1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:29,355 --> 00:00:34,795 Speaker 1: Where's the Denial? Late Wednesday night, the Washington Post reported 3 00:00:34,835 --> 00:00:37,355 Speaker 1: that a month ago today, an FBI search team found 4 00:00:37,435 --> 00:00:40,755 Speaker 1: in Trump's residents unsecured at his Chinsey country club that 5 00:00:40,835 --> 00:00:44,995 Speaker 1: anybody could buy a membership to classified ultra secret U 6 00:00:45,115 --> 00:00:50,315 Speaker 1: S Intelligence document describing a foreign government's military defenses, including 7 00:00:50,315 --> 00:00:57,675 Speaker 1: its nuclear capabilities, Nuclear Cleptomania, International Nuclear Cleptomania, and the 8 00:00:57,715 --> 00:01:01,995 Speaker 1: response Well. Thursday morning, Trump reacted swiftly to the nuclear 9 00:01:02,075 --> 00:01:06,195 Speaker 1: document theft story by raging about the FBI taking his 10 00:01:06,275 --> 00:01:10,395 Speaker 1: medical records. Thursday night, Trump reacted swiftly to the nuclear 11 00:01:10,435 --> 00:01:15,395 Speaker 1: document theft story by posting on social media about caravans 12 00:01:15,395 --> 00:01:20,035 Speaker 1: of migrants. Wednesday night, Trump's spokesman reacted swiftly to the 13 00:01:20,075 --> 00:01:23,595 Speaker 1: nuclear document theft story by accusing The Washington Post of 14 00:01:23,675 --> 00:01:28,835 Speaker 1: collusion and handwringing about never ending leaks. Thursday afternoon, Trump's 15 00:01:28,835 --> 00:01:31,795 Speaker 1: attorney reacted swiftly to the nuclear document theft story by 16 00:01:32,075 --> 00:01:35,435 Speaker 1: complaining that the media keeps changing its story as to 17 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:39,795 Speaker 1: what was found at Mari Lago. Thursday afternoon, Trump's Renfield 18 00:01:39,955 --> 00:01:43,675 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham reacted swiftly to the nuclear document theft story 19 00:01:43,675 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: by demanding to know why the FBI didn't search Mari 20 00:01:47,195 --> 00:01:53,235 Speaker 1: Lagos sooner. Thursday morning, Trump's flying monkey, Marco Rubio reacted 21 00:01:53,275 --> 00:01:56,395 Speaker 1: swiftly to the nuclear document theft story by demanding to 22 00:01:56,475 --> 00:01:59,075 Speaker 1: know how the Washington Post was permitted to know about 23 00:01:59,075 --> 00:02:03,035 Speaker 1: a classified nuclear document, while also saying Trump had declassified it. 24 00:02:03,675 --> 00:02:08,755 Speaker 1: Thursday night, Trump's penny wise Kelly Anne Conway reacted swiftly 25 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:13,435 Speaker 1: to the nuclear documents theft story by railing against Hunter Biden. 26 00:02:14,995 --> 00:02:24,635 Speaker 1: Something missing here? Where's the denial? Where's just one flat denial? 27 00:02:24,675 --> 00:02:28,635 Speaker 1: Where's one person saying a document describing a foreign government's 28 00:02:28,635 --> 00:02:32,155 Speaker 1: military defense is including its nuclear capabilities. Of course Trump 29 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:38,075 Speaker 1: didn't steal that. Where if not that? Where even is 30 00:02:38,675 --> 00:02:42,875 Speaker 1: the nonsense denial? Where is the Trump is Captain America denial? 31 00:02:43,115 --> 00:02:45,235 Speaker 1: If he took anything, he only took it to protect 32 00:02:45,275 --> 00:02:49,235 Speaker 1: it because security was so laxed because democrats. I mean, 33 00:02:49,235 --> 00:02:51,795 Speaker 1: I don't want to give these idiots any ideas. I 34 00:02:51,795 --> 00:02:57,635 Speaker 1: don't think that's a particularly brainy one. But where is everybody? 35 00:02:57,675 --> 00:03:02,715 Speaker 1: Where is anybody? I mean? When I was a kid 36 00:03:03,035 --> 00:03:08,315 Speaker 1: July seventy four, the House Judiciary Committee adopted the first 37 00:03:08,435 --> 00:03:11,755 Speaker 1: article of impeachment against Richard Nixon. The vote was twenty 38 00:03:11,875 --> 00:03:16,915 Speaker 1: seven to eleven. By July, committee had adopted to more articles, 39 00:03:17,155 --> 00:03:20,995 Speaker 1: won by a wider margin than that It impeached the president. 40 00:03:21,915 --> 00:03:25,435 Speaker 1: On August five, a week after it impeached the president, 41 00:03:25,875 --> 00:03:29,755 Speaker 1: Congressman Chuck Wiggins from the most republican part of southern 42 00:03:29,755 --> 00:03:33,235 Speaker 1: California got up and insisted none of the evidence pointed 43 00:03:33,315 --> 00:03:36,675 Speaker 1: to Nixon committing any crimes, not a doubt in his 44 00:03:36,795 --> 00:03:42,395 Speaker 1: mind that Richard Nixon was innocent. Then Alexander Haig called 45 00:03:42,435 --> 00:03:43,635 Speaker 1: him over to the White House to look at a 46 00:03:43,675 --> 00:03:47,915 Speaker 1: transcript of the smoking Gun tape and said oops. And 47 00:03:48,035 --> 00:03:51,155 Speaker 1: two days later, late on August seven, the stories began 48 00:03:51,195 --> 00:03:53,195 Speaker 1: to leak that Nixon was going to resign. He announced 49 00:03:53,195 --> 00:03:56,275 Speaker 1: it on the eighth, but three days before Nixon went 50 00:03:56,355 --> 00:03:59,715 Speaker 1: down in flames in what had been the previous greatest 51 00:03:59,715 --> 00:04:04,395 Speaker 1: political scandal in American history. Three days before this, Congressman 52 00:04:04,435 --> 00:04:08,475 Speaker 1: Wiggins was still out there insisting not guilty. And after 53 00:04:08,515 --> 00:04:13,035 Speaker 1: Wiggins left Congress, they made him a judge seventy two 54 00:04:13,035 --> 00:04:17,235 Speaker 1: hours before guilty enough to resign as the president. And 55 00:04:17,275 --> 00:04:21,675 Speaker 1: he's defending Nixon, and now Lindsey Graham comes out and says, 56 00:04:21,795 --> 00:04:25,955 Speaker 1: of a story about Trump stealing documented evidence of another 57 00:04:26,155 --> 00:04:31,915 Speaker 1: nation's nuclear defense system, that of course the FBI should 58 00:04:31,915 --> 00:04:35,435 Speaker 1: have rated Trump's home sooner. I mean, what have you 59 00:04:35,475 --> 00:04:38,795 Speaker 1: got to lose at this point, Lie tell him he's innocent. 60 00:04:40,635 --> 00:04:44,595 Speaker 1: Maybe the other country is Israel and they know and 61 00:04:44,635 --> 00:04:47,635 Speaker 1: Trump and his cult are suddenly living in abject terror. 62 00:04:48,555 --> 00:04:51,395 Speaker 1: But then if that were the case, somebody would have 63 00:04:51,435 --> 00:04:58,195 Speaker 1: turned on Trump right just to save themselves, right, somebody, anybody, 64 00:04:58,835 --> 00:05:01,195 Speaker 1: anybody gonna say anything one way or the other about this, 65 00:05:02,115 --> 00:05:06,435 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell anything. Do you think it's appropriate the way 66 00:05:06,515 --> 00:05:08,995 Speaker 1: that the former president was storing those top secret and 67 00:05:08,995 --> 00:05:12,675 Speaker 1: classified documents at his private state at mar Lago. Yeah. 68 00:05:12,835 --> 00:05:15,235 Speaker 1: I don't really have any comments on this, this whole 69 00:05:15,715 --> 00:05:19,875 Speaker 1: investigation that's been dominating the news for the last month. 70 00:05:20,075 --> 00:05:24,835 Speaker 1: I think we're thoughtowing it, like all of you are documents, 71 00:05:24,915 --> 00:05:27,795 Speaker 1: Mr Leader, I mean that's important. You can have any 72 00:05:27,795 --> 00:05:30,555 Speaker 1: comment on that. No comment, But let me get back 73 00:05:30,555 --> 00:05:34,715 Speaker 1: to Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden. If there is ever 74 00:05:34,795 --> 00:05:38,915 Speaker 1: a credible report that I have stolen documentary evidence of 75 00:05:38,955 --> 00:05:43,555 Speaker 1: another nation's nuclear defense capabilities and hidden it amid my 76 00:05:43,835 --> 00:05:49,995 Speaker 1: vintage baseball cards. Will somebody, just one person, say now 77 00:05:50,035 --> 00:05:55,035 Speaker 1: I didn't do it? Just one We also await something 78 00:05:55,075 --> 00:05:57,395 Speaker 1: else the day New mount to the Steve Bannon New 79 00:05:57,475 --> 00:06:01,795 Speaker 1: York State indictment for the we Build the Wall scam 80 00:06:01,835 --> 00:06:04,675 Speaker 1: after his media statement in fact I can't wait quote 81 00:06:05,155 --> 00:06:07,315 Speaker 1: I am never going to stop fighting. In fact, I 82 00:06:07,395 --> 00:06:10,435 Speaker 1: have not yet begun to fight. They will have to 83 00:06:10,635 --> 00:06:15,875 Speaker 1: kill me first. Mm. Seems a little draconian to me, 84 00:06:16,035 --> 00:06:20,035 Speaker 1: but hey, respute and you do you We have a 85 00:06:20,035 --> 00:06:24,955 Speaker 1: new shooter today. William S. Russell not only does The 86 00:06:24,955 --> 00:06:28,355 Speaker 1: New York Times report he has been subpoenaed for some uncertain, 87 00:06:28,515 --> 00:06:31,635 Speaker 1: vague way as part of the grand jury investigation of 88 00:06:31,675 --> 00:06:35,635 Speaker 1: the events leading up to the January six coup assault 89 00:06:35,675 --> 00:06:38,515 Speaker 1: on the Capitol, but the picture they have put of 90 00:06:38,675 --> 00:06:43,675 Speaker 1: him in the newspaper of this former opts and advanced 91 00:06:43,675 --> 00:06:47,475 Speaker 1: man for Trump shows him pulling a flight bag, wearing 92 00:06:47,555 --> 00:06:50,635 Speaker 1: a shoulder bag with a copy of the Epoch Times 93 00:06:50,675 --> 00:06:54,875 Speaker 1: in it, carrying a folding portfolio, balancing a banker's box 94 00:06:55,075 --> 00:06:57,675 Speaker 1: on top what appears to be a clipboard, and hanging 95 00:06:57,715 --> 00:07:02,115 Speaker 1: onto a small paper bag which could be lunch or 96 00:07:02,155 --> 00:07:04,715 Speaker 1: could be well, I don't know a document describing of 97 00:07:04,715 --> 00:07:08,795 Speaker 1: foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities. Who's to know? 98 00:07:10,715 --> 00:07:13,115 Speaker 1: And the last note about trying to follow all this, 99 00:07:13,315 --> 00:07:18,995 Speaker 1: you do realize that before this is all over, CNN 100 00:07:19,595 --> 00:07:23,355 Speaker 1: will be giving more than half its airtime two people 101 00:07:23,395 --> 00:07:27,275 Speaker 1: apologizing for Trump, defending Trump, and making up excuses for Trump, 102 00:07:27,955 --> 00:07:31,595 Speaker 1: while CNN staffers whistled past graveyards and say things like 103 00:07:31,675 --> 00:07:34,115 Speaker 1: somebody said to Vanity Fair yesterday about the firings of 104 00:07:34,115 --> 00:07:37,795 Speaker 1: Bryan Stelter and John Harwood, two firings as a purge. 105 00:07:38,515 --> 00:07:43,515 Speaker 1: CNN is nevertheless changing before your eyes. First came the 106 00:07:43,555 --> 00:07:47,555 Speaker 1: near identical whining about Biden's marines by Brianna Keieler and 107 00:07:47,635 --> 00:07:50,875 Speaker 1: Jeff Zelney to try to hold off the internal tiger 108 00:07:50,955 --> 00:07:54,955 Speaker 1: from eating them. I am told the Anderson Cooper newscast 109 00:07:55,075 --> 00:07:58,395 Speaker 1: last night lead with Marco Rubio not defending Trump but 110 00:07:58,435 --> 00:08:00,875 Speaker 1: insisting the real crime here isn't you know, stolen nuclear 111 00:08:00,915 --> 00:08:03,395 Speaker 1: secrets about another country, but that somebody leaked it to 112 00:08:03,395 --> 00:08:06,595 Speaker 1: the Washington Post. Lead with the clip of Rubio on 113 00:08:06,675 --> 00:08:10,355 Speaker 1: Fox News, I'm told had people on to say, yes, 114 00:08:10,675 --> 00:08:14,435 Speaker 1: that's an important concern here, which as the old analogy goes, 115 00:08:14,555 --> 00:08:16,875 Speaker 1: is like saying, yes, a mouse and an elephant are 116 00:08:16,915 --> 00:08:20,075 Speaker 1: the same, They're both animals. I have to confess I 117 00:08:20,075 --> 00:08:22,795 Speaker 1: have not watched Anderson Cooper since we co anchored CNN 118 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:28,355 Speaker 1: Mornings in two thousand two. The other day, CNN had 119 00:08:28,395 --> 00:08:32,435 Speaker 1: a conservative reporter named Francesca Chambers, I think from USA 120 00:08:32,595 --> 00:08:35,875 Speaker 1: Today on and they asked her about that warm up 121 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:39,395 Speaker 1: act at the Trump rally, who talked about her political 122 00:08:39,515 --> 00:08:45,275 Speaker 1: prisoner nephew, the poor guy who's in jail, who actually 123 00:08:45,275 --> 00:08:49,315 Speaker 1: wore a Hitler mustache and a Hitler haircut and said, quote, 124 00:08:49,395 --> 00:08:52,915 Speaker 1: Hitler should have finished the job unquote, And this Francesca 125 00:08:53,035 --> 00:08:57,395 Speaker 1: Chambers began optics or everything. The former President of the 126 00:08:57,475 --> 00:08:59,955 Speaker 1: United States run into some issues with optics coming out 127 00:08:59,955 --> 00:09:02,755 Speaker 1: of his rally this week, and at the same time 128 00:09:02,795 --> 00:09:06,435 Speaker 1: you also saw President Iiden come into criticism for optics 129 00:09:06,435 --> 00:09:10,035 Speaker 1: coming out of his event this week. In the new CNN, 130 00:09:10,955 --> 00:09:15,555 Speaker 1: things like Francesca Chambers almost holding up a sign saying 131 00:09:16,035 --> 00:09:19,235 Speaker 1: I am here for the both sides. Is um, these 132 00:09:19,275 --> 00:09:24,115 Speaker 1: are not bugs, these are features. And lastly, on this point, 133 00:09:24,155 --> 00:09:26,435 Speaker 1: there is one more development at CNN, especially about its 134 00:09:26,435 --> 00:09:29,995 Speaker 1: coverage of Trump, that should set your sirens rotating and 135 00:09:30,035 --> 00:09:33,235 Speaker 1: set your hair on fire. And his name is John Miller. 136 00:09:33,995 --> 00:09:37,995 Speaker 1: He is CNN's new chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst, 137 00:09:38,435 --> 00:09:42,675 Speaker 1: hired personally by the new CNN Worldwide CEO and Chairman, 138 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:46,155 Speaker 1: Chris Licked, which to me still sounds like the punch 139 00:09:46,195 --> 00:09:50,475 Speaker 1: line to a comedy sketch at MSNBC. I thought Chris 140 00:09:50,555 --> 00:09:55,555 Speaker 1: lickt used to eat glue. Anyway, I have known this 141 00:09:55,755 --> 00:09:58,555 Speaker 1: John Miller, whom Chris Lick just hired as CNN's new 142 00:09:58,635 --> 00:10:02,035 Speaker 1: chief Law enforcement Intelligence Analysts. I have known John Miller 143 00:10:02,115 --> 00:10:06,195 Speaker 1: four forty four years. He has had the kind of 144 00:10:06,275 --> 00:10:08,955 Speaker 1: career you probably think of if you ever think of 145 00:10:09,595 --> 00:10:13,795 Speaker 1: my career. Listen to this resume. Assignment editor, Channel five, 146 00:10:13,835 --> 00:10:16,235 Speaker 1: New York Reporter, Channel five, New York Reporter, Channel four, 147 00:10:16,275 --> 00:10:18,755 Speaker 1: New York Spokesman, City of New York Police Department reporter, 148 00:10:18,835 --> 00:10:22,155 Speaker 1: ABC News, Chief of counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence, Los 149 00:10:22,195 --> 00:10:27,675 Speaker 1: Angeles Police Department, Assistant spokesman, FBI reporter, CBS News Deputy Commissioners, 150 00:10:27,675 --> 00:10:32,395 Speaker 1: City of New York Police Worldwide's leader in sports or 151 00:10:32,475 --> 00:10:35,435 Speaker 1: pants or something for CNN, in short, all over the 152 00:10:35,515 --> 00:10:39,555 Speaker 1: freaking place. When he was starting as a reporter at 153 00:10:39,595 --> 00:10:42,955 Speaker 1: Channel five in New York, just as we were all 154 00:10:42,955 --> 00:10:46,395 Speaker 1: converting to color TV. I was an intern on the 155 00:10:46,435 --> 00:10:50,915 Speaker 1: assignment desk. I swear I know him since seventy eight. 156 00:10:50,995 --> 00:10:54,475 Speaker 1: I actually made phone calls for John Miller on a 157 00:10:54,555 --> 00:10:58,515 Speaker 1: couple of his stories in nine seventy eight when I 158 00:10:58,555 --> 00:11:00,875 Speaker 1: didn't need to shave more than like once a week. 159 00:11:01,355 --> 00:11:04,675 Speaker 1: And his act was the same in nineteen seventy eight 160 00:11:04,675 --> 00:11:10,315 Speaker 1: as it is. He was a cop jock sniffer. He 161 00:11:10,395 --> 00:11:12,435 Speaker 1: was the teenage kid at home in New Jersey with 162 00:11:12,435 --> 00:11:15,115 Speaker 1: the police scanner radios who would then show up at 163 00:11:15,115 --> 00:11:18,835 Speaker 1: the crime scene. The backstory at Channel five was John 164 00:11:18,875 --> 00:11:21,955 Speaker 1: Miller started doing that for them, showing up at crime 165 00:11:21,995 --> 00:11:24,315 Speaker 1: scenes and interviewing people in the middle of the night 166 00:11:24,355 --> 00:11:27,475 Speaker 1: and getting the film or the video for use in 167 00:11:27,515 --> 00:11:29,475 Speaker 1: the ten o'clock news the next night when he was 168 00:11:29,555 --> 00:11:33,275 Speaker 1: fifteen or sixteen at the latest. And the through line 169 00:11:33,355 --> 00:11:36,075 Speaker 1: for all of this is, if a cop or a 170 00:11:36,155 --> 00:11:39,595 Speaker 1: federal agent in New York, in l A, in Washington 171 00:11:39,715 --> 00:11:44,115 Speaker 1: says anything, John Miller for the last forty five years 172 00:11:44,155 --> 00:11:48,395 Speaker 1: has existed solely to say, he's damn right, you know, 173 00:11:49,755 --> 00:11:53,315 Speaker 1: or worse, as it turns out, as police spokesman or 174 00:11:53,395 --> 00:11:57,075 Speaker 1: as quote reporter unquote, John Miller has been compulsively on 175 00:11:57,115 --> 00:12:01,995 Speaker 1: the cops side period In a woman was raped in 176 00:12:02,035 --> 00:12:06,115 Speaker 1: a park in Brooklyn. Soon a newspaper columnist wrote that 177 00:12:06,155 --> 00:12:08,235 Speaker 1: the cops felt she had not been raped, but she 178 00:12:08,315 --> 00:12:10,995 Speaker 1: had made it up just to get publicity for a 179 00:12:11,115 --> 00:12:16,235 Speaker 1: quote gay and lesbian rally. The rape victim sued the city. 180 00:12:16,395 --> 00:12:20,035 Speaker 1: It came out that one of the sources was John Miller. 181 00:12:20,635 --> 00:12:25,115 Speaker 1: He was forced to publicly apologize it's a long time ago. 182 00:12:25,795 --> 00:12:27,795 Speaker 1: Is March of this year a long time ago for 183 00:12:27,955 --> 00:12:31,475 Speaker 1: something like this? As New York's Deputy Police Commissioner for 184 00:12:31,515 --> 00:12:34,755 Speaker 1: Intelligence and counter terrorism, just before he went back on 185 00:12:34,795 --> 00:12:39,475 Speaker 1: the air with CNN, that sounds not shady, John Miller 186 00:12:39,555 --> 00:12:43,675 Speaker 1: testified this March to the New York City Council and claimed, quote, 187 00:12:43,675 --> 00:12:46,995 Speaker 1: there is no evidence unquote that the police here spied 188 00:12:47,075 --> 00:12:50,955 Speaker 1: on Muslim communities after nine eleven. If it had not 189 00:12:51,035 --> 00:12:53,875 Speaker 1: been so serious, what would have happened next would have 190 00:12:53,875 --> 00:12:56,395 Speaker 1: been half the city would have gone deaf from all 191 00:12:56,475 --> 00:13:00,315 Speaker 1: the laughter. Of course, New York City spied on Muslim 192 00:13:00,315 --> 00:13:03,275 Speaker 1: communities after nine eleven. It was like the leading industry 193 00:13:03,315 --> 00:13:08,195 Speaker 1: for six months n Miller, Chris lifts first Higher, CNN's 194 00:13:08,235 --> 00:13:12,035 Speaker 1: new chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst and cop apologist, 195 00:13:12,595 --> 00:13:17,995 Speaker 1: was so wrong, so offensive, so islamophobic, that the Mayor 196 00:13:18,035 --> 00:13:23,875 Speaker 1: of New York, Eric Adams himself and ex cop contradicted 197 00:13:23,955 --> 00:13:28,235 Speaker 1: John Miller publicly and apologize to everybody and said, quote, 198 00:13:28,875 --> 00:13:34,035 Speaker 1: what we did was wrong. So who knows. By the 199 00:13:34,075 --> 00:13:37,715 Speaker 1: time somebody, anybody actually defends Trump and says, na, it 200 00:13:37,795 --> 00:13:40,995 Speaker 1: couldn't have done that, it'll be John Miller on CNN 201 00:13:41,075 --> 00:13:44,635 Speaker 1: explaining that his vast collection of law enforcement sources are 202 00:13:44,635 --> 00:13:48,595 Speaker 1: assuring him that Trump did not steal a document describing 203 00:13:48,595 --> 00:13:51,835 Speaker 1: a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, but 204 00:13:52,955 --> 00:14:06,395 Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden did just a little prediction. Walts are 205 00:14:06,435 --> 00:14:09,155 Speaker 1: we talks like this kind of almost a Humphrey Bogart, 206 00:14:09,235 --> 00:14:15,075 Speaker 1: John Miller, Channel five News. And yes, I was pissed 207 00:14:15,075 --> 00:14:16,715 Speaker 1: that when I was a nineteen year old intern, he 208 00:14:16,755 --> 00:14:19,435 Speaker 1: was an eighteen year old reporter. But I've been a 209 00:14:19,515 --> 00:14:23,995 Speaker 1: factor in aney of this since nine still ahead on countdown. 210 00:14:23,995 --> 00:14:25,395 Speaker 1: I'll get to it. I'll get to it. I'll get 211 00:14:25,395 --> 00:14:27,915 Speaker 1: to it now. It's a great painting. It just doesn't 212 00:14:27,955 --> 00:14:30,515 Speaker 1: look like a painting. And all the other paintings there 213 00:14:30,555 --> 00:14:32,395 Speaker 1: do look like paintings. And I'm just saying it's going 214 00:14:32,435 --> 00:14:35,955 Speaker 1: to be a problem long term, worse persons. The segment 215 00:14:36,075 --> 00:14:39,555 Speaker 1: was supposed to be about how woke culture is disparaging 216 00:14:39,555 --> 00:14:43,395 Speaker 1: the Founding Fathers with fake information. Then in the segment 217 00:14:43,475 --> 00:14:46,675 Speaker 1: they screwed up which number president was which and which 218 00:14:46,715 --> 00:14:49,635 Speaker 1: president did and which president did not sign the Declaration 219 00:14:49,675 --> 00:14:54,955 Speaker 1: of Independence. And in sports, Jerry Seinfeld explains what sent 220 00:14:55,115 --> 00:14:58,435 Speaker 1: his New York Mets into their recent skid. It was 221 00:14:59,315 --> 00:15:14,355 Speaker 1: premature jocularity. That's next, this Discountdown. This is Countdown with 222 00:15:14,555 --> 00:15:22,955 Speaker 1: Keith Oberman, my crazy friend. Oh you should talk dresses 223 00:15:23,035 --> 00:15:24,995 Speaker 1: up once a week like a giant onion fell on 224 00:15:25,035 --> 00:15:28,915 Speaker 1: his head on TV. Still ahead on Countdown. No, No, 225 00:15:28,995 --> 00:15:31,235 Speaker 1: it's great, but it looks like a photo and all 226 00:15:31,275 --> 00:15:34,235 Speaker 1: the others look like paintings. I mean, this isn't gonna 227 00:15:34,355 --> 00:15:36,395 Speaker 1: change ever, and it's always gonna look like that. It's 228 00:15:36,395 --> 00:15:38,795 Speaker 1: gonna be a problem. I'm telling you. Postscripts to the 229 00:15:38,795 --> 00:15:41,475 Speaker 1: news coming up first. In each edition of Countdown, we 230 00:15:41,555 --> 00:15:43,755 Speaker 1: feature a dog in need whom you can help. Every 231 00:15:43,795 --> 00:15:47,115 Speaker 1: dog has its day. Desiree has been at the New 232 00:15:47,195 --> 00:15:51,955 Speaker 1: York Shelter since March. She is the longest residing dog there, 233 00:15:52,075 --> 00:15:55,635 Speaker 1: eight years seventy two pounds, eight years old. A beautiful 234 00:15:55,675 --> 00:15:58,235 Speaker 1: tan and white dog who is quiet, well behaved enough 235 00:15:58,435 --> 00:16:00,755 Speaker 1: to be left alone at her foster home and she 236 00:16:00,835 --> 00:16:03,395 Speaker 1: takes a nap, should make an ideal member of a 237 00:16:03,515 --> 00:16:06,115 Speaker 1: forever home. You can find her on their site n 238 00:16:06,275 --> 00:16:09,155 Speaker 1: y C a CC dot org or just look from 239 00:16:09,155 --> 00:16:11,555 Speaker 1: my tweet about Desiree. And this brings us to a 240 00:16:11,555 --> 00:16:13,915 Speaker 1: bigger point. Like everywhere else, there is a crisis at 241 00:16:13,915 --> 00:16:16,435 Speaker 1: the Manhattan shelter. They've got a hundred and twenty seven 242 00:16:16,475 --> 00:16:19,795 Speaker 1: dogs above capacity. Any new dogs will have to be 243 00:16:19,875 --> 00:16:23,435 Speaker 1: kept in crates in the hallway. They are pleading for 244 00:16:23,475 --> 00:16:26,475 Speaker 1: fosters in the New York City area. I'll retweet that 245 00:16:26,635 --> 00:16:30,515 Speaker 1: to Desiree at Tom Jumbo Grumbo and fosters in New 246 00:16:30,595 --> 00:16:39,675 Speaker 1: York and thank you. Coming up on Countdown, Jerry Seinfeld 247 00:16:39,715 --> 00:16:43,515 Speaker 1: knows what was behind his favorite team's recent slump, and 248 00:16:43,595 --> 00:16:52,475 Speaker 1: it connects to the Baja men who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? 249 00:16:52,795 --> 00:16:56,315 Speaker 1: First postscripts to the news, some headlines, some thoughts, some snark, 250 00:17:02,315 --> 00:17:06,555 Speaker 1: dateline the White House. Okay, look art that looks ultra 251 00:17:06,635 --> 00:17:10,595 Speaker 1: realistic is dandy, it's fine. But if you have forty 252 00:17:10,675 --> 00:17:14,475 Speaker 1: three portraits of presidents that are clearly paintings, and then 253 00:17:14,515 --> 00:17:17,355 Speaker 1: you unveil the forty four of Barack Obama and it 254 00:17:17,435 --> 00:17:21,155 Speaker 1: looks exactly like a photo, no matter how good it is, 255 00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:25,155 Speaker 1: are we not damning White House tour guides to answer 256 00:17:25,195 --> 00:17:29,035 Speaker 1: for all time this question from everybody? Hey, why is 257 00:17:29,075 --> 00:17:33,955 Speaker 1: this one of Obama a photo and not a painting? Dayline, Beijing, 258 00:17:34,035 --> 00:17:36,355 Speaker 1: where China says it has now passed the US in 259 00:17:36,475 --> 00:17:39,875 Speaker 1: life expectancy seventy seven point one years to seventy six 260 00:17:39,915 --> 00:17:43,475 Speaker 1: point one years, even if the books are cooked. The 261 00:17:43,515 --> 00:17:47,675 Speaker 1: problem isn't their life expectancy, it's our life expectancy. And 262 00:17:47,755 --> 00:17:51,915 Speaker 1: it plateaued around two thousand eleven and dipped first, not 263 00:17:51,995 --> 00:17:55,075 Speaker 1: because of COVID but because of opioids. And soon we 264 00:17:55,115 --> 00:17:57,475 Speaker 1: are going to fall out of the top fifty nations 265 00:17:57,515 --> 00:18:01,075 Speaker 1: in life expectancy, and every country ahead of US on 266 00:18:01,115 --> 00:18:04,435 Speaker 1: that list has a publicly funded health care system or 267 00:18:04,475 --> 00:18:08,795 Speaker 1: a public option for health insurance. Dateline, Washington. We know 268 00:18:08,835 --> 00:18:11,395 Speaker 1: for the first time that the FBI and Justice Department 269 00:18:11,595 --> 00:18:15,195 Speaker 1: went for a search warrant in the January six coup investigation, 270 00:18:15,675 --> 00:18:18,715 Speaker 1: and in doing so, cited the Patriot Act. In other words, 271 00:18:18,795 --> 00:18:24,435 Speaker 1: in court, we are now calling domestic terrorists, quote domestic terrorists. 272 00:18:24,915 --> 00:18:27,595 Speaker 1: It comes in an unsealed court opinion relative to a 273 00:18:27,635 --> 00:18:32,115 Speaker 1: case against the oath keepers thugs and speaking of them, Oops, 274 00:18:32,115 --> 00:18:36,195 Speaker 1: somebody leaked their thirty eight thousand name membership list. The 275 00:18:36,275 --> 00:18:39,795 Speaker 1: bad news is the Anti Defamation League found three seventy 276 00:18:39,835 --> 00:18:44,275 Speaker 1: three oath keepers who are currently serving in law enforcement 277 00:18:44,315 --> 00:18:47,715 Speaker 1: in this country, including at least ten police chiefs and 278 00:18:47,795 --> 00:18:53,595 Speaker 1: eleven sheriffs. Also eighty six active firefighters, including several chiefs, 279 00:18:53,795 --> 00:18:57,395 Speaker 1: and eighty one people holding or running for public office. 280 00:18:57,875 --> 00:19:00,915 Speaker 1: Some of them identified themselves by name and title, like 281 00:19:00,995 --> 00:19:05,555 Speaker 1: Thomas Rummel, the sheriff of Sanders County, Montana, Joe Wright, 282 00:19:05,715 --> 00:19:10,155 Speaker 1: Constable in Collin County, Texas, South Dakota State Rep. Phil Jensen, 283 00:19:10,315 --> 00:19:13,195 Speaker 1: and of course Arizona State full on nut job get 284 00:19:13,235 --> 00:19:17,395 Speaker 1: the net State Senator Wendy Rogers. This country once tried 285 00:19:17,435 --> 00:19:22,835 Speaker 1: to purge alleged communists, actually anybody left of conservative from 286 00:19:22,835 --> 00:19:26,475 Speaker 1: government and entertainment and academia. Maybe it's time we do 287 00:19:26,595 --> 00:19:30,915 Speaker 1: this for real, with real dangers, with anybody identifying as 288 00:19:30,955 --> 00:19:38,315 Speaker 1: oath keepers. They are a fascist militia. F them, F 289 00:19:38,555 --> 00:19:57,595 Speaker 1: them all. This is sports, Senator, Wait, check that not anymore. 290 00:19:58,195 --> 00:20:05,115 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith Alberman in sports a lot 291 00:20:05,155 --> 00:20:07,515 Speaker 1: of New York. This time it was not intentional. Firstly, 292 00:20:07,555 --> 00:20:10,675 Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins were here, which means the Yankees win 293 00:20:10,795 --> 00:20:13,835 Speaker 1: all the games. The Yankees have won fifty one of 294 00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:17,075 Speaker 1: their last sixty four home games against the Minnesota Twins. However, 295 00:20:17,115 --> 00:20:20,435 Speaker 1: the highlight of this trip was Tuesday's rain out because 296 00:20:20,475 --> 00:20:23,995 Speaker 1: Twins rookie Jose Miranda was able to have dinner with 297 00:20:24,035 --> 00:20:29,035 Speaker 1: a cousin of his who works on Broadway. Lynn Manuel 298 00:20:29,315 --> 00:20:35,155 Speaker 1: Miranda rights stuff I think seem unlikely. Well, for the 299 00:20:35,155 --> 00:20:38,035 Speaker 1: longest time, Paul O'Neill played for the Yankees while his 300 00:20:38,075 --> 00:20:42,435 Speaker 1: sister Molly was food critic of The New York Times. Meanwhile, 301 00:20:42,435 --> 00:20:44,115 Speaker 1: the New York Mets have been trying to snap out 302 00:20:44,115 --> 00:20:46,235 Speaker 1: of an offensive skid that saw their lead atop the 303 00:20:46,315 --> 00:20:48,435 Speaker 1: National League East dissolve into a first place tie with 304 00:20:48,475 --> 00:20:52,075 Speaker 1: the Braves. Now we know why the Mets top relief 305 00:20:52,075 --> 00:20:55,155 Speaker 1: pitcher Edwin Diaz enters each game to the sound of 306 00:20:55,155 --> 00:20:59,275 Speaker 1: the song Narco by Australian entertainer Timmy Trumpet. By the way, 307 00:20:59,275 --> 00:21:01,915 Speaker 1: that is not his real name. Who knew his real 308 00:21:01,995 --> 00:21:05,875 Speaker 1: name is Timothy Trumpet Now it's Smith. Sorry anyway, last 309 00:21:05,875 --> 00:21:08,795 Speaker 1: week the Mets brought him in in person to blare 310 00:21:08,875 --> 00:21:12,395 Speaker 1: his dramatic trumpets salute as Diaz came into a game, 311 00:21:12,555 --> 00:21:16,435 Speaker 1: and that's what caused the Mets slump, says who, says 312 00:21:16,515 --> 00:21:20,075 Speaker 1: Mets fan Jerry Seinfeld in a social media exchange with 313 00:21:20,115 --> 00:21:24,515 Speaker 1: the Mets TV Network, quoting Jerry celebrating in season I 314 00:21:24,595 --> 00:21:28,395 Speaker 1: haven't won anything yet, bad mojo. Same as when Baha 315 00:21:28,515 --> 00:21:30,995 Speaker 1: man showed up to play who Let the Dogs Out? 316 00:21:31,035 --> 00:21:34,555 Speaker 1: In the two thousand World Series series ended right there. 317 00:21:35,675 --> 00:21:39,795 Speaker 1: Not to correct my fellow Met fan Jerry, but the 318 00:21:39,835 --> 00:21:41,955 Speaker 1: Baha men did not show up to saying what was 319 00:21:41,995 --> 00:21:46,515 Speaker 1: the two thousand Mets players inexplicably unofficial song who Let 320 00:21:46,515 --> 00:21:49,955 Speaker 1: the Dogs Out? Until Game four of that World Series. 321 00:21:49,955 --> 00:21:52,475 Speaker 1: The series in fact ended in the top of the 322 00:21:52,515 --> 00:21:55,995 Speaker 1: sixth inning of Game one, when trailing the Yankees to 323 00:21:56,195 --> 00:21:59,475 Speaker 1: zip base runner Teamo Perez of the Mets assumed his 324 00:21:59,555 --> 00:22:02,195 Speaker 1: teammate Todd Ziel had hit a game tying to run 325 00:22:02,195 --> 00:22:04,555 Speaker 1: home or the left In fact, the ball bounced off 326 00:22:04,755 --> 00:22:07,275 Speaker 1: top of the fence and back into the play and 327 00:22:07,355 --> 00:22:10,395 Speaker 1: Perez Loafing was thrown out at the plate. The Mets 328 00:22:10,435 --> 00:22:12,915 Speaker 1: lost that game by one run. They lost Game two 329 00:22:12,995 --> 00:22:15,755 Speaker 1: by one run, They lost on Baja Men Night by 330 00:22:15,795 --> 00:22:17,955 Speaker 1: one run, and then they lost the fifth and decisive 331 00:22:17,995 --> 00:22:20,915 Speaker 1: game by two runs. Oh and as the TV host 332 00:22:20,995 --> 00:22:23,795 Speaker 1: of the World Series that year and the reporter in 333 00:22:23,835 --> 00:22:27,035 Speaker 1: the dugout, I need to add Jerry that the series 334 00:22:27,115 --> 00:22:30,395 Speaker 1: was also lost when Mike Piazza did not charge the 335 00:22:30,475 --> 00:22:33,875 Speaker 1: mound after the Roger Clemens bat incident in game too, 336 00:22:33,995 --> 00:22:36,715 Speaker 1: even though if you measure the angles, Clemens did not 337 00:22:36,915 --> 00:22:39,795 Speaker 1: throw the bat chard at Mike Piazza. He actually threw 338 00:22:39,915 --> 00:23:02,555 Speaker 1: the bat shard at me. Thank you, Nancy Faust. And 339 00:23:02,595 --> 00:23:05,355 Speaker 1: what do you do after you become the worst owner 340 00:23:05,475 --> 00:23:08,595 Speaker 1: in New York sports history, maybe in American sports history, 341 00:23:08,595 --> 00:23:11,835 Speaker 1: while you become the worst political donor. Jim Dolan, the 342 00:23:11,875 --> 00:23:14,915 Speaker 1: pile of feces with a beard, who owns the Knicks 343 00:23:14,955 --> 00:23:17,795 Speaker 1: and the Rangers, and his family have now all donated 344 00:23:17,835 --> 00:23:22,115 Speaker 1: the maximum to incumbent Republican congress Person Trump Flunkey Nicole 345 00:23:22,235 --> 00:23:26,875 Speaker 1: Malatakis instead of Democrat Max Rose. Asked about the donations 346 00:23:26,875 --> 00:23:29,515 Speaker 1: by the New York Independent news outlet The City Quote. 347 00:23:29,955 --> 00:23:33,315 Speaker 1: Spokespeople for Madison Square Garden Entertainment did not respond to 348 00:23:33,355 --> 00:23:37,035 Speaker 1: specific questions, but did point the City to a news 349 00:23:37,075 --> 00:23:42,875 Speaker 1: story about Rose insulting the Knicks owner. Yep, that's what 350 00:23:42,995 --> 00:23:46,715 Speaker 1: this is about. Max Rose once said Jim Dolan had 351 00:23:46,795 --> 00:23:50,715 Speaker 1: driven the Knicks into the ground, which he has. The 352 00:23:50,715 --> 00:23:53,835 Speaker 1: two teams have won nothing, the Knicks and the Rangers 353 00:23:53,875 --> 00:23:57,555 Speaker 1: since Dolan took over in the late nineties. Dolan then 354 00:23:57,555 --> 00:24:01,315 Speaker 1: emailed friends demanding they donate to Malatakis because Rose was 355 00:24:01,315 --> 00:24:04,355 Speaker 1: trying to use the Knicks to run on like you 356 00:24:04,355 --> 00:24:09,275 Speaker 1: would on on the Knicks. Seriously, second time that Dolan 357 00:24:09,355 --> 00:24:12,355 Speaker 1: has done something like this. The last time he asked 358 00:24:12,355 --> 00:24:15,635 Speaker 1: all Madison Square Garden executive level employees to donate to 359 00:24:15,675 --> 00:24:18,515 Speaker 1: Mali attack As too. This is the ego of this 360 00:24:18,675 --> 00:24:22,875 Speaker 1: jackass Dolan. Dolan also poured hundreds of thousands of dollars 361 00:24:22,875 --> 00:24:25,955 Speaker 1: into a political group devoted to trying to scare New 362 00:24:26,035 --> 00:24:29,795 Speaker 1: York voters with ads filled with hooded men robbing stores 363 00:24:30,115 --> 00:24:34,075 Speaker 1: and police cars. Aflame, which most of New York's long 364 00:24:34,155 --> 00:24:37,715 Speaker 1: suffering basketball fans probably just thought, well that photo of 365 00:24:37,795 --> 00:24:41,355 Speaker 1: the burning cop cars, that's just the Knick's latest team 366 00:24:41,395 --> 00:24:59,315 Speaker 1: picture still ahead, what with the Friday Thurber reading, this 367 00:24:59,395 --> 00:25:02,515 Speaker 1: will be my last countdown before nine eleven, so I 368 00:25:02,555 --> 00:25:05,675 Speaker 1: will tell you a very small picture tell ing snapshot 369 00:25:05,715 --> 00:25:08,355 Speaker 1: of that day. I don't think you've heard it before. 370 00:25:08,555 --> 00:25:11,995 Speaker 1: It has stayed with me for twenty one years. First 371 00:25:11,995 --> 00:25:14,595 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger 372 00:25:14,595 --> 00:25:18,555 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 373 00:25:19,235 --> 00:25:24,435 Speaker 1: The Silver Senator Ron Johnson of wiscon Rashan. In July, 374 00:25:24,675 --> 00:25:26,515 Speaker 1: the man with the dead eyes put out a statement 375 00:25:26,515 --> 00:25:29,235 Speaker 1: saying he would not oppose a bill protecting same sex 376 00:25:29,275 --> 00:25:33,515 Speaker 1: marriage from a possible overturned by the Republican Supreme Religious Court. 377 00:25:33,955 --> 00:25:37,675 Speaker 1: Today he says he will not support it, that he 378 00:25:37,715 --> 00:25:40,395 Speaker 1: only put out that statement to get reporters off his back. 379 00:25:41,195 --> 00:25:44,715 Speaker 1: In the olden days, this would be called getting caught 380 00:25:44,715 --> 00:25:47,115 Speaker 1: in a flat footed lie and it would have been 381 00:25:47,155 --> 00:25:51,555 Speaker 1: the end of his senatorial career. Let's get nostalgic our 382 00:25:51,635 --> 00:25:53,435 Speaker 1: runner up, and we have a theme here. See if 383 00:25:53,435 --> 00:25:57,235 Speaker 1: you can spot at Christina Karamo the Republican Trump is 384 00:25:57,355 --> 00:26:00,115 Speaker 1: fascist candidate for Secretary of State in Michigan. She's the 385 00:26:00,115 --> 00:26:03,595 Speaker 1: one who believes you can catch demonic possession through sex 386 00:26:04,795 --> 00:26:08,555 Speaker 1: and maybe not coincidentally, whose husband says when he said divorce, 387 00:26:08,915 --> 00:26:12,435 Speaker 1: she said effort. I'll kill us all that one. Now 388 00:26:12,515 --> 00:26:15,075 Speaker 1: she is complaining that the media made up a story 389 00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:17,755 Speaker 1: that she's left the campaign trail in Michigan to go 390 00:26:17,835 --> 00:26:21,915 Speaker 1: on an emergency fundraising tour out of state. Quote. Our 391 00:26:21,955 --> 00:26:26,035 Speaker 1: team never stated that because I'm not unquote. On Monday, however, 392 00:26:26,155 --> 00:26:29,755 Speaker 1: Karamo's campaign manager had told reporters quote for the next 393 00:26:29,755 --> 00:26:33,155 Speaker 1: ten days, she's out of state for fundraisers. See, that 394 00:26:33,195 --> 00:26:37,715 Speaker 1: would also be lying, but our winners. Sometimes it's lying. 395 00:26:38,035 --> 00:26:42,195 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just stupidity. But it's Fox nudes, so it 396 00:26:42,235 --> 00:26:46,475 Speaker 1: can be both. Fox and Friends had this gigantic, studio 397 00:26:46,595 --> 00:26:49,915 Speaker 1: sized graphic about James Madison asserting that he was the 398 00:26:50,035 --> 00:26:52,835 Speaker 1: third president of the United States and that he signed 399 00:26:52,835 --> 00:26:55,475 Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence when he was just twenty five. 400 00:26:56,635 --> 00:26:59,915 Speaker 1: Madison did not sign the Declaration of Independence at twenty 401 00:26:59,955 --> 00:27:02,715 Speaker 1: five or fifty five, and he was not the third 402 00:27:02,755 --> 00:27:05,315 Speaker 1: president of the United States. He was the four and 403 00:27:05,395 --> 00:27:08,995 Speaker 1: so what except the segment on Fox was about how 404 00:27:08,995 --> 00:27:13,355 Speaker 1: the left is quote canceling the founding fathers with incorrect 405 00:27:13,435 --> 00:27:18,555 Speaker 1: information about them. Fox and Friends and James Madison was 406 00:27:18,635 --> 00:27:25,795 Speaker 1: also named after Madison Cawthorne, Today's Worst Persons and the 407 00:27:25,875 --> 00:27:44,075 Speaker 1: World to the number one story on the Countdown and 408 00:27:44,355 --> 00:27:47,755 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 409 00:27:49,075 --> 00:27:52,955 Speaker 1: The anniversary approaches Sunday. Friday, of course is a James 410 00:27:52,955 --> 00:27:54,995 Speaker 1: Thurber reading, So this will be my last chance to 411 00:27:54,995 --> 00:27:59,915 Speaker 1: bring this up before it is beginning to recede into history. 412 00:27:59,955 --> 00:28:03,795 Speaker 1: Now I mentioned it, and get the looks I used 413 00:28:03,835 --> 00:28:07,035 Speaker 1: to give my folks. Twenty one years after Pearl Harbor 414 00:28:07,435 --> 00:28:09,835 Speaker 1: or twenty one years after the end of World War two, 415 00:28:11,475 --> 00:28:17,235 Speaker 1: nothing of importance happened to me on September eleven, two 416 00:28:17,235 --> 00:28:23,955 Speaker 1: thousand one. Against statistical probability, I had friends and acquaintances 417 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:26,675 Speaker 1: in each of the two towers and three of the 418 00:28:26,715 --> 00:28:30,475 Speaker 1: four planes, and I only learned about the loss of 419 00:28:30,515 --> 00:28:32,915 Speaker 1: one of them from the missing posters that papered my 420 00:28:32,995 --> 00:28:36,915 Speaker 1: home city until the rains came in October. I rather 421 00:28:36,995 --> 00:28:40,355 Speaker 1: unexpectedly became a street news reporter for old friends, one 422 00:28:40,355 --> 00:28:43,355 Speaker 1: who ran an l A t V newsroom and one 423 00:28:43,395 --> 00:28:46,635 Speaker 1: who ran an l a all news radio station. I 424 00:28:46,715 --> 00:28:49,435 Speaker 1: felt more keenly that day than any other in my life, 425 00:28:49,435 --> 00:28:51,875 Speaker 1: that I was the descendant of countless New York City 426 00:28:51,915 --> 00:28:57,115 Speaker 1: cops and firefighters. My grandfather, my mother's father, drove the 427 00:28:57,155 --> 00:28:59,475 Speaker 1: hook and ladder in the Bronx, and I have his badge. 428 00:29:00,275 --> 00:29:02,715 Speaker 1: And I was taken by cops for a series of 429 00:29:02,755 --> 00:29:06,355 Speaker 1: harrowing behind the police line's walk around Ground zero, and 430 00:29:06,395 --> 00:29:08,515 Speaker 1: can still here in my head the matter of factness 431 00:29:08,515 --> 00:29:12,475 Speaker 1: of a dispatcher's voice coming across one of their radios 432 00:29:12,555 --> 00:29:17,155 Speaker 1: on day three maybe and saying body parts found on 433 00:29:17,235 --> 00:29:20,515 Speaker 1: fourteenth floor of World Financial Center, as if it was 434 00:29:20,555 --> 00:29:24,435 Speaker 1: a street direction, and then another weary broken voice repeating 435 00:29:24,475 --> 00:29:29,235 Speaker 1: it body parts found on fourteenth floor of World Financial Center. Copy. 436 00:29:30,475 --> 00:29:34,155 Speaker 1: I didn't see the attacks. My apartment only faced uptown. 437 00:29:34,755 --> 00:29:36,755 Speaker 1: When I woke up that morning, all I saw was 438 00:29:36,835 --> 00:29:40,755 Speaker 1: as beautiful a sky as I had ever seen before. 439 00:29:42,595 --> 00:29:44,355 Speaker 1: By the time I got to the street, there were 440 00:29:44,395 --> 00:29:49,275 Speaker 1: people with glazed eyes and with dust covered shoes and pants, 441 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:53,595 Speaker 1: and they were just reaching my neighborhood from their walk 442 00:29:53,755 --> 00:29:57,195 Speaker 1: from the Trade Center. The Trade Center was seventy five 443 00:29:57,275 --> 00:30:01,275 Speaker 1: blocks south of where I lived. I was the witness 444 00:30:01,955 --> 00:30:07,275 Speaker 1: who didn't see anything. However, I had already been on 445 00:30:07,315 --> 00:30:09,555 Speaker 1: the radio in Los Angeles three times, and I was 446 00:30:09,595 --> 00:30:12,995 Speaker 1: on my way to Times Square for television when I 447 00:30:13,035 --> 00:30:16,635 Speaker 1: realized it was now hours later and I had not eaten, 448 00:30:17,235 --> 00:30:20,435 Speaker 1: and I was just passing one of my places, restaurant 449 00:30:20,475 --> 00:30:23,315 Speaker 1: called Red Eye Grill, and him probably it was open, 450 00:30:23,875 --> 00:30:28,635 Speaker 1: half a dozen waiters, familiar faces, hugs, tears. They made 451 00:30:28,635 --> 00:30:30,755 Speaker 1: me my regular meal and didn't charge me for it. 452 00:30:30,875 --> 00:30:32,955 Speaker 1: And I went to the restroom to wash up, and 453 00:30:32,995 --> 00:30:35,475 Speaker 1: there was an attendant in there and I recognized him too, 454 00:30:35,515 --> 00:30:37,755 Speaker 1: And after I was finished, being even more embarrassed than 455 00:30:37,835 --> 00:30:40,075 Speaker 1: usual at the whole process of a guy handing me 456 00:30:40,115 --> 00:30:43,315 Speaker 1: a washcloth in a bathroom, I reached to give him 457 00:30:43,315 --> 00:30:45,715 Speaker 1: a tip, and I found exactly three quarters in my 458 00:30:45,795 --> 00:30:49,675 Speaker 1: pocket and a fifty dollar bill in my wallet, and 459 00:30:49,715 --> 00:30:51,915 Speaker 1: the attendant said, I'll take the quarters. I can't use 460 00:30:51,955 --> 00:30:54,635 Speaker 1: the pay phone with a fifty And I didn't understand 461 00:30:54,675 --> 00:30:57,515 Speaker 1: what he was talking about, so I asked him and 462 00:30:57,555 --> 00:31:00,395 Speaker 1: he introduced himself. I knew he was Thomas. He said 463 00:31:00,395 --> 00:31:05,355 Speaker 1: he was Thomas Reyes, and he explained himself. Two weeks earlier, 464 00:31:05,395 --> 00:31:08,835 Speaker 1: Thomas Reyes said he had been laid off by the 465 00:31:08,915 --> 00:31:14,555 Speaker 1: investment firm for which he had worked Downtown. They liked him, 466 00:31:14,555 --> 00:31:17,355 Speaker 1: he liked them, But jobs like his came and went, 467 00:31:17,435 --> 00:31:22,755 Speaker 1: and he was out fired on August two thousand one. 468 00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:27,275 Speaker 1: But he said they told him that if he wanted to, 469 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:30,555 Speaker 1: they weren't replacing him with anybody. He could keep his 470 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:34,315 Speaker 1: desk for a couple of weeks, months even longer. He 471 00:31:34,355 --> 00:31:36,715 Speaker 1: could come in and use the computer and call around 472 00:31:36,755 --> 00:31:38,995 Speaker 1: looking for work, maybe even picking up a shift at 473 00:31:39,035 --> 00:31:43,155 Speaker 1: the firm here and there freelance. But to that point, 474 00:31:43,155 --> 00:31:45,755 Speaker 1: in large part because labor Day had been the previous Monday, 475 00:31:45,795 --> 00:31:48,275 Speaker 1: and in New York, you leave for labor Day a 476 00:31:48,315 --> 00:31:50,355 Speaker 1: week before and you come back a week after if 477 00:31:50,355 --> 00:31:53,635 Speaker 1: you can. There were no openings yet for him in 478 00:31:53,675 --> 00:31:58,235 Speaker 1: the investment business, nor anything else that could produce money. 479 00:31:58,275 --> 00:32:02,155 Speaker 1: But years before, Thomas Reyes said he had worked odd 480 00:32:02,235 --> 00:32:05,595 Speaker 1: jobs at Red Eye Grill, including as a bath room attendant, 481 00:32:05,995 --> 00:32:08,275 Speaker 1: and this was the only place he had been offered 482 00:32:08,275 --> 00:32:11,715 Speaker 1: a paycheck. He was going to his old job and 483 00:32:11,835 --> 00:32:14,675 Speaker 1: his old desk every day, except when Red Eye needed 484 00:32:14,755 --> 00:32:20,395 Speaker 1: him as the backup attendant in the men's room. He 485 00:32:20,475 --> 00:32:24,555 Speaker 1: had been on Wall Street he was now the backup 486 00:32:24,835 --> 00:32:30,675 Speaker 1: attendant in the men's room. That morning, September eleven, two one, 487 00:32:30,755 --> 00:32:33,035 Speaker 1: seven am, seven thirty, was going out the door to 488 00:32:33,115 --> 00:32:35,995 Speaker 1: his desk in the investment firm to work the phones 489 00:32:36,075 --> 00:32:39,795 Speaker 1: again when his cell rang. The fellow doing the mid 490 00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:41,555 Speaker 1: day shift in the men's room at Red Eye Grill 491 00:32:41,635 --> 00:32:43,795 Speaker 1: had called in sick. He had eight hours of work 492 00:32:43,875 --> 00:32:47,115 Speaker 1: coming to him sixty bucks seventy five with tips if 493 00:32:47,115 --> 00:32:53,075 Speaker 1: he wanted it. So that was how Thomas Reys happened 494 00:32:53,075 --> 00:32:55,035 Speaker 1: to be standing in the men's room talking to me 495 00:32:55,075 --> 00:32:57,035 Speaker 1: at the Red Eye Grill at fifty seven Street and 496 00:32:57,115 --> 00:33:00,955 Speaker 1: sixth Avenue, handing out very few towels two very few 497 00:33:00,995 --> 00:33:04,955 Speaker 1: customers for a very few tips on September eleven, two 498 00:33:04,995 --> 00:33:08,875 Speaker 1: thousand one, rather than sitting in his desk in the 499 00:33:08,915 --> 00:33:12,675 Speaker 1: World Trade Center. And that is also why he wanted 500 00:33:12,715 --> 00:33:16,155 Speaker 1: my quarters and not my fifty dollar bill, because he 501 00:33:16,195 --> 00:33:19,195 Speaker 1: was trying to use the restaurant pay phone to call 502 00:33:19,315 --> 00:33:23,475 Speaker 1: his friends who still worked at the investment firm's office, 503 00:33:24,195 --> 00:33:32,515 Speaker 1: which was on floors on three four and one five 504 00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:38,755 Speaker 1: of World Trade Center Building number one. Because of course, 505 00:33:38,835 --> 00:33:42,635 Speaker 1: his old firm was Cantor Fitzgerald, and he was not 506 00:33:42,795 --> 00:33:46,595 Speaker 1: there that day, only because the full time men's room 507 00:33:46,635 --> 00:33:51,075 Speaker 1: attendant at the restaurant had called in sick, and I 508 00:33:51,075 --> 00:33:53,315 Speaker 1: wished him luck with his phone calls, and I got 509 00:33:53,315 --> 00:33:54,955 Speaker 1: out of there as quickly as I could, because I 510 00:33:54,995 --> 00:33:57,075 Speaker 1: had seen the video and he clearly had not seen 511 00:33:57,075 --> 00:34:00,315 Speaker 1: the video. They were all dead at Cantor Fitzgerald, including 512 00:34:00,315 --> 00:34:04,075 Speaker 1: two college classmates of mine, Aimon mcinhaney and Mike Tanner, 513 00:34:05,035 --> 00:34:07,715 Speaker 1: in the pyre of the building in which I had 514 00:34:07,715 --> 00:34:11,035 Speaker 1: started my TV career twenty years and one month earlier. 515 00:34:12,515 --> 00:34:14,875 Speaker 1: The brother of another friend of mine was in the 516 00:34:14,915 --> 00:34:17,635 Speaker 1: other tower. I had a friend one of my cameramen 517 00:34:17,755 --> 00:34:20,635 Speaker 1: on my most recent show at Fox Sports in l A. 518 00:34:20,715 --> 00:34:24,315 Speaker 1: Tom Pecarelli was on one plane, and a former regular 519 00:34:24,435 --> 00:34:27,875 Speaker 1: MSNBC guest Barbara Olsen was on another, and a hockey acquaintance, 520 00:34:27,915 --> 00:34:32,635 Speaker 1: garnet Ace Bailey, was on a third. I went to 521 00:34:32,675 --> 00:34:34,675 Speaker 1: the bar and asked the bartender to change the fifty 522 00:34:34,715 --> 00:34:38,155 Speaker 1: for me, and I took all the coins he could spare, 523 00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:41,155 Speaker 1: probably five dollars worth. I kept two of the tens 524 00:34:41,155 --> 00:34:43,035 Speaker 1: for myself just in case I went back into the 525 00:34:43,035 --> 00:34:44,675 Speaker 1: men's room. I gave the rest in all the coins 526 00:34:44,675 --> 00:34:49,315 Speaker 1: that Thomas Reys for his phone calls. I hope I 527 00:34:49,355 --> 00:34:52,155 Speaker 1: did a good job not being the one to let 528 00:34:52,235 --> 00:34:55,195 Speaker 1: him know that none of his friends from the firm 529 00:34:55,235 --> 00:35:14,355 Speaker 1: would be answering. You will always be with me, all right. 530 00:35:14,475 --> 00:35:15,955 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. 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