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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Will

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Speaker 1: Trump be insane mass murderer Trump at the debate tonight

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Speaker 1: or merely strategic mass murderer Trump at the debate tonight?

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Speaker 1: Because the debate tonight transpires against the backdrop of what

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Speaker 1: should have been the lead story everywhere yesterday and today,

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Speaker 1: the rolling Stone effing kill them all story. But nine

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Speaker 1: years into this, our political media still can't process. It,

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Speaker 1: still thinks institutionally and individually that, in a reversal of

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Speaker 1: the famous hl Mankin quote, if they pretend it isn't

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Speaker 1: true often enough, it'll stop being true. They still believe

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Speaker 1: that no one could have become president of the United States,

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Speaker 1: or try to stay in office extra constitutionally, or eventually

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Speaker 1: becomes so insane and so damaged that he would openly

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Speaker 1: boast that not only will he imprison in concentration camps

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Speaker 1: millions of immigrants and others he intends to deporte, but

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Speaker 1: that quote getting them out will be a bloody story,

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Speaker 1: and that he said that on Saturday only because the

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Speaker 1: self protective, animal cunning filter that used to stop him

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Speaker 1: from saying the hitlarian mass murdered bloody story part out

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Speaker 1: loud that is now breaking or broken, and there is

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Speaker 1: a chance, however small, that it could break a little

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Speaker 1: more tonight, and he could make it worse tonight. And

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Speaker 1: if Kamala Harris has the courage to push this particular

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Speaker 1: button tonight, she could not only win the debate and

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Speaker 1: win the election, but destroy Trump once and for all.

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Speaker 1: And maybe, just maybe even prest a scenario in which

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden only becomes the candidate who dropped out the

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Speaker 1: second closest to the election quote effing kill them all.

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Speaker 1: Rolling Stone quotes its multiple sources from the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: and the Trump inner circle, quoting Trump himself about cartels

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Speaker 1: and gangs, in other words, latinos because to Trump, virtually

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Speaker 1: all Latinos are drug kingpin gang lord rapists. That is

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Speaker 1: the founding image of his political career. From twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 1: quoting Trump again and Rolling Stone sources place him sitting

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Speaker 1: at the resolute desk as he said this, slamming his

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Speaker 1: fist onto the resolute desk, presumably not making a sound

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Speaker 1: against the resolute desk because his fists are so freakishly small.

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Speaker 1: Quote an eye for an eye, You just got to

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Speaker 1: kill these people. Other countries do it all the time.

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Speaker 1: They need to be eradicated, not jailed, unquote, and that's

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Speaker 1: just actually the tip of the blood. Red Iceberg, Rolling

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Speaker 1: Stone's Tim Dickinson and Swin soub sang fill in the hues,

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Speaker 1: quoting them, Trump wanted to see their bodies piled up

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Speaker 1: in the streets. Specifically, he sought a series of mass

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Speaker 1: executions with firing squads and gallows and certainly without the

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Speaker 1: quaintness of an appeals process, to send a chilling message

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Speaker 1: about the scope of his power. They continue that he

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Speaker 1: quote brought up the topic so often during the early

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Speaker 1: years of his presidency that one former White House official

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Speaker 1: tells Rolling Stone they lost count Madam Vice President. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to tell you your job here, but if

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Speaker 1: you can get Trump to act like that tonight, you

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Speaker 1: probably should because as I read those quotes, none of

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Speaker 1: that sounded wrong to you, did it? None of that

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Speaker 1: sounded inconsistent with what he's done and said and said again,

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Speaker 1: and said a third time, and a thirtieth time, and

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Speaker 1: a three hundredth time, and finally Saturday, he drove over

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Speaker 1: his internal stop sign and knocked down the mental picture

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Speaker 1: most of his partially saying supporters still have of a

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Speaker 1: group of criminals, maybe actual gang members, actual violent offenders,

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Speaker 1: actual drug dealers, their hands chained behind their backs, walking

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Speaker 1: Uncle Sam salutes or something. He knocked down that picture

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Speaker 1: like cordwood. Some of them criminals, maybe, some of them

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Speaker 1: their lawyers, some of them their children, some of them citizens,

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Speaker 1: some of them people who just don't get out of

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Speaker 1: the way fast enough for the tastes of the Trump

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Speaker 1: one of your answers, Madam Vice President, Because the hidden

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Speaker 1: headline of the Trump Biden debate was that is crazy

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Speaker 1: and deceitful. As everything Trump said during that one was

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Speaker 1: he didn't act or look particularly crazy. This this would

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Speaker 1: be particularly crazy or who knows, maybe the moderators will

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Speaker 1: ask Trump about it. I know, I know David Muir

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Speaker 1: is the lesser halt of Dana bashes. But if he

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Speaker 1: asks Trump a question about this, and Trump explains that

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Speaker 1: and he gets worked up about it, and he starts

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Speaker 1: talking anywhere near the way he talks in the Rolling

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Speaker 1: Stone piece. That's not only something the public remember the public,

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Speaker 1: David Muir, That's not only something the public should here.

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Speaker 1: That's a career maker, that's a statue maker. You want

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Speaker 1: to be, Edward R. Murrow, David Muir, David R. Muro

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Speaker 1: Ask the question or play the clip. I mean to

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Speaker 1: or using troops against US citizens, or the already gathering

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Speaker 1: plot to give him a third term or a fourth term.

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Speaker 1: That has a certain Yeah, we knew that quality to it.

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Speaker 1: Even to bring up Trump's post from Saturday about arresting

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Speaker 1: and prosecuting political opponents. Is him writing stuff, not him

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Speaker 1: talking stuff. He can wriggle easily out of writing stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's his art form. But when they throw out the

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Speaker 1: first question at the debate, the bloody story SoundBite will

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Speaker 1: only be three days old. It is from his most

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Speaker 1: recent public appearance before the debate. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: interpret anything, David Muher. You don't have to add an opinion.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to extrapolate or analyze or imply or infer.

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Speaker 1: You just say former President Trump Saturday, in Wisconsin. You

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Speaker 1: said something about mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and you

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Speaker 1: described it as a quote bloody story, that it will

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Speaker 1: be a bloody story. What did you mean by that?

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Speaker 1: And in case you've forgotten what you said, here's the

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Speaker 1: tape of you saying it. Former President Trump in Colorado.

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Speaker 2: They're so brazen, they're taking over sections of the state

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Speaker 2: and you know getting them out will be a bloody story.

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Speaker 2: Should have never been allowed to come into our country.

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Speaker 2: Nobody checked them, Nobody checked were they criminals? Were they

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Speaker 2: from jails? We have them pouring out from jails. We

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty eight so far are registered one hundred

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Speaker 2: and sixty eight countries. They're in our country and they're said,

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Speaker 2: if you come back, you will be executed. You will

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Speaker 2: be killed immediately. Not going to be easy, but we'll do.

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Speaker 1: It then, David Muir, you just say, do you expect

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Speaker 1: thousands of them to be bloodied? Sir? Tens of thousands,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, a million, or if you don't have

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Speaker 1: the balls to make yourself into a journalistic immortal, David Muir,

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Speaker 1: just to ask, what do you mean by a bloody story,

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Speaker 1: or you could bring it up. Vice President Harris, I

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Speaker 1: meant what I said. If the cards fall correctly, Trump

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Speaker 1: could talk himself out of the race on this one topic.

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Speaker 1: You don't think so yeah, why why again? Isn't President

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Speaker 1: Biden at the debate tonight? Jim O'Brien, the Bloomberg editor

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Speaker 1: who wrote nearly twenty years ago that Trump was only

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Speaker 1: worth two hundred and fifty million dollars and Trump sued

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Speaker 1: him and Trump got blown out of court, had seven

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Speaker 1: pieces of advice for Kamala Harris tonight, and I thought

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Speaker 1: they were damn good. The first was respect the split screen. Oh,

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Speaker 1: a public speaking issue, which I think she has mastered wonderfully.

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Speaker 1: But she's always had a great face for television. Men

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Speaker 1: have them, women have them. It's a TV thing, not

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Speaker 1: if need be, does it look like you could kill

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Speaker 1: people with X rays coming out of your eyes? Do

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Speaker 1: you have resting president face? Keep it on at all times.

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Speaker 1: The camera is on you at all times. I used

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Speaker 1: You never know when the camera is going to be on.

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Speaker 1: You assume it's on you all the time. O'Brien also

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Speaker 1: dodge all the questions. Cooperate on some you have personal

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Speaker 1: advantages on Trump, use them abortion rights. He's a criminal,

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Speaker 1: you're a prosecutor. You were not borders are but you

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Speaker 1: were tasked with the border, and he tanked the border deal.

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Speaker 1: You're saying, and he's crazy. Pivot to these. O'Brien does

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Speaker 1: But I say pander to the voters in the swing states.

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Speaker 1: The economy remains decisive there. Throw out the stats. What's

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Speaker 1: Trump's in it for Trump. O'Brien writes, point out that

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't win, he's going to jail, point out

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Speaker 1: O'Brien reminds her that the best defense is a good offense.

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Speaker 1: He shrugs off being called a liar or lawless, Trump

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Speaker 1: a failure, or low energy or old, go for the old.

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Speaker 1: Old is gold. And lastly, he notes that Harris should

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Speaker 1: obsession with childless cat ladies. And you do not team

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Speaker 1: the dog he may have eaten. So Madame Vice President,

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Speaker 1: be of good cheer, and remember the last one go

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Speaker 3: Old old is gold.

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Speaker 1: A couple of last bait notes, see you live afterwards

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Speaker 1: from the deep Rock, demoted and detained by police. Former

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Speaker 1: I'm swearing at peace officers at Rodeo's. Is that possible

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Speaker 1: I might have typed it wrong? Quote Tomorrow night, writes

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Speaker 1: Ronnie Jackson. President Trump gets to put Kamala Harris in

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Speaker 1: her place on live TV. Put Kamala Harris in her place,

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Speaker 1: pretending by misogynists that they weren't misogynists. We were naive

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Speaker 1: to think that these curses on america society had been

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Speaker 1: was nicer to live with that delusion, and with people

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Speaker 1: like Ronnie Jackson at least try to hide their racism

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Speaker 1: and misogyny. Put her in her place is the language

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Speaker 1: of the Old South, And no matter what else happens tonight,

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Speaker 1: me in that classroom, I made a joke about it.

426
00:30:07,755 --> 00:30:09,435
Speaker 1: My other friends thought Amen was going to punch my

427
00:30:09,515 --> 00:30:13,035
Speaker 1: lights out. I did too. Instead, he merely walked past

428
00:30:13,075 --> 00:30:16,395
Speaker 1: me and smiled, don't worry, I won't drop the next one.

429
00:30:17,475 --> 00:30:19,835
Speaker 1: It's a week and some of us are only now

430
00:30:19,915 --> 00:30:22,795
Speaker 1: learning who we lost, and what heroes they were, and

431
00:30:22,835 --> 00:30:26,155
Speaker 1: how proud they make us feel, and how heartbroken a week.

432
00:30:27,115 --> 00:30:29,395
Speaker 1: A week since the disaster means that tomorrow will be

433
00:30:29,435 --> 00:30:32,595
Speaker 1: a week since the last rescue. The mayor said today,

434
00:30:32,635 --> 00:30:35,315
Speaker 1: there is not much realistic hope of another one. Tell

435
00:30:35,315 --> 00:30:38,115
Speaker 1: that to the two excavation experts from Cleveland. I met

436
00:30:38,155 --> 00:30:40,595
Speaker 1: them this morning trudging up the West Side Highway. They

437
00:30:40,595 --> 00:30:44,035
Speaker 1: were going to get their crane, huge portable, long reach

438
00:30:44,355 --> 00:30:46,155
Speaker 1: the way. They told that there is no reason not

439
00:30:46,195 --> 00:30:48,515
Speaker 1: to change the focus at the trade center. Now take

440
00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:50,795
Speaker 1: the gamble. Use this crane to clear not just the

441
00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:53,795
Speaker 1: rubble at the perimeter, but the big stuff, the stuff

442
00:30:53,835 --> 00:30:56,035
Speaker 1: in the middle, the big stuff that is at once

443
00:30:56,235 --> 00:30:59,955
Speaker 1: most dangerous and most likely to have provided an air pocket.

444
00:31:00,515 --> 00:31:03,315
Speaker 1: It is risky, it concedes no one is alive and

445
00:31:03,355 --> 00:31:06,355
Speaker 1: what we're presumed to have been the highest chance areas.

446
00:31:06,715 --> 00:31:08,395
Speaker 1: And as one of the excavation men put it, it's

447
00:31:08,435 --> 00:31:11,595
Speaker 1: like trying to play pickup sticks from the middle out.

448
00:31:12,475 --> 00:31:15,035
Speaker 1: But it may be all they have left. They might

449
00:31:15,115 --> 00:31:17,075
Speaker 1: find someone in there before it's too late. They might

450
00:31:17,235 --> 00:31:20,195
Speaker 1: find am and Mackenatey. They might find any one of

451
00:31:20,195 --> 00:31:25,235
Speaker 1: the five thousand, four hundred Amon mcinatey's. They might this

452
00:31:25,355 --> 00:31:31,475
Speaker 1: is Keith Olderman Company, forty's Captain James J. Gormley sent

453
00:31:31,515 --> 00:31:33,835
Speaker 1: a note to the families and to the company's neighborhood.

454
00:31:34,115 --> 00:31:36,235
Speaker 1: It is among the most beautiful things I have ever

455
00:31:36,275 --> 00:31:39,515
Speaker 1: read in the English language. Amazing for its faith, amazing

456
00:31:39,515 --> 00:31:43,075
Speaker 1: for its acknowledgment of reality, yet its determination to exhaust

457
00:31:43,115 --> 00:31:47,555
Speaker 1: every possibility before its acceptance of that reality. No member

458
00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:50,715
Speaker 1: from this house is listed as deceased. Captain Gormley writes,

459
00:31:51,075 --> 00:31:54,435
Speaker 1: I consider the members listed missing as still operating at

460
00:31:54,435 --> 00:31:56,435
Speaker 1: the scene. We have not been able to relieve them

461
00:31:56,475 --> 00:32:00,235
Speaker 1: from duty. He continues, there are many thousands of civilians

462
00:32:00,275 --> 00:32:03,435
Speaker 1: trapped with our comrades. They need our prayers. Their families

463
00:32:03,475 --> 00:32:05,315
Speaker 1: need to be assured that we hold them lives as

464
00:32:05,395 --> 00:32:08,195
Speaker 1: dear as our own brothers. Hopefully, each of our brothers

465
00:32:08,235 --> 00:32:12,155
Speaker 1: has taken charge of a small group of survivors and teaches,

466
00:32:12,355 --> 00:32:16,395
Speaker 1: encourages and provide significant hope to each group. Captain Gormley

467
00:32:16,515 --> 00:32:19,675
Speaker 1: is not Pollyanna here. His last paragraph reads, Tragedy may

468
00:32:19,755 --> 00:32:22,275
Speaker 1: yet visit us. We will face it together. We are

469
00:32:22,275 --> 00:32:24,875
Speaker 1: not giving up. Maintain your health. We have lots of

470
00:32:24,875 --> 00:32:27,395
Speaker 1: work to do. Again. I ask you to please pray,

471
00:32:27,435 --> 00:32:30,875
Speaker 1: because hope remains in the ten seconds it took Captain

472
00:32:30,875 --> 00:32:33,235
Speaker 1: Gormley's two hooking ladders to roar past me. The other night,

473
00:32:33,275 --> 00:32:35,395
Speaker 1: I thought of his extraordinary message, and I thought of

474
00:32:35,435 --> 00:32:37,395
Speaker 1: the four to Zh's other trucks that took the same

475
00:32:37,475 --> 00:32:40,635
Speaker 1: turn a week ago Tuesday and never came back. And

476
00:32:40,675 --> 00:32:43,315
Speaker 1: I had to know New York had to know that

477
00:32:43,395 --> 00:32:46,675
Speaker 1: these guys were okay. They're not supermen. They're not immune

478
00:32:46,675 --> 00:32:48,355
Speaker 1: to the pain. A good friend of one of them

479
00:32:48,395 --> 00:32:50,515
Speaker 1: told me yesterday. They don't know what to make of

480
00:32:50,555 --> 00:32:53,075
Speaker 1: the sudden, unabashed waves of love coming to them from

481
00:32:53,195 --> 00:32:56,395
Speaker 1: ordinary New Yorkers. The men still here to receive that

482
00:32:56,475 --> 00:33:00,475
Speaker 1: love are dealing with survivor guilt, dealing with loss like

483
00:33:00,515 --> 00:33:02,555
Speaker 1: the cops and the medics. They're also dealing with a

484
00:33:02,555 --> 00:33:05,315
Speaker 1: new world which the radio of a policeman on Canal

485
00:33:05,355 --> 00:33:08,515
Speaker 1: Street can crackle with the stark message body parts found

486
00:33:08,515 --> 00:33:11,995
Speaker 1: on fourteenth floor of World Financial Center, and be responded

487
00:33:11,995 --> 00:33:14,475
Speaker 1: to by the emotionless voice of the dispatcher, repeating it

488
00:33:14,755 --> 00:33:16,635
Speaker 1: word for word as if it were a phone number

489
00:33:16,755 --> 00:33:19,715
Speaker 1: or a set of directions. A million things about the

490
00:33:19,715 --> 00:33:22,035
Speaker 1: New York of this Thursday, the twentieth of September two

491
00:33:22,115 --> 00:33:24,595
Speaker 1: thousand and one bear no resemblance whatsoever to the New

492
00:33:24,675 --> 00:33:27,035
Speaker 1: York of Monday, the tenth of September. Most of the

493
00:33:27,115 --> 00:33:29,675
Speaker 1: changes are brutal, painful, but at least one of them

494
00:33:29,755 --> 00:33:32,515
Speaker 1: is so moving, so uplifting, so human. It's as if

495
00:33:32,555 --> 00:33:34,395
Speaker 1: New Yorker has had all grown new hearts with which

496
00:33:34,395 --> 00:33:36,435
Speaker 1: to care about each other. We now have to know

497
00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:38,075
Speaker 1: that the men of Company forty, and all the other

498
00:33:38,115 --> 00:33:40,395
Speaker 1: fire companies, and all the police details and all the

499
00:33:40,395 --> 00:33:43,195
Speaker 1: EMS vehicles, the men who rocket past us, the men

500
00:33:43,235 --> 00:33:45,395
Speaker 1: going in to quote my grandfather to make sure we

501
00:33:45,515 --> 00:33:51,355
Speaker 1: got out, are okay. And if that history, or if

502
00:33:51,395 --> 00:33:54,035
Speaker 1: the continuity of life in this community, or support for

503
00:33:54,075 --> 00:33:56,635
Speaker 1: the families of the lost rescuers were not reasons enough,

504
00:33:56,915 --> 00:33:59,995
Speaker 1: consider the testimony of one policeman posted in front of

505
00:34:00,075 --> 00:34:02,635
Speaker 1: the Stock Exchange on Monday, when the smoke was still

506
00:34:02,675 --> 00:34:05,435
Speaker 1: so thick. But until he came within feet of me,

507
00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:09,555
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell whether or not he was wearing eyeglasses.

508
00:34:10,435 --> 00:34:13,275
Speaker 1: He wanted to talk about the Mets last ditch stand

509
00:34:13,315 --> 00:34:16,555
Speaker 1: in the Penanglies we did. I asked him why, and

510
00:34:16,715 --> 00:34:19,915
Speaker 1: his eloquence was simple and convincing. Look at it this way,

511
00:34:19,955 --> 00:34:23,195
Speaker 1: he said it doesn't matter, not really. But no matter

512
00:34:23,275 --> 00:34:26,315
Speaker 1: what happens today, no matter what else happens tonight, I

513
00:34:26,355 --> 00:34:28,915
Speaker 1: can go home and at seven o'clock I can put

514
00:34:28,955 --> 00:34:31,955
Speaker 1: my feet up and watch the Mets and pretend nothing

515
00:34:31,995 --> 00:34:35,475
Speaker 1: has changed. And as New Yorkers can authorize themselves to

516
00:34:35,635 --> 00:34:38,675
Speaker 1: enjoy all this, so too can they authorize themselves to

517
00:34:38,795 --> 00:34:42,195
Speaker 1: enjoy the shared involvement with humanity to begin to laugh,

518
00:34:42,315 --> 00:34:45,355
Speaker 1: even in this grimace of times. On the field. Three

519
00:34:45,395 --> 00:34:48,915
Speaker 1: hours before this game, It's handwer brought the bomb snipping

520
00:34:48,955 --> 00:34:51,875
Speaker 1: dog down for her first suite through the Mets dugout,

521
00:34:52,115 --> 00:34:55,075
Speaker 1: A half a dozen television cameras slung violently to capture

522
00:34:55,115 --> 00:34:58,395
Speaker 1: the scene, and then a moment of unspeakable drama. Her

523
00:34:58,475 --> 00:35:02,235
Speaker 1: back to those cameras, she stopped. The bomb snipping dog

524
00:35:02,315 --> 00:35:06,275
Speaker 1: had stopped, of course she had. There was a puddle

525
00:35:06,355 --> 00:35:09,635
Speaker 1: on the dugout floor. She was having a quick drink

526
00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:12,555
Speaker 1: of water, A tiny break in all this an apt

527
00:35:12,715 --> 00:35:16,395
Speaker 1: metaphor indeed, for what we are all doing here tonight

528
00:35:16,515 --> 00:35:19,435
Speaker 1: at a baseball stadium, at Jay Stadium in New York.

529
00:35:19,555 --> 00:35:20,395
Speaker 1: This is Keith Olderman.

530
00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:27,275
Speaker 4: President Bush has been touring the damage in Manhattan and

531
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Speaker 4: talking with rescue workers at the scene of the World

532
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Speaker 4: Trade Center collapse. KfW E s Keith Overman has a

533
00:35:33,315 --> 00:35:34,675
Speaker 4: live update from New.

534
00:35:34,555 --> 00:35:38,275
Speaker 3: York City while the President sees all this for the

535
00:35:38,315 --> 00:35:42,075
Speaker 3: first time. For the now four day veterans of this

536
00:35:42,315 --> 00:35:47,275
Speaker 3: grim work, it doesn't just continue. It almost becomes Monday.

537
00:35:48,435 --> 00:35:52,155
Speaker 3: A bottice more weary than shot scratches across a police

538
00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:56,515
Speaker 3: radio blaring here on the Canal Street. Body parts found

539
00:35:56,555 --> 00:35:59,995
Speaker 3: on the fourteenth floor of the World Financial Center. With

540
00:36:00,115 --> 00:36:02,515
Speaker 3: the efficiency and dispassion of a bank teller. A woman

541
00:36:02,595 --> 00:36:05,355
Speaker 3: dispatcher repeats the grim news. Body arts found on the

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Speaker 3: fourteenth floor of the World Financial Center.

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Speaker 1: Consider what this means.

544
00:36:09,075 --> 00:36:11,275
Speaker 3: The World Financial Center was not one of the buildings

545
00:36:11,315 --> 00:36:14,755
Speaker 3: hit or burned on Tuesday. It's a development, and whatever

546
00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:17,915
Speaker 3: horror that led up to it, so grizzly, so improbable

547
00:36:17,955 --> 00:36:19,995
Speaker 3: that on any other day it would have been the

548
00:36:20,155 --> 00:36:24,435
Speaker 3: lead story somewhere. However, here on day four, it is

549
00:36:24,635 --> 00:36:28,795
Speaker 3: just a detail. Five on Canal Street. Keith Overman, KFWB

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Speaker 3: News nine eighty.

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00:36:29,795 --> 00:36:34,075
Speaker 5: And kf nobody B News Time ten oh seven.

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00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:36,755
Speaker 1: K b's Keith Overman in New York says, the city

553
00:36:36,795 --> 00:36:39,995
Speaker 1: of Big Shoulders continues to shutter more.

554
00:36:39,755 --> 00:36:42,715
Speaker 3: Than three days later. And this is a different city.

555
00:36:43,275 --> 00:36:45,755
Speaker 3: It's not just that one can stand at the intersection

556
00:36:45,915 --> 00:36:49,635
Speaker 3: of Canal and Greenwich Streets and look downtown ten blocks

557
00:36:49,995 --> 00:36:53,315
Speaker 3: and see nothing but two buildings framing the smoke still

558
00:36:53,435 --> 00:36:54,635
Speaker 3: rising from where.

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Speaker 1: The twelve million square foot.

560
00:36:56,035 --> 00:36:59,915
Speaker 3: World Trade Centers stood. It's what you see on the

561
00:36:59,995 --> 00:37:04,675
Speaker 3: faces of New Yorkers, not their expressions, their gauze face masks.

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00:37:04,795 --> 00:37:07,835
Speaker 3: The twelve hours soaking rain having ended, a number of

563
00:37:07,835 --> 00:37:11,195
Speaker 3: those protecting themselves from the smoke tinged airs down to

564
00:37:11,235 --> 00:37:14,395
Speaker 3: perhaps one in fifty, but yesterday it might have been

565
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Speaker 3: one in ten. And these masks may be with us

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Speaker 3: for the duration. Construction workers told me they can already

567
00:37:20,875 --> 00:37:24,995
Speaker 3: smell the decay of bodies, and that smell could move uptown.

568
00:37:25,395 --> 00:37:28,755
Speaker 3: There is only one comparison the masks we see in

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Speaker 3: the chilling photos of the worldwide flu epidemic of nineteen nineteen. Laura,

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Speaker 3: I mean Laura Manhattan. Keith Olberman KFWB News nine eighty.

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Speaker 5: Wasn't exactly the tour of the President got, but kfwb's

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Speaker 5: Keith Olberman also got to look at the disaster scene

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Speaker 5: and he joins us now live from Manhattan and.

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Speaker 1: Walking through the neighborhood den immediately south of the barricades

575
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Speaker 1: at Canal Street is remarkably like getting the Insiders look

576
00:37:54,355 --> 00:37:57,995
Speaker 1: at Burbank or Fox or any other Southland film studio.

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00:37:58,435 --> 00:38:02,635
Speaker 1: One block of Washington Street features untouched small apartment buildings

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Speaker 1: with not a soul to be seen or heard around them.

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Speaker 1: Turn a corner and parked by every manhole is a

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Speaker 1: phone company or electricity company truck. Make another rite, and

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00:38:13,275 --> 00:38:16,155
Speaker 1: you do a double take. There are nineteen, count them,

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Speaker 1: nineteen caterpillar bulldozers in the middle of a residential street,

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Speaker 1: waiting to be called upon. And finally, as far as

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Speaker 1: your escorts will let you go, still six blocks in

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Speaker 1: the distance, the ever present, seemingly never ending smoke, the

586
00:38:29,515 --> 00:38:32,435
Speaker 1: smoke from fires where the World Trade Center used to be,

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00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:35,955
Speaker 1: Fires that resisted more than twelve hours of pelting rain,

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Speaker 1: which looked just as fierce and four ten just as

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Speaker 1: badly for the chance of any more survivors as they did.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday afternoon, live in Midtown Manhattan, Keith Olberman KFWB

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Speaker 1: News ninet.

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Speaker 3: Eighty can't.

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Speaker 1: AFWB News time four forty seven. We're sorry.

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Speaker 5: Kfwb's Keith Alberman says that is what publishers of The

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Speaker 5: New York Times are telling their readers today.

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Speaker 1: In an unprecedented gesture. Today's New York Times carries a

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Speaker 1: front page apology and acknowledgement that's some of the thick

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Speaker 1: Sunday paper was printed before the terrorist attack quote, and

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Speaker 1: that the tone of some articles and advertising is inconsistent

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Speaker 1: with the gravity of the news. The lead piece in

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Speaker 1: the Sunday magazine is headlined in the rubble of Silicon Valley.

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00:39:18,515 --> 00:39:21,635
Speaker 1: Suburban Railroad executives are still taking heat today or having

603
00:39:21,755 --> 00:39:25,035
Speaker 1: ordered posters depicting people missing at the trade center taken

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Speaker 1: down at Grand Central station for esthetic reasons. What is this,

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00:39:28,835 --> 00:39:32,355
Speaker 1: a policeman asks a reporter the louver. Another cop shakes

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Speaker 1: his head as he looks from Canal Street towards the

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Speaker 1: Urban Volcano, five blocks to the south. His regular beat

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Speaker 1: is the Upper west Side, and there on Wednesday, he says,

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Speaker 1: when the winds changed and began to blow north from downtown,

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Speaker 1: a caller complained that his apartment smelled of smoke and

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Speaker 1: what were they going to do about it? Warning the

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Speaker 1: winds are changing again right now again to head north

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Speaker 1: in midtown Manhattan, keep Olrubin KFWB News nine to eighty.

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Speaker 3: You go to Keith at the intersection of Nasa and

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Speaker 3: Liberty Streets. Plovic canyons of Wall Street surrender its only

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Speaker 3: view of the wreckage and the polls.

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Speaker 1: Six days ago.

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Speaker 3: In these minutes, the familiar striated metal faces of the

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Speaker 3: towers are visible from there, a three story piece jacket

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Speaker 3: and burnt sticks out of the ground where it hit

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Speaker 3: when the towers collapsed. You can see it if and

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Speaker 3: when a dusted wind clears away some of the acrid

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Speaker 3: hot fresh slope from the volcano that is two blocks

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Speaker 3: to the west. Already the Titans and the minions of

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Speaker 3: Wall Street have seen the groups of two to ten

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Speaker 3: soldiers at every corner. The police car is sneaking through

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Speaker 3: the dust covers treats now. A block closer to the

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Speaker 3: exchange put traffic narrows towards barricades. You got something that

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Speaker 3: shows you work here. A policeman all business asks firmly

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Speaker 3: yet politely, and then he coughs, and you notice all

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Speaker 3: the other cops and the soldiers and the Red crossworkers

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Speaker 3: are wearing masks. It all began exactly six days ago.

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00:41:02,275 --> 00:41:05,275
Speaker 3: No one here can guess when it will end Live

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Speaker 3: on Wall Street. Keith Alder mc KAFWB News.

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00:41:07,635 --> 00:41:08,315
Speaker 1: Nine to eighty.

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Speaker 4: So to give us a little perspective, games WB's Keith

637
00:41:12,675 --> 00:41:15,755
Speaker 4: Oberman has ventured out onto the Brooklyn Bridge and joined

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Speaker 4: us with this live report.

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Speaker 3: A military humby backs out onto Wall Street, maneuvering as

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Speaker 3: it does between an electrical company truck and two trailer

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Speaker 3: Wall streeters herded into narrow Nassau Street went back to

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Speaker 3: the specter. Two blocks to their right, the ghostly and

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Speaker 3: still smoking bulk of the Trade Center, a seven story

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Speaker 3: tall slice of its facade twisted like so much iron grating,

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Speaker 3: beckoning almost irresistibly at the intersection of Liberty Street. Finally,

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Speaker 3: of sound, the Hookland Bridge, close to all but emergency

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Speaker 3: Live on the Brooklyn Bridge overlooking Wall Street, Keith Olberman

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Speaker 3: KFWB News nine to.

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Speaker 5: Eighty KYBWB News on one thirty seven.

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Speaker 4: One eye to the window in Lower Manhattan today where

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Speaker 4: can imagine they're also wondering if they'll see another plane

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Speaker 4: coming right at them. Kfwb's Keith Olberman gives us the

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Speaker 4: view not far from ground zero.

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Speaker 3: The reopening of all but the streets directly around the

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Speaker 3: Trade Center has provided the most horrifying view yet, one

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Speaker 3: that few New Yorkers have seen, and perhaps it's better

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Speaker 3: that way. Here, at one of the city's oldest intersections,

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Speaker 3: of what may be the central fire, rising from a

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Speaker 3: depression in the three story pile of twisted metal orange

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Speaker 3: black yellow, the smoke angry and acrid, dirty brown at

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Speaker 3: its origin, and behind it part of the complex, the

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Speaker 3: outside structure pulled away the shapes of individual rooms is

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Speaker 3: still visible, the floors buckled by the heat, with that

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Speaker 3: telltale sagging so evident that the murror building in Oklahoma

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Speaker 3: the volcanic like ash on windows on the street itself,

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Speaker 3: on mailboxes and four four fire escapes on them. Some

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Speaker 3: kind of canvas strewn in small pieces, possibly an awning

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Speaker 3: that went up when the towers came down. At the

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Speaker 3: intersection of Greton Rector Streets in downtown Manhattan, Keith Olberman.

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Speaker 3: The President of the United States in an open air

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Speaker 3: sports stadium in the middle of a terrorist alert. President

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Speaker 3: Bush's arrival here at a little after four point thirty

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Speaker 3: Pacific precipitated on presidented security, even for the World Series,

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Speaker 3: even for New York. Everyone entering this stadium passed through

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Speaker 3: a metal detector and many got the WAND treatment. So

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Speaker 3: if air. His streets were blocked by salt spreading trucks

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Speaker 3: filled with sand. Elevators in the building were turned off,

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Speaker 3: and at one point a lockdown was declared freezing. The

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Speaker 3: media had many fans where they were there. The president

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Speaker 3: grim new reality. However, At one metal detector at the

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Speaker 3: and then they asked him to take a photo of them.

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Speaker 3: He applied at Yankee Stadium of New York. He COULDERGANSFWB

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Speaker 3: in News nine eighty.

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Speaker 5: KAF Would you be in news Time seven thirty seven

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Speaker 5: with a letter.

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Speaker 3: From New York. I'm Keith Olderman. You imagine if the

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Speaker 3: Trade Center attacks had happened in LA and if Dodger

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Speaker 3: Stadium was literally across the street from the UCLA Tennis Center,

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Speaker 3: and if down the road from both of them was lax.

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Speaker 3: That was the backdrop against which professional sports returned to

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Speaker 3: New York today in the first regular season games since

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Speaker 3: the tenths and mes the Atlanta Brays at Shaye Stadium,

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Speaker 3: a location traditionally so much a part of LaGuardia Airport's

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Speaker 3: flight path is that on a long Sunday afternoon here,

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Speaker 3: one hundred planes might fly directly overhead. On a good day,

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Speaker 3: many fans many players were apprehensive. There have been no

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Speaker 3: good days lately, so the FAA has agreed to keep

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Speaker 3: aircraft away from Shaye during the games. Security is tighter,

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Speaker 3: the mood more somber. On the other hand, in a

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Speaker 3: The entire Mets team is donating its collective salary about

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Speaker 3: four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Fund for

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Speaker 3: the Widows of the children of New York policemen and firemen,

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Speaker 3: most pointed of all. For forty seasons. New York Skyline

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Speaker 3: has been part of the Mets logo. Tonight, It's silhouette

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Speaker 3: still stands a top the scoreboard looming behind right field,

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Speaker 3: twin towers has been placed. The Red, White, and Blue

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Speaker 3: Memorial ribbon at Shay Stadium with a letter from New

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Speaker 3: York Keith Olderman KWB News nine eighty.

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Speaker 1: With a letter of New York. I'm Keith Olberman. Carlo

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Speaker 1: Lfredo and David Loud plan to be back in southern

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Speaker 1: California tomorrow, but first there are all these funerals. Wlfredo

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Speaker 1: and Laub are too. La County firefighters. I met on

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Speaker 1: the subway coming back from the Mets game. They've been

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Speaker 1: here since a week ago yesterday at the World Trade Center.

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Speaker 1: When I left them, they weren't certain if they'd be

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Speaker 1: going back to Ground zero for an overnight shift or

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Speaker 1: if they wouldn't be needed till morning. They were hoping

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Speaker 1: for the former. Work all night and then go to

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Speaker 1: funerals all day. Sounds macabre, But one fact about life

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Speaker 1: here now that will creep up on you and then

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Speaker 1: overwhelm you, is this. With three hundred and forty six

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Speaker 1: New York firefighters lost, their funerals can be lonely events.

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Speaker 1: A man might have died and had his ten best

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Speaker 1: friends die with him. So Carlo Lfredo and David Loud

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Speaker 1: go in their place. We'll go pick up Grandma, or

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Speaker 1: we'll get the groceries, all the errands. People are in

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Speaker 1: too much pain to do. David says they are strangers,

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Speaker 1: yet they are accepted immediately as family. We're all firefighters,

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Speaker 1: says Carlo. Worst experience of our lives, David ads and

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Speaker 1: the best. Does that make any sense? A letter from

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Speaker 1: New York Keith Overman KMWB News ninet eighty with a

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Speaker 1: letter from New York. I'm Keith Overman. Memorials and funerals

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Speaker 1: for six more firefighters were held this morning and this afternoon,

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Speaker 1: and on the eastern side of Central Park under a

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Speaker 1: white tent and a persistent drizzle. The seven hundred lost

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Speaker 1: employees of the Canter Fitzgerald Bond Firm were remembered in

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Speaker 1: a gathering of family and friends. Those lost from the

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Speaker 1: staff of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center windows

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Speaker 1: on the World were eulogized in late afternoon. This is

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Speaker 1: now the city of Mourning three weeks after, and it

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Speaker 1: is still papered with photographs of the missing. The first

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Speaker 1: shrine at Union Square is still filled with them. So

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Speaker 1: two part of the Times Square subway station had street

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Speaker 1: lights and hospitals and construction sites and boarded up storefronts

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Speaker 1: just blocks from the Trade Center itself as a move

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Speaker 1: to collect and preserve them in a city museum suggests

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Speaker 1: these missing posters continue to resonate in an almost unspeakable way.

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Speaker 1: It is the rare and fortunate New Yorker who is

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Speaker 1: not halted in the streets by one of them. You

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Speaker 1: do not have to know any of the men and

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Speaker 1: women depicted to feel the pain, but when you do,

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Speaker 1: there is shock, pond shock on Canal Street today. A

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Speaker 1: black and white photograph of one of those Catter Fitzgerald employees,

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Speaker 1: a smiling man named Mike Tanner. I went to college

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Speaker 1: with him. A letter from New York Keith Olberman KFWB

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Speaker 1: News nine to eighty with a letter from New York.

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Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olverman. Three weeks ago today we reported to

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Speaker 1: you from the first sign of classness from the recovering

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Speaker 1: city executives of Metro North, the commuter rail provider had

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Speaker 1: ordered that posters depicting the missing be removed from a

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Speaker 1: Grand Central station for esthetic reasons. Today, just off the

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Speaker 1: a twelve paneled screen placed there by the railroad's employees.

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Speaker 1: There are perhaps three hundred missing posters there, four of

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Speaker 1: them depicting John Thomas Andreatio on each of them. Next

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Speaker 1: to the smile peeking out from under mister Andreachio's mustache

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Speaker 1: has been handwritten the word found. On Thursday, he was

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Speaker 1: added to the list of the dead. Another update. The

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Speaker 1: New York Police and Fire Widows and Children's Benefit Fund,

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Speaker 1: the charity to which the fees from these reports are going,

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Speaker 1: has in the last twenty six days, raised about twenty

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Speaker 1: is grateful and overwhelmed. The stark reality, however, is that

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Speaker 1: even with this extraordinary generosity, if the fund were to

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Speaker 1: divide the new donations just among those families newly afflicted.

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Speaker 1: Each would receive about forty nine thousand dollars. Their website

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Speaker 1: is www dot nyp FWC dot org. A letter from

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Speaker 1: New York Keith Olderman KFWB News, ninet eighty Just for

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Speaker 1: the record, since we can discuss now what people did

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Speaker 1: that was gracious and what people did that was not gracious.

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Speaker 1: The contract I had with Box, which they were trying

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Speaker 1: provided that if I did any freelance work anywhere else,

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Speaker 1: that money would be deducted from what Fox owed me.

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Speaker 1: So if I did a piece for CNN and I

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Speaker 1: I actually once had to go in and they said

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Speaker 1: I can't accept that. Well, maybe we can get you

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Speaker 1: twelve fifty. I said no, no, no, no, less, and they

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Speaker 1: I've got to do it for four hundred dollars in appearance,

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Speaker 1: I had to negotiate down the KfW appearances I believe

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Speaker 1: after agreement for radio pieces, the money went to charity,

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Speaker 1: to a nine to eleven charity, and yes, Fox deducted

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Speaker 1: it from the money they sent me, just so we

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Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week,

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Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Once again, there is

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Speaker 1: a Monday Countdown. Don't forget the one tonight after the

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Speaker 1: Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis

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Speaker 1: My announcer today is my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else

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Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the

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Speaker 1: fifty seventh day until the twenty twenty four presidential election,

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Speaker 1: dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected

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Speaker 1: government of the United States. Use the mental health system,

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Speaker 1: use presidential immunity. The Supreme Theocratic Court gave it to you,

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Speaker 1: President Biden. It's your last option after the bravery of

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Speaker 1: Juan mer Sean. I say, if it's official, it's legal,

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Speaker 1: so do whatever you want to him. The next scheduled

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Speaker 1: countdown is live tonight around ten thirty pm Eastern on

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Speaker 1: YouTube after the Harris Trump debate. Bulletins as the news

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Speaker 1: requires till the next time, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith

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