WEBVTT - TRUMP'S TERRORIST ATTACK ON LOS ANGELES (AND US) - 6.9.25

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<v Speaker 1>Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Make

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<v Speaker 1>no mistake about what this is. This is Donald Trump's

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<v Speaker 1>terrorist attack on Los Angeles and with its undercurrent of

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<v Speaker 1>warning and preview to and against all the other metropolitan

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<v Speaker 1>areas still free of MAGA fascism. It is also Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump's terrorist threat against all of America. What else do

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<v Speaker 1>you call it? What else can you call it? When

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<v Speaker 1>you send in an unknown number of massed gestapo, fired

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<v Speaker 1>with authoritarian and racist fervor, their consciences muted by decades

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<v Speaker 1>of hateful rainwashing to seize, violate, and disappear civilians largely

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<v Speaker 1>from one ethnic group, from their homes, from their streets,

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<v Speaker 1>from their children's high school graduation ceremonies, and then send

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<v Speaker 1>them to anywhere. Send them to torture camps in lethally

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<v Speaker 1>dangerous foreign countries. Send them to the basements of the

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<v Speaker 1>ice facility in La overnight without water or food or electricity.

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<v Speaker 1>Send them to wherever you want to keep them, while

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<v Speaker 1>often farcical legal cases are manufactured against them, as in

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<v Speaker 1>the story of kilmar Abrego Garcia. What else do you

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<v Speaker 1>call it? When, on top of this preliminary stage of

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<v Speaker 1>ethnic cleansing, you begin to beat and threaten and seize

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<v Speaker 1>those patriotic Americans protesting Donald Trump's use of the Constitution

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<v Speaker 1>as something with which he can wipe his ass. What

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<v Speaker 1>else do you call it when, after these unforgivable, disqualifying acts,

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<v Speaker 1>you bypass the Police Department of Los Angeles, and you

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<v Speaker 1>bypass the Mayor of Los Angeles, and you bypass the

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<v Speaker 1>Governor of California, all of whom correctly describe the proportions

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<v Speaker 1>of the clashes over the Nazi like raids as minor events.

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<v Speaker 1>When you bypass these clear and sober conclusions, and you

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<v Speaker 1>nationalize two thousand California National Guardsmen and pit them against

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<v Speaker 1>their fellow residents, and pit them against perhaps their own relatives,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you get the unstable, hallucinating Secretary of Defense

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<v Speaker 1>ready to send in active duty Marines because people tried

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<v Speaker 1>to save their neighbors and their relatives from existential life

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<v Speaker 1>and death kidnapping by ice. What else do you call it?

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<v Speaker 1>When the fiendish, demented, Hispanic hated advisor and Bigot refers

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<v Speaker 1>to all of this as quote an insurrection against the

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<v Speaker 1>laws and sovereignty of the United States, when it is

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<v Speaker 1>in fact a handful of people exercising their protected constitutional

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<v Speaker 1>rights in the parking lot of a goddamned home depot.

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<v Speaker 1>It is terrorism. It is designed to cause terror and panic.

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<v Speaker 1>It is designed to either use violence or the threat

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<v Speaker 1>of violence to effect political change, extra legally performed by

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<v Speaker 1>masked and helmeted, faceless men and women with weapons of

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<v Speaker 1>war on the streets of America's second largest city, to

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<v Speaker 1>stage an ice riot and then show what are literally

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<v Speaker 1>seconds of self defense by civilians, again and again on

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<v Speaker 1>what are nominally teleb news channels now subverted and perverted

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<v Speaker 1>into propaganda machines, to warn with vague, unstated menace that

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<v Speaker 1>this will be re enacted every day for the next

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<v Speaker 1>month in southern California and then where New York, Chicago, Washington, DC,

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<v Speaker 1>where by coincidence, there will be a parade of military

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<v Speaker 1>hardware at the end of this week, of parade that

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<v Speaker 1>would have made Stalin and the Kremlin blush, to celebrate

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<v Speaker 1>the birthday of the quote commander in chief unquote, the

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<v Speaker 1>one who did everything he could five times to avoid

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<v Speaker 1>serving in the military, to avoid even the kind of

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<v Speaker 1>lip service service completed by the George W. Bushes of

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<v Speaker 1>this world it is terrorism. It is Donald Trump's terrorism.

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<v Speaker 1>It is Donald Trump's terrorist attack on Los Angeles on

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<v Speaker 1>all of us call it what it is. The reality

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<v Speaker 1>of the events on the ground in southern California is

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<v Speaker 1>something altogether different. The LAPD, fantastically fascist and reliably racist,

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<v Speaker 1>almost without interruption for nearly a century and a half,

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<v Speaker 1>says there is no threat, No National Guard is required,

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<v Speaker 1>no goddamn marines. They have it covered. The news in

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<v Speaker 1>Los Angeles, used to true disaster and threat as recently

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<v Speaker 1>as the wildfires, and as far back as the Watts

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<v Speaker 1>riot and the Rodney King Riot and the zoot Suit riots,

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<v Speaker 1>gave as much coverage yesterday to the Pride Parade in

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<v Speaker 1>West Hollywood, largely because there were more people on the

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<v Speaker 1>streets at the Pride parade. The all news radio station,

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<v Speaker 1>which we'll switch to wall to wall disaster coverage anytime

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<v Speaker 1>an earthquake hits more than four point five on the

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<v Speaker 1>Richter scale, moved quickly yesterday from the clashes and the

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<v Speaker 1>calls from liberal government officials for calm and non violence,

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<v Speaker 1>from the trumpest deliberate escalation to the Stephen Miller wet

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<v Speaker 1>dream of using the American military to shoot American civilians

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<v Speaker 1>on the streets of American cities. They moved from their

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<v Speaker 1>coverage of all that to reporting instead on a true

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<v Speaker 1>urgent threat in the community. It is graduation season and

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<v Speaker 1>forty six hundred customers lost power in Westminster, California, over

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<v Speaker 1>the weekend because too many people lost control of too

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<v Speaker 1>many metallic congratulations balloons and they shorted out overhead power lines.

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<v Speaker 1>That is the reality of what it's like in southern

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<v Speaker 1>California right now. It's pretty much like every other day.

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<v Speaker 1>Send in the Marines to deal with that. Pete Hegseth.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's see your warrior ethos applied to the fight against shiny,

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<v Speaker 1>unidentified flying objects that might be an attack because they're

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<v Speaker 1>going first for the infrastructure. Let's see heg Seth against

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<v Speaker 1>the balloons, the warrior ethos embodied by an idiotic Secretary

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<v Speaker 1>of Defense who uses more hair product than Lady Gaga.

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<v Speaker 1>Make no mistake about what this is. I first warned

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<v Speaker 1>about this sequence of events early in two thousand goddamned sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>First Trump activates racism against Hispanic people, or against any people,

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<v Speaker 1>then he invents an excuse to demonize them. Then he

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<v Speaker 1>starts to round them up. Then his cronies profit off

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<v Speaker 1>the private concentration camps that have to be built for them.

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<v Speaker 1>Then he starts to round up anybody who tries to

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<v Speaker 1>defend the rights of his victims. Then he cuts to

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<v Speaker 1>the chase and sends in the National Guard and finally

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<v Speaker 1>the Army, and hopefully shoots them all. Then he declares

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<v Speaker 1>there's an invasion, and he says the threat, the threat

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<v Speaker 1>he manufactured and the prostitutes in his bureaucracy would nurture

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<v Speaker 1>and escalate. He says, the threat is now national, and

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<v Speaker 1>everyone is now at risk, and your constitution will have

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<v Speaker 1>to be suspended one right at a time. Trump's attack

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<v Speaker 1>on southern California, his invasion of Southern California, means we

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<v Speaker 1>are at about square two of this sequence. Even the

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<v Speaker 1>usually hapless Politico made no mistake about what this is

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<v Speaker 1>Trump's Rubicon moment. It wrote, well, it is essential Trump

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<v Speaker 1>and his dreams of dictatorship do not make it to

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<v Speaker 1>the other side of that river. But believe it or not,

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<v Speaker 1>almost miraculously, there is a way to stop Trump here

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<v Speaker 1>and now and to destroy his plans and perhaps his

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<v Speaker 1>presidency immediately. And by chance, this way was voiced before

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<v Speaker 1>Trump began down the path that will end with either

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<v Speaker 1>America or Trump here, but not both. This literally came

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<v Speaker 1>out the day before. It was on Friday. It was

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<v Speaker 1>in Gavin Newsom's unexpected spine growth at his embracing something

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<v Speaker 1>else I have been talking about since two thousand goddamn sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>There is one certain, nonviolent, unstoppable way to undo everything

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<v Speaker 1>imposed upon the people of this long suffering nation by

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<v Speaker 1>this dictatorial, fascist, minority bullshit regime. Gavin Newsom and the

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<v Speaker 1>state government of California have now threatened to lead a

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<v Speaker 1>tax strike. Newsom and California's State Assembly are ready to

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<v Speaker 1>defund the Trump dictatorship.

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<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump is threatening to defund California, but it's econ

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<v Speaker 2>one oh one. California is a donor state. We provide

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<v Speaker 2>over eighty billion dollars more in tax revenue to the

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<v Speaker 2>federal government than the federal government provides to the people

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<v Speaker 2>of the state of California. We help pay federal bills.

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<v Speaker 2>So if Donald Trump's going to continue to threaten forty

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<v Speaker 2>million Americans that live in California, maybe we should consider

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<v Speaker 2>it withholding those resources.

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<v Speaker 1>God yes, especially after the Iice Gestapo riots in La

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<v Speaker 1>there's more. Quote. I'll use every legal and constitutional tool

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<v Speaker 1>available to defend California, says the State Assembly Speaker Robert

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<v Speaker 1>Reebos in the wake of the Trump threat to cut

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<v Speaker 1>off any federal money that he can that is owed

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<v Speaker 1>to California, quoting again, we must look at every option,

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<v Speaker 1>including withholding federal r taxes. That's six hundred and ninety

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<v Speaker 1>two billion dollars in federal taxes paid by California and

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<v Speaker 1>its residents per year. The figure that Newsom quoted there

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<v Speaker 1>the eighty billion. That's the gap. Eighty billion is what

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<v Speaker 1>California donates to the Red States or has stolen from

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<v Speaker 1>it by the Red States. The actual figure paid every

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<v Speaker 1>year into the federal government by the state of California

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<v Speaker 1>is six hundred and ninety two billion dollars. Doje this, Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>Governor do it? Do it now? Do it in every

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<v Speaker 1>Blue state. The gap is bigger in New York. Do it,

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<v Speaker 1>and they will be metaphorically starving in the streets of

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<v Speaker 1>the Red States by this Friday. I have been saying

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<v Speaker 1>for eight years that ultimately it will come down to this,

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<v Speaker 1>that the last line of defense of this country and

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<v Speaker 1>its future and its democracy is not civil war or

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<v Speaker 1>mass protest or judicial resurrection, but rather shutting down the

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<v Speaker 1>Blue state ATM I have said that ultimately, if this

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<v Speaker 1>means you and I have to stop paying our federal

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<v Speaker 1>taxes and run those risks, so be it. Of course,

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<v Speaker 1>there is an obvious problem with that. If one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>percent of US stop paying our federal taxes, the administration

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<v Speaker 1>falls and Trump flees the country by the end of

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<v Speaker 1>the week. If one percent of us stop paying our

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<v Speaker 1>federal taxes, you and I will get arrested and prosecuted.

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<v Speaker 1>I hate to break this to you, but this is

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<v Speaker 1>not the greatest generation. And the number of us who

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<v Speaker 1>would actually take that risk now in this America, well,

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<v Speaker 1>that one percent figure I just quoted my be wildly optimistic,

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<v Speaker 1>to say nothing of the increasingly automatic nature of federal

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<v Speaker 1>tax deductions. How many of us can actually stop paying

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<v Speaker 1>our federal taxes. But what Newsom and California speaker Rivas

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<v Speaker 1>are talking about is way different, and way better, and

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<v Speaker 1>way more deadly. It is not you and I taking

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<v Speaker 1>the risk now. It is the state of California taking

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<v Speaker 1>the lead. It is not a consumer tax strike. It

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<v Speaker 1>is a declaration of economic war by the most economically

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<v Speaker 1>powerful state in the nation, the fourth biggest economy in

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<v Speaker 1>the world, against Donald Trump and the leech states that

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<v Speaker 1>put him in power and currently control the country as

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<v Speaker 1>a minority and control us the majority, and are endeavoring

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<v Speaker 1>at this moment to make slaves out of us. But

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<v Speaker 1>here it is Gavin Newsom taking the risk, California taking

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<v Speaker 1>the risk, leaders leading. Damn governor. If you do this,

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<v Speaker 1>if you just carry this threat out far enough and

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<v Speaker 1>long enough to break Trump, I'll not only forgive you

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<v Speaker 1>your sillery pandering to the fascists on that podcast, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>work for your presidential campaign. I'll nominate you myself. I'll

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<v Speaker 1>carry you to the convention. This is the best option

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<v Speaker 1>to defeat Trump and restore the vaguely fair of America

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<v Speaker 1>of twenty sixteen that we have seen since twenty sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Biden and Garland screwed the pooch on convicting Trump, and

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<v Speaker 1>he might have run out the clock anyway, And even

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<v Speaker 1>if he didn't, he would have run from prison. And

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<v Speaker 1>even if he didn't do that, somebody else would have

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<v Speaker 1>run on a promise to pardon him and restore him.

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<v Speaker 1>In many ways, but especially this one, Donald Trump is

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<v Speaker 1>a cockroach but this, this is gold gold, because there

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<v Speaker 1>are no nuclear options left to Trump with which he

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<v Speaker 1>can get withheld taxes out of the hands of California.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't do it with the National Guard. You can't

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<v Speaker 1>do it with marines. You can't do it with Pete

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<v Speaker 1>Hegseth's hair moose. You can't do it with court orders.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't do it without the state's cooperation. And even

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<v Speaker 1>though I am sitting here looking at New York's key Democrats,

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<v Speaker 1>likely being not just Kathy Hochel but also Andrew Cuomo,

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<v Speaker 1>it could even inspire the other Blue states in the

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<v Speaker 1>same boat to reassert economic control of this nation and

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<v Speaker 1>break the Red states tomorrow. That economic disparity is extraordinary.

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<v Speaker 1>Calculating it is extraordinarily difficult. Newsom's number. California pays in

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<v Speaker 1>eighty billion a year more than it gets out in

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<v Speaker 1>the federal funds Trump has threatened to cut off. That's

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<v Speaker 1>almost certainly better and more accurate than anything I could

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<v Speaker 1>come up with. A decade ago, Business Insider produced a

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<v Speaker 1>startling number. The twenty two reddest states in the country

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<v Speaker 1>were taking out four hundred and twenty five billion a

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<v Speaker 1>year from the federal government, more than they were putting

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<v Speaker 1>in New York's figure as a so called donor state,

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<v Speaker 1>essentially by itself kept the state of South Carolina alive. Texas,

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<v Speaker 1>where fully a quarter of state revenue comes from the

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<v Speaker 1>federal government, does not go bankrupt every year only because

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<v Speaker 1>that money that the taxpayers in California and Illinois and

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<v Speaker 1>Minnesota put in never see again and goes to Texas

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<v Speaker 1>goes to Texas. And on top of the pure economics,

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<v Speaker 1>there is the unmitigated hypocritical gall of the Maga states.

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<v Speaker 1>They survive because of that part of our nation that

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<v Speaker 1>has always been socialist share the wealth. Florida is socialist.

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<v Speaker 1>Florida gets a kind of state to state social security

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<v Speaker 1>or medicare. Perhaps is the more accurate comp socialist hell socialist?

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<v Speaker 1>From each according to his ability, to each according to

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<v Speaker 1>his needs. Florida is communist. As a worthwhile aside. Search

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<v Speaker 1>that phrase and you will see that a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>people seem to think from each according to his ability

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<v Speaker 1>comes from the Bible. Back to the point, Newsome, we

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<v Speaker 1>pay over eighty billion dollars more in taxes than we

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<v Speaker 1>get back. Maybe it's time to cut that off, Speaker Revas.

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<v Speaker 1>We must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh hellelujah. This is the Manhattan Project of the war

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<v Speaker 1>against Trump. This and maybe just the threat of this,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe just the first steps towards this. They are enough

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<v Speaker 1>to get almost any concession needed from the Red States,

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<v Speaker 1>because the government in those states would literally run out

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<v Speaker 1>of money within months at most. The Rockefeller Institute of

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<v Speaker 1>Government has the stark numbers, and they will amaze you.

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<v Speaker 1>Nearly a third of the budget in Montana is federal money,

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<v Speaker 1>yours mine, California's thirty percent, in Kentucky, thirty percent in Louisiana,

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nine percent in Alaska and Wyoming, twenty seven in

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<v Speaker 1>West Virginia. The entire framework of Republican deceit and the

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<v Speaker 1>maga cloud of cult worship would crumble before the economic

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<v Speaker 1>reality of everything suddenly tomorrow shutting off in Louisiana. But

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<v Speaker 1>the Blue States, wouldn't the federal funds stop arriving in

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<v Speaker 1>the Blue States? Too? Sure? They would, too bad. There

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be any handy pot of you know, say, money

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<v Speaker 1>California did not send to Trump, which would be eighty

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<v Speaker 1>billion dollars larger than it would have been otherwise. Seven

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<v Speaker 1>hundred billion, probably just sitting there because the Blue states

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<v Speaker 1>keep the Red ones alive out of patriotism and goodwill.

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<v Speaker 1>And if Trump really wants to f with our generosity,

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<v Speaker 1>he will find out, and he will find out so

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<v Speaker 1>fast that I think historians will never find any trace

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<v Speaker 1>or record of him or his presidency. Let's circle back

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<v Speaker 1>to Ice and Los Angeles and the man who is

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<v Speaker 1>rapidly becoming the Colonel Dreyfus of our twenty first century. Prejudiced,

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<v Speaker 1>morally bankrupt, racist prosecution, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. There are two

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<v Speaker 1>remarkable things about this persecution. One is that Trump and

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<v Speaker 1>Trump's whores spent weeks insisting that even if he was

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<v Speaker 1>kidnapped without cause, there was now no way to ever

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<v Speaker 1>get him back from El Salvador. Oh wait, there he is.

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<v Speaker 1>He's in Nashville now. The second is how have his

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<v Speaker 1>attorneys not yet filed a suit charging the government with

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<v Speaker 1>what Trump and his idiots are almost boasting about that

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<v Speaker 1>they have now maliciously prosecuted him. This is a crime.

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<v Speaker 1>People must go to jail for this. Pam Bondi would

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<v Speaker 1>be an excellent choice, and mister a Brigo Garcia must

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<v Speaker 1>receive millions in damages period, traffic stop years ago, no evidence,

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<v Speaker 1>no case, no charges, no nothing. You may leave. He's

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<v Speaker 1>then kidnapped by Ice disappeared out of our country. Even

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<v Speaker 1>the Trump lawyer admits to the court that they grabbed

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<v Speaker 1>a man not deserving of prosecution, let alone rendition, and

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<v Speaker 1>while they try to keep him in a torture chamber

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<v Speaker 1>for the rest of his life, they manufacture a case

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<v Speaker 1>for him based on the traffic stop which produced the

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<v Speaker 1>conclusion of his innocence. Sue them, Sue them now. Also,

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<v Speaker 1>you're not paying him his money with any of California's money.

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<v Speaker 1>As the weekend in La underscored so brutally, Ice is

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<v Speaker 1>out of control. Its brown shirts are out of control.

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<v Speaker 1>The fiends directing them directing Ice are out of control

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<v Speaker 1>and making it all worse. They are all incompetent morons.

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<v Speaker 1>They are simultaneously insisting that protesters cannot wear masks nor

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<v Speaker 1>shield their identities, while insisting that their own agents must

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<v Speaker 1>wear masks and shield their identities, a violation of every

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<v Speaker 1>tenet of law enforcement in this country's history. Not protective helmets,

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<v Speaker 1>not life preserving vests, masks, masks for one purpose, masks

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<v Speaker 1>so they can be masked and unidentifiable men with guns

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<v Speaker 1>who say they are from the government and operating lawfully,

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<v Speaker 1>except they are dressed as terrorists dress. Online, Trump congratulated

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<v Speaker 1>these his stormtroopers on how well they had done in LA.

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<v Speaker 1>He posted this hours before they got there. Naturally, because

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<v Speaker 1>Trump is effing crazy and Trump unilaterally declared as dictators

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<v Speaker 1>do that masks cannot be worn anymore by US civilians

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<v Speaker 1>at protests. What do these people have to hide and why?

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<v Speaker 1>He asked, ask that of Ice, shithead. Happily Trump and

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<v Speaker 1>Ice are so bad at this. Tom Holman said he

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<v Speaker 1>thinks somebody is going to lose their life during this

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<v Speaker 1>stuff in LA. If you want to volunteer, Tom, it's

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<v Speaker 1>over there. The US Marshal Service has now confirmed it.

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<v Speaker 1>Last month, while raiding the immigration court in Tucson, Arizona,

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<v Speaker 1>as cynical and diseased a tactic, as could be imagined,

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<v Speaker 1>Ice seized a US marshal. He quote fit the general

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<v Speaker 1>description of a subject being sought by Ice the Marshal's Service,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'll translate that he was Hispanic. Then there is

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<v Speaker 1>this buffoon Lions who runs the Gestapo, who is complaining

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<v Speaker 1>about the risks that his bullies and racists are subjected

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<v Speaker 1>to because they are doing the same thing terrorists do,

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<v Speaker 1>because they are enforcing a laws that are not laws,

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<v Speaker 1>or be in the best possible interpretation, they are enforcing

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<v Speaker 1>laws that are not just, that are not American. This

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<v Speaker 1>guy went on Fox News and tried to martyr himself

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<v Speaker 1>over the comments by the mayor of Boston. Quote what

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<v Speaker 1>Mayor Wu said was disgusting. She actually compared us to

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<v Speaker 1>a neo Nazi group. Here I am on January sixth. Yeah,

0:24:33.275 --> 0:24:37.035
<v Speaker 1>it was June sixth, and he said January sixth. Here

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<v Speaker 1>I am on January sixth. The comparison to a neo

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<v Speaker 1>Nazi group immediately threw todd Lyons into a form of

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<v Speaker 1>Freudian slip in which he thought of January sixth and

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<v Speaker 1>Trump's other neo Nazi group on that subject, it has

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<v Speaker 1>noted that Trump's main defense for his deliberate inactivity on

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<v Speaker 1>January sixth was that he had no means of knowing

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<v Speaker 1>how to call in the National Guard for something that

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<v Speaker 1>was blocks away from where he was sitting on his fat,

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<v Speaker 1>useless ass eating cheeseburgers. And yet he just called in

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<v Speaker 1>the National Guard from where he sat on his fat,

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<v Speaker 1>useless ass eating cheeseburgers for something twenty seven hundred miles away.

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<v Speaker 1>And we've been saying Trump can't learn. And of course

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<v Speaker 1>then there is the mondanity of hypocrisy on the personal level,

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<v Speaker 1>the individual bankruptcy of those involved in this. The mobilization

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<v Speaker 1>of the California Guard had to go through Homeland Security

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<v Speaker 1>Secretary Christy shoot 'em Upnome now with eight new action

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<v Speaker 1>dress up outfits. It had to go over the head

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<v Speaker 1>of the individual actually in charge of the California National Guard,

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<v Speaker 1>Governor Newsom. Secretary Nome was all four riding roughshot over

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<v Speaker 1>the States. Here's Secretary Nome while Governor February first of

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<v Speaker 1>last year, quote, South Dakota is united in our support

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<v Speaker 1>of our state's constitutional rights to defend itself. Democrats are

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<v Speaker 1>encouraging Biden to federalize the National Guard to take that

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<v Speaker 1>power away from the states. I will always stand to

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<v Speaker 1>defend states rights. Christinome eight forty one a m. Two

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<v Speaker 1>one twenty four. Well, now we know exactly how long

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<v Speaker 1>forever is the time between two to one twenty four

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<v Speaker 1>and six eight twenty five. I would suggest Christy nom

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<v Speaker 1>has sold her soul. But Obviously that happened long ago.

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<v Speaker 1>Presumably they removed it last time she went in for

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<v Speaker 1>a touch up. And lastly, on the subject of personal

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<v Speaker 1>failure and the mundanity of hypocrisy, there is the chairman

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<v Speaker 1>of Disney, my former friend, Bob Iiger. You will recall

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<v Speaker 1>Bob sold his soul months ago when he turned Trump's

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<v Speaker 1>idiotic lawsuit against ABC News over a George Stephanoppolis interview

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<v Speaker 1>into an opportunity to wipe the illegality off of a bribe.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is what Bob bought with that. Terry Moran,

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<v Speaker 1>the reporter the White House agreed to after Eiger seated

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<v Speaker 1>even more of ABC's independence in arranging an interview with

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<v Speaker 1>the dementia patient in chief. Terry Moran wrote a sober, clear,

0:27:23.555 --> 0:27:27.955
<v Speaker 1>cool headed, accurate analysis of the emotional disturbance inside Stephen

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<v Speaker 1>Miller that is suggested daily by Miller's public hysteria about LA.

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<v Speaker 1>In about a thousand matters before LA, but of course

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<v Speaker 1>Miller is from LA. Moran posted this, then deleted it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure why Terry did that. Miller went on

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<v Speaker 1>and on online about this Sunday, insisting it proved media

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<v Speaker 1>bias and blah, blah blah, we get it, your nuts

0:27:52.715 --> 0:27:54.875
<v Speaker 1>and it'sisted. The most important part was blah blah blah,

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<v Speaker 1>we get it. The Hispanic girl at Santa Monica High

0:27:56.955 --> 0:27:59.435
<v Speaker 1>School wouldn't go out with you. What Miller did not

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<v Speaker 1>do was deny anything that Terry Moran wrote about him. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>all the White House and its resident nitwit Caroline his

0:28:10.195 --> 0:28:13.355
<v Speaker 1>name was Hilter Levitt wanted to talk about yesterday was

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<v Speaker 1>how ABC better punished Terry Moran, and it did. Bob

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<v Speaker 1>Eiger's company suspended him. Time frame undecided, pending further evaluation.

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<v Speaker 1>A reporter reporting the truth gets suspended by Bob fing Iiger.

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<v Speaker 1>Jesus H. Christ. Bob, the people of ABC News and

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<v Speaker 1>the people in every ABC newsroom in America, and the

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<v Speaker 1>people at ESPN and at every other Disney property dealing

0:28:48.435 --> 0:28:51.955
<v Speaker 1>in the coverage of the world should walk out in protests,

0:28:52.075 --> 0:28:56.555
<v Speaker 1>should walk off their shows today because guess what. My

0:28:56.675 --> 0:29:03.195
<v Speaker 1>old friends in both shops, guess what. Robin Roberts, guess what,

0:29:03.315 --> 0:29:10.955
<v Speaker 1>Chris Berman, guess what? Everybody You'll be next. Bob has

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<v Speaker 1>no choice but to sell you all out. Now he

0:29:13.555 --> 0:29:19.435
<v Speaker 1>is a Trump whore. Now, when I met Bob forty

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<v Speaker 1>seven years ago, he told me his dream was to

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<v Speaker 1>be on the air sportscaster. Circumstances, he said, led him

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<v Speaker 1>instead into management, and he would have had no complaints

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<v Speaker 1>about the life he expected he would then lead, but

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<v Speaker 1>it would still be his second choice. He would still

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<v Speaker 1>die still wanting to be a sportscaster or a newscaster

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<v Speaker 1>and having never done so. Well, here's a chance, Bob

0:29:42.595 --> 0:29:46.355
<v Speaker 1>really whore yourself out. Bob, take everybody at ABC off

0:29:46.395 --> 0:29:48.715
<v Speaker 1>the air whom Trump doesn't like, and Bob, that would

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<v Speaker 1>be everybody, and Bob just go on the air and

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<v Speaker 1>do all the effing newscasts yourself. By the way, for

0:30:00.955 --> 0:30:06.195
<v Speaker 1>thirty odd years, from nineteen seventy nine to like twelve thirteen,

0:30:06.675 --> 0:30:09.915
<v Speaker 1>I believed what Bob had told me in his office

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<v Speaker 1>at Wide World of Sports about why he stopped being

0:30:13.675 --> 0:30:16.715
<v Speaker 1>on air and went into the business and budgeting end

0:30:16.955 --> 0:30:19.315
<v Speaker 1>instead and what would happen to him as a result.

0:30:19.355 --> 0:30:22.995
<v Speaker 1>And then I met his longtime assistant, Pat Philly when

0:30:22.995 --> 0:30:26.155
<v Speaker 1>Pat was president of News for Comcast, and I told

0:30:26.155 --> 0:30:28.355
<v Speaker 1>her that story and how much I admired Bob because

0:30:28.355 --> 0:30:30.235
<v Speaker 1>he gave a great piece of advice with that, and

0:30:30.275 --> 0:30:34.395
<v Speaker 1>Pat Philly laughed and said, oh, Bob Keith, he told

0:30:34.435 --> 0:30:38.755
<v Speaker 1>you that he stopped being a sportscaster because he sucked.

0:30:41.675 --> 0:30:43.595
<v Speaker 1>Also of interest, here, what do you mean? Jake Tapper

0:30:43.675 --> 0:30:46.275
<v Speaker 1>claims his Biden book sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies,

0:30:46.275 --> 0:30:49.075
<v Speaker 1>but the official Nielsen book scan data says it's less

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<v Speaker 1>than half of that. What could have caused that kind

0:30:51.835 --> 0:30:55.235
<v Speaker 1>of discrepancy? You don't think a former newscaster who sold

0:30:55.275 --> 0:30:59.755
<v Speaker 1>his soul to please Trump would would No, it's unthinkable.

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<v Speaker 1>That's next. This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith

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<v Speaker 1>Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I saw

0:31:29.755 --> 0:31:34.515
<v Speaker 1>him the other day, a videotape of him. It may

0:31:34.555 --> 0:31:37.595
<v Speaker 1>not have the biggest audience on YouTube, but my god,

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<v Speaker 1>if you ever wanted to see one out of every

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<v Speaker 1>newscast from say, the year nineteen seventy eight, you now can.

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<v Speaker 1>And there he was anchoring the Channel five ten o'clock news.

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<v Speaker 1>And if I didn't find myself on this videotape of

0:31:59.115 --> 0:32:02.195
<v Speaker 1>that edition of the Channel five ten o'clock news, often

0:32:02.235 --> 0:32:04.275
<v Speaker 1>that year, if you looked in the background of the

0:32:04.315 --> 0:32:06.755
<v Speaker 1>news room shots during the Channel five ten o'clock news,

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<v Speaker 1>you would see me Keith the nineteen year old intern.

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<v Speaker 1>His name was Bill Jorgensen, and in a matter of speaking,

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<v Speaker 1>he was my first anchor. Man. Boy, was he terrific

0:32:21.795 --> 0:32:24.555
<v Speaker 1>and over the top and an inspiration to every one

0:32:24.595 --> 0:32:28.675
<v Speaker 1>of us who was ever anti management, you know, like

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<v Speaker 1>I have been once or twice a week for half

0:32:33.235 --> 0:32:36.435
<v Speaker 1>a century. Anyway, let me tell you about my summer

0:32:36.435 --> 0:32:39.035
<v Speaker 1>as an intern for Bill Jorgenson, including the story of

0:32:39.035 --> 0:32:42.355
<v Speaker 1>the day they fired him and he allegedly said, if

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<v Speaker 1>I have to go, I'm taking all of you with me.

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<v Speaker 1>Next in things I promised not to tell first, believe

0:32:49.195 --> 0:32:51.595
<v Speaker 1>it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.

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<v Speaker 1>The roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects

0:32:54.595 --> 0:33:01.315
<v Speaker 1>specimens who constitute two Day's other worst person in the

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<v Speaker 1>world Lebron's worse. Some leftover takes from those with Maga

0:33:08.155 --> 0:33:13.195
<v Speaker 1>disease who could not process the musk Trump crap just

0:33:13.235 --> 0:33:16.355
<v Speaker 1>too good to ignore, two of them from denesh De'suza,

0:33:16.715 --> 0:33:19.595
<v Speaker 1>and a troll account with four hundred or so followers

0:33:19.835 --> 0:33:23.475
<v Speaker 1>that got amplified when Alex Jones replied to this the

0:33:23.515 --> 0:33:29.035
<v Speaker 1>troll first Buck millions, that's the name of the account

0:33:29.315 --> 0:33:35.075
<v Speaker 1>buck millions. Now you understand the pain in Dan Bungino's

0:33:35.115 --> 0:33:38.675
<v Speaker 1>eyes when you see him on any public media. He knows,

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<v Speaker 1>he knows the reasons the Epstein list won't drop. He

0:33:43.075 --> 0:33:46.355
<v Speaker 1>knows the assassination was faked. He knows the level of

0:33:46.595 --> 0:33:51.075
<v Speaker 1>the grift with foreign money in Middle Eastern countries. Sad

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<v Speaker 1>to see, to which Alex Jones replied, maybe two words, maybe,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my god, though that phrase. The pain in Dan

0:34:04.355 --> 0:34:09.355
<v Speaker 1>Bung's eyes, The pain in Dan Bongino's eyes comes from

0:34:09.435 --> 0:34:12.475
<v Speaker 1>a having to work for a living for the first time,

0:34:12.755 --> 0:34:16.315
<v Speaker 1>and b when, just like Rudy Giuliani, the mascara he

0:34:16.435 --> 0:34:19.355
<v Speaker 1>uses to draw in his hair begins to run and

0:34:19.515 --> 0:34:24.075
<v Speaker 1>runs into his eyes. The pain in Dan Bungino's eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>Then quit, Go back to whatever the hell was you

0:34:26.715 --> 0:34:32.115
<v Speaker 1>were doing before Christ The Decusan one was even wilder.

0:34:33.795 --> 0:34:36.515
<v Speaker 1>Is this some sort of perverse scheme to force the

0:34:36.555 --> 0:34:39.715
<v Speaker 1>release of the Epstein files? How great it would be

0:34:39.755 --> 0:34:43.595
<v Speaker 1>to have a horde of bad guys publicly exposed? Then

0:34:43.715 --> 0:34:47.595
<v Speaker 1>Trump and Elon break out the Champagne. Elon says, told

0:34:47.635 --> 0:34:51.555
<v Speaker 1>you I could get Democrats to screen for that list. Laughter,

0:34:52.315 --> 0:34:59.355
<v Speaker 1>exclamation point The confidence from this idiot that that was

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<v Speaker 1>four d chess by Trump and Musk to publicly expose

0:35:04.955 --> 0:35:07.995
<v Speaker 1>a horde of bad guys when Trump and Musk are

0:35:08.035 --> 0:35:12.955
<v Speaker 1>the bad guys lasted only ten minutes. Even Desuza came

0:35:12.995 --> 0:35:16.875
<v Speaker 1>back to announce literally ten minutes later, five forty one

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<v Speaker 1>pm five to fifty one pm. Keeping your team together

0:35:20.275 --> 0:35:22.795
<v Speaker 1>is one of the great challenges of leadership. Is it

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<v Speaker 1>even conceivable the Democrats would alienate George and Alex Soros

0:35:27.075 --> 0:35:31.435
<v Speaker 1>the way the GOP has alienated Elon Musk. Doesn't matter

0:35:31.475 --> 0:35:34.155
<v Speaker 1>whose fault it is, this is an unmitigated disaster for

0:35:34.195 --> 0:35:41.835
<v Speaker 1>our side. So okay, first off, you've just compared your

0:35:41.875 --> 0:35:46.235
<v Speaker 1>man Musk to George Soros. Still, the best part of

0:35:46.235 --> 0:35:49.235
<v Speaker 1>this is Desuz's first tweet and his conclusion that this

0:35:49.355 --> 0:35:52.715
<v Speaker 1>was some sort of wrestling, fake fight move, ending with

0:35:52.795 --> 0:35:57.555
<v Speaker 1>the quote laughter the runner up worser good old Jake

0:35:57.635 --> 0:36:02.875
<v Speaker 1>Tapper and Alex Thompson and their BBB Bullshit Biden Book.

0:36:04.195 --> 0:36:08.675
<v Speaker 1>I'll read what Lachlan Cartwright wrote about this in breaker quote.

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<v Speaker 1>Despite claims it has sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies,

0:36:12.795 --> 0:36:16.795
<v Speaker 1>Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's Biden book, Original Sin has

0:36:16.875 --> 0:36:20.635
<v Speaker 1>sold seventy thousand copies through the end of May. Per

0:36:20.875 --> 0:36:25.435
<v Speaker 1>Nielsen Book Scan data, the duo sold seventeen thousand books

0:36:25.555 --> 0:36:29.955
<v Speaker 1>last week, down fifty three thousand copies from the first week,

0:36:30.155 --> 0:36:34.315
<v Speaker 1>thanks in large part to NonStop promotion on CNN. There

0:36:34.395 --> 0:36:37.035
<v Speaker 1>wasn't the promotion on CNN that caused the drop. It

0:36:37.115 --> 0:36:40.075
<v Speaker 1>was the promotion. You know what he means now, you know,

0:36:40.395 --> 0:36:44.835
<v Speaker 1>an exaggeration of book sales by more than say, fifty percent.

0:36:45.555 --> 0:36:49.235
<v Speaker 1>That makes Jake Tapper and that gossip columnist Alex Thompson

0:36:49.275 --> 0:36:52.035
<v Speaker 1>look pretty bad. On the other hand, maybe there's nothing

0:36:52.075 --> 0:36:56.595
<v Speaker 1>actually nefarious here. Maybe Jake Tapper is just beginning to

0:36:56.675 --> 0:37:01.555
<v Speaker 1>have mental acuity problems. Anyway, I'm sure the book will

0:37:01.595 --> 0:37:04.675
<v Speaker 1>sell so much better when to steal the old Chevy

0:37:04.795 --> 0:37:07.715
<v Speaker 1>Chase joke from Saturday Night Live. When it will sell

0:37:07.795 --> 0:37:11.715
<v Speaker 1>so much better because they bypassed the traditional paperback version

0:37:11.955 --> 0:37:17.195
<v Speaker 1>and the publishers go straight to confetti. The runner up

0:37:17.195 --> 0:37:21.915
<v Speaker 1>worser New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and disgraced ex

0:37:21.955 --> 0:37:26.395
<v Speaker 1>governor but still Sleezbag Andrew Cuomo, both of them candidates

0:37:26.395 --> 0:37:29.955
<v Speaker 1>for mayor here in fun City. They are also reprehensible

0:37:29.995 --> 0:37:36.515
<v Speaker 1>political reptiles. Friday Ramos endorsed Cuomo. She has the right

0:37:36.595 --> 0:37:39.035
<v Speaker 1>to do that. It of course means you are dead

0:37:39.115 --> 0:37:42.195
<v Speaker 1>in the Democratic Party, even here in New York with

0:37:42.315 --> 0:37:48.875
<v Speaker 1>the worst Democratic party in a blue state in world history.

0:37:49.075 --> 0:37:52.235
<v Speaker 1>But you go right into the garbage disposal politically in

0:37:52.275 --> 0:37:54.715
<v Speaker 1>this one for doing this. But you can do it.

0:37:54.715 --> 0:37:58.515
<v Speaker 1>It's okay, go ahead, endorse him. But Ramos's perfidy is

0:37:58.635 --> 0:38:01.915
<v Speaker 1>special because there were reports that her campaign has not

0:38:01.995 --> 0:38:06.715
<v Speaker 1>been paying its bills, and then suddenly, right after this endorsement,

0:38:06.835 --> 0:38:09.715
<v Speaker 1>rumors that she'd been promised to spots in a Cuomo

0:38:09.835 --> 0:38:14.195
<v Speaker 1>administration if the Democrat in name only, hell human in

0:38:14.275 --> 0:38:18.995
<v Speaker 1>name only wins city Hall. To continue our lovely streak

0:38:19.035 --> 0:38:22.555
<v Speaker 1>of finding the worst possible people to run big town,

0:38:23.475 --> 0:38:27.395
<v Speaker 1>Jessica Ramo said, with Trump threatening to bulldoze New York

0:38:27.435 --> 0:38:30.435
<v Speaker 1>and take us backward, we need someone in city Hall

0:38:30.675 --> 0:38:34.035
<v Speaker 1>who knows how to hold the line and deliver under pressure.

0:38:35.395 --> 0:38:38.875
<v Speaker 1>Even that is kind of normal, even though Cuomo is

0:38:38.915 --> 0:38:42.515
<v Speaker 1>clearly Trump's choice in this election here and Trump opened

0:38:42.515 --> 0:38:46.555
<v Speaker 1>an investigation of Cuomo, but not charges, so he can

0:38:46.635 --> 0:38:51.555
<v Speaker 1>always blackmail Mayor Cuomo with charges into selling the city

0:38:51.555 --> 0:38:55.395
<v Speaker 1>out to save his own worthless ass. But there's more

0:38:55.395 --> 0:38:58.515
<v Speaker 1>here about Ramos the idea that she endorsed Cuomo on

0:38:58.635 --> 0:39:02.035
<v Speaker 1>June sixth as the best person to defend New York

0:39:02.075 --> 0:39:06.235
<v Speaker 1>City against Trump. Politico New York for Jeff Colton posted this.

0:39:06.555 --> 0:39:10.475
<v Speaker 1>It was a fundraiser email from Jessica Ramos. That's the

0:39:10.515 --> 0:39:14.235
<v Speaker 1>same Jessica Ramos about Cuomo. That's the same Cuomo. On

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<v Speaker 1>May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos, Cuomo is the Democratic Party's Trump

0:39:20.875 --> 0:39:26.955
<v Speaker 1>full stop. So on May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos describes Cuomo

0:39:27.035 --> 0:39:30.715
<v Speaker 1>correctly as the Democratics Party's Trump full stop. June sixth,

0:39:30.715 --> 0:39:34.075
<v Speaker 1>twenty two days later, twenty two she endorses him as

0:39:34.115 --> 0:39:38.515
<v Speaker 1>the only candidate to save New York from Trump. That's

0:39:38.835 --> 0:39:45.355
<v Speaker 1>the kind of total moral nihilism, total corruption, total hypocrisy

0:39:45.755 --> 0:39:49.955
<v Speaker 1>that is so rare in today's world. Bravo, Jessica Ramos.

0:39:50.435 --> 0:39:54.475
<v Speaker 1>You may be too unprincipled even to be a republican.

0:39:55.435 --> 0:39:59.595
<v Speaker 1>Jessica Ramos and Andrew, don't worry. I'm not too unprincipled

0:39:59.635 --> 0:40:05.915
<v Speaker 1>even to be a Republican Cuomo. Today's other worse Bison's

0:40:27.715 --> 0:40:31.515
<v Speaker 1>It's ten pm. Do you know where your children are?

0:40:35.435 --> 0:40:38.675
<v Speaker 3>The tragedy on twenty eighth Street with nine Nixon talks

0:40:38.715 --> 0:40:41.795
<v Speaker 3>about the dumping of Spiro Agnew Money lives still on

0:40:41.835 --> 0:40:45.075
<v Speaker 3>the line in Holland Tonight, I'm for the Gossips, Jackies,

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<v Speaker 3>German Friends, Sanville Jorgensen's this is the ten o'clock News.

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<v Speaker 1>That was who anchored the newscast on which I was

0:40:52.955 --> 0:40:55.075
<v Speaker 1>an intern when I was nineteen years old, And you

0:40:55.075 --> 0:40:58.035
<v Speaker 1>can probably understand my uncertainty that I had the skills,

0:40:58.875 --> 0:41:03.795
<v Speaker 1>or the voice, or the shock of white hair to last, say,

0:41:04.155 --> 0:41:08.155
<v Speaker 1>one hour in the business. Thankfully, they did not all

0:41:08.195 --> 0:41:11.995
<v Speaker 1>sound like Bill Jorgenson. He was a news anchorman in Columbus,

0:41:12.035 --> 0:41:15.395
<v Speaker 1>Ohio in the fifties, Cleveland starting in nineteen sixty one,

0:41:16.035 --> 0:41:19.595
<v Speaker 1>and New York from nineteen sixty seven through nineteen eighty three.

0:41:19.675 --> 0:41:22.675
<v Speaker 1>He pioneered the concept of the ten o'clock news here,

0:41:22.755 --> 0:41:26.795
<v Speaker 1>when all the other stations had network dramas on or reruns,

0:41:27.555 --> 0:41:30.755
<v Speaker 1>The newscast aimed to tell you everything that happened that

0:41:30.875 --> 0:41:37.195
<v Speaker 1>day in one hour, seriously everything. This was made more

0:41:37.275 --> 0:41:41.235
<v Speaker 1>plausible by the fact that Bill Jorgenson kinda sounded like God.

0:41:43.075 --> 0:41:45.515
<v Speaker 1>He did not suffer fools gladly, and he thought all

0:41:45.555 --> 0:41:48.715
<v Speaker 1>television executives were fools. I'd like to say I got

0:41:48.715 --> 0:41:52.475
<v Speaker 1>that from him, but I doubt it. By nineteen seventy eight,

0:41:52.595 --> 0:41:54.795
<v Speaker 1>year twelve for him in New York, he had pretty

0:41:54.875 --> 0:41:57.315
<v Speaker 1>much run out of patience with the executives at Channel five,

0:41:57.715 --> 0:42:00.955
<v Speaker 1>and he was beginning to lash out, and everybody agreed

0:42:01.035 --> 0:42:04.635
<v Speaker 1>a month or two off would be a good idea.

0:42:04.315 --> 0:42:06.595
<v Speaker 1>So he bought a win of Bago and he and

0:42:06.635 --> 0:42:09.835
<v Speaker 1>the wife took off to see America on a sabbatical.

0:42:10.115 --> 0:42:12.755
<v Speaker 1>They laughed about a week or ten days before my

0:42:12.915 --> 0:42:17.395
<v Speaker 1>internship at Channel five started. My story with Bill Jorgensen

0:42:17.395 --> 0:42:20.915
<v Speaker 1>can be summarized in four phone calls. My first week

0:42:20.955 --> 0:42:23.755
<v Speaker 1>at the news assignment desk. The phone rings. I am

0:42:23.755 --> 0:42:26.675
<v Speaker 1>a clank call for anyone from Kansas City, Missouri, from

0:42:26.715 --> 0:42:32.715
<v Speaker 1>Bill Jorgensen. Will you accept the charges impulsively? I made

0:42:32.915 --> 0:42:37.595
<v Speaker 1>an executive decision, we will operator. The next voice seemed

0:42:37.595 --> 0:42:40.315
<v Speaker 1>to be coming not from the phone, not from Kansas City,

0:42:40.315 --> 0:42:44.515
<v Speaker 1>but from some sort of pa system vibrating above the city,

0:42:44.555 --> 0:42:52.155
<v Speaker 1>from way above my head, this is Jorgensen. Get me Monsky, please, Monsky,

0:42:52.875 --> 0:42:55.915
<v Speaker 1>Mark Monsky, or as it said in the credits to

0:42:55.955 --> 0:43:01.355
<v Speaker 1>our newscast, Mark bvs Monsky, Director of News, Mark B

0:43:01.755 --> 0:43:07.675
<v Speaker 1>von Summer Monsky, the boss, the news director. The bad

0:43:07.715 --> 0:43:11.115
<v Speaker 1>news was Mark Bee von Summer Monsky carried a gun.

0:43:12.115 --> 0:43:15.675
<v Speaker 1>The good news was he liked me. I told his secretary.

0:43:15.755 --> 0:43:19.195
<v Speaker 1>His secretary handled the call got Monsky. Three minutes later,

0:43:19.235 --> 0:43:21.435
<v Speaker 1>Monsky came out and said to all of us at

0:43:21.475 --> 0:43:24.635
<v Speaker 1>the desk, me included for God's sake, Jorgenson just called

0:43:24.675 --> 0:43:27.555
<v Speaker 1>from Kansas City. They were having breakfast at the International

0:43:27.635 --> 0:43:29.875
<v Speaker 1>House of Pancakes. They come out, he and the wife

0:43:29.875 --> 0:43:33.795
<v Speaker 1>to the parking lot, and somebody has stolen the winebago.

0:43:34.355 --> 0:43:36.595
<v Speaker 1>We got to get them out of there. They have nothing.

0:43:36.875 --> 0:43:41.235
<v Speaker 1>Wire them some cash or something. Hereupon, the news director

0:43:41.275 --> 0:43:44.035
<v Speaker 1>reached into his pocket and grabbed a stack of bills.

0:43:44.275 --> 0:43:49.195
<v Speaker 1>Here's five hundred bucks. The sabbatical had not started all

0:43:49.235 --> 0:43:52.035
<v Speaker 1>that well. On the other hand, only once before in

0:43:52.075 --> 0:43:57.555
<v Speaker 1>my life had I seen five hundred dollars in cash.

0:43:57.635 --> 0:44:01.035
<v Speaker 1>The sabbatical had been noticed. However, We interns were given

0:44:01.035 --> 0:44:03.355
<v Speaker 1>instructions on what to do when we got phone calls

0:44:03.475 --> 0:44:07.235
<v Speaker 1>like well, like phone call number two. What happened to

0:44:07.275 --> 0:44:10.795
<v Speaker 1>Belle Jargenson asked the woman who said she was from Booton,

0:44:10.835 --> 0:44:15.155
<v Speaker 1>New Jersey. He's on assignment, ma'am, I said, we expect

0:44:15.235 --> 0:44:19.115
<v Speaker 1>him back in I believe two weeks, perhaps sooner. She

0:44:19.355 --> 0:44:25.155
<v Speaker 1>laughed at me, Yeah, sabbatical like you bastards assigned George

0:44:25.155 --> 0:44:30.075
<v Speaker 1>Sharmon to a sabbatical. There had been three primary anchors

0:44:30.115 --> 0:44:33.395
<v Speaker 1>of the Channel five ten o'clock news, Jorgensen, his deputy

0:44:33.475 --> 0:44:35.715
<v Speaker 1>George Sharmon, who also had a shock of white hair,

0:44:36.155 --> 0:44:39.515
<v Speaker 1>and their deputy, Bill McCreery. And then one day George

0:44:39.515 --> 0:44:42.755
<v Speaker 1>Sharmon was gone and a new kid from California had

0:44:42.835 --> 0:44:46.075
<v Speaker 1>replaced him. They did this to the assignment desk one

0:44:46.075 --> 0:44:49.315
<v Speaker 1>weekend as well. I was interning for Steve, the assignment editor,

0:44:49.315 --> 0:44:52.675
<v Speaker 1>on Friday and said goodbye and have a nice weekend

0:44:52.715 --> 0:44:53.915
<v Speaker 1>to him, and he said the same to me. And

0:44:54.555 --> 0:44:57.755
<v Speaker 1>then on Monday, I was working for Joe, the new

0:44:57.795 --> 0:45:01.875
<v Speaker 1>assignment editor. I said to my first mentor at Channel five,

0:45:01.915 --> 0:45:05.955
<v Speaker 1>a researcher named Stanley Pinsley, as as quick as death.

0:45:06.675 --> 0:45:11.075
<v Speaker 1>And Stanley paused and he congratulated me. You figured out

0:45:11.075 --> 0:45:16.475
<v Speaker 1>the entire news business and you're only nineteen Bill Jorgensen

0:45:16.515 --> 0:45:18.915
<v Speaker 1>came back to the newsroom soon after. I had not

0:45:19.075 --> 0:45:22.115
<v Speaker 1>known him before, I didn't really know him now. He

0:45:22.195 --> 0:45:24.635
<v Speaker 1>came out of his office only occasionally, might as well

0:45:24.635 --> 0:45:27.875
<v Speaker 1>have won to worn a hood over his head, no

0:45:28.115 --> 0:45:32.235
<v Speaker 1>eye contact. He ducked out a side door one night

0:45:32.275 --> 0:45:34.595
<v Speaker 1>that they didn't fire the assignment editors. So at nine

0:45:34.675 --> 0:45:37.075
<v Speaker 1>forty five we all sat back and prepared to finally

0:45:37.115 --> 0:45:40.555
<v Speaker 1>exhale after a crazy day and watch the actual newscast

0:45:40.595 --> 0:45:44.555
<v Speaker 1>in progress. And now comes phone call number three Channel

0:45:44.595 --> 0:45:49.355
<v Speaker 1>five News. This is Jorgenson. Who's this? I thought quickly,

0:45:49.795 --> 0:45:52.515
<v Speaker 1>I'm an intern. You wouldn't know me, he thought quickly.

0:45:52.795 --> 0:45:57.315
<v Speaker 1>Fair enough. Tell Gary, Kay and Trophy and Jay tell

0:45:57.355 --> 0:46:03.515
<v Speaker 1>them the elevator to the studio is stuck. Use the stairs. Goodbye.

0:46:04.915 --> 0:46:08.675
<v Speaker 1>Told I went back to producer's row. Hey, Bill just

0:46:08.715 --> 0:46:10.995
<v Speaker 1>called to tell you the elevator to the studio is stuck,

0:46:11.035 --> 0:46:14.635
<v Speaker 1>so use the stairs. Jay, who I believe was the

0:46:14.795 --> 0:46:20.315
<v Speaker 1>director that night, looked up optimistically. Is he on it?

0:46:20.955 --> 0:46:24.315
<v Speaker 1>When I shook my head no. The look of disappointment

0:46:24.395 --> 0:46:30.315
<v Speaker 1>verging on tears on Jay's face remains to this day indescribable.

0:46:31.915 --> 0:46:34.395
<v Speaker 1>Towards the end of my internship, things went south with

0:46:34.515 --> 0:46:38.115
<v Speaker 1>Bill Jorgenson and he took another sabbatical. Now the newscast

0:46:38.195 --> 0:46:40.235
<v Speaker 1>was anchored by the kid from California whose name was

0:46:40.315 --> 0:46:43.875
<v Speaker 1>John Rowland and Bill McCreary, and they were great to me,

0:46:44.315 --> 0:46:47.075
<v Speaker 1>as was Bill Mazer, the sportscaster for whom I interned

0:46:47.075 --> 0:46:49.355
<v Speaker 1>half the time. They were all great to me. My

0:46:49.395 --> 0:46:52.915
<v Speaker 1>friend Stanley Pinsley was the writer, Bobby Campbell, all of them.

0:46:53.875 --> 0:46:57.515
<v Speaker 1>Bill McCreary also did the sports on Fridays, and one Friday,

0:46:57.555 --> 0:46:59.715
<v Speaker 1>he and Bill Maser were going to both be off

0:46:59.835 --> 0:47:02.395
<v Speaker 1>and their backup was to and they and the sports

0:47:02.395 --> 0:47:06.315
<v Speaker 1>producer Cliff Gelb decided I should do the sports cast,

0:47:06.395 --> 0:47:11.715
<v Speaker 1>and they were serious. Mark bvs Monsky told them, no, no,

0:47:11.795 --> 0:47:15.115
<v Speaker 1>you're not serious. Even he said, soon enough, kid, you'll

0:47:15.115 --> 0:47:19.035
<v Speaker 1>do it. Soon enough. I went back to Cornell for

0:47:19.115 --> 0:47:21.875
<v Speaker 1>my senior year, and I realized our newscasts, which were

0:47:21.995 --> 0:47:25.835
<v Speaker 1>unsurpassed for a college radio station, We're running at about

0:47:27.115 --> 0:47:30.795
<v Speaker 1>nine miles an hour, while Bill Jorgenson's ten o'clock news

0:47:30.875 --> 0:47:33.795
<v Speaker 1>was doing one hundred, one hundred and twenty sometimes two

0:47:33.915 --> 0:47:38.115
<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty miles an hour. I thought to myself

0:47:38.155 --> 0:47:41.675
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna have to step it up a little. Anyway.

0:47:41.675 --> 0:47:43.595
<v Speaker 1>One night the next March, there's a ring in my

0:47:43.635 --> 0:47:46.435
<v Speaker 1>apartment at two oh seven Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, New York,

0:47:46.475 --> 0:47:48.395
<v Speaker 1>and it's a phone call, phone call number four, and

0:47:48.435 --> 0:47:51.275
<v Speaker 1>it's my friend Stanley Pinsley calling from channel five. And

0:47:51.315 --> 0:47:53.595
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to emphasize this is what he told me

0:47:54.035 --> 0:47:57.435
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen seventy nine. It was only later confirmed for

0:47:57.475 --> 0:48:01.275
<v Speaker 1>me by one other source. So who knows, Uh, you

0:48:01.395 --> 0:48:06.235
<v Speaker 1>missed it, Bubby Stanley said, Jargonson's back. Well, he was back.

0:48:06.515 --> 0:48:08.915
<v Speaker 1>He comes in, he does a week, he's shaky as hell.

0:48:09.435 --> 0:48:12.115
<v Speaker 1>Monsky and the general manager take him to lunch. They

0:48:12.115 --> 0:48:14.795
<v Speaker 1>tell him we're letting you go, and he's like, okay

0:48:14.835 --> 0:48:17.075
<v Speaker 1>with it. He's very calm. He has a little meeting

0:48:17.075 --> 0:48:19.515
<v Speaker 1>with the senior staff and he thanks everybody and he

0:48:19.595 --> 0:48:23.475
<v Speaker 1>apologizes and everybody does, ah great, But you know, he

0:48:23.675 --> 0:48:27.555
<v Speaker 1>just wasn't right, even for him. So today, evidently before

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<v Speaker 1>I got in, he's got a little practical joke to

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<v Speaker 1>play on everybody. And from what he said as they

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<v Speaker 1>took him out of the building, he thought this would

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<v Speaker 1>show everybody he was handling his firing. Okay, so I

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<v Speaker 1>guess about five, he comes out of his office carrying

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<v Speaker 1>this big box and on each side of the box

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<v Speaker 1>it's got one word stenciled on it, Dynamite. And he

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<v Speaker 1>stands by producer's row and he says, if I have

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<v Speaker 1>to go, I'm taking all ues with me. And the

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<v Speaker 1>box doesn't look real, but who knows with Jorgensen. So

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<v Speaker 1>Choffey hits him high and Gary Kay hits him low,

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<v Speaker 1>and Jay grabs the boxes. It falls, and that's the

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<v Speaker 1>last we've seen at Jorgenson. I understand when he's resting somewhere.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry you missed it. On March fourteenth, nineteen seventy nine,

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<v Speaker 1>Channel five in New York announced that Bill Jorgensen had resigned,

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<v Speaker 1>and his lawyer told The New York Times he had

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<v Speaker 1>quit to go do something better. And I just assumed, well,

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<v Speaker 1>even as crazy as I found television news in my

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<v Speaker 1>slice of my internship, that would be the end of him.

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<v Speaker 1>And then on April sixth, Stanley calls me again, Bobby,

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<v Speaker 1>guess who's the new anchor guy at Channel eleven? Jargonson?

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<v Speaker 1>What a business? You sure you want those job referrals?

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<v Speaker 1>He started on the Channel eleven news at ten on

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<v Speaker 1>April twenty third, nineteen seventy nine. He'd barely been off

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<v Speaker 1>the air one month. He lasted four years. He was

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<v Speaker 1>ninety six when he died, according to his daughter, on

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<v Speaker 1>March thirteenth. Nobody noted this, but March thirteenth. This March

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<v Speaker 1>thirteenth was the fifty seventh anniversary of the first edition

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<v Speaker 1>of Channel five to ten o'clock News with Bill Jorgenson.

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<v Speaker 1>Even his obituary in The New York Times said, quote,

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<v Speaker 1>mister Jorgenson struggled with station management. Clearly he did not

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<v Speaker 1>struggle enough, however, to outweigh his skill and his drive,

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<v Speaker 1>and his brilliance and his dedication to journalism, and his voice,

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<v Speaker 1>and especially his sign off. He was, now that I

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<v Speaker 1>think of it, the last newscaster I knew who had

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<v Speaker 1>his own sign off.

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<v Speaker 3>There's our report for tonight, Bill Jorgenson, for Channel five News.

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<v Speaker 3>Thanking you for your time this time until next time.

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<v Speaker 1>I've done all all the damage I can do here.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for listening. He was the best, and in

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<v Speaker 1>retrospect he was the most fun. Most of our countdown

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<v Speaker 1>music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and

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<v Speaker 1>John Phillip Chanel, our musical directors of Countdown, also a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of fun guys. It was produced by Tko Brothers.

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<v Speaker 1>Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister

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<v Speaker 1>Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical

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<v Speaker 1>comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.

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<v Speaker 1>The Olberman theme for me ESPN two, which was written

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<v Speaker 1>That's our sports music. Other music arranged and performed by

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<v Speaker 1>the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my

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<v Speaker 1>friend Larry David. Everything else was as ever my fault.

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<v Speaker 1>That's countdown for today, Day one hundred and forty one

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<v Speaker 1>of America held hostage just twenty three days until the

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<v Speaker 1>scheduled end of Trump's leafy duck and lame brained term

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<v Speaker 1>unless putin or Musk remove him sooner, where the actuarial

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<v Speaker 1>tables do, or we do, or a bluestate tax boycott

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<v Speaker 1>and strike do. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow for

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<v Speaker 1>the latest on LA and on a subject that went

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<v Speaker 1>from a ten on everybody's radar to a zero. Remember

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<v Speaker 1>Trump versus Musk Till the next one. I'm Keith Olderman.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for your time, this time until next Time.

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