WEBVTT - WILL TRUMP DESTROY THE EPSTEIN FILES? - 11.17.25 0:00:04.835 --> 0:00:23.555 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Maybe 0:00:23.555 --> 0:00:29.235 they mrid Trump without revealing to him what part the MRID, 0:00:30.395 --> 0:00:33.595 hoping to find out if he'd stuffed the Epstein files 0:00:33.675 --> 0:00:39.515 up his assisted living facility. There are three different five 0:00:39.595 --> 0:00:42.635 alarm fires in his one remark about the MRI. He 0:00:42.675 --> 0:00:45.115 had only he doesn't know what part they MRID, So 0:00:45.195 --> 0:00:48.355 that's fifteen alarms. And of course there is also the 0:00:48.435 --> 0:00:51.315 chance of an actual fire, a fire in which Trump 0:00:51.315 --> 0:00:54.235 will order the Department of Justice to literally burn the 0:00:54.235 --> 0:00:58.755 Epstein files one alarm at a time. Let's start with 0:00:58.835 --> 0:01:01.395 him saying he was MRID, but he doesn't know what part. 0:01:02.075 --> 0:01:05.475 There is the simple fact that that remark is part 0:01:05.515 --> 0:01:10.955 of a clear, public, unmistakable, ongoing mental meltdown about the 0:01:10.995 --> 0:01:14.235 Epstein emails and the Epstein votes and the Epstein files. 0:01:14.955 --> 0:01:19.875 The second fact is that he said this ever under 0:01:19.995 --> 0:01:24.235 any circumstances, that anybody said this ever under any circumstances. 0:01:24.475 --> 0:01:28.195 The third is something you might not have pondered. What 0:01:28.235 --> 0:01:31.995 if he's not lying, What if he wasn't just not 0:01:32.235 --> 0:01:36.555 paying attention? What if he doesn't know what part day MRI? 0:01:36.835 --> 0:01:40.075 How the hell could that happen? First, exactly what he did, say. 0:01:40.235 --> 0:01:45.835 I had an MRI. I had an MRI. The doctor 0:01:45.915 --> 0:01:48.635 said it was the best result he has ever seen 0:01:48.715 --> 0:01:49.435 as a doctor. 0:01:50.355 --> 0:01:51.915 That said, but I. 0:01:51.875 --> 0:01:56.515 Had an MRI as part of my standard yearly or 0:01:56.555 --> 0:01:58.515 everyone I think they do it every two years. But 0:01:58.595 --> 0:02:02.555 I kept the physical every year and the result was outstanding. 0:02:03.555 --> 0:02:04.075 Did you know? 0:02:05.315 --> 0:02:09.355 I have no idea what they analyze, but whatever they analyze, 0:02:09.595 --> 0:02:12.995 they analyze it well. And they said that I had 0:02:13.035 --> 0:02:14.755 as good a result as they've ever seen it. 0:02:15.275 --> 0:02:18.275 Okay, I will start from the back with my third point. 0:02:18.275 --> 0:02:21.235 What if he's not lying and he really doesn't know 0:02:21.555 --> 0:02:25.475 which part the MRI was four? What if he's not 0:02:25.595 --> 0:02:29.795 just stupid or so gone that he didn't notice which 0:02:29.835 --> 0:02:33.795 part the MRI was four? How could that be possible? 0:02:34.715 --> 0:02:38.115 How could you have an MRI and not know why 0:02:38.315 --> 0:02:43.115 or where? Wouldn't you have had to have been unconscious 0:02:43.155 --> 0:02:47.235 for it? Oh? Is that the only way? I mean, 0:02:47.275 --> 0:02:49.515 even if they didn't tell you, wouldn't you figure it 0:02:49.555 --> 0:02:52.755 out just from how deep in the machine they stuffed you, 0:02:53.515 --> 0:02:55.915 or if they gave you, say, a helmet to where, 0:02:56.995 --> 0:02:59.395 or if they said, you know, turn your shoulder this way, 0:03:00.595 --> 0:03:02.755 or based on all the other MRIs you've had in 0:03:02.835 --> 0:03:04.915 your life, wouldn't The only way for you to not 0:03:05.035 --> 0:03:09.435 know what they were mriing would be if you were out. 0:03:10.075 --> 0:03:12.475 I had my first MRI in nineteen ninety six. I 0:03:12.475 --> 0:03:14.755 think I can remember everyone I've ever had and why, 0:03:15.115 --> 0:03:16.795 And I remember the day I had one in the 0:03:16.835 --> 0:03:18.995 morning and they weren't satisfied, so they put me in 0:03:19.075 --> 0:03:22.715 again right after lunch. I can remember every time I wondered, 0:03:22.715 --> 0:03:26.195 what if I get stuck in here like that baseball 0:03:26.235 --> 0:03:29.115 player Yvon Calderon did with the separated shoulder, and they 0:03:29.155 --> 0:03:31.395 had to call the experts from the manufacturers a ge 0:03:31.475 --> 0:03:35.315 to take the machine a part to get about. How 0:03:35.315 --> 0:03:39.155 could you not know? He has to have been unconscious, 0:03:39.995 --> 0:03:43.395 I mean more so than usual, or at least heavily sedated, 0:03:44.275 --> 0:03:48.875 at least more so than usual. Giving Trump the benefit 0:03:48.915 --> 0:03:51.715 of the doubt, believing what he says, insisting he's not 0:03:51.875 --> 0:03:54.275 lying or not paying attention, or is too stupid to 0:03:54.355 --> 0:03:58.035 know what an MRI is or how to spell it, 0:03:58.275 --> 0:04:00.475 and he's not too obsessed with being able to boast 0:04:00.515 --> 0:04:03.035 about a test, even if it's not that kind of test. 0:04:03.595 --> 0:04:07.835 Trusting Donald Trump, and the conclusion is when they gave 0:04:07.915 --> 0:04:12.715 him his MRI on October tenth, they knocked him out first. 0:04:13.435 --> 0:04:16.715 Oh why in the hell would they do that other than, 0:04:16.875 --> 0:04:20.635 you know, not wanting to hear him talk. The easiest 0:04:20.675 --> 0:04:25.915 explanation some people have to be sedated, rarely totally unconscious, 0:04:26.435 --> 0:04:28.675 but some people have to be sedated to be able 0:04:28.675 --> 0:04:32.995 to handle having an MRI. It's claustrophobic, and the taller 0:04:33.035 --> 0:04:36.835 you are and the heavier you are, the worse it 0:04:36.875 --> 0:04:39.675 can be. Trust me, from personal experience, I will tell 0:04:39.715 --> 0:04:45.075 you that Ivon Calderon got stuck story later in this segment. Still, 0:04:45.555 --> 0:04:48.835 only somebody so disconnected from reality that his only concerned 0:04:48.835 --> 0:04:51.955 about a test is if after it teachers stuck a 0:04:52.035 --> 0:04:55.595 gold star on my forehead. Only that kind of person 0:04:55.635 --> 0:04:57.955 wouldn't know why he got an MRI, even if he 0:04:58.115 --> 0:05:01.355 was out cold for it. So maybe that does explain 0:05:01.395 --> 0:05:05.635 Trump and the MRI. On the other hand, there are 0:05:05.675 --> 0:05:09.675 a couple of new treatments for Alzheimer's that require frequent MRIs. 0:05:10.435 --> 0:05:15.395 Well that's a coincidence, and infusions or injections which could 0:05:15.475 --> 0:05:18.715 leave you with a kind of semi permanently bruised or 0:05:18.795 --> 0:05:23.555 gray area on your say, hand, if that's where they've 0:05:23.555 --> 0:05:29.675 been injecting or infusing, well, that's another coincidence. Don anamab 0:05:29.995 --> 0:05:34.915 and lacanamab and they are the I did my own 0:05:34.995 --> 0:05:38.475 research flavors of the month on social media. The problem 0:05:38.555 --> 0:05:41.475 with connecting them to Trump is they require infusions no 0:05:41.555 --> 0:05:46.195 more than three weeks apart. Okay, that checks, but according 0:05:46.195 --> 0:05:50.995 to the lacanamab official site, the MRIs are scheduled before 0:05:51.035 --> 0:05:54.115 the fifth infusion, than before the seventh infusion, which is 0:05:54.195 --> 0:05:57.755 like three weeks later, then prior to the fourteenth infusion 0:05:58.395 --> 0:06:01.475 fourteen weeks after that, and then the next MRI is 0:06:01.515 --> 0:06:04.955 twenty four weeks after that. The more you read of 0:06:04.995 --> 0:06:08.675 that schedule, the more matching it to Trump becomes a 0:06:08.715 --> 0:06:12.835 conspiracy theory. He had an MRI and a cognitive test 0:06:12.915 --> 0:06:16.635 October tenth. We know he told everybody he had a 0:06:16.675 --> 0:06:20.435 cognitive test on April eleventh. There is no indication he 0:06:20.515 --> 0:06:24.155 had an MRI in April. You could construct a scenario 0:06:24.435 --> 0:06:28.515 in which it matches the MRI schedule for a lacanamab, 0:06:29.315 --> 0:06:33.395 but you're just constructing. Now all that could be a lie, 0:06:34.075 --> 0:06:35.635 or if Trump really doesn't know what part of the 0:06:35.675 --> 0:06:38.155 body of the October MRI was for maybe he doesn't 0:06:38.195 --> 0:06:40.875 know he had an MRI in April, or a series 0:06:40.915 --> 0:06:45.675 of them. Still, we are not QAnon here. We have 0:06:45.755 --> 0:06:48.875 absolutely nothing even to extrapolate from. So let's drop it 0:06:48.915 --> 0:06:52.555 for the moment. Just file it away somewhere, docket it 0:06:54.795 --> 0:06:58.075 more relevantly. They do not want you medicated for those 0:06:58.195 --> 0:07:03.515 check up MRIs, for the Alzheimer's drugs, let alone unconscious. Okay, 0:07:03.635 --> 0:07:06.235 The what if this is true idea boils down to 0:07:06.275 --> 0:07:10.155 the distinct possibility he really didn't pay attention and just 0:07:10.235 --> 0:07:13.475 got in the machine, sedated or not, and he only 0:07:13.515 --> 0:07:17.355 cared if he got a hundred points for still having 0:07:17.395 --> 0:07:21.835 all his body parts. So we move on. My second 0:07:21.835 --> 0:07:25.115 point is not so easily dismissed. However, how crazy it 0:07:25.235 --> 0:07:28.275 is that he said this at all, I mean for 0:07:28.435 --> 0:07:31.195 sound bite craziness. To me, this one is up there 0:07:31.195 --> 0:07:34.515 with the doped up kid asking is this real life? 0:07:36.195 --> 0:07:41.035 This real life? This doesn't need great analysis. Trump's nuts. 0:07:42.195 --> 0:07:46.395 But the first point, Trump is melting down over Epstein, 0:07:46.515 --> 0:07:49.075 and this whole thing about the MRI and everything else 0:07:49.115 --> 0:07:52.195 he's been talking about is all connected to this. 0:07:52.835 --> 0:07:55.155 If they had anything, they would have used it before 0:07:55.155 --> 0:07:58.515 the election. Okay, I can't tell you what they put 0:07:58.595 --> 0:08:01.355 in since the election, but if they had anything, you 0:08:01.395 --> 0:08:03.355 don't think they would have used it before the election. 0:08:03.795 --> 0:08:06.035 They would have planned he used it before the election. 0:08:06.595 --> 0:08:09.195 Have you pardon mass. 0:08:09.035 --> 0:08:11.315 Well, I haven't even thought about it, But I mean, 0:08:11.355 --> 0:08:15.235 I haven't thought about it for months. Maybe I haven't 0:08:15.275 --> 0:08:17.475 thought about it at all. You're just asking me a question. 0:08:17.675 --> 0:08:19.035 But I don't talk about that. 0:08:19.195 --> 0:08:20.315 I don't rule it in or out. 0:08:20.355 --> 0:08:20.635 I don't. 0:08:20.715 --> 0:08:22.915 I don't even think about it. You gotta find out 0:08:23.075 --> 0:08:26.875 what did he know with respect to Milklin, with respect 0:08:26.875 --> 0:08:29.435 to the head of Harvard, with respect of all of 0:08:29.475 --> 0:08:33.315 those people that he knew plenty, JP, Morgan, Chase, Yeah, Jennifer. 0:08:38.115 --> 0:08:41.835 Everything else he's been talking about is all connected to this. 0:08:42.835 --> 0:08:46.715 Repeated posts insisting everybody has to stop talking about Epstein, 0:08:47.715 --> 0:08:50.835 more and more proof therefore of the streisand effect, the 0:08:50.915 --> 0:08:54.355 almost ritual sacrifice of Marjorie Taylor Green because she suddenly 0:08:54.355 --> 0:08:56.835 started talking like a normal person, and I swear to God, 0:08:57.035 --> 0:08:59.795 she sounds exactly like somebody sounds when they've just quit 0:08:59.955 --> 0:09:04.355 using steroids. Quote a hot bed of threats against me 0:09:04.475 --> 0:09:06.955 or being fueled and eggedon by the most powerful man 0:09:06.995 --> 0:09:10.035 in the world, the man I supported and helped get elected. 0:09:10.315 --> 0:09:13.675 Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats 0:09:13.835 --> 0:09:16.715 and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the 0:09:16.755 --> 0:09:19.675 same type rhetoric being directed at me right now, this 0:09:19.835 --> 0:09:22.235 time by the President of the United States. As a woman, 0:09:22.275 --> 0:09:24.755 I take threats from men seriously. I now have a 0:09:24.795 --> 0:09:27.915 small understanding of the fear and pressure the women who 0:09:27.955 --> 0:09:31.355 are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal must feel. 0:09:31.915 --> 0:09:35.315 As a Republican who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump's bills 0:09:35.315 --> 0:09:38.955 and agenda, his aggression against me, which also fuels the 0:09:39.035 --> 0:09:42.995 venomous nature of his radical internet trolls, the political industrial 0:09:43.075 --> 0:09:47.235 complex and the toxic, violent nature of American politics must end. 0:09:47.635 --> 0:09:49.715 Our country is worth saving, and it can only be 0:09:49.715 --> 0:09:53.715 done if we pull together and save ourselves. I mean, honestly, 0:09:53.835 --> 0:09:55.955 nine tenths of that could have been said by Liz Cheney. 0:09:56.955 --> 0:10:01.515 One of my favorite cliches is the political media industrial complex. 0:10:02.915 --> 0:10:07.675 My God, she and I might be related. The congresswoman's 0:10:07.755 --> 0:10:12.595 response is apparently heartfelt enough that her boyfriend Brian Glenn 0:10:12.915 --> 0:10:16.195 of Real America's Voice the Propaganda Channel, put out a 0:10:16.235 --> 0:10:20.475 series of posts yesterday supporting her. I love this woman, 0:10:21.195 --> 0:10:27.675 he wrote, and with pictures. Understand Brian Glenn's channel job, 0:10:27.835 --> 0:10:30.995 his career. It's predicated on shillin for Trump. This is 0:10:31.035 --> 0:10:33.915 the guy who attacked Zelensky last winter for not wearing 0:10:33.955 --> 0:10:38.395 a suit. Before Trump, Brian Glenn was a TV reporter 0:10:38.515 --> 0:10:42.875 in Dallas, Features not News. In twenty fourteen. He was 0:10:42.875 --> 0:10:47.595 covering the Texas State Fair Wild West pet Palooza and 0:10:47.675 --> 0:10:49.795 trying to address the thorny question of what a shelter 0:10:49.875 --> 0:10:54.635 dog would do to get a corn dog. That is, 0:10:54.715 --> 0:10:59.595 how too far they think Trump has now gone. Brian 0:10:59.675 --> 0:11:02.955 Glenn is willing to risk being put back on the 0:11:02.995 --> 0:11:13.275 Texas TV News corn Dog Beat, Live Local and Late Parking. Sorry, 0:11:13.635 --> 0:11:16.715 then there's Thomas Massey yesterday. Donald Trump can protect you 0:11:16.755 --> 0:11:19.195 in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement, 0:11:19.235 --> 0:11:21.635 But in twenty thirty he's not going to be the president, 0:11:21.675 --> 0:11:24.315 and you will have voted to protect pedophiles. If you 0:11:24.355 --> 0:11:27.115 don't vote to release the files and the president can't 0:11:27.155 --> 0:11:29.835 protect you, then this vote, the record of this vote 0:11:29.835 --> 0:11:34.235 will last longer than Donald Trump's presidency. I didn't know 0:11:34.275 --> 0:11:40.355 any Republicans knew that you already know. Trump's attorney general 0:11:40.515 --> 0:11:43.155 four months ago declared that there was nothing left on 0:11:43.235 --> 0:11:47.515 Jeffrey Epstein, nothing in the files that merited prosecuting anybody. 0:11:48.075 --> 0:11:52.315 Trump deflecting has declared that Attorney General Blondie should be 0:11:52.315 --> 0:11:57.395 investigating Bill Clinton. So now she's investigating Bill Clinton even 0:11:57.395 --> 0:12:00.755 though there's nothing in any of the tanks because there's 0:12:00.795 --> 0:12:04.395 nothing left on Jeffrey Epstein that merited prosecuting anybody, and 0:12:04.875 --> 0:12:07.475 has resumed calling the Epstein and trump Stein and pedophilia 0:12:07.595 --> 0:12:11.035 nightmares a quote hoax. So he wants Bill Clinton prosecuted 0:12:11.035 --> 0:12:13.235 for it. But it's a hoax. So Trump wants Bill 0:12:13.275 --> 0:12:15.835 Clinton prosecuted for it. But it's a hoax. So Trump 0:12:15.875 --> 0:12:23.195 wants to I give you now. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, 0:12:23.955 --> 0:12:27.275 who unlike me, seemingly has not lost his mind about this, 0:12:28.235 --> 0:12:32.475 at a Texas Tribune event, this is basically perfect. Senator 0:12:32.555 --> 0:12:37.315 Murphy is playing out of f's, No f's given, no 0:12:37.675 --> 0:12:41.275 f's left to give, completely f free. 0:12:41.835 --> 0:12:46.955 These files and the fullest truth that we have available 0:12:46.995 --> 0:12:50.075 to us is going to be made public, and it 0:12:50.155 --> 0:12:56.075 is clearly the biggest scandal in presidential history. And he 0:12:56.115 --> 0:13:00.035 wouldn't be acting this way if he wasn't so deeply 0:13:00.075 --> 0:13:03.715 worried about what sits in those files. What we've already 0:13:03.755 --> 0:13:08.395 seen is immensely incriminating. Clearly, Donald Trump was at the 0:13:08.435 --> 0:13:13.275 center of a child sex ring. That is heartbreaking that 0:13:13.355 --> 0:13:16.315 the president of the United States was involved in that 0:13:16.435 --> 0:13:21.235 kind of gross, craven immorality. And it stands to reason 0:13:21.275 --> 0:13:25.115 that he wouldn't be fighting so hard to spin against 0:13:25.155 --> 0:13:29.435 this story, or bullying Republicans in the House to prevent 0:13:29.475 --> 0:13:33.355 the release of these files if there wasn't something especially 0:13:33.355 --> 0:13:40.075 and specifically incriminating in that information. Now, I think the 0:13:40.155 --> 0:13:43.475 scandal in and of itself could bring him down, but 0:13:43.555 --> 0:13:47.275 we also do have to contextualize it, because what Donald 0:13:47.275 --> 0:13:50.915 Trump is all about is protecting the rich and powerful 0:13:50.995 --> 0:13:55.155 and stealing from normal people, regular middle class and poor 0:13:55.195 --> 0:13:57.475 folks in order to enrich the rich and powerful. And 0:13:57.515 --> 0:14:01.195 this is very much part of that story. Yes, I 0:14:01.235 --> 0:14:04.395 am sure that there are both Republicans and Democrats named 0:14:04.795 --> 0:14:07.995 in those files. There are powerful people on both sides 0:14:08.035 --> 0:14:11.235 of the aisle. But what Trump is all about is 0:14:11.955 --> 0:14:14.595 not really playing a game based on politics, but playing 0:14:14.595 --> 0:14:16.275 a game based on wealth and influence. 0:14:16.355 --> 0:14:17.635 If you have wealth and influence. 0:14:17.875 --> 0:14:20.515 Donald Trump is going to protect you, and that is 0:14:20.555 --> 0:14:25.075 consistent through everything he has done during the first nine 0:14:25.075 --> 0:14:26.115 months of this administration. 0:14:27.395 --> 0:14:30.955 Wow. And I will add with my first actual astonishment 0:14:30.995 --> 0:14:36.835 in months yikes. This leads us to ask, therefore, how 0:14:36.875 --> 0:14:39.595 far Trump will now go to bury the Epstein files. 0:14:40.235 --> 0:14:42.435 I mean now that his government shut down to prevent 0:14:42.475 --> 0:14:45.835 the vote ran out of viability. And yes, there's already 0:14:45.875 --> 0:14:48.555 a partial answer. He's willing to co me Bill Clinton, 0:14:48.595 --> 0:14:51.875 fake prosecution, fake indictment, fake trial, fake prosecutor, just to 0:14:51.995 --> 0:14:56.235 delay the deluge. Brian Boutler says, the ultimate step in 0:14:56.275 --> 0:14:59.395 this regard is theoretically possible. To quote him, Trump could 0:14:59.515 --> 0:15:04.435 order DOJ to destroy Epstein file evidence. I'd bet an 0:15:04.435 --> 0:15:07.435 ear responsible amount of money. He writes that he has 0:15:07.435 --> 0:15:10.595 already barked this order at Pam Bondi and Cash Patel, 0:15:10.675 --> 0:15:14.995 but to no avail unquote, Well, why would they hesitate here? 0:15:15.675 --> 0:15:19.395 Personal responsibility? This is no matter who told you to 0:15:19.435 --> 0:15:24.195 do it. Destruction of evidence a huge crime, and guess 0:15:24.235 --> 0:15:29.715 who could be charged with it? Trump, Bondie, Patel and 0:15:29.875 --> 0:15:34.315 anybody who helped. Still, it is important to remember that 0:15:34.395 --> 0:15:38.195 Alexander Haig told Richard Nixon to burn the Watergate tapes 0:15:38.835 --> 0:15:43.475 in the Rose Garden with the press present. Haig also 0:15:43.555 --> 0:15:46.835 insisted Nixon asked him to burn the tapes, and Haig 0:15:46.835 --> 0:15:49.315 said he refused because he knew they would prosecute him 0:15:49.315 --> 0:15:53.595 into the ground quote get Manolo to do it. Haig 0:15:53.675 --> 0:15:58.715 said he told Nixon Manolo Sanchez was Nixon's valet, He 0:15:59.115 --> 0:16:04.315 was his Walt Naude. Nobody burned the tapes. Haig said 0:16:04.315 --> 0:16:07.275 it was his biggest regret they didn't burn them ultimately 0:16:07.315 --> 0:16:10.955 because many of Nixon's advisors still believed they were exculpatory 0:16:11.155 --> 0:16:14.675 and Nixon was innocent and the tapes would prove it. 0:16:15.555 --> 0:16:21.475 Oops emoji. So if you don't destroy the evidence and 0:16:21.595 --> 0:16:24.595 investigating Bill Clinton gets to you, nothing would Trump think 0:16:24.675 --> 0:16:29.635 bigger than that? Destroy not the Epstein files, but destroy 0:16:29.675 --> 0:16:32.395 the process by which Trump could be punished for whatever 0:16:32.515 --> 0:16:35.435 is in the Epstein files. Does he see it as 0:16:35.435 --> 0:16:39.155 some sort of existential moment requiring the whole ball of wax? 0:16:39.755 --> 0:16:43.155 Do those looking to succeed him in MAGA see it 0:16:43.235 --> 0:16:47.555 as such? Is there a potential Maga coup over Epstein? 0:16:47.795 --> 0:16:51.875 Is that what Trump is really trying to preclude here, 0:16:52.115 --> 0:16:55.635 not so much the Epstein tapes destroying Trump, but other 0:16:55.755 --> 0:16:59.355 MAGA doing so. Look at our false prophet. He failed 0:16:59.395 --> 0:17:03.755 us on Epstein. Nice apparatus he built. We'll keep that, 0:17:03.915 --> 0:17:07.315 but let's lose. That's this guy. The guy doesn't know 0:17:07.355 --> 0:17:10.795 what part of him got MRI the drip was that 0:17:10.835 --> 0:17:13.315 guy we had before? JD. Vance? What was his name again? 0:17:14.435 --> 0:17:18.515 Lump Greg's sergeant talked to the historian Nicole Hemmer, who 0:17:18.515 --> 0:17:21.395 has written books about the real internal convulsions on the 0:17:21.475 --> 0:17:25.715 right below the seeming surface of robotic cultish uniform worship 0:17:25.795 --> 0:17:28.795 of Trump, and she said, I am watching people like 0:17:28.955 --> 0:17:31.955 Vance and the factions around him, because again, this sort 0:17:31.955 --> 0:17:34.315 of civil war that has broken out on the right 0:17:34.755 --> 0:17:38.875 involves this idea of something called postliberalism, which is an 0:17:38.915 --> 0:17:43.915 idea of a post democracy society, a more authoritarian strongman 0:17:44.075 --> 0:17:47.395 society that isn't in any way reliant on Donald Trump. 0:17:47.955 --> 0:17:50.715 It could have JD. Vance as its figurehead, It could 0:17:50.755 --> 0:17:53.795 have some of these techno totalitarian elites as part of 0:17:53.795 --> 0:17:56.595 its head. There is a real philosophy on the right 0:17:56.675 --> 0:18:00.235 that is many ways post democratic. And that's the faction 0:18:00.355 --> 0:18:02.875 that I'm watching because it actually seems like the faction 0:18:02.955 --> 0:18:07.955 that has the most momentum behind at the moment ah 0:18:08.035 --> 0:18:12.235 Ms Hemmer, you always brighten my day. She continues, I 0:18:12.275 --> 0:18:14.835 think it's very possible that, because people want him to 0:18:14.875 --> 0:18:18.155 be the strong man, the authoritarian she's talking about Trump here, 0:18:18.435 --> 0:18:21.555 that in order to try to overcome this particular scandal 0:18:21.595 --> 0:18:24.355 in his administration, he is going to attempt to appease 0:18:24.395 --> 0:18:28.235 his base by seizing even more power and hurting even 0:18:28.315 --> 0:18:32.355 more people, which is entirely possible in order to defeed 0:18:32.555 --> 0:18:35.915 what it is they want. So I do still think 0:18:35.955 --> 0:18:37.795 that even though it could end up being a moment 0:18:37.835 --> 0:18:39.755 of real weakness, in a moment we look back on 0:18:39.835 --> 0:18:42.155 and say, well that was the end of Donald Trump's power, 0:18:42.395 --> 0:18:45.275 it could just as easily be the impetus for another 0:18:45.595 --> 0:18:47.915 power grab. And so I think we need to take 0:18:47.955 --> 0:18:52.115 it seriously. Okay, I got the last part covered, Thank you, 0:18:52.155 --> 0:18:56.195 miss Hammer. Well, isn't that special? A Trump responds to 0:18:56.235 --> 0:18:58.955 trump Stein that has him shutting down any part of 0:18:58.995 --> 0:19:02.075 the government that might be used to getting the Epstein 0:19:02.195 --> 0:19:04.555 files out, or any part of the government than might 0:19:04.755 --> 0:19:08.755 be used to blame him for Epstein or anything else 0:19:08.755 --> 0:19:14.035 that might divert So if he escalates, my boy Boutler 0:19:14.155 --> 0:19:17.395 says the resistance should escalate too, even if it is 0:19:17.475 --> 0:19:20.955 Chuck Schumer and the Quizzling Eight. He writes, Democrats have 0:19:21.035 --> 0:19:24.875 happily held their own in the jerrymandering fight. That is 0:19:24.915 --> 0:19:27.675 to their credit, but they could be clearer about why 0:19:28.115 --> 0:19:31.395 Trump is so desperate to rig the House elections to 0:19:31.635 --> 0:19:35.355 keep the Epstein files concealed. And if that's how he 0:19:35.435 --> 0:19:38.435 sees the stake, so be it. The midterms will be 0:19:38.515 --> 0:19:42.555 a referendum on whether Trump's pedophilia cover up should be 0:19:42.555 --> 0:19:49.595 allowed to succeed. Once again, yikes, there is a bigger 0:19:49.635 --> 0:19:52.395 picture here that should be acknowledged. Stage one of taking 0:19:52.435 --> 0:19:55.595 Trump down via the Epstein files, even if it means 0:19:55.595 --> 0:19:59.515 the midterm is keeping the story alive for another year. 0:20:00.115 --> 0:20:04.555 Let's go. If Trump attacks Venezuela, this might be a problem. 0:20:04.675 --> 0:20:08.395 American reporters like wars. They're easy to cover. You just 0:20:08.435 --> 0:20:10.955 have to show the pictures of them. Bob's blowing up. 0:20:11.875 --> 0:20:15.515 On the other hand, if Trump just keeps posting about 0:20:15.515 --> 0:20:18.555 how nobody is allowed to talk about Epstein, that's a 0:20:18.675 --> 0:20:22.395 different world and we can win that one back. It's 0:20:22.435 --> 0:20:52.475 a different world with different things blowing up. I promised 0:20:52.475 --> 0:20:57.995 you the Yvonne Calderone MRI story. If you actually are claustrophobic, 0:20:58.875 --> 0:21:01.075 first off, you know how you find that out. Get 0:21:01.075 --> 0:21:03.515 in an MRI. That's where you fight out whether or 0:21:03.555 --> 0:21:05.955 not you're actually claust your phone at all. If you 0:21:06.075 --> 0:21:10.035 are go forward, hit the go forward like thirty seconds, 0:21:11.195 --> 0:21:14.755 maybe twice. Okay. He was a barrel of a man. 0:21:14.795 --> 0:21:17.635 He was an outfielder. He's listed at six', one maybe 0:21:17.635 --> 0:21:21.275 not and two twenty maybe early in life he hit 0:21:21.315 --> 0:21:24.235 three hundred once for The montreal Expos his teammates adored. 0:21:24.315 --> 0:21:28.275 Him he died, violently shot execution style In Puerto rico 0:21:28.595 --> 0:21:32.675 twenty Three Christmases. Ago one story was drug dealers demanded 0:21:32.715 --> 0:21:36.675 he give them his, son who was messed up and 0:21:36.995 --> 0:21:39.875 mixed up with, them and they were pursuing, him and 0:21:39.955 --> 0:21:43.835 he refused and they killed. 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Again early in the history OF, 0:22:09.315 --> 0:22:13.115 MRIs so supposedly the hospital had no real experience with 0:22:13.435 --> 0:22:14.875 this and what to do about, it and they had 0:22:14.875 --> 0:22:16.875 to call in the, experts and the experts were at 0:22:16.875 --> 0:22:20.635 the company that made the, MACHINE, ge and the technicians 0:22:20.635 --> 0:22:23.595 were at THE ge headquarters FOR, MRIs which was two hours, 0:22:23.595 --> 0:22:25.475 away and they had to come and take the machine, 0:22:25.475 --> 0:22:27.475 apart which took another couple of hours to get him. 0:22:27.475 --> 0:22:33.035 Out so they have improved emergency procedures since then WITH, 0:22:33.155 --> 0:22:37.715 MRIs i'm, told and speaking of the feeling of being 0:22:37.715 --> 0:22:40.315 stuck inside AN mri for hours with no way, out 0:22:40.435 --> 0:22:44.555 there's working With STEPHEN. A smith or just watching. Him 0:22:45.155 --> 0:22:49.035 THE espn chief Time waster has apparently rededicated himself to 0:22:49.195 --> 0:22:53.515 self immolating by going into political commentary when he doesn't 0:22:53.515 --> 0:22:56.675 know anything about political, commentary and he will not bother 0:22:56.795 --> 0:22:59.235 himself to do any. PREPARATION i, mean just get some 0:22:59.315 --> 0:23:01.955 basic facts and, stuff have somebody print something out for, 0:23:02.075 --> 0:23:04.195 you put it in front of. You he has made 0:23:04.235 --> 0:23:06.435 a fool out of himself every time he has opened 0:23:06.435 --> 0:23:10.395 his mouth on this. Subject, actually it's, terrific it's wonderfully. 0:23:10.515 --> 0:23:14.635 Entertaining STEVEN. A smith insisted that if there had been 0:23:14.675 --> 0:23:17.675 anything damaging in The epstein, files The democrats would have 0:23:17.715 --> 0:23:21.955 released it long. Ago, therefore and he and he alone 0:23:21.955 --> 0:23:25.075 could figure it out this way that since The democrats 0:23:25.115 --> 0:23:28.435 did not release the latest dog that didn't bark and 0:23:28.915 --> 0:23:31.995 hours at my home with such and such emails during 0:23:32.075 --> 0:23:36.035 last year's presidential, campaign those emails can't really be. Damaging 0:23:37.755 --> 0:23:40.395 as the Reporter JULIE. K brown of The Miami, herald 0:23:40.395 --> 0:23:44.515 who is the expert on The epstein, prosecutions, noted What 0:23:44.555 --> 0:23:47.875 stephen doesn't understand is that the emails released Last wednesday 0:23:47.875 --> 0:23:51.795 are From epstein's. Estate they were obtained From epstein's lawyers 0:23:51.835 --> 0:23:54.675 pursuant to a subpoena that was issued by The House 0:23:54.715 --> 0:24:00.155 Oversight committee i. E. Lawmakers these documents are separate from 0:24:00.195 --> 0:24:03.275 the criminal case files held by THE doj and THE 0:24:03.395 --> 0:24:07.395 fbi That trump And bondi promised to release after the election. 0:24:07.635 --> 0:24:11.555 Unquote in other, words these, emails the ones we got last, 0:24:11.555 --> 0:24:15.675 week are new to the. Public gaze this year and, 0:24:15.755 --> 0:24:18.995 separately why didn't The democrats release what they had access 0:24:19.035 --> 0:24:22.475 to last? Year, well the case wasn't resolved until Last. 0:24:22.515 --> 0:24:26.195 October Glene maxwell's last appeal went on To october twenty twenty. 0:24:26.195 --> 0:24:29.155 Four you cannot empty your evidence files while you're still at, 0:24:29.195 --> 0:24:35.275 trial while you are still investigating. Others and by this, 0:24:35.355 --> 0:24:38.835 Point STEVEN. A smith has lost interest in details and 0:24:38.915 --> 0:24:45.955 he is pursing his. Lips it's his only, skill it's 0:24:45.995 --> 0:24:48.595 not his only. FAIL i am delighted to Report stephen 0:24:48.635 --> 0:24:51.995 wins The Professor David Dunning Dunning Kruger Effect trophy for 0:24:52.155 --> 0:24:54.675 the month by coming back in the new episode of 0:24:54.675 --> 0:24:57.555 his new politics, show which IS I think CALLED I 0:24:57.755 --> 0:25:01.515 know nothing about, politics BUT i know it loudly by 0:25:01.595 --> 0:25:05.795 saying this. Quote Jasmine crockett AND a have been invited 0:25:05.875 --> 0:25:08.835 on this show for four. Months Gavin newsom has been 0:25:08.835 --> 0:25:11.875 invited for longer than. That Chuck schumer has been invited 0:25:11.915 --> 0:25:18.395 on this. Show hasn't shown up where they. At, Well, 0:25:18.675 --> 0:25:21.555 steven since for once the obvious has not occurred to 0:25:21.595 --> 0:25:25.875 you and you haven't been followed it by taking the 0:25:25.915 --> 0:25:28.315