1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:26,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:26,435 --> 00:00:30,355 Speaker 1: and Musk and Vance and the others are now clearly 3 00:00:30,395 --> 00:00:34,475 Speaker 1: signaling their intent to ignore the court orders keeping Musk 4 00:00:34,555 --> 00:00:38,355 Speaker 1: from pillaging the government financial computers and from pillaging your 5 00:00:38,395 --> 00:00:41,955 Speaker 1: personal information in them. But there has been no update 6 00:00:42,435 --> 00:00:45,715 Speaker 1: on the other news that Trump's minions have already been 7 00:00:45,755 --> 00:00:50,035 Speaker 1: giving loyalty tests to applicants to the FBI, to other 8 00:00:50,115 --> 00:00:55,195 Speaker 1: law enforcement, to national security, loyalty tests that include questions 9 00:00:55,235 --> 00:00:59,955 Speaker 1: such as yes or no was the twenty twenty election stolen? 10 00:01:00,435 --> 00:01:05,515 Speaker 1: And who is your real boss? There are no updates 11 00:01:05,875 --> 00:01:08,875 Speaker 1: from Saturday's Washington Post story, and as nearly as I 12 00:01:08,915 --> 00:01:12,315 Speaker 1: can tell, the story did not even come up during 13 00:01:12,355 --> 00:01:15,035 Speaker 1: any of the Sunday shows because the Trump strategy and 14 00:01:15,035 --> 00:01:18,635 Speaker 1: appointing idiots to key positions was to make what's left 15 00:01:18,675 --> 00:01:22,715 Speaker 1: of the media point and guffaw at the frontal lobe 16 00:01:22,835 --> 00:01:26,555 Speaker 1: free likes of Christy Nome telling CNN you can't trust 17 00:01:26,595 --> 00:01:30,555 Speaker 1: the government with your information, and the equally imbecilic CNN 18 00:01:30,635 --> 00:01:33,955 Speaker 1: Meet puppet then saying you are the government and noo, 19 00:01:33,955 --> 00:01:39,355 Speaker 1: I'm replying exactly, And as fun as that is, it 20 00:01:39,475 --> 00:01:42,955 Speaker 1: is not news when compared to the prospect of the 21 00:01:42,995 --> 00:01:47,515 Speaker 1: FBI consisting entirely of agents and the major law enforcement 22 00:01:47,555 --> 00:01:53,195 Speaker 1: agencies consisting entirely of officers swearing in advance to lie 23 00:01:53,275 --> 00:01:58,355 Speaker 1: for Trump whenever asked to down to shouting his name 24 00:01:59,275 --> 00:02:01,875 Speaker 1: when asked who really won the twenty twenty election or 25 00:02:01,915 --> 00:02:04,475 Speaker 1: who their real boss is. That is the moment the 26 00:02:04,755 --> 00:02:08,355 Speaker 1: FBI and all of law enforcement become not Americas but 27 00:02:08,595 --> 00:02:13,795 Speaker 1: just Trump's. And Christy Nomes's response to having humiliated herself 28 00:02:13,835 --> 00:02:17,755 Speaker 1: twice in different directions in fifteen seconds, her response could 29 00:02:17,795 --> 00:02:19,955 Speaker 1: have been for her head to explode, like in the 30 00:02:19,995 --> 00:02:24,475 Speaker 1: movie Scanners, and that still wouldn't be news compared to 31 00:02:24,635 --> 00:02:29,435 Speaker 1: Trump police and FBI loyalty tests that began some time 32 00:02:29,595 --> 00:02:35,035 Speaker 1: before The Washington Post reported on it on day nineteen 33 00:02:35,115 --> 00:02:41,635 Speaker 1: of this administration. There are, however, crack of doom level 34 00:02:41,755 --> 00:02:45,435 Speaker 1: developments in the Weekend's other story that the media also 35 00:02:45,635 --> 00:02:50,035 Speaker 1: largely ignored, because it turns out kristin Cinema is lobbying 36 00:02:50,075 --> 00:02:53,475 Speaker 1: for her friend Tulsy Gabbard and paid Tulsi Gabbard's sister 37 00:02:53,795 --> 00:02:57,595 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands for security, and Cinema told me once 38 00:02:57,635 --> 00:03:00,955 Speaker 1: that all her women friends and all her women long 39 00:03:01,035 --> 00:03:06,955 Speaker 1: term business associates were only more than friends. If you 40 00:03:06,995 --> 00:03:10,155 Speaker 1: were distracted by that and you did not hear the 41 00:03:10,195 --> 00:03:15,195 Speaker 1: Emergency podcast Sunday morning, I suggested in it that there 42 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:17,755 Speaker 1: had already been quiet hints that Musk and Trump were 43 00:03:17,795 --> 00:03:21,795 Speaker 1: planning to defy the court rulings keeping apartheid Clyde from 44 00:03:21,835 --> 00:03:25,115 Speaker 1: having what amounts to a line item veto over the 45 00:03:25,315 --> 00:03:28,435 Speaker 1: entirety of the federal government, which is what the f 46 00:03:28,635 --> 00:03:33,555 Speaker 1: this actually is. Well, they are no longer quiet hints, 47 00:03:34,195 --> 00:03:37,035 Speaker 1: and they are no longer even trying to smooth over 48 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:42,835 Speaker 1: the edges of the clear hypocrisy and clear self contradictions 49 00:03:43,075 --> 00:03:47,915 Speaker 1: in their defenses of this coup. Late Saturday, a Twitter 50 00:03:48,155 --> 00:03:52,795 Speaker 1: x account called insurrection Barbie wrote, among other things, quote, 51 00:03:53,195 --> 00:03:57,275 Speaker 1: not allowing the Secretary of Treasury to access treasury files 52 00:03:57,355 --> 00:04:01,235 Speaker 1: is unconstitutional. I don't like the precedent it sets when 53 00:04:01,315 --> 00:04:05,275 Speaker 1: you defy a judicial ruling, but I'm just wondering what 54 00:04:05,395 --> 00:04:08,955 Speaker 1: other options are these judges leaving us if they're going 55 00:04:08,995 --> 00:04:13,715 Speaker 1: to blatantly disregard the Constitution for their own partisan political goals. 56 00:04:15,275 --> 00:04:21,155 Speaker 1: Musk retweeted that your first hint yesterday. Musk went further 57 00:04:21,595 --> 00:04:27,195 Speaker 1: a corrupt judge protecting corruption. He needs to be impeached now. Yesterday, 58 00:04:27,355 --> 00:04:30,115 Speaker 1: Vance posted quote, if a judge tried to tell a 59 00:04:30,195 --> 00:04:33,715 Speaker 1: general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. 60 00:04:34,115 --> 00:04:36,475 Speaker 1: If a judge tried to command the attorney general and 61 00:04:36,555 --> 00:04:39,915 Speaker 1: how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. 62 00:04:40,275 --> 00:04:45,955 Speaker 1: Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power. The 63 00:04:45,995 --> 00:04:49,875 Speaker 1: irony of Vance insisting a judge trying to command the 64 00:04:49,915 --> 00:04:54,235 Speaker 1: attorney general is illegal when it was Judge Eileen Cannon 65 00:04:54,795 --> 00:04:59,315 Speaker 1: and Justices Alito, Kavanaugh and Thomas who commanded the Attorney 66 00:04:59,315 --> 00:05:02,315 Speaker 1: General Merrick Garland in the prosecution of Trump, and thus 67 00:05:02,315 --> 00:05:05,235 Speaker 1: it was judges who, by commanding the at enny General, 68 00:05:05,275 --> 00:05:09,115 Speaker 1: got Trump and Vance elected in the first place. That 69 00:05:09,275 --> 00:05:12,035 Speaker 1: is so obvious that Vance didn't even bother to address it. 70 00:05:12,915 --> 00:05:15,915 Speaker 1: Never mind the nonsense about trying to tell a general 71 00:05:15,955 --> 00:05:18,875 Speaker 1: how to conduct a military operation. If the military operation 72 00:05:19,075 --> 00:05:22,715 Speaker 1: is illegal, like against citizens of the United States, the 73 00:05:22,835 --> 00:05:25,675 Speaker 1: judge has every goddamn right in the world to tell 74 00:05:25,715 --> 00:05:28,595 Speaker 1: the general how to conduct the military operation with the 75 00:05:28,635 --> 00:05:35,915 Speaker 1: simple message you cannot. And we have seen within recent 76 00:05:36,115 --> 00:05:40,715 Speaker 1: weeks judges telling the Attorney general what he can and 77 00:05:40,755 --> 00:05:44,435 Speaker 1: cannot do. It's not different just because it's a her. 78 00:05:44,595 --> 00:05:50,035 Speaker 1: This time jv. Stephen Miller, of course, went further than 79 00:05:50,075 --> 00:05:52,955 Speaker 1: any of them. What we continue to see here is 80 00:05:52,995 --> 00:05:57,275 Speaker 1: the idea that rogue bureaucrats who are elected by no one, 81 00:05:57,275 --> 00:05:59,875 Speaker 1: who answer to no one, who have lifetime, tenured jobs, 82 00:06:00,035 --> 00:06:03,275 Speaker 1: this unelected shadow force that is running our government and 83 00:06:03,395 --> 00:06:07,755 Speaker 1: running our country, which is twice as hypocritical even than 84 00:06:07,835 --> 00:06:11,955 Speaker 1: Vance was, because it is the unelected shadow force running 85 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:15,475 Speaker 1: our government and running our country called Stephen Miller talking 86 00:06:15,475 --> 00:06:18,515 Speaker 1: about how the courts have no dominion, so the laws 87 00:06:18,555 --> 00:06:22,515 Speaker 1: have no dominion over the other unelected shadow force running 88 00:06:22,555 --> 00:06:26,795 Speaker 1: our government and running our country called Elon Musk. And 89 00:06:26,875 --> 00:06:29,155 Speaker 1: then to top it off, Trump told one of his 90 00:06:29,275 --> 00:06:33,355 Speaker 1: favorite whorees, Brent Bher, that in twenty four hours he 91 00:06:33,475 --> 00:06:37,435 Speaker 1: will tell Musk to go check the Department of Education. 92 00:06:38,395 --> 00:06:42,115 Speaker 1: Then I'm going to go to the military. The cover 93 00:06:42,195 --> 00:06:45,955 Speaker 1: will be the same alleged fraud that isn't fraud, waste 94 00:06:46,195 --> 00:06:50,635 Speaker 1: that isn't waste, cuts that aren't legal, monetary information that 95 00:06:50,755 --> 00:06:55,515 Speaker 1: is incidental to the real goal here, purging non Trumpists 96 00:06:55,835 --> 00:07:00,235 Speaker 1: and getting your private information. And at the Education Department 97 00:07:00,435 --> 00:07:04,675 Speaker 1: maybe getting your child's private information before shutting everything down, 98 00:07:05,115 --> 00:07:07,955 Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, rewarding Musk by giving him 99 00:07:08,075 --> 00:07:13,275 Speaker 1: all the money that isn't spent. It is obvious now 100 00:07:13,315 --> 00:07:16,235 Speaker 1: that if Trump and Musk, Advance and Miller and the 101 00:07:16,275 --> 00:07:20,155 Speaker 1: rest had tried anything like this even just a month 102 00:07:20,195 --> 00:07:25,395 Speaker 1: ago today, the preceding president would have been entirely justified 103 00:07:25,795 --> 00:07:30,115 Speaker 1: and probably gotten significant public support in indicting and detaining 104 00:07:30,155 --> 00:07:34,395 Speaker 1: them on any one of a dozen kinds of charges 105 00:07:34,515 --> 00:07:38,515 Speaker 1: pertaining to trying to overthrow the government of the United States. 106 00:07:39,435 --> 00:07:42,115 Speaker 1: Trump and Musk, and Vance and Miller are trying to 107 00:07:42,355 --> 00:07:47,315 Speaker 1: overthrow the government of the United States, its foreign invasion 108 00:07:47,475 --> 00:07:51,155 Speaker 1: level attacks against the law, and attacks against the constitution. 109 00:07:51,515 --> 00:07:55,755 Speaker 1: Biden would have been justified in January if he had 110 00:07:55,795 --> 00:07:59,315 Speaker 1: invoked the Insurrection Act for just a couple of hours, 111 00:07:59,595 --> 00:08:04,395 Speaker 1: long enough to round them all up until further notice. 112 00:08:04,835 --> 00:08:08,995 Speaker 1: Question now becomes what happens when, and this seems increasingly 113 00:08:09,075 --> 00:08:12,955 Speaker 1: inevitable Trump and Musk defy all the court orders and 114 00:08:13,035 --> 00:08:17,635 Speaker 1: again access the treasury. First of all, who is going 115 00:08:17,675 --> 00:08:21,875 Speaker 1: to be there to stop them? In the Washington Post story, 116 00:08:21,995 --> 00:08:26,515 Speaker 1: we don't know when the Trump personnel Reich started these 117 00:08:26,835 --> 00:08:31,675 Speaker 1: law enforcement interviews, nor how many interviewees said yes and 118 00:08:31,955 --> 00:08:36,155 Speaker 1: sure and you bet you. Trump is my real boss. 119 00:08:36,795 --> 00:08:40,315 Speaker 1: And if any of them are already in uniform, and 120 00:08:40,395 --> 00:08:43,155 Speaker 1: if the first of them were just randomly assigned to, oh, 121 00:08:43,275 --> 00:08:48,795 Speaker 1: I don't know, the Treasury Department. So assume Trump and 122 00:08:48,915 --> 00:08:53,395 Speaker 1: Musk defy the courts and resume what they have been doing, 123 00:08:54,155 --> 00:08:59,675 Speaker 1: resume their illegality in person or just remotely. What do 124 00:08:59,795 --> 00:09:03,155 Speaker 1: the courts who have ruled against them, and the other 125 00:09:03,275 --> 00:09:06,235 Speaker 1: courts which are likely to rule against them this week, 126 00:09:06,555 --> 00:09:09,915 Speaker 1: and the litigants in those cases, like the nineteen attorneys general, 127 00:09:10,075 --> 00:09:13,915 Speaker 1: what do they do next? Does this go directly to 128 00:09:13,995 --> 00:09:17,915 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, where the corrupt theologians there can say, Aha, 129 00:09:18,315 --> 00:09:21,195 Speaker 1: this is easy. We have precedent in this area. Now, 130 00:09:22,075 --> 00:09:25,875 Speaker 1: I mean, look at that ancient court ruling from last year. 131 00:09:26,155 --> 00:09:29,675 Speaker 1: If you can't prosecute an ex president for his crimes, 132 00:09:29,955 --> 00:09:34,155 Speaker 1: if he's immune, how could you possibly prosecute him or 133 00:09:34,235 --> 00:09:39,595 Speaker 1: anybody for crimes ordered by a sitting president. And if 134 00:09:39,595 --> 00:09:42,675 Speaker 1: they say that it is official, this is a dictatorship. 135 00:09:44,035 --> 00:09:48,595 Speaker 1: Or Trump looks at the judges who are ruling against Musk, 136 00:09:49,035 --> 00:09:52,795 Speaker 1: and he says, believing that he is now king. He 137 00:09:52,835 --> 00:09:56,915 Speaker 1: says the judge's behavior is actually an attack on this country, 138 00:09:57,235 --> 00:10:01,515 Speaker 1: and Trump invokes the Insurrection Act this week and rounds 139 00:10:01,595 --> 00:10:04,955 Speaker 1: up the judges and whoever else he feels like. The 140 00:10:05,035 --> 00:10:12,915 Speaker 1: leading Democrats me you. The other option is intermediate steps 141 00:10:12,955 --> 00:10:16,515 Speaker 1: by those judges who really really don't like being ignored, 142 00:10:17,555 --> 00:10:21,315 Speaker 1: and who, while they might hesitate to pursue Trump per se, 143 00:10:21,435 --> 00:10:26,235 Speaker 1: they would probably line up to pursue Musk and the others. 144 00:10:26,475 --> 00:10:29,715 Speaker 1: They could quickly order contempt of court orders against Musk 145 00:10:29,955 --> 00:10:33,035 Speaker 1: and his employees, and there are scenarios in which they 146 00:10:33,035 --> 00:10:36,515 Speaker 1: move quickly enough to put these men in holding cells 147 00:10:36,875 --> 00:10:41,395 Speaker 1: for defying legitimate orders. Or there could be a confrontation 148 00:10:41,555 --> 00:10:45,635 Speaker 1: between court officers and police loyal to the courts and 149 00:10:45,795 --> 00:10:50,275 Speaker 1: Musk's people and police loyal to them and Trump. Or 150 00:10:50,355 --> 00:10:53,395 Speaker 1: there could be a violent confrontation between those groups. Or 151 00:10:53,435 --> 00:10:55,835 Speaker 1: this could end up the wand mere Shan way, in 152 00:10:55,875 --> 00:11:03,275 Speaker 1: which the courts act so slowly, so stupidly, so gullibly, 153 00:11:03,675 --> 00:11:06,875 Speaker 1: so violated of their own purpose and indeed their history 154 00:11:06,875 --> 00:11:12,035 Speaker 1: of blocking corruption quickly, especially corrupt businessmen maneuvering a hostile 155 00:11:12,115 --> 00:11:15,755 Speaker 1: takeover of the government, and we go the Wan Mershan way, 156 00:11:16,155 --> 00:11:18,235 Speaker 1: in which the judge will be back to you with 157 00:11:18,275 --> 00:11:21,995 Speaker 1: a ruling sometime in the year twenty seven eighty two, 158 00:11:24,075 --> 00:11:26,915 Speaker 1: in which case, Welcome to the Fascist States of America, 159 00:11:27,115 --> 00:11:35,155 Speaker 1: Elon R. Musk, Proprietor. There is, however, one wild card 160 00:11:35,315 --> 00:11:38,235 Speaker 1: I see here, a wild card that would have terrified 161 00:11:38,355 --> 00:11:41,955 Speaker 1: us all a month ago, but now suddenly seems kind 162 00:11:41,955 --> 00:11:46,475 Speaker 1: of funny. Trump, of course, can forget things that he 163 00:11:46,515 --> 00:11:50,075 Speaker 1: has said before. The final syllable of the final word 164 00:11:50,195 --> 00:11:54,355 Speaker 1: in his final sentence is out of his effing fat mouth. 165 00:11:55,155 --> 00:11:58,955 Speaker 1: He may not send Musk into the military. He may 166 00:11:58,995 --> 00:12:03,755 Speaker 1: be warned not to try that on the entirely reasonable 167 00:12:03,795 --> 00:12:07,715 Speaker 1: assumption that the military may lean Trump. But it sure 168 00:12:07,755 --> 00:12:12,675 Speaker 1: as hell does not lean South African druggies. If Trump 169 00:12:12,755 --> 00:12:17,555 Speaker 1: sends Musk into the military, they may never find Musk again. 170 00:12:19,995 --> 00:12:24,755 Speaker 1: The military has never been challenged in any real degree 171 00:12:25,315 --> 00:12:29,315 Speaker 1: at any point in our history. All the governmental overthrow 172 00:12:29,475 --> 00:12:33,915 Speaker 1: plots of fiction, they center on the military acting usually 173 00:12:34,355 --> 00:12:37,515 Speaker 1: in protest of, or at the behest of a politician 174 00:12:37,835 --> 00:12:42,395 Speaker 1: seven days in May. It can't happen here other plots. 175 00:12:43,075 --> 00:12:46,035 Speaker 1: But the only time the military as an institution was 176 00:12:46,115 --> 00:12:54,795 Speaker 1: actually challenged insulted, belittled, attacked. That would have been the 177 00:12:54,875 --> 00:12:57,635 Speaker 1: time Joe McCarthy did it in nineteen fifty four, And 178 00:12:57,675 --> 00:13:01,275 Speaker 1: while McCarthy had already peaked by then and was beginning 179 00:13:01,315 --> 00:13:05,635 Speaker 1: to make costly strategic mistakes like that one because of alcoholism, 180 00:13:05,875 --> 00:13:09,995 Speaker 1: I will point out this timeline. In January nineteen fifty four, 181 00:13:10,395 --> 00:13:14,715 Speaker 1: Joe McCarthy's approval numbers in this country were favorable by 182 00:13:14,755 --> 00:13:20,515 Speaker 1: fifty percent to twenty nine. On March sixteenth, nineteen fifty four, 183 00:13:20,755 --> 00:13:25,915 Speaker 1: the Army McCarthy Hearings began McCarthy's attempt to punish the 184 00:13:26,115 --> 00:13:30,795 Speaker 1: army and bend it to his will. By May, the 185 00:13:30,995 --> 00:13:34,275 Speaker 1: Army McCarthy Hearings were going so badly for McCarthy that 186 00:13:34,315 --> 00:13:37,315 Speaker 1: they were being satirized with the effect of a fresh 187 00:13:37,795 --> 00:13:42,155 Speaker 1: verbal stabbing every morning by the comedic geniuses Bob Elliot 188 00:13:42,155 --> 00:13:46,235 Speaker 1: and Ray Goulding on WIS radio in New York. By June, 189 00:13:46,795 --> 00:13:52,195 Speaker 1: McCarthy's approval numbers were unfavorable forty five percent to thirty four. 190 00:13:53,115 --> 00:13:58,115 Speaker 1: He went from plus twenty one to minus eleven in 191 00:13:58,195 --> 00:14:03,755 Speaker 1: five months. By July, reporters stopped returning McCarthy's phone calls 192 00:14:04,075 --> 00:14:08,555 Speaker 1: on descent number second, the Senate censured Joe McCarthy eight 193 00:14:08,675 --> 00:14:13,195 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two days later, Joe McCarthy was dead. 194 00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:20,195 Speaker 1: And all of that happened without a challenged military ever 195 00:14:20,435 --> 00:14:24,875 Speaker 1: actually firing a shot or even raising a gun and 196 00:14:24,915 --> 00:14:31,075 Speaker 1: pointing it at Joe McCarthy headed for the Pentagon elon 197 00:14:32,155 --> 00:14:37,155 Speaker 1: good luck. As I said earlier, I did what I 198 00:14:37,195 --> 00:14:39,995 Speaker 1: literally called for the first time in this entire series, 199 00:14:40,435 --> 00:14:44,755 Speaker 1: three and a half year's worth, an emergency podcast Sunday morning. 200 00:14:45,235 --> 00:14:48,355 Speaker 1: So much was I throne by the Washington Post story 201 00:14:48,475 --> 00:14:51,315 Speaker 1: about the loyalty tests. The odds are pretty good you 202 00:14:51,435 --> 00:14:54,835 Speaker 1: did not hear it. It was intended to be run 203 00:14:54,915 --> 00:14:57,955 Speaker 1: at this time, but I thought this should not wait. 204 00:14:59,595 --> 00:15:02,995 Speaker 1: The emergency podcast was focused on the FBI loyalty tests, 205 00:15:03,035 --> 00:15:05,675 Speaker 1: which I confess are the first Trump and Acts I 206 00:15:05,715 --> 00:15:09,915 Speaker 1: have been surprised by in years. If you have already 207 00:15:09,995 --> 00:15:14,075 Speaker 1: heard that emergency podcast from Sunday, you can hit stop now. 208 00:15:14,195 --> 00:15:16,755 Speaker 1: If you have not, though, I think you should proceed 209 00:15:17,555 --> 00:15:21,275 Speaker 1: if we are not at the Fort Sumter stage in 210 00:15:21,315 --> 00:15:24,795 Speaker 1: this the Trump Musk civil war against the United States 211 00:15:24,835 --> 00:15:28,515 Speaker 1: of America, against the government, against the Union itself. If 212 00:15:28,555 --> 00:15:33,795 Speaker 1: we are not quite at Fort Sumter. Right now, Fort 213 00:15:33,835 --> 00:15:45,875 Speaker 1: Sumter has just popped up on the GPS display. This 214 00:15:46,035 --> 00:15:49,395 Speaker 1: is an emergency edition of Countdown. I'm Keith Olverman. Trump 215 00:15:49,515 --> 00:15:53,635 Speaker 1: is having them ask candidates for jobs in his administration's 216 00:15:53,835 --> 00:15:58,595 Speaker 1: FBI field stations away from DC. What is probably the 217 00:15:58,795 --> 00:16:03,675 Speaker 1: most chilling question ever asked by anybody in any government 218 00:16:03,795 --> 00:16:08,675 Speaker 1: of the United States? Quote who is your real boss? 219 00:16:10,115 --> 00:16:12,355 Speaker 1: This is if you do not know. In the Washington 220 00:16:12,435 --> 00:16:19,195 Speaker 1: Posts brief damning almost despite everything unbelievable nightmarish report posted 221 00:16:19,275 --> 00:16:23,115 Speaker 1: Saturday night, the Post is quoting applicants for the FBI 222 00:16:23,235 --> 00:16:26,595 Speaker 1: and other top national security positions, and they hit some 223 00:16:26,635 --> 00:16:29,835 Speaker 1: of these people who were in these organizations were dismissed 224 00:16:29,875 --> 00:16:33,595 Speaker 1: and were being the opportunity to return to work, quoting 225 00:16:33,595 --> 00:16:36,155 Speaker 1: them as saying they had been asked these questions. At 226 00:16:36,235 --> 00:16:39,835 Speaker 1: least two FBI applicants were asked at least two questions 227 00:16:39,875 --> 00:16:43,275 Speaker 1: out of George Orwell or the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. 228 00:16:43,795 --> 00:16:49,155 Speaker 1: One you heard it, who is your real boss? If 229 00:16:49,195 --> 00:16:52,155 Speaker 1: you need more, don't worry, there is more. The other question, 230 00:16:52,675 --> 00:16:58,635 Speaker 1: who were the real patriots? On January sixth? You have 231 00:16:58,755 --> 00:17:02,715 Speaker 1: to answer these questions correctly. From the Trump point of view, 232 00:17:03,075 --> 00:17:07,635 Speaker 1: to get a job at the FBI. We know through 233 00:17:07,635 --> 00:17:10,755 Speaker 1: the Post's reporting of at least two other questions asked 234 00:17:10,755 --> 00:17:13,475 Speaker 1: of those being interviewed for some kind of leadership positions 235 00:17:13,715 --> 00:17:18,155 Speaker 1: within other aspects of the Trump national security apparatus in Washington. 236 00:17:18,875 --> 00:17:22,115 Speaker 1: They are told to answer yes or no to each question. 237 00:17:22,155 --> 00:17:29,675 Speaker 1: One was January sixth and inside job question two was 238 00:17:29,915 --> 00:17:36,715 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty presidential election stolen, presumably with two l's. 239 00:17:38,195 --> 00:17:41,275 Speaker 1: At least these two applicants cited in the Post story 240 00:17:41,275 --> 00:17:46,835 Speaker 1: told their interviewers no, and neither was hired. The asking 241 00:17:47,555 --> 00:17:52,235 Speaker 1: of these questions, just the asking, let alone the answers, 242 00:17:52,315 --> 00:17:55,315 Speaker 1: let alone the implications that it is anything but political 243 00:17:55,315 --> 00:17:58,075 Speaker 1: science fiction. To conclude that some people have already answered 244 00:17:58,155 --> 00:18:01,275 Speaker 1: yes and are now moving into roles at the FBI 245 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:05,155 Speaker 1: and other law enforcement at other national security organizations. Just 246 00:18:05,515 --> 00:18:11,035 Speaker 1: asking those questions signals the end of democracy. Because if 247 00:18:11,035 --> 00:18:14,555 Speaker 1: today you can ask candidates for federal law enforcement positions 248 00:18:14,755 --> 00:18:20,555 Speaker 1: to swear personal loyalty to their real boss, and if 249 00:18:20,595 --> 00:18:23,115 Speaker 1: today you can ask candidates for these same positions to 250 00:18:23,315 --> 00:18:26,595 Speaker 1: insist that lies about January sixth, then the twenty twenty 251 00:18:26,635 --> 00:18:29,515 Speaker 1: election are the truth and that the truths are lies. 252 00:18:30,555 --> 00:18:34,555 Speaker 1: Then tomorrow you can make it illegal to answer that 253 00:18:34,595 --> 00:18:37,795 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election wasn't stolen, And then next week 254 00:18:37,835 --> 00:18:41,315 Speaker 1: you can make it illegal to publish or broadcast that 255 00:18:41,395 --> 00:18:43,795 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election wasn't stolen, And then the week 256 00:18:43,835 --> 00:18:47,795 Speaker 1: after that you can put anybody who does so in prison. 257 00:18:48,755 --> 00:18:54,635 Speaker 1: The slow, incremental submersion into this quicksand is asking the 258 00:18:54,635 --> 00:18:57,435 Speaker 1: would be leaders of the FBI to swear to lies 259 00:18:57,515 --> 00:19:02,155 Speaker 1: and fiction and fantasy and perversion of reality, punishing people 260 00:19:02,195 --> 00:19:04,355 Speaker 1: for refusing to do any of that. That is only 261 00:19:04,355 --> 00:19:10,955 Speaker 1: the quest terrible final step. Some of us have been 262 00:19:10,995 --> 00:19:14,155 Speaker 1: warning we would get here. We have been warning that 263 00:19:14,235 --> 00:19:16,395 Speaker 1: the creature at the head of this movement is not 264 00:19:16,595 --> 00:19:25,595 Speaker 1: just unstable, quirky, populist, selfish, self indulgent, not just insane, 265 00:19:25,995 --> 00:19:36,835 Speaker 1: but criminally insane and homicidally insane and ultimately conceivably genocidally insane. 266 00:19:36,875 --> 00:19:39,035 Speaker 1: Some of us have been warning about this for a decade. 267 00:19:39,875 --> 00:19:43,795 Speaker 1: We have been shunned, mocked, and marginalized. We have been 268 00:19:43,795 --> 00:19:47,355 Speaker 1: told Trump is not a subhuman psychotic, not a terrorist, 269 00:19:47,515 --> 00:19:52,955 Speaker 1: not a mass murderer. He's just popular. We were right, 270 00:19:54,075 --> 00:19:58,035 Speaker 1: and if there was any remaining doubt. It ended last night, 271 00:19:58,075 --> 00:20:01,355 Speaker 1: and those who doubted and those who told us otherwise 272 00:20:01,915 --> 00:20:06,275 Speaker 1: were and are wrong, and it will cost all of 273 00:20:06,355 --> 00:20:11,875 Speaker 1: us our form of government. Some of those who told 274 00:20:11,955 --> 00:20:14,195 Speaker 1: us we were wrong have even come to understand this 275 00:20:14,235 --> 00:20:17,795 Speaker 1: since just January twentieth. Some of them have just come 276 00:20:17,835 --> 00:20:20,475 Speaker 1: to understand this since reading the Post article last night. 277 00:20:20,755 --> 00:20:24,435 Speaker 1: Some of them will not understand any of it until 278 00:20:24,435 --> 00:20:29,755 Speaker 1: they are being led away in handcuffs or worse. And 279 00:20:29,835 --> 00:20:32,555 Speaker 1: so I would like to mention here while it is 280 00:20:32,595 --> 00:20:36,635 Speaker 1: still legal, to mention here, that we are here now 281 00:20:37,035 --> 00:20:41,835 Speaker 1: on the precipice as it crumbles beneath us in large measure, 282 00:20:41,915 --> 00:20:45,075 Speaker 1: probably in the decisive final measure, because of the people 283 00:20:45,075 --> 00:20:49,875 Speaker 1: who both sides us, and what abouted us who both 284 00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:53,995 Speaker 1: sides and what about this country figuratively and probably literally 285 00:20:54,315 --> 00:21:02,395 Speaker 1: to death? Attorney General Merrick Garland and former President Joe Biden, 286 00:21:03,075 --> 00:21:05,995 Speaker 1: who refused to recognize that the danger was not in 287 00:21:06,075 --> 00:21:10,075 Speaker 1: breaking the ritualistic imbecilities of Department of Justice norms. We're 288 00:21:10,115 --> 00:21:12,835 Speaker 1: not getting back to normality as soon as possible. The 289 00:21:12,955 --> 00:21:16,755 Speaker 1: danger was in not vigorously and immediately prosecuting Trump and 290 00:21:16,835 --> 00:21:19,875 Speaker 1: taking any measures available to imprison him for the rest 291 00:21:19,915 --> 00:21:22,715 Speaker 1: of his life and imprison these creatures who now ask 292 00:21:23,035 --> 00:21:27,395 Speaker 1: the successors to Garland's own employees, who's your real boss? 293 00:21:29,475 --> 00:21:35,795 Speaker 1: Garland and Biden helped kill our country. David Zaslav, head 294 00:21:35,835 --> 00:21:39,995 Speaker 1: of Warner Brothers Discovery, and his minion Chris lickt who 295 00:21:40,075 --> 00:21:45,915 Speaker 1: neutered CNN to make money. Not decisive by any stretch 296 00:21:45,915 --> 00:21:50,315 Speaker 1: of the imagination, but neutering CNN accelerated the both sides 297 00:21:50,355 --> 00:21:55,155 Speaker 1: its landslide. David Zaslab and Chris Licht helped kill our country. 298 00:21:55,955 --> 00:22:01,955 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN, who refused to 299 00:22:01,995 --> 00:22:04,635 Speaker 1: demand the right to fact check Trump in the debate 300 00:22:04,675 --> 00:22:08,155 Speaker 1: eight last summer as he lied literally without interruption for 301 00:22:08,235 --> 00:22:12,155 Speaker 1: ninety minutes. Tapper and Bash who helped kill our country. 302 00:22:13,635 --> 00:22:17,115 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzhinsky, who two weeks after the 303 00:22:17,155 --> 00:22:21,875 Speaker 1: election went to Florida to prostrate and prostitute themselves in 304 00:22:21,915 --> 00:22:26,355 Speaker 1: front of Trump. Scarborough and Brzhinsky helped kill our country. 305 00:22:27,235 --> 00:22:32,475 Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, the spineless head of Facebook and a series 306 00:22:32,515 --> 00:22:36,635 Speaker 1: of failed related websites, who, with terror written across his face, 307 00:22:36,995 --> 00:22:40,195 Speaker 1: has guaranteed Trump that he and his liars could lie 308 00:22:40,315 --> 00:22:43,955 Speaker 1: all they wanted to on all of his platforms. Mark Zuckerberg, 309 00:22:43,995 --> 00:22:49,875 Speaker 1: who helped kill our country, Joe Kahn, executive editor and A. G. Selzberger, 310 00:22:49,955 --> 00:22:54,195 Speaker 1: publisher of The New York Times, who made sure every cowardly, 311 00:22:54,635 --> 00:22:57,995 Speaker 1: non committal headline slapped above the work of their writers, 312 00:22:58,115 --> 00:23:01,835 Speaker 1: the courageous work and the cringing work alike, would never 313 00:23:01,915 --> 00:23:08,715 Speaker 1: convey malice, who would never specified danger, which would never 314 00:23:08,875 --> 00:23:14,595 Speaker 1: warn readers headlines. And two men Cohn and Selzberger, who 315 00:23:14,635 --> 00:23:20,955 Speaker 1: helped kill our country. Mitt Romney, former US Senator and governor, 316 00:23:20,995 --> 00:23:26,555 Speaker 1: who nine years ago attacked Trump, then appeased him in 317 00:23:26,595 --> 00:23:29,275 Speaker 1: hopes of becoming Secretary of State, who five years ago 318 00:23:29,395 --> 00:23:34,475 Speaker 1: attacked me in print because I called Trump a terrorist 319 00:23:35,675 --> 00:23:38,635 Speaker 1: in the months before the twenty twenty election, who four 320 00:23:38,675 --> 00:23:41,075 Speaker 1: months after he called me a terrorist, found himself pinned 321 00:23:41,075 --> 00:23:46,075 Speaker 1: inside the Capitol by Trump's terrorists, and who still would 322 00:23:46,155 --> 00:23:49,395 Speaker 1: never call Trump what he is Mitt Romney, who helped 323 00:23:49,475 --> 00:23:56,515 Speaker 1: kill our country. Countless nominal Democrats who since the election, 324 00:23:57,115 --> 00:24:00,355 Speaker 1: or since the inauguration or both, have sought to find 325 00:24:00,435 --> 00:24:05,875 Speaker 1: compromise or move towards bipartisanship with Trump and an evil 326 00:24:05,915 --> 00:24:10,155 Speaker 1: machine that wants you to say only one thing, not bipartisan, 327 00:24:10,235 --> 00:24:13,995 Speaker 1: this compromise, that they want just one thing from you. 328 00:24:13,995 --> 00:24:19,635 Speaker 1: You are my real boss. Chuck Schumer, who used the 329 00:24:19,675 --> 00:24:24,355 Speaker 1: phrase stop the steal last week. I guess he thought 330 00:24:24,355 --> 00:24:30,475 Speaker 1: it was funny. John Fetterman, Eric Adams, Mark Kelly, Akeem, Jeffries, 331 00:24:30,635 --> 00:24:33,755 Speaker 1: Chris Coons, nearly all of them in that party to 332 00:24:33,915 --> 00:24:38,315 Speaker 1: some degree great or small, briefly or still in progress, 333 00:24:39,835 --> 00:24:43,115 Speaker 1: someone looking to get to a yes on Tulsi Gabbard 334 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:50,355 Speaker 1: or Cash Patel, all of them who helped kill our country. 335 00:24:51,475 --> 00:24:57,835 Speaker 1: And dozens upon dozens of commentators and reporters and newscasters 336 00:24:57,875 --> 00:25:01,835 Speaker 1: and columnists who I'm sure all wanted to say more, 337 00:25:02,475 --> 00:25:07,195 Speaker 1: but they had mortgages to pay and careers to consider 338 00:25:07,915 --> 00:25:15,795 Speaker 1: in a shrinking medium, and guest bookings they could not jeopardize. 339 00:25:15,995 --> 00:25:23,315 Speaker 1: Bob Iger, Van Jones, Andrew Mitchell, Katie Turr, the other 340 00:25:23,435 --> 00:25:27,475 Speaker 1: executives of ABC News, the executives of sixty Minutes, the 341 00:25:27,515 --> 00:25:31,595 Speaker 1: new head of MSNBC's parent, Mark Lazarus, looking to make 342 00:25:31,755 --> 00:25:38,115 Speaker 1: MSNBC more accessible to Republicans, everybody virtually at Politico, Chris Solisza, 343 00:25:38,435 --> 00:25:44,875 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd, Kristen Welker, and we can pick Kristin Welker 344 00:25:44,915 --> 00:25:50,475 Speaker 1: almost at random to represent the media for when last April, 345 00:25:50,515 --> 00:25:54,115 Speaker 1: a video appeared of a Trump pickup truck with flags 346 00:25:54,155 --> 00:25:58,195 Speaker 1: flapping in the highway wind and an illustration a sticker 347 00:25:58,275 --> 00:26:04,075 Speaker 1: or decal on its bumper showing then President Biden bound 348 00:26:04,195 --> 00:26:07,635 Speaker 1: and gagged full size as if he had been kidnapped 349 00:26:07,955 --> 00:26:11,995 Speaker 1: and beaten or murdered and thrown into that Trump truck. 350 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:15,275 Speaker 1: Because that, at heart, is what Trump's friends wanted to 351 00:26:15,315 --> 00:26:18,195 Speaker 1: do and wanted you to know they intended to do. 352 00:26:18,715 --> 00:26:20,955 Speaker 1: When that image, we don't like the president, will just 353 00:26:21,035 --> 00:26:23,835 Speaker 1: kidnap him. We don't like the election outcome, We'll just 354 00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:26,515 Speaker 1: kidnap the winner. We don't like your answer about who 355 00:26:26,555 --> 00:26:29,115 Speaker 1: really want or who's the boss, We'll just kidnap you. 356 00:26:30,155 --> 00:26:32,795 Speaker 1: When that image appeared in public and it was shared 357 00:26:32,835 --> 00:26:37,475 Speaker 1: by people who were proud of it, Kristin Welkers spoke 358 00:26:37,515 --> 00:26:41,835 Speaker 1: for a generation of journalists when she said, it is 359 00:26:41,955 --> 00:26:45,395 Speaker 1: yet another reminder that we are covering this election against 360 00:26:45,675 --> 00:26:51,235 Speaker 1: the backdrop of a deeply divided nation, instead of saying 361 00:26:51,275 --> 00:26:55,115 Speaker 1: the truth, which is that it was yet another reminder 362 00:26:55,115 --> 00:26:57,755 Speaker 1: that we were conducting this election against the backdrop of 363 00:26:57,755 --> 00:27:01,395 Speaker 1: an incredibly dangerous percentage of this nation being willing to 364 00:27:01,515 --> 00:27:06,275 Speaker 1: kill a president to get their way, and an equally 365 00:27:06,315 --> 00:27:10,315 Speaker 1: incredibly dangerous percentage of this nation being gutless, people like 366 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:14,115 Speaker 1: Kristen Welker and Joe Scarborough and Joe Conn and all 367 00:27:14,195 --> 00:27:19,835 Speaker 1: the rest being unwilling to say what was true, being 368 00:27:19,955 --> 00:27:24,595 Speaker 1: unwilling to say what was happening, being unwilling to warn 369 00:27:24,675 --> 00:27:31,955 Speaker 1: those who doubted that it was coming, but it was coming, 370 00:27:33,555 --> 00:27:43,395 Speaker 1: and now it is here. Who is your real boss? 371 00:27:44,355 --> 00:27:51,635 Speaker 1: Day twenty oh and two more final championship names on 372 00:27:51,675 --> 00:27:57,915 Speaker 1: this list Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis of The Washington Post, 373 00:27:58,315 --> 00:28:04,275 Speaker 1: whose reporters took this final fatal straw, who published the 374 00:28:04,315 --> 00:28:07,675 Speaker 1: realitybody that would be FBI officials are being asked, as 375 00:28:07,715 --> 00:28:11,395 Speaker 1: a condition of employment, Who's your real boss? Who printed 376 00:28:11,395 --> 00:28:15,635 Speaker 1: this figurative crack of doom for American democracy and representative 377 00:28:15,675 --> 00:28:18,875 Speaker 1: government and freedom of speech? And when they did put 378 00:28:18,915 --> 00:28:23,275 Speaker 1: it out, even in the Washington Post, they placed it 379 00:28:23,395 --> 00:28:26,995 Speaker 1: as scrolling down from the top of their homepage. They 380 00:28:27,075 --> 00:28:33,195 Speaker 1: placed it as their thirty third story from the top, 381 00:28:34,795 --> 00:28:42,355 Speaker 1: thirty third, immediately following three stories about player trades in 382 00:28:42,435 --> 00:28:50,715 Speaker 1: the National Basketball Association. Democracy dies not in darkness but 383 00:28:50,875 --> 00:28:54,235 Speaker 1: in lies of commission and lies of omission. And you, 384 00:28:54,315 --> 00:28:56,675 Speaker 1: mister Bezos, and you, mister Lewis, and all the rest 385 00:28:56,715 --> 00:29:02,035 Speaker 1: of you have committed both kinds. And soon it will 386 00:29:02,075 --> 00:29:10,275 Speaker 1: be illegal not to lie. If you're applying for the 387 00:29:10,395 --> 00:29:15,875 Speaker 1: FBI job. We are already here. It is, in essence 388 00:29:15,955 --> 00:29:21,035 Speaker 1: illegal not to lie about the twenty twenty election. It 389 00:29:21,115 --> 00:29:24,595 Speaker 1: is illegal not to lie about where your loyalty lies, 390 00:29:25,035 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: the constitution, the law, or this pile of human feces. 391 00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:40,235 Speaker 1: Soon it will be illegal for everybody not to lie. 392 00:29:40,395 --> 00:29:44,795 Speaker 1: And that perhaps will be about the time, mister Bezos 393 00:29:45,355 --> 00:29:48,555 Speaker 1: and your friend, my former colleague, Miss Sanchez, when you 394 00:29:48,595 --> 00:29:53,435 Speaker 1: suddenly realize that your own lies to yourselves will have 395 00:29:53,515 --> 00:29:57,235 Speaker 1: to end. That you do not in fact live in 396 00:29:57,275 --> 00:30:03,435 Speaker 1: some other America, walled off from the nightmare that Trump, 397 00:30:04,075 --> 00:30:09,155 Speaker 1: now with Musk, now with a pliant military, now with 398 00:30:09,235 --> 00:30:13,395 Speaker 1: a pre screened FBI, now with law enforcement, not just 399 00:30:13,555 --> 00:30:18,675 Speaker 1: encouraged to lie but required to you, Jeff and Lauren, 400 00:30:18,955 --> 00:30:21,635 Speaker 1: you do not in fact live walled off from this 401 00:30:21,795 --> 00:30:26,835 Speaker 1: living nightmare. You, sir and Madam, are here with the 402 00:30:26,875 --> 00:30:30,475 Speaker 1: rest of us, the damned and you are just as 403 00:30:30,595 --> 00:30:37,235 Speaker 1: screwed as if you had actually stood for something. And 404 00:30:37,315 --> 00:30:39,915 Speaker 1: I hope to God you make me eat my own words, 405 00:30:40,875 --> 00:30:43,155 Speaker 1: because I hope to God that you really do stand 406 00:30:43,195 --> 00:30:47,235 Speaker 1: for something, and that you have an idea that you 407 00:30:47,315 --> 00:30:52,155 Speaker 1: have been keeping secret from us. Because as if somehow 408 00:30:52,155 --> 00:30:54,315 Speaker 1: this were not bad enough, if these questions were not 409 00:30:54,435 --> 00:30:57,435 Speaker 1: being asked as a litmus test, will you lie for Trump? 410 00:30:57,755 --> 00:31:00,595 Speaker 1: Will you kill for Trump? Will you be the FBI 411 00:31:00,715 --> 00:31:03,635 Speaker 1: for Trump? Will you make up evidence for Trump? Who's 412 00:31:03,715 --> 00:31:06,915 Speaker 1: your real boss? If this were not bad enough, Trump 413 00:31:06,955 --> 00:31:10,075 Speaker 1: has already gotten around to firing the head of the 414 00:31:10,155 --> 00:31:14,875 Speaker 1: National Archives because the National Archives only asked him to 415 00:31:14,955 --> 00:31:18,275 Speaker 1: give back all the stuff he stole for a year. 416 00:31:20,675 --> 00:31:23,715 Speaker 1: And what that means, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and 417 00:31:23,795 --> 00:31:29,075 Speaker 1: all the rest of you, what that means is if 418 00:31:29,115 --> 00:32:00,395 Speaker 1: you and I aren't next, we're soon. I don't know 419 00:32:00,395 --> 00:32:03,315 Speaker 1: how long we have. It is why I did not 420 00:32:03,435 --> 00:32:07,235 Speaker 1: wait till the usual Money Day countdown podcast publication hour 421 00:32:07,795 --> 00:32:10,115 Speaker 1: and put this out when I did on Sunday morning. 422 00:32:10,435 --> 00:32:13,275 Speaker 1: I don't know how long we have after this. This 423 00:32:13,435 --> 00:32:17,075 Speaker 1: to me is the first genuine surprise I have had 424 00:32:17,355 --> 00:32:23,075 Speaker 1: out of Trump and his terrorist gang in at least 425 00:32:23,155 --> 00:32:29,635 Speaker 1: five years. If they are already asking would be FBI agents, 426 00:32:29,755 --> 00:32:35,555 Speaker 1: who's your real boss? We may only have weeks, and 427 00:32:35,635 --> 00:32:40,035 Speaker 1: yet implausibly in those weeks there are more immediate problems still. 428 00:32:40,435 --> 00:32:43,035 Speaker 1: Now we get to find out if Trump and his 429 00:32:43,195 --> 00:32:50,355 Speaker 1: Afrikaner president Musque will obey the courts. Musk yesterday was 430 00:32:50,395 --> 00:32:56,155 Speaker 1: already signaling he might not, insisting the judge is corrupt 431 00:32:58,275 --> 00:33:04,515 Speaker 1: stochastic terrorism at its finest. Trump is already reposting Roger 432 00:33:04,515 --> 00:33:09,475 Speaker 1: Stones latest slanders against one of the attorneys general who sued. 433 00:33:12,555 --> 00:33:15,635 Speaker 1: If Trump and must continue on this path, we're going 434 00:33:15,675 --> 00:33:17,795 Speaker 1: to have to find other ways to make them obey 435 00:33:17,835 --> 00:33:21,355 Speaker 1: the courts. If they do obey with an eye towards 436 00:33:21,395 --> 00:33:24,315 Speaker 1: simply freezing their privatizing of government until they can get 437 00:33:24,355 --> 00:33:28,715 Speaker 1: their theocratic Supreme Court to overrule any lower court decisions 438 00:33:29,395 --> 00:33:34,075 Speaker 1: and you know the constitution, If they do it that way, 439 00:33:34,075 --> 00:33:35,635 Speaker 1: then we're going to have to find other ways to 440 00:33:35,715 --> 00:33:42,995 Speaker 1: change governments. As you are aware, Overnight Friday Saturday, a 441 00:33:43,035 --> 00:33:46,675 Speaker 1: federal judge ordered Musk and his teenage mutant Ninja Turtles 442 00:33:46,915 --> 00:33:51,755 Speaker 1: out of the Treasury computer system until at least this Friday. Earlier, 443 00:33:51,835 --> 00:33:54,515 Speaker 1: that same day, a different federal judge blocked any further 444 00:33:54,555 --> 00:33:59,235 Speaker 1: destruction of the us AID agency by mister Rubio, Secretary 445 00:33:59,235 --> 00:34:04,475 Speaker 1: of Comovers. Twenty two hundred more employees at USAID were 446 00:34:04,515 --> 00:34:07,675 Speaker 1: to go on leave that was stopped, and five hundred 447 00:34:07,715 --> 00:34:16,475 Speaker 1: were reinstated again. This administration dictatorship is three weeks old Monday, 448 00:34:17,035 --> 00:34:19,955 Speaker 1: and we are already at that Nixonian moment when we 449 00:34:19,995 --> 00:34:23,315 Speaker 1: wait to see if the President and Trump for that matter, 450 00:34:23,715 --> 00:34:27,355 Speaker 1: refuse to comply with the courts. It is a very 451 00:34:27,435 --> 00:34:30,915 Speaker 1: real possibility. The best case scenario is that they do 452 00:34:31,435 --> 00:34:34,435 Speaker 1: and use it to further fuel the Trumpian umbridge at 453 00:34:34,475 --> 00:34:38,035 Speaker 1: everything and everyone, and just building up a further explosion 454 00:34:38,075 --> 00:34:40,875 Speaker 1: of rage against government, which will itself inevitably come into 455 00:34:40,875 --> 00:34:44,595 Speaker 1: conflict with the other building explosion of rage for government. 456 00:34:47,195 --> 00:34:50,235 Speaker 1: There is the very slim possibility, of course, that somebody 457 00:34:50,275 --> 00:34:53,275 Speaker 1: Trump hired is not a religious nut too stupid to 458 00:34:53,315 --> 00:34:56,235 Speaker 1: see that the courts, or fate or the law actually 459 00:34:56,355 --> 00:34:59,435 Speaker 1: did them a huge favor. On the us AID story, 460 00:34:59,755 --> 00:35:03,435 Speaker 1: killing off us AID may be hugely popular with MAGA 461 00:35:03,475 --> 00:35:06,795 Speaker 1: and other morons like Ram Emmanuel and David Axelrod, but 462 00:35:06,915 --> 00:35:11,435 Speaker 1: nobody seemed to notice until this was in full swing, 463 00:35:11,755 --> 00:35:15,915 Speaker 1: that USA didn't just hand money out to them foreign dudes. 464 00:35:16,955 --> 00:35:20,875 Speaker 1: Forty one percent of the food USAID bought for international 465 00:35:20,915 --> 00:35:27,835 Speaker 1: assistance was bought from US farmers two billion, one hundred 466 00:35:27,915 --> 00:35:31,795 Speaker 1: million dollars worth, and that market has suddenly been ripped 467 00:35:31,795 --> 00:35:37,435 Speaker 1: out from under American farms, American farmers, the Americans. Trump 468 00:35:37,515 --> 00:35:40,395 Speaker 1: vowed to protect the ones who voted for him, the 469 00:35:40,435 --> 00:35:44,595 Speaker 1: ones whose tons of wheat are now rotting in Houston, 470 00:35:44,755 --> 00:35:46,955 Speaker 1: of all places, because that's where it was to be 471 00:35:47,035 --> 00:35:52,315 Speaker 1: shipped out of The likely irrevocable waste figure is already 472 00:35:52,475 --> 00:35:55,795 Speaker 1: at three hundred and forty million dollars no matter what 473 00:35:55,915 --> 00:36:03,035 Speaker 1: happens next. And that's just reality. Musk and Trump or 474 00:36:03,555 --> 00:36:08,195 Speaker 1: Tusk and Mump cramped all over the economic vibes too. 475 00:36:08,395 --> 00:36:13,235 Speaker 1: Economists expected consumer sentiment to soar under Musk, because, after all, 476 00:36:13,275 --> 00:36:16,315 Speaker 1: nothing says profits like people who will happily destroy the 477 00:36:16,355 --> 00:36:20,395 Speaker 1: planet and kill suffering millions worldwide to raise the price 478 00:36:20,435 --> 00:36:24,675 Speaker 1: of stock shares by forty nine cents each. But instead, 479 00:36:25,395 --> 00:36:29,475 Speaker 1: for the Wall Street Journal, consumer sentiment dropped in January, 480 00:36:29,555 --> 00:36:37,355 Speaker 1: and it has dropped again this month. Bottom line, Oh 481 00:36:37,435 --> 00:36:40,635 Speaker 1: what a shock, businessmen don't have the slightest idea what 482 00:36:40,675 --> 00:36:45,395 Speaker 1: they're effing doing, especially the ones whose primary business turns 483 00:36:45,395 --> 00:36:48,795 Speaker 1: out to be trying to convince you that they are successful, 484 00:36:49,315 --> 00:36:52,955 Speaker 1: you know, like Musk and Trump, who, by the way, 485 00:36:52,995 --> 00:36:56,275 Speaker 1: are also embracing immigrants while insisting on removing immigrants and 486 00:36:56,315 --> 00:37:04,315 Speaker 1: reaching out to poor persecuted South African immigrants, like Elon Musk, 487 00:37:04,835 --> 00:37:08,435 Speaker 1: Peter Thiel, and doctor Patrick Soon Shong, or as we 488 00:37:08,515 --> 00:37:11,115 Speaker 1: might better call him, as he drives the La Times 489 00:37:11,115 --> 00:37:21,515 Speaker 1: into the ground, doctor Patrick Soon bankrupt one last time 490 00:37:21,555 --> 00:37:27,555 Speaker 1: before I break on one familiar quote, not who's your 491 00:37:27,595 --> 00:37:31,395 Speaker 1: real boss? This is the quote from the Yale historian 492 00:37:31,435 --> 00:37:34,275 Speaker 1: Tim Snyder, as The New York Times got him to 493 00:37:34,275 --> 00:37:38,755 Speaker 1: phrase it. Trump is in the classic dictatorial position. He 494 00:37:38,875 --> 00:37:41,515 Speaker 1: needs to die in bed holding all executive power to 495 00:37:41,515 --> 00:37:43,795 Speaker 1: stay out of prison. This means that he will do 496 00:37:43,835 --> 00:37:46,915 Speaker 1: whatever he can to gain power, and once in power, 497 00:37:46,955 --> 00:37:48,715 Speaker 1: will do all that he can to never let it go. 498 00:37:49,995 --> 00:37:54,915 Speaker 1: This is a basic incentive structure which underlies everything else. 499 00:37:56,115 --> 00:38:11,915 Speaker 1: It is entirely inconsistent with democracy. Who's your boss? Next steps? 500 00:38:12,875 --> 00:38:16,675 Speaker 1: There are things democrats can still do before it becomes 501 00:38:16,675 --> 00:38:20,355 Speaker 1: illegal to be a democrat and everybody has to swear. 502 00:38:20,515 --> 00:38:25,635 Speaker 1: Everybody has to swear under oath not just loyalty to Trump, 503 00:38:26,955 --> 00:38:28,755 Speaker 1: but they have to swear under oath that Trump had 504 00:38:28,755 --> 00:38:36,475 Speaker 1: the election stolen from him. There are next steps. Things 505 00:38:36,515 --> 00:38:41,555 Speaker 1: Democrats can still do, Americans can still do. Those who 506 00:38:41,595 --> 00:38:46,955 Speaker 1: need to atone right now can still do. That's next. 507 00:38:46,995 --> 00:38:57,155 Speaker 1: This is an emergency edition of Countdown, continuing the emergency 508 00:38:57,315 --> 00:39:00,555 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown for February ninth, twenty twenty five. I 509 00:39:00,595 --> 00:39:02,515 Speaker 1: hope that of the thousand times I have said this, 510 00:39:02,635 --> 00:39:06,715 Speaker 1: now I will proved to have never proved more accurate 511 00:39:06,715 --> 00:39:09,155 Speaker 1: when I say it this time that the preservation of 512 00:39:09,195 --> 00:39:11,955 Speaker 1: democracy has owed less to our efforts to preserve it 513 00:39:12,275 --> 00:39:14,875 Speaker 1: than it has. The stupidity of those trying to destroy 514 00:39:14,955 --> 00:39:20,435 Speaker 1: it is hinted at before the break. These guys literally 515 00:39:20,475 --> 00:39:24,115 Speaker 1: cannot figure out whether they hate immigrants or love immigrants, 516 00:39:24,915 --> 00:39:30,715 Speaker 1: and which ones are the good ones. While we are 517 00:39:30,795 --> 00:39:33,195 Speaker 1: still reviewing the hating of this group today but defending 518 00:39:33,195 --> 00:39:39,235 Speaker 1: the same group tomorrow, how about good old JV. Musk 519 00:39:39,395 --> 00:39:41,795 Speaker 1: goes outside all the laws and all the rules and 520 00:39:41,835 --> 00:39:45,155 Speaker 1: installs a twenty five year old anti Indian racist with 521 00:39:45,195 --> 00:39:49,795 Speaker 1: what amounts to veto power over government spending, and the 522 00:39:49,835 --> 00:39:52,995 Speaker 1: guy turns out to have gotten caught having written I 523 00:39:53,155 --> 00:39:57,275 Speaker 1: was racist before it was cool and quote normalize Indian 524 00:39:57,355 --> 00:40:02,635 Speaker 1: hate and calling for eugenics. And then he resigns because 525 00:40:02,675 --> 00:40:09,635 Speaker 1: he is somehow too sleeve Elon Musk and then Vice 526 00:40:09,675 --> 00:40:16,835 Speaker 1: President Vance JV. The VP demands that this pro eugenics 527 00:40:17,035 --> 00:40:25,635 Speaker 1: Musk slave be re hired. Here's my view, genius rites. 528 00:40:26,355 --> 00:40:31,275 Speaker 1: I obviously disagree with some of Ellas's posts, but I 529 00:40:31,315 --> 00:40:35,195 Speaker 1: don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life. 530 00:40:35,795 --> 00:40:39,195 Speaker 1: We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people, ever, 531 00:40:39,435 --> 00:40:43,075 Speaker 1: So I say bring him back. If he's a bad 532 00:40:43,315 --> 00:40:46,515 Speaker 1: dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him 533 00:40:46,515 --> 00:40:52,115 Speaker 1: for that. We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people, ever, 534 00:40:52,715 --> 00:40:56,395 Speaker 1: says a spokesmodel for the website that pushes libs of 535 00:40:56,555 --> 00:41:03,395 Speaker 1: TikTok and other online fascists. And remember Musk claims X 536 00:41:03,475 --> 00:41:06,675 Speaker 1: and all of them they are journalism now they are 537 00:41:06,715 --> 00:41:11,355 Speaker 1: the media. But we should never reward journalists who try 538 00:41:11,395 --> 00:41:15,235 Speaker 1: to destroy people, ever, especially the ones who tried to 539 00:41:15,235 --> 00:41:18,075 Speaker 1: destroy seven or eight hundred of them a day. I 540 00:41:18,155 --> 00:41:22,435 Speaker 1: don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life. 541 00:41:22,515 --> 00:41:27,435 Speaker 1: The kid in question is twenty five years old. When 542 00:41:27,475 --> 00:41:30,955 Speaker 1: Maxwell Frost was elected to Congress at twenty five, he 543 00:41:31,035 --> 00:41:35,635 Speaker 1: was only the thirty first representative sworn into our house 544 00:41:35,955 --> 00:41:40,795 Speaker 1: at that age or younger. William Pitt, the British leader 545 00:41:40,795 --> 00:41:43,795 Speaker 1: who wanted to let the American colonies go rather than 546 00:41:43,875 --> 00:41:47,235 Speaker 1: force us into the revolutionary war that nearly destroyed Great Britain, 547 00:41:47,915 --> 00:41:52,595 Speaker 1: became Prime minister of that country at twenty four. Napoleon 548 00:41:52,675 --> 00:41:55,355 Speaker 1: was the leading French general at twenty four. This idiot, 549 00:41:55,475 --> 00:41:59,315 Speaker 1: Marco ELS's stupid social media activity as a kid was 550 00:42:00,395 --> 00:42:05,275 Speaker 1: last summer when, depending on when his birth they fell, 551 00:42:05,395 --> 00:42:09,435 Speaker 1: he was twenty four or already twenty five. Of course 552 00:42:09,475 --> 00:42:11,995 Speaker 1: he was a kid. He was several months younger than 553 00:42:11,995 --> 00:42:15,875 Speaker 1: he is now. To air is human, to forgive Divine, 554 00:42:16,435 --> 00:42:23,355 Speaker 1: wrote Musk between doses and rehired him as if Musk 555 00:42:23,435 --> 00:42:26,115 Speaker 1: has ever shown any signs of knowing anything about being 556 00:42:26,275 --> 00:42:35,595 Speaker 1: human and another thing normalize Indian hate. JD. Vance's wife, 557 00:42:35,675 --> 00:42:38,555 Speaker 1: the now second Lady of the United States, Missus Vance, 558 00:42:38,635 --> 00:42:46,195 Speaker 1: missus Usha Balachilikourie Vance first generation American born of Indian immigrants, 559 00:42:46,915 --> 00:42:50,515 Speaker 1: and he sticks up for the inceel who attacked her 560 00:42:52,035 --> 00:42:57,995 Speaker 1: and her parents and everybody in their native country and 561 00:42:58,075 --> 00:43:04,835 Speaker 1: everybody in their diaspora. And Jdvance doesn't even get angry 562 00:43:04,875 --> 00:43:07,995 Speaker 1: in his wife's defense. Of course I disagree with it, 563 00:43:08,035 --> 00:43:12,635 Speaker 1: but sure, slander my wife, slander my in laws, slander 564 00:43:12,715 --> 00:43:20,995 Speaker 1: everybody in their country, slander them all, doesn't even get angry. 565 00:43:21,115 --> 00:43:23,155 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this. It goes back to my 566 00:43:23,235 --> 00:43:25,635 Speaker 1: point about how we must rely on the stupidity of 567 00:43:25,635 --> 00:43:28,635 Speaker 1: those trying to destroy this country. I'm just gonna say this. 568 00:43:29,315 --> 00:43:31,195 Speaker 1: If I had to guess, I would guess that the 569 00:43:31,235 --> 00:43:36,275 Speaker 1: hair that he grew to cover his pudgy, bulging face 570 00:43:37,315 --> 00:43:52,995 Speaker 1: is not jd Vance's only beard. The other cave in 571 00:43:53,315 --> 00:43:56,435 Speaker 1: that I should mention on Who's your boss your real 572 00:43:56,555 --> 00:44:01,355 Speaker 1: boss day is that co Presidents Mump and Tusk have 573 00:44:01,435 --> 00:44:05,515 Speaker 1: set themselves up for the dawning realization buy the magas 574 00:44:05,595 --> 00:44:09,155 Speaker 1: that the two trillion dollars that they say they are 575 00:44:09,195 --> 00:44:11,675 Speaker 1: going to cut may not go to the swamp, and 576 00:44:11,715 --> 00:44:14,555 Speaker 1: it may not go to those stupid starving people in 577 00:44:14,675 --> 00:44:18,795 Speaker 1: wherever Land. But guess what, it also is not going 578 00:44:18,835 --> 00:44:24,035 Speaker 1: to go back to American taxpayers or even Trump sloths 579 00:44:25,915 --> 00:44:30,755 Speaker 1: this entire government efficiency thing has been a scam from 580 00:44:30,795 --> 00:44:34,235 Speaker 1: the beginning. Musk is so transparent and hated that it 581 00:44:34,275 --> 00:44:36,715 Speaker 1: is finally getting through to the morons who supported him 582 00:44:36,835 --> 00:44:38,635 Speaker 1: that it has been a scam from the beginning. The 583 00:44:38,675 --> 00:44:43,515 Speaker 1: money not spent is going to Musk and other billionaires 584 00:44:45,315 --> 00:44:48,835 Speaker 1: in the form of tax breaks, and maybe in other 585 00:44:48,915 --> 00:44:52,435 Speaker 1: forms too, other billionaires, and maybe if they are nice 586 00:44:52,475 --> 00:44:56,315 Speaker 1: to him, like news media executives could be nice to them, 587 00:44:56,795 --> 00:44:59,195 Speaker 1: it might go also to just some plaint old millionaires. 588 00:45:00,635 --> 00:45:05,195 Speaker 1: This was Congressman Mike Flood of Nebraska to bloomber News 589 00:45:05,275 --> 00:45:12,915 Speaker 1: about stage two of DOGE simple just run the mill 590 00:45:12,995 --> 00:45:15,035 Speaker 1: comment about how it's going to inflict pain on the 591 00:45:15,035 --> 00:45:18,355 Speaker 1: people who voted for it. Quote, it will be littered 592 00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:20,435 Speaker 1: with a collection of ideas, some of which Americans are 593 00:45:20,475 --> 00:45:24,515 Speaker 1: going to really not before. But hey, if we don't sacrifice, 594 00:45:24,675 --> 00:45:26,275 Speaker 1: if we don't understand that this is going to be 595 00:45:26,355 --> 00:45:29,715 Speaker 1: a painful process, nothing's going to change. My message to 596 00:45:29,755 --> 00:45:32,715 Speaker 1: the American people is we as a nation, as Americans, 597 00:45:32,755 --> 00:45:35,275 Speaker 1: have to recognize that this is such a big problem 598 00:45:35,475 --> 00:45:38,115 Speaker 1: our debt that we're going to have to say no 599 00:45:38,355 --> 00:45:43,315 Speaker 1: to some programs that we like, but we simply can't afford, 600 00:45:44,555 --> 00:45:50,035 Speaker 1: you know, programs like Medicaid, food stamps, childcare tax breaks, 601 00:45:51,755 --> 00:45:57,555 Speaker 1: by taking educational scholarships and taxing them. Because there's nothing 602 00:45:57,595 --> 00:46:01,435 Speaker 1: Republicans like better than confusing their idiot base by deliberately 603 00:46:01,475 --> 00:46:06,835 Speaker 1: conflating governmental debt, American savings bonds, and of course the 604 00:46:06,955 --> 00:46:11,995 Speaker 1: multimillion dollar bank equivalence of savings bonds, government programs that 605 00:46:12,075 --> 00:46:14,875 Speaker 1: pay Americans money that they need to, you know, not starve, 606 00:46:15,795 --> 00:46:20,115 Speaker 1: kind of stuff that actually truly fuels the economy. The 607 00:46:20,155 --> 00:46:23,955 Speaker 1: Republicans like conflating that with things like your credit card 608 00:46:24,035 --> 00:46:28,355 Speaker 1: debt and your bankruptcy and the money you spent on 609 00:46:28,435 --> 00:46:35,435 Speaker 1: Oxyconton has suggested earlier, by that consumer confidence note, it 610 00:46:35,515 --> 00:46:38,355 Speaker 1: looks like even the magas are figuring this out. The 611 00:46:38,395 --> 00:46:41,275 Speaker 1: Nebraska congressman who wants you to know this is only 612 00:46:41,315 --> 00:46:43,915 Speaker 1: going to hurt a lot for a long time, and 613 00:46:43,995 --> 00:46:46,715 Speaker 1: we're all going to be in this together, and he 614 00:46:46,755 --> 00:46:49,035 Speaker 1: doesn't really care because he's not going to be as 615 00:46:49,035 --> 00:46:54,395 Speaker 1: together in it as you are. Mike owns fifteen radio 616 00:46:54,395 --> 00:47:02,115 Speaker 1: stations and seven TV stations, and he owns News Channel Nebraska. 617 00:47:02,235 --> 00:47:04,675 Speaker 1: But he's just like you and me, only has an 618 00:47:04,795 --> 00:47:09,395 Speaker 1: enough money to never notice any of this, which swings 619 00:47:09,475 --> 00:47:11,435 Speaker 1: us back to money and Mump and Tusk and the 620 00:47:11,475 --> 00:47:14,515 Speaker 1: big thing that the clapping monkeys enjoyed last week when 621 00:47:14,515 --> 00:47:17,795 Speaker 1: Time magazine put President Musk on the cover and Trump 622 00:47:17,835 --> 00:47:20,075 Speaker 1: got off a brilliant singer that he just thought up 623 00:47:20,075 --> 00:47:22,475 Speaker 1: and nobody has ever used before, ever in the history 624 00:47:22,515 --> 00:47:25,515 Speaker 1: of the whole world, other than you know, the ten 625 00:47:25,595 --> 00:47:28,835 Speaker 1: or twelve million people have said this exact same thing before, 626 00:47:29,595 --> 00:47:34,435 Speaker 1: and in Time magazine was still in business. Ah, very witty, 627 00:47:35,035 --> 00:47:38,755 Speaker 1: not just the bond mo but truly the most just 628 00:47:39,075 --> 00:47:43,315 Speaker 1: as usual from our greatest president, not counting the other 629 00:47:43,435 --> 00:47:49,195 Speaker 1: forty four and some of the fictional ones more on 630 00:47:49,435 --> 00:47:54,355 Speaker 1: absolute freaking moron. But you do have to give him 631 00:47:54,355 --> 00:47:56,115 Speaker 1: some credit for this, the fact that he was not 632 00:47:56,835 --> 00:47:59,795 Speaker 1: shot by somebody else's husband in nineteen seventy seven, or 633 00:47:59,795 --> 00:48:02,235 Speaker 1: he hasn't been in jail since nineteen eighty five, or 634 00:48:02,555 --> 00:48:05,115 Speaker 1: something he did in business, or he did and flee 635 00:48:05,155 --> 00:48:08,395 Speaker 1: the country after one of his bankruptcies. This owes largely 636 00:48:08,435 --> 00:48:11,715 Speaker 1: to this amazing ability. He has to flood the nation 637 00:48:12,075 --> 00:48:15,075 Speaker 1: or his part of the nation with so much bullshit 638 00:48:15,155 --> 00:48:19,875 Speaker 1: all at once that nobody, nobody would everything to come 639 00:48:19,915 --> 00:48:22,435 Speaker 1: back to him after he said I didn't know Time 640 00:48:22,475 --> 00:48:28,715 Speaker 1: Magazine was still in business, and say, wait, sir, two 641 00:48:28,795 --> 00:48:32,315 Speaker 1: months ago, Time Magazine gave you that Person of the 642 00:48:32,395 --> 00:48:35,115 Speaker 1: Year award and you said it was a great honor. 643 00:48:37,315 --> 00:48:40,195 Speaker 1: I may be mistaken on this, mister president el presidente, 644 00:48:40,275 --> 00:48:43,355 Speaker 1: my real boss Trump. I thought I thought you remembered 645 00:48:43,435 --> 00:48:55,795 Speaker 1: Time Magazine was still in business. Then maybe so, as 646 00:48:55,795 --> 00:48:59,955 Speaker 1: I asked before the break, next steps, same as last week. 647 00:49:01,235 --> 00:49:05,835 Speaker 1: Senate holds on everything. Trump wants a Senate hold on everything. 648 00:49:05,875 --> 00:49:10,835 Speaker 1: Republicans need support on. Do a Tubberville, whatever it is, 649 00:49:11,235 --> 00:49:14,395 Speaker 1: hold it. If nothing else, You piss Trump off, You 650 00:49:14,475 --> 00:49:19,515 Speaker 1: inflict pain, You remind him he is not invincible. I 651 00:49:19,595 --> 00:49:23,275 Speaker 1: mean Musk. That also applies to Trump. And in the House, 652 00:49:24,875 --> 00:49:28,235 Speaker 1: the overnight symbolic filibusters against Russ's vote. They were great, 653 00:49:28,315 --> 00:49:31,835 Speaker 1: limited impact, pretty good visibility at minimum, showing some Democrats 654 00:49:31,875 --> 00:49:36,035 Speaker 1: are not in a coma. And of course let's flush 655 00:49:36,075 --> 00:49:42,435 Speaker 1: this idea like the turd. It is about bipartisanship. Nothing 656 00:49:43,315 --> 00:49:49,475 Speaker 1: not one Democratic vote for anything Republicans support. Have to 657 00:49:49,515 --> 00:49:52,835 Speaker 1: crash the system. There are no other options. Mike Johnson 658 00:49:52,875 --> 00:49:56,395 Speaker 1: needs votes for the dead ceiling. F him. Call Elon 659 00:49:56,515 --> 00:50:00,275 Speaker 1: Musk you need some money, You do that, Mike, call Elon. 660 00:50:00,635 --> 00:50:04,675 Speaker 1: He has your money over there. You need the vote 661 00:50:04,835 --> 00:50:09,515 Speaker 1: on anything else, Mike, f you call Trump. Mike, you 662 00:50:09,595 --> 00:50:14,035 Speaker 1: broke it. You bought it. Happily. Minority Leader A. Kiem 663 00:50:14,115 --> 00:50:20,515 Speaker 1: Jeffries gets this right right right now here. He was 664 00:50:20,555 --> 00:50:24,315 Speaker 1: again Friday, refusing to pull the emergency cord and deny 665 00:50:24,355 --> 00:50:32,275 Speaker 1: all Democratic support for anything bipartisan. This he said, consensus 666 00:50:32,355 --> 00:50:36,995 Speaker 1: that he said, not committing to this. He said, there 667 00:50:37,075 --> 00:50:39,395 Speaker 1: is a possibility. All that was a feint on his 668 00:50:39,475 --> 00:50:42,275 Speaker 1: part to not give away his strategy, but I'm doubting it. 669 00:50:43,355 --> 00:50:46,155 Speaker 1: Set it before say it again. No signs yet. Akiem 670 00:50:46,235 --> 00:50:53,395 Speaker 1: Jefferies is a wartime consuliari. There are enough bureaucratic trip 671 00:50:53,435 --> 00:50:57,995 Speaker 1: wires still in place to make the Trump coup reducts 672 00:50:58,195 --> 00:51:02,355 Speaker 1: at least grind to a halt for a while and 673 00:51:02,435 --> 00:51:06,035 Speaker 1: make the Republicans take all the public blame for what happens. 674 00:51:07,955 --> 00:51:12,155 Speaker 1: You just have to have the courage to recognize the 675 00:51:12,235 --> 00:51:16,235 Speaker 1: stakes and tighten up those trip wires so everybody trips 676 00:51:16,315 --> 00:51:23,195 Speaker 1: on them. Maybe you should listen to us. We told 677 00:51:23,235 --> 00:51:26,915 Speaker 1: you we would eventually get to this point. Where all 678 00:51:26,955 --> 00:51:29,835 Speaker 1: the police and all the FBI and all the prosecutors 679 00:51:31,835 --> 00:51:34,755 Speaker 1: will literally agree with Trump that up is down and 680 00:51:34,795 --> 00:51:41,035 Speaker 1: down is up. You must fight back. But this would 681 00:51:41,075 --> 00:51:44,395 Speaker 1: require Jeffries to either come to Jesus and fast, or 682 00:51:44,435 --> 00:51:48,075 Speaker 1: it's going to require the wartime consolieri that I keep 683 00:51:48,075 --> 00:51:50,795 Speaker 1: referring to, or if you want to update the cultural 684 00:51:50,835 --> 00:51:55,595 Speaker 1: reference a little bit, and never mind the consuliary, we'll 685 00:51:55,635 --> 00:52:05,355 Speaker 1: call it. We need the war doctor. I still think 686 00:52:05,395 --> 00:52:09,435 Speaker 1: it's aoc to borrow a phrase that is in the news. 687 00:52:09,555 --> 00:52:20,275 Speaker 1: Just now, Representative Jeffries, who's your real boss? I don't 688 00:52:20,315 --> 00:52:22,435 Speaker 1: know when the next edition of Countdown is going to be, 689 00:52:22,555 --> 00:52:25,315 Speaker 1: As you know, the schedule now is Mondays and Thursdays. 690 00:52:25,395 --> 00:52:28,715 Speaker 1: And this is not Monday North Thursday. It's Sunday. As 691 00:52:28,715 --> 00:52:31,075 Speaker 1: I said earlier, I just didn't think this could wait. 692 00:52:32,955 --> 00:52:36,275 Speaker 1: We are now down to loyalty tests. Will you lie 693 00:52:36,315 --> 00:52:38,995 Speaker 1: for Trump? Will you swear to lie for Trump? Will 694 00:52:38,995 --> 00:52:46,835 Speaker 1: you insist on reality? Is reality? All of the cliches 695 00:52:47,315 --> 00:52:50,875 Speaker 1: that we have ever been accused of using turned out 696 00:52:50,915 --> 00:52:55,555 Speaker 1: not to be cliches, but in fact Trump using Hitler's 697 00:52:55,595 --> 00:52:59,755 Speaker 1: favorite speeches, and perhaps nineteen eighty four as a kind 698 00:52:59,755 --> 00:53:05,915 Speaker 1: of guide book. I don't want to say I told 699 00:53:05,995 --> 00:53:12,715 Speaker 1: you so. I know you told them so too. So 700 00:53:12,795 --> 00:53:14,835 Speaker 1: I do not think there will be a new edition tomorrow. 701 00:53:14,835 --> 00:53:16,275 Speaker 1: But hell, I didn't think there was going to be 702 00:53:16,275 --> 00:53:18,435 Speaker 1: a new edition today either. And then as I was 703 00:53:18,475 --> 00:53:21,515 Speaker 1: writing this up, I thought, this can't wait. This needs 704 00:53:21,555 --> 00:53:24,875 Speaker 1: to be said right now. So have a nice Sunday 705 00:53:24,955 --> 00:53:27,475 Speaker 1: if you still can. I think there's a football game 706 00:53:27,555 --> 00:53:32,035 Speaker 1: or something later. I won't be watching it. Certainly there 707 00:53:32,035 --> 00:53:33,715 Speaker 1: will be a new edition later in the week. It 708 00:53:33,755 --> 00:53:35,995 Speaker 1: is probably going to be Thursday, but who in the 709 00:53:36,035 --> 00:53:38,195 Speaker 1: hell knows. I'm not going to do any of the 710 00:53:38,235 --> 00:53:41,275 Speaker 1: cutesye how many days left. I'm not going to say 711 00:53:42,075 --> 00:53:44,315 Speaker 1: thank you for your time this time till next time. 712 00:53:44,435 --> 00:53:46,875 Speaker 1: I'm not going to do any of it. I'm just 713 00:53:46,915 --> 00:53:50,235 Speaker 1: going to simply close by saying I'll be back if 714 00:53:50,235 --> 00:53:55,755 Speaker 1: they let me whenever I am back, and until then, 715 00:53:55,915 --> 00:54:32,355 Speaker 1: good night and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 716 00:54:32,395 --> 00:54:37,195 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 717 00:54:37,235 --> 00:54:41,875 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.