1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Who 2 00:00:22,275 --> 00:00:28,355 Speaker 1: Owns Trump? And how bad is his latest illness? Since 3 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:32,315 Speaker 1: we last spoke, Trump has redefamed Egene Carroll and then 4 00:00:32,395 --> 00:00:36,715 Speaker 1: re redefamed her yesterday live on national television. He has 5 00:00:36,755 --> 00:00:39,515 Speaker 1: made some kind of financial deal to get the cash 6 00:00:39,595 --> 00:00:42,315 Speaker 1: or the money he already owed her. He has vowed 7 00:00:42,315 --> 00:00:45,115 Speaker 1: to cut Social Security and Medicare. He turned out to 8 00:00:45,155 --> 00:00:48,195 Speaker 1: have praise Hitler more than we knew, and other dictators. 9 00:00:48,395 --> 00:00:51,235 Speaker 1: He has been endorsed by the dictator of Hungary, the 10 00:00:51,275 --> 00:00:54,075 Speaker 1: one he once claimed was the dictator of Turkey, And 11 00:00:54,235 --> 00:00:57,795 Speaker 1: maybe most importantly, his illness, his brain and or speech 12 00:00:57,835 --> 00:01:02,035 Speaker 1: related disease, has gotten so bad that among his now 13 00:01:02,075 --> 00:01:06,955 Speaker 1: steady output of dozens and dozens of mispronunciations and nonsense words, 14 00:01:07,195 --> 00:01:11,915 Speaker 1: he has even mispronounced the name of Vladimir Putin. 15 00:01:12,395 --> 00:01:15,195 Speaker 2: Ukraine and Russia wouldn't be fighting. I knew pot and 16 00:01:15,235 --> 00:01:16,315 Speaker 2: I'd know him very well. 17 00:01:16,795 --> 00:01:20,195 Speaker 1: I mean Jesus Christ in a hat box. Whether you 18 00:01:20,235 --> 00:01:24,195 Speaker 1: think Putin has video of Trump watching hmm toots hm 19 00:01:24,275 --> 00:01:27,235 Speaker 1: hmmming on each other, or you just think Putin is 20 00:01:27,235 --> 00:01:30,355 Speaker 1: blackmailing him conventionally, or you just think Trump admires Putin 21 00:01:30,475 --> 00:01:32,755 Speaker 1: the way anybody who has admired Hitler for at least 22 00:01:32,755 --> 00:01:38,155 Speaker 1: a half a century would How does Trump mispronounce Putin's name? 23 00:01:39,755 --> 00:01:44,755 Speaker 1: The answer is inescapable. Trump is ill. He's sick, He's 24 00:01:44,755 --> 00:01:47,995 Speaker 1: getting sicker, and his illness is getting worse. And the 25 00:01:48,035 --> 00:01:50,835 Speaker 1: only thing we know for certain about his illness is 26 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:53,475 Speaker 1: that it seems to get more profound later in the 27 00:01:53,555 --> 00:01:56,435 Speaker 1: day and when he's tired. And that not only can 28 00:01:56,475 --> 00:01:59,355 Speaker 1: a convincing argument be made, as I've outlined here before, 29 00:01:59,835 --> 00:02:03,195 Speaker 1: for it being fluent aphasia, in which the victim can 30 00:02:03,235 --> 00:02:05,475 Speaker 1: create the sounds and the flow of a sentence, but 31 00:02:05,515 --> 00:02:08,835 Speaker 1: the words are increasingly wrong, but that it might instead 32 00:02:08,955 --> 00:02:14,675 Speaker 1: or also be phonemic paraphaseus. That is a disease usually 33 00:02:14,715 --> 00:02:17,955 Speaker 1: associated with moderate or severe Alzheimer's in which the victim 34 00:02:17,995 --> 00:02:22,835 Speaker 1: substitutes non words for words that sound kind of like words. 35 00:02:23,355 --> 00:02:26,915 Speaker 1: The psychologist and former Johns Hopkins Medical School professor, doctor 36 00:02:26,995 --> 00:02:31,955 Speaker 1: John Gartner made that armchair informal diagnosis for the website Salon. 37 00:02:32,795 --> 00:02:35,435 Speaker 1: We'll get to the Social Security cuts and the hourly 38 00:02:35,515 --> 00:02:38,315 Speaker 1: defamation of e. Gene Carroll and the money story in 39 00:02:38,355 --> 00:02:41,235 Speaker 1: a moment. But here are the low lights of Trump's 40 00:02:41,235 --> 00:02:45,635 Speaker 1: malaprops just since Saturday. In your mind, feel free to 41 00:02:45,715 --> 00:02:49,035 Speaker 1: vote for which you think it is fluentophasia or phonemic 42 00:02:49,155 --> 00:02:51,155 Speaker 1: paraphaseas that's why. 43 00:02:50,915 --> 00:02:54,995 Speaker 2: They're weaponizing law enforcement for high level election interference against 44 00:02:55,115 --> 00:03:00,595 Speaker 2: Joe Biden's top and only political appointment, A guy named me, 45 00:03:01,875 --> 00:03:05,915 Speaker 2: see guy named me. We have become a nation like 46 00:03:06,035 --> 00:03:08,075 Speaker 2: nobody thought possible. 47 00:03:07,995 --> 00:03:11,955 Speaker 3: By far the most disgraceful part of Joe Biden's service 48 00:03:12,035 --> 00:03:18,555 Speaker 3: as a divisive all compliments of an incompetent Biden administration. 49 00:03:18,835 --> 00:03:22,435 Speaker 2: Megan Kelly, May she rest in peace. They say that 50 00:03:22,515 --> 00:03:25,755 Speaker 2: it's violent, the attacks say Biden said it. 51 00:03:25,835 --> 00:03:26,755 Speaker 1: I knew potent. 52 00:03:26,795 --> 00:03:27,795 Speaker 2: I'd know him very well. 53 00:03:28,355 --> 00:03:31,835 Speaker 1: Again, I can't get over this. He mispronounced the name putin. 54 00:03:32,715 --> 00:03:36,715 Speaker 1: I would have sooner expected him to call Malania melanoma 55 00:03:36,915 --> 00:03:42,995 Speaker 1: than to say potent as impotent potables. The sound alike 56 00:03:43,075 --> 00:03:45,955 Speaker 1: Alzheimer's symptom advocate. Doctor Gartner was one of the twenty 57 00:03:46,035 --> 00:03:49,515 Speaker 1: seven psychiatrists and mental health experts who contributed to the 58 00:03:49,515 --> 00:03:53,915 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen best selling book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. 59 00:03:54,555 --> 00:03:58,035 Speaker 1: He now cites other sound alike things Trump has said recently. 60 00:03:58,115 --> 00:04:03,115 Speaker 1: Quote some examples of Trump's non words Beneficiaries become beneficies, 61 00:04:04,795 --> 00:04:11,715 Speaker 1: Renovations become renoverse, pivotal became pivot ball, Christmas became crisis, 62 00:04:12,355 --> 00:04:17,155 Speaker 1: bipartisan became bipars unquote. And we can now add to that, 63 00:04:17,555 --> 00:04:24,555 Speaker 1: potent became potent. Doctor Gartner adds, quote, this is a 64 00:04:24,595 --> 00:04:28,715 Speaker 1: fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language. If you 65 00:04:28,755 --> 00:04:31,315 Speaker 1: were talking to your father on the phone and he 66 00:04:31,395 --> 00:04:34,115 Speaker 1: did this, you would think he is having a stroke. 67 00:04:34,475 --> 00:04:37,475 Speaker 1: There is no healthy, older person who speaks that way. 68 00:04:38,355 --> 00:04:41,075 Speaker 1: Doctor Gartner also notes the word salads and the free 69 00:04:41,115 --> 00:04:44,635 Speaker 1: association meanderings in his speeches and calls it quote a 70 00:04:44,675 --> 00:04:48,075 Speaker 1: sign of real prain damage. Not being old, not being slow, 71 00:04:48,195 --> 00:04:52,435 Speaker 1: not losing a step, but of severe cognitive deterioration. What 72 00:04:52,555 --> 00:04:55,915 Speaker 1: I don't understand is why those clips he asks aren't 73 00:04:55,955 --> 00:04:59,835 Speaker 1: replayed over and over in the mainstream media. Isn't Trump 74 00:04:59,915 --> 00:05:06,715 Speaker 1: babbling incoherently the most newsworthy part of his rally Unquote Well, 75 00:05:06,795 --> 00:05:08,715 Speaker 1: doctor Gartner, I'm doing my damnest I. 76 00:05:08,755 --> 00:05:10,635 Speaker 2: Knew quote di, I'd know him very well. 77 00:05:10,875 --> 00:05:15,835 Speaker 1: Potent as in potentate, the which disease. Has he got stuff? 78 00:05:15,915 --> 00:05:19,395 Speaker 1: Is not just idle reverse both sides ism either. It 79 00:05:19,475 --> 00:05:24,275 Speaker 1: probably has extraordinary relevance to the seemingly unconnected news developments 80 00:05:24,315 --> 00:05:28,635 Speaker 1: always swirling around Trump. I mean, what would better explain this? 81 00:05:28,795 --> 00:05:33,395 Speaker 1: Egene Carroll timeline. Friday, after a stay was denied, his 82 00:05:33,475 --> 00:05:36,675 Speaker 1: lawyer's posted bond of ninety one million, six hundred thousand 83 00:05:36,755 --> 00:05:40,475 Speaker 1: dollars for his first defamation of his sexual victim for 84 00:05:40,595 --> 00:05:43,275 Speaker 1: claiming she had made up the story, after a court 85 00:05:43,315 --> 00:05:45,555 Speaker 1: found she had not made up the story, and after 86 00:05:45,635 --> 00:05:48,155 Speaker 1: another found he had defamed her again by saying she 87 00:05:48,155 --> 00:05:52,235 Speaker 1: had made up the story. Saturday, at his fascist rally 88 00:05:52,275 --> 00:05:54,875 Speaker 1: in Rome, Georgia, he then said quote, I just posted 89 00:05:54,875 --> 00:05:57,595 Speaker 1: a ninety one million dollar bond, ninety one million on 90 00:05:57,635 --> 00:06:01,395 Speaker 1: a fake story, totally made up story based on false 91 00:06:01,435 --> 00:06:04,235 Speaker 1: accusations made about me by a woman that I knew 92 00:06:04,235 --> 00:06:07,115 Speaker 1: nothing of, didn't know, never heard of, I know nothing 93 00:06:07,155 --> 00:06:11,795 Speaker 1: about her. Monday, as e Gen Carroll was arranging to 94 00:06:11,835 --> 00:06:15,435 Speaker 1: discuss a new defamation suit against him for those quote Saturday, 95 00:06:15,955 --> 00:06:19,235 Speaker 1: and as another deadline loomed for paying her another eighty 96 00:06:19,275 --> 00:06:22,675 Speaker 1: three million in damages for defamatory statements he made while president. 97 00:06:23,035 --> 00:06:27,475 Speaker 1: He went on CNBC and called Carol quote miss Bergdorf 98 00:06:27,515 --> 00:06:30,595 Speaker 1: Goodman a person I never met. I have no idea 99 00:06:30,675 --> 00:06:34,795 Speaker 1: who she is, and nobody had even asked him about 100 00:06:34,835 --> 00:06:38,435 Speaker 1: her or that case. On CNBC, he just started talking 101 00:06:38,435 --> 00:06:43,675 Speaker 1: about it. Needless to say, after that, e Gen Carroll's lawyer, 102 00:06:43,755 --> 00:06:47,995 Speaker 1: Robbie Kaplan answered, quote, the statute of limitations for defamation 103 00:06:48,155 --> 00:06:52,315 Speaker 1: and most jurisdictions is between one and three years. You 104 00:06:52,355 --> 00:06:55,595 Speaker 1: can understand, and miss Carroll and mister Caplan are buried 105 00:06:55,675 --> 00:07:00,075 Speaker 1: in paperwork over potential lawsuits against the bastard. How much 106 00:07:00,075 --> 00:07:03,035 Speaker 1: of this could be explained by could be exacerbated by 107 00:07:03,115 --> 00:07:08,755 Speaker 1: fluent aphasia or phoenie paraphasas or something else, or a 108 00:07:08,795 --> 00:07:12,075 Speaker 1: cocktail of brain related illnesses. And I haven't even mentioned 109 00:07:12,115 --> 00:07:16,835 Speaker 1: Trump's continued insistence, continued belief that because he's been prosecuted 110 00:07:16,835 --> 00:07:20,675 Speaker 1: in New York, companies are refusing to stay there and 111 00:07:20,755 --> 00:07:22,995 Speaker 1: people are moving out of the city in droves, when 112 00:07:22,995 --> 00:07:25,475 Speaker 1: the only thing related to Trump that's happening here is 113 00:07:25,475 --> 00:07:27,515 Speaker 1: they're taking his name off of all the buildings he 114 00:07:27,555 --> 00:07:30,555 Speaker 1: doesn't own, and the number of buildings he still owns 115 00:07:30,795 --> 00:07:35,595 Speaker 1: may be dropping considerably in the immediate future, which circles 116 00:07:35,595 --> 00:07:39,075 Speaker 1: back to my first question, who owns him now? And 117 00:07:39,195 --> 00:07:41,195 Speaker 1: that circles back to the eighty three mil he had 118 00:07:41,235 --> 00:07:44,315 Speaker 1: to pay Egen Carrolly yesterday. The Trump bond for that 119 00:07:44,435 --> 00:07:49,795 Speaker 1: amount was actually issued by federal insurance company, part of 120 00:07:49,835 --> 00:07:54,915 Speaker 1: the ever good for a laugh Chub group. Trump won't 121 00:07:54,915 --> 00:07:58,515 Speaker 1: give any details about his Chub bond. Chubb won't give 122 00:07:58,515 --> 00:08:03,075 Speaker 1: any details. On the other hand, nobody gives anybody else 123 00:08:03,155 --> 00:08:06,955 Speaker 1: eighty three million for now? Is there a co signer 124 00:08:07,075 --> 00:08:11,235 Speaker 1: on this bond? Is Chubb in effect just washing money 125 00:08:11,315 --> 00:08:15,195 Speaker 1: from somebody else to Trump? There is a Chub insurance 126 00:08:15,235 --> 00:08:18,915 Speaker 1: company in the United Arab Emirates, There is a Chub Turkey, 127 00:08:19,635 --> 00:08:22,595 Speaker 1: and a Chub Brasil, and oh, by the way, a 128 00:08:22,715 --> 00:08:28,395 Speaker 1: Chub insurance of Russia. Doesn't he even have to be 129 00:08:28,475 --> 00:08:31,475 Speaker 1: international to mean somebody now owns Trump? Last week he 130 00:08:31,515 --> 00:08:34,635 Speaker 1: met with the conservative hedge fund boss jeff Yass and 131 00:08:34,755 --> 00:08:37,595 Speaker 1: suddenly Trump did a full one to eighty on banning 132 00:08:37,635 --> 00:08:42,075 Speaker 1: TikTok and now wants it continued. But Facebook banned because 133 00:08:42,075 --> 00:08:44,235 Speaker 1: he just said Facebook is the enemy of the people. 134 00:08:44,275 --> 00:08:46,435 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, who owns thirty three billion 135 00:08:46,475 --> 00:08:48,555 Speaker 1: dollars worth of TikTok Oh. Yeah, a guy just met 136 00:08:48,555 --> 00:08:52,715 Speaker 1: with jeff Yass. Trump also just confirmed yesterday that report 137 00:08:52,835 --> 00:08:56,315 Speaker 1: that he had met with Elon Musk last week. Do 138 00:08:56,435 --> 00:09:02,355 Speaker 1: Russians own Trump? Do Turks do Chubbs? Does? Jeff Yass 139 00:09:03,675 --> 00:09:06,355 Speaker 1: does Musk? I mean, why would Musk try to own Trump? 140 00:09:06,435 --> 00:09:11,955 Speaker 1: Other than you know they're both racist fascists? Who owns Trump? 141 00:09:13,435 --> 00:09:15,715 Speaker 1: All we know for sure is Trump lies about how 142 00:09:15,795 --> 00:09:18,555 Speaker 1: much money he has, lies by a lot, maybe ninety percent. 143 00:09:18,995 --> 00:09:21,395 Speaker 1: All we know is he needs money and he can't 144 00:09:21,435 --> 00:09:25,315 Speaker 1: control himself money. He needs money, a lot of money. 145 00:09:25,315 --> 00:09:29,075 Speaker 1: That's what he wants. That's what he Wait a minute, 146 00:09:29,915 --> 00:09:30,555 Speaker 1: that's what he. 147 00:09:31,235 --> 00:09:45,195 Speaker 4: Oh, Nancy, my name is Trump, and I'm sick in 148 00:09:45,275 --> 00:09:45,795 Speaker 4: the bean. 149 00:09:46,715 --> 00:09:52,475 Speaker 1: I can't stop lunder in that eg nick in mind. 150 00:09:52,595 --> 00:09:55,875 Speaker 1: That's what I want. 151 00:09:55,955 --> 00:09:57,235 Speaker 4: That's what I want. 152 00:10:01,555 --> 00:10:06,915 Speaker 1: Want. Thank you, Nancy, First bladed heavy Bird day. Maybe 153 00:10:06,995 --> 00:10:11,275 Speaker 1: that's what the love fast visit with Victor Orbon was about. 154 00:10:11,635 --> 00:10:15,515 Speaker 1: What we know about that that's new is victor Orbon says. 155 00:10:15,555 --> 00:10:18,995 Speaker 1: Trump's peace plan in Ukraine is to not give that 156 00:10:19,115 --> 00:10:24,315 Speaker 1: nation another penny to fight potent putin Putin potentially potent 157 00:10:26,035 --> 00:10:29,355 Speaker 1: What we know about Trump's continuing infatuation with dictators like 158 00:10:29,515 --> 00:10:32,595 Speaker 1: Orbon and mass murdering dictators of the past is reinforced 159 00:10:32,595 --> 00:10:35,195 Speaker 1: by a new CNN piece in which John Kelly and 160 00:10:35,275 --> 00:10:37,235 Speaker 1: John Bolton go on the record with stuff they have 161 00:10:37,355 --> 00:10:41,435 Speaker 1: previously been quoted about third hand or anonymously. The Hitler 162 00:10:41,515 --> 00:10:45,275 Speaker 1: did good things stuff and the Hitler's generals were loyal 163 00:10:45,315 --> 00:10:48,155 Speaker 1: to him, and you're not that, he said to General Kelly, 164 00:10:48,555 --> 00:10:51,875 Speaker 1: we knew. Kelly followed that by explaining to Trump, no, no, 165 00:10:51,915 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: the generals kept trying to assassinate Hitler. Now we know 166 00:10:56,995 --> 00:11:00,555 Speaker 1: what Trump replied, According to Kelly, I didn't know that. 167 00:11:01,995 --> 00:11:04,675 Speaker 1: The other new things John Kelly added, all the Hitler 168 00:11:04,835 --> 00:11:08,155 Speaker 1: praise he alleges is now on the record. Trump spokespeople 169 00:11:08,195 --> 00:11:10,955 Speaker 1: have repeatedly denied Trump ever praised Hitler, even though we 170 00:11:11,035 --> 00:11:13,435 Speaker 1: learned as long ago as nineteen ninety that in a 171 00:11:13,515 --> 00:11:17,315 Speaker 1: lawsuit Ivana mentioned Hubby kept a book of Hitler's speeches 172 00:11:17,395 --> 00:11:20,435 Speaker 1: in a bedside table, and Trump later told a reporter 173 00:11:20,515 --> 00:11:24,835 Speaker 1: he got it from a fellow named Davis. General Kelly 174 00:11:24,915 --> 00:11:27,755 Speaker 1: also has added a telling quote underscoring how little Trump 175 00:11:27,835 --> 00:11:31,155 Speaker 1: knew about American democracy and how little he cares about 176 00:11:31,195 --> 00:11:34,315 Speaker 1: it or for it. Quote. He was shocked that he 177 00:11:34,355 --> 00:11:38,995 Speaker 1: didn't have dictatorial type powers to send US forces places 178 00:11:39,195 --> 00:11:41,915 Speaker 1: or to move money around within the budget. And he 179 00:11:41,955 --> 00:11:44,555 Speaker 1: looked at Putin and she and that nutcase in North 180 00:11:44,635 --> 00:11:47,275 Speaker 1: Korea as people who were like him in terms of 181 00:11:47,315 --> 00:11:53,155 Speaker 1: being a tough guy. Only with Trump could a threat 182 00:11:53,195 --> 00:11:56,155 Speaker 1: to cut social Security and Medicare, echoing the one made 183 00:11:56,195 --> 00:11:59,235 Speaker 1: by Rand Paul last week get lost in the daily 184 00:11:59,355 --> 00:12:03,875 Speaker 1: fire hose of the crazy asked about how we had 185 00:12:03,955 --> 00:12:06,915 Speaker 1: to cut entire because of all that government debt, most 186 00:12:06,915 --> 00:12:10,675 Speaker 1: of which Trump caused, asked by Joe Kernin at CNBC 187 00:12:11,195 --> 00:12:14,555 Speaker 1: the guy with the bad rug, and Trump's answer was 188 00:12:14,555 --> 00:12:17,195 Speaker 1: not only evidence of one of those diagnoses, but also 189 00:12:17,555 --> 00:12:20,195 Speaker 1: it was stupid. There is a lot you can do 190 00:12:20,315 --> 00:12:23,555 Speaker 1: in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting he said, 191 00:12:23,955 --> 00:12:27,475 Speaker 1: he just said he wants to cut Medicare, social Security 192 00:12:27,995 --> 00:12:30,635 Speaker 1: quote and in terms of also the theft and the 193 00:12:30,675 --> 00:12:34,915 Speaker 1: bad management of entitlements, there's tremendous amounts of things and 194 00:12:35,075 --> 00:12:39,955 Speaker 1: numbers of things you can do unquote. And that circles 195 00:12:39,955 --> 00:12:44,675 Speaker 1: back to the beginning, because amounts of things and numbers 196 00:12:44,715 --> 00:12:53,635 Speaker 1: of things are the same goddamn thing. There is a 197 00:12:53,675 --> 00:12:56,675 Speaker 1: new January sixth nugget, by the way, and a new 198 00:12:56,715 --> 00:13:02,675 Speaker 1: Trump Stolen Documents nugget the ladder first Trump employee number five, 199 00:13:02,875 --> 00:13:06,955 Speaker 1: come on down, you are the next. He has identified himself. 200 00:13:07,435 --> 00:13:10,235 Speaker 1: His name is Brian Butler, and he worked for Trump 201 00:13:10,275 --> 00:13:13,275 Speaker 1: for twenty years. And he says Walt Naude had him 202 00:13:13,395 --> 00:13:16,715 Speaker 1: Butler load big white banker's boxes from marri Lago onto 203 00:13:16,755 --> 00:13:19,235 Speaker 1: a private jet headed for Trump's golf course in New 204 00:13:19,275 --> 00:13:23,475 Speaker 1: Jersey in June twenty twenty two. He said he recognized 205 00:13:23,515 --> 00:13:26,755 Speaker 1: the boxes from the pictures in the indictment. He told 206 00:13:26,755 --> 00:13:29,595 Speaker 1: the Special Prosecutor's Office, which had kept his identity a 207 00:13:29,675 --> 00:13:32,875 Speaker 1: secret until he revealed it on CNN. He also says, 208 00:13:32,915 --> 00:13:35,955 Speaker 1: guess what his boss is wrong? His ex boss, It 209 00:13:36,075 --> 00:13:39,395 Speaker 1: is not a witch hunt. The last remaining question, though, 210 00:13:39,435 --> 00:13:43,155 Speaker 1: is why the Bedminster golf course was not sealed off 211 00:13:43,315 --> 00:13:47,155 Speaker 1: the day mister Butler testified that there were boxes sent 212 00:13:47,235 --> 00:13:51,235 Speaker 1: for mary A Lago to New Jersey, and why they 213 00:13:51,235 --> 00:13:54,715 Speaker 1: didn't dig up that unseemly burial plot next to the 214 00:13:54,755 --> 00:14:00,555 Speaker 1: first t All the doctorment are down here. The January 215 00:14:00,595 --> 00:14:04,395 Speaker 1: sixth nugget The Secret Service agent driving Trump's car after 216 00:14:04,435 --> 00:14:07,715 Speaker 1: his go do a coup for Me speech that day, 217 00:14:08,555 --> 00:14:11,475 Speaker 1: was interviewed by the January sixth Committee. The agent's name 218 00:14:11,595 --> 00:14:17,715 Speaker 1: was given but was not released. He confirmed, so it's 219 00:14:17,715 --> 00:14:20,955 Speaker 1: not anonymous, but he confirmed Trump demanded to be taken 220 00:14:20,995 --> 00:14:23,355 Speaker 1: to the Capitol where his thugs were going to try 221 00:14:23,355 --> 00:14:26,315 Speaker 1: to take the place over. The driver contradicts the assertion 222 00:14:26,435 --> 00:14:28,915 Speaker 1: that Trump tried to take the wheel, which is all 223 00:14:28,955 --> 00:14:31,235 Speaker 1: the Republicans are talking about, and it's why they released 224 00:14:31,235 --> 00:14:35,235 Speaker 1: this stuff yesterday. He says Trump's voice was raised, but 225 00:14:35,315 --> 00:14:38,035 Speaker 1: he didn't see my rate. He just wanted to go 226 00:14:38,075 --> 00:14:42,275 Speaker 1: to the Capitol and way more importantly, and all credit 227 00:14:42,315 --> 00:14:45,395 Speaker 1: to Kyle Cheney of Politico for seeing this. The driver's 228 00:14:45,435 --> 00:14:48,595 Speaker 1: testimony including something far more damaging to Trump than the 229 00:14:48,595 --> 00:14:51,715 Speaker 1: Republicans who released the transcript think it's damaging to Cassidy. 230 00:14:51,755 --> 00:14:56,795 Speaker 1: Hutchinson included this, as Cheney noted. Congresswoman Jamie Herrera. Butler 231 00:14:56,835 --> 00:15:01,195 Speaker 1: of Washington confirmed that the then House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, 232 00:15:01,675 --> 00:15:06,715 Speaker 1: Remember Kevin McCarthy, finally re reached Trump by phone to 233 00:15:06,955 --> 00:15:09,315 Speaker 1: urge him to call his gangs off at around two 234 00:15:09,515 --> 00:15:14,195 Speaker 1: thirty on January sixth, Trump, quoting her, quoting McCarthy quoting 235 00:15:14,195 --> 00:15:19,235 Speaker 1: Trump initially repeated the falsehood that it was Antifa that 236 00:15:19,315 --> 00:15:22,955 Speaker 1: had breached the Capitol, but in the committee's interview with 237 00:15:22,995 --> 00:15:26,355 Speaker 1: the driver, the driver insists that an hour or an 238 00:15:26,395 --> 00:15:30,915 Speaker 1: hour and a quarter earlier, Trump insisted to him that 239 00:15:30,995 --> 00:15:33,475 Speaker 1: he faced no danger no matter what happened at the Capitol. 240 00:15:33,555 --> 00:15:36,355 Speaker 1: Quoting the driver, the thing that sticks out most was 241 00:15:36,395 --> 00:15:38,795 Speaker 1: he kept asking why we couldn't go, why we couldn't go, 242 00:15:39,035 --> 00:15:42,555 Speaker 1: and that there wasn't any reason to be concerned about 243 00:15:42,555 --> 00:15:46,915 Speaker 1: the people that were there, or referenced them being Trump 244 00:15:46,955 --> 00:15:52,315 Speaker 1: people or Trump's supporters. Wasn't concerned about the people that 245 00:15:52,355 --> 00:15:56,475 Speaker 1: were there. Trump ended his speech at one ten on 246 00:15:56,555 --> 00:16:00,075 Speaker 1: January sixth. Trump's motorcade left the ellipse at one seventeen, 247 00:16:00,315 --> 00:16:04,035 Speaker 1: got back to the White House at one nineteen. McCarthy 248 00:16:04,115 --> 00:16:06,635 Speaker 1: was already on TV recounting that phone call with the 249 00:16:06,675 --> 00:16:10,715 Speaker 1: Antifa reference at three zero five pm. In short, at 250 00:16:10,755 --> 00:16:14,195 Speaker 1: one fifteen or one sixteen or one seventeen, Trump admitted 251 00:16:14,195 --> 00:16:17,555 Speaker 1: to two Secret Service agents that those storming the Capitol 252 00:16:17,635 --> 00:16:21,035 Speaker 1: posed no danger to him because they were Trump people. 253 00:16:21,995 --> 00:16:25,915 Speaker 1: The Capitol police would retreat at one thirty. At two 254 00:16:25,955 --> 00:16:28,395 Speaker 1: thirty or so, Trump tried to convince McCarthy that his 255 00:16:28,515 --> 00:16:33,755 Speaker 1: terrorists were actually Antifa. A good prosecutor could make that 256 00:16:34,315 --> 00:16:40,395 Speaker 1: into guilty fore knowledge and obstruction of justice. A bad 257 00:16:40,635 --> 00:16:47,395 Speaker 1: prosecutor could be named Robert K. Her, the Trump stooge 258 00:16:47,755 --> 00:16:50,595 Speaker 1: whose testimony to date of the House Judiciary Committee run 259 00:16:50,595 --> 00:16:53,715 Speaker 1: by the Trump stooge Jim Jordan, has taken on an 260 00:16:53,875 --> 00:16:57,235 Speaker 1: entirely different vibe than it had as late as nine 261 00:16:57,235 --> 00:17:00,875 Speaker 1: PM last Thursday. Then Her expected to be hailed by 262 00:17:00,915 --> 00:17:04,915 Speaker 1: Republicans congratulating him on valiantly noting that why now he 263 00:17:04,915 --> 00:17:08,515 Speaker 1: would not file any charges, not one, not even some 264 00:17:08,635 --> 00:17:13,675 Speaker 1: benign technical violation of the law. Nothing. While he didn't 265 00:17:13,715 --> 00:17:15,955 Speaker 1: do any of that, he had been able to warn 266 00:17:15,995 --> 00:17:19,075 Speaker 1: the American people that, as he wrote, President Biden could 267 00:17:19,115 --> 00:17:23,475 Speaker 1: present himself as a quote sympathetic, well meaning elderly man 268 00:17:23,635 --> 00:17:28,995 Speaker 1: with a boo rememory still remembers what Putin's name is. 269 00:17:29,355 --> 00:17:34,155 Speaker 1: Then came Biden's extraordinary State of the Union performance Thursday night, 270 00:17:34,715 --> 00:17:38,355 Speaker 1: and the death Except within the Republican bubble, and even 271 00:17:38,395 --> 00:17:41,235 Speaker 1: in part of the Republican bubble of the entire maga, 272 00:17:41,395 --> 00:17:47,995 Speaker 1: Biden Age plot. Now, don't be surprised if the following happens. 273 00:17:48,035 --> 00:17:51,395 Speaker 1: Republicans will still try to reignite the age plot if 274 00:17:51,435 --> 00:17:54,795 Speaker 1: it does not catch fire immediately. If Swallwell or Shift 275 00:17:54,915 --> 00:17:59,115 Speaker 1: or Ted Lew or No Goose or Steve Cohen instead 276 00:17:59,195 --> 00:18:02,875 Speaker 1: light Robert Hurr on fire. Watched the Republicans spent the 277 00:18:02,915 --> 00:18:06,475 Speaker 1: rest of this hearing excory aiding Robert Herr for refusing 278 00:18:06,515 --> 00:18:08,835 Speaker 1: to bring charges against the president and asking him to 279 00:18:08,875 --> 00:18:11,955 Speaker 1: reveal whether Merrick Garland rail roaded him or her has 280 00:18:11,955 --> 00:18:20,075 Speaker 1: simply sold out to the Democrats. By the way, if 281 00:18:20,075 --> 00:18:23,835 Speaker 1: you want a tiny lull related to bad special counsels, 282 00:18:24,355 --> 00:18:29,035 Speaker 1: remember the Biden impeachment, Remember the Hunter Biden special counsel 283 00:18:29,355 --> 00:18:34,035 Speaker 1: David Weiss. The previous two fascist conspiracy theories that turned 284 00:18:34,075 --> 00:18:37,555 Speaker 1: out to be doa. The Republican's key witness in both, 285 00:18:37,595 --> 00:18:41,635 Speaker 1: Alexander smern Off, the one who is in jail until 286 00:18:41,635 --> 00:18:44,555 Speaker 1: his trial starts because he lied to the FBI about 287 00:18:44,635 --> 00:18:46,955 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. Well, it turns out then, 288 00:18:46,995 --> 00:18:50,795 Speaker 1: in a court case eight years ago, Smirnoff gave the 289 00:18:50,835 --> 00:18:55,315 Speaker 1: street address in San Francisco for what he claimed was 290 00:18:55,355 --> 00:18:59,235 Speaker 1: his home in fact that address turns out to be 291 00:18:59,595 --> 00:19:04,155 Speaker 1: the address in the official records for a median on 292 00:19:04,195 --> 00:19:08,115 Speaker 1: a Sam Francisco roadway. Holy, don't call my address. I 293 00:19:08,235 --> 00:19:14,515 Speaker 1: qualcify my renewal Tenna sixty West, anison to the sixty 294 00:19:14,635 --> 00:19:26,395 Speaker 1: usas Shreeley Field or an a mission from gap. Also 295 00:19:26,435 --> 00:19:29,475 Speaker 1: of interest here, did Marjorie Tanlor Green set up President 296 00:19:29,475 --> 00:19:32,395 Speaker 1: Biden to get Lake and Riley's name wrong in the 297 00:19:32,435 --> 00:19:35,235 Speaker 1: State of the Union, or did she simply try to 298 00:19:35,315 --> 00:19:40,395 Speaker 1: question his functionality after making the same mistakes she did 299 00:19:40,955 --> 00:19:44,515 Speaker 1: when she called the woman by the wrong name. And 300 00:19:44,635 --> 00:19:49,395 Speaker 1: did you know that Saturday was Kim Gilfoyle's birthday. They 301 00:19:49,395 --> 00:19:53,355 Speaker 1: had a giant cake with red roses on it made 302 00:19:53,395 --> 00:19:57,915 Speaker 1: out of icing. To paraphrase the Great Allen's Y Bell's 303 00:19:57,995 --> 00:20:04,355 Speaker 1: joke on Saturday Night Live. The cake was free, but 304 00:20:04,435 --> 00:20:06,635 Speaker 1: if you I wanted to lick it, it was twenty bucks. 305 00:20:06,795 --> 00:20:13,555 Speaker 1: That's next, This discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 306 00:20:21,955 --> 00:20:25,995 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, 307 00:20:26,115 --> 00:20:35,075 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline Kensington Palace in London. Hello, Kate, Princess 308 00:20:35,075 --> 00:20:39,315 Speaker 1: of Wales has apologized for that photo. That photo of 309 00:20:39,355 --> 00:20:42,755 Speaker 1: her and her kids for uk Mother's Day, that all 310 00:20:42,835 --> 00:20:46,155 Speaker 1: the news agencies around the world issued a mandatory kill 311 00:20:46,315 --> 00:20:50,275 Speaker 1: about because it turned out somebody had doctored the photo 312 00:20:50,355 --> 00:20:54,355 Speaker 1: and there were disappearing cuffs and blurry hands. And she 313 00:20:54,475 --> 00:20:58,075 Speaker 1: now says, quote, like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally 314 00:20:58,155 --> 00:21:01,635 Speaker 1: experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for 315 00:21:01,715 --> 00:21:06,795 Speaker 1: any confusion the family photograph we shared Sunday caused. Sure, 316 00:21:07,555 --> 00:21:11,595 Speaker 1: Actually she was photographed herself yesterday in a car with 317 00:21:11,715 --> 00:21:15,035 Speaker 1: Prince Prince what's his name, the one they didn't fire, 318 00:21:15,355 --> 00:21:17,755 Speaker 1: Only she was facing away from the camera, so we 319 00:21:17,835 --> 00:21:20,955 Speaker 1: still don't know if she's recovered from her not revealed 320 00:21:20,995 --> 00:21:24,595 Speaker 1: illness or what. And by the way, I'm hearing that 321 00:21:24,635 --> 00:21:27,075 Speaker 1: the real problem with the photo, the real reason she 322 00:21:27,155 --> 00:21:30,115 Speaker 1: photoshopped in the first place, was there was a fifth 323 00:21:30,155 --> 00:21:32,435 Speaker 1: figure in the back besides her and the three kids, 324 00:21:32,515 --> 00:21:37,195 Speaker 1: who's not supposed to be photographed. John F. Kennedy Junior. 325 00:21:37,795 --> 00:21:44,555 Speaker 1: Uh huh. Dateline the Vatican for crying out loud. Now 326 00:21:44,595 --> 00:21:47,955 Speaker 1: they're going to have to get an entirely new pope again. 327 00:21:48,675 --> 00:21:52,475 Speaker 1: Pope Francis telling interviewers that Ukraine should have quote the 328 00:21:52,635 --> 00:21:58,515 Speaker 1: courage of the white flag and negotiate a settlement with Ukraine. 329 00:21:58,675 --> 00:22:01,475 Speaker 1: Is his real name, Pope Elon. At least he's holding 330 00:22:01,515 --> 00:22:03,835 Speaker 1: up the tradition of the Catholic Church, which before and 331 00:22:03,915 --> 00:22:06,555 Speaker 1: during the Second World War did nothing to help Spain 332 00:22:07,035 --> 00:22:11,515 Speaker 1: than the Jews in Germany, than Europe, and basically sided 333 00:22:11,555 --> 00:22:14,675 Speaker 1: with Hitler straight through under Pope Pious the sixth then 334 00:22:14,715 --> 00:22:18,195 Speaker 1: Pope Pious the seventh, though they said many mean things 335 00:22:18,235 --> 00:22:21,715 Speaker 1: about the Nazis, Maybe Pope Francis he should have the 336 00:22:21,795 --> 00:22:29,315 Speaker 1: quote courage of the go f yourself and dateline a 337 00:22:29,435 --> 00:22:32,555 Speaker 1: cave in Georgia. You may have heard that after slamming 338 00:22:32,595 --> 00:22:36,435 Speaker 1: President Biden for mistakenly calling the murdered woman lencn Riley 339 00:22:36,875 --> 00:22:40,635 Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley during the State of the Union, Marjorie Taylor cave. 340 00:22:40,675 --> 00:22:45,995 Speaker 1: Woman Green made exactly the same mistake from a Trump rally. 341 00:22:46,035 --> 00:22:49,395 Speaker 1: No less on television. But it's way worse than that. Actually, 342 00:22:49,475 --> 00:22:53,435 Speaker 1: it sure looks and sounds as if Green had deliberately 343 00:22:53,475 --> 00:22:56,635 Speaker 1: set the President up to call the poor woman Lincoln 344 00:22:56,715 --> 00:23:01,355 Speaker 1: Riley and confessed it inadvertently. Perhaps her exact comment to 345 00:23:01,395 --> 00:23:04,235 Speaker 1: the interviewer, she told the guy that she had told 346 00:23:04,275 --> 00:23:07,515 Speaker 1: President Biden Thursday night as she harangued him at the 347 00:23:07,515 --> 00:23:12,555 Speaker 1: State of the Union. Quote, say her name Lincoln Riley, And. 348 00:23:12,515 --> 00:23:14,995 Speaker 5: He had this pin in his hand. I had given 349 00:23:15,035 --> 00:23:18,115 Speaker 5: it to him as he walked down the aisle, and 350 00:23:18,155 --> 00:23:20,435 Speaker 5: when I yelled out at him and I said, say 351 00:23:20,475 --> 00:23:24,515 Speaker 5: her name, Lincoln Riley, he picked up the pin and 352 00:23:24,595 --> 00:23:27,035 Speaker 5: he had it right there. It's easy to read Lincoln. 353 00:23:27,355 --> 00:23:28,915 Speaker 5: But he said Lincoln Riley. 354 00:23:29,235 --> 00:23:56,395 Speaker 1: Two words from Marjorie Taylor Green scum bag still ahead 355 00:23:56,395 --> 00:23:58,555 Speaker 1: of us on this editiontive Countdown. So somebody big in 356 00:23:58,675 --> 00:24:01,515 Speaker 1: TV who's not in news asked me after that State 357 00:24:01,515 --> 00:24:04,075 Speaker 1: of the Union show Thursday night why I was not 358 00:24:04,235 --> 00:24:07,475 Speaker 1: back on MSNBC. And I had to explain matdow sank 359 00:24:07,515 --> 00:24:09,355 Speaker 1: the deal, and I had to explain the whole story, 360 00:24:09,355 --> 00:24:11,995 Speaker 1: including the four hundred and thirty seven dollars out of 361 00:24:11,995 --> 00:24:13,915 Speaker 1: my own pocket with which I hired her in the 362 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:16,275 Speaker 1: first place. And I told him, and if I can 363 00:24:16,315 --> 00:24:19,875 Speaker 1: tell him, I can tell you next in things I 364 00:24:19,915 --> 00:24:23,875 Speaker 1: promise not to tell. I lied. First, a good time 365 00:24:23,875 --> 00:24:25,555 Speaker 1: to thank you for joining us on that State of 366 00:24:25,595 --> 00:24:28,315 Speaker 1: the Union postgame show live on YouTube and Twitch, and 367 00:24:28,355 --> 00:24:31,115 Speaker 1: then on there on video and then up as the 368 00:24:31,115 --> 00:24:34,915 Speaker 1: Friday Podcast. The latest audience total for all the venues 369 00:24:35,235 --> 00:24:38,595 Speaker 1: is like one hundred and sixty five thousand, which is 370 00:24:38,795 --> 00:24:42,075 Speaker 1: more viewers and listeners, a larger audience than all but 371 00:24:42,315 --> 00:24:45,515 Speaker 1: eight television news operations after the State of the Union. 372 00:24:45,835 --> 00:24:49,275 Speaker 1: I mean, this was consumed by more people after the 373 00:24:49,275 --> 00:24:55,715 Speaker 1: State of the Union than we're watching PBS, CNBC, UNE Vision, Telemundo, CNNE, 374 00:24:56,115 --> 00:24:58,555 Speaker 1: and frankly, I've never heard of CNNE before, so this 375 00:24:58,595 --> 00:25:05,675 Speaker 1: makes sense. News Nation, Newsmax and Flomax. Thank you now, 376 00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:07,955 Speaker 1: still more idiots to talk about the daily roundup of 377 00:25:07,955 --> 00:25:10,555 Speaker 1: the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who 378 00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:16,715 Speaker 1: constitute two days worse persons in the world, the Bronze 379 00:25:16,995 --> 00:25:21,595 Speaker 1: Politico worse. It's not just them, obviously, but they took 380 00:25:21,595 --> 00:25:25,235 Speaker 1: it to a new level. What's it screwing up? The 381 00:25:25,275 --> 00:25:29,355 Speaker 1: really screwed up Katie Britt's story. Politico first missed the 382 00:25:29,355 --> 00:25:32,075 Speaker 1: fact that she was trying to blame President Biden for 383 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:35,515 Speaker 1: a sexual abuse case that not only took place in Mexico, 384 00:25:35,515 --> 00:25:38,035 Speaker 1: but took place during the administration of George W. Bush. 385 00:25:38,555 --> 00:25:40,475 Speaker 1: It wasn't just Politico, as I said, so did The 386 00:25:40,475 --> 00:25:45,195 Speaker 1: New York times they missed this Washington Post, CNNNBC News, ABCCBS, 387 00:25:45,195 --> 00:25:50,475 Speaker 1: Associated Press, Axios, flomax. I mean, they all really screwed up. 388 00:25:50,515 --> 00:25:53,915 Speaker 1: The story was broken by the independent journalist Jonathan Katz, 389 00:25:54,515 --> 00:25:58,275 Speaker 1: formerly of the AP, who produced a video showing how 390 00:25:58,315 --> 00:26:01,435 Speaker 1: he broke the story by simply thinking about it for 391 00:26:01,435 --> 00:26:05,835 Speaker 1: a minute and then googling it. But Politico has now 392 00:26:05,915 --> 00:26:09,155 Speaker 1: credited the story to let me just read what they wrote. 393 00:26:09,515 --> 00:26:14,075 Speaker 1: Under heavy scrutiny from the press, the story in BRIT's 394 00:26:14,115 --> 00:26:17,715 Speaker 1: speech that tied a girl's sex trafficking to border failures 395 00:26:17,795 --> 00:26:23,355 Speaker 1: under Biden earned a whopping four pinocchios from the Washington Posts. 396 00:26:23,435 --> 00:26:26,915 Speaker 1: Glenn Kessler, the fact checker found that her account unquote 397 00:26:26,955 --> 00:26:30,395 Speaker 1: et cetera. Not only did Glenn Kessler not find a 398 00:26:30,475 --> 00:26:33,475 Speaker 1: damn thing that hadn't been first found by mister Katz 399 00:26:33,515 --> 00:26:37,035 Speaker 1: in a TikTok video, but in Kessler's account, he never 400 00:26:37,115 --> 00:26:39,395 Speaker 1: even mentions that Katz beat him to the story by 401 00:26:39,435 --> 00:26:43,755 Speaker 1: two whole days. And Politico implies the Post, or at 402 00:26:43,875 --> 00:26:47,635 Speaker 1: least the Press, dug out the lies of the unfortunate 403 00:26:47,715 --> 00:26:51,435 Speaker 1: bad actress Katie Britt. This is a good moment to 404 00:26:51,475 --> 00:26:53,155 Speaker 1: note as well. That while The New York Times did 405 00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:56,155 Speaker 1: an excellent job revealing that George Santos was not who 406 00:26:56,235 --> 00:26:59,795 Speaker 1: he seemed to be, that revelation happened months after he 407 00:26:59,915 --> 00:27:03,875 Speaker 1: had already been elected in the area that is supposedly 408 00:27:03,915 --> 00:27:06,075 Speaker 1: where the Time is based. That's why they call it 409 00:27:06,115 --> 00:27:09,195 Speaker 1: the New York Times. It's not a nickname. It's actually 410 00:27:09,675 --> 00:27:14,715 Speaker 1: theoretically produced for people in New York. The Times, the 411 00:27:14,835 --> 00:27:18,275 Speaker 1: national news organizations, the New York newspapers all failed to 412 00:27:18,435 --> 00:27:22,195 Speaker 1: vet George Santos before that election, not even the cursory 413 00:27:22,275 --> 00:27:24,795 Speaker 1: kind of googling that would lead to something like what 414 00:27:24,915 --> 00:27:28,875 Speaker 1: Jonathan Katz discovered. It takes about thirty seconds. I do 415 00:27:28,995 --> 00:27:31,755 Speaker 1: it on at least a quarter of everything I put 416 00:27:31,755 --> 00:27:34,355 Speaker 1: into this podcast, just on the simple theory that, who knows, 417 00:27:34,395 --> 00:27:37,275 Speaker 1: maybe there's something else about this guy. I mean, my god, 418 00:27:37,355 --> 00:27:41,355 Speaker 1: at least look at Wikipedia. But nobody looked anywhere at 419 00:27:41,355 --> 00:27:44,795 Speaker 1: George Santos. Nobody looked anywhere at Katie Britt and god 420 00:27:44,875 --> 00:27:48,755 Speaker 1: knows what else. The major news organizations only seem interested 421 00:27:48,755 --> 00:27:52,275 Speaker 1: in what is already being covered by the other major 422 00:27:52,355 --> 00:27:56,515 Speaker 1: news organizations. Yes, their business formula has been getting less 423 00:27:56,515 --> 00:27:59,275 Speaker 1: and less plausible every year. But left out of that 424 00:27:59,315 --> 00:28:02,675 Speaker 1: equation is the terrifying reality that their effort level and 425 00:28:02,755 --> 00:28:05,475 Speaker 1: originality and willingness to take them in and google the 426 00:28:05,555 --> 00:28:12,155 Speaker 1: effing thing sucks our runner up, Mitt Romney, who was 427 00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:14,955 Speaker 1: going out with a whimper, not a bang. Mitt has 428 00:28:14,995 --> 00:28:18,835 Speaker 1: an extraordinary capacity for doing and writing and saying dumb things. 429 00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:22,715 Speaker 1: He once harangued me for calling Trump a terrorist. Three 430 00:28:22,715 --> 00:28:25,355 Speaker 1: months later, he found himself under attack in the Capitol 431 00:28:25,395 --> 00:28:30,195 Speaker 1: on January sixth by terrorists sent by Trump. Surprise. But 432 00:28:30,315 --> 00:28:33,275 Speaker 1: on the subject of Katie Britt, Mitt has topped himself 433 00:28:33,355 --> 00:28:36,115 Speaker 1: quote in a good way. The delivery was over the top, 434 00:28:36,195 --> 00:28:40,675 Speaker 1: out of character Biden's, of course, Katie Britt's too. The 435 00:28:40,755 --> 00:28:44,235 Speaker 1: media overreaction to hers, not his, tells us who liberals 436 00:28:44,275 --> 00:28:49,675 Speaker 1: most fear is VP nominee Mitt. Firstly, the just this 437 00:28:49,835 --> 00:28:52,035 Speaker 1: right side of anger. The President showed in the State 438 00:28:52,035 --> 00:28:53,675 Speaker 1: of the Union that used to be what he was 439 00:28:53,795 --> 00:28:57,555 Speaker 1: known for. He yelled, he raged, he spoke really loudly, 440 00:28:58,115 --> 00:29:01,035 Speaker 1: you know, during his first thirty years in the Senate, 441 00:29:01,275 --> 00:29:04,115 Speaker 1: while you, Mitt, you were working for hedge fund companies. 442 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:08,675 Speaker 1: But as to who liberals most fear as VP nominee, 443 00:29:08,715 --> 00:29:12,035 Speaker 1: I'm not much on hunch political forecasting, but my godmit, 444 00:29:12,475 --> 00:29:14,755 Speaker 1: if you let liberals vote as to who we'd most 445 00:29:14,835 --> 00:29:18,395 Speaker 1: like to see the Republican vice presidential candidate, be the 446 00:29:18,475 --> 00:29:21,915 Speaker 1: option that would most help Biden get reelected, I'm thinking 447 00:29:22,395 --> 00:29:25,675 Speaker 1: Katie Britt would get ninety percent of our votes. Now, yes, 448 00:29:25,835 --> 00:29:31,115 Speaker 1: anybody and Britt, anybody and Britt, but our winner, topping 449 00:29:31,235 --> 00:29:34,635 Speaker 1: even the entirety of the mainstream media and Mitt Romney, 450 00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:38,715 Speaker 1: Bill Maher. I'm not going to rehash the forty six 451 00:29:38,795 --> 00:29:41,435 Speaker 1: years since I met him and the two times I 452 00:29:41,515 --> 00:29:44,355 Speaker 1: missed the chance to sock him and get away with it, 453 00:29:44,955 --> 00:29:47,155 Speaker 1: but I will say that I was kind of flummixed 454 00:29:47,515 --> 00:29:50,275 Speaker 1: as to what had happened to him. How Marr had 455 00:29:50,315 --> 00:29:54,595 Speaker 1: gradually turned from a generally consistent liberal with occasional complete 456 00:29:54,635 --> 00:29:59,475 Speaker 1: blackouts like his ongoing relationship with Ann Koltergeist, How he 457 00:29:59,515 --> 00:30:03,515 Speaker 1: had turned from that to a lazy, uninformed libertarian who 458 00:30:03,515 --> 00:30:07,795 Speaker 1: will both sides anything for a laugh. Now for a 459 00:30:07,835 --> 00:30:10,075 Speaker 1: possible laugh. He really hasn't been funny in seven or 460 00:30:10,075 --> 00:30:13,155 Speaker 1: eight years. He continued to insist that Biden should drop 461 00:30:13,235 --> 00:30:15,915 Speaker 1: out until the state of the Union sudden one eighty 462 00:30:15,995 --> 00:30:19,355 Speaker 1: Just like that, Putts. Ezraclined, well, now we know why 463 00:30:19,435 --> 00:30:22,995 Speaker 1: what has happened to Bill Maher. Billmer did a podcast 464 00:30:23,075 --> 00:30:26,635 Speaker 1: with Mediaite. That's a bad sign to begin with. Mediaite 465 00:30:26,675 --> 00:30:29,195 Speaker 1: is crap, and it continues also to be the dumbest 466 00:30:29,275 --> 00:30:36,715 Speaker 1: name in news or news adjacent Mediaite. But he explained 467 00:30:36,755 --> 00:30:39,275 Speaker 1: his news diet Mar did in this podcast. He says 468 00:30:39,275 --> 00:30:42,035 Speaker 1: his staff sends him a digest of stuff from the 469 00:30:42,035 --> 00:30:45,915 Speaker 1: big news organizations. But quote, I also love my independent writers. 470 00:30:46,435 --> 00:30:51,315 Speaker 1: Just read Andrew Sullivan. How good Andrew Sullivan, who was 471 00:30:51,435 --> 00:30:55,475 Speaker 1: last write about something in two thousand and two? Quoting 472 00:30:55,515 --> 00:31:00,795 Speaker 1: again my friends Mary Weiss and Nelly Bowls, Barry Weiss 473 00:31:01,635 --> 00:31:07,395 Speaker 1: because Jonathan Turley doesn't write enough about politics. Quote Andrew Sullivan. 474 00:31:07,435 --> 00:31:11,155 Speaker 1: George Will A bunch of people like that George Will. 475 00:31:11,675 --> 00:31:13,795 Speaker 1: George Will is who you read about when nobody else 476 00:31:13,875 --> 00:31:16,555 Speaker 1: is writing that day, And I mean only read about 477 00:31:16,555 --> 00:31:21,035 Speaker 1: baseball from George Will. Quote I still love my Maureen Dowd, 478 00:31:21,275 --> 00:31:25,115 Speaker 1: I love my Tom Friedman and Brett Stevens, Pamela Paul, 479 00:31:25,275 --> 00:31:27,795 Speaker 1: I've come to like a lot. Oh sweet Jesus in 480 00:31:27,835 --> 00:31:30,995 Speaker 1: the hat box. Bill Maher is this close to voting 481 00:31:31,035 --> 00:31:39,715 Speaker 1: for Jill Stein Maureen Dowd, Brett Stevens, Andrew Sullivan, Pamela Paul. 482 00:31:41,075 --> 00:31:43,995 Speaker 1: It's not just that Bill Maher has forfeited whatever liberal 483 00:31:44,035 --> 00:31:51,395 Speaker 1: credentials he once had. He's turned into Howard Kurtz. Bill, 484 00:31:51,835 --> 00:31:54,035 Speaker 1: next thing you'll be telling me your go to TV 485 00:31:54,195 --> 00:32:00,875 Speaker 1: liberal is Joe Scarborough, mar two days worse, Parson and 486 00:32:14,355 --> 00:32:18,235 Speaker 1: Late in November two thousand and seven, after several months 487 00:32:18,235 --> 00:32:22,035 Speaker 1: of pressuring my MSNBC bosses to hire Rachel Maddow to 488 00:32:22,195 --> 00:32:25,515 Speaker 1: try out as My guest host, with a goal of 489 00:32:25,595 --> 00:32:29,355 Speaker 1: then showcasing her and spinning her off into her own show, 490 00:32:30,155 --> 00:32:33,115 Speaker 1: the vice president in charge of the network, Phil Griffin, 491 00:32:33,435 --> 00:32:36,555 Speaker 1: agreed to give matdow a deal for forty or fifty 492 00:32:36,595 --> 00:32:40,395 Speaker 1: grand as an MSNBC contributor. It would do nothing more 493 00:32:40,435 --> 00:32:43,075 Speaker 1: than lock her in place so that CNN would not 494 00:32:43,155 --> 00:32:45,715 Speaker 1: steal her from us. I mean, I knew that that 495 00:32:45,915 --> 00:32:48,875 Speaker 1: conversation and that concession still would not get her her 496 00:32:48,915 --> 00:32:51,795 Speaker 1: own show. But what I did not know was the 497 00:32:51,875 --> 00:32:55,515 Speaker 1: concession I was told about the contributors contract. It was 498 00:32:55,555 --> 00:32:59,035 Speaker 1: a lie. And by January two thousand and eight, as 499 00:32:59,075 --> 00:33:02,115 Speaker 1: the Clinton Obama primary race turned into a tong war, 500 00:33:02,195 --> 00:33:05,555 Speaker 1: we were imposing upon Rachel Meadow to join the desk 501 00:33:05,715 --> 00:33:09,195 Speaker 1: each Tuesday for Primary Night. She was not anchoring, She's 502 00:33:09,235 --> 00:33:12,595 Speaker 1: not even the lead analyst. And my uncontrollable fire hose 503 00:33:12,675 --> 00:33:15,915 Speaker 1: co host Matthews, who was consistently pretending that she did 504 00:33:15,955 --> 00:33:20,075 Speaker 1: not actually exist, but she existed. She was there, and 505 00:33:20,155 --> 00:33:22,955 Speaker 1: I quizzed her about every topic every chance I got. 506 00:33:23,515 --> 00:33:26,315 Speaker 1: Soon I began to include her appearances in the pre 507 00:33:26,355 --> 00:33:29,635 Speaker 1: recorded open that I would write two minutes of hyperbole 508 00:33:29,715 --> 00:33:33,115 Speaker 1: that was really designed merely to give everybody enough time 509 00:33:33,515 --> 00:33:37,115 Speaker 1: to get my fat ass into the anchor chair and 510 00:33:37,195 --> 00:33:40,835 Speaker 1: everybody else's mics on with Tim Russard in the NBC 511 00:33:40,915 --> 00:33:45,075 Speaker 1: News Washington Bureau, David Gregory at Clinton Headquarters, Howard Feynman 512 00:33:45,155 --> 00:33:47,915 Speaker 1: and Eugene Robinson in New York, Chuck Todd at the 513 00:33:47,915 --> 00:33:51,755 Speaker 1: exit poll desk, Tom Broke off the perspective desk, MC 514 00:33:52,035 --> 00:33:56,835 Speaker 1: Esher at the Lack of Perspective Desk. Then came Super Tuesday, 515 00:33:57,235 --> 00:34:01,115 Speaker 1: February fifth, two thousand and eight. I was writing this 516 00:34:01,475 --> 00:34:05,195 Speaker 1: orgasmic dribble as I always did on Tuesday, crossing the 517 00:34:05,315 --> 00:34:07,915 Speaker 1: names of who was where off the list as I went. 518 00:34:08,315 --> 00:34:10,635 Speaker 1: The list handed to me by the executive producer, I 519 00:34:10,635 --> 00:34:13,995 Speaker 1: is Hepovich. When I noticed the list did not include 520 00:34:14,155 --> 00:34:18,515 Speaker 1: either Rachel or the Rachel desk, I knocked on the 521 00:34:18,595 --> 00:34:21,275 Speaker 1: wall that separated our little offices at thirty Rock, and 522 00:34:21,355 --> 00:34:24,355 Speaker 1: she shuffled in, complete with a sincere smile, friendship, but 523 00:34:24,515 --> 00:34:26,835 Speaker 1: always also with what seemed to be a little space 524 00:34:26,915 --> 00:34:29,395 Speaker 1: kept in reserve where she could wonder if I was 525 00:34:29,435 --> 00:34:33,035 Speaker 1: mad enough to try to take somebody hostage. Yes, my 526 00:34:33,195 --> 00:34:38,595 Speaker 1: third child. Where's Rachel tonight? I asked, as I waved 527 00:34:38,595 --> 00:34:41,915 Speaker 1: the paper at her, assuming oversight, but leaving my own 528 00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:45,595 Speaker 1: little space in reserve where my earlier nightmare had come true. 529 00:34:46,635 --> 00:34:51,395 Speaker 1: Not on paper. Please to put name Rachel on paper? 530 00:34:52,635 --> 00:34:56,195 Speaker 1: I Isypovich said it, matter of factly. Oh yeah, well, 531 00:34:57,715 --> 00:35:01,555 Speaker 1: oh I was in trouble. That elongated consonant always meant trouble. 532 00:35:02,435 --> 00:35:07,355 Speaker 1: She's on Larry King tonight. Momentarily, I went very stupid, 533 00:35:08,275 --> 00:35:09,715 Speaker 1: How in the hell does that work when she has 534 00:35:09,755 --> 00:35:12,435 Speaker 1: a contract with us? I'll tell you, but you have 535 00:35:12,475 --> 00:35:16,515 Speaker 1: to promise not to hate me. The Iipovich fake cringe 536 00:35:16,555 --> 00:35:20,395 Speaker 1: and crouch ensued. Phil made me promise not to tell you. 537 00:35:20,515 --> 00:35:22,835 Speaker 1: Rachel doesn't have a contract with us. He told me 538 00:35:22,875 --> 00:35:25,195 Speaker 1: he told you he'd get her one, then his boss 539 00:35:25,195 --> 00:35:27,555 Speaker 1: refused to give him the money. I'm sorry, you promised 540 00:35:27,555 --> 00:35:33,595 Speaker 1: not to hate me momentarily. I was calm momentarily, But 541 00:35:34,555 --> 00:35:38,915 Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me that before? Approximately Oh right now, 542 00:35:39,075 --> 00:35:41,795 Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me this before she agreed to 543 00:35:41,835 --> 00:35:45,875 Speaker 1: go on Larry King's show, while she only decided this morning. 544 00:35:46,035 --> 00:35:48,955 Speaker 1: Apparently she really needs the cash. I told Phil, and 545 00:35:48,995 --> 00:35:52,755 Speaker 1: he said, those are the breaks, buddy. The last thing 546 00:35:52,795 --> 00:35:55,795 Speaker 1: I actually remember doing, the last part that I did 547 00:35:55,795 --> 00:35:58,355 Speaker 1: not need to recreate from the memories of others and 548 00:35:58,395 --> 00:36:02,995 Speaker 1: an occasional flashback in therapy, was asking how much my 549 00:36:03,075 --> 00:36:06,355 Speaker 1: old friend Larry King was going to get Rachel. Is 550 00:36:06,435 --> 00:36:12,235 Speaker 1: he pursed her lips two hundred and fifty dollars. I 551 00:36:12,275 --> 00:36:15,675 Speaker 1: remember screaming that figure several times, along with all the 552 00:36:15,755 --> 00:36:19,675 Speaker 1: swear words I knew. I remember vocalizing, we are going 553 00:36:19,715 --> 00:36:23,595 Speaker 1: to lose Rachel Meadow, the next great talent of cable news, 554 00:36:23,995 --> 00:36:28,755 Speaker 1: to effing CNN, for two hundred and fifty efing dollars. 555 00:36:30,475 --> 00:36:34,875 Speaker 1: Everything else after that statement is darkness. I know. I 556 00:36:34,995 --> 00:36:39,835 Speaker 1: phoned Phil Griffin and threatened him. Is He recently confirmed 557 00:36:39,835 --> 00:36:42,075 Speaker 1: for me that I asked her to leave before I 558 00:36:42,115 --> 00:36:44,795 Speaker 1: called him and threatened him. I believe I warned him 559 00:36:44,795 --> 00:36:46,955 Speaker 1: that if he did not sign her to a contributor's 560 00:36:46,995 --> 00:36:49,915 Speaker 1: contract within twenty four hours, I would walk off the 561 00:36:50,035 --> 00:36:53,555 Speaker 1: set during that night's primary coverage, or maybe the next week's, 562 00:36:53,635 --> 00:36:57,195 Speaker 1: or maybe during countdown tomorrow night. It would be a surprise. 563 00:36:58,075 --> 00:37:00,395 Speaker 1: I'm also confident that I warned him that of all 564 00:37:00,435 --> 00:37:03,835 Speaker 1: of the talent on television, Larry King had the best 565 00:37:03,915 --> 00:37:09,235 Speaker 1: knowledge of what and who else would succeed, more than 566 00:37:09,235 --> 00:37:13,715 Speaker 1: the rest of us combined. He was a savant, and 567 00:37:13,795 --> 00:37:17,035 Speaker 1: when he saw her in real time on his primary 568 00:37:17,115 --> 00:37:20,795 Speaker 1: night panel, we would never see her again, and she 569 00:37:20,875 --> 00:37:25,635 Speaker 1: would have a CNN contract before midnight. I told Phil 570 00:37:25,915 --> 00:37:28,075 Speaker 1: that when that happened, I would then kill him with 571 00:37:28,155 --> 00:37:31,915 Speaker 1: my bare hands, or Jeff Zucker would kill him when 572 00:37:31,955 --> 00:37:33,835 Speaker 1: she wound up beating the hell out of us in 573 00:37:33,875 --> 00:37:38,755 Speaker 1: the ratings. This statement all took longer than this paragraph 574 00:37:38,755 --> 00:37:41,715 Speaker 1: would imply, because I know, without fear of contradiction, every 575 00:37:41,795 --> 00:37:44,035 Speaker 1: other word out of my mouth was either what we 576 00:37:44,155 --> 00:37:48,475 Speaker 1: used to call an oath or the phrase Jesus h 577 00:37:48,715 --> 00:37:53,675 Speaker 1: ka Christ, mind you these people. The president of NBC, 578 00:37:53,795 --> 00:37:56,315 Speaker 1: Jeff Zucker and it's a year since they got rid 579 00:37:56,355 --> 00:38:00,195 Speaker 1: of him at CNN. The president of NBC News Steve Cappus, 580 00:38:00,915 --> 00:38:03,675 Speaker 1: and the soon to be president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin. 581 00:38:03,995 --> 00:38:06,595 Speaker 1: These had been the same people who about a year earlier, 582 00:38:06,595 --> 00:38:11,835 Speaker 1: had decided that their ten PM host, Tucker Carlson yep, 583 00:38:11,955 --> 00:38:15,435 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was on MSNBC, that Tucker Carlson did not 584 00:38:15,675 --> 00:38:19,835 Speaker 1: need two people to play the role of liberal foil 585 00:38:19,915 --> 00:38:23,195 Speaker 1: on his show at like fifty grand a year, So 586 00:38:23,235 --> 00:38:26,315 Speaker 1: they kept one of them, his name was Max Kellerman, 587 00:38:26,675 --> 00:38:29,675 Speaker 1: and they fired the other one. Her name was Rachel Maddow. 588 00:38:30,795 --> 00:38:38,075 Speaker 1: They fired Rachel Matdow at MSNBC to save fifty thousand dollars. 589 00:38:39,515 --> 00:38:42,955 Speaker 1: She was back now at MSNBC only because my producer 590 00:38:43,035 --> 00:38:45,555 Speaker 1: is He had suggested making her a regular guest, and 591 00:38:45,595 --> 00:38:47,635 Speaker 1: within a couple of months I realized she would be 592 00:38:47,755 --> 00:38:50,715 Speaker 1: the next great host in cable news. And after months 593 00:38:50,715 --> 00:38:53,315 Speaker 1: of pleading, including pleading with her because she didn't want 594 00:38:53,355 --> 00:38:55,715 Speaker 1: to do it, I had just convinced them to put 595 00:38:55,755 --> 00:38:58,155 Speaker 1: her back under contract, except they had lied to me 596 00:38:58,195 --> 00:39:01,875 Speaker 1: and they had not put her back under contract. I 597 00:39:01,955 --> 00:39:04,995 Speaker 1: may have mentioned this to Phil Griffin during our phone 598 00:39:04,995 --> 00:39:08,195 Speaker 1: call one hundred and eleven different times. I may have 599 00:39:08,275 --> 00:39:12,995 Speaker 1: mentioned it to him. I also telephoned Rachel. I did 600 00:39:13,035 --> 00:39:16,835 Speaker 1: not swear at her here. Every other word out of 601 00:39:16,835 --> 00:39:20,235 Speaker 1: my mouth was not an oath but an apology. I said, 602 00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:22,835 Speaker 1: I had genuinely believed she was already being paid, and 603 00:39:22,875 --> 00:39:25,875 Speaker 1: I was not only humiliated on behalf of my network, 604 00:39:26,035 --> 00:39:28,195 Speaker 1: but that I was far more humiliated that I had 605 00:39:28,195 --> 00:39:30,275 Speaker 1: not double checked with her that they'd actually given her 606 00:39:30,355 --> 00:39:33,275 Speaker 1: the contract they told me they had given her. I 607 00:39:33,315 --> 00:39:35,755 Speaker 1: begged her to please, please, please, don't go and see 608 00:39:35,755 --> 00:39:39,235 Speaker 1: an end tonight. I did not ask her to skip 609 00:39:39,275 --> 00:39:41,675 Speaker 1: out on them and return to us unless she thought 610 00:39:41,675 --> 00:39:44,755 Speaker 1: she could pull that off gracefully and with a clean conscience, 611 00:39:45,035 --> 00:39:49,115 Speaker 1: but just not to go on with Larry. And that's 612 00:39:49,115 --> 00:39:51,755 Speaker 1: where I added the little four hundred and thirty seven 613 00:39:51,795 --> 00:39:55,515 Speaker 1: dollars stunt. I'm sorry about the money situation, I said, 614 00:39:55,595 --> 00:39:58,755 Speaker 1: I didn't know. Now I know I can only do this. 615 00:39:59,475 --> 00:40:02,435 Speaker 1: I think they will give you forty or fifty thousand 616 00:40:02,715 --> 00:40:05,075 Speaker 1: for a contributors deal just to start, but I will 617 00:40:05,115 --> 00:40:08,035 Speaker 1: do is. And while making as many sound effects of 618 00:40:08,075 --> 00:40:11,035 Speaker 1: exertion as I could dream up, I stretched around it 619 00:40:11,035 --> 00:40:12,875 Speaker 1: pulled my wallet out of my back pocket and I 620 00:40:12,915 --> 00:40:15,715 Speaker 1: emptied it onto my desk. I need to keep five 621 00:40:15,755 --> 00:40:18,915 Speaker 1: bucks to tip my driver tonight. You can have the 622 00:40:18,955 --> 00:40:22,675 Speaker 1: rest of whatever cash I have on me. I'm counting 623 00:40:22,715 --> 00:40:30,115 Speaker 1: it now. There's one hundred twenty twenty twenty my play 624 00:40:30,115 --> 00:40:33,555 Speaker 1: by play skipped, no bills, four hundred and forty two 625 00:40:33,635 --> 00:40:38,235 Speaker 1: bucks American five for the driver, the rest for you 626 00:40:39,075 --> 00:40:43,475 Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty seven dollars. Rachel deal, She laughed, 627 00:40:43,515 --> 00:40:45,275 Speaker 1: I'll see you tonight. I'll just tell Larry I couldn't 628 00:40:45,315 --> 00:40:47,275 Speaker 1: be disloyaled to you. Oh, and I will take the money. 629 00:40:47,955 --> 00:40:51,755 Speaker 1: And she took the money. In point of fact, when 630 00:40:51,795 --> 00:40:54,315 Speaker 1: I like to say anything that Rachel Mattow did with 631 00:40:54,395 --> 00:40:57,075 Speaker 1: her career after we got her show on the air 632 00:40:57,275 --> 00:40:59,995 Speaker 1: in August of two thousand and eight, that's all her doing. 633 00:41:00,035 --> 00:41:02,275 Speaker 1: I have nothing to do with that except being the 634 00:41:02,355 --> 00:41:04,875 Speaker 1: lead in for the first two years. That's true, true, 635 00:41:05,595 --> 00:41:07,635 Speaker 1: But I also like to say that I got that 636 00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:10,075 Speaker 1: show on the air, And I also like to say 637 00:41:10,155 --> 00:41:13,915 Speaker 1: I hired Rachel Mattow at MSNBC. And this is my point, 638 00:41:14,275 --> 00:41:17,995 Speaker 1: it was not figuratively, it was not metaphorically. I hired 639 00:41:18,035 --> 00:41:21,915 Speaker 1: her out of my own pocket. I literally hired Madow 640 00:41:21,955 --> 00:41:27,955 Speaker 1: at MSNBC for four hundred and thirty seven dollars, and 641 00:41:27,995 --> 00:41:33,075 Speaker 1: I will point this out again, I never even got 642 00:41:33,275 --> 00:41:49,475 Speaker 1: the four hundred and thirty seven dollars back. I've done 643 00:41:49,475 --> 00:41:52,755 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here, including to my voice. 644 00:41:52,795 --> 00:41:55,915 Speaker 1: I think when I was singing, Thanks for listening. Countdown. 645 00:41:55,955 --> 00:41:58,875 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel Arrange produced 646 00:41:58,875 --> 00:42:01,395 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music, but they would like 647 00:42:01,435 --> 00:42:03,755 Speaker 1: to remind you they had nothing to do with my singing. 648 00:42:04,795 --> 00:42:07,875 Speaker 1: Deray was on guitars, bass and drums. Mister Chanelle handled 649 00:42:07,955 --> 00:42:11,835 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards, produced by Tko Brothers except for the song. 650 00:42:12,675 --> 00:42:15,595 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and 651 00:42:15,635 --> 00:42:18,755 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music 652 00:42:18,875 --> 00:42:21,595 Speaker 1: is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch 653 00:42:21,635 --> 00:42:25,435 Speaker 1: Warren Davis Here to see a ESPN inc Our satirical 654 00:42:25,435 --> 00:42:28,115 Speaker 1: and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. The best 655 00:42:28,115 --> 00:42:31,635 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my friend 656 00:42:31,715 --> 00:42:36,035 Speaker 1: Larry David. Everything else was pretty much my fault, especially 657 00:42:36,675 --> 00:42:40,555 Speaker 1: the singing. That's countdown for this two hundred and thirty 658 00:42:40,635 --> 00:42:44,315 Speaker 1: ninth day before the twenty twenty four presidential election and 659 00:42:44,355 --> 00:42:48,755 Speaker 1: the one sixty second day since dementia. J Trump's first 660 00:42:48,755 --> 00:42:52,515 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 661 00:42:52,955 --> 00:42:56,515 Speaker 1: Use the Fourteenth Amendment and the not regularly given elector 662 00:42:56,635 --> 00:43:00,395 Speaker 1: objection option, the Insurrection Act, the justice system, the mental 663 00:43:00,395 --> 00:43:04,075 Speaker 1: health system, and my singing to stop him from doing 664 00:43:04,075 --> 00:43:08,275 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 665 00:43:08,315 --> 00:43:10,955 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news warrants still then on 666 00:43:11,075 --> 00:43:14,115 Speaker 1: Keith Olrimman, Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 667 00:43:17,195 --> 00:43:33,355 Speaker 1: Take two little louder please. My name is Chump and 668 00:43:33,475 --> 00:43:38,235 Speaker 1: I'm sicking the bean. I can't stop flundering by GENA 669 00:43:38,355 --> 00:43:43,155 Speaker 1: came in my That's what I won't That's. 670 00:43:45,115 --> 00:43:50,915 Speaker 5: What I want. 671 00:43:52,755 --> 00:43:56,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olremman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 672 00:43:56,915 --> 00:44:01,835 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 673 00:44:02,075 --> 00:44:04,035 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.