1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:18,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:28,155 --> 00:00:32,835 Speaker 1: What if the other classified documents Trump stole and stashed 3 00:00:32,835 --> 00:00:37,555 Speaker 1: at Mari Lago were from the Mueller investigation. What if 4 00:00:37,555 --> 00:00:40,235 Speaker 1: those boxes are not just the result of some Trumpian 5 00:00:40,395 --> 00:00:45,355 Speaker 1: dying and dash from January, but of a detailed plot 6 00:00:45,955 --> 00:00:50,195 Speaker 1: to take classified documents specifically about Trump and his conspiracy 7 00:00:50,195 --> 00:00:52,675 Speaker 1: with Russia, and picked the ones that made Trump look good, 8 00:00:53,035 --> 00:00:57,475 Speaker 1: claim Trump had declassified them, and then make them public. 9 00:00:58,115 --> 00:01:01,315 Speaker 1: What if the plot had been described for months on 10 00:01:01,355 --> 00:01:04,635 Speaker 1: the record, with the accuracy and persistence of a sport 11 00:01:04,915 --> 00:01:07,955 Speaker 1: play my play announcer by a Trump lackey with a 12 00:01:08,115 --> 00:01:14,475 Speaker 1: big mouth, a Trump lackey named Cash Patel. That Trump 13 00:01:14,475 --> 00:01:18,115 Speaker 1: would want Mueller's documents was a hunch I had in 14 00:01:18,155 --> 00:01:20,435 Speaker 1: the hours after we discovered that the FBI went in 15 00:01:20,475 --> 00:01:24,155 Speaker 1: to retrieve top secret classified documents from Mari Lago, but 16 00:01:24,275 --> 00:01:28,035 Speaker 1: before the bigger headline came that at least some of 17 00:01:28,035 --> 00:01:31,035 Speaker 1: those documents related to nuclear weapons, the kind of thing 18 00:01:31,115 --> 00:01:34,715 Speaker 1: that got the Rosenberg's arrested for treason and then convicted 19 00:01:35,035 --> 00:01:40,475 Speaker 1: by Trump's own mentor, Roy Cohne, and then executed naturally. 20 00:01:40,635 --> 00:01:42,755 Speaker 1: In the light of all that the hunch slipped to 21 00:01:42,915 --> 00:01:45,915 Speaker 1: back of mind, and it would have stayed there because 22 00:01:45,955 --> 00:01:49,075 Speaker 1: obviously the newest news of trump Land comes from the 23 00:01:49,075 --> 00:01:53,875 Speaker 1: courtroom of Judge Bruce Reinhardt. As far as Judge Reinhold, 24 00:01:54,155 --> 00:01:57,475 Speaker 1: I still have this burning question as to why he 25 00:01:57,675 --> 00:02:00,875 Speaker 1: felt he needs recute attention Trump lawyer Elena Habba, that's 26 00:02:00,955 --> 00:02:05,355 Speaker 1: Judge Reinhart, not Judge Reinhold. Reinhardt now says he is 27 00:02:05,395 --> 00:02:08,635 Speaker 1: inclined to release at least some of the affidavit the 28 00:02:08,675 --> 00:02:11,275 Speaker 1: Department of Justice and FBI produced as support for the 29 00:02:11,315 --> 00:02:14,115 Speaker 1: search at Marilago, and he has given the government until 30 00:02:14,115 --> 00:02:17,475 Speaker 1: next Thursday to propose redactions. So those folks in the 31 00:02:17,515 --> 00:02:20,875 Speaker 1: government have a new hobby. By the way, if Reinhart 32 00:02:20,875 --> 00:02:24,275 Speaker 1: releases anything the Trump mob likes, watch how quickly he 33 00:02:24,315 --> 00:02:27,435 Speaker 1: will go from being doxed to being lionized, or if 34 00:02:27,435 --> 00:02:31,435 Speaker 1: he releases a lot from the affidavit canonized. But back 35 00:02:31,475 --> 00:02:35,075 Speaker 1: to what was my hunch. Of all the classified documents 36 00:02:35,075 --> 00:02:39,555 Speaker 1: Trump would have wanted to steal nuclear weapons documents included 37 00:02:39,795 --> 00:02:44,555 Speaker 1: which would matter most to him the stuff in the 38 00:02:44,595 --> 00:02:50,115 Speaker 1: boxes marked Mueller. Again, this was just instinct. For all 39 00:02:50,155 --> 00:02:53,475 Speaker 1: I know, everything in the boxes is the highest form 40 00:02:53,475 --> 00:02:57,235 Speaker 1: of classified nuclear secrets. But now there has been reporting 41 00:02:57,235 --> 00:02:59,875 Speaker 1: that puts a little meat on the imaginary bones here. 42 00:02:59,915 --> 00:03:03,675 Speaker 1: This is not my work. This light bulb went off 43 00:03:03,715 --> 00:03:06,475 Speaker 1: over the heads of Laura Rosen and Ryan Goodman from 44 00:03:06,515 --> 00:03:10,115 Speaker 1: the excellent news site Just Security. They put these elements together, 45 00:03:10,155 --> 00:03:11,875 Speaker 1: and I am grateful that they did, and I hope 46 00:03:11,875 --> 00:03:16,035 Speaker 1: you are too. This starts with John Solomon, a one 47 00:03:16,075 --> 00:03:18,915 Speaker 1: time journalist so dishonest he was dumped by The Hill, 48 00:03:19,035 --> 00:03:23,515 Speaker 1: by Fox News, and by The Washington Times twice. He 49 00:03:23,595 --> 00:03:26,675 Speaker 1: was the first person to report that on the third 50 00:03:26,715 --> 00:03:30,515 Speaker 1: of June, prosecutors had delivered a subpoena to Mari Lago 51 00:03:30,835 --> 00:03:35,115 Speaker 1: for missing classified materials. This guy, who literally makes stuff 52 00:03:35,315 --> 00:03:38,915 Speaker 1: up left and right, was the first person we know 53 00:03:38,995 --> 00:03:44,075 Speaker 1: of to know about that subpoena. And on June twenty, 54 00:03:44,635 --> 00:03:49,115 Speaker 1: Cash Patel, a popeyed former assistant to Devin Newness whom 55 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:52,475 Speaker 1: Trump seriously wanted to make head of the CIA, went 56 00:03:52,515 --> 00:03:55,195 Speaker 1: on one of the nut job streaming networks and announced 57 00:03:55,195 --> 00:03:58,155 Speaker 1: he had been appointed as one of Trump's representatives for 58 00:03:58,315 --> 00:04:03,195 Speaker 1: all business involving the National Archives. Quote, I'm going to 59 00:04:03,275 --> 00:04:07,635 Speaker 1: march down there, going to identify every Russia Gate document 60 00:04:07,675 --> 00:04:10,715 Speaker 1: they're keeping from being declassified, and I'm going to start 61 00:04:10,835 --> 00:04:16,235 Speaker 1: putting it out next week, sending Cash Ptel, one of 62 00:04:16,275 --> 00:04:18,595 Speaker 1: the guys who tried to mess up the Biden transition, 63 00:04:18,955 --> 00:04:22,835 Speaker 1: into the National Archives to cherry pick Russia and Mueller 64 00:04:22,995 --> 00:04:27,075 Speaker 1: documents and use the favorable parts to try to clear Trump, 65 00:04:27,355 --> 00:04:33,395 Speaker 1: blame the FBI, and circle back to Hillary. That was June. 66 00:04:33,635 --> 00:04:36,235 Speaker 1: The same day federal investigators went to Mari Lago with 67 00:04:36,435 --> 00:04:41,715 Speaker 1: a subpoena for the security camera surveillance videos there. And 68 00:04:41,715 --> 00:04:45,195 Speaker 1: then the next day June, John Solomon, the same guy 69 00:04:45,195 --> 00:04:47,315 Speaker 1: I just mentioned to knew about the subpoena and nobody 70 00:04:47,315 --> 00:04:49,875 Speaker 1: else knew about at the time, announced that Trump had 71 00:04:49,915 --> 00:04:53,555 Speaker 1: also named him as an n a R National Archives 72 00:04:53,595 --> 00:04:56,835 Speaker 1: Representative with access to the National Archives to look at 73 00:04:56,875 --> 00:05:00,435 Speaker 1: non public records from his administration. Politico reported it. If 74 00:05:00,475 --> 00:05:04,915 Speaker 1: you noticed, I didn't quoting them. On June, sa Leiman 75 00:05:04,995 --> 00:05:07,955 Speaker 1: said Trump specifically directed the Archives to give him access 76 00:05:07,995 --> 00:05:13,155 Speaker 1: to documents related to the Russia probe that were declassified 77 00:05:13,235 --> 00:05:18,955 Speaker 1: in the final days of his administration. John Solomon and 78 00:05:19,075 --> 00:05:22,755 Speaker 1: Cash Patel two of the craziest, most dishonest men in 79 00:05:22,835 --> 00:05:26,355 Speaker 1: Trump world, and boy is that saying something are sent 80 00:05:26,435 --> 00:05:30,075 Speaker 1: by Trump to the National Archives to find classified documents 81 00:05:30,075 --> 00:05:33,995 Speaker 1: about Russia and the Steel dossier and Mueller, and goodness 82 00:05:33,995 --> 00:05:38,115 Speaker 1: knows what else. And the same day the Feds knock 83 00:05:38,195 --> 00:05:43,675 Speaker 1: on Mary Lagoons doors, demanding the security video there. Trump 84 00:05:43,795 --> 00:05:47,555 Speaker 1: is obsessed with vengeance about his conspiracies with Russia. He 85 00:05:47,675 --> 00:05:50,955 Speaker 1: must convince everybody in the world he was innocent and 86 00:05:51,075 --> 00:05:54,235 Speaker 1: he was the one who was wronged. Just two weeks ago, 87 00:05:54,235 --> 00:05:58,275 Speaker 1: when the news of the search broke his lackey, Sean 88 00:05:58,355 --> 00:06:02,315 Speaker 1: Hannity brought up the Russian Pea tape. Even though Trump 89 00:06:02,435 --> 00:06:05,235 Speaker 1: got away with it, this is all still front of 90 00:06:05,275 --> 00:06:09,555 Speaker 1: mind for him. Well now, Ryan Goodman, an attorney former 91 00:06:09,595 --> 00:06:13,675 Speaker 1: special counsel at the Pentagon now of Just Security, went 92 00:06:13,755 --> 00:06:16,635 Speaker 1: completely down this rabbit hole Trump's attempts to send two 93 00:06:16,715 --> 00:06:20,035 Speaker 1: looney operatives into the National Archives where they would grab 94 00:06:20,075 --> 00:06:24,235 Speaker 1: and publish classified documents, and Goodman found the plan goes 95 00:06:24,275 --> 00:06:26,915 Speaker 1: back at least a month earlier than we knew and 96 00:06:27,075 --> 00:06:30,035 Speaker 1: uses the exact same rationale that Trump's defenders are now 97 00:06:30,155 --> 00:06:33,715 Speaker 1: using about the stuff found at Mari lago to tell 98 00:06:33,795 --> 00:06:39,195 Speaker 1: would release these classified documents while claiming Trump had declassified 99 00:06:39,235 --> 00:06:47,395 Speaker 1: them verbally or maybe silently just using his mind. In May, 100 00:06:47,515 --> 00:06:51,315 Speaker 1: Goodman found quote Patel's spoke with right wing media outlets 101 00:06:51,315 --> 00:06:54,955 Speaker 1: about Trump's objectives in retaining these documents. He began laying 102 00:06:54,995 --> 00:06:58,315 Speaker 1: out the defense that the documents had been quote declassified 103 00:06:58,395 --> 00:07:03,235 Speaker 1: unquote and specifically identified Trump's goal to release information publicly. 104 00:07:03,755 --> 00:07:06,875 Speaker 1: He described the content of the documents to include matters 105 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:10,315 Speaker 1: related to the Russia investigation, but also a much broader 106 00:07:10,435 --> 00:07:14,395 Speaker 1: range of issues. Patel then gave these quotes to bright 107 00:07:14,515 --> 00:07:17,955 Speaker 1: Bart That's the Dead and Drunk conservative site on May five. 108 00:07:18,755 --> 00:07:21,515 Speaker 1: It's information that Trump felt spoke to matters regarding everything 109 00:07:21,555 --> 00:07:26,435 Speaker 1: from Russia Gate to the Ukraine impeachment fiasco, to major 110 00:07:26,595 --> 00:07:30,755 Speaker 1: national security matters of great public importance. Anything the President 111 00:07:30,875 --> 00:07:35,075 Speaker 1: felt the American people had a right to know is 112 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:39,155 Speaker 1: in there and more. Trump declassified whole sets of materials 113 00:07:39,315 --> 00:07:42,755 Speaker 1: in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American 114 00:07:42,795 --> 00:07:47,795 Speaker 1: public should have the right to read themselves. And Patel quote. 115 00:07:49,315 --> 00:07:51,795 Speaker 1: ABC News has also gotten into this story. It brought 116 00:07:51,835 --> 00:07:54,755 Speaker 1: up the network's interview with Patel on June one, and 117 00:07:54,795 --> 00:07:57,395 Speaker 1: he said all this stuff to them. ABC found a 118 00:07:57,435 --> 00:07:59,875 Speaker 1: Patel podcast interview in which he also said all this 119 00:07:59,955 --> 00:08:03,795 Speaker 1: on June, and another podcast which he said it on 120 00:08:03,875 --> 00:08:07,075 Speaker 1: July four and said his plan was to quote retrieve 121 00:08:07,995 --> 00:08:10,275 Speaker 1: documents from the National Archives and put them on a 122 00:08:10,355 --> 00:08:14,435 Speaker 1: website and quote make a big announcement every time they 123 00:08:14,475 --> 00:08:19,115 Speaker 1: published a new one. All told six interviews in which 124 00:08:19,155 --> 00:08:21,955 Speaker 1: cash Ptel said, Hey, look at me, I'm about to 125 00:08:21,995 --> 00:08:27,675 Speaker 1: pinch stuff from the National Archives. So before there was 126 00:08:27,715 --> 00:08:30,475 Speaker 1: a subpoena delivered to Marilago in June, and before there 127 00:08:30,515 --> 00:08:32,995 Speaker 1: was a day long search of Marilago in August, and 128 00:08:33,075 --> 00:08:35,155 Speaker 1: before there was the possible release of some of the 129 00:08:35,195 --> 00:08:38,755 Speaker 1: affidavit in August or September, this guy cash Pittel was 130 00:08:38,835 --> 00:08:43,355 Speaker 1: basically stopping strangers on the street and saying, I'm going 131 00:08:43,395 --> 00:08:45,475 Speaker 1: into the National Archives and I'm going to grab all 132 00:08:45,475 --> 00:08:47,475 Speaker 1: the Russia documents I can find, and Trump is going 133 00:08:47,515 --> 00:08:49,755 Speaker 1: to claim he declassified them, and we are going to 134 00:08:49,875 --> 00:08:56,075 Speaker 1: publish them on a website. Back to Ryan Goodman at 135 00:08:56,115 --> 00:08:59,715 Speaker 1: just Security, and what we know pretty clearly is a plan, 136 00:09:00,235 --> 00:09:04,635 Speaker 1: a plot, a scheme, not merely to take classified dot 137 00:09:04,675 --> 00:09:07,555 Speaker 1: couments from the National Archives but make them public. In 138 00:09:07,595 --> 00:09:10,315 Speaker 1: other words, the boxes at MARI Lago aren't the whole crime. 139 00:09:10,675 --> 00:09:14,675 Speaker 1: They are just the end result of a crime scheme. 140 00:09:15,795 --> 00:09:19,835 Speaker 1: As Ryan Goodman writes, quote, if that scheme involved Trump 141 00:09:19,915 --> 00:09:23,195 Speaker 1: himself and the Mari Lago documents, it could have significant 142 00:09:23,235 --> 00:09:28,275 Speaker 1: legal implications for the Justice departments ongoing criminal investigation. Any 143 00:09:28,315 --> 00:09:32,835 Speaker 1: plan to release the documents could potentially trigger specific elements 144 00:09:32,875 --> 00:09:36,755 Speaker 1: of the Espionage Act and other criminal statutes designed with 145 00:09:36,795 --> 00:09:41,875 Speaker 1: the core purpose of preventing unlawful dissemination of classified and 146 00:09:41,995 --> 00:09:48,035 Speaker 1: other sensitive government documents. In Layman's terms, Cash Patel's big 147 00:09:48,075 --> 00:09:52,715 Speaker 1: mouth could turn Trump's criminal possession classified government documents into 148 00:09:52,795 --> 00:09:58,115 Speaker 1: Trump's conspiracy to steal and disseminate classified government documents, and 149 00:09:58,195 --> 00:10:04,475 Speaker 1: as roy Cone could have told you, that's known as espionage. 150 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:07,995 Speaker 1: Goodman also notes at Just Security that one of the 151 00:10:08,035 --> 00:10:11,515 Speaker 1: documents voluntarily released by the Department of Justice at the 152 00:10:11,555 --> 00:10:15,355 Speaker 1: affidavit hearing before Judge Reinhardt on Thursday, showed there was 153 00:10:15,395 --> 00:10:19,475 Speaker 1: a possible violation of eighteen US Code one five one nine. 154 00:10:19,675 --> 00:10:23,995 Speaker 1: This law literally comes with multiple choice boxes to justify 155 00:10:24,115 --> 00:10:27,435 Speaker 1: a search. One box says a search for a person. 156 00:10:27,995 --> 00:10:30,675 Speaker 1: One box says a search for property used in a crime. 157 00:10:30,915 --> 00:10:34,715 Speaker 1: One box says a search for fruits of crime illegally possessed, 158 00:10:34,875 --> 00:10:38,795 Speaker 1: and one box says evidence of a crime. Many thought 159 00:10:38,875 --> 00:10:42,635 Speaker 1: that only the box reading fruits of crime illegally possessed 160 00:10:42,675 --> 00:10:45,995 Speaker 1: would be checked, meaning this was all only about getting 161 00:10:45,995 --> 00:10:50,075 Speaker 1: the documents back. But that box is checked, and so 162 00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:53,915 Speaker 1: is the box for evidence of a crime. In other words, 163 00:10:53,955 --> 00:10:57,235 Speaker 1: the search at Mari Lago was also about establishing the 164 00:10:57,315 --> 00:11:03,715 Speaker 1: grounds to charge people with crimes. Trump looking at you, 165 00:11:03,875 --> 00:11:08,955 Speaker 1: bub There's one last Trump story that ties this all 166 00:11:08,995 --> 00:11:13,635 Speaker 1: together and beautifully. The British newspaper The Guardian reported early 167 00:11:13,715 --> 00:11:15,875 Speaker 1: in the week that the big thing in Trump Land 168 00:11:15,955 --> 00:11:20,835 Speaker 1: right now is finding the rat some employee who had 169 00:11:20,835 --> 00:11:25,155 Speaker 1: tipped off the Department of Justice. Hugo Lowell reported in 170 00:11:25,195 --> 00:11:28,555 Speaker 1: The Guardian that first they thought it was Nicholas Luna, 171 00:11:28,675 --> 00:11:30,955 Speaker 1: the Trump body man who quit in March, or maybe 172 00:11:30,995 --> 00:11:36,275 Speaker 1: Molly Michael, the former Oval Office operations chief who stayed 173 00:11:36,315 --> 00:11:39,195 Speaker 1: with Trump has submitted her resignation to Trump but has 174 00:11:39,235 --> 00:11:42,155 Speaker 1: not left his side yet. And where did they get 175 00:11:42,195 --> 00:11:46,515 Speaker 1: these names, Nicholas Luna, Molly Michael. Then they thought, now 176 00:11:46,555 --> 00:11:49,755 Speaker 1: it's not them. It's got to be employees at Mari Lago, 177 00:11:50,395 --> 00:11:54,835 Speaker 1: maybe at the golf course. Finally, citing unnamed sources, Lowell 178 00:11:54,915 --> 00:11:59,195 Speaker 1: reports the Trump mob focused on quote, anyone who had 179 00:11:59,235 --> 00:12:04,675 Speaker 1: not yet been suspected, including members of Trump's family unquote. 180 00:12:05,795 --> 00:12:09,315 Speaker 1: So this is a puzzlement. Who tipped the d o 181 00:12:09,475 --> 00:12:12,395 Speaker 1: J and the National Archives that Trump had boxes of 182 00:12:12,435 --> 00:12:18,155 Speaker 1: secret materials over there near the Mara Lago pool. Who 183 00:12:18,875 --> 00:12:22,955 Speaker 1: isn't it obvious? Doesn't this new reporting by just Security 184 00:12:23,115 --> 00:12:26,275 Speaker 1: spell it out? The National Archives and d o J 185 00:12:26,475 --> 00:12:29,795 Speaker 1: and FBI found out there was a plot to steal secrets, 186 00:12:30,195 --> 00:12:36,555 Speaker 1: disseminate secrets, and then claim invisible declassification of secrets. Because 187 00:12:37,075 --> 00:12:41,235 Speaker 1: this moron cash Patel kept talking about it for four 188 00:12:41,315 --> 00:12:45,035 Speaker 1: months to everybody who would stop long enough to listen 189 00:12:45,115 --> 00:12:49,355 Speaker 1: to him. There isn't a mole, There isn't a rat, 190 00:12:49,475 --> 00:12:52,315 Speaker 1: There isn't a source. There isn't a family member who 191 00:12:52,355 --> 00:12:56,795 Speaker 1: secretly hates Donald. There's a Trump cultist who said, Hey, 192 00:12:57,195 --> 00:13:00,715 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go take documents. Everybody come watch me take documents, 193 00:13:00,755 --> 00:13:03,075 Speaker 1: or go look at our website, because after I go 194 00:13:03,155 --> 00:13:05,595 Speaker 1: there to take the documents that I've taking the documents, 195 00:13:05,715 --> 00:13:09,675 Speaker 1: we are going to post the documents. Yea for stealing 196 00:13:09,795 --> 00:13:24,715 Speaker 1: documents still ahead on Countdown. The Republican congressman who insists 197 00:13:24,715 --> 00:13:28,395 Speaker 1: that the FBI director appointed by Trump was actually appointed 198 00:13:28,395 --> 00:13:32,275 Speaker 1: by Biden. The County Republican party that used a logo 199 00:13:32,315 --> 00:13:36,435 Speaker 1: on Facebook showing hooded members of the KKK has now apologized, 200 00:13:37,515 --> 00:13:42,315 Speaker 1: I don't get this story. Apologize why they're apologizing to 201 00:13:42,675 --> 00:13:47,915 Speaker 1: Republicans and KKK and hooded Klansman. What's the what's the apology? For? 202 00:13:49,275 --> 00:13:53,035 Speaker 1: CNN cancels its media criticism show and fires the host. 203 00:13:53,595 --> 00:13:56,635 Speaker 1: This augurs really badly for any attempt to keep the 204 00:13:56,675 --> 00:14:00,795 Speaker 1: network's new Trump friendly owners from swinging it to the right, 205 00:14:00,875 --> 00:14:02,955 Speaker 1: because the guy they installed is a guy I used 206 00:14:02,995 --> 00:14:05,955 Speaker 1: to work with at MSNBC and why do I know him? 207 00:14:06,075 --> 00:14:10,515 Speaker 1: Plus worst Persons and James Thurber. That's next. This has Countdown. 208 00:14:17,435 --> 00:14:26,635 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman coming up. Mike Glendale 209 00:14:26,675 --> 00:14:31,315 Speaker 1: promises this time he really really means it. This his 210 00:14:31,435 --> 00:14:35,475 Speaker 1: seven twenty ninth election votes summit. This one will really 211 00:14:35,515 --> 00:14:37,795 Speaker 1: be the one that convinces you or his name is 212 00:14:37,835 --> 00:14:42,155 Speaker 1: not P. T. Barnum. First, in each edition of Countdown, 213 00:14:42,235 --> 00:14:44,315 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need whom you can help. 214 00:14:44,355 --> 00:14:47,275 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day. For this one, we go 215 00:14:47,315 --> 00:14:50,355 Speaker 1: to Philadelphia, where Carlos has been at the SPC A 216 00:14:50,435 --> 00:14:56,435 Speaker 1: shelter there for one thousand, two hundred and fifty two days. Unbelievable. 217 00:14:56,915 --> 00:15:00,195 Speaker 1: He's so good with other dogs. Volunteers say he should 218 00:15:00,235 --> 00:15:03,835 Speaker 1: go into an adult's only home that already has dogs, 219 00:15:04,755 --> 00:15:07,675 Speaker 1: and they think he'd be good with cats too. Why 220 00:15:07,755 --> 00:15:10,435 Speaker 1: is he still in the shelter. He's nervous, he needs 221 00:15:10,475 --> 00:15:13,475 Speaker 1: time to adjust, and he's a black pibble terrier mix 222 00:15:13,755 --> 00:15:17,475 Speaker 1: and people who go to a shelter ignore dark dogs 223 00:15:18,275 --> 00:15:21,395 Speaker 1: medium sized. If you're in the Philly area, give Carlos 224 00:15:21,435 --> 00:15:25,835 Speaker 1: a chance. Behavior at p spc A dot org is 225 00:15:25,835 --> 00:15:28,475 Speaker 1: the email, or just go to my Twitter feed for dogs, 226 00:15:28,555 --> 00:15:31,755 Speaker 1: indeed Tom Jumbo Grumbo. There you will find the tweet 227 00:15:31,795 --> 00:15:35,835 Speaker 1: about Carlos. To see photos, email addresses, links all you need. 228 00:15:35,955 --> 00:15:38,075 Speaker 1: And you can also help him by just retweeting my 229 00:15:38,155 --> 00:15:42,075 Speaker 1: biography of Carlos. Spread the word Tom Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter. 230 00:15:42,795 --> 00:15:48,115 Speaker 1: Thank you coming up here. In Worse, a Republican candidate 231 00:15:48,115 --> 00:15:52,035 Speaker 1: reminds you that you're quote voting with the ballot before 232 00:15:52,075 --> 00:15:55,835 Speaker 1: we have to vote with bullets. CNN's first lurch to 233 00:15:55,875 --> 00:15:57,995 Speaker 1: the right. They fire the guy who gets more flak 234 00:15:57,995 --> 00:16:00,795 Speaker 1: from the right wing per minute of airtime of anybody 235 00:16:00,795 --> 00:16:06,115 Speaker 1: on cable news since Me and James Third Brewer's Wonderful Fable. 236 00:16:06,195 --> 00:16:10,715 Speaker 1: The piece like Mongoose, but first postscripts to the news, 237 00:16:10,755 --> 00:16:25,435 Speaker 1: some headlines, some thoughts, some snark. Dateline date in Ohio. 238 00:16:25,515 --> 00:16:28,315 Speaker 1: You could almost set your watch by them. Republican Congressman 239 00:16:28,355 --> 00:16:30,595 Speaker 1: Mike Turner, the one who said Trump did nothing wrong 240 00:16:30,635 --> 00:16:32,995 Speaker 1: because you could find that nuclear stuff on your phone, 241 00:16:33,355 --> 00:16:36,315 Speaker 1: and anyway, the documents are two years old. He went 242 00:16:36,355 --> 00:16:39,315 Speaker 1: on CNN yesterday and explained that this is all happening 243 00:16:39,355 --> 00:16:44,755 Speaker 1: because Joe Biden appointed the FBI director Chris Ray. When 244 00:16:44,755 --> 00:16:48,315 Speaker 1: the host pointed out that Trump appointed FBI Director Chris Ray, 245 00:16:48,475 --> 00:16:51,955 Speaker 1: Turner would not concede the point quote he serves at 246 00:16:51,995 --> 00:16:55,435 Speaker 1: the pleasure of this president, so he is an appointee 247 00:16:55,475 --> 00:16:58,755 Speaker 1: of the current president, which sounds great until you remember 248 00:16:58,795 --> 00:17:01,475 Speaker 1: that the phrase serves at the pleasure of the president 249 00:17:01,675 --> 00:17:04,395 Speaker 1: is not a real thing. It's just a line from 250 00:17:04,395 --> 00:17:09,035 Speaker 1: the TV drama The West Wing. Date Line Jackson, Wyoming 251 00:17:09,075 --> 00:17:12,395 Speaker 1: turns out Harriet Hagaman, the ex never Trumper who unseated 252 00:17:12,475 --> 00:17:17,155 Speaker 1: Liz Cheney in Wyoming, is already lying Hagaman. She's the 253 00:17:17,195 --> 00:17:20,635 Speaker 1: one wonderfully described as looking like every member of the 254 00:17:20,675 --> 00:17:23,515 Speaker 1: comedy troupe kids in the Hall, if they were all 255 00:17:23,555 --> 00:17:27,555 Speaker 1: playing the same character at the same time. Hagaman told 256 00:17:27,595 --> 00:17:31,475 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity that Cheney was not gracious in defeat and 257 00:17:31,515 --> 00:17:35,115 Speaker 1: did not concede. Quote she didn't addressed any kind of 258 00:17:35,195 --> 00:17:39,035 Speaker 1: concession or anything else. Politico has found a tape of 259 00:17:39,115 --> 00:17:44,515 Speaker 1: somebody recording Cheney as she left Hagaman a voicemail, and 260 00:17:44,555 --> 00:17:47,995 Speaker 1: the voicemail went as follows, quote, Hi, Harriet, it's Liz 261 00:17:48,075 --> 00:17:51,115 Speaker 1: Cheney calling. It's about eight thirteen on Tuesday the sixteen. 262 00:17:51,555 --> 00:17:54,155 Speaker 1: I'm calling to concede the election and congratulate you on 263 00:17:54,155 --> 00:17:58,955 Speaker 1: the win. Thanks, bye bye. Look it wasn't the Gettysburg addressed, 264 00:17:58,995 --> 00:18:01,195 Speaker 1: but it sure sounds like an addressed the concession that 265 00:18:01,275 --> 00:18:04,075 Speaker 1: Hagaman had lied about and said it didn't address, and 266 00:18:04,235 --> 00:18:08,315 Speaker 1: she lied about it. Dateline, Florida, the Overstock CEO Nutguy 267 00:18:08,395 --> 00:18:11,875 Speaker 1: Patrick Byrne filed one of the motions that would un 268 00:18:11,915 --> 00:18:16,235 Speaker 1: seal the Trump lawrant affidavit. In his sworn affidavit accompanying 269 00:18:16,315 --> 00:18:19,915 Speaker 1: his motion, Burne says he personally heard Trump on December 270 00:18:20,035 --> 00:18:25,835 Speaker 1: nine appoint as special counsel with top secret security clearance 271 00:18:26,515 --> 00:18:32,635 Speaker 1: Sydney Powell. This is somehow supposed to explain Trump stealing stuff. 272 00:18:33,355 --> 00:18:37,555 Speaker 1: And speaking of which, dateline Springfield, Missouri, it's that time again, 273 00:18:38,075 --> 00:18:41,755 Speaker 1: another Mike Lendell's summit. No no, no, really, no no, 274 00:18:41,755 --> 00:18:44,155 Speaker 1: no no, don't shut off the podcast. This is the one. 275 00:18:44,715 --> 00:18:47,915 Speaker 1: This will decide all of it. Nobody on Earth will 276 00:18:47,955 --> 00:18:50,835 Speaker 1: be able to say the election was stolen after this 277 00:18:50,875 --> 00:18:53,795 Speaker 1: one quote. I'm telling you everybody, it's over for them, 278 00:18:54,035 --> 00:18:57,675 Speaker 1: he says, because this is the moment of truth summit. 279 00:18:58,035 --> 00:19:03,075 Speaker 1: Twelve hours of impenetrable bull crap on Saturday, and then 280 00:19:03,555 --> 00:19:07,795 Speaker 1: twelve more hours of more impenetrable bull crap on Sunday, 281 00:19:08,395 --> 00:19:13,635 Speaker 1: and then another summit like when like whenever pillows sales 282 00:19:13,755 --> 00:19:16,355 Speaker 1: drop off, don't forget to use the special code for 283 00:19:16,395 --> 00:19:20,315 Speaker 1: two dollars off. One of these crap pillows are special code. 284 00:19:20,315 --> 00:19:39,275 Speaker 1: This week is sucker. This is Sports Center. Wait check 285 00:19:39,315 --> 00:19:47,435 Speaker 1: that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman from 286 00:19:47,475 --> 00:19:51,355 Speaker 1: the Worldwide Sports What position in any sport produces more 287 00:19:51,475 --> 00:19:57,355 Speaker 1: controversies per star than NFL quarterback? The National Football League 288 00:19:57,355 --> 00:20:00,675 Speaker 1: and its Players Association have now settled the Deshaun Watson 289 00:20:00,795 --> 00:20:04,315 Speaker 1: sexual misconduct disaster, or at least they think they have. 290 00:20:05,075 --> 00:20:07,835 Speaker 1: They have agreed that Watson will be suspended for eleven 291 00:20:07,875 --> 00:20:10,835 Speaker 1: games without pay after he was accused by more than 292 00:20:10,915 --> 00:20:15,195 Speaker 1: two dozen massage therapists. The Cleveland Brown's quarterback will also 293 00:20:15,235 --> 00:20:18,755 Speaker 1: pay a five million dollar fine. He'll undergo an evaluation 294 00:20:18,835 --> 00:20:21,435 Speaker 1: by behavioral experts, and he'll have to adhere to their 295 00:20:21,435 --> 00:20:25,955 Speaker 1: treatment program, and then he can apply for reinstatement. Watson 296 00:20:26,195 --> 00:20:29,235 Speaker 1: issued a fulsome statement over his own name that included 297 00:20:29,235 --> 00:20:37,995 Speaker 1: the words disciplinary support, apologize, paying, accountability, best version of myself, 298 00:20:38,315 --> 00:20:42,875 Speaker 1: et cetera. And then Watson met with reporters and said quote, 299 00:20:43,235 --> 00:20:46,515 Speaker 1: I'll continue to stand on my innocence. Just because you know, 300 00:20:46,595 --> 00:20:49,195 Speaker 1: settlements and things like that happened, don't It doesn't mean 301 00:20:49,235 --> 00:20:52,195 Speaker 1: a person is guilty for anything. I feel like a 302 00:20:52,235 --> 00:20:55,155 Speaker 1: person has an opportunity to stand on his innocence and 303 00:20:55,235 --> 00:20:59,035 Speaker 1: prove that we proved that from a legal side. Well, 304 00:20:59,915 --> 00:21:03,115 Speaker 1: it's nice to see Deshaun Watson has clearly learned his 305 00:21:03,315 --> 00:21:08,555 Speaker 1: lesson his usen and had a game the system. It's 306 00:21:08,635 --> 00:21:12,035 Speaker 1: much simpler for fans of Tampa Bay's anti Deluvian quarterback 307 00:21:12,075 --> 00:21:15,715 Speaker 1: Tom Brady. They just don't know where he is. Year 308 00:21:15,715 --> 00:21:17,675 Speaker 1: old Brady has now been away from the team for 309 00:21:17,715 --> 00:21:22,275 Speaker 1: eight days, tending to quote personal things somewhere. And the 310 00:21:22,315 --> 00:21:25,435 Speaker 1: man who said that, Coach Todd Bowls, says he doesn't 311 00:21:25,515 --> 00:21:27,635 Speaker 1: know when Brady will be back. He won't even begin 312 00:21:27,715 --> 00:21:30,955 Speaker 1: to worry about it until like Sunday. There's no definitive 313 00:21:30,995 --> 00:21:34,115 Speaker 1: date for me, Coach bowl says, but we'll check on it, 314 00:21:34,355 --> 00:21:38,315 Speaker 1: We'll keep in touch and we'll find out. So if 315 00:21:38,355 --> 00:21:42,555 Speaker 1: you've seen Tom Brady, please call one eight hundred old 316 00:21:42,795 --> 00:21:48,435 Speaker 1: QB twelve. That's one eight hundred old QB twelve. We've 317 00:21:48,475 --> 00:22:05,475 Speaker 1: put out a silver alert for him. Stell ahead on 318 00:22:05,515 --> 00:22:08,715 Speaker 1: the firing of Brian Stelter by CNN. It is far 319 00:22:08,875 --> 00:22:11,395 Speaker 1: worse than you're being told because the guy who did 320 00:22:11,395 --> 00:22:16,155 Speaker 1: it used to be Joe Scarborough's henchmen at MSNBC. First 321 00:22:16,155 --> 00:22:18,835 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger 322 00:22:18,835 --> 00:22:25,635 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. Lebrons, 323 00:22:25,675 --> 00:22:29,795 Speaker 1: the Prime Minister of Norway Jonah's gar Store. You will 324 00:22:29,835 --> 00:22:33,795 Speaker 1: recall hearing Monday about the execution of Freya, a female 325 00:22:33,795 --> 00:22:36,395 Speaker 1: walrus who had been driven twelve hundred miles south of 326 00:22:36,395 --> 00:22:39,275 Speaker 1: her home and into the waters around Oslo because of 327 00:22:39,355 --> 00:22:42,955 Speaker 1: climate change. When the humans in Oslow would not listen 328 00:22:42,995 --> 00:22:45,275 Speaker 1: to the authorities warning that they had to stop risking 329 00:22:45,315 --> 00:22:48,635 Speaker 1: their own safety by getting so close to the pound 330 00:22:48,675 --> 00:22:52,875 Speaker 1: and very friendly walrus. Naturally, Norway solved the problem by 331 00:22:53,115 --> 00:22:57,715 Speaker 1: killing Freya the walrus. Now Prime Minister Store has defended 332 00:22:57,755 --> 00:23:00,755 Speaker 1: the decision, saying Norway is a seafaring country and quote 333 00:23:01,115 --> 00:23:05,875 Speaker 1: sometimes we have to make unpopular decisions. Meanwhile, Anguish residents 334 00:23:05,875 --> 00:23:10,395 Speaker 1: have already raised thousand croner. It was about dollars to 335 00:23:10,395 --> 00:23:13,595 Speaker 1: build a statue of Freya. Maybe put up a statue 336 00:23:13,635 --> 00:23:16,995 Speaker 1: of this idiot Prime Minister. To our runner up, Stephen Lowell, 337 00:23:17,235 --> 00:23:19,995 Speaker 1: Twitter bought Avatar come to life, who is running as 338 00:23:20,035 --> 00:23:23,315 Speaker 1: the Republican candidate for the Minnesota the state Senate in 339 00:23:23,395 --> 00:23:28,355 Speaker 1: District fifty two. He's bald, he's bearded, he's wearing aviators, 340 00:23:28,715 --> 00:23:32,475 Speaker 1: and he's threatening anarchy. We need to grow our teeth 341 00:23:32,515 --> 00:23:35,075 Speaker 1: back fast, he said at a campaign event in the 342 00:23:35,155 --> 00:23:38,195 Speaker 1: suburbs of the Twin Cities. So part of those teeth 343 00:23:38,235 --> 00:23:41,075 Speaker 1: in this particular set of terms is voting with the 344 00:23:41,075 --> 00:23:46,475 Speaker 1: ballot before we have to vote with bullets. Didn't you 345 00:23:46,515 --> 00:23:48,835 Speaker 1: always think that if somebody campaigned like that, they just 346 00:23:48,875 --> 00:23:52,075 Speaker 1: get arrested on the spot. Oh well, f y I, 347 00:23:52,195 --> 00:23:55,275 Speaker 1: in case you prefer your government not by bullets. The 348 00:23:55,355 --> 00:23:58,635 Speaker 1: Democrat in District fifty two is the incumbent, Jim Carlson. 349 00:23:58,915 --> 00:24:02,435 Speaker 1: Go Jim, But our winners the Lawrence County Republican Party 350 00:24:02,475 --> 00:24:05,275 Speaker 1: of Alabama, which welcome to new chairman on a Facebook 351 00:24:05,315 --> 00:24:07,995 Speaker 1: account by posting an image of a red, white and 352 00:24:08,035 --> 00:24:12,315 Speaker 1: blue Republican elephant. Then it turned out the white spaces 353 00:24:12,355 --> 00:24:16,075 Speaker 1: between the elephant's red legs formed the outline of the 354 00:24:16,155 --> 00:24:21,315 Speaker 1: heads of hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan. Apparently 355 00:24:21,435 --> 00:24:24,035 Speaker 1: they just googled the image and found one online and 356 00:24:24,075 --> 00:24:26,635 Speaker 1: didn't look too closely st that's what they're saying. It 357 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:31,395 Speaker 1: had been run originally in Mother Jones magazine, in Chairman 358 00:24:31,475 --> 00:24:35,035 Speaker 1: Shannon Terry writes, I would like to offer a deep 359 00:24:35,075 --> 00:24:38,715 Speaker 1: and sincere apology. A picture of a GOP elephant was 360 00:24:38,835 --> 00:24:41,235 Speaker 1: used and later found to have hidden images that do 361 00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:44,875 Speaker 1: not represent the views or beliefs of l Lawrence County 362 00:24:45,035 --> 00:24:51,635 Speaker 1: Republican Party. Wait they're apologizing. The Republicans of Lawrence County, 363 00:24:51,675 --> 00:24:56,155 Speaker 1: Alabama are apologizing for using hooded Klansmen in their in 364 00:24:56,235 --> 00:24:59,075 Speaker 1: their logo. Why I don't I don't understand. Why is 365 00:24:59,115 --> 00:25:06,155 Speaker 1: this on here? But mcclansman, GOP. I mean, what's the apology? 366 00:25:07,075 --> 00:25:10,475 Speaker 1: What's the apology for? The apologies for copyright infringement? Infringement 367 00:25:10,555 --> 00:25:15,355 Speaker 1: is that it I just I just doing Lawrence County, Alabama. 368 00:25:15,635 --> 00:25:25,195 Speaker 1: Republic k k K cans today's worse persons in the world. 369 00:25:41,555 --> 00:25:43,675 Speaker 1: Time for our number one story on the Countdown, and 370 00:25:43,715 --> 00:25:45,755 Speaker 1: since it is the weekend edition, we will give you 371 00:25:45,755 --> 00:25:48,755 Speaker 1: your Thurber in a moment. But for once things I've 372 00:25:48,795 --> 00:25:52,515 Speaker 1: promised not to tell is topical, so it will make 373 00:25:52,555 --> 00:25:57,635 Speaker 1: a rare appearance on the Friday and weekend edition now. Yesterday, 374 00:25:57,755 --> 00:26:01,355 Speaker 1: CNN canceled its weekly show reviewing the media, Reliable Sources, 375 00:26:01,395 --> 00:26:05,315 Speaker 1: the only SUNCH program in mainstream television. CNN also fired 376 00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:08,235 Speaker 1: its host Brian Stelter after nine years at the network. 377 00:26:08,675 --> 00:26:10,955 Speaker 1: I've had problems with some of Brian's work since he 378 00:26:10,995 --> 00:26:13,915 Speaker 1: founded the TV newser blog while he was in college 379 00:26:13,915 --> 00:26:16,555 Speaker 1: in two thousand four, later at The New York Times, 380 00:26:17,035 --> 00:26:19,515 Speaker 1: but I've never had any problem with his intent nor 381 00:26:19,595 --> 00:26:22,955 Speaker 1: his work ethic, and his stuff on CNN made him 382 00:26:22,995 --> 00:26:25,675 Speaker 1: such a target from the far right that you would 383 00:26:25,675 --> 00:26:28,795 Speaker 1: have thought he was me or that he was on 384 00:26:28,835 --> 00:26:31,755 Speaker 1: the air seventeen hours a day on CNN rather than 385 00:26:31,795 --> 00:26:36,115 Speaker 1: once a week. The reason was simple. After MSNBC cut 386 00:26:36,115 --> 00:26:38,875 Speaker 1: a deal to stop calling out Fox News, pretty much 387 00:26:39,275 --> 00:26:43,475 Speaker 1: nobody in television called out Fox News and the rest 388 00:26:43,555 --> 00:26:48,515 Speaker 1: of the lunatic right propaganda machine except Stelter. His firing 389 00:26:48,555 --> 00:26:51,235 Speaker 1: was no surprise. You may not know it, but CNN 390 00:26:51,275 --> 00:26:53,795 Speaker 1: was recently taken over by a company owned by billionaire 391 00:26:53,835 --> 00:26:57,715 Speaker 1: Trump downer John Malone, and Malone intends to vary gradually 392 00:26:57,755 --> 00:27:00,955 Speaker 1: reduced CNN to at best twenty four hours a day. 393 00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:04,675 Speaker 1: Of both sides, is him think Michael Smirconish on a loop, 394 00:27:06,115 --> 00:27:08,675 Speaker 1: Stelter did the most damage to the right. Therefore, Stelter 395 00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:10,515 Speaker 1: was the first to go. He will not be the last. 396 00:27:11,395 --> 00:27:16,235 Speaker 1: CNN's new president. Chris Licked is there to dismantle the 397 00:27:16,395 --> 00:27:20,555 Speaker 1: liberal parts of CNN. I know this because I worked 398 00:27:20,555 --> 00:27:23,795 Speaker 1: with him at MSNBC, where he decided that part of 399 00:27:23,835 --> 00:27:26,755 Speaker 1: his job was to try to dismantle the liberal parts 400 00:27:26,755 --> 00:27:32,435 Speaker 1: of MSNBC. When Stelter was fired, The Daily Beasts impeccable 401 00:27:32,475 --> 00:27:36,155 Speaker 1: media guy Lachland Cartwright reported that quote everything about this 402 00:27:36,275 --> 00:27:40,115 Speaker 1: rollout points to Discovery board member John Malone and Discovery 403 00:27:40,155 --> 00:27:43,235 Speaker 1: CEO David Zaslov. A source familiar with the situation told 404 00:27:43,235 --> 00:27:46,235 Speaker 1: The Daily Beast Chris Licked did not want to do this. 405 00:27:47,195 --> 00:27:49,755 Speaker 1: I am sure the quote is accurate, and I'm sure 406 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:52,915 Speaker 1: whoever told Cartwright that believes the quote to be true, 407 00:27:53,275 --> 00:27:57,035 Speaker 1: But it misses the point. What Chris Lick wants to 408 00:27:57,075 --> 00:28:00,355 Speaker 1: do is whatever John Malone and David Zaslov tell him 409 00:28:00,355 --> 00:28:05,035 Speaker 1: to do. He is a corporate lackey. Worse, he's a 410 00:28:05,075 --> 00:28:09,195 Speaker 1: corporate henchman. So here's the story I promised not to tell. 411 00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:13,195 Speaker 1: Perhaps the most amazing thing about my ten years at 412 00:28:13,315 --> 00:28:17,355 Speaker 1: MSNBC was the fact that Joe Scarborough and his producers, 413 00:28:17,915 --> 00:28:22,115 Speaker 1: especially his chief henchman, ever got their own show on 414 00:28:22,155 --> 00:28:25,755 Speaker 1: the air. Because nobody I have ever worked with in 415 00:28:25,955 --> 00:28:29,955 Speaker 1: radio or television, in sports or news in the twentieth 416 00:28:29,995 --> 00:28:34,275 Speaker 1: century or the one ever spent more time trying to 417 00:28:34,475 --> 00:28:37,875 Speaker 1: screw with other programs on the same network than did 418 00:28:37,955 --> 00:28:42,075 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough. And until just about the time I left 419 00:28:42,115 --> 00:28:44,755 Speaker 1: in two thousand eleven. The guy he sent in to 420 00:28:44,835 --> 00:28:48,715 Speaker 1: do most of the sabotage for him was this henchman guy. 421 00:28:49,795 --> 00:28:53,235 Speaker 1: The reason this should matter to you now is Scarborough's 422 00:28:53,275 --> 00:28:57,115 Speaker 1: henchman was Chris Licked, the new president of CNN. And 423 00:28:57,155 --> 00:29:01,235 Speaker 1: if they scoured the nation to find the worst person 424 00:29:01,595 --> 00:29:04,635 Speaker 1: to run CNN in a time when democracy is threatened 425 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:09,755 Speaker 1: one political party and tepidly defended by another, it's Chris Licked. 426 00:29:11,435 --> 00:29:13,315 Speaker 1: I know, I know. You turn on the TV and 427 00:29:13,355 --> 00:29:16,035 Speaker 1: you see Joe Scarborough and you see exactly what I see. 428 00:29:16,075 --> 00:29:23,035 Speaker 1: A blank, dazed, darting, paranoid, no soul, stupid check engine light. Look. 429 00:29:24,155 --> 00:29:27,075 Speaker 1: But if you don't trust me, trust my scars. My 430 00:29:27,275 --> 00:29:33,115 Speaker 1: Joey Scars behind that vapid face is a master saboteur. 431 00:29:35,155 --> 00:29:37,595 Speaker 1: Early in two thousand eight, the late Tim Russert called 432 00:29:37,595 --> 00:29:39,915 Speaker 1: me and warned me that the GOP had upped its 433 00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:42,675 Speaker 1: pressure on me. He said he had heard from somebody 434 00:29:42,715 --> 00:29:45,875 Speaker 1: in New York, that somebody in New York was going 435 00:29:45,915 --> 00:29:48,235 Speaker 1: into the office of the president of NBC News saying 436 00:29:48,235 --> 00:29:51,675 Speaker 1: that Joe Scarborough couldn't get his friend John McCain to 437 00:29:51,755 --> 00:29:55,115 Speaker 1: come on to his new Morning Show because I was 438 00:29:55,155 --> 00:29:58,755 Speaker 1: so critical of McCain. On Countdown, Tim was not sure 439 00:29:58,795 --> 00:30:02,155 Speaker 1: it was Scarborough, but if it wasn't, who else could 440 00:30:02,155 --> 00:30:04,595 Speaker 1: have gotten in to see the president of NBC New 441 00:30:04,675 --> 00:30:10,035 Speaker 1: Wos other than Scarborough or his executive producer. The evidence 442 00:30:10,195 --> 00:30:13,315 Speaker 1: for the new CNN president, Mr Licht being directly involved 443 00:30:13,355 --> 00:30:16,635 Speaker 1: in interfering with programming to benefit somebody else's friends or 444 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:20,115 Speaker 1: political cronies was vague in two thousand and eight, but 445 00:30:20,315 --> 00:30:24,155 Speaker 1: not at all vague two years later. Early in January 446 00:30:24,195 --> 00:30:27,075 Speaker 1: two thousand ten, the Republican candidate to fill the Senate 447 00:30:27,115 --> 00:30:30,835 Speaker 1: seat of the late Ted Kennedy, Scott Brown, the former 448 00:30:30,875 --> 00:30:34,715 Speaker 1: semi nude model, was at a rally when one of 449 00:30:34,755 --> 00:30:38,635 Speaker 1: his supporters talked about quote shoving a curling iron up 450 00:30:38,675 --> 00:30:42,995 Speaker 1: the backside of the Democratic Senate candidate Martha Cokeley. Scott 451 00:30:42,995 --> 00:30:46,635 Speaker 1: Brown clearly heard the remark from the crowd and responded, quote, 452 00:30:46,795 --> 00:30:50,595 Speaker 1: we could do that. On January eighteenth, on Countdown, I 453 00:30:50,595 --> 00:30:53,355 Speaker 1: did a brief commentary about how unsuitable Brown was for 454 00:30:53,395 --> 00:30:58,755 Speaker 1: public office. I said he was quote an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, 455 00:30:59,035 --> 00:31:02,795 Speaker 1: x nude model, tea bagging supporter of violence against women, 456 00:31:02,995 --> 00:31:07,355 Speaker 1: and against politicians with whom he disagrees unquote, I had 457 00:31:07,435 --> 00:31:10,835 Speaker 1: quotes from Brown. I had videotape of him disparaging his 458 00:31:10,915 --> 00:31:14,235 Speaker 1: minority opponent in a local election to her face at 459 00:31:14,235 --> 00:31:18,675 Speaker 1: a debate. To back up what I said. An hour later, 460 00:31:19,115 --> 00:31:23,315 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough commenced a tweet storm against me. Quote Alberman 461 00:31:23,395 --> 00:31:28,115 Speaker 1: calls Brown a homophobic, racist, reactionary who supports violence against women. 462 00:31:28,315 --> 00:31:32,315 Speaker 1: How reckless and how sad it's no longer enough to 463 00:31:32,355 --> 00:31:35,395 Speaker 1: simply disagree with someone. I'm sorry, I just fell into 464 00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:39,075 Speaker 1: my Scarborough impression. Justice went Beck called the president racist. 465 00:31:39,595 --> 00:31:44,635 Speaker 1: This sort of rhetorical extremism must be discouraged. Chapened the debate. 466 00:31:45,795 --> 00:31:49,955 Speaker 1: End quote and impression. Now there was a standing rule 467 00:31:49,995 --> 00:31:54,675 Speaker 1: at MSNBC. You want to criticize another MSNBC personality, go ahead, 468 00:31:54,915 --> 00:31:59,155 Speaker 1: have a blast, but it must be on the air 469 00:31:59,195 --> 00:32:02,195 Speaker 1: on MSNBC, and the other person must have an opportunity 470 00:32:02,235 --> 00:32:05,515 Speaker 1: to reply in real time, in this aim show or 471 00:32:05,515 --> 00:32:08,795 Speaker 1: in some kind of face to face way. No hit 472 00:32:08,875 --> 00:32:14,555 Speaker 1: and run, no Joe Scarborough tweet storms. If you criticize 473 00:32:14,595 --> 00:32:18,035 Speaker 1: them by name or by inference in any other medium newspaper, interview, radio, 474 00:32:18,075 --> 00:32:22,915 Speaker 1: social media, you were to receive an automatic suspension. The 475 00:32:22,955 --> 00:32:26,315 Speaker 1: next day, January called the president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin, 476 00:32:26,315 --> 00:32:29,675 Speaker 1: and I asked how long Joe Scarborough's automatic suspension was 477 00:32:29,675 --> 00:32:33,955 Speaker 1: gonna be. Griffin asked me to come into the office 478 00:32:34,115 --> 00:32:37,675 Speaker 1: a little earlier than usual and to go see him. 479 00:32:37,675 --> 00:32:39,475 Speaker 1: He said he had already had a meeting about the 480 00:32:39,475 --> 00:32:44,635 Speaker 1: tweets that morning with Scarborough's executive producer, Chris Licht. Griffin 481 00:32:44,755 --> 00:32:50,195 Speaker 1: explained that Scarborough, according to lickt, considered Scott Brown a friend. 482 00:32:51,715 --> 00:32:54,675 Speaker 1: More importantly, Chris Licked warned Griffin that if Griffin followed 483 00:32:54,715 --> 00:32:58,435 Speaker 1: through and enforced the suspension rule, Scarborough would have no 484 00:32:58,555 --> 00:33:02,035 Speaker 1: other option than to go to the press and tell reporters, 485 00:33:02,515 --> 00:33:06,115 Speaker 1: especially reporters at right wing website nights like Tucker Carlson's 486 00:33:06,155 --> 00:33:10,515 Speaker 1: The Daily Caller, that he Scarborough had been suspended because 487 00:33:10,515 --> 00:33:14,955 Speaker 1: he Scarborough was a conservative, but I was a liberal, 488 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:21,795 Speaker 1: and that I and not Phil Griffin ran MSNBC. What 489 00:33:21,875 --> 00:33:25,795 Speaker 1: can I do? Griffin was scared. I told him he 490 00:33:25,835 --> 00:33:28,515 Speaker 1: could fire Scarborough and Licked because they had just tried 491 00:33:28,555 --> 00:33:31,115 Speaker 1: to blackmail him, and eventually he was going to have 492 00:33:31,195 --> 00:33:33,315 Speaker 1: to fire them both anyway, but that I knew he 493 00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:35,515 Speaker 1: would not do this, and that I knew now that 494 00:33:35,595 --> 00:33:38,835 Speaker 1: he would not suspend Scarborough either, and Griffin did not 495 00:33:38,955 --> 00:33:45,115 Speaker 1: suspend him. Partial score Scarborough's friends to MSNBC's rules of behavior, 496 00:33:45,395 --> 00:33:50,315 Speaker 1: nothing but Phil Griffin did send out a memo to 497 00:33:50,395 --> 00:33:54,275 Speaker 1: the entire company insisting that anybody who criticized another MSNBC 498 00:33:54,435 --> 00:33:59,275 Speaker 1: show or host in another medium would be suspended, except Scarborough, 499 00:33:59,675 --> 00:34:02,475 Speaker 1: who had just done exactly that and then threatened his 500 00:34:02,515 --> 00:34:08,515 Speaker 1: own employers. On January, Brian Stelter's old blog TV news 501 00:34:08,555 --> 00:34:11,435 Speaker 1: Or got a copy of Griffin's memo. They wondered why 502 00:34:11,475 --> 00:34:14,755 Speaker 1: Scarborough had not been suspended, so they called the MSNBC 503 00:34:14,875 --> 00:34:18,635 Speaker 1: president and they printed quote Griffin responds to TV news Or, 504 00:34:18,755 --> 00:34:22,595 Speaker 1: quote an important rule was broken. I spoke to Keith 505 00:34:22,675 --> 00:34:25,435 Speaker 1: and he said, in the spirit of teamwork and the 506 00:34:25,435 --> 00:34:28,955 Speaker 1: free flow of ideas, he didn't think it warranted punishment 507 00:34:29,075 --> 00:34:32,515 Speaker 1: or suspension. I also talked to Joe and he apologized 508 00:34:32,595 --> 00:34:35,995 Speaker 1: to me. That's why I made the decision that this 509 00:34:36,035 --> 00:34:38,275 Speaker 1: didn't rise to the level of punishment. But I felt 510 00:34:38,315 --> 00:34:43,635 Speaker 1: it was necessary to reiterate my long standing policy bull crap. 511 00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:46,315 Speaker 1: Reiterate my long standing policy which I just did not 512 00:34:46,515 --> 00:34:50,395 Speaker 1: enforce against Joe Scarborough. The whole thing was totally fabricated, licked, 513 00:34:50,435 --> 00:34:54,155 Speaker 1: and Scarborough had threatened to smear their own bosses in 514 00:34:54,195 --> 00:34:57,395 Speaker 1: the right wing echo chamber. It should have been both 515 00:34:57,435 --> 00:35:01,875 Speaker 1: fired on the spot. In May two thousand ten, Scarborough 516 00:35:01,915 --> 00:35:04,115 Speaker 1: said something on the air about a Democrat getting away 517 00:35:04,155 --> 00:35:07,715 Speaker 1: with not being investigated for something. I forget the details. 518 00:35:07,755 --> 00:35:09,475 Speaker 1: I didn't bother to look it up. You can if 519 00:35:09,515 --> 00:35:13,475 Speaker 1: you want. Then. Marcos militzis the editor of the Daily 520 00:35:13,515 --> 00:35:16,435 Speaker 1: Coast website, and not just a regular contributor to Countdown, 521 00:35:16,515 --> 00:35:19,155 Speaker 1: but somebody who had been promoting the show and the 522 00:35:19,275 --> 00:35:23,075 Speaker 1: MSNBC brand on that website every day for five years. 523 00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:28,635 Speaker 1: Marcos sent a snarky but legitimate tweet questioning Scarborough's credentials 524 00:35:28,635 --> 00:35:31,755 Speaker 1: to criticize others who had not been investigated for stuff. 525 00:35:32,155 --> 00:35:35,555 Speaker 1: Marcos invoked the staffer who died in an accident in 526 00:35:35,635 --> 00:35:40,915 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's congressional office. Scarborough then attacked Melitus on Twitter, 527 00:35:41,275 --> 00:35:46,915 Speaker 1: inaccurately claiming Melitsus had accused Scarborough of murder. A few 528 00:35:46,995 --> 00:35:48,755 Speaker 1: days after that, I got a phone call from the 529 00:35:48,875 --> 00:35:51,195 Speaker 1: MSNBC president, Phil Griffin, and if you got a phone 530 00:35:51,195 --> 00:35:53,275 Speaker 1: call rather than a call to come into his office. 531 00:35:53,595 --> 00:35:56,955 Speaker 1: You know he was really scared. Griffin told me Chris 532 00:35:56,995 --> 00:35:59,155 Speaker 1: Licked has been in to see me. Joe won't put 533 00:35:59,235 --> 00:36:02,755 Speaker 1: up with having Marcos Militzis on his network anymore. Not 534 00:36:02,835 --> 00:36:06,195 Speaker 1: only that, but Licks as many of Joe's friends who 535 00:36:06,235 --> 00:36:09,555 Speaker 1: also appear in Dayside and prime Time won't come on 536 00:36:09,915 --> 00:36:15,595 Speaker 1: if Marcos Melitzis is permitted to continue. Here, Chris is 537 00:36:15,635 --> 00:36:20,155 Speaker 1: insisting that Marcos be banned from MSNBC immediately. Chris says 538 00:36:20,155 --> 00:36:22,395 Speaker 1: he's afraid that if we don't do that, Joe won't 539 00:36:22,435 --> 00:36:26,195 Speaker 1: come into work tomorrow. Upon hearing that, I laughed and 540 00:36:26,235 --> 00:36:29,395 Speaker 1: I congratulated Phil Griffin on the clear win win he'd 541 00:36:29,435 --> 00:36:33,875 Speaker 1: just been given. But Phil was very bad at enforcing 542 00:36:33,995 --> 00:36:37,755 Speaker 1: MSNBC's rules, but very good at creating new ones on 543 00:36:37,835 --> 00:36:41,395 Speaker 1: the spot to protect Joe Scarborough and Chris Licked and 544 00:36:41,475 --> 00:36:46,515 Speaker 1: their friends. I'm banning Melitze's for many further appearances on MSNBC, 545 00:36:46,875 --> 00:36:50,035 Speaker 1: I said, Phil, he's a contributor to my show. You 546 00:36:50,035 --> 00:36:54,635 Speaker 1: are suspending my contributor who has driven hundreds of thousands 547 00:36:54,715 --> 00:36:57,995 Speaker 1: of viewers to countdown at MSNBC. And I don't have 548 00:36:58,035 --> 00:37:02,035 Speaker 1: any say in it. You are owned by Joe Scarborough 549 00:37:02,075 --> 00:37:04,515 Speaker 1: and Chris Licked. What you now have to worry about 550 00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:06,315 Speaker 1: is whether I tell this story on the air tonight 551 00:37:06,635 --> 00:37:10,195 Speaker 1: or I just wait and tell it later. Phil now 552 00:37:10,235 --> 00:37:13,635 Speaker 1: got conciliatory because he was scared again and said it 553 00:37:13,675 --> 00:37:18,275 Speaker 1: could be just a suspension if I cooperated. So I 554 00:37:18,355 --> 00:37:21,675 Speaker 1: called Marcos. He said he enjoyed his contributions to Countdown. 555 00:37:21,715 --> 00:37:24,755 Speaker 1: He also did occasional appearances on the old Ed Schultz 556 00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:27,875 Speaker 1: MSNBC show, and he said if there were a chance 557 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:30,395 Speaker 1: at resuming them, he preferred to at least try that. 558 00:37:31,395 --> 00:37:34,715 Speaker 1: So Marcos and I went along with Griffin suspending Marcus 559 00:37:34,715 --> 00:37:37,995 Speaker 1: Melitz's and to my knowledge, Marcus Melitzus has not been 560 00:37:38,115 --> 00:37:43,435 Speaker 1: seen on MSNBC since. I wish I had better notes 561 00:37:43,475 --> 00:37:46,395 Speaker 1: on some of my conversations from the two thousand eight nine, 562 00:37:46,555 --> 00:37:51,395 Speaker 1: ten eleven era about those conversations with the hosts and 563 00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:53,795 Speaker 1: the producers of the other shows like Schultz and Rachel 564 00:37:53,835 --> 00:37:56,755 Speaker 1: Maddows Show, and even Chris Matthews and Hardball. I must 565 00:37:56,795 --> 00:37:59,315 Speaker 1: have heard a variation of this statement a dozen times 566 00:37:59,355 --> 00:38:02,195 Speaker 1: from these people. Guess who was in Griffin's office explaining 567 00:38:02,195 --> 00:38:04,235 Speaker 1: that such and such as Joe's friend and Phil really 568 00:38:04,275 --> 00:38:07,235 Speaker 1: needs to make sure we lay off him Chris Licked. 569 00:38:07,635 --> 00:38:09,835 Speaker 1: It was usually an expletive in the middle between Chris 570 00:38:09,835 --> 00:38:12,675 Speaker 1: and Licked. I remember one of my producers at the 571 00:38:12,795 --> 00:38:15,315 Speaker 1: MSNBC A version of Countdown telling me that one of 572 00:38:15,315 --> 00:38:18,155 Speaker 1: the other producers told him that Licked had gone to 573 00:38:18,435 --> 00:38:23,115 Speaker 1: NBC News President Steve Cappus with an actual list of 574 00:38:23,155 --> 00:38:27,115 Speaker 1: Republicans that Matto and Olberman needed to stop criticizing because 575 00:38:27,115 --> 00:38:32,515 Speaker 1: they were Joe's here's the word again friends, and we 576 00:38:32,515 --> 00:38:38,395 Speaker 1: were hurting morning Joe. What's amazing is that, setting aside 577 00:38:38,395 --> 00:38:41,995 Speaker 1: the issues of unrevealed torrid love affairs, when CNN fired 578 00:38:42,035 --> 00:38:45,475 Speaker 1: its nine PM host Chris Cuomo, president Jeff Zucker, and 579 00:38:45,555 --> 00:38:49,035 Speaker 1: senior vice president Alison Gallas, they fired them in essence 580 00:38:49,075 --> 00:38:53,155 Speaker 1: because they interfered with CNN content and practices in order 581 00:38:53,235 --> 00:38:58,515 Speaker 1: to do favors for people who were their friends, or, 582 00:38:58,555 --> 00:39:04,155 Speaker 1: in Cuomo's case, their relatives at MSNBC interfering with MSNBC 583 00:39:04,315 --> 00:39:08,075 Speaker 1: content and practices to do favors for friends. It was 584 00:39:08,115 --> 00:39:12,195 Speaker 1: seemingly the only reason Chris Licked had a job. So 585 00:39:13,075 --> 00:39:15,675 Speaker 1: CNN got rid of left wingers for a terrible violation 586 00:39:15,715 --> 00:39:19,835 Speaker 1: of journalistic ethics, and then hired his president, a right 587 00:39:19,875 --> 00:39:24,035 Speaker 1: wing henchman who had committed exactly the same journalistic ethical problems, 588 00:39:24,515 --> 00:39:27,835 Speaker 1: and who, for his act, the first one of his 589 00:39:27,955 --> 00:39:31,315 Speaker 1: career at CNN, killed off the only national television show 590 00:39:31,675 --> 00:39:34,955 Speaker 1: that regularly held up Fox News, News Max and all 591 00:39:34,995 --> 00:39:38,795 Speaker 1: the rest to the world to show that they were 592 00:39:38,795 --> 00:39:45,915 Speaker 1: the threats to democracy that they are. This is CNN, 593 00:39:51,355 --> 00:39:54,315 Speaker 1: so necessarily the Thurber will be a little truncated tonight 594 00:39:54,315 --> 00:39:57,635 Speaker 1: because I'm about out of reading material, as in I 595 00:39:57,675 --> 00:40:00,595 Speaker 1: can't talk much longer. But one of his fables is 596 00:40:00,715 --> 00:40:03,835 Speaker 1: doubly important. Right at the moment when I was negotiating 597 00:40:04,075 --> 00:40:08,275 Speaker 1: to leave MSNBC without anybody suing anybody else, we finalized 598 00:40:08,355 --> 00:40:10,835 Speaker 1: all the arrangements in the middle of the last show 599 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:14,835 Speaker 1: except one. NBC did not want me to read this 600 00:40:14,955 --> 00:40:17,675 Speaker 1: particular therb or fable, and I had to switch to 601 00:40:17,715 --> 00:40:20,315 Speaker 1: another one because they felt in planning to do so, 602 00:40:20,435 --> 00:40:26,595 Speaker 1: I was attacking them, possibly because I was attacking them. 603 00:40:26,635 --> 00:40:29,555 Speaker 1: The piece like Mongoose is the starting point of my 604 00:40:29,635 --> 00:40:33,195 Speaker 1: relationship with James Thurber's daughter Rosemary, and his granddaughter and 605 00:40:33,235 --> 00:40:36,515 Speaker 1: his publishers. It was my dad fatally sick in the hospital, 606 00:40:36,515 --> 00:40:38,875 Speaker 1: to whom I would read Thurber every night, who suggested 607 00:40:39,155 --> 00:40:41,955 Speaker 1: I should read Thurber on the TV news show. I 608 00:40:41,995 --> 00:40:44,435 Speaker 1: thought he was crazy. I told him if I did that, 609 00:40:44,475 --> 00:40:46,915 Speaker 1: I'd probably hear from his literary trust. But I did 610 00:40:46,955 --> 00:40:50,435 Speaker 1: it anyway, and so I read the piece like mongoose, 611 00:40:51,115 --> 00:40:55,195 Speaker 1: and I heard from his literary trust, because at the 612 00:40:55,235 --> 00:40:59,235 Speaker 1: moment I read this story, Rosie Thurber was on the 613 00:40:59,275 --> 00:41:03,155 Speaker 1: horns of the proverbial dilemma. A British publisher wanted to 614 00:41:03,235 --> 00:41:06,595 Speaker 1: put the piece like Mongoose in an anthology for school kids. 615 00:41:06,875 --> 00:41:09,955 Speaker 1: It is placements like that which keep an author alive. 616 00:41:10,915 --> 00:41:14,715 Speaker 1: But that publisher wanted to remove one word from the story, 617 00:41:14,755 --> 00:41:17,715 Speaker 1: and Rosie was now torn edit her father's work or 618 00:41:18,715 --> 00:41:23,355 Speaker 1: don't publish her father's work. Unbeknownst to me, she and 619 00:41:23,395 --> 00:41:26,795 Speaker 1: her daughter, Sarah, we're both countdown viewers, and we're watching 620 00:41:26,835 --> 00:41:30,195 Speaker 1: as I read the piece like mongoose. Sarah and then 621 00:41:30,315 --> 00:41:32,115 Speaker 1: called her mother and said, I think you've got your 622 00:41:32,115 --> 00:41:36,675 Speaker 1: answer right there. Not long after, the British publisher, probably 623 00:41:36,715 --> 00:41:41,955 Speaker 1: a coincidence, changed its mind about exercising the word amen. 624 00:41:42,635 --> 00:41:46,995 Speaker 1: The word, by the way, is mongoose. Sexual, which is 625 00:41:47,115 --> 00:41:50,355 Speaker 1: a perfect creation of the perfect James Thurber. And the 626 00:41:50,355 --> 00:41:52,715 Speaker 1: complaint from NBC was about the moral to the story, 627 00:41:52,755 --> 00:41:56,035 Speaker 1: which I will not read first and without any other 628 00:41:56,315 --> 00:42:04,315 Speaker 1: pointless ado the piece like mongoose, Like James Thurber. In 629 00:42:04,395 --> 00:42:08,155 Speaker 1: co Brick Country, a mongoose was born one day who 630 00:42:08,275 --> 00:42:11,955 Speaker 1: didn't want to fight cobras or anything else. The words 631 00:42:11,995 --> 00:42:14,955 Speaker 1: spread from mongoose to mongoose that there was a mongoose 632 00:42:14,995 --> 00:42:17,595 Speaker 1: who didn't want to fight cobra's He didn't want to 633 00:42:17,595 --> 00:42:19,435 Speaker 1: fight anything else. It was his own business. But it 634 00:42:19,515 --> 00:42:24,435 Speaker 1: was the duty of every mongoose to kill cobras or 635 00:42:24,515 --> 00:42:30,515 Speaker 1: be killed by cobras. Why, asked the piece like mongoose, 636 00:42:30,555 --> 00:42:33,555 Speaker 1: And the word went around that the strange new mongoose 637 00:42:33,595 --> 00:42:39,195 Speaker 1: was not only pro cobra and anti mongoose, but intellectually 638 00:42:39,355 --> 00:42:46,035 Speaker 1: curious and against the ideals and traditions of mongoose is um. 639 00:42:46,155 --> 00:42:51,075 Speaker 1: He's crazy, cried the young mongoose's father. A sick, said 640 00:42:51,075 --> 00:42:55,475 Speaker 1: his mother. He's a coward, shouted his brothers. He is 641 00:42:55,515 --> 00:43:01,915 Speaker 1: a mongoose sexual, whispered his sisters. Strangers who had never 642 00:43:01,995 --> 00:43:04,955 Speaker 1: laid eyes on the piece like mongoose remembered they had 643 00:43:04,955 --> 00:43:09,395 Speaker 1: seen him crawling on his stomach or trying on cobra 644 00:43:09,555 --> 00:43:16,915 Speaker 1: hoods were plotting the violent overthrow of Mongoosia. I'm trying 645 00:43:16,995 --> 00:43:21,555 Speaker 1: to use reason and intelligence, said the strange new mongoose. 646 00:43:22,355 --> 00:43:26,355 Speaker 1: Reason is six sevenths of treason, said one of his neighbors. 647 00:43:26,835 --> 00:43:32,155 Speaker 1: Intelligence is what the enemy uses, said another. Finally, the 648 00:43:32,235 --> 00:43:35,115 Speaker 1: rumors spread that the mongoose had venom in his staying 649 00:43:35,235 --> 00:43:39,315 Speaker 1: like a cobra, and he was tried, convicted by a 650 00:43:39,315 --> 00:43:46,355 Speaker 1: show of pause, and condemned to banishment. Moral ashes to ashes, 651 00:43:46,595 --> 00:43:51,395 Speaker 1: and clay to clay. If the enemy doesn't get you 652 00:43:51,395 --> 00:44:04,715 Speaker 1: your own, folks, may I've done all the damage I 653 00:44:04,755 --> 00:44:07,995 Speaker 1: can do here, and actually a little more. No extra charge. 654 00:44:08,315 --> 00:44:09,915 Speaker 1: But this is where I ask you to rate and 655 00:44:09,915 --> 00:44:13,755 Speaker 1: review the podcast. Fib tell them it's outstanding, and you 656 00:44:13,835 --> 00:44:17,235 Speaker 1: listen to it twice. 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