1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. To 2 00:00:21,995 --> 00:00:26,035 Speaker 1: paraphrase Herman Melville and Moby Dick, it is a damp, 3 00:00:26,275 --> 00:00:31,115 Speaker 1: drizzly November in our polls. Also dementia. J Trump made 4 00:00:31,115 --> 00:00:33,355 Speaker 1: a fool of himself at his trial, and he did 5 00:00:33,395 --> 00:00:36,315 Speaker 1: more dementia things, including forgetting when he was president and 6 00:00:36,395 --> 00:00:38,915 Speaker 1: when he wasn't and oh, by the way, he confessed. 7 00:00:40,235 --> 00:00:42,475 Speaker 1: Trump also has a plan to use the military to 8 00:00:42,555 --> 00:00:45,235 Speaker 1: quell protests if he has another inauguration day in twenty 9 00:00:45,275 --> 00:00:47,995 Speaker 1: twenty five, and Jack Smith has filer warning that he 10 00:00:48,035 --> 00:00:51,395 Speaker 1: will prove at trial that Trump not only set January 11 00:00:51,435 --> 00:00:54,955 Speaker 1: sixth quote in motion, but that he has rewarded his 12 00:00:55,115 --> 00:00:59,675 Speaker 1: thugs ever since, even the ones in the January sixth choir, 13 00:00:59,955 --> 00:01:04,835 Speaker 1: which would be the choir Trump preaches to. But the 14 00:01:04,875 --> 00:01:09,315 Speaker 1: true headline today is clearly this Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, 15 00:01:09,875 --> 00:01:16,075 Speaker 1: really thinks Trump is going to pay her. 16 00:01:16,235 --> 00:01:20,235 Speaker 2: Then, why exactly am I being paid as an attorney? 17 00:01:20,235 --> 00:01:24,755 Speaker 2: And why exactly are taxpayer dollars being used in this courtroom. 18 00:01:25,035 --> 00:01:27,795 Speaker 1: You're not being paid, You're not going to be paid. 19 00:01:28,195 --> 00:01:30,715 Speaker 1: Trump's going to stiff you on the bill. Trump stiffs 20 00:01:30,755 --> 00:01:34,075 Speaker 1: everybody on the bill, and let's do their New York 21 00:01:34,115 --> 00:01:36,355 Speaker 1: City fraud trial first, because after what he said on 22 00:01:36,395 --> 00:01:39,075 Speaker 1: the stand yesterday, even if he gets hit by lightning 23 00:01:39,155 --> 00:01:42,155 Speaker 1: today and turns into an actual human being and he 24 00:01:42,235 --> 00:01:44,995 Speaker 1: decides to pay his bills, he might not have the 25 00:01:45,035 --> 00:01:49,875 Speaker 1: money to do so because he confessed and he just 26 00:01:49,915 --> 00:01:52,715 Speaker 1: avoided contempt of court, and in yet another public venue, 27 00:01:52,715 --> 00:01:54,395 Speaker 1: he has showed he is one hundred percent out of 28 00:01:54,395 --> 00:01:58,835 Speaker 1: his mind. Prosecutor Kevin Wallace gives Trump a copy of 29 00:01:58,915 --> 00:02:02,515 Speaker 1: his company's financial statement. Mister Trump, the court officer is 30 00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:06,315 Speaker 1: handing you PX four one six Deutsche Bank Term Loan 31 00:02:06,355 --> 00:02:09,915 Speaker 1: Agreement twenty twelve. Let's go to page six. Is that 32 00:02:10,075 --> 00:02:14,915 Speaker 1: your signature? Trump answers yes. Page one hundred and five 33 00:02:14,995 --> 00:02:19,755 Speaker 1: the guarantee. Did you sign it again? Trump answers yes. 34 00:02:20,315 --> 00:02:24,835 Speaker 1: This says the prosecutor. Wallace quotes in order to induce lending. 35 00:02:24,995 --> 00:02:29,555 Speaker 1: You see that? And Trump answers yes. And the prosecutor says, 36 00:02:29,915 --> 00:02:34,315 Speaker 1: little Roman I it says as of June thirty, twenty eleven. 37 00:02:34,395 --> 00:02:38,115 Speaker 1: Do you believe it was true and accurate? And Trump says, yeah, 38 00:02:38,155 --> 00:02:43,395 Speaker 1: I do. That's a confession. The document was signed to 39 00:02:43,595 --> 00:02:48,755 Speaker 1: quote in due lending. That's a confession to a motive 40 00:02:48,795 --> 00:02:52,275 Speaker 1: for fraud. And Trump testified that it required him to 41 00:02:52,355 --> 00:02:56,435 Speaker 1: sign the guarantee that the financial statement was true and 42 00:02:56,475 --> 00:03:01,755 Speaker 1: the financial statement was not true. That's a confession to fraud. 43 00:03:02,595 --> 00:03:06,635 Speaker 1: And the prosecutors only had to prove that there was 44 00:03:06,715 --> 00:03:11,275 Speaker 1: fraud to the judge who already said, yeah, there's fraud. 45 00:03:11,755 --> 00:03:15,195 Speaker 1: And the judge Ngern, whom Trump has now insulted in 46 00:03:15,275 --> 00:03:18,275 Speaker 1: court rather than just outside of it. He will rule 47 00:03:18,355 --> 00:03:21,275 Speaker 1: on the case after the last witness tomorrow, Ivanka Trump, 48 00:03:21,315 --> 00:03:23,635 Speaker 1: who must have something Letitia James and Kevin Wallace think 49 00:03:23,675 --> 00:03:29,715 Speaker 1: will sink daddy oops. And as the former federal prosecutor 50 00:03:29,795 --> 00:03:33,795 Speaker 1: Joyce White noted, Trump's admission here, I signed this. I 51 00:03:33,915 --> 00:03:36,235 Speaker 1: guaranteed it was true. I did it to get the loan. 52 00:03:36,515 --> 00:03:39,555 Speaker 1: That is my signature next to in order to induce lending. 53 00:03:40,075 --> 00:03:42,395 Speaker 1: That means that if Trump tries to appeal the eventual 54 00:03:42,435 --> 00:03:44,715 Speaker 1: guilty verdict and the two hundred and fifty million dollar 55 00:03:44,795 --> 00:03:48,075 Speaker 1: penalty and what else from Judge Ern. Because Ngron said 56 00:03:48,555 --> 00:03:51,315 Speaker 1: before the trial actually started that the facts established there 57 00:03:51,355 --> 00:03:54,355 Speaker 1: had been fraud by the Trump Corporation. The appeals court 58 00:03:54,395 --> 00:03:58,715 Speaker 1: will say over here this part of your testimony, Trump, 59 00:03:58,995 --> 00:04:03,955 Speaker 1: this is you confessing he's finished quarter of a million 60 00:04:03,995 --> 00:04:08,155 Speaker 1: dollars in penalty and barred from real estate in New York. 61 00:04:08,875 --> 00:04:11,235 Speaker 1: So if you were thinking on bidding on Trump Tower, 62 00:04:11,635 --> 00:04:14,315 Speaker 1: get your bid ready. But for God's sake, remember it's 63 00:04:14,355 --> 00:04:17,075 Speaker 1: going to cost money to rename the place I'm thinking, 64 00:04:17,315 --> 00:04:25,155 Speaker 1: Arthur Engron Memorial Peace Plaza. And still Elena Habba is 65 00:04:25,155 --> 00:04:27,195 Speaker 1: actually lucky she and her client did not end the 66 00:04:27,275 --> 00:04:32,155 Speaker 1: day at Riker's Island for contempt of court. Judge Engron 67 00:04:32,195 --> 00:04:36,155 Speaker 1: went all Oliver Cromwell on Trump. Cromwell, it was, who said, 68 00:04:36,155 --> 00:04:39,195 Speaker 1: I beseech you in the bowels of Christ. Think it 69 00:04:39,275 --> 00:04:42,675 Speaker 1: possible you may be mistaken? All anger On left out 70 00:04:42,755 --> 00:04:44,835 Speaker 1: Christ in the bowels. But he said to Trump's lawyers, 71 00:04:44,955 --> 00:04:48,315 Speaker 1: I beseech you to control him if you can. If 72 00:04:48,355 --> 00:04:52,035 Speaker 1: you can't, I will. I will excuse him and draw 73 00:04:52,155 --> 00:04:58,475 Speaker 1: every negative inference that I can. But Haba, America's leading 74 00:04:58,595 --> 00:05:03,875 Speaker 1: expert on parking lot law yelled at anger On, you 75 00:05:03,955 --> 00:05:05,675 Speaker 1: are here to hear so what he has to say. 76 00:05:06,475 --> 00:05:09,675 Speaker 1: Anger On yelled at her to sit down and added, no, 77 00:05:09,835 --> 00:05:12,035 Speaker 1: I am not here to hear what he has to say, 78 00:05:12,275 --> 00:05:16,275 Speaker 1: I am here to hear him answer questions. The attorney 79 00:05:16,315 --> 00:05:17,915 Speaker 1: spokesmodel was offended. 80 00:05:17,995 --> 00:05:21,515 Speaker 2: I was told to sit down today, I was yelled at, 81 00:05:22,035 --> 00:05:25,475 Speaker 2: and I've had a judge who is unhinged slamming a table. 82 00:05:25,715 --> 00:05:27,595 Speaker 2: Let me be very clear, I don't tolerate that in 83 00:05:27,635 --> 00:05:29,835 Speaker 2: my life. I'm not going to tolerate it here. 84 00:05:30,195 --> 00:05:35,035 Speaker 1: What moren okay? If Trump can refer to a Perry 85 00:05:35,035 --> 00:05:37,995 Speaker 1: Mason moment during this trial, I can refer to a 86 00:05:38,035 --> 00:05:42,995 Speaker 1: Perry Mason character. Hamilton Berger was the district attorney who, 87 00:05:43,115 --> 00:05:46,075 Speaker 1: during the life of the TV series prosecuted two hundred 88 00:05:46,075 --> 00:05:49,555 Speaker 1: and twenty five of Perry Mason's clients, and two hundred 89 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:53,435 Speaker 1: and twenty three of them were found not guilty. Lena 90 00:05:53,515 --> 00:05:58,155 Speaker 1: Habba is Trump's Hamilton Burger. And then there's the dementia 91 00:05:58,235 --> 00:06:01,595 Speaker 1: j part. The attorney Kevin Wallace asks Trump if he 92 00:06:01,635 --> 00:06:05,155 Speaker 1: prepared the twenty twenty one Trump Organization corporate statement. He says, 93 00:06:05,475 --> 00:06:07,875 Speaker 1: I was so busy in the White House focusing on 94 00:06:07,955 --> 00:06:12,555 Speaker 1: Russia and China and keeping our country safe, and Wallas 95 00:06:12,595 --> 00:06:15,555 Speaker 1: matter of factly says that the thing was filed in 96 00:06:15,595 --> 00:06:19,715 Speaker 1: the summer. You weren't President then and now it's on 97 00:06:19,755 --> 00:06:23,035 Speaker 1: a court record that Trump either can't remember when he 98 00:06:23,155 --> 00:06:27,475 Speaker 1: was president, and for God's sake, I know we've only 99 00:06:27,515 --> 00:06:29,475 Speaker 1: had forty six of them, but I bet the other 100 00:06:29,515 --> 00:06:32,115 Speaker 1: forty five could remember when they were president and when 101 00:06:32,115 --> 00:06:36,395 Speaker 1: they weren't. Or he'll just lie and say whatever he 102 00:06:36,435 --> 00:06:39,635 Speaker 1: thinks best serves him, not only without regard to the truth, 103 00:06:39,675 --> 00:06:41,995 Speaker 1: but without regard to whether or not it's an easily 104 00:06:42,115 --> 00:06:46,675 Speaker 1: proved lie, which is pathological lying that is a symptom 105 00:06:46,715 --> 00:06:51,395 Speaker 1: of borderline personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder, or anti 106 00:06:51,475 --> 00:06:54,595 Speaker 1: social personality disorder, or all of them, or, as Noel 107 00:06:54,715 --> 00:06:57,195 Speaker 1: Coward put it so much more simply, the fact that 108 00:06:57,235 --> 00:07:03,595 Speaker 1: Trump is obviously definitely nuts. I wasn't president in the 109 00:07:03,595 --> 00:07:42,235 Speaker 1: summer of twenty twenty one, thank you, Nancy Faust. Trump 110 00:07:42,315 --> 00:07:45,715 Speaker 1: is obviously definitely nuts and getting worse. Trump is this 111 00:07:45,875 --> 00:07:48,875 Speaker 1: close to saying with the new dictator of San Marcos 112 00:07:49,075 --> 00:07:52,035 Speaker 1: Esposito in the movie Bananas said when he came out 113 00:07:52,075 --> 00:07:55,315 Speaker 1: after the revolution and announced, quote, all citizens will be 114 00:07:55,355 --> 00:07:59,955 Speaker 1: required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will 115 00:07:59,995 --> 00:08:05,355 Speaker 1: be worn on the outside so we can check. And 116 00:08:05,435 --> 00:08:09,835 Speaker 1: in the same speech, In an update to a previous 117 00:08:09,835 --> 00:08:13,595 Speaker 1: moment of dementia Jay, he actually corrected his previous gaff 118 00:08:13,635 --> 00:08:16,435 Speaker 1: of saying that Victor Orbon was the strong man of Turkey, 119 00:08:17,115 --> 00:08:20,995 Speaker 1: and he promptly said that Orbon's real country, Hungary, shares 120 00:08:21,035 --> 00:08:25,515 Speaker 1: a border with Russia. Yeah, the countries are six hundred 121 00:08:25,515 --> 00:08:31,195 Speaker 1: and twenty miles apart at their closest non intersection. Underwear 122 00:08:31,315 --> 00:08:33,915 Speaker 1: we'll be worn on the outside so we can check. 123 00:08:35,955 --> 00:08:38,635 Speaker 1: The election is now a year from this past Sunday, 124 00:08:38,635 --> 00:08:41,115 Speaker 1: and the major task for all of us, and I 125 00:08:41,115 --> 00:08:43,155 Speaker 1: guess I have more of an opportunity to do this 126 00:08:43,155 --> 00:08:45,475 Speaker 1: than you do, is to spend as much of the 127 00:08:45,475 --> 00:08:49,155 Speaker 1: next year as possible emphasizing how old and how crazy 128 00:08:49,315 --> 00:08:53,915 Speaker 1: Trump is. He will wind up in jail, or he won't. 129 00:08:54,475 --> 00:08:58,115 Speaker 1: You and I will not be on the juries. When 130 00:08:58,155 --> 00:09:02,475 Speaker 1: you see stuff like Sunday's Washington Post piece, send it 131 00:09:02,515 --> 00:09:07,995 Speaker 1: to everybody. Hell, send this podcast to anybody who's not subscribed. Well, yeah, 132 00:09:08,075 --> 00:09:11,195 Speaker 1: I know that's self serving. That will make me some 133 00:09:11,235 --> 00:09:15,795 Speaker 1: more money, probably fifty cents each. I'm, by the way, 134 00:09:15,835 --> 00:09:17,875 Speaker 1: not doing this for the money. I'm doing this because 135 00:09:18,195 --> 00:09:20,755 Speaker 1: I like most people and all dogs, and i'd like 136 00:09:20,795 --> 00:09:23,475 Speaker 1: to see the planet continue past the year twenty twenty five. 137 00:09:24,035 --> 00:09:26,715 Speaker 1: I ain't doing it for the money anyway. My name 138 00:09:26,755 --> 00:09:28,835 Speaker 1: is Elma J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion in 139 00:09:28,875 --> 00:09:33,515 Speaker 1: a yacht. No wait, that's Trump. You saw the post 140 00:09:33,515 --> 00:09:36,475 Speaker 1: piece on Sunday, did you not. I mean, the deeper 141 00:09:36,515 --> 00:09:38,435 Speaker 1: into it you got, the more you'd find out about 142 00:09:38,435 --> 00:09:42,235 Speaker 1: Trump's plan for a special prosecutor to attack anybody named Biden, 143 00:09:43,355 --> 00:09:46,435 Speaker 1: and his plan to deliberately politicize the Department of Justice 144 00:09:46,795 --> 00:09:49,915 Speaker 1: and this project twenty twenty five thing, and Trump's White 145 00:09:49,955 --> 00:09:53,275 Speaker 1: House Budget Director Russ Vote going on the record to 146 00:09:53,395 --> 00:09:56,715 Speaker 1: say that to politicize the DOJ quote, you don't need 147 00:09:56,755 --> 00:10:00,235 Speaker 1: a statutory change at all. You need a mindset change. 148 00:10:00,635 --> 00:10:03,275 Speaker 1: You need an Attorney General and a White House Counsel's 149 00:10:03,275 --> 00:10:06,275 Speaker 1: Office that don't view them themselves as trying to protect 150 00:10:06,315 --> 00:10:10,195 Speaker 1: the Department from the President, which I think is even 151 00:10:10,275 --> 00:10:13,675 Speaker 1: nastier sounding in the original Russian from when Stalin devised 152 00:10:13,675 --> 00:10:18,035 Speaker 1: that Deeper in that piece, you'll read about turning all 153 00:10:18,395 --> 00:10:21,275 Speaker 1: White House strategy over to Stephen Miller and Steve Vannon 154 00:10:21,315 --> 00:10:24,995 Speaker 1: and Roger Stone and Laura Lomer and Denesh Desuza and 155 00:10:25,075 --> 00:10:28,995 Speaker 1: General Flynn, and of Trump's plans for the prosecutions of 156 00:10:28,995 --> 00:10:33,875 Speaker 1: Mark Milly and John Kelly and Ty Cobb and Bill Barr, 157 00:10:33,955 --> 00:10:38,555 Speaker 1: and prosecuting Miller and Kelly and Cobb would be indefensible, 158 00:10:38,595 --> 00:10:45,915 Speaker 1: and prosecuting Barr would be okay, Okay, that'd be wrong too, 159 00:10:46,395 --> 00:10:50,795 Speaker 1: damn it. But you only really need the first paragraph 160 00:10:50,795 --> 00:10:55,315 Speaker 1: of that piece by Isaac Arnsdorf, Devlyn Barrett, Josh Dawzy 161 00:10:55,515 --> 00:10:58,995 Speaker 1: Washington Post this past Sunday. You only need the first 162 00:10:59,035 --> 00:11:01,355 Speaker 1: paragraph to make the point that Trump is convinced he 163 00:11:01,395 --> 00:11:04,115 Speaker 1: made mistakes during his presidency and he will not repeat them, 164 00:11:04,355 --> 00:11:06,995 Speaker 1: and the foremost of those mistakes was not to install 165 00:11:07,035 --> 00:11:12,675 Speaker 1: a military dictatorship. Quote. Donald Trump and his allies have 166 00:11:12,795 --> 00:11:15,795 Speaker 1: begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government 167 00:11:15,835 --> 00:11:19,755 Speaker 1: to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, 168 00:11:20,035 --> 00:11:23,475 Speaker 1: with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate 169 00:11:23,555 --> 00:11:28,035 Speaker 1: or prosecute at his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke 170 00:11:28,155 --> 00:11:32,035 Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to 171 00:11:32,195 --> 00:11:39,235 Speaker 1: allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations. You 172 00:11:39,395 --> 00:11:43,795 Speaker 1: heard it, Insurrection Act. On January twentieth, twenty twenty five, 173 00:11:43,995 --> 00:11:47,035 Speaker 1: and the creature at the center of that floy is 174 00:11:47,075 --> 00:11:52,155 Speaker 1: once again Jeffrey Clark, indicted in Georgia, unindicted co conspirator 175 00:11:52,155 --> 00:11:56,355 Speaker 1: in Washington would be Attorney General, the environmental lawyer who 176 00:11:56,395 --> 00:11:59,075 Speaker 1: wants to turn the world over to the least pro 177 00:11:59,315 --> 00:12:05,315 Speaker 1: environment person on our dying planet. Clark who devised the 178 00:12:05,395 --> 00:12:08,155 Speaker 1: last minute January twenty twenty one plot for the DOJ 179 00:12:08,675 --> 00:12:11,435 Speaker 1: to seize all the voting machines. And when he was 180 00:12:11,475 --> 00:12:14,075 Speaker 1: told that if Trump stayed in office after January twentieth, 181 00:12:14,115 --> 00:12:17,155 Speaker 1: there would be riots in every major city, he answered, well, 182 00:12:17,155 --> 00:12:21,555 Speaker 1: that's why there's an insurrection Act. This post story notes 183 00:12:21,595 --> 00:12:24,595 Speaker 1: he is now at the think tank of this guy 184 00:12:24,755 --> 00:12:28,515 Speaker 1: russ vote and quote is leading the work on the 185 00:12:28,595 --> 00:12:32,435 Speaker 1: Insurrection Act under Project twenty twenty five. And just remember 186 00:12:33,075 --> 00:12:37,155 Speaker 1: that by August nineteen thirty four, Hitler reshaped the entire 187 00:12:37,275 --> 00:12:40,795 Speaker 1: judiciary of Germany so that every judge and prosecutor had 188 00:12:40,795 --> 00:12:45,275 Speaker 1: to swear an oath to him personally. And apparently the 189 00:12:45,355 --> 00:12:49,835 Speaker 1: total number of resignations from the entirety of the German 190 00:12:49,915 --> 00:12:54,875 Speaker 1: judicial system was one guy, a prosecutor in Voopertahl, and 191 00:12:54,915 --> 00:12:57,675 Speaker 1: his name was Martin Gauger. And he wound up fleeing 192 00:12:57,675 --> 00:12:59,835 Speaker 1: to the Netherlands, and then the Nazis caught him and 193 00:12:59,835 --> 00:13:01,475 Speaker 1: they sent him to Bukenbald and he was dead by 194 00:13:01,515 --> 00:13:06,275 Speaker 1: nineteen forty one. One guy, and Trump already has a 195 00:13:06,315 --> 00:13:09,595 Speaker 1: head start on Hitler. He had four years to seed 196 00:13:09,675 --> 00:13:12,155 Speaker 1: the courts with his own people. And by the way, 197 00:13:12,155 --> 00:13:14,835 Speaker 1: if you think Clarence Thomas or Alito are going to 198 00:13:14,875 --> 00:13:19,315 Speaker 1: refuse the new swear to Trump oath, you are insane. 199 00:13:20,875 --> 00:13:24,195 Speaker 1: Attorney General Alina Hubba today announced the indictment today of 200 00:13:24,315 --> 00:13:27,515 Speaker 1: Arthur Ungern, a former judge in what is now the 201 00:13:27,555 --> 00:13:31,675 Speaker 1: sixth Military District of New York. Oh yeah, that one 202 00:13:31,675 --> 00:13:36,195 Speaker 1: guy's name russ vote vote too ironic to be believed. 203 00:13:37,835 --> 00:13:39,915 Speaker 1: So it's probably fair to say that it's a question 204 00:13:39,955 --> 00:13:42,275 Speaker 1: of who jails whom first. And as to the guy 205 00:13:42,395 --> 00:13:44,875 Speaker 1: currently on the clock, you have already heard my raging 206 00:13:44,875 --> 00:13:47,395 Speaker 1: against the two Obama appointees and the Biden one who 207 00:13:47,475 --> 00:13:51,235 Speaker 1: stayed Judge Tutkins gag order and gave Trump until at 208 00:13:51,315 --> 00:13:54,515 Speaker 1: least the seventeenth to try to get Jack Smith killed 209 00:13:55,155 --> 00:13:57,675 Speaker 1: by Trump mobs. So I don't have to go through 210 00:13:57,715 --> 00:14:00,195 Speaker 1: all that again except for me to say that it 211 00:14:00,275 --> 00:14:02,795 Speaker 1: is the job of the judiciary to protect the laws 212 00:14:02,835 --> 00:14:05,995 Speaker 1: and safety and citizenry and continuity of the United States 213 00:14:06,035 --> 00:14:08,755 Speaker 1: of America, and since the rest of our institutions have failed, 214 00:14:09,035 --> 00:14:11,875 Speaker 1: that goddamn better realize that they must be as aggressive 215 00:14:11,915 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: with Trump as he would be in trying to roll 216 00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:20,195 Speaker 1: back freedoms during his fourth Reich. Here, on the other hand, 217 00:14:20,795 --> 00:14:23,035 Speaker 1: Jack Smith is clearly giving as good as he gets 218 00:14:23,075 --> 00:14:26,795 Speaker 1: on Trump's other motions. Yesterday, Smith answered the bid to 219 00:14:26,835 --> 00:14:32,115 Speaker 1: dismiss the entire election subversion prosecution on constitutional grounds. Trump's 220 00:14:32,155 --> 00:14:34,835 Speaker 1: argument that was just another election challenge like the ones 221 00:14:34,835 --> 00:14:37,675 Speaker 1: in eighteen hundred and eighteen twenty four, in eighteen seventy six, 222 00:14:37,715 --> 00:14:42,115 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixteen two thousand notably absent from any of 223 00:14:42,155 --> 00:14:47,675 Speaker 1: these historical episodes, However, Smith writes, drily is any attempt 224 00:14:47,715 --> 00:14:51,115 Speaker 1: by any person to use fraud and deceit to obstruct. 225 00:14:52,675 --> 00:14:55,915 Speaker 1: He adds quote, the defendant stands alone in American history 226 00:14:55,915 --> 00:14:58,595 Speaker 1: for his alleged crimes. No other president has engaged in 227 00:14:58,635 --> 00:15:03,355 Speaker 1: conspiracy and obstruction to overturn valid election results and illegitimately 228 00:15:03,395 --> 00:15:08,995 Speaker 1: retain power. Guy, He's got you there, don He also 229 00:15:09,075 --> 00:15:11,715 Speaker 1: defintely deflected the Trump claim that if he can prove 230 00:15:11,755 --> 00:15:14,715 Speaker 1: he really believed the election was rigged, that means he 231 00:15:14,835 --> 00:15:21,595 Speaker 1: was just, you know, patriotically presidenting. Even if the defendant 232 00:15:21,595 --> 00:15:24,435 Speaker 1: could supply admissible evidence of his own personal belief that 233 00:15:24,435 --> 00:15:27,315 Speaker 1: the election was quote rigged or quote stolen, it would 234 00:15:27,355 --> 00:15:30,475 Speaker 1: not license him to deploy fraud and deceit to remedy 235 00:15:30,475 --> 00:15:32,715 Speaker 1: what he perceived to be a wrong, and it would 236 00:15:32,755 --> 00:15:38,595 Speaker 1: not provide a defense to the charge. Smith also filed 237 00:15:38,595 --> 00:15:41,435 Speaker 1: on a Trump complaint of vindictive prosecution. That would be 238 00:15:41,475 --> 00:15:43,955 Speaker 1: Trump's case that Biden is behind this and it's being 239 00:15:43,995 --> 00:15:48,435 Speaker 1: done only to impact the election. I wish there are 240 00:15:48,555 --> 00:15:52,755 Speaker 1: times when the resemblance between the Special Council and the 241 00:15:52,835 --> 00:15:55,635 Speaker 1: actor who used to play Captain Obvious in the Hotels 242 00:15:55,675 --> 00:15:59,875 Speaker 1: dot Com commercials is more than just physical. And in 243 00:15:59,955 --> 00:16:05,235 Speaker 1: a third filing, Captain Special Counsel replied to a complaint 244 00:16:05,235 --> 00:16:07,595 Speaker 1: by the Trump ambulance Chasers that I had not heard 245 00:16:07,595 --> 00:16:12,235 Speaker 1: about until this filing back yesterday. Dementia Jay's lawyers, hereafter 246 00:16:12,275 --> 00:16:15,915 Speaker 1: identified as the Unpaid, apparently wanted to strike what they 247 00:16:15,955 --> 00:16:21,755 Speaker 1: called inflammatory allegations relating to Trump's attempted coup. Apparently, Jack 248 00:16:21,755 --> 00:16:25,275 Speaker 1: Smith not only is not having that, but he has 249 00:16:25,355 --> 00:16:27,355 Speaker 1: warned Trump's lawyers that he will not only prove that 250 00:16:27,395 --> 00:16:30,475 Speaker 1: Trump started the insurrection, but that he continues to this 251 00:16:30,635 --> 00:16:34,395 Speaker 1: day to reward his thugs and his mobs. Smith notes 252 00:16:34,395 --> 00:16:38,115 Speaker 1: the references to pardoning them and to Trump's refusal to 253 00:16:38,155 --> 00:16:41,955 Speaker 1: criticize or condemn them, and then the fatal thrust quote. 254 00:16:42,555 --> 00:16:45,515 Speaker 1: The government will also produce evidence of the defendant's public 255 00:16:45,555 --> 00:16:50,995 Speaker 1: support for and association with the January sixth Choir, a 256 00:16:51,075 --> 00:16:59,915 Speaker 1: group of particularly violent January sixth defendants. Excellent, see if 257 00:16:59,915 --> 00:17:01,715 Speaker 1: you can get them sentenced to more time for their 258 00:17:01,795 --> 00:17:05,075 Speaker 1: crap off key song too. I mean some he should 259 00:17:05,075 --> 00:17:11,635 Speaker 1: go to jail for their crap off key song, Which 260 00:17:11,675 --> 00:17:14,795 Speaker 1: brings us back to the polls. The New York Times 261 00:17:14,835 --> 00:17:18,395 Speaker 1: polling released Sunday that indicates Biden is behind in five 262 00:17:18,475 --> 00:17:20,955 Speaker 1: of the six critical swing states by four in Pennsylvania, 263 00:17:21,515 --> 00:17:24,435 Speaker 1: five in Arizona and Michigan, six in Georgia, ten in Nevada. 264 00:17:25,515 --> 00:17:29,155 Speaker 1: That he's hemorrhaging minority voters, especially Hispanics and Blacks and Muslims, 265 00:17:29,275 --> 00:17:31,555 Speaker 1: and in the wake of the Gaza War Arab Americans, 266 00:17:32,955 --> 00:17:37,835 Speaker 1: would I like to see the numbers the other way. Yeah, 267 00:17:37,995 --> 00:17:40,875 Speaker 1: is it time to send President Biden to go live 268 00:17:40,915 --> 00:17:44,875 Speaker 1: on a farm upstate? Which was pretty much the suggestion 269 00:17:44,955 --> 00:17:47,875 Speaker 1: of David Axelrod Sunday after he saw these poles. No, 270 00:17:48,915 --> 00:17:51,795 Speaker 1: I think you're seeing that David Axelrod really really, really 271 00:17:51,835 --> 00:17:55,835 Speaker 1: overachieved in two thousand and eight. But here are a 272 00:17:55,915 --> 00:18:04,275 Speaker 1: few points to consider. A who's Biden's replacement? Going with Newsom? 273 00:18:04,315 --> 00:18:09,115 Speaker 1: Are you you want the vice president? You're going to 274 00:18:09,315 --> 00:18:17,035 Speaker 1: talk Michelle Obama into running? Who's the better option? B 275 00:18:17,875 --> 00:18:21,715 Speaker 1: The Times poll has an unidentified generic other Democrat beating 276 00:18:21,755 --> 00:18:29,315 Speaker 1: Trump by eight points. Well, let's get anybody. There has 277 00:18:29,395 --> 00:18:31,795 Speaker 1: yet to be a single poll at this stage of 278 00:18:31,835 --> 00:18:35,515 Speaker 1: any presidency in which that generic other candidate from the 279 00:18:35,555 --> 00:18:39,875 Speaker 1: other party did not beat the incumbent handily, because he 280 00:18:40,115 --> 00:18:45,875 Speaker 1: or she does not exist. Generic other does not have 281 00:18:46,315 --> 00:18:51,715 Speaker 1: any baggage, and generic other exists in the voter's mind 282 00:18:51,835 --> 00:18:58,995 Speaker 1: in whatever shape the voter wants c In July twenty eleven, 283 00:18:58,995 --> 00:19:03,395 Speaker 1: Barack Obama was in a statistical tie with a generic Republican. 284 00:19:04,155 --> 00:19:06,595 Speaker 1: Four months earlier, he had been a head by eleven points. 285 00:19:07,915 --> 00:19:10,755 Speaker 1: In July twenty eleven, polling showed that the most visible 286 00:19:10,955 --> 00:19:20,195 Speaker 1: Republican candidate for president was Michelle Bachman. Michelle Bachman, the 287 00:19:20,275 --> 00:19:24,475 Speaker 1: lists of presidents who were re elected in cakewalks who 288 00:19:24,555 --> 00:19:27,315 Speaker 1: a year out were being badly beaten in the polls 289 00:19:27,795 --> 00:19:31,875 Speaker 1: starts with Ronald Reagan and carries through Clinton and Obama. 290 00:19:35,035 --> 00:19:38,075 Speaker 1: D That's because, even at this seemingly late date, all 291 00:19:38,115 --> 00:19:40,955 Speaker 1: presidential polls are not who you're going to vote for 292 00:19:41,115 --> 00:19:44,835 Speaker 1: A or B. They are, as Congressman Brendan Boyle aptly 293 00:19:44,875 --> 00:19:49,515 Speaker 1: noted yesterday, they are referenda on the incumbent. Those poll 294 00:19:49,595 --> 00:19:52,835 Speaker 1: numbers Sunday are about Joe Biden and Joe Biden alone, 295 00:19:53,595 --> 00:19:56,795 Speaker 1: and people think he caused inflation, and they think he's 296 00:19:56,795 --> 00:19:59,715 Speaker 1: too old. And as I noted last week, forty three 297 00:19:59,755 --> 00:20:02,715 Speaker 1: percent think they are both too old. And yet Biden 298 00:20:02,755 --> 00:20:05,755 Speaker 1: still wins that cohort in a sixty one to fifteen landslides. 299 00:20:05,835 --> 00:20:07,955 Speaker 1: So if you can get another five percent to believe 300 00:20:07,995 --> 00:20:10,875 Speaker 1: that Trump is just as old and unreliable as Biden, 301 00:20:12,035 --> 00:20:16,515 Speaker 1: Biden will win by one hundred electoral votes. E you 302 00:20:16,555 --> 00:20:19,715 Speaker 1: don't believe that's still true. Buried in the Times poll 303 00:20:19,915 --> 00:20:23,795 Speaker 1: was the mirror scenario Biden in this question is the 304 00:20:23,795 --> 00:20:27,875 Speaker 1: Democratic nominee, and not Trump but some generic other Republican 305 00:20:27,995 --> 00:20:32,795 Speaker 1: opposes him. The result, the Republicans win by sixteen points, 306 00:20:34,555 --> 00:20:38,515 Speaker 1: and f want to get back some of that hemorrhaging 307 00:20:38,635 --> 00:20:43,235 Speaker 1: minority vote. Well, we haven't seen the Democratic presidential ads yet. 308 00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:47,395 Speaker 1: The one in which Trump trashes black lives matters and 309 00:20:47,435 --> 00:20:51,635 Speaker 1: wants to deploy troops against George Floyd protesters. The other 310 00:20:51,715 --> 00:20:54,595 Speaker 1: one in which Trump starts his political life by calling 311 00:20:54,675 --> 00:20:58,435 Speaker 1: Mexicans rapists and drug dealers. The other other one in 312 00:20:58,475 --> 00:21:03,075 Speaker 1: which Trump explains his Muslim ban, or has his Secretary 313 00:21:03,075 --> 00:21:06,755 Speaker 1: of the Interior now Congress and Ryan and Zinkie introducing 314 00:21:06,795 --> 00:21:09,995 Speaker 1: a bill banning Palestinians from entering this country which he 315 00:21:10,115 --> 00:21:16,795 Speaker 1: filed Check's notes yesterday. Or the other other one in 316 00:21:16,835 --> 00:21:20,515 Speaker 1: which Carrie Lake says on Newsmax last night that isis 317 00:21:20,635 --> 00:21:24,595 Speaker 1: was created and terrorism was started because the United States 318 00:21:24,755 --> 00:21:30,195 Speaker 1: sent financial support to Israel. How did Biden win reelection 319 00:21:30,275 --> 00:21:32,315 Speaker 1: under all the circumstance, Well, I got one hundred percent 320 00:21:32,355 --> 00:21:37,075 Speaker 1: of the minority vote. Should the possibility of a different 321 00:21:37,115 --> 00:21:42,595 Speaker 1: Democratic nominee next year be raised? Absolutely? Always? Twenty four 322 00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:48,195 Speaker 1: to seven. Show me something conclusive that another Democrat would 323 00:21:48,195 --> 00:21:51,595 Speaker 1: Trounce Trump, give me a name, Give me who you 324 00:21:51,595 --> 00:21:55,675 Speaker 1: would rather bet the future of democracy on, and bet 325 00:21:55,715 --> 00:21:58,315 Speaker 1: that there would never be an insurrection act invoked on 326 00:21:58,395 --> 00:22:01,755 Speaker 1: Inauguration Day on and give me the reasons. And I 327 00:22:01,795 --> 00:22:04,355 Speaker 1: will take my old friend Joe by the hand, and 328 00:22:04,435 --> 00:22:08,155 Speaker 1: I will walk him directly under the bus, and I 329 00:22:08,235 --> 00:22:16,955 Speaker 1: will jump under it with him if need be also 330 00:22:17,075 --> 00:22:20,115 Speaker 1: of interest here, Oh boy, I am telling you they 331 00:22:20,115 --> 00:22:22,635 Speaker 1: are going to remember Speaker Mike Johnson as that really 332 00:22:22,715 --> 00:22:27,155 Speaker 1: weird one from the year when the Republicans had eleven 333 00:22:27,235 --> 00:22:29,795 Speaker 1: different Speakers of the House. This was the one with 334 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:35,795 Speaker 1: the porn usage app Oh boy. And for the fourth 335 00:22:35,795 --> 00:22:37,435 Speaker 1: time in a span of six seasons, the New York 336 00:22:37,475 --> 00:22:40,675 Speaker 1: Mets have hired a new manager with no previous experience. 337 00:22:41,195 --> 00:22:44,235 Speaker 1: None has made it to a third season, None has 338 00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:47,275 Speaker 1: gotten a second job. One didn't even make it through 339 00:22:47,315 --> 00:22:53,235 Speaker 1: his third month. Let's go Mets. That's next. This is countdown. 340 00:22:55,715 --> 00:22:58,155 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 341 00:23:10,355 --> 00:23:16,755 Speaker 3: This is Sports Senate. Wait, check that not anymore. This 342 00:23:17,635 --> 00:23:21,355 Speaker 3: is countdown with Keith Ulberman. 343 00:23:21,635 --> 00:23:29,715 Speaker 1: In Sports Dateline Chicago, Okay, Craig Council, manager of the 344 00:23:29,755 --> 00:23:32,915 Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers baseball team, was given permission to talk to 345 00:23:32,955 --> 00:23:36,955 Speaker 1: the New York Mets about their open managerial job, and 346 00:23:37,035 --> 00:23:39,555 Speaker 1: the man who he talked to was the mets new president, 347 00:23:39,755 --> 00:23:43,475 Speaker 1: who had been the Brewer's president until last month. There 348 00:23:43,515 --> 00:23:46,635 Speaker 1: were late reports Council would also talk about the Cleveland 349 00:23:46,715 --> 00:23:52,235 Speaker 1: managerial opening. So naturally, yesterday Craig Council was named manager 350 00:23:52,275 --> 00:23:56,475 Speaker 1: of the Chicago Cubs for more than eight million dollars 351 00:23:56,515 --> 00:23:59,155 Speaker 1: a year, when the previous record for a baseball manager 352 00:23:59,235 --> 00:24:02,555 Speaker 1: was about four and a half million, plus incentives. Also, 353 00:24:02,755 --> 00:24:06,795 Speaker 1: the Cubs had to fire their popular incumbent manager, David 354 00:24:06,915 --> 00:24:11,035 Speaker 1: Ross yesterday to make room for Counsel. Also, Council had 355 00:24:11,075 --> 00:24:14,235 Speaker 1: been a Brewer employee continuously since two thousand and seven, 356 00:24:14,635 --> 00:24:17,155 Speaker 1: and when he was a kid, his father worked for 357 00:24:17,195 --> 00:24:22,475 Speaker 1: the Brewers. Also, he's taken his team to six playoff 358 00:24:22,555 --> 00:24:27,315 Speaker 1: series and lost five of those playoff series. And he's 359 00:24:27,355 --> 00:24:34,715 Speaker 1: a great guy. But seriously, a bidding war dateline New York. 360 00:24:34,795 --> 00:24:37,515 Speaker 1: So the Mets were reportedly shocked that Council wanted that 361 00:24:37,675 --> 00:24:40,515 Speaker 1: much money, so they instead have reportedly hired New York 362 00:24:40,595 --> 00:24:44,875 Speaker 1: Yankees bench coach. I got the name here somewhere, who 363 00:24:44,955 --> 00:24:47,715 Speaker 1: is it? This time? More Mets managers than I have 364 00:24:47,795 --> 00:24:53,035 Speaker 1: had telecasts. Where's it Carlos Mendoza, forty three years old. 365 00:24:53,035 --> 00:24:55,955 Speaker 1: I got nothing against Carlos Mendoza. But this is the 366 00:24:56,035 --> 00:24:58,915 Speaker 1: second manager the Mets have hired from the Yankee staff 367 00:24:59,275 --> 00:25:02,795 Speaker 1: in four years. The other was Carlos Beltron, whom they 368 00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:05,515 Speaker 1: had to fire weeks later. It turned out he was 369 00:25:05,555 --> 00:25:10,395 Speaker 1: a centerpiece in the Houston Astros sign stealing scandal. Moreover, 370 00:25:10,515 --> 00:25:14,235 Speaker 1: this is the Mets recent managerial history. They fired Terry Collins, 371 00:25:14,435 --> 00:25:16,995 Speaker 1: who had already managed six years in the majors before 372 00:25:16,995 --> 00:25:19,635 Speaker 1: they had hired him. They fired Collins after the twenty 373 00:25:19,715 --> 00:25:23,635 Speaker 1: seventeen season and faced him with Mickey Callaway. No experience 374 00:25:23,635 --> 00:25:26,555 Speaker 1: as a manager, turned out to be a sexual harassment dude. 375 00:25:26,595 --> 00:25:29,595 Speaker 1: They fired him. Then they hired Beltron, who didn't last 376 00:25:29,675 --> 00:25:33,995 Speaker 1: until spring training. Then they promoted coach Luis Rojas. No 377 00:25:34,115 --> 00:25:37,795 Speaker 1: experience two years of him, and they decided they needed experience, 378 00:25:37,795 --> 00:25:40,755 Speaker 1: so they hired Buck Showalter, who had already managed twenty years, 379 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:45,875 Speaker 1: including formerly with the Yankees. Now Mendoza no years, pendulum 380 00:25:46,035 --> 00:25:53,755 Speaker 1: swings every two seasons. That would be called bad business. 381 00:25:54,275 --> 00:25:57,395 Speaker 1: Dateline Cleveland. So there's a job now open in Chicago, 382 00:25:57,555 --> 00:25:59,795 Speaker 1: but Cleveland at least got its man to succeed my 383 00:25:59,835 --> 00:26:04,515 Speaker 1: friend Terry Francona Stephen Vote, longtime backup catcher in Oakland 384 00:26:04,515 --> 00:26:07,635 Speaker 1: and San Francisco, among other stops. And the man who 385 00:26:07,675 --> 00:26:13,315 Speaker 1: does the best impression of a basketball referee in baseball history. 386 00:26:13,955 --> 00:26:15,795 Speaker 1: And I don't know if that came up or not 387 00:26:15,915 --> 00:26:19,715 Speaker 1: during the interview, but in this already wacky baseball offseason, 388 00:26:20,795 --> 00:26:27,475 Speaker 1: why not and dateline New York MLB headquarters. When I 389 00:26:27,515 --> 00:26:30,435 Speaker 1: said the World Series TV ratings would not average ten 390 00:26:30,515 --> 00:26:34,515 Speaker 1: million per game, little did I know they barely averaged 391 00:26:34,755 --> 00:26:37,555 Speaker 1: nine million a game. The final number is nine million, 392 00:26:37,595 --> 00:26:42,235 Speaker 1: one hundred and ten thousand per least World Series watched 393 00:26:42,515 --> 00:26:46,435 Speaker 1: ever and of more relevance, a twenty three percent decline 394 00:26:47,115 --> 00:26:50,155 Speaker 1: from last year. And that's not because there were fewer 395 00:26:50,235 --> 00:26:53,435 Speaker 1: games than last year. That's twenty three percent for the average. 396 00:26:53,915 --> 00:26:55,795 Speaker 1: And again from my fellow fans who say what I 397 00:26:55,875 --> 00:26:58,715 Speaker 1: used to say, oh, it means more baseball for me. Remember, 398 00:26:58,915 --> 00:27:03,235 Speaker 1: the entire financial structure of the sport is based on 399 00:27:03,315 --> 00:27:07,195 Speaker 1: baseball being able to get had more money for telecasts 400 00:27:07,475 --> 00:27:11,755 Speaker 1: next year than it did for telecasts last year, and 401 00:27:11,915 --> 00:27:16,595 Speaker 1: in the last year, nearly the entire regional sports TV industry. 402 00:27:16,875 --> 00:27:21,195 Speaker 1: The money spigot for individual teams collapsed. In the case 403 00:27:21,195 --> 00:27:24,155 Speaker 1: of ballet sports, it literally went bankrupt, and baseball itself 404 00:27:24,155 --> 00:27:26,675 Speaker 1: had to take over the costs of producing some games, 405 00:27:26,715 --> 00:27:30,075 Speaker 1: particularly in San Diego, where the Padres wound up fifty 406 00:27:30,195 --> 00:27:34,275 Speaker 1: million dollars short for payroll and other expenses in September. 407 00:27:34,835 --> 00:27:39,275 Speaker 1: And now these World Series ratings. This would be, I believe, 408 00:27:39,435 --> 00:28:06,755 Speaker 1: called Augur's dire and omens ominous. Still ahead on countdown 409 00:28:06,795 --> 00:28:09,635 Speaker 1: with all that baseball news. It happened again yesterday. Somebody 410 00:28:09,635 --> 00:28:11,915 Speaker 1: asked me on the street, why aren't you at that 411 00:28:11,995 --> 00:28:15,115 Speaker 1: network that covers nothing but baseball? And I say, real, 412 00:28:15,595 --> 00:28:18,835 Speaker 1: I was supposed to be, but then one particular Major 413 00:28:18,875 --> 00:28:23,395 Speaker 1: League Baseball team got me fired before I actually got hired. 414 00:28:23,635 --> 00:28:26,435 Speaker 1: Next in things I promised not to tell first time 415 00:28:26,475 --> 00:28:28,195 Speaker 1: for the daily round up of the miss Grants, morons 416 00:28:28,235 --> 00:28:33,235 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 417 00:28:33,315 --> 00:28:38,275 Speaker 1: in the world. Worse Governor Sarah Huckabye Sanders of Arkansas, 418 00:28:39,155 --> 00:28:42,675 Speaker 1: Where is it Harah's suckabye snat? I can't remember her name? 419 00:28:42,795 --> 00:28:47,115 Speaker 1: Sarah Sarah Huckabye Sanders NBC News says she will endorse 420 00:28:47,235 --> 00:28:51,155 Speaker 1: Trump tomorrow. She was his press secretary. I'm waiting for 421 00:28:51,195 --> 00:28:54,315 Speaker 1: her eyes to cross and her metallic voice to twist 422 00:28:54,475 --> 00:28:57,195 Speaker 1: into a robotic monotone, and for her to say, my 423 00:28:57,395 --> 00:29:01,155 Speaker 1: nineteen thousand dollars Electern told me to endorse Trump. Olbay 424 00:29:01,315 --> 00:29:08,115 Speaker 1: the nineteen thousand dollars Electern worser uncombed former British Prime 425 00:29:08,155 --> 00:29:11,835 Speaker 1: Minister Boris Johnson, soon to be a right wing UK newscaster. 426 00:29:12,595 --> 00:29:14,595 Speaker 1: He may yet wind up in prison for how he 427 00:29:14,635 --> 00:29:18,755 Speaker 1: mishandled COVID in Great Britain as Prime minister. For now, 428 00:29:18,835 --> 00:29:21,915 Speaker 1: a mental health facility is just as likely a destination. 429 00:29:22,675 --> 00:29:25,355 Speaker 1: His former top advisor when he was the Prime Minister, 430 00:29:25,435 --> 00:29:29,395 Speaker 1: Dominic Cummings, has testified that early in the pandemic, Johnson 431 00:29:29,435 --> 00:29:33,315 Speaker 1: showed his staff a YouTube video of a purported cure 432 00:29:33,715 --> 00:29:36,475 Speaker 1: and asked them if it would work if, as the 433 00:29:36,515 --> 00:29:42,155 Speaker 1: video suggested, blowing a quote special hair dryer up your 434 00:29:42,315 --> 00:29:48,475 Speaker 1: nose could kill the virus. Like you didn't know already 435 00:29:48,475 --> 00:29:51,675 Speaker 1: that Boris Johnson has no earthly clue what a hair 436 00:29:51,835 --> 00:29:58,915 Speaker 1: dryer does. But worst of all, speaker Mike Johnson, Boris Johnson, 437 00:29:58,995 --> 00:30:01,435 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson say, that's a lot of ugly Johnson's In 438 00:30:01,475 --> 00:30:06,275 Speaker 1: one show, Yes, the speaker out a fundraising email with 439 00:30:06,355 --> 00:30:09,355 Speaker 1: a typo in it that reads, I refuse to put 440 00:30:09,395 --> 00:30:13,075 Speaker 1: people over politics. At least I think it's a typo. 441 00:30:13,515 --> 00:30:16,075 Speaker 1: And yes, that whole story of his grown black son 442 00:30:16,115 --> 00:30:19,515 Speaker 1: that he and his wife informally adopted, only adopted him 443 00:30:19,635 --> 00:30:22,555 Speaker 1: three years or something before he got married. Story don't 444 00:30:22,555 --> 00:30:26,435 Speaker 1: hold together. Sure, sure it's fine, Sure, sure, no, This 445 00:30:26,555 --> 00:30:30,275 Speaker 1: is the porn story, the fifth string speaker of the house, 446 00:30:30,355 --> 00:30:35,315 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson porn story, the Twitter account receipt. Maven caught 447 00:30:35,315 --> 00:30:38,515 Speaker 1: this video from a church conference just last year, in 448 00:30:38,555 --> 00:30:42,795 Speaker 1: which Johnson explained his use of an app called You're 449 00:30:43,115 --> 00:30:47,475 Speaker 1: ready for this Covenant Eyes quote, it scans all the 450 00:30:47,515 --> 00:30:50,715 Speaker 1: activity on your phone, on your devices, your laptop, what 451 00:30:50,795 --> 00:30:53,715 Speaker 1: have you? We do all of it, Johnson has shown 452 00:30:53,795 --> 00:30:57,555 Speaker 1: saying on video, it sends a report to your accountability partner. 453 00:30:58,275 --> 00:31:02,515 Speaker 1: My accountability partner right now is Jack my Son. What 454 00:31:02,755 --> 00:31:08,035 Speaker 1: is this accountability about? If porn appears on your phone 455 00:31:08,115 --> 00:31:10,475 Speaker 1: or your devices, or your laptop or your what have 456 00:31:10,555 --> 00:31:13,635 Speaker 1: you to? Continued the Johnson quote. So he and I 457 00:31:13,675 --> 00:31:15,435 Speaker 1: get a report about all the things that are on 458 00:31:15,475 --> 00:31:18,155 Speaker 1: our phones, all of our devices once a week. If 459 00:31:18,155 --> 00:31:25,555 Speaker 1: anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. Wait, 460 00:31:25,595 --> 00:31:29,595 Speaker 1: so this guy Johnson gets a report about what porn 461 00:31:30,155 --> 00:31:34,715 Speaker 1: his son Johnson is watching, and more disturbingly, his son 462 00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:37,835 Speaker 1: gets a report about what porn the speaker of the 463 00:31:37,835 --> 00:31:43,475 Speaker 1: house his father watches. Mike Johnson's son is seventeen. Why 464 00:31:44,155 --> 00:31:48,755 Speaker 1: are you? Why are you sending him porn usage updates? Also, 465 00:31:48,795 --> 00:31:51,315 Speaker 1: speaker Johnson added, I'm proud to tell you my son 466 00:31:51,355 --> 00:31:55,955 Speaker 1: has got a clean slate. But Johnson never addressed whether 467 00:31:56,075 --> 00:32:09,395 Speaker 1: he himself has clean slate. So I'll say it again. 468 00:32:09,515 --> 00:32:13,035 Speaker 1: When they find out what's in Mike Johnson's closet, it 469 00:32:13,155 --> 00:32:16,835 Speaker 1: is guaranteed to also include the doors to a whole 470 00:32:17,195 --> 00:32:22,995 Speaker 1: another series of closets. Mike Son, did you get my 471 00:32:23,155 --> 00:32:30,595 Speaker 1: PUU my porn usage update? Johnson two days worst person 472 00:32:31,555 --> 00:32:52,555 Speaker 1: in the world. Annually at this time of year, somebody 473 00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:55,955 Speaker 1: asks me, why aren't you at that All Baseball Network? 474 00:32:55,955 --> 00:32:57,755 Speaker 1: Seems like you'd be a natural. And I say you 475 00:32:57,795 --> 00:33:01,435 Speaker 1: mean MLB network And they say yeah, and I say, 476 00:33:01,635 --> 00:33:04,595 Speaker 1: sit down. You got to hear this story. The owner 477 00:33:04,995 --> 00:33:08,035 Speaker 1: of at least five different Major League Baseball teams have 478 00:33:08,075 --> 00:33:10,475 Speaker 1: tried to get me fired over the years, and one, 479 00:33:11,195 --> 00:33:15,475 Speaker 1: the New York Yankees, kind of succeeded. On November twenty six, 480 00:33:15,595 --> 00:33:19,515 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, my agent followed the instructions of Tony Petiti, 481 00:33:19,875 --> 00:33:22,555 Speaker 1: then the president of the TV publicity channel owned by 482 00:33:22,595 --> 00:33:26,515 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball MLB Network, and called Petiti to finalize 483 00:33:26,555 --> 00:33:28,595 Speaker 1: a deal by which I would join the channel to 484 00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:31,995 Speaker 1: do a daily show, probably at five thirty at night. 485 00:33:31,995 --> 00:33:34,555 Speaker 1: It was going to be weird. MLB Network and its 486 00:33:34,635 --> 00:33:38,395 Speaker 1: sister hockey channel, NHL Network originate in the same studios 487 00:33:38,395 --> 00:33:42,755 Speaker 1: in scaucas New Jersey that MSNBC used every day from 488 00:33:42,755 --> 00:33:45,515 Speaker 1: the day I started there in October nineteen ninety seven 489 00:33:46,115 --> 00:33:48,555 Speaker 1: through the day in October two thousand and seven when 490 00:33:48,635 --> 00:33:51,675 Speaker 1: NBC finally moved us to New York City. I had 491 00:33:51,675 --> 00:33:54,795 Speaker 1: been asked to do something for MLB Network in two 492 00:33:54,835 --> 00:33:56,875 Speaker 1: thousand and eight and two thousand and nine, before it 493 00:33:56,875 --> 00:33:59,715 Speaker 1: ever got on the air. The request came directly from 494 00:33:59,795 --> 00:34:03,075 Speaker 1: the then Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Ceiling. He also asked 495 00:34:03,075 --> 00:34:05,755 Speaker 1: me to write for Baseball's website at MLB dot Com. 496 00:34:05,795 --> 00:34:08,715 Speaker 1: We actually got that done, but the TV show was 497 00:34:08,755 --> 00:34:11,915 Speaker 1: impossible because of my schedule until I was a free 498 00:34:11,955 --> 00:34:15,435 Speaker 1: agent in the fall of twenty twelve. So I was 499 00:34:15,435 --> 00:34:17,515 Speaker 1: invited in the fall of twenty twelve to do a 500 00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:20,315 Speaker 1: couple of guest appearances at MLB Network, and they went 501 00:34:20,395 --> 00:34:24,195 Speaker 1: well except for this crazy deja vu kind of thing 502 00:34:24,195 --> 00:34:25,755 Speaker 1: that hit me when I went into the building and 503 00:34:25,795 --> 00:34:29,475 Speaker 1: found that while Baseball had spent sixty million dollars to 504 00:34:29,635 --> 00:34:33,275 Speaker 1: upgrade all the technical stuff in the studio designs, they 505 00:34:33,315 --> 00:34:38,395 Speaker 1: had not touched anything else from the MSNBC era. The 506 00:34:38,435 --> 00:34:42,835 Speaker 1: carpet tiles were the same, the ping pong table in 507 00:34:42,875 --> 00:34:46,195 Speaker 1: the break room was the same. The signs on the 508 00:34:46,275 --> 00:34:49,155 Speaker 1: back of the bathroom door telling you who to call 509 00:34:49,235 --> 00:34:53,755 Speaker 1: if the Jahn overflows were the same. It was like 510 00:34:53,875 --> 00:34:56,875 Speaker 1: having a dream where you're back in your childhood home 511 00:34:56,915 --> 00:34:59,515 Speaker 1: and everything is exactly the way it was, including the 512 00:34:59,555 --> 00:35:02,635 Speaker 1: creeks and the floorboards, except oh, by the way, there's 513 00:35:02,635 --> 00:35:04,835 Speaker 1: a nuclear reactor in the middle of your day. Then 514 00:35:05,035 --> 00:35:09,595 Speaker 1: you keep saying, where did that come from? Anyway, the 515 00:35:09,635 --> 00:35:13,435 Speaker 1: guest appearances on MLB Network went well, and this guy Petit, 516 00:35:13,595 --> 00:35:16,035 Speaker 1: the president, asked if I would fill in for two 517 00:35:16,155 --> 00:35:18,555 Speaker 1: days on their new morning show the week of Thanksgiving 518 00:35:18,555 --> 00:35:20,755 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. I certainly knew how to get to the building. 519 00:35:21,195 --> 00:35:24,035 Speaker 1: I did the shows with Brian Kenny and Ken Rosenthal 520 00:35:24,355 --> 00:35:27,515 Speaker 1: and Bob Costas's son Keith, and Alana Rizzo, and we 521 00:35:27,595 --> 00:35:30,835 Speaker 1: had a good time. And Tony Pettiti, the president of 522 00:35:30,915 --> 00:35:33,635 Speaker 1: MLB Network, attended the meetings that we would have before 523 00:35:33,675 --> 00:35:37,595 Speaker 1: and after each show. I mean full staff meetings, fifteen 524 00:35:37,675 --> 00:35:41,035 Speaker 1: or so people standing around a bunch of cubicles, and 525 00:35:41,115 --> 00:35:44,595 Speaker 1: in front of all of them, Tony Pezziti began asking 526 00:35:44,595 --> 00:35:46,715 Speaker 1: me if I thought my new show for MLB Network 527 00:35:46,715 --> 00:35:49,035 Speaker 1: would do better at five or five thirty, and if 528 00:35:49,075 --> 00:35:50,915 Speaker 1: I agreed with him that I should work only during 529 00:35:50,955 --> 00:35:54,355 Speaker 1: the baseball season and spring training and playoffs and winter 530 00:35:54,435 --> 00:35:57,235 Speaker 1: meetings and then stay fresh by taking the rest of 531 00:35:57,275 --> 00:36:00,155 Speaker 1: the year off. He asked me if there were people 532 00:36:00,235 --> 00:36:02,515 Speaker 1: on the staff of the morning show who I would 533 00:36:02,555 --> 00:36:04,315 Speaker 1: like to work with. I mean, this is in front 534 00:36:04,315 --> 00:36:07,395 Speaker 1: of all of the staff of the morning show. He 535 00:36:07,475 --> 00:36:09,435 Speaker 1: warned me they couldn't pay me the kind of salary 536 00:36:09,475 --> 00:36:10,995 Speaker 1: I was used to, and I said that, happily, the 537 00:36:11,075 --> 00:36:13,435 Speaker 1: kind of salary I was used to, meant I did 538 00:36:13,435 --> 00:36:15,355 Speaker 1: not need the kind of salary I was used to. 539 00:36:16,075 --> 00:36:18,195 Speaker 1: He told me to remind my agent to call him 540 00:36:18,195 --> 00:36:21,115 Speaker 1: the monday after Thanksgiving. He wished me a happy Turkey, 541 00:36:21,435 --> 00:36:24,595 Speaker 1: and everybody left, and everybody heard his plans, and a 542 00:36:24,635 --> 00:36:27,275 Speaker 1: couple of the producers asked me if I was recommending 543 00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:32,755 Speaker 1: them to be on my new show on MLB network. So, 544 00:36:32,795 --> 00:36:35,035 Speaker 1: how come I don't have a new show on MLB Networker, 545 00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:37,195 Speaker 1: how come we're not celebrating the tenth anniversary of my 546 00:36:37,275 --> 00:36:41,955 Speaker 1: new show on MLB network. Well, on Monday afternoon, my 547 00:36:42,115 --> 00:36:44,475 Speaker 1: agent calls me and says he's just gotten off the 548 00:36:44,475 --> 00:36:48,155 Speaker 1: phone with Tony Petiti and it was the strangest conversation 549 00:36:48,275 --> 00:36:51,675 Speaker 1: he had had since he became an agent. No, let 550 00:36:51,675 --> 00:36:54,755 Speaker 1: me rephrase that, he said, because it wasn't a conversation, 551 00:36:54,835 --> 00:36:57,675 Speaker 1: it was an attempted conversation. I kept asking him what 552 00:36:57,755 --> 00:37:00,115 Speaker 1: he told me to call him about, and he would 553 00:37:00,155 --> 00:37:05,075 Speaker 1: then say nothing. Initially I did not understand what do 554 00:37:05,075 --> 00:37:08,115 Speaker 1: you mean he said nothing? My agent said he meant 555 00:37:08,155 --> 00:37:11,755 Speaker 1: literally that. I say, so, Tony, what's your offer to Keith? 556 00:37:11,795 --> 00:37:14,435 Speaker 1: And then there was silence, and I thought the phone 557 00:37:14,435 --> 00:37:16,995 Speaker 1: call had dropped out, So I said, Tony, are you there? 558 00:37:17,395 --> 00:37:20,475 Speaker 1: And he say sure, I am so Again I ask him, 559 00:37:20,515 --> 00:37:23,795 Speaker 1: you know what's your offer to Keith? And again literally silence, 560 00:37:24,435 --> 00:37:27,035 Speaker 1: Only this time I can hear him breathing. I tried, 561 00:37:27,115 --> 00:37:31,755 Speaker 1: like ten different ways. Are we talking about Keith? Now? Silence? 562 00:37:32,115 --> 00:37:35,555 Speaker 1: Is there a reason you're being silent about Keith? Tony silence. 563 00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:38,475 Speaker 1: If I changed the subject, talked about somebody else, he 564 00:37:38,635 --> 00:37:41,475 Speaker 1: was his normal self. If I mentioned your name, he 565 00:37:41,515 --> 00:37:45,355 Speaker 1: went silent. The next day, the agent calls me back. 566 00:37:46,635 --> 00:37:48,435 Speaker 1: Fatiti just did this again with me on the phone. 567 00:37:48,435 --> 00:37:50,795 Speaker 1: He wouldn't speak, literally, wouldn't say any words in any 568 00:37:50,875 --> 00:37:56,635 Speaker 1: language if I mentioned your name. Took me a long 569 00:37:56,915 --> 00:38:00,795 Speaker 1: time to find out what had actually happened. The next 570 00:38:00,795 --> 00:38:03,395 Speaker 1: baseball season, after I'd gone back to work at ESPN, 571 00:38:03,835 --> 00:38:06,635 Speaker 1: I'm out a game. There's one of the MLB network 572 00:38:06,635 --> 00:38:09,315 Speaker 1: officials whom I'd met on my two days before Thanksgiving 573 00:38:09,315 --> 00:38:12,915 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, and this person comes up to me and apologizes. 574 00:38:13,675 --> 00:38:16,595 Speaker 1: We all heard what happened. It's so embarrassing. Patiti is 575 00:38:16,635 --> 00:38:20,075 Speaker 1: such a coward. The Yankees got to them and another club. 576 00:38:20,115 --> 00:38:22,235 Speaker 1: I never found out which one. There was some kind 577 00:38:22,235 --> 00:38:25,155 Speaker 1: of conference call a Monday after Thanksgiving to tell the 578 00:38:25,155 --> 00:38:27,115 Speaker 1: teams about your new show, and whoever was on the 579 00:38:27,155 --> 00:38:30,195 Speaker 1: call for the Yankees went ballistic. They said something like, 580 00:38:30,235 --> 00:38:32,355 Speaker 1: if you put them on MLB network, we will disable 581 00:38:32,395 --> 00:38:35,115 Speaker 1: your cameras at Yankee Stadium and never let any of 582 00:38:35,115 --> 00:38:40,195 Speaker 1: you inside the building again. Instantly I knew why the 583 00:38:40,275 --> 00:38:44,595 Speaker 1: Yankees would have done that. I was, and my father 584 00:38:44,675 --> 00:38:47,915 Speaker 1: before me, a season ticket holder for forty two years 585 00:38:47,915 --> 00:38:50,515 Speaker 1: for Yankee games, and for ten of those years, I 586 00:38:50,595 --> 00:38:53,155 Speaker 1: was also one of the two announcers who did a 587 00:38:53,235 --> 00:38:56,355 Speaker 1: kind of play by play over the public address system 588 00:38:56,395 --> 00:38:59,835 Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium on Old Timers Day. And then one 589 00:38:59,875 --> 00:39:03,475 Speaker 1: day in twenty eleven, I tweeted a photo of a 590 00:39:03,595 --> 00:39:06,715 Speaker 1: Yankee employee in the stands giving some sort of hand 591 00:39:06,915 --> 00:39:11,195 Speaker 1: signals to Alex Rodriguez in the on deck circle. The 592 00:39:11,235 --> 00:39:14,955 Speaker 1: guy was clearly telling Alex Rodriguez what the last pitch 593 00:39:15,075 --> 00:39:19,355 Speaker 1: had been. It wasn't cheating, it was helping a supposed 594 00:39:19,475 --> 00:39:23,515 Speaker 1: superstar who apparently could not figure out for himself from 595 00:39:23,595 --> 00:39:27,995 Speaker 1: on the field what the last pitch had been. I 596 00:39:28,035 --> 00:39:31,115 Speaker 1: tweeted the photo. Major League Baseball called the Yankees and 597 00:39:31,155 --> 00:39:33,235 Speaker 1: told them to cut it out the Yankees and a 598 00:39:33,395 --> 00:39:36,915 Speaker 1: Rod looked stupid in the newspapers, and the Yankees management 599 00:39:36,915 --> 00:39:38,915 Speaker 1: said they were not mad at me. And then three 600 00:39:38,915 --> 00:39:41,795 Speaker 1: months later, days before Old Timer's Day, they leaked to 601 00:39:41,835 --> 00:39:45,275 Speaker 1: the papers that I had been fired as Old Timer's 602 00:39:45,355 --> 00:39:47,955 Speaker 1: Day play by play man because I had tweeted that 603 00:39:47,995 --> 00:39:50,515 Speaker 1: photo of Alex Rodriguez and the guy in the stands. 604 00:39:51,315 --> 00:39:55,275 Speaker 1: So rather naturally, my response was to not renew my 605 00:39:55,355 --> 00:39:57,755 Speaker 1: season tickets. And my tickets were right behind home plate 606 00:39:57,955 --> 00:40:00,515 Speaker 1: and they cost like four hundred thousand dollars a year, 607 00:40:00,835 --> 00:40:03,875 Speaker 1: and relax, I gave about seventy percent of them to 608 00:40:03,915 --> 00:40:07,275 Speaker 1: make a wish. But the Yankees, being the Yankees, were 609 00:40:07,355 --> 00:40:09,875 Speaker 1: furious that I would not give them four hundred thousand 610 00:40:09,915 --> 00:40:13,635 Speaker 1: dollars a year anyway, so they told MLB Network if 611 00:40:13,715 --> 00:40:16,115 Speaker 1: MLB Network gave me a show, they would unplug MLB 612 00:40:16,235 --> 00:40:21,115 Speaker 1: networks cameras. Actually they did more than that. I asked 613 00:40:21,115 --> 00:40:24,395 Speaker 1: my friend, the MLB network official, the real puzzler of 614 00:40:24,475 --> 00:40:29,155 Speaker 1: the saga, why this MLB Network President Tony Petiti literally 615 00:40:29,555 --> 00:40:33,155 Speaker 1: would not speak, would not say anything, not even deals 616 00:40:33,275 --> 00:40:37,915 Speaker 1: off to my agent. Oh, the official said, the Yankees 617 00:40:37,915 --> 00:40:40,835 Speaker 1: were specific about that if you say anything to him 618 00:40:40,915 --> 00:40:44,235 Speaker 1: or his people, we will get you fired. So Fetiti 619 00:40:44,235 --> 00:40:46,555 Speaker 1: took it literally. He said, if you called or your 620 00:40:46,595 --> 00:40:51,635 Speaker 1: agent called, to just give you the silent treatment. These 621 00:40:51,675 --> 00:40:55,595 Speaker 1: are adults, mind you, and they say that on air. 622 00:40:55,755 --> 00:40:59,715 Speaker 1: Talent are the prima donnas. As I said, the Yankees 623 00:40:59,995 --> 00:41:02,635 Speaker 1: are the closest of five different teams who tried to 624 00:41:02,915 --> 00:41:06,235 Speaker 1: act have actually gotten me fired. When I was in 625 00:41:06,275 --> 00:41:09,355 Speaker 1: local news in Los Angeles, Jackie Autrey, the woman who 626 00:41:09,355 --> 00:41:12,555 Speaker 1: went from being Gene Autrey's banker to being his second wife, 627 00:41:12,835 --> 00:41:14,955 Speaker 1: tried to get me fired from my station in LA 628 00:41:15,115 --> 00:41:18,435 Speaker 1: because I had criticized their team, the California Angels. She 629 00:41:18,555 --> 00:41:21,035 Speaker 1: tried again a few years later after I got to ESPN. 630 00:41:21,955 --> 00:41:24,755 Speaker 1: Then there were the Tampa Bay Rays, well the Devil 631 00:41:24,835 --> 00:41:27,755 Speaker 1: Rays at that point, whose first owner, Vince Nimoli, was 632 00:41:27,835 --> 00:41:30,315 Speaker 1: convinced I had a vendetta against his team and was 633 00:41:30,315 --> 00:41:34,435 Speaker 1: making up stories about them that were accidentally true. He 634 00:41:34,475 --> 00:41:38,915 Speaker 1: could not conceive that somebody in his organization who he paid, 635 00:41:39,275 --> 00:41:42,315 Speaker 1: actually hated him so much that this person called me 636 00:41:42,395 --> 00:41:45,715 Speaker 1: up and volunteered to feed me anything bad that went 637 00:41:45,755 --> 00:41:49,475 Speaker 1: on there. But that is exactly what happened. So that's 638 00:41:49,475 --> 00:41:51,755 Speaker 1: the Yankees, the Angels, and the Rays, and there's a 639 00:41:51,795 --> 00:41:55,275 Speaker 1: mystery fifth team that was also involved in the MLB 640 00:41:55,395 --> 00:41:58,115 Speaker 1: network thing. And then there were the Chicago White Sox. 641 00:41:58,795 --> 00:42:01,875 Speaker 1: One of their co owners, Eddie Einhorn, was a big 642 00:42:01,915 --> 00:42:05,115 Speaker 1: fan of mine, but for forty four years been run 643 00:42:05,155 --> 00:42:09,595 Speaker 1: by the other co owner, Jerry Reinsdorf. And Jerry Reinsdorf 644 00:42:09,635 --> 00:42:11,755 Speaker 1: was one of the key figures in the strike that 645 00:42:11,915 --> 00:42:15,675 Speaker 1: killed the nineteen ninety four baseball season. During that terrible 646 00:42:15,715 --> 00:42:19,395 Speaker 1: winter that followed, my sources in the Baseball Players Association 647 00:42:19,515 --> 00:42:22,435 Speaker 1: showed me a copy of their offer to the owners. 648 00:42:22,515 --> 00:42:26,035 Speaker 1: The owners were led by Reinsdorf, and in the player's offer, 649 00:42:26,395 --> 00:42:29,155 Speaker 1: they were willing to actually negotiate one of the players 650 00:42:29,235 --> 00:42:34,675 Speaker 1: Union's sacred cows, salary arbitration. They were willing to cut 651 00:42:34,675 --> 00:42:38,995 Speaker 1: it or maybe eliminate it outright. But after complaining about 652 00:42:39,075 --> 00:42:42,595 Speaker 1: salary arbitration for twenty years, the owners committee, led by 653 00:42:42,595 --> 00:42:48,115 Speaker 1: this Reinsdorf idiot, turned the players down. Apparently most of 654 00:42:48,155 --> 00:42:50,755 Speaker 1: the owners did not know that Rhinsdorff had passed on 655 00:42:50,835 --> 00:42:55,035 Speaker 1: a chance to eliminate salary arbitration, a kind of automatic 656 00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:59,355 Speaker 1: inflation thing within baseball contracts, and they came down on 657 00:42:59,395 --> 00:43:01,795 Speaker 1: Reinsdorff like a ton of bricks. What do you mean 658 00:43:01,875 --> 00:43:06,555 Speaker 1: you turned down the chance to stop salary arbitration. So 659 00:43:06,715 --> 00:43:10,115 Speaker 1: naturally he blamed me, and he called up ESPN and 660 00:43:10,155 --> 00:43:12,395 Speaker 1: he demanded they fire me, which to their credit, they 661 00:43:12,435 --> 00:43:17,355 Speaker 1: never did do. Revenge is a dish which people of 662 00:43:17,395 --> 00:43:20,995 Speaker 1: taste prefer to eat cold, goes the old Italian proverb. 663 00:43:21,195 --> 00:43:25,195 Speaker 1: Ryansdorff is today despised within baseball. He has once again 664 00:43:25,315 --> 00:43:28,955 Speaker 1: ruined the Chicago White Sox. The Tampa Bay Ray's owner 665 00:43:29,115 --> 00:43:32,875 Speaker 1: name Oli, sold the team unknowingly obviously to a man 666 00:43:32,955 --> 00:43:35,915 Speaker 1: named Stuart Sternberg, who turned out to be married to 667 00:43:35,955 --> 00:43:38,115 Speaker 1: a friend of mine from college. So whenever the Rays 668 00:43:38,115 --> 00:43:39,915 Speaker 1: would come into New York, I would sit with Stu 669 00:43:39,995 --> 00:43:42,635 Speaker 1: and his wife Lisa in their box. Their eldest son 670 00:43:42,755 --> 00:43:47,195 Speaker 1: interned for me. MLB Network, which started out pretty good, 671 00:43:47,595 --> 00:43:50,155 Speaker 1: is now just a propaganda machine in which every team 672 00:43:50,195 --> 00:43:52,915 Speaker 1: is unbeaten and every player is the greatest ever. And 673 00:43:52,955 --> 00:43:56,355 Speaker 1: they fired their best reporter, Ken Rosenthal, because he dared 674 00:43:56,395 --> 00:43:59,955 Speaker 1: to write something critical of the idiot commissioner Robert Manfred 675 00:44:00,595 --> 00:44:04,435 Speaker 1: and mister Renege on the offer Petiti. He really got 676 00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:08,115 Speaker 1: his Three years later, he was promoted to deputy Commissioner 677 00:44:08,115 --> 00:44:11,995 Speaker 1: of Baseball, but that new commissioner, Manfred squeezed him out 678 00:44:12,675 --> 00:44:14,355 Speaker 1: and he had to go work as the president of 679 00:44:14,355 --> 00:44:17,395 Speaker 1: some e sports company in twenty twenty, and then they 680 00:44:17,475 --> 00:44:20,195 Speaker 1: offered him a year later. And I have not heard 681 00:44:20,395 --> 00:44:26,715 Speaker 1: anything about Tony Pettiti since. Literally it's been absolute silence, 682 00:44:27,475 --> 00:44:31,595 Speaker 1: not a single spoken word. And why does that sound 683 00:44:32,115 --> 00:44:49,515 Speaker 1: so familiar? Well, yes, I'm still pissed about it. The 684 00:44:49,555 --> 00:44:52,795 Speaker 1: good news is, of course, like last winter had a 685 00:44:52,795 --> 00:44:55,275 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame announcement on MLB network and I had 686 00:44:55,315 --> 00:45:00,435 Speaker 1: thirty five thousand viewers. So my podcast is outrating what 687 00:45:00,475 --> 00:45:03,435 Speaker 1: would have been my network. Okay, I've done all the 688 00:45:03,515 --> 00:45:05,275 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thanks, thank you for listening. 689 00:45:05,355 --> 00:45:07,515 Speaker 1: Countdown has come to you from the Vin Scully Studio 690 00:45:07,955 --> 00:45:12,955 Speaker 1: at the Olderman Broadcasting Empire ruled headquarters in New York Countown. 691 00:45:13,035 --> 00:45:16,035 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced 692 00:45:16,035 --> 00:45:19,435 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration 693 00:45:19,475 --> 00:45:22,715 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums, 694 00:45:22,715 --> 00:45:25,835 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers other music, including 695 00:45:25,875 --> 00:45:29,275 Speaker 1: other Beethoven tunes, were arranged and performed by the group 696 00:45:29,315 --> 00:45:32,955 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. Sports music is courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 697 00:45:32,995 --> 00:45:34,915 Speaker 1: And it was written by Mitch Warren Davis. We call 698 00:45:34,955 --> 00:45:39,115 Speaker 1: it the Olderman theme from ESPN two. Our satirical and 699 00:45:39,155 --> 00:45:42,595 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the best baseball 700 00:45:42,595 --> 00:45:45,755 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my friend Dennis Leary, 701 00:45:45,835 --> 00:45:49,395 Speaker 1: and everything else was pretty much my fault. Let's count 702 00:45:49,435 --> 00:45:51,475 Speaker 1: down for this, the one thy and thirty sixth day 703 00:45:51,875 --> 00:45:54,955 Speaker 1: since dementia J Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 704 00:45:54,995 --> 00:45:58,435 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Convict him now while 705 00:45:58,475 --> 00:46:01,995 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is Tuesday. Bulletin 706 00:46:02,075 --> 00:46:05,355 Speaker 1: says the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Olraman. Good morning, 707 00:46:05,435 --> 00:46:23,555 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 708 00:46:23,595 --> 00:46:28,635 Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 709 00:46:28,795 --> 00:46:32,835 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 710 00:46:32,875 --> 00:46:33,755 Speaker 1: your podcasts.