21,755 --> 00:28:26,715 Speaker 1: Adjacent there's Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who insists all efforts 394 00:28:26,755 --> 00:28:30,395 Speaker 1: to make new homes environmentally sound and all new construction 395 00:28:30,835 --> 00:28:33,555 Speaker 1: more suited to the climate crisis, those are a Biden 396 00:28:33,635 --> 00:28:37,235 Speaker 1: plot to raise prices so that Chinese can make more money. 397 00:28:38,075 --> 00:28:41,875 Speaker 1: Now she's urging residents to evacuate, but she's still including 398 00:28:42,155 --> 00:28:46,715 Speaker 1: her own psychosis in which she says that all of 399 00:28:46,755 --> 00:28:51,395 Speaker 1: this is being done so FEMA can spend its money 400 00:28:51,435 --> 00:28:58,275 Speaker 1: on immigrants also, Anna Paulina's real name is Meyerhoffer, right 401 00:28:58,395 --> 00:29:02,875 Speaker 1: jorm Is Meyerhoffer, and her German grandfather was literally drafted 402 00:29:02,995 --> 00:29:08,275 Speaker 1: into the Nazi air force, the Wehrmacht. But you're supposed 403 00:29:08,315 --> 00:29:10,875 Speaker 1: to believe her and Rubio and the government now, not 404 00:29:11,075 --> 00:29:17,755 Speaker 1: last week, and certainly not next week. It's funny, it's stupid. 405 00:29:18,275 --> 00:29:21,755 Speaker 1: They are stupid. They could disappear tomorrow and nobody would 406 00:29:21,795 --> 00:29:26,955 Speaker 1: know that Rubio or Ana Paulina Motherhoffer are gone. But 407 00:29:27,275 --> 00:29:30,155 Speaker 1: there is tragedy in this and it will be too 408 00:29:30,275 --> 00:29:32,915 Speaker 1: late to do anything about it when these idiots get 409 00:29:32,955 --> 00:29:37,715 Speaker 1: some of their own constituents killed and still they're not 410 00:29:37,795 --> 00:29:42,195 Speaker 1: the winners. The winners Stephen Nosferatu Miller from the Trump 411 00:29:42,275 --> 00:29:47,075 Speaker 1: campaign and Jesse Eraser head Waters from the other Trump 412 00:29:47,115 --> 00:29:51,235 Speaker 1: campaign Fox News Miller, who looks kind of like a 413 00:29:51,315 --> 00:29:54,475 Speaker 1: flat Stanley, only more like he was made out of 414 00:29:54,515 --> 00:29:59,235 Speaker 1: construction paper, and who genuinely resembles Max Shrek, the German 415 00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:02,275 Speaker 1: actor who played Count Orlock in the silent film horror 416 00:30:02,315 --> 00:30:07,595 Speaker 1: classic Nosferatu, a sympa of horror. You know, Miller all 417 00:30:07,635 --> 00:30:10,395 Speaker 1: the parts of Trump's speeches that have sentences that each 418 00:30:10,435 --> 00:30:13,515 Speaker 1: feature a noun a verb and a threat against minorities. 419 00:30:13,955 --> 00:30:17,835 Speaker 1: Miller wrote those. Miller comes on Waters show, and if 420 00:30:17,875 --> 00:30:20,875 Speaker 1: you're looking for an entertainment comp for him, Waters is 421 00:30:20,955 --> 00:30:25,915 Speaker 1: the great Eugene Levy as Doctor Tungue's assistant Bruno in SCTV. 422 00:30:26,635 --> 00:30:30,115 Speaker 1: You know, John Candy is Doctor Tungue in Doctor Tungue's 423 00:30:30,115 --> 00:30:32,595 Speaker 1: Three D House of Cats, in Doctor Tongue's three D 424 00:30:32,635 --> 00:30:37,115 Speaker 1: House of Stewardesses and Doctor Tungue's three the House of Pancakes. 425 00:30:37,155 --> 00:30:41,715 Speaker 1: His assistant in this Eugene Levy is Bruno. That's who 426 00:30:41,755 --> 00:30:46,035 Speaker 1: Waters looks like. All right, So preamble mercifully over and 427 00:30:46,155 --> 00:30:49,635 Speaker 1: scene set. Miller comes on and Waters greets him with 428 00:30:49,675 --> 00:30:52,835 Speaker 1: this quote. We have to address the elephant of the room. 429 00:30:53,115 --> 00:30:56,035 Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of texts from women about Steven Miller. 430 00:30:56,235 --> 00:31:05,275 Speaker 1: Our audience believes you are some sort of sexual matador. Quota, Wait, 431 00:31:05,595 --> 00:31:11,435 Speaker 1: some sort of sexual matador? You mean a bowld gorge 432 00:31:11,475 --> 00:31:16,115 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller in the genitals. Anyway, Steven Miller is loving 433 00:31:16,155 --> 00:31:19,395 Speaker 1: this because both of these men are very, very odd, 434 00:31:19,995 --> 00:31:22,435 Speaker 1: and I don't know about their personal lives, and I 435 00:31:22,475 --> 00:31:24,995 Speaker 1: don't care about their personal lives, and I don't want 436 00:31:24,995 --> 00:31:27,155 Speaker 1: to know about their personal lives. But if you are 437 00:31:27,155 --> 00:31:32,955 Speaker 1: looking for people about whom you will someday hear, nobody 438 00:31:32,955 --> 00:31:35,515 Speaker 1: in our family knew anything about his so called hobby. 439 00:31:36,195 --> 00:31:40,755 Speaker 1: These are two first round draft choices for you, Miller 440 00:31:40,915 --> 00:31:46,235 Speaker 1: and Waters. Anyway, so Water says this about sexual matadors, 441 00:31:46,275 --> 00:31:50,635 Speaker 1: and Steven Miller, almost drooling, replies to Jesse Waters some 442 00:31:50,715 --> 00:31:52,915 Speaker 1: advice to any young man out there. If you are 443 00:31:52,955 --> 00:31:54,915 Speaker 1: a young man who is looking to impress the Laneys, 444 00:31:55,395 --> 00:31:57,795 Speaker 1: to be the alpha, to be attractive, the best thing 445 00:31:57,795 --> 00:32:01,355 Speaker 1: you can do is where your Trump support on your sleeve. 446 00:32:02,315 --> 00:32:04,715 Speaker 1: Show that you are a real man, Show that you 447 00:32:04,755 --> 00:32:08,355 Speaker 1: are not a betta. Be a proud and loud Trump supporter, 448 00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:12,315 Speaker 1: and your dating life will be fantastic. And yes, he 449 00:32:12,395 --> 00:32:17,235 Speaker 1: pronounced it as beta, as in better get a bucket, 450 00:32:17,235 --> 00:32:20,755 Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw up. But setting that aside for a moment, 451 00:32:20,835 --> 00:32:24,955 Speaker 1: let's reexamine Steven Miller's answer there where your Trump support 452 00:32:25,475 --> 00:32:30,275 Speaker 1: on your sleeve? Let's see what is it that the 453 00:32:30,275 --> 00:32:33,955 Speaker 1: fascists and the Trumpists and the Republicans and the original 454 00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:37,435 Speaker 1: Nazis would wear on their sleeves to show their support 455 00:32:37,515 --> 00:32:43,355 Speaker 1: for their fewer oh right. Red armbands with Swatsikas Jesse. 456 00:32:44,275 --> 00:32:48,915 Speaker 1: I like matadors, they wear tight pants. Waters and Stephen, 457 00:32:49,915 --> 00:32:53,755 Speaker 1: there your Trump support on your sleeve. The armband goes 458 00:32:53,795 --> 00:33:02,275 Speaker 1: with any attire. Miller two Days Worst Persons in the World. 459 00:33:22,115 --> 00:33:27,275 Speaker 1: On January twenty second, twenty seventeen, Katie Urr of MSNBC 460 00:33:28,235 --> 00:33:32,875 Speaker 1: asked me to write her Trump book for her. She 461 00:33:33,075 --> 00:33:37,755 Speaker 1: was serious, and there are receipts. I'll get back to 462 00:33:37,835 --> 00:33:43,435 Speaker 1: the bookstory, but first, Since last spring, when her second 463 00:33:43,475 --> 00:33:45,755 Speaker 1: book came out, I have read story after story that 464 00:33:45,835 --> 00:33:48,475 Speaker 1: boiled down to one of the headlines I read that 465 00:33:48,675 --> 00:33:54,035 Speaker 1: was Katie Terr's relationship with Keith Olberman haunted her. Now, 466 00:33:54,035 --> 00:33:57,475 Speaker 1: the articles have not been overtly negative, except in a 467 00:33:57,555 --> 00:34:01,635 Speaker 1: passive aggressive sense, although try out that headline on yourself 468 00:34:01,675 --> 00:34:03,235 Speaker 1: there and see if you like to be described as 469 00:34:03,275 --> 00:34:08,275 Speaker 1: haunting someone. But she wrote a book claiming that many experiences, somehow, 470 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:11,795 Speaker 1: including the time she lived with me, hurt and slowed 471 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:16,155 Speaker 1: and limited her career. So all this time I have 472 00:34:16,275 --> 00:34:18,955 Speaker 1: remained silent about the nearly three years she and I 473 00:34:19,035 --> 00:34:21,715 Speaker 1: lived together and the eight years after that, during which 474 00:34:21,755 --> 00:34:24,315 Speaker 1: I remained her good and loyal friend. And I have 475 00:34:24,395 --> 00:34:27,195 Speaker 1: remained silent even though the day she moved into my 476 00:34:27,315 --> 00:34:29,995 Speaker 1: place in New York, she expected a New York TV 477 00:34:30,115 --> 00:34:34,275 Speaker 1: station would hire her with no experience and no audition tape. 478 00:34:34,315 --> 00:34:36,635 Speaker 1: And I have remained silent about how her father, whom 479 00:34:36,675 --> 00:34:40,395 Speaker 1: she has never stopped trashing, sent her ten thousand dollars 480 00:34:40,395 --> 00:34:43,555 Speaker 1: worth of cameras and editing equipment to help her get started. 481 00:34:44,075 --> 00:34:45,995 Speaker 1: And I have remained silent about how I pushed her 482 00:34:45,995 --> 00:34:48,515 Speaker 1: to not just sit there staring at all that equipment 483 00:34:48,515 --> 00:34:50,875 Speaker 1: her dad sent, but to use it to go cover 484 00:34:51,035 --> 00:34:53,955 Speaker 1: stories so she could at least make a tape. And 485 00:34:54,035 --> 00:34:56,235 Speaker 1: I have remained silent even though once she didn't like 486 00:34:56,315 --> 00:34:58,835 Speaker 1: something I told her and she immediately said she was 487 00:34:58,875 --> 00:35:02,075 Speaker 1: thinking of calling the New York Post gossip page and 488 00:35:02,195 --> 00:35:05,835 Speaker 1: telling them terrible things about me. And I have remained 489 00:35:05,875 --> 00:35:09,035 Speaker 1: silent that after I asked her to move out, I 490 00:35:09,155 --> 00:35:11,955 Speaker 1: paid her rent at a new apartment for a year 491 00:35:12,675 --> 00:35:15,035 Speaker 1: so she could keep working and living in New York. 492 00:35:15,515 --> 00:35:17,435 Speaker 1: And I have remained silent even though I paid off 493 00:35:17,435 --> 00:35:19,755 Speaker 1: her college loans, and when she complained that every time 494 00:35:19,795 --> 00:35:22,635 Speaker 1: you googled her name, you've also got my name. I 495 00:35:22,755 --> 00:35:24,955 Speaker 1: loaned her the money to hire a company that altered 496 00:35:24,995 --> 00:35:28,355 Speaker 1: her Google results, and I have remained silent, even though 497 00:35:28,395 --> 00:35:30,955 Speaker 1: I introduced her to her first agent and to all 498 00:35:30,995 --> 00:35:34,195 Speaker 1: the people who hired her at News twelve and WPIX 499 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:38,275 Speaker 1: and WNBC and NBC News. And I have remained silent, 500 00:35:38,315 --> 00:35:41,195 Speaker 1: even though when she happened to be assigned to Trump's 501 00:35:41,235 --> 00:35:45,155 Speaker 1: campaign announcement and Trump knew who she was because when 502 00:35:45,155 --> 00:35:47,075 Speaker 1: we lived together, it was in one of these Trump 503 00:35:47,155 --> 00:35:49,995 Speaker 1: buildings here and she got to do the last great 504 00:35:50,235 --> 00:35:53,515 Speaker 1: actual interview with him, and NBC promptly offered her the 505 00:35:53,595 --> 00:35:56,395 Speaker 1: chance to be its reporter on his campaign. She called 506 00:35:56,395 --> 00:35:58,835 Speaker 1: me and said, no, I'm going back to London. I 507 00:35:58,875 --> 00:36:01,715 Speaker 1: don't like politics. You know that I was the one 508 00:36:01,715 --> 00:36:04,475 Speaker 1: who told her she was nuts and this wasn't politics, 509 00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:10,435 Speaker 1: dark terrible history in progress, and she sighed and said, fine, okay, 510 00:36:10,675 --> 00:36:14,275 Speaker 1: send me some books about it. And I have remained silent, 511 00:36:14,355 --> 00:36:16,515 Speaker 1: even though she sent me nearly all of her scripts 512 00:36:16,955 --> 00:36:20,915 Speaker 1: for her NBC News stories, including her Trump campaign coverage 513 00:36:20,915 --> 00:36:24,595 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, and I edited nearly every one of them, 514 00:36:24,835 --> 00:36:27,755 Speaker 1: and several times I had to completely rewrite them for her. 515 00:36:28,675 --> 00:36:30,755 Speaker 1: And I have remained silent even though when her father 516 00:36:30,795 --> 00:36:33,795 Speaker 1: announced he was transitioning. The friend she called up in 517 00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:37,275 Speaker 1: hysterics was me, and I have remained silent, even though 518 00:36:37,275 --> 00:36:40,275 Speaker 1: she twice lied to reporters and editors at The New 519 00:36:40,355 --> 00:36:43,275 Speaker 1: York Times and The Washington Post, telling them she had 520 00:36:43,355 --> 00:36:45,915 Speaker 1: asked me on their behalf to do interviews with them 521 00:36:45,955 --> 00:36:48,795 Speaker 1: about her. And I have remained silent, even though she 522 00:36:48,835 --> 00:36:51,515 Speaker 1: lied to them that I had declined the interviews. And 523 00:36:51,555 --> 00:36:53,955 Speaker 1: I have remained silent even those six days after my 524 00:36:53,995 --> 00:36:57,435 Speaker 1: emergency appendectomy in two thousand and seven, she started punching 525 00:36:57,555 --> 00:37:01,315 Speaker 1: and slapping me with real intent to do harm because 526 00:37:01,355 --> 00:37:04,315 Speaker 1: the living room wasn't clean enough in our place, And 527 00:37:04,675 --> 00:37:07,835 Speaker 1: exactly do you even try to defend yourself against a 528 00:37:07,875 --> 00:37:10,275 Speaker 1: woman one hundred and twenty five pounds lighter and a 529 00:37:10,315 --> 00:37:15,515 Speaker 1: foot shorter than you. So yesterday I'm reading stories about 530 00:37:15,515 --> 00:37:18,035 Speaker 1: her husband getting a massectomy, and I'm sitting there waiting 531 00:37:18,035 --> 00:37:23,875 Speaker 1: to see how she managed to make this one my fault. 532 00:37:25,155 --> 00:37:28,795 Speaker 1: When Katie's first book came out, she reduced our entire 533 00:37:28,995 --> 00:37:34,915 Speaker 1: history to a throwaway anecdote defending Kelly Ann Conway. The 534 00:37:34,955 --> 00:37:38,075 Speaker 1: story described me as somebody she had dated briefly in 535 00:37:38,155 --> 00:37:41,835 Speaker 1: her twenties. After the book came out and frankly and calmly, 536 00:37:41,915 --> 00:37:44,635 Speaker 1: I don't know for certain who wrote her first book. 537 00:37:44,675 --> 00:37:48,755 Speaker 1: I mean, people who can't write suddenly can find their muse. 538 00:37:49,155 --> 00:37:52,275 Speaker 1: It's possible she wrote it and her other books too. 539 00:37:53,155 --> 00:37:55,395 Speaker 1: But after the first book came out that dismissed three 540 00:37:55,475 --> 00:37:58,195 Speaker 1: or years of our shared life as dating briefly in 541 00:37:58,195 --> 00:38:00,715 Speaker 1: her twenties, I told her she had been awful to me, 542 00:38:00,755 --> 00:38:03,315 Speaker 1: and she replied, I'm sorry. You're right, I'm a terrible person, 543 00:38:03,555 --> 00:38:05,875 Speaker 1: and it is the last thing we discussed. I told 544 00:38:05,875 --> 00:38:07,755 Speaker 1: her I would not communicate with her again, and I 545 00:38:07,795 --> 00:38:12,275 Speaker 1: have not, nor have I spoken about her publicly. But 546 00:38:12,355 --> 00:38:15,675 Speaker 1: I do keep wondering about that book. I still have 547 00:38:15,795 --> 00:38:18,515 Speaker 1: a text from her from nine to fourteen PM on 548 00:38:18,555 --> 00:38:22,555 Speaker 1: December eleventh, twenty sixteen, after she had signed her contract 549 00:38:22,595 --> 00:38:28,395 Speaker 1: for her book, which became unbelievable an ironic title. It reads, 550 00:38:28,515 --> 00:38:32,515 Speaker 1: do you still want to share your Trump doc with me? Doc? Here? 551 00:38:32,595 --> 00:38:36,435 Speaker 1: Meaning my trove of documents, my hundreds of pages of 552 00:38:36,435 --> 00:38:38,595 Speaker 1: Trump notes that I had kept for use in my 553 00:38:38,755 --> 00:38:41,995 Speaker 1: GQ video series. And I joked back, sure, how much? 554 00:38:42,195 --> 00:38:45,355 Speaker 1: And she joked back ten twenty dollars and I emailed 555 00:38:45,355 --> 00:38:47,315 Speaker 1: it all to her for free that night, with only 556 00:38:47,355 --> 00:38:50,155 Speaker 1: one request, don't leave me out of your acknowledgments in 557 00:38:50,195 --> 00:38:52,035 Speaker 1: the book. And guess what, she left me out of 558 00:38:52,035 --> 00:38:56,835 Speaker 1: the acknowledgments in the book too. More than a month later, 559 00:38:56,875 --> 00:38:59,995 Speaker 1: at two thirty five pm on Sunday, January twenty second, 560 00:39:00,035 --> 00:39:02,595 Speaker 1: I had just returned home from Los Angeles and doing 561 00:39:02,635 --> 00:39:05,435 Speaker 1: Bill Maher's show, and Katie Turr text me about why 562 00:39:05,475 --> 00:39:09,355 Speaker 1: they had never invited her on, and then she switched 563 00:39:09,355 --> 00:39:13,555 Speaker 1: topics to ask quote, want to write this book. I 564 00:39:13,595 --> 00:39:15,835 Speaker 1: had taken a nap, so it was not until five 565 00:39:16,035 --> 00:39:19,275 Speaker 1: thirty two that I replied, what, Well, you're not serious, 566 00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:22,995 Speaker 1: how would that work? That's when she phoned. She was 567 00:39:22,995 --> 00:39:25,475 Speaker 1: about to give the advance money back to the publisher. 568 00:39:25,595 --> 00:39:27,995 Speaker 1: She said, I can't write a book. I'm like fifty 569 00:39:28,075 --> 00:39:30,275 Speaker 1: thousand words short and it's terrible. I'll give you half 570 00:39:30,315 --> 00:39:31,875 Speaker 1: the money. I'll give you more than half the money. 571 00:39:33,555 --> 00:39:35,675 Speaker 1: I pointed out to her that I had written or 572 00:39:35,755 --> 00:39:39,315 Speaker 1: rewritten dozens of her stories for NBC News and MSNBC, 573 00:39:39,475 --> 00:39:41,595 Speaker 1: and it was not a question of money. It was 574 00:39:41,635 --> 00:39:44,755 Speaker 1: a question of what we could get away with no 575 00:39:45,035 --> 00:39:48,715 Speaker 1: viewer and maybe only one executive in a million whatever. 576 00:39:48,875 --> 00:39:52,835 Speaker 1: Notice that one sentence or one paragraph of script in 577 00:39:52,875 --> 00:39:57,355 Speaker 1: her two minute report was actually written by me. First 578 00:39:57,395 --> 00:40:00,115 Speaker 1: of all, she was the one saying it each time 579 00:40:00,195 --> 00:40:03,155 Speaker 1: I wrote or rewrote in her name for NBC. It 580 00:40:03,315 --> 00:40:07,115 Speaker 1: was a fireable offense for her, but one that nobody 581 00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:09,835 Speaker 1: would ever think to look for, even though there is 582 00:40:09,915 --> 00:40:14,435 Speaker 1: necessarily an email trail ten miles long. But writing a 583 00:40:14,435 --> 00:40:19,675 Speaker 1: book for her about Trump in my writing style, not 584 00:40:19,955 --> 00:40:23,955 Speaker 1: read aloud by her, but in print, I have a 585 00:40:23,995 --> 00:40:27,475 Speaker 1: pretty distinct writing style which I don't think I could 586 00:40:27,475 --> 00:40:30,675 Speaker 1: ever sufficiently hide for more than about seventeen words at 587 00:40:30,675 --> 00:40:36,115 Speaker 1: a stretch. Somebody would notice. Her publisher might cancel it 588 00:40:36,195 --> 00:40:38,715 Speaker 1: or even sue, or if it got published, NBC might 589 00:40:38,755 --> 00:40:41,835 Speaker 1: notice it and fire her. It was not just a 590 00:40:41,875 --> 00:40:45,275 Speaker 1: bad idea for her and very dubious ethically, but it 591 00:40:45,275 --> 00:40:50,595 Speaker 1: stood an excellent chance of destroying her career and damaging mine. Maybe. 592 00:40:50,795 --> 00:40:53,155 Speaker 1: She said, Okay, you're right, And she told me she 593 00:40:53,195 --> 00:40:54,995 Speaker 1: was going to talk it over with her boyfriend Tony 594 00:40:54,995 --> 00:40:57,155 Speaker 1: from CBS that night, and her thought was to give 595 00:40:57,195 --> 00:41:00,715 Speaker 1: back the advance and cancel the book. And I said ghostwriter, maybe, 596 00:41:01,155 --> 00:41:03,795 Speaker 1: And she said, like who? And I said I had 597 00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:06,755 Speaker 1: no idea. I tried to joke her out of these 598 00:41:06,795 --> 00:41:09,995 Speaker 1: grim prospects by reminding her that at least for the 599 00:41:10,075 --> 00:41:12,875 Speaker 1: several thousand dollars worth of research I gave her, I 600 00:41:12,915 --> 00:41:15,955 Speaker 1: had cut the price to no dollars and no cents. 601 00:41:17,235 --> 00:41:19,475 Speaker 1: And anyway, the next thing I knew the book was published. 602 00:41:20,035 --> 00:41:22,035 Speaker 1: There isn't a paragraph of it that reads like the 603 00:41:22,035 --> 00:41:24,835 Speaker 1: rest of her writing, and I get reduced in it 604 00:41:24,875 --> 00:41:27,355 Speaker 1: from the guy she lived with for three years who 605 00:41:27,435 --> 00:41:31,475 Speaker 1: started her career, to somebody she dated briefly in her twenties, 606 00:41:31,515 --> 00:41:35,195 Speaker 1: and the dark half of an anecdote defending Kelly Ann 607 00:41:35,315 --> 00:41:41,275 Speaker 1: freaking con job. I will say, I think the things 608 00:41:41,395 --> 00:41:43,515 Speaker 1: I glossed over before about the New York Times and 609 00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:47,835 Speaker 1: Washington Post were genuinely deplorable. The thing about the Post. First, 610 00:41:48,555 --> 00:41:50,955 Speaker 1: a Washington Post reporter I'd known for more than a 611 00:41:50,995 --> 00:41:54,235 Speaker 1: decade named Paul Farhee called me up and asked me 612 00:41:54,275 --> 00:41:56,275 Speaker 1: to do an interview with him about Katie. And I 613 00:41:56,315 --> 00:41:58,995 Speaker 1: had my doubts, As I said to Paul, this is 614 00:41:59,155 --> 00:42:02,315 Speaker 1: at least a little sexist. When I broke through at 615 00:42:02,395 --> 00:42:04,515 Speaker 1: MSNBC in nineteen ninety eight, nobody called up one of 616 00:42:04,555 --> 00:42:08,275 Speaker 1: my girlfriends, even the ones in the business, to ask 617 00:42:08,355 --> 00:42:12,795 Speaker 1: one of them about me. This was an unfair gradient 618 00:42:13,195 --> 00:42:15,115 Speaker 1: for her or any woman that the first thing a 619 00:42:15,155 --> 00:42:17,755 Speaker 1: reporter or just somebody googling her brought up or found 620 00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:21,635 Speaker 1: was her boyfriend or ex boyfriend, especially me. It is 621 00:42:21,915 --> 00:42:25,755 Speaker 1: utter misogyny. In fact, on the other hand, there could 622 00:42:25,795 --> 00:42:28,075 Speaker 1: be a calculation in which it is useful to Katie 623 00:42:28,075 --> 00:42:31,275 Speaker 1: if I do the interview and amplify the publicity. It 624 00:42:31,355 --> 00:42:33,235 Speaker 1: is also one of the things I had warned her 625 00:42:33,275 --> 00:42:37,475 Speaker 1: about literally the day we started dating, and in fact 626 00:42:37,595 --> 00:42:40,395 Speaker 1: I reminded her of it the night of the first 627 00:42:40,435 --> 00:42:43,755 Speaker 1: real date at an Al Gore book event at the 628 00:42:43,835 --> 00:42:47,715 Speaker 1: Museum of Natural History in New York in the whale room. 629 00:42:48,195 --> 00:42:50,315 Speaker 1: Sure enough, I went from the whale room to the 630 00:42:50,355 --> 00:42:52,555 Speaker 1: men's room for a moment. While I was out, an 631 00:42:52,595 --> 00:42:56,555 Speaker 1: online gossip clown who had been following us around went 632 00:42:56,555 --> 00:42:59,155 Speaker 1: over and pretended he knew her or something. And when 633 00:42:59,155 --> 00:43:01,315 Speaker 1: I got back, she was bubbling over telling me she'd 634 00:43:01,315 --> 00:43:03,355 Speaker 1: met a friend of a friend and told him all 635 00:43:03,395 --> 00:43:05,795 Speaker 1: about us. And I asked if she had remembered my warning, 636 00:43:06,275 --> 00:43:10,075 Speaker 1: and she obviously had not. And quote Katie Turr, new 637 00:43:10,115 --> 00:43:13,995 Speaker 1: girlfriend of Keith Olderman was online before we got home, 638 00:43:15,755 --> 00:43:18,155 Speaker 1: so when she found there was a way to scrub 639 00:43:18,195 --> 00:43:21,275 Speaker 1: your Google searches so every time somebody plugged in her name, 640 00:43:21,275 --> 00:43:24,235 Speaker 1: they would not also get Keith Olderman's girlfriend or Keith 641 00:43:24,235 --> 00:43:27,315 Speaker 1: Olderman's ex girlfriend. As I said, I helped her pay 642 00:43:27,355 --> 00:43:32,435 Speaker 1: to use that service. I get it. The sexism prevails. 643 00:43:32,915 --> 00:43:38,275 Speaker 1: Maybe it'll go away someday, maybe it won't. So anyway, 644 00:43:38,315 --> 00:43:40,915 Speaker 1: when Farhee of the Post called me up, I called Katie. 645 00:43:40,915 --> 00:43:44,155 Speaker 1: She said she thought it was sexist, and anyway, she 646 00:43:44,275 --> 00:43:47,235 Speaker 1: wasn't participating with the Post's story on her, and it 647 00:43:47,275 --> 00:43:49,675 Speaker 1: would really help if I did not do so either. 648 00:43:50,395 --> 00:43:53,955 Speaker 1: So I declined the interview, and a week later there 649 00:43:53,955 --> 00:43:55,955 Speaker 1: in the Washington Post was a big feature on Katie 650 00:43:55,995 --> 00:43:59,715 Speaker 1: to her because guess what, she did participate with it 651 00:43:59,755 --> 00:44:04,355 Speaker 1: after all, complete interview and worst yet, she told Farhee 652 00:44:04,795 --> 00:44:07,195 Speaker 1: that she had encouraged me to do the interview with him, 653 00:44:07,395 --> 00:44:09,315 Speaker 1: so he put it in the paper that I declined 654 00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:11,355 Speaker 1: to be interviewed, so I looked like an idiot. And 655 00:44:11,435 --> 00:44:13,515 Speaker 1: another thing, I'm not mad, Please don't put in the 656 00:44:13,515 --> 00:44:18,395 Speaker 1: newspaper that I got mad. I called her up and 657 00:44:18,435 --> 00:44:21,155 Speaker 1: I yelled at her, and she apologized, and she promised 658 00:44:21,195 --> 00:44:24,475 Speaker 1: she would not do anything like that ever again, and 659 00:44:24,475 --> 00:44:27,275 Speaker 1: then she promptly did something even worse. A month or 660 00:44:27,315 --> 00:44:31,475 Speaker 1: two later, the New York Times article comes out. It 661 00:44:31,555 --> 00:44:34,715 Speaker 1: is a huge profile of her, I think in the 662 00:44:34,835 --> 00:44:39,715 Speaker 1: magazine or a weekend edition, and in it, mister Olberman 663 00:44:39,795 --> 00:44:42,995 Speaker 1: refused to be interviewed for this story. This is a 664 00:44:43,075 --> 00:44:46,475 Speaker 1: complete surprise to me. I didn't even recognize the writer's name. 665 00:44:47,315 --> 00:44:50,355 Speaker 1: I found her contact info and I reached out to 666 00:44:50,395 --> 00:44:53,595 Speaker 1: her and said, have we ever spoken? And she says no, 667 00:44:54,355 --> 00:44:58,635 Speaker 1: And I say emails texts, and she says no. And 668 00:44:58,675 --> 00:45:00,675 Speaker 1: then I say, then, when did I refuse to be 669 00:45:00,755 --> 00:45:03,795 Speaker 1: interviewed for your Katie Turr article for the New York Times. 670 00:45:03,835 --> 00:45:06,515 Speaker 1: And she says, oh, I asked Katie Turr to ask you, 671 00:45:06,875 --> 00:45:09,115 Speaker 1: and Katie Turr asked you, and you told Katie Terr 672 00:45:09,155 --> 00:45:11,435 Speaker 1: you refused to be interviewed. And I said, none of 673 00:45:11,435 --> 00:45:16,835 Speaker 1: that happened. And there is a long silence on the 674 00:45:17,035 --> 00:45:21,675 Speaker 1: end of the phone, and then the writer says, let 675 00:45:21,715 --> 00:45:24,275 Speaker 1: me call the editor to take that part out. And 676 00:45:24,355 --> 00:45:27,635 Speaker 1: the Times changed the online version of why I didn't 677 00:45:27,675 --> 00:45:30,955 Speaker 1: do the interview, although they do not note that they 678 00:45:31,115 --> 00:45:33,795 Speaker 1: changed it, and I later got a note from a 679 00:45:33,835 --> 00:45:37,675 Speaker 1: Times editor apologizing she just lied to this reporter from 680 00:45:37,715 --> 00:45:41,235 Speaker 1: the Times. Just lied. Oh, I'll call him and ask oh, 681 00:45:41,235 --> 00:45:42,555 Speaker 1: he told me he doesn't want to talk to you 682 00:45:42,595 --> 00:45:46,995 Speaker 1: about me. Just lied. And I just sat there, and 683 00:45:47,035 --> 00:45:49,915 Speaker 1: I know, very unlike me, I have to say, I 684 00:45:49,955 --> 00:45:54,555 Speaker 1: was actually too angry to do anything anyway. As I mentioned, 685 00:45:54,595 --> 00:45:56,835 Speaker 1: Katie Turr published another book this year, and a lot 686 00:45:56,835 --> 00:46:00,155 Speaker 1: of the publicity was about how I haunted her and 687 00:46:00,235 --> 00:46:02,035 Speaker 1: she had to go to great lengths to separate her 688 00:46:02,075 --> 00:46:05,395 Speaker 1: career from mine, even as she keeps mentioning me, and 689 00:46:05,475 --> 00:46:07,555 Speaker 1: even though she asked me in dead seriousness to write 690 00:46:07,555 --> 00:46:12,235 Speaker 1: the first book for her. The book, the second one, 691 00:46:12,275 --> 00:46:15,355 Speaker 1: is mostly about all the impediments and roadblocks she has faced, 692 00:46:16,075 --> 00:46:19,155 Speaker 1: while what's the word forging her career? But I will 693 00:46:19,195 --> 00:46:21,235 Speaker 1: add this last point and then drop the subject. I 694 00:46:21,275 --> 00:46:26,075 Speaker 1: hope forever. For forty three years full time, I have 695 00:46:26,235 --> 00:46:30,995 Speaker 1: done this and counting college, it's God help me forty 696 00:46:31,035 --> 00:46:34,795 Speaker 1: seven years. And throughout that stretch, I have tried to 697 00:46:34,875 --> 00:46:38,915 Speaker 1: acknowledge anybody and everybody who helped me in my career, 698 00:46:39,195 --> 00:46:41,995 Speaker 1: even the ones I don't like, even people who are 699 00:46:42,075 --> 00:46:45,755 Speaker 1: totally utterly politically opposed to me. I still think fondly 700 00:46:45,795 --> 00:46:48,435 Speaker 1: of Stuart Varney from Fox News, because he taught me, 701 00:46:49,195 --> 00:46:51,275 Speaker 1: when I was right up against it one night, how 702 00:46:51,315 --> 00:46:55,235 Speaker 1: to use a teleprompter. I'll always cherish the memory of 703 00:46:55,275 --> 00:46:59,275 Speaker 1: working with Stuart Varney. He was such a help to me. Politically, 704 00:46:59,355 --> 00:47:02,795 Speaker 1: we could have a duel, but of course, as I said, 705 00:47:02,835 --> 00:47:08,515 Speaker 1: the dynamic is different. Still, her book is about people 706 00:47:08,515 --> 00:47:11,075 Speaker 1: who hindered her, and almost none of it is about 707 00:47:11,115 --> 00:47:14,595 Speaker 1: people who helped her. She is rapidly turning into a 708 00:47:14,675 --> 00:47:19,075 Speaker 1: kind of professional martyrdom. I saw this in its earliest 709 00:47:19,075 --> 00:47:21,955 Speaker 1: stages sixteen years ago, and she is now going from 710 00:47:21,995 --> 00:47:26,635 Speaker 1: making it martyrdom into a brand. And I'll say this 711 00:47:26,715 --> 00:47:31,675 Speaker 1: lastly and sincerely. If your story of your career is 712 00:47:31,795 --> 00:47:36,075 Speaker 1: all about people you think held you back, and not 713 00:47:36,235 --> 00:47:40,635 Speaker 1: even mostly about the people who bent over backwards to 714 00:47:40,795 --> 00:48:02,395 Speaker 1: help you along, that is all just very very sad. Okay, 715 00:48:02,395 --> 00:48:06,035 Speaker 1: I just have to say this. For like three weeks 716 00:48:06,075 --> 00:48:10,355 Speaker 1: it was Olivia Week. For the last week it's been 717 00:48:10,475 --> 00:48:13,515 Speaker 1: Katie Week. Are we going to have another week of 718 00:48:13,595 --> 00:48:16,195 Speaker 1: Katie Week? One of the lawyers coming back in the 719 00:48:16,195 --> 00:48:20,995 Speaker 1: Olivia case Is the FBI going to get involved? Is 720 00:48:21,035 --> 00:48:23,395 Speaker 1: the FBI going to get involved in the Katie case? 721 00:48:24,875 --> 00:48:27,435 Speaker 1: Are they going to be the same agents? Will I 722 00:48:27,515 --> 00:48:29,315 Speaker 1: know any of them? Because they had something to do 723 00:48:29,395 --> 00:48:34,475 Speaker 1: with my fake anthrax sender who sent me antracks when 724 00:48:34,515 --> 00:48:40,435 Speaker 1: Katie was living with me from California. Wait a minute, Okay, 725 00:48:40,595 --> 00:48:43,875 Speaker 1: I just had to vent that. You date a lot. 726 00:48:44,515 --> 00:48:46,995 Speaker 1: This is what happens. And I didn't even have to 727 00:48:47,235 --> 00:48:50,395 Speaker 1: wear my Trump support on my sleeve like Stephen Miller 728 00:48:51,155 --> 00:48:52,795 Speaker 1: if that is your real name. I've done all the 729 00:48:52,835 --> 00:48:56,235 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. No, Anna, 730 00:48:56,275 --> 00:49:05,395 Speaker 1: Paulina Luna's grandfather really was a Nazi Wehrmacht remember drafted. Nevertheless, Plea, 731 00:49:05,995 --> 00:49:07,635 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here, Thank 732 00:49:07,715 --> 00:49:09,915 Speaker 1: you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week, 733 00:49:10,155 --> 00:49:13,195 Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern, and please follow me 734 00:49:13,715 --> 00:49:20,475 Speaker 1: for the podcast promo videos on TikTok YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram, 735 00:49:20,555 --> 00:49:26,235 Speaker 1: and institube. Once again, we have Monday countdowns, So please 736 00:49:26,275 --> 00:49:28,635 Speaker 1: send this podcast to somebody who does not know that 737 00:49:28,675 --> 00:49:32,595 Speaker 1: they need to listen, but should. Brian Ray and John 738 00:49:32,635 --> 00:49:36,715 Speaker 1: Phillip Schanel The Long suffering. Musical directors of Countdown arranged, produced, 739 00:49:36,755 --> 00:49:39,675 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled the 740 00:49:39,755 --> 00:49:42,755 Speaker 1: orchestration and the keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars, 741 00:49:42,755 --> 00:49:45,955 Speaker 1: bass and drums, and it was produced by Tko Brothers. 742 00:49:46,475 --> 00:49:49,435 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best 743 00:49:49,435 --> 00:49:52,835 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is 744 00:49:52,835 --> 00:49:55,955 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 745 00:49:56,035 --> 00:49:59,635 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed 746 00:49:59,675 --> 00:50:01,715 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed in My announcer today 747 00:50:01,795 --> 00:50:06,595 Speaker 1: was my friend Nancy Faust. Everything out U was pretty 748 00:50:06,675 --> 00:50:11,315 Speaker 1: much my fault or that of one of my ex girlfriends. 749 00:50:12,435 --> 00:50:15,435 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today. Three weeks and five days until 750 00:50:15,435 --> 00:50:19,755 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty fourth presidential election, the three and seventy 751 00:50:19,795 --> 00:50:24,275 Speaker 1: fourth day since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first attempted 752 00:50:24,315 --> 00:50:27,555 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 753 00:50:28,035 --> 00:50:31,515 Speaker 1: Use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity. 754 00:50:31,515 --> 00:50:35,195 Speaker 1: If you have to President Biden to keep him, I'm 755 00:50:35,195 --> 00:50:39,595 Speaker 1: doing it again. Bow we still can. The next scheduled 756 00:50:39,595 --> 00:50:43,515 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow bulletins as the news requires. Till then, 757 00:50:43,515 --> 00:50:47,235 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 758 00:50:47,955 --> 00:51:15,075 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 759 00:51:15,395 --> 00:51:20,555 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 760 00:51:20,795 --> 00:51:22,755 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.