Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Will
Speaker 1: Trump be insane mass murderer Trump at the debate tonight
Speaker 1: or merely strategic mass murderer Trump at the debate tonight?
Speaker 1: Because the debate tonight transpires against the backdrop of what
Speaker 1: should have been the lead story everywhere yesterday and today,
Speaker 1: the rolling Stone effing kill them all story. But nine
Speaker 1: years into this, our political media still can't process. It,
Speaker 1: still thinks institutionally and individually that, in a reversal of
Speaker 1: the famous hl Mankin quote, if they pretend it isn't
Speaker 1: true often enough, it'll stop being true. They still believe
Speaker 1: that no one could have become president of the United States,
Speaker 1: or try to stay in office extra constitutionally, or eventually
Speaker 1: becomes so insane and so damaged that he would openly
Speaker 1: boast that not only will he imprison in concentration camps
Speaker 1: millions of immigrants and others he intends to deporte, but
Speaker 1: that quote getting them out will be a bloody story,
Speaker 1: and that he said that on Saturday only because the
Speaker 1: self protective, animal cunning filter that used to stop him
Speaker 1: from saying the hitlarian mass murdered bloody story part out
Speaker 1: loud that is now breaking or broken, and there is
Speaker 1: a chance, however small, that it could break a little
Speaker 1: more tonight, and he could make it worse tonight. And
Speaker 1: if Kamala Harris has the courage to push this particular
Speaker 1: button tonight, she could not only win the debate and
Speaker 1: win the election, but destroy Trump once and for all.
Speaker 1: And maybe, just maybe even prest a scenario in which
Speaker 1: Joe Biden only becomes the candidate who dropped out the
Speaker 1: second closest to the election quote effing kill them all.
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone quotes its multiple sources from the Trump administration
Speaker 1: and the Trump inner circle, quoting Trump himself about cartels
Speaker 1: and gangs, in other words, latinos because to Trump, virtually
Speaker 1: all Latinos are drug kingpin gang lord rapists. That is
Speaker 1: the founding image of his political career. From twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: quoting Trump again and Rolling Stone sources place him sitting
Speaker 1: at the resolute desk as he said this, slamming his
Speaker 1: fist onto the resolute desk, presumably not making a sound
Speaker 1: against the resolute desk because his fists are so freakishly small.
Speaker 1: Quote an eye for an eye, You just got to
Speaker 1: kill these people. Other countries do it all the time.
Speaker 1: They need to be eradicated, not jailed, unquote, and that's
Speaker 1: just actually the tip of the blood. Red Iceberg, Rolling
Speaker 1: Stone's Tim Dickinson and Swin soub sang fill in the hues,
Speaker 1: quoting them, Trump wanted to see their bodies piled up
Speaker 1: in the streets. Specifically, he sought a series of mass
Speaker 1: executions with firing squads and gallows and certainly without the
Speaker 1: quaintness of an appeals process, to send a chilling message
Speaker 1: about the scope of his power. They continue that he
Speaker 1: quote brought up the topic so often during the early
Speaker 1: years of his presidency that one former White House official
Speaker 1: tells Rolling Stone they lost count Madam Vice President. I
Speaker 1: don't want to tell you your job here, but if
Speaker 1: you can get Trump to act like that tonight, you
Speaker 1: probably should because as I read those quotes, none of
Speaker 1: that sounded wrong to you, did it? None of that
Speaker 1: sounded inconsistent with what he's done and said and said again,
Speaker 1: and said a third time, and a thirtieth time, and
Speaker 1: a three hundredth time, and finally Saturday, he drove over
Speaker 1: his internal stop sign and knocked down the mental picture
Speaker 1: most of his partially saying supporters still have of a
Speaker 1: group of criminals, maybe actual gang members, actual violent offenders,
Speaker 1: actual drug dealers, their hands chained behind their backs, walking
Speaker 1: slowly out of the country across the southern border as
Speaker 1: Uncle Sam salutes or something. He knocked down that picture
Speaker 1: and replaced it with piles of the executed bodies, stacked
Speaker 1: like cordwood. Some of them criminals, maybe, some of them
Speaker 1: their lawyers, some of them their children, some of them citizens,
Speaker 1: some of them people who just don't get out of
Speaker 1: the way fast enough for the tastes of the Trump
Speaker 1: brown shirts. Drop that mental picture at the end of
Speaker 1: one of your answers, Madam Vice President, Because the hidden
Speaker 1: headline of the Trump Biden debate was that is crazy
Speaker 1: and deceitful. As everything Trump said during that one was
Speaker 1: he didn't act or look particularly crazy. This this would
Speaker 1: be particularly crazy or who knows, maybe the moderators will
Speaker 1: ask Trump about it. I know, I know David Muir
Speaker 1: is the lesser halt of Dana bashes. But if he
Speaker 1: asks Trump a question about this, and Trump explains that
Speaker 1: his troops are going to kill a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and he gets worked up about it, and he starts
Speaker 1: talking anywhere near the way he talks in the Rolling
Speaker 1: Stone piece. That's not only something the public remember the public,
Speaker 1: David Muir, That's not only something the public should here.
Speaker 1: That's a career maker, that's a statue maker. You want
Speaker 1: to be, Edward R. Murrow, David Muir, David R. Muro
Speaker 1: Ask the question or play the clip. I mean to
Speaker 1: bring up dictator for a day, or immunizing the cops
Speaker 1: or using troops against US citizens, or the already gathering
Speaker 1: plot to give him a third term or a fourth term.
Speaker 1: That has a certain Yeah, we knew that quality to it.
Speaker 1: Even to bring up Trump's post from Saturday about arresting
Speaker 1: and prosecuting political opponents. Is him writing stuff, not him
Speaker 1: talking stuff. He can wriggle easily out of writing stuff.
Speaker 1: It's his art form. But when they throw out the
Speaker 1: first question at the debate, the bloody story SoundBite will
Speaker 1: only be three days old. It is from his most
Speaker 1: recent public appearance before the debate. You don't have to
Speaker 1: interpret anything, David Muher. You don't have to add an opinion.
Speaker 1: You don't have to extrapolate or analyze or imply or infer.
Speaker 1: You just say former President Trump Saturday, in Wisconsin. You
Speaker 1: said something about mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and you
Speaker 1: described it as a quote bloody story, that it will
Speaker 1: be a bloody story. What did you mean by that?
Speaker 1: And in case you've forgotten what you said, here's the
Speaker 1: tape of you saying it. Former President Trump in Colorado.
Speaker 2: They're so brazen, they're taking over sections of the state
Speaker 2: and you know getting them out will be a bloody story.
Speaker 2: Should have never been allowed to come into our country.
Speaker 2: Nobody checked them, Nobody checked were they criminals? Were they
Speaker 2: from jails? We have them pouring out from jails. We
Speaker 2: have the worst criminals in all of these countries one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty eight so far are registered one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty eight countries. They're in our country and they're said,
Speaker 2: if you come back, you will be executed. You will
Speaker 2: be killed immediately. Not going to be easy, but we'll do.
Speaker 1: It then, David Muir, you just say, do you expect
Speaker 1: thousands of them to be bloodied? Sir? Tens of thousands,
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, a million, or if you don't have
Speaker 1: the balls to make yourself into a journalistic immortal, David Muir,
Speaker 1: just to ask, what do you mean by a bloody story,
Speaker 1: or you could bring it up. Vice President Harris, I
Speaker 1: meant what I said. If the cards fall correctly, Trump
Speaker 1: could talk himself out of the race on this one topic.
Speaker 1: You don't think so yeah, why why again? Isn't President
Speaker 1: Biden at the debate tonight? Jim O'Brien, the Bloomberg editor
Speaker 1: who wrote nearly twenty years ago that Trump was only
Speaker 1: worth two hundred and fifty million dollars and Trump sued
Speaker 1: him and Trump got blown out of court, had seven
Speaker 1: pieces of advice for Kamala Harris tonight, and I thought
Speaker 1: they were damn good. The first was respect the split screen. Oh,
Speaker 1: superb point. The Vice President used to have something of
Speaker 1: a public speaking issue, which I think she has mastered wonderfully.
Speaker 1: But she's always had a great face for television. Men
Speaker 1: have them, women have them. It's a TV thing, not
Speaker 1: a gender thing. Are you expressive, lively, optimistic, welcoming or
Speaker 1: if need be, does it look like you could kill
Speaker 1: people with X rays coming out of your eyes? Do
Speaker 1: you have resting president face? Keep it on at all times.
Speaker 1: The camera is on you at all times. I used
Speaker 1: to write this occasionally on my scripts on TV. If
Speaker 1: I was going to be on for a long time.
Speaker 1: You never know when the camera is going to be on.
Speaker 1: You assume it's on you all the time. O'Brien also
Speaker 1: points out, you can dodge any question, but you can't
Speaker 1: dodge all the questions. Cooperate on some you have personal
Speaker 1: advantages on Trump, use them abortion rights. He's a criminal,
Speaker 1: you're a prosecutor. You were not borders are but you
Speaker 1: were tasked with the border, and he tanked the border deal.
Speaker 1: You're saying, and he's crazy. Pivot to these. O'Brien does
Speaker 1: not say, pander to the voters in the swing states.
Speaker 1: But I say pander to the voters in the swing states.
Speaker 1: The economy remains decisive there. Throw out the stats. What's
Speaker 1: happening now? How much is tariff will cost the average Pennsylvanian.
Speaker 1: Trump's in it for Trump. O'Brien writes, point out that
Speaker 1: if he doesn't win, he's going to jail, point out
Speaker 1: that a judge in New York just bent justice so
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have to go to jail next week.
Speaker 1: O'Brien reminds her that the best defense is a good offense.
Speaker 1: He shrugs off being called a liar or lawless, Trump
Speaker 1: loses his mind. However, if you call him weird or
Speaker 1: a failure, or low energy or old, go for the old.
Speaker 1: Old is gold. And lastly, he notes that Harris should
Speaker 1: be confident and of good cheer because the Trump debate
Speaker 1: prep team included JD Vance, Matt Gates, and Telsey Gabbard.
Speaker 1: And if that would not make anybody confident in this situation,
Speaker 1: what possibly could? I would add that apparently he's also
Speaker 1: bringing Governor Christy nom to the debate, and of course
Speaker 1: he brought RFK Junior to endorse him. So apparently, on
Speaker 1: top of everything else, twenty four hours before they take
Speaker 1: to the stage, Trump has hit maximum stupidity. His right
Speaker 1: wing echo chamber was clearly instructed yesterday to sell as
Speaker 1: hard as they have sold anything else. Ever, that there's
Speaker 1: a screenshot of a supposed Facebook post out of Springfield, Ohio,
Speaker 1: in which the alleged posters neighbor's daughter's friend had discovered
Speaker 1: cat eating immigrants. Now this is actually dumber than Trump
Speaker 1: thinking that political asylum means all the immigrants were in
Speaker 1: mental institutions. But if you're going to commit to the bit,
Speaker 1: you commit to the bit, you do not do what
Speaker 1: Trump then did if you really think you can sell
Speaker 1: the idea of Kamala Harris Democrats enabling cat eating. You
Speaker 1: do not then bring Christy Nome to the debate to
Speaker 1: remind everybody that she shot her daughter's puppy in the
Speaker 1: face and boasted about it in.
Speaker 2: Her own book.
Speaker 1: And you do not bring j. D Vance in his
Speaker 1: obsession with childless cat ladies. And you do not team
Speaker 1: up with RFK Junior and his dead bear cub and
Speaker 1: the dog he may have eaten. So Madame Vice President,
Speaker 1: be of good cheer, and remember the last one go
Speaker 1: for the.
Speaker 3: Old old is gold.
Speaker 1: A couple of last bait notes, see you live afterwards
Speaker 1: from the deep Rock, demoted and detained by police. Former
Speaker 1: White House physician now one of Trump's flying monkeys, as
Speaker 1: Texas congressman who's chairman of the House Subcommittee on says here,
Speaker 1: I'm swearing at peace officers at Rodeo's. Is that possible
Speaker 1: I might have typed it wrong? Quote Tomorrow night, writes
Speaker 1: Ronnie Jackson. President Trump gets to put Kamala Harris in
Speaker 1: her place on live TV. Put Kamala Harris in her place,
Speaker 1: you say, as Trump has proven the seventies eighties, nineties,
Speaker 1: the aughts first half of the teens were a time
Speaker 1: of widespread pretending by racists that they weren't racists, and
Speaker 1: pretending by misogynists that they weren't misogynists. We were naive
Speaker 1: to think that these curses on america society had been
Speaker 1: controlled or rolled back in some way. But it sure
Speaker 1: was nicer to live with that delusion, and with people
Speaker 1: like Ronnie Jackson at least try to hide their racism
Speaker 1: and misogyny. Put her in her place is the language
Speaker 1: of the Old South, And no matter what else happens tonight,
Speaker 1: there is joy in the thought that the racist, sexist
Speaker 1: snake that Jackson worships Trump will actually be pained by
Speaker 1: having to share a stage with her. And that's if
Speaker 1: she doesn't end his political career and force him into retirement,
Speaker 1: well prison. And on a lighter debate note, it was
Speaker 1: Saturday morning when The New York Times, a team of
Speaker 1: the best political reporters in the country who don't understand
Speaker 1: a dan thing about politics, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
Speaker 1: wrote Times standard issue piece number thirty seven, ponderous behind
Speaker 1: the curtain, our sources know everything. Thumbsucker. It was about
Speaker 1: the Harris and Trump debate preps, and it began quote,
Speaker 1: Harris is hold up for five days in a Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: hotel doing highly choreographed debate practice sessions ahead of Tuesday
Speaker 1: night's clash. There's a stage and replica TV lighting and
Speaker 1: an advisor in full Lee Strasbourg method acting mode, not
Speaker 1: just playing Donald J. Trump, but inhabiting him, wearing a
Speaker 1: boxy suit and a long tie. Lee Strasbourg. Nice up
Speaker 1: to date reference there, Jonathan and Maggie, we all love
Speaker 1: Lee Strasbourg and Godfather Part two playing Hymen Roth. Well,
Speaker 1: it turns out not everybody knows their film history, and
Speaker 1: our cultural guardrails are not only continuing to fail us,
Speaker 1: but continuing to fail us in new and innovative ways.
Speaker 1: And by hours, I mean humanities. The British tabloid That
Speaker 1: Telegraph published an even more impressive story about the Harris
Speaker 1: debate prep on Saturday night, and it's US editor Tony
Speaker 1: Diver and its US correspondent David Millward boisterously quoted their
Speaker 1: own sources. Ms. Harris, meanwhile, is preparing for the debate
Speaker 1: with a stand in Trump. Lee Strasburg, an acting teacher
Speaker 1: who's been wearing a wide shouldered boxy suit and red tie.
Speaker 1: Lee Strasburg died in nineteen eighty two, but according to
Speaker 1: The Telegraph US editor Tony diver At us car spot
Speaker 1: at David Millward, Lee Strasburg is back and badder than ever.
Speaker 1: Two months shy of his one hundred and twenty third birthday,
Speaker 1: he's up there helping out Kamala Harris by portraying Trump
Speaker 1: in debate prep. Now. Look, if Kamala Harris can pull
Speaker 1: that off, she damn well better be the next president.
Speaker 1: I'm just assuming here that the Telegraphs sources on that
Speaker 1: story were a couple of their writers reading the Times
Speaker 1: and not very carefully reading it. A reminder that I
Speaker 1: will be on YouTube. I'm after the debate for as
Speaker 1: long as it takes, and then the podcast, not the
Speaker 1: usual format, but in the usual places for Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: Because of that, there will not be a September eleventh
Speaker 1: commemoration here, which I was going to say. I regretted
Speaker 1: when it dawned on me I could include one today,
Speaker 1: and so I will. By accident, I became the nine
Speaker 1: to eleven street reporter for a Los Angeles all news
Speaker 1: radio station, the only one I can tell you a
Speaker 1: lot about that day by recalling twenty three years ago. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I can tell you a lot more by playing tapes
Speaker 1: of my reporting from that day and the two months afterwards.
Speaker 1: And I will do that afterwards, persons, And that's next.
Speaker 1: This is an all new edition of Countdown. This is
Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alberman still ahead of us on this
Speaker 1: all new edition of Countdown. Someday we comforted ourselves by saying,
Speaker 1: on nine to eleven, we will have to explain to
Speaker 1: people what it was like, just the way our parents
Speaker 1: had to explain to us why Pearl Harbor still made
Speaker 1: them cry. The some days always arrive, and yet when
Speaker 1: they do, they are still kind of hard to believe.
Speaker 1: For nine to eleven, the some days are here, anniversary
Speaker 1: twenty three looms the tapes of my radio work from
Speaker 1: the streets of New York that day and the days thereafter.
Speaker 1: Ahead first, there are still more new idiots to talk about.
Speaker 1: The daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger
Speaker 1: effects specimens, who constitute two days worse persons in the world,
Speaker 1: The Bronze Worse Good Old David zazz Lab, the head
Speaker 1: of Warner bros. Discus, I record these before you hear them.
Speaker 1: These are not live. I don't know if you knew that,
Speaker 1: so I would double check just to make sure he
Speaker 1: hasn't been fired yet by the time you hear this.
Speaker 1: In the two years since he and his fascist boss
Speaker 1: mister Malone took over CNN, Zaslav has hired Chris Lickt
Speaker 1: to run CNN into the ground, and he not only
Speaker 1: did that wonderfully, but he managed to do it while
Speaker 1: making sure that everybody blamed Zazlab every day. Then he
Speaker 1: had to publicly fire zaz Lab. Then he hired a
Speaker 1: new guy who hasn't done anything yet in a year
Speaker 1: and a half. Then he Zaslav became the focus of
Speaker 1: the SAG after strike. Then Zaslav was booed while he
Speaker 1: was giving a commencement at dress at Boston University, and
Speaker 1: he didn't believe they were booing him. They were saying
Speaker 1: sick boourns zaz or something, I guess. And Zaslav has
Speaker 1: driven his entire company into the ground and generating headlines
Speaker 1: like this one from barely two months ago in the
Speaker 1: La Times, David Zaslav Hollywood reformer or wrecking ball. So
Speaker 1: how could he possibly make this worse? Helse there, zaz
Speaker 1: Lav can always make it worse. Caught in a suite
Speaker 1: at the US Tennis Open finals shown on TV, sitting
Speaker 1: next to Leon himself Elon Musk, or as Trump calls him, Leon,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they were comparing notes. Well, Leon, I managed
Speaker 1: to destroy the legacy Diamond News asset my company spent
Speaker 1: billions to buy, says zaz and Musk comes back with, well,
Speaker 1: I did that, but I also self induced so much
Speaker 1: brain damage. I'm now linked to qnon Trump and also
Speaker 1: my trucks and rockets blow up. Also in the shot
Speaker 1: with Musk, Zaz is wearing a baseball cap. He's wearing
Speaker 1: it backwards and it's one of those cheap baseball caps
Speaker 1: with the crappy looking plastic snapbacks which are now seen
Speaker 1: on camera, So he looks like he's being prepped for
Speaker 1: a brain transfer scene in a cheap Hollywood mad scientist movie.
Speaker 1: And how could he be in that kind of scene.
Speaker 1: To get a brain transfer, you have to have a
Speaker 1: brain in the first place. The runners up worser Senator
Speaker 1: Marsha Blackburn and the Washington Generals of Bad Sports Punditt's
Speaker 1: turn worst Fascist political commentators Clay Travis. Clay Travis is
Speaker 1: Will Kine without the good shave. This is a denumont
Speaker 1: to Russian stooge gait where the Department of Justice charged
Speaker 1: some Russian propagandists and asserted that the Tim Pooles and
Speaker 1: Dave Rubens and Benny Johnson's of this world, although they
Speaker 1: didn't name them per se, we're all working for the
Speaker 1: Kremlin for hundreds of thousands of months via this woman
Speaker 1: Lauren Chen and her company Tenet Media, themselves linked to
Speaker 1: Glenn Beck. Only they didn't know they were working for
Speaker 1: the Kremlin. These idiots with giant egos and no skills
Speaker 1: thought they were that good. They thought there were worth
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for ten thousand views. Anyway,
Speaker 1: guess who was on one of the last Tim Poole
Speaker 1: podcasts before pool was revealed as I don't know Tim
Speaker 1: Ski pool Ski. This is courtesy Anna Caudill, Tim cast
Speaker 1: ir l number eleven oh two. Tim Poole announced his
Speaker 1: legal action against Harris campaign for defamation with Clay Travis,
Speaker 1: Tim Hannah Claire, and Libby so Unusual names for Russians
Speaker 1: are joined by Clay Travis to discuss Tim Poole announcing
Speaker 1: he will sue the Kamala Harris campaign for defamation the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles denying an endorsement of Kamala Harris. Blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: bh Tim at timcastlh blah blah, Clay Travis at Clay
Speaker 1: Travis Hunt. Well, at least Clay, you must have gotten
Speaker 1: what ten grand to be on that show with Pool
Speaker 1: since he was making one hundred thousand dollars a month,
Speaker 1: right right? You didn't get any money? You do that
Speaker 1: for free? Oh too bad, Clay Travis. As to Senator
Speaker 1: Blackburn's involvement in all this, well, according to the news
Speaker 1: outlet Nashville Scene Quote, Tennessee Republican leaders, including US Senator
Speaker 1: Marshall Blackburn and US Rep. Andy Ogles, have regularly amplified
Speaker 1: talking points from Tenet's talking heads. Blackburn also appeared on
Speaker 1: several podcast episodes with Lauren Chen in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, I assumed they were talking about
Speaker 1: bobbles and Christmas decorations, which was Marsha's good job, when
Speaker 1: Cheezed said, do a good job, and they're just the
Speaker 1: brightest and bobbliest things, but the winner the word. My
Speaker 1: former friend Robert F. Kennedy Junior twenty years ago now
Speaker 1: called me up at MSNBC and told me I was
Speaker 1: his hero. Online he has written quote Liberals, take note,
Speaker 1: let me do it in his voice. Labrows take note.
Speaker 1: If you support Kamala Harris, he writes, you are now
Speaker 1: on the same side as Dick Cheney. Well, yes, we
Speaker 1: all are on the same side as Dick Cheney. We're
Speaker 1: the human beings and everybody else has lost the ability
Speaker 1: to be a human being. But actually it's simpler than that.
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior supporters take note he now supports Trump.
Speaker 1: So if you support Robert F. Kennedy Junior, you are
Speaker 1: now on the same side as our proto Hitler, Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior. Two day's worst person in the world. As
Speaker 1: I said earlier in this all new edition, circumstances will
Speaker 1: turn the September eleventh version of this podcast into all
Speaker 1: debate all the time. So to memorialize nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: I should do it here and now, and I will.
Speaker 1: I had been living in Los Angeles doing sports for
Speaker 1: Fox for two and a half years. I moved back
Speaker 1: to New York, the place of my birth, in late
Speaker 1: June two thousand and one, idling with a fat monthly
Speaker 1: paycheck until an expected move to Atlanta to go run
Speaker 1: sports for CNN, which never happened because they shut the
Speaker 1: network down. I lived in a hotel and then a
Speaker 1: pretty nice sublet near Central Park with Spectacus reviews, all
Speaker 1: of them facing uptown. I could see Yankee Stadium from
Speaker 1: my balcony. I was headed there the night of September eleventh,
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. Uptown views only uptown views, and
Speaker 1: so when I awoke that morning, I saw nothing unusual
Speaker 1: azure blue, perfect skies, one of easily the ten prettiest
Speaker 1: days I ever saw in my life. Streets were full
Speaker 1: of traffic, people, life given when I woke up, and
Speaker 1: when it all happened, I must have just missed seeing
Speaker 1: the jet streaking so night marishly low over Manhattan. By
Speaker 1: the middle of the day, I was on the phone
Speaker 1: with one of my friends, the general manager of KFWB
Speaker 1: Radio in Los Angeles, which until two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: would be one of two all news radio stations there.
Speaker 1: My friend asked me tentatively quietly, if I would come
Speaker 1: on the air with his anchors to talk about what
Speaker 1: it felt to be a New Yorker in New York
Speaker 1: on September eleventh, the LA audience knew me. I had
Speaker 1: worked on local news on TV and on radio there
Speaker 1: every day for nearly a decade, and I knew instantly
Speaker 1: this would be my therapy. If I was just going
Speaker 1: to sit there while this new world built itself around
Speaker 1: the horrors at the World Trade Center, it would have
Speaker 1: driven me crazy. So I not only went on the
Speaker 1: air with KFWB, I stayed on with them and also
Speaker 1: with the ABC Radio network for nearly two months, several
Speaker 1: times a day, I think every day. Certainly at one point,
Speaker 1: I know I did thirty nine days out of forty
Speaker 1: live and on tape, walking through the city, taking the subways,
Speaker 1: swallowing my fear and my loss. And I had somebody
Speaker 1: on three of the planes and in each tower of
Speaker 1: the World Trade Center, and the way I got through
Speaker 1: it was to report on it. We do not know
Speaker 1: what Amon mcinaney did a week ago this morning. Presumably
Speaker 1: we will never know if he had the time to
Speaker 1: show the instincts and courage that he had in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three. A week ago this morning, he was working
Speaker 1: as he was working eight years ago for the securities
Speaker 1: firm Canter Fitzgerald. It occupied half the office space in
Speaker 1: the top ten floors of one World Trade. A friend
Speaker 1: of mine at Cornell University emailed me last night. The
Speaker 1: school has announced that Amon mcinaney is among the victims
Speaker 1: of the trade center disaster, that his life will be
Speaker 1: celebrated Friday in a town in Connecticut. He was one
Speaker 1: of Cornell University's greatest athletes. I did not know him well.
Speaker 1: We were in one class together. That was in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six, and he made the critical play in the
Speaker 1: first sporting event I ever covered as a professional. It
Speaker 1: was not a good play. He fumbled a punt that
Speaker 1: led to the only points of the game for the
Speaker 1: other team. Two days later, knowing he was standing behind
Speaker 1: me in that classroom, I made a joke about it.
Speaker 1: My other friends thought Amen was going to punch my
Speaker 1: lights out. I did too. Instead, he merely walked past
Speaker 1: me and smiled, don't worry, I won't drop the next one.
Speaker 1: It's a week and some of us are only now
Speaker 1: learning who we lost, and what heroes they were, and
Speaker 1: how proud they make us feel, and how heartbroken a week.
Speaker 1: A week since the disaster means that tomorrow will be
Speaker 1: a week since the last rescue. The mayor said today,
Speaker 1: there is not much realistic hope of another one. Tell
Speaker 1: that to the two excavation experts from Cleveland. I met
Speaker 1: them this morning trudging up the West Side Highway. They
Speaker 1: were going to get their crane, huge portable, long reach
Speaker 1: the way. They told that there is no reason not
Speaker 1: to change the focus at the trade center. Now take
Speaker 1: the gamble. Use this crane to clear not just the
Speaker 1: rubble at the perimeter, but the big stuff, the stuff
Speaker 1: in the middle, the big stuff that is at once
Speaker 1: most dangerous and most likely to have provided an air pocket.
Speaker 1: It is risky, it concedes no one is alive and
Speaker 1: what we're presumed to have been the highest chance areas.
Speaker 1: And as one of the excavation men put it, it's
Speaker 1: like trying to play pickup sticks from the middle out.
Speaker 1: But it may be all they have left. They might
Speaker 1: find someone in there before it's too late. They might
Speaker 1: find am and Mackenatey. They might find any one of
Speaker 1: the five thousand, four hundred Amon mcinatey's. They might this
Speaker 1: is Keith Olderman Company, forty's Captain James J. Gormley sent
Speaker 1: a note to the families and to the company's neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It is among the most beautiful things I have ever
Speaker 1: read in the English language. Amazing for its faith, amazing
Speaker 1: for its acknowledgment of reality, yet its determination to exhaust
Speaker 1: every possibility before its acceptance of that reality. No member
Speaker 1: from this house is listed as deceased. Captain Gormley writes,
Speaker 1: I consider the members listed missing as still operating at
Speaker 1: the scene. We have not been able to relieve them
Speaker 1: from duty. He continues, there are many thousands of civilians
Speaker 1: trapped with our comrades. They need our prayers. Their families
Speaker 1: need to be assured that we hold them lives as
Speaker 1: dear as our own brothers. Hopefully, each of our brothers
Speaker 1: has taken charge of a small group of survivors and teaches,
Speaker 1: encourages and provide significant hope to each group. Captain Gormley
Speaker 1: is not Pollyanna here. His last paragraph reads, Tragedy may
Speaker 1: yet visit us. We will face it together. We are
Speaker 1: not giving up. Maintain your health. We have lots of
Speaker 1: work to do. Again. I ask you to please pray,
Speaker 1: because hope remains in the ten seconds it took Captain
Speaker 1: Gormley's two hooking ladders to roar past me. The other night,
Speaker 1: I thought of his extraordinary message, and I thought of
Speaker 1: the four to Zh's other trucks that took the same
Speaker 1: turn a week ago Tuesday and never came back. And
Speaker 1: I had to know New York had to know that
Speaker 1: these guys were okay. They're not supermen. They're not immune
Speaker 1: to the pain. A good friend of one of them
Speaker 1: told me yesterday. They don't know what to make of
Speaker 1: the sudden, unabashed waves of love coming to them from
Speaker 1: ordinary New Yorkers. The men still here to receive that
Speaker 1: love are dealing with survivor guilt, dealing with loss like
Speaker 1: the cops and the medics. They're also dealing with a
Speaker 1: new world which the radio of a policeman on Canal
Speaker 1: Street can crackle with the stark message body parts found
Speaker 1: on fourteenth floor of World Financial Center, and be responded
Speaker 1: to by the emotionless voice of the dispatcher, repeating it
Speaker 1: word for word as if it were a phone number
Speaker 1: or a set of directions. A million things about the
Speaker 1: New York of this Thursday, the twentieth of September two
Speaker 1: thousand and one bear no resemblance whatsoever to the New
Speaker 1: York of Monday, the tenth of September. Most of the
Speaker 1: changes are brutal, painful, but at least one of them
Speaker 1: is so moving, so uplifting, so human. It's as if
Speaker 1: New Yorker has had all grown new hearts with which
Speaker 1: to care about each other. We now have to know
Speaker 1: that the men of Company forty, and all the other
Speaker 1: fire companies, and all the police details and all the
Speaker 1: EMS vehicles, the men who rocket past us, the men
Speaker 1: going in to quote my grandfather to make sure we
Speaker 1: got out, are okay. And if that history, or if
Speaker 1: the continuity of life in this community, or support for
Speaker 1: the families of the lost rescuers were not reasons enough,
Speaker 1: consider the testimony of one policeman posted in front of
Speaker 1: the Stock Exchange on Monday, when the smoke was still
Speaker 1: so thick. But until he came within feet of me,
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell whether or not he was wearing eyeglasses.
Speaker 1: He wanted to talk about the Mets last ditch stand
Speaker 1: in the Penanglies we did. I asked him why, and
Speaker 1: his eloquence was simple and convincing. Look at it this way,
Speaker 1: he said it doesn't matter, not really. But no matter
Speaker 1: what happens today, no matter what else happens tonight, I
Speaker 1: can go home and at seven o'clock I can put
Speaker 1: my feet up and watch the Mets and pretend nothing
Speaker 1: has changed. And as New Yorkers can authorize themselves to
Speaker 1: enjoy all this, so too can they authorize themselves to
Speaker 1: enjoy the shared involvement with humanity to begin to laugh,
Speaker 1: even in this grimace of times. On the field. Three
Speaker 1: hours before this game, It's handwer brought the bomb snipping
Speaker 1: dog down for her first suite through the Mets dugout,
Speaker 1: A half a dozen television cameras slung violently to capture
Speaker 1: the scene, and then a moment of unspeakable drama. Her
Speaker 1: back to those cameras, she stopped. The bomb snipping dog
Speaker 1: had stopped, of course she had. There was a puddle
Speaker 1: on the dugout floor. She was having a quick drink
Speaker 1: of water, A tiny break in all this an apt
Speaker 1: metaphor indeed, for what we are all doing here tonight
Speaker 1: at a baseball stadium, at Jay Stadium in New York.
Speaker 1: This is Keith Olderman.
Speaker 4: President Bush has been touring the damage in Manhattan and
Speaker 4: talking with rescue workers at the scene of the World
Speaker 4: Trade Center collapse. KfW E s Keith Overman has a
Speaker 4: live update from New.
Speaker 3: York City while the President sees all this for the
Speaker 3: first time. For the now four day veterans of this
Speaker 3: grim work, it doesn't just continue. It almost becomes Monday.
Speaker 3: A bottice more weary than shot scratches across a police
Speaker 3: radio blaring here on the Canal Street. Body parts found
Speaker 3: on the fourteenth floor of the World Financial Center. With
Speaker 3: the efficiency and dispassion of a bank teller. A woman
Speaker 3: dispatcher repeats the grim news. Body arts found on the
Speaker 3: fourteenth floor of the World Financial Center.
Speaker 1: Consider what this means.
Speaker 3: The World Financial Center was not one of the buildings
Speaker 3: hit or burned on Tuesday. It's a development, and whatever
Speaker 3: horror that led up to it, so grizzly, so improbable
Speaker 3: that on any other day it would have been the
Speaker 3: lead story somewhere. However, here on day four, it is
Speaker 3: just a detail. Five on Canal Street. Keith Overman, KFWB
Speaker 3: News nine eighty.
Speaker 5: And kf nobody B News Time ten oh seven.
Speaker 1: K b's Keith Overman in New York says, the city
Speaker 1: of Big Shoulders continues to shutter more.
Speaker 3: Than three days later. And this is a different city.
Speaker 3: It's not just that one can stand at the intersection
Speaker 3: of Canal and Greenwich Streets and look downtown ten blocks
Speaker 3: and see nothing but two buildings framing the smoke still
Speaker 3: rising from where.
Speaker 1: The twelve million square foot.
Speaker 3: World Trade Centers stood. It's what you see on the
Speaker 3: faces of New Yorkers, not their expressions, their gauze face masks.
Speaker 3: The twelve hours soaking rain having ended, a number of
Speaker 3: those protecting themselves from the smoke tinged airs down to
Speaker 3: perhaps one in fifty, but yesterday it might have been
Speaker 3: one in ten. And these masks may be with us
Speaker 3: for the duration. Construction workers told me they can already
Speaker 3: smell the decay of bodies, and that smell could move uptown.
Speaker 3: There is only one comparison the masks we see in
Speaker 3: the chilling photos of the worldwide flu epidemic of nineteen nineteen. Laura,
Speaker 3: I mean Laura Manhattan. Keith Olberman KFWB News nine eighty.
Speaker 5: Wasn't exactly the tour of the President got, but kfwb's
Speaker 5: Keith Olberman also got to look at the disaster scene
Speaker 5: and he joins us now live from Manhattan and.
Speaker 1: Walking through the neighborhood den immediately south of the barricades
Speaker 1: at Canal Street is remarkably like getting the Insiders look
Speaker 1: at Burbank or Fox or any other Southland film studio.
Speaker 1: One block of Washington Street features untouched small apartment buildings
Speaker 1: with not a soul to be seen or heard around them.
Speaker 1: Turn a corner and parked by every manhole is a
Speaker 1: phone company or electricity company truck. Make another rite, and
Speaker 1: you do a double take. There are nineteen, count them,
Speaker 1: nineteen caterpillar bulldozers in the middle of a residential street,
Speaker 1: waiting to be called upon. And finally, as far as
Speaker 1: your escorts will let you go, still six blocks in
Speaker 1: the distance, the ever present, seemingly never ending smoke, the
Speaker 1: smoke from fires where the World Trade Center used to be,
Speaker 1: Fires that resisted more than twelve hours of pelting rain,
Speaker 1: which looked just as fierce and four ten just as
Speaker 1: badly for the chance of any more survivors as they did.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday afternoon, live in Midtown Manhattan, Keith Olberman KFWB
Speaker 1: News ninet.
Speaker 3: Eighty can't.
Speaker 1: AFWB News time four forty seven. We're sorry.
Speaker 5: Kfwb's Keith Alberman says that is what publishers of The
Speaker 5: New York Times are telling their readers today.
Speaker 1: In an unprecedented gesture. Today's New York Times carries a
Speaker 1: front page apology and acknowledgement that's some of the thick
Speaker 1: Sunday paper was printed before the terrorist attack quote, and
Speaker 1: that the tone of some articles and advertising is inconsistent
Speaker 1: with the gravity of the news. The lead piece in
Speaker 1: the Sunday magazine is headlined in the rubble of Silicon Valley.
Speaker 1: Suburban Railroad executives are still taking heat today or having
Speaker 1: ordered posters depicting people missing at the trade center taken
Speaker 1: down at Grand Central station for esthetic reasons. What is this,
Speaker 1: a policeman asks a reporter the louver. Another cop shakes
Speaker 1: his head as he looks from Canal Street towards the
Speaker 1: Urban Volcano, five blocks to the south. His regular beat
Speaker 1: is the Upper west Side, and there on Wednesday, he says,
Speaker 1: when the winds changed and began to blow north from downtown,
Speaker 1: a caller complained that his apartment smelled of smoke and
Speaker 1: what were they going to do about it? Warning the
Speaker 1: winds are changing again right now again to head north
Speaker 1: in midtown Manhattan, keep Olrubin KFWB News nine to eighty.
Speaker 3: You go to Keith at the intersection of Nasa and
Speaker 3: Liberty Streets. Plovic canyons of Wall Street surrender its only
Speaker 3: view of the wreckage and the polls.
Speaker 1: Six days ago.
Speaker 3: In these minutes, the familiar striated metal faces of the
Speaker 3: towers are visible from there, a three story piece jacket
Speaker 3: and burnt sticks out of the ground where it hit
Speaker 3: when the towers collapsed. You can see it if and
Speaker 3: when a dusted wind clears away some of the acrid
Speaker 3: hot fresh slope from the volcano that is two blocks
Speaker 3: to the west. Already the Titans and the minions of
Speaker 3: Wall Street have seen the groups of two to ten
Speaker 3: soldiers at every corner. The police car is sneaking through
Speaker 3: the dust covers treats now. A block closer to the
Speaker 3: exchange put traffic narrows towards barricades. You got something that
Speaker 3: shows you work here. A policeman all business asks firmly
Speaker 3: yet politely, and then he coughs, and you notice all
Speaker 3: the other cops and the soldiers and the Red crossworkers
Speaker 3: are wearing masks. It all began exactly six days ago.
Speaker 3: No one here can guess when it will end Live
Speaker 3: on Wall Street. Keith Alder mc KAFWB News.
Speaker 1: Nine to eighty.
Speaker 4: So to give us a little perspective, games WB's Keith
Speaker 4: Oberman has ventured out onto the Brooklyn Bridge and joined
Speaker 4: us with this live report.
Speaker 3: A military humby backs out onto Wall Street, maneuvering as
Speaker 3: it does between an electrical company truck and two trailer
Speaker 3: sized portable generators, head shaking, eyes closed or red, covering
Speaker 3: their coughing mouths with a mask, a paper towel, a bandana, handkerchief,
Speaker 3: a men's sock, even in one case of an American flag.
Speaker 3: Wall streeters herded into narrow Nassau Street went back to
Speaker 3: work on foot against the backdrop, unlike that which they
Speaker 3: left in Panaglass Tuesday. Most seem to want to avoid
Speaker 3: the specter. Two blocks to their right, the ghostly and
Speaker 3: still smoking bulk of the Trade Center, a seven story
Speaker 3: tall slice of its facade twisted like so much iron grating,
Speaker 3: beckoning almost irresistibly at the intersection of Liberty Street. Finally,
Speaker 3: there is this sound behind me now, or actually lack
Speaker 3: of sound, the Hookland Bridge, close to all but emergency
Speaker 3: traffic and providing another new view of the New New
Speaker 3: York skyline and the great gap that now defines it.
Speaker 3: Live on the Brooklyn Bridge overlooking Wall Street, Keith Olberman
Speaker 3: KFWB News nine to.
Speaker 5: Eighty KYBWB News on one thirty seven.
Speaker 4: One eye to the window in Lower Manhattan today where
Speaker 4: workers are trying to get back to work, but you
Speaker 4: can imagine they're also wondering if they'll see another plane
Speaker 4: coming right at them. Kfwb's Keith Olberman gives us the
Speaker 4: view not far from ground zero.
Speaker 3: The reopening of all but the streets directly around the
Speaker 3: Trade Center has provided the most horrifying view yet, one
Speaker 3: that few New Yorkers have seen, and perhaps it's better
Speaker 3: that way. Here, at one of the city's oldest intersections,
Speaker 3: Greenwage and Rectors, is the backside angle from the south
Speaker 3: of what may be the central fire, rising from a
Speaker 3: depression in the three story pile of twisted metal orange
Speaker 3: black yellow, the smoke angry and acrid, dirty brown at
Speaker 3: its origin, and behind it part of the complex, the
Speaker 3: outside structure pulled away the shapes of individual rooms is
Speaker 3: still visible, the floors buckled by the heat, with that
Speaker 3: telltale sagging so evident that the murror building in Oklahoma
Speaker 3: City and everywhere, despite the heroic attempts to clean up
Speaker 3: the volcanic like ash on windows on the street itself,
Speaker 3: on mailboxes and four four fire escapes on them. Some
Speaker 3: kind of canvas strewn in small pieces, possibly an awning
Speaker 3: that went up when the towers came down. At the
Speaker 3: intersection of Greton Rector Streets in downtown Manhattan, Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1: K w B News zin let.
Speaker 3: The President of the United States in an open air
Speaker 3: sports stadium in the middle of a terrorist alert. President
Speaker 3: Bush's arrival here at a little after four point thirty
Speaker 3: Pacific precipitated on presidented security, even for the World Series,
Speaker 3: even for New York. Everyone entering this stadium passed through
Speaker 3: a metal detector and many got the WAND treatment. So
Speaker 3: if air. His streets were blocked by salt spreading trucks
Speaker 3: filled with sand. Elevators in the building were turned off,
Speaker 3: and at one point a lockdown was declared freezing. The
Speaker 3: media had many fans where they were there. The president
Speaker 3: got where he was going. It is not all the
Speaker 3: grim new reality. However, At one metal detector at the
Speaker 3: right field gate, a couple was bonded by a security guard,
Speaker 3: and then they asked him to take a photo of them.
Speaker 3: He applied at Yankee Stadium of New York. He COULDERGANSFWB
Speaker 3: in News nine eighty.
Speaker 5: KAF Would you be in news Time seven thirty seven
Speaker 5: with a letter.
Speaker 3: From New York. I'm Keith Olderman. You imagine if the
Speaker 3: Trade Center attacks had happened in LA and if Dodger
Speaker 3: Stadium was literally across the street from the UCLA Tennis Center,
Speaker 3: and if down the road from both of them was lax.
Speaker 3: That was the backdrop against which professional sports returned to
Speaker 3: New York today in the first regular season games since
Speaker 3: the tenths and mes the Atlanta Brays at Shaye Stadium,
Speaker 3: a location traditionally so much a part of LaGuardia Airport's
Speaker 3: flight path is that on a long Sunday afternoon here,
Speaker 3: one hundred planes might fly directly overhead. On a good day,
Speaker 3: many fans many players were apprehensive. There have been no
Speaker 3: good days lately, so the FAA has agreed to keep
Speaker 3: aircraft away from Shaye during the games. Security is tighter,
Speaker 3: the mood more somber. On the other hand, in a
Speaker 3: gesture not seen in baseball since the Second World War.
Speaker 3: The entire Mets team is donating its collective salary about
Speaker 3: four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Fund for
Speaker 3: the Widows of the children of New York policemen and firemen,
Speaker 3: most pointed of all. For forty seasons. New York Skyline
Speaker 3: has been part of the Mets logo. Tonight, It's silhouette
Speaker 3: still stands a top the scoreboard looming behind right field,
Speaker 3: and on its miniature version of the World Trade Center's
Speaker 3: twin towers has been placed. The Red, White, and Blue
Speaker 3: Memorial ribbon at Shay Stadium with a letter from New
Speaker 3: York Keith Olderman KWB News nine eighty.
Speaker 1: With a letter of New York. I'm Keith Olberman. Carlo
Speaker 1: Lfredo and David Loud plan to be back in southern
Speaker 1: California tomorrow, but first there are all these funerals. Wlfredo
Speaker 1: and Laub are too. La County firefighters. I met on
Speaker 1: the subway coming back from the Mets game. They've been
Speaker 1: here since a week ago yesterday at the World Trade Center.
Speaker 1: When I left them, they weren't certain if they'd be
Speaker 1: going back to Ground zero for an overnight shift or
Speaker 1: if they wouldn't be needed till morning. They were hoping
Speaker 1: for the former. Work all night and then go to
Speaker 1: funerals all day. Sounds macabre, But one fact about life
Speaker 1: here now that will creep up on you and then
Speaker 1: overwhelm you, is this. With three hundred and forty six
Speaker 1: New York firefighters lost, their funerals can be lonely events.
Speaker 1: A man might have died and had his ten best
Speaker 1: friends die with him. So Carlo Lfredo and David Loud
Speaker 1: go in their place. We'll go pick up Grandma, or
Speaker 1: we'll get the groceries, all the errands. People are in
Speaker 1: too much pain to do. David says they are strangers,
Speaker 1: yet they are accepted immediately as family. We're all firefighters,
Speaker 1: says Carlo. Worst experience of our lives, David ads and
Speaker 1: the best. Does that make any sense? A letter from
Speaker 1: New York Keith Overman KMWB News ninet eighty with a
Speaker 1: letter from New York. I'm Keith Overman. Memorials and funerals
Speaker 1: for six more firefighters were held this morning and this afternoon,
Speaker 1: and on the eastern side of Central Park under a
Speaker 1: white tent and a persistent drizzle. The seven hundred lost
Speaker 1: employees of the Canter Fitzgerald Bond Firm were remembered in
Speaker 1: a gathering of family and friends. Those lost from the
Speaker 1: staff of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center windows
Speaker 1: on the World were eulogized in late afternoon. This is
Speaker 1: now the city of Mourning three weeks after, and it
Speaker 1: is still papered with photographs of the missing. The first
Speaker 1: shrine at Union Square is still filled with them. So
Speaker 1: two part of the Times Square subway station had street
Speaker 1: lights and hospitals and construction sites and boarded up storefronts
Speaker 1: just blocks from the Trade Center itself as a move
Speaker 1: to collect and preserve them in a city museum suggests
Speaker 1: these missing posters continue to resonate in an almost unspeakable way.
Speaker 1: It is the rare and fortunate New Yorker who is
Speaker 1: not halted in the streets by one of them. You
Speaker 1: do not have to know any of the men and
Speaker 1: women depicted to feel the pain, but when you do,
Speaker 1: there is shock, pond shock on Canal Street today. A
Speaker 1: black and white photograph of one of those Catter Fitzgerald employees,
Speaker 1: a smiling man named Mike Tanner. I went to college
Speaker 1: with him. A letter from New York Keith Olberman KFWB
Speaker 1: News nine to eighty with a letter from New York.
Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olverman. Three weeks ago today we reported to
Speaker 1: you from the first sign of classness from the recovering
Speaker 1: city executives of Metro North, the commuter rail provider had
Speaker 1: ordered that posters depicting the missing be removed from a
Speaker 1: Grand Central station for esthetic reasons. Today, just off the
Speaker 1: main room of that station, passengers stop in front of
Speaker 1: a twelve paneled screen placed there by the railroad's employees.
Speaker 1: There are perhaps three hundred missing posters there, four of
Speaker 1: them depicting John Thomas Andreatio on each of them. Next
Speaker 1: to the smile peeking out from under mister Andreachio's mustache
Speaker 1: has been handwritten the word found. On Thursday, he was
Speaker 1: added to the list of the dead. Another update. The
Speaker 1: New York Police and Fire Widows and Children's Benefit Fund,
Speaker 1: the charity to which the fees from these reports are going,
Speaker 1: has in the last twenty six days, raised about twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars. Its founder, the former baseball star Rusty stob,
Speaker 1: is grateful and overwhelmed. The stark reality, however, is that
Speaker 1: even with this extraordinary generosity, if the fund were to
Speaker 1: divide the new donations just among those families newly afflicted.
Speaker 1: Each would receive about forty nine thousand dollars. Their website
Speaker 1: is www dot nyp FWC dot org. A letter from
Speaker 1: New York Keith Olderman KFWB News, ninet eighty Just for
Speaker 1: the record, since we can discuss now what people did
Speaker 1: that was gracious and what people did that was not gracious.
Speaker 1: The contract I had with Box, which they were trying
Speaker 1: to get me to quit, do or do something so
Speaker 1: they could fire me and not have to pay me
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars a month to just sit there,
Speaker 1: provided that if I did any freelance work anywhere else,
Speaker 1: that money would be deducted from what Fox owed me.
Speaker 1: So if I did a piece for CNN and I
Speaker 1: went to work for them after nine to eleven as well.
Speaker 1: I actually once had to go in and they said
Speaker 1: we'll give you one thousand dollars in appearance, and I said, no,
Speaker 1: I can't accept that. Well, maybe we can get you
Speaker 1: twelve fifty. I said no, no, no, no, less, and they
Speaker 1: said less. And I explained to them about Fox. I said,
Speaker 1: I've got to do it for four hundred dollars in appearance,
Speaker 1: not a thousand, and they said the least we could
Speaker 1: possibly give you is five hundred, and I went, all right, fine.
Speaker 1: I had to negotiate down the KfW appearances I believe
Speaker 1: were worth thirty one dollars each according to the SAG
Speaker 1: after agreement for radio pieces, the money went to charity,
Speaker 1: to a nine to eleven charity, and yes, Fox deducted
Speaker 1: it from the money they sent me, just so we
Speaker 1: know where everybody's priorities were after nine to eleven. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week,
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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
Speaker 1: government of the United States. Use the mental health system,
Speaker 1: use presidential immunity. The Supreme Theocratic Court gave it to you,
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