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Speaker 1: Trump now again. No, it will not pass. No, it

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Speaker 1: will not work, not now, but it will pass, and

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Speaker 1: it will work next year, and it will win the

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Speaker 1: Democrats the midterms and the year after that. It will

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Speaker 1: brand Trump yet again, impeached yet again, as the most

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Speaker 1: treacherous garbage in our history. Because lost in the avalanche

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Speaker 1: amazingly unpopular, literally unpopular enough to cost him at least

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Speaker 1: forty three House seats right now, right now, before he

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Speaker 1: mindlessly signs even more red meat, Stephen Miller slides under

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Speaker 1: his piggish face. And the second part of this is

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Speaker 1: he has also already literally intentionally violated the Constitution of

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Speaker 1: the United States, already not forty eight hours on the job,

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Speaker 1: and he is already guilty of violating one of the

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Speaker 1: amendments and doing so deliberately. He is already guilty of

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Speaker 1: at least two impeachable offenses. Already, there is almost nothing

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Speaker 1: to do to stop Trump now. The Democrats are minorities

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Speaker 1: in both houses, the courts are The Supreme Court is

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Speaker 1: just another Trump scam company. The billionaires like Musk and

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Speaker 1: Bezos and Zuckerberg and the other tech scum have lined

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Speaker 1: up besides him, just as Kroup and I G. Farbin

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Speaker 1: and Opal stood next to and behind Hitler. There is

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Speaker 1: nothing to do today except to borrow from the musical

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Speaker 1: version of the lyrics of the fascists to make sure

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Speaker 1: tomorrow belongs to us. Introduce a bill today, or even

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Speaker 1: multiple bills today, to impeach Trump. Keep the crimes he

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Speaker 1: has already committed, including the ones he has been convicted

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Speaker 1: of and the ones he wriggled out of with dubious

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Speaker 1: new ones too. Fight back, thwart him, anger him, waste

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Speaker 1: terrify those billionaire idiots. Because you could see on that

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Speaker 1: so sure anymore. He picked the right side and fight

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Speaker 1: back against these bastards moreover, give the opposition, not the

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Speaker 1: resistance this time, but instead the defiance. Give the defiance

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Speaker 1: something to do with our time other than just sit

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Speaker 1: here and replay November fifth and all the days leading

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Speaker 1: has ever stopped being wrong without the same goddamned first step,

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Speaker 1: people standing up and saying this is wrong, this must

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Speaker 1: be stopped. Seventy six and one half million people voted

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Speaker 1: saying nothing, doing nothing, feeling sorry for ourselves, watching Trump

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Speaker 1: have even noticed that gift he gave us by pardoning

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Speaker 1: Trump and MAGA and their Republicans have gained full ownership

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Speaker 1: of January sixth, in a way they had spent four

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Speaker 1: for this every day until Tuesday, November three, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Make them answer for it because they will not be

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Speaker 1: figuratively beat Trump over the head every month, every week,

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Speaker 1: every day until the midterms, if you want to defy

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Speaker 1: The Protect Democracy nonprofit. The board and advisors there include

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Speaker 1: everybody from my friend John Dean to historian Tim Snyder,

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Speaker 1: from Matt Dowd to Ian Bassen. Protect Democracy conducted a

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Speaker 1: YouGov in the forty three most competitive House districts. Seventy

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Speaker 1: five percent of voters in those districts opposed pardoning anybody

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Speaker 1: this was not what they voted for. Out of seventeen priorities,

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Speaker 1: He blew it for whatever short term gain he will get,

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Speaker 1: impeachment bill every month from now until the midterms. If

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Speaker 1: When have you ever heard of anything producing polling that

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Speaker 1: It is now imperative that we the Defiance, and the

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Speaker 1: impeaching Trump is a moral necessity. Simply put, it's the

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Speaker 1: It is morally wrong on so many levels, in so

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Speaker 1: impeachment bills. It is wrong, it is illegal, it is impeachable.

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Speaker 1: But right and wrong still exists, and the first step

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Speaker 1: Move to impeach Trump today and again in February and

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Speaker 1: of those stories, Boiler writes, quoting him. Democratic operatives should

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Speaker 1: Bouler quotes the other Chuck Schumer. It is time to

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Speaker 1: This is madness. Resign from the leadership, Resign from the Senate,

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Speaker 1: the Chuck Schumers, busy or get out now. I apologize

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Speaker 1: immediately impeachable act. A little afternoon Monday, Trump, his hand

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Speaker 1: And meme coin names consists of a dollar sign and

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Speaker 1: I defy you to find anybody who doesn't see that

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Speaker 1: mean coin names. I defy you to find any who

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Speaker 1: smell onya as in ah, what's that awful smell on

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Speaker 1: YOUA Milania hereafter to be called Smellania Trump invest in

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Speaker 1: distens to day's first person indiverse.

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Speaker 2: Smell Anya.

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Speaker 1: I have had the misfortune to meet Trump in person

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Speaker 1: four times, the first late in nineteen eighty three, and

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Speaker 1: each time I saw the exact moment that his face

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Speaker 1: to a beaming, phony smile. That's who he is, That's

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Speaker 1: what he thinks is his asset, an irresistible smile. You

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Speaker 1: and I look at him and see a face of

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Speaker 1: evil and debauchery, and mostly a guy who claims to

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Speaker 1: cheap end of the notions department at Filein's basement. But

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Speaker 1: he really thinks he can sell anybody anything, and somewhere

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Speaker 1: early in life he decided his means of doing that

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Speaker 1: this now for at least seventy years, from his childhood

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Speaker 1: dementia to this dementia. And the way he registers a

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Speaker 1: sail with people, his receipt for convincing them to do

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Speaker 1: his bidding is their smile in return. So the jury

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Speaker 1: didn't smile at him, so the jury was biased against him,

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Speaker 1: So the jury was corrupt, so the trial was rigged.

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Speaker 1: So when he says these crazy things, there is a

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Speaker 1: part of him that truly believes it is rigged, because

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Speaker 1: they are, as the kids say, not buying what he's selling.

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Speaker 1: He believes life is a transaction, and when he gives

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Speaker 1: you his smile, you have to give him yours, and

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Speaker 1: then he owns you. I met him in the lobby

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Speaker 1: of the apartment building I used to live at here,

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Speaker 1: the no longer Trump Palace. I saw him first, then

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Speaker 1: he saw me. Then he whispered to one of his flunkies.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing he was double checking it was me. Then

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Speaker 1: he stared at me for a moment. Then when he

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Speaker 1: thought I was first looking at him, his dead face

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Speaker 1: turned immediately into that fake smile. Remember the Senko Demayo

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Speaker 1: Taco bowl tweet from twenty sixteen where he says I

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Speaker 1: love Hispanics, like there were actual Hispanics in the taco

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Speaker 1: bowl and he was eating them that fake smile. But

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Speaker 1: his eyesight is not as good as he lets on,

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Speaker 1: so he doesn't know that you have seen him first.

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Speaker 1: He had done the same thing twice in the lobbies

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Speaker 1: of thirty Rock at NBC, once stopping just to shake hands,

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Speaker 1: once actually stopping to tell me how good countdown was,

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Speaker 1: and how pissed off his buddy Bill O'Reilly would get

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Speaker 1: whenever he told him how good countdown was, and then

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Speaker 1: striding off. And I watched to see if I could

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Speaker 1: see that fake smile that had appeared so suddenly vanished

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Speaker 1: justice suddenly, but his back was turned to me. However,

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Speaker 1: December fifteenth, nineteen eighty three, CNN sends me to cover

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Speaker 1: a New York Post sports forum where owner George Steinbrenner

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Speaker 1: New York Mets, Sonny Werblin of the New York Rangers,

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Speaker 1: and Nixon this real estate hump Trump who owned the

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Speaker 1: sort of pro football team in New Jersey. They would

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Speaker 1: speak and do interviews and meet fans and whatever. He

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Speaker 1: interviewed them all briefly, and when it came time to

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Speaker 1: interview this Trump guy, he stood there and looked at

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Speaker 1: me like he was trying to guess my weight. Then

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Speaker 1: we put the camera light on and there it was,

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Speaker 1: this big fake smile out of nowhere, and I asked

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Speaker 1: some questions about the New Jersey Generals, and he boasted

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Speaker 1: he was hiring a new name coach who used to

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Speaker 1: coach the Jets. When we turned out he hadn't hired

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Speaker 1: him yet, and he spent a week cleaning up that mess.

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Speaker 1: And when I said thank you, when we turned the

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Speaker 1: light off, he turned off the big fake smile zap

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Speaker 1: it was gone, and the blank look repeated in his

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Speaker 1: eyes A couple of years ago, on a cold night,

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Speaker 1: I turned a corner here and a familiar but older

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Speaker 1: face shouted Keith, And suddenly I realized it's a CNN

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Speaker 1: cameraman I haven't seen in thirty years. Remember when we

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Speaker 1: covered Trump at that sports thing, he says, And I

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Speaker 1: realized he was the cameraman that day at the post thing.

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Speaker 1: Remember what you said about him? And I didn't? And

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Speaker 1: he laughs, and he says, we were walking back to

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Speaker 1: the truck and you didn't say anything thing, and that

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Speaker 1: worried us, because when have you ever shut up for

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Speaker 1: five minutes? And so finally I say, what's bothering you?

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Speaker 1: And you stopped, and you turning, you looked at me

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Speaker 1: and Jimmy, and you said that last guy we interviewed Trump,

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Speaker 1: what the f is wrong with that guy? I've done

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Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanell, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged,

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Speaker 1: produced and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handled

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Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass

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Speaker 1: and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. We're satirical

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Speaker 1: and fifty musical comments are by the baseball stadium organist

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Speaker 1: Arran Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme

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Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc.

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Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

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Speaker 1: My announcwer tod He was my friend Stevie van Zante.

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Speaker 1: Everything else was, as ever my fault. So that he

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Speaker 1: is countdown for today, just one thousand, four hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty days until the scheduled end of his lame duck

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Speaker 1: and lame reigned term. The next scheduled countdown is Monday.

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Speaker 1: As always, bulletins, as the news warrants, remember in peach Trump,

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Speaker 1: it won't work now. It will, however, win the Democrats

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Speaker 1: the mid terms. Until next time. I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning,

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

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Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio,

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