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Speaker 1: Them Riot, A man described by Jack Smith as a
Speaker 1: Trump campaign employee, agent and co conspirator, his identity redacted
Speaker 1: replaced by the ID number P five informs a colleague
Speaker 1: on the ground at the vote counting on election night
Speaker 1: twenty twenty in Detroit, make them Riot, do it? Do
Speaker 1: it with three exclamation points. The full paragraph from the
Speaker 1: Jack Smith Opus number one revealed yesterday reads, on November fourth,
Speaker 1: P five, a campaign employee agent and co conspirator of
Speaker 1: the defendant, tried to sow confusion when the ongoing vote
Speaker 1: count at the CCF Center in Detroit, Michigan looked on
Speaker 1: favorable for the defendant. There when a colleague at the
Speaker 1: TCF center told P. Five, we think a batch of
Speaker 1: votes heavily in Biden's favor is right. P five responded,
Speaker 1: find a reason it isn't give me options to file
Speaker 1: litigation and even if it biz sick, meaning even if
Speaker 1: it is. When the colleague suggested that there was about
Speaker 1: to be unrest reminiscent of the Brooks Brothers Riot, a
Speaker 1: violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after
Speaker 1: the two thousand presidential election. P. Five responded, make them
Speaker 1: riot and do it. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.
Speaker 1: It's one hundred and sixty five pages of that. You
Speaker 1: open the file and the treason falls out and covers
Speaker 1: you like dust from the top of your bookshelf. All
Speaker 1: the evidence you need to prove Trump is guilty of
Speaker 1: knowingly trying to subvert the election and now knowingly trying
Speaker 1: to pretend he was just asking the kind of good
Speaker 1: questions any good president would when there was evidence of
Speaker 1: a crooked vote somewhere. Quoting again, contrary to the defendant's
Speaker 1: public claims of victory. Immediately following election day, his advisors
Speaker 1: informed him that he would likely lose. On November seventh,
Speaker 1: in a private campaign meeting that included P two, P three, P. Four,
Speaker 1: and White House staffer P. Nine, who came to serve
Speaker 1: as a conduit for information from the campaign to the defendant,
Speaker 1: campaign staff told the defendant that he had only a
Speaker 1: slim chance of prevailing in the election, and that any
Speaker 1: potential success was contingent on the defendant winning all ongoing
Speaker 1: vote counts or litigation in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. Within
Speaker 1: a week of that assessment. On November thirteenth, the defendant's
Speaker 1: campaign conceded its litigation in Arizona, meaning that, based on
Speaker 1: his campaign advisor's previous assessment, the defendant had lost the election.
Speaker 1: November thirteenth, I suggested here last Friday that a particular
Speaker 1: Trump Post had given us a preview of Jack Smith's tack,
Speaker 1: that there must have been some tip off to his
Speaker 1: lawyers that what was in the Smith submission to Judge Chutkin,
Speaker 1: and that Trump was now scrambling to disprove what must
Speaker 1: have been Smith's basic premise that from the beginning Trump
Speaker 1: knew he had lost, and thus everything he did for
Speaker 1: which he is now charged, he did as a private citizen,
Speaker 1: as a candidate, as a politician, as a criminal, not
Speaker 1: as a president, no matter how immune a corrupt Supreme
Speaker 1: Court would try to make him. That Trump Post read
Speaker 1: shocking breaking news, as exposed by the great John Solomon
Speaker 1: and the great work of Congressman Barry Loudermilk and the
Speaker 1: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. The deep State chose
Speaker 1: to disregard my direct authorization of at least ten thousand
Speaker 1: National Guard troops to ensure that Washington, DC was safe
Speaker 1: and secure on January sixth, twenty twenty one. These Deep
Speaker 1: State subversives disobeyed the president's directives, which would have prevented
Speaker 1: any unrest that day. January sixth, as it is known,
Speaker 1: would never have taken place. Not only that the Deep
Speaker 1: State betrayed me nonsense, but Trump also again brought up
Speaker 1: his lie about Nancy Pelosi and troops that night in
Speaker 1: his spasm in front of some microphones at Trump Tower,
Speaker 1: and one of Trump's top ass kissers, Joe Kernan of CNBC,
Speaker 1: had said, quote, in the heat of that moment, at
Speaker 1: that point, I think he really did believe that it
Speaker 1: had been stolen at that point. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he believes it anymore. If Jack Smith's tack were is
Speaker 1: that Trump knew all along he lost, and that everything afterwards,
Speaker 1: literally everything after November fourth, was insurrection or an attempted
Speaker 1: alibi for insurrection. Trump had to quickly revive the idea
Speaker 1: that he was just following the clues, just serving the nation,
Speaker 1: just out there presidenting his big ass off. Having Trump
Speaker 1: staffer and Operative P five trying to start a riot
Speaker 1: at the vote counting in Detroit, not on January sixth,
Speaker 1: but on November fourth, kind of puts the bullet from
Speaker 1: a smoking gun through the heart of the I was
Speaker 1: just presidenting argument. So who is P five? There actually
Speaker 1: seems to be an answer. It would be nice if
Speaker 1: it were Rudy Giuliani. It's not He's got a different number,
Speaker 1: or Roger Stone or somebody like that. But in fact
Speaker 1: the consensus is is it's a Trump dirty trickster named
Speaker 1: Mike Roman. The gadfly J Quoh wrote last December that
Speaker 1: Jacksmith had filed a four oh four B notice in
Speaker 1: his case against Trump about evidence probably not included in
Speaker 1: the charges that still went to Trump's motive or his
Speaker 1: quote propensity to commit crimes. Now that the four oh
Speaker 1: four B notice pertained to a Trump campaign employee trying
Speaker 1: to start a riot at the counting center in Detroit
Speaker 1: on election night, quote noted that in June last year,
Speaker 1: CNN had reported that Mike Roman was cooperating with federal
Speaker 1: prosecutors in their pursuit of Trump. Just so happens, Mike
Speaker 1: Roman posted a video from the Detroit count of quote
Speaker 1: unquote challengers being ejected from the vote count Just so happens. Roman,
Speaker 1: isn't some peripheral figure in Trump World. In twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: he was Trump's chief watcher of the poll sites. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, he worked on the fake Elector's scheme. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, he was indicted in Arizona, in Georgia
Speaker 1: and Wisconsin. Check his closets, see if he has any
Speaker 1: shirts with P five monogrammed in the collars. As I said, metaphorically,
Speaker 1: turned to any page in the Smith filing, and treason
Speaker 1: will fall off the shelf and hit you in the
Speaker 1: effing head. There's mister P five. Even before the election
Speaker 1: was called for Joe Biden to indicate just how soon
Speaker 1: Trump campaign staff knew it was over, and just how
Speaker 1: soon Trump campaign staff turned to violence. For a little
Speaker 1: grotesque snapshot of the brutality and the disregard for the country, though,
Speaker 1: and the constitution and human life, there are the stars
Speaker 1: of a little Later in the story, on page one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two, the defendant further revealed the private
Speaker 1: nature of his desperate conduct as a candidate rather than
Speaker 1: a president, in an exchange that the government does not
Speaker 1: plan to use it. He had with aid P fifteen
Speaker 1: Shortly after the two to twenty four PM tweet on
Speaker 1: January sixth, upon receiving a phone call alerting him that
Speaker 1: Vice President Mike Pence had been taken to a secure location.
Speaker 1: P fifteen rushed to the dining room to inform the
Speaker 1: defendant and hopes that the defendant would take action to
Speaker 1: insure Pence's safety. Instead, after p fifteen delivered the news,
Speaker 1: the defendant looked at him and said, only so what?
Speaker 1: Just to give a little context as to what Trump
Speaker 1: was doing all that day, Smith now has Trump's phone
Speaker 1: log and witness accounts. He has a play by play
Speaker 1: of Trump attorney Kenny the Cheese ken chesbro ordered by
Speaker 1: Trump to come to DC for January sixth, actually going
Speaker 1: so far as Trump's proxy as to have quote marched
Speaker 1: with the crowd to the Capitol and breached the restricted
Speaker 1: areas surrounding the building as the nation teeter's on chaos.
Speaker 1: Trump himself is in the White House dining room. Fox
Speaker 1: News is on the monitor. Trump is on his phone
Speaker 1: scrolling through Twitter. Smith has all of Trump's tweets and
Speaker 1: so what everybody's had those? He's had them analyzed textually,
Speaker 1: and in the filing, Jack Smith asserts they are proven
Speaker 1: private conduct, not presidential actions. Quote the phone's activity log
Speaker 1: show that the defendant was using his phone, and in particular,
Speaker 1: using the Twitter application, consistently throughout the day after he
Speaker 1: returned from the Ellipse speech. Then there is a different
Speaker 1: kind of activity log. Jack Smith says he has previously
Speaker 1: undisclosed evidence of countless interactions between Trump and Vice President Pence,
Speaker 1: which he then outlines. A call between the defendant and
Speaker 1: Pence on November seventh, the day that media organizations began
Speaker 1: to projectden Is the winner of the election. Pence tried
Speaker 1: to encourage the defendant as a friend, reminding him you
Speaker 1: took a dying political party and gave it a new
Speaker 1: lease on life. A November eleventh meeting among the defendant,
Speaker 1: Pence campaign staff and some White House staff, during which
Speaker 1: Pence asked when most of the lawsuits would be resolved,
Speaker 1: When does this come to a head unquote, and the
Speaker 1: campaign staff responded the week after Thanksgiving, A November twelfth
Speaker 1: meeting among the defendant, Pence campaign staff, and some White
Speaker 1: House staff, during which Pence recalls the campaign lawyers gave
Speaker 1: a sober and somewhat pessimistic report on the state of
Speaker 1: election challenges. A private lunch on November twelfth, in which
Speaker 1: Pence reiterated a face saving option for the defendant, don't concede,
Speaker 1: but recognize process is over. A private lunch on November sixteenth,
Speaker 1: in which Pence tried to encourage the defendant to accept
Speaker 1: the results of the election and run again in twenty
Speaker 1: two twenty four, to which the defendant responded, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four is so far off. A November twenty
Speaker 1: third phone call in which the defendant told Pence that
Speaker 1: the defendant's private attorney P. Seventy six was not optimistic
Speaker 1: about the election challenges. A December twenty first private lunch
Speaker 1: in which Pence encouraged the defendant quote not to look
Speaker 1: at the election as a loss, just an intermission. This
Speaker 1: was followed later in the day by a private discussion
Speaker 1: in the Oval office in which the defendant asked Pence,
Speaker 1: what do you think we should do? Pence said, after
Speaker 1: we have exhausted every legal process in the courts and Congress,
Speaker 1: if we still come up short, the defendant should take
Speaker 1: a bow. It's not a loss. It's an intermission. They're
Speaker 1: not jeering you, they're saying boo ump. And what happened
Speaker 1: after all this? After Pence turned his hair white trying
Speaker 1: to convince Trump. Quote. On December twenty eighth, CC two
Speaker 1: that's co conspirator, co conspirator five, and co Conspirator six
Speaker 1: exchanged text messages in which CC two expressed concern that
Speaker 1: Gomer versus Pence, a lawsuit filed that day before, they
Speaker 1: asserted that Pence had the discretion to choose electoral votes
Speaker 1: during the certification proceeding would prompt a federal court to
Speaker 1: publicly reject and thus preclude the plan that the conspirators
Speaker 1: were advancing in private. Thereafter, at eleven am on January first,
Speaker 1: the defendant called Pence to berate him because he had
Speaker 1: learned that Pence had filed a brief opposing the relief
Speaker 1: sought in Gomert. When Pence explained, as he had before,
Speaker 1: that he did not believe that he had the power
Speaker 1: under the Constitution to decide which votes to accept, the
Speaker 1: defendant told him that quote, hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 1: are gonna hate your guts, and people are gonna think
Speaker 1: you're stupid, and berated him pointedly, you're too honest. I
Speaker 1: will never admire Mike Pence, and I will never forgive him.
Speaker 1: And while I suppose I would immunize him for the trial.
Speaker 1: I will never say he did what the vice president
Speaker 1: of the United States should have done at that time,
Speaker 1: as opposed to say, the vice president of the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: which was to go public with these events as they
Speaker 1: happened and secure the nation and thus himself. But I
Speaker 1: will confess it is almost poignant to see how long
Speaker 1: Mike Pence thought he could somehow find a human being
Speaker 1: inside Donald Trump's body. He must have still been trying
Speaker 1: when word got to him that some of Trump's supporters
Speaker 1: were out there outside the Capitol building and building the
Speaker 1: gallows just for him. Still, the Pence quote are not
Speaker 1: nearly as satisfying as the Amy Coney Barrett quote. That's right,
Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett. Why that's Amy Coney Barrett's name, Justice
Speaker 1: Amy Cony Barrett, the Trump appointee. Smith's point number two,
Speaker 1: Even if the conduct were deemed official, the government could
Speaker 1: rebut the presumption of immunity. In any event, even if
Speaker 1: the defendant's efforts to convene fraudulent electors could be considered official,
Speaker 1: the presumption would be rebutted because quote, a president has
Speaker 1: no legal authority and thus no official capacity to influence
Speaker 1: how the states appoint their electors. Un quote, and accordingly,
Speaker 1: there is quote no plausible argument for barring prosecution of
Speaker 1: that alleged conduct. Barrett Jay concurring, in part, while Congress
Speaker 1: has a limited role in the appointment of presidential electors,
Speaker 1: the president has none. The case and each part of
Speaker 1: the case, and each page of the Smith filing, the
Speaker 1: case against Trump is inarguable. It is moral and thorough
Speaker 1: and legally impervious. And of course none of that matters anymore,
Speaker 1: because the point of Donald Trump is to enable individual
Speaker 1: human beings in this country to behave as if they
Speaker 1: were themselves, corporations to behave as if right or wrong,
Speaker 1: innocence or guilt, responsibility or subversion, or any other questions
Speaker 1: of the morality of an individual's personal conduct is irrelevant.
Speaker 1: That there are only two emotions remaining in the world,
Speaker 1: greed and a calculation about how much of this I
Speaker 1: can get away with. There may never be a Trump
Speaker 1: trial because a Trump election would erase the chance of it,
Speaker 1: and with that would erase the entirety, the entirety of
Speaker 1: justice in the United States of America, and with that
Speaker 1: erased the entirety of the United States of America. Perhaps
Speaker 1: worse yet, a Trump election might lead to everything in
Speaker 1: Smith's filing being addressed in some kind of sham trial
Speaker 1: somewhere in which the Supreme Court or whoever would replace
Speaker 1: Jack Smith and Tanya Chutkin when Trump disappears them, would
Speaker 1: go through each of these one hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: pages and call everything P five did official and subject
Speaker 1: to presidential immunity, and state everything Mike Pence said communications
Speaker 1: with his Majesty President Trump, which may not be quoted
Speaker 1: on penalty of death in the real United States of America,
Speaker 1: the one we still have. This is enough for anybody
Speaker 1: who reads it to demand not just that Trump be
Speaker 1: tried and convicted and imprisoned for life, but that even
Speaker 1: at this late date, right now, he'd be removed from
Speaker 1: the presidential ballot by any legal means available. The problem
Speaker 1: is the real United States has already been damaged enough
Speaker 1: by Trump, Advance and Pence and the Supreme Court and
Speaker 1: every last one of them, that such a moral, patriotic
Speaker 1: action is virtually impossible even now, And if Harris and
Speaker 1: Walls lose on November fifth, it will be utterly impossible thereafter.
Speaker 1: If Harris and Walls lose on November fifth, it will
Speaker 1: be utterly impossible thereafter, unless with a day to think
Speaker 1: about it, I'm beginning to doubt. I really understand now
Speaker 1: what jd Vance was doing during that vice presidential debate. Oh,
Speaker 1: he lied, he foretold in America dedicated to prejudice, hatred, superstition.
Speaker 1: He looked, as I said, like an Amway salesman, an eyeliner.
Speaker 1: But he rejected. If not Trump, certainly, then he rejected
Speaker 1: Trump's entire persona, his entire reason for being, the hatred
Speaker 1: that fuels Trump and so many who are enslaved to Trump.
Speaker 1: At first glance, it sounded like a good way of
Speaker 1: selling the Trump agenda to those rejecting it out of
Speaker 1: hand because of the state of the Trump perversions. But
Speaker 1: at the core here Trump is insane, and with each
Speaker 1: passing day it is evident that his paranoia and his
Speaker 1: delusions of grandeur, and his conviction that he is omnipotent
Speaker 1: and perfect, these things are increasing. Why would Trump ever
Speaker 1: go along with something like that performance by jd Vance
Speaker 1: that did not serve to sell the fiction of Trump perfection?
Speaker 1: Did jd Vance freelance that part? I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: think this one through long and hard. But I wonder
Speaker 1: if JD. Vance revealed a side hustle during the vice
Speaker 1: presidential debate, is he could he be potentially running a
Speaker 1: coup against Trump. I don't mean something before the election.
Speaker 1: I mean a coup with multiple landing points in the future,
Speaker 1: in which it could be Vance who takes over the
Speaker 1: Trump cult. If Trump is beaten, takes it over. If
Speaker 1: Trump really meant what he said about not running again,
Speaker 1: if he loses, takes it over by force. Even if
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't mean that, the great gaping hole in the
Speaker 1: entire decade long Trump conspiracy is that there is nobody
Speaker 1: there to succeed him. His children are idiots. The congressmen
Speaker 1: are all Derek van Orden and Clay Higgins, and they
Speaker 1: all fail the central casting test in a different way.
Speaker 1: The other option, of course, is that if Trump wins,
Speaker 1: do you really think, having watched him, that this Vance
Speaker 1: would hesitate to lead a palace revolt to at some
Speaker 1: point next year twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven to
Speaker 1: invoke the twenty fifth Amendment. The moment Trump starts speaking
Speaker 1: in tongues, or he falls over during a speech, or
Speaker 1: he gets pushed over during speech. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of poll numbers about that debate now, and they divide
Speaker 1: into three categories. The first is a true interior number.
Speaker 1: CNN asked how many who watched felt the debate had
Speaker 1: led them to change their minds about which ticket they
Speaker 1: would vote for, and the total was one percent. Since
Speaker 1: the television ratings have come in at forty three million,
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand viewers, one percent of that is four
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two thousand view voters. Sounds kind of high. Actually,
Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty two thousand votes is a lot
Speaker 1: until you realize that the one percent that changed their
Speaker 1: minds counts those who were voting for Trump and are
Speaker 1: now voting for Harris, and those who were voting for
Speaker 1: Harrison are now voting for Trump. Even if they split
Speaker 1: sixty forty towards Trump, say, the net impact would be
Speaker 1: that Trump gained eighty six thousand votes, like the maximum
Speaker 1: theoretical change last debate of the series eighty six thousand votes.
Speaker 1: Second poll number who won Nearly all polling by Everybody
Speaker 1: showed a tie or a virtual tie. The CBS poll
Speaker 1: was literally forty one forty one with eighteen percent undecided,
Speaker 1: but to employ the old cliche. The game was not
Speaker 1: as close as the score suggested, because virtually all of
Speaker 1: the interior numbers favored Tim Walls. If needed, Are they
Speaker 1: prepared to be President prepared? Walls sixty percent, not prepared
Speaker 1: forty percent, Vance prepared fifty five percent not prepared forty
Speaker 1: five percent. That's a twenty to ten difference. Who did
Speaker 1: a better job talking about abortion? Walls sixty two thirty
Speaker 1: eight about healthcare, Walls fifty nine to forty one About
Speaker 1: conflict in the Middle East? Tide about the economy vanced
Speaker 1: by two points. About immigration, advanced by four points. The
Speaker 1: cell of the Trump campaign economy and immigration, Vance only
Speaker 1: outpolled Walls by a total of six percentage points. There
Speaker 1: is no question Vance lowered his unfavorables Tuesday night. That
Speaker 1: was the idea. He's now at forty nine forty seven.
Speaker 1: He's above water. But Walls lowered his unfavorables too. He
Speaker 1: was fifty two to forty one before the debate per CBS.
Speaker 1: That was plus eleven, and afterwards he was sixty to
Speaker 1: thirty five plus twenty five plus twenty five. The CNN
Speaker 1: poll asking the same question now has Walls at fifty
Speaker 1: nine percent favorable and only twenty two percent unfavorable. That's
Speaker 1: plus thirty Who in the hell is plus thirty seven anymore?
Speaker 1: I mean, do we need to talk about making Tim
Speaker 1: Walls the presidential nominee? I mean, can you do that?
Speaker 1: Could you somehow someday promote the vice presidential nominee and
Speaker 1: make them the presidential never mind? Never? I never mind
Speaker 1: never I never I. Also of interest, here, Vance's whiney
Speaker 1: complaint about the rules where you guys weren't going to
Speaker 1: fact check did not universally go viral, but at least
Speaker 1: nobody with a reputation to uphold took his side when
Speaker 1: the moderators cut him off for lying about the Haitian ohioans. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna have to define reputation because there
Speaker 1: is somebody who was once actually entrusted with a prime
Speaker 1: time hour on CNN who is insisting that Vance was
Speaker 1: right and the moderators were wrong. That's next. This is countdown.
Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead of us
Speaker 1: on this edition of Countdown. I saw her on TV
Speaker 1: somewhere recently, and then somebody actually mentioned him yesterday to me.
Speaker 1: We used to go skiing with him. We're not friends
Speaker 1: with him anymore, And I flashed back to the day
Speaker 1: that featured both of them, the day that was the
Speaker 1: greatest fault off from possibility to reality in my life
Speaker 1: so far, because the day I die will be worse him.
Speaker 1: He was the guy who ran Countdown project at Current
Speaker 1: TV into the ground. I tried to hire Mattow and Hayes.
Speaker 1: He hired jenk Yuger. She for once, I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about somebody I did not go out on a
Speaker 1: date with Uma Thurman, and things I promised not to
Speaker 1: tell coming up first, there are still more new idiots
Speaker 1: to talk about in the daily roundup of the miscreants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst
Speaker 1: persons in the world. Lebron's Worst. Diamond Sports and Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball Baseball playoffs started on TV day before yesterday,
Speaker 1: so naturally, exactly what Baseball wants right now is stories
Speaker 1: about how at least eight of its team's telecasts next
Speaker 1: year just got canceled by the TV company that was
Speaker 1: supposedly going to carry them. Oops. It's Diamond part of
Speaker 1: Sinclair Broadcasting, the part that operates the Bally regional sports
Speaker 1: networks that took over when ESPN bought out the Fox
Speaker 1: Regional Sports Networks. And then ESPN said, what the hell
Speaker 1: did we do that for? And during the endless court
Speaker 1: hearings about the bankruptcy of Diamond yesterday, the lawyer for
Speaker 1: Diamond suddenly announced that of it's remaining dozen contracts with
Speaker 1: big league clubs, it will only actually pursue and broadcast
Speaker 1: the games of one of them, the Atlanta Braves, so Anaheim, Cincinnati, Detroit,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Miami, Milwaukee, Saint Louis, and Tampa Bay. Right now,
Speaker 1: you don't have TV carriers for next year. Even though
Speaker 1: each of the teams thought they had contracts with Diamond,
Speaker 1: there were already three teams without deals for twenty twenty five, Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Texas. The thing is, Baseball admitted it knew
Speaker 1: nothing about Diamond doing this, about Diamond canceling the broadcast
Speaker 1: until the Diamond lawyer said so in court. We were sandbagged,
Speaker 1: said Baseball's lawyer, which, if you know anything about how
Speaker 1: baseball is run under its commissioner, Rob Manfred, should not
Speaker 1: surprise you in the least. The other thing is of
Speaker 1: the eleven now homeless TV list clubs Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee constitute one third of all the teams in
Speaker 1: this year's baseball playoffs. These are the successful teams losing
Speaker 1: their TV homes because Baseball on TV is dying, because
Speaker 1: baseball has completely screwed up its business model, because baseball
Speaker 1: has emphasized making money today rather than giving up a
Speaker 1: little of it to push and market interest in the
Speaker 1: game as a whole, so that maybe you will watch
Speaker 1: a game even if it is not your team playing,
Speaker 1: or even if you don't have a bet down on
Speaker 1: the damn teams playing. The third thing is the people
Speaker 1: behind all this are from Sinclair Broadcasting. And if that
Speaker 1: name sounds familiar, it should. It's the biggest bunch of
Speaker 1: conservative propagandist trumpest craphound going. And so if the fans
Speaker 1: of the Guardians, Rangers, Twins, Angels, Reds, Tigers, Royals, Marlins, Brewers,
Speaker 1: Cardinals and Rays need to blame somebody, blame the far
Speaker 1: right and its bottomless pit of greed and self interest,
Speaker 1: they'll do something. They'll be on TV next year. But
Speaker 1: right now those teams have the identical TV contracts as
Speaker 1: do the Altunas of the eighteen eighty four Union Association
Speaker 1: Altuna Altuna had a Major League Baseball team, Altuna, Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: and by the way, Baseball. Also, while we're here, congratulations
Speaker 1: on putting those garish, greedy, ugly ads on the playoff
Speaker 1: batting helmets like you said you would. Special congratulations on
Speaker 1: placing them just perfectly on the side of the helmets
Speaker 1: so that they are almost always totally obscured by the
Speaker 1: reflection off the lights in all the stadiums, so we
Speaker 1: can't read the name of the advertiser. So with the
Speaker 1: light streaks over it, the advertiser's name in big block
Speaker 1: letters looks like it's E fooe E foo ee e foy,
Speaker 1: leading manufacturer of beard curlers in the Midwest, I believe,
Speaker 1: brought to you by E fooee. Vita Jects. Why don't
Speaker 1: you do ads for Vita Jects? Get that Vita Jects?
Speaker 1: Feeling lonesome roads the runner up worser. Speaking of bottomless
Speaker 1: pits of greed, there's Fox News, and we all know
Speaker 1: about it's greed and it's self interest, but often we
Speaker 1: overlook the fact that Fox News teams with stupid people,
Speaker 1: I mean with a name like older women. I'm actually
Speaker 1: reluctant to mock almost any other name in human language.
Speaker 1: But for God's sake, if you were a newscaster and
Speaker 1: your last name was spelled as m n, would you
Speaker 1: change it? I mean, I thought about changing Olderman when
Speaker 1: I was still in college. I went on the air
Speaker 1: once as Keith Owen, and it sounded so stupid I
Speaker 1: went to screw it. I don't mind the name, but
Speaker 1: I mean, if your name was asma N, would you
Speaker 1: change it? I know he pronounces it Asman, but good grief,
Speaker 1: it looks like Assman, as in Good Evening. I'm David
Speaker 1: Asman with behind the scenes info. David Asman just does
Speaker 1: not write as that choice would suggest. Brit Hume, the
Speaker 1: oldest and absolutely not the wisest of the Fox fascists,
Speaker 1: praise the work of the disgraced sexual harassment and abuse
Speaker 1: king Mark Halperin, who had criticized CBS fact checking in
Speaker 1: the VP debate, because, as Halprin knows from the end
Speaker 1: of his career, truth is fatal to evil bastards like
Speaker 1: Trump and Hume and Mark Halperin. By the way, you
Speaker 1: know how old Brit Hume is. He's two hundred and six.
Speaker 1: In any event, Hume screenshotted some of Halprin's bitter new fascism,
Speaker 1: his revenge against the left wing media world that he
Speaker 1: thinks shunned him, when in fact Alprin is lucky he's
Speaker 1: not serving a life sentence for his actions anyway. Finally,
Speaker 1: to the point, David Asman responded to Hume praising this
Speaker 1: dick Halprin by saying Halprin was quote again, this is
Speaker 1: Asman writing one of the few who could write truly
Speaker 1: great books like A Soldier of the Great War and
Speaker 1: also do great journalism. Sadly, no, A Soldier of the
Speaker 1: Great War is a book written by Mark Helprin h
Speaker 1: E l p r i N, who has never been
Speaker 1: Mark Halperin h A l p e r i N,
Speaker 1: Mark Helprin, who has never been accused of greeting fellow
Speaker 1: employees at ABC News while he wasn't wearing any pants. Apparently,
Speaker 1: David Assman just assumed Mark Halpern bad Guy and Mark
Speaker 1: Helprin good Guy are the same person, because David Assman
Speaker 1: is a dedicated newsman who can't tell his ass man
Speaker 1: from his elbow man, which is the perfect segue to
Speaker 1: the winner the worst. Chris Effing Cuomo, Holy crap, the
Speaker 1: disgraced XCNN anchor has dropped down to the ranks of
Speaker 1: the nicked. Night of News News Nation, the retirement home
Speaker 1: for ex newscasters where management tells them, no, you still
Speaker 1: have viewers, You still have an audience. If you didn't,
Speaker 1: why would we have all these lights on in here.
Speaker 1: This is a network which has nearly as many viewers
Speaker 1: as this podcast has listeners. Chris Cuomo, desperate broken, addressed
Speaker 1: the VP debate moment where JB. Vance uttered the immortal
Speaker 1: words the rules were you guys weren't gonna affect check
Speaker 1: the debate equivalent of you're not allowed to stop me
Speaker 1: from lying. Cuomo explained, no, Vance wasn't lying. Quote. Vance
Speaker 1: wanted to correct something about how Haitians got into this country,
Speaker 1: and he was right. Cuomo then played the clip in
Speaker 1: which Vance lied again about the legal status of the
Speaker 1: Haitians and again pushed the lie that nearly got a
Speaker 1: Trump loving Maga family in Ohio killed because the father
Speaker 1: and that family defended his Haitian immigrant employees in Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 1: And then Cuomo came back from the bite and said, well,
Speaker 1: there you have it and look, Vance was right. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's nuance to it, But the bigger problem was why
Speaker 1: was he moved on? We've got so much to get to,
Speaker 1: says who you know what I mean, what is the
Speaker 1: schedule here? So you have a list of topics, That's
Speaker 1: not what it's about. It's about how the American people
Speaker 1: can access these two men and the two theories and
Speaker 1: the narratives. And you got to let them have speak
Speaker 1: because now you created a story where you're the problem.
Speaker 1: Well number one, no, you don't have to let them
Speaker 1: have speak. If one of them is just lying and
Speaker 1: trying to get people killed, you don't have to let
Speaker 1: that happen. Maybe if you knew that, Chris, you might
Speaker 1: still be working at CNN or ABC and not at
Speaker 1: News News Nation. News Nation is the smallest nation in
Speaker 1: the world in television terms. It's Luxembourg. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is Vance was not right. Vance's argument is that
Speaker 1: laws were waived to allow these immigrants to come here
Speaker 1: and stay here, which means they're here legally, and that
Speaker 1: if he and Trump are elected, they will enforce those
Speaker 1: laws in different ways, and these people who are here
Speaker 1: legally now suddenly will not be here legally and they
Speaker 1: will be guilty of not being here legally and they
Speaker 1: will be deported. And in the interim Vance's argument, his narrative,
Speaker 1: as this buffoon Cuomo calls it, is that the immigrants
Speaker 1: are eating cats and dogs. And if maga psychopaths want
Speaker 1: to go to Ohio and threaten them or kill them,
Speaker 1: or threaten or kill those defending them, or in this case,
Speaker 1: threaten or kill the fourteen year old daughters of those
Speaker 1: defending them, that's fine by him because he's JV. Vance,
Speaker 1: snake oil salesman. This is what Chris Cuomo claims, is
Speaker 1: Nuance Advance being right. Now, it's two theories, and now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, on top of all of this,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to listen to Chris Cuomo about journalistic ethics
Speaker 1: and political ethics. When Chris Cuomo's response to his brother's
Speaker 1: corruption as governor of New York was to ignore it
Speaker 1: on the air or to cover it up on the
Speaker 1: air and then privately offer media advice to his brother,
Speaker 1: and when CNN finally figured out Chris Cuomo was destroying
Speaker 1: their credibility on this vital story, instead of taking him
Speaker 1: off their network or least putting somebody else on the
Speaker 1: air for a few minutes every night on his show
Speaker 1: to cover the Andrew Cuomo scandals so Chris Cuomo didn't
Speaker 1: have to do it. CNN's answer to this was to
Speaker 1: just have Chris Cuomo never mention the story at all,
Speaker 1: which was a passive aggressive way of downplaying the scandal
Speaker 1: even further and letting Andrew Cuomo get away with it
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But sure, Chris, you tell me
Speaker 1: what's right and wrong here? The statute of limitations on
Speaker 1: being right and wrong says, surely elapsed since twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: hasn't it. Maybe you'll get it right this time, since
Speaker 1: this one doesn't involve any of your own relatives. I've
Speaker 1: mentioned before that the desire to be on television, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to doing the news, is a psychological illness.
Speaker 1: I confess if you recognize this, yes, you're probably still
Speaker 1: in control. If you don't, and it becomes not a
Speaker 1: desire but a need to be on TV, you wind
Speaker 1: up going on a channel that is propaganda for the
Speaker 1: far right dressed up as independent journalism that nobody watches,
Speaker 1: and you start spouting excuses for Trump and Advance and
Speaker 1: the rest of the fascists excuses so nauseating that if
Speaker 1: your father were still alive to hear it, he'd slap
Speaker 1: you in the face. This is where Chris Cuomo is
Speaker 1: that and the fact that by looking at the tape
Speaker 1: of him saying this last night three or four times,
Speaker 1: I constituted a measurable percentage of his audience. Chris Cuomo,
Speaker 1: who is prostituting himself and whatever he thinks he used
Speaker 1: to stand for two days, worst person in the world.
Speaker 1: And now to the number one story on the Countdown
Speaker 1: and my favorite topic, me and I saw her on
Speaker 1: TV recently, so I flashed back and shuddered all over again. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's things I promised not to tell. I suspect that
Speaker 1: until the day I actually die. No day will have
Speaker 1: started so well with such promise, yet ended so badly
Speaker 1: with such a clanging thud as Wednesday, July twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: twenty eleven did. Near midnight two nights earlier, I had
Speaker 1: just entered my New York apartment back from a New
Speaker 1: York Yankees game, when the last landline telephone I ever
Speaker 1: owned began to ring, Hi, Keith, it's uma, Yeah, how
Speaker 1: many UMAs could there be? It? Was the actress Uma Thurman.
Speaker 1: We had texted briefly, we had never met, we had
Speaker 1: never spoken. We spoke for ninety minutes, and she was
Speaker 1: self deprecating and vulnerable and razor sharp warm, and she
Speaker 1: invited me to coffee on the afternoon of D Day, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: July twenty seven, twenty eleven, one of the producers I
Speaker 1: had hired to do the new version of Countdown on
Speaker 1: Al Gore's network, Current TV, happened to know Uma Thurman
Speaker 1: from the gym. Erica Ferrari was her name, and she
Speaker 1: was great, and she and Uma Thurman had become close
Speaker 1: enough that Uma had unloaded all her relationship issues on Erica.
Speaker 1: And the next thing I knew, Erica was in my
Speaker 1: office explaining to me that when she explained to Uma
Speaker 1: where she worked and with whom, Uma said the Keith Olderman.
Speaker 1: And now I was being set up for drinks or
Speaker 1: dinner or coffee or something with Uma Thurman. So this
Speaker 1: seemed like a good day. Then two nights earlier we
Speaker 1: had finally had had this marvelous, warm conversation, and Uma
Speaker 1: Thurman had suggested coffee and Wednesday in two thirty or so,
Speaker 1: in one of the two or three places in Midtown
Speaker 1: near my studio, and she'd text me with details and
Speaker 1: she couldn't wait. Slaneously with this, the CEO of the
Speaker 1: Current TV network, Mark Rosenthal, called me up and invited
Speaker 1: me to dinner on Wednesday, July twenty seventh, twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: going to be a busy day. Al Gore and Current
Speaker 1: had hired me even before I left MSNBC. That was
Speaker 1: what that was all about. And I had met and
Speaker 1: gotten to know everybody in the organization over the following
Speaker 1: six months before we finally got the show on the
Speaker 1: air in June. We got off to a good start,
Speaker 1: even though Current TV was available only in low def
Speaker 1: digital cable. On its first night, Countdown on Current beat
Speaker 1: both MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell's Show and CNN's Elliott Spitzer Show,
Speaker 1: and the so called demo ratings measuring viewers eighteen to
Speaker 1: fifty four. But by July twenty seventh, twenty eleven, so
Speaker 1: like two months later, it was evident to me that
Speaker 1: the network was run by four kinds of people. One
Speaker 1: the CEO Rosenthal, who used to be at MTV and
Speaker 1: knew what he was doing. Two some dilettants who did
Speaker 1: not know how to plug in a television, let alone
Speaker 1: put stuff on one. Three co owner Al Gore, who
Speaker 1: meant well but who had absolutely no judgment when it
Speaker 1: came to business partners. And four in a class by himself.
Speaker 1: Gore's business partner Joel Hyatt, who had made one superb
Speaker 1: business decision in nineteen seventy seven that earned him billions
Speaker 1: of dollars, and he sold everything and then it earned
Speaker 1: him billions of dollars again. But he had literally never
Speaker 1: gotten anything right since nineteen seventy seven, while at the
Speaker 1: same time thinking he had never gotten anything wrong since
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven. He was a liberal. Unfortunately he was
Speaker 1: a liberal Donald Trump. What was worse was that of
Speaker 1: all these people, only Mark Rosenthal understood how ruinously incompetent
Speaker 1: Joel Hyatt really was. Rosenthal had been president of MTV
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety six through two thousand and four, and
Speaker 1: whatever you thought of all those reality shows and the
Speaker 1: Real World and stuff like that, they were successes. He
Speaker 1: knew what he was doing, and he knew Joel Hyatt didn't.
Speaker 1: And Mark Rosenthal had invited me to dinner as soon
Speaker 1: as my show was over on Wednesday night, July twenty seven,
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, about seven hours after I was scheduled to
Speaker 1: have coffee with Uma Thurman as a dry run for
Speaker 1: a date, and Rosenthal told me he had figured out
Speaker 1: how we could in effect take control of the Current
Speaker 1: TV network away from this Joel Hyat and not only
Speaker 1: exploit the good start Countdown had made, but build on
Speaker 1: it and make Current TV into the liberal news network
Speaker 1: we had been intending to create and knew would be
Speaker 1: a success. Dinner would be our chance for him to
Speaker 1: explain it to me, to hatch our plan. It was
Speaker 1: a big, big day. I think without me going into detail,
Speaker 1: you intuitively get the Uma Thurman part of what July
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, twenty eleven was supposed to be. But I
Speaker 1: need to put a little bit more meat on the
Speaker 1: bones of why it was so important at Current T.
Speaker 1: This is who this guy Hyatt was, that same producer
Speaker 1: who was doing her best to set up Uma Thurman
Speaker 1: and me Erica. She walked in one day, white as
Speaker 1: the sheet of paper she was carrying at arms length,
Speaker 1: as if it had been printed in bubonic plague she
Speaker 1: had found while surfing around internet archives. A New York
Speaker 1: Times article about this Joel Hyatt an article from April thirteen,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety. You remember the movie Philadelphia, where the evil
Speaker 1: head of law firm portrayed by the actor Jason Robards
Speaker 1: had fired the head of his Philadelphia office played by
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks because the Hanks character had aids and Hanks's
Speaker 1: character got as he his lawyer, a character played by
Speaker 1: Denzel Washington. Well, this guy who co owned Current TV
Speaker 1: with Al Gore. He was the Jason Robard's character he
Speaker 1: had fired from his law firm Hiatt Legal Services the
Speaker 1: head of his Philadelphia office, Clarence B. Kin after finding
Speaker 1: out Clarence B. Kane had a In fact, reality was
Speaker 1: actually worse than the Philadelphia movie. In real life, Clarence B.
Speaker 1: Kane was also African American. The time story that Erica
Speaker 1: Ferrari handed me like it was printed on razor Blades,
Speaker 1: recounted how a federal judge had not only ordered Hyatt
Speaker 1: Legal Services to pay mister Kane one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars plus costs, but how it had ordered
Speaker 1: them to pay him immediately, like in the next couple days.
Speaker 1: This was harrowing enough, but the final paragraph made my
Speaker 1: head swim. Quote. What pained him most, mister Hyatt said,
Speaker 1: was the notion that his firm discriminated. He noted how
Speaker 1: it had, after all, named a gay black man to
Speaker 1: run one of its major offices, something no law firm
Speaker 1: its size has ever knowingly done. Quote. What's totally lost
Speaker 1: in the shuffle is that this is an organization in
Speaker 1: which anyone can succeed, he said. No one has written
Speaker 1: about that. That was this guy Hyatt in a nutshell.
Speaker 1: He fired a gay black man who was dying of AIDS.
Speaker 1: But he knew who the real victim here was himself.
Speaker 1: And it's not like Hyatt had improved over the years.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned. The Night Countdown premiered on Current TV
Speaker 1: June twentieth, twenty eleven. We beat MSNBC and CNN in
Speaker 1: the ratings, but we didn't know it. The next day,
Speaker 1: our ratings showed that we had beaten CNN and just
Speaker 1: missed beating O'Donnell on MSNBC. A few weeks later, one
Speaker 1: of those networks got a friendly reporter to write a
Speaker 1: story about how since the debut, our ratings on Current
Speaker 1: had sunk, which was to be expected and which was
Speaker 1: a totally legitimate competitive thing for the MSNBC guys to do,
Speaker 1: But the numbers were all wrong. The ratings for Countdown
Speaker 1: that were included in the pro CNN pro MSNBC story
Speaker 1: were somehow higher than the ratings we saw every day
Speaker 1: at current. If I'm not clear about this, the story
Speaker 1: said that, say, on Monday, July eleventh, we had had
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand demo viewers. Buttings the ratings we got
Speaker 1: from the Nielsen company, they said that on Monday July seventh,
Speaker 1: we didn't have one hundred thousand demo viewers when I
Speaker 1: had seventy five thousand demo viewers. Well, something was really
Speaker 1: really wrong here. So when Hyatt called me for our
Speaker 1: weekly phone chat, I said, look, there's something wrong with
Speaker 1: the ratings. And I explained the article to him and
Speaker 1: he said, oh, I knew they were going to do that,
Speaker 1: show how your ratings had dropped. And I said, no,
Speaker 1: you're missing my point. They say we had higher ratings
Speaker 1: than we actually did. Oh. I knew they were going
Speaker 1: to do that too, he said, with even more condescension.
Speaker 1: And I said, why would they do that? Why would
Speaker 1: they try to make us look better? Oh? I knew
Speaker 1: they were going to do that too, just too. Then
Speaker 1: there was a long pause while Joel Hyatt made something
Speaker 1: up just to mess with us. I asked him, since
Speaker 1: he had personally purchased the ratings package from the Nielsen Company,
Speaker 1: the first ratings in the history of current TV, if
Speaker 1: he could just review for me what he remembered of
Speaker 1: the process. Well, I went in and made an excellent deal.
Speaker 1: I saved two thousand dollars on their initial price point.
Speaker 1: This man was worth a couple of billion dollars. They
Speaker 1: wanted us to buy not just the live ratings, but
Speaker 1: something called live plus Divver. I thought for a moment Divver,
Speaker 1: I said, you mean live plus DVR. He laughed, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's it, Divver. What the hell is divver? You just
Speaker 1: use the live ratings, and TV everybody knows that. I
Speaker 1: explained to him that divver ratings were comparatively new, about
Speaker 1: three four years old at that point. They added to
Speaker 1: the live rating people who would watch the show on
Speaker 1: their DVR within twenty four hours of having recorded it.
Speaker 1: He had bought the ratings that did not include all
Speaker 1: of those people, so that when we got what we
Speaker 1: thought were our ratings for our premiere night, when we
Speaker 1: beat CNN and almost beat MSNBC, but just missed. We
Speaker 1: didn't just miss. The ratings package this idiot Higatt had
Speaker 1: bought did not include anybody who watched the show on
Speaker 1: their DVRs, and that cost us the chance to come
Speaker 1: out and say we beat CNN MSNBC the first night
Speaker 1: with this crappy, low deaf picture down on chair of
Speaker 1: channel hundred and three. But more importantly, it saved this
Speaker 1: billionaire idiot Hiatt two thousand dollars. So Mark Rosenthal was
Speaker 1: taking me to dinner hours after I was to have
Speaker 1: coffee with Uma Thurman to explain how we could get
Speaker 1: rid of this idiot who thought DVR meant divver. Thus
Speaker 1: was July twenty seventh, twenty eleven going to be one
Speaker 1: of the turning points in my life. And then about
Speaker 1: one forty five, just when Uma said she was going
Speaker 1: to text me to tell me where to meet her
Speaker 1: for coffee, she texted me, all right, She texted me
Speaker 1: to explain her rehearsal was running along and she had
Speaker 1: to postpone. And while I was reading between those lines
Speaker 1: and knowing that that actually met she was going back
Speaker 1: with her boyfriend or her her husband, or whoever, he
Speaker 1: was a company. Email came into all of our inboxes,
Speaker 1: and even before I opened it, I could hear mass
Speaker 1: groaning coming from my newsroom, Mark Rosenthal seven hours before
Speaker 1: our dinner to plot how to root around Joel Diver
Speaker 1: slash Jason Robard's in Philadelphia Slash. I saved two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars Hyatt. Mark Rosenthal had been fired and he'd been
Speaker 1: replaced as CEO of Current TV effective immediately by co
Speaker 1: owner Joel Hyatt. Well, holy Divver, it'd be a better
Speaker 1: story if I never saw Mark Rosenthal or Uma Thurman
Speaker 1: again in my life, but it wouldn't be true. I
Speaker 1: saw Mark many times. And then four years later, I
Speaker 1: was at a New York recording studio doing the voice
Speaker 1: of the newsman character Tom Jumbo Grumbo on the Great
Speaker 1: animated series BoJack Horseman. When one of the other studio
Speaker 1: doors opened an outstep to Uma Thurman, radiant, elegant. I
Speaker 1: introduced myself. She smiled, she said she was a fan.
Speaker 1: She laughed, and she said, you know, we must have
Speaker 1: coffee sometime. Dipper, what the dollar's Dipper? I saved eleven dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a mistake. That was not leaving MSNBC.
Speaker 1: I had to leave MSNBC and not taking the money.
Speaker 1: I like the money, but boy, was this guy an idiot.
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week,
Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Once again, there is
Speaker 1: a Monday Countdown. Please send this podcast to somebody who
Speaker 1: doesn't listen but should, and as I bash Chris Cuomo's audience.
Speaker 1: Relative to the size of this podcast, this podcast has
Speaker 1: a larger audience than Countdown on Current TV had. Brian
Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillip Shaneil, the musical directors of Countdown, arranged, produced,
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music, and they update it continuously.
Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on
Speaker 1: the guitars, bass, drums, and musical innovations was produced by
Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fithy musical comments are by
Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports
Speaker 1: music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two. It was
Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other
Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group, no horns allowed.
Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything
Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for today.
Speaker 1: Four weeks and five days until the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: presidential election and the one thousand, three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: seventh day since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first attempted
Speaker 1: coup against the democratically all government of the United States.
Speaker 1: Use the election, use the Jack Smith filing, use the
Speaker 1: mental health system, use presidential immunity if we have to
Speaker 1: to keep him from doing it again. Wow is douncan?
Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news
Speaker 1: requires till the next one. I'm Keith Olrimman. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, then good luck. Countdown with Keith
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