1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. In 2 00:00:21,795 --> 00:00:25,315 Speaker 1: an irony that would ring through the ages. Jack Smith 3 00:00:25,635 --> 00:00:30,595 Speaker 1: is poised to charge Donald Trump with trying to rig 4 00:00:30,795 --> 00:00:37,875 Speaker 1: the election, with voting fraud, with attempting to fix the balloting. 5 00:00:38,235 --> 00:00:42,355 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, nearly all of the original reporting on 6 00:00:42,395 --> 00:00:45,275 Speaker 1: what is in Target Letter number two was wrong or 7 00:00:45,315 --> 00:00:48,075 Speaker 1: at best incomplete. And I have a theory as to why. 8 00:00:48,395 --> 00:00:50,755 Speaker 1: At who the source was, and that the source was 9 00:00:50,755 --> 00:00:55,035 Speaker 1: screwed up was Trump himself. But the headline is Smith's 10 00:00:55,115 --> 00:00:59,035 Speaker 1: letter warns Trump the grand jury was considering charges against 11 00:00:59,115 --> 00:01:04,315 Speaker 1: him for potentially violating USC. Eighteen, section two, four to one. 12 00:01:04,875 --> 00:01:08,715 Speaker 1: And if you just read the heading, you would see USC. Eighteen, 13 00:01:08,795 --> 00:01:13,715 Speaker 1: section two, four to one, conspiracy against rights. So somebody 14 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:16,035 Speaker 1: too important to bother to read the whole thing would say, 15 00:01:16,155 --> 00:01:20,515 Speaker 1: he's charging me with conspiracy. But the New York Times 16 00:01:20,555 --> 00:01:24,035 Speaker 1: is reporting that the statute is actually a law enacted 17 00:01:24,035 --> 00:01:27,035 Speaker 1: after the Civil War that gave federal agents of the 18 00:01:27,075 --> 00:01:30,715 Speaker 1: time something with which to prosecute Southern whites who engaged 19 00:01:30,755 --> 00:01:34,555 Speaker 1: in terrorism to keep the newly freed slaves from voting, 20 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:37,475 Speaker 1: and which over the ensuing century and a half has 21 00:01:37,475 --> 00:01:42,075 Speaker 1: been adapted for use against conspiracies to commit voting fraud. 22 00:01:43,475 --> 00:01:46,395 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy four, the Supreme Court upheld the use 23 00:01:46,795 --> 00:01:49,715 Speaker 1: of this exact statute, which Smith put in the New 24 00:01:49,755 --> 00:01:53,435 Speaker 1: Target Letter Usc. Eighteen, Section two, four to one to 25 00:01:53,635 --> 00:01:57,755 Speaker 1: prosecute people in West Virginia who had cast fraudulent ballots 26 00:01:57,795 --> 00:02:00,355 Speaker 1: on a voting machine. And no less a figure than 27 00:02:00,555 --> 00:02:04,835 Speaker 1: Justice Thurgood Marshall himself wrote that each voter quote as 28 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:08,515 Speaker 1: a rite under the Constitution to have his vote fairly 29 00:02:08,675 --> 00:02:14,955 Speaker 1: counted without its being distorted by fraudulently cast votes. And 30 00:02:15,035 --> 00:02:18,795 Speaker 1: you don't have to be Thurgood Marshall to recognize that 31 00:02:18,875 --> 00:02:23,835 Speaker 1: a scheme to erase the actual votes of the actual voters, 32 00:02:24,275 --> 00:02:27,235 Speaker 1: especially in Georgia, where the infamous I just want to 33 00:02:27,275 --> 00:02:30,555 Speaker 1: find eleven seven hundred and eighty votes phone call is 34 00:02:30,635 --> 00:02:35,515 Speaker 1: already being memorized by American history students, but also in Arizona, 35 00:02:35,795 --> 00:02:39,235 Speaker 1: and in Michigan and everywhere else Trump and John Eastman 36 00:02:39,275 --> 00:02:41,515 Speaker 1: and Rudy Giuliani and the rest of them try to 37 00:02:41,555 --> 00:02:46,675 Speaker 1: pull off the phony electoral slates scam. A scheme to 38 00:02:46,915 --> 00:02:52,355 Speaker 1: erase hundreds of thousands of votes would violate the Constitution 39 00:02:52,715 --> 00:02:56,355 Speaker 1: in exactly the way Justice Marshall phrased it, and exactly 40 00:02:56,395 --> 00:03:02,315 Speaker 1: the way USC. Eighteen section two, four to one prohibits. Hell, 41 00:03:02,715 --> 00:03:05,395 Speaker 1: maybe they planned to charge Trump on one count for 42 00:03:05,515 --> 00:03:08,795 Speaker 1: every ballot he corruptly tried to fix. Maybe he will 43 00:03:08,835 --> 00:03:13,115 Speaker 1: go down in history as the man convicted of rigging 44 00:03:13,195 --> 00:03:18,395 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. The Times confirmed that Jack Smith 45 00:03:18,475 --> 00:03:21,035 Speaker 1: mentioned only three laws. Trump may have broken, with the 46 00:03:21,075 --> 00:03:23,555 Speaker 1: caveat again that a prosecutor does not have to list 47 00:03:23,875 --> 00:03:27,035 Speaker 1: all the laws a target might be indicted for violating, 48 00:03:27,235 --> 00:03:29,915 Speaker 1: and he does not have to charge under every statute 49 00:03:29,955 --> 00:03:34,595 Speaker 1: he lists. This nineteenth century election fraud measure USC eighteen 50 00:03:34,635 --> 00:03:38,275 Speaker 1: section two, four to one, also Usc. Eighteen section three, 51 00:03:38,475 --> 00:03:40,715 Speaker 1: seven to one, under which it is a crime to 52 00:03:40,835 --> 00:03:44,915 Speaker 1: conspire to defraud the United States of America, which could 53 00:03:44,995 --> 00:03:48,715 Speaker 1: be just the fake elector's scheme itself, or the fake 54 00:03:48,755 --> 00:03:52,435 Speaker 1: electors combined with the insurrection itself, or any of a 55 00:03:52,475 --> 00:03:55,475 Speaker 1: dozen other Trump efforts to fake his way to a 56 00:03:55,515 --> 00:03:59,875 Speaker 1: second term. The third statute in the letter is, as 57 00:03:59,955 --> 00:04:03,795 Speaker 1: widely reported, US eighteen section one five one two, which 58 00:04:03,835 --> 00:04:07,235 Speaker 1: has a clause which makes it illegal to corruptly obstruct 59 00:04:07,275 --> 00:04:11,755 Speaker 1: an official proceeding, which Trump did twice on January sixth, 60 00:04:12,035 --> 00:04:15,595 Speaker 1: once by the elector's scheme inside the capitol and won 61 00:04:15,675 --> 00:04:19,155 Speaker 1: by the insurrection that went from outside two inside the capitol. 62 00:04:20,595 --> 00:04:24,395 Speaker 1: The Guardian also reported the use of USC. Eighteen, section two, 63 00:04:24,475 --> 00:04:27,155 Speaker 1: four to one, and noted additionally that if it and 64 00:04:27,275 --> 00:04:30,275 Speaker 1: three seven to one and one five one two really 65 00:04:30,435 --> 00:04:34,555 Speaker 1: are the entirety of Smith's second case against Trump, these 66 00:04:35,595 --> 00:04:40,355 Speaker 1: second charges could actually go to trial before the stolen 67 00:04:40,395 --> 00:04:43,835 Speaker 1: documents case does, because there are no issues of classified 68 00:04:43,875 --> 00:04:48,075 Speaker 1: documents and clearances to deal with. First, here and again, 69 00:04:48,715 --> 00:04:53,035 Speaker 1: whoever told Rolling Stone and then ABC that the third 70 00:04:53,115 --> 00:04:56,555 Speaker 1: statute in the Smith target letter was primarily used to 71 00:04:56,635 --> 00:05:01,275 Speaker 1: prosecute racial or ethnic discrimination in renting, And whoever said 72 00:05:01,275 --> 00:05:05,635 Speaker 1: there was a witness tampering charge had clearly just skimmed 73 00:05:05,795 --> 00:05:08,995 Speaker 1: the letter. And gosh, who in Trump world is known 74 00:05:09,035 --> 00:05:12,835 Speaker 1: for just skimming things. If you do not think Trump 75 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:15,995 Speaker 1: personally leaks to the media, let me introduce you to 76 00:05:17,195 --> 00:05:22,515 Speaker 1: his past spokesman, John barn and the other one, John Miller, 77 00:05:22,835 --> 00:05:27,875 Speaker 1: and of course Carolyn Diego, his quote secretary unquote who 78 00:05:27,915 --> 00:05:30,235 Speaker 1: wrote a letter to the editor of New York Magazine 79 00:05:30,275 --> 00:05:33,275 Speaker 1: forty years ago about how well Trump treated women and 80 00:05:33,315 --> 00:05:35,795 Speaker 1: how all the women wanted to go to bed with him. 81 00:05:37,115 --> 00:05:40,835 Speaker 1: Although there are not any confirmed instances of Trump personally 82 00:05:40,915 --> 00:05:46,195 Speaker 1: leaking anonymously or using a pseudonym while president, he regularly 83 00:05:46,315 --> 00:05:49,955 Speaker 1: brought in reporters, sometimes reporters he barely knew, into the 84 00:05:49,955 --> 00:05:54,235 Speaker 1: White House to tell them almost anything. Hell, in February 85 00:05:54,275 --> 00:05:57,395 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, he told Bob Woodward more about COVID nineteen 86 00:05:57,715 --> 00:05:59,755 Speaker 1: than he told the other three hundred and thirty million 87 00:05:59,795 --> 00:06:03,475 Speaker 1: of us combined. The man is a compulsive leaker and talker. 88 00:06:04,875 --> 00:06:08,835 Speaker 1: If Trump was using fake spokesman, and if Jack Smith 89 00:06:08,915 --> 00:06:12,355 Speaker 1: charges him with election rigging for using fake electors, I 90 00:06:12,395 --> 00:06:16,275 Speaker 1: will give mister Smith one thousand dollars if he also 91 00:06:16,315 --> 00:06:18,875 Speaker 1: finds a way to charge him with using fake spokesman. 92 00:06:19,915 --> 00:06:22,635 Speaker 1: If Trump was doing that yesterday with the fake spokesman, 93 00:06:22,715 --> 00:06:26,235 Speaker 1: they sure were busy, and they sure we're busy shoveling 94 00:06:26,555 --> 00:06:30,435 Speaker 1: over an unprecedented string of bad legal developments. A federal 95 00:06:30,515 --> 00:06:32,955 Speaker 1: judge in New York denied Trump's bid yesterday for a 96 00:06:32,995 --> 00:06:36,635 Speaker 1: new trial in E. Gene Carroll's first sexual abuse and 97 00:06:36,675 --> 00:06:39,835 Speaker 1: defamation suit against him, which resulted in him being ordered 98 00:06:39,835 --> 00:06:42,715 Speaker 1: to pay her two million, seven hundred thousand dollars, and 99 00:06:42,715 --> 00:06:45,315 Speaker 1: then he defamed her again and she sued him again. 100 00:06:45,635 --> 00:06:49,115 Speaker 1: The case did not get thrown out. Trump remains fixated 101 00:06:49,115 --> 00:06:50,515 Speaker 1: on the idea that he can get out of the 102 00:06:50,515 --> 00:06:54,035 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniel's hush money case by getting it transferred out 103 00:06:54,075 --> 00:06:57,235 Speaker 1: of local court in Manhattan to federal court, because that 104 00:06:57,635 --> 00:07:01,915 Speaker 1: increases his chance of it being dismissed because his bribing 105 00:07:01,995 --> 00:07:05,715 Speaker 1: her was somehow part of his official duty as president. 106 00:07:05,995 --> 00:07:10,715 Speaker 1: In this I see the uneducated hand of his legal advisor, 107 00:07:11,475 --> 00:07:15,315 Speaker 1: let's just call him a non attorney spokesperson, Tom Fitten. 108 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:24,155 Speaker 1: Judge Alvin Hellerstein says Hella, no sorry, And late Tuesday, 109 00:07:24,555 --> 00:07:28,235 Speaker 1: the Georgia State Supreme Court voted unanimously to dismiss Trump's 110 00:07:28,235 --> 00:07:31,915 Speaker 1: petition to block Fannie Willis from any further investigation into 111 00:07:31,915 --> 00:07:35,355 Speaker 1: the Georgia election interference case, and to throw out all 112 00:07:35,355 --> 00:07:37,915 Speaker 1: the evidence gathered by the Special Purpose Grand jury in 113 00:07:38,075 --> 00:07:42,635 Speaker 1: Fulton County. So the Georgia case against Trump for Georgia continues. 114 00:07:43,195 --> 00:07:45,835 Speaker 1: And that brings us back to the news about the 115 00:07:45,835 --> 00:07:49,515 Speaker 1: Special Council's target letter and USC eighteen Section two four 116 00:07:49,515 --> 00:07:55,155 Speaker 1: to one. Trump's platoon of lawyers and enthusiastic amateurs have 117 00:07:55,275 --> 00:07:58,595 Speaker 1: at least seen the profound danger in what he did 118 00:07:58,675 --> 00:08:02,235 Speaker 1: to try to get state officials to commit fraud on 119 00:08:02,355 --> 00:08:07,315 Speaker 1: his behalf and either throw out legitimate ballots and disenfranchise 120 00:08:07,475 --> 00:08:12,515 Speaker 1: legitimate voters or fabricate nearly twelve thousand new ballots and voters. 121 00:08:12,915 --> 00:08:15,795 Speaker 1: He can get charged twice on that one, at the 122 00:08:15,835 --> 00:08:18,595 Speaker 1: state level and at the federal level. But it is 123 00:08:18,715 --> 00:08:23,275 Speaker 1: presumed that if Georgia really is central to Jack Smith 124 00:08:23,435 --> 00:08:28,395 Speaker 1: II Electric Boogaloo, the Georgia case, the state case that is, 125 00:08:28,835 --> 00:08:34,635 Speaker 1: will wait for the very important reason that if any details, testimony, witness, recollections, evidence, 126 00:08:34,795 --> 00:08:37,795 Speaker 1: whether something happened at three pm or three point fifteen pm, 127 00:08:38,035 --> 00:08:42,275 Speaker 1: if anything between the state and the federal cases does 128 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:47,275 Speaker 1: not match exactly, a good lawyer, or even a Trump lawyer, 129 00:08:47,555 --> 00:08:50,635 Speaker 1: could make that work to Trump's advantage and imperil the 130 00:08:50,875 --> 00:08:56,315 Speaker 1: entire federal case. So to recap, before we move on 131 00:08:56,435 --> 00:09:02,835 Speaker 1: to Marjorie Tantric Taylor Green's pornographic happy hour, what do 132 00:09:02,915 --> 00:09:06,195 Speaker 1: we know? Well, we know Trump moved on to that 133 00:09:06,435 --> 00:09:09,915 Speaker 1: topic and largely dropped the prosecution from his compulsive social 134 00:09:09,995 --> 00:09:13,395 Speaker 1: media posting though he did write yesterday, I keep on winning. 135 00:09:13,755 --> 00:09:16,555 Speaker 1: Any attorney that represents me is either a fool or 136 00:09:16,595 --> 00:09:20,115 Speaker 1: a great American patriot that history will love and cherish. Unquote. 137 00:09:20,275 --> 00:09:22,395 Speaker 1: You wouldn't want to put that to a vote, would you, 138 00:09:22,595 --> 00:09:27,035 Speaker 1: Sonny Jack Smith did not tell Trump to show up 139 00:09:27,555 --> 00:09:32,115 Speaker 1: to be formally indicted in Washington today, and probably didn't 140 00:09:32,155 --> 00:09:34,275 Speaker 1: give him enough notice for him to show up and 141 00:09:34,355 --> 00:09:38,035 Speaker 1: be formally indicted in Washington on Friday. His grand jury 142 00:09:38,075 --> 00:09:41,915 Speaker 1: has supposedly been meeting on Thursdays, so we might get 143 00:09:41,955 --> 00:09:47,435 Speaker 1: some action today. Smith does seem poised to indict him deliciously. 144 00:09:47,955 --> 00:09:53,795 Speaker 1: I'm charges of trying to rig the election, crooked Donald, 145 00:09:53,995 --> 00:09:58,275 Speaker 1: and there is at least some Trump indictment fatigue breaking 146 00:09:58,355 --> 00:10:03,075 Speaker 1: out among his nominal defenders. Quote. I don't even know 147 00:10:03,115 --> 00:10:07,035 Speaker 1: who he's getting indicted by, I said Republican West Virginia 148 00:10:07,115 --> 00:10:11,515 Speaker 1: Senator Shelley Moore Carpedo to the website The Messenger. She 149 00:10:11,595 --> 00:10:17,035 Speaker 1: also said, quote, it's a never ending story. Yeah, maybe 150 00:10:17,115 --> 00:10:20,235 Speaker 1: right about that. Senator. On the other hand, you know 151 00:10:20,275 --> 00:10:27,875 Speaker 1: there's always more target letters where that one came from. 152 00:10:27,915 --> 00:10:33,195 Speaker 1: So House Republicans meanwhile, we're conducting this quote hunter Biden 153 00:10:33,315 --> 00:10:38,195 Speaker 1: hearing yesterday, which turned out to happen simply so Marjorie 154 00:10:38,315 --> 00:10:41,675 Speaker 1: Taylor Green could show off her porn collection. 155 00:10:41,595 --> 00:10:45,515 Speaker 2: To pay prostitutes for sex, to pay prostitutes. 156 00:10:45,755 --> 00:10:48,515 Speaker 1: Yes, that was not a golf club membership. That was 157 00:10:48,555 --> 00:10:49,955 Speaker 1: for a sex club payment. 158 00:10:50,355 --> 00:10:55,035 Speaker 2: That was for sex club payment. This is evidence, Miss 159 00:10:55,115 --> 00:10:58,275 Speaker 2: of Hunter Biden making sex. Excuse me, this is my 160 00:10:58,395 --> 00:11:00,555 Speaker 2: time making pornography. 161 00:11:01,075 --> 00:11:03,715 Speaker 1: Should we be displaying this? Mister Chairman, get to commit 162 00:11:03,835 --> 00:11:05,195 Speaker 1: hit a ladies times expired. 163 00:11:05,275 --> 00:11:09,155 Speaker 3: Today's hearing is like most of the Majority's investigations and hearings, 164 00:11:09,635 --> 00:11:14,515 Speaker 3: a lot of allegations, zero proof, no receipts. 165 00:11:14,715 --> 00:11:18,875 Speaker 1: But apparently some dig pics the mo juice at the 166 00:11:19,035 --> 00:11:23,635 Speaker 1: end there Congressman Robert Garcia of California. And don't forget 167 00:11:23,675 --> 00:11:28,675 Speaker 1: the G in rep MTG can also stand for groomer. 168 00:11:29,595 --> 00:11:34,115 Speaker 1: The gist of this this time, the secret Republican whistleblower 169 00:11:34,675 --> 00:11:40,635 Speaker 1: informant secret squirrel witnesses were not fugitives from justice indicted 170 00:11:40,675 --> 00:11:44,475 Speaker 1: for bribing Trump officials on behalf of foreign governments. However, 171 00:11:45,195 --> 00:11:46,675 Speaker 1: somebody thought we ought to check. 172 00:11:46,795 --> 00:11:51,195 Speaker 4: I'd like to get right into some basic vetting questions 173 00:11:51,595 --> 00:11:54,955 Speaker 4: as unfortunately our colleagues across the aisle failed to do 174 00:11:55,035 --> 00:11:57,675 Speaker 4: so with some of the previous witnesses that they called. 175 00:11:57,955 --> 00:12:00,755 Speaker 4: And so, mister Ziegler and mister Shapley, I'm hoping that 176 00:12:00,835 --> 00:12:04,195 Speaker 4: these are very simple, very straightforward questions. So I'd like 177 00:12:04,235 --> 00:12:06,555 Speaker 4: to ask that you answer them with a yes or 178 00:12:06,595 --> 00:12:10,395 Speaker 4: no answer. Mister Shapley, are you now or have you 179 00:12:10,475 --> 00:12:14,715 Speaker 4: ever acted as an unregistered foreign agent for the Chinese 180 00:12:14,795 --> 00:12:17,075 Speaker 4: government or for any other government? 181 00:12:17,515 --> 00:12:17,635 Speaker 3: No? 182 00:12:18,315 --> 00:12:21,115 Speaker 4: And mister Ziegler, are you now or have you ever 183 00:12:21,195 --> 00:12:24,555 Speaker 4: acted as an unregistered or registered for an agent? 184 00:12:25,235 --> 00:12:25,395 Speaker 3: No? 185 00:12:26,075 --> 00:12:30,395 Speaker 4: And mister Shapley, have you ever participated in illegal arms trafficking? 186 00:12:30,955 --> 00:12:31,115 Speaker 3: No? 187 00:12:31,195 --> 00:12:31,555 Speaker 1: I have not. 188 00:12:31,875 --> 00:12:34,035 Speaker 4: And mister Ziegler, how about yourself? 189 00:12:34,555 --> 00:12:34,955 Speaker 3: I have not. 190 00:12:35,675 --> 00:12:39,675 Speaker 4: And finally, mister Shapley, have you ever been indicted of 191 00:12:39,715 --> 00:12:44,115 Speaker 4: a crime, lied to investigators while under oath, or run 192 00:12:44,155 --> 00:12:44,955 Speaker 4: from the law. 193 00:12:45,395 --> 00:12:45,515 Speaker 5: No? 194 00:12:45,595 --> 00:12:45,955 Speaker 3: I have not. 195 00:12:46,395 --> 00:12:47,755 Speaker 4: And mister Ziegler, same. 196 00:12:47,635 --> 00:12:48,235 Speaker 1: Question to you. 197 00:12:48,315 --> 00:12:51,835 Speaker 4: Have you ever been indicted, lied to investigators, or run 198 00:12:51,875 --> 00:12:52,555 Speaker 4: from the law. 199 00:12:52,835 --> 00:12:53,195 Speaker 1: I have not. 200 00:12:53,675 --> 00:12:56,835 Speaker 4: Thank you for answering those questions. Obviously it would seem 201 00:12:56,875 --> 00:12:59,955 Speaker 4: strange to have to ask these clarifying questions, but given 202 00:12:59,995 --> 00:13:03,875 Speaker 4: the majority's track record in calling witnesses on this matter 203 00:13:04,235 --> 00:13:07,675 Speaker 4: not to mention their own presidential candidate. It seemed necessary 204 00:13:07,715 --> 00:13:12,195 Speaker 4: to clarify for our American folks who are listening today. 205 00:13:12,395 --> 00:13:16,035 Speaker 1: Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico saying hi to all the Republicans' 206 00:13:16,035 --> 00:13:20,915 Speaker 1: friends in China and Russia. Her point was largely satirical, 207 00:13:20,955 --> 00:13:25,115 Speaker 1: but it does underscore an important reality. Some Republicans throughout 208 00:13:25,155 --> 00:13:29,995 Speaker 1: history have done the whole Joe McCarthy thing pretty well. 209 00:13:30,715 --> 00:13:34,795 Speaker 1: Jamie Comer is not one of them. They just aren't prepared. 210 00:13:35,395 --> 00:13:41,035 Speaker 1: The upshot of the quote Hunter Biden hearings. Besides the upshots, 211 00:13:41,195 --> 00:13:44,995 Speaker 1: Marge Green was gripping so tightly in her hands. I mean. 212 00:13:45,035 --> 00:13:47,915 Speaker 1: Congressman Jared Moscow has put it perfectly when he tweeted 213 00:13:48,115 --> 00:13:50,675 Speaker 1: based on this, perhaps we should call Hunter Biden the 214 00:13:50,715 --> 00:13:54,035 Speaker 1: big Guy. The upshot of the whole day was an 215 00:13:54,115 --> 00:13:58,395 Speaker 1: IRS investigator named Mark Shapley, who was upset because his 216 00:13:58,515 --> 00:14:02,155 Speaker 1: bosses ignored his demands that Hunter Biden should be prosecuted 217 00:14:02,795 --> 00:14:06,195 Speaker 1: more than he was already being prosecuted. It turned out 218 00:14:06,195 --> 00:14:10,835 Speaker 1: that Mark Shapley always wants everybody prosecuted more than they 219 00:14:10,835 --> 00:14:16,275 Speaker 1: are already being prosecuted, and his bosses always ignore his demands. 220 00:14:17,435 --> 00:14:20,875 Speaker 1: Congressman Mokeanna, is it not true that the tax Council 221 00:14:21,475 --> 00:14:24,795 Speaker 1: in the criminal Department has disagreed often with your decisions 222 00:14:24,795 --> 00:14:29,355 Speaker 1: in the past? Oh, criminal tax attorneys? Yes? And you know, 223 00:14:29,515 --> 00:14:30,395 Speaker 1: as I stated them. 224 00:14:30,835 --> 00:14:33,515 Speaker 5: How often have they disagreed, in your opinion, with your 225 00:14:33,835 --> 00:14:37,275 Speaker 5: recommendation decisions? 226 00:14:37,635 --> 00:14:39,075 Speaker 1: Very often? Criminal tax attorneys. 227 00:14:39,155 --> 00:14:39,435 Speaker 3: Yes. 228 00:14:39,995 --> 00:14:41,955 Speaker 5: Can you give us a percentage of how often you've 229 00:14:41,995 --> 00:14:44,475 Speaker 5: said we ought to charge someone and they said, now 230 00:14:44,555 --> 00:14:46,195 Speaker 5: that may not be a good idea. 231 00:14:46,875 --> 00:14:49,835 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, I mean just ballparking a vast 232 00:14:49,875 --> 00:14:51,075 Speaker 1: majority of what we do. 233 00:14:51,195 --> 00:14:54,275 Speaker 5: I just think because you have a history of wanting 234 00:14:54,315 --> 00:14:57,715 Speaker 5: to charge people and then people pushing back. By your 235 00:14:57,755 --> 00:15:00,635 Speaker 5: own testimony under oath, you said about ninety percent of 236 00:15:00,635 --> 00:15:02,635 Speaker 5: the time people are pushing back on what you want 237 00:15:02,675 --> 00:15:02,835 Speaker 5: to do. 238 00:15:03,035 --> 00:15:05,835 Speaker 1: Well to give this farce the seriesurious attention. It does 239 00:15:05,875 --> 00:15:08,955 Speaker 1: not really seem to deserve until you remember that this 240 00:15:09,595 --> 00:15:12,715 Speaker 1: is the United States House of Representatives, and this really 241 00:15:12,915 --> 00:15:17,595 Speaker 1: is all Margie Barney, Rubbell Green and Jamie Comer and 242 00:15:17,835 --> 00:15:21,515 Speaker 1: Byron Donald's and Jim Jordan actually can do. It's all 243 00:15:21,555 --> 00:15:24,955 Speaker 1: they can accomplish in life. Here is the whole thing. 244 00:15:25,075 --> 00:15:29,315 Speaker 1: Explained and dismissed by in about two minutes. Who else 245 00:15:29,355 --> 00:15:32,475 Speaker 1: bought Jamie Raskin? So what happened? 246 00:15:32,515 --> 00:15:35,755 Speaker 3: Well, the son of the sitting president of the United 247 00:15:35,755 --> 00:15:38,835 Speaker 3: States lost his brother and then lost his way badly 248 00:15:38,955 --> 00:15:42,435 Speaker 3: back in twenty fifteen, As too many families around the 249 00:15:42,435 --> 00:15:46,195 Speaker 3: country know, drug addiction is a dark and powerful affliction, 250 00:15:46,595 --> 00:15:50,755 Speaker 3: and like other addicts, Hunter Biden made foolish and criminal choices, 251 00:15:51,115 --> 00:15:54,675 Speaker 3: including failing to pay his taxes and owning a firearm 252 00:15:54,755 --> 00:15:57,595 Speaker 3: in violation of federal law, and he's now being held 253 00:15:57,835 --> 00:16:02,275 Speaker 3: criminally accountable for it. His investigation began under the Trump administration. 254 00:16:02,555 --> 00:16:04,995 Speaker 3: It was conducted by a US attorney for Della where 255 00:16:05,235 --> 00:16:09,435 Speaker 3: David Weiss, who Donald Trump appointed to his office, and 256 00:16:09,475 --> 00:16:13,395 Speaker 3: who Attorney General Barr chose for this assignment to conduct 257 00:16:13,555 --> 00:16:16,675 Speaker 3: this investigation. In his final press conference in December of 258 00:16:16,715 --> 00:16:21,715 Speaker 3: twenty twenty, Attorney General Barr expressed full confidence in Weiss's work, 259 00:16:22,355 --> 00:16:26,275 Speaker 3: saying it was quote being handled responsibly and professionally within 260 00:16:26,315 --> 00:16:28,235 Speaker 3: the department, And to this point, I have seen no 261 00:16:28,435 --> 00:16:31,475 Speaker 3: reason to appoint a special counsel, and I have no 262 00:16:31,635 --> 00:16:34,915 Speaker 3: plan to do so before I leave. Furthermore, Joe Biden 263 00:16:34,955 --> 00:16:39,355 Speaker 3: never publicly questioned or challenged this prosecution when it began. 264 00:16:39,555 --> 00:16:42,955 Speaker 3: He did not decry it as a witch hunt by 265 00:16:43,155 --> 00:16:46,195 Speaker 3: Donald Trump. He placed his trust in the fairness of 266 00:16:46,195 --> 00:16:48,595 Speaker 3: the American justice system when he became president. 267 00:16:48,635 --> 00:16:49,515 Speaker 1: Not only did he not. 268 00:16:49,555 --> 00:16:52,595 Speaker 3: Use his power to halt the investigation, he kept in 269 00:16:52,635 --> 00:16:56,795 Speaker 3: place Trump's hand picked US Attorney, mister Weiss, overseeing it, 270 00:16:57,115 --> 00:17:01,035 Speaker 3: even though incoming presidents usually replace US attorneys with their 271 00:17:01,075 --> 00:17:05,355 Speaker 3: own appointees. And his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, made sure 272 00:17:05,755 --> 00:17:09,115 Speaker 3: that mister Weiss, appointed by Donald Trump, had full authority 273 00:17:09,155 --> 00:17:12,235 Speaker 3: and resources to pursue this probe and charge it however 274 00:17:12,755 --> 00:17:16,115 Speaker 3: and whenever he saw fit in any district in the country. 275 00:17:16,395 --> 00:17:19,115 Speaker 3: And in the past few weeks, as Hunter Biden accepted 276 00:17:19,115 --> 00:17:22,395 Speaker 3: a guilty plea, the President and his Attorney General have 277 00:17:22,555 --> 00:17:25,795 Speaker 3: done nothing to interfere with the case, which is overseen 278 00:17:25,835 --> 00:17:28,995 Speaker 3: by a federal judge appointed by Yes, Donald Trump. 279 00:17:29,075 --> 00:17:32,315 Speaker 1: Nik you, Congressman, Let's give the last word back to Marge. 280 00:17:32,515 --> 00:17:37,075 Speaker 1: She wraps this up by unexpectedly endorsing the many arrests 281 00:17:37,115 --> 00:17:39,355 Speaker 1: of dementia. J Trump, Are you sure? 282 00:17:39,555 --> 00:17:43,275 Speaker 2: I would also like to say that when evidence and 283 00:17:43,435 --> 00:17:47,195 Speaker 2: proof of a crime is presented. No prosecution should be 284 00:17:47,235 --> 00:17:49,555 Speaker 2: denied no matter who the person is. 285 00:18:03,035 --> 00:18:06,795 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust. Also of interest here, the president 286 00:18:06,795 --> 00:18:11,075 Speaker 1: of Stanford University resigns because of investigative journalism conducted by 287 00:18:11,835 --> 00:18:16,355 Speaker 1: the Stanford University student run campus newspaper. The guy fudged 288 00:18:16,355 --> 00:18:20,355 Speaker 1: a series of scientific papers. He's out, and suddenly I 289 00:18:20,435 --> 00:18:23,395 Speaker 1: was flashed back to the day. The president of Cornell University, 290 00:18:24,115 --> 00:18:26,995 Speaker 1: who was also a scientist, only this one co discovered 291 00:18:27,035 --> 00:18:29,675 Speaker 1: an element, Thank you very much. An element on the 292 00:18:29,715 --> 00:18:33,235 Speaker 1: table of elements. Thank you number eighty five on your 293 00:18:33,235 --> 00:18:38,035 Speaker 1: element program. He and I got the airline to ground 294 00:18:38,235 --> 00:18:41,195 Speaker 1: the plane they were going to put us on a 295 00:18:41,235 --> 00:18:46,795 Speaker 1: plane they were trying to repair with paper towels. I 296 00:18:47,035 --> 00:18:55,635 Speaker 1: swear that's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with 297 00:18:55,835 --> 00:19:06,515 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the new use some headlines, some updates, 298 00:19:06,555 --> 00:19:11,355 Speaker 1: some snarks, some predictions. Dateline, Palo Alto, California. The president 299 00:19:11,395 --> 00:19:14,395 Speaker 1: of Stanford University will leave that post at the end 300 00:19:14,395 --> 00:19:19,595 Speaker 1: of next month because of the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, 301 00:19:19,755 --> 00:19:23,795 Speaker 1: the student run campus newspaper, began an investigative series last 302 00:19:23,835 --> 00:19:27,955 Speaker 1: fall into the research papers into brain receptors that had 303 00:19:27,955 --> 00:19:33,475 Speaker 1: been written by university president doctor Mark Tessier Levine. Short explanation, 304 00:19:34,155 --> 00:19:37,835 Speaker 1: the doctor fudged stuff in them, and when this was 305 00:19:37,875 --> 00:19:40,395 Speaker 1: pointed out to him at least four separate times over 306 00:19:40,395 --> 00:19:43,155 Speaker 1: the last twenty odd years, he failed to correct said 307 00:19:43,235 --> 00:19:48,075 Speaker 1: fudges or the papers or withdraw them all together. Easiest 308 00:19:48,115 --> 00:19:52,195 Speaker 1: fudging to explain images used in the research were altered. 309 00:19:52,755 --> 00:19:55,515 Speaker 1: The soon to be ex president will also retract or 310 00:19:55,595 --> 00:20:00,595 Speaker 1: issue lengthy corrections for five separate academic papers. What you 311 00:20:00,755 --> 00:20:03,915 Speaker 1: want in a scientist who becomes your university president is 312 00:20:03,955 --> 00:20:06,835 Speaker 1: a practical guy. And I had just thought of this 313 00:20:06,955 --> 00:20:10,915 Speaker 1: man last week. He came not from Stanford, but from Berkeley. 314 00:20:11,395 --> 00:20:14,355 Speaker 1: Before the Stanford scam story came up. I was thinking 315 00:20:14,355 --> 00:20:18,235 Speaker 1: about Dale Corson, president of Cornell University when I got there. 316 00:20:18,235 --> 00:20:21,315 Speaker 1: He served from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy seven. 317 00:20:21,355 --> 00:20:23,995 Speaker 1: He had been in the physics department for twenty three years, 318 00:20:24,155 --> 00:20:27,515 Speaker 1: which came in handy in this story. Among other things, 319 00:20:27,515 --> 00:20:30,875 Speaker 1: he helped design the school's synchrotron, and I don't know 320 00:20:30,875 --> 00:20:34,075 Speaker 1: what that is. He chaired the physics department and was 321 00:20:34,155 --> 00:20:37,915 Speaker 1: dean of the College of Engineering, and he was co 322 00:20:38,115 --> 00:20:43,635 Speaker 1: discoverer of astetne. What is astetne? Astetene is an element. 323 00:20:43,915 --> 00:20:47,075 Speaker 1: Astetene is element number eighty five. And what have you 324 00:20:47,275 --> 00:20:50,715 Speaker 1: done with your life? Dale corson Co discovered an element 325 00:20:50,795 --> 00:20:56,075 Speaker 1: with the word ass in it. I met him once accidentally, 326 00:20:56,115 --> 00:20:58,395 Speaker 1: and that's the story. It was in the waning months 327 00:20:58,395 --> 00:21:01,755 Speaker 1: of his tenure. The spring term in nineteen seventy seven 328 00:21:01,915 --> 00:21:04,475 Speaker 1: was beginning, and I was flying back from New York 329 00:21:04,515 --> 00:21:07,955 Speaker 1: City to Ithaca from LaGuardia Airport. In the days when 330 00:21:07,955 --> 00:21:10,315 Speaker 1: you waited for the plane in a room that a 331 00:21:10,475 --> 00:21:13,235 Speaker 1: big window in it, and about fifty feet on the 332 00:21:13,235 --> 00:21:16,435 Speaker 1: other side of the window was the plane. And on 333 00:21:16,475 --> 00:21:19,795 Speaker 1: this frigid morning, we were already late to board that plane, 334 00:21:19,795 --> 00:21:22,195 Speaker 1: but nobody seemed to be paying much attention except me, 335 00:21:22,515 --> 00:21:25,875 Speaker 1: because I'm staring at the plane and these two guys 336 00:21:25,915 --> 00:21:29,795 Speaker 1: in suits who are standing under it and pointing up 337 00:21:29,875 --> 00:21:33,515 Speaker 1: towards the belly of this not very new, certainly not 338 00:21:33,835 --> 00:21:37,795 Speaker 1: jet from Allegheny Airlines, or as we fatalistically called it, 339 00:21:37,915 --> 00:21:41,355 Speaker 1: Agony Airlines. And finally I see one of the two 340 00:21:41,395 --> 00:21:43,755 Speaker 1: guys slap the other one on the arm, and he 341 00:21:43,835 --> 00:21:46,475 Speaker 1: runs towards the stairs and runs up the stairs and 342 00:21:46,515 --> 00:21:48,555 Speaker 1: into the plane. And then within a minute he's running 343 00:21:48,595 --> 00:21:52,275 Speaker 1: back down the stairs and he's got as many paper 344 00:21:52,515 --> 00:21:56,755 Speaker 1: towels as you could carry, squeezed between your hands without 345 00:21:56,875 --> 00:21:58,875 Speaker 1: dropping any I don't know how many of that was 346 00:21:58,955 --> 00:22:02,675 Speaker 1: five hundred one thousand. And the guy runs over to 347 00:22:02,675 --> 00:22:04,875 Speaker 1: where the other guy is still standing under the plane, 348 00:22:05,115 --> 00:22:09,275 Speaker 1: and he hands the other guy one paper towel off 349 00:22:09,315 --> 00:22:12,635 Speaker 1: the top of the stack. And if that's not crazy enough, 350 00:22:12,675 --> 00:22:15,995 Speaker 1: the other guy wads the one paper towel up and 351 00:22:16,275 --> 00:22:20,555 Speaker 1: thrusts it up into the underside of the aircraft. And 352 00:22:20,635 --> 00:22:25,795 Speaker 1: I say, quietly but out loud, no sir, no thanks. 353 00:22:26,195 --> 00:22:28,955 Speaker 1: And one by one the first guy hands the second 354 00:22:28,995 --> 00:22:32,475 Speaker 1: guy paper towel after paper towel, and the second guy 355 00:22:32,755 --> 00:22:37,235 Speaker 1: stuffs them into the plane with increasing fervor. The plane, 356 00:22:37,835 --> 00:22:40,315 Speaker 1: the plane we were supposed to all fly to Ithacon 357 00:22:41,475 --> 00:22:47,555 Speaker 1: that's being repaired with paper towels. I look around. Nobody 358 00:22:47,595 --> 00:22:51,555 Speaker 1: else is looking out the window, just me. I'm William 359 00:22:51,595 --> 00:22:54,915 Speaker 1: Shatner in the twilight zone with the monster on the 360 00:22:54,955 --> 00:22:58,315 Speaker 1: wing who's trying to destroy the plane. I'm the only 361 00:22:58,355 --> 00:23:02,315 Speaker 1: one who sees this. And that's when I see the 362 00:23:02,435 --> 00:23:06,755 Speaker 1: second shocking thing sitting across from me in this waiting room, 363 00:23:06,955 --> 00:23:10,315 Speaker 1: fifty feet from the plane, smoking his pipe, his nineteen 364 00:23:10,435 --> 00:23:14,275 Speaker 1: fifty seven era hat firmly perched on his head, plowing 365 00:23:14,315 --> 00:23:17,315 Speaker 1: through his copy of The New York Times. It's the 366 00:23:17,355 --> 00:23:21,635 Speaker 1: president of my school, Cornell, President Dale Corson, the code 367 00:23:21,635 --> 00:23:27,635 Speaker 1: discoverer of the element. Ask the team, President Corson, excuse me, 368 00:23:27,755 --> 00:23:31,155 Speaker 1: you wouldn't know me. My name isn't important. I'm class 369 00:23:31,195 --> 00:23:34,755 Speaker 1: of seventy nine. There's something about this plane I think 370 00:23:34,755 --> 00:23:38,515 Speaker 1: you ought to see. And to his credit, the president 371 00:23:38,555 --> 00:23:40,875 Speaker 1: of Cornell University begins to tell me that all the 372 00:23:40,915 --> 00:23:43,715 Speaker 1: students matter. And I'm just pointing out the window and 373 00:23:43,755 --> 00:23:46,355 Speaker 1: shaking my head where the second guy is now stuffing 374 00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:50,155 Speaker 1: his thirtieth paper towel into the undercarriage of our plane. 375 00:23:50,475 --> 00:23:53,475 Speaker 1: And I say, President Corson, you were engineering, weren't you? 376 00:23:53,755 --> 00:23:57,555 Speaker 1: Does this look safe to you? And he stops talking 377 00:23:57,675 --> 00:23:59,795 Speaker 1: and he looks at me, and he looks back where 378 00:23:59,835 --> 00:24:03,315 Speaker 1: now it's paper towel number thirty five going up, and 379 00:24:03,355 --> 00:24:06,555 Speaker 1: he says, what's your name? And I tell him and 380 00:24:06,595 --> 00:24:09,355 Speaker 1: he says, good work, mister Olderman. I don't know what 381 00:24:09,435 --> 00:24:11,355 Speaker 1: they think they're doing. Out there. But I can assure 382 00:24:11,395 --> 00:24:14,515 Speaker 1: you of this, that plane will not be flying us 383 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:17,835 Speaker 1: to Cornell. Have a seat. I'll take care of this. 384 00:24:18,555 --> 00:24:21,195 Speaker 1: President Corson began to walk towards the check in desk, 385 00:24:21,235 --> 00:24:25,395 Speaker 1: and then he stopped, turned around and handed me his paper. Here. 386 00:24:26,115 --> 00:24:28,755 Speaker 1: We may be here a while. Read whatever you like, 387 00:24:28,915 --> 00:24:32,675 Speaker 1: just don't do the crossword. At a distance, I heard 388 00:24:32,755 --> 00:24:35,715 Speaker 1: him threatening the airline and the executive they sent down 389 00:24:35,715 --> 00:24:38,195 Speaker 1: to discuss it with him, and he said something about 390 00:24:38,275 --> 00:24:41,275 Speaker 1: air rights over Cornell and the airport Commission. And the 391 00:24:41,275 --> 00:24:43,355 Speaker 1: next thing I knew, we were all on a jet 392 00:24:43,795 --> 00:24:46,355 Speaker 1: headed to Elmira, New York, with the promise of a 393 00:24:46,395 --> 00:24:49,235 Speaker 1: bus to take us the other hour to Ithaca. I 394 00:24:49,275 --> 00:24:51,915 Speaker 1: was already on board the jet when President Corson got on, 395 00:24:52,035 --> 00:24:54,075 Speaker 1: and he stopped and he took his times back from me, 396 00:24:54,275 --> 00:24:56,635 Speaker 1: and he shook my hand. They think it was a 397 00:24:56,675 --> 00:24:59,035 Speaker 1: problem with the toilet train. I told him, it's exactly 398 00:24:59,075 --> 00:25:01,995 Speaker 1: what you want near the wiring of a passenger airliner, 399 00:25:02,475 --> 00:25:07,555 Speaker 1: leaking fluid everywhere, blockheads. Then he asked me what my 400 00:25:07,595 --> 00:25:12,835 Speaker 1: school was and what my major was, and I told him, communications, really, 401 00:25:13,595 --> 00:25:16,755 Speaker 1: have you ever considered engineering? And I told him my 402 00:25:16,835 --> 00:25:19,355 Speaker 1: dad was an architect in the actual math and the 403 00:25:19,355 --> 00:25:22,875 Speaker 1: physics and the hard work part were the bane of 404 00:25:22,875 --> 00:25:27,515 Speaker 1: his existence. Well, I can understand that. Oh, clearly you 405 00:25:27,555 --> 00:25:32,075 Speaker 1: have the eye of a reporter. Anyway, I guess that's 406 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:51,035 Speaker 1: some consolation. Paper towels, I swear, thank you, President Corson, 407 00:25:52,115 --> 00:25:54,435 Speaker 1: still ahead on countdown. Just last weekend, I talked to 408 00:25:54,515 --> 00:25:56,315 Speaker 1: my old producer, the one who had to tell me 409 00:25:56,355 --> 00:25:59,035 Speaker 1: one night that our MSNBC bosses had decided that we 410 00:25:59,035 --> 00:26:04,395 Speaker 1: should let this Rachel Meadow walk to CNN. We didn't 411 00:26:04,395 --> 00:26:06,915 Speaker 1: need her. That would have been the night I wound 412 00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:09,435 Speaker 1: up threatening to quit mid show if we didn't stop that, 413 00:26:09,635 --> 00:26:12,955 Speaker 1: and also the night I wound up personally hiring her 414 00:26:13,355 --> 00:26:16,395 Speaker 1: out of my own pockets for four hundred and thirty 415 00:26:16,395 --> 00:26:20,235 Speaker 1: seven dollars in cash. Things I promised not to tell. 416 00:26:20,275 --> 00:26:22,435 Speaker 1: Coming up first time for the daily round up of 417 00:26:22,435 --> 00:26:24,955 Speaker 1: the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who 418 00:26:24,955 --> 00:26:30,315 Speaker 1: constitute today's worst persons in the world with paper towels, 419 00:26:31,075 --> 00:26:36,395 Speaker 1: the bronze, the endlessly gullible Maria Bartiromo of Fox before 420 00:26:36,515 --> 00:26:40,635 Speaker 1: yesterday's House Show, and tell of Marge greens collection of 421 00:26:40,715 --> 00:26:45,915 Speaker 1: giant blow up porn. Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona. I 422 00:26:45,995 --> 00:26:49,915 Speaker 1: think that's a coincidence, Andy Biggs, blow up porn. Anyway, 423 00:26:49,995 --> 00:26:52,115 Speaker 1: Biggs went on her show and decided, Hell, if we're 424 00:26:52,115 --> 00:26:54,275 Speaker 1: making up out of whole cloth this claim that the 425 00:26:54,315 --> 00:26:58,995 Speaker 1: Bidens took millions from other countries, let's do this thing big, Mario. 426 00:26:59,115 --> 00:27:01,995 Speaker 1: We're talking literally, it's not ten million dollars. It's well 427 00:27:02,035 --> 00:27:05,355 Speaker 1: over twenty thirty million some estimates is as one hundred 428 00:27:05,435 --> 00:27:09,675 Speaker 1: million flowing through these accounts, to which Maria Bartiromo could 429 00:27:09,715 --> 00:27:15,195 Speaker 1: only reply, hoey, moey. The sad part is, even if 430 00:27:15,235 --> 00:27:18,195 Speaker 1: somehow that were true, one hundred million dollars to the Bidens, 431 00:27:18,395 --> 00:27:21,795 Speaker 1: that would be one twentieth the money that Jared Kushner 432 00:27:21,915 --> 00:27:26,035 Speaker 1: just got from Saudi Arabia alone. Just him. The runner up, 433 00:27:26,115 --> 00:27:29,755 Speaker 1: Dan Cox, the Republican nominee for governor of Maryland last year, 434 00:27:30,435 --> 00:27:32,875 Speaker 1: who was trying to succeed a retiring Republican governor, and 435 00:27:32,915 --> 00:27:36,395 Speaker 1: he lost sixty four to thirty two. Well, a congressional 436 00:27:36,435 --> 00:27:39,995 Speaker 1: campaign committee with Dan Cox's name opened up. He said 437 00:27:40,035 --> 00:27:42,155 Speaker 1: he had no idea who had done it. It wasn't him, 438 00:27:42,475 --> 00:27:45,915 Speaker 1: The Daily Beast reports it was him. Dan Cox had 439 00:27:45,995 --> 00:27:49,595 Speaker 1: hired a treasurer to launch the campaign and then changed 440 00:27:49,595 --> 00:27:53,155 Speaker 1: his mind forgot about it, remembered that he'd lost for 441 00:27:53,195 --> 00:27:56,995 Speaker 1: governor by two to one. Who knows but the winner, 442 00:27:57,035 --> 00:28:02,555 Speaker 1: Philip L. Buchanan of Florida. This is, by all accounts 443 00:28:02,635 --> 00:28:07,195 Speaker 1: the Twitter account turned the right wing nutjob who wars 444 00:28:07,315 --> 00:28:10,315 Speaker 1: himself out for Trump and the fascists and does on 445 00:28:10,475 --> 00:28:13,515 Speaker 1: scientific reader polls, which he then positions as actual political 446 00:28:13,595 --> 00:28:17,315 Speaker 1: opinion surveys, and it was unswervingly convinced that his IQ, 447 00:28:17,475 --> 00:28:19,795 Speaker 1: which is about seventy five, is the highest in the world. 448 00:28:20,835 --> 00:28:23,035 Speaker 1: Turns out that in the hour before he revealed he 449 00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:27,795 Speaker 1: had gotten another target letter, Trump reposted four of cat 450 00:28:27,835 --> 00:28:31,475 Speaker 1: Turd's witticisms, and the spotlight was apparently too much for 451 00:28:31,555 --> 00:28:36,195 Speaker 1: the old turd. Why me, by cat Turd, He wrote, 452 00:28:36,515 --> 00:28:39,755 Speaker 1: I'm exhausted mentally and physically. This cat Tird thing has 453 00:28:39,795 --> 00:28:42,715 Speaker 1: been a five year roller coaster ride. I basically work 454 00:28:42,795 --> 00:28:45,995 Speaker 1: seven days a week, no days off, no vacations. I 455 00:28:45,995 --> 00:28:48,835 Speaker 1: don't even know how I got here. I often asked myself, 456 00:28:48,955 --> 00:28:52,915 Speaker 1: why me? This goes on for five hundred and seventy 457 00:28:52,955 --> 00:28:59,555 Speaker 1: one words. Dude, you tweet, you are not Christ fresh 458 00:28:59,715 --> 00:29:06,595 Speaker 1: off the cross, you tweet? We all tweet sounded like 459 00:29:06,675 --> 00:29:09,315 Speaker 1: cat Turd was quitting, but not to worry. A cheer 460 00:29:09,355 --> 00:29:13,315 Speaker 1: me up bouquet of tweets from General Michael Flynn and 461 00:29:13,395 --> 00:29:16,875 Speaker 1: Senator Mike Lee, and Buchanan was ready to get back 462 00:29:16,915 --> 00:29:20,715 Speaker 1: out there and meet them at the barricades. Flynn and 463 00:29:20,795 --> 00:29:24,195 Speaker 1: Senator Lee and cat turn do you remember at least 464 00:29:24,195 --> 00:29:27,835 Speaker 1: hearing about those paranoid fantasies from the nineteen sixties that 465 00:29:27,915 --> 00:29:31,235 Speaker 1: the Russians were behind putting fluoride in all the water 466 00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:35,915 Speaker 1: systems because fluoride would make the next generation of Americans stupid. 467 00:29:37,355 --> 00:29:41,955 Speaker 1: And I'm beginning to wonder about that cat Turd. Remember 468 00:29:41,995 --> 00:29:45,555 Speaker 1: the old joke about self martyrdom, No matter how hard 469 00:29:45,595 --> 00:29:49,115 Speaker 1: you try, you can never hammer in that last nail 470 00:29:49,155 --> 00:29:54,835 Speaker 1: yourself without some help. Today's worse Arson. 471 00:29:56,075 --> 00:30:01,835 Speaker 3: And La. 472 00:30:09,795 --> 00:30:12,435 Speaker 1: Just ahead. I talked to the executive in question literally 473 00:30:12,475 --> 00:30:16,315 Speaker 1: over last weekend about something unrelated, but the sound of 474 00:30:16,355 --> 00:30:18,995 Speaker 1: her voice brought the whole thing back to me. Anew. 475 00:30:19,715 --> 00:30:22,915 Speaker 1: It was the day MSNBC would have lost Rachel Maddow 476 00:30:22,995 --> 00:30:27,235 Speaker 1: to CNN, but literally I hired her with all the 477 00:30:27,355 --> 00:30:30,675 Speaker 1: cash I had on me so she wouldn't go to CNN. 478 00:30:31,035 --> 00:30:34,715 Speaker 1: I did keep five dollars to tip my driver that night, 479 00:30:35,035 --> 00:30:38,595 Speaker 1: because our bosses thought there was no way she'd ever 480 00:30:38,715 --> 00:30:42,635 Speaker 1: succeed as an anchor. I swear things I promised not 481 00:30:42,715 --> 00:30:45,555 Speaker 1: to tell. Next first time to feature another dog in need. 482 00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:48,075 Speaker 1: You can help. Every dog has its day. Over the 483 00:30:48,155 --> 00:30:51,755 Speaker 1: fourth of July holiday, they found Fizz tied to a 484 00:30:51,795 --> 00:30:54,955 Speaker 1: fence on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, fifty three 485 00:30:54,995 --> 00:30:59,075 Speaker 1: weeks old, terrified but then loving, but now becoming more 486 00:30:59,075 --> 00:31:01,515 Speaker 1: and more aware that they mean to kill her soon 487 00:31:02,075 --> 00:31:05,475 Speaker 1: at the New York City Pound. She's forty five tan, 488 00:31:05,875 --> 00:31:08,475 Speaker 1: an ordinary street mutt with one brown eye and one 489 00:31:08,555 --> 00:31:12,075 Speaker 1: ice blue eye, and she could be adopted today by 490 00:31:12,115 --> 00:31:15,675 Speaker 1: any home where the kids are thirteen or older, or 491 00:31:15,795 --> 00:31:18,475 Speaker 1: our pledges can help the rescue save her. The New 492 00:31:18,555 --> 00:31:21,395 Speaker 1: York Pound continues to be a nightmare of overcrowding, and 493 00:31:21,515 --> 00:31:23,475 Speaker 1: if Fizz is going to get out alive, it's going 494 00:31:23,555 --> 00:31:26,275 Speaker 1: to have to be very soon. You can find Fizz 495 00:31:26,315 --> 00:31:29,835 Speaker 1: on my Twitter feeds. Pledge if you can, your retweets 496 00:31:29,875 --> 00:31:33,515 Speaker 1: will also help Fizz. Thanks you, and of course I 497 00:31:33,635 --> 00:31:50,195 Speaker 1: thank you. Late in November two thousand and seven, after 498 00:31:50,315 --> 00:31:53,995 Speaker 1: several months of pressuring my MSNBC bosses to hire Rachel 499 00:31:54,075 --> 00:31:57,555 Speaker 1: Maddow to try out as My guest host with a 500 00:31:57,675 --> 00:32:01,075 Speaker 1: goal of then showcasing her and spinning her off into 501 00:32:01,115 --> 00:32:05,115 Speaker 1: her own show, the Vice president in charge of network, 502 00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:08,595 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin, agreed to give Meadow a deal for forty 503 00:32:08,675 --> 00:32:12,475 Speaker 1: or fifty grand as an MSNBC contributor. It would do 504 00:32:12,555 --> 00:32:15,115 Speaker 1: nothing more than lock her in place so that CNN 505 00:32:15,315 --> 00:32:18,075 Speaker 1: would not steal her from us. I mean, I knew 506 00:32:18,115 --> 00:32:21,195 Speaker 1: that that conversation and that concession still would not get 507 00:32:21,235 --> 00:32:23,395 Speaker 1: her her own show. But what I did not know 508 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:27,235 Speaker 1: was the concession I was told about the contributors contract. 509 00:32:27,875 --> 00:32:31,475 Speaker 1: It was a lie. And by January two thousand and eight, 510 00:32:31,515 --> 00:32:34,755 Speaker 1: as the Clinton Obama primary race turned into a tong war, 511 00:32:34,835 --> 00:32:38,155 Speaker 1: we were imposing upon Rachel Meadow to join the desk 512 00:32:38,355 --> 00:32:41,715 Speaker 1: each Tuesday for Primary Night. She was not anchoring, she 513 00:32:41,795 --> 00:32:44,915 Speaker 1: was not even the lead analyst. And my uncontrollable fire 514 00:32:44,955 --> 00:32:48,275 Speaker 1: hose co host Matthews, who was consistently pretending that she 515 00:32:48,395 --> 00:32:52,195 Speaker 1: did not actually exist, but she existed. She was there, 516 00:32:52,555 --> 00:32:56,435 Speaker 1: and I quizzed her about every topic every chance I got. Soon, 517 00:32:56,635 --> 00:32:59,435 Speaker 1: I began to include her appearances in the pre recorded 518 00:32:59,555 --> 00:33:02,435 Speaker 1: open that I would write two minutes of hyperbole that 519 00:33:02,595 --> 00:33:05,755 Speaker 1: was really designed merely to give her everybody enough time 520 00:33:06,155 --> 00:33:09,755 Speaker 1: to get my fat ass into the anchor chair and 521 00:33:09,835 --> 00:33:13,475 Speaker 1: everybody else's mics on with Tim Russard in the NBC 522 00:33:13,555 --> 00:33:17,715 Speaker 1: News Washington Bureau, David Gregory at Clinton Headquarters, Howard Feinman, 523 00:33:17,795 --> 00:33:20,555 Speaker 1: and Eugene Robinson in New York, Chuck Todd at the 524 00:33:20,555 --> 00:33:24,395 Speaker 1: exit poll desk, Tom broke off the perspective desk, MC 525 00:33:24,675 --> 00:33:29,475 Speaker 1: Esher at the lack of perspective Desk. Then came Super Tuesday, 526 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:33,755 Speaker 1: February fifth, two thousand and eight. I was writing this 527 00:33:34,115 --> 00:33:37,835 Speaker 1: orgasmic dribble, as I always did on Tuesday, crossing the 528 00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:40,555 Speaker 1: names of who was where off the list as I went, 529 00:33:40,955 --> 00:33:43,915 Speaker 1: the list handed to me by the executive producer, Izzy Povich. 530 00:33:44,235 --> 00:33:47,595 Speaker 1: When I noticed the list did not include either Rachel 531 00:33:48,195 --> 00:33:51,555 Speaker 1: or the Rachel Desk, I knocked on the wall that 532 00:33:51,635 --> 00:33:54,595 Speaker 1: separated our little offices at thirty Rock, and she shuffled 533 00:33:54,595 --> 00:33:57,915 Speaker 1: in complete with a sincere smile friendship, but always also 534 00:33:57,995 --> 00:33:59,915 Speaker 1: with what seemed to be a little space kept in 535 00:33:59,955 --> 00:34:02,555 Speaker 1: reserve where she could wonder if I was mad enough 536 00:34:02,595 --> 00:34:06,595 Speaker 1: to try to take somebody hostage. Yes, my third child. 537 00:34:07,995 --> 00:34:11,635 Speaker 1: Where's Rachel tonight? I asked, as I waved the paper 538 00:34:11,635 --> 00:34:15,195 Speaker 1: at her, assuming oversight, but leaving my own little space 539 00:34:15,235 --> 00:34:19,395 Speaker 1: in reserve where my earlier nightmare had come true. Not 540 00:34:19,635 --> 00:34:25,995 Speaker 1: on paper. Please to put name Rachel on paper? Isipovich 541 00:34:25,995 --> 00:34:30,835 Speaker 1: said it, matter of factly. Oh yeah, well, oh, I 542 00:34:30,875 --> 00:34:35,315 Speaker 1: was in trouble. That elongated consonant always meant trouble. She's 543 00:34:35,355 --> 00:34:41,075 Speaker 1: on Larry King tonight. Momentarily, I went very stupid. How 544 00:34:41,075 --> 00:34:42,475 Speaker 1: in the hell does that work when she has a 545 00:34:42,475 --> 00:34:45,195 Speaker 1: contract with us? I'll tell you, but you have to 546 00:34:45,235 --> 00:34:49,275 Speaker 1: promise not to hate me. The Izipovich fake cringe and 547 00:34:49,435 --> 00:34:53,035 Speaker 1: crouch ensued. Phil made me promise not to tell you. 548 00:34:53,155 --> 00:34:55,475 Speaker 1: Rachel doesn't have a contract with us. He told me 549 00:34:55,515 --> 00:34:57,835 Speaker 1: he told you he'd get her one, then his boss 550 00:34:57,835 --> 00:35:00,195 Speaker 1: refused to give him the money. I'm sorry, you promised 551 00:35:00,195 --> 00:35:06,155 Speaker 1: not to hate me. Momentarily, I was calm. Momentarily, but 552 00:35:07,195 --> 00:35:11,555 Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me that before? Approximately? Oh right now, 553 00:35:11,715 --> 00:35:14,435 Speaker 1: why didn't you tell me this before? She agreed to 554 00:35:14,475 --> 00:35:18,515 Speaker 1: go on Larry King's show, while she only decided this morning. 555 00:35:18,675 --> 00:35:21,595 Speaker 1: Apparently she really needs the cash, I told Phil, and 556 00:35:21,635 --> 00:35:25,395 Speaker 1: he said, those are the breaks, buddy. The last thing 557 00:35:25,435 --> 00:35:28,435 Speaker 1: I actually remember doing, the last part that I did 558 00:35:28,435 --> 00:35:30,995 Speaker 1: not need to recreate from the memories of others and 559 00:35:31,035 --> 00:35:35,635 Speaker 1: an occasional flashback in therapy, was asking how much my 560 00:35:35,715 --> 00:35:38,915 Speaker 1: old friend Larry King was going to give Rachel is 561 00:35:39,075 --> 00:35:44,875 Speaker 1: He pursed her lips two hundred and fifty dollars. I 562 00:35:44,915 --> 00:35:48,315 Speaker 1: remember screaming that figure several times, along with all the 563 00:35:48,395 --> 00:35:52,315 Speaker 1: swear words I knew. I remember vocalizing, we are going 564 00:35:52,355 --> 00:35:56,235 Speaker 1: to lose Rachel Meadow, the next great talent of cable news, 565 00:35:56,635 --> 00:36:01,395 Speaker 1: to e fing CNN, for two hundred and fifty fing dollars. 566 00:36:03,115 --> 00:36:07,515 Speaker 1: Everything else after that statement is darkness. I know I 567 00:36:07,635 --> 00:36:12,475 Speaker 1: phoned Phil Griffin and threatened him is He recently confirmed 568 00:36:12,475 --> 00:36:14,715 Speaker 1: for me that I asked her to leave before I 569 00:36:14,755 --> 00:36:17,435 Speaker 1: called him and threatened him. I believe I warned him 570 00:36:17,435 --> 00:36:19,635 Speaker 1: that if he did not sign her to a contributors 571 00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:22,555 Speaker 1: contract within twenty four hours, I would walk off the 572 00:36:22,675 --> 00:36:25,915 Speaker 1: set during that night's primary coverage, or maybe the next 573 00:36:25,915 --> 00:36:29,235 Speaker 1: week's or maybe during countdown tomorrow night. It would be 574 00:36:29,235 --> 00:36:32,595 Speaker 1: a surprise. I'm also confident that I warned him that 575 00:36:32,675 --> 00:36:35,995 Speaker 1: of all of a talent on television, Larry King had 576 00:36:35,995 --> 00:36:40,355 Speaker 1: the best knowledge of what and who else would succeed 577 00:36:41,515 --> 00:36:45,795 Speaker 1: more than the rest of us combined. He was a savant, 578 00:36:46,115 --> 00:36:48,955 Speaker 1: and when he saw her in real time on his 579 00:36:49,195 --> 00:36:53,275 Speaker 1: primary night panel, we would never see her again, and 580 00:36:53,355 --> 00:36:57,915 Speaker 1: she would have a CNN contract before midnight. I told 581 00:36:57,955 --> 00:37:00,595 Speaker 1: Phil that when that happened, I would then kill him 582 00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:04,355 Speaker 1: with my bare hands, or Jeff Zucker would kill him 583 00:37:04,355 --> 00:37:06,395 Speaker 1: when she wound up beating the hell out of us 584 00:37:06,395 --> 00:37:10,875 Speaker 1: in the ratings. This statement all took longer than this 585 00:37:10,915 --> 00:37:13,715 Speaker 1: paragraph would imply, because I know, without fear of contradiction, 586 00:37:14,035 --> 00:37:16,595 Speaker 1: every other word out of my mouth was either what 587 00:37:16,635 --> 00:37:20,555 Speaker 1: we used to call an oath or the phrase Jesus 588 00:37:21,035 --> 00:37:26,275 Speaker 1: h ka Christ. Mind you, these people the president of NBC, 589 00:37:26,435 --> 00:37:28,955 Speaker 1: Jeff Zucker, and it's a year since they got rid 590 00:37:28,995 --> 00:37:32,875 Speaker 1: of him at CNN, the president of NBC News Steve Cappus, 591 00:37:33,555 --> 00:37:36,315 Speaker 1: and the soon to be president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin. 592 00:37:36,675 --> 00:37:39,195 Speaker 1: These had been the same people who, about a year earlier, 593 00:37:39,235 --> 00:37:44,475 Speaker 1: had decided that their ten PM host Tucker Carlson Yep, 594 00:37:44,595 --> 00:37:48,115 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson was on MSNBC. That Tucker Carlson did not 595 00:37:48,315 --> 00:37:52,475 Speaker 1: need two people to play the role of liberal foil 596 00:37:52,555 --> 00:37:55,835 Speaker 1: on his show at like fifty grand a year, so 597 00:37:55,875 --> 00:37:58,955 Speaker 1: they kept one of them, his name was Max Kellerman, 598 00:37:59,315 --> 00:38:02,315 Speaker 1: and they fired the other one. Her name was Rachel Meadow. 599 00:38:03,435 --> 00:38:10,515 Speaker 1: They fired Meadow at MSNBC to save fifty thousand dollars. 600 00:38:12,115 --> 00:38:15,595 Speaker 1: She was back now at MSNBC only because my producer 601 00:38:15,675 --> 00:38:18,195 Speaker 1: is He had suggested making her a regular guest, and 602 00:38:18,235 --> 00:38:20,275 Speaker 1: within a couple of months I realized she would be 603 00:38:20,395 --> 00:38:23,875 Speaker 1: the next great hosting cable news. And after months of pleading, 604 00:38:24,115 --> 00:38:26,355 Speaker 1: including pleading with her because she didn't want to do it, 605 00:38:26,795 --> 00:38:29,555 Speaker 1: I had just convinced them to put her back under contract. 606 00:38:29,555 --> 00:38:31,315 Speaker 1: Except they had lied to me, and they had not 607 00:38:31,395 --> 00:38:35,795 Speaker 1: put her back under contract. I may have mentioned this 608 00:38:35,875 --> 00:38:39,155 Speaker 1: to Phil Griffin during our phone call one hundred and 609 00:38:39,155 --> 00:38:41,715 Speaker 1: eleven different times. I may have mentioned it to him. 610 00:38:42,795 --> 00:38:47,795 Speaker 1: I also telephoned Rachel. I did not swear at her here. 611 00:38:48,155 --> 00:38:50,755 Speaker 1: Every other word out of my mouth was not an 612 00:38:50,795 --> 00:38:54,155 Speaker 1: oath but an apology. I said. I had genuinely believed 613 00:38:54,155 --> 00:38:56,195 Speaker 1: she was already being paid, and I was not only 614 00:38:56,435 --> 00:38:59,235 Speaker 1: humiliated on behalf of my network, but that I was 615 00:38:59,315 --> 00:39:01,755 Speaker 1: far more humiliated that I had not double checked with 616 00:39:01,795 --> 00:39:04,115 Speaker 1: her that they'd actually given her the contract they told 617 00:39:04,195 --> 00:39:07,555 Speaker 1: me they had given her. I begged her to please, please, please, 618 00:39:07,595 --> 00:39:10,835 Speaker 1: don't go and see an end tonight. I did not 619 00:39:11,035 --> 00:39:13,235 Speaker 1: ask her to skip out on them and return to 620 00:39:13,315 --> 00:39:16,195 Speaker 1: us unless she thought she could pull that off gracefully 621 00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:19,235 Speaker 1: and with a clean conscience, but just not to go 622 00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:23,115 Speaker 1: on with Larry. And that's where I added the little 623 00:39:23,155 --> 00:39:26,715 Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty seven dollars stunt. I'm sorry about 624 00:39:26,755 --> 00:39:29,795 Speaker 1: the money situation, I said. I didn't know. Now I 625 00:39:29,835 --> 00:39:32,875 Speaker 1: know I can only do this. I think they will 626 00:39:32,875 --> 00:39:36,355 Speaker 1: give you forty or fifty thousand for a contributors deal, 627 00:39:36,515 --> 00:39:38,915 Speaker 1: just to start. But what I will do is, and 628 00:39:38,955 --> 00:39:41,555 Speaker 1: while making as many sound effects of exertion as I 629 00:39:41,595 --> 00:39:44,355 Speaker 1: could dream up, I stretched around it, pulled my wallet 630 00:39:44,355 --> 00:39:46,355 Speaker 1: out of my back pocket, and I emptied it onto 631 00:39:46,355 --> 00:39:49,075 Speaker 1: my desk. I need to keep five bucks to tip 632 00:39:49,115 --> 00:39:52,515 Speaker 1: my driver tonight. You can have the rest of whatever 633 00:39:52,595 --> 00:39:58,075 Speaker 1: cash I have on me. I'm counting it now. There's 634 00:39:58,075 --> 00:40:03,635 Speaker 1: one hundred twenty twenty twenty my play by place skipped 635 00:40:03,755 --> 00:40:08,835 Speaker 1: no bills, four hundred and forty two bucks American five 636 00:40:08,875 --> 00:40:12,275 Speaker 1: for the driver, the rest for you four hundred and 637 00:40:12,275 --> 00:40:16,835 Speaker 1: thirty seven dollars. Rachel deal, She laughed, I'll see you tonight. 638 00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:18,875 Speaker 1: I'll just tell Larry I couldn't be disloyaled to you. Oh, 639 00:40:18,915 --> 00:40:21,595 Speaker 1: and I will take the money, And she took the money. 640 00:40:22,475 --> 00:40:25,915 Speaker 1: In point of fact, when I like to say anything 641 00:40:25,915 --> 00:40:28,435 Speaker 1: that Rachel Mattow did with her career after we got 642 00:40:28,435 --> 00:40:31,235 Speaker 1: her show on the air in August of two thousand 643 00:40:31,235 --> 00:40:33,435 Speaker 1: and eight, that's all her doing. I have nothing to 644 00:40:33,475 --> 00:40:35,595 Speaker 1: do with that except being the lead in for the 645 00:40:35,635 --> 00:40:39,435 Speaker 1: first two years. That's true. But I also like to 646 00:40:39,475 --> 00:40:41,675 Speaker 1: say that I got that show on the air. And 647 00:40:41,755 --> 00:40:44,875 Speaker 1: I also like to say I hired Rachel Mattow at MSNBC. 648 00:40:45,315 --> 00:40:48,435 Speaker 1: And this is my point, it was not figuratively, it 649 00:40:48,475 --> 00:40:52,435 Speaker 1: was not metaphorically. I hired her out of my own pocket. 650 00:40:52,715 --> 00:40:57,835 Speaker 1: I literally hired Medow at MSNBC for four hundred and 651 00:40:57,955 --> 00:41:01,995 Speaker 1: thirty seven dollars. And I will point this out again, 652 00:41:03,555 --> 00:41:07,435 Speaker 1: I never even got the four hundred and thirty seven 653 00:41:07,515 --> 00:41:23,675 Speaker 1: dollars back. I've done all the damage I can do here. 654 00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:25,635 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Here are the credits. Most of 655 00:41:25,675 --> 00:41:28,355 Speaker 1: the music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray 656 00:41:28,395 --> 00:41:32,515 Speaker 1: and John Phillip Shanelle, who are the countdown musical directors. Guitars, 657 00:41:32,555 --> 00:41:35,715 Speaker 1: bass and drums by Brian ray All, Orchestration and keyboards 658 00:41:35,715 --> 00:41:39,275 Speaker 1: by John Phillip Shanelle, produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven 659 00:41:39,315 --> 00:41:42,235 Speaker 1: selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 660 00:41:42,715 --> 00:41:45,675 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two. 661 00:41:45,715 --> 00:41:48,915 Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtis EBESPN Inc. 662 00:41:49,355 --> 00:41:52,875 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 663 00:41:53,075 --> 00:41:56,435 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zant. Everything 664 00:41:56,435 --> 00:41:59,515 Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. Don't forget. Countdown is 665 00:41:59,555 --> 00:42:05,115 Speaker 1: now also available on YouTube with and without asteteene countdown 666 00:42:05,155 --> 00:42:07,715 Speaker 1: for this the nine and twenty sixth day since Donald 667 00:42:07,755 --> 00:42:11,515 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 668 00:42:11,555 --> 00:42:15,515 Speaker 1: the United States. Hell arrass him again while we still can. 669 00:42:16,795 --> 00:42:19,835 Speaker 1: Our next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news 670 00:42:19,875 --> 00:42:22,715 Speaker 1: warrants till then, I'm Keith Olraman. Good Morning, good afternoon, 671 00:42:22,755 --> 00:42:37,155 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olraman is 672 00:42:37,195 --> 00:42:41,995 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. 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