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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. It

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Speaker 1: is now safe to extrapolate that Donald Trump killed at

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Speaker 1: least one American in order to instead send the COVID

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Speaker 1: testing machine that might have saved them to Vladimir Putin.

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Speaker 1: Bob Woodward's book does not say Trump sent a terrified

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Speaker 1: Putin COVID nineteen tests early in the pandemic, as is

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Speaker 1: being so widely reported. The Washington Post got it right.

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Speaker 1: Trump secretly sent Putin what were then rare Abbot point

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Speaker 1: of care test machines for the Russian's personal use, for

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Speaker 1: his personal use, for our enemy's use, from the supply

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Speaker 1: meant for American citizens, then faced with a rapidly spreading

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Speaker 1: virus for which there was no vaccine, no cure, and

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Speaker 1: next to no treatment to save Putin and his fellow scumbags,

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Speaker 1: even if that meant Trump would have to kill Americans

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Speaker 1: by remote control. That is the definition of Donald Trump, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, had already confirmed woodwards other startling accusation

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Speaker 1: that he has spoken to Putin since he left office.

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Speaker 1: Made Donald Trump burn in hell, and the sooner the better.

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Speaker 1: The headline in this nightmare is bad. It's really bad.

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Speaker 1: And the details are worse because we know with certainty

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Speaker 1: that Trump stole American testing machines from American hospitals and

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Speaker 1: other crisis health facilities, almost virtually out of the hands

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Speaker 1: of first responders, to give to the Russian dictator between

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Speaker 1: two dates, March thirty first, twenty twenty and May seventh,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. The earlier date is when the Abbot company

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Speaker 1: says that was when they began distributing our rapid point

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Speaker 1: March thirty first, Four days later, Abbot claimed to have

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Speaker 1: distributed one hundred and ninety thousand rapid tests for those

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Speaker 1: thousand tests a day. We don't know how many machines

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Speaker 1: a lot less. So March thirty first was the first

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Speaker 1: of putin the other end the other end of the

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Speaker 1: window May seventh. On May seventh, officials in Russia and

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Speaker 1: some COVID testing equipment as well as ventilators had been

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Speaker 1: sent to Russia. But it was Mike Pompeo, the Macy's

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Speaker 1: of American first responders because Putin was scared. The earliest

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Speaker 1: day it could have happened was March thirty first. On

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Speaker 1: that day, doctors Fauci and Burks tried to warn the

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Speaker 1: country that the best case scenario had become between one

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Speaker 1: By April tenth, there were more than eighteen thousand Americans dead,

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Speaker 1: more than half a million cases in this country, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty thousand of them here in New York

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Speaker 1: State alone. Our outside date on this window of Trump

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Speaker 1: infamy is May seventh, by which point there were seventy

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Speaker 1: two thousand dead. Ten thousand more Americans would die from

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Speaker 1: COVID in the next week, the latest possible date that

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Speaker 1: someone could not get a test because Trump prioritized Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Putin's life over yours. Just for context, my doctors later agreed,

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Speaker 1: I contracted COVID nineteen in the first week of February

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Speaker 1: Another American was not so lucky or another two Americans

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Speaker 1: two hundred Americans or two thousand Americans because of Goddamn

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Deaths in five digits as of the first day.

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Speaker 1: How many died before all chance of treatment was extinguished

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Speaker 1: just because the Abbot point of care machines they needed

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Speaker 1: Does it really have to be more than one death

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Speaker 1: recognize to whom he belongs before we acknowledge as a

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Speaker 1: a Russian asset, but that Donald Trump is a Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Putin personal asset. I don't want you to tell anybody

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Speaker 1: Putin told Trump according to the Woodward Book, because people

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Speaker 1: always wrong. If this, out of all of them, the

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Speaker 1: purest and most obvious case of treason committed by Donald

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Speaker 1: early spring of twenty twenty, I don't think there would

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Speaker 1: have been an issue of anybody getting mad at Trump.

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Speaker 1: I suspect instead, tens of thousands of Americans would have

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Speaker 1: descended on the White House in a blind rage, and

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Speaker 1: we know, oh, Trump is still Clutin's asset. Woodward quotes

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Speaker 1: an unidentified Trump aid is saying the two creatures have

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Speaker 1: spoken at least seven times since Trump was exiled from

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Speaker 1: Washington in early twenty twenty four. It's phrased in the

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Speaker 1: Washington Post, the former president ordered an aid away from

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Speaker 1: his office at marri Lago so he could conduct a

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Speaker 1: Trump's spokesperson, the comically high pitched Stephen Chung called all

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Speaker 1: this quote made up stories by Bob Woodward unquote, because

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Speaker 1: Chung is both an idiot and a liar. But in

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Speaker 1: point of fact, we do not need Woodward, We do

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Speaker 1: not need Stephen Chung to know for a fact that

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Speaker 1: Trump has been in recent consultation with the Russian psychopath,

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Speaker 1: or at absolutely the best possible interpretation that Trump believes

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Speaker 1: he has been in recent consultation with Putin. In the

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Speaker 1: chaos around the Trump Biden debate in June, this this

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Speaker 1: said by Trump. It got buried. He said, he and

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Speaker 1: Putin spoke after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and before

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Speaker 2: When Putin saw that, he said, you know what, I think,

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Speaker 2: We're going to go in and maybe take my This

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Speaker 2: was his dream. I talked to him about his dream.

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Speaker 2: The difference is he never would have invaded Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Never. The tragedy of our withdrawal from Afghanistan drew to

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Speaker 1: a close on August thirtieth, twenty twenty one. The tragedy

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Speaker 1: of our enemy Putin's attack on our ally Ukraine began

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Speaker 1: on February twenty fourth, twenty twenty two, during the debate

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Speaker 1: with President Biden, Trump already confessed to discussing an American

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Speaker 1: enemy's invasion of an American ally before it happened, and

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Speaker 1: might as well have been on the phone to Tojoe

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Speaker 1: in nineteen forty one. Even at this late hour, President

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Speaker 1: Biden should have Trump arrested and detained in a military

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Speaker 1: Trump is not loyal to this country and does not

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Speaker 1: Trump has admitted to being in illicit illegal contact with

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Speaker 1: and his lawyers could at this moment be negotiating a

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Speaker 1: about Putin's threats to use tactical nukes in Ukraine directly

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Speaker 1: as CNN quoted it, having seen Woodward's book, which CNN

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Speaker 1: says recounts a tense phone call between Defense Secretary Lloyd

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Speaker 1: Austin and his Russian counterpart in October twenty twenty two. Quote.

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Speaker 1: If you did this, all the restraints that we have

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Speaker 1: been operating under in Ukraine would be reconsidered, Austin said

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Speaker 1: According to Woodward, this would isolate Russia on the world

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Speaker 1: Austin said, according to Woodward, I am the leader of

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Speaker 1: I don't make threats. Two days later, the Russians requested

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Speaker 1: another call. This time the Russian Defense minister dramatically claimed

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Speaker 1: Austin said firmly in response. According to Woodward, we don't

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Speaker 1: Shoigu replied, Trump's friend, the one he sent your COVID

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Speaker 1: and once you kiss him on the mouth. And we

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Speaker 1: don't even know what the implications of the Woodward stories

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Speaker 1: about Trump and the Saudi scumbag Prince Mohammed Ben Salmon are.

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Speaker 1: Quote Woodward. It also recounts a meeting that Lindsey Graham,

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Speaker 1: the South Carolina Senator, had with the crown prince in March.

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Speaker 1: government officials. Woodward writes that Ben Salmon had an aid

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Speaker 1: book is not just about Trump and his fellow scumbags.

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Speaker 1: There are biden parts of this book. They are largely irrelevant. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: One part is simultaneously infuriating and endearing. It was act

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Speaker 1: the other. Mister President, fire this weakling's ass Couple of

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Speaker 1: other headlines, now we know what Nate Cohnes message was

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Speaker 1: in his New York Times story Monday about why the

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Speaker 1: Harris by three. Remember the Nate Silver correlation between popular

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Speaker 1: college percent is ninety six point six percent, five to

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Speaker 1: not sure how that correlates to Nate Silver's latest forecast.

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Speaker 1: is that Harris's chance to win the popular vote now

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Speaker 1: miss you kind of joke, hahaha. It really was an

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Speaker 1: House reporters.

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Speaker 4: Of long range ones, do you want to reconsider dropping

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Speaker 4: out of the race?

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Speaker 1: I'm back you. Early in two thousand and seven, my

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Speaker 1: phone rang at MSNBC headquarters in New Jersey. The Senator

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Speaker 1: would like to take you to lunch the next time

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Speaker 1: he's in New York. He needs your advice. Would you

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Speaker 1: be willing to do that? It was Joe Biden's press chief.

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Speaker 1: the wrong number. My next reaction was to make sure.

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Speaker 1: This was not some policy question, because as a news

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Speaker 1: anchor and commentator for MSNBC, it did not seem appropriate

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Speaker 1: for me to offer advice to a candidate for his

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Speaker 1: party's presidential nomination. And doesn't that seem quaint now, Sean Hannity.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: I was told it was more technical, more about communications,

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Speaker 1: And they gave me a couple of dates, and they suggested,

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, that's great. It happens to me about

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Speaker 1: forty five seconds from my apartment. The day and the

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Speaker 1: And I made it to the restaurant and I sat down,

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Speaker 1: that you may have seen from back when candidates could

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles for the two thousand Democratic convention, and he

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Speaker 1: nice things about my days in sports, and particularly about

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Speaker 1: the commentaries I had begun to do the previous summer

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Speaker 1: on MSNBC. Those special commentaries, he said, with first a smile,

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Speaker 1: then a whistle. There was then and there remains now

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Speaker 1: almost no space between the public Joe Biden of the

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Speaker 1: campaign or the presidency and the guy who talks informally

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Speaker 1: to some knucklehead off the streets, which in this story

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Speaker 1: The word malarkey was used during our lunch, and I

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Speaker 1: Then why did you give him a hard time? Senator

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Speaker 1: Biden asked, it was the third grade. I deadpanned. Everybody

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Speaker 1: gave everybody a hard time. You liked that answer, But

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Speaker 1: back to the point of the lunch, your language, he said,

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Speaker 1: in these special comments now people often brought up the

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Speaker 1: President Bush to you know, shut the hell up, because

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Speaker 1: I had to say hell rather than the word I

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Speaker 1: wanted to say. And some of the events of that

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Speaker 1: presidency so infuriated me that I would Redden on camera,

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Speaker 1: and I don't Redden in a sauna. Once my high

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Speaker 1: school history teacher, a distinguished, an elegant man whose nine

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Speaker 1: older siblings had been born in Vienna and who had

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Speaker 1: the courtliness with which that would be implied, mentioned to

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Speaker 1: me the language of the special comments, and I thought,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, here at Cappens. I'm in for it now.

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Speaker 1: He Walter Schneller, had told me on the day I

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Speaker 1: graduated that my plans to become a sportscaster were very nice,

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Speaker 1: and he was sure i'd go and do that, but

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Speaker 1: that he was also sure that I would wind up

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Speaker 1: in politics someday, either as a reporter or as a combatant.

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Speaker 1: And I told him I was flattered, and I will

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Speaker 1: always like you, mister Schneller, and you're out of your mind.

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Speaker 1: Mister Sneller was also the one who, years later was

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Speaker 1: put in charge of the school's surprisingly generous fund for

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Speaker 1: bringing in speakers to address the student body. He was

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Speaker 1: very annoyed by the fact that, for decades, and he

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Speaker 1: got there in I believe nineteen sixty, all of the

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Speaker 1: speakers at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York had

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Speaker 1: either looked like, as he put it, Hugh Saidey, the

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Speaker 1: columnist of Time magazine, or they had actually been Hugh Saidee,

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Speaker 1: the columnist for Time Magazine. Mister Schneller began scouring the

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Speaker 1: Northeast for anybody smart who might have a diverse background,

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Speaker 1: and that is how he happened to be driving to

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Speaker 1: the railroad station at Tarrytown, New York, one morning in

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Speaker 1: the year nineteen ninety one to meet the train that

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Speaker 1: carried that day's guest speaker at the Hackley School. He

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Speaker 1: was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and his

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Speaker 1: name was Barack Obama. Anyway, mister Schneller and I were

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Speaker 1: talking about the commentaries, and he said about the language Keith,

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Speaker 1: and I braced myself and preemptively apologized, no, no, He said, urgently,

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Speaker 1: you missed my point entirely. I'm amazed that your language

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Speaker 1: is so restrained. If I was speaking, I'd have called

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Speaker 1: mister bush a whereupon mister Schneller made reference to somebody's mother.

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Speaker 1: So back to lunch. When Senator Biden asked about the

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Speaker 1: language I used, I was wary, but he followed it

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Speaker 1: up by saying that it was kind of why he

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Speaker 1: had asked me to lunch. I watch the commentary as

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Speaker 1: you do. I don't have a choice. Everybody sends me

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Speaker 1: the videos, and my staffers tell me about them. And

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Speaker 1: every time I think the same thing, you express anger.

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Speaker 1: But as close as you come to the line, you

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Speaker 1: never go across it. I say to my staff folks,

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Speaker 1: is he too angry for you? And they all say no,

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Speaker 1: just right. So here's my question, and then we can

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Speaker 1: enjoy this great lunch. When I'm passionate about something and

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Speaker 1: I speak on the Senate floor, or on the campaign

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Speaker 1: or anywhere else, I get told by my friends and

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Speaker 1: by my enemies, you're too angry. And when I really

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Speaker 1: am angry, they all say, you're really too angry. And

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Speaker 1: here Joey and laughed. Now you you go on TV,

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Speaker 1: far larger audience, far longer speeches and people say that Olderman,

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Speaker 1: he's righteously indignant. With a mixture of laughter, astonishment, and curiosity,

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Speaker 1: he said me, I'm angry you. You are righteously indignant.

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Speaker 1: How do you do it? How do you do it? Man?

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me? Without thinking? I replied, you've been

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Speaker 1: in the Senate for how long? Now, Senator thirty four years?

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Speaker 1: He nodded, And you're only just asking this question now.

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Speaker 1: The words were barely out of my mouth when I froze.

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Speaker 1: This wasn't a friend or a colleague, or even an

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Speaker 1: athlete who would take the little joking jab I had

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Speaker 1: just thrown. This was a politician. They may have senses

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Speaker 1: of humor, but very few have senses of humor about themselves.

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Speaker 1: In that split second, I was confident Joe Biden would

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Speaker 1: get up and leave. And he was silent for a moment,

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Speaker 1: and then the corners of his mouth turned up, and

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Speaker 1: to my great relief, he burst into laughter. He rocked

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Speaker 1: back into his chair, He slapped the table with a palm.

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Speaker 1: My god, that's funny. More laughter, My god, that's true,

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Speaker 1: louder laughter. I do not apologize when I say I

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Speaker 1: have loved him ever since I didn't think I actually

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Speaker 1: would have had much advice for him, and was prepared

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Speaker 1: to just go through the lunch having lunch. But as

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Speaker 1: we talked about this topic, he asked me follow up

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Speaker 1: questions that made me analyze for the first time some

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Speaker 1: of the processes I used unknowingly when writing and reading

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Speaker 1: on television. I had never thought them before because I

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Speaker 1: had never had had lunch with Joe Biden before. I

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Speaker 1: will not bore you with the full results of the

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Speaker 1: dissection of the process or how to turn anger into

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Speaker 1: righteous indignation, if that's really what I was doing. The

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Speaker 1: most valuable conclusion was simply the oldest one in the book.

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Speaker 1: I always wrote late at night while fully angry, and

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Speaker 1: then in the morning I would take a lot of

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Speaker 1: things out, usually adjectives. Whatever anger was left was only

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Speaker 1: the most intense and the most justifiable. And if you

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Speaker 1: present it twenty four hours after you have written it,

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Speaker 1: you will be in control of the anger and not

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Speaker 1: have the anger be in control of you in short

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Speaker 1: sleep on it. That was in March two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 1: I saw the Senator next. In August of two thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven, a Democratic primary debate officially called the AFL

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Speaker 1: CIO Candidates Forum, Soldier Field, Chicago, outdoors ninety five degrees,

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Speaker 1: threat of thunderstorms, Obama, Clinton, Biden, Dodd Richardson, Kucinich, Edwards,

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Speaker 1: and the moderator me. There are photos of this Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden and I walking towards each other, hands extended for

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Speaker 1: a greeting. He is literally asking me if I have

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Speaker 1: noticed that he has been trying to turn his anger

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Speaker 1: into righteous indignation, and Senator Biden asking if I thought

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Speaker 1: he had succeeded. They are great photos, largely because my

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Speaker 1: back is to the camera. He did not really succeed

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Speaker 1: in doing this in the debate, though, and he actually

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Speaker 1: came over to me during the commercial and told me

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Speaker 1: what he was going to do, that he didn't think

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Speaker 1: he'd actually gotten the chance to answer a previous question sufficiently,

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Speaker 1: and he was going to go back to it the

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Speaker 1: next time. I called on him, and I told him, don't, don't,

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Speaker 1: don't do that. They did it anyway, and later he

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Speaker 1: let me know he should have listened to me. Since then,

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Speaker 1: I cannot recall him being angry, not even in those

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Speaker 1: debates with that goddamned madman. The words were harsh, cutting, destructive,

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Speaker 1: fatal the tone No, the tone was dismissive, disappointed, slept

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Speaker 1: upon rage, perfect a plus no notes. But it occurs

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Speaker 1: to me in all of the analysis of all of

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Speaker 1: the changes in Joe Biden since day one in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy three, nobody touches on this one thing. As late

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Speaker 1: as two thousand and seven, he seemed to be his

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Speaker 1: reputation was as a hot head. When was the last

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Speaker 1: time he was accused of that. I'm not saying I

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Speaker 1: had anything to do with that, But in the years now,

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Speaker 1: since January sixth particularly, it has been a comforting change,

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Speaker 1: and not a change within Joe Biden, but within our presidency.

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Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week,

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Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Once again, there is

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Speaker 1: a Monday Countdown. Please send this podcast to somebody who

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Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today is my friend

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Speaker 1: Kenny Main and everything else was pretty much my fault.

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Speaker 1: That's countdown for today. Three weeks and six days until

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election, the three and seventy

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Speaker 1: third day since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first attempted

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Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.

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Speaker 1: Use the election, use the metal health system, use presidential immunity.

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Speaker 1: If we have to to keep him from doing it again. Wow,

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Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin

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Speaker 1: says the news requires until then, I'm Keith Olriman, good morning,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. That was called missing.

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