1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,035 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Donald 2 00:00:24,035 --> 00:00:28,435 Speaker 1: Trump should be in jail for life over Epstein. He 3 00:00:28,475 --> 00:00:31,115 Speaker 1: should be in prison just for his role in the 4 00:00:31,155 --> 00:00:33,155 Speaker 1: cover up of that part of the Epstein files that 5 00:00:33,195 --> 00:00:37,955 Speaker 1: are about him about Trump. The accusations are against Trump, 6 00:00:38,395 --> 00:00:42,395 Speaker 1: the memos are about Trump, The investigations are of Trump, 7 00:00:43,155 --> 00:00:47,475 Speaker 1: and they are missing. There is a law demanding that 8 00:00:47,635 --> 00:00:51,835 Speaker 1: Trump must produce the files, all the files he has not. 9 00:00:52,835 --> 00:00:56,715 Speaker 1: That is by definition a cover up, by definition, a 10 00:00:56,835 --> 00:01:01,675 Speaker 1: conspiracy to bury evidence, evidence that just happens to be 11 00:01:01,715 --> 00:01:06,875 Speaker 1: about him, even if it's somehow clears him. In the 12 00:01:06,915 --> 00:01:11,035 Speaker 1: most generous interpretation of the facts as we know them now, 13 00:01:11,195 --> 00:01:17,875 Speaker 1: Trump is criminally responsible for an extraordinary conspiratorial cover up, 14 00:01:18,755 --> 00:01:22,475 Speaker 1: a cover up that violates a law just specifically passed 15 00:01:22,475 --> 00:01:27,715 Speaker 1: to prevent and criminalize exactly such a cover up as that, 16 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:32,155 Speaker 1: a cover up of what Epstein did and what Trump's 17 00:01:32,195 --> 00:01:35,035 Speaker 1: own Department of Justice would be easily capable of obtaining 18 00:01:35,155 --> 00:01:39,715 Speaker 1: indictments on today unless Trump and his quote law and 19 00:01:39,915 --> 00:01:43,195 Speaker 1: order bureaucracy was devoting itself to making sure that the 20 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:47,035 Speaker 1: guilty remained free and the victims remained freshly victimized and 21 00:01:47,195 --> 00:01:52,435 Speaker 1: coward and intimidated and terrified anew because the corruption only 22 00:01:52,555 --> 00:01:57,035 Speaker 1: emanates from Trump, and it afflicts Attorney General Bondi and 23 00:01:57,075 --> 00:02:01,115 Speaker 1: Deputy Attorney General Blanche and FBI Director Patel and whichever 24 00:02:01,275 --> 00:02:07,755 Speaker 1: blogger is the FBI deputy director this week. For Trump, 25 00:02:07,795 --> 00:02:11,155 Speaker 1: this is no longer a question of malfeasance or graft 26 00:02:11,595 --> 00:02:15,755 Speaker 1: or theft or impeachment. It is a question of how 27 00:02:15,995 --> 00:02:20,755 Speaker 1: many dozens of crimes he is guilty of on Epstein, 28 00:02:21,035 --> 00:02:24,715 Speaker 1: on the Epstein cover up alone. He is the Boss 29 00:02:24,915 --> 00:02:27,955 Speaker 1: Tweed of the Epstein scandal. He is the burning made 30 00:02:28,035 --> 00:02:31,715 Speaker 1: off of the Epstein scandal. He is the John Wayne 31 00:02:32,115 --> 00:02:37,915 Speaker 1: Gacy of the Epstein's scandal. That Trump is the most 32 00:02:37,955 --> 00:02:41,115 Speaker 1: corrupt individual in the history of the United States of 33 00:02:41,155 --> 00:02:48,555 Speaker 1: America is apparent to anyone who is currently breathing. But 34 00:02:48,595 --> 00:02:51,595 Speaker 1: that the others around him on that list fill out 35 00:02:51,635 --> 00:02:54,395 Speaker 1: nearly all the other spots in the top one hundred 36 00:02:55,195 --> 00:02:58,835 Speaker 1: is a subtler truth that sometimes escapes our consciousness. More 37 00:02:58,875 --> 00:03:03,195 Speaker 1: of them later, more particularly of this Patel, whose own 38 00:03:03,355 --> 00:03:07,475 Speaker 1: crimes are not just of thinking. Being FBI director means 39 00:03:07,515 --> 00:03:11,635 Speaker 1: never having to say you'll pay the check. His greed 40 00:03:11,755 --> 00:03:14,995 Speaker 1: and wastefulness, it proves, are now suspected of actually indirectly 41 00:03:15,075 --> 00:03:19,195 Speaker 1: impeding the FBI investigations of the Charlie Kirk killing and 42 00:03:19,235 --> 00:03:21,795 Speaker 1: the shooting at Brown University. And then there is the 43 00:03:21,875 --> 00:03:23,835 Speaker 1: question of whether or not he was drinking on the 44 00:03:23,995 --> 00:03:30,515 Speaker 1: job of mister Patel. More later, But to focus first 45 00:03:30,595 --> 00:03:34,395 Speaker 1: on Trump and Epstein and what we know today, which 46 00:03:34,395 --> 00:03:37,795 Speaker 1: has now moved slowly from the independent journalists like Roger 47 00:03:37,915 --> 00:03:41,955 Speaker 1: Sallenberger and Nina Burley to NPR and now the New 48 00:03:42,035 --> 00:03:45,995 Speaker 1: York Times. And rather than rewrite Mike Baker and Roger 49 00:03:46,075 --> 00:03:49,035 Speaker 1: Gold of that newspaper, I will quote them directly. The 50 00:03:49,075 --> 00:03:52,915 Speaker 1: release of the Epstein files by Trump. The half release, 51 00:03:53,235 --> 00:03:58,275 Speaker 1: to be more accurate quote, failed to include some key 52 00:03:58,435 --> 00:04:02,275 Speaker 1: materials related to a woman who made an accusation against 53 00:04:02,355 --> 00:04:05,915 Speaker 1: President Trump. According to a review the New York Times, 54 00:04:06,275 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: the materials are FBI memos summarizing interviews the bureaus did 55 00:04:11,835 --> 00:04:15,195 Speaker 1: in connection to the claims made in twenty nineteen by 56 00:04:15,235 --> 00:04:18,355 Speaker 1: a woman who came forward after mister Epstein's arrest to 57 00:04:18,435 --> 00:04:22,235 Speaker 1: say she had been sexually assaulted by both mister Trump 58 00:04:22,595 --> 00:04:27,275 Speaker 1: and the financier decades earlier when she was a minor. 59 00:04:31,195 --> 00:04:34,875 Speaker 1: That is a very legalized, cleaned up way of talking 60 00:04:34,915 --> 00:04:42,155 Speaker 1: about the rape of a child. Investigators viewed her and 61 00:04:42,195 --> 00:04:45,235 Speaker 1: her claims as having had enough credibility to merit interviewing 62 00:04:45,235 --> 00:04:48,835 Speaker 1: her four times. The interviews have not been released. They 63 00:04:48,875 --> 00:04:52,555 Speaker 1: were each summarized. Three of the four summaries are missing. 64 00:04:52,835 --> 00:04:56,195 Speaker 1: The Department of Justice has already changed its excuse about 65 00:04:56,195 --> 00:05:01,075 Speaker 1: that once from those were privileged or duplicates to or 66 00:05:01,235 --> 00:05:05,715 Speaker 1: part of an ongoing investigation. Trump has changed his excuse 67 00:05:05,795 --> 00:05:10,915 Speaker 1: from protecting victims to I released everything, to I'll release 68 00:05:10,955 --> 00:05:14,795 Speaker 1: the Epstein files to I have been completely exonerated. And 69 00:05:14,835 --> 00:05:17,875 Speaker 1: if you have heard Trump talk more than three times 70 00:05:17,875 --> 00:05:20,395 Speaker 1: in your life, you know damn well that, in his 71 00:05:20,795 --> 00:05:26,035 Speaker 1: crooked mind, exonerated may include a process by which evidence 72 00:05:26,115 --> 00:05:32,395 Speaker 1: against him might have been removed, filleted, secreted, destroyed, burned, 73 00:05:33,075 --> 00:05:38,875 Speaker 1: or eaten. But the point is, even if they did 74 00:05:39,435 --> 00:05:44,435 Speaker 1: exonerate him and were not destroyed in a cover up, 75 00:05:44,835 --> 00:05:48,035 Speaker 1: Trump has still broken the law. The only parts of 76 00:05:48,075 --> 00:05:52,275 Speaker 1: the documents he is legally permitted to not release are 77 00:05:52,355 --> 00:05:58,235 Speaker 1: the identities of victims. They can be redacted, nothing else. 78 00:06:00,435 --> 00:06:04,315 Speaker 1: Congressman Robert Garcia says he was shown the unredacted version 79 00:06:04,315 --> 00:06:07,515 Speaker 1: of the fire Fyles Monday, the same summaries are missing 80 00:06:07,555 --> 00:06:12,675 Speaker 1: from them, quoting him, The DOJ appears to have illegally 81 00:06:12,715 --> 00:06:17,515 Speaker 1: withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump 82 00:06:17,795 --> 00:06:23,555 Speaker 1: of heinous crimes. What little information we have is that 83 00:06:23,595 --> 00:06:26,555 Speaker 1: the victim claimed Epstein hired her as a babysitter when 84 00:06:26,595 --> 00:06:29,115 Speaker 1: she was thirteen. There was no child to sit, he 85 00:06:29,235 --> 00:06:32,715 Speaker 1: raped her. She says there is a gray area, but 86 00:06:32,755 --> 00:06:36,475 Speaker 1: according to Sallenberger's story and the Nina Burley report, this 87 00:06:36,675 --> 00:06:42,355 Speaker 1: victim's biographical details closely matched those of a woman identified 88 00:06:42,395 --> 00:06:46,475 Speaker 1: in other Epstein files and court filings who claims Epstein 89 00:06:46,555 --> 00:06:49,515 Speaker 1: repeatedly assaulted her and took her to New York and 90 00:06:49,635 --> 00:06:55,395 Speaker 1: exposed her to quote wealthy older men as quote fresh meat. 91 00:06:56,515 --> 00:07:00,475 Speaker 1: One of them this woman alleged was Trump. She claimed 92 00:07:00,475 --> 00:07:05,075 Speaker 1: he assaulted her and punched her in the head National 93 00:07:05,075 --> 00:07:09,115 Speaker 1: Public Radio quote. The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein 94 00:07:09,195 --> 00:07:12,355 Speaker 1: files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor 95 00:07:12,635 --> 00:07:16,755 Speaker 1: and NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from 96 00:07:16,755 --> 00:07:21,355 Speaker 1: the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mentioned Trump. 97 00:07:21,835 --> 00:07:24,635 Speaker 1: Some files have not been made public despite a law 98 00:07:24,715 --> 00:07:27,995 Speaker 1: mandating their release. These include what appeared to be more 99 00:07:28,035 --> 00:07:31,755 Speaker 1: than fifty pages of FBI interviews, as well as notes 100 00:07:31,795 --> 00:07:35,115 Speaker 1: from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual 101 00:07:35,115 --> 00:07:40,395 Speaker 1: abuse decades ago when she was a minor. Roger Sullenberger's 102 00:07:40,435 --> 00:07:44,355 Speaker 1: story quote. I've learned that in one previously unreported document, 103 00:07:44,515 --> 00:07:48,715 Speaker 1: the DOJ initially published the name of the Epstein victim 104 00:07:48,835 --> 00:07:52,155 Speaker 1: who told the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her 105 00:07:52,235 --> 00:07:55,675 Speaker 1: when she was a child. That document has since been 106 00:07:55,795 --> 00:08:00,715 Speaker 1: properly redacted, but another identifying detail pertaining to the Trump 107 00:08:00,795 --> 00:08:06,475 Speaker 1: accuser's case on another document is still unredacted in the database. 108 00:08:08,315 --> 00:08:16,515 Speaker 1: Irrespective of those accusations, Trump is already breaking the law 109 00:08:17,195 --> 00:08:24,115 Speaker 1: at this moment, Trump bondie blanche, the rest of the 110 00:08:24,155 --> 00:08:28,315 Speaker 1: Department of Justice, most of the Trump administration are currently 111 00:08:28,715 --> 00:08:33,795 Speaker 1: engaged in a conspiracy to cover up the Epstein files 112 00:08:34,155 --> 00:09:07,195 Speaker 1: and Trump's part in the Epstein files. Period a quick 113 00:09:07,275 --> 00:09:10,675 Speaker 1: day after day after State of the Union update, and 114 00:09:10,715 --> 00:09:14,635 Speaker 1: as the old bromide goes, that which was true is 115 00:09:14,675 --> 00:09:19,795 Speaker 1: not new, and that which was new is not true. 116 00:09:20,195 --> 00:09:24,715 Speaker 1: The best parts of Trump's State of the Union address, 117 00:09:25,675 --> 00:09:29,355 Speaker 1: It's over right the best parts the speech was surprisingly 118 00:09:29,435 --> 00:09:34,755 Speaker 1: lame duckish. It polled terribly. Thirty eight percent of the 119 00:09:34,795 --> 00:09:38,635 Speaker 1: audience had a very positive reaction to it. Per CNN polling. 120 00:09:38,875 --> 00:09:41,715 Speaker 1: Last year, Trump scored a forty four percent on that 121 00:09:41,955 --> 00:09:46,035 Speaker 1: Even in twenty nineteen, Trump somehow got fifty nine percent 122 00:09:46,195 --> 00:09:51,035 Speaker 1: very positive reaction. It also scored the lowest among any 123 00:09:51,075 --> 00:09:55,715 Speaker 1: State of the Union ever polled. The true highlights of 124 00:09:55,755 --> 00:09:58,395 Speaker 1: the night trump prostitute Troy Nell's trying to get Trump 125 00:09:58,435 --> 00:10:02,315 Speaker 1: to sign his tie, then declaring afterwards Trump was the 126 00:10:02,355 --> 00:10:05,995 Speaker 1: greatest president of his lifetime, providing a new definition to 127 00:10:06,035 --> 00:10:13,835 Speaker 1: the cliche born yesterday. Still nothing will ever top Congressman 128 00:10:13,955 --> 00:10:19,995 Speaker 1: Al Green's black People are an Apes sign, a copy 129 00:10:20,035 --> 00:10:22,915 Speaker 1: of which all Democrats should have been carrying, Or perhaps 130 00:10:22,995 --> 00:10:26,075 Speaker 1: they should have all been carrying signs with different condemnations 131 00:10:26,075 --> 00:10:28,955 Speaker 1: of Trump. God knows, there would have been a different 132 00:10:28,995 --> 00:10:35,315 Speaker 1: Trump scandal for every Democrat present. As to Green's sign, 133 00:10:36,115 --> 00:10:40,435 Speaker 1: Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, one of the true clowns of 134 00:10:40,435 --> 00:10:44,595 Speaker 1: that House, strode up to snatch the sign away from 135 00:10:44,635 --> 00:10:53,995 Speaker 1: al Green. Mullen lunged, stared, daggers missed and nearly toppled 136 00:10:54,035 --> 00:11:00,835 Speaker 1: over ass upright Mark Wain. Mark Wayne Mullen is forty 137 00:11:00,875 --> 00:11:06,155 Speaker 1: eight years old. Al Green is seventy eight uses a cane. 138 00:11:06,435 --> 00:11:08,875 Speaker 1: Mullen is a bully, but happily he showed the world 139 00:11:08,915 --> 00:11:14,995 Speaker 1: he is an incompetent bully and as an aside, an 140 00:11:15,035 --> 00:11:19,675 Speaker 1: online bully. The Johnny Maga account on Twitter x the 141 00:11:19,675 --> 00:11:23,875 Speaker 1: one that declared the Obamas as apes. Video Caroline Levitt 142 00:11:23,875 --> 00:11:30,235 Speaker 1: says Trump himself posted a quote masterpiece. Wired Magazine reports 143 00:11:30,355 --> 00:11:35,035 Speaker 1: it is run by Garrett Wade, a member of the 144 00:11:35,075 --> 00:11:40,475 Speaker 1: White House Rapid Response Team. Because of course, Trump supporters 145 00:11:40,475 --> 00:11:44,555 Speaker 1: who don't hide their identities nearly face plant while trying 146 00:11:44,555 --> 00:11:58,275 Speaker 1: to assault a seventy eight year old man with a cane. So, 147 00:11:58,435 --> 00:12:03,155 Speaker 1: if cash Patel was at the Olympics working, why was 148 00:12:03,195 --> 00:12:11,275 Speaker 1: he drinking. Security doesn't drink. Security officers don't drink. Security 149 00:12:11,675 --> 00:12:19,515 Speaker 1: managers don't drink, Security planners don't drink. Security executives don't drink. 150 00:12:20,315 --> 00:12:25,595 Speaker 1: Security FBI directors don't drink. That's the point. That's the 151 00:12:25,635 --> 00:12:29,515 Speaker 1: point made by Juliet Kaiam that expands the Cash Patel 152 00:12:29,595 --> 00:12:32,515 Speaker 1: scandal and adds to the reasons he must be impeached 153 00:12:32,555 --> 00:12:38,155 Speaker 1: and removed as FBI director. Juliet is an old colleague, 154 00:12:38,235 --> 00:12:40,715 Speaker 1: used to be one of my security experts on MSNBC, 155 00:12:40,875 --> 00:12:45,715 Speaker 1: and she says often when she has worked security, security 156 00:12:45,795 --> 00:12:51,955 Speaker 1: does not drink. Is in her contract. If somebody sent 157 00:12:52,115 --> 00:12:56,235 Speaker 1: Cash Patil to the Olympics in any official security capacity, 158 00:12:56,355 --> 00:13:01,235 Speaker 1: he is not allowed to drink until the entire event 159 00:13:01,675 --> 00:13:05,075 Speaker 1: is over. And the Olympics was not over until the 160 00:13:05,115 --> 00:13:09,355 Speaker 1: closing ceremonies on Sunday night, the hockey game, after which 161 00:13:09,435 --> 00:13:13,395 Speaker 1: Cash Patel paid to be there. He says, to coordinate 162 00:13:13,435 --> 00:13:17,915 Speaker 1: with local authorities on security for Americans, including the hockey players, 163 00:13:17,915 --> 00:13:21,395 Speaker 1: the athletes, and the fans. Got drunk in the locker 164 00:13:21,475 --> 00:13:26,435 Speaker 1: room on the clock, drunk in the hockey locker room 165 00:13:26,515 --> 00:13:29,235 Speaker 1: on Sunday morning of an event he was there to 166 00:13:29,315 --> 00:13:32,355 Speaker 1: provide security for that did not end till Sunday night. 167 00:13:35,035 --> 00:13:38,395 Speaker 1: Patel's schedule in Milan is a public document. The New 168 00:13:38,475 --> 00:13:42,795 Speaker 1: York Times reviewed it. He got there Friday, he left Sunday. 169 00:13:43,675 --> 00:13:47,595 Speaker 1: He had one hour long meeting with local security leaders 170 00:13:47,675 --> 00:13:51,675 Speaker 1: on Friday, then drinks. Saturday. He had a twenty minute 171 00:13:51,715 --> 00:13:54,515 Speaker 1: meeting with the Olympic security team, then a half hour 172 00:13:54,635 --> 00:13:57,835 Speaker 1: tour of the Olympic Security Center, then a private lunch 173 00:13:57,955 --> 00:14:06,955 Speaker 1: with an unnamed individual. No confirmation of drinks sundayas just drinks. 174 00:14:08,635 --> 00:14:11,915 Speaker 1: The Democratic campaign message for the midterms and for twenty 175 00:14:11,955 --> 00:14:15,435 Speaker 1: twenty eight is now shockingly simple and at parallels word 176 00:14:15,475 --> 00:14:19,235 Speaker 1: for word, what the Democratic legislative message must be for 177 00:14:19,435 --> 00:14:23,795 Speaker 1: Right now, Trump and his gang are stealing your money 178 00:14:25,275 --> 00:14:31,915 Speaker 1: and protecting criminals and not doing their jobs. And there 179 00:14:31,995 --> 00:14:35,435 Speaker 1: is a living and breathing symbol of all this, a 180 00:14:35,515 --> 00:14:40,155 Speaker 1: slow moving, stupid, pathetic looking man, the proverbial, as the 181 00:14:40,235 --> 00:14:43,595 Speaker 1: kids say, most punishable face in the room. It is 182 00:14:43,715 --> 00:14:48,195 Speaker 1: cash patil and they should loudly and endlessly metaphorically batter 183 00:14:48,275 --> 00:14:52,835 Speaker 1: him into submission at congressional hearings and in speeches from 184 00:14:52,875 --> 00:14:57,155 Speaker 1: now till Doom's day. He could not be doing more 185 00:14:57,235 --> 00:15:03,715 Speaker 1: to represent the Trump cult of corruption and incapacity were 186 00:15:03,715 --> 00:15:09,595 Speaker 1: he a paid Democratic operative. The fiasco in Milan at 187 00:15:09,635 --> 00:15:13,315 Speaker 1: the Olympic Hockey Exhibition turns out to be just the obvious, 188 00:15:13,435 --> 00:15:19,315 Speaker 1: easy to digest, easily score, hypocritical, greedy, moronic, drinking display 189 00:15:19,315 --> 00:15:23,995 Speaker 1: of trash suddenly finding a way to steal money, government money, 190 00:15:24,395 --> 00:15:30,115 Speaker 1: taxpayer money, your money. A Democratic Congressman should announce a 191 00:15:30,155 --> 00:15:35,995 Speaker 1: measure to impeach cash Pattel today. Another Congressman should announce 192 00:15:36,035 --> 00:15:40,315 Speaker 1: a separate measure to impeach and prosecute cash Pattel Tomorrow. 193 00:15:41,955 --> 00:15:45,315 Speaker 1: A third should announce a measure to impeach and center 194 00:15:45,435 --> 00:15:49,835 Speaker 1: a week of hearings upon the drinking on the job 195 00:15:50,115 --> 00:15:55,635 Speaker 1: by cash Pattel next Monday. The House Democratic Caucus should 196 00:15:55,635 --> 00:16:01,075 Speaker 1: then announce a conference to unify the three impeachment investigations 197 00:16:01,075 --> 00:16:07,195 Speaker 1: of cash Paateel next Tuesday. The hockey part of this 198 00:16:07,315 --> 00:16:09,715 Speaker 1: hockey farce in a moment, and with it, the trail 199 00:16:09,835 --> 00:16:12,275 Speaker 1: of evidence that would lead to his conviction that he 200 00:16:12,395 --> 00:16:15,355 Speaker 1: was clear eyed enough and far looking enough and visionary 201 00:16:15,475 --> 00:16:20,715 Speaker 1: enough to personally leave for us in all its imbecilic 202 00:16:20,875 --> 00:16:29,035 Speaker 1: cash Patel in glory, he left a trail a mile wide. 203 00:16:29,835 --> 00:16:32,995 Speaker 1: But it turns out his fraudulent trip to Milan to 204 00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:35,755 Speaker 1: see a hockey game and hand you and I the 205 00:16:35,835 --> 00:16:39,155 Speaker 1: bill and drink on the job is really just the 206 00:16:39,155 --> 00:16:44,195 Speaker 1: comic relief his repeated misuse of FBI aircraft for his 207 00:16:44,235 --> 00:16:47,075 Speaker 1: own personal pleasures, and his mistaken belief that he is 208 00:16:47,155 --> 00:16:51,515 Speaker 1: doing us a favor by being the inert, inactive, inadequate 209 00:16:51,555 --> 00:16:55,235 Speaker 1: head of the FBI turns out to have had disastrous, 210 00:16:55,395 --> 00:16:59,195 Speaker 1: real life consequences for things that matter a lot goddamned 211 00:16:59,235 --> 00:17:04,435 Speaker 1: more than the Olympics, per whistleblower information obtained by the 212 00:17:04,435 --> 00:17:08,955 Speaker 1: Sense Judiciary Committee. When the right wing agitators, stochastic terrorist 213 00:17:09,035 --> 00:17:12,555 Speaker 1: and white supremacist Charlie Kirk was killed by one of 214 00:17:12,555 --> 00:17:15,715 Speaker 1: his own MAGA crowd last September tenth, one of the 215 00:17:15,875 --> 00:17:23,155 Speaker 1: FBI's most valuable units, the Shooting Reconstruction Team, lost an invaluable, 216 00:17:23,275 --> 00:17:27,195 Speaker 1: irreplaceable twenty four hours of time on the ground because 217 00:17:27,195 --> 00:17:31,755 Speaker 1: the FBI plane and the FBI pilot needed to fly 218 00:17:32,035 --> 00:17:41,515 Speaker 1: that shooting team to Utah was unavailable. Guess why, quoting 219 00:17:41,555 --> 00:17:45,755 Speaker 1: Senator Durbin's letter to the Government Accountability Office, quote because 220 00:17:45,795 --> 00:17:50,035 Speaker 1: of a bureau plane and pilot shortage caused by the 221 00:17:50,195 --> 00:17:57,275 Speaker 1: director's personal flights. Where and how Cash Bettel wasted the 222 00:17:57,275 --> 00:18:00,395 Speaker 1: plane or planes and the pilot or pilot's last September 223 00:18:00,435 --> 00:18:03,835 Speaker 1: has not yet been revealed. It is certainly available to 224 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:06,195 Speaker 1: anybody with a little time and a little Internet, a 225 00:18:06,275 --> 00:18:10,435 Speaker 1: little ocent open source intelligence. The task is sorting out 226 00:18:10,435 --> 00:18:15,355 Speaker 1: which of Patel's dozens of personal trips using FBI pilots 227 00:18:15,355 --> 00:18:19,555 Speaker 1: and planes was the one he wasted this plane and 228 00:18:19,675 --> 00:18:24,115 Speaker 1: pilot on, so the shooting reconstruction team couldn't get there 229 00:18:24,155 --> 00:18:30,995 Speaker 1: in time. Google tip you can start your search with 230 00:18:31,115 --> 00:18:37,435 Speaker 1: Patel's quote girlfriend who is a quote country singer and 231 00:18:37,595 --> 00:18:44,075 Speaker 1: is certainly not quote a foreign honey trap unquote. Of 232 00:18:44,115 --> 00:18:47,955 Speaker 1: the second time, actual FBI officers and agents needed one 233 00:18:47,995 --> 00:18:54,155 Speaker 1: of the FBI planes as opposed to this trash slob fanboy, jocksniffer, 234 00:18:54,355 --> 00:18:59,315 Speaker 1: joy rider Patel and a hockey game. Of the second time, 235 00:18:59,395 --> 00:19:03,475 Speaker 1: we know much more. Dick Durbin same whistleblower indicates that 236 00:19:03,515 --> 00:19:06,115 Speaker 1: in the aftermath of the mash shooting at Brown University 237 00:19:06,315 --> 00:19:10,475 Speaker 1: in Providence on December thirteenth, the FBI elite evidence response 238 00:19:10,515 --> 00:19:14,235 Speaker 1: team was not only delayed because Patel had an FBI 239 00:19:14,395 --> 00:19:18,795 Speaker 1: jet in Florida, where he was reportedly visiting his parents. 240 00:19:19,115 --> 00:19:21,835 Speaker 1: They lived there because they are the kind of immigrants 241 00:19:21,875 --> 00:19:26,795 Speaker 1: Maggot doesn't hate. Yet the evidence response team was According 242 00:19:26,795 --> 00:19:30,395 Speaker 1: to the whistleblower account and three other sources, it was 243 00:19:30,435 --> 00:19:33,675 Speaker 1: not only unable to fly to Rhode Island on an 244 00:19:33,835 --> 00:19:37,755 Speaker 1: FBI plane, it was unable to fly at all because 245 00:19:37,795 --> 00:19:41,035 Speaker 1: Patel had put a hold on the other available FBI 246 00:19:41,195 --> 00:19:46,195 Speaker 1: jet to get the hostage rescue team from Virginia to Providence, 247 00:19:46,435 --> 00:19:50,395 Speaker 1: because he just guessed that there must be hostages to 248 00:19:50,475 --> 00:19:57,395 Speaker 1: rescue at Brown There were not, even even if there 249 00:19:57,435 --> 00:20:00,115 Speaker 1: had been. It evidently never occurred to this idiot Patel 250 00:20:00,355 --> 00:20:02,515 Speaker 1: that if there were hostages, it would be imperative to 251 00:20:02,555 --> 00:20:05,635 Speaker 1: get a rescue team there immediately, and maybe the one 252 00:20:05,715 --> 00:20:10,315 Speaker 1: in Boston, a fifty five minute drive away from Providence 253 00:20:10,435 --> 00:20:13,315 Speaker 1: would have been the choice. Goddamn cash Pateel could have 254 00:20:13,315 --> 00:20:17,475 Speaker 1: called an uber for them, Naturally, he would have called, 255 00:20:17,475 --> 00:20:22,275 Speaker 1: and we would have paid. No, he held one FBI 256 00:20:22,355 --> 00:20:24,595 Speaker 1: plane because he went to see Mommy and Daddy Patel, 257 00:20:24,955 --> 00:20:27,675 Speaker 1: and he held the other FBI plane to fly the 258 00:20:27,715 --> 00:20:31,555 Speaker 1: wrong hostage team from the wrong place to negotiate for 259 00:20:31,675 --> 00:20:38,355 Speaker 1: hostages who did not exist. The specialists from FBI headquarters 260 00:20:38,355 --> 00:20:40,755 Speaker 1: who were actually needed to be in Rhode Island, and 261 00:20:40,915 --> 00:20:46,715 Speaker 1: urgently they had to drive to Rhode Island from Quantico, Virginia, 262 00:20:47,555 --> 00:20:51,915 Speaker 1: in a snowstorm just to get there the next day, 263 00:20:53,635 --> 00:21:03,235 Speaker 1: hours late, woefully late. Patel's misappropriation of public funds that's 264 00:21:03,275 --> 00:21:06,675 Speaker 1: what it is. The requisitioning of the FBI jet for 265 00:21:06,715 --> 00:21:10,235 Speaker 1: private personal travel unrelated to work is no longer just 266 00:21:10,315 --> 00:21:13,235 Speaker 1: the issue of the embarrassment of the Olympics fiasco in 267 00:21:13,275 --> 00:21:16,875 Speaker 1: which Patel and Trump and the unskilled dilettants who occupy 268 00:21:16,955 --> 00:21:19,395 Speaker 1: the office of the Commissioner of the National Hockey League 269 00:21:19,435 --> 00:21:23,395 Speaker 1: Gary Bettman managed to poison the first moment of twenty 270 00:21:23,435 --> 00:21:26,835 Speaker 1: twenty six and maybe of twenty twenty five when America 271 00:21:26,875 --> 00:21:31,435 Speaker 1: didn't feel kind of collective suicidal impulse. It is more 272 00:21:31,475 --> 00:21:35,035 Speaker 1: than just the spoiling of thirty seconds of good vibes 273 00:21:35,075 --> 00:21:38,955 Speaker 1: before Trump pissed on it. It is public corruption of 274 00:21:38,995 --> 00:21:44,075 Speaker 1: the oldest and simplest kind. It is stealing public resources. 275 00:21:44,675 --> 00:21:47,835 Speaker 1: It is perverting one of those few moments when government's 276 00:21:47,915 --> 00:21:52,155 Speaker 1: role is not only clear cut positive, but not reproducible 277 00:21:52,155 --> 00:21:56,555 Speaker 1: by any other entity, when it's absolutely essential to solving 278 00:21:56,715 --> 00:22:00,955 Speaker 1: crime and potentially protecting the life and the safety of 279 00:22:01,035 --> 00:22:04,275 Speaker 1: a citizen or citizens who, bottom line are paying for 280 00:22:04,315 --> 00:22:09,355 Speaker 1: that detection, and Trump and cash Pattel are stealing what 281 00:22:09,475 --> 00:22:12,755 Speaker 1: Americans are paying for and using it to indulge their 282 00:22:12,795 --> 00:22:17,995 Speaker 1: own pleasures, lusts, and stupidities. And speaking of lusts and stupidities. 283 00:22:17,995 --> 00:22:21,555 Speaker 1: I haven't even gotten to Christy Noman, Corey effing Lewandowski, 284 00:22:24,955 --> 00:22:27,515 Speaker 1: which brings us back to the hockey dressing room Sunday 285 00:22:27,515 --> 00:22:29,675 Speaker 1: morning in Italy, and what we now know is not 286 00:22:29,795 --> 00:22:34,035 Speaker 1: just classless and corrupt, but the end result of a 287 00:22:34,075 --> 00:22:40,075 Speaker 1: series of lies by Cash. Patel. CNN phrased his defense 288 00:22:40,115 --> 00:22:42,755 Speaker 1: of his joy ride to the Olympics thus lee quote 289 00:22:43,355 --> 00:22:46,915 Speaker 1: per Patel, he didn't fly to Milan for the Olympics. Quote, 290 00:22:46,955 --> 00:22:50,315 Speaker 1: he flew for some unrelated meetings in the city. The 291 00:22:50,355 --> 00:22:57,395 Speaker 1: gold medal game happened to be taking place. It's plausible 292 00:22:58,835 --> 00:23:03,315 Speaker 1: could happen. Oh, except, of course, Patel had already pre 293 00:23:03,435 --> 00:23:11,075 Speaker 1: confessed last July third, pre confessed that that other plausible 294 00:23:11,675 --> 00:23:16,875 Speaker 1: solution to this wouldn't be true. Last July third, he 295 00:23:16,875 --> 00:23:20,035 Speaker 1: could not resist. He tweeted, quote, NHL agreed to let 296 00:23:20,115 --> 00:23:23,395 Speaker 1: the boys play in the next Olympics this coming winter. 297 00:23:23,635 --> 00:23:27,355 Speaker 1: Quote first time in over a decade. Quote Team USA, 298 00:23:27,675 --> 00:23:35,075 Speaker 1: I'll see you there. Flag emoji, hockey stick emoji unquote. Well, 299 00:23:35,195 --> 00:23:40,235 Speaker 1: that's a hell of a coincidence. Seven months to the 300 00:23:40,355 --> 00:23:44,755 Speaker 1: day before the second United States Olympic Hockey game in Italy, 301 00:23:46,195 --> 00:23:51,555 Speaker 1: Patel publicly promised to be there, and then one of 302 00:23:51,555 --> 00:23:54,835 Speaker 1: the odds, he shows up in their locker room swilling beer. 303 00:23:57,155 --> 00:23:59,115 Speaker 1: Same day agents had to shoot and kill a Maga 304 00:23:59,115 --> 00:24:01,875 Speaker 1: Trump supporter trying to get into Mari Lago with a shotgun, 305 00:24:02,195 --> 00:24:04,275 Speaker 1: evidently because he was angry over the cover up of 306 00:24:04,275 --> 00:24:09,635 Speaker 1: the trump Stein scandal, while the Savannah and Nancy Guthrie 307 00:24:09,675 --> 00:24:13,155 Speaker 1: tragedy is still playing out, while every Day America traveled 308 00:24:13,195 --> 00:24:17,035 Speaker 1: a little bit further towards Hell in this trumpion handbasket 309 00:24:17,075 --> 00:24:21,395 Speaker 1: of ours. Then it wasn't just on Twitter that Patel 310 00:24:21,435 --> 00:24:26,715 Speaker 1: had pre confessed. Back to Dick Durbin's letter, another whistleblower 311 00:24:26,835 --> 00:24:31,155 Speaker 1: is quoted durban quote says a source revealed cash Pateel 312 00:24:31,275 --> 00:24:35,195 Speaker 1: previously said an FBI field office meeting. Quote, if you 313 00:24:35,315 --> 00:24:39,435 Speaker 1: have golf, hockey, fishing, or hunting and beautiful sites, quote, 314 00:24:39,555 --> 00:24:45,875 Speaker 1: You're going to see a lot of me. Again. He 315 00:24:45,955 --> 00:24:47,875 Speaker 1: keeps telling people he's going to be at big events, 316 00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:51,115 Speaker 1: not because he's skilled at security or law enforcement or 317 00:24:51,115 --> 00:24:55,115 Speaker 1: investigation or abides by the rules about not drinking, not 318 00:24:55,235 --> 00:24:57,875 Speaker 1: that he's skilled it anything in particular, but because he 319 00:24:57,955 --> 00:25:03,995 Speaker 1: wants good seats and great fishing he's not gonna pay 320 00:25:04,035 --> 00:25:07,555 Speaker 1: a lot for that muffler, And then what a coincidence 321 00:25:07,835 --> 00:25:13,035 Speaker 1: the event takes place, and there he is violating security protocols, 322 00:25:13,315 --> 00:25:16,755 Speaker 1: taking figurative and literal space that could be actually given 323 00:25:16,795 --> 00:25:21,555 Speaker 1: to actual security personnel, and making an entitled jock sniffing 324 00:25:21,955 --> 00:25:28,995 Speaker 1: dick out of himself and drinking on the job while 325 00:25:29,115 --> 00:25:31,435 Speaker 1: FBI shooting teams can't get to the side of the 326 00:25:31,435 --> 00:25:35,875 Speaker 1: assassination of a right wing troublemaker or a nightmarish shooting 327 00:25:35,915 --> 00:25:39,555 Speaker 1: at a major university or anywhere else. If director Richie 328 00:25:39,675 --> 00:25:46,795 Speaker 1: rich needs the jet you've heard of, the hotel chain 329 00:25:46,835 --> 00:25:52,315 Speaker 1: that used to advertise itself as America's host, Meet Cash Patel, 330 00:25:53,355 --> 00:26:11,715 Speaker 1: America's guest, and now more on the sports ball aspect 331 00:26:11,835 --> 00:26:15,595 Speaker 1: of this, the hockey and Trump's misogynistic insults towards the 332 00:26:15,635 --> 00:26:20,955 Speaker 1: actual US Hockey Olympians who won gold. The women's team, 333 00:26:22,715 --> 00:26:24,875 Speaker 1: the ones Trump insisted during the State of the Union, 334 00:26:24,955 --> 00:26:27,275 Speaker 1: will be honored at the White House, just as the 335 00:26:27,315 --> 00:26:31,595 Speaker 1: men were. Firstly, as of late yesterday, the women's team 336 00:26:31,635 --> 00:26:33,635 Speaker 1: said it had not been invited, not been asked, not 337 00:26:33,675 --> 00:26:36,395 Speaker 1: been reached out to even informally. No invite, no nothing, 338 00:26:37,035 --> 00:26:44,395 Speaker 1: just another Trump lie, just Trump exploiting women again. As 339 00:26:44,435 --> 00:26:48,155 Speaker 1: to the despoiling of the hockey gold medal when they 340 00:26:48,195 --> 00:26:54,915 Speaker 1: put it around Trump's neck, and the men's Olympic Hockey team, 341 00:26:54,955 --> 00:26:57,755 Speaker 1: and especially the Katruck brothers and the Hughes brothers, and 342 00:26:57,755 --> 00:27:01,715 Speaker 1: this Tage Thompson idiot from the Buffalo Sabers, Tage Thompson 343 00:27:01,715 --> 00:27:05,075 Speaker 1: who actually posed in a full make America Great Again 344 00:27:05,155 --> 00:27:10,875 Speaker 1: hat alongside our gobels in a blonde wig Caroline Levitt. 345 00:27:11,915 --> 00:27:14,475 Speaker 1: Please note I leave out the goalie Connor Hellibuck of 346 00:27:14,515 --> 00:27:18,355 Speaker 1: the Winnipeg Jets, the only political prop Trump named during 347 00:27:18,355 --> 00:27:21,755 Speaker 1: the State of the Union Tuesday night, because Hellibuck's experience 348 00:27:21,795 --> 00:27:26,155 Speaker 1: in the playoffs is so nightmarishly unreliable and ineffective that 349 00:27:26,235 --> 00:27:30,635 Speaker 1: this Trump Award of freedom and Hamburgers or whatever he 350 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:33,435 Speaker 1: gave him during the speech, that's likely to be the 351 00:27:33,435 --> 00:27:40,075 Speaker 1: only championship trophy that Connor Hellibuck ever wins. As to 352 00:27:40,115 --> 00:27:45,355 Speaker 1: the others fam a month ago, these were among the 353 00:27:45,355 --> 00:27:48,995 Speaker 1: most admired of National Hockey League players. Now they are 354 00:27:49,115 --> 00:27:52,915 Speaker 1: at best the victims of Trump's insatiable desire to take 355 00:27:52,955 --> 00:27:55,955 Speaker 1: credit for things other people have done, And now they 356 00:27:55,995 --> 00:27:58,955 Speaker 1: are the victims of cash Betel's insatiable desire to stand 357 00:27:58,995 --> 00:28:02,435 Speaker 1: next to naked athletes and hope some of their successful 358 00:28:02,635 --> 00:28:08,715 Speaker 1: sweat will rub off on him or something will say 359 00:28:08,755 --> 00:28:11,635 Speaker 1: nothing of the free beer. And now they are the 360 00:28:11,715 --> 00:28:14,795 Speaker 1: victims of impossibly bad guidance by their agents and by 361 00:28:14,835 --> 00:28:17,875 Speaker 1: the people their professional teams nominally employed to keep them 362 00:28:17,915 --> 00:28:21,235 Speaker 1: from self destructing. When they all decide that we really 363 00:28:21,315 --> 00:28:24,995 Speaker 1: need to keep politics out of sports, except if it's 364 00:28:24,995 --> 00:28:28,755 Speaker 1: the politics that they jack Eikeel, Quinn, Hughes and the 365 00:28:28,755 --> 00:28:35,995 Speaker 1: others agree with Battell, who has no business being in 366 00:28:35,995 --> 00:28:38,035 Speaker 1: that dressing room, gets Trump on the phone, who has 367 00:28:38,075 --> 00:28:40,555 Speaker 1: no business being in that dressing room, just as no 368 00:28:40,715 --> 00:28:44,195 Speaker 1: politician has had any business being projected into any dressing 369 00:28:44,275 --> 00:28:48,635 Speaker 1: room since Ronald Effing Reagan started to prostitute players for 370 00:28:48,715 --> 00:28:53,235 Speaker 1: his personal political gain in the nineteen eighties. Trump makes 371 00:28:53,235 --> 00:28:57,235 Speaker 1: a sick, cold, misogynistic, cruel joke about the American Women's 372 00:28:57,235 --> 00:29:01,715 Speaker 1: Olympic hockey gold medal winning team, actual Olympians who actually 373 00:29:01,795 --> 00:29:08,835 Speaker 1: sacrifice careers and income and and families to play for America, 374 00:29:09,835 --> 00:29:12,835 Speaker 1: not like the men who played four America for two 375 00:29:12,835 --> 00:29:16,995 Speaker 1: weeks because they thought a gold medal would look nice 376 00:29:17,235 --> 00:29:19,035 Speaker 1: up on the wall next to the copies of their 377 00:29:19,195 --> 00:29:24,475 Speaker 1: fourteen million dollar paychecks. Trump makes a sick joke by phone. 378 00:29:24,555 --> 00:29:28,715 Speaker 1: All the players laugh. They all dishonor those women medalists, 379 00:29:28,755 --> 00:29:32,475 Speaker 1: their supposed teammates. They all participated in the new rise 380 00:29:32,835 --> 00:29:36,995 Speaker 1: of the hateful male jockocracy. And then Jack Hughes, who 381 00:29:37,035 --> 00:29:39,795 Speaker 1: should have a free pass in this country for the 382 00:29:39,795 --> 00:29:43,475 Speaker 1: rest of his life. After he scored the medal winning goal, 383 00:29:43,995 --> 00:29:49,555 Speaker 1: Jack Hughes urinates on the moment by saying, quote everything 384 00:29:49,635 --> 00:29:53,555 Speaker 1: is so political. Quote everyone is giving us backlash for 385 00:29:53,595 --> 00:29:56,875 Speaker 1: all the social media stuff today. Quote. People are so 386 00:29:57,075 --> 00:29:59,635 Speaker 1: negative out there and they're just trying to find a 387 00:29:59,675 --> 00:30:02,515 Speaker 1: reason to put people down and make something out of 388 00:30:02,635 --> 00:30:09,315 Speaker 1: almost nothing. That's Jack Hughes, who joined in as a 389 00:30:09,555 --> 00:30:15,275 Speaker 1: cheap politician. Cash Pattel barged into his team's celebration, bringing 390 00:30:15,315 --> 00:30:19,635 Speaker 1: an even cheaper politician in Trump into the room by phone. 391 00:30:20,315 --> 00:30:25,395 Speaker 1: Then Jack Hughes joined the cheap politicians insult against women athletes. 392 00:30:25,675 --> 00:30:29,755 Speaker 1: Then Jack Hughes flew overnight not to go back to work, 393 00:30:30,395 --> 00:30:33,755 Speaker 1: but to become a political prop in the White House 394 00:30:34,515 --> 00:30:40,155 Speaker 1: wearing a Maga style USA cap. Everything is so political, 395 00:30:40,515 --> 00:30:50,835 Speaker 1: Jack Hughes, you volunteered, You overcuddled torp this Tage Thompson, 396 00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:53,235 Speaker 1: the one who posed in the Maga hat, not just 397 00:30:53,315 --> 00:30:56,715 Speaker 1: the USA cap in Maga style lettering, but an actual 398 00:30:57,115 --> 00:31:03,195 Speaker 1: Maga hat. He's kind of lost his comments yesterday as 399 00:31:03,195 --> 00:31:07,115 Speaker 1: he returned to the Buffalo sabers Well, he didn't just 400 00:31:07,235 --> 00:31:11,195 Speaker 1: keep digging. He managed to dig a second hole next 401 00:31:11,235 --> 00:31:15,515 Speaker 1: to the one he was already neck deep in. Quoting 402 00:31:15,795 --> 00:31:20,035 Speaker 1: Tage Thompson, everyone in that locker room is a patriot. 403 00:31:20,235 --> 00:31:23,275 Speaker 1: We love the country. Anytime you put on that jersey, 404 00:31:23,475 --> 00:31:26,395 Speaker 1: it's the best feeling in the world. Representing your country 405 00:31:26,395 --> 00:31:28,795 Speaker 1: and playing for the men and women who fought and 406 00:31:28,995 --> 00:31:34,795 Speaker 1: serve for your country. Note, a hockey game and people 407 00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:38,035 Speaker 1: getting their arms blown off to defend this country have 408 00:31:38,195 --> 00:31:41,115 Speaker 1: nothing to do with each other. You are hockey players. 409 00:31:41,555 --> 00:31:46,275 Speaker 1: You have no connection to this. Get their names and 410 00:31:46,915 --> 00:31:53,395 Speaker 1: traumas out of your little chicken shit athlete mouths. We 411 00:31:53,515 --> 00:31:56,075 Speaker 1: get to enjoy such great lives here and it's because 412 00:31:56,115 --> 00:31:58,675 Speaker 1: of those men and women. I couldn't be more proud 413 00:31:58,715 --> 00:32:00,235 Speaker 1: to be an American and do it with the group 414 00:32:00,275 --> 00:32:02,995 Speaker 1: of guys that we had. Obviously, going to the White 415 00:32:02,995 --> 00:32:05,235 Speaker 1: House is such an honor. It was a very cool 416 00:32:05,275 --> 00:32:11,075 Speaker 1: experience and something that I'll probably never get to do again. Well, 417 00:32:11,075 --> 00:32:15,115 Speaker 1: there's the second hole, that latter point announcing he's probably 418 00:32:15,115 --> 00:32:16,675 Speaker 1: never going to get to go to the White House 419 00:32:16,675 --> 00:32:20,595 Speaker 1: with the championship hockey team again. That will probably come 420 00:32:20,635 --> 00:32:25,275 Speaker 1: as an unwelcome surrender of the next what fifteen years 421 00:32:25,395 --> 00:32:29,195 Speaker 1: or so to the fans of his Buffalo Sabers, or 422 00:32:29,235 --> 00:32:32,355 Speaker 1: to the fans of whichever team they trade him too, 423 00:32:32,355 --> 00:32:37,315 Speaker 1: if they're smart. John Hines, the coach of Quinn Hughes 424 00:32:37,355 --> 00:32:41,235 Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Wild Jack's brother, made an extraordinary assertion 425 00:32:41,315 --> 00:32:43,835 Speaker 1: that quote, it's not a political thing on the team. 426 00:32:43,875 --> 00:32:47,395 Speaker 1: There's Democrats, Republicans. It's more about the celebration of the team. 427 00:32:47,755 --> 00:32:49,955 Speaker 1: And I think the life experience for the players to 428 00:32:49,995 --> 00:32:51,355 Speaker 1: be able to do what they were able to do, 429 00:32:51,395 --> 00:32:53,555 Speaker 1: which is go to the White House, meet the President, 430 00:32:53,595 --> 00:32:55,835 Speaker 1: be at the State of the Union, doesn't really have 431 00:32:55,955 --> 00:33:00,795 Speaker 1: anything to do with politics, coach. If it's not about politics, 432 00:33:00,795 --> 00:33:06,795 Speaker 1: why did they all wear Trump hats. John Hines was 433 00:33:06,835 --> 00:33:09,075 Speaker 1: fired as coach in New Jersey six years and three 434 00:33:09,075 --> 00:33:11,475 Speaker 1: months ago. He was fired in Nashville's coach just under 435 00:33:11,515 --> 00:33:14,315 Speaker 1: three years ago. This is his third job in seven seasons, 436 00:33:14,355 --> 00:33:17,835 Speaker 1: and if that were me, you'd be saying that Olberman 437 00:33:17,955 --> 00:33:22,955 Speaker 1: keeps getting fired from every job he's ever heard a 438 00:33:22,995 --> 00:33:26,115 Speaker 1: moment here to shout out the actual passive heroes of 439 00:33:26,155 --> 00:33:29,635 Speaker 1: the US men's team. Maybe if the cards fall correctly, 440 00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:33,115 Speaker 1: we can legislate away the gold medals of everybody except 441 00:33:33,275 --> 00:33:35,715 Speaker 1: Jake Ottinger of the Dallas Stars and Brock Nelson to the 442 00:33:35,715 --> 00:33:39,195 Speaker 1: Colorado Avalanche, Kyle Connor of the Winnipeg Jets, Jackson lacomba 443 00:33:39,195 --> 00:33:42,195 Speaker 1: the Anaheim Ducks, and Jake Gensel of the Tampa Bay Lightning. 444 00:33:42,435 --> 00:33:46,075 Speaker 1: They didn't go to the White House to wore themselves 445 00:33:46,155 --> 00:33:49,915 Speaker 1: out for Trump. Maybe they didn't go because it was political, 446 00:33:49,995 --> 00:33:52,635 Speaker 1: maybe because it was travel, maybe because they were tired. 447 00:33:53,755 --> 00:33:57,555 Speaker 1: I don't care at this point. They didn't do the 448 00:33:57,595 --> 00:34:01,715 Speaker 1: wrong thing. Maybe later I'll have to change my opinion 449 00:34:01,715 --> 00:34:03,235 Speaker 1: on this, but right now I don't need to read 450 00:34:03,275 --> 00:34:06,635 Speaker 1: your conscience doing the right thing. I just need to 451 00:34:06,675 --> 00:34:11,315 Speaker 1: see you not doing the wrong thing. You want to 452 00:34:11,315 --> 00:34:18,715 Speaker 1: make it not political, stay the f home, because they 453 00:34:18,715 --> 00:34:20,795 Speaker 1: were just about the only ones who did the right thing, 454 00:34:21,395 --> 00:34:24,875 Speaker 1: or even close to it. This is the political world 455 00:34:25,035 --> 00:34:29,035 Speaker 1: Jack Hughes complained about while he was busy signing up 456 00:34:29,435 --> 00:34:32,675 Speaker 1: to join that political world as the equivalent of a 457 00:34:32,755 --> 00:34:38,795 Speaker 1: two dollars hooker, the unstable Wisconsin Congressman Derek van Orden, 458 00:34:39,075 --> 00:34:43,115 Speaker 1: who might have PTSD, might have CTE, might have every 459 00:34:43,155 --> 00:34:48,475 Speaker 1: acronym except IQ. Van Orden announced in full seriousness on 460 00:34:48,515 --> 00:34:51,595 Speaker 1: television that quote, if Canada had taken Donald Trump on 461 00:34:51,635 --> 00:34:54,275 Speaker 1: his offer to become the fifty first state, the Canadians 462 00:34:54,275 --> 00:34:59,395 Speaker 1: would have had gold. Also, as Jack Hughes said, people 463 00:34:59,435 --> 00:35:01,275 Speaker 1: are just trying to find a reason to put people 464 00:35:01,315 --> 00:35:06,955 Speaker 1: down and make something out of almost nothing, almost nothing 465 00:35:07,715 --> 00:35:14,115 Speaker 1: like what's in Congressman Van Orden's head. The National Hockey 466 00:35:14,195 --> 00:35:18,755 Speaker 1: League responded brilliantly to this symbolic mind cave in of 467 00:35:18,795 --> 00:35:24,875 Speaker 1: their supposed publicity bonanza of America watching Olympic pucks and 468 00:35:24,955 --> 00:35:28,795 Speaker 1: of course not watching hockey ever again, not at least 469 00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:32,715 Speaker 1: for four years, because the Olympics never, never, never foster 470 00:35:32,835 --> 00:35:36,475 Speaker 1: the growth of any pro sport. It's the other way around. 471 00:35:36,995 --> 00:35:40,195 Speaker 1: The NHL responded by blasting out videos of players with 472 00:35:40,275 --> 00:35:45,235 Speaker 1: their daughters, just doubling the misogyny, just underscoring that the 473 00:35:45,235 --> 00:35:47,115 Speaker 1: women in the lives of the league's players are just 474 00:35:47,155 --> 00:35:51,235 Speaker 1: there to be exploited during a public relations crisis created 475 00:35:51,275 --> 00:35:55,995 Speaker 1: by a spasm, another spasm, another in an endless series 476 00:35:56,035 --> 00:36:00,275 Speaker 1: of spasms of hockey's brutality towards women and every minority group. 477 00:36:01,235 --> 00:36:03,995 Speaker 1: This is, after all, the only pro sports league to 478 00:36:04,315 --> 00:36:08,075 Speaker 1: first loudly proclaim that its game is for everyone and 479 00:36:08,115 --> 00:36:12,435 Speaker 1: to stage thirty one Pride Nights and manufacture endless Pride 480 00:36:12,555 --> 00:36:19,595 Speaker 1: uniforms Warren Pregame until half a dozen player bigots, mostly 481 00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:25,315 Speaker 1: players imported from Russia, decided to go homophobic. The NHL 482 00:36:25,475 --> 00:36:29,955 Speaker 1: is the only pro sports league ever to quietly discontinue 483 00:36:30,115 --> 00:36:36,395 Speaker 1: Pride Night and discontinue Pride jerseys and tell the LGBTQ 484 00:36:36,555 --> 00:36:41,915 Speaker 1: community to go f itself. It is thus entirely deserving 485 00:36:41,955 --> 00:36:45,315 Speaker 1: of the comedy writer Madison Sinclair who joked about the 486 00:36:45,515 --> 00:36:50,355 Speaker 1: heated Rivalry hockey soap opera TV series, though this is 487 00:36:50,435 --> 00:36:53,395 Speaker 1: less funny and more pathetically and metaphorically true. Each time 488 00:36:53,395 --> 00:36:57,475 Speaker 1: you read or hear her joke quote, people will be like, 489 00:36:57,755 --> 00:37:01,115 Speaker 1: have you seen the new Gay Hockey Show? Quote? And 490 00:37:01,155 --> 00:37:03,795 Speaker 1: it's just a video of the entire US hockey team 491 00:37:03,835 --> 00:37:11,475 Speaker 1: blowing the President unquote. But of all the aspects of 492 00:37:11,475 --> 00:37:17,035 Speaker 1: the Olympic hockey disaster, the absolute worst, Worse than Jack Hughes, 493 00:37:19,275 --> 00:37:22,675 Speaker 1: worse than Patel drinking on the job, Worse than the 494 00:37:22,715 --> 00:37:26,035 Speaker 1: crowd of props filing into the State of the Union 495 00:37:26,075 --> 00:37:31,035 Speaker 1: to be victimized by Trump, all of them still days, 496 00:37:31,115 --> 00:37:33,875 Speaker 1: maybe years away from realizing that it is that and 497 00:37:33,915 --> 00:37:37,075 Speaker 1: not some metal at some Olympics, which will lead their 498 00:37:37,155 --> 00:37:42,195 Speaker 1: obituaries hopefully decades upon decades from now. Worse perhaps even 499 00:37:42,235 --> 00:37:48,155 Speaker 1: than the greed and the profligate wastefulness of sending us 500 00:37:48,875 --> 00:37:53,995 Speaker 1: money to carry this turd Patel there. Worse than all 501 00:37:54,035 --> 00:38:01,075 Speaker 1: of it, perhaps is the saga of Austin Matthews. On Sunday, 502 00:38:01,195 --> 00:38:05,515 Speaker 1: Austin Matthews was in that room with Cash Patrell, laughing 503 00:38:05,555 --> 00:38:08,195 Speaker 1: as Trump made his nauseating joke about the other American 504 00:38:08,235 --> 00:38:10,715 Speaker 1: gold medal winning hockey team, the real one, the women. 505 00:38:12,395 --> 00:38:17,195 Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon, Austin Matthews stood grinning directly behind Trump as 506 00:38:17,235 --> 00:38:20,795 Speaker 1: an Olympic gold medal was defiled by being placed around 507 00:38:20,835 --> 00:38:24,275 Speaker 1: the neck of Trump. Trump, the culmination of whose athletic 508 00:38:24,355 --> 00:38:26,915 Speaker 1: career was reached when, as a high school baseball player, 509 00:38:27,075 --> 00:38:32,835 Speaker 1: he batted one thirty eight. Austin Matthews yesterday said that 510 00:38:33,075 --> 00:38:37,955 Speaker 1: joke about the women was kind of unfortunate, but he's 511 00:38:37,955 --> 00:38:42,675 Speaker 1: not a political person. Austin Matthews is not just the 512 00:38:42,755 --> 00:38:48,875 Speaker 1: captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs team the baseball Blue Jays, notwithstanding, 513 00:38:48,915 --> 00:38:52,435 Speaker 1: the Toronto maple Leafs still and forever Canada's team and 514 00:38:53,355 --> 00:38:57,075 Speaker 1: symbol of its long suffering but politely and patiently worn 515 00:38:57,155 --> 00:39:04,635 Speaker 1: and most undeserved second placeness, as Canada has not won 516 00:39:04,835 --> 00:39:07,635 Speaker 1: a Stanley Cup since nineteen ninety three, Toronto Maple Leafs 517 00:39:07,635 --> 00:39:10,275 Speaker 1: have not won one since nineteen sixty seven, And that 518 00:39:10,395 --> 00:39:12,515 Speaker 1: is so long ago that I may be the youngest 519 00:39:12,555 --> 00:39:16,835 Speaker 1: sports media person alive to have reported on it in 520 00:39:16,915 --> 00:39:19,995 Speaker 1: real time when I wrote it up in the school newspaper. 521 00:39:21,315 --> 00:39:24,755 Speaker 1: I wrote it up in my fourth grade homeroom school newspaper. 522 00:39:27,755 --> 00:39:30,355 Speaker 1: But more importantly, Austin Matthews is the son of Brian 523 00:39:30,475 --> 00:39:37,155 Speaker 1: Matthews and his wife, Emma Emma Matthews. Emma Garcia Matthews, 524 00:39:38,515 --> 00:39:41,875 Speaker 1: Missus Matthews is originally from Hermocio, Mexico, and she moved 525 00:39:41,875 --> 00:39:45,595 Speaker 1: with her husband to Arizona, where their son Austin broke 526 00:39:45,635 --> 00:39:50,435 Speaker 1: all kinds of barriers, barriers put there by political people. Austin, 527 00:39:51,315 --> 00:39:55,995 Speaker 1: you have been political since you were born. Emma's son. 528 00:39:56,075 --> 00:39:59,555 Speaker 1: Austin is a Mexican American. He is the captain of 529 00:39:59,595 --> 00:40:05,635 Speaker 1: a Canadian hockey team. Donald Trump, a chief two bit 530 00:40:05,795 --> 00:40:10,875 Speaker 1: corrupt politician with a broken brain, threatened to invade the 531 00:40:10,955 --> 00:40:15,915 Speaker 1: country in which the fans of Austin Matthews's team all live. 532 00:40:17,635 --> 00:40:21,835 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, a politician, threatened to invade the country in 533 00:40:21,875 --> 00:40:25,355 Speaker 1: which the relatives of his mother, in which his own 534 00:40:25,395 --> 00:40:36,995 Speaker 1: relatives live. Donald Trump threatened Mexico. Donald Trump threatened Canada, 535 00:40:37,475 --> 00:40:41,955 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump's masked Gestapo, his secret police, his paramilitary 536 00:40:42,035 --> 00:40:45,235 Speaker 1: would happily and without a second thought in this country, 537 00:40:45,315 --> 00:40:50,075 Speaker 1: put Austin Matthew's mother in a cage. And Austin Matthews 538 00:40:50,075 --> 00:40:52,835 Speaker 1: stood there behind Trump and grinned from ear to ear 539 00:40:53,395 --> 00:41:01,915 Speaker 1: because he's not really political. May your creator forgive you, 540 00:41:05,635 --> 00:41:11,155 Speaker 1: May your mother's country forgive you, May your ancestors country 541 00:41:11,195 --> 00:41:17,155 Speaker 1: forgive you. May your new adopted country to the north 542 00:41:17,275 --> 00:41:23,395 Speaker 1: forgive you. Because if they didn't know who he was. 543 00:41:24,675 --> 00:41:28,235 Speaker 1: And I hate to break this to somebody who's not political, 544 00:41:28,315 --> 00:41:31,235 Speaker 1: but in Trump's America, they no longer stop to find 545 00:41:31,355 --> 00:41:38,435 Speaker 1: things out, like who you are here in this Austin 546 00:41:38,475 --> 00:41:43,115 Speaker 1: Matthews actual country, his home country, this country. They won't 547 00:41:43,475 --> 00:41:53,355 Speaker 1: forgive Austin Matthews for being what they see Mexican Canadian. 548 00:41:56,715 --> 00:41:59,635 Speaker 1: And they don't care if you're political or not. Austin. 549 00:42:00,675 --> 00:42:03,955 Speaker 1: The people you stood there grinning with will happily put 550 00:42:03,995 --> 00:42:12,155 Speaker 1: you in a case age two. Also of interest here 551 00:42:14,235 --> 00:42:20,355 Speaker 1: the self destruction of Senator Mike Lee internet troll outrage 552 00:42:20,395 --> 00:42:24,275 Speaker 1: that Democratic representatives heckled Trump during his racist rage during 553 00:42:24,315 --> 00:42:28,475 Speaker 1: the State of the Union, three years after he himself 554 00:42:28,555 --> 00:42:32,395 Speaker 1: heckled Biden during his twenty twenty three State of the Union. 555 00:42:33,075 --> 00:42:37,915 Speaker 1: And that's just the start of Mike Lee's problems. That's next. 556 00:42:38,035 --> 00:43:03,795 Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Oberman still 557 00:43:03,795 --> 00:43:06,275 Speaker 1: ahead on this follow of countdown. As you may have 558 00:43:06,395 --> 00:43:10,315 Speaker 1: seen the guy destroying CBS News on behalf of Trump, 559 00:43:10,475 --> 00:43:13,395 Speaker 1: David Ellison sitting at the State of the Union with 560 00:43:13,475 --> 00:43:17,715 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, the guy who already destroyed himself for Trump. 561 00:43:18,195 --> 00:43:21,475 Speaker 1: As you read reports by Oliver Darcy in Status of 562 00:43:21,515 --> 00:43:25,915 Speaker 1: the woman destroying CBS News on behalf of Trump, Barry Weiss, 563 00:43:26,675 --> 00:43:29,795 Speaker 1: thinking that maybe her next morning anchor could be Michael Barbara, 564 00:43:30,515 --> 00:43:33,235 Speaker 1: who actually managed to take an unsinkable idea like a 565 00:43:33,235 --> 00:43:37,515 Speaker 1: New York Times podcast and sink it, or Chris Christy 566 00:43:37,795 --> 00:43:40,635 Speaker 1: or some woman named timph who I never heard of. 567 00:43:41,315 --> 00:43:43,915 Speaker 1: I'd just like to remind you that network news is 568 00:43:43,995 --> 00:43:47,875 Speaker 1: getting more screwed up by the minute. But Noah did 569 00:43:47,915 --> 00:43:51,395 Speaker 1: not just start getting screwed up. We are nearly three 570 00:43:51,395 --> 00:43:54,955 Speaker 1: decades out from the day I went cold at my 571 00:43:55,075 --> 00:44:01,755 Speaker 1: first real understanding of how bad it was. Then I 572 00:44:01,835 --> 00:44:04,555 Speaker 1: thought it was to be my admission to the club, 573 00:44:05,075 --> 00:44:09,755 Speaker 1: my first day inside the brain trust. The night that 574 00:44:09,915 --> 00:44:13,115 Speaker 1: me and the head of my first MSNBC newscast, and 575 00:44:13,235 --> 00:44:16,515 Speaker 1: the president of NBC News and the head of the 576 00:44:16,675 --> 00:44:20,675 Speaker 1: MS Microsoft part of MSNBC, we would all sit down 577 00:44:20,715 --> 00:44:23,715 Speaker 1: at dinner and hammer out what to do in my 578 00:44:23,875 --> 00:44:29,155 Speaker 1: brand new TV newscast as the entire vista spread out 579 00:44:29,155 --> 00:44:34,075 Speaker 1: before me with an endless horizon, an endless time, an 580 00:44:34,195 --> 00:44:36,395 Speaker 1: endless promise. And it turned out the meeting was just 581 00:44:36,475 --> 00:44:39,675 Speaker 1: the NBC guys telling me how to humor the MS 582 00:44:39,995 --> 00:44:43,435 Speaker 1: Microsoft guy and get him to shut up, because all 583 00:44:43,475 --> 00:44:49,835 Speaker 1: they wanted out of Microsoft was the money, the beginning 584 00:44:50,675 --> 00:44:55,315 Speaker 1: of the Great Disillusionment, the beginning of the end at NBC, 585 00:44:56,075 --> 00:44:59,355 Speaker 1: sadly far from the end of the end at NBC 586 00:44:59,475 --> 00:45:05,235 Speaker 1: or anywhere else. September Bloody, nineteen ninety seven. Next in 587 00:45:05,355 --> 00:45:10,395 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell first. However, we always 588 00:45:10,475 --> 00:45:14,715 Speaker 1: have more new idiots talk about the twenty twenty six versions. 589 00:45:15,435 --> 00:45:17,995 Speaker 1: It's the roundup of the miscreants, morons and dunning Kruger 590 00:45:18,035 --> 00:45:24,275 Speaker 1: effect specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world. 591 00:45:25,715 --> 00:45:35,715 Speaker 1: Lebron's worse Jesse Waters DEI hire at Fox after Governor 592 00:45:35,795 --> 00:45:38,395 Speaker 1: knew some of California mentioned that he, as a kid, 593 00:45:38,435 --> 00:45:44,795 Speaker 1: had overcome dyslexia and reading problems. Quote Jesse Waters, I 594 00:45:44,795 --> 00:45:56,955 Speaker 1: don't want a president who struggles to read. Uh, there 595 00:45:57,195 --> 00:46:00,475 Speaker 1: is I don't want a president who struggles to read, 596 00:46:00,595 --> 00:46:05,715 Speaker 1: says Jesse Waters. There is reason to suspect that Jesse 597 00:46:05,875 --> 00:46:09,555 Speaker 1: Waters and Doug J. Balloon, you know him as the 598 00:46:09,555 --> 00:46:12,955 Speaker 1: New York Times pitch bot, that Jesse Waters and Doug 599 00:46:13,035 --> 00:46:18,395 Speaker 1: JA Balloon are one and the same person. I don't 600 00:46:18,395 --> 00:46:22,635 Speaker 1: want to struggles to read. He doesn't struggle. He can't 601 00:46:22,675 --> 00:46:28,035 Speaker 1: do it at all. Runner up worser a threads her, 602 00:46:28,955 --> 00:46:33,435 Speaker 1: a Threadsian identified as Red Pepper King. The account is 603 00:46:33,515 --> 00:46:37,555 Speaker 1: at Paul Manfrey. Well, all we know about Paul is 604 00:46:37,595 --> 00:46:40,675 Speaker 1: he's a grandfather. He claims to be a veteran. According 605 00:46:40,755 --> 00:46:43,035 Speaker 1: to the pictures he's posted, he has an old fro, 606 00:46:44,875 --> 00:46:49,555 Speaker 1: you know, like uh, the after pictures of Dorian Gray, 607 00:46:49,675 --> 00:46:53,755 Speaker 1: that kind of hair. And if Paul hasn't already lost it, 608 00:46:53,835 --> 00:46:59,595 Speaker 1: he's beginning to quote, has anyone noticed that the only 609 00:46:59,635 --> 00:47:02,675 Speaker 1: time the USA men's hockey team gets the gold medal 610 00:47:03,275 --> 00:47:07,875 Speaker 1: is when we have a great press first? Reagan also 611 00:47:07,995 --> 00:47:20,195 Speaker 1: misspelled now Trump. When you put America first, Americans respond, uh, okay. Obviously. 612 00:47:20,235 --> 00:47:23,515 Speaker 1: The nineteen eighty US Olympic Hockey team, which he's referring 613 00:47:23,595 --> 00:47:26,555 Speaker 1: to as the other one that had most recently won 614 00:47:26,595 --> 00:47:29,955 Speaker 1: gold medals as opposed to nineteen sixty. The nineteen eighty 615 00:47:30,075 --> 00:47:33,315 Speaker 1: US Olympic Hockey team, which was a an actual team. 616 00:47:33,355 --> 00:47:35,395 Speaker 1: It played sixty eight games. It was not created for 617 00:47:35,435 --> 00:47:37,835 Speaker 1: a two week tournament and then dispersed. That's called an 618 00:47:37,875 --> 00:47:40,995 Speaker 1: all star team. And b The nineteen eighty US Olympic 619 00:47:40,995 --> 00:47:45,155 Speaker 1: Hockey team consisted of actual amateur olympians. They beat the 620 00:47:45,195 --> 00:47:48,395 Speaker 1: Soviets forty six years ago last Sunday, then they won 621 00:47:48,435 --> 00:47:51,635 Speaker 1: the gold forty six years ago this past Tuesday, and 622 00:47:51,675 --> 00:47:56,795 Speaker 1: on both of those days. In nineteen eighty, Jimmy Carter 623 00:47:56,995 --> 00:48:02,035 Speaker 1: was president, not Ronald Reagan. That red Pepper King misspelled. 624 00:48:02,275 --> 00:48:06,315 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was not president. Jimmy Carter was president because 625 00:48:07,915 --> 00:48:11,355 Speaker 1: elections are in November, not February. Although he's right, great 626 00:48:11,355 --> 00:48:15,035 Speaker 1: president in nineteen eighty, but maybe of greater interest. The 627 00:48:15,195 --> 00:48:18,595 Speaker 1: Gallop poll for Republican voters choice to be the Republican 628 00:48:18,635 --> 00:48:21,795 Speaker 1: nominee for nineteen eighty as of the day the US 629 00:48:21,875 --> 00:48:25,115 Speaker 1: Olympians won the gold medal in nineteen eighty, Ronald Reagan 630 00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:30,635 Speaker 1: thirty four percent, Gerald Ford thirty two percent, as many 631 00:48:30,715 --> 00:48:35,235 Speaker 1: people in the Republican Party wanted to run gerald Ford 632 00:48:35,715 --> 00:48:40,915 Speaker 1: again instead of Reagan, and the leader in Convention delegates 633 00:48:40,955 --> 00:48:43,715 Speaker 1: through the three primaries by that date when the US 634 00:48:43,755 --> 00:48:48,395 Speaker 1: Olympic hockey team won gold in nineteen eighty was George 635 00:48:48,435 --> 00:48:53,875 Speaker 1: Bush the elder the last look read Pepper King's post 636 00:48:53,915 --> 00:48:57,835 Speaker 1: is still up there, by the way, but the winner 637 00:48:57,955 --> 00:49:01,675 Speaker 1: the worst. Speaking of social media, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, 638 00:49:01,875 --> 00:49:04,875 Speaker 1: it grows increasingly evident that as various countries began to 639 00:49:04,915 --> 00:49:09,475 Speaker 1: restrict access to social media sites for the vulnerable, the challenged, 640 00:49:10,195 --> 00:49:16,075 Speaker 1: the slow, the young, the susceptible to addiction the Jesse 641 00:49:16,235 --> 00:49:20,555 Speaker 1: Waters types, they may need to broaden the scope of 642 00:49:20,595 --> 00:49:23,955 Speaker 1: that restriction to include folks who have disappeared down the 643 00:49:24,035 --> 00:49:29,035 Speaker 1: rabbit hole, like Senator Mike Lee of Utah. His non 644 00:49:29,115 --> 00:49:34,675 Speaker 1: senatorial count is named based Mike Lee, which is the 645 00:49:34,675 --> 00:49:36,795 Speaker 1: first sign that somebody needs to shake him until he 646 00:49:36,835 --> 00:49:41,515 Speaker 1: acknowledges that the world is actually out here, out here boy. 647 00:49:42,475 --> 00:49:47,875 Speaker 1: He posts conspiracies, he believes bots, he endorses fiction over fact. 648 00:49:48,275 --> 00:49:51,195 Speaker 1: He dips into QAnon every once in a while. Plus 649 00:49:51,995 --> 00:49:57,595 Speaker 1: when he's not sick, he's maga. But Mike Lee hit 650 00:49:57,675 --> 00:50:00,275 Speaker 1: a new high and low the other day, indicating he 651 00:50:00,315 --> 00:50:06,275 Speaker 1: has moved from paranoia to actual self owns defending the 652 00:50:06,315 --> 00:50:10,435 Speaker 1: masking of the Ice Gestapo to protect Trump's paramilitary from 653 00:50:10,555 --> 00:50:14,235 Speaker 1: identification and responsibility and prosecution for the next one of 654 00:50:14,275 --> 00:50:17,435 Speaker 1: us they shoot. Lee went over the edge of the 655 00:50:17,475 --> 00:50:22,555 Speaker 1: cliff we He posted video of the Mexican gangs raging 656 00:50:22,635 --> 00:50:27,395 Speaker 1: over the death of the drug kingpin, there by blowing 657 00:50:27,475 --> 00:50:30,395 Speaker 1: up an ordinary gas station. In that country, and then 658 00:50:30,435 --> 00:50:35,035 Speaker 1: Mike Lee added this economically worded, priceless self conviction quote 659 00:50:35,915 --> 00:50:42,475 Speaker 1: cartel hitmen wear masks, leftists aren't complaining. Then you see 660 00:50:42,475 --> 00:50:45,475 Speaker 1: the men in the masks produce machine guns and blow 661 00:50:45,555 --> 00:50:49,235 Speaker 1: up a gas station. And even the right wingers immediately 662 00:50:49,275 --> 00:50:53,275 Speaker 1: realized Mike Lee had just a compared ICE to the 663 00:50:53,355 --> 00:50:57,795 Speaker 1: members of the Mexican drug cartels and b suggested to 664 00:50:57,835 --> 00:51:02,235 Speaker 1: anybody who was just scrolling past his based Mike Lee 665 00:51:02,435 --> 00:51:05,955 Speaker 1: feed and who didn't read too carefully at the guys 666 00:51:06,155 --> 00:51:09,035 Speaker 1: in this video who is suddenly whipping out the long 667 00:51:09,115 --> 00:51:12,355 Speaker 1: guns and blowing up civilians at a very Midwestern looking 668 00:51:12,395 --> 00:51:19,595 Speaker 1: gas station, were in fact members of ICE. OOPS based 669 00:51:19,795 --> 00:51:27,875 Speaker 1: like Mike Lee, deleted it about seven hours later. Senator 670 00:51:27,995 --> 00:51:31,675 Speaker 1: based Mike, maybe we need to restrict access to social 671 00:51:31,715 --> 00:51:35,395 Speaker 1: media by the vulnerable, the challenge the young, the susceptible 672 00:51:35,435 --> 00:51:39,155 Speaker 1: to addiction, and the balding, moronic Republican senators from Utah 673 00:51:39,315 --> 00:52:05,075 Speaker 1: Lee Today's other worst person in the world. The night 674 00:52:05,115 --> 00:52:09,155 Speaker 1: of Wednesday, September twenty fourth, nineteen ninety seven, I was 675 00:52:09,195 --> 00:52:11,395 Speaker 1: told to show up at six thirty pm at the 676 00:52:11,395 --> 00:52:14,395 Speaker 1: apartment of Phil Griffin on Central Park West in Manhattan. 677 00:52:14,875 --> 00:52:17,995 Speaker 1: Dinner with Phil and his wife Corey, and Andy Lack 678 00:52:18,035 --> 00:52:22,155 Speaker 1: and his wife Betsy, and Jeff Zooker and Meryl Brown 679 00:52:22,835 --> 00:52:24,515 Speaker 1: was at seven pm, but I was supposed to be 680 00:52:24,515 --> 00:52:28,195 Speaker 1: there at six thirty. One week and ninety minutes later, 681 00:52:28,235 --> 00:52:31,795 Speaker 1: we were all launching my new newscast on MSNBC, and 682 00:52:31,835 --> 00:52:33,835 Speaker 1: it didn't get much newer than this. I had done 683 00:52:33,915 --> 00:52:38,955 Speaker 1: some newscasts in college as recently as eighteen years prior. 684 00:52:39,635 --> 00:52:42,155 Speaker 1: Twice in local news, I had been pressed into service 685 00:52:42,195 --> 00:52:45,795 Speaker 1: as a news field reporter, and once in LA when 686 00:52:45,835 --> 00:52:49,755 Speaker 1: our married newscaster anchor couple Jim Lampley and Bree Walker 687 00:52:49,795 --> 00:52:51,555 Speaker 1: were late coming back from dinner, I had to do 688 00:52:51,595 --> 00:52:55,035 Speaker 1: the live teas for Channel two Action News at eleven, 689 00:52:55,115 --> 00:52:56,715 Speaker 1: right in the middle of the airing of the show 690 00:52:56,915 --> 00:53:00,395 Speaker 1: Falcon Crest on CBS, and I started it by saying, Hi, 691 00:53:00,835 --> 00:53:03,115 Speaker 1: Jim and Bree can't come to the TV right now, 692 00:53:03,315 --> 00:53:06,035 Speaker 1: Here's what they'll have for you at elete. But I 693 00:53:06,075 --> 00:53:08,715 Speaker 1: had not done more than fifteen minutes of news in 694 00:53:08,755 --> 00:53:12,915 Speaker 1: a row in my life. One week later, I would 695 00:53:12,915 --> 00:53:16,195 Speaker 1: become the lynchpin in the lineup on MSNBC, which itself 696 00:53:16,195 --> 00:53:18,435 Speaker 1: had only been doing News for a year and nine weeks. 697 00:53:19,035 --> 00:53:22,595 Speaker 1: So when Andy Lack, the president of NBC News and Zooker, 698 00:53:22,715 --> 00:53:25,795 Speaker 1: then the executive producer of The Today Show and unofficial 699 00:53:25,875 --> 00:53:30,115 Speaker 1: chief executive of MSNBC, and Griffin, executive producer of my 700 00:53:30,195 --> 00:53:33,355 Speaker 1: new newscast called The Big Show, said show up at 701 00:53:33,355 --> 00:53:36,155 Speaker 1: six thirty, Elderman, I just assumed we were going to 702 00:53:36,195 --> 00:53:38,515 Speaker 1: have some final discussion of what we should be doing 703 00:53:38,595 --> 00:53:41,635 Speaker 1: during the series, or at least during the first show, 704 00:53:42,355 --> 00:53:44,515 Speaker 1: or at least during the first segment, because we were 705 00:53:44,555 --> 00:53:46,475 Speaker 1: a week out and I really didn't have any clues 706 00:53:46,515 --> 00:53:48,995 Speaker 1: to what they expected the show to look like or 707 00:53:48,995 --> 00:53:52,195 Speaker 1: what they expected me to say. I kept mentioning that 708 00:53:52,235 --> 00:53:56,275 Speaker 1: I was fascinated by something called the Mandelbrot set, which is, 709 00:53:57,035 --> 00:54:01,915 Speaker 1: in real layman's essence, a mathematical formula which, if you 710 00:54:01,995 --> 00:54:04,355 Speaker 1: keep running it long enough in a computer, eventually turns 711 00:54:04,355 --> 00:54:07,435 Speaker 1: into the shapes of all the leaves and the tales 712 00:54:07,475 --> 00:54:11,595 Speaker 1: of sea lions and everything else from nature. When I 713 00:54:11,715 --> 00:54:14,555 Speaker 1: mentioned the Mandelbrot set to one of the show producers, 714 00:54:14,595 --> 00:54:20,035 Speaker 1: he nodded enthusiastically and smilingly, and then said, in evident seriousness, great, 715 00:54:20,395 --> 00:54:22,795 Speaker 1: we can do that. After we do the first half 716 00:54:22,835 --> 00:54:26,795 Speaker 1: an hour. I'm the murder of Jean Bena Ramsay. I 717 00:54:26,835 --> 00:54:29,675 Speaker 1: had just moved into my new apartment ten blocks south 718 00:54:29,715 --> 00:54:33,875 Speaker 1: of Griffin's. I had left ESPN a perfectly successful time 719 00:54:33,915 --> 00:54:36,395 Speaker 1: for me in a nice enough but very remote place 720 00:54:36,475 --> 00:54:40,195 Speaker 1: called Bristol, Connecticut, which didn't really have sidewalks, and so 721 00:54:40,315 --> 00:54:43,315 Speaker 1: I walked up town with a mixture pride, excitement and 722 00:54:43,395 --> 00:54:47,875 Speaker 1: apprehension and on sidewalks by the time I was within 723 00:54:47,955 --> 00:54:50,035 Speaker 1: five blocks. I was hoping I'd be able to talk 724 00:54:50,075 --> 00:54:52,715 Speaker 1: them into one show a week where we talked about 725 00:54:52,755 --> 00:54:56,515 Speaker 1: stuff like the Mandelbrot set. I arrived right on time, 726 00:54:56,635 --> 00:54:59,155 Speaker 1: got great handshakes from Griffin and Lack and Zucker, and 727 00:54:59,155 --> 00:55:01,715 Speaker 1: a kiss from Griffin's wife, who I knew, and then 728 00:55:01,755 --> 00:55:04,475 Speaker 1: the two ladies excused themselves to go out under the balcony, 729 00:55:05,035 --> 00:55:07,235 Speaker 1: and I noticed it was just those three guys and me. 730 00:55:08,235 --> 00:55:11,355 Speaker 1: The seventh person at this dinner, this Meryl Brown, who 731 00:55:11,435 --> 00:55:14,755 Speaker 1: I did not know, was not there, and I soon 732 00:55:14,835 --> 00:55:18,315 Speaker 1: found out why. When the women were out of the room, 733 00:55:18,395 --> 00:55:21,275 Speaker 1: News President Lack barked first, So you're here early so 734 00:55:21,315 --> 00:55:25,035 Speaker 1: we can talk about this Meryl Brown. Guy Zucker looked 735 00:55:25,035 --> 00:55:29,355 Speaker 1: away from me. He muttered, freaking Meryl Brown. Griffin said, 736 00:55:29,515 --> 00:55:32,795 Speaker 1: we need to tell you about Meryl Brown. Buddy Lac 737 00:55:32,915 --> 00:55:36,115 Speaker 1: began to pace up and down Griffin's living room. He 738 00:55:36,195 --> 00:55:38,995 Speaker 1: had unruly, thinning hair, and he kept running his hands 739 00:55:38,995 --> 00:55:40,355 Speaker 1: through it, like he was checking to see if it 740 00:55:40,395 --> 00:55:44,675 Speaker 1: was still there. This goddamn Meryl Brown. Lack suddenly stopped 741 00:55:44,715 --> 00:55:47,715 Speaker 1: and began to look angrily at me. Meryll Brown, you're 742 00:55:47,755 --> 00:55:49,635 Speaker 1: here so we can make sure you never listened to 743 00:55:49,755 --> 00:55:54,755 Speaker 1: Meryl Brown. Three thoughts rocketed through my mind. One, this 744 00:55:54,835 --> 00:55:57,795 Speaker 1: felt like a scene from a bad movie, like something 745 00:55:57,835 --> 00:56:02,795 Speaker 1: they cut out of The Fugitive or maybe Wall Street. Two, 746 00:56:02,995 --> 00:56:09,395 Speaker 1: these guys in ascending Griffin Zucker Lack seemed to be crazy. 747 00:56:10,275 --> 00:56:13,435 Speaker 1: And three, if only we were rolling tape on this, 748 00:56:13,435 --> 00:56:15,315 Speaker 1: it would make a great segment for the first show, 749 00:56:15,875 --> 00:56:21,155 Speaker 1: and then we'd talk about the Mandelbrot set. Zucker apologized, Look, 750 00:56:21,195 --> 00:56:23,115 Speaker 1: we already had part of this meeting at thirty Rocks, 751 00:56:23,115 --> 00:56:25,115 Speaker 1: so we're pretty worked up about this. There's nothing for 752 00:56:25,155 --> 00:56:27,555 Speaker 1: you to worry about here. You didn't do anything wrong. 753 00:56:27,715 --> 00:56:29,675 Speaker 1: You probably don't have any idea who Meryl Brown is. 754 00:56:30,835 --> 00:56:33,715 Speaker 1: I joked to my three bosses that I was beginning 755 00:56:33,755 --> 00:56:36,475 Speaker 1: to think Meryll Brown was just a renamed version of 756 00:56:36,515 --> 00:56:40,955 Speaker 1: Goldstein from George Orwell's nineteen eighty four. To my horror, 757 00:56:41,595 --> 00:56:46,315 Speaker 1: nobody laughed and nobody corrected me. Lack resumed a little 758 00:56:46,315 --> 00:56:48,955 Speaker 1: calmer this time. Meryl Brown used to write for the 759 00:56:49,035 --> 00:56:53,235 Speaker 1: Washington Post, and somehow he helped start Court TV, and 760 00:56:53,275 --> 00:56:57,915 Speaker 1: now he's the TV guy at Microsoft, and Microsoft thinks 761 00:56:58,075 --> 00:57:02,675 Speaker 1: they own MSNBC, and Meryl Brown, freaking Meryl Brown thinks 762 00:57:02,675 --> 00:57:05,475 Speaker 1: he runs MSNBC. He doesn't run ms NBC. Goddamn it, 763 00:57:05,515 --> 00:57:10,315 Speaker 1: I run MSNBC. And there was a brief, dangerous silence. 764 00:57:11,155 --> 00:57:14,195 Speaker 1: Then Lack amended his remark, well, I run it with 765 00:57:14,315 --> 00:57:17,955 Speaker 1: Jeff and Phil. Phil Griffin spoke up. Now I had 766 00:57:17,955 --> 00:57:20,075 Speaker 1: known him sixteen years. He had been my producer on 767 00:57:20,155 --> 00:57:23,195 Speaker 1: literally my first day in television, and now coincidence would 768 00:57:23,195 --> 00:57:26,195 Speaker 1: make him my producer on literally my first day in television. News. 769 00:57:26,875 --> 00:57:29,475 Speaker 1: We're just a little worn out by Meryl Buddy. He 770 00:57:29,555 --> 00:57:32,835 Speaker 1: sends all of his emails and messages every day. Lack 771 00:57:32,955 --> 00:57:35,635 Speaker 1: now interrupted Griffin all day. He sends them all day 772 00:57:35,795 --> 00:57:38,315 Speaker 1: like he invented computers. He can't do anything out there 773 00:57:38,355 --> 00:57:41,715 Speaker 1: in Redmond freaking Washington. Except watch MSNBC and tell us 774 00:57:41,755 --> 00:57:43,715 Speaker 1: how I have to change it. Like I wasn't the 775 00:57:43,715 --> 00:57:46,075 Speaker 1: man who saved NBC News, and he wasn't working in 776 00:57:46,115 --> 00:57:51,635 Speaker 1: Redmond freaking Washington. This was the first I had learned 777 00:57:52,355 --> 00:57:56,555 Speaker 1: of the contempt in which the NBC people held the 778 00:57:56,595 --> 00:58:01,395 Speaker 1: Microsoft people. I would hear of it again every hour 779 00:58:01,515 --> 00:58:04,435 Speaker 1: or so for the next year. It was symbolized by 780 00:58:04,475 --> 00:58:07,555 Speaker 1: their their blind hatred of the otherwise pleasant town that 781 00:58:07,675 --> 00:58:12,475 Speaker 1: was home to the Microsoft operation, Redmond, Washington. The two 782 00:58:12,515 --> 00:58:16,955 Speaker 1: companies had quote partnered unquote to create MSNBC, this first 783 00:58:17,795 --> 00:58:21,795 Speaker 1: synergy between a major television company and the earliest giant 784 00:58:21,875 --> 00:58:24,035 Speaker 1: of computers and the Internet. That's why it was called 785 00:58:24,635 --> 00:58:29,275 Speaker 1: ms NBC MS for Microsoft NBC for NBC. They were 786 00:58:29,315 --> 00:58:33,635 Speaker 1: a team. No, they weren't. Lack was still fired up, 787 00:58:33,835 --> 00:58:36,755 Speaker 1: Christ Almighty. We only brought these Microsoft idiots in on 788 00:58:36,795 --> 00:58:39,355 Speaker 1: this deal for their money. They don't have editorial input. 789 00:58:39,515 --> 00:58:41,315 Speaker 1: They're here to put in the money and they're wiring. 790 00:58:41,635 --> 00:58:45,515 Speaker 1: That's it. Zucker took over. Here's why we wanted to 791 00:58:45,555 --> 00:58:47,355 Speaker 1: talk to you in advance of Meryl Brown getting here. 792 00:58:47,395 --> 00:58:49,275 Speaker 1: He's asked to sit next to you during dinner. He 793 00:58:49,315 --> 00:58:53,195 Speaker 1: wants to share his vision for the big show. What 794 00:58:53,235 --> 00:58:58,515 Speaker 1: we want you to do is listen carefully to him, nod, laugh, agree, 795 00:58:58,795 --> 00:59:02,435 Speaker 1: say that's very interesting, but don't say what you might 796 00:59:02,555 --> 00:59:04,795 Speaker 1: think would be good to say, like Andy w what 797 00:59:04,835 --> 00:59:08,915 Speaker 1: do you think of this? Andy interrupted again, because oh goddamn, 798 00:59:08,955 --> 00:59:10,915 Speaker 1: tell you what I think of it. It's crap, crap 799 00:59:10,955 --> 00:59:13,995 Speaker 1: from Redmond, Washington, crap from guys who are only supposed 800 00:59:14,035 --> 00:59:16,275 Speaker 1: to give us money and computer terminals. That's it. Don't 801 00:59:16,275 --> 00:59:19,155 Speaker 1: tell me what. We have to synergize cable television and 802 00:59:19,235 --> 00:59:21,595 Speaker 1: the internet with whatever the hell of the internet is. 803 00:59:21,995 --> 00:59:24,755 Speaker 1: This network is so we can train talent and admortize 804 00:59:24,795 --> 00:59:27,595 Speaker 1: expenses and give Brian Williams some place to anchor until 805 00:59:27,635 --> 00:59:32,715 Speaker 1: brocaw leaves. And another thing. Phil Griffin's Central Park West 806 00:59:32,755 --> 00:59:36,955 Speaker 1: apartment building intercom buzzers suddenly went off. His wife raced 807 00:59:36,995 --> 00:59:39,435 Speaker 1: out of wherever she and missus Lack had been hiding 808 00:59:39,795 --> 00:59:42,155 Speaker 1: and where I hope they were secretly recording all this, 809 00:59:42,755 --> 00:59:45,115 Speaker 1: and she answered the call from the building's lobby desk 810 00:59:45,195 --> 00:59:48,035 Speaker 1: with a series of U huzz She looked at her 811 00:59:48,115 --> 00:59:51,155 Speaker 1: husband and said, with some fear, Meryl Brown is on 812 00:59:51,195 --> 00:59:54,835 Speaker 1: the way up. Goddamn it, shouted Black. He pointed again 813 00:59:54,875 --> 00:59:56,795 Speaker 1: at me, Okay, not a word of what you've been told. 814 00:59:56,835 --> 00:59:59,915 Speaker 1: Just humorum humor, humorum, humorum, and don't ask me or 815 00:59:59,995 --> 01:00:02,195 Speaker 1: Zucker or Phil what we think because there could be 816 01:00:02,235 --> 01:00:10,675 Speaker 1: bloodshed here. Catered was spectacular. Meryl Brown was charming, well informed. 817 01:00:10,955 --> 01:00:15,355 Speaker 1: He had ideas about the word synergy between TV and 818 01:00:15,395 --> 01:00:18,995 Speaker 1: the Internet, about eventually getting viewers to watch TV via 819 01:00:19,395 --> 01:00:22,915 Speaker 1: their computers, especially when the computers would one day be 820 01:00:23,835 --> 01:00:29,075 Speaker 1: handheld seriously and maybe even interacting with the shows as 821 01:00:29,115 --> 01:00:32,915 Speaker 1: they were being televised, or watching them whenever the viewer 822 01:00:33,035 --> 01:00:38,275 Speaker 1: wanted some sort of delay system. It was interesting and 823 01:00:38,315 --> 01:00:40,515 Speaker 1: forward looking. And to make sure I could not see 824 01:00:40,515 --> 01:00:43,435 Speaker 1: the anger barely being suppressed by Lack and to lesser 825 01:00:43,435 --> 01:00:46,155 Speaker 1: degrees by Griffin and Zucker, I took my glasses off 826 01:00:46,275 --> 01:00:49,315 Speaker 1: mid meal. Finally, Meryl Brown said he had to go. 827 01:00:49,475 --> 01:00:51,155 Speaker 1: He knew the rest of us needed to talk over 828 01:00:51,195 --> 01:00:53,755 Speaker 1: some details about the launch of my show. He wished 829 01:00:53,795 --> 01:00:59,235 Speaker 1: me luck. Silently, I wished him luck. Lack and Griffin 830 01:00:59,315 --> 01:01:01,835 Speaker 1: showed him to the door and actually waited there until 831 01:01:01,835 --> 01:01:04,155 Speaker 1: Meryl Brown made it down the hallway and into the 832 01:01:04,195 --> 01:01:08,195 Speaker 1: elevator before he even closed the apartment door. Lack shouted, 833 01:01:08,195 --> 01:01:10,875 Speaker 1: and that's another thing. We have all the goddamn synergy 834 01:01:10,915 --> 01:01:14,555 Speaker 1: between TV and the Internet already. Tell him, Phil, tell him. 835 01:01:15,275 --> 01:01:19,075 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin looked at me sheepishly. Zucker took over for him. 836 01:01:19,635 --> 01:01:22,035 Speaker 1: We figured out how to mesh between cable TV and 837 01:01:22,075 --> 01:01:23,835 Speaker 1: the internet. Phil figured it out that the name of 838 01:01:23,875 --> 01:01:25,875 Speaker 1: the show that will be your lead in this is 839 01:01:25,915 --> 01:01:28,995 Speaker 1: the kind of synergy we want. Tell him, Phil, tell 840 01:01:29,035 --> 01:01:30,915 Speaker 1: him the name of the show and how it combines 841 01:01:30,955 --> 01:01:35,035 Speaker 1: the Internet and nighttime TV. Phil looked slightly past me. 842 01:01:35,515 --> 01:01:40,835 Speaker 1: It's uh, it's it's called it's called internight, he paused. 843 01:01:41,515 --> 01:01:46,795 Speaker 1: It's it's called internight. See it's it's it's Internet plus 844 01:01:47,475 --> 01:01:55,715 Speaker 1: you know night internight. Got it, buddy. At that exact moment, 845 01:01:56,635 --> 01:02:00,955 Speaker 1: I knew that on MSNBC we would never not once, 846 01:02:01,755 --> 01:02:05,675 Speaker 1: not even in passing, make the slightest reference to the 847 01:02:05,715 --> 01:02:22,435 Speaker 1: Mandelbrot set. And yes, that is the same Andy Lack 848 01:02:22,635 --> 01:02:25,955 Speaker 1: who I invoked last week, who posted about the day 849 01:02:26,075 --> 01:02:30,595 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos collared him when Lack was still running NBC 850 01:02:30,675 --> 01:02:33,155 Speaker 1: News the second time, running it into the ground the 851 01:02:33,195 --> 01:02:39,115 Speaker 1: second time, Bezos yelling at Lack for not standing up 852 01:02:39,155 --> 01:02:41,915 Speaker 1: to Trump in twenty eighteen, and Lack now posting last 853 01:02:41,915 --> 01:02:44,755 Speaker 1: week that he doesn't understand why Bezos did this rather 854 01:02:44,835 --> 01:02:48,795 Speaker 1: than just sell the Washington Post, because Andy Lack super genius, 855 01:02:49,075 --> 01:02:53,155 Speaker 1: doesn't understand that Bezos is doing this deliberately to destroy 856 01:02:53,195 --> 01:02:56,275 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, the same way the Ellisons and Barry 857 01:02:56,275 --> 01:02:59,515 Speaker 1: Weiss and everybody running CBS are doing this to destroy 858 01:02:59,675 --> 01:03:05,955 Speaker 1: CBS News because this pleases the furor, and it's being 859 01:03:06,075 --> 01:03:10,355 Speaker 1: done deliberately, not even you could screw it up accidentally 860 01:03:10,395 --> 01:03:15,635 Speaker 1: this badly. I've done all the damage I can do here. 861 01:03:15,675 --> 01:03:18,275 Speaker 1: By the way, I worked for his brother, John Lack too, 862 01:03:18,315 --> 01:03:22,715 Speaker 1: at ESPN two. He was not only the opposite of Andy, 863 01:03:22,795 --> 01:03:24,995 Speaker 1: he was a nice guy who actually knew what he 864 01:03:25,035 --> 01:03:27,155 Speaker 1: was doing and had the presence of mind to get 865 01:03:27,195 --> 01:03:30,235 Speaker 1: the hell out of ESPN two. Unlike the third day 866 01:03:30,275 --> 01:03:32,115 Speaker 1: we were on the air, It's like, where's John Lack. 867 01:03:32,115 --> 01:03:35,595 Speaker 1: He'll be able to solve this. He resigned. He's in 868 01:03:35,595 --> 01:03:40,635 Speaker 1: Bermuda while we're all here in Bristol. I like this guy, 869 01:03:41,595 --> 01:03:43,315 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 870 01:03:43,355 --> 01:03:47,475 Speaker 1: for listening. Our musical directors have countdown are not Lack Brothers. 871 01:03:47,875 --> 01:03:51,435 Speaker 1: They are John Phillip Schaneil on keyboards, handling orchestration as 872 01:03:51,475 --> 01:03:55,115 Speaker 1: well Brian Ray on guitars, bass, drums, and of course 873 01:03:55,315 --> 01:03:59,715 Speaker 1: the vibes, and their work is produced by TKO Brothers. 874 01:04:00,235 --> 01:04:03,515 Speaker 1: Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever, is responsible 875 01:04:03,515 --> 01:04:06,755 Speaker 1: for the satirical and pithy musical comments when we play 876 01:04:06,755 --> 01:04:10,915 Speaker 1: sports music. It is the Old Olderman Show theme from 877 01:04:11,195 --> 01:04:14,635 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 878 01:04:15,235 --> 01:04:18,315 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 879 01:04:18,955 --> 01:04:23,555 Speaker 1: My announcer today is my wait friend Howard Feyneman, because 880 01:04:23,555 --> 01:04:27,195 Speaker 1: I just needed to hear his voice. This program was 881 01:04:27,235 --> 01:04:32,115 Speaker 1: produced by Ted. Everything else was, as always my fault. 882 01:04:32,875 --> 01:04:35,155 Speaker 1: So let's countdown for today, Day four hundred and three 883 01:04:35,155 --> 01:04:38,995 Speaker 1: of America held hostage again just Oney sixty days until 884 01:04:38,995 --> 01:04:41,715 Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term, 885 01:04:42,275 --> 01:04:47,395 Speaker 1: unless he is removed sooner by I don't know, gets 886 01:04:47,475 --> 01:04:51,115 Speaker 1: hit with an Olympic gold medal or something I don't know, 887 01:04:51,275 --> 01:04:55,075 Speaker 1: or by our friends at the Supreme Court. One other 888 01:04:55,155 --> 01:04:58,875 Speaker 1: note about Howard Feinneman. He joined us on that MSNBC 889 01:04:59,075 --> 01:05:02,515 Speaker 1: show that I just referenced January of nineteen ninety eight 890 01:05:03,355 --> 01:05:06,235 Speaker 1: conversation he and I once had about Andy Lack I 891 01:05:06,435 --> 01:05:10,795 Speaker 1: literally cannot repeat. The next scheduled countdown is Monday Bulletins 892 01:05:10,875 --> 01:05:14,275 Speaker 1: is the news merits until the next one. I'm Keith Lramman. 893 01:05:14,355 --> 01:05:38,555 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 894 01:05:38,595 --> 01:05:42,355 Speaker 1: with Keith Ulreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 895 01:05:42,435 --> 01:05:47,395 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 896 01:05:47,435 --> 01:05:49,275 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.