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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Russia

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Speaker 1: has committed an act of war against this nation and

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Speaker 1: our form of government. We were attacked last night as

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Speaker 1: certainly as if they came across the borders, whereas if

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Speaker 1: they had bombed polling stations, forty or more polling stations.

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Speaker 1: Thirty two Russian origin bomb threats just in Fulton County,

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Speaker 1: Georgia alone, And what are you going to do about it?

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Speaker 1: President Biden? What are you going to do about it?

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland? Or are you Merrick Garland in another coma.

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Speaker 1: Regardless of the outcome of the present ssidential election, there

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Speaker 1: is real time evidence of Russian interference in that election.

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Speaker 1: Russians trying to decide who becomes president, who goes to

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Speaker 1: the Senate, the House and wins. Locally, thirty two bomb

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Speaker 1: threats identified immediately as coming from Russian email addresses and sources.

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Speaker 1: In the most democratic part of Georgia, a quarter of

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Speaker 1: the state's black population subjected to a terror attack in

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Speaker 1: Fulton and DeKalb Counties, and in Pennsylvania, a threat that

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Speaker 1: closed a county election's office for an hour, and at

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Speaker 1: least ten others statewide of varying degrees, and in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: and in Michigan, and in Arizona, at least ten in Arizona,

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Speaker 1: and back in Georgia. When Georgia extended voting to compensate

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Speaker 1: for the fact that Russian terrorist threats had stopped the

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Speaker 1: voting and caused the evacuation of the polling places, the

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Speaker 1: Republican National Committee went to court to stop the extension

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Speaker 1: of the voting. The Republican National Committee and the Russians

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Speaker 1: on the same side. Again, it is an act of war.

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Speaker 1: And we know, despite nearly a decade of efforts to

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Speaker 1: bury this truth, that Russian interference means Trump. Trump already

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Speaker 1: admitted at the debate he had talked to Putin after

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Speaker 1: Trump had left office. And now as Russian interference means Trump,

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Speaker 1: Trump means Elon Musk. And we know Elon Musk has

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Speaker 1: been in contact with Putin for fully two years. Remember

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Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal October twenty fourth quote. Elon Musk,

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Speaker 1: the world's richest man and a lynchpin of US space efforts,

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Speaker 1: has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 1: since late twenty twenty two. The discussions confirmed by several

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Speaker 1: current and former US, European and Russian officials touch on

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Speaker 1: personal topics, business, and geopolitical tensions in the journal. On

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Speaker 1: October twenty fourth, its sources reported Putin asked Musk to

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Speaker 1: not activate his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as

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Speaker 1: quote a favor to the Chinese dictator Shi Jinping. That

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Speaker 1: the journal quoted a former Russian intelligence officer is saying

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Speaker 1: happened late last year, quoting the article again later in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Musk was having regular conversations with quote

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Speaker 1: high level Russians. According to a person familiar with the

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Speaker 1: interactions at the time, there was pressure from the Kremlin

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Speaker 1: on Musk's businesses and quote implicit threats against him, the

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Speaker 1: person said, threats unless he did what. The journal went

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Speaker 1: on to say that since Musk has quote a security

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Speaker 1: clearance that allows him access to certain classified information, his

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Speaker 1: continuing contact with Putin triggered quote potential national security concerns

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Speaker 1: among some in the current administration, and the Journal. Reporters

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Speaker 1: also said that while some in the Biden administration seem

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Speaker 1: to have been aware of Musk's connection to Russia and Putin,

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Speaker 1: maybe most did not. Quote. Several White House officials said

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Speaker 1: they weren't aware of them. Were they aware that Musk

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Speaker 1: had taken over goodness knows what? Or for something not happening?

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Speaker 1: Musk to Twitter swung it into a position in which

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Speaker 1: it was a home for every pro Russian idiot and

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Speaker 1: bought and every Nazi and every racist and every anti

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Speaker 1: Semite and every anti American force that had thumbs. Is

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Speaker 1: must going to be arrested? Detained? Questioned? Are his clearances

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Speaker 1: going to be removed? Is somebody going to send him

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Speaker 1: an email asking him if he knows what happened? Did

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Speaker 1: he have any connection to it? Could he get a

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Speaker 1: message through to Putin? Is Trump going to be arrested? Detained? Question?

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Speaker 1: Anybody connected to Trump? How about a statement from Merrick Garland?

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Speaker 1: Or is that timid, useless, infinite man still working on

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Speaker 1: preventing the copying of music, cassete and eight track tapes.

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Speaker 1: Trump's Supreme Court has given the president, not him, not

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Speaker 1: anyone in particular the office of president of the United States.

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Speaker 1: It has given the president blanket immunity, pre approval to

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Speaker 1: do basically anything he wants and fear no prosecution as

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Speaker 1: long as he can just vaguely prove he did it

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Speaker 1: as part of his official duties. I'm just guessing here,

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Speaker 1: but responding to an attempt unquestionably successful at least in part,

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Speaker 1: to interfere with the election by a foreign country is

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Speaker 1: unquestionably part of those official presidential duties. Have we ceded

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Speaker 1: control of this country to Russia? President Biden? Does putin

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Speaker 1: get to shut down polling places and scare off what

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Speaker 1: will be for all time an unmeasurable number of American

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Speaker 1: voters in the places in which in our history members

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Speaker 1: of minority groups are shot at and killed for trying

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Speaker 1: to vote. Do the Russians get to shut down polling

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Speaker 1: places now act as the KKK influence the outcome of

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Speaker 1: elections in the states that are key to the election?

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Speaker 1: Do they get to make these decisions? Or it's a

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Speaker 1: quaint notion. Do Americans get to make these decisions? President Biden?

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Speaker 1: What are we going to do in response to this?

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Speaker 1: Are we going to turn off Russia's power grid? Are

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Speaker 1: we going to seize starlink and shut it off where

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Speaker 1: the Russians are using it? In Ukraine? Are we going

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Speaker 1: to give Ukraine all of the seized Russian oligarchs, super

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Speaker 1: yachts and other investments in cash. Are we giving Ukraine

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Speaker 1: all it needs to obliterate the entire Russian force inside

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Speaker 1: its country while we still have a country. Are we

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Speaker 1: expelling Russian diplomats? Are we voiding the electoral results in

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Speaker 1: the States the Russians invaded by remote control or even

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Speaker 1: thinking about how to correct this? Are we considering doing

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Speaker 1: something more severe? Or are we repeating twenty sixteen, where

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Speaker 1: despite overwhelming evidence that Trump got help from Russia to

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Speaker 1: get elected, we just shrugged. We just turned our government

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Speaker 1: over to a bunch of crooks who have proved themselves

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Speaker 1: since time and time again manipulated by, and instructed by,

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Speaker 1: and shown how to cheat and lie and kill Americans

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Speaker 1: by Vladimir Putin. Are we going to get a statement

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Speaker 1: from this administration? Oh? Oh wait, wait, there was a

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Speaker 1: statement from this administration. I'll quote it in full. The

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Speaker 1: FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in

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Speaker 1: several states, including Georgia, many of which appear to originate

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Speaker 1: from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been

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Speaker 1: determined to be credible thus far. Election integrity is among

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Speaker 1: the FBI's highest priorities. We will continue to work closely

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Speaker 1: with our state and local law enforcement partners to respond

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Speaker 1: to any threats to our elections and to protect our

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Speaker 1: communities as Americans exercise their right to vote. As an

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Speaker 1: asiadale note, except for last night, as always, the FBI

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Speaker 1: statement continues, there is no signature, there is no office,

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Speaker 1: there is no name connected to this. It is the

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Speaker 1: FBI as an institution. As always, we urge the public

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Speaker 1: to remain vigilant. Again, as an aside, because Merrick Garland

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Speaker 1: does not remain vigilant and reports suspicious activity to state

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Speaker 1: or local law enforcement or submit tips to the FBI

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Speaker 1: at one eight hundred call FBI or online at tips

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Speaker 1: dot FBI dot gov. How extraordinarily and completely and impotently

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Speaker 1: pathetic the Russians just shot our democracy in the heart,

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Speaker 1: and those who are there solely to protect that democracy

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Speaker 1: and the citizens of this nation, Us, those who are

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Speaker 1: there solely to protect us, have responded to this invasion

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