1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 2 00:00:23,955 --> 00:00:24,275 Speaker 2: Now. 3 00:00:24,315 --> 00:00:29,755 Speaker 1: The question becomes, how do we get Elon Musk and 4 00:00:29,835 --> 00:00:35,475 Speaker 1: his teenage mutant Ninja Turtles arrested? The Democratic Party Rip 5 00:00:35,555 --> 00:00:39,075 Speaker 1: van Winkle chairman, has awakened from its slumber and the 6 00:00:39,195 --> 00:00:42,515 Speaker 1: nation with it. It has appreciated the reality of the 7 00:00:42,555 --> 00:00:45,555 Speaker 1: crises of the tech pro coup and the push to 8 00:00:45,595 --> 00:00:49,715 Speaker 1: privatize government and the multi trillion dollar attempted heist, and 9 00:00:49,835 --> 00:00:53,995 Speaker 1: Trump's plan to invade Gaza so he can personally own it. 10 00:00:55,355 --> 00:01:01,515 Speaker 1: Lawsuits are flying, impeachment symbolic but even symbolically undefeated is underway, 11 00:01:01,555 --> 00:01:05,675 Speaker 1: and more on each in a moment. Trump is immune 12 00:01:06,315 --> 00:01:10,075 Speaker 1: until we eventually replace this Supreme Court with something to 13 00:01:10,115 --> 00:01:14,955 Speaker 1: do with the law and the constitution. However, Musk is 14 00:01:14,995 --> 00:01:19,715 Speaker 1: not immune. Marco Els, the twenty five year old Musk 15 00:01:19,875 --> 00:01:22,635 Speaker 1: fop allegedly rewriting code and in a position to do 16 00:01:22,715 --> 00:01:25,795 Speaker 1: anything he wants your tax dollars, He's certainly not immune. 17 00:01:26,115 --> 00:01:29,915 Speaker 1: The new Treasury Secretary Besant is not immune. Nicole Hollander 18 00:01:29,995 --> 00:01:33,995 Speaker 1: is not immune. Akasha Baba is not immune. Luke Farretor 19 00:01:34,235 --> 00:01:37,355 Speaker 1: is not immune. F Then Shao Tran is not immune. 20 00:01:37,715 --> 00:01:42,355 Speaker 1: Edward Korstine is not immune. Gautier cole Killian is not immune. 21 00:01:42,635 --> 00:01:46,315 Speaker 1: Gavin Kligger is not immune. And any of the officials 22 00:01:46,355 --> 00:01:49,115 Speaker 1: at USAID or in the Treasury Department or anywhere else 23 00:01:49,235 --> 00:01:53,435 Speaker 1: who admitted these little clowns into secure areas as has 24 00:01:53,475 --> 00:01:56,555 Speaker 1: been alleged, they are not immune. In fact, they are 25 00:01:56,635 --> 00:02:00,515 Speaker 1: subject to espionage charges, and they will still be subject 26 00:02:00,515 --> 00:02:05,955 Speaker 1: to them four years from now. But Elon Musk is 27 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:11,475 Speaker 1: especially not immune. And what the hell is going on 28 00:02:11,555 --> 00:02:17,715 Speaker 1: with him now? Anyway, his usual state semi delusional, frantic, irrational, 29 00:02:17,915 --> 00:02:23,555 Speaker 1: it's given way to full fledged euphoria and delusional delusions, 30 00:02:23,595 --> 00:02:27,515 Speaker 1: not of grandeur but of omnipotence. Somebody listed the names 31 00:02:27,555 --> 00:02:30,275 Speaker 1: of his teenage mutant Ninja Turtles in a post on 32 00:02:30,315 --> 00:02:32,995 Speaker 1: Twitter x, and Musk, acting like he was zonked out 33 00:02:32,995 --> 00:02:37,395 Speaker 1: of his mind, responded, you have committed a crime, even 34 00:02:37,435 --> 00:02:42,155 Speaker 1: though hours earlier he Musk amplified another post on Twitter 35 00:02:42,355 --> 00:02:48,115 Speaker 1: x listing the same names. Musk has conflated a violation 36 00:02:48,275 --> 00:02:51,995 Speaker 1: of Twitter doxing rules with actual violations of the law, 37 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:55,395 Speaker 1: And then it turned out that simply giving somebody's name 38 00:02:55,755 --> 00:02:58,635 Speaker 1: is in fact not a violation of Twitter doxing rules. 39 00:03:00,155 --> 00:03:04,035 Speaker 1: You have committed a crime. No elon check your mirror, 40 00:03:04,115 --> 00:03:08,315 Speaker 1: you may have committed a crime. The lawsuits have already 41 00:03:08,315 --> 00:03:12,155 Speaker 1: begun by government employee unions whose pensions, they say Musk 42 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:15,315 Speaker 1: and others have illegally put at risk by the Democrats, 43 00:03:15,515 --> 00:03:18,395 Speaker 1: by ethics groups to whom Trump gave the priceless gift 44 00:03:18,395 --> 00:03:23,795 Speaker 1: of declaring Musk and administration employee making Musk subject to 45 00:03:23,915 --> 00:03:27,795 Speaker 1: conflict of interest laws. A federal judge in Maryland has 46 00:03:27,795 --> 00:03:32,155 Speaker 1: already stopped Trump dead in his tracks on sabotaging birthright citizenships. 47 00:03:33,395 --> 00:03:38,155 Speaker 1: There are six other lawsuits already in progress just on 48 00:03:38,235 --> 00:03:42,315 Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. There are five over various aspects of his 49 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:45,795 Speaker 1: executive orders on immigration policy. There are thirteen about the 50 00:03:45,795 --> 00:03:50,555 Speaker 1: phony buyouts and the attempts to thus dissolve the CIA, USAID, 51 00:03:51,075 --> 00:03:54,475 Speaker 1: the Department of Education. There are four lawsuits about acts 52 00:03:54,475 --> 00:03:58,835 Speaker 1: against transgender people. Just security dot org has a litigation 53 00:03:59,115 --> 00:04:03,275 Speaker 1: tracker up go there. Odds are like one in three. 54 00:04:03,315 --> 00:04:05,955 Speaker 1: While you are looking at this, it will update while 55 00:04:05,955 --> 00:04:10,915 Speaker 1: you're reading it because there's been a new lawsuit and 56 00:04:11,035 --> 00:04:14,395 Speaker 1: the bids to get temporary restraining orders against Musk and 57 00:04:14,475 --> 00:04:18,795 Speaker 1: the other pirates in the Trump maladministration have unexpectedly been 58 00:04:19,155 --> 00:04:22,875 Speaker 1: as efficient and as subtle as Trump has been. In 59 00:04:22,955 --> 00:04:27,115 Speaker 1: Trump's work as a saboteur of the courts, it is 60 00:04:27,195 --> 00:04:30,195 Speaker 1: the exact opposite of what Musk has been in his 61 00:04:30,355 --> 00:04:34,475 Speaker 1: cyber version of Ocean's eleven meets the Nigerian Prince who 62 00:04:34,595 --> 00:04:39,035 Speaker 1: only needs your bank routing number. But Trump has yet 63 00:04:39,075 --> 00:04:41,835 Speaker 1: to completely destroy the justice system, and there are still 64 00:04:41,955 --> 00:04:44,955 Speaker 1: enough judges to tie Musk up in local jurisdictions for 65 00:04:45,035 --> 00:04:49,035 Speaker 1: the rest of his goddamned life, and especially to tie 66 00:04:49,075 --> 00:04:51,915 Speaker 1: up these little shit weasels of his who will suddenly 67 00:04:51,955 --> 00:04:56,275 Speaker 1: discover that their secret mainframes and social media accounts and 68 00:04:56,395 --> 00:05:01,955 Speaker 1: SpaceX business cards don't mean crap, and that, as my 69 00:05:02,075 --> 00:05:04,755 Speaker 1: friend William H. Macy once said in a classic pro 70 00:05:05,035 --> 00:05:11,955 Speaker 1: for his show Shameless, Real Worlds out here Pal, but 71 00:05:11,995 --> 00:05:15,155 Speaker 1: the goal has got to be to put Musk in prison. 72 00:05:16,075 --> 00:05:18,275 Speaker 1: The side effect to Trump getting away with it for 73 00:05:18,355 --> 00:05:22,315 Speaker 1: now is the residual rage for all of us, from 74 00:05:22,635 --> 00:05:27,435 Speaker 1: nine year old politically aware kids to liberal Supreme Court justices, 75 00:05:27,675 --> 00:05:30,795 Speaker 1: all of us who know Trump deserves to die in jail, 76 00:05:31,235 --> 00:05:35,075 Speaker 1: not in the White House bathroom. We can't do anything 77 00:05:35,115 --> 00:05:38,035 Speaker 1: about this for now. So who's the next best choice 78 00:05:38,075 --> 00:05:43,115 Speaker 1: to absorb our legal wrath? Two hints that person will 79 00:05:43,155 --> 00:05:46,075 Speaker 1: never corner any product nor industry the way he has 80 00:05:46,115 --> 00:05:51,635 Speaker 1: cornered the world supplies of smug and snide, and visually 81 00:05:51,675 --> 00:05:55,395 Speaker 1: he looks like a skull with some coagulated botox stretched 82 00:05:55,435 --> 00:06:02,795 Speaker 1: across it. The key to getting Elon Musk arrested is publicity. 83 00:06:04,075 --> 00:06:07,235 Speaker 1: What he is doing is a story, by the way, 84 00:06:07,435 --> 00:06:14,275 Speaker 1: created for local television news for the older, less affluent 85 00:06:14,395 --> 00:06:20,235 Speaker 1: audience of local television news. Musk's hackers allegedly go into 86 00:06:20,275 --> 00:06:23,235 Speaker 1: the government, where they write, now could be stealing your 87 00:06:23,315 --> 00:06:29,195 Speaker 1: Medicaid money and Social Security live at eleven. It is 88 00:06:29,315 --> 00:06:33,035 Speaker 1: exactly what local television producers want. It's exactly what they 89 00:06:33,195 --> 00:06:36,995 Speaker 1: dream of. Let's take you now live to Jack liveshot 90 00:06:37,035 --> 00:06:43,075 Speaker 1: in Scarsdale with his concerned guest, concerned Grandma. Call your 91 00:06:43,155 --> 00:06:48,755 Speaker 1: local newsroom. Once the publicity cycle begins to inflate, then 92 00:06:48,795 --> 00:06:51,195 Speaker 1: we get to the local prosecutions. Because Trump has not 93 00:06:51,275 --> 00:06:53,675 Speaker 1: corrupted the entirety of the legal system yet, and he's 94 00:06:53,715 --> 00:06:57,355 Speaker 1: not forced out all the US attorneys, and a clever city, county, 95 00:06:57,435 --> 00:07:02,235 Speaker 1: or state prosecutor could bring countless charges against Musk or 96 00:07:02,235 --> 00:07:05,835 Speaker 1: his saboteurs or anybody else for everything from I don't know, theft, 97 00:07:05,955 --> 00:07:10,395 Speaker 1: breaking an entering. You could do it in DC too. 98 00:07:10,595 --> 00:07:13,675 Speaker 1: The Watergate burglars were not arrested by the FBI for 99 00:07:13,915 --> 00:07:17,955 Speaker 1: you know, seventeen counts of trying to end democracy. They 100 00:07:17,955 --> 00:07:22,715 Speaker 1: were arrested for burglary by the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. 101 00:07:24,555 --> 00:07:29,995 Speaker 1: This is low hanging fruit because everybody hates Elon Musk. Everybody, 102 00:07:31,075 --> 00:07:34,515 Speaker 1: especially all the little tech pros, are gonna hate Elon 103 00:07:34,595 --> 00:07:38,435 Speaker 1: Musk after it turns out Musk is not omnipotent, and 104 00:07:38,515 --> 00:07:41,835 Speaker 1: to do his dirty work for him ends up with 105 00:07:41,995 --> 00:07:48,875 Speaker 1: you getting your ass taken to jail. First one to 106 00:07:48,915 --> 00:07:51,995 Speaker 1: flip on Musk gets probation and a brand new hotmail 107 00:07:52,035 --> 00:07:54,275 Speaker 1: account and an Aol installation. 108 00:07:54,475 --> 00:08:26,155 Speaker 2: Disc Impeachment today, impeachment tomorrow, impeachment forever. 109 00:08:27,435 --> 00:08:33,195 Speaker 1: Preach Al Green, preach, I rise to announce. 110 00:08:33,315 --> 00:08:38,195 Speaker 3: That the movement to impeach the president has begun. I 111 00:08:38,395 --> 00:08:42,315 Speaker 3: rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachments 112 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:48,995 Speaker 3: against the President for destately deeds proposed and desperately deeds done. 113 00:08:49,395 --> 00:08:53,995 Speaker 1: Congressman Al Green al Green of Texas. I have mentioned before, 114 00:08:53,995 --> 00:08:56,395 Speaker 1: I will mention again, no, it will not pass. I 115 00:08:56,475 --> 00:09:01,955 Speaker 1: know that Congressman Green knows that we all know that. 116 00:09:02,715 --> 00:09:05,755 Speaker 1: But we are for the time being limited to carefully 117 00:09:05,795 --> 00:09:09,875 Speaker 1: tactical actions in the courts, holds in the Senate, and 118 00:09:10,555 --> 00:09:15,755 Speaker 1: impeachment bills one a week in the House. And the 119 00:09:15,835 --> 00:09:19,635 Speaker 1: history of impeachment since Richard Nixon is simple and instructive. 120 00:09:19,955 --> 00:09:23,955 Speaker 1: Impeachment bills pass, and impeachment bills fail, and impeachments happen, 121 00:09:24,155 --> 00:09:27,035 Speaker 1: and impeachments don't happen, and no president has ever been 122 00:09:27,075 --> 00:09:30,875 Speaker 1: removed from office. And it don't matter the party that 123 00:09:30,955 --> 00:09:35,395 Speaker 1: merely attempts and fails to impeach, no matter, the outcome 124 00:09:35,715 --> 00:09:39,915 Speaker 1: is thirteen and oh in the following how Senate and 125 00:09:39,915 --> 00:09:43,155 Speaker 1: presidential elections, that includes the Republicans and all the crap 126 00:09:43,195 --> 00:09:45,675 Speaker 1: from Lauren Bobert and Jamie Comer in twenty twenty three 127 00:09:45,675 --> 00:09:47,915 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty four. You don't even have to get 128 00:09:47,955 --> 00:09:51,835 Speaker 1: a vote on your bill. Just keep saying the word impeachment. 129 00:09:53,635 --> 00:09:58,635 Speaker 1: Damn thing works. The statistic the precise number thirteen and 130 00:09:58,715 --> 00:10:03,195 Speaker 1: oh is disputed. As a historian, I would note it's 131 00:10:03,235 --> 00:10:06,595 Speaker 1: probably fourteen and Oh, the infeatument of Andrew Johnson worked 132 00:10:06,635 --> 00:10:10,235 Speaker 1: because it was one faction of the then monopolistic Republicans 133 00:10:10,595 --> 00:10:14,675 Speaker 1: defeating the other faction of the monopolistic Republicans. On the 134 00:10:14,715 --> 00:10:17,315 Speaker 1: other hand, a Congressional aid of my acquaintance says it 135 00:10:17,395 --> 00:10:20,115 Speaker 1: shouldn't be thirteen and ohero and fourteen and oh, it's 136 00:10:20,155 --> 00:10:24,195 Speaker 1: thirteen and one because Trump was impeached as his term 137 00:10:24,355 --> 00:10:27,155 Speaker 1: ended in twenty twenty one, and the Republicans won the 138 00:10:27,155 --> 00:10:29,995 Speaker 1: House in twenty twenty two. I replied that the Democrats 139 00:10:30,035 --> 00:10:33,675 Speaker 1: lost fewer seats in twenty twenty two, then predicted, then 140 00:10:33,755 --> 00:10:38,115 Speaker 1: predicted the morning of the election. And so you say 141 00:10:38,155 --> 00:10:42,115 Speaker 1: the Republicans won the House in twenty twenty two, how 142 00:10:42,155 --> 00:10:54,275 Speaker 1: did that work out for them? Elsewhere? Surprisingly enough, Trump's 143 00:10:54,315 --> 00:10:59,275 Speaker 1: plan to take Gaza and maybe own it himself and 144 00:10:59,355 --> 00:11:02,635 Speaker 1: turn it into the Middle Eastern Riviera. The division of 145 00:11:02,715 --> 00:11:06,075 Speaker 1: trump World, inc oh, and to what amounts to ethnic 146 00:11:06,115 --> 00:11:09,155 Speaker 1: cleansing of the current two million Palestinians who live there, 147 00:11:09,715 --> 00:11:13,555 Speaker 1: as if he were doing the world a favor, has 148 00:11:13,595 --> 00:11:16,635 Speaker 1: made him an international laughing stock the way nothing else 149 00:11:16,675 --> 00:11:19,475 Speaker 1: in ten years has. And this is a world, after 150 00:11:19,515 --> 00:11:22,115 Speaker 1: all that laughed at him during his speech to the UN. 151 00:11:22,315 --> 00:11:26,115 Speaker 1: The bar is kind of high. The man who ran 152 00:11:26,235 --> 00:11:29,075 Speaker 1: on ending forever wars and who mocks Bush to this 153 00:11:29,195 --> 00:11:32,915 Speaker 1: day about Iraq at every opportunity, who falsely claims he 154 00:11:33,035 --> 00:11:35,915 Speaker 1: was against the Iraq invasion, is ready to send what 155 00:11:35,915 --> 00:11:38,875 Speaker 1: would have to be dozens of times as many American 156 00:11:38,915 --> 00:11:42,875 Speaker 1: troops as went into Iraq six hundred miles east, to 157 00:11:43,275 --> 00:11:46,795 Speaker 1: forcibly remove anybody still in Gaza and send them to 158 00:11:46,875 --> 00:11:49,435 Speaker 1: Egypt and Jordan, whether they like it or not, or 159 00:11:49,475 --> 00:11:51,595 Speaker 1: Egypt and Jordan like it or not. Oh, by the way, 160 00:11:51,675 --> 00:11:54,915 Speaker 1: there's still Hamas in Gaza, and I'm not thinking they're 161 00:11:54,915 --> 00:11:56,875 Speaker 1: going to be lining up at the counter for their 162 00:11:56,875 --> 00:12:01,315 Speaker 1: tickets on the Trump shuttle to Aman. And of course 163 00:12:01,355 --> 00:12:04,075 Speaker 1: Trump is still sending little twits like Marco Rubio around 164 00:12:04,115 --> 00:12:08,155 Speaker 1: insisting we're going to take back the Panama Canal and 165 00:12:08,235 --> 00:12:11,315 Speaker 1: his son idiot Junior to take over Greenland, and all 166 00:12:11,355 --> 00:12:14,835 Speaker 1: of a sudden, those million, three hundred thousand active duty 167 00:12:14,875 --> 00:12:17,155 Speaker 1: American troops they're just not going to be enough, now, 168 00:12:17,195 --> 00:12:21,115 Speaker 1: are they. So now Trump's backed himself into the next 169 00:12:21,155 --> 00:12:26,155 Speaker 1: corner bringing back the draft. Hasn't said it yet, Wait 170 00:12:26,235 --> 00:12:29,435 Speaker 1: for it. If there is one thing that will guarantee 171 00:12:29,755 --> 00:12:31,915 Speaker 1: riots in the streets that, oh, by the way, the 172 00:12:31,995 --> 00:12:37,315 Speaker 1: rioters will win. It's another draft. The last one was 173 00:12:37,355 --> 00:12:40,555 Speaker 1: expanded for Vietnam in the sixties, at a time when 174 00:12:40,555 --> 00:12:44,515 Speaker 1: the nation still largely believed its government meant well and 175 00:12:44,595 --> 00:12:48,155 Speaker 1: had judgment, and when parents would actually willingly let the 176 00:12:48,195 --> 00:12:52,195 Speaker 1: government take their children to send them to die meaninglessly 177 00:12:52,315 --> 00:12:55,475 Speaker 1: in a conflict we could not win or even influence, 178 00:12:57,195 --> 00:12:59,835 Speaker 1: when we still believed in large part that the government's 179 00:12:59,915 --> 00:13:05,115 Speaker 1: judgment on such things could be trusted. And still within 180 00:13:05,235 --> 00:13:09,675 Speaker 1: three years there were daily protests and draft card burnings 181 00:13:09,675 --> 00:13:13,195 Speaker 1: and violent underground terrorist organizations, and enough chaos to end 182 00:13:13,275 --> 00:13:16,435 Speaker 1: Lyndon Johnson's presidency and force an end to the war 183 00:13:16,515 --> 00:13:21,395 Speaker 1: and the draft within the decade. If Trump, if any president, 184 00:13:22,035 --> 00:13:25,875 Speaker 1: for Gaza or Greenland or Panama or whatever else he 185 00:13:25,955 --> 00:13:28,955 Speaker 1: pulls out of his own ass, If Trump or any 186 00:13:28,995 --> 00:13:32,835 Speaker 1: president tried a draft, except in the event of something 187 00:13:32,875 --> 00:13:35,555 Speaker 1: on the scale of World War Two, in these days, 188 00:13:35,595 --> 00:13:39,275 Speaker 1: when the idea of people agreeing to be forced by 189 00:13:39,315 --> 00:13:42,955 Speaker 1: the government to risk their lives in an optional war 190 00:13:45,915 --> 00:13:50,675 Speaker 1: is met with only rage and uncontrollable laughter. If Trump 191 00:13:50,875 --> 00:13:53,955 Speaker 1: actually tried a draft, and to clean out Gaza, he'd 192 00:13:53,995 --> 00:13:57,235 Speaker 1: have to have a draft. If he actually did it, 193 00:13:57,275 --> 00:14:00,475 Speaker 1: I'd give his presidency it a week to ten days 194 00:14:01,155 --> 00:14:05,835 Speaker 1: before he and everybody in it were forced out of office. 195 00:14:08,235 --> 00:14:11,435 Speaker 1: It may not have occurred to Trump yet that to 196 00:14:11,515 --> 00:14:16,675 Speaker 1: do just Gaza, maybe just Greenland, or just Panama, it 197 00:14:16,715 --> 00:14:21,555 Speaker 1: would require a draft. And by the way, I'd like 198 00:14:21,595 --> 00:14:24,995 Speaker 1: to take this opportunity to congratulate those who protested Israel 199 00:14:25,035 --> 00:14:26,875 Speaker 1: and Biden's attempts to find a way out of the 200 00:14:26,915 --> 00:14:29,595 Speaker 1: Gordian not of the Middle East by not voting for 201 00:14:29,675 --> 00:14:33,595 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, Your boy Trump is demanding all Palestinians get 202 00:14:33,635 --> 00:14:40,435 Speaker 1: out of Gaza. Nice protests, it's ethnic cleansing. Wait until 203 00:14:40,435 --> 00:14:43,595 Speaker 1: Trump responds to the blowback to that, domestic and international, 204 00:14:43,795 --> 00:14:46,675 Speaker 1: to his insane belief that he personally can make gazillions 205 00:14:46,715 --> 00:14:50,675 Speaker 1: in Gaza tourism when somebody tells him he has just 206 00:14:50,755 --> 00:14:53,515 Speaker 1: damaged himself and beclowned himself and made the world wonder 207 00:14:53,675 --> 00:14:55,955 Speaker 1: if it needs to try to forcibly remove him because 208 00:14:55,955 --> 00:14:59,875 Speaker 1: he's crazy. His next move won't be all out Palestinians 209 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:04,315 Speaker 1: out of Gaza. It will be all Palestinians out of America. 210 00:15:14,515 --> 00:15:16,835 Speaker 1: I'm not favoring that, by the way, I'm just saying 211 00:15:16,875 --> 00:15:23,675 Speaker 1: that's how he will react. Good call vote against Kamala Harris. 212 00:15:24,595 --> 00:15:29,115 Speaker 1: What could go wrong? Who knew this could happen? Everybody 213 00:15:29,195 --> 00:15:33,955 Speaker 1: told us this, but we thought they were just who knows, 214 00:15:35,555 --> 00:15:38,115 Speaker 1: you bought it, you lie in it. The irony of 215 00:15:38,155 --> 00:15:40,195 Speaker 1: the first two weeks of the Trump reducs is that 216 00:15:40,275 --> 00:15:44,195 Speaker 1: his minions have been studdingly successful. Illegally successful, of course, 217 00:15:44,195 --> 00:15:49,155 Speaker 1: but still we don't got to show you any stinking badges. 218 00:15:50,395 --> 00:15:53,395 Speaker 1: The drag on their plan for world domination is this 219 00:15:53,555 --> 00:15:58,035 Speaker 1: idiot Trump and is idiot pal idiot Musk, whereas they 220 00:15:58,075 --> 00:16:04,555 Speaker 1: may soon be known Thelma and Louise Tariffs Tariff's tariffs 221 00:16:04,795 --> 00:16:07,395 Speaker 1: start now, let me just talk to Canada and Mexico. First, 222 00:16:07,475 --> 00:16:10,835 Speaker 1: Oh okay, no tariffs end results headline in the Wall 223 00:16:10,835 --> 00:16:14,995 Speaker 1: Street Journal, Trump blinks on North American tariffs. Well played, sir, 224 00:16:15,955 --> 00:16:21,395 Speaker 1: all in one first sixty shots didn't count. Then there 225 00:16:21,435 --> 00:16:25,515 Speaker 1: was yesterday's farce of quote banning transgendered women from competing 226 00:16:25,515 --> 00:16:28,875 Speaker 1: in women's sports at the collegiate and grade school and 227 00:16:28,995 --> 00:16:32,035 Speaker 1: high school level, which part of Trump's promise to return 228 00:16:32,195 --> 00:16:35,595 Speaker 1: all control of education to the States. Would this be 229 00:16:37,675 --> 00:16:40,595 Speaker 1: all control of education of the States except for sports. 230 00:16:42,395 --> 00:16:44,155 Speaker 1: I will also remind you of two things I have 231 00:16:44,275 --> 00:16:47,675 Speaker 1: mentioned before. The estimated number of women athletes at the 232 00:16:47,675 --> 00:16:50,955 Speaker 1: scholastic level whose birth gender was male in this country 233 00:16:51,115 --> 00:16:56,555 Speaker 1: is one hundred and five one one hundred and five. 234 00:16:59,635 --> 00:17:01,715 Speaker 1: Of course, that estimate is old. It's a month ago. 235 00:17:01,835 --> 00:17:04,235 Speaker 1: It was made by a group seeking to ban them, 236 00:17:04,755 --> 00:17:06,755 Speaker 1: so it may now be up to one hundred and six. 237 00:17:07,235 --> 00:17:10,315 Speaker 1: And I will add that nearly fifty years ago and 238 00:17:10,395 --> 00:17:14,115 Speaker 1: my friend doctor Renee Richards formerly doctor Richard Raskin, reached 239 00:17:14,195 --> 00:17:17,275 Speaker 1: tennis's US Open. She of course wiped out Chris Everett 240 00:17:17,275 --> 00:17:19,955 Speaker 1: and Martina Navratilova and all the rest. And you'll remember 241 00:17:19,995 --> 00:17:23,475 Speaker 1: she won twenty three consecutive Wimbledon's and she destroyed women's 242 00:17:23,515 --> 00:17:26,875 Speaker 1: tennis for all time because of her bone structure advantage. 243 00:17:26,875 --> 00:17:30,155 Speaker 1: Oh that's right. None of that happened, because this issue 244 00:17:30,195 --> 00:17:32,755 Speaker 1: is trivial, because there's one hundred and six of them 245 00:17:32,755 --> 00:17:36,035 Speaker 1: in the country, and it only became a cause celebra 246 00:17:36,195 --> 00:17:40,555 Speaker 1: for morons and mediocrits like the swimmer Riley Gaines, who 247 00:17:40,595 --> 00:17:44,795 Speaker 1: finished well behind a transgendered woman once and then devoted 248 00:17:44,835 --> 00:17:50,155 Speaker 1: her life to hounding transgendered people. Congrats on the Riley 249 00:17:50,275 --> 00:17:55,075 Speaker 1: Gains was a mediocre swimmer, but a worse person order. 250 00:18:01,555 --> 00:18:05,235 Speaker 1: Couple of vsh media notes, as Marjorie Taylor Green, who 251 00:18:05,355 --> 00:18:08,675 Speaker 1: declared yesterday that the music magazine and news outlet is 252 00:18:08,715 --> 00:18:15,275 Speaker 1: called Rolling Stones, demanded NPR and PBS testify to some 253 00:18:16,195 --> 00:18:21,195 Speaker 1: committee she runs or subcommittee at the doge who knows 254 00:18:22,115 --> 00:18:26,755 Speaker 1: hai this is the subcommittee for morons. PBS has commissioned 255 00:18:26,795 --> 00:18:30,755 Speaker 1: a poll in which seventy two percent of Trump voters 256 00:18:31,035 --> 00:18:35,155 Speaker 1: said they valued PBS for its kids programming. Sixty five 257 00:18:35,195 --> 00:18:38,795 Speaker 1: percent of Trump voters think PBS is either adequately funded 258 00:18:38,835 --> 00:18:45,915 Speaker 1: by the government or insufficiently funded government by the government. Unbelievable. 259 00:18:46,995 --> 00:18:49,915 Speaker 1: There's large group of Trump voters who believe we should 260 00:18:49,915 --> 00:18:54,755 Speaker 1: be giving more taxpayer money to PBS. Government funds are 261 00:18:54,795 --> 00:18:58,555 Speaker 1: only fifteen percent of the PBS budget. Anyway, have a 262 00:18:58,635 --> 00:19:01,995 Speaker 1: nice time with that data, Marge. I don't know a 263 00:19:02,115 --> 00:19:06,155 Speaker 1: number as big as sixty five. She may just faint. 264 00:19:06,915 --> 00:19:11,555 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith is skating further and further onto thin ice. 265 00:19:12,915 --> 00:19:15,195 Speaker 1: He says it would be a sacrifice, but he might 266 00:19:15,275 --> 00:19:20,515 Speaker 1: run for the Democratic nomination in twenty twenty eight, how's 267 00:19:20,555 --> 00:19:23,755 Speaker 1: your shoulder for? Did you have an injury panning yourself 268 00:19:23,755 --> 00:19:26,955 Speaker 1: on the back with both arms at the same time? 269 00:19:27,715 --> 00:19:31,915 Speaker 1: Surgery Polling and it's by a Trump pollster has Kamala 270 00:19:31,915 --> 00:19:34,395 Speaker 1: Harris at thirty five percent right now for the twenty 271 00:19:34,435 --> 00:19:39,075 Speaker 1: twenty eight nomination, and nobody else in double digits. But 272 00:19:39,195 --> 00:19:41,555 Speaker 1: just for giggles, here's the rest of the list. Buddha 273 00:19:41,635 --> 00:19:47,755 Speaker 1: Jedge nine, Newsom seven AOC six, Governor Shapiro three, Governor 274 00:19:47,795 --> 00:19:52,795 Speaker 1: Walls three, Governor Whitmter three, Senator Klobashar three, Corey Booker two, 275 00:19:52,995 --> 00:19:57,755 Speaker 1: Governor Moore two, Stephen A. Smith two, Governor Pritzker one, 276 00:19:57,835 --> 00:20:02,755 Speaker 1: Beto O'Rourke one, Governor Murphy one, Governor Polis one. So 277 00:20:02,835 --> 00:20:07,435 Speaker 1: Stephen trails, Tim Walls and Amy Klobashar. But he's got 278 00:20:07,435 --> 00:20:11,755 Speaker 1: twice the support of Jared Polis, who's been collaborating with Republicans. 279 00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:16,275 Speaker 1: Well done, Steve. The problem with Stephen A. Smith is 280 00:20:16,435 --> 00:20:19,635 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he doesn't realize that two percent 281 00:20:19,795 --> 00:20:24,155 Speaker 1: is nothing, or if he was just so excited to 282 00:20:24,195 --> 00:20:26,275 Speaker 1: see his name on the list that he didn't even 283 00:20:26,275 --> 00:20:33,235 Speaker 1: look at the number. And we have a nearly weekly, 284 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:36,795 Speaker 1: self owned by Van Jones, now in its tenth year, 285 00:20:37,635 --> 00:20:41,275 Speaker 1: Van Jones is still on CNN. Van Jones commented on 286 00:20:41,315 --> 00:20:45,435 Speaker 1: Scott Jennings, the racist, misogynist CNN platforms every night in 287 00:20:45,475 --> 00:20:48,835 Speaker 1: hopes of getting an audience that just will not show 288 00:20:48,955 --> 00:20:51,475 Speaker 1: up for Abby Phillip Show no matter who you put 289 00:20:51,515 --> 00:20:55,435 Speaker 1: on it. She is at a little better than one 290 00:20:55,795 --> 00:21:00,635 Speaker 1: third the Lawrence O'Donnell audience. And I assume most of 291 00:21:01,195 --> 00:21:04,035 Speaker 1: Loade's audience at this point is people who died in 292 00:21:04,035 --> 00:21:07,555 Speaker 1: front of the team and left it on MSNBC. That's 293 00:21:07,715 --> 00:21:11,155 Speaker 1: just my guest based on my experience with him. Anyway, 294 00:21:11,235 --> 00:21:15,035 Speaker 1: Van Jones told The Wall Street Journal about mister Jennings 295 00:21:15,195 --> 00:21:19,315 Speaker 1: of the Abby Phillips Show, quote, I've never fell on 296 00:21:19,475 --> 00:21:23,155 Speaker 1: air that Scott was saying something he didn't believe in 297 00:21:23,195 --> 00:21:27,355 Speaker 1: a way that was unnecessarily incendiary just to go viral. 298 00:21:28,995 --> 00:21:32,595 Speaker 1: So so, Ben, you're saying, Scott Jennings isn't a white 299 00:21:32,635 --> 00:21:39,315 Speaker 1: supremacist asshole, clickbaiting poser. He's a real white supremacist asshole. 300 00:21:40,395 --> 00:21:47,075 Speaker 1: And that's better somehow. If CNN canceled its primetime lineup 301 00:21:48,555 --> 00:21:53,595 Speaker 1: and went all cartoons, the quality of CNN commentary and 302 00:21:53,675 --> 00:21:58,515 Speaker 1: CNN journalism would shoot through the roof. In the interim, 303 00:21:58,555 --> 00:22:01,715 Speaker 1: I have this suggestion CNN should try to get Van 304 00:22:01,955 --> 00:22:11,755 Speaker 1: Jones and Scott Jennings shoot through the roof. See you boys. 305 00:22:13,115 --> 00:22:16,435 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, Rom Emmanuel and David Axelrod are 306 00:22:16,555 --> 00:22:20,395 Speaker 1: upset at the democrats reaction to Musk canceling the US 307 00:22:20,435 --> 00:22:25,675 Speaker 1: AID program. Not righteously indignant enough, not protesting enough, not 308 00:22:25,715 --> 00:22:29,915 Speaker 1: acting enough. No, no, no, These two dinosaurs think Democrats 309 00:22:30,115 --> 00:22:35,755 Speaker 1: should not have reacted at all. Happily, my pal Will 310 00:22:35,795 --> 00:22:41,275 Speaker 1: Bunch ended Rom Emmanuel's remaining credibility with one of the 311 00:22:41,315 --> 00:22:47,555 Speaker 1: greatest burns I have ever read. That's next. This is countdown. 312 00:22:49,635 --> 00:23:14,315 Speaker 1: This is countdown, with Keith Elberman still ahead. I was 313 00:23:14,395 --> 00:23:18,155 Speaker 1: quoted in the Washington Post the other day as saying 314 00:23:18,395 --> 00:23:24,515 Speaker 1: about Rachel Matadow quote, television political commentary is better when 315 00:23:24,515 --> 00:23:29,515 Speaker 1: she's on the air. My understanding is she's pissed about that. 316 00:23:31,235 --> 00:23:34,995 Speaker 1: Why because there's an article about her in which I 317 00:23:35,235 --> 00:23:41,035 Speaker 1: am quoted. This is not an odd phenomenon, although she 318 00:23:41,195 --> 00:23:47,195 Speaker 1: has elevated it to real weirdness. Not long after I 319 00:23:47,235 --> 00:23:51,075 Speaker 1: got to ESPN in nineteen ninety two, people magazine found 320 00:23:51,075 --> 00:23:54,195 Speaker 1: out that I had gone to school with was a 321 00:23:54,275 --> 00:24:00,035 Speaker 1: protege there of and then successor to Chris Berman, and 322 00:24:00,075 --> 00:24:02,355 Speaker 1: they were doing a story on him, so they interviewed 323 00:24:02,395 --> 00:24:05,155 Speaker 1: me about him, and when it came out, Chris took 324 00:24:05,195 --> 00:24:07,955 Speaker 1: me into a studio and they rolled up. Copy of 325 00:24:07,955 --> 00:24:10,475 Speaker 1: the magazine was in his hand, and he was angry, 326 00:24:10,835 --> 00:24:14,515 Speaker 1: they've quoted you in here more than they have quoted me. 327 00:24:15,275 --> 00:24:20,395 Speaker 1: What I pointed out that I'd only said nice things, Chris, 328 00:24:20,435 --> 00:24:24,075 Speaker 1: and this is him in brief quickly apologized, I'm sorry 329 00:24:24,675 --> 00:24:28,555 Speaker 1: a family member is upset. Anyway. 330 00:24:28,555 --> 00:24:31,195 Speaker 4: What I really should have said was I'm glad somebody 331 00:24:31,235 --> 00:24:35,115 Speaker 4: who knew me before I was a big deal still 332 00:24:35,235 --> 00:24:39,235 Speaker 4: likes me now when I am a big deal. 333 00:24:40,995 --> 00:24:43,715 Speaker 1: That is also Chris. It's way less conceited than it sounds. 334 00:24:44,595 --> 00:24:46,915 Speaker 1: I could not resist the joke though, that he had 335 00:24:46,995 --> 00:24:50,155 Speaker 1: just set up. I pointed at his copy of People, 336 00:24:50,195 --> 00:24:52,875 Speaker 1: and I said, where in there does it say I 337 00:24:53,035 --> 00:24:56,915 Speaker 1: like you? He scowled, and then said, so, if they 338 00:24:56,955 --> 00:24:59,795 Speaker 1: ever do a piece on you for some reason, I'll 339 00:24:59,835 --> 00:25:02,915 Speaker 1: just say you were as big a wise ass now 340 00:25:03,195 --> 00:25:06,515 Speaker 1: as you were when you were thirty. I said that 341 00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:09,595 Speaker 1: was fair, and that was the end of it. When 342 00:25:09,595 --> 00:25:11,155 Speaker 1: they did do a story on me, they didn't even 343 00:25:11,195 --> 00:25:14,635 Speaker 1: call him Mattow though didn't apologize. And a last to that, 344 00:25:15,555 --> 00:25:19,475 Speaker 1: the post noted quote that I helped jumpstart Matdow's career 345 00:25:19,515 --> 00:25:22,475 Speaker 1: and that of other network stars, which is the first 346 00:25:22,475 --> 00:25:26,235 Speaker 1: time that reality has sneaked into print in like five years. 347 00:25:27,115 --> 00:25:29,795 Speaker 1: And it's true, but it doesn't get to the gist 348 00:25:29,795 --> 00:25:32,035 Speaker 1: of it, which is I fought my bosses for a year, 349 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:34,875 Speaker 1: the ones who said MSNBC viewers would never watch a 350 00:25:34,915 --> 00:25:38,675 Speaker 1: woman do political news. One of those geniuses is now 351 00:25:38,755 --> 00:25:42,955 Speaker 1: president of her production company. Because TV damages the brains 352 00:25:42,995 --> 00:25:47,755 Speaker 1: of everybody connected to it, myself included, you have to 353 00:25:47,795 --> 00:25:51,155 Speaker 1: work your way back from that kind of damage. Few do. 354 00:25:52,075 --> 00:25:54,795 Speaker 1: In point of fact, I actually wound up personally stopping 355 00:25:55,235 --> 00:25:59,835 Speaker 1: MSNBC from losing Madow to CNN when Larry King offered 356 00:25:59,875 --> 00:26:02,435 Speaker 1: her two hundred and fifty dollars to be a guest 357 00:26:02,515 --> 00:26:04,395 Speaker 1: one night. Turned out we were getting her work for 358 00:26:04,435 --> 00:26:08,475 Speaker 1: first here. That's right, two hundred and fifty dollars. I 359 00:26:08,515 --> 00:26:11,995 Speaker 1: stepped in, hired her myself, spent four hundred and thirty 360 00:26:11,995 --> 00:26:14,515 Speaker 1: seven dollars literally out of my own wallet to keep 361 00:26:14,515 --> 00:26:17,755 Speaker 1: her there and billions of dollars later. I will tell 362 00:26:17,755 --> 00:26:21,315 Speaker 1: you the story in full, because I think this is 363 00:26:21,315 --> 00:26:25,195 Speaker 1: the anniversary of the event. It is a story that 364 00:26:25,315 --> 00:26:28,875 Speaker 1: sounds crazier and crazier every time I tell it. I 365 00:26:28,915 --> 00:26:32,115 Speaker 1: will tell it in full next in Things I promised 366 00:26:32,155 --> 00:26:34,955 Speaker 1: not to tell first, Believe it or not, there's still 367 00:26:34,955 --> 00:26:37,595 Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of 368 00:26:37,635 --> 00:26:40,555 Speaker 1: the miss Grants, morons undone in Kruger Effects specimens who 369 00:26:40,595 --> 00:26:47,355 Speaker 1: constitute today's other worst persons in the world. Today's episode 370 00:26:47,395 --> 00:26:53,075 Speaker 1: is dedicated to dishonorable Mention recipient Nancy Mace, the congresswoman 371 00:26:53,875 --> 00:26:57,195 Speaker 1: stood on the floor of the House yesterday and shouted repeatedly, 372 00:26:57,275 --> 00:27:02,115 Speaker 1: quote tranny, tranny, tranny, which wouldn't be news. She has 373 00:27:02,235 --> 00:27:05,635 Speaker 1: episodes like that also. And Mace does not have a 374 00:27:05,715 --> 00:27:09,755 Speaker 1: screw loose. She has a hardware store full of screws loose. 375 00:27:10,435 --> 00:27:14,075 Speaker 1: The reason this matters is that after her former communications director, 376 00:27:14,195 --> 00:27:18,155 Speaker 1: Natalie Johnson wrote to Mace on social about quote your 377 00:27:18,275 --> 00:27:24,075 Speaker 1: botched cheap hooker inspired boob job unquote, it is evident 378 00:27:24,155 --> 00:27:28,395 Speaker 1: that the average transgendered person has had less plastic surgery 379 00:27:29,075 --> 00:27:33,675 Speaker 1: than has Nancy Mace any who. Thus we proceed to 380 00:27:33,715 --> 00:27:38,075 Speaker 1: the medallists the bronze worse. The NFL, the National Football 381 00:27:38,195 --> 00:27:42,155 Speaker 1: League from the athletic a Super Bowl change, something that 382 00:27:42,195 --> 00:27:44,475 Speaker 1: had been in place since the twenty twenty one game. 383 00:27:44,515 --> 00:27:48,555 Speaker 1: By the way, can we drop the moronic Roman numerals already? 384 00:27:49,275 --> 00:27:53,635 Speaker 1: This isn't ancient rome. We barely use them at all 385 00:27:53,715 --> 00:27:57,555 Speaker 1: anymore except for this stupid game. And nobody knows what 386 00:27:58,035 --> 00:28:03,555 Speaker 1: LX means in mathematics anymore. Anyway, l i X everybody 387 00:28:03,595 --> 00:28:08,155 Speaker 1: already has a joke about what LIX could mean. Anyway. 388 00:28:08,195 --> 00:28:12,835 Speaker 1: The change from the athletic NFL to remove end racism 389 00:28:13,035 --> 00:28:16,635 Speaker 1: messaging in end zone ahead of Super Bowl sources, And 390 00:28:16,715 --> 00:28:20,395 Speaker 1: there is a picture of a preceding Super Bowl that 391 00:28:20,515 --> 00:28:23,755 Speaker 1: the chief slogo in the end zone and then above 392 00:28:23,795 --> 00:28:28,715 Speaker 1: it in smaller letters right under the goalpost and racism. Hey, 393 00:28:28,795 --> 00:28:31,595 Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, I know you're an idiot, 394 00:28:31,635 --> 00:28:34,035 Speaker 1: but certainly somebody's had to you. Somebody had to have 395 00:28:34,115 --> 00:28:37,115 Speaker 1: mentioned this. Hey, you know what if we suddenly become 396 00:28:37,555 --> 00:28:45,755 Speaker 1: against end racism, isn't that the same as being for racism? 397 00:28:46,035 --> 00:28:51,075 Speaker 1: NFL not see Football League the runner up generic Get 398 00:28:51,075 --> 00:28:55,755 Speaker 1: off My Lawn, Republican octagenarian Jack Miladden, who decided to 399 00:28:55,795 --> 00:28:59,795 Speaker 1: engage Justin Trudeau with one of the oldest cliches of 400 00:28:59,835 --> 00:29:03,475 Speaker 1: all time on social media. It's literally at least two 401 00:29:03,555 --> 00:29:08,115 Speaker 1: thousand years old, and Jack screwed it up. Trudeau wrote, 402 00:29:08,115 --> 00:29:10,395 Speaker 1: the United States has confirmed that it intends to impose 403 00:29:10,435 --> 00:29:13,195 Speaker 1: twenty five percent tariffs on most Canadian goods, with ten 404 00:29:13,195 --> 00:29:16,715 Speaker 1: percent tariffs on energy starting February fourth. Obviously things have 405 00:29:16,795 --> 00:29:19,435 Speaker 1: changed since this was written. I've met with the premieres 406 00:29:19,515 --> 00:29:22,155 Speaker 1: and our cabinet today and I'll be speaking with President 407 00:29:22,195 --> 00:29:25,515 Speaker 1: Scheinbaum of Mexico. Shortly we did et cetera, et cetera, 408 00:29:25,795 --> 00:29:32,315 Speaker 1: and Jack Maladden, whose handle is at John Maladden, signifying 409 00:29:32,355 --> 00:29:35,635 Speaker 1: a life of utter confusion on his part. Had Canada 410 00:29:35,715 --> 00:29:39,475 Speaker 1: been treating us fairly, Jack added, this would never have happened, 411 00:29:39,515 --> 00:29:46,155 Speaker 1: So buckle up, Canada, you're taking on Goliath. It got 412 00:29:46,195 --> 00:29:50,675 Speaker 1: community noted because, of course, as the note said, Goliath 413 00:29:50,835 --> 00:29:57,355 Speaker 1: died in that story. This Maladden guy, whoever it was is, 414 00:29:57,675 --> 00:29:59,995 Speaker 1: was reduced to explaining that he knew all that, of course, 415 00:30:00,395 --> 00:30:03,475 Speaker 1: But then clearly this time the odds were Goliath will win. 416 00:30:04,875 --> 00:30:05,035 Speaker 2: Ms. 417 00:30:05,115 --> 00:30:07,795 Speaker 1: Maloden is, of course mister Maladen. Whatever he is is, 418 00:30:07,835 --> 00:30:11,275 Speaker 1: of course more representative of a different Biblical bit of imagery, 419 00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:16,035 Speaker 1: namely the jawbone of an ass. But our winner is 420 00:30:16,235 --> 00:30:21,915 Speaker 1: Rom Immanuel. Boy, oh boy, did this idiot not recognize 421 00:30:21,955 --> 00:30:25,635 Speaker 1: his own sell by date? Never noticed when the sand 422 00:30:25,715 --> 00:30:30,355 Speaker 1: had run out in his hour glass. His Washington post 423 00:30:30,395 --> 00:30:34,075 Speaker 1: op ed was bad enough. Democrats had become the pointy 424 00:30:34,155 --> 00:30:40,115 Speaker 1: of permissiveness. That's ballot box poison. This whole article, flimsy, 425 00:30:40,275 --> 00:30:44,395 Speaker 1: badly written, repetitive, was an excuse to explain that only 426 00:30:44,555 --> 00:30:47,755 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton's campaign in nineteen ninety two really got that 427 00:30:47,915 --> 00:30:53,795 Speaker 1: balance right between big issues and kitchen table issues, and 428 00:30:53,875 --> 00:30:56,915 Speaker 1: who worked on that campaign? Why it was whiny, holier 429 00:30:56,955 --> 00:31:00,515 Speaker 1: than now, sound of one hand clapping, and the hand 430 00:31:00,595 --> 00:31:02,795 Speaker 1: was immanuals and he was looking at a picture of 431 00:31:02,835 --> 00:31:05,715 Speaker 1: himself as he did it. Rom Emmanuel, Well, that op 432 00:31:05,995 --> 00:31:10,035 Speaker 1: ed was bad enough. But Emmanuel's interview with Politico, in 433 00:31:10,115 --> 00:31:13,275 Speaker 1: which he insists that the Democrats are wrong to devote 434 00:31:13,315 --> 00:31:16,875 Speaker 1: any time to try to stop Elon Musk savaging American 435 00:31:16,915 --> 00:31:20,755 Speaker 1: foreign aid and breaking into the digital equivalent of Fort Knox, 436 00:31:21,075 --> 00:31:25,995 Speaker 1: that's way worse. Rom Emmanuel is a fool. He got 437 00:31:26,075 --> 00:31:31,515 Speaker 1: lucky once, like David Axelrod got lucky once. Axelrod is 438 00:31:31,555 --> 00:31:34,555 Speaker 1: in the same story. He echoed to Politico, this same 439 00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:37,995 Speaker 1: stick to kitchen table issues, while Trump is trying to 440 00:31:38,395 --> 00:31:45,075 Speaker 1: steal everybody's kitchen table and gaza and open up. I 441 00:31:45,115 --> 00:31:48,635 Speaker 1: don't know a restaurant with your kitchen table in it. 442 00:31:49,875 --> 00:31:54,635 Speaker 1: Rom Emmanuel, David Axelrod, and Politico all in the same place, 443 00:31:54,875 --> 00:31:57,635 Speaker 1: the all star team of conventional wisdom. As long as 444 00:31:57,675 --> 00:32:01,635 Speaker 1: it's still nineteen ninety six, missing only Chuck Todd and Christial, 445 00:32:02,115 --> 00:32:04,795 Speaker 1: how could it get worse? Well, I will offer for 446 00:32:04,875 --> 00:32:08,795 Speaker 1: one immanual quote with this preface. I've mentioned it before. 447 00:32:09,035 --> 00:32:12,075 Speaker 1: I brought up Chris Berman in high school, Will Bunch 448 00:32:12,155 --> 00:32:16,035 Speaker 1: of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who used to answer to Bill Bunch, 449 00:32:16,115 --> 00:32:18,475 Speaker 1: by the way, was from the day he joined our 450 00:32:18,555 --> 00:32:23,155 Speaker 1: high school newspaper, which Berman had just graduated from. Bunch 451 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:25,795 Speaker 1: was our best reporter, my best reporter. I was news 452 00:32:25,875 --> 00:32:28,035 Speaker 1: editor and editor in chief, and I'd been on the 453 00:32:28,075 --> 00:32:31,675 Speaker 1: paper four years, and I really was a good editor. 454 00:32:32,115 --> 00:32:37,835 Speaker 1: It was my calling. And then this got in the way. Anyway, 455 00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:42,035 Speaker 1: Bunch was so good back then. This is fifty two 456 00:32:42,195 --> 00:32:46,075 Speaker 1: years ago that I remember saying to him at the time, 457 00:32:46,515 --> 00:32:48,875 Speaker 1: your article is the first one I'll do my voice 458 00:32:48,915 --> 00:32:51,235 Speaker 1: from then, your article is the first one. I can't 459 00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:54,875 Speaker 1: do anything too to make it better. Well, Bunch is 460 00:32:54,915 --> 00:32:57,955 Speaker 1: still that good. First the Immanual quote from Politico that 461 00:32:57,995 --> 00:33:01,115 Speaker 1: I referred to, then Bunch responding to it with the 462 00:33:01,115 --> 00:33:05,235 Speaker 1: best burn of the year so far. Quote Manual, the 463 00:33:05,275 --> 00:33:08,635 Speaker 1: former House leader, Chicago mayor, and diplomat, told me much 464 00:33:08,675 --> 00:33:12,115 Speaker 1: the same quote. You don't find every fight, you don't 465 00:33:12,115 --> 00:33:14,915 Speaker 1: swing at every pinch. And my view is, while I 466 00:33:14,995 --> 00:33:19,275 Speaker 1: care about the USAID as a former ambassador, that's not 467 00:33:19,475 --> 00:33:23,835 Speaker 1: the hill I'm going to die on, he said. Will 468 00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:28,275 Speaker 1: Bunch screenshot at this and posted it with this kill 469 00:33:28,315 --> 00:33:34,195 Speaker 1: shot directed at Immanuel, quoting, will please tell me the 470 00:33:34,275 --> 00:33:37,555 Speaker 1: hill that you will die on, so that I can't 471 00:33:37,595 --> 00:33:45,435 Speaker 1: transport you there immediately. Oh, I'll pay for the uber. 472 00:33:45,555 --> 00:33:50,435 Speaker 1: Will rom your dead son, get yourself buried? Immanuel, Today's 473 00:33:51,315 --> 00:33:54,755 Speaker 1: worst person than the word. 474 00:34:14,235 --> 00:34:14,595 Speaker 3: Ah. 475 00:34:14,635 --> 00:34:18,155 Speaker 1: The geniuses of MSNBC. So I looked up the details 476 00:34:18,195 --> 00:34:22,955 Speaker 1: of this, and it looks like this is the anniversary. 477 00:34:23,395 --> 00:34:26,035 Speaker 1: It's somewhere around here at the beginning of February from 478 00:34:26,075 --> 00:34:31,675 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. Late in November two thousand and seven, 479 00:34:32,075 --> 00:34:35,595 Speaker 1: after several months of pressuring my MSNBC bosses to hire 480 00:34:35,795 --> 00:34:39,475 Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow to try out as My guest host with 481 00:34:39,635 --> 00:34:42,995 Speaker 1: a goal of then showcasing her and spinning her off 482 00:34:43,035 --> 00:34:46,755 Speaker 1: into her own show, the vice president in charge of 483 00:34:46,795 --> 00:34:50,035 Speaker 1: the network, Phil Griffin, agreed to give Madow a deal 484 00:34:50,115 --> 00:34:54,235 Speaker 1: for forty or fifty grand as an MSNBC contributor. It 485 00:34:54,275 --> 00:34:56,475 Speaker 1: would do nothing more than lock her in place so 486 00:34:56,515 --> 00:34:59,675 Speaker 1: that CNN would not steal her from us. I mean, 487 00:34:59,835 --> 00:35:02,995 Speaker 1: I knew that that conversation and that concession still would 488 00:35:03,035 --> 00:35:05,235 Speaker 1: not get her her own show. What I did not 489 00:35:05,435 --> 00:35:09,395 Speaker 1: know was the concession I was told about the contributors contract. 490 00:35:10,035 --> 00:35:13,635 Speaker 1: It was a lie. And by January two thousand and eight, 491 00:35:13,675 --> 00:35:16,915 Speaker 1: as the Clinton Obama primary race turned into a tong war, 492 00:35:16,995 --> 00:35:20,355 Speaker 1: we were imposing upon Rachel Meadow to join the desk 493 00:35:20,515 --> 00:35:23,875 Speaker 1: each Tuesday for Primary Night. She was not anchoring, she 494 00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:27,075 Speaker 1: was not even the lead analyst. And my uncontrollable fire 495 00:35:27,115 --> 00:35:30,435 Speaker 1: hose co host Matthews, who was consistently pretending that she 496 00:35:30,555 --> 00:35:34,355 Speaker 1: did not actually exist, but she existed, she was there, 497 00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:37,755 Speaker 1: and I quizzed her about every topic every chance I got. 498 00:35:38,355 --> 00:35:41,115 Speaker 1: Soon I began to include her appearances in the pre 499 00:35:41,155 --> 00:35:44,435 Speaker 1: recorded open that I would write two minutes of hyperbole 500 00:35:44,515 --> 00:35:47,915 Speaker 1: that was really designed merely to give everybody enough time 501 00:35:48,315 --> 00:35:51,915 Speaker 1: to get my fat ass into the anchor chair and 502 00:35:51,995 --> 00:35:55,595 Speaker 1: everybody else's mics on with Tim Russard in the NBC 503 00:35:55,715 --> 00:35:59,875 Speaker 1: News Washington Bureau, David Gregory at Clinton Headquarters, Howard Feineman 504 00:35:59,955 --> 00:36:02,715 Speaker 1: and Eugene Robinson in New York, Chuck Todd at the 505 00:36:02,755 --> 00:36:06,595 Speaker 1: exit poll desk, Tom broke off the perspective desk, MC 506 00:36:06,835 --> 00:36:11,635 Speaker 1: Esher at the lack of Perspective Desk. Then came Super Tuesday, 507 00:36:12,035 --> 00:36:15,955 Speaker 1: February fifth, two thousand and eight. I was writing this 508 00:36:16,275 --> 00:36:19,995 Speaker 1: orgasmic drivel, as I always did on Tuesday, crossing the 509 00:36:20,115 --> 00:36:22,435 Speaker 1: names of who was where off the list as I 510 00:36:22,515 --> 00:36:26,035 Speaker 1: went the list handed to me by the executive producer, Izypovich. 511 00:36:26,395 --> 00:36:29,755 Speaker 1: When I noticed the list did not include either Rachel 512 00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:33,715 Speaker 1: or the Rachel Desk, I knocked on the wall that 513 00:36:33,795 --> 00:36:36,755 Speaker 1: separated our little offices at thirty Rock, and she shuffled 514 00:36:36,755 --> 00:36:40,075 Speaker 1: in complete with a sincere smile, friendship, but always also 515 00:36:40,155 --> 00:36:42,075 Speaker 1: with what seemed to be a little space kept in 516 00:36:42,115 --> 00:36:44,715 Speaker 1: reserve where she could wonder if I was mad enough 517 00:36:44,755 --> 00:36:48,755 Speaker 1: to try to take somebody hostage. Yes, my third child. 518 00:36:50,155 --> 00:36:53,795 Speaker 1: Where's Rachel tonight? I asked, as I waved the paper 519 00:36:53,795 --> 00:36:57,355 Speaker 1: at her, assuming oversight, but leaving my own little space 520 00:36:57,395 --> 00:37:01,555 Speaker 1: in reserve where my earlier nightmare had come true. Not 521 00:37:01,795 --> 00:37:07,595 Speaker 1: on paper. Please to put name Rachel on paper? Is 522 00:37:07,595 --> 00:37:12,835 Speaker 1: Isipovich said it matter of factly. Oh, yeah, well, oh, 523 00:37:12,875 --> 00:37:16,395 Speaker 1: I was in trouble. That elongated consonant always meant trouble. 524 00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:22,155 Speaker 1: She's on Larry King tonight. Momentarily, I went very stupid. 525 00:37:23,075 --> 00:37:24,515 Speaker 1: How in the hell does that work when she has 526 00:37:24,555 --> 00:37:27,275 Speaker 1: a contract with us? I'll tell you, but you have 527 00:37:27,315 --> 00:37:31,315 Speaker 1: to promise not to hate me. The Izypovich fake cringe 528 00:37:31,395 --> 00:37:35,195 Speaker 1: and crouch ensued. Phil made me promise not to tell you. 529 00:37:35,315 --> 00:37:37,635 Speaker 1: Rachel doesn't have a contract with us. He told me 530 00:37:37,715 --> 00:37:39,995 Speaker 1: he told you he'd get her one, then his boss 531 00:37:40,035 --> 00:37:42,355 Speaker 1: refused to give him the money. I'm sorry, you promised 532 00:37:42,395 --> 00:37:48,315 Speaker 1: not to hate me. Momentarily, I was calm. Momentarily, but 533 00:37:49,355 --> 00:37:53,715 Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me that before? Approximately? Oh right, now, 534 00:37:53,875 --> 00:37:56,595 Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me this before? She agreed to 535 00:37:56,635 --> 00:38:00,675 Speaker 1: go on Larry King's show, while she only decided this morning, 536 00:38:00,835 --> 00:38:03,755 Speaker 1: apparently she really needs the cash. I told Phil, and 537 00:38:03,795 --> 00:38:07,555 Speaker 1: he said, those are the breaks, buddy. The last thing 538 00:38:07,635 --> 00:38:10,595 Speaker 1: I actually remember doing, the last part that I did 539 00:38:10,595 --> 00:38:13,155 Speaker 1: not need to recreate from the memories of others and 540 00:38:13,195 --> 00:38:17,795 Speaker 1: an occasional flashback in therapy, was asking how much my 541 00:38:17,915 --> 00:38:21,195 Speaker 1: old friend Larry King was going to give Rachel Is 542 00:38:21,235 --> 00:38:27,035 Speaker 1: he pursed her lips two hundred and fifty dollars. I 543 00:38:27,075 --> 00:38:30,475 Speaker 1: remember screaming that figure several times, along with all the 544 00:38:30,555 --> 00:38:34,475 Speaker 1: swear words I knew. I remember vocalizing, we are going 545 00:38:34,555 --> 00:38:38,395 Speaker 1: to lose Rachel Meadow, the next great talent of cable news, 546 00:38:38,795 --> 00:38:43,555 Speaker 1: to effing CNN, for two hundred and fifty fing dollars. 547 00:38:45,275 --> 00:38:49,715 Speaker 1: Everything else after that statement is darkness. I know. I 548 00:38:49,795 --> 00:38:54,635 Speaker 1: phoned Phil Griffin and threatened him. Is He recently confirmed 549 00:38:54,675 --> 00:38:56,875 Speaker 1: for me that I asked her to leave before I 550 00:38:56,915 --> 00:38:59,595 Speaker 1: called him and threatened him. I believe I warned him 551 00:38:59,595 --> 00:39:01,795 Speaker 1: that if he did not sign her to a contributor's 552 00:39:01,835 --> 00:39:04,595 Speaker 1: contract within twenty four hours, I would walk off the 553 00:39:04,555 --> 00:39:08,075 Speaker 1: set during that night's primary coverage, or maybe the next 554 00:39:08,075 --> 00:39:11,395 Speaker 1: week's or maybe during countdown tomorrow night. It would be 555 00:39:11,395 --> 00:39:14,755 Speaker 1: a surprise. I'm also confident that I warned him that 556 00:39:14,835 --> 00:39:18,275 Speaker 1: of all the talent on television, Larry King had the 557 00:39:18,315 --> 00:39:23,875 Speaker 1: best knowledge of what and who else would succeed more 558 00:39:23,915 --> 00:39:27,995 Speaker 1: than the rest of us combined. He was a savant, 559 00:39:28,275 --> 00:39:31,155 Speaker 1: and when he saw her in real time on his 560 00:39:31,355 --> 00:39:35,435 Speaker 1: primary night panel, we would never see her again, and 561 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:40,075 Speaker 1: she would have a CNN contract before midnight. I told 562 00:39:40,115 --> 00:39:42,755 Speaker 1: Phil that when that happened, I would then kill him 563 00:39:42,795 --> 00:39:46,555 Speaker 1: with my bare hands, or Jeff Zucker would kill him 564 00:39:46,555 --> 00:39:48,555 Speaker 1: when she wound up beating the hell out of us 565 00:39:48,555 --> 00:39:53,035 Speaker 1: in the ratings. This statement all took longer than this 566 00:39:53,075 --> 00:39:55,875 Speaker 1: paragraph would imply, because I know, without fear of contradiction, 567 00:39:56,195 --> 00:39:58,755 Speaker 1: every other word out of my mouth was either what 568 00:39:58,795 --> 00:40:02,675 Speaker 1: we used to call an oath or the phrase Jesus 569 00:40:03,195 --> 00:40:08,475 Speaker 1: h ka Christ. Mind you, these people the president of NBC, 570 00:40:08,635 --> 00:40:11,115 Speaker 1: Jeff Zucker, and it's a year since they got rid 571 00:40:11,155 --> 00:40:15,035 Speaker 1: of him at CNN, the president of NBC News Steve Cappus, 572 00:40:15,715 --> 00:40:18,475 Speaker 1: and the soon to be president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin. 573 00:40:18,835 --> 00:40:21,395 Speaker 1: These had been the same people who, about a year earlier, 574 00:40:21,435 --> 00:40:26,635 Speaker 1: had decided that their ten PM host, Tucker Carlson, yep, 575 00:40:26,755 --> 00:40:30,275 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was on MSNBC that Tucker Carlson did not 576 00:40:30,475 --> 00:40:34,635 Speaker 1: need two people to play the role of liberal foil 577 00:40:34,755 --> 00:40:37,995 Speaker 1: on his show at like fifty grand a year, So 578 00:40:38,035 --> 00:40:41,115 Speaker 1: they kept one of them, his name was Max Kellerman, 579 00:40:41,475 --> 00:40:44,475 Speaker 1: and they fired the other one. Her name was Rachel Maddow. 580 00:40:45,595 --> 00:40:52,835 Speaker 1: They fired Rachel Maddow at MSNBC to save fifty thousand dollars. 581 00:40:54,315 --> 00:40:57,755 Speaker 1: She was back now at MSNBC only because my producer 582 00:40:57,875 --> 00:41:00,355 Speaker 1: is He had suggested making her a regular guest, and 583 00:41:00,395 --> 00:41:02,435 Speaker 1: within a couple of months I realized she would be 584 00:41:02,555 --> 00:41:05,515 Speaker 1: the next great host in cable news. And after months 585 00:41:05,515 --> 00:41:08,155 Speaker 1: of pleading, including pleading with her because she didn't want 586 00:41:08,155 --> 00:41:10,595 Speaker 1: to do it, I had just convinced them to put 587 00:41:10,595 --> 00:41:12,955 Speaker 1: her back under contract. Except they had lied to me, 588 00:41:12,995 --> 00:41:16,675 Speaker 1: and they had not put her back under contract. I 589 00:41:16,755 --> 00:41:19,755 Speaker 1: may have mentioned this to Phil Griffin during our phone 590 00:41:19,795 --> 00:41:22,995 Speaker 1: call one hundred and eleven different times. I may have 591 00:41:23,075 --> 00:41:27,795 Speaker 1: mentioned it to him. I also telephoned Rachel. I did 592 00:41:27,835 --> 00:41:31,635 Speaker 1: not swear at her here. Every other word out of 593 00:41:31,635 --> 00:41:35,035 Speaker 1: my mouth was not an oath but an apology, I said. 594 00:41:35,075 --> 00:41:37,635 Speaker 1: I had genuinely believed she was already being paid, and 595 00:41:37,675 --> 00:41:40,675 Speaker 1: I was not only humiliated on behalf of my network, 596 00:41:40,835 --> 00:41:42,995 Speaker 1: but that I was far more humiliated that I had 597 00:41:43,035 --> 00:41:45,155 Speaker 1: not double checked with her that they'd actually given her 598 00:41:45,155 --> 00:41:48,075 Speaker 1: the contract they told me they had given her. I 599 00:41:48,115 --> 00:41:50,555 Speaker 1: begged her to please, please, please, don't go and see 600 00:41:50,555 --> 00:41:54,035 Speaker 1: an end tonight. I did not ask her to skip 601 00:41:54,075 --> 00:41:56,475 Speaker 1: out on them and return to us unless she thought 602 00:41:56,515 --> 00:41:59,555 Speaker 1: she could pull that off gracefully and with a clean conscience, 603 00:41:59,835 --> 00:42:03,915 Speaker 1: but just not to go on with Larry. And that's 604 00:42:03,955 --> 00:42:06,555 Speaker 1: where I at the little four hundred and thirty seven 605 00:42:06,595 --> 00:42:10,315 Speaker 1: dollars stunt. I'm sorry about the money situation, I said. 606 00:42:10,435 --> 00:42:13,595 Speaker 1: I didn't know. Now I know I can only do this. 607 00:42:14,275 --> 00:42:17,195 Speaker 1: I think they will give you forty or fifty thousand 608 00:42:17,515 --> 00:42:19,635 Speaker 1: for a contributors deal, just to start. But what I 609 00:42:19,675 --> 00:42:22,675 Speaker 1: will do is, and while making as many sound effects 610 00:42:22,755 --> 00:42:25,835 Speaker 1: of exertion as I could dream up, I stretched around it, 611 00:42:25,835 --> 00:42:27,675 Speaker 1: pulled my wallet out of my back pocket, and I 612 00:42:27,755 --> 00:42:30,515 Speaker 1: emptied it onto my desk. I need to keep five 613 00:42:30,555 --> 00:42:33,715 Speaker 1: bucks to tip my driver tonight. You can have the 614 00:42:33,755 --> 00:42:37,475 Speaker 1: rest of whatever cash I have on me. I'm counting 615 00:42:37,515 --> 00:42:44,915 Speaker 1: it now. There's one hundred twenty twenty twenty. My play 616 00:42:44,915 --> 00:42:48,355 Speaker 1: by play skipped no bills four hundred and forty two 617 00:42:48,435 --> 00:42:53,035 Speaker 1: bucks American five for the driver, the rest for you 618 00:42:53,875 --> 00:42:58,315 Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty seven dollars. Rachel deal, She laughed, 619 00:42:58,315 --> 00:43:00,115 Speaker 1: I'll see you tonight. I'll just tell Larry I couldn't 620 00:43:00,115 --> 00:43:02,155 Speaker 1: be disloyaled to you. Oh, and I will take the money. 621 00:43:02,755 --> 00:43:06,555 Speaker 1: And she took the money. In point of fact, when 622 00:43:06,595 --> 00:43:09,195 Speaker 1: I like to say anything that Rachel Mattow did with 623 00:43:09,235 --> 00:43:11,875 Speaker 1: her career after we got her show on the air 624 00:43:12,075 --> 00:43:14,795 Speaker 1: in August of two thousand and eight, that's all her doing. 625 00:43:14,835 --> 00:43:17,075 Speaker 1: I have nothing to do with that except being the 626 00:43:17,155 --> 00:43:20,475 Speaker 1: lead in for the first two years. That's true. But 627 00:43:20,875 --> 00:43:22,795 Speaker 1: I also like to say that I got that show 628 00:43:22,835 --> 00:43:25,115 Speaker 1: on the air. And I also like to say I 629 00:43:25,235 --> 00:43:28,715 Speaker 1: hired Rachel Mattow at MSNBC. And this is my point, 630 00:43:29,075 --> 00:43:32,795 Speaker 1: it was not figuratively, it was not metaphorically. I hired 631 00:43:32,835 --> 00:43:36,675 Speaker 1: her out of my own pocket. I literally hired Medow 632 00:43:36,755 --> 00:43:42,755 Speaker 1: at MSNBC for four hundred and thirty seven dollars. And 633 00:43:42,835 --> 00:43:47,795 Speaker 1: I will point this out again, I never even got 634 00:43:48,075 --> 00:44:04,835 Speaker 1: the four hundred and thirty seven dollars back when I 635 00:44:04,875 --> 00:44:09,835 Speaker 1: sent a segment a go doing TV damages the brain. 636 00:44:10,715 --> 00:44:12,875 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's something in the camera. I 637 00:44:12,915 --> 00:44:15,275 Speaker 1: don't know if it's something in the wiring. I don't 638 00:44:15,275 --> 00:44:18,915 Speaker 1: know if it's something that attracts already flawed people to it. 639 00:44:19,675 --> 00:44:22,555 Speaker 1: But the first thing it does is it takes whatever 640 00:44:22,635 --> 00:44:26,435 Speaker 1: part of you is grateful and burns that to a cinder. 641 00:44:27,635 --> 00:44:30,795 Speaker 1: You begin to think. I used to think this myself, 642 00:44:30,835 --> 00:44:35,515 Speaker 1: that the people who helped you succeed somehow subtracted from 643 00:44:35,555 --> 00:44:38,995 Speaker 1: your own value today and you had to erase them. 644 00:44:39,515 --> 00:44:41,795 Speaker 1: The premise, as near as I can figure out, was 645 00:44:42,235 --> 00:44:47,235 Speaker 1: if they were important to your success, were you important 646 00:44:47,275 --> 00:44:49,835 Speaker 1: to your own success? Or was it all an accident 647 00:44:49,915 --> 00:44:57,035 Speaker 1: of timing. It's illogical, paranoid and the epitome of ingratitude. 648 00:44:57,075 --> 00:45:00,355 Speaker 1: Of course, then, of course that's the definition of MSNBC. 649 00:45:02,035 --> 00:45:05,515 Speaker 1: Any who let me descend from the so box and 650 00:45:05,635 --> 00:45:08,435 Speaker 1: send you on your way with my thanks for listening. 651 00:45:09,115 --> 00:45:12,795 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil, the musical directors of Countdown, Arranged, 652 00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:16,355 Speaker 1: produced and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled 653 00:45:16,435 --> 00:45:19,075 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass 654 00:45:19,075 --> 00:45:22,555 Speaker 1: and drums as the third member of Tko Brothers, which 655 00:45:22,595 --> 00:45:26,515 Speaker 1: produced it. I'm very grateful to them. Both our satirical 656 00:45:26,515 --> 00:45:29,355 Speaker 1: and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium 657 00:45:29,435 --> 00:45:32,995 Speaker 1: organist ever, Nancy Faust. I am grateful to her contributions 658 00:45:33,155 --> 00:45:35,035 Speaker 1: and the fact that she gave me an interview at 659 00:45:35,115 --> 00:45:39,875 Speaker 1: UPI in nineteen eighty. The sports music is the Olderman 660 00:45:39,955 --> 00:45:43,275 Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two. I'm grateful that Mitch Warren Davis 661 00:45:43,315 --> 00:45:46,315 Speaker 1: wrote it, and I'm grateful to ESPN for letting me 662 00:45:46,355 --> 00:45:49,715 Speaker 1: play it. Other music arranged and performed by the group 663 00:45:49,755 --> 00:45:53,235 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed, and I'm grateful to them. My announcer 664 00:45:53,235 --> 00:45:55,955 Speaker 1: today was my friend John Dean, whose friendship is one 665 00:45:55,955 --> 00:45:58,795 Speaker 1: of my greatest sources of pride and to whom I 666 00:45:58,835 --> 00:46:02,795 Speaker 1: thank every day. And everything else was as ever my fault. 667 00:46:03,875 --> 00:46:07,835 Speaker 1: That's countdown today just and forty five days until the 668 00:46:07,875 --> 00:46:11,995 Speaker 1: scheduled end of his lane duck lame brained term, unless 669 00:46:12,075 --> 00:46:15,875 Speaker 1: Musk removes him sooner. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. 670 00:46:16,235 --> 00:46:20,195 Speaker 1: As always, bulletins, as the news warrants, remember Al Green 671 00:46:20,475 --> 00:46:25,835 Speaker 1: is right, impeach Trump and Keith impeaching Trump. It won't 672 00:46:25,875 --> 00:46:29,035 Speaker 1: pass now, it won't work now, it will win the 673 00:46:29,115 --> 00:46:33,675 Speaker 1: Democrats the midterms until next time, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 674 00:46:33,715 --> 00:46:53,755 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 675 00:46:53,915 --> 00:46:58,395 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 676 00:46:58,555 --> 00:47:02,595 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 677 00:47:02,635 --> 00:47:03,755 Speaker 1: your podcasts.