1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Super 2 00:00:22,195 --> 00:00:26,475 Speaker 1: Tuesday is a brand name, and anyway, the big story 3 00:00:26,555 --> 00:00:29,915 Speaker 1: is the Supreme Court inadvertently having created a means to 4 00:00:30,035 --> 00:00:35,395 Speaker 1: disqualify Trump after the election, but to do the primary 5 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:38,515 Speaker 1: results briefly. At recording time, it sure looked like Nikki 6 00:00:38,555 --> 00:00:41,195 Speaker 1: Haley was going to beat Trump in Vermont by a 7 00:00:41,315 --> 00:00:44,035 Speaker 1: point and a half or more, but as to the 8 00:00:44,115 --> 00:00:47,755 Speaker 1: chance she might also be competitive in Massachusetts, she actually 9 00:00:47,875 --> 00:00:50,275 Speaker 1: slid from the last poll there where she was down 10 00:00:50,315 --> 00:00:54,475 Speaker 1: by seventeen to losing by around twenty five. The non 11 00:00:54,595 --> 00:00:57,355 Speaker 1: Trump vote in Minnesota and Virginia looked like it would 12 00:00:57,355 --> 00:00:59,795 Speaker 1: come in at thirty five percent or better, and that 13 00:00:59,835 --> 00:01:03,475 Speaker 1: will only delay, not deterred Trump's nomination, but it is 14 00:01:03,595 --> 00:01:07,755 Speaker 1: not an erotion relevant weakness. And in North Carolina, where 15 00:01:07,755 --> 00:01:11,355 Speaker 1: it was about Trump seventy five Haley twenty two exit 16 00:01:11,435 --> 00:01:17,475 Speaker 1: polls produced more firing rotating sirens, small firing rotating sirens, 17 00:01:17,755 --> 00:01:21,515 Speaker 1: but they're still firing. Two thirds of Haley voters said 18 00:01:21,555 --> 00:01:25,315 Speaker 1: Trump was neither physically nor mentally fit to be president. 19 00:01:25,675 --> 00:01:28,275 Speaker 1: More than eighty percent of her voters said they are 20 00:01:28,315 --> 00:01:33,355 Speaker 1: not automatic votes for Trump. Oh and Trump won in Colorado, 21 00:01:33,635 --> 00:01:36,995 Speaker 1: where before the Supreme Court intervened he was not actually 22 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:40,075 Speaker 1: on the ballot as to the president. In Minnesota, he 23 00:01:40,155 --> 00:01:42,435 Speaker 1: was winning by fifty eight points, and that looked to 24 00:01:42,475 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: be Joe Biden's worst margin of the night. That's seventy 25 00:01:47,115 --> 00:01:51,075 Speaker 1: three to fifteen fifteen for uncommitted and about nine for 26 00:01:51,195 --> 00:01:53,795 Speaker 1: Minnesota's own Dean Phillips, who had said that if his 27 00:01:53,875 --> 00:01:56,955 Speaker 1: campaign were not viable after March fifth, he would bow 28 00:01:57,035 --> 00:01:59,715 Speaker 1: out and campaign as hard for Biden as he had 29 00:01:59,795 --> 00:02:03,595 Speaker 1: for himself. Well teen exactly how would that help Biden 30 00:02:04,715 --> 00:02:07,795 Speaker 1: on uncommitted was coming in at about fifteen percent there, 31 00:02:08,155 --> 00:02:11,595 Speaker 1: ten percent in Massachusetts, seven percent in Colorado, and it's 32 00:02:11,595 --> 00:02:14,875 Speaker 1: nothing to sneeze at, but bluntly, as in Michigan, the 33 00:02:14,915 --> 00:02:20,675 Speaker 1: protest vote was respectable, honorable, but this is not exactly 34 00:02:20,875 --> 00:02:26,195 Speaker 1: LBJ nineteen sixty eight. Also of note, Republican primary voters 35 00:02:26,235 --> 00:02:29,075 Speaker 1: in North Carolina have nominated one of the nation's leading 36 00:02:29,195 --> 00:02:34,155 Speaker 1: scumbags for governor. Mark Robinson has denied and mocked the Holocaust, 37 00:02:34,475 --> 00:02:38,075 Speaker 1: wants a total abortion ban, defend at Harvey Weinstein and 38 00:02:38,115 --> 00:02:42,795 Speaker 1: Bill Cosby, mocked school shooting victims, is a homophobe has 39 00:02:42,955 --> 00:02:46,915 Speaker 1: urged the arrest of transsexuals. He also says God created 40 00:02:46,995 --> 00:02:51,875 Speaker 1: him to fight against LGBTQ wrights. If true, the given 41 00:02:51,915 --> 00:02:55,875 Speaker 1: that God also made him somewhere around two hundred pounds overweight, 42 00:02:56,195 --> 00:02:59,195 Speaker 1: perhaps the heavenly Father will be deciding he just can't 43 00:02:59,235 --> 00:03:03,075 Speaker 1: go on without him and calls him home soon and 44 00:03:03,155 --> 00:03:07,355 Speaker 1: the last electoral heath head line, Senator Kirsten Cinema will 45 00:03:07,435 --> 00:03:11,835 Speaker 1: not seek reelection in Arizona. Sadly, like the rest of 46 00:03:11,875 --> 00:03:17,355 Speaker 1: her once genuinely promising political career, nobody will notice she's gone. 47 00:03:17,835 --> 00:03:21,155 Speaker 1: In a three way race, polling last month showed Democratic 48 00:03:21,155 --> 00:03:24,795 Speaker 1: congress and Reuben Diego leading Crazy Carrie Lake thirty four 49 00:03:24,835 --> 00:03:29,035 Speaker 1: to thirty one, with my ex at twenty three without Cinema, 50 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:32,555 Speaker 1: it's Diego forty seven, Lake thirty seven in one poll, 51 00:03:32,835 --> 00:03:37,955 Speaker 1: Diego forty six thirty nine in another. And as to Cinema, yes, 52 00:03:38,795 --> 00:03:43,195 Speaker 1: this is the first time she's ever walked out of 53 00:03:43,275 --> 00:04:20,435 Speaker 1: a three way. Meanwhile, back at the Ranch, the Supreme 54 00:04:20,515 --> 00:04:24,675 Speaker 1: Court actually has left the door open to disqualify Trump 55 00:04:24,875 --> 00:04:29,555 Speaker 1: from becoming president again. No, seriously, I noted here yesterday 56 00:04:29,555 --> 00:04:32,315 Speaker 1: that in it soon to be eternally infamous decision to 57 00:04:32,395 --> 00:04:36,355 Speaker 1: erase the third section of the Fourteenth Amendment because amy 58 00:04:36,435 --> 00:04:39,955 Speaker 1: Cony Barrett thinks it's too hot in here, the Court 59 00:04:40,075 --> 00:04:43,955 Speaker 1: was giving Joe Biden a kind of specific, informal immunity 60 00:04:43,955 --> 00:04:47,755 Speaker 1: from prosecution in case he wanted to do what Trump 61 00:04:47,795 --> 00:04:51,155 Speaker 1: did in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. It turns 62 00:04:51,195 --> 00:04:55,515 Speaker 1: out that many constitutional scholars and even some sitting members 63 00:04:55,555 --> 00:04:58,235 Speaker 1: of the House think that, in its haste to make 64 00:04:58,315 --> 00:05:02,235 Speaker 1: sure their pimp, Trump got onto the ballot yesterday in Colorado, 65 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:06,035 Speaker 1: the Court also left the door open to Democrats and 66 00:05:06,075 --> 00:05:10,995 Speaker 1: maybe disaffected Republicans challenging the validity of a Trump election 67 00:05:11,155 --> 00:05:14,115 Speaker 1: this fall. If God forbid, it plays out like that. 68 00:05:15,115 --> 00:05:18,915 Speaker 1: The director of Election Law at Ohio State Ned Foley, 69 00:05:19,315 --> 00:05:21,835 Speaker 1: says the Court was quote trying to avoid all this. 70 00:05:22,195 --> 00:05:24,875 Speaker 1: They were trying to foreclose an effort to disqualify Trump 71 00:05:25,075 --> 00:05:28,275 Speaker 1: after he wins, but they didn't do it clearly enough. 72 00:05:29,195 --> 00:05:33,195 Speaker 1: There is now debate. Professor Foley told Politico over the 73 00:05:33,235 --> 00:05:38,035 Speaker 1: consequences of the court ruling that the Constitution gives enforcement 74 00:05:38,155 --> 00:05:45,395 Speaker 1: of the Fourteenth Amendment exclusively to Congress. So what practically speaking, 75 00:05:45,755 --> 00:05:49,835 Speaker 1: Trump wins the Electoral College, the Democrats hold the Senate, 76 00:05:50,035 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: the Democrats take the House, and then the Democrats are 77 00:05:52,635 --> 00:05:58,235 Speaker 1: suddenly going to pass legislation saying Trump is ineligible because 78 00:05:58,235 --> 00:06:03,195 Speaker 1: he engaged in insurrection in twenty twenty one. Ah, but 79 00:06:03,315 --> 00:06:06,355 Speaker 1: they may not have to pass any legislation. That's the 80 00:06:06,475 --> 00:06:11,115 Speaker 1: point those like this Professor Foley at Osu, who think 81 00:06:11,195 --> 00:06:13,275 Speaker 1: that all the Supreme Court did was to make the 82 00:06:13,315 --> 00:06:17,555 Speaker 1: Fourteenth Amendment can of worms into a family sized can 83 00:06:17,595 --> 00:06:22,115 Speaker 1: of worms. They say that Congress has already passed the 84 00:06:22,155 --> 00:06:26,595 Speaker 1: necessary legislation two years ago. The Electoral count Reform and 85 00:06:26,675 --> 00:06:31,235 Speaker 1: Presidential Transition Act was intended to clarify and close up 86 00:06:31,275 --> 00:06:35,115 Speaker 1: the loopholes in the original eighteen eighty seven legislation that 87 00:06:35,155 --> 00:06:37,875 Speaker 1: Trump and his minions were trying to stretch out into 88 00:06:37,915 --> 00:06:41,435 Speaker 1: a rationalization to throw out the Biden twenty twenty electors 89 00:06:41,595 --> 00:06:44,075 Speaker 1: and rerun the twenty twenty election, or get the state 90 00:06:44,235 --> 00:06:48,955 Speaker 1: legislators to appoint pro Trump electors, you know, the coup. 91 00:06:50,115 --> 00:06:54,635 Speaker 1: The twenty twenty two clarification closed nearly all of those loopholes, 92 00:06:54,795 --> 00:06:58,755 Speaker 1: limiting what kinds of challenges lawmakers can now make to 93 00:06:58,915 --> 00:07:04,235 Speaker 1: electoral slates. Already certified by their states. But they left 94 00:07:04,395 --> 00:07:07,595 Speaker 1: to two two grounds for objections challenges, and one of 95 00:07:07,635 --> 00:07:12,995 Speaker 1: them reads, the vote of one or more electors has 96 00:07:13,115 --> 00:07:22,235 Speaker 1: not been regularly given regularly given that phrase was in 97 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:25,795 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century legislation, and it means any suspicion that 98 00:07:25,835 --> 00:07:29,195 Speaker 1: an elector was bribed to vote one way or the other, 99 00:07:29,755 --> 00:07:32,995 Speaker 1: or the elector was kidnapped and the guy casting the 100 00:07:33,075 --> 00:07:37,235 Speaker 1: vote wasn't the real elector, or he voted on the 101 00:07:37,235 --> 00:07:44,275 Speaker 1: wrong day, or the elector voted for somebody who wasn't eligible, 102 00:07:47,955 --> 00:07:56,355 Speaker 1: voted for somebody who wasn't elligible. Say so. Yesterday the 103 00:07:56,395 --> 00:07:59,355 Speaker 1: Supreme Court said the House and Senate were the only 104 00:07:59,435 --> 00:08:05,355 Speaker 1: bodies allowed to enforce the fourteenth Amendment determining that somebody 105 00:08:05,475 --> 00:08:08,955 Speaker 1: isn't eligible to be president. And at the end of 106 00:08:08,955 --> 00:08:11,035 Speaker 1: December twenty twenty two, the House in the Senate passed 107 00:08:11,035 --> 00:08:14,715 Speaker 1: a bill that said you could challenge an electoral vote 108 00:08:14,755 --> 00:08:22,435 Speaker 1: cast for somebody who isn't eligible to be president. Politico, 109 00:08:22,475 --> 00:08:25,635 Speaker 1: which I always slam and its reporters Kyle Cheney and 110 00:08:25,675 --> 00:08:28,635 Speaker 1: Josh Gerstein, did a really good job on this story. 111 00:08:28,755 --> 00:08:30,955 Speaker 1: They followed up with a couple of members of the 112 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:36,715 Speaker 1: January sixth Committee fitting Representative Zoe Lofgren of California said, nah, 113 00:08:37,115 --> 00:08:39,355 Speaker 1: she thinks there'd have to be a new law that 114 00:08:39,395 --> 00:08:44,075 Speaker 1: specifically spells out the process of implementing the fourteenth Amendment, 115 00:08:44,595 --> 00:08:48,795 Speaker 1: but quoting the reporters, Lofgren added that she is continuing 116 00:08:48,795 --> 00:08:52,355 Speaker 1: to review the ruling and hopes to hear from legal 117 00:08:52,475 --> 00:08:57,115 Speaker 1: experts on Congress's role. Congressman Jamie Raskin says his first 118 00:08:57,115 --> 00:09:00,915 Speaker 1: read of the decision suggests that Representative Lofgren is right quote, 119 00:09:01,435 --> 00:09:04,515 Speaker 1: but I am not certain of that and we want 120 00:09:04,555 --> 00:09:11,595 Speaker 1: to to explore it. Hey, Now, basically, this is what 121 00:09:11,635 --> 00:09:13,595 Speaker 1: would have to happen. The Democrats would have to take 122 00:09:13,635 --> 00:09:18,155 Speaker 1: the House eight months out. That's considered likely, and the 123 00:09:18,195 --> 00:09:22,275 Speaker 1: Democrats would have to retain the Senate. That's iffy, but 124 00:09:22,315 --> 00:09:26,955 Speaker 1: it's not considered likely. If Trump then won with Democrats 125 00:09:26,995 --> 00:09:30,435 Speaker 1: in the majority, they could say, you know, we did 126 00:09:30,555 --> 00:09:33,835 Speaker 1: pass this act on December twenty eighth, twenty twenty two, 127 00:09:33,875 --> 00:09:36,635 Speaker 1: and it says we can object to electoral votes not 128 00:09:37,235 --> 00:09:40,995 Speaker 1: regularly given. And one of the ways an electoral vote 129 00:09:41,675 --> 00:09:44,395 Speaker 1: is not regularly given is if the elector voted for 130 00:09:44,475 --> 00:09:49,635 Speaker 1: somebody who isn't eligible to be president. So guess what. 131 00:09:51,155 --> 00:09:54,235 Speaker 1: Since the Supreme Court already ruled last year that we 132 00:09:54,755 --> 00:09:56,715 Speaker 1: have the exclusive right here in the Senate, in the 133 00:09:56,755 --> 00:10:00,915 Speaker 1: House to enforce the insurrection disqualification clause in the fourteenth Amendment, 134 00:10:01,275 --> 00:10:04,315 Speaker 1: we're going to do that. Now Donald Trump is here 135 00:10:04,315 --> 00:10:09,355 Speaker 1: by vote ineligible. All the electoral votes cast for him 136 00:10:09,355 --> 00:10:13,395 Speaker 1: are declared, not regularly given, and the House now gets 137 00:10:13,435 --> 00:10:17,515 Speaker 1: to decide who's president. Guess who we're voting for. See, 138 00:10:17,555 --> 00:10:23,635 Speaker 1: now that's outstanding. No, I'm not saying I am advocating 139 00:10:23,715 --> 00:10:28,515 Speaker 1: for that. It sounds a little bit too much like 140 00:10:28,675 --> 00:10:34,915 Speaker 1: the Eastman plan. But once again, let's take this away 141 00:10:34,915 --> 00:10:37,995 Speaker 1: from the theoretical. Let's take the idea that a Trump 142 00:10:38,115 --> 00:10:44,795 Speaker 1: dictatorship is imminent. Yesterday I suggested if the Supreme Court said, okay, 143 00:10:44,875 --> 00:10:48,555 Speaker 1: presidents are immune from any prosecution, that means Joe Biden 144 00:10:48,675 --> 00:10:52,395 Speaker 1: is instantly an absolute monarch, and a re elected Trump 145 00:10:52,835 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: would become an absolute monarch. And if you have a 146 00:10:57,035 --> 00:11:02,595 Speaker 1: choice of kings or monarchs or imperial presidents or dictators, 147 00:11:02,675 --> 00:11:07,715 Speaker 1: which one you're gonna choose, especially if you sitting President 148 00:11:07,755 --> 00:11:11,195 Speaker 1: Biden or you twenty twenty five democratic majorities in the 149 00:11:11,195 --> 00:11:14,195 Speaker 1: House and Senate. You are the ones doing the choosing. 150 00:11:14,555 --> 00:11:14,835 Speaker 2: Hmm. 151 00:11:15,395 --> 00:11:18,475 Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm going to live in something other than 152 00:11:18,475 --> 00:11:20,795 Speaker 1: a democracy for a while. Who do we want in 153 00:11:20,915 --> 00:11:25,595 Speaker 1: charge with nobody to control him? Joe Biden or Donald Trump? Why? 154 00:11:25,635 --> 00:11:27,955 Speaker 1: That's a really tough choice. I don't know. Pr Wise, 155 00:11:27,995 --> 00:11:29,995 Speaker 1: it might look really bad if we, you know, didn't 156 00:11:30,035 --> 00:11:31,555 Speaker 1: go with Trump. You know, I so, but I don't know. 157 00:11:32,315 --> 00:11:34,395 Speaker 1: Let's have a caucus. Okay, let's get some pulling in 158 00:11:34,475 --> 00:11:34,755 Speaker 1: on this. 159 00:11:37,035 --> 00:11:40,795 Speaker 2: Anyway, the possibility exists. 160 00:11:41,755 --> 00:11:49,155 Speaker 1: Thanks Sam Alito, Thanks Amy Coney, Karen Barrett, not regularly given. 161 00:11:50,195 --> 00:12:08,955 Speaker 1: Thanks for the petard. Ha ha ha. There's a more 162 00:12:09,035 --> 00:12:13,715 Speaker 1: immediate and more expensive and expensive legal problem for Trump. 163 00:12:13,755 --> 00:12:16,915 Speaker 1: Of course, he has just contradicted his own filing in 164 00:12:16,995 --> 00:12:20,835 Speaker 1: the New York State business fraud case, you know, the 165 00:12:20,875 --> 00:12:24,315 Speaker 1: one from I don't know twelve thirteen cases ago, where 166 00:12:24,355 --> 00:12:27,515 Speaker 1: he was fined four hundred and sixty five million dollars 167 00:12:27,515 --> 00:12:31,155 Speaker 1: with interest, and his lawyers offered just one hundred million 168 00:12:31,235 --> 00:12:34,315 Speaker 1: dollars in a bond, and they insisted in court that 169 00:12:34,435 --> 00:12:37,475 Speaker 1: without a stay and without the bond, he would have 170 00:12:37,555 --> 00:12:42,195 Speaker 1: to raise capital under exigent circumstances. In other words, Trump 171 00:12:42,275 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 1: could not get whatever say Trump Tower is actually worth, 172 00:12:45,955 --> 00:12:48,795 Speaker 1: because all potential buyers would know he really needed the 173 00:12:48,835 --> 00:12:54,275 Speaker 1: money immediately, irreparable harm, forced sales, no way to recover 174 00:12:54,395 --> 00:13:00,995 Speaker 1: even if the decision were eventually overturned. Ahem. Brian Kilmead quote, 175 00:13:01,595 --> 00:13:03,515 Speaker 1: you have to come up with four hundred million dollars? 176 00:13:03,555 --> 00:13:06,675 Speaker 1: How close are you to secure during the bond? Elmer J. 177 00:13:06,915 --> 00:13:10,675 Speaker 1: Fudd Trump quote, I have a lot of money. I 178 00:13:10,715 --> 00:13:14,235 Speaker 1: can do what I want to do. Brian Kilmead quote, 179 00:13:14,515 --> 00:13:18,875 Speaker 1: So you're not worried about the money? Aphasia Jay Trump quote, 180 00:13:19,155 --> 00:13:20,715 Speaker 1: I don't worry about money. 181 00:13:21,995 --> 00:13:22,515 Speaker 2: Oh boy. 182 00:13:23,915 --> 00:13:29,475 Speaker 1: One more quote Attorney General Letitia James. Probably we only 183 00:13:29,555 --> 00:13:38,635 Speaker 1: take cash, no checks. One of the subtexts to the 184 00:13:38,635 --> 00:13:41,675 Speaker 1: State of the Union tomorrow night. By the way, did 185 00:13:41,715 --> 00:13:44,315 Speaker 1: I mention we are live on YouTube and Twitch with 186 00:13:44,355 --> 00:13:47,675 Speaker 1: a postgame show after the State of the Union? I did? 187 00:13:48,555 --> 00:13:51,835 Speaker 1: Would be the last time. One of the subtexts is 188 00:13:52,475 --> 00:13:56,875 Speaker 1: whether or maybe how much President Biden will mention Trump 189 00:13:56,915 --> 00:14:01,115 Speaker 1: and insurrection and dictatorship and concentration camps and all that. 190 00:14:01,875 --> 00:14:05,515 Speaker 1: Based on two stories, one anecdotal and one based the 191 00:14:05,595 --> 00:14:09,995 Speaker 1: answer is he can't mention it too often. He can't 192 00:14:10,195 --> 00:14:14,235 Speaker 1: overmention it. He can't say it too frequently because America 193 00:14:14,395 --> 00:14:20,795 Speaker 1: is beginning to forget January sixth and everything else. The 194 00:14:20,835 --> 00:14:23,955 Speaker 1: New York Times riffed off its own polling showing that 195 00:14:24,035 --> 00:14:27,035 Speaker 1: ten percent of Biden's twenty twenty voters now say they 196 00:14:27,115 --> 00:14:30,995 Speaker 1: support Trump. It notes that more than four million first 197 00:14:30,995 --> 00:14:34,835 Speaker 1: time voters this fall were when Trump was elected in 198 00:14:34,955 --> 00:14:40,075 Speaker 1: middle school, and they somehow think, among other things, Trump 199 00:14:40,155 --> 00:14:43,515 Speaker 1: will be better for Palestinians than Biden, which means they 200 00:14:43,675 --> 00:14:48,235 Speaker 1: didn't learn a damn thing in middle school, did they. Hell? 201 00:14:48,355 --> 00:14:52,675 Speaker 1: They were what high school freshmen or eighth graders when 202 00:14:52,715 --> 00:14:57,115 Speaker 1: Trump tried to overthrow the government, They don't remember it, 203 00:14:57,515 --> 00:14:59,675 Speaker 1: and like a lot of us who marvel that our 204 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:03,755 Speaker 1: hair has been able to stay on fire since January sixth, 205 00:15:03,755 --> 00:15:06,915 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and they have been saying the Biden 206 00:15:06,995 --> 00:15:10,755 Speaker 1: campaign should make sure everybody in this country remembers something 207 00:15:10,995 --> 00:15:14,915 Speaker 1: every day about Trump threatening democracy then, now and in 208 00:15:14,955 --> 00:15:19,195 Speaker 1: the future, like we say about that. Polling done for 209 00:15:19,235 --> 00:15:22,835 Speaker 1: the group Save My Country by a veteran Democratic poster 210 00:15:22,915 --> 00:15:26,275 Speaker 1: named Jeff Garren is in a Greg Sergeant piece in 211 00:15:26,315 --> 00:15:30,515 Speaker 1: The New Republic. Garren polled four hundred voters in Arizona, 212 00:15:30,555 --> 00:15:33,235 Speaker 1: four hundred more in Michigan, four hundred in Pennsylvania. He 213 00:15:33,275 --> 00:15:36,595 Speaker 1: then waited them in proportion to the state electoral college 214 00:15:36,675 --> 00:15:40,515 Speaker 1: vote total. They threw out twenty twenty Trump voters. They 215 00:15:40,555 --> 00:15:43,035 Speaker 1: threw out anybody who said Biden didn't win in twenty 216 00:15:43,075 --> 00:15:46,235 Speaker 1: twenty eight. Short, this was designed to find out what 217 00:15:46,475 --> 00:15:50,635 Speaker 1: people who might easily vote for Joe Biden thought and knew. 218 00:15:51,555 --> 00:15:55,635 Speaker 1: And the pollsters asked them about ten of Trump's most 219 00:15:55,675 --> 00:15:59,715 Speaker 1: authoritarian statements, like immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country, 220 00:15:59,795 --> 00:16:02,835 Speaker 1: and I'm going to pardon the January six ers, and 221 00:16:02,955 --> 00:16:05,515 Speaker 1: I'm going to prosecute the Biden fan family, and I'm 222 00:16:05,555 --> 00:16:08,115 Speaker 1: going after the vermin who opposed me. You know, all 223 00:16:08,155 --> 00:16:14,875 Speaker 1: the hits. The percentage of these gettable Biden votes who said, uh, yeah, yeah, 224 00:16:14,875 --> 00:16:17,275 Speaker 1: I heard about Trump saying all that, the percentage who 225 00:16:17,275 --> 00:16:23,115 Speaker 1: had heard it thirty one percent, thirty one less than 226 00:16:23,155 --> 00:16:28,355 Speaker 1: a third. Two thirds of potential Biden voters have not 227 00:16:28,755 --> 00:16:32,195 Speaker 1: heard about Trump saying he'll be a dictator on day one, 228 00:16:32,755 --> 00:16:37,075 Speaker 1: or about mass deportations, or about the concentration camps. They 229 00:16:37,395 --> 00:16:43,075 Speaker 1: haven't heard, the pollster told Greg's sergeant quote. Trump's negatives 230 00:16:43,075 --> 00:16:46,875 Speaker 1: are not baked into the cake at all time to 231 00:16:46,995 --> 00:16:50,755 Speaker 1: order a new cake. Now, wait before you flee for 232 00:16:50,875 --> 00:16:54,595 Speaker 1: the cakes of Ecuador. The good news is this may 233 00:16:54,635 --> 00:16:58,515 Speaker 1: be an easy fix. When presented with those top ten 234 00:16:58,595 --> 00:17:03,275 Speaker 1: worst Trump dictatorship quotes, these voters are immediately impacted. The 235 00:17:03,395 --> 00:17:05,795 Speaker 1: number of them who say Trump is out for revenge 236 00:17:06,155 --> 00:17:09,595 Speaker 1: after they hear those quotes jumps by five points, the 237 00:17:09,675 --> 00:17:12,195 Speaker 1: number of them who see him as a dictator jumps 238 00:17:12,355 --> 00:17:15,355 Speaker 1: by seven points, the number who see him as dangerous 239 00:17:15,675 --> 00:17:19,395 Speaker 1: jumps by nine and the big number those who view 240 00:17:19,475 --> 00:17:26,155 Speaker 1: Trump unfavorably goes from fifty three percent to fifty eight percent. So, 241 00:17:26,675 --> 00:17:30,915 Speaker 1: Biden campaign Headquarters, all that ad time, you've bought those 242 00:17:31,075 --> 00:17:35,955 Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars worth of spots, I'm just saying. 243 00:17:36,715 --> 00:17:57,755 Speaker 3: Sees, Wow, these are the stakes. 244 00:17:57,995 --> 00:18:03,235 Speaker 4: Who would never abuse power as retribution against anybody except. 245 00:18:02,955 --> 00:18:05,475 Speaker 2: The day one he's. 246 00:18:05,355 --> 00:18:07,315 Speaker 1: Going to face, Except the day one he says you're 247 00:18:07,355 --> 00:18:08,235 Speaker 1: not going to be a dictator. 248 00:18:08,715 --> 00:18:10,915 Speaker 2: I said, no, no, no other than day one. 249 00:18:11,275 --> 00:18:16,555 Speaker 3: We must either love each other or we must die. 250 00:18:16,835 --> 00:18:22,235 Speaker 2: Vote for President Biden on November fifth. The stakes are 251 00:18:22,275 --> 00:18:27,475 Speaker 2: too high for you to stay home no charge, mister President. 252 00:18:27,555 --> 00:18:31,275 Speaker 2: You can even use my voice there for free. And also, 253 00:18:31,955 --> 00:18:35,635 Speaker 2: as to the other great replacement theory, the big scoop 254 00:18:35,675 --> 00:18:39,595 Speaker 2: from Crystal Carson, director of communications for the political figure 255 00:18:39,675 --> 00:18:44,155 Speaker 2: in question. Quote, as former First Lady Michelle Obama has 256 00:18:44,155 --> 00:18:47,915 Speaker 2: expressed several times over the years she will not be 257 00:18:48,035 --> 00:18:52,195 Speaker 2: running for president. Missus Obama supports President Joe Biden and 258 00:18:52,315 --> 00:18:57,195 Speaker 2: Vice President Kamala Harris's re election campaign. Unquote, she tells 259 00:18:57,675 --> 00:19:01,715 Speaker 2: NBC News or or, as we may hear NBC's Christen 260 00:19:01,715 --> 00:19:05,315 Speaker 2: Welker phrase at Sunday on Meet the pressson, Lady Michelle 261 00:19:05,355 --> 00:19:08,515 Speaker 2: Obama has left the door open to replace Joe Biden 262 00:19:08,555 --> 00:19:11,355 Speaker 2: on the Democratic ticket. She says she's not running. She 263 00:19:11,515 --> 00:19:16,675 Speaker 2: says she supports the Biden Harris reelection campaign. Allegedly. 264 00:19:22,315 --> 00:19:25,195 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, a San Francisco woman born in 265 00:19:25,275 --> 00:19:28,795 Speaker 1: Hong Kong, still pre citizenship and on a legal visa, 266 00:19:28,995 --> 00:19:33,395 Speaker 1: A graduate of Tufts, for God's Sake, is named to 267 00:19:33,515 --> 00:19:37,315 Speaker 1: a non paying job on the City Elections Commission in 268 00:19:37,355 --> 00:19:41,715 Speaker 1: San Francisco to work on improving translating of ballots and 269 00:19:41,835 --> 00:19:46,835 Speaker 1: local election materials into other languages, including several Chinese languages, 270 00:19:47,035 --> 00:19:50,155 Speaker 1: and she's doing it for free and for the fascists. 271 00:19:50,555 --> 00:19:54,315 Speaker 1: This might as well be Chairman Mao putting up his 272 00:19:54,555 --> 00:20:01,555 Speaker 1: unwashed feat on the White House stairwells. Their panic and 273 00:20:01,755 --> 00:20:05,675 Speaker 1: racism has led to a campaign that is that you 274 00:20:05,795 --> 00:20:11,755 Speaker 1: can only vote if you speak English, and it is 275 00:20:11,875 --> 00:20:17,635 Speaker 1: led by two Republicans who who who really don't speak English, 276 00:20:17,675 --> 00:20:20,995 Speaker 1: and one of them is Maria Bartiromo. That's next. This 277 00:20:21,155 --> 00:20:21,915 Speaker 1: is Countdown. 278 00:20:24,275 --> 00:20:27,075 Speaker 2: This is Countdown with Keith Overman. 279 00:20:47,995 --> 00:20:49,995 Speaker 1: Still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown. As 280 00:20:50,035 --> 00:20:52,715 Speaker 1: I prepare for tomorrow night's live State of the Union 281 00:20:52,755 --> 00:20:56,195 Speaker 1: postgame show, have I mentioned that at all? I have 282 00:20:56,235 --> 00:20:58,595 Speaker 1: been flashed back to the first time I ever did 283 00:20:58,635 --> 00:21:02,075 Speaker 1: the State of the Union in nineteen ninety eight at MSNBC, 284 00:21:03,715 --> 00:21:06,755 Speaker 1: and also to that a later president of that network 285 00:21:06,795 --> 00:21:09,435 Speaker 1: decided to not have me cover any politics at all 286 00:21:09,675 --> 00:21:12,275 Speaker 1: because he thought I should just do the newscast and 287 00:21:12,355 --> 00:21:15,675 Speaker 1: he did not think election nights were news or something 288 00:21:15,795 --> 00:21:18,195 Speaker 1: like that. And I say something like that because he 289 00:21:18,195 --> 00:21:20,795 Speaker 1: also did not have cable in his own home and 290 00:21:20,915 --> 00:21:24,155 Speaker 1: we were a cable network. The story of the day 291 00:21:24,195 --> 00:21:28,355 Speaker 1: I found out he had not actually watched MSNBC in 292 00:21:28,395 --> 00:21:32,755 Speaker 1: a year next on things I promised not to tell. First, Yes, 293 00:21:32,795 --> 00:21:35,515 Speaker 1: there are still more idiots to talk about. The daily 294 00:21:35,595 --> 00:21:38,155 Speaker 1: roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects 295 00:21:38,155 --> 00:21:43,715 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two days worst persons in the world, 296 00:21:44,435 --> 00:21:48,515 Speaker 1: the bronze worse Roger Stone, whose continuing life as yet 297 00:21:48,515 --> 00:21:52,755 Speaker 1: another indication that the simulation has glitched. He posted this 298 00:21:52,835 --> 00:21:57,795 Speaker 1: on Trump's vanity social media site yesterday, and it's amazingly 299 00:21:58,635 --> 00:22:02,995 Speaker 1: panoramically stupid. Quote Facebook and Instagram, two of the most 300 00:22:02,995 --> 00:22:07,235 Speaker 1: powerful communications tools for grassroots politics in America, suddenly stop 301 00:22:07,275 --> 00:22:10,795 Speaker 1: working on Super Tuesday, while all of Haley's ads in print, 302 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:16,675 Speaker 1: radio and television remain intact. How convenient. Now, there's a 303 00:22:16,675 --> 00:22:19,715 Speaker 1: lot of stupid in here to unpack, let's try. Firstly, 304 00:22:19,795 --> 00:22:22,315 Speaker 1: it does not occur to Roger that the first thing 305 00:22:22,355 --> 00:22:26,995 Speaker 1: people would say in response to him rogering, is doesn't 306 00:22:27,035 --> 00:22:29,915 Speaker 1: your boy Aphasia Jay Trump have all the money in 307 00:22:29,955 --> 00:22:33,995 Speaker 1: the world to buy fifty ads in print, radio and 308 00:22:34,035 --> 00:22:37,755 Speaker 1: television for everyone Haley has bought? Did you guys screw 309 00:22:37,835 --> 00:22:43,115 Speaker 1: up there? Roger? Secondly, Stone is emphasizing how important Facebook 310 00:22:43,235 --> 00:22:47,915 Speaker 1: is to Trump's grass roots thing, which might remind folks 311 00:22:47,955 --> 00:22:51,915 Speaker 1: about how Stone and his cohorts and his WikiLeaks pals 312 00:22:52,035 --> 00:22:57,075 Speaker 1: and Russia used Facebook to astro turf all that grassroots 313 00:22:57,075 --> 00:23:01,635 Speaker 1: stuff on Facebook for Trump in twenty sixteen, and maybe 314 00:23:01,715 --> 00:23:07,355 Speaker 1: most importantly, Stone posted this on Trump's social media site, 315 00:23:07,595 --> 00:23:11,395 Speaker 1: complaining that the other social media sites that Trump says 316 00:23:11,635 --> 00:23:15,075 Speaker 1: his site is better than are actually much better than 317 00:23:15,075 --> 00:23:19,435 Speaker 1: Trump's site. You know that hat that Roger Stone got 318 00:23:19,475 --> 00:23:22,275 Speaker 1: and wears, the one he got from the prop department 319 00:23:22,315 --> 00:23:25,795 Speaker 1: at the Batman TV Show. I think it's too tight 320 00:23:25,835 --> 00:23:28,955 Speaker 1: for his head, and his wig is too tight for 321 00:23:29,035 --> 00:23:33,275 Speaker 1: his head too. The runner up worser remember Sophia cal 322 00:23:33,515 --> 00:23:37,515 Speaker 1: and Axios mentioned them yesterday five am Monday, they publish 323 00:23:37,555 --> 00:23:42,315 Speaker 1: her nonsense story about Trump pivoting and no longer abusing 324 00:23:42,355 --> 00:23:45,555 Speaker 1: opponents and not saying the twenty twenty election was rigged 325 00:23:45,795 --> 00:23:49,195 Speaker 1: and just saying a bad thing happened, like he wet 326 00:23:49,235 --> 00:23:52,635 Speaker 1: his pants or something. And then hours later he gives 327 00:23:52,635 --> 00:23:55,635 Speaker 1: a speech in which he repeatedly uses the rigged word 328 00:23:56,155 --> 00:24:01,315 Speaker 1: and abuses all his opponents. The Axios tweet promoting Sophia 329 00:24:01,395 --> 00:24:04,275 Speaker 1: Col's piece that might as well have insisted. 330 00:24:03,915 --> 00:24:05,595 Speaker 2: There is two Santa Claus. 331 00:24:06,195 --> 00:24:10,635 Speaker 1: It got community noted and Axios apparently deleted it, but 332 00:24:10,755 --> 00:24:15,155 Speaker 1: the article it is still on the Axio site. Hey, 333 00:24:15,275 --> 00:24:18,715 Speaker 1: what's that smell if you go to the piece at 334 00:24:18,755 --> 00:24:22,315 Speaker 1: Axios and then you lean in real close to your laptop, 335 00:24:22,755 --> 00:24:26,675 Speaker 1: your tablet or your smartphone, like put your nose right 336 00:24:26,755 --> 00:24:33,635 Speaker 1: up against it. Ah, that's what that smell is Sophia 337 00:24:33,715 --> 00:24:39,595 Speaker 1: Col's piece. But our winner the worst, Anthony Hudson, would 338 00:24:39,595 --> 00:24:43,275 Speaker 1: be Republican nominee for Michigan's eighth congressional district. When I 339 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:45,715 Speaker 1: tell you he owns a trucking company and he is 340 00:24:45,755 --> 00:24:49,875 Speaker 1: running on a platform of you're in America, now speak English, 341 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:54,315 Speaker 1: you can already picture him baseball cap, sport code over 342 00:24:54,315 --> 00:24:59,835 Speaker 1: a T shirt, both SIZEXXXXXXXL, pair of glasses from the 343 00:24:59,915 --> 00:25:03,595 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two collection. Head wider at the chin than 344 00:25:03,635 --> 00:25:06,275 Speaker 1: at the point on the top of his head, whitebeard, 345 00:25:07,515 --> 00:25:11,275 Speaker 1: age forty six, looks age sixty four. And then there's 346 00:25:11,435 --> 00:25:15,715 Speaker 1: his platform that speak English part that's not a gratuitous 347 00:25:15,715 --> 00:25:19,835 Speaker 1: insult on my part. Heartlandsignal dot com dug up candidate 348 00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:23,075 Speaker 1: Hudson's video in which he reacts to the appointment of 349 00:25:23,155 --> 00:25:26,315 Speaker 1: a Hong Kong native to the San Francisco Elections Committee 350 00:25:26,715 --> 00:25:30,635 Speaker 1: and demands new laws taking away the vote from anybody 351 00:25:30,715 --> 00:25:32,475 Speaker 1: who does not speak English. 352 00:25:32,595 --> 00:25:37,075 Speaker 4: She's not a legal citizen of this country, and by law, 353 00:25:37,195 --> 00:25:40,795 Speaker 4: you must be a legal citizen to vote in the 354 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:44,675 Speaker 4: United States of America. But Kelly Wong, who is an 355 00:25:44,715 --> 00:25:48,835 Speaker 4: illegal immigrant, she is not a legal citizen, has now 356 00:25:48,915 --> 00:25:56,275 Speaker 4: been appointed to write or push election legislation in the 357 00:25:56,275 --> 00:25:58,355 Speaker 4: state of California. And what she wants to. 358 00:25:58,355 --> 00:26:09,835 Speaker 5: Do is spend taxpayer dollars to translate the ballots in Chinese, 359 00:26:09,995 --> 00:26:14,755 Speaker 5: Cantonese and other foreign languages and try to encourage other 360 00:26:14,835 --> 00:26:19,235 Speaker 5: illegals to come here and vote in their language so 361 00:26:19,275 --> 00:26:20,315 Speaker 5: that they can understand it. 362 00:26:22,675 --> 00:26:27,595 Speaker 6: Nah, I don't agree with that one bit. You see, 363 00:26:27,595 --> 00:26:31,075 Speaker 6: this is America and we speak English. If you're not 364 00:26:31,115 --> 00:26:33,435 Speaker 6: a citizen, you don't vote. And if you are an 365 00:26:33,475 --> 00:26:36,675 Speaker 6: American citizen, you need to be able to speak English 366 00:26:37,155 --> 00:26:38,275 Speaker 6: to be able to vote. 367 00:26:38,475 --> 00:26:40,995 Speaker 1: Okay, who's going to tell them? Who's going to tell 368 00:26:41,035 --> 00:26:44,635 Speaker 1: Anthony that we've been translating ballots into other languages here 369 00:26:44,635 --> 00:26:48,115 Speaker 1: in this country since the nineteenth century, and that the 370 00:26:48,155 --> 00:26:51,635 Speaker 1: woman he refers to as an illegal alien as a 371 00:26:51,755 --> 00:26:56,995 Speaker 1: visa is here legally went to Tufts, does not vote, 372 00:26:57,115 --> 00:27:01,275 Speaker 1: but has dedicated herself to getting new citizens intimidated by 373 00:27:01,315 --> 00:27:05,755 Speaker 1: bad translations to vote, which is their right because they're citizens. 374 00:27:06,275 --> 00:27:08,595 Speaker 1: And most importantly, who's going to tell him if he 375 00:27:08,795 --> 00:27:12,795 Speaker 1: gets his new proof you speak English tests at all 376 00:27:12,835 --> 00:27:16,915 Speaker 1: the polling places, he's never going to get to vote again. 377 00:27:18,355 --> 00:27:20,755 Speaker 1: As a ps. You know who's on mister Hudson's side 378 00:27:20,795 --> 00:27:24,955 Speaker 1: on all this, Maria Badawomo, who thinks the woman on 379 00:27:24,995 --> 00:27:28,315 Speaker 1: the city elections board in San Francisco is in fact 380 00:27:28,715 --> 00:27:30,755 Speaker 1: on the Federal Elections Commission. 381 00:27:30,995 --> 00:27:34,715 Speaker 2: So then why is a Chinese national on the board 382 00:27:34,795 --> 00:27:38,195 Speaker 2: of the Federal Elections Commission? Wright you are? 383 00:27:38,835 --> 00:27:40,995 Speaker 1: You know, the more I think about it, the more 384 00:27:41,075 --> 00:27:45,075 Speaker 1: this speak English or you don't get to vote may 385 00:27:45,075 --> 00:27:49,475 Speaker 1: be worth looking into, because if Maria there and this 386 00:27:49,595 --> 00:27:53,235 Speaker 1: third grade drop out Hudson in Michigan are typical, we 387 00:27:53,355 --> 00:27:56,915 Speaker 1: might be able to disenfranchise like seventy five percent of 388 00:27:56,955 --> 00:28:00,835 Speaker 1: all MAGA voters on the spot to say nothing, up 389 00:28:00,835 --> 00:28:03,115 Speaker 1: to a quarter of the people who anchor on Fox, 390 00:28:03,995 --> 00:28:07,555 Speaker 1: and we would run Marjorie Taylor Green out of Congress 391 00:28:07,595 --> 00:28:11,755 Speaker 1: before the end of the week. Anthony, you don't not 392 00:28:11,955 --> 00:28:15,955 Speaker 1: speak English, No good Hudson, the future congressman from the 393 00:28:15,995 --> 00:28:19,355 Speaker 1: Michigan eighth and candidate for Speaker of the House. Two 394 00:28:19,475 --> 00:28:30,035 Speaker 1: days wors Parson and uh, what's this word? War rebun 395 00:28:30,635 --> 00:28:44,595 Speaker 1: free bad f blun Finally to the number one story 396 00:28:44,595 --> 00:28:47,635 Speaker 1: on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things 397 00:28:47,675 --> 00:28:52,155 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And tomorrow is seventeen years 398 00:28:52,195 --> 00:28:55,875 Speaker 1: since this former MSNBC president, Rick Kaplan, the guy who 399 00:28:55,955 --> 00:28:58,755 Speaker 1: once chased me around the studios threatening to kill me 400 00:28:59,235 --> 00:29:02,155 Speaker 1: because he was squeamish and I had mentioned blood on 401 00:29:02,235 --> 00:29:06,395 Speaker 1: the air, blew any incredibility he had with us because 402 00:29:06,395 --> 00:29:09,795 Speaker 1: he didn't know what was live and what was on delay. However, 403 00:29:10,595 --> 00:29:15,595 Speaker 1: this story starts in the men's room at MSNBC. It 404 00:29:15,715 --> 00:29:18,955 Speaker 1: is February seventeenth, two thousand and four, at one of 405 00:29:18,955 --> 00:29:23,355 Speaker 1: those moronic corporate speak town halls. The bosses have just 406 00:29:23,435 --> 00:29:25,635 Speaker 1: introduced Rick Kaplan as the new president of the network. 407 00:29:25,875 --> 00:29:29,755 Speaker 1: Kaplan speaks for an hour without interruption or breath. He 408 00:29:29,795 --> 00:29:32,875 Speaker 1: does not mention that he was the president of CNN 409 00:29:32,955 --> 00:29:35,395 Speaker 1: when it's nineteen year streak at number one in the 410 00:29:35,435 --> 00:29:39,315 Speaker 1: cable news ratings came to a crashing end. He does, however, 411 00:29:39,395 --> 00:29:42,435 Speaker 1: mention that he is six feet seven inches tall, but 412 00:29:43,235 --> 00:29:46,595 Speaker 1: he does not seem to be six feet seven inches tall. 413 00:29:47,715 --> 00:29:50,315 Speaker 1: As this nonsense ends, I rush into the men's room 414 00:29:50,355 --> 00:29:56,075 Speaker 1: and find, to my amusement, Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Jesse Ventura, 415 00:29:56,755 --> 00:30:02,155 Speaker 1: Lester Holt, and one unoccupied urinoal As I moved to 416 00:30:02,275 --> 00:30:05,475 Speaker 1: occupy it, it dawns on me that Venture sure, the 417 00:30:05,635 --> 00:30:09,675 Speaker 1: former professional wrestler is the shortest man in the bathroom, 418 00:30:10,115 --> 00:30:14,955 Speaker 1: at six feet two. All five of us are silent. Finally, 419 00:30:15,075 --> 00:30:17,635 Speaker 1: Matthews says it helen hell, can he say he's six 420 00:30:17,635 --> 00:30:19,475 Speaker 1: foot seven? He's barely taller than I am, and I'm 421 00:30:19,475 --> 00:30:22,315 Speaker 1: six four Oldron, are you slightly taller than me? You're 422 00:30:22,315 --> 00:30:27,555 Speaker 1: slightly shorter than me? How is he six seven? Everybody 423 00:30:27,635 --> 00:30:30,315 Speaker 1: keeps looking forward, of course, into the wall in front 424 00:30:30,355 --> 00:30:34,195 Speaker 1: of us. I'm six three and a half. Lester, he's 425 00:30:34,275 --> 00:30:36,355 Speaker 1: your height. I saw you standing with him, you tour 426 00:30:36,435 --> 00:30:39,475 Speaker 1: even What are you six ' five? Lester says, uh 427 00:30:39,595 --> 00:30:44,435 Speaker 1: huh and flushes. Scarborough chimes in, I'm just over sixty four. 428 00:30:44,715 --> 00:30:49,475 Speaker 1: We're almost dyed. Aye, he's not six seven. Finally, Ventura speaks, 429 00:30:50,075 --> 00:30:52,155 Speaker 1: I've been thrown around a ring by guys who were 430 00:30:52,275 --> 00:30:56,635 Speaker 1: six seven. This guy's not six seven. From the sink 431 00:30:57,315 --> 00:31:00,235 Speaker 1: Lester Holt now says, have any of you known anybody 432 00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:04,995 Speaker 1: our height who lies and says they're taller? Matthews again, 433 00:31:05,075 --> 00:31:10,115 Speaker 1: who lies about their height? Eye flush? This guy does, gentlemen, 434 00:31:10,595 --> 00:31:15,035 Speaker 1: we are in trouble here for the presidency of Rick 435 00:31:15,075 --> 00:31:18,275 Speaker 1: Kaplan at MSNBC. That might have been sorry, I can't 436 00:31:18,355 --> 00:31:23,835 Speaker 1: resist it the high water mark. Later, on Friday, March fifth, 437 00:31:23,835 --> 00:31:26,515 Speaker 1: two thousand and four, Kaplan, who had been there three weeks, 438 00:31:26,755 --> 00:31:29,475 Speaker 1: assembled the hosts and producers of the primetime shows on 439 00:31:29,515 --> 00:31:32,995 Speaker 1: the network that would have been me, Scarborough, Dan Abrams, 440 00:31:33,235 --> 00:31:36,755 Speaker 1: our staffs, the new Jersey staff of Chris Matthews Show, 441 00:31:37,035 --> 00:31:38,835 Speaker 1: and he told us that the next day was going 442 00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:43,875 Speaker 1: to be Monday. Somebody from Scarborough's staff helpfully corrected him 443 00:31:43,755 --> 00:31:47,955 Speaker 1: and mister Kaplan, I'm sorry, tomorrow is Saturday. Kaplan sternly 444 00:31:47,955 --> 00:31:50,355 Speaker 1: explained he was now president of this network and we 445 00:31:50,435 --> 00:31:53,195 Speaker 1: all sucked, and if he said today was Friday and 446 00:31:53,235 --> 00:31:57,275 Speaker 1: tomorrow was Monday, then today was Friday and tomorrow was Monday. 447 00:31:58,035 --> 00:32:00,435 Speaker 1: He wanted to see us react to sudden changes in 448 00:32:00,475 --> 00:32:03,315 Speaker 1: our plans. We were being told we were being called 449 00:32:03,315 --> 00:32:08,795 Speaker 1: into work a sixth day tomorrow for no reason. Kaplin 450 00:32:08,835 --> 00:32:11,355 Speaker 1: then started yelling at us, you guys don't get it. 451 00:32:11,595 --> 00:32:14,835 Speaker 1: You're all working tomorrow. Anybody who doesn't come in is fired. 452 00:32:15,195 --> 00:32:17,875 Speaker 1: We are going to do the whole pro primetime lineup. 453 00:32:18,235 --> 00:32:21,315 Speaker 1: Your breaking news is today's breaking news, the guilty verdict 454 00:32:21,315 --> 00:32:24,315 Speaker 1: in the Martha Stewart case. Start booking your guests, because 455 00:32:24,395 --> 00:32:30,675 Speaker 1: tomorrow is Monday, not Saturday. Just on my staff, Saturday 456 00:32:30,755 --> 00:32:34,795 Speaker 1: was supposed to be my reporter's engagement party, a surprise 457 00:32:34,875 --> 00:32:37,955 Speaker 1: party thrown by one of my producers for his wife's birthday, 458 00:32:38,315 --> 00:32:41,755 Speaker 1: and the day another producer was closing on buying a house. 459 00:32:43,595 --> 00:32:45,595 Speaker 1: I have a vague memory of what we put on 460 00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:47,235 Speaker 1: the air. I have a stronger memory of the new 461 00:32:47,275 --> 00:32:51,355 Speaker 1: president of MSNBC losing the staffs of all four of 462 00:32:51,395 --> 00:32:54,315 Speaker 1: his primetime shows on his fifth day on the job 463 00:32:54,555 --> 00:32:58,915 Speaker 1: and never ever getting them back. Kaplan then went to 464 00:32:58,955 --> 00:33:01,955 Speaker 1: a corkboard on our office wall on which our show 465 00:33:02,035 --> 00:33:05,915 Speaker 1: rundown was displayed. He ordered producers to move segments around, 466 00:33:05,955 --> 00:33:08,755 Speaker 1: and he berated me for not having anticipated his whims, 467 00:33:08,915 --> 00:33:11,435 Speaker 1: and at one point he screamed, stop what the hell 468 00:33:11,435 --> 00:33:13,995 Speaker 1: are you doing? And he got up and he grabbed 469 00:33:14,035 --> 00:33:17,435 Speaker 1: the pushpin, which held up an index card bearing the 470 00:33:17,475 --> 00:33:18,395 Speaker 1: name of a guest. 471 00:33:18,635 --> 00:33:22,155 Speaker 2: You don't use green pins with yellow index cards. 472 00:33:23,235 --> 00:33:27,395 Speaker 1: You use yellow pins with yellow index cards. What kind 473 00:33:27,435 --> 00:33:31,835 Speaker 1: of a newsman are you. I can't imagine how this 474 00:33:31,875 --> 00:33:35,635 Speaker 1: guy choked away CNN's monopoly on cable news ratings. I 475 00:33:35,755 --> 00:33:39,275 Speaker 1: was reminded recently that later, on December eighth, two thousand 476 00:33:39,315 --> 00:33:42,755 Speaker 1: and five, seventeen years ago tomorrow, he did one of 477 00:33:42,835 --> 00:33:47,715 Speaker 1: the most unintentionally funniest things I have ever witnessed. A 478 00:33:47,755 --> 00:33:51,115 Speaker 1: plane slid off the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. 479 00:33:51,195 --> 00:33:54,835 Speaker 1: Nothing funny about that, obviously, but Kaplan called into our 480 00:33:54,915 --> 00:33:59,115 Speaker 1: control room demanding we changed something about our live coverage 481 00:33:59,115 --> 00:34:01,195 Speaker 1: that he didn't like. We promptly made the change. He 482 00:34:01,315 --> 00:34:04,315 Speaker 1: was right. Five minutes later he called in and started 483 00:34:04,395 --> 00:34:06,875 Speaker 1: swim at one of our producers. I told you to 484 00:34:06,995 --> 00:34:10,675 Speaker 1: change that if you you're fired, and the producer said, 485 00:34:11,195 --> 00:34:15,795 Speaker 1: we changed it five minutes ago. When you called in, silence, Rick, 486 00:34:15,835 --> 00:34:18,075 Speaker 1: are you watching the network on some sort of delay? 487 00:34:19,275 --> 00:34:24,235 Speaker 1: Are you watching on TVO or something? Silence again. Finally 488 00:34:24,275 --> 00:34:27,155 Speaker 1: he said, okay, good work, see you tomorrow and hung up. 489 00:34:29,355 --> 00:34:31,915 Speaker 1: He didn't know he was watching it on a delay. 490 00:34:32,795 --> 00:34:35,315 Speaker 1: Kaplan was also one of these forget the mean thing 491 00:34:35,355 --> 00:34:38,035 Speaker 1: I said yesterday. God knows I have kind of guys. 492 00:34:38,555 --> 00:34:40,875 Speaker 1: By Monday, he had heard people laughing at some of 493 00:34:40,915 --> 00:34:44,515 Speaker 1: my on air jokes and his front runner instincts took over. 494 00:34:45,395 --> 00:34:47,715 Speaker 1: He called me and the producer in for a meeting. 495 00:34:47,955 --> 00:34:50,595 Speaker 1: I have only one criticism of your show. Which of 496 00:34:50,635 --> 00:34:52,955 Speaker 1: these stories will you be talking about? Thing is genius? 497 00:34:53,475 --> 00:34:55,755 Speaker 1: The fifth story, the fourth story, then the third story. 498 00:34:55,915 --> 00:35:02,075 Speaker 1: It's original and fresh. I hesitated. I almost said to him, yeah, 499 00:35:02,075 --> 00:35:05,475 Speaker 1: this old counting thing we just invented that. The music 500 00:35:05,555 --> 00:35:08,395 Speaker 1: is genius, the graphics are genius. You're a genius, but 501 00:35:08,435 --> 00:35:11,435 Speaker 1: you're missing something obvious, something genius. After each one of 502 00:35:11,475 --> 00:35:14,275 Speaker 1: these stories, after you thank your guests, you should do 503 00:35:14,315 --> 00:35:16,115 Speaker 1: a list of the things you didn't tell us about 504 00:35:16,155 --> 00:35:19,275 Speaker 1: those stories. So like after the fifth story, you should say, 505 00:35:19,315 --> 00:35:21,515 Speaker 1: now here are the other five things we didn't tell 506 00:35:21,515 --> 00:35:24,035 Speaker 1: you about the fifth story, get it a full screen 507 00:35:24,075 --> 00:35:26,635 Speaker 1: graphic and you telling people, And then four things for 508 00:35:26,675 --> 00:35:31,075 Speaker 1: the fourth story and three for the third. I thought 509 00:35:31,075 --> 00:35:32,915 Speaker 1: for a moment, and I said, Okay, Well, what happens 510 00:35:32,955 --> 00:35:35,235 Speaker 1: if we make those graphics up, and then a minute beforehand, 511 00:35:35,275 --> 00:35:38,075 Speaker 1: the guest brings up one of those things we claim 512 00:35:38,315 --> 00:35:42,555 Speaker 1: we didn't tell you. When he just told you, we 513 00:35:42,635 --> 00:35:46,595 Speaker 1: had lost Rick Caplan's attention by that point. Hmmm, he grunted. 514 00:35:47,635 --> 00:35:50,115 Speaker 1: For a second. I thought his eyes were pointing outwards 515 00:35:50,155 --> 00:35:55,195 Speaker 1: in different directions. But he snapped himself back into this reality. Huh, 516 00:35:55,355 --> 00:35:57,595 Speaker 1: could happen? You'll figure it out anyway, too late to 517 00:35:57,595 --> 00:35:59,635 Speaker 1: do it today, figure it out and do it tomorrow. 518 00:35:59,315 --> 00:35:59,955 Speaker 2: Thanks. 519 00:36:02,435 --> 00:36:04,235 Speaker 1: The producer, and I had to then explain to the 520 00:36:04,235 --> 00:36:06,915 Speaker 1: staff of Countdown that from now on, for every story 521 00:36:06,955 --> 00:36:10,075 Speaker 1: they had to deliberately leave out one or two or 522 00:36:10,075 --> 00:36:14,355 Speaker 1: three or four or five facts or details, something interesting 523 00:36:14,435 --> 00:36:16,435 Speaker 1: enough to be made into a full screen graphic, but 524 00:36:16,555 --> 00:36:19,835 Speaker 1: not interesting enough to be included in their scripts or 525 00:36:19,875 --> 00:36:23,795 Speaker 1: the interviews with the guests. Suddenly I thought a lot 526 00:36:23,835 --> 00:36:27,795 Speaker 1: of people's eyes were pointing outwards in different directions. The 527 00:36:27,835 --> 00:36:30,275 Speaker 1: line producer, Greg Kordick, who was in charge not of 528 00:36:30,315 --> 00:36:32,995 Speaker 1: content but of timing things and making sure things like 529 00:36:33,075 --> 00:36:36,395 Speaker 1: graphics got made, said, matter of factly, this will add 530 00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:41,875 Speaker 1: five hours to everybody's workday, and so it did. After 531 00:36:41,915 --> 00:36:44,035 Speaker 1: the next day's show when we listed the top five 532 00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:45,995 Speaker 1: things we didn't tell you about today's fifth story and 533 00:36:46,035 --> 00:36:47,755 Speaker 1: the top four things we didn't tell you about today's 534 00:36:47,755 --> 00:36:50,435 Speaker 1: fourth story, etc. And we had to shorten all the 535 00:36:50,475 --> 00:36:53,395 Speaker 1: scripts and shorten each interview just to make room for 536 00:36:53,475 --> 00:36:57,835 Speaker 1: all of this extraneous crap. Greg the producer said people 537 00:36:57,875 --> 00:37:00,435 Speaker 1: here will be quitting by Thursday and dying by Monday. 538 00:37:00,555 --> 00:37:02,875 Speaker 1: And I said, you're right. Plus it ruins the interviews 539 00:37:02,875 --> 00:37:05,315 Speaker 1: and it weakens the show. Don't do it tomorrow, Aaplin yells, 540 00:37:05,315 --> 00:37:09,155 Speaker 1: I'll take the eight. So now it's Wednesday. And not 541 00:37:09,235 --> 00:37:12,315 Speaker 1: only don't I hear anything from Kaplan about the Tuesday 542 00:37:12,355 --> 00:37:14,395 Speaker 1: show and his the top five things we didn't tell 543 00:37:14,395 --> 00:37:17,435 Speaker 1: you about today's fifth story, Jazz, but after the Wednesday 544 00:37:17,475 --> 00:37:20,315 Speaker 1: show when we don't do it, I'm sitting there waiting 545 00:37:20,355 --> 00:37:24,315 Speaker 1: for an enraged phone call because we didn't. Thursday morning 546 00:37:24,315 --> 00:37:27,435 Speaker 1: at home, I'm waiting for an enraged email. Thursday afternoon, 547 00:37:27,515 --> 00:37:32,795 Speaker 1: I'm waiting for an enraged Kaplin in person. Nothing. He 548 00:37:32,875 --> 00:37:36,675 Speaker 1: never said a word. The week passes nothing, a month, 549 00:37:37,155 --> 00:37:38,995 Speaker 1: two months, it's summer. 550 00:37:39,675 --> 00:37:40,035 Speaker 2: Nothing. 551 00:37:40,475 --> 00:37:43,395 Speaker 1: The rest of two thousand and four flies by nothing. 552 00:37:44,515 --> 00:37:50,475 Speaker 1: We did it once, we never did it again, and 553 00:37:50,515 --> 00:37:54,155 Speaker 1: then he never said anything. It is now January two 554 00:37:54,195 --> 00:37:56,035 Speaker 1: thousand and five, and he still hasn't said anything. And 555 00:37:56,075 --> 00:37:59,075 Speaker 1: I'm told by Phil Griffin, my first producer in television 556 00:37:59,075 --> 00:38:02,995 Speaker 1: sports and sixteen years later, my first producer in television news, 557 00:38:03,795 --> 00:38:06,275 Speaker 1: who has since become the vice president of MSNBC, that 558 00:38:06,355 --> 00:38:09,115 Speaker 1: Kaplain wants to see us in his office. It's not 559 00:38:09,155 --> 00:38:11,355 Speaker 1: a big deal. Phil says, he's in a good mood. 560 00:38:11,395 --> 00:38:12,955 Speaker 1: He just wants to make us feel like we have 561 00:38:13,035 --> 00:38:15,355 Speaker 1: input into his decisions. This is a what do you 562 00:38:15,475 --> 00:38:19,435 Speaker 1: think meeting? Now, I have to ask you to carefully 563 00:38:19,475 --> 00:38:22,875 Speaker 1: picture the layout of Rick Kaplan's office at MSNBC in 564 00:38:22,915 --> 00:38:26,555 Speaker 1: the year two thousand and five. Envision a long, narrow room. 565 00:38:27,435 --> 00:38:30,995 Speaker 1: Baseball's MLB network now operates there, and they have cleverly 566 00:38:31,035 --> 00:38:35,795 Speaker 1: turned Kaplan's office into a wardrobe room, perfect since it 567 00:38:35,955 --> 00:38:39,675 Speaker 1: was really just a long closet. Anyways, Rick Kaplan, who 568 00:38:39,675 --> 00:38:41,355 Speaker 1: was six foot five but lied and said he was 569 00:38:41,395 --> 00:38:44,355 Speaker 1: six foot seven, sat at the very back of this room. 570 00:38:44,555 --> 00:38:46,835 Speaker 1: So you come in the front door, you turn to 571 00:38:46,875 --> 00:38:51,875 Speaker 1: your right, and maybe thirty thirty five forty feet away 572 00:38:51,915 --> 00:38:55,075 Speaker 1: from you, in the farthest corner, facing his computer on 573 00:38:55,195 --> 00:38:57,875 Speaker 1: his desk. Flush against the left hand wall is the 574 00:38:57,875 --> 00:39:01,555 Speaker 1: president of MSNBC. A few feet into the room is 575 00:39:01,595 --> 00:39:05,835 Speaker 1: where you sit. Halfway between these two points. Against the 576 00:39:05,915 --> 00:39:09,755 Speaker 1: right hand wall is where another executive can sit. So 577 00:39:09,795 --> 00:39:13,995 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin sits there. I'm just inside the door. He 578 00:39:14,115 --> 00:39:16,515 Speaker 1: is fifteen feet ahead of me to the right. Rick 579 00:39:16,595 --> 00:39:19,035 Speaker 1: Kaplan is thirty feet or forty feet ahead of me 580 00:39:19,075 --> 00:39:22,635 Speaker 1: to the left. Picture this carefully, the way these chairs 581 00:39:22,635 --> 00:39:26,595 Speaker 1: and desks are arranged. If you're me and Phil Griffin 582 00:39:26,675 --> 00:39:29,635 Speaker 1: is looking at you, Rick Kaplan can only see the 583 00:39:29,675 --> 00:39:33,155 Speaker 1: back of Phil Griffin's head and not his face. If 584 00:39:33,155 --> 00:39:38,515 Speaker 1: they are both looking at you, they cannot see each other. Weird, 585 00:39:39,115 --> 00:39:43,555 Speaker 1: seemingly trivial turned out to be essential. We begin this 586 00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:47,435 Speaker 1: meaningless meeting and talk about guests and graphics, fonts, and 587 00:39:47,515 --> 00:39:49,635 Speaker 1: Kaplan talks about how much the ratings have gone up 588 00:39:49,795 --> 00:39:52,555 Speaker 1: in his year as president. And finally, I say, I 589 00:39:52,635 --> 00:39:54,795 Speaker 1: do have one suggestion. I think the show is going 590 00:39:54,835 --> 00:39:56,595 Speaker 1: to be very successful, and I think if we want 591 00:39:56,635 --> 00:39:59,475 Speaker 1: to make any changes, we should make them now before 592 00:39:59,515 --> 00:40:03,795 Speaker 1: it becomes successful. And I say, I have never heard 593 00:40:03,995 --> 00:40:08,915 Speaker 1: anybody they like the fifth story, fourth story third story stuff. 594 00:40:09,195 --> 00:40:12,115 Speaker 1: If you want to continue the name countdown because people 595 00:40:12,195 --> 00:40:15,195 Speaker 1: know it by now, that's great, I guess. But the 596 00:40:15,275 --> 00:40:18,675 Speaker 1: five four three two one numbering is a conceit and 597 00:40:18,755 --> 00:40:20,675 Speaker 1: it's a lot of extra work for everybody, and I 598 00:40:20,675 --> 00:40:26,595 Speaker 1: think we should kill it now. Kaplan is aghast, he 599 00:40:26,675 --> 00:40:32,035 Speaker 1: is pale. He is not angry, he is just stunned. 600 00:40:33,555 --> 00:40:36,835 Speaker 1: But you can't do that. Five four three two one 601 00:40:36,915 --> 00:40:39,115 Speaker 1: is part of the reasons. And the ratings went up. 602 00:40:39,755 --> 00:40:41,355 Speaker 1: The ratings went up when I came up with the 603 00:40:41,355 --> 00:40:43,635 Speaker 1: idea of the top five things we didn't tell you 604 00:40:43,635 --> 00:40:46,515 Speaker 1: about today's top five stories, and the top four things 605 00:40:46,555 --> 00:40:50,315 Speaker 1: we didn't tell you about today's number four story, et cetera. 606 00:40:50,715 --> 00:40:56,435 Speaker 1: We can't stop that. That's why people watch My idea. 607 00:40:56,915 --> 00:40:59,475 Speaker 1: Took me a split second to even remember what the 608 00:40:59,515 --> 00:41:01,875 Speaker 1: hell it was he was talking about. I had forgotten 609 00:41:02,395 --> 00:41:05,115 Speaker 1: the whole five things we didn't tell you Albert Tross. 610 00:41:05,475 --> 00:41:08,195 Speaker 1: Weeks after the one show we did it, and then 611 00:41:08,235 --> 00:41:10,395 Speaker 1: the staff rebelled and I said, screw it, and I'll 612 00:41:10,395 --> 00:41:12,395 Speaker 1: take the heat. And I was about to say this 613 00:41:12,435 --> 00:41:15,555 Speaker 1: out loud when I suddenly realized that Phil Griffin, fifteen 614 00:41:15,595 --> 00:41:18,155 Speaker 1: feet away on the right his face turned to me 615 00:41:18,235 --> 00:41:20,715 Speaker 1: and thus invisible to Kaplan, thirty feet away on the left, 616 00:41:20,875 --> 00:41:24,075 Speaker 1: was making his eyes as wide as possible, and Phil 617 00:41:24,195 --> 00:41:29,355 Speaker 1: was looking right at me and silently mouthing the word no, no, no, no, no, 618 00:41:29,675 --> 00:41:33,515 Speaker 1: all the while keeping his head completely still, so Kaplan 619 00:41:33,635 --> 00:41:39,235 Speaker 1: didn't know he was talking to me silently. I got 620 00:41:39,235 --> 00:41:42,475 Speaker 1: Phil's message. I dropped the subject. I didn't say it. 621 00:41:43,595 --> 00:41:46,195 Speaker 1: The meeting ended maybe two minutes later, with Kaplan saying 622 00:41:46,275 --> 00:41:48,395 Speaker 1: keep up the good work, and ushering us out by saying, 623 00:41:48,635 --> 00:41:50,435 Speaker 1: and keep up with the top five things we didn't 624 00:41:50,475 --> 00:41:52,835 Speaker 1: tell you about today's five fifth story. Oh that's what's 625 00:41:52,835 --> 00:41:58,475 Speaker 1: making it really cook. When we were out of earshot 626 00:41:58,475 --> 00:42:00,795 Speaker 1: of Rick Kaplan, Griffin thanked me for being able to 627 00:42:00,835 --> 00:42:05,275 Speaker 1: read his panicked lips. I used an oath to liven 628 00:42:05,355 --> 00:42:08,035 Speaker 1: up my question. What the blank was that all about? 629 00:42:08,995 --> 00:42:11,195 Speaker 1: And Griffin said, now you know what every day of 630 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:13,715 Speaker 1: my life has become. It's not worth it to try 631 00:42:13,755 --> 00:42:17,195 Speaker 1: to correct him. He believes what he believes, and he 632 00:42:17,235 --> 00:42:21,395 Speaker 1: won't be checked or contradicted. And I said, we only 633 00:42:21,435 --> 00:42:24,795 Speaker 1: did the five things we didn't tell you a thing once, 634 00:42:25,075 --> 00:42:28,595 Speaker 1: only once. It's like a year later, how in the hell. 635 00:42:28,635 --> 00:42:33,555 Speaker 1: Could he possibly think we're still doing it? Griffin laughed 636 00:42:33,715 --> 00:42:36,595 Speaker 1: like a soldier on a World War One battlefield who 637 00:42:36,635 --> 00:42:39,955 Speaker 1: has just run out of bullets. See that's the problem, buddy. 638 00:42:40,395 --> 00:42:43,595 Speaker 1: He only watches MSNBC here in the office, the place 639 00:42:43,635 --> 00:42:50,595 Speaker 1: he's renting it doesn't have cable. President of MSNBC doesn't 640 00:42:50,635 --> 00:42:56,355 Speaker 1: have cable at home. On June sixth, two thousand and six, 641 00:42:56,395 --> 00:42:58,795 Speaker 1: they fired Rick Caplan as the president of MSNBC. They 642 00:42:58,875 --> 00:43:02,475 Speaker 1: let him resign. They also let him keep his secret, 643 00:43:03,155 --> 00:43:06,475 Speaker 1: the darkest of secrets for him and for MSNBC, that, 644 00:43:06,595 --> 00:43:09,995 Speaker 1: for his two years on the throne, the president of 645 00:43:10,035 --> 00:43:28,155 Speaker 1: an all news cable channel did not have cable. I've 646 00:43:28,195 --> 00:43:29,955 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 647 00:43:29,995 --> 00:43:32,715 Speaker 1: for listening. I swear to God all that is true. 648 00:43:32,955 --> 00:43:36,755 Speaker 1: He lied about his height, and he made us think 649 00:43:37,635 --> 00:43:40,755 Speaker 1: that he had cable, and he didn't. And he was 650 00:43:40,795 --> 00:43:45,795 Speaker 1: the president of two different cable news networks. Thanks for listening. Countdown. 651 00:43:45,835 --> 00:43:48,875 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, 652 00:43:48,875 --> 00:43:52,355 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray on guitars, 653 00:43:52,395 --> 00:43:56,755 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Chanale handled orchestration and keyboards. Produced 654 00:43:56,755 --> 00:44:00,355 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 655 00:44:00,435 --> 00:44:03,235 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The 656 00:44:03,275 --> 00:44:06,635 Speaker 1: sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written 657 00:44:06,675 --> 00:44:10,635 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical 658 00:44:10,635 --> 00:44:13,635 Speaker 1: and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the best 659 00:44:13,635 --> 00:44:16,675 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my friend 660 00:44:16,755 --> 00:44:19,915 Speaker 1: Howard Feineman, and everything else was pretty much my fault. 661 00:44:20,395 --> 00:44:22,755 Speaker 1: So let's countdown for this two hundred and forty fifth 662 00:44:22,835 --> 00:44:26,075 Speaker 1: day before the twenty twenty fourth presidential election, the one 663 00:44:27,035 --> 00:44:30,595 Speaker 1: and fifty fifth day since dementia Jay Trump's first attempted 664 00:44:30,635 --> 00:44:33,755 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 665 00:44:34,235 --> 00:44:37,675 Speaker 1: Use the Fourteenth Amendment, the Insurrection Act, the justice system, 666 00:44:37,995 --> 00:44:40,555 Speaker 1: and the mental health system to stop him from doing 667 00:44:40,555 --> 00:44:44,915 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 668 00:44:45,035 --> 00:44:48,515 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Don't forget our live YouTube special after the 669 00:44:48,555 --> 00:44:51,835 Speaker 1: State of the Union tomorrow night, my warm up act. 670 00:44:52,235 --> 00:44:55,115 Speaker 1: He begins at nine Eastern. That'd be the President. We 671 00:44:55,235 --> 00:44:58,395 Speaker 1: will be on about ten bulletins is the news warrants 672 00:44:58,435 --> 00:45:00,995 Speaker 1: till then on Keith Olderman, good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 673 00:45:01,435 --> 00:45:15,515 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 674 00:45:15,755 --> 00:45:21,035 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 675 00:45:21,115 --> 00:45:24,475 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.