1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,755 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. It's espionage, 2 00:00:24,715 --> 00:00:29,595 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice and conspiracy to defraud donors and espionage. 3 00:00:30,395 --> 00:00:34,955 Speaker 1: Trump stole a map. The map shows sensitive intelligence information. 4 00:00:35,235 --> 00:00:38,235 Speaker 1: Trump took the map to Marilago. Trump showed the map 5 00:00:38,275 --> 00:00:41,355 Speaker 1: to quote aids and visitors, and we already know that 6 00:00:41,475 --> 00:00:43,995 Speaker 1: ain't the only thing he stole, but it is enough. 7 00:00:44,515 --> 00:00:49,315 Speaker 1: That is the dissemination of classified national intelligence, and that 8 00:00:49,755 --> 00:00:56,075 Speaker 1: is espionage. Eighteen US Code seven ninety three Gathering, transmitting, 9 00:00:56,195 --> 00:01:01,515 Speaker 1: or losing defense information. Those found guilty shall be fined 10 00:01:01,635 --> 00:01:04,875 Speaker 1: under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, 11 00:01:04,995 --> 00:01:09,475 Speaker 1: or both, or if it's really bad, eighteen US Code 12 00:01:09,475 --> 00:01:13,835 Speaker 1: seven ninety four, gathering or delivering defense information to aid 13 00:01:13,995 --> 00:01:18,195 Speaker 1: foreign government. Those found guilty shall be punished by imprisonment 14 00:01:18,475 --> 00:01:22,755 Speaker 1: for any term of years or for life, unless the 15 00:01:22,795 --> 00:01:27,515 Speaker 1: action directly concerned nuclear weaponry or other means of defense 16 00:01:27,595 --> 00:01:32,075 Speaker 1: or retaliation against large scale attack, war plans, communications intelligence, 17 00:01:32,395 --> 00:01:36,675 Speaker 1: or major element of defense strategy, which shall be punishable 18 00:01:36,755 --> 00:01:41,675 Speaker 1: by death. And the Special Counsel Jack Smith knows about 19 00:01:41,675 --> 00:01:45,075 Speaker 1: the map Trump stole, and he is asking witnesses in 20 00:01:45,115 --> 00:01:47,915 Speaker 1: front of the Grand Jury about the map Trump stole 21 00:01:48,275 --> 00:01:50,475 Speaker 1: and along with the rest of this as reported by 22 00:01:50,475 --> 00:01:53,635 Speaker 1: The New York Times. One source says investigators have asked 23 00:01:53,675 --> 00:01:57,755 Speaker 1: about Trump showing the map while on a plane. A 24 00:01:57,875 --> 00:02:00,555 Speaker 1: second source says investigators believe he showed the map to 25 00:02:00,595 --> 00:02:04,995 Speaker 1: at least one adviser after he left office. A third 26 00:02:05,035 --> 00:02:06,875 Speaker 1: source says he may have showed the map to a 27 00:02:06,955 --> 00:02:11,355 Speaker 1: journalist working on a book. A fourth source, not for 28 00:02:11,395 --> 00:02:14,955 Speaker 1: the Time Story but for the Washington Post says investigators 29 00:02:14,955 --> 00:02:19,955 Speaker 1: have asked about Trump showing maps and other materials. Two 30 00:02:20,115 --> 00:02:24,635 Speaker 1: donors and the Times zero's in on the Special Council 31 00:02:24,715 --> 00:02:28,635 Speaker 1: constructing a day by day, maybe hour by hour timeline 32 00:02:28,955 --> 00:02:33,555 Speaker 1: of where this map was and where Trump was and 33 00:02:33,675 --> 00:02:36,875 Speaker 1: when he allegedly showed it to others. And this is 34 00:02:36,955 --> 00:02:39,235 Speaker 1: in addition to the case we already know he's building 35 00:02:39,275 --> 00:02:43,235 Speaker 1: about Trump directing a conspiracy to obstruct justice by having 36 00:02:43,275 --> 00:02:46,275 Speaker 1: his lawyers swear he had returned all the documents he 37 00:02:46,315 --> 00:02:51,435 Speaker 1: stole when he hadn't. And almost simultaneously to the release 38 00:02:51,435 --> 00:02:53,715 Speaker 1: of the Time Story, there's one in the Washington Post 39 00:02:53,755 --> 00:02:56,515 Speaker 1: that says Jack Smith has so much going on in DC. 40 00:02:57,435 --> 00:03:00,555 Speaker 1: He's got two grand juries working there and one of 41 00:03:00,595 --> 00:03:05,355 Speaker 1: them is hearing evidence about financial fraud, the entire Election 42 00:03:05,555 --> 00:03:10,755 Speaker 1: Defense Fund and Save America pack and every other scam 43 00:03:10,915 --> 00:03:13,675 Speaker 1: Trump ran between the election and the day he left 44 00:03:13,715 --> 00:03:18,955 Speaker 1: Washington in disgrace. Subpoenas in recent weeks, the Post rights 45 00:03:19,275 --> 00:03:23,675 Speaker 1: to Trump advisors and former campaign aids, Republican operatives, and 46 00:03:23,755 --> 00:03:28,075 Speaker 1: other consultants involved in the twenty twenty presidential campaign unquote. 47 00:03:28,715 --> 00:03:31,995 Speaker 1: And there's already been some testimony, and they want all 48 00:03:32,115 --> 00:03:35,715 Speaker 1: drafts of all fundraising memos and quote. One person with 49 00:03:35,835 --> 00:03:39,915 Speaker 1: knowledge of prosecutors inquiries said they appeared to be exploring 50 00:03:39,955 --> 00:03:43,275 Speaker 1: whether people who approved the ads saying the election was 51 00:03:43,315 --> 00:03:51,075 Speaker 1: stolen separately acknowledged their fundraising pitches were based on lies unquote. 52 00:03:51,595 --> 00:03:55,355 Speaker 1: And if that sounds familiar, it should. It is the 53 00:03:55,395 --> 00:03:59,915 Speaker 1: basic premise of the Dominion Voting Systems one billion, six 54 00:03:59,995 --> 00:04:04,435 Speaker 1: hundred million dollar defamation suit against Fox. It is one 55 00:04:04,835 --> 00:04:07,475 Speaker 1: to claim you won an election and there's a vast 56 00:04:07,515 --> 00:04:10,435 Speaker 1: conspiracy to keep you out of office. It is quite 57 00:04:10,435 --> 00:04:13,835 Speaker 1: another to claim you won an election when internally you 58 00:04:13,875 --> 00:04:17,115 Speaker 1: admit you did not and there is no conspiracy, But 59 00:04:17,275 --> 00:04:20,075 Speaker 1: you want people to give you money to fight the conspiracy. 60 00:04:20,435 --> 00:04:25,355 Speaker 1: That is fraud, and theoretically, though not practically, there could 61 00:04:25,355 --> 00:04:29,795 Speaker 1: be account of fraud for every donation Trump and his 62 00:04:29,915 --> 00:04:35,355 Speaker 1: lackeys successfully solicited. And now, as to the big question 63 00:04:36,035 --> 00:04:41,595 Speaker 1: as to when already quoting the Times, prosecutors have now 64 00:04:41,635 --> 00:04:45,115 Speaker 1: interviewed nearly everyone who could offer insight in connection with 65 00:04:45,195 --> 00:04:47,995 Speaker 1: the documents. According to one person briefed on the range 66 00:04:48,035 --> 00:04:51,995 Speaker 1: of witnesses, unquote, I think the Times could not be 67 00:04:52,075 --> 00:04:55,715 Speaker 1: more clear here if they had drawn you a map. 68 00:04:56,355 --> 00:05:00,435 Speaker 1: So the classified kleptomania espionage case against the defendants seems 69 00:05:00,475 --> 00:05:04,155 Speaker 1: ready to go. An obstruction case seems like a no brainer. 70 00:05:04,755 --> 00:05:09,395 Speaker 1: Where exactly Jack Smith is on January sixth is unclear. 71 00:05:09,915 --> 00:05:13,595 Speaker 1: The new vein of material the conspiracy to defraud donors 72 00:05:13,635 --> 00:05:17,555 Speaker 1: that just started weeks ago. And so the comment from 73 00:05:17,555 --> 00:05:20,915 Speaker 1: the bench during the sentencing of January sixth defendant Robert 74 00:05:20,915 --> 00:05:24,515 Speaker 1: Stanford on Tuesday by Judge Paul L. Friedman is even 75 00:05:24,555 --> 00:05:28,355 Speaker 1: more fascinating today than it was yesterday, if you don't 76 00:05:28,395 --> 00:05:31,595 Speaker 1: remember it. Quote, there are still people who believe the 77 00:05:31,595 --> 00:05:35,075 Speaker 1: election was rigged. There are still people who support Donald Trump, 78 00:05:35,195 --> 00:05:37,555 Speaker 1: though not many showed up at the court in Manhattan. 79 00:05:37,875 --> 00:05:41,155 Speaker 1: We'll see what happens here at this court when the 80 00:05:41,275 --> 00:05:48,715 Speaker 1: Justice Department moves in a few months. I suspect, whatever 81 00:05:48,755 --> 00:05:51,355 Speaker 1: the timeline ahead of us, whoever is writing this script 82 00:05:51,435 --> 00:05:54,595 Speaker 1: is clearly beginning to draw the threads of his plot together. 83 00:05:55,275 --> 00:05:59,595 Speaker 1: The hilarious Tucker Carlson atonement interview of Trump Tuesday Night, 84 00:06:00,115 --> 00:06:03,355 Speaker 1: now running again and again on a loop on all 85 00:06:03,475 --> 00:06:06,755 Speaker 1: of the state TV channel annals in Russia, is the 86 00:06:06,795 --> 00:06:10,475 Speaker 1: perfect segue to the subject of the Fox Dominion trial 87 00:06:10,555 --> 00:06:12,795 Speaker 1: in Delaware. Turns out, it's not good to have lied 88 00:06:13,515 --> 00:06:16,035 Speaker 1: when you're Trump, and it's also not good to have 89 00:06:16,115 --> 00:06:20,555 Speaker 1: lied for Trump. They are not only now starting to 90 00:06:20,555 --> 00:06:25,435 Speaker 1: pick the jury, the judge may delay things because he's 91 00:06:25,475 --> 00:06:29,195 Speaker 1: already furious at Fox for possible misrepresentations to the court. 92 00:06:29,675 --> 00:06:32,235 Speaker 1: As the judge Eric Davis phrased it yesterday, this is 93 00:06:32,435 --> 00:06:37,235 Speaker 1: very serious, he said. What's very serious is Fox withheld 94 00:06:37,315 --> 00:06:41,235 Speaker 1: important information from Dominion's lawyers and appears to have suppressed 95 00:06:41,275 --> 00:06:45,035 Speaker 1: extraordinary evidence from its own on air staff. Dominion says 96 00:06:45,035 --> 00:06:48,475 Speaker 1: it didn't learn to last week that Rupert Murdoch actually 97 00:06:48,515 --> 00:06:54,235 Speaker 1: had a titled position inside Fox quote news unquote, and 98 00:06:54,355 --> 00:06:57,515 Speaker 1: thus it could have subpoenaed another cash of evidence if 99 00:06:57,555 --> 00:07:01,275 Speaker 1: it had known that. And when the scapegoated, Carlson and 100 00:07:01,355 --> 00:07:05,915 Speaker 1: Maria Bardaromo, producer Abby Grossberg filed her own suit. It 101 00:07:05,955 --> 00:07:11,115 Speaker 1: turns out she alleged Fox lawyers never revealed that she 102 00:07:11,235 --> 00:07:16,115 Speaker 1: had recorded a Trump official saying the campaign had found 103 00:07:16,555 --> 00:07:20,275 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with the voting in Georgia. She also said 104 00:07:20,315 --> 00:07:23,995 Speaker 1: there were other recordings inside Fox, including Sidney Powell and 105 00:07:24,115 --> 00:07:28,115 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani, both saying they could not prove their own 106 00:07:28,155 --> 00:07:31,915 Speaker 1: allegations that Dominion voting machines were somehow used to commit 107 00:07:31,995 --> 00:07:38,315 Speaker 1: voting fraud. But everybody put that on Fox anyway, and 108 00:07:38,355 --> 00:07:41,435 Speaker 1: that would be proof of fraud, not by Dominion, not 109 00:07:41,635 --> 00:07:45,555 Speaker 1: by voters, not by the Democrats, but by Fox and 110 00:07:45,675 --> 00:07:50,835 Speaker 1: Giuliani and Powell and anybody who put them on television. 111 00:07:50,995 --> 00:07:54,355 Speaker 1: And now, on top of all that, the judge believes 112 00:07:54,395 --> 00:07:58,435 Speaker 1: Fox hid all evidence pertaining to all of that from 113 00:07:58,515 --> 00:08:01,635 Speaker 1: Dominion and from him. It is so bad, the judge 114 00:08:01,675 --> 00:08:06,195 Speaker 1: says he will appoint an outside council especial master to 115 00:08:06,235 --> 00:08:10,195 Speaker 1: find out exactly how much Fox lied to him, and 116 00:08:10,275 --> 00:08:15,035 Speaker 1: he will tell the jury about it. It could be 117 00:08:15,195 --> 00:08:18,475 Speaker 1: going worse for Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump, But I 118 00:08:18,515 --> 00:08:22,955 Speaker 1: really don't see how Vanity Fair is out with a 119 00:08:23,035 --> 00:08:26,795 Speaker 1: story that Rupert Murdoch notified the latest X Missus Rupert 120 00:08:26,875 --> 00:08:30,635 Speaker 1: Murdoch Jerry Hall, that he wanted to divorce her in 121 00:08:30,715 --> 00:08:38,115 Speaker 1: an email. Ever, the Romantic and Trump has moved to 122 00:08:38,315 --> 00:08:42,595 Speaker 1: delay Egene Carroll's lawsuit against him alleging he raped her, 123 00:08:43,075 --> 00:08:45,595 Speaker 1: claiming that there was a media frenzy that would deny 124 00:08:45,675 --> 00:08:47,995 Speaker 1: him a fair trial, and of course that his arrest 125 00:08:48,115 --> 00:08:50,235 Speaker 1: last week would deny him a fair trial in New 126 00:08:50,315 --> 00:08:54,835 Speaker 1: York City, and immediately Egene Carroll pointed out that the 127 00:08:54,875 --> 00:08:58,675 Speaker 1: media frenzy is of Trump's deliberate creation, and the lawyer 128 00:08:58,715 --> 00:09:02,395 Speaker 1: and the former FBI agent Asha Ranappa pointed out that 129 00:09:02,435 --> 00:09:06,155 Speaker 1: if Trump's story that everybody at his take and arraignment 130 00:09:06,275 --> 00:09:10,755 Speaker 1: at the Manhattan District Attorney's courthouse last week cried, if 131 00:09:10,755 --> 00:09:14,515 Speaker 1: that was really true, she notes, it means there has 132 00:09:14,515 --> 00:09:16,715 Speaker 1: to be a huge part of the potential jury pool 133 00:09:16,835 --> 00:09:20,155 Speaker 1: in the Carol case that loves Trump and would cry 134 00:09:20,275 --> 00:09:22,715 Speaker 1: when he shows up in court and would apologize that 135 00:09:22,755 --> 00:09:24,995 Speaker 1: he was being tried, and of course he would get 136 00:09:24,995 --> 00:09:30,115 Speaker 1: a fair trial then. And finally, of course came the 137 00:09:30,195 --> 00:09:34,595 Speaker 1: inevitable other shoe. In Trump's farcical recollection to that buffoon 138 00:09:34,635 --> 00:09:38,755 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, they were crying. They were actually crying. They 139 00:09:38,795 --> 00:09:42,755 Speaker 1: said I'm sorry, they said twenty twenty four, sir, and 140 00:09:42,875 --> 00:09:48,955 Speaker 1: tears were pouring down. Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News quoted 141 00:09:48,995 --> 00:09:53,115 Speaker 1: a law enforcement source who said it was quote absolute bs. 142 00:09:53,875 --> 00:09:57,875 Speaker 1: There were zero people crying. There were zero people saying 143 00:09:57,955 --> 00:10:02,435 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Unte In fact, the source said, aside from 144 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:05,515 Speaker 1: his lawyers and Secret Service agents, Trump interacted only with 145 00:10:05,555 --> 00:10:08,715 Speaker 1: a handful of District attorney employees at the courthouse and 146 00:10:08,835 --> 00:10:12,635 Speaker 1: had extremely limited exposure with others during his arraignment. The 147 00:10:12,675 --> 00:10:16,755 Speaker 1: former president, the story goes on, looking glum said little 148 00:10:16,835 --> 00:10:24,595 Speaker 1: during the booking unquote. But wait, there's more. One final 149 00:10:25,315 --> 00:10:31,115 Speaker 1: little perfect twist of the knife. In two Trump's magnificent 150 00:10:31,235 --> 00:10:37,515 Speaker 1: obsession with himself, quoting Isakoff and his source, inside the courthouse, 151 00:10:38,075 --> 00:10:44,835 Speaker 1: one final lovely time. The only hiccup came when Trump's 152 00:10:44,835 --> 00:10:52,195 Speaker 1: fingers were too dry for fingerprinting, at which point district 153 00:10:52,275 --> 00:11:01,755 Speaker 1: attorney employees provided lotion for his fingers. Are you going 154 00:11:01,795 --> 00:11:04,955 Speaker 1: to say it? Or am I? Well? I am the 155 00:11:04,995 --> 00:11:06,955 Speaker 1: one with the microphone, so I guess I'm the one 156 00:11:06,955 --> 00:11:10,435 Speaker 1: who's going to say it it rubs the lotion on 157 00:11:10,515 --> 00:11:14,515 Speaker 1: its skin, or else it gets the hose. Again, sir, 158 00:11:28,715 --> 00:11:30,235 Speaker 1: I swear to God I read that. I thought it 159 00:11:30,275 --> 00:11:34,835 Speaker 1: was going to say he had no fingerprints. Still ahead 160 00:11:34,875 --> 00:11:36,755 Speaker 1: on this edition of Countdown, and once again, is there 161 00:11:36,795 --> 00:11:39,795 Speaker 1: a lot of news to do postscripts on? As Justin 162 00:11:39,915 --> 00:11:44,075 Speaker 1: Pearson is appointed to replace himself in Tennessee unanimously, with 163 00:11:44,115 --> 00:11:47,115 Speaker 1: all the Republicans staying away in shame, Senator Chuck Schumer 164 00:11:47,115 --> 00:11:51,395 Speaker 1: has a very good question, dear Department of Justice, did 165 00:11:51,435 --> 00:11:56,635 Speaker 1: their expulsions violate the Constitution? How about federal civil rights law? 166 00:11:56,875 --> 00:12:00,515 Speaker 1: How about you go check the damn breaks? In California, 167 00:12:00,555 --> 00:12:04,475 Speaker 1: a Democratic congressman calls for ailing Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein 168 00:12:04,795 --> 00:12:09,675 Speaker 1: to resign because her absence is keeping judges from being confirmed. 169 00:12:10,675 --> 00:12:13,755 Speaker 1: It's worse, person's all right, so worse you have to 170 00:12:13,835 --> 00:12:16,315 Speaker 1: check it twice to make sure it could possibly be true. 171 00:12:16,555 --> 00:12:20,195 Speaker 1: The Missouri lawmaker who not only insists adults should be 172 00:12:20,275 --> 00:12:23,795 Speaker 1: able to marry twelve year olds, but then doubles down 173 00:12:23,875 --> 00:12:28,635 Speaker 1: on this insistence in horrifying fashion, And that next question, 174 00:12:28,675 --> 00:12:31,075 Speaker 1: if you're applying to work for the new Arkansas governor, 175 00:12:31,115 --> 00:12:36,755 Speaker 1: but longtime serial liar Sarah Huckabee Sanders quote, what is 176 00:12:36,755 --> 00:12:39,995 Speaker 1: an accomplishment of the governors that you admire the most? 177 00:12:41,115 --> 00:12:44,715 Speaker 1: Now I'm not kidding, Yes she is saying. But enough 178 00:12:44,755 --> 00:12:49,595 Speaker 1: about me? What do you like about me? That's next? 179 00:12:50,635 --> 00:13:07,315 Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman postscripts 180 00:13:07,315 --> 00:13:10,395 Speaker 1: to the news some update, some insights, some snarks, some prediction. 181 00:13:10,475 --> 00:13:14,875 Speaker 1: Stateline Shelby County, Tennessee, and now both the state senators 182 00:13:14,875 --> 00:13:20,195 Speaker 1: expelled last week for LBW legislating while Black are back 183 00:13:20,355 --> 00:13:23,995 Speaker 1: appointed by their responsible bodies to fill the empty seats. 184 00:13:24,355 --> 00:13:27,915 Speaker 1: Justin Pearson selected yesterday by the Board of Commissioners. There, 185 00:13:28,115 --> 00:13:31,595 Speaker 1: the vote was seven zip, with all the Republicans missing 186 00:13:31,595 --> 00:13:35,355 Speaker 1: in action. Stateline, Washington Senator Chuck Schumer, usually the master 187 00:13:35,435 --> 00:13:39,475 Speaker 1: of the press release and the Sunday Slow Newsday news conference, 188 00:13:39,835 --> 00:13:42,315 Speaker 1: has instead led a group of Senate Democrats who have 189 00:13:42,355 --> 00:13:45,355 Speaker 1: asked a couple of outstanding questions. In a letter to 190 00:13:45,395 --> 00:13:49,875 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, Schumer, Warnock, Padilla, Murphy, and Shots 191 00:13:50,195 --> 00:13:53,795 Speaker 1: have urged the Attorney General to use all available legal 192 00:13:53,835 --> 00:13:57,395 Speaker 1: authorities to determine whether the First Amendment rights of Justin 193 00:13:57,515 --> 00:14:00,835 Speaker 1: Jones and Justin Pearson were violated, and if their Fourteenth 194 00:14:00,875 --> 00:14:04,315 Speaker 1: Amendment civil rights were violated by an active discrimination based 195 00:14:04,315 --> 00:14:07,995 Speaker 1: on Senators also ask if the citizens of Memphis and 196 00:14:08,155 --> 00:14:12,155 Speaker 1: Nashville had their rights to be represented by legislators of 197 00:14:12,235 --> 00:14:17,235 Speaker 1: their choice violated. Dateline, Fox Land just a reminder, Tucker 198 00:14:17,275 --> 00:14:21,195 Speaker 1: Carlson is a raving, irredeemable racist. I mean beyond anything 199 00:14:21,315 --> 00:14:24,795 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly used to bring to that cesspool that is Fox. 200 00:14:25,475 --> 00:14:29,235 Speaker 1: Carlson explained last night that quote Justin Pearson isn't white, 201 00:14:29,315 --> 00:14:32,515 Speaker 1: which is probably how he got into Bowden College in 202 00:14:32,555 --> 00:14:36,235 Speaker 1: the first place. Carlson later implied Pearson sounds like a 203 00:14:36,395 --> 00:14:41,075 Speaker 1: quote sharecropper. This is Tucker Carlson, who sounds like Martin 204 00:14:41,155 --> 00:14:46,315 Speaker 1: Shortz parody TV character Jimminy Glick. Only Jimminy Glick isn't 205 00:14:46,355 --> 00:15:13,355 Speaker 1: a flaming racist and misogynist. Thank yo, Nancy Faust, I'm 206 00:15:13,475 --> 00:15:19,955 Speaker 1: Tucker and Carlson. Dateline. California Senator Diane Feinstein, one of 207 00:15:19,955 --> 00:15:23,235 Speaker 1: the stalwarts in her state for half a century, retiring 208 00:15:23,275 --> 00:15:25,595 Speaker 1: at the end of this term, says she has no 209 00:15:25,635 --> 00:15:28,795 Speaker 1: intention of resigning and will return to the Senate as 210 00:15:28,795 --> 00:15:31,595 Speaker 1: soon as her doctors clear her for travel. She's been 211 00:15:31,675 --> 00:15:35,115 Speaker 1: sidelined for shingles. She says she will, however, give up 212 00:15:35,115 --> 00:15:38,875 Speaker 1: her seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. But with Biden 213 00:15:39,035 --> 00:15:43,315 Speaker 1: judgeship appointments piling up unconfirmed now totaling in the dozens, 214 00:15:43,555 --> 00:15:46,875 Speaker 1: calls have begun for her to resign now, and the 215 00:15:46,955 --> 00:15:50,835 Speaker 1: first name figure to insist on that, the California Democratic 216 00:15:50,875 --> 00:15:56,315 Speaker 1: Congressmen Rokana yesterday and Dateline New York truth leak out 217 00:15:56,315 --> 00:15:58,955 Speaker 1: of the Murdoch New York Post yesterday, an arcle about 218 00:15:58,995 --> 00:16:03,995 Speaker 1: polling since the arrest of the defendant, headline quote Trump 219 00:16:04,115 --> 00:16:09,955 Speaker 1: surging in Republican voter polls, sinking with Americans. And that 220 00:16:10,155 --> 00:16:16,395 Speaker 1: is perfect because the implication clearly is Republicans aren't Americans 221 00:16:29,035 --> 00:16:31,315 Speaker 1: still ahead on countdown from the desert to the sea 222 00:16:31,355 --> 00:16:33,915 Speaker 1: to all of southern California. If you know what that means, 223 00:16:33,955 --> 00:16:37,395 Speaker 1: you already know this story. If you don't, I'll tell 224 00:16:37,475 --> 00:16:40,355 Speaker 1: you it will be worth your time. First time for 225 00:16:40,395 --> 00:16:42,515 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miss grints, morons, and Donning 226 00:16:42,555 --> 00:16:45,875 Speaker 1: Kruger effect specimens who constitute today is where as persons 227 00:16:45,875 --> 00:16:50,835 Speaker 1: in the world Bronze John Rich singer. He sings both 228 00:16:50,915 --> 00:16:54,795 Speaker 1: kinds of songs, country and Western. John Rich went on 229 00:16:54,835 --> 00:16:57,635 Speaker 1: the ed you know somehow I got fired by both 230 00:16:57,715 --> 00:17:02,115 Speaker 1: CNN and Fox Henry Show on the Real America's voice 231 00:17:02,195 --> 00:17:07,075 Speaker 1: streaming feed, and he addressed, it's the crisis afflicting MAGA world. 232 00:17:07,635 --> 00:17:10,755 Speaker 1: How are they going to get drunk cheap if they 233 00:17:10,795 --> 00:17:14,515 Speaker 1: are all boycotting bud Light and the other thirty one 234 00:17:14,555 --> 00:17:18,075 Speaker 1: Anheuser Busch beer brands. Because bud Light put a transperson 235 00:17:18,115 --> 00:17:21,395 Speaker 1: on a can, It's actually broke a lot of hearts. 236 00:17:21,595 --> 00:17:25,355 Speaker 1: Bud cores Miller. I'm a bud guy, I'm a Corps guy. 237 00:17:25,555 --> 00:17:27,555 Speaker 1: So a lot of people are going, what do I do? 238 00:17:28,835 --> 00:17:35,475 Speaker 1: Have you all considered a little white wine? WHI ne wine? 239 00:17:35,675 --> 00:17:42,755 Speaker 1: W h I n E get it? Hello? Runner up 240 00:17:42,795 --> 00:17:46,915 Speaker 1: Missouri State Senator Mike Moon from ash Grove, Missouri. Ash Grove, 241 00:17:47,595 --> 00:17:50,755 Speaker 1: You know ash Grove, it's near you, Dora and Ebenezer 242 00:17:50,795 --> 00:17:55,755 Speaker 1: in Dadeville. It's like thirty miles northwest of Boaz. In 243 00:17:55,835 --> 00:17:58,715 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, somebody looked at Missouri state law and said, 244 00:17:58,795 --> 00:18:01,075 Speaker 1: good God. The legal age to marry in this state 245 00:18:01,155 --> 00:18:05,155 Speaker 1: is fifteen, with or without parental permission. So they changed 246 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:10,235 Speaker 1: it to sixteen with parental permission, and Senator Moon opposed 247 00:18:10,275 --> 00:18:15,835 Speaker 1: the change, and he opposed age fifteen and age fourteen. 248 00:18:15,995 --> 00:18:19,235 Speaker 1: In age thirteen. This year, Senator Moon has introduced to 249 00:18:19,275 --> 00:18:23,755 Speaker 1: build a banded care for transgender miners. Representative Peter Meredith 250 00:18:23,915 --> 00:18:27,195 Speaker 1: of the state stood up and noted Moon's hypocrisy. Meredith 251 00:18:27,235 --> 00:18:31,235 Speaker 1: said to Moon, quote, you voted no on making it 252 00:18:31,235 --> 00:18:33,315 Speaker 1: illegal for kids to be married to adults at the 253 00:18:33,355 --> 00:18:37,115 Speaker 1: age of twelve if their parents consented to it. You said, actually, 254 00:18:37,435 --> 00:18:39,835 Speaker 1: that should be the law, because it's the parents right 255 00:18:39,915 --> 00:18:42,675 Speaker 1: and the kids right to decide what's best for them 256 00:18:43,195 --> 00:18:47,155 Speaker 1: to be raped by an adult. End quote. So Moon 257 00:18:47,315 --> 00:18:51,595 Speaker 1: promptly doubled down his reply quote, do you know any 258 00:18:51,675 --> 00:18:54,515 Speaker 1: kids who've been married at age twelve? I do, and 259 00:18:54,635 --> 00:18:59,115 Speaker 1: guess what, they're still married. Well, then I guess that 260 00:18:59,275 --> 00:19:03,955 Speaker 1: justifies child rape. To Senator Moon, case closed. Huh. But 261 00:19:04,075 --> 00:19:07,515 Speaker 1: our winner the Governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee. If you 262 00:19:07,595 --> 00:19:10,635 Speaker 1: are applying for a job on a board or commission 263 00:19:10,795 --> 00:19:14,115 Speaker 1: in Arkansas, there is an online form you have to 264 00:19:14,115 --> 00:19:16,475 Speaker 1: fill out. One question asks you to write two hundred 265 00:19:16,515 --> 00:19:19,595 Speaker 1: and fifty words on which book you've read that would 266 00:19:19,595 --> 00:19:24,395 Speaker 1: best define your life. And why wait, you've read a 267 00:19:24,555 --> 00:19:28,075 Speaker 1: book and you want to go work for Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 268 00:19:28,755 --> 00:19:31,355 Speaker 1: But then there's this question for which you have to 269 00:19:31,355 --> 00:19:34,995 Speaker 1: write not two hundred and fifty words, but five hundred words. Quote, 270 00:19:35,395 --> 00:19:39,475 Speaker 1: what is an accomplishment of the governors that you admire 271 00:19:39,595 --> 00:19:46,515 Speaker 1: the most? Man fishing for compliments, huck Sarah Huckabee. The 272 00:19:46,595 --> 00:19:49,555 Speaker 1: good news is, since it's her, presumably when you answer that, 273 00:19:49,635 --> 00:19:55,315 Speaker 1: it's okay if you lie. Two days worst worst it 274 00:19:56,435 --> 00:20:11,835 Speaker 1: and the to the number one story on the countdown 275 00:20:11,835 --> 00:20:14,835 Speaker 1: and my favorite topic, me and things I promised not 276 00:20:14,955 --> 00:20:17,035 Speaker 1: to tell. And somebody sent me a video of him 277 00:20:17,075 --> 00:20:19,155 Speaker 1: the other day and I laughed again, and I flashed 278 00:20:19,195 --> 00:20:22,395 Speaker 1: back again. And now you get to hear about him too. 279 00:20:23,115 --> 00:20:25,515 Speaker 1: From the desert to the sea to all of southern California. 280 00:20:25,595 --> 00:20:29,035 Speaker 1: Good evening. You may or may not have ever heard 281 00:20:29,075 --> 00:20:32,995 Speaker 1: of Jerry Dunfie. That statement that you may or may 282 00:20:32,995 --> 00:20:35,315 Speaker 1: not have ever heard of Jerry Dunfie sent anybody from 283 00:20:35,315 --> 00:20:38,155 Speaker 1: southern California who was more than thirty five years old 284 00:20:38,155 --> 00:20:43,395 Speaker 1: into a deep, stunned silence. Because Jerry dunfe was ubiquitous 285 00:20:43,395 --> 00:20:46,915 Speaker 1: on TV News in Los Angeles from nineteen sixty until 286 00:20:46,955 --> 00:20:50,715 Speaker 1: two thousand and two. He died a week after his 287 00:20:50,795 --> 00:20:52,915 Speaker 1: last newscast, and there are some in the business who 288 00:20:52,915 --> 00:20:56,075 Speaker 1: have seriously believed he may show up again sooner or 289 00:20:56,195 --> 00:21:00,075 Speaker 1: later on TV, even though he's dead. He worked for 290 00:21:00,275 --> 00:21:03,395 Speaker 1: Channel two and he and his team won all the 291 00:21:03,515 --> 00:21:07,475 Speaker 1: ratings wars for fifteen years, and then one year the 292 00:21:07,515 --> 00:21:11,395 Speaker 1: station finished only tied for first in the Spring LA 293 00:21:11,555 --> 00:21:15,235 Speaker 1: ratings of nineteen seventy five, so the CBS corporate geniuses 294 00:21:15,235 --> 00:21:17,995 Speaker 1: in New York fired him and he went to Channel 295 00:21:18,035 --> 00:21:21,555 Speaker 1: seven like thirty six hours later, and then Channel seven 296 00:21:21,595 --> 00:21:24,555 Speaker 1: won nearly all the ratings periods there over fourteen years. 297 00:21:25,155 --> 00:21:27,115 Speaker 1: And then after six years at Channel nine, he was 298 00:21:27,195 --> 00:21:30,835 Speaker 1: hired back at Channel two, where he started where they 299 00:21:30,835 --> 00:21:33,355 Speaker 1: fired him. Hired back at Channel two for a couple 300 00:21:33,475 --> 00:21:35,675 Speaker 1: million more than he was making when they fired him 301 00:21:35,675 --> 00:21:37,795 Speaker 1: twenty years earlier, and then he went back to Channel 302 00:21:37,835 --> 00:21:39,355 Speaker 1: line and he was still on every night at the 303 00:21:39,395 --> 00:21:42,035 Speaker 1: age of eighty and Oh, by the way, he worked 304 00:21:42,035 --> 00:21:45,235 Speaker 1: for twenty nine years after he came out of the 305 00:21:45,355 --> 00:21:48,395 Speaker 1: KABC studios. On the night of October twenty fourth, nineteen 306 00:21:48,395 --> 00:21:50,955 Speaker 1: eighty three, hopped into his Rolls Royce with the station 307 00:21:51,075 --> 00:21:54,875 Speaker 1: makeup lady by his side, and was ambushed and shot 308 00:21:56,115 --> 00:22:00,915 Speaker 1: in the neck by four assailants, leading him to issue 309 00:22:00,995 --> 00:22:04,555 Speaker 1: the memorable statements They said, don't move, and I didn't, 310 00:22:04,795 --> 00:22:09,435 Speaker 1: but they shot anyway unquote, And they never figured out 311 00:22:09,435 --> 00:22:12,555 Speaker 1: who shot him or why. But Jerry Dunfey was back 312 00:22:12,595 --> 00:22:15,795 Speaker 1: on the air three weeks later. Anyway, And you cannot 313 00:22:15,995 --> 00:22:20,595 Speaker 1: imagine how many different guesses there were about that in 314 00:22:20,635 --> 00:22:22,955 Speaker 1: the LA news industry when I was on the air 315 00:22:22,995 --> 00:22:26,915 Speaker 1: there from nineteen eighty five through nineteen ninety one. There 316 00:22:27,115 --> 00:22:31,435 Speaker 1: is no question that in creating the fictional newscasters Ted 317 00:22:31,515 --> 00:22:36,195 Speaker 1: Baxter and Kent Brockman, and maybe even Ron Burgundy, much 318 00:22:36,315 --> 00:22:39,955 Speaker 1: was stolen from Jerry dunfe. Jerry Dunfey had a huge 319 00:22:39,995 --> 00:22:42,995 Speaker 1: shock of white hair, a craggy face, and a rich 320 00:22:43,115 --> 00:22:47,435 Speaker 1: baritone voice. He was in twenty one different movies, including 321 00:22:47,475 --> 00:22:51,835 Speaker 1: Oh God and the Amazing and Margaret Flick Kitten with 322 00:22:51,915 --> 00:22:55,195 Speaker 1: a Whip. Now, really there is an Ann Margaret film 323 00:22:55,235 --> 00:22:58,995 Speaker 1: called Kitten with a Whip. Anyway, I knew Jerry Dunfy. 324 00:22:59,515 --> 00:23:01,835 Speaker 1: He was a smart man, and a nice and a 325 00:23:01,875 --> 00:23:04,515 Speaker 1: welcoming man and obviously quite a business man, but he 326 00:23:04,755 --> 00:23:07,155 Speaker 1: did a tendency on the air to become, in his 327 00:23:07,235 --> 00:23:11,675 Speaker 1: own words, a teleprompter reading machine. He said, you put 328 00:23:11,715 --> 00:23:14,515 Speaker 1: it up there, and I'm going to say it down here, 329 00:23:15,315 --> 00:23:19,155 Speaker 1: and that's what this story is about. When I got 330 00:23:19,195 --> 00:23:21,315 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles at the age of twenty six in 331 00:23:21,435 --> 00:23:25,195 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, our newscast Channel five News at ten 332 00:23:25,675 --> 00:23:27,955 Speaker 1: was like something out of the nineteen sixties. The studio 333 00:23:28,035 --> 00:23:32,035 Speaker 1: had carpeting on the walls. There were no graphics to 334 00:23:32,075 --> 00:23:36,235 Speaker 1: speak of, just a big rear screen projection device. Our 335 00:23:36,355 --> 00:23:40,435 Speaker 1: best reporter, the lovely stand Chambers, had literally worked there 336 00:23:40,675 --> 00:23:43,675 Speaker 1: since the station had signed on the air for the 337 00:23:43,715 --> 00:23:46,835 Speaker 1: first time thirty eight years before, and he would keep 338 00:23:46,875 --> 00:23:51,635 Speaker 1: working there for another twenty five years. Our inimitable anchorman, 339 00:23:51,755 --> 00:23:55,715 Speaker 1: Hal Fishman, would not wear an IFB an earpiece, because 340 00:23:55,755 --> 00:23:58,875 Speaker 1: he thought viewers might think that if he did, it 341 00:23:58,915 --> 00:24:02,195 Speaker 1: was because he needed a hearing aid. He did, however, 342 00:24:02,235 --> 00:24:05,915 Speaker 1: wear one of a series of two pay of different 343 00:24:05,995 --> 00:24:10,675 Speaker 1: length to simulate the need for a haircut. Until the 344 00:24:10,755 --> 00:24:13,915 Speaker 1: first commercial break was over on News at ten, only 345 00:24:13,995 --> 00:24:17,955 Speaker 1: Hal spoke. His female co anchor just sat there adoringly 346 00:24:18,635 --> 00:24:22,555 Speaker 1: and The producer was a marvelously frantic character named Jerry Rubin, 347 00:24:22,995 --> 00:24:25,395 Speaker 1: who every night at nine PM, an hour to airtime, 348 00:24:25,435 --> 00:24:30,515 Speaker 1: would run around the newsroom screaming battle stations, battle stations, 349 00:24:31,395 --> 00:24:33,995 Speaker 1: and who took me seriously only when I could figure 350 00:24:33,995 --> 00:24:38,315 Speaker 1: out what his as Jerry phrased it, invisible thread was 351 00:24:38,875 --> 00:24:42,315 Speaker 1: running through his nightly ordering of the stories, the rundown. 352 00:24:43,035 --> 00:24:45,075 Speaker 1: He would ask me to come into the newsroom and 353 00:24:45,155 --> 00:24:47,915 Speaker 1: look at the rundown and say, all right, I'll verman, 354 00:24:47,955 --> 00:24:52,035 Speaker 1: you're so smart. What's the invisible thread? And he only 355 00:24:52,035 --> 00:24:54,635 Speaker 1: began to like me when I could recite to him 356 00:24:54,635 --> 00:24:57,555 Speaker 1: from memory the starting lineup of his beloved nineteen forty 357 00:24:57,555 --> 00:25:01,435 Speaker 1: five Chicago Cubs. But he stayed liking me. We remained 358 00:25:01,435 --> 00:25:05,515 Speaker 1: friends for thirty years. Anyway. Jerry had come to Los 359 00:25:05,555 --> 00:25:09,355 Speaker 1: Angeles in nineteen sixty nine, hired away from WGN in 360 00:25:09,435 --> 00:25:13,115 Speaker 1: Chicago to become the lead writer for This is where 361 00:25:13,115 --> 00:25:16,555 Speaker 1: the Story comes together. You guessed it, the Jerry Dunfie 362 00:25:16,635 --> 00:25:20,795 Speaker 1: newscasts on k n XT, the CBS station in Los Angeles. 363 00:25:21,475 --> 00:25:24,715 Speaker 1: In fact, after winning every sweeps period for nine years, 364 00:25:24,755 --> 00:25:29,235 Speaker 1: the newscast had rightly become the big news with Jerry Dunfie. 365 00:25:29,635 --> 00:25:32,675 Speaker 1: And it began with an unseen announcer intoning the big 366 00:25:32,755 --> 00:25:38,315 Speaker 1: news with Jerry Dunfey. Now here is Jerry Dunfey. And 367 00:25:38,355 --> 00:25:42,835 Speaker 1: then Jerry dunfee said his catchphrase, the catchphrase of all 368 00:25:43,035 --> 00:25:45,675 Speaker 1: catch phrases. Unlike the guy I worked with in New 369 00:25:45,755 --> 00:25:48,155 Speaker 1: York when I was an intern, Bill Jorgensen, thank you 370 00:25:48,195 --> 00:25:51,075 Speaker 1: for your time this time till next time, Jerry Dunfey said, 371 00:25:51,635 --> 00:25:56,595 Speaker 1: from the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, 372 00:25:56,795 --> 00:26:02,275 Speaker 1: good evening. Nonsense, of course, but boy it sounded good. 373 00:26:02,355 --> 00:26:05,715 Speaker 1: From the desert to the sea to all Southern California, 374 00:26:06,035 --> 00:26:10,075 Speaker 1: good evening. He said this so often that it is 375 00:26:10,155 --> 00:26:15,595 Speaker 1: still used in some promotional announcements by Channel nine News 376 00:26:15,595 --> 00:26:18,115 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and Channel seven News in Los Angeles 377 00:26:18,195 --> 00:26:20,715 Speaker 1: and Channel two in Los Angeles. From the desert to 378 00:26:20,755 --> 00:26:23,795 Speaker 1: the siege to all of Southern California, good evening. I'm 379 00:26:23,835 --> 00:26:27,435 Speaker 1: dead well. No, they don't actually say that, but that's 380 00:26:27,475 --> 00:26:30,355 Speaker 1: pretty much what it means. The only joke about the 381 00:26:30,475 --> 00:26:33,915 Speaker 1: night he got shot outside the parking lot that I 382 00:26:33,955 --> 00:26:37,275 Speaker 1: can tell is that when the cops arrived, Dunphy said 383 00:26:37,275 --> 00:26:39,315 Speaker 1: to them from the desert to the siege to all 384 00:26:39,355 --> 00:26:42,715 Speaker 1: of Southern California. Good evening, I've been shot in the neck. 385 00:26:45,515 --> 00:26:47,955 Speaker 1: The first night, my friend Jerry Rubin sat down to 386 00:26:47,995 --> 00:26:52,155 Speaker 1: write the Big News with Jerry Dunfee. Jerry Rubin was 387 00:26:52,195 --> 00:26:54,955 Speaker 1: a little nervous. He got there early, he said. He 388 00:26:54,995 --> 00:26:58,075 Speaker 1: wrote some stories a dozen times each trying to get 389 00:26:58,075 --> 00:27:01,715 Speaker 1: it perfect. Finally, for the lead story, which if memory serves, 390 00:27:01,755 --> 00:27:05,355 Speaker 1: was about a bank robbery in Pasadena, Jerry got Jess right, 391 00:27:05,835 --> 00:27:08,635 Speaker 1: and on that nineteen sixty nine evening at six pm, 392 00:27:08,755 --> 00:27:11,635 Speaker 1: viewers of the Big News on Channel two in Los Angeles, 393 00:27:11,955 --> 00:27:13,955 Speaker 1: those for whom from the desert to the sea, who 394 00:27:13,995 --> 00:27:16,875 Speaker 1: all of Southern California was not a cliche but mantra. 395 00:27:17,395 --> 00:27:20,515 Speaker 1: They heard the familiar Channel two screeching theme music, and 396 00:27:20,515 --> 00:27:24,075 Speaker 1: then the Big News with Terry Dunfie. Now here is 397 00:27:24,195 --> 00:27:27,875 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunfie, And up popped Jerry Dunfie's face, and he 398 00:27:27,955 --> 00:27:31,835 Speaker 1: said three armed and very dangerous modern day desperadoes are 399 00:27:31,875 --> 00:27:36,075 Speaker 1: still loose in Pasadena tonight. After blah blah blah blah blah, 400 00:27:36,195 --> 00:27:40,715 Speaker 1: the newscast ended an hour later. Jerry Reuben was very relieved. 401 00:27:40,915 --> 00:27:44,075 Speaker 1: Jerry Dunfie strode back to his desk before presumably going 402 00:27:44,075 --> 00:27:46,875 Speaker 1: out to warm up the rolls Royce and avoid the 403 00:27:46,915 --> 00:27:49,635 Speaker 1: gunmen who would finally get him fourteen years later, and 404 00:27:49,675 --> 00:27:52,915 Speaker 1: not even slow him down. And that's when the station's 405 00:27:52,955 --> 00:27:55,515 Speaker 1: news director leaned out of his office and waived the 406 00:27:55,595 --> 00:27:59,555 Speaker 1: two Jerry's inside. What the hell happened, Dunfie? Did you 407 00:27:59,635 --> 00:28:02,355 Speaker 1: retire it? You can't retire it. It's in the contract. 408 00:28:02,355 --> 00:28:06,635 Speaker 1: You have to stay it, according to Jerry Reuben. Dunfey 409 00:28:06,715 --> 00:28:10,195 Speaker 1: looked blankly at his boss. Jerry Reuben said he was 410 00:28:10,235 --> 00:28:13,675 Speaker 1: even more confused himself. From the desert to the sea, 411 00:28:13,835 --> 00:28:15,955 Speaker 1: he didn't say from the desert to the sea. At 412 00:28:15,955 --> 00:28:18,515 Speaker 1: the start of the big news you say, from the 413 00:28:18,555 --> 00:28:21,235 Speaker 1: desert to the sea to all of southern California, Good evening. 414 00:28:21,675 --> 00:28:23,755 Speaker 1: Only tonight you didn't say, from the desert to the 415 00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:25,795 Speaker 1: sea to all of Southern California, good evening. You said 416 00:28:25,835 --> 00:28:29,755 Speaker 1: something about a bank. What the hell, Jerry, we got 417 00:28:29,755 --> 00:28:34,915 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty phone calls. Jerry Dunfey now pursed 418 00:28:34,955 --> 00:28:38,595 Speaker 1: his lips and turned to the new writer. What the hell, Reuben, 419 00:28:38,955 --> 00:28:43,635 Speaker 1: didn't you put it in the script? Jerry Reuben kept 420 00:28:43,635 --> 00:28:45,995 Speaker 1: this part to himself, but frankly, he said he couldn't 421 00:28:45,995 --> 00:28:47,875 Speaker 1: believe what he was hearing. For nine years, this man 422 00:28:47,995 --> 00:28:50,275 Speaker 1: Dunfey had signed on virtually every one of his news 423 00:28:50,355 --> 00:28:53,035 Speaker 1: broadcast every night at six and then again every night 424 00:28:53,075 --> 00:28:54,715 Speaker 1: at eleven by saying, from the desert to the sea 425 00:28:54,755 --> 00:28:57,075 Speaker 1: to all of southern California could evening. But apparently if 426 00:28:57,075 --> 00:28:58,955 Speaker 1: you did not write it in the script and did 427 00:28:58,955 --> 00:29:01,275 Speaker 1: not put it on the telepropter for him, he would 428 00:29:01,315 --> 00:29:07,275 Speaker 1: forget it. Before Jerry Reuben could say anything, Jerry Dunfie 429 00:29:07,395 --> 00:29:12,035 Speaker 1: barked at him with some understanding. Don't you understand when 430 00:29:12,075 --> 00:29:15,395 Speaker 1: I'm out there, I'm a teleprompter reading machine. You put 431 00:29:15,395 --> 00:29:18,075 Speaker 1: it up there, I'm going to say it down here. 432 00:29:18,755 --> 00:29:21,115 Speaker 1: You don't put it up there. I'm not going to 433 00:29:21,195 --> 00:29:25,635 Speaker 1: say it down here. The news director looked sternly at 434 00:29:25,715 --> 00:29:30,315 Speaker 1: Jerry Reuben. Jerry Reuben did not burst into uncontrollable laughter, 435 00:29:30,755 --> 00:29:33,115 Speaker 1: race from the building k and XT was in on 436 00:29:33,115 --> 00:29:36,035 Speaker 1: Sunset Boulevard, and get on the first plane back to Chicago. 437 00:29:36,355 --> 00:29:39,115 Speaker 1: He just said yes, sir, and the news director said 438 00:29:39,195 --> 00:29:41,835 Speaker 1: good and everybody left, and from that night at eleven 439 00:29:41,875 --> 00:29:44,955 Speaker 1: o'clock onwards. Jerry Reuben always started his script for the 440 00:29:45,035 --> 00:29:47,395 Speaker 1: lead story by typing out, from the desert to the 441 00:29:47,435 --> 00:29:50,275 Speaker 1: Sea to all of Southern California, Good evening, there's a 442 00:29:50,275 --> 00:29:52,875 Speaker 1: twenty six car pile up on the Santa Monica Freeway 443 00:29:52,995 --> 00:29:55,515 Speaker 1: after another mattress has been dumped in the left lane. 444 00:29:56,435 --> 00:29:58,835 Speaker 1: Or from the desert to the siege to all of 445 00:29:58,835 --> 00:30:04,915 Speaker 1: Southern California, Good evening, Burbank bank burgled or whatever. Over 446 00:30:04,955 --> 00:30:07,155 Speaker 1: the next few weeks, the lead story on the Big 447 00:30:07,195 --> 00:30:10,115 Speaker 1: News with Jerry Dunfie would change, as lead stories do. 448 00:30:10,915 --> 00:30:14,075 Speaker 1: At five PM or five thirty or five fifty, something 449 00:30:14,235 --> 00:30:17,755 Speaker 1: big er would happen, and it was the Big News. 450 00:30:18,155 --> 00:30:21,275 Speaker 1: So Jerry Reuben would often have to rewrite page one 451 00:30:21,315 --> 00:30:24,235 Speaker 1: of the script, and every time he rewrote it, and 452 00:30:24,355 --> 00:30:26,795 Speaker 1: every time he re rewrote it, and the one time 453 00:30:26,795 --> 00:30:30,435 Speaker 1: he told me that he re re rewrote it, Jerry 454 00:30:30,475 --> 00:30:33,475 Speaker 1: remembered to start page one with from the desert to 455 00:30:33,515 --> 00:30:37,715 Speaker 1: the Sea to all Southern California, A good evening. All 456 00:30:37,875 --> 00:30:41,755 Speaker 1: was well, the teleprompter reading machine was happy, the news 457 00:30:41,795 --> 00:30:46,875 Speaker 1: director was happy, Jerry Reuben was happy, and Ben Calamity 458 00:30:47,115 --> 00:30:51,315 Speaker 1: struck at about five fifty eight. One night, Jerry Reuben 459 00:30:51,395 --> 00:30:54,355 Speaker 1: was told there is a refinery fire in Torrents. It 460 00:30:54,475 --> 00:30:56,915 Speaker 1: is the new lead story. Just say, we're rushing the crew. 461 00:30:56,995 --> 00:30:59,955 Speaker 1: Get it written. He started to type our top story, 462 00:30:59,995 --> 00:31:03,795 Speaker 1: breaking news a refinery, and then he tore the page 463 00:31:03,835 --> 00:31:08,875 Speaker 1: from his machine. He started a new His fingers danced 464 00:31:08,875 --> 00:31:10,995 Speaker 1: across the keyboard from the desert to the sea to 465 00:31:10,995 --> 00:31:13,395 Speaker 1: all of southern California. Good evening, our top story tonight, 466 00:31:13,395 --> 00:31:16,155 Speaker 1: breaking news. Our refinery fire is just erupted in Torrents. 467 00:31:16,195 --> 00:31:18,675 Speaker 1: A Channel two Big News Live crew is rushing to 468 00:31:18,755 --> 00:31:20,115 Speaker 1: the scene at this hour, and we will have a 469 00:31:20,115 --> 00:31:22,795 Speaker 1: Big News live report from Rick Davis before this newscast 470 00:31:22,915 --> 00:31:26,515 Speaker 1: is over. Reuben knew he did not have time to 471 00:31:26,555 --> 00:31:29,755 Speaker 1: get a production assistant to take the new lead script 472 00:31:29,795 --> 00:31:32,835 Speaker 1: into Dunfie, nor to tape it into the script about 473 00:31:32,835 --> 00:31:35,795 Speaker 1: to pass through the teleprompter, so he did both things himself. 474 00:31:36,235 --> 00:31:39,715 Speaker 1: New lead. He screamed at Dunfie, throwing the page at him, 475 00:31:39,835 --> 00:31:42,635 Speaker 1: and the unseen announcer was already at mid introduction when 476 00:31:42,675 --> 00:31:45,355 Speaker 1: Jerry Ruben taped that new piece of script into the 477 00:31:45,355 --> 00:31:51,395 Speaker 1: prompter without remembering to remove the old lead script from 478 00:31:51,475 --> 00:31:56,755 Speaker 1: the prompter, and this is what Los Angeles heard, the 479 00:31:56,835 --> 00:32:02,195 Speaker 1: Big News with Jerry Dunfie. Now here's Jerry Dunfie from 480 00:32:02,195 --> 00:32:04,195 Speaker 1: the desert to the sea to all of southern California. 481 00:32:04,235 --> 00:32:08,195 Speaker 1: Good evening, Our top story tonight. Breaking news or refinery 482 00:32:08,235 --> 00:32:11,435 Speaker 1: fire has just erupted in Torrance. A Channel two Big 483 00:32:11,515 --> 00:32:13,675 Speaker 1: News Live crew is rushing to the scene at this hour, 484 00:32:13,795 --> 00:32:15,795 Speaker 1: and we will have a Big News Live report from 485 00:32:15,875 --> 00:32:19,995 Speaker 1: Rick Dabis before this newscast is over. Jerry Dunfie dramatically 486 00:32:20,035 --> 00:32:22,275 Speaker 1: turned over page one and began to read page two. 487 00:32:22,595 --> 00:32:25,155 Speaker 1: From a desert to the sea to all of southern California. 488 00:32:25,155 --> 00:32:28,875 Speaker 1: Good evening, Our top story tonight, Mayor Sam your he said, 489 00:32:30,475 --> 00:32:35,515 Speaker 1: Jerry Reuben said, My head dropped to my desk with 490 00:32:35,555 --> 00:32:51,355 Speaker 1: a thud. I've done all the damage I can do here. 491 00:32:51,395 --> 00:32:53,435 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Here are the credits both to 492 00:32:53,475 --> 00:32:56,435 Speaker 1: The music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray 493 00:32:56,915 --> 00:33:00,075 Speaker 1: and John Philip Chanelle, who are the Countdown musical directors. 494 00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:04,475 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. Guitars, bass 495 00:33:04,475 --> 00:33:08,475 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Other 496 00:33:08,515 --> 00:33:11,555 Speaker 1: Beethoven's elections have been arranged and performed by the group 497 00:33:11,635 --> 00:33:15,115 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olderman theme 498 00:33:15,155 --> 00:33:18,035 Speaker 1: from ESPN two and it was written by Mitch Warren 499 00:33:18,075 --> 00:33:22,395 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. 500 00:33:22,435 --> 00:33:25,515 Speaker 1: The best baseball stadium organist ever at our announcer today 501 00:33:25,595 --> 00:33:29,275 Speaker 1: was Kenny Maine. Everything else pretty much my fault. Let's 502 00:33:29,275 --> 00:33:31,515 Speaker 1: countdown for this the eight hundred and twenty eighth day 503 00:33:31,875 --> 00:33:35,115 Speaker 1: since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 504 00:33:35,155 --> 00:33:39,075 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Don't forget to keep arresting 505 00:33:39,155 --> 00:33:42,875 Speaker 1: him while we still can. The next schedule countdown is tomorrow. 506 00:33:42,955 --> 00:33:45,715 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 507 00:33:46,275 --> 00:33:58,955 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 508 00:33:59,115 --> 00:34:04,075 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. 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