1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. How 2 00:00:23,955 --> 00:00:30,075 Speaker 1: do you unseat a Senate Democratic leader asking for a democracy? 3 00:00:31,355 --> 00:00:33,475 Speaker 1: On the one hand, it is impossible. On the other hand, 4 00:00:33,515 --> 00:00:38,035 Speaker 1: it could be done in about forty eight minutes. There 5 00:00:38,115 --> 00:00:41,195 Speaker 1: is no process to force the Democrats to conduct a 6 00:00:41,195 --> 00:00:44,075 Speaker 1: new Senate leadership vote, even though by one measure, Chuck 7 00:00:44,115 --> 00:00:46,955 Speaker 1: Schumer would lose such a vote thirty seven to ten, 8 00:00:47,715 --> 00:00:49,715 Speaker 1: which is what he lost the vote in his own 9 00:00:49,755 --> 00:00:54,195 Speaker 1: party in his suicidal decision to enable Musk and Trump 10 00:00:54,275 --> 00:00:58,355 Speaker 1: to proceed unchecked as they rape the government and the 11 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:05,275 Speaker 1: laws and the budget and the nation for the six months. 12 00:01:06,315 --> 00:01:09,795 Speaker 1: Democratic Party rules only mandate leadership elections with the start 13 00:01:09,795 --> 00:01:12,435 Speaker 1: of each new Congress. The last one was December third, 14 00:01:12,915 --> 00:01:15,595 Speaker 1: The one before that was December eighth, twenty twenty two. 15 00:01:15,595 --> 00:01:17,635 Speaker 1: The next one would be the third, eighth or tenth 16 00:01:17,755 --> 00:01:21,795 Speaker 1: of December twenty twenty six. The only way there would 17 00:01:21,795 --> 00:01:24,955 Speaker 1: be a new Democratic Party leadership election would be if 18 00:01:24,955 --> 00:01:31,395 Speaker 1: Schumer resigned or is forced to. On the other hand, 19 00:01:31,595 --> 00:01:34,235 Speaker 1: if the thirty six Democrats and the independent who broke 20 00:01:34,275 --> 00:01:37,035 Speaker 1: with Schumer in this catastrophe were to simply form their 21 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:41,355 Speaker 1: own caucus and elect their own leader just to pick 22 00:01:41,355 --> 00:01:45,435 Speaker 1: a name at random. Chris Murphy of Connecticut Chuck Schumer 23 00:01:45,435 --> 00:01:49,275 Speaker 1: would be minority leader in name only. The risk of this, 24 00:01:49,315 --> 00:01:51,915 Speaker 1: of course, is a total fracture of the Democratic Party 25 00:01:51,955 --> 00:01:54,875 Speaker 1: inside the Senate and out of it, and the prospect 26 00:01:54,955 --> 00:01:58,235 Speaker 1: of an idiot like Fetterman or an invisible senator like 27 00:01:58,395 --> 00:02:03,315 Speaker 1: Jillibrand actually caucusing with the Republicans. On the other hand, 28 00:02:03,395 --> 00:02:08,395 Speaker 1: the only advantage of having forty seven non Trumpists instead 29 00:02:08,475 --> 00:02:13,075 Speaker 1: of thirty six non Trumpists or thirty seven non Trumpists 30 00:02:13,435 --> 00:02:16,675 Speaker 1: is that you could do things like stop Kloture on 31 00:02:16,715 --> 00:02:20,835 Speaker 1: the six month Musk Indemnification and Continuing Resolution bill. Except 32 00:02:20,875 --> 00:02:25,595 Speaker 1: your gutless, spineless, useless, clueless minority leader doesn't do that 33 00:02:25,635 --> 00:02:29,515 Speaker 1: and instead collaborates with the party of the insane dictator. 34 00:02:31,195 --> 00:02:35,675 Speaker 1: If he's not going to use forty seven votes, what's 35 00:02:35,715 --> 00:02:38,235 Speaker 1: the difference if he only has thirty seven votes or 36 00:02:38,275 --> 00:02:43,635 Speaker 1: if his successor only has thirty seven votes. Here is 37 00:02:43,675 --> 00:02:46,955 Speaker 1: the process as I understand it. Create the new Democrats 38 00:02:48,835 --> 00:02:52,955 Speaker 1: or Democrats two point zero, or the new Zoo Review 39 00:02:53,835 --> 00:02:58,675 Speaker 1: or the new Christy minstrels, doesn't matter. Just position them 40 00:02:58,715 --> 00:03:01,795 Speaker 1: as the actual minority in the Senate, they have the 41 00:03:01,835 --> 00:03:05,155 Speaker 1: second most votes. Point out to sh Schumer, he is 42 00:03:05,195 --> 00:03:08,635 Speaker 1: now leader of the third party in the Senate, and 43 00:03:08,675 --> 00:03:11,755 Speaker 1: if he does not resign as Democratic leader, you will 44 00:03:11,795 --> 00:03:15,955 Speaker 1: not let him join your new caucus, and you won't 45 00:03:15,995 --> 00:03:20,755 Speaker 1: let the other losers in either. Senator Murphy, for one, 46 00:03:20,835 --> 00:03:24,795 Speaker 1: is not leading this revolt, not any way at the moment. 47 00:03:25,915 --> 00:03:29,435 Speaker 1: On NBC yesterday, do you think that Leader Schumer is 48 00:03:29,475 --> 00:03:31,555 Speaker 1: the best person to lead your caucus in this moment, 49 00:03:31,675 --> 00:03:35,355 Speaker 1: Senator Murphy. Senator Schumer certainly can lead this caucus, NBC, 50 00:03:35,555 --> 00:03:38,915 Speaker 1: would you consider that role? Murphy? I don't think anybody's 51 00:03:38,955 --> 00:03:45,835 Speaker 1: having that conversation right now right now, but the American 52 00:03:45,875 --> 00:03:48,635 Speaker 1: people certainly aren't having that conversation right now. The Democratic 53 00:03:48,635 --> 00:03:52,475 Speaker 1: Party certainly is having that conversation right The f now 54 00:03:53,515 --> 00:03:57,315 Speaker 1: CNN poll yesterday, Democrats and Democratic leading Independence now say 55 00:03:57,675 --> 00:04:01,475 Speaker 1: fifty seven to forty two percent that Democrats should mainly 56 00:04:01,515 --> 00:04:06,195 Speaker 1: work to stop the Trump agenda, not work with the 57 00:04:06,235 --> 00:04:09,595 Speaker 1: GOP just to get some of their own ideas into 58 00:04:09,675 --> 00:04:16,075 Speaker 1: legislation fifty seven to forty two. The NBC poll asks 59 00:04:16,115 --> 00:04:19,235 Speaker 1: the same question in a different way. Should Democrats stick 60 00:04:19,315 --> 00:04:24,715 Speaker 1: to their positions, even if that risks sacrificing by partisan progress. 61 00:04:24,995 --> 00:04:29,875 Speaker 1: The answer is yes, sixty five to thirty two. Eight 62 00:04:29,955 --> 00:04:33,395 Speaker 1: years ago that poll came in No. Fifty nine to 63 00:04:33,435 --> 00:04:37,795 Speaker 1: thirty three. It went from thirty three to fifty nine 64 00:04:38,435 --> 00:04:44,035 Speaker 1: to sixty five thirty two. And these new polls, these landslides, 65 00:04:44,115 --> 00:04:48,075 Speaker 1: these are before what Schumer did last Friday. God knows 66 00:04:48,235 --> 00:04:51,995 Speaker 1: how bad these numbers are now, but whatever they are, 67 00:04:52,275 --> 00:04:55,115 Speaker 1: they actually add up to just one thing. Chuck Schumer 68 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:58,835 Speaker 1: is done if the Democratic Senators want him done, or 69 00:04:58,915 --> 00:05:03,315 Speaker 1: if the Democratic Party explains to them that Schumer is done, 70 00:05:03,355 --> 00:05:11,515 Speaker 1: if they explain this in public loudly, immediately. Discretion is 71 00:05:11,515 --> 00:05:14,235 Speaker 1: the better part of valor, or at least fear is 72 00:05:14,235 --> 00:05:16,395 Speaker 1: the better part of valor. And all day yesterday I 73 00:05:16,435 --> 00:05:19,155 Speaker 1: kept waiting to hear that the start of Chuck Schumer's 74 00:05:19,155 --> 00:05:25,315 Speaker 1: book tour tonight in Baltimore had been postponed or canceled, 75 00:05:25,635 --> 00:05:28,475 Speaker 1: or he had laryngitis, where they had forgotten to ship 76 00:05:28,515 --> 00:05:31,995 Speaker 1: the books, or print the books or write the books. 77 00:05:33,115 --> 00:05:35,755 Speaker 1: But if Schumer could actually make a career ending and 78 00:05:35,835 --> 00:05:38,635 Speaker 1: maybe a democracy ending decision like he did on the 79 00:05:38,715 --> 00:05:42,435 Speaker 1: Musk indemnification and continuing Resolution Bill. Why wouldn't he be 80 00:05:42,515 --> 00:05:46,075 Speaker 1: stupid enough to walk out at the Central Library in 81 00:05:46,155 --> 00:05:52,715 Speaker 1: Baltimore tonight so he can get booed off the stage. 82 00:05:52,755 --> 00:06:01,115 Speaker 1: Some people one day just run out of smart. Chuck 83 00:06:01,155 --> 00:06:07,115 Speaker 1: Schumer live tonight in Baltimore, Live at Politics and Pros 84 00:06:07,195 --> 00:06:10,515 Speaker 1: at sixth and I in DC. Wednesday night, live at 85 00:06:10,515 --> 00:06:13,515 Speaker 1: the Weitzman Museum in DC, Thursday afternoon, live at the 86 00:06:13,515 --> 00:06:17,875 Speaker 1: Moss Theater in Santa Monica Sunday. Or this event has 87 00:06:17,875 --> 00:06:21,355 Speaker 1: been unexpectedly canceled. There will be no Chuck Schumer and 88 00:06:21,395 --> 00:06:27,955 Speaker 1: there will be no refunds. I hope now three days 89 00:06:28,635 --> 00:06:32,435 Speaker 1: after they each lit themselves on fire, only to discover 90 00:06:33,355 --> 00:06:37,235 Speaker 1: it just wasn't enough for insane Dictator Trump, I hope 91 00:06:37,795 --> 00:06:39,955 Speaker 1: soon to be former leader one way or the other. 92 00:06:39,995 --> 00:06:44,235 Speaker 1: Schumer and Senators Fetterman and Jillibrand and the others who 93 00:06:44,355 --> 00:06:47,075 Speaker 1: sold out the democracy and more immediately their colleagues in 94 00:06:47,155 --> 00:06:51,395 Speaker 1: the House. And I hope the executives at MSNBC who 95 00:06:51,515 --> 00:06:55,075 Speaker 1: remember fired or demoted all the hosts of Color, and 96 00:06:55,155 --> 00:06:58,235 Speaker 1: the executives at CNN who thought they could hold insane 97 00:06:58,275 --> 00:07:01,475 Speaker 1: Dictator Trump at bay. I hope they have all understood 98 00:07:01,755 --> 00:07:05,835 Speaker 1: where we are, and in particular way, where they are 99 00:07:07,275 --> 00:07:11,635 Speaker 1: here is where we are. Donald Trump is insane. There 100 00:07:11,675 --> 00:07:15,995 Speaker 1: is only one path through his insanity towards restoring America 101 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:19,235 Speaker 1: as a democracy, as a nation independent of Putin, as 102 00:07:19,275 --> 00:07:23,035 Speaker 1: a place not to be ashamed of. It is to 103 00:07:23,155 --> 00:07:34,115 Speaker 1: destroy Trump's presidency. Destroy his presidency. Nothing else will stop him. 104 00:07:34,155 --> 00:07:37,835 Speaker 1: His last remaining human emotion is vengeance. And nothing you do, 105 00:07:38,275 --> 00:07:42,835 Speaker 1: no matter how horrish, pandering, obvious, remorseful, no matter how 106 00:07:42,915 --> 00:07:47,675 Speaker 1: much money or ky jelly covered praise it contains, we'll 107 00:07:47,795 --> 00:07:54,395 Speaker 1: register with him. He wants to destroy you, He wants 108 00:07:54,995 --> 00:08:01,835 Speaker 1: to destroy the country, but he wants Schumer, MSNBC, CNN. 109 00:08:01,995 --> 00:08:05,275 Speaker 1: He wants to destroy you, guys. 110 00:08:05,635 --> 00:08:10,755 Speaker 2: And I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 111 00:08:10,875 --> 00:08:14,755 Speaker 2: ninety seven point six percent bad about mere political arms 112 00:08:14,755 --> 00:08:18,195 Speaker 2: of the Democrat Party, And in my opinion, they're really 113 00:08:18,755 --> 00:08:20,315 Speaker 2: corrupt and they're illegal. 114 00:08:20,915 --> 00:08:21,995 Speaker 3: What they do is illegal. 115 00:08:22,435 --> 00:08:26,675 Speaker 1: So hey, CNN, how's letting that pimp Scott Jennings take 116 00:08:26,675 --> 00:08:31,515 Speaker 1: over prime time? Working out for you? Insane dictator? Trump 117 00:08:31,555 --> 00:08:36,915 Speaker 1: basically told the DOJ Friday afternoon, arrest CNN, good thing, 118 00:08:37,075 --> 00:08:39,795 Speaker 1: Tapper and Bash that you didn't fact check him in 119 00:08:39,835 --> 00:08:46,195 Speaker 1: the debate last year. Backstage at the DOJ, Trump probably 120 00:08:46,235 --> 00:08:50,155 Speaker 1: mentioned the two of you by name. I'd rather have 121 00:08:50,195 --> 00:08:54,755 Speaker 1: a questioning audience, said CNN's Chris Licked two point zero. 122 00:08:54,835 --> 00:08:57,435 Speaker 1: He's British. His name is Mark Thompson at an event 123 00:08:57,515 --> 00:08:59,875 Speaker 1: on trust in the media on the first of this month. 124 00:09:00,275 --> 00:09:02,755 Speaker 1: I think we should draw our eyes about the loss 125 00:09:02,755 --> 00:09:07,915 Speaker 1: of traditional trust. Congratulations, Lord Thompson, you have succeeded now. 126 00:09:07,955 --> 00:09:11,875 Speaker 1: Nobody trusts CNN, not your former audience, not others in 127 00:09:11,955 --> 00:09:17,995 Speaker 1: news media, and obviously not Trump and his terrorists. Cell Actually, 128 00:09:18,075 --> 00:09:20,715 Speaker 1: I take that last part back. All of us, Trump included, 129 00:09:20,835 --> 00:09:26,715 Speaker 1: can trust CNN to do the wrong thing. And as 130 00:09:26,715 --> 00:09:29,555 Speaker 1: to Schumer, I really wonder if he will be stupid 131 00:09:29,675 --> 00:09:31,395 Speaker 1: enough to go out in public tonight or on the 132 00:09:31,435 --> 00:09:34,275 Speaker 1: rest of his tour, because a man in his position 133 00:09:34,435 --> 00:09:38,635 Speaker 1: can be that stupid can convince themselves. They won't protest me. 134 00:09:38,795 --> 00:09:41,755 Speaker 1: I'm the leader of the party in the Senate. He 135 00:09:41,835 --> 00:09:45,355 Speaker 1: can convince themselves. This is just an extreme version of 136 00:09:45,395 --> 00:09:49,115 Speaker 1: traditional politics that Trump is enacting, and not a slow 137 00:09:49,195 --> 00:09:53,875 Speaker 1: motion replay of January sixth, only with the brute force 138 00:09:54,035 --> 00:09:59,075 Speaker 1: added of law enforcement and bureaucracy. People like Schumer can 139 00:09:59,115 --> 00:10:03,355 Speaker 1: convince themselves. People may be mad at him, or they 140 00:10:03,355 --> 00:10:06,435 Speaker 1: were mad at him last week, but they're not that 141 00:10:06,635 --> 00:10:12,355 Speaker 1: mad and they're certainly not that mad at him this week. Chuck, 142 00:10:12,395 --> 00:10:15,395 Speaker 1: we are that mad at you. I don't think you 143 00:10:15,395 --> 00:10:18,235 Speaker 1: should resign a Senate Democratic leader. I think you should 144 00:10:18,275 --> 00:10:24,275 Speaker 1: resign from the Senate and Jillibrand with you. This is war. 145 00:10:25,915 --> 00:10:30,235 Speaker 1: It is a non shooting war. God help us, maybe 146 00:10:30,235 --> 00:10:35,595 Speaker 1: only for now. And Schumer is clueless, weak, selfish, arrogant, 147 00:10:36,155 --> 00:10:41,075 Speaker 1: and worst of all, myopic to try to finesse his 148 00:10:41,235 --> 00:10:45,115 Speaker 1: criminally incorrect vote on this, to hide the intention of 149 00:10:45,195 --> 00:10:49,035 Speaker 1: his vote to be General George B. McClellan when we 150 00:10:49,115 --> 00:10:53,675 Speaker 1: need General ulysses ask goddamned grant and to sell out 151 00:10:53,715 --> 00:10:58,675 Speaker 1: the House Democrats. It's unforgivable. It is literally unforgivable. There 152 00:10:58,795 --> 00:11:06,115 Speaker 1: is no path back for Chuck Schumer. Powell's Central Library, 153 00:11:06,115 --> 00:11:15,475 Speaker 1: four hundred Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Maryland, seven pm. Be there, Aloha, 154 00:11:15,755 --> 00:11:19,595 Speaker 1: And what did Chuck Schumer get out of this? What 155 00:11:19,835 --> 00:11:26,915 Speaker 1: can be carved on his political tombstone? He ended his 156 00:11:26,995 --> 00:11:31,035 Speaker 1: career pleasing Trump. Congratulations to Chuck Schumer for doing the 157 00:11:31,115 --> 00:11:34,835 Speaker 1: right thing took quote guts un quote and courage the 158 00:11:34,875 --> 00:11:38,635 Speaker 1: big tax cuts, LA firefix, debt ceiling bill, and so 159 00:11:38,715 --> 00:11:41,355 Speaker 1: much more is coming. We should all work together on 160 00:11:41,395 --> 00:11:44,035 Speaker 1: that very dangerous situation. A non pass would be a 161 00:11:44,035 --> 00:11:47,355 Speaker 1: country destroyer. Approval will lead us to new heights again, 162 00:11:47,435 --> 00:11:50,355 Speaker 1: really good and smart move by Senator Schumer. This could 163 00:11:50,435 --> 00:11:52,835 Speaker 1: lead to something big for the USA, a whole new 164 00:11:52,835 --> 00:11:58,395 Speaker 1: direction and beginning exclamation point. Does it worry you at all? 165 00:11:58,515 --> 00:12:05,515 Speaker 1: Chuck that? Twenty four hours after that statement, insane, Dictator 166 00:12:05,555 --> 00:12:08,595 Speaker 1: Trump's lawyers told a federal court he has an inherent 167 00:12:08,715 --> 00:12:13,835 Speaker 1: right under Article to to deport anybody immigrant or otherwise 168 00:12:14,515 --> 00:12:17,315 Speaker 1: on what he and he alone says, our national security grounds. 169 00:12:18,755 --> 00:12:21,315 Speaker 1: And does it worry you? Chuck that? Twelve hours before 170 00:12:22,515 --> 00:12:26,355 Speaker 1: he praised you for doing the right thing. Twelve hours 171 00:12:26,395 --> 00:12:31,395 Speaker 1: before that, Donald Trump decided you are no longer Jewish. 172 00:12:31,435 --> 00:12:33,955 Speaker 2: And Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. 173 00:12:33,995 --> 00:12:37,315 Speaker 1: You know, he's become a Palestinian. He is to be Jewish. 174 00:12:37,315 --> 00:12:38,395 Speaker 2: He's not Jewish anymore. 175 00:12:38,395 --> 00:12:44,635 Speaker 1: He's a Palestinian. Okay, ah, yeah, but he's never gonna 176 00:12:44,795 --> 00:12:49,795 Speaker 1: do something like that again, not as long as he 177 00:12:49,835 --> 00:12:52,155 Speaker 1: thinks he owns you because you did something he desperately 178 00:12:52,195 --> 00:12:55,795 Speaker 1: needed you to do, and you were the only one 179 00:12:55,795 --> 00:12:57,995 Speaker 1: who could do it, and so now he might as 180 00:12:57,995 --> 00:13:02,195 Speaker 1: well own you, or I don't know to port you. 181 00:13:02,195 --> 00:13:04,635 Speaker 1: You know what you do when somebody says that about you, chuck, 182 00:13:04,955 --> 00:13:07,195 Speaker 1: You ask for a meeting with him, a photo op, 183 00:13:07,235 --> 00:13:10,035 Speaker 1: and when the cameras are all rolling, then you kick 184 00:13:10,115 --> 00:13:12,835 Speaker 1: him in the balls and you take the consequences. You 185 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:16,435 Speaker 1: don't make a deal with him the next day, selling 186 00:13:16,435 --> 00:13:23,555 Speaker 1: out the people who put you in office. Politicos sometimes 187 00:13:23,635 --> 00:13:26,835 Speaker 1: uses anonymous sources irresponsibly, but I'm not sure that's the 188 00:13:26,875 --> 00:13:29,315 Speaker 1: case here. They often also look through the wrong end 189 00:13:29,315 --> 00:13:31,235 Speaker 1: of the telescope, and I'm not sure that's the case 190 00:13:31,275 --> 00:13:35,915 Speaker 1: here either. Quote one Democratic senator granted anonymity to share 191 00:13:35,955 --> 00:13:40,275 Speaker 1: private discussions, said conversations are starting about whether Schumer should 192 00:13:40,275 --> 00:13:43,515 Speaker 1: be their leader going forward. There's a lot of concern 193 00:13:43,555 --> 00:13:45,995 Speaker 1: about the failure to have a plan and execute on it, 194 00:13:46,395 --> 00:13:48,715 Speaker 1: the senator said. It's not like you couldn't figure out 195 00:13:48,715 --> 00:13:52,515 Speaker 1: that this is what was going to happen behind closed doors. 196 00:13:52,555 --> 00:13:55,755 Speaker 1: Even some longtime Schumer allies are raising the specter that 197 00:13:55,835 --> 00:13:59,035 Speaker 1: his time has passed. Quote. Biden is gone, Pelosi is 198 00:13:59,035 --> 00:14:01,035 Speaker 1: in the background. Schumer is the last one left from 199 00:14:01,035 --> 00:14:04,195 Speaker 1: that older generation, said one New York based donor who 200 00:14:04,275 --> 00:14:06,435 Speaker 1: is a long I'm supporter of a leader. I do 201 00:14:06,555 --> 00:14:09,115 Speaker 1: worry that the older generation thinks twenty twenty four was 202 00:14:09,195 --> 00:14:12,155 Speaker 1: just about inflation. But no, the game has changed. It's 203 00:14:12,155 --> 00:14:15,075 Speaker 1: not left wing or moderate. It's everyone now saying the 204 00:14:15,115 --> 00:14:18,395 Speaker 1: game is different now. But he was set up to 205 00:14:18,435 --> 00:14:20,995 Speaker 1: battle in two thousand and six, and we're a long 206 00:14:21,075 --> 00:14:25,915 Speaker 1: way from two thousand and six. Or, as the Hollywood 207 00:14:25,915 --> 00:14:29,795 Speaker 1: writer director Mike Samonek wrote, much more succinctly, I don't 208 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:32,875 Speaker 1: want to say the Schumer optics are bad, but Gavin 209 00:14:32,955 --> 00:15:03,515 Speaker 1: Newsom just invited him on his podcast. There are two 210 00:15:03,595 --> 00:15:06,555 Speaker 1: other polling notes from those polls. Yesterday. The CNN one 211 00:15:06,675 --> 00:15:10,555 Speaker 1: asked Democrats to pick the leader who quote best reflects 212 00:15:10,595 --> 00:15:14,515 Speaker 1: the core values of the party. Aoc Is at the 213 00:15:14,555 --> 00:15:19,355 Speaker 1: top at ten percent, Kamala at nine, Bernie at eight, 214 00:15:19,635 --> 00:15:23,875 Speaker 1: a King Jeffreys at six, Jasmine Krocket at four, Obama 215 00:15:23,915 --> 00:15:28,875 Speaker 1: at four. Oh yeah, Obama, Remember Obama. I'm sure he'll 216 00:15:28,915 --> 00:15:34,435 Speaker 1: be dropping a protest playlist any day, soon after he 217 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:38,515 Speaker 1: does his hoops bracket Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer is at 218 00:15:38,515 --> 00:15:43,875 Speaker 1: two percent. No One the choice no One is at 219 00:15:43,915 --> 00:15:51,355 Speaker 1: thirty percent. AOC has five times Schumer's support. No One 220 00:15:51,835 --> 00:15:56,315 Speaker 1: has fifteen times Schumer's support, and Schumer at two percent 221 00:15:56,395 --> 00:16:02,955 Speaker 1: is tied with Elyssa Slotkin. The other poll, Trump's favorability 222 00:16:03,035 --> 00:16:06,155 Speaker 1: among all voters is already four points underwater and twelve 223 00:16:06,275 --> 00:16:10,235 Speaker 1: underwater on the economy. I mean, how do you f 224 00:16:10,355 --> 00:16:14,475 Speaker 1: this up in both directions, Chuck? Just as Trump begins 225 00:16:14,475 --> 00:16:18,675 Speaker 1: to drown on the economy, and just as Elon Musk 226 00:16:18,995 --> 00:16:22,875 Speaker 1: was retweeting somebody who wrote Stalin Mao and Hitler didn't 227 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:27,755 Speaker 1: murder millions of people, their public sector workers did, and 228 00:16:27,915 --> 00:16:31,915 Speaker 1: even in the White House, Musk was seen to be imploding. 229 00:16:32,315 --> 00:16:34,755 Speaker 1: And then, in response to that imploding, the White House 230 00:16:34,795 --> 00:16:38,715 Speaker 1: itself managed to implode and attack the racist Musk by 231 00:16:38,755 --> 00:16:43,475 Speaker 1: going even more racist than him. Musk blithely tells Cudlow 232 00:16:45,315 --> 00:16:50,475 Speaker 1: Scotchy Scotchy scotch on Fox Business about cutting entitlements. In 233 00:16:50,555 --> 00:16:54,675 Speaker 1: her Red Letter newsletter, Tara Palmery writes, even though Trump's 234 00:16:54,715 --> 00:16:56,915 Speaker 1: staffers are terrified of Musk, they know that if you 235 00:16:56,995 --> 00:17:00,595 Speaker 1: try to cut social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid you die 236 00:17:01,475 --> 00:17:06,035 Speaker 1: politically speaking. Quote, it's no longer simmer r resistance. People 237 00:17:06,075 --> 00:17:10,075 Speaker 1: are effing furious. Set a source with knowledge of the situation, 238 00:17:12,275 --> 00:17:18,155 Speaker 1: and then comes the the coup de lack of grass. Quote. 239 00:17:18,835 --> 00:17:21,435 Speaker 1: Medicaid is not just for black people in the ghetto. 240 00:17:21,835 --> 00:17:25,835 Speaker 1: These are our voters. Unquote. Set a Republican operative close 241 00:17:25,875 --> 00:17:32,475 Speaker 1: to the White House. How is that not the quote 242 00:17:32,915 --> 00:17:38,555 Speaker 1: on the lips of every Democrat in this country today? 243 00:17:39,395 --> 00:17:41,435 Speaker 1: Medicaid is not just for black people in the ghetto. 244 00:17:41,875 --> 00:17:44,675 Speaker 1: Set a Republican operative close to the White House. These 245 00:17:44,715 --> 00:17:48,715 Speaker 1: are our voters. How is it not the quote on 246 00:17:49,035 --> 00:17:57,195 Speaker 1: every Democrat's lip today? Two words Chuck Schumer or maybe 247 00:17:57,275 --> 00:18:00,715 Speaker 1: the quote from that little TOWRP. Marco Rubio, who, like Schumer, 248 00:18:00,795 --> 00:18:03,395 Speaker 1: actually thought he could bargain with Trump and instead wound 249 00:18:03,515 --> 00:18:05,555 Speaker 1: up having to be the front man for the first 250 00:18:05,595 --> 00:18:09,515 Speaker 1: assault on freedom of speech and extra legal extraditions and 251 00:18:09,635 --> 00:18:13,475 Speaker 1: now having to expel the duly appointed South African ambassador 252 00:18:13,555 --> 00:18:17,315 Speaker 1: to the United States because Elon wants to make apartheid 253 00:18:17,435 --> 00:18:22,835 Speaker 1: great again. Rubio had to call South Africa's ambassador Rasoul 254 00:18:22,915 --> 00:18:28,355 Speaker 1: quote a race baiting politician who hates America, who is 255 00:18:28,595 --> 00:18:33,275 Speaker 1: no longer welcome here because Rasoul gave a speech Friday 256 00:18:33,315 --> 00:18:37,515 Speaker 1: in which he said Trump was quote mobilizing white supremacy 257 00:18:37,555 --> 00:18:41,275 Speaker 1: in the US and abroad as well. So what's your 258 00:18:41,275 --> 00:18:45,395 Speaker 1: complain about that, little Marco? Trump is mobilizing white supremacy 259 00:18:45,435 --> 00:18:48,355 Speaker 1: in the US, and so is Musk, And so Marco, 260 00:18:48,915 --> 00:18:53,835 Speaker 1: are you you complicit? Little shit? And by the way, 261 00:18:54,075 --> 00:18:57,195 Speaker 1: a race baiting politician who hates America and is no 262 00:18:57,275 --> 00:19:02,715 Speaker 1: longer welcome here, Marco, since that also describes Trump, does 263 00:19:02,755 --> 00:19:08,475 Speaker 1: this mean you're going to expel Trump? Because somebody is 264 00:19:08,555 --> 00:19:15,755 Speaker 1: damn well, gonna have to also of interest here. I'm 265 00:19:15,835 --> 00:19:19,035 Speaker 1: under the weather, so this will be kind of short today. 266 00:19:19,075 --> 00:19:21,395 Speaker 1: But the worst person's list is the never ending feast. 267 00:19:22,235 --> 00:19:24,955 Speaker 1: And as the world collapses and Trump openly ignores the 268 00:19:24,955 --> 00:19:29,315 Speaker 1: courts and starts deporting people illegally. Yesterday, guess what the 269 00:19:29,395 --> 00:19:34,795 Speaker 1: lead story was at Politico. The tone of a DC 270 00:19:35,115 --> 00:19:43,555 Speaker 1: dinner for reporters, the tone, I swear to God, ah, 271 00:19:43,675 --> 00:19:48,835 Speaker 1: there's nothing fatally wrong with our media political industrial complex. 272 00:19:49,235 --> 00:19:57,675 Speaker 1: Now that's next urseless countdown. This is countdown with Keith 273 00:19:57,715 --> 00:20:22,235 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on countdown when I'm sick. I always 274 00:20:22,275 --> 00:20:26,995 Speaker 1: think of my craziest visit to the doctor ever I 275 00:20:27,195 --> 00:20:34,515 Speaker 1: was twenty one ish and the somewhat surprising outcome. So 276 00:20:34,715 --> 00:20:36,995 Speaker 1: my face stuck to the side of the train and 277 00:20:37,035 --> 00:20:39,515 Speaker 1: they had to help me break free from the window. 278 00:20:39,875 --> 00:20:45,035 Speaker 1: Like that's never happened to you first, believe it or not. 279 00:20:45,075 --> 00:20:47,275 Speaker 1: There's still more new idiots to talk about. The daily 280 00:20:47,355 --> 00:20:50,395 Speaker 1: roundup of the misgrints, morons and dunning Kruger effects specimens 281 00:20:50,435 --> 00:20:55,515 Speaker 1: who constitute today's other worst persons in the world. Here 282 00:20:55,515 --> 00:21:00,955 Speaker 1: are the nominees, the Bronze Worse Potigo. I know I 283 00:21:00,995 --> 00:21:05,075 Speaker 1: praised them earlier. Like Trump, this only lasts three to 284 00:21:05,115 --> 00:21:07,675 Speaker 1: four minutes. That's as much time as it's going to 285 00:21:07,755 --> 00:21:12,635 Speaker 1: buy you. Illegal deportations, US citizens being locked up because 286 00:21:12,675 --> 00:21:21,075 Speaker 1: they were born somewhere else and were told JA I 287 00:21:21,115 --> 00:21:24,955 Speaker 1: was sick. I'm going to leave that in for evidence 288 00:21:26,435 --> 00:21:30,075 Speaker 1: illegal deportations US citizens being locked up because no, I 289 00:21:30,115 --> 00:21:32,715 Speaker 1: really did leave that in because they were born somewhere 290 00:21:32,755 --> 00:21:36,315 Speaker 1: else and we're returning to the country. Elon Musk still 291 00:21:36,315 --> 00:21:42,195 Speaker 1: eluding the much needed tranquilizing Dart Schumer imploding, and the 292 00:21:42,275 --> 00:21:48,115 Speaker 1: lead item in Sunday's Politico playbook newsletter The grid Iron 293 00:21:48,235 --> 00:21:57,155 Speaker 1: Dinner Saturday night in Washington. The grid Iron Dinner, despite 294 00:21:57,195 --> 00:22:00,195 Speaker 1: the name, that's a journalism event, and to be fair, 295 00:22:00,235 --> 00:22:04,475 Speaker 1: Politico is about about Washington and about journalism about Washington. 296 00:22:04,755 --> 00:22:07,195 Speaker 1: I know that's not always evident from what they write, 297 00:22:07,315 --> 00:22:10,235 Speaker 1: especially with the drama constantly surrounding the people who work 298 00:22:10,315 --> 00:22:14,715 Speaker 1: there and the new fascist owners from Europe. But do 299 00:22:14,755 --> 00:22:16,955 Speaker 1: you think once, just once, you could lead with the 300 00:22:18,715 --> 00:22:22,835 Speaker 1: earth shattering news like if Schumer is going to be deposed, 301 00:22:22,995 --> 00:22:26,595 Speaker 1: or if there are planes full of people who have 302 00:22:26,675 --> 00:22:28,835 Speaker 1: a legal right to be here who have been illegally 303 00:22:28,875 --> 00:22:33,235 Speaker 1: deported by the insane dictator of the United States, instead 304 00:22:33,275 --> 00:22:36,515 Speaker 1: of a few words about the e FFing grid Iron Dinner. 305 00:22:37,715 --> 00:22:42,755 Speaker 1: Twenty six paragraphs about the grid Iron Dinner. The first 306 00:22:42,955 --> 00:22:48,755 Speaker 1: twenty six paragraphs of your newsletter, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. I'll 307 00:22:48,755 --> 00:22:56,075 Speaker 1: get to the news somewhere, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, Politico, twenty 308 00:22:56,115 --> 00:22:58,155 Speaker 1: six paragraphs about the grid Iron Dinner and how they 309 00:22:58,155 --> 00:23:02,155 Speaker 1: didn't toast the President. I will confess I am sufficiently 310 00:23:02,235 --> 00:23:05,355 Speaker 1: under the weather that when I first read they toasted 311 00:23:05,355 --> 00:23:09,515 Speaker 1: the president, my mood cheered briefly, Where's the photo of 312 00:23:09,595 --> 00:23:12,355 Speaker 1: that Holy crap. I also realized that for a couple 313 00:23:12,355 --> 00:23:15,315 Speaker 1: of years I have been mistakenly telling people that it 314 00:23:15,395 --> 00:23:18,395 Speaker 1: was at the grid Iron Dinner that Dick Cheney as 315 00:23:18,475 --> 00:23:21,115 Speaker 1: vice president made that joke about me that I still love. 316 00:23:21,635 --> 00:23:23,555 Speaker 1: It wasn't at the grid Iron dinner. It was at 317 00:23:23,555 --> 00:23:26,835 Speaker 1: the radio and TV correspondence dinner. And yes, if it's 318 00:23:26,835 --> 00:23:33,595 Speaker 1: a Saturday, there is another Journalismalism dinner in DC. Since 319 00:23:33,595 --> 00:23:37,475 Speaker 1: you asked, I'll just well, I was going to read 320 00:23:37,515 --> 00:23:40,875 Speaker 1: the way adwe covered it, but you know the clip 321 00:23:40,915 --> 00:23:45,835 Speaker 1: is on YouTube, so in case you don't know it. 322 00:23:45,955 --> 00:23:48,715 Speaker 3: Moe's blog is titled Moe Rock a one to eighty 323 00:23:49,235 --> 00:23:54,195 Speaker 3: only half as tedious as the regular News. Among his 324 00:23:54,275 --> 00:23:56,995 Speaker 3: other credits, Moe used to host a TV show called 325 00:23:57,515 --> 00:24:02,395 Speaker 3: Things I Hate About You. I'm sure I've seen that program, 326 00:24:03,675 --> 00:24:07,155 Speaker 3: only I believe it's now called Countdown with Keith Overman. 327 00:24:16,755 --> 00:24:19,355 Speaker 3: Keith's not here tonight to savor my company. 328 00:24:19,035 --> 00:24:22,395 Speaker 1: But we roared now. I'm Jack Tarynian I's a joke 329 00:24:22,395 --> 00:24:26,195 Speaker 1: about Keith Olderman. Anyway, The point of this was the 330 00:24:26,195 --> 00:24:30,795 Speaker 1: first twenty six paragraphs on a Dinner like That about 331 00:24:30,915 --> 00:24:34,595 Speaker 1: jokes like that. The first twenty six man not the 332 00:24:34,795 --> 00:24:38,515 Speaker 1: like six paragraphs of headlines and then twenty six paragraphs 333 00:24:38,515 --> 00:24:41,155 Speaker 1: about the Gridiron dinner, but the first twenty six paragraphs 334 00:24:42,075 --> 00:24:46,515 Speaker 1: underscoring this fact. The night they finally kidnap all the 335 00:24:46,555 --> 00:24:52,235 Speaker 1: reporters off the streets, the last thing every Washington correspondent 336 00:24:52,435 --> 00:24:56,835 Speaker 1: will file is a piece about what their friends were 337 00:24:56,955 --> 00:25:02,595 Speaker 1: wearing at the time they were disappeared. The runner up 338 00:25:02,635 --> 00:25:08,435 Speaker 1: worser Alina Habba, Official Administration nit wit. I've said it 339 00:25:08,515 --> 00:25:11,595 Speaker 1: so many times, you can say it with me. The 340 00:25:11,635 --> 00:25:15,795 Speaker 1: future and survival of democracy depends less on our strenuous 341 00:25:15,835 --> 00:25:18,235 Speaker 1: efforts to preserve it than it does on the stupidity 342 00:25:18,275 --> 00:25:20,675 Speaker 1: of those who intend to destroy it. That is being 343 00:25:20,715 --> 00:25:24,515 Speaker 1: tested now. But as long as we have the Secretary 344 00:25:24,555 --> 00:25:29,035 Speaker 1: of knit wittedness, Alna Habba, I believe we will prevail 345 00:25:29,915 --> 00:25:33,795 Speaker 1: after we get rid of Schumer. Alina Haba responding to 346 00:25:33,835 --> 00:25:40,795 Speaker 1: something or another about about the attempts to stop human 347 00:25:41,315 --> 00:25:45,035 Speaker 1: extortion and trafficking. And I don't know if they were claiming, 348 00:25:45,915 --> 00:25:48,275 Speaker 1: I don't know who they're claiming the Pope is a trap. 349 00:25:48,315 --> 00:25:49,555 Speaker 1: I don't know who they were claiming. There was a 350 00:25:49,595 --> 00:25:53,675 Speaker 1: trafficker and Alena Haba writes, thank you, let's pray for 351 00:25:53,715 --> 00:25:56,315 Speaker 1: the many victims of human extortion as a result of 352 00:25:56,355 --> 00:26:00,235 Speaker 1: the last administration's neglect and failures. And then the prayer 353 00:26:00,355 --> 00:26:08,075 Speaker 1: emoji and this note, this community note. Alina Habas supported 354 00:26:08,115 --> 00:26:10,755 Speaker 1: the Tate brothers who are under investigation for human trafficking. 355 00:26:13,635 --> 00:26:18,955 Speaker 1: There's a reason you go into parking lot law, and 356 00:26:18,995 --> 00:26:23,715 Speaker 1: that's because it's a challenge to you. I wanted to 357 00:26:23,755 --> 00:26:28,355 Speaker 1: stretch my mind. It went entirely one inch wide. But 358 00:26:28,435 --> 00:26:31,595 Speaker 1: the winner is the worst. Marco Rubio and naive butclely 359 00:26:32,235 --> 00:26:36,035 Speaker 1: bukill As you know, a federal court blocked the illegal 360 00:26:36,515 --> 00:26:40,555 Speaker 1: deportation of Venezuelans by the insane dictator to a concentration 361 00:26:40,675 --> 00:26:46,715 Speaker 1: camp in a third party country, El Salvador. Planes were 362 00:26:46,715 --> 00:26:50,195 Speaker 1: in the air already, and so the administration decided not 363 00:26:50,235 --> 00:26:52,635 Speaker 1: to turn the planes around and announced it was not 364 00:26:52,715 --> 00:26:55,315 Speaker 1: defying the court, and announced it was defying the court. 365 00:26:56,235 --> 00:27:03,275 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, the little Shit secretary of Little Shit, boasted 366 00:27:03,315 --> 00:27:06,795 Speaker 1: about it as the president of Al Salvador. It's just 367 00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:09,475 Speaker 1: a brand name. There's not really a president, Like we 368 00:27:09,555 --> 00:27:11,875 Speaker 1: don't really have a president. We have an insane dictator. 369 00:27:12,675 --> 00:27:17,395 Speaker 1: Naib Bukel, president of Al Salvador, screenshoted the headline from 370 00:27:17,435 --> 00:27:20,035 Speaker 1: the New York Post about the judge blocking Trump from 371 00:27:20,035 --> 00:27:24,275 Speaker 1: invoking the Alien Enemies Act, and President Bukel added quote 372 00:27:24,515 --> 00:27:30,675 Speaker 1: oopsie too late and added the crying laughing emoji because 373 00:27:30,675 --> 00:27:37,595 Speaker 1: somewhere along the line emoji became fascist. That's President asshole 374 00:27:37,755 --> 00:27:40,995 Speaker 1: of l Salvador. Yeah, keep laughing. See you at the 375 00:27:40,995 --> 00:27:44,315 Speaker 1: World Court at the Hague, buddy in twenty twenty nine, 376 00:27:44,515 --> 00:27:47,995 Speaker 1: unless your own people take care of their problem. Five 377 00:27:48,075 --> 00:27:51,955 Speaker 1: years ago, this alleged president wanted approval from the Salvadoran 378 00:27:52,195 --> 00:27:55,395 Speaker 1: Legislative Assembly for a one hundred and nine million dollar 379 00:27:55,475 --> 00:27:59,635 Speaker 1: loan for his territorial control plan. So to deliver the message, 380 00:27:59,675 --> 00:28:03,835 Speaker 1: President Bukake or whatever his name is, sent forty soldiers 381 00:28:04,315 --> 00:28:10,395 Speaker 1: over to the Legislative Assembly to say hello. In twenty nineteen, 382 00:28:10,755 --> 00:28:15,355 Speaker 1: President Bukela introduced that plan, the Territorial Control Plan, to 383 00:28:15,395 --> 00:28:18,995 Speaker 1: reduce the homicide rate. It was reduced only actor alleged 384 00:28:19,035 --> 00:28:22,195 Speaker 1: the US Department of State. Bukell negotiated with the gangs 385 00:28:22,195 --> 00:28:25,995 Speaker 1: in Al Salvador to reduce the homicide rate. Hey do 386 00:28:26,115 --> 00:28:29,675 Speaker 1: me a solid kill fewer people okay, and you know 387 00:28:29,715 --> 00:28:32,635 Speaker 1: who alleged that were the State Department under which President 388 00:28:32,635 --> 00:28:36,795 Speaker 1: alleged he did that, Trump's State Department. But now Trump's 389 00:28:36,915 --> 00:28:41,315 Speaker 1: new horror at the State Department. Marco, he's Besti's with 390 00:28:41,435 --> 00:28:47,115 Speaker 1: this guy, Marco Rubio and alleged President Bukelly of Al Salvador. 391 00:28:48,155 --> 00:28:51,035 Speaker 1: What happened to that guy to Turte from the Philippines again? 392 00:28:51,435 --> 00:28:59,395 Speaker 1: Oh oh boy, two days worst persons. I can't hit 393 00:28:59,395 --> 00:29:12,915 Speaker 1: this high note in the world. To the number one 394 00:29:12,955 --> 00:29:15,195 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and things I promise not to tell. 395 00:29:15,195 --> 00:29:17,635 Speaker 1: And this is anything but an important career story. But 396 00:29:17,675 --> 00:29:20,275 Speaker 1: I was reminded of it recently and I laughed like hell, 397 00:29:20,355 --> 00:29:24,035 Speaker 1: so I thought maybe you should too. I haven't seen 398 00:29:24,155 --> 00:29:26,275 Speaker 1: all of them in this country, but to my mind, 399 00:29:26,315 --> 00:29:29,715 Speaker 1: the most underrated of American rivers is the one I 400 00:29:29,755 --> 00:29:32,875 Speaker 1: grew up along. The Hudson gets a bad rap because 401 00:29:32,875 --> 00:29:36,795 Speaker 1: it's associated with New York City and the deteriorating remnants 402 00:29:36,795 --> 00:29:39,635 Speaker 1: of the city's once dominant piers, some of which have 403 00:29:39,715 --> 00:29:43,395 Speaker 1: been unused and rotting for half a century now. But 404 00:29:43,515 --> 00:29:46,715 Speaker 1: further upstate, literally just past the city line, the Hudson 405 00:29:46,835 --> 00:29:50,955 Speaker 1: is a magnificent river just to watch, never mind ride on. 406 00:29:51,715 --> 00:29:54,195 Speaker 1: This is particularly true during a stretch in which the 407 00:29:54,195 --> 00:29:56,515 Speaker 1: western side of the river is fronted by a series 408 00:29:56,555 --> 00:30:00,795 Speaker 1: of sheer cliffs called the Palisades, brownish black and striated, 409 00:30:01,235 --> 00:30:04,235 Speaker 1: carved as the river took shape millions of years ago, 410 00:30:04,275 --> 00:30:07,795 Speaker 1: but always looking like they had been carefully designed for 411 00:30:08,075 --> 00:30:13,155 Speaker 1: esthetic effect. Unfortunately, they are best seen from the commuter 412 00:30:13,315 --> 00:30:16,395 Speaker 1: railroad that runs along the Hudson into Westchester County, New York, 413 00:30:16,835 --> 00:30:19,555 Speaker 1: instead of a series of parks or even private palaces. 414 00:30:19,915 --> 00:30:22,955 Speaker 1: Our forefathers had the presence of mind to build factories 415 00:30:22,955 --> 00:30:26,355 Speaker 1: and copper processing plants and other nightmares right on the 416 00:30:26,435 --> 00:30:30,795 Speaker 1: Hudson because of the obvious transportation benefits the Hudson provided, 417 00:30:31,275 --> 00:30:33,395 Speaker 1: and so the train tracks were laid out next to 418 00:30:33,395 --> 00:30:35,355 Speaker 1: the river because that made it even easier to get 419 00:30:35,395 --> 00:30:37,915 Speaker 1: stuff to and from the big city. And damn the 420 00:30:37,995 --> 00:30:41,115 Speaker 1: views or the ability to appreciate life on the water 421 00:30:41,795 --> 00:30:46,955 Speaker 1: or the pollution. Still, if you ever find yourself now 422 00:30:46,995 --> 00:30:50,475 Speaker 1: taking a train from Grand Central Station into the western 423 00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:54,155 Speaker 1: half of Westchester, get a window seat on the left 424 00:30:54,195 --> 00:30:56,195 Speaker 1: side of the trainer. Better yet, when you come back 425 00:30:56,235 --> 00:30:58,955 Speaker 1: into New York City, sit on the right side on 426 00:30:58,995 --> 00:31:02,195 Speaker 1: the river side, and you will get fifteen minutes or 427 00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:08,635 Speaker 1: more of the most magnificent view inable out the big windows. Winter's, spring, summer, 428 00:31:08,795 --> 00:31:12,475 Speaker 1: or fall. The palisades provide the Hudson with a magnificent 429 00:31:12,595 --> 00:31:17,595 Speaker 1: frame that's almost like a miniature Grand Canyon. I remember 430 00:31:17,595 --> 00:31:20,635 Speaker 1: thinking of all this that one day early in nineteen 431 00:31:20,715 --> 00:31:22,795 Speaker 1: eighty I was finally feeling a little better, thanks to 432 00:31:22,835 --> 00:31:26,635 Speaker 1: doctor Cecilini. Doctor Cecelini had been my physician since I 433 00:31:26,715 --> 00:31:29,555 Speaker 1: was a boy, and he was the school doctor, and 434 00:31:29,635 --> 00:31:33,195 Speaker 1: he'd been the town doctor since about nineteen forty four, 435 00:31:33,635 --> 00:31:36,515 Speaker 1: and he always name dropped other patients I'd never heard of. 436 00:31:37,275 --> 00:31:39,755 Speaker 1: And as I finished my last growth spurt at the 437 00:31:39,835 --> 00:31:42,155 Speaker 1: end of my twentieth year, I had frequent back pain, 438 00:31:42,235 --> 00:31:45,395 Speaker 1: no fun at all, and sleeping on the floor helped 439 00:31:45,395 --> 00:31:48,115 Speaker 1: a little, but not enough. And finally Cecilini, who had 440 00:31:48,155 --> 00:31:50,515 Speaker 1: been a hospital doctor during World War Two and had 441 00:31:50,555 --> 00:31:55,715 Speaker 1: seen everything, said hey, just get this prescription filled. Take 442 00:31:55,835 --> 00:31:57,435 Speaker 1: one on them every day for the next week. It's 443 00:31:57,475 --> 00:32:00,315 Speaker 1: called a muscle relaxing. This will loosen up your back 444 00:32:01,275 --> 00:32:05,555 Speaker 1: als lessen the pain. Well, bet, just don't you know, 445 00:32:05,675 --> 00:32:09,075 Speaker 1: don't operate any heavy machinery, do you operate heavy machinery 446 00:32:09,075 --> 00:32:13,035 Speaker 1: when you do those sportscasts. Yars Keith had a patient 447 00:32:13,075 --> 00:32:15,435 Speaker 1: try to run a processor at the copper factory while 448 00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:18,155 Speaker 1: he took this nineteen fifty seven, we lost three fingers. 449 00:32:18,675 --> 00:32:20,995 Speaker 1: Leonardo ben Venuti. You know any of the ben Venuties 450 00:32:21,035 --> 00:32:26,715 Speaker 1: used to live on Williams Street. I laughed, this was 451 00:32:26,795 --> 00:32:30,875 Speaker 1: him every time, the ben Venuti's on Williams Street, the 452 00:32:30,915 --> 00:32:36,435 Speaker 1: Smith's on william Street, the Williams on Smith Street. Anyway, 453 00:32:36,515 --> 00:32:39,075 Speaker 1: back to the muscle relaxes, I don't think I had 454 00:32:39,115 --> 00:32:42,515 Speaker 1: ever heard of them before, let alone taken one. I 455 00:32:42,555 --> 00:32:45,195 Speaker 1: took my barking back to the pharmacy in my hometown 456 00:32:45,235 --> 00:32:48,035 Speaker 1: of Hastings on Hudson, New York. I got the prescription filled, 457 00:32:48,035 --> 00:32:50,595 Speaker 1: I bought a soda at the pizza parlor across the street, 458 00:32:50,635 --> 00:32:54,035 Speaker 1: and I ambled down the tiny village's picturesque business district. 459 00:32:54,515 --> 00:32:58,315 Speaker 1: It's three blocks long, past the statue our old neighbor, 460 00:32:58,395 --> 00:33:02,075 Speaker 1: Jacques Lipshits donated, and the ultra modern library, and right 461 00:33:02,075 --> 00:33:05,235 Speaker 1: into the train station. It was January. He was about 462 00:33:05,275 --> 00:33:08,035 Speaker 1: twelve degrees and as I waited for the train to 463 00:33:08,075 --> 00:33:09,835 Speaker 1: make its forty minute trip into the city and my 464 00:33:09,915 --> 00:33:12,675 Speaker 1: job as a sportscaster for the radio network of United 465 00:33:12,715 --> 00:33:15,275 Speaker 1: pres International. I took the pill what were they called again, 466 00:33:16,115 --> 00:33:21,235 Speaker 1: muscle muscle relaxance that doctor C had given me and 467 00:33:21,555 --> 00:33:24,795 Speaker 1: given his other patient, Rico Rendazzo, Or was that some 468 00:33:24,835 --> 00:33:28,315 Speaker 1: guy he mentioned in nineteen sixty six to me? I 469 00:33:28,355 --> 00:33:30,715 Speaker 1: worked the night shift at UPI, so the train was 470 00:33:30,755 --> 00:33:33,115 Speaker 1: almost always empty, and thus I almost always had my 471 00:33:33,235 --> 00:33:38,115 Speaker 1: choice of window seats. Midday and midwinter combined to make 472 00:33:38,155 --> 00:33:41,675 Speaker 1: the sun glisten with extra sparkle off the magnificent Hudson, 473 00:33:41,715 --> 00:33:45,115 Speaker 1: and the sun's angle was such that the palisades behind 474 00:33:45,155 --> 00:33:49,115 Speaker 1: them gleamed brightly as well. And I was thinking about 475 00:33:49,155 --> 00:33:52,875 Speaker 1: just how gorgeous they were, and how underrated the Hudson was, 476 00:33:53,555 --> 00:34:01,595 Speaker 1: and and I felt myself drifting away. I felt two hands, 477 00:34:01,635 --> 00:34:06,035 Speaker 1: one on each shoulder, shaking me violently. Buddy, Hey, Hey, hey, hey, buddy. 478 00:34:06,635 --> 00:34:10,115 Speaker 1: I fought to open my eyes and to avoid the 479 00:34:10,155 --> 00:34:14,435 Speaker 1: bad breath now enveloping my face. As I finally came around, 480 00:34:14,475 --> 00:34:17,235 Speaker 1: I realized it was the conductor who had just taken 481 00:34:17,315 --> 00:34:20,875 Speaker 1: my ticket. The train wasn't moving. In fact, only half 482 00:34:20,915 --> 00:34:23,595 Speaker 1: of the lights were on in the train. The palisades 483 00:34:23,635 --> 00:34:27,435 Speaker 1: were long gone, not the Hudson nor the palisades, but 484 00:34:27,555 --> 00:34:30,955 Speaker 1: darkness came in through the windows. I was completely confused. 485 00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:33,035 Speaker 1: Am I shake it off? You gotta get out of here. 486 00:34:33,355 --> 00:34:35,635 Speaker 1: This is as far as we go. Train's going out 487 00:34:35,635 --> 00:34:37,715 Speaker 1: of service. You don't get off now, you'll be parked 488 00:34:37,755 --> 00:34:39,835 Speaker 1: under thirty seven straight for the rest of the day. 489 00:34:41,395 --> 00:34:43,795 Speaker 1: Through my fog and my haze, I finally began to 490 00:34:43,875 --> 00:34:47,155 Speaker 1: understand what had happened and where I was, and I 491 00:34:47,195 --> 00:34:50,355 Speaker 1: began to try to stand when a horrifying awareness overtook me. 492 00:34:50,675 --> 00:34:53,395 Speaker 1: I could not move the right side of my face. 493 00:34:54,155 --> 00:34:57,835 Speaker 1: What was worse, I could barely feel the right side 494 00:34:57,835 --> 00:35:01,075 Speaker 1: of my face. Good God, what had happened to me? 495 00:35:01,835 --> 00:35:04,835 Speaker 1: Was this like that haunting episode of Alfred Hitchcock where 496 00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:07,195 Speaker 1: the woman is struggling to wake up and remember the 497 00:35:07,235 --> 00:35:10,275 Speaker 1: details of the accident out on San Francisco Bay the 498 00:35:10,355 --> 00:35:13,355 Speaker 1: night before, only as it finally comes back to her, 499 00:35:13,435 --> 00:35:16,755 Speaker 1: it turns out the accident had drowned her boyfriend, and 500 00:35:16,835 --> 00:35:19,075 Speaker 1: the reason it was so difficult to remember was, as 501 00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:20,955 Speaker 1: she realized only when she got up and saw her 502 00:35:20,955 --> 00:35:24,155 Speaker 1: reflection in a mirror, that the accident hadn't happened last night, 503 00:35:24,275 --> 00:35:26,715 Speaker 1: but it had happened in nineteen oh five, and she'd 504 00:35:26,755 --> 00:35:29,115 Speaker 1: been in an insane asylum for half a century. Was 505 00:35:29,155 --> 00:35:34,115 Speaker 1: that what had happened to me? No? Actually, as I 506 00:35:34,155 --> 00:35:37,195 Speaker 1: discovered when my struggle finally freed my face from the 507 00:35:37,235 --> 00:35:41,315 Speaker 1: train window to which it had stuck, because I had 508 00:35:41,475 --> 00:35:45,835 Speaker 1: drooled for like thirty five consecutive minutes, because I had 509 00:35:45,835 --> 00:35:48,195 Speaker 1: taken the muscle relaxant, because I had taken an honest 510 00:35:48,275 --> 00:35:51,875 Speaker 1: empty stomach, because I knew nothing about muscle relaxans, because 511 00:35:51,875 --> 00:35:55,475 Speaker 1: I was out cold with my mouth open, pressed up 512 00:35:55,475 --> 00:35:58,435 Speaker 1: against the train window on a twelve degree day, and 513 00:35:58,515 --> 00:36:04,515 Speaker 1: I had gotten frozen to the glass. Look, it was 514 00:36:04,515 --> 00:36:07,235 Speaker 1: not quite half a century in an insane asylum, but 515 00:36:07,275 --> 00:36:10,955 Speaker 1: certainly more embarrassing. It seemed like it took me half 516 00:36:10,995 --> 00:36:15,235 Speaker 1: a century to pull all of this together. I stood 517 00:36:15,315 --> 00:36:18,675 Speaker 1: up wobbly. I apologized to the conductor, and I mumbled 518 00:36:19,675 --> 00:36:24,515 Speaker 1: back pain new drug. And as I banked from one 519 00:36:24,555 --> 00:36:27,475 Speaker 1: side of the doorway to the other and bounced out 520 00:36:27,475 --> 00:36:31,155 Speaker 1: onto the platform, the conductor shouted after me, only take 521 00:36:31,235 --> 00:36:36,395 Speaker 1: him at night? Huh that little saga? Yeah, Doc, my 522 00:36:36,555 --> 00:36:38,515 Speaker 1: back is better, But I left half the skin on 523 00:36:38,515 --> 00:36:41,075 Speaker 1: my right cheek frozen into the one twenty from Hastings 524 00:36:41,075 --> 00:36:45,675 Speaker 1: to Grand Central. He'd probably say, yeah, that happened to 525 00:36:45,715 --> 00:36:49,355 Speaker 1: another patient of mine, Carlo John Lombardo. That reminded me 526 00:36:49,395 --> 00:36:51,715 Speaker 1: of a much later story from doctor Cecilini, and I 527 00:36:51,715 --> 00:36:55,115 Speaker 1: don't want to leave the wrong impression here. Edward Cecilini 528 00:36:55,275 --> 00:36:59,275 Speaker 1: was a terrific doctor. He practiced into his nineties. He 529 00:36:59,355 --> 00:37:00,915 Speaker 1: used to tell me to come visit him at his 530 00:37:00,995 --> 00:37:03,595 Speaker 1: practice in his home on Farragut Parkway anytime I was 531 00:37:03,675 --> 00:37:06,675 Speaker 1: up from the city visiting my folks, Well, Josh shoot 532 00:37:06,675 --> 00:37:10,195 Speaker 1: the braise, and he'd tell me about something about treating 533 00:37:10,355 --> 00:37:14,195 Speaker 1: Umberto Flambini in the Army Hospital in nineteen forty four. 534 00:37:14,715 --> 00:37:16,315 Speaker 1: And he'd asked me if I went to school with 535 00:37:16,395 --> 00:37:18,595 Speaker 1: Marco Bartolini and then say he had to go. He 536 00:37:18,675 --> 00:37:21,235 Speaker 1: was taking a course over at Sony Purchase about the 537 00:37:21,275 --> 00:37:24,915 Speaker 1: latest computer aided diagnostic till the man was ninety years old. 538 00:37:25,155 --> 00:37:30,795 Speaker 1: He never stopped learning. Great man, and did he howl 539 00:37:30,995 --> 00:37:35,395 Speaker 1: at the muscle relaxing story. Sorry, sorry, I didn't warn you. 540 00:37:35,475 --> 00:37:37,875 Speaker 1: Oh well, I just take him at Naida. I had 541 00:37:37,875 --> 00:37:42,475 Speaker 1: another patient do that nineteen seventeen. He's just all right. Anyway. 542 00:37:42,515 --> 00:37:45,155 Speaker 1: Now it's nineteen ninety five and I'm working at ESPN 543 00:37:45,315 --> 00:37:47,955 Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to fly to Vancouver to do a 544 00:37:47,995 --> 00:37:50,795 Speaker 1: cameo in an Adam Sandler golf movie, which I suppose 545 00:37:50,835 --> 00:37:52,795 Speaker 1: was Happy Gilmour. And I didn't want to try to 546 00:37:52,835 --> 00:37:57,275 Speaker 1: fly to Chicago and then change for Vancouver after going 547 00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:59,435 Speaker 1: the two hours from the middle of Connecticut to JFK. 548 00:37:59,795 --> 00:38:03,035 Speaker 1: So I came in to my folks house the day before, 549 00:38:03,075 --> 00:38:05,235 Speaker 1: I took the folks out to dinner, stayed over in 550 00:38:05,275 --> 00:38:07,355 Speaker 1: the spare room to leave from their house to the 551 00:38:07,395 --> 00:38:09,835 Speaker 1: airport in the morning, and at some point in the 552 00:38:09,835 --> 00:38:12,355 Speaker 1: middle of the night, I began to have chest pains. 553 00:38:12,915 --> 00:38:15,395 Speaker 1: Literally the top of my ribs hurt and my breathing 554 00:38:15,475 --> 00:38:17,635 Speaker 1: was constricted, and I couldn't get back to sleep. And 555 00:38:17,675 --> 00:38:19,435 Speaker 1: now I'm thinking, I don't know what's wrong, but something 556 00:38:19,515 --> 00:38:22,915 Speaker 1: is wrong. So I canceled the trip and I head 557 00:38:22,995 --> 00:38:25,075 Speaker 1: up to doctor Cecilini as soon as he's opened up 558 00:38:25,075 --> 00:38:27,195 Speaker 1: shop and he's eighty five now, and he gives me 559 00:38:27,235 --> 00:38:28,915 Speaker 1: the big welcome as usual, and I tell him the 560 00:38:28,915 --> 00:38:32,635 Speaker 1: story and he says, oh, yeah, I think it's nothing 561 00:38:32,675 --> 00:38:34,835 Speaker 1: to worry about, but we we should get this on 562 00:38:34,875 --> 00:38:37,115 Speaker 1: the record, just in case your movie company gets pissy 563 00:38:37,155 --> 00:38:40,555 Speaker 1: with you about canceling dad. Happened to another friend of mine, 564 00:38:40,715 --> 00:38:44,915 Speaker 1: patient Francesco Lola Bridget. He had a cameo and Moby 565 00:38:44,955 --> 00:38:47,275 Speaker 1: Dick in nineteen fifty six. He had cancel He wanted 566 00:38:47,275 --> 00:38:49,795 Speaker 1: it soon. How about you get your dad. Just drive 567 00:38:49,835 --> 00:38:52,275 Speaker 1: you up to the hospital in Dobbs Ferry. I meet 568 00:38:52,355 --> 00:38:54,835 Speaker 1: you there and oh like half an hour, hour and 569 00:38:54,875 --> 00:38:57,635 Speaker 1: a half something like that. Let me just run a 570 00:38:57,635 --> 00:38:59,115 Speaker 1: couple of tests on you. When we got you out. 571 00:38:59,155 --> 00:39:02,075 Speaker 1: There's no rush whatsoever. What's ther now? He stares off 572 00:39:02,075 --> 00:39:04,355 Speaker 1: into space for a second, and he looks back at me. 573 00:39:04,355 --> 00:39:07,315 Speaker 1: He says, I got I got an idea a little simpler. 574 00:39:08,435 --> 00:39:10,395 Speaker 1: I have to go there later. I have to drop 575 00:39:10,435 --> 00:39:15,075 Speaker 1: off some paperwork on some other guy, Frisco Gaspoci No Frisco. Anyway, 576 00:39:15,155 --> 00:39:16,875 Speaker 1: Just give me a second. I'll call him. I'll tell 577 00:39:16,915 --> 00:39:18,835 Speaker 1: him what coming on. Just you just hop in the 578 00:39:18,875 --> 00:39:20,275 Speaker 1: car with me and go out in the waiting room. 579 00:39:20,475 --> 00:39:22,635 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him about Frisco. And I got to 580 00:39:22,635 --> 00:39:26,955 Speaker 1: worry about doctor patient confidentiality. But about Frisco Gospooci, Sa 581 00:39:27,075 --> 00:39:28,875 Speaker 1: you know, I gotta worry about that, so I don't 582 00:39:28,875 --> 00:39:33,235 Speaker 1: want you listening to that. So now ed cecil and 583 00:39:33,235 --> 00:39:35,515 Speaker 1: he's driving me to Dobb's Ferry Hospital, and I'm thinking 584 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:38,235 Speaker 1: about how much he defines the idea of a really 585 00:39:38,235 --> 00:39:40,915 Speaker 1: dedicated doctor, and how every other patient he's ever mentioned 586 00:39:40,915 --> 00:39:43,755 Speaker 1: to me, I've never heard of one of them. And 587 00:39:43,835 --> 00:39:45,755 Speaker 1: we get to the hospital. I don't know. We talked 588 00:39:45,755 --> 00:39:48,515 Speaker 1: about baseball or my folks or something, and he drives 589 00:39:48,595 --> 00:39:50,315 Speaker 1: right up to the er and we walk in like 590 00:39:50,355 --> 00:39:53,235 Speaker 1: it's nothing, and he waves to the admitting nurse, Hi, Sheila, 591 00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:56,115 Speaker 1: how's your soign Shila? And he points at me. He says, 592 00:39:56,235 --> 00:39:59,115 Speaker 1: that's the guy, and he says, like it was absolutely 593 00:39:59,115 --> 00:40:01,115 Speaker 1: the way they do it at every hospital. You can 594 00:40:01,155 --> 00:40:02,955 Speaker 1: go all his info from him. After we run this 595 00:40:02,955 --> 00:40:05,515 Speaker 1: little check on all right, We go right into the 596 00:40:05,595 --> 00:40:08,595 Speaker 1: room and two nurses are in there and they say hi, 597 00:40:08,635 --> 00:40:10,275 Speaker 1: and one of them tells me to take off my shirt. 598 00:40:10,315 --> 00:40:13,155 Speaker 1: The other starts shaving places on my chest, and before 599 00:40:13,155 --> 00:40:15,195 Speaker 1: I know what's happening, I've got electrodes on me and 600 00:40:15,235 --> 00:40:17,355 Speaker 1: they're hooking me up to an EKG and they're drawing blood. 601 00:40:17,355 --> 00:40:20,115 Speaker 1: In Cecillini reads the start of the EKJ print out, 602 00:40:20,155 --> 00:40:22,435 Speaker 1: and he smiles at me and says, I'm sorry I 603 00:40:22,475 --> 00:40:25,515 Speaker 1: scammed you. But the way you described your chest pains, 604 00:40:25,555 --> 00:40:27,755 Speaker 1: I thought it was fifty to fifty. He had had 605 00:40:27,755 --> 00:40:29,395 Speaker 1: a heart attack. Last thing I want to do is 606 00:40:29,435 --> 00:40:31,355 Speaker 1: tell you that just in case you had had a 607 00:40:31,355 --> 00:40:33,555 Speaker 1: heart attack. And then he had another one that happened 608 00:40:33,595 --> 00:40:38,395 Speaker 1: to another patient of mine, Bernardo Petrosante. You know, Bernardo, Oh, 609 00:40:38,995 --> 00:40:42,475 Speaker 1: let me only know this. Ah, you're fine. Let me 610 00:40:42,515 --> 00:40:45,235 Speaker 1: just wait on the blood gases, double check that, go 611 00:40:45,315 --> 00:40:47,315 Speaker 1: out there and do the paperwork for shill at the desk. 612 00:40:47,435 --> 00:40:51,115 Speaker 1: I think it's just a muscle problem. The son of 613 00:40:51,155 --> 00:40:54,195 Speaker 1: a gun had not only made sure I didn't know 614 00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:57,635 Speaker 1: it might be serious, it might be heart attack serious. 615 00:40:57,995 --> 00:41:01,435 Speaker 1: But he conned me into going to the emergency room 616 00:41:01,835 --> 00:41:04,195 Speaker 1: without alarming me or even letting me know that was 617 00:41:04,235 --> 00:41:08,715 Speaker 1: his plan along. And as I'm brushing the shaved hairs 618 00:41:08,755 --> 00:41:11,515 Speaker 1: off my chest and putting my shirt on, I say thanks, 619 00:41:11,515 --> 00:41:15,635 Speaker 1: and then it hits me, Hey, another thing, Doc, Bernardo 620 00:41:15,715 --> 00:41:19,795 Speaker 1: Pietra Sante and Umberto Flambini, and all these other patients 621 00:41:19,835 --> 00:41:23,435 Speaker 1: you've mentioned all these years, they don't really exist, do they? 622 00:41:24,075 --> 00:41:27,515 Speaker 1: And he says, oh, got me about that. I learned 623 00:41:27,515 --> 00:41:29,555 Speaker 1: a long time ago. Make sure your patient never feels 624 00:41:29,555 --> 00:41:32,435 Speaker 1: like they're the first idiot to have done this to themselves. 625 00:41:32,555 --> 00:41:34,395 Speaker 1: Come on, I'll give you a lift back to your folks. 626 00:41:35,035 --> 00:41:36,835 Speaker 1: Might look in and see how your dad's doing. If 627 00:41:36,835 --> 00:41:52,475 Speaker 1: he's got a moment. I've done all the damage I 628 00:41:52,475 --> 00:41:54,555 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Once again, my 629 00:41:54,635 --> 00:42:00,715 Speaker 1: apologies for the relative brevity. Not feeling that great, but 630 00:42:00,835 --> 00:42:02,955 Speaker 1: you'd never know it from my performance here today. And 631 00:42:02,955 --> 00:42:07,155 Speaker 1: you know why that is because I'm tough. Also because 632 00:42:07,515 --> 00:42:11,675 Speaker 1: you can edit out all the bad stuff. 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Remember, impeach Trump. 649 00:43:11,035 --> 00:43:14,595 Speaker 1: Impeach Trump won't work now, but it will win the 650 00:43:14,635 --> 00:43:18,635 Speaker 1: Democrats the midterms if there are midterms, and there is 651 00:43:18,675 --> 00:43:21,515 Speaker 1: the easy way to get rid of Schumer. You thirty 652 00:43:21,555 --> 00:43:25,395 Speaker 1: six Democrats and Bernie Sanders just create the new Christy 653 00:43:25,475 --> 00:43:29,875 Speaker 1: Minstrels Party. Until next time, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 654 00:43:29,915 --> 00:43:55,715 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 655 00:43:55,715 --> 00:44:00,795 Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 656 00:44:00,955 --> 00:44:04,995 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 657 00:44:04,995 --> 00:44:05,915 Speaker 1: your podcasts.