1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:23,395 --> 00:00:26,355 Speaker 1: It is early still, but thus far it is the 3 00:00:26,395 --> 00:00:32,115 Speaker 1: tweets of a year from Ryan Nanny quote, GOP, give 4 00:00:32,275 --> 00:00:36,355 Speaker 1: Liz Trusts a shot. I mean that's it, isn't it. 5 00:00:36,635 --> 00:00:39,955 Speaker 1: Whatever Kevin McCarthy thinks he is doing, whatever, the twenty 6 00:00:39,995 --> 00:00:43,835 Speaker 1: American Taliban holdouts think they are doing. Whomever they all 7 00:00:43,915 --> 00:00:47,155 Speaker 1: think they are talking to. The Republicans, who forced the 8 00:00:47,195 --> 00:00:50,195 Speaker 1: balloting for speaker to a second day for the first 9 00:00:50,235 --> 00:00:54,915 Speaker 1: time in a century, have made themselves look like fools 10 00:00:55,075 --> 00:00:59,835 Speaker 1: of biblical proportions. They have in fact supplanted Liz Trusts 11 00:01:00,115 --> 00:01:05,635 Speaker 1: as the most obvious political punchline in the world. And 12 00:01:05,915 --> 00:01:09,795 Speaker 1: more importantly, twenty of them went to bed last night 13 00:01:09,955 --> 00:01:16,675 Speaker 1: dreaming of how to make it even worse today on 14 00:01:16,915 --> 00:01:22,395 Speaker 1: day one of his presumed speakership, someday Kevin McCarthy or 15 00:01:22,475 --> 00:01:27,075 Speaker 1: somebody was outmaneuvered, out, generaled, out, dignified by the new 16 00:01:27,195 --> 00:01:30,435 Speaker 1: leader of the Democrats in the House, Akeem Jeffreys. The 17 00:01:30,595 --> 00:01:34,555 Speaker 1: liberal inclination to avoid the fight, to put out the 18 00:01:34,635 --> 00:01:38,315 Speaker 1: dumpster fire, to self importantly get on with it for 19 00:01:38,355 --> 00:01:39,915 Speaker 1: the good of a nation, and then go get a 20 00:01:39,995 --> 00:01:46,275 Speaker 1: drink was suppressed and mastered by Leader Jefferies. Moderate Republicans 21 00:01:46,355 --> 00:01:49,155 Speaker 1: and even some Democrats expected that at least a few 22 00:01:49,155 --> 00:01:52,715 Speaker 1: Democrats would eventually leave the House during the day, and 23 00:01:52,755 --> 00:01:55,315 Speaker 1: by the second vote or at least the third vote, 24 00:01:55,315 --> 00:01:58,675 Speaker 1: their absences would reduce the margin McCarthy would need to 25 00:01:58,795 --> 00:02:03,795 Speaker 1: finally get over his hurdle, and Hakim Jeffreys said, stay 26 00:02:03,835 --> 00:02:07,755 Speaker 1: here and let them burn. As Don Buyer of the 27 00:02:07,835 --> 00:02:10,395 Speaker 1: Virginia Eighth put it, I'll be here voting on every 28 00:02:10,435 --> 00:02:12,555 Speaker 1: ballot for as long as it takes, and I haven't 29 00:02:12,555 --> 00:02:15,315 Speaker 1: heard any Dems talk about leaving. We are proud of 30 00:02:15,355 --> 00:02:20,355 Speaker 1: our unity and determined to fight. Others went more whimsical. 31 00:02:20,595 --> 00:02:24,155 Speaker 1: Janshakovsky of Illinois brought what appeared to be an oil 32 00:02:24,355 --> 00:02:28,995 Speaker 1: barrel sized container full of three different flavors of popcorn 33 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:33,915 Speaker 1: to share with our Democratic colleagues. Her Illinois colleague, Robin Kelly, 34 00:02:33,955 --> 00:02:38,115 Speaker 1: brought a smaller and thus easier to transport tin of popcorn. 35 00:02:38,355 --> 00:02:40,995 Speaker 1: Grace Magne of New York and Ted Loeu of California 36 00:02:41,115 --> 00:02:45,715 Speaker 1: had personal serving sized bags of popcorn. Major league trolling 37 00:02:45,755 --> 00:02:49,275 Speaker 1: by Democrats who in other years would instead have been 38 00:02:49,355 --> 00:02:53,515 Speaker 1: handwringing and tut tutting and mulling, compromise on my health 39 00:02:53,635 --> 00:02:58,595 Speaker 1: of the grateful nation and the partial score keeen Jeffreys, 40 00:02:58,635 --> 00:03:04,555 Speaker 1: one Speaker of the House. If any nothing, the Geo 41 00:03:04,835 --> 00:03:09,635 Speaker 1: peace self defenestration yesterday underscores the reality that Trump with 42 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:13,595 Speaker 1: a Republican Senate at a Republican Congress proved in two 43 00:03:13,595 --> 00:03:16,955 Speaker 1: thousand seventeen and two thousand eighteen, just as George W. 44 00:03:17,155 --> 00:03:21,115 Speaker 1: Bush proved, just as George H. W. Bush proved, just 45 00:03:21,275 --> 00:03:27,835 Speaker 1: as Ronald Reagan proved, the modern GOP can destroy almost everything, 46 00:03:28,115 --> 00:03:33,275 Speaker 1: but it has no idea how to put together almost anything. 47 00:03:33,835 --> 00:03:36,675 Speaker 1: It is a party more adept at political machination and 48 00:03:36,715 --> 00:03:41,635 Speaker 1: manipulation than are the Democrats. But when something actually, finally, 49 00:03:41,875 --> 00:03:46,675 Speaker 1: actually actually actually has to be done, there is no skill, 50 00:03:47,155 --> 00:03:51,955 Speaker 1: no forethought, no plan. At the stroke of eight o'clock 51 00:03:52,075 --> 00:03:54,595 Speaker 1: last night, right wingers running the gamut from the Trump 52 00:03:54,675 --> 00:03:59,795 Speaker 1: sickophants who garrotted McCarthy to Tucker Carlson to Byron Donald's 53 00:03:59,835 --> 00:04:02,875 Speaker 1: the knitwit who changed his vote from for McCarthy to 54 00:04:02,995 --> 00:04:06,515 Speaker 1: against McCarthy in the third ballot, they all hid behind 55 00:04:06,955 --> 00:04:10,075 Speaker 1: the only thing they actually did yesterday come up with 56 00:04:10,115 --> 00:04:13,315 Speaker 1: a plausible bit of sophistry that sounds good to their 57 00:04:13,355 --> 00:04:16,555 Speaker 1: own idiot side, which they are now pretending was the 58 00:04:16,635 --> 00:04:22,315 Speaker 1: idea all along. A little disagreement among great leaders is 59 00:04:22,435 --> 00:04:26,435 Speaker 1: fine and noble, because Republicans are the true democrats, and 60 00:04:26,475 --> 00:04:29,235 Speaker 1: Democrats are the real fascists. And this is how much 61 00:04:29,275 --> 00:04:33,475 Speaker 1: democratic Republicans love democracy. We didn't just have one democratic vote. 62 00:04:33,475 --> 00:04:36,955 Speaker 1: We had three democratic votes. And that was our democratic plan. 63 00:04:36,995 --> 00:04:39,915 Speaker 1: And you know what our next democratic plan is, Republicans, right, 64 00:04:39,955 --> 00:04:42,075 Speaker 1: if we break the all time record of a hundred 65 00:04:42,115 --> 00:04:44,595 Speaker 1: and thirty three ballots for a speaker, that'll mean we're 66 00:04:44,635 --> 00:04:48,075 Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty three times as democratic as the Democrats. 67 00:04:48,155 --> 00:04:55,035 Speaker 1: Democracy Democracy USA USA. They don't have a plan. I 68 00:04:55,035 --> 00:05:00,435 Speaker 1: mean Bobert and Gates and Bob Good and Chip Roy 69 00:05:00,475 --> 00:05:04,995 Speaker 1: and Scott Perry and the others had a scheme. The 70 00:05:05,115 --> 00:05:09,435 Speaker 1: nineteen of them, the nineteen what would you call them, 71 00:05:09,475 --> 00:05:14,755 Speaker 1: the Anti McCarthy is m Caucus, the chaos Caucus, the 72 00:05:14,835 --> 00:05:18,035 Speaker 1: insurrection Caucus, No, no, no, I last one they already 73 00:05:18,115 --> 00:05:21,795 Speaker 1: used two years ago Friday. They would create chaos and 74 00:05:21,875 --> 00:05:25,235 Speaker 1: havoc and drama and earn themselves what they really wanted 75 00:05:25,275 --> 00:05:28,675 Speaker 1: from serving in the House. What they really understood about 76 00:05:28,675 --> 00:05:31,715 Speaker 1: serving in the House, serving in the government, serving the 77 00:05:31,755 --> 00:05:35,555 Speaker 1: people of this country. A bunch of sound bites, a 78 00:05:35,595 --> 00:05:38,835 Speaker 1: bunch of sound bites they personally can use in fundraising 79 00:05:38,915 --> 00:05:43,235 Speaker 1: and election campaigns. That is what government means to them. 80 00:05:43,475 --> 00:05:46,795 Speaker 1: I mean, Congressman elect Don Bacon called them the Taliban 81 00:05:46,955 --> 00:05:51,355 Speaker 1: twenty and the Taliban Caucus, and Matt Gates took that 82 00:05:51,475 --> 00:05:56,395 Speaker 1: as a compliment, literally took it as a compliment, because 83 00:05:56,475 --> 00:05:59,275 Speaker 1: who will or will not return Matt Gates to the 84 00:05:59,275 --> 00:06:02,475 Speaker 1: House in two years if he's not in prison, the 85 00:06:02,555 --> 00:06:07,835 Speaker 1: Florida equivalent of the Taliban. Anything beyond cool sound bites 86 00:06:08,115 --> 00:06:10,755 Speaker 1: will be accidental. I mean, I suppose there is some 87 00:06:10,915 --> 00:06:14,235 Speaker 1: magical thinking that if they could talk this idiot Donald's 88 00:06:14,235 --> 00:06:17,155 Speaker 1: out of the McCarthy camp and go from nineteen votes 89 00:06:17,155 --> 00:06:20,755 Speaker 1: against him to twenty, they might be able to start 90 00:06:20,755 --> 00:06:24,075 Speaker 1: a run on the bank thing on ballot number I 91 00:06:24,115 --> 00:06:27,515 Speaker 1: don't know, twenty seven or something. That presumably is when 92 00:06:27,595 --> 00:06:31,395 Speaker 1: McCarthy's biggest backers or his most terrified backers like Marjorie 93 00:06:31,435 --> 00:06:35,075 Speaker 1: Trailer Park Green, start looking for an alternative who does 94 00:06:35,115 --> 00:06:37,835 Speaker 1: not even have to be part of the Taliban, And that, 95 00:06:37,955 --> 00:06:41,235 Speaker 1: of course, is how every presidential favorite whoever walked into 96 00:06:41,235 --> 00:06:44,755 Speaker 1: a Democratic or Republican convention and wound up not getting it, 97 00:06:45,155 --> 00:06:48,315 Speaker 1: wound up not getting it. It was ninety nine years 98 00:06:48,315 --> 00:06:51,275 Speaker 1: ago this summer that the Democrats headed to Madison Square 99 00:06:51,275 --> 00:06:56,355 Speaker 1: Garden with two outstanding presidential candidates, Woodrow Wilson's son in law, 100 00:06:56,435 --> 00:07:00,275 Speaker 1: William McAdoo and New York Governor Al Smith, and they 101 00:07:00,355 --> 00:07:04,875 Speaker 1: left it one hundred and three presidential nomination ballot its 102 00:07:04,955 --> 00:07:09,875 Speaker 1: later with the ultimate compromise candidate of all ultimate compromise candidates, 103 00:07:09,995 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 1: John Davis, unknown, former ambassador to England, and John Davis 104 00:07:16,155 --> 00:07:19,955 Speaker 1: in the election wound up getting twenty nine of the 105 00:07:19,995 --> 00:07:23,475 Speaker 1: popular vote and losing nearly two to one to Calvin Coolidge, 106 00:07:23,515 --> 00:07:26,155 Speaker 1: who didn't even campaign. And at the end of his life, 107 00:07:26,235 --> 00:07:28,435 Speaker 1: John Davis was one of the lawyers who defended the 108 00:07:28,515 --> 00:07:33,395 Speaker 1: segregationists in the suite of Supreme Court cases now collectively 109 00:07:33,435 --> 00:07:36,955 Speaker 1: known as Brown v. Board of Education. Nice work, John. 110 00:07:38,475 --> 00:07:43,395 Speaker 1: It is terrifying to say this, but Kevin McCarthy might 111 00:07:43,515 --> 00:07:48,755 Speaker 1: just be the most qualified candidate for Speaker that the 112 00:07:48,795 --> 00:07:52,875 Speaker 1: Republicans have. I mean, on a scale of one to 113 00:07:52,915 --> 00:07:57,395 Speaker 1: a hundred. He's a five or a six or six 114 00:07:57,475 --> 00:08:01,195 Speaker 1: point two and a good day. But that really might 115 00:08:01,315 --> 00:08:06,115 Speaker 1: be the best they have. And obviously truth about that is, 116 00:08:06,675 --> 00:08:12,035 Speaker 1: if you cause terrified Republican lemmings to abandon Kevin McCarthy, 117 00:08:12,075 --> 00:08:16,875 Speaker 1: they will inevitably wind up with somebody less capable of 118 00:08:16,915 --> 00:08:22,035 Speaker 1: making the house function. They will find their own John Davis. Hell. 119 00:08:22,155 --> 00:08:25,515 Speaker 1: Knowing these morons, they might even find the John Davis, 120 00:08:25,515 --> 00:08:30,075 Speaker 1: and John Davis has been dead since ninety and an 121 00:08:30,155 --> 00:08:33,955 Speaker 1: updated partial score a caim Jeffreys to Speaker of the 122 00:08:33,995 --> 00:08:40,475 Speaker 1: House if any Nothing Like all insurrectionists, the Taliban twenty 123 00:08:40,555 --> 00:08:44,635 Speaker 1: are the proverbial dogs chasing the car. Their skill, their 124 00:08:44,755 --> 00:08:48,395 Speaker 1: joy is that chase. What to do if they catch 125 00:08:48,475 --> 00:08:52,435 Speaker 1: the car is an entirely different thing. The jiminy Glick 126 00:08:52,555 --> 00:08:55,755 Speaker 1: of Fox News. Carlson, who has as much claim to 127 00:08:55,755 --> 00:08:59,755 Speaker 1: being the intellectual leader of the Republican Taliban as any 128 00:08:59,875 --> 00:09:03,595 Speaker 1: of the other morons, demanded two things last night, that 129 00:09:03,755 --> 00:09:08,395 Speaker 1: McCarthy re ease all the January six video and files online, 130 00:09:08,435 --> 00:09:11,195 Speaker 1: implying that McCarthy is part of some cover up of 131 00:09:11,275 --> 00:09:14,915 Speaker 1: the supposed truth about January six, which to them is 132 00:09:15,475 --> 00:09:18,115 Speaker 1: as any good Republican knows that the real victim that 133 00:09:18,195 --> 00:09:23,155 Speaker 1: day was Donald Trump. Carlson also demanded that McCarthy created 134 00:09:23,155 --> 00:09:27,875 Speaker 1: a new committee under Kentucky fascist Thomas Massey to investigate 135 00:09:28,235 --> 00:09:37,635 Speaker 1: CIA and FBI interference in domestic politics. Translation Twitter Gazi 136 00:09:38,115 --> 00:09:44,315 Speaker 1: with star hearing witnesses Matt Taiebie and Elon Musk. Whenever 137 00:09:45,595 --> 00:09:49,355 Speaker 1: the big giant part of reality, the Gates and Good 138 00:09:50,035 --> 00:09:54,115 Speaker 1: and Tucker, Carlson and the others have not seen, do 139 00:09:54,235 --> 00:09:58,035 Speaker 1: not see, and will never see, is the same big 140 00:09:58,075 --> 00:10:01,035 Speaker 1: giant part of reality that Trump has never seen, and 141 00:10:01,075 --> 00:10:05,515 Speaker 1: that frankly, a lot of us, myself in did a 142 00:10:05,515 --> 00:10:10,155 Speaker 1: lot of us often forget to focus on most of America. 143 00:10:10,475 --> 00:10:15,315 Speaker 1: Most of America's voters spend less time analyzing the events 144 00:10:15,355 --> 00:10:20,435 Speaker 1: of American politics than I have just reading this commentary 145 00:10:20,595 --> 00:10:25,235 Speaker 1: right now, and that you have just listening to this 146 00:10:25,315 --> 00:10:29,195 Speaker 1: commentary right now. America is the way it is today 147 00:10:29,235 --> 00:10:33,635 Speaker 1: because we have become the society that only reads the headlines, 148 00:10:35,155 --> 00:10:38,675 Speaker 1: and in this case the headlines are Republicans head back 149 00:10:38,715 --> 00:10:42,075 Speaker 1: to house for second day of laugh out loud disarray, 150 00:10:42,235 --> 00:10:48,155 Speaker 1: Democrats restock their supply of popcorn, and one more look 151 00:10:48,155 --> 00:10:52,555 Speaker 1: at the scoreboard. A Keem Jeffreys three, Speaker of the House. 152 00:10:52,915 --> 00:11:10,475 Speaker 1: If any nothing still ahead, Oh my god, the Republican 153 00:11:10,555 --> 00:11:15,195 Speaker 1: Taliban the twenty Liz Trusses somehow actually managed to overshadow 154 00:11:15,275 --> 00:11:20,075 Speaker 1: even poor George Santos walking sadly through the halls of Congress, 155 00:11:20,395 --> 00:11:24,835 Speaker 1: his goofball backpack, making him look like a lost transfer student. 156 00:11:25,515 --> 00:11:29,595 Speaker 1: Worst persons ahead, and next the tragedy of Damar Hamlin 157 00:11:29,715 --> 00:11:32,515 Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. You know about, But in the 158 00:11:32,555 --> 00:11:36,435 Speaker 1: grief and shock, the history of similar nightmares in the 159 00:11:36,515 --> 00:11:39,395 Speaker 1: National Football League and in other sports seems to have 160 00:11:39,515 --> 00:11:44,195 Speaker 1: been entirely and perhaps deliberately forgotten, And that history is 161 00:11:44,235 --> 00:11:49,555 Speaker 1: being exploited by the anti Baxers, and I don't forget. 162 00:11:50,515 --> 00:11:52,835 Speaker 1: And more important still in the grief and shock, the 163 00:11:52,915 --> 00:11:56,275 Speaker 1: National Football League's willingness to throw its own broadcasters like 164 00:11:56,355 --> 00:11:59,955 Speaker 1: Joe Buck and its networks like ESPN under the bus 165 00:11:59,955 --> 00:12:03,875 Speaker 1: to gaslight you comes to the fore yet again. The 166 00:12:03,995 --> 00:12:06,635 Speaker 1: NFL one flying that they never tried to play the 167 00:12:06,675 --> 00:12:09,675 Speaker 1: Sunday after nine eleven. Now they are lying that they 168 00:12:09,715 --> 00:12:12,835 Speaker 1: never intended to resume Monday night's game after Hamlin was stricken. 169 00:12:13,395 --> 00:12:16,675 Speaker 1: The NFL is lying, and I will call them out 170 00:12:16,755 --> 00:12:25,675 Speaker 1: on it. And that is next. This is countdown. This 171 00:12:25,835 --> 00:12:42,555 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Olberman. Apart from the human tragedy 172 00:12:42,595 --> 00:12:46,155 Speaker 1: of Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills at his cardiac arrest, 173 00:12:46,275 --> 00:12:52,195 Speaker 1: at his intubation, the inevitable, infuriating side stories are multiplying, 174 00:12:52,275 --> 00:12:57,195 Speaker 1: and first among them, the National Football League is gaslighting you. 175 00:12:58,795 --> 00:13:02,435 Speaker 1: After Hamlin collapsed Monday night and was given CPR on 176 00:13:02,475 --> 00:13:06,115 Speaker 1: the field and taken off by a mulence and play 177 00:13:06,235 --> 00:13:09,675 Speaker 1: was stopped and the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati players 178 00:13:10,035 --> 00:13:15,955 Speaker 1: went to their locker rooms, the game was quote temporarily suspended. 179 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:19,395 Speaker 1: It was not postponed, It was not canceled, and that 180 00:13:19,475 --> 00:13:21,555 Speaker 1: was made clear by the play by play man for 181 00:13:21,835 --> 00:13:25,355 Speaker 1: ESPN Joe Buck and the studio hosts Susie Calbert on 182 00:13:25,395 --> 00:13:30,475 Speaker 1: the ESPN broadcast, and ESPN even made a graphic temporarily suspended. 183 00:13:31,075 --> 00:13:33,555 Speaker 1: And then the NFL said it would give the teams 184 00:13:33,595 --> 00:13:36,595 Speaker 1: a five minute warning to get the players ready to 185 00:13:36,675 --> 00:13:41,315 Speaker 1: resume the first quarter, and ESPN put that on its graphic, 186 00:13:42,515 --> 00:13:45,755 Speaker 1: and in those five minutes, the world came down on 187 00:13:45,835 --> 00:13:49,355 Speaker 1: the NFL for its callousness and its hesitation to call 188 00:13:49,475 --> 00:13:52,915 Speaker 1: the game off, while a young and popular Bills player 189 00:13:53,035 --> 00:13:55,995 Speaker 1: was fighting for his life, and his teammates and his rivals, 190 00:13:56,035 --> 00:13:59,195 Speaker 1: and the broadcasters and the viewers tried to fight through 191 00:13:59,235 --> 00:14:01,435 Speaker 1: the trauma of what they had all been witnessed to, 192 00:14:01,715 --> 00:14:06,795 Speaker 1: either in person or via TV. Within hours of this, 193 00:14:07,595 --> 00:14:11,155 Speaker 1: the National Football League was claiming none of that had happened. 194 00:14:11,995 --> 00:14:15,315 Speaker 1: The league's executive vice president of football Operations, a former 195 00:14:15,315 --> 00:14:19,835 Speaker 1: player named Troy Vincent, insisted on a conference call, quote, Frankly, 196 00:14:19,875 --> 00:14:22,915 Speaker 1: it never crossed our mind to talk about warming up 197 00:14:22,915 --> 00:14:27,355 Speaker 1: to resume play. That's ridiculous, that's insensitive, and that's not 198 00:14:27,435 --> 00:14:29,795 Speaker 1: a place that we should ever be in. How do 199 00:14:29,875 --> 00:14:33,115 Speaker 1: you resume playing when such a traumatic event occurs in 200 00:14:33,195 --> 00:14:36,195 Speaker 1: front of you in real time? And that's the way 201 00:14:36,235 --> 00:14:40,755 Speaker 1: we were thinking about it. The commissioner and I bull 202 00:14:40,795 --> 00:14:44,875 Speaker 1: crap I worked at ESPN for a total of ten years. 203 00:14:45,315 --> 00:14:48,835 Speaker 1: I worked on NBC's football coverage for three years. I 204 00:14:48,915 --> 00:14:52,475 Speaker 1: co hosted the Super Bowl pregame show for NBC. I 205 00:14:52,595 --> 00:14:57,315 Speaker 1: hosted the Internet Super Bowl halftime show for Fox. I 206 00:14:57,355 --> 00:14:59,915 Speaker 1: worked for two years at Fox with Joe Buck. I 207 00:14:59,995 --> 00:15:03,195 Speaker 1: worked for seven years at ESPN with Suzie Calbert. I 208 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:05,715 Speaker 1: worked with all the ESPN game producers and all the 209 00:15:05,755 --> 00:15:08,515 Speaker 1: studio producers, and all the executives, and I can tell 210 00:15:08,555 --> 00:15:12,395 Speaker 1: you without fear of contradiction, I have had many problems 211 00:15:12,435 --> 00:15:15,115 Speaker 1: with all of the people I have just mentioned, from 212 00:15:15,195 --> 00:15:18,355 Speaker 1: Joe to Susie to the executives. But if Joe Buck 213 00:15:18,555 --> 00:15:21,595 Speaker 1: and Susie Calbert reported that the players were going to 214 00:15:21,635 --> 00:15:24,595 Speaker 1: be given some time to compose themselves and then a 215 00:15:24,675 --> 00:15:27,275 Speaker 1: five minute warm up because the game was to resume, 216 00:15:27,795 --> 00:15:31,555 Speaker 1: Joe and Susie had been told that by the bosses 217 00:15:32,115 --> 00:15:36,115 Speaker 1: at the highest level of their organization, and those bosses 218 00:15:36,115 --> 00:15:41,275 Speaker 1: had been told that directly by the National Football League Yesterday. 219 00:15:41,355 --> 00:15:44,435 Speaker 1: Joe Buck said he was quoting ESPN's own rules expert, 220 00:15:44,675 --> 00:15:47,275 Speaker 1: John Perry, who had been in direct contact with the 221 00:15:47,395 --> 00:15:51,355 Speaker 1: NFL office in New York, and ESPN issued a carefully 222 00:15:51,395 --> 00:15:56,675 Speaker 1: phrased but strong self defense quoting it. There was constant 223 00:15:56,675 --> 00:16:00,435 Speaker 1: communication in real time between ESPN and league and game officials. 224 00:16:00,755 --> 00:16:03,155 Speaker 1: As a result of that, we reported what we were 225 00:16:03,195 --> 00:16:07,155 Speaker 1: told in the moment and immediately updated fans as new 226 00:16:07,195 --> 00:16:11,995 Speaker 1: information was learned. This was an unprecedented, rapidly evolving circumstance. 227 00:16:12,275 --> 00:16:17,955 Speaker 1: All night long, we refrained from speculation. They did not 228 00:16:18,075 --> 00:16:21,435 Speaker 1: say this. I will say it again. The National Football 229 00:16:21,515 --> 00:16:27,035 Speaker 1: League is lying. Of course it is. It is expert 230 00:16:27,115 --> 00:16:30,275 Speaker 1: at lying. And of course the NFL is trying to 231 00:16:30,315 --> 00:16:33,395 Speaker 1: revise the history of Damar Hamlin and what it wanted 232 00:16:33,435 --> 00:16:36,675 Speaker 1: to do that night because it made the wrong call 233 00:16:37,355 --> 00:16:40,795 Speaker 1: and because of the additional reporting that the players and 234 00:16:40,915 --> 00:16:43,675 Speaker 1: the coaches made it clear that they were not going 235 00:16:43,715 --> 00:16:46,275 Speaker 1: to resume the game, no matter what the NFL said, 236 00:16:46,315 --> 00:16:48,595 Speaker 1: and no matter what news did or did not come 237 00:16:48,875 --> 00:16:52,715 Speaker 1: from Damar Hamlin's bedside, And those are the only reasons 238 00:16:52,715 --> 00:16:57,075 Speaker 1: the game was finally postponed Monday night. The NFL would 239 00:16:57,155 --> 00:17:03,155 Speaker 1: have played. The National Football League has made callous mistakes before, 240 00:17:03,915 --> 00:17:06,995 Speaker 1: like how it wanted proceed after tomorrow Hamlin's cardiac arrest. 241 00:17:07,795 --> 00:17:10,875 Speaker 1: It will make them again. And this is also not 242 00:17:10,995 --> 00:17:13,035 Speaker 1: the first time it has flat outlied to the public 243 00:17:13,075 --> 00:17:15,355 Speaker 1: about what it did or did not do, or when 244 00:17:15,435 --> 00:17:19,115 Speaker 1: it was or was not callous. Right after nine eleven, 245 00:17:19,635 --> 00:17:23,675 Speaker 1: then NFL Commissioner Paul Taglabou made a huge chest thumping 246 00:17:23,795 --> 00:17:27,595 Speaker 1: deal over canceling the game's scheduled for Sunday, September six 247 00:17:28,235 --> 00:17:33,275 Speaker 1: and Monday September There were pious comments about the grieving 248 00:17:33,355 --> 00:17:38,355 Speaker 1: nation and the wounds, and inappropriate this and respectful that when, 249 00:17:38,395 --> 00:17:41,235 Speaker 1: in fact, on a conference call with the f a 250 00:17:41,235 --> 00:17:44,115 Speaker 1: A and security officials and the heads of the major 251 00:17:44,155 --> 00:17:48,035 Speaker 1: airlines on either the Thursday or Friday after the attacks, 252 00:17:48,075 --> 00:17:51,995 Speaker 1: the league said it intended to play those games as 253 00:17:51,995 --> 00:17:56,275 Speaker 1: scheduled on the sixteenth and seventeen, and the authorities replied 254 00:17:56,315 --> 00:17:59,595 Speaker 1: that that was nice, but there could be no guarantee 255 00:17:59,595 --> 00:18:04,155 Speaker 1: that NFL teams or officials, or broadcast crews or fans 256 00:18:04,675 --> 00:18:07,515 Speaker 1: would be able to fly from city to city just 257 00:18:07,675 --> 00:18:10,995 Speaker 1: to play or watch football games, and that there would 258 00:18:10,995 --> 00:18:13,875 Speaker 1: be no priority given to those flights, even if air 259 00:18:13,915 --> 00:18:17,675 Speaker 1: travel suspended after the attacks was largely up and running 260 00:18:17,675 --> 00:18:22,795 Speaker 1: by Saturday. The NFL complained, it got the same answer, 261 00:18:23,355 --> 00:18:25,715 Speaker 1: and so Paul tag b A Boo went public with 262 00:18:26,435 --> 00:18:33,275 Speaker 1: a loud, unseemly self congratulatory cancelation announcement, and unthinking reporters applauded, 263 00:18:33,315 --> 00:18:36,635 Speaker 1: without once considering the reality of the logistics that had 264 00:18:36,635 --> 00:18:40,635 Speaker 1: given the NFL no choice but to cancel, and then 265 00:18:40,715 --> 00:18:44,635 Speaker 1: boast as if it had been its own idea much earlier. 266 00:18:45,155 --> 00:18:49,955 Speaker 1: On the morning of Monday, November mayor George Moscone and 267 00:18:49,995 --> 00:18:54,155 Speaker 1: Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by an ex city councilman 268 00:18:54,635 --> 00:18:59,195 Speaker 1: in San Francisco's City Hall. San Francisco were to host 269 00:18:59,235 --> 00:19:03,155 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers literally just hours later in the Monday 270 00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:07,275 Speaker 1: night football game at Candle's Dick Park. Mayor Mosconi had 271 00:19:07,275 --> 00:19:09,355 Speaker 1: been an arch advocate for the forty Niners and for 272 00:19:09,395 --> 00:19:12,355 Speaker 1: the importance of sports in his community, and despite calls 273 00:19:12,395 --> 00:19:16,595 Speaker 1: to cancel or or just postpone the game for a day, 274 00:19:16,795 --> 00:19:19,955 Speaker 1: the NFL never seriously considered doing that. It was the 275 00:19:19,995 --> 00:19:24,835 Speaker 1: height of insensitivity and disrespect. Of course, it was that 276 00:19:25,115 --> 00:19:29,875 Speaker 1: is NFL policy. On November sixty three, the National Football 277 00:19:29,915 --> 00:19:34,235 Speaker 1: League played anyway. Two days after the assassination of President 278 00:19:34,315 --> 00:19:39,155 Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy, the American Football League canceled its entire schedule. 279 00:19:40,395 --> 00:19:43,315 Speaker 1: I have mentioned it here before that the then commissioner 280 00:19:43,355 --> 00:19:46,155 Speaker 1: of the NFL, Pete Rosel, openly regretted that decision for 281 00:19:46,195 --> 00:19:50,355 Speaker 1: the rest of his life, and he also understood firsthand 282 00:19:50,755 --> 00:19:54,475 Speaker 1: just how unpopular it was. I've never found a second 283 00:19:54,515 --> 00:19:57,075 Speaker 1: source for this report, but I can't imagine my source 284 00:19:57,115 --> 00:19:59,475 Speaker 1: made it up or got it wrong. He was Bill 285 00:19:59,555 --> 00:20:02,315 Speaker 1: McPhail and he was the president of CBS Sports, which 286 00:20:02,355 --> 00:20:07,235 Speaker 1: in three carried NFL games exclusively. It did not televise 287 00:20:07,315 --> 00:20:10,755 Speaker 1: any games that horrible Sunday. Bill mcphil was also Pete 288 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:12,835 Speaker 1: Rosell's close friend, and the two of them pretty much 289 00:20:12,875 --> 00:20:16,075 Speaker 1: designed the way they televise NFL games then and now, 290 00:20:16,235 --> 00:20:20,475 Speaker 1: which built pro football in this country. Bill McPhail would 291 00:20:20,475 --> 00:20:24,035 Speaker 1: become the vice president of the new cable news network CNN. 292 00:20:24,075 --> 00:20:27,075 Speaker 1: In night he was the vice president in charge of sports. 293 00:20:27,115 --> 00:20:31,635 Speaker 1: He designed CNN's original robust sports department and started the 294 00:20:31,675 --> 00:20:34,475 Speaker 1: TV careers of people like Dan Patrick and Gary Miller 295 00:20:34,995 --> 00:20:38,315 Speaker 1: and me. And one day Bill told me that with 296 00:20:38,355 --> 00:20:43,315 Speaker 1: all the CBS NFL telecasts canceled on Sunday, November, he 297 00:20:43,395 --> 00:20:46,755 Speaker 1: had nothing to do, so he joined his friend Pete Rosel, 298 00:20:47,075 --> 00:20:50,835 Speaker 1: the NFL commissioner, at Yankee Stadium to watch the Giants 299 00:20:50,835 --> 00:20:54,475 Speaker 1: play the St. Louis Cardinals. It would be within weeks 300 00:20:54,475 --> 00:20:57,035 Speaker 1: that Rosel would say he was mistaken to not cancel 301 00:20:57,115 --> 00:20:59,715 Speaker 1: that schedule, and twenty years he was still telling it 302 00:20:59,915 --> 00:21:02,515 Speaker 1: to people like me and calling it the greatest mistake 303 00:21:02,555 --> 00:21:05,995 Speaker 1: of his life. But Pete Rosel us right about one thing. 304 00:21:06,635 --> 00:21:10,635 Speaker 1: Despite the assassination, Despite the grief, despite the fact that 305 00:21:10,715 --> 00:21:14,555 Speaker 1: Lee Harvey Oswald was shot on live national television forty 306 00:21:14,555 --> 00:21:17,235 Speaker 1: minutes before the NFL kicked off its games that day. 307 00:21:17,715 --> 00:21:23,715 Speaker 1: Attendance for the games was normal, down maybe a thousand 308 00:21:23,795 --> 00:21:27,115 Speaker 1: per game. There were sixty eight thousand fans at Yankee 309 00:21:27,115 --> 00:21:30,155 Speaker 1: Stadium for the Cardinals Giants game. But Bill McPhail told 310 00:21:30,195 --> 00:21:32,715 Speaker 1: me that during halftime one of them, a man appeared 311 00:21:32,715 --> 00:21:37,155 Speaker 1: at their seats asked, are you Pete Roselle? Are you 312 00:21:37,195 --> 00:21:40,555 Speaker 1: the reason we're here today? And when Roselle confirmed it, 313 00:21:40,795 --> 00:21:44,075 Speaker 1: the man punched Roselle in the face, said nothing and 314 00:21:44,115 --> 00:21:47,715 Speaker 1: walked away. Bill told me he moved to follow the 315 00:21:47,755 --> 00:21:50,995 Speaker 1: man to apprehend him, but Roselle stopped him. Don't I 316 00:21:51,115 --> 00:21:54,955 Speaker 1: know how he feels. The NFL made a mistake in 317 00:21:55,035 --> 00:21:57,795 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, it made a mistake in nineteen seventy eight, 318 00:21:57,795 --> 00:21:59,715 Speaker 1: It made a mistake in two thousand one. It made 319 00:21:59,715 --> 00:22:03,915 Speaker 1: a mistake Monday night. And if somebody had just said yes, 320 00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:07,595 Speaker 1: we originally thought we might be able to resume the game. 321 00:22:07,915 --> 00:22:11,875 Speaker 1: We did not know how serious his condition was. We 322 00:22:11,875 --> 00:22:15,195 Speaker 1: were terribly mistaken. We can only say that, like everybody 323 00:22:15,235 --> 00:22:18,035 Speaker 1: else who saw what happened. We were shocked and terrified. 324 00:22:18,635 --> 00:22:21,555 Speaker 1: And when you are traumatized, not only do you often 325 00:22:21,595 --> 00:22:24,195 Speaker 1: make mistakes, but the one mistake you are most likely 326 00:22:24,235 --> 00:22:28,035 Speaker 1: to make is to try to pretend everything is normal 327 00:22:28,435 --> 00:22:32,475 Speaker 1: and carry on as if everything is normal. We did that. 328 00:22:32,555 --> 00:22:36,635 Speaker 1: We are sorry. If the NFL had just said that, 329 00:22:36,675 --> 00:22:39,835 Speaker 1: I could not imagine anybody complaining about it. But do 330 00:22:39,915 --> 00:22:43,515 Speaker 1: not gaslight people. Do not lie to people. Do not 331 00:22:43,675 --> 00:22:48,035 Speaker 1: imply your broadcast partners whose content you watch like sensors, 332 00:22:48,435 --> 00:22:53,875 Speaker 1: misled the nation. You were already guilty of being callous. 333 00:22:54,595 --> 00:23:00,475 Speaker 1: Do not add dishonesty to your crimes. There is something 334 00:23:00,515 --> 00:23:03,275 Speaker 1: else about the Damar Hamlin tragedy that bears repeating, and 335 00:23:03,275 --> 00:23:06,835 Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with the nash Football leagues. Bluntly, 336 00:23:06,915 --> 00:23:10,435 Speaker 1: there is still a crazy component in our society that blames, 337 00:23:10,675 --> 00:23:13,875 Speaker 1: and until further notice, will blame the death or illness 338 00:23:13,955 --> 00:23:20,355 Speaker 1: of anyone at any time on COVID vaccinations. These creatures 339 00:23:21,035 --> 00:23:26,435 Speaker 1: appeared on Twitter, Kevin Sorbo, Lenny Dikestra, Charlie Kirk, Rogan, 340 00:23:26,555 --> 00:23:30,955 Speaker 1: oh Handley, Grant Stinkfield. There was another one who actually 341 00:23:30,995 --> 00:23:35,955 Speaker 1: declared that Hamlin was dead because of COVID vaccines. They 342 00:23:35,995 --> 00:23:39,715 Speaker 1: also all appeared in the right wing echo chamber because 343 00:23:39,715 --> 00:23:41,955 Speaker 1: there is no tragedy too traumatic for them to try 344 00:23:41,995 --> 00:23:47,595 Speaker 1: to exploit to serve their paranoid, uninformed, dangerous, indefensible conspiracy theories. 345 00:23:47,715 --> 00:23:50,355 Speaker 1: And they jumped on the Damar Hamlin story as if 346 00:23:50,395 --> 00:23:55,355 Speaker 1: it proved those conspiracies, because they have no souls, no consciences, 347 00:23:56,235 --> 00:24:02,915 Speaker 1: and ironically no hearts. And their basic, stupid, simplistic argument 348 00:24:03,155 --> 00:24:06,555 Speaker 1: is that no National Football League player had ever collapsed 349 00:24:06,595 --> 00:24:10,315 Speaker 1: that way before COVID vaccines. Therefore, COVID vaccines caused it. 350 00:24:10,435 --> 00:24:14,955 Speaker 1: Therefore COVID vaccines are evil. Therefore vote Republican. It is 351 00:24:14,955 --> 00:24:18,675 Speaker 1: a sick and twisted mentality, and how we will purge 352 00:24:18,675 --> 00:24:25,115 Speaker 1: it from this nation I do not know. Maybe more importantly, 353 00:24:26,515 --> 00:24:31,235 Speaker 1: that spits on the graves of the players in the 354 00:24:31,315 --> 00:24:34,875 Speaker 1: National Football League and in other sports who have died 355 00:24:35,915 --> 00:24:40,555 Speaker 1: of heart failure, heart attacks, other heart disease on fields 356 00:24:40,595 --> 00:24:46,315 Speaker 1: and on courts and in arenas since sports began. I 357 00:24:46,395 --> 00:24:50,475 Speaker 1: thought immediately of Hank Gathers, the loyal and Merrymount basketball 358 00:24:50,515 --> 00:24:54,115 Speaker 1: star who died in the middle of a playoff game, 359 00:24:55,915 --> 00:24:59,595 Speaker 1: died on the court in front of his home fans, 360 00:25:00,395 --> 00:25:03,275 Speaker 1: and I remember the unspeakable sadness and the gloom I 361 00:25:03,395 --> 00:25:06,755 Speaker 1: felt while reporting from his campus that night. And I 362 00:25:06,795 --> 00:25:09,755 Speaker 1: think of J. V. Caine, the seventh pick in the 363 00:25:09,835 --> 00:25:12,555 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four football draft and a star tight end 364 00:25:12,555 --> 00:25:14,995 Speaker 1: of the St. Louis Cardinals, making his way back from 365 00:25:15,035 --> 00:25:19,075 Speaker 1: a serious tendon injury. He collapsed during a no contact 366 00:25:19,075 --> 00:25:23,195 Speaker 1: practice on July nineteen seventy nine, died within two hours, 367 00:25:24,115 --> 00:25:26,595 Speaker 1: and was later found to have had a rare congenital 368 00:25:26,635 --> 00:25:31,435 Speaker 1: heart problem that no one could have discovered until the autopsy. 369 00:25:32,155 --> 00:25:36,235 Speaker 1: And most of all, I am thinking of, and especially 370 00:25:36,275 --> 00:25:39,635 Speaker 1: I am enraged on behalf of the memory of a 371 00:25:39,675 --> 00:25:43,875 Speaker 1: player named Chuck Hughes. With less than two minutes to 372 00:25:43,915 --> 00:25:47,115 Speaker 1: go in the Chicago Bears Detroit Lions game at Tiger 373 00:25:47,155 --> 00:25:52,075 Speaker 1: Stadium in Detroit on October one, Chuck Hughes caught a 374 00:25:52,155 --> 00:25:55,795 Speaker 1: thirty two yard pass from the Detroit quarterback Greg Landry. 375 00:25:55,955 --> 00:26:00,155 Speaker 1: He was tackled virtually simultaneously from different directions by two 376 00:26:00,195 --> 00:26:04,195 Speaker 1: Chicago defenders, Bob Jeter and Gary Lyle. Three plays later, 377 00:26:04,675 --> 00:26:06,635 Speaker 1: as he made his way back to the Lions huddle, 378 00:26:07,035 --> 00:26:11,315 Speaker 1: Chuck Hughes dropped to the turf clutching his chest, he 379 00:26:11,475 --> 00:26:17,155 Speaker 1: was dead within minutes. His autopsy showed profound, undiagnosed arterio 380 00:26:17,235 --> 00:26:21,635 Speaker 1: sclerosis hardening of the arteries. Professionals said the violent double 381 00:26:21,715 --> 00:26:25,715 Speaker 1: tackle could have triggered the coronary thrombosis and then the 382 00:26:25,755 --> 00:26:28,275 Speaker 1: heart attack that killed him on the field, but it 383 00:26:28,315 --> 00:26:32,275 Speaker 1: was basically irrelevant. One of his coronary arteries had been 384 00:26:32,315 --> 00:26:38,795 Speaker 1: sev blocked. Football World mourned that year. And if there 385 00:26:38,835 --> 00:26:42,035 Speaker 1: were scumbags like Kevin Sorbo and Lenny Deistra and Charlie 386 00:26:42,115 --> 00:26:45,955 Speaker 1: Kirk and Rogano Handley and Grant Stinkfield around hoping to 387 00:26:46,035 --> 00:26:48,875 Speaker 1: tread on the grave of Chuck Hughes to try to 388 00:26:48,915 --> 00:26:52,595 Speaker 1: sell whatever conspiracy theories they were pushing in nine, they 389 00:26:52,595 --> 00:26:56,875 Speaker 1: had the presence of mind to keep their goddamned mouths shut, 390 00:26:58,555 --> 00:27:00,955 Speaker 1: where we had the presence of mind to never to 391 00:27:00,995 --> 00:27:05,995 Speaker 1: listen to them in denying it's via original intent to 392 00:27:06,075 --> 00:27:10,115 Speaker 1: restart that game. The National Football League has provided enough 393 00:27:10,515 --> 00:27:16,635 Speaker 1: insensitivity and dishonesty and shame to make this particular nightmare 394 00:27:16,755 --> 00:27:22,915 Speaker 1: somehow worse. We do not need amateurs like these anti backs, 395 00:27:23,075 --> 00:27:41,795 Speaker 1: opportunistic worms to pile onto that still ahead, so a 396 00:27:41,875 --> 00:27:44,275 Speaker 1: local TV news reporter in New York put me on 397 00:27:44,355 --> 00:27:46,955 Speaker 1: the air in one of his reports in ninety three 398 00:27:47,035 --> 00:27:49,555 Speaker 1: and a decade later, he was sitting next to me 399 00:27:49,635 --> 00:27:52,275 Speaker 1: on the anchor desk at CNN and he introduced himself 400 00:27:52,315 --> 00:27:55,715 Speaker 1: and I said, we've met before, and he said, oh, 401 00:27:56,515 --> 00:28:00,675 Speaker 1: the story of baseball cards and television, and how quickly 402 00:28:00,755 --> 00:28:04,355 Speaker 1: ten years can pass. Coming up first, the daily roundup 403 00:28:04,355 --> 00:28:07,035 Speaker 1: of the scrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effect specimens who 404 00:28:07,115 --> 00:28:13,315 Speaker 1: constitute today's worse persons in the world. Le Bronze Michael Flynn. 405 00:28:14,075 --> 00:28:16,235 Speaker 1: I don't know if he fought one too many battles 406 00:28:16,275 --> 00:28:18,355 Speaker 1: without his helmet on, or if he's getting paid to 407 00:28:18,355 --> 00:28:21,155 Speaker 1: say this stuff, But for eight years he's been saying 408 00:28:21,195 --> 00:28:25,275 Speaker 1: this stuff. Quote. Russia has achieved all of their objectives 409 00:28:25,675 --> 00:28:30,035 Speaker 1: in Ukraine, and they're now exposing bio labs that have 410 00:28:30,195 --> 00:28:33,275 Speaker 1: been in there sponsored by the US. The guy that 411 00:28:33,475 --> 00:28:35,795 Speaker 1: just showed up to speak to our Congress in a 412 00:28:35,875 --> 00:28:40,635 Speaker 1: sweatsuit should have been thrown out unquote. I don't know. 413 00:28:40,675 --> 00:28:43,435 Speaker 1: I think it reads better in the original Russian. When 414 00:28:43,435 --> 00:28:45,715 Speaker 1: are we going to do something about this guy? Flynn? 415 00:28:45,795 --> 00:28:49,395 Speaker 1: I don't know if he's disloyal or mentally discombobulated, but 416 00:28:49,435 --> 00:28:53,115 Speaker 1: he should be under Lock and Key, the runner up. Trump, 417 00:28:53,715 --> 00:28:56,075 Speaker 1: speaking of under lock and Key, this is why you 418 00:28:56,155 --> 00:28:59,635 Speaker 1: do not make deals with a psychopath. You may recall 419 00:28:59,675 --> 00:29:03,715 Speaker 1: that Kevin McCarthy dissolved whatever remaining glue ad heired Congressional 420 00:29:03,795 --> 00:29:06,475 Speaker 1: Republicans not only to America but to each other the 421 00:29:06,555 --> 00:29:09,995 Speaker 1: day after the coup, when he later went to Mari 422 00:29:10,075 --> 00:29:14,155 Speaker 1: Lago to kiss Trump's ring. A smarter, more patriotic man 423 00:29:14,235 --> 00:29:17,155 Speaker 1: would have used the post January six momentum that was 424 00:29:17,195 --> 00:29:19,995 Speaker 1: the feeling of horror and shame two years ago this 425 00:29:20,035 --> 00:29:22,595 Speaker 1: month and put it into a fire hose and then 426 00:29:22,715 --> 00:29:26,235 Speaker 1: pointed the fire hose at Trump. Instead, McCarthy made a 427 00:29:26,275 --> 00:29:29,715 Speaker 1: deal and reached by NBC last night about whether or 428 00:29:29,755 --> 00:29:31,635 Speaker 1: not he was sticking by that deal, which was his 429 00:29:31,795 --> 00:29:34,475 Speaker 1: endorsement of McCarthy to become Speaker of the House. Donald 430 00:29:34,515 --> 00:29:37,435 Speaker 1: Trump said, quote, we'll see what happens. We'll see how 431 00:29:37,475 --> 00:29:40,275 Speaker 1: it all works out. The reporter says, he asked the 432 00:29:40,355 --> 00:29:43,315 Speaker 1: question again, and Trump repeated, we will see what happens 433 00:29:44,035 --> 00:29:50,875 Speaker 1: and hung up. Nicely played Kevin, but our winner, George Santos, 434 00:29:52,035 --> 00:29:54,875 Speaker 1: He issued a press release yesterday saying he had been 435 00:29:54,915 --> 00:29:58,595 Speaker 1: sworn in as Congressman from New York, but in fact 436 00:29:58,635 --> 00:30:02,195 Speaker 1: he's still only Congressman elect because no speaker means no 437 00:30:02,355 --> 00:30:05,635 Speaker 1: swearing in. The liar from Long Island cut a very 438 00:30:05,635 --> 00:30:09,075 Speaker 1: sad figure. Indeed, in the house yesterday, nobody talking to him, 439 00:30:09,115 --> 00:30:12,555 Speaker 1: nobody feeding him popcorn. He was left alone to yawn 440 00:30:12,715 --> 00:30:15,715 Speaker 1: without covering his mouth. And worst of all, when he 441 00:30:15,755 --> 00:30:17,795 Speaker 1: went to his new office, he found it was surrounded 442 00:30:17,795 --> 00:30:22,795 Speaker 1: by reporters. There are reporters covering Congress and they can 443 00:30:22,835 --> 00:30:24,835 Speaker 1: just stand there and wait for me. I didn't see 444 00:30:24,835 --> 00:30:29,595 Speaker 1: that in the prospectus. So Santos promptly turned around and 445 00:30:29,635 --> 00:30:33,875 Speaker 1: walked away from the reporters, who trailed him, peppered him 446 00:30:33,915 --> 00:30:37,635 Speaker 1: with questions and he said nothing for like a minute. 447 00:30:38,675 --> 00:30:41,275 Speaker 1: The audio maybe better without the video. He's wearing a 448 00:30:41,355 --> 00:30:44,515 Speaker 1: backpack like he might have worn at Horstman Prep School 449 00:30:44,795 --> 00:30:47,355 Speaker 1: if he'd actually gone there and not just lied about it. 450 00:30:47,435 --> 00:30:50,475 Speaker 1: So he looks like Charlie Brown on a really, really 451 00:30:50,555 --> 00:30:55,595 Speaker 1: bad day. And the baseline noise here, the shuffling feet, 452 00:30:56,235 --> 00:31:01,355 Speaker 1: that to me is the chef's kiss. Oh George, do 453 00:31:01,395 --> 00:31:03,595 Speaker 1: you feel like you're qualified to serve in this Congress 454 00:31:03,675 --> 00:31:07,915 Speaker 1: right now? How do you hope your constituents can trust 455 00:31:07,955 --> 00:31:12,435 Speaker 1: you even though that you've misrepresented your biography to them? 456 00:31:12,435 --> 00:31:15,075 Speaker 1: What's your response to call spar House the assustigation of 457 00:31:15,115 --> 00:31:22,835 Speaker 1: my nickeloda? Do you have any statements about your campaign 458 00:31:23,155 --> 00:31:28,435 Speaker 1: and how you hope to govern? Do you hope to 459 00:31:28,475 --> 00:31:55,115 Speaker 1: carry out your full terms? To the number one story 460 00:31:55,115 --> 00:31:57,835 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 461 00:31:57,875 --> 00:32:00,475 Speaker 1: I've promised not to tell. I believe it was this 462 00:32:00,555 --> 00:32:03,955 Speaker 1: time of year, early winter, thirty nine years ago that 463 00:32:04,035 --> 00:32:07,115 Speaker 1: the CBS television station here in New York, Channel two 464 00:32:07,555 --> 00:32:11,675 Speaker 1: dismissed a news reporter named Charles Crawford. I was reminded 465 00:32:11,715 --> 00:32:14,115 Speaker 1: of him the other day because he bridges two stages 466 00:32:14,155 --> 00:32:16,755 Speaker 1: of my life that from this advanced age, I feel 467 00:32:16,835 --> 00:32:21,035 Speaker 1: like two separate lives. Until I was about fifteen and 468 00:32:21,075 --> 00:32:23,555 Speaker 1: went out on my first date, I spent all of 469 00:32:23,595 --> 00:32:27,115 Speaker 1: my time doing about four things and four things only, 470 00:32:27,475 --> 00:32:31,755 Speaker 1: going to school, going to baseball games, collecting sports memorabilia, 471 00:32:31,875 --> 00:32:34,115 Speaker 1: and trying to figure out how I was going to 472 00:32:34,195 --> 00:32:38,915 Speaker 1: be a sportscaster or sportswriter when I grew up. Incidentally, 473 00:32:38,955 --> 00:32:41,315 Speaker 1: I think I'm now up to doing about six things 474 00:32:41,355 --> 00:32:45,835 Speaker 1: and six things only anyway. In nineteen one, the fact 475 00:32:45,835 --> 00:32:49,115 Speaker 1: that there were adults who collected baseball cards and spent 476 00:32:49,355 --> 00:32:53,795 Speaker 1: literally hundreds of dollars on some of them was sprung 477 00:32:53,955 --> 00:32:58,875 Speaker 1: on an unsuspecting America. The first big card convention, a 478 00:32:59,155 --> 00:33:02,395 Speaker 1: gussied up flea market in a Detroit area hotel over 479 00:33:02,435 --> 00:33:07,515 Speaker 1: a three day weekend to which people traveled from other states, 480 00:33:08,395 --> 00:33:13,155 Speaker 1: was so completely unbelievable that CBS News sent a crew 481 00:33:13,555 --> 00:33:17,595 Speaker 1: and a reporter to cover it. The story closed out 482 00:33:17,595 --> 00:33:19,995 Speaker 1: in an addition of the CBS Evening News one night. 483 00:33:20,075 --> 00:33:23,675 Speaker 1: I think it's so shocked Anchorman Walter Cronkite that he 484 00:33:23,755 --> 00:33:27,555 Speaker 1: said dush or something before recovering to sign off that 485 00:33:27,675 --> 00:33:35,915 Speaker 1: say it is Monday, AUGUSTE. Cronk The couple of thousand 486 00:33:36,075 --> 00:33:39,755 Speaker 1: of us who constituted the entirety of the known baseball 487 00:33:39,835 --> 00:33:43,675 Speaker 1: card hobby all lent out a squeal of delight in 488 00:33:43,715 --> 00:33:46,715 Speaker 1: front of our black and white TVs, and the main 489 00:33:46,875 --> 00:33:50,995 Speaker 1: streaming of baseball cards began. The most amazing part of 490 00:33:51,035 --> 00:33:55,395 Speaker 1: it was it was almost all adults. There was a 491 00:33:55,475 --> 00:33:58,315 Speaker 1: kid my age in Indianapolis named Elliott Doc who had 492 00:33:58,355 --> 00:34:01,315 Speaker 1: a fabulous collection. There was another one near Philly named 493 00:34:01,395 --> 00:34:04,555 Speaker 1: Robert Liftson, and he and I have been friends fifty 494 00:34:04,515 --> 00:34:06,435 Speaker 1: years now, and he was over at the apartment in 495 00:34:06,475 --> 00:34:10,795 Speaker 1: December talking cards. There were some other older teenagers seventeen 496 00:34:10,835 --> 00:34:13,395 Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen, but other than that it was all adults, 497 00:34:14,035 --> 00:34:17,675 Speaker 1: adults who had either secretly never stopped collecting baseball cards 498 00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:21,475 Speaker 1: or had resumed collecting them, and who could enjoy everything 499 00:34:21,515 --> 00:34:25,075 Speaker 1: from a newly issued Reggie Jackson card to a newly 500 00:34:25,115 --> 00:34:29,875 Speaker 1: discovered example from the set issued by Kalamazoo Bats cigarettes 501 00:34:30,115 --> 00:34:34,595 Speaker 1: in eight In nineteen seventy two, the first such cards 502 00:34:34,595 --> 00:34:37,195 Speaker 1: show in the metropolitan New York area was held, and 503 00:34:37,275 --> 00:34:39,915 Speaker 1: at the age of thirteen, I went with my parents 504 00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:43,635 Speaker 1: and sister in tow and I had, for me anyway, 505 00:34:43,675 --> 00:34:48,275 Speaker 1: a transcendent experience, and they did not, unless you consider 506 00:34:48,315 --> 00:34:50,675 Speaker 1: a summer weekend in a hotel in Lake Ground, Kunkama, 507 00:34:50,675 --> 00:34:54,275 Speaker 1: New York, transcendent. At least there was a pool and 508 00:34:54,355 --> 00:34:58,035 Speaker 1: it didn't rain anyway. The next year, in partnership with 509 00:34:58,115 --> 00:35:00,435 Speaker 1: some others, one of the really good people in the hobby, 510 00:35:00,555 --> 00:35:03,995 Speaker 1: an adult named Mike Aaronstein, also still a friend of 511 00:35:03,995 --> 00:35:07,235 Speaker 1: mine fifty years later, the man who basically invented everything 512 00:35:07,235 --> 00:35:10,875 Speaker 1: from plastic sheets to keep your cards in to reprints 513 00:35:10,875 --> 00:35:14,195 Speaker 1: of old cards to cards of minor league players. He 514 00:35:14,355 --> 00:35:16,595 Speaker 1: staged the first show in New York City in a 515 00:35:16,715 --> 00:35:21,155 Speaker 1: Union hall all the way downtown, Bang on ast your place, 516 00:35:21,275 --> 00:35:23,995 Speaker 1: over the Memorial Day weekend. He was told he was 517 00:35:23,995 --> 00:35:26,635 Speaker 1: going to lose his shirt on this. In fact, by 518 00:35:26,715 --> 00:35:29,875 Speaker 1: early Friday evening, like two hours after the thing opened, 519 00:35:29,995 --> 00:35:33,395 Speaker 1: the crowd was so large and dense I could not 520 00:35:33,675 --> 00:35:37,195 Speaker 1: see from my chair behind the table I had bought 521 00:35:37,555 --> 00:35:39,635 Speaker 1: from which I was selling my duplicates, to the table 522 00:35:39,715 --> 00:35:41,835 Speaker 1: directly across the aisle from me, which was no more 523 00:35:41,875 --> 00:35:45,555 Speaker 1: than twenty ft away. It was such a success Mike 524 00:35:45,795 --> 00:35:51,155 Speaker 1: hurriedly booked the hall for a second show for Thanksgiving. Well, 525 00:35:51,195 --> 00:35:54,035 Speaker 1: by now three, if you put a bunch of these 526 00:35:54,035 --> 00:35:59,235 Speaker 1: crazy adults paying good money to buy old baseball cards 527 00:35:58,515 --> 00:36:01,915 Speaker 1: twenty five dollars for a nineteen fifty two tops, Mickey Mantle, 528 00:36:03,195 --> 00:36:07,075 Speaker 1: are these people escape bees for my psychiatric facility? Well, 529 00:36:07,115 --> 00:36:09,115 Speaker 1: if you did that, some reporter was going to show 530 00:36:09,195 --> 00:36:12,675 Speaker 1: up and cover the lunacy. This was especially true of 531 00:36:12,755 --> 00:36:16,435 Speaker 1: local television news, especially on a weekend where a story 532 00:36:16,475 --> 00:36:19,555 Speaker 1: that was not exactly like every other story that you 533 00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:23,035 Speaker 1: could shoot before noon, developed the film and get it 534 00:36:23,075 --> 00:36:25,315 Speaker 1: on the air at six pm. That was a gift 535 00:36:25,555 --> 00:36:28,675 Speaker 1: from the gods, which is how I came to see 536 00:36:28,675 --> 00:36:30,715 Speaker 1: a little commotion at the front door of that nineteen 537 00:36:30,755 --> 00:36:34,515 Speaker 1: seventy three Memorial Day weekend card show and see emerging 538 00:36:34,595 --> 00:36:38,315 Speaker 1: from the commotion a man carrying a small TV camera, 539 00:36:38,635 --> 00:36:42,355 Speaker 1: followed by another man carrying a big TV boom microphone, 540 00:36:42,595 --> 00:36:45,555 Speaker 1: followed by another man who was Charles Crawford, the reporter 541 00:36:45,595 --> 00:36:48,515 Speaker 1: from Channel two News. I knew it was him because 542 00:36:48,515 --> 00:36:50,755 Speaker 1: I knew everybody on TV in New York in nineteen 543 00:36:50,835 --> 00:36:54,475 Speaker 1: seventy three by sight, because I watched as much TV 544 00:36:54,595 --> 00:36:58,235 Speaker 1: news as I could, because bluntly I was studying it. 545 00:36:59,315 --> 00:37:01,515 Speaker 1: My dad was at my table with me, and while 546 00:37:01,555 --> 00:37:04,075 Speaker 1: I hope that Mr Crawford would come over and interview 547 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:07,595 Speaker 1: me among the hundreds of collectors and dealers there, my 548 00:37:07,715 --> 00:37:10,875 Speaker 1: dad was a little less reliant on happenstance and accident 549 00:37:11,035 --> 00:37:14,755 Speaker 1: and was more hands on. Be right back, he said, 550 00:37:15,115 --> 00:37:17,075 Speaker 1: And the next thing I knew, he was button holding 551 00:37:17,195 --> 00:37:19,915 Speaker 1: Charles Crawford and gesturing back towards me. And the next 552 00:37:19,955 --> 00:37:22,515 Speaker 1: thing I knew. After that. Charles Crawford was standing in 553 00:37:22,595 --> 00:37:24,795 Speaker 1: front of my table, asking me a few questions, but 554 00:37:25,035 --> 00:37:28,395 Speaker 1: mostly asking me to show his cameraman how I was 555 00:37:28,435 --> 00:37:31,995 Speaker 1: able to use my quote filing system so sophisticated it 556 00:37:32,035 --> 00:37:34,355 Speaker 1: allows him to find any card a collector might want. 557 00:37:34,515 --> 00:37:40,195 Speaker 1: In seconds. That was it my television debut. No sound bite, 558 00:37:40,475 --> 00:37:43,395 Speaker 1: not even my name, just my hands pulling out a 559 00:37:43,475 --> 00:37:46,835 Speaker 1: drawer from a small filing cabinet and definitely locating in 560 00:37:47,875 --> 00:37:51,475 Speaker 1: Rico Petrocelli card or whatever it was. There was also 561 00:37:51,475 --> 00:37:54,875 Speaker 1: about three seconds of me looking straight towards the camera, 562 00:37:55,235 --> 00:37:58,275 Speaker 1: just as Charles Crawford told me to my eyes, a 563 00:37:58,315 --> 00:38:03,675 Speaker 1: mixture of abject fear and an inscrutable scheming quality, which 564 00:38:03,755 --> 00:38:06,435 Speaker 1: quite bluntly at its essence, amounted to my internal dialogue 565 00:38:06,435 --> 00:38:08,475 Speaker 1: about how I could get Charles Crawford to surrender his 566 00:38:08,555 --> 00:38:10,795 Speaker 1: camera crew and his job so I could go leave 567 00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:13,475 Speaker 1: the card show and work for Channel two News that night. 568 00:38:15,395 --> 00:38:19,075 Speaker 1: I have gone into excruciating detail about my career timeline, 569 00:38:19,315 --> 00:38:21,835 Speaker 1: and for purposes of the Charles Crawford story, I will 570 00:38:21,875 --> 00:38:24,435 Speaker 1: only hit the bullet points. This is the year nineteen 571 00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:27,555 Speaker 1: seventy three. By nineteen seventy five, I was on the 572 00:38:27,595 --> 00:38:31,475 Speaker 1: air at the professional commercial radio station owned by Cornell Students. 573 00:38:31,875 --> 00:38:34,115 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy eight, I was an intern at the 574 00:38:34,155 --> 00:38:37,915 Speaker 1: news assignment desk and for the sportscaster at another New 575 00:38:37,995 --> 00:38:41,235 Speaker 1: York TV station, Channel five. In nineteen seventy nine, I 576 00:38:41,275 --> 00:38:43,195 Speaker 1: got my first full time job at u p i 577 00:38:43,235 --> 00:38:45,835 Speaker 1: S Radio Network. In nineteen eighty one, I got my 578 00:38:45,875 --> 00:38:49,195 Speaker 1: first TV gig as a substitute sports reporter for CNN 579 00:38:49,275 --> 00:38:52,395 Speaker 1: in New York. In two I got that job full 580 00:38:52,395 --> 00:38:56,755 Speaker 1: time and now back to three when they started letting 581 00:38:56,795 --> 00:38:59,435 Speaker 1: me anchor for the first time a daily four minute 582 00:38:59,435 --> 00:39:02,555 Speaker 1: sportscast every night at five forty five in the middle 583 00:39:02,595 --> 00:39:05,915 Speaker 1: of the newscast that was co anchored by CNN's Vice 584 00:39:05,955 --> 00:39:10,795 Speaker 1: president and New York Bureau chief, Mary Alice Williams. One day, 585 00:39:10,915 --> 00:39:13,195 Speaker 1: now at the age of nearly twenty five, a cynical 586 00:39:13,235 --> 00:39:16,315 Speaker 1: vetant of twenty eight months in television, I came down 587 00:39:16,355 --> 00:39:18,715 Speaker 1: from our offices on the twenty fifth floor to our 588 00:39:18,755 --> 00:39:21,835 Speaker 1: studio in the lobby of one World Trade Center to 589 00:39:21,955 --> 00:39:25,915 Speaker 1: do my sports cast. But apparently Mary Alice Williams was 590 00:39:25,955 --> 00:39:27,835 Speaker 1: off that day, because when I got to the anchor 591 00:39:27,915 --> 00:39:30,795 Speaker 1: desk at five forty two or so. The anchor at 592 00:39:30,795 --> 00:39:36,315 Speaker 1: the desk in her place was Charles Crawford, the same 593 00:39:36,395 --> 00:39:39,235 Speaker 1: Charles Crawford, the Charles Crawford who had put me on 594 00:39:39,315 --> 00:39:43,675 Speaker 1: TV a decade before from the Vree Cards show at 595 00:39:43,675 --> 00:39:49,035 Speaker 1: the District Union Hall on Astor Place, a co anchor 596 00:39:49,075 --> 00:39:51,315 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, teas my sports cast and way when he 597 00:39:51,395 --> 00:39:54,635 Speaker 1: went to the commercial break, Charles Crawford introduced himself to 598 00:39:54,635 --> 00:39:57,435 Speaker 1: me and I said we've met, and he said, oh, 599 00:39:57,515 --> 00:40:00,355 Speaker 1: how when? And I said, well, I'll tell you now 600 00:40:00,395 --> 00:40:04,235 Speaker 1: so you can recover during the sportscast. And as I 601 00:40:04,355 --> 00:40:07,515 Speaker 1: quickly recounted it and quoted his narration word for word, 602 00:40:07,915 --> 00:40:10,875 Speaker 1: this fourteen year old has a filing system so sophisticated 603 00:40:10,995 --> 00:40:12,955 Speaker 1: it allows him to find any car to collector might 604 00:40:12,995 --> 00:40:16,395 Speaker 1: want in seconds. I told him that, and his face 605 00:40:16,475 --> 00:40:20,075 Speaker 1: got whiter and whiter and whiter, and he told me 606 00:40:20,115 --> 00:40:22,195 Speaker 1: not to worry if he got up and left while 607 00:40:22,195 --> 00:40:24,515 Speaker 1: I was doing the sports cast, because he needed to 608 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:27,475 Speaker 1: walk around for a bit and get some air to 609 00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:29,915 Speaker 1: his credit. When we came back from my report, he 610 00:40:29,955 --> 00:40:35,035 Speaker 1: introduced me as his old friend when he came back 611 00:40:35,075 --> 00:40:38,355 Speaker 1: and said don't misunderstand me. I'm not offended or anything. 612 00:40:38,635 --> 00:40:40,515 Speaker 1: I'm glad you made it, but just remember this will 613 00:40:40,515 --> 00:40:42,275 Speaker 1: happen to you some day too. I mean, I'm only 614 00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:44,955 Speaker 1: forty seven. And I laughed and I told him it 615 00:40:45,075 --> 00:40:47,875 Speaker 1: already had happened to me. That I had gone back 616 00:40:47,915 --> 00:40:51,275 Speaker 1: to my college radio station a year after I had graduated, 617 00:40:51,595 --> 00:40:53,315 Speaker 1: and a kid walked up to me and said he 618 00:40:53,355 --> 00:40:57,275 Speaker 1: was just starting to train as a sportscaster there and 619 00:40:57,355 --> 00:41:00,635 Speaker 1: he had been listening to me since he was eleven 620 00:41:00,915 --> 00:41:05,275 Speaker 1: years old. And I went whiter than Charles Offerd did 621 00:41:05,315 --> 00:41:07,555 Speaker 1: on that set, and I said, oh, hell does that 622 00:41:07,595 --> 00:41:11,235 Speaker 1: work only twenty one? I only started here five years ago. 623 00:41:12,275 --> 00:41:14,555 Speaker 1: And he explained he was still attending Ethicca High School 624 00:41:14,555 --> 00:41:17,435 Speaker 1: at the moment, he was only sixteen. And I told 625 00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:20,235 Speaker 1: Charles Crawford that my response was not like his. To 626 00:41:20,275 --> 00:41:23,035 Speaker 1: go for a walk. I said, I went out and 627 00:41:23,115 --> 00:41:26,075 Speaker 1: went for a drink, and Charles said, that's also my plan. 628 00:41:26,115 --> 00:41:28,435 Speaker 1: As soon as the newscast is over, I'll buy you one. 629 00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:31,395 Speaker 1: It couldn't have been nicer. And just as I was 630 00:41:31,475 --> 00:41:34,355 Speaker 1: leaving CNN the next spring, they were hiring him full time, 631 00:41:34,395 --> 00:41:37,875 Speaker 1: and he eventually became CNN's chief science correspondent. He was 632 00:41:37,875 --> 00:41:40,315 Speaker 1: still with them in the late nineties, and he passed 633 00:41:40,355 --> 00:41:42,515 Speaker 1: away in two thousand sixteen at the age of eighty one. 634 00:41:43,195 --> 00:41:45,675 Speaker 1: I remember him for the nineteen seventy three Cards Show, 635 00:41:45,715 --> 00:41:47,915 Speaker 1: of course, but also for that drink at the bar 636 00:41:47,995 --> 00:41:50,475 Speaker 1: that was literally a hundred yards from CNN New York 637 00:41:50,515 --> 00:41:53,635 Speaker 1: front door. He had all kinds of advice about dealing 638 00:41:53,635 --> 00:41:58,435 Speaker 1: with TV executives. These people are as dangerous as anything 639 00:41:58,475 --> 00:42:01,675 Speaker 1: in this world. And I was a pilot instructor in 640 00:42:01,715 --> 00:42:18,835 Speaker 1: the Air Force for eight years. I've done all the 641 00:42:18,915 --> 00:42:20,955 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. If 642 00:42:20,955 --> 00:42:23,715 Speaker 1: you're not following or subscribing to the podcast, please do so. 643 00:42:24,355 --> 00:42:26,635 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music, including our 644 00:42:26,675 --> 00:42:30,075 Speaker 1: theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced, and performed by 645 00:42:30,115 --> 00:42:33,115 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Channel. They are the Countdown 646 00:42:33,195 --> 00:42:37,115 Speaker 1: musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle 647 00:42:37,315 --> 00:42:40,475 Speaker 1: guitarist based on drums by Brian Ray, produced by t 648 00:42:40,635 --> 00:42:43,675 Speaker 1: k O Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and 649 00:42:43,755 --> 00:42:47,155 Speaker 1: performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the 650 00:42:47,195 --> 00:42:50,115 Speaker 1: Overman theme from ESPN two and it was written by 651 00:42:50,195 --> 00:42:54,115 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by 652 00:42:54,195 --> 00:42:57,515 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer 653 00:42:57,555 --> 00:43:00,875 Speaker 1: today was Tony Kornheiser. Everything else was pretty much my fault. 654 00:43:01,355 --> 00:43:03,475 Speaker 1: So let's countdown for this, the seven under and twenty 655 00:43:03,595 --> 00:43:06,275 Speaker 1: ninth day since Donald try first attempted coup against the 656 00:43:06,275 --> 00:43:09,555 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest him now 657 00:43:09,675 --> 00:43:13,115 Speaker 1: while we still can a new edition tomorrow. Until then, 658 00:43:13,155 --> 00:43:16,835 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olderman. 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