1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Let's 2 00:00:25,275 --> 00:00:30,115 Speaker 1: face this. Trump has already lost the tariff wars he 3 00:00:30,195 --> 00:00:36,555 Speaker 1: finally claimed he paused yesterday without really pausing them already lost. 4 00:00:37,075 --> 00:00:41,955 Speaker 1: Only took him eight days, eight days from liberation day 5 00:00:42,475 --> 00:00:45,195 Speaker 1: to a day, when in any other war, in any 6 00:00:45,235 --> 00:00:49,675 Speaker 1: other country, literal or figurative, he would have been deposed 7 00:00:49,715 --> 00:00:52,875 Speaker 1: by now. And never mind how much you and I 8 00:00:52,955 --> 00:00:56,355 Speaker 1: think he's crazy. A high priced advisor to macro fund 9 00:00:56,435 --> 00:00:59,555 Speaker 1: manager says, quote, A few of them have quietly wondered 10 00:00:59,555 --> 00:01:06,315 Speaker 1: if the president might be insane unquote. And after Wall 11 00:01:06,315 --> 00:01:08,195 Speaker 1: Street came off the ledge and got back to where 12 00:01:08,195 --> 00:01:13,795 Speaker 1: it was six days ago, only what three trillion lost 13 00:01:13,835 --> 00:01:17,355 Speaker 1: four to seven? You lose track after a while. Trump 14 00:01:17,635 --> 00:01:22,715 Speaker 1: declared victory up twenty five hundred points. Nobody has ever 15 00:01:22,755 --> 00:01:25,595 Speaker 1: heard of it. Gotta be a record because he cannot 16 00:01:25,755 --> 00:01:29,075 Speaker 1: admit he made a mistake ever. If he did, his 17 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:32,755 Speaker 1: head would fall off, and his approval numbers have cratered. 18 00:01:32,915 --> 00:01:37,155 Speaker 1: He's underwater by an average of six points last Wednesday. 19 00:01:37,195 --> 00:01:39,955 Speaker 1: It was an average of two points. Since the election, 20 00:01:40,635 --> 00:01:43,955 Speaker 1: He's lost twenty points among those over age sixty five, 21 00:01:44,275 --> 00:01:49,435 Speaker 1: He's lost fifty points among those underage thirty. And he's 22 00:01:49,515 --> 00:01:54,795 Speaker 1: still yesterday raised the tariffs on the Chinese again to 23 00:01:54,835 --> 00:01:59,515 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five percent, because he's mad at them, 24 00:01:59,875 --> 00:02:03,995 Speaker 1: because they, of course are winning this war, because the 25 00:02:04,075 --> 00:02:08,515 Speaker 1: Chinese aren't not negotiating. The Chinese don't negotiate the Chinese 26 00:02:08,635 --> 00:02:12,075 Speaker 1: are as they have been for centuries, for millennia. The 27 00:02:12,155 --> 00:02:17,835 Speaker 1: Chinese are waiting for their opponents to die. The Chinese 28 00:02:17,875 --> 00:02:21,115 Speaker 1: are apparently dumping our ten year treasuries, driving up our debt, 29 00:02:21,355 --> 00:02:25,835 Speaker 1: and they've opened trading partnership negotiations with the head of 30 00:02:25,915 --> 00:02:31,075 Speaker 1: the European Union. Surprise. And for all the claims about 31 00:02:31,115 --> 00:02:36,435 Speaker 1: pausing the tariffs, Trump says a universal ten percent tariff 32 00:02:36,635 --> 00:02:41,835 Speaker 1: will be maintained on everybody. That's not a pause. Oh 33 00:02:41,875 --> 00:02:46,435 Speaker 1: and the very stable Genius began the day in full panic. 34 00:02:46,875 --> 00:02:50,235 Speaker 1: Between seven forty six and nine thirty seven yesterday morning, 35 00:02:50,395 --> 00:02:52,755 Speaker 1: he made sure anybody who had not realized that it 36 00:02:53,155 --> 00:02:57,675 Speaker 1: and he were in freefall, he made sure they realized 37 00:02:57,715 --> 00:03:02,155 Speaker 1: we're all in freefall. First one, this is a great 38 00:03:02,195 --> 00:03:04,875 Speaker 1: time to move your company into the United States of America, 39 00:03:04,955 --> 00:03:07,635 Speaker 1: like Apple and so many others. In record numbers, are 40 00:03:07,675 --> 00:03:12,795 Speaker 1: doing zero tariffs and almost immediate electrical energy hookups and approvals, 41 00:03:12,995 --> 00:03:18,475 Speaker 1: no environmental delays. Don't wait, do it now? Free balloons 42 00:03:18,515 --> 00:03:23,715 Speaker 1: for the kiddies a few minutes later, make America great again. 43 00:03:24,475 --> 00:03:27,315 Speaker 1: After that, Republicans, it is more important now than ever 44 00:03:27,395 --> 00:03:30,355 Speaker 1: that we passed the one big beautiful bill. The USA 45 00:03:30,435 --> 00:03:34,555 Speaker 1: will soar like never before the next one. It is 46 00:03:34,595 --> 00:03:37,475 Speaker 1: imperative that Republicans in the House past the tax cut bill. 47 00:03:37,635 --> 00:03:43,675 Speaker 1: Now our country will boom. Yeah, actually we've we've been 48 00:03:43,795 --> 00:03:48,795 Speaker 1: booming all the destruction in Mayhem. That's the sound you 49 00:03:48,835 --> 00:03:51,915 Speaker 1: were hearing, was the boom fixing trade in tariffs is 50 00:03:51,955 --> 00:03:55,035 Speaker 1: a good thing. Jamie Diamond, JP Morgan Chase chairman and 51 00:03:55,115 --> 00:04:00,475 Speaker 1: CEO on Maria B Show. Did he call Maria Bartiromo 52 00:04:00,595 --> 00:04:09,115 Speaker 1: a B be cool? Capitals? Be cool? He wrote in 53 00:04:09,235 --> 00:04:16,235 Speaker 1: number six, be cool. Hello, my fellow teenagers, be cool. 54 00:04:16,275 --> 00:04:18,315 Speaker 1: Everything is going to work out well. The USA will 55 00:04:18,315 --> 00:04:21,395 Speaker 1: be bigger and better than ever before. And the last one, 56 00:04:21,915 --> 00:04:29,515 Speaker 1: this is a great time to buy DJT. You're making 57 00:04:29,555 --> 00:04:33,595 Speaker 1: Herbert Hoover look like Warren Buffett. Here chauncey and when 58 00:04:33,715 --> 00:04:38,075 Speaker 1: all that didn't work, he paused, kind of the tariffs 59 00:04:38,635 --> 00:04:43,235 Speaker 1: while his Trade Rep Jamison Greer was testifying to Ways 60 00:04:43,275 --> 00:04:47,155 Speaker 1: and Means. Middle of his goddamn testimony, Greer had already 61 00:04:47,155 --> 00:04:50,075 Speaker 1: spent four hours looking like an idiot bullshitter. When the 62 00:04:50,155 --> 00:04:53,795 Speaker 1: idiot bullshit he was defending was completely changed, he found 63 00:04:53,835 --> 00:04:57,635 Speaker 1: out on his phone. Then he looked like an uninformed, 64 00:04:57,675 --> 00:05:02,595 Speaker 1: idiot bullshitter. I was waiting for mister Chairman. I'd like 65 00:05:02,675 --> 00:05:09,635 Speaker 1: to amend my remarks. Which ones missed your witness, all 66 00:05:09,675 --> 00:05:14,595 Speaker 1: of them. But the tariffs were not reduced at all 67 00:05:14,675 --> 00:05:18,075 Speaker 1: against China. They were increased, and not apparently the next 68 00:05:18,155 --> 00:05:21,955 Speaker 1: tariffs they're not being reduced the ones against the pharmaceutical industry. 69 00:05:21,995 --> 00:05:26,555 Speaker 1: Because when you pissed away almost all of your presidential 70 00:05:26,595 --> 00:05:30,795 Speaker 1: support in eight days, the first thing you want to 71 00:05:30,795 --> 00:05:33,475 Speaker 1: do then is drive up everybody's cost at the pharmacy counter. 72 00:05:34,715 --> 00:05:38,435 Speaker 1: And nobody told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, the guy who 73 00:05:38,515 --> 00:05:41,835 Speaker 1: looks like a foppish character played by the actor Barry Bostwick. 74 00:05:42,235 --> 00:05:45,395 Speaker 1: Nobody told him not to hint at the next next 75 00:05:45,435 --> 00:05:55,035 Speaker 1: tariff quote. It's main streets, turn main street, clothing stores, restaurants, coffee, water, 76 00:05:55,395 --> 00:05:58,555 Speaker 1: the street traffic of American commerce, kill it as quickly 77 00:05:58,595 --> 00:06:03,875 Speaker 1: as possible. Remind people that when those prices double, you know, 78 00:06:03,955 --> 00:06:07,115 Speaker 1: you can make your own own coffee at home, and 79 00:06:07,155 --> 00:06:10,635 Speaker 1: you can buy one plastic bottle and refill it with 80 00:06:10,715 --> 00:06:13,795 Speaker 1: tap water for the rest of your life. Did you 81 00:06:13,835 --> 00:06:16,115 Speaker 1: know that we used to do it that way. Make 82 00:06:16,195 --> 00:06:19,275 Speaker 1: it clear to them that to Trump, America does not 83 00:06:19,395 --> 00:06:23,195 Speaker 1: have people in it, only companies, and that the point 84 00:06:23,235 --> 00:06:27,915 Speaker 1: of Trump's America is to charge Americans more for everything. 85 00:06:29,675 --> 00:06:37,475 Speaker 1: Citizens are a mere infestation in corporate land. The Footwear 86 00:06:37,515 --> 00:06:41,555 Speaker 1: Distributors and Retailers of America Association now says that if 87 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:46,035 Speaker 1: running shoes now made in China or Vietnam that now 88 00:06:46,075 --> 00:06:49,515 Speaker 1: cost you one hundred dollars are instead going to be 89 00:06:49,595 --> 00:06:54,115 Speaker 1: made here, they will cost you three or four hundred dollars. 90 00:06:55,355 --> 00:06:59,595 Speaker 1: That is not changing, that was not paused. If you 91 00:06:59,715 --> 00:07:02,475 Speaker 1: drive a car, I'll tear if the street. If you 92 00:07:02,555 --> 00:07:05,155 Speaker 1: try to sit, I'll tear if your seat. If you 93 00:07:05,195 --> 00:07:08,155 Speaker 1: get too cold, I'll tariff the heat. If you take 94 00:07:08,195 --> 00:07:14,755 Speaker 1: a walk, I'll tariff your feet. Sorry, George Harrison, it 95 00:07:14,875 --> 00:07:18,915 Speaker 1: is so bad, so bad that even the New York 96 00:07:18,995 --> 00:07:21,395 Speaker 1: both sides as times, has begun to sit up and 97 00:07:21,435 --> 00:07:25,715 Speaker 1: take notice, right next to the surprisingly timely and relevant 98 00:07:25,915 --> 00:07:29,275 Speaker 1: investigative piece for which it expects to receive the next pulletzer. 99 00:07:30,115 --> 00:07:32,755 Speaker 1: Seven ways to turn a can of tuna into lunch 100 00:07:32,875 --> 00:07:37,835 Speaker 1: or even dinner was analysis by David Sanger about this 101 00:07:37,955 --> 00:07:41,955 Speaker 1: Trump policy. Even though the word policy implies there's some 102 00:07:42,195 --> 00:07:45,835 Speaker 1: plan or just some similarity from one hour's actions to 103 00:07:45,915 --> 00:07:50,755 Speaker 1: the next, the quote burn it down first, figure out 104 00:07:50,755 --> 00:07:53,955 Speaker 1: the consequence's later recklessness. The costs of that approach are 105 00:07:53,995 --> 00:07:57,195 Speaker 1: now becoming clear. That administration officials knew the markets would 106 00:07:57,235 --> 00:08:00,035 Speaker 1: dive and other nations would retaliate when Trump announced his 107 00:08:00,115 --> 00:08:04,515 Speaker 1: long promised reciprocal tariffs. But when pressed, several senior officials 108 00:08:04,515 --> 00:08:07,235 Speaker 1: can seated that they had spent only a few days 109 00:08:07,275 --> 00:08:11,715 Speaker 1: considering how the economic earthquake might have second order effects. 110 00:08:13,715 --> 00:08:17,035 Speaker 1: This was before they were trying to fish all the 111 00:08:17,115 --> 00:08:20,595 Speaker 1: victims out of the water after Trump deliberately steered into 112 00:08:20,675 --> 00:08:25,035 Speaker 1: the reherreic Iceberg, and most of them had already drowned, 113 00:08:25,555 --> 00:08:29,235 Speaker 1: but some didn't. So Peter Navarro went on Fox Pravda 114 00:08:29,355 --> 00:08:31,995 Speaker 1: Tasks and announced, this is one of the greatest days 115 00:08:32,035 --> 00:08:37,355 Speaker 1: in American economic history. Yes, Sir Shrimpy, just like the 116 00:08:37,435 --> 00:08:40,915 Speaker 1: day after Black Thursday in nineteen twenty nine. I mean, 117 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:43,955 Speaker 1: there wasn't also a Black Friday that was also one 118 00:08:43,995 --> 00:08:47,515 Speaker 1: of the greatest days in American economic history, wasn't it? Uh? 119 00:08:47,555 --> 00:08:52,955 Speaker 1: Wasn't it all right? The too long didn't listen version 120 00:08:53,115 --> 00:08:56,675 Speaker 1: to all this, the president might be insane. Let me 121 00:08:56,715 --> 00:08:59,635 Speaker 1: circle back to that Wall Street big roller researchery. He 122 00:08:59,755 --> 00:09:03,435 Speaker 1: is Thomas E. Lee, co founder, head of research at 123 00:09:03,595 --> 00:09:09,515 Speaker 1: FS insight by Fundstrat. Because the big money spends none 124 00:09:09,555 --> 00:09:13,035 Speaker 1: of it on good company names. My old colleague Carl 125 00:09:13,075 --> 00:09:16,795 Speaker 1: Kintonia pulled this for mister Lee's newsletter. In the last 126 00:09:16,795 --> 00:09:20,555 Speaker 1: few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers, 127 00:09:20,795 --> 00:09:22,715 Speaker 1: and their concern is that the White House is not 128 00:09:22,835 --> 00:09:29,515 Speaker 1: acting rationally, but rather on ideology. Nothing gets past the billionaire, 129 00:09:30,315 --> 00:09:33,315 Speaker 1: and some even fear that this may not even be ideology. 130 00:09:33,475 --> 00:09:40,635 Speaker 1: A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane. 131 00:09:43,075 --> 00:09:47,955 Speaker 1: I wrote this in twenty sixteen, Oh, big piecebo, could 132 00:09:48,035 --> 00:09:52,395 Speaker 1: the president pass its sanity test? At least it's nice 133 00:09:52,395 --> 00:09:57,635 Speaker 1: to know we're not alone in our assessment for all 134 00:09:57,715 --> 00:10:04,915 Speaker 1: the rebounding yesterday. Hey, we're hemorrhaging less there's a problemigger 135 00:10:04,955 --> 00:10:08,435 Speaker 1: than all the positives put together. This is from Stephen McDonald, 136 00:10:08,515 --> 00:10:12,275 Speaker 1: the BBC's man in China, a sharp Australian who was 137 00:10:12,315 --> 00:10:15,035 Speaker 1: about a month ahead of every other Western correspondent on 138 00:10:15,035 --> 00:10:16,715 Speaker 1: that little story coming out of there a few years 139 00:10:16,755 --> 00:10:21,435 Speaker 1: ago called COVID quoting him lightest message from beijingg via 140 00:10:21,515 --> 00:10:24,075 Speaker 1: a state media account. Well that's the way he talks, 141 00:10:24,435 --> 00:10:28,235 Speaker 1: linked to China's central television. Washington is trying to defeat 142 00:10:28,275 --> 00:10:31,035 Speaker 1: countries one by one, but the China will back the 143 00:10:31,155 --> 00:10:34,355 Speaker 1: multilateral trade system. It says, don't go to Trump with 144 00:10:34,395 --> 00:10:37,835 Speaker 1: your begging bowl. It's what he wants to steamroll you. 145 00:10:38,355 --> 00:10:41,275 Speaker 1: The message that Trump is lining up countries to steamroll 146 00:10:41,355 --> 00:10:43,955 Speaker 1: of them one at a time could resonate well in 147 00:10:43,995 --> 00:10:48,115 Speaker 1: the region. Developing countries like Cambodia, Laos in Vietnam are 148 00:10:48,155 --> 00:10:52,275 Speaker 1: all being hit hard by his tariffs. Now Xijinping calling 149 00:10:52,355 --> 00:10:59,595 Speaker 1: for increased supply chain cooperation with them unquote. The problem 150 00:10:59,675 --> 00:11:02,915 Speaker 1: for US financial laymen is that Trump may now pretend 151 00:11:03,035 --> 00:11:06,635 Speaker 1: it's all better, and much of Wall Street may to. Certainly, 152 00:11:06,795 --> 00:11:11,155 Speaker 1: yesterday's numbers suggested that we're only losing this ball game 153 00:11:11,195 --> 00:11:15,875 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two to sixty one now, but 154 00:11:16,035 --> 00:11:20,995 Speaker 1: China is now out to kill us financially, and they're 155 00:11:21,035 --> 00:11:24,995 Speaker 1: doing it. And every one of our allies whom Trump 156 00:11:25,035 --> 00:11:29,755 Speaker 1: threatened with a gun now realizes that was just his finger. 157 00:11:29,835 --> 00:11:35,635 Speaker 1: He was pointing, concealing it in his pocket, and he's 158 00:11:35,675 --> 00:11:43,275 Speaker 1: got really puny, tiny fingers and they're not loaded, and 159 00:11:44,435 --> 00:12:14,755 Speaker 1: they're impotent. Now the subtext here that most people did 160 00:12:14,795 --> 00:12:17,315 Speaker 1: not notice because Wall Street was too busy re enacting 161 00:12:17,395 --> 00:12:20,555 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty nine. Is there more to this than sheer 162 00:12:20,555 --> 00:12:25,315 Speaker 1: insanity and in confidence? Did Trump crash the stock market 163 00:12:25,355 --> 00:12:31,595 Speaker 1: deliberately as he boasted online semi trollingly, so that his 164 00:12:31,755 --> 00:12:37,475 Speaker 1: insiders could make money. Politico inadvertently fed this narrative. Its 165 00:12:37,595 --> 00:12:41,635 Speaker 1: chief stenographer and seapack part time spokesmodel, Dash of Burns 166 00:12:41,995 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 1: drank the whole pitcher of kool aid on Tuesday. Quote 167 00:12:46,355 --> 00:12:49,595 Speaker 1: inside the White House itself, the outlook is downright rosie 168 00:12:49,635 --> 00:12:53,995 Speaker 1: among a select group of Trump's inner circle. Ebuliant is 169 00:12:54,035 --> 00:12:57,115 Speaker 1: how one insider close to the administration described the mood 170 00:12:57,115 --> 00:13:00,395 Speaker 1: in the West Wing. Nobody is fearful. They knew this 171 00:13:00,515 --> 00:13:03,675 Speaker 1: stock market reaction was coming. They feel like everything is 172 00:13:03,715 --> 00:13:10,275 Speaker 1: going according to If only we'd remembered to write a plan. 173 00:13:12,555 --> 00:13:17,275 Speaker 1: The key part of that quote, they knew this stock 174 00:13:17,715 --> 00:13:24,235 Speaker 1: market reaction was coming. They feel like everything is going 175 00:13:24,435 --> 00:13:29,755 Speaker 1: according to plan. Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC said, there 176 00:13:29,795 --> 00:13:32,755 Speaker 1: was real potential that quote. It would not shock me 177 00:13:32,875 --> 00:13:34,435 Speaker 1: if we were to find out that a whole bunch 178 00:13:34,435 --> 00:13:37,595 Speaker 1: of people who work in Washington as our elected leaders, 179 00:13:37,915 --> 00:13:41,235 Speaker 1: ultimately sold stocks last week were potentially worse than that 180 00:13:41,875 --> 00:13:45,715 Speaker 1: shorted the market. But how could we ever find something 181 00:13:45,795 --> 00:13:50,835 Speaker 1: like that out? Oh, Marjorie stupid Green? Here it is 182 00:13:51,115 --> 00:13:56,755 Speaker 1: on a website called sludge. Readsludge dot com investigative journalism 183 00:13:56,835 --> 00:14:01,315 Speaker 1: on Money in Politics, quoting them, Representative Marjorie Taylor Green 184 00:14:02,115 --> 00:14:04,555 Speaker 1: are for GA and we know what the R stands for. 185 00:14:04,915 --> 00:14:08,795 Speaker 1: A close ally of President Trump invested as much as 186 00:14:08,835 --> 00:14:14,395 Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in US Treasury bonds 187 00:14:14,435 --> 00:14:18,115 Speaker 1: from mid to late March, according to transaction disclosures reviewed 188 00:14:18,115 --> 00:14:22,075 Speaker 1: by Sludge. The purchases made in three transactions between March 189 00:14:22,115 --> 00:14:25,475 Speaker 1: seventeen and March twenty five aligned with her vocal support 190 00:14:25,635 --> 00:14:30,955 Speaker 1: for Trump's recently imposed tariffs. How could we have ever 191 00:14:31,075 --> 00:14:31,595 Speaker 1: found out? 192 00:14:31,755 --> 00:14:32,155 Speaker 2: All right? 193 00:14:32,355 --> 00:14:35,915 Speaker 1: It's Marjorie stupid Green. I knew there was grift here. 194 00:14:37,435 --> 00:14:42,795 Speaker 1: That's not real insight. There's grift everything in everywhere. Anything 195 00:14:42,875 --> 00:14:47,115 Speaker 1: he does is grift. And I knew it as soon 196 00:14:47,155 --> 00:14:51,315 Speaker 1: as I heard Rand Paul as the sole voice of 197 00:14:51,355 --> 00:14:55,435 Speaker 1: reason the teriff's debate. He said, the whole tariff debate 198 00:14:55,515 --> 00:14:58,115 Speaker 1: is so fundamentally backwards, an upside down. It's based on 199 00:14:58,155 --> 00:15:00,955 Speaker 1: a fallacy. And the fallacy is this, that's somehow in 200 00:15:00,995 --> 00:15:04,915 Speaker 1: a trade someone must lose that somehow when you raid 201 00:15:05,035 --> 00:15:09,195 Speaker 1: with someone, someone is taking advantage of you. I have 202 00:15:09,235 --> 00:15:15,755 Speaker 1: a trade deficit with my grocery store. The billionaire Ken 203 00:15:15,835 --> 00:15:19,595 Speaker 1: Langone attacked Trump. The tariff on Vietnam was bullshit. According 204 00:15:19,595 --> 00:15:24,475 Speaker 1: to Langon, Musk attacked Navaro. Navaro attacked Musk. Scott Besson's mentor, 205 00:15:24,515 --> 00:15:28,155 Speaker 1: a billionaire named drucken Miller, posted, I do not support 206 00:15:28,195 --> 00:15:32,235 Speaker 1: tariff succeeding ten percent. Incidentally, I think they're going to 207 00:15:32,275 --> 00:15:35,355 Speaker 1: make besson't take the fall here. He just looks like 208 00:15:35,395 --> 00:15:37,835 Speaker 1: the guy who takes the fall. But the all time 209 00:15:37,995 --> 00:15:41,875 Speaker 1: Lulu quote was this one. The tariffs are quote more 210 00:15:41,955 --> 00:15:45,235 Speaker 1: severe than I would have expected, particularly the way it 211 00:15:45,355 --> 00:15:49,555 Speaker 1: is impacting Vietnam, China and Cambodi is more extreme than 212 00:15:49,555 --> 00:15:55,835 Speaker 1: I would have thought. That was from Wilbur Ross. Wilbur Ross, 213 00:15:57,355 --> 00:16:02,355 Speaker 1: the ancient Trump Commerce secretary. Last time, you know how 214 00:16:02,395 --> 00:16:15,235 Speaker 1: old Wilbur Ross is two hundred and six. And of 215 00:16:15,235 --> 00:16:18,635 Speaker 1: course this time Trump continues to have only the best people. 216 00:16:18,835 --> 00:16:23,115 Speaker 1: The inflatable rubber raft known as Christy Nome has now 217 00:16:23,155 --> 00:16:28,155 Speaker 1: been accompanied by the fascist stochastic terrorist influencer who smears liberals, 218 00:16:28,795 --> 00:16:31,795 Speaker 1: and they gave her a dress up outfit two so 219 00:16:31,835 --> 00:16:35,035 Speaker 1: she and the dog killer pretended to arrest criminals, even 220 00:16:35,075 --> 00:16:37,995 Speaker 1: though a civilian can't really legally pretend to be part 221 00:16:38,035 --> 00:16:45,835 Speaker 1: of homeland security. Then the Attorney General, Pam Blondie, I'm sorry, Bondi. 222 00:16:47,035 --> 00:16:50,635 Speaker 1: Pam got backed into a corner by a reporter admitting 223 00:16:51,195 --> 00:16:54,795 Speaker 1: that they had deported innocent people. And when they pointed 224 00:16:54,875 --> 00:16:56,995 Speaker 1: this out to her, that she had been backed into 225 00:16:56,995 --> 00:17:00,235 Speaker 1: a corner, she just walked away from the microphone because 226 00:17:01,115 --> 00:17:04,835 Speaker 1: she is drowning in this job. And you probably he 227 00:17:04,835 --> 00:17:08,275 Speaker 1: didn't hear this one, but one of Marco Rubio's bodyguards 228 00:17:08,275 --> 00:17:11,795 Speaker 1: has been arrested in Belgium. This was at the end 229 00:17:11,795 --> 00:17:16,475 Speaker 1: of last month. The Brussels Times reports Brussel's police took 230 00:17:16,515 --> 00:17:21,515 Speaker 1: a Diplomatic Security Service shift supervisor don't say that five 231 00:17:21,515 --> 00:17:25,235 Speaker 1: times fast into custody at the Hotel Amigo when they 232 00:17:25,275 --> 00:17:27,635 Speaker 1: alleged he got violent with hotel staff because they would 233 00:17:27,635 --> 00:17:30,995 Speaker 1: not reopen the bar after hours, which that night would 234 00:17:31,035 --> 00:17:36,355 Speaker 1: have been at midnight. The embassy got him released. I 235 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:42,155 Speaker 1: smell the next head of the secret Service. Then there's 236 00:17:42,235 --> 00:17:48,435 Speaker 1: Dan Bongino, new deputy director to the FBI director Popeye. 237 00:17:49,315 --> 00:17:53,315 Speaker 1: More on the FBI director Cash Patel and his guest 238 00:17:53,355 --> 00:17:58,075 Speaker 1: shot on Russian state television coming up in Worse Persons, 239 00:17:58,675 --> 00:18:02,795 Speaker 1: But this is about his deputy, Bongino and the intelligence 240 00:18:02,795 --> 00:18:06,995 Speaker 1: community's genuine shock that when the Bureau issued a message 241 00:18:07,035 --> 00:18:09,715 Speaker 1: to its staff they call it a canvas, asking for 242 00:18:09,875 --> 00:18:13,675 Speaker 1: volunteer agents to serve on his twenty four hour a 243 00:18:13,715 --> 00:18:17,755 Speaker 1: day protective security detail. They asked for a total of 244 00:18:19,355 --> 00:18:24,715 Speaker 1: twenty agents. They need twenty agents to protect this one skinny, 245 00:18:25,235 --> 00:18:29,755 Speaker 1: useless guy, Like, what are eight of them at a 246 00:18:29,795 --> 00:18:32,715 Speaker 1: time going to surround him on all sides as he 247 00:18:32,795 --> 00:18:37,155 Speaker 1: walks down the hall. Actually that makes sense, that could 248 00:18:37,195 --> 00:18:39,875 Speaker 1: explain it. They would then be able to make sure 249 00:18:39,875 --> 00:18:42,755 Speaker 1: nobody gets close enough to confirm that Dan Bongino's hair 250 00:18:44,035 --> 00:18:49,075 Speaker 1: is not his own. And last week, of all the 251 00:18:49,075 --> 00:18:52,155 Speaker 1: things Trump doesn't understand, the thing he most doesn't understand 252 00:18:52,155 --> 00:18:54,795 Speaker 1: the best is he's a fat old man who keeps 253 00:18:54,835 --> 00:18:57,115 Speaker 1: forgetting to put bronzer on anything but his face, so 254 00:18:57,155 --> 00:19:00,075 Speaker 1: his hands look like he's holding mashed potatoes, and who 255 00:19:00,075 --> 00:19:02,755 Speaker 1: the other day managed to shape his hair into an 256 00:19:02,795 --> 00:19:07,435 Speaker 1: almost perfect square so that he looked like the President 257 00:19:08,395 --> 00:19:13,835 Speaker 1: of Minecraft. Trump, though, continues to make jokes about other 258 00:19:13,915 --> 00:19:21,595 Speaker 1: people's faces, anybody else's face, anybody else in the world's face, 259 00:19:22,195 --> 00:19:25,355 Speaker 1: eight billion, sixty two million faces in the world right now, 260 00:19:25,675 --> 00:19:29,795 Speaker 1: and his would rank number eight billion, sixty two million. 261 00:19:30,195 --> 00:19:33,715 Speaker 1: And he still says crap like this, Adam Shifty Shifts. 262 00:19:34,075 --> 00:19:37,835 Speaker 2: Can you believe this guy? He's got the smallest neck 263 00:19:37,875 --> 00:19:38,795 Speaker 2: I've ever seen. 264 00:19:40,755 --> 00:19:42,875 Speaker 1: And the biggest. Said, we call them watermelon head. 265 00:19:43,475 --> 00:19:46,115 Speaker 2: I say, how could that big, fat face. 266 00:19:46,355 --> 00:19:49,915 Speaker 1: Stand on a neck that looked like this finger. Fortunately 267 00:19:49,995 --> 00:19:55,275 Speaker 1: Trump has enough extra necks and chins to take care 268 00:19:55,315 --> 00:20:07,395 Speaker 1: of Shift and the entire Senate for that matter, So 269 00:20:07,635 --> 00:20:10,275 Speaker 1: I said, finally, but I did want to say goodbye 270 00:20:10,315 --> 00:20:15,315 Speaker 1: first to Gretchen Whitmer, who Gavin Newsom to herself yesterday, first, 271 00:20:15,355 --> 00:20:17,875 Speaker 1: the governor of Michigan came out in favor of tariffs, 272 00:20:18,995 --> 00:20:24,155 Speaker 1: some tariffs anyway, on the day Trump would punt some tariffs. 273 00:20:24,915 --> 00:20:28,955 Speaker 1: Trump signed more executive arders in the Oval yesterday for 274 00:20:29,235 --> 00:20:34,075 Speaker 1: higher flow shower heads for prosecuting Conservative election monitor Chris 275 00:20:34,155 --> 00:20:39,715 Speaker 1: Krebs about shipbuilding. There's some anti miles tailor stuff. I 276 00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:43,235 Speaker 1: don't know, more tariffs maybe who knows and who's in 277 00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:46,235 Speaker 1: the corner not smart enough to get out of the 278 00:20:46,235 --> 00:20:49,515 Speaker 1: goddamned Oval office while all this is going on. Gretchen 279 00:20:49,555 --> 00:20:54,035 Speaker 1: goddamned Whitmer. Honored to have Gretchen Whittmer from Michigan, the 280 00:20:54,075 --> 00:20:56,755 Speaker 1: great state of Michigan. And she's been she's really done, 281 00:20:56,755 --> 00:21:03,555 Speaker 1: an excellent job, very good person, that was Trump. Don't 282 00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:06,115 Speaker 1: know what route you think you you are on politically, Governor. 283 00:21:06,755 --> 00:21:10,235 Speaker 1: But whenever you get to your destination, say hi to 284 00:21:10,355 --> 00:21:14,355 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom when you get there, because he's done and 285 00:21:14,435 --> 00:21:18,275 Speaker 1: you're done, because neither of you has learned the Howard 286 00:21:18,355 --> 00:21:24,395 Speaker 1: Dean Rudy Giuliani rule. Do not start already running for president, 287 00:21:25,635 --> 00:21:31,395 Speaker 1: especially if it involves compromising with the other side, whom 288 00:21:31,435 --> 00:21:37,155 Speaker 1: everybody hates. Do not start already running for president four 289 00:21:37,235 --> 00:21:40,715 Speaker 1: years from now until it's only like eighteen months from now. 290 00:21:41,995 --> 00:21:46,315 Speaker 1: And also governor. If you buy one Trump Executive idiot order, 291 00:21:46,595 --> 00:21:52,115 Speaker 1: you get the rest for free, and never ever get 292 00:21:52,115 --> 00:21:56,875 Speaker 1: the endorsement of the worst leader in the history of 293 00:21:56,995 --> 00:22:06,795 Speaker 1: the free world. Buy now, Gretchen. Also of interest here 294 00:22:06,795 --> 00:22:10,075 Speaker 1: in an all new edition, watching Laura Ingram carrying all 295 00:22:10,115 --> 00:22:15,075 Speaker 1: that water for Trump, still lying without pause even last night, 296 00:22:15,675 --> 00:22:19,435 Speaker 1: as his Titanic goes to the bottom, Bob's back up 297 00:22:19,435 --> 00:22:22,635 Speaker 1: to the top, then goes to the bottom again. This 298 00:22:22,755 --> 00:22:26,875 Speaker 1: reminds me of my dates with her. You heard me 299 00:22:27,555 --> 00:22:32,435 Speaker 1: because all of the liquid she drank NonStop, non stop. 300 00:22:32,795 --> 00:22:37,315 Speaker 1: I was worried about the explosion risk, but usefully she 301 00:22:37,435 --> 00:22:43,635 Speaker 1: explained the nascent prototype of the fascist media ecosphere, which 302 00:22:43,675 --> 00:22:46,955 Speaker 1: I will repeat things I promised not to tell, and 303 00:22:47,035 --> 00:22:49,875 Speaker 1: in this case things I'm surprised I survived. And more 304 00:22:49,915 --> 00:22:53,755 Speaker 1: on cash Betel, Wayne Gretzky and the hockey writer moron 305 00:22:53,835 --> 00:22:57,915 Speaker 1: who is defending them both. That's next. This is countdown 306 00:22:59,515 --> 00:23:01,475 Speaker 1: George Crowing the pleasure to have you here. Thank you. 307 00:23:01,555 --> 00:23:03,475 Speaker 1: This is the best news show ever. I told that 308 00:23:03,595 --> 00:23:05,515 Speaker 1: to one of your producers, and I want you to 309 00:23:05,555 --> 00:23:08,315 Speaker 1: know that I've seen them all and it's just for 310 00:23:08,395 --> 00:23:09,395 Speaker 1: especially the first. 311 00:23:09,195 --> 00:23:10,075 Speaker 2: Thirty five minutes. 312 00:23:10,155 --> 00:23:12,875 Speaker 1: Thank you. So it's just unparalleled. I got bad news 313 00:23:12,875 --> 00:23:14,675 Speaker 1: between you and I. We got six minutes to completely 314 00:23:14,715 --> 00:23:37,835 Speaker 1: still that in my back. Yeah, that's okay. Still ahead 315 00:23:37,835 --> 00:23:41,235 Speaker 1: in this edition to countdown. Well, I needed to bring 316 00:23:41,315 --> 00:23:43,635 Speaker 1: George back here just for the moment because I needed 317 00:23:43,635 --> 00:23:45,395 Speaker 1: to help today. I'm going to spare you the details 318 00:23:45,955 --> 00:23:49,755 Speaker 1: actually good, but discerning regular listeners may have heard, may 319 00:23:49,875 --> 00:23:53,555 Speaker 1: hear a roughness to my voice, a side effect of 320 00:23:53,595 --> 00:23:58,755 Speaker 1: some heavy duty medication for a heavy duty gut problem. Gut, 321 00:23:58,915 --> 00:24:02,675 Speaker 1: I hope not guts, but it's playing Jiminy ned with 322 00:24:02,795 --> 00:24:08,755 Speaker 1: my stamina. So still ahead on countdown. I'll think of 323 00:24:08,995 --> 00:24:12,275 Speaker 1: something first, believe it or not. There's still more new 324 00:24:12,315 --> 00:24:14,955 Speaker 1: idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscrants, morons 325 00:24:14,955 --> 00:24:18,235 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other 326 00:24:19,115 --> 00:24:24,875 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. Here are the nominees. The 327 00:24:24,875 --> 00:24:29,755 Speaker 1: Bronze worst. Joe Manchin, the former Senator and pretend Democrat 328 00:24:30,115 --> 00:24:34,475 Speaker 1: from West Virginia. Joe has just revealed he's writing a book. 329 00:24:35,075 --> 00:24:39,715 Speaker 1: It's called dead Center in Defense of common Sense. It's 330 00:24:39,755 --> 00:24:42,875 Speaker 1: about his political accomplishments and a defense of his politics. 331 00:24:43,555 --> 00:24:49,275 Speaker 1: What is it? Four pages long, preface by Kirsten Cinema, 332 00:24:49,435 --> 00:24:53,115 Speaker 1: once sentence, I'm great. The best part is the cover 333 00:24:53,555 --> 00:24:57,635 Speaker 1: of Joe Mansion dead Center in Defensive common Sense is 334 00:24:57,675 --> 00:25:02,955 Speaker 1: a tight shot of Mansion's Joe thaismanesque face, but only 335 00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:07,155 Speaker 1: half of his face. Seriously, it's a photograph of half 336 00:25:07,155 --> 00:25:11,955 Speaker 1: of him only in terms of how you look at it, 337 00:25:12,235 --> 00:25:16,875 Speaker 1: viewer left or viewer right, only the right half. Joe's photo, 338 00:25:17,555 --> 00:25:22,355 Speaker 1: symbolizing the dead center of his politics, is actually a 339 00:25:22,355 --> 00:25:27,835 Speaker 1: photo of the far right, only the far right, only 340 00:25:28,355 --> 00:25:34,715 Speaker 1: his far right. Joe Manchin only on the far right 341 00:25:35,475 --> 00:25:38,955 Speaker 1: kind of summarizes Joe Manchin, don't it? The runner up 342 00:25:38,955 --> 00:25:43,755 Speaker 1: worser Marjorie's Stupid Green. First, I'll read her tweet, Then 343 00:25:43,915 --> 00:25:46,675 Speaker 1: I'll read the caption of the screen shot she retweeted. 344 00:25:47,035 --> 00:25:51,995 Speaker 1: Then i will read the screenshot she retweeted first from 345 00:25:52,075 --> 00:25:57,715 Speaker 1: Marjorie's Stupid Green herself quote left always pays protest hears 346 00:25:57,755 --> 00:26:01,515 Speaker 1: and here's the pray. Meanwhile, we never had to hire 347 00:26:01,515 --> 00:26:04,155 Speaker 1: anyone to attendance support praise. He d dramp at his 348 00:26:04,275 --> 00:26:09,795 Speaker 1: he rally, then an account called Wall Street Ape. So 349 00:26:09,835 --> 00:26:15,835 Speaker 1: that's what a musk Bitcoin NFT confidence game account. Remember 350 00:26:15,995 --> 00:26:21,795 Speaker 1: NFTs quote paid to protest positions are being posted on 351 00:26:21,835 --> 00:26:24,235 Speaker 1: Craig's list. A huge amount of the new positions being 352 00:26:24,275 --> 00:26:31,355 Speaker 1: posted everywhere are to protest cash paid. They've always lied. 353 00:26:31,875 --> 00:26:34,115 Speaker 1: They used to be better at it than this. Here 354 00:26:34,235 --> 00:26:39,075 Speaker 1: is the list, endorsed by Marjorie Stupid Green. Los Angeles 355 00:26:39,115 --> 00:26:43,995 Speaker 1: hands Off Anti Trump Protest Merch Sales Team cash paid 356 00:26:44,275 --> 00:26:47,355 Speaker 1: four days ago. Los Angeles hands Off Anti Trump Protest 357 00:26:47,435 --> 00:26:50,955 Speaker 1: Merch Sales Team, cash paid four days ago. Los Angeles 358 00:26:50,955 --> 00:26:54,795 Speaker 1: hands Off Anti Trump Protest Merch Sales Team cash paid 359 00:26:54,995 --> 00:26:59,915 Speaker 1: five days ago, Central La sell protest and resistance products 360 00:26:59,915 --> 00:27:03,555 Speaker 1: at protest rallies in your area. Sales at protest and 361 00:27:03,595 --> 00:27:07,275 Speaker 1: resistance rallies days ago. Los Angeles hands Off Anti Trump 362 00:27:07,315 --> 00:27:15,075 Speaker 1: Protest Merch Sales Team cash paid seven days ago. I'm 363 00:27:15,115 --> 00:27:18,635 Speaker 1: assuming you have noticed by now what all of those 364 00:27:19,035 --> 00:27:23,835 Speaker 1: will pay you to protest against Trump Craigslist ads actually 365 00:27:23,875 --> 00:27:27,035 Speaker 1: have in common. Not one of them offers to pay 366 00:27:27,075 --> 00:27:31,435 Speaker 1: you to protest against Trump. They are all trying to 367 00:27:31,595 --> 00:27:36,675 Speaker 1: hire people to sell merchandise and products at the anti 368 00:27:36,715 --> 00:27:41,315 Speaker 1: Trump protests, which I believe the fascists until I don't 369 00:27:41,315 --> 00:27:44,195 Speaker 1: know they crashed the stock market the fascists used to 370 00:27:44,275 --> 00:27:52,475 Speaker 1: praise as capitalism and bootstrapping and independent small businesses merchandise. 371 00:27:53,035 --> 00:27:55,995 Speaker 1: They're not hiring protesters, They're hiring people to sell crap 372 00:27:56,075 --> 00:28:01,235 Speaker 1: to the protesters. And Marjorie stupid Green missed that part. 373 00:28:03,395 --> 00:28:05,915 Speaker 1: Plus there is a special ey to her assertion that 374 00:28:05,955 --> 00:28:08,555 Speaker 1: nobody has ever hired to work at the Trump rallies, 375 00:28:08,595 --> 00:28:12,515 Speaker 1: given that all the Trump rallies are is merch sales. 376 00:28:12,715 --> 00:28:16,355 Speaker 1: In fact, all the Trump presidency has been is merchandise sales. 377 00:28:17,075 --> 00:28:20,275 Speaker 1: This con man sold t shirts with his own mugshot 378 00:28:20,315 --> 00:28:23,595 Speaker 1: photo on it, and merchandise with pictures of the moment 379 00:28:23,635 --> 00:28:27,915 Speaker 1: he got shot. I mean, consider this just on a 380 00:28:28,035 --> 00:28:31,555 Speaker 1: human level, or whatever it is. He is just on 381 00:28:31,635 --> 00:28:36,955 Speaker 1: a base level. Do you know how stone cold dead 382 00:28:36,995 --> 00:28:39,075 Speaker 1: your soul has to be if you are not bothered 383 00:28:39,155 --> 00:28:43,675 Speaker 1: at all by pictures of the moment you got shot? 384 00:28:44,875 --> 00:28:48,155 Speaker 1: How addicted, how consumed by money do you have to 385 00:28:48,195 --> 00:28:53,115 Speaker 1: be to ignore that memory of hell? That was almost 386 00:28:53,155 --> 00:28:55,755 Speaker 1: my last second on this earth, and I spent it 387 00:28:55,795 --> 00:29:01,435 Speaker 1: in that town. Even that now he tries to make 388 00:29:01,475 --> 00:29:07,915 Speaker 1: a profit off of it. There's nobody there there. What 389 00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:10,395 Speaker 1: can I do with this? Well, if I don't die, 390 00:29:10,475 --> 00:29:14,115 Speaker 1: I can sell pictures of this. But tell me again 391 00:29:14,115 --> 00:29:16,955 Speaker 1: about how nobody gets paid at a Trump rally when 392 00:29:16,955 --> 00:29:22,075 Speaker 1: the ads are all about anti Trump merchandise at the 393 00:29:22,115 --> 00:29:27,475 Speaker 1: anti Trump rally and Marjorie stupid Green, everyone but our winner. 394 00:29:28,075 --> 00:29:33,755 Speaker 1: Worse even than that, the worst Frank Cerravali, who used 395 00:29:33,755 --> 00:29:36,595 Speaker 1: to be a hockey reporter. He worked for the Philadelphia 396 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:39,915 Speaker 1: Daily News and then for the Canadian Sports TV Network TSN. 397 00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:43,235 Speaker 1: He's now on a hockey website you've never heard of, 398 00:29:43,755 --> 00:29:46,275 Speaker 1: just like I've never heard of, even though I've been 399 00:29:46,315 --> 00:29:55,155 Speaker 1: covering hockey professionally since nineteen seventy six. Somehow, though this 400 00:29:55,315 --> 00:29:58,955 Speaker 1: Frank sara Vali is still the president of the Professional 401 00:29:58,995 --> 00:30:04,115 Speaker 1: Hockey Writers Association. The PHWA professional applies to the writers, 402 00:30:04,355 --> 00:30:09,595 Speaker 1: not the association. Frank is a dope, and Frank is maga. 403 00:30:09,995 --> 00:30:14,955 Speaker 1: It happens. Unlike those people, the magadopes, the rest of us, 404 00:30:14,995 --> 00:30:17,635 Speaker 1: You and I, we don't think that disqualifies you from 405 00:30:17,675 --> 00:30:21,555 Speaker 1: working in sports, or working in general, or living in America. 406 00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:24,875 Speaker 1: Go make your money, have a nice life. Just stop 407 00:30:24,955 --> 00:30:28,635 Speaker 1: trying to shove your stupidity down our throats. That's all 408 00:30:28,675 --> 00:30:33,115 Speaker 1: we ask. But Frank is a real dope, and he 409 00:30:33,155 --> 00:30:37,475 Speaker 1: has now crossed a real line. By way of background, 410 00:30:37,475 --> 00:30:39,235 Speaker 1: this is not the first time he has crossed a 411 00:30:39,275 --> 00:30:41,635 Speaker 1: real line. It is not the first time this hockey 412 00:30:41,675 --> 00:30:44,795 Speaker 1: season he has crossed a real line. Frank once got 413 00:30:44,835 --> 00:30:46,835 Speaker 1: the list of the players to be chosen in an 414 00:30:46,995 --> 00:30:51,155 Speaker 1: NHL expansion draft before the draft actually started. It was 415 00:30:51,155 --> 00:30:54,635 Speaker 1: to be televised live, so Frank took this list and 416 00:30:54,755 --> 00:30:59,755 Speaker 1: published it hours in advance without spoiler alerts or anything. 417 00:31:00,555 --> 00:31:04,075 Speaker 1: And last fall, after the Columbus Blue Jacket star Johnny 418 00:31:04,075 --> 00:31:07,195 Speaker 1: Gudreau and his brother were killed by a drunk driver 419 00:31:07,595 --> 00:31:11,235 Speaker 1: the weekend of their own sister's wedding, Frank Saravali wrote 420 00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:13,795 Speaker 1: on his website his predictions for the twenty twenty four 421 00:31:13,835 --> 00:31:18,235 Speaker 1: to twenty five hockey season, quoting screenshots saved by the 422 00:31:18,235 --> 00:31:20,675 Speaker 1: Twitter account the win column, which is devoted to the 423 00:31:20,675 --> 00:31:24,195 Speaker 1: Calgary Flames team. Here's the first version of what Frank 424 00:31:24,235 --> 00:31:27,195 Speaker 1: Saravali wrote about the Columbus Blue Jackets fourteen. With a 425 00:31:27,235 --> 00:31:30,395 Speaker 1: little help from Gaudreau, that would be the star player 426 00:31:30,555 --> 00:31:33,515 Speaker 1: one of the two who was killed. The Columbus Blue 427 00:31:33,555 --> 00:31:36,715 Speaker 1: Jackets will win the twenty twenty five draft Lottery. It's 428 00:31:36,755 --> 00:31:40,835 Speaker 1: the only consolation prize on a brutal year, but hope 429 00:31:40,995 --> 00:31:43,195 Speaker 1: and help is on the way. But that is that 430 00:31:43,235 --> 00:31:47,675 Speaker 1: the Blue Jackets have never won the lottery. Somebody, maybe Frank, 431 00:31:47,995 --> 00:31:53,555 Speaker 1: decided that was pretty sick, so he reportedly changed to 432 00:31:53,755 --> 00:31:57,555 Speaker 1: According to another screenshot from the same source, fourteen, with 433 00:31:57,635 --> 00:32:00,955 Speaker 1: a little help from above, the Columbus Blue Jackets will 434 00:32:00,995 --> 00:32:03,475 Speaker 1: win the twenty twenty five draft Lottery. It's the only 435 00:32:03,555 --> 00:32:06,355 Speaker 1: consolation prize a brutal year, but hope and help is 436 00:32:06,395 --> 00:32:08,755 Speaker 1: on the way. Bananas that the Blue Jackets have never 437 00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:13,355 Speaker 1: won the lottery. Apparently Frank still thought he could finesse 438 00:32:13,435 --> 00:32:16,355 Speaker 1: this and that he really hadn't done enough on the 439 00:32:16,355 --> 00:32:20,995 Speaker 1: subject of Johnny Gudrou's death and how this idea got 440 00:32:20,995 --> 00:32:23,355 Speaker 1: into his head that the Blue Jackets would be compensated 441 00:32:23,355 --> 00:32:28,875 Speaker 1: for their beloved players heartbreaking death with a draft choice 442 00:32:28,915 --> 00:32:33,315 Speaker 1: the third version of the Sarah Valley. Per the screenshots fourteen, 443 00:32:33,915 --> 00:32:38,355 Speaker 1: with a little help from Gudrou in Heaven, the Columbus 444 00:32:38,395 --> 00:32:41,035 Speaker 1: Blue Jackets will win the twenty twenty five Draft lottery. 445 00:32:41,555 --> 00:32:44,595 Speaker 1: It's the only consolation prize on a brutal year. But 446 00:32:44,715 --> 00:32:46,875 Speaker 1: hope and help is on the way. Bananas that the 447 00:32:46,875 --> 00:32:50,915 Speaker 1: Blue Jackets have never won the lottery, Well, based on 448 00:32:50,955 --> 00:32:54,235 Speaker 1: your logic, it's because their previous players had not been killed. 449 00:32:55,795 --> 00:32:58,515 Speaker 1: Remember what I said, Frank, Sara Valley's a dope. Yeah, 450 00:32:58,515 --> 00:33:01,715 Speaker 1: this is what I'm talking about. At that point, after 451 00:33:01,755 --> 00:33:11,955 Speaker 1: the third version of this heinous, unnecessary, gratuitous, indulgent, moronic paragraph, 452 00:33:12,435 --> 00:33:15,835 Speaker 1: Sarah Valley gave up. Now he had no excuse for this. 453 00:33:15,915 --> 00:33:18,115 Speaker 1: The fatal accident was in August and the column was 454 00:33:18,155 --> 00:33:20,715 Speaker 1: in early October. None of this was heat of the moment. 455 00:33:21,195 --> 00:33:23,235 Speaker 1: None of this was ill advised, none of this was 456 00:33:23,475 --> 00:33:26,275 Speaker 1: christ What did I write that for? Called out? Frank 457 00:33:26,315 --> 00:33:31,835 Speaker 1: Saravali apologized and said I'll be better. Well, he has 458 00:33:31,875 --> 00:33:35,115 Speaker 1: not been better. I've outlined here in the last few 459 00:33:35,155 --> 00:33:38,555 Speaker 1: weeks or tried to the amazing pain being felt in 460 00:33:38,635 --> 00:33:42,875 Speaker 1: our neighbor's home. Canada, as its former hero of heroes, 461 00:33:42,915 --> 00:33:47,235 Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky, has gradually betrayed his country as Trump's threats 462 00:33:47,235 --> 00:33:51,635 Speaker 1: against Canada economic threats, independence threats, insulting references to the 463 00:33:51,755 --> 00:33:55,075 Speaker 1: Prime minister, just being the governor of the fifty first State, etc. 464 00:33:55,795 --> 00:34:01,755 Speaker 1: As Trump's done that, Gretzky has incredibly, mysteriously self destructively 465 00:34:01,795 --> 00:34:06,955 Speaker 1: gotten closer and closer to Trump this climax. Last Friday 466 00:34:06,995 --> 00:34:10,955 Speaker 1: night is Vladimir Putin's pal Alex Ovechkin tied Gretzky's record 467 00:34:10,995 --> 00:34:13,475 Speaker 1: for the most career in National Hockey League goals, and 468 00:34:13,595 --> 00:34:17,155 Speaker 1: Gretzky sat cheering from a suite in the arena, seated 469 00:34:17,235 --> 00:34:21,315 Speaker 1: next to election denier and Trump thug and fanboy of 470 00:34:21,355 --> 00:34:27,715 Speaker 1: the January sixth terrorists, Old Popeye himself, Cash Pattel. Hockey 471 00:34:27,755 --> 00:34:31,235 Speaker 1: people in both countries, especially Wayne's friends in Canada, have 472 00:34:31,315 --> 00:34:33,875 Speaker 1: tried to explain to him what he's doing to the 473 00:34:33,995 --> 00:34:38,155 Speaker 1: nation of his birth and thus to himself. Hockey, which 474 00:34:38,195 --> 00:34:41,475 Speaker 1: among all sports, does a fairly good job of keeping 475 00:34:41,515 --> 00:34:45,995 Speaker 1: politics out or at least at arm's length, Hockey, seems 476 00:34:46,035 --> 00:34:48,435 Speaker 1: to have uniformly tried to help Wayne steer out of 477 00:34:48,475 --> 00:34:51,995 Speaker 1: this skid, and lots of people would have been upset if, 478 00:34:51,995 --> 00:34:55,115 Speaker 1: for some reason, Wayne Gretzky had been accompanied at that 479 00:34:55,195 --> 00:34:58,955 Speaker 1: game by the former FBI director Chris Ray, or if 480 00:34:58,955 --> 00:35:02,115 Speaker 1: he'd been accompanied by Jay Edgar effing Hoover for that matter. 481 00:35:02,995 --> 00:35:06,275 Speaker 1: But that's not the way Frank Siavali, whose organization represents 482 00:35:06,355 --> 00:35:09,555 Speaker 1: all the hockey writers in both Canada and the US, 483 00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:12,555 Speaker 1: that's not the way he sees it. This, he said 484 00:35:12,555 --> 00:35:17,875 Speaker 1: on some podcast, is an unfair attack on Gretzky's patriotism 485 00:35:18,475 --> 00:35:25,035 Speaker 1: and on Cash Patel. Sarahvali called this all political bs. 486 00:35:25,835 --> 00:35:28,995 Speaker 1: Here is the clip, and as you rage over it, 487 00:35:29,035 --> 00:35:32,755 Speaker 1: I will explain specifically why sarah Vali is so wrong 488 00:35:32,795 --> 00:35:36,035 Speaker 1: and why this time he is once again such an asshole. 489 00:35:36,555 --> 00:35:42,595 Speaker 2: The continued political bs that came on the back end 490 00:35:42,915 --> 00:35:47,355 Speaker 2: of Wayne Gretzky celebrating it with the ultimate class as 491 00:35:47,355 --> 00:35:48,235 Speaker 2: he always does. 492 00:35:48,875 --> 00:35:49,755 Speaker 1: Alex Ovachkin. 493 00:35:50,115 --> 00:35:54,475 Speaker 2: Oh, he brought the FBI director Cash Patel to the 494 00:35:54,555 --> 00:35:58,715 Speaker 2: last couple games. Okay, so what Cash Pattel is a 495 00:35:58,715 --> 00:36:02,475 Speaker 2: hockey guy? Go look it up. He go watched the 496 00:36:02,595 --> 00:36:06,675 Speaker 2: video and photos of Cash Betel playing hockey Guy's a 497 00:36:06,715 --> 00:36:11,435 Speaker 2: legit hockey guye So because he's a Republican, because he's 498 00:36:11,475 --> 00:36:14,715 Speaker 2: in a Republican office, all of a sudden, we can't 499 00:36:14,795 --> 00:36:16,675 Speaker 2: have that. Kwayne Gretzky is a trader. 500 00:36:17,115 --> 00:36:21,035 Speaker 1: Okay, let's start at that beginning, Frank Saravali called the 501 00:36:21,115 --> 00:36:25,435 Speaker 1: attack on Gretzky and Patel quote political bs. Well, the 502 00:36:25,435 --> 00:36:28,435 Speaker 1: attack on Wayne Gretzky isn't political bs because it's a 503 00:36:28,475 --> 00:36:33,755 Speaker 1: little bigger than that. Patel's boss threatened to crush Canada 504 00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:37,755 Speaker 1: economically and force it to become part of the United States, 505 00:36:38,395 --> 00:36:42,315 Speaker 1: implied in this, Eventually something more than economic pressure would 506 00:36:42,315 --> 00:36:47,235 Speaker 1: be brought into the States force it to become part 507 00:36:47,275 --> 00:36:50,195 Speaker 1: of the United States. And while he's doing that, Gretzky's 508 00:36:50,235 --> 00:36:52,475 Speaker 1: at Mary Lago wearing one of the Trump fascist hats 509 00:36:52,635 --> 00:36:55,635 Speaker 1: and sitting next to Cash Patel at this landmark moment 510 00:36:55,675 --> 00:37:00,755 Speaker 1: in hockey history. And the attack on Patel isn't political 511 00:37:00,795 --> 00:37:04,635 Speaker 1: bs either, because Patel is not, just as Sara Vale 512 00:37:04,795 --> 00:37:08,275 Speaker 1: just put it, a Republican in a Republican office. His 513 00:37:08,435 --> 00:37:12,795 Speaker 1: aforementioned predecessor, Christopher Ray FBI director, was also a Republican. 514 00:37:13,275 --> 00:37:15,155 Speaker 1: And by the way, that's supposed to be neither a 515 00:37:15,195 --> 00:37:18,835 Speaker 1: Republican nor a Democratic office unless you have a corrupt 516 00:37:18,875 --> 00:37:23,715 Speaker 1: president in charge. Joe Biden had a Republican. Donald Trump 517 00:37:23,715 --> 00:37:28,555 Speaker 1: had a nominal Republican who's actually just a trumpeken, a 518 00:37:28,595 --> 00:37:33,835 Speaker 1: Trump slave, a Trump whore. Cash Pateel popularized the exploitation 519 00:37:34,235 --> 00:37:39,435 Speaker 1: and misuse of our national anthem, mixing in singing with 520 00:37:39,915 --> 00:37:45,355 Speaker 1: the convicted sometimes confessed January sixth criminals, with them actually singing. 521 00:37:45,755 --> 00:37:52,955 Speaker 1: Mixing that in along with some of Trump's famous Beertisgarden speeches, 522 00:37:54,275 --> 00:37:57,315 Speaker 1: mixed it all together into a revised version of the 523 00:37:57,315 --> 00:38:01,635 Speaker 1: Star Spangled Banner. Anybody else in American political history who 524 00:38:01,635 --> 00:38:04,555 Speaker 1: wrote their own version of the Star Spangled Banner would 525 00:38:04,555 --> 00:38:08,235 Speaker 1: have been living lining now in Trinidad and or Tobago 526 00:38:08,915 --> 00:38:13,915 Speaker 1: if they were lucky. Cash Betel believes or pretends to believe, 527 00:38:13,955 --> 00:38:16,315 Speaker 1: the big lie about the twenty twenty election. It was 528 00:38:16,355 --> 00:38:19,635 Speaker 1: not fixed. They can keep saying it until the world ends. 529 00:38:19,795 --> 00:38:23,915 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it happened. Cash Bettel has helped poison America. 530 00:38:24,035 --> 00:38:27,395 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, he was accused of risking the lives 531 00:38:27,395 --> 00:38:30,555 Speaker 1: of two American hostages in Yemen by commenting publicly on 532 00:38:30,595 --> 00:38:33,755 Speaker 1: their rescue before it happened. There was his involvement in 533 00:38:33,795 --> 00:38:36,195 Speaker 1: Trump's actions that led to Trump being charged under the 534 00:38:36,275 --> 00:38:40,595 Speaker 1: Espionage Act, and the story, maybe a real story, maybe 535 00:38:40,635 --> 00:38:44,675 Speaker 1: not a real story, that Trump declassified everything in that 536 00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:49,395 Speaker 1: whole thing verbally but only to him Cash Battel. And 537 00:38:49,435 --> 00:38:53,475 Speaker 1: then there was cash Betel's insistence in the past month 538 00:38:53,595 --> 00:38:56,715 Speaker 1: that there was no need for an FBI investigation into 539 00:38:56,755 --> 00:39:01,715 Speaker 1: this year's security disaster, also touching on Yemen with the 540 00:39:01,715 --> 00:39:07,355 Speaker 1: hegseeth Waltz butt dials signal tre He also, if you 541 00:39:07,395 --> 00:39:11,555 Speaker 1: can believe this, celebrated Ovechkin tying the Gretzky record by 542 00:39:11,555 --> 00:39:17,875 Speaker 1: doing an interview with Russian State Propaganda Television, our director 543 00:39:18,075 --> 00:39:24,515 Speaker 1: of the Federal Bureau of Intelligence on Russian TV Russian TV, 544 00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:28,755 Speaker 1: where nightly they fantasize about nuking Europe and US, and 545 00:39:28,835 --> 00:39:33,035 Speaker 1: by US, I mean Canada and the United States. Cash 546 00:39:33,075 --> 00:39:36,715 Speaker 1: Pttel isn't toxic because he's a Republican, Sara Vlli. He's 547 00:39:36,715 --> 00:39:42,075 Speaker 1: toxic because he's an irresponsible, seemingly unstable political fanatic now 548 00:39:42,115 --> 00:39:46,195 Speaker 1: in charge of and capable of utterly misusing the foremost 549 00:39:46,435 --> 00:39:49,835 Speaker 1: law enforcement and investigation body in this country. And if, 550 00:39:49,875 --> 00:39:54,795 Speaker 1: for some reason, Frank, he decided to use it against you, 551 00:39:54,795 --> 00:40:00,155 Speaker 1: you couldn't stop him. And more importantly, he's a hockey guy. 552 00:40:00,715 --> 00:40:02,995 Speaker 1: Frank Saravali said, this is all okay because he's a 553 00:40:02,995 --> 00:40:06,155 Speaker 1: hockey guy. Look it up. Look at the video. He 554 00:40:06,315 --> 00:40:10,235 Speaker 1: played hockey ones. He coached some kids hockey team once, 555 00:40:10,635 --> 00:40:13,155 Speaker 1: so that makes it okay. I did three years of 556 00:40:13,195 --> 00:40:16,315 Speaker 1: play by play of my high school hockey team. I 557 00:40:16,355 --> 00:40:19,915 Speaker 1: attended my first NHL game in nineteen sixty nine, my 558 00:40:19,995 --> 00:40:23,395 Speaker 1: first Stanley Cup final game in nineteen seventy nine, covered 559 00:40:23,435 --> 00:40:26,635 Speaker 1: my first final game in nineteen eighty, and I broke 560 00:40:27,075 --> 00:40:29,315 Speaker 1: of all things. Now in the context of what's going on, 561 00:40:29,555 --> 00:40:32,075 Speaker 1: I broke the story of the Wayne Gretzky trade to 562 00:40:32,115 --> 00:40:35,995 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I'm a hockey guy, and guess what, if 563 00:40:35,995 --> 00:40:38,275 Speaker 1: for some reason Wayne Gretzky had wanted to have me 564 00:40:38,395 --> 00:40:41,515 Speaker 1: in that suite with him, that would have been just 565 00:40:41,555 --> 00:40:45,355 Speaker 1: as inappropriate, never mind the politics, Just like, what the 566 00:40:45,355 --> 00:40:49,075 Speaker 1: hell is that olverman guy doing there? Vladimir Putin is 567 00:40:49,115 --> 00:40:51,155 Speaker 1: a hockey guy, Frank sara Vali, should he have been 568 00:40:51,195 --> 00:40:56,475 Speaker 1: there because he's a friend of Trump's Andovetchkin's. If Wayne 569 00:40:56,475 --> 00:41:00,075 Speaker 1: Gretzky's got Bobby orr In there with him or one 570 00:41:00,075 --> 00:41:05,435 Speaker 1: of Gordie Howe's sons, that's a hockey guys. Battel is 571 00:41:05,475 --> 00:41:08,875 Speaker 1: not a hockey guy. Cash Battel is a psycho guy. 572 00:41:11,475 --> 00:41:14,515 Speaker 1: And lastly, and Ultimately, there is the baseline hypocrisy and 573 00:41:14,675 --> 00:41:17,995 Speaker 1: arrogance of the Frank Cea Valleys of this world. He 574 00:41:18,075 --> 00:41:22,595 Speaker 1: has dismissed the broken hearted, lost, confused and angry response 575 00:41:22,635 --> 00:41:26,155 Speaker 1: over the Gretzky Trump America threatens Canada. Gretzky brings a 576 00:41:26,195 --> 00:41:29,755 Speaker 1: Trump hoard to the witness the tying goal controversy story, 577 00:41:30,675 --> 00:41:35,035 Speaker 1: literally one nation's anguish and another nation's queasy guilt. As 578 00:41:35,075 --> 00:41:39,435 Speaker 1: political bs. He's called that political bs. He's speaking for Canada. 579 00:41:39,635 --> 00:41:43,155 Speaker 1: Frank Cira Valley is from America, and he's calling it 580 00:41:43,195 --> 00:41:45,835 Speaker 1: political bs. Not for the reason that you might call 581 00:41:45,875 --> 00:41:49,635 Speaker 1: it political bs. Because a political flunky and political hatchetman 582 00:41:49,715 --> 00:41:52,875 Speaker 1: and political thug is there where he shouldn't have been, 583 00:41:53,115 --> 00:41:56,915 Speaker 1: and is intruding on a celebration of hockey history at 584 00:41:56,915 --> 00:42:00,355 Speaker 1: a time of great stress between two countries, caused entirely 585 00:42:00,435 --> 00:42:03,075 Speaker 1: by this country of which he is a citizen, of 586 00:42:03,115 --> 00:42:06,555 Speaker 1: which he is a supporter of our rogue, crazy president, 587 00:42:08,035 --> 00:42:10,355 Speaker 1: intruding on a celebration of hockey history which should have 588 00:42:10,355 --> 00:42:13,955 Speaker 1: featured no politicians. I don't care. I was Barack goddamned 589 00:42:13,955 --> 00:42:19,035 Speaker 1: Obama on skates. It's not political bs to Frank Saravali 590 00:42:19,035 --> 00:42:22,555 Speaker 1: because there should be some lines between politicians and sports, 591 00:42:23,555 --> 00:42:27,035 Speaker 1: like when the all time record is broken, especially if 592 00:42:27,035 --> 00:42:29,635 Speaker 1: the politicians have threatened to attack the country in which 593 00:42:29,795 --> 00:42:32,395 Speaker 1: the league in which this is all happening is based. 594 00:42:33,235 --> 00:42:37,555 Speaker 1: It's political bs to Sarabali because Saravali is a Republican 595 00:42:37,915 --> 00:42:41,635 Speaker 1: and in the face of any criticism of them, all 596 00:42:41,715 --> 00:42:45,835 Speaker 1: Republicans are, especially the magas. As a colleague of mind 597 00:42:45,915 --> 00:42:48,875 Speaker 1: used to say in a different context, all Republicans are 598 00:42:49,715 --> 00:42:55,235 Speaker 1: soft as church music. Cash Bettel shouldn't have been there, 599 00:42:55,595 --> 00:42:57,995 Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky shouldn't have been sitting next to him, and 600 00:42:57,995 --> 00:43:00,995 Speaker 1: that great hockey moment should have just been a hockey moment. 601 00:43:01,515 --> 00:43:04,355 Speaker 1: And Trump and his MAGA assholes should be prevented from 602 00:43:04,355 --> 00:43:07,595 Speaker 1: trying to exploit everything that happens as if they had 603 00:43:07,635 --> 00:43:10,515 Speaker 1: anything more to do with it than somehow managing not 604 00:43:10,635 --> 00:43:14,755 Speaker 1: to screw up remembering where the rink was. Imagine when 605 00:43:14,755 --> 00:43:17,195 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers went to the White House the 606 00:43:17,235 --> 00:43:21,875 Speaker 1: other day and handed Trump a Dodger's forty seven championship 607 00:43:22,395 --> 00:43:26,995 Speaker 1: World Championship uniform. If instead of wearing number forty seven 608 00:43:27,075 --> 00:43:30,115 Speaker 1: on that if that uniform number had been number forty 609 00:43:30,155 --> 00:43:34,275 Speaker 1: two to represent Jackie Robinson, who just last week Trump 610 00:43:34,315 --> 00:43:38,715 Speaker 1: trying to erase from history in the Defense Department website. 611 00:43:38,915 --> 00:43:41,795 Speaker 1: Imagine if they had done that, what would the reaction 612 00:43:41,955 --> 00:43:48,315 Speaker 1: to that have been? But criticizing Cash Patel is political? 613 00:43:49,315 --> 00:44:00,315 Speaker 1: Bs insisting Patel and Gretzky were wrong, but criticizing Patel 614 00:44:00,355 --> 00:44:03,155 Speaker 1: and Gretzky were right. That's not political, is it? Rank? 615 00:44:03,995 --> 00:44:09,395 Speaker 1: Got it? Asshole? Frank Hey, why don't you write a 616 00:44:09,435 --> 00:44:13,115 Speaker 1: column demanding they give Patel an assist on Ovechkin's tying 617 00:44:13,195 --> 00:44:18,675 Speaker 1: goal or give one to Trump? Sarah Vali Today's other 618 00:44:19,635 --> 00:44:40,515 Speaker 1: worst person in the world. It is important to know 619 00:44:40,795 --> 00:44:45,555 Speaker 1: that though Laura Ingram was the first star of MSNBC, 620 00:44:46,395 --> 00:44:48,995 Speaker 1: literally shown on the cover of the New York Times 621 00:44:49,035 --> 00:44:54,075 Speaker 1: magazine in a leopard print skirt in nineteen ninety five, 622 00:44:54,715 --> 00:44:57,395 Speaker 1: a year before MSNBC even went on the air. It's 623 00:44:57,435 --> 00:45:01,235 Speaker 1: why they hired her the skirt, she did not get 624 00:45:01,275 --> 00:45:05,395 Speaker 1: her own primetime show in cable news for another twenty 625 00:45:05,435 --> 00:45:09,035 Speaker 1: two years, and she did not get that show until 626 00:45:09,275 --> 00:45:14,235 Speaker 1: she fully embraced Trump. And as we've seen yet again, 627 00:45:14,675 --> 00:45:19,515 Speaker 1: as Trump has circled the drain, she sure has embraced 628 00:45:19,595 --> 00:45:23,635 Speaker 1: him in things I promised not to tell little personal 629 00:45:23,675 --> 00:45:27,795 Speaker 1: experience about embracing her. My primetime cable news show debut 630 00:45:27,875 --> 00:45:32,475 Speaker 1: on October one, nineteen ninety seven. That would be twenty 631 00:45:32,595 --> 00:45:35,795 Speaker 1: years before hers. But she was a guest on my 632 00:45:35,955 --> 00:45:38,995 Speaker 1: show the first time the next month, November nineteen ninety seven, 633 00:45:39,195 --> 00:45:42,915 Speaker 1: and she asked me out in December. I think it 634 00:45:43,035 --> 00:45:46,275 Speaker 1: was long after that that Laura revealed to me that 635 00:45:46,355 --> 00:45:50,035 Speaker 1: her mother's dying words to her had been, Lara, why 636 00:45:50,035 --> 00:45:54,555 Speaker 1: aren't you sound BASSI I mean, who tells anybody else 637 00:45:54,595 --> 00:45:57,435 Speaker 1: something like that, anybody else in the world. Why would 638 00:45:57,515 --> 00:46:03,315 Speaker 1: you say that? Wouldn't you make up something nicer sounding? Laura, 639 00:46:03,435 --> 00:46:05,675 Speaker 1: you have been such a great do I mean? How 640 00:46:05,675 --> 00:46:10,715 Speaker 1: in the hell could I check? Even more recently than that, 641 00:46:10,755 --> 00:46:13,195 Speaker 1: she had invoked her mother again in public, I think, 642 00:46:13,235 --> 00:46:16,955 Speaker 1: as an excuse for raising the Social Security age, or 643 00:46:16,995 --> 00:46:21,915 Speaker 1: eliminating Social Security altogether, or having ninety year old's screw 644 00:46:21,995 --> 00:46:24,995 Speaker 1: little screws into American iPhones or something. I can't remember 645 00:46:24,995 --> 00:46:31,395 Speaker 1: what it was. It's true, though, even as Laura flourished 646 00:46:31,435 --> 00:46:36,195 Speaker 1: in television, she never said her mom, here's enough so 647 00:46:36,275 --> 00:46:40,035 Speaker 1: you can retire Laura boasted in public that her mother, 648 00:46:40,195 --> 00:46:45,235 Speaker 1: Anne worked until she was seventy three as a waitress 649 00:46:45,795 --> 00:46:52,555 Speaker 1: full time, and boasted that her mother continued to pay 650 00:46:52,595 --> 00:47:03,555 Speaker 1: off Laura's college loans. Anyway, the Ingram dates and something 651 00:47:03,595 --> 00:47:05,675 Speaker 1: she told me on the first of these dates has 652 00:47:05,795 --> 00:47:09,675 Speaker 1: resonated with me literally every month since and is relevant 653 00:47:09,835 --> 00:47:17,275 Speaker 1: to politics today. I did not so much date her 654 00:47:17,435 --> 00:47:22,075 Speaker 1: as survive her. Even then before nine to eleven helped 655 00:47:22,115 --> 00:47:25,475 Speaker 1: to slide her cheese off her cracker. I find a 656 00:47:25,555 --> 00:47:29,715 Speaker 1: diary entry referring to her as Hurricane Laura. That was 657 00:47:29,755 --> 00:47:34,475 Speaker 1: March fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight. Beware the odds of March 658 00:47:34,955 --> 00:47:41,755 Speaker 1: Julius Caesar. I didn't, honestly, and God helped me. Nearly 659 00:47:41,755 --> 00:47:43,875 Speaker 1: forty eight years of dating, I have not been a kiss. 660 00:47:43,915 --> 00:47:46,795 Speaker 1: And tell her I have dated. I don't know dozens. 661 00:47:47,075 --> 00:47:51,515 Speaker 1: We're in a couple of hundred, actually thirteen, seriously, with 662 00:47:51,595 --> 00:47:54,595 Speaker 1: maybe three exceptions. You don't know any of their names. 663 00:47:55,235 --> 00:47:58,035 Speaker 1: One of them, now a political writer, basically lived with 664 00:47:58,115 --> 00:48:03,235 Speaker 1: me for three years. I keep that confidence. So why 665 00:48:03,315 --> 00:48:06,555 Speaker 1: am I telling this story relating that because not three 666 00:48:06,595 --> 00:48:09,995 Speaker 1: months after that first date, when we were still going out, 667 00:48:10,355 --> 00:48:12,195 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram asked me if she could look at a 668 00:48:12,235 --> 00:48:14,875 Speaker 1: speech I was going to give it Corneill's graduation weekend 669 00:48:15,195 --> 00:48:19,835 Speaker 1: and offer suggestions. This is so long ago I literally 670 00:48:20,035 --> 00:48:24,195 Speaker 1: faxed it to her. Sure enough, a couple days later, 671 00:48:24,515 --> 00:48:27,795 Speaker 1: I'm watching Imus in the morning, which was televised by 672 00:48:27,835 --> 00:48:31,555 Speaker 1: my network MSNBC, and there on his desk in front 673 00:48:31,595 --> 00:48:35,075 Speaker 1: of him is the faxed copy of my speech, and 674 00:48:35,115 --> 00:48:39,595 Speaker 1: he is reading from my facts. I could recognize the 675 00:48:39,675 --> 00:48:44,155 Speaker 1: exact sequence of the vertical stripes. My cheap fax machine 676 00:48:44,235 --> 00:48:48,435 Speaker 1: used to streak all my outgoing pages with Laura used 677 00:48:48,435 --> 00:48:50,955 Speaker 1: to go on his show a lot, so to curry 678 00:48:50,955 --> 00:48:55,595 Speaker 1: favor with Imus, she sent him the speech without asking me, 679 00:48:56,755 --> 00:49:00,435 Speaker 1: As I told her that day, all bets are now off. 680 00:49:01,395 --> 00:49:04,235 Speaker 1: So I've told parts of this story before, like She 681 00:49:04,355 --> 00:49:07,315 Speaker 1: had been in a Supreme Court clerk for Clarence Thomas, 682 00:49:07,755 --> 00:49:10,195 Speaker 1: and our first date consisted of taking me on an 683 00:49:10,235 --> 00:49:13,035 Speaker 1: insider's tour of the court and having me sit in 684 00:49:13,075 --> 00:49:16,155 Speaker 1: his chair in tribute to him. I did not say 685 00:49:16,235 --> 00:49:19,995 Speaker 1: or do anything constructive. She then cooked me the largest 686 00:49:20,035 --> 00:49:22,275 Speaker 1: steak I had ever seen that did not have a 687 00:49:22,395 --> 00:49:25,715 Speaker 1: rodeo cowboy riding on it, and we watched a woman 688 00:49:26,155 --> 00:49:29,275 Speaker 1: later discredited because she could not keep her stories straight. 689 00:49:29,675 --> 00:49:32,435 Speaker 1: Go on sixty minutes and make allegations against Bill Clinton. 690 00:49:33,355 --> 00:49:37,915 Speaker 1: This is my perfect date, Laura told me, seared into 691 00:49:37,995 --> 00:49:43,675 Speaker 1: my memory. But the important Laura Ingram's story sitting there 692 00:49:43,715 --> 00:49:46,355 Speaker 1: in the middle of all the debris. I don't think 693 00:49:46,395 --> 00:49:50,315 Speaker 1: I've ever told this. The first date was only about 694 00:49:50,395 --> 00:49:53,115 Speaker 1: six weeks after the then First Lady Hillary Clinton got 695 00:49:53,115 --> 00:49:56,595 Speaker 1: on the Today Show and blamed the at best exaggerated 696 00:49:56,675 --> 00:49:59,635 Speaker 1: scandal about her husband at Monica Lewinsky on the quote 697 00:50:00,035 --> 00:50:06,475 Speaker 1: vast right wing conspiracy man sounds, Laura said that night, 698 00:50:06,475 --> 00:50:09,475 Speaker 1: as she showed me her small office upstairs, I expected 699 00:50:09,475 --> 00:50:11,795 Speaker 1: that she was about to decry the idea that Republicans 700 00:50:11,835 --> 00:50:16,195 Speaker 1: would exploit television, talk radio and the brand new Internet 701 00:50:16,395 --> 00:50:18,675 Speaker 1: to try to bring down a president from the other party. 702 00:50:18,715 --> 00:50:22,635 Speaker 1: And I said, so naive little boy that I was no, 703 00:50:22,875 --> 00:50:26,555 Speaker 1: not that, of course we're doing that. She was kind 704 00:50:26,555 --> 00:50:29,955 Speaker 1: of offended that I doubted the conspiracy part. I explained, 705 00:50:29,995 --> 00:50:32,995 Speaker 1: I'd only been covering politics for two months. At the 706 00:50:33,115 --> 00:50:36,755 Speaker 1: end of the day, she said, end of the day, constantly, 707 00:50:36,955 --> 00:50:39,675 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's the vast part. 708 00:50:39,915 --> 00:50:43,675 Speaker 1: It's not vast, vast right wing conspiracy. Why, I bet 709 00:50:43,715 --> 00:50:48,435 Speaker 1: there's not even thirty of us. Laura Ingram then explained 710 00:50:48,435 --> 00:50:50,675 Speaker 1: that she was essentially the central desk for what she 711 00:50:50,835 --> 00:50:54,355 Speaker 1: called the miniature right wing conspiracy. She showed me a 712 00:50:54,395 --> 00:50:56,875 Speaker 1: printed page that had the facts numbers of about two 713 00:50:56,955 --> 00:51:00,835 Speaker 1: dozen people. There at the top are the sources, She said. 714 00:51:01,075 --> 00:51:03,635 Speaker 1: There was Ted Olsen, the attorney, founder of the so 715 00:51:03,715 --> 00:51:07,315 Speaker 1: called Arkansas down the husband of Barbara Olsen, a constant 716 00:51:07,395 --> 00:51:10,675 Speaker 1: presence as a talking head on cable news. She later 717 00:51:10,755 --> 00:51:14,595 Speaker 1: died on nine to eleven. Everybody liked her. There were 718 00:51:14,635 --> 00:51:17,555 Speaker 1: several numbers in the Office of Independent Counsel ken Starr. 719 00:51:17,555 --> 00:51:21,595 Speaker 1: One of them read B Cavanaugh. I said, who's that? 720 00:51:21,755 --> 00:51:25,315 Speaker 1: She said, nobody important. The only other name I remember 721 00:51:25,395 --> 00:51:28,035 Speaker 1: was Spencer Abraham, who then was a senator from Michigan. 722 00:51:28,595 --> 00:51:31,315 Speaker 1: She said, they, including the people in ken Starr's office, 723 00:51:31,355 --> 00:51:35,875 Speaker 1: sent her all the rumors, the ideas, stuff about Clinton, 724 00:51:36,395 --> 00:51:39,435 Speaker 1: stuff they made up, and she distributed them to the 725 00:51:39,475 --> 00:51:42,915 Speaker 1: other parts of the list. That's these numbers. One number 726 00:51:42,995 --> 00:51:49,915 Speaker 1: was marked Hannity Radio, another Hannity TV, O'Reilly Radio, O'Reilly TV. 727 00:51:50,035 --> 00:51:53,515 Speaker 1: There was one for Limbaugh. There was one mark Justice Thomas, 728 00:51:53,515 --> 00:51:57,435 Speaker 1: and I pointed to it. He likes to stay and farmed. Now, 729 00:51:57,435 --> 00:51:59,555 Speaker 1: maybe the most important name is not on that list. 730 00:51:59,595 --> 00:52:04,635 Speaker 1: That's Matt Dradge. She said. Matt Drudge used all her stuff, 731 00:52:05,515 --> 00:52:07,235 Speaker 1: but he didn't want any of it to be traceable, 732 00:52:07,315 --> 00:52:10,795 Speaker 1: very big on not traceable. So I never fax it 733 00:52:10,875 --> 00:52:12,995 Speaker 1: to him. She said, I just give it to my brother. 734 00:52:13,435 --> 00:52:16,875 Speaker 1: This is when she still liked her brother. He sees 735 00:52:16,955 --> 00:52:20,795 Speaker 1: Drudge all the time. He gives the stuff to Drudge. Now, Oliver, 736 00:52:20,875 --> 00:52:25,195 Speaker 1: here is my baseball collection. See, there were reasons to 737 00:52:25,195 --> 00:52:29,355 Speaker 1: go out with her. At the time, I could think 738 00:52:29,435 --> 00:52:32,275 Speaker 1: only of an old cartoon I had once seen. It 739 00:52:32,315 --> 00:52:35,915 Speaker 1: was an octopus working in the post office, using all 740 00:52:35,915 --> 00:52:39,835 Speaker 1: eight of its limbs to sort the mail. But every 741 00:52:39,835 --> 00:52:41,715 Speaker 1: couple of weeks it dawns on me afresh. Then I 742 00:52:41,835 --> 00:52:45,635 Speaker 1: was actually a witness to one of the earliest configurations 743 00:52:45,675 --> 00:52:48,875 Speaker 1: of the machinery. And there is no doubt today whether 744 00:52:48,915 --> 00:52:52,835 Speaker 1: it is vast or miniature. It's beast, the machinery that 745 00:52:52,915 --> 00:52:55,395 Speaker 1: links the right wing politicians and those who are supposed 746 00:52:55,395 --> 00:52:58,435 Speaker 1: to be above the fray, like Supreme Court justices and 747 00:52:58,515 --> 00:53:02,115 Speaker 1: special prosecutors and people like that. There with the right 748 00:53:02,115 --> 00:53:05,395 Speaker 1: wing publicity outlets that pretend to be news organization like 749 00:53:05,515 --> 00:53:08,955 Speaker 1: Fox and Drudge and Oaan and Newsmax, and the ones 750 00:53:08,955 --> 00:53:12,355 Speaker 1: that don't even pretend, like those who succeeded Limbaugh. This 751 00:53:12,515 --> 00:53:18,235 Speaker 1: machine is, in fact everything that your typical paranoid conservative, 752 00:53:18,355 --> 00:53:23,915 Speaker 1: republican fascist trumpest thinks is being run by George Soros 753 00:53:24,435 --> 00:53:30,195 Speaker 1: or Bill Gates or doctor Fauci or me. You want 754 00:53:30,195 --> 00:53:32,995 Speaker 1: to be able to say there are reports or accusations 755 00:53:33,035 --> 00:53:35,795 Speaker 1: about some Democrat or a liberal figure or celebrity. Well, 756 00:53:35,835 --> 00:53:39,075 Speaker 1: somebody puts a rumor in at one end of the machinery, 757 00:53:39,835 --> 00:53:41,675 Speaker 1: or somebody makes up a rumor at one end of 758 00:53:41,675 --> 00:53:44,475 Speaker 1: the machinery. It is then sent to dozens of other people. 759 00:53:44,515 --> 00:53:50,115 Speaker 1: They repeat it voila. Suddenly there are reports. The reports 760 00:53:50,155 --> 00:53:53,035 Speaker 1: then get fed back to Fox News or Breitbart or 761 00:53:53,075 --> 00:53:57,595 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal or the Supreme Court, or they're 762 00:53:57,635 --> 00:54:02,435 Speaker 1: just tweeted by a thousand bots simultaneously. You want to 763 00:54:02,475 --> 00:54:06,955 Speaker 1: push this ancient racist anti simm paranoia called the Great Replacement, 764 00:54:07,035 --> 00:54:10,235 Speaker 1: But you wanted to come out washed clean enough that 765 00:54:10,475 --> 00:54:14,435 Speaker 1: soulless opportunists like Elis Stephanic and JD Vance can say 766 00:54:14,435 --> 00:54:17,995 Speaker 1: it aloud on the campaign trail without forfeiting their candidacies. 767 00:54:18,315 --> 00:54:23,275 Speaker 1: This is the machinery. And I saw the machinery when 768 00:54:23,275 --> 00:54:25,635 Speaker 1: it was just a list of twenty and thirty people, 769 00:54:26,315 --> 00:54:28,995 Speaker 1: And at that moment I barely recognized the importance of 770 00:54:28,995 --> 00:54:33,515 Speaker 1: what I saw. Then again, I was still on that night, 771 00:54:33,555 --> 00:54:37,955 Speaker 1: recovering from not just the Giant's steak, but something far 772 00:54:38,035 --> 00:54:42,475 Speaker 1: more visceral. Earlier that day, as we were leaving the 773 00:54:42,515 --> 00:54:46,155 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, Laura Ingram had boasted about getting even with 774 00:54:46,195 --> 00:54:49,195 Speaker 1: an ex boyfriend by going back into what had been 775 00:54:49,235 --> 00:54:53,995 Speaker 1: their house and putting up exact copies of all the 776 00:54:54,035 --> 00:54:56,875 Speaker 1: photos of the two of them together that he had 777 00:54:56,915 --> 00:55:00,955 Speaker 1: taken down from his walls. And when he got smart 778 00:55:01,355 --> 00:55:05,115 Speaker 1: and changed the locks, she went back again to finished 779 00:55:05,115 --> 00:55:10,515 Speaker 1: the job. Found her key didn't work so naturally as 780 00:55:10,515 --> 00:55:14,555 Speaker 1: you would. She stuffed his garden hose through the mail 781 00:55:14,635 --> 00:55:17,555 Speaker 1: slot of his front door and turned on the outdoors. 782 00:55:17,635 --> 00:55:21,955 Speaker 1: Spagott ten thousand dollars worth of heart. When Florence ruined, 783 00:55:22,275 --> 00:55:28,875 Speaker 1: she said proudly, And part of me screamed, flee, flee. 784 00:55:28,915 --> 00:55:36,555 Speaker 1: Now I didn't flee. Later, as I tried to sleep, 785 00:55:36,995 --> 00:55:41,475 Speaker 1: two noises kept me awake snoring, not my own and 786 00:55:41,595 --> 00:55:45,995 Speaker 1: Laura's dog. Laura's dog kept talking in his sleep, I 787 00:55:46,035 --> 00:55:56,635 Speaker 1: mean almost in syllables, y like that. It was something 788 00:55:56,715 --> 00:55:59,075 Speaker 1: like twenty five degrees out and I was on the 789 00:55:59,075 --> 00:56:02,035 Speaker 1: second floor. And yet I resolved that if her dog 790 00:56:02,435 --> 00:56:07,235 Speaker 1: really did make that last to formulate actual syllables. And 791 00:56:07,315 --> 00:56:10,155 Speaker 1: it turned out her dog was the one telling her 792 00:56:10,155 --> 00:56:12,555 Speaker 1: what to do, I was simply going to leave by 793 00:56:12,595 --> 00:56:18,515 Speaker 1: the window without bothering to open it first. The next morning, 794 00:56:18,595 --> 00:56:20,915 Speaker 1: Laura and I walked her dog. We got to an 795 00:56:20,955 --> 00:56:23,355 Speaker 1: empty field. She threw a tennis ball, He went and 796 00:56:23,395 --> 00:56:26,835 Speaker 1: got it. She cocked her arm back again. He took off, 797 00:56:28,075 --> 00:56:31,195 Speaker 1: loving life as he did. She did not throw it. 798 00:56:31,435 --> 00:56:34,755 Speaker 1: He went forty to fifty sixty feet, then stopped and 799 00:56:34,875 --> 00:56:40,475 Speaker 1: looked back at her with such disappointment and even a 800 00:56:40,515 --> 00:56:44,755 Speaker 1: sense of betrayal, and she said, loudly, without a trace 801 00:56:44,795 --> 00:56:49,795 Speaker 1: of affection for him or anything else, wait far at 802 00:56:50,315 --> 00:56:54,595 Speaker 1: which is when I realized I was being courted to 803 00:56:54,715 --> 00:57:00,235 Speaker 1: be the next dog. A few weeks later, back home 804 00:57:00,275 --> 00:57:02,395 Speaker 1: in New York, I got home from working an early 805 00:57:02,435 --> 00:57:04,795 Speaker 1: morning shift filling in for the commentator Paul Harvey at 806 00:57:04,835 --> 00:57:07,395 Speaker 1: ABC Radio. I was just waking up from a tortured 807 00:57:07,475 --> 00:57:10,635 Speaker 1: nap when the phone rang and it's Laura. I'm downstairs. 808 00:57:10,635 --> 00:57:13,115 Speaker 1: We're going to my old law firms party at the museum. 809 00:57:14,115 --> 00:57:17,075 Speaker 1: I said. I was exhausted. We're going, or I'll just 810 00:57:17,115 --> 00:57:19,595 Speaker 1: stay here at this payphone outside your planes calling you 811 00:57:19,635 --> 00:57:26,635 Speaker 1: all night. We went the next option opportunity probably was 812 00:57:26,675 --> 00:57:28,515 Speaker 1: going to be me on the wrong end of a 813 00:57:28,515 --> 00:57:33,675 Speaker 1: hostage drama. Turned out she was not invited to her party. 814 00:57:34,115 --> 00:57:37,195 Speaker 1: We're crashing it. I'm going to drink heavily. Frankly. It 815 00:57:37,235 --> 00:57:39,795 Speaker 1: was a great party. I got to meet Hillary Clinton's 816 00:57:39,795 --> 00:57:43,075 Speaker 1: mother and her brother. And if you think the fascists 817 00:57:43,115 --> 00:57:47,635 Speaker 1: are completely sincere about everything, even their neuroses and their paranoia, no, 818 00:57:48,195 --> 00:57:51,715 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram hugged Hillary Clinton's mother and Hillary Clinton's brother. 819 00:57:52,675 --> 00:57:57,515 Speaker 1: They seem to be friends. Later we wound up meeting 820 00:57:57,555 --> 00:58:00,155 Speaker 1: friends of her in the Oak bar at the Plaza Hotel, 821 00:58:00,195 --> 00:58:05,355 Speaker 1: where she kept drinking. I was astonished. After about her 822 00:58:05,435 --> 00:58:08,435 Speaker 1: sixth Cosmopolitan on top of everything she'd had at the party, 823 00:58:08,635 --> 00:58:12,075 Speaker 1: she began to droop her head, nodding like a bobblehead doll. 824 00:58:12,515 --> 00:58:15,555 Speaker 1: Her friend said, Okay, that's it, we'll take care of 825 00:58:15,635 --> 00:58:19,595 Speaker 1: the check, you take care of her. She had not 826 00:58:19,715 --> 00:58:22,555 Speaker 1: gotten a hotel room or anything. And if you've ever 827 00:58:22,595 --> 00:58:25,595 Speaker 1: heard of anybody who needed to be poured into a 828 00:58:25,675 --> 00:58:28,155 Speaker 1: cab because they were so drunk, you don't really know 829 00:58:28,195 --> 00:58:30,875 Speaker 1: what that means until you have to pour them into 830 00:58:30,955 --> 00:58:35,115 Speaker 1: a cab. Frankly, I wanted to put her in a 831 00:58:35,195 --> 00:58:40,035 Speaker 1: hotel somewhere, but the spectacle would have made the gossip pages. 832 00:58:40,595 --> 00:58:44,035 Speaker 1: She basically could not stand up, so I took her 833 00:58:44,075 --> 00:58:46,195 Speaker 1: to my apartment, put her into my bed, and I 834 00:58:46,235 --> 00:58:48,835 Speaker 1: went and slept on the couch at the far end 835 00:58:48,875 --> 00:58:51,995 Speaker 1: of the apartment, which is where I was hours later 836 00:58:52,035 --> 00:58:54,235 Speaker 1: in the morning when she woke me up because she 837 00:58:54,275 --> 00:58:58,115 Speaker 1: came parading through using my phone to call my assistant 838 00:58:58,195 --> 00:59:00,715 Speaker 1: to get a car sent to my address to take 839 00:59:00,715 --> 00:59:03,155 Speaker 1: her to the airport, and to make sure that everybody 840 00:59:03,235 --> 00:59:06,595 Speaker 1: in my office knew she had stayed overnight at my apartment. 841 00:59:08,275 --> 00:59:11,435 Speaker 1: And all I kept thinking was why didn't I follow 842 00:59:11,515 --> 00:59:21,395 Speaker 1: my instincts. My instincts said flee, I fleed. Not, of course, 843 00:59:21,435 --> 00:59:24,435 Speaker 1: if I had fled, I would have missed seeing the 844 00:59:24,475 --> 00:59:40,995 Speaker 1: telephone tree of the miniature right wing conspiracy, wouldn't I 845 00:59:40,995 --> 00:59:42,755 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 846 00:59:42,795 --> 00:59:45,035 Speaker 1: you for listening. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneille, the 847 00:59:45,115 --> 00:59:48,235 Speaker 1: musical directors have Countdown Arrange, produced and performed most of 848 00:59:48,275 --> 00:59:52,195 Speaker 1: our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray 849 00:59:52,315 --> 00:59:54,035 Speaker 1: was on the guitars, bass and drums, and it was 850 00:59:54,035 --> 00:59:57,195 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Now our satirical in fifty musical 851 00:59:57,195 --> 01:00:00,635 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 852 01:00:01,035 --> 01:00:03,955 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two 853 01:00:04,275 --> 01:00:08,075 Speaker 1: written I'm Mitch Warren Davis Curtise, CBSPN Inc. Other music 854 01:00:08,195 --> 01:00:10,395 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns allowed. And 855 01:00:10,435 --> 01:00:13,275 Speaker 1: my announcer today was just because I needed to hear 856 01:00:13,315 --> 01:00:17,875 Speaker 1: his voice, my late friend George Carlin. Everything else was, 857 01:00:18,115 --> 01:00:24,235 Speaker 1: as ever, my fault. That's countdown for today, just eighty 858 01:00:24,275 --> 01:00:26,435 Speaker 1: two days until the scheduled end of his lane duck 859 01:00:26,555 --> 01:00:29,955 Speaker 1: lame brain term unless Musk removes him sooner, or the 860 01:00:29,995 --> 01:00:34,995 Speaker 1: actuarial tables due, or the billionaires due. The next scheduled 861 01:00:34,995 --> 01:00:38,955 Speaker 1: countdown is Monday. Illness depending as always boltons as the 862 01:00:38,995 --> 01:00:44,075 Speaker 1: news warrants also illness depending Remember impeach Trump. It won't 863 01:00:44,075 --> 01:00:47,715 Speaker 1: work now, it will win the Democrats the midterms. And 864 01:00:47,835 --> 01:00:50,675 Speaker 1: to add to the pressure on the Republicans, I want 865 01:00:51,155 --> 01:00:55,955 Speaker 1: poling on a presidential recall vote. Even though we can't 866 01:00:56,035 --> 01:01:02,635 Speaker 1: have a presidential recall vote. Somebody ask people what they think. 867 01:01:03,755 --> 01:01:06,395 Speaker 1: Till next time. I'm y, good morning, good afternoon, good night, 868 01:01:06,875 --> 01:01:37,995 Speaker 1: and good luck. Want some food? Do you said? Stevie 869 01:01:38,075 --> 01:01:42,395 Speaker 1: Sit Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. 870 01:01:42,715 --> 01:01:47,835 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 871 01:01:48,115 --> 01:01:50,075 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.