1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:21,915 --> 00:00:25,235 Speaker 1: have been thinking this since no later than Sunday afternoon. 3 00:00:26,075 --> 00:00:27,955 Speaker 1: I have been thinking that there will come a point 4 00:00:28,035 --> 00:00:33,275 Speaker 1: this year, this election, maybe this month, where we will 5 00:00:33,315 --> 00:00:38,555 Speaker 1: all be standing here saying, can you believe we came 6 00:00:38,715 --> 00:00:45,035 Speaker 1: this close to not making Vice President Harris the nominee. 7 00:00:45,275 --> 00:00:50,675 Speaker 1: You have heard the poll ipsos for Reuters Harris forty 8 00:00:50,715 --> 00:00:55,595 Speaker 1: two Trump thirty h Kennedy h in the three party race, 9 00:00:55,755 --> 00:00:59,155 Speaker 1: and Harris forty four Trump forty two head to head, 10 00:00:59,475 --> 00:01:04,755 Speaker 1: a four point shift to Kamala Harris in one week. 11 00:01:06,435 --> 00:01:09,875 Speaker 1: But have you heard the other polls Maris for NPR 12 00:01:09,915 --> 00:01:12,955 Speaker 1: and the PBS News Hour Harris forty two, Trump forty two, 13 00:01:13,075 --> 00:01:17,115 Speaker 1: Kennedy seven Trump forty six, Harris forty five. You Gov 14 00:01:17,435 --> 00:01:22,835 Speaker 1: for Yahoo News Harris forty six, Trump forty six. These 15 00:01:22,915 --> 00:01:26,755 Speaker 1: numbers are from at the latest, the first full day 16 00:01:27,075 --> 00:01:31,155 Speaker 1: of the Harris campaign. There are voters who do not 17 00:01:31,715 --> 00:01:34,955 Speaker 1: know she is going to be the Democratic nominee for president. 18 00:01:35,235 --> 00:01:39,115 Speaker 1: Could be a million of them, could be twenty million 19 00:01:39,155 --> 00:01:41,355 Speaker 1: of them. It is hard to say. And she is 20 00:01:41,515 --> 00:01:48,155 Speaker 1: already in a statistical tie. And yet the most jaw 21 00:01:48,235 --> 00:01:52,275 Speaker 1: dropping poll is none of these. It is from a 22 00:01:52,795 --> 00:01:55,555 Speaker 1: state and I had to look up the pollster, whereupon 23 00:01:55,675 --> 00:01:58,675 Speaker 1: my jaw dropped a second time in the same poll 24 00:01:59,675 --> 00:02:03,995 Speaker 1: Georgia conducted Monday, Trump forty eight Harris forty seven by 25 00:02:04,115 --> 00:02:07,995 Speaker 1: Landmark Communications, And who in the hell is Landmark Communications? 26 00:02:08,035 --> 00:02:12,955 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's a Republican internal pollster in Georgia. 27 00:02:12,995 --> 00:02:16,315 Speaker 1: From its website. Mark Rowntree is president of Landmark Communications, 28 00:02:16,435 --> 00:02:18,595 Speaker 1: which he founded in nineteen ninety one. He's been professionally 29 00:02:18,635 --> 00:02:21,715 Speaker 1: engaged as run more than two thousand different Georgia elections, 30 00:02:22,235 --> 00:02:27,155 Speaker 1: including statewide, congressional, legislative and local campaigns and elections magazine 31 00:02:28,355 --> 00:02:32,635 Speaker 1: I Let my subscription lapse. Campaign and Elections magazine has 32 00:02:32,715 --> 00:02:37,075 Speaker 1: recognized Mark as one of Georgia's five top influencers, as 33 00:02:37,115 --> 00:02:42,715 Speaker 1: well as quote the go to man for GOP legislative candidates. 34 00:02:42,955 --> 00:02:45,675 Speaker 1: Landmark regularly polls Georgia and is rated in an A 35 00:02:45,915 --> 00:02:49,315 Speaker 1: minus grade by five thirty eight dot com. Sweet Jesus 36 00:02:49,675 --> 00:02:55,075 Speaker 1: on hockey skates, Kamala Harris trails Trump in Georgia by 37 00:02:55,235 --> 00:03:01,595 Speaker 1: one according to the leading Republican pollster. The last Trump 38 00:03:01,675 --> 00:03:04,915 Speaker 1: Biden polled there earlier this month. Trump by five, four 39 00:03:05,835 --> 00:03:12,075 Speaker 1: June Trump by five, January Trump by eight. Also back 40 00:03:12,115 --> 00:03:15,555 Speaker 1: to the National Poll's marist, what is your impression of 41 00:03:15,595 --> 00:03:21,155 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris registered voters Monday? Favorable forty four, unfavorable forty six. 42 00:03:21,675 --> 00:03:25,275 Speaker 1: So she's two points underwater. That sounds meh. Trump is 43 00:03:25,355 --> 00:03:30,115 Speaker 1: nineteen points underwater nineteen. Joe Biden is eighteen points underwater. 44 00:03:30,955 --> 00:03:35,635 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris minus two. We joined the Trump campaign in 45 00:03:35,755 --> 00:03:41,955 Speaker 1: full fledged pole panic, frantically lowering the bar already in progress. 46 00:03:42,795 --> 00:03:47,595 Speaker 1: A memo at midday yesterday from Tony Fabrizio, Trump polster 47 00:03:48,155 --> 00:03:51,035 Speaker 1: who now works at MAGA Inc. Even though Trump tried 48 00:03:51,035 --> 00:03:54,235 Speaker 1: to stiff him for seven hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars, 49 00:03:54,275 --> 00:03:57,515 Speaker 1: it owed him from polling during the twenty sixteen campaign. 50 00:03:58,115 --> 00:04:01,115 Speaker 1: Part of his memo quote, many of you have heard 51 00:04:01,155 --> 00:04:04,355 Speaker 1: me refer to the upcoming Harris honeymoon that I expect 52 00:04:04,395 --> 00:04:07,075 Speaker 1: to see in the public polling over the next couple 53 00:04:07,115 --> 00:04:11,355 Speaker 1: of weeks, he wrote an hour before it began. As 54 00:04:11,395 --> 00:04:14,315 Speaker 1: I've explained, the honeymoon will be a manifestation of the 55 00:04:14,395 --> 00:04:19,115 Speaker 1: wall to wall coverage Harris receives from the MSM. The 56 00:04:19,155 --> 00:04:22,475 Speaker 1: coverage will be largely positive and will certainly energize Democrats 57 00:04:22,595 --> 00:04:25,355 Speaker 1: and some other parts of their coalition, at least in 58 00:04:25,435 --> 00:04:28,595 Speaker 1: the short term. That means we will start to see 59 00:04:28,635 --> 00:04:33,435 Speaker 1: public polling, particularly national public polls, where Harris is gaining 60 00:04:33,475 --> 00:04:37,675 Speaker 1: on or even leading Trump. Obviously, the situation we find 61 00:04:37,715 --> 00:04:40,915 Speaker 1: ourselves in today is totally uncharted territory and has no 62 00:04:41,075 --> 00:04:44,075 Speaker 1: modern historical parallel, but there are some things that haven't 63 00:04:44,195 --> 00:04:47,635 Speaker 1: changed due to the events of the past two weeks, 64 00:04:47,675 --> 00:04:52,915 Speaker 1: including our highly successful convention. Did you see the speech Tony? 65 00:04:53,075 --> 00:04:55,955 Speaker 1: President Trump has seen a bump in his numbers in 66 00:04:56,035 --> 00:04:59,755 Speaker 1: a number of recent public polls, not surprising given that 67 00:04:59,995 --> 00:05:03,635 Speaker 1: most candidates historically receive some type of bump. Given what 68 00:05:03,715 --> 00:05:05,635 Speaker 1: has happened over the past last couple of days and 69 00:05:05,675 --> 00:05:08,635 Speaker 1: her impending VP choice, there is no question that Harris 70 00:05:08,675 --> 00:05:12,835 Speaker 1: will get her bump earlier than the Democrats convention, and 71 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:15,395 Speaker 1: that bump is likely to start showing itself over the 72 00:05:15,435 --> 00:05:18,555 Speaker 1: next few days. Tick tick ticket forty five minutes later 73 00:05:18,675 --> 00:05:23,715 Speaker 1: and will last a while until the race settles back down. 74 00:05:25,595 --> 00:05:29,275 Speaker 1: The Democrats and the MSM Fabrizio Rights will try and 75 00:05:29,395 --> 00:05:32,115 Speaker 1: tout these polls as proof that the race has changed, 76 00:05:32,275 --> 00:05:34,515 Speaker 1: but the fundamentals of the race stay the same. The 77 00:05:34,555 --> 00:05:38,715 Speaker 1: Democrats deposing one nominee for another does not change voter's 78 00:05:38,755 --> 00:05:42,955 Speaker 1: discontent over the economy, inflation, crime, the open border housing costs, 79 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:46,555 Speaker 1: not to mention concern over two foreign wars. Before long, 80 00:05:46,675 --> 00:05:50,115 Speaker 1: Harris's honeymoon will end and voters will refocus on her 81 00:05:50,195 --> 00:05:56,435 Speaker 1: role as Biden's partner and co pilot. Copilot is the 82 00:05:56,475 --> 00:05:58,875 Speaker 1: funniest word I've ever heard used as an attempt to 83 00:05:58,915 --> 00:06:05,115 Speaker 1: slur somebody. So Trump's convention bump and the so somebody 84 00:06:05,155 --> 00:06:08,235 Speaker 1: nearly shot him with a paper clip. No, no bullet bump. 85 00:06:08,595 --> 00:06:12,995 Speaker 1: They're already baked in here. But it's Harris who has 86 00:06:13,035 --> 00:06:17,515 Speaker 1: the honeymoon at the moment. Here's the graveyard, and right 87 00:06:17,555 --> 00:06:21,635 Speaker 1: next to it, here's Team Trump whistling past it. Because 88 00:06:21,635 --> 00:06:24,035 Speaker 1: there's one little thing Tony left out of his memo. 89 00:06:24,115 --> 00:06:27,795 Speaker 1: Did you notice one small detail that we can now 90 00:06:27,835 --> 00:06:30,915 Speaker 1: stop wasting so much of our energy, devoting so much 91 00:06:30,955 --> 00:06:35,275 Speaker 1: of this campaign to denying and finessing and finding the 92 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:41,595 Speaker 1: very real silver linings while trying to deprioritize the equally 93 00:06:41,675 --> 00:06:47,155 Speaker 1: real thunderstorm clouds that contain them. Nowhere in the Trump 94 00:06:47,395 --> 00:06:52,635 Speaker 1: internal polling memo is a reference to that pesky little 95 00:06:52,795 --> 00:06:59,955 Speaker 1: age thing. I wonder did anybody pull the new campaign 96 00:07:00,795 --> 00:07:04,795 Speaker 1: between Trump and Harris on the age thing? Oh oh, 97 00:07:05,355 --> 00:07:08,195 Speaker 1: look here it is. It's Ipsos for routers. Thank you 98 00:07:08,315 --> 00:07:12,475 Speaker 1: God for ipsos for routers Monday and some yesterday. Do 99 00:07:12,515 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 1: you agree or disagree? At seventy eight years old, Trump 100 00:07:15,755 --> 00:07:21,395 Speaker 1: is too old to work in government. Agree fifty three percent, 101 00:07:21,915 --> 00:07:27,475 Speaker 1: disagree forty three percent. But wait, there's more? Do you 102 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:31,395 Speaker 1: agree or disagree? Kamala Harris is mentally sharp and able 103 00:07:31,435 --> 00:07:36,675 Speaker 1: to deal with challenges. Agree fifty six percent, disagree thirty 104 00:07:36,715 --> 00:07:45,675 Speaker 1: seven percent. Check plays now, polls change, and Tony the 105 00:07:45,835 --> 00:07:50,595 Speaker 1: unpaid Trump pollster is right about honeymoons and bumps and fundamentals, 106 00:07:50,595 --> 00:07:53,155 Speaker 1: And though he didn't mention it in the memo, the 107 00:07:53,195 --> 00:07:55,235 Speaker 1: fact that you always should get Trump to pay you 108 00:07:55,395 --> 00:07:58,875 Speaker 1: up front. But the reason I began to say that 109 00:07:59,275 --> 00:08:01,115 Speaker 1: we would soon be saying, can you believe we came 110 00:08:01,115 --> 00:08:03,555 Speaker 1: this close to not making vice president Harris? The nominee 111 00:08:03,755 --> 00:08:08,555 Speaker 1: was not about those which blunt we are unforeseeably great 112 00:08:08,995 --> 00:08:13,715 Speaker 1: bump or no bumps and honeymoons or no honeymoons. Now, 113 00:08:13,915 --> 00:08:19,195 Speaker 1: this is about something else. I actually first felt a 114 00:08:19,355 --> 00:08:23,595 Speaker 1: version of this question before the debate, the same time 115 00:08:23,675 --> 00:08:26,555 Speaker 1: I heard, for the first time, perhaps a year, Vice 116 00:08:26,595 --> 00:08:30,795 Speaker 1: President Harris give a speech. I had stopped listening to 117 00:08:30,835 --> 00:08:33,955 Speaker 1: her speeches, and I'll explain why in a moment. But first, 118 00:08:34,515 --> 00:08:39,155 Speaker 1: this is the candidate yesterday throwing out the opening pitch 119 00:08:39,275 --> 00:08:41,315 Speaker 1: on opening day in Milwaukee. 120 00:08:41,635 --> 00:08:44,195 Speaker 2: I was like the United States senator. I was elected 121 00:08:44,275 --> 00:08:46,555 Speaker 2: attorney General of the state of California, and I was 122 00:08:46,595 --> 00:08:52,155 Speaker 2: a courtroom prosecutor before then. And in those roles, I 123 00:08:52,195 --> 00:08:59,635 Speaker 2: took on perpetrators of all kinds, predators who abused women, 124 00:09:01,595 --> 00:09:10,075 Speaker 2: fraudsters who ripped off, cheaters who broke the rules for 125 00:09:10,155 --> 00:09:15,995 Speaker 2: their own game. So hear me when I say I 126 00:09:16,155 --> 00:09:17,835 Speaker 2: know Donald Trump's tight. 127 00:09:29,075 --> 00:09:33,675 Speaker 1: Not in my lifetime have I heard a public speaker 128 00:09:34,235 --> 00:09:41,115 Speaker 1: improve that much that late, relatively in their career. Where 129 00:09:41,155 --> 00:09:45,675 Speaker 1: she was tentative and even diffident, Kamala Harris is now 130 00:09:45,675 --> 00:09:49,195 Speaker 1: excited to get to the punchline, and now she knows 131 00:09:49,195 --> 00:09:51,515 Speaker 1: how to throw the punch when she gets there. And 132 00:09:51,595 --> 00:09:57,835 Speaker 1: one small but significant technical improvement. She used to click. 133 00:09:59,195 --> 00:10:02,275 Speaker 1: There used to be a little mouth noise clicking sound 134 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:06,875 Speaker 1: during her pauses as often as every ten seconds or so, 135 00:10:07,235 --> 00:10:12,435 Speaker 1: just enough to drive you crazy within minutes. I heard 136 00:10:12,475 --> 00:10:15,635 Speaker 1: it during the twenty nineteen twenty twenty primary season, and 137 00:10:15,755 --> 00:10:19,835 Speaker 1: I thought she could never get elected. The click, in 138 00:10:19,915 --> 00:10:25,155 Speaker 1: short order becomes all you can hear. The click is gone. 139 00:10:26,035 --> 00:10:27,635 Speaker 1: I don't know what she did. I don't know if 140 00:10:27,675 --> 00:10:29,835 Speaker 1: it was conscious. I don't know if they worked on 141 00:10:29,875 --> 00:10:34,555 Speaker 1: it for two years. It's gone. The click is gone, 142 00:10:34,595 --> 00:10:38,435 Speaker 1: and honestly, I think so are Trump's chances. Famous last words, 143 00:10:38,475 --> 00:10:43,795 Speaker 1: I know these poll numbers could be a honeymoon, though, 144 00:10:44,235 --> 00:10:51,955 Speaker 1: tell me when was the last American political honeymoon? Maybe Obama? Maybe, 145 00:10:52,755 --> 00:10:56,675 Speaker 1: I mean in the late primaries. It could be just 146 00:10:56,715 --> 00:10:59,275 Speaker 1: a bump. Or it could be this other thing that 147 00:10:59,315 --> 00:11:01,875 Speaker 1: we tended to discount much of this year. It could 148 00:11:01,875 --> 00:11:04,915 Speaker 1: be the voters who have been screaming at everybody. We 149 00:11:05,075 --> 00:11:08,395 Speaker 1: told you we didn't want either of them. We told 150 00:11:08,435 --> 00:11:14,955 Speaker 1: you we wanted somebody younger, almost anybody younger. Oh thanks, 151 00:11:14,955 --> 00:11:18,635 Speaker 1: there's somebody younger. If that's what this is, this could 152 00:11:18,635 --> 00:11:25,275 Speaker 1: be a democratic landslide. Can you believe we came this 153 00:11:25,555 --> 00:11:33,475 Speaker 1: close to not making Vice President Harris the nominee? By 154 00:11:33,515 --> 00:11:37,595 Speaker 1: the way, A PostScript I think the polls that Nancy 155 00:11:37,675 --> 00:11:42,555 Speaker 1: showed President Biden Nancy Pelosi. That is sure. There were 156 00:11:42,595 --> 00:11:44,595 Speaker 1: the polls about how he was losing all the swing 157 00:11:44,635 --> 00:11:48,275 Speaker 1: states and creating new swing states, and the national polls. 158 00:11:49,355 --> 00:11:52,195 Speaker 1: I think she also showed him ones that we have 159 00:11:52,315 --> 00:11:57,395 Speaker 1: not yet seen that look like those hypotheticals I quoted 160 00:11:57,475 --> 00:11:59,755 Speaker 1: last week in which we go from Biden down five 161 00:11:59,795 --> 00:12:03,395 Speaker 1: in the swing states to somebody else up seven. Only 162 00:12:03,395 --> 00:12:06,955 Speaker 1: it's not some tiononary somebody else in the ones I 163 00:12:06,995 --> 00:12:12,435 Speaker 1: think Pelosi showed Biden. It's Kamala somebody else Harris who's 164 00:12:12,515 --> 00:12:18,315 Speaker 1: up by seven in the Swing states, or can be Ohwen. 165 00:12:18,355 --> 00:12:23,675 Speaker 1: She probably also showed Joe Biden fundraising expectations, and my god, 166 00:12:23,715 --> 00:12:27,995 Speaker 1: it just keeps coming. Plus now there are Harris jokes, 167 00:12:28,035 --> 00:12:31,395 Speaker 1: good Harris jokes about Harris fundraising. I don't see an 168 00:12:31,435 --> 00:12:34,595 Speaker 1: official update as I record this. I expect that the 169 00:12:34,635 --> 00:12:37,795 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty three thousand dollars a minute clip 170 00:12:38,035 --> 00:12:41,395 Speaker 1: will have leveled off somewhat. But we did get this 171 00:12:41,475 --> 00:12:44,475 Speaker 1: in the inbox quote over one hundred million dollars raised 172 00:12:44,515 --> 00:12:49,955 Speaker 1: for Kamala that was sent by JD Vance. Thanks JD 173 00:12:51,395 --> 00:12:53,515 Speaker 1: by the way, that was one hundred million dollars as 174 00:12:53,555 --> 00:12:58,955 Speaker 1: of our thirty six. The fundraising jokes too. I wanted 175 00:12:58,955 --> 00:13:03,115 Speaker 1: to mention from the comedian Paul Rudnick. Kamala raises any 176 00:13:03,155 --> 00:13:10,835 Speaker 1: more money, Millennia marry her good from Heather Thomas. Kamala 177 00:13:10,875 --> 00:13:14,955 Speaker 1: Harris has raised so much money, Clarence Thomas wants to 178 00:13:15,075 --> 00:13:23,435 Speaker 1: vacation with her. We had another example of the media 179 00:13:23,475 --> 00:13:28,755 Speaker 1: being too stupid for words talk about jokes. A debate 180 00:13:29,115 --> 00:13:33,235 Speaker 1: A Harris Trump debate. The headline at the website The Hill, 181 00:13:33,395 --> 00:13:35,795 Speaker 1: Trump commits to debating Harris, would be willing to do 182 00:13:35,875 --> 00:13:39,435 Speaker 1: more than one. In point of fact, as the story reveals, 183 00:13:39,715 --> 00:13:45,115 Speaker 1: Trump was uncommitting from the scheduled debate against Harris on 184 00:13:45,235 --> 00:13:50,835 Speaker 1: ABC in September and committing to other hypothetical ones, but 185 00:13:50,915 --> 00:13:54,995 Speaker 1: only on his terms. In other words, they got the 186 00:13:55,075 --> 00:13:59,835 Speaker 1: story entirely incorrect. Quote I have at least equals say, 187 00:13:59,875 --> 00:14:02,795 Speaker 1: and I don't like the idea of ABC, Trump told 188 00:14:02,795 --> 00:14:04,995 Speaker 1: reporters on a press call, I would be willing to 189 00:14:04,995 --> 00:14:08,155 Speaker 1: do more than one debate, actually, but he added that 190 00:14:08,195 --> 00:14:10,955 Speaker 1: he had not agreed to anything as far as to 191 00:14:10,995 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: a debate with Harris. I agreed to a debate with 192 00:14:14,875 --> 00:14:18,595 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Why don't you go do that? Maybe they'll 193 00:14:18,595 --> 00:14:21,795 Speaker 1: put it on radio. I agreed to a debate with 194 00:14:21,875 --> 00:14:24,195 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, but I want to debate her. They have 195 00:14:24,275 --> 00:14:26,635 Speaker 1: the same policies. I think debating is important for a 196 00:14:26,635 --> 00:14:29,915 Speaker 1: presidential race. I'm only seventy eight and a half years old. 197 00:14:30,155 --> 00:14:32,715 Speaker 1: My name is Elmer j FID millionaire. I own a 198 00:14:32,795 --> 00:14:36,995 Speaker 1: mansion in a yacht I was suggested to this crazy 199 00:14:37,035 --> 00:14:39,275 Speaker 1: old man that he take whatever terms he can get 200 00:14:39,555 --> 00:14:43,355 Speaker 1: in a debate, because it may shortly be clear, even 201 00:14:43,435 --> 00:14:47,795 Speaker 1: to him in his adult state of mind, that his 202 00:14:47,995 --> 00:14:55,395 Speaker 1: only chance is if she bothers to debate him. Now 203 00:14:55,475 --> 00:14:59,435 Speaker 1: happily in the background, it's not like the Republican rank 204 00:14:59,475 --> 00:15:03,875 Speaker 1: and file is panicking or anything. From Politico. House Republican 205 00:15:03,955 --> 00:15:08,315 Speaker 1: leaders told law makers to focus on criticizing Harris's record 206 00:15:08,555 --> 00:15:13,155 Speaker 1: without reference to her race and gender, following caustic remarks 207 00:15:13,155 --> 00:15:16,995 Speaker 1: from some Republicans attacking her on the basis of identity. 208 00:15:17,435 --> 00:15:21,435 Speaker 1: One hundred percent is some right. During a closed door 209 00:15:21,475 --> 00:15:26,235 Speaker 1: meeting yesterday, chair of the House GOP campaign arm Richard 210 00:15:26,315 --> 00:15:30,395 Speaker 1: Hudson and others issued the warning after a series of 211 00:15:30,395 --> 00:15:33,435 Speaker 1: comments by their members that focused on Harris's race, as 212 00:15:33,435 --> 00:15:36,995 Speaker 1: well as claims she is a quote DEI pick. According 213 00:15:36,995 --> 00:15:40,155 Speaker 1: to two people in the room, Speaker of the House 214 00:15:40,195 --> 00:15:44,275 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, who is really dumb. This should not be 215 00:15:44,315 --> 00:15:48,155 Speaker 1: about personalities. It should be about policy. And we have 216 00:15:48,235 --> 00:15:53,635 Speaker 1: a record to compare DEI. You're trying to get them 217 00:15:53,835 --> 00:15:56,675 Speaker 1: to not say DEI. I mean, what is it. It's 218 00:15:56,675 --> 00:16:01,315 Speaker 1: a week since the Trump crony Sebastian Gorka called Kamala 219 00:16:01,315 --> 00:16:05,435 Speaker 1: Harris quote colored unquote, and you're trying to stop them 220 00:16:05,435 --> 00:16:10,315 Speaker 1: from saying DEI. You are telling your collection of white 221 00:16:10,355 --> 00:16:15,315 Speaker 1: supremacist morons not to call her DEI. Well, guess what, 222 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:19,475 Speaker 1: here's a shock. They're not listening to you, Richard Hudson, 223 00:16:20,035 --> 00:16:26,515 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson. They're listening to Sebastian Gorka. This is Harriet Hageman, 224 00:16:26,835 --> 00:16:29,955 Speaker 1: who primaried and beat Liz Cheney and who is as 225 00:16:29,995 --> 00:16:41,195 Speaker 1: widely noted. Well, maybe also George Santos. When George Santos 226 00:16:41,235 --> 00:16:44,915 Speaker 1: is dressed up as Katara Ravasche dead ringers, they're dead 227 00:16:44,955 --> 00:16:48,755 Speaker 1: ringers for one another. Also, as you listen to Harriet 228 00:16:49,155 --> 00:16:54,755 Speaker 1: George Katara Ravasch Santos Hagman to get the full flavor 229 00:16:54,955 --> 00:16:58,115 Speaker 1: of the thing of what she means. Imagine at the 230 00:16:58,235 --> 00:17:02,035 Speaker 1: end that she does not say DEI, but what she 231 00:17:02,115 --> 00:17:04,195 Speaker 1: and the others really want to say, that she's saying 232 00:17:04,795 --> 00:17:05,555 Speaker 1: the N word. 233 00:17:05,715 --> 00:17:07,675 Speaker 3: Well, I think she's one of the weakest candidates I've 234 00:17:07,715 --> 00:17:11,755 Speaker 3: ever seen in the history of our country. I mean, intellectually, 235 00:17:12,035 --> 00:17:14,755 Speaker 3: just really kind of the bottom of the barrel. I 236 00:17:14,755 --> 00:17:16,995 Speaker 3: think she was a DEI higher and I think that 237 00:17:16,995 --> 00:17:19,235 Speaker 3: that's what we're seeing. And I just don't think that 238 00:17:19,275 --> 00:17:21,035 Speaker 3: they have anybody else. I just think that they're in 239 00:17:21,075 --> 00:17:22,035 Speaker 3: real disarray. 240 00:17:22,195 --> 00:17:25,035 Speaker 1: Whoo, one of them is going to do it. I 241 00:17:25,075 --> 00:17:28,355 Speaker 1: predicted it yesterday, before the end of the month. Somebody's 242 00:17:28,355 --> 00:17:30,755 Speaker 1: going to use an actual racial epithet. They're not going 243 00:17:30,835 --> 00:17:33,875 Speaker 1: to stop at DEI. We can't call her DEI? Oh 244 00:17:33,955 --> 00:17:39,355 Speaker 1: how about this other word here that starts with it? No? No, no, no, no, no. 245 00:17:39,835 --> 00:17:44,795 Speaker 1: How about these initials JD? Can we call her a JD? Oh? 246 00:17:44,835 --> 00:17:47,955 Speaker 1: My goodness, is there JD? Vance Buyer's remorse on the 247 00:17:47,995 --> 00:17:50,435 Speaker 1: Republican side of the ball. I can't tell if he's 248 00:17:50,475 --> 00:17:57,115 Speaker 1: inflated or stuffed or both. He's not making a good impression. Also, 249 00:17:57,315 --> 00:17:59,915 Speaker 1: there's the little matter of CNN breaking the story that 250 00:17:59,955 --> 00:18:03,835 Speaker 1: he repeatedly indicated in twenty sixteen that he believed Donald 251 00:18:03,835 --> 00:18:08,795 Speaker 1: Trump had committed sexual assault. CNN reported that Vance appeared 252 00:18:08,795 --> 00:18:12,355 Speaker 1: on an MSNBC segment in October that year on Trump's 253 00:18:12,395 --> 00:18:17,035 Speaker 1: alleged misconduct sexual misconduct, in which an interview with Jessica Leads, 254 00:18:18,275 --> 00:18:21,315 Speaker 1: who accused Trump of groping and forcibly kissing her during 255 00:18:21,355 --> 00:18:24,075 Speaker 1: a flight in the nineteen seventies. The tape was played, 256 00:18:24,195 --> 00:18:26,795 Speaker 1: Vance said it was hard to believe Trump's denials. Quote 257 00:18:26,835 --> 00:18:30,355 Speaker 1: at a fundamental level, this is sort of a he said, 258 00:18:30,475 --> 00:18:32,595 Speaker 1: She said, right, And at the end of the day, 259 00:18:33,435 --> 00:18:36,755 Speaker 1: Trump's vice presidential nominee JD. Vance said, do you believe 260 00:18:36,755 --> 00:18:40,635 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who always tells the truth just kidding? Or 261 00:18:40,675 --> 00:18:46,675 Speaker 1: do you believe that woman on the tape? Can they 262 00:18:46,675 --> 00:18:49,395 Speaker 1: have another convention since that last convention went so so 263 00:18:49,555 --> 00:18:54,515 Speaker 1: well for them and picked somebody else? Anybody else? Anybody 264 00:18:54,555 --> 00:19:21,395 Speaker 1: know where Mike Pence is at the moment. Hello, I'm 265 00:19:21,475 --> 00:19:24,635 Speaker 1: Vice President Mike Pence for the Trump Pence twenty twenty 266 00:19:24,635 --> 00:19:30,035 Speaker 1: four campaign. I know, I know you're asking why one 267 00:19:30,035 --> 00:19:34,075 Speaker 1: more item here? Trump and the Magic Bullet this is 268 00:19:34,155 --> 00:19:38,635 Speaker 1: finally sneaking into the mainstream again. A CNN piece not 269 00:19:39,035 --> 00:19:43,595 Speaker 1: on the air on the website, Sanjay Gupta writes, although 270 00:19:43,635 --> 00:19:46,435 Speaker 1: the images we've seen of Trump since his attempted assassination 271 00:19:46,515 --> 00:19:49,035 Speaker 1: have been those of a person who was barely injured 272 00:19:49,475 --> 00:19:51,835 Speaker 1: and is now in high spirits, what we've been told 273 00:19:51,915 --> 00:19:55,115 Speaker 1: by the campaign offers very little insight into the former 274 00:19:55,155 --> 00:19:58,435 Speaker 1: president's condition, what kind of care he received, or how 275 00:19:58,475 --> 00:20:00,595 Speaker 1: his medical team will monitor him in the days and 276 00:20:00,635 --> 00:20:05,835 Speaker 1: weeks ahead. Oh really, I hadn't noticed this. A full 277 00:20:05,915 --> 00:20:08,715 Speaker 1: public assessment of Trump's injuries is necessary for both the 278 00:20:08,755 --> 00:20:12,635 Speaker 1: former president's own health yeah okay, and the clarity it 279 00:20:12,675 --> 00:20:15,115 Speaker 1: can provide for voters about the recovery of the man 280 00:20:15,155 --> 00:20:17,595 Speaker 1: who could become president of the United States once again. 281 00:20:17,915 --> 00:20:21,315 Speaker 1: The concern is that gunshot blasts near the head can 282 00:20:21,355 --> 00:20:25,155 Speaker 1: cause injuries that aren't immediably noticeable, such as bleeding in 283 00:20:25,435 --> 00:20:28,195 Speaker 1: or on the brain, damage to the inner ear, or 284 00:20:28,235 --> 00:20:32,595 Speaker 1: even psychological trauma. His head is not big enough to 285 00:20:32,635 --> 00:20:36,035 Speaker 1: contain any more psychological trauma. This has to be it. 286 00:20:36,435 --> 00:20:41,155 Speaker 1: He is already the craziest man in public discourse in 287 00:20:41,195 --> 00:20:46,835 Speaker 1: the United States, certainly North America, probably the entire hemisphere. Oh, 288 00:20:46,875 --> 00:20:50,275 Speaker 1: he might have a little bit more psychological trauma. Well, 289 00:20:50,395 --> 00:20:53,155 Speaker 1: then he'll be an axe murderer by the end of 290 00:20:53,155 --> 00:20:58,195 Speaker 1: the week. As a trauma neurosurgeon, I have seen how 291 00:20:58,235 --> 00:21:01,635 Speaker 1: a thorough evaluation after any kind of gunshot wound can 292 00:21:01,635 --> 00:21:04,675 Speaker 1: provide a complete picture and lead to a speedier recovery. 293 00:21:06,235 --> 00:21:13,755 Speaker 1: Sonjay's spoiler alert, it wasn't a bullet, bottle cap, piece 294 00:21:13,755 --> 00:21:20,515 Speaker 1: of plastic, possibly a very old hard gum ball. Why 295 00:21:20,515 --> 00:21:25,395 Speaker 1: are they keeping this a secret because they can't face 296 00:21:25,435 --> 00:21:29,955 Speaker 1: the idea one particular aspect apart from the martyrdom, apart 297 00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:33,075 Speaker 1: from the he can stop a bullet with his bare ear, 298 00:21:33,475 --> 00:21:36,395 Speaker 1: apart from the he took a bullet from democracy, all 299 00:21:36,435 --> 00:21:38,835 Speaker 1: of these lines that would instantly vanish if there were 300 00:21:38,875 --> 00:21:41,715 Speaker 1: in fact, open proof that he was hit by some 301 00:21:41,755 --> 00:21:44,635 Speaker 1: sort of debris, even though to you and I they 302 00:21:44,675 --> 00:21:47,515 Speaker 1: tried to kill him and he got hit by something 303 00:21:47,835 --> 00:21:50,155 Speaker 1: and it opened up a wound on his ear, and 304 00:21:50,195 --> 00:21:52,475 Speaker 1: if he just played it straight, we couldn't have said 305 00:21:52,475 --> 00:21:54,835 Speaker 1: anything about it. We couldn't have mocked him for it. 306 00:21:54,955 --> 00:21:57,475 Speaker 1: We couldn't have accused him of exaggerating it. We couldn't 307 00:21:57,475 --> 00:21:59,315 Speaker 1: have used it against him, And here he has created 308 00:21:59,355 --> 00:22:04,355 Speaker 1: this entire situation simply by not telling the truth. If 309 00:22:04,355 --> 00:22:06,755 Speaker 1: people shoot at you and you are running for president 310 00:22:06,795 --> 00:22:09,435 Speaker 1: of the United States, and other people get killed and 311 00:22:09,555 --> 00:22:12,635 Speaker 1: wounded because of those bullets, and you get hit by 312 00:22:12,795 --> 00:22:17,155 Speaker 1: some sort of essentially improvised shrapnel, that counts. That was 313 00:22:17,195 --> 00:22:20,755 Speaker 1: an assassination attempt. That was an assassination attempt by gun. 314 00:22:24,075 --> 00:22:26,915 Speaker 1: That counts. But they can't let it happen that way 315 00:22:26,955 --> 00:22:31,195 Speaker 1: because of one line that would result the idea that 316 00:22:31,275 --> 00:22:36,155 Speaker 1: when Trump dived under that podium, he was diving to 317 00:22:36,195 --> 00:22:41,435 Speaker 1: get out of the way of a bottle cap. They 318 00:22:41,515 --> 00:22:44,595 Speaker 1: cannot face the idea that Trump would have had to 319 00:22:44,675 --> 00:22:49,115 Speaker 1: dive under the podium unless it was a bullet. What 320 00:22:49,195 --> 00:22:52,795 Speaker 1: if it wasn't a lethal threat to him? What if 321 00:22:52,835 --> 00:22:54,235 Speaker 1: it had hit him in the back of the head, 322 00:22:54,275 --> 00:22:57,035 Speaker 1: whatever it was, and it wasn't a bullet. Even if 323 00:22:57,075 --> 00:22:59,795 Speaker 1: the other bullet in that photograph whizzed right past him 324 00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:01,795 Speaker 1: and didn't strike him, and he got hit by some 325 00:23:01,835 --> 00:23:05,675 Speaker 1: sort of debris struck somewhere along the way, buy that 326 00:23:05,875 --> 00:23:09,275 Speaker 1: bullet or some other bullet. We don't see the difference. 327 00:23:09,355 --> 00:23:12,835 Speaker 1: They are living and dying over it. It could become 328 00:23:12,995 --> 00:23:15,555 Speaker 1: something that would do as much damage to the Trump 329 00:23:15,595 --> 00:23:19,635 Speaker 1: campaign as Kamala Harris is doing to the Trump campaign. 330 00:23:19,915 --> 00:23:22,635 Speaker 1: And I'll explain to you again from my personal experience 331 00:23:22,715 --> 00:23:27,675 Speaker 1: where this comes from, in this kind of reptile mind 332 00:23:27,995 --> 00:23:32,595 Speaker 1: that is at the back of every Republican candidate and voter. 333 00:23:34,155 --> 00:23:37,315 Speaker 1: In September of two thousand and six, I received a 334 00:23:37,395 --> 00:23:41,475 Speaker 1: package of fake anthrax in my mail at home. From 335 00:23:41,515 --> 00:23:45,955 Speaker 1: the beginning, it was obvious it was fake anthrax, except 336 00:23:45,955 --> 00:23:49,515 Speaker 1: what if it wasn't. I knew, because I happened to 337 00:23:49,555 --> 00:23:53,195 Speaker 1: be at that moment on antibiotics, that I was not 338 00:23:53,315 --> 00:23:57,075 Speaker 1: going to get anthrax, let alone die from it. But 339 00:23:57,115 --> 00:23:59,595 Speaker 1: the building was full of ninety three year old ladies. 340 00:23:59,955 --> 00:24:02,555 Speaker 1: What if the one in a billion chants were true 341 00:24:03,075 --> 00:24:06,435 Speaker 1: that it was anthrax, and so somehow somebody dealing with 342 00:24:06,515 --> 00:24:09,835 Speaker 1: anthrax who did not kill themselves while dealing with anthrax, 343 00:24:09,995 --> 00:24:13,635 Speaker 1: managed to put anthrax in the mail to me. What 344 00:24:13,875 --> 00:24:18,675 Speaker 1: if that happened and the ninety three year old ladies 345 00:24:18,715 --> 00:24:22,035 Speaker 1: all got it and died, which is exactly the scenario 346 00:24:22,075 --> 00:24:25,475 Speaker 1: that took place in the actual anthrax attacks. After nine 347 00:24:25,475 --> 00:24:28,075 Speaker 1: to eleven in the early winter of two thousand and one, 348 00:24:28,315 --> 00:24:31,315 Speaker 1: including one at the Rupert Murdoch paper the New York Post, 349 00:24:32,995 --> 00:24:36,035 Speaker 1: but because it was not actually anthrax, and when I 350 00:24:36,155 --> 00:24:40,755 Speaker 1: called the Department of Homeland Security, and a wonderful exhibition 351 00:24:40,795 --> 00:24:43,435 Speaker 1: of your tax dollars in action was played out in 352 00:24:43,435 --> 00:24:47,355 Speaker 1: front of me as has Matt suit after has Matt's 353 00:24:47,355 --> 00:24:50,875 Speaker 1: suit marched through my apartment and the departments adjoining, and 354 00:24:50,915 --> 00:24:54,755 Speaker 1: they finally ordered me into the ambulance at threat of arrest, 355 00:24:55,555 --> 00:24:58,955 Speaker 1: to spend the night being checked for anthrax just in case, 356 00:24:59,035 --> 00:25:01,155 Speaker 1: on the same premise that I had called them just 357 00:25:01,195 --> 00:25:05,635 Speaker 1: in case. After that was leaked the New York Post, 358 00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:08,235 Speaker 1: when the FBI asked me not to report it so 359 00:25:08,235 --> 00:25:10,275 Speaker 1: they could get a head start on finding the guy 360 00:25:10,315 --> 00:25:12,275 Speaker 1: who did it, and ultimately they did. As I have 361 00:25:12,315 --> 00:25:18,195 Speaker 1: described here in previous episodes, this fake anthrax attack was 362 00:25:18,355 --> 00:25:20,275 Speaker 1: very much a terrorist act, and the man who did 363 00:25:20,315 --> 00:25:22,955 Speaker 1: it and sent similar packages to others and ultimately sent 364 00:25:22,995 --> 00:25:26,355 Speaker 1: me four different packages of fake anthrax went to prison. 365 00:25:26,675 --> 00:25:29,475 Speaker 1: I believe it was for three years. I think he 366 00:25:29,515 --> 00:25:32,515 Speaker 1: still has a parole officer or at least a probation officer, 367 00:25:32,795 --> 00:25:37,195 Speaker 1: and he literally lived in his mother's basement in southern 368 00:25:37,195 --> 00:25:39,595 Speaker 1: California and thought the two most beautiful women in the 369 00:25:39,595 --> 00:25:44,195 Speaker 1: world were Laura Ingram and culture. But what was the 370 00:25:44,235 --> 00:25:48,515 Speaker 1: reaction to this? This was exactly what The New York Post, 371 00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:51,915 Speaker 1: when it was leaked to them wrote, MSNBC. Oh the 372 00:25:51,955 --> 00:25:58,155 Speaker 1: headline powder puff spooks Keith, not something about how taking 373 00:25:58,355 --> 00:26:03,915 Speaker 1: precaution here MSNBC loudmouth Keith Alderman flipped out when he 374 00:26:03,955 --> 00:26:07,875 Speaker 1: opened his home yesterday. The acerbic cob was terrified when 375 00:26:07,915 --> 00:26:11,075 Speaker 1: he opened a suspicious looking letter with a California postmark 376 00:26:11,115 --> 00:26:13,835 Speaker 1: and a batch of white powder poured out a note inside. 377 00:26:13,835 --> 00:26:17,475 Speaker 1: Warrened Olderman, who's a frequent critic of President Bush's policies, 378 00:26:17,595 --> 00:26:20,635 Speaker 1: that it was payback for some of his on air stick. 379 00:26:22,355 --> 00:26:27,075 Speaker 1: The caustic commentator panicked and frantically called nine to one 380 00:26:27,155 --> 00:26:30,755 Speaker 1: one at about twelve thirty am. Sources told the post's 381 00:26:30,955 --> 00:26:37,355 Speaker 1: Philip Messing himself? Is that Philip Messing? That's Philip Messing himself. 382 00:26:37,755 --> 00:26:41,435 Speaker 1: An NYPD has Matt Unit rushed to Olberman's pad, but 383 00:26:41,595 --> 00:26:45,915 Speaker 1: preliminary tests indicated the substance was harmless soap powder. However, 384 00:26:45,995 --> 00:26:49,475 Speaker 1: that wasn't enough to satisfy Olberman, who insisted on a checkup, 385 00:26:50,395 --> 00:26:52,515 Speaker 1: as I pointed out, no, I said, why do you 386 00:26:52,555 --> 00:26:53,715 Speaker 1: have to Why do I have to go to the 387 00:26:53,715 --> 00:26:58,035 Speaker 1: hospital all night just in case? Okay, what if I don't, 388 00:26:58,115 --> 00:27:02,195 Speaker 1: we'll arrest you under public health charges. He asked to 389 00:27:02,235 --> 00:27:05,675 Speaker 1: be taken to Saint Luke's Hospital, where looked him over 390 00:27:05,715 --> 00:27:08,235 Speaker 1: and sent him home. Whether they gave him a lollipop 391 00:27:08,275 --> 00:27:10,795 Speaker 1: on the way out is it known? Alderman had no comment. 392 00:27:11,995 --> 00:27:15,955 Speaker 1: Imagine the right wing media having to deal with the 393 00:27:15,995 --> 00:27:18,875 Speaker 1: reality that Donald Trump was not hit by a bullet, 394 00:27:19,475 --> 00:27:24,235 Speaker 1: but was hit by I don't know, fake anthrax, harmless 395 00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:31,715 Speaker 1: soap powder, a lollipop, debris from an assassin's bullet is 396 00:27:31,755 --> 00:27:37,075 Speaker 1: not to them the same as an assassin's bullet. Ultimately, 397 00:27:37,515 --> 00:27:42,955 Speaker 1: this christ like act by Trump taking a bullet for 398 00:27:43,035 --> 00:27:52,195 Speaker 1: democracy suddenly that turns into powder puff spooks Trump and 399 00:27:52,315 --> 00:27:56,635 Speaker 1: that's why they are doing this and why Trump continues 400 00:27:56,955 --> 00:28:02,835 Speaker 1: to hide the real story of how his ear got 401 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:18,155 Speaker 1: nearly fail scratched. Don't you say it wasn't real. Don't 402 00:28:18,195 --> 00:28:19,915 Speaker 1: you say it wasn't a real bullet. He didn't just 403 00:28:19,995 --> 00:28:23,035 Speaker 1: he didn't dive and hide under that lectern because he 404 00:28:23,875 --> 00:28:25,515 Speaker 1: was a bullet he was almost dead. In fact, his 405 00:28:25,635 --> 00:28:27,715 Speaker 1: head came off. I saw him put his head back on. 406 00:28:28,275 --> 00:28:31,875 Speaker 1: He stitched it himself. He's Jesus. But let us not 407 00:28:31,995 --> 00:28:38,275 Speaker 1: get lost in the conservative weeds. Kamala Harris, first full 408 00:28:38,355 --> 00:28:40,835 Speaker 1: day on the camp. For first full day on the campaign, 409 00:28:42,235 --> 00:28:48,395 Speaker 1: thrown in at the last minute. The award winning actor 410 00:28:48,475 --> 00:28:53,795 Speaker 1: can't perform. You have to go on. A star is born, 411 00:28:54,315 --> 00:28:58,555 Speaker 1: starring Kamala Harris, first day out of the box with 412 00:28:58,595 --> 00:29:02,315 Speaker 1: an epic speech, a declaration of war on Trump in 413 00:29:02,515 --> 00:29:05,755 Speaker 1: said speech, millions more in don nations and of course 414 00:29:06,035 --> 00:29:09,075 Speaker 1: ahead in the Reuter's poll, a point back in the 415 00:29:09,155 --> 00:29:13,795 Speaker 1: Georgia poll. Approval poll number is seventeen points better than Trump. 416 00:29:13,875 --> 00:29:20,995 Speaker 1: To start with, polling, polling, polling, polling pole Oh wait, wait, wait, 417 00:29:20,995 --> 00:29:32,355 Speaker 1: wait wait, oh, Nancy, the same melody, different lyrics, polland 418 00:29:32,435 --> 00:29:37,835 Speaker 1: polland poll in. Keep those numbers rolling, get them margin swollen, 419 00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:45,235 Speaker 1: vice press day three ONSU already kicking drop. He wants 420 00:29:45,315 --> 00:29:50,075 Speaker 1: to see the manager and soon two points the top 421 00:29:50,115 --> 00:29:53,155 Speaker 1: of the match up. Now make sure he don't catch up. 422 00:29:53,435 --> 00:29:58,755 Speaker 1: Remember don vote for the old guy. I can Nancy 423 00:29:58,875 --> 00:30:07,555 Speaker 1: fast theme from ra Hind also of interest here. So 424 00:30:07,675 --> 00:30:12,315 Speaker 1: another Republican elected official has threatened civil war, only this 425 00:30:12,355 --> 00:30:15,275 Speaker 1: one tried to take it back, and he says we 426 00:30:15,395 --> 00:30:21,315 Speaker 1: all need to watch our words. Dude, you said that 427 00:30:21,555 --> 00:30:24,875 Speaker 1: if you didn't get your way and the Republicans did 428 00:30:24,875 --> 00:30:28,195 Speaker 1: not win the election, you would start a civil war 429 00:30:29,075 --> 00:30:34,195 Speaker 1: with your little guns. The government has all the tanks 430 00:30:34,715 --> 00:30:40,435 Speaker 1: and the jets, and the government the governments. The government's 431 00:30:40,515 --> 00:30:46,075 Speaker 1: run by Democrats. We all need to watch our words. Bullshit, dude, 432 00:30:46,355 --> 00:30:50,515 Speaker 1: you need to watch your words. That's next. This is countdown. 433 00:30:52,555 --> 00:31:18,155 Speaker 1: This is countdown, with Keith Olberman still ahead of us. 434 00:31:18,195 --> 00:31:22,595 Speaker 1: On this edition of Countdown, I slammed Aaron Sorkin yesterday 435 00:31:23,355 --> 00:31:26,395 Speaker 1: for his classic and perfectly timed New York Times op 436 00:31:26,595 --> 00:31:31,075 Speaker 1: ed Sunday morning that yes, Joe Biden should step aside 437 00:31:31,115 --> 00:31:36,275 Speaker 1: to be replaced by Mitt Romney. I mentioned that Aaron 438 00:31:36,315 --> 00:31:38,715 Speaker 1: Sorkin had, over the years, gone from being a friend 439 00:31:38,715 --> 00:31:42,035 Speaker 1: who I admired and who apparently admired me, to a 440 00:31:42,035 --> 00:31:44,795 Speaker 1: guy who admired me too much and started borrowing stuff 441 00:31:44,835 --> 00:31:48,555 Speaker 1: from me, like my career, all the stories in it 442 00:31:48,875 --> 00:31:51,995 Speaker 1: for free. If you don't know that story, let me 443 00:31:52,075 --> 00:31:55,595 Speaker 1: tell you of the day I heard my own father's 444 00:31:55,955 --> 00:32:01,315 Speaker 1: favorite phrase come out of the mouth of Aaron Sorkin's 445 00:32:01,475 --> 00:32:06,675 Speaker 1: lead character in Things I Promised Not to Tell First. 446 00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:09,075 Speaker 1: There are still more new idiots to talk about. The 447 00:32:09,155 --> 00:32:11,515 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger 448 00:32:11,515 --> 00:32:18,835 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today worst persons in the world. 449 00:32:19,995 --> 00:32:24,275 Speaker 1: The Bronze Valentina Gomez, the twenty five year old Colombian 450 00:32:24,355 --> 00:32:28,915 Speaker 1: born anti immigration candidate for Secretary of State in Missouri. 451 00:32:29,395 --> 00:32:33,795 Speaker 1: Anti immigration because of course she is. She's here already. 452 00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:38,675 Speaker 1: Why do we need other immigrants? Valentina does videos, usually 453 00:32:38,715 --> 00:32:42,795 Speaker 1: with weapons, and she's often seen wearing a size seven 454 00:32:42,915 --> 00:32:45,635 Speaker 1: Maga hat, even though her head seems to be about 455 00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:52,075 Speaker 1: a four. Recently, this Gomez attacked Missouri State Senator Barbara Pheiffer, 456 00:32:52,075 --> 00:32:55,835 Speaker 1: who has a trans grandchild. As they reported, the tension 457 00:32:55,955 --> 00:32:59,235 Speaker 1: escalated when Gomez launched a personal attack on Pfeiffer via 458 00:32:59,315 --> 00:33:02,915 Speaker 1: social media. You have a trans grandchild, she wrote, that 459 00:33:03,155 --> 00:33:06,915 Speaker 1: means you raised a r you failed your children, and 460 00:33:06,955 --> 00:33:10,555 Speaker 1: they failed your grandchildren. Also, you're irrelevant and you belong 461 00:33:10,675 --> 00:33:15,315 Speaker 1: in a nursing home. Pfeiffer is and has been for 462 00:33:15,315 --> 00:33:20,475 Speaker 1: forty years, a Methodist minister. Her response it's concerning anytime 463 00:33:20,515 --> 00:33:23,675 Speaker 1: a person attacks a child. Attacks on children have no 464 00:33:23,755 --> 00:33:28,235 Speaker 1: place anywhere on anything. Miss Gomez has not been listening. 465 00:33:29,515 --> 00:33:33,515 Speaker 1: There's another video of her burning LGBTQ themed books with 466 00:33:33,555 --> 00:33:36,755 Speaker 1: a flamethrower. There's another one in which she urged voters 467 00:33:36,795 --> 00:33:40,835 Speaker 1: not to be quote weak and gay. And now she 468 00:33:40,955 --> 00:33:45,035 Speaker 1: has filmed a campaign ad on the balcony of the 469 00:33:45,075 --> 00:33:48,355 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Capitol in Washington, 470 00:33:48,475 --> 00:33:55,275 Speaker 1: where campaign politics is explicitly prohibited by law and by custom. 471 00:33:55,795 --> 00:33:59,875 Speaker 1: In it, she says something. Miss Gomez has a fairly 472 00:33:59,955 --> 00:34:03,755 Speaker 1: standard Colombian sibilant s. So all I ever hear is 473 00:34:04,715 --> 00:34:09,235 Speaker 1: I'm Valentina and I'm seeking the office of Secretary of State. 474 00:34:10,995 --> 00:34:14,155 Speaker 1: She's not likely to be in trouble, even though the 475 00:34:14,275 --> 00:34:16,515 Speaker 1: video boasts about how they don't like her on the 476 00:34:16,515 --> 00:34:19,915 Speaker 1: speaker's balcony and says she's on the speaker's balcony, and 477 00:34:19,955 --> 00:34:23,115 Speaker 1: then she shows a picture of herself with an AR fifteen. 478 00:34:23,235 --> 00:34:26,875 Speaker 1: Of course, but if somebody wants to file an ethics 479 00:34:26,875 --> 00:34:31,875 Speaker 1: complaint about Speaker Mike Johnson for letting his speaker's balcony 480 00:34:32,155 --> 00:34:37,155 Speaker 1: be used illegally, well, you know, try to find him, 481 00:34:37,675 --> 00:34:40,155 Speaker 1: you should first look in a church where he will 482 00:34:40,195 --> 00:34:44,955 Speaker 1: be pretending to pray. Above that new video shot on 483 00:34:44,995 --> 00:34:49,435 Speaker 1: the speaker's balcony, Miss Gomez claims she's quote on fire 484 00:34:49,595 --> 00:34:54,555 Speaker 1: with the truth. Now I'm going to need to see 485 00:34:54,555 --> 00:34:59,635 Speaker 1: that video to confirm that optimistic statement. Run her up. 486 00:34:59,675 --> 00:35:02,955 Speaker 1: And once again, if you think National Republicans are idiots 487 00:35:03,275 --> 00:35:06,875 Speaker 1: and psychotics, you really haven't taken a good look at 488 00:35:06,915 --> 00:35:09,555 Speaker 1: the people they have elected at the state and even 489 00:35:09,715 --> 00:35:15,235 Speaker 1: the city level. The runner up worser George Lang, Ohio 490 00:35:15,235 --> 00:35:19,395 Speaker 1: state Senator, who now says he regrets the divisive remarks 491 00:35:19,435 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: he made in the excitement of the moment on stage, 492 00:35:22,755 --> 00:35:26,275 Speaker 1: especially in light of the assassination attempt of President Trump 493 00:35:26,355 --> 00:35:28,555 Speaker 1: last week, We should all be mindful of what is 494 00:35:28,555 --> 00:35:32,555 Speaker 1: said at political events. Myself included what did he say? 495 00:35:33,035 --> 00:35:35,195 Speaker 1: I'll play it for you in a moment. First, I'd 496 00:35:35,235 --> 00:35:37,675 Speaker 1: like to point out that he's an Ohio State senator. 497 00:35:37,715 --> 00:35:39,995 Speaker 1: He got the office, he was appointed to it. His 498 00:35:40,155 --> 00:35:45,915 Speaker 1: background he was on the zoning board for Westchester Township 499 00:35:46,035 --> 00:35:49,115 Speaker 1: and he was a trustee there for fourteen years. And 500 00:35:49,195 --> 00:35:52,075 Speaker 1: he used to work at Procter and Gamble. And it 501 00:35:52,155 --> 00:35:56,355 Speaker 1: says quote Lang is a member of the Boy Scouts 502 00:35:56,515 --> 00:36:01,875 Speaker 1: of America. What did he say own nothing at a 503 00:36:01,995 --> 00:36:05,755 Speaker 1: JD Vance rally. He simply threatened civil war if he 504 00:36:05,835 --> 00:36:08,515 Speaker 1: doesn't get what he and the other white folk want. 505 00:36:08,795 --> 00:36:12,915 Speaker 4: Trump and Butler County's JD vans are the last chance 506 00:36:13,395 --> 00:36:17,235 Speaker 4: to save our country politically. I'm afraid if we lose 507 00:36:17,235 --> 00:36:20,315 Speaker 4: this one, it's going to take a civil war to 508 00:36:20,355 --> 00:36:21,115 Speaker 4: save the country. 509 00:36:21,115 --> 00:36:22,075 Speaker 1: And it will be saved. 510 00:36:22,395 --> 00:36:26,075 Speaker 4: It's the greatest experiment in the history of mankind. 511 00:36:26,435 --> 00:36:27,475 Speaker 1: And if we come down. 512 00:36:27,355 --> 00:36:29,635 Speaker 4: To a civil war, I'm glad we got people like 513 00:36:29,875 --> 00:36:33,115 Speaker 4: Schmidy and the Bikers for Trump on our side. 514 00:36:34,315 --> 00:36:36,955 Speaker 1: I regret the divisive remarks I made in it. We 515 00:36:37,035 --> 00:36:41,195 Speaker 1: should all be mindful, dude. You should be mindful of 516 00:36:41,195 --> 00:36:43,555 Speaker 1: the fact that if you try to start a civil war, 517 00:36:43,995 --> 00:36:47,635 Speaker 1: you guys keep forgetting who has all the tanks and bombs. 518 00:36:48,635 --> 00:36:51,955 Speaker 1: I'm a glad an AR fifteen. Anybody see it. Yeah, 519 00:36:51,955 --> 00:36:54,795 Speaker 1: it's over there in that pile of AR fifteen from 520 00:36:54,795 --> 00:36:57,675 Speaker 1: all the guys who were captured. But I but my 521 00:36:58,075 --> 00:37:00,355 Speaker 1: Second Amendment rights you going to jail for the rest 522 00:37:00,355 --> 00:37:03,035 Speaker 1: of your life now. Also, you lost Civil War two. 523 00:37:03,275 --> 00:37:05,675 Speaker 1: It took an hour and a half and it was 524 00:37:05,835 --> 00:37:13,515 Speaker 1: entirely confined to Westchester, Ohio. But our winners the New 525 00:37:13,595 --> 00:37:17,555 Speaker 1: York Post and Senator Mike Lee of Utah, who led 526 00:37:17,595 --> 00:37:21,675 Speaker 1: the charge yesterday, the attempt to kill former President Jimmy 527 00:37:21,715 --> 00:37:25,795 Speaker 1: Carter yesterday. This is a screenshot, apparently of a Google 528 00:37:25,875 --> 00:37:29,315 Speaker 1: search of an article that The New York Post posted 529 00:37:29,355 --> 00:37:31,755 Speaker 1: and then quickly got rid of. And it has the 530 00:37:31,795 --> 00:37:34,915 Speaker 1: Post logo. We believe it's accurate, and it has the 531 00:37:34,915 --> 00:37:37,635 Speaker 1: headline former President Jimmy Carter dead at ninety nine New 532 00:37:37,715 --> 00:37:41,395 Speaker 1: York Post, which isn't true. He's not dead, but the 533 00:37:41,435 --> 00:37:44,835 Speaker 1: synopsis reads today Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who 534 00:37:44,915 --> 00:37:47,235 Speaker 1: became the thirty ninth President of the United States during 535 00:37:47,275 --> 00:37:51,475 Speaker 1: a time of gas shortages, Cold War drama and ellipses. 536 00:37:51,955 --> 00:37:54,035 Speaker 1: That's as much as they could get into the Google search. 537 00:37:54,995 --> 00:37:59,075 Speaker 1: Then they killed it. The New York Posts post it first, 538 00:37:59,395 --> 00:38:02,155 Speaker 1: try to find out if it's real later or not 539 00:38:02,275 --> 00:38:06,035 Speaker 1: at all. New York Post, which, if it were required 540 00:38:06,835 --> 00:38:11,355 Speaker 1: to make a profit rather than simply massage Rupert Murdoch's ego, 541 00:38:11,795 --> 00:38:14,835 Speaker 1: i e. His balls, it would have gone out of 542 00:38:14,835 --> 00:38:18,715 Speaker 1: business in nineteen ninety four. Rupert Murdoch and The New 543 00:38:18,795 --> 00:38:21,115 Speaker 1: York Post. If you ever read something in The New 544 00:38:21,195 --> 00:38:23,835 Speaker 1: York Post it sounds too good to be true, or 545 00:38:23,875 --> 00:38:26,875 Speaker 1: too bad to be true, or simply badly written, you 546 00:38:26,995 --> 00:38:28,955 Speaker 1: know it's not the truth because it's in the New 547 00:38:29,035 --> 00:38:31,355 Speaker 1: York Post. And all the good people who work for 548 00:38:31,395 --> 00:38:33,915 Speaker 1: the New York Posts say, in the sports department, you 549 00:38:34,195 --> 00:38:38,755 Speaker 1: are contributing to Rupert Murdoch's attempt to destroy the United 550 00:38:38,795 --> 00:38:41,675 Speaker 1: States of America. I got into a long argument once 551 00:38:41,715 --> 00:38:44,635 Speaker 1: with a Post sports writer who says, you're harming my business, 552 00:38:44,715 --> 00:38:48,435 Speaker 1: and I said, your business is predicated on putting the 553 00:38:48,555 --> 00:38:52,835 Speaker 1: United States out of business. It's not my department. It 554 00:38:52,875 --> 00:38:56,915 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's not your department. The line for 555 00:38:57,035 --> 00:38:59,595 Speaker 1: you to get into hell with the other Rupert Murdoch 556 00:38:59,675 --> 00:39:04,395 Speaker 1: employees is not going to discriminate between those who worked 557 00:39:04,435 --> 00:39:07,395 Speaker 1: in sports and those who worked in killing Jimmy Carter 558 00:39:07,515 --> 00:39:10,195 Speaker 1: in the paper. And by the way, the Post is 559 00:39:10,195 --> 00:39:12,595 Speaker 1: not the worst. It's only tied for the worst because 560 00:39:12,635 --> 00:39:16,755 Speaker 1: the worst is Mike Lee, possibly the dumbest man ever 561 00:39:16,835 --> 00:39:19,955 Speaker 1: to serve in government, including that Lang guy from Ohio. 562 00:39:21,195 --> 00:39:24,355 Speaker 1: The reason the Post posted what it apparently did, and 563 00:39:24,475 --> 00:39:27,995 Speaker 1: what Mike Lee posted was there was a letter with 564 00:39:28,155 --> 00:39:32,795 Speaker 1: a faked heading on it office of Jimmy Carter, dated 565 00:39:32,955 --> 00:39:37,595 Speaker 1: yesterday's date, and Mike Lee simply copied it, pasted it, 566 00:39:37,675 --> 00:39:42,035 Speaker 1: and posted it on Twitter X. Mike Lee at based 567 00:39:42,275 --> 00:39:47,435 Speaker 1: Mike Lee former President Jimmy Carter has died. Mike Lee said, well, 568 00:39:47,475 --> 00:39:49,715 Speaker 1: if Mike Lee says it, you know it's not true. 569 00:39:49,995 --> 00:39:53,955 Speaker 1: It's not true. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. 570 00:39:55,515 --> 00:39:59,395 Speaker 1: I'll mention this in the Reuter's article about this disaster 571 00:39:59,515 --> 00:40:01,995 Speaker 1: by Mike Lee and The New York Post. In response 572 00:40:02,035 --> 00:40:04,635 Speaker 1: to a request for comment, the owner of the account 573 00:40:04,875 --> 00:40:09,075 Speaker 1: took credit for creating the fake Jimmy Carter letter, telling 574 00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:12,235 Speaker 1: Reuters in a direct message, I created it last that 575 00:40:12,315 --> 00:40:16,115 Speaker 1: would be Monday night. The amount of misinformation which spread 576 00:40:16,115 --> 00:40:19,235 Speaker 1: throughout the weekend surrounding the state of President Biden's health 577 00:40:19,355 --> 00:40:22,155 Speaker 1: was maddening. I wanted to prove that many people on 578 00:40:22,475 --> 00:40:27,715 Speaker 1: X often spread sensationalist news and headlines without fact checking 579 00:40:27,835 --> 00:40:33,435 Speaker 1: or double checking the source content. You think the rest 580 00:40:33,475 --> 00:40:36,155 Speaker 1: of this stuff After the initial former President Jimmy Carter 581 00:40:36,275 --> 00:40:40,275 Speaker 1: James Earl of Carter Junior aka passionate, champion of human rights, democracy, 582 00:40:40,515 --> 00:40:42,995 Speaker 1: World War Two, veteran blah blah blah. With family by 583 00:40:42,995 --> 00:40:46,555 Speaker 1: his side, President Carter did this foreign policy ecomma. That's 584 00:40:46,595 --> 00:40:49,915 Speaker 1: the second paragraph, third of a Domestically President carter achievement 585 00:40:49,995 --> 00:40:53,195 Speaker 1: included installing solar panels on the White House blah blah 586 00:40:53,195 --> 00:40:57,635 Speaker 1: blah blah blah the fourth one. Despite these successes as president, 587 00:40:57,755 --> 00:40:59,715 Speaker 1: now you think you would have read some of this, 588 00:41:00,195 --> 00:41:02,475 Speaker 1: or somebody would have read some of this. No, he's 589 00:41:02,555 --> 00:41:05,275 Speaker 1: Mike Lee. He has the IQ of a fish and 590 00:41:05,355 --> 00:41:11,235 Speaker 1: not a brightfish. Despite these successes as president all his life, 591 00:41:11,275 --> 00:41:14,395 Speaker 1: President Carter considered his marriage to former First Lady Rosalind 592 00:41:14,435 --> 00:41:19,435 Speaker 1: Carter his life's greatest achievement. At her passing last November, 593 00:41:19,555 --> 00:41:25,955 Speaker 1: President Carter said Roseland was a battie. Jill Milania, even 594 00:41:26,195 --> 00:41:30,275 Speaker 1: throat goat Nancy Reagan had nothing on Rosalind. She was 595 00:41:30,315 --> 00:41:35,395 Speaker 1: the original brat. She gave me wise, guidance and encouragement 596 00:41:35,435 --> 00:41:37,995 Speaker 1: when I needed it. As long as Rosalind was in 597 00:41:38,035 --> 00:41:41,595 Speaker 1: the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me. 598 00:41:41,995 --> 00:41:45,355 Speaker 1: They were married for seventy seven years. That the question 599 00:41:45,795 --> 00:41:48,555 Speaker 1: of the quote in here about calling her a baddie 600 00:41:49,555 --> 00:41:53,195 Speaker 1: or referring to Nancy Reagan as throat goat. That didn't 601 00:41:53,195 --> 00:41:56,155 Speaker 1: get anybody's attention, That didn't send up a red flag. 602 00:41:57,675 --> 00:42:01,635 Speaker 1: What was trueth in nineteen ninety nine is trueth today? 603 00:42:03,035 --> 00:42:07,915 Speaker 1: No one hath read it the link, No one clickth, 604 00:42:08,435 --> 00:42:12,715 Speaker 1: no one readeth the New York Post. It's Murdoch, of 605 00:42:12,755 --> 00:42:15,915 Speaker 1: course it's wrong, and Mike, but the quoted here from 606 00:42:16,115 --> 00:42:21,475 Speaker 1: Carter's scholar, Oh wah tunas I am. That means it's true, 607 00:42:21,555 --> 00:42:28,395 Speaker 1: right Lee, two days worse persons, Jimmy Carter is not 608 00:42:28,595 --> 00:42:45,715 Speaker 1: dead in the world. Finally our number one story in 609 00:42:45,795 --> 00:42:48,155 Speaker 1: the countdown things I promised not to tell And back 610 00:42:48,155 --> 00:42:52,435 Speaker 1: to my favorite topic me. I heard Jeff Daniels say 611 00:42:52,475 --> 00:42:55,395 Speaker 1: the words, and in the next minute my cell phone rang. 612 00:42:55,995 --> 00:42:58,795 Speaker 1: It was an ex girlfriend. While we were talking, an 613 00:42:58,795 --> 00:43:01,595 Speaker 1: email arrived from another ex girlfriend, and then in came 614 00:43:01,635 --> 00:43:04,075 Speaker 1: a text from the current girlfriend at her folks house, 615 00:43:04,675 --> 00:43:07,075 Speaker 1: and two more emails, and before I was off the 616 00:43:07,075 --> 00:43:12,075 Speaker 1: phone to voicemails, and then regular friends started to contact me. 617 00:43:12,155 --> 00:43:14,795 Speaker 1: This is just over ten years ago now. It was Sunday, 618 00:43:14,875 --> 00:43:19,555 Speaker 1: August fifth, twenty twelve. Jeff Daniels was playing the controversial 619 00:43:19,635 --> 00:43:24,755 Speaker 1: newscaster and commentator on Aaron Sorkin's HBO series Newsroom, which 620 00:43:24,875 --> 00:43:27,995 Speaker 1: was based structurally on Me and Countdown. And I know 621 00:43:28,115 --> 00:43:32,435 Speaker 1: this because Aaron Sorkin told me so before he filmed 622 00:43:32,475 --> 00:43:35,195 Speaker 1: any of it. And I know this because he asked 623 00:43:35,235 --> 00:43:37,315 Speaker 1: me if he could base the pilot episode on what 624 00:43:37,435 --> 00:43:40,755 Speaker 1: happened to me at MSNBC in the spring and summer 625 00:43:40,795 --> 00:43:43,475 Speaker 1: of twenty ten. And I know this because he came 626 00:43:43,515 --> 00:43:46,235 Speaker 1: in and shadowed the staff of Countdown for two days 627 00:43:46,475 --> 00:43:48,755 Speaker 1: to get the feel for the place. And I know 628 00:43:48,875 --> 00:43:52,555 Speaker 1: this because he wound up basing one character, Maggie Jordan, 629 00:43:53,035 --> 00:43:57,595 Speaker 1: on my assistant, Margaret Judson, and then hiring Margaret Judson 630 00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:00,435 Speaker 1: as a consultant, and then hiring her as an actress 631 00:44:00,475 --> 00:44:02,515 Speaker 1: to play a part that wasn't supposed to be her. 632 00:44:03,235 --> 00:44:05,835 Speaker 1: And I know this because he was He's furious when 633 00:44:05,835 --> 00:44:08,155 Speaker 1: I would not fly to Denver. I think it was 634 00:44:08,395 --> 00:44:10,875 Speaker 1: to do a cameo in the pilot. And I know 635 00:44:10,995 --> 00:44:13,475 Speaker 1: this because he said he was hiring me as a consultant. 636 00:44:13,635 --> 00:44:15,635 Speaker 1: And I know this because I never saw a dime 637 00:44:15,755 --> 00:44:19,755 Speaker 1: out of it. This was the second time Aaron Sorkin 638 00:44:19,795 --> 00:44:22,075 Speaker 1: had based one of his TV series on one of 639 00:44:22,075 --> 00:44:25,995 Speaker 1: my TV series. The other was called Sports Night, and 640 00:44:26,235 --> 00:44:30,315 Speaker 1: Esquire magazine once asked me to interview Sorkin about Sports Night, 641 00:44:30,515 --> 00:44:33,115 Speaker 1: and I asked him the real tough question, what was 642 00:44:33,115 --> 00:44:36,275 Speaker 1: the origin of Sports Night? And his answer was, quote, 643 00:44:36,635 --> 00:44:40,155 Speaker 1: you are the origin. So when The New York Times 644 00:44:40,155 --> 00:44:43,155 Speaker 1: had called me about Newsroom, I lightheartedly said it was 645 00:44:43,275 --> 00:44:46,155 Speaker 1: nice to know in advance this time that Aaron Sorkin 646 00:44:46,235 --> 00:44:49,515 Speaker 1: was making a TV series about me. Sorkin did not 647 00:44:49,835 --> 00:44:53,675 Speaker 1: like this at all, and he told all his actors 648 00:44:53,675 --> 00:44:56,155 Speaker 1: to tell all their interviewers that this was not true. 649 00:44:56,475 --> 00:44:58,515 Speaker 1: And I know that because Jeff Daniels told me that 650 00:44:58,595 --> 00:45:03,075 Speaker 1: that was what Sorkin had told him. Sorkin is interesting. 651 00:45:03,995 --> 00:45:06,075 Speaker 1: I had known him him for about ten or twelve 652 00:45:06,155 --> 00:45:08,075 Speaker 1: years when he came in to countdown to see what 653 00:45:08,115 --> 00:45:11,075 Speaker 1: it looked and felt like, and he was twenty minutes late. 654 00:45:11,875 --> 00:45:15,235 Speaker 1: And my assistant Margaret after whom he named Maggie Jordan, 655 00:45:15,435 --> 00:45:17,275 Speaker 1: whom he then hired away from me, and whom he 656 00:45:17,315 --> 00:45:19,715 Speaker 1: finally hired as an actress to play Tess Weston, and 657 00:45:19,795 --> 00:45:22,515 Speaker 1: she was great. By the way. Margaret brings him in 658 00:45:22,555 --> 00:45:25,075 Speaker 1: and he apologizes for being late, and he says, he's 659 00:45:25,075 --> 00:45:27,275 Speaker 1: staying in a hotel two blocks away and he should 660 00:45:27,315 --> 00:45:29,235 Speaker 1: have just walked, but instead he got in a car, 661 00:45:29,955 --> 00:45:32,115 Speaker 1: and the next thing he knew, he was six blocks away, 662 00:45:32,435 --> 00:45:35,515 Speaker 1: caught in traffic caused by the complete shutdown of one 663 00:45:35,515 --> 00:45:39,635 Speaker 1: of the crosstown streets for midday construction. And I laughed, 664 00:45:39,675 --> 00:45:42,675 Speaker 1: and I said, well, like my late father, the architect, 665 00:45:42,795 --> 00:45:45,355 Speaker 1: used to say, New York, it'll be a great town 666 00:45:45,435 --> 00:45:48,595 Speaker 1: whenever they finish it. And he laughed, and I laughed. 667 00:45:48,835 --> 00:45:51,835 Speaker 1: And two years later, in the seventh episode of the 668 00:45:52,035 --> 00:45:56,355 Speaker 1: HBO Newsroom series, first aired on August fifth, twenty twelve, 669 00:45:56,395 --> 00:46:00,195 Speaker 1: and re aired throughout the week, Jeff Daniels as the anchorman, 670 00:46:00,315 --> 00:46:03,435 Speaker 1: Will McAvoy, who wasn't me but actually kind of was me, 671 00:46:04,235 --> 00:46:07,555 Speaker 1: is late to his newsroom because he gets caught in 672 00:46:07,595 --> 00:46:10,715 Speaker 1: Manhattan traffic caused by Sunday night street construction, and he 673 00:46:10,715 --> 00:46:14,595 Speaker 1: says to his exasperated producer, new York, it'll be a 674 00:46:14,595 --> 00:46:19,315 Speaker 1: great town whenever they finish it. That's when my phone 675 00:46:19,315 --> 00:46:22,195 Speaker 1: and email blew up. And the then girlfriend, and like 676 00:46:22,555 --> 00:46:26,555 Speaker 1: forty percent of all of my exes ever, all had 677 00:46:26,595 --> 00:46:29,355 Speaker 1: the same question, New York, It'll be a great town 678 00:46:29,395 --> 00:46:32,155 Speaker 1: whenever they finish it. Isn't that what your dad used 679 00:46:32,195 --> 00:46:34,915 Speaker 1: to say? Even the ones who never met my dad 680 00:46:35,035 --> 00:46:38,835 Speaker 1: knew this because I used to quote him constantly, because 681 00:46:38,835 --> 00:46:40,755 Speaker 1: the real humor in the quote is the fact that 682 00:46:40,795 --> 00:46:43,675 Speaker 1: my dad was an architect and construction was his business. 683 00:46:44,155 --> 00:46:47,515 Speaker 1: New York, It'll be a great town whenever they finish it. 684 00:46:48,235 --> 00:46:51,315 Speaker 1: And then one of the last of the exes reached out. 685 00:46:51,395 --> 00:46:53,875 Speaker 1: She waited until the show was over. Now, I don't 686 00:46:53,915 --> 00:46:56,955 Speaker 1: think any of us is proud of this, but she 687 00:46:57,235 --> 00:47:01,435 Speaker 1: had also dated Sorkin once or twice, and since she 688 00:47:01,515 --> 00:47:04,235 Speaker 1: had written celebrity stories for a New York newspaper, he 689 00:47:04,275 --> 00:47:07,195 Speaker 1: had later asked her by email what the world of 690 00:47:07,235 --> 00:47:10,515 Speaker 1: gossip reporting was like, and she told him by email. 691 00:47:11,115 --> 00:47:14,435 Speaker 1: And what she now told me made Aaron Sorkin's use 692 00:47:14,435 --> 00:47:17,355 Speaker 1: of my dad's quote and other parts of my life 693 00:47:17,355 --> 00:47:21,515 Speaker 1: seem like possible coincidences. She said she was watching the third, 694 00:47:21,875 --> 00:47:25,715 Speaker 1: maybe fourth episode of Newsroom and in walked a new character, 695 00:47:25,835 --> 00:47:28,875 Speaker 1: a gossip columnist, a woman, and the first sentence the 696 00:47:28,955 --> 00:47:33,115 Speaker 1: character said was my friend, and X said word for 697 00:47:33,235 --> 00:47:36,195 Speaker 1: word something she had sent to Sorkin in one of 698 00:47:36,195 --> 00:47:39,835 Speaker 1: the emails about the gossip business. She said when she 699 00:47:39,955 --> 00:47:42,475 Speaker 1: heard it, her face started to get read, and it 700 00:47:42,515 --> 00:47:46,555 Speaker 1: would keep getting reader. The gossip columnist character's second line 701 00:47:46,595 --> 00:47:49,275 Speaker 1: had also been cut and pasted from my ex's email, 702 00:47:49,755 --> 00:47:52,275 Speaker 1: then her long speech, then all of her dialogue. She 703 00:47:52,315 --> 00:47:55,035 Speaker 1: said in her second scene. My ex actually managed to 704 00:47:55,075 --> 00:47:57,915 Speaker 1: record that episode and to find her own email to 705 00:47:57,955 --> 00:48:00,155 Speaker 1: Sorkin and to compare them, and she said, other than 706 00:48:00,235 --> 00:48:05,755 Speaker 1: changing a couple of tenses, he had used her answers verbatim. 707 00:48:06,675 --> 00:48:09,395 Speaker 1: I met the actor Josh Charles during the two thousand 708 00:48:09,475 --> 00:48:12,155 Speaker 1: World Series. I was there anchoring it for Fox Sports. 709 00:48:12,595 --> 00:48:16,115 Speaker 1: Josh was there promoting his new show on Fox. Josh 710 00:48:16,195 --> 00:48:19,955 Speaker 1: had played Dan Rydell on Sorkin's Sports Night series, and 711 00:48:19,995 --> 00:48:23,315 Speaker 1: even Sorkin and I agree, dan Rydell is just me 712 00:48:23,435 --> 00:48:26,915 Speaker 1: with a different haircut. I was walking up Sixth Avenue 713 00:48:26,915 --> 00:48:29,995 Speaker 1: one day in October two thousand and from several blocks away, 714 00:48:30,595 --> 00:48:34,395 Speaker 1: I saw Josh Charles walking towards me, so I had 715 00:48:34,435 --> 00:48:36,795 Speaker 1: several minutes to prepare what I could say to him. 716 00:48:37,035 --> 00:48:41,395 Speaker 1: This was not spontaneous, sadly, but after our eyes met 717 00:48:41,435 --> 00:48:44,195 Speaker 1: and I smiled, and he gave me that, yes, I'm 718 00:48:44,235 --> 00:48:47,635 Speaker 1: on TV, look that I recognize and have myself deployed. 719 00:48:48,155 --> 00:48:51,435 Speaker 1: He switched suddenly to shock and even a little apprehension, 720 00:48:51,955 --> 00:48:53,955 Speaker 1: and I said the line I had been rehearsing in 721 00:48:54,035 --> 00:48:58,155 Speaker 1: my head for several minutes. Excuse me. You don't get 722 00:48:58,195 --> 00:49:01,195 Speaker 1: to say this often in life, But didn't you use 723 00:49:01,315 --> 00:49:04,475 Speaker 1: to play me on TV? Right there on sixth? That 724 00:49:04,715 --> 00:49:06,995 Speaker 1: and you? Josh told me about the ordeal of working 725 00:49:06,995 --> 00:49:09,035 Speaker 1: with and for Aaron Sorkin, and I thought he just 726 00:49:09,115 --> 00:49:13,995 Speaker 1: meant for actors, but I later found out because New York, 727 00:49:14,115 --> 00:49:17,195 Speaker 1: it'll be a great time whenever they finish it. Josh 728 00:49:17,195 --> 00:49:19,435 Speaker 1: and I are still friends. We've gone to ballgames together. 729 00:49:19,515 --> 00:49:21,795 Speaker 1: We were in a fantasy baseball league together. And one 730 00:49:21,915 --> 00:49:25,315 Speaker 1: night on my ESPN two show, we came back from commercial, 731 00:49:25,315 --> 00:49:28,555 Speaker 1: giving the audience no warning or explanation, and we simply 732 00:49:28,595 --> 00:49:31,475 Speaker 1: started co anchoring the show and calling it Sports Night 733 00:49:32,075 --> 00:49:35,035 Speaker 1: and making references to the program and to newsroom. And 734 00:49:35,075 --> 00:49:38,355 Speaker 1: then he said, why did we keep reading this? And 735 00:49:38,435 --> 00:49:40,715 Speaker 1: I said, I don't know. I just assumed Sorkin had 736 00:49:40,795 --> 00:49:44,795 Speaker 1: run out of new ideas. The mutual laughter that followed 737 00:49:44,995 --> 00:49:49,395 Speaker 1: was sincere. There is one more punchline to the newsroom 738 00:49:49,475 --> 00:49:53,035 Speaker 1: Sorkin story because I was like his seventh guest ever. 739 00:49:53,195 --> 00:49:57,595 Speaker 1: When Stephen Colbert wrapped up the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, 740 00:49:57,915 --> 00:50:00,915 Speaker 1: I was invited to be on the final farewell episode, 741 00:50:01,075 --> 00:50:04,755 Speaker 1: me and like ninety nine other people. There were so 742 00:50:04,795 --> 00:50:08,955 Speaker 1: many of us, ranging from Barrymanilow to Brian Cranston to 743 00:50:09,115 --> 00:50:12,675 Speaker 1: Big Bird, that they had like nine green rooms in 744 00:50:12,715 --> 00:50:15,115 Speaker 1: the Comedy Central building. And I get there and they 745 00:50:15,115 --> 00:50:16,955 Speaker 1: send me to the green room I would be sharing 746 00:50:16,995 --> 00:50:18,995 Speaker 1: with several other people, and I'd trudge up a bunch 747 00:50:19,035 --> 00:50:21,155 Speaker 1: of stairs to the top floor and in this big 748 00:50:21,235 --> 00:50:25,395 Speaker 1: room there is only one other performer there yet it's 749 00:50:25,475 --> 00:50:29,595 Speaker 1: Jeff Daniels. Without saying hello, he says, now, wait, let 750 00:50:29,595 --> 00:50:33,835 Speaker 1: me explain. Sorkin told me, and I explained, and then 751 00:50:33,835 --> 00:50:36,875 Speaker 1: he explained, and then I explained some more, and Jeff said, 752 00:50:37,795 --> 00:50:43,595 Speaker 1: oh a lot, and once he said oops, and Sorkin 753 00:50:43,675 --> 00:50:46,515 Speaker 1: didn't tell me that. And after about three minutes he said, 754 00:50:46,995 --> 00:50:48,915 Speaker 1: so I owe you an apology, and I said, no, 755 00:50:49,035 --> 00:50:51,675 Speaker 1: you don't, it's not your fault. And he smiled and 756 00:50:51,715 --> 00:50:55,475 Speaker 1: he said, well great, I'm glad. So can we take 757 00:50:55,475 --> 00:50:57,995 Speaker 1: a picture together that I can put out on Twitter, 758 00:50:58,475 --> 00:51:01,475 Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, absolutely, but only if you capture 759 00:51:01,715 --> 00:51:04,835 Speaker 1: it New York. It'll be a great town. Whenever they 760 00:51:04,955 --> 00:51:20,395 Speaker 1: finish it. I've done all the damage I can do here. 761 00:51:20,435 --> 00:51:23,075 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Count On musical directors Brian Ray 762 00:51:23,075 --> 00:51:26,155 Speaker 1: and John Phillip Shanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of 763 00:51:26,195 --> 00:51:29,395 Speaker 1: our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums, 764 00:51:29,395 --> 00:51:32,635 Speaker 1: and mister Shanale handled the orchestration and the keyboards, and 765 00:51:32,675 --> 00:51:35,995 Speaker 1: it was produced by Tko Brothers. Another music, including some 766 00:51:36,035 --> 00:51:38,835 Speaker 1: of the Beethoven, arranged and performed by the group No 767 00:51:38,915 --> 00:51:42,355 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Alderman theme from 768 00:51:42,555 --> 00:51:46,355 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc. 769 00:51:46,715 --> 00:51:48,515 Speaker 1: At this rate, I should just play it for you 770 00:51:48,635 --> 00:51:51,675 Speaker 1: so you remember what it sounds like. Our satirical and 771 00:51:51,715 --> 00:51:55,235 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball 772 00:51:55,275 --> 00:52:00,875 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever and now my accompany ist. My announcer 773 00:52:00,875 --> 00:52:03,795 Speaker 1: today was my friend Larry David, who does not accompany 774 00:52:03,835 --> 00:52:07,275 Speaker 1: me anywhere. Everything else was freeing launch my fault. That's 775 00:52:07,275 --> 00:52:09,355 Speaker 1: countdown for this the one hundred and fifth day until 776 00:52:09,355 --> 00:52:12,995 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election. The two hundred and 777 00:52:13,075 --> 00:52:17,715 Speaker 1: ninety fourth day since convicted fellon Donald J. Trump. I 778 00:52:17,835 --> 00:52:21,475 Speaker 1: want to see the manager's first attempted coup against the 779 00:52:21,515 --> 00:52:25,115 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Use the September 780 00:52:25,155 --> 00:52:28,915 Speaker 1: eighteenth sentencing hearing. Use the mental health system. You've got it, 781 00:52:29,035 --> 00:52:34,555 Speaker 1: President Biden. Use presidential immunity to stop him from doing 782 00:52:34,635 --> 00:52:42,195 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. And Republicans please stop 783 00:52:42,235 --> 00:52:46,675 Speaker 1: shooting at Trump. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins 784 00:52:46,715 --> 00:52:50,555 Speaker 1: as the news requires. Till then, I'm Keith Oldroman. Good morning, 785 00:52:50,635 --> 00:53:06,795 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Poll in Poland, Poland, 786 00:53:07,355 --> 00:53:12,315 Speaker 1: keep those numbers rolling, get them margin swollen, Vice press 787 00:53:13,875 --> 00:53:18,595 Speaker 1: day three on the stuff already kicking jump. He wants 788 00:53:18,595 --> 00:53:24,235 Speaker 1: to see the manager and soon two points atop the matchup. 789 00:53:24,515 --> 00:53:28,315 Speaker 1: Now make sure he don't catch up. Remember, don't vote 790 00:53:28,315 --> 00:53:33,795 Speaker 1: for the old guy. Fink. A Nancy Faust Countdown with 791 00:53:33,955 --> 00:53:38,235 Speaker 1: Keith Oldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 792 00:53:38,275 --> 00:53:42,995 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 793 00:53:43,075 --> 00:53:44,395 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.