1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Follow 2 00:00:23,995 --> 00:00:28,355 Speaker 1: said Deep Throat the money, as it was true then 3 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:33,075 Speaker 1: in Watergates, so is it true now in Stoogegate, the 4 00:00:33,115 --> 00:00:36,835 Speaker 1: federal indictment of two Russian state media operatives on charges 5 00:00:36,915 --> 00:00:41,635 Speaker 1: they funneled millions through a Tennessee company to right wing 6 00:00:41,715 --> 00:00:47,555 Speaker 1: influencers via intermediaries to transform putin propaganda made at the 7 00:00:47,675 --> 00:00:54,395 Speaker 1: Kremlin into pro Trump, anti America talking point videos. Of course, 8 00:00:54,555 --> 00:00:59,475 Speaker 1: the Watergate source Deep Throat actually FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt. 9 00:00:59,595 --> 00:01:04,235 Speaker 1: He never actually said follow the money. That was something 10 00:01:04,275 --> 00:01:07,275 Speaker 1: my late friend William Goldman, the screenwriter of the movie 11 00:01:07,395 --> 00:01:11,035 Speaker 1: version of All the President's Men, wrote. He wrote it 12 00:01:11,075 --> 00:01:15,755 Speaker 1: for money to make it all more memorable. Bill Goldman 13 00:01:15,835 --> 00:01:18,275 Speaker 1: told me because it was a great line. Bill Goldman 14 00:01:18,355 --> 00:01:21,395 Speaker 1: told me because it was not true. Bill Goldman told 15 00:01:21,435 --> 00:01:26,195 Speaker 1: me that Deep Throats said follow the money, but it 16 00:01:26,395 --> 00:01:31,675 Speaker 1: was still the truth. And that's kind of the point 17 00:01:31,915 --> 00:01:35,595 Speaker 1: about what Felt's modern day successors in the Department of 18 00:01:35,755 --> 00:01:38,955 Speaker 1: Justice have now done, because in their indictment of the Russians, 19 00:01:38,995 --> 00:01:42,755 Speaker 1: they never say that the Tennessee company is called Tenet Media, 20 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:46,115 Speaker 1: and they never say that Tenant Media was founded by 21 00:01:46,595 --> 00:01:49,875 Speaker 1: Lauren Chen, and they never say that Lauren Chen also 22 00:01:49,915 --> 00:01:53,635 Speaker 1: happens to work for Glenn Beck and Blaze TV. And 23 00:01:53,715 --> 00:01:56,675 Speaker 1: they never say that Tenet Media's YouTube channel got ten 24 00:01:56,715 --> 00:02:01,435 Speaker 1: million dollars from Putin's propaganda arm RT to grow and 25 00:02:01,515 --> 00:02:04,995 Speaker 1: make and distribute videos about how America star did the 26 00:02:05,035 --> 00:02:08,675 Speaker 1: Russian war in Ukraine, how it's all Biden's fault and 27 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:12,235 Speaker 1: vote Trump or die, and how America shouldn't get trapping 28 00:02:12,355 --> 00:02:15,675 Speaker 1: forever wars, and how terrorists you're coming into the country 29 00:02:15,675 --> 00:02:19,915 Speaker 1: across the southern border in the billions, And they didn't 30 00:02:19,955 --> 00:02:23,435 Speaker 1: say that through Tenant the Russians washed large sums of 31 00:02:23,475 --> 00:02:27,595 Speaker 1: money to get it to scumbags, and Merrick Garland didn't 32 00:02:27,635 --> 00:02:30,995 Speaker 1: say that the scumbags might have been Tim Poole, Benny Johnson, 33 00:02:31,075 --> 00:02:35,795 Speaker 1: Dave Rubin, and others. And they didn't say those morons 34 00:02:35,915 --> 00:02:39,675 Speaker 1: unwittingly did Putin's work for him. The Attorney General didn't 35 00:02:39,675 --> 00:02:43,435 Speaker 1: say any of that, in exactly the same way that 36 00:02:43,515 --> 00:02:49,435 Speaker 1: Deep Throat didn't say follow the money. The other Watergate 37 00:02:49,515 --> 00:02:53,075 Speaker 1: parallel pertains to the certainty that Bob Woodward's editors never 38 00:02:53,155 --> 00:02:55,835 Speaker 1: knew in nineteen seventy two and nineteen seventy three, though 39 00:02:55,875 --> 00:02:59,355 Speaker 1: he probably did that Deep Throat was not one source 40 00:02:59,915 --> 00:03:03,635 Speaker 1: but a clearing house of sources, all the sources the 41 00:03:03,675 --> 00:03:07,195 Speaker 1: FBI had, from its own informants and rumor passers to 42 00:03:07,275 --> 00:03:12,115 Speaker 1: its own executives. Deep Throat was his own newsgathering organization, 43 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:15,835 Speaker 1: and the Washington Post went unwittingly there's that word again, 44 00:03:16,275 --> 00:03:20,915 Speaker 1: into partnership with that news gathering organization of mister Felts. 45 00:03:21,955 --> 00:03:25,115 Speaker 1: From the reaction of the Russian stooges who were not 46 00:03:25,235 --> 00:03:28,715 Speaker 1: mentioned in the indictments, but who like Tim Poole, have 47 00:03:28,915 --> 00:03:31,595 Speaker 1: kind of volunteered that at minimum they yeah worked for 48 00:03:31,675 --> 00:03:35,395 Speaker 1: Tenet Media. Is sure. They are clearly insistent that they 49 00:03:35,595 --> 00:03:39,955 Speaker 1: too are victims and that they were unwittingly involved. And 50 00:03:40,035 --> 00:03:45,595 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to assume they're right, because 51 00:03:45,635 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: if you had to come up with a list of 52 00:03:47,515 --> 00:03:54,555 Speaker 1: conservative influencer morons who utterly define the word unwitting, you 53 00:03:54,595 --> 00:03:57,155 Speaker 1: could do far worse than to begin with the names 54 00:03:57,715 --> 00:04:01,355 Speaker 1: Tim Poole, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin. I mean, I would 55 00:04:01,435 --> 00:04:05,355 Speaker 1: still take Jesse Waters first in my definition of unwitting 56 00:04:05,475 --> 00:04:09,275 Speaker 1: fantasy draft, but I would have considered the others too. 57 00:04:11,475 --> 00:04:13,595 Speaker 1: I mean, Tim Poole is the thirty eight year old 58 00:04:13,595 --> 00:04:17,515 Speaker 1: man who dresses on camera like a beanie baby. This 59 00:04:17,715 --> 00:04:24,275 Speaker 1: is professional grade unwitting Right here, there is potentially another 60 00:04:24,355 --> 00:04:27,795 Speaker 1: shoe to drop, As it was widely noted when this broke. 61 00:04:27,915 --> 00:04:30,675 Speaker 1: It is hardly as if Pool and Johnson and Ruben 62 00:04:30,715 --> 00:04:34,715 Speaker 1: and the others have not been parroting Russian propaganda for years. 63 00:04:34,715 --> 00:04:36,915 Speaker 1: But it is also hardly as if they were the 64 00:04:37,035 --> 00:04:40,715 Speaker 1: leading parrots. I know a dead parrot when I see one, 65 00:04:40,715 --> 00:04:43,315 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at one right now. No, he's not dead, 66 00:04:43,395 --> 00:04:47,235 Speaker 1: he's resting. Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue? In't it? If 67 00:04:47,275 --> 00:04:51,995 Speaker 1: a plumage? Is this just the tip of the iceberg? 68 00:04:52,795 --> 00:04:54,795 Speaker 1: I mean, there is a reference in the indictment to 69 00:04:54,835 --> 00:04:58,235 Speaker 1: the alleged American end of this scheme and the people 70 00:04:58,275 --> 00:05:01,115 Speaker 1: in it here looking at the video of a top 71 00:05:01,235 --> 00:05:07,955 Speaker 1: American television news personality at a Moscow supermarket and being 72 00:05:07,995 --> 00:05:10,435 Speaker 1: so insanely over the top in his praise of the 73 00:05:10,515 --> 00:05:14,155 Speaker 1: dump that even they thought that the video was of 74 00:05:14,195 --> 00:05:17,155 Speaker 1: no value as a propaganda tool for Russia or for 75 00:05:17,235 --> 00:05:21,235 Speaker 1: their own arguments about Russia. I mean, did the two 76 00:05:21,355 --> 00:05:25,475 Speaker 1: indicted Russians or anybody else connected to this, like the 77 00:05:25,555 --> 00:05:29,915 Speaker 1: Glenn Beck employee. Glenn Beck employee. I mean, we're this 78 00:05:30,075 --> 00:05:33,635 Speaker 1: close to posthumously indicting Russia. Limbai here, I got so 79 00:05:33,755 --> 00:05:37,555 Speaker 1: much shot in Freude. I'm wading knee deep in shot 80 00:05:37,595 --> 00:05:41,715 Speaker 1: than Freuda in my living room. Did any of the 81 00:05:41,755 --> 00:05:46,195 Speaker 1: plotters underwrite any of the other Russian tools in this 82 00:05:46,275 --> 00:05:52,275 Speaker 1: country or think about it or approach them? Because look, 83 00:05:52,315 --> 00:05:56,275 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and a trader Joe Stalins might be over 84 00:05:56,315 --> 00:06:00,155 Speaker 1: the top, but what about his other nine thousand hours 85 00:06:00,195 --> 00:06:04,115 Speaker 1: of pro Russian bullshit? I mean, when I heard this 86 00:06:04,235 --> 00:06:07,715 Speaker 1: story first yesterday, I read that they were not going 87 00:06:07,755 --> 00:06:14,035 Speaker 1: to indict Tucker or Tommy Tuberville or Elon Musk, And 88 00:06:14,155 --> 00:06:20,555 Speaker 1: all I could think was why not follow the money? 89 00:06:42,675 --> 00:06:45,835 Speaker 1: You know, Trump makes a lot of videos just saying 90 00:06:46,835 --> 00:06:49,915 Speaker 1: the stonewalling and the covering up of the Trump team's 91 00:06:49,955 --> 00:06:54,155 Speaker 1: physical altercation with the woman employee at Arlington National Cemetery 92 00:06:54,395 --> 00:06:57,555 Speaker 1: and his illegal use of video of the graves of 93 00:06:57,595 --> 00:07:01,795 Speaker 1: the war dead in a campaign commercial. That stonewalling and 94 00:07:01,875 --> 00:07:06,475 Speaker 1: that cover up continues, but Trump has clearly not escaped 95 00:07:06,515 --> 00:07:09,475 Speaker 1: the damage that his actions at his two different and 96 00:07:09,595 --> 00:07:13,875 Speaker 1: completely contradicting versions of events at Arlington have inflicted on 97 00:07:13,955 --> 00:07:18,995 Speaker 1: his support from military members and their families. That impact 98 00:07:19,075 --> 00:07:23,835 Speaker 1: is in fact startling. Change research in polling that was 99 00:07:23,875 --> 00:07:27,195 Speaker 1: completed for Semaphore News a week ago today, four days 100 00:07:27,235 --> 00:07:31,635 Speaker 1: after the altercation at Arlington, but just now released, shows 101 00:07:31,635 --> 00:07:34,555 Speaker 1: that Trump's lead over Harris among veterans is down to 102 00:07:34,755 --> 00:07:38,915 Speaker 1: ten points, his lead among active duty service members is 103 00:07:38,955 --> 00:07:43,475 Speaker 1: down to five points. His lead among families of active 104 00:07:43,595 --> 00:07:46,755 Speaker 1: duty service members is now inside the margin of error 105 00:07:47,275 --> 00:07:52,435 Speaker 1: at just two percent. Trump won veterans in twenty sixteen 106 00:07:52,795 --> 00:07:57,155 Speaker 1: by nineteen points, he won active duty by nineteen points. 107 00:07:57,395 --> 00:08:01,435 Speaker 1: He won family members by twelve points. There has been 108 00:08:01,475 --> 00:08:05,195 Speaker 1: almost no new polling among active military during this campaign 109 00:08:05,435 --> 00:08:08,875 Speaker 1: until this new poll, though. Last month the Economist and 110 00:08:09,075 --> 00:08:12,755 Speaker 1: Hugov found service members and veterans believed Trump cared more 111 00:08:12,755 --> 00:08:15,795 Speaker 1: about them than Harris did by fifty one percent to 112 00:08:15,955 --> 00:08:20,075 Speaker 1: thirty two percent. That's a lot different than these new numbers. 113 00:08:20,875 --> 00:08:24,115 Speaker 1: Back to these new numbers showing damage to Trump, Change 114 00:08:24,115 --> 00:08:27,715 Speaker 1: research also says fifty three percent of military related voters 115 00:08:27,755 --> 00:08:31,155 Speaker 1: who have previously voted for Trump in twenty sixteen and 116 00:08:31,435 --> 00:08:33,595 Speaker 1: or twenty twenty but say they will not vote for 117 00:08:33,675 --> 00:08:36,875 Speaker 1: him this year. They attribute their change of mind to 118 00:08:37,075 --> 00:08:41,035 Speaker 1: how he has talked about and behaved towards the military 119 00:08:41,195 --> 00:08:44,635 Speaker 1: and those who have served in it. I'm adding this 120 00:08:44,755 --> 00:08:47,115 Speaker 1: note the military and those who have served in it, 121 00:08:47,275 --> 00:08:51,395 Speaker 1: like the dead at Arlington. For his part, after insisting 122 00:08:51,435 --> 00:08:54,555 Speaker 1: Tuesday that the entirety of the confrontation with an Arlington 123 00:08:54,595 --> 00:08:57,715 Speaker 1: employee tried to stop the Trump campaign from its illegal 124 00:08:57,755 --> 00:09:02,075 Speaker 1: commercial filming, that that never happened, That nothing happened, not 125 00:09:02,155 --> 00:09:05,595 Speaker 1: even something that would let him portray himself as the victim. 126 00:09:05,635 --> 00:09:10,515 Speaker 1: As usual, he went silent on this issue online yesterday, 127 00:09:10,675 --> 00:09:14,715 Speaker 1: despite another spasm of more than four dozen posts and 128 00:09:14,915 --> 00:09:19,675 Speaker 1: videos so haphazard as spasm, so rushed a spasm that 129 00:09:19,755 --> 00:09:23,155 Speaker 1: in one video he insisted Kamala Harris had quote always 130 00:09:23,195 --> 00:09:26,715 Speaker 1: been a communist and maybe more crazy than that, he 131 00:09:26,755 --> 00:09:32,315 Speaker 1: appeared in another video without his trademark communist red colored 132 00:09:32,435 --> 00:09:38,555 Speaker 1: tie back to you, Tavaresh. It is remotely possible that 133 00:09:38,595 --> 00:09:41,875 Speaker 1: the message somehow got through the forest of mirrors surrounding 134 00:09:41,875 --> 00:09:45,435 Speaker 1: Trump's head to just drop this now while he still can, 135 00:09:45,715 --> 00:09:49,275 Speaker 1: if he still can, despite his ever narrowing lead among 136 00:09:49,395 --> 00:09:52,515 Speaker 1: voters connected to the military, those voters in the Change 137 00:09:52,515 --> 00:09:56,235 Speaker 1: Research Semaphore Pole do not appear to have any illusions 138 00:09:56,275 --> 00:10:00,915 Speaker 1: about basically what a coward Trump would be in actual conflict. 139 00:10:01,755 --> 00:10:06,075 Speaker 1: They asked seven hundred and three veteran active service family 140 00:10:06,075 --> 00:10:09,755 Speaker 1: members if they agreed or disagreed with six scenarios, and 141 00:10:09,795 --> 00:10:13,755 Speaker 1: they started by asking them to imagine themselves, quote, being 142 00:10:13,955 --> 00:10:19,155 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's team member in a combat situation. Do you 143 00:10:19,235 --> 00:10:22,395 Speaker 1: agree or disagree with this statement He'd only look out 144 00:10:22,435 --> 00:10:27,595 Speaker 1: for himself. Fifty five percent agreed with that, he'd talk 145 00:10:27,675 --> 00:10:31,395 Speaker 1: a big game but not do much. Fifty four percent 146 00:10:31,595 --> 00:10:35,635 Speaker 1: of the military people agreed with that he would crumble 147 00:10:35,915 --> 00:10:40,595 Speaker 1: under pressure. Trump did well. Only forty nine percent of 148 00:10:40,675 --> 00:10:44,435 Speaker 1: the military voters think he would crumble under pressure. Fifty 149 00:10:44,475 --> 00:10:51,115 Speaker 1: one percent think he wouldn't. He'd have my back. Forty 150 00:10:51,315 --> 00:10:55,315 Speaker 1: six percent believe that Trump would have your back or 151 00:10:55,355 --> 00:11:00,115 Speaker 1: their back in an actual combat situation. He'd be a 152 00:11:00,155 --> 00:11:05,795 Speaker 1: good team player. Fifty seven percent said, oh, you know what, 153 00:11:06,035 --> 00:11:09,275 Speaker 1: he would not be a good team player. And then lastly, 154 00:11:10,275 --> 00:11:16,035 Speaker 1: he'd win a Medal of valor. Do you agree with 155 00:11:16,075 --> 00:11:21,115 Speaker 1: that statement? Yes, thirty four percent, no, sixty six percent. 156 00:11:22,595 --> 00:11:26,035 Speaker 1: Two thirds of the military voters can't even produce a 157 00:11:26,115 --> 00:11:31,555 Speaker 1: fantasy scenario in which Trump displays conspicuous valor. Fifty seven 158 00:11:31,595 --> 00:11:34,275 Speaker 1: percent of them can't imagine him being a good team player. 159 00:11:37,075 --> 00:11:40,315 Speaker 1: Back to the Arlington scandal, The Washington Post analyzed what 160 00:11:40,355 --> 00:11:43,435 Speaker 1: Trump did with the video illegally shot literally atop the 161 00:11:43,435 --> 00:11:47,235 Speaker 1: graves of US war dead, and concluded, quote Trump appeared 162 00:11:47,235 --> 00:11:50,715 Speaker 1: to have misled gold Star families on troop deaths in Afghanistan. 163 00:11:50,915 --> 00:11:54,995 Speaker 1: That's post speak for he lied, to quote the paper 164 00:11:55,115 --> 00:11:57,955 Speaker 1: quoting Trump, we didn't lose one person in eighteen months, 165 00:11:58,155 --> 00:12:02,715 Speaker 1: and then they took over that disaster. Those cameras appear 166 00:12:02,755 --> 00:12:05,475 Speaker 1: to have recorded Trump saying these were words to the 167 00:12:05,475 --> 00:12:09,795 Speaker 1: gold Star families, reports the Post. The TikTok shows him 168 00:12:09,835 --> 00:12:13,115 Speaker 1: talking to families as the words are spoken as a voiceover. 169 00:12:13,675 --> 00:12:16,075 Speaker 1: In his phrasing, it sounds as if no troops were 170 00:12:16,155 --> 00:12:19,395 Speaker 1: killed in Afghanistan during the late last eighteen months of 171 00:12:19,395 --> 00:12:23,075 Speaker 1: his presidency. That's false, though there was an eighteen month 172 00:12:23,155 --> 00:12:28,715 Speaker 1: gap with no fatalities across Trump's and Biden's combined presidencies 173 00:12:29,075 --> 00:12:31,555 Speaker 1: the last eleven months of Trump's presidency and the first 174 00:12:31,675 --> 00:12:36,395 Speaker 1: seven of Biden's. In a rare throwback to its democracy 175 00:12:36,475 --> 00:12:38,995 Speaker 1: dies in darkness days, the Post had an even bigger 176 00:12:38,995 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: surprise for Trump. Aaron Blake analyzed the CNN polling in 177 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:47,555 Speaker 1: the swing states and determined that, especially with President Biden 178 00:12:47,595 --> 00:12:50,475 Speaker 1: now out of the race, the message about the existential 179 00:12:50,595 --> 00:12:54,915 Speaker 1: dangers of another Trump presidency are getting through after months 180 00:12:54,915 --> 00:12:57,675 Speaker 1: of being lost in the noise, or even of diminishing 181 00:12:57,875 --> 00:13:00,795 Speaker 1: as the far right tried to do an Orwellian rewriting 182 00:13:00,835 --> 00:13:04,235 Speaker 1: of January sixth and other Trump attacks on representative government 183 00:13:04,275 --> 00:13:08,755 Speaker 1: and elections. See earlier story about follow the Money to 184 00:13:08,875 --> 00:13:12,955 Speaker 1: quote the Post on this story. Across six key swing 185 00:13:12,995 --> 00:13:15,875 Speaker 1: states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, de batt of Pennsylvania. In Wisconsin, 186 00:13:16,115 --> 00:13:19,395 Speaker 1: an average of fifty four percent of registered voters said 187 00:13:19,635 --> 00:13:23,835 Speaker 1: Trump was too extreme, with forty eight percent also saying 188 00:13:23,875 --> 00:13:27,675 Speaker 1: that he threatens the country. In each state, at least 189 00:13:27,715 --> 00:13:30,795 Speaker 1: half a voter said Trump was too extreme, at at 190 00:13:30,875 --> 00:13:33,035 Speaker 1: least forty six percent said he was a threat to 191 00:13:33,075 --> 00:13:37,075 Speaker 1: the country. Harris's numbers were significantly lower. An average of 192 00:13:37,115 --> 00:13:40,115 Speaker 1: forty four percent said she was too extreme. Just thirty 193 00:13:40,155 --> 00:13:43,315 Speaker 1: nine percent regarded her perceived extremness as a threat to 194 00:13:43,355 --> 00:13:46,995 Speaker 1: the country. In no state did a majority regard her 195 00:13:47,075 --> 00:13:53,515 Speaker 1: as too extreme. Most voters instead regarded her as generally mainstream. 196 00:13:54,635 --> 00:13:59,035 Speaker 1: Then there is what the CNN's swing state results. Its 197 00:13:59,075 --> 00:14:03,475 Speaker 1: newest polling looks like. Arizona Trump forty nine, Harris forty four, 198 00:14:03,715 --> 00:14:09,155 Speaker 1: Georgia Harris forty eight, Trump forty seven, Michigan Harris forty eight, 199 00:14:09,195 --> 00:14:13,595 Speaker 1: Trump forty three, Nevada Harris forty eight, Trump forty seven, 200 00:14:13,875 --> 00:14:19,395 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Harris and Trump tied at forty seven, Wisconsin Harris fifty, 201 00:14:19,515 --> 00:14:23,435 Speaker 1: Trump forty four. Biden, of course, won all six of 202 00:14:23,435 --> 00:14:27,035 Speaker 1: those states, some by as little as the eleven thousand 203 00:14:27,195 --> 00:14:31,995 Speaker 1: in Georgia and Arizona. The caveat. Both Georgia and Pennsylvania 204 00:14:32,035 --> 00:14:34,835 Speaker 1: remain thoroughly up for grabs according to the polls, with 205 00:14:34,955 --> 00:14:39,115 Speaker 1: tight margins overall and double digit shares of likely voters 206 00:14:39,355 --> 00:14:42,595 Speaker 1: twelve percent in Georgia and sixteen percent in Pennsylvania saying 207 00:14:42,635 --> 00:14:46,595 Speaker 1: they have not yet decided on a candidate or that 208 00:14:46,635 --> 00:14:51,475 Speaker 1: they might change their minds. That is the CNN analysis 209 00:14:51,475 --> 00:14:55,155 Speaker 1: of the CNN polling. The point of all the polling 210 00:14:55,475 --> 00:14:58,755 Speaker 1: is not to memorize the numbers, nor calculate how they 211 00:14:58,755 --> 00:15:02,715 Speaker 1: have changed per day. This isn't the stock market. We're 212 00:15:02,755 --> 00:15:06,875 Speaker 1: not investors at the macro level. The point is the 213 00:15:06,955 --> 00:15:11,075 Speaker 1: momentum and the idea that the undecided or soft voters 214 00:15:11,435 --> 00:15:15,475 Speaker 1: total twelve percent in Georgia and sixteen percent in Pennsylvania, 215 00:15:15,555 --> 00:15:18,835 Speaker 1: which in turn means Harris or Trump could not only 216 00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:23,515 Speaker 1: win those states, but could run away with them. But 217 00:15:23,595 --> 00:15:26,395 Speaker 1: at the micro level, there's something that the CNN swing 218 00:15:26,435 --> 00:15:30,915 Speaker 1: state polls don't even address. We may soon officially have 219 00:15:31,035 --> 00:15:34,635 Speaker 1: to expand the number of swing states that have to 220 00:15:34,715 --> 00:15:39,115 Speaker 1: be polled. Redfield Wilton, the UK based polster working for 221 00:15:39,155 --> 00:15:42,515 Speaker 1: the newspaper there the Telegraph, is now polling those six 222 00:15:42,555 --> 00:15:48,075 Speaker 1: states I just mentioned, and Florida and North Carolina. We 223 00:15:48,195 --> 00:15:50,955 Speaker 1: know from other polls that North Carolina is essentially a 224 00:15:50,995 --> 00:15:53,475 Speaker 1: toss up at the moment, but now we have new 225 00:15:53,595 --> 00:15:57,555 Speaker 1: Redfield Wilton polling suggesting Florida is getting there. It's Trump 226 00:15:57,555 --> 00:16:00,915 Speaker 1: forty eight Harris forty three in Florida. It might not 227 00:16:01,035 --> 00:16:05,115 Speaker 1: get any closer than that, or maybe it will. And 228 00:16:05,355 --> 00:16:08,395 Speaker 1: maybe that Trump campaign TV commercial by in the West 229 00:16:08,475 --> 00:16:12,835 Speaker 1: Palm Beach market was not solely to provide one particular 230 00:16:12,915 --> 00:16:16,395 Speaker 1: resident in that market some political porn for him to 231 00:16:16,555 --> 00:16:29,995 Speaker 1: enjoy one resident named Trump. And then there is something 232 00:16:30,035 --> 00:16:32,595 Speaker 1: that has to be read almost verbatim to be believed. 233 00:16:32,995 --> 00:16:36,235 Speaker 1: I have rigorously charted the excuses and cover ups that 234 00:16:36,275 --> 00:16:39,875 Speaker 1: the website Politico has provided for Trump, but I'll give 235 00:16:39,915 --> 00:16:44,955 Speaker 1: them credit for this much. These people know rats leaving 236 00:16:45,035 --> 00:16:50,155 Speaker 1: a sinking ship when they see them. The website's playbook 237 00:16:50,235 --> 00:16:55,915 Speaker 1: feature began a piece with near astonishment that the deplorable 238 00:16:55,995 --> 00:17:00,115 Speaker 1: right winger Eric Erickson had tweeted that some Republicans thought 239 00:17:00,115 --> 00:17:02,355 Speaker 1: that the only hope for their party long term was 240 00:17:02,395 --> 00:17:07,795 Speaker 1: for Trump to lose, and lose big. Jonathan Martin, the 241 00:17:07,795 --> 00:17:11,635 Speaker 1: Politico writer, as Cubby hold an ancient beltwere as there 242 00:17:11,755 --> 00:17:15,075 Speaker 1: is said. He contacted a series of Republican leaders for 243 00:17:15,115 --> 00:17:18,235 Speaker 1: a column, thinking that his belief that the best hope 244 00:17:18,235 --> 00:17:20,715 Speaker 1: for the Republican's future was to lose and lose soundly 245 00:17:21,155 --> 00:17:26,195 Speaker 1: would be met with anger and pushback and denial instead quote, 246 00:17:26,595 --> 00:17:30,595 Speaker 1: what he found while making calls was that many Republicans 247 00:17:31,035 --> 00:17:39,635 Speaker 1: agreed with the take. There follows this astonishment eighteen paragraphs 248 00:17:39,675 --> 00:17:45,515 Speaker 1: worth of various songs whistled by various Republicans as they 249 00:17:45,555 --> 00:17:50,235 Speaker 1: walk past various graveyards. So everybody from the defense hawks 250 00:17:50,355 --> 00:17:53,675 Speaker 1: angry at Trump's cobbling up to the dictators, to anti 251 00:17:53,755 --> 00:17:56,595 Speaker 1: abortion diehards who now hate him over his attempt to 252 00:17:56,635 --> 00:17:59,515 Speaker 1: be all things to all voters on that issue. There 253 00:17:59,595 --> 00:18:03,155 Speaker 1: is even and try to follow this, there is even 254 00:18:03,275 --> 00:18:06,715 Speaker 1: a supply of Republicans who have already decided that if 255 00:18:06,755 --> 00:18:10,715 Speaker 1: Trump wins, but the Democrats take the House or the 256 00:18:10,755 --> 00:18:15,635 Speaker 1: Senate in November or both, that the Democratic House or 257 00:18:15,755 --> 00:18:18,755 Speaker 1: Senate will be more difficult to take back in twenty 258 00:18:18,795 --> 00:18:23,035 Speaker 1: twenty six. So they want Trump to lose so that 259 00:18:23,195 --> 00:18:26,675 Speaker 1: the Republicans have a better chance and the Senate and 260 00:18:26,755 --> 00:18:29,755 Speaker 1: the House not this year, but two years from now. 261 00:18:30,555 --> 00:18:35,155 Speaker 1: In other words, they have not even lost yet the presidency. 262 00:18:35,355 --> 00:18:37,635 Speaker 1: They have not even lost yet the House. They've not 263 00:18:37,715 --> 00:18:41,235 Speaker 1: even lost yet the Senate. Yet there are Republicans right 264 00:18:41,275 --> 00:18:44,835 Speaker 1: now trying to sound like they meant for all of 265 00:18:44,835 --> 00:18:51,115 Speaker 1: that to happen. You and I have already learned this year, 266 00:18:52,395 --> 00:18:56,915 Speaker 1: this summer how fast one can go from digging your 267 00:18:56,915 --> 00:19:02,275 Speaker 1: own grave to instead shoving Trump's campaign into said grave. 268 00:19:03,795 --> 00:19:06,475 Speaker 1: But get a load of wow. Politico finished this piece 269 00:19:06,595 --> 00:19:13,035 Speaker 1: up quoting, again quoting an anonymous Conservative leader quote, I 270 00:19:13,115 --> 00:19:16,235 Speaker 1: think a lot of old school conservatives might hope that 271 00:19:16,275 --> 00:19:22,035 Speaker 1: if he loses, there's an opportunity to just completely forget 272 00:19:22,435 --> 00:19:35,715 Speaker 1: the last eight years happened. In other words, Trump Trump Who. 273 00:19:38,315 --> 00:19:41,875 Speaker 1: If you're new here and you have arrived via the advertising, 274 00:19:41,995 --> 00:19:44,515 Speaker 1: thank you, Welcome to the party. I am here five 275 00:19:44,595 --> 00:19:48,195 Speaker 1: days a week, forty to sixty minutes a day except 276 00:19:48,195 --> 00:19:52,195 Speaker 1: for Monday mornings, posting just after midnight Sunday through Thursday nights. 277 00:19:52,795 --> 00:19:55,915 Speaker 1: Oh and I am America's most reliable news source. Just 278 00:19:56,035 --> 00:20:00,235 Speaker 1: ask me. Oh, and you have arrived propitiously this podcast, 279 00:20:00,315 --> 00:20:05,435 Speaker 1: this one right here. This is episode number five hundred, 280 00:20:06,395 --> 00:20:09,195 Speaker 1: and also of interest here in episode number five hundred, 281 00:20:09,275 --> 00:20:12,955 Speaker 1: the Tim Walls family hates. Tim Wall's thing kind of collapsed. 282 00:20:13,275 --> 00:20:16,115 Speaker 1: It turns out his older brother says when he said 283 00:20:16,115 --> 00:20:18,795 Speaker 1: he had terrible stories to tell about his younger brother, 284 00:20:18,835 --> 00:20:21,355 Speaker 1: he meant how Tim used to get carsick and throw 285 00:20:21,475 --> 00:20:24,995 Speaker 1: up on his siblings in like nineteen sixty eight, and 286 00:20:25,075 --> 00:20:28,115 Speaker 1: a question was asked on national television, quote, we have 287 00:20:28,155 --> 00:20:30,915 Speaker 1: a damaged, delusional old man who again might get re 288 00:20:30,955 --> 00:20:33,075 Speaker 1: elected to the presidency of the United States. How did 289 00:20:33,075 --> 00:20:36,675 Speaker 1: this happen? How did the Republican Party get here? You know, 290 00:20:36,755 --> 00:20:41,595 Speaker 1: whose show that was asked on The answer is Joe Scarborough. 291 00:20:42,715 --> 00:20:44,955 Speaker 1: You know what. The answer to the question how did 292 00:20:44,995 --> 00:20:49,195 Speaker 1: we get here? Is why? Coincidentally enough, the answer to 293 00:20:49,235 --> 00:20:54,275 Speaker 1: that question is also Joe Scarborough. How the chief trump 294 00:20:54,435 --> 00:20:58,555 Speaker 1: enabler of twenty sixteen has tried to make you forget 295 00:20:59,115 --> 00:21:05,595 Speaker 1: he made this monster? Mainstream Worst Persons is next Discountdown. 296 00:21:07,595 --> 00:21:32,235 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Alberman still ahead of us 297 00:21:32,275 --> 00:21:36,235 Speaker 1: on this five hundredth edition of Countdown. I know it 298 00:21:36,275 --> 00:21:40,635 Speaker 1: only seems like five thousand. Continuing our week long celebration 299 00:21:40,755 --> 00:21:44,315 Speaker 1: of the beginning of another season in the National Football League, 300 00:21:44,715 --> 00:21:49,715 Speaker 1: Tonight begins weekend one of when is it now fifty weeks? 301 00:21:50,195 --> 00:21:52,715 Speaker 1: Fifty fifty seven weeks? I'll take you back to the 302 00:21:52,795 --> 00:21:56,115 Speaker 1: year that NBC rather unexpectedly offered me the job of 303 00:21:56,155 --> 00:22:00,195 Speaker 1: co hosting Football Night in America before it's Sunday night games, 304 00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:02,195 Speaker 1: And like three weeks in I had to call in 305 00:22:02,315 --> 00:22:07,515 Speaker 1: sick because MAAIX blew up and I didn't know it. 306 00:22:07,555 --> 00:22:10,475 Speaker 1: And I kept working and I anchored a George Bush 307 00:22:10,555 --> 00:22:13,875 Speaker 1: press conference and I beat CNN in the ratings while 308 00:22:13,915 --> 00:22:18,955 Speaker 1: literally in the middle stages of septiscemia in things I 309 00:22:19,035 --> 00:22:24,035 Speaker 1: promised not to tell. How you feeling. Oh, I'm okay, 310 00:22:24,715 --> 00:22:29,595 Speaker 1: other than the septu seemia, well, septi seemia later. First, 311 00:22:29,635 --> 00:22:32,915 Speaker 1: there's still more new idiots to talk about, besides me 312 00:22:33,075 --> 00:22:35,675 Speaker 1: for saying that the daily roundup of the miss Grants 313 00:22:35,675 --> 00:22:39,475 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days 314 00:22:39,675 --> 00:22:45,875 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world the Bronze. Remember yesterday's story 315 00:22:45,915 --> 00:22:50,275 Speaker 1: about Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark some folks need killing Robinson, 316 00:22:50,715 --> 00:22:54,915 Speaker 1: their candidate for governor in North Carolina, And how six Greensboro, 317 00:22:54,995 --> 00:22:59,315 Speaker 1: North Carolina poorn aficionados told a local news outlet that 318 00:22:59,355 --> 00:23:02,275 Speaker 1: a quarter century ago, Robinson was a five nights a 319 00:23:02,315 --> 00:23:06,995 Speaker 1: week customer to those visits rooms, the private rooms in 320 00:23:07,035 --> 00:23:12,515 Speaker 1: which men quote watch unquote porn, And how the main 321 00:23:12,675 --> 00:23:14,795 Speaker 1: source of the story, a guy used to work there 322 00:23:14,875 --> 00:23:18,515 Speaker 1: named Money Money, said he also sold Robinson at least 323 00:23:18,555 --> 00:23:22,515 Speaker 1: one bootlegged porn video a week, and how Money says 324 00:23:22,515 --> 00:23:25,395 Speaker 1: the last one a compilation tape of some really wild 325 00:23:25,475 --> 00:23:28,835 Speaker 1: New York made videos he sold to Robinson for twenty 326 00:23:28,875 --> 00:23:33,115 Speaker 1: five dollars, but Robinson never paid him. This was just 327 00:23:33,195 --> 00:23:35,795 Speaker 1: the start of the story. It turns out there were 328 00:23:35,875 --> 00:23:39,715 Speaker 1: lots of unpaid bills at the Robinson household back in 329 00:23:39,755 --> 00:23:44,675 Speaker 1: those days, from the website notes from the Chalkboard dot com. 330 00:23:44,715 --> 00:23:48,595 Speaker 1: According to public records obtained from Guilford County Court, the 331 00:23:48,675 --> 00:23:52,915 Speaker 1: wife of Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was sued by 332 00:23:53,075 --> 00:24:00,475 Speaker 1: Tarheel Triad Girl Scouts over quote money owed in Guilford 333 00:24:00,515 --> 00:24:03,235 Speaker 1: County Small Claims Court in two thousand and three, and 334 00:24:03,315 --> 00:24:07,635 Speaker 1: the Girl Scouts won. Continuing the quotation, it's September two 335 00:24:07,675 --> 00:24:10,395 Speaker 1: thousand and three, the Girl Scouts filed suit against Yolanda 336 00:24:10,635 --> 00:24:13,835 Speaker 1: Hill due to a two nine hundred and fifty six 337 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:17,795 Speaker 1: dollars and three cent bad check. The matter was heard 338 00:24:17,795 --> 00:24:21,115 Speaker 1: the following month, and court documents indicate nobody attended on 339 00:24:21,195 --> 00:24:24,115 Speaker 1: behalf of the defendant. The magistrate, well, you know, we 340 00:24:24,195 --> 00:24:27,115 Speaker 1: know where the defendant was, right, He's down in that booth. 341 00:24:27,435 --> 00:24:30,235 Speaker 1: The magistrate found in favor of the Girl Scouts and 342 00:24:30,315 --> 00:24:33,195 Speaker 1: tacked on fees and damages as permitted by state law 343 00:24:33,435 --> 00:24:36,075 Speaker 1: on return to checks for a grand total of three 344 00:24:36,555 --> 00:24:39,875 Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty six dollars and three cents. The 345 00:24:39,915 --> 00:24:43,715 Speaker 1: records do not explain what the check was for or 346 00:24:43,835 --> 00:24:47,915 Speaker 1: any other context around what happened between Hill and the 347 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:53,035 Speaker 1: Girl Scouts, Hill being Missus Robinson. Missus Robinson, I think 348 00:24:53,075 --> 00:24:57,515 Speaker 1: you're trying to steal cookies from me. Lieutenant Governor Robinson 349 00:24:57,555 --> 00:25:00,675 Speaker 1: is a dangerous, unbalanced individual. But you have to give 350 00:25:00,995 --> 00:25:03,875 Speaker 1: he and the wife credit when you and your wife, 351 00:25:03,875 --> 00:25:06,675 Speaker 1: and yes, they've been married since nineteen ninety, so all this, 352 00:25:06,995 --> 00:25:10,315 Speaker 1: including the porn took place in the context of them 353 00:25:10,395 --> 00:25:13,675 Speaker 1: being married for years already, when you and your wife, 354 00:25:14,355 --> 00:25:16,995 Speaker 1: and yes, he worked at some of her daycare operations. 355 00:25:17,275 --> 00:25:20,755 Speaker 1: And yes, the federal government says they owe it money too. 356 00:25:21,275 --> 00:25:25,835 Speaker 1: That is, the daycare operations owe the government money. Still, 357 00:25:25,955 --> 00:25:29,595 Speaker 1: this is a pretty broad spectrum of creditors here. In short, 358 00:25:29,675 --> 00:25:35,195 Speaker 1: mister and Missus Robinson stiffed the porn store and the 359 00:25:35,195 --> 00:25:41,395 Speaker 1: Girl Scouts the runners up the group. Walls is for Trump. 360 00:25:41,755 --> 00:25:45,195 Speaker 1: A right wing Trump troll named Matt Wolking has posted 361 00:25:45,195 --> 00:25:48,635 Speaker 1: a photo of eight people wearing Trump t shirts. His caption, 362 00:25:49,155 --> 00:25:52,635 Speaker 1: Tim Walls's family members in Nebraska are voting for Trump. 363 00:25:53,275 --> 00:25:55,995 Speaker 1: Mister Wolking does not note that the eight people are 364 00:25:55,995 --> 00:26:00,675 Speaker 1: all wearing the same blue shirt, reading quote Nebraska Walls' 365 00:26:00,715 --> 00:26:04,875 Speaker 1: is for Trump and in it. Walls's is spelled w 366 00:26:05,115 --> 00:26:10,635 Speaker 1: Alz apostrophe s. The debate over what to do with 367 00:26:10,715 --> 00:26:13,115 Speaker 1: a plural form of a word or name ending in 368 00:26:13,395 --> 00:26:17,475 Speaker 1: s is eternal. Those who are wrong will never be defeated. 369 00:26:18,115 --> 00:26:20,115 Speaker 1: But there is no debate over what to do with 370 00:26:20,195 --> 00:26:23,235 Speaker 1: a plural form of a word or name ending in z. 371 00:26:24,435 --> 00:26:27,315 Speaker 1: The rule is clear. You add an e and an 372 00:26:27,475 --> 00:26:31,395 Speaker 1: S to it, So the shirts should read Nebraska Walls 373 00:26:31,515 --> 00:26:37,915 Speaker 1: is for Trump wal Zees, not walz apostrophe s. But 374 00:26:37,955 --> 00:26:41,395 Speaker 1: if this is too high falutin for the vice presidential 375 00:26:41,395 --> 00:26:46,235 Speaker 1: candidates dumber relatives, the shirts could read Walls family members 376 00:26:46,275 --> 00:26:50,835 Speaker 1: for Trump or something else easy, using grammar that doesn't 377 00:26:50,835 --> 00:26:53,555 Speaker 1: make them seem like there are court orders preventing them 378 00:26:53,555 --> 00:26:57,075 Speaker 1: from leaving Nebraska. Now, before you complain, I'm being way 379 00:26:57,075 --> 00:27:00,155 Speaker 1: too judgmental here. There is an organized effort to make 380 00:27:00,235 --> 00:27:04,275 Speaker 1: Tim Walls look bad, the way Mary Trump and Young 381 00:27:04,315 --> 00:27:07,515 Speaker 1: Fred and the other sane Trumps have made Psycho Trump 382 00:27:07,555 --> 00:27:11,515 Speaker 1: look bad, and this effort to make Tim Walls look 383 00:27:11,555 --> 00:27:16,915 Speaker 1: bad it's not going well. His older brother, Jeff Walls, 384 00:27:17,115 --> 00:27:20,595 Speaker 1: started this, apparently inadvertently. He says he regrets it now. 385 00:27:20,595 --> 00:27:23,515 Speaker 1: He wrote on Facebook that the governor is not the 386 00:27:23,555 --> 00:27:26,475 Speaker 1: type of character who should make decisions about our future, 387 00:27:26,875 --> 00:27:29,315 Speaker 1: and he could tell terrible stories about him if he 388 00:27:29,355 --> 00:27:32,435 Speaker 1: wanted to. But Jeff Walls has now done an interview 389 00:27:32,555 --> 00:27:35,755 Speaker 1: with the News Nation channel that's the Nick at Night 390 00:27:35,875 --> 00:27:38,755 Speaker 1: of news, and he's told NewsNation that he regrets the 391 00:27:38,795 --> 00:27:41,875 Speaker 1: post that he made on Facebook. He's not endorsing Trump. 392 00:27:42,115 --> 00:27:45,035 Speaker 1: He still thinks of his brother as his brother, and 393 00:27:45,115 --> 00:27:48,235 Speaker 1: they just disagree on all policies. So he's sitting out 394 00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:52,395 Speaker 1: the election. But he did tell one of those terrible stories, 395 00:27:52,515 --> 00:27:55,315 Speaker 1: one of those stories that's just gonna sink. Tim Walls 396 00:27:55,475 --> 00:27:57,915 Speaker 1: and Kamala Harrison put Trump back in the right house, 397 00:27:57,995 --> 00:28:01,755 Speaker 1: are you ready? Quote? I'll give you one example. My 398 00:28:01,915 --> 00:28:04,355 Speaker 1: little brother, when we were younger, we would go on 399 00:28:04,395 --> 00:28:07,395 Speaker 1: family trips in a station wagon and the thing was 400 00:28:07,835 --> 00:28:11,995 Speaker 1: nobody wanted to sit with him because he had car 401 00:28:12,115 --> 00:28:16,395 Speaker 1: sickness and would always throw up on us. That sort 402 00:28:16,395 --> 00:28:20,355 Speaker 1: of thing unquote. Now, you know, if they'd revealed that 403 00:28:20,475 --> 00:28:23,675 Speaker 1: before the Democratic Convention, maybe Walls would have had to withdraw. 404 00:28:25,355 --> 00:28:28,075 Speaker 1: You know, that also may not be quite the sick 405 00:28:28,195 --> 00:28:32,435 Speaker 1: burn the trumpests think it is. Democratic dominee threw up 406 00:28:32,435 --> 00:28:35,595 Speaker 1: on a Republican. Hell, that's the basis for a Tim 407 00:28:35,675 --> 00:28:40,795 Speaker 1: Walls twenty thirty two presidential campaign, Make America throw up 408 00:28:40,835 --> 00:28:45,595 Speaker 1: on Republicans again. But our winner. Speaking of which, the 409 00:28:46,075 --> 00:28:50,995 Speaker 1: worst Joe Scarborough. I don't have to go back to 410 00:28:51,035 --> 00:28:53,235 Speaker 1: the beginning here, do I and discuss the three hundred 411 00:28:53,235 --> 00:28:55,795 Speaker 1: and eighty seven examples I've given just in this series 412 00:28:56,075 --> 00:28:59,395 Speaker 1: about how, on balance Joe Scarborough may have been the 413 00:28:59,435 --> 00:29:02,755 Speaker 1: worst person I have ever worked with, the worst human being, 414 00:29:03,195 --> 00:29:06,995 Speaker 1: the most reprehensible one. And I worked with Tucker Carlson 415 00:29:07,715 --> 00:29:10,635 Speaker 1: and the guy who went on to blackmail David Letterman. 416 00:29:10,915 --> 00:29:14,115 Speaker 1: So when I say worst, I mean worst. And the 417 00:29:14,155 --> 00:29:17,555 Speaker 1: guy in the middle of this story related to Joe Scarborough, 418 00:29:17,595 --> 00:29:20,955 Speaker 1: Mike Barnacle. I've known him literally forty five years. We 419 00:29:21,075 --> 00:29:23,995 Speaker 1: worked together during the entirety of my time in Boston, 420 00:29:24,115 --> 00:29:26,475 Speaker 1: and then we worked together several years at MSNBC, and 421 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:30,195 Speaker 1: I've worked with his sons and Mike in his career. 422 00:29:30,235 --> 00:29:32,315 Speaker 1: He's cut corners now and again, but I do not 423 00:29:32,595 --> 00:29:36,075 Speaker 1: doubt for a moment his overall sincerity, especially on the 424 00:29:36,115 --> 00:29:40,955 Speaker 1: issue of Trump and preserving American democracy. But on their 425 00:29:41,035 --> 00:29:45,315 Speaker 1: Little Morning Joe Show yesterday, which the latest breezes are 426 00:29:45,355 --> 00:29:48,995 Speaker 1: always bent to and the latest conventional wisdoms are turned 427 00:29:48,995 --> 00:29:51,955 Speaker 1: into words etched into the walls of the ancient Greek 428 00:29:51,995 --> 00:29:55,195 Speaker 1: temple of Apollo and Delphi. And some guy who got 429 00:29:55,195 --> 00:29:58,635 Speaker 1: canceled ten years ago for not wearing pants while pressuring 430 00:29:58,675 --> 00:30:03,235 Speaker 1: women employees is rehabilitated, brought back from beyond the grave. 431 00:30:04,195 --> 00:30:07,195 Speaker 1: On their s show yesterday, Mike Barnacle went on passionately 432 00:30:07,515 --> 00:30:11,635 Speaker 1: about this rhetorical question. Quote, today we have a damaged, 433 00:30:11,915 --> 00:30:16,435 Speaker 1: delusional old man who again and I'm reading this thinking 434 00:30:16,595 --> 00:30:19,995 Speaker 1: Scarborough's not that old. Oh, today we have a damaged, 435 00:30:19,995 --> 00:30:22,795 Speaker 1: delusional old man who again might get re elected to 436 00:30:22,835 --> 00:30:25,755 Speaker 1: the presidency of the United States. How did this happen? 437 00:30:26,155 --> 00:30:30,315 Speaker 1: How did the Republican Party get here? And they tweeted 438 00:30:30,355 --> 00:30:33,595 Speaker 1: it out again, a legit question all the way. But 439 00:30:33,715 --> 00:30:36,675 Speaker 1: in saying this, Mike Barnacle forgot and in clipping it 440 00:30:36,715 --> 00:30:40,875 Speaker 1: off and sending it out virallly and that cynical handwringing, Oh, 441 00:30:40,915 --> 00:30:43,875 Speaker 1: we finally have a product we can sell, which is 442 00:30:43,915 --> 00:30:46,555 Speaker 1: true of one hundred percent of the time on MSNBC 443 00:30:46,675 --> 00:30:49,755 Speaker 1: before say seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and 444 00:30:50,035 --> 00:30:53,115 Speaker 1: a lot of the time thereafter that cynical way that 445 00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:57,115 Speaker 1: they treat progressivism or non conservatism, or whatever it is 446 00:30:57,155 --> 00:30:59,595 Speaker 1: they think they're doing. Before say, four in the afternoon, 447 00:30:59,875 --> 00:31:02,715 Speaker 1: the Morning Joe team forgot a little bit of the 448 00:31:02,835 --> 00:31:06,555 Speaker 1: answer to that question. Mike Barnacle posed one of the 449 00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:09,355 Speaker 1: answers to how did this happen? How did the Republican 450 00:31:09,395 --> 00:31:13,035 Speaker 1: Party get here? One of the answers is Joe Scarborough 451 00:31:13,115 --> 00:31:18,155 Speaker 1: made sure it got there for some reason. Barnacle and 452 00:31:18,355 --> 00:31:22,995 Speaker 1: Morning Joe and the MSNBC Comms department don't mention this 453 00:31:23,075 --> 00:31:27,835 Speaker 1: a lot anymore, but in twenty fifteen. In twenty sixteen, 454 00:31:27,955 --> 00:31:33,875 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough fervently tried to mainstream Donald Trump and make 455 00:31:33,955 --> 00:31:38,075 Speaker 1: him president of the United States, had him on MSNBC, 456 00:31:38,595 --> 00:31:44,035 Speaker 1: advised him, traveled to a debate to coach him. CNN 457 00:31:44,115 --> 00:31:47,835 Speaker 1: February twelve, twenty sixteen, their media reporter noting that in 458 00:31:47,875 --> 00:31:51,755 Speaker 1: November of twenty fifteen, quote Joe Scarborough sat on stage 459 00:31:51,755 --> 00:31:53,995 Speaker 1: at the ninety second Street Why in New York and 460 00:31:54,115 --> 00:31:58,155 Speaker 1: recounted the various times he had given Donald Trump political advice. 461 00:31:58,995 --> 00:32:01,755 Speaker 1: I've actually called him up and said, Donald, listen, you 462 00:32:01,835 --> 00:32:06,035 Speaker 1: need to speak in complete sentences. At debates. Scarborough said, 463 00:32:06,395 --> 00:32:09,675 Speaker 1: after the second debate, I walked into his office. I said, Donald, 464 00:32:09,715 --> 00:32:12,915 Speaker 1: do you know how to read? I said, you should 465 00:32:12,915 --> 00:32:16,115 Speaker 1: read before a debate. Read a paragraph on Syria. Read 466 00:32:16,155 --> 00:32:20,755 Speaker 1: a paragraph on education reform. The anecdotes, which were meant 467 00:32:20,795 --> 00:32:23,675 Speaker 1: as a testament to Trump's off the cuff political savvy, 468 00:32:23,915 --> 00:32:27,995 Speaker 1: drew laughter from the audience. Both Scarborough and co host 469 00:32:28,035 --> 00:32:30,795 Speaker 1: Mika Brzhinsky, who used to be somebody else's wife and 470 00:32:30,835 --> 00:32:33,875 Speaker 1: his now Joe's wife, are close friends with Trump and 471 00:32:34,075 --> 00:32:39,355 Speaker 1: members of his family. This is February twenty sixteen. Scarborough, 472 00:32:39,435 --> 00:32:42,635 Speaker 1: a former four term congressman from Florida's first District, has 473 00:32:42,635 --> 00:32:46,315 Speaker 1: often stayed at Trump's Marilago Club in Palm Beach with 474 00:32:46,435 --> 00:32:49,715 Speaker 1: his family and was there during which family and his 475 00:32:49,795 --> 00:32:52,235 Speaker 1: family and was there during the week between Christmas and 476 00:32:52,315 --> 00:32:55,235 Speaker 1: New Year's. Two sources at the hotel during that time 477 00:32:55,315 --> 00:32:58,435 Speaker 1: said on the night of the New Hampshire primary, CNN 478 00:32:58,475 --> 00:33:03,075 Speaker 1: went on, Scarborough and Brzhinsky visited Trump's hotel room for 479 00:33:03,155 --> 00:33:08,835 Speaker 1: what MSNBC described as background discussions with the candidate's senior 480 00:33:09,035 --> 00:33:12,515 Speaker 1: staff and a conversation with Trump that lasted less than 481 00:33:12,515 --> 00:33:17,475 Speaker 1: five minutes. In recent weeks, Scarborough has spoken about Trump 482 00:33:17,475 --> 00:33:21,875 Speaker 1: in increasingly glowing terms, praising him as a masterful politician 483 00:33:22,075 --> 00:33:25,275 Speaker 1: and defending him against his political opponents and media critics. 484 00:33:25,595 --> 00:33:29,115 Speaker 1: The Washington Post has noted that Trump has received a 485 00:33:29,155 --> 00:33:33,435 Speaker 1: tremendous degree of warmth from the show, and that his 486 00:33:33,515 --> 00:33:35,955 Speaker 1: appearances on the show in person and over the phone 487 00:33:36,035 --> 00:33:41,955 Speaker 1: often feel like a cozy social club. Some MSNBC insiders 488 00:33:42,195 --> 00:33:45,915 Speaker 1: also cringed at an on air exchange Scarborough had last 489 00:33:45,915 --> 00:33:50,795 Speaker 1: month with radio host Hugh Hewitt. Well, that's an evergreen sentence, 490 00:33:51,035 --> 00:33:54,155 Speaker 1: but he meant something specifically CNN did in twenty sixteen. 491 00:33:54,635 --> 00:33:57,915 Speaker 1: Hewitt pressed Scarborough on whether he would serve as Trump's 492 00:33:57,995 --> 00:34:02,195 Speaker 1: vice president. Scarborough ruled out the possibility, but not before 493 00:34:02,235 --> 00:34:05,955 Speaker 1: saying he would do quote just about anything to try 494 00:34:05,955 --> 00:34:10,435 Speaker 1: to get the White House back. End the CNN quote 495 00:34:10,435 --> 00:34:14,635 Speaker 1: from twenty sixteen. How did we get here with Donald Trump? 496 00:34:14,875 --> 00:34:18,475 Speaker 1: I don't know? Does anybody know how? And Joe Scarborough 497 00:34:18,515 --> 00:34:21,715 Speaker 1: looked even more blankly into the camera than he has 498 00:34:21,795 --> 00:34:26,275 Speaker 1: every other minute of his life, little slit eyed bastard. 499 00:34:26,755 --> 00:34:30,475 Speaker 1: We all know about this from the beginning of twenty sixteen, 500 00:34:30,515 --> 00:34:34,475 Speaker 1: and then, oddly enough, Trump didn't like Scarborough anymore, and 501 00:34:34,515 --> 00:34:38,915 Speaker 1: they fell out, And then we forget that after Scarborough 502 00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:45,115 Speaker 1: disavowed Trump, he reavowed him after Trump won. December fifth, 503 00:34:45,115 --> 00:34:49,555 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Politico writes a saga that included co host 504 00:34:49,675 --> 00:34:54,955 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough comparing Trump policies to Nazi Germany, and the 505 00:34:54,995 --> 00:34:58,035 Speaker 1: candidate tweeting that co host Mika Brazinski is crazy and 506 00:34:58,195 --> 00:35:02,715 Speaker 1: very dumb. Has taken a distinctly positive turn. I don't 507 00:35:02,715 --> 00:35:05,635 Speaker 1: know those quotes sound pretty positive or at least accurate. 508 00:35:05,795 --> 00:35:08,915 Speaker 1: The co hosts are now in regular communication with Trump 509 00:35:09,075 --> 00:35:11,715 Speaker 1: and his circle, so much so that they are fielding 510 00:35:11,795 --> 00:35:17,355 Speaker 1: criticism for being a house organ for the incoming administration. Well, 511 00:35:17,395 --> 00:35:21,275 Speaker 1: if anybody could be described as an organ, it's Joe Scarborough. 512 00:35:22,155 --> 00:35:26,555 Speaker 1: They have always been boosters. Things turned south when Trump 513 00:35:26,635 --> 00:35:31,515 Speaker 1: froze them out, but coverage always stilted. They are transition 514 00:35:32,075 --> 00:35:38,355 Speaker 1: spokesman now tweeted a rival morning anchor, CNN's Chris Cuomo again, 515 00:35:38,395 --> 00:35:43,115 Speaker 1: this is twenty sixteen. Indeed, most viewers Politico wrote seemed 516 00:35:43,195 --> 00:35:47,875 Speaker 1: to agree, knowing the co host's direct pipeline to Trump Tower. Scarborough, 517 00:35:47,915 --> 00:35:50,995 Speaker 1: in an interview, declared that he and Brashinsky talked several 518 00:35:51,035 --> 00:35:54,355 Speaker 1: times a week with Trump himself, and last week Brazinski 519 00:35:54,515 --> 00:35:58,435 Speaker 1: traveled to Trump Tower and visited Ivanka Trump for coffee. 520 00:35:59,555 --> 00:36:01,155 Speaker 1: I'm just going to guess here, by the way, as 521 00:36:01,155 --> 00:36:04,995 Speaker 1: an aside, I assume Mika had to pay. Indeed, many 522 00:36:04,995 --> 00:36:08,195 Speaker 1: members of Trump's inner circle, including his influential son in 523 00:36:08,275 --> 00:36:12,235 Speaker 1: law Jared Kushner, stayed in close contact with the show 524 00:36:12,475 --> 00:36:16,555 Speaker 1: in the campaign's final weeks. An NBC source close to 525 00:36:16,595 --> 00:36:19,795 Speaker 1: the show says the Trump campaign appreciated that Morning Joe 526 00:36:20,115 --> 00:36:24,235 Speaker 1: never wrote off their candidate as other media did. Now, 527 00:36:24,315 --> 00:36:28,075 Speaker 1: in the wake of Trump's election, Mourning Joe is becoming 528 00:36:28,115 --> 00:36:31,955 Speaker 1: a go to spot for Trump watchers. That is the 529 00:36:32,075 --> 00:36:35,315 Speaker 1: end of twenty sixteen, a month and a half before 530 00:36:35,355 --> 00:36:38,555 Speaker 1: Trump became president. And what it says, if you heard 531 00:36:38,555 --> 00:36:42,155 Speaker 1: it in there, is that even while they were supposedly 532 00:36:42,195 --> 00:36:46,795 Speaker 1: fighting and Scarborough was opposed to a Trump presidency, even then, 533 00:36:47,315 --> 00:36:50,195 Speaker 1: behind the scenes, the two camps were in touch and 534 00:36:50,235 --> 00:36:55,715 Speaker 1: the Trump people still appreciated Joe Scarborough's support. So when 535 00:36:55,715 --> 00:36:58,475 Speaker 1: the question is raised, how did we get here, maybe 536 00:36:58,475 --> 00:37:01,635 Speaker 1: the answer, the third or fourth answer is Joe effing 537 00:37:01,715 --> 00:37:04,475 Speaker 1: Scarborough got us here and the next time somebody on 538 00:37:04,515 --> 00:37:08,315 Speaker 1: Scarborough Show asks how did this happen? Or why is 539 00:37:08,355 --> 00:37:12,115 Speaker 1: Trump still there? Take that photo that I tweeted yesterday 540 00:37:12,155 --> 00:37:16,075 Speaker 1: and send it directly to Joe at Joe NBC. It's 541 00:37:16,115 --> 00:37:20,075 Speaker 1: the shot of him in Trump at MSNBC, both grinning 542 00:37:20,195 --> 00:37:24,675 Speaker 1: like the fascist idiots. They are both giving Trump's thumbs up. 543 00:37:25,235 --> 00:37:27,755 Speaker 1: If you don't want to do that, just get a 544 00:37:27,835 --> 00:37:34,275 Speaker 1: package together and send Joe Scarborough a mirror. Joe Scarborough, 545 00:37:34,875 --> 00:37:37,435 Speaker 1: who helped elect Trump and is thus helping to possibly 546 00:37:37,475 --> 00:37:40,235 Speaker 1: elect Trump again because he didn't do what a moral 547 00:37:40,315 --> 00:37:42,835 Speaker 1: man or just one with a conscience might have done 548 00:37:42,915 --> 00:37:45,275 Speaker 1: after Trump was elected and did what he did, which 549 00:37:45,315 --> 00:37:48,475 Speaker 1: would be to resign from your television show, leave the 550 00:37:48,515 --> 00:37:51,715 Speaker 1: public arena in shame, and take a ten year vow 551 00:37:51,795 --> 00:37:57,555 Speaker 1: of silence. Joe Scarborough Today's worst person in the world, 552 00:38:07,195 --> 00:38:09,235 Speaker 1: to the number one story on the Countdown and my 553 00:38:09,275 --> 00:38:13,075 Speaker 1: favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 554 00:38:13,915 --> 00:38:18,795 Speaker 1: So it's another anniversary. One Sometime on Wednesday, September twelfth, 555 00:38:18,835 --> 00:38:22,715 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, I began to feel bad, all 556 00:38:22,835 --> 00:38:26,555 Speaker 1: strained on my right side. But my girlfriend at the time, 557 00:38:26,675 --> 00:38:29,115 Speaker 1: Katie Turr, and I had just moved only a few 558 00:38:29,155 --> 00:38:31,355 Speaker 1: weeks before into our new apartment, and I was still 559 00:38:31,595 --> 00:38:34,155 Speaker 1: pushing boxes around and I thought I'd just strained something. 560 00:38:35,115 --> 00:38:38,755 Speaker 1: The next morning, the thirteenth, I was still feeling like crap, 561 00:38:38,835 --> 00:38:40,835 Speaker 1: but now my stomach also hurt, and I thought I 562 00:38:40,875 --> 00:38:44,875 Speaker 1: was bloated or constipated or something, and maybe some sit 563 00:38:44,955 --> 00:38:46,675 Speaker 1: ups would help. And actually they felt like they had 564 00:38:46,675 --> 00:38:49,795 Speaker 1: relieved some of the pressure. And Katie's father, who was 565 00:38:49,835 --> 00:38:52,955 Speaker 1: among many many things in emt, happened to be in town. 566 00:38:53,035 --> 00:38:54,555 Speaker 1: He gave me a vico In or something, and I 567 00:38:54,595 --> 00:38:56,395 Speaker 1: took a nap and went into work a little later 568 00:38:56,435 --> 00:38:58,995 Speaker 1: than usual at MSNBC, which I could get away with 569 00:38:59,075 --> 00:39:02,275 Speaker 1: that day because President Bush was speaking that night and 570 00:39:02,355 --> 00:39:04,395 Speaker 1: almost all of my work that night would be ad 571 00:39:04,515 --> 00:39:08,635 Speaker 1: live before his speech, and then after his speech. I 572 00:39:08,675 --> 00:39:10,915 Speaker 1: wrote what I needed to write quickly, and at about 573 00:39:10,955 --> 00:39:13,315 Speaker 1: seven point fifteen, I went out to the show line 574 00:39:13,315 --> 00:39:16,555 Speaker 1: producer Greg Kordick, who sat in exactly the right place 575 00:39:16,955 --> 00:39:18,755 Speaker 1: that he could make certain that I had left tour 576 00:39:18,835 --> 00:39:21,635 Speaker 1: makeup and was going to the studio on time. I 577 00:39:21,635 --> 00:39:24,595 Speaker 1: had to walk right past him and I said, I'm exhausted. 578 00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:26,155 Speaker 1: I'm just going to close my eyes at my desk 579 00:39:26,195 --> 00:39:27,835 Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes. If you don't see me 580 00:39:27,915 --> 00:39:30,435 Speaker 1: go pass by, like seven forty, come in and wake 581 00:39:30,515 --> 00:39:33,115 Speaker 1: me up. And I sat down and put my legs 582 00:39:33,195 --> 00:39:35,715 Speaker 1: up on my desk. I folded my hands behind my head, 583 00:39:35,715 --> 00:39:37,955 Speaker 1: and I just closed my eyes, more to rest my 584 00:39:37,995 --> 00:39:40,235 Speaker 1: eyes than in any real hope of sleeping. I am 585 00:39:40,275 --> 00:39:43,075 Speaker 1: a fickle sleeper. There's not a chance I could snooze 586 00:39:43,075 --> 00:39:45,795 Speaker 1: like that. Next thing I know, it's seven forty and 587 00:39:45,795 --> 00:39:49,475 Speaker 1: I'm feeling somebody shaking me and seriously a hand on 588 00:39:49,515 --> 00:39:52,915 Speaker 1: each shoulder. Apparently it took mister Cordick a little while 589 00:39:52,995 --> 00:39:55,115 Speaker 1: to wake me up, and I thanked Greg and staggered 590 00:39:55,155 --> 00:39:56,635 Speaker 1: to the makeup room, and I realized now I had 591 00:39:56,675 --> 00:39:58,795 Speaker 1: a little fever, but it was too late to do 592 00:39:58,835 --> 00:40:01,515 Speaker 1: anything about it. So I got my makeup, went to 593 00:40:01,555 --> 00:40:03,875 Speaker 1: the set, did the lead into Bush's speech, took some 594 00:40:03,955 --> 00:40:05,995 Speaker 1: notes during it, did the post speech wrap up with 595 00:40:06,035 --> 00:40:08,235 Speaker 1: the analysts, and after two hours on the air, I 596 00:40:08,275 --> 00:40:09,915 Speaker 1: got in the car that they sent for me to 597 00:40:09,955 --> 00:40:13,355 Speaker 1: go home to New York from New Jersey, and I 598 00:40:13,395 --> 00:40:16,875 Speaker 1: fell asleep again in the car. I still thought this 599 00:40:16,915 --> 00:40:21,075 Speaker 1: is some weird stomach flu and I'm bloated beyond belief, 600 00:40:21,115 --> 00:40:22,875 Speaker 1: and I really don't feel good. But I bet that's 601 00:40:22,915 --> 00:40:25,515 Speaker 1: just from listening to George W. Bush one time too many. 602 00:40:26,395 --> 00:40:29,635 Speaker 1: I'll just go to bed. I found it was too 603 00:40:29,635 --> 00:40:32,555 Speaker 1: difficult to lie on my stomach or my side, which 604 00:40:32,555 --> 00:40:35,275 Speaker 1: presented a problem because rarely can I fall asleep on 605 00:40:35,355 --> 00:40:38,675 Speaker 1: my back. But I had to try, and the next 606 00:40:38,715 --> 00:40:43,275 Speaker 1: thing I knew it was morning. I slept like a stone, 607 00:40:43,835 --> 00:40:46,235 Speaker 1: but I still felt really bad, in fact, a little 608 00:40:46,235 --> 00:40:50,435 Speaker 1: bit worse. On top of all which Katie was yelling 609 00:40:50,475 --> 00:40:53,195 Speaker 1: at me about something. And I had a check up 610 00:40:53,195 --> 00:40:55,635 Speaker 1: for something unrelated at my doctor's office, and I left 611 00:40:55,995 --> 00:40:58,435 Speaker 1: early so I could go buy something for the constipation. 612 00:40:58,915 --> 00:41:00,915 Speaker 1: And then when my doctor called me and he said, 613 00:41:01,115 --> 00:41:03,555 Speaker 1: you look terrible. Are you okay? And I said no, 614 00:41:03,675 --> 00:41:06,515 Speaker 1: I got this really so stomach and the last time 615 00:41:06,515 --> 00:41:08,155 Speaker 1: I had this fever for a while, and he kind 616 00:41:08,195 --> 00:41:10,755 Speaker 1: of gasped, and now he looked terrible, and he said, 617 00:41:11,315 --> 00:41:15,195 Speaker 1: when was the last time you ate? I said, you know, funny, 618 00:41:15,195 --> 00:41:17,955 Speaker 1: I haven't thought about food for a couple of days. 619 00:41:18,155 --> 00:41:19,955 Speaker 1: And then he asked me when was the last time 620 00:41:20,035 --> 00:41:21,795 Speaker 1: that happened? And I said, when I was in the 621 00:41:21,835 --> 00:41:24,875 Speaker 1: womb and he had me stand up and he pushed 622 00:41:24,875 --> 00:41:27,355 Speaker 1: his finger into my stomach about five inches to the 623 00:41:27,395 --> 00:41:30,675 Speaker 1: right of my navel, and holding the finger there, he said, 624 00:41:30,715 --> 00:41:33,675 Speaker 1: does this hurt? And I said not at all, And 625 00:41:33,715 --> 00:41:35,515 Speaker 1: then he said does it hurt now? As I take 626 00:41:35,555 --> 00:41:37,635 Speaker 1: my finger away, And I don't remember if I said 627 00:41:37,675 --> 00:41:40,075 Speaker 1: anything or not, because I saw the proverbial stars in 628 00:41:40,075 --> 00:41:42,475 Speaker 1: front of my eyes and I let out a scream. 629 00:41:42,755 --> 00:41:45,075 Speaker 1: So he said, get back in your car, and you 630 00:41:45,155 --> 00:41:47,195 Speaker 1: go to our other office at fifty ninth and tenth 631 00:41:47,235 --> 00:41:49,555 Speaker 1: and go see our gastro specialist. And I said, sure, 632 00:41:49,715 --> 00:41:51,395 Speaker 1: just don't poke me again. And when I got there, 633 00:41:51,435 --> 00:41:53,395 Speaker 1: they showed me right in and she taps me and 634 00:41:53,435 --> 00:41:55,795 Speaker 1: she says, why are you hunched over like that? And 635 00:41:55,835 --> 00:41:58,075 Speaker 1: I said, I'm hunched over and she says, if you 636 00:41:58,075 --> 00:41:59,995 Speaker 1: haven't eaten in two days, how come your stomach is 637 00:42:00,155 --> 00:42:03,075 Speaker 1: heard is a rock? And I said, is this a 638 00:42:03,115 --> 00:42:06,115 Speaker 1: medical quiz because you're the doctor, And she says, I 639 00:42:06,155 --> 00:42:07,995 Speaker 1: want you to go across the street to the hospital 640 00:42:07,995 --> 00:42:11,555 Speaker 1: emergency room. I'll call them while you're walking. Just go 641 00:42:11,675 --> 00:42:13,995 Speaker 1: right in and tell them you're the one doctor Lou 642 00:42:14,115 --> 00:42:17,675 Speaker 1: called about. Because boy, your appendix burst, and although I 643 00:42:17,715 --> 00:42:21,835 Speaker 1: think you'll be fine, technically you've got about oh eight, 644 00:42:21,955 --> 00:42:25,675 Speaker 1: ten twelve hours to live. Well, that got my attention, 645 00:42:26,835 --> 00:42:29,715 Speaker 1: and as I'm grabbing my jacket my bag, I say, wait, 646 00:42:30,075 --> 00:42:32,515 Speaker 1: if this isn't just constipation, how come it felt better 647 00:42:32,555 --> 00:42:34,555 Speaker 1: when I did the sit ups? And she says, because 648 00:42:34,595 --> 00:42:37,035 Speaker 1: when you did the sit ups, you only had an 649 00:42:37,035 --> 00:42:40,675 Speaker 1: infected appendix that was going to burst. When you did 650 00:42:40,715 --> 00:42:44,075 Speaker 1: the sit ups, dummy, that's when the appendix burst, you 651 00:42:44,155 --> 00:42:48,635 Speaker 1: burst it. So I said, wait, I went on TV 652 00:42:48,795 --> 00:42:53,795 Speaker 1: for two hours after my appendix burst. Shut up, She explained, 653 00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:57,395 Speaker 1: she was right. The our people saw me immediately. They 654 00:42:57,475 --> 00:42:59,315 Speaker 1: ran a bunch of tests and reminded me that if 655 00:42:59,315 --> 00:43:01,395 Speaker 1: I hadn't already, I should probably call in sick for 656 00:43:01,395 --> 00:43:04,235 Speaker 1: a couple days. And I said, wait, what day is today? 657 00:43:04,435 --> 00:43:07,075 Speaker 1: And they helped out and they said Friday. So I 658 00:43:07,115 --> 00:43:09,595 Speaker 1: called MSNBC, and I called the producer of Football Night 659 00:43:09,595 --> 00:43:11,795 Speaker 1: in America, which I was doing for NBC on Sundays, 660 00:43:11,835 --> 00:43:14,795 Speaker 1: and I said, hey, sorry, looks like I'm technically dying 661 00:43:14,995 --> 00:43:18,315 Speaker 1: from a burst appendix. And they're going to operate on 662 00:43:18,355 --> 00:43:20,115 Speaker 1: me as soon as they can get a surgeon in here, 663 00:43:20,115 --> 00:43:22,235 Speaker 1: and they say it's real unlikely. I'll be out of 664 00:43:22,275 --> 00:43:24,995 Speaker 1: the hospital by Sunday or Monday. Have a nice day. 665 00:43:25,955 --> 00:43:27,875 Speaker 1: I called Katie, who had already gotten to her job 666 00:43:27,915 --> 00:43:30,675 Speaker 1: in local cable news in Brooklyn, and she turned around 667 00:43:30,675 --> 00:43:32,635 Speaker 1: to come help me out at the hospital. And then 668 00:43:32,675 --> 00:43:36,675 Speaker 1: I just waited and got Goofier and Goofier and Goofier 669 00:43:37,395 --> 00:43:41,475 Speaker 1: and Goofier. I think they operated around seven or eight pm. 670 00:43:42,035 --> 00:43:44,555 Speaker 1: The surgeon introduced himself. He was a big sports fan, 671 00:43:44,955 --> 00:43:50,075 Speaker 1: Fred Kimmelsteele, the surgeon named by prophetic parents. And I 672 00:43:50,115 --> 00:43:52,675 Speaker 1: went to the anesthesiologist and I warned him. I said 673 00:43:52,675 --> 00:43:55,475 Speaker 1: I'd once woken up from anesthesia during an endoscopy, and 674 00:43:55,515 --> 00:43:59,475 Speaker 1: could he make sure that that didn't happen again. In fact, 675 00:43:59,475 --> 00:44:00,755 Speaker 1: I said that the other day when I had my 676 00:44:00,835 --> 00:44:03,315 Speaker 1: knee operated on, and this guy did the same thing. 677 00:44:03,355 --> 00:44:05,795 Speaker 1: They both of these anesthesiology I just just laughed when 678 00:44:05,835 --> 00:44:07,955 Speaker 1: I challenged them to knock me out a little bit harder. 679 00:44:08,835 --> 00:44:11,475 Speaker 1: So doctor kimmel Steele asked me about the latest met 680 00:44:11,595 --> 00:44:13,835 Speaker 1: choke job. This is the one in two thousand and seven, 681 00:44:13,955 --> 00:44:15,995 Speaker 1: not the one in twenty twenty two. And I started 682 00:44:15,995 --> 00:44:17,795 Speaker 1: to talk about David wright, and the next thing I knew, 683 00:44:17,795 --> 00:44:19,875 Speaker 1: I was freezing cold and trying to open my eyes. 684 00:44:19,995 --> 00:44:22,315 Speaker 1: And it was three hours later and the surgery was over. 685 00:44:22,515 --> 00:44:24,875 Speaker 1: What a mess, said doctor Kimmel Steel, never had one 686 00:44:24,875 --> 00:44:27,715 Speaker 1: that bad before. Thank God, it absesss You'll be here 687 00:44:27,755 --> 00:44:31,755 Speaker 1: all weekend and I was the next day. They made 688 00:44:31,755 --> 00:44:33,035 Speaker 1: me get out of bed and I think it took 689 00:44:33,035 --> 00:44:36,035 Speaker 1: me half an hour to walk about twenty feet down 690 00:44:36,075 --> 00:44:39,155 Speaker 1: the hallway and back, and there was a morphine drip 691 00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:42,595 Speaker 1: and a new bag of intravenous antibiotics every two hours, 692 00:44:42,595 --> 00:44:45,275 Speaker 1: and at one point the phone rang, and I really 693 00:44:45,275 --> 00:44:47,475 Speaker 1: did have to go back the following weekend ask the 694 00:44:47,515 --> 00:44:50,595 Speaker 1: producer if this actually happened or I merely hallucinated it. 695 00:44:51,275 --> 00:44:53,035 Speaker 1: But the phone rang, and it was the football night 696 00:44:53,075 --> 00:44:54,515 Speaker 1: in America people, and they said they were going to 697 00:44:54,595 --> 00:44:57,915 Speaker 1: shoot video of the hospital I was in, and I said, 698 00:44:57,955 --> 00:44:59,795 Speaker 1: I don't think you can see me from the street, 699 00:45:00,075 --> 00:45:02,115 Speaker 1: and they said, right, we know that. We're just pretty 700 00:45:02,155 --> 00:45:04,395 Speaker 1: much doing this for a laugh at your expense while 701 00:45:04,435 --> 00:45:07,155 Speaker 1: you're in the hospital and we're on TV. And then 702 00:45:07,195 --> 00:45:09,435 Speaker 1: finally my appetite came back on Monday and I was 703 00:45:09,475 --> 00:45:11,435 Speaker 1: able to eat some pancakes, and they sent me home 704 00:45:11,435 --> 00:45:14,075 Speaker 1: in the afternoon. And for two days after that, I 705 00:45:14,115 --> 00:45:16,635 Speaker 1: was still sweating out the poisons and the antibiotics and 706 00:45:16,635 --> 00:45:18,835 Speaker 1: the painkillers, and I mean I was so warm I 707 00:45:18,875 --> 00:45:22,235 Speaker 1: could not bear to have a shirt on. But by 708 00:45:22,275 --> 00:45:24,035 Speaker 1: Thursday I was able to go back to work, and 709 00:45:24,195 --> 00:45:27,275 Speaker 1: just to show off, I wrote a special comment about 710 00:45:27,355 --> 00:45:30,675 Speaker 1: Bush from my first show back. I was extremely pleased 711 00:45:30,675 --> 00:45:35,155 Speaker 1: with myself. Now there are three postscripts to this. Now, 712 00:45:35,195 --> 00:45:38,075 Speaker 1: obviously I learned, and I've just taught you the test 713 00:45:38,155 --> 00:45:41,275 Speaker 1: for appendicitis or a burst appendix. If you poke it 714 00:45:41,715 --> 00:45:45,555 Speaker 1: and it doesn't hurt until you stop poking it, it's 715 00:45:45,595 --> 00:45:49,275 Speaker 1: your appendix. Fat lot of good that'll do me. Now 716 00:45:49,315 --> 00:45:53,635 Speaker 1: I don't have an appendix. Second weeks later, I was 717 00:45:53,675 --> 00:45:56,395 Speaker 1: at dinner with my friend John Clees from Monty Python's 718 00:45:56,395 --> 00:45:59,195 Speaker 1: Flying Circus, and he said he'd heard the story about 719 00:45:59,195 --> 00:46:01,915 Speaker 1: my appendix and he was very upset with me. I 720 00:46:01,995 --> 00:46:05,315 Speaker 1: did the exact same thing, John said, blew up, And 721 00:46:05,355 --> 00:46:07,555 Speaker 1: for two days I had no idea how serious it was. 722 00:46:07,795 --> 00:46:10,755 Speaker 1: Thought it was a cold But don't kill people that 723 00:46:10,835 --> 00:46:13,955 Speaker 1: don't undersell it and call it a burst appendix. You 724 00:46:14,115 --> 00:46:19,875 Speaker 1: and I we were both dying of septacemia. Never let 725 00:46:19,995 --> 00:46:26,555 Speaker 1: anybody forget that, and I haven't. And the last and 726 00:46:26,675 --> 00:46:30,035 Speaker 1: best PostScript was, while I'm lying there recovering after the surgery, 727 00:46:30,075 --> 00:46:32,395 Speaker 1: the phone rings and it's my executive producer and she says, 728 00:46:32,435 --> 00:46:35,755 Speaker 1: good news. When you anchored before and after Bush's speech 729 00:46:36,955 --> 00:46:40,995 Speaker 1: and you got sick or after you got sick, you 730 00:46:41,075 --> 00:46:43,675 Speaker 1: beat CNN in the ratings by like twenty five percent, 731 00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:47,395 Speaker 1: And as stone on them painkillers as I might have been, 732 00:46:47,435 --> 00:46:50,155 Speaker 1: I was still able to say to her, I beat CNN. 733 00:46:50,635 --> 00:46:53,675 Speaker 1: I beat CNN with one appendix tied behind my back. 734 00:47:06,875 --> 00:47:08,715 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 735 00:47:08,795 --> 00:47:11,955 Speaker 1: you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week, 736 00:47:12,115 --> 00:47:16,675 Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. The YouTube version which 737 00:47:16,795 --> 00:47:20,355 Speaker 1: is which is the audio with some animation. I don't 738 00:47:20,355 --> 00:47:22,435 Speaker 1: want to mislead you on that there's no video of this. 739 00:47:22,875 --> 00:47:26,315 Speaker 1: The YouTube version posts about five am Eastern. If you're 740 00:47:26,355 --> 00:47:31,155 Speaker 1: not subscribing, please subscribe to one or both, and please 741 00:47:31,155 --> 00:47:33,355 Speaker 1: share this pod with somebody who does not listen or 742 00:47:33,355 --> 00:47:38,235 Speaker 1: watch or is it watching audio on YouTube or is 743 00:47:38,275 --> 00:47:41,675 Speaker 1: it some other verb you're listening to YouTube? Then why 744 00:47:41,755 --> 00:47:44,795 Speaker 1: is it a tube. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil 745 00:47:44,835 --> 00:47:48,355 Speaker 1: the musical directors have Countdown Arrange, produced and performed most 746 00:47:48,395 --> 00:47:51,835 Speaker 1: of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister 747 00:47:51,955 --> 00:47:53,995 Speaker 1: Ray was on the guitars that based on the drums, 748 00:47:54,115 --> 00:47:57,035 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and 749 00:47:57,075 --> 00:48:00,195 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist stepper, 750 00:48:00,355 --> 00:48:03,635 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 751 00:48:03,835 --> 00:48:07,435 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Horn Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 752 00:48:07,915 --> 00:48:10,955 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 753 00:48:11,315 --> 00:48:15,075 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Nancy Faust. Everything else 754 00:48:15,315 --> 00:48:19,195 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's this the five 755 00:48:19,835 --> 00:48:25,235 Speaker 1: hundredth edition of the Countdown podcast for this sixty second 756 00:48:25,315 --> 00:48:28,395 Speaker 1: day until the twenty twenty four presidential election and the 757 00:48:28,435 --> 00:48:32,475 Speaker 1: one three hundred and thirty second day since convicted feudn 758 00:48:32,555 --> 00:48:36,475 Speaker 1: dementia J Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 759 00:48:36,515 --> 00:48:40,475 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing, 760 00:48:40,955 --> 00:48:45,275 Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity. The Supreme 761 00:48:45,395 --> 00:48:48,995 Speaker 1: Theocratic Court has given it to you, President Biden. I say, 762 00:48:49,035 --> 00:48:53,675 Speaker 1: if it's official, it's legal to have fun. You're immune. 763 00:48:54,235 --> 00:49:00,155 Speaker 1: Do it. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as 764 00:49:00,155 --> 00:49:02,515 Speaker 1: the news requires till the next one. I'm Keith Olderman. 765 00:49:02,715 --> 00:49:24,035 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 766 00:49:24,075 --> 00:49:27,795 Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 767 00:49:27,915 --> 00:49:32,835 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 768 00:49:32,915 --> 00:49:34,715 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.