Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio, looks
Speaker 1: like you can build a couple of new towers and
Speaker 1: an extra mote. At Camelot Morning Consult poll, which Trump
Speaker 1: still led a week ago today forty seven to forty five,
Speaker 1: now shows Vice President Harris ahead forty seven to forty six.
Speaker 1: And yes, it is all within the margin of error.
Speaker 1: And nevertheless, it is a three point swing in one week.
Speaker 1: And just as importantly over the weekend, her net favorability
Speaker 1: score jumped into positive territory in the IPSOS poll, a
Speaker 1: plus one. In the new Morning Consult poll today, fifty
Speaker 1: percent of voters view her favorably, forty six percent unfavorably.
Speaker 1: That is a of plus four. And in our fractured
Speaker 1: time and landscape, that is landslide territory and nothing that
Speaker 1: Biden or Trump ever came close to. And as Morning
Speaker 1: Consult notes, her popularity score swung by twelve points since
Speaker 1: last week, driven mostly by Independence. A week ago, thirty
Speaker 1: one percent of Independence viewed Kamala Harris favorably. It is
Speaker 1: now forty eight percent. Again, Harris is viewed positively by
Speaker 1: half of all voters, and her net score is four
Speaker 1: from the IPSOS poll, Trump is viewed favorably by just
Speaker 1: thirty six percent, and his netscore is minus sixteen. Vance
Speaker 1: is at twenty four percent approval. He's underwater by fifteen. Gurgle, gurgle,
Speaker 1: fascists back to that horse race number forty seven forty
Speaker 1: six Harris. The forty seven percent for Kamala Harris is
Speaker 1: also two points higher than Joe Biden's high water mark
Speaker 1: in the Morning Consult tracking poll dating back to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, and the third parties are vanishing only four
Speaker 1: percent total. Looking at Kennedy west Stein or any of
Speaker 1: the other Trump stalking horses, Kamala Harris is also killing
Speaker 1: it in the stodgier polls. Fox surveyed four swing states.
Speaker 1: Harris is up by six in Minnesota. They are tied
Speaker 1: in Michigan and Pennsylvania. She trails by one point in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: They also got favorability numbers in those states, and Harris's
Speaker 1: averaging forty nine percent favorable there. On July third, the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal poll right after the debate had it
Speaker 1: Trump forty eight, Biden forty two. The New Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal poll Trump forty nine, Harris forty seven. Trump marches
Speaker 1: in Atlas Intel, in Harris X in Monkey, those margins
Speaker 1: now down to one or two points. This is during
Speaker 1: Trump's double honeymoon, after the assassination attempt and his convention.
Speaker 1: The Angus Read Poll that is a nonprofit polling outfit
Speaker 1: from Canada hilariously mislabeled in one accounting as the Angus
Speaker 1: Raid Poll. Angus Reid has it Harris forty four to
Speaker 1: forty two. The Race to the White House polling average
Speaker 1: Trump ahead by one and two tenths of a point,
Speaker 1: averaging all poles and just one more number before your
Speaker 1: ears start to bleed. In February. February, IPSOS managed to
Speaker 1: measure party enthusiasm for voting. The Republicans were eighteen points
Speaker 1: ahead of the Democrats in enthusiasm. The Democrats are now
Speaker 1: six points ahead of the Republicans in enthusiasm. Lorrain may
Speaker 1: never fall till after sundown. By eighth, the morning fog
Speaker 1: must disappear. In short, they're simply not a more congenial
Speaker 1: spot for happily. Ever aftering on, here in come a
Speaker 1: lot Ulmer Chronkite CBS News. Of course, Trump meant if
Speaker 1: Christians voted for him now, they would not have to
Speaker 1: vote again in twenty twenty eight because he meant there
Speaker 1: wouldn't be elections, or maybe even more likely, because he
Speaker 1: meant there wouldn't be elections in twenty twenty eight that
Speaker 1: he could lose because one he has said this before,
Speaker 1: and two his minions have been actively at work for
Speaker 1: a year now to make him eligible for a third term.
Speaker 1: And three they are anti democracy, and one of the
Speaker 1: principles of being anti democracy is to make sure you
Speaker 1: can't lose whose elections. And most importantly, four, we all
Speaker 1: understand that Trump is running because if he does not
Speaker 1: win the twenty twenty four election and go to the
Speaker 1: White House, he will instead go to prison and he
Speaker 1: will die there. And if that is true in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, guess what it would also be true in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. It would be slightly more difficult to
Speaker 1: prosecute Trump in twenty twenty nine because of statutes of
Speaker 1: limitations and Supreme Court corruption. On the other hand, think
Speaker 1: of all the new crimes Trump has vowed to commit
Speaker 1: between now and then. One of the few realities that
Speaker 1: dementia J Trump still understands is it's the White House
Speaker 1: or the Big House next year or four and a
Speaker 1: half years from now. It is why he's running. The
Speaker 1: translation of what he told the Bible thumpers over the
Speaker 1: weekend is not as complicated as all the fascists and
Speaker 1: sadly as many of us are saying. It is this, Christians,
Speaker 1: vote for me now. I will spend the next four
Speaker 1: years turning the United States into a Christian theocracy, you
Speaker 1: know the way Hitler promised to turn Germany into a
Speaker 1: Christian theocracy. And I will make sure you and I
Speaker 1: can't lose the next election. Either we will fix it
Speaker 1: so that only Christians will be allowed to vote, or
Speaker 1: we just won't bother voting. We just won't bother having
Speaker 1: an election. I'll just stay in power. And to point
Speaker 1: my own successor, JD. Vance, a good Christian who fears God.
Speaker 1: Now he may fear upholstery charges for damaged couches a
Speaker 1: little more, but he also fears God. So listen to
Speaker 1: what Trump said to the Bible thumpers in the context
Speaker 1: of all that if he's not president, he's liable to
Speaker 1: die in prison. Think about that. Think about that in
Speaker 1: the context of the Christian theocratic religious states of America,
Speaker 1: and you'll get it. Clearly. Christians get out and vote.
Speaker 1: Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore.
Speaker 1: Four more years. You know what, It'll be fixed. It'll
Speaker 1: be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, My beautiful Christians.
Speaker 1: I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you.
Speaker 1: Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years,
Speaker 1: you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed
Speaker 1: so good, you're not gonna have to. Also, he did
Speaker 1: not say he wasn't a Christian. He said, I'm a Christian.
Speaker 1: But his neurological problems are beginning to migrate more deeply
Speaker 1: into his speech center, and that's the result what he's
Speaker 1: going to tell bunch of Christians he's not a Christian.
Speaker 1: I mean, even if that's true, why wouldn't he lie
Speaker 1: to them? Of course, he told them he was a Christian.
Speaker 1: He also told them this whole scenario before. He said
Speaker 1: this exact same thing on the twenty second of June.
Speaker 1: Do you know the power you have? If you would vote,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't even be See, you got to get out
Speaker 1: of vote just this time. I don't care. In four years,
Speaker 1: you don't have to vote, Okay, in four years, don't vote.
Speaker 1: I don't care. By that time, but we'll have it
Speaker 1: all straightened out, so it'll be much different. What's changed
Speaker 1: since that recording on the twenty second of June. Why
Speaker 1: did the newer version of I'll have it all fixed,
Speaker 1: you won't have to vote in twenty twenty eight? Why
Speaker 1: did that hit when the earlier one didn't. Because the
Speaker 1: thing that some of us never saw and others of
Speaker 1: us only saw vaguely, was that modern American political journalism
Speaker 1: really is one hundred percent gotcha Moments used to be
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty. When I started, it was still twenty
Speaker 1: five seventy five non gotcha. But the machine now has
Speaker 1: only the one setting. And with President Biden out of
Speaker 1: the race and Vice President Harris not only in a
Speaker 1: honeymoon but cleverly being just one of a chorus of
Speaker 1: Democrats all sticking to one message and one vibe and
Speaker 1: sticking to about three or four catch phrases, the entirety
Speaker 1: of the media gotcha machine is now pointed at Trump.
Speaker 1: They all covered that speech about not having to vote.
Speaker 1: They all covered him claiming Harris doesn't like Jewish people
Speaker 1: when her husband and her kids are Jewish. They all
Speaker 1: covered the weirdness of JD Vance. They all covered the
Speaker 1: ubiquity of the word weird. They all covered the uncertainty
Speaker 1: about what hit Trump's ear. They are all covering the
Speaker 1: appointment of Congressman Clay ghost Bus Higgins to the House
Speaker 1: Committee to investigate Trump's ear. To some degree, we got
Speaker 1: them to cover the bullet no bullet story belatedly, but successfully.
Speaker 1: Several generations of American reporters and editors no no forms
Speaker 1: of political journalism besides horse races and gotcha moments. Kanala
Speaker 1: Harris has excited the horse race journalists the way a
Speaker 1: divan excites JD. Vance. Oh, we have a new leader, yay.
Speaker 1: And in the absence of Joe Biden doddering, Jay Trump
Speaker 1: is the exclusive national distributor of gotcha moments, like when
Speaker 1: he just proposed having football coaches and stock car race
Speaker 1: team leaders tell the military who to bomb, or he
Speaker 1: otherwise screwed up at his most recent speeches. Roger Pensky
Speaker 1: like a great guy too. Guy won. He won twenty Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: five hundreds. This guy wins all the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: we appreciate. I said, let me use these guys to
Speaker 1: guide our military a little bit. When you can win
Speaker 1: so many races. That's okay. You know you guide same
Speaker 1: thing with coaches. You take some of the greatest football coaches,
Speaker 1: you put them at a table. What do you like, coach?
Speaker 1: Because in its own way, it's not so much really different,
Speaker 1: which is incapable of solving even the solest, smallest problem,
Speaker 1: the simplest of problems, we can no longer solve. We
Speaker 1: can't do anything. We are an institute and a powerful
Speaker 1: death penalty. We will put this on. That means to
Speaker 1: feeding Kamala Harris in a Landslade. Do you remember land Slade?
Speaker 1: Mister Slade, he was one of the characters on the Flintstones.
Speaker 1: He's nuts. So the media robbed of an easy and
Speaker 1: there is no other way to say. This slow moving
Speaker 1: target in Joe Biden, not only has repositioned itself against Trump,
Speaker 1: but it has found Biden's replacement. That's not Vice President Harris.
Speaker 1: Biden's replacement is this psycho jd Vance. My god, this
Speaker 1: guy is like six Sarah Palins standing on each other's shoulders,
Speaker 1: wearing a dan Quail disguise. He wants to control which
Speaker 1: citizens of which states are allowed to travel to other states.
Speaker 1: He has single handedly established cat ladies and cat gentleman.
Speaker 1: As an activated Democratic voting block, he allows people to
Speaker 1: think right, this guy would be one fat burger heartbeat
Speaker 1: away from the presidency. He used to be named James
Speaker 1: Donald Bowman. Then he changed his name to Jimmy Hammill.
Speaker 1: Then he changed his name to J. D. Vance. He
Speaker 1: used to think he was gay, and there's no evidence
Speaker 1: he ever had sectional with a couch But more importantly,
Speaker 1: there's also no evidence that, in two weeks since he
Speaker 1: became the nominee that he's done a damn thing to
Speaker 1: dispel that image. I want to see. I want to
Speaker 1: see what percentage of this country thanks. Jd Vance is
Speaker 1: a couch potato if you get my drift, And I
Speaker 1: want to send everybody who says yes a thank you gift.
Speaker 1: So far, so good. And more seriously, this strange, deeply
Speaker 1: uncomfortable in his own skin weirdo attacked from the far
Speaker 1: right before his selection because he had a Hindu wife
Speaker 1: from San Diego, a Hindu wife from San Diego who
Speaker 1: reportedly hated Trump. He has done nothing to defend her.
Speaker 1: In fact, jd Vance, if that is your real name,
Speaker 1: threw her under the bus, through her under the bus
Speaker 1: on the Megan, how many camera filters are you using today,
Speaker 1: Kelly podcast bus. Look, I love my wife so much.
Speaker 1: I love her because she's who she is. Obviously she's
Speaker 1: not a white person, and we've been acute attacked by
Speaker 1: some white supremacists over that. Obviously she's not a white person.
Speaker 1: If you say that without a trace of emotion or
Speaker 1: anger or support or defense, guess what, You're a racist.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, as David Corn of Mother
Speaker 1: Jones found out, right after Trump's inauguration in twenty seventeen, JD.
Speaker 1: Vance that is your real name, went to the University
Speaker 1: of Chicago and said, some of Trump's voters are racists. Definitely,
Speaker 1: some people who voted for Trump for racists, and they
Speaker 1: voted for him for racist reasons. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many Trump voters are going to hear that and be
Speaker 1: offended by it, and how many are going to say cool. Cool.
Speaker 1: But Vance's problem with racism is based on his remarks
Speaker 1: about his wife. He is a racist who draws some
Speaker 1: sort of excitement from someone who isn't a member of
Speaker 1: his group. In JD's case, his group would be sofas
Speaker 1: couches sets eas Chesterfield's Ottoman's day Beds, Shay's Lounges, and
Speaker 1: of course love Seeds JD. Van's Love seats. Hey remember
Speaker 1: the Tucker Carlson Kevin McCarthy insistences that there were hidden
Speaker 1: truths in the unreleased video from January sixth. First, remember
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and Kevin McCarthy, Well, they were right. The
Speaker 1: three decade congressional reporter Jamie Dupree with a startling discovery
Speaker 1: no less than Trump's lawyer Kenny the Cheese Ken Chesbrow
Speaker 1: literally caught on tape trying to be the courier for
Speaker 1: the fake elector's documents January fifth, twenty twenty one. I'm
Speaker 1: going to quote liberally from mister Dupree's reporting on his
Speaker 1: latest substack quote. Buried in the thousands of hours of
Speaker 1: US Capital Security tapes being released by House Republicans is
Speaker 1: video evidence of Donald Trump's campaign trying to get slates
Speaker 1: of fake GOP electors to Vice President Mike Pence on
Speaker 1: January fifth, twenty twenty one. The last ditch attempt involved
Speaker 1: Attorney chessbro one of the architects of the fake elector's scheme,
Speaker 1: and G. Michael Brown, the deputy director of election day
Speaker 1: operations for Trump's twenty twenty campaign. Mister dupree continues, with
Speaker 1: fake GOP documents from Michigan and Wisconsin missing in the mail.
Speaker 1: Brown flew to Washington, DC on January fifth with a
Speaker 1: backup copy of fake elector cigtificates for Michigan. The same day,
Speaker 1: bogus elector documents from Wisconsin were carried on a plane
Speaker 1: by a part time gopaid, who gave them to Chesbrow
Speaker 1: outside the Trump Hotel. Chesbrow and Brown then walked to
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill to deliver the envelopes. The US Capitol Police
Speaker 1: security camera system, which stretches far and wide across Capitol Hill,
Speaker 1: first picked up Chesbrow and Brown walking towards the Capitol
Speaker 1: at three forty pm on January fifth. The cameras would
Speaker 1: track the duo for the next twenty five minutes. Chesbrow
Speaker 1: was carrying one set of fake GOP elector documents in
Speaker 1: a familiar Manila oversized business envelope. The other set was
Speaker 1: in a white FedEx envelope. By three point fifty a
Speaker 1: pair of staffers came out side from the office of
Speaker 1: Representative Mike Kelly, Republican of Pennsylvania. That's when the bogus
Speaker 1: GOP elector documents from Michigan and Wisconsin were handed over
Speaker 1: After a short chat. The two aids from Rep. Kelly's office,
Speaker 1: now carrying the envelopes with the fake GOP electric documents,
Speaker 1: headed back through security at the Longworth Building. It was
Speaker 1: their job to deliver the envelopes to Senate officials for
Speaker 1: use at the Joint Session of Congress on January sixth,
Speaker 1: all part of Trump's plan to have Vice President Pence
Speaker 1: overturn the twenty twenty election results to keep Trump in office.
Speaker 1: Outside Brown took a selfie with the US Capital in
Speaker 1: the background to mark the moment Mission accomplished. He wrote
Speaker 1: in a text as an aside, whatever you do, particularly
Speaker 1: if it relates to politics, never ever say mission accomplished.
Speaker 1: To resume mister Dupree's account. Back inside, the two staffers
Speaker 1: from the office of Rep. Mike Kelly R. Pennsylvania, carrying
Speaker 1: the two envelopes handed over by Chasbrow and Brown, took
Speaker 1: the underground tunnels over to the US Capitol. Their destination
Speaker 1: was the Office of the Senate Parliamentarian, which was ransacked
Speaker 1: a day later on January sixth by supporters of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Security video shows the Aids dropping off the fake elector
Speaker 1: envelopes at four o four pm, but before they could
Speaker 1: get far, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough ran around the corner
Speaker 1: to catch the two men. After a short discussion in
Speaker 1: the hallway, the Kelly Aids returned to her office and
Speaker 1: took back the fake elector documents end quote. Those men
Speaker 1: then tried and failed to deliver the fake documents to
Speaker 1: Mike Pence's office. The next day, they would try to
Speaker 1: get them to Pence via Senator Ron Johnson without success.
Speaker 1: Another side here is if you need success, do not
Speaker 1: involve Ron Johnson. I have liberally borrowed, okay stolen mister
Speaker 1: Dupree's work, so I encourage you to go to his
Speaker 1: substack Jamie Duprie dot substack j A m I E
Speaker 1: d U p r ee one word. He has illustrated
Speaker 1: all this with no less than twenty six freeze frames
Speaker 1: from the previously unreleased January sixth video that the Republicans
Speaker 1: were good enough to release. It's marvelous, shure. There's one
Speaker 1: other Trump legal note to leave them laughing with. Trump
Speaker 1: has agreed to do what the FBI calls a victim
Speaker 1: interview about the assassination attempt. This extends Trump's world record.
Speaker 1: He is now agreed to do a victim interview with
Speaker 1: somebody every day since April twenty seventh, nineteen fifty five,
Speaker 1: possibly earlier. Also of interest here, did you know there
Speaker 1: are two Joe Biden's that's right that shortly before the debate,
Speaker 1: the new one who they just built somewhere, but they
Speaker 1: got the blueprints wrong, and he's six foot four instead
Speaker 1: of six feet even deliberately tanked the debate. Deliberately tanked
Speaker 1: the debate so that the Democrats could fulfill their evil
Speaker 1: plan to swap in the obviously more popular Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Because this was all a democratic plot involving thousands of US.
Speaker 1: I wish this is actually posited by one of the
Speaker 1: deep thinkers on the loop to tick right. That's next.
Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman stell
Speaker 1: ahead of us on this edition of Countdown. I was
Speaker 1: waiting to do my annual retweet on this one subject,
Speaker 1: where I take somebody else's celebration and add modestly you're welcome,
Speaker 1: and it suddenly dawned on me they didn't send out
Speaker 1: the tweet this year, celebrating their day the day that
Speaker 1: MSNBC launched July fifteenth, nineteen ninety six. They just missed
Speaker 1: the what twenty eighth anniversary, So I'll have to address
Speaker 1: inexactly the anniversary of the launch of a if I
Speaker 1: may say so, myself rather troubled place that somehow never
Speaker 1: quite lived up to its promise, except perhaps in the
Speaker 1: years two thousand and six through twenty eleven. Along with
Speaker 1: another upcoming anniversary over the weekend. One you may not
Speaker 1: know about the day MSNBC fired Rachel Maddow. That's coming
Speaker 1: up in things I promised not to tell first, there
Speaker 1: are still more idiots to talk about. The daily roundup
Speaker 1: of the mis grants, morons and dunning Kruger effects specimens
Speaker 1: who constitute two days worse persons in the world. Runs
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Remember Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the
Speaker 1: other crazy old guy in the presidential race who has
Speaker 1: sunk without trace. Where's he been? He's down to six
Speaker 1: percent in the polls. He's now taking nearly all of
Speaker 1: his support away from Trump. My friend Major Garrett just
Speaker 1: interviewed him for CBS, and first of all, I have
Speaker 1: to congratulate Major for finding him, for getting the proof
Speaker 1: of life video done with RFK Jr. And I also
Speaker 1: have to congratulate Major on keeping a straight face throughout
Speaker 1: this interview. As they put it. RFK Junior recently apologized
Speaker 1: to a woman who accused him of sexual assault. When
Speaker 1: asked if he would have to apologize to other women
Speaker 1: from his past, the presidential candidate told Major Garrett, quote,
Speaker 1: it's quite passible. I'm seventy years old. I had a
Speaker 1: very rambunctious life. No, no, no, no, that's not rambunctious.
Speaker 1: That's not rambunctious. Legally, that's not rambunctious. If you have
Speaker 1: to apologize to multiple women for sexual assault, that's no
Speaker 1: longer rambunctious. That's Harvey Weinstein or Epstein. That's it. God.
Speaker 1: First of all, something's going on in the Kennedy campaign.
Speaker 1: Instead of campaigning, he has canceled a series of campaign events.
Speaker 1: He met with Trump to discuss dropping out and what
Speaker 1: the price would be for endorsing Trump. He's not seeking donations,
Speaker 1: he's not having fundraising. He's just taking more money from
Speaker 1: that idiot woman he named as his vice president, Nicole
Speaker 1: Ditzehan and he's a joint fundraising committee with the Libertarian Party.
Speaker 1: I mean there has to be a point at which
Speaker 1: Trump bribes Kennedy for his endorsement and his voters. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just has to happen. It's Trump's last play at
Speaker 1: this point. Anyway. Runner up worser Amy vander Steele stupid
Speaker 1: person Trump supporter. I know that's redundant. You may remember
Speaker 1: her vaguely as a Pizzagate believer and disseminator who thus
Speaker 1: decided that because she could see a conspiracy in a
Speaker 1: basement where there was no basement, let alone a conspiracy,
Speaker 1: she was an investigative reporter, because those people think that
Speaker 1: being able to see hallucinations means you're an investigative reporter.
Speaker 1: She also said she was a member of the Trump
Speaker 1: twenty twenty re election campaign board, and Trump milked that
Speaker 1: for about forty days and then finally disavowed her after
Speaker 1: she insisted that there were replicants and body doubles and
Speaker 1: twenty five million undocumented immigrants and they said, this dame
Speaker 1: is two nuts even for us. Well, she now needs
Speaker 1: to use some of her own investigative skills on math.
Speaker 1: Amy vander Steele Kamala tanks Netflix. Netflix may a donation
Speaker 1: to her campaign and the stock tumbles two billion dollars
Speaker 1: in two hours, a forty percent drop in stock price.
Speaker 1: Perhaps this would be a good time for a billionaire
Speaker 1: conservative to come in and buy that liberal loving platform.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Yeah, it was not. It wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't forty percent. It was zero point four to
Speaker 1: three percent. Netflix, which is worth two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: billion dollars, dropped two dollars and seventy two cents a share.
Speaker 1: Math is tough when you hallucinate about what the answers
Speaker 1: might be. Three minus two equals Jesus, Yeah, Jesus, you're right,
Speaker 1: but our winner. And speaking of that Bill Mitchell, you
Speaker 1: may remember such films as Bill Mitchell stars on social
Speaker 1: media as the pro Trump guy who suddenly went anti
Speaker 1: Trump and then went pro Trump, and then then pro
Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis and then anti Trump and then anti DeSantis
Speaker 1: and then anti Trump and then he left Twitter, and
Speaker 1: then he quit Twitter, and then he deleted his account
Speaker 1: that he put in a new account and he rejoined Twitter.
Speaker 1: Well he's now pro Trump again, but with a twist,
Speaker 1: he's pro Trump because there's been a Biden body double.
Speaker 1: See he thinks Bill, that is, he thinks people don't
Speaker 1: know about photoshop. Bill hasn't even gotten to AI yet.
Speaker 1: Bill's still working with photoshop. He has posted a picture
Speaker 1: that he has captioned twenty twenty four Biden goes for
Speaker 1: a walk with twenty twenty two Biden. There are two
Speaker 1: pictures of Joe Biden. One he's wearing a tan suit.
Speaker 1: This was shot from the middle distance. Superimposed next to
Speaker 1: him is another shot of Joe Biden in a blue
Speaker 1: suit that was shot from closer, so the one in
Speaker 1: the blue suit looks taller than the one in the
Speaker 1: brown suit. Everybody laughed at this. Bill reposted it with
Speaker 1: additional information. The new version of Biden, who is six
Speaker 1: foot four, is lankier and has bigger hands. Clearly a
Speaker 1: fake who took a dive during the debate. All right,
Speaker 1: we've now moved from you think that something done with photoshop?
Speaker 1: That I could do and make a version in which
Speaker 1: there's one Joe Biden who's seventy feet tall, and another
Speaker 1: Joe Biden who's seven feet tall, and another Joe Biden
Speaker 1: who's seven inches tall. I can do that on my
Speaker 1: iPad let alone, on my laptop. We've moved from that
Speaker 1: to you want people to believe that the Joe Biden
Speaker 1: at the debate was clever enough to be a body double,
Speaker 1: to go out there and convince everybody, including Trump, that
Speaker 1: he was deliberately well, convincing that he was not deliberately struggling,
Speaker 1: convincing he was struggling for ninety minutes. It's on the
Speaker 1: biggest stage in the world. And then after everything that followed,
Speaker 1: wait three weeks before you dropped out of the presidential
Speaker 1: race and do this deliberately for some unknown reason that's
Speaker 1: clear only to Bill Mitchell, you're able to do that.
Speaker 1: And instead of getting up in front of a national
Speaker 1: audience on TV and saying I am Joe Biden and
Speaker 1: I am capable of being my own body double, and
Speaker 1: to deliberately make it look like I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about for ninety minutes so that I can
Speaker 1: drop out three weeks later to bring in Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: I am super Joe Biden, instead of doing that and
Speaker 1: being something approaching I don't know, ten Einstein's in one head,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and earning election unanimously because people would
Speaker 1: then say I'm better vote for this guy. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he's capable of. He's capable of being his
Speaker 1: own body double. Instead of doing that, he dropped out
Speaker 1: three weeks later, Bill, Bill, you realize that if there
Speaker 1: were body doubles, they'd have swapped in a new Trump
Speaker 1: already who was not fat, insane and self destructing, right, Mitchell?
Speaker 1: Two days? Worst person? Or is he in the world
Speaker 1: a body double? Finally, our number one story on the
Speaker 1: Countdown things I promised not to tell and back to
Speaker 1: my favorite topic me well, actually not just me this time.
Speaker 1: This is an important anniversary for an important TV news show,
Speaker 1: and I don't mean one of mine. August third, two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven was near as I can calculate. The
Speaker 1: day I first met Rachel matdow So. August fourth, two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, fifteen years ago, was when I started
Speaker 1: to push MSNBC to make her a host, specifically the
Speaker 1: guest host for my show, with an eye towards eventually
Speaker 1: getting her to host her own show which would follow mine,
Speaker 1: which happened almost immediately just thirteen months later. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, two years earlier than that first meeting, August eight,
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, was the day MSNBC had cleverly
Speaker 1: fired Rachel Matdow early in two thousand and seven, before
Speaker 1: MSNBC moved to thirty Rockefeller Center in New York from
Speaker 1: the charms of the row of factory outlet discount stores
Speaker 1: in which it had been nestled in in Secaucus, New
Speaker 1: Jersey since its inception. My executive producer Izy Povich had
Speaker 1: walked into my office and asked me if I remembered
Speaker 1: Rachel Mattow. Of course, isn't she on Carlson's I stopped myself.
Speaker 1: She had been a regular panelist on Tucker Carlson's last
Speaker 1: non Nazi TV program, which incongruously aired right after mine
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock on MSNBC. Rick Caplan, then the ex
Speaker 1: president of CNN and shortly to be ex president of MSNBC,
Speaker 1: had first foisted this repulsive scumbag on us and then
Speaker 1: asked me to play his liberal foil in all the
Speaker 1: Carlson pilot shows, which Kaplan then demanded. One night, it
Speaker 1: dawned on Kaplan that if he made me Carlson's co host,
Speaker 1: he could use our initials and title the show TKO.
Speaker 1: And as he pitched me the idea, he could not
Speaker 1: have been happier nor more surprised if he had invented
Speaker 1: the alphabet himself. When I pointed out to Rick Caplan
Speaker 1: that I already had a show, and it already took
Speaker 1: me all goddamn day to do it, and I had
Speaker 1: no desire to add three hours to my schedule, nor
Speaker 1: to ever work with Tucker Carl, he had the new
Speaker 1: show's producer Bill Wolfe search around for other potential liberal foils.
Speaker 1: Wolf found two, our old sports colleague Max Kellerman and
Speaker 1: this Air America radio host Rachel Matdow only as is.
Speaker 1: He asked me that day if I remembered her. Did
Speaker 1: I realize that I had not seen Rachel Mattow in
Speaker 1: our studios recently in New Jersey. Oh, it's well over
Speaker 1: a year, she explained. When Tucker's show started to die
Speaker 1: and they trimmed salary, they had to cut back to
Speaker 1: just one liberal. They kept Max Kellerman. I found that astonishing,
Speaker 1: even though I had only met Rachel maybe three times
Speaker 1: in passing, once at Air America's launch party, and we'd
Speaker 1: interacted superficially for maybe I don't know a minute in total.
Speaker 1: They kept Kellerman over her. Who kept Kellerman I like Max,
Speaker 1: but who would keep Kellerman I Isipovich was not sure.
Speaker 1: We both guessed it was Phil Griffin, who was basically
Speaker 1: running the place anyway. Some but he suggested she would
Speaker 1: make a good guest in almost anything political, and I interrupted,
Speaker 1: Izzie God, yes tonight. Izzy laughed and said I'll go
Speaker 1: book her any segment in particular, and I said we
Speaker 1: should adhere to our usual high and discerning standards. One
Speaker 1: of the segments we haven't booked a guest for yet
Speaker 1: will do. Rachel, of course, was Aeradite's succinct, knowledgeable, compelling,
Speaker 1: self deprecating, and she wasn't another guy. We began to
Speaker 1: book her to talk about pretty much almost anything every week.
Speaker 1: Soon it became twice a week. She also had fun
Speaker 1: on TV without overdoing it. The in house phrase was
Speaker 1: she plays and she played. Despite the fact that we
Speaker 1: were always in different studios, we would either throw her
Speaker 1: into a one camera room called the Nook, literally converted
Speaker 1: from a third floor broom closet at thirty Rock, or
Speaker 1: we would rent some time at an All Networks live
Speaker 1: shot assembly line studio called Media three, which was a
Speaker 1: few blocks further downtown. I would remain on the ever
Speaker 1: increasingly antiquated Lazy Susan set at MSNBC in Jersey, and
Speaker 1: as these appearances started, this was when the love letters
Speaker 1: to her and to us began to show up on
Speaker 1: the website The Daily Coasts. As the ratings rose that
Speaker 1: spring and MSNBC's moved to New York in October, loomed.
Speaker 1: Phil Griffin had offered me a perk as long as
Speaker 1: the viewership totals held. He said, I could skip the
Speaker 1: weary commute to Secaucus on Fridays. I could write the
Speaker 1: show in my apartment on Central Park South. I could
Speaker 1: have an early dinner with my cohabitant, Katie Turr, actually
Speaker 1: in our home. I could walk over to thirty Rock
Speaker 1: at seven pm and do countdown from that aforementioned nook.
Speaker 1: This was balm for my soul until a word came
Speaker 1: down from the office of the Director of News for
Speaker 1: NBC that for some arcane reason, the nook had to
Speaker 1: be rebuilt and it would be out of commission for
Speaker 1: like two months. It was credit Phil Griffin now ponied
Speaker 1: up his offer of Jersey Free Friday continued, and he
Speaker 1: was willing to rent me one of those studios at
Speaker 1: Media three and I could anchor the show from there.
Speaker 1: Thus did it happen that as I breezed in for
Speaker 1: the second week in a row to Media three at
Speaker 1: seven point thirty on Friday, August third, two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: and made my way to the makeup room, our now
Speaker 1: go to countdown guest Rachel Meadow was already sitting in
Speaker 1: the chair. As mentioned previously, we had met before in passing.
Speaker 1: We had not met since she had become a regular.
Speaker 1: She rose instantly and unnecessarily. And as she did and
Speaker 1: we exchanged pleasantries, I noticed she had one sheet of
Speaker 1: paper in her hand. It had clearly been computer printed.
Speaker 1: There was a line or two of texts at the
Speaker 1: top of the page, then about half a sheet's worth
Speaker 1: of words written by hand, and then there was a
Speaker 1: second line of computer printed text and another half sheet
Speaker 1: of longhand, and the back of the paper had the
Speaker 1: same format. I can read upside down. I mean I
Speaker 1: can read a paper or a book when the paper
Speaker 1: or book is upside down. It's one of my few
Speaker 1: parlor tricks. It took only a few seconds for me
Speaker 1: to realize that the computer printed lines of text were
Speaker 1: the questions I had composed for Rachel's segment that night. Then,
Speaker 1: in her excellent penmanship, what are the answers to those questions?
Speaker 1: It looked for all the world like a high school
Speaker 1: or college short essay exam page four short questions and
Speaker 1: four half page answers. My astonishment was completely organic. What's that?
Speaker 1: Rachel was embarrassed? I just sorry, I just she hid
Speaker 1: the sheet behind her back. I just do some prep
Speaker 1: for the show. It's my prep sheet. I don't read
Speaker 1: from it on the air or anything, but I like
Speaker 1: to write everything down, Longhand, because it helps me organ
Speaker 1: my thoughts, and I like to have it in front
Speaker 1: of me in the studio in case I interrupted her.
Speaker 1: Now and said, in case you freeze or you get
Speaker 1: interrupted or distracted by the idiot host, I pulled from
Speaker 1: my pocket four folded up pages of my own on
Speaker 1: which I had printed handwritten notes for each of the
Speaker 1: scheduled interviews. I said, I find it's writing it by
Speaker 1: hand that really helps here. It's I think it's some
Speaker 1: sort of memory trick. Her gasp of astonishment turned into
Speaker 1: a warm laugh. She and I use the same TV
Speaker 1: shortcut without knowing it. Now, something else popped into my head.
Speaker 1: I said, you do realize you are more prepared for
Speaker 1: your four minute segment than I am for the entire
Speaker 1: damn show. Right? She laughed again, and I waved my
Speaker 1: folded crib notes. You do realize that nobody does this
Speaker 1: except you and me. It's lack of confidence meets paranoia
Speaker 1: meets fear that you'll forget your good lines. I squinted
Speaker 1: at her as the thought came to me, you ever
Speaker 1: thought of hosting one of these shows? Rachel suddenly drew
Speaker 1: her head back, as if evading a right cross. What No,
Speaker 1: I couldn't, I said, we haven't had a good guest
Speaker 1: host in a long time. The makeup artist moved to
Speaker 1: attempt to straighten up my hair. You want to give
Speaker 1: it a try, she seemed to go a little pale. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so, really, but I don't. How difficult
Speaker 1: could it be if I stepped in here with no
Speaker 1: experience and suddenly I had the most popular liberal news
Speaker 1: show pick Up two? How good you know? I'm tom
Speaker 1: three two to one? How difficult could it be if
Speaker 1: I stepped in here with no experience and suddenly I
Speaker 1: had the most popular liberal news show, And then I
Speaker 1: did it again eight years later? She looked unconvinced. I mean,
Speaker 1: you already do the prep. What worries you? She looked
Speaker 1: away from me and mumbled prompter. I laughed, did you
Speaker 1: say prompter? The prompter? The teleprompter? She looked away again.
Speaker 1: I don't think I could use it. I'm sorry, I said,
Speaker 1: with mock anger. Have you padded your resume? Didn't you
Speaker 1: get one of them Rhodes scholarshipy things? And you go
Speaker 1: over to England to study stuff and you think you
Speaker 1: can't learn how to use a teleprompter. For God's sake,
Speaker 1: I learned to use a teleprompter in ten minutes from
Speaker 1: Stuart fing Varney at CNN. There's nothing to it but practice.
Speaker 1: Rachel was not convinced. I said, get made up, Come
Speaker 1: into the studio, sit with me off camera. I'm just
Speaker 1: sitting in there reading the show off the teleprompter. Watch
Speaker 1: you'll see. Let me ask you this, if you knew
Speaker 1: how to use the teleprompter, if you already knew, would
Speaker 1: you want to try hosting? Her eyes got a little smaller,
Speaker 1: and she seemed nervous, and very quietly, Rachel Maddow said, yes,
Speaker 1: we would travel a million in bureaucratic miles and a
Speaker 1: year together before we actually sat down for prompter school.
Speaker 1: After one of her guest hits on a Monday edition
Speaker 1: of Countdown, she and I and tow their credit countdowns.
Speaker 1: Technical director Brian Nailsnik and much of the crew stayed
Speaker 1: for an extra half an hour. We put two cameras
Speaker 1: and two monitors almost next to each other so she
Speaker 1: could read the prompter along with me, or watch the
Speaker 1: other monitor to see where my eyes were as I
Speaker 1: read from the prompter. And then after a while we
Speaker 1: fixed it so I could read along with her, or
Speaker 1: watch the other monitor to see where her eyes were
Speaker 1: as she read. We read my scripts, we read scripts
Speaker 1: that she had written. I gave her the Tom Snyder
Speaker 1: prompter trick. Okay, here's the Tom Snyder prompter trick. Try
Speaker 1: to see and read entire sentences, not individual words. Focus
Speaker 1: your eyes not on the pain of plastic where the
Speaker 1: words are projected, but focus several inches beyond it, where
Speaker 1: the lens actually is in the camera. I told her tonight,
Speaker 1: this is your freshman year. Tomorrow will be sophomore Wednesday's,
Speaker 1: Junior Thursday, Senior Friday's graduation, and also the homecoming football
Speaker 1: game in grad school and the Alumni Association will be
Speaker 1: hitting you up for your money. On Saturday, Rachel Matdow
Speaker 1: came in every night that week to practice overcoming her
Speaker 1: biggest fear, the teleprompter. I stayed late again on Friday.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Rachel asked me, who cares? I answered,
Speaker 1: what do you think? She straightened her practice script by
Speaker 1: tapping it against the anchored desk like an anchor does,
Speaker 1: and said, I think this is the greatest invention in
Speaker 1: the history of mankind. I've done all the damage I
Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Countown musical directors
Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel arranged, produced, and performed
Speaker 1: nearly all of our music. Mister Ray on guitars, bass
Speaker 1: and drums, and mister Chanelle on the orchestration and the
Speaker 1: keyboards produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of
Speaker 1: the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by the group No
Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two,
Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our
Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the
Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. My announcer today was also
Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Everything else was pretty much my fault. So
Speaker 1: that's countdown for this the ninety ninth day until the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four presidential election, the one thousand, three hundredth
Speaker 1: day since convicted felon Donald J. Trump's first attempted coup
Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use
Speaker 1: the Tember eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use the mental health system.
Speaker 1: You've got it. President Biden used presidential immunity to stop
Speaker 1: him from doing it again, while waste till can also Republicans,
Speaker 1: please stop shooting at Trump. The next schedule countdown is tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Bulletins is the news requires till the next one. I'm
Speaker 1: Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck?
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