1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:20,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:21,075 --> 00:00:26,955 Speaker 1: entire Republican Hunter Biden Joe Biden fairytale has burst and 3 00:00:27,155 --> 00:00:31,275 Speaker 1: collapsed to the ground, pinning Jamie Comer and Chuck Grassley 4 00:00:31,315 --> 00:00:35,075 Speaker 1: and Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham and Fox News under 5 00:00:35,115 --> 00:00:41,355 Speaker 1: the tons of rubble, and the fascists pretend FBI plant 6 00:00:41,395 --> 00:00:45,475 Speaker 1: the man they swear was really behind January sixth has 7 00:00:45,515 --> 00:00:50,915 Speaker 1: decided to sue Fox and maybe Tucker Carlson separately. The 8 00:00:50,955 --> 00:00:55,515 Speaker 1: so called missing Hunter Biden witness doesn't have evidence of 9 00:00:55,715 --> 00:00:59,075 Speaker 1: Chinese bribes of the Bidens. He turns out to be 10 00:00:59,595 --> 00:01:03,875 Speaker 1: a Chinese spy who was bribing a member of the 11 00:01:03,915 --> 00:01:08,635 Speaker 1: Trump trans position team and maybe others. The so called 12 00:01:08,835 --> 00:01:13,835 Speaker 1: IRS whistleblower, whose entire life consists of swearing that the 13 00:01:13,875 --> 00:01:17,435 Speaker 1: Attorney General refused to grant a US attorney the authority 14 00:01:17,435 --> 00:01:22,075 Speaker 1: to prosecute Biden, has been completely contradicted by that US 15 00:01:22,115 --> 00:01:25,275 Speaker 1: attorney who says the Attorney General granted him the authority 16 00:01:25,275 --> 00:01:29,435 Speaker 1: to prosecute Hunter Biden anywhere in the country. The attorney 17 00:01:29,755 --> 00:01:34,155 Speaker 1: for the so called stage manager of the insurrection, around 18 00:01:34,195 --> 00:01:38,195 Speaker 1: whom Tucker Carlson built a short lived career, but a 19 00:01:38,315 --> 00:01:42,435 Speaker 1: long lived conspiracy. Says the four month grace period is 20 00:01:42,515 --> 00:01:46,915 Speaker 1: up and he is preparing the lawsuit of Ray Epps 21 00:01:47,155 --> 00:01:54,155 Speaker 1: versus Fox. It's come up and stay. He'll start with 22 00:01:54,195 --> 00:01:56,595 Speaker 1: the missing witness, and now we know why he was missing. 23 00:01:57,355 --> 00:01:57,675 Speaker 2: Goal. 24 00:01:57,995 --> 00:02:02,035 Speaker 1: Looft fled the country in February to avoid arrest on 25 00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:06,795 Speaker 1: federal charges filed against him then but only unsealed last night. 26 00:02:07,195 --> 00:02:10,675 Speaker 1: That quote. For years, he and others known and unknown, 27 00:02:10,715 --> 00:02:14,875 Speaker 1: engaged in multiple international criminal schemes, including the scheme to 28 00:02:14,955 --> 00:02:18,875 Speaker 1: act within the US to advance the interests of China. 29 00:02:19,715 --> 00:02:23,675 Speaker 1: There's bribery, there's arms dealing, four separate arms dealing charges. 30 00:02:23,875 --> 00:02:27,315 Speaker 1: There's failing to register as a foreign agent. There's violating 31 00:02:27,315 --> 00:02:31,355 Speaker 1: the Iran embargo. There's his status as in Israeli spy, 32 00:02:31,875 --> 00:02:35,755 Speaker 1: a lieutenant colonel who was moonlighting as a Chinese spy. 33 00:02:35,915 --> 00:02:39,915 Speaker 1: There's literally a maximum sentence on all counts of one 34 00:02:39,995 --> 00:02:47,355 Speaker 1: hundred years your witness, chairman, comer quote. Luft agreed to 35 00:02:47,515 --> 00:02:50,755 Speaker 1: covertly recruit and pay on behalf of Principles based in 36 00:02:50,955 --> 00:02:56,235 Speaker 1: China a former high ranking US government official, including in 37 00:02:56,275 --> 00:03:00,475 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen while the former official was an advisor to 38 00:03:00,635 --> 00:03:04,235 Speaker 1: the then president and de lect Tim Miller of The 39 00:03:04,275 --> 00:03:06,755 Speaker 1: Boward and a couple of other reporters suggest they know 40 00:03:06,795 --> 00:03:10,155 Speaker 1: who that is, and it's a surprise. Miller writes, if 41 00:03:10,195 --> 00:03:13,355 Speaker 1: you are to believe the goll Luft video, it seems 42 00:03:13,435 --> 00:03:16,475 Speaker 1: like the person getting the payments was former CIA director 43 00:03:16,555 --> 00:03:20,235 Speaker 1: James Woolsey, who ended up quitting the Trump transition team 44 00:03:20,275 --> 00:03:26,715 Speaker 1: in early twenty seventeen. In short, the bombshell witness who 45 00:03:26,755 --> 00:03:29,675 Speaker 1: was going to blow the roof off the Hunter Biden 46 00:03:29,795 --> 00:03:33,915 Speaker 1: scandal and make it into a Hunter Biden gun scandal 47 00:03:34,035 --> 00:03:36,915 Speaker 1: and make it into a Joe Biden scandal and make 48 00:03:36,955 --> 00:03:40,195 Speaker 1: it into a the President took millions in foreign bribes 49 00:03:40,275 --> 00:03:44,515 Speaker 1: scandal and make it into a Biden China scandal, was 50 00:03:44,555 --> 00:03:48,835 Speaker 1: actually running guns and bribing the Trump team himself on 51 00:03:48,915 --> 00:03:54,355 Speaker 1: behalf of China. Ohen he fled to Cyprus, so he 52 00:03:54,675 --> 00:04:01,115 Speaker 1: isn't a missing witness, He's a missing Chinese spy. It's 53 00:04:01,155 --> 00:04:05,435 Speaker 1: come up and stay. Then, that was only the second half. 54 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:08,995 Speaker 1: Have come up and stay. The US attorney overseeing the 55 00:04:09,035 --> 00:04:13,075 Speaker 1: Biden tax and guns and drugs case, who has repeatedly 56 00:04:13,195 --> 00:04:16,435 Speaker 1: said he was in no way limited by attorney General 57 00:04:16,475 --> 00:04:20,355 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland, in his prosecution of the President's son, finally 58 00:04:20,395 --> 00:04:23,715 Speaker 1: gave up with the low key hints and spelled it 59 00:04:23,795 --> 00:04:27,795 Speaker 1: all out in a letter to that desperate, clutching, paranoid 60 00:04:28,315 --> 00:04:33,835 Speaker 1: shamed Trump flunky Lindsey Graham that the quote Biden whistleblower 61 00:04:33,955 --> 00:04:38,435 Speaker 1: unquote upon whom that entire end of this fake scandal depends, 62 00:04:38,995 --> 00:04:44,635 Speaker 1: is completely wrong or worse. CNN and CBS and other 63 00:04:44,635 --> 00:04:47,675 Speaker 1: news organizations got copies of the letter, in which the 64 00:04:47,795 --> 00:04:50,955 Speaker 1: US Attorney David Weiss put fatal holes in the story 65 00:04:50,955 --> 00:04:54,835 Speaker 1: of Gary Shapley and an unnamed deputy. Weiss writes to 66 00:04:54,875 --> 00:04:58,715 Speaker 1: Senator Graham that he won never asked to be named 67 00:04:58,755 --> 00:05:01,875 Speaker 1: a special counsel so he could act independently of the 68 00:05:01,995 --> 00:05:05,555 Speaker 1: Justice Department, and two was never refused used authority to 69 00:05:05,715 --> 00:05:09,395 Speaker 1: act independently of the Justice Department to bring charges against 70 00:05:09,475 --> 00:05:13,675 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden wherever he wanted to. In the US quote, 71 00:05:14,395 --> 00:05:18,835 Speaker 1: I have not requested special council designation. Rather, I had 72 00:05:18,875 --> 00:05:23,515 Speaker 1: discussions with depart Metal officials regarding potential appointment under twenty 73 00:05:23,555 --> 00:05:27,275 Speaker 1: eight USC. Five one five, which would have allowed me 74 00:05:27,355 --> 00:05:30,795 Speaker 1: to file charges in a district outside my own without 75 00:05:30,835 --> 00:05:36,035 Speaker 1: the partnership of the local US attorney. Weis says he 76 00:05:36,115 --> 00:05:39,715 Speaker 1: was assured he could file charges quote in any jurisdiction 77 00:05:40,275 --> 00:05:43,675 Speaker 1: months before the October seventh, twenty twenty two meeting referenced 78 00:05:43,675 --> 00:05:50,755 Speaker 1: throughout the whistleblower's allegations your witness, Senator Graham, it's come 79 00:05:50,835 --> 00:05:56,635 Speaker 1: up and stay. The Republicans were not completely blindsided by this. 80 00:05:56,835 --> 00:06:00,155 Speaker 1: Even the Republicans saw these twin freight trains coming at 81 00:06:00,195 --> 00:06:04,635 Speaker 1: them from opposite directions. Lawyers for the anti Merrick girl 82 00:06:04,795 --> 00:06:08,035 Speaker 1: and whistleblower, who turns out to have been all blow 83 00:06:08,355 --> 00:06:12,635 Speaker 1: and no whistle, replied to the David Weiss letter by 84 00:06:12,715 --> 00:06:18,195 Speaker 1: cleverly answering quote. Weiss's story continues to change, and five 85 00:06:18,275 --> 00:06:23,675 Speaker 1: days ago, the alleged Chinese spy arms dealer Trump team 86 00:06:24,035 --> 00:06:28,675 Speaker 1: briber Golooft, put out a video saying he was going 87 00:06:28,755 --> 00:06:33,515 Speaker 1: to be arrested because he had all this evidence against 88 00:06:33,595 --> 00:06:39,515 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden see Congress and James Comer Congress and Jim Jordan, 89 00:06:39,795 --> 00:06:43,835 Speaker 1: Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator Ron Johnson, Senator Lindsey Graham. About 90 00:06:43,875 --> 00:06:48,755 Speaker 1: two dozen other Republicans won't, but they should resign hell 91 00:06:48,795 --> 00:06:51,835 Speaker 1: if the Biden Justice Department didn't operate from this nostalgic 92 00:06:51,915 --> 00:06:53,635 Speaker 1: view that we still live in a time when one 93 00:06:53,675 --> 00:06:56,435 Speaker 1: of the major political parties was not trying to end 94 00:06:56,475 --> 00:06:59,795 Speaker 1: representative government and replace it with a Trump dictatorship. A 95 00:06:59,875 --> 00:07:02,475 Speaker 1: lot of them would be under indictment by the end 96 00:07:02,515 --> 00:07:07,115 Speaker 1: of the week. It is clear that not only did 97 00:07:07,115 --> 00:07:10,875 Speaker 1: that overfed redneck Comber know as long ago as May 98 00:07:10,955 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 1: that his man Ghoulelooft had fled. We can't track down 99 00:07:15,755 --> 00:07:19,875 Speaker 1: the unformant, but Comer certainly knew that he was trying 100 00:07:19,875 --> 00:07:22,315 Speaker 1: to smear the President of the United States and his 101 00:07:22,435 --> 00:07:25,955 Speaker 1: son with the testimony of an international gun runner and 102 00:07:26,075 --> 00:07:29,035 Speaker 1: Chinese spy, and he knew it no later than when 103 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:31,675 Speaker 1: Luft released his video at the end of last week. 104 00:07:33,355 --> 00:07:36,075 Speaker 1: Well by the way, House Republicans have scheduled a policy 105 00:07:36,155 --> 00:07:40,995 Speaker 1: meeting with Chairman Comber of Oversight, Chairman Jordan of Judiciary, 106 00:07:41,475 --> 00:07:44,195 Speaker 1: Chairman Smith of Ways and Means, and Chairman Green of 107 00:07:44,195 --> 00:07:47,395 Speaker 1: Homeland Security for the day after tomorrow to discuss quote 108 00:07:47,395 --> 00:07:52,035 Speaker 1: the Washington Examiner, the Biden investigations and oversight efforts by 109 00:07:52,115 --> 00:07:55,795 Speaker 1: House committees. They'll have a meeting, I bet they will, 110 00:07:56,555 --> 00:07:59,475 Speaker 1: and it will be members only. I bet it will 111 00:08:01,195 --> 00:08:05,635 Speaker 1: it's come up and stay, and already would have been 112 00:08:05,795 --> 00:08:09,555 Speaker 1: come up and stay had the Republicans Hunter Biden quote 113 00:08:09,675 --> 00:08:14,715 Speaker 1: investigation unquote not turned into a sequence of different political 114 00:08:14,835 --> 00:08:19,035 Speaker 1: Hindenburg disasters because word had already come In a New 115 00:08:19,115 --> 00:08:23,995 Speaker 1: York Times report that Michael Teeter, the attorney for Ray Epps, 116 00:08:24,635 --> 00:08:27,115 Speaker 1: says he did not get the retraction and on air 117 00:08:27,155 --> 00:08:30,435 Speaker 1: apology he demanded from Fox in March, didn't hear from 118 00:08:30,435 --> 00:08:33,315 Speaker 1: them at all, in fact, and so he will now 119 00:08:33,355 --> 00:08:39,835 Speaker 1: proceed to court. Quoting Teeter, that remains our intent. I 120 00:08:39,875 --> 00:08:45,595 Speaker 1: think you know the Ray Epps conspiracy theory. He's seen 121 00:08:45,795 --> 00:08:48,835 Speaker 1: on video egging on the January fifth crowd and then 122 00:08:48,995 --> 00:08:51,835 Speaker 1: the January sixth mob as well. But though he urges 123 00:08:52,315 --> 00:08:54,835 Speaker 1: them to march with him and enter the Capitol on 124 00:08:54,915 --> 00:08:58,355 Speaker 1: January sixth, he never goes in, and suddenly he's out 125 00:08:58,395 --> 00:09:02,515 Speaker 1: there beginning to plead for calm since prosecutors did not 126 00:09:02,715 --> 00:09:06,435 Speaker 1: charge him, as EPP's lawyer notes, they have not charged 127 00:09:06,515 --> 00:09:11,115 Speaker 1: him yet. Tucker Carlson concluded in twenty twenty one, to 128 00:09:11,235 --> 00:09:14,555 Speaker 1: quote The Times, that there was no rational explanation. Mister 129 00:09:14,595 --> 00:09:18,715 Speaker 1: Carlson told his audience why this mysterious figure who quote 130 00:09:18,755 --> 00:09:22,955 Speaker 1: helped stage manage the insurrection un quote had not been charged. 131 00:09:24,795 --> 00:09:28,035 Speaker 1: Carlson decided it was because Ray Ebbs was a plant. 132 00:09:28,515 --> 00:09:32,235 Speaker 1: He smeared Ray Epps in eighteen different episodes of his 133 00:09:32,275 --> 00:09:36,835 Speaker 1: little fiction Carnoie Show based his entire attempt to exonerate 134 00:09:36,835 --> 00:09:40,915 Speaker 1: Trump on Ray Ebbs. Depicted Ray Epps as a government 135 00:09:40,955 --> 00:09:43,755 Speaker 1: plant as a federal agent, went so far as to 136 00:09:43,755 --> 00:09:46,435 Speaker 1: make a graphic in which the logo for fed X 137 00:09:47,035 --> 00:09:51,595 Speaker 1: had been reworked to read fed Epps and Tucker Carlson was, 138 00:09:51,635 --> 00:09:55,515 Speaker 1: according to the lawyer, planning to do yet another segment 139 00:09:55,715 --> 00:10:01,635 Speaker 1: on Epps the day Fox fired him. There is one 140 00:10:01,795 --> 00:10:05,795 Speaker 1: notable PostScript to the Ray Epps suit pending against Fox, 141 00:10:05,835 --> 00:10:08,115 Speaker 1: and I should point out this is the pre lawsuit. 142 00:10:08,155 --> 00:10:10,875 Speaker 1: The point of the time story is to give Fox 143 00:10:10,915 --> 00:10:14,115 Speaker 1: a little public grief on behalf of Epps's attorney, and 144 00:10:14,195 --> 00:10:16,755 Speaker 1: also to give Fox a last warning, a last off 145 00:10:16,835 --> 00:10:21,075 Speaker 1: ramp before it's filed. But nowhere in the story does 146 00:10:21,115 --> 00:10:25,235 Speaker 1: Epps's attorney specifically say he will file against Tucker Carlson, 147 00:10:25,475 --> 00:10:29,235 Speaker 1: even though Carlson no longer works at Fox. But it 148 00:10:29,315 --> 00:10:33,035 Speaker 1: is instructive to note that The next defamation suit pending 149 00:10:33,075 --> 00:10:36,195 Speaker 1: against Fox, the two point seven billion dollars one from 150 00:10:36,235 --> 00:10:42,555 Speaker 1: Smartmatic Voting Machines, specifically targets Fox and Janine Piro by 151 00:10:42,675 --> 00:10:46,035 Speaker 1: name as a separate defendant, and Maria Bartiromo by name 152 00:10:46,075 --> 00:10:50,915 Speaker 1: as a separate defendant and Lou Dobbs by name. Smartmattck 153 00:10:50,995 --> 00:10:55,435 Speaker 1: filed that suit on February fourth, twenty twenty one. Fox 154 00:10:55,835 --> 00:11:01,635 Speaker 1: fired Lou Dobbs on February fifth, but Smart Mattic did not, 155 00:11:02,395 --> 00:11:07,755 Speaker 1: has not, and will not drop Lou Daubs from the suit. 156 00:11:09,995 --> 00:11:16,235 Speaker 1: Have a nice time under oath, Tucker, because remember, not 157 00:11:16,315 --> 00:11:19,715 Speaker 1: only is it come up in day, but during a 158 00:11:19,835 --> 00:11:25,195 Speaker 1: multi million dollar defamation suit, it all becomes come up 159 00:11:25,195 --> 00:11:35,635 Speaker 1: and year. By the way, Jamie Comer's committee to legitimize 160 00:11:35,675 --> 00:11:39,195 Speaker 1: half baked rumors to scare stupid people, the one at 161 00:11:39,195 --> 00:11:42,195 Speaker 1: the center of the Hunter Biden's scandal with the totally 162 00:11:42,355 --> 00:11:44,755 Speaker 1: credible witness who oh, by the way, as a Chinese 163 00:11:44,795 --> 00:11:46,875 Speaker 1: spy who bribed somebody on the Trump team and then 164 00:11:47,115 --> 00:11:50,475 Speaker 1: ran guns and then ran away. The Comer Committee's moving 165 00:11:50,515 --> 00:11:54,395 Speaker 1: on to a new topic today. It takes on COVID, 166 00:11:55,075 --> 00:12:00,195 Speaker 1: the key witness scripts research, evolutionary biologist Christian Anderson, who 167 00:12:00,235 --> 00:12:03,355 Speaker 1: four months ago responded to new genetic data from the 168 00:12:03,395 --> 00:12:06,635 Speaker 1: food market in Wuhan by saying, quote, the data does 169 00:12:06,675 --> 00:12:11,035 Speaker 1: point even further to a market origin, but of course 170 00:12:11,035 --> 00:12:14,475 Speaker 1: that's not why Comer wants Anderson to testify. In January 171 00:12:14,475 --> 00:12:18,355 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Anderson had emailed doctor Anthony Fauci and said 172 00:12:18,395 --> 00:12:21,235 Speaker 1: that some of the early knowledge of the features of 173 00:12:21,315 --> 00:12:25,475 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen made him wonder whether it might have been engineered. 174 00:12:26,395 --> 00:12:29,635 Speaker 1: You watch Anderson will try to talk about the new 175 00:12:29,675 --> 00:12:32,955 Speaker 1: evidence and the conclusions of three years of studying this. 176 00:12:33,555 --> 00:12:36,115 Speaker 1: Comber will try to silence him on that and force 177 00:12:36,195 --> 00:12:39,835 Speaker 1: him to talk only about the twenty twenty email, because, 178 00:12:39,835 --> 00:12:43,915 Speaker 1: among other things, Jamie Comer is too stupid to ever 179 00:12:44,275 --> 00:12:48,075 Speaker 1: learn anything. And in passing, I'd just like to remind 180 00:12:48,155 --> 00:12:53,115 Speaker 1: Congressman Comber that the best known of the Congressional blacklisters, 181 00:12:53,155 --> 00:12:56,395 Speaker 1: the Chairman of the House on American Activities Committee, J. 182 00:12:56,755 --> 00:13:01,435 Speaker 1: Parnell Thomas, who helped send the screenwriter Ring Lardner Junior 183 00:13:01,475 --> 00:13:04,835 Speaker 1: to the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, was him him 184 00:13:04,875 --> 00:13:09,115 Speaker 1: self convicted of fraud in a kickback scheme, and Jay 185 00:13:09,275 --> 00:13:14,795 Speaker 1: Parnell Thomas wound up in the same federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, 186 00:13:14,835 --> 00:13:24,595 Speaker 1: down the hall from Ring Lardner Junior. One other political note, 187 00:13:24,995 --> 00:13:28,915 Speaker 1: Doctor Cornell West has done some extraordinary work in his life. 188 00:13:29,395 --> 00:13:32,915 Speaker 1: His staunch left wing opinions, his ceaseless fighting for racial 189 00:13:33,075 --> 00:13:37,515 Speaker 1: justice have been beacons at times. I have gotten his 190 00:13:37,595 --> 00:13:41,195 Speaker 1: greeting of comradeship. He has called me brother Olderman, and 191 00:13:41,235 --> 00:13:43,755 Speaker 1: I was very pleased to hear it. And now, to 192 00:13:43,835 --> 00:13:46,155 Speaker 1: borrow the phrase from the TV series The West Wing, 193 00:13:46,555 --> 00:13:49,235 Speaker 1: Cornell West is being played like a two dollars ban. 194 00:13:49,515 --> 00:13:54,475 Speaker 1: Joe West is running for president as an independent. And 195 00:13:54,515 --> 00:13:57,515 Speaker 1: if it were not obvious that he is being manipulated 196 00:13:57,555 --> 00:14:01,115 Speaker 1: by and exploited by Trump and the fascists just to 197 00:14:01,155 --> 00:14:05,475 Speaker 1: siphon off votes from President Biden, should have gotten that 198 00:14:05,555 --> 00:14:10,115 Speaker 1: message yesterday when his candidacy was endorsed by Jill Stein. 199 00:14:11,915 --> 00:14:14,915 Speaker 1: And if West still didn't get that message, then he 200 00:14:14,995 --> 00:14:18,275 Speaker 1: has hoared himself out to Trump and people who would 201 00:14:18,315 --> 00:14:21,275 Speaker 1: literally deny him his right to vote if they could, 202 00:14:21,315 --> 00:14:24,995 Speaker 1: based on the color of his skin. Yesterday, West tweeted 203 00:14:25,035 --> 00:14:30,435 Speaker 1: this mindless drivel quote, let us not be deceived. NATO 204 00:14:30,755 --> 00:14:35,275 Speaker 1: is an expanding instrument of US global power that provoked 205 00:14:35,355 --> 00:14:39,835 Speaker 1: Russia into a criminal invasion and occupation of Ukraine. We 206 00:14:39,955 --> 00:14:43,395 Speaker 1: must stop the war and embark on diplomatic talks that 207 00:14:43,435 --> 00:14:46,875 Speaker 1: should lead to a just peace. The Democratic Party is 208 00:14:46,915 --> 00:14:50,555 Speaker 1: a party of war and Wall Street targeting Russia and China. 209 00:14:50,915 --> 00:14:54,035 Speaker 1: Let us save our democracy and world by dismantling US 210 00:14:54,115 --> 00:15:01,875 Speaker 1: militarism at home, as in cop cities and abroad. Cornell 211 00:15:01,955 --> 00:15:11,275 Speaker 1: West can write off also of interest here today, something 212 00:15:11,435 --> 00:15:16,035 Speaker 1: really really strange happened at the NATO summit in Vilnius yesterday. 213 00:15:16,475 --> 00:15:20,235 Speaker 1: Turkey not only continued to block Swedish entry into NATO, 214 00:15:20,715 --> 00:15:24,195 Speaker 1: but its leader Errowan insisted it would continue to do 215 00:15:24,315 --> 00:15:27,875 Speaker 1: so until Turkey was admitted to the European Union. And 216 00:15:27,915 --> 00:15:30,395 Speaker 1: then a couple of hours later, literally a couple of 217 00:15:30,435 --> 00:15:35,155 Speaker 1: hours later, it was announced that Turkey is supporting Sweden's 218 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:39,395 Speaker 1: admission to NATO, which means it's lock. And nobody even 219 00:15:39,915 --> 00:15:46,035 Speaker 1: mentioned that other part about Turkey and the EU. Well, 220 00:15:46,635 --> 00:15:49,315 Speaker 1: it was come up and stay, wasn't it. That's next? 221 00:15:49,355 --> 00:16:04,235 Speaker 1: This is Countdown Business Countdown with Keith old Woman. Postscripts 222 00:16:04,275 --> 00:16:06,995 Speaker 1: to the New OO. Some headlines, some updates, some snarts, 223 00:16:06,995 --> 00:16:12,595 Speaker 1: some predictions dateline Vilnius, Lithuania. Turkey has dropped its objections, 224 00:16:12,755 --> 00:16:16,715 Speaker 1: deferred its insistence on joining the European Union, and so 225 00:16:16,835 --> 00:16:21,475 Speaker 1: Sweden will now get to join NATO. Just hours earlier, 226 00:16:21,515 --> 00:16:25,795 Speaker 1: the Turkish strongman Erdiwan had said Turkey's EU membership had 227 00:16:25,835 --> 00:16:30,115 Speaker 1: to come first, and it didn't. There may be more 228 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:33,755 Speaker 1: to this story. Dateline the Kremlin. There's more to this one. 229 00:16:33,875 --> 00:16:35,915 Speaker 1: He didn't want to take over the country, He just 230 00:16:35,955 --> 00:16:40,315 Speaker 1: wanted to take over Putin's schedule. Russian government spokesman Dmitri 231 00:16:40,515 --> 00:16:45,515 Speaker 1: Preskoff reveals that five days after Effgeny progosion began and 232 00:16:45,555 --> 00:16:48,915 Speaker 1: then suddenly stopped his march to Moscow and instead fled 233 00:16:48,955 --> 00:16:53,475 Speaker 1: to Belarus. He returned to Moscow to meet with Putin, 234 00:16:53,915 --> 00:16:57,035 Speaker 1: and he and the Wagner group pledged fealty to Russia 235 00:16:57,155 --> 00:17:01,435 Speaker 1: and Putin. While Putin was supposedly re solidifying his grip 236 00:17:01,475 --> 00:17:04,755 Speaker 1: on the nation and the traitor Progosian was supposedly in 237 00:17:04,795 --> 00:17:08,275 Speaker 1: another country. Instead, they were playing pinocle in the Kremlin 238 00:17:08,555 --> 00:17:11,155 Speaker 1: or somewhere. I don't want to be a cynic here, 239 00:17:11,195 --> 00:17:15,155 Speaker 1: but I'm beginning to doubt the first story and the 240 00:17:15,275 --> 00:17:19,995 Speaker 1: second story and for that matter, I'm beginning to doubt 241 00:17:20,155 --> 00:17:52,155 Speaker 1: this story. Thank you, Nancy Faust dateline Cobble Afghanistan. Anas 242 00:17:52,235 --> 00:17:57,675 Speaker 1: Hakani has endorsed Twitter quote. Twitter has two important advantages 243 00:17:57,715 --> 00:18:01,315 Speaker 1: over other social media platforms. The first privilege is the 244 00:18:01,355 --> 00:18:04,635 Speaker 1: freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature 245 00:18:04,755 --> 00:18:08,595 Speaker 1: and credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn't have an intolerant policy 246 00:18:08,755 --> 00:18:12,955 Speaker 1: like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it, he writes. And 247 00:18:12,995 --> 00:18:16,715 Speaker 1: who is Annas Hakani? He's one of the leaders of 248 00:18:17,755 --> 00:18:25,595 Speaker 1: the Taliban. Congratulations on the endorsement. Yea Elon Musk the Taliban. 249 00:18:25,875 --> 00:18:43,795 Speaker 2: Holy this is sports Center. Wait check that not anymore? 250 00:18:44,555 --> 00:18:50,475 Speaker 2: This is countdown with Keith Alberman in sports. 251 00:18:50,795 --> 00:18:53,715 Speaker 1: It's official. The New York Times makes it so. No more. 252 00:18:53,835 --> 00:18:56,475 Speaker 1: Sports department at the New York Times, one of the 253 00:18:56,675 --> 00:19:01,795 Speaker 1: milestone desks in American journalism, poof just as we told 254 00:19:01,795 --> 00:19:04,675 Speaker 1: you yesterday. Just today, after twenty eight of the survivor 255 00:19:04,875 --> 00:19:08,275 Speaker 1: thirty five sports writers and staffers and editors wrote a 256 00:19:08,875 --> 00:19:12,115 Speaker 1: what else nasty letter to the editor and their publisher, 257 00:19:12,195 --> 00:19:15,435 Speaker 1: the Times announced it will disband its sports department and 258 00:19:15,515 --> 00:19:19,835 Speaker 1: rely for sports coverage on the website The Athletic, which 259 00:19:19,835 --> 00:19:22,195 Speaker 1: the Times paid five hundred and fifty million dollars for 260 00:19:22,395 --> 00:19:26,595 Speaker 1: last year. By the way, the Athletic is a non 261 00:19:26,875 --> 00:19:31,595 Speaker 1: union shop in the finest tradition of boiler plate Pollyanna 262 00:19:31,635 --> 00:19:35,795 Speaker 1: bull Crap, Times executive editor Joe Kahn wrote, we plan 263 00:19:35,955 --> 00:19:39,475 Speaker 1: to focus even more directly on distinctive, high impact news 264 00:19:39,515 --> 00:19:44,995 Speaker 1: and enterprise journalism about how sports intersect with money, power, culture, politics, 265 00:19:45,075 --> 00:19:47,715 Speaker 1: and society at large. At the same time, we will 266 00:19:47,755 --> 00:19:52,515 Speaker 1: scale back the newsrooms coverage of games, players, teams and leagues. Now, 267 00:19:52,555 --> 00:19:55,515 Speaker 1: let's compare that to what the sports editor of the 268 00:19:55,555 --> 00:19:59,315 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Times wrote a day earlier as she killed 269 00:19:59,315 --> 00:20:02,475 Speaker 1: off the sports department. As her readers knew it. Quote, 270 00:20:02,595 --> 00:20:06,195 Speaker 1: you no longer will see box scores and traditional game stories, 271 00:20:06,355 --> 00:20:10,035 Speaker 1: but those will be replaced by more innovative reporting, in 272 00:20:10,155 --> 00:20:15,235 Speaker 1: depth profiles, unique examinations of the way teams operate, investigations, 273 00:20:15,275 --> 00:20:19,395 Speaker 1: our distinct columnist voices, elite photography, and more. Our new 274 00:20:19,515 --> 00:20:24,795 Speaker 1: layout highlights our best most ambitious sports journalism, distinctive work 275 00:20:24,835 --> 00:20:29,755 Speaker 1: you cannot find anywhere else. Between these two, all the 276 00:20:29,915 --> 00:20:37,555 Speaker 1: test marketed word salad buzzwords are there. High impact, intersect 277 00:20:38,075 --> 00:20:42,075 Speaker 1: n eight elite, and best of all, while the New 278 00:20:42,155 --> 00:20:48,155 Speaker 1: York Times only used distinctive, the La Times managed to 279 00:20:48,195 --> 00:20:55,875 Speaker 1: work in both distinctive and distinct translation to ordinary English. 280 00:20:56,515 --> 00:21:14,275 Speaker 1: Everybody's fired still ahead. So the White House cocaine story 281 00:21:14,315 --> 00:21:18,515 Speaker 1: has led to a panorama on mindlessness. But maybe the 282 00:21:18,595 --> 00:21:23,475 Speaker 1: dumbest thing yet is this repeated question, what's next if 283 00:21:23,515 --> 00:21:26,275 Speaker 1: a tour taking visitor had come in through that entryway, 284 00:21:26,475 --> 00:21:31,835 Speaker 1: wrote the Boston Herald Editorial Board. The Boston Herald Editorial Board, 285 00:21:32,075 --> 00:21:35,555 Speaker 1: I believe it doubles as the paper's nighttime custodial crew 286 00:21:36,275 --> 00:21:39,515 Speaker 1: quote and deposited their cell phone in the storage area 287 00:21:39,515 --> 00:21:44,435 Speaker 1: and then dropped a baggy of anthrax laced powder. Lay 288 00:21:44,435 --> 00:21:47,155 Speaker 1: off the anthrax. First off, best we know the last 289 00:21:47,195 --> 00:21:49,355 Speaker 1: guy who actually tried to kill people or just to 290 00:21:49,435 --> 00:21:52,995 Speaker 1: handle anthrax. He was an expert in the field of anthrax. 291 00:21:53,115 --> 00:21:58,315 Speaker 1: He managed to kill himself. Secondly, shut up until you 292 00:21:58,355 --> 00:22:01,635 Speaker 1: have had anthrax or fake anthrax sent to you. Just 293 00:22:01,715 --> 00:22:04,915 Speaker 1: shut up. Time again to tell the saga of the 294 00:22:04,995 --> 00:22:08,075 Speaker 1: day I was sent fake anthrax the first day, there 295 00:22:08,075 --> 00:22:11,475 Speaker 1: were three of them. Next first time for the daily 296 00:22:11,515 --> 00:22:14,315 Speaker 1: rounde up of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens, 297 00:22:14,315 --> 00:22:18,235 Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world. The Bronze 298 00:22:18,635 --> 00:22:22,955 Speaker 1: to CNN News Central, one of those last stains of 299 00:22:22,955 --> 00:22:25,995 Speaker 1: the Chris Licked regime that they just can't wash out 300 00:22:26,035 --> 00:22:28,835 Speaker 1: the show, which largely consists of the anchors saying each 301 00:22:28,875 --> 00:22:36,755 Speaker 1: other's names. Victor, Brianna, Nesbit, Garfield, wilhelmina new problem during 302 00:22:36,755 --> 00:22:41,155 Speaker 1: a Capitol Hill update by Manu Raju on CNN News Central, 303 00:22:41,355 --> 00:22:47,035 Speaker 1: a graphic reading quote House GOP weighs impeachment proceedings over 304 00:22:47,195 --> 00:22:50,995 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. Let me just read that one again. House 305 00:22:51,115 --> 00:22:57,155 Speaker 1: GOP weighs impeachment proceedings over Hunter Biden. Bad news for 306 00:22:57,235 --> 00:23:01,435 Speaker 1: President Hunter Biden, isn't it? The runner up Congresswoman Nickel 307 00:23:01,795 --> 00:23:06,635 Speaker 1: Malatokis and Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business with an explanation 308 00:23:07,515 --> 00:23:10,675 Speaker 1: it's number seven thousand, I believe for the cocaine found 309 00:23:10,675 --> 00:23:13,715 Speaker 1: in a White House visitors area. Maliatakas, who is a 310 00:23:13,835 --> 00:23:17,235 Speaker 1: nit wit, explaining to Bartiromo, who is a defendant in 311 00:23:17,275 --> 00:23:19,755 Speaker 1: a defamation lawsuit and is about to lose all the 312 00:23:19,795 --> 00:23:22,755 Speaker 1: money she's ever had, that it is linked to what 313 00:23:22,955 --> 00:23:29,635 Speaker 1: Maliatakas calls President Biden's quote support for drug cartels, no, 314 00:23:29,715 --> 00:23:32,795 Speaker 1: the other one President Joe Biden. She means, she means 315 00:23:32,795 --> 00:23:38,155 Speaker 1: President Joe Biden, not President Hunter Biden. I think Bartiromo's 316 00:23:38,195 --> 00:23:44,035 Speaker 1: response quote, this is just sick A Bartiromo Malaiatakas interview 317 00:23:44,115 --> 00:23:46,915 Speaker 1: is not exactly going to overwhelm you with more IQ 318 00:23:47,155 --> 00:23:50,515 Speaker 1: than you can handle. But our winner Larry Nasser, the 319 00:23:50,555 --> 00:23:54,595 Speaker 1: Michigan State and USA gymnastics physician sentenced to forty two, 320 00:23:54,675 --> 00:23:57,595 Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five years in prison for sexually 321 00:23:57,595 --> 00:24:02,195 Speaker 1: abusing athletes while the infrastructure at both institutions protected him. 322 00:24:02,755 --> 00:24:05,515 Speaker 1: Oh bad news. Larry Nasser was abbed in the back 323 00:24:05,555 --> 00:24:08,835 Speaker 1: and the chest by another inmate at the US Penitentiary 324 00:24:09,035 --> 00:24:13,395 Speaker 1: Coleman in Wildwood, Florida. Nasar was reported to be in 325 00:24:13,435 --> 00:24:17,595 Speaker 1: stable condition and is expected to survive. Here's hoping he 326 00:24:17,675 --> 00:24:22,595 Speaker 1: enjoyed the examination by prison infirmary doctor Hannibal Lector. Larry 327 00:24:22,675 --> 00:24:38,075 Speaker 1: Nasser today's worst person in the world. Just ahead after 328 00:24:38,115 --> 00:24:41,075 Speaker 1: the White House cocaine story, people like Uija Jang of 329 00:24:41,155 --> 00:24:45,915 Speaker 1: CBS started throwing around questions about anthrax in the White House. 330 00:24:46,395 --> 00:24:49,435 Speaker 1: Let me tell you about actual anthrax and fake anthrax 331 00:24:49,475 --> 00:24:52,955 Speaker 1: and the threat of anthrax and maybe you'll pause before 332 00:24:52,995 --> 00:24:57,755 Speaker 1: you raise your hyperbolic panic to eleven. Next time, next 333 00:24:58,315 --> 00:25:00,475 Speaker 1: first time to feature another dog in need, you can help. 334 00:25:00,515 --> 00:25:02,755 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day. Where there is life, there 335 00:25:02,795 --> 00:25:06,595 Speaker 1: is hope, and there is Morty. And Morty, a medium sized, 336 00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:09,755 Speaker 1: every day white gray and black mutt, is at AMA 337 00:25:09,755 --> 00:25:13,035 Speaker 1: Animal Rescue in Brooklyn. He's a senior dog with some 338 00:25:13,155 --> 00:25:16,555 Speaker 1: kidney failure, some dementia. He lost the ability to move 339 00:25:16,675 --> 00:25:19,555 Speaker 1: his legs. With minimal treatment, though the use of the 340 00:25:19,635 --> 00:25:22,315 Speaker 1: legs came back, meaning he can have a high quality 341 00:25:22,355 --> 00:25:25,395 Speaker 1: of life. About a year ago, I took in a 342 00:25:25,435 --> 00:25:29,475 Speaker 1: dog with supposed dementia. I adopted him, and he's now sixteen, 343 00:25:30,115 --> 00:25:32,275 Speaker 1: and he had a little cognitive loss, he really did, 344 00:25:32,275 --> 00:25:34,755 Speaker 1: but nearly all of his problems were not dementia. They 345 00:25:34,755 --> 00:25:37,075 Speaker 1: were bad teeth. We took out all his teeth and 346 00:25:37,115 --> 00:25:39,915 Speaker 1: he's now smart enough that he takes the hard treats 347 00:25:39,955 --> 00:25:41,595 Speaker 1: that I give him, and he puts them in the 348 00:25:41,635 --> 00:25:43,875 Speaker 1: water bowl and then he comes back for them later 349 00:25:44,155 --> 00:25:47,555 Speaker 1: and sucks on them like cough drops. So anyway, with 350 00:25:47,635 --> 00:25:51,715 Speaker 1: that as an aspiration, AMA Rescue is doing a go 351 00:25:51,915 --> 00:25:54,995 Speaker 1: fund me for Morty to get him some more tests 352 00:25:55,035 --> 00:25:58,355 Speaker 1: and more medication and maybe some peace in this lifetime. 353 00:25:59,035 --> 00:26:03,755 Speaker 1: Morty Ama Rescue Morty, Go fund me or look for 354 00:26:03,835 --> 00:26:07,355 Speaker 1: him on my Twitter and threads feeds. Morty thanks you, 355 00:26:08,115 --> 00:26:19,675 Speaker 1: and I thank you. On September twenty sixth, two thousand 356 00:26:19,675 --> 00:26:23,515 Speaker 1: and six, I opened an envelope bearing a California postmark 357 00:26:23,555 --> 00:26:25,835 Speaker 1: at my home in New York and a sticky substance 358 00:26:26,195 --> 00:26:29,115 Speaker 1: it looked like draino mixed with talcum powder fell out. 359 00:26:29,635 --> 00:26:32,595 Speaker 1: An accompanying note said it was anthrax, and now I 360 00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:35,555 Speaker 1: and other Liberals would get a taste of our own medicine. 361 00:26:36,115 --> 00:26:39,115 Speaker 1: Even reading those chilling words and having covered the actual 362 00:26:39,155 --> 00:26:42,635 Speaker 1: antrax letters attacks of two thousand and one for CNN, 363 00:26:42,715 --> 00:26:45,635 Speaker 1: I knew it wasn't antrax. The guy who supposedly sent 364 00:26:45,675 --> 00:26:47,875 Speaker 1: the actual anthrax was an expert in the field, and 365 00:26:47,915 --> 00:26:50,955 Speaker 1: even he mishandled the stuff so badly that the official 366 00:26:50,995 --> 00:26:54,475 Speaker 1: report was he gave himself anthrax poisoning and died of it. 367 00:26:55,235 --> 00:26:58,595 Speaker 1: On the other hand, what if I was wrong. My 368 00:26:58,675 --> 00:27:00,835 Speaker 1: apartment building was filled with the little old ladies who 369 00:27:00,835 --> 00:27:04,035 Speaker 1: had lived there since Roosevelt was president. I only assumed 370 00:27:04,035 --> 00:27:07,275 Speaker 1: that meant Frank Roosevelt. The odds were about one in 371 00:27:07,355 --> 00:27:09,595 Speaker 1: a trillion this was actually anthrax. But who was I 372 00:27:09,635 --> 00:27:13,635 Speaker 1: to dismiss this on their behalf? So I made a 373 00:27:13,635 --> 00:27:16,995 Speaker 1: phone call. Well, that made it into quite an evening. 374 00:27:17,275 --> 00:27:19,595 Speaker 1: The cops showed up, the FBI showed up. They said, 375 00:27:19,595 --> 00:27:21,315 Speaker 1: of course it's not anthrax. What we have to act 376 00:27:21,395 --> 00:27:24,555 Speaker 1: like it is. The hazmat squad came in, they set 377 00:27:24,635 --> 00:27:27,315 Speaker 1: up a command post in the building. They swept my apartment. 378 00:27:27,355 --> 00:27:28,715 Speaker 1: They said, okay, now you have to go to the 379 00:27:28,715 --> 00:27:31,475 Speaker 1: emergency room for tests. And I said, it's not anthraxs 380 00:27:31,555 --> 00:27:33,315 Speaker 1: you just said so. And they said if we have 381 00:27:33,435 --> 00:27:36,075 Speaker 1: to do this, you have to do this too. I laughed, 382 00:27:36,435 --> 00:27:38,155 Speaker 1: And if you don't, we can arrest you as a 383 00:27:38,155 --> 00:27:40,755 Speaker 1: threat to public health and make you do it. So 384 00:27:40,875 --> 00:27:44,835 Speaker 1: out I went into an ambulance dressed in a hazmat 385 00:27:44,995 --> 00:27:48,995 Speaker 1: suit one size too small that really chafed in the groin. 386 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:52,035 Speaker 1: I spent the night getting checked out, and the FBI 387 00:27:52,115 --> 00:27:56,115 Speaker 1: called back and said, it's like draino with ivory soap flakes. 388 00:27:56,995 --> 00:27:59,555 Speaker 1: But they also said there were other letters that had 389 00:27:59,675 --> 00:28:01,795 Speaker 1: arrived that night and the night before and the week 390 00:28:01,835 --> 00:28:04,915 Speaker 1: before to people like the chairman of CBS and David 391 00:28:04,995 --> 00:28:09,515 Speaker 1: Letterman's office and Nancy Pelosi and the wrong John Stewart, 392 00:28:09,995 --> 00:28:11,715 Speaker 1: and they couldn't make me do this, but it would 393 00:28:11,795 --> 00:28:14,115 Speaker 1: really help if I did not report what had happened 394 00:28:14,115 --> 00:28:16,275 Speaker 1: to me on my TV show, just for one day, 395 00:28:16,675 --> 00:28:18,275 Speaker 1: because they had a lead on the guy and they 396 00:28:18,315 --> 00:28:21,435 Speaker 1: didn't want to scare him off. Naturally, I said sure. 397 00:28:22,355 --> 00:28:25,715 Speaker 1: The next day, while we were still observing the embargo 398 00:28:25,835 --> 00:28:28,995 Speaker 1: on the story, my story, which actually happened to me, 399 00:28:30,195 --> 00:28:32,195 Speaker 1: New York Post page six ran a picture of me 400 00:28:32,235 --> 00:28:36,675 Speaker 1: with the headline powder Puff spooks Keith and making sure 401 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:40,715 Speaker 1: to identify me as quote can you guess a frequent 402 00:28:40,715 --> 00:28:44,195 Speaker 1: critic of President Bush's policies. It mocked me for not 403 00:28:44,315 --> 00:28:46,875 Speaker 1: just assuming it was fake anthrax and ignoring it, and 404 00:28:46,915 --> 00:28:49,435 Speaker 1: claimed I insisted the cops take me to the hospital 405 00:28:49,515 --> 00:28:52,395 Speaker 1: quote whether they gave him a lollipop on the way 406 00:28:52,435 --> 00:28:56,195 Speaker 1: out isn't known. By the way, one of the anthrax 407 00:28:56,275 --> 00:28:58,995 Speaker 1: letters in two thousand and one, the actual anthrax letters 408 00:28:58,995 --> 00:29:00,795 Speaker 1: had been mailed to the New York Post, and one 409 00:29:00,835 --> 00:29:04,075 Speaker 1: of their staffers contracted the anthrax poisoning, but that didn't 410 00:29:04,115 --> 00:29:05,875 Speaker 1: seem to matter anymore when it was a chance to 411 00:29:05,875 --> 00:29:08,915 Speaker 1: take a shot at me anyway. As it turned out, 412 00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:12,235 Speaker 1: there was a guy in California sending out these threatening letters, 413 00:29:12,475 --> 00:29:15,355 Speaker 1: each with fake antracks, to about a dozen people. He 414 00:29:15,475 --> 00:29:19,315 Speaker 1: sent me four of them. I soon knew the FBI 415 00:29:19,435 --> 00:29:23,195 Speaker 1: guys on the case by their first names, and one 416 00:29:23,315 --> 00:29:26,475 Speaker 1: day I pointed out to FBI Doug that the last 417 00:29:26,595 --> 00:29:29,315 Speaker 1: envelope had a barcode on it that maybe could track 418 00:29:29,395 --> 00:29:31,435 Speaker 1: the guy, and he said, oh, you're right, And the 419 00:29:31,475 --> 00:29:34,075 Speaker 1: next thing I knew, the FBI had videotape the suspect 420 00:29:34,155 --> 00:29:36,875 Speaker 1: mailing yet another letter to me from his home in 421 00:29:36,915 --> 00:29:40,315 Speaker 1: Woodland Hills, California, and I swear to god he actually 422 00:29:40,355 --> 00:29:43,995 Speaker 1: lived in his mother's basement. And FBI Doug said, do 423 00:29:43,995 --> 00:29:45,395 Speaker 1: you have your permission to pull the letter out of 424 00:29:45,395 --> 00:29:48,315 Speaker 1: the mailbox and open it? And I said sure, And 425 00:29:48,435 --> 00:29:50,755 Speaker 1: the guy wound up going to prison for like eighteen months, 426 00:29:51,555 --> 00:29:54,635 Speaker 1: but not before FBI Doug said, by the way, the 427 00:29:54,675 --> 00:29:57,955 Speaker 1: barcode you noticed it was for the post office here, 428 00:29:57,995 --> 00:29:59,955 Speaker 1: and that's where we found his address, and the fact 429 00:29:59,995 --> 00:30:03,195 Speaker 1: that he'd bought all this stuff and purchased a postal 430 00:30:03,235 --> 00:30:06,595 Speaker 1: money order for fifteen dollars made out to the Catherine 431 00:30:06,675 --> 00:30:10,835 Speaker 1: Harris for Florida Senate campaign, and that led us to 432 00:30:10,955 --> 00:30:14,475 Speaker 1: his online history, which is all about how she is 433 00:30:14,475 --> 00:30:17,795 Speaker 1: the most beautiful woman in the world, Katherine Harris, except 434 00:30:17,875 --> 00:30:21,915 Speaker 1: for maybe some guile named Laura something the most beautiful 435 00:30:21,915 --> 00:30:28,275 Speaker 1: woman in history, and I said, Laura, Laura Ingram an 436 00:30:28,315 --> 00:30:32,515 Speaker 1: FBI Doug said, Yeah, that's it, Laura Ingram. And if 437 00:30:32,555 --> 00:30:34,835 Speaker 1: that isn't ten years of my life in one sentence, 438 00:30:35,035 --> 00:30:49,555 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I've done all the 439 00:30:49,595 --> 00:30:51,675 Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Here 440 00:30:51,675 --> 00:30:54,035 Speaker 1: are the credits. Most of the music was arranged, produced 441 00:30:54,035 --> 00:30:56,995 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle, who 442 00:30:56,995 --> 00:31:00,475 Speaker 1: are the Countdown musical directors. Guitars based and drums by 443 00:31:00,475 --> 00:31:04,155 Speaker 1: Brian Ray, All, orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Shaneale, 444 00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:08,075 Speaker 1: produced by Iko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 445 00:31:08,075 --> 00:31:11,355 Speaker 1: and performed by No Horns Allowed. 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Subscribe there too, give yourself multiple options. 453 00:31:37,555 --> 00:31:40,195 Speaker 1: So that's countdown for this, the nine hundred and seventeenth 454 00:31:40,275 --> 00:31:43,755 Speaker 1: day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 455 00:31:43,755 --> 00:31:47,035 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Arrest him again while 456 00:31:47,035 --> 00:31:50,595 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins, 457 00:31:50,595 --> 00:31:53,555 Speaker 1: of course, as the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olderman. 458 00:31:53,675 --> 00:32:09,355 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck food 459 00:32:09,595 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: for everyone. 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