1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Judge 2 00:00:21,995 --> 00:00:28,555 Speaker 1: Eileen Cannon, you have unsuspected depth. Trump's appointee has stunned 3 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:31,395 Speaker 1: Trump World by not only limiting what he can say 4 00:00:31,395 --> 00:00:33,755 Speaker 1: and when he can say it during his prosecution and 5 00:00:33,835 --> 00:00:38,355 Speaker 1: trial for stealing our top secret documents, but also for 6 00:00:38,515 --> 00:00:41,155 Speaker 1: limiting when he and his lawyers can see the war 7 00:00:41,235 --> 00:00:45,195 Speaker 1: plans and other classified information he stole. This has gotten 8 00:00:45,275 --> 00:00:49,595 Speaker 1: buried under the McCarthy illegal impeachment inquiry, which is the 9 00:00:49,635 --> 00:00:52,995 Speaker 1: point of that inquiry. It is a diversion to misdirect 10 00:00:53,035 --> 00:00:55,435 Speaker 1: the American news media and the public. And as we 11 00:00:55,515 --> 00:00:58,355 Speaker 1: know all too well, if you spend ninety seconds trying 12 00:00:58,355 --> 00:01:01,995 Speaker 1: to misdirect the American news media, you will succeed utterly. 13 00:01:02,795 --> 00:01:06,955 Speaker 1: But Trump has been counting on Eileen Cannon to do 14 00:01:07,195 --> 00:01:10,795 Speaker 1: his bidding for him, and in this first non timing 15 00:01:10,955 --> 00:01:14,755 Speaker 1: ruling out of Jack Smith's Florida case against Trump, the 16 00:01:14,915 --> 00:01:18,035 Speaker 1: judge has given us hope that she may yet turn 17 00:01:18,115 --> 00:01:21,795 Speaker 1: out to be more than just the former flamenco dancing 18 00:01:21,915 --> 00:01:27,155 Speaker 1: and yoga correspondent of the Miami El Nuevo Herald newspaper. 19 00:01:27,995 --> 00:01:33,915 Speaker 1: In short, Cannon's ruling is almost everything. Jack Smith asked 20 00:01:33,995 --> 00:01:38,955 Speaker 1: for any evidence marked classified, Trump cannot discuss it publicly. 21 00:01:39,195 --> 00:01:42,155 Speaker 1: The evidence marked classified that Trump has lied about and 22 00:01:42,195 --> 00:01:46,595 Speaker 1: said he declassified, Trump cannot discuss that publicly. The evidence 23 00:01:46,635 --> 00:01:50,955 Speaker 1: marked classified that has become public knowledge without being officially declassified, 24 00:01:51,075 --> 00:01:56,115 Speaker 1: Trump cannot discuss that publicly. Either Trump wanted a skiff 25 00:01:56,635 --> 00:02:03,995 Speaker 1: a sensitive compartmented Information facility SCIF reinstalled at Mari Lago, 26 00:02:04,075 --> 00:02:06,835 Speaker 1: and Canon not only did not give it to him, 27 00:02:06,995 --> 00:02:10,875 Speaker 1: she has ignored the request. Looks like when he or 28 00:02:10,915 --> 00:02:13,555 Speaker 1: his attorneys want access to these documents, they will have 29 00:02:13,635 --> 00:02:17,315 Speaker 1: to go to an established skiff under the control of 30 00:02:17,355 --> 00:02:21,515 Speaker 1: a classified information security officer already assigned to the case 31 00:02:21,595 --> 00:02:25,435 Speaker 1: in Florida. Trump can only look at the secrets he 32 00:02:25,515 --> 00:02:29,555 Speaker 1: stole inside the skiff. He can only talk to his 33 00:02:29,595 --> 00:02:34,235 Speaker 1: defense team about the secrets he stole inside the skiff. 34 00:02:34,595 --> 00:02:39,035 Speaker 1: For the classified audio recordings, Trump cannot have copies. He 35 00:02:39,115 --> 00:02:42,835 Speaker 1: cannot listen to them except on a standalone computer not 36 00:02:43,075 --> 00:02:48,035 Speaker 1: attached to a network without Wi Fi, without Internet inside 37 00:02:48,075 --> 00:02:51,315 Speaker 1: the skiff, and the headphones on which he listens to 38 00:02:51,395 --> 00:02:56,075 Speaker 1: the audio recordings cannot be wireless. They have to be 39 00:02:56,195 --> 00:03:01,275 Speaker 1: plugged into the computer. Honest to god, Judge Cannon's order 40 00:03:01,315 --> 00:03:05,275 Speaker 1: includes every protection against Trump's kleptomania except for acquiring him 41 00:03:05,315 --> 00:03:08,675 Speaker 1: to leave a credit card at the desk, and it 42 00:03:08,715 --> 00:03:10,715 Speaker 1: has a sting in its tail, and that sting is 43 00:03:10,755 --> 00:03:15,275 Speaker 1: not merely be kind. Please rewind quote. The limitations on 44 00:03:15,395 --> 00:03:19,475 Speaker 1: disclosure of classified information set forth in this order are 45 00:03:19,635 --> 00:03:24,835 Speaker 1: binding on defendant and his counsel, and violations may result 46 00:03:24,915 --> 00:03:29,035 Speaker 1: in criminal and or civil penalties. In short, Trump could 47 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:32,995 Speaker 1: go to jail for stealing these documents, and he could 48 00:03:33,035 --> 00:03:36,595 Speaker 1: also go to jail for stealing them again. And he 49 00:03:36,635 --> 00:03:40,155 Speaker 1: could also also go to jail for talking about them. 50 00:03:40,635 --> 00:03:45,515 Speaker 1: And wait, there's more. His Florida co defendant Walt Naude. 51 00:03:45,595 --> 00:03:49,315 Speaker 1: In this equation the SAP Walt Nauda figured he could 52 00:03:49,395 --> 00:03:52,235 Speaker 1: serve his Lord and Master Trump yet one more time 53 00:03:52,275 --> 00:03:55,635 Speaker 1: by gaining his own access to the classified documents, and 54 00:03:55,675 --> 00:03:58,635 Speaker 1: who knows where they'd wind up. Then Judge Cannon shot 55 00:03:58,675 --> 00:04:01,715 Speaker 1: that down to with the impeccable logic that, since Nada 56 00:04:01,795 --> 00:04:06,555 Speaker 1: is charged with obstruction and lying and not secret stealing quote, 57 00:04:06,755 --> 00:04:12,715 Speaker 1: the defense may not disclose classified information to him. From 58 00:04:12,755 --> 00:04:16,075 Speaker 1: the Georgia Trump case, Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows 59 00:04:16,115 --> 00:04:20,635 Speaker 1: continues to be the Aaron Rodgers of defendants. Only it's 60 00:04:20,675 --> 00:04:23,955 Speaker 1: as if Aaron Rodgers tore his achilles ninety four seconds 61 00:04:23,955 --> 00:04:26,915 Speaker 1: into the first game, and then tore it again ninety 62 00:04:26,915 --> 00:04:30,075 Speaker 1: four seconds into the second game, and ninety four seconds 63 00:04:30,075 --> 00:04:33,075 Speaker 1: into the third and ninety four seconds into the fourth. 64 00:04:33,555 --> 00:04:38,155 Speaker 1: Meadows wanted the case against him frozen, delayed indefinitely from 65 00:04:38,195 --> 00:04:41,675 Speaker 1: its scheduled start next month while he appealed his last 66 00:04:41,795 --> 00:04:44,675 Speaker 1: loss and again tried to get his case moved to 67 00:04:44,715 --> 00:04:48,515 Speaker 1: federal court. But US District Judge Steve Jones not only 68 00:04:48,555 --> 00:04:52,995 Speaker 1: denied it, but basically added, You're gonna tear your achilles again. 69 00:04:53,035 --> 00:04:56,555 Speaker 1: You know that, right, saying Meadows quote has shown no 70 00:04:56,875 --> 00:05:01,395 Speaker 1: likelihood on prevailing on the merits of his appeal. As 71 00:05:01,435 --> 00:05:05,435 Speaker 1: to the parallel issue before Judge Tanya Chutkin in Trump's 72 00:05:05,635 --> 00:05:10,195 Speaker 1: Washington trial quote the defendant's daily extra judicial statements that 73 00:05:10,275 --> 00:05:13,395 Speaker 1: threatened to prejudice the jury pool in this case. Per 74 00:05:13,555 --> 00:05:16,355 Speaker 1: the only non sealed part of Jack Smith's exchange with 75 00:05:16,475 --> 00:05:19,595 Speaker 1: Trump lawyer number wait a minute two hundred and thirty 76 00:05:19,715 --> 00:05:24,955 Speaker 1: six John Laurow. Nothing leaked yesterday. Laura's team was supposed 77 00:05:24,955 --> 00:05:28,155 Speaker 1: to answer the judge about good old ECF number forty 78 00:05:28,155 --> 00:05:31,755 Speaker 1: seven Dash three on Monday. Smith's team was supposed to 79 00:05:31,795 --> 00:05:35,515 Speaker 1: answer Lauro's answer yesterday, and we don't know for sure 80 00:05:35,515 --> 00:05:38,515 Speaker 1: that any of that has even happened, let alone what 81 00:05:38,715 --> 00:05:41,115 Speaker 1: did happen. And of course we don't even know what 82 00:05:41,275 --> 00:05:46,155 Speaker 1: good old ECF number forty seven Dash three is. It's 83 00:05:46,195 --> 00:05:51,115 Speaker 1: all under seal. And of course you heard about none 84 00:05:51,115 --> 00:05:55,315 Speaker 1: of this because a Trump may have actually realized how 85 00:05:55,315 --> 00:05:57,595 Speaker 1: bad the news from Judge Cannon is for him and 86 00:05:57,635 --> 00:06:00,475 Speaker 1: he should not call attention to it on social media 87 00:06:00,675 --> 00:06:04,035 Speaker 1: and b the news media saw something else move in 88 00:06:04,075 --> 00:06:08,195 Speaker 1: the bushes and collectively it cried, look a kiddie, and 89 00:06:08,435 --> 00:06:16,035 Speaker 1: see Trump is after all occupied engineering Kevin McCarthy's illegal 90 00:06:16,155 --> 00:06:22,315 Speaker 1: impeachment inquiry. That's the point. We know from one hundred 91 00:06:22,395 --> 00:06:25,235 Speaker 1: different reports that Trump met Sunday in New Jersey with 92 00:06:25,275 --> 00:06:28,955 Speaker 1: the lawn ornament come to life Marjorie Taylor Green. He 93 00:06:29,035 --> 00:06:33,195 Speaker 1: spoke with the snakelike Elise Stefanic on Tuesday after McCarthy 94 00:06:33,235 --> 00:06:36,715 Speaker 1: took the bait and announced his star chamber. But he 95 00:06:36,755 --> 00:06:39,955 Speaker 1: has not been in contact with the Colorado Congresswoman Lauren 96 00:06:39,995 --> 00:06:42,915 Speaker 1: Bobert because she's been too busy getting kicked out of 97 00:06:42,915 --> 00:06:47,395 Speaker 1: the stage version of Beetlejuice for vaping and illegally recording 98 00:06:47,435 --> 00:06:50,675 Speaker 1: the show, And of course she's now preoccupied with her 99 00:06:50,715 --> 00:06:55,715 Speaker 1: GoFundMe campaign to get herself a dress that actually fits. 100 00:06:56,595 --> 00:07:01,435 Speaker 1: Trump has evidently not talked directly with McCarthy either, which 101 00:07:01,475 --> 00:07:04,395 Speaker 1: makes sense because McCarthy is also very busy destroying his 102 00:07:04,435 --> 00:07:08,275 Speaker 1: own career and his party's majority in the House. The 103 00:07:08,395 --> 00:07:12,515 Speaker 1: illegal impeachment investigation has now morphed into the gop In crisis, 104 00:07:12,755 --> 00:07:17,155 Speaker 1: in fact, into the gop In open revolt. McCarthy accused 105 00:07:17,155 --> 00:07:22,795 Speaker 1: Congressman Matt Gates of Florida of conspiring with Democratic Congressman 106 00:07:22,915 --> 00:07:27,235 Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell of California to get Swalwell placed back on 107 00:07:27,395 --> 00:07:31,595 Speaker 1: the Intelligence Committee. McCarthy even posits that that is a 108 00:07:31,675 --> 00:07:35,235 Speaker 1: front for something else. He won't say what he says 109 00:07:35,235 --> 00:07:39,235 Speaker 1: of Gates, quote, this is really about an ethics complaint. 110 00:07:39,995 --> 00:07:42,835 Speaker 1: Gates came back last night and said this is an 111 00:07:42,915 --> 00:07:46,755 Speaker 1: abject lie from a sad and pathetic man who lies 112 00:07:46,835 --> 00:07:51,475 Speaker 1: to hold on to power unquote, and Congressman, you're going 113 00:07:51,515 --> 00:07:53,715 Speaker 1: to have to be more specific than that and use 114 00:07:53,915 --> 00:07:57,635 Speaker 1: the speaker's name in that statement, because otherwise that could 115 00:07:57,675 --> 00:08:02,075 Speaker 1: be about just about anybody in your own party, couldn't it. 116 00:08:02,075 --> 00:08:05,915 Speaker 1: It is hard to imagine Matt Gates being write about anything, 117 00:08:05,955 --> 00:08:09,715 Speaker 1: but he actually may be in this case. McCarthy's wafer 118 00:08:09,795 --> 00:08:12,435 Speaker 1: thin premise for this charade is coming apart like a 119 00:08:12,555 --> 00:08:16,595 Speaker 1: cheap suit, and for that matter, McCarthy is coming apart 120 00:08:16,675 --> 00:08:22,035 Speaker 1: like a cheap suit. There are now dueling FBI whistleblowers 121 00:08:22,115 --> 00:08:24,675 Speaker 1: in the Hunter Biden case, and it is beginning to 122 00:08:24,755 --> 00:08:29,915 Speaker 1: look like McCarthy's FBI whistleblower is a liar. It was 123 00:08:29,995 --> 00:08:33,995 Speaker 1: Gary Shapley who said that Hunter Biden prosecutor David Weiss 124 00:08:33,995 --> 00:08:37,395 Speaker 1: had proclaimed he was being stymied by the Justice Department. 125 00:08:37,875 --> 00:08:41,195 Speaker 1: But now it is the chief of the FBI's Hunter 126 00:08:41,275 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 1: Biden investigation, Thomas Subbasinski, who says, no, that's not true. 127 00:08:46,195 --> 00:08:49,795 Speaker 1: Weiss never said that. In fact, he told the House 128 00:08:49,995 --> 00:08:54,115 Speaker 1: in an interview those exact things last week, and McCarthy 129 00:08:54,315 --> 00:08:58,515 Speaker 1: went ahead with this sham anyway, just to ratchet this 130 00:08:58,755 --> 00:09:01,835 Speaker 1: up a little bit more late last night, and I'll 131 00:09:01,875 --> 00:09:05,235 Speaker 1: read this directly from the pages of the Washington Examiner, 132 00:09:05,355 --> 00:09:10,115 Speaker 1: a curiously useful resource from the far right quote Hunter 133 00:09:10,275 --> 00:09:14,755 Speaker 1: Biden filed a lawsuit against a former Trump administration aid 134 00:09:14,875 --> 00:09:19,995 Speaker 1: in California federal court Wednesday, alleging he illegally posted contents 135 00:09:20,035 --> 00:09:24,075 Speaker 1: of his that would be Hunter Biden's infamous laptop from Hell. 136 00:09:24,595 --> 00:09:29,595 Speaker 1: The lawsuit accuses Garrett Ziggler, his company, and ten unnamed 137 00:09:29,635 --> 00:09:32,515 Speaker 1: defendants Make one of them, Trump, Make one of them, Trump, 138 00:09:32,595 --> 00:09:38,035 Speaker 1: Make one of them Trump of improperly accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying, 139 00:09:38,115 --> 00:09:42,235 Speaker 1: and damaging computer data that they did not own, in 140 00:09:42,315 --> 00:09:47,155 Speaker 1: violation of California's computer fraud laws. I sentence you to 141 00:09:47,315 --> 00:09:50,755 Speaker 1: ten years in prison for damaging the contents of the 142 00:09:50,835 --> 00:09:57,435 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden laptop Back at the Ranch. Kevin McCarthy's entire 143 00:09:57,515 --> 00:10:00,635 Speaker 1: motive for this perversion of justice and the degradation of 144 00:10:00,675 --> 00:10:05,195 Speaker 1: the seemingly nothing left to be degraded in Republican House 145 00:10:05,555 --> 00:10:09,515 Speaker 1: that is also collapsing. He did this to save his 146 00:10:09,675 --> 00:10:15,195 Speaker 1: worthless ass and push through spending legislation, appropriations bills and 147 00:10:15,275 --> 00:10:18,475 Speaker 1: another stunt shutdown of the government, and every one of 148 00:10:18,515 --> 00:10:22,875 Speaker 1: the bills from a megabill to individual funding procedures for 149 00:10:22,955 --> 00:10:26,955 Speaker 1: the Pentagon for disaster relief, for Homeland Security. They all failed. 150 00:10:27,155 --> 00:10:29,755 Speaker 1: Yesterday he had to pull the eight hundred and twenty 151 00:10:29,755 --> 00:10:33,435 Speaker 1: six billion dollar Pentagon bill off the floor. Half the 152 00:10:33,475 --> 00:10:36,555 Speaker 1: members are trying to stick amendments and pet projects onto it. 153 00:10:36,795 --> 00:10:39,795 Speaker 1: And the last word was McCarthy was even pivoting away 154 00:10:39,955 --> 00:10:43,315 Speaker 1: from the big musical number. They have all rehearsed the 155 00:10:43,435 --> 00:10:47,395 Speaker 1: September thirtieth government shut down, and instead they may just 156 00:10:47,515 --> 00:10:51,075 Speaker 1: pass a short term continuing resolution just to keep the 157 00:10:51,115 --> 00:10:55,155 Speaker 1: government afloat into next month. No more big musical number. 158 00:10:55,395 --> 00:11:01,955 Speaker 1: All he's got is a kazoo plus. Rather surprisingly, institutional 159 00:11:02,115 --> 00:11:06,155 Speaker 1: Washington is actually beating the crap of Kevin McCarthy. The 160 00:11:06,275 --> 00:11:11,635 Speaker 1: inquiry quote devalues impeachment as a meaningful tool to deal 161 00:11:11,675 --> 00:11:16,835 Speaker 1: with genuine presidential misconduct. Professor Emeritus frank O. Bowman of 162 00:11:16,995 --> 00:11:20,035 Speaker 1: Missouri Law told as buttoned down a group as you 163 00:11:20,035 --> 00:11:23,995 Speaker 1: can find the publication Role Call. Bowman wrote a history 164 00:11:24,035 --> 00:11:27,595 Speaker 1: of impeachments. He says what McCarthy did make quote create 165 00:11:27,595 --> 00:11:30,195 Speaker 1: a situation where presidents of both parties just throw up 166 00:11:30,235 --> 00:11:32,355 Speaker 1: their hands and say, look, these guys never operate in 167 00:11:32,435 --> 00:11:34,795 Speaker 1: good faith. We're just going to refuse any subpoenas that 168 00:11:34,835 --> 00:11:38,635 Speaker 1: they send us on quote. The first president who tries 169 00:11:38,675 --> 00:11:40,475 Speaker 1: that will get away with it. I don't know what 170 00:11:40,555 --> 00:11:43,475 Speaker 1: happens to the second one. Let's see if Biden becomes 171 00:11:43,475 --> 00:11:47,035 Speaker 1: the first. A UNC law professor went even further in 172 00:11:47,075 --> 00:11:51,595 Speaker 1: the same publication, there's quote no evidence whatsoever. It's an 173 00:11:51,715 --> 00:11:58,035 Speaker 1: outcome in search of a process. Isn't that perfect? It's 174 00:11:58,075 --> 00:12:03,315 Speaker 1: an outcome in search of a process. McCarthy literally brought 175 00:12:03,355 --> 00:12:05,795 Speaker 1: trouble on his own house. And this is the wind 176 00:12:05,915 --> 00:12:10,475 Speaker 1: he has inherited. And yes it is Trump's wind. And yes, 177 00:12:10,955 --> 00:12:15,555 Speaker 1: that is exactly as disgusting as it sounds. And to 178 00:12:15,675 --> 00:12:19,195 Speaker 1: mix my metaphors, the quicksand McCarthy now finds himself in 179 00:12:19,475 --> 00:12:22,235 Speaker 1: may only be up to his ankles now, but it 180 00:12:22,275 --> 00:12:24,475 Speaker 1: could go all the way to the top of his beak. 181 00:12:25,035 --> 00:12:27,995 Speaker 1: McCarthy could lose the speakership over this, and as I 182 00:12:27,995 --> 00:12:30,715 Speaker 1: pointed out yesterday in the nineteen ninety eight newt Gingrich 183 00:12:30,795 --> 00:12:34,635 Speaker 1: history story, it could happen damned fast. I mean, it 184 00:12:34,755 --> 00:12:40,155 Speaker 1: is so bad even news reporters are noticing. Kind of 185 00:12:40,715 --> 00:12:44,475 Speaker 1: the White House actually figured out bless them that there 186 00:12:44,555 --> 00:12:49,475 Speaker 1: are Pavlovian bells you can ring inside the DC political 187 00:12:49,515 --> 00:12:55,395 Speaker 1: media Industrial Complex. White House Council Office spokesman Ian Sam's 188 00:12:55,795 --> 00:13:00,235 Speaker 1: wrote a long letter excoriating the stenography of the last 189 00:13:00,275 --> 00:13:07,435 Speaker 1: few Well that's the right word here, weeks, yes, centuries quote. 190 00:13:07,515 --> 00:13:10,275 Speaker 1: It's time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny 191 00:13:10,315 --> 00:13:15,275 Speaker 1: of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies. 192 00:13:16,515 --> 00:13:19,155 Speaker 1: He added that the absence of you know, evidence should 193 00:13:19,235 --> 00:13:23,355 Speaker 1: quote set off alarm bells for news organizations, and then 194 00:13:23,395 --> 00:13:27,595 Speaker 1: he named the news organizations. And nothing scares an outlet 195 00:13:27,955 --> 00:13:31,355 Speaker 1: like CNN more than seeing itself ripped in a letter 196 00:13:31,355 --> 00:13:34,475 Speaker 1: that was sent to all the other news organizations that 197 00:13:34,595 --> 00:13:39,115 Speaker 1: it secretly still envies. Mister Sam's was smart enough to 198 00:13:39,195 --> 00:13:42,595 Speaker 1: leak the letter Tuesday night, then deliver it Wednesday morning, 199 00:13:42,835 --> 00:13:46,475 Speaker 1: then post it in full online Wednesday afternoon. If today 200 00:13:46,515 --> 00:13:49,555 Speaker 1: he's standing in front of Washington Union Station handing it 201 00:13:49,595 --> 00:13:52,515 Speaker 1: out to passers by, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. 202 00:13:53,315 --> 00:13:58,795 Speaker 1: And it seems to have registered with the media again kinda. 203 00:13:59,795 --> 00:14:03,275 Speaker 1: The letter noted, as I did yesterday, that on the 204 00:14:03,315 --> 00:14:07,755 Speaker 1: first of this month, Kevin McCarthy insisted all but swore 205 00:14:08,195 --> 00:14:11,035 Speaker 1: in an interview with Breitbart News that if there were 206 00:14:11,075 --> 00:14:14,595 Speaker 1: to be an impeachment inquiry, it would follow a House 207 00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:18,995 Speaker 1: vote of some kind. Quote, if we move forward with 208 00:14:19,035 --> 00:14:21,435 Speaker 1: an impeachment inquiry, it would occur through a vote on 209 00:14:21,475 --> 00:14:25,395 Speaker 1: the floor of the People's House, and not through a 210 00:14:25,475 --> 00:14:29,515 Speaker 1: declaration by one person. And then he made a declaration 211 00:14:29,595 --> 00:14:35,075 Speaker 1: by one person. So when McCarthy met reporters yesterday and 212 00:14:35,195 --> 00:14:39,675 Speaker 1: expected the usual soupine enabling of his crap machine, he 213 00:14:39,835 --> 00:14:43,875 Speaker 1: was stunned when one of them from CNN actually quoted 214 00:14:43,955 --> 00:14:48,075 Speaker 1: that Breitbart quote to him. As you will hear. Kevin 215 00:14:48,155 --> 00:14:51,755 Speaker 1: McCarthy had no idea what to do next, and several 216 00:14:51,795 --> 00:14:55,475 Speaker 1: times had to go back to the beginning of his 217 00:14:55,995 --> 00:14:57,395 Speaker 1: memorized statement. 218 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:01,675 Speaker 2: So, what can do you know what's interesting to me? 219 00:15:02,195 --> 00:15:05,475 Speaker 2: You were a reporter for CNN. Correct. I just laid 220 00:15:05,475 --> 00:15:08,835 Speaker 2: out to you a lot of allegations based upon the 221 00:15:08,875 --> 00:15:10,155 Speaker 2: American your word. 222 00:15:10,235 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: Why did you change you? 223 00:15:11,235 --> 00:15:13,835 Speaker 2: Okay, well, let me answer your question because I've answered 224 00:15:13,875 --> 00:15:15,635 Speaker 2: it every single day and you could answer me every 225 00:15:15,675 --> 00:15:19,355 Speaker 2: single day. Nancy Pelosi changed the president of this House. 226 00:15:20,275 --> 00:15:24,195 Speaker 2: This doesn't preclude from a Nancy Pelosi changed the President 227 00:15:24,235 --> 00:15:27,075 Speaker 2: of this House on September twenty fourth. It was withheld 228 00:15:27,115 --> 00:15:29,795 Speaker 2: and good enough for every single Democrat here. It was 229 00:15:29,835 --> 00:15:31,555 Speaker 2: good enough for the judge. Why you would it have 230 00:15:31,635 --> 00:15:33,795 Speaker 2: to be different today what we've learned in the last 231 00:15:33,795 --> 00:15:35,475 Speaker 2: couple of weeks. Wouldn't you want to know the answer 232 00:15:35,515 --> 00:15:39,035 Speaker 2: to your whole job is reporting. You now have an 233 00:15:39,075 --> 00:15:41,955 Speaker 2: accusation that the President took a bride. You do know 234 00:15:42,035 --> 00:15:46,835 Speaker 2: from your own reporting from your own station that they 235 00:15:46,875 --> 00:15:49,515 Speaker 2: were selling a brand. You do know from your own 236 00:15:49,595 --> 00:15:53,275 Speaker 2: reporting from CNN that the President went to and did 237 00:15:53,355 --> 00:15:57,755 Speaker 2: conference calls, that the President went to lunches and dinners, 238 00:15:57,995 --> 00:16:00,995 Speaker 2: just the dinners, and Hunter got a new Porsche, He 239 00:16:01,075 --> 00:16:02,355 Speaker 2: got three boys from both. 240 00:16:03,515 --> 00:16:05,195 Speaker 1: Well, that's my question to you. Why don't you ask 241 00:16:05,235 --> 00:16:09,235 Speaker 1: the other questions? Why don't you change your position? I 242 00:16:09,355 --> 00:16:12,835 Speaker 1: never changed my position. You don't you know what's interesting me? 243 00:16:13,155 --> 00:16:14,435 Speaker 1: So you don't care about. 244 00:16:14,195 --> 00:16:15,035 Speaker 2: Any of the answers. 245 00:16:15,275 --> 00:16:16,795 Speaker 1: You are very interested in the whole. 246 00:16:16,675 --> 00:16:18,915 Speaker 2: Press is Yes, I answered your question, McCarthy. 247 00:16:19,315 --> 00:16:22,675 Speaker 1: Of course, McCarthy lied there several times. Nancy Pelosi held 248 00:16:22,835 --> 00:16:26,115 Speaker 1: a vote in twenty nineteen before the impeachment began. He 249 00:16:26,275 --> 00:16:30,755 Speaker 1: also never got around actually answering CNN about his own lying. 250 00:16:32,435 --> 00:16:35,275 Speaker 1: It was rather an impressive performance, especially when he had 251 00:16:35,315 --> 00:16:37,835 Speaker 1: to go back to the beginning. I have noted before 252 00:16:37,875 --> 00:16:40,035 Speaker 1: that Kevin McCarthy looks like the bird that has just 253 00:16:40,155 --> 00:16:43,395 Speaker 1: smashed into your window. During that one, he looked like 254 00:16:43,475 --> 00:16:46,595 Speaker 1: he had just done it twice while I suspect the 255 00:16:46,635 --> 00:16:50,555 Speaker 1: McCarthy illegal impeachment inquiry will soon consume his speakership, and 256 00:16:50,715 --> 00:16:53,275 Speaker 1: within days the media may be climbing over each other 257 00:16:53,395 --> 00:16:56,595 Speaker 1: to help him bury himself. I am not suddenly going 258 00:16:56,635 --> 00:17:00,155 Speaker 1: all Pollyanna on the utter failure of American journalism, especially 259 00:17:00,155 --> 00:17:04,795 Speaker 1: American television journalism, especially American broadcast network television journalism, in 260 00:17:04,875 --> 00:17:07,555 Speaker 1: the last eight years and eight months and the last 261 00:17:07,635 --> 00:17:11,315 Speaker 1: eight minutes. You will recall that the night before the 262 00:17:11,355 --> 00:17:15,715 Speaker 1: Republican debate in Milwaukee, three Trump hoodlums, led by that 263 00:17:15,955 --> 00:17:21,035 Speaker 1: disgusting Jason Miller, were, according to Politico, quote, whining and 264 00:17:21,275 --> 00:17:25,835 Speaker 1: dining twelve national political reporters at a steakhouse in Milwaukee 265 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:29,435 Speaker 1: called Rare. Now, these were not a dozen frauds from 266 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:35,915 Speaker 1: Fox News, The Daily Caller, Newsmax, Fascist Daily. No self 267 00:17:35,995 --> 00:17:39,355 Speaker 1: respecting American newsperson would dine with Miller and Chris las 268 00:17:39,395 --> 00:17:44,035 Speaker 1: Sevita and Stephen Chung or their equivalents in the DeSantis campaign, or, 269 00:17:44,075 --> 00:17:46,875 Speaker 1: for that matter, their equivalents in the Biden campaign, not 270 00:17:46,915 --> 00:17:49,555 Speaker 1: in the middle of a campaign, not the night before 271 00:17:49,595 --> 00:17:54,955 Speaker 1: a debate. But these were not twelve self respecting American 272 00:17:55,035 --> 00:17:58,675 Speaker 1: news persons. They were twelve people from CNN and CBS 273 00:17:58,795 --> 00:18:01,475 Speaker 1: News and NBC News and ABC News and The Washington Post, 274 00:18:01,555 --> 00:18:04,795 Speaker 1: including management, who thought it was somehow appropriate to shifty 275 00:18:05,035 --> 00:18:09,355 Speaker 1: a table with not just political operatives, but political operatives 276 00:18:09,395 --> 00:18:13,275 Speaker 1: who constantly encouraged the public to view news reporters as 277 00:18:13,395 --> 00:18:17,595 Speaker 1: criminals who should be targeted and attacked and assaulted and 278 00:18:17,795 --> 00:18:22,435 Speaker 1: kidnapped and tortured and killed. And among those who broke 279 00:18:22,555 --> 00:18:26,995 Speaker 1: bread with these scumbags were Rick Klein, political director of ABC, 280 00:18:27,635 --> 00:18:32,115 Speaker 1: political editor of Bloomberg, Mario Parker, David Shalien from CNN, 281 00:18:32,595 --> 00:18:36,155 Speaker 1: Robert Costa from CBS, Shane Goldmacher from The New York Times. 282 00:18:36,355 --> 00:18:42,635 Speaker 1: And here's the point. Kristin Welker of NBC News as 283 00:18:42,875 --> 00:18:45,955 Speaker 1: of next week, the new host of Meet the Press, 284 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:54,675 Speaker 1: and yesterday the other shoe dropped. Quoting the Hollywood publication Deadline, 285 00:18:55,395 --> 00:18:58,755 Speaker 1: Kristin Welker's first broadcast of Meet the Press on Sunday 286 00:18:58,795 --> 00:19:03,955 Speaker 1: will feature a pre taped interview with former President Donald Trump. 287 00:19:05,195 --> 00:19:08,155 Speaker 1: The interview will take place on Thursday, that would be 288 00:19:08,275 --> 00:19:11,875 Speaker 1: today in Bedminster, New Jersey, and it will be Trump's 289 00:19:12,075 --> 00:19:17,435 Speaker 1: first broadcast network sit down since leaving office. Who we 290 00:19:17,595 --> 00:19:21,435 Speaker 1: got Trump to talk about himself? We're really cool, aren't we. 291 00:19:21,915 --> 00:19:24,515 Speaker 1: Kristen Welker is the greatest host of Meet the Press ever. 292 00:19:25,275 --> 00:19:27,475 Speaker 1: The network has stressed that the interview is not a 293 00:19:27,595 --> 00:19:32,315 Speaker 1: town hall. Poor Chris Licked. I almost feel sorry for him. 294 00:19:32,475 --> 00:19:34,795 Speaker 1: The network has stressed the interview is not a town 295 00:19:34,915 --> 00:19:38,435 Speaker 1: hall and there is no live audience, and the same 296 00:19:38,595 --> 00:19:41,995 Speaker 1: invite has been extended to President Joe Biden. The sit 297 00:19:42,115 --> 00:19:46,435 Speaker 1: down also will be accompanied by a fact check on 298 00:19:46,755 --> 00:19:51,195 Speaker 1: nbcnews dot Com, the implication being there that the fact 299 00:19:51,275 --> 00:19:55,075 Speaker 1: check will not be on Meet the Press. They also 300 00:19:55,195 --> 00:19:58,315 Speaker 1: pointed to a quote that David gellis I believe that's 301 00:19:58,355 --> 00:20:01,315 Speaker 1: how he pronounces his name, the executive producer of Meet 302 00:20:01,355 --> 00:20:04,075 Speaker 1: the Press, gave to the Pointer report quote, we are 303 00:20:04,155 --> 00:20:07,355 Speaker 1: in the business of covering politics. It's not our job 304 00:20:07,475 --> 00:20:10,355 Speaker 1: to pick and choose the leaders. The American people get 305 00:20:10,395 --> 00:20:13,195 Speaker 1: to do that, and so our job is to make 306 00:20:13,275 --> 00:20:15,715 Speaker 1: sure that the American people understand who the people in 307 00:20:15,795 --> 00:20:19,275 Speaker 1: power are what they stand for and what they plan 308 00:20:19,475 --> 00:20:23,195 Speaker 1: to do. Not to get too biblical on you here, 309 00:20:23,275 --> 00:20:26,555 Speaker 1: but I believe that exact quote was also said once 310 00:20:26,635 --> 00:20:30,435 Speaker 1: by ponscious Pilot. It's not our job to pick and 311 00:20:30,555 --> 00:20:34,195 Speaker 1: choose the leaders. Our job is Yeah, it's not our 312 00:20:34,315 --> 00:20:37,315 Speaker 1: job to try to stop an arsonist who's lighting the building. 313 00:20:37,395 --> 00:20:39,955 Speaker 1: We are all in on fire. It's also not our 314 00:20:40,075 --> 00:20:43,315 Speaker 1: job to try to put out the fire. We are 315 00:20:43,635 --> 00:20:46,835 Speaker 1: just here to make sure that the pyromaniacs and the 316 00:20:47,035 --> 00:20:51,635 Speaker 1: firefighters get an equal amount of coverage and the equal 317 00:20:51,795 --> 00:21:01,715 Speaker 1: opportunity to either burn or not burn. Everybody alive. Congratulations 318 00:21:01,835 --> 00:21:08,235 Speaker 1: NBC on destroying Kristin w Elker's reputation before her first show. 319 00:21:09,155 --> 00:21:16,195 Speaker 1: Just brilliant. This is a preliminary verdict. I reserve the 320 00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:21,635 Speaker 1: right to edit this sentence out later, but honest to God, 321 00:21:22,355 --> 00:21:31,275 Speaker 1: right this minute, I actually miss Chuck Todd by the 322 00:21:31,315 --> 00:21:34,675 Speaker 1: way this Meet the Press EP. I don't know how 323 00:21:34,755 --> 00:21:37,675 Speaker 1: to pronounce his name, but I recognized it. David gellis 324 00:21:37,795 --> 00:21:40,275 Speaker 1: g E L L E s. He was one of 325 00:21:40,395 --> 00:21:45,395 Speaker 1: the producers I inherited when MSNBC hired me back and 326 00:21:45,635 --> 00:21:48,355 Speaker 1: canceled Phil Donahue in two thousand and three, and by 327 00:21:48,395 --> 00:21:50,635 Speaker 1: the way, they canceled him because the show cost way 328 00:21:50,715 --> 00:21:53,355 Speaker 1: too much money and it had a live audience with 329 00:21:53,475 --> 00:21:56,755 Speaker 1: a union in New York, which costs way too much money. 330 00:21:56,955 --> 00:22:00,555 Speaker 1: And even without Phil's admirable anti war stance, they were 331 00:22:00,595 --> 00:22:03,475 Speaker 1: going to cancel it. His stance just made it happen 332 00:22:03,595 --> 00:22:10,235 Speaker 1: faster anyway. So we kept about half, maybe two fifths 333 00:22:10,275 --> 00:22:13,195 Speaker 1: of Donahue's staff and made them into the Countdown staff, 334 00:22:13,875 --> 00:22:17,875 Speaker 1: and the others were dispersed around the company, and this guy, 335 00:22:18,075 --> 00:22:23,235 Speaker 1: gels Or Gellis was one of those dispersed. But don't worry. 336 00:22:23,715 --> 00:22:27,275 Speaker 1: Since that day twenty years ago, he has burnished his credentials. 337 00:22:27,475 --> 00:22:31,075 Speaker 1: We can trust him to handle a Donald Trump interview 338 00:22:31,155 --> 00:22:34,235 Speaker 1: on NBC News with a rookie. We can handle that 339 00:22:34,315 --> 00:22:37,395 Speaker 1: because he burnished his credentials by going on to produce 340 00:22:37,755 --> 00:22:43,915 Speaker 1: such journalistic enterprises as Rock Center with Brian Williams and 341 00:22:44,115 --> 00:22:52,155 Speaker 1: of course, seventeen time Peabody winning program Jake Tapper's book 342 00:22:52,515 --> 00:23:05,155 Speaker 1: Club Christ also of interest here profiles in Discourage. Romney 343 00:23:05,275 --> 00:23:07,515 Speaker 1: says he's going to retire at the end of his term, 344 00:23:08,435 --> 00:23:12,035 Speaker 1: and we have lowered our collective American standards so much that, 345 00:23:12,275 --> 00:23:17,235 Speaker 1: God damn, you'd think it was Daniel freakin' Webster striding 346 00:23:17,355 --> 00:23:19,915 Speaker 1: out of the Senate in July of eighteen fifty to 347 00:23:20,035 --> 00:23:23,235 Speaker 1: take over as Secretary of State in the time of 348 00:23:23,355 --> 00:23:28,395 Speaker 1: great crisis. Jesus aged Christ. It's Mitt Romney. This is 349 00:23:28,435 --> 00:23:30,795 Speaker 1: the guy who put out a public statement with a big, 350 00:23:31,075 --> 00:23:36,835 Speaker 1: colorful graphic that mocked me, me for calling Trump a terrorist. 351 00:23:37,355 --> 00:23:40,755 Speaker 1: And then three months later there he was a virtual 352 00:23:40,835 --> 00:23:45,955 Speaker 1: hostage inside the Senate, inside the Capitol because guess what, 353 00:23:47,235 --> 00:23:52,035 Speaker 1: sportscaster boy over here was right, Trump was a terrorist 354 00:23:52,435 --> 00:23:57,715 Speaker 1: and Mitt Romney in October twenty twenty didn't fing know 355 00:23:57,955 --> 00:24:04,995 Speaker 1: that that's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with 356 00:24:05,235 --> 00:24:14,875 Speaker 1: Keith old woman. Okay, this is half postscripts to the 357 00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:19,275 Speaker 1: news and half things I promised not to tell. Mitt 358 00:24:19,475 --> 00:24:22,595 Speaker 1: Romney yesterday managed to announce his retirement from the Senate 359 00:24:22,675 --> 00:24:26,355 Speaker 1: at the end of his current term and to promote 360 00:24:26,395 --> 00:24:30,635 Speaker 1: his authorized biography excerpt appearing in The Atlantic on the 361 00:24:30,715 --> 00:24:35,115 Speaker 1: same day sums him up. Really, the man who will 362 00:24:35,195 --> 00:24:39,875 Speaker 1: forever be remembered for one photograph with him cowering at 363 00:24:39,915 --> 00:24:43,315 Speaker 1: a poorly lit table at the Jean Jorge restaurant inside 364 00:24:43,355 --> 00:24:47,275 Speaker 1: Trump Tower weeks after Trump was elected, having gone there 365 00:24:47,715 --> 00:24:51,955 Speaker 1: not for the frog's legs but to kiss Trump's ass. Yes, 366 00:24:52,635 --> 00:24:56,955 Speaker 1: he is saying it's time to leave the Senate. Time 367 00:24:57,075 --> 00:24:59,635 Speaker 1: to go, Mitt. Actually, Mitt, that was when you were 368 00:24:59,715 --> 00:25:02,235 Speaker 1: running for the Senate in nineteen ninety four. On the sure, 369 00:25:02,315 --> 00:25:05,955 Speaker 1: I'm an utter mediocrity, but check out my hair platform. 370 00:25:07,475 --> 00:25:12,715 Speaker 1: Has any seemingly intelligent man missed more obvious things in 371 00:25:12,795 --> 00:25:17,355 Speaker 1: American public life than Mitt Romney has. Other vs Republicans 372 00:25:17,395 --> 00:25:20,435 Speaker 1: colluded with Trump out of evil, Mitt Romney did so 373 00:25:20,515 --> 00:25:24,635 Speaker 1: out of naivete An excerpt from this upcoming book, which 374 00:25:24,675 --> 00:25:27,715 Speaker 1: I think they have entitled they call me mister Mitt. 375 00:25:28,755 --> 00:25:34,555 Speaker 1: Maybe I dreamt that maybe it's Mitt the Elder quote. 376 00:25:34,635 --> 00:25:38,955 Speaker 1: What bothered Romney most about Josh Hawley and his cohort 377 00:25:39,675 --> 00:25:44,155 Speaker 1: was the oily, disingenuousness. They know better. He told me, 378 00:25:44,715 --> 00:25:47,275 Speaker 1: Josh Hawley is one of the smartest people in the Senate, 379 00:25:47,315 --> 00:25:50,035 Speaker 1: if not the smartest, and Ted Cruz could give him 380 00:25:50,075 --> 00:25:53,155 Speaker 1: a run for his money. They were too smart. Romney 381 00:25:53,195 --> 00:25:56,035 Speaker 1: believed to actually think that Trump had won the twenty 382 00:25:56,075 --> 00:26:00,395 Speaker 1: twenty election. Hally and Cruz quote were making a calculation. 383 00:26:00,875 --> 00:26:04,435 Speaker 1: Romney told me that put politics above the interests of 384 00:26:04,475 --> 00:26:12,755 Speaker 1: liberal democracy and the Constitution. No kidding, seriously, Matt, it 385 00:26:12,795 --> 00:26:15,275 Speaker 1: took you through the twenty twenty election to realize that 386 00:26:15,435 --> 00:26:19,075 Speaker 1: Cruz and Hally were con men, that maybe there were 387 00:26:19,115 --> 00:26:26,275 Speaker 1: Republicans who were exploiting Trump Seriously. Early in twenty twenty one, 388 00:26:26,435 --> 00:26:29,515 Speaker 1: Romney also told the author quote, A very large portion 389 00:26:29,635 --> 00:26:34,915 Speaker 1: of my party really doesn't believe in the Constitution. Did 390 00:26:34,995 --> 00:26:39,795 Speaker 1: you meet Nixon before he died? Mitt? Did you figure 391 00:26:39,875 --> 00:26:42,235 Speaker 1: that one out for yourself? Or did you have one 392 00:26:42,275 --> 00:26:45,155 Speaker 1: of your old teams from Bain Capital do it for you. 393 00:26:47,155 --> 00:26:49,715 Speaker 1: I always thought Mitt Romney was a dits, but even 394 00:26:49,795 --> 00:26:52,355 Speaker 1: I was shocked on October thirteenth, twenty twenty when a 395 00:26:52,435 --> 00:26:55,955 Speaker 1: graphic appeared on social media, white letters, all caps, some 396 00:26:56,035 --> 00:26:57,955 Speaker 1: of them read on a blue background and his name 397 00:26:57,995 --> 00:27:00,395 Speaker 1: at the top. And I read it innocently enough, no 398 00:27:00,555 --> 00:27:02,155 Speaker 1: idea what was in it, And boy did I get 399 00:27:02,195 --> 00:27:06,755 Speaker 1: a surprise that, as I reported that day, was when 400 00:27:06,795 --> 00:27:10,715 Speaker 1: I discovered that apparently I was the shadow president of 401 00:27:10,835 --> 00:27:15,835 Speaker 1: the United States or something like it. Quote. Untroubled by 402 00:27:15,915 --> 00:27:18,715 Speaker 1: our politics, s Mitt wrote, as it has moved away 403 00:27:18,835 --> 00:27:23,795 Speaker 1: from spirited debate to a vile, vituperative, hatefield morass that 404 00:27:23,995 --> 00:27:29,155 Speaker 1: is unbecoming of any free nation. Mit you just noticed 405 00:27:29,195 --> 00:27:33,275 Speaker 1: that that had been happening since nineteen ninety, started by 406 00:27:33,355 --> 00:27:36,755 Speaker 1: Gingrich and rush Limbaugh and those other fascists. The President 407 00:27:36,835 --> 00:27:40,475 Speaker 1: calls the Democratic vice presidential candidate a quote monster. He 408 00:27:40,595 --> 00:27:43,675 Speaker 1: repeatedly labels the Speaker of the House crazy. He calls 409 00:27:43,915 --> 00:27:46,715 Speaker 1: for the Justice Department to put the prior president in jail. 410 00:27:47,115 --> 00:27:49,195 Speaker 1: He attacks the governor of Michigan on the very day 411 00:27:49,355 --> 00:27:52,675 Speaker 1: a plot is discovered to kidnap her, and yet met 412 00:27:52,795 --> 00:27:55,915 Speaker 1: there you were running away from your own commitment to 413 00:27:55,955 --> 00:28:00,395 Speaker 1: stop this fascist would be dictator, dining with him, auditioning 414 00:28:00,475 --> 00:28:04,275 Speaker 1: for his cabinet, supporting him as he railroaded a Supreme 415 00:28:04,315 --> 00:28:07,955 Speaker 1: Court pass the very rules your party had made up 416 00:28:08,035 --> 00:28:10,555 Speaker 1: out of thin air in twenty sixteen. But go on 417 00:28:10,915 --> 00:28:15,755 Speaker 1: mitt quoting this thing again. From October twenty twenty, Democrats 418 00:28:15,835 --> 00:28:19,635 Speaker 1: launch blistering attacks of their own, though their presidential nominee 419 00:28:19,635 --> 00:28:23,635 Speaker 1: refuses to stoop as low as others. Pelosi tears up 420 00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:27,315 Speaker 1: the President's State of the Union speech on national television. 421 00:28:27,835 --> 00:28:31,435 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman calls the president a terrorist. Media on the 422 00:28:31,555 --> 00:28:35,915 Speaker 1: left and that wait, what Pelosi tears up the President's 423 00:28:35,955 --> 00:28:39,075 Speaker 1: State of the Union speech on national television. Keith Olberman says, 424 00:28:39,475 --> 00:28:46,515 Speaker 1: the President, huh Trump, Governor of Michigan Biden Pelosi, Alberman, 425 00:28:47,515 --> 00:28:51,635 Speaker 1: one of these things is not like the other. I 426 00:28:51,795 --> 00:28:55,115 Speaker 1: just want to clarify here. I am not affiliated with 427 00:28:55,195 --> 00:28:57,795 Speaker 1: any political party. I don't work for any news or 428 00:28:57,875 --> 00:29:00,395 Speaker 1: commentary outlet, and I have not been elected to any 429 00:29:00,515 --> 00:29:04,675 Speaker 1: office since let me see junior year of high schoo 430 00:29:05,675 --> 00:29:08,835 Speaker 1: But I did stay at a holiday in express last night. 431 00:29:11,235 --> 00:29:15,715 Speaker 1: As one Twitter respondent to Mitt Romney's unfortunate missive, the 432 00:29:15,915 --> 00:29:19,235 Speaker 1: former Obama spokesman and Pod Save America co host Tommy 433 00:29:19,275 --> 00:29:23,155 Speaker 1: Vader said it's long pastime to break ground on a 434 00:29:23,315 --> 00:29:27,995 Speaker 1: both Sides museum in Washington, d C. This comparison of 435 00:29:28,115 --> 00:29:32,035 Speaker 1: the President of the United States to Keith Alderman must 436 00:29:32,155 --> 00:29:38,715 Speaker 1: be preserved for future generations. I agreed, then, I agree 437 00:29:38,835 --> 00:29:45,155 Speaker 1: now honestly, soon to be ex Senator Romney, I was 438 00:29:45,235 --> 00:29:48,795 Speaker 1: the best you could do. Or from the other vantage point, 439 00:29:49,075 --> 00:29:53,995 Speaker 1: I was the worst you could do. Mitt Romney, you 440 00:29:54,075 --> 00:29:56,435 Speaker 1: were one of the Franz von Poppins of this nightmare, 441 00:29:56,515 --> 00:29:59,595 Speaker 1: our equivalent of the German conservative politician who helped to 442 00:29:59,595 --> 00:30:03,195 Speaker 1: get Hitler elected and then said, don't worry. Quote within 443 00:30:03,315 --> 00:30:05,235 Speaker 1: two months will have pushed him so so far into 444 00:30:05,235 --> 00:30:10,515 Speaker 1: the quarter that he'll squeak you. Mitt Romney helped to 445 00:30:10,755 --> 00:30:16,275 Speaker 1: enable a terrorist to occupy the Oval office, and by 446 00:30:16,435 --> 00:30:19,555 Speaker 1: that date, in October twenty twenty, we all knew Trump 447 00:30:19,715 --> 00:30:24,755 Speaker 1: was a stochastic terrorist. Maybe you didn't terrorism by proxy. 448 00:30:24,795 --> 00:30:28,035 Speaker 1: He praised the white supremacist militia terrorists in Michigan, repeated 449 00:30:28,035 --> 00:30:30,395 Speaker 1: their demands, and the next thing, as you put in 450 00:30:30,515 --> 00:30:33,555 Speaker 1: that graphic, they were scouting out the governor's summer home 451 00:30:33,595 --> 00:30:37,155 Speaker 1: and planning to kidnap her, and Trump tacitly endorsed the paranoid, 452 00:30:37,195 --> 00:30:39,435 Speaker 1: delusional QAnon cult. The next thing you know, one of 453 00:30:39,475 --> 00:30:41,795 Speaker 1: the kool aid drinkers were bursting into a kid's pizza 454 00:30:41,875 --> 00:30:44,995 Speaker 1: parlor brandishing an AR fifteen because he really believed that 455 00:30:45,155 --> 00:30:49,235 Speaker 1: bullshit on a psychoic chat room board. That had already happened, 456 00:30:50,355 --> 00:30:54,035 Speaker 1: and Trump was already also a direct terrorist by October 457 00:30:54,075 --> 00:30:56,515 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Senator, what was he doing to his own 458 00:30:56,555 --> 00:31:00,715 Speaker 1: supporters if not terrorizing them? He told them, a democratic president, 459 00:31:01,395 --> 00:31:03,955 Speaker 1: if elected, would burn down the cities. And destroy the 460 00:31:03,995 --> 00:31:07,115 Speaker 1: suburbs and eliminate the borders and allow foreign gangs to 461 00:31:07,195 --> 00:31:11,955 Speaker 1: come kill them. All that, Senator is and was and 462 00:31:12,315 --> 00:31:19,955 Speaker 1: was then terrorism, and you mitt you didn't notice the 463 00:31:20,075 --> 00:31:23,235 Speaker 1: country was metaphorically ablaze, and you were yelling at those 464 00:31:23,275 --> 00:31:25,075 Speaker 1: of us who were trying to warn people and put 465 00:31:25,115 --> 00:31:28,555 Speaker 1: out that fire I referred to earlier. We have to 466 00:31:28,635 --> 00:31:32,115 Speaker 1: make it safe for both the pyromaniacs and the firefighters. 467 00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:37,035 Speaker 1: NBC News Washington. You tried to make it bad for 468 00:31:37,115 --> 00:31:39,795 Speaker 1: those of us who were warning people in the realistic 469 00:31:39,955 --> 00:31:44,555 Speaker 1: terms by complaining that we trampled some imaginary tulip garden 470 00:31:44,675 --> 00:31:49,195 Speaker 1: of friendly American political discourse that still exists only inside 471 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:55,475 Speaker 1: your own head under all that hair. Silence in the 472 00:31:55,555 --> 00:31:58,995 Speaker 1: face of evil, or both sides. Ism in the face 473 00:31:59,035 --> 00:32:02,435 Speaker 1: of evil is the same as conducting the evil yourself. 474 00:32:02,595 --> 00:32:06,955 Speaker 1: Senator Trump was there. Trump was still there because you 475 00:32:07,395 --> 00:32:11,755 Speaker 1: and the other good Republicans let him stay there. This 476 00:32:12,195 --> 00:32:14,955 Speaker 1: is the kind of America they wanted. This is the 477 00:32:15,075 --> 00:32:17,995 Speaker 1: kind of America they got. This is the kind of 478 00:32:18,035 --> 00:32:23,755 Speaker 1: America you got. If you have complaints about the state 479 00:32:23,995 --> 00:32:27,595 Speaker 1: of political discourse in this country, mit take it up 480 00:32:28,195 --> 00:32:35,595 Speaker 1: with the terrorist in chief. Or with your own mirror quote. 481 00:32:35,635 --> 00:32:38,915 Speaker 1: The rabbit attacks kindle the conspiracy mongers and the haters 482 00:32:38,955 --> 00:32:42,195 Speaker 1: who take the small and predictable step from intemperate word 483 00:32:42,595 --> 00:32:46,715 Speaker 1: to dangerous action. Mitt Romney wrote in October twenty twenty 484 00:32:46,835 --> 00:32:52,195 Speaker 1: in his memo to me, it is time to lower 485 00:32:52,275 --> 00:32:55,715 Speaker 1: the heat. Leaders must tone it down. Leaders from the top, 486 00:32:55,795 --> 00:33:01,075 Speaker 1: and leaders of all stripes, parents, bosses, reporters, columnists, professors, 487 00:33:01,675 --> 00:33:05,995 Speaker 1: union chiefs, everyone. The concert sequence of the crescendo of 488 00:33:06,035 --> 00:33:11,395 Speaker 1: anger leads to a very bad place. No sane person 489 00:33:11,875 --> 00:33:17,435 Speaker 1: can want that. Unquote. You'll notice that among the people 490 00:33:17,515 --> 00:33:19,915 Speaker 1: he told to tone it down in October twenty twenty, 491 00:33:19,955 --> 00:33:24,595 Speaker 1: mitt Romney did not include Donald Trump, and sure enough, 492 00:33:25,635 --> 00:33:28,835 Speaker 1: less than three months later, Mitt Romney was avoiding a 493 00:33:29,115 --> 00:33:32,675 Speaker 1: Trump mob bent on killing him or whoever they could 494 00:33:32,675 --> 00:33:36,235 Speaker 1: get hold of, and, by the way, destroying democracy. And 495 00:33:36,435 --> 00:33:40,515 Speaker 1: guess what, Mitt I was right. Donald Trump was a 496 00:33:40,675 --> 00:33:46,115 Speaker 1: terrorist and Donald Trump is a terrorist. Unless Mitt you 497 00:33:46,395 --> 00:34:19,995 Speaker 1: think that I caused January sixth, idiot, I've done all 498 00:34:20,035 --> 00:34:22,035 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 499 00:34:22,115 --> 00:34:24,515 Speaker 1: Countdowns come to you from our studios high atop the 500 00:34:24,555 --> 00:34:29,915 Speaker 1: Sports Capsule building here in New York New York. Here 501 00:34:29,955 --> 00:34:31,955 Speaker 1: are the credits. Most of the music arrange produced and 502 00:34:32,035 --> 00:34:34,715 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel. They are, 503 00:34:34,835 --> 00:34:38,435 Speaker 1: of course the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards 504 00:34:38,475 --> 00:34:41,475 Speaker 1: by John Phillip Shaneil, the guitars, bass and drums by 505 00:34:41,515 --> 00:34:45,395 Speaker 1: Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have 506 00:34:45,515 --> 00:34:48,995 Speaker 1: been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports 507 00:34:49,075 --> 00:34:51,995 Speaker 1: music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, and it 508 00:34:52,075 --> 00:34:54,755 Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 509 00:34:55,155 --> 00:34:58,715 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 510 00:34:59,075 --> 00:35:01,755 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Jonathan Banks from Breaking 511 00:35:01,875 --> 00:35:06,955 Speaker 1: Bad and Better Call Saul Airplane. Everything else is pretty 512 00:35:06,995 --> 00:35:09,395 Speaker 1: much my fault. That's countdown for this, the nine hundred 513 00:35:09,395 --> 00:35:12,675 Speaker 1: and eighty second day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 514 00:35:12,715 --> 00:35:16,235 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Convict 515 00:35:16,275 --> 00:35:19,995 Speaker 1: him now while we still can. By the way, Mitt, 516 00:35:20,475 --> 00:35:24,115 Speaker 1: he's still a terrest. The next schedule countdown is tomorrow. 517 00:35:24,195 --> 00:35:26,795 Speaker 1: Bolletin says. The news warrants and my throat permits till then. 518 00:35:26,835 --> 00:35:31,555 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Oulderman, good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. 519 00:35:43,955 --> 00:35:47,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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