1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Meadows flipped. 2 00:00:24,555 --> 00:00:27,835 Speaker 1: There's no other possible explanation. The news has been coming 3 00:00:27,875 --> 00:00:31,075 Speaker 1: for weeks. All other conclusions seem to have been sealed 4 00:00:31,075 --> 00:00:33,595 Speaker 1: off when the Iran War recording of Trump turned up 5 00:00:33,955 --> 00:00:36,835 Speaker 1: and it was made for an autobiography ghostwriter, and the 6 00:00:36,875 --> 00:00:40,155 Speaker 1: autobiography was of Mark Meadows, and thus the tape belonged 7 00:00:40,195 --> 00:00:44,355 Speaker 1: to Mark Meadows. Mark Meadows, The New York Times wrote 8 00:00:44,435 --> 00:00:47,835 Speaker 1: last Night has testified before a federal grand jury hearing 9 00:00:47,875 --> 00:00:51,795 Speaker 1: evidence in the investigations being led by the Special Council's Office. 10 00:00:51,955 --> 00:00:55,915 Speaker 1: According to two people briefed on the matter, Times said 11 00:00:56,115 --> 00:00:59,235 Speaker 1: it didn't know when Meadows testified, nor whether it was 12 00:00:59,275 --> 00:01:02,355 Speaker 1: to the Jack Smith election grand Jury or the Jack 13 00:01:02,355 --> 00:01:05,835 Speaker 1: Smith Documents grand Jury, but happily ABC News came to 14 00:01:05,835 --> 00:01:09,235 Speaker 1: the rescue. Quote. Sources say Meadows answered questions on both 15 00:01:09,675 --> 00:01:13,835 Speaker 1: Trump's efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election and Trump's 16 00:01:13,875 --> 00:01:18,755 Speaker 1: alleged mishandling of classified documents. It was on May twenty 17 00:01:18,755 --> 00:01:23,755 Speaker 1: fourth that CNN first pointed towards the Trump scandal's version 18 00:01:23,795 --> 00:01:26,515 Speaker 1: of Sherlock Holmes and the Dog That Did Nothing in 19 00:01:26,555 --> 00:01:30,675 Speaker 1: the night, going all the way back to two weeks ago. 20 00:01:31,195 --> 00:01:34,555 Speaker 1: Quote a source close to Trump's legal team said Trump's 21 00:01:34,595 --> 00:01:37,355 Speaker 1: lawyers have had no contact with Meadows and his team 22 00:01:37,675 --> 00:01:40,395 Speaker 1: and are in the dark on what Meadows is doing 23 00:01:40,475 --> 00:01:44,315 Speaker 1: in the investigation. We've all heard the same rumors, one 24 00:01:44,395 --> 00:01:50,235 Speaker 1: Trump advisor told CNN. No one really knows what he's doing, though, well, 25 00:01:50,315 --> 00:01:57,355 Speaker 1: now we know what he's doing. He's nailing Trump by Felicia. 26 00:01:57,635 --> 00:02:00,235 Speaker 1: There was one more nugget in the Times piece, and 27 00:02:00,315 --> 00:02:04,275 Speaker 1: it helps to explain why Trump turned to stochastic terrorism yesterday, 28 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:05,835 Speaker 1: which I will We'll get back to in a moment. 29 00:02:06,275 --> 00:02:09,835 Speaker 1: Times has a quote from a Meadows attorney without commenting 30 00:02:09,835 --> 00:02:12,235 Speaker 1: on whether or not mister Meadows has testified before the 31 00:02:12,235 --> 00:02:15,595 Speaker 1: grand jury or in any other proceeding. Mister Meadows has 32 00:02:15,635 --> 00:02:19,835 Speaker 1: maintained a commitment to tell the truth where he has 33 00:02:19,875 --> 00:02:24,315 Speaker 1: a legal obligation to do so. Tell the truth. What 34 00:02:24,475 --> 00:02:31,035 Speaker 1: a disloyal rat think? Huh? Trump's legal problems are beginning 35 00:02:31,115 --> 00:02:34,235 Speaker 1: to multiply in the same way. You may be too 36 00:02:34,275 --> 00:02:37,475 Speaker 1: young to remember this, but I'm not that Richard Nixons 37 00:02:37,515 --> 00:02:42,275 Speaker 1: did thirty nine long years ago. It's that time worn 38 00:02:42,355 --> 00:02:44,555 Speaker 1: analogy that I love. The guy is walking down the 39 00:02:44,595 --> 00:02:47,875 Speaker 1: street carrying seven boxes when he can really only handle 40 00:02:47,915 --> 00:02:51,555 Speaker 1: six boxes. He drops a box. He bends over to 41 00:02:51,555 --> 00:02:53,595 Speaker 1: pick it up, but in the process he drops two 42 00:02:53,675 --> 00:02:57,835 Speaker 1: more boxes. Sooner rather than later, all of the boxes 43 00:02:57,875 --> 00:03:02,795 Speaker 1: will be on the street. That's Trump thoughts and prayers, 44 00:03:04,315 --> 00:03:07,595 Speaker 1: the other problems. The Times just dropped this in passing 45 00:03:07,875 --> 00:03:10,795 Speaker 1: into a separate story about that bonus Jack Smith grand 46 00:03:10,875 --> 00:03:13,875 Speaker 1: jury in Florida that nobody had known about. Among those 47 00:03:13,875 --> 00:03:16,315 Speaker 1: who have appeared before the Washington Grand Jury in the 48 00:03:16,395 --> 00:03:19,395 Speaker 1: past few months or have been subpoenaed by it, people 49 00:03:19,435 --> 00:03:22,835 Speaker 1: familiar with the investigation said, are more than twenty members 50 00:03:23,315 --> 00:03:30,195 Speaker 1: of mister Trump's Secret Service security detail. Nothing else in 51 00:03:30,235 --> 00:03:35,955 Speaker 1: the whole story about the Secret Service, not one word. Now, 52 00:03:36,035 --> 00:03:39,555 Speaker 1: we all know about the testimony from the January sixth 53 00:03:39,595 --> 00:03:42,475 Speaker 1: committee about Trump tyme to take the wheel of the 54 00:03:42,515 --> 00:03:45,795 Speaker 1: beast away from a Secret Service agent so he could 55 00:03:46,035 --> 00:03:49,595 Speaker 1: lead the insurrection or witness it or whatever quote. I'm 56 00:03:49,595 --> 00:03:51,875 Speaker 1: the f in President, take me up to the Capitol now. 57 00:03:52,595 --> 00:03:55,715 Speaker 1: So maybe it's that and the whole coup thing. Maybe 58 00:03:55,755 --> 00:03:59,475 Speaker 1: it's about all those deleted Secret Service text messages, or 59 00:03:59,515 --> 00:04:02,635 Speaker 1: maybe it's classified document stuff, because if you notice the 60 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:05,915 Speaker 1: phrasing in The Times, it just says more than twenty 61 00:04:05,995 --> 00:04:09,955 Speaker 1: members of mister Trump's Secret Service security detail. It does 62 00:04:09,995 --> 00:04:13,595 Speaker 1: not say those who were in the detail when Trump 63 00:04:13,675 --> 00:04:16,475 Speaker 1: was still in the White House twenty twenty one and previous. 64 00:04:17,035 --> 00:04:20,755 Speaker 1: It does not say the current secret Service detail that 65 00:04:20,915 --> 00:04:26,675 Speaker 1: protects him now from everybody except himself. And that Florida 66 00:04:26,755 --> 00:04:28,995 Speaker 1: grand jury is now coming into focus, although it is 67 00:04:29,035 --> 00:04:34,475 Speaker 1: still profoundly fuzzy. Firstly, it is in Miami. Secondly, it 68 00:04:34,555 --> 00:04:38,915 Speaker 1: is unsurprisingly about the stolen classified documents. Thirdly, it has 69 00:04:38,955 --> 00:04:43,235 Speaker 1: heard at least one witness last month and was to 70 00:04:43,275 --> 00:04:47,515 Speaker 1: hear from another one today Wednesday. Nothing else. Although the 71 00:04:47,555 --> 00:04:52,475 Speaker 1: possible reasons for a Florida grand jury continue to be constructed, 72 00:04:52,835 --> 00:04:55,995 Speaker 1: and other than geographical convenience for witnesses, the leading theory 73 00:04:56,035 --> 00:04:58,195 Speaker 1: seems to be that it would give Jack Smith the 74 00:04:58,235 --> 00:05:03,075 Speaker 1: flexibility to bring charges against Trump and others in Washington 75 00:05:03,355 --> 00:05:09,635 Speaker 1: and Florida, or Washington or Florida. The Times has a 76 00:05:09,635 --> 00:05:14,875 Speaker 1: former classified documents prosecutor named Brandon Van Grack, who says 77 00:05:15,395 --> 00:05:19,395 Speaker 1: it's common in situations involving classified information when prosecutors are 78 00:05:19,475 --> 00:05:24,515 Speaker 1: uncertain of venue to ground an investigation in Washington, Virginia, 79 00:05:24,635 --> 00:05:28,195 Speaker 1: or Maryland. The point is, just because it starts there 80 00:05:28,595 --> 00:05:31,715 Speaker 1: doesn't mean it has to end there. You don't know 81 00:05:31,755 --> 00:05:35,795 Speaker 1: what your potential venue hooks are until you've completed a 82 00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:41,435 Speaker 1: thorough investigation. To mister van Grack's point, that revelation of 83 00:05:41,435 --> 00:05:44,635 Speaker 1: the US military plans for war in Iran, that document 84 00:05:44,715 --> 00:05:47,315 Speaker 1: being shown to those people who didn't have the classification 85 00:05:47,395 --> 00:05:49,515 Speaker 1: to read it or know about it. That would have 86 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:55,035 Speaker 1: happened in Florida. The crime was in Florida. There is 87 00:05:55,115 --> 00:05:58,715 Speaker 1: one more news note before we get back to the 88 00:05:58,755 --> 00:06:03,955 Speaker 1: second coup attempt. Yesterday, Bloomberg News reporting that Trump is 89 00:06:05,635 --> 00:06:09,515 Speaker 1: searching for new lawyers. Of course, all of human history 90 00:06:09,515 --> 00:06:13,035 Speaker 1: divides neatly into those times when Trump has just hired 91 00:06:13,075 --> 00:06:15,715 Speaker 1: new lawyers and those times when he is trying to 92 00:06:15,795 --> 00:06:19,475 Speaker 1: hire new lawyers. Quote. Trump representatives in recent weeks have 93 00:06:19,555 --> 00:06:25,475 Speaker 1: asked for recommendations of Washington based Council with trial experience, 94 00:06:27,915 --> 00:06:31,595 Speaker 1: which brings us to Trump's other preparations for indictment. By 95 00:06:31,675 --> 00:06:38,475 Speaker 1: Jack Smith, You know stochastic terrorism. If you heard my 96 00:06:38,635 --> 00:06:42,075 Speaker 1: updated version of this podcast Tuesday afternoon, you know the GISTs. 97 00:06:42,755 --> 00:06:46,115 Speaker 1: But it bears repeating, in large part because we really 98 00:06:46,155 --> 00:06:50,675 Speaker 1: should not stop being outraged and furious about calls to 99 00:06:51,195 --> 00:06:54,795 Speaker 1: overthrow the government. It is kind of amazing that this 100 00:06:54,795 --> 00:06:58,515 Speaker 1: did not even merit a think piece somewhere yesterday. I 101 00:06:58,595 --> 00:07:00,915 Speaker 1: appreciate that we seem to be on some sort of 102 00:07:00,955 --> 00:07:03,595 Speaker 1: odd even system on whether or not the media should 103 00:07:03,635 --> 00:07:06,035 Speaker 1: give any weight to try Trump's terrorism. And it's an 104 00:07:06,075 --> 00:07:09,555 Speaker 1: even numbered month, so no, not. At the moment. My 105 00:07:09,715 --> 00:07:12,195 Speaker 1: feeling is the response should be sending a swat team 106 00:07:12,235 --> 00:07:15,075 Speaker 1: to marri A Lago and arresting the bastard now. Because 107 00:07:15,075 --> 00:07:19,195 Speaker 1: the language of his eruption Tuesday morning contained one key 108 00:07:19,435 --> 00:07:26,075 Speaker 1: code word that unleashed January sixth, The word was fight. Quote. 109 00:07:27,155 --> 00:07:31,475 Speaker 1: It's about election interference, began a Trump social media post 110 00:07:31,515 --> 00:07:34,875 Speaker 1: at eight twelve eastern daylight time Tuesday morning. It ended, 111 00:07:35,115 --> 00:07:38,155 Speaker 1: they are using the DOJ and FBI against me to 112 00:07:38,395 --> 00:07:43,395 Speaker 1: rig misspelled and capitalized rig the twenty twenty four election. 113 00:07:43,995 --> 00:07:46,875 Speaker 1: They'll hit Hunter with something small to make their strike 114 00:07:46,955 --> 00:07:50,235 Speaker 1: on me look fair. Nothing about these fascists is fair 115 00:07:50,435 --> 00:07:54,515 Speaker 1: or honest. Fight and the word fight capital letters, followed 116 00:07:54,515 --> 00:07:58,075 Speaker 1: by an exclamation point. Two minutes later, a second post 117 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:06,915 Speaker 1: election interference. Don't let it happen. This was his call 118 00:08:07,155 --> 00:08:10,515 Speaker 1: to his mob, just as that same word fight was 119 00:08:10,515 --> 00:08:12,795 Speaker 1: the cue to the mob on January sixth, and just 120 00:08:13,075 --> 00:08:16,315 Speaker 1: as on January sixth, it is stochastic terrorism. And if 121 00:08:16,355 --> 00:08:20,675 Speaker 1: Trump dies in prison because he stole documents and defrauded 122 00:08:20,715 --> 00:08:23,835 Speaker 1: his own rubes over a stolen election he knew was 123 00:08:23,835 --> 00:08:27,035 Speaker 1: not stolen, I will still be disappointed that they did 124 00:08:27,035 --> 00:08:30,115 Speaker 1: not convict him for these frontal assaults by proxy on 125 00:08:30,275 --> 00:08:35,595 Speaker 1: representative government in this country. He is a thug, a scumbag, 126 00:08:36,075 --> 00:08:39,635 Speaker 1: and a moral worm, a psychopath who sees the people 127 00:08:39,675 --> 00:08:42,475 Speaker 1: around him solely in terms of what they can do 128 00:08:42,675 --> 00:08:46,715 Speaker 1: for him. And just remember that in that speech on 129 00:08:46,755 --> 00:08:50,315 Speaker 1: the ellipse on January sixth, he used some form of 130 00:08:50,355 --> 00:08:56,395 Speaker 1: the word fight sixteen different times, and sixteen different times 131 00:08:56,475 --> 00:08:59,715 Speaker 1: was nearly enough to knock democracy to the ground. In 132 00:08:59,755 --> 00:09:04,035 Speaker 1: the fight that followed, we fight, Trump said that cataclysmic day, 133 00:09:04,035 --> 00:09:06,315 Speaker 1: we fight like and if you don't fight like hell, 134 00:09:06,555 --> 00:09:11,315 Speaker 1: you're not going to have a country anymore. This country, 135 00:09:11,795 --> 00:09:14,675 Speaker 1: especially the media in this country, wants all of that 136 00:09:14,715 --> 00:09:18,035 Speaker 1: to just go away, like the pandemic just wants to 137 00:09:18,075 --> 00:09:20,715 Speaker 1: forget it. Ever, happened, just wants to jump back into 138 00:09:20,715 --> 00:09:25,075 Speaker 1: those nice safe grooves of the three or four different 139 00:09:25,115 --> 00:09:29,675 Speaker 1: disaster stories. Media understands in this country, understands how to 140 00:09:29,715 --> 00:09:34,115 Speaker 1: cover the four or five different political stories. It understands 141 00:09:34,155 --> 00:09:37,595 Speaker 1: and understands how to cover. They don't want to cover 142 00:09:37,675 --> 00:09:42,075 Speaker 1: what he actually expected people to do yesterday. They don't 143 00:09:42,075 --> 00:09:45,435 Speaker 1: want to face the reality that he expected when he 144 00:09:45,555 --> 00:09:49,995 Speaker 1: hits send on those that somebody would try to stop 145 00:09:50,315 --> 00:09:55,315 Speaker 1: Jack Smith from indicting him by violence. They do not 146 00:09:55,475 --> 00:09:59,075 Speaker 1: want to emphasize his insanity that the rage in those 147 00:09:59,155 --> 00:10:03,315 Speaker 1: posts was then followed by at least five posts in 148 00:10:03,355 --> 00:10:08,875 Speaker 1: which he congratulated himself on predicting the golf merger and wrote, 149 00:10:08,955 --> 00:10:10,915 Speaker 1: isn't that what you want? And of president somebody who 150 00:10:10,915 --> 00:10:15,035 Speaker 1: can predict the future? This is madness. It remains madness. 151 00:10:15,155 --> 00:10:18,275 Speaker 1: He is a madman. It does no good to ignore it. 152 00:10:18,635 --> 00:10:20,435 Speaker 1: And the rest of us who believe that the word 153 00:10:20,635 --> 00:10:24,475 Speaker 1: terrorist should become synonymous with the name Trump, and that 154 00:10:24,555 --> 00:10:27,235 Speaker 1: the connection should be reinforced daily, we are in a 155 00:10:27,315 --> 00:10:32,995 Speaker 1: decided minority, and we should not be stochastic. Terrorism does 156 00:10:33,035 --> 00:10:34,635 Speaker 1: not have to be subtle, and it does not have 157 00:10:34,675 --> 00:10:36,595 Speaker 1: to be deciphered and it does not have to be 158 00:10:36,595 --> 00:10:39,675 Speaker 1: a surprise. And Donald Trump committed it on January sixth, 159 00:10:39,675 --> 00:10:43,235 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, in Washington, and he committed it again 160 00:10:43,355 --> 00:10:45,915 Speaker 1: yesterday on his social media And we all need to 161 00:10:45,955 --> 00:10:50,115 Speaker 1: be saying this. I have been saying this since at 162 00:10:50,195 --> 00:10:55,195 Speaker 1: least February twenty seventh, twenty twenty. Looking for something else, 163 00:10:55,555 --> 00:10:58,155 Speaker 1: I found this in my computer the other day. It 164 00:10:58,235 --> 00:11:00,515 Speaker 1: is from a report I had written that day for 165 00:11:00,635 --> 00:11:06,275 Speaker 1: all people, Jeff Shell, the disgraced CEO of NBC, who 166 00:11:06,355 --> 00:11:09,595 Speaker 1: wanted me to rejoin MSNBC. It was written as we 167 00:11:09,595 --> 00:11:13,595 Speaker 1: were mapping out how to make that happen. This passage 168 00:11:13,635 --> 00:11:16,395 Speaker 1: followed a paragraph about how I had first met Trump 169 00:11:16,435 --> 00:11:20,395 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three and how I had known him personally, 170 00:11:20,435 --> 00:11:23,315 Speaker 1: but thankfully not well since two thousand and seven or so. 171 00:11:23,635 --> 00:11:27,115 Speaker 1: I wrote to Jeff Schell, I think I know something 172 00:11:27,195 --> 00:11:30,675 Speaker 1: Nobody else in the field of political commentary has yet realized. 173 00:11:31,155 --> 00:11:34,075 Speaker 1: The turbulence of the last five years will only be 174 00:11:34,355 --> 00:11:37,675 Speaker 1: preamble to what will greet us on the morning of 175 00:11:37,715 --> 00:11:43,675 Speaker 1: November four, twenty twenty, regardless of the electoral outcome. Presuming 176 00:11:43,715 --> 00:11:47,555 Speaker 1: Trump is not somehow precluded from running, there are only 177 00:11:47,635 --> 00:11:51,555 Speaker 1: three prospective realities. One he has been reelected. Two he 178 00:11:51,635 --> 00:11:56,155 Speaker 1: has lost narrowly, is demanding a recount, is suing and 179 00:11:56,275 --> 00:12:00,515 Speaker 1: is being backed by the GOP. Three he has lost 180 00:12:01,395 --> 00:12:05,755 Speaker 1: narrowly or otherwise, but is claiming for a odd deceit 181 00:12:06,075 --> 00:12:09,595 Speaker 1: or foreign intervention. He will not concede, and he will 182 00:12:09,675 --> 00:12:12,795 Speaker 1: try to retain power in the courts or by declaring 183 00:12:12,795 --> 00:12:19,315 Speaker 1: a national emergency, or possibly by utilizing the military. I 184 00:12:19,395 --> 00:12:21,675 Speaker 1: include that not because I'm the only one who saw 185 00:12:21,675 --> 00:12:27,075 Speaker 1: that coming. Thousands saw that coming. I include that because 186 00:12:28,155 --> 00:12:31,475 Speaker 1: it reminds us to dismiss Trump and his animal like 187 00:12:31,595 --> 00:12:37,875 Speaker 1: cunning and destructive skill. At your peril and our peril. 188 00:12:39,555 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: What you think you see in him is as bad 189 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:48,595 Speaker 1: as you think it is, or worse. Always always. On 190 00:12:48,795 --> 00:12:53,395 Speaker 1: January sixth, yesterday, the truth social posts were made in 191 00:12:53,475 --> 00:12:57,995 Speaker 1: hopes of getting somebody to attack Jack Smith or Merrick 192 00:12:58,035 --> 00:13:02,395 Speaker 1: Garland or Joe Biden or somebody. The Trump thinking is 193 00:13:02,475 --> 00:13:07,475 Speaker 1: not complex. This other creature is in my way. Destroy 194 00:13:07,795 --> 00:13:14,475 Speaker 1: the other creature in my way. There is good news 195 00:13:15,435 --> 00:13:19,355 Speaker 1: from his panic, from his stochastic terrorism. There now can 196 00:13:19,395 --> 00:13:23,675 Speaker 1: be no doubt that Trump has concluded, perhaps even that 197 00:13:23,755 --> 00:13:27,595 Speaker 1: he has been told that he is to be indicted 198 00:13:27,755 --> 00:13:34,475 Speaker 1: imminently by the Special Council, and it just cannot be 199 00:13:34,995 --> 00:13:44,995 Speaker 1: imminent enough. Also of interest here today, all of American golf, 200 00:13:45,675 --> 00:13:48,995 Speaker 1: all of world professional golf, has just been sold to 201 00:13:49,075 --> 00:13:52,915 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. This is not hyperbole. The same people who 202 00:13:52,915 --> 00:13:55,755 Speaker 1: spent a year fighting against the attempted takeover of the 203 00:13:55,755 --> 00:13:59,635 Speaker 1: golf business by the Saudis of talking about Saudi blood 204 00:13:59,635 --> 00:14:02,355 Speaker 1: money and nine to eleven and Jamal Kashogi, they just 205 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:05,955 Speaker 1: sold the PGA Tour to the Saudis. And don't believe 206 00:14:05,995 --> 00:14:07,915 Speaker 1: it for a moment when people tell you it's a merger, 207 00:14:07,955 --> 00:14:11,195 Speaker 1: because it's not a merger. The Saudis bought the PGA Tour, 208 00:14:11,395 --> 00:14:13,755 Speaker 1: and some of the PGA golfers who help run the 209 00:14:13,795 --> 00:14:18,315 Speaker 1: PGA Tour are trying to forestall an ethical disaster so 210 00:14:18,555 --> 00:14:20,475 Speaker 1: bad that you might as well change the name of 211 00:14:20,515 --> 00:14:24,155 Speaker 1: its founding organization from the Pro Golfers Association to the 212 00:14:24,235 --> 00:14:29,795 Speaker 1: Pro Terrorism Association. That's of interest, and Chris Licht has 213 00:14:29,875 --> 00:14:33,555 Speaker 1: done it again at CNN. Another stunt town hall. That's next. 214 00:14:33,595 --> 00:14:42,035 Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman pot 215 00:14:42,035 --> 00:14:45,035 Speaker 1: scripts to the news. Some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 216 00:14:45,035 --> 00:14:49,915 Speaker 1: some predictions, date lines, CNN Headquarters, Hudson Yards, New York Man. 217 00:14:49,995 --> 00:14:52,755 Speaker 1: If only CNN viewers wanted to watch twenty four to 218 00:14:52,755 --> 00:14:57,475 Speaker 1: seven coverage of CNN's chief executive officer twisting slowly, slowly 219 00:14:57,515 --> 00:15:00,595 Speaker 1: in the wind, and CNN would carry it. To paraphrase 220 00:15:00,635 --> 00:15:03,435 Speaker 1: William Holden in the movie Network, it'd wipe that fing 221 00:15:03,595 --> 00:15:08,595 Speaker 1: MSNBC right off. The story continues. Now it is the 222 00:15:08,635 --> 00:15:12,435 Speaker 1: New York Post reporting that Chris Licked has quote been 223 00:15:12,515 --> 00:15:16,115 Speaker 1: calling anchors who have never spoken to him before in 224 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:19,635 Speaker 1: a bid to shore up support one employee at a time. 225 00:15:20,115 --> 00:15:23,155 Speaker 1: The paper also claims it sources say CNN might fire 226 00:15:23,275 --> 00:15:26,475 Speaker 1: Licked over the July fourth holiday, and it named two 227 00:15:26,635 --> 00:15:30,755 Speaker 1: upper levels CNN executives as candidates to replace him. The 228 00:15:30,755 --> 00:15:34,395 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Times reports that quote, the top conversation internally 229 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:37,115 Speaker 1: is how much longer Licked can last in the job. 230 00:15:37,355 --> 00:15:40,795 Speaker 1: According to several insiders who were not authorized to discuss 231 00:15:40,795 --> 00:15:45,715 Speaker 1: the matter publicly, something actually happened at CNN yesterday, and 232 00:15:45,795 --> 00:15:48,515 Speaker 1: this is so Chris Licked it will make you spit 233 00:15:48,635 --> 00:15:53,195 Speaker 1: out some ozempic. Next Monday, CNN will air a live 234 00:15:53,355 --> 00:15:59,595 Speaker 1: presidential town hall moderated by Anderson Silo's Cooper, and the 235 00:15:59,635 --> 00:16:04,755 Speaker 1: town hall is with Chris Christy, who had owned he 236 00:16:04,795 --> 00:16:08,675 Speaker 1: announced he was actually inexplicably running for the Republican nomination 237 00:16:09,195 --> 00:16:13,875 Speaker 1: literally hours before. So if you want a free hour 238 00:16:13,915 --> 00:16:16,915 Speaker 1: of TV time on CNN, just announce you are running 239 00:16:16,915 --> 00:16:20,275 Speaker 1: for president and call Chris Lickt. The number is Plaza 240 00:16:20,315 --> 00:16:25,595 Speaker 1: seven eight eight sixty six. But the real news story 241 00:16:25,835 --> 00:16:28,835 Speaker 1: at CNN is a man named Oliver Darcy. I've spoken 242 00:16:28,875 --> 00:16:31,435 Speaker 1: of him before. He is the media reporter who was 243 00:16:31,475 --> 00:16:33,955 Speaker 1: the first and for a week, the lone CNN voice 244 00:16:33,995 --> 00:16:37,555 Speaker 1: to even mildly criticize Licht's waterloo the Trump town Hall. 245 00:16:37,995 --> 00:16:42,115 Speaker 1: He survived. He went on vacation as planned, He came 246 00:16:42,195 --> 00:16:44,555 Speaker 1: back from vacation, and he came back in time to 247 00:16:44,635 --> 00:16:48,395 Speaker 1: issue his late night media newsletter right after the Atlantic 248 00:16:48,435 --> 00:16:51,715 Speaker 1: piece about Licht ran. The title of the first of 249 00:16:51,755 --> 00:16:56,755 Speaker 1: these newsletters was read Lickt Flashing, which reads better than 250 00:16:56,795 --> 00:17:00,995 Speaker 1: it sounds. The third paragraph reads quote. The embarrassing piece, 251 00:17:01,115 --> 00:17:04,555 Speaker 1: which reverberated all weekends throughout the media industry, called in 252 00:17:04,875 --> 00:17:09,395 Speaker 1: serious question Lickt's judgment, his ability to lead the network staff, 253 00:17:09,755 --> 00:17:15,195 Speaker 1: and his overall professional capabilities as CNN's top executive. Not 254 00:17:15,435 --> 00:17:19,555 Speaker 1: much further in CNN's media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote this 255 00:17:19,635 --> 00:17:23,355 Speaker 1: about reaction inside his own network quote, there is one 256 00:17:23,475 --> 00:17:27,355 Speaker 1: near universal sentiment that has been communicated to me. Lickt 257 00:17:27,595 --> 00:17:32,035 Speaker 1: has lost the room. I spent the summer of nineteen 258 00:17:32,115 --> 00:17:35,395 Speaker 1: ninety eight talking like this about my bosses at MSNBC 259 00:17:35,595 --> 00:17:38,075 Speaker 1: and NBC News. But on the other hand, I was 260 00:17:38,115 --> 00:17:40,315 Speaker 1: trying to get one of them to fire me so 261 00:17:40,355 --> 00:17:42,995 Speaker 1: I could go back into sports for five times my 262 00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:48,595 Speaker 1: NBC salary. This, this is courage, though one would think 263 00:17:48,635 --> 00:17:52,995 Speaker 1: it will still ultimately be licked or Darcy at CNN 264 00:17:53,595 --> 00:17:56,995 Speaker 1: within a month or two, but not both. Either way, 265 00:17:57,075 --> 00:18:00,595 Speaker 1: they can hold an Oliver Darcy parade. If Lickt gets fired, 266 00:18:00,995 --> 00:18:03,555 Speaker 1: Darcy can sit atop the front car and the parade 267 00:18:03,555 --> 00:18:07,795 Speaker 1: and wave to grateful CNN staffers. If not, you can 268 00:18:07,875 --> 00:18:11,875 Speaker 1: ride in the back and that big long Cadillac that 269 00:18:12,115 --> 00:18:31,115 Speaker 1: doesn't have any you know windows. This is Sports Center Wait, 270 00:18:31,315 --> 00:18:38,835 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Alberman 271 00:18:38,995 --> 00:18:41,635 Speaker 1: in Sports for a Field of Endeavor, in which the 272 00:18:41,715 --> 00:18:45,955 Speaker 1: horrist of all the hoary cliches is on any given Sunday, 273 00:18:46,235 --> 00:18:50,235 Speaker 1: any team can beat any other team. Few things in 274 00:18:50,355 --> 00:18:54,755 Speaker 1: sports are actually surprises, let alone shocks, but there was 275 00:18:54,995 --> 00:18:58,555 Speaker 1: universal shock yesterday when the PGA Golf Tour announced it 276 00:18:58,595 --> 00:19:02,755 Speaker 1: had merged with Live Golf, after a year in which 277 00:19:02,795 --> 00:19:06,395 Speaker 1: the PGA rightly decried players who joined LIB as taking 278 00:19:06,635 --> 00:19:09,795 Speaker 1: blood money from Saudi Arabia. Well, it turns out it's 279 00:19:09,835 --> 00:19:12,515 Speaker 1: only blood money if they're getting it, not if PGA 280 00:19:12,515 --> 00:19:16,115 Speaker 1: Commissioner j Monaghan is getting it. The move was announced 281 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:19,835 Speaker 1: before almost anybody it effects knew about it. That includes sponsors, 282 00:19:20,275 --> 00:19:25,835 Speaker 1: networks that televise golf, and most importantly PGA players. The problems, 283 00:19:25,835 --> 00:19:29,475 Speaker 1: of course, are it is blood money and worse, the 284 00:19:29,515 --> 00:19:33,715 Speaker 1: PGA and LIV did not merge. The Public Investment Fund 285 00:19:33,755 --> 00:19:36,275 Speaker 1: of Saudi Arabia, led by that Prince, with the international 286 00:19:36,275 --> 00:19:40,635 Speaker 1: collection of murderers at his disposal, bought the PGA Tour. 287 00:19:41,355 --> 00:19:44,955 Speaker 1: The Saudis have bought the PGA Tour. The Saudi Fund 288 00:19:45,035 --> 00:19:47,235 Speaker 1: will have the right of first refusal on all future 289 00:19:47,235 --> 00:19:51,475 Speaker 1: investments in the combined new operation, and that ultimately gives 290 00:19:51,515 --> 00:19:55,395 Speaker 1: it the right to squeeze out all non Saudi influence. 291 00:19:56,115 --> 00:20:00,995 Speaker 1: Golf is now Saudi Arabian PGA commissioner Monahan tried to 292 00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:03,915 Speaker 1: explain this to players that the tour stop in Toronto yesterday, 293 00:20:04,035 --> 00:20:06,755 Speaker 1: nearly all of whom and reacted violently. There is still 294 00:20:06,755 --> 00:20:09,475 Speaker 1: a chance the players on the PGA's board could muster 295 00:20:09,595 --> 00:20:12,955 Speaker 1: enough support to quash the thing. In the interim, golf 296 00:20:13,035 --> 00:20:15,755 Speaker 1: fans are left with a moral dilemma, and golf fans 297 00:20:15,755 --> 00:20:18,515 Speaker 1: tend not to do well with moral dilemmas. They did 298 00:20:18,515 --> 00:20:22,075 Speaker 1: not fight back against golf's literal quota system for memberships 299 00:20:22,315 --> 00:20:25,715 Speaker 1: at clubs like Augusta National, where they hold the deplorable 300 00:20:25,835 --> 00:20:29,835 Speaker 1: Masters tournament. Well now, no American sports fan can in 301 00:20:29,875 --> 00:20:35,475 Speaker 1: good conscience participate or pay for or watch any PGA event, 302 00:20:35,915 --> 00:20:38,395 Speaker 1: no matter how hallowed it might be within the sports world. 303 00:20:38,955 --> 00:20:41,395 Speaker 1: Within moments of the announcement of the Saudi takeover of 304 00:20:41,435 --> 00:20:44,355 Speaker 1: American golf, nine to eleven, Families United wrote to the 305 00:20:44,355 --> 00:20:47,595 Speaker 1: Department of Justice asking it to step up its investigation 306 00:20:47,675 --> 00:20:50,195 Speaker 1: of the Saudis related to the terrorism. On nine to 307 00:20:50,195 --> 00:20:52,875 Speaker 1: eleven AD, it issued a statement condemning the merger in 308 00:20:52,915 --> 00:20:57,275 Speaker 1: the strongest terms, and then a podcaster named James Heskey 309 00:20:57,875 --> 00:21:02,435 Speaker 1: summed it up with one joke grim telling and all 310 00:21:02,555 --> 00:21:06,555 Speaker 1: too true quote. As part of the merger, the PGA 311 00:21:06,675 --> 00:21:12,315 Speaker 1: will control holes one to eight and twelve eighteen. The 312 00:21:12,395 --> 00:21:18,515 Speaker 1: Saudis do nine to eleven. In the no surprise Sports News, 313 00:21:18,555 --> 00:21:21,035 Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers announced Jacob de Grom, the pitcher, will 314 00:21:21,115 --> 00:21:24,315 Speaker 1: undergo Tommy John surgery to repair a tear in his 315 00:21:24,395 --> 00:21:27,395 Speaker 1: collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. He will miss all 316 00:21:27,475 --> 00:21:30,395 Speaker 1: of this year and almost certainly all of next year. 317 00:21:31,115 --> 00:21:34,355 Speaker 1: Last year, there was a delicate balancing act going on 318 00:21:34,475 --> 00:21:37,275 Speaker 1: here in New York, where the Mets live, whether to 319 00:21:37,395 --> 00:21:40,555 Speaker 1: give their homegrown ace, de Gram, the hero of their 320 00:21:40,595 --> 00:21:44,195 Speaker 1: fan base, the huge long term contract he wanted, even 321 00:21:44,195 --> 00:21:46,515 Speaker 1: though he had missed much of the previous two seasons 322 00:21:46,955 --> 00:21:51,155 Speaker 1: with injuries but without surgeries. This is the leading marker 323 00:21:51,195 --> 00:21:53,915 Speaker 1: for the likelihood of a pitcher succumbing to a future 324 00:21:53,995 --> 00:21:57,235 Speaker 1: serious injury. The Mets chose not to give de Graham 325 00:21:57,315 --> 00:21:59,915 Speaker 1: the money, in part because he's already had one Tommy 326 00:21:59,995 --> 00:22:03,595 Speaker 1: John operation. But the Texas Rangers did give de Graham 327 00:22:03,595 --> 00:22:05,835 Speaker 1: the money, all of the money, and they broke out 328 00:22:05,875 --> 00:22:08,595 Speaker 1: to a thirty nine and twenty record this season, second 329 00:22:08,635 --> 00:22:12,075 Speaker 1: bastion all of baseball and now they are committed to 330 00:22:12,075 --> 00:22:15,195 Speaker 1: paying Jacob de Gram one hundred and eighty five million 331 00:22:15,235 --> 00:22:18,275 Speaker 1: dollars through the year twenty twenty seven, and for the 332 00:22:18,315 --> 00:22:23,075 Speaker 1: first seventy million, they will likely have gotten thirty innings pitched. 333 00:22:23,835 --> 00:22:28,275 Speaker 1: But they were great innings. And also, what did we 334 00:22:28,315 --> 00:22:55,155 Speaker 1: see here, great agent ing, thank you Disco, Nancy Faust. 335 00:22:55,755 --> 00:22:58,435 Speaker 1: Maybe de Gram can pass the time off by buying 336 00:22:58,435 --> 00:23:02,395 Speaker 1: the seemingly homeless Oakland A's ownership had starved the team 337 00:23:02,435 --> 00:23:05,915 Speaker 1: in Oakland and seemingly made a commitment to take Nevada taxpayers' 338 00:23:05,915 --> 00:23:08,555 Speaker 1: money to go build themselves a stadium there. But a 339 00:23:08,595 --> 00:23:11,555 Speaker 1: funny thing has happened in Las Vegas. The bill aimed 340 00:23:11,595 --> 00:23:14,395 Speaker 1: at giving the As three hundred and eighty million for 341 00:23:14,515 --> 00:23:17,355 Speaker 1: their billion and a half dollar ballpark in Sin City 342 00:23:18,315 --> 00:23:21,035 Speaker 1: stalled in the Nevada legislature. It was not voted on 343 00:23:21,115 --> 00:23:23,195 Speaker 1: before the deadline, so the A's and the lingo of 344 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:40,235 Speaker 1: the town have crapped out. Coming up, speaking of all 345 00:23:40,275 --> 00:23:43,555 Speaker 1: time great baseball pitchers like Jacob de Gram in two 346 00:23:43,675 --> 00:23:48,435 Speaker 1: years from now, I once covered one and covered for him, 347 00:23:49,195 --> 00:23:51,675 Speaker 1: the guy who came this close to having a fistfight 348 00:23:51,715 --> 00:23:56,075 Speaker 1: with a fan during the World series, and my network 349 00:23:56,115 --> 00:23:59,035 Speaker 1: caught it on tape, and I owned the tape, and 350 00:23:59,075 --> 00:24:01,035 Speaker 1: I covered for him, not because he deserved my help, 351 00:24:01,075 --> 00:24:04,435 Speaker 1: but because the videotape did not show that he did not. 352 00:24:04,715 --> 00:24:07,995 Speaker 1: Aren't the fight things I promise not to tell? Literally? 353 00:24:07,995 --> 00:24:09,915 Speaker 1: Coming up first, the daily round up of the misgrants, 354 00:24:10,075 --> 00:24:13,915 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst 355 00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:18,715 Speaker 1: persons in the world. The Bronze. Harris Faulkner of Fox 356 00:24:18,795 --> 00:24:23,035 Speaker 1: News one of the most inexplicably self righteous, shallow people 357 00:24:23,075 --> 00:24:27,315 Speaker 1: in American media. She is a propagandist of Fox quote 358 00:24:27,395 --> 00:24:32,155 Speaker 1: news unquote, and she is as just to pick an 359 00:24:32,235 --> 00:24:36,075 Speaker 1: apt current analogy, as dim as a sunset during Canadian 360 00:24:36,115 --> 00:24:41,195 Speaker 1: wildfire haze Armie Bratt. Her Twitter handle and her Twitter 361 00:24:41,275 --> 00:24:45,235 Speaker 1: name are both in all caps, and she is ceaselessly 362 00:24:45,475 --> 00:24:49,075 Speaker 1: holier than thou. And Fox Now has given her a 363 00:24:49,115 --> 00:24:53,075 Speaker 1: shot in Tucker Carlson's old primetime because the only two 364 00:24:53,075 --> 00:24:56,915 Speaker 1: people left were her and me. By the way, remember 365 00:24:56,995 --> 00:25:03,195 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. Anyway, Faulkner did not disappoint. She disappointed. She 366 00:25:03,315 --> 00:25:06,195 Speaker 1: was complaining about this war on religion, which is really 367 00:25:06,235 --> 00:25:09,915 Speaker 1: funny because the world gives religion more tolerance than anything else. 368 00:25:09,955 --> 00:25:13,555 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not facts, it's beliefs, which you're fine, 369 00:25:14,195 --> 00:25:17,715 Speaker 1: but it can't and hasn't been proven. And almost all 370 00:25:17,795 --> 00:25:20,235 Speaker 1: of the religions are based on books written by anonymous 371 00:25:20,275 --> 00:25:23,555 Speaker 1: authors or rewritten by other anonymous authors. And yet we 372 00:25:23,635 --> 00:25:28,835 Speaker 1: tolerate constant references to religion in our lives, from songs 373 00:25:29,315 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: to interruptions for prayers to tax exemptions for churches. Anyway, 374 00:25:34,675 --> 00:25:38,075 Speaker 1: that's not how she sees it. Harris Faulkner says you 375 00:25:38,115 --> 00:25:43,235 Speaker 1: should say grace or whatever for meals at restaurants in public, 376 00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:46,875 Speaker 1: and that once when she tried, they threw her out. Quote, 377 00:25:47,195 --> 00:25:50,195 Speaker 1: I've been asked to leave a restaurant for openly bowing 378 00:25:50,235 --> 00:25:55,835 Speaker 1: my head in prayer hands in America. Sadly, she would 379 00:25:55,875 --> 00:25:59,395 Speaker 1: not give a more specific address or a day when 380 00:25:59,395 --> 00:26:02,795 Speaker 1: it happened, or a witness, or would she answer any 381 00:26:02,875 --> 00:26:05,355 Speaker 1: questions about it that followed from members of the media, 382 00:26:06,275 --> 00:26:09,315 Speaker 1: Or didn't your religious figures over there say something about 383 00:26:09,355 --> 00:26:13,555 Speaker 1: bearing false witness? They runner up, Why it's Harris Faulkner 384 00:26:13,595 --> 00:26:17,395 Speaker 1: of Fox News. Again, while she wasn't done chastising the 385 00:26:17,395 --> 00:26:20,555 Speaker 1: wicked ways of twenty first century America Land. This is 386 00:26:20,555 --> 00:26:24,075 Speaker 1: about the whole gender thing. Quote. The Lord has determined 387 00:26:24,195 --> 00:26:31,035 Speaker 1: I am a woman, My pronouns are USA. Once again, 388 00:26:31,075 --> 00:26:33,795 Speaker 1: the jury is in. The Lord has also determined that 389 00:26:33,875 --> 00:26:40,035 Speaker 1: conservatives will never understand what the hell pronouns actually are. Harris, 390 00:26:40,075 --> 00:26:44,715 Speaker 1: you should ask the Lord for an education. But our winner, Wow, 391 00:26:44,795 --> 00:26:50,275 Speaker 1: it's Harris Faulkner of Fox News, the trifecta. While she 392 00:26:50,435 --> 00:26:53,315 Speaker 1: was instructing us when to pray and how to eat 393 00:26:53,395 --> 00:26:56,515 Speaker 1: and what her pronouns are, I think she said dumb 394 00:26:57,115 --> 00:27:01,315 Speaker 1: all that time the big banner graphic placed right across 395 00:27:01,355 --> 00:27:08,755 Speaker 1: her holy blessed condescension quote. American can and will be 396 00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:13,635 Speaker 1: put back together again American? Not America can and will 397 00:27:13,675 --> 00:27:17,155 Speaker 1: be put back together again. American can and will be 398 00:27:17,235 --> 00:27:22,795 Speaker 1: put back together American? Harris, What kind of American doesn't 399 00:27:22,875 --> 00:27:27,235 Speaker 1: check the graphics and lets her network misspell America? Why 400 00:27:27,315 --> 00:27:30,475 Speaker 1: didn't you walk out of that place too? Faulkner to 401 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:49,315 Speaker 1: Day's Worst Person and not Now to the number one 402 00:27:49,395 --> 00:27:51,995 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and my favorite subject, me and 403 00:27:52,115 --> 00:27:54,515 Speaker 1: Things I promised not to tell And this one literally 404 00:27:54,515 --> 00:27:57,715 Speaker 1: fits that title. I not only promised not to tell this, 405 00:27:58,395 --> 00:28:01,995 Speaker 1: I lost a job because I wouldn't tell it. I 406 00:28:02,035 --> 00:28:05,835 Speaker 1: am proud of my journalistic ethics, and sometimes, well a 407 00:28:05,835 --> 00:28:08,955 Speaker 1: lot of times I boast too much about them. But 408 00:28:09,035 --> 00:28:12,795 Speaker 1: I invoked them once on October twenty fifth, nineteen ninety nine. 409 00:28:13,235 --> 00:28:14,995 Speaker 1: And if I had not, and if I had wanted 410 00:28:15,035 --> 00:28:20,635 Speaker 1: to do any job anywhere for twenty three years, I 411 00:28:20,675 --> 00:28:22,955 Speaker 1: would still be hosting the Fox Baseball Game of the 412 00:28:22,955 --> 00:28:26,355 Speaker 1: Week and the upcoming World Series on Fox. But I 413 00:28:26,395 --> 00:28:29,795 Speaker 1: couldn't because there are facts and then there is truth, 414 00:28:29,875 --> 00:28:33,475 Speaker 1: and often they are different things. I'm covering the nineteen 415 00:28:33,555 --> 00:28:36,355 Speaker 1: ninety nine World Series for Fox's first attempt to compete 416 00:28:36,355 --> 00:28:39,835 Speaker 1: with ESPN. I'm also the Fox Baseball host and I'm 417 00:28:39,835 --> 00:28:43,675 Speaker 1: the senior correspondent of Fox Sports News. So we are 418 00:28:43,715 --> 00:28:46,675 Speaker 1: going live from the field after each World Series game 419 00:28:46,755 --> 00:28:50,835 Speaker 1: for like two hours. The Yankees froze the Braves in 420 00:28:50,875 --> 00:28:53,075 Speaker 1: the first two games of that World Series in Atlanta, 421 00:28:53,115 --> 00:28:55,675 Speaker 1: and then on the off day, the travel day, Monday morning, 422 00:28:55,995 --> 00:28:59,355 Speaker 1: the twenty fifth, the producers and crew flew out before 423 00:28:59,395 --> 00:29:01,995 Speaker 1: sunrise to set up at Yankee Stadium, and the rest 424 00:29:02,035 --> 00:29:06,355 Speaker 1: of us lazy quote talent unquote, we flew out at midday. 425 00:29:07,115 --> 00:29:08,955 Speaker 1: As we landed in New York. I got a call 426 00:29:08,995 --> 00:29:11,835 Speaker 1: from the lead producer who said, don't go to the hotel. First, 427 00:29:12,275 --> 00:29:15,075 Speaker 1: come right to the ballpark. Something amazing has just happened, 428 00:29:15,155 --> 00:29:17,915 Speaker 1: and I need you to decide to do whatever we're 429 00:29:17,955 --> 00:29:21,275 Speaker 1: going to do about it. So I go, and as 430 00:29:21,275 --> 00:29:24,075 Speaker 1: the October sun is beginning to set over Yankee Stadium, 431 00:29:24,115 --> 00:29:27,435 Speaker 1: I get this story. As the Yankee players have left 432 00:29:27,435 --> 00:29:29,915 Speaker 1: the workout to go home and get a good night's sleep, 433 00:29:30,515 --> 00:29:34,155 Speaker 1: maybe before Game three the next day, Roger Clemens of 434 00:29:34,155 --> 00:29:36,755 Speaker 1: the Yankees has gotten into an argument with a fan. 435 00:29:37,635 --> 00:29:41,755 Speaker 1: With a Yankees fan at the old Yankee Stadium, players 436 00:29:41,755 --> 00:29:44,595 Speaker 1: had to walk a very short gauntlet, maybe one hundred 437 00:29:44,595 --> 00:29:47,875 Speaker 1: feet from the ballpark exit to the player's parking lot. 438 00:29:48,315 --> 00:29:51,515 Speaker 1: In retrospect, this seems kind of crazy, but fans could 439 00:29:51,515 --> 00:29:55,275 Speaker 1: wait behind police barricades and yell and cheer and seek 440 00:29:55,315 --> 00:30:00,515 Speaker 1: autographs and start arguments. And as Roger Clemens steps out 441 00:30:00,515 --> 00:30:03,155 Speaker 1: of the stadium, golfvisor atop his head, his thoughts turning 442 00:30:03,195 --> 00:30:05,795 Speaker 1: to his first World Series appearance in thirteen years, his 443 00:30:05,875 --> 00:30:08,155 Speaker 1: start in Game four, which could very well be the 444 00:30:08,155 --> 00:30:10,035 Speaker 1: game in which the Yankees would sweep the Braves and 445 00:30:10,075 --> 00:30:12,915 Speaker 1: win the World series, the climax of a long odyssey 446 00:30:12,955 --> 00:30:15,075 Speaker 1: that has just brought him to New York that season, 447 00:30:15,515 --> 00:30:18,995 Speaker 1: a fan starts screaming at him that he has no 448 00:30:19,155 --> 00:30:21,755 Speaker 1: right to be there. If you wanted to come here, 449 00:30:21,795 --> 00:30:23,435 Speaker 1: you could have come here in ninety six, but you 450 00:30:23,435 --> 00:30:26,115 Speaker 1: didn't want to be here. For all I know, this 451 00:30:26,195 --> 00:30:27,675 Speaker 1: is one of the guys who was yelling at Ted 452 00:30:27,715 --> 00:30:31,795 Speaker 1: Cruz Sunday night at Yankee Stadium. Anyway, Roger Clemens is 453 00:30:31,835 --> 00:30:35,595 Speaker 1: not Ted Cruz. He's six foot four, two hundred and five. 454 00:30:35,755 --> 00:30:38,275 Speaker 1: Then he had a hair trigger temper, and, as we 455 00:30:38,315 --> 00:30:41,435 Speaker 1: suspected then and heard later, was reportedly hopped up on 456 00:30:41,595 --> 00:30:46,115 Speaker 1: steroids and amphetamines at least on game days. Amazingly, the 457 00:30:46,115 --> 00:30:48,995 Speaker 1: fan was bigger than he was, much bigger, and the 458 00:30:49,035 --> 00:30:53,395 Speaker 1: fan clearly started it. Clemens jousted with him verbally, but 459 00:30:53,475 --> 00:30:55,915 Speaker 1: backed away. He then walked away and got into his 460 00:30:55,955 --> 00:30:58,035 Speaker 1: waiting car and was about to be driven off when 461 00:30:58,035 --> 00:31:03,915 Speaker 1: the fans said something about Roger Clemens's kids. Well, Clemens 462 00:31:03,915 --> 00:31:06,515 Speaker 1: got back out of the The fans somehow got around 463 00:31:06,555 --> 00:31:09,155 Speaker 1: the police barricades, and immediately the two of them were 464 00:31:09,155 --> 00:31:13,115 Speaker 1: face to face, their noses almost touching four fingers. Jabbing 465 00:31:13,155 --> 00:31:16,515 Speaker 1: at each other's chests and faces. They were a split 466 00:31:16,715 --> 00:31:20,395 Speaker 1: second away from a brawl. Another smaller fan tried to 467 00:31:20,435 --> 00:31:23,275 Speaker 1: interrupt Clemens by repeating, it's not worth it, Roger, It's 468 00:31:23,315 --> 00:31:26,355 Speaker 1: not worth it. And finally somebody grabbed the six foot 469 00:31:26,355 --> 00:31:31,435 Speaker 1: seven fan and Clemens beat red, backed away again, shouted 470 00:31:31,435 --> 00:31:35,315 Speaker 1: a few epithets, and it was over. It was a story, 471 00:31:35,515 --> 00:31:38,635 Speaker 1: It was dramatic, and it was made for New York's 472 00:31:38,635 --> 00:31:41,035 Speaker 1: tabloid newspapers, and it was in the middle of the 473 00:31:41,035 --> 00:31:46,515 Speaker 1: World Series, and there were no reporters present, but it 474 00:31:46,595 --> 00:31:49,875 Speaker 1: was on videotape. Yet another fan had one of those 475 00:31:49,955 --> 00:31:54,755 Speaker 1: early handheld nineteen ninety nine digital camcorders and he was 476 00:31:54,875 --> 00:31:58,635 Speaker 1: just recording the players leaving the ballpark and he recorded this, 477 00:31:59,275 --> 00:32:04,595 Speaker 1: and the fan wanted to sell somebody the tape. The 478 00:32:04,795 --> 00:32:07,355 Speaker 1: guy showed our producer the video, and our producer verified 479 00:32:07,355 --> 00:32:09,835 Speaker 1: it showed the near fight. The fan wanted two thousand 480 00:32:09,875 --> 00:32:12,675 Speaker 1: dollars in cash, plus a ticket to Game five of 481 00:32:12,715 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: the series. I was the only person from Fox there 482 00:32:15,755 --> 00:32:18,835 Speaker 1: who had any game tickets, and the guy was adamant 483 00:32:18,835 --> 00:32:21,835 Speaker 1: no ticket. He would wait until the sportscasters from the 484 00:32:21,875 --> 00:32:24,675 Speaker 1: local station set up for their live shots later that day. 485 00:32:24,795 --> 00:32:27,195 Speaker 1: He would offer the tape to each of them. Oh 486 00:32:27,235 --> 00:32:29,635 Speaker 1: and he also wanted the tape back after we were 487 00:32:29,675 --> 00:32:32,595 Speaker 1: done with it. So I did not wait. I said, yes, 488 00:32:33,195 --> 00:32:36,355 Speaker 1: let me round up two grand in cash in the 489 00:32:36,355 --> 00:32:39,995 Speaker 1: Bronx in the street outside the empty Yankee Stadium in 490 00:32:40,075 --> 00:32:42,955 Speaker 1: the dark. Give me the tape. I'll give you the money. 491 00:32:43,115 --> 00:32:45,155 Speaker 1: Tomorrow we'll meet here at four PM, and I'll give 492 00:32:45,155 --> 00:32:47,675 Speaker 1: you the tape back and a ticket to Game five. 493 00:32:48,755 --> 00:32:50,835 Speaker 1: So now we have to get him the cash. Now, 494 00:32:50,835 --> 00:32:54,515 Speaker 1: I grew up in that Yankee Stadium, and before then, 495 00:32:54,635 --> 00:32:56,955 Speaker 1: I grew up in the Bronx. I know where everything is. 496 00:32:57,555 --> 00:33:00,555 Speaker 1: So I go to the hidden ATM behind home Plate 497 00:33:00,755 --> 00:33:03,795 Speaker 1: and I withdraw the maximum that machine will give me 498 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:07,795 Speaker 1: two hundred dollars. We're still a little short. I now 499 00:33:07,835 --> 00:33:11,235 Speaker 1: go to every reporter and every producer Fox has at 500 00:33:11,235 --> 00:33:14,555 Speaker 1: this World series until I find nine of them willing 501 00:33:14,595 --> 00:33:17,155 Speaker 1: to do just what I did. I write them checks 502 00:33:17,155 --> 00:33:19,395 Speaker 1: made out to cash for two hundred bucks each, and 503 00:33:19,475 --> 00:33:23,475 Speaker 1: now I've got two thousand dollars in twenties in the 504 00:33:23,515 --> 00:33:26,995 Speaker 1: ronks in the street outside empty Yankee Stadium in the dark. 505 00:33:27,955 --> 00:33:29,995 Speaker 1: It occurs to me as I'm giving the guy the 506 00:33:30,035 --> 00:33:34,595 Speaker 1: money that legally I have bought the tape, not Fox me. 507 00:33:35,275 --> 00:33:38,915 Speaker 1: It's my money. Most importantly, it's my ticket. No deal 508 00:33:38,955 --> 00:33:42,235 Speaker 1: without the ticket. So now that it's not being sold 509 00:33:42,275 --> 00:33:44,915 Speaker 1: to anybody else, just me, the producer says, by the way, 510 00:33:44,915 --> 00:33:46,675 Speaker 1: when the guy showed me the tape, it does not 511 00:33:46,915 --> 00:33:49,155 Speaker 1: start at the beginning of the fight. And I say 512 00:33:49,955 --> 00:33:53,275 Speaker 1: uh oh, and he says yeah, And I say, we 513 00:33:53,315 --> 00:33:54,835 Speaker 1: got to look at this before we feed it to 514 00:33:54,875 --> 00:33:58,155 Speaker 1: headquarters in LA because the moment they get this tape, 515 00:33:58,195 --> 00:34:01,475 Speaker 1: they're going to run it non stop tonight and non 516 00:34:01,555 --> 00:34:05,995 Speaker 1: stop tomorrow and non stop Wednesday. Plus we are Fox, 517 00:34:06,835 --> 00:34:10,195 Speaker 1: we own the New York Post. They will put color 518 00:34:10,275 --> 00:34:12,995 Speaker 1: stills from this videotape on the front page and the 519 00:34:13,035 --> 00:34:18,635 Speaker 1: back page and a nice colorful middle spread. This is 520 00:34:18,715 --> 00:34:22,275 Speaker 1: when my phone rings and it is my immediate boss. 521 00:34:22,595 --> 00:34:26,715 Speaker 1: His name is Tarnsio, and Tarensio never wanted to hire me, 522 00:34:27,035 --> 00:34:28,515 Speaker 1: and I never wanted to work for him. And oh, 523 00:34:28,595 --> 00:34:29,995 Speaker 1: by the way, he has not had a job in 524 00:34:30,035 --> 00:34:32,435 Speaker 1: television that I've been able to find out about since. 525 00:34:33,355 --> 00:34:35,115 Speaker 1: And he's heard that I have this tape and he 526 00:34:35,195 --> 00:34:38,315 Speaker 1: sees it as his ticket to success within Fox and 527 00:34:38,355 --> 00:34:40,115 Speaker 1: he's telling me about his plans to get it on 528 00:34:40,195 --> 00:34:43,595 Speaker 1: Fox News and in the Post and worldwide through Rupert Murdock. 529 00:34:43,635 --> 00:34:46,275 Speaker 1: And I say, we don't even know what's on this 530 00:34:46,395 --> 00:34:48,995 Speaker 1: tape yet, and our truck doesn't have anything to play 531 00:34:48,995 --> 00:34:50,795 Speaker 1: it on, so we're going to have to go to 532 00:34:50,795 --> 00:34:55,835 Speaker 1: an electronics store and buy a camcorder and figure this out. 533 00:34:56,155 --> 00:35:00,955 Speaker 1: And this Tarnsio interrupts me and starts swearing at me. Now, 534 00:35:00,995 --> 00:35:04,075 Speaker 1: despite what is often written, I am not the caricature 535 00:35:04,075 --> 00:35:07,195 Speaker 1: of the angry employee that my reputation might suggest to you. 536 00:35:07,555 --> 00:35:11,195 Speaker 1: But if you swear at me, I'm not going to 537 00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:13,635 Speaker 1: get more reasonable, am I? I Am going to get 538 00:35:13,755 --> 00:35:16,595 Speaker 1: less reasonable. So it is at this point then I 539 00:35:16,675 --> 00:35:19,475 Speaker 1: tell Tarenzio that the owner of the tape is me, 540 00:35:20,235 --> 00:35:22,995 Speaker 1: and I'm going to make these decisions, not him, and 541 00:35:23,035 --> 00:35:25,075 Speaker 1: that I'm going to hang up now so I can 542 00:35:25,115 --> 00:35:30,035 Speaker 1: go look at the tape first. My producer and I 543 00:35:30,075 --> 00:35:32,915 Speaker 1: go to one of the seven hundred electronics stores along 544 00:35:32,955 --> 00:35:35,115 Speaker 1: Seventh Avenue in Midtown, the ones that have been holding 545 00:35:35,155 --> 00:35:38,275 Speaker 1: going out of business sales continuously since the year nineteen eighty. 546 00:35:38,955 --> 00:35:41,595 Speaker 1: I am not exaggerating. Every week or so, I passed 547 00:35:41,635 --> 00:35:44,035 Speaker 1: the exact store where we bought that digital camquarder in 548 00:35:44,115 --> 00:35:47,235 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. The store is still there. The store 549 00:35:47,315 --> 00:35:50,675 Speaker 1: is going out of business. Sales also still there. We 550 00:35:50,715 --> 00:35:53,515 Speaker 1: sit down at a nice restaurant, order a nice meal, 551 00:35:53,595 --> 00:35:55,355 Speaker 1: and we look at the tape and the video is 552 00:35:55,395 --> 00:35:58,995 Speaker 1: amazingly well shot. But there is that one fatal problem. 553 00:35:59,435 --> 00:36:03,395 Speaker 1: Our amateur videographer didn't miss the start of the confrontation 554 00:36:03,755 --> 00:36:08,195 Speaker 1: between Clemens and the fan. He has hit record only 555 00:36:08,275 --> 00:36:11,435 Speaker 1: as Clemens is getting back out of his car. You 556 00:36:11,515 --> 00:36:15,355 Speaker 1: do not see the fans starting it, yelling at him. 557 00:36:15,555 --> 00:36:18,315 Speaker 1: You do not see the fan threatening Clemens. You do 558 00:36:18,395 --> 00:36:21,955 Speaker 1: not see the fans swearing at Clemens's kids. What you see, 559 00:36:21,995 --> 00:36:25,195 Speaker 1: beautifully framed by the way against the setting sun of 560 00:36:25,235 --> 00:36:29,435 Speaker 1: a late October evening, is Roger Clemens just getting out 561 00:36:29,475 --> 00:36:32,995 Speaker 1: of a car, without any visible provocation, going over and 562 00:36:33,035 --> 00:36:35,835 Speaker 1: shoving his finger in the face of some random Yankee 563 00:36:35,875 --> 00:36:40,115 Speaker 1: fan in a Yankees hat. Now there are at least 564 00:36:40,315 --> 00:36:42,915 Speaker 1: forty moments in this video that could be turned into 565 00:36:42,995 --> 00:36:46,915 Speaker 1: beautiful color photographs for the New York Post, and everything 566 00:36:46,955 --> 00:36:49,675 Speaker 1: Clemens says to the fan is clearly audible, and so 567 00:36:49,795 --> 00:36:53,475 Speaker 1: too is everything. The fan says back, But anybody seeing 568 00:36:53,555 --> 00:36:56,475 Speaker 1: that video, no matter how much preamble we could possibly 569 00:36:56,475 --> 00:36:59,755 Speaker 1: give it, no matter how carefully we reconstructed how the 570 00:36:59,875 --> 00:37:04,275 Speaker 1: fan started it, how he escalated it, how Clemens backed away, 571 00:37:04,795 --> 00:37:07,515 Speaker 1: the fan ReLit the fuse, how this was not Roger 572 00:37:07,555 --> 00:37:09,995 Speaker 1: Clemens's fault, no matter how well we did that, if 573 00:37:09,995 --> 00:37:12,715 Speaker 1: you saw this video, you would say, well, no, that's 574 00:37:12,795 --> 00:37:18,955 Speaker 1: Roger Clemens's fault. It's human nature. With great disappointment, I 575 00:37:18,955 --> 00:37:22,915 Speaker 1: said to my producer, damn it, journalistically, we can't run this. 576 00:37:23,555 --> 00:37:27,195 Speaker 1: We're hanging Clemens if we run this. This is like 577 00:37:27,195 --> 00:37:29,475 Speaker 1: the only time in his life it hasn't been his fault. 578 00:37:29,875 --> 00:37:33,155 Speaker 1: But this is not his fault. My producer let out 579 00:37:33,155 --> 00:37:36,195 Speaker 1: a long sigh, and God, you said that. I want 580 00:37:36,235 --> 00:37:38,035 Speaker 1: to run it more than anything else in the world, 581 00:37:38,075 --> 00:37:41,155 Speaker 1: but we can't. And I said, there are facts, and 582 00:37:41,155 --> 00:37:43,235 Speaker 1: then there is the truth. What we have on this 583 00:37:43,275 --> 00:37:47,315 Speaker 1: tape is facts. What we do not have is truth. Unfortunately, 584 00:37:49,475 --> 00:37:53,035 Speaker 1: my phone rang now it was my boss's boss, Tarenzio's boss. 585 00:37:53,075 --> 00:37:55,235 Speaker 1: His name was Arthur Smith. He was a Canadian. He 586 00:37:55,275 --> 00:37:58,075 Speaker 1: called people things like schmndrick and schmoo. I liked him 587 00:37:58,075 --> 00:38:01,955 Speaker 1: a lot. Okay, Bobby, he says, what's going on? I 588 00:38:01,995 --> 00:38:04,075 Speaker 1: explained to him, and he quickly said, you're right, but 589 00:38:04,155 --> 00:38:05,955 Speaker 1: your boss wants me to get that tape from you 590 00:38:06,115 --> 00:38:09,035 Speaker 1: or fire you or something. He's screaming about how we're 591 00:38:09,035 --> 00:38:10,835 Speaker 1: going to get scooped on this story when we have 592 00:38:10,915 --> 00:38:13,155 Speaker 1: the only video. Give me a way out of this, Bobby. 593 00:38:13,875 --> 00:38:15,875 Speaker 1: So I gave him a way out. I said, look, 594 00:38:15,915 --> 00:38:17,955 Speaker 1: I'll go to my folks house in the suburbs tomorrow. 595 00:38:17,995 --> 00:38:20,155 Speaker 1: I'll make a couple copies of this video and I 596 00:38:20,195 --> 00:38:24,595 Speaker 1: will erase the original tape. Then I'll go to Yankee Stadium. 597 00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:26,755 Speaker 1: I'll have a copy of this video in my pocket, 598 00:38:26,795 --> 00:38:29,875 Speaker 1: and if there is a hint, a hint that anybody 599 00:38:29,915 --> 00:38:32,355 Speaker 1: else has this story, I will go right to the 600 00:38:32,395 --> 00:38:35,195 Speaker 1: truck and feed you the whole tape immediately, and I 601 00:38:35,235 --> 00:38:37,915 Speaker 1: won't even charge you the two thousand dollars I spent 602 00:38:37,995 --> 00:38:42,715 Speaker 1: to get it. And he says, I like this, that's 603 00:38:42,755 --> 00:38:44,595 Speaker 1: a good way out, But how are you going to 604 00:38:44,635 --> 00:38:46,355 Speaker 1: know if anybody else is onto the story? And I 605 00:38:46,355 --> 00:38:48,475 Speaker 1: told them, look, the Yankees won't want this story to 606 00:38:48,475 --> 00:38:51,595 Speaker 1: get out and I will use this fact against them. 607 00:38:51,875 --> 00:38:53,755 Speaker 1: I will use this fact to get them to tell 608 00:38:53,755 --> 00:38:55,995 Speaker 1: me if anybody has asked them about the story. I mean. 609 00:38:56,075 --> 00:38:58,715 Speaker 1: The public relations director is a childhood friend of mine. 610 00:38:58,835 --> 00:39:02,315 Speaker 1: We will work together on this because we have facts, 611 00:39:02,315 --> 00:39:05,115 Speaker 1: but we do not have truth. And he said, stop 612 00:39:05,115 --> 00:39:08,915 Speaker 1: saying that, you sound like a Schmendrick. So the next 613 00:39:08,915 --> 00:39:10,675 Speaker 1: morning I go to the Folks. I use my father's 614 00:39:10,715 --> 00:39:13,315 Speaker 1: collection of videotape machines, and I make three copies, one 615 00:39:13,315 --> 00:39:14,995 Speaker 1: for me to carry, one for me to give to 616 00:39:15,035 --> 00:39:17,555 Speaker 1: the Yankees, and one to leave in the hands of 617 00:39:17,555 --> 00:39:21,995 Speaker 1: a neutral outside observer. My mother and we go to 618 00:39:22,075 --> 00:39:24,595 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium and I explained to this thing to this 619 00:39:24,875 --> 00:39:27,315 Speaker 1: friend of twenty five years of mine, the PR director, 620 00:39:27,355 --> 00:39:30,035 Speaker 1: and all he says is thank you, and he swears 621 00:39:30,075 --> 00:39:32,755 Speaker 1: he will warn me if he hears in anything about 622 00:39:32,795 --> 00:39:37,755 Speaker 1: any other reporter having this story is even rumored. Two 623 00:39:37,755 --> 00:39:40,475 Speaker 1: hours later, he comes up to me. Jack Curry from 624 00:39:40,475 --> 00:39:42,675 Speaker 1: the New York Times asked to talk to Roger. He's 625 00:39:42,715 --> 00:39:45,475 Speaker 1: heard he's going to talk to Roger. As Roger walks 626 00:39:45,515 --> 00:39:48,435 Speaker 1: back to the clubhouse, you could maybe follow them before 627 00:39:48,435 --> 00:39:50,955 Speaker 1: you feed the tape. And I said, yeah, that sounds good, 628 00:39:51,355 --> 00:39:54,835 Speaker 1: and I followed them, and Clemens lies through his teeth 629 00:39:54,875 --> 00:39:56,955 Speaker 1: to Jack Curry and says it was nothing, and no, 630 00:39:57,075 --> 00:39:59,115 Speaker 1: they didn't have their fingers in each other's faces, and 631 00:39:59,155 --> 00:40:01,795 Speaker 1: Curry believes him, and Clemens goes into the Yankee clubhouse 632 00:40:01,835 --> 00:40:05,795 Speaker 1: and Jack Curry wheels around and says, nice eavestro, and 633 00:40:05,875 --> 00:40:09,275 Speaker 1: I say, I'm really sorry, you're right, but I'll explain 634 00:40:09,395 --> 00:40:11,155 Speaker 1: to you why I had to do it. But I'll 635 00:40:11,155 --> 00:40:14,835 Speaker 1: explain it to you much much later. And the next morning, 636 00:40:14,835 --> 00:40:16,875 Speaker 1: the morning of the day that we'll see Roger Clemens 637 00:40:16,915 --> 00:40:19,595 Speaker 1: win his first World Series game after sixteen years of trying. 638 00:40:19,635 --> 00:40:21,675 Speaker 1: As the Yankee sweep the Braves in the World Series, 639 00:40:21,715 --> 00:40:24,755 Speaker 1: there is a very brief mention on page forty something 640 00:40:24,755 --> 00:40:26,635 Speaker 1: of the New York Times about the shouting match with 641 00:40:26,675 --> 00:40:30,235 Speaker 1: the fan, and there's no picture, and nobody notices the story, 642 00:40:30,995 --> 00:40:34,395 Speaker 1: and Clemens lies in it throughout. And the next spring 643 00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:37,275 Speaker 1: I see Jack Curry and he is still angry with me, 644 00:40:37,755 --> 00:40:40,875 Speaker 1: and so I hand him a copy of the videotape 645 00:40:40,875 --> 00:40:44,115 Speaker 1: and I say, this is why I had to know 646 00:40:44,315 --> 00:40:47,235 Speaker 1: what you knew about Clemens. And he goes and he 647 00:40:47,275 --> 00:40:49,155 Speaker 1: watches it somewhere and he comes back to me and 648 00:40:49,195 --> 00:40:52,075 Speaker 1: he's all smiles and he says, how did you get 649 00:40:52,115 --> 00:40:56,235 Speaker 1: away with not running this? And I tell him the 650 00:40:56,235 --> 00:40:59,355 Speaker 1: story and he says, but Clemens lied to me. And 651 00:40:59,435 --> 00:41:02,835 Speaker 1: I say, Clemens lies to everybody. That's not the point. 652 00:41:02,915 --> 00:41:06,475 Speaker 1: And he says, yeah, there's difference between facts and truth. 653 00:41:06,835 --> 00:41:11,435 Speaker 1: And I say, ooh, there's a difference between facts and truth. Hey, 654 00:41:11,515 --> 00:41:27,955 Speaker 1: that's good. Let me write that down. I'll play that 655 00:41:27,995 --> 00:41:31,115 Speaker 1: whole tape somewhere someday. I've done all the damage I 656 00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:32,675 Speaker 1: can do here. Countdown has come to you from the 657 00:41:32,755 --> 00:41:35,435 Speaker 1: Vin Scully Studio at the world headquarters of the Olberman 658 00:41:35,475 --> 00:41:39,555 Speaker 1: Broadcasting Empire in New York. Here are the credits. 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Everything 668 00:42:10,315 --> 00:42:13,035 Speaker 1: else is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 669 00:42:13,115 --> 00:42:15,635 Speaker 1: the eight hundred and eighty third day since Donald Trump's 670 00:42:15,675 --> 00:42:18,995 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 671 00:42:19,115 --> 00:42:22,555 Speaker 1: United States. Don't forget to keep arresting him while we 672 00:42:22,675 --> 00:42:27,355 Speaker 1: still can, like later today, maybe the next scheduled countdown 673 00:42:27,435 --> 00:42:30,115 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Till then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, 674 00:42:30,115 --> 00:42:41,995 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 675 00:42:41,995 --> 00:42:46,835 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. 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