1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:26,235 --> 00:00:31,595 Speaker 1: Let's call him Deep Storage. Somebody snitched on Trump and 3 00:00:31,635 --> 00:00:34,515 Speaker 1: told the FBI that after the remaining documents were subpoena 4 00:00:34,515 --> 00:00:38,035 Speaker 1: at last spring, Trump instructed him, among others, to move 5 00:00:38,155 --> 00:00:41,155 Speaker 1: the document boxes out of storage at mari Lago and 6 00:00:41,235 --> 00:00:44,555 Speaker 1: into Trump's residents and their security video of the boxes 7 00:00:44,675 --> 00:00:47,035 Speaker 1: being moved, and this has been equated to finding Trump's 8 00:00:47,035 --> 00:00:49,715 Speaker 1: fingerprints on the boxes, and the order to move them 9 00:00:49,755 --> 00:00:52,475 Speaker 1: as obstruction of justice, and the presumed order not to 10 00:00:52,555 --> 00:00:55,195 Speaker 1: tell anybody they were moved as another count of obstruction 11 00:00:55,235 --> 00:00:57,635 Speaker 1: of justice. And it's all on video, and there's a 12 00:00:57,675 --> 00:01:04,275 Speaker 1: snitch called deep Storage. And why does this sounds so familiar? 13 00:01:05,115 --> 00:01:11,075 Speaker 1: Because two days after the search of Marilago, on Wednesday, 14 00:01:11,115 --> 00:01:15,435 Speaker 1: August tenth, a story broke. It was a huge story 15 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:18,915 Speaker 1: for about a day, and then it got buried, as 16 00:01:19,035 --> 00:01:23,675 Speaker 1: huge Trump stories always get buried by the next one 17 00:01:23,715 --> 00:01:26,835 Speaker 1: and the one after that, and soon completely understandably, we 18 00:01:26,835 --> 00:01:30,235 Speaker 1: were sweating not about Deep Storage, but about the nuclear 19 00:01:30,355 --> 00:01:33,155 Speaker 1: documents Trump had stolen. And then we were sweating because 20 00:01:33,155 --> 00:01:36,715 Speaker 1: the nuclear documents were about another country's nuclear capability, and 21 00:01:36,755 --> 00:01:40,115 Speaker 1: the August tenth jaw dropper was not so jaw dropping 22 00:01:40,155 --> 00:01:44,835 Speaker 1: after all. But now we have circled back and the 23 00:01:45,035 --> 00:01:50,075 Speaker 1: jaws are freshly dropped. The story of the source, let's 24 00:01:50,075 --> 00:01:55,075 Speaker 1: call him Deep Storage, the FBI informant inside Marilago, and 25 00:01:55,155 --> 00:02:00,195 Speaker 1: the security video that confirmed him, is not new. One 26 00:02:00,235 --> 00:02:04,115 Speaker 1: detail only is new, what he told them and what 27 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:09,075 Speaker 1: the video e O shows the boxes being moved. So 28 00:02:09,315 --> 00:02:13,995 Speaker 1: let's return to that original story. This is how Countdown 29 00:02:14,075 --> 00:02:25,195 Speaker 1: started on Thursday, August eleventh. Lordy there are tapes, and lordy, lordy, 30 00:02:25,755 --> 00:02:30,315 Speaker 1: there is an informant. Of course, Trump is silent. He 31 00:02:30,355 --> 00:02:32,915 Speaker 1: doesn't know what to do next, and given his paranoia 32 00:02:32,955 --> 00:02:35,515 Speaker 1: and his psychosis, he doesn't know how to stop thinking 33 00:02:35,755 --> 00:02:40,275 Speaker 1: about who has sold him out. Amid the continuing right 34 00:02:40,315 --> 00:02:43,595 Speaker 1: wing rage, the collective karen ing, the don't you know 35 00:02:43,635 --> 00:02:46,635 Speaker 1: who we are? Trump is now in at least his 36 00:02:46,755 --> 00:02:51,475 Speaker 1: second month wondering what the FBI has not in those boxes, 37 00:02:51,715 --> 00:02:55,915 Speaker 1: but on the mari Lagos surveillance video they subpoenaed and collected. 38 00:02:56,115 --> 00:02:58,275 Speaker 1: And more importantly, Trump is now in at least his 39 00:02:58,315 --> 00:03:02,955 Speaker 1: second day wondering who the FBI has in his family, 40 00:03:03,115 --> 00:03:05,515 Speaker 1: or in his staff, or in his companies were in 41 00:03:05,635 --> 00:03:09,635 Speaker 1: his trusted management at his Florida compound. Late last night, 42 00:03:09,755 --> 00:03:13,555 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone quoted two sources close to Trump is saying, quote, 43 00:03:13,795 --> 00:03:16,515 Speaker 1: he has asked me and others do you think our 44 00:03:16,675 --> 00:03:20,235 Speaker 1: phones are tapped? And has wondered aloud if there were 45 00:03:20,275 --> 00:03:24,995 Speaker 1: any Republicans visiting his clubs who could be quote wearing 46 00:03:25,275 --> 00:03:30,155 Speaker 1: a wire. This all started with Axios writing vaguely that 47 00:03:30,235 --> 00:03:33,675 Speaker 1: paranoia was rising at Marilago, and on Fifth Avenue quoting 48 00:03:33,715 --> 00:03:36,955 Speaker 1: them trump World is a buzz with speculation about which 49 00:03:37,035 --> 00:03:41,635 Speaker 1: close AID or AIDS has flipped and provided additional sensitive 50 00:03:41,635 --> 00:03:44,755 Speaker 1: information to the FBI about what former President Trump was 51 00:03:44,835 --> 00:03:48,715 Speaker 1: keeping at Marilago. Sources tell Axios the keyword in there 52 00:03:48,955 --> 00:03:54,275 Speaker 1: is flipped. Newsweek now is sometimes bizarrely far right shell 53 00:03:54,315 --> 00:03:56,995 Speaker 1: of its former great self, got to it first in 54 00:03:57,035 --> 00:03:59,955 Speaker 1: a piece by William Arkin, who was a trusted figure 55 00:03:59,955 --> 00:04:03,475 Speaker 1: at NBC News until three years ago. Newsweek reporting that 56 00:04:03,515 --> 00:04:06,675 Speaker 1: the FBI execution of its search warrant for mari Lago 57 00:04:06,835 --> 00:04:12,035 Speaker 1: was quote based largely on information from an FBI confidential 58 00:04:12,115 --> 00:04:16,555 Speaker 1: human source, one who was able to identify what classified 59 00:04:16,635 --> 00:04:20,555 Speaker 1: documents Trump was still hiding and even the location of 60 00:04:20,555 --> 00:04:24,475 Speaker 1: those documents, two senior government officials told Newsweek, and the 61 00:04:24,555 --> 00:04:28,995 Speaker 1: keyword in there is hiding. Finally, the Wall Street Journal 62 00:04:29,035 --> 00:04:32,955 Speaker 1: wrapped it up, quoting someone familiar with the stored papers 63 00:04:32,995 --> 00:04:36,875 Speaker 1: told investigators there may be still more classified documents at 64 00:04:36,915 --> 00:04:40,715 Speaker 1: the private club after the National Archives retrieved fifteen boxes 65 00:04:40,755 --> 00:04:44,435 Speaker 1: earlier in the year, Justice Department officials had doubts that 66 00:04:44,555 --> 00:04:48,275 Speaker 1: the Trump team was being truthful regarding what material remained 67 00:04:48,315 --> 00:04:52,435 Speaker 1: at the property, and the keyword in their keywords doubts 68 00:04:52,915 --> 00:04:58,275 Speaker 1: that the Trump team was being truthful. Donald Trump has 69 00:04:58,355 --> 00:05:02,995 Speaker 1: his own deep throat. Put all of these stories together, 70 00:05:03,115 --> 00:05:06,995 Speaker 1: and they are l Douche's biggest nightmare. Somebody close to him, 71 00:05:07,155 --> 00:05:10,235 Speaker 1: somebody who knows where the bodies and the stolen documents 72 00:05:10,275 --> 00:05:14,995 Speaker 1: are buried. Is an FBI informant, a mole, a rat, 73 00:05:15,355 --> 00:05:19,675 Speaker 1: a snitch who flipped. You want to know, I want 74 00:05:19,675 --> 00:05:21,795 Speaker 1: to know. Imagine how much he wants to know? Is 75 00:05:21,795 --> 00:05:25,035 Speaker 1: it Jared Kushner. Even though for every minute of kushner 76 00:05:25,155 --> 00:05:28,355 Speaker 1: six years in the public eye, he has projected guilt 77 00:05:28,595 --> 00:05:31,355 Speaker 1: and he has looked like the slightly weird guy in 78 00:05:31,435 --> 00:05:34,595 Speaker 1: every horror movie who turns out to be accountable, he 79 00:05:34,675 --> 00:05:37,475 Speaker 1: has apparently distanced himself from his father in law in 80 00:05:37,515 --> 00:05:40,555 Speaker 1: the last year, and is doubtful as a suspect. I 81 00:05:40,555 --> 00:05:43,715 Speaker 1: don't think it's Kelly an Conway, though she was the 82 00:05:43,755 --> 00:05:49,435 Speaker 1: primary league for most major newspapers and news networks, especially NBC, which, 83 00:05:49,435 --> 00:05:51,435 Speaker 1: if you had not figured it out, is why they 84 00:05:51,515 --> 00:05:54,995 Speaker 1: kept giving her platforms to bleat her pro Trump stuff, 85 00:05:55,235 --> 00:05:58,515 Speaker 1: because it helped tamp down any suspicions that she was 86 00:05:58,595 --> 00:06:02,795 Speaker 1: anybody's source. We could keep up the guessing game for hours. 87 00:06:03,155 --> 00:06:05,835 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone quoted one of its sources is saying, I'm 88 00:06:05,875 --> 00:06:08,395 Speaker 1: getting a lot of messages saying this guy must be 89 00:06:08,475 --> 00:06:11,555 Speaker 1: the informant, and others calling for Trump to start doing 90 00:06:11,595 --> 00:06:15,355 Speaker 1: phone checks on his staff. And Trump is never short 91 00:06:15,475 --> 00:06:17,795 Speaker 1: of staff. It could be some low level manager at 92 00:06:17,795 --> 00:06:20,875 Speaker 1: Mari Lago, somebody whose name we don't know, somebody whose 93 00:06:20,875 --> 00:06:23,875 Speaker 1: cloak and dagger work for the FEDS began and ended 94 00:06:23,915 --> 00:06:26,755 Speaker 1: with the tip that there were more stolen documents where 95 00:06:26,755 --> 00:06:30,315 Speaker 1: those came from. Regardless, you can be certain that Trump 96 00:06:30,355 --> 00:06:33,355 Speaker 1: has gone over every name of everybody he can think of, 97 00:06:33,595 --> 00:06:36,115 Speaker 1: and has probably decided he has figured it out at 98 00:06:36,195 --> 00:06:39,035 Speaker 1: least a dozen separate times, with a dozen separate names. 99 00:06:39,555 --> 00:06:42,955 Speaker 1: The only human emotions Trump seems to have understood in 100 00:06:42,995 --> 00:06:48,035 Speaker 1: his life are greed, fear, and what he considers loyalty, 101 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:50,515 Speaker 1: which is actually just the self interest of others that 102 00:06:50,835 --> 00:06:54,395 Speaker 1: merely happens to coincide with what he wants. The absence 103 00:06:54,435 --> 00:06:58,475 Speaker 1: of quote loyalty unquote, really the absence of servitude must 104 00:06:58,475 --> 00:07:03,435 Speaker 1: be eating him alive. And then there is this Marilago 105 00:07:03,715 --> 00:07:07,275 Speaker 1: surveillance video. We don't know if the FBI went and 106 00:07:07,315 --> 00:07:10,755 Speaker 1: got a subpoena for that on its own, or because 107 00:07:10,835 --> 00:07:15,715 Speaker 1: the flipped snitch mole rat informant tipped them off about 108 00:07:15,795 --> 00:07:19,675 Speaker 1: that too, or most delightfully, if maybe there's more than 109 00:07:19,755 --> 00:07:22,675 Speaker 1: one flipped snitch mole rat informant and this one and 110 00:07:22,715 --> 00:07:26,955 Speaker 1: the boxes guy are different people. We also don't know 111 00:07:26,995 --> 00:07:30,075 Speaker 1: how much video the FBI has. The New York Times 112 00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:33,515 Speaker 1: had that element first, saying the Trump organization turned over 113 00:07:33,595 --> 00:07:38,355 Speaker 1: quote a copy of Marilago's surveillance tapes, which could be 114 00:07:38,395 --> 00:07:42,835 Speaker 1: anything or everything. I lived in a Trump building in 115 00:07:42,915 --> 00:07:46,355 Speaker 1: New York for many years, and they had twenty four 116 00:07:46,395 --> 00:07:50,755 Speaker 1: cameras just on the lobby alone. The Wall Street Journal 117 00:07:50,835 --> 00:07:54,795 Speaker 1: seems more narrow focused, reporting that the subpoena was received 118 00:07:54,875 --> 00:07:59,515 Speaker 1: on Janet June for quote, surveillance footage from cameras at 119 00:07:59,515 --> 00:08:02,835 Speaker 1: mari Lago and was turned over around then. That's six 120 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:06,355 Speaker 1: seven weeks ago, and two must be eating away at 121 00:08:06,355 --> 00:08:10,035 Speaker 1: Trump's makeup soaked brain. Who's on the tapes? What are 122 00:08:10,075 --> 00:08:12,475 Speaker 1: they doing on the tapes? Is the snitch on the tapes? 123 00:08:12,755 --> 00:08:17,435 Speaker 1: Is he Trump himself on the tapes? And overarching all this, 124 00:08:18,155 --> 00:08:23,035 Speaker 1: the Feds have a source near Trump, and news organizations 125 00:08:23,315 --> 00:08:27,475 Speaker 1: have a source almost certainly a different source in law 126 00:08:27,595 --> 00:08:33,075 Speaker 1: enforcement who has snitched on the snitch because Bill Arkin 127 00:08:33,475 --> 00:08:37,075 Speaker 1: had even more details in Newsweek that Attorney General Garland 128 00:08:37,155 --> 00:08:39,755 Speaker 1: knew of the grand jury looking into Trump violating the 129 00:08:39,795 --> 00:08:43,195 Speaker 1: Records Acts, but Garland did not know of the timing 130 00:08:43,275 --> 00:08:46,235 Speaker 1: of the FBI search and was not asked for his 131 00:08:46,315 --> 00:08:50,035 Speaker 1: approval of it. Arkin also quotes one of his own sources, 132 00:08:50,115 --> 00:08:53,835 Speaker 1: who he identifies as quote a senior Justice Department official 133 00:08:53,835 --> 00:08:56,635 Speaker 1: who is a thirty year veteran of the FBI, as 134 00:08:56,715 --> 00:09:00,235 Speaker 1: adding that the Bureau timed its search of Marilago to 135 00:09:00,315 --> 00:09:03,115 Speaker 1: be certain Trump would not be there, would not be 136 00:09:03,195 --> 00:09:05,155 Speaker 1: able to try to stop the search, and would not 137 00:09:05,195 --> 00:09:09,115 Speaker 1: be able to turn it into a public circus. This 138 00:09:09,275 --> 00:09:12,715 Speaker 1: whole secret mailstrom, which sounds like it could have fallen 139 00:09:12,755 --> 00:09:16,435 Speaker 1: out of a John Lacaraine novel or maybe Tom Clancy, 140 00:09:16,555 --> 00:09:20,875 Speaker 1: is of course a joy, and I really think it 141 00:09:20,915 --> 00:09:25,075 Speaker 1: has accomplished the impossible. It has shut Trump up, even 142 00:09:25,195 --> 00:09:27,635 Speaker 1: for only a couple of days when he would like 143 00:09:27,835 --> 00:09:31,235 Speaker 1: nothing better than to be paraded across America, lashed to 144 00:09:31,355 --> 00:09:35,675 Speaker 1: a phony cross and speaking for seventeen hours without a breath. 145 00:09:36,835 --> 00:09:38,715 Speaker 1: All of this, though, is not only shut up his 146 00:09:38,915 --> 00:09:42,235 Speaker 1: endless self pitying diarrhea, but it has kept him from 147 00:09:42,235 --> 00:09:45,435 Speaker 1: making the search warrant public. He has the perfect right 148 00:09:45,475 --> 00:09:48,275 Speaker 1: to make the search warrant public. He has the perfect 149 00:09:48,395 --> 00:09:51,035 Speaker 1: right to quote only the parts of the warrant that 150 00:09:51,235 --> 00:09:53,595 Speaker 1: spent it in his favor, and yet he has done 151 00:09:53,715 --> 00:09:57,435 Speaker 1: nothing like that. And last night his Florida Attorneys spokesmodel 152 00:09:57,515 --> 00:10:01,155 Speaker 1: Christina bob was asked, I assume you've seen the warrant, 153 00:10:01,155 --> 00:10:03,835 Speaker 1: will you make it public? And she answered, that's not 154 00:10:03,995 --> 00:10:08,915 Speaker 1: my call to make. I have seen the warrant. We 155 00:10:08,995 --> 00:10:12,555 Speaker 1: all know whose call it is to make. And he 156 00:10:12,635 --> 00:10:16,235 Speaker 1: can't say a word because he doesn't know who around 157 00:10:16,315 --> 00:10:25,955 Speaker 1: him is now informing on him. That was on August eleven. 158 00:10:26,755 --> 00:10:31,155 Speaker 1: The important questions now are one, did the FBI informant 159 00:10:31,155 --> 00:10:33,795 Speaker 1: tell them stuff that we don't even know about yet? 160 00:10:34,355 --> 00:10:38,635 Speaker 1: And two? Are there several informants or just one informant 161 00:10:38,915 --> 00:10:41,995 Speaker 1: about the boxes? About the video, About the possibility of 162 00:10:42,035 --> 00:10:45,515 Speaker 1: still unreturned documents, About the use of the word hiding 163 00:10:45,595 --> 00:10:50,715 Speaker 1: to describe the documents? Is Trump surrounded by informants? Those 164 00:10:50,995 --> 00:10:57,395 Speaker 1: are the important questions. The fun question is okay, who 165 00:10:57,555 --> 00:11:15,635 Speaker 1: is it? Who is deep storage? Deep Storage? Still ahead 166 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:18,555 Speaker 1: on countdown the Alex Jones verdict, He owes the Sandy 167 00:11:18,595 --> 00:11:22,435 Speaker 1: Hook family's nearly a billion short answer not enough. More 168 00:11:22,475 --> 00:11:25,275 Speaker 1: anti semitism out of Kanye West so bad they would 169 00:11:25,315 --> 00:11:29,115 Speaker 1: not even air the interview and herschel Walker lies again. 170 00:11:29,115 --> 00:11:31,595 Speaker 1: This time he claims his grandmother was a full blooded Cherokee, 171 00:11:31,715 --> 00:11:33,955 Speaker 1: so he's a Native American. I guess what, No, and 172 00:11:34,115 --> 00:11:38,475 Speaker 1: no worse person's Chris Matthews. All I have to say 173 00:11:38,515 --> 00:11:41,515 Speaker 1: more than that you need details. He criticized John Fetterman 174 00:11:41,555 --> 00:11:44,995 Speaker 1: for needing help hearing questions when he used to feign 175 00:11:45,475 --> 00:11:48,795 Speaker 1: hearing loss at MSNBC to explain why he was ignoring 176 00:11:48,795 --> 00:11:53,235 Speaker 1: the producers talking to him through his earpiece. Great flaming 177 00:11:53,435 --> 00:11:58,275 Speaker 1: fraud Chris Matthews and it's baseball playoff time. Imagine my surprise. 178 00:11:58,315 --> 00:12:01,155 Speaker 1: A baseball playoff game between the Yankees and Red Sox 179 00:12:01,155 --> 00:12:03,875 Speaker 1: had just started when the star of the Yankees, who 180 00:12:03,915 --> 00:12:06,915 Speaker 1: was due to back two batters later, comes down to 181 00:12:06,955 --> 00:12:09,075 Speaker 1: where I am covering the game from as the Yankee 182 00:12:09,155 --> 00:12:13,875 Speaker 1: dugout reporter from Fox. He introduces himself and he asks, Keith, 183 00:12:14,515 --> 00:12:17,995 Speaker 1: are you a Red Sox fan? Things I promised not 184 00:12:18,075 --> 00:12:24,515 Speaker 1: to tell coming up? That's next. This is deep storage countdown. 185 00:12:33,915 --> 00:12:42,915 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Overman still ahead on Countdown, 186 00:12:42,995 --> 00:12:47,075 Speaker 1: Kanye West goes hate speech again. Herschel walker lies again, 187 00:12:47,755 --> 00:12:50,555 Speaker 1: and what is this two thousand and eight again? Chris 188 00:12:50,595 --> 00:12:56,035 Speaker 1: Matthews makes a fool of himself on MSNBC again. First 189 00:12:56,075 --> 00:12:58,115 Speaker 1: in each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 190 00:12:58,195 --> 00:13:01,515 Speaker 1: need whom you can help. Every dog has its day, 191 00:13:01,555 --> 00:13:04,555 Speaker 1: this time back to the North Central Pound in Los Angeles. 192 00:13:04,835 --> 00:13:08,795 Speaker 1: They may kill thor at any minute for being aggressive 193 00:13:09,275 --> 00:13:11,875 Speaker 1: when they brought him into the shelter. That he has 194 00:13:11,915 --> 00:13:16,355 Speaker 1: not been aggressive since doesn't matter. This floppy eared Gray 195 00:13:16,635 --> 00:13:21,395 Speaker 1: is handsome, affectionate, friendly, gives kisses. Looks like a mudhound 196 00:13:22,395 --> 00:13:25,275 Speaker 1: needs pledges to defray a rescues costs to get him 197 00:13:25,315 --> 00:13:27,995 Speaker 1: out of there before they kill him. Thor will be 198 00:13:28,115 --> 00:13:30,955 Speaker 1: in the pinned tweet at my account for dogs in 199 00:13:31,115 --> 00:13:35,315 Speaker 1: Need on Twitter at tom Jumbo Grumbo. If you can't pledge, 200 00:13:35,395 --> 00:13:39,075 Speaker 1: just retweeting his story will help, and thank you very 201 00:13:39,155 --> 00:14:05,475 Speaker 1: much for doing so. Those scripts to the news, some headlines, 202 00:14:05,515 --> 00:14:08,635 Speaker 1: some inside, some snark. Day Fine, Waterbury, Connecticut. You have 203 00:14:08,715 --> 00:14:12,115 Speaker 1: heard that the jury in the Alex Jones case awarded 204 00:14:12,115 --> 00:14:14,835 Speaker 1: the Sandy Hook families and an FBI agent nearly a 205 00:14:14,875 --> 00:14:19,035 Speaker 1: billion dollars in damages. Not entirely correct. It's a nearly 206 00:14:19,075 --> 00:14:23,995 Speaker 1: a billion for reputational damage and emotional distress. The judge 207 00:14:24,075 --> 00:14:27,715 Speaker 1: will decide on additional punitive damages next month against Jones, 208 00:14:27,995 --> 00:14:30,395 Speaker 1: and as much as Alex Jones boasted in real time 209 00:14:30,395 --> 00:14:32,875 Speaker 1: that they'll never see his money because he's made his 210 00:14:32,915 --> 00:14:36,755 Speaker 1: companies go bankrupt. Some legal analysts note that these damage 211 00:14:36,755 --> 00:14:41,035 Speaker 1: awards are unlikely to be discharged in any personal bankruptcy 212 00:14:41,075 --> 00:14:44,075 Speaker 1: because they are the result of what is called intentional 213 00:14:44,235 --> 00:14:50,915 Speaker 1: tortous conduct. He screwed Amen Dateline, Los Angeles, Spring Hill, 214 00:14:50,995 --> 00:14:54,195 Speaker 1: The production company run by Maverick Carter and Lebron James, 215 00:14:54,515 --> 00:14:57,475 Speaker 1: says it will not air its latest episode of its 216 00:14:57,475 --> 00:15:01,755 Speaker 1: program The Shop and will never show it. The episode 217 00:15:01,755 --> 00:15:06,115 Speaker 1: had special guests. Kanye West, said Mr Carter, I believe 218 00:15:06,155 --> 00:15:08,795 Speaker 1: he was capable of a respectful discussion and he was 219 00:15:08,835 --> 00:15:11,955 Speaker 1: ready to address all his recent comments. Unfortunately, he used 220 00:15:11,995 --> 00:15:17,315 Speaker 1: The Shop to reiterate more hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes. 221 00:15:17,795 --> 00:15:19,995 Speaker 1: Now we move on to the question of why West's 222 00:15:20,035 --> 00:15:23,755 Speaker 1: shoe deal has not yet been canceled by Adidas and why, 223 00:15:23,915 --> 00:15:27,675 Speaker 1: in fact, Adidas issued a new Kanye West shoe this 224 00:15:27,715 --> 00:15:32,995 Speaker 1: week and dateline Atlanta. Herschel Walker caught in another apparent lie. 225 00:15:33,435 --> 00:15:37,675 Speaker 1: A month ago, he announced he is Native American. Quote, 226 00:15:37,715 --> 00:15:41,555 Speaker 1: my mom just told me that my mom grandmother was 227 00:15:41,595 --> 00:15:45,075 Speaker 1: a full blooded Cherokee. He announced it a speech in Forsyth, 228 00:15:45,195 --> 00:15:49,075 Speaker 1: Georgia on septem Huffington's Post checked out the story with 229 00:15:49,755 --> 00:15:53,155 Speaker 1: herschel Walker's mother, who told them she has no idea 230 00:15:53,275 --> 00:15:57,395 Speaker 1: if an immediate ancestor was a full blooded Native American Christian. 231 00:15:57,435 --> 00:16:00,715 Speaker 1: Walker did tell the outlet that she grew up hearing 232 00:16:00,755 --> 00:16:04,755 Speaker 1: stories about her father's mother quote she was kin you 233 00:16:04,915 --> 00:16:07,795 Speaker 1: Cherokee back when I was a little child running around. 234 00:16:07,835 --> 00:16:11,955 Speaker 1: She was kin to the Cherokee. Asked to explain. Kristin 235 00:16:12,035 --> 00:16:15,875 Speaker 1: Walker could not see my grandmother. She passed when I 236 00:16:15,915 --> 00:16:18,515 Speaker 1: was quite young. I don't know too much about how 237 00:16:18,555 --> 00:16:22,275 Speaker 1: she was connected so herschel Walker is being attacked with 238 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:27,875 Speaker 1: all these vicious liberal lies from his son and now 239 00:16:27,995 --> 00:16:45,195 Speaker 1: his mother. Coming up the baseball playoff game, during which 240 00:16:45,195 --> 00:16:47,995 Speaker 1: a New York Yankees pitcher who supposedly did not speak 241 00:16:48,035 --> 00:16:50,515 Speaker 1: English came up to me in the dugout and asked, Hey, Keith, 242 00:16:50,915 --> 00:16:55,195 Speaker 1: why did you leave SportsCenter things I promised not to tell. First, 243 00:16:55,195 --> 00:16:57,875 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger 244 00:16:57,875 --> 00:17:02,875 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 245 00:17:03,555 --> 00:17:07,995 Speaker 1: Lebronze Blake Masters, the fascist candidate for the Senate in Arizona, 246 00:17:08,035 --> 00:17:09,875 Speaker 1: the one who looks like he was hypnotized by some 247 00:17:09,915 --> 00:17:12,715 Speaker 1: guy at the county fair and never snapped out of it. 248 00:17:13,075 --> 00:17:16,395 Speaker 1: Fox Nudes pointed out that he has scrubbed his website 249 00:17:16,835 --> 00:17:18,835 Speaker 1: of the claim that quote, if we had a free 250 00:17:18,835 --> 00:17:22,155 Speaker 1: and fair election, unquote, Trump would still be in office. 251 00:17:22,915 --> 00:17:25,995 Speaker 1: His reply to Fox, I still believe it, but he's 252 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:28,395 Speaker 1: now changed the explanation. It was not a free and 253 00:17:28,475 --> 00:17:33,995 Speaker 1: fair election because Hunter biden laptop. The runner up is 254 00:17:34,035 --> 00:17:37,915 Speaker 1: shared by Joe Rogan, who told this to Tulsey Gabbard, 255 00:17:37,955 --> 00:17:40,635 Speaker 1: with the clip tweeted by the account libs of TikTok. 256 00:17:41,075 --> 00:17:44,355 Speaker 1: This is the holy Trinity of stupid and did not happen. 257 00:17:45,235 --> 00:17:49,115 Speaker 1: Rogan quote my friend whose wife is a school teacher 258 00:17:49,155 --> 00:17:51,635 Speaker 1: and she works at a school that had to identify 259 00:17:51,675 --> 00:17:54,675 Speaker 1: a litter box in the girl's room because there is 260 00:17:54,715 --> 00:17:57,555 Speaker 1: a girl in a furry who identifies as an animal. 261 00:17:58,035 --> 00:18:02,475 Speaker 1: Gabbard then says, it's absolutely insane. Of course it is. 262 00:18:02,555 --> 00:18:05,355 Speaker 1: Of course it's insane because it never had been. Because 263 00:18:05,395 --> 00:18:08,075 Speaker 1: nobody who has ever told this same damn story about 264 00:18:08,075 --> 00:18:10,755 Speaker 1: the letter box has even provided a photo of a 265 00:18:10,835 --> 00:18:13,475 Speaker 1: letter box in a school, not even a fake photo 266 00:18:13,595 --> 00:18:16,195 Speaker 1: of a letter box and a school, because it never 267 00:18:16,355 --> 00:18:19,315 Speaker 1: freak it happened. And you would think by now that 268 00:18:19,435 --> 00:18:23,475 Speaker 1: even Joe Moron Rogan would know that every story that 269 00:18:23,515 --> 00:18:27,475 Speaker 1: you begin that begins with my friend his wife is 270 00:18:27,555 --> 00:18:30,315 Speaker 1: a school teacher, makes it sound like you're four years 271 00:18:30,315 --> 00:18:33,875 Speaker 1: old and a furry who identifies as an animal. That's 272 00:18:33,915 --> 00:18:37,195 Speaker 1: also nonsense. I mean, I know it sounds plausible. It's 273 00:18:37,195 --> 00:18:40,715 Speaker 1: as plausible as a Tulsey Gabbard who identified as a Democrat. 274 00:18:40,955 --> 00:18:45,995 Speaker 1: But it's not. But our winner is Chris Matthews. If 275 00:18:46,035 --> 00:18:49,355 Speaker 1: you have not noticed, he has been exhumed and they 276 00:18:49,355 --> 00:18:52,515 Speaker 1: have put him back on MSNBC as an occasional guest 277 00:18:52,555 --> 00:18:57,155 Speaker 1: on the farcical spit show that is Morning Joe. This 278 00:18:57,235 --> 00:19:00,155 Speaker 1: is three years after MSNBC fired him for the last 279 00:19:00,195 --> 00:19:03,435 Speaker 1: of his many me too infractions, the last of his 280 00:19:03,755 --> 00:19:10,715 Speaker 1: many men many many many many many many many, many, many, 281 00:19:10,755 --> 00:19:15,955 Speaker 1: many many me too infractions. Now he's back because I 282 00:19:15,995 --> 00:19:19,475 Speaker 1: don't know, because it's Morning Joe, it seems like it's 283 00:19:19,475 --> 00:19:23,955 Speaker 1: a TV show. In fact, it's a portal to hell. Anyway. Yesterday, 284 00:19:23,955 --> 00:19:27,835 Speaker 1: Matthews slammed Pennsylvania sent It candidate John Fetterman for using 285 00:19:27,915 --> 00:19:31,755 Speaker 1: a captioning device while doing an interview with NBC News 286 00:19:32,035 --> 00:19:34,355 Speaker 1: because his hearing has yet to get back to full 287 00:19:34,355 --> 00:19:37,675 Speaker 1: speed after his stroke. So, like anybody else with a 288 00:19:37,755 --> 00:19:40,635 Speaker 1: hearing issue, he had her questions appear on a computer 289 00:19:41,595 --> 00:19:44,875 Speaker 1: in front of him, you know, exactly like when you, oh, 290 00:19:44,915 --> 00:19:48,595 Speaker 1: I don't know, dictate into your phone or laptop to 291 00:19:48,675 --> 00:19:52,395 Speaker 1: send an email or a text. Well, to Matthews, this 292 00:19:52,475 --> 00:19:56,715 Speaker 1: is a sign of danger, of unacceptability of political importance. 293 00:19:57,275 --> 00:20:01,515 Speaker 1: Now he wasn't the only one. Josh Crushower of Axios, 294 00:20:01,755 --> 00:20:05,195 Speaker 1: Ed O'Keefe of CBS, and Sanjay Gupta of CNN also 295 00:20:05,275 --> 00:20:08,555 Speaker 1: made jackasses out of themselves, treating this stuff with betterman 296 00:20:08,635 --> 00:20:10,315 Speaker 1: like it was the end of the world. But it 297 00:20:10,395 --> 00:20:13,755 Speaker 1: was Matthews who said of the reporter, she asked reasonable 298 00:20:13,835 --> 00:20:17,195 Speaker 1: questions of a guy who cannot answer the question because 299 00:20:17,195 --> 00:20:19,235 Speaker 1: he has to look at the monitor. How's this guy 300 00:20:19,275 --> 00:20:22,715 Speaker 1: going to debate for Pennsylvania on the Senate floor? A 301 00:20:22,755 --> 00:20:26,315 Speaker 1: couple of facts that slipped Chris's mind, which is full 302 00:20:26,355 --> 00:20:30,635 Speaker 1: of black ice potholes. Anyway, Chris Matthew spent twenty years 303 00:20:30,635 --> 00:20:34,795 Speaker 1: in TV reading scripts from the same visual aid that 304 00:20:34,835 --> 00:20:37,755 Speaker 1: we all used. It's called the teleprompter. Here, how's this 305 00:20:37,795 --> 00:20:39,475 Speaker 1: guy Matthew's gonna add Libby? He has to use a 306 00:20:39,515 --> 00:20:42,795 Speaker 1: teleprompter on the studio floor. He also used to pretend 307 00:20:42,795 --> 00:20:45,915 Speaker 1: to not understand what the words on the prompter meant. 308 00:20:46,555 --> 00:20:48,675 Speaker 1: This is literally true. If I was supposed to do 309 00:20:48,715 --> 00:20:51,835 Speaker 1: a segment that Chris wanted to do and the prompter 310 00:20:51,915 --> 00:20:55,595 Speaker 1: read Chris, throw to Keith. He would just blow through 311 00:20:55,635 --> 00:20:58,795 Speaker 1: the instruction and then do the segment I was supposed 312 00:20:58,795 --> 00:21:01,435 Speaker 1: to do. He did this once on election night when 313 00:21:01,515 --> 00:21:04,435 Speaker 1: John Kerry refused to do an interview with him. Only 314 00:21:04,515 --> 00:21:07,635 Speaker 1: with me would carry up here and then Matthews claimed 315 00:21:07,635 --> 00:21:10,515 Speaker 1: he had some sort of issue understanding what the prompter meant. 316 00:21:11,235 --> 00:21:13,115 Speaker 1: But even more to the point, for twenty years, Chris 317 00:21:13,115 --> 00:21:17,915 Speaker 1: Matthews war a hearing aid on TV. We all we're 318 00:21:18,075 --> 00:21:21,475 Speaker 1: hearing aids on TV. They're called i f B s, 319 00:21:21,915 --> 00:21:24,595 Speaker 1: and they let you hear the guests where the producer 320 00:21:24,755 --> 00:21:27,315 Speaker 1: or whoever while you were in the studio, and they 321 00:21:27,315 --> 00:21:29,795 Speaker 1: are not in the studio. How's this guy, Matthew's gonna 322 00:21:29,835 --> 00:21:34,235 Speaker 1: handle the world wearing an i FB On several occasions 323 00:21:34,275 --> 00:21:36,995 Speaker 1: like this, John carry nonsense, which was either two thousand 324 00:21:36,995 --> 00:21:40,115 Speaker 1: eight or two thousand ten. After Matthews pretended not to 325 00:21:40,155 --> 00:21:44,035 Speaker 1: be able to see properly, the producer shouted at him 326 00:21:44,035 --> 00:21:47,075 Speaker 1: through the earpiece throughout to Keith, Throw to Keith, Throw 327 00:21:47,155 --> 00:21:50,355 Speaker 1: to Keith. And he didn't. And when the segment was over, 328 00:21:50,715 --> 00:21:53,835 Speaker 1: Chris said in the commercial break, Oh, I'm real sorry, 329 00:21:53,875 --> 00:21:56,275 Speaker 1: but I have hearing loss in that here, sometimes I 330 00:21:56,315 --> 00:22:00,515 Speaker 1: can't hear what the producer is saying. And this idiot Matthews, 331 00:22:00,995 --> 00:22:05,075 Speaker 1: who faked having a hearing problem, slammed fed Erman for 332 00:22:05,155 --> 00:22:08,795 Speaker 1: using an ordinary dictation device like the one he has 333 00:22:08,875 --> 00:22:12,715 Speaker 1: on his own phone. And bigger picture, what the hell 334 00:22:12,835 --> 00:22:15,795 Speaker 1: is this with the able is um? Former Governor Patterson 335 00:22:15,795 --> 00:22:19,115 Speaker 1: of New York legally blind, Senator Leahy blind in one eye, 336 00:22:19,195 --> 00:22:22,675 Speaker 1: Former Senator Thomas Gore of Oklahoma blind from birth, half 337 00:22:22,715 --> 00:22:26,275 Speaker 1: a dozen members of the British Parliament deaf, former Senator 338 00:22:26,315 --> 00:22:29,915 Speaker 1: Kirk of Illinois stroke, Senator Van Holland of Maryland strokes, 339 00:22:29,915 --> 00:22:32,915 Speaker 1: Senator Lahan of New Mexico strokes. Shall we start insulting 340 00:22:33,195 --> 00:22:36,435 Speaker 1: the people in wheelchairs? Chris Matthews? I mean, Chris, what's 341 00:22:36,435 --> 00:22:40,235 Speaker 1: in a greater impediment? Double checking questions using a dictation 342 00:22:40,315 --> 00:22:45,115 Speaker 1: device while you're healing, or say, making lewd comments about 343 00:22:45,155 --> 00:22:48,275 Speaker 1: then Governor Jennifer Grandholme of Michigan while you are co 344 00:22:48,435 --> 00:22:54,515 Speaker 1: anchoring Gerald Ford's funeral alongside me MSNBC. Wherever you Doug 345 00:22:54,555 --> 00:23:01,795 Speaker 1: Matthews up from, send him back. Chris Matthews, Today's worst 346 00:23:02,435 --> 00:23:07,355 Speaker 1: parson and the old I'm sorry. I thought, yeah, I 347 00:23:07,395 --> 00:23:09,275 Speaker 1: was aboust to read, and I can't see it that 348 00:23:10,875 --> 00:23:28,355 Speaker 1: your right mark very read loud. Finally, to the number 349 00:23:28,355 --> 00:23:30,715 Speaker 1: one story on the countdown and my favorite topic me 350 00:23:30,955 --> 00:23:33,555 Speaker 1: and every time the baseball playoffs roll around, I am 351 00:23:33,595 --> 00:23:37,035 Speaker 1: flashback to one of the sixteen postseasons I have covered. 352 00:23:37,835 --> 00:23:40,395 Speaker 1: I am old five of them as part of the 353 00:23:40,435 --> 00:23:45,195 Speaker 1: actual game broadcasts, and they will not hang the American 354 00:23:45,275 --> 00:23:48,835 Speaker 1: League Championship Series in any kind of sports art museum. 355 00:23:49,155 --> 00:23:52,315 Speaker 1: There was bad pitching, bad defense, bad hitting, and especially 356 00:23:52,355 --> 00:23:56,555 Speaker 1: bad sportsmanship by players and fans alike. But for me, 357 00:23:57,275 --> 00:24:00,035 Speaker 1: covering the New York Yankees through all five games from 358 00:24:00,035 --> 00:24:02,635 Speaker 1: the unique vantage point of a corner of their dugout, 359 00:24:02,915 --> 00:24:07,235 Speaker 1: it was perfection. The good stuff started in Game three 360 00:24:07,235 --> 00:24:11,475 Speaker 1: on Saturday, October sixteenth, nine and featured the return of 361 00:24:11,515 --> 00:24:14,955 Speaker 1: the former Red Sox hero Roger Clemens in the uniform 362 00:24:15,035 --> 00:24:18,475 Speaker 1: of the hated Yanks, to Fenway Park, Boston. I don't 363 00:24:18,515 --> 00:24:20,795 Speaker 1: have much time for Roger Clemens, but I was a 364 00:24:20,795 --> 00:24:24,595 Speaker 1: witness to two occasions, possibly the only two occasions of 365 00:24:24,635 --> 00:24:28,555 Speaker 1: his life, when he received the raw deal rather than 366 00:24:28,595 --> 00:24:31,995 Speaker 1: dishing it out the fans at Boston's Fenway Park blamed 367 00:24:31,995 --> 00:24:35,835 Speaker 1: Clemens for leaving the old town team two years previously, 368 00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:38,675 Speaker 1: when it was a decision actually made by Red Sox management. 369 00:24:39,155 --> 00:24:41,715 Speaker 1: So they serenaded and booed him out of that game 370 00:24:41,755 --> 00:24:45,475 Speaker 1: after just fifteen batters and just over two innings, and 371 00:24:45,595 --> 00:24:49,515 Speaker 1: our Fox TV cameras caught them tearing down Roger Clemens 372 00:24:49,595 --> 00:24:54,675 Speaker 1: banners which hung outside the park. Poor Roger completely rattled, 373 00:24:54,675 --> 00:24:57,555 Speaker 1: fell apart like a twelve dollar fake rolex. And from 374 00:24:57,595 --> 00:24:59,715 Speaker 1: where I sat between the third base camera and the 375 00:24:59,795 --> 00:25:04,835 Speaker 1: Yankee dugout, you could see he was ashen. The ain 376 00:25:04,915 --> 00:25:07,115 Speaker 1: got out of hand quickly, a theme for the series. 377 00:25:07,155 --> 00:25:10,315 Speaker 1: Boston led thirteen nothing in the seventh inning. One of 378 00:25:10,315 --> 00:25:12,715 Speaker 1: the oddities of my seat was that between me and 379 00:25:12,755 --> 00:25:15,595 Speaker 1: the Yankee bench was a low railing and very ancient 380 00:25:15,715 --> 00:25:20,115 Speaker 1: chicken wire fence that had been painted over annually for 381 00:25:20,475 --> 00:25:24,475 Speaker 1: something like since the First World War. But next to 382 00:25:24,515 --> 00:25:27,715 Speaker 1: the fence on the player's side was the dugout bathroom. 383 00:25:28,155 --> 00:25:31,715 Speaker 1: It was really just a door and a urinal. So 384 00:25:31,795 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: at some point every Yankee player came down to that 385 00:25:34,555 --> 00:25:37,235 Speaker 1: end of the dugout, and almost always they said hi 386 00:25:37,435 --> 00:25:41,195 Speaker 1: and then excuse me. A minute late in the game. 387 00:25:41,235 --> 00:25:44,755 Speaker 1: As it got dark, the Yankee superb Cuban emigrave pitcher 388 00:25:44,955 --> 00:25:48,795 Speaker 1: Orlando el Duke Hernandez made that track and said hi, 389 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:52,315 Speaker 1: but did not go into the tiny bathroom in the 390 00:25:52,395 --> 00:25:54,955 Speaker 1: dugout at Fenway Park. Instead, he sat down on the 391 00:25:54,995 --> 00:25:57,315 Speaker 1: steps right next to the little chicken wire fence, and 392 00:25:57,355 --> 00:26:01,275 Speaker 1: he said, Keith, can I ask you a question? I 393 00:26:01,355 --> 00:26:04,155 Speaker 1: was startled. The official line was l Duke Hernandez did 394 00:26:04,155 --> 00:26:07,755 Speaker 1: not speak any English. I pointed this out to him. 395 00:26:07,795 --> 00:26:11,035 Speaker 1: He laughed, you'll keep my secret. You know how much 396 00:26:11,035 --> 00:26:14,475 Speaker 1: time I save not doing interviews in English. He got 397 00:26:14,515 --> 00:26:18,515 Speaker 1: an occasional conjugation wrong, otherwise his English was perfect. He 398 00:26:18,635 --> 00:26:22,435 Speaker 1: got to his question, Keith, why do you leave Sports Center? 399 00:26:22,755 --> 00:26:25,715 Speaker 1: You and Dan were so good way downtown. Bang, they're 400 00:26:25,755 --> 00:26:28,955 Speaker 1: not gonna get them. I suspect anybody sitting in the 401 00:26:29,035 --> 00:26:33,315 Speaker 1: stands in the ten rows nearest me. Could hear my laughter? Orlando, 402 00:26:33,355 --> 00:26:35,515 Speaker 1: I left Sports Center before you left Cuba. How did 403 00:26:35,555 --> 00:26:38,395 Speaker 1: you see us? He said? We have nothing in Cuba, 404 00:26:38,715 --> 00:26:42,435 Speaker 1: but we have baseball fields and we have satellites. It's 405 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:45,355 Speaker 1: deep and I don't think it's playable. I was stunned. 406 00:26:45,715 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: I had already discovered that nearly every American born Major 407 00:26:48,435 --> 00:26:52,395 Speaker 1: league player of knew me by voice, let alone by sight. 408 00:26:52,715 --> 00:26:56,315 Speaker 1: But this Cuba thing and l Duque reciting my old 409 00:26:56,395 --> 00:27:00,395 Speaker 1: Sports Center catchphrases was a genuine surprise. Oh yes, you 410 00:27:00,475 --> 00:27:02,515 Speaker 1: and Dan, you teach me a lot of my English. 411 00:27:02,835 --> 00:27:05,515 Speaker 1: What's the one for the hockey? And believe I shrunked 412 00:27:05,515 --> 00:27:08,515 Speaker 1: out guy's freaking hand. I love that. Why did you leave? 413 00:27:09,475 --> 00:27:12,155 Speaker 1: I tried to explain it was mostly geography. That if 414 00:27:12,195 --> 00:27:14,315 Speaker 1: when he had pitched briefly in the International League, he 415 00:27:14,355 --> 00:27:16,995 Speaker 1: ever faced the team in Pentucket, Rhode Island, that that 416 00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:20,275 Speaker 1: was kind of where ESPN was, only it was more remote, 417 00:27:20,755 --> 00:27:24,515 Speaker 1: much smaller town. Oh he'll do, Ka said, like Cuba, 418 00:27:24,875 --> 00:27:28,875 Speaker 1: but with snow. And I said, yeah, that was it exactly. 419 00:27:29,515 --> 00:27:31,315 Speaker 1: And now I was living in Los Angeles and I 420 00:27:31,355 --> 00:27:34,195 Speaker 1: owned a big house on the beach. Okay, I get it. Listen, 421 00:27:34,235 --> 00:27:36,155 Speaker 1: you see me in the park, you say Hi, there's 422 00:27:36,155 --> 00:27:38,835 Speaker 1: nobody around, we talk. Okay, If I say nothing, don't 423 00:27:38,835 --> 00:27:41,195 Speaker 1: be offended. I'm just making sure everybody still knows I 424 00:27:41,235 --> 00:27:47,915 Speaker 1: don't speak English. Orlando Hernandez did not get here until 425 00:27:47,955 --> 00:27:49,755 Speaker 1: he was thirty two years old. He pitched until he 426 00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:51,315 Speaker 1: was forty one. If he gotten here when he was 427 00:27:51,315 --> 00:27:52,835 Speaker 1: twenty two, he'd be in the Hall of Fame, and 428 00:27:52,875 --> 00:27:54,395 Speaker 1: then he would have been the color man on the 429 00:27:54,435 --> 00:27:56,795 Speaker 1: Game of the Week. He pitched three years for the 430 00:27:56,835 --> 00:27:59,155 Speaker 1: Yankees and two for the Mets while I lived in 431 00:27:59,195 --> 00:28:02,635 Speaker 1: New York, and it was always a pleasure to see him. Kaith, 432 00:28:02,675 --> 00:28:05,235 Speaker 1: you're still collecting baseballs? You want this one? I walked 433 00:28:05,235 --> 00:28:08,555 Speaker 1: by a Bonds with this one. So that was Game 434 00:28:08,595 --> 00:28:12,115 Speaker 1: three on the Saturday. On the Sunday, I awoke to 435 00:28:12,155 --> 00:28:16,155 Speaker 1: see my picture in the Boston Globe. In those days, 436 00:28:16,195 --> 00:28:19,075 Speaker 1: the newspapers all used to have columnists who wrote about 437 00:28:19,355 --> 00:28:25,075 Speaker 1: nothing but TV and radio sportscasts. No, seriously, I had 438 00:28:25,115 --> 00:28:28,235 Speaker 1: been a sportscaster on local TV in Boston fifteen years 439 00:28:28,235 --> 00:28:31,355 Speaker 1: earlier in four then I'd been to Fenway Park as 440 00:28:31,395 --> 00:28:34,355 Speaker 1: long before nineteen sixty six, and yet I had grown 441 00:28:34,435 --> 00:28:37,235 Speaker 1: up a Yankee fan in New York. I explained that 442 00:28:37,315 --> 00:28:41,195 Speaker 1: even then I was also a fan of the long 443 00:28:41,315 --> 00:28:46,035 Speaker 1: suffering Red Sox fans. Now, this was too complicated for 444 00:28:46,115 --> 00:28:49,275 Speaker 1: some people at the Boston Globe, which quoted me correctly 445 00:28:49,275 --> 00:28:51,875 Speaker 1: as saying I always felt an affinity with the fans, 446 00:28:51,875 --> 00:28:54,435 Speaker 1: but then under my picture in the article used the 447 00:28:54,435 --> 00:28:59,995 Speaker 1: caption Alberman, Red Sox fan. Still wondering how they got 448 00:29:00,035 --> 00:29:02,795 Speaker 1: that wrong, I did my pregame TV stuff for Fox, 449 00:29:02,835 --> 00:29:05,355 Speaker 1: then climbed over the little chicken wire ends back into 450 00:29:05,395 --> 00:29:08,395 Speaker 1: my spot for in game dugout reporting. And as the 451 00:29:08,435 --> 00:29:10,355 Speaker 1: top of the first inning began of the fourth game, 452 00:29:10,395 --> 00:29:12,995 Speaker 1: the Yankees leadoff man, Chuck knob Block moved towards the plate, 453 00:29:13,035 --> 00:29:15,315 Speaker 1: and as he did, it was the clean up hitter 454 00:29:15,355 --> 00:29:19,475 Speaker 1: Bernie Williams walking towards me, presumably to use that little 455 00:29:19,635 --> 00:29:24,315 Speaker 1: urinal in the closet. Wrong again. It's meet Keith Weekend. 456 00:29:24,915 --> 00:29:28,155 Speaker 1: Hey Keith, he said, in his lyrical voice, extending a 457 00:29:28,195 --> 00:29:31,155 Speaker 1: hand to shake Bernie Williams like I didn't know who 458 00:29:31,155 --> 00:29:33,795 Speaker 1: it was. Say listen, I was reading the paper. Are 459 00:29:33,835 --> 00:29:36,955 Speaker 1: you a Red Sox fan? For a moment, I put 460 00:29:36,995 --> 00:29:40,315 Speaker 1: aside the fact that the game, the playoff game, had 461 00:29:40,355 --> 00:29:43,035 Speaker 1: now started and the guy up three batteries from now 462 00:29:43,115 --> 00:29:45,715 Speaker 1: was asking me about a typo in the Boston Globe. 463 00:29:46,755 --> 00:29:49,435 Speaker 1: Bernie Williams was never accused of burning himself out with 464 00:29:49,475 --> 00:29:52,875 Speaker 1: too much competitive focus. That's just who he was. I 465 00:29:52,955 --> 00:29:56,995 Speaker 1: explained the mistake as quickly as I could. Oh, I thought, so, okay, good. 466 00:29:57,395 --> 00:29:59,715 Speaker 1: I'm glad because you can be a fan of anybody 467 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:01,155 Speaker 1: you want. But I don't think it would be right 468 00:30:01,195 --> 00:30:03,675 Speaker 1: to have a Red Sox fan and our dugout. I 469 00:30:03,755 --> 00:30:06,915 Speaker 1: agreed with him. Just as Chuck Knoblock singled, and the 470 00:30:06,995 --> 00:30:09,395 Speaker 1: number two hitter, Derek Jeter, advanced to the plate, and 471 00:30:09,395 --> 00:30:11,995 Speaker 1: the third hitter, Paul O'Neill, went out to the on 472 00:30:12,115 --> 00:30:14,955 Speaker 1: deck circle. And that's when Bernie Williams surprised me more 473 00:30:14,995 --> 00:30:19,435 Speaker 1: than Orlando Hernandez had. Plus, Bernie went on, doesn't your 474 00:30:19,475 --> 00:30:21,755 Speaker 1: mom still have those seats like ten rows back of 475 00:30:21,835 --> 00:30:26,595 Speaker 1: our dugout at Yankee Stadium. This was before my mother 476 00:30:26,675 --> 00:30:30,315 Speaker 1: became famous for getting hit by a very badly thrown ball. 477 00:30:30,435 --> 00:30:33,755 Speaker 1: The next year. I asked Bernie Williams, how the hell 478 00:30:33,795 --> 00:30:37,235 Speaker 1: he knew where my mother sat. You've had seats there 479 00:30:37,235 --> 00:30:42,435 Speaker 1: since the seventies, haven't you. I just stared at him. Oh, Keith, 480 00:30:42,475 --> 00:30:45,835 Speaker 1: it's my job to know that, I said, no, it isn't. 481 00:30:46,835 --> 00:30:49,035 Speaker 1: It's your job to play center field for the Yankees. 482 00:30:50,115 --> 00:30:52,435 Speaker 1: This was just about the time Derek Jeter grounded out 483 00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:54,595 Speaker 1: and Paul O'Neill left the on deck circle, and Bernie 484 00:30:54,635 --> 00:30:56,755 Speaker 1: Williams was supposed to be in the on deck circle. 485 00:30:57,315 --> 00:31:00,355 Speaker 1: I know your mom, I see her, nice lady, So anyway, 486 00:31:00,755 --> 00:31:04,715 Speaker 1: I interrupted him. Bernie Jeter just grounded out and a 487 00:31:04,795 --> 00:31:07,355 Speaker 1: Black went to second and and O'Neil is up with 488 00:31:07,395 --> 00:31:11,795 Speaker 1: one out. Shouldn't you get out there? You look back 489 00:31:11,795 --> 00:31:13,795 Speaker 1: at the field of play. Oh yeah, you're right. He 490 00:31:13,875 --> 00:31:16,355 Speaker 1: stuck out his hand again. Nice visiting with you. Let's 491 00:31:16,355 --> 00:31:19,115 Speaker 1: talk more later, and just just double checking you. You're 492 00:31:19,155 --> 00:31:23,995 Speaker 1: not a Red Sox fan, right. Bernie Williams got three 493 00:31:24,075 --> 00:31:27,995 Speaker 1: hits in that game. Another New York sports reporter once 494 00:31:28,035 --> 00:31:31,635 Speaker 1: said that if he concentrated on baseball, really concentrated, Bernie 495 00:31:31,675 --> 00:31:33,435 Speaker 1: Williams would either be so good that he would hit 496 00:31:33,475 --> 00:31:35,955 Speaker 1: four hundred or he would be so stressed out that 497 00:31:35,955 --> 00:31:39,595 Speaker 1: he would become a serial killer. In this game, the 498 00:31:39,675 --> 00:31:41,675 Speaker 1: Yankees scored six runs in the ninth and there was 499 00:31:41,715 --> 00:31:43,955 Speaker 1: a place so controversial that when the Red Sox manager 500 00:31:43,955 --> 00:31:47,395 Speaker 1: got himself ejected over it, the home fans littered the 501 00:31:47,435 --> 00:31:51,675 Speaker 1: field with debris. Almost all of it was just plastic 502 00:31:51,795 --> 00:31:55,435 Speaker 1: soda bottles, but still there was a couple of flasks 503 00:31:55,515 --> 00:31:59,715 Speaker 1: thrown too. Yankees manager Joe Tory ordered his team off 504 00:31:59,755 --> 00:32:02,955 Speaker 1: the field and play was suspended as the plastic bottles 505 00:32:02,995 --> 00:32:05,795 Speaker 1: continued to fly and via my ear piece, which I 506 00:32:05,875 --> 00:32:08,155 Speaker 1: listened to, even if Chris Matthews never listened to his. 507 00:32:08,435 --> 00:32:11,035 Speaker 1: My producer ordered me onto the field, and I did 508 00:32:11,035 --> 00:32:12,555 Speaker 1: as I was told, and I set up in front 509 00:32:12,595 --> 00:32:14,435 Speaker 1: of the camera, right in front of the dugout full 510 00:32:14,475 --> 00:32:18,475 Speaker 1: of Yankee players. A plastic bottle whizzed past my head 511 00:32:18,755 --> 00:32:20,955 Speaker 1: and I half wondered if Bernie Williams had thrown it, 512 00:32:21,035 --> 00:32:24,515 Speaker 1: just in case I was a Red Sox fan. Almost immediately, 513 00:32:24,555 --> 00:32:27,435 Speaker 1: a Fenway Park security guy started swearing at me in 514 00:32:27,515 --> 00:32:29,955 Speaker 1: Boston and told me if I didn't get off the 515 00:32:29,955 --> 00:32:32,755 Speaker 1: field and into the seats immediately, he'd have me arrested. 516 00:32:33,635 --> 00:32:36,555 Speaker 1: This time, I could actually hear some of the Yankees laughing. 517 00:32:37,035 --> 00:32:39,355 Speaker 1: Get over that fence right now, sit your backside down 518 00:32:39,395 --> 00:32:42,275 Speaker 1: in that seat, and do not move. My producer heard 519 00:32:42,275 --> 00:32:44,475 Speaker 1: all this through my microphone and told me to comply. 520 00:32:45,355 --> 00:32:47,555 Speaker 1: I didn't even look around. I just went over the fence. 521 00:32:47,635 --> 00:32:49,715 Speaker 1: I sat down in the front row where I've been 522 00:32:49,795 --> 00:32:51,715 Speaker 1: ordered to, and that's when the guy sitting next to 523 00:32:51,755 --> 00:32:55,035 Speaker 1: me said, hi, and I realized the guy sitting next 524 00:32:55,035 --> 00:32:57,435 Speaker 1: to me was George Stunbrenner, the owner of the Yankees. 525 00:32:58,635 --> 00:33:02,075 Speaker 1: I said, Hi, you want to say something about this 526 00:33:02,155 --> 00:33:06,595 Speaker 1: on TV? And George, who loved me as I loved him, 527 00:33:06,795 --> 00:33:09,795 Speaker 1: said sure. And my producer heard all this through to 528 00:33:09,915 --> 00:33:13,395 Speaker 1: the microphone as well. The announcers immediately threw it to 529 00:33:13,435 --> 00:33:16,355 Speaker 1: me and I said seven words, George Steinbrenner, your thoughts 530 00:33:16,355 --> 00:33:20,035 Speaker 1: on all this? He proceeded to very pleasantly blame the 531 00:33:20,075 --> 00:33:23,235 Speaker 1: Red Sox fans for being drunk, blame Fenway security for 532 00:33:23,315 --> 00:33:26,355 Speaker 1: letting a riot start, blame baseball officials for not immediately 533 00:33:26,395 --> 00:33:28,875 Speaker 1: forfeiting the game to his club, and blame the Boston 534 00:33:28,955 --> 00:33:32,755 Speaker 1: manager for inciting the crowd. I had said to George, 535 00:33:32,795 --> 00:33:35,155 Speaker 1: I would ask a follow up, but you seem to 536 00:33:35,155 --> 00:33:37,795 Speaker 1: have covered everything, and so I threw it back to 537 00:33:37,835 --> 00:33:41,835 Speaker 1: the play by play booth. Steinbrenner's remarks made every newspaper 538 00:33:41,875 --> 00:33:44,235 Speaker 1: in the country, and in many accounts I was noted 539 00:33:44,275 --> 00:33:47,115 Speaker 1: as the interview and frankly, I didn't really do anything. 540 00:33:49,195 --> 00:33:51,675 Speaker 1: The next night, the Yankees won the series in five games, 541 00:33:51,675 --> 00:33:54,195 Speaker 1: and the fifth game was devoid of Cuban pitchers. Confiding 542 00:33:54,195 --> 00:33:57,595 Speaker 1: they were fans, or Bernie Williams quizzing me about my fandom, 543 00:33:57,715 --> 00:34:00,555 Speaker 1: or me being ordered onto the field during a riot, 544 00:34:00,555 --> 00:34:02,555 Speaker 1: only to be thrown off of it and directly into 545 00:34:02,555 --> 00:34:06,035 Speaker 1: the seat next to the owner of the Yankees. All 546 00:34:06,115 --> 00:34:07,755 Speaker 1: I had to do on this night was get into 547 00:34:07,795 --> 00:34:10,595 Speaker 1: the Yankee clubhouse two innings before the game ended, so 548 00:34:10,635 --> 00:34:13,715 Speaker 1: I could cover the celebrating players and the award presentation. 549 00:34:15,235 --> 00:34:18,195 Speaker 1: The excitement of the weekend clearly was over. I would 550 00:34:18,275 --> 00:34:21,115 Speaker 1: just say hi to these guys they throw champagne in 551 00:34:21,155 --> 00:34:23,595 Speaker 1: my direction, and then I'd throw it back to Joe Buck. 552 00:34:24,635 --> 00:34:27,315 Speaker 1: I was on a platform bleached in a camera light 553 00:34:27,355 --> 00:34:30,155 Speaker 1: as the technicians checked their stuff. The game was still 554 00:34:30,155 --> 00:34:33,275 Speaker 1: going on when the clubhouse door slammed open and in 555 00:34:33,475 --> 00:34:38,435 Speaker 1: strutted the Yankee second basement Chuck Knoblock. He was swearing profusely, 556 00:34:38,795 --> 00:34:44,115 Speaker 1: profoundly and proficiently. He had been having trouble throwing ground 557 00:34:44,235 --> 00:34:46,795 Speaker 1: balls away, and as the eighth inning started, the Yankee 558 00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:50,195 Speaker 1: manager Tory had removed him, denying him a chance to 559 00:34:50,235 --> 00:34:53,515 Speaker 1: be in the on field celebration of the pennant. Knoblock 560 00:34:53,715 --> 00:34:57,515 Speaker 1: was enraged, so enraged that he never saw me or 561 00:34:57,555 --> 00:35:01,875 Speaker 1: the platform or the camera lights. He used all the 562 00:35:02,035 --> 00:35:06,275 Speaker 1: known expletives and directed all of them all at his 563 00:35:06,435 --> 00:35:11,315 Speaker 1: own manager, The Yankees PR guy, a childhood friend of mine, 564 00:35:11,355 --> 00:35:13,355 Speaker 1: rushed over to insist that I could not report what 565 00:35:13,395 --> 00:35:15,635 Speaker 1: I had just heard. He was a little shocked when 566 00:35:15,635 --> 00:35:18,715 Speaker 1: I agreed with him. I'm here as a lighting prop. 567 00:35:18,915 --> 00:35:21,835 Speaker 1: I told him. Nablock has a perfect right to expect 568 00:35:21,835 --> 00:35:24,155 Speaker 1: there'd be no reporters in the clubhouse during the game. 569 00:35:24,835 --> 00:35:27,155 Speaker 1: If he says it again afterwards, I'll say I heard 570 00:35:27,155 --> 00:35:32,395 Speaker 1: it just now. Otherwise I'm not saying anything. There is, 571 00:35:32,435 --> 00:35:36,115 Speaker 1: of course, a punchline even to this and this extraordinary weekend. 572 00:35:36,675 --> 00:35:40,195 Speaker 1: The next summer, Chuck nab Block's career as a second 573 00:35:40,195 --> 00:35:43,555 Speaker 1: baseman ended because he completely lost the ability to throw 574 00:35:43,595 --> 00:35:47,755 Speaker 1: an ordinary, uncomplicated baseball to first base. Since similar cases 575 00:35:47,795 --> 00:35:51,275 Speaker 1: of the yips seemed to afflict players whose baseball centric 576 00:35:51,355 --> 00:35:54,915 Speaker 1: fathers had gotten sick or jailed or something, and Knoblock's 577 00:35:54,995 --> 00:35:57,915 Speaker 1: dad had just entered the final stages of Alzheimer's it 578 00:35:57,995 --> 00:36:02,875 Speaker 1: was probably that the last disastrous throw he made the 579 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:07,995 Speaker 1: next year on June seusand bounced off the Yankee dugout 580 00:36:08,035 --> 00:36:10,875 Speaker 1: and spun weirdly and hit a woman in the box seats. 581 00:36:11,355 --> 00:36:15,955 Speaker 1: The woman was my mother, the one where Bernie Williams 582 00:36:16,235 --> 00:36:20,035 Speaker 1: knew where she sat, all the things that followed. Since 583 00:36:20,035 --> 00:36:22,115 Speaker 1: I was in the studio that day doing the highlights 584 00:36:22,115 --> 00:36:24,235 Speaker 1: for the Fox Game of the Week, they require their 585 00:36:24,275 --> 00:36:27,075 Speaker 1: own segment of this. But the one thing that has 586 00:36:27,195 --> 00:36:30,755 Speaker 1: always mystified me was how Chuck Nablock did not know 587 00:36:31,515 --> 00:36:34,755 Speaker 1: not to throw the ball where he did, because at 588 00:36:34,795 --> 00:36:38,675 Speaker 1: some point Bernie Williams must have warned him, Hey, hey, Chuck, 589 00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:42,555 Speaker 1: don't do it there. That's where Keith Olberman's mother sits. 590 00:36:51,635 --> 00:36:53,635 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Help 591 00:36:53,715 --> 00:36:56,675 Speaker 1: me out. 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