1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,155 --> 00:00:25,195 Speaker 1: has proved yet again that he is a dangerous and 3 00:00:25,315 --> 00:00:29,235 Speaker 1: potentially murderous anti Semite. But it really tells you something 4 00:00:29,315 --> 00:00:33,315 Speaker 1: when that is not the lead story about him. I 5 00:00:33,355 --> 00:00:35,555 Speaker 1: will get to it presently, But first two more of 6 00:00:35,595 --> 00:00:39,315 Speaker 1: his gang members have flipped on Donald Trump flipped on 7 00:00:39,435 --> 00:00:44,235 Speaker 1: him evidently without even getting anything in return, not even immunity, 8 00:00:44,875 --> 00:00:48,715 Speaker 1: in one case serving as a de facto government agent 9 00:00:48,835 --> 00:00:53,395 Speaker 1: gathering and bringing in evidence against Trump, physical evidence against Trump, 10 00:00:53,715 --> 00:00:57,555 Speaker 1: and in the other case flipping on him without apparently 11 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:01,915 Speaker 1: telling the truth, just making stuff up about him to 12 00:01:02,075 --> 00:01:07,675 Speaker 1: save themselves by sinking him. In an almost comedic turn, 13 00:01:08,395 --> 00:01:12,675 Speaker 1: Trump assistant Gal Friday facto toe Molly Michael is telling 14 00:01:12,715 --> 00:01:16,715 Speaker 1: federal investigators that he used to write to do lists 15 00:01:16,835 --> 00:01:23,595 Speaker 1: for her on the backs of the classified documents he 16 00:01:23,715 --> 00:01:32,595 Speaker 1: had improperly stolen to do lists on summaries of classified 17 00:01:32,635 --> 00:01:40,555 Speaker 1: intelligence with visible classification markings on them, handed to Trump 18 00:01:40,795 --> 00:01:44,715 Speaker 1: in the Oval office, which he used as scrap paper, 19 00:01:45,875 --> 00:01:48,955 Speaker 1: and handed to the lowest level White House staffer he 20 00:01:48,995 --> 00:01:52,435 Speaker 1: could see. They would not have accepted this as a 21 00:01:52,475 --> 00:01:58,395 Speaker 1: plot device on VEEP. The to do Dodo. Also, according 22 00:01:58,395 --> 00:02:01,155 Speaker 1: to ABC News, Trump found out last year that the 23 00:02:01,235 --> 00:02:04,195 Speaker 1: FBI wanted to talk to Molly Michael, so he told her. 24 00:02:04,235 --> 00:02:08,555 Speaker 1: She says, quote, you don't know anything about the boxes unquote. 25 00:02:09,195 --> 00:02:12,755 Speaker 1: The thing is he never went into specifics. She still 26 00:02:12,755 --> 00:02:15,275 Speaker 1: doesn't know exactly what he meant by that. What boxes. 27 00:02:16,235 --> 00:02:21,235 Speaker 1: There's always money in the banana stand. There's a third 28 00:02:21,315 --> 00:02:24,675 Speaker 1: part to this. Those to do lists, and one can 29 00:02:24,715 --> 00:02:30,035 Speaker 1: imagine them. One get bleached, to drink, two get Komi arrested, 30 00:02:30,355 --> 00:02:35,635 Speaker 1: three insight insurrection. Those to do lists were at marri 31 00:02:35,715 --> 00:02:38,995 Speaker 1: Lago when the FBI executed the search warrant there on 32 00:02:39,075 --> 00:02:42,635 Speaker 1: August the eight, twenty twenty two, but ms Michael said 33 00:02:42,635 --> 00:02:47,035 Speaker 1: the investigators missed them. When she was allowed back into 34 00:02:47,035 --> 00:02:49,875 Speaker 1: her office the next day, August ninth, she found them, 35 00:02:49,915 --> 00:02:52,875 Speaker 1: and there were many of them, kind of messed up, 36 00:02:53,035 --> 00:02:57,715 Speaker 1: but still there underneath a drawer organizer. ABC reports she 37 00:02:57,835 --> 00:03:01,835 Speaker 1: quote helped transfer them to the FBI that same day, 38 00:03:02,115 --> 00:03:05,275 Speaker 1: which sounds almost meaningless, but actually mean that. No later 39 00:03:05,315 --> 00:03:08,795 Speaker 1: than thirteen months ago, Molly Michael began cooperating with the 40 00:03:08,875 --> 00:03:12,835 Speaker 1: investigation of the top secret materials that Trump stole and 41 00:03:12,875 --> 00:03:16,955 Speaker 1: stashed at his version of the Bushwood golf course. Hell 42 00:03:17,475 --> 00:03:23,155 Speaker 1: in this investigation, she is senior to Jack Smith helped 43 00:03:23,755 --> 00:03:26,715 Speaker 1: transfer them to the FBI is a very dressed up, 44 00:03:26,955 --> 00:03:31,395 Speaker 1: pleasant euphemism for serving as a junior g man and 45 00:03:31,515 --> 00:03:37,155 Speaker 1: getting the evidence for the Feds. To emphasize just how 46 00:03:37,235 --> 00:03:40,075 Speaker 1: much Molly Michael flipped on Trump, turned on Trump has 47 00:03:40,115 --> 00:03:42,275 Speaker 1: been helping increase the odds of sending Trump to the 48 00:03:42,275 --> 00:03:47,315 Speaker 1: Big House. ABC's sources familiar with what Michael told investigators 49 00:03:47,355 --> 00:03:51,635 Speaker 1: added this quote. Michael also told federal investigators that last 50 00:03:51,755 --> 00:03:57,275 Speaker 1: year she grew increasingly concerned with how Trump handled recurring 51 00:03:57,315 --> 00:04:00,675 Speaker 1: requests from the National Archives for the return of all 52 00:04:00,755 --> 00:04:04,355 Speaker 1: government documents being kept in boxes at marri Lago, and 53 00:04:04,395 --> 00:04:06,715 Speaker 1: she felt that Trump's claims about it at the time 54 00:04:06,755 --> 00:04:12,035 Speaker 1: would be easy to disprove, According to the sources, in 55 00:04:12,035 --> 00:04:14,715 Speaker 1: other words, she knew he was lying and figured he 56 00:04:14,795 --> 00:04:19,195 Speaker 1: was going to get caught right. Oh, and there's even more. 57 00:04:19,755 --> 00:04:24,555 Speaker 1: After Trump returned fifteen boxes that ultimately proved to contain 58 00:04:24,595 --> 00:04:28,635 Speaker 1: nearly two hundred classified documents, quote, Trump began to seem 59 00:04:28,715 --> 00:04:33,395 Speaker 1: more reluctant to cooperate with the agency, and he asked 60 00:04:33,475 --> 00:04:37,635 Speaker 1: Michael to help spread a message that no more boxes 61 00:04:38,115 --> 00:04:43,835 Speaker 1: existed unquote. So Molly Michael gave up Trump on illegal 62 00:04:43,915 --> 00:04:47,075 Speaker 1: retention of the secret documents. She gave him up on 63 00:04:47,275 --> 00:04:51,555 Speaker 1: mishandling classified information. She gave him up on illegally showing them, 64 00:04:51,595 --> 00:04:54,915 Speaker 1: giving them to somebody who could not legally read them. 65 00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:58,235 Speaker 1: She gave him up on trying to obstruct justice by 66 00:04:58,315 --> 00:05:00,675 Speaker 1: hiding them from authorities. She gave him up on the 67 00:05:00,715 --> 00:05:04,235 Speaker 1: false certification that he made that everything had been turned over. 68 00:05:04,675 --> 00:05:07,555 Speaker 1: He gave him up on a conspiracy to get others 69 00:05:07,595 --> 00:05:10,995 Speaker 1: to lie to the authorities for him with this message 70 00:05:11,395 --> 00:05:15,315 Speaker 1: that no more boxes existed, and the other cryptic message, 71 00:05:15,475 --> 00:05:20,515 Speaker 1: you don't know anything about the boxes. Her testimony establishes 72 00:05:20,875 --> 00:05:23,995 Speaker 1: not just the baseline of the crimes that governments accused 73 00:05:23,995 --> 00:05:28,355 Speaker 1: Trump of, but also the Espionage Act components and his 74 00:05:28,475 --> 00:05:33,675 Speaker 1: intent to deceive rather than just you know, keeping souvenirs 75 00:05:33,675 --> 00:05:38,075 Speaker 1: and being stupid about it, and Molly Michael's just half 76 00:05:38,115 --> 00:05:42,395 Speaker 1: of it. Jeff Clark, the man who would be Attorney General, 77 00:05:42,915 --> 00:05:45,835 Speaker 1: has become the fifth out of the Trump nineteen to 78 00:05:45,835 --> 00:05:48,835 Speaker 1: try to get his Atlantic charges moved to federal court, 79 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:51,955 Speaker 1: and his lawyer has told the judge that he should 80 00:05:51,995 --> 00:05:55,835 Speaker 1: grant their motion because of one letter. It is the 81 00:05:55,955 --> 00:05:59,595 Speaker 1: letter that Jeffrey Clark wrote but was prevented from sending 82 00:05:59,955 --> 00:06:04,075 Speaker 1: after the twenty twenty election, sending from the Justice Department 83 00:06:04,115 --> 00:06:08,035 Speaker 1: email to top officials in Georgia saying that the DOJ 84 00:06:08,635 --> 00:06:11,875 Speaker 1: had reason to doubt that George's election results were legitimate 85 00:06:12,115 --> 00:06:16,435 Speaker 1: and the DOJ was investigating. Clark claims he was told 86 00:06:16,595 --> 00:06:19,875 Speaker 1: to do this by Trump, that he could not have 87 00:06:19,915 --> 00:06:22,915 Speaker 1: done so unless Trump told him to, that that would 88 00:06:22,915 --> 00:06:25,435 Speaker 1: have been impossible for him to do it by himself. 89 00:06:25,915 --> 00:06:29,355 Speaker 1: His lawyer told Judge Steve Jones, quote, they say he 90 00:06:29,395 --> 00:06:33,195 Speaker 1: was acting outside of his lane. The President put it 91 00:06:33,235 --> 00:06:38,515 Speaker 1: in his lane unquote. The problem with this one is, 92 00:06:39,515 --> 00:06:42,915 Speaker 1: and this may or may not be true, because Clark 93 00:06:42,995 --> 00:06:46,635 Speaker 1: and the attorney apparently forgot one key detail. When Judge 94 00:06:46,715 --> 00:06:50,475 Speaker 1: Jones asked what evidence they had that the Devil made 95 00:06:50,555 --> 00:06:55,315 Speaker 1: him do it, Clark's lawyer didn't have any evidence to offer. 96 00:06:55,955 --> 00:06:58,875 Speaker 1: Judge Jones then asked when the letter was written, Was it, 97 00:06:58,915 --> 00:07:02,835 Speaker 1: in fact after the infamous meeting involving Clark and Trump 98 00:07:02,875 --> 00:07:05,715 Speaker 1: and the senior Justice Department officials who were so furious 99 00:07:05,915 --> 00:07:08,315 Speaker 1: that they seemed ready to encourage Clark to lean out 100 00:07:08,315 --> 00:07:13,395 Speaker 1: the nearest window, and the attorney didn't know when the 101 00:07:13,475 --> 00:07:18,235 Speaker 1: letter was written. Moreover, just last Thursday, Jeff Clark submitted 102 00:07:18,235 --> 00:07:21,235 Speaker 1: what he called a declaration with the court explaining his actions. 103 00:07:21,475 --> 00:07:24,115 Speaker 1: It does not appear to corroborate what his lawyer claimed 104 00:07:24,195 --> 00:07:26,595 Speaker 1: yesterday that Trump directed him to write the letter to 105 00:07:26,635 --> 00:07:31,075 Speaker 1: the Georgia officials. So Molly Michael hurt Trump legally in 106 00:07:31,075 --> 00:07:34,875 Speaker 1: at least seven different ways. But Jeff Clark he did 107 00:07:34,915 --> 00:07:38,475 Speaker 1: one of two things. He either just revealed that Trump 108 00:07:38,835 --> 00:07:43,155 Speaker 1: had ordered him personally to write a lengthy lie claiming 109 00:07:43,155 --> 00:07:46,635 Speaker 1: that the DOJ was investigating the presidential election results in Georgia, 110 00:07:46,755 --> 00:07:50,515 Speaker 1: what prosecutors are calling an attempt to create a false statement, 111 00:07:50,955 --> 00:07:54,115 Speaker 1: which really would go to proving that Trump was at 112 00:07:54,155 --> 00:07:56,755 Speaker 1: the center of the web to steal the twenty twenty election. 113 00:07:57,035 --> 00:07:59,075 Speaker 1: That was not the Eastman plan, that was not the 114 00:07:59,115 --> 00:08:03,395 Speaker 1: Clark plan, that was the Trump plan. Or what Clark 115 00:08:03,435 --> 00:08:06,275 Speaker 1: did was he was with to make up something or 116 00:08:06,315 --> 00:08:10,435 Speaker 1: exaggerated or hyperboleze something blame Trump in one of those 117 00:08:10,435 --> 00:08:13,835 Speaker 1: few occasions in world history where Trump might not actually 118 00:08:13,915 --> 00:08:17,995 Speaker 1: deserve the specific blame. To throw Trump under the bus, 119 00:08:18,395 --> 00:08:23,075 Speaker 1: just to get his trial moved to federal court. Jeff Clark, everybody, 120 00:08:23,835 --> 00:08:28,155 Speaker 1: and Molly Michael. We haven't even gotten to the plea 121 00:08:28,315 --> 00:08:33,915 Speaker 1: deals yet, and Trump's staffers are flipping like fry cooks 122 00:08:33,955 --> 00:08:39,715 Speaker 1: at fat Burger, speaking of burgers. At the other end 123 00:08:39,755 --> 00:08:44,555 Speaker 1: of the same grill, there is Ken Cheesebro and his 124 00:08:44,755 --> 00:08:48,595 Speaker 1: Georgia court filing seems as nonsensical as Clark's, but nonsensical 125 00:08:48,595 --> 00:08:53,755 Speaker 1: in a way that protects Trump. Cheesebro says no law 126 00:08:53,915 --> 00:08:56,755 Speaker 1: was broken in rounding up and swearing in the fake 127 00:08:56,875 --> 00:09:03,035 Speaker 1: Georgia electors because quote, the Republican presidential electors were qualified 128 00:09:03,115 --> 00:09:09,995 Speaker 1: and elected by the Republican Party. Unquote. Think about that 129 00:09:10,075 --> 00:09:14,395 Speaker 1: for a second. The Republican presidential electors were qualified and 130 00:09:14,475 --> 00:09:18,115 Speaker 1: elected by the Republican Party. Well, that's all right. Then 131 00:09:19,235 --> 00:09:23,875 Speaker 1: there is legal parsing and asking how many angels can 132 00:09:23,995 --> 00:09:27,195 Speaker 1: dance on the head of a pin. Like the Federalist 133 00:09:27,275 --> 00:09:31,515 Speaker 1: Society co founder Stephen Calibracey, who believed Trump was ineligible 134 00:09:31,595 --> 00:09:33,595 Speaker 1: to be on the ballot because of the Fourteenth Amendment, 135 00:09:33,595 --> 00:09:36,155 Speaker 1: but just switched back to the no. I guess he 136 00:09:36,275 --> 00:09:39,755 Speaker 1: is eligible because he says the fourteenth Amendment applies to 137 00:09:39,835 --> 00:09:44,235 Speaker 1: quote officers of the United States. And since the presidential 138 00:09:44,275 --> 00:09:49,435 Speaker 1: oath does not specifically identify presidents as officers of the 139 00:09:49,555 --> 00:09:54,995 Speaker 1: United States, but the oaths for congressmen, state legislators, state executives, 140 00:09:54,995 --> 00:09:58,515 Speaker 1: and state judicial officers do refer to them as officers 141 00:09:58,515 --> 00:10:01,315 Speaker 1: of the United States, that means the president is not 142 00:10:02,115 --> 00:10:07,315 Speaker 1: an officer of the United States. He's also, by definition 143 00:10:07,475 --> 00:10:10,835 Speaker 1: legally not a penguin, because his oath does not say 144 00:10:10,995 --> 00:10:16,195 Speaker 1: I am a penguin. Now there's that level of legal 145 00:10:16,275 --> 00:10:20,555 Speaker 1: hair splitting, ludicrous, but based at least on things that 146 00:10:20,675 --> 00:10:24,955 Speaker 1: are in fact in this universe, on this plane of existence. 147 00:10:25,555 --> 00:10:29,555 Speaker 1: Then there is this cheeseboro level of hair splitting, saying 148 00:10:29,675 --> 00:10:33,395 Speaker 1: the fake electors were not fake electors because they were 149 00:10:33,435 --> 00:10:36,715 Speaker 1: elected because some Republicans met in a room somewhere and 150 00:10:36,835 --> 00:10:40,635 Speaker 1: elected them, which seems to fall inside that legal area 151 00:10:40,955 --> 00:10:45,155 Speaker 1: defined by the well known legal phrase who died and 152 00:10:45,315 --> 00:10:55,395 Speaker 1: elected you? God? Shocked? Meanwhile, are you by Trump's anti 153 00:10:55,395 --> 00:10:59,475 Speaker 1: Semitic threat against the Jewish people of America? Why are 154 00:10:59,515 --> 00:11:04,595 Speaker 1: you shocked? If you missed this? Trump found and posted 155 00:11:05,435 --> 00:11:09,675 Speaker 1: in the middle of Russiashana a graphic meme that he 156 00:11:09,955 --> 00:11:12,515 Speaker 1: probably noticed because it had a drawing of how he 157 00:11:12,555 --> 00:11:15,955 Speaker 1: looked about forty years ago, and the drawing was superimposed 158 00:11:15,995 --> 00:11:20,035 Speaker 1: on an American flag. He added no direct comment of 159 00:11:20,035 --> 00:11:24,595 Speaker 1: his own to it, presumably for deniability. Later it reads 160 00:11:24,715 --> 00:11:29,555 Speaker 1: quote just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted 161 00:11:29,595 --> 00:11:34,035 Speaker 1: to destroy America and Israel because you believe false narratives. 162 00:11:34,435 --> 00:11:39,635 Speaker 1: Exclamation point. Let's hope you learned from your mistake and 163 00:11:39,755 --> 00:11:45,715 Speaker 1: make better choices moving forward. Happy New Year. The phrase 164 00:11:46,395 --> 00:11:49,515 Speaker 1: hope you learned from your mistake should send a shudder 165 00:11:50,395 --> 00:11:53,275 Speaker 1: through not just any one community in it, but through 166 00:11:53,315 --> 00:11:56,955 Speaker 1: this entire country, because that is the language of the Holocaust. 167 00:11:58,195 --> 00:12:01,755 Speaker 1: Then beneath that is a picture of Trump circa nineteen 168 00:12:01,795 --> 00:12:05,715 Speaker 1: eighty three over the flag, and then quote, wake up, sheep, 169 00:12:06,435 --> 00:12:10,315 Speaker 1: What Nazi anti Semite ever did this for the Jewish 170 00:12:10,395 --> 00:12:17,755 Speaker 1: people or Israel? And yes, Nazi is misspelled. Who the 171 00:12:17,835 --> 00:12:24,475 Speaker 1: hell has ever misspelled Nazi? There's no t in Nazi. 172 00:12:26,915 --> 00:12:29,075 Speaker 1: That's the leading piece of evidence that this is actually 173 00:12:29,155 --> 00:12:34,715 Speaker 1: Trump's work. He misspelled that. This goes on to talk 174 00:12:34,715 --> 00:12:37,275 Speaker 1: about moving the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv 175 00:12:37,315 --> 00:12:39,715 Speaker 1: to Jerusalem, and then moves on to mock the reality 176 00:12:39,875 --> 00:12:41,995 Speaker 1: that Trump is an anti Semite and always has been. 177 00:12:41,995 --> 00:12:48,235 Speaker 1: It ends hashtag Trump twenty twenty and quote jects it 178 00:12:48,875 --> 00:12:53,915 Speaker 1: j e xit unquote. This kind of stuff is, of 179 00:12:53,915 --> 00:12:57,315 Speaker 1: course an annual event for Trump. Last October, he also 180 00:12:57,475 --> 00:13:01,275 Speaker 1: threatened America's Jews, and not via a meme. He personally 181 00:13:01,315 --> 00:13:05,355 Speaker 1: said they quote have to get their act together before 182 00:13:05,435 --> 00:13:09,115 Speaker 1: it is too late. Forgot that, didn't you and had 183 00:13:09,155 --> 00:13:12,675 Speaker 1: better support him because he supported Israel, and once again 184 00:13:12,715 --> 00:13:16,635 Speaker 1: he implied that they were Jewish first and American second. 185 00:13:16,755 --> 00:13:18,995 Speaker 1: And no, the fact that he used to keep a 186 00:13:18,995 --> 00:13:21,595 Speaker 1: book of Hitler's speeches in a cabinet next to his 187 00:13:21,675 --> 00:13:26,755 Speaker 1: bed has nothing to worry about. He's an anti Semite. 188 00:13:27,315 --> 00:13:31,075 Speaker 1: He's always been an anti Semite, and anything that he 189 00:13:31,155 --> 00:13:34,235 Speaker 1: has done that has not been overtly anti Semitic has 190 00:13:34,275 --> 00:13:37,915 Speaker 1: been transactional. There was always something in it for him. 191 00:13:38,355 --> 00:13:41,795 Speaker 1: Those of the Jewish faith were just incidental to the process. 192 00:13:42,115 --> 00:13:44,995 Speaker 1: I'll read the whole Trump statement from October of last 193 00:13:45,035 --> 00:13:48,155 Speaker 1: year again and then translate its meanings, and those meanings 194 00:13:48,235 --> 00:13:53,715 Speaker 1: are genuinely ominous, and they resonate now after this latest disaster. 195 00:13:54,075 --> 00:13:57,875 Speaker 1: Quote no president has done more for Israel than I have. 196 00:13:58,275 --> 00:14:03,875 Speaker 1: Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful evangelicals are far more appreciative 197 00:14:03,915 --> 00:14:07,195 Speaker 1: of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially 198 00:14:07,235 --> 00:14:10,715 Speaker 1: those living in the US. Those living in Israel, though, 199 00:14:10,755 --> 00:14:13,795 Speaker 1: are a different story. Highest approval rating in the world 200 00:14:13,835 --> 00:14:18,355 Speaker 1: could easily be pm US. Jews have to get their 201 00:14:18,395 --> 00:14:22,755 Speaker 1: act together and appreciate what they have in Israel before 202 00:14:22,875 --> 00:14:28,395 Speaker 1: it is too late. Exclamation point and again, the first 203 00:14:28,395 --> 00:14:31,995 Speaker 1: thing to note was Trump's unshakable conviction that Americans of 204 00:14:32,115 --> 00:14:35,675 Speaker 1: Jewish heritage are actually loyal first, or should be loyal first, 205 00:14:35,835 --> 00:14:38,835 Speaker 1: to not the United States, but Israel. People of the 206 00:14:38,915 --> 00:14:42,675 Speaker 1: Jewish faith, especially those living in Israel. This is one 207 00:14:42,755 --> 00:14:46,115 Speaker 1: of the oldest tropes about that religion, that there is 208 00:14:46,235 --> 00:14:52,195 Speaker 1: an implied dual citizenship, a certain uncertainty as to where 209 00:14:52,235 --> 00:14:57,995 Speaker 1: their loyalty really lies. All anti Semites believe this. It 210 00:14:58,075 --> 00:15:02,555 Speaker 1: is the starting point. All rulers who ever purged Jews 211 00:15:02,635 --> 00:15:07,795 Speaker 1: believed it. Hitler began with it in twenty eighteen at 212 00:15:07,795 --> 00:15:11,595 Speaker 1: a Hanukka event Hanka event in the White House. He 213 00:15:11,635 --> 00:15:14,555 Speaker 1: was addressing Americans who happened to be Jewish and referred 214 00:15:14,595 --> 00:15:18,995 Speaker 1: to Israel as quote, your country a year later, he 215 00:15:19,035 --> 00:15:22,435 Speaker 1: said anybody who voted for a Democrat might be disloyal. 216 00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:26,915 Speaker 1: Last year, he asked a reporter from an Orthodox Jewish magazine, 217 00:15:27,035 --> 00:15:30,035 Speaker 1: I did the Heights, I did Jerusalem, I did Iran. 218 00:15:30,435 --> 00:15:32,995 Speaker 1: The Iran deal was a disaster, right, and I also 219 00:15:33,035 --> 00:15:35,595 Speaker 1: did many other things. Jewish people who live in the 220 00:15:35,675 --> 00:15:39,315 Speaker 1: United States don't love Israel enough. Does that make sense 221 00:15:39,355 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: to you. I'm not talking about Orthodox Jews. I believe 222 00:15:42,235 --> 00:15:44,195 Speaker 1: we got twenty five percent of the Jewish vote, and 223 00:15:44,235 --> 00:15:46,915 Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. It just seems strange to me. 224 00:15:48,035 --> 00:15:52,835 Speaker 1: Translation of that quote of the social media posts. As president, 225 00:15:52,875 --> 00:15:57,155 Speaker 1: he gave Israel gifts, he was nice to them, when 226 00:15:57,595 --> 00:16:02,995 Speaker 1: you know he could have been openly anti Israel, anti Semitic, 227 00:16:03,955 --> 00:16:08,395 Speaker 1: and that they still haven't fonnd over him for not 228 00:16:08,675 --> 00:16:14,195 Speaker 1: openly hating them, as if that's the way it ordinarily 229 00:16:14,515 --> 00:16:18,435 Speaker 1: should be. Let me go out of sequence. Let me 230 00:16:18,475 --> 00:16:21,195 Speaker 1: cut to the money quote. US Jews have to get 231 00:16:21,235 --> 00:16:24,675 Speaker 1: their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel 232 00:16:24,955 --> 00:16:29,555 Speaker 1: before it is too late. Is that subtle? That's a 233 00:16:29,595 --> 00:16:33,435 Speaker 1: threat or a threat couched as a warning like the 234 00:16:33,475 --> 00:16:37,515 Speaker 1: one Sunday, hope you learn from your mistake. Either way, 235 00:16:37,595 --> 00:16:40,515 Speaker 1: it's a repeat of the way Trump's diseased mind works. 236 00:16:40,995 --> 00:16:44,115 Speaker 1: People hate you, but I helped you. You haven't been 237 00:16:44,155 --> 00:16:48,515 Speaker 1: grateful enough to me. Your Jewish Israel is your country. 238 00:16:48,835 --> 00:16:51,715 Speaker 1: I helped Israel. If I'm not there to help Israel, 239 00:16:51,995 --> 00:16:55,155 Speaker 1: you'll be sorry. So you better start supporting me more 240 00:16:55,875 --> 00:16:59,835 Speaker 1: or else. But maybe the most important part of that 241 00:16:59,875 --> 00:17:03,395 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two post is the seeming throwaway reference to 242 00:17:03,475 --> 00:17:07,195 Speaker 1: the evangelicals. And if you don't know this, it actually 243 00:17:07,235 --> 00:17:13,835 Speaker 1: explains the whole thing. He says, our wonderful Evangelicals. The 244 00:17:13,875 --> 00:17:17,995 Speaker 1: wonderful Evangelicals are in fact religious nut jobs who will 245 00:17:17,995 --> 00:17:22,195 Speaker 1: support him no matter what because they believe. Because they 246 00:17:22,315 --> 00:17:26,475 Speaker 1: actually believe, he has become part of the most screwball 247 00:17:26,715 --> 00:17:34,075 Speaker 1: Bible prophecy of all the screwball Bible prophecies. Evangelicals are 248 00:17:34,195 --> 00:17:36,995 Speaker 1: far more appreciative, he says, of his support for Israel 249 00:17:37,115 --> 00:17:40,635 Speaker 1: than our American Jews. The trumpion tell is Then he 250 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:45,875 Speaker 1: adds the phrase somewhat surprisingly. This is his standard misdirection. 251 00:17:46,115 --> 00:17:48,795 Speaker 1: He makes it seem as if he doesn't understand something. 252 00:17:48,955 --> 00:17:54,435 Speaker 1: Quote somewhat surprisingly always means he fully understands it. He 253 00:17:54,515 --> 00:17:58,075 Speaker 1: realizes the dark implications, and he wants to leave that 254 00:17:58,275 --> 00:18:03,075 Speaker 1: plausible deniability for himself. And the obsession with Israel on 255 00:18:03,115 --> 00:18:06,595 Speaker 1: the part of those wonderful evangelicals that is about as 256 00:18:06,675 --> 00:18:08,675 Speaker 1: dark as it gets on this planet right now. And 257 00:18:08,715 --> 00:18:10,715 Speaker 1: if you don't know what this is, you better sit 258 00:18:10,755 --> 00:18:14,315 Speaker 1: down before I tell you. Five and a half years ago, 259 00:18:14,475 --> 00:18:18,755 Speaker 1: Newsweek printed this remarkable headline quote, Trump will start the 260 00:18:18,915 --> 00:18:25,875 Speaker 1: end of the world, claim evangelicals who support him. It's 261 00:18:25,915 --> 00:18:30,675 Speaker 1: not a bug, it's a feature. The evangelical Christians believe 262 00:18:30,795 --> 00:18:35,955 Speaker 1: in end times what they call prophecy, while others call 263 00:18:36,555 --> 00:18:40,955 Speaker 1: stuff somebody made up to fleece the gullible. Jerusalem, where 264 00:18:40,995 --> 00:18:43,635 Speaker 1: Trump moved the American Embassy, is the centerpiece of this 265 00:18:43,755 --> 00:18:48,195 Speaker 1: fire and brimstone wacky ending to the Bible. Let me 266 00:18:48,275 --> 00:18:52,075 Speaker 1: quote some of the Newsweek piece on this quote. What 267 00:18:52,195 --> 00:18:55,715 Speaker 1: kick starts the end Times into motion is Israel's political 268 00:18:55,795 --> 00:18:59,915 Speaker 1: boundaries being re established to what God promised the Israelites 269 00:18:59,995 --> 00:19:03,115 Speaker 1: according to the Bible. Nate Pyle, a pastor and author 270 00:19:03,115 --> 00:19:06,355 Speaker 1: of a book about Jesus, told news Week most evangelicals 271 00:19:06,355 --> 00:19:10,475 Speaker 1: subscribe to a belief in pre millennialism, the belief that 272 00:19:10,555 --> 00:19:13,515 Speaker 1: the second Coming of Christ will begin a one thousand 273 00:19:13,595 --> 00:19:16,675 Speaker 1: year period where Christ will rule over a peaceful and 274 00:19:16,795 --> 00:19:22,515 Speaker 1: prosperous earth. Neil J. Young, a religion historian, told Newsweek, Young, 275 00:19:22,555 --> 00:19:25,915 Speaker 1: who holds a PhD in history from Columbia University, writes 276 00:19:25,955 --> 00:19:30,395 Speaker 1: frequently on evangelical culture and politics, quoting him again, Israel 277 00:19:30,515 --> 00:19:32,955 Speaker 1: is a key part of this story too, as Christians 278 00:19:32,995 --> 00:19:36,515 Speaker 1: believe that events there are fundamental to bringing about the 279 00:19:36,715 --> 00:19:41,755 Speaker 1: end Times. Young continued. Meanwhile, the evangelical belief in the 280 00:19:41,955 --> 00:19:46,515 Speaker 1: end Times also includes the eventual conversion to Christianity of 281 00:19:46,555 --> 00:19:50,555 Speaker 1: the Jewish people. The scenario begins when Christ comes to 282 00:19:50,635 --> 00:19:52,995 Speaker 1: Earth to take the living Christians who believe in him 283 00:19:53,155 --> 00:19:56,235 Speaker 1: to Heaven and resurrect the dead who were true Christians, 284 00:19:56,435 --> 00:20:00,955 Speaker 1: an event called the Rapture. Afterward, it is believed that 285 00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:04,995 Speaker 1: the anti Christ will reign on Earth during these seven 286 00:20:05,075 --> 00:20:10,795 Speaker 1: year period of tribulation. You didn't mishear anything in that 287 00:20:10,955 --> 00:20:15,155 Speaker 1: the evangelical fascination with Jerusalem is about Christ returning and 288 00:20:15,235 --> 00:20:23,995 Speaker 1: converting the Jews or killing them. There is a history 289 00:20:25,395 --> 00:20:27,915 Speaker 1: written by professor at the University of North Texas named 290 00:20:27,915 --> 00:20:31,955 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Oldmixon. She studies nothing but this bizarre connection between 291 00:20:31,995 --> 00:20:35,875 Speaker 1: the evangelicals and Israel, and now the evangelicals and Israel 292 00:20:35,875 --> 00:20:38,715 Speaker 1: and Trump and Vox interviewed her and got to the 293 00:20:38,715 --> 00:20:42,755 Speaker 1: whole convert or die thing. Quote. They believe that before 294 00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:46,555 Speaker 1: Christ will return, there will be a tribulation where Christ 295 00:20:46,675 --> 00:20:49,955 Speaker 1: defeats evil. There will be a natural disasters and wars, 296 00:20:50,275 --> 00:20:54,875 Speaker 1: and perhaps an anti Christ, as the Book of Revelations notes. 297 00:20:55,155 --> 00:20:57,235 Speaker 1: Then at the end of that period, the people of 298 00:20:57,275 --> 00:21:01,875 Speaker 1: the Mosaic Covenant, including the Jews, will convert. Then after 299 00:21:01,915 --> 00:21:06,995 Speaker 1: their version, the great millennium start the box. Reporter quite 300 00:21:07,075 --> 00:21:09,555 Speaker 1: naturally asks and what about the people who don't convert? 301 00:21:09,715 --> 00:21:14,475 Speaker 1: What becomes of them? Old Mixon answered, quote, Well, according 302 00:21:14,515 --> 00:21:16,955 Speaker 1: to the evangelicals who believe this, they'll end up with 303 00:21:17,035 --> 00:21:19,315 Speaker 1: the rest of the unsaved, which means they'll be wiped 304 00:21:19,355 --> 00:21:26,955 Speaker 1: out and sent to Hell unquote. Trump's support for Israel 305 00:21:27,075 --> 00:21:29,995 Speaker 1: is based on his need for evangelicals to support him, 306 00:21:30,395 --> 00:21:33,795 Speaker 1: and the evangelical support for Israel is based because later 307 00:21:33,915 --> 00:21:36,835 Speaker 1: on episode nine, three hundred and twenty two one hundred 308 00:21:36,835 --> 00:21:41,195 Speaker 1: and sixteen, all the Jews are converted or killed. So, 309 00:21:41,275 --> 00:21:42,955 Speaker 1: if you want to take the darkest view of that 310 00:21:43,035 --> 00:21:45,995 Speaker 1: last sentence from Trump, US Jews have to get their 311 00:21:46,035 --> 00:21:48,515 Speaker 1: act together and appreciate what they have in Israel before 312 00:21:48,515 --> 00:21:51,475 Speaker 1: it is too late, and now learn from your mistakes. 313 00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:56,835 Speaker 1: He is literally warning the American Jewish population about annihilation, 314 00:21:58,995 --> 00:22:02,235 Speaker 1: and a month after going back to that evangelical forced 315 00:22:02,315 --> 00:22:07,035 Speaker 1: conversion threats to the Jews whose annihilation thingy last year, 316 00:22:07,795 --> 00:22:11,115 Speaker 1: last November we're speaking of now. Trump had the loud 317 00:22:11,195 --> 00:22:14,755 Speaker 1: and boastful anti semit Nick Fuentes over to dinner at 318 00:22:14,835 --> 00:22:19,795 Speaker 1: Crapshack a Lago with Kanye West. Then Trump denied he 319 00:22:19,875 --> 00:22:24,035 Speaker 1: knew who Fuentes was. Trump, of course, has been exposing 320 00:22:24,075 --> 00:22:26,915 Speaker 1: more and more of his anti Semitism percent by percent 321 00:22:27,955 --> 00:22:32,915 Speaker 1: for at least eight years. Kanye West's version of that 322 00:22:33,035 --> 00:22:36,395 Speaker 1: dinner with Trump and Fuentes is that when West said 323 00:22:36,595 --> 00:22:39,955 Speaker 1: he West would run for president in twenty twenty four 324 00:22:39,955 --> 00:22:42,235 Speaker 1: and would like Trump to be his running mate, the 325 00:22:42,235 --> 00:22:48,755 Speaker 1: first actual, sort of almost sensible, not crazy sounding thing 326 00:22:49,035 --> 00:22:54,075 Speaker 1: West has said a joke that he said, first time 327 00:22:54,115 --> 00:22:57,115 Speaker 1: in a decade he hasn't seemed utterly crazy. When he 328 00:22:57,155 --> 00:23:01,195 Speaker 1: made that joke, Trump erupted in rage. When Nick Fuentes 329 00:23:01,315 --> 00:23:04,115 Speaker 1: said he was part of the Trump base, Trump erupted 330 00:23:04,115 --> 00:23:07,275 Speaker 1: in quote, I really like this guy. He gets me. 331 00:23:09,115 --> 00:23:13,435 Speaker 1: Kanye West said Trump was really impressed with Nick Fuentes. See, 332 00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:16,195 Speaker 1: if you rebel against Trump, you get the West treatment. 333 00:23:16,235 --> 00:23:18,955 Speaker 1: I'm not saying Wes doesn't deserve anything he gets, but 334 00:23:19,115 --> 00:23:22,475 Speaker 1: if you might fulfill Trump's needs, if you are servile, 335 00:23:22,955 --> 00:23:26,395 Speaker 1: you get the Nick Fuentes treatment. Say for a moment 336 00:23:26,475 --> 00:23:29,475 Speaker 1: he did not know who Nick Fuentes was. He did 337 00:23:29,515 --> 00:23:35,555 Speaker 1: after that dinner? Did he denounce Nick Fuentes? Not at all? 338 00:23:36,515 --> 00:23:42,435 Speaker 1: Because Donald John Trump is an anti Semite. He is 339 00:23:42,475 --> 00:23:46,155 Speaker 1: an anti Semite who views Jews as people from a 340 00:23:46,275 --> 00:23:50,435 Speaker 1: different country who had quote better learn from their mistakes 341 00:23:51,435 --> 00:23:54,835 Speaker 1: and get their act together before it's too late. Unquote 342 00:23:56,115 --> 00:23:58,355 Speaker 1: what the hell does before it's too late? Mean to 343 00:23:58,475 --> 00:24:03,555 Speaker 1: you pick which kind, But he means something bad is 344 00:24:03,595 --> 00:24:06,155 Speaker 1: going to be done to Jewish people in this country 345 00:24:06,875 --> 00:24:11,475 Speaker 1: unless they support him. Below the surface, he is saying 346 00:24:11,795 --> 00:24:15,115 Speaker 1: he's going to be the one who does it. Now. 347 00:24:15,115 --> 00:24:18,475 Speaker 1: If that seems extreme to you, consider ancient Trumpian history. 348 00:24:18,755 --> 00:24:21,235 Speaker 1: It was last year when his former chief of staff, 349 00:24:21,275 --> 00:24:24,635 Speaker 1: General John Kelly, revealed that Trump had once confronted him, 350 00:24:24,835 --> 00:24:28,355 Speaker 1: demanding to know why quote you effing generals, why can't 351 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:31,195 Speaker 1: you be like the German generals in World War Two. 352 00:24:31,435 --> 00:24:33,475 Speaker 1: And when challenged with the fact that you know it 353 00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:38,275 Speaker 1: was German generals who tried to kill Hitler several times, 354 00:24:38,715 --> 00:24:43,435 Speaker 1: Trump insisted, no, no, no, they were totally loyal to him. 355 00:24:43,755 --> 00:24:46,995 Speaker 1: It is now five years since Trump, at a commemoration 356 00:24:47,155 --> 00:24:51,075 Speaker 1: of the dead of World War One, said to Kelly, quote, well, 357 00:24:51,195 --> 00:24:54,115 Speaker 1: Hitler did a lot of good things and talked about 358 00:24:54,195 --> 00:25:00,635 Speaker 1: Hitler and his economy. And now it is thirty three years, 359 00:25:00,675 --> 00:25:06,195 Speaker 1: thirty three years next month since Marie wrote in the 360 00:25:06,235 --> 00:25:10,475 Speaker 1: magazine Vanity Fair quote Ivanna Trump told her lawyer that 361 00:25:10,475 --> 00:25:12,675 Speaker 1: from time to time her husband reads a book of 362 00:25:12,795 --> 00:25:16,995 Speaker 1: Hitler's collected speeches, which he keeps in a cabinet by 363 00:25:17,075 --> 00:25:22,515 Speaker 1: his bed. So the reporter Marie Brenner asks Trump if 364 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:26,075 Speaker 1: his cousin John gave him that book, and Trump says, actually, 365 00:25:26,155 --> 00:25:28,635 Speaker 1: it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount, who gave 366 00:25:28,715 --> 00:25:31,955 Speaker 1: me a copy of Mind comp. And then it was 367 00:25:31,955 --> 00:25:35,355 Speaker 1: Marty Davis who said he didn't give Trump that Hitler book. 368 00:25:35,435 --> 00:25:38,155 Speaker 1: He didn't give him mine comp. He gave him Hitler's 369 00:25:38,355 --> 00:25:42,915 Speaker 1: my new order. See that's Hitler's book of his favorite speeches. 370 00:25:43,915 --> 00:25:46,595 Speaker 1: So Trump then comes back and tells the reporter Marie Brenner, 371 00:25:46,915 --> 00:25:49,315 Speaker 1: if I had these speeches, and I am not saying 372 00:25:49,355 --> 00:25:54,195 Speaker 1: that I do, I would never read them. There was 373 00:25:54,235 --> 00:25:56,835 Speaker 1: another quote in that article from thirty three years ago 374 00:25:56,915 --> 00:26:01,155 Speaker 1: next month, attributed to one of his attorneys. Donald the 375 00:26:01,275 --> 00:26:07,235 Speaker 1: unnamed lawyer says is a believer in the big lie theory. 376 00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:12,755 Speaker 1: If you say something again and again, people will believe you. 377 00:26:14,555 --> 00:26:24,075 Speaker 1: That was nineteen ninety. Also of interest, here a little 378 00:26:24,115 --> 00:26:28,595 Speaker 1: more on the Christen Welker Trump disaster story I mentioned yesterday. 379 00:26:29,075 --> 00:26:32,435 Speaker 1: Investigation underway and whether or not there was a deal 380 00:26:32,555 --> 00:26:36,555 Speaker 1: with Trump to keep fact checking of the interview off TV, 381 00:26:37,635 --> 00:26:40,195 Speaker 1: whether or not that was the case. Guests who did 382 00:26:40,235 --> 00:26:45,795 Speaker 1: not condemn the platforming of an anti democracy insurrectionist and 383 00:26:46,035 --> 00:26:49,355 Speaker 1: NBC's failure to offer any serious kind of fact checking 384 00:26:49,915 --> 00:26:55,115 Speaker 1: on TV, I told you so. But good news everyone. 385 00:26:55,715 --> 00:27:01,795 Speaker 1: Bill Maher's condition has been upgraded from scumbag scab to 386 00:27:02,115 --> 00:27:09,235 Speaker 1: just plain old scumbag. That's next, this discountdown. This is 387 00:27:09,435 --> 00:27:26,795 Speaker 1: countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on countdown. How's your 388 00:27:26,875 --> 00:27:31,075 Speaker 1: right side feeling just above the belt line? Does it 389 00:27:31,115 --> 00:27:35,355 Speaker 1: feel a little achy, a little hot? You know what? 390 00:27:35,395 --> 00:27:37,595 Speaker 1: You need to do press into that area with a 391 00:27:37,635 --> 00:27:40,755 Speaker 1: couple of your fingers. Then stop the pressure and pull 392 00:27:40,795 --> 00:27:44,035 Speaker 1: your fingers back out. Now, if you just went, ah, 393 00:27:44,235 --> 00:27:48,035 Speaker 1: go see a doctor, that's your appendix. You know how 394 00:27:48,075 --> 00:27:52,195 Speaker 1: I know that because my appendix blew up sixteen years 395 00:27:52,235 --> 00:27:54,715 Speaker 1: ago this week and I didn't know it for two 396 00:27:54,795 --> 00:27:58,915 Speaker 1: days because I'm a moron. Don't be like Keith. Check 397 00:27:58,995 --> 00:28:02,995 Speaker 1: your appendix often first time. For the daily roundup of 398 00:28:03,035 --> 00:28:06,955 Speaker 1: the miscrants, morons, and donning effect specimens who constitute today's 399 00:28:07,675 --> 00:28:11,875 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. And no, I will not 400 00:28:12,035 --> 00:28:15,195 Speaker 1: put Lauren Bobert in here just because she and her 401 00:28:15,275 --> 00:28:18,275 Speaker 1: date enjoyed the live musical version of Beetlejuice without ever 402 00:28:18,315 --> 00:28:22,435 Speaker 1: watching the show. She now tells TMZ that it was 403 00:28:22,515 --> 00:28:26,035 Speaker 1: her mistake because she was dating a Democrat and he 404 00:28:26,115 --> 00:28:28,595 Speaker 1: hosted a drag queen party at the bar he owns. 405 00:28:28,635 --> 00:28:31,635 Speaker 1: But he's a great guy, but he's private and now 406 00:28:32,155 --> 00:28:35,955 Speaker 1: they've broken up. Just so long as it had a 407 00:28:35,955 --> 00:28:42,995 Speaker 1: happy ending. The worst the Bronze Yeah's Rachel Meadow. Guess 408 00:28:42,995 --> 00:28:46,355 Speaker 1: what I was not wrong? She did not say boo 409 00:28:46,635 --> 00:28:50,635 Speaker 1: about the deplorable NBC and MSNBC Meet the Press quote 410 00:28:50,715 --> 00:28:56,195 Speaker 1: interview unquote of Trump. NBC is itself investigating whether somebody 411 00:28:56,235 --> 00:28:58,515 Speaker 1: on the staff of Meet the Press assured the Trump 412 00:28:58,555 --> 00:29:02,355 Speaker 1: campaign there would not be any serious fact checking as 413 00:29:02,355 --> 00:29:05,595 Speaker 1: he lied and lied and lied, and Kristen Welker asked 414 00:29:05,635 --> 00:29:09,235 Speaker 1: him touchy feely dateline questions about how it feels when 415 00:29:09,275 --> 00:29:13,315 Speaker 1: he sees his mugshot. It does not seem that the 416 00:29:13,355 --> 00:29:16,235 Speaker 1: investigation is formal, at least not yet, or whether the 417 00:29:16,315 --> 00:29:20,395 Speaker 1: NBC News employee handbook I mentioned yesterday is being poured 418 00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:24,035 Speaker 1: over by those involved. But the questions are being asked 419 00:29:24,075 --> 00:29:27,035 Speaker 1: at thirty Rock. They're just not being asked on the 420 00:29:27,035 --> 00:29:32,235 Speaker 1: networks of NBC by compliant employees. There was a sad 421 00:29:32,315 --> 00:29:35,035 Speaker 1: irony last night. Rach began her show with a monologue 422 00:29:35,075 --> 00:29:37,795 Speaker 1: about how little things like being asked by a friend 423 00:29:37,835 --> 00:29:40,715 Speaker 1: to be a dog sitter was a good sign that 424 00:29:40,755 --> 00:29:43,115 Speaker 1: you were a good person and could be dependent upon. 425 00:29:43,915 --> 00:29:46,515 Speaker 1: Last night, on the subject of making at least some 426 00:29:46,875 --> 00:29:51,635 Speaker 1: noise of protest about her employers rolling over for Trump, 427 00:29:52,115 --> 00:29:57,235 Speaker 1: prostituting her network, and standing up against truth, she had 428 00:29:57,275 --> 00:30:01,355 Speaker 1: the chance to be that person, and she failed. While 429 00:30:01,395 --> 00:30:03,755 Speaker 1: I was fighting NBC management to get her the chance 430 00:30:03,835 --> 00:30:06,395 Speaker 1: to do that show. He told me success might destroy 431 00:30:06,475 --> 00:30:10,755 Speaker 1: her as a person. I did not listen. She was 432 00:30:10,795 --> 00:30:14,915 Speaker 1: not mistaken. The runner up Elon Musk still claiming two 433 00:30:14,995 --> 00:30:19,395 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five million people quote saw unquote Trump's 434 00:30:19,435 --> 00:30:24,235 Speaker 1: Twitter video with Tucker Carlson, Remember Tucker Carlson. Even though 435 00:30:24,275 --> 00:30:29,235 Speaker 1: that would count everybody who watched and everybody who didn't watch. 436 00:30:30,075 --> 00:30:33,155 Speaker 1: That's a genius rating system. By that measure, the TV 437 00:30:33,275 --> 00:30:36,235 Speaker 1: version of Countdown had a rating of six billion viewers 438 00:30:36,235 --> 00:30:39,635 Speaker 1: a night. Anyway, this comes the same day that Musk 439 00:30:39,715 --> 00:30:43,075 Speaker 1: does a video conversation with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin 440 00:30:43,155 --> 00:30:46,595 Speaker 1: net Nahu for some reason, and during it he reveals 441 00:30:46,635 --> 00:30:50,635 Speaker 1: he is quote moving to a small monthly payment for 442 00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:56,155 Speaker 1: use of the X system. Translation from muskox he is 443 00:30:56,235 --> 00:31:01,715 Speaker 1: going to start charging you to use Twitter. Everybody to 444 00:31:01,955 --> 00:31:07,075 Speaker 1: pay for that, in which case his next post about 445 00:31:07,075 --> 00:31:10,795 Speaker 1: Carlson's video view count will be nearly three hundred people 446 00:31:10,875 --> 00:31:15,835 Speaker 1: saw it. But our winner Bill Maher like Drew Barrymore 447 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:18,835 Speaker 1: a day earlier, my old college contemporary saw the end 448 00:31:18,875 --> 00:31:21,835 Speaker 1: of his career as a tangible thing in front of him, 449 00:31:22,195 --> 00:31:24,395 Speaker 1: and so he changed his mind at the last minute. 450 00:31:24,475 --> 00:31:27,435 Speaker 1: Now says he will not cross the Writer's Guild picket line, 451 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:30,515 Speaker 1: even though he's a Writer's Guild member. He will not 452 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:33,995 Speaker 1: bring his HBO show back right now. But unlike Barrymore, 453 00:31:34,035 --> 00:31:39,115 Speaker 1: who apologized and cried and made you think, all right, fine, 454 00:31:40,195 --> 00:31:42,955 Speaker 1: maybe we'll forget that you volunteered to be a strike 455 00:31:43,075 --> 00:31:45,995 Speaker 1: breaker and you didn't do it only to save your 456 00:31:46,035 --> 00:31:50,875 Speaker 1: own worthless ass. Fine, just stop crying at me, please, 457 00:31:51,515 --> 00:31:54,955 Speaker 1: Bill Maher made up a bad excuse, a stupid excuse. 458 00:31:55,675 --> 00:31:57,635 Speaker 1: My decision to return to work was made when it 459 00:31:57,675 --> 00:31:59,995 Speaker 1: seemed nothing was happening and there was no end in 460 00:31:59,995 --> 00:32:02,715 Speaker 1: sight to this strike. Now that both sides have agreed 461 00:32:02,755 --> 00:32:06,155 Speaker 1: to go back to the negotiating table, I'm going to 462 00:32:06,155 --> 00:32:08,915 Speaker 1: delay the return of real time for now and hope 463 00:32:08,955 --> 00:32:12,835 Speaker 1: they can finally get this done. Unquote, Well, that's the 464 00:32:12,955 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: kind of script you get when your writers are on strike. Bill, 465 00:32:16,555 --> 00:32:19,675 Speaker 1: And in addition to whatever long term ramifications there are 466 00:32:19,755 --> 00:32:22,755 Speaker 1: for Mar, like maybe nobody will go on a show again. 467 00:32:22,795 --> 00:32:26,275 Speaker 1: Who's a celebrity or member sag After or the WGA, 468 00:32:26,675 --> 00:32:30,995 Speaker 1: He's already gotten this. CBS Radio News did a pre 469 00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:35,915 Speaker 1: recorded report on Mars about face yesterday. It ran several 470 00:32:35,955 --> 00:32:40,275 Speaker 1: times on all the CBS stations, Reporter Wendy Gillette gravely 471 00:32:40,315 --> 00:32:49,115 Speaker 1: announced that Bill Mayer. Bill Mayer had reconsidered and would 472 00:32:49,195 --> 00:32:52,155 Speaker 1: not ignore the strike after all, and would not be 473 00:32:52,235 --> 00:32:57,955 Speaker 1: bringing back his show Real Time with Bill Mayer, Bill Maher, 474 00:32:58,995 --> 00:33:03,955 Speaker 1: Where is it Mayor? Happily, there's no way to mispronounce scumbag, 475 00:33:05,035 --> 00:33:08,275 Speaker 1: So Bill may have been upgraded from scumbag scab to 476 00:33:08,675 --> 00:33:15,115 Speaker 1: just scumbag, but it'll always be scumbag Bill Mayor two 477 00:33:15,275 --> 00:33:35,555 Speaker 1: days Mayor worse person and allah to the number one 478 00:33:35,595 --> 00:33:39,035 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and 479 00:33:39,155 --> 00:33:42,955 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell, So it's another anniversary. One. 480 00:33:44,035 --> 00:33:47,715 Speaker 1: Sometime on Wednesday, September twelfth, two thousand and seven, I 481 00:33:47,835 --> 00:33:51,995 Speaker 1: began to feel bad, all strained on my right side. 482 00:33:52,915 --> 00:33:55,275 Speaker 1: But my girlfriend at the time, Katie Turr, and I 483 00:33:55,435 --> 00:33:57,715 Speaker 1: had just moved only a few weeks before into our 484 00:33:57,755 --> 00:34:00,315 Speaker 1: new apartment and I was still pushing boxes around and 485 00:34:00,355 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: I thought I'd just strained something. The next morning, the thirteenth, 486 00:34:04,915 --> 00:34:07,395 Speaker 1: I was still feeling like crap, but now my stomach 487 00:34:07,435 --> 00:34:10,675 Speaker 1: also hurt, and I thought I was bloated or constipated 488 00:34:10,835 --> 00:34:13,195 Speaker 1: or something, and maybe some sit ups would help, and 489 00:34:13,235 --> 00:34:15,275 Speaker 1: actually they felt like they had relieved some of the pressure. 490 00:34:15,995 --> 00:34:19,075 Speaker 1: And Katie's father, who was among many many things in EMT, 491 00:34:19,675 --> 00:34:21,315 Speaker 1: happened to be in town. He gave me a vic 492 00:34:21,355 --> 00:34:22,795 Speaker 1: it in or something, and I took a nap and 493 00:34:22,835 --> 00:34:25,155 Speaker 1: went into work a little later than usual at MSNBC, 494 00:34:25,515 --> 00:34:28,275 Speaker 1: which I could get away with that day because President 495 00:34:28,315 --> 00:34:30,875 Speaker 1: Bush was speaking that night, and almost all of my 496 00:34:30,955 --> 00:34:33,715 Speaker 1: work that night would be ad libbed before his speech, 497 00:34:33,955 --> 00:34:37,115 Speaker 1: and then after his speech. I wrote what I needed 498 00:34:37,115 --> 00:34:39,555 Speaker 1: to write quickly, and at about seven fifteen I went 499 00:34:39,595 --> 00:34:42,835 Speaker 1: out to the show line producer Greg Kordick, who sat 500 00:34:42,875 --> 00:34:45,475 Speaker 1: in exactly the right place that he could make certain 501 00:34:45,475 --> 00:34:47,635 Speaker 1: that I had left for makeup and was going to 502 00:34:47,675 --> 00:34:50,595 Speaker 1: the studio on time. I had to walk right past him, 503 00:34:50,955 --> 00:34:52,915 Speaker 1: and I said, I'm exhausted. I'm just going to close 504 00:34:52,955 --> 00:34:54,515 Speaker 1: my eyes at my desk for a couple of minutes. 505 00:34:54,635 --> 00:34:56,595 Speaker 1: If you don't see me go pass by like seven 506 00:34:56,595 --> 00:34:59,555 Speaker 1: point forty, come in and wake me up. And I 507 00:34:59,555 --> 00:35:01,555 Speaker 1: sat down and put my legs up on my desk. 508 00:35:01,635 --> 00:35:03,595 Speaker 1: I folded my hands behind my head, and I just 509 00:35:03,635 --> 00:35:06,155 Speaker 1: closed my eyes, more to rest my eyes than in 510 00:35:06,195 --> 00:35:08,875 Speaker 1: any real hope of sleeping. I am a fickle sleeper. 511 00:35:08,955 --> 00:35:12,315 Speaker 1: There's not a chance I could snooze like that. Next day, 512 00:35:12,355 --> 00:35:14,195 Speaker 1: I know, it's seven point forty and I'm feeling somebody 513 00:35:14,235 --> 00:35:19,035 Speaker 1: shaking me and seriously a hand on each shoulder. Apparently 514 00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:21,315 Speaker 1: it took mister Cordick a little while to wake me up, 515 00:35:21,315 --> 00:35:23,435 Speaker 1: and I thank Greg and staggered to the makeup room. 516 00:35:23,435 --> 00:35:25,595 Speaker 1: And I realized now I had a little fever, but 517 00:35:25,635 --> 00:35:27,475 Speaker 1: it was too late to do anything about it. So 518 00:35:27,515 --> 00:35:29,835 Speaker 1: I got my makeup, went to the set, did the 519 00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:32,435 Speaker 1: lead into Bush's speech, took some notes during it, did 520 00:35:32,435 --> 00:35:34,555 Speaker 1: the post speech wrap up with the analysts, and after 521 00:35:34,555 --> 00:35:36,555 Speaker 1: two hours in the air, I got in the car 522 00:35:36,635 --> 00:35:39,035 Speaker 1: that they sent for me to go home to New 523 00:35:39,115 --> 00:35:41,955 Speaker 1: York from New Jersey, and I fell asleep again in 524 00:35:41,995 --> 00:35:45,915 Speaker 1: the car. I still thought, this is some weird stomach 525 00:35:45,995 --> 00:35:49,355 Speaker 1: flu and I'm bloated beyond belief, and I really don't 526 00:35:49,355 --> 00:35:51,235 Speaker 1: feel good. But I bet that's just from listening to 527 00:35:51,275 --> 00:35:54,435 Speaker 1: George W. Bush one time too many. I'll just go 528 00:35:54,515 --> 00:35:58,075 Speaker 1: to bed. I found it was too difficult to lie 529 00:35:58,195 --> 00:36:01,075 Speaker 1: on my stomach or my side, which presented a problem 530 00:36:01,115 --> 00:36:03,595 Speaker 1: because rarely can I fall asleep on my back, but 531 00:36:03,675 --> 00:36:06,835 Speaker 1: I had to try, and the next thing I knew 532 00:36:06,835 --> 00:36:11,675 Speaker 1: it was morning. I slept like a stone, but I 533 00:36:11,755 --> 00:36:14,435 Speaker 1: still felt really bad, in fact, a little bit worse. 534 00:36:15,755 --> 00:36:18,275 Speaker 1: On top of all which Katie was yelling at me 535 00:36:18,315 --> 00:36:21,155 Speaker 1: about something. And I had a check up for something 536 00:36:21,235 --> 00:36:23,995 Speaker 1: unrelated at my doctor's office, and I left early so 537 00:36:24,035 --> 00:36:26,835 Speaker 1: I could go buy something for the constipation. And then 538 00:36:26,955 --> 00:36:29,635 Speaker 1: when my doctor called me and he said, you look terrible. 539 00:36:29,675 --> 00:36:31,635 Speaker 1: Are you okay? And I said, no, I got this 540 00:36:31,755 --> 00:36:34,475 Speaker 1: really sore stomach and the last time I had this 541 00:36:34,515 --> 00:36:37,075 Speaker 1: fever for a while, he kind of gasped, and now 542 00:36:37,115 --> 00:36:39,555 Speaker 1: he looked terrible, and he said, when was the last 543 00:36:39,555 --> 00:36:43,955 Speaker 1: time you ate? I said, you know, funny, I haven't 544 00:36:43,955 --> 00:36:45,995 Speaker 1: thought about food for a couple of days. And then 545 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:48,195 Speaker 1: he asked me when was the last time that happened? 546 00:36:48,315 --> 00:36:51,115 Speaker 1: And I said when I was in the womb, and 547 00:36:51,155 --> 00:36:52,835 Speaker 1: he had me stand up and he pushed his finger 548 00:36:52,875 --> 00:36:55,275 Speaker 1: into my stomach about five inches to the right of 549 00:36:55,275 --> 00:36:58,515 Speaker 1: my navel, and holding the finger there, he said, does 550 00:36:58,555 --> 00:37:01,435 Speaker 1: this hurt? And I said not at all? And then 551 00:37:01,475 --> 00:37:03,235 Speaker 1: he said does it hurt now? As I take my 552 00:37:03,275 --> 00:37:05,515 Speaker 1: finger away, And I don't remember if I said anything 553 00:37:05,595 --> 00:37:07,875 Speaker 1: or not, because I saw the proverbial stars in front 554 00:37:07,915 --> 00:37:10,475 Speaker 1: of my eyes and I let out a scream. So 555 00:37:10,475 --> 00:37:12,795 Speaker 1: he said, get back in your car, and you go 556 00:37:12,875 --> 00:37:14,875 Speaker 1: to our other office at fifty ninth and tenth and 557 00:37:14,915 --> 00:37:17,355 Speaker 1: go see our gastro specialist. And I said, sure, just 558 00:37:17,395 --> 00:37:19,115 Speaker 1: don't poke me again. And when I got there, they 559 00:37:19,155 --> 00:37:21,275 Speaker 1: showed me right in and she taps me and she says, 560 00:37:21,275 --> 00:37:23,675 Speaker 1: why are you hunched over like that? And I said, 561 00:37:23,715 --> 00:37:26,115 Speaker 1: I'm hunched over and she says, if you haven't eaten 562 00:37:26,155 --> 00:37:28,155 Speaker 1: in two days, how come your stomach is heard is 563 00:37:28,155 --> 00:37:31,475 Speaker 1: a rock? And I said, is this a medical quiz? 564 00:37:31,515 --> 00:37:33,995 Speaker 1: Because you're the doctor, And she says, I want you 565 00:37:34,035 --> 00:37:36,395 Speaker 1: to go across the street to the hospital emergency room. 566 00:37:36,675 --> 00:37:39,595 Speaker 1: I'll call them while you're walking. Just go right in 567 00:37:39,635 --> 00:37:42,275 Speaker 1: and tell them you're the one doctor Lou called about, 568 00:37:42,315 --> 00:37:45,715 Speaker 1: because boy, you're appendix burst. And although I think you'll 569 00:37:45,755 --> 00:37:50,115 Speaker 1: be fine, technically, you've got about oh eight, ten twelve 570 00:37:50,115 --> 00:37:54,675 Speaker 1: hours to live. Well, that got my attention, and as 571 00:37:54,715 --> 00:37:57,835 Speaker 1: I'm grabbing my jacket my bag, I say, wait, if 572 00:37:57,835 --> 00:38:00,275 Speaker 1: this isn't just constipation, how come it felt better when 573 00:38:00,315 --> 00:38:02,315 Speaker 1: I did the sit ups? And she says, because when 574 00:38:02,355 --> 00:38:05,155 Speaker 1: you did the sit ups. You only had an affected 575 00:38:05,155 --> 00:38:08,355 Speaker 1: appendix that was going to burst when you did the 576 00:38:08,395 --> 00:38:13,355 Speaker 1: sit ups, dummy, That's when the appendix burst. You burst it. 577 00:38:13,435 --> 00:38:16,675 Speaker 1: So I said, wait, I went on TV for two 578 00:38:16,755 --> 00:38:22,795 Speaker 1: hours after my appendix burst. Shut up, She explained, she 579 00:38:22,955 --> 00:38:25,315 Speaker 1: was right there. People saw me immediately. They ran a 580 00:38:25,355 --> 00:38:27,715 Speaker 1: bunch of tests and reminded me that if I hadn't already, 581 00:38:27,715 --> 00:38:29,755 Speaker 1: I should probably call in sick for a couple of days. 582 00:38:29,875 --> 00:38:32,355 Speaker 1: And I said, wait, what day is today? And they 583 00:38:32,395 --> 00:38:35,595 Speaker 1: helped out and they said Friday. So I called MSNBC, 584 00:38:35,715 --> 00:38:37,595 Speaker 1: and I called the producer of Football Night in America, 585 00:38:37,635 --> 00:38:40,275 Speaker 1: which I was doing for NBC on Sundays, and I said, hey, sorry, 586 00:38:40,635 --> 00:38:44,915 Speaker 1: looks like I'm technically dying from a burst appendix. And 587 00:38:44,955 --> 00:38:46,635 Speaker 1: they're going to operate on me as soon as they 588 00:38:46,635 --> 00:38:48,315 Speaker 1: can get a surgeon in here. And they say it's 589 00:38:48,395 --> 00:38:51,035 Speaker 1: real unlikely I'll be out of the hospital by Sunday 590 00:38:51,275 --> 00:38:54,355 Speaker 1: or Monday. Have a nice day. I called Katie, who 591 00:38:54,355 --> 00:38:56,555 Speaker 1: had already gotten to her job in local cable news 592 00:38:56,555 --> 00:38:58,915 Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, and she turned around to come help me 593 00:38:58,915 --> 00:39:01,235 Speaker 1: out at the hospital. And then I just waited and 594 00:39:01,315 --> 00:39:06,395 Speaker 1: got goofyer and Goofyer and goofyer in goof here. I 595 00:39:06,435 --> 00:39:10,155 Speaker 1: think they operated around seven or eight pm. The surgeon 596 00:39:10,195 --> 00:39:13,595 Speaker 1: introduced himself. He was a big sports fan, Fred Kimmelsteele, 597 00:39:13,675 --> 00:39:17,955 Speaker 1: the surgeon named by prophetic parents. And I went to 598 00:39:17,955 --> 00:39:20,635 Speaker 1: the anesthesiologist and I warned him. I said I'd once 599 00:39:20,715 --> 00:39:23,355 Speaker 1: woken up from anesthesia during an endoscopy, and could he 600 00:39:23,435 --> 00:39:27,115 Speaker 1: make sure that that didn't happen again. In fact, I 601 00:39:27,155 --> 00:39:28,715 Speaker 1: said that the other day when I had my knee 602 00:39:28,715 --> 00:39:31,075 Speaker 1: operated on, and this guy did the same thing. They 603 00:39:31,115 --> 00:39:34,115 Speaker 1: both of these anesthesiologists just laughed when I challenged them 604 00:39:34,155 --> 00:39:37,035 Speaker 1: to knock me out a little bit harder. So doctor 605 00:39:37,115 --> 00:39:39,915 Speaker 1: kimmel Steele asked me about the latest met choke job. 606 00:39:39,995 --> 00:39:41,595 Speaker 1: This is the one in two thousand and seven, not 607 00:39:41,635 --> 00:39:43,635 Speaker 1: the one in twenty twenty two, and I started to 608 00:39:43,635 --> 00:39:45,395 Speaker 1: talk about David Wright, and the next thing I knew, 609 00:39:45,395 --> 00:39:47,475 Speaker 1: I was freezing cold and trying to open my eyes. 610 00:39:47,595 --> 00:39:49,875 Speaker 1: And it was three hours later and the surgery was over. 611 00:39:50,115 --> 00:39:52,435 Speaker 1: What a mess, said Doctor kimmel Steele. Never had one 612 00:39:52,475 --> 00:39:55,315 Speaker 1: that bad before. Thank God, it absesss. You'll be here 613 00:39:55,355 --> 00:39:59,315 Speaker 1: all weekend, And I was the next day. They made 614 00:39:59,315 --> 00:40:00,555 Speaker 1: me get out of bed, and I think it took 615 00:40:00,635 --> 00:40:03,675 Speaker 1: me half an hour to walk about twenty feet down 616 00:40:03,675 --> 00:40:06,755 Speaker 1: the hallway and back. And there was a morphine drip 617 00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:10,155 Speaker 1: and a new bag of intravenous antibiotics every two hours, 618 00:40:10,195 --> 00:40:12,835 Speaker 1: and at one point the phone rang, and I really 619 00:40:12,875 --> 00:40:15,075 Speaker 1: did have to go back the following weekend ask the 620 00:40:15,075 --> 00:40:18,155 Speaker 1: producer if this actually happened or I merely hallucinated it. 621 00:40:18,875 --> 00:40:20,635 Speaker 1: But the phone rang, and it was the football night 622 00:40:20,635 --> 00:40:22,155 Speaker 1: in America people, and they said they were going to 623 00:40:22,195 --> 00:40:25,475 Speaker 1: shoot video of the hospital I was in. And I said, 624 00:40:25,515 --> 00:40:27,395 Speaker 1: I don't think you can see me from the street, 625 00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:29,675 Speaker 1: and they said, right, we know that. We're just pretty 626 00:40:29,755 --> 00:40:32,075 Speaker 1: much doing this for a laugh at your expense while 627 00:40:32,075 --> 00:40:34,755 Speaker 1: you're in the hospital and we're on TV. And then 628 00:40:34,795 --> 00:40:37,035 Speaker 1: finally my appetite came back on Monday and I was 629 00:40:37,075 --> 00:40:38,995 Speaker 1: able to eat some pancakes and they sent me home 630 00:40:39,035 --> 00:40:41,675 Speaker 1: in the afternoon. And for two days after that, I 631 00:40:41,715 --> 00:40:44,195 Speaker 1: was still sweating out the poisons and the antibiotics and 632 00:40:44,235 --> 00:40:46,435 Speaker 1: the painkillers, and I mean I was so warm I 633 00:40:46,475 --> 00:40:50,315 Speaker 1: could not bear to have a shirt on. But by Thursday, 634 00:40:50,355 --> 00:40:51,875 Speaker 1: I was able to go back to work, and just 635 00:40:51,915 --> 00:40:55,235 Speaker 1: to show off, I wrote a special comment about Bush 636 00:40:55,235 --> 00:40:58,995 Speaker 1: from my first show back. I was extremely pleased with myself. 637 00:41:00,235 --> 00:41:03,795 Speaker 1: Now there are three postscripts to this. Now, obviously I learned, 638 00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:06,835 Speaker 1: and I've just taught you the test for appendicitis or 639 00:41:06,875 --> 00:41:09,915 Speaker 1: a burst appendix. If you poke it and it doesn't 640 00:41:09,995 --> 00:41:15,235 Speaker 1: hurt until you stop poking it, it's your appendix. Fat 641 00:41:15,275 --> 00:41:17,315 Speaker 1: lot of good that'll do me. Now I don't have 642 00:41:17,355 --> 00:41:21,915 Speaker 1: an appendix. Second weeks later, I was at dinner with 643 00:41:21,955 --> 00:41:24,755 Speaker 1: my friend John Clees from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and 644 00:41:24,795 --> 00:41:27,595 Speaker 1: he said he'd heard the story about my appendix and 645 00:41:27,635 --> 00:41:30,395 Speaker 1: he was very upset with me. I did the exact 646 00:41:30,395 --> 00:41:33,235 Speaker 1: same thing. John said, it blew up, and for two 647 00:41:33,275 --> 00:41:35,635 Speaker 1: days I had no idea how serious it was. Thought 648 00:41:35,635 --> 00:41:38,675 Speaker 1: it was a cold. But don't kill people that don't 649 00:41:38,795 --> 00:41:41,955 Speaker 1: undersell it and call it a burst appendix. You and 650 00:41:42,035 --> 00:41:48,155 Speaker 1: I we were both dying of septacemia. Never let anybody 651 00:41:48,195 --> 00:41:54,555 Speaker 1: forget that, and I haven't. And the last and best 652 00:41:54,595 --> 00:41:57,635 Speaker 1: PostScript was, while I'm lying there recovering after the surgery, 653 00:41:57,675 --> 00:41:59,995 Speaker 1: the phone rings and it's my executive producer and she says, 654 00:41:59,995 --> 00:42:03,315 Speaker 1: good news. When you anchored before and after Bush's speech, 655 00:42:04,755 --> 00:42:09,395 Speaker 1: you got sick. After you got sick. You beat CNN 656 00:42:09,395 --> 00:42:12,555 Speaker 1: in the ratings by like twenty five percent, and as 657 00:42:12,595 --> 00:42:15,115 Speaker 1: stone on them painkillers. As I might have been, I 658 00:42:15,155 --> 00:42:17,715 Speaker 1: was still able to say to her, I beat CNN. 659 00:42:18,235 --> 00:42:21,235 Speaker 1: I beat CNN with one appendix tied behind my back. 660 00:42:34,555 --> 00:42:36,355 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 661 00:42:36,395 --> 00:42:38,355 Speaker 1: you for listening. 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