1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:21,915 --> 00:00:25,795 Speaker 1: Trump's threat to terminate the Constitution is so bad that 3 00:00:25,875 --> 00:00:30,635 Speaker 1: now even he has attacked it. Quote the fake news 4 00:00:30,715 --> 00:00:32,795 Speaker 1: is actually trying to convince the American people that I 5 00:00:32,835 --> 00:00:36,275 Speaker 1: said I wanted to terminate the Constitution, he posted on 6 00:00:36,355 --> 00:00:39,955 Speaker 1: his Truth social media platform. This was two days after 7 00:00:39,955 --> 00:00:43,915 Speaker 1: he advocated quote for the termination of all rules, regulations, 8 00:00:43,915 --> 00:00:47,635 Speaker 1: and articles, even those found in the Constitution, and posted 9 00:00:47,675 --> 00:00:51,995 Speaker 1: that on his Truth social media platform. Trump has now 10 00:00:52,075 --> 00:00:54,795 Speaker 1: proceeded to again call for the overthrow of the government 11 00:00:54,795 --> 00:00:58,595 Speaker 1: of the United States, quoting steps must be immediately taken 12 00:00:58,635 --> 00:01:01,395 Speaker 1: to right the wrong. An election should go to the 13 00:01:01,515 --> 00:01:04,515 Speaker 1: rightful winner, or at minimum be redone. There should be 14 00:01:04,675 --> 00:01:08,875 Speaker 1: no time limit for change. Once again, a guy with 15 00:01:08,955 --> 00:01:12,995 Speaker 1: a political base and millions of cultists with guns can 16 00:01:13,115 --> 00:01:15,715 Speaker 1: insist that who is president should be decided not by 17 00:01:15,755 --> 00:01:20,355 Speaker 1: the Constitution, not by an election, not by the Electoral College, 18 00:01:20,635 --> 00:01:25,915 Speaker 1: not by the Supreme Court even but by him and 19 00:01:25,995 --> 00:01:29,515 Speaker 1: he is still at large, rather than being detained under 20 00:01:29,555 --> 00:01:34,635 Speaker 1: eighteen USC. Chapter one, fifteen, section to five. Quote. Whoever 21 00:01:34,715 --> 00:01:40,955 Speaker 1: knowingly or willfully advocates a bets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, 22 00:01:41,035 --> 00:01:44,675 Speaker 1: or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the 23 00:01:44,755 --> 00:01:49,355 Speaker 1: United States by force or violence shall be fined under 24 00:01:49,395 --> 00:01:52,795 Speaker 1: this title, or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. 25 00:01:54,395 --> 00:01:58,755 Speaker 1: Most relevant yesterday was not Trump's ludicrous denials, which you're 26 00:01:58,755 --> 00:02:02,835 Speaker 1: gonna believe me on truth social or me on truth social. 27 00:02:03,435 --> 00:02:06,115 Speaker 1: And I never said I want to determinate the Constitution. 28 00:02:06,315 --> 00:02:10,235 Speaker 1: I only said I wanted to terminate articles of the Constitution. 29 00:02:11,395 --> 00:02:16,235 Speaker 1: Most relevant yesterday was the idea that maybe, just maybe, 30 00:02:16,755 --> 00:02:20,355 Speaker 1: the idea that they could finish Trump off on this 31 00:02:20,715 --> 00:02:24,315 Speaker 1: subject if they all stand up to him, or at 32 00:02:24,395 --> 00:02:27,075 Speaker 1: least that every last Republican is going to be asked 33 00:02:27,075 --> 00:02:30,755 Speaker 1: about this perfect either or that Trump has created him 34 00:02:30,915 --> 00:02:34,995 Speaker 1: or the Constitution. Maybe that is just beginning to dawn 35 00:02:35,395 --> 00:02:39,915 Speaker 1: on them. There are still ninnies and always will be. 36 00:02:40,275 --> 00:02:42,915 Speaker 1: Who can actually say what Roger Marshall, the Senator from 37 00:02:42,995 --> 00:02:47,235 Speaker 1: Kansas who believes nine eleven is pronounced nine one one 38 00:02:47,475 --> 00:02:50,675 Speaker 1: said yesterday, quoting Marshall, I don't know if that's being 39 00:02:50,715 --> 00:02:53,595 Speaker 1: taken out of context or where it came from, as 40 00:02:53,635 --> 00:02:55,915 Speaker 1: if it wasn't a direct quote. And then after he 41 00:02:55,955 --> 00:02:59,795 Speaker 1: said that he ran away from reporters. On the other hand, 42 00:02:59,835 --> 00:03:03,715 Speaker 1: Senator Mikowski of Alaska said, suggesting the termination of the 43 00:03:03,755 --> 00:03:06,915 Speaker 1: Constitution is now only a betrayal of our oath of office, 44 00:03:07,195 --> 00:03:11,715 Speaker 1: it's an affront to our republic. Close though no, Senator, 45 00:03:11,795 --> 00:03:15,795 Speaker 1: it is also a betrayal of our republic. Senator Rounds 46 00:03:15,835 --> 00:03:18,075 Speaker 1: of North Dakota said, anyone who desires to lead our 47 00:03:18,115 --> 00:03:21,675 Speaker 1: country must commit to protecting the Constitution. They should not 48 00:03:21,755 --> 00:03:25,595 Speaker 1: threaten to terminate it, which in this era of jellyfish 49 00:03:25,675 --> 00:03:31,715 Speaker 1: as Republican senators, constitutes borderline defiance. Swearing to uphold the Constitution. 50 00:03:31,875 --> 00:03:36,035 Speaker 1: Quote is the principal, the bedrock of our country. I 51 00:03:36,035 --> 00:03:40,715 Speaker 1: couldn't disagree more, said Senator Thune of South Dakota, But 52 00:03:40,835 --> 00:03:44,075 Speaker 1: when asked if that disqualified Trump, he would still go 53 00:03:44,155 --> 00:03:46,355 Speaker 1: no further out there. If you're one of these people 54 00:03:46,555 --> 00:03:49,275 Speaker 1: who's interested in running this year, this is certainly an 55 00:03:49,275 --> 00:03:55,075 Speaker 1: opportunity that would create some contrast. Sadly, the far right 56 00:03:55,155 --> 00:03:58,195 Speaker 1: is willing only to criticize Trump if a they don't 57 00:03:58,195 --> 00:04:00,835 Speaker 1: have to mention his name or be they can make 58 00:04:00,835 --> 00:04:03,835 Speaker 1: it look like they're criticizing him on political strategy, not 59 00:04:04,395 --> 00:04:09,995 Speaker 1: you know, the whole debate between constitutional government and a dictatorship. 60 00:04:10,675 --> 00:04:14,635 Speaker 1: The right wing troll Ben Shapiro criticized Trump not because 61 00:04:14,635 --> 00:04:17,435 Speaker 1: he endorsed a coup and then came back to clarify 62 00:04:17,475 --> 00:04:21,355 Speaker 1: it and endorsed a new coup, but because quote it 63 00:04:21,435 --> 00:04:24,235 Speaker 1: allowed the Democrats and the media to avoid the Twitter 64 00:04:24,275 --> 00:04:30,035 Speaker 1: files story entirely by redirecting to Trump's spoken authoritarianism. In 65 00:04:30,075 --> 00:04:33,035 Speaker 1: other words, the fact that there is no Twitter file 66 00:04:33,155 --> 00:04:38,435 Speaker 1: story indirectly becomes Trump's fault. This is a lie, This 67 00:04:38,555 --> 00:04:42,195 Speaker 1: is dereliction of duty by any US citizen, even Ben Shapiro. 68 00:04:42,835 --> 00:04:45,315 Speaker 1: But hell, if it undermines Trump, I will hold my 69 00:04:45,475 --> 00:04:48,675 Speaker 1: nose and take it. But what he is the most 70 00:04:48,835 --> 00:04:51,475 Speaker 1: useful for, again scrambling the creature of the New York 71 00:04:51,515 --> 00:04:53,835 Speaker 1: Post called Trump de Dumpty not a month ago at 72 00:04:53,875 --> 00:04:57,675 Speaker 1: the mid terms, is not the new quotes from Republicans 73 00:04:57,715 --> 00:05:02,035 Speaker 1: but the old ones. Aaron Fritzchner, the chief of Staffed Congress, 74 00:05:02,115 --> 00:05:05,315 Speaker 1: and Don Bayer and Media Matters for America the heavy 75 00:05:05,395 --> 00:05:09,195 Speaker 1: lifting on these, and they were worth the effort. October 76 00:05:09,315 --> 00:05:14,475 Speaker 1: eighteenth of this year, Representative Lauren Bobert quote, the Democrat 77 00:05:14,555 --> 00:05:18,275 Speaker 1: Party sees the Constitution as a roadblock rather than a 78 00:05:18,435 --> 00:05:24,555 Speaker 1: road map. Uh No, that's Trump. October Representative at least Stevanic, 79 00:05:24,835 --> 00:05:29,115 Speaker 1: I will always stand up for our constitution. Don't don't, 80 00:05:29,235 --> 00:05:33,795 Speaker 1: don't tell Trump undated harm Meat Dylan the MAGA trying 81 00:05:33,795 --> 00:05:37,315 Speaker 1: to become Republican National Committee chair. The Democrats would just 82 00:05:37,395 --> 00:05:41,595 Speaker 1: tear up the Constitution. No, no, that that that's Trump too, 83 00:05:42,195 --> 00:05:46,675 Speaker 1: undated Sean Hannity. Democrats are now ready to shred the constitution. 84 00:05:47,315 --> 00:05:51,155 Speaker 1: No that that that's your boy Trump undated, Pete Hexeth, 85 00:05:51,275 --> 00:05:55,715 Speaker 1: Fox News. Democrats want to tear up the Constitution, overturn it, 86 00:05:56,155 --> 00:06:00,435 Speaker 1: and rewrite it now, No, Pete, all three of those things. 87 00:06:00,675 --> 00:06:04,555 Speaker 1: That's also Trump. And from September seventeenth of this year 88 00:06:05,355 --> 00:06:10,635 Speaker 1: Constitution Day, the anniversary of the official adoption of that constitution, 89 00:06:11,875 --> 00:06:17,075 Speaker 1: a series of wonderful quotes. Representative John Rose of Tennessee. 90 00:06:17,635 --> 00:06:20,155 Speaker 1: Every day, I pushed back against those who seek to 91 00:06:20,275 --> 00:06:24,875 Speaker 1: undermine our constitution, bended, or disregard the parts in which 92 00:06:24,955 --> 00:06:29,955 Speaker 1: they don't agree. N that's that's also Trump. Representative Monica 93 00:06:29,995 --> 00:06:32,835 Speaker 1: de la Cruz of Texas. We have to protect our 94 00:06:32,875 --> 00:06:36,235 Speaker 1: constitution at all costs. Without it, we don't have anything. 95 00:06:36,795 --> 00:06:40,555 Speaker 1: Oh Monica, MAGA may throw you out for saying that. 96 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:45,555 Speaker 1: Representative Byron Donalds of Florida. The left treats the Constitution 97 00:06:45,555 --> 00:06:48,995 Speaker 1: as an inconvenience in their pursuit of power. Now, Byron, 98 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:53,315 Speaker 1: that's Trump. Representative Barry louder Milk of Georgia the January 99 00:06:53,355 --> 00:06:56,715 Speaker 1: five Congressional Tour guide. We celebrate one of the most 100 00:06:56,755 --> 00:07:01,355 Speaker 1: significant documents ever written, the bedrock of our government. Like Constitution. 101 00:07:02,795 --> 00:07:05,635 Speaker 1: Don't tell Trump or those you took on the tour. 102 00:07:06,115 --> 00:07:10,595 Speaker 1: Representative Fred Keller of Pennsylvania. Our Constitution given to us 103 00:07:10,675 --> 00:07:15,715 Speaker 1: by our creator and paid for by our veterans. Uh No, 104 00:07:15,875 --> 00:07:18,395 Speaker 1: Fred Trump is your creator and he paid for it. 105 00:07:19,155 --> 00:07:23,355 Speaker 1: Representative Randy Weber of Texas. The Constitution now more than ever, 106 00:07:23,595 --> 00:07:27,955 Speaker 1: as we witness blatant attempts to circumvent the one document 107 00:07:27,995 --> 00:07:31,395 Speaker 1: that preserves our individual liberties. We must protect it at 108 00:07:31,435 --> 00:07:38,515 Speaker 1: all costs, except criticizing Trump. Representative Carlos Hjimenez of Florida. Today, 109 00:07:38,555 --> 00:07:41,915 Speaker 1: our Constitution and the values we hold dear are under attack. 110 00:07:42,395 --> 00:07:47,715 Speaker 1: You are correct, sir. Representative Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. 111 00:07:47,915 --> 00:07:49,995 Speaker 1: When I took my oath of office, ICE wore to 112 00:07:50,075 --> 00:07:53,875 Speaker 1: protect and defend our Constitution, and it is a responsibility 113 00:07:53,995 --> 00:07:57,715 Speaker 1: I do not take lightly. Yeah, well, let's see how 114 00:07:57,795 --> 00:08:03,115 Speaker 1: not lightly you take it, Mark Wayne. And then the 115 00:08:03,675 --> 00:08:07,835 Speaker 1: money quote of all my quotes, I will read it, 116 00:08:08,075 --> 00:08:11,995 Speaker 1: then tell you who said it. Quote. Now, more than ever, 117 00:08:12,115 --> 00:08:16,395 Speaker 1: that Constitution and the freedoms it protects must be defended 118 00:08:16,675 --> 00:08:28,115 Speaker 1: and preserved for us and for our children. Yes, Kevin McCarthy, speaker, presumptive. Obviously, 119 00:08:28,235 --> 00:08:32,555 Speaker 1: these quotes are in and of themselves nuggets of gold, 120 00:08:32,915 --> 00:08:36,275 Speaker 1: and dozens more of them are just sitting there. But 121 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:40,315 Speaker 1: more importantly, they are just sitting there in car load lots, 122 00:08:40,635 --> 00:08:45,555 Speaker 1: waiting to be read back to the Republicans who spoke them, 123 00:08:45,595 --> 00:08:50,035 Speaker 1: along with Trump's constitutional termination quote and Trump's corrected constitutional 124 00:08:50,115 --> 00:08:53,715 Speaker 1: termination quote for weeks and months and if need be, 125 00:08:53,915 --> 00:08:58,555 Speaker 1: years to come. There are still a couple of reporters 126 00:08:59,115 --> 00:09:03,515 Speaker 1: hidden embedded among the access journalists who have taken over 127 00:09:03,635 --> 00:09:07,315 Speaker 1: d C. And for those few, these are how to 128 00:09:07,395 --> 00:09:12,275 Speaker 1: succeed in the media political industrial complex business without really trying. 129 00:09:12,395 --> 00:09:16,915 Speaker 1: Because remember, Trump never said he wanted to terminate the Constitution. 130 00:09:17,395 --> 00:09:21,395 Speaker 1: He only said he wanted to terminate all rules, regulations 131 00:09:21,395 --> 00:09:40,035 Speaker 1: and articles found in the Constitution. Still ahead, the night 132 00:09:40,075 --> 00:09:43,035 Speaker 1: before his last candidate was to be judged at the 133 00:09:43,075 --> 00:09:47,115 Speaker 1: polls by the people of Georgia. For herschel Walker's last rally, 134 00:09:47,795 --> 00:09:52,555 Speaker 1: Donald Trump phoned it in. No, no, literally, he didn't 135 00:09:52,555 --> 00:09:55,795 Speaker 1: show up. He just phoned it in. Big free agent 136 00:09:55,875 --> 00:09:58,995 Speaker 1: signings in baseball, including a guy getting an eleven year 137 00:09:59,115 --> 00:10:02,675 Speaker 1: contract from the Philadelphia Phillies and a no trade clause. 138 00:10:03,675 --> 00:10:06,675 Speaker 1: And for fifteen years I have remained silent about somebody 139 00:10:06,715 --> 00:10:09,355 Speaker 1: in this business who used to live with me. I 140 00:10:09,395 --> 00:10:12,635 Speaker 1: have put up with metaphorical punches from her and with 141 00:10:12,755 --> 00:10:17,035 Speaker 1: actual punches from her. This now has to stop things 142 00:10:17,235 --> 00:10:23,115 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell about. Katie ur Ahead. That's next. 143 00:10:23,195 --> 00:10:36,835 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead. 144 00:10:36,835 --> 00:10:42,035 Speaker 1: Four and forty one million dollars on baseball free agents yesterday. 145 00:10:42,755 --> 00:10:46,595 Speaker 1: That's three guys for a total of fourteen years plus 146 00:10:46,595 --> 00:10:50,475 Speaker 1: worse persons, and sorry, I've just had enough. When you 147 00:10:50,555 --> 00:10:54,555 Speaker 1: turn up. Bestsected me into a photo opera newscast. All 148 00:10:54,675 --> 00:10:58,595 Speaker 1: bets are off things I promised not to tell. Also 149 00:10:58,635 --> 00:11:01,675 Speaker 1: Ahead first. In each edition of Countdown, we feature dog 150 00:11:01,715 --> 00:11:03,915 Speaker 1: in need. You can help. Every dog has its day. 151 00:11:04,755 --> 00:11:09,035 Speaker 1: I've had two dogs with desperate, life threatening, devastating heart problems. 152 00:11:09,195 --> 00:11:11,475 Speaker 1: What do you do? What do you do when they 153 00:11:11,475 --> 00:11:14,115 Speaker 1: tell you your four month old puppy has an enlarged 154 00:11:14,115 --> 00:11:17,275 Speaker 1: heart and a hole in his heart, but they can 155 00:11:17,275 --> 00:11:21,355 Speaker 1: operate to save him, but it will cost nineteen thousand dollars? 156 00:11:21,875 --> 00:11:24,515 Speaker 1: Do you give up and say let him die? That 157 00:11:24,635 --> 00:11:27,515 Speaker 1: is what he is facing, Little Bentley in Santa Rosa, California. 158 00:11:27,795 --> 00:11:30,235 Speaker 1: He looks like a pug, big ears, cute as a bug. 159 00:11:30,555 --> 00:11:33,435 Speaker 1: The family turned to Soft Paws Rescue and they are 160 00:11:33,475 --> 00:11:36,795 Speaker 1: doing a fundraiser for him. On Cuddley. One of my 161 00:11:36,915 --> 00:11:39,915 Speaker 1: rescue puppies could be saved with surgery. He was, He's 162 00:11:39,915 --> 00:11:42,315 Speaker 1: now four and a half. The other Mishu could not. 163 00:11:42,955 --> 00:11:45,795 Speaker 1: No surgery could help him. So stories like this always 164 00:11:45,995 --> 00:11:48,795 Speaker 1: hit home for me. Bentley on Cuddley or look for 165 00:11:48,875 --> 00:11:51,955 Speaker 1: him on my Twitter feeds. I thank you and Bentley 166 00:11:51,995 --> 00:12:00,915 Speaker 1: thanks you both. Scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, 167 00:12:00,915 --> 00:12:05,035 Speaker 1: some snarks, some predictions. Dateline Atlanta as the old commercial 168 00:12:05,235 --> 00:12:06,955 Speaker 1: used to go. Did you ever get the feelings? Some 169 00:12:06,995 --> 00:12:11,475 Speaker 1: people just stop trying. The Republicans first insisted everybody should 170 00:12:11,515 --> 00:12:16,395 Speaker 1: only vote day of so it'll be raining, probably lightly 171 00:12:16,435 --> 00:12:18,795 Speaker 1: at least to start the last day of voting for 172 00:12:18,835 --> 00:12:21,555 Speaker 1: the Senate from Georgia today, What did Trump do for 173 00:12:21,595 --> 00:12:24,835 Speaker 1: his man? Herschel Walker phoned into a tell A rally 174 00:12:24,955 --> 00:12:29,515 Speaker 1: last night thanks for stopping by. A far right interviewer 175 00:12:29,595 --> 00:12:33,435 Speaker 1: asked Trump's not Too Bright spokesperson Liz Harrington for the 176 00:12:33,515 --> 00:12:37,595 Speaker 1: phone number so supporters could join the Tell Tell rally, 177 00:12:37,675 --> 00:12:40,795 Speaker 1: and Liz Harrington did not know what the phone number was. 178 00:12:41,675 --> 00:12:45,635 Speaker 1: See a hush dateline Moore County, North Carolina. Darkness continues 179 00:12:45,675 --> 00:12:49,035 Speaker 1: there after somebody shot up to power substations and blacked 180 00:12:49,035 --> 00:12:52,155 Speaker 1: out the county, but there is a development. Sunday, the 181 00:12:52,275 --> 00:12:56,715 Speaker 1: sheriff's office said a COVID Karen and January six audience 182 00:12:56,755 --> 00:12:59,475 Speaker 1: member who had boasted on social media that she knew 183 00:12:59,515 --> 00:13:01,635 Speaker 1: why the county had been blacked out, that it was 184 00:13:01,675 --> 00:13:06,075 Speaker 1: over a drag show in local theater and God's work. Well, 185 00:13:06,115 --> 00:13:07,955 Speaker 1: the sheriff's office said she had nothing to do with 186 00:13:07,995 --> 00:13:10,835 Speaker 1: the terrorism. She was just boasting. Now. It turns out 187 00:13:10,835 --> 00:13:15,075 Speaker 1: the woman Emily Rainey, took a selfie at a Back 188 00:13:15,195 --> 00:13:20,395 Speaker 1: the Blue rally in October with the county sheriff. Stay 189 00:13:20,435 --> 00:13:24,235 Speaker 1: tuned and date line Lincoln Square, New York. ABC News 190 00:13:24,275 --> 00:13:27,475 Speaker 1: has given Good Morning America third hour co host t J. 191 00:13:27,715 --> 00:13:32,275 Speaker 1: Holmes and Amy Roeback leaves of absence as it tries 192 00:13:32,315 --> 00:13:34,915 Speaker 1: to figure out what to do when your hosts are 193 00:13:34,955 --> 00:13:38,315 Speaker 1: married to other people, but they are doing their own 194 00:13:38,395 --> 00:13:42,795 Speaker 1: two shots. As it were years ago, I was the 195 00:13:42,835 --> 00:13:46,955 Speaker 1: sportscaster at a station where this exact thing happened. The 196 00:13:46,995 --> 00:13:51,795 Speaker 1: anchors thought nobody knew. Everybody knew when I would come 197 00:13:51,795 --> 00:13:54,235 Speaker 1: out onto the set during the commercial before the sportscast. 198 00:13:54,275 --> 00:13:56,435 Speaker 1: It felt like I was the kid brother that one 199 00:13:56,475 --> 00:13:58,875 Speaker 1: of them had been forced to take along on the date. 200 00:13:59,675 --> 00:14:02,795 Speaker 1: Here is the up shot. There is no way out. 201 00:14:03,435 --> 00:14:06,555 Speaker 1: If they break up, will hate each other. If they 202 00:14:06,635 --> 00:14:09,155 Speaker 1: don't break up, the divorces will be in the papers 203 00:14:09,195 --> 00:14:12,275 Speaker 1: every day for months. And worst of all, if they 204 00:14:12,275 --> 00:14:14,835 Speaker 1: get divorced and they get married to each other, the 205 00:14:14,915 --> 00:14:19,395 Speaker 1: thrill of cheating will quickly evaporate, and soon their conversations 206 00:14:19,395 --> 00:14:23,395 Speaker 1: will be like the ones on the newscast stage. This 207 00:14:23,435 --> 00:14:27,115 Speaker 1: is an actual quote about two weeks after the honeymoon. Yes, 208 00:14:27,635 --> 00:14:31,555 Speaker 1: I promise when we get home, I will fix the 209 00:14:31,675 --> 00:14:36,475 Speaker 1: garbage disposal unit. Later came the claim by one of 210 00:14:36,475 --> 00:14:39,635 Speaker 1: our other news anchors that the new Mrs Anchor had 211 00:14:39,635 --> 00:14:43,915 Speaker 1: tried to run over Mr Anchor in the parking lot. 212 00:14:44,395 --> 00:14:48,755 Speaker 1: Advice fire them both, or keep the one you really 213 00:14:48,755 --> 00:14:52,035 Speaker 1: like and fire the other one. Or move them to 214 00:14:52,235 --> 00:15:10,675 Speaker 1: different jobs in separate buildings. This is sports Center. Wait, 215 00:15:10,875 --> 00:15:19,515 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith in Sports. 216 00:15:19,555 --> 00:15:22,435 Speaker 1: Now that last winter's lockout has been forgotten by everybody, 217 00:15:22,435 --> 00:15:25,955 Speaker 1: baseball owners can resume spending on free agents. The New 218 00:15:26,035 --> 00:15:29,155 Speaker 1: York Mets, having lost Jacob de Graham, gave Cy Young 219 00:15:29,195 --> 00:15:33,075 Speaker 1: Award winner Justin Verlander two years at forty three million 220 00:15:33,115 --> 00:15:35,755 Speaker 1: a year, plus investing option for a third year for 221 00:15:35,795 --> 00:15:39,635 Speaker 1: thirty five million. This reunites him with Max Scherzer. They've 222 00:15:39,635 --> 00:15:43,515 Speaker 1: pitched together in Detroit a decade ago. On opening Day, 223 00:15:43,595 --> 00:15:46,515 Speaker 1: Verlander and Scherzer will be a combined seventy eight years old. 224 00:15:46,555 --> 00:15:50,275 Speaker 1: So it's Max and Justin and pray for no rusting. 225 00:15:51,395 --> 00:15:54,155 Speaker 1: The Phillies finally nailed down their deal with shortstop trade 226 00:15:54,195 --> 00:15:56,355 Speaker 1: Turner X of the Dodgers, and what a deal it 227 00:15:56,395 --> 00:16:00,275 Speaker 1: carries through the season of twenty thirty three, three hundred 228 00:16:00,315 --> 00:16:03,995 Speaker 1: million dollars over eleven years and a no trade clause. 229 00:16:04,395 --> 00:16:08,475 Speaker 1: The Rodgers did bring back their longtime centerpiece, Clayton Kershaw 230 00:16:08,875 --> 00:16:13,235 Speaker 1: one year, twenty million dollars. Twenty million dollars, and you're 231 00:16:13,235 --> 00:16:18,075 Speaker 1: admitting this publicly. What an embarrassment is Kershaw retired? Kershaw 232 00:16:18,115 --> 00:16:21,115 Speaker 1: got a bad agent? What kind of fool? What? What's 233 00:16:21,195 --> 00:16:38,115 Speaker 1: twenty million dollars? Thank you? Nancy Faust and the New 234 00:16:38,195 --> 00:16:45,355 Speaker 1: York Yankee signed general manager Brian Cashman for four years. Seriously, 235 00:16:46,075 --> 00:16:49,475 Speaker 1: Brian Cashman inherited a dynasty from an executive Gene Michael 236 00:16:49,475 --> 00:16:53,755 Speaker 1: and Bob Watson in his own Yankees teams have won 237 00:16:53,795 --> 00:16:56,835 Speaker 1: one World Series in twenty five years and have not 238 00:16:56,955 --> 00:16:59,955 Speaker 1: been back since. I have said it before and I'll 239 00:16:59,995 --> 00:17:02,195 Speaker 1: say it again. If you want to convince me that 240 00:17:02,275 --> 00:17:06,235 Speaker 1: Yankees owner House Steinbrenner is actually the son of the late, great, 241 00:17:06,315 --> 00:17:10,555 Speaker 1: perceptive George Steinbrenner, I'm gonna need to see a fraternity 242 00:17:10,635 --> 00:17:15,275 Speaker 1: test and it goes by quickly. Five years ago, Baker 243 00:17:15,315 --> 00:17:18,915 Speaker 1: Mayfield won the Heisman Trophy as the best in college football. 244 00:17:18,955 --> 00:17:20,795 Speaker 1: Four years ago, he was the number one pick in 245 00:17:20,795 --> 00:17:24,795 Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. This year, well, the highest possible q 246 00:17:25,115 --> 00:17:28,275 Speaker 1: b R number that's quarterback rating is a hundred and 247 00:17:28,275 --> 00:17:32,395 Speaker 1: fifty eight point three Baker Mayfield for the Carolina Panthers 248 00:17:33,315 --> 00:17:38,875 Speaker 1: eighteen point two five one different quarterbacks assessed by that 249 00:17:39,115 --> 00:17:42,235 Speaker 1: cumulative QBR stat since it came into use in two 250 00:17:42,235 --> 00:17:48,435 Speaker 1: thousand six. That ranks Baker Mayfield five out of five. 251 00:17:50,475 --> 00:18:02,315 Speaker 1: The Panthers waived him yesterday. He is twenty seven years old. Ahead, 252 00:18:02,395 --> 00:18:05,715 Speaker 1: I'm sorry when she went ahead and used a vasectomy 253 00:18:05,755 --> 00:18:08,635 Speaker 1: as a photo opt to promote promote her newscast and 254 00:18:08,675 --> 00:18:12,075 Speaker 1: her husband's that's that's when I just snapped things I 255 00:18:12,195 --> 00:18:16,595 Speaker 1: promised not to tell about Katie tur Next, first, the 256 00:18:16,635 --> 00:18:19,315 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Donning Kruger effects 257 00:18:19,315 --> 00:18:24,515 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. Lebronze 258 00:18:25,115 --> 00:18:28,635 Speaker 1: The New York Times look the Groomer things a paranoid 259 00:18:28,715 --> 00:18:32,355 Speaker 1: bull from the far right, But the word does characterize 260 00:18:32,355 --> 00:18:39,115 Speaker 1: a disgusting act, so the original Times oh bit was problematic. 261 00:18:39,555 --> 00:18:43,675 Speaker 1: It read quote Nick Bollet Terry groomer of Tennis Champions 262 00:18:44,235 --> 00:18:48,955 Speaker 1: dies at. It now reads Nick boll Terry, nurturer of 263 00:18:48,995 --> 00:18:55,555 Speaker 1: Tennis Champions dies at our runner up. Kanye West remember him? 264 00:18:55,755 --> 00:18:58,595 Speaker 1: Posted on Instagram that he thinks Elon Musk is half 265 00:18:58,715 --> 00:19:02,915 Speaker 1: Chinese and quote they probably made twenty to thirty Elon's 266 00:19:03,355 --> 00:19:06,835 Speaker 1: and he's the first genetic hybrid that's stuck. Well, let's 267 00:19:06,835 --> 00:19:10,595 Speaker 1: not forget about Obama. That's not weird enough for you. 268 00:19:10,675 --> 00:19:14,155 Speaker 1: This was apparently a campaign statement of some sort. He 269 00:19:14,235 --> 00:19:18,475 Speaker 1: followed that up with quote ya twenty four, let's unify 270 00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:22,315 Speaker 1: and found out, find out, and that followed it with 271 00:19:22,395 --> 00:19:25,955 Speaker 1: the clever acronym that he's using in his campaign l 272 00:19:26,115 --> 00:19:30,995 Speaker 1: U a FO for let's unify and find out. Anybody 273 00:19:31,075 --> 00:19:34,235 Speaker 1: care enough to get this guy? Help anybody, anybody at 274 00:19:34,235 --> 00:19:38,155 Speaker 1: all but our winner, somebody about whom the answer to 275 00:19:38,195 --> 00:19:43,155 Speaker 1: that question would be no. Glenn Greenwald, former journalists hyperventilating 276 00:19:43,155 --> 00:19:46,875 Speaker 1: about the story of Hunter Biden's lap, Well, I mean 277 00:19:46,915 --> 00:19:50,595 Speaker 1: it currently turned out to not be about Hunter Biden's laptop, right, 278 00:19:50,595 --> 00:19:54,355 Speaker 1: it was about his lap, quoting g G. The ongoing 279 00:19:54,395 --> 00:19:59,395 Speaker 1: attacks on Matt Taiebe from jealous employees of NBC, CNN, 280 00:19:59,475 --> 00:20:03,795 Speaker 1: the Daily Beast and collapsing Brooklyn based digital outlets is 281 00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:07,195 Speaker 1: a form of s castic terrorism that is literally putting 282 00:20:07,235 --> 00:20:09,995 Speaker 1: him in a harm's way and straight up inciting violence 283 00:20:09,995 --> 00:20:16,315 Speaker 1: against him and his family. C C FBI. Well, first, no, 284 00:20:16,435 --> 00:20:22,395 Speaker 1: it isn't. Secondly, Greenwalt cited for just explosive tweets. The 285 00:20:22,435 --> 00:20:25,355 Speaker 1: strongest language used against Tibe and any of them was quote, 286 00:20:25,515 --> 00:20:29,555 Speaker 1: what a sad, disgraceful downfall After a statement like that, 287 00:20:29,635 --> 00:20:32,635 Speaker 1: he's way likely to be sent cash rather than threats. 288 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:36,595 Speaker 1: But about Greenwald, in two thousand and ten, he contacted 289 00:20:36,595 --> 00:20:38,315 Speaker 1: me out of the blue to asked me to confirm 290 00:20:38,395 --> 00:20:41,675 Speaker 1: off the record a story for Salon about Joe Scarborough 291 00:20:41,715 --> 00:20:45,155 Speaker 1: and Chris Licked getting Marcos Melitzis of the Daily Coasts 292 00:20:45,675 --> 00:20:48,595 Speaker 1: banned from MSNBC. I told him he was right on 293 00:20:48,635 --> 00:20:51,075 Speaker 1: the money off the record. Then I said something or 294 00:20:51,115 --> 00:20:53,995 Speaker 1: I wrote something that was mildly critical of another story 295 00:20:54,035 --> 00:20:56,675 Speaker 1: he had written, and Greenwald notified me that if I 296 00:20:56,715 --> 00:21:00,155 Speaker 1: did not retract the criticism, he would tell my bosses 297 00:21:00,195 --> 00:21:03,035 Speaker 1: that I had been his source and they would fire 298 00:21:03,115 --> 00:21:07,595 Speaker 1: me for talking to him. Schmuck, Glenn. I have become 299 00:21:07,715 --> 00:21:13,915 Speaker 1: what I used to criticize Greenwald two days worse person, 300 00:21:15,115 --> 00:21:30,435 Speaker 1: then the worl to the number one story on the 301 00:21:30,475 --> 00:21:33,355 Speaker 1: Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised 302 00:21:33,355 --> 00:21:36,075 Speaker 1: not to tell, And in nearly all of these the 303 00:21:36,115 --> 00:21:38,955 Speaker 1: target for criticism or mocking or eye rolling, or at 304 00:21:38,995 --> 00:21:41,315 Speaker 1: least one of the targets for criticism were mocking or 305 00:21:41,355 --> 00:21:46,075 Speaker 1: eye rolling. Is me not this time? This is about 306 00:21:46,115 --> 00:21:48,955 Speaker 1: somebody else who has pretty much been throwing punches at 307 00:21:48,995 --> 00:21:51,755 Speaker 1: me for fifteen years and I have never responded, not 308 00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:56,395 Speaker 1: even to defend myself. And that isn't just entirely a 309 00:21:56,435 --> 00:22:00,235 Speaker 1: metaphor literally on one occasion at least throwing punches at me. 310 00:22:01,355 --> 00:22:05,235 Speaker 1: So if this seems mean spirited or vengeful, I'll wear it. 311 00:22:06,275 --> 00:22:08,835 Speaker 1: Bringing this up is obviously painful for me. That's why 312 00:22:08,915 --> 00:22:10,995 Speaker 1: I have not done it over the course of fifteen years. 313 00:22:10,995 --> 00:22:15,355 Speaker 1: But I've just had enough. And the thing is, what 314 00:22:15,475 --> 00:22:18,995 Speaker 1: pushed me over the edge yesterday doesn't even have anything 315 00:22:19,035 --> 00:22:21,475 Speaker 1: to do with me, And oddly that is what pushed 316 00:22:21,475 --> 00:22:23,675 Speaker 1: me over the edge, because I'm reading in the Daily 317 00:22:23,715 --> 00:22:26,555 Speaker 1: Beast and I'm reading in Politico, and people are sending 318 00:22:26,555 --> 00:22:30,235 Speaker 1: me this video of this person and how she talked 319 00:22:30,235 --> 00:22:33,595 Speaker 1: her husband into getting a vasectomy and they've gone public 320 00:22:33,635 --> 00:22:36,315 Speaker 1: with the vassectomy because the two of them are insufferable 321 00:22:36,315 --> 00:22:40,755 Speaker 1: publicity addicts, and they have turned a vasectomy into a 322 00:22:40,835 --> 00:22:45,395 Speaker 1: family photo op for their TV shows, and honest to god. 323 00:22:46,395 --> 00:22:50,675 Speaker 1: I went looking for my name in their vasectomy story, 324 00:22:50,755 --> 00:22:54,435 Speaker 1: and I was surprised and relieved I wasn't mentioned. And 325 00:22:54,475 --> 00:22:58,235 Speaker 1: I was surprised because every other piece of publicity this 326 00:22:58,315 --> 00:23:01,715 Speaker 1: person has generated for herself for at least the last decade, 327 00:23:01,955 --> 00:23:06,635 Speaker 1: she has wound up somehow simultaneously mentioning me in it 328 00:23:07,035 --> 00:23:10,875 Speaker 1: while also complaining that anytime anybody talks about her, they 329 00:23:10,915 --> 00:23:12,955 Speaker 1: mentioned me for some reason. And this is so unfair 330 00:23:12,995 --> 00:23:16,235 Speaker 1: to her. And she's the victim here, because she's always 331 00:23:16,235 --> 00:23:21,795 Speaker 1: the victim here. So here is the headline. On January two, 332 00:23:21,875 --> 00:23:27,595 Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, Katie tur of MSNBC asked me to write 333 00:23:28,035 --> 00:23:32,955 Speaker 1: her trump book for her. She was serious, and there 334 00:23:32,955 --> 00:23:38,635 Speaker 1: are receipts. I'll get back to the book story, but first, 335 00:23:38,955 --> 00:23:42,275 Speaker 1: Since last spring, when her second book came out, I 336 00:23:42,315 --> 00:23:45,355 Speaker 1: have read story after story that boiled down to one 337 00:23:45,355 --> 00:23:48,395 Speaker 1: of the headlines I read that was katie Urs relationship 338 00:23:48,435 --> 00:23:52,915 Speaker 1: with Keith Alderman haunted her. Now, the articles have not 339 00:23:52,995 --> 00:23:57,875 Speaker 1: been overtly negative, except in a passive aggressive sense, although 340 00:23:57,915 --> 00:24:00,235 Speaker 1: try out that headline on yourself there and see if 341 00:24:00,275 --> 00:24:03,075 Speaker 1: you like to be described as haunting someone. But she 342 00:24:03,115 --> 00:24:06,915 Speaker 1: wrote a book claiming that men experiences somehow, including the 343 00:24:06,915 --> 00:24:10,635 Speaker 1: time she lived with me, hurt and slowed and limited 344 00:24:10,635 --> 00:24:15,035 Speaker 1: her career. So all this time, I have remained silent 345 00:24:15,075 --> 00:24:17,715 Speaker 1: about the nearly three years she and I lived together 346 00:24:17,795 --> 00:24:20,315 Speaker 1: and the eight years after that, during which I remained 347 00:24:20,315 --> 00:24:23,195 Speaker 1: her good and loyal friend. And I have remained silent 348 00:24:23,315 --> 00:24:25,715 Speaker 1: even though the day she moved into my place in 349 00:24:25,795 --> 00:24:28,675 Speaker 1: New York, she expected a New York TV station would 350 00:24:28,715 --> 00:24:32,475 Speaker 1: hire her with no experience and no audition tape. And 351 00:24:32,515 --> 00:24:34,795 Speaker 1: I have remained silent about how her father, whom she 352 00:24:34,875 --> 00:24:38,635 Speaker 1: has never stopped trashing, sent her ten thousand dollars worth 353 00:24:38,635 --> 00:24:41,595 Speaker 1: of cameras and editing equipment to help her get started. 354 00:24:42,115 --> 00:24:43,995 Speaker 1: And I have remained silent about how I pushed her 355 00:24:44,035 --> 00:24:46,555 Speaker 1: to not just sit there staring at all that equipment 356 00:24:46,555 --> 00:24:48,875 Speaker 1: her dad sent, but to use it to go cover 357 00:24:49,075 --> 00:24:51,995 Speaker 1: stories so she could at least make a tape. And 358 00:24:52,035 --> 00:24:54,235 Speaker 1: I have remained silent even though once she didn't like 359 00:24:54,355 --> 00:24:56,835 Speaker 1: something I told her, and she immediately said she was 360 00:24:56,875 --> 00:25:00,155 Speaker 1: thinking of calling the New York Post gossip page and 361 00:25:00,195 --> 00:25:03,875 Speaker 1: telling them terrible things about me. And I have remained 362 00:25:03,915 --> 00:25:07,035 Speaker 1: silent that after I asked her to move out, I 363 00:25:07,155 --> 00:25:09,955 Speaker 1: paid her rent at a new apartment for a year 364 00:25:10,675 --> 00:25:13,035 Speaker 1: so she could keep working and living in New York. 365 00:25:13,555 --> 00:25:15,435 Speaker 1: And I have remained silent, even though I paid off 366 00:25:15,435 --> 00:25:17,795 Speaker 1: her college loans, and when she complained that every time 367 00:25:17,795 --> 00:25:20,675 Speaker 1: you googled her name, you've also got my name, I 368 00:25:20,755 --> 00:25:22,995 Speaker 1: loaned her the money to hire a company that altered 369 00:25:23,035 --> 00:25:26,355 Speaker 1: her Google results. And I have remained silent, even though 370 00:25:26,395 --> 00:25:28,995 Speaker 1: I introduced her to her first agent and to all 371 00:25:28,995 --> 00:25:31,515 Speaker 1: the people who hired her at News twelve and w 372 00:25:31,595 --> 00:25:35,315 Speaker 1: p I X and w NBC and NBC News. And 373 00:25:35,355 --> 00:25:37,835 Speaker 1: I have remained silent even though when she happened to 374 00:25:37,875 --> 00:25:41,635 Speaker 1: be assigned to Trump's campaign announcement and Trump knew who 375 00:25:41,715 --> 00:25:44,355 Speaker 1: she was because when we lived together, it was in 376 00:25:44,395 --> 00:25:46,955 Speaker 1: one of these Trump buildings here and she got to 377 00:25:46,995 --> 00:25:50,515 Speaker 1: do the last great actual interview with him, and NBC 378 00:25:50,635 --> 00:25:52,995 Speaker 1: promptly offered her the chance to be its reporter on 379 00:25:53,115 --> 00:25:56,155 Speaker 1: his campaign. She called me and said, no, I'm going 380 00:25:56,155 --> 00:25:58,435 Speaker 1: back to London. I don't like politics. You know that 381 00:25:59,235 --> 00:26:00,915 Speaker 1: I was the one who told her she was nuts 382 00:26:01,395 --> 00:26:05,315 Speaker 1: and this wasn't politics, it was dark, terrible history and progress. 383 00:26:05,635 --> 00:26:09,235 Speaker 1: And she sighed and said, fine, Okay, send me some 384 00:26:09,315 --> 00:26:12,755 Speaker 1: books about it. And I have remained silent, even though 385 00:26:12,795 --> 00:26:15,235 Speaker 1: she sent me nearly all of her scripts for her 386 00:26:15,355 --> 00:26:19,155 Speaker 1: NBC news stories, including her Trump campaign coverage in two 387 00:26:19,235 --> 00:26:22,595 Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, and I edited nearly every one of them, 388 00:26:22,835 --> 00:26:25,795 Speaker 1: and several times I had to completely rewrite them for her. 389 00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:28,755 Speaker 1: And I have remained silent even though when her father 390 00:26:28,795 --> 00:26:31,835 Speaker 1: announced he was transitioning, the friend she called up in 391 00:26:31,915 --> 00:26:35,275 Speaker 1: hysterics was me. And I have remained silent even though 392 00:26:35,315 --> 00:26:38,315 Speaker 1: she twice lied to reporters and editors at the New 393 00:26:38,355 --> 00:26:41,315 Speaker 1: York Times and The Washington Post, telling them she had 394 00:26:41,355 --> 00:26:43,955 Speaker 1: asked me on their behalf to do interviews with them 395 00:26:43,955 --> 00:26:46,795 Speaker 1: about her. And I have remained silent, even though she 396 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:49,515 Speaker 1: lied to them that I had declined the interviews. And 397 00:26:49,555 --> 00:26:51,995 Speaker 1: I have remained silent even though six days after my 398 00:26:52,035 --> 00:26:55,475 Speaker 1: emergency appendected me in two thousand seven, she started punching 399 00:26:55,555 --> 00:26:59,355 Speaker 1: and slapping me with real intent to do harm because 400 00:26:59,395 --> 00:27:02,355 Speaker 1: the living room wasn't clean enough in our place, And 401 00:27:02,395 --> 00:27:05,755 Speaker 1: how exactly do you even try to send yourself against 402 00:27:05,795 --> 00:27:08,195 Speaker 1: a woman a d and twenty five pounds lighter and 403 00:27:08,235 --> 00:27:13,275 Speaker 1: a foot shorter than you. So yesterday I'm reading stories 404 00:27:13,315 --> 00:27:15,275 Speaker 1: about her husband getting a vassect to me, and I'm 405 00:27:15,275 --> 00:27:18,435 Speaker 1: sitting there waiting to see how she managed to make 406 00:27:18,675 --> 00:27:25,115 Speaker 1: this one my fault. When Katie's first book came out, 407 00:27:25,195 --> 00:27:30,075 Speaker 1: she reduced our entire history to a throwaway anecdote defending 408 00:27:30,595 --> 00:27:34,755 Speaker 1: Kelly and Conway. The story described me as somebody she 409 00:27:34,835 --> 00:27:38,755 Speaker 1: had dated briefly in her twenties. After the book came out, 410 00:27:38,795 --> 00:27:41,515 Speaker 1: and frankly and calmly, I don't know for certain who 411 00:27:41,755 --> 00:27:44,395 Speaker 1: wrote her first book. I mean, people who can't write 412 00:27:44,955 --> 00:27:48,435 Speaker 1: suddenly can find their muse. It's possible she wrote it 413 00:27:48,915 --> 00:27:52,195 Speaker 1: and her other books too. But after the first book 414 00:27:52,195 --> 00:27:54,355 Speaker 1: came out that dismissed three year ar years of our 415 00:27:54,395 --> 00:27:57,515 Speaker 1: shared life as dating briefly in her twenties, I told 416 00:27:57,515 --> 00:27:59,355 Speaker 1: her she had been awful to me, and she replied, 417 00:27:59,395 --> 00:28:01,835 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You're right, I'm a terrible person and it 418 00:28:01,915 --> 00:28:03,995 Speaker 1: is the last thing we ever discussed. I told her 419 00:28:03,995 --> 00:28:06,115 Speaker 1: I would not indicate with her again, and I have not, 420 00:28:06,555 --> 00:28:10,555 Speaker 1: nor have I spoken about her publicly, But I do 421 00:28:10,715 --> 00:28:14,315 Speaker 1: keep wondering about that book. I still have a text 422 00:28:14,395 --> 00:28:18,555 Speaker 1: from her from PM on December eleventh, two thousand sixteen, 423 00:28:18,635 --> 00:28:21,395 Speaker 1: after she had signed her contract for her book, which 424 00:28:21,435 --> 00:28:27,195 Speaker 1: became unbelievable. An ironic title it reads, do you still 425 00:28:27,235 --> 00:28:30,555 Speaker 1: want to share your Trump doc with me? Doc? Here? 426 00:28:30,595 --> 00:28:34,435 Speaker 1: Meaning my trove of documents, my hundreds of pages of 427 00:28:34,435 --> 00:28:36,635 Speaker 1: Trump notes that I had kept for use in my 428 00:28:36,755 --> 00:28:39,995 Speaker 1: g Q video series. And I joked back, sure, how much? 429 00:28:40,195 --> 00:28:43,395 Speaker 1: And she joked back ten twenty dollars And I emailed 430 00:28:43,395 --> 00:28:45,315 Speaker 1: it all to her for free that night, with only 431 00:28:45,355 --> 00:28:48,155 Speaker 1: one request, don't leave me out of your acknowledgements in 432 00:28:48,195 --> 00:28:50,035 Speaker 1: the book. And guess what, she left me out of 433 00:28:50,075 --> 00:28:54,875 Speaker 1: the acknowledgements in the book too. More than a month later, 434 00:28:54,915 --> 00:28:58,155 Speaker 1: at two thirty pm on Sunday, January twenty two, I 435 00:28:58,195 --> 00:29:00,875 Speaker 1: had just returned home from Los Angeles and doing Bill 436 00:29:00,955 --> 00:29:03,635 Speaker 1: maher show, and Katie Turch texted me about why they 437 00:29:03,675 --> 00:29:07,795 Speaker 1: had never invited her on, and then she switched topics 438 00:29:07,835 --> 00:29:11,595 Speaker 1: to ask, quote, I want to write this book. I 439 00:29:11,635 --> 00:29:13,915 Speaker 1: had taken a nap, so it was not until five 440 00:29:14,035 --> 00:29:17,315 Speaker 1: thirty two that I replied, what, Well, you're not serious, 441 00:29:17,315 --> 00:29:20,995 Speaker 1: how would that work? That's when she phoned she was 442 00:29:21,035 --> 00:29:23,515 Speaker 1: about to give the advanced money back to the publisher. 443 00:29:23,635 --> 00:29:26,035 Speaker 1: She said, I can't write a book. I'm like fifty 444 00:29:26,475 --> 00:29:28,315 Speaker 1: words short and it's terrible. I'll give you a half 445 00:29:28,355 --> 00:29:29,915 Speaker 1: the money. I'll give you more than half the money. 446 00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:33,715 Speaker 1: I pointed out to her that I had written or 447 00:29:33,755 --> 00:29:37,315 Speaker 1: rewritten dozens of her stories for NBC News and MSNBC, 448 00:29:37,515 --> 00:29:39,635 Speaker 1: and it was not a question of money. It was 449 00:29:39,675 --> 00:29:42,755 Speaker 1: a question of what we could get away with no 450 00:29:43,035 --> 00:29:46,755 Speaker 1: viewer and maybe only one executive in a million whatever. 451 00:29:46,875 --> 00:29:50,875 Speaker 1: Notice that one sentence or one paragraph of script in 452 00:29:50,915 --> 00:29:55,395 Speaker 1: her two minute report was actually written by me. First 453 00:29:55,435 --> 00:29:58,195 Speaker 1: of all, she was the one saying it each time 454 00:29:58,235 --> 00:30:01,235 Speaker 1: I wrote or rewrote in her name for NBC. It 455 00:30:01,315 --> 00:30:05,155 Speaker 1: was a fireable offense for her, but one that nobody 456 00:30:05,155 --> 00:30:07,875 Speaker 1: would ever think to look for, even though there is 457 00:30:07,955 --> 00:30:12,435 Speaker 1: necessarily an email trail ten miles long. But writing a 458 00:30:12,475 --> 00:30:17,675 Speaker 1: book for her about Trump in my writing style, not 459 00:30:17,955 --> 00:30:21,995 Speaker 1: read aloud by her, but in print, I have a 460 00:30:21,995 --> 00:30:25,515 Speaker 1: pretty distinct writing style which I don't think I could 461 00:30:25,515 --> 00:30:28,715 Speaker 1: ever sufficiently hide for more than about seventeen words at 462 00:30:28,715 --> 00:30:34,155 Speaker 1: a stretch. Somebody would notice. Her publisher might cancel it 463 00:30:34,235 --> 00:30:36,755 Speaker 1: or even sue, or if it got published, NBC might 464 00:30:36,795 --> 00:30:39,835 Speaker 1: notice it and fire her. It was not just a 465 00:30:39,875 --> 00:30:43,235 Speaker 1: bad idea for her and very dubious ethically, but it 466 00:30:43,315 --> 00:30:47,955 Speaker 1: stood an excellent chance of destroying her career and damaging mine. Maybe. 467 00:30:48,795 --> 00:30:51,155 Speaker 1: She said, Okay, you're right, And she told me she 468 00:30:51,195 --> 00:30:52,995 Speaker 1: was going to talk it over with her boyfriend Tony 469 00:30:53,035 --> 00:30:55,155 Speaker 1: from CBS that night, and her thought was to give 470 00:30:55,155 --> 00:30:57,155 Speaker 1: back the advance and cancel the book. And I said, 471 00:30:57,555 --> 00:31:01,435 Speaker 1: ghostwriter maybe, And she said like who? And I said, 472 00:31:01,475 --> 00:31:04,435 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I tried to joke her out 473 00:31:04,435 --> 00:31:07,755 Speaker 1: of the grim prospects by reminding her that at least 474 00:31:07,755 --> 00:31:10,435 Speaker 1: for the several thousand dollars worth of research I gave her, 475 00:31:10,795 --> 00:31:13,275 Speaker 1: I had cut the price to no dollars and no sense. 476 00:31:15,235 --> 00:31:17,475 Speaker 1: And anyway, the next thing I knew the book was published. 477 00:31:18,035 --> 00:31:19,995 Speaker 1: There isn't a paragraph of it that reads like the 478 00:31:20,035 --> 00:31:22,835 Speaker 1: rest of her writing. And I get reduced in it 479 00:31:22,875 --> 00:31:25,355 Speaker 1: from the guy she lived with for three years who 480 00:31:25,435 --> 00:31:29,475 Speaker 1: started her career, to somebody she dated briefly in her twenties, 481 00:31:29,515 --> 00:31:33,115 Speaker 1: and the dark half of an anecdote defending Kelly Ann 482 00:31:33,315 --> 00:31:39,275 Speaker 1: freaking con job. I will say, I think the things 483 00:31:39,395 --> 00:31:41,555 Speaker 1: I glossed over before about the New York Times and 484 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:45,795 Speaker 1: Washington Post were genuinely deplorable. The thing about the Post first, 485 00:31:46,555 --> 00:31:48,835 Speaker 1: a Washington Post reporter I had known for more than 486 00:31:48,835 --> 00:31:52,155 Speaker 1: a decade named Paul Farhey called me up and asked 487 00:31:52,155 --> 00:31:54,195 Speaker 1: me to do an interview with him about Katie, and 488 00:31:54,195 --> 00:31:56,675 Speaker 1: I had my doubts. As I said to Paul, this 489 00:31:56,875 --> 00:32:00,195 Speaker 1: is at least a little sexist. When I broke through 490 00:32:00,195 --> 00:32:03,635 Speaker 1: an MSNBC in nobody called up one of my ex girlfriends, 491 00:32:04,075 --> 00:32:06,595 Speaker 1: even the ones that the business to ask one of 492 00:32:06,635 --> 00:32:11,555 Speaker 1: them about me. This was an unfair gradient for her 493 00:32:11,795 --> 00:32:13,675 Speaker 1: or any woman, that the first thing a reporter or 494 00:32:13,675 --> 00:32:16,275 Speaker 1: just somebody googling her brought up or found was her 495 00:32:16,315 --> 00:32:20,875 Speaker 1: boyfriend or ex boyfriend, especially me. It is utter misogyny. 496 00:32:20,875 --> 00:32:23,955 Speaker 1: In fact, on the other hand, there could be a 497 00:32:23,995 --> 00:32:26,275 Speaker 1: calculation in which it is useful to Katie if I 498 00:32:26,315 --> 00:32:29,795 Speaker 1: do the interview and amplify the publicity. It is also 499 00:32:29,875 --> 00:32:32,715 Speaker 1: one of the things I had warned her about literally 500 00:32:32,835 --> 00:32:36,275 Speaker 1: the day we started dating, and in fact I reminded 501 00:32:36,315 --> 00:32:39,035 Speaker 1: her of it the night of the first real date 502 00:32:39,515 --> 00:32:42,315 Speaker 1: at an Al Gore book event at the Museum of 503 00:32:42,395 --> 00:32:46,675 Speaker 1: Natural History in New York in the whale room. Sure enough, 504 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:48,995 Speaker 1: I went from the whale room to the men's room 505 00:32:49,075 --> 00:32:51,715 Speaker 1: for a moment while I was out an online gossip 506 00:32:51,755 --> 00:32:54,995 Speaker 1: clown who had been following us around, went over and 507 00:32:55,035 --> 00:32:57,635 Speaker 1: pretended he knew her or something, And when I got back, 508 00:32:57,675 --> 00:32:59,795 Speaker 1: she was bubbling over telling me she'd met a friend 509 00:32:59,835 --> 00:33:01,995 Speaker 1: of a friend and told him all about us. And 510 00:33:01,995 --> 00:33:04,515 Speaker 1: I asked if she had remembered my warning, and she 511 00:33:04,715 --> 00:33:08,755 Speaker 1: obviously had not. End quote. Katie turn new girlfriend of 512 00:33:08,835 --> 00:33:14,155 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman, was online before we got home, so when 513 00:33:14,195 --> 00:33:17,235 Speaker 1: she found there was a way to scrub your Google searches, 514 00:33:17,275 --> 00:33:19,595 Speaker 1: so every time somebody plugged in her name they would 515 00:33:19,635 --> 00:33:23,355 Speaker 1: not also get Keith Olberman's girlfriend or Keith Alderman's ex girlfriend. 516 00:33:23,475 --> 00:33:26,475 Speaker 1: As I said, I helped her pay to use that service. 517 00:33:26,995 --> 00:33:32,675 Speaker 1: I get it. The sexism prevails. Maybe it'll go away someday, 518 00:33:33,355 --> 00:33:37,195 Speaker 1: maybe it won't. So anyway, when far He of the 519 00:33:37,195 --> 00:33:39,395 Speaker 1: Post called me up, I called Katie. She said she 520 00:33:39,435 --> 00:33:43,355 Speaker 1: thought it was sexist and anyway, she wasn't participating with 521 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:45,955 Speaker 1: the Post's story on her, and it would really help 522 00:33:45,995 --> 00:33:49,155 Speaker 1: if I did not do so either, So I declined 523 00:33:49,195 --> 00:33:52,555 Speaker 1: the interview, and a week later there in the Washington 524 00:33:52,595 --> 00:33:55,715 Speaker 1: Post was a big feature on Katie tour because guess what, 525 00:33:56,235 --> 00:34:00,115 Speaker 1: she did participate with it after all, complete interview and 526 00:34:00,235 --> 00:34:03,675 Speaker 1: worst yet, she told far He that she had encouraged 527 00:34:03,715 --> 00:34:05,635 Speaker 1: me to do the inter you with him, so he 528 00:34:05,715 --> 00:34:08,075 Speaker 1: put it in the paper that I declined to be interviewed, 529 00:34:08,075 --> 00:34:10,115 Speaker 1: so I looked like an idiot. And another thing, I'm 530 00:34:10,155 --> 00:34:12,235 Speaker 1: not mad. Please don't put in the newspaper that I 531 00:34:12,275 --> 00:34:17,155 Speaker 1: got mad. I called her up and I yelled at her, 532 00:34:17,235 --> 00:34:19,955 Speaker 1: and she apologized and she promised she would not do 533 00:34:19,995 --> 00:34:23,315 Speaker 1: anything like that ever again, and then she probably did 534 00:34:23,355 --> 00:34:26,715 Speaker 1: something even worse. A month or two later, the New 535 00:34:26,755 --> 00:34:31,075 Speaker 1: York Times article comes out. It is a huge profile 536 00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:34,755 Speaker 1: of her, I think, in the magazine or weekend edition, 537 00:34:35,515 --> 00:34:38,915 Speaker 1: and in it, Mr Olberman refused to be interviewed for 538 00:34:38,955 --> 00:34:42,475 Speaker 1: this story. This is a complete surprise to me. I 539 00:34:42,515 --> 00:34:46,475 Speaker 1: didn't even recognize the writer's name. I found her contact 540 00:34:46,515 --> 00:34:49,275 Speaker 1: info and I reached out to her and said have 541 00:34:49,395 --> 00:34:54,915 Speaker 1: we ever spoken? And she says no, And I say emails, texts, 542 00:34:55,115 --> 00:34:57,715 Speaker 1: and she says no. And then I say, then, when 543 00:34:57,715 --> 00:35:00,155 Speaker 1: did I refuse to be interviewed for your Katie Turn 544 00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:02,875 Speaker 1: article for the New York Times? And she says, oh, 545 00:35:02,915 --> 00:35:05,635 Speaker 1: I asked Katie Turn to ask you, and Katie Turr 546 00:35:05,635 --> 00:35:07,715 Speaker 1: asked you, and you told Katie Turry you refused to 547 00:35:07,755 --> 00:35:11,755 Speaker 1: be interviewed, and I said, none of that happened. And 548 00:35:11,795 --> 00:35:15,875 Speaker 1: there is a long silence on the end of the phone, 549 00:35:16,835 --> 00:35:20,515 Speaker 1: and then the writer says, let me call the editor 550 00:35:20,595 --> 00:35:23,755 Speaker 1: to take that part out. And The Times changed the 551 00:35:23,795 --> 00:35:27,875 Speaker 1: online version of why I didn't do the interview, although 552 00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:30,635 Speaker 1: they do not note that they changed it. And I 553 00:35:30,715 --> 00:35:34,115 Speaker 1: later got a note from a Times editor apologizing she 554 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:38,075 Speaker 1: just lied to this reporter from the Times. Just lied. Oh. 555 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:39,715 Speaker 1: I'll call him and ask oh, he told me he 556 00:35:39,715 --> 00:35:43,155 Speaker 1: doesn't want to talk to you about me. Just lied. 557 00:35:43,515 --> 00:35:46,355 Speaker 1: And I just sat there, and I know, very unlike me. 558 00:35:46,435 --> 00:35:49,235 Speaker 1: I have to say, I was actually too angry to 559 00:35:49,275 --> 00:35:53,875 Speaker 1: do anything anyway. As I mentioned, Katie Turr published another 560 00:35:53,875 --> 00:35:55,675 Speaker 1: book this year, and a lot of the publicity was 561 00:35:55,915 --> 00:35:58,715 Speaker 1: about how I haunted her and she had to go 562 00:35:58,755 --> 00:36:00,955 Speaker 1: to great lengths to separate her career from mine, even 563 00:36:01,035 --> 00:36:04,195 Speaker 1: as she keeps mentioning me, and even though she asked 564 00:36:04,195 --> 00:36:06,595 Speaker 1: me in dead seriousness to write the first book for her. 565 00:36:08,715 --> 00:36:11,155 Speaker 1: The book, the second one, is mostly about all the 566 00:36:11,195 --> 00:36:14,955 Speaker 1: impediments and roadblocks she has faced while what's the word 567 00:36:15,075 --> 00:36:18,075 Speaker 1: forging her career? But I will add this last point 568 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:22,475 Speaker 1: and then drop the subject, I hope forever. For forty 569 00:36:22,515 --> 00:36:27,315 Speaker 1: three years full time, I have done this and counting college, 570 00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:31,475 Speaker 1: it's God help me forty seven years. And throughout that 571 00:36:31,515 --> 00:36:35,555 Speaker 1: stretch I have tried to acknowledge anybody and everybody who 572 00:36:35,635 --> 00:36:38,475 Speaker 1: helped me in my career, even the ones I don't like, 573 00:36:39,075 --> 00:36:42,195 Speaker 1: even people who are totally utterly politically opposed to me. 574 00:36:42,555 --> 00:36:45,635 Speaker 1: I still think fondly of Stuart Varney from Fox News, 575 00:36:45,635 --> 00:36:48,475 Speaker 1: because he taught me, when I was right up against 576 00:36:48,475 --> 00:36:51,555 Speaker 1: it one night, how do you use a teleprompter. I'll 577 00:36:51,595 --> 00:36:54,915 Speaker 1: always cherish the memory of working with Stuart Varney. He 578 00:36:55,035 --> 00:36:57,755 Speaker 1: was such a help to me. Politically, we could have 579 00:36:57,795 --> 00:37:01,475 Speaker 1: a duel, but of course, as I said, the dynamic 580 00:37:01,635 --> 00:37:06,195 Speaker 1: is different. I'm a guy still. Her book is about 581 00:37:06,235 --> 00:37:08,835 Speaker 1: people who hindered her, and almost none of it is 582 00:37:08,835 --> 00:37:12,515 Speaker 1: about people who helped her. She is rapidly turning into 583 00:37:12,515 --> 00:37:16,635 Speaker 1: a kind of professional martyrdom. I saw this in its 584 00:37:16,635 --> 00:37:19,715 Speaker 1: earliest stages sixteen years ago, and she is now going 585 00:37:19,755 --> 00:37:26,315 Speaker 1: from making it martyrdom into a brand, and yesterday with 586 00:37:26,435 --> 00:37:29,315 Speaker 1: turning a vassectomy into a photo op. I just had 587 00:37:29,435 --> 00:37:31,955 Speaker 1: enough of it. I just ran out of the energy 588 00:37:32,075 --> 00:37:35,955 Speaker 1: required to cover for her. And I'll say this lastly 589 00:37:36,075 --> 00:37:40,755 Speaker 1: and sincerely. If your story of your career is all 590 00:37:40,835 --> 00:37:45,275 Speaker 1: about people you think held you back, and not even 591 00:37:46,475 --> 00:37:49,835 Speaker 1: mostly about the people who bent over backwards to help 592 00:37:49,955 --> 00:38:10,635 Speaker 1: you along, that is all just very very sad. I've 593 00:38:10,635 --> 00:38:12,915 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Don't put 594 00:38:12,915 --> 00:38:15,475 Speaker 1: it in the paper that I goes mad. Thanks for listening. 595 00:38:15,515 --> 00:38:18,235 Speaker 1: If you're not following or subscribed or whatever to this podcast, 596 00:38:18,275 --> 00:38:20,595 Speaker 1: please do so. If you can stop a passer by 597 00:38:20,595 --> 00:38:22,915 Speaker 1: on the street and get them too as well, thank you. 598 00:38:23,915 --> 00:38:25,995 Speaker 1: Here the credits. 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Our announcer today was 608 00:38:57,395 --> 00:39:00,915 Speaker 1: John Dee. Everything else was pretty much my fault. So 609 00:39:00,995 --> 00:39:04,955 Speaker 1: let's countdown for this the seven hundred day since Donald 610 00:39:04,955 --> 00:39:08,155 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 611 00:39:08,155 --> 00:39:12,235 Speaker 1: the United States, and what the fourth since his second 612 00:39:12,235 --> 00:39:17,155 Speaker 1: attempted coup? Arrest him now while we still can. There'll 613 00:39:17,155 --> 00:39:19,235 Speaker 1: be a new addition tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. 614 00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:29,275 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 615 00:39:29,355 --> 00:39:32,475 Speaker 1: Keith Alderman is a production of I heart Radio. 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