1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:23,435 --> 00:00:27,395 Speaker 1: have figured out Trump's plan to try to steal a 3 00:00:27,555 --> 00:00:31,595 Speaker 1: third term. He has given it away in one social 4 00:00:31,635 --> 00:00:34,395 Speaker 1: media post, and he's just crazy enough to think it'll work, 5 00:00:35,115 --> 00:00:38,395 Speaker 1: because he's just crazy enough to think all his ideas 6 00:00:38,435 --> 00:00:43,235 Speaker 1: are genius and his farts carry the weight of law. 7 00:00:43,355 --> 00:00:45,675 Speaker 1: It is in his rant claiming that the indictment of 8 00:00:45,715 --> 00:00:49,995 Speaker 1: a political opponent means quote, the twenty twenty presidential election 9 00:00:50,115 --> 00:00:55,155 Speaker 1: should be permanently wiped from the books and be of 10 00:00:55,235 --> 00:01:01,035 Speaker 1: no further force or effect. He's going to try to 11 00:01:01,115 --> 00:01:05,235 Speaker 1: nullify the twenty twenty election and hold a new one, 12 00:01:06,355 --> 00:01:13,755 Speaker 1: hold another twenty twenty election in the future. I'll explain 13 00:01:13,835 --> 00:01:16,035 Speaker 1: it in depth in a moment, but before that, if 14 00:01:16,075 --> 00:01:20,315 Speaker 1: you think you want to just dismiss this outright as crazy, 15 00:01:20,995 --> 00:01:24,395 Speaker 1: let me do the headlines first, and you tell me 16 00:01:24,635 --> 00:01:27,435 Speaker 1: if it's any crazier than the rest of what comes 17 00:01:27,435 --> 00:01:33,435 Speaker 1: out of this batshit crazy, rapidly deteriorating, evil, insane old 18 00:01:33,515 --> 00:01:39,315 Speaker 1: Man the Newest is holding another twenty twenty election in 19 00:01:39,395 --> 00:01:42,195 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, only calling it twenty twenty. Is that 20 00:01:42,235 --> 00:01:46,915 Speaker 1: any crazier really than Trump? Insisting yesterday that we are 21 00:01:46,955 --> 00:01:54,115 Speaker 1: in a war against Ukraine and we've sunk the Ukrainian 22 00:01:54,275 --> 00:02:02,155 Speaker 1: navy and ruin Ukrainian new Here we go Ukraine. 23 00:02:02,275 --> 00:02:05,835 Speaker 2: Militarily they're defeated. Okay, you wouldn't know that by reading 24 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:09,555 Speaker 2: the fake news. But militarily, look there. Maybe so they 25 00:02:09,595 --> 00:02:12,515 Speaker 2: had one hundred and fifty nine ships. Every ship is 26 00:02:12,595 --> 00:02:16,235 Speaker 2: right now underwater. Typically that's pretty good. What do you think, Jared? 27 00:02:16,315 --> 00:02:18,155 Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's gonna. 28 00:02:17,915 --> 00:02:20,075 Speaker 2: Be hard for them to make a naval comeback. 29 00:02:20,155 --> 00:02:20,435 Speaker 1: Okay. 30 00:02:20,515 --> 00:02:23,635 Speaker 2: Now they have an air force. Every one of their 31 00:02:23,675 --> 00:02:27,795 Speaker 2: planes has been shut down or has been decimated. They 32 00:02:27,795 --> 00:02:29,635 Speaker 2: have missiles about. 33 00:02:29,475 --> 00:02:33,235 Speaker 1: Eighty two Okay, who's going to tell them, Susie Wiles. 34 00:02:34,115 --> 00:02:37,555 Speaker 1: I mean they are all likelier and all cowardly enough 35 00:02:38,035 --> 00:02:42,035 Speaker 1: to simply paraphrase George Orwell and insists we have always 36 00:02:42,035 --> 00:02:48,635 Speaker 1: been at war with East Ukraine is holding an election 37 00:02:48,755 --> 00:02:51,435 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight and insisting it's the real twenty 38 00:02:51,475 --> 00:02:55,835 Speaker 1: twenty election. Any crazier sounding than indicting the former FBI 39 00:02:55,955 --> 00:02:59,715 Speaker 1: director on a threat to kill Trump with a seashell meme. 40 00:03:01,355 --> 00:03:08,555 Speaker 1: Trump sees seashells shelling scenery. This is so panoramically stupid 41 00:03:08,955 --> 00:03:13,435 Speaker 1: even for this stupid man Trump, with his stupid sons 42 00:03:13,675 --> 00:03:18,355 Speaker 1: and his stupid mother and his stupid maga. This is 43 00:03:18,475 --> 00:03:23,115 Speaker 1: so Caligula appoints his horse as the Roman consul, which 44 00:03:23,115 --> 00:03:27,155 Speaker 1: didn't happen. Well, they'll give Trump some time to do this. 45 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:30,915 Speaker 1: This is so stupid that even Congressman Troy Nells called 46 00:03:30,955 --> 00:03:35,675 Speaker 1: it a stretch. It is so stupid even for stupid 47 00:03:35,795 --> 00:03:40,035 Speaker 1: Trump that on Fox Bill Hemmer even noticed it was 48 00:03:40,075 --> 00:03:42,915 Speaker 1: bullshit and was able to make a fool out of 49 00:03:43,035 --> 00:03:46,035 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan over it. Jim Jordan goes on with Bill 50 00:03:46,075 --> 00:03:49,075 Speaker 1: Hemmer and says, quote, Jim Comey started the ten year 51 00:03:49,115 --> 00:03:53,035 Speaker 1: attack on President Trump. Remember the dossier, he leaked, memos, 52 00:03:53,035 --> 00:03:55,955 Speaker 1: he leaked classified information. Now he tells us he didn't 53 00:03:55,995 --> 00:04:01,355 Speaker 1: do anything wrong, Bill Hemmer. Bill Hemmer, who might finish 54 00:04:01,435 --> 00:04:05,435 Speaker 1: behind Trump in the stupid derby? Bill? Bill Hemmer comes 55 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:09,715 Speaker 1: back with, quote, everything you listed he's not being charged 56 00:04:09,755 --> 00:04:14,635 Speaker 1: with in this case. Bill Hemmer was still at CNN 57 00:04:14,675 --> 00:04:16,595 Speaker 1: when I worked there in two thousand and one and 58 00:04:16,675 --> 00:04:19,355 Speaker 1: two thousand and two, and the veterans there used to 59 00:04:19,435 --> 00:04:22,515 Speaker 1: view him as a kind of a mascot or an 60 00:04:22,515 --> 00:04:26,875 Speaker 1: equal opportunity higher. And I worked once with a sportscaster 61 00:04:27,035 --> 00:04:29,675 Speaker 1: for whom Bill Hemmer was an intern, and he used 62 00:04:29,675 --> 00:04:33,355 Speaker 1: to say, dumbest kid I ever met. And even he 63 00:04:33,395 --> 00:04:37,115 Speaker 1: figured out that the indictment of Komi is so stupid 64 00:04:37,395 --> 00:04:40,315 Speaker 1: that Jim freaking Jordan wouldn't be able to defend it 65 00:04:40,435 --> 00:04:46,435 Speaker 1: on Fox. So is having a twenty twenty election do 66 00:04:46,555 --> 00:04:49,515 Speaker 1: over any crazier than the Democrats on the House Armed 67 00:04:49,515 --> 00:04:52,955 Speaker 1: Services Committee figuring it out finally and using their time 68 00:04:53,035 --> 00:04:56,515 Speaker 1: yesterday his stuff. Pete Hegseth full of time bombs by 69 00:04:56,555 --> 00:05:01,035 Speaker 1: showing him posters of his new appointee, Tim Parlatory criticizing Trump, 70 00:05:01,075 --> 00:05:04,315 Speaker 1: knowing that Trump would be watching excess testimony. I'm probably 71 00:05:04,355 --> 00:05:11,035 Speaker 1: not knowing that Parlatory was appointed. Not even heg Seth's 72 00:05:11,195 --> 00:05:13,955 Speaker 1: one brief moment of self awareness that he was being 73 00:05:14,035 --> 00:05:17,915 Speaker 1: set up when Representative Sarah Jacobs asked him about Trump's 74 00:05:17,995 --> 00:05:20,435 Speaker 1: lack of mental functionality, and Hegxeth was able to stammer 75 00:05:20,835 --> 00:05:26,355 Speaker 1: open autopen. Not even that is going to save him. 76 00:05:27,235 --> 00:05:32,635 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth should quit today as Secretary of Defense War 77 00:05:33,115 --> 00:05:37,755 Speaker 1: because Trump will fire him for yesterday. It may be 78 00:05:37,875 --> 00:05:44,635 Speaker 1: at Christmas but it'll happen. Barricade yourself in your makeup room, buddy. 79 00:05:44,915 --> 00:05:49,555 Speaker 1: The end is nigh. If the end were not nigh, 80 00:05:50,195 --> 00:05:53,475 Speaker 1: it will become nigh. Over the additional testimony that Trump 81 00:05:53,475 --> 00:05:57,355 Speaker 1: has burned through twenty five billion dollars over this stupid, unnecessary, 82 00:05:57,355 --> 00:06:00,315 Speaker 1: pointless war, and the Wall Street Journal report that Trump 83 00:06:00,395 --> 00:06:03,515 Speaker 1: told his staff Monday to prepare for an indefinite blockade 84 00:06:03,515 --> 00:06:07,675 Speaker 1: of Iran. In other words, it's a forever war. It's 85 00:06:07,715 --> 00:06:10,395 Speaker 1: a forever war that's costing US about four billion dollars 86 00:06:10,435 --> 00:06:12,715 Speaker 1: a weekend. It will be hung around the neck of 87 00:06:12,755 --> 00:06:16,795 Speaker 1: every Republican running for the House or Senate or dog 88 00:06:16,955 --> 00:06:21,035 Speaker 1: catcher this fall, no matter what the Supreme Court did 89 00:06:21,075 --> 00:06:23,835 Speaker 1: to the Voting Rights Act yesterday. And by the way, 90 00:06:23,875 --> 00:06:26,675 Speaker 1: if you're in a panic over that verdict, remember that 91 00:06:26,755 --> 00:06:31,195 Speaker 1: the MAGA scum who is predicting a perpetual Republican majority 92 00:06:31,235 --> 00:06:35,995 Speaker 1: because of it is Brad Parscale, who we last saw 93 00:06:36,115 --> 00:06:41,155 Speaker 1: being body slammed to his own driveway by cops, and 94 00:06:41,195 --> 00:06:45,195 Speaker 1: who seems to have not noted that Democrats can jerrymander 95 00:06:45,235 --> 00:06:48,635 Speaker 1: as many seats as Republicans can. Based on the Supreme 96 00:06:48,635 --> 00:06:53,875 Speaker 1: Court ruling is the potential twenty twenty election part due 97 00:06:54,555 --> 00:06:57,955 Speaker 1: any crazier than Trump and especially his nit wit wife 98 00:06:58,235 --> 00:07:01,195 Speaker 1: the rent a first Lady. If you don't like it 99 00:07:01,275 --> 00:07:07,235 Speaker 1: here in Donald Trump's America Millennia leave, is it any 100 00:07:07,315 --> 00:07:10,195 Speaker 1: dumber or crazier than the two of them insisting Jimmy 101 00:07:10,235 --> 00:07:14,155 Speaker 1: Kimmel should be fired about a joke about Trump's death 102 00:07:14,715 --> 00:07:21,675 Speaker 1: relative to her age, And then after the weekend, Trump 103 00:07:21,715 --> 00:07:23,635 Speaker 1: gets up in front of King Charles on Tuesday and 104 00:07:23,635 --> 00:07:27,955 Speaker 1: makes the same goddamn joke, only not nearly as well. 105 00:07:29,635 --> 00:07:32,635 Speaker 1: You're gonna fire Kimmel for doing that joke, he did it. Well, 106 00:07:33,475 --> 00:07:38,395 Speaker 1: fire Trump for doing that joke, especially when the D 107 00:07:38,675 --> 00:07:42,795 Speaker 1: word is almost the only thing America is talking about, 108 00:07:43,635 --> 00:07:46,235 Speaker 1: even though nobody wants to say it head on because 109 00:07:46,275 --> 00:07:51,355 Speaker 1: of I don't know, decorum like we had any left, 110 00:07:51,915 --> 00:07:55,875 Speaker 1: or a jinx maybe or I don't know. I guess 111 00:07:55,875 --> 00:07:59,675 Speaker 1: if you're going to indict Jim Comey over eighty six 112 00:07:59,755 --> 00:08:03,235 Speaker 1: forty seven seashells if I say you know what I 113 00:08:03,275 --> 00:08:05,235 Speaker 1: was thinking about the other don't say don't say it 114 00:08:05,275 --> 00:08:10,195 Speaker 1: thought dte you. Maybe it's that nobody wants to say 115 00:08:10,195 --> 00:08:12,795 Speaker 1: it head on. Social media is full every day of 116 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:15,995 Speaker 1: opaque allusions to it. We can't say it. Oh no, 117 00:08:16,195 --> 00:08:19,635 Speaker 1: you can't make a joke about it. I'm reminded of 118 00:08:19,675 --> 00:08:23,195 Speaker 1: the ken Burns nineteen eighty five documentary about Huey Long, 119 00:08:24,075 --> 00:08:26,115 Speaker 1: and there is a cluster of sound bites. And you 120 00:08:26,115 --> 00:08:30,595 Speaker 1: should see this documentary. It's not it's not like baseball 121 00:08:30,675 --> 00:08:33,595 Speaker 1: or the Civil War. It's not an epic, but it's great. 122 00:08:34,675 --> 00:08:37,955 Speaker 1: It's a little unrefined, but it's great. And it's real 123 00:08:38,115 --> 00:08:41,275 Speaker 1: time with people who who were alive and prominent in 124 00:08:41,315 --> 00:08:45,155 Speaker 1: Louisiana in the nineteen thirties. It's less than fifty years later, 125 00:08:45,675 --> 00:08:49,355 Speaker 1: and they're all vital and vivid, and they all talk 126 00:08:49,355 --> 00:08:53,755 Speaker 1: about how they all talked about that all they talked 127 00:08:53,795 --> 00:08:56,595 Speaker 1: about was when Huey Long would die. The mother of 128 00:08:56,675 --> 00:09:01,155 Speaker 1: the journalist Hatting Carter, Betty Carter, basically says that all 129 00:09:01,195 --> 00:09:03,995 Speaker 1: they did in Louisiana in the thirties was sit around, 130 00:09:04,235 --> 00:09:06,035 Speaker 1: make sure that they knew who was in the room 131 00:09:06,075 --> 00:09:08,035 Speaker 1: with them and who wasn't, and they would sit around 132 00:09:08,035 --> 00:09:10,195 Speaker 1: and talk about when Hughey Long would die. And how 133 00:09:14,115 --> 00:09:16,595 Speaker 1: is the idea that Trump wants an actual new election 134 00:09:16,715 --> 00:09:19,155 Speaker 1: that he can call the twenty twenty election. Is that 135 00:09:19,235 --> 00:09:21,595 Speaker 1: any crazier than what continues to pour out of the 136 00:09:21,635 --> 00:09:26,035 Speaker 1: investigation into the White House correspondence dinner incident. I mean, first, 137 00:09:26,075 --> 00:09:29,955 Speaker 1: it was Garrett Graff of Doomsday Scenario formerly of Politico, 138 00:09:30,395 --> 00:09:34,835 Speaker 1: methodically analyzing the security video and the indictment and concluding 139 00:09:34,875 --> 00:09:38,715 Speaker 1: that the alleged perp never fired a shot. And by 140 00:09:38,755 --> 00:09:41,195 Speaker 1: the way, when was the last newscast you saw that 141 00:09:41,355 --> 00:09:47,435 Speaker 1: mentioned that fact? Also that you know, this guy never 142 00:09:47,475 --> 00:09:51,635 Speaker 1: got within one floor of the building of Trump, and 143 00:09:51,715 --> 00:09:56,195 Speaker 1: yet they indicted him for discharging a weapon, not guilty 144 00:09:56,355 --> 00:10:01,355 Speaker 1: and attempting to assassinate the president. You're going to assassinate 145 00:10:01,395 --> 00:10:04,555 Speaker 1: everybody within a floor of Trump who would like him, 146 00:10:04,795 --> 00:10:08,515 Speaker 1: you know, to be d That's gabbe. Have we indicted 147 00:10:08,555 --> 00:10:12,995 Speaker 1: fifty two million people today? Then the Washington Post repeated 148 00:10:12,995 --> 00:10:17,395 Speaker 1: that analysis that Garrett graft started with better video and 149 00:10:17,435 --> 00:10:20,075 Speaker 1: it's transparently obvious. The worst they have this guy on 150 00:10:20,235 --> 00:10:23,875 Speaker 1: is menacing a Secret Service agent with a weapon. Potentially 151 00:10:24,115 --> 00:10:26,915 Speaker 1: you could potentially charge him with attempted murder of a 152 00:10:26,955 --> 00:10:32,955 Speaker 1: Secret Service agent. All the shooting that panicked a lousy 153 00:10:33,075 --> 00:10:38,035 Speaker 1: journalism society dinner and costs dozens, the opportunity to eat 154 00:10:38,155 --> 00:10:41,315 Speaker 1: undercooked chicken and dubious shellfish, and I'm waiting to hear 155 00:10:41,315 --> 00:10:45,075 Speaker 1: about refunds. All of the shooting was done by agents, 156 00:10:45,195 --> 00:10:48,955 Speaker 1: one of whom fired four shots, one of which hit 157 00:10:48,995 --> 00:10:51,595 Speaker 1: one of the other agents, and the others nearly hit 158 00:10:51,635 --> 00:10:55,515 Speaker 1: the other agents but never got near the suspect. As 159 00:10:55,595 --> 00:10:59,395 Speaker 1: Dave Troy, publisher of America two point oh summarizes our 160 00:10:59,475 --> 00:11:04,435 Speaker 1: long national nightmare, One Cole Allen never reached the ballroom. 161 00:11:04,675 --> 00:11:08,435 Speaker 1: Two he never fired a shot. Three he was not shot. 162 00:11:08,755 --> 00:11:11,235 Speaker 1: Four he was going to use buckshot if he had 163 00:11:11,275 --> 00:11:14,795 Speaker 1: reached the ballroom, but he didn't. Five the shots fired 164 00:11:14,835 --> 00:11:17,875 Speaker 1: were by secret Service. One officer took friendly fire, but 165 00:11:17,915 --> 00:11:21,715 Speaker 1: it was stopped by tactical gear. Six, Alan was apparently 166 00:11:21,795 --> 00:11:26,195 Speaker 1: subdued tackled. Seven officers recovered a handgun, a long gun, 167 00:11:26,235 --> 00:11:27,315 Speaker 1: and knives from Alan. 168 00:11:27,635 --> 00:11:27,875 Speaker 3: Eight. 169 00:11:28,155 --> 00:11:32,915 Speaker 1: The security perimeter was inside the hotel and functioned as designed. 170 00:11:35,595 --> 00:11:38,675 Speaker 1: This was not the hand of God, unless God is 171 00:11:38,715 --> 00:11:44,195 Speaker 1: now protecting Trump from morons. Well, Lord, maybe you should 172 00:11:44,235 --> 00:11:50,995 Speaker 1: now beam your magic to saveth Trump from Hegseth. And 173 00:11:51,075 --> 00:11:53,355 Speaker 1: by the way, in this context, the question of this 174 00:11:53,475 --> 00:11:58,035 Speaker 1: being staged or not being staged conspiracy theories. This becomes 175 00:11:58,075 --> 00:12:01,235 Speaker 1: decreasingly meaningful the more you realize that the guy did 176 00:12:01,235 --> 00:12:03,635 Speaker 1: a pretty good and imaginative job of getting around a 177 00:12:03,635 --> 00:12:07,915 Speaker 1: few security layers. There's a fairly cheap lesson for the 178 00:12:07,955 --> 00:12:12,075 Speaker 1: Secret Service relative to hotels and guests at hotels. But 179 00:12:12,155 --> 00:12:15,035 Speaker 1: he really didn't have any plan whatsoever for you know, 180 00:12:15,355 --> 00:12:19,955 Speaker 1: the last five minutes to get to Trump, the last 181 00:12:19,955 --> 00:12:22,315 Speaker 1: five minutes going down the escalator and into the ballroom 182 00:12:22,355 --> 00:12:24,555 Speaker 1: and then all the way to the front of this ballroom. 183 00:12:24,555 --> 00:12:25,955 Speaker 1: And by the way I've been in it, it's like 184 00:12:26,115 --> 00:12:29,035 Speaker 1: the size of a football field from the back door, 185 00:12:29,275 --> 00:12:30,995 Speaker 1: the main entrance that he would have had to go 186 00:12:31,115 --> 00:12:34,795 Speaker 1: through to the DAIS. I mean, really you could you 187 00:12:34,835 --> 00:12:37,195 Speaker 1: could call an uber to get you from that door 188 00:12:37,235 --> 00:12:39,395 Speaker 1: to the dais. It's the one thing that D. C. 189 00:12:39,555 --> 00:12:44,515 Speaker 1: Hilton has is room. He had no plan to get 190 00:12:44,595 --> 00:12:46,795 Speaker 1: down the escalator into the ballroom, then all the way 191 00:12:46,795 --> 00:12:48,915 Speaker 1: to the front to get anywhere near Trump, while everybody 192 00:12:48,955 --> 00:12:52,275 Speaker 1: would have been, you know, shooting at him, unless he 193 00:12:52,275 --> 00:12:56,155 Speaker 1: had some wicked matrix moves planned. I mean, the Wall 194 00:12:56,155 --> 00:12:59,635 Speaker 1: Street Journal editorial board came out with this and compared 195 00:12:59,675 --> 00:13:05,515 Speaker 1: Trump to Lincoln, Presumably they meant running back Keith Lincoln 196 00:13:05,515 --> 00:13:08,315 Speaker 1: of the nineteen sixty three American Football League champion San 197 00:13:08,395 --> 00:13:13,395 Speaker 1: Diego Chargers. After less than a day online, that entire 198 00:13:13,515 --> 00:13:16,795 Speaker 1: editorial was changed and all the references to both Lincolns 199 00:13:16,835 --> 00:13:20,675 Speaker 1: were pulled because it became apparent that the real threat 200 00:13:20,675 --> 00:13:24,595 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump last Saturday night was when Secret Service 201 00:13:25,275 --> 00:13:30,875 Speaker 1: dropped him. And is the second twenty twenty election any 202 00:13:30,875 --> 00:13:35,235 Speaker 1: crazier than Trump still trying to use this non event 203 00:13:35,995 --> 00:13:40,755 Speaker 1: as an excuse to get his emer fing ballroom built 204 00:13:40,835 --> 00:13:44,555 Speaker 1: and now stick us with the bill, because the ballroom 205 00:13:44,635 --> 00:13:48,835 Speaker 1: will save all presidents from all harm forever. Because what 206 00:13:48,915 --> 00:13:51,275 Speaker 1: they're all just gonna stay in the ballroom forever. They're 207 00:13:51,275 --> 00:13:53,955 Speaker 1: never gonna lead like a heighty hole, or they're gonna 208 00:13:53,955 --> 00:13:57,475 Speaker 1: carry the ballroom around with them. What happens if Iran 209 00:13:57,555 --> 00:14:02,795 Speaker 1: develops ballroom piercing ordinance? Everythink of that. It's not enough 210 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:06,355 Speaker 1: eight hundred million to make the walls eleventy billion inches thick. 211 00:14:07,755 --> 00:14:10,435 Speaker 1: There are so many sound bites of Trump insisting that 212 00:14:10,515 --> 00:14:12,835 Speaker 1: the top feature of this crap was that it was 213 00:14:12,915 --> 00:14:19,155 Speaker 1: going to cost the taxpayers no money. Can't he just 214 00:14:19,235 --> 00:14:22,475 Speaker 1: admit it? Can't he just comp to reality. Once Trump 215 00:14:22,515 --> 00:14:28,035 Speaker 1: could not raise the money, he failed. Somehow it has 216 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:31,835 Speaker 1: happened people decided they want to stop bribing Trump for everything. 217 00:14:33,475 --> 00:14:36,835 Speaker 1: He had to turn this into taxpayer funded because he 218 00:14:36,875 --> 00:14:41,435 Speaker 1: couldn't come up with the money himself. If this was staged, 219 00:14:41,795 --> 00:14:47,795 Speaker 1: it was staged because Trump ran out of cash. It's 220 00:14:47,915 --> 00:14:51,675 Speaker 1: so bad. It's such a fraud that the House Majority 221 00:14:51,675 --> 00:14:55,915 Speaker 1: Whip Tom Emmer had to make up an assassination attempt 222 00:14:55,955 --> 00:14:59,435 Speaker 1: that never happened to try to justify it. This is 223 00:14:59,475 --> 00:15:03,395 Speaker 1: not a man who suddenly jumps and runs. Now, you 224 00:15:03,475 --> 00:15:06,315 Speaker 1: saw after the bed miskuit Minster shooting, he stood up 225 00:15:06,435 --> 00:15:09,395 Speaker 1: in pumped his fist in the air three times. The 226 00:15:09,435 --> 00:15:13,875 Speaker 1: Bedminster attack, Tom, that happened while you were asleep and 227 00:15:13,915 --> 00:15:18,715 Speaker 1: you dreamt it. Do you mean KellyAnn Cohn jobs apocryphal 228 00:15:18,835 --> 00:15:22,515 Speaker 1: Bowling Green massacre? Terrorist attack? Is that what you're referring 229 00:15:22,515 --> 00:15:27,275 Speaker 1: to there where the only victims were Kelly An's imaginary friends. 230 00:15:29,515 --> 00:15:31,515 Speaker 1: By the way, there was a hint yesterday that Senator 231 00:15:31,595 --> 00:15:35,315 Speaker 1: Jackie Rosen of Nevada is willing to listen on funding 232 00:15:35,355 --> 00:15:40,475 Speaker 1: a ballroom Senator all Democrats, if you're a Democrat and 233 00:15:40,515 --> 00:15:44,635 Speaker 1: you vote for this, you're out. You are right now, 234 00:15:44,955 --> 00:15:51,755 Speaker 1: literally on the same side as Libs of TikTok and 235 00:15:51,795 --> 00:15:55,875 Speaker 1: Megan McCain. And trust me, we can get libs of 236 00:15:55,915 --> 00:15:59,555 Speaker 1: TikTok to run for Senator from Nevada on the Democratic 237 00:15:59,595 --> 00:16:02,155 Speaker 1: ticket and be just as much of a Democrat as 238 00:16:02,235 --> 00:16:05,155 Speaker 1: you are if you vote for this. In fact, you 239 00:16:05,155 --> 00:16:09,875 Speaker 1: know what I want. I want legislation specifically prohibiting Trump 240 00:16:09,915 --> 00:16:14,195 Speaker 1: from spending money, even his own, even the two hundred 241 00:16:14,195 --> 00:16:17,395 Speaker 1: and thirty one dollars he has on him on a ballroom, 242 00:16:17,995 --> 00:16:21,435 Speaker 1: or on altering the White House again in any effing way. 243 00:16:21,995 --> 00:16:26,195 Speaker 1: I don't want him changing the bathmats, and I want 244 00:16:26,235 --> 00:16:30,155 Speaker 1: him ordered to restore the White House to the condition 245 00:16:30,235 --> 00:16:33,915 Speaker 1: it was in, including the East wing, on January nineteenth, 246 00:16:33,915 --> 00:16:38,435 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and to remove that cheap shit plastic 247 00:16:38,635 --> 00:16:42,035 Speaker 1: gold filigree he's stuck on the walls, and to remove 248 00:16:42,035 --> 00:17:10,675 Speaker 1: it with his own teeth. Okay, finally it to it, 249 00:17:10,955 --> 00:17:16,675 Speaker 1: Trump's plan to mata make America twenty twenty again. I 250 00:17:16,715 --> 00:17:19,675 Speaker 1: get it now. I get what Trump's third term plot 251 00:17:19,715 --> 00:17:23,275 Speaker 1: is most likely to look like. Did you see this 252 00:17:24,435 --> 00:17:28,235 Speaker 1: the Southern Poverty Law Center? He wrote one of the 253 00:17:28,275 --> 00:17:32,115 Speaker 1: great political scams in American history has been charged with 254 00:17:32,395 --> 00:17:37,235 Speaker 1: fraud as an aside. It's absolutely possible Trump does not 255 00:17:37,395 --> 00:17:41,875 Speaker 1: understand the difference between charges and convictions, and in many 256 00:17:41,915 --> 00:17:46,755 Speaker 1: respects it's clear his people don't. This is another Democrat hoax, 257 00:17:46,835 --> 00:17:50,155 Speaker 1: along with Act Blue and many others, many others. Is 258 00:17:50,155 --> 00:17:54,075 Speaker 1: when there aren't any others. If it is true, Oh 259 00:17:54,275 --> 00:17:57,475 Speaker 1: where did that come from? If it is true, what 260 00:17:57,515 --> 00:18:00,635 Speaker 1: you're saying there, Donnie is it's not true? If it 261 00:18:00,715 --> 00:18:05,235 Speaker 1: is true, the twenty twenty presidential election should be permanently 262 00:18:05,435 --> 00:18:09,595 Speaker 1: wiped from the books and be of no further force 263 00:18:09,875 --> 00:18:14,395 Speaker 1: or effect. Exclamation point, thank you for your attention to 264 00:18:14,435 --> 00:18:22,355 Speaker 1: this matter, President DJT. The twenty twenty presidential election should 265 00:18:22,395 --> 00:18:24,755 Speaker 1: be permanently wiped from the books and be of no 266 00:18:24,875 --> 00:18:29,795 Speaker 1: further force or effect. Those who are late will not 267 00:18:30,035 --> 00:18:33,875 Speaker 1: get fruit cup. Okay, I get it now, I get 268 00:18:33,875 --> 00:18:36,515 Speaker 1: what Trump's third plot is most likely to look like. 269 00:18:37,035 --> 00:18:39,115 Speaker 1: Exactly like that, That's what it's going to look like. 270 00:18:39,435 --> 00:18:42,435 Speaker 1: Never mind the phony charges against the Southern Poverty Law 271 00:18:42,515 --> 00:18:44,635 Speaker 1: Center that don't have f all to do with the 272 00:18:44,715 --> 00:18:48,395 Speaker 1: validity of an election. Even if the chargers weren't phony, 273 00:18:49,675 --> 00:18:53,315 Speaker 1: This is his way of floating the latest mental fart 274 00:18:53,675 --> 00:18:55,995 Speaker 1: to bubble out of the stale soup that is what's 275 00:18:56,075 --> 00:19:00,595 Speaker 1: left of his brain. His third term plot is in there. 276 00:19:01,435 --> 00:19:04,635 Speaker 1: His third term plot isn't repealing the twenty second Amendment 277 00:19:05,235 --> 00:19:08,075 Speaker 1: or some new amendment or some crap about. He's still 278 00:19:08,115 --> 00:19:13,075 Speaker 1: eligible until he served two consecutive terms. So he's eligible 279 00:19:13,075 --> 00:19:16,475 Speaker 1: in Obama and Bill Clinton aren Hey, it's not a 280 00:19:16,475 --> 00:19:20,955 Speaker 1: pure dictatorial overthrow. He's not first. It's not some sham 281 00:19:20,995 --> 00:19:24,035 Speaker 1: in which everybody else gets elected, then they resign and 282 00:19:24,075 --> 00:19:27,835 Speaker 1: he gets appointed president. This is his third term plot. 283 00:19:28,075 --> 00:19:31,635 Speaker 1: If you can somehow declare the twenty twenty election permanently 284 00:19:31,675 --> 00:19:34,595 Speaker 1: wipe from the books, whatever that entails, I don't know, 285 00:19:36,075 --> 00:19:39,435 Speaker 1: then we've never had a twenty twenty election, and he 286 00:19:39,435 --> 00:19:41,835 Speaker 1: can say the constitution says we must have a twenty 287 00:19:41,835 --> 00:19:44,835 Speaker 1: twenty election. We don't have one anymore, and as president 288 00:19:45,035 --> 00:19:48,035 Speaker 1: he has sworn by holy oath to make sure we 289 00:19:48,115 --> 00:19:51,155 Speaker 1: have one, even though he hasn't. So, since there can't 290 00:19:51,195 --> 00:19:54,395 Speaker 1: just be a blank space there between the twenty sixteen 291 00:19:54,435 --> 00:19:58,675 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty four elections, Congress will have to pass 292 00:19:58,795 --> 00:20:02,755 Speaker 1: legislation declaring that the twenty twenty election will now be 293 00:20:02,955 --> 00:20:08,195 Speaker 1: held as mandated by the Constitution and Trump's personal friend God, 294 00:20:09,515 --> 00:20:13,515 Speaker 1: on November seventh, twenty twenty eight. That will be the 295 00:20:13,555 --> 00:20:17,275 Speaker 1: twenty twenty election, and naturally, since the now wiped from 296 00:20:17,315 --> 00:20:19,555 Speaker 1: the books, first version of the twenty twenty election was 297 00:20:19,635 --> 00:20:23,395 Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump of Florida versus Joseph R. Biden Junior 298 00:20:23,435 --> 00:20:27,675 Speaker 1: of Delaware, the new twenty twenty election, the new and 299 00:20:27,835 --> 00:20:31,275 Speaker 1: improved gold plated twenty twenty election on November seven, twenty 300 00:20:31,275 --> 00:20:33,875 Speaker 1: twenty eight, will again have to be Trump versus Biden. 301 00:20:34,035 --> 00:20:37,355 Speaker 1: No substitutions permitted, since the primaries and conventions have not 302 00:20:37,475 --> 00:20:40,475 Speaker 1: been declared of no further force or effect. They were fine, 303 00:20:41,675 --> 00:20:43,875 Speaker 1: and it can only be Trump versus Biden. And thus 304 00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:46,995 Speaker 1: it is decided and constitutionally decreed. And God said so, 305 00:20:47,115 --> 00:20:48,955 Speaker 1: and a great wrong will be righted and a great 306 00:20:48,995 --> 00:20:50,915 Speaker 1: wound will be healed. And thank you for your attention 307 00:20:50,955 --> 00:20:55,555 Speaker 1: to this matter. I'm not crazy. Could it possibly work? Things? 308 00:20:55,675 --> 00:20:59,675 Speaker 1: I mean, things do get undone in this country. Mostly 309 00:20:59,715 --> 00:21:04,715 Speaker 1: it's college football, a wards for endless reasons, and prosecution 310 00:21:04,995 --> 00:21:08,915 Speaker 1: when it turned out there was faked evidence, but to 311 00:21:09,035 --> 00:21:12,395 Speaker 1: just erase an election and then, on top of it, 312 00:21:12,515 --> 00:21:16,195 Speaker 1: run it again only as a devious and illegal means 313 00:21:16,195 --> 00:21:19,875 Speaker 1: of letting him be elected a third time, not that 314 00:21:19,915 --> 00:21:23,315 Speaker 1: he would be elected no matter what condition Joe Biden 315 00:21:23,315 --> 00:21:26,635 Speaker 1: would be in in twenty twenty eight. But we all 316 00:21:26,675 --> 00:21:30,795 Speaker 1: said that before, and we were wrong to say nothing 317 00:21:30,835 --> 00:21:34,235 Speaker 1: of him trying to fix it. Were then losing the 318 00:21:34,275 --> 00:21:38,875 Speaker 1: second twenty twenty election in twenty twenty eight, and somehow 319 00:21:40,235 --> 00:21:44,315 Speaker 1: getting enough Republicans to lie about that one and storm 320 00:21:44,355 --> 00:21:50,195 Speaker 1: the Capitol again. The point with Trump, as we now 321 00:21:50,235 --> 00:21:52,555 Speaker 1: know from having lost a decade of our lives to 322 00:21:52,595 --> 00:21:55,955 Speaker 1: this animated pile of shit with Bronzer on it, is 323 00:21:55,955 --> 00:21:58,715 Speaker 1: that when you are like him and you have no conscience, 324 00:21:59,355 --> 00:22:01,915 Speaker 1: no ability to perceive that the lives of other humans 325 00:22:01,955 --> 00:22:06,315 Speaker 1: matter in the slightest is that his greatest asset is 326 00:22:06,355 --> 00:22:09,715 Speaker 1: to act first and let you try to undo what 327 00:22:09,835 --> 00:22:14,795 Speaker 1: he's done later. So far, very few have succeeded. He 328 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:19,075 Speaker 1: is expert at finding weaknesses in people and in laws. 329 00:22:19,155 --> 00:22:22,155 Speaker 1: That is how he made money, how he portrayed himself 330 00:22:22,195 --> 00:22:26,155 Speaker 1: on his otherwise disastrous TV show, and the means by 331 00:22:26,195 --> 00:22:30,835 Speaker 1: which if he could have concentrated solely on enslaving us 332 00:22:31,115 --> 00:22:33,835 Speaker 1: rather than spending half his time whining about not getting 333 00:22:33,955 --> 00:22:37,595 Speaker 1: enough credit for everything. If he had just focused, we 334 00:22:37,635 --> 00:22:42,075 Speaker 1: would all be enslaved by now in a full fledged dictatorship, 335 00:22:42,515 --> 00:22:47,755 Speaker 1: you and me in chains, working underground, uh harvesting rare 336 00:22:47,835 --> 00:22:56,315 Speaker 1: minerals for him, rare earths in Greenland. Nobody has stopped Trump. 337 00:22:56,475 --> 00:23:00,675 Speaker 1: His own ego and his thin skin both metaphorical, and 338 00:23:00,875 --> 00:23:03,955 Speaker 1: you know the actual crap on his hands that has 339 00:23:03,995 --> 00:23:09,555 Speaker 1: stopped him. So what we do have, though, is data 340 00:23:09,635 --> 00:23:12,915 Speaker 1: on where he meets with the latest and least resistance 341 00:23:13,355 --> 00:23:18,515 Speaker 1: to his schemes and plots. If Biden had had a 342 00:23:18,675 --> 00:23:22,635 Speaker 1: living attorney general, not the mummified cadaver of Merrick Garland, 343 00:23:22,755 --> 00:23:26,395 Speaker 1: a series of laws with pretty good leak proofing would 344 00:23:26,475 --> 00:23:31,755 Speaker 1: have And we're starting to put Trump in prison for life. 345 00:23:31,835 --> 00:23:34,875 Speaker 1: Trump barely presented a factual defense in any of his 346 00:23:34,995 --> 00:23:38,635 Speaker 1: trials or to any of his indictments. He didn't have 347 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:43,155 Speaker 1: like real lawyers. He had, like Alna Habba. He had 348 00:23:43,195 --> 00:23:49,995 Speaker 1: Alna Habba, a little mealy mouthed whining about his ownership 349 00:23:50,035 --> 00:23:53,475 Speaker 1: of the documents mine mine, may mind, But that was 350 00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:58,475 Speaker 1: more reflexive greed and less self preservational cries of innocence. 351 00:23:58,795 --> 00:24:05,515 Speaker 1: Trump and his ambulance chasers instead fixated on stalling Donald 352 00:24:05,555 --> 00:24:07,675 Speaker 1: Trump is in the White House rather than in the 353 00:24:07,715 --> 00:24:11,755 Speaker 1: penitentiary today, because every time the labyrinthine rules of pre 354 00:24:11,795 --> 00:24:15,755 Speaker 1: trial process afforded his lawyers three weeks to prepare a document, 355 00:24:15,835 --> 00:24:19,675 Speaker 1: they sued saying that wasn't long enough. They needed six weeks. 356 00:24:20,635 --> 00:24:23,755 Speaker 1: So suddenly there was the trial, and then there was 357 00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:27,235 Speaker 1: also a hearing about a motion deadline for that trial. 358 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:30,395 Speaker 1: And as this began to work and the months of 359 00:24:30,475 --> 00:24:34,275 Speaker 1: pre trial process became years of pre trial process, he 360 00:24:34,355 --> 00:24:39,035 Speaker 1: simply repeated the trick over and over again. Jack Smith 361 00:24:39,155 --> 00:24:44,195 Speaker 1: actually overcame the rabbit and tortoise race delay Millstone that 362 00:24:44,195 --> 00:24:47,875 Speaker 1: that idiot Garland hung around Jack Smith's neck. It was 363 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:50,715 Speaker 1: the endless delays over when the paperwork had to be 364 00:24:50,795 --> 00:24:55,235 Speaker 1: filed that did him in and did in America. So 365 00:24:55,315 --> 00:24:58,275 Speaker 1: if Trump wanted to erase the twenty twenty election and 366 00:24:58,435 --> 00:25:02,155 Speaker 1: hold another one, the twenty twenty election of twenty twenty 367 00:25:02,195 --> 00:25:07,235 Speaker 1: eight trademark, the plot would belch out from his soulless existence, 368 00:25:08,555 --> 00:25:12,155 Speaker 1: presumably something in which he ordered it, his Congress approved it, 369 00:25:12,235 --> 00:25:14,275 Speaker 1: and set up some legal bullshit to give it a 370 00:25:14,315 --> 00:25:18,395 Speaker 1: temporary fig leaf and a phony electoral mechanism to get 371 00:25:18,395 --> 00:25:21,995 Speaker 1: it started. Then everybody would sue him, of course, and 372 00:25:22,155 --> 00:25:25,675 Speaker 1: sue that electoral mechanism to stop it, because it not 373 00:25:25,715 --> 00:25:28,715 Speaker 1: only violates the Constitution, but it also violates the laws 374 00:25:28,715 --> 00:25:33,715 Speaker 1: of time and space. And what would he do. He 375 00:25:33,755 --> 00:25:37,675 Speaker 1: would do what he did in the prosecution of Donald Trump. 376 00:25:38,035 --> 00:25:41,155 Speaker 1: He would move to dismiss each lawsuit. And at each 377 00:25:41,195 --> 00:25:44,595 Speaker 1: stage in which a judge, whether it's Aileen Cannon or 378 00:25:44,635 --> 00:25:47,995 Speaker 1: a real judge, in which the judge had a paperwork 379 00:25:48,075 --> 00:25:52,195 Speaker 1: deadline his side, presumably in the person of the twenty 380 00:25:52,235 --> 00:25:57,475 Speaker 1: twenty election of twenty twenty eight organizing Committee trademark, they 381 00:25:57,515 --> 00:26:02,395 Speaker 1: would suit to delay it sixty days to respond. Now 382 00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:05,315 Speaker 1: he need one hundred and twenty and they'd sue to 383 00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:09,075 Speaker 1: delay the paperwork deadline for the suit to delay it. Oh, no, 384 00:26:09,155 --> 00:26:10,955 Speaker 1: we need one hundred and eighty days to get the 385 00:26:10,955 --> 00:26:13,475 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty days for the original suit. Then 386 00:26:13,515 --> 00:26:16,155 Speaker 1: they'd sue over those paperworking on two hundred and forty 387 00:26:16,195 --> 00:26:17,755 Speaker 1: days for the one hundred and eighty days for the 388 00:26:17,755 --> 00:26:21,715 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty days for the original lawsuit. And 389 00:26:21,755 --> 00:26:25,995 Speaker 1: what would the increasingly frenzied opposition, Do go to the 390 00:26:26,035 --> 00:26:29,635 Speaker 1: Supreme Court to get an emergency ruling that this illegal 391 00:26:29,675 --> 00:26:34,435 Speaker 1: bullshit was illegal bullshit? Do you want to rely on that? 392 00:26:35,555 --> 00:26:37,635 Speaker 1: Do you really want to rely on that when you 393 00:26:37,835 --> 00:26:41,635 Speaker 1: know that he could force Alito and Thomas out tomorrow 394 00:26:41,635 --> 00:26:45,715 Speaker 1: if he wanted to go nuclear on them, never mind 395 00:26:45,955 --> 00:26:47,675 Speaker 1: how easy it would be to force them out. In 396 00:26:47,755 --> 00:26:50,715 Speaker 1: our scenario in which we're talking about events of next 397 00:26:50,835 --> 00:26:55,555 Speaker 1: year or in twenty twenty eight, all of a sudden, 398 00:26:55,555 --> 00:26:58,435 Speaker 1: it wouldn't just be an automatic majority of Trump appointees 399 00:26:58,475 --> 00:27:00,275 Speaker 1: on the court, then two of them would have just 400 00:27:00,315 --> 00:27:04,355 Speaker 1: gotten there, presumably with the promise that they would rule 401 00:27:04,395 --> 00:27:07,275 Speaker 1: for him on anything presented to them about letting him 402 00:27:07,275 --> 00:27:09,515 Speaker 1: find a loophole big enough to run a twenty twenty 403 00:27:09,555 --> 00:27:15,995 Speaker 1: eight Trump campaign through then having gotten his Supreme Court 404 00:27:18,515 --> 00:27:21,995 Speaker 1: to give a collective emoji shrug, if Trump has correctly 405 00:27:21,995 --> 00:27:24,595 Speaker 1: measured the time he had to kill off with endless motions, 406 00:27:24,755 --> 00:27:27,235 Speaker 1: as he clearly did measure it correctly in twenty twenty two, 407 00:27:27,395 --> 00:27:30,595 Speaker 1: twenty three, twenty four, and if things were still favorable 408 00:27:30,595 --> 00:27:32,635 Speaker 1: to his threats and bribes and blackmail as they are 409 00:27:32,675 --> 00:27:34,955 Speaker 1: now and will be at least through the midterms. He 410 00:27:34,995 --> 00:27:38,795 Speaker 1: would simply do it. I believe he would simply declare 411 00:27:38,835 --> 00:27:40,835 Speaker 1: that the twenty twenty eight election is really the twenty 412 00:27:40,875 --> 00:27:43,355 Speaker 1: twenty election, and it has to be Biden versus Trump, 413 00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:46,155 Speaker 1: and he will abide by the final decisions of the courts, 414 00:27:46,235 --> 00:27:52,195 Speaker 1: which will be coming in any decade now. The twenty 415 00:27:52,235 --> 00:27:55,835 Speaker 1: twenty presidential election should be permanently wiped from the books 416 00:27:55,835 --> 00:28:02,395 Speaker 1: and be of no further force or effect. He didn't 417 00:28:02,435 --> 00:28:06,075 Speaker 1: write that because it temporarily stuffed crumpled up paper into 418 00:28:06,115 --> 00:28:09,635 Speaker 1: the overflowing urinals that are his brain. He wrote them 419 00:28:09,635 --> 00:28:13,435 Speaker 1: because he's doing early resistance tests, because we think the 420 00:28:13,475 --> 00:28:15,155 Speaker 1: Democrats are going to win the House in the fall, 421 00:28:15,195 --> 00:28:17,795 Speaker 1: and we think they may even have the Senate, and 422 00:28:17,875 --> 00:28:19,875 Speaker 1: we think they have a puncher's chance to get the 423 00:28:19,915 --> 00:28:24,355 Speaker 1: sixty Senate seats necessary to convict and remove him. Or 424 00:28:25,235 --> 00:28:28,075 Speaker 1: he could use the new Supreme Court ruling. Or he 425 00:28:28,115 --> 00:28:32,635 Speaker 1: could stage an Iranian terror plot. Hell, he just got 426 00:28:32,635 --> 00:28:35,675 Speaker 1: indictments against the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of 427 00:28:35,675 --> 00:28:39,595 Speaker 1: the racists, including the terrorists at Charlottesville. He's got January 428 00:28:39,635 --> 00:28:43,835 Speaker 1: sixth insurrectionists working for ice and running for Republican House seats, 429 00:28:44,035 --> 00:28:47,795 Speaker 1: and he just indicted Jim Comey overaffing seashells when Jim 430 00:28:47,875 --> 00:28:50,035 Speaker 1: Comy is probably the guy who got him elected in 431 00:28:50,035 --> 00:28:57,835 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. In that context, may I ask you this question, 432 00:28:58,195 --> 00:29:01,915 Speaker 1: how much of a stretch is it really for him 433 00:29:01,915 --> 00:29:06,915 Speaker 1: to get away withholding the twenty election of twenty twenty 434 00:29:06,915 --> 00:29:17,315 Speaker 1: eight trademark? Also of interest to your quick scheduling note, 435 00:29:17,395 --> 00:29:21,475 Speaker 1: I'm taking next week off. The next scheduled Countdown podcast 436 00:29:21,475 --> 00:29:26,475 Speaker 1: will be a week from Monday. That's Monday, May eleventh. 437 00:29:27,395 --> 00:29:32,515 Speaker 1: Everything is fine, I just need the week. In the interim. 438 00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:35,355 Speaker 1: I have bad news for Barry Weiss, and I have 439 00:29:35,475 --> 00:29:39,115 Speaker 1: worse news for Barry Weiss. Sadly nobody is watching her 440 00:29:39,195 --> 00:29:43,115 Speaker 1: version of the CBS Evening News, but everybody is watching 441 00:29:43,515 --> 00:29:46,755 Speaker 1: her free Press Reporters Correspondens dinner video in which she 442 00:29:46,795 --> 00:29:50,635 Speaker 1: deliberately pointed the camera away from the news to instead 443 00:29:50,915 --> 00:29:54,035 Speaker 1: point it at her own face and give us fifty 444 00:29:54,035 --> 00:30:00,435 Speaker 1: two seconds of herself silently looking alarmed. It's the new 445 00:30:00,515 --> 00:30:06,915 Speaker 1: journalism that's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with 446 00:30:07,115 --> 00:30:32,275 Speaker 1: Keith Obleman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. Every 447 00:30:32,315 --> 00:30:35,355 Speaker 1: once in a while, I wonder why the hell I 448 00:30:35,435 --> 00:30:40,155 Speaker 1: became a political commentator an analyst instead of remaining a 449 00:30:40,275 --> 00:30:46,795 Speaker 1: simple showbiz sportscaster and just a country news anchor. And 450 00:30:46,835 --> 00:30:50,715 Speaker 1: when I say once in a while, I mean hourly. 451 00:30:51,875 --> 00:30:55,995 Speaker 1: But how it happened? How I became that totally accidentally, 452 00:30:56,115 --> 00:31:00,275 Speaker 1: unplanned and thought to be temporary that I rarely ponder 453 00:31:00,435 --> 00:31:04,155 Speaker 1: or recount, and when I do, I am astonished by it. 454 00:31:04,795 --> 00:31:07,955 Speaker 1: Since I found myself doing exactly that explaining the why 455 00:31:07,995 --> 00:31:09,875 Speaker 1: the other day, I think I should go through the 456 00:31:09,955 --> 00:31:14,915 Speaker 1: how right here, the day it went all horribly, horribly wrong, 457 00:31:15,675 --> 00:31:17,355 Speaker 1: other than the fact that it was pretty much all 458 00:31:17,395 --> 00:31:20,675 Speaker 1: Tim Russert's fault. Next in things I promised not to 459 00:31:20,755 --> 00:31:24,395 Speaker 1: tell in the interim, we always have new idiots to 460 00:31:24,475 --> 00:31:26,835 Speaker 1: talk about. The roundup of the miss Grants, morons and 461 00:31:26,995 --> 00:31:32,155 Speaker 1: Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons 462 00:31:32,435 --> 00:31:37,995 Speaker 1: in the world. This is dedicated to Katrina Perry, BBC 463 00:31:38,275 --> 00:31:42,475 Speaker 1: newscaster who anchored the live coverage of the King's appearance 464 00:31:42,595 --> 00:31:47,755 Speaker 1: and the speech to a joint gathering of Congress. She 465 00:31:48,595 --> 00:31:52,155 Speaker 1: let me put this politely, She struggled. She's from Ireland, 466 00:31:52,395 --> 00:31:55,315 Speaker 1: She's not apologetic about it. She doesn't try to hide it. 467 00:31:55,795 --> 00:31:59,795 Speaker 1: So each reference she made was to King Charles to turd. 468 00:32:02,155 --> 00:32:07,395 Speaker 1: I am assuming even though she's she's not necessarily insulting him. 469 00:32:07,515 --> 00:32:10,755 Speaker 1: That's just how thh is said that way. I had 470 00:32:10,955 --> 00:32:14,835 Speaker 1: Irish friends from the Bronx who said turd all the time. 471 00:32:15,555 --> 00:32:18,195 Speaker 1: But more importantly, especially since the King chose not to 472 00:32:18,195 --> 00:32:21,395 Speaker 1: meet with Epstein survivors and Trump continues his cover up 473 00:32:21,435 --> 00:32:26,275 Speaker 1: of Epstein, somebody gave her bad information. As Speaker Johnson 474 00:32:26,395 --> 00:32:31,755 Speaker 1: escorted the King through Statuary Hall. Miss Perry called it 475 00:32:31,835 --> 00:32:36,635 Speaker 1: on the BBC Statutory Hall, and then she said it 476 00:32:36,675 --> 00:32:43,315 Speaker 1: again and a third time. See Statutory Hall. In the 477 00:32:43,395 --> 00:32:49,275 Speaker 1: current climate especially would presumably be on Epstein Island Statutory Hall. 478 00:32:51,635 --> 00:32:55,475 Speaker 1: The medalists the bronze worst Barry Weiss. Boy, oh boy, 479 00:32:55,595 --> 00:32:59,115 Speaker 1: are the wheels coming off for her? It appears a 480 00:32:59,235 --> 00:33:03,195 Speaker 1: video self owned by one of her quote reporters unquote 481 00:33:03,195 --> 00:33:05,795 Speaker 1: at the Free Press has got and a larger audience 482 00:33:05,875 --> 00:33:10,155 Speaker 1: than does the flagship newscast at her dying operation CBS. 483 00:33:10,835 --> 00:33:13,675 Speaker 1: The new numbers are in from Nielsen courtesy of Oliver 484 00:33:13,835 --> 00:33:18,035 Speaker 1: Darcy's Status newsletter, and they are not bleak. They used 485 00:33:18,035 --> 00:33:20,355 Speaker 1: to be bleak. Now they are whatever is way down 486 00:33:20,395 --> 00:33:24,315 Speaker 1: from bleak. For the third consecutive week. Last week, the 487 00:33:24,355 --> 00:33:28,515 Speaker 1: CBS Evening News with Tony Decouple fell through the network 488 00:33:28,515 --> 00:33:33,235 Speaker 1: news floor, which is four million total viewers. Four million 489 00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:35,715 Speaker 1: is the point you have to reach. Four million is 490 00:33:35,715 --> 00:33:39,715 Speaker 1: the point at which it is worth to not postpone 491 00:33:39,795 --> 00:33:44,075 Speaker 1: the show and run an infomercial about stick vacuums or 492 00:33:44,235 --> 00:33:48,555 Speaker 1: do it yourself at home. Butter churning three million, seven 493 00:33:48,635 --> 00:33:51,315 Speaker 1: hundred thousand viewers for the CBS Evening News for the 494 00:33:51,315 --> 00:33:54,715 Speaker 1: week of April twentieth, only four hundred and sixty seven 495 00:33:54,795 --> 00:33:58,595 Speaker 1: thousand in the advertising demo. We used to regularly top 496 00:33:58,595 --> 00:34:02,395 Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty seven thousand on Countdown on cable 497 00:34:03,315 --> 00:34:06,155 Speaker 1: plus the lead newscast, It's a thirty World News on ABC. 498 00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:12,115 Speaker 1: Increased ratings doubles those averages. The Evening News will eventually 499 00:34:12,155 --> 00:34:17,995 Speaker 1: die and go away CBS now, ABC and NBC decades 500 00:34:18,035 --> 00:34:21,795 Speaker 1: from now. CBS Mornings is also getting killed under Barry Whiss, 501 00:34:22,035 --> 00:34:25,475 Speaker 1: worst April on record, worst first quarter. The audience is 502 00:34:25,555 --> 00:34:28,875 Speaker 1: less than a million eight every day. Now I'm going 503 00:34:28,955 --> 00:34:31,595 Speaker 1: to deliberately leave the name of the country in question 504 00:34:31,915 --> 00:34:34,875 Speaker 1: out because it's meaningful, it's relevant, but it's not really 505 00:34:34,915 --> 00:34:38,635 Speaker 1: relevant to the TV considerations. If you altered the news 506 00:34:38,715 --> 00:34:41,755 Speaker 1: on an American TV channel to slant it towards a 507 00:34:41,835 --> 00:34:46,275 Speaker 1: foreign country, if you made the CBS Evening News pro Canada, 508 00:34:47,075 --> 00:34:51,675 Speaker 1: but by eliminating anti Canada stories or anti Canada facts 509 00:34:51,755 --> 00:34:57,435 Speaker 1: or accepting Canadian government spin as reality, you'd get crushed 510 00:34:57,635 --> 00:35:00,355 Speaker 1: in the same way CBS is getting crushed now, same 511 00:35:00,395 --> 00:35:04,515 Speaker 1: if you made it pro Liechtenstein or pro Bosnia and Herzego. 512 00:35:05,155 --> 00:35:08,395 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter which country. That's not the point. People go, 513 00:35:08,555 --> 00:35:11,195 Speaker 1: Why am I watching the news about Bosnia? Here's a 514 00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:15,395 Speaker 1: Govina on CBS. This is the CBS Evening Bosnia, and 515 00:35:15,435 --> 00:35:19,515 Speaker 1: here's a Govina news. Barry Weiss and Tony Decouple are 516 00:35:19,515 --> 00:35:22,875 Speaker 1: making their news decisions based, in large part on their 517 00:35:22,915 --> 00:35:26,675 Speaker 1: personal commitments to another country. They can have personal commitments 518 00:35:26,715 --> 00:35:29,315 Speaker 1: to another country. They can do all the charity work 519 00:35:29,355 --> 00:35:32,315 Speaker 1: they want, they can do all of the information dessemination 520 00:35:32,435 --> 00:35:34,235 Speaker 1: they want. They just can't do it on the CBS 521 00:35:34,315 --> 00:35:37,955 Speaker 1: Evening News. It's insane. And we're not even talking about 522 00:35:37,955 --> 00:35:42,195 Speaker 1: the ethics of it. We're talking about the practical monetary considerations. 523 00:35:42,235 --> 00:35:46,995 Speaker 1: They're getting destroyed for it. Happily, everything else is going 524 00:35:47,035 --> 00:35:51,635 Speaker 1: so very well. The runner up worser Barry Weiss of 525 00:35:51,675 --> 00:35:54,595 Speaker 1: The Free Press. This was my point. I don't know 526 00:35:54,635 --> 00:35:57,555 Speaker 1: how many reporters be clowned themselves at the White House 527 00:35:57,555 --> 00:36:03,555 Speaker 1: Correspondence dinner, Jake, but Barry's quote reporter Olivia rein Goold 528 00:36:03,755 --> 00:36:07,795 Speaker 1: probably won that competition. A lot of reporters at least tried. 529 00:36:08,235 --> 00:36:10,955 Speaker 1: They put out videos, most of which showed nothing, some 530 00:36:11,035 --> 00:36:12,875 Speaker 1: of which were useful, some of which at least did 531 00:36:12,995 --> 00:36:15,915 Speaker 1: the minimum. You're expecting from your favorite reporter. At a 532 00:36:15,955 --> 00:36:19,475 Speaker 1: dinner full of reporters where something newsy happens, some kind 533 00:36:19,475 --> 00:36:22,235 Speaker 1: of video of them narrating the scene, even if it's 534 00:36:22,275 --> 00:36:24,675 Speaker 1: just a bunch of empty tables. Maybe you get lucky, 535 00:36:24,715 --> 00:36:26,995 Speaker 1: you'll find some guy eating his salad and refusing to 536 00:36:26,995 --> 00:36:30,355 Speaker 1: get under the table, or even looking into their phone 537 00:36:30,395 --> 00:36:33,515 Speaker 1: cameras and doing a stand up in hushed tones, or 538 00:36:33,555 --> 00:36:36,955 Speaker 1: a quick wrap, something something designed to try to tell 539 00:36:36,995 --> 00:36:40,995 Speaker 1: the story, something designed to show the news of that 540 00:36:41,155 --> 00:36:45,395 Speaker 1: unnerving night. Olivia reindoldt the star of Barry Weiss's The 541 00:36:45,435 --> 00:36:48,435 Speaker 1: Free Press. If somehow you have not seen it, you 542 00:36:48,555 --> 00:36:51,795 Speaker 1: may be the only one who's not seen it. It's 543 00:36:51,835 --> 00:36:57,315 Speaker 1: fifty two seconds of her showing herself crouched under a 544 00:36:57,355 --> 00:37:01,555 Speaker 1: table at the Washington Hilton. Not her telling you what happened. 545 00:37:01,555 --> 00:37:05,675 Speaker 1: It's basically silent, just a video of her face expressions. 546 00:37:06,235 --> 00:37:10,515 Speaker 1: Occasionally she'd look alarmed and silent, but she'd do it 547 00:37:10,555 --> 00:37:14,435 Speaker 1: while looking to the left. Then she'd look alarmed and silent, 548 00:37:14,675 --> 00:37:19,075 Speaker 1: but with her looking to the right, the versatility, and 549 00:37:19,155 --> 00:37:23,595 Speaker 1: then and then she'd look alarmed and silent directly into 550 00:37:23,595 --> 00:37:28,795 Speaker 1: the camera. Fifty two seconds of Olivia Reinhold's emotions, which 551 00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:35,715 Speaker 1: run the gamut from A to B terrifying, she wrote 552 00:37:35,715 --> 00:37:40,635 Speaker 1: in the caption for this Emmy Award winning, Pulitzer Prize 553 00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:45,915 Speaker 1: winning video. Hell, give her the FIFA Nobel Prize. Lady, 554 00:37:46,075 --> 00:37:48,115 Speaker 1: you think it was terrifying, you should see the video 555 00:37:48,155 --> 00:37:50,995 Speaker 1: from our perspective. Oh you meant the events at the 556 00:37:51,035 --> 00:37:53,955 Speaker 1: correspondence dinner, Well, we couldn't tell anything about that because 557 00:37:53,995 --> 00:37:56,955 Speaker 1: you didn't show any of those events. A few ground 558 00:37:57,035 --> 00:38:00,355 Speaker 1: shaking knocks by my seat, she wrote, unclear if shooting, 559 00:38:00,715 --> 00:38:04,235 Speaker 1: I am okay, we are trying to exit now. I 560 00:38:04,275 --> 00:38:07,275 Speaker 1: would read commend you exit permanently from the TV news 561 00:38:07,315 --> 00:38:11,715 Speaker 1: business or any news business. As many people noted, actual 562 00:38:11,755 --> 00:38:16,275 Speaker 1: reporters are just civilians with brains in their heads. Next time, madam, 563 00:38:16,595 --> 00:38:20,955 Speaker 1: point your camera at the news, not away from the 564 00:38:21,035 --> 00:38:25,235 Speaker 1: news to me. Of course, we are sleeping on the 565 00:38:25,275 --> 00:38:29,155 Speaker 1: real imbecility here from Olivia Ryan Gold. Having recorded this, 566 00:38:29,755 --> 00:38:32,275 Speaker 1: Why did she then choose to post it? Why did 567 00:38:32,315 --> 00:38:35,435 Speaker 1: she post it at full length? Maybe maybe if you 568 00:38:35,595 --> 00:38:41,235 Speaker 1: can't stop the compulsion to post this ridiculous, self destructive video, 569 00:38:41,595 --> 00:38:44,875 Speaker 1: trim it. You have an edit button on there, don't you. 570 00:38:45,555 --> 00:38:47,675 Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be all fifty two seconds showing 571 00:38:47,715 --> 00:38:50,555 Speaker 1: you not knowing how to cover news. Just do five 572 00:38:50,675 --> 00:38:54,035 Speaker 1: seconds showing your immediate reaction to it. Maybe people wouldn't 573 00:38:54,075 --> 00:39:00,675 Speaker 1: laugh so hard, Fewer people would have guffawed. However, since 574 00:39:00,715 --> 00:39:03,515 Speaker 1: the video was well lit and her makeup was undamaged 575 00:39:03,555 --> 00:39:06,355 Speaker 1: as she went under the table, you know what's next. 576 00:39:06,395 --> 00:39:16,675 Speaker 1: In the semi functioning mind of Barry Weiss, this is the. 577 00:39:16,595 --> 00:39:24,555 Speaker 3: CBS Evening News with Olivia Reanhold. Now Here is Olivia 578 00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:30,195 Speaker 3: Reinhold reporting from under the anchor desk. 579 00:39:34,795 --> 00:39:39,675 Speaker 1: But the winner, Stephen A. Smith. I knew him for 580 00:39:39,755 --> 00:39:42,755 Speaker 1: fifteen years. Maybe I worked with him for like seven 581 00:39:42,875 --> 00:39:45,275 Speaker 1: or eight at ESPN. I did not know he had 582 00:39:45,315 --> 00:39:48,795 Speaker 1: a shovel collection, and he must he must have a 583 00:39:48,835 --> 00:39:53,995 Speaker 1: shovel collection, because he just keeps friggin' digging. I'm sorry, 584 00:39:54,195 --> 00:39:58,155 Speaker 1: ESPN has to fire him. Tony Pittaro, Bob Iger, the 585 00:39:58,235 --> 00:40:03,075 Speaker 1: new Disney guy, Steven A. Smith has to go, or 586 00:40:03,115 --> 00:40:05,395 Speaker 1: you have to stop him from doing this anymore. He's 587 00:40:05,435 --> 00:40:08,235 Speaker 1: done it again. He's gone on with Sean Hannity after 588 00:40:08,315 --> 00:40:11,955 Speaker 1: that same White House Correspondents dinner, while supposedly exploring a 589 00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:15,475 Speaker 1: run for the Democratic presidential nomination, while pretending he's a 590 00:40:15,555 --> 00:40:18,435 Speaker 1: liberal or a Democrat, or even a moderate or just 591 00:40:18,475 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: a mild conservative, while pretending he's not utterly uninformed about 592 00:40:22,155 --> 00:40:26,355 Speaker 1: America and amazingly stupid about life, while utterly confident that 593 00:40:26,395 --> 00:40:29,675 Speaker 1: the same windiness and time killing that works in TV 594 00:40:29,755 --> 00:40:34,155 Speaker 1: sports will work in politics. ESPN is clearly not going 595 00:40:34,195 --> 00:40:37,275 Speaker 1: to make him stop, or cannot, or is, as often 596 00:40:37,315 --> 00:40:41,235 Speaker 1: the case, afraid of the talent. So somebody has to 597 00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:44,875 Speaker 1: step in in Disney and fire him. You cannot have 598 00:40:44,995 --> 00:40:48,835 Speaker 1: the face of your sports TV network be a political commentator, 599 00:40:48,995 --> 00:40:52,395 Speaker 1: and that is what he is trying to become I know, 600 00:40:52,595 --> 00:40:54,915 Speaker 1: I know, funny me saying that isn't it? Well, I 601 00:40:54,955 --> 00:40:57,235 Speaker 1: didn't go and do it when I worked for ESPN 602 00:40:57,315 --> 00:41:01,275 Speaker 1: on TV. I never appeared on SportsCenter or ESPN or 603 00:41:01,515 --> 00:41:05,435 Speaker 1: ESPN two once, never did play by play for them, 604 00:41:05,835 --> 00:41:09,635 Speaker 1: never did anything for them on television or anything else 605 00:41:09,835 --> 00:41:15,395 Speaker 1: while doing political commentary at a different network. Didn't didn't 606 00:41:15,395 --> 00:41:18,435 Speaker 1: do a radio political commentary show while on ESPN TV. 607 00:41:18,715 --> 00:41:22,795 Speaker 1: Didn't do a didn't do MSNBC while being on ESPN TV, 608 00:41:23,195 --> 00:41:26,755 Speaker 1: didn't do videos, didn't do The Resistance, didn't do this 609 00:41:26,915 --> 00:41:30,515 Speaker 1: podcast while working for ESPN, not once, and when I 610 00:41:30,515 --> 00:41:32,715 Speaker 1: felt I needed to, when I felt I needed to 611 00:41:32,795 --> 00:41:36,555 Speaker 1: resume the commentary the politics, which was before the twenty 612 00:41:36,595 --> 00:41:42,035 Speaker 1: twenty election, I literally retired from ESPN. I took retirement 613 00:41:42,275 --> 00:41:46,715 Speaker 1: from my active contract because this side hustle that stephen 614 00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:50,595 Speaker 1: A is trying is not acceptable. If ESPN wants to 615 00:41:50,595 --> 00:41:54,075 Speaker 1: reach its fiftieth anniversary as the self proclaimed worldwide leader 616 00:41:54,115 --> 00:41:57,675 Speaker 1: in sports, this is sports TV suicide. Because if the 617 00:41:57,715 --> 00:42:00,835 Speaker 1: face of your sports network and the wisdom of that 618 00:42:00,915 --> 00:42:02,995 Speaker 1: is a whole different issue, you guys in Bristol should 619 00:42:02,995 --> 00:42:06,675 Speaker 1: probably take a look at also a political hack You 620 00:42:06,715 --> 00:42:09,675 Speaker 1: are not competing with NBC Sports or Turner Sports or 621 00:42:09,715 --> 00:42:13,275 Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Sports or whoever anymore. You are now competing 622 00:42:13,315 --> 00:42:18,075 Speaker 1: with Klay Travis and OutKick and Barstool and that slow 623 00:42:18,155 --> 00:42:22,075 Speaker 1: guy Portnoy and the rest of that fascist shit kicker stuff. 624 00:42:22,355 --> 00:42:25,315 Speaker 1: You have dropped out of the primary level of sports TV, 625 00:42:25,595 --> 00:42:28,395 Speaker 1: Jimmy Petarro, and you are now going to be bidding 626 00:42:28,755 --> 00:42:34,315 Speaker 1: for the third junior NASCAR type stock car racing circuit, 627 00:42:34,635 --> 00:42:38,475 Speaker 1: the one that only runs in the Carolinas. Steven A. 628 00:42:38,595 --> 00:42:42,795 Speaker 1: Smith will take you down to competing in the minor leagues, 629 00:42:43,315 --> 00:42:46,795 Speaker 1: especially if he continues to be utterly uninformed and reactionary 630 00:42:46,835 --> 00:42:49,875 Speaker 1: and servile and he acts as a token. On Fox News, 631 00:42:50,515 --> 00:42:53,795 Speaker 1: Smith went off on his usual stream of unconsciousness dribble 632 00:42:53,835 --> 00:42:56,435 Speaker 1: with Hannity quote, there was a time when the left 633 00:42:56,675 --> 00:42:59,555 Speaker 1: was quick to point to right wing extremism, but over 634 00:42:59,595 --> 00:43:02,635 Speaker 1: the last year it's been left wing extremism. There's no 635 00:43:02,795 --> 00:43:06,075 Speaker 1: absolving the left of the incendiary rhetoric they've been throwing 636 00:43:06,115 --> 00:43:09,435 Speaker 1: at folks from the other side, primarily aimed at Donald Trump. 637 00:43:10,355 --> 00:43:15,195 Speaker 1: That's Trump who wants his critics hanged, who wants them arrested, 638 00:43:15,795 --> 00:43:21,475 Speaker 1: who wants them tried for treason. Smith said the dinner 639 00:43:21,475 --> 00:43:24,355 Speaker 1: had been great because he didn't see people throwing vitriolic 640 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:28,035 Speaker 1: rhetoric at each other during the salad, and there was 641 00:43:28,075 --> 00:43:31,835 Speaker 1: no what he called Trump deranged syndrome, which is what 642 00:43:31,915 --> 00:43:35,035 Speaker 1: he thinks the conservatives are saying. I mean, just google 643 00:43:35,075 --> 00:43:39,355 Speaker 1: it wants Steve looks something up. He added, inscrutably, we 644 00:43:39,435 --> 00:43:42,875 Speaker 1: can't be taking sides. He's on Fox News. He says 645 00:43:42,875 --> 00:43:45,075 Speaker 1: he can't be taking sides after a decade of success 646 00:43:45,075 --> 00:43:49,155 Speaker 1: in sports, doing nothing but taking sides on with Sean Hannity, Well, 647 00:43:49,155 --> 00:43:52,955 Speaker 1: it can't be taking sides. After admitting he was really 648 00:43:52,995 --> 00:43:55,475 Speaker 1: worried when the gun incident occurred because he assumed it 649 00:43:55,555 --> 00:43:58,355 Speaker 1: might be somebody trying to harm him or other media, 650 00:43:58,675 --> 00:44:00,795 Speaker 1: and then he relaxed when he found out it wasn't. 651 00:44:01,195 --> 00:44:05,475 Speaker 1: Brave words, sir, He got to his point. Hannity said 652 00:44:05,595 --> 00:44:09,075 Speaker 1: everything wrong in the world was caused by Democrats and 653 00:44:09,155 --> 00:44:13,555 Speaker 1: liberal commentators who called Trump quote Hitler, fascist, racist, gestapo 654 00:44:14,395 --> 00:44:18,075 Speaker 1: wash rinse repeat and Steven A. Smith said Hannity was right, 655 00:44:18,115 --> 00:44:23,155 Speaker 1: and he added, can't deny it, Stephen, you can't deny it. 656 00:44:23,635 --> 00:44:26,915 Speaker 1: That's because you're a moron. The fire is caused by 657 00:44:26,915 --> 00:44:31,275 Speaker 1: the people trying to put out the fire. Exactly, brilliant, Steven. 658 00:44:32,235 --> 00:44:36,835 Speaker 1: It's not Trump being racist, launching a gestapo, enacting fascism, 659 00:44:37,035 --> 00:44:40,475 Speaker 1: perfecting his historical comp to Hitler nineteen thirty six, and 660 00:44:40,595 --> 00:44:42,755 Speaker 1: now trying to get all of his critics fired or 661 00:44:42,835 --> 00:44:46,875 Speaker 1: jailed or hanged. It can't be uninformed yahoos with public 662 00:44:46,915 --> 00:44:50,115 Speaker 1: platforms trying to gain admittance to the White Supremacists Club 663 00:44:50,275 --> 00:44:52,675 Speaker 1: so they can rule this country alongside their good friends 664 00:44:52,715 --> 00:44:55,435 Speaker 1: like John Hannity. Can it? No, No, it's the people 665 00:44:55,515 --> 00:44:58,315 Speaker 1: going this is all fed up and we have to 666 00:44:58,355 --> 00:45:02,795 Speaker 1: stop it, and it's Trump's fault. Because surprisingly enough, Steven, 667 00:45:03,035 --> 00:45:10,195 Speaker 1: it's Trump's fault. And ESPN you are juggling flaming chainsaws here, 668 00:45:10,995 --> 00:45:16,115 Speaker 1: and you guys suck at that from the beginning. Jimmy 669 00:45:16,115 --> 00:45:18,115 Speaker 1: Pataro has to make a choice. Does he want to 670 00:45:18,115 --> 00:45:21,555 Speaker 1: have Steven A. Smith's political delusions and lack of information 671 00:45:21,675 --> 00:45:27,715 Speaker 1: hanging around his Potaro's neck and ESPN's collective neck like millstones, 672 00:45:28,195 --> 00:45:30,355 Speaker 1: or is Potaro going to force him to stop or 673 00:45:30,395 --> 00:45:34,515 Speaker 1: take him off the air. Stephen A. If you think 674 00:45:34,555 --> 00:45:37,515 Speaker 1: I'm overreacting here to him, guys, look at the CBS 675 00:45:37,595 --> 00:45:40,315 Speaker 1: Evening news ratings that I just quoted. There is no 676 00:45:40,435 --> 00:45:44,275 Speaker 1: fascist ESPN audience to win. They will not watch you, 677 00:45:44,515 --> 00:46:12,835 Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith, Today's other worst person. Now to the number 678 00:46:12,835 --> 00:46:15,275 Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown and things I promised not 679 00:46:15,395 --> 00:46:18,915 Speaker 1: to tell and the State of the Union nineteen ninety eight. 680 00:46:20,395 --> 00:46:23,755 Speaker 1: When I left ESPN and signed with MSNBC the first 681 00:46:23,835 --> 00:46:25,915 Speaker 1: time in nineteen ninety seven, it was not to become 682 00:46:25,955 --> 00:46:29,515 Speaker 1: a political commentator nor even anchor. I went there to 683 00:46:29,555 --> 00:46:33,635 Speaker 1: do what the president of NBC News America needed most, 684 00:46:33,915 --> 00:46:38,515 Speaker 1: a live, hour long news magazine show from Secaucus, New Jersey. 685 00:46:39,035 --> 00:46:42,875 Speaker 1: So unfocused that on consecutive nights we led with the 686 00:46:42,915 --> 00:46:45,995 Speaker 1: threat of a terrorist group called al Qaeda, and then 687 00:46:46,035 --> 00:46:49,115 Speaker 1: the next night we led with the publication of the 688 00:46:49,195 --> 00:46:54,595 Speaker 1: Farmer's Almanac. I mean, this was the news at eight pm, 689 00:46:54,715 --> 00:46:58,635 Speaker 1: the lead story that published the farmers Almanac. Again, here's 690 00:46:58,675 --> 00:47:01,915 Speaker 1: our live guest, the publisher. Here's a gun to rain 691 00:47:02,035 --> 00:47:09,835 Speaker 1: next year. I had regrets. Anyway, the good part of 692 00:47:09,875 --> 00:47:12,435 Speaker 1: the job was sports. I hosted baseball in the World 693 00:47:12,475 --> 00:47:15,435 Speaker 1: Series and even did some Super Bowl stuff for NBC, 694 00:47:15,515 --> 00:47:17,955 Speaker 1: and in mid January of nineteen ninety eight, I flew 695 00:47:17,995 --> 00:47:20,755 Speaker 1: to the West Coast to work on that and do 696 00:47:20,915 --> 00:47:25,635 Speaker 1: this magazine show, The Big Show on MSNBC from entertainment 697 00:47:25,715 --> 00:47:29,515 Speaker 1: venues in LA most of them associated with NBC. On 698 00:47:29,555 --> 00:47:32,635 Speaker 1: the afternoon of Tuesday, January twentieth, nineteen ninety eight, we 699 00:47:32,635 --> 00:47:34,595 Speaker 1: were on the set of Third Rock from the Sun 700 00:47:35,075 --> 00:47:38,675 Speaker 1: preparing to interview at Star John Lithgow when my producer 701 00:47:38,675 --> 00:47:42,755 Speaker 1: Phil Griffins sidled over, You, my little friend, are about 702 00:47:42,795 --> 00:47:45,755 Speaker 1: to become a political host. The President got caught with 703 00:47:45,795 --> 00:47:51,075 Speaker 1: some chippy in the White House chippy, oh not sex, 704 00:47:51,275 --> 00:47:55,595 Speaker 1: sex looks like just you know, and then he lied 705 00:47:55,635 --> 00:47:58,355 Speaker 1: about it in the deposition Saturday. I asked him how 706 00:47:58,395 --> 00:48:00,755 Speaker 1: in the hell anybody knew about what the deposition said 707 00:48:00,755 --> 00:48:02,635 Speaker 1: when it was just four days after he gave the 708 00:48:02,675 --> 00:48:05,275 Speaker 1: deposition and those things are supposed to be a secret. 709 00:48:05,675 --> 00:48:08,955 Speaker 1: Beach Me Drudge put it out yesterday and I asked 710 00:48:09,035 --> 00:48:12,115 Speaker 1: him if credible news organizations like NBC were actually quoting 711 00:48:12,435 --> 00:48:16,515 Speaker 1: an internet guy best known for his hat about what 712 00:48:16,675 --> 00:48:20,115 Speaker 1: was a potentially impeachable offense. A lot of people were 713 00:48:20,115 --> 00:48:23,555 Speaker 1: close on this story, Griffin said, we were close. Lisa 714 00:48:23,595 --> 00:48:27,035 Speaker 1: Myers almost had it Sunday night, Newsweek finally put out 715 00:48:27,035 --> 00:48:29,755 Speaker 1: a more detailed version about ninety minutes ago. It was 716 00:48:29,795 --> 00:48:32,435 Speaker 1: their scoop Drudge just stole it from them. I think 717 00:48:32,435 --> 00:48:34,835 Speaker 1: it was Isakov who wrote it. You'll have to interview 718 00:48:34,835 --> 00:48:37,195 Speaker 1: Tim Russer to lead the show. The president may resign. 719 00:48:37,275 --> 00:48:41,675 Speaker 1: We'll do it from right here. Back that up. What 720 00:48:41,715 --> 00:48:43,315 Speaker 1: was that you said, we'll do it from right here 721 00:48:43,835 --> 00:48:48,475 Speaker 1: part about the president resigning? Oh, yeah, the president might resign. Thus, 722 00:48:48,675 --> 00:48:51,755 Speaker 1: half an hour later, I was hooked up by satellite 723 00:48:51,955 --> 00:48:54,995 Speaker 1: with Tim Russert from the Washington Bureau, listening to him 724 00:48:55,035 --> 00:48:58,435 Speaker 1: outline the possibilities that the president might resign before sunrise. 725 00:48:59,675 --> 00:49:02,835 Speaker 1: I nodded with as much gravitas as I could fake, 726 00:49:03,555 --> 00:49:06,795 Speaker 1: despite the elements of farces that were apparently obvious only 727 00:49:06,835 --> 00:49:09,515 Speaker 1: to me in the story and in where I was seated. 728 00:49:10,195 --> 00:49:12,955 Speaker 1: In the background of my close up stood the refrigerator 729 00:49:12,995 --> 00:49:15,715 Speaker 1: from the kitchen set of Lithgo's show Third Rock from 730 00:49:15,715 --> 00:49:19,195 Speaker 1: the Sun, and on the refrigerator complete with its decorative 731 00:49:19,195 --> 00:49:23,715 Speaker 1: magnets speaking their silent and suddenly completely hip gag. The 732 00:49:23,755 --> 00:49:28,475 Speaker 1: magnets were a banana surrounded on either side by a strawberry. 733 00:49:29,275 --> 00:49:31,755 Speaker 1: Phil I said to Phil as We tried to plan 734 00:49:31,835 --> 00:49:34,755 Speaker 1: a smooth transition from that taped Russert interview about the 735 00:49:34,755 --> 00:49:37,955 Speaker 1: possible impeachment or resignation of the president, to a taped 736 00:49:37,995 --> 00:49:40,955 Speaker 1: interview with John Lithgow, and then back to the live 737 00:49:41,035 --> 00:49:43,235 Speaker 1: speculations of a couple of political writers for the rest 738 00:49:43,235 --> 00:49:45,475 Speaker 1: of the hour. We're not gonna have to do this 739 00:49:45,915 --> 00:49:49,875 Speaker 1: every day, are we? Griffin laugh, Of course not, what 740 00:49:49,955 --> 00:49:51,315 Speaker 1: do you think this is the end of the world. 741 00:49:52,115 --> 00:49:54,395 Speaker 1: He was right. We did not do it every day. 742 00:49:54,755 --> 00:49:57,475 Speaker 1: We did it for two hundred and eighteen consecutive shows, 743 00:49:58,555 --> 00:50:02,595 Speaker 1: starting that night with the Banana and the Strawberry Magnets 744 00:50:02,595 --> 00:50:08,595 Speaker 1: over my shoulder. Our rating kept doubling. Following Tuesday, my 745 00:50:08,755 --> 00:50:11,555 Speaker 1: thirty eighth birthday, I was back in New York hosting 746 00:50:11,555 --> 00:50:14,635 Speaker 1: a roundtable of political heavyweights in the hour leading up 747 00:50:14,635 --> 00:50:16,355 Speaker 1: to Bill Clinton State of the Union address. 748 00:50:16,395 --> 00:50:16,795 Speaker 3: That night. 749 00:50:17,475 --> 00:50:20,355 Speaker 1: Andy Lack of NBC News and Phil Griffin had decided 750 00:50:20,355 --> 00:50:23,075 Speaker 1: that I should host a second live report once the 751 00:50:23,195 --> 00:50:26,875 Speaker 1: NBC network guys Russert, Tom Brokaw a couple of others 752 00:50:27,035 --> 00:50:30,275 Speaker 1: had wrapped up their analysis, which we were also carrying 753 00:50:30,275 --> 00:50:33,035 Speaker 1: on MSNBC, so I would come on at eleven o'clock 754 00:50:33,235 --> 00:50:36,515 Speaker 1: after Brokaw and Russert two hours, My little friend, this 755 00:50:36,675 --> 00:50:40,035 Speaker 1: is our nightline. I was doing my best to keep 756 00:50:40,035 --> 00:50:42,795 Speaker 1: a straight face when during a commercial break at maybe 757 00:50:42,835 --> 00:50:46,195 Speaker 1: eleven forty five, maybe midnight, halfway through my wrap up show, 758 00:50:46,395 --> 00:50:49,875 Speaker 1: Griffin materialized next to my anchor desk. He had this 759 00:50:50,035 --> 00:50:54,115 Speaker 1: stunned but not unhappy look, like when he used to 760 00:50:54,155 --> 00:50:56,075 Speaker 1: smoke a lot of dope when we worked together in 761 00:50:56,115 --> 00:50:59,595 Speaker 1: the eighties. We have the preliminary ratings, my little friend, 762 00:50:59,715 --> 00:51:03,235 Speaker 1: I hope they're sitting down. I pointed at myself seated 763 00:51:03,275 --> 00:51:06,635 Speaker 1: in the chair. The pregame show that did a one 764 00:51:06,675 --> 00:51:11,635 Speaker 1: point one. Our average rating at MSNBC before this presidential 765 00:51:11,675 --> 00:51:14,835 Speaker 1: stuff came up had been an ozero point three. This 766 00:51:14,995 --> 00:51:18,395 Speaker 1: was now four times the previous ratings. In the past week, 767 00:51:18,435 --> 00:51:21,315 Speaker 1: it had searched to an zero point six, and Griffin 768 00:51:21,315 --> 00:51:23,395 Speaker 1: had insisted to me that Andy Lack was so happy 769 00:51:23,435 --> 00:51:26,515 Speaker 1: he had wet his pants. But this is the kicker here, buddy. 770 00:51:26,795 --> 00:51:29,515 Speaker 1: We have the immediate since the president finally stopped talking, 771 00:51:29,875 --> 00:51:33,595 Speaker 1: speech did an eight. Broke on Russer. The wrap up 772 00:51:33,595 --> 00:51:37,195 Speaker 1: did an six. Since eleven o'clock, you've been doing a 773 00:51:37,275 --> 00:51:40,635 Speaker 1: one point seven. You have had three times the audience 774 00:51:40,675 --> 00:51:43,155 Speaker 1: of Tom Brokaw, three times the audience of the old 775 00:51:43,155 --> 00:51:46,595 Speaker 1: man himself. This isn't just people crossing over from NBC 776 00:51:46,715 --> 00:51:49,715 Speaker 1: to watch more. This is people watching the speech, turning 777 00:51:49,795 --> 00:51:52,275 Speaker 1: off the old man, then turning back at eleven to 778 00:51:52,315 --> 00:51:57,275 Speaker 1: watch you. I tried to assimilate what he was telling me. 779 00:51:58,195 --> 00:52:00,995 Speaker 1: For the first time in my life, my ego refused 780 00:52:01,035 --> 00:52:04,795 Speaker 1: to cooperate. The stage manager barked his queue of thirty 781 00:52:04,795 --> 00:52:07,155 Speaker 1: seconds until the end of the commercial break. Phil Griffin 782 00:52:07,155 --> 00:52:09,715 Speaker 1: shook my hand. Oh, and by the way, that thing 783 00:52:09,795 --> 00:52:11,315 Speaker 1: you said at the start of the hour about it. 784 00:52:11,355 --> 00:52:13,435 Speaker 1: It was as if the Intern had opened the door 785 00:52:13,475 --> 00:52:16,115 Speaker 1: to the chamber and said, mister speaker, the President of 786 00:52:16,115 --> 00:52:20,075 Speaker 1: the United States. That's already included in the Associated Press 787 00:52:20,075 --> 00:52:24,195 Speaker 1: story one point seven, My little friend, don't f it up. 788 00:52:24,675 --> 00:52:26,475 Speaker 1: Actually you can't f it up. We're in for the 789 00:52:26,515 --> 00:52:31,675 Speaker 1: long haul now. Revel in it me quoted about the 790 00:52:31,715 --> 00:52:35,435 Speaker 1: Clinton Lewinsky story in the main coverage of the State 791 00:52:35,475 --> 00:52:38,635 Speaker 1: of the Union address on the Associated Press wire. Eight 792 00:52:38,715 --> 00:52:42,435 Speaker 1: months after I stopped giving the scores of the Greater 793 00:52:42,675 --> 00:52:48,995 Speaker 1: Stuttgart Invitational tennis tournament on ESPN, I had this sudden, 794 00:52:49,155 --> 00:52:52,395 Speaker 1: horrible feeling that the usually slow to decide American viewing 795 00:52:52,435 --> 00:52:57,195 Speaker 1: public had instantly concluded that, for some reason elusive even 796 00:52:57,235 --> 00:53:01,075 Speaker 1: to me, they really like to hear me talk about 797 00:53:01,075 --> 00:53:06,235 Speaker 1: the whereabouts of the president's penis. If I could have 798 00:53:06,315 --> 00:53:08,795 Speaker 1: figured out how to f up the rest of the hour, 799 00:53:09,395 --> 00:53:13,075 Speaker 1: I would have done it right then I didn't. The 800 00:53:13,115 --> 00:53:15,475 Speaker 1: next day it got worse. The ratings were so great 801 00:53:15,555 --> 00:53:17,595 Speaker 1: last night, buddy, they want us to go live every 802 00:53:17,675 --> 00:53:20,795 Speaker 1: night at eight and eleven only about the president. The 803 00:53:20,835 --> 00:53:23,675 Speaker 1: eleven is going to be called Crisis in Washington. Finally 804 00:53:23,715 --> 00:53:26,555 Speaker 1: we get what we want. Phil Griffin was dancing around, 805 00:53:26,635 --> 00:53:31,555 Speaker 1: it'll be our nightline. Since joining MSNBC, I had not 806 00:53:31,675 --> 00:53:34,435 Speaker 1: taken any time off, and I actually had a vacation 807 00:53:34,595 --> 00:53:37,435 Speaker 1: booked in Hawaii the next week with a young lady. 808 00:53:38,235 --> 00:53:42,875 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, about that. Phil finally announced, well, that's what 809 00:53:42,955 --> 00:53:44,755 Speaker 1: we have to talk about, Keith. They want you to 810 00:53:44,755 --> 00:53:47,795 Speaker 1: commit to this release six weeks. So it's this or Hawaii. 811 00:53:48,715 --> 00:53:53,315 Speaker 1: I explained Hawaii to Phil. Lack said he'd probably pay 812 00:53:53,355 --> 00:53:55,235 Speaker 1: for you to go do that whenever this is over. 813 00:53:56,435 --> 00:53:58,715 Speaker 1: I said, in my opinion, that probably would not be 814 00:53:58,755 --> 00:54:01,795 Speaker 1: good enough, and Griffin said neither did he, but that 815 00:54:01,835 --> 00:54:04,875 Speaker 1: it was just for openers, and Lack told him him 816 00:54:05,515 --> 00:54:08,435 Speaker 1: that I could have three wishes, and I could anchor 817 00:54:08,555 --> 00:54:11,195 Speaker 1: NBC Nightly News at least on the weekends and a 818 00:54:11,195 --> 00:54:15,195 Speaker 1: couple of times during the week. Just personally, I'd recommend 819 00:54:15,235 --> 00:54:16,835 Speaker 1: you do it. I got the impression that the show's 820 00:54:16,875 --> 00:54:18,395 Speaker 1: going to happen whether we agree to it or not, 821 00:54:18,515 --> 00:54:21,715 Speaker 1: Griffin said. He mentioned something about Brian Williams or maybe 822 00:54:21,755 --> 00:54:25,835 Speaker 1: John Gibson being poor second choices, but viable ones. He said, 823 00:54:25,915 --> 00:54:30,075 Speaker 1: viable ones I told Phil had some calls to make. 824 00:54:30,395 --> 00:54:33,435 Speaker 1: Griffin suggested Lack needed a decision within the hour, that 825 00:54:33,475 --> 00:54:37,515 Speaker 1: he wanted White House and Crisis on the air that night. Wait, 826 00:54:38,435 --> 00:54:40,795 Speaker 1: that didn't sound like what he'd called it before, Phil. 827 00:54:40,915 --> 00:54:44,355 Speaker 1: Is it white House in crisis or Crisis in Washington? 828 00:54:45,595 --> 00:54:48,475 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin seemed introspective for a moment then and got 829 00:54:48,515 --> 00:54:51,955 Speaker 1: in touch with the news executive within what's the difference? 830 00:54:52,795 --> 00:54:57,075 Speaker 1: It's going to be our nightline. I almost suggested to 831 00:54:57,155 --> 00:55:00,955 Speaker 1: him that should be the title MSNBC presents, It's going 832 00:55:00,995 --> 00:55:06,795 Speaker 1: to be our nightline. On and on. This went for weeks, 833 00:55:07,155 --> 00:55:10,555 Speaker 1: four months. I mocked the story, the ratings went up. 834 00:55:11,115 --> 00:55:13,675 Speaker 1: I tried to quit the show. The ratings went up. 835 00:55:14,235 --> 00:55:16,955 Speaker 1: I gave a speech insulting the network for covering the 836 00:55:16,995 --> 00:55:20,395 Speaker 1: story twenty four to seven. The ratings went up. Fox 837 00:55:20,515 --> 00:55:23,555 Speaker 1: Sports approached me and offered me five times when NBC 838 00:55:23,715 --> 00:55:25,915 Speaker 1: was paying me to go out to LA to do 839 00:55:25,955 --> 00:55:29,475 Speaker 1: their sportscast LA, which was kind of near Hawaii, nowhere 840 00:55:29,475 --> 00:55:32,675 Speaker 1: near the Clinton Lewinski story. And the ratings went up. 841 00:55:34,515 --> 00:55:36,555 Speaker 1: And I was debating all this and the fact that 842 00:55:36,595 --> 00:55:38,675 Speaker 1: I had a contract and I had agreed to do it. 843 00:55:38,715 --> 00:55:40,755 Speaker 1: And then one night in early spring, I got home 844 00:55:40,835 --> 00:55:43,155 Speaker 1: after another night of this crap, I put my feet up. 845 00:55:43,195 --> 00:55:46,195 Speaker 1: I was half watching something on NBC while really just 846 00:55:46,275 --> 00:55:48,795 Speaker 1: staring off into the distance, wondering what I had done 847 00:55:48,835 --> 00:55:51,995 Speaker 1: to deserve this, mulling my own future, when the snare 848 00:55:52,115 --> 00:55:55,515 Speaker 1: drum and the violent string section of an NBC News 849 00:55:55,595 --> 00:55:59,995 Speaker 1: promo interrupted me. Wednesday, on a very special edition of Nightline, 850 00:56:00,315 --> 00:56:04,275 Speaker 1: Jane Paully and the former Miss America, there she was 851 00:56:04,315 --> 00:56:08,035 Speaker 1: for a second, had tilted her look grave, journalistic, even scholarly. 852 00:56:08,355 --> 00:56:12,355 Speaker 1: Jane Paully, the ten year host of NBC's landmark Today Show, 853 00:56:12,635 --> 00:56:14,835 Speaker 1: the one who had then switched to primetime because the 854 00:56:14,955 --> 00:56:18,315 Speaker 1: journalism had slowly ebbed out of morning television and she 855 00:56:18,315 --> 00:56:20,635 Speaker 1: couldn't do it anymore. She was sitting there in a 856 00:56:20,675 --> 00:56:23,795 Speaker 1: two shot with a Miss America from too many Miss 857 00:56:23,835 --> 00:56:28,435 Speaker 1: Americas ago, the former brunette, former redhead, now former blonde, 858 00:56:28,435 --> 00:56:31,075 Speaker 1: whose jet black hair made her look a little frightening. 859 00:56:31,795 --> 00:56:34,515 Speaker 1: Why the hell was Jane Paully interviewing her on the 860 00:56:34,555 --> 00:56:39,915 Speaker 1: signature albeit superficial NBC thrice weekly magazine show Nightline No less. Well, 861 00:56:39,915 --> 00:56:43,835 Speaker 1: in a split second, the promo gave me my answer, Jane, 862 00:56:44,195 --> 00:56:46,715 Speaker 1: did you have sex with the President of the United States? 863 00:56:47,035 --> 00:56:51,195 Speaker 1: Ex Miss America? Yes, Yes, I did, announcer that's Wednesday 864 00:56:51,195 --> 00:56:53,675 Speaker 1: on a very special edition to Nightline only on NBC 865 00:56:53,795 --> 00:57:00,275 Speaker 1: America's news source, with genuine terror, I screamed, I shouted 866 00:57:00,315 --> 00:57:03,755 Speaker 1: aloud to no one, check please, and I called my 867 00:57:03,835 --> 00:57:21,595 Speaker 1: agent to talk about Fox. I've done all the damage 868 00:57:21,635 --> 00:57:24,275 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Our musical 869 00:57:24,275 --> 00:57:27,795 Speaker 1: directors have Countdowner, John Phillips Chanel on keyboards and handling 870 00:57:27,835 --> 00:57:31,595 Speaker 1: the orchestration, and Brian Ray on guitars, bass and drums, 871 00:57:31,715 --> 00:57:34,995 Speaker 1: and their work is produced by Tko Brothers Nancy Faust, 872 00:57:35,035 --> 00:57:38,075 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever, is responsible for the 873 00:57:38,115 --> 00:57:41,995 Speaker 1: pithy and satirical musical comments when we play the sports theme. 874 00:57:42,435 --> 00:57:45,235 Speaker 1: That's from the Old Olderman Show on ESPN two, written 875 00:57:45,275 --> 00:57:49,555 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy VESPN, Inc. Other music arranged 876 00:57:49,555 --> 00:57:52,875 Speaker 1: and performed by No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was 877 00:57:52,915 --> 00:57:56,875 Speaker 1: my friend Larry David. This program was produced by Ted. 878 00:57:57,595 --> 00:58:01,075 Speaker 1: Everything else was as always my fault. That's countdown for today, 879 00:58:01,115 --> 00:58:03,795 Speaker 1: Day four hundred and fifty six of America held hostage 880 00:58:03,795 --> 00:58:06,635 Speaker 1: again aquenty nine hundred and ninety seven days until the 881 00:58:06,635 --> 00:58:09,795 Speaker 1: scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term, 882 00:58:09,915 --> 00:58:13,915 Speaker 1: unless he's removed sooner by his own lackluster construction standards 883 00:58:13,915 --> 00:58:17,795 Speaker 1: at the ballroom, or by a Jimmy Kimmel joke, or 884 00:58:17,955 --> 00:58:23,395 Speaker 1: by a lethal seashell attack. As mentioned, the next scheduled 885 00:58:23,395 --> 00:58:26,715 Speaker 1: countdown will be a week from Monday. I'm fine, just 886 00:58:26,835 --> 00:58:28,635 Speaker 1: have too much to do next week to make sure 887 00:58:28,635 --> 00:58:32,755 Speaker 1: I stay that way. Bulletins as the news merits until 888 00:58:32,755 --> 00:58:36,355 Speaker 1: the next edition. I'm Keithulderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 889 00:58:36,915 --> 00:58:57,355 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Oulderman is a production 890 00:58:57,555 --> 00:59:02,875 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 891 00:59:02,955 --> 00:59:06,315 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or where wherever you get your podcasts.