1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:29,995 --> 00:00:34,635 Speaker 1: How can you allege the FBI may have planted evidence 3 00:00:35,315 --> 00:00:39,835 Speaker 1: if nobody has yet seen the evidence? Last night, to 4 00:00:40,115 --> 00:00:43,515 Speaker 1: Trump lawyers, one of whom was at the raid, suggested 5 00:00:43,515 --> 00:00:47,675 Speaker 1: the FBI probably planted evidence at Mari Lago, and Newt 6 00:00:47,715 --> 00:00:50,875 Speaker 1: Gingrich went on one of the nut jobs streaming networks 7 00:00:50,875 --> 00:00:55,155 Speaker 1: and suggested the FBI probably planted evidence at Mari Lago, 8 00:00:55,315 --> 00:00:57,035 Speaker 1: and a guy on Fox News with the i Q 9 00:00:57,235 --> 00:00:59,475 Speaker 1: of a ferret said he had a hunch the FBI 10 00:00:59,555 --> 00:01:02,595 Speaker 1: probably planted evidence at Mari Lago, and Lindsey Graham calmly 11 00:01:02,635 --> 00:01:04,875 Speaker 1: agreed with him, And then a guy fired from Box 12 00:01:04,915 --> 00:01:08,795 Speaker 1: News said, the FBI probably planted evidence at Mari Lago. 13 00:01:09,355 --> 00:01:13,795 Speaker 1: And it's really really odd that before anybody but you 14 00:01:13,955 --> 00:01:17,515 Speaker 1: and your lawyers and maybe your closest confidants have any 15 00:01:17,515 --> 00:01:21,115 Speaker 1: clue whatsoever what was in the ten to twelve boxes 16 00:01:21,155 --> 00:01:23,715 Speaker 1: they pulled out of your home, before the government says 17 00:01:23,755 --> 00:01:26,235 Speaker 1: what was in them, where there is a slight leak 18 00:01:26,435 --> 00:01:28,795 Speaker 1: about what was in them, where there is the slightest 19 00:01:28,795 --> 00:01:31,635 Speaker 1: indication that the boxes were not just full of presidential 20 00:01:31,675 --> 00:01:34,395 Speaker 1: coasters and matchbook covers he stole so we could sell 21 00:01:34,475 --> 00:01:38,435 Speaker 1: them on eBay. Your own lawyers are in essence saying, 22 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:43,795 Speaker 1: the FBI found bad, bad, bad things when they raided 23 00:01:43,875 --> 00:01:50,795 Speaker 1: your house, but it all must have been planted. We 24 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:55,275 Speaker 1: don't know what the damning documents in the Trump Marilago 25 00:01:55,435 --> 00:01:59,115 Speaker 1: boxes were. But if twenty four hours after the raid, 26 00:01:59,475 --> 00:02:02,995 Speaker 1: you are already insisting that those damning documents were planted 27 00:02:02,995 --> 00:02:08,235 Speaker 1: by the FBI, hit me means there are damning documents 28 00:02:08,275 --> 00:02:12,755 Speaker 1: in the boxes. You just don't say evidence was planted 29 00:02:13,155 --> 00:02:15,595 Speaker 1: before the evidence is revealed, unless you know evidence is 30 00:02:15,635 --> 00:02:22,035 Speaker 1: going to be revealed. Holy cow. Not. Trump's not guilty. 31 00:02:22,075 --> 00:02:24,515 Speaker 1: Of course, he didn't steal top secret documents. There's nothing 32 00:02:24,515 --> 00:02:29,835 Speaker 1: in the boxes you'll see. Not He's innocent. Not. There 33 00:02:29,915 --> 00:02:33,555 Speaker 1: was nothing to find, and that's what they found. Nothing, No, 34 00:02:33,555 --> 00:02:36,995 Speaker 1: none of that, just all that stuff they haven't found 35 00:02:37,075 --> 00:02:44,595 Speaker 1: yet was platted by the FBI. Nobody, but nobody has 36 00:02:44,675 --> 00:02:49,755 Speaker 1: suggested Trump is not guilty. Even the fascists and the 37 00:02:49,835 --> 00:02:53,115 Speaker 1: Trump brown nosers and Republicans who rushed to comment about 38 00:02:53,155 --> 00:02:55,875 Speaker 1: the raid and did not declare that the evidence we 39 00:02:55,915 --> 00:02:58,435 Speaker 1: don't know about yet was all planted. None of them 40 00:02:58,515 --> 00:03:02,155 Speaker 1: even said Trump said us, and he's not guilty. Every 41 00:03:02,435 --> 00:03:08,995 Speaker 1: high profile politician folk entirely on a raid b the process. 42 00:03:09,195 --> 00:03:14,035 Speaker 1: Ce the evil FBI d the more evil d J. E. 43 00:03:14,435 --> 00:03:16,875 Speaker 1: If they can do it to Trump, imagine what they 44 00:03:16,915 --> 00:03:21,355 Speaker 1: could do to you. And of course, f Biden's FBI 45 00:03:21,475 --> 00:03:25,155 Speaker 1: director and an Obama judge, even though the FBI director 46 00:03:25,195 --> 00:03:27,275 Speaker 1: was appointed by Trump and the judge who signed the 47 00:03:27,355 --> 00:03:35,075 Speaker 1: warrant was appointed by checks notes Trump, Elie Stephonic and 48 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:37,955 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and Josh Holly and Rhonda 49 00:03:38,035 --> 00:03:41,595 Speaker 1: Santis and Glenn Juncan and Kevin McCarthy and Nicky Haley 50 00:03:41,635 --> 00:03:43,995 Speaker 1: and Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo and Bobert and cave 51 00:03:44,075 --> 00:03:47,475 Speaker 1: Woman and all of them bleating everything from impeach Garland 52 00:03:47,875 --> 00:03:52,315 Speaker 1: to defund the FBI to Biden is a despot, attacking 53 00:03:52,315 --> 00:03:55,715 Speaker 1: the agents, attacking the warrant, attacking the bureau, attacking the 54 00:03:55,835 --> 00:03:57,835 Speaker 1: d o J. And not one of them saying I'm 55 00:03:57,875 --> 00:04:03,035 Speaker 1: confident President Trump is not guilty. Sean Hannity Tuesday night 56 00:04:03,235 --> 00:04:06,155 Speaker 1: didn't even say he's not guilt. He all he said 57 00:04:06,235 --> 00:04:09,915 Speaker 1: was to tell guest Marco Rubio quote, there were no 58 00:04:09,995 --> 00:04:12,915 Speaker 1: hookers in the Ritz Carlton in Moscow urinating on Donald 59 00:04:12,955 --> 00:04:18,235 Speaker 1: Trump's bed. Thanks for that update, Seawn. Even the militia 60 00:04:18,315 --> 00:04:22,195 Speaker 1: types and the Q and ans and the January sixs, 61 00:04:22,235 --> 00:04:25,315 Speaker 1: all of them announcing locket load and civil war and 62 00:04:25,555 --> 00:04:29,995 Speaker 1: cold civil war. The entirety of their public output is 63 00:04:30,035 --> 00:04:32,835 Speaker 1: about how corrupt the FBI is and how Biden is 64 00:04:32,875 --> 00:04:35,875 Speaker 1: a despot. Now Garland must pay, still waiting on one, 65 00:04:36,275 --> 00:04:40,915 Speaker 1: of course, they found nothing Trump's innocent, even the lunatic 66 00:04:41,155 --> 00:04:44,835 Speaker 1: nominated for governor by the Republicans of Maryland, Dan Cox, 67 00:04:44,995 --> 00:04:49,235 Speaker 1: fundraising off the raid by writing quote, as governor, I 68 00:04:49,275 --> 00:04:52,395 Speaker 1: will use the ninth and tenth Amendments, the Maryland Constitution 69 00:04:52,435 --> 00:04:55,555 Speaker 1: and Declaration of Rights, the Maryland State Police and Maryland 70 00:04:55,675 --> 00:04:58,835 Speaker 1: National Guard to stand against all rogue actions of this 71 00:04:58,915 --> 00:05:02,875 Speaker 1: out of control, tyrannical Biden administration with fierce tenacity, and 72 00:05:02,915 --> 00:05:05,475 Speaker 1: then adding all this was quote not thing short of 73 00:05:05,635 --> 00:05:11,635 Speaker 1: communist Stasi police state tactics. I noticed you didn't mention 74 00:05:11,675 --> 00:05:20,675 Speaker 1: whether or not Trump was innocent? And where is Trump's statement? 75 00:05:22,955 --> 00:05:26,275 Speaker 1: Where was Trump's statement on Tuesday? Where was Trump spokesman 76 00:05:26,315 --> 00:05:30,395 Speaker 1: Tyler budda Witch's statement on Tuesday? Where was Trump spokeswoman 77 00:05:30,515 --> 00:05:37,355 Speaker 1: Liz Harrington's statement on Tuesday, it's quiet, and to finish 78 00:05:37,355 --> 00:05:41,915 Speaker 1: the cliche, it's too quiet. While the Washington Post, in 79 00:05:41,915 --> 00:05:44,075 Speaker 1: the New York Times and CNN and all the networks 80 00:05:44,115 --> 00:05:46,835 Speaker 1: try to convince us that the Reddit at mar Lago 81 00:05:47,075 --> 00:05:50,515 Speaker 1: was this kind of dangerous Campbell and that kind of 82 00:05:50,595 --> 00:05:55,315 Speaker 1: rubicon crossed and this kind of unprecedented risk. Why on earth, 83 00:05:55,435 --> 00:06:01,355 Speaker 1: How on earth was l Douche himself silent? This is 84 00:06:01,475 --> 00:06:05,475 Speaker 1: arguably the most attention he and he alone. No co conspirators, 85 00:06:05,755 --> 00:06:10,835 Speaker 1: no January six militia guys, no endorses he himself. It's 86 00:06:10,875 --> 00:06:13,955 Speaker 1: the most publicity he himself has gotten since he left 87 00:06:13,995 --> 00:06:20,355 Speaker 1: Washington in humiliation on January. The field is his, This 88 00:06:20,515 --> 00:06:23,955 Speaker 1: creature who lives to play the victim, to be the martyr, 89 00:06:23,995 --> 00:06:31,675 Speaker 1: to be at the center, actually shut up. I'm going 90 00:06:31,715 --> 00:06:33,555 Speaker 1: to go out on a limb here and say he 91 00:06:33,635 --> 00:06:36,635 Speaker 1: shut up because he has been thrown off balanced by 92 00:06:36,675 --> 00:06:39,195 Speaker 1: this raid, and he and the real lawyers agreed he 93 00:06:39,275 --> 00:06:42,755 Speaker 1: has to stay quiet, or had to since that first 94 00:06:42,755 --> 00:06:46,915 Speaker 1: whiney announcement about the raid happening, because they all know 95 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:52,115 Speaker 1: he's guilty. Nobody is saying otherwise. They all know, the 96 00:06:52,195 --> 00:06:55,355 Speaker 1: FBI had the evidence, got the evidence, and as the 97 00:06:55,435 --> 00:06:58,635 Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands of his own sycophants wind and raged 98 00:06:58,675 --> 00:07:00,955 Speaker 1: and threatened and lied at every corner, Trump may have 99 00:07:00,995 --> 00:07:03,635 Speaker 1: actually noticed the same thing I noticed that nobody is 100 00:07:03,675 --> 00:07:12,795 Speaker 1: defending him. They are all only attacking them. Now, apart 101 00:07:12,955 --> 00:07:18,235 Speaker 1: from the obvious flaws in the two defenses presented for Trump, 102 00:07:18,675 --> 00:07:24,315 Speaker 1: it was all planted, and it's all their fault, there 103 00:07:24,395 --> 00:07:28,395 Speaker 1: is something for Democrats to lean into here. Trumpists have 104 00:07:28,555 --> 00:07:33,275 Speaker 1: been so unnerved by the raid, by the state actually 105 00:07:33,355 --> 00:07:36,795 Speaker 1: standing up for, you know, the laws, so terrified by 106 00:07:36,795 --> 00:07:40,275 Speaker 1: that that they have widely called for shutting down the 107 00:07:40,315 --> 00:07:47,075 Speaker 1: Department of Justice and defunding the FBI, defunding. They're going 108 00:07:47,195 --> 00:07:51,395 Speaker 1: to defund the closest things we have to the federal 109 00:07:51,435 --> 00:07:56,995 Speaker 1: detectives and the federal police. This is the new Republican mantra. 110 00:07:57,195 --> 00:08:01,595 Speaker 1: It started within literally hours of the raid. Defund the police. 111 00:08:02,795 --> 00:08:06,315 Speaker 1: Hang that around the neck of every Republican and every 112 00:08:06,395 --> 00:08:10,635 Speaker 1: fascist and every Trump butt liquor. The Republicans want to 113 00:08:10,715 --> 00:08:16,435 Speaker 1: defund the police. We we are the Democrats, We are 114 00:08:16,515 --> 00:08:21,635 Speaker 1: the party of law and order. There's one other fascinating 115 00:08:21,675 --> 00:08:24,835 Speaker 1: development in this The last of the non violent Trump 116 00:08:24,915 --> 00:08:28,435 Speaker 1: coup attempts the bid to appoint this environmental lawyer and 117 00:08:28,515 --> 00:08:32,755 Speaker 1: pro Trump lunatic, Jeffrey Clark as attorney general so he 118 00:08:32,755 --> 00:08:39,875 Speaker 1: could appoint Special Prosecutor Sydney Powell, and they could between 119 00:08:39,915 --> 00:08:43,195 Speaker 1: them start seizing voting machines and declaring states of emergency. 120 00:08:43,475 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 1: That all hinged on the efforts of a guy Clark 121 00:08:46,075 --> 00:08:49,995 Speaker 1: knew his name was Scott Perry. Earlier, Scott Perry had 122 00:08:49,995 --> 00:08:53,515 Speaker 1: texted Mark Meadows and told him that the Dominion voting 123 00:08:53,555 --> 00:08:58,115 Speaker 1: machines had been hacked by China. Perry was and is 124 00:08:58,155 --> 00:09:01,195 Speaker 1: a congressman from Pennsylvania, and late Tuesday afternoon he went 125 00:09:01,235 --> 00:09:04,595 Speaker 1: over to Fox and revealed quote, this morning, while travel 126 00:09:04,715 --> 00:09:08,635 Speaker 1: in with my family, three FBI agents visited me and 127 00:09:09,235 --> 00:09:13,075 Speaker 1: seized my cell phone. They made no attempt to contact 128 00:09:13,115 --> 00:09:15,195 Speaker 1: my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to 129 00:09:15,275 --> 00:09:18,275 Speaker 1: have my phone if that was their wish. I'm outraged, 130 00:09:18,315 --> 00:09:22,275 Speaker 1: though not surprised that. All right, I'll interrupt the quote 131 00:09:22,275 --> 00:09:24,515 Speaker 1: to ask you where do you think he went next? 132 00:09:25,435 --> 00:09:30,555 Speaker 1: Did he proclaim his innocence? Not a chance. Scott Perry 133 00:09:30,635 --> 00:09:36,315 Speaker 1: simply attacked Merrick Garland, not one statement like I've done 134 00:09:36,315 --> 00:09:39,515 Speaker 1: nothing wrong. I'm innocent. I guess we're just lucky he 135 00:09:39,555 --> 00:09:42,475 Speaker 1: didn't also accuse the FBI agents of planting evidence on 136 00:09:42,515 --> 00:09:45,875 Speaker 1: his phone nude pictures of Alex Jones's wife or something. 137 00:09:47,315 --> 00:09:52,795 Speaker 1: And lastly, amid the universal handwringing about rating a former 138 00:09:52,835 --> 00:09:56,355 Speaker 1: president's home, during which nobody but nobody seems to think 139 00:09:56,395 --> 00:10:00,835 Speaker 1: they didn't find really really bad stuff. During the calculations 140 00:10:00,875 --> 00:10:04,515 Speaker 1: of how this impacts the presidential race in twenty four, 141 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:09,595 Speaker 1: a closing thought courtesy the comedy writer Ben Wexler. This 142 00:10:09,675 --> 00:10:15,795 Speaker 1: is going to enrage Trump's bass bro the words happy Holidays, 143 00:10:16,235 --> 00:10:27,555 Speaker 1: enraged Trump's bass still ahead on countdown. Post scripts to 144 00:10:27,635 --> 00:10:30,795 Speaker 1: the news Facebook works for the police. Good day to 145 00:10:30,875 --> 00:10:35,315 Speaker 1: dismantle Facebook. Speaking of days, I'll recount the day Aaron 146 00:10:35,395 --> 00:10:37,915 Speaker 1: Sorkin put my late dad's words into the mouth of 147 00:10:37,995 --> 00:10:41,635 Speaker 1: Jeff Daniels at a brilliant collection of worse persons, including 148 00:10:41,635 --> 00:10:46,395 Speaker 1: this idiot portnoy from bar Stool Sports who ripped one 149 00:10:46,515 --> 00:10:50,395 Speaker 1: Little League baseball player for consoling a player on a 150 00:10:50,515 --> 00:11:04,555 Speaker 1: rival team. That's next. This is countdown. This is count 151 00:11:04,715 --> 00:11:12,115 Speaker 1: out with Keith Olberman just ahead. So we're married to 152 00:11:12,155 --> 00:11:15,275 Speaker 1: Alex Jones, and he said a naked picture of you 153 00:11:15,315 --> 00:11:18,315 Speaker 1: to Roger Stone. Did you say that's the least of 154 00:11:18,355 --> 00:11:22,595 Speaker 1: your problems? Is that what's bothering you? Bunky Ahead in 155 00:11:22,595 --> 00:11:24,595 Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Worst Persons in the World. 156 00:11:25,475 --> 00:11:27,915 Speaker 1: First in each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog 157 00:11:27,955 --> 00:11:30,195 Speaker 1: in need whom you can help. Every dog has its 158 00:11:30,275 --> 00:11:34,115 Speaker 1: day today. That dog is Ox. Ox is stuck in 159 00:11:34,155 --> 00:11:36,915 Speaker 1: the Hempstead Animal Shelter on Long Island, New York. He's 160 00:11:36,955 --> 00:11:40,115 Speaker 1: two years old and two d and fifty four days 161 00:11:40,155 --> 00:11:43,315 Speaker 1: of his life have been spent in that shelter. Ox 162 00:11:43,395 --> 00:11:45,635 Speaker 1: would be best with a family where everybody is fifteen 163 00:11:45,755 --> 00:11:48,995 Speaker 1: or older, but he likes other dogs. He's forty six pounds, 164 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:53,155 Speaker 1: very energetic, very goofy. Oxes black and white, a medium 165 00:11:53,195 --> 00:11:56,275 Speaker 1: sized pibble mix with a big smile. If you're interested, 166 00:11:56,395 --> 00:12:00,275 Speaker 1: email Adoption at Hempstead NY dot gov, or just go 167 00:12:00,355 --> 00:12:03,235 Speaker 1: to my account for Dogs in Need Tom Jumbo Grumbo 168 00:12:03,355 --> 00:12:06,315 Speaker 1: on Twitter to see Ox and get the links that 169 00:12:06,355 --> 00:12:09,035 Speaker 1: will take you to his website. That's Ox in New 170 00:12:09,155 --> 00:12:28,075 Speaker 1: York at Tom Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter. Thank you coming 171 00:12:28,155 --> 00:12:30,355 Speaker 1: up on Countdown. I said it to Aaron Sorkin and 172 00:12:30,395 --> 00:12:31,875 Speaker 1: the next thing I knew it was coming out of 173 00:12:31,955 --> 00:12:35,515 Speaker 1: Jeff Daniel's mouth on the TV plus, did you see 174 00:12:35,515 --> 00:12:40,075 Speaker 1: the Marshawn Lynch mug shot? Sports? And worst Persons coming up? 175 00:12:40,115 --> 00:12:43,315 Speaker 1: But first postscripts to the news, some headlines, some thoughts, 176 00:12:43,715 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 1: and some snark. All right, dateline the primaries. Representative Ellan 177 00:12:52,595 --> 00:12:57,515 Speaker 1: Omar narrowly one renomination in Minnesota, but Bizarro trump fist 178 00:12:57,595 --> 00:13:01,315 Speaker 1: Scott Jensen got the Republican nomination there for Governor Scott 179 00:13:01,355 --> 00:13:05,155 Speaker 1: Walker's choice for the governor nod in Wisconsin, rebe Clee 180 00:13:05,155 --> 00:13:10,115 Speaker 1: Fish lost outright, possibly because Walker misspelled her name in 181 00:13:10,155 --> 00:13:14,355 Speaker 1: a tweet. Stateline, Menlo Park, California, This would be a 182 00:13:14,435 --> 00:13:18,275 Speaker 1: good day for you to delete. Facebook, the unpoliced playground 183 00:13:18,315 --> 00:13:23,675 Speaker 1: for grifters, conspiracy theorists, Russian trolls, and militias, is now 184 00:13:23,715 --> 00:13:27,595 Speaker 1: acting as an agent for prosecutors for state government. Seventeen 185 00:13:27,635 --> 00:13:30,475 Speaker 1: year old Celeste Burgess and her mother, Jessica have been 186 00:13:30,555 --> 00:13:34,995 Speaker 1: charged with abortion by medication in Nebraska, and the primary 187 00:13:35,035 --> 00:13:39,155 Speaker 1: evidence messages on Facebook between the mother and daughter, which 188 00:13:39,195 --> 00:13:41,595 Speaker 1: the State of Nebraska went to court to get and 189 00:13:41,635 --> 00:13:46,595 Speaker 1: which Facebook provided without the slightest resistance. They just said okay. 190 00:13:46,795 --> 00:13:49,915 Speaker 1: Those messages were then the basis of further warrants with 191 00:13:50,035 --> 00:13:53,435 Speaker 1: which prosecutors were able to seize thirteen computers and phones 192 00:13:53,715 --> 00:13:57,275 Speaker 1: and twenty four gigabytes of data. If you write something 193 00:13:57,315 --> 00:14:00,235 Speaker 1: on social media, especially on Facebook, and you think it 194 00:14:00,315 --> 00:14:03,715 Speaker 1: is somehow private, think again, you would get more privacy. 195 00:14:03,795 --> 00:14:07,395 Speaker 1: Standing in the middle of Times Square, naked and screaming. 196 00:14:08,435 --> 00:14:12,315 Speaker 1: Speaking of naked and screaming, Dateline Washington, Dug Mastriano, one 197 00:14:12,315 --> 00:14:15,115 Speaker 1: of the January six thugs, the one who wound up 198 00:14:15,155 --> 00:14:18,515 Speaker 1: as the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, bailed out 199 00:14:18,555 --> 00:14:21,475 Speaker 1: of his virtual appearance in front of the January six committee. 200 00:14:21,795 --> 00:14:25,435 Speaker 1: Several news outlets said that entire appearance lasted less than 201 00:14:25,475 --> 00:14:29,115 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Mascranno never answered a single question, and all 202 00:14:29,155 --> 00:14:32,035 Speaker 1: they did was listened to Mascriano demand the right to 203 00:14:32,195 --> 00:14:35,915 Speaker 1: video record the session. One assumes he will now be charged, 204 00:14:36,155 --> 00:14:39,115 Speaker 1: as Steve Bannon and many others have been, with contempt 205 00:14:39,115 --> 00:14:42,035 Speaker 1: of Congress, which of course is the letter g on 206 00:14:42,155 --> 00:14:47,795 Speaker 1: the fascist candidate Bingo card a related story, but Dateline Atlanta, 207 00:14:47,955 --> 00:14:51,835 Speaker 1: a Fulton County judge, has refused Rudy Giuliani's request testify 208 00:14:51,915 --> 00:14:54,715 Speaker 1: to a grand jury next week by zoom and told 209 00:14:54,755 --> 00:14:57,395 Speaker 1: him instead to either show up or prove his lawyer's 210 00:14:57,395 --> 00:14:59,955 Speaker 1: contention that Rudy just had a heart stent put in 211 00:15:00,155 --> 00:15:02,875 Speaker 1: and he can't fly, and he didn't buy those plane 212 00:15:02,875 --> 00:15:06,235 Speaker 1: tickets to Europe last week in his aim. Judge Robert 213 00:15:06,315 --> 00:15:09,915 Speaker 1: mcderney had another suggestion as well, quoting the judge John 214 00:15:09,955 --> 00:15:12,435 Speaker 1: Madden drove all over the country and his big bus 215 00:15:12,435 --> 00:15:14,995 Speaker 1: from stadium to stadium. So one thing we need to 216 00:15:15,035 --> 00:15:18,395 Speaker 1: explore is whether Mr Giuliani could get here without jeopardizing 217 00:15:18,475 --> 00:15:21,115 Speaker 1: his recovery and his health on a train, on a 218 00:15:21,155 --> 00:15:25,715 Speaker 1: bus or uber or whatever it would be. Unquote, how 219 00:15:25,715 --> 00:15:30,675 Speaker 1: about hitching? Have you considered hitching Rudy? And dateline Salt 220 00:15:30,755 --> 00:15:34,075 Speaker 1: Lake City cliche has come to life Number twenty seven. 221 00:15:34,075 --> 00:15:37,395 Speaker 1: There's a pro Trump, pro gun, pro violence clothing manufacturer 222 00:15:37,475 --> 00:15:42,035 Speaker 1: called Lions Not Sheep, and they sell Let's Go Brandon 223 00:15:42,155 --> 00:15:45,595 Speaker 1: and f J B shirts and similar apparel for those 224 00:15:45,675 --> 00:15:48,355 Speaker 1: so weak they need to boast about how strong they are. 225 00:15:48,875 --> 00:15:51,755 Speaker 1: Lions Not Sheep loudly stated its T shirts and other 226 00:15:51,795 --> 00:15:56,435 Speaker 1: apparel were manufactured in America. The Federal Trade Commission investigated, 227 00:15:56,475 --> 00:15:58,715 Speaker 1: and now the company has to pay a fine of 228 00:15:58,795 --> 00:16:01,755 Speaker 1: two d eleven thousand, three and thirty five dollars because 229 00:16:01,795 --> 00:16:05,755 Speaker 1: the only part of the manufacturing process that actually occurred 230 00:16:05,795 --> 00:16:09,955 Speaker 1: in America was ripping off the made in China tags 231 00:16:10,355 --> 00:16:27,395 Speaker 1: and replacing them with one's reading made in USA. This 232 00:16:28,155 --> 00:16:34,475 Speaker 1: is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This is 233 00:16:35,275 --> 00:16:40,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alberman briefly from the World of Sports. 234 00:16:40,355 --> 00:16:43,195 Speaker 1: She's calling it an evolution, not a retirement. But nevertheless, 235 00:16:43,235 --> 00:16:46,355 Speaker 1: it sure looks like Serena Williams is retiring after the 236 00:16:46,435 --> 00:16:49,915 Speaker 1: US Open, after twenty three Grand Slam victories twenty four. 237 00:16:49,955 --> 00:16:53,395 Speaker 1: If she wins the Open, you could talk about her 238 00:16:53,435 --> 00:16:56,235 Speaker 1: career four days and that they will at the Open 239 00:16:56,435 --> 00:16:59,315 Speaker 1: before it after it. But I never think of Williams 240 00:16:59,315 --> 00:17:02,035 Speaker 1: without thinking of the great Chris Everett's open letter to 241 00:17:02,115 --> 00:17:05,155 Speaker 1: her in Tennis Magazine just a while back. Me quote 242 00:17:05,155 --> 00:17:07,875 Speaker 1: part of it for you. I've been thinking about your career, 243 00:17:08,315 --> 00:17:11,555 Speaker 1: she wrote, and something is troubling me. I appreciate the 244 00:17:11,675 --> 00:17:14,275 Speaker 1: becoming a well rounded person is important to you. Is 245 00:17:14,435 --> 00:17:17,235 Speaker 1: you've made that desire very clear? Still a question, Lingers, 246 00:17:17,435 --> 00:17:20,035 Speaker 1: do you ever consider your place in history? Is it 247 00:17:20,155 --> 00:17:22,835 Speaker 1: something you care about? In the short term. You may 248 00:17:22,835 --> 00:17:25,515 Speaker 1: be happy with the various things going on in your life, 249 00:17:25,635 --> 00:17:27,915 Speaker 1: but I wonder whether twenty years from now you might 250 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:31,915 Speaker 1: reflect on your career and regret not putting of yourself 251 00:17:31,995 --> 00:17:34,795 Speaker 1: into tennis, because, whether you want to admit it or not, 252 00:17:35,315 --> 00:17:40,755 Speaker 1: these distractions are tarnishing your legacy. Chris Everett wrote that 253 00:17:40,835 --> 00:17:45,235 Speaker 1: about Serena Williams in two thousand and six. That's five 254 00:17:45,275 --> 00:17:48,595 Speaker 1: Australian Open winds Ago and five Wimbledon's and four US 255 00:17:48,675 --> 00:17:53,475 Speaker 1: Opens and two Frenches. That's some tarnished legacy right there. 256 00:17:54,755 --> 00:17:58,275 Speaker 1: I mentioned Tuesday that Bill Haslem, the former anti LGBT 257 00:17:58,515 --> 00:18:00,675 Speaker 1: governor of Tennessee, is now on a path to take 258 00:18:00,755 --> 00:18:04,035 Speaker 1: over hockey's Nashville Predators unless the National Hockey League does 259 00:18:04,075 --> 00:18:06,675 Speaker 1: something to stop bit. I have since been reminded that 260 00:18:06,755 --> 00:18:11,235 Speaker 1: Luke pro Coop, a six ft four pound behemoth defense 261 00:18:11,315 --> 00:18:14,075 Speaker 1: prospect likely to play in the American Hockey League in 262 00:18:14,075 --> 00:18:17,795 Speaker 1: the season ahead, came out last year first player under 263 00:18:17,795 --> 00:18:21,075 Speaker 1: contract to an NHL team to do that. The team 264 00:18:21,075 --> 00:18:25,275 Speaker 1: he's under contract too is the Nashville Predators. He's likely 265 00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:27,635 Speaker 1: to play with their h L farm team this year. 266 00:18:28,515 --> 00:18:32,035 Speaker 1: Somebody better stopped this very fast. Not him playing, but 267 00:18:32,115 --> 00:18:36,235 Speaker 1: this idiot has them taking over the team. And lastly, 268 00:18:36,275 --> 00:18:39,235 Speaker 1: in sports, somewhere there is a mug shot Hall of 269 00:18:39,235 --> 00:18:43,995 Speaker 1: Fame and Marshawn Lynch was just inducted into the mug 270 00:18:43,995 --> 00:18:50,675 Speaker 1: shot Hall of Fame. Yes at seven thirty am local 271 00:18:50,675 --> 00:18:53,635 Speaker 1: prevailing time in Las Vegas Tuesday, police pulled over a 272 00:18:53,635 --> 00:18:58,155 Speaker 1: guy driving erratically. It was the former Seahawks star, one 273 00:18:58,235 --> 00:19:01,435 Speaker 1: day after the team welcomed him back as a quote 274 00:19:01,475 --> 00:19:04,915 Speaker 1: special correspondent who is or was to produce con tent 275 00:19:04,995 --> 00:19:09,635 Speaker 1: for Seattle. The content in Marshawn Beast Mode Lynch resulted 276 00:19:09,675 --> 00:19:13,035 Speaker 1: in the following four charges d u I, failure to 277 00:19:13,115 --> 00:19:16,035 Speaker 1: surrender proof of security, failure to stay in your lane, 278 00:19:16,235 --> 00:19:20,635 Speaker 1: and driving an unregistered vehicle. In the mug shot, his 279 00:19:20,795 --> 00:19:24,035 Speaker 1: left eye is open to a distance of about half 280 00:19:24,035 --> 00:19:27,315 Speaker 1: an inch, his right eye to about a quarter of 281 00:19:27,355 --> 00:19:30,755 Speaker 1: an inch. And no, he's not just here so he 282 00:19:30,755 --> 00:19:47,635 Speaker 1: doesn't get fined. Stella had Aaron Sorkin and the line 283 00:19:47,635 --> 00:19:49,635 Speaker 1: in one of his TV shows that lad, all of 284 00:19:49,675 --> 00:19:52,275 Speaker 1: my ex is to immediately contact me in a span 285 00:19:52,355 --> 00:19:55,395 Speaker 1: of about twenty five minutes coming up on countdown. First, 286 00:19:55,435 --> 00:19:58,435 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons, and Dunning Krueger 287 00:19:58,435 --> 00:20:02,515 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 288 00:20:03,595 --> 00:20:08,915 Speaker 1: The Bronze Dave Portnoy, that confused looking guy who brought 289 00:20:08,955 --> 00:20:12,675 Speaker 1: you bar stool samples sports at the Little League World 290 00:20:12,715 --> 00:20:16,395 Speaker 1: Series regional in Waco, Texas on Tuesday, at pitch got 291 00:20:16,395 --> 00:20:20,915 Speaker 1: away from Texas East pitcher Caden Shelton and hit Isaiah 292 00:20:21,035 --> 00:20:24,435 Speaker 1: Jarvis of Oklahoma in the head, knocked his helmet off 293 00:20:24,795 --> 00:20:27,635 Speaker 1: the batter. Jarvis was okay, but the picture Shelton was 294 00:20:27,715 --> 00:20:31,955 Speaker 1: visibly shaken, nearly in tears. Jarvis first shouted over to 295 00:20:32,035 --> 00:20:35,075 Speaker 1: him from first base, then jogged to the mound and 296 00:20:35,155 --> 00:20:38,115 Speaker 1: gave him a hug, assured him he was okay, and 297 00:20:38,155 --> 00:20:42,875 Speaker 1: he told Shelton, quote, you're doing great. This Potts. Portnoy 298 00:20:42,995 --> 00:20:47,355 Speaker 1: promptly tweeted, this isn't good sportsmanship, and he spelled sportsmanship 299 00:20:47,355 --> 00:20:50,555 Speaker 1: as if it were two words. It's umb. You got 300 00:20:50,555 --> 00:20:53,035 Speaker 1: this kid on the mound. He's rattled. Tripp to Williams. 301 00:20:53,035 --> 00:20:55,955 Speaker 1: Pot on the line. You can play Patty kicks after 302 00:20:56,435 --> 00:20:59,435 Speaker 1: as far as the pitcher goes, that's your plate. The 303 00:20:59,515 --> 00:21:04,235 Speaker 1: kids are thirteen, which is presumably also when whatever happened 304 00:21:04,235 --> 00:21:08,875 Speaker 1: to screw Portnoy up so badly happened you almost feel 305 00:21:08,955 --> 00:21:13,875 Speaker 1: sorry for Portnoy, almost lebronze disgraced ex New York Governor 306 00:21:13,915 --> 00:21:18,235 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo reacting to maral Lago f yourself by tweeting 307 00:21:18,315 --> 00:21:21,915 Speaker 1: quote d J most immediately explained the reason for its raid, 308 00:21:21,955 --> 00:21:24,635 Speaker 1: and it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives, 309 00:21:24,715 --> 00:21:26,595 Speaker 1: or it will be viewed as a political tactic and 310 00:21:26,715 --> 00:21:30,315 Speaker 1: undermine any future credible investigation in legitimacy of January six 311 00:21:30,355 --> 00:21:34,075 Speaker 1: investigations for crying out loud, how many mistakes can you 312 00:21:34,115 --> 00:21:36,755 Speaker 1: make in one lifetime? It had nothing to do with 313 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:42,195 Speaker 1: the January six investigations. Read something, She's Cuomo between you 314 00:21:42,235 --> 00:21:45,115 Speaker 1: and your brother, Chris, I'm gonna need to see some 315 00:21:45,235 --> 00:21:48,875 Speaker 1: d n A proof that you are actually Mario Cuomo's kids. 316 00:21:50,995 --> 00:21:54,675 Speaker 1: But our winner, Alex Jones just keeps getting better and better. 317 00:21:54,755 --> 00:21:58,835 Speaker 1: For him now the truth comes out. The intimate texts 318 00:21:59,035 --> 00:22:02,235 Speaker 1: to Roger Stone that the Sandy Hook lawyer referred to 319 00:22:02,995 --> 00:22:07,235 Speaker 1: They included a naked pick of Jones's wife, which Jones 320 00:22:07,835 --> 00:22:13,075 Speaker 1: texted to Stone for whatever bizarre reason, Erica Wolf Jones 321 00:22:13,115 --> 00:22:17,115 Speaker 1: confirmed it to Business Insider, quoting her, Honestly, I was 322 00:22:17,195 --> 00:22:20,195 Speaker 1: unaware that this occurred, she said, I'm sure this was 323 00:22:20,275 --> 00:22:24,395 Speaker 1: some kind of bragg exchange. Look how hot my wife 324 00:22:24,555 --> 00:22:29,155 Speaker 1: is kind of thing. Let me interrupt. If so, what 325 00:22:29,235 --> 00:22:32,635 Speaker 1: did Stones send Jones in return? Look? How hot my 326 00:22:32,755 --> 00:22:37,595 Speaker 1: two pay is? Anyway to finish Mrs Jones is priceless quote. 327 00:22:38,475 --> 00:22:40,795 Speaker 1: I am upset that he took privilege to send the 328 00:22:40,875 --> 00:22:43,795 Speaker 1: image to someone without my knowledge. However, that's really the 329 00:22:43,915 --> 00:22:48,795 Speaker 1: least of my problems right now. Business Insider actually claimed 330 00:22:48,795 --> 00:22:51,835 Speaker 1: to not really understand what Mrs Jones meant by that's 331 00:22:51,875 --> 00:22:53,995 Speaker 1: really the least of my problems right now, when it 332 00:22:54,035 --> 00:22:58,915 Speaker 1: seems pretty obvious she's stuck being the wife of Alex 333 00:22:58,995 --> 00:23:03,875 Speaker 1: freaking Jones. Alex, have you ever seen pictures of your 334 00:23:03,915 --> 00:23:08,755 Speaker 1: wife naked? Would you like to Jones? Two days worse 335 00:23:09,875 --> 00:23:32,795 Speaker 1: person in the world. Finally, our number one story in 336 00:23:32,795 --> 00:23:35,195 Speaker 1: the countdown things I promised not to tell and back 337 00:23:35,235 --> 00:23:39,475 Speaker 1: to my favorite topic me. I heard Jeff Daniels say 338 00:23:39,515 --> 00:23:42,475 Speaker 1: the words, and in the next minute my cell phone rang. 339 00:23:43,075 --> 00:23:45,875 Speaker 1: It was an ex girlfriend. While we were talking, an 340 00:23:45,875 --> 00:23:48,635 Speaker 1: email arrived from another ex girlfriend, and then in came 341 00:23:48,635 --> 00:23:51,835 Speaker 1: attacks from the current girlfriend at her folks house, then 342 00:23:51,915 --> 00:23:54,435 Speaker 1: two more emails, and before I was off the phone, 343 00:23:54,515 --> 00:23:59,115 Speaker 1: two voicemails, and then regular friends started to contact me. 344 00:23:59,195 --> 00:24:01,875 Speaker 1: This is just over ten years ago now. Was Sunday, 345 00:24:01,915 --> 00:24:05,875 Speaker 1: August five, two thousand twelve of Daniels was playing the 346 00:24:05,915 --> 00:24:11,235 Speaker 1: controversial newscaster and commentator on Aaron Sorkin's HBO series Newsroom, 347 00:24:11,555 --> 00:24:14,915 Speaker 1: which was based structurally on Me and Countdown. And I 348 00:24:14,955 --> 00:24:19,075 Speaker 1: know this because Aaron Sorkin told me so before he 349 00:24:19,115 --> 00:24:21,915 Speaker 1: filmed any of it. And I know this because he 350 00:24:21,995 --> 00:24:24,235 Speaker 1: asked me if he could base the pilot episode on 351 00:24:24,315 --> 00:24:27,475 Speaker 1: what happened to me at MSNBC in the spring and 352 00:24:27,515 --> 00:24:30,155 Speaker 1: summer of two thousand ten. And I know this because 353 00:24:30,155 --> 00:24:32,595 Speaker 1: he came in and shadowed the staff of Countdown for 354 00:24:32,715 --> 00:24:35,515 Speaker 1: two days to get the feel for the place. And 355 00:24:35,595 --> 00:24:38,195 Speaker 1: I know this because he wound up basing one character, 356 00:24:38,675 --> 00:24:43,715 Speaker 1: Maggie Jordan's on my assistant, Margaret Judson, and then hiring 357 00:24:43,755 --> 00:24:46,995 Speaker 1: Margaret Judson as a consultant, and then hiring her as 358 00:24:46,995 --> 00:24:49,235 Speaker 1: an actress to play a part that wasn't supposed to 359 00:24:49,235 --> 00:24:52,555 Speaker 1: be her. And I know this because he was furious 360 00:24:52,715 --> 00:24:54,995 Speaker 1: when I would not fly to Denver. I think it 361 00:24:55,115 --> 00:24:57,755 Speaker 1: was to do a cameo in the pilot. And I 362 00:24:57,835 --> 00:24:59,795 Speaker 1: know this because he said he was hiring me as 363 00:24:59,835 --> 00:25:02,155 Speaker 1: a consultant. And I know this because I never saw 364 00:25:02,195 --> 00:25:05,955 Speaker 1: a dime out of it. This was the second time 365 00:25:06,035 --> 00:25:08,795 Speaker 1: Aaron Sorkin had based one of his TV series on 366 00:25:08,795 --> 00:25:12,595 Speaker 1: one of my TV series. The other was called Sports Night, 367 00:25:12,995 --> 00:25:16,675 Speaker 1: and Esquire magazine once asked me to interview Sorkin about 368 00:25:16,755 --> 00:25:19,475 Speaker 1: Sports Night, and I asked him the real tough question, 369 00:25:19,795 --> 00:25:23,315 Speaker 1: what was the origin of Sports Night? And his answer was, quote, 370 00:25:23,675 --> 00:25:27,155 Speaker 1: you are the origin. So when The New York Times 371 00:25:27,195 --> 00:25:30,235 Speaker 1: had called me about Newsroom, I lightheartedly said it was 372 00:25:30,315 --> 00:25:33,155 Speaker 1: nice to know in advanced this time that Aaron Sorkin 373 00:25:33,275 --> 00:25:36,595 Speaker 1: was making a TV series about me. Sorkin did not 374 00:25:36,795 --> 00:25:40,715 Speaker 1: like this at all, and he told all his actors 375 00:25:40,715 --> 00:25:43,195 Speaker 1: to tell all their interviewers that this was not true. 376 00:25:43,515 --> 00:25:45,675 Speaker 1: And I know that because Jeff Daniels told me that 377 00:25:45,675 --> 00:25:50,155 Speaker 1: that was what Sorkin had told him. Sorkin is interesting. 378 00:25:51,075 --> 00:25:53,515 Speaker 1: I had known him for about ten or twelve years 379 00:25:53,555 --> 00:25:55,555 Speaker 1: when he came into Countdown to see what it looked 380 00:25:55,595 --> 00:25:59,035 Speaker 1: and felt like, and he was twenty minutes late, and 381 00:25:59,115 --> 00:26:02,715 Speaker 1: my assistant Margaret, after whom he named Maggie Jordan's, whom 382 00:26:02,715 --> 00:26:04,675 Speaker 1: he then hired away from me. And when he finally 383 00:26:04,755 --> 00:26:06,915 Speaker 1: hired as an actress to play tests Weston and she 384 00:26:07,075 --> 00:26:09,715 Speaker 1: was great by the way. Margaret brings him in and 385 00:26:09,715 --> 00:26:12,395 Speaker 1: he apologizes for being late, and he says he's staying 386 00:26:12,395 --> 00:26:14,395 Speaker 1: in a hotel two blocks away, and he should have 387 00:26:14,475 --> 00:26:17,115 Speaker 1: just walked, but instead he got in a car, and 388 00:26:17,115 --> 00:26:19,155 Speaker 1: the next thing he knew, he was six blocks away, 389 00:26:19,475 --> 00:26:22,595 Speaker 1: caught in traffic caused by the complete shutdown of one 390 00:26:22,595 --> 00:26:26,715 Speaker 1: of the crosstown streets for midday construction. And I laughed 391 00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:29,715 Speaker 1: and I said, well, like my late father, the architect 392 00:26:29,835 --> 00:26:32,395 Speaker 1: used to say, New York, it'll be a great town 393 00:26:32,475 --> 00:26:35,675 Speaker 1: whenever they finish it. And he laughed, and I laughed. 394 00:26:35,915 --> 00:26:38,875 Speaker 1: And two years later, in the seventh episode of the 395 00:26:39,075 --> 00:26:43,395 Speaker 1: HBO Newsroom series first aired on August five, two twelve, 396 00:26:43,475 --> 00:26:47,235 Speaker 1: and reaired throughout the week, Jeff Daniels as the anchorman, 397 00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:50,515 Speaker 1: Will McAvoy, who wasn't me but actually kind of was me, 398 00:26:51,395 --> 00:26:54,595 Speaker 1: is late to his newsroom because he gets caught in 399 00:26:54,635 --> 00:26:57,755 Speaker 1: Manhattan traffic caused by Sunday night street construction, and he 400 00:26:57,795 --> 00:27:01,635 Speaker 1: says to his exasperated producer, New York, it'll be a 401 00:27:01,675 --> 00:27:05,955 Speaker 1: great town whenever they finish it. Now, as when my 402 00:27:06,075 --> 00:27:09,035 Speaker 1: phone and email blew up, and the then girlfriend and 403 00:27:09,155 --> 00:27:13,315 Speaker 1: like forty percent of all of my exes ever all 404 00:27:13,395 --> 00:27:16,195 Speaker 1: had the same question, New York, it'll be a great 405 00:27:16,235 --> 00:27:18,915 Speaker 1: town whenever they finish it. Isn't that what your dad 406 00:27:19,035 --> 00:27:21,715 Speaker 1: used to say? Even the ones who never met my 407 00:27:21,795 --> 00:27:25,035 Speaker 1: dad knew this because I used to quote him constantly, 408 00:27:25,555 --> 00:27:27,675 Speaker 1: Because the real humor in the quote is the fact 409 00:27:27,715 --> 00:27:30,715 Speaker 1: that my dad was an architect and construction was his business. 410 00:27:31,195 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: New York, It'll be a great town whenever they finish it. 411 00:27:35,315 --> 00:27:37,795 Speaker 1: And then one of the last of the x is 412 00:27:37,835 --> 00:27:40,515 Speaker 1: reached out. She waited until the show was over. Now, 413 00:27:40,555 --> 00:27:43,115 Speaker 1: I don't think any of us is proud of this, 414 00:27:43,675 --> 00:27:47,915 Speaker 1: but she had also dated Sorkin once or twice, and 415 00:27:48,115 --> 00:27:51,195 Speaker 1: since she had written celebrity stories for a New York newspaper, 416 00:27:51,275 --> 00:27:54,115 Speaker 1: he had later asked her by email what the world 417 00:27:54,155 --> 00:27:57,555 Speaker 1: of gossip reporting was like, and she told him by email, 418 00:27:58,195 --> 00:28:01,475 Speaker 1: And what she now told me made Aaron Sorkin's use 419 00:28:01,515 --> 00:28:04,315 Speaker 1: of my dad's quote and other parts of my life 420 00:28:04,355 --> 00:28:08,915 Speaker 1: seemed like possible coincidences. She said she was watching the third, 421 00:28:08,915 --> 00:28:12,755 Speaker 1: maybe fourth episode of Newsroom, and in walked a new character, 422 00:28:12,875 --> 00:28:15,955 Speaker 1: a gossip columnist, a woman, and the first sentence the 423 00:28:16,035 --> 00:28:20,195 Speaker 1: character said was my friend. And Ex said, word for 424 00:28:20,275 --> 00:28:23,235 Speaker 1: word something she had sent to Sorkin in one of 425 00:28:23,275 --> 00:28:26,915 Speaker 1: the emails about the gossip business. She said, when she 426 00:28:27,035 --> 00:28:29,555 Speaker 1: heard it, her face started to get read and it 427 00:28:29,555 --> 00:28:33,595 Speaker 1: would keep getting redder. The gossip columnist character's second line 428 00:28:33,635 --> 00:28:36,315 Speaker 1: had also been cut and pasted from my Ex's email, 429 00:28:36,795 --> 00:28:39,315 Speaker 1: then her long speech, then all of her dialogue. She 430 00:28:39,355 --> 00:28:42,115 Speaker 1: said in her second scene. My ex actually managed to 431 00:28:42,115 --> 00:28:44,915 Speaker 1: record that episode and to find her own email to 432 00:28:44,995 --> 00:28:47,195 Speaker 1: Sorkin and to compare them. And she said, other than 433 00:28:47,315 --> 00:28:53,675 Speaker 1: changing a couple of tenses, he had used her answers verbatim. 434 00:28:53,715 --> 00:28:56,475 Speaker 1: I met the actor Josh Charles during the two thousand 435 00:28:56,555 --> 00:28:59,235 Speaker 1: World Series. I was there anchoring it for Fox Sports. 436 00:28:59,635 --> 00:29:03,195 Speaker 1: Josh was there promoting his new show on Fox. Josh 437 00:29:03,235 --> 00:29:07,035 Speaker 1: had played Dan Rydell on Sorkin's Sports Night series, and 438 00:29:07,075 --> 00:29:10,435 Speaker 1: even Sorkin and I agreed, dan Rydell is just me 439 00:29:10,475 --> 00:29:13,955 Speaker 1: with a different haircut. I was walking up Sixth Avenue 440 00:29:13,995 --> 00:29:17,035 Speaker 1: one day in October two thousand and from several blocks away, 441 00:29:17,675 --> 00:29:21,475 Speaker 1: I saw Josh Charles walking towards me, so I had 442 00:29:21,515 --> 00:29:24,075 Speaker 1: several minutes to prepare what I could say to him. 443 00:29:24,115 --> 00:29:28,475 Speaker 1: This was not spontaneous, sadly, but after our eyes met 444 00:29:28,515 --> 00:29:31,275 Speaker 1: and I smiled and he gave me that yes, I'm 445 00:29:31,315 --> 00:29:34,715 Speaker 1: on TV. Look that I recognized and have myself deployed. 446 00:29:35,195 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: He switched suddenly to shock and even a little apprehension, 447 00:29:39,035 --> 00:29:41,035 Speaker 1: and I said the line I had been rehearsing in 448 00:29:41,075 --> 00:29:45,195 Speaker 1: my head for several minutes. Excuse me. You don't get 449 00:29:45,235 --> 00:29:48,315 Speaker 1: to say this often in life, But didn't you used 450 00:29:48,355 --> 00:29:51,835 Speaker 1: to play me on TV? Right there on sixth Aven 451 00:29:51,875 --> 00:29:54,235 Speaker 1: You Josh told me about the ordeal of working with 452 00:29:54,275 --> 00:29:56,475 Speaker 1: and for Aaron Sorkin, and I thought he just met 453 00:29:56,555 --> 00:30:01,035 Speaker 1: for actors, but I later found out because New York, 454 00:30:01,155 --> 00:30:04,235 Speaker 1: it'll be a great town whenever they finish it. Josh 455 00:30:04,275 --> 00:30:06,475 Speaker 1: and I are still friends. We've gone to ball games together, 456 00:30:06,595 --> 00:30:08,875 Speaker 1: we were in a fantasy baseball league together, and one 457 00:30:08,955 --> 00:30:12,395 Speaker 1: night on my ESPN two show, we came back from commercial, 458 00:30:12,395 --> 00:30:15,595 Speaker 1: giving the audience no warning or explanation, and we simply 459 00:30:15,635 --> 00:30:18,555 Speaker 1: started co anchoring the show and calling it Sports Night 460 00:30:19,115 --> 00:30:22,115 Speaker 1: and making references to the program and to Newsroom, And 461 00:30:22,115 --> 00:30:25,435 Speaker 1: then he said, why did we keep reading this? And 462 00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:27,795 Speaker 1: I said, I don't know. I just assumed Sorkin had 463 00:30:27,875 --> 00:30:31,875 Speaker 1: run out of new ideas. The mutual laughter that followed 464 00:30:31,995 --> 00:30:36,435 Speaker 1: was sincere, there is one more punchline to the Newsroom 465 00:30:36,515 --> 00:30:40,075 Speaker 1: Sorkin story, because I was like his seventh guest ever. 466 00:30:40,235 --> 00:30:44,635 Speaker 1: When Stephen Colbert wrapped up the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, 467 00:30:44,995 --> 00:30:47,835 Speaker 1: I was invited to be on the final farewell episode, 468 00:30:48,115 --> 00:30:52,035 Speaker 1: me and like nine other people. There were so many 469 00:30:52,075 --> 00:30:55,995 Speaker 1: of us, ranging from Barry Manilow to Brian Cranston to 470 00:30:56,195 --> 00:30:59,715 Speaker 1: Big Bird, that they had like nine green rooms in 471 00:30:59,755 --> 00:31:02,155 Speaker 1: the Comedy Central building. And I get there and they 472 00:31:02,155 --> 00:31:03,995 Speaker 1: send me to the green room I would be sharing 473 00:31:04,035 --> 00:31:06,075 Speaker 1: with several of people. And I trudge up a bunch 474 00:31:06,115 --> 00:31:08,235 Speaker 1: of stairs to the top floor and in this big 475 00:31:08,315 --> 00:31:12,435 Speaker 1: room there is only one other performer there yet it's 476 00:31:12,515 --> 00:31:16,635 Speaker 1: Jeff Daniels. Without saying hello, he says, now, wait, let 477 00:31:16,635 --> 00:31:20,875 Speaker 1: me explain. Sorkin told me, and I explained, and then 478 00:31:20,915 --> 00:31:23,915 Speaker 1: he explained, and then I explained some more and Jeff said, 479 00:31:24,875 --> 00:31:30,635 Speaker 1: oh a lot, and once he said oops, and Sarkin 480 00:31:30,715 --> 00:31:33,515 Speaker 1: didn't tell me that. And after about three minutes he said, 481 00:31:34,075 --> 00:31:35,995 Speaker 1: so I owe you an apology and I said, no, 482 00:31:36,075 --> 00:31:38,755 Speaker 1: you don't. It's not your fault. And he smiled and 483 00:31:38,755 --> 00:31:42,515 Speaker 1: he said, well great, I'm glad. So can we take 484 00:31:42,555 --> 00:31:44,995 Speaker 1: a picture together that I can put out on Twitter? 485 00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:48,515 Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, absolutely, but only if you capture 486 00:31:48,555 --> 00:31:51,755 Speaker 1: in it New York. It'll be a great town whenever 487 00:31:51,795 --> 00:32:00,835 Speaker 1: they finish it. I've done all the damage I can 488 00:32:00,875 --> 00:32:03,195 Speaker 1: do here. This is where I ask for ratings and 489 00:32:03,275 --> 00:32:06,235 Speaker 1: subscriptions from you, for the podcasts and for telling your 490 00:32:06,275 --> 00:32:10,555 Speaker 1: friends and our enemies. I say thank you. The Countdown 491 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:13,315 Speaker 1: theme from Beethoven's ninth the Range produced and performed by 492 00:32:13,315 --> 00:32:17,035 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. All 493 00:32:17,195 --> 00:32:20,795 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. Did you hear 494 00:32:20,835 --> 00:32:23,675 Speaker 1: my New York accent? Come out there and all talking 495 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:27,635 Speaker 1: about my dad? All orchestration and keyboards, guitarist, bass and 496 00:32:27,715 --> 00:32:30,915 Speaker 1: drums by Brian Ray. Produced by t Ko Brothers. The 497 00:32:30,995 --> 00:32:33,755 Speaker 1: other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No 498 00:32:33,955 --> 00:32:38,955 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed our sports music. The Olberman theme written by 499 00:32:38,955 --> 00:32:42,675 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis. Courtesy of ESPN Inc. That's the one 500 00:32:42,715 --> 00:32:44,755 Speaker 1: from the show that Josh Charles and I co anchored 501 00:32:44,795 --> 00:32:48,515 Speaker 1: for about three minutes, musical comments throughout by Nancy Faust, 502 00:32:48,595 --> 00:32:52,035 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer in this 503 00:32:52,075 --> 00:32:56,075 Speaker 1: episode was John Dean. Everything else is my fault and 504 00:32:56,155 --> 00:32:58,995 Speaker 1: that is countdown for this the five first day since 505 00:32:58,995 --> 00:33:02,515 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 506 00:33:02,515 --> 00:33:06,155 Speaker 1: of the United States. I'm Keith Olberman. Good Morning, good afternoon, 507 00:33:06,715 --> 00:33:27,915 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 508 00:33:27,915 --> 00:33:31,515 Speaker 1: a production of I heart Radio. 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