1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:25,835 --> 00:00:30,875 Speaker 1: The senior Senator from Arizona should resign if her goal 3 00:00:30,955 --> 00:00:34,755 Speaker 1: is to challenge Tulsei Gabbard for the role of Tulsei Gabbard. 4 00:00:34,995 --> 00:00:37,835 Speaker 1: Get moving. In the event of a resignation, the governor 5 00:00:37,875 --> 00:00:40,315 Speaker 1: of Arizona is obligated to a point somebody from the 6 00:00:40,355 --> 00:00:43,475 Speaker 1: party of the ex senator in question. So get moving, 7 00:00:43,795 --> 00:00:46,915 Speaker 1: get out, get a real Democrat on the job, get 8 00:00:46,915 --> 00:00:49,595 Speaker 1: a real senator on the job, get a real American 9 00:00:49,715 --> 00:00:52,915 Speaker 1: on the job, and get that show on Fox News 10 00:00:52,995 --> 00:00:57,995 Speaker 1: channel you want, or news Max or Fascism. Today, Kirsten 11 00:00:58,115 --> 00:01:02,035 Speaker 1: Cinema still lists herself as a Democrat. I do not 12 00:01:02,275 --> 00:01:06,595 Speaker 1: know why Kirsten Cinemas still claims to represent Arizona. Again. 13 00:01:06,795 --> 00:01:10,715 Speaker 1: I do not know why Kirsten Cinema still insists she 14 00:01:10,835 --> 00:01:14,795 Speaker 1: is dedicated to bipartisan solutions. Again, I do not know 15 00:01:14,835 --> 00:01:18,515 Speaker 1: why she might as well be a Republican now, Kirsten 16 00:01:18,595 --> 00:01:21,715 Speaker 1: Cinema still maintains she is a member of an advocate 17 00:01:21,755 --> 00:01:25,235 Speaker 1: for the lgbt Q community. Again, I do not know 18 00:01:25,315 --> 00:01:29,115 Speaker 1: why she is standing aside as Republicans move to erase 19 00:01:29,475 --> 00:01:34,795 Speaker 1: lgbt Q rights, her own rights. Kirsten Cinema still maintains 20 00:01:34,835 --> 00:01:38,675 Speaker 1: she respects and protects the Senate, and again, I do 21 00:01:38,755 --> 00:01:42,395 Speaker 1: not know why she is siding with those who would 22 00:01:42,475 --> 00:01:47,035 Speaker 1: dismantle democracy. The Senator has not conducted a town hall 23 00:01:47,075 --> 00:01:49,915 Speaker 1: in Ariansona since being elected to the Senate, but now 24 00:01:49,955 --> 00:01:52,515 Speaker 1: she has managed to find the time to speak at 25 00:01:52,555 --> 00:01:56,115 Speaker 1: what amounts to a campaign event for the upcoming midterms, 26 00:01:56,155 --> 00:01:59,435 Speaker 1: a campaign event for Mitch McConnell and the Republicans and 27 00:01:59,515 --> 00:02:03,075 Speaker 1: against the Democratic Party, at which she predicted the Democrats 28 00:02:03,115 --> 00:02:06,355 Speaker 1: will lose the House, at which she trashed the party 29 00:02:06,395 --> 00:02:09,635 Speaker 1: that got her elected. And she did this at the 30 00:02:09,715 --> 00:02:13,395 Speaker 1: McConnell's Center at the University of Louisville, named for the 31 00:02:13,475 --> 00:02:17,275 Speaker 1: most caliving and destructive Republican in history who is not 32 00:02:17,475 --> 00:02:23,675 Speaker 1: named Donald Trump. Despite our apparent differences, Senator Cinema said, 33 00:02:23,955 --> 00:02:27,315 Speaker 1: Senator McConnell and I have forged a friendship, one that 34 00:02:27,475 --> 00:02:31,555 Speaker 1: is rooted in our commonalities, including our respect for the 35 00:02:31,635 --> 00:02:37,315 Speaker 1: Senate as an institution. Kirsten, you know god damned well 36 00:02:37,475 --> 00:02:40,155 Speaker 1: that six years ago it was McConnell who made up 37 00:02:40,155 --> 00:02:43,275 Speaker 1: out of thin air with utter disrespect both for the 38 00:02:43,315 --> 00:02:46,875 Speaker 1: Senate and the concept of democracy, a rule that somehow 39 00:02:46,955 --> 00:02:51,675 Speaker 1: permitted him to filibuster against even holding a hearing for 40 00:02:51,755 --> 00:02:55,955 Speaker 1: a potential Supreme Court justice nominated by a democratic president. 41 00:02:56,235 --> 00:03:00,755 Speaker 1: And he followed up this extra legal, extra constitutional perfidy 42 00:03:00,875 --> 00:03:04,435 Speaker 1: by quite literally stealing that Supreme Court seat for his 43 00:03:04,675 --> 00:03:09,915 Speaker 1: own political party and his political party's only goal, only aspiration, 44 00:03:10,275 --> 00:03:15,915 Speaker 1: only policy, only purpose power. It was an utter, shameless, 45 00:03:16,195 --> 00:03:20,755 Speaker 1: fatal assassination of the Senate of bi partisanship, of everything 46 00:03:20,795 --> 00:03:23,675 Speaker 1: the country is meant to be and everything you give 47 00:03:23,875 --> 00:03:28,275 Speaker 1: lip service to, and its replacement by brute political force. 48 00:03:28,635 --> 00:03:32,955 Speaker 1: And Kirsten, you went to Louisville and kissed this disgusting 49 00:03:33,035 --> 00:03:38,595 Speaker 1: scumbag McConnell's ass and invalidating him. You have become an 50 00:03:38,635 --> 00:03:43,675 Speaker 1: accessory after the fact to the elimination of Roe v. Wade. So, 51 00:03:43,795 --> 00:03:46,515 Speaker 1: not only am I committed to the sixty vote threshold, 52 00:03:46,715 --> 00:03:49,795 Speaker 1: I have an incredibly unpopular view. I actually think we 53 00:03:49,835 --> 00:03:53,075 Speaker 1: should restore the sixty vote threshold. For the areas in 54 00:03:53,115 --> 00:03:57,475 Speaker 1: which it has been eliminated already, we should restore it. YEA. 55 00:03:57,955 --> 00:04:03,035 Speaker 1: Not everyone likes that the sixty vote threshold to confirm 56 00:04:03,115 --> 00:04:07,275 Speaker 1: a nominee to the Supreme Court. Kirsten was eliminated by 57 00:04:07,355 --> 00:04:12,115 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell in two thousand seventeen. McConnell has carefully and 58 00:04:12,195 --> 00:04:15,715 Speaker 1: with excellent precision eliminated all those instances in which a 59 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:19,475 Speaker 1: sixty vote threshold would thwart the political aims of the 60 00:04:19,555 --> 00:04:23,275 Speaker 1: party representing the minority in this country, the Republicans, while 61 00:04:23,435 --> 00:04:26,595 Speaker 1: preserving the sixty vote threshold for use when it would 62 00:04:26,635 --> 00:04:29,955 Speaker 1: thwart the party representing the majority in this country, the Democrats. 63 00:04:30,155 --> 00:04:36,475 Speaker 1: And he has done so with your help, with your blind, arrogant, 64 00:04:36,715 --> 00:04:43,235 Speaker 1: condescending collaboration with an enemy of this democracy. Moreover, Mitch 65 00:04:43,315 --> 00:04:48,115 Speaker 1: McConnell has repeatedly vetoed the actions of the Democratic House, 66 00:04:48,515 --> 00:04:53,395 Speaker 1: and you have the nerve to applaud him. When Republicans 67 00:04:53,395 --> 00:04:55,955 Speaker 1: are in control, they passed a little bit of crazy legislation. 68 00:04:56,515 --> 00:04:58,995 Speaker 1: And when the Democrats are in control, they pass a 69 00:04:59,035 --> 00:05:01,675 Speaker 1: little bit of crazy legislation. And the job of the 70 00:05:01,755 --> 00:05:06,395 Speaker 1: Senate is to cool that passion. Oh, everybody in Washington 71 00:05:06,555 --> 00:05:11,595 Speaker 1: is just so crazy. During your time in the Senate, 72 00:05:12,195 --> 00:05:16,755 Speaker 1: the Senate has confirmed three Supreme Court justices who lied 73 00:05:16,955 --> 00:05:19,955 Speaker 1: about overturning Roe v. Wade to the Senate, and then 74 00:05:19,995 --> 00:05:24,155 Speaker 1: overturned Roe V. Wade. During your time in the Senate, 75 00:05:24,755 --> 00:05:27,915 Speaker 1: one of its senior members has introduced legislation to limit 76 00:05:27,955 --> 00:05:32,075 Speaker 1: abortions nationally, and others have pronounced their willingness to legislate 77 00:05:32,115 --> 00:05:36,435 Speaker 1: against same sex marriage and even interracial marriage. During your 78 00:05:36,635 --> 00:05:39,875 Speaker 1: time in the Senate, it has twice acquitted the most 79 00:05:39,915 --> 00:05:44,635 Speaker 1: treacherous and anti democratic leader in the history of democracy 80 00:05:44,675 --> 00:05:48,835 Speaker 1: in impeachment votes. During your time in the Senate, many 81 00:05:48,875 --> 00:05:52,395 Speaker 1: of its members sided with an attempt to overturn the 82 00:05:52,475 --> 00:05:57,875 Speaker 1: presidential election by subterfuge or violence or both. During your 83 00:05:58,395 --> 00:06:02,995 Speaker 1: time in the Senate, an actual palace coup was attempted 84 00:06:03,155 --> 00:06:05,875 Speaker 1: against the United States of a America for the first 85 00:06:05,915 --> 00:06:09,395 Speaker 1: time in its history. But go on, Kirsten, tell me 86 00:06:09,475 --> 00:06:12,755 Speaker 1: more about how the Democrats pass a little bit of 87 00:06:12,835 --> 00:06:16,675 Speaker 1: crazy legislation, but you and the Senate are there to 88 00:06:16,915 --> 00:06:21,195 Speaker 1: cool that passion. So why in recent years does it 89 00:06:21,275 --> 00:06:25,755 Speaker 1: seem like partisanship has gotten worse and worse in Washington? 90 00:06:26,275 --> 00:06:31,995 Speaker 1: Our politics have become increasingly radicalized, spiraling steadily downward into 91 00:06:32,075 --> 00:06:38,435 Speaker 1: bitter and tribal extremism. Cable news pundits, outside groups, and 92 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:41,235 Speaker 1: some political leaders on both sides of the aisle have 93 00:06:41,395 --> 00:06:45,955 Speaker 1: led the loudest and most extreme voices in each party 94 00:06:46,195 --> 00:06:49,995 Speaker 1: dominate the discourse and set the agenda because it stokes 95 00:06:50,035 --> 00:06:55,755 Speaker 1: anger and it gets tweets, views, clicks, but it doesn't 96 00:06:55,755 --> 00:07:04,515 Speaker 1: solve problems. The nerve the goal who radicalized our politics, Kirsten, 97 00:07:05,195 --> 00:07:10,595 Speaker 1: who lead the spiral into tribal extremism and an attempt 98 00:07:10,635 --> 00:07:13,955 Speaker 1: to sack the US capital and hang the Vice president 99 00:07:14,155 --> 00:07:16,675 Speaker 1: the President of the Senate. That you're a member of 100 00:07:17,435 --> 00:07:21,035 Speaker 1: the Democrats, you referred to as they did they do that? 101 00:07:21,675 --> 00:07:27,395 Speaker 1: Are you going to try to both sides? January six, Really, 102 00:07:27,715 --> 00:07:30,315 Speaker 1: the danger of elimiting the sixty vote threshold is that 103 00:07:30,395 --> 00:07:33,155 Speaker 1: the Senate becomes the House. And I remind everyone I 104 00:07:33,155 --> 00:07:34,635 Speaker 1: I left the House and ran for the Senate for 105 00:07:34,635 --> 00:07:41,395 Speaker 1: a reason. That reason, Kirsten, as we both know, was 106 00:07:41,515 --> 00:07:45,635 Speaker 1: personal ambition. Twenty years ago, you wrote a letter published 107 00:07:45,635 --> 00:07:50,035 Speaker 1: by the Arizona Republic quote, until the average American realizes 108 00:07:50,115 --> 00:07:54,475 Speaker 1: that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of 109 00:07:54,515 --> 00:07:59,115 Speaker 1: the wealthy, the almighty dollar will continue to rule. But 110 00:07:59,275 --> 00:08:02,755 Speaker 1: last month, as your price for voting for the Inflation 111 00:08:02,835 --> 00:08:06,955 Speaker 1: Reduction Act, you personally detected a tax loophole that means 112 00:08:07,035 --> 00:08:12,235 Speaker 1: millions for private equity executives, law firm partners, and hedge 113 00:08:12,275 --> 00:08:17,875 Speaker 1: fund managers, or as you might call them, ordinary everyday Americans. 114 00:08:18,155 --> 00:08:19,675 Speaker 1: But the best thing you can do for your child 115 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:22,435 Speaker 1: is to not give them everything they want, right and 116 00:08:22,475 --> 00:08:25,315 Speaker 1: that's important to the United States Senate as well. We 117 00:08:25,355 --> 00:08:29,675 Speaker 1: shouldn't get everything we want in the moment, Kirsten, what 118 00:08:29,795 --> 00:08:34,275 Speaker 1: the hell does that mean? This is the opportune moment 119 00:08:34,315 --> 00:08:36,195 Speaker 1: for me to explain what the hell I mean? Why 120 00:08:36,235 --> 00:08:39,395 Speaker 1: I have been addressing a senior senator from Arizona, not 121 00:08:39,515 --> 00:08:42,355 Speaker 1: by her title, but by her first name. I believe 122 00:08:43,035 --> 00:08:45,955 Speaker 1: I was the first broadcaster to put Kirsten Cinema on 123 00:08:46,075 --> 00:08:49,115 Speaker 1: national television when she was in local politics in Arizona, 124 00:08:49,435 --> 00:08:52,035 Speaker 1: and from that grew a friendship that lasted for nearly 125 00:08:52,115 --> 00:08:56,075 Speaker 1: eight years. We even dated briefly, not while she was 126 00:08:56,115 --> 00:08:58,795 Speaker 1: a guest on my shows, but long enough that twice 127 00:08:58,835 --> 00:09:01,435 Speaker 1: I took her to the Broadway show Book of Mormon, 128 00:09:01,715 --> 00:09:04,675 Speaker 1: and as a real life X Mormon, she was delighted 129 00:09:04,795 --> 00:09:07,395 Speaker 1: to go backstage and meet the cast and complement one 130 00:09:07,435 --> 00:09:10,755 Speaker 1: of the producers on the exactitude of the recreation of 131 00:09:10,875 --> 00:09:14,475 Speaker 1: Mormons Sunday School stories, and we stood in front of 132 00:09:14,475 --> 00:09:17,435 Speaker 1: the theater late into the night, talking politics with many 133 00:09:17,515 --> 00:09:20,355 Speaker 1: of the actors and stage staff. And in that crowd, 134 00:09:20,675 --> 00:09:25,035 Speaker 1: me and a bunch of Broadway performers whose livelihoods consisted 135 00:09:25,075 --> 00:09:29,675 Speaker 1: of savaging a religion every night. In that crowd, Kirsten 136 00:09:29,755 --> 00:09:35,195 Speaker 1: Cinema was hands down the most liberal, the most progressive, 137 00:09:35,835 --> 00:09:39,755 Speaker 1: the most to hell with them of all of us, 138 00:09:40,275 --> 00:09:46,715 Speaker 1: and the most intelligent, not even close. And in that 139 00:09:46,795 --> 00:09:49,875 Speaker 1: crowd she proudly proclaimed to us not only what she 140 00:09:49,955 --> 00:09:53,715 Speaker 1: had publicly revealed previously about her personal life, but also 141 00:09:53,795 --> 00:09:57,195 Speaker 1: that she was utterly opposed to monogamous relationships and thus, 142 00:09:57,235 --> 00:10:01,035 Speaker 1: as she termed it, breeding like members of her family had. 143 00:10:01,395 --> 00:10:03,715 Speaker 1: So you will excuse me if in this sea of 144 00:10:03,755 --> 00:10:08,595 Speaker 1: her disingenuo was condescending phony piety. That remark that jumps 145 00:10:08,595 --> 00:10:12,395 Speaker 1: out at me as the most disingenuously condescending and the 146 00:10:12,435 --> 00:10:15,795 Speaker 1: most phonally pious is telling anybody what is the best 147 00:10:15,795 --> 00:10:21,235 Speaker 1: thing they can do for their child. I am going 148 00:10:21,275 --> 00:10:23,795 Speaker 1: to say something now, and I do not expect it 149 00:10:23,835 --> 00:10:29,395 Speaker 1: will be widely believed. There is no personal animus here. 150 00:10:30,195 --> 00:10:33,755 Speaker 1: She and I did not stop dating because of some discord. 151 00:10:34,355 --> 00:10:36,875 Speaker 1: We continued to go to events together as late as 152 00:10:36,915 --> 00:10:40,235 Speaker 1: a year after the last date. Kirsten Cinema and I 153 00:10:40,395 --> 00:10:44,115 Speaker 1: texted for six years after our last date. Half of 154 00:10:44,155 --> 00:10:46,635 Speaker 1: the text were about politics and who was gonna stop Trump. 155 00:10:46,755 --> 00:10:48,675 Speaker 1: Half were her trying to set me up with women 156 00:10:48,755 --> 00:10:51,555 Speaker 1: she had dated, or her asking if my latest girlfriend 157 00:10:51,595 --> 00:10:54,435 Speaker 1: was hot. We were close enough that in two thousand 158 00:10:54,395 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: and ten it had been Kirsten Cinema who asked me 159 00:10:56,955 --> 00:11:00,315 Speaker 1: to make late donations in literally the closing days of 160 00:11:00,355 --> 00:11:04,915 Speaker 1: the campaigns of Gabby Gifford's and Raoul Grijalva and Jack Conway, 161 00:11:04,715 --> 00:11:08,675 Speaker 1: after my coverage of them for MSNBC had ended because 162 00:11:08,715 --> 00:11:11,435 Speaker 1: each of them had been swamped with death threats and 163 00:11:11,475 --> 00:11:14,835 Speaker 1: they had to spend double their planned budgets on security. 164 00:11:15,035 --> 00:11:19,555 Speaker 1: And those donations led to NBC's unsuccessful attempt to suspend me, 165 00:11:19,915 --> 00:11:22,035 Speaker 1: even though my contract gave me the right to make 166 00:11:22,075 --> 00:11:25,075 Speaker 1: the donation's. Ultimately it led to my decision to leave 167 00:11:25,235 --> 00:11:29,195 Speaker 1: MSNBC in January two thousand and eleven, when I took 168 00:11:29,235 --> 00:11:32,715 Speaker 1: countdown to Current TV. Kirsten remained enough of a friend 169 00:11:32,755 --> 00:11:35,715 Speaker 1: that she went with me as a regular guest when 170 00:11:35,755 --> 00:11:39,635 Speaker 1: in private moments she speculated about running for presidents someday. 171 00:11:39,675 --> 00:11:44,955 Speaker 1: I encouraged her. Her perspective, her resume, her ardor for 172 00:11:45,275 --> 00:11:49,035 Speaker 1: change and for justice seemed to offer hope in a 173 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:53,515 Speaker 1: century from which it has rapidly drained. There really is 174 00:11:54,035 --> 00:12:05,635 Speaker 1: no personal animus here, maybe deep confused disappointment. For years 175 00:12:05,675 --> 00:12:09,155 Speaker 1: I would not violate my own vow of privacy about 176 00:12:09,315 --> 00:12:14,595 Speaker 1: private lives, mine or hers. She asked me to be 177 00:12:14,715 --> 00:12:17,155 Speaker 1: her data at a Young Progressives event in Washington in 178 00:12:17,235 --> 00:12:20,075 Speaker 1: two thousand and ten, and a day after I said yes, 179 00:12:20,555 --> 00:12:22,595 Speaker 1: I walked her through the ethical problems with it and 180 00:12:22,635 --> 00:12:26,555 Speaker 1: the publicity possibilities, so we skipped it. I didn't even 181 00:12:26,555 --> 00:12:29,635 Speaker 1: publicly acknowledge that we were friends until two thousand seventeen 182 00:12:29,715 --> 00:12:33,035 Speaker 1: or two thousand eighteen. That's when I felt my comments 183 00:12:33,035 --> 00:12:37,595 Speaker 1: required some admission of a personal relationship. And as Kirsten 184 00:12:37,635 --> 00:12:41,355 Speaker 1: Cinema's performance in the Senate, her performance as a Democrat, 185 00:12:41,635 --> 00:12:45,675 Speaker 1: her performance as an American has gotten more and more nightmarish, 186 00:12:45,835 --> 00:12:47,995 Speaker 1: I have felt that more and more information needed to 187 00:12:47,995 --> 00:12:49,955 Speaker 1: be revealed, and I have done so now, even if 188 00:12:49,955 --> 00:12:53,075 Speaker 1: it meant some tweaking on social media as a result, 189 00:12:53,675 --> 00:12:55,995 Speaker 1: and there are other things to say about my friendship 190 00:12:56,035 --> 00:12:58,795 Speaker 1: and my relationship with Kirsten Cinema. Try as I might, 191 00:12:58,835 --> 00:13:01,235 Speaker 1: and I have tried four months, and I have tried 192 00:13:01,315 --> 00:13:04,075 Speaker 1: four years, I have not convinced myself that it is 193 00:13:04,155 --> 00:13:06,435 Speaker 1: right to say any of them. I just know that 194 00:13:06,475 --> 00:13:10,835 Speaker 1: the Kirsten Cinema act life as the most liberal of liberals, 195 00:13:10,835 --> 00:13:14,315 Speaker 1: a self proclaimed prodest socialist, the trip from the Green 196 00:13:14,475 --> 00:13:19,795 Speaker 1: Party to the blue Dog Democrats is only that an act. 197 00:13:20,715 --> 00:13:22,955 Speaker 1: It is two or three years now since I got 198 00:13:22,995 --> 00:13:26,475 Speaker 1: tired of the act of her condescension, piety, and her 199 00:13:26,475 --> 00:13:29,715 Speaker 1: performance art. That I got tired of her fraudulence and 200 00:13:29,715 --> 00:13:32,515 Speaker 1: her hypocrisy, That I got tired of her fealty to 201 00:13:32,595 --> 00:13:35,715 Speaker 1: the moneyed interests. That I got tired of her portrayal 202 00:13:35,955 --> 00:13:38,955 Speaker 1: of the voiceless people she once spoke for but has 203 00:13:38,995 --> 00:13:41,315 Speaker 1: now insulted. That I got tired of the fact that 204 00:13:41,355 --> 00:13:44,875 Speaker 1: from genuine liberality in the finest sense of the word, 205 00:13:45,195 --> 00:13:48,995 Speaker 1: and personal intelligence that earned the description of brilliance, she 206 00:13:49,115 --> 00:13:53,955 Speaker 1: has deteriorated into just another politician available for sale to 207 00:13:54,035 --> 00:13:57,115 Speaker 1: the highest bidder, and worst of all, someone who has 208 00:13:57,235 --> 00:14:02,155 Speaker 1: irretrievably signed away her principles in order to join the 209 00:14:02,315 --> 00:14:06,995 Speaker 1: vast media political complay the industry that is government in 210 00:14:07,035 --> 00:14:11,475 Speaker 1: which there is only process, not policy, and never people. 211 00:14:12,155 --> 00:14:14,955 Speaker 1: I wrote it on Twitter yesterday and I repeat it here. 212 00:14:15,395 --> 00:14:19,075 Speaker 1: This is the perfect solution, sadly, for the nightmare that 213 00:14:19,235 --> 00:14:23,515 Speaker 1: is Kirsten Cinema in the US Senate, best friend of 214 00:14:23,595 --> 00:14:28,355 Speaker 1: Mitch freaking McConnell. She should resign as the senior Senator 215 00:14:28,435 --> 00:14:33,315 Speaker 1: from Arizona and take over as the host of Meet 216 00:14:33,395 --> 00:14:46,555 Speaker 1: the Press, still ahead on countdown. You do not want 217 00:14:46,555 --> 00:14:50,275 Speaker 1: to be Mark Meadows right now, nor Liz trusts about 218 00:14:50,275 --> 00:14:53,035 Speaker 1: whom they are asking which British prime minister had the 219 00:14:53,035 --> 00:14:58,635 Speaker 1: shortest tenure, not counting her judge, not less she be judged. 220 00:14:58,675 --> 00:15:02,395 Speaker 1: The home run watch continues to paraphrase the serious TV 221 00:15:02,475 --> 00:15:06,835 Speaker 1: commercial for Brett Farves radio show. It's Burst Brett's Bubble time. 222 00:15:07,115 --> 00:15:10,475 Speaker 1: They have shelved his program because of that scandal. And 223 00:15:10,595 --> 00:15:13,395 Speaker 1: in worse persons, how could you become a U S 224 00:15:13,395 --> 00:15:16,115 Speaker 1: Senator and not know the correct answer to the following 225 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:19,755 Speaker 1: question what is the most common way? One refers to 226 00:15:19,795 --> 00:15:23,835 Speaker 1: the day that terrorists attacked the Pentagon and the World 227 00:15:23,955 --> 00:15:29,715 Speaker 1: Trade Center, A sitting United States Senator has gotten it wrong. 228 00:15:30,875 --> 00:15:40,835 Speaker 1: That's next. This discountdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman 229 00:15:45,395 --> 00:15:48,675 Speaker 1: still ahead on Countdown. Yes. In two thousand nine, MSNBC 230 00:15:48,875 --> 00:15:52,075 Speaker 1: almost went off the air. They almost replaced all of 231 00:15:52,155 --> 00:15:57,195 Speaker 1: us with reruns of Lock Up for Why, because the 232 00:15:57,315 --> 00:16:00,995 Speaker 1: chairman of the world's six largest corporations said, so, that's 233 00:16:01,035 --> 00:16:04,035 Speaker 1: why things I promised not to tell. Coming up first. 234 00:16:04,035 --> 00:16:06,235 Speaker 1: In each edition Countdown, we feature a dog in need 235 00:16:06,275 --> 00:16:09,075 Speaker 1: whom you can help. Every dog has its day. Patty 236 00:16:09,235 --> 00:16:12,395 Speaker 1: Cake Refuge saves dogs from the streets of the Bahamas 237 00:16:12,915 --> 00:16:15,515 Speaker 1: and often brings them here to the States. Used as 238 00:16:15,555 --> 00:16:19,715 Speaker 1: a breeding dog, Edda was gradually starved and then dumped 239 00:16:19,715 --> 00:16:21,675 Speaker 1: and left to die. She has been discovered in the 240 00:16:21,715 --> 00:16:25,355 Speaker 1: bushes down to twenty three pounds. That's not more than 241 00:16:25,395 --> 00:16:28,115 Speaker 1: a third of what she should weigh. Remarkably, she is 242 00:16:28,115 --> 00:16:30,555 Speaker 1: still alive and fighting and has the light of survival 243 00:16:30,595 --> 00:16:33,555 Speaker 1: in her eyes. The Refuge could use your help to 244 00:16:33,635 --> 00:16:36,835 Speaker 1: feed her and overcome her infections and anemia. They have 245 00:16:36,875 --> 00:16:40,035 Speaker 1: started a fundraiser on giving Grid, so you can go 246 00:16:40,155 --> 00:16:43,355 Speaker 1: there search Eda E D d A or just go 247 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:46,715 Speaker 1: to my account for dogs in Need. Tom Jumbo Grumbo 248 00:16:46,875 --> 00:16:49,995 Speaker 1: on Twitter and look for my tweet about Eda and 249 00:16:50,035 --> 00:17:03,635 Speaker 1: thank you very much. We're doing so coming up Aaron 250 00:17:03,795 --> 00:17:07,395 Speaker 1: Judge watch continues, which would tell you what happened last 251 00:17:07,475 --> 00:17:10,395 Speaker 1: night in the Yankee game and the senator who doesn't 252 00:17:10,435 --> 00:17:15,115 Speaker 1: know it was called nine eleven. First postscripts to the news, 253 00:17:15,115 --> 00:17:25,035 Speaker 1: some headlines, some commentary, some snark. Dateline Washington. Former January 254 00:17:25,195 --> 00:17:29,075 Speaker 1: sixth Committee advisor Denver Riggleman says the texts of former 255 00:17:29,155 --> 00:17:32,235 Speaker 1: Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and the text to 256 00:17:32,555 --> 00:17:36,555 Speaker 1: Meadows are the crown jewels of the investigation that Meadows 257 00:17:36,595 --> 00:17:40,835 Speaker 1: received texts from thirty nine different House members and from 258 00:17:40,875 --> 00:17:44,515 Speaker 1: five U. S. Senators between November and the inauguration of 259 00:17:44,515 --> 00:17:48,635 Speaker 1: President Biden. CNN reports Meadows also got one text at 260 00:17:48,715 --> 00:17:52,955 Speaker 1: least from Phil Waldron, one of the voter fraud conspiracy nuts, 261 00:17:53,235 --> 00:17:57,755 Speaker 1: and NBC News says oathkeeper and Oathkeeper Attorney Kelly Sorell 262 00:17:58,315 --> 00:18:02,595 Speaker 1: texted White House Legacy hire Andrew Giuliani and also tried 263 00:18:02,635 --> 00:18:05,795 Speaker 1: to text the White House itself but sent that text 264 00:18:05,835 --> 00:18:12,915 Speaker 1: to the White House switchboard. Another super genius dateline London. 265 00:18:12,955 --> 00:18:15,715 Speaker 1: The new fiscal policies of the new UK Prime Minister 266 00:18:15,835 --> 00:18:19,075 Speaker 1: Liz Trust they're not exactly going over well with the 267 00:18:19,115 --> 00:18:22,195 Speaker 1: pound crashing and such. A new you gov poll for 268 00:18:22,235 --> 00:18:25,395 Speaker 1: the Times of London shows the opposition Labor Party with 269 00:18:25,475 --> 00:18:29,635 Speaker 1: a seventeen point lead over the ruling Conservatives. That's the 270 00:18:29,675 --> 00:18:33,515 Speaker 1: biggest margin in the poll's history, if you're wondering. The 271 00:18:33,595 --> 00:18:37,315 Speaker 1: shortest tenure ever for British Prime Minister was of George 272 00:18:37,395 --> 00:18:41,355 Speaker 1: Canning hundred nineteen days on the job in eighteen twenty seven, 273 00:18:41,355 --> 00:18:45,675 Speaker 1: with a pretty good explanation he died. Prime Minister Trust 274 00:18:45,715 --> 00:18:48,075 Speaker 1: has been in office for twenty three days. Ten of 275 00:18:48,115 --> 00:18:50,875 Speaker 1: those were essentially days off because of mourning for Queen 276 00:18:50,875 --> 00:18:55,635 Speaker 1: Elizabeth and Dateline McKinney. Texas, in an AFFIDAVI had filed 277 00:18:55,715 --> 00:18:58,795 Speaker 1: late yesterday, a process server informs the court that he 278 00:18:58,835 --> 00:19:01,595 Speaker 1: went to the home of Texas Attorney General Kent Paxton 279 00:19:01,915 --> 00:19:04,195 Speaker 1: to give him a subpoena for a federal court hearing 280 00:19:04,235 --> 00:19:07,515 Speaker 1: today in a lawsuit by nonprofit groups who want the 281 00:19:07,555 --> 00:19:10,475 Speaker 1: State of Texas to pay for out of state abortions. 282 00:19:10,955 --> 00:19:14,715 Speaker 1: In the filing, server Anesto Martine Herrera, reports that as 283 00:19:14,755 --> 00:19:19,955 Speaker 1: he got to Paxton's home, the Attorney General fled in 284 00:19:19,995 --> 00:19:24,195 Speaker 1: a truck with his wife at the wheel. Everything is 285 00:19:24,195 --> 00:19:42,955 Speaker 1: bigger in Texas, especially the Cowards. This is Sports Center, Wait, 286 00:19:43,155 --> 00:19:51,115 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith in 287 00:19:51,595 --> 00:19:54,715 Speaker 1: Sports to on two out, top of the tenth, Aaron 288 00:19:54,835 --> 00:19:57,435 Speaker 1: Judge do up, still at sixty home runs for the season. 289 00:19:57,675 --> 00:20:00,555 Speaker 1: Rookie Toronto manager John Schneider still try to lock in 290 00:20:00,595 --> 00:20:04,475 Speaker 1: a wild card berth for his team. Orders Judge intentionally 291 00:20:04,675 --> 00:20:07,835 Speaker 1: walked and the home crowd at Toronto's Rogers Center bowed. 292 00:20:08,235 --> 00:20:10,395 Speaker 1: The next batter grounded out, and then the Blue Jays 293 00:20:10,435 --> 00:20:12,475 Speaker 1: wanted at the bottom of the tenth three to two, 294 00:20:12,875 --> 00:20:15,915 Speaker 1: and Judges still at sixty home runs. He has nine 295 00:20:15,955 --> 00:20:18,595 Speaker 1: games to get sixty one or sixty two or more 296 00:20:18,995 --> 00:20:21,595 Speaker 1: if you are wondering when he hit sixty one homers 297 00:20:21,635 --> 00:20:26,955 Speaker 1: in Roger Maris of the Yankees was walked intentionally. Well, 298 00:20:26,955 --> 00:20:31,715 Speaker 1: he wasn't, not once all year, largely because roughly six 299 00:20:31,795 --> 00:20:35,515 Speaker 1: hundred times that year the man batting behind him was 300 00:20:35,635 --> 00:20:38,835 Speaker 1: Mickey Mantle. And I told you that Brett Farve has 301 00:20:38,875 --> 00:20:40,915 Speaker 1: not yet been charged, but it may only be a 302 00:20:40,915 --> 00:20:43,475 Speaker 1: matter of time. And a scandal that saw him allegedly 303 00:20:43,555 --> 00:20:48,795 Speaker 1: siphon off state welfare money to build a volleyball stadium 304 00:20:48,835 --> 00:20:52,555 Speaker 1: for his daughter at the University of Southern Mississippi. Now 305 00:20:52,715 --> 00:20:55,715 Speaker 1: Sirius XM Radio, which not only has a weekly show 306 00:20:55,835 --> 00:20:59,155 Speaker 1: starring Brett Farve but features him in its TV commercials, 307 00:20:59,515 --> 00:21:04,515 Speaker 1: has put his participation in that show quote on hold translation, 308 00:21:05,035 --> 00:21:22,475 Speaker 1: He's been suspended indefinitely. Stella had. The message was direct. 309 00:21:22,635 --> 00:21:25,755 Speaker 1: The chairman of GE was ready to take MSNBC off 310 00:21:25,795 --> 00:21:29,395 Speaker 1: the air and fire everybody because his mommy told him to. 311 00:21:30,315 --> 00:21:32,395 Speaker 1: It actually happened, and I'll tell you about it and 312 00:21:32,435 --> 00:21:35,395 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell. First, the daily roundup 313 00:21:35,395 --> 00:21:38,195 Speaker 1: of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who 314 00:21:38,235 --> 00:21:44,355 Speaker 1: constitute today's wrist persons in the world. The Bronze I 315 00:21:44,395 --> 00:21:48,075 Speaker 1: missed one Sunday. Chuck Todd still host of Meet the Press? 316 00:21:48,555 --> 00:21:51,475 Speaker 1: Is he? Is? He still a host of Can we check? 317 00:21:52,395 --> 00:21:56,675 Speaker 1: What's been five minutes since we checked? Chuck still is okay? 318 00:21:56,955 --> 00:21:59,915 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd still a host of Meet the Press permitted 319 00:21:59,995 --> 00:22:03,155 Speaker 1: Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina to talk about how 320 00:22:03,195 --> 00:22:06,355 Speaker 1: the Republicans will take the House and how they will 321 00:22:06,355 --> 00:22:10,955 Speaker 1: then impeach President Biden. Oddly enough, a couple of viewers 322 00:22:10,995 --> 00:22:14,035 Speaker 1: noticed that Chuck Todd never asked a follow up question, 323 00:22:14,155 --> 00:22:18,835 Speaker 1: like just picking one out at random for what impeaching 324 00:22:18,995 --> 00:22:22,475 Speaker 1: for what? You might very well think that the Republicans 325 00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:24,635 Speaker 1: who are willing to appear on meet the both sides 326 00:22:24,675 --> 00:22:27,355 Speaker 1: press get a deal that says no follow up questions. 327 00:22:27,755 --> 00:22:30,795 Speaker 1: You might very well think that I could not possibly 328 00:22:30,835 --> 00:22:35,475 Speaker 1: comment silver Kevin Roberts, president of the Fascist Heritage Foundation, 329 00:22:35,795 --> 00:22:39,035 Speaker 1: doing a victory dance after the Italian election results, quoting 330 00:22:39,075 --> 00:22:42,155 Speaker 1: his tweet, Conservatives will come to power in Italy just 331 00:22:42,195 --> 00:22:45,755 Speaker 1: weeks after Conservatives in Sweden. One. This can be a trend. 332 00:22:45,995 --> 00:22:48,835 Speaker 1: Conservatives everywhere need to define the choices. What it is 333 00:22:49,075 --> 00:22:53,915 Speaker 1: us versus them, everyday people versus globalist elites who have 334 00:22:53,995 --> 00:22:59,355 Speaker 1: shown they hate us unquote. Firstly, Mr Roberts, if you're 335 00:22:59,395 --> 00:23:04,195 Speaker 1: going to say quote globalist elites, just drop the euphemism, 336 00:23:04,355 --> 00:23:08,275 Speaker 1: say Jews. What's the point of being an anti Semite 337 00:23:08,395 --> 00:23:12,755 Speaker 1: if you use euphemisms. But secondly, Kevin Roberts has a 338 00:23:12,795 --> 00:23:16,355 Speaker 1: bachelor's in history from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 339 00:23:16,555 --> 00:23:18,875 Speaker 1: got a masters in history from Virginia Tech, and a 340 00:23:18,915 --> 00:23:21,915 Speaker 1: history PhD from the University of Texas. And he was 341 00:23:21,955 --> 00:23:25,275 Speaker 1: a college president. So if the fascists divide the world 342 00:23:25,315 --> 00:23:28,275 Speaker 1: into two groups and round up all the elites, but 343 00:23:28,435 --> 00:23:31,315 Speaker 1: let the ordinary people go. Mr Roberts, I have bad, 344 00:23:31,395 --> 00:23:35,955 Speaker 1: breaking news for you. You're not getting let go. But 345 00:23:36,035 --> 00:23:40,595 Speaker 1: our winner, Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas. He is a doctor. 346 00:23:41,715 --> 00:23:45,555 Speaker 1: And George Carlin's line about the fact that mathematically it's 347 00:23:45,555 --> 00:23:48,395 Speaker 1: a proven fact that somebody somewhere in the world has 348 00:23:48,435 --> 00:23:52,235 Speaker 1: to be the world's worst doctor. This is an actual 349 00:23:52,395 --> 00:23:54,875 Speaker 1: doctor we're talking about. He went to Kansas State then 350 00:23:54,915 --> 00:23:59,115 Speaker 1: the University of Kansas Med School. So this is senator 351 00:23:59,795 --> 00:24:05,155 Speaker 1: doctor or doctor Senator Roger Marshall on Fox Business Snooze. 352 00:24:05,595 --> 00:24:09,195 Speaker 1: Flashing back to that day, many of us recall vaguely 353 00:24:09,635 --> 00:24:13,635 Speaker 1: of the al Quaeda suicide attacks, which as I remember it, 354 00:24:13,875 --> 00:24:19,155 Speaker 1: that was called nine eleven. You know, I know that 355 00:24:19,315 --> 00:24:21,915 Speaker 1: you're familiar with nine one. One was in your backyard. 356 00:24:21,955 --> 00:24:26,355 Speaker 1: But one we lost three thousand Americans, and certainly we 357 00:24:26,395 --> 00:24:29,675 Speaker 1: hold that day in reverence. But now in America we're 358 00:24:29,715 --> 00:24:33,275 Speaker 1: losing three thousand Americans about every two or three weeks. 359 00:24:34,035 --> 00:24:36,035 Speaker 1: And what we did in response to nine one one 360 00:24:36,115 --> 00:24:38,915 Speaker 1: is declare war on terrorism and that's what we want 361 00:24:38,915 --> 00:24:44,715 Speaker 1: to do with the cartail nine one one. Sparky, this 362 00:24:44,915 --> 00:24:48,075 Speaker 1: knit wit not only thinks you go digit by digit 363 00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:51,875 Speaker 1: on all dates, especially that one, but he's also apparently 364 00:24:51,915 --> 00:24:56,835 Speaker 1: never heard anybody else say it allowed, never heard anybody 365 00:24:56,915 --> 00:25:04,835 Speaker 1: say nine eleven, never heard it anywhere here in America. Well, right, 366 00:25:04,915 --> 00:25:07,675 Speaker 1: let's be fair. Maybe he was just having a bad interview. 367 00:25:07,715 --> 00:25:10,515 Speaker 1: Maybe he was distracted by being on the network that 368 00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:16,395 Speaker 1: stars Maria Barbaromo's sibilant s No, not really. Here's Mr 369 00:25:16,475 --> 00:25:20,035 Speaker 1: Senator Dr Marshall moments later on News Max. I want 370 00:25:20,035 --> 00:25:23,995 Speaker 1: to take your listeners back to when three thousand Americans 371 00:25:24,115 --> 00:25:29,595 Speaker 1: died and we declared war on those terrorists. Nine one one. 372 00:25:29,635 --> 00:25:33,955 Speaker 1: I mean, even for a Republican from Kansas, this is idiotic. Also, 373 00:25:34,035 --> 00:25:36,395 Speaker 1: if it's nine one, should the number of dead be 374 00:25:36,915 --> 00:25:44,755 Speaker 1: three O O? I mean they let this man deliver babies. Okay, ma'am, 375 00:25:44,795 --> 00:25:48,875 Speaker 1: the b abby is ready to be birthed. Open your 376 00:25:48,915 --> 00:25:56,115 Speaker 1: mouth wide. Mr Senator Dr Roger, Never remember nine one one, 377 00:25:56,475 --> 00:26:00,555 Speaker 1: No way, it was never never forget, never remember never 378 00:26:00,875 --> 00:26:08,115 Speaker 1: never something one here in a may Ka Marshal Today's 379 00:26:08,115 --> 00:26:32,355 Speaker 1: worst person, Hello world, to the number one story on 380 00:26:32,395 --> 00:26:35,475 Speaker 1: the countdown on my favorite topic me and this is 381 00:26:35,515 --> 00:26:37,715 Speaker 1: not the anniversary of this event, but I was reminded 382 00:26:37,755 --> 00:26:40,955 Speaker 1: of it over the weekend, So here goes. Often it 383 00:26:41,075 --> 00:26:44,315 Speaker 1: happens in television that there are events so traumatic that 384 00:26:44,315 --> 00:26:48,115 Speaker 1: the cliche about your life flashing before your eyes does 385 00:26:48,155 --> 00:26:51,635 Speaker 1: not apply, but an equally hackneyed one about your career 386 00:26:51,715 --> 00:26:56,115 Speaker 1: flashing before your eyes might. The executive producer of our 387 00:26:56,275 --> 00:26:59,915 Speaker 1: MSNBC newscast Countdown, Isy Povich, and I were on the 388 00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:03,475 Speaker 1: grown up elevator to the office of NBC President Jeff 389 00:27:03,515 --> 00:27:06,395 Speaker 1: Zucker on the the second floor of thirty Rock in 390 00:27:06,435 --> 00:27:10,475 Speaker 1: New York, Summoned there by some garbled message from MSNBC 391 00:27:10,595 --> 00:27:14,995 Speaker 1: president Phil Griffin about MSNBC being taken off the air, 392 00:27:16,195 --> 00:27:20,675 Speaker 1: I was mumbling to Izzy, Sundry imprecations and reminiscences, eight 393 00:27:20,715 --> 00:27:24,115 Speaker 1: freaking months is we spent twelve freaking months forcing them 394 00:27:24,115 --> 00:27:27,635 Speaker 1: to create meadows showed last eight months, all the crap 395 00:27:28,275 --> 00:27:32,235 Speaker 1: prompter practice, getting her over her fears, Rockets passed CNN 396 00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:34,795 Speaker 1: only eight months of show, and now it's all gone. 397 00:27:36,035 --> 00:27:38,275 Speaker 1: Izzy reminded me it was not just Rachel's show that 398 00:27:38,395 --> 00:27:42,315 Speaker 1: was threatened, which was why poor Court Harson from Hardball 399 00:27:42,355 --> 00:27:46,395 Speaker 1: was already upstairs, along with poor Ed Schultz and Phil 400 00:27:46,395 --> 00:27:49,675 Speaker 1: Griffin at Rachel's executive producer Bill Wolf, and some clown 401 00:27:49,715 --> 00:27:52,955 Speaker 1: from Morning Joe, and a couple of other MSNBC executives 402 00:27:52,995 --> 00:27:56,915 Speaker 1: and us. I know, I know, I did the line 403 00:27:56,915 --> 00:28:00,075 Speaker 1: from the drunken Irishman from Hitchcock's The Birds, complete with 404 00:28:00,115 --> 00:28:04,395 Speaker 1: the bad accent. It's the end of the world, I said, 405 00:28:04,715 --> 00:28:07,155 Speaker 1: f Emil is going to take MSNBC off the air. 406 00:28:08,395 --> 00:28:10,835 Speaker 1: I didn't need any of my overwrought visions from two 407 00:28:10,915 --> 00:28:14,435 Speaker 1: years earlier of the future of liberal news commentary falling 408 00:28:14,475 --> 00:28:17,275 Speaker 1: out the NBC window to its death on the rink. 409 00:28:17,555 --> 00:28:21,275 Speaker 1: This was the real thing. The chairman of General Electric 410 00:28:21,715 --> 00:28:25,195 Speaker 1: was threatening to open the window himself, throw us out 411 00:28:25,235 --> 00:28:28,155 Speaker 1: the window himself, and then race down to the pavement 412 00:28:28,395 --> 00:28:33,715 Speaker 1: to stomp on our dying remains himself. Poor Ed Schultz 413 00:28:33,755 --> 00:28:37,195 Speaker 1: heard Jeff Zucker say those words, and he had screwed 414 00:28:37,275 --> 00:28:39,635 Speaker 1: up his face and tilted his head like a puppy 415 00:28:39,715 --> 00:28:42,795 Speaker 1: hearing a car crash. He had not believed at the 416 00:28:42,835 --> 00:28:45,475 Speaker 1: first time. He had not believed at the second time. 417 00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:48,275 Speaker 1: Zucker said it a third time. Immelt is going to 418 00:28:48,355 --> 00:28:53,435 Speaker 1: take MSNBC off the fffing air at, Schultz groaned. After 419 00:28:53,515 --> 00:28:56,915 Speaker 1: weeks of Griffin's coaxing, he had finally just moved from 420 00:28:56,955 --> 00:29:01,715 Speaker 1: Nebraska to New York the preceding weekend, yet he was still, 421 00:29:01,755 --> 00:29:05,235 Speaker 1: somehow only the second most strung out person in the room. You, 422 00:29:06,075 --> 00:29:09,315 Speaker 1: Zucker shouted at me, You're the smartest one in the room. 423 00:29:09,475 --> 00:29:13,075 Speaker 1: What the f do we do now? I'll confess I 424 00:29:13,155 --> 00:29:15,395 Speaker 1: was shaken by this because it appeared for once that 425 00:29:15,515 --> 00:29:19,075 Speaker 1: Zucker was not being sarcastic. I had never before seen 426 00:29:19,155 --> 00:29:22,275 Speaker 1: him flush nor flustered. This was a guy who wore 427 00:29:22,395 --> 00:29:26,555 Speaker 1: fleece in July. Now he was beat red and sweating. 428 00:29:27,555 --> 00:29:29,635 Speaker 1: Sometimes he knew what he was doing, and, as his 429 00:29:29,635 --> 00:29:32,995 Speaker 1: opposition to hiring Meadow had proved, sometimes he didn't know 430 00:29:33,035 --> 00:29:35,475 Speaker 1: what he was doing. But he always acted as the 431 00:29:35,515 --> 00:29:39,195 Speaker 1: most confident man in the galaxy. But now he literally 432 00:29:39,195 --> 00:29:41,235 Speaker 1: had no clue what to do next. And he not 433 00:29:41,315 --> 00:29:44,755 Speaker 1: only could not ignore my advice, he desperately needed it. 434 00:29:45,355 --> 00:29:48,795 Speaker 1: This situation and that color on his face were almost 435 00:29:48,875 --> 00:29:53,915 Speaker 1: worth watching the corporate fascists knuke my network. I asked 436 00:29:53,995 --> 00:29:56,755 Speaker 1: Zucker to explain what happened? You, God, Dad, well know 437 00:29:56,915 --> 00:30:00,075 Speaker 1: what happened. Zucker moved towards me, and I stood up 438 00:30:00,075 --> 00:30:02,795 Speaker 1: and I told him I would see myself out. He stopped, 439 00:30:03,275 --> 00:30:05,515 Speaker 1: remembering that he did indeed, at we need my help. 440 00:30:06,235 --> 00:30:09,515 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I apologize. This isn't rational, this is this 441 00:30:09,595 --> 00:30:13,515 Speaker 1: is I melt Last week sometime Bill O'Reilly snapped. He 442 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:15,555 Speaker 1: told Murdach he wasn't gonna take any more of what 443 00:30:15,595 --> 00:30:17,395 Speaker 1: you were saying about him on the air. So he 444 00:30:17,435 --> 00:30:21,315 Speaker 1: did a piece last night accusing GE of manufacturing the 445 00:30:21,355 --> 00:30:24,995 Speaker 1: components that been used in roadside bombs that were built 446 00:30:24,995 --> 00:30:27,755 Speaker 1: in a rand to kill Americans in Iraq, which is 447 00:30:27,795 --> 00:30:30,915 Speaker 1: which is true legally, that's legally true. They found roadside 448 00:30:30,915 --> 00:30:34,395 Speaker 1: bombs that had like thirty year old GE transistors or 449 00:30:34,635 --> 00:30:37,515 Speaker 1: or TV tubes from nineteen fifty four or is something 450 00:30:37,515 --> 00:30:41,395 Speaker 1: in them? Legally, g E did manufacture components that were 451 00:30:41,475 --> 00:30:43,555 Speaker 1: used in roadside bombs that were built in a rand 452 00:30:43,555 --> 00:30:46,475 Speaker 1: to kill Americans in Iraq. So O'Reilly puts this on 453 00:30:46,515 --> 00:30:50,475 Speaker 1: his fffing show as a lead story, and then Fox 454 00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:53,275 Speaker 1: sent two camera crews in this little crap producer from 455 00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:57,715 Speaker 1: Oriley show, Jesse Water Something, to stake Immelt out and 456 00:30:57,795 --> 00:31:02,715 Speaker 1: chase him around the GE shareholders meeting in Charlotte. Zucker 457 00:31:02,755 --> 00:31:05,595 Speaker 1: finally came up for air, and I jumped in, why 458 00:31:05,635 --> 00:31:08,435 Speaker 1: didn't m L have six camera crews to stake out 459 00:31:08,475 --> 00:31:11,115 Speaker 1: the two Fox crews and chase them around in Charlotte? 460 00:31:11,195 --> 00:31:13,715 Speaker 1: I mean, isn't that one of our news hubs Charlotte 461 00:31:14,115 --> 00:31:17,115 Speaker 1: doesn't m L own like twenty camera crews? There? He 462 00:31:17,235 --> 00:31:21,275 Speaker 1: bring a camera crew, you'll bring two camera crews. Zucker 463 00:31:21,355 --> 00:31:24,115 Speaker 1: started to not like me again. Now you suggest that 464 00:31:24,155 --> 00:31:26,675 Speaker 1: where were you in? All right, never mind, it doesn't matter. 465 00:31:27,475 --> 00:31:30,075 Speaker 1: mL says. If there's one more story on Bill O'Reilly 466 00:31:30,115 --> 00:31:34,115 Speaker 1: about GE manufacturing components for roadside bombs inter rack, he's 467 00:31:34,155 --> 00:31:38,795 Speaker 1: taking MSNBC off the air immediately. It'll just be twenty 468 00:31:38,835 --> 00:31:42,435 Speaker 1: four hours of lock up. And I'm fired and you're fired. 469 00:31:42,835 --> 00:31:45,355 Speaker 1: And then he pointed at Chris Matthews, producer and Matthews 470 00:31:45,395 --> 00:31:47,835 Speaker 1: is fired. And he pointed at poor Ed Shelts and 471 00:31:47,835 --> 00:31:51,315 Speaker 1: you're fired, and Ed whimpered, So smart, ask what the 472 00:31:51,395 --> 00:31:55,275 Speaker 1: f do we do? I feigned all the nonchalance I 473 00:31:55,275 --> 00:31:58,315 Speaker 1: could feign. If I could have lit a shroot by 474 00:31:58,355 --> 00:32:01,115 Speaker 1: striking a match on the soul of my boot, I 475 00:32:01,155 --> 00:32:06,875 Speaker 1: would have. It's manageable, But Jeff, why is mL so 476 00:32:07,275 --> 00:32:10,315 Speaker 1: worked up about what O'Reilly said about him? Only O'Reilly's 477 00:32:10,355 --> 00:32:13,635 Speaker 1: nutjob viewers actually believe any of that crap. Nobody had GE, 478 00:32:14,235 --> 00:32:18,315 Speaker 1: nobody investing in GE could possibly believe we're building components 479 00:32:18,315 --> 00:32:26,075 Speaker 1: for roadside bombs. Zucker inhaled deeply. M L's mother believes it. 480 00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:29,835 Speaker 1: All the heads in the room turned towards the president 481 00:32:29,875 --> 00:32:33,515 Speaker 1: of NBC. Mrs m L back in Cincinnati, is a 482 00:32:34,075 --> 00:32:38,715 Speaker 1: devoted Bill O'Reilly viewer watches him every night, sees this, 483 00:32:39,235 --> 00:32:42,515 Speaker 1: calls him, says, Sonny, why are you manufacturing components that 484 00:32:42,515 --> 00:32:44,915 Speaker 1: were used in roadside bombs built in Iran to kill 485 00:32:44,955 --> 00:32:51,115 Speaker 1: Americans in Iraq? I had not expected that, I said 486 00:32:51,155 --> 00:32:55,195 Speaker 1: to Zooker. So so he'll really burn what two hundred 487 00:32:55,235 --> 00:32:58,355 Speaker 1: million a year in profits just between Rachel and me? 488 00:32:58,915 --> 00:33:03,715 Speaker 1: Because he's mom watches Bill O'Reilly. Zucker got angry again. 489 00:33:03,995 --> 00:33:06,555 Speaker 1: You bet your being assy will now you said it 490 00:33:06,595 --> 00:33:09,635 Speaker 1: was manageable, How how the he do we manage it? Ulverman, 491 00:33:10,635 --> 00:33:14,875 Speaker 1: just a minute? How old is she Zooker summoned all 492 00:33:14,955 --> 00:33:20,115 Speaker 1: his annoyance? How old is who m ELTs mother? How 493 00:33:20,155 --> 00:33:23,875 Speaker 1: old is she Jeff Zucker was really annoyed. How they 494 00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:27,115 Speaker 1: f should? I know you're missing the point. I had 495 00:33:27,155 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 1: him really worked up, nearly to the boiling point. It 496 00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:34,875 Speaker 1: was great, guess, Zucker spluttered, I don't know. He's in 497 00:33:34,915 --> 00:33:37,955 Speaker 1: his mid fifties. She's got to be eighty nineties something. 498 00:33:38,795 --> 00:33:42,515 Speaker 1: I stifled to fake yawn. Yeah, you're right, probably closer 499 00:33:42,515 --> 00:33:44,555 Speaker 1: to ninety now that I think of it. So the 500 00:33:44,635 --> 00:33:50,155 Speaker 1: problem is she watches O'Reilly. She tells him what's on Fox? 501 00:33:50,835 --> 00:33:54,155 Speaker 1: What O'Reilly saying about Ge? Well, I think you have 502 00:33:54,195 --> 00:33:55,995 Speaker 1: a simple solution. I'd say the first thing you do 503 00:33:56,115 --> 00:33:57,835 Speaker 1: is you send over a couple of big guys to 504 00:33:57,915 --> 00:34:00,355 Speaker 1: her house and you pull the freaking cable out of 505 00:34:00,395 --> 00:34:04,955 Speaker 1: the wall. Zoocker actually gasped My producer, or is he 506 00:34:05,035 --> 00:34:08,515 Speaker 1: Povich unsuccessfully stifled a laugh, and I saw Rachel crack 507 00:34:08,595 --> 00:34:13,115 Speaker 1: a smile. Zucker regained himself. This isn't funny, Alderman, I 508 00:34:13,195 --> 00:34:16,955 Speaker 1: crossed my legs. Oh, it's a little funny. And anyway, 509 00:34:16,955 --> 00:34:19,915 Speaker 1: it's not essential. If the problem is Email is threatening 510 00:34:19,955 --> 00:34:21,875 Speaker 1: to take the network off the air because O'Reilly is 511 00:34:21,915 --> 00:34:26,875 Speaker 1: avenging himself against me by attacking him and attacking ge. 512 00:34:26,915 --> 00:34:29,515 Speaker 1: The short term solution is easy, and in fact it 513 00:34:29,675 --> 00:34:33,355 Speaker 1: is manageable. The long term solution that's not easy, and 514 00:34:33,395 --> 00:34:35,755 Speaker 1: that's not manageable. But the short term one that's simple. 515 00:34:35,955 --> 00:34:38,515 Speaker 1: Rest of this week, next week, maybe the week after that. 516 00:34:38,595 --> 00:34:44,355 Speaker 1: Even we just don't mention Fox News on MSNBC. Something 517 00:34:44,875 --> 00:34:49,475 Speaker 1: resembling a smile crossed Zuker's face. It made him look 518 00:34:49,515 --> 00:34:52,035 Speaker 1: a little less like a lizard person and more like 519 00:34:52,075 --> 00:34:58,755 Speaker 1: a monkey with glasses. You do that forever? No, not forever. 520 00:34:58,795 --> 00:35:02,395 Speaker 1: I would not do that, I said to Bias time. Yes, 521 00:35:02,995 --> 00:35:05,115 Speaker 1: but remember who was it who was in my office 522 00:35:05,195 --> 00:35:07,195 Speaker 1: last winter telling me that I should go on the 523 00:35:07,235 --> 00:35:10,315 Speaker 1: air and and just to f with Fox? I should 524 00:35:10,355 --> 00:35:13,235 Speaker 1: ask why Rupert Murdoch was still running a huge international 525 00:35:13,235 --> 00:35:16,915 Speaker 1: media company like News Corp, despite all the reports that 526 00:35:16,955 --> 00:35:19,915 Speaker 1: he's suffering from dementia, even though there haven't been any 527 00:35:19,955 --> 00:35:22,835 Speaker 1: reports that he's suffering from dementia. For everybody's sake, here, 528 00:35:23,835 --> 00:35:25,595 Speaker 1: who was that again who told me to do that? 529 00:35:26,995 --> 00:35:30,395 Speaker 1: Zucker's goodwill was gone? Again? Obviously that was me. What's 530 00:35:30,395 --> 00:35:35,035 Speaker 1: your point? My point is, we built this new brand 531 00:35:35,075 --> 00:35:37,715 Speaker 1: of ours organically on a couple of themes. A couple 532 00:35:37,755 --> 00:35:40,355 Speaker 1: of statements of principle, and one of them is to 533 00:35:40,635 --> 00:35:44,435 Speaker 1: use your words just to f with Fox. If we 534 00:35:44,635 --> 00:35:47,035 Speaker 1: don't f with Fox for a couple of weeks at 535 00:35:47,035 --> 00:35:49,795 Speaker 1: the start of the summer, who's gonna care. Who's gonna notice? 536 00:35:50,595 --> 00:35:53,875 Speaker 1: But like after two weeks, three weeks, our viewers are 537 00:35:53,875 --> 00:35:57,195 Speaker 1: gonna notice, and the TV writers are gonna notice, and 538 00:35:57,235 --> 00:35:59,355 Speaker 1: then the crap will hit from every direction. You can 539 00:35:59,355 --> 00:36:03,835 Speaker 1: think of temporary freeze on mentioning Fox, then mentioning O'Reilly 540 00:36:03,875 --> 00:36:07,595 Speaker 1: and mentioning Murdoch. Fine, permanent freeze. Might as well let 541 00:36:07,675 --> 00:36:09,675 Speaker 1: him L turn us off in the morning. After all, 542 00:36:11,315 --> 00:36:13,715 Speaker 1: I don't think Zucker actually heard the last part about 543 00:36:13,875 --> 00:36:17,075 Speaker 1: m L turning us off. After all, the lack of 544 00:36:17,115 --> 00:36:21,075 Speaker 1: color was returning to his face. Okay, breathe, he kept 545 00:36:21,075 --> 00:36:25,675 Speaker 1: saying to himself. Breathe, breathe, Okay, breathe. He looked at 546 00:36:25,715 --> 00:36:28,435 Speaker 1: me and nodded. He pointed at Izzy and at Phil 547 00:36:28,435 --> 00:36:30,995 Speaker 1: Griffin and me, you and you and you and I 548 00:36:31,195 --> 00:36:34,235 Speaker 1: will we will talk tomorrow, maybe tonight, and we'll all 549 00:36:34,235 --> 00:36:37,475 Speaker 1: meet again next week. Until then, nothing about Fox, anybody, 550 00:36:37,475 --> 00:36:41,755 Speaker 1: are we clear? Nothing on the air about Fox. Silence 551 00:36:41,795 --> 00:36:44,915 Speaker 1: in the room, then the assorted noises of people rising, 552 00:36:44,995 --> 00:36:49,795 Speaker 1: mixed with attempts to resuscitate poor Ed Schultz. Somebody Matthew's guy, 553 00:36:49,875 --> 00:36:52,635 Speaker 1: Harson I think, was almost at the door out of 554 00:36:52,715 --> 00:36:54,955 Speaker 1: Zooker's office, an office so big that it was to 555 00:36:54,955 --> 00:36:58,315 Speaker 1: steal the ring Lardner line, the size of the Yale Bowl, 556 00:36:58,595 --> 00:37:02,635 Speaker 1: but with lamps. And then a voice spoke up, quietly 557 00:37:02,715 --> 00:37:08,315 Speaker 1: but firmly. Excuse use me. It was Rachel Maddow. Excuse me. 558 00:37:09,075 --> 00:37:11,795 Speaker 1: I will not have the content of my show dictated 559 00:37:11,835 --> 00:37:16,315 Speaker 1: by any corporations, including the one I work for. Remember 560 00:37:16,355 --> 00:37:18,755 Speaker 1: this is June two nine. She still felt that way then, 561 00:37:19,275 --> 00:37:21,955 Speaker 1: and especially one I don't work for. I will walk 562 00:37:21,995 --> 00:37:24,715 Speaker 1: out first. I cannot have the audience wondering what else 563 00:37:24,795 --> 00:37:27,155 Speaker 1: I have not told them. I don't do a lot 564 00:37:27,195 --> 00:37:28,795 Speaker 1: about Fox on my show. But if there is a 565 00:37:28,835 --> 00:37:31,475 Speaker 1: story about Fox, I will not honor this freeze. I 566 00:37:31,515 --> 00:37:34,075 Speaker 1: will report that story. And if I'm prevented from reporting 567 00:37:34,075 --> 00:37:39,155 Speaker 1: that story, I will leave. Whereupon she left, Zucker barked 568 00:37:39,315 --> 00:37:43,515 Speaker 1: Phil all Ruman, is he stay? When the rest of 569 00:37:43,555 --> 00:37:46,515 Speaker 1: the room had cleared, Zucker blew air out of his 570 00:37:46,595 --> 00:37:49,875 Speaker 1: mouth as if it were smoke. He gestured violently at 571 00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:51,595 Speaker 1: me with his right arm. I told you she was 572 00:37:51,595 --> 00:37:53,675 Speaker 1: a mistake. You didn't listen to me. I told you. 573 00:37:53,875 --> 00:37:56,475 Speaker 1: Now she's your problem. All this is your problem. Get 574 00:37:56,475 --> 00:38:00,115 Speaker 1: her back on the reservation or else. Now I had 575 00:38:00,195 --> 00:38:03,755 Speaker 1: run out of goodwill and jokes. Oh, I'll get her 576 00:38:03,755 --> 00:38:05,555 Speaker 1: back on the reservation and Jeff. But if you think 577 00:38:05,555 --> 00:38:08,435 Speaker 1: this is my problem, just think about what happens if 578 00:38:08,435 --> 00:38:11,115 Speaker 1: he really does take us off the air, or if 579 00:38:11,115 --> 00:38:14,155 Speaker 1: it just gets out that he threatened to take us 580 00:38:14,155 --> 00:38:20,675 Speaker 1: off the air because his mother didn't like what Fox 581 00:38:21,115 --> 00:38:26,955 Speaker 1: said about him. That's my problem. Uh, that's your problem. 582 00:38:27,315 --> 00:38:30,315 Speaker 1: And it's the problem of the CEO of the freaking 583 00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:34,395 Speaker 1: sixth largest corporation in the world, who makes his business 584 00:38:34,435 --> 00:38:38,915 Speaker 1: decisions involving hundreds of millions of dollars of profits based 585 00:38:38,995 --> 00:38:44,475 Speaker 1: on what his mother says. At this point, Phil Griffin 586 00:38:44,515 --> 00:38:47,355 Speaker 1: managed to pull Zooker away and Izzy and I made 587 00:38:47,355 --> 00:38:51,435 Speaker 1: for the door, saying nothing until we were in the elevator. Finally, 588 00:38:51,435 --> 00:38:54,235 Speaker 1: she asked, what are you going to do about Rachel? 589 00:38:55,075 --> 00:38:57,675 Speaker 1: I looked straight ahead. I have depth reception issues while 590 00:38:57,715 --> 00:39:01,395 Speaker 1: traveling forward, backwards, up or down the If I know 591 00:39:01,395 --> 00:39:03,115 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do, about her, but I got an idea. 592 00:39:03,595 --> 00:39:05,475 Speaker 1: I mean, the only person she was really talking to 593 00:39:05,595 --> 00:39:09,555 Speaker 1: in there was herself. This isn't a brand new surprise 594 00:39:09,635 --> 00:39:13,155 Speaker 1: success for her anymore. This is successful. This is what 595 00:39:13,355 --> 00:39:17,075 Speaker 1: nine ten months she's successful. She said she was once 596 00:39:17,115 --> 00:39:20,395 Speaker 1: a dancing cell phone outside of cell phone store outside 597 00:39:20,395 --> 00:39:24,155 Speaker 1: of Boston. She ain't going back to that. I went 598 00:39:24,235 --> 00:39:26,675 Speaker 1: to talk to Rachel about an hour later and reassured her. 599 00:39:27,315 --> 00:39:30,075 Speaker 1: I mentioned that powerful as Fox was, they were not 600 00:39:30,115 --> 00:39:32,795 Speaker 1: going to be able to re invade Iraq by themselves, 601 00:39:33,315 --> 00:39:36,235 Speaker 1: and unless she moved it way closer than it had been, 602 00:39:36,235 --> 00:39:39,555 Speaker 1: nobody would cross her censorship line. And I said, just 603 00:39:39,755 --> 00:39:42,235 Speaker 1: give me as much time as the French government took 604 00:39:42,515 --> 00:39:46,155 Speaker 1: before fleeing during the Nazi advance in n I said, 605 00:39:46,315 --> 00:39:48,435 Speaker 1: give me, what was it, thirty three days? Give me 606 00:39:48,515 --> 00:39:50,955 Speaker 1: thirty three days. If we aren't back where we were 607 00:39:50,995 --> 00:39:54,315 Speaker 1: this morning, we can both quit on the air. I 608 00:39:54,315 --> 00:39:57,755 Speaker 1: mean that would be fun, right. Three nights later, well 609 00:39:57,795 --> 00:40:01,595 Speaker 1: after midnight on a Friday, my NBC issued BlackBerry buzzed 610 00:40:01,635 --> 00:40:05,675 Speaker 1: with a quick email from Rachel Maddow. Hey, she wrote, 611 00:40:05,995 --> 00:40:09,315 Speaker 1: don't necessarily quote me because I'm really drunk, but just 612 00:40:09,395 --> 00:40:11,795 Speaker 1: make the best deal you can for us. I trust you. 613 00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:13,755 Speaker 1: We don't need to do Fox all the time. I 614 00:40:13,835 --> 00:40:16,715 Speaker 1: never do Fox stories anyway. I just had to say that, 615 00:40:16,955 --> 00:40:19,355 Speaker 1: and this is the best platform we will ever have. 616 00:40:20,595 --> 00:40:22,995 Speaker 1: Well she was right, at least for the time being. 617 00:40:23,275 --> 00:40:24,995 Speaker 1: A couple of weeks later, I had to sneak in 618 00:40:25,035 --> 00:40:27,675 Speaker 1: a script that blasted Fox, and at ten thirty at 619 00:40:27,715 --> 00:40:29,835 Speaker 1: home that night, I got a call from a drunken 620 00:40:29,835 --> 00:40:33,315 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin shouting into the phone, I have a family. 621 00:40:34,675 --> 00:40:38,915 Speaker 1: Zucker had to go meet with Roger Ales secretly inside 622 00:40:39,035 --> 00:40:42,035 Speaker 1: thirty Rock, and I hope they remember to clean the 623 00:40:42,115 --> 00:40:45,435 Speaker 1: room afterwards. And m l even had to meet with Murdoch. 624 00:40:45,995 --> 00:40:49,515 Speaker 1: And then, happily, some idiot Ge executive decided to boast 625 00:40:49,555 --> 00:40:52,395 Speaker 1: to the New York Times about getting us little talent 626 00:40:52,475 --> 00:40:56,195 Speaker 1: children under control and a big deal with the executives 627 00:40:56,235 --> 00:40:58,755 Speaker 1: over at Fox and how they'd settled everything, which blew 628 00:40:58,835 --> 00:41:01,995 Speaker 1: up the whole deal instantly, because the moment the deal 629 00:41:02,035 --> 00:41:06,315 Speaker 1: went public, NBC looked so stud oupid, and even NBC 630 00:41:06,395 --> 00:41:10,355 Speaker 1: News was now risked. The only point of the whole 631 00:41:10,395 --> 00:41:12,715 Speaker 1: thing was to keep the Immates and the Zookers and 632 00:41:12,755 --> 00:41:15,355 Speaker 1: the Griffins and the Ales is from throwing us and 633 00:41:15,475 --> 00:41:19,115 Speaker 1: our little island of liberal commentary out of that window 634 00:41:19,195 --> 00:41:22,835 Speaker 1: at thirty Rock. But as Rachel Maddow and I would 635 00:41:22,835 --> 00:41:27,035 Speaker 1: be constantly reminded in the ensuing years, thirty Rock has 636 00:41:27,115 --> 00:41:40,035 Speaker 1: a lot of freaking windows. I've done all the damage 637 00:41:40,075 --> 00:41:41,915 Speaker 1: I can do here. Help me out. Give this thing 638 00:41:41,915 --> 00:41:45,395 Speaker 1: a good review or rating, or heart, or a smiley 639 00:41:45,435 --> 00:41:49,795 Speaker 1: emoji or whatever forwarded to somebody. 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