1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:23,915 --> 00:00:28,715 Speaker 1: and Musk are at this moment overthrowing our form of government, 3 00:00:29,435 --> 00:00:36,035 Speaker 1: and this is how to stop them. Yell and keep yelling. 4 00:00:37,275 --> 00:00:42,275 Speaker 1: Government data about religious charities, private, if not necessarily secret 5 00:00:42,355 --> 00:00:45,995 Speaker 1: data has wound up in the hands of Mike Flynn, 6 00:00:46,795 --> 00:00:51,075 Speaker 1: the foreign asset, you know, general scumbag, and he has 7 00:00:51,155 --> 00:00:55,355 Speaker 1: posted it online and mocked the Lutheran Church in doing 8 00:00:55,395 --> 00:00:59,915 Speaker 1: so and called it money laundering. Musk's hatchetmen are literally 9 00:00:59,955 --> 00:01:03,475 Speaker 1: inside the government right now demanding that leaders of the 10 00:01:03,595 --> 00:01:10,035 Speaker 1: US Agency for International Development turnover classified documents inside restricted areas, 11 00:01:10,075 --> 00:01:13,235 Speaker 1: and those that have refused have been placed on leave 12 00:01:13,635 --> 00:01:20,675 Speaker 1: by Elon effing Musk. Quote it's a coup. Elon Musk 13 00:01:20,715 --> 00:01:25,395 Speaker 1: is running a palace coup. Elon Musk is taking classified information. 14 00:01:25,715 --> 00:01:30,475 Speaker 1: Elon Musk has taken your social Security number. Everybody involved 15 00:01:30,475 --> 00:01:33,955 Speaker 1: should be arrested by local das if that's all we 16 00:01:34,035 --> 00:01:40,155 Speaker 1: can do, and denied bail. Unquote a Democratic senator, representative, governor, 17 00:01:40,355 --> 00:01:44,635 Speaker 1: mayor somebody needs to stand in front of microphones today 18 00:01:44,995 --> 00:01:49,395 Speaker 1: and say that quote today, and say that that bluntly 19 00:01:49,955 --> 00:01:55,915 Speaker 1: today and quote Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump might as 20 00:01:55,915 --> 00:01:58,955 Speaker 1: well have killed those teenage skaters on American five three 21 00:01:59,035 --> 00:02:02,395 Speaker 1: four to two themselves. The DC crash was their fault, 22 00:02:02,555 --> 00:02:07,075 Speaker 1: period unquote, some other Democratic leader, maybe the new head 23 00:02:07,075 --> 00:02:10,395 Speaker 1: of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, elected Saturday's got 24 00:02:10,435 --> 00:02:13,995 Speaker 1: to say that. What he has said is we're taking 25 00:02:14,075 --> 00:02:16,555 Speaker 1: the gloves off. I've always viewed my role as a 26 00:02:16,675 --> 00:02:19,475 Speaker 1: chair of the Democratic Party to take the low road 27 00:02:19,875 --> 00:02:22,915 Speaker 1: so my candidates, an elected official can take the high road, 28 00:02:23,075 --> 00:02:27,155 Speaker 1: meaning I'm going to throw a punch unquote. Good start swinging, Kenny, 29 00:02:28,075 --> 00:02:31,595 Speaker 1: because the first step towards stopping wrong is by publicly 30 00:02:31,755 --> 00:02:38,675 Speaker 1: and loudly yelling this is wrong. A Minnesota colleague described 31 00:02:38,715 --> 00:02:41,795 Speaker 1: the new DNC chair quote, Ken will cut you if 32 00:02:41,795 --> 00:02:46,395 Speaker 1: he has to. Well, I'll bring the metaphorical ginsu set 33 00:02:47,235 --> 00:02:50,035 Speaker 1: because right now where we actually are is the nominal 34 00:02:50,115 --> 00:02:53,555 Speaker 1: leading Democratic office holder is Senator Chuck Schumer. And as 35 00:02:53,595 --> 00:02:57,595 Speaker 1: Trump and Musk began to ransack your Social Security number 36 00:02:58,195 --> 00:03:02,235 Speaker 1: and starting trade wars with our literally closest allies, Chuck 37 00:03:02,275 --> 00:03:06,715 Speaker 1: Schumer social media Saturday afternoon was You're worried about tomato prices, 38 00:03:07,075 --> 00:03:10,035 Speaker 1: and ten minutes later you're watching the Super Bowl. Wait, 39 00:03:10,075 --> 00:03:16,475 Speaker 1: old Trump's tariffs, raise your guacamole and beer prices. Useless, 40 00:03:16,715 --> 00:03:21,515 Speaker 1: utterly useless. I need one thousand Ken Martins throwing punches 41 00:03:21,555 --> 00:03:26,715 Speaker 1: today and metaphorically cutting a maggi today. I need them 42 00:03:26,795 --> 00:03:29,875 Speaker 1: saying this is a coup. We will stop it. It 43 00:03:29,955 --> 00:03:33,715 Speaker 1: will take time, we will beat them and jail them though, 44 00:03:33,795 --> 00:03:36,955 Speaker 1: because bottom line is they are lazy and they leave 45 00:03:37,355 --> 00:03:42,635 Speaker 1: half their lives to chance. Just look at their goddamned haircuts. 46 00:03:44,755 --> 00:03:48,315 Speaker 1: And those thousand Ken Martins must also say. The crash 47 00:03:48,355 --> 00:03:51,035 Speaker 1: of the US Army helicopter and the death of the 48 00:03:51,075 --> 00:03:55,835 Speaker 1: service personnel on a continuity of government training exercise in 49 00:03:55,915 --> 00:04:01,755 Speaker 1: public space Thursday night was Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett's responsibility. 50 00:04:02,875 --> 00:04:05,955 Speaker 1: The crash of a medical flight in East Philadelphia Friday 51 00:04:06,035 --> 00:04:11,635 Speaker 1: night was Acting FAA Chief Chris Rochelo's responsibility. The FAA 52 00:04:11,715 --> 00:04:14,235 Speaker 1: warning system went down over the weekend, and that is 53 00:04:14,315 --> 00:04:19,515 Speaker 1: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy's responsibility. The cancelation of care 54 00:04:19,715 --> 00:04:23,635 Speaker 1: for two teenage transgender patients in New York was Health 55 00:04:23,635 --> 00:04:27,915 Speaker 1: and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior's responsibility. 56 00:04:28,955 --> 00:04:32,755 Speaker 1: Musk has been given access to your tax dollars and 57 00:04:32,835 --> 00:04:37,195 Speaker 1: your records, no supervision, no accountability. We don't even know 58 00:04:37,275 --> 00:04:40,715 Speaker 1: what he's taken. The deal maker did this. Your money 59 00:04:40,755 --> 00:04:43,755 Speaker 1: has been given away, Your privacy has been given away. 60 00:04:43,995 --> 00:04:52,835 Speaker 1: That is Trump's fault. And hegseeth incompetent, unstable, useless. Your 61 00:04:52,915 --> 00:04:58,915 Speaker 1: typical Trump employee is Trump's fault. And Rochalo plucked out 62 00:04:58,915 --> 00:05:02,755 Speaker 1: of an aviation industry lobbying firm because Trump hadn't put 63 00:05:02,795 --> 00:05:05,875 Speaker 1: anybody in charge of the FAA after Musk forced out 64 00:05:05,875 --> 00:05:09,635 Speaker 1: the last chief of the FAA. Rochlo is Trump's fault. 65 00:05:10,755 --> 00:05:16,515 Speaker 1: And Kennedy burned out by drugs, faithless, perverted, probably not 66 00:05:16,675 --> 00:05:22,355 Speaker 1: wearing pants is Trump's fault. And if you find holes 67 00:05:22,435 --> 00:05:26,115 Speaker 1: in any of these conclusions, if you see inconsistencies in 68 00:05:26,155 --> 00:05:29,115 Speaker 1: the assignment of blame like this, if you flinch it 69 00:05:29,235 --> 00:05:32,315 Speaker 1: saying heg sith might as well have killed the servicemen 70 00:05:32,395 --> 00:05:37,235 Speaker 1: and the ice skaters, bury all of your flinching, drop 71 00:05:37,355 --> 00:05:41,875 Speaker 1: the details, and negate the nuance. View all events as 72 00:05:41,915 --> 00:05:45,835 Speaker 1: Trump has viewed them, View them only in black and white, 73 00:05:46,195 --> 00:05:49,795 Speaker 1: as events he can falsely take credit for and exploit, 74 00:05:50,195 --> 00:05:53,075 Speaker 1: or as events he can falsely blame on others and 75 00:05:53,195 --> 00:06:04,515 Speaker 1: still exploit because that whatever form of government that is blameocracy, conspiratory, gotcha, authoritarian. 76 00:06:05,115 --> 00:06:07,595 Speaker 1: That is how the United States of America runs at 77 00:06:07,635 --> 00:06:13,875 Speaker 1: the moment, and the battle to restore democracy or at 78 00:06:13,915 --> 00:06:19,395 Speaker 1: least representative government with one or two checks and maybe 79 00:06:19,675 --> 00:06:23,115 Speaker 1: balances for an hour or two a week, that battle 80 00:06:23,195 --> 00:06:28,035 Speaker 1: begins in a symbolic knife fight for the simplest, most raw, 81 00:06:28,315 --> 00:06:35,035 Speaker 1: lowest common denominator discourse. Trump must be blamed every day 82 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:42,875 Speaker 1: for everything, by every Democrat, by every still rational Republican, 83 00:06:43,035 --> 00:06:49,715 Speaker 1: by every patriotic American, With Trump dismantling the government as 84 00:06:49,755 --> 00:06:53,995 Speaker 1: we speak, with the actual bureaucrats who know how to 85 00:06:54,155 --> 00:06:56,915 Speaker 1: run the Office of Management and Budget being locked out 86 00:06:56,955 --> 00:07:01,915 Speaker 1: of their computers by Elon Musk's minions in a blatantly 87 00:07:02,035 --> 00:07:08,275 Speaker 1: illegal internal push, with the National Transportation Safety Board privatizing 88 00:07:08,355 --> 00:07:11,755 Speaker 1: its media interactions by putting them exclusively on the pro 89 00:07:11,995 --> 00:07:17,235 Speaker 1: Nazi social media site x and with Trump unilaterally flooding 90 00:07:17,315 --> 00:07:20,395 Speaker 1: central California so he can say he stopped the next 91 00:07:20,395 --> 00:07:23,955 Speaker 1: wildfires in southern California, hundreds of miles away, and with 92 00:07:24,035 --> 00:07:27,395 Speaker 1: all of them firing career prosecutors at dj and career 93 00:07:27,435 --> 00:07:31,355 Speaker 1: investigators at the FBI because they dared to investigate Trump 94 00:07:31,395 --> 00:07:35,475 Speaker 1: and Trump's criminals. With Trump's institution of tariffs so that 95 00:07:35,515 --> 00:07:39,115 Speaker 1: American manufacturers can take more money out of your pocket, 96 00:07:40,115 --> 00:07:44,275 Speaker 1: either at the cash register or in their irs returns, 97 00:07:45,155 --> 00:07:50,555 Speaker 1: with Trump's metaphorical serial killing spree against America in full swing, 98 00:07:51,515 --> 00:07:55,115 Speaker 1: he has declared war on us, and we must win 99 00:07:55,235 --> 00:08:00,315 Speaker 1: it by being more successful, more ruthless, more destructive towards 100 00:08:00,395 --> 00:08:05,235 Speaker 1: him than he is towards us. And it starts with yelling. 101 00:08:07,515 --> 00:08:11,675 Speaker 1: I want a dozen leading Democrats calling news conferences to 102 00:08:12,075 --> 00:08:16,635 Speaker 1: day around the country. I want them talking about the coup. 103 00:08:16,955 --> 00:08:20,715 Speaker 1: I want them talking about how Mike Flynn got sensitive 104 00:08:21,555 --> 00:08:25,915 Speaker 1: data about Lutheran charities. I want them stating Trump is 105 00:08:25,955 --> 00:08:28,995 Speaker 1: responsible for the sixty seven deaths on American Eagle five 106 00:08:29,035 --> 00:08:31,115 Speaker 1: three four to two and the Army Blackhawk. And I 107 00:08:31,155 --> 00:08:34,155 Speaker 1: want them saying heg Seth didn't announce the helicopter was 108 00:08:34,195 --> 00:08:37,475 Speaker 1: on a continuity of government training mission. He confessed it. 109 00:08:37,795 --> 00:08:40,715 Speaker 1: Heg Seth confessed that he put a chopper with trainees 110 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:43,115 Speaker 1: in the path of a jet full of teenage girls 111 00:08:43,235 --> 00:08:47,435 Speaker 1: flying back from Kansas unqualified trainees under heg Set's own 112 00:08:47,515 --> 00:08:50,875 Speaker 1: umbrella and flying on behalf of the Trump administration. Heg 113 00:08:50,915 --> 00:08:54,555 Speaker 1: Seth put that helicopter above the busiest civilian runway in 114 00:08:54,595 --> 00:08:59,035 Speaker 1: the nation. That is Pete Hegsath's accident. And those are 115 00:08:59,075 --> 00:09:03,795 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's deaths. And if that seems brutal or cold, 116 00:09:03,995 --> 00:09:08,115 Speaker 1: or low or exploitative, just remind yourself what Trump tried 117 00:09:08,115 --> 00:09:12,315 Speaker 1: to do in the hours after the crash. He blamed Dei, 118 00:09:12,915 --> 00:09:19,155 Speaker 1: he blamed Biden, he blamed Obama. The Democrats have to 119 00:09:19,195 --> 00:09:22,155 Speaker 1: not just answer in kind, they have to symbolically break 120 00:09:22,315 --> 00:09:27,195 Speaker 1: Trump in half as they answer, this wasn't DEEI, it 121 00:09:27,275 --> 00:09:31,515 Speaker 1: was Doge, This wasn't Biden, This wasn't Lloyd Austin's helicopter, 122 00:09:31,715 --> 00:09:39,755 Speaker 1: it was Pete Hegseet's. I apologize to the families. You 123 00:09:39,795 --> 00:09:44,915 Speaker 1: are already being exploited in this. Then again, you have 124 00:09:44,955 --> 00:09:47,475 Speaker 1: been exploited by Trump before many of you were notified 125 00:09:47,595 --> 00:09:51,795 Speaker 1: of this tragedy. This is Donald Trump's America. We are 126 00:09:51,835 --> 00:09:55,355 Speaker 1: trying to stop him because this will become permanent and 127 00:09:55,515 --> 00:10:01,875 Speaker 1: uncontrollably evil if we do not stop him now. And 128 00:10:01,955 --> 00:10:04,835 Speaker 1: for further clarification, when I say Democrats have to do 129 00:10:04,915 --> 00:10:07,675 Speaker 1: and say these things. I mean individual democrats. I do 130 00:10:07,755 --> 00:10:11,355 Speaker 1: not mean leadership in the House and the Senate if any, 131 00:10:12,075 --> 00:10:16,355 Speaker 1: I mean Alexandria Acossio Cortez, I mean Adam Schiff, I 132 00:10:16,395 --> 00:10:19,715 Speaker 1: mean Gavin Newsom, I mean JB. Pritzker, I mean anybody 133 00:10:19,715 --> 00:10:22,475 Speaker 1: thinking of running for any office ever again. Because Chuck 134 00:10:22,515 --> 00:10:26,475 Speaker 1: Schumer and a Keen Jeffries had their chance, their response 135 00:10:26,715 --> 00:10:30,675 Speaker 1: as Trump strafes and carpet bombs America with American weapons 136 00:10:30,875 --> 00:10:34,235 Speaker 1: was to see him pardon his insurrectionist terrorists on the 137 00:10:34,355 --> 00:10:37,915 Speaker 1: night of his inauguration and to gather their rapid response 138 00:10:37,955 --> 00:10:41,875 Speaker 1: team and hold an emergency Senate Democrats news conference literally 139 00:10:42,035 --> 00:10:50,115 Speaker 1: only six effing days later. We need a Democrat with 140 00:10:50,315 --> 00:10:57,435 Speaker 1: name recognition to step up and take over. Appear online, 141 00:10:58,555 --> 00:11:03,555 Speaker 1: mega statement, take media questions within minutes of the next 142 00:11:03,595 --> 00:11:09,235 Speaker 1: atrocity Trumps off, call news conferences for an hour from now, 143 00:11:10,315 --> 00:11:14,955 Speaker 1: schedule a news conference weekly, preferably on Sunday, and then 144 00:11:15,955 --> 00:11:18,555 Speaker 1: find something to blame on Trump or Musk or both 145 00:11:18,595 --> 00:11:20,435 Speaker 1: of them, or all of them. I mean, how in 146 00:11:20,435 --> 00:11:22,515 Speaker 1: the hell do you think Chuck Schumer rose to prominence 147 00:11:22,555 --> 00:11:24,355 Speaker 1: in the first place. Chuck Schumer used to hold a 148 00:11:24,355 --> 00:11:28,195 Speaker 1: news conference every Sunday in New York on the street, 149 00:11:28,595 --> 00:11:31,035 Speaker 1: whether there was any news to conference about or not, 150 00:11:31,355 --> 00:11:33,995 Speaker 1: because he knew there was not enough news to fill 151 00:11:34,035 --> 00:11:36,875 Speaker 1: the local newscasts in New York or to put in 152 00:11:36,915 --> 00:11:39,955 Speaker 1: the local newspapers in New York every Monday. So every 153 00:11:40,035 --> 00:11:43,995 Speaker 1: Sunday there's Congressman Schumer, who said, there's Senator Schumer, who 154 00:11:44,115 --> 00:11:47,995 Speaker 1: said there's Leader Schumer, who said, there's Schumer who thought 155 00:11:47,995 --> 00:11:50,555 Speaker 1: guacamole was more important than a coup, which is why 156 00:11:50,595 --> 00:11:54,675 Speaker 1: we got rid of him. But use the early Schumer 157 00:11:54,955 --> 00:12:00,355 Speaker 1: as a template the twenty first century version of this. 158 00:12:01,395 --> 00:12:03,275 Speaker 1: Have you ever seen anything on one of the Sunday 159 00:12:03,315 --> 00:12:08,915 Speaker 1: shows that happened that day? Occasionally an interview of well 160 00:12:09,075 --> 00:12:12,915 Speaker 1: stenography of a fascist will take over the news cycle, 161 00:12:13,235 --> 00:12:16,315 Speaker 1: but usually it's Saturday's news on the Sunday shows or 162 00:12:16,355 --> 00:12:20,955 Speaker 1: Friday's news. It's almost as slow as the Democratic response 163 00:12:21,075 --> 00:12:28,195 Speaker 1: to anything. But the Democrat who begins to hold eight 164 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:33,915 Speaker 1: am news conferences every Sunday morning, who metaphorically shives Trump 165 00:12:34,235 --> 00:12:37,995 Speaker 1: or the fascist of the week and metaphorically, like Ken 166 00:12:38,035 --> 00:12:43,395 Speaker 1: Martin cuts them, that would lead every Sunday show. It 167 00:12:43,435 --> 00:12:46,275 Speaker 1: would be carried live on the cable networks at least, 168 00:12:46,715 --> 00:12:50,395 Speaker 1: but it would lead every Sunday network show. It would 169 00:12:50,475 --> 00:12:53,035 Speaker 1: blow Trump right out of the tub in terms of 170 00:12:53,115 --> 00:12:57,155 Speaker 1: media attention. And it would not just lead the Sunday shows. 171 00:12:57,195 --> 00:12:59,715 Speaker 1: It would lead most of the Monday shows. It would 172 00:12:59,755 --> 00:13:06,155 Speaker 1: be most of the Monday columns. Columnists, and the Sunday 173 00:13:06,195 --> 00:13:09,715 Speaker 1: shows are still viable. They still drive the agenda, at 174 00:13:09,795 --> 00:13:12,995 Speaker 1: least for Sunday and Monday, because they operate in a vacuum. 175 00:13:13,115 --> 00:13:19,755 Speaker 1: Steal the goddamn vacuum from them. There is in life 176 00:13:20,035 --> 00:13:26,275 Speaker 1: nothing worse than getting up early on Sunday morning. But 177 00:13:26,395 --> 00:13:30,435 Speaker 1: I have faith in you, AOC. Get a good night's sleep, 178 00:13:31,195 --> 00:13:36,115 Speaker 1: get up early and nuke Trump every Sunday morning, live 179 00:13:36,275 --> 00:13:44,235 Speaker 1: at eight am, and help save the nation and help 180 00:13:44,275 --> 00:13:49,035 Speaker 1: get yourself a presidential nomination Democrats. Judgment cometh and that 181 00:13:49,875 --> 00:14:18,115 Speaker 1: right soon. Of course, it cannot stop there, and it 182 00:14:18,155 --> 00:14:20,595 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be AOC. Anybody willing to do this. 183 00:14:22,355 --> 00:14:26,435 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom live at five am Pacific time, eight am 184 00:14:26,555 --> 00:14:30,995 Speaker 1: Eastern every Sunday with a news conference about whatever Trump 185 00:14:31,155 --> 00:14:36,195 Speaker 1: just did. Take over the news cycle. Force your way 186 00:14:36,275 --> 00:14:39,195 Speaker 1: past Trump, make him stand in back of you, make 187 00:14:39,315 --> 00:14:44,875 Speaker 1: him respond to you every Sunday. And it can't stop there, 188 00:14:44,915 --> 00:14:49,715 Speaker 1: whoever's doing it. It must be extended into the Senate 189 00:14:49,755 --> 00:14:52,955 Speaker 1: and into the House, and it requires an attitude adjustment 190 00:14:53,595 --> 00:14:55,795 Speaker 1: that the Democratic Party may or may not be able 191 00:14:55,835 --> 00:15:03,235 Speaker 1: to sustain. Senator Shift, showing signs of life, aptly declared 192 00:15:03,275 --> 00:15:07,195 Speaker 1: the purge at the DOJ and FBI the Friday Night massacre, 193 00:15:07,835 --> 00:15:12,195 Speaker 1: whereupon norm Ornstein told Schiff to have Senate Democrats unleash 194 00:15:12,275 --> 00:15:16,235 Speaker 1: the weapons in their arsenal blanket holds, no committee hearings. 195 00:15:16,235 --> 00:15:18,795 Speaker 1: When the Senate is in session, every bill read in 196 00:15:18,915 --> 00:15:22,915 Speaker 1: its entirety on the floor, denial of unanimous consent and 197 00:15:22,995 --> 00:15:30,435 Speaker 1: more the Senate hold. The Senate hold can create more 198 00:15:30,555 --> 00:15:36,115 Speaker 1: chaos than anything else currently in the Democrats quiver. The 199 00:15:36,155 --> 00:15:40,355 Speaker 1: standing rules of the Senate require unanimous consent before anything 200 00:15:40,435 --> 00:15:43,755 Speaker 1: comes to the floor. One senator or a small group 201 00:15:43,795 --> 00:15:46,195 Speaker 1: of them, or a bunch of them can literally stall 202 00:15:46,435 --> 00:15:51,435 Speaker 1: anything for years. The senator tells party leadership of intent 203 00:15:51,515 --> 00:15:54,755 Speaker 1: to object to a motion to consider a bill. They 204 00:15:54,755 --> 00:15:56,795 Speaker 1: don't even have to make it public. They can do 205 00:15:56,835 --> 00:16:01,555 Speaker 1: it anonymously. Republicans do it all the time, and it 206 00:16:01,635 --> 00:16:05,515 Speaker 1: works and it's wrong and it's evil, but it works, 207 00:16:05,995 --> 00:16:10,475 Speaker 1: and right now we need what works. In December twenty 208 00:16:10,515 --> 00:16:13,955 Speaker 1: twenty two, after Trump's Supreme Court killed Roe v. Wade, 209 00:16:14,235 --> 00:16:19,275 Speaker 1: the Pentagon guaranteed that pregnant service members would get leave 210 00:16:19,475 --> 00:16:22,955 Speaker 1: and reimbursement of travel for abortions where they were still 211 00:16:23,075 --> 00:16:28,675 Speaker 1: protected by law. The Dumbo, the elephant of the Senate, 212 00:16:29,275 --> 00:16:36,795 Speaker 1: Tubberville tantrumed. On February sixteenth, twenty twenty three, Tuberville announced 213 00:16:36,795 --> 00:16:40,315 Speaker 1: he was putting a hold on all new Pentagon nominees, 214 00:16:42,795 --> 00:16:45,875 Speaker 1: even as the Democratic majority railed against how much Tubby 215 00:16:45,955 --> 00:16:48,955 Speaker 1: was endangering the nation doing so, he dug in. On 216 00:16:48,955 --> 00:16:52,755 Speaker 1: only a few occasions could the majority overcome Tubberville. Via 217 00:16:52,915 --> 00:16:58,435 Speaker 1: cloture motions, one senator holding up every promotion inside the Pentagon, 218 00:16:58,675 --> 00:17:02,195 Speaker 1: three hundred nominations were blocked. One of the few that 219 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:05,555 Speaker 1: was not, the Marine Corps Commandant Eric Smith, was confirmed, 220 00:17:06,115 --> 00:17:08,875 Speaker 1: but Tuberville blocked the nomination of his deputy, and five 221 00:17:08,915 --> 00:17:13,795 Speaker 1: weeks later Commandant Smith had a heart attack. Tuberville still 222 00:17:13,795 --> 00:17:17,755 Speaker 1: would not relent. Days later, Democrats, now with the help 223 00:17:17,795 --> 00:17:21,675 Speaker 1: of the Republicans, nominated sixty one more officers. Tuberville blocked 224 00:17:21,675 --> 00:17:25,075 Speaker 1: them all by partisan opposition, and the hold could not 225 00:17:25,235 --> 00:17:28,835 Speaker 1: be broken. Not until December did Tuberville give up, and 226 00:17:28,875 --> 00:17:31,875 Speaker 1: he still in giving up block the promotion of eleven 227 00:17:32,035 --> 00:17:38,995 Speaker 1: four star officers. One asshole did this. One asshole, failed 228 00:17:38,995 --> 00:17:46,635 Speaker 1: football coach, white supremacist, misogynistic moron bastard did this. There 229 00:17:46,675 --> 00:17:50,875 Speaker 1: are forty five Democratic Senators, plus Bernie Sanders and Angus King. 230 00:17:52,195 --> 00:17:55,475 Speaker 1: They all have pairs of shoes that are smarter than 231 00:17:55,475 --> 00:18:00,115 Speaker 1: Tommy Tuberville. They should be meeting today to decide if 232 00:18:00,115 --> 00:18:03,475 Speaker 1: they want to assign who puts the holds on what 233 00:18:04,075 --> 00:18:07,155 Speaker 1: based on their our own specific interests in a topic 234 00:18:07,235 --> 00:18:10,875 Speaker 1: or topics, or whether it should go rotational, or whether 235 00:18:10,915 --> 00:18:13,995 Speaker 1: it should go by seniority. But they must all put 236 00:18:14,035 --> 00:18:19,355 Speaker 1: a Senate hold on something all the effing time. Shut 237 00:18:19,475 --> 00:18:24,395 Speaker 1: the effing Senate down. Trump gets nothing through without pain 238 00:18:24,635 --> 00:18:28,475 Speaker 1: and grief and something to enrage him, something to slow 239 00:18:28,595 --> 00:18:35,235 Speaker 1: down the momentum of his mechanism of despotism. Nothing you 240 00:18:35,835 --> 00:18:38,395 Speaker 1: want to grind the government to a halt, Trump, you 241 00:18:38,475 --> 00:18:44,155 Speaker 1: ain't seen nothing yet. Our terms are give us musk 242 00:18:44,875 --> 00:18:51,035 Speaker 1: and then we will stop holding everything. The other elements 243 00:18:51,155 --> 00:18:54,515 Speaker 1: Ornstein mentioned to shift for just icing every bill read 244 00:18:54,555 --> 00:18:58,595 Speaker 1: in full, no committee hearings, no unanimous consent, no Democratic 245 00:18:58,635 --> 00:19:04,635 Speaker 1: support of anything, and inside the Democratic Senate Caucus, no bipartisanship. 246 00:19:05,355 --> 00:19:09,235 Speaker 1: The death penalty. If Fetterman wants to collaborate with the Nazis, 247 00:19:09,395 --> 00:19:13,395 Speaker 1: have fun. Senator Cannimate, you are expelled from the party. 248 00:19:13,675 --> 00:19:15,875 Speaker 1: I mean, we are down fifty three to forty seven 249 00:19:15,915 --> 00:19:21,315 Speaker 1: in the Senate right now. Fifty four forty six. Ain't 250 00:19:21,355 --> 00:19:24,315 Speaker 1: that much worse? And if Fetterman does not get the message. 251 00:19:24,675 --> 00:19:28,995 Speaker 1: If you think Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is pretty popular, 252 00:19:29,115 --> 00:19:33,115 Speaker 1: how popular do you think Democratic Senate primary challenger Josh 253 00:19:33,115 --> 00:19:38,515 Speaker 1: Shapiro would be. As to the House, the assignment is 254 00:19:38,595 --> 00:19:41,915 Speaker 1: much simpler and easier. A. Is the House in session? 255 00:19:42,075 --> 00:19:44,795 Speaker 1: If so, then B is it a day of the 256 00:19:44,795 --> 00:19:48,955 Speaker 1: week ending in why? If so? Then C. Trump has 257 00:19:49,115 --> 00:19:54,395 Speaker 1: just done something impeachable. Introduce a motion to impeach, or inquire, 258 00:19:54,835 --> 00:19:59,595 Speaker 1: or inquire and impeach. He gave Musk, who is not 259 00:19:59,675 --> 00:20:02,995 Speaker 1: a government official, has been voted for by no one, 260 00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:06,195 Speaker 1: not even Republicans. He gave Musk, who is responsible to 261 00:20:06,195 --> 00:20:10,715 Speaker 1: no one, least of all himself, veto power over all 262 00:20:10,915 --> 00:20:14,755 Speaker 1: government payments and the computers with which to effect this. 263 00:20:15,995 --> 00:20:21,195 Speaker 1: There should be people arrested over this in the interim 264 00:20:21,355 --> 00:20:24,715 Speaker 1: move to impeach Trump because of what Musk is doing. 265 00:20:24,915 --> 00:20:27,675 Speaker 1: There are ninety nine weeks left until New Year's Day 266 00:20:27,755 --> 00:20:32,315 Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. Give Trump ninety nine impeachment problems, and 267 00:20:32,475 --> 00:20:35,435 Speaker 1: publicity about his latest violation of his oath of office 268 00:20:35,635 --> 00:20:43,595 Speaker 1: should be one of them every week. The Democrats don't 269 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:49,395 Speaker 1: like to use these weapons. One Congressional aid, carrying on 270 00:20:49,675 --> 00:20:53,475 Speaker 1: a valiant fight on social media, says a clenched fist 271 00:20:53,515 --> 00:20:56,475 Speaker 1: approach will firm up support for Trump in the Senate 272 00:20:56,515 --> 00:21:00,795 Speaker 1: among Republicans and drive away any Republicans in the House 273 00:21:00,835 --> 00:21:05,075 Speaker 1: looking for a way out. And who would they be? 274 00:21:07,355 --> 00:21:10,555 Speaker 1: Trump already killed them all off, all but a handful 275 00:21:10,675 --> 00:21:19,235 Speaker 1: in unique safe circumstances, like Senator Murkowski. I don't know 276 00:21:19,235 --> 00:21:22,875 Speaker 1: if there are any in the House. What is the 277 00:21:22,875 --> 00:21:24,875 Speaker 1: House doing? The House is trying to get Trump a 278 00:21:24,955 --> 00:21:27,675 Speaker 1: third term. Who is it that you are going to 279 00:21:27,755 --> 00:21:30,115 Speaker 1: negotiate with? Who is it that you expect is going 280 00:21:30,195 --> 00:21:32,755 Speaker 1: to stop Trump? It's been ten years. None of them 281 00:21:32,795 --> 00:21:35,075 Speaker 1: have had the balls to even stand up to him. 282 00:21:37,035 --> 00:21:40,595 Speaker 1: The Democrats need to understand that Trump is running not 283 00:21:40,795 --> 00:21:43,995 Speaker 1: just another January sixth right now, but a whole series 284 00:21:44,155 --> 00:21:47,635 Speaker 1: of them, only without the intermediaries and without hitting the 285 00:21:47,675 --> 00:21:53,715 Speaker 1: Capitol police with stun guns and bike racks. Democrats have 286 00:21:53,755 --> 00:21:59,995 Speaker 1: to understand and state Trump is the enemy. Trump is 287 00:22:00,075 --> 00:22:06,835 Speaker 1: the fifth column. Trump is destroying America. Trump has stolen 288 00:22:06,915 --> 00:22:10,875 Speaker 1: your Social Security number. Trump maybe next steal your Social 289 00:22:10,915 --> 00:22:18,835 Speaker 1: Security money. Apocalyptic terms, because it's an apocalypse. Trump is 290 00:22:18,875 --> 00:22:22,995 Speaker 1: the enemy. Republicans are his brown shirts, and the Democrats 291 00:22:22,995 --> 00:22:25,915 Speaker 1: are America's only chance. And if you are not willing 292 00:22:25,955 --> 00:22:30,235 Speaker 1: to accept this reality, Democrats, and accept this responsibility and 293 00:22:30,435 --> 00:22:34,195 Speaker 1: act in defense of the nation, Democrats, guess what we 294 00:22:34,315 --> 00:22:38,955 Speaker 1: are going to need? New Democrats and god damned fast. 295 00:22:48,595 --> 00:22:51,395 Speaker 1: One thing we must not have, not now, certainly, not immediately, 296 00:22:51,435 --> 00:22:57,675 Speaker 1: certainly though, is public protest. That is more than likely 297 00:22:57,715 --> 00:23:01,675 Speaker 1: what Trump is trying to instigate. The flood, the zone stuff, 298 00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:05,635 Speaker 1: in addition to overwhelming the media, have to try to 299 00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:14,435 Speaker 1: do that. He wants protests preferably large, preferably menacing, preferably 300 00:23:14,675 --> 00:23:21,395 Speaker 1: full of non white people warde protest he can either 301 00:23:21,475 --> 00:23:24,315 Speaker 1: incite to violence or if they remain peaceful, that he 302 00:23:24,315 --> 00:23:28,035 Speaker 1: can lie about and tell his gang that they were violent. 303 00:23:28,755 --> 00:23:33,195 Speaker 1: He wants to gas civilians. You you listening to this 304 00:23:33,315 --> 00:23:36,115 Speaker 1: right now. He wants to hit you with tear gas 305 00:23:37,155 --> 00:23:40,075 Speaker 1: to start with, he wants to do it the way 306 00:23:40,115 --> 00:23:42,515 Speaker 1: he did it on June first, twenty twenty outside of 307 00:23:42,555 --> 00:23:46,595 Speaker 1: the church. And then he wants to shoot you. And 308 00:23:46,635 --> 00:23:49,715 Speaker 1: then he wants over your prostrate body to help use 309 00:23:49,795 --> 00:23:55,155 Speaker 1: your carcass to invent an organized internal enemy. Because he 310 00:23:55,235 --> 00:23:58,515 Speaker 1: is following Hitler's playbook, there's no question of it. Now 311 00:24:02,115 --> 00:24:08,795 Speaker 1: threatened to invade your neighboring countries, the idea of his 312 00:24:08,875 --> 00:24:11,555 Speaker 1: opponents turning out to be part of a vast conspiracy 313 00:24:11,595 --> 00:24:14,955 Speaker 1: to burn down whatever his reichs dog is going to be. 314 00:24:15,275 --> 00:24:18,555 Speaker 1: That's the excuse he needs to convince any remaining reluctant 315 00:24:18,595 --> 00:24:21,355 Speaker 1: Republicans in government or out to embrace him as the 316 00:24:21,395 --> 00:24:31,955 Speaker 1: dictator saving white people from a manufactured threat. Trump's Goebbels 317 00:24:32,155 --> 00:24:34,595 Speaker 1: and Hesses and Borman's want nothing more than a new 318 00:24:34,635 --> 00:24:37,435 Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter movement to hit the streets, regardless of 319 00:24:37,475 --> 00:24:40,875 Speaker 1: the rightness of the cause, regardless of the peacefulness of 320 00:24:40,915 --> 00:24:42,675 Speaker 1: the protests. It would be a gift to Trump, and 321 00:24:42,715 --> 00:24:49,275 Speaker 1: it would accelerate the full implementation of his dictatorship. There 322 00:24:49,315 --> 00:24:51,315 Speaker 1: may be a time, and it may come soon when 323 00:24:51,315 --> 00:24:53,275 Speaker 1: we have nothing left but to take to the streets 324 00:24:53,275 --> 00:24:55,915 Speaker 1: and let the chips fall where there may. That is 325 00:24:55,995 --> 00:25:00,075 Speaker 1: not the time right now. This is, in fact, probably 326 00:25:00,115 --> 00:25:03,835 Speaker 1: the worst time right now. This is not even yet 327 00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:05,755 Speaker 1: the right time for the ten strike. This is not 328 00:25:05,835 --> 00:25:10,315 Speaker 1: yet the time for consumer goods boycott. This is not 329 00:25:10,435 --> 00:25:13,235 Speaker 1: yet the time to fully abandon the mechanisms available to 330 00:25:13,275 --> 00:25:21,475 Speaker 1: the Democrats within government and with media platforms. If we 331 00:25:21,555 --> 00:25:24,315 Speaker 1: want to protest, if we want to take to the streets, 332 00:25:24,355 --> 00:25:28,635 Speaker 1: we are better served right now going to Chuck Schumer's 333 00:25:28,675 --> 00:25:32,995 Speaker 1: office and protesting there in one desperate bid to see 334 00:25:32,995 --> 00:25:35,395 Speaker 1: if we can get him and Jeffries and others to 335 00:25:35,515 --> 00:25:41,115 Speaker 1: deal with today's crises today, And to start by declaring 336 00:25:41,155 --> 00:25:43,515 Speaker 1: that Musk and Trump are running another coup right now, 337 00:25:44,475 --> 00:25:46,755 Speaker 1: or a dozen of them, and that heg Seth and 338 00:25:46,835 --> 00:25:49,315 Speaker 1: Trump and the Republican Party killed the service members on 339 00:25:49,355 --> 00:25:51,675 Speaker 1: the black Hawk and killed the passengers on the American 340 00:25:51,715 --> 00:25:53,675 Speaker 1: Eagle flight. And I make no attempt to hide my 341 00:25:53,755 --> 00:25:57,715 Speaker 1: feeling of disgust just saying that, nor my sense of 342 00:25:57,715 --> 00:26:01,235 Speaker 1: it all being disgustingly unclean, and I wish there were 343 00:26:01,315 --> 00:26:03,675 Speaker 1: another way, but we have got to win this war. 344 00:26:03,915 --> 00:26:06,195 Speaker 1: And the other side it has all of these weapons, 345 00:26:06,315 --> 00:26:10,995 Speaker 1: and the only ones we have are those they have 346 00:26:11,675 --> 00:26:19,915 Speaker 1: stupidly handed us. Use them, and use them now, and 347 00:26:19,955 --> 00:26:29,275 Speaker 1: they begin with yelling. Also have interest here in an 348 00:26:29,315 --> 00:26:35,475 Speaker 1: all new edition because the other way is collaboration. And 349 00:26:35,555 --> 00:26:38,195 Speaker 1: five of the news organizations that did their best to 350 00:26:38,315 --> 00:26:45,195 Speaker 1: be VC media have gotten their reward. Trump has thrown 351 00:26:45,195 --> 00:26:51,675 Speaker 1: them all under the bus. Anyway. That and the sports 352 00:26:51,755 --> 00:26:55,475 Speaker 1: trade deals so bad it must have been ordered by Trump. 353 00:26:56,355 --> 00:27:02,515 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 354 00:27:02,515 --> 00:27:09,515 Speaker 1: Olberman coming up on an all new edition of Countdown 355 00:27:09,595 --> 00:27:13,915 Speaker 1: Worst Persons. Some listeners thought I was being hyperbolic when 356 00:27:13,955 --> 00:27:18,635 Speaker 1: I said Press Secretary Caroline Levitt had called Hitler hilter 357 00:27:19,355 --> 00:27:23,195 Speaker 1: like an amany Python sketch. I was not being hyperbolic. 358 00:27:23,675 --> 00:27:27,635 Speaker 1: Let's go to the videotape next. First, in an all 359 00:27:27,675 --> 00:27:30,795 Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown. Some headlines, some updates, some snark, 360 00:27:31,235 --> 00:27:39,195 Speaker 1: and some postscripts to the news. This is the Countdown podcast, 361 00:27:39,235 --> 00:27:44,635 Speaker 1: and these are the places where there's news, dateline capitulation nation. 362 00:27:45,475 --> 00:27:48,755 Speaker 1: So here's how it's going with all those erstwhile news 363 00:27:48,915 --> 00:27:52,195 Speaker 1: organizations that bent over backwards to try to appease Trump. 364 00:27:52,195 --> 00:27:55,915 Speaker 1: And remember that to truly bend over backwards, you have 365 00:27:56,035 --> 00:28:02,075 Speaker 1: to have no spine. CBS began internal discussions to settle 366 00:28:02,155 --> 00:28:06,875 Speaker 1: a bullshit lawsuit by Trump over the editing of an 367 00:28:06,995 --> 00:28:09,955 Speaker 1: interview with Kamala Harris, because if the point was to 368 00:28:10,155 --> 00:28:14,795 Speaker 1: chill journalism, CBS was the exact right spot to find 369 00:28:14,955 --> 00:28:19,155 Speaker 1: scaredy pat owners. So they began to talk at CBS 370 00:28:19,195 --> 00:28:24,355 Speaker 1: about paying fifteen million dollars to quote settle the lawsuit 371 00:28:24,955 --> 00:28:27,595 Speaker 1: and the goggles that Trump then appointed to run the 372 00:28:27,675 --> 00:28:31,235 Speaker 1: FCC decided to begin his tenure by announcing that he 373 00:28:31,315 --> 00:28:35,635 Speaker 1: wants the transcripts of the CBS Harris interview and is 374 00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:39,915 Speaker 1: investigating CBS because the Trump monsters are going to use 375 00:28:39,955 --> 00:28:44,155 Speaker 1: the laws to punish people who don't advocate for Trump, 376 00:28:44,555 --> 00:28:48,835 Speaker 1: and those monsters must be stopped. Next, the guy will 377 00:28:48,835 --> 00:28:51,755 Speaker 1: want the video of the CBS Harris interview turned over 378 00:28:51,795 --> 00:28:54,515 Speaker 1: to the FCC, and of course, way down there at 379 00:28:54,555 --> 00:28:57,475 Speaker 1: the end of this path to hell, this guy will 380 00:28:57,515 --> 00:29:03,555 Speaker 1: want Kamala Harris herself turned over to the FCC. Dateline 381 00:29:03,595 --> 00:29:08,435 Speaker 1: the Pentagon On Friday, Zach Stanton, writing the Politico Playbook 382 00:29:08,475 --> 00:29:11,715 Speaker 1: newsletter after Ryan Liza got the heave ho after the 383 00:29:11,755 --> 00:29:16,035 Speaker 1: whole thing with Miviy Muzi, wrote one of the suckiest 384 00:29:16,235 --> 00:29:20,755 Speaker 1: suck up things yet written about Trump. Quote. The prevailing 385 00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:22,835 Speaker 1: sense at the end of week one was that Trump 386 00:29:22,915 --> 00:29:26,155 Speaker 1: two point oh was altogether more polished and professional than 387 00:29:26,195 --> 00:29:30,275 Speaker 1: Trump one point oh. This time around, so the thinking went, 388 00:29:30,515 --> 00:29:33,155 Speaker 1: the administration would be able to execute on its goals 389 00:29:33,315 --> 00:29:37,875 Speaker 1: with strategic precision, an impression bolstered by the blitz of 390 00:29:38,115 --> 00:29:42,515 Speaker 1: well prepared executive actions that defined his initial days back 391 00:29:42,555 --> 00:29:46,315 Speaker 1: on the job. That's the long version of and thus 392 00:29:46,435 --> 00:29:51,915 Speaker 1: Donald Trump finally became president. Nice try Zack Stanton of Politico. 393 00:29:52,275 --> 00:29:56,515 Speaker 1: Later the same day, the Pentagon announced that there would 394 00:29:56,515 --> 00:30:00,395 Speaker 1: be some changes made in the press. Cubby holes provided 395 00:30:00,475 --> 00:30:03,315 Speaker 1: in the building for correspondence to work out of. The 396 00:30:03,395 --> 00:30:06,435 Speaker 1: TV ones even have little TV cameras in them. The 397 00:30:06,515 --> 00:30:11,635 Speaker 1: New York Post, breitbarta NN, and huff Post will be 398 00:30:11,715 --> 00:30:17,915 Speaker 1: getting spaces in the Pentagon. Huff Post really gonna move 399 00:30:17,915 --> 00:30:20,715 Speaker 1: a gossip columnist into the Pentagon. I mean, it's as 400 00:30:20,715 --> 00:30:23,515 Speaker 1: silly as oh Ann. Anyway, the spaces they will be 401 00:30:23,555 --> 00:30:28,635 Speaker 1: getting were the press spaces occupied by NPR, which has 402 00:30:28,675 --> 00:30:30,955 Speaker 1: been desperately trying to curry favor with the right for 403 00:30:30,955 --> 00:30:34,155 Speaker 1: at least a year, and the New York Times. That's 404 00:30:34,195 --> 00:30:35,955 Speaker 1: the New York Times. As in the New York Times, 405 00:30:36,035 --> 00:30:39,915 Speaker 1: we can both sides anything in our headlines department. And 406 00:30:40,355 --> 00:30:44,035 Speaker 1: NBC good call on giving Trump the free pass throughout 407 00:30:44,075 --> 00:30:47,315 Speaker 1: the campaign and that lightweight interview on Meet the Press, 408 00:30:47,515 --> 00:30:53,035 Speaker 1: and of course Politico. Politico space is now going to 409 00:30:53,235 --> 00:31:00,315 Speaker 1: like Breitbart. All four ousted news organizations tried to appease. 410 00:31:00,955 --> 00:31:05,555 Speaker 1: Politico tried three hours before they were thrown out. Do 411 00:31:05,675 --> 00:31:10,835 Speaker 1: not appease, Never appease, Do not bring a bouquet of 412 00:31:10,955 --> 00:31:17,435 Speaker 1: roses to a flame thrower fight. And Dateline Washington next up, 413 00:31:17,435 --> 00:31:21,515 Speaker 1: trying to prove it can be good little propagandists Semaphore News. 414 00:31:21,875 --> 00:31:25,835 Speaker 1: I'm going to read you it's very colorful, very unbelievable 415 00:31:25,875 --> 00:31:29,555 Speaker 1: press release as written at Semaphore. I beg you to 416 00:31:29,675 --> 00:31:34,555 Speaker 1: believe me. I beg you. This is not satire. I 417 00:31:34,595 --> 00:31:39,995 Speaker 1: am not that talented. I could never write nor conceive 418 00:31:40,475 --> 00:31:46,675 Speaker 1: of anything this tone death obviously wrong and completely stupid. 419 00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:53,915 Speaker 1: Semaphore innovating to restore trust in news a national summit. 420 00:31:55,155 --> 00:31:58,315 Speaker 1: Semaphore has set plans for a National Trust in News 421 00:31:58,315 --> 00:32:00,755 Speaker 1: Summit next month, with the focus on how the media 422 00:32:00,835 --> 00:32:04,675 Speaker 1: rebuilds public trust amid a Gallop poll showing record low approval. 423 00:32:05,155 --> 00:32:07,715 Speaker 1: The event to be held on February twenty seventh that 424 00:32:07,795 --> 00:32:11,515 Speaker 1: Gallup's headquarters in Washington, DC, is hosted by co founder 425 00:32:11,515 --> 00:32:14,875 Speaker 1: and CEO Justin Smith if that is your real name, 426 00:32:14,995 --> 00:32:17,875 Speaker 1: and co founder and editor in chief Ben Smith, if 427 00:32:17,875 --> 00:32:22,235 Speaker 1: that is your real name. Those confirmed to participate so far, 428 00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:25,835 Speaker 1: let me exit reading this press release to just remind 429 00:32:25,875 --> 00:32:29,275 Speaker 1: you I did not write this. This is not satire. 430 00:32:29,595 --> 00:32:32,435 Speaker 1: This is not somebody trying to write the dumbest thing 431 00:32:32,595 --> 00:32:35,915 Speaker 1: ever in terms of restoring trust in news. Okay, this 432 00:32:36,115 --> 00:32:41,475 Speaker 1: is this is real. Those confirmed to participate so far 433 00:32:41,675 --> 00:32:50,915 Speaker 1: include Mecckelly, CNN Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Mark Thompson, NBC 434 00:32:51,155 --> 00:32:59,595 Speaker 1: Universal Newsgroup Chairman, Sesar Conde. Fox News is Brettbear and 435 00:32:59,595 --> 00:33:03,635 Speaker 1: and he guesses it's worse than you think. It's really 436 00:33:03,675 --> 00:33:07,635 Speaker 1: worse than you think. Worse than Megan Kelly, worse than 437 00:33:07,675 --> 00:33:11,515 Speaker 1: Mark Thompson, who many people at CNN do not believe 438 00:33:11,515 --> 00:33:14,275 Speaker 1: actually exist, They've never seen him. Worse than Megan Kelly, 439 00:33:14,315 --> 00:33:17,635 Speaker 1: worse than Mark Thompson, worse than, saysar Conde, worse than 440 00:33:17,675 --> 00:33:22,595 Speaker 1: Brett Bhar. The last person participating in the Innovating to 441 00:33:22,595 --> 00:33:27,795 Speaker 1: Restore Trust in News national Summit, Joe Kahn, Executive editor 442 00:33:27,835 --> 00:33:31,275 Speaker 1: of The New York Times. Does he have to bring 443 00:33:31,355 --> 00:33:34,515 Speaker 1: somebody with him to offer a counterpoint to each of 444 00:33:34,555 --> 00:33:39,555 Speaker 1: his statements? Others participating will come from the worlds of news, entertainment, 445 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:45,315 Speaker 1: technology and new media. Probably should add somebody from the 446 00:33:45,355 --> 00:33:50,675 Speaker 1: waterboarding division of the new administration. Megan Kelly, Mark Thompson, 447 00:33:51,475 --> 00:33:58,155 Speaker 1: says our Conte Brett Behar, Joe Kahn on restoring trust 448 00:33:58,515 --> 00:34:06,395 Speaker 1: in news, And you didn't invite Joe and Mika, Oh 449 00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:30,635 Speaker 1: my god? Are we f't go ahead on countdown the 450 00:34:30,835 --> 00:34:36,315 Speaker 1: Terrible Trade plus Hockey's Original Six. The term came up 451 00:34:36,355 --> 00:34:39,955 Speaker 1: again over the weekend. The original six. They're not original 452 00:34:40,115 --> 00:34:43,955 Speaker 1: and there aren't six of them. How this erroneous nonsense 453 00:34:43,995 --> 00:34:47,155 Speaker 1: has become the number one marketing device in the National 454 00:34:47,155 --> 00:34:51,755 Speaker 1: Hockey League, and how it is factually completely wrong and 455 00:34:51,875 --> 00:34:56,675 Speaker 1: has been now for eighty three years. Coming up next 456 00:34:56,675 --> 00:34:59,555 Speaker 1: in Sports First, Believe It or Not? There's still more 457 00:34:59,555 --> 00:35:01,595 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the 458 00:35:01,595 --> 00:35:04,555 Speaker 1: miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who co 459 00:35:04,675 --> 00:35:11,435 Speaker 1: constitute two Day's other worst persons in the world, the 460 00:35:11,555 --> 00:35:17,675 Speaker 1: bronze worse Chuck Todd. Friday, Chuck announced he's leaving NBC 461 00:35:17,875 --> 00:35:21,235 Speaker 1: News for once. I'm not going to focus here on 462 00:35:21,235 --> 00:35:24,355 Speaker 1: how Chuck once made up a quote and attributed it 463 00:35:24,395 --> 00:35:29,675 Speaker 1: to AOC. She said concentration camps, he said, she said 464 00:35:29,755 --> 00:35:32,835 Speaker 1: Nazi death camps. He still doesn't think he did anything wrong, 465 00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:35,275 Speaker 1: even though she never said Nazi, she didn't say death 466 00:35:35,555 --> 00:35:39,515 Speaker 1: and concentration camps began forty years before the Nazis used them. 467 00:35:39,595 --> 00:35:43,075 Speaker 1: They began in the Boer War in the nineteenth century. Also, 468 00:35:43,115 --> 00:35:45,395 Speaker 1: I'm not going to zoom in on Chuck saying more 469 00:35:45,435 --> 00:35:49,155 Speaker 1: recently that the Trump nominee confirmation hearings could just save 470 00:35:49,315 --> 00:35:53,075 Speaker 1: cable news in the short term, because obviously that's what 471 00:35:53,195 --> 00:35:56,155 Speaker 1: Chuck thinks the point of these confirmation hearings are. I'm 472 00:35:56,155 --> 00:35:58,835 Speaker 1: not going to mention any of that. I'm just going 473 00:35:58,915 --> 00:36:01,835 Speaker 1: to point out that about three weeks ago, each media 474 00:36:01,875 --> 00:36:06,155 Speaker 1: reporter and each political newsletter, including some done by high 475 00:36:06,195 --> 00:36:10,075 Speaker 1: school students reported that Chuck Todd was leaving NBC News. 476 00:36:10,715 --> 00:36:15,155 Speaker 1: Chuck reported it on Friday, Chuck was scooped on his 477 00:36:15,235 --> 00:36:22,475 Speaker 1: own firing, runner up worser, former chief CNN saboteur Chris Licked. 478 00:36:23,715 --> 00:36:27,595 Speaker 1: That's old timer's day here on worse persons Chris lickt 479 00:36:27,715 --> 00:36:30,395 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd. One of the media guys who scooped Chuck 480 00:36:30,435 --> 00:36:33,035 Speaker 1: Todd on his own firing was Oliver Darcy of Status 481 00:36:33,515 --> 00:36:38,795 Speaker 1: about my old MSNBC buddy lickt Darcy writes quote. When 482 00:36:38,795 --> 00:36:41,875 Speaker 1: wildfires tore through the Los Angeles area earlier this month, 483 00:36:41,995 --> 00:36:44,795 Speaker 1: Chris Lick found himself in the city, eager to lend 484 00:36:44,835 --> 00:36:51,075 Speaker 1: the hand for or against the wildfires. Licked. According to 485 00:36:51,115 --> 00:36:54,555 Speaker 1: a tipster, the former CNN boss reached out to knbct 486 00:36:55,195 --> 00:36:59,635 Speaker 1: TV chief Todd Muktari to see if the local station 487 00:36:59,795 --> 00:37:03,795 Speaker 1: needed any support with its coverage. As circumstances would have it, 488 00:37:03,875 --> 00:37:08,955 Speaker 1: Muktari did said he could use an extra field producer. Licked, 489 00:37:08,995 --> 00:37:11,795 Speaker 1: I'm told, volunteered his time to assist taking on field 490 00:37:11,835 --> 00:37:15,395 Speaker 1: producing duties for KNBC, the station where he launched his 491 00:37:15,595 --> 00:37:19,995 Speaker 1: career years ago. I would argue about the use of 492 00:37:20,035 --> 00:37:24,675 Speaker 1: the word career relative to Chris licked Krene is probably closer. 493 00:37:25,715 --> 00:37:30,275 Speaker 1: Darcy ads licked volunteered. His time volunteered implies he did 494 00:37:30,275 --> 00:37:32,795 Speaker 1: this for free, which is highly unlikely even under the 495 00:37:32,795 --> 00:37:37,835 Speaker 1: circumstances in a union shop like NBCLA. But he certainly 496 00:37:37,875 --> 00:37:41,635 Speaker 1: did work for the minimum, meaning Chris Lickt has finally 497 00:37:41,635 --> 00:37:44,395 Speaker 1: found a job and especially a salary commensurate with his 498 00:37:44,435 --> 00:37:50,435 Speaker 1: skills bought our winner. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, who makes 499 00:37:50,515 --> 00:37:54,155 Speaker 1: Kaylee mcananey and Sarah Huckabee and Sean Spicer look like 500 00:37:55,195 --> 00:38:00,115 Speaker 1: they aren't morons. Levitt is not only stupid, but she 501 00:38:00,155 --> 00:38:03,795 Speaker 1: has swallowed all the kool aid and whatever else was 502 00:38:03,835 --> 00:38:06,715 Speaker 1: on the food table with the White House. Listen to 503 00:38:06,715 --> 00:38:10,755 Speaker 1: this exchange with Peter Doucey of Fox, another rocket scientist, 504 00:38:11,275 --> 00:38:13,515 Speaker 1: back when they were still trying to sell the Potomac 505 00:38:13,515 --> 00:38:17,995 Speaker 1: disaster as the fault of DEI instead of Pete. Hegsat's 506 00:38:18,355 --> 00:38:22,755 Speaker 1: DoD was the air traffic controller in the DCA tower 507 00:38:22,755 --> 00:38:26,275 Speaker 1: on Wednesday night, hired or not fired at some point 508 00:38:26,435 --> 00:38:27,955 Speaker 1: because of his or her race. 509 00:38:28,595 --> 00:38:32,475 Speaker 2: That investigation is ongoing, and so when we have updates 510 00:38:32,515 --> 00:38:35,755 Speaker 2: on the exact individuals who were involved in the collision, 511 00:38:36,635 --> 00:38:39,395 Speaker 2: including the air traffic controller, also the pilots of the 512 00:38:39,395 --> 00:38:42,235 Speaker 2: helicopter and others. We will confirm those. I don't want 513 00:38:42,275 --> 00:38:44,275 Speaker 2: to confirm names from this podium today, We're not in 514 00:38:44,315 --> 00:38:47,515 Speaker 2: a position to do that, but I will say the 515 00:38:47,555 --> 00:38:50,515 Speaker 2: President has still rightfully pointed out that there has been 516 00:38:50,555 --> 00:38:55,595 Speaker 2: problems with the aviation industry over the past several years, 517 00:38:55,715 --> 00:38:58,435 Speaker 2: and this started under Barack Obama in twenty fourteen. 518 00:38:58,635 --> 00:39:03,395 Speaker 1: So wait, Caroline, the DEI stuff you're whining about started 519 00:39:03,515 --> 00:39:06,555 Speaker 1: under Obama. And who is the president after Obama who 520 00:39:06,555 --> 00:39:08,875 Speaker 1: didn't do anything about it? Oh yeah, that's right, Trump, 521 00:39:08,995 --> 00:39:11,955 Speaker 1: and whose presidency was the one in which the helicopter 522 00:39:11,995 --> 00:39:20,395 Speaker 1: pilot was commissioned. Oh right, Trumps. The people talking, DEEI waited, 523 00:39:20,715 --> 00:39:26,355 Speaker 1: if you will, hiring practices unfair to white dudes, hiring 524 00:39:26,395 --> 00:39:31,075 Speaker 1: practices in that little clip there, those people are Peter Doocey, 525 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:34,475 Speaker 1: whose dad just coincidentally has worked at Fox News since 526 00:39:34,515 --> 00:39:38,995 Speaker 1: it was created, born courtesy of Satan and Roger Ayles, 527 00:39:39,235 --> 00:39:44,715 Speaker 1: Peter Deucey, NEPO baby, and Caroline Levitt, who literally got 528 00:39:44,755 --> 00:39:50,835 Speaker 1: into college on a softball scholarship. The press secretary is 529 00:39:50,995 --> 00:39:57,475 Speaker 1: there to catch softballs from the NEPO babies only in America. Man, 530 00:39:58,915 --> 00:40:01,515 Speaker 1: while we are here on this topic, I mentioned last 531 00:40:01,515 --> 00:40:06,115 Speaker 1: week the just last summer, Caroline Levitt not revealed as 532 00:40:06,155 --> 00:40:09,275 Speaker 1: a Trump spokesperson that she thinks the word damming is 533 00:40:09,315 --> 00:40:13,195 Speaker 1: pronounced dammining, but that she at least once on the 534 00:40:13,235 --> 00:40:17,155 Speaker 1: air live on CNN, revealed she thought the Nazi monster's 535 00:40:17,235 --> 00:40:22,275 Speaker 1: name was Kilter. There was blowback to that. People who 536 00:40:22,395 --> 00:40:26,195 Speaker 1: believed everything else that I've said all this time believe 537 00:40:26,315 --> 00:40:30,595 Speaker 1: that was impossible. Nobody is that stupid. Nobody has gone 538 00:40:30,635 --> 00:40:34,075 Speaker 1: through life only reading a name and getting it wrong 539 00:40:34,435 --> 00:40:37,715 Speaker 1: all their lives, no matter if they're ten years old, 540 00:40:38,475 --> 00:40:42,715 Speaker 1: reading the name Hitler wrong and never being corrected on it. 541 00:40:42,795 --> 00:40:45,515 Speaker 1: It's not possible. Never Mind, somebody rose to the position 542 00:40:45,555 --> 00:40:49,915 Speaker 1: of I don't know, street sweeper outside the White House, 543 00:40:49,995 --> 00:40:52,795 Speaker 1: never mind Press secretary to the President of the United States. 544 00:40:53,115 --> 00:40:55,395 Speaker 1: But then again, we are living in a real time, 545 00:40:55,475 --> 00:40:59,675 Speaker 1: real life version of idiocracy in a time when Bobby 546 00:40:59,795 --> 00:41:02,955 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior is not escorted out of the Senate and 547 00:41:02,995 --> 00:41:06,915 Speaker 1: directly into a straight jacket and some pants, it is 548 00:41:06,955 --> 00:41:09,755 Speaker 1: not only possible, it turns out it's likely that this 549 00:41:09,915 --> 00:41:13,075 Speaker 1: is what happens at the risk of pissing off CNN 550 00:41:14,275 --> 00:41:17,115 Speaker 1: like they care anymore. On June twenty fourth, last year, 551 00:41:17,155 --> 00:41:19,995 Speaker 1: on CNN This Morning with Casey Hunt, here's the clip 552 00:41:20,315 --> 00:41:24,315 Speaker 1: Levitt got Hitler's name wrong. It is late in this clip. 553 00:41:24,435 --> 00:41:26,795 Speaker 1: There's a lot of crosstalk at the end, but you 554 00:41:26,795 --> 00:41:28,675 Speaker 1: can play it again if you don't hear it the 555 00:41:28,675 --> 00:41:32,835 Speaker 1: first time. Levitt is bashing Jake Tapper, Casey Hunt is 556 00:41:32,835 --> 00:41:37,755 Speaker 1: defending Jake Tapper, and then boom goes the Hilter. Courtesy 557 00:41:37,795 --> 00:41:41,435 Speaker 1: and copyright CNN. And my justification is this is really 558 00:41:41,515 --> 00:41:44,075 Speaker 1: news that a lot of people didn't notice at the time, 559 00:41:44,435 --> 00:41:48,955 Speaker 1: courtesy CNN. And just one more time, this is courtesy CNN. 560 00:41:50,315 --> 00:41:53,315 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it's it takes someone five minutes 561 00:41:53,355 --> 00:41:55,595 Speaker 2: to google Jake Tapper Donald Trump to see that Jake 562 00:41:55,635 --> 00:41:58,835 Speaker 2: Tapper has Sam canist Is offer his interview. Want to 563 00:41:58,875 --> 00:41:59,595 Speaker 2: call it ADELF. 564 00:41:59,395 --> 00:42:06,435 Speaker 1: Hilter, He'll ter. I assume as she said that Caroline 565 00:42:06,475 --> 00:42:12,635 Speaker 1: Levitt thought his name was Rodolfo Hilter, Ladolf Hilter, Caroline. 566 00:42:13,355 --> 00:42:16,155 Speaker 1: I want to know if the four thousand sports books 567 00:42:16,475 --> 00:42:19,275 Speaker 1: and other legal gambling companies that have sprung up in 568 00:42:19,315 --> 00:42:23,915 Speaker 1: Trump's America. Will let me bet on when she mispronounces 569 00:42:23,955 --> 00:42:28,435 Speaker 1: Trump's name like Chuck Grassley mispronounced Trump's name the other 570 00:42:28,515 --> 00:42:33,675 Speaker 1: day and called him dump Levitt two days other worse 571 00:42:34,035 --> 00:43:00,995 Speaker 1: person and the world. This is sports Senate. Wait check 572 00:43:01,035 --> 00:43:02,795 Speaker 1: that not anymore. 573 00:43:03,595 --> 00:43:10,275 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith Ulberman from the sports Ball 574 00:43:10,555 --> 00:43:20,835 Speaker 3: Central Center news desk tonight dateline, Dallas, Texas, Hello, Dallas 575 00:43:20,875 --> 00:43:24,875 Speaker 3: Mavericks did indeed send superstar Luka Doncic to the Los 576 00:43:24,875 --> 00:43:29,635 Speaker 3: Angeles Lakers at the basketball swap deadline yesterday in and yes, 577 00:43:29,675 --> 00:43:31,795 Speaker 3: I am repeating this line because I like it that much. 578 00:43:31,835 --> 00:43:34,795 Speaker 3: A trade deal so bad it must have been ordered 579 00:43:34,835 --> 00:43:38,755 Speaker 3: by Trump. Doncic turns twenty six at the end of 580 00:43:38,795 --> 00:43:41,315 Speaker 3: this month, and in the worst of his six full 581 00:43:41,355 --> 00:43:44,235 Speaker 3: seasons in the league thus far, he finished only eighth 582 00:43:44,395 --> 00:43:47,515 Speaker 3: in the balloting for most Valuable Player. He was third 583 00:43:47,555 --> 00:43:49,515 Speaker 3: last year. He's been a first team All Star each 584 00:43:49,555 --> 00:43:53,715 Speaker 3: of the last five seasons. Dallas sent La Doncic and 585 00:43:54,635 --> 00:43:57,395 Speaker 3: well other guys for the Lakers first round draft choice 586 00:43:57,395 --> 00:44:01,315 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty nine. Max Christy, who has scored eight 587 00:44:01,435 --> 00:44:04,635 Speaker 3: hundred and two points over the entire arc of his career, 588 00:44:04,915 --> 00:44:08,755 Speaker 3: that is, and Anthony Davis, a thirty two year old, 589 00:44:08,995 --> 00:44:13,475 Speaker 3: much beligned, much injured player whose name you may recognize 590 00:44:13,475 --> 00:44:17,635 Speaker 3: from such headlines as Anthony Davis demands New Orleans trades him. 591 00:44:18,115 --> 00:44:21,555 Speaker 3: Anthony Davis will not return to Kentucky. Anthony Davis will 592 00:44:21,555 --> 00:44:24,995 Speaker 3: miss several games with another foot injury. Anthony Davis will 593 00:44:24,995 --> 00:44:29,115 Speaker 3: not play tonight due to load maintenance. Anthony Davis demands 594 00:44:29,155 --> 00:44:32,555 Speaker 3: Lakers trade him, and of course somebody needs to talk 595 00:44:32,635 --> 00:44:37,835 Speaker 3: to Anthony Davis about the brows. Congratulations to my friend 596 00:44:37,875 --> 00:44:42,115 Speaker 3: and one time date literally Lakers only earner Jeanie buss 597 00:44:42,555 --> 00:44:46,315 Speaker 3: on getting rid of this guy in exchange for one 598 00:44:46,315 --> 00:44:50,075 Speaker 3: of the greatest players in modern basketball history. It would 599 00:44:50,115 --> 00:44:55,355 Speaker 3: be like trading me for Babe Ruth. The trade is 600 00:44:55,395 --> 00:44:59,515 Speaker 3: so bad that several NBA insider reporters who reported it 601 00:44:59,555 --> 00:45:03,595 Speaker 3: on social media were contacted by fans and other reporters 602 00:45:03,795 --> 00:45:06,755 Speaker 3: and their their editors and employers to ask if their 603 00:45:06,755 --> 00:45:07,995 Speaker 3: computers had been hacked. 604 00:45:08,915 --> 00:45:11,795 Speaker 1: No, only the governments. By the way, the best part 605 00:45:11,835 --> 00:45:14,395 Speaker 1: of the joke about the bad trade deal being Trump's 606 00:45:14,395 --> 00:45:16,715 Speaker 1: thing is that while most people who vaguely know sports 607 00:45:16,755 --> 00:45:20,115 Speaker 1: think that Mark Cuban still owns the Dallas Mavericks. They're 608 00:45:20,155 --> 00:45:22,955 Speaker 1: the idiots who made this deal. Even NBA fans think this. 609 00:45:23,075 --> 00:45:26,235 Speaker 1: Even some Mavericks fans think this. He has long since 610 00:45:26,275 --> 00:45:31,715 Speaker 1: sold the team to the Adelson family Miriam Addelson. Miriam 611 00:45:31,715 --> 00:45:34,835 Speaker 1: Addelson who got all of her late husband's fascist money 612 00:45:35,595 --> 00:45:39,275 Speaker 1: and gave most of it to Trump. Because well, now 613 00:45:39,275 --> 00:45:49,595 Speaker 1: they've gone and traded Luka Doncic because et TD state line, Vancouver, 614 00:45:49,675 --> 00:45:52,715 Speaker 1: British Columbia. While we're talking trades, please give a thought 615 00:45:52,755 --> 00:45:55,715 Speaker 1: today for my pal John Shorthouse, who does the Vancouver 616 00:45:55,755 --> 00:45:58,795 Speaker 1: Cannots hockey games on television and is very possibly the 617 00:45:58,835 --> 00:46:02,395 Speaker 1: best play by play man in sports, despite being a 618 00:46:02,515 --> 00:46:06,235 Speaker 1: total goofball. But even he will be challenged by the 619 00:46:06,275 --> 00:46:09,235 Speaker 1: new state of things in Vancouver. Friday night, the Canucks 620 00:46:09,275 --> 00:46:13,355 Speaker 1: solved a long standing problem by dumping center J. T. Miller, 621 00:46:13,555 --> 00:46:15,955 Speaker 1: a player of whom you could quote the Monty Python line, 622 00:46:16,275 --> 00:46:20,595 Speaker 1: it's people like you what causes unrest. He had been 623 00:46:20,755 --> 00:46:25,275 Speaker 1: unresting his own teammate, Elias Petterson. Miller was finally traded 624 00:46:25,315 --> 00:46:27,475 Speaker 1: to the New York Rangers, the third time in less 625 00:46:27,515 --> 00:46:30,715 Speaker 1: than seven years he has been traded, and how he 626 00:46:30,795 --> 00:46:35,275 Speaker 1: treated his teammates was part of the trade. Anyway, Elias 627 00:46:35,315 --> 00:46:40,515 Speaker 1: Petterson continues in Vancouver, which means Shorthouse's problem continues. The 628 00:46:40,555 --> 00:46:45,035 Speaker 1: Canucks recently promoted a defenseman from the Miners named Elias Petterson. 629 00:46:45,595 --> 00:46:49,715 Speaker 1: He spells his name exactly the same way Elias Petterson does, 630 00:46:49,995 --> 00:46:53,155 Speaker 1: but he pronounces it differently. Near as I can tell, 631 00:46:53,395 --> 00:46:56,475 Speaker 1: this is the first time any sports team has had this. 632 00:46:56,835 --> 00:47:01,555 Speaker 1: Two guys Elias Petterson and Elias Petterson with exactly the 633 00:47:01,635 --> 00:47:06,155 Speaker 1: same name, but they pronounce it differently. But after the 634 00:47:06,155 --> 00:47:08,995 Speaker 1: Canucks traded Miller, they made another deal for a deaf 635 00:47:09,075 --> 00:47:14,515 Speaker 1: veteran defenseman named Marcus Petterson. So it's Elias, Elias and 636 00:47:14,555 --> 00:47:18,355 Speaker 1: Marcus Petterson on the same team, conceivably on the ice 637 00:47:18,555 --> 00:47:22,115 Speaker 1: at the same time. Good Luck Shorty, on the other hand. 638 00:47:22,635 --> 00:47:25,955 Speaker 1: In September, the Canucks replaced their rinkside in game reporter. 639 00:47:26,315 --> 00:47:28,795 Speaker 1: The new person in the job is named Olivia McDonald. 640 00:47:29,075 --> 00:47:40,075 Speaker 1: The previous reporter was named Kate Peterson and dateline headquarters 641 00:47:40,075 --> 00:47:43,995 Speaker 1: of the New York Americans fan Club. I don't do 642 00:47:44,075 --> 00:47:46,275 Speaker 1: a lot of hockey, but while we're here, you may 643 00:47:46,395 --> 00:47:49,475 Speaker 1: enjoy this. At least you'll understand why marketing is not 644 00:47:49,595 --> 00:47:52,795 Speaker 1: what it could be. In the NHL, the traded J. T. 645 00:47:52,995 --> 00:47:55,395 Speaker 1: Millers first came back with the New York Rangers was 646 00:47:55,435 --> 00:47:59,235 Speaker 1: against the Boston Bruins Saturday afternoon. They will play again Wednesday. 647 00:47:59,675 --> 00:48:02,355 Speaker 1: The Bruins and the Rangers were in the National Hockey 648 00:48:02,435 --> 00:48:05,715 Speaker 1: League between nineteen forty two and nineteen sixty, the quarter 649 00:48:05,755 --> 00:48:08,955 Speaker 1: century when the whole league had only six teams and 650 00:48:09,035 --> 00:48:11,075 Speaker 1: none of them moved and none of them changed names, 651 00:48:11,075 --> 00:48:12,555 Speaker 1: and it was just the six of them. And then 652 00:48:12,595 --> 00:48:16,475 Speaker 1: they started doing the expansion thing. Starting in the early seventies, 653 00:48:16,595 --> 00:48:19,635 Speaker 1: hockey people began to refer to those half dozen clubs 654 00:48:19,835 --> 00:48:24,555 Speaker 1: in that twenty five year span erroneously as the original six. 655 00:48:25,795 --> 00:48:29,715 Speaker 1: You will hear this now every time Boston plays the Rangers, 656 00:48:29,835 --> 00:48:33,715 Speaker 1: or Montreal plays Detroit, or Toronto plays Chicago, or any 657 00:48:33,755 --> 00:48:36,835 Speaker 1: other mix of these six teams. Announcers say it, coaches 658 00:48:36,875 --> 00:48:39,715 Speaker 1: say it, players say it, The commissioner of the league 659 00:48:39,715 --> 00:48:44,595 Speaker 1: says it, and they are all wrong. For some of 660 00:48:44,675 --> 00:48:46,555 Speaker 1: us fans, the day will come when we will have 661 00:48:46,595 --> 00:48:51,315 Speaker 1: heard this ridiculously inaccurate phrase original fixth one time too many, 662 00:48:51,635 --> 00:48:55,115 Speaker 1: and we will either barricade ourselves somewhere, or we will 663 00:48:55,155 --> 00:49:02,195 Speaker 1: take hostages. The National Hockey League officially originated in nineteen seventeen, 664 00:49:02,795 --> 00:49:05,715 Speaker 1: although it was the direct successor to the National Hockey Association, 665 00:49:06,195 --> 00:49:09,235 Speaker 1: which started in nineteen oh nine. Each of those leagues 666 00:49:09,275 --> 00:49:13,475 Speaker 1: had in their first season their original season four original teams. 667 00:49:13,995 --> 00:49:16,715 Speaker 1: Each of them, the NHL and the NHL had an 668 00:49:16,755 --> 00:49:21,115 Speaker 1: original four. The number of the teams in the NHL 669 00:49:21,155 --> 00:49:24,675 Speaker 1: has varied. It's gone from four to six in nineteen 670 00:49:24,715 --> 00:49:27,715 Speaker 1: twenty four, to seven in nineteen twenty five, to ten 671 00:49:27,835 --> 00:49:31,195 Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty six, and then the Depression really took 672 00:49:31,195 --> 00:49:35,235 Speaker 1: its toll. The Ottawa Senators suspended operations and the Pittsburgh 673 00:49:35,275 --> 00:49:39,195 Speaker 1: Pirates went belly up, then moved to Philadelphia, then folded, 674 00:49:39,635 --> 00:49:41,675 Speaker 1: so in nineteen thirty one, the NHL was back down 675 00:49:41,715 --> 00:49:45,795 Speaker 1: to eight teams. Ottawa tried again, resumed operations in nineteen 676 00:49:45,835 --> 00:49:48,395 Speaker 1: thirty two, so they were back up to nine teams. 677 00:49:48,715 --> 00:49:51,035 Speaker 1: That didn't work, so Ottawa moved to Saint Louis in 678 00:49:51,115 --> 00:49:53,715 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, and that really didn't work, so Saint 679 00:49:53,795 --> 00:49:56,475 Speaker 1: Louis folded and in nineteen thirty five it was back 680 00:49:56,515 --> 00:49:59,435 Speaker 1: to eight teams again. By nineteen thirty eight, things were 681 00:49:59,475 --> 00:50:02,235 Speaker 1: so bad in the city of Montreal that the fabled 682 00:50:02,235 --> 00:50:07,875 Speaker 1: Montreal Canadians were going to move to Cleveland. Instead, they 683 00:50:07,915 --> 00:50:11,155 Speaker 1: bought out the other Montreal team, the Canadians bought the 684 00:50:11,195 --> 00:50:14,475 Speaker 1: Montreal Maroons. The Montreal Maroons, who had won the Stanley 685 00:50:14,475 --> 00:50:17,355 Speaker 1: Cup just three years earlier, folded went out of business, 686 00:50:18,075 --> 00:50:21,275 Speaker 1: So we're down to seven teams nineteen thirty eight, when 687 00:50:21,355 --> 00:50:23,915 Speaker 1: the war came, the original team in New York that 688 00:50:23,995 --> 00:50:28,835 Speaker 1: preceded the Rangers, the New York Americans, suspended operations when 689 00:50:28,835 --> 00:50:32,675 Speaker 1: the war ended. They never came back, and that's why 690 00:50:32,915 --> 00:50:35,955 Speaker 1: there were six NHL teams. There's nothing original about the 691 00:50:35,995 --> 00:50:41,675 Speaker 1: original six. They were just the ones that didn't go bankrupt. Moreover, 692 00:50:42,075 --> 00:50:44,795 Speaker 1: of the actual original four teams from the NHL of 693 00:50:44,835 --> 00:50:47,635 Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen, only the Montreal Canadians are still in the league. 694 00:50:48,115 --> 00:50:52,315 Speaker 1: The Toronto team of nineteen seventeen Sorda. They're sorta the 695 00:50:52,355 --> 00:50:57,075 Speaker 1: Maple Leafs. The original business went bankrupt, new owners took over, 696 00:50:57,555 --> 00:51:00,475 Speaker 1: changed the name of the team. Was a very shady deal. 697 00:51:01,195 --> 00:51:04,075 Speaker 1: But even if you consider the Toronto Maple Leafs as original, 698 00:51:04,275 --> 00:51:08,155 Speaker 1: THENA does not have an original six. It has an 699 00:51:08,155 --> 00:51:11,795 Speaker 1: original two. If the Canadians are playing the Maple Leafs 700 00:51:11,795 --> 00:51:14,155 Speaker 1: and you want to say it's an original two matchup, 701 00:51:14,195 --> 00:51:16,475 Speaker 1: go right ahead. I have no complaint with that. The 702 00:51:16,515 --> 00:51:21,115 Speaker 1: rest of it is bullshit. The Boston Bruins, the Chicago Blackhawks, 703 00:51:21,275 --> 00:51:24,875 Speaker 1: Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers. Nominally, the other four 704 00:51:24,915 --> 00:51:28,035 Speaker 1: of the original six are like every other one of 705 00:51:28,075 --> 00:51:31,675 Speaker 1: the thirty teams that are not Montreal or Toronto. They 706 00:51:31,715 --> 00:51:40,315 Speaker 1: are expansion franchises. There is no original six. Why do 707 00:51:40,395 --> 00:51:43,635 Speaker 1: I care about this? Why have I assumed that you 708 00:51:43,675 --> 00:51:46,435 Speaker 1: would care about this for you nine and a half 709 00:51:46,475 --> 00:51:48,955 Speaker 1: minutes of your day. I am the son of a 710 00:51:49,035 --> 00:51:53,595 Speaker 1: woman who attended National Hockey League games at Madison Square 711 00:51:53,635 --> 00:51:57,715 Speaker 1: Garden in New York, games of the NHL team called 712 00:51:58,035 --> 00:52:02,115 Speaker 1: the New York Americans. She and particularly her uncle Willie 713 00:52:02,395 --> 00:52:06,675 Speaker 1: were New York Americans. Fans own a replica New York 714 00:52:06,675 --> 00:52:12,955 Speaker 1: Americans jacket. If there is an original six teams nineteen 715 00:52:12,995 --> 00:52:16,395 Speaker 1: forty two to nineteen sixty seven, what were the New 716 00:52:16,475 --> 00:52:19,675 Speaker 1: York Americans who played in nineteen forty one forty two? 717 00:52:21,115 --> 00:52:23,995 Speaker 1: What are they? Chopped? Liver? More importantly, as I said, 718 00:52:24,035 --> 00:52:27,275 Speaker 1: the NHL Montreal Maroons won the Stanley Cup in nineteen 719 00:52:27,315 --> 00:52:30,675 Speaker 1: thirty five, then disappeared in nineteen thirty eight. Does that 720 00:52:30,715 --> 00:52:34,435 Speaker 1: Stanley Cup win not count if the Montreal Maroons are 721 00:52:34,475 --> 00:52:36,675 Speaker 1: not original or part of some sort of legacy that 722 00:52:36,715 --> 00:52:39,235 Speaker 1: you call the Original six who won the Stanley Cup 723 00:52:39,235 --> 00:52:42,675 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty five. In fact, the Maroons won two 724 00:52:42,715 --> 00:52:46,115 Speaker 1: Stanley Cups, and the NHL Ottawa Senators the original ones 725 00:52:46,155 --> 00:52:49,915 Speaker 1: they won four Stanley Cups. If there is an NHL 726 00:52:49,955 --> 00:52:55,635 Speaker 1: Original six, what about those six Stanley Cup Championship NHL 727 00:52:55,675 --> 00:53:02,235 Speaker 1: winning teams that don't exist anymore. And lastly, just to 728 00:53:02,275 --> 00:53:05,835 Speaker 1: tie the whole thing together once again, just to make 729 00:53:05,875 --> 00:53:11,755 Speaker 1: this clear, the Stanley Cup has never been won by 730 00:53:11,795 --> 00:53:15,275 Speaker 1: a team with anybody on it who was named Peterson. 731 00:53:29,315 --> 00:53:31,075 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 732 00:53:31,155 --> 00:53:33,075 Speaker 1: you for listening, and for the record, I may or 733 00:53:33,155 --> 00:53:36,155 Speaker 1: may not be an Original six, but I was once traded. 734 00:53:36,915 --> 00:53:40,955 Speaker 1: At least I was sold by NBC News to Fox 735 00:53:40,995 --> 00:53:46,355 Speaker 1: Sports late in nineteen ninety eight for a flat one dollars. Seriously, 736 00:53:47,115 --> 00:53:52,155 Speaker 1: not even draft choices, not even Anthony Davis, just cash. 737 00:53:52,435 --> 00:53:54,835 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanel. The musical directors have 738 00:53:54,875 --> 00:53:57,715 Speaker 1: countdown Arrange produced and performed most of our music. Mister 739 00:53:57,755 --> 00:54:01,155 Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars, 740 00:54:01,155 --> 00:54:03,675 Speaker 1: bass and drums, and it was produced by Tko Brothers. 741 00:54:04,075 --> 00:54:06,835 Speaker 1: Our set here Glen Fifthy. Musical comments are by the 742 00:54:06,835 --> 00:54:10,515 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music 743 00:54:10,595 --> 00:54:13,915 Speaker 1: is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch 744 00:54:13,955 --> 00:54:18,035 Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and 745 00:54:18,075 --> 00:54:21,395 Speaker 1: performed by No Horns Aloud. Did I mention that clip 746 00:54:21,435 --> 00:54:25,555 Speaker 1: of Caroline Levitt was from CNN? My announswer today was 747 00:54:25,555 --> 00:54:29,595 Speaker 1: my friend Dennis Leary. Everything else was, as ever my fault. 748 00:54:30,795 --> 00:54:33,715 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, just four and forty eight days 749 00:54:33,795 --> 00:54:37,395 Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of his lame duck, lame brained term. 750 00:54:38,035 --> 00:54:43,235 Speaker 1: Unless Musk removes him sooner. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. 751 00:54:43,555 --> 00:54:46,995 Speaker 1: As always, boltons, as the news warrants remember in peach 752 00:54:47,075 --> 00:54:50,115 Speaker 1: trumpet will not work now. It will, however, win the 753 00:54:50,155 --> 00:54:53,635 Speaker 1: Democrats the mid terms until next time. I'm Keith Olberman. 754 00:54:53,675 --> 00:55:04,275 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Ladell 755 00:55:04,315 --> 00:55:08,435 Speaker 1: Filter Countdown with Keith Olreman is a production of iHeartRadio. 756 00:55:08,715 --> 00:55:14,035 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 757 00:55:14,155 --> 00:55:16,115 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.