1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. So 2 00:00:24,355 --> 00:00:30,915 Speaker 1: Trump is now the military dictator of Venezuela, replacing Maduro 3 00:00:31,955 --> 00:00:37,475 Speaker 1: the dictator of Venezuela, after what Trump called his extraordinary 4 00:00:37,515 --> 00:00:42,395 Speaker 1: military operation, itself suspiciously evocative of Putin's invasion of Ukraine 5 00:00:42,475 --> 00:00:49,755 Speaker 1: by his special military operation coincidence, no doubt, weakened, mentally degenerating, 6 00:00:50,315 --> 00:00:55,075 Speaker 1: soulless president of the United States and now also absentee 7 00:00:55,115 --> 00:01:01,755 Speaker 1: El Presidente of Venezuela. That's two countries. He doesn't have 8 00:01:01,795 --> 00:01:05,595 Speaker 1: the brain power to run El president the Dente of 9 00:01:05,755 --> 00:01:10,675 Speaker 1: Venezuela until he finds somebody else to run it for him, 10 00:01:11,035 --> 00:01:14,355 Speaker 1: Not the elected vice president, not the actual winner of 11 00:01:14,395 --> 00:01:18,795 Speaker 1: the last election, not the un Maybe somebody he in 12 00:01:18,795 --> 00:01:24,995 Speaker 1: his dysfunctional haze can trust, maybe an oil executive or 13 00:01:25,155 --> 00:01:31,115 Speaker 1: Elon Musk or cat turd. And that's also illegal, by 14 00:01:31,155 --> 00:01:35,195 Speaker 1: the way, the invasion was illegal there and illegal here. 15 00:01:35,395 --> 00:01:38,755 Speaker 1: The kidnapping was illegal. Declaring we would run the country 16 00:01:38,875 --> 00:01:42,835 Speaker 1: is illegal. Naming a proxy dictator is illegal. Acting as 17 00:01:42,875 --> 00:01:46,275 Speaker 1: a proxy dictator is illegal, as was his threat yesterday 18 00:01:46,315 --> 00:01:48,715 Speaker 1: to the acting president that quote, if she doesn't do 19 00:01:48,795 --> 00:01:50,755 Speaker 1: what's right, she is going to pay a very big price, 20 00:01:50,915 --> 00:01:54,915 Speaker 1: probably bigger than Maduro. And calling her belief that her 21 00:01:54,955 --> 00:01:58,355 Speaker 1: country shouldn't be invaded by another country breaking its own 22 00:01:58,475 --> 00:02:04,635 Speaker 1: laws is quote defiant rejection. That's illegal. It's all illegal. 23 00:02:04,835 --> 00:02:08,315 Speaker 1: That is a lot of illegal, even for Trump. And 24 00:02:08,395 --> 00:02:13,755 Speaker 1: I say this hating Maduro completely. Trump must be impeached, convicted, 25 00:02:13,915 --> 00:02:18,035 Speaker 1: and removed. Not that it is going to happen until 26 00:02:18,035 --> 00:02:24,635 Speaker 1: next year. Now in the interim, Trump and Rubio and 27 00:02:24,675 --> 00:02:29,195 Speaker 1: the others are rubbing themselves thinking about repeating this in 28 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:33,555 Speaker 1: Cuba or Greenland or Iran, because they are all just 29 00:02:33,675 --> 00:02:38,395 Speaker 1: neocons and always were. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is 30 00:02:38,435 --> 00:02:42,555 Speaker 1: a warmonger who likes to kill people and have other 31 00:02:42,595 --> 00:02:46,595 Speaker 1: people take the risk. So they all want this to 32 00:02:46,635 --> 00:02:51,355 Speaker 1: happen in Cuba and Greenland and Iran before the first 33 00:02:51,395 --> 00:02:55,715 Speaker 1: anti American protest in Venezuela occurs, or general strike or 34 00:02:55,755 --> 00:03:01,955 Speaker 1: bombing or riot or terrorism here. Oh, and Trump's news 35 00:03:02,035 --> 00:03:08,835 Speaker 1: conference at which he sounded dead, so bereft, so exhausted, 36 00:03:08,915 --> 00:03:12,595 Speaker 1: so barely functional that by contrast, Reagan seemed more coherent. 37 00:03:12,835 --> 00:03:16,355 Speaker 1: I mean Reagan, now, I mean Trump sounded so bad. 38 00:03:16,395 --> 00:03:20,795 Speaker 1: You wonder if Maduro was thinking, poor guy, calling the 39 00:03:20,835 --> 00:03:25,955 Speaker 1: Monroe doctrine the Donro doctrine more like the dumb Schmoe doctrine. 40 00:03:25,995 --> 00:03:32,075 Speaker 1: Am I right? The ramifications of Trump's piracy his banditry 41 00:03:32,115 --> 00:03:37,435 Speaker 1: are almost innumerable. He has made us a rogue nation. 42 00:03:38,595 --> 00:03:41,675 Speaker 1: He has made us into a country this country would 43 00:03:41,795 --> 00:03:46,395 Speaker 1: ordinarily try to undermine. He has committed international terrorism. He 44 00:03:46,475 --> 00:03:49,555 Speaker 1: has repeated Iraq right down to insisting that the war 45 00:03:49,635 --> 00:03:54,155 Speaker 1: will pay for itself because of the oil money. He 46 00:03:54,235 --> 00:03:57,915 Speaker 1: has made every mistake, recited every lie of the neocons. 47 00:03:58,115 --> 00:04:01,555 Speaker 1: He has become Dick Cheney and George W. Bush at 48 00:04:01,555 --> 00:04:07,835 Speaker 1: the same time. He has contradicted our national purpose, pardoning 49 00:04:07,915 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: one quote narco terrorist national leader, and kidnapping the one 50 00:04:11,915 --> 00:04:16,915 Speaker 1: next door. If he hadn't bought the head of International Soccer, 51 00:04:17,275 --> 00:04:20,195 Speaker 1: they would be moving this Summer's World Cup out of 52 00:04:20,235 --> 00:04:25,515 Speaker 1: our country today. If the Olympics weren't impossibly corrupt and corporate, 53 00:04:25,875 --> 00:04:28,115 Speaker 1: they would be kicking us out of the Winter ones 54 00:04:28,195 --> 00:04:32,035 Speaker 1: next month today, and moving the ones scheduled for Los 55 00:04:32,075 --> 00:04:38,515 Speaker 1: Angeles anywhere else in the world. More importantly, he has 56 00:04:38,595 --> 00:04:42,955 Speaker 1: manufactured a crisis for us here, specifically in New York City. 57 00:04:43,275 --> 00:04:46,635 Speaker 1: Unless Trump takes Maduro's bribe instead of his freedom, the 58 00:04:46,675 --> 00:04:50,315 Speaker 1: supposed trial will be here. The potential for terrorism or 59 00:04:50,355 --> 00:04:53,235 Speaker 1: at least broad protest has just doubled or trebled. And 60 00:04:53,275 --> 00:04:55,795 Speaker 1: if it happens, and it is Trump's fault, the only 61 00:04:55,875 --> 00:04:58,275 Speaker 1: act he will take will be to blame somebody else 62 00:04:58,355 --> 00:05:03,755 Speaker 1: for it, like Mandani or Joe Biden. And again the 63 00:05:03,795 --> 00:05:06,235 Speaker 1: grim humor here. If Maduro is smart, he should just 64 00:05:06,315 --> 00:05:09,035 Speaker 1: plead guilty to the charges and then give Giuliani and 65 00:05:09,075 --> 00:05:15,115 Speaker 1: Trump a million each and get himself a pardon. And 66 00:05:15,155 --> 00:05:17,395 Speaker 1: most of all, there is the reality I addressed when 67 00:05:17,395 --> 00:05:20,955 Speaker 1: the first attempts to effect regime change became apparent weeks ago, 68 00:05:21,035 --> 00:05:24,715 Speaker 1: and when Trump unconstitutionally invaded Venezuela early Saturday morning. It 69 00:05:24,755 --> 00:05:30,675 Speaker 1: is simple, If Trump gets to decide who runs Venezuela, 70 00:05:30,715 --> 00:05:34,435 Speaker 1: how can we be even one percent confident that some 71 00:05:34,595 --> 00:05:38,475 Speaker 1: other idiot some other countries. Trump won't insist that he 72 00:05:38,515 --> 00:05:42,435 Speaker 1: gets to decide who runs America. It will never have 73 00:05:42,515 --> 00:05:45,555 Speaker 1: occurred to Trump, It will never have occurred to Maga, 74 00:05:45,715 --> 00:05:48,235 Speaker 1: it will never have occurred to the Washington press corps 75 00:05:48,355 --> 00:05:52,875 Speaker 1: or the tech billionaires. But other countries have already tried 76 00:05:52,915 --> 00:05:57,515 Speaker 1: to change our regime. And you can argue that at 77 00:05:57,595 --> 00:06:02,355 Speaker 1: least three of them in the last sixty years Vietnam 78 00:06:02,395 --> 00:06:05,475 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty eight, Iran in nineteen eighty, Russia in 79 00:06:05,515 --> 00:06:09,915 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, at least those three have succeeded in changing 80 00:06:09,995 --> 00:06:16,515 Speaker 1: our regime, at least in part. Admittedly by stealth. Trump 81 00:06:16,595 --> 00:06:20,715 Speaker 1: has sewed the regime change wind, and he will reap 82 00:06:21,035 --> 00:06:27,075 Speaker 1: the whirlwind Owen so has this drip Rubio. Trump has 83 00:06:27,155 --> 00:06:32,675 Speaker 1: been dishonestly immunized by his concierge Supreme Court, but not Marco, 84 00:06:32,715 --> 00:06:36,715 Speaker 1: who was already acting like he was artificially impaired, and 85 00:06:36,755 --> 00:06:39,075 Speaker 1: who yesterday went on the Sunday shows and made this 86 00:06:39,115 --> 00:06:42,595 Speaker 1: look even more illegal and made himself look even stupider. 87 00:06:42,835 --> 00:06:46,875 Speaker 1: And Shorter asked on NBC if the Cuban government is 88 00:06:46,915 --> 00:06:50,995 Speaker 1: Trump's next target, even though just like Venezuela, they don't 89 00:06:51,035 --> 00:06:54,915 Speaker 1: produce or send fentanyl here either, and they were all 90 00:06:54,955 --> 00:06:59,875 Speaker 1: insisting this is not about regime change. Rubio stupidly said, quote, 91 00:07:00,115 --> 00:07:01,835 Speaker 1: and I ain't thank the amy in the line of travel. 92 00:07:01,955 --> 00:07:02,195 Speaker 2: Yes. 93 00:07:03,795 --> 00:07:08,955 Speaker 1: Then on abcde Marco Rubio dug his own impeachment Stephanopolos. 94 00:07:09,075 --> 00:07:11,955 Speaker 1: Trump said the US is going to run Venezuela under 95 00:07:11,995 --> 00:07:14,955 Speaker 1: what legal authority? Rubio? We want a better future for 96 00:07:14,995 --> 00:07:19,355 Speaker 1: the people of Venezuela. Stephanopoulos, I'll ask again, what is 97 00:07:19,395 --> 00:07:23,515 Speaker 1: the legal authority, Rubio? We have court orders? 98 00:07:24,035 --> 00:07:24,955 Speaker 2: Oooo. 99 00:07:26,835 --> 00:07:34,275 Speaker 1: Little Marco has court orders. The same administration openly defined 100 00:07:34,395 --> 00:07:43,675 Speaker 1: court orders here now hides behind court orders there. Also, 101 00:07:43,795 --> 00:07:47,275 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio lied about getting congressional approval War Powers Act 102 00:07:47,275 --> 00:07:52,835 Speaker 1: in all that little stuff, and his defense is to 103 00:07:53,195 --> 00:07:55,235 Speaker 1: is to hide behind court orders here. 104 00:07:57,235 --> 00:07:57,515 Speaker 2: Quote. 105 00:07:57,555 --> 00:08:00,035 Speaker 1: In an interview with The Washington Post, Rubio denied that 106 00:08:00,075 --> 00:08:02,355 Speaker 1: he lied and said he promised to get congressional approval 107 00:08:02,355 --> 00:08:04,675 Speaker 1: only at the United States. Quote was going to conduct 108 00:08:04,715 --> 00:08:08,755 Speaker 1: to military strikes for military purposes. This was not that 109 00:08:09,195 --> 00:08:14,715 Speaker 1: this was a law enforcement operation, Rubio said, bullshit. When 110 00:08:14,795 --> 00:08:18,475 Speaker 1: pressed the US forces bombing Venezuela, seizing its leader and 111 00:08:18,515 --> 00:08:21,835 Speaker 1: claiming to quote run unquote the country would be widely 112 00:08:21,915 --> 00:08:26,155 Speaker 1: interpreted as a military operation, Rubio did not relent, saying, quote, 113 00:08:26,235 --> 00:08:31,155 Speaker 1: the mission was in support of the Department of Justice. Now, 114 00:08:31,235 --> 00:08:34,155 Speaker 1: unless they've renamed the Department of Defense from the Department 115 00:08:34,155 --> 00:08:36,515 Speaker 1: of Defense to the Department of War to the Department 116 00:08:36,555 --> 00:08:40,835 Speaker 1: of Justice, Junior, He's lying again and he's a moron. 117 00:08:43,555 --> 00:08:46,035 Speaker 1: Oh and let's not forget the moment that Marco Rubio 118 00:08:46,115 --> 00:08:49,955 Speaker 1: began to act like he was stoned when they first 119 00:08:50,035 --> 00:08:54,875 Speaker 1: asked him about Ukraine last year, now last month, and 120 00:08:54,915 --> 00:08:56,835 Speaker 1: he said that wasn't our war because it was on 121 00:08:56,875 --> 00:09:01,075 Speaker 1: another continent. The Trump premise, there's an ocean between us. 122 00:09:01,235 --> 00:09:06,355 Speaker 1: Nobody can ever get across on ocean. It's on another 123 00:09:06,995 --> 00:09:12,515 Speaker 1: continent Ukraine. Hey, you know what Venezuela is on another continent. 124 00:09:13,875 --> 00:09:16,275 Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, impeach this lying towerp son of a 125 00:09:16,315 --> 00:09:19,475 Speaker 1: bitch along with Trump, and you can actually do this 126 00:09:19,515 --> 00:09:25,555 Speaker 1: one too. Happily. There is actually a slim chance the 127 00:09:25,595 --> 00:09:28,715 Speaker 1: impeachment of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State could happen. 128 00:09:29,395 --> 00:09:33,115 Speaker 1: This is wildly unpopular. All of this with Venezuela is 129 00:09:33,355 --> 00:09:37,675 Speaker 1: wildly unpopular. And these numbers will probably go up and 130 00:09:37,795 --> 00:09:41,195 Speaker 1: improve from the Trump point of view slightly because kaboom, 131 00:09:41,275 --> 00:09:46,035 Speaker 1: everybody likes seeing stuff blow up. And again though, the 132 00:09:46,155 --> 00:09:49,155 Speaker 1: numbers are going to be before the first on the 133 00:09:49,195 --> 00:09:54,395 Speaker 1: ground blowback, because there's going to be blowback from all 134 00:09:54,475 --> 00:09:58,075 Speaker 1: sides in Venezuela, and so far we don't have anybody 135 00:09:58,115 --> 00:10:00,795 Speaker 1: there to stop it, and if you want to send 136 00:10:00,795 --> 00:10:03,115 Speaker 1: somebody there to stop it, you're going to need to 137 00:10:03,155 --> 00:10:06,155 Speaker 1: send American troops and some of them are going to 138 00:10:06,315 --> 00:10:11,195 Speaker 1: die there. Asked in a rush poll Saturday by YUGUB, 139 00:10:11,395 --> 00:10:14,635 Speaker 1: do you support the military action in Venezuela? This is 140 00:10:14,835 --> 00:10:21,115 Speaker 1: after it happened strongly yes twenty percent, somewhat yes sixteen 141 00:10:21,195 --> 00:10:26,475 Speaker 1: percent total thirty six percent week Do you support us 142 00:10:26,555 --> 00:10:30,315 Speaker 1: running Venezuela after Trump said we would be running Venezuela 143 00:10:30,395 --> 00:10:35,475 Speaker 1: strongly support nineteen percent owing an oldie but a goodie. 144 00:10:35,755 --> 00:10:39,315 Speaker 1: A poll taken just before Christmas by Yugov Before using 145 00:10:39,355 --> 00:10:43,435 Speaker 1: military force in Venezuela, should Trump seek congressional approval yes 146 00:10:44,275 --> 00:10:50,875 Speaker 1: seventy four percent, Yes among MAGA fifty four percent. And 147 00:10:50,955 --> 00:10:55,955 Speaker 1: again war always gets a temporary polling bounce cause America 148 00:10:56,155 --> 00:10:59,515 Speaker 1: f Yeah, but there isn't very much here to bounce with. 149 00:11:00,195 --> 00:11:03,315 Speaker 1: And these guys are going to f this up pronto 150 00:11:03,915 --> 00:11:10,555 Speaker 1: because Don Trump, Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegseth are in charge. 151 00:11:10,795 --> 00:11:16,035 Speaker 1: And the secure room was simply a marri Lago ballroom 152 00:11:18,235 --> 00:11:23,515 Speaker 1: with a curtain rod next to it. I'd like to 153 00:11:23,515 --> 00:11:28,835 Speaker 1: get back to something I just swam past. That non coincidence, 154 00:11:28,835 --> 00:11:35,035 Speaker 1: coincidence of Trump's extraordinary military operation and Putin's special military operation. 155 00:11:35,355 --> 00:11:38,515 Speaker 1: It was the columnist Dave Troy of The Washington Spectator 156 00:11:38,635 --> 00:11:42,235 Speaker 1: who remembered this, Of all the international reactions to El 157 00:11:42,395 --> 00:11:46,715 Speaker 1: Presidente Trump, the most interesting one is Putin's, because Putin 158 00:11:46,955 --> 00:11:50,115 Speaker 1: is the Sherlock Holmes dog that didn't bark in the night. 159 00:11:51,195 --> 00:11:58,715 Speaker 1: Venezuela was Russia's top ally Maduro's biggest supporter. Putin has 160 00:11:58,755 --> 00:12:01,995 Speaker 1: been virtually silent almost all through the build up, and 161 00:12:02,035 --> 00:12:04,955 Speaker 1: he's been silent since this happened. And this underscore is 162 00:12:04,995 --> 00:12:08,515 Speaker 1: what Fiona Hill, Trump's senior director for Europe and Russia 163 00:12:08,515 --> 00:12:11,035 Speaker 1: on the National Security Council, one of the few to 164 00:12:11,155 --> 00:12:15,795 Speaker 1: recognize quickly the amazing breadth of Trump's imbecility and his immorality. 165 00:12:16,795 --> 00:12:21,395 Speaker 1: On October fourteenth, twenty nineteen, Hill testified during the first 166 00:12:21,475 --> 00:12:25,075 Speaker 1: Trump impeachment that there was linkage between Putin and Trump 167 00:12:25,115 --> 00:12:29,355 Speaker 1: and Ukraine and Venezuela. Director Hill testified about the back 168 00:12:29,435 --> 00:12:33,235 Speaker 1: channel conversations from the spring of twenty nineteen, and I'll 169 00:12:33,315 --> 00:12:37,275 Speaker 1: quote her testimony. This is, you know, March April into May, 170 00:12:37,435 --> 00:12:40,995 Speaker 1: where we were having a standoff Oliver Venezuela and the 171 00:12:41,075 --> 00:12:44,395 Speaker 1: Russians at this particular juncture were signaling very strongly that 172 00:12:44,435 --> 00:12:48,155 Speaker 1: they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement 173 00:12:48,875 --> 00:12:52,155 Speaker 1: between Venezuela and Ukraine. In other words, if we were 174 00:12:52,195 --> 00:12:54,875 Speaker 1: going to exert some semblance of the Monroe doctrine of 175 00:12:55,155 --> 00:12:58,115 Speaker 1: you know, Russia keeping out of our backyard. Because this 176 00:12:58,235 --> 00:13:00,315 Speaker 1: is after the Russians had set in these one hundred 177 00:13:00,395 --> 00:13:04,355 Speaker 1: operatives essentially to you know, basically secure the Venezuelan government 178 00:13:04,435 --> 00:13:07,035 Speaker 1: and you know, to preempt what they were obviously taking 179 00:13:07,035 --> 00:13:09,755 Speaker 1: to be some kind of US military action. They were 180 00:13:09,755 --> 00:13:13,355 Speaker 1: basically signaling, you know, you have your Monroe doctrine, you 181 00:13:13,435 --> 00:13:16,275 Speaker 1: won us out of your backyard. Well, you know, we 182 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:19,795 Speaker 1: have our own version of this. You're in our backyard 183 00:13:19,915 --> 00:13:27,755 Speaker 1: in Ukraine unquote. And suddenly, if it weren't clear already, 184 00:13:27,755 --> 00:13:33,155 Speaker 1: Trump's endless dithering about Ukraine becomes clear. One of the 185 00:13:33,275 --> 00:13:37,155 Speaker 1: rare disasters of Trump foreign policy that is not attributable 186 00:13:37,155 --> 00:13:40,595 Speaker 1: to his broken brain and even more broken egomania. This 187 00:13:40,795 --> 00:13:47,755 Speaker 1: is Trump trading Ukraine for Venezuela. It's not just that 188 00:13:47,795 --> 00:13:50,155 Speaker 1: he sold out to Putin, It's that he sold out 189 00:13:50,355 --> 00:13:55,795 Speaker 1: to big oil and Putin. The reason Trump has not 190 00:13:55,835 --> 00:13:58,795 Speaker 1: only never fully committed to defend Ukraine and Europe, but 191 00:13:58,915 --> 00:14:03,675 Speaker 1: deliberately stalled on Putin's behalf by constantly changing America's position 192 00:14:03,875 --> 00:14:07,435 Speaker 1: and constantly moving the chronological goalpost is that when the 193 00:14:07,555 --> 00:14:10,035 Speaker 1: day finally came that he felt emboldened to act to 194 00:14:10,115 --> 00:14:14,435 Speaker 1: invade Venezuela illegally, to overthrow its government illegally, he knew 195 00:14:14,475 --> 00:14:19,075 Speaker 1: Putin would do nothing provided that the US had done 196 00:14:19,115 --> 00:14:24,395 Speaker 1: nothing about Ukraine. And thus this is not just about 197 00:14:24,395 --> 00:14:26,755 Speaker 1: the darkness of the reality that America under Trump is 198 00:14:26,795 --> 00:14:29,515 Speaker 1: now guilty of international terrorism and the worst kind of 199 00:14:29,595 --> 00:14:34,435 Speaker 1: regime change and of murder to benefit corporations. It is 200 00:14:34,475 --> 00:14:38,475 Speaker 1: that it is part of a transaction by which we 201 00:14:38,595 --> 00:14:44,955 Speaker 1: let Putin do this to Ukraine. And where next? Poland Scandinavia? 202 00:14:45,035 --> 00:14:48,595 Speaker 1: What's the next trade? If Trump stands aside as Putin 203 00:14:48,635 --> 00:14:54,515 Speaker 1: goes for Finland, does Trump get Greenland? And now you 204 00:14:54,515 --> 00:14:57,115 Speaker 1: see where this is headed. It's Hitler and Mussolini again. 205 00:14:57,675 --> 00:15:00,275 Speaker 1: And finally, those who have insisted Trump is not Hitler 206 00:15:00,315 --> 00:15:04,075 Speaker 1: are in one sense correct. He's not Hitler in this equation. 207 00:15:05,155 --> 00:15:09,715 Speaker 1: The leader in this edition of international scum baggery. He's 208 00:15:09,875 --> 00:15:18,835 Speaker 1: just the Mussolini. Finally, the comic relief. This was from 209 00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:22,155 Speaker 1: the director of Litigation at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, 210 00:15:22,235 --> 00:15:28,315 Speaker 1: Ted Frank. Quoting Ted Frank, The really shocking thing is 211 00:15:28,315 --> 00:15:56,195 Speaker 1: that when they captured Maduro, he was with Olivia Newsy. Okay, 212 00:15:56,235 --> 00:15:59,355 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have laughed, but I laughed. I don't think 213 00:15:59,395 --> 00:16:02,435 Speaker 1: he's old enough for her. Two other things before they 214 00:16:02,435 --> 00:16:05,395 Speaker 1: get buried under possible wall to wall veneze whala this week, 215 00:16:05,435 --> 00:16:10,155 Speaker 1: first about President brainspurs So why did they just change 216 00:16:10,155 --> 00:16:13,315 Speaker 1: the entire story about Trump's health? I mean, I know 217 00:16:13,395 --> 00:16:17,475 Speaker 1: we see Venezuela as wagged the dog with the Epstein story. 218 00:16:17,555 --> 00:16:20,995 Speaker 1: I think it's more about wagging the dog with Trump's 219 00:16:21,035 --> 00:16:28,355 Speaker 1: health changing again. What happened? Was it Epstein? Was it Venezuela? 220 00:16:28,395 --> 00:16:31,275 Speaker 1: What happened that made it worth it to essentially admit 221 00:16:31,315 --> 00:16:35,555 Speaker 1: Trump lied and the entire organization, the criminal organization he runs, 222 00:16:35,755 --> 00:16:38,795 Speaker 1: lied about, even something as easy as what kind of 223 00:16:38,875 --> 00:16:44,115 Speaker 1: goddamned imaging he had MRI or CT? What happened that 224 00:16:44,195 --> 00:16:46,555 Speaker 1: made it worth it to confirm that the White House 225 00:16:46,595 --> 00:16:50,275 Speaker 1: Press Secretary repeatedly did not tell the truth to the nation. 226 00:16:52,115 --> 00:16:54,875 Speaker 1: What happened that made it necessary to portray everybody with 227 00:16:54,915 --> 00:16:58,355 Speaker 1: the slightest connection to Trump's health as participants in another 228 00:16:58,555 --> 00:17:03,835 Speaker 1: cover up, a conspiracy, a scam, two scams of a 229 00:17:03,875 --> 00:17:07,675 Speaker 1: conspiracy of a cover up. What happened that made him 230 00:17:07,715 --> 00:17:11,195 Speaker 1: suddenly blurt out that he's had yet a third cognitive tests, 231 00:17:11,875 --> 00:17:14,315 Speaker 1: a cognitive test that he doesn't seem to understand has 232 00:17:14,315 --> 00:17:17,955 Speaker 1: given out a fear of growing dementia or worsening brain impairment. 233 00:17:18,595 --> 00:17:20,875 Speaker 1: I mean, we don't know if he had another test 234 00:17:20,955 --> 00:17:23,555 Speaker 1: or he's just making this test up because he thinks 235 00:17:23,555 --> 00:17:28,115 Speaker 1: he and his co conspirators have some remaining credibility when 236 00:17:28,155 --> 00:17:31,795 Speaker 1: they open their big bazoos on the subject of his health. 237 00:17:33,675 --> 00:17:36,355 Speaker 1: We only know two things. One we cannot trust this 238 00:17:36,435 --> 00:17:39,475 Speaker 1: administration to tell the truth or anything close to the 239 00:17:39,515 --> 00:17:43,235 Speaker 1: truth about Trump's health. And two, whether these latest revelations 240 00:17:43,235 --> 00:17:46,475 Speaker 1: are correct or just new lies swapped in for the 241 00:17:46,555 --> 00:17:50,795 Speaker 1: old lies. Something has happened to change the story of 242 00:17:50,875 --> 00:17:57,755 Speaker 1: Trump's health, and the irony, the stupid sidebar that always 243 00:17:57,755 --> 00:18:02,475 Speaker 1: accompanies everything falsified by this Trump gang that couldn't lie straight. 244 00:18:02,875 --> 00:18:06,395 Speaker 1: The irony is that this complete on where Trump's failing 245 00:18:06,435 --> 00:18:10,555 Speaker 1: health now stands or sits because he can't stand very 246 00:18:10,595 --> 00:18:14,635 Speaker 1: long anymore. This whole tacit admission. Sure we lied then, 247 00:18:15,035 --> 00:18:18,635 Speaker 1: but we're not lying now. The irony is that this 248 00:18:18,675 --> 00:18:20,755 Speaker 1: resulted from what the White House clearly thought was going 249 00:18:20,835 --> 00:18:22,715 Speaker 1: to be a puff piece in the Wall Street Journal, 250 00:18:23,235 --> 00:18:27,635 Speaker 1: a puff piece by the execrable soulless hack Annie Lynsky, 251 00:18:27,955 --> 00:18:31,035 Speaker 1: the ghoul who had been bounced by the Washington Post 252 00:18:31,355 --> 00:18:34,355 Speaker 1: after she captured a photo of President Biden by writing, 253 00:18:34,715 --> 00:18:37,195 Speaker 1: Biden goes to church and walks through a graveyard in 254 00:18:37,275 --> 00:18:42,875 Speaker 1: Wilmington as his legislative agenda is dying in Washington unquote. 255 00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:45,875 Speaker 1: If you will remember what she was making fun of, 256 00:18:46,395 --> 00:18:49,155 Speaker 1: was Biden in fact going to visit the final resting 257 00:18:49,155 --> 00:18:52,115 Speaker 1: places of his first daughter, his first son, and his 258 00:18:52,155 --> 00:18:56,475 Speaker 1: first wife in the graveyard in which they are buried. Lynsky, 259 00:18:57,195 --> 00:19:02,355 Speaker 1: a scumbag, deleted the tweet, then issued a non apology apology, 260 00:19:02,755 --> 00:19:05,835 Speaker 1: then was forced into a tepet I'm so, and now 261 00:19:06,315 --> 00:19:10,675 Speaker 1: she's in hell. She works for Rupert Murdoch. The White 262 00:19:10,715 --> 00:19:14,715 Speaker 1: House and Trump had turned to this creature Lynsky and 263 00:19:14,875 --> 00:19:18,635 Speaker 1: assumed she would clean up the unraveling scandal over the 264 00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:21,915 Speaker 1: Trump health cover up. Instead, the impact of even her 265 00:19:21,995 --> 00:19:25,555 Speaker 1: piece was so bad. The two days later, Trump posted, 266 00:19:25,595 --> 00:19:27,995 Speaker 1: he is in perfect health, and if you need any proof, 267 00:19:28,075 --> 00:19:30,835 Speaker 1: he'd just taken another cognitive test and aced it as 268 00:19:30,875 --> 00:19:33,835 Speaker 1: if that fact is anything but confirmation that he is 269 00:19:33,875 --> 00:19:41,715 Speaker 1: as far from perfect health as you can be. But why, why, why, 270 00:19:41,755 --> 00:19:47,955 Speaker 1: why why why have they changed all the stories. Let's 271 00:19:48,035 --> 00:19:52,435 Speaker 1: just review this first, the MRI where he didn't know 272 00:19:52,515 --> 00:19:55,515 Speaker 1: which part of his own body had been MRID and 273 00:19:55,595 --> 00:19:58,315 Speaker 1: acted as if no one was ever told what part 274 00:19:58,315 --> 00:20:00,755 Speaker 1: of the body was being MRID and he was the 275 00:20:00,795 --> 00:20:07,395 Speaker 1: authority on MRID that's now inoperative. It was a ct scan, 276 00:20:08,915 --> 00:20:10,995 Speaker 1: even though Trump said at the time quote it was 277 00:20:11,155 --> 00:20:14,555 Speaker 1: just an MRI what part of the body. It wasn't 278 00:20:14,555 --> 00:20:16,675 Speaker 1: the brain because I took a cognitive test and I 279 00:20:16,715 --> 00:20:22,155 Speaker 1: aced it. Pro tip for the doctor's next cognitive test, 280 00:20:22,235 --> 00:20:26,115 Speaker 1: you give him, ask him what an MRI is. Let's 281 00:20:26,115 --> 00:20:30,075 Speaker 1: see him ace that. And of course the Saint Paul 282 00:20:30,275 --> 00:20:33,915 Speaker 1: girl beer bottle logo, who's press secretary, said it was 283 00:20:33,955 --> 00:20:36,675 Speaker 1: a perfect MRI highest score. Ever, I don't know that 284 00:20:36,715 --> 00:20:39,635 Speaker 1: she used those three initials. I don't know that she 285 00:20:39,835 --> 00:20:43,235 Speaker 1: used the acronym, but quoting Politico, White House Press Secretary 286 00:20:43,315 --> 00:20:46,075 Speaker 1: Carol I and Levitt told reporters Monday that the results 287 00:20:46,075 --> 00:20:50,115 Speaker 1: from Donald Trump's recent MRI were perfectly normal, amid questions 288 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:54,035 Speaker 1: from Democrats about the president's health. Quote, everything evaluated is 289 00:20:54,035 --> 00:20:58,795 Speaker 1: functioning within normal limits with no acute or chronic concerns. Levitt, 290 00:20:58,795 --> 00:21:01,115 Speaker 1: reading a summary provided to her from the physician of 291 00:21:01,155 --> 00:21:03,995 Speaker 1: the president, said at a White House press conference in 292 00:21:04,075 --> 00:21:07,555 Speaker 1: summary year, this level of detailed assessment is standard for 293 00:21:07,595 --> 00:21:11,555 Speaker 1: an executive physical at President Trump's age and confirms that 294 00:21:11,595 --> 00:21:17,075 Speaker 1: he remains in excellent overall. Hell, the oops, it's no 295 00:21:17,155 --> 00:21:20,875 Speaker 1: longer an MRI. Trump in the journal. It wasn't an MRI. 296 00:21:21,595 --> 00:21:23,835 Speaker 1: It was less than that. It was a scan. So 297 00:21:23,955 --> 00:21:26,915 Speaker 1: we've gone in weeks from Trump. It was just an MRI. 298 00:21:27,555 --> 00:21:33,395 Speaker 1: To Trump, it wasn't an MRI. His White House doctor. 299 00:21:34,435 --> 00:21:39,995 Speaker 1: I think he's a doctor, doctor Vinnie boombots. No, I'm sorry, 300 00:21:40,155 --> 00:21:47,075 Speaker 1: doctor Sean Barbarabella, which is actually funnier. Doctor Sean Barbabella 301 00:21:47,955 --> 00:21:50,355 Speaker 1: says now it was a CT and quoting him, it 302 00:21:50,395 --> 00:21:55,035 Speaker 1: was done to definitely, no excuse me, definitively rule out 303 00:21:55,075 --> 00:22:04,675 Speaker 1: any cardiovascular issues. That's an angiogram. But in twenty eighteen, 304 00:22:04,835 --> 00:22:08,675 Speaker 1: the old doctor for Trump, Ronnie glug Glug Jackson, said 305 00:22:08,675 --> 00:22:15,475 Speaker 1: a carnary CT had showed cardiovascular issues, a buildup of 306 00:22:15,555 --> 00:22:21,715 Speaker 1: plaque in his blood vessels, moderate heart disease. This the 307 00:22:21,715 --> 00:22:25,115 Speaker 1: Monty Python joke about the the guy was turned into 308 00:22:25,155 --> 00:22:30,075 Speaker 1: a newt I got better. So they changed not only 309 00:22:30,075 --> 00:22:33,835 Speaker 1: the MRI story, they changed the question of whether or 310 00:22:33,835 --> 00:22:37,955 Speaker 1: not he's got any cardiovascular issues. He did in twenty eighteen. 311 00:22:37,995 --> 00:22:41,475 Speaker 1: He doesn't now. Oh, there was more and more McDonald's 312 00:22:41,475 --> 00:22:42,475 Speaker 1: that will do it every time. 313 00:22:43,275 --> 00:22:43,515 Speaker 2: Two. 314 00:22:43,675 --> 00:22:46,755 Speaker 1: Remember the hand bruises, the giant patches that looked like 315 00:22:46,795 --> 00:22:50,715 Speaker 1: filled in potholes. Those are from too much handshaking, even 316 00:22:50,755 --> 00:22:54,835 Speaker 1: though among humans anyway, maybe not in the area of 317 00:22:54,875 --> 00:22:58,115 Speaker 1: whatever Trump is. Among humans, the only time you use 318 00:22:58,155 --> 00:23:00,835 Speaker 1: the outside of your hand in a handshake is when 319 00:23:00,875 --> 00:23:03,515 Speaker 1: you do the double handed handshake. And Trump is too 320 00:23:03,555 --> 00:23:07,315 Speaker 1: germaphobic ever to do that. Well, it's no longer hand 321 00:23:07,315 --> 00:23:12,155 Speaker 1: bruises anyway. It's aspirin. Wall Street Journal quote. They say, 322 00:23:12,235 --> 00:23:14,475 Speaker 1: aspirin is good for thinning out the bra what and 323 00:23:14,555 --> 00:23:19,235 Speaker 1: I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart, Trump said, 324 00:23:19,235 --> 00:23:21,235 Speaker 1: of why he takes a larger dose three hundred and 325 00:23:21,235 --> 00:23:24,795 Speaker 1: twenty five micrograms. I want nice, thin blood pouring through 326 00:23:24,795 --> 00:23:30,035 Speaker 1: my heart. Does that make any sense? Not really, no quote. 327 00:23:30,035 --> 00:23:32,635 Speaker 1: They'd rather have me take the smaller one. Trump added, 328 00:23:33,275 --> 00:23:35,795 Speaker 1: I take the larger one. But I've done it for years, 329 00:23:36,075 --> 00:23:38,515 Speaker 1: and what it does do is it causes bruising. 330 00:23:40,595 --> 00:23:41,715 Speaker 2: Uh huh. 331 00:23:41,955 --> 00:23:44,595 Speaker 1: I will give him this. When I was a kid, 332 00:23:44,595 --> 00:23:48,115 Speaker 1: it was widely believed among mothers that kids should have 333 00:23:48,155 --> 00:23:51,755 Speaker 1: an aspirin every day, a full strength aspirin, maybe two. 334 00:23:53,795 --> 00:23:58,315 Speaker 1: I remember doing this into my twenties. I'll give him that. However, 335 00:23:58,395 --> 00:24:04,475 Speaker 1: his twenties ended in nineteen seventy five. Should have broken 336 00:24:04,475 --> 00:24:07,515 Speaker 1: this habit by now. And what was the handshake story? 337 00:24:07,555 --> 00:24:09,755 Speaker 2: A lie? Okay? Three? 338 00:24:09,955 --> 00:24:14,875 Speaker 1: His ankles, his giant inflatable ankles, his mega cankles. Well, 339 00:24:14,875 --> 00:24:17,195 Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with his ankles. Oh no, wait, yeah 340 00:24:17,235 --> 00:24:20,355 Speaker 1: there is. Trump told the journal he tried compression socks 341 00:24:20,395 --> 00:24:22,715 Speaker 1: but didn't like them. He also suggested he was not 342 00:24:22,755 --> 00:24:25,875 Speaker 1: interested in taking up regular exercise. I just don't like it. 343 00:24:25,875 --> 00:24:28,635 Speaker 1: It's boring. Trump said, to walk on a treadmill or 344 00:24:28,715 --> 00:24:30,675 Speaker 1: run on a treadmill for hours and hours like some 345 00:24:30,675 --> 00:24:38,155 Speaker 1: people do. That's not for me. Okay, by the way, 346 00:24:38,195 --> 00:24:40,995 Speaker 1: if you need a definition of maga and you need 347 00:24:41,035 --> 00:24:44,275 Speaker 1: to try to understand ultimately why it succeeded, here it 348 00:24:44,395 --> 00:24:48,195 Speaker 1: is right in that sentence. I don't like it, so 349 00:24:48,355 --> 00:24:50,675 Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. And we have a 350 00:24:50,715 --> 00:24:53,115 Speaker 1: president of the United States who says, good for you. 351 00:24:53,315 --> 00:24:53,955 Speaker 2: Don't do it. 352 00:24:54,915 --> 00:25:00,995 Speaker 1: Vaccines, COVID restrictions laws, not going to Congress for approval 353 00:25:01,035 --> 00:25:06,115 Speaker 1: of your own private war. Just don't do it. And 354 00:25:06,155 --> 00:25:10,755 Speaker 1: then of course you discover your Herman Caine four. Trump's 355 00:25:10,795 --> 00:25:14,275 Speaker 1: diet sweet Jesus on hockey skates. I thought I ate 356 00:25:14,355 --> 00:25:17,435 Speaker 1: badly the journal again. Trump said he hasn't made changes 357 00:25:17,435 --> 00:25:20,235 Speaker 1: to his diet, and a podcast interview in October, Republican 358 00:25:20,315 --> 00:25:22,795 Speaker 1: National Committee chairman Joe Gruiders, who by the way, is 359 00:25:22,835 --> 00:25:25,995 Speaker 1: the size of a beached whale, described being shocked by 360 00:25:26,035 --> 00:25:29,195 Speaker 1: Trump's eating habits when they traveled together during the campaign. 361 00:25:29,595 --> 00:25:31,795 Speaker 1: While flying to a campaign of that according to Gruder's, 362 00:25:31,955 --> 00:25:35,715 Speaker 1: Trump consumed French fries, a McDonald's quarter pounder, hamburger, a 363 00:25:35,715 --> 00:25:41,555 Speaker 1: big mac, and a filet o fish. Trump said he 364 00:25:41,595 --> 00:25:44,235 Speaker 1: had plenty of energy, which he credited to his parents, 365 00:25:44,595 --> 00:25:47,475 Speaker 1: who he said, were energetic until their old age. Genetics 366 00:25:47,515 --> 00:25:50,155 Speaker 1: are very important, he said, And I have very good genetics. 367 00:25:50,275 --> 00:25:53,195 Speaker 1: Sure you do, you have great genetics. Dad died after 368 00:25:53,315 --> 00:25:55,835 Speaker 1: years of dementia, and Mom went out in public for 369 00:25:55,875 --> 00:25:58,195 Speaker 1: several decades with hair that made it look like a 370 00:25:58,235 --> 00:26:00,555 Speaker 1: hornet's nest had fallen on her head and she liked it. 371 00:26:00,995 --> 00:26:05,115 Speaker 1: And Don Junior and Eric are barely functional mentally. I 372 00:26:05,155 --> 00:26:08,155 Speaker 1: guess the big revision here. The big change is part 373 00:26:08,155 --> 00:26:12,075 Speaker 1: of the overall change of the Trump health situation is 374 00:26:12,115 --> 00:26:17,755 Speaker 1: the filet o fish revelation. Grudders saw him consume French fries, 375 00:26:17,755 --> 00:26:20,275 Speaker 1: a MacDonald's quarter pounder hamburger, and a big mac and 376 00:26:20,395 --> 00:26:24,755 Speaker 1: a falleto fish. Trump has never admitted eating fish before. 377 00:26:24,955 --> 00:26:30,475 Speaker 1: What kind of president do we have who eats fish? 378 00:26:30,835 --> 00:26:31,075 Speaker 2: Next? 379 00:26:31,115 --> 00:26:37,315 Speaker 1: It'll be Kale. But most importantly of all these changes, five, 380 00:26:37,915 --> 00:26:42,955 Speaker 1: He's changed the story on the brain again. Trump's response 381 00:26:42,995 --> 00:26:46,475 Speaker 1: to the articles about his health, and particularly the one 382 00:26:46,475 --> 00:26:48,315 Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal that did not turn out 383 00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:50,675 Speaker 1: to be quite the puff piece that they expected, was 384 00:26:50,715 --> 00:26:54,195 Speaker 1: to play his ace in the hole. I passed the 385 00:26:54,275 --> 00:26:57,795 Speaker 1: tests that they used to tree ash people who are 386 00:26:57,835 --> 00:27:02,515 Speaker 1: beginning to come to dementia. Yay, his brain is not 387 00:27:02,635 --> 00:27:07,875 Speaker 1: melting yet. Quoting his post, the White House doctors have 388 00:27:08,035 --> 00:27:10,635 Speaker 1: just reported, doctor Vinnie Boombats, the White House Doctors have 389 00:27:10,755 --> 00:27:14,115 Speaker 1: just reported that I am in perfect health capitals and 390 00:27:14,195 --> 00:27:17,395 Speaker 1: that I aced capitals meaning was correct on one hundred 391 00:27:17,395 --> 00:27:20,515 Speaker 1: percent of the questions asked exclamation point for the third 392 00:27:20,555 --> 00:27:24,275 Speaker 1: straight time. My cognitive examination, something which no other president 393 00:27:24,395 --> 00:27:27,315 Speaker 1: or previous by the president was willing to take. Ps 394 00:27:27,355 --> 00:27:29,995 Speaker 1: I strongly believe in anyone running for president or vice 395 00:27:30,035 --> 00:27:33,155 Speaker 1: president should be mandatorily forced to take a strong, meaningful 396 00:27:33,155 --> 00:27:36,675 Speaker 1: and proven cognitive examination. Our great country cannot be run 397 00:27:36,715 --> 00:27:42,915 Speaker 1: by capital letters, stupid small letters, or incompetent people. President DJT, 398 00:27:45,355 --> 00:27:50,555 Speaker 1: every Trump accusation is a confession once again. The question, though, 399 00:27:50,675 --> 00:27:55,555 Speaker 1: is why did they change the story again? Why is 400 00:27:55,595 --> 00:27:59,195 Speaker 1: his heart now under scrutiny again, and most importantly, why 401 00:27:59,835 --> 00:28:04,595 Speaker 1: why did they give him another cognitive test, a third 402 00:28:04,795 --> 00:28:09,875 Speaker 1: cognitive test which he has convinced himself, possibly through remember 403 00:28:09,915 --> 00:28:13,715 Speaker 1: our new favorite word, anosagnosia, possibly convinced himself he is 404 00:28:13,795 --> 00:28:19,435 Speaker 1: something good. A third one in what nine months? It 405 00:28:19,475 --> 00:28:22,035 Speaker 1: looked like they were doing this every six months, along 406 00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:24,915 Speaker 1: with a brain scan of some sort to check to 407 00:28:24,995 --> 00:28:29,355 Speaker 1: c possibly if there was dementia, or, as was wildly speculated, 408 00:28:29,755 --> 00:28:32,875 Speaker 1: maybe there were dementia drugs in progress and they needed 409 00:28:32,875 --> 00:28:37,715 Speaker 1: to see the actual physical impact on his brain. Instead 410 00:28:37,715 --> 00:28:40,675 Speaker 1: of the next one being due in like April, He's 411 00:28:40,715 --> 00:28:46,235 Speaker 1: done three and nine months. It was after the second 412 00:28:46,275 --> 00:28:49,515 Speaker 1: one that his niece Mary Trump so perceptibly asked, why 413 00:28:49,555 --> 00:28:54,555 Speaker 1: does he keep getting tested for cognitive problems? The answer, 414 00:28:54,635 --> 00:28:56,835 Speaker 1: I think I'm going on on a limb here. Maybe 415 00:28:56,875 --> 00:29:01,795 Speaker 1: it is continuing signs of, you know, cognitive problems. Middle 416 00:29:01,875 --> 00:29:04,075 Speaker 1: of the Venezuela thing, and Trump went off on the 417 00:29:04,115 --> 00:29:07,555 Speaker 1: emptied their asylums stuff again, because he's the only person 418 00:29:07,595 --> 00:29:09,635 Speaker 1: in his country dumb enough or impaired enough not to 419 00:29:09,675 --> 00:29:13,395 Speaker 1: realize that mental asylums and political asylums are different effing things. 420 00:29:14,515 --> 00:29:16,955 Speaker 1: That by itself is a cognitive problem. It is the 421 00:29:16,955 --> 00:29:20,875 Speaker 1: refusal to correct yourself, a complete lack of fear of 422 00:29:21,155 --> 00:29:25,755 Speaker 1: just getting caught being stupid. No, no, I'm right, that's 423 00:29:25,795 --> 00:29:29,235 Speaker 1: a form of that is the core of anosagnosia. No, no, no, 424 00:29:29,555 --> 00:29:32,595 Speaker 1: you're all wrong. My arm's not off, it's just a 425 00:29:32,635 --> 00:29:37,835 Speaker 1: flesh wound. He made two more posts. That's a total 426 00:29:37,875 --> 00:29:42,115 Speaker 1: of three of birds near a wind turbine or a 427 00:29:42,155 --> 00:29:45,795 Speaker 1: flock of them flying successfully around a wind turbine. One 428 00:29:45,835 --> 00:29:49,795 Speaker 1: is captured eagles going down, which is not an NFL reference. 429 00:29:50,155 --> 00:29:52,675 Speaker 1: The photo is of a red kite bird in Spain 430 00:29:52,715 --> 00:29:57,675 Speaker 1: in twenty ten. Another is captured killing birds by the millions, 431 00:29:57,675 --> 00:30:01,475 Speaker 1: which actually shows approximately fifty birds, all of them living. 432 00:30:01,955 --> 00:30:04,315 Speaker 1: That photo is from two thousand and six, It's from 433 00:30:04,355 --> 00:30:10,115 Speaker 1: tay w and it's of an inactive wind turbine. So 434 00:30:10,235 --> 00:30:18,675 Speaker 1: once again, why does he keep getting tested for cognitive problems? 435 00:30:19,835 --> 00:30:22,715 Speaker 1: And let's now add to that and marry with it. 436 00:30:23,555 --> 00:30:29,075 Speaker 1: Why did they just change the Trump health cover up 437 00:30:29,115 --> 00:30:42,515 Speaker 1: story again? And a third item today because they were 438 00:30:42,595 --> 00:30:44,995 Speaker 1: nice enough to bury the video on New Year's Eve 439 00:30:45,075 --> 00:30:48,435 Speaker 1: and then you know, invade Venezuela. Here is two minutes 440 00:30:48,955 --> 00:30:52,035 Speaker 1: from Jack Smith's what eight hour testimony to the House 441 00:30:52,115 --> 00:30:54,755 Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee, which may serve to suggest that the first 442 00:30:54,835 --> 00:30:59,315 Speaker 1: Democratic investigation of twenty twenty nine should be into Merrick 443 00:30:59,395 --> 00:31:02,195 Speaker 1: Garland and whether or not Merrick Garland was on the 444 00:31:02,275 --> 00:31:05,435 Speaker 1: up and up or was being influenced by something or 445 00:31:05,435 --> 00:31:10,555 Speaker 1: someone nefarious, or whether or not while Attorney General Merrick 446 00:31:10,595 --> 00:31:12,355 Speaker 1: Garland was still actually alive. 447 00:31:12,515 --> 00:31:17,355 Speaker 3: The evidence here made clear that President Trump was, by 448 00:31:17,755 --> 00:31:22,395 Speaker 3: a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person 449 00:31:22,435 --> 00:31:26,995 Speaker 3: in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. 450 00:31:28,395 --> 00:31:31,515 Speaker 3: The attack that happened at the Capitol, it's part of 451 00:31:31,555 --> 00:31:35,355 Speaker 3: this case, does not happen without him. The other co 452 00:31:35,355 --> 00:31:37,795 Speaker 3: conspirators were doing this for his benefit. 453 00:31:37,875 --> 00:31:41,395 Speaker 4: So in terms of why we would pursue a case 454 00:31:41,435 --> 00:31:49,915 Speaker 4: against him, I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work. 455 00:31:50,435 --> 00:31:52,355 Speaker 3: Was in any way meant to hamper him in the 456 00:31:52,395 --> 00:31:57,715 Speaker 3: presidential election. I would never take orders from a political 457 00:31:59,075 --> 00:32:02,275 Speaker 3: leader to hamper another person in an election. 458 00:32:02,595 --> 00:32:07,075 Speaker 1: So did you develop evidence that President Trump, you know, 459 00:32:07,235 --> 00:32:10,195 Speaker 1: was responsible for the violence of the Capitol on January sixth? 460 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:14,155 Speaker 2: So our view of the evidence was that he caused it. 461 00:32:15,835 --> 00:32:18,515 Speaker 3: And that he exploited it, and that it was foreseeable 462 00:32:18,555 --> 00:32:20,315 Speaker 3: to him. 463 00:32:20,795 --> 00:32:23,275 Speaker 5: But you don't have any evidence that he instructed people 464 00:32:23,555 --> 00:32:26,275 Speaker 5: to crash and crash the capital. 465 00:32:25,955 --> 00:32:26,155 Speaker 2: Do you. 466 00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:30,755 Speaker 3: As I said, our evidence is that he in the 467 00:32:30,995 --> 00:32:36,995 Speaker 3: weeks leading up to January sixth, created a level of distrust. 468 00:32:37,755 --> 00:32:40,915 Speaker 3: He used that level of distrust to get people to 469 00:32:40,955 --> 00:32:42,555 Speaker 3: believe fraud claims that weren't true. 470 00:32:43,635 --> 00:32:47,355 Speaker 2: He made false statements to stay legislators to. 471 00:32:47,355 --> 00:32:52,275 Speaker 3: His supporters in all sorts of contexts, and was aware 472 00:32:52,315 --> 00:32:56,315 Speaker 3: in the days leading up to January sixth that his 473 00:32:56,395 --> 00:33:00,475 Speaker 3: supporters were angry when he invited them, and then he 474 00:33:00,555 --> 00:33:01,875 Speaker 3: directed them to the Capitol. 475 00:33:02,275 --> 00:33:06,755 Speaker 1: The second half of the Jack Smith now being covered 476 00:33:06,835 --> 00:33:10,875 Speaker 1: up by quote judge unquote, Aileen Cannon has got to 477 00:33:10,915 --> 00:33:18,075 Speaker 1: get out, and I no longer care how it gets out. 478 00:33:18,675 --> 00:33:22,875 Speaker 1: I don't care. Let's just turn it over to Trump 479 00:33:22,955 --> 00:33:26,715 Speaker 1: and have him invade her courtroom illegally or something like that. 480 00:33:31,395 --> 00:33:33,635 Speaker 1: I mean, in addition to the other time he illegally 481 00:33:33,635 --> 00:33:37,915 Speaker 1: invaded Eileen Cannon's courtroom. Also of interest here how dumb 482 00:33:37,995 --> 00:33:42,315 Speaker 1: is Cheryl Hines? And while you're laughing at that question, 483 00:33:42,715 --> 00:33:47,035 Speaker 1: it is a question about vaccines. There's some actual comic relief, 484 00:33:48,235 --> 00:33:54,835 Speaker 1: a performance by me and Will Ferrell. Thatt's next. This 485 00:33:54,915 --> 00:33:56,875 Speaker 1: is an all new edition of Countdown. 486 00:33:58,435 --> 00:34:02,355 Speaker 2: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. 487 00:34:22,635 --> 00:34:24,955 Speaker 1: Still ahead. On this all new edition of Countdown. The 488 00:34:24,995 --> 00:34:27,915 Speaker 1: comic relief, I was reminded of a live comedy bit 489 00:34:27,995 --> 00:34:33,035 Speaker 1: I did with Will Ferrell years ago when Anchorman was new. 490 00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:36,275 Speaker 1: I'm going to play the audio of it for you. 491 00:34:36,395 --> 00:34:39,795 Speaker 1: Next in things I promise not to tell first of well, 492 00:34:39,795 --> 00:34:41,835 Speaker 1: eve it or not, there's still more new idiots to 493 00:34:41,875 --> 00:34:44,035 Speaker 1: talk about, the roundup of the miscreants, morons, undone in 494 00:34:44,075 --> 00:34:49,915 Speaker 1: krug effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in 495 00:34:49,995 --> 00:35:01,075 Speaker 1: the world, Lebrons worse. Jan Crawford, legal expert, CBS News. Now, look, 496 00:35:01,155 --> 00:35:03,875 Speaker 1: I've seen this done. I'm not saying I've ever done 497 00:35:03,875 --> 00:35:07,115 Speaker 1: it before, kind of once in Los Angeles, oddly enough 498 00:35:07,155 --> 00:35:09,835 Speaker 1: with CBS in nineteen ninety one, when I really didn't 499 00:35:09,875 --> 00:35:13,115 Speaker 1: want to move back to the cold. But if you're 500 00:35:13,115 --> 00:35:18,155 Speaker 1: going to beg your boss to keep your job, try 501 00:35:18,195 --> 00:35:21,555 Speaker 1: to be subtle. Don't do what Jan Crawford has done, 502 00:35:21,955 --> 00:35:24,275 Speaker 1: clearly trying to get a hold of Barry Weiss and 503 00:35:24,355 --> 00:35:27,755 Speaker 1: say I'm here for the new Tony Ducouple or Ducapol 504 00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:31,355 Speaker 1: or whatever the f his name is CBS Evening News, 505 00:35:31,355 --> 00:35:36,395 Speaker 1: where we don't believe in experts or journalism. Don't don't 506 00:35:36,795 --> 00:35:41,675 Speaker 1: line up with that. Don't say something like Tony. This 507 00:35:41,715 --> 00:35:43,795 Speaker 1: may be the first year the CBS Evening News has 508 00:35:43,835 --> 00:35:48,035 Speaker 1: a total of four different anchors in one year. Who's next? 509 00:35:49,035 --> 00:35:55,115 Speaker 1: How does Cronkite. Look that bad? And I mean we 510 00:35:55,195 --> 00:35:58,235 Speaker 1: always had to touch him up. How's his mustache still there? 511 00:35:59,275 --> 00:36:02,875 Speaker 1: I'm world, Okay, bring him in. Can't be worse than 512 00:36:02,875 --> 00:36:07,235 Speaker 1: this guy. Certainly the journalism is not dead in Walter Cronkite. 513 00:36:08,715 --> 00:36:12,035 Speaker 1: But I digress. If you're going to try to beg 514 00:36:12,115 --> 00:36:14,915 Speaker 1: for your job, if you're begging Barry Weiss to keep 515 00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:18,035 Speaker 1: your job, Jan Crawford, try to be subtle, don't say 516 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:21,075 Speaker 1: it like this quote. This is a conservative Supreme Court. 517 00:36:21,235 --> 00:36:23,555 Speaker 1: It has been a conservative Supreme Court for twenty years. 518 00:36:23,755 --> 00:36:26,275 Speaker 1: People can disagree and do disagree with their opinions, but 519 00:36:26,275 --> 00:36:29,355 Speaker 1: it is profoundly wrong to call it or say corruption 520 00:36:29,875 --> 00:36:34,355 Speaker 1: where there, in fact is none. What's under report? No, No, 521 00:36:34,595 --> 00:36:37,275 Speaker 1: she claims to be an expert. What is underreported is 522 00:36:37,315 --> 00:36:39,355 Speaker 1: any understanding of what this court has been doing for 523 00:36:39,395 --> 00:36:42,195 Speaker 1: the past twenty years, its views of its role visa 524 00:36:42,275 --> 00:36:44,835 Speaker 1: VI the other branches, how it sees the law, how 525 00:36:44,875 --> 00:36:47,035 Speaker 1: it's trying, and its focus to restore some kind of 526 00:36:47,075 --> 00:36:52,315 Speaker 1: accountability in our constitutional structure. Well right, Jen, By erasing 527 00:36:52,355 --> 00:36:56,195 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court from having any relevancy or control over 528 00:36:56,275 --> 00:37:00,915 Speaker 1: the executive branch and turning the executive into the king 529 00:37:00,995 --> 00:37:04,155 Speaker 1: we broke away from in seventeen, you know, seventy, you 530 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:08,555 Speaker 1: know six resuming Jan Crawford quote again, this is a 531 00:37:08,595 --> 00:37:12,475 Speaker 1: court that is functional, It is consistent. There are nine justices. 532 00:37:12,515 --> 00:37:17,155 Speaker 1: They don't necessarily see the Constitution the same way transparent, 533 00:37:17,195 --> 00:37:20,635 Speaker 1: diaphanous toilet paper by any means, or how to interpret 534 00:37:20,675 --> 00:37:23,075 Speaker 1: federal law. They're in a struggle over the proper way 535 00:37:23,115 --> 00:37:25,915 Speaker 1: to interpret the Constitution. But that is as it should be. 536 00:37:26,115 --> 00:37:27,675 Speaker 1: And I think as we approach our two hundred and 537 00:37:27,715 --> 00:37:30,195 Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary of this country, it's important to think about 538 00:37:30,235 --> 00:37:32,795 Speaker 1: the court and the rule of law as the justices 539 00:37:32,835 --> 00:37:35,555 Speaker 1: are doing, especially if we hope to keep democracy intact. 540 00:37:37,075 --> 00:37:39,995 Speaker 1: I got bad news for a democracy is not intact anymore. 541 00:37:40,515 --> 00:37:44,555 Speaker 1: Sorry you missed that, But Barry Weiss wants you to 542 00:37:44,595 --> 00:37:49,355 Speaker 1: say that if the public loses confidence in the rule 543 00:37:49,355 --> 00:37:52,235 Speaker 1: of law, what's this If if the public loses confidence 544 00:37:52,275 --> 00:37:53,835 Speaker 1: in the rule of law, I don't know what that 545 00:37:53,875 --> 00:37:55,875 Speaker 1: means for democracy. And that's why I think some of 546 00:37:55,915 --> 00:38:00,315 Speaker 1: the rhetoric about corruption is so so profoundly irresponsible. Barry, 547 00:38:00,355 --> 00:38:02,635 Speaker 1: please don't fire me. I have a mortgage, please. 548 00:38:02,355 --> 00:38:04,635 Speaker 6: Base, Base, Base, Please please. I love being on team. 549 00:38:04,995 --> 00:38:10,435 Speaker 1: I'm a TV addict. Sure, jan No, we asked you 550 00:38:10,435 --> 00:38:13,275 Speaker 1: about the Supreme Court in this country. 551 00:38:14,195 --> 00:38:14,875 Speaker 2: My God. 552 00:38:16,835 --> 00:38:19,635 Speaker 1: Talk about debasing yourself. And to continue the theme, the 553 00:38:19,715 --> 00:38:22,595 Speaker 1: runner up, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is just 554 00:38:22,715 --> 00:38:26,635 Speaker 1: taking up space. Now, this was before the illegal Trump 555 00:38:26,635 --> 00:38:30,515 Speaker 1: move in Venezuela. Boy, oh boy, Chuck was ready. He 556 00:38:30,595 --> 00:38:35,315 Speaker 1: came out firing with one to one millionth of one barrel. 557 00:38:36,155 --> 00:38:39,395 Speaker 1: I'll say it again. He wrote. Trump needs to be 558 00:38:39,515 --> 00:38:42,595 Speaker 1: straight with the American people and explain what his strategy 559 00:38:42,755 --> 00:38:47,395 Speaker 1: is and what the hell he's doing in the Caribbean. Wow, Chuck, 560 00:38:48,555 --> 00:38:53,035 Speaker 1: he used h double hockey sticks. Wow man, I mean 561 00:38:53,075 --> 00:38:57,235 Speaker 1: when he read that, I bet Trump almost resigned. Chuck, 562 00:38:57,715 --> 00:39:04,715 Speaker 1: You're making Susan Collins look decisive. Lastly, the worst the 563 00:39:04,755 --> 00:39:09,475 Speaker 1: co winners, Tucker Carlson and Cheryl Hines together again for 564 00:39:09,515 --> 00:39:13,995 Speaker 1: the first time. Cheryl Hines goes from Curb Your Enthusiasm 565 00:39:14,315 --> 00:39:18,995 Speaker 1: to being on camera with mother Tucker Carlson. We joined 566 00:39:19,035 --> 00:39:22,595 Speaker 1: their interview about vaccines, in which their combined IQ is 567 00:39:22,635 --> 00:39:25,755 Speaker 1: still only in double digits, already in progress. 568 00:39:27,275 --> 00:39:30,075 Speaker 6: I didn't have very strong feelings about vaccines. One way, 569 00:39:30,115 --> 00:39:31,515 Speaker 6: or the other of my whole life. I never really 570 00:39:31,555 --> 00:39:33,275 Speaker 6: thought about it. I didn't realize that it was a 571 00:39:33,315 --> 00:39:37,715 Speaker 6: religion to a lot of people and political well, but 572 00:39:38,035 --> 00:39:40,875 Speaker 6: that you know it's religion, because that doesn't make any sense. 573 00:39:40,955 --> 00:39:43,675 Speaker 6: If the vaccine is effective and you take it, then 574 00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:45,915 Speaker 6: you're good to go, right, Why does it matter if 575 00:39:45,955 --> 00:39:46,395 Speaker 6: I take it? 576 00:39:46,555 --> 00:39:47,435 Speaker 7: Somebody else? Does it? 577 00:39:48,435 --> 00:39:48,995 Speaker 2: Did anyone? 578 00:39:49,595 --> 00:39:51,795 Speaker 6: I heard smart people make that case, people I thought 579 00:39:51,795 --> 00:39:54,355 Speaker 6: were smart, But doesn't make any sense just on the 580 00:39:54,355 --> 00:39:54,875 Speaker 6: face of it. 581 00:39:55,155 --> 00:39:58,635 Speaker 7: No, it doesn't make any sense. And that wasn't enough 582 00:39:58,675 --> 00:39:59,155 Speaker 7: for people. 583 00:40:00,715 --> 00:40:01,195 Speaker 2: It wasn't. 584 00:40:01,595 --> 00:40:05,875 Speaker 7: No, it wasn't enough for someone to be able to 585 00:40:05,955 --> 00:40:09,555 Speaker 7: take the vaccine and feel like, whoof, I'm okay now 586 00:40:09,595 --> 00:40:12,075 Speaker 7: I don't share what you do. It wasn't enough. 587 00:40:12,995 --> 00:40:15,235 Speaker 6: So my body, my choice was not a real thing 588 00:40:15,315 --> 00:40:16,035 Speaker 6: and turned out. 589 00:40:17,595 --> 00:40:20,395 Speaker 7: No, No, it was like, and I want to I 590 00:40:20,715 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 7: need to get involved with your body? 591 00:40:22,195 --> 00:40:22,635 Speaker 2: Is your body? 592 00:40:22,915 --> 00:40:28,835 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's possible. Tucker Carlson, Isn't that stupid that he knows? 593 00:40:29,555 --> 00:40:34,595 Speaker 1: Vaccines for communicable diseases minimize the disease's impact on you, 594 00:40:34,715 --> 00:40:38,235 Speaker 1: but primarily they minimize how easy it is to spread 595 00:40:38,275 --> 00:40:41,035 Speaker 1: that disease to other people. That's why it matters how 596 00:40:41,075 --> 00:40:44,715 Speaker 1: many other people also get the vaccine. It's both about 597 00:40:44,755 --> 00:40:47,595 Speaker 1: Pitcher and catcher Tucker, if you know what I mean, 598 00:40:48,515 --> 00:40:51,355 Speaker 1: it's possible Carlson isn't that stupid and he's just lying 599 00:40:51,475 --> 00:40:57,435 Speaker 1: because money. But I'm thinking Cheryl Hines is that stupid. 600 00:40:58,155 --> 00:41:02,355 Speaker 1: I mean, let's start with this. She believes RFK Junior 601 00:41:02,915 --> 00:41:09,755 Speaker 1: is faithful to her or faithful adjacent Tucker Carlson and 602 00:41:09,835 --> 00:41:12,395 Speaker 1: Cheryl Hines. And by the way, no matter how funny 603 00:41:12,435 --> 00:41:15,995 Speaker 1: you think my friend Larry David is and how funny 604 00:41:15,995 --> 00:41:19,115 Speaker 1: you thought my late friend Richard Lewis was on curb, 605 00:41:19,395 --> 00:41:22,395 Speaker 1: they were both way funnier than you ever imagined, Because 606 00:41:22,435 --> 00:41:26,035 Speaker 1: how in the hell do you make the funny when 607 00:41:26,035 --> 00:41:30,635 Speaker 1: the gal playing Larry's wife is that stupid? Tuck Tuck 608 00:41:30,755 --> 00:41:36,635 Speaker 1: and missus RFK Junior for the moment. Anyway, Today's other 609 00:41:37,715 --> 00:41:56,915 Speaker 1: worst persons. And so to the number one story on 610 00:41:56,955 --> 00:41:59,315 Speaker 1: the Countdown and things I promised not to tell. And 611 00:41:59,395 --> 00:42:02,515 Speaker 1: something happened on New Year's Day, more correctly New Year's 612 00:42:02,635 --> 00:42:08,555 Speaker 1: Night that flashed me back twenty one years. The great 613 00:42:08,755 --> 00:42:11,635 Speaker 1: Will Ferrell was at the Los Angeles Kings hockey game, 614 00:42:11,875 --> 00:42:15,275 Speaker 1: seated as he usually is in the first row and 615 00:42:15,395 --> 00:42:19,155 Speaker 1: doing a bit, not for money, not to try out 616 00:42:19,235 --> 00:42:21,675 Speaker 1: and act to make a movie out of, not for 617 00:42:21,715 --> 00:42:25,915 Speaker 1: any particular reason, just dressed right down to the helmet 618 00:42:26,035 --> 00:42:30,515 Speaker 1: and all the hand signals as a National Hockey League referee. 619 00:42:31,475 --> 00:42:34,515 Speaker 1: He kept the bit up for the entire game. There 620 00:42:34,635 --> 00:42:38,955 Speaker 1: was no real applause. He knew he was doing the bit, 621 00:42:39,075 --> 00:42:41,115 Speaker 1: and they all knew at the game that he was 622 00:42:41,155 --> 00:42:44,155 Speaker 1: doing the bit. But he was doing the bit because 623 00:42:44,155 --> 00:42:47,555 Speaker 1: he wanted to. And that's what led me to the 624 00:42:47,635 --> 00:42:51,355 Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown. I was flashed back 625 00:42:51,435 --> 00:42:55,035 Speaker 1: to the thought that I had twenty one years ago when, 626 00:42:55,435 --> 00:42:59,075 Speaker 1: for the second time I believe it was in my life, 627 00:42:59,115 --> 00:43:01,555 Speaker 1: I met Will Ferrell and he confessed that he had 628 00:43:01,595 --> 00:43:04,275 Speaker 1: been a viewer of mine when he was in high 629 00:43:04,275 --> 00:43:07,395 Speaker 1: school when I was a local sportscaster in LA. And 630 00:43:07,475 --> 00:43:09,035 Speaker 1: I said, do you realize I was only a couple 631 00:43:09,075 --> 00:43:10,915 Speaker 1: of years older than you were when you were in 632 00:43:10,995 --> 00:43:16,475 Speaker 1: high school. In any event, vanity aside, we started to 633 00:43:16,555 --> 00:43:22,955 Speaker 1: talk about doing a bit for Countdown on the then 634 00:43:23,155 --> 00:43:27,155 Speaker 1: new movie Anchorman. They had offered him to us as 635 00:43:27,235 --> 00:43:29,635 Speaker 1: a guest. He was going to do a select series 636 00:43:29,715 --> 00:43:34,075 Speaker 1: of interviews in character dressed as the Ron Burgundy guy, 637 00:43:34,155 --> 00:43:38,315 Speaker 1: complete with the Burgundy jacket, and I said to him, 638 00:43:38,795 --> 00:43:41,835 Speaker 1: I'm sure you're tired of this. How about we do 639 00:43:41,875 --> 00:43:44,635 Speaker 1: it this way. How about I pretend that this is 640 00:43:44,715 --> 00:43:48,115 Speaker 1: not a film film, that this isn't a comedy, that 641 00:43:48,195 --> 00:43:51,195 Speaker 1: this is you acting, but that this is a documentary 642 00:43:51,235 --> 00:43:54,915 Speaker 1: about a San Diego anchorman, a real life one named 643 00:43:54,995 --> 00:43:58,595 Speaker 1: Ron Burgundy, who I encountered in my days in southern 644 00:43:58,635 --> 00:44:02,075 Speaker 1: California local news. And his eyes widened and he got 645 00:44:02,115 --> 00:44:06,915 Speaker 1: real boyish and went, gee, it would be great. And 646 00:44:06,995 --> 00:44:09,795 Speaker 1: we then did it, and for seven minutes we ad 647 00:44:09,835 --> 00:44:13,235 Speaker 1: libbed a whole bit. And I thought that night, coming 648 00:44:13,275 --> 00:44:16,595 Speaker 1: back from that interview, that I was seeing something about 649 00:44:16,755 --> 00:44:19,115 Speaker 1: what it means to be a professional versus what it 650 00:44:19,155 --> 00:44:23,035 Speaker 1: means to be an amateur, especially in creative fields. And 651 00:44:23,075 --> 00:44:25,635 Speaker 1: I was reminded again of this on New Year's Day 652 00:44:25,635 --> 00:44:28,875 Speaker 1: when he wore that referees uniform to the hockey game 653 00:44:29,115 --> 00:44:32,555 Speaker 1: for no reason other than to have fun. The difference 654 00:44:32,555 --> 00:44:35,315 Speaker 1: between a pro and an amateur in any creative field, 655 00:44:35,355 --> 00:44:38,435 Speaker 1: and I know this because I recognized it when I 656 00:44:38,595 --> 00:44:42,195 Speaker 1: was an amateur and became a pro, is the first day, 657 00:44:42,235 --> 00:44:45,075 Speaker 1: that you have to do whatever you like being creative 658 00:44:45,115 --> 00:44:48,075 Speaker 1: at when you don't want to do it, When you 659 00:44:48,195 --> 00:44:50,835 Speaker 1: have to do it even though you're sick, even though 660 00:44:50,835 --> 00:44:52,995 Speaker 1: you're not in the mood, even though you had a 661 00:44:53,035 --> 00:44:56,675 Speaker 1: fight with somebody before the show, even though who knows what, 662 00:44:57,115 --> 00:44:59,275 Speaker 1: but you have to do it. Can you do the 663 00:44:59,395 --> 00:45:01,875 Speaker 1: thing you did as an amateur when you wanted to 664 00:45:02,515 --> 00:45:06,515 Speaker 1: as a professional when you really don't want to. And 665 00:45:06,555 --> 00:45:09,875 Speaker 1: the only exception to these rules that require you to 666 00:45:09,995 --> 00:45:13,915 Speaker 1: plow through and sometimes turn over your creativity to what 667 00:45:13,995 --> 00:45:17,635 Speaker 1: I once described to Rachel Mattow as the robot version 668 00:45:17,715 --> 00:45:19,795 Speaker 1: of Rachel Maddow, that you will have to create for 669 00:45:19,875 --> 00:45:23,195 Speaker 1: yourself on those nights when you're not really there. I 670 00:45:23,195 --> 00:45:25,155 Speaker 1: think she took me a little bit too seriously on 671 00:45:25,195 --> 00:45:29,275 Speaker 1: that point. In any event, that robot version will take 672 00:45:29,315 --> 00:45:31,955 Speaker 1: over for you. But there will still be an occasion 673 00:45:32,035 --> 00:45:34,395 Speaker 1: now and again when you don't really want to do it, 674 00:45:34,435 --> 00:45:38,395 Speaker 1: and then something delicious stands in front of you, something 675 00:45:38,915 --> 00:45:42,595 Speaker 1: absolutely creative that transcends whether or not you're making a 676 00:45:42,715 --> 00:45:45,515 Speaker 1: dollar for doing this or a million dollars for doing this, 677 00:45:45,995 --> 00:45:48,195 Speaker 1: or no dollars for doing this, whether you're a pro 678 00:45:48,355 --> 00:45:51,595 Speaker 1: or an amateur. The original spark of wanting to be 679 00:45:51,795 --> 00:45:55,235 Speaker 1: creative comes back to you, and it did the night 680 00:45:55,315 --> 00:46:00,115 Speaker 1: that I interviewed Ron Burgundy, pretending to be following up 681 00:46:00,155 --> 00:46:05,115 Speaker 1: on the documentary Anchorman. We add lib this, and I 682 00:46:05,275 --> 00:46:07,395 Speaker 1: have to say, at the end of it, after they 683 00:46:07,435 --> 00:46:09,995 Speaker 1: shut the tape off, he burst into laughter, and so 684 00:46:10,115 --> 00:46:12,515 Speaker 1: did I and we gave each other a hug goodbye. 685 00:46:12,835 --> 00:46:15,075 Speaker 1: It was that much fun, and I felt like I'd 686 00:46:15,075 --> 00:46:17,115 Speaker 1: gotten to play in the big leagues for a moment 687 00:46:17,355 --> 00:46:20,955 Speaker 1: from a guy who now goes to hockey games dressed 688 00:46:21,035 --> 00:46:24,435 Speaker 1: up as a referee just for fun. 689 00:46:24,875 --> 00:46:27,995 Speaker 8: The movie Anchorman opens tomorrow night. While the advertising may 690 00:46:27,995 --> 00:46:29,995 Speaker 8: have led you to believe this is a comedy of 691 00:46:30,035 --> 00:46:33,355 Speaker 8: some sort starring an actor named Will Ferrell, I can 692 00:46:33,395 --> 00:46:35,715 Speaker 8: report to you exclusively tonight that Anchorman has actually a 693 00:46:35,715 --> 00:46:39,395 Speaker 8: documentary of the career of the Mandarin of local television newscasters, 694 00:46:39,475 --> 00:46:42,195 Speaker 8: Ron Burgundy. I number one story in the countdown tonight 695 00:46:42,275 --> 00:46:43,475 Speaker 8: my exclusive interview with the. 696 00:46:43,515 --> 00:46:44,675 Speaker 2: Legendary mister Burgundy. 697 00:46:44,715 --> 00:46:46,555 Speaker 8: And by exclusive, I mean he was on The Today 698 00:46:46,595 --> 00:46:49,555 Speaker 8: Show Tuesday and CNN yesterday, but I'm the only one 699 00:46:49,595 --> 00:46:51,595 Speaker 8: interviewing him tonight exclusively. 700 00:46:53,635 --> 00:47:01,715 Speaker 2: So we lost, we go around. It's a nice color 701 00:47:01,755 --> 00:47:06,875 Speaker 2: on it, likewise, very nice. The more the chances. 702 00:47:08,195 --> 00:47:13,315 Speaker 5: Probably it's probably just a magnificent, beautiful coincidence, as my hunch. 703 00:47:13,475 --> 00:47:16,315 Speaker 2: Thats my homage. Yes, I appreciate it. 704 00:47:16,355 --> 00:47:18,235 Speaker 8: So I thought we could spend our time talking about 705 00:47:18,275 --> 00:47:22,355 Speaker 8: the three principal elements of television journalism, the first one 706 00:47:22,395 --> 00:47:26,715 Speaker 8: being gres, which are well, how you need to those? 707 00:47:26,715 --> 00:47:29,435 Speaker 8: The first one, no, no, The first one is reading 708 00:47:29,435 --> 00:47:30,435 Speaker 8: the teleproplem. 709 00:47:30,075 --> 00:47:33,475 Speaker 2: Reading the teleproptor. It's the it's probably the quintus. 710 00:47:33,555 --> 00:47:39,675 Speaker 5: It's probably the pillar on the journalism pyramid, the base 711 00:47:39,955 --> 00:47:41,395 Speaker 5: block of the center block. 712 00:47:41,555 --> 00:47:43,435 Speaker 2: Yes, without which the rest of its. 713 00:47:43,475 --> 00:47:48,035 Speaker 5: Collapse collapses into something that you're to hp of flames. 714 00:47:48,515 --> 00:47:51,955 Speaker 2: I'm Ron Burgundy, damn it, who typed a question mark 715 00:47:51,995 --> 00:47:52,915 Speaker 2: on the teleprompter? 716 00:47:53,395 --> 00:47:55,835 Speaker 8: But reading it, I mean people don't understand that it's 717 00:47:55,875 --> 00:47:56,315 Speaker 8: an art. 718 00:47:56,395 --> 00:47:59,675 Speaker 2: It's read corrects art, and it's a bitch. Yeah, it's 719 00:47:59,675 --> 00:48:02,875 Speaker 2: a real bitch. You speak as a man who might 720 00:48:02,915 --> 00:48:03,675 Speaker 2: have had problems. 721 00:48:03,915 --> 00:48:07,315 Speaker 5: I've had a few snaff who's snaffhoos in my in 722 00:48:07,395 --> 00:48:09,755 Speaker 5: my career, Yes, one of which. 723 00:48:10,315 --> 00:48:13,115 Speaker 2: Actually can cost me a job. Well, we've all been 724 00:48:13,115 --> 00:48:13,515 Speaker 2: through that. 725 00:48:13,915 --> 00:48:18,115 Speaker 5: But yeah, so you know it's something you literally and 726 00:48:18,235 --> 00:48:22,355 Speaker 5: figuratively have to keep an eye on. Very good, but 727 00:48:22,395 --> 00:48:26,755 Speaker 5: you the staff whoo that you refer to. And Stephiew 728 00:48:26,875 --> 00:48:29,995 Speaker 5: basically told an entire city to f off. 729 00:48:31,075 --> 00:48:33,635 Speaker 2: And I didn't realize. I said it. Well, you're you're 730 00:48:33,675 --> 00:48:37,715 Speaker 2: locked in there. You you locked it? But did they 731 00:48:37,755 --> 00:48:40,435 Speaker 2: deserve it? Was? It? Was it a bad city? No? 732 00:48:40,435 --> 00:48:44,995 Speaker 5: No, no, wonderful, say san Diego, great, great town, wonderful Canada, right, 733 00:48:45,155 --> 00:48:49,715 Speaker 5: quite quaint village in Canada. San Diego is a Mexico, 734 00:48:49,875 --> 00:48:50,915 Speaker 5: Mexican protectorate. 735 00:48:51,595 --> 00:48:52,555 Speaker 2: It's actually part. 736 00:48:52,395 --> 00:48:59,635 Speaker 5: Of San Diego, Santiago, San Diego, San Diiago. That's renunciation 737 00:48:59,875 --> 00:49:02,515 Speaker 5: that differs. So the second pillar of the of the 738 00:49:02,595 --> 00:49:07,555 Speaker 5: television journalism, right, is that there must be someone in 739 00:49:07,595 --> 00:49:10,835 Speaker 5: every newsroom who believes that they would be a singer, 740 00:49:10,955 --> 00:49:11,835 Speaker 5: dancer or musician. 741 00:49:12,835 --> 00:49:15,875 Speaker 8: Right, I would think so then if you well, I'm 742 00:49:16,355 --> 00:49:17,595 Speaker 8: I fancy myself a musician. 743 00:49:17,635 --> 00:49:24,035 Speaker 2: Sure not? I dabble afternoon day line. Don't know, Ron, 744 00:49:25,155 --> 00:49:29,875 Speaker 2: that sounds kind of crazy. Afternoon line. I want to 745 00:49:29,875 --> 00:49:31,675 Speaker 2: make a phone call there, job. 746 00:49:32,155 --> 00:49:36,035 Speaker 5: Play a little I played jazz flutes. Oh yes, it 747 00:49:36,235 --> 00:49:37,915 Speaker 5: you find it helps with the news in any way. 748 00:49:39,395 --> 00:49:40,155 Speaker 2: Uh not really. 749 00:49:41,115 --> 00:49:46,955 Speaker 5: Uh, it just it's just an extension of my artistic side. 750 00:49:47,195 --> 00:49:49,995 Speaker 5: And I found it to be a well, I found 751 00:49:49,995 --> 00:49:54,555 Speaker 5: it to be a wonderful tool in terms of interaction 752 00:49:54,675 --> 00:49:56,035 Speaker 5: with the female species. 753 00:49:56,395 --> 00:49:59,595 Speaker 2: It's an extended tools. Yes, it's an extended tool. That's great. 754 00:49:59,755 --> 00:50:01,795 Speaker 8: I might might steal that from me. That's well, you're 755 00:50:01,795 --> 00:50:04,755 Speaker 8: welcome to it. Good so the musician. But the so 756 00:50:04,915 --> 00:50:08,995 Speaker 8: it's a rhythm and perform and performance. You know, you 757 00:50:09,035 --> 00:50:12,275 Speaker 8: know you like to move and do this. 758 00:50:12,595 --> 00:50:13,915 Speaker 2: Well, you have to do that on the air, don't you. 759 00:50:14,155 --> 00:50:14,995 Speaker 2: Those are a lot of times. 760 00:50:15,075 --> 00:50:17,955 Speaker 8: It's it's the format that many many stations employ. And 761 00:50:18,595 --> 00:50:21,355 Speaker 8: the moving is the moving the shoulder was older, possibly 762 00:50:21,355 --> 00:50:23,795 Speaker 8: the tie adjustment of the neck, the torso turn. 763 00:50:24,195 --> 00:50:26,475 Speaker 2: So the consultants have let you do all that. 764 00:50:26,515 --> 00:50:29,635 Speaker 5: On the air pretty much, and they've let me be 765 00:50:30,075 --> 00:50:33,435 Speaker 5: for the most part, because I won't have it either way. 766 00:50:33,475 --> 00:50:35,315 Speaker 2: But you wound up telling the whole city to have 767 00:50:35,515 --> 00:50:38,515 Speaker 2: themselves right because I like being here. Yeah, it wasn't. 768 00:50:39,555 --> 00:50:42,915 Speaker 2: I wasn't paying attention to that moment. I'd say eighty 769 00:50:42,955 --> 00:50:44,995 Speaker 2: percent of the time on pay pay, I pay attention. 770 00:50:44,995 --> 00:50:45,595 Speaker 2: You're excellent. 771 00:50:46,075 --> 00:50:47,995 Speaker 8: I'm really focused and if youer can't answer any more 772 00:50:47,995 --> 00:50:49,395 Speaker 8: than eighty percent, and that's a B. 773 00:50:49,795 --> 00:50:50,355 Speaker 2: And there you go. 774 00:50:51,035 --> 00:50:53,035 Speaker 5: But then the third I never got to be in 775 00:50:53,075 --> 00:50:56,155 Speaker 5: school mostly ces and C minus. So you are this 776 00:50:56,235 --> 00:50:58,875 Speaker 5: is the pinnacle, this is this is what God or 777 00:50:58,955 --> 00:51:04,035 Speaker 5: game that you do. This the excellent moment in my life. Yes, well, 778 00:51:04,075 --> 00:51:09,275 Speaker 5: then that leads naturally to the third. Reillar television, the 779 00:51:09,435 --> 00:51:13,155 Speaker 5: building blogger journalism, which is hair maintenance. 780 00:51:13,195 --> 00:51:16,035 Speaker 2: Hair maintenance. How important is there? I mean when I. 781 00:51:16,115 --> 00:51:18,675 Speaker 5: Almost would put that first number one, Well, I was 782 00:51:18,715 --> 00:51:19,795 Speaker 5: going in a descending order. 783 00:51:19,795 --> 00:51:21,915 Speaker 2: It's a show called Countcount, So we have three. 784 00:51:22,155 --> 00:51:25,915 Speaker 5: That's if you don't if you don't take care of 785 00:51:25,955 --> 00:51:31,595 Speaker 5: what's up here, it's not going to work here or here, 786 00:51:32,595 --> 00:51:34,595 Speaker 5: and the people aren't gonna get it here. 787 00:51:34,995 --> 00:51:35,275 Speaker 2: That's it. 788 00:51:36,355 --> 00:51:39,955 Speaker 5: So if I spend three hours three on my hair 789 00:51:40,075 --> 00:51:42,875 Speaker 5: before I leave the house, and then another three hours in. 790 00:51:42,875 --> 00:51:44,875 Speaker 2: The newsroom, well, because all of a sudden it can 791 00:51:44,955 --> 00:51:46,435 Speaker 2: be very windy, very windy. 792 00:51:46,515 --> 00:51:49,035 Speaker 5: You don't know what sort of atmospheric conditions might be 793 00:51:49,035 --> 00:51:49,315 Speaker 5: out there. 794 00:51:51,155 --> 00:51:52,635 Speaker 8: But do you do it all yourself and mess up, 795 00:51:52,795 --> 00:51:55,075 Speaker 8: especially some of the women in the business, and do 796 00:51:55,115 --> 00:51:55,475 Speaker 8: it all. 797 00:51:55,835 --> 00:51:59,275 Speaker 5: My suits self at home, right, and I have a 798 00:51:59,275 --> 00:52:00,315 Speaker 5: team of about eleven people. 799 00:52:00,315 --> 00:52:03,275 Speaker 2: Eleven eleven people in the newsroom. If they work all 800 00:52:03,275 --> 00:52:04,875 Speaker 2: it once or they should ship. 801 00:52:05,035 --> 00:52:07,395 Speaker 5: And shifts because I get angry at them on occasion 802 00:52:07,595 --> 00:52:09,795 Speaker 5: fire them momentarily that. 803 00:52:09,835 --> 00:52:12,355 Speaker 2: I re hire them. But this was in rotation. 804 00:52:12,675 --> 00:52:15,075 Speaker 8: I saw that in the documentary life that they in 805 00:52:15,115 --> 00:52:16,915 Speaker 8: this film pretty fascinating. 806 00:52:17,115 --> 00:52:20,395 Speaker 5: I say, yes, it's easing. They caught all that up film. Yeah, 807 00:52:20,395 --> 00:52:21,955 Speaker 5: it wasn't even aware there was a camera there half 808 00:52:21,995 --> 00:52:22,395 Speaker 5: the time. 809 00:52:22,995 --> 00:52:25,315 Speaker 8: Well, that would have been during the twenty percent period 810 00:52:25,355 --> 00:52:27,595 Speaker 8: when you were really when you're sort of too focused 811 00:52:27,635 --> 00:52:30,475 Speaker 8: in two feet. I appreciate this, Keith. 812 00:52:31,115 --> 00:52:32,835 Speaker 2: Because a lot of these other adults I talk to 813 00:52:32,995 --> 00:52:33,755 Speaker 2: don't follow. 814 00:52:34,955 --> 00:52:36,875 Speaker 9: So what they don't know in the suits a d 815 00:52:36,995 --> 00:52:38,955 Speaker 9: dollar quote. That's right, that's what it's all about. Yes, 816 00:52:38,995 --> 00:52:43,595 Speaker 9: I win in role, Win in Rome. Thank you, Oh, 817 00:52:43,675 --> 00:52:45,955 Speaker 9: thank you. It's been it's been spectacular. 818 00:52:45,995 --> 00:52:48,035 Speaker 2: It really has, it has, it really has. 819 00:52:48,115 --> 00:52:51,355 Speaker 5: And if you ever want to go grab a steak 820 00:52:51,595 --> 00:52:55,115 Speaker 5: or chop hey lamb chop, Yeah, that'd be good. Only 821 00:52:55,155 --> 00:52:56,835 Speaker 5: if you play the only play, the play the jazz, 822 00:52:56,915 --> 00:52:59,835 Speaker 5: I will all right, And so you pick up the check. 823 00:53:03,595 --> 00:53:07,355 Speaker 9: It's a good collor really, yeah, I like it. 824 00:53:07,355 --> 00:53:09,555 Speaker 5: It's a little lighter than it's a little bit lighter, 825 00:53:10,075 --> 00:53:10,835 Speaker 5: reflects the light. 826 00:53:11,275 --> 00:53:12,795 Speaker 2: That's a little more. Yeah, it does. 827 00:53:12,875 --> 00:53:15,515 Speaker 5: And these coral buttons when if you see that I 828 00:53:15,915 --> 00:53:17,115 Speaker 5: got the cheap ones that these. 829 00:53:16,995 --> 00:53:20,515 Speaker 2: Are imported from Malaysia. Wow, yet that near San Diego. 830 00:53:21,835 --> 00:53:24,795 Speaker 5: God, I hope I have no idea. 831 00:53:25,195 --> 00:53:27,355 Speaker 2: All the best to you, Thank you, sir, gratulations on 832 00:53:27,355 --> 00:53:28,195 Speaker 2: the documentary. Thank you. 833 00:53:30,355 --> 00:53:33,675 Speaker 8: Well Ferrell portraying his character in the movie Anchorman Ron Burgundy, 834 00:53:33,715 --> 00:53:34,995 Speaker 8: and we thank him for playing along. 835 00:53:35,115 --> 00:53:36,235 Speaker 2: Not to spoil the film. 836 00:53:35,995 --> 00:53:37,675 Speaker 8: For you, but if you do go see it, remember this, 837 00:53:37,755 --> 00:53:40,675 Speaker 8: other than the violence, I've met all these people and 838 00:53:40,715 --> 00:53:43,715 Speaker 8: seeing all those things actually happen in TV newsrooms over 839 00:53:43,715 --> 00:53:46,395 Speaker 8: the last twenty five years. Lord only knows how I 840 00:53:46,435 --> 00:54:00,315 Speaker 8: survived them. 841 00:54:00,315 --> 00:54:03,955 Speaker 1: God, that was fun. I mean, probably more fun doing 842 00:54:03,995 --> 00:54:06,515 Speaker 1: it than it is listening to it now, because the 843 00:54:06,555 --> 00:54:10,795 Speaker 1: whole Anchorman thing the key to it. And Will once 844 00:54:10,835 --> 00:54:13,675 Speaker 1: told me this was the novelty that they went there 845 00:54:13,755 --> 00:54:18,435 Speaker 1: back when newscasters, even local newscasters, were still somewhat respected. 846 00:54:19,715 --> 00:54:21,835 Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that some are still respected, but they 847 00:54:21,835 --> 00:54:25,155 Speaker 1: were universally respected to some degree. In two thousand and four, 848 00:54:26,035 --> 00:54:28,155 Speaker 1: the novelty was to just blow the lid off of it. 849 00:54:28,195 --> 00:54:31,555 Speaker 1: Didn't prove that. You know, twenty seven guys in the 850 00:54:31,595 --> 00:54:34,795 Speaker 1: southern California markets saw that movie and said, oh, that's me. 851 00:54:35,035 --> 00:54:36,875 Speaker 2: And He's like, no, no, no, no, don't you're not. 852 00:54:37,235 --> 00:54:39,755 Speaker 1: It's not that's not a that's not a great weve 853 00:54:39,835 --> 00:54:41,795 Speaker 1: in the movies. No, no, it's not a good portray 854 00:54:41,795 --> 00:54:45,115 Speaker 1: and no, no, no, no. Anyway, we had fun doing it. 855 00:54:45,155 --> 00:54:46,675 Speaker 1: And the next time I saw Will was like four 856 00:54:46,715 --> 00:54:48,795 Speaker 1: years later, and he remembered every second of that and 857 00:54:48,795 --> 00:54:50,915 Speaker 1: said it was the most funny. Hat other than making 858 00:54:50,955 --> 00:54:53,595 Speaker 1: the movie itself, might have just been nice to me 859 00:54:53,635 --> 00:54:57,515 Speaker 1: about it, that's all. Any who, I've done all the 860 00:54:57,555 --> 00:54:59,755 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening like 861 00:54:59,795 --> 00:55:03,795 Speaker 1: you're still listening. Most of our Countdown music arranged, produced 862 00:55:03,795 --> 00:55:06,435 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian ray On the guitars, bass and drums, 863 00:55:06,435 --> 00:55:10,355 Speaker 1: and John Phillip Schaneil handling orchestration and keyboards. They are 864 00:55:10,515 --> 00:55:12,955 Speaker 1: our musical directors of Countdown and it was produced by 865 00:55:12,995 --> 00:55:16,755 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fithy musical comments are by 866 00:55:16,755 --> 00:55:20,515 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports 867 00:55:20,595 --> 00:55:24,475 Speaker 1: music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, written by 868 00:55:24,475 --> 00:55:28,475 Speaker 1: Mitchwarren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and 869 00:55:28,515 --> 00:55:31,315 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer 870 00:55:31,395 --> 00:55:36,315 Speaker 1: today was my friend Larry David. This program was produced 871 00:55:36,315 --> 00:55:41,715 Speaker 1: by Ted. Everything else was as always my fault. That's 872 00:55:41,755 --> 00:55:44,435 Speaker 1: countdown for today, Day three hundred and fifty one of 873 00:55:44,475 --> 00:55:50,155 Speaker 1: America held hostage again by El Presidente and just one 874 00:55:51,075 --> 00:55:53,195 Speaker 1: and twelve days until the scheduled end of his lame 875 00:55:53,275 --> 00:55:56,835 Speaker 1: duck and lame brained term in this country unless he 876 00:55:56,915 --> 00:56:01,355 Speaker 1: is removed sooner by Maga and Epstein or affordability or 877 00:56:01,635 --> 00:56:08,435 Speaker 1: Susie Wiles or Marble armrests or Venezuela. The next scheduled 878 00:56:08,435 --> 00:56:11,995 Speaker 1: countdown is Thursday. Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 879 00:56:12,035 --> 00:56:31,435 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. When they arrested Maduro, 880 00:56:32,035 --> 00:56:37,915 Speaker 1: he was with Olivia Newsy. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 881 00:56:37,955 --> 00:56:42,755 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 882 00:56:42,795 --> 00:56:47,675 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.