1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:22,075 --> 00:00:28,115 Speaker 1: Just the Republicans are, in essence saying to Trump die already. Quote. 3 00:00:28,715 --> 00:00:30,875 Speaker 1: You have a lot of folks who are just wishing 4 00:00:30,955 --> 00:00:35,515 Speaker 1: for his mortal demise, says former Michigan Congressman Peter Meyer 5 00:00:35,795 --> 00:00:39,035 Speaker 1: to McKay Coppins for Coppin's new piece in The Atlantic, 6 00:00:39,515 --> 00:00:42,315 Speaker 1: quoting Meyer again, I want to be clear, I'm not 7 00:00:42,435 --> 00:00:44,275 Speaker 1: in that camp, but I've heard from a lot of 8 00:00:44,315 --> 00:00:47,035 Speaker 1: people who will go on stage and put on the 9 00:00:47,235 --> 00:00:49,955 Speaker 1: red hat and then give me a call the next 10 00:00:50,035 --> 00:00:53,275 Speaker 1: day and say, quote, I can't wait until this guy 11 00:00:53,475 --> 00:00:58,915 Speaker 1: dies unquote, Coppins says, ex Congress and Meyer describes this 12 00:00:58,955 --> 00:01:05,275 Speaker 1: strategy as actuarial arbitrage. As Coppins notes, it's certainly a 13 00:01:05,435 --> 00:01:08,675 Speaker 1: passive strategy, as he does not note, but should be 14 00:01:08,715 --> 00:01:12,435 Speaker 1: evident from today's headlines. There is also a more aggressive 15 00:01:12,635 --> 00:01:15,995 Speaker 1: version of the strategy that appears to be being practiced 16 00:01:16,115 --> 00:01:19,595 Speaker 1: right now by grand juries and district attorneys and senators 17 00:01:19,635 --> 00:01:23,315 Speaker 1: investigating special councils and muck breakers who want to investigate 18 00:01:23,395 --> 00:01:27,315 Speaker 1: Charles McGonagall and FBI New York. And this alternate strategy 19 00:01:27,355 --> 00:01:31,635 Speaker 1: could be summarized by simply emphasizing different words when you 20 00:01:31,755 --> 00:01:35,555 Speaker 1: say what Peter Meyer told The Atlantic not I can't 21 00:01:35,555 --> 00:01:39,275 Speaker 1: wait until this guy dies, but rather, I can't wait 22 00:01:40,675 --> 00:01:45,955 Speaker 1: until this guy dies. The district attorneys first in Washington 23 00:01:46,075 --> 00:01:49,275 Speaker 1: per CNN, the federal grand jury herring testimony and trump 24 00:01:49,355 --> 00:01:53,835 Speaker 1: stolen classified documents and potential nuclear espionage case have gotten 25 00:01:53,955 --> 00:01:57,395 Speaker 1: some from two individuals hired by Trump to search his 26 00:01:57,515 --> 00:02:00,955 Speaker 1: New York headquarters, the Florida storage unit and the New 27 00:02:01,035 --> 00:02:04,915 Speaker 1: Jersey golf course where all the bodies are buried, well 28 00:02:04,955 --> 00:02:08,515 Speaker 1: one body anyway. We know nothing of what they actually said, 29 00:02:08,555 --> 00:02:12,675 Speaker 1: except that they did not invoke the fifth back at 30 00:02:12,715 --> 00:02:16,635 Speaker 1: the ranch, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has reincarnated the 31 00:02:16,635 --> 00:02:19,235 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels hush money case, and, to quote The New 32 00:02:19,275 --> 00:02:22,595 Speaker 1: York Times, is nearing a decision about whether to charge 33 00:02:22,595 --> 00:02:26,875 Speaker 1: Trump and laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges against 34 00:02:26,915 --> 00:02:31,435 Speaker 1: Trump in the coming months. To his grand jury way downtown. Yesterday, 35 00:02:31,555 --> 00:02:35,315 Speaker 1: Bragg dragged the most aptly named figure in trump in history, 36 00:02:35,595 --> 00:02:40,115 Speaker 1: former publisher of the National Inquirer and blackmail conduit David Pecker, 37 00:02:40,635 --> 00:02:44,715 Speaker 1: who is the well the Pecker who tried to blackmail 38 00:02:44,795 --> 00:02:47,355 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos into turning The Washington Post to a pro 39 00:02:47,435 --> 00:02:50,955 Speaker 1: Trump daily by threatening to expose Bezos his affair with 40 00:02:51,075 --> 00:02:55,715 Speaker 1: my former Fox Sports colleague Laurence Sanchez, and Bezos told 41 00:02:55,755 --> 00:02:59,755 Speaker 1: him to pound sand in the Stormy Daniels case, Bragg 42 00:02:59,795 --> 00:03:02,995 Speaker 1: has the testimony of Trump's former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, 43 00:03:02,995 --> 00:03:05,675 Speaker 1: who already did time for this crime, and his office 44 00:03:05,715 --> 00:03:09,075 Speaker 1: has subpoena phone records and the time, says. Bragg wants 45 00:03:09,075 --> 00:03:13,555 Speaker 1: Trump organization employees Jeffrey McConney and Deborah Tarassoft to testify 46 00:03:13,795 --> 00:03:16,755 Speaker 1: to the grand jury, as well as Pecker's former editor 47 00:03:16,835 --> 00:03:19,435 Speaker 1: Dylan Howard. And yes, this is a crime involving a 48 00:03:19,515 --> 00:03:23,835 Speaker 1: porn star, a publisher named Pecker, a bunch of subpoenas, 49 00:03:24,155 --> 00:03:29,995 Speaker 1: and the laying of groundwork in Atlanta, Fulton County, d A. 50 00:03:30,115 --> 00:03:32,755 Speaker 1: Fanny Willis is trying to block the public release of 51 00:03:32,755 --> 00:03:36,195 Speaker 1: the report by the Election Subversion Special Grand Jury there 52 00:03:36,675 --> 00:03:38,955 Speaker 1: and the grounds she has cited should give you a 53 00:03:38,995 --> 00:03:42,355 Speaker 1: broad hint. The report should not be released, she says, 54 00:03:42,395 --> 00:03:45,955 Speaker 1: because decisions on indictments are quote imminent, and publishing it 55 00:03:45,995 --> 00:03:49,995 Speaker 1: could jeopardize the rights of quote future defendants, and since 56 00:03:50,155 --> 00:03:53,515 Speaker 1: she did not say defend Dant or defend Dance, it 57 00:03:53,635 --> 00:03:56,595 Speaker 1: means there are at least two of them, and realistically 58 00:03:56,635 --> 00:03:59,755 Speaker 1: you've only got like three future defend Dance in the 59 00:03:59,795 --> 00:04:03,435 Speaker 1: Georgia case anyway, and there Lindsay Graham, Rudy Giuliani, and 60 00:04:03,475 --> 00:04:08,395 Speaker 1: Trump moving on to the Senate less certain and with 61 00:04:08,475 --> 00:04:11,555 Speaker 1: greater potential for grandstanding. Is something I've been screaming about 62 00:04:12,035 --> 00:04:14,915 Speaker 1: since last week's revelations about the attempts to fabricate something 63 00:04:14,915 --> 00:04:17,635 Speaker 1: out of nothing by former Attorney General William Barr and 64 00:04:17,715 --> 00:04:21,835 Speaker 1: his Losers special counsel John Durham. As you already know, 65 00:04:22,115 --> 00:04:25,315 Speaker 1: Bar and Durham tried to give a veneer of investigative 66 00:04:25,435 --> 00:04:29,275 Speaker 1: legitimacy to the gas lighting about and suppression of the 67 00:04:29,355 --> 00:04:33,555 Speaker 1: Mueller Report and the Trump Russia scandal by quote proving 68 00:04:33,835 --> 00:04:38,075 Speaker 1: unquote that Hillary Clinton did it, or Bill Clinton did it, 69 00:04:38,315 --> 00:04:40,595 Speaker 1: or lou Clinton of the nineteen sixty six New York 70 00:04:40,675 --> 00:04:45,195 Speaker 1: Yankees did it in the kaleidoscope that is Trump related 71 00:04:45,315 --> 00:04:50,275 Speaker 1: law breaking. The outrageousness and likely criminality of Bar using 72 00:04:50,315 --> 00:04:53,395 Speaker 1: the Justice Department to try to cover up crime has 73 00:04:53,515 --> 00:04:56,875 Speaker 1: escaped the notice of almost everybody but Senator Dick Durbin 74 00:04:56,915 --> 00:05:00,955 Speaker 1: of Illinois told The Washington Post that Durham's quote abuses 75 00:05:01,315 --> 00:05:06,195 Speaker 1: are quote outrageous and constitute quote one of many instances 76 00:05:06,235 --> 00:05:10,515 Speaker 1: in which Trump and Bar weaponized the Justice Department unquote, 77 00:05:10,635 --> 00:05:15,515 Speaker 1: and I like his choice of words, they're weaponized. More importantly, 78 00:05:15,595 --> 00:05:18,915 Speaker 1: Durban is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and promises 79 00:05:18,995 --> 00:05:21,755 Speaker 1: quote a hard look at those repeated episodes and the 80 00:05:21,795 --> 00:05:25,835 Speaker 1: regulations and policies that enabled them to ensure such abuses 81 00:05:25,875 --> 00:05:30,675 Speaker 1: of power cannot happen again, unquote, which is both fine 82 00:05:30,715 --> 00:05:33,995 Speaker 1: and dandy, which does not quite have the impact or 83 00:05:34,035 --> 00:05:36,635 Speaker 1: the implication of saying we're gonna haul in Bar and 84 00:05:36,715 --> 00:05:39,235 Speaker 1: Durham's fat asses and put them on the witness stand 85 00:05:39,275 --> 00:05:42,595 Speaker 1: in prime time. Because once again, it may be Susan 86 00:05:42,675 --> 00:05:47,275 Speaker 1: Collins who keeps saying that some malefactor or other has 87 00:05:47,355 --> 00:05:50,315 Speaker 1: learned his or her lesson, but it's her Democratic colleagues 88 00:05:50,315 --> 00:05:55,315 Speaker 1: who actually seem to believe that if Senate Judiciary Chair 89 00:05:55,435 --> 00:05:58,155 Speaker 1: Durban was too tepid for us at least, how Judiciary 90 00:05:58,235 --> 00:06:01,755 Speaker 1: Chair Jim Jordan's the roy Cone of the new McCarthy 91 00:06:01,875 --> 00:06:04,595 Speaker 1: is m got his pep whacked in public by the 92 00:06:04,675 --> 00:06:08,075 Speaker 1: Partment of Justice. Jordan's whole stick this year will be 93 00:06:08,115 --> 00:06:12,315 Speaker 1: to try to run an investigation about the Trump documents investigation, 94 00:06:12,515 --> 00:06:15,795 Speaker 1: to do a Durham if you will, or failing that, 95 00:06:15,875 --> 00:06:18,155 Speaker 1: he'll go for the silver medal and beat his chest 96 00:06:18,155 --> 00:06:22,035 Speaker 1: about why they won't let him run an investigation about 97 00:06:22,035 --> 00:06:25,155 Speaker 1: the investigation. Well, it'll have to be the silver I 98 00:06:25,155 --> 00:06:29,195 Speaker 1: have mentioned before here the Lender letter, the two thousand 99 00:06:29,315 --> 00:06:32,155 Speaker 1: document from d o J to the House about how 100 00:06:32,195 --> 00:06:35,235 Speaker 1: it has been departmental policy for what is today about 101 00:06:35,355 --> 00:06:40,075 Speaker 1: ninety years to never give Congress anything on an active 102 00:06:40,115 --> 00:06:44,435 Speaker 1: criminal investigation. Sure enough, per The Guardian, the Assistant Attorney 103 00:06:44,435 --> 00:06:48,915 Speaker 1: General Carlos Rarte wrote to Jordan's an updated version of Lender, 104 00:06:49,315 --> 00:06:54,315 Speaker 1: telling him to get lost and underscoring quote, disclosures to 105 00:06:54,395 --> 00:06:59,355 Speaker 1: Congress about active investigations risk jeopardizing those investigations and creating 106 00:06:59,355 --> 00:07:03,395 Speaker 1: the appearance that Congress may be exerting improper political pressure 107 00:07:03,835 --> 00:07:11,035 Speaker 1: or attempting to influenced Department decisions. Unquote. You think still 108 00:07:11,595 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 1: for all of this, and let's recap two district attorneys, 109 00:07:15,715 --> 00:07:20,235 Speaker 1: three grand juries, one annoyed judiciary chairman, one rebuffed Judiciary chairman, 110 00:07:20,435 --> 00:07:25,755 Speaker 1: one porn star and one pecker. The potentially most explosive 111 00:07:25,835 --> 00:07:30,115 Speaker 1: story alive remains the arrest of the former FBI New 112 00:07:30,195 --> 00:07:33,835 Speaker 1: York lead on the two thousand sixteen Trump Russia case. 113 00:07:34,195 --> 00:07:36,755 Speaker 1: The man at the center of things, as that office 114 00:07:36,835 --> 00:07:41,275 Speaker 1: forced James Comey to reinflate the but her emails Clinton 115 00:07:41,395 --> 00:07:44,795 Speaker 1: smear just eleven days before the election. The man who 116 00:07:44,795 --> 00:07:47,155 Speaker 1: turned out to have a wife in one city and 117 00:07:47,235 --> 00:07:50,555 Speaker 1: a mistress in another, and was taking bribes from foreigners 118 00:07:50,595 --> 00:07:53,795 Speaker 1: while still at the FBI, and who is now under 119 00:07:53,915 --> 00:07:57,315 Speaker 1: arrest for taking twenty five thousand a month from the 120 00:07:57,395 --> 00:08:02,435 Speaker 1: Russian oligarch oleg Deripaska. He was once investigating none other 121 00:08:02,475 --> 00:08:07,315 Speaker 1: than Champagne, Charlie McGonagall and self. We now have the 122 00:08:07,395 --> 00:08:11,955 Speaker 1: McGonagall derri Pasca connection, elevated to confirmed status by the 123 00:08:11,995 --> 00:08:15,235 Speaker 1: authority of the written word, and the arrest warrant for McGonagall. 124 00:08:15,835 --> 00:08:18,995 Speaker 1: We now have the admittedly anonymous source, supposedly a former 125 00:08:19,075 --> 00:08:22,955 Speaker 1: McGonagall colleague at FBI, telling the independent news site spy 126 00:08:23,075 --> 00:08:25,475 Speaker 1: Talk about leaks out of the New York office in 127 00:08:25,475 --> 00:08:29,955 Speaker 1: October and November two thousand sixteen to Rudy Giuliani and others. Quote, 128 00:08:30,475 --> 00:08:33,835 Speaker 1: I would not doubt that Charlie played a role in them. 129 00:08:34,315 --> 00:08:38,595 Speaker 1: Quote wouldn't surprise me. It just wouldn't surprise me. And 130 00:08:38,675 --> 00:08:42,075 Speaker 1: now we have the story from Business Insider about McGonagall 131 00:08:42,155 --> 00:08:45,835 Speaker 1: bringing home bags of cash from his Albanian friends and 132 00:08:45,915 --> 00:08:48,515 Speaker 1: leaving them around his New York apartment where his two 133 00:08:48,555 --> 00:08:52,315 Speaker 1: thousand seventeen girlfriend, the one who thought mcdonagall's wife was 134 00:08:52,355 --> 00:08:55,915 Speaker 1: already his ex wife, where she could find them, which 135 00:08:55,915 --> 00:09:00,755 Speaker 1: makes it very obvious that Charles McGonagall was a seven 136 00:09:01,035 --> 00:09:05,715 Speaker 1: sixty five days a year hot and cold ning blackmail 137 00:09:05,875 --> 00:09:11,835 Speaker 1: victim FBI agent waiting to happen. It was the Yale 138 00:09:11,915 --> 00:09:15,235 Speaker 1: history professor Tim Snyder who first tweeted the kind of 139 00:09:15,315 --> 00:09:18,595 Speaker 1: meta view of Charlie McGonagall that stitched together how what 140 00:09:18,755 --> 00:09:22,235 Speaker 1: got him arrested could feedback into not just the Trump 141 00:09:22,315 --> 00:09:26,675 Speaker 1: Russia conspiracy, but how the Trump Russia conspiracy got buried 142 00:09:26,675 --> 00:09:31,155 Speaker 1: inside the Trump Justice Department and how comey wound up 143 00:09:31,195 --> 00:09:34,795 Speaker 1: sabotaging Hillary Clinton? And days after that, whoever got the 144 00:09:34,835 --> 00:09:37,795 Speaker 1: New York Times to essentially clear Trump on Russia in 145 00:09:37,835 --> 00:09:41,515 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen, And in his sub stack, it is 146 00:09:41,555 --> 00:09:46,275 Speaker 1: again Professor Snyder who really did offer a chilling big picture. 147 00:09:46,875 --> 00:09:49,995 Speaker 1: Let me quote him at length quote, we are on 148 00:09:50,035 --> 00:09:53,795 Speaker 1: the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for 149 00:09:53,875 --> 00:09:59,795 Speaker 1: how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves. 150 00:10:00,635 --> 00:10:04,155 Speaker 1: Snyder continues, The reporting on this so far seems to 151 00:10:04,195 --> 00:10:08,075 Speaker 1: miss the larger implications. One of them is that Trump's 152 00:10:08,115 --> 00:10:13,075 Speaker 1: historical position looks far cloudier. In two thousand sixteen, Trump's 153 00:10:13,115 --> 00:10:17,955 Speaker 1: campaign manager Manafort was a former employee of a Russian oligarch, 154 00:10:18,035 --> 00:10:21,795 Speaker 1: Derrik Posca, and owed money to that same Russian oligarch, 155 00:10:22,195 --> 00:10:25,995 Speaker 1: and the FBI special agent McGonagall, who was charged with 156 00:10:26,075 --> 00:10:29,915 Speaker 1: investigating the Trump campaign's Russian connections, then went to work, 157 00:10:29,995 --> 00:10:33,755 Speaker 1: according to the indictment, for that very same Russian oligarch, 158 00:10:33,835 --> 00:10:38,035 Speaker 1: Derrik Posca. This is obviously very bad for Trump personally, 159 00:10:38,395 --> 00:10:41,555 Speaker 1: but it is also very bad for FBI New York, 160 00:10:41,995 --> 00:10:45,755 Speaker 1: for the FBI generally, and for the United States of America. 161 00:10:47,395 --> 00:10:52,795 Speaker 1: But wait, Tim Snyder says there's more and worse, quoting 162 00:10:52,875 --> 00:10:57,555 Speaker 1: him again, we must revisit the Russian influence operation on 163 00:10:57,595 --> 00:11:01,355 Speaker 1: Trump's behalf in two thousand sixteen and the strangely weak 164 00:11:01,435 --> 00:11:07,355 Speaker 1: American response. Moscow's goal was to move minds and institutions 165 00:11:07,395 --> 00:11:11,155 Speaker 1: such that Hillary Clinton would lose and Donald Trump would win. 166 00:11:11,995 --> 00:11:14,875 Speaker 1: We might like to think that any FBI special agent 167 00:11:14,915 --> 00:11:18,715 Speaker 1: would resist, oppose, or at least be immuned to such 168 00:11:18,755 --> 00:11:22,515 Speaker 1: an operation. Now we are reliably informed that a trusted 169 00:11:22,555 --> 00:11:26,315 Speaker 1: FBI actor, one who was responsible for dealing with just 170 00:11:26,635 --> 00:11:31,715 Speaker 1: this sort of operation, was corrupt. And again, the issue 171 00:11:31,755 --> 00:11:35,155 Speaker 1: is not just the particular person. If someone as important 172 00:11:35,235 --> 00:11:39,435 Speaker 1: as McGonagall could take money from foreigners while on the 173 00:11:39,555 --> 00:11:42,475 Speaker 1: job at FBI New York and then go to work 174 00:11:42,475 --> 00:11:46,195 Speaker 1: for a sanctioned Russian oligarch, he was once investigating, what 175 00:11:46,435 --> 00:11:50,115 Speaker 1: is at stake at a bare minimum is the culture 176 00:11:50,195 --> 00:11:54,915 Speaker 1: of the FBI's New York office. The larger issue is 177 00:11:54,995 --> 00:11:59,355 Speaker 1: the health of our national discussions of politics and the 178 00:11:59,395 --> 00:12:08,075 Speaker 1: integrity of our election process. Few But like the horror 179 00:12:08,075 --> 00:12:10,995 Speaker 1: film We're just when you thought you'd seen the last knife, 180 00:12:11,835 --> 00:12:15,275 Speaker 1: we have the further contribution of the estimable William Bunch 181 00:12:15,395 --> 00:12:19,435 Speaker 1: of the Philadelphia Inquir half a century ago this morning, 182 00:12:19,475 --> 00:12:22,395 Speaker 1: right around now, was just starting to work as a 183 00:12:22,475 --> 00:12:26,715 Speaker 1: news reporter for the student newspaper The Dial, at Hackley 184 00:12:26,795 --> 00:12:30,435 Speaker 1: School in Tarrytown, New York. Under the new editor of 185 00:12:30,515 --> 00:12:36,995 Speaker 1: News and later editor in chief, me Bunch has written 186 00:12:37,115 --> 00:12:39,875 Speaker 1: an epic piece That's half a Century of Them Now, 187 00:12:40,115 --> 00:12:42,355 Speaker 1: in which he notes that if mcgonagall's arrest is the 188 00:12:42,355 --> 00:12:45,115 Speaker 1: tip of an iceberg that involves the two thousand sixteen 189 00:12:45,195 --> 00:12:50,035 Speaker 1: FBI working not just with Trump, but with Trump and Russia, 190 00:12:50,555 --> 00:12:52,755 Speaker 1: it could also mean that the FBI, Trump and Russia 191 00:12:52,835 --> 00:12:57,875 Speaker 1: were working with, however, unknowingly a fourth conspirator. The New 192 00:12:57,955 --> 00:13:03,955 Speaker 1: York Times will asks, quote, how coordinated was the effort 193 00:13:04,355 --> 00:13:07,355 Speaker 1: in New York Field Office to pump up the ultimate 194 00:13:07,435 --> 00:13:11,315 Speaker 1: nothing burger about Clinton's emails while pooh poohing the very 195 00:13:11,395 --> 00:13:15,315 Speaker 1: real evidence of Russian interference on Trump's behalf and who 196 00:13:15,395 --> 00:13:18,995 Speaker 1: were the agents behind it? What was the role, if any, 197 00:13:19,155 --> 00:13:22,915 Speaker 1: of McGonagall at his international web of intrigue. Was the 198 00:13:22,995 --> 00:13:26,755 Speaker 1: now tainted McGonagall a source who told The New York 199 00:13:26,755 --> 00:13:30,075 Speaker 1: Times that faithful October that Russia was not trying to 200 00:13:30,115 --> 00:13:32,955 Speaker 1: help Trump win the election before the U. S Intelligence 201 00:13:32,955 --> 00:13:37,035 Speaker 1: community to determine the exact opposite, If not McGonagall, just 202 00:13:37,155 --> 00:13:43,715 Speaker 1: who was intentionally misleading America's most influential news organization and why? 203 00:13:45,395 --> 00:13:49,995 Speaker 1: Will wants answers from the New York Times. I want 204 00:13:50,035 --> 00:13:52,955 Speaker 1: answers about McGonagall and the rogue FBI New York Field 205 00:13:52,995 --> 00:13:57,035 Speaker 1: office because to circle back to ex Congressman Peter Meyer 206 00:13:57,155 --> 00:13:59,915 Speaker 1: and his guys in the Red Hats who secretly wait 207 00:13:59,995 --> 00:14:05,955 Speaker 1: for Trump's quote mortal demise. No, we can't wait until 208 00:14:06,195 --> 00:14:24,355 Speaker 1: this guy dies. By the way, Trump was right about something. 209 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:27,955 Speaker 1: Jaed balson Naro is applying for a visa to stay 210 00:14:27,995 --> 00:14:32,155 Speaker 1: in Florida, so there are terrorists coming in through the 211 00:14:32,195 --> 00:14:36,515 Speaker 1: southern border. Still ahead, CNN has figured out how to 212 00:14:36,555 --> 00:14:39,555 Speaker 1: solve all its ratings problems. Take that little post show 213 00:14:39,715 --> 00:14:42,675 Speaker 1: chat Bill Maher does with his guests on HBO while 214 00:14:42,675 --> 00:14:44,955 Speaker 1: they're itching to get to the booze at his post 215 00:14:44,955 --> 00:14:48,275 Speaker 1: show party, and put that in the middle of the 216 00:14:48,355 --> 00:14:52,155 Speaker 1: news every Friday night. So it's time to retail the 217 00:14:52,155 --> 00:14:54,475 Speaker 1: saga of how mar and I know each other forty 218 00:14:54,475 --> 00:14:56,955 Speaker 1: five years and twice we nearly had fist bites over 219 00:14:56,995 --> 00:15:02,595 Speaker 1: the details. Plus two sports legends are gone, Hockey's Golden 220 00:15:02,675 --> 00:15:07,395 Speaker 1: Jet and the Drumbeat Cleveland. And in worst persons, it 221 00:15:07,515 --> 00:15:11,555 Speaker 1: is hard to believe anything the utterly corrupt Megan Kelly 222 00:15:11,635 --> 00:15:16,555 Speaker 1: could do now would be shocking but this one, this 223 00:15:16,595 --> 00:15:19,875 Speaker 1: one will make your jaw drop. That's next. This is Countdown. 224 00:15:25,635 --> 00:15:34,595 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith still ahead on Countdown. Who's 225 00:15:34,675 --> 00:15:37,115 Speaker 1: that new face of baseball on the cover of its 226 00:15:37,195 --> 00:15:41,395 Speaker 1: top video game? No, seriously, I'm asking who is that guy? 227 00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:44,835 Speaker 1: He was the fifty second most valuable player in the 228 00:15:44,875 --> 00:15:48,915 Speaker 1: sport last year. Why is he on the cover? Plus 229 00:15:48,915 --> 00:15:52,475 Speaker 1: the answer to all of CNN's problems. Put Bill maher 230 00:15:52,675 --> 00:15:56,875 Speaker 1: on once a week to do something. I'll retell the 231 00:15:56,915 --> 00:16:00,115 Speaker 1: story of how he and I met in and nearly 232 00:16:00,195 --> 00:16:03,315 Speaker 1: had a fist fight. First, in each edition of Countdown, 233 00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:05,315 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need you can help. Every 234 00:16:05,315 --> 00:16:09,675 Speaker 1: dog has its day to Dallas and Cody's Friends rescue 235 00:16:10,115 --> 00:16:16,075 Speaker 1: and a puppy named Memphis age uncertain details unclear. Memphis, though, 236 00:16:16,195 --> 00:16:18,275 Speaker 1: is a puppy, maybe some kind of gray mix of 237 00:16:18,275 --> 00:16:21,355 Speaker 1: a hound and a lab. But there are two leg fractures, 238 00:16:21,355 --> 00:16:23,515 Speaker 1: and since there are no scratches or wounds, it looks 239 00:16:23,555 --> 00:16:27,675 Speaker 1: like they were inflicted by punches or kicks deliberately. Memphis 240 00:16:27,715 --> 00:16:30,195 Speaker 1: is a good candidate for recovery. They've set up a 241 00:16:30,275 --> 00:16:33,035 Speaker 1: giving grid Square to raise some money. You can find 242 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:36,355 Speaker 1: Memphis there or on my Twitter Feed and your donations 243 00:16:36,395 --> 00:16:41,075 Speaker 1: and retweets are gratefully accepted. I thank you, and Memphis 244 00:16:41,115 --> 00:17:08,475 Speaker 1: thanks you. This is sports sen Wait, check that not anymore. 245 00:17:09,115 --> 00:17:15,715 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith Alberman in sports A lot 246 00:17:15,755 --> 00:17:19,595 Speaker 1: of Loss Yesterday. Hockey's Golden Jet, Bobby Hull has died, 247 00:17:19,635 --> 00:17:22,875 Speaker 1: three weeks after his eighty four birthday. Changed the game, 248 00:17:23,275 --> 00:17:26,235 Speaker 1: first with the slap shot, then with the curved stick, 249 00:17:26,755 --> 00:17:29,555 Speaker 1: then with the big money jump to the National Hockey 250 00:17:29,595 --> 00:17:32,675 Speaker 1: League's first rival, the World Hockey Association. Hull was the 251 00:17:32,715 --> 00:17:35,195 Speaker 1: first NHL player to score more than fifty goals in 252 00:17:35,195 --> 00:17:37,795 Speaker 1: a season. He was Most Valuable Player three times. He 253 00:17:37,835 --> 00:17:40,235 Speaker 1: played until he was forty one. At all told, he 254 00:17:40,315 --> 00:17:44,915 Speaker 1: scored nineteen goals. I interviewed him at Madison Square Garden 255 00:17:44,915 --> 00:17:47,795 Speaker 1: when he returned to the NHL in nine and he 256 00:17:47,835 --> 00:17:50,395 Speaker 1: said one of the most mind blowing things I have 257 00:17:50,555 --> 00:17:53,715 Speaker 1: ever heard. I must think of this quote at him 258 00:17:53,715 --> 00:17:56,955 Speaker 1: saying it in his gravelly voice at least twice a month. 259 00:17:57,915 --> 00:18:00,435 Speaker 1: I asked Bobby Hull about his memories of playing in 260 00:18:00,475 --> 00:18:03,275 Speaker 1: New York and he said, oh, that's behind me. Now, 261 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:07,395 Speaker 1: never mind the past. We're here in the future. Now 262 00:18:09,875 --> 00:18:19,835 Speaker 1: we're here in the future now in Cleveland. On AUGUSTE, 263 00:18:20,355 --> 00:18:23,795 Speaker 1: baseball fan named John Adams tried to excite interest in 264 00:18:23,835 --> 00:18:27,395 Speaker 1: the always moribund Cleveland Indians baseball team by going to 265 00:18:27,435 --> 00:18:31,035 Speaker 1: the bleachers and buying two tickets, one for himself and 266 00:18:31,115 --> 00:18:35,635 Speaker 1: one for his enormous bass drum. John Adams pounded on 267 00:18:35,715 --> 00:18:40,115 Speaker 1: that drum incessantly through three World Series, eleven playoff rounds, 268 00:18:40,155 --> 00:18:42,915 Speaker 1: three All Star games, a perfect game by Cleveland pitcher 269 00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:45,955 Speaker 1: Lenn Barker, and about six of my live reports on 270 00:18:45,995 --> 00:18:50,715 Speaker 1: baseball games being telecast by NBC. John Adams died yesterday 271 00:18:50,715 --> 00:18:53,915 Speaker 1: at the age of seventy one. In more mundane stuff, 272 00:18:53,955 --> 00:18:56,915 Speaker 1: Baseball with its big promotional reveal yesterday the selection of 273 00:18:56,915 --> 00:18:59,795 Speaker 1: which young Star player would grace the cover of the 274 00:19:00,075 --> 00:19:05,555 Speaker 1: MLB The Show video game edition. Well, apparently they didn't 275 00:19:05,555 --> 00:19:07,955 Speaker 1: have any young Star players with the cover of MLB 276 00:19:08,115 --> 00:19:10,515 Speaker 1: The Show because the guy in the cover is a 277 00:19:10,675 --> 00:19:14,995 Speaker 1: Miami Marlin infielder named Jazz Chisholm Jr. Who hit a 278 00:19:15,075 --> 00:19:18,075 Speaker 1: career high two fifty four last year, who has struck 279 00:19:18,075 --> 00:19:21,235 Speaker 1: out two times in two d four career games, and 280 00:19:21,275 --> 00:19:25,195 Speaker 1: has a career ops plus, which is a stat measuring 281 00:19:25,235 --> 00:19:27,755 Speaker 1: how much above average you are in batting average and 282 00:19:27,795 --> 00:19:31,275 Speaker 1: slugging percentage. He has a career OPS plus a hundred 283 00:19:31,315 --> 00:19:36,195 Speaker 1: and three. Just average is a hundred. Chisholm is very 284 00:19:36,235 --> 00:19:38,475 Speaker 1: flashy on the field, but honestly, if he got sent 285 00:19:38,515 --> 00:19:41,235 Speaker 1: back to the miners at some point would not be 286 00:19:41,315 --> 00:19:44,675 Speaker 1: a big surprise except to the baseball people who make 287 00:19:44,755 --> 00:19:49,075 Speaker 1: these idiotic marketing decisions. I believe they outsourced them to 288 00:19:49,115 --> 00:20:07,555 Speaker 1: the consulting firm called We Step On Rakes Incorporated. Thank you, 289 00:20:07,675 --> 00:20:10,835 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust, and lastly, happy birthday to one of the 290 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:13,235 Speaker 1: best play by play men in sports. My friend John 291 00:20:13,275 --> 00:20:16,475 Speaker 1: Shorthouse of the Vancouver Canucks, who first did that job 292 00:20:16,515 --> 00:20:21,635 Speaker 1: on radio, took over full time in and moved to 293 00:20:21,675 --> 00:20:26,795 Speaker 1: TV in two thousand eight, is crisp sixcinct enthusiastic delivery, 294 00:20:27,035 --> 00:20:29,435 Speaker 1: is right on the money. He's clearly a fan of 295 00:20:29,435 --> 00:20:31,275 Speaker 1: the team he covers, but he would never cover up 296 00:20:31,275 --> 00:20:33,995 Speaker 1: their mistakes. And the finest measure of his work is 297 00:20:34,035 --> 00:20:36,715 Speaker 1: that every time I tweet about how good he is added, 298 00:20:37,035 --> 00:20:41,195 Speaker 1: large numbers of Vancouver Canucks fans reply by telling me 299 00:20:41,275 --> 00:20:44,115 Speaker 1: to shut the hell up because they don't want a 300 00:20:44,155 --> 00:20:47,715 Speaker 1: Canadian or American network or a big market team to 301 00:20:47,875 --> 00:20:51,075 Speaker 1: find out about him and steal him from them. I 302 00:20:51,155 --> 00:20:54,075 Speaker 1: like to think of John as my older Canadian brother. 303 00:20:54,715 --> 00:20:57,195 Speaker 1: I like to except for the fact that he only 304 00:20:57,235 --> 00:21:01,715 Speaker 1: turns fifty three today, Or at least that's what he 305 00:21:01,875 --> 00:21:18,675 Speaker 1: says now to the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons 306 00:21:18,675 --> 00:21:23,155 Speaker 1: and dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 307 00:21:23,195 --> 00:21:28,675 Speaker 1: in the world. The bronze good old George Santos. Nothing 308 00:21:28,755 --> 00:21:32,955 Speaker 1: big this time, just more of that old TV commercial 309 00:21:32,995 --> 00:21:35,675 Speaker 1: cliche about you know, you wonder if some people just 310 00:21:35,675 --> 00:21:39,835 Speaker 1: stopped trying. This all started because he unexpectedly won the 311 00:21:39,835 --> 00:21:43,955 Speaker 1: congressional seat formerly held by retired Congressman Tom Swazi Well, 312 00:21:44,035 --> 00:21:47,475 Speaker 1: George Santos district office on Long Island has something unusual 313 00:21:47,555 --> 00:21:50,835 Speaker 1: and untrue about it. Naturally, the window and the big 314 00:21:50,835 --> 00:21:54,755 Speaker 1: green awning on it both read quote Congressman Thomas are 315 00:21:54,915 --> 00:21:59,115 Speaker 1: Swazzy knowing George Santos. It's possible he's now using that 316 00:21:59,275 --> 00:22:04,235 Speaker 1: as an alias. The runner up, another congressional Representative, Lois Frankel, 317 00:22:04,315 --> 00:22:07,715 Speaker 1: Democrat out of Florida, member of the Safe Climate Caucus 318 00:22:07,755 --> 00:22:11,275 Speaker 1: and anti fracking advocate, and according to stock records, she 319 00:22:11,395 --> 00:22:15,035 Speaker 1: owns as much as are dollars worth of stocking six 320 00:22:15,115 --> 00:22:20,595 Speaker 1: different oil and gas companies, including Conoco, Phillips and diamond Back. 321 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:24,795 Speaker 1: The conservative Washington Examiner reported this, but there is no 322 00:22:24,915 --> 00:22:28,075 Speaker 1: denial from Congresswoman Frankel, who told the paper that her 323 00:22:28,115 --> 00:22:32,075 Speaker 1: investments are quote managed independently by a money manager who 324 00:22:32,075 --> 00:22:37,635 Speaker 1: buys and sells stocks at his discretion. Unquote could be true. 325 00:22:38,315 --> 00:22:40,635 Speaker 1: I've had one of those, but it is the wrong 326 00:22:40,675 --> 00:22:44,195 Speaker 1: bloody answer. Firstly, congress people in senators should not get 327 00:22:44,235 --> 00:22:47,995 Speaker 1: to own any stock, any stock at all. But if 328 00:22:48,035 --> 00:22:51,475 Speaker 1: you are a climate change democrat, if you're in the caucus, 329 00:22:51,515 --> 00:22:55,035 Speaker 1: the only correct answer is my stocks are managed independently 330 00:22:55,035 --> 00:22:57,435 Speaker 1: by a money manager, and I had no idea about this. 331 00:22:57,555 --> 00:23:00,875 Speaker 1: I will instruct him to sell these stocks immediately and 332 00:23:00,915 --> 00:23:05,315 Speaker 1: to never again invest in fossil fuels the end, Congresswoman, 333 00:23:06,475 --> 00:23:10,315 Speaker 1: But our winner, Megan Kelly, fired by Fox, fired by NBC, 334 00:23:10,475 --> 00:23:13,715 Speaker 1: now reduced to pretending she's still on TV and streaming 335 00:23:13,755 --> 00:23:16,235 Speaker 1: it and not even through a service just from her 336 00:23:16,275 --> 00:23:23,155 Speaker 1: own website. You her confidence will never wane, nor will 337 00:23:23,155 --> 00:23:25,875 Speaker 1: her arrogance. She'll never know she's where she is now 338 00:23:25,875 --> 00:23:27,675 Speaker 1: because of things like her tweet during one of the 339 00:23:27,675 --> 00:23:31,955 Speaker 1: football playoff games. Quote announcers for this Eagles games just 340 00:23:31,995 --> 00:23:33,795 Speaker 1: spott at the first lady in a box and of 341 00:23:33,835 --> 00:23:37,515 Speaker 1: course call her doctor Jill Biden. Wonder if she realizes 342 00:23:37,555 --> 00:23:40,995 Speaker 1: what a wannabe she looks like, insisting on this fake title, 343 00:23:41,315 --> 00:23:43,315 Speaker 1: get a real m d or just work on your 344 00:23:43,315 --> 00:23:48,955 Speaker 1: self esteem unquote standard fascist insult template number thirty seven 345 00:23:49,195 --> 00:23:51,755 Speaker 1: and culture used to claim I didn't go to Cornell, 346 00:23:52,075 --> 00:23:54,795 Speaker 1: only she did because I didn't go to the arts 347 00:23:54,875 --> 00:23:58,155 Speaker 1: college like she did. To Megan Kelly, Joe Biden is 348 00:23:58,195 --> 00:24:00,435 Speaker 1: not a doctor because she doesn't cut people open on 349 00:24:00,475 --> 00:24:03,755 Speaker 1: an operating table. The first lady has a doctoral degree 350 00:24:03,795 --> 00:24:07,395 Speaker 1: in education from University of Delaware. She is Dr Biden. 351 00:24:08,075 --> 00:24:10,155 Speaker 1: But it was left to n y U law professor 352 00:24:10,195 --> 00:24:13,035 Speaker 1: Melissa Murray to post three earlier tweets from Megan Kelly, 353 00:24:13,075 --> 00:24:17,195 Speaker 1: which begin quote doctor Sebastian Gorka, these people aren't that 354 00:24:17,595 --> 00:24:23,195 Speaker 1: and doctor Sebastian Gorka discussion on whether Dotta and doctor 355 00:24:23,275 --> 00:24:28,235 Speaker 1: Sebastian Gorka the g head. Dr Gorka has a pH 356 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:33,795 Speaker 1: d in political science from a university in Budapest. But 357 00:24:33,915 --> 00:24:37,395 Speaker 1: that's not even the real punch line here. Jason Patterson 358 00:24:37,435 --> 00:24:40,675 Speaker 1: from Washington University notes that there was somebody else who 359 00:24:40,675 --> 00:24:44,595 Speaker 1: had the same exact degree ed d. Doctor of Education 360 00:24:45,035 --> 00:24:48,475 Speaker 1: as Jill Biden does. Somebody who was addressed as doctor, 361 00:24:48,955 --> 00:24:51,635 Speaker 1: just as Megan Kelly does not think Jill Biden should be. 362 00:24:51,995 --> 00:24:56,435 Speaker 1: That would be former University of Albany professor Dr Edward F. Kelly, 363 00:24:57,475 --> 00:25:03,275 Speaker 1: Megan Kelly's father, Her father, the one who the paraphrase 364 00:25:03,355 --> 00:25:06,475 Speaker 1: his own daughter. Wonder if he realized what a wannabe 365 00:25:06,475 --> 00:25:09,115 Speaker 1: he looked like insisting on this fake title. Get a 366 00:25:09,155 --> 00:25:12,435 Speaker 1: real empty or just work on your self esteem, Dad, 367 00:25:13,715 --> 00:25:16,875 Speaker 1: Megan Kelly, who just called her own father a fake 368 00:25:17,435 --> 00:25:28,955 Speaker 1: two days worst person in the world, doctor doctor, give 369 00:25:29,035 --> 00:25:42,275 Speaker 1: me the dude. He's got a bad case. Down to 370 00:25:42,315 --> 00:25:45,475 Speaker 1: the number one story on Countdown and my favorite topic, 371 00:25:45,595 --> 00:25:48,475 Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell l CNN 372 00:25:48,475 --> 00:25:50,875 Speaker 1: has now made it official. I told you two weeks 373 00:25:50,875 --> 00:25:54,315 Speaker 1: ago that Chris Licked had hit on a brilliant idea 374 00:25:54,355 --> 00:25:56,835 Speaker 1: to put some kind of humor programming into his lineup. 375 00:25:57,555 --> 00:26:00,915 Speaker 1: I mean intentional humor, not that unintentionally hilarious show he 376 00:26:00,955 --> 00:26:04,355 Speaker 1: has on in the mornings. Maybe a prime time show 377 00:26:04,915 --> 00:26:07,875 Speaker 1: though Chris Licked. Have you ever stopped to think about 378 00:26:07,875 --> 00:26:11,675 Speaker 1: what a funny name that is Chris Licked? Yeah? Are 379 00:26:11,675 --> 00:26:15,155 Speaker 1: there more details? Chris Licked now denies this, But there 380 00:26:15,195 --> 00:26:17,075 Speaker 1: was an idea around CNN to have a show with 381 00:26:17,195 --> 00:26:21,475 Speaker 1: John Stewart or Trevor Noah or Arsenio Hall going on 382 00:26:21,515 --> 00:26:24,315 Speaker 1: the air every night in prime time and somehow doing 383 00:26:24,355 --> 00:26:27,275 Speaker 1: the newscast and just praying nothing news. He actually happened. 384 00:26:27,955 --> 00:26:31,355 Speaker 1: And of course the brilliant idea that Chris Licked hit 385 00:26:31,435 --> 00:26:37,035 Speaker 1: on is not brilliant, not new, and not his many 386 00:26:37,235 --> 00:26:39,955 Speaker 1: CNN presidents ago as I also mentioned to a man 387 00:26:40,075 --> 00:26:42,675 Speaker 1: named Walter Isaacson brought me in to discuss the merits 388 00:26:42,915 --> 00:26:45,235 Speaker 1: of trying to have John Stewart do a daily or 389 00:26:45,235 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: weekly show on CNN. My meeting to talk about this 390 00:26:48,395 --> 00:26:53,675 Speaker 1: was Walter Isaacson was on August three, two thousand one. Anyway, 391 00:26:54,315 --> 00:26:57,835 Speaker 1: CNN has made its big push into comedy. The little 392 00:26:57,875 --> 00:27:01,075 Speaker 1: add on chat that his guests on his Friday HBO 393 00:27:01,115 --> 00:27:05,715 Speaker 1: show are roped into overtime will raw as part of 394 00:27:05,795 --> 00:27:09,195 Speaker 1: CNN's News Hour at eleven thirty every Friday night. Bill 395 00:27:09,435 --> 00:27:14,715 Speaker 1: Mars Overtime. It's previously been shown only online or on 396 00:27:14,915 --> 00:27:18,315 Speaker 1: HBO's streaming service or on demand service or whatever. And 397 00:27:18,435 --> 00:27:21,555 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because CNN is down to ninety two 398 00:27:21,635 --> 00:27:25,675 Speaker 1: thousand primetime demo viewers. So it's really unlikely you would 399 00:27:25,715 --> 00:27:28,115 Speaker 1: have ever heard of this if I were not mentioning 400 00:27:28,115 --> 00:27:31,595 Speaker 1: it to you. Now, though, unresolved is the question of 401 00:27:31,595 --> 00:27:33,475 Speaker 1: how they will handle the fact that Bill likes to 402 00:27:33,555 --> 00:27:37,075 Speaker 1: swear and Bill likes to guests to swear. And I 403 00:27:37,115 --> 00:27:40,395 Speaker 1: know this because it turns out I know Bill for 404 00:27:40,595 --> 00:27:46,235 Speaker 1: nearly forty five years. This has a great backstory to it. 405 00:27:46,355 --> 00:27:49,675 Speaker 1: Sometime or eighty six, I saw a movie on Cable 406 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:53,195 Speaker 1: called D C. Cab. There was a character in it. 407 00:27:53,475 --> 00:27:58,755 Speaker 1: Clearly the actor portraying him was talented and funny and distinctive, 408 00:27:59,275 --> 00:28:01,235 Speaker 1: but for some reason I felt like I knew him 409 00:28:01,275 --> 00:28:04,435 Speaker 1: from somewhere, and I really really disliked him. Remember, the 410 00:28:04,475 --> 00:28:06,755 Speaker 1: few ling was so strong that I stuck around to 411 00:28:06,795 --> 00:28:09,715 Speaker 1: watch the credits to find out who he was. His 412 00:28:09,835 --> 00:28:16,115 Speaker 1: name was Bill Mayor m A h. E. R. Mayor. Well, 413 00:28:16,155 --> 00:28:18,155 Speaker 1: I had a teacher named Bill Mayor, but his name 414 00:28:18,195 --> 00:28:20,835 Speaker 1: had a y in it said no, it wasn't him, 415 00:28:20,875 --> 00:28:22,755 Speaker 1: but I knew three things he was talented, I didn't 416 00:28:22,795 --> 00:28:25,315 Speaker 1: like him, and I knew him from somewhere. This is 417 00:28:25,395 --> 00:28:27,875 Speaker 1: pre Internet, of course, so no way to find out 418 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:31,475 Speaker 1: where I knew him from. Hallow ELL's annual film guide 419 00:28:31,475 --> 00:28:33,595 Speaker 1: would be my best bet. Maybe he'd be in the 420 00:28:33,595 --> 00:28:37,275 Speaker 1: new one coming out checks Watch just eight or nine 421 00:28:37,315 --> 00:28:41,315 Speaker 1: months from now. Eventually I found out that where I 422 00:28:41,395 --> 00:28:44,075 Speaker 1: knew Bill maher from was college. He was in the 423 00:28:44,155 --> 00:28:46,915 Speaker 1: year ahead of Mind at Cornell University. I knew he 424 00:28:46,995 --> 00:28:50,835 Speaker 1: wasn't working at my radio station. He wasn't in my college. 425 00:28:50,915 --> 00:28:53,435 Speaker 1: Maybe I had him in a class somewhere. I could 426 00:28:53,475 --> 00:28:57,155 Speaker 1: never nail it down. I like to say I have 427 00:28:57,235 --> 00:29:01,435 Speaker 1: a photographic memory, but it's polaroids, and sorry, I didn't 428 00:29:01,555 --> 00:29:04,915 Speaker 1: always bother to put labels on the polaroids. All most 429 00:29:04,955 --> 00:29:07,675 Speaker 1: everything that has ever happened is stuck inside this big 430 00:29:07,715 --> 00:29:10,555 Speaker 1: empty head of mine. But often key details like who, 431 00:29:10,595 --> 00:29:13,475 Speaker 1: what went and where they're just missing. I forgot to 432 00:29:13,475 --> 00:29:15,995 Speaker 1: write them down, and honestly, in this case, it was 433 00:29:16,035 --> 00:29:18,515 Speaker 1: not worth the effort. I knew I was almost the 434 00:29:18,595 --> 00:29:22,435 Speaker 1: right word aware of this mar guy when we were 435 00:29:22,515 --> 00:29:26,715 Speaker 1: both in college. Occasionally, especially after I went from ESPN 436 00:29:26,755 --> 00:29:30,755 Speaker 1: to MSNBC, in a writer would note the coincidence of 437 00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:34,035 Speaker 1: university and years and asked me about Bill Maher, and 438 00:29:34,075 --> 00:29:36,515 Speaker 1: I would just say the same thing. I don't remember 439 00:29:36,515 --> 00:29:37,755 Speaker 1: if he was in a class with me or I 440 00:29:37,835 --> 00:29:40,395 Speaker 1: knew him somehow, but I was aware of him at Cornell. 441 00:29:41,795 --> 00:29:45,235 Speaker 1: On November two thousand, I went on his old show, 442 00:29:45,355 --> 00:29:48,355 Speaker 1: Politically Incorrect, used to be the late night show on ABC. 443 00:29:49,115 --> 00:29:52,395 Speaker 1: This was an all sports episode. Lennox Lewis, the boxer, 444 00:29:52,555 --> 00:29:55,275 Speaker 1: Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Todd Zeal 445 00:29:55,355 --> 00:29:57,995 Speaker 1: the first basement of the New York Mets Me then 446 00:29:58,195 --> 00:30:02,115 Speaker 1: from Fox Sports. When I met Bill Maher, I asked 447 00:30:02,195 --> 00:30:04,995 Speaker 1: him about Cornell. I didn't know anybody there. I didn't 448 00:30:04,995 --> 00:30:07,315 Speaker 1: see anybody. I didn't do comedy anywhere. I didn't talk 449 00:30:07,315 --> 00:30:10,555 Speaker 1: to anybody. I didn't meet you. Well, that settled it, 450 00:30:10,755 --> 00:30:14,675 Speaker 1: except during the recording of his show and Mark contradicted 451 00:30:14,715 --> 00:30:17,515 Speaker 1: me on some minor point. I got angry, and there 452 00:30:17,555 --> 00:30:19,955 Speaker 1: was no reason for me to get angry, and I 453 00:30:20,075 --> 00:30:22,835 Speaker 1: dismissed the anger, and I dismissed the moment. Except on 454 00:30:22,875 --> 00:30:24,475 Speaker 1: the way home from the show, I kept thinking I 455 00:30:24,515 --> 00:30:27,555 Speaker 1: know him from school somehow. No matter what he says, 456 00:30:27,995 --> 00:30:33,395 Speaker 1: and I know I didn't like him in school. Over 457 00:30:33,475 --> 00:30:36,795 Speaker 1: the next decade, Bill got his weekly HBO political show 458 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:38,115 Speaker 1: that is still on the air and now will be 459 00:30:38,115 --> 00:30:41,275 Speaker 1: expanded to CNN. It'll work, And I went back and 460 00:30:41,315 --> 00:30:44,475 Speaker 1: turned MSNBC into a political network. And the Internet happened, 461 00:30:44,675 --> 00:30:48,715 Speaker 1: so the Cornell juxtaposition became easier for reporters to stumble over. 462 00:30:49,155 --> 00:30:51,155 Speaker 1: So I would get asked about it every couple of months, 463 00:30:51,155 --> 00:30:52,875 Speaker 1: and I would tell them the same thing. I can't 464 00:30:52,875 --> 00:30:55,635 Speaker 1: remember the details, but for twenty years now I have 465 00:30:55,675 --> 00:30:58,355 Speaker 1: been convinced I was aware of Bill Maher at Cornell. 466 00:30:59,555 --> 00:31:03,555 Speaker 1: Finally came the day March thousand nine when they asked 467 00:31:03,595 --> 00:31:06,875 Speaker 1: me to go on Real Time with Bill and Bill. 468 00:31:06,955 --> 00:31:10,635 Speaker 1: Mar Cornell seventy eight asked me Cornell seventy nine something 469 00:31:10,635 --> 00:31:13,115 Speaker 1: about colleges, and I said, well, as you know, we 470 00:31:13,155 --> 00:31:15,555 Speaker 1: overlapped at Cornell, and I don't know if we met, 471 00:31:15,595 --> 00:31:18,275 Speaker 1: but I was aware of you there. And he interrupted 472 00:31:18,275 --> 00:31:21,475 Speaker 1: me and said, no, you weren't, So I just went 473 00:31:21,515 --> 00:31:25,755 Speaker 1: back and answered his question. Now, after every episode of 474 00:31:25,835 --> 00:31:28,915 Speaker 1: his program, Mar has or at least hand a little 475 00:31:29,035 --> 00:31:32,955 Speaker 1: party back stage, I mean catered with booze and with 476 00:31:32,995 --> 00:31:35,635 Speaker 1: more guests than there are people in the studio audience, 477 00:31:35,835 --> 00:31:39,035 Speaker 1: and usually a bunch of models having done that show 478 00:31:39,115 --> 00:31:41,955 Speaker 1: four times, where they will fly you in first class 479 00:31:41,955 --> 00:31:43,395 Speaker 1: and put you up for the weekend in l A 480 00:31:43,515 --> 00:31:47,635 Speaker 1: just to do their show, and there's a party. I 481 00:31:47,715 --> 00:31:50,635 Speaker 1: began to suspect that, like many of the guests, Bill 482 00:31:50,715 --> 00:31:53,635 Speaker 1: Maher does the show just so he can have the 483 00:31:53,715 --> 00:31:59,035 Speaker 1: party anyway. Not long after it started, overcomes mar and 484 00:31:59,075 --> 00:32:02,155 Speaker 1: he's mad at me, and mind you, even if his 485 00:32:02,235 --> 00:32:05,435 Speaker 1: allegation that he is five ft eight is wrecked, I'm 486 00:32:05,515 --> 00:32:07,595 Speaker 1: just under six four, so he's giving up a lot 487 00:32:07,595 --> 00:32:10,635 Speaker 1: of height during an argument, and he starts yapping about 488 00:32:10,635 --> 00:32:12,395 Speaker 1: how I should stop saying I was aware of him 489 00:32:12,395 --> 00:32:14,755 Speaker 1: at Cornell and I'm just trying to get publicity off 490 00:32:14,795 --> 00:32:16,915 Speaker 1: something that never happened. And who could remember that kind 491 00:32:16,915 --> 00:32:20,195 Speaker 1: of crap anyway, And he never talked to anybody in 492 00:32:20,235 --> 00:32:22,715 Speaker 1: four years in college because quote except for the ethical 493 00:32:22,755 --> 00:32:26,715 Speaker 1: high school students, I sold drugs too, unquote. And I 494 00:32:26,835 --> 00:32:31,835 Speaker 1: notice he's getting heated, and this is just triggering that 495 00:32:31,955 --> 00:32:35,595 Speaker 1: core belief of mine that I was aware of him 496 00:32:35,715 --> 00:32:39,155 Speaker 1: in college and I didn't like him. And now it 497 00:32:39,235 --> 00:32:44,595 Speaker 1: becomes clear to me. He didn't like me either. He's 498 00:32:44,595 --> 00:32:47,595 Speaker 1: getting loud enough and he's swinging his arms around now 499 00:32:47,875 --> 00:32:50,395 Speaker 1: and it looks kind of funny, but apparently it happens 500 00:32:50,395 --> 00:32:53,435 Speaker 1: in the office sometimes. And this is when Scott Carter, 501 00:32:53,915 --> 00:32:56,675 Speaker 1: who was the executive producer whom I definitely did know 502 00:32:56,835 --> 00:33:00,475 Speaker 1: since when he worked at Comedy Central with my friend 503 00:33:00,475 --> 00:33:04,675 Speaker 1: Alan Haby. Scott Carter comes over to defuse the situation. 504 00:33:04,715 --> 00:33:07,635 Speaker 1: And Scott was a three piece suit kind of guy 505 00:33:07,715 --> 00:33:10,355 Speaker 1: with the thumbs tucking the vest, who would call a 506 00:33:10,395 --> 00:33:15,555 Speaker 1: group of men fellows, as in say fellows. So Scott 507 00:33:15,595 --> 00:33:19,835 Speaker 1: comes over and says, say fellows with your Cornell alumni 508 00:33:19,875 --> 00:33:23,195 Speaker 1: reunion here, And of course this makes Bill Maher even angrier. 509 00:33:23,635 --> 00:33:25,675 Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. I used to drive down 510 00:33:25,715 --> 00:33:29,035 Speaker 1: from Hobart to see concerts at Cornell. Has to say, 511 00:33:29,075 --> 00:33:31,355 Speaker 1: I think Cornell was the leading concert school in the 512 00:33:31,435 --> 00:33:35,595 Speaker 1: nation back an our day. And now Scott starts the 513 00:33:35,595 --> 00:33:38,635 Speaker 1: list who he saw in concert at Cornell. Robert Palmer 514 00:33:38,755 --> 00:33:42,435 Speaker 1: and the famous Grateful Dead concert at Cornell at Barton Hall. 515 00:33:42,515 --> 00:33:45,435 Speaker 1: He was there, and I say, I went to Springsteen, 516 00:33:45,555 --> 00:33:48,395 Speaker 1: and mar mumbles something about Loggins and Messina, and I 517 00:33:48,435 --> 00:33:51,395 Speaker 1: know what Carter is doing here, he's diffusing, and we 518 00:33:51,435 --> 00:33:54,475 Speaker 1: do a couple of rounds of who saw which Cornell concert? 519 00:33:54,475 --> 00:33:56,635 Speaker 1: And finally, I say, I can top both of you 520 00:33:56,755 --> 00:34:01,995 Speaker 1: comic geniuses. I saw Robert Klein in concert at Cornell. 521 00:34:03,555 --> 00:34:07,195 Speaker 1: Now it is criminal, but there's an excellent chance you 522 00:34:07,235 --> 00:34:11,915 Speaker 1: may not know who Robert Klein is, suffice to say, 523 00:34:12,115 --> 00:34:15,155 Speaker 1: as prominent a comedian in the sixties, seventies, eighties as 524 00:34:15,155 --> 00:34:19,075 Speaker 1: George Carlin or Richard pryor HBO. Itself was built on 525 00:34:19,795 --> 00:34:24,435 Speaker 1: annual George Carlin concerts and annual Robert Klein concerts and 526 00:34:24,595 --> 00:34:28,155 Speaker 1: everybody else. And Robert Klein wasn't quite as deep or 527 00:34:28,235 --> 00:34:31,115 Speaker 1: eternal as George Carlin, but he was really on the 528 00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:34,795 Speaker 1: money during Watergate and during Reagan. So I say I 529 00:34:34,835 --> 00:34:38,755 Speaker 1: saw Robert Klein in concert at Cornell, and Mark looks 530 00:34:38,755 --> 00:34:44,075 Speaker 1: at me funny and not angrily, and says quietly, I 531 00:34:44,195 --> 00:34:47,915 Speaker 1: was at that too. I saw Robert Klein too, And 532 00:34:47,955 --> 00:34:51,235 Speaker 1: I don't really register that mars mood has now utterly changed. 533 00:34:51,595 --> 00:34:55,595 Speaker 1: He's not angry, he's confused. Well, I say I can 534 00:34:55,635 --> 00:34:59,275 Speaker 1: still top you, because after that concert I interviewed Robert Klein. 535 00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:03,795 Speaker 1: Now Bill Mar starts to squint, and he looks at me, 536 00:35:04,155 --> 00:35:06,395 Speaker 1: and he looks at Scott Carter, and he looks back 537 00:35:06,435 --> 00:35:12,635 Speaker 1: at me, and he says, wait, I interviewed Klein aft 538 00:35:12,635 --> 00:35:16,355 Speaker 1: of that concert too. And I'm smiling through all this 539 00:35:16,475 --> 00:35:20,155 Speaker 1: and smiling and smiling and smiling. And then suddenly, simultaneously 540 00:35:20,195 --> 00:35:22,475 Speaker 1: it hits Bill Maher and me at the same moment, 541 00:35:22,475 --> 00:35:25,315 Speaker 1: in the same fullness of detail, and I stopped smiling, 542 00:35:25,315 --> 00:35:29,275 Speaker 1: and I shout at Bill Maher, you and he pulls 543 00:35:29,355 --> 00:35:32,115 Speaker 1: his arms in towards his stomach and kind of bends 544 00:35:32,195 --> 00:35:34,715 Speaker 1: forward at the waist and covers his face with his hands, 545 00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:37,075 Speaker 1: and he says, oh God, I'm so sorry, Jesus, it 546 00:35:37,195 --> 00:35:41,035 Speaker 1: can't be. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And while the anger 547 00:35:41,555 --> 00:35:44,275 Speaker 1: wells up inside me so powerfully, I can almost see 548 00:35:44,275 --> 00:35:48,395 Speaker 1: it in my own eyeballs. Bill Maher's concert going producer 549 00:35:48,435 --> 00:35:53,435 Speaker 1: Scott Carter is really confused. Say fellows, did I miss something? 550 00:35:54,035 --> 00:35:57,435 Speaker 1: Did I have a brief stroke or episode? And I 551 00:35:57,595 --> 00:36:01,795 Speaker 1: say Bill, and I just remembered how I happened to 552 00:36:01,835 --> 00:36:06,715 Speaker 1: be aware of him in school. And Mars still has 553 00:36:06,715 --> 00:36:09,675 Speaker 1: got his hands over his face and people are looking 554 00:36:09,715 --> 00:36:12,635 Speaker 1: at us, and Bill is shouting apologies, and I say 555 00:36:13,195 --> 00:36:16,435 Speaker 1: you want to tell him or should I? And Mark 556 00:36:16,555 --> 00:36:19,555 Speaker 1: just shakes his body no and mumbles, no, God, dude, 557 00:36:19,675 --> 00:36:22,515 Speaker 1: I can't. I can't, I can't, And it all came 558 00:36:22,555 --> 00:36:26,315 Speaker 1: back to me. For years, I would tell people the 559 00:36:26,355 --> 00:36:30,035 Speaker 1: story of the Robert Klein concert at Cornell University in 560 00:36:32,035 --> 00:36:34,995 Speaker 1: our radio station co sponsored his appearance along with the 561 00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:39,595 Speaker 1: Cornell Concert Commission, and in the contract we specified that 562 00:36:39,675 --> 00:36:42,035 Speaker 1: a couple of us real comedy nerds at the radio 563 00:36:42,075 --> 00:36:44,835 Speaker 1: station would get to go backstage afterwards and tape a 564 00:36:44,835 --> 00:36:48,875 Speaker 1: brief ten or fifteen minute interview with Robert Klein basically paid. 565 00:36:48,955 --> 00:36:51,955 Speaker 1: We paid him not much, but we paid him to 566 00:36:52,035 --> 00:36:55,515 Speaker 1: do an interview. And when my pal Andy Grossman and 567 00:36:55,555 --> 00:36:58,235 Speaker 1: I get backstage to talk to Robert Klein, and we 568 00:36:58,275 --> 00:37:00,595 Speaker 1: have our two microphones and two mike stands and three 569 00:37:00,595 --> 00:37:04,515 Speaker 1: tape recorders, there is this guy, this short guy, and 570 00:37:04,715 --> 00:37:08,675 Speaker 1: he's yelling at the chief of the Cornell Concert Commission, 571 00:37:08,675 --> 00:37:11,675 Speaker 1: and he's yelling at Robert Klein's manager, and he's demanding 572 00:37:11,675 --> 00:37:13,795 Speaker 1: that he should get to interview Robert Kline because like Klein, 573 00:37:14,195 --> 00:37:16,435 Speaker 1: this kid says he is a stand up comedian and 574 00:37:16,475 --> 00:37:19,155 Speaker 1: he publishes the Cornell Humor Magazine. And he points at 575 00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:21,675 Speaker 1: me and he says he should get priority over these 576 00:37:21,755 --> 00:37:28,755 Speaker 1: quote corporate sellouts from the Cornell radio station. I hated 577 00:37:28,835 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: him on site. Oh wait, I say to him in 578 00:37:35,835 --> 00:37:38,195 Speaker 1: and he's small and he's got dirty string hair and 579 00:37:38,195 --> 00:37:41,715 Speaker 1: he's loud, and I say, you're the publisher of the 580 00:37:41,755 --> 00:37:45,915 Speaker 1: Cornell Humor magazine, the Cornell Widow. And he snorts and says, 581 00:37:46,115 --> 00:37:49,515 Speaker 1: I wouldn't get caught dead publishing that corporate sellout, Cornell Widow. 582 00:37:50,635 --> 00:37:53,195 Speaker 1: And so I say, oh so, then that means you're 583 00:37:53,195 --> 00:37:56,875 Speaker 1: the publisher of the Cornell Alternative Humor magazine, the Not 584 00:37:57,035 --> 00:37:59,395 Speaker 1: So Big Red or whatever it is they call it. 585 00:37:59,475 --> 00:38:02,875 Speaker 1: He says, no way, they're corporate sellouts. I published this. 586 00:38:03,875 --> 00:38:07,115 Speaker 1: And he pulls out a stack of mimeographed pages stapled 587 00:38:07,155 --> 00:38:10,155 Speaker 1: together and there's like a drawing on the front of 588 00:38:10,155 --> 00:38:15,115 Speaker 1: a naked girl and handwritten it says it's his comedy magazine. 589 00:38:16,915 --> 00:38:20,555 Speaker 1: And I look at Robert Klein's manager and I say, so, 590 00:38:20,675 --> 00:38:23,595 Speaker 1: it's ten o'clock and if you leave now, while while 591 00:38:23,635 --> 00:38:26,075 Speaker 1: this idiot is screwing this up, the limo can still 592 00:38:26,075 --> 00:38:30,075 Speaker 1: get Mr Klein to Elane's in the city before it closes, right, 593 00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:33,915 Speaker 1: and the manager is wildly impressed. You know of Elanes 594 00:38:34,475 --> 00:38:37,435 Speaker 1: And I said yes, and I felt like an adult. 595 00:38:38,035 --> 00:38:40,315 Speaker 1: And I also said, if we give this guy five 596 00:38:40,355 --> 00:38:42,395 Speaker 1: minutes of our time right now while we're setting up 597 00:38:42,395 --> 00:38:44,235 Speaker 1: our tape recorders, can we still have ten minutes with 598 00:38:44,355 --> 00:38:47,435 Speaker 1: Mr Klein? And the manager says, good plan. I like 599 00:38:47,475 --> 00:38:49,315 Speaker 1: the way you think, and he points to the kid 600 00:38:49,355 --> 00:38:52,755 Speaker 1: and gestures for him to come along. No, the kid shouts, 601 00:38:52,835 --> 00:38:55,915 Speaker 1: I want half an hour. These corporate sellouts deserve nothing. 602 00:38:57,515 --> 00:39:01,995 Speaker 1: And now I'm getting angry. I say, buddy, so far 603 00:39:02,195 --> 00:39:05,875 Speaker 1: all the corporations in the world have made me about 604 00:39:05,915 --> 00:39:09,715 Speaker 1: a hundred bucks. So I threatened him. Now, mind you, 605 00:39:09,795 --> 00:39:12,675 Speaker 1: I believe this is literally true. Since seven, when I 606 00:39:12,715 --> 00:39:14,835 Speaker 1: was eight years old, I have started two fist fights, 607 00:39:15,515 --> 00:39:19,555 Speaker 1: two in fifty five years. I am a man of peace. 608 00:39:20,195 --> 00:39:23,315 Speaker 1: I am loud, but I am a man of peace. 609 00:39:24,795 --> 00:39:30,155 Speaker 1: But I say to this guy, you now have two choices. Kid, 610 00:39:30,715 --> 00:39:33,635 Speaker 1: five minutes with Robert Klein or I hit you in 611 00:39:33,675 --> 00:39:37,715 Speaker 1: the face. And he runs to where clients manager is 612 00:39:37,755 --> 00:39:40,555 Speaker 1: still gesturing towards him, and he screams, car frets out 613 00:39:41,595 --> 00:39:44,235 Speaker 1: and he disappears to do his interview, and behind him 614 00:39:44,235 --> 00:39:48,635 Speaker 1: he leaves his little homemade nimiograph ten or twelve page 615 00:39:48,675 --> 00:39:51,155 Speaker 1: humor publication, and I pick it up, and I read 616 00:39:51,195 --> 00:39:55,595 Speaker 1: it and register it and dismiss it before I leave 617 00:39:55,635 --> 00:39:58,595 Speaker 1: the building. And if I had only remembered what it 618 00:39:58,675 --> 00:40:01,275 Speaker 1: said on the cover, all the years of mystery and 619 00:40:01,315 --> 00:40:03,155 Speaker 1: I was aware of him, and all that would never 620 00:40:03,195 --> 00:40:07,355 Speaker 1: have happened, because the cover of the magazine read Bill 621 00:40:07,475 --> 00:40:13,955 Speaker 1: Mars Comedy Magazine by Bill Maher. And now back in 622 00:40:15,235 --> 00:40:18,595 Speaker 1: well technically this is correct, back in real time. At 623 00:40:18,595 --> 00:40:20,915 Speaker 1: the party in the Hollywood studio in two thousand nine, 624 00:40:20,915 --> 00:40:23,875 Speaker 1: the producer Scott Carter says nothing, and Bill Maher is 625 00:40:23,915 --> 00:40:27,835 Speaker 1: still doubled over in shame. And I say, are you 626 00:40:27,955 --> 00:40:31,715 Speaker 1: satisfied that I was aware of you? And he mumbles yes. 627 00:40:32,635 --> 00:40:36,475 Speaker 1: And I say, will you ever question my memory again? 628 00:40:37,195 --> 00:40:40,635 Speaker 1: And he mumbles no. And he says, if I need 629 00:40:40,715 --> 00:40:43,755 Speaker 1: him to do my show or a charity benefit or something, 630 00:40:43,795 --> 00:40:46,875 Speaker 1: just call. And he says he's ashamed, and he offers 631 00:40:46,875 --> 00:40:48,835 Speaker 1: me his hand to shake, and we shake, and finally 632 00:40:48,875 --> 00:40:51,075 Speaker 1: I say, and and by the way, Bill Maher, if 633 00:40:51,075 --> 00:40:54,155 Speaker 1: Bill Maher's Comedy Magazine by Bill Maher, Are you a 634 00:40:54,195 --> 00:41:00,915 Speaker 1: corporate sellout? And he says kind And that's how I 635 00:41:00,995 --> 00:41:18,675 Speaker 1: was aware of Bill Maher in college. What is CNN 636 00:41:18,715 --> 00:41:21,515 Speaker 1: gonna do about all the swearing on Bill Maher when 637 00:41:21,515 --> 00:41:25,035 Speaker 1: they run the overtime segment every Friday night. Well, I 638 00:41:25,035 --> 00:41:28,155 Speaker 1: guess we'll never find out who's gonna watch. 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Everything else was pretty much my fault. 656 00:42:19,915 --> 00:42:22,915 Speaker 1: So let's countdown for this, the seven fifty sixth day 657 00:42:23,435 --> 00:42:26,675 Speaker 1: since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 658 00:42:26,675 --> 00:42:29,875 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Arrest him now while we 659 00:42:29,995 --> 00:42:33,675 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Until then, 660 00:42:33,675 --> 00:42:36,635 Speaker 1: I'm Keith all Reman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and 661 00:42:36,955 --> 00:42:54,915 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of 662 00:42:54,995 --> 00:42:58,475 Speaker 1: I heart Radio. For more podcasts from I heart Radio, 663 00:42:58,635 --> 00:43:02,195 Speaker 1: visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 664 00:43:02,235 --> 00:43:03,595 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.