1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,595 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Merrick 2 00:00:21,635 --> 00:00:24,995 Speaker 1: Garland is going to appear before the Senate Judiciary day 3 00:00:25,035 --> 00:00:27,435 Speaker 1: after tomorrow, and it looks like there will be something 4 00:00:27,555 --> 00:00:30,835 Speaker 1: big and new and shiny to ask him about Charlie 5 00:00:30,915 --> 00:00:35,595 Speaker 1: McGonagall and Oleg Derik Posca. And when two Democratic members 6 00:00:35,595 --> 00:00:38,635 Speaker 1: of that committee pull on this McGonagall threat on Wednesday, 7 00:00:38,715 --> 00:00:42,795 Speaker 1: they hope Garland will say something that confirms that this 8 00:00:42,875 --> 00:00:46,115 Speaker 1: is a story not just about McGonagall and Derek Pasca, 9 00:00:46,635 --> 00:00:51,755 Speaker 1: but about McGonagall and Derek Pasca and Trump. Business Insider, 10 00:00:51,875 --> 00:00:53,955 Speaker 1: which has been running rings around the rest of the 11 00:00:53,955 --> 00:00:57,715 Speaker 1: news media combined on this story for months now now 12 00:00:57,755 --> 00:01:02,635 Speaker 1: reports that in twenty eighteen, McGonagall, either before his retirement 13 00:01:02,715 --> 00:01:06,155 Speaker 1: from the FBI or just his retirement from the FBI, 14 00:01:06,315 --> 00:01:10,595 Speaker 1: and way before his arrest, went to London to meet 15 00:01:10,635 --> 00:01:15,435 Speaker 1: a Russian unnamed who was under so much suspicion that 16 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:20,755 Speaker 1: the British authorities had that Russian under surveillance. Every time 17 00:01:20,795 --> 00:01:24,075 Speaker 1: you turn around, this pile of smelly stuff involving this 18 00:01:24,115 --> 00:01:27,635 Speaker 1: guy McGonagall seems to have grown in size while you 19 00:01:27,675 --> 00:01:30,515 Speaker 1: weren't looking at it. At the end of last month, 20 00:01:30,595 --> 00:01:33,675 Speaker 1: McGonagall was arrested on charges that he was working illegally 21 00:01:33,675 --> 00:01:36,915 Speaker 1: for Derik Pasca in twenty twenty one and that he 22 00:01:36,995 --> 00:01:40,595 Speaker 1: traveled to London to meet with Derik Pasca. Read the 23 00:01:40,635 --> 00:01:43,595 Speaker 1: indictment and the first version of the Derrick Posca saga, 24 00:01:43,675 --> 00:01:46,435 Speaker 1: and it looks like that meeting definitely took place in 25 00:01:46,595 --> 00:01:51,395 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, maybe two nineteen, but definitely not in two eighteen, 26 00:01:51,595 --> 00:01:54,675 Speaker 1: when Derrick Fosca was still an active executive in the FBI. 27 00:01:55,515 --> 00:02:00,235 Speaker 1: Now he is placed in London meeting some Russian in 28 00:02:00,275 --> 00:02:02,555 Speaker 1: two eighteen, And you do not have to be a 29 00:02:02,595 --> 00:02:06,275 Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist to stay full together the different parts of 30 00:02:06,275 --> 00:02:10,795 Speaker 1: the Charlie McGonagall oleg Deripaska story to quickly ask, you 31 00:02:10,835 --> 00:02:14,755 Speaker 1: know if that Russian the British allegedly caught McGonagall meeting 32 00:02:14,755 --> 00:02:19,435 Speaker 1: with in two eighteen was Derrik Pasca, and you're still 33 00:02:19,475 --> 00:02:22,675 Speaker 1: in the normal behavior range. If you wonder exactly when 34 00:02:22,755 --> 00:02:26,195 Speaker 1: McGonagall started working for Derrik Pasca, and if it could 35 00:02:26,235 --> 00:02:29,235 Speaker 1: have been two eighteen, could it have actually been in 36 00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:32,315 Speaker 1: two thou sixteen, because that is clearly what the FBI 37 00:02:32,355 --> 00:02:35,515 Speaker 1: and the Department of Justice are still asking, and what 38 00:02:35,675 --> 00:02:39,915 Speaker 1: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wants to ask Garland about on Wednesday. 39 00:02:40,115 --> 00:02:44,435 Speaker 1: Back to this New Business Insiders story. When the surveillance 40 00:02:44,475 --> 00:02:47,755 Speaker 1: showed their Russian whoever he was meeting with the FBI's 41 00:02:47,795 --> 00:02:53,115 Speaker 1: McGonagall in two eighteen, the British alerted the FBI legal attache, 42 00:02:53,395 --> 00:02:57,195 Speaker 1: who operated out of the American Embassy in London, whoever 43 00:02:57,235 --> 00:03:00,195 Speaker 1: the meeting was with, Whatever the meeting was for, it 44 00:03:00,235 --> 00:03:02,595 Speaker 1: was bad enough that it was one of the reasons 45 00:03:02,595 --> 00:03:06,675 Speaker 1: the FBI in fact began its investigation of its own 46 00:03:06,755 --> 00:03:11,955 Speaker 1: man McGonagall. If you're fuzzy on this labyrinthine story because 47 00:03:12,035 --> 00:03:14,315 Speaker 1: it has been out of the headlines for a few weeks, 48 00:03:14,675 --> 00:03:17,995 Speaker 1: the FBI investigation of Buggonagal climaxed a month than four 49 00:03:18,075 --> 00:03:22,115 Speaker 1: days ago when McGonagall was arrested on two seemingly separate 50 00:03:22,155 --> 00:03:26,355 Speaker 1: accusations taking money from Albanian interest while he was still 51 00:03:26,395 --> 00:03:30,475 Speaker 1: active before he retired from the FBI, and more relevant 52 00:03:30,475 --> 00:03:32,835 Speaker 1: to what they will ask the Attorney General on Wednesday 53 00:03:32,835 --> 00:03:37,195 Speaker 1: morning for allegedly illicitly working for a Russian oligarch. He 54 00:03:37,235 --> 00:03:41,195 Speaker 1: had once been in charge of investigating Derri Pasca the 55 00:03:41,275 --> 00:03:45,475 Speaker 1: same prutent friendly money man whom Paul Manafort was also 56 00:03:45,595 --> 00:03:49,075 Speaker 1: working for. Manafort, who was the same Manafort who was 57 00:03:49,115 --> 00:03:53,355 Speaker 1: Trump's second campaign chief in twenty sixteen, for free, while 58 00:03:53,395 --> 00:03:56,635 Speaker 1: Manafort owed Derri Pasca money. And of course Trump is 59 00:03:56,635 --> 00:04:01,075 Speaker 1: the same Trump on whose behalf mcgonagall's FBI Field office 60 00:04:01,075 --> 00:04:04,795 Speaker 1: in New York went rogue in twenty sixteen. The New 61 00:04:04,875 --> 00:04:08,835 Speaker 1: York FBI office agents who are threatening to leak insinuations 62 00:04:08,875 --> 00:04:12,915 Speaker 1: about the Anthony Weener laptop and Bureau director James Comey 63 00:04:12,955 --> 00:04:16,875 Speaker 1: decided to re smear Hillary Clinton eleven days before the election, 64 00:04:17,315 --> 00:04:22,435 Speaker 1: before his agents could anonymously do it for him. As 65 00:04:22,515 --> 00:04:25,995 Speaker 1: this story has evolved over the months since the arrest 66 00:04:26,115 --> 00:04:29,315 Speaker 1: of McGonagall, it has been clear that the FBI and 67 00:04:29,355 --> 00:04:34,275 Speaker 1: the Justice Department are not clear exactly when McGonagall started 68 00:04:34,275 --> 00:04:38,395 Speaker 1: working for Derrick Pasca, or they know, and they are 69 00:04:38,395 --> 00:04:40,675 Speaker 1: waiting for the rest of us to ask so loudly 70 00:04:40,715 --> 00:04:43,995 Speaker 1: that they just have to find out. At the start 71 00:04:44,035 --> 00:04:47,315 Speaker 1: of this month, The New York Times wrote quote prosecutors 72 00:04:47,315 --> 00:04:52,235 Speaker 1: suggested that mister McGonagall began wooing mister Derrick Pasca shortly 73 00:04:52,355 --> 00:04:56,835 Speaker 1: before his retirement in twenty eighteen, he helped the daughter 74 00:04:56,875 --> 00:04:59,915 Speaker 1: of an employee of mister Derrick Plasca get an internship 75 00:05:00,115 --> 00:05:03,115 Speaker 1: with the New York Police Department. According to the New 76 00:05:03,195 --> 00:05:07,075 Speaker 1: York indictment, mister McGonagall explained to another FBI official that 77 00:05:07,155 --> 00:05:10,595 Speaker 1: the girl's father was a Russian intelligence officer he wanted 78 00:05:10,595 --> 00:05:16,835 Speaker 1: to recruit, Prosecutors said. The indictment of Charlie McGonagall specifically 79 00:05:16,875 --> 00:05:20,555 Speaker 1: accuses him of traveling to Vienna and London to meet 80 00:05:20,595 --> 00:05:23,835 Speaker 1: this Derrick Posca, but it gives no timeframe on those 81 00:05:23,875 --> 00:05:26,555 Speaker 1: meetings and now comes the story that the meeting could 82 00:05:26,595 --> 00:05:28,915 Speaker 1: have taken place while McGonagall was still active in the 83 00:05:28,915 --> 00:05:31,915 Speaker 1: FBI and still active in the corrupted New York Field 84 00:05:31,915 --> 00:05:35,275 Speaker 1: office that actually influenced the outcome of the twenty sixteen 85 00:05:35,315 --> 00:05:39,675 Speaker 1: presidential election. Three weeks ago, tomorrow, Senator white House of 86 00:05:39,675 --> 00:05:42,995 Speaker 1: the Judiciary Committee wrote to Merrick Garland for details on 87 00:05:43,075 --> 00:05:46,875 Speaker 1: McGonagall and Derrick Pasca, and specifically what was being done 88 00:05:46,915 --> 00:05:50,955 Speaker 1: to investigate whether McGonagall knew about the FBI New York 89 00:05:50,995 --> 00:05:55,955 Speaker 1: Office's pro Trump dirty tricks from twenty sixteen. White House's 90 00:05:55,995 --> 00:05:59,235 Speaker 1: office says he has not heard back. At the same time, 91 00:05:59,275 --> 00:06:03,235 Speaker 1: the Judiciary chair Dick Durban also wrote Merrick Garland asking 92 00:06:03,235 --> 00:06:07,155 Speaker 1: for a briefing about McGonagall, and he hasn't heard back now. 93 00:06:07,235 --> 00:06:10,715 Speaker 1: Garland's appearance at the ten am Wednesday morning hearing is 94 00:06:10,875 --> 00:06:14,315 Speaker 1: per a Durban aid not in response to the letter. 95 00:06:14,355 --> 00:06:17,435 Speaker 1: He just happens to be stopping by to take general 96 00:06:17,515 --> 00:06:25,195 Speaker 1: questions as one does. Obviously, there is the small chance, underscore, 97 00:06:25,355 --> 00:06:30,235 Speaker 1: small underscore chance that Garland will help Durban and white 98 00:06:30,275 --> 00:06:33,355 Speaker 1: House dig up the body of the Muller investigation, which 99 00:06:33,395 --> 00:06:37,595 Speaker 1: Trump and Bill Barr so skillfully buried alive in twenty nineteen. 100 00:06:37,875 --> 00:06:41,675 Speaker 1: Because no matter how tepid Trump's bid to regain power 101 00:06:41,755 --> 00:06:45,955 Speaker 1: may seem, the ground underneath Trump within the Republican Party 102 00:06:45,955 --> 00:06:51,435 Speaker 1: continues to prove still fertile and welcoming and dumb. The 103 00:06:51,555 --> 00:06:55,635 Speaker 1: chair of the National Committee, Rona McDaniel, went on CNN 104 00:06:55,715 --> 00:06:59,435 Speaker 1: yesterday and said, yes, she expects that everyone seeking a 105 00:06:59,515 --> 00:07:02,835 Speaker 1: place on the Republican presidential debate stage later this year 106 00:07:03,075 --> 00:07:06,675 Speaker 1: will agree to sign a play edge supporting the eventual 107 00:07:06,715 --> 00:07:11,915 Speaker 1: Republican presidential nominee. That means all of them not named Trump, 108 00:07:12,315 --> 00:07:15,955 Speaker 1: including never Trumpers like Asa Hutchinson, and trying to put 109 00:07:15,955 --> 00:07:19,195 Speaker 1: space between me and Trumpers like Nicky Haley and Mike 110 00:07:19,235 --> 00:07:22,715 Speaker 1: Pompeo would have to pledge to support Trump if he's 111 00:07:22,715 --> 00:07:27,835 Speaker 1: the nominee, and McDaniel and the hapless CNN interviewer Dana 112 00:07:27,955 --> 00:07:33,715 Speaker 1: Bash both seemed to believe that Trump would also pledge 113 00:07:34,115 --> 00:07:37,475 Speaker 1: to support the nominee if that nominee is not Trump. 114 00:07:38,435 --> 00:07:40,835 Speaker 1: The reason Trump could still be the nominee of the 115 00:07:40,875 --> 00:07:44,675 Speaker 1: Republican Party is simple. It is as simple as Rona 116 00:07:44,755 --> 00:07:50,035 Speaker 1: McDaniel is. Who on earth would be stupid enough to 117 00:07:50,075 --> 00:07:52,875 Speaker 1: look at Trump and say, oh, He's going to pledge 118 00:07:52,915 --> 00:07:55,315 Speaker 1: to support the nominee even if it isn't him. And 119 00:07:55,355 --> 00:07:58,355 Speaker 1: as we know, Trump's word is as good as gold. 120 00:07:59,395 --> 00:08:03,275 Speaker 1: Who would be that stupid to believe that? Well, Dana Bash, 121 00:08:03,395 --> 00:08:08,075 Speaker 1: Rona McDaniel, and Politico. Politico headlined it's version of this story, 122 00:08:08,675 --> 00:08:16,475 Speaker 1: GOP Coroner's Trump with Debate pledge. Trump's word, especially about 123 00:08:16,475 --> 00:08:19,635 Speaker 1: something as vegua as a pledge, is actually only as 124 00:08:19,675 --> 00:08:22,595 Speaker 1: good as the gold coloring in his can of spray 125 00:08:22,635 --> 00:08:27,635 Speaker 1: on hair, which might be Lemon pledge. They are really 126 00:08:27,675 --> 00:08:30,955 Speaker 1: willing to believe that this time Trump will do what 127 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:34,795 Speaker 1: he has promised. This is the whiney creature whom Rolling 128 00:08:34,835 --> 00:08:38,595 Speaker 1: Stone now reports tried to pressure at least three Disney 129 00:08:38,635 --> 00:08:41,995 Speaker 1: executives because he didn't like a joke Jimmy Kimmel had 130 00:08:42,035 --> 00:08:45,595 Speaker 1: made about him, while his FCC was at least nominally 131 00:08:45,635 --> 00:08:48,915 Speaker 1: investigating Stephen Colbert at the same time, and while he 132 00:08:48,955 --> 00:08:52,075 Speaker 1: wanted the Department of Justice to try to prosecute Saturday 133 00:08:52,155 --> 00:08:56,995 Speaker 1: Night Live. So you can count on Trump A, he'll 134 00:08:56,995 --> 00:08:59,795 Speaker 1: live up to a pledge and be no. Of course, 135 00:08:59,835 --> 00:09:01,995 Speaker 1: he would never have taken help from the Russians or 136 00:09:02,035 --> 00:09:05,155 Speaker 1: the FBI compromised by the Russians. And see he would 137 00:09:05,235 --> 00:09:08,235 Speaker 1: never ever try to bury evidence confirming he'd taken help 138 00:09:08,235 --> 00:09:13,275 Speaker 1: from the Russians. Oh, and d he would never ever 139 00:09:13,315 --> 00:09:16,915 Speaker 1: forgive Kevin McCarthy for turning on him. However, briefly, even 140 00:09:16,955 --> 00:09:20,955 Speaker 1: if McCarthy agreed to break several laws and give forty 141 00:09:20,995 --> 00:09:24,435 Speaker 1: four thousand hours of January sixth security video to Tucker 142 00:09:24,515 --> 00:09:28,755 Speaker 1: Carlson so Carlson could massage it into more gas lighting fuel. 143 00:09:29,595 --> 00:09:32,395 Speaker 1: There are two developments on that story. They are not major. 144 00:09:32,835 --> 00:09:36,475 Speaker 1: The freshman congressman from Wisconsin whom McCarthy apparently had live 145 00:09:36,595 --> 00:09:43,635 Speaker 1: for him, Brian's Style has shockingly defended both himself and McCarthy. Reportedly, 146 00:09:43,675 --> 00:09:47,915 Speaker 1: it was Style, as chairman of the House Administration Committee, 147 00:09:48,115 --> 00:09:50,715 Speaker 1: who went to the Capitol Hill Police and demanded that 148 00:09:50,755 --> 00:09:53,915 Speaker 1: a viewing station be set up for his committee. Mind you, 149 00:09:54,475 --> 00:09:57,955 Speaker 1: so is committee and its staff could review the unreleased 150 00:09:58,035 --> 00:10:01,075 Speaker 1: January sixth video, And then, oh, what do you know? 151 00:10:02,115 --> 00:10:05,875 Speaker 1: Suddenly it was not his committee, but K Carlson's producer 152 00:10:06,035 --> 00:10:11,195 Speaker 1: is sitting there at the viewing station viewing. Style issued 153 00:10:11,195 --> 00:10:14,875 Speaker 1: a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, quote, I support 154 00:10:14,955 --> 00:10:19,595 Speaker 1: Speaker McCarthy's decision to increase transparency for the American people. 155 00:10:20,115 --> 00:10:24,595 Speaker 1: This majority is focused on accountability, transparency, and restoring the 156 00:10:24,635 --> 00:10:29,955 Speaker 1: people's trust. Didn't say the people of which country. The 157 00:10:30,035 --> 00:10:34,315 Speaker 1: paper then asked specifically if Style consulted the Capitol Police 158 00:10:34,355 --> 00:10:37,995 Speaker 1: about possibly releasing the video to any member of the public. 159 00:10:38,515 --> 00:10:43,395 Speaker 1: Style answered by not answering, quote, I strongly believe we 160 00:10:43,435 --> 00:10:47,395 Speaker 1: can maintain security while increasing openness and transparency for the 161 00:10:47,395 --> 00:10:51,835 Speaker 1: American people. I gotta say that is some pretty good 162 00:10:51,955 --> 00:10:57,355 Speaker 1: boilerplate Republican bullshit from a freshman. He's one to keep 163 00:10:57,395 --> 00:11:01,475 Speaker 1: an eye on the other January sixth video development. If 164 00:11:01,475 --> 00:11:04,195 Speaker 1: you thought Carlson might have been chastened by the rage 165 00:11:04,235 --> 00:11:07,075 Speaker 1: over his access to the video, or by the release 166 00:11:07,115 --> 00:11:10,315 Speaker 1: of the Dominion texts that showed he not only may 167 00:11:10,395 --> 00:11:12,755 Speaker 1: or may not believe any of this crap he spouts 168 00:11:12,795 --> 00:11:15,315 Speaker 1: every night, but there is the distinct possibility that he 169 00:11:15,395 --> 00:11:18,915 Speaker 1: no longer knows whether he does or does not believe 170 00:11:18,955 --> 00:11:23,035 Speaker 1: any of this crap. Forget it. Carlson has in fact 171 00:11:23,075 --> 00:11:26,195 Speaker 1: doubled down and removed a few of the guardrails that 172 00:11:26,235 --> 00:11:28,675 Speaker 1: had seemed to keep him away from at least selling 173 00:11:28,715 --> 00:11:33,475 Speaker 1: his brainwashing victims on election denialism quote, it is galling 174 00:11:33,555 --> 00:11:36,955 Speaker 1: to be lectured about democracy by a man who took 175 00:11:37,035 --> 00:11:41,115 Speaker 1: power in an election so sketchy that some Americans don't 176 00:11:41,115 --> 00:11:45,235 Speaker 1: believe it was real. He's talking about twenty twenty and Biden. 177 00:11:45,675 --> 00:11:48,795 Speaker 1: Carlson then decided to echo one of Trump's oldest pieces 178 00:11:48,835 --> 00:11:52,275 Speaker 1: of bullshit, quote, Biden is far less popular in the 179 00:11:52,355 --> 00:11:56,595 Speaker 1: US than Putin is in Russia. How that argument works 180 00:11:57,035 --> 00:12:00,955 Speaker 1: even with the most moronic Fox viewer, I'll never know. 181 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:07,835 Speaker 1: And then Howard Kurtz comes back into the Fox picture, 182 00:12:08,195 --> 00:12:12,635 Speaker 1: and I know, it is slightly comforting to know that 183 00:12:12,675 --> 00:12:17,915 Speaker 1: some people at Fox actually believe they still work in journalism. 184 00:12:17,955 --> 00:12:20,915 Speaker 1: Howard Kurtz, who was once with the Washington Post and 185 00:12:21,115 --> 00:12:25,635 Speaker 1: CNN and was the Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast, 186 00:12:26,075 --> 00:12:29,475 Speaker 1: went on his little Fox News media show yesterday where 187 00:12:29,475 --> 00:12:32,995 Speaker 1: he usually complains about just the liberals, and said, quote, 188 00:12:33,475 --> 00:12:35,355 Speaker 1: some of you have been asking why I'm not covering 189 00:12:35,395 --> 00:12:39,235 Speaker 1: the dominion voting machines lawsuit against Fox involving the unproven 190 00:12:39,275 --> 00:12:42,395 Speaker 1: claims of election fraud in twenty twenty. It's absolutely a 191 00:12:42,395 --> 00:12:45,035 Speaker 1: fair question. I believe I should be covering it. It's 192 00:12:45,035 --> 00:12:47,915 Speaker 1: a major media story given my role here at Fox, 193 00:12:48,315 --> 00:12:50,555 Speaker 1: but the company has decided that as part of the 194 00:12:50,635 --> 00:12:53,595 Speaker 1: organization being sued, I can't talk about it or write 195 00:12:53,595 --> 00:12:56,555 Speaker 1: about it, at least for no I strongly disagree with 196 00:12:56,595 --> 00:13:00,195 Speaker 1: that decision, but as an employee, I have to abide 197 00:13:00,195 --> 00:13:04,595 Speaker 1: by it. One suspects Howard Kurtz will soon be talking 198 00:13:04,755 --> 00:13:07,235 Speaker 1: of his role there at Fox in the past tense, 199 00:13:07,275 --> 00:13:09,555 Speaker 1: as in I have been told I no longer have 200 00:13:09,635 --> 00:13:12,715 Speaker 1: a role here at Fox. I strongly disagree with that decision. 201 00:13:13,795 --> 00:13:17,195 Speaker 1: While Kurtz long ago forfeited the sympathies and empathies of 202 00:13:17,235 --> 00:13:21,195 Speaker 1: actual reporters or actual consumers of actual news by going 203 00:13:21,195 --> 00:13:24,835 Speaker 1: to work at the whorehouse. It is kind of sad 204 00:13:25,355 --> 00:13:28,315 Speaker 1: that he may soon be yet another reason that it 205 00:13:28,475 --> 00:13:33,715 Speaker 1: is absolutely past time to d platform Fox News and 206 00:13:33,875 --> 00:13:51,595 Speaker 1: put that company out of business. Stell ahead in this 207 00:13:51,795 --> 00:13:55,515 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown. Speaking of out of business, one major 208 00:13:55,555 --> 00:14:01,115 Speaker 1: newspaper was still publishing Dilbert by Scott Adams yesterday after 209 00:14:01,195 --> 00:14:04,915 Speaker 1: he had gone on that full white supremacist rant that 210 00:14:05,035 --> 00:14:09,595 Speaker 1: was yesterday. Today, it too has canceled his alleged comic strip, 211 00:14:10,275 --> 00:14:15,035 Speaker 1: Bye Felicia. Can you spell the words ninth and twelfth 212 00:14:15,235 --> 00:14:22,315 Speaker 1: as in numbering Things ninth and twelfth? If so, you 213 00:14:22,395 --> 00:14:26,115 Speaker 1: are smarter than the Florida State Department of Education. I 214 00:14:26,155 --> 00:14:29,635 Speaker 1: wish I were making this up Baseball's new pitch and 215 00:14:29,755 --> 00:14:34,235 Speaker 1: hit Clock's work surprisingly well and in an all new 216 00:14:34,315 --> 00:14:36,915 Speaker 1: and painful edition of Things I promised not to tell. 217 00:14:36,995 --> 00:14:39,715 Speaker 1: On one day in twenty eleven, the guy who was 218 00:14:39,715 --> 00:14:43,355 Speaker 1: going to save Current TV and the last television version 219 00:14:43,515 --> 00:14:45,955 Speaker 1: of Countdown was going to tell me how he planned 220 00:14:45,955 --> 00:14:49,355 Speaker 1: to do it, and actor she was the one who 221 00:14:49,395 --> 00:14:52,555 Speaker 1: invited me. I was going to go have coffee with 222 00:14:53,755 --> 00:14:59,955 Speaker 1: Uma Thurman. Needless to say, things came a Cropper in 223 00:15:00,075 --> 00:15:03,915 Speaker 1: both of those meetings things I promised not to tell. 224 00:15:03,995 --> 00:15:16,275 Speaker 1: That's next discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman. Low 225 00:15:16,355 --> 00:15:19,315 Speaker 1: scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 226 00:15:19,315 --> 00:15:23,915 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline Washington Screaming headlines. Yesterday, the Department of 227 00:15:23,995 --> 00:15:28,955 Speaker 1: Energy says it believes COVID nineteen originated from a laboratory leak. 228 00:15:29,515 --> 00:15:33,155 Speaker 1: Let the pearl clutching begin, and please do not read 229 00:15:33,235 --> 00:15:36,755 Speaker 1: the details of the story in which the Department adds 230 00:15:37,075 --> 00:15:41,435 Speaker 1: it believes this with quote low confidence that it's right, 231 00:15:42,555 --> 00:15:45,675 Speaker 1: while other parts of the American intelligence structure don't believe 232 00:15:45,715 --> 00:15:52,515 Speaker 1: this at all. Plus COVID nineteen as sleuthed out by 233 00:15:52,635 --> 00:15:58,195 Speaker 1: the Department of Energy, all those birologists and scientists and 234 00:15:58,435 --> 00:16:02,155 Speaker 1: spies from the Department of Energy. I don't know about you, 235 00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:05,235 Speaker 1: but I'm reserving judgment on just where COVID nineteen originated 236 00:16:05,395 --> 00:16:09,155 Speaker 1: until I hear it personally from the Undersecretary of Lumber 237 00:16:09,195 --> 00:16:14,635 Speaker 1: and floor Wax. Dateline Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Some good 238 00:16:14,675 --> 00:16:17,635 Speaker 1: news as Friday's podcast and My Little Story of my 239 00:16:17,715 --> 00:16:21,475 Speaker 1: childhood correspondence with the far less than perfect author Royal 240 00:16:21,635 --> 00:16:26,155 Speaker 1: Dolls just beginning to circulate, his publishers decided no, we 241 00:16:26,155 --> 00:16:29,675 Speaker 1: were all right, and they were wrong. Puffin will still 242 00:16:29,715 --> 00:16:33,155 Speaker 1: publish its bodlerized versions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 243 00:16:33,155 --> 00:16:35,195 Speaker 1: and James and the Giant Peach and all the other 244 00:16:35,275 --> 00:16:39,355 Speaker 1: Doll novels with fringe offensive words like bald and fat 245 00:16:39,635 --> 00:16:43,955 Speaker 1: removed and other portions rewritten and clumsily, but it will 246 00:16:44,035 --> 00:16:48,035 Speaker 1: simultaneously now keep the original Royal Doll Techs in print. 247 00:16:48,875 --> 00:16:51,755 Speaker 1: Dateline Minnesota. Oh well, that's not going to happen for 248 00:16:52,155 --> 00:16:56,635 Speaker 1: Scott Adams. Dilbert gets his tie caught in the office shredder. 249 00:16:56,875 --> 00:17:00,995 Speaker 1: The services will be Thursday. The Minneapolis Star Tribune appears 250 00:17:00,995 --> 00:17:04,755 Speaker 1: to have been the only major American newspaper yesterday to 251 00:17:04,795 --> 00:17:09,075 Speaker 1: not drop the quote comic strip unquote after creator Scott 252 00:17:09,075 --> 00:17:12,395 Speaker 1: Adams is racist rant on YouTube in which he called 253 00:17:12,435 --> 00:17:16,035 Speaker 1: for quote white people to get the hell away from 254 00:17:16,115 --> 00:17:19,755 Speaker 1: black people. You know, the one in which he advocated 255 00:17:19,835 --> 00:17:24,715 Speaker 1: for resegregation. Scott can now choose a new career of 256 00:17:24,835 --> 00:17:46,995 Speaker 1: some kind. Thank you. Nancy Faust. USA Today and Gannett's 257 00:17:47,075 --> 00:17:50,515 Speaker 1: other three hundred papers dropped the strip, which was never 258 00:17:50,555 --> 00:17:54,795 Speaker 1: particularly funny, but it did once present an anti boss, 259 00:17:54,915 --> 00:17:57,635 Speaker 1: anti corporation point of view, and that was a kind 260 00:17:57,635 --> 00:18:00,875 Speaker 1: of daring thing to see in American newspapers. Coming to 261 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:04,955 Speaker 1: the defense of Adams, the last man standing here, the 262 00:18:05,115 --> 00:18:10,555 Speaker 1: increasingly obvious reactionary and or fascist Elon Musk. Musk declared 263 00:18:10,555 --> 00:18:13,115 Speaker 1: in response to an Adam's tweet that it's the media 264 00:18:13,235 --> 00:18:17,075 Speaker 1: that's racist against whites and Asians, and so are the 265 00:18:17,195 --> 00:18:21,835 Speaker 1: elite colleges and high schools. He says, because you can 266 00:18:21,875 --> 00:18:24,755 Speaker 1: take the boy out of apartheid South Africa, but you 267 00:18:24,915 --> 00:18:41,115 Speaker 1: can't take apartheid South Africa out of the boy. This 268 00:18:42,155 --> 00:18:48,435 Speaker 1: is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This is 269 00:18:49,235 --> 00:18:56,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olberman in sports. I am never pleasantly surprised. 270 00:18:56,635 --> 00:18:58,835 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that about me, and 271 00:18:58,955 --> 00:19:00,915 Speaker 1: yet here I am having to tell you that I 272 00:19:00,955 --> 00:19:05,395 Speaker 1: am pleasantly surprised. Hats off to the picture and the hitters. 273 00:19:05,595 --> 00:19:09,235 Speaker 1: In the first weekend of baseball's new clock and its 274 00:19:09,275 --> 00:19:12,715 Speaker 1: anti shift rules, Yes there was one disaster about the 275 00:19:12,755 --> 00:19:15,635 Speaker 1: batter's clock, but out of a couple of dozen spring 276 00:19:15,675 --> 00:19:18,475 Speaker 1: training games, there was only one disaster the first weekend 277 00:19:18,515 --> 00:19:21,395 Speaker 1: of the thing. Almost all the other hitters were in 278 00:19:21,475 --> 00:19:24,155 Speaker 1: place with eight seconds to go on the clock, and 279 00:19:24,315 --> 00:19:27,115 Speaker 1: almost all the pitchers were in place with seven seconds 280 00:19:27,155 --> 00:19:29,675 Speaker 1: to go on the clock. The fielders were where they 281 00:19:29,675 --> 00:19:31,595 Speaker 1: were supposed to be in the new rule, though it 282 00:19:31,675 --> 00:19:34,275 Speaker 1: is still a dumb rule, and the games were running 283 00:19:34,315 --> 00:19:38,035 Speaker 1: about twenty five or twenty six minutes shorter than they 284 00:19:38,035 --> 00:19:40,475 Speaker 1: were a year ago, and with all the dead spaces 285 00:19:40,515 --> 00:19:43,835 Speaker 1: cut out, the disaster was the thing that made the headlines. 286 00:19:43,875 --> 00:19:46,315 Speaker 1: Of course, the Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves were 287 00:19:46,355 --> 00:19:49,595 Speaker 1: tied at Northport, Florida, six six in the bottom of 288 00:19:49,595 --> 00:19:52,795 Speaker 1: the ninth, Braves up two out bases loaded three two 289 00:19:52,875 --> 00:19:55,835 Speaker 1: count to minor league prospect Cal Conley of the Braves. 290 00:19:56,115 --> 00:20:00,315 Speaker 1: Boston's Robert Kuwayatkowski through an apparent ball four, which would 291 00:20:00,315 --> 00:20:03,475 Speaker 1: have met a game winning walk for Conley and the Braves. Instead, 292 00:20:03,515 --> 00:20:06,115 Speaker 1: the umpire leaped out from behind the plate to say 293 00:20:06,515 --> 00:20:09,435 Speaker 1: Conley did not beat the clock. It was an eight 294 00:20:09,515 --> 00:20:14,875 Speaker 1: second violation and therefore an automatic strike strike three in fact, 295 00:20:14,955 --> 00:20:18,315 Speaker 1: so instead of game winning ball four, it was game 296 00:20:18,515 --> 00:20:21,995 Speaker 1: ending strike three. The first weekend of this end of 297 00:20:22,115 --> 00:20:25,155 Speaker 1: spring training twenty twenty three was about Manny Machado of 298 00:20:25,155 --> 00:20:27,955 Speaker 1: the San Diego Padres. He was the first player ever 299 00:20:28,075 --> 00:20:30,675 Speaker 1: called for not being ready, and then yesterday he turned 300 00:20:30,715 --> 00:20:33,475 Speaker 1: out to be very ready, signing a new eleven years, 301 00:20:33,515 --> 00:20:35,995 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty million dollar deal with the Padres. 302 00:20:36,195 --> 00:20:39,235 Speaker 1: Machado becomes the third Padre on a deal worth two 303 00:20:39,315 --> 00:20:42,235 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty million or more. He was already the 304 00:20:42,315 --> 00:20:44,155 Speaker 1: fifth on the team who will make at least twenty 305 00:20:44,155 --> 00:20:48,435 Speaker 1: million this season. Now where's that money coming from? As 306 00:20:48,435 --> 00:20:51,515 Speaker 1: we told you, the Bally Sports Regional Networks missed one 307 00:20:51,555 --> 00:20:54,515 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million in interest payments and are expected 308 00:20:54,555 --> 00:20:57,435 Speaker 1: to go bankrupt in a month. They carry the Padres games, 309 00:20:57,595 --> 00:21:01,515 Speaker 1: among many others in baseball, and they carry all told 310 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:06,155 Speaker 1: forty two MLB, NBA and NHL teams. But while the 311 00:21:06,235 --> 00:21:10,595 Speaker 1: leagues were trying to process that Warner Brothers Discovery that's 312 00:21:10,635 --> 00:21:13,835 Speaker 1: the John Malone company that is running CNN to the ground, 313 00:21:14,195 --> 00:21:17,555 Speaker 1: they told the teams that their regionals carry that it 314 00:21:17,755 --> 00:21:21,395 Speaker 1: is exiting the regional sports business in the next few weeks. 315 00:21:21,995 --> 00:21:25,795 Speaker 1: By Felicia. It operates the AT and T Sports networks 316 00:21:25,795 --> 00:21:28,675 Speaker 1: in Denver, Houston, and Pittsburgh and owns part of Roots 317 00:21:28,715 --> 00:21:31,675 Speaker 1: Sports in Seattle, and it has given the teams it 318 00:21:31,755 --> 00:21:35,555 Speaker 1: carries until March thirty first to reach agreement to take 319 00:21:35,635 --> 00:21:38,915 Speaker 1: their TV rights back. You know what, I got an 320 00:21:38,955 --> 00:21:40,795 Speaker 1: idea of baseball and the other sports that are going 321 00:21:40,875 --> 00:21:44,795 Speaker 1: to lose these deals with Warner Brothers, Discovery and Valleys, 322 00:21:44,995 --> 00:21:48,435 Speaker 1: they should go where the growth is. They should all 323 00:21:48,675 --> 00:22:06,715 Speaker 1: start podcasts ahead. He was Al Gore's business partner and 324 00:22:06,875 --> 00:22:09,475 Speaker 1: one of his top political advisors. He was running our 325 00:22:09,635 --> 00:22:13,115 Speaker 1: new cable news network, and he did not know what 326 00:22:13,155 --> 00:22:16,675 Speaker 1: the letters DVR stood for. And he thought he had 327 00:22:16,675 --> 00:22:19,955 Speaker 1: outsmarted the Nielsen ratings people when he bought the ratings 328 00:22:19,955 --> 00:22:23,275 Speaker 1: that only had live viewers and none of this diver 329 00:22:23,755 --> 00:22:28,275 Speaker 1: nonsense in them. Coming up on the worst day of 330 00:22:28,315 --> 00:22:31,275 Speaker 1: my life so far, first time for the daily route 331 00:22:31,315 --> 00:22:33,315 Speaker 1: up of the miss Grants morons undone in Kruger Effect 332 00:22:33,315 --> 00:22:37,515 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. The 333 00:22:37,595 --> 00:22:43,155 Speaker 1: Bronze Will Statehouse Bill HB zero zero zero nine has 334 00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:45,995 Speaker 1: now passed in Tennessee. It will make it a criminal 335 00:22:46,035 --> 00:22:48,795 Speaker 1: offense to have a drag show on public property in 336 00:22:48,795 --> 00:22:52,275 Speaker 1: that state. First defense is a misdemeanor. Subsequent offenses will 337 00:22:52,315 --> 00:22:56,115 Speaker 1: be a felony. Since the state Senate had already passed 338 00:22:56,155 --> 00:22:59,155 Speaker 1: its version of this monstrosity. The combined bill will now 339 00:22:59,195 --> 00:23:01,795 Speaker 1: go to the desk of Tennessee Governor Bill Lee for signature. 340 00:23:02,075 --> 00:23:04,475 Speaker 1: And it turns out that if a Governor Lee does 341 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:06,915 Speaker 1: want to sign it, he may want to dress up 342 00:23:06,955 --> 00:23:10,075 Speaker 1: for the occasion, maybe in a cocktail dress, pearls and 343 00:23:10,155 --> 00:23:13,275 Speaker 1: a nice hat. That's what he appears to be wearing 344 00:23:13,315 --> 00:23:15,675 Speaker 1: in a photo on page one sixty five of the 345 00:23:15,755 --> 00:23:20,235 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven Franklin High School yearbook, unless that's another 346 00:23:20,355 --> 00:23:22,915 Speaker 1: Bill Lee who went to bill Lees High School in 347 00:23:23,035 --> 00:23:27,635 Speaker 1: Bill Lee's hometown in bill Lees graduating year. This was 348 00:23:27,715 --> 00:23:30,275 Speaker 1: as discovered by somebody on Reddit and tweeted out by 349 00:23:30,275 --> 00:23:34,195 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Holler. So is there a statute of limitations 350 00:23:34,275 --> 00:23:37,795 Speaker 1: on this hateful Republican crap? Can Governor Lee get himself 351 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:41,315 Speaker 1: arrested for participating in a drag show in nineteen seventy seven? 352 00:23:42,315 --> 00:23:45,235 Speaker 1: The runner up Dylan Buyers, the media writer at the 353 00:23:45,235 --> 00:23:50,315 Speaker 1: website Puck. He's out with another column about CNN Worldwide 354 00:23:50,315 --> 00:23:53,435 Speaker 1: President and chief guy at MSNBC. We used to think 355 00:23:53,475 --> 00:23:57,515 Speaker 1: eight paced Chris licked And once again a Buyer's column 356 00:23:57,635 --> 00:24:01,515 Speaker 1: is full of excuses for these series of self defenistrations 357 00:24:01,555 --> 00:24:04,355 Speaker 1: that Lickt has overseen and accomplished at CNN. I think 358 00:24:04,355 --> 00:24:08,075 Speaker 1: this is column number thirty eight's newest quote from a 359 00:24:08,075 --> 00:24:12,035 Speaker 1: New York Times article about the Vanilla centrist Boring CNN 360 00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:15,195 Speaker 1: he has created. Quote. This is not Vanilla's centrist or 361 00:24:15,235 --> 00:24:21,475 Speaker 1: Boring's newest idea a newscast co hosted by Gail King 362 00:24:22,035 --> 00:24:28,155 Speaker 1: and Charles Barkley, Buyer's latest nonsense quote? Can lit capture 363 00:24:28,195 --> 00:24:30,595 Speaker 1: the lightning of a Barkley or a Don Lemon without 364 00:24:30,595 --> 00:24:35,435 Speaker 1: getting burned? Doing so requires incredibly deft, hands on management, 365 00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:38,955 Speaker 1: exactly the kind of management Lickt has historically excelled at 366 00:24:39,115 --> 00:24:45,835 Speaker 1: as an executive producer. Mister Byers, when was that Licht 367 00:24:45,915 --> 00:24:50,035 Speaker 1: produced Morning Joe, which was in third place on MSNBC 368 00:24:50,195 --> 00:24:52,795 Speaker 1: when he produced it, sometimes in fourth place in the 369 00:24:53,075 --> 00:24:56,795 Speaker 1: three cable network cable morning news ratings. Then Licht went 370 00:24:56,835 --> 00:24:59,715 Speaker 1: to CBS and produced its morning news show, which was 371 00:24:59,755 --> 00:25:03,315 Speaker 1: in third place in the three network broadcast morning news ratings. 372 00:25:03,515 --> 00:25:06,035 Speaker 1: Then he went on to produce Even Colbert's Show, which 373 00:25:06,035 --> 00:25:08,195 Speaker 1: by last year had lost twenty seven percent of its 374 00:25:08,195 --> 00:25:10,755 Speaker 1: audience and was being beaten out in the ratings by 375 00:25:10,755 --> 00:25:14,595 Speaker 1: a show from Fox News. Now, CNN is not only 376 00:25:14,635 --> 00:25:17,715 Speaker 1: in last place, but its ratings have tanked again and 377 00:25:17,755 --> 00:25:21,355 Speaker 1: they are now about half that of MSNBC's and MSNBC 378 00:25:21,635 --> 00:25:24,315 Speaker 1: is in full fledged panic over how it's tanking. So 379 00:25:24,395 --> 00:25:27,235 Speaker 1: this is a double tank. So let me note which 380 00:25:27,315 --> 00:25:31,915 Speaker 1: one of these failures Licked has displayed quote incredibly deft 381 00:25:32,075 --> 00:25:35,955 Speaker 1: hands on management. He got his hands on something. But 382 00:25:35,995 --> 00:25:39,715 Speaker 1: it's not management, but our winners. The Florida Department of Education. 383 00:25:39,835 --> 00:25:42,315 Speaker 1: That's the headquarters for the book banners. But if you're 384 00:25:42,315 --> 00:25:45,475 Speaker 1: a glass half full kind of guy, like I've always been, 385 00:25:45,475 --> 00:25:47,795 Speaker 1: you'll say, wait, what about all the books they haven't 386 00:25:47,835 --> 00:25:52,195 Speaker 1: banned in Florida? What about a list of the approved books? Well, 387 00:25:52,275 --> 00:25:54,715 Speaker 1: that list is out. It has more than three hundred 388 00:25:54,715 --> 00:25:57,915 Speaker 1: and fifty titles on it, including, ironically enough, Fahrenheit four 389 00:25:58,035 --> 00:26:01,715 Speaker 1: fifty one. Curious George is okay for high school students 390 00:26:01,715 --> 00:26:05,795 Speaker 1: in Florida, nineteen eighty four, hop On, pop Romeo, and Juliet, 391 00:26:05,955 --> 00:26:09,315 Speaker 1: and each is carefully listed alongside the class year for 392 00:26:09,395 --> 00:26:12,475 Speaker 1: which it's been approved. Animal Farm, for instance, is okay 393 00:26:12,475 --> 00:26:14,755 Speaker 1: for the ninth grade, or as it is spelled on 394 00:26:14,755 --> 00:26:17,995 Speaker 1: the official Florida Department of Education list at least three 395 00:26:18,035 --> 00:26:25,995 Speaker 1: dozen times nineth nineth grade ni n et. The Florida 396 00:26:26,275 --> 00:26:32,115 Speaker 1: State Department of Education misspelled the word ninth thirty six 397 00:26:32,195 --> 00:26:37,675 Speaker 1: times ninth. Then there's pride and prejudice in Utopia and 398 00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:39,635 Speaker 1: the twelve seasons. All of them have been approved for 399 00:26:39,715 --> 00:26:47,235 Speaker 1: seniors who are in the twelfth grade. Twelfth twe lt 400 00:26:47,475 --> 00:26:51,475 Speaker 1: leave off the last F for Florida the Florida Department 401 00:26:51,475 --> 00:26:54,355 Speaker 1: of Education. Well, why do we need to spell ninth 402 00:26:54,435 --> 00:26:56,515 Speaker 1: or twelfth correctly since we're trying to get all these 403 00:26:56,595 --> 00:26:58,715 Speaker 1: kids to drop out in the seventh grade or the 404 00:26:58,755 --> 00:27:04,435 Speaker 1: eighth grade. Anyway, two days worst persons and the misspelled 405 00:27:13,915 --> 00:27:16,955 Speaker 1: still ahead on Countdown. It was a long bad day. 406 00:27:17,515 --> 00:27:23,115 Speaker 1: It was the day I didn't have coffee with Uma Thurman. First, 407 00:27:23,115 --> 00:27:25,355 Speaker 1: in each initiation of Countdown, we feature a dog in need. 408 00:27:25,355 --> 00:27:28,275 Speaker 1: You can help. Every dog has its day. To zebulon 409 00:27:28,395 --> 00:27:31,155 Speaker 1: North Carolina, and the little tan thing that was dropped 410 00:27:31,155 --> 00:27:34,235 Speaker 1: off at the town dump was still moving as the 411 00:27:34,315 --> 00:27:38,435 Speaker 1: humans pulled away. It was a dog, skin and bones, 412 00:27:38,635 --> 00:27:43,715 Speaker 1: unable to walk to lift her head. Special Needs Animal 413 00:27:43,795 --> 00:27:47,275 Speaker 1: Rescue there named her Peanut. She's twenty pounds, maybe a 414 00:27:47,355 --> 00:27:51,835 Speaker 1: Retriever mixed golden lab maybe, and they were clearly starving her. 415 00:27:51,875 --> 00:27:55,435 Speaker 1: She should be about a seventy pound dog, maybe sixty pounds. 416 00:27:56,035 --> 00:27:59,155 Speaker 1: And yet as the rescuers came for her, she wagged 417 00:27:59,195 --> 00:28:03,835 Speaker 1: her tail. She can barely move, she wagged her tail. 418 00:28:03,915 --> 00:28:06,355 Speaker 1: They think they can her. She'll need fluids and a 419 00:28:06,355 --> 00:28:09,195 Speaker 1: lot of er care, and they need our donations. Peanut 420 00:28:09,315 --> 00:28:12,155 Speaker 1: is on giving grid com. You can find her there 421 00:28:12,675 --> 00:28:15,995 Speaker 1: or on my Twitter feeds. I thank you, and Peanut 422 00:28:16,115 --> 00:28:37,075 Speaker 1: thanks you. And now to the number one story on 423 00:28:37,115 --> 00:28:40,675 Speaker 1: the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and I saw 424 00:28:40,715 --> 00:28:43,755 Speaker 1: her on TV recently, so I flashed back and shuddered 425 00:28:43,835 --> 00:28:47,195 Speaker 1: all over again. Yes, it's things I've promised not to tell. 426 00:28:48,355 --> 00:28:52,075 Speaker 1: I suspect that until the day I actually die. No 427 00:28:52,315 --> 00:28:55,395 Speaker 1: day will have started so well with such promise, yet 428 00:28:55,515 --> 00:28:59,955 Speaker 1: ended so badly with such a clanging thud, as Wednesday, 429 00:29:00,115 --> 00:29:04,875 Speaker 1: July twenty seventh, two thousand and eleven did. Near midnight 430 00:29:04,875 --> 00:29:07,555 Speaker 1: two nights earlier, I had just entered my New York 431 00:29:07,595 --> 00:29:10,355 Speaker 1: apartment back from a New York Yankees game, when the 432 00:29:10,435 --> 00:29:15,275 Speaker 1: last landline telephone I ever owned began to ring. Hi 433 00:29:15,395 --> 00:29:19,915 Speaker 1: Keith it's Umah. Yeah, how many UMAs could there be? 434 00:29:20,955 --> 00:29:23,955 Speaker 1: It was the actress Uma Thurman. We had texted briefly, 435 00:29:23,995 --> 00:29:26,435 Speaker 1: we had never met, we had never spoken. We spoke 436 00:29:26,475 --> 00:29:29,395 Speaker 1: for ninety minutes, and she was self deprecating and vulnerable 437 00:29:29,395 --> 00:29:32,435 Speaker 1: and razors sharp and warm, and she invited me to coffee. 438 00:29:32,435 --> 00:29:36,875 Speaker 1: On the afternoon of D Day, Wednesday, July twenty seventh, 439 00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:40,595 Speaker 1: two eleven, one of the producers I had hired to 440 00:29:40,595 --> 00:29:43,595 Speaker 1: do the new version of Countdown on Al Gore's network, 441 00:29:43,755 --> 00:29:47,315 Speaker 1: Current TV, happened to know Uma Thurman from the gym. 442 00:29:47,955 --> 00:29:50,355 Speaker 1: Erica Ferrari was her name, and she was great, and 443 00:29:50,395 --> 00:29:52,795 Speaker 1: she and Uma Thurman had become close enough that Uma 444 00:29:52,875 --> 00:29:55,995 Speaker 1: had unloaded all her relationship issues on Erica. And the 445 00:29:56,035 --> 00:29:58,795 Speaker 1: next thing I knew, Erica was in my office explaining 446 00:29:58,795 --> 00:30:00,915 Speaker 1: to me that when she explained to Uma where she 447 00:30:00,995 --> 00:30:04,355 Speaker 1: worked and with whom, Uma said, the Keith Olberman, and 448 00:30:05,035 --> 00:30:07,635 Speaker 1: I was being set up for drinks or dinner or 449 00:30:07,755 --> 00:30:12,795 Speaker 1: coffee or something with Uma Thurman. So this seemed like 450 00:30:12,795 --> 00:30:15,915 Speaker 1: a good day. Then two nights earlier, we had finally 451 00:30:15,955 --> 00:30:19,875 Speaker 1: had had this marvelous, warm conversation, and Uma Thurman had 452 00:30:19,875 --> 00:30:22,915 Speaker 1: suggested coffee and Wednesday in two thirty or so in 453 00:30:22,915 --> 00:30:25,035 Speaker 1: one of the two or three places in Midtown near 454 00:30:25,075 --> 00:30:27,755 Speaker 1: my studio, and she text me with details and she 455 00:30:27,795 --> 00:30:32,875 Speaker 1: couldn't wait. Simultaneously with this, the CEO of the Current 456 00:30:32,875 --> 00:30:35,635 Speaker 1: TV network, Mark Rosenthal called me up and invited me 457 00:30:35,675 --> 00:30:38,715 Speaker 1: to dinner on Wednesday, July twenty seventh, twenty eleven. Not 458 00:30:38,715 --> 00:30:42,235 Speaker 1: gonna be a busy day. Al Gore and Current had 459 00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:45,235 Speaker 1: hired me even before I left MSNBC. That was what 460 00:30:45,315 --> 00:30:47,795 Speaker 1: that was all about. And I had met and gotten 461 00:30:47,795 --> 00:30:50,315 Speaker 1: to know everybody in the organization over the following six 462 00:30:50,355 --> 00:30:52,395 Speaker 1: months before we finally got the show on the air 463 00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:55,115 Speaker 1: in June. We got off to a good start, even 464 00:30:55,115 --> 00:30:58,795 Speaker 1: though Current TV was available only in low deaf digital cable. 465 00:30:59,555 --> 00:31:03,075 Speaker 1: On its first night, Countdown on Current beat both MSNBC's 466 00:31:03,115 --> 00:31:06,915 Speaker 1: Lawrence O'Donnell's Show and CNN's Elliot Spitzer Show, and the 467 00:31:06,915 --> 00:31:11,235 Speaker 1: so called demo ratings measuring viewers eighteen to fifty four. 468 00:31:12,275 --> 00:31:16,355 Speaker 1: But by July twenty seventh, twenty eleven, so like two 469 00:31:16,395 --> 00:31:18,555 Speaker 1: months later, it was evident to me that the network 470 00:31:18,635 --> 00:31:22,635 Speaker 1: was run by four kinds of people. One this CEO Rosenthal, 471 00:31:23,075 --> 00:31:24,795 Speaker 1: who used to be at MTV and knew what he 472 00:31:24,835 --> 00:31:27,875 Speaker 1: was doing. Two some dilettants who did not know how 473 00:31:27,915 --> 00:31:31,155 Speaker 1: to plug in a television, let alone put stuff on one. 474 00:31:31,355 --> 00:31:34,195 Speaker 1: Three co owner Al Gore, who meant well but who 475 00:31:34,235 --> 00:31:38,035 Speaker 1: had absolutely no judgment when it came to business partners. 476 00:31:38,075 --> 00:31:42,795 Speaker 1: And four in a class by himself, Gore's business partner 477 00:31:43,035 --> 00:31:47,395 Speaker 1: Joel Hyatt, who had made one superb business decision in 478 00:31:47,515 --> 00:31:50,835 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven that earned him billions of dollars and 479 00:31:50,915 --> 00:31:53,195 Speaker 1: he sold everything and then had earned him billions of 480 00:31:53,235 --> 00:31:57,555 Speaker 1: dollars again. But he had literally never gotten anything right 481 00:31:57,755 --> 00:32:01,915 Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy seven, while at the same time thinking 482 00:32:01,915 --> 00:32:05,115 Speaker 1: he had never gotten anything wrong since nineteen seven seven. 483 00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:08,675 Speaker 1: He was a liberal. Unfortunately he was a liberal Donald Trump. 484 00:32:09,635 --> 00:32:12,195 Speaker 1: What was worse was that of all these people, only 485 00:32:12,275 --> 00:32:16,635 Speaker 1: Mark Rosenthal understood how ruinously incompetent Joel Hyatt really was. 486 00:32:17,355 --> 00:32:20,395 Speaker 1: Rosenthal had been president of MTV from nineteen ninety six 487 00:32:20,395 --> 00:32:22,595 Speaker 1: through two thousand and four, and whatever you thought of 488 00:32:22,635 --> 00:32:26,755 Speaker 1: all those reality shows and the Real World and stuff 489 00:32:26,795 --> 00:32:30,955 Speaker 1: like that, they were successes. He knew what he was doing, 490 00:32:30,995 --> 00:32:36,115 Speaker 1: and he knew Joel Hyatt didn't. And Mark Rosenthal had 491 00:32:36,115 --> 00:32:38,075 Speaker 1: invited me to dinner as soon as my show was 492 00:32:38,115 --> 00:32:41,395 Speaker 1: over on Wednesday night, July twenty seven, twenty eleven, about 493 00:32:41,515 --> 00:32:44,275 Speaker 1: seven hours after I was scheduled to have coffee with 494 00:32:44,395 --> 00:32:47,675 Speaker 1: Uma Thurman as a dry run for a date, and 495 00:32:47,875 --> 00:32:51,075 Speaker 1: Rosenthal told me he had figured out how we could 496 00:32:51,075 --> 00:32:55,155 Speaker 1: in effect take control of the Current TV network away 497 00:32:55,235 --> 00:32:58,355 Speaker 1: from this Joel Hyatt and not only exploit the good 498 00:32:58,355 --> 00:33:01,355 Speaker 1: start Countdown had made, but build on it and make 499 00:33:01,435 --> 00:33:04,235 Speaker 1: Current TV into the liberal news network we had been 500 00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:07,275 Speaker 1: in tending to create, and new would be a success. 501 00:33:07,875 --> 00:33:10,435 Speaker 1: Dinner would be our chance for him to explain it 502 00:33:10,475 --> 00:33:14,995 Speaker 1: to me, to hatch our plan. It was a big, 503 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:19,795 Speaker 1: big day. I think, without me going into detail, you 504 00:33:19,875 --> 00:33:23,635 Speaker 1: intuitively get the Uma Thurman part of what July twenty seventh, 505 00:33:23,635 --> 00:33:25,955 Speaker 1: twenty eleven was supposed to be. But I need to 506 00:33:25,955 --> 00:33:28,315 Speaker 1: put a little bit more meat on the bones of 507 00:33:28,315 --> 00:33:31,155 Speaker 1: why it was so important at Current TV. This is 508 00:33:31,155 --> 00:33:35,195 Speaker 1: who this guy Hyatt was, that same producer who was 509 00:33:35,235 --> 00:33:38,075 Speaker 1: doing her best to set up Uma Thurman and me Erica. 510 00:33:38,355 --> 00:33:40,715 Speaker 1: She walked in one day, white as the sheet of 511 00:33:40,755 --> 00:33:43,635 Speaker 1: paper she was carrying at arm's length, as if it 512 00:33:43,715 --> 00:33:48,235 Speaker 1: had been printed in bubonic plague she had found while 513 00:33:48,315 --> 00:33:52,275 Speaker 1: surfing around internet archives. A New York Times article about 514 00:33:52,275 --> 00:33:56,515 Speaker 1: this Joel Hyatt an article from April thirteen, nineteen ninety. 515 00:33:56,555 --> 00:33:59,355 Speaker 1: Do you remember the movie Philadelphia where the evil head 516 00:33:59,355 --> 00:34:02,475 Speaker 1: of law firm portrayed by the actor Jason Robards had 517 00:34:02,515 --> 00:34:05,195 Speaker 1: fired the head of his Philadelphia office play by Tom 518 00:34:05,235 --> 00:34:09,315 Speaker 1: Hanks because the Hanks character had AIDS and Hank's character 519 00:34:09,355 --> 00:34:13,275 Speaker 1: got as his lawyer, a character played by Denzel Washington. Well, 520 00:34:13,355 --> 00:34:16,355 Speaker 1: this guy who co owned Current TV with Al Gore, 521 00:34:16,635 --> 00:34:21,715 Speaker 1: he was the Jason Robard's character he had fired from 522 00:34:21,755 --> 00:34:24,835 Speaker 1: his law firm Hyatt Legal Services the head of his 523 00:34:24,955 --> 00:34:29,195 Speaker 1: Philadelphia office, Clarence B. Kane, after finding out Clarence B. 524 00:34:29,395 --> 00:34:32,435 Speaker 1: Kane had AIDS. In fact, reality was actually worse than 525 00:34:32,475 --> 00:34:35,235 Speaker 1: the Philadelphia movie. In real life, Clarence B. Kane was 526 00:34:35,235 --> 00:34:39,835 Speaker 1: also African American. The Time story that Erica Ferra handed 527 00:34:39,875 --> 00:34:43,075 Speaker 1: Me like it was printed on razor Blades recounted how 528 00:34:43,115 --> 00:34:45,955 Speaker 1: a federal judge had not only ordered Highatt Legal Services 529 00:34:45,995 --> 00:34:48,635 Speaker 1: to pay mister Kane one hundred and fifty seven thousand 530 00:34:48,715 --> 00:34:52,035 Speaker 1: dollars plus costs, but how it had ordered them to 531 00:34:52,115 --> 00:34:56,555 Speaker 1: pay him immediately, like in the next couple days. This 532 00:34:56,755 --> 00:35:00,035 Speaker 1: was harrowing enough, but the final paragraph made my head swim. 533 00:35:00,795 --> 00:35:05,195 Speaker 1: Quote what pained him most, mister Hyatt said the notion 534 00:35:05,235 --> 00:35:08,515 Speaker 1: that his firm discriminated. He noted how it had, after all, 535 00:35:09,275 --> 00:35:12,035 Speaker 1: named a gay black man to run one of its 536 00:35:12,075 --> 00:35:15,235 Speaker 1: major offices, something no law firm its size has ever 537 00:35:15,315 --> 00:35:19,315 Speaker 1: knowingly done. Quote what's totally lost in the shuffle is 538 00:35:19,355 --> 00:35:22,115 Speaker 1: that this is an organization in which anyone can succeed, 539 00:35:22,355 --> 00:35:27,555 Speaker 1: he said. No one has written about that. That was 540 00:35:27,595 --> 00:35:30,035 Speaker 1: this guy Hyatt in a nutshell. He fired a gay 541 00:35:30,075 --> 00:35:32,515 Speaker 1: black man who was dying of AIDS, but he knew 542 00:35:32,515 --> 00:35:36,795 Speaker 1: who the real victim here was himself. And it's not 543 00:35:36,915 --> 00:35:39,635 Speaker 1: like Hyatt had improved over the years. As I mentioned, 544 00:35:39,675 --> 00:35:43,635 Speaker 1: The Night Countdown premiered on Current TV June twentieth, twenty eleven. 545 00:35:43,675 --> 00:35:46,515 Speaker 1: We beat MSNBC and CNN in the ratings, but we 546 00:35:46,635 --> 00:35:50,555 Speaker 1: didn't know it. The next day, our ratings showed that 547 00:35:50,595 --> 00:35:54,755 Speaker 1: we had beaten CNN and just missed beating O'Donnell on MSNBC. 548 00:35:55,595 --> 00:35:57,715 Speaker 1: A few weeks later, one of those networks got a 549 00:35:57,755 --> 00:36:00,875 Speaker 1: friendly reporter to write a story about how since the debut, 550 00:36:00,875 --> 00:36:03,795 Speaker 1: our ratings on Current had sunk, which was to be 551 00:36:03,835 --> 00:36:06,515 Speaker 1: expected and which is a totally legitimate competitive thing for 552 00:36:06,555 --> 00:36:10,115 Speaker 1: the MSNBC guys to do. But the numbers were all wrong. 553 00:36:10,875 --> 00:36:14,995 Speaker 1: The ratings for Countdown that were included in the PROCNN 554 00:36:15,155 --> 00:36:20,075 Speaker 1: pro MSNBC story were somehow higher than the ratings we 555 00:36:20,195 --> 00:36:23,875 Speaker 1: saw every day at Current. If I'm not clear about this, 556 00:36:24,115 --> 00:36:27,235 Speaker 1: the story said that, say, on Monday July eleventh, we 557 00:36:27,275 --> 00:36:30,475 Speaker 1: had had one hundred thousand demo viewers, but our ratings, 558 00:36:30,515 --> 00:36:33,795 Speaker 1: the ratings we got from the Nielsen company, they said 559 00:36:33,795 --> 00:36:35,355 Speaker 1: that on Monday July seventh, we didn't have a one 560 00:36:35,395 --> 00:36:40,075 Speaker 1: hundred thousand demo viewers. We had seventy five thousand demo viewers. Well, 561 00:36:40,155 --> 00:36:43,435 Speaker 1: something was really really wrong here. So when Hyatt called 562 00:36:43,435 --> 00:36:46,355 Speaker 1: me for our weekly phone chat, I said, look, there's 563 00:36:46,355 --> 00:36:49,275 Speaker 1: something wrong with the ratings. And I explained the article 564 00:36:49,315 --> 00:36:50,755 Speaker 1: to him and he said, oh, I knew they were 565 00:36:50,755 --> 00:36:53,235 Speaker 1: going to do that, show how your ratings had dropped. 566 00:36:53,435 --> 00:36:55,635 Speaker 1: And I said, no, no, you're missing my point. They 567 00:36:55,635 --> 00:36:58,595 Speaker 1: say we had higher ratings than we actually did. Oh, 568 00:36:58,635 --> 00:37:00,595 Speaker 1: I knew they were going to do that too, he said, 569 00:37:00,595 --> 00:37:03,275 Speaker 1: with even more condescension. And I said, why would they 570 00:37:03,315 --> 00:37:06,035 Speaker 1: do that, why would they try to make us look better? Oh, 571 00:37:06,075 --> 00:37:08,635 Speaker 1: I knew they were going to do that too, just too. 572 00:37:09,955 --> 00:37:12,395 Speaker 1: Then there was a long pause while Joel Hyatt made 573 00:37:12,395 --> 00:37:16,915 Speaker 1: something up just to mess with us. I asked him, 574 00:37:16,955 --> 00:37:19,755 Speaker 1: since he had personally purchased the ratings package from the 575 00:37:19,795 --> 00:37:22,555 Speaker 1: Nielsen Company, the first ratings in the history of current TV, 576 00:37:22,795 --> 00:37:25,275 Speaker 1: if he could just review for me what he remembered 577 00:37:25,275 --> 00:37:27,915 Speaker 1: of the process. Well, I went in and made an 578 00:37:27,915 --> 00:37:30,675 Speaker 1: excellent deal. I saved two thousand dollars on their initial 579 00:37:30,675 --> 00:37:33,995 Speaker 1: price point. This man was worth a couple billion dollars. 580 00:37:34,275 --> 00:37:38,195 Speaker 1: They wanted us to buy not just the live ratings, 581 00:37:38,195 --> 00:37:43,635 Speaker 1: but something called live plus DIVER. I thought for a moment, Diver, 582 00:37:44,475 --> 00:37:51,555 Speaker 1: I said, you mean live plus DVR. He laughed, Yes, 583 00:37:51,835 --> 00:37:54,675 Speaker 1: that's it, Diver. What the hell is divverer? You just 584 00:37:54,995 --> 00:37:58,835 Speaker 1: use the live ratings in TV. Everybody knows that. I 585 00:37:58,915 --> 00:38:03,075 Speaker 1: explained to him that diver ratings were comparatively new, about 586 00:38:03,115 --> 00:38:05,675 Speaker 1: three to four years old at that point. They added 587 00:38:05,915 --> 00:38:08,755 Speaker 1: to the live rating people who would watch the show 588 00:38:08,755 --> 00:38:13,155 Speaker 1: on their DVR within twenty four hours of having recorded it. 589 00:38:13,795 --> 00:38:16,155 Speaker 1: He had bought the ratings that did not include all 590 00:38:16,195 --> 00:38:18,675 Speaker 1: of those people, so that when we got what we 591 00:38:18,875 --> 00:38:21,475 Speaker 1: thought were our ratings for our premier night, when we 592 00:38:21,515 --> 00:38:24,435 Speaker 1: beat CNN and almost beat MSNBC but just missed. We 593 00:38:24,475 --> 00:38:28,115 Speaker 1: didn't just miss. The ratings package this idiot Hiatt had 594 00:38:28,115 --> 00:38:30,835 Speaker 1: bought did not include anybody who watched the show on 595 00:38:30,875 --> 00:38:33,995 Speaker 1: their DVRs, and that cost us the chance to come 596 00:38:33,995 --> 00:38:36,515 Speaker 1: out and say we beat CNN and MSNBC the first 597 00:38:36,635 --> 00:38:39,595 Speaker 1: night with this crappy low death picture down on channel 598 00:38:39,595 --> 00:38:43,115 Speaker 1: one hundred and three. But more importantly, it saved this 599 00:38:43,315 --> 00:38:52,115 Speaker 1: billionaire idiot Hyatt two thousand dollars. So Mark Rosenthal was 600 00:38:52,195 --> 00:38:55,595 Speaker 1: taking me to dinner hours after I was to have 601 00:38:55,755 --> 00:38:58,915 Speaker 1: coffee with Uma Thurman to explain how we could get 602 00:38:59,035 --> 00:39:05,595 Speaker 1: rid of this idiot who thought DVR meant diver. Thus 603 00:39:05,875 --> 00:39:09,035 Speaker 1: was July twenty seventh, two eleven going to be one 604 00:39:09,075 --> 00:39:14,475 Speaker 1: of the turning points in my life. And then about 605 00:39:14,475 --> 00:39:16,955 Speaker 1: one forty five, just when Uma said she was going 606 00:39:16,995 --> 00:39:18,595 Speaker 1: to text me to tell me where to meet her 607 00:39:18,635 --> 00:39:21,435 Speaker 1: for coffee, she texted me. All right, She texted me 608 00:39:21,475 --> 00:39:23,635 Speaker 1: to explain her rehearsal was running along and she had 609 00:39:23,675 --> 00:39:27,195 Speaker 1: to postpone. And while I was reading between those lines 610 00:39:27,195 --> 00:39:29,115 Speaker 1: and knowing that that actually meant she was going back 611 00:39:29,115 --> 00:39:31,515 Speaker 1: with her boyfriend or her husband, or whoever he was. 612 00:39:31,755 --> 00:39:34,955 Speaker 1: A company email came into all of our inboxes, and 613 00:39:35,075 --> 00:39:38,195 Speaker 1: even before I opened it, I could hear mass groaning 614 00:39:38,515 --> 00:39:43,235 Speaker 1: coming from my newsroom, Mark Rosenthal seven hours before our 615 00:39:43,275 --> 00:39:47,195 Speaker 1: dinner to plot how to root around Joel Diver slash 616 00:39:47,355 --> 00:39:51,875 Speaker 1: Jason Robards in Philadelphia. Slash, I saved two thousand dollars Hyatt. 617 00:39:52,195 --> 00:39:56,515 Speaker 1: Mark Rosenthal had been fired and he had been replaced 618 00:39:56,515 --> 00:40:01,635 Speaker 1: as CEO of Current TV, effective immediately by co owner 619 00:40:01,795 --> 00:40:10,595 Speaker 1: Joel Hyatt. Well, Holy Diver. It'd be a better story 620 00:40:10,635 --> 00:40:13,515 Speaker 1: if I never saw Mark Rosenthal or Uma Thurman again 621 00:40:13,555 --> 00:40:15,795 Speaker 1: in my life, but it wouldn't be true. I saw 622 00:40:15,915 --> 00:40:18,115 Speaker 1: Mark many times. And then four years later, I was 623 00:40:18,155 --> 00:40:20,355 Speaker 1: at a New York recording studio doing the voice of 624 00:40:20,355 --> 00:40:24,195 Speaker 1: the newsman character Tom Jumbo Grumbo on the Great animated 625 00:40:24,235 --> 00:40:27,355 Speaker 1: series BoJack Horseman. When one of the other studio doors 626 00:40:27,395 --> 00:40:33,995 Speaker 1: opened an outstepped Uma Thurman, radiant, elegant. I introduced myself. 627 00:40:34,075 --> 00:40:37,235 Speaker 1: She smiled, She said she was a fan. She laughed, 628 00:40:37,235 --> 00:40:42,115 Speaker 1: and she said, you know, we must have coffee sometime. 629 00:40:58,635 --> 00:41:02,635 Speaker 1: Not a good day. Thank you for listening. If you're 630 00:41:02,675 --> 00:41:05,835 Speaker 1: not subscribed to the podcast already, please do so it 631 00:41:05,915 --> 00:41:08,755 Speaker 1: matters and tell somebody else about this, get them to listen. 632 00:41:08,835 --> 00:41:12,435 Speaker 1: We really haven't publicized the series at all other than 633 00:41:12,435 --> 00:41:14,915 Speaker 1: those forty three tweets a day that I put out 634 00:41:14,915 --> 00:41:17,675 Speaker 1: in the YouTube videos and all that Here the credits. 635 00:41:17,715 --> 00:41:19,875 Speaker 1: Most of the music was arranged, produced and performed by 636 00:41:19,875 --> 00:41:22,315 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Channel, who are the Countdown 637 00:41:22,515 --> 00:41:26,875 Speaker 1: musical directors. Produced by Tko Brothers. All orchestration and keyboards 638 00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:30,435 Speaker 1: by John Philip Channel. 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Arrest him now while we 648 00:41:59,795 --> 00:42:03,995 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled Countdown is tomorrow. Until then, 649 00:42:03,995 --> 00:42:07,035 Speaker 1: I'm Keith over. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 650 00:42:07,515 --> 00:42:20,235 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 651 00:42:20,475 --> 00:42:25,675 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 652 00:42:25,915 --> 00:42:27,875 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.