1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:24,715 --> 00:00:29,875 Speaker 1: has just lost World War three. That World War three 3 00:00:29,955 --> 00:00:34,435 Speaker 1: he keeps talking about, He's already lost it. Trump listens 4 00:00:34,435 --> 00:00:37,835 Speaker 1: to Musk, maybe because he recognizes Musk is more insane 5 00:00:37,875 --> 00:00:40,715 Speaker 1: than he is. Musk literally wants to own and rule 6 00:00:40,755 --> 00:00:44,275 Speaker 1: the world. Musk just demanded this country withdraw from NATO. 7 00:00:44,715 --> 00:00:48,275 Speaker 1: Other Muskers and Trumpers are following. If we leave NATO, 8 00:00:48,435 --> 00:00:51,435 Speaker 1: its remaining members will turn into a private hunting ground 9 00:00:51,635 --> 00:00:55,115 Speaker 1: for Putin or China or both. Eventually, he or they 10 00:00:55,195 --> 00:00:58,755 Speaker 1: will run out of European countries to destroy and subsume, 11 00:00:58,995 --> 00:01:05,795 Speaker 1: and he or they will turn to destroying US. After 12 00:01:05,835 --> 00:01:09,835 Speaker 1: the event with Zelenski, Trump has already lost World War III. 13 00:01:11,675 --> 00:01:15,515 Speaker 1: Evidently so have the British. Back home, Prime Minister Starmer 14 00:01:15,595 --> 00:01:18,675 Speaker 1: did the unthinkable. He met Zelenski not at the front 15 00:01:18,715 --> 00:01:21,675 Speaker 1: door of Number ten, but he went into Downing Street 16 00:01:21,955 --> 00:01:25,635 Speaker 1: to meet him on the sidewalk. The front page of 17 00:01:25,715 --> 00:01:30,235 Speaker 1: yesterday's far right British tabloid, The Daily Mail headlined outrage 18 00:01:30,275 --> 00:01:34,755 Speaker 1: over US President's humiliation of Zelensky and insisted, now stop 19 00:01:34,915 --> 00:01:39,675 Speaker 1: the state visit for bully Trump, demanding the British withdraw 20 00:01:39,755 --> 00:01:43,835 Speaker 1: their invitation for Trump to go there, but within hours 21 00:01:43,875 --> 00:01:48,675 Speaker 1: their ambassador here undid all that. Lord Peter Mandelsson went 22 00:01:48,715 --> 00:01:51,875 Speaker 1: on ABC This Week here and called for a quote 23 00:01:52,115 --> 00:01:55,555 Speaker 1: very radical reset. That quote has to consist of the 24 00:01:55,635 --> 00:01:59,115 Speaker 1: United States and Ukraine getting back on the same page 25 00:01:59,435 --> 00:02:03,755 Speaker 1: and President Zelenski giving his unequivocal backing to the initiative 26 00:02:03,795 --> 00:02:06,475 Speaker 1: that Trump is taking to end the war and to 27 00:02:06,555 --> 00:02:11,475 Speaker 1: bring a just and lasting piece to Ukraine. F U 28 00:02:11,635 --> 00:02:16,875 Speaker 1: pal wait, it's worse than that. Mandelsson, the ambassador to 29 00:02:16,995 --> 00:02:21,795 Speaker 1: this country, says European leaders should support Trump. They quote 30 00:02:21,995 --> 00:02:25,155 Speaker 1: need to back the calls for a ceasefire. And by 31 00:02:25,195 --> 00:02:27,315 Speaker 1: the way, I think that Ukraine should be the first 32 00:02:27,315 --> 00:02:32,715 Speaker 1: to commit to a ceasefire and defy the Russians to follow. Unquote, Hey, Mandelsson, 33 00:02:33,195 --> 00:02:39,435 Speaker 1: asshole forgotten. Already Zelensky already signed a ceasefire with Putin 34 00:02:39,795 --> 00:02:43,315 Speaker 1: signed it in twenty nineteen. Putin broke it in twenty 35 00:02:43,435 --> 00:02:50,955 Speaker 1: twenty two. Two hundred thousand guys named Lord Gasius and 36 00:02:51,075 --> 00:02:54,635 Speaker 1: Sir Toby Belch and they sent the one who sounds 37 00:02:54,675 --> 00:03:01,795 Speaker 1: the most like Neville Chamberlain, the British defending Zelensky at home, 38 00:03:03,635 --> 00:03:06,835 Speaker 1: their ambassador here to surrendered to Hitler, I mean to 39 00:03:06,835 --> 00:03:10,755 Speaker 1: Trump now, I mean to Hitler. It is impossible to 40 00:03:10,795 --> 00:03:13,795 Speaker 1: believe that the British Prime Minister has not already fired 41 00:03:13,835 --> 00:03:18,195 Speaker 1: Mandelsson recalled. Is the polite term? Vaporized would be the 42 00:03:18,195 --> 00:03:21,235 Speaker 1: accurate one. Told him to swim home would be the 43 00:03:21,275 --> 00:03:26,035 Speaker 1: best one. Regardless, the schism is now present, and the 44 00:03:26,075 --> 00:03:30,435 Speaker 1: schism is a repeat, a throwback, a reenactment of nineteen 45 00:03:30,515 --> 00:03:34,155 Speaker 1: thirty eight, where as Churchill said, the British leaders had 46 00:03:34,195 --> 00:03:38,035 Speaker 1: a choice between shame and war. They had chosen shame. 47 00:03:38,435 --> 00:03:41,395 Speaker 1: They would get war later. The war they got later 48 00:03:41,555 --> 00:03:45,075 Speaker 1: was World War II. The war we, thanks to people 49 00:03:45,155 --> 00:03:50,275 Speaker 1: like Lord Mandelsshon will get later will be World War three. 50 00:03:50,315 --> 00:03:55,275 Speaker 1: We will have to go to war. The real thing, 51 00:03:55,435 --> 00:04:00,475 Speaker 1: none of this Iraq bullshit, the real thing, millions dead, 52 00:04:01,275 --> 00:04:06,115 Speaker 1: Putin threatening or using nuclear weapons, not just to free 53 00:04:06,195 --> 00:04:09,155 Speaker 1: Europe and all the other places. Who thought we understood 54 00:04:09,435 --> 00:04:13,275 Speaker 1: that the world is simply successfully managed tension between the 55 00:04:13,315 --> 00:04:17,115 Speaker 1: forces of more or less good and the forces of 56 00:04:17,275 --> 00:04:23,435 Speaker 1: the Putins, Hitler's, Musks, Trump's, Chamberlain's and Mandelssohn's. Not just 57 00:04:23,475 --> 00:04:27,435 Speaker 1: to free those other countries, but to save whatever is 58 00:04:27,555 --> 00:04:30,915 Speaker 1: left of this country after the head start Trump and 59 00:04:31,035 --> 00:04:34,395 Speaker 1: musk are giving. Right now, as we speak to Putin 60 00:04:34,515 --> 00:04:39,755 Speaker 1: and to China, I'll repeat what I said in the 61 00:04:39,795 --> 00:04:44,115 Speaker 1: bulletin after the pre planned, performative and nauseating ambush of 62 00:04:44,195 --> 00:04:48,115 Speaker 1: Zelensky last Friday. Trump has not only imperiled the freedom 63 00:04:48,195 --> 00:04:51,275 Speaker 1: of the United States of America and the existence of 64 00:04:51,395 --> 00:04:55,435 Speaker 1: Ukraine and the independence of all the nations of Europe. 65 00:04:55,515 --> 00:04:59,315 Speaker 1: He has also lost all moral rights to keep power 66 00:04:59,435 --> 00:05:06,155 Speaker 1: in this country. And Trump must lose that power, as 67 00:05:06,195 --> 00:05:09,915 Speaker 1: one senator has praised it. Since that special report last 68 00:05:09,995 --> 00:05:13,875 Speaker 1: week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia 69 00:05:13,955 --> 00:05:17,115 Speaker 1: started the war in Ukraine. It ended with a tense, 70 00:05:17,395 --> 00:05:20,595 Speaker 1: shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the 71 00:05:20,595 --> 00:05:23,195 Speaker 1: White House that they may try to end all US 72 00:05:23,235 --> 00:05:26,555 Speaker 1: support for Ukraine. I know foreign policy is not for 73 00:05:26,635 --> 00:05:28,955 Speaker 1: the faint of hearts, but right now I am sick 74 00:05:28,995 --> 00:05:32,355 Speaker 1: to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking 75 00:05:32,395 --> 00:05:36,155 Speaker 1: away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to 76 00:05:36,195 --> 00:05:41,155 Speaker 1: democracy and US values around the world. The senator who 77 00:05:41,195 --> 00:05:46,675 Speaker 1: wrote that was Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska and as 78 00:05:46,715 --> 00:05:50,915 Speaker 1: clearheaded as she is in this time of boastful stupidity 79 00:05:51,195 --> 00:05:55,155 Speaker 1: and proud disloyalty to the nation inside her own party, 80 00:05:55,635 --> 00:06:00,795 Speaker 1: even she, as she wrote, that would not criticize the 81 00:06:00,915 --> 00:06:06,515 Speaker 1: convicted felon Trump by name. The crazy idea, maybe you 82 00:06:06,555 --> 00:06:10,355 Speaker 1: should switch parties if you were a Democrat, not only 83 00:06:10,395 --> 00:06:13,795 Speaker 1: could you criticize Trump by name, but your fellow Democrats 84 00:06:13,795 --> 00:06:19,315 Speaker 1: would let you criticize your fellow Democrats by name. One 85 00:06:19,315 --> 00:06:22,595 Speaker 1: of them, Chris Murphy, went on CNN yesterday and was 86 00:06:22,635 --> 00:06:25,515 Speaker 1: even more stark. Quote, the White House has become an 87 00:06:25,595 --> 00:06:31,115 Speaker 1: arm of the Kremlin. Bloodlessly simple, and utterly true. The 88 00:06:31,155 --> 00:06:33,875 Speaker 1: White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every 89 00:06:33,915 --> 00:06:36,715 Speaker 1: single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from 90 00:06:36,715 --> 00:06:39,395 Speaker 1: the President of the United States, from his entire national 91 00:06:39,435 --> 00:06:44,915 Speaker 1: security team, Kremlin talking points. The last week, the White 92 00:06:44,915 --> 00:06:48,395 Speaker 1: House has been pretending as if Ukraine started this war. 93 00:06:48,715 --> 00:06:51,955 Speaker 1: That is essentially saying that Poland invaded Germany at the 94 00:06:51,995 --> 00:06:55,435 Speaker 1: beginning of World War Two. There are still facts in 95 00:06:55,475 --> 00:06:58,235 Speaker 1: this world, Senator Murphy continued, and the fact is this, 96 00:06:58,315 --> 00:07:02,675 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is a brutal dictator. Russia started this war, 97 00:07:02,955 --> 00:07:05,995 Speaker 1: and the entire pretext for that meeting was an attempt 98 00:07:06,075 --> 00:07:09,155 Speaker 1: to rewrite history in order to sign a deal with 99 00:07:09,195 --> 00:07:16,715 Speaker 1: Putin that hands putin Ukraine unquote. And I think Murphy 100 00:07:16,715 --> 00:07:22,275 Speaker 1: and Murkowski may actually be under selling it. If this appeasement, 101 00:07:22,355 --> 00:07:25,035 Speaker 1: or cowardice, or stupidity or sabotage of this and other 102 00:07:25,115 --> 00:07:28,675 Speaker 1: nations by foreign agents dressed up as our leaders has 103 00:07:28,715 --> 00:07:31,635 Speaker 1: already gone so far as to split the British government. 104 00:07:34,035 --> 00:07:36,755 Speaker 1: Trump is not just walking away from our allies and 105 00:07:36,875 --> 00:07:40,435 Speaker 1: embracing Putin. Putin is not just a threat to democracy. 106 00:07:40,955 --> 00:07:43,435 Speaker 1: Putin is not just a threat to our values and 107 00:07:43,635 --> 00:07:47,875 Speaker 1: around the world. But he has already begun to win 108 00:07:48,355 --> 00:07:55,515 Speaker 1: World War three. Britain's Lord Mendacious should be back in 109 00:07:55,555 --> 00:07:59,515 Speaker 1: London by nightfall, or while he's on his way back, 110 00:07:59,515 --> 00:08:04,915 Speaker 1: he should mysteriously disappear. We have enough native gutless appeas 111 00:08:04,995 --> 00:08:08,635 Speaker 1: who have learned nothing from history in Washington without having 112 00:08:08,635 --> 00:08:13,475 Speaker 1: to import them from other countries. Trump has sold out 113 00:08:13,515 --> 00:08:18,995 Speaker 1: to the Russians enough. Just ask the Russians. The Kremlin 114 00:08:19,075 --> 00:08:25,155 Speaker 1: spokesman Dmitri Preskoff to State Television, No, No, not Washington 115 00:08:25,195 --> 00:08:29,915 Speaker 1: Post Live TV. Actual Russian State television quote, the new 116 00:08:30,035 --> 00:08:36,435 Speaker 1: administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely 117 00:08:36,595 --> 00:08:42,795 Speaker 1: coincides with our vision. Dmitry Peskov to Russian State television. 118 00:08:45,315 --> 00:08:50,955 Speaker 1: What he is saying is Trump has surrendered to Putin. 119 00:08:53,395 --> 00:08:56,795 Speaker 1: If you had any doubt that Trump has made the 120 00:08:56,795 --> 00:09:00,955 Speaker 1: White House an arm of the Kremlin to please Putin, 121 00:09:01,435 --> 00:09:07,875 Speaker 1: there is Putin's spokesman telling you it just happened. If 122 00:09:07,875 --> 00:09:10,155 Speaker 1: you had any doubt of that, or if you had 123 00:09:10,235 --> 00:09:35,195 Speaker 1: any doubt that Trump must lose power, I will address 124 00:09:35,315 --> 00:09:39,635 Speaker 1: what Trump must lose power means and that reality in 125 00:09:39,675 --> 00:09:42,875 Speaker 1: a moment. In the immediate short term, we are left 126 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:46,555 Speaker 1: with this reality. Trump hated Biden. Trump tried to extort 127 00:09:46,635 --> 00:09:50,715 Speaker 1: Zelensky into fabricating fake evidence against Biden. Trump tried to 128 00:09:50,755 --> 00:09:55,235 Speaker 1: weaken Ukraine on Putin's behalf. Trump was impeached for these 129 00:09:55,355 --> 00:10:03,115 Speaker 1: high crimes and misdemeanors about Ukraine. Biden helped Ukraine and Zelensky, 130 00:10:03,195 --> 00:10:06,235 Speaker 1: and Zelensky came here to thank you the country, not Biden, 131 00:10:06,435 --> 00:10:09,395 Speaker 1: to thank the United States for its support for our support. 132 00:10:09,635 --> 00:10:12,835 Speaker 1: So Trump brought Zelenski here, set him up, tried to 133 00:10:12,875 --> 00:10:15,955 Speaker 1: blackmail and bully and humiliate him. And in what was 134 00:10:15,995 --> 00:10:17,995 Speaker 1: evidently supposed to be more of a threat than an 135 00:10:17,995 --> 00:10:23,195 Speaker 1: immediate change of American policy, Trump lost his mind again, 136 00:10:23,715 --> 00:10:28,675 Speaker 1: lost control of himself, may have urinated in his pants. 137 00:10:29,915 --> 00:10:34,395 Speaker 1: With cameras rolling, he threatened Zelenski in the White House, 138 00:10:34,675 --> 00:10:37,755 Speaker 1: exactly as he threatened the governor of Maine a week earlier, 139 00:10:37,995 --> 00:10:41,235 Speaker 1: exactly as he has been threatening other people since about 140 00:10:41,355 --> 00:10:45,595 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, and nobody did anything to stop him in 141 00:10:45,675 --> 00:10:50,315 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty. So we have to stop him now with 142 00:10:50,435 --> 00:10:54,275 Speaker 1: cameras rolling, though, Trump revealed himself finally as he truly 143 00:10:54,395 --> 00:11:00,595 Speaker 1: is a coward, a draft evader, a feral animal, a menace, 144 00:11:01,355 --> 00:11:07,035 Speaker 1: a terrified little boy with old man, a creature who 145 00:11:07,875 --> 00:11:10,675 Speaker 1: without the power he has accrued through lies and the 146 00:11:10,715 --> 00:11:14,755 Speaker 1: exploitation of the least intelligent version of the public in 147 00:11:14,795 --> 00:11:17,715 Speaker 1: this nation's history, A man who would literally be in 148 00:11:17,835 --> 00:11:23,155 Speaker 1: jail right now. He is also taking every step enacting 149 00:11:23,195 --> 00:11:26,515 Speaker 1: every piece of treachery that his own party spent seventy 150 00:11:26,595 --> 00:11:30,835 Speaker 1: years warning America the Russians would take to overthrow our 151 00:11:31,035 --> 00:11:35,075 Speaker 1: form of government, including that little twist wherein the Russians 152 00:11:35,075 --> 00:11:39,035 Speaker 1: would take over one of our political parties. Only we 153 00:11:39,115 --> 00:11:43,075 Speaker 1: never suspected, as the Republican said this year after year 154 00:11:43,115 --> 00:11:46,835 Speaker 1: from nineteen eighteen into the nineteen nineties, we never suspected 155 00:11:46,915 --> 00:11:49,795 Speaker 1: once that those Republicans when they said the Russians are 156 00:11:49,835 --> 00:11:51,955 Speaker 1: going to take over one of the political parties, that 157 00:11:51,995 --> 00:11:57,155 Speaker 1: they meant their own party. They're the Democrats and the 158 00:11:57,275 --> 00:12:02,715 Speaker 1: Russian Republicans. And we need a Churchill right now in Britain, 159 00:12:02,835 --> 00:12:04,675 Speaker 1: and we need a Churchill in this country right now, 160 00:12:05,275 --> 00:12:07,995 Speaker 1: and we need two guys who recognize that even though 161 00:12:07,995 --> 00:12:10,635 Speaker 1: there might not be shooting and bombs for another twenty 162 00:12:10,635 --> 00:12:13,595 Speaker 1: five years, we are right now on the brink of 163 00:12:13,635 --> 00:12:16,995 Speaker 1: that war, and we are not just already losing it, 164 00:12:17,035 --> 00:12:19,475 Speaker 1: but the creature in charge of this country wants us 165 00:12:19,635 --> 00:12:26,035 Speaker 1: to lose it, whether he knows it or not. And yes, 166 00:12:26,075 --> 00:12:30,955 Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be guys who are Churchill. The 167 00:12:30,995 --> 00:12:33,915 Speaker 1: bitter irony here, though, is that the only figure who 168 00:12:33,955 --> 00:12:38,235 Speaker 1: even pretends to be Churchill right now is Trump, and 169 00:12:38,275 --> 00:12:43,435 Speaker 1: he has no idea who Churchill was, or what Churchill was, 170 00:12:44,315 --> 00:12:47,435 Speaker 1: or what Churchill stood for, or what Churchill would have 171 00:12:47,515 --> 00:12:53,395 Speaker 1: done to him and those traders like him. Those photos 172 00:12:53,435 --> 00:13:00,475 Speaker 1: of Trump grimacing into the camera, his official portrait, his mugshot. 173 00:13:01,035 --> 00:13:05,395 Speaker 1: Trump has said. Trump has said this that in those 174 00:13:05,395 --> 00:13:08,195 Speaker 1: photos he is trying to make himself look like the 175 00:13:08,235 --> 00:13:17,075 Speaker 1: official portrait of Winston Churchill. It's as if I were 176 00:13:17,115 --> 00:13:19,515 Speaker 1: trying to make myself in an official portrait look like 177 00:13:19,675 --> 00:13:20,155 Speaker 1: Edward R. 178 00:13:20,235 --> 00:13:20,595 Speaker 2: Murrow. 179 00:13:21,915 --> 00:13:24,035 Speaker 1: Now you have a nose and a mouth and two eyes. 180 00:13:27,195 --> 00:13:29,875 Speaker 1: Let me give you a little of the actual Churchill 181 00:13:30,675 --> 00:13:33,955 Speaker 1: that is appropriate to this moment. It is Churchill, from 182 00:13:33,995 --> 00:13:39,835 Speaker 1: the day from his timeline that most closely resembles this 183 00:13:39,955 --> 00:13:46,475 Speaker 1: day on our timeline. October fifth, nineteen thirty eight is 184 00:13:46,635 --> 00:13:52,555 Speaker 1: our March third, twenty twenty five. October fifth, nineteen thirty 185 00:13:52,555 --> 00:13:56,595 Speaker 1: eight in the British Parliament, after the Prime Minister Nevil 186 00:13:56,635 --> 00:14:01,715 Speaker 1: Chamberlain concluded the deal with Hitler in Munich, surrendering Czechoslovakia 187 00:14:01,755 --> 00:14:05,315 Speaker 1: to Hitler because Hitler promised that's all he wanted, there'd 188 00:14:05,355 --> 00:14:10,235 Speaker 1: be no more war. Wherever in what I quote Churchill 189 00:14:10,235 --> 00:14:14,835 Speaker 1: mentions Czechoslovakia, I replace it with Ukraine. Wherever he mentions Europe, 190 00:14:14,915 --> 00:14:17,955 Speaker 1: I insert the world. Other than that, this is Churchill, 191 00:14:18,035 --> 00:14:23,715 Speaker 1: word for word, nearly eighty seven years ago. Churchill quote, 192 00:14:24,315 --> 00:14:26,715 Speaker 1: I will begin my saying what everybody would like to 193 00:14:26,755 --> 00:14:31,635 Speaker 1: ignore or forget, but which must nevertheless be stated, namely 194 00:14:32,355 --> 00:14:38,435 Speaker 1: that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat, and 195 00:14:38,515 --> 00:14:44,315 Speaker 1: that Ukraine has suffered even more than we have. And 196 00:14:44,355 --> 00:14:48,155 Speaker 1: I will say this that I believe the Ukrainians, left 197 00:14:48,195 --> 00:14:50,675 Speaker 1: to themselves and told they were going to get no 198 00:14:50,795 --> 00:14:53,235 Speaker 1: help from the Western powers, would have been able to 199 00:14:53,275 --> 00:14:57,595 Speaker 1: make better terms than they have got. They could hardly 200 00:14:57,635 --> 00:15:05,275 Speaker 1: have worse. After all this tremendous perturbation, Our loyal, brave 201 00:15:05,435 --> 00:15:09,275 Speaker 1: people should know the truth. They should know that there 202 00:15:09,275 --> 00:15:12,475 Speaker 1: has been gross neglect and deficiency in our defenses. They 203 00:15:12,475 --> 00:15:15,595 Speaker 1: should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war, 204 00:15:16,355 --> 00:15:19,715 Speaker 1: the consequences of which will travel far with us along 205 00:15:19,795 --> 00:15:22,715 Speaker 1: our road. They should know that we have passed an 206 00:15:22,755 --> 00:15:27,035 Speaker 1: awful milestone in our history, when the whole equilibrium of 207 00:15:27,075 --> 00:15:31,155 Speaker 1: the world has been deranged, and that the terrible words 208 00:15:31,155 --> 00:15:36,115 Speaker 1: have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies. 209 00:15:38,115 --> 00:15:48,115 Speaker 1: Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting. And 210 00:15:48,275 --> 00:15:54,315 Speaker 1: do not suppose that this is the end. This is 211 00:15:54,395 --> 00:16:14,755 Speaker 1: only the beginning of the reckoning. Trump must lose power finally, 212 00:16:14,755 --> 00:16:17,955 Speaker 1: to that to be clear, no matter how often Republican 213 00:16:17,995 --> 00:16:21,675 Speaker 1: Tea Party activists used to threaten Obama and other liberals, 214 00:16:22,035 --> 00:16:25,435 Speaker 1: Remember by quoting Thomas Jefferson about refreshing the tree of 215 00:16:25,475 --> 00:16:29,755 Speaker 1: liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Remember how 216 00:16:29,795 --> 00:16:34,635 Speaker 1: often the Tea Party said that, I am not doing that. 217 00:16:34,715 --> 00:16:37,275 Speaker 1: I am not talking about the kind of violence and 218 00:16:37,395 --> 00:16:41,035 Speaker 1: insurrection that Republicans advocated in two thousand and nine, and 219 00:16:41,075 --> 00:16:46,155 Speaker 1: Republicans threatened in twenty sixteen, and Republicans attempted in twenty twenty, 220 00:16:46,235 --> 00:16:50,915 Speaker 1: and Republicans promised in twenty twenty four. I, unlike Republicans, 221 00:16:50,915 --> 00:16:55,635 Speaker 1: am not talking about violent upheaval and not endorsing violence 222 00:16:55,635 --> 00:17:01,595 Speaker 1: of any kind. That is the Republican plan, that the 223 00:17:01,595 --> 00:17:07,035 Speaker 1: solution to our crisis and illegit government run by an 224 00:17:07,035 --> 00:17:12,075 Speaker 1: insane man, exactly as would an asset or even a 225 00:17:12,115 --> 00:17:16,915 Speaker 1: spy from Russia would do. So, the solution may not 226 00:17:16,995 --> 00:17:19,595 Speaker 1: be of a conventional nature. That might be the case. 227 00:17:19,635 --> 00:17:24,395 Speaker 1: I do not know what form that non conventional resolution 228 00:17:24,515 --> 00:17:28,515 Speaker 1: to this might take. That Trump is a convicted felon, 229 00:17:28,795 --> 00:17:31,995 Speaker 1: has already broken countless laws, is being shielded by a 230 00:17:32,115 --> 00:17:35,915 Speaker 1: lawless and corrupted, pro totalitarian Supreme Court that is also 231 00:17:36,035 --> 00:17:41,715 Speaker 1: not of a conventional nature. Those qualities alone make his 232 00:17:41,835 --> 00:17:50,355 Speaker 1: presidency illegitimate, make him being president a fraudulent president, even 233 00:17:50,435 --> 00:17:54,435 Speaker 1: before he begins to actively turn his White House into 234 00:17:54,755 --> 00:17:58,115 Speaker 1: per Senator Murphy, an arm of the Kremlin, and to 235 00:17:58,155 --> 00:18:03,595 Speaker 1: turn this country into a satellite of Russia. Trump's seizure 236 00:18:03,675 --> 00:18:08,235 Speaker 1: of power has not happened legitimately, nor legally, nor by 237 00:18:08,235 --> 00:18:11,275 Speaker 1: the norms that almost by themselves held this country together 238 00:18:11,315 --> 00:18:13,675 Speaker 1: for two hundred and forty years. And even if they did, 239 00:18:13,715 --> 00:18:17,395 Speaker 1: they do not excuse him selling us out to Vladimir 240 00:18:17,435 --> 00:18:26,035 Speaker 1: Putin sabotage, treachery, treason. I will remind you that, as 241 00:18:26,075 --> 00:18:28,635 Speaker 1: often as the leaders of both parties and the more 242 00:18:28,715 --> 00:18:32,395 Speaker 1: corporate and statust of our historians will claim, in generation 243 00:18:32,515 --> 00:18:35,915 Speaker 1: after generation, we have not always stuck to the rules 244 00:18:35,915 --> 00:18:39,275 Speaker 1: which we claim are the only options for resolving things 245 00:18:39,315 --> 00:18:43,555 Speaker 1: and resolving them peacefully. It is pretty certain now that 246 00:18:43,595 --> 00:18:47,275 Speaker 1: the candidate who won the eighteen seventy six presidential election 247 00:18:47,355 --> 00:18:50,475 Speaker 1: in this country both in popular and electoral votes, did 248 00:18:50,475 --> 00:18:55,115 Speaker 1: not become president. Ruther for Hayes became president after the 249 00:18:55,155 --> 00:18:59,315 Speaker 1: Democratic and Republican bosses of the time made up an 250 00:18:59,435 --> 00:19:06,155 Speaker 1: extra constitutional solution extemporaneously convened in secret, they traded stuff, 251 00:19:06,435 --> 00:19:09,995 Speaker 1: They reached a grand agreement, a conspiracy, as others called 252 00:19:09,995 --> 00:19:12,835 Speaker 1: it then and since, that put the Republican Hayes in 253 00:19:12,915 --> 00:19:16,155 Speaker 1: the White House and the Democrat Samuel Tilden into the 254 00:19:16,275 --> 00:19:19,995 Speaker 1: dustman of history, but gave the Democrats the control of 255 00:19:20,035 --> 00:19:25,115 Speaker 1: the South, and ended reconstruction and sentenced the African American 256 00:19:25,155 --> 00:19:28,075 Speaker 1: population of this country to nine decades of what amounted 257 00:19:28,115 --> 00:19:33,395 Speaker 1: to apartheid. The eighteen hundred election was a tie between 258 00:19:33,395 --> 00:19:36,235 Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. It was decided essentially by 259 00:19:36,795 --> 00:19:41,115 Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton, who went into the House of Representatives and 260 00:19:41,155 --> 00:19:44,435 Speaker 1: told representatives how to vote. The eighteen twenty four election 261 00:19:44,635 --> 00:19:46,755 Speaker 1: saw the winner of the popular vote and the man 262 00:19:46,795 --> 00:19:50,595 Speaker 1: with the most electoral votes, Andrew Jackson not made president. 263 00:19:51,475 --> 00:19:54,595 Speaker 1: The fourth place minisher, Henry Clay, threw his support to 264 00:19:54,595 --> 00:19:58,555 Speaker 1: the runner up, John Quincy Adams, allegedly in exchange for 265 00:19:58,555 --> 00:20:05,035 Speaker 1: Adams making him Secretary of State, and Adams became the president. Well, 266 00:20:05,075 --> 00:20:07,715 Speaker 1: these are somewhat distant events. I mean, we're not even 267 00:20:07,755 --> 00:20:10,155 Speaker 1: at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Rother 268 00:20:10,315 --> 00:20:17,075 Speaker 1: fraud B. Hayes event. It's a little distant. You're not 269 00:20:17,155 --> 00:20:22,115 Speaker 1: thinking that Republicans who opposed national suicide, who oppose becoming 270 00:20:22,155 --> 00:20:26,835 Speaker 1: a satellite of Russia. You're not thinking those Republicans Murkowski 271 00:20:26,875 --> 00:20:29,595 Speaker 1: and I don't know enough other Republicans to fit in 272 00:20:29,635 --> 00:20:33,035 Speaker 1: the phone booth will join a grand agreement with the 273 00:20:33,075 --> 00:20:38,555 Speaker 1: Democrats and force Trump out, you know, in May. I 274 00:20:38,995 --> 00:20:41,235 Speaker 1: agree with you. I don't think that's likely to happen. 275 00:20:41,275 --> 00:20:44,635 Speaker 1: On the other hand, that's all too distant. However much 276 00:20:44,675 --> 00:20:47,395 Speaker 1: Al Gore screwed up his own campaign in two thousand 277 00:20:47,595 --> 00:20:50,595 Speaker 1: and I know I worked for him. I met the 278 00:20:50,635 --> 00:20:55,915 Speaker 1: man who screwed it up, not Gore, his business partner. 279 00:20:57,515 --> 00:21:00,435 Speaker 1: However much Gore screwed up his own campaign, history is 280 00:21:00,435 --> 00:21:03,195 Speaker 1: already accepting that it was not the American people who 281 00:21:03,275 --> 00:21:05,875 Speaker 1: made George W. Bush president the first time. It was 282 00:21:05,955 --> 00:21:10,075 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court with the thinnest of excuses. And after 283 00:21:10,115 --> 00:21:13,515 Speaker 1: the stunt the Brooks Brothers riot, staged in part by 284 00:21:13,595 --> 00:21:18,755 Speaker 1: Roger Stone. So I guess one of the contingent plans 285 00:21:18,835 --> 00:21:22,035 Speaker 1: might be here. Anybody have access to an unlimited number 286 00:21:22,075 --> 00:21:28,995 Speaker 1: of attorney grade three piece suits. Yes, it's the United 287 00:21:28,995 --> 00:21:34,395 Speaker 1: States of America now. Three days without a madman dictator 288 00:21:34,475 --> 00:21:39,755 Speaker 1: ambushing an ally and guaranteeing we have already lost World 289 00:21:40,035 --> 00:21:54,835 Speaker 1: War three. Trump must lose power. So how I do 290 00:21:54,915 --> 00:21:58,715 Speaker 1: not have a complete answer to that, but I do 291 00:21:58,875 --> 00:22:04,275 Speaker 1: think I have the first steps, the very very beginning 292 00:22:04,795 --> 00:22:11,595 Speaker 1: of one. That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown 293 00:22:11,995 --> 00:22:24,355 Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman post scripts to the news, some headlines, 294 00:22:24,395 --> 00:22:28,915 Speaker 1: some updates, some snark, and still ahead worse persons, and 295 00:22:29,035 --> 00:22:31,595 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos has finally figured out what to do to 296 00:22:31,715 --> 00:22:39,515 Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez send her in to space. No, no, I'm 297 00:22:39,515 --> 00:22:46,275 Speaker 1: not kidding. This is the Countdown podcast and these are 298 00:22:46,315 --> 00:22:50,995 Speaker 1: the places where there's news, Dateline Washington. So I promised 299 00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:55,275 Speaker 1: you how to remove Trump from power? How Trump loses 300 00:22:55,435 --> 00:23:00,115 Speaker 1: power without revolution or violence or lightning strikes. And again 301 00:23:00,195 --> 00:23:04,395 Speaker 1: I have no complete solution here, or you would be 302 00:23:04,435 --> 00:23:07,115 Speaker 1: listening dead air because I would be out there doing it. 303 00:23:07,995 --> 00:23:11,835 Speaker 1: But there are the beginning elements in place, if only 304 00:23:11,875 --> 00:23:15,195 Speaker 1: we will act upon them. I've already discussed the idea 305 00:23:15,275 --> 00:23:18,755 Speaker 1: of public action, and yes, it would look very nice 306 00:23:18,755 --> 00:23:21,955 Speaker 1: if there were overhead drone shots as in Israel, of 307 00:23:22,115 --> 00:23:25,355 Speaker 1: major highways being filled every Saturday or whatever day of 308 00:23:25,395 --> 00:23:29,035 Speaker 1: the week. You'd like with millions of Americans protesting this, 309 00:23:29,515 --> 00:23:32,635 Speaker 1: it would be very good. It would also prompt Trump 310 00:23:32,995 --> 00:23:36,355 Speaker 1: to bring out the military to start shooting people. I'm 311 00:23:36,395 --> 00:23:39,075 Speaker 1: not sure we want that. However, there are other measures 312 00:23:39,075 --> 00:23:41,235 Speaker 1: that we can take in which they can't shoot any 313 00:23:41,235 --> 00:23:44,595 Speaker 1: of us. As I've said before, that one day economic 314 00:23:44,635 --> 00:23:47,595 Speaker 1: boycott Friday, the twenty four hours of not buying stuff, 315 00:23:47,715 --> 00:23:50,715 Speaker 1: make it twenty four days, make it twenty four months. 316 00:23:50,995 --> 00:23:54,915 Speaker 1: Bring the corporations to their knees. Don't buy what you 317 00:23:54,995 --> 00:23:58,915 Speaker 1: don't need. Use last year's phone and last year's car, 318 00:23:59,195 --> 00:24:01,315 Speaker 1: and get your water out of the tap, and get 319 00:24:01,315 --> 00:24:06,475 Speaker 1: your coffee out of the coffee machine. Spending thirty five 320 00:24:06,515 --> 00:24:09,675 Speaker 1: cents for coffee was considered an extravagance when I started 321 00:24:09,675 --> 00:24:13,395 Speaker 1: working in this business in the year eighteen sixty six. 322 00:24:15,755 --> 00:24:19,915 Speaker 1: But there are other elements that require the Democrats. I 323 00:24:19,955 --> 00:24:24,075 Speaker 1: know they're not all Chris Murphy, are they. A lot 324 00:24:24,155 --> 00:24:26,515 Speaker 1: of them are Chuck Schumer, A lot of them are 325 00:24:26,595 --> 00:24:30,715 Speaker 1: Kathy Hochel, A lot of them are even worse Eric 326 00:24:30,755 --> 00:24:36,275 Speaker 1: Adams and Andrew Cuomo. But the Democrats need to adopt 327 00:24:36,315 --> 00:24:38,995 Speaker 1: a couple of very simple measures. It's not like they 328 00:24:39,035 --> 00:24:41,555 Speaker 1: are required to do a lot. Right now. They are 329 00:24:41,555 --> 00:24:44,755 Speaker 1: in the minority in both houses of Congress, and we 330 00:24:44,835 --> 00:24:47,915 Speaker 1: do not have the White House. There are individual states 331 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:51,155 Speaker 1: in which Democrats are still vibrant and in charge and 332 00:24:51,275 --> 00:24:53,875 Speaker 1: going to court every day, and this must continue. But 333 00:24:53,995 --> 00:24:56,195 Speaker 1: for the rest of them, for the Chuck Schumers of 334 00:24:56,235 --> 00:25:01,995 Speaker 1: this world, for the Murphy's of this world, four of 335 00:25:02,035 --> 00:25:04,195 Speaker 1: them are Kowskis of this world. If she listens to 336 00:25:04,195 --> 00:25:08,035 Speaker 1: mind Vice and joins the real party, we need a 337 00:25:08,075 --> 00:25:11,795 Speaker 1: democratic war room. We need a group of more or 338 00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:16,355 Speaker 1: less think tank democrats to sit there and figure out 339 00:25:16,355 --> 00:25:20,075 Speaker 1: how to respond, how to anticipate Trump's next move. There 340 00:25:20,115 --> 00:25:23,555 Speaker 1: should have been a news conference within one hour of 341 00:25:23,635 --> 00:25:28,275 Speaker 1: Zelensky leaving the White House in which Democratic leaders described 342 00:25:28,275 --> 00:25:33,795 Speaker 1: this as Chamberlain and Hitler nineteen thirty eight. And do 343 00:25:33,915 --> 00:25:37,475 Speaker 1: not hesitate from calling Trump Hitler right now. You need 344 00:25:37,515 --> 00:25:40,595 Speaker 1: to break him, because when it does not go his way, 345 00:25:40,635 --> 00:25:43,915 Speaker 1: he reacts the way he did to Zelenski on Friday. 346 00:25:45,955 --> 00:25:48,995 Speaker 1: I thought at first that the whole thing was premeditated, 347 00:25:49,035 --> 00:25:51,475 Speaker 1: but I'm now coming around to the idea that it 348 00:25:51,675 --> 00:25:53,875 Speaker 1: was there to shake him down and get him to 349 00:25:53,915 --> 00:25:55,755 Speaker 1: agree to less than they told him. He was going 350 00:25:55,795 --> 00:25:58,235 Speaker 1: to get and then Trump lost his mind. And we 351 00:25:58,355 --> 00:26:02,075 Speaker 1: need to see Trump losing his mind every possible time. 352 00:26:02,435 --> 00:26:04,915 Speaker 1: And we have that coming up. I'll get to that 353 00:26:04,955 --> 00:26:08,235 Speaker 1: in a moment. We have that coming up tomorrow. We 354 00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:10,635 Speaker 1: need a democratic war room. Schumer can be there. He 355 00:26:10,715 --> 00:26:13,475 Speaker 1: has power. Jeffries can be there. He has power if 356 00:26:13,515 --> 00:26:18,795 Speaker 1: only he will use it. AOC needs to be there. Frost, 357 00:26:19,275 --> 00:26:23,115 Speaker 1: the young Democratic congressman, needs to be there. We need 358 00:26:23,155 --> 00:26:27,595 Speaker 1: them to be there and to shout bloody murder. We 359 00:26:27,635 --> 00:26:31,235 Speaker 1: need a democratic policy war room to anticipate what's happening 360 00:26:31,635 --> 00:26:34,995 Speaker 1: and to offer alternatives and to remind Americans what's actually 361 00:26:35,035 --> 00:26:42,955 Speaker 1: going to happen. We need a Democratic spokesperson again, AOC Buddha, 362 00:26:43,075 --> 00:26:47,315 Speaker 1: judge hell Rachel Maddow. I don't care who it is, 363 00:26:47,515 --> 00:26:49,835 Speaker 1: somebody who's out there every week, and I've already said 364 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:53,595 Speaker 1: the time to do this is eight am Sunday. Chuck 365 00:26:53,635 --> 00:26:57,875 Speaker 1: Schumer's only good idea, the thing that propelled him to power, 366 00:26:58,195 --> 00:27:00,475 Speaker 1: have a news conference on Sunday when there is no 367 00:27:00,995 --> 00:27:05,675 Speaker 1: goddamned news, and do it before the Sunday morning news shows, 368 00:27:05,955 --> 00:27:09,155 Speaker 1: so you set the agenda so they are reacting, not 369 00:27:09,235 --> 00:27:11,475 Speaker 1: to what Trump just said while he was on the 370 00:27:11,555 --> 00:27:15,035 Speaker 1: Crapper at five thirty am. But what you said in 371 00:27:15,115 --> 00:27:21,115 Speaker 1: a nice arranged press conference in a happy setting with 372 00:27:21,235 --> 00:27:23,995 Speaker 1: an open bar at eight am and Bloody Mary's for 373 00:27:24,035 --> 00:27:31,715 Speaker 1: everybody and brunch. As Cosell said about the four freedoms 374 00:27:31,715 --> 00:27:37,435 Speaker 1: for media, freedom of lunch, freedom of drink, freedom of food, 375 00:27:37,915 --> 00:27:41,475 Speaker 1: freedom of transportation, and freedom of admission, hold one of 376 00:27:41,475 --> 00:27:44,355 Speaker 1: those every Sunday morning and the Democrats are back in business. 377 00:27:45,315 --> 00:27:48,435 Speaker 1: Have them all up there. Have Buddha Jedge be the spokesperson, 378 00:27:48,515 --> 00:27:51,315 Speaker 1: and AOC and Schumer and all of them, and rotate 379 00:27:51,355 --> 00:27:53,395 Speaker 1: them in and out, and have a host. Have a host, 380 00:27:53,435 --> 00:27:55,995 Speaker 1: a guy who's doing the whole in and out of 381 00:27:55,995 --> 00:28:01,315 Speaker 1: every segment. Televise it, live feed it, live stream eight 382 00:28:01,355 --> 00:28:06,955 Speaker 1: am Sunday. Because the Sunday morning shows are on Sunday morning. 383 00:28:07,795 --> 00:28:12,115 Speaker 1: You get two days of setting the agenda. The content 384 00:28:12,155 --> 00:28:15,035 Speaker 1: is almost irrelevant at that point. Hell, Trump hasn't had 385 00:28:15,035 --> 00:28:17,915 Speaker 1: a good idea since he was four years old, and 386 00:28:17,955 --> 00:28:20,635 Speaker 1: he sets the agenda because he has bad ideas, and 387 00:28:20,675 --> 00:28:22,715 Speaker 1: everybody talks about it. They don't talk about what an 388 00:28:22,795 --> 00:28:25,075 Speaker 1: idiot is. They talk about whether or not his idiotic 389 00:28:25,115 --> 00:28:29,755 Speaker 1: idea is very idiotic or just a little idiotic. Are 390 00:28:29,755 --> 00:28:34,755 Speaker 1: they saying how many Communists there are in the State Department. Yes, 391 00:28:34,755 --> 00:28:37,155 Speaker 1: they're not saying whether or not there are any. I know, 392 00:28:37,195 --> 00:28:39,635 Speaker 1: I just mangled the quote from the Manchurian candidate. But 393 00:28:39,675 --> 00:28:45,155 Speaker 1: that's the whole point. Sees the airways and then figure 394 00:28:45,155 --> 00:28:47,755 Speaker 1: out what to say. And to that end, where is 395 00:28:48,275 --> 00:28:52,195 Speaker 1: our adaptation of perhaps the best aspect of the British 396 00:28:52,195 --> 00:28:58,355 Speaker 1: parliamentary system. The British party that is not in power, 397 00:28:58,595 --> 00:29:05,075 Speaker 1: the leading opposition power party, has a shadow cabinet secretary 398 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:08,715 Speaker 1: of defense. Heg Seth. There would be a secretary, shadow 399 00:29:08,835 --> 00:29:15,075 Speaker 1: secretary of defense, some member of the Democratic establishment with 400 00:29:15,475 --> 00:29:20,035 Speaker 1: good defense chops anybody, anybody who isn't drunk would do. 401 00:29:20,275 --> 00:29:23,315 Speaker 1: Anybody who doesn't take his orders from Elon Musk and 402 00:29:23,355 --> 00:29:27,235 Speaker 1: tells members of the Pentagon to get back to Musk 403 00:29:27,315 --> 00:29:31,515 Speaker 1: with those what did you do this week? Emails? A 404 00:29:31,675 --> 00:29:35,115 Speaker 1: shadow cabinet, shadow secretary of state who could get up 405 00:29:35,155 --> 00:29:39,355 Speaker 1: there and say, we're a little worried about Marco Rubio 406 00:29:40,115 --> 00:29:43,595 Speaker 1: after everybody took turns peeing on him in the Oval 407 00:29:43,635 --> 00:29:47,275 Speaker 1: office and destroying any hopes he had that he had 408 00:29:47,315 --> 00:29:52,195 Speaker 1: some influence that he wasn't just there to tell JV 409 00:29:52,395 --> 00:29:55,835 Speaker 1: Vance that his eyeliner looked good. We need somebody to 410 00:29:55,835 --> 00:29:58,635 Speaker 1: get up there and humiliate Marco Rubio. We can need 411 00:29:58,675 --> 00:30:01,435 Speaker 1: somebody else there, I mean, besides Marco Rubio. We need 412 00:30:01,435 --> 00:30:04,275 Speaker 1: somebody to get up there and humiliate heg Seth. Somebody 413 00:30:04,275 --> 00:30:07,875 Speaker 1: of fish. Because the media, as dying as it is, 414 00:30:07,915 --> 00:30:11,955 Speaker 1: still has overwhelming sway in this country and how things 415 00:30:11,995 --> 00:30:15,675 Speaker 1: are framed and how things are broadcast to the consumer, 416 00:30:16,595 --> 00:30:19,595 Speaker 1: the voter is still largely out of the hands of 417 00:30:19,635 --> 00:30:23,515 Speaker 1: the politicians. It's what you offer, what you make the media. 418 00:30:23,715 --> 00:30:27,995 Speaker 1: People who make these decisions think are the right decisions. Oh, 419 00:30:28,075 --> 00:30:30,235 Speaker 1: I know what to do. I've seen this before. We 420 00:30:30,235 --> 00:30:34,755 Speaker 1: should present an hour of Pete Buotagedge answering all of 421 00:30:34,795 --> 00:30:40,755 Speaker 1: these things that the Trump people have just said. That 422 00:30:40,795 --> 00:30:50,435 Speaker 1: would be Shadow Secretary of State Pete Budajetge. There are 423 00:30:50,435 --> 00:30:54,475 Speaker 1: two other things we can do to accelerate Trump losing power. 424 00:30:55,395 --> 00:31:00,555 Speaker 1: Emphasize one aspect above all else. With Elon Musk He's foreign, 425 00:31:01,635 --> 00:31:05,315 Speaker 1: he has an accent. In the last few months, the 426 00:31:05,315 --> 00:31:08,355 Speaker 1: accent has I've mentioned this before, it's gotten worse. He's 427 00:31:08,355 --> 00:31:13,275 Speaker 1: now almost don until he is South African. He's Afrikaner, 428 00:31:13,475 --> 00:31:18,795 Speaker 1: he's boor War. He's the man who put Mandela in jail, 429 00:31:18,915 --> 00:31:25,515 Speaker 1: isn't he? Or the descendant of one of them? As 430 00:31:25,555 --> 00:31:28,195 Speaker 1: you know, I am a proud child of immigrants, and 431 00:31:28,235 --> 00:31:30,955 Speaker 1: I consider myself such. Even though the first Olberman got 432 00:31:30,955 --> 00:31:35,195 Speaker 1: to this country in eighteen forty seven. I don't think 433 00:31:35,235 --> 00:31:39,755 Speaker 1: anybody in the roots of this family arrived here later 434 00:31:39,795 --> 00:31:42,475 Speaker 1: in the eighteen eighties. And I still think of myself 435 00:31:42,475 --> 00:31:45,355 Speaker 1: as the child of immigrants, and I carry that proudly. 436 00:31:45,635 --> 00:31:49,955 Speaker 1: And when we discovered that the Ukrainian Polish guy, my 437 00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:54,555 Speaker 1: great great grandfather wasn't Zelenski but Zelenski, I was damn 438 00:31:54,635 --> 00:31:58,075 Speaker 1: proud of that. And yet I'm saying this, use the 439 00:31:58,195 --> 00:32:02,795 Speaker 1: immigration thing against Elon Musk, because if the Trump crowd 440 00:32:02,875 --> 00:32:08,515 Speaker 1: hates immigrants, use this against them, Use this against Musk. 441 00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:11,395 Speaker 1: What is he if not the ultimate immigrant? He don't 442 00:32:11,395 --> 00:32:16,075 Speaker 1: even speak English. Good The idea that people are getting 443 00:32:16,155 --> 00:32:20,955 Speaker 1: fired and losing their farms maybe, and certainly farm income 444 00:32:20,995 --> 00:32:24,275 Speaker 1: and veterans are going to be made homeless, and medicare 445 00:32:24,355 --> 00:32:29,355 Speaker 1: is being threatened by a drugged up foreigner. I mean, 446 00:32:29,355 --> 00:32:33,595 Speaker 1: it's a low blow. It hurts me as the sun 447 00:32:34,155 --> 00:32:37,955 Speaker 1: Well great great grandson of immigrants, but it's totally legit 448 00:32:38,795 --> 00:32:41,955 Speaker 1: and very effective, and it goes to the heart of 449 00:32:42,115 --> 00:32:48,675 Speaker 1: their belief system. There's no blow that lands harder than 450 00:32:48,715 --> 00:32:51,235 Speaker 1: when you take the club out of the idiot's hand 451 00:32:51,395 --> 00:32:54,435 Speaker 1: and hit him over the head with his own club 452 00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:59,635 Speaker 1: or shoe. Speaking of which, they have a new bete 453 00:32:59,635 --> 00:33:02,315 Speaker 1: noir on the right, which you can exploit in this 454 00:33:02,395 --> 00:33:09,835 Speaker 1: particular situation. This guy Draino, this Rogan knows something named 455 00:33:09,875 --> 00:33:13,555 Speaker 1: for either Joe Rogan or sportscaster Fred Rogan. I don't 456 00:33:13,555 --> 00:33:19,995 Speaker 1: know what, retweeted Laura Loomer, so you can tell in 457 00:33:20,035 --> 00:33:23,395 Speaker 1: this tweet the total IQ spent was like forty eight points. 458 00:33:23,955 --> 00:33:26,915 Speaker 1: Did you know that DC Judge Emir Hatze Madhi Ali, 459 00:33:27,035 --> 00:33:29,435 Speaker 1: the judge who ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift 460 00:33:29,435 --> 00:33:31,635 Speaker 1: the funding freeze a US ad abroad, has only been 461 00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:34,875 Speaker 1: a US citizen since twenty nineteen and has dual citizenship, 462 00:33:35,395 --> 00:33:38,475 Speaker 1: to which this guy Draino writes, why the hell are 463 00:33:38,475 --> 00:33:42,875 Speaker 1: we allowing dual citizens as federal judges? Conflict of interest? Oh, 464 00:33:42,915 --> 00:33:46,195 Speaker 1: they're big about dual citizenship. Now, I wonder who has 465 00:33:46,315 --> 00:33:52,475 Speaker 1: dual citizenship. In this equation, Elon Musk is a dual 466 00:33:52,475 --> 00:33:55,915 Speaker 1: citizen of Canada and the United States pass it on 467 00:33:56,875 --> 00:34:02,915 Speaker 1: dual citizens Holy crap. There is once again and more 468 00:34:02,955 --> 00:34:05,035 Speaker 1: evidence that we are not going to survive, based on 469 00:34:05,115 --> 00:34:08,115 Speaker 1: our herculean efforts to save the democracy and avoid the 470 00:34:08,155 --> 00:34:11,795 Speaker 1: World War three, that we're already losing. It's not that 471 00:34:11,915 --> 00:34:15,075 Speaker 1: it's their stupidity, it's them looking at this question of 472 00:34:15,155 --> 00:34:18,835 Speaker 1: dual citizenship without asking, Hey, what about Musk? Don't he 473 00:34:18,915 --> 00:34:23,035 Speaker 1: talk funny for a guy from San Francisco, Texas wherever 474 00:34:23,075 --> 00:34:28,835 Speaker 1: he's from Canada? Wait a minute, didn't we just go 475 00:34:28,915 --> 00:34:31,715 Speaker 1: to war with Canada? I bet this guy knows that 476 00:34:31,795 --> 00:34:37,155 Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky bastard. Hey, we didn't make the rules here. 477 00:34:38,075 --> 00:34:41,395 Speaker 1: This isn't Keith al Rimans America. This is Donald Trump's America. 478 00:34:42,115 --> 00:34:45,155 Speaker 1: There are rules here. They're Trump's rules here. Use the 479 00:34:45,235 --> 00:34:47,915 Speaker 1: rules to bury Elon Musk up to his neck in 480 00:34:47,955 --> 00:34:52,755 Speaker 1: the sand with the tide coming in metaphorically, and there 481 00:34:52,795 --> 00:34:57,355 Speaker 1: is one last one. Tomorrow night, Trump will address Congress. 482 00:34:57,395 --> 00:34:59,395 Speaker 1: It is not although it might as well be the 483 00:34:59,435 --> 00:35:02,275 Speaker 1: State of the Union address, it can't be called the 484 00:35:02,275 --> 00:35:04,395 Speaker 1: State of the Union, because that's the tradition in the 485 00:35:04,395 --> 00:35:06,995 Speaker 1: first year of her presidency. Plus, what the hell would 486 00:35:07,035 --> 00:35:09,835 Speaker 1: Donald Trump know about the state of the Union unless 487 00:35:09,995 --> 00:35:16,195 Speaker 1: it's the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics well formerly the 488 00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:22,195 Speaker 1: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But Alexandria Ocasio Cortez asked online, 489 00:35:22,835 --> 00:35:25,115 Speaker 1: if you were in Congress, what would you do for 490 00:35:25,235 --> 00:35:27,715 Speaker 1: the state of the Union? What do you think Dems 491 00:35:27,795 --> 00:35:32,075 Speaker 1: should do? Number one? How many other Democrats would think 492 00:35:32,115 --> 00:35:37,395 Speaker 1: to crowdsource this to get people involved in the way 493 00:35:37,435 --> 00:35:42,515 Speaker 1: people get involved today when people live their lives three 494 00:35:42,635 --> 00:35:44,675 Speaker 1: four years at a time without ever actually talking to 495 00:35:44,715 --> 00:35:50,155 Speaker 1: anybody in person. She crowdsourced it online. What would you 496 00:35:50,235 --> 00:35:51,715 Speaker 1: do for the state of the Union? What do you 497 00:35:51,715 --> 00:35:53,995 Speaker 1: think Dems should do? Well? I think they should start 498 00:35:53,995 --> 00:35:56,475 Speaker 1: by hollering him down, and those who can sneak whistles 499 00:35:56,475 --> 00:35:58,915 Speaker 1: in should blow the whistles, and then they should boo, 500 00:35:59,195 --> 00:36:01,235 Speaker 1: and then at five minutes they should all stop and 501 00:36:01,275 --> 00:36:07,315 Speaker 1: start chanting Zelensky's name, drown him out for five minutes, 502 00:36:08,075 --> 00:36:12,555 Speaker 1: and then stand up with your backs to him for 503 00:36:12,595 --> 00:36:15,275 Speaker 1: five minutes, and then walk out. So the answer to 504 00:36:15,275 --> 00:36:17,995 Speaker 1: the question should they walk out, they should not even attend. No, 505 00:36:18,035 --> 00:36:22,515 Speaker 1: don't miss the opportunity. Don't miss the opportunity to be there. 506 00:36:23,675 --> 00:36:26,595 Speaker 1: But also, you know, make a spectacle of yourselves. Yes, 507 00:36:27,995 --> 00:36:34,235 Speaker 1: boo him, Yes, chance Zelenski's name. Yes, then stand silently. Yes, 508 00:36:34,675 --> 00:36:38,995 Speaker 1: then show him as much disrespect as possible. Yes, then leave, 509 00:36:42,155 --> 00:36:46,915 Speaker 1: take over the narrative. We are going to need civil disobedience. 510 00:36:48,915 --> 00:36:54,115 Speaker 1: It damn well better be endorsed by and lived by 511 00:36:55,035 --> 00:37:01,515 Speaker 1: the elected Democrats. First, you are God, help us our 512 00:37:01,595 --> 00:37:11,715 Speaker 1: leaders get to work. Dateline, Cincinnati. What is my opinion 513 00:37:11,715 --> 00:37:15,915 Speaker 1: of Trump pardoning Pete Rose, the infamous and now late 514 00:37:16,115 --> 00:37:20,235 Speaker 1: baseball gambler. My opinion is Trump needs to lose power 515 00:37:20,315 --> 00:37:24,475 Speaker 1: after ambushing our ally Zelenski. He brought up the Pete 516 00:37:24,515 --> 00:37:27,955 Speaker 1: Rose thing hours after realizing that not everybody in the 517 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:31,195 Speaker 1: world agreed with him about that on Friday. The amount 518 00:37:31,195 --> 00:37:33,875 Speaker 1: of surprise in Donald Trump's life that he does not 519 00:37:33,955 --> 00:37:38,395 Speaker 1: express must be enormous every day. It must be several 520 00:37:38,515 --> 00:37:41,555 Speaker 1: megatons worth. What do you mean they don't all agree 521 00:37:41,635 --> 00:37:44,435 Speaker 1: with me? What do you mean there was blowback? What 522 00:37:44,475 --> 00:37:52,355 Speaker 1: do you mean Marco Rubio looked literally like flat Stanley. 523 00:37:53,235 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: On the other hand, there are details here that I 524 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:57,515 Speaker 1: can't miss because I did spend much of my life 525 00:37:57,555 --> 00:37:59,955 Speaker 1: in sports, and was in fact at the news conference 526 00:38:01,355 --> 00:38:06,835 Speaker 1: at which Commissioner Bart Chimatti, father of the actor, banned 527 00:38:06,875 --> 00:38:11,195 Speaker 1: Pete Rose for life on August twenty fourth, nineteen eighty nine, 528 00:38:11,995 --> 00:38:17,035 Speaker 1: for gambling repeatedly. The correct headline on Trump and Pete 529 00:38:17,115 --> 00:38:21,595 Speaker 1: Rose is Trump promises to pardon alleged pedophile or Trump 530 00:38:21,635 --> 00:38:27,755 Speaker 1: promises to pardon alleged child rapist. I had turned on 531 00:38:27,835 --> 00:38:31,155 Speaker 1: this after years of opposing Pete Rose's reinstatement to baseball. 532 00:38:31,395 --> 00:38:33,595 Speaker 1: I had said, enough is enough with the steroid era. 533 00:38:33,675 --> 00:38:36,075 Speaker 1: This is a relatively small crime. And then the part 534 00:38:36,115 --> 00:38:40,195 Speaker 1: came out about having his ongoing relationship with a teenager 535 00:38:40,315 --> 00:38:43,195 Speaker 1: under the age of sixteen while he was married and 536 00:38:43,435 --> 00:38:46,235 Speaker 1: starring as a player for the Cincinnati Reds in the 537 00:38:46,275 --> 00:38:49,475 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. That accusation came out, and that's where I 538 00:38:49,515 --> 00:38:56,155 Speaker 1: went go to hell. But on top of what Trump said, 539 00:38:56,195 --> 00:38:59,075 Speaker 1: which we'll get to in a moment, the Baseball Commissioner 540 00:38:59,155 --> 00:39:04,955 Speaker 1: rob manfred a frog who owns golf clubs. I don't 541 00:39:04,955 --> 00:39:07,755 Speaker 1: mean I'm not insulting him with the reference to another 542 00:39:07,795 --> 00:39:10,235 Speaker 1: country anything. I mean, he's a frog. I mean, he's 543 00:39:10,275 --> 00:39:14,235 Speaker 1: an amphibian and he has golf clubs. That's the entirety 544 00:39:14,275 --> 00:39:19,515 Speaker 1: of his life. He is considering now, knowing which way 545 00:39:19,555 --> 00:39:22,515 Speaker 1: the wind blows, because he has golf clubs. He is 546 00:39:22,555 --> 00:39:25,075 Speaker 1: considering a petition that was filed apparently on the eighth 547 00:39:25,115 --> 00:39:28,875 Speaker 1: of January by Pete Rose's family per ESPN to have 548 00:39:29,035 --> 00:39:34,795 Speaker 1: him posthumously removed from the banned list the ineligible list, 549 00:39:35,035 --> 00:39:39,275 Speaker 1: Baseball sources acknowledged accordied ESPN. The commissioner met with Fawn 550 00:39:39,395 --> 00:39:42,635 Speaker 1: Rose and a lawyer, and Manfred is now reviewing the 551 00:39:42,635 --> 00:39:47,515 Speaker 1: petition to reinstate. He rejected the last one after meeting 552 00:39:47,515 --> 00:39:52,595 Speaker 1: with Rose in twenty fifteen, and this justice coincidentally happens 553 00:39:52,635 --> 00:39:56,915 Speaker 1: the day after the Trump post. Over the next few weeks, 554 00:39:56,915 --> 00:39:58,915 Speaker 1: I will be signing a complete pardon of Pete Rose, 555 00:39:58,955 --> 00:40:01,275 Speaker 1: who shouldn't have been gambling on baseball, but only bet 556 00:40:01,275 --> 00:40:04,875 Speaker 1: on his team winning. He never betted against himself or 557 00:40:04,915 --> 00:40:07,275 Speaker 1: the other team. He had the most hits by far 558 00:40:07,315 --> 00:40:10,155 Speaker 1: in baseball history and won more games than anyone in history. 559 00:40:10,195 --> 00:40:13,195 Speaker 1: First off, there is no such word as betted. You're 560 00:40:13,235 --> 00:40:20,635 Speaker 1: thinking of betted, be etted, President Moron said today betted 561 00:40:21,115 --> 00:40:24,915 Speaker 1: the other thing. I have been fighting this literally for 562 00:40:24,995 --> 00:40:29,515 Speaker 1: thirty six years. He only bet on his team winning. 563 00:40:30,235 --> 00:40:34,155 Speaker 1: Let me deconstruct this very briefly. If you bet on 564 00:40:34,195 --> 00:40:36,875 Speaker 1: your team, and you are the manager of the team, 565 00:40:36,955 --> 00:40:39,475 Speaker 1: and you decide who plays in the games of the team, 566 00:40:40,035 --> 00:40:43,595 Speaker 1: when you bet on the team to win, I guess 567 00:40:43,595 --> 00:40:45,955 Speaker 1: in some sense that's fine, even though it was against 568 00:40:46,035 --> 00:40:49,035 Speaker 1: all baseball laws and several, as it turned out, federal 569 00:40:49,115 --> 00:40:51,475 Speaker 1: laws because he didn't report the income and went to 570 00:40:51,595 --> 00:40:54,555 Speaker 1: jail for it. It's okay in a sense to bet 571 00:40:54,595 --> 00:40:56,955 Speaker 1: only on your team to win, rather than to bet 572 00:40:56,995 --> 00:40:59,555 Speaker 1: on them to lose. But what about what happens on 573 00:40:59,595 --> 00:41:03,675 Speaker 1: those days when you don't bet at all. Have you 574 00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:07,835 Speaker 1: not passed aggressively bet against your team because you have 575 00:41:07,915 --> 00:41:10,515 Speaker 1: the decision over whether or not you use your star 576 00:41:10,635 --> 00:41:13,355 Speaker 1: relief pitcher in the game you have bet on, or 577 00:41:13,395 --> 00:41:16,195 Speaker 1: in the game you have not bet on. It's just 578 00:41:16,275 --> 00:41:18,555 Speaker 1: as corrupt as if you bet against your own team. 579 00:41:18,835 --> 00:41:21,195 Speaker 1: You are, in a sense betting against your own team, 580 00:41:21,235 --> 00:41:23,195 Speaker 1: only instead of it being money, the bet you are 581 00:41:23,275 --> 00:41:26,595 Speaker 1: making is not using that player in that game. You 582 00:41:26,675 --> 00:41:29,755 Speaker 1: are affecting the outcome of that game. Let alone betting 583 00:41:29,795 --> 00:41:33,315 Speaker 1: on it. I know I lost Trump at the word betted, 584 00:41:36,115 --> 00:41:43,155 Speaker 1: Pete Rose in death being used as a deflection for 585 00:41:43,235 --> 00:41:50,275 Speaker 1: the latest Trump loss of World War three and dateline Secaucus, 586 00:41:50,315 --> 00:41:53,075 Speaker 1: New Jersey. To wrap it up, Michael wolf the author, 587 00:41:53,275 --> 00:41:59,195 Speaker 1: tells the German news outlet Zeit MSNBC had a full 588 00:41:59,275 --> 00:42:02,555 Speaker 1: day of interviews scheduled with him for his new Trump book, 589 00:42:02,595 --> 00:42:07,515 Speaker 1: but MSNBC canceled it out of fear of Trump. I've 590 00:42:07,515 --> 00:42:09,595 Speaker 1: known Michael Wolfe a long time. I think I interviewed 591 00:42:09,675 --> 00:42:12,755 Speaker 1: him first in the old MSNBC show in nineteen ninety 592 00:42:12,755 --> 00:42:15,595 Speaker 1: seven or nineteen ninety eight, and I've never fully decided. 593 00:42:15,755 --> 00:42:19,315 Speaker 1: A lot of his information is one hundred percent insightful 594 00:42:19,395 --> 00:42:22,035 Speaker 1: and great, and his analysis is really good, and his 595 00:42:22,675 --> 00:42:26,715 Speaker 1: picture of the world of media is sometimes prescient by years, 596 00:42:26,875 --> 00:42:28,875 Speaker 1: and then the rest of the time he's full of it. 597 00:42:29,395 --> 00:42:31,075 Speaker 1: So I don't know if this is true or not. 598 00:42:31,395 --> 00:42:37,195 Speaker 1: But given the race purge at MSNBC, have we forgotten 599 00:42:37,235 --> 00:42:41,835 Speaker 1: about Joy Reid already and Fang and the others who 600 00:42:41,875 --> 00:42:44,715 Speaker 1: were demoted, including the one guy Iaman who came back 601 00:42:44,755 --> 00:42:46,555 Speaker 1: on the air and said, I haven't been fired, I 602 00:42:46,595 --> 00:42:49,715 Speaker 1: haven't lost my show. I've been afforded new opportunities with 603 00:42:49,795 --> 00:42:51,755 Speaker 1: more hours, a show in which I will be one 604 00:42:51,795 --> 00:42:57,915 Speaker 1: of many different hosts. Maybe he thinks nothing happened to him. Still, 605 00:42:58,755 --> 00:43:01,035 Speaker 1: MSNBC had a full day of interview scheduled with him 606 00:43:01,035 --> 00:43:02,795 Speaker 1: for his new Trump book, but they canceled out of 607 00:43:02,795 --> 00:43:08,955 Speaker 1: fear of Trump for some pas reason that rings true. 608 00:43:09,235 --> 00:43:40,675 Speaker 1: Worse persons next, believe it or not, In this all 609 00:43:40,715 --> 00:43:43,435 Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown, there's still more new idiots to 610 00:43:43,515 --> 00:43:51,555 Speaker 1: talk about, the unwashed, unloved, the dunning Krueger definitions. Who 611 00:43:51,635 --> 00:43:58,595 Speaker 1: are today's worse persons in the world? Le Bron's worse 612 00:43:58,795 --> 00:44:03,115 Speaker 1: A moron Republican congressman. I know that doesn't really narrow 613 00:44:03,115 --> 00:44:06,475 Speaker 1: it down, does it? No? Not, Oh, you lie Wilson, 614 00:44:06,475 --> 00:44:08,555 Speaker 1: who has proposed a two hundred and fifty dollars bill, 615 00:44:09,195 --> 00:44:11,235 Speaker 1: which is exactly what we need in this country, get 616 00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:14,715 Speaker 1: rid of the pennies. We need another useless piece of money, 617 00:44:15,155 --> 00:44:17,075 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars bill. How about a two 618 00:44:17,115 --> 00:44:20,435 Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine to ninety nine dollars bill with 619 00:44:20,555 --> 00:44:23,995 Speaker 1: Trump's face on it, because we really need a bill 620 00:44:24,075 --> 00:44:27,315 Speaker 1: with an odd number on it, Like anybody uses cash anymore. 621 00:44:27,355 --> 00:44:32,275 Speaker 1: By the way, No, not him, Rather Andy Ogels, who 622 00:44:32,315 --> 00:44:36,595 Speaker 1: represents the Moron District of Tennessee. He wants a new law. 623 00:44:37,675 --> 00:44:40,235 Speaker 1: If you miss this, the right wing conspiracy machine that 624 00:44:40,315 --> 00:44:43,715 Speaker 1: installed Trump in power is focused not on Trump humiliating 625 00:44:43,795 --> 00:44:47,395 Speaker 1: himself with Zelensky or losing World War III. It's focused 626 00:44:47,395 --> 00:44:50,315 Speaker 1: on what was not in the so called Epstein files. 627 00:44:51,115 --> 00:44:55,515 Speaker 1: Representative Ogels is proposing a law about the Epstein files, 628 00:44:56,475 --> 00:44:59,075 Speaker 1: not about any of the acts in the Epstein files, 629 00:44:59,315 --> 00:45:04,915 Speaker 1: just the Epstein files. It's called the Pedo Act. Ped Oh, 630 00:45:06,035 --> 00:45:11,555 Speaker 1: what do you have to quote Representative Ogles. The Peedo 631 00:45:11,835 --> 00:45:17,395 Speaker 1: Act would fire FBI obstructionists who delete, destroy, alter, or 632 00:45:17,435 --> 00:45:20,195 Speaker 1: otherwise cause to be removed any record, in whole or 633 00:45:20,195 --> 00:45:24,395 Speaker 1: in part that is related to Jeffrey Epstein. The American 634 00:45:24,435 --> 00:45:30,155 Speaker 1: people deserve transparency and the truth, so FBI obstruction is 635 00:45:30,235 --> 00:45:34,035 Speaker 1: to alter the Epstein files would be fired. But the 636 00:45:34,115 --> 00:45:38,875 Speaker 1: FBI is run by Cash Pattel. Cash Battel is run 637 00:45:38,915 --> 00:45:42,275 Speaker 1: by Trump, so anything done at the FBI about Jeffrey 638 00:45:42,275 --> 00:45:46,275 Speaker 1: Epstein is done by cash Battel and approved by Trump. 639 00:45:46,435 --> 00:45:52,715 Speaker 1: So Congressman Ogles wants a law that would demand the 640 00:45:52,755 --> 00:45:57,195 Speaker 1: firing of cash Battel and Donald Trump. Okay, okay, let 641 00:45:57,275 --> 00:45:58,155 Speaker 1: him cook. 642 00:46:00,715 --> 00:46:00,955 Speaker 2: Man. 643 00:46:01,315 --> 00:46:04,395 Speaker 1: What a great idea. I'm sorry I put you on 644 00:46:04,395 --> 00:46:06,795 Speaker 1: the words. You may have solved our quest. How do 645 00:46:06,915 --> 00:46:09,835 Speaker 1: we have it that Trump loses power? Well, get him 646 00:46:09,835 --> 00:46:12,995 Speaker 1: on this epsteamless thing. Yeah, I don't know this idiot 647 00:46:13,035 --> 00:46:15,675 Speaker 1: congressman and then Republicans approved it and he signed it. 648 00:46:15,715 --> 00:46:20,155 Speaker 1: That's all I know. The runner up worser. Well, here 649 00:46:20,195 --> 00:46:25,275 Speaker 1: he is, Ed Martin. You know this guy, he's nuts. 650 00:46:25,715 --> 00:46:30,755 Speaker 1: He is now the acting US attorney in Washington, d C. 651 00:46:31,195 --> 00:46:36,715 Speaker 1: And he is crazy as a jaybird. Anna Bauer, who 652 00:46:36,795 --> 00:46:40,915 Speaker 1: is the senior editor of law Fair, pointed this out. 653 00:46:42,595 --> 00:46:48,155 Speaker 1: Several online Republican influencers made up a story claiming one 654 00:46:48,195 --> 00:46:51,395 Speaker 1: of them is at Matthew Nickel five Obama's team, and 655 00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:54,675 Speaker 1: he said it was a rumor. Obama's team, including Anthony Blincoln, 656 00:46:54,715 --> 00:46:58,755 Speaker 1: Victoria Newland, Susan Rice, and Alexander Vindman, advised Zelensky to 657 00:46:58,795 --> 00:47:04,235 Speaker 1: reject Trump's deal in violation of a Logan act. Of course, 658 00:47:04,275 --> 00:47:08,355 Speaker 1: it's not true. Didn't happen, the guy himself said, rumor 659 00:47:08,475 --> 00:47:12,795 Speaker 1: has it? US Attorney Ed Martin has responded by retweeting 660 00:47:12,835 --> 00:47:16,315 Speaker 1: this and writing concerning no one is above the law. 661 00:47:17,555 --> 00:47:19,755 Speaker 1: We'll find out about that at your trial. At Martin. 662 00:47:20,235 --> 00:47:23,115 Speaker 1: Anna Bauer from Lawfair Senior editor, high Ed, do you 663 00:47:23,155 --> 00:47:25,995 Speaker 1: think it's appropriate for an acting US attorney to spread 664 00:47:26,075 --> 00:47:29,955 Speaker 1: false info accusing uncharged individuals of criminal acts? Do you 665 00:47:29,955 --> 00:47:33,035 Speaker 1: think this public statement is consistent with DOJ norms and 666 00:47:33,075 --> 00:47:35,715 Speaker 1: your ethical duties as a member of the bar. Looking 667 00:47:35,715 --> 00:47:40,755 Speaker 1: forward to your response, I'm expecting Ed Martin's response to be, 668 00:47:41,435 --> 00:47:47,315 Speaker 1: what's do J stand for? This guy is literally not 669 00:47:47,475 --> 00:47:53,475 Speaker 1: all there but our winner. Speaking of which, Jeff Bezos, 670 00:47:54,515 --> 00:47:58,355 Speaker 1: this is for all the things that we've endured. This 671 00:47:58,515 --> 00:48:01,835 Speaker 1: was the greatest headline of the week and the weekend. 672 00:48:02,595 --> 00:48:09,435 Speaker 1: Are you ready Katy Perry, Gail King, and Lauren Sanchez 673 00:48:10,155 --> 00:48:16,555 Speaker 1: to fly into space on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin next mission? 674 00:48:20,955 --> 00:48:24,195 Speaker 1: Anybody else see a darker side to this news? Oh, 675 00:48:25,795 --> 00:48:31,315 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos plans to send his own girlfriend into space 676 00:48:32,555 --> 00:48:38,235 Speaker 1: on his own rocket that he owns, the maintenance of 677 00:48:38,275 --> 00:48:43,475 Speaker 1: which he's in charge of. And here come the sparks 678 00:48:45,475 --> 00:48:48,355 Speaker 1: and she's going to be alongside Gail goddamn King and 679 00:48:48,475 --> 00:48:54,395 Speaker 1: Katy Perry. The number of other jokes I thought about 680 00:48:54,435 --> 00:48:57,635 Speaker 1: here are all far far meaner than the one I 681 00:48:57,795 --> 00:49:03,995 Speaker 1: just did, far more grim. The nicest of them was, Hey, 682 00:49:04,755 --> 00:49:08,355 Speaker 1: the Blue Origin spacecraft. It has the opportunity to do 683 00:49:08,435 --> 00:49:12,835 Speaker 1: the funniest thing ever. By the way, David ful Conflict 684 00:49:12,875 --> 00:49:16,435 Speaker 1: at NPR reports that after Bezos's announcement that the WAPO 685 00:49:16,675 --> 00:49:19,515 Speaker 1: op ed Department would now only print opinions that he, 686 00:49:19,715 --> 00:49:23,035 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, agrees with I e. Things he thinks Trump 687 00:49:23,075 --> 00:49:25,875 Speaker 1: will thank him for and not reveal whatever secret he's 688 00:49:25,875 --> 00:49:30,995 Speaker 1: blackmailing Bezos with, the Post lost another seventy five thousand subscriptions. 689 00:49:31,195 --> 00:49:33,915 Speaker 1: That's on top of the three hundred thousand that Bezos 690 00:49:33,955 --> 00:49:38,475 Speaker 1: cost himself after he killed the paper's editorial endorsing Kamala Harris. 691 00:49:39,435 --> 00:49:42,875 Speaker 1: They're down three hundred and seventy five thousand subscriptions. Three 692 00:49:42,915 --> 00:49:46,875 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five thousand subscriptions would fuel most smaller city 693 00:49:46,915 --> 00:49:50,795 Speaker 1: newspapers in America. And that's how much they've lost. In 694 00:49:50,795 --> 00:49:53,675 Speaker 1: addition to all their credibility, they're now a right wing 695 00:49:53,755 --> 00:49:57,275 Speaker 1: news outlet like Politico is a right wing or conservative 696 00:49:57,355 --> 00:50:02,995 Speaker 1: or fascist news outlet. Plus more practically speaking, they've lost 697 00:50:02,995 --> 00:50:05,235 Speaker 1: more money three hundred and seventy five thousands of scriptions worth. 698 00:50:05,275 --> 00:50:09,995 Speaker 1: You know what a subscription is? Who will underwrite Lauren 699 00:50:10,075 --> 00:50:17,755 Speaker 1: Sanchez's twenty twenty five annual plastic budget. Jeff to the Moon, 700 00:50:17,995 --> 00:50:18,955 Speaker 1: Lauren to the. 701 00:50:18,875 --> 00:50:28,595 Speaker 2: Moon, Bezos two days, other worse, Why sudden, Well, outer space, 702 00:50:28,715 --> 00:50:29,555 Speaker 2: the word. 703 00:50:52,555 --> 00:50:55,275 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 704 00:50:55,315 --> 00:50:57,595 Speaker 1: you for listening, and please enjoy the rest of World 705 00:50:57,675 --> 00:51:01,795 Speaker 1: War three. Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, musical directors, 706 00:51:01,835 --> 00:51:04,635 Speaker 1: have Countdown, arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 707 00:51:04,955 --> 00:51:08,395 Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on guitars, 708 00:51:08,395 --> 00:51:12,275 Speaker 1: bass and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our 709 00:51:12,315 --> 00:51:14,955 Speaker 1: satirical and fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball 710 00:51:14,955 --> 00:51:18,155 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is the 711 00:51:18,195 --> 00:51:21,715 Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis 712 00:51:21,715 --> 00:51:25,355 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by 713 00:51:25,355 --> 00:51:28,355 Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. Everything else was as ever 714 00:51:29,395 --> 00:51:33,955 Speaker 1: my fault. My announcer today was my friend Larry David. 715 00:51:35,195 --> 00:51:38,195 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, just four hundred and twenty days 716 00:51:38,595 --> 00:51:41,075 Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of his lane Duck blame brain 717 00:51:41,235 --> 00:51:44,915 Speaker 1: term unless Musk removes him sooner or he loses power 718 00:51:45,035 --> 00:51:49,035 Speaker 1: before that, where the actuarial tables do the business for us. 719 00:51:49,835 --> 00:51:52,755 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always, bulletins as 720 00:51:52,795 --> 00:51:56,995 Speaker 1: the news warrants, remember impeach Trump. It won't work now, 721 00:51:57,035 --> 00:52:00,195 Speaker 1: it will win the Democrats the mid terms. And all 722 00:52:00,195 --> 00:52:02,915 Speaker 1: the options you have for tomorrow night's speech, use them all. 723 00:52:03,675 --> 00:52:08,315 Speaker 1: Boo blow whistles, stand with your backs to him silently, 724 00:52:08,355 --> 00:52:10,355 Speaker 1: and then walk out in the middle of the speech. 725 00:52:11,115 --> 00:52:15,475 Speaker 1: All of the above until next time. I'm Keith Alderman. 726 00:52:15,555 --> 00:52:37,795 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 727 00:52:37,875 --> 00:52:41,555 Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 728 00:52:41,715 --> 00:52:46,635 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 729 00:52:46,675 --> 00:52:48,795 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.