1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:21,355 --> 00:00:24,395 Speaker 1: I do not believe Joe Biden and or his team 3 00:00:24,475 --> 00:00:29,955 Speaker 1: mishandled any classified documents. Unfortunately, I believe it's clear Joe 4 00:00:29,995 --> 00:00:34,115 Speaker 1: Biden and or his team mishandled the messaging, the process, 5 00:00:34,235 --> 00:00:37,355 Speaker 1: and the narrative of this story. It is a story 6 00:00:37,395 --> 00:00:40,915 Speaker 1: that was leaked two weeks ago, two weeks ago today, 7 00:00:41,675 --> 00:00:46,395 Speaker 1: probably by somebody in Chicago, probably by the Trump appointee 8 00:00:46,435 --> 00:00:49,195 Speaker 1: there who Merritt Garland first put in charge of assessing it, 9 00:00:49,595 --> 00:00:53,795 Speaker 1: this man Lausch. And it was done with malice aforethought. 10 00:00:54,515 --> 00:00:56,835 Speaker 1: It was designed to hang there in the air and 11 00:00:56,955 --> 00:00:59,875 Speaker 1: rough Joe Biden up for a couple of days and 12 00:00:59,915 --> 00:01:04,475 Speaker 1: then fuzz up Trump's documents. Theft maybe linger long enough 13 00:01:04,475 --> 00:01:07,915 Speaker 1: to if Jim Jordan and Jim Comber and other worms 14 00:01:08,075 --> 00:01:11,235 Speaker 1: enough fodder to keep their phony house investigations of all 15 00:01:11,275 --> 00:01:13,795 Speaker 1: things Biden going for another week or two, and then 16 00:01:13,955 --> 00:01:18,835 Speaker 1: to collapse forgotten into the dustbin of history. And that's 17 00:01:18,915 --> 00:01:22,995 Speaker 1: all it could do, unless the fascists goot lucky and 18 00:01:23,155 --> 00:01:25,995 Speaker 1: could put it into the phony pile of the phony 19 00:01:26,075 --> 00:01:28,475 Speaker 1: things that they were trying to cobble into a phony 20 00:01:28,515 --> 00:01:33,395 Speaker 1: impeachment because Biden's ostensible defenders were somehow to make it 21 00:01:33,475 --> 00:01:38,475 Speaker 1: into a story. Biden's ostensible defenders were the only ones 22 00:01:38,475 --> 00:01:42,195 Speaker 1: who could make it into a story, and they have. 23 00:01:43,715 --> 00:01:49,355 Speaker 1: They handed a lazy, putting brained twenty first century American 24 00:01:49,395 --> 00:01:53,795 Speaker 1: political media complex so desperate for a democratic scandal that 25 00:01:53,955 --> 00:01:57,675 Speaker 1: captain both sides is um himself. Peter Baker actually wrote 26 00:01:57,675 --> 00:02:01,275 Speaker 1: a peace Saturday in The New York Times comparing Biden's 27 00:02:01,315 --> 00:02:05,995 Speaker 1: papers with the Clinton Lewinsky story. They handed these idiots 28 00:02:06,035 --> 00:02:09,875 Speaker 1: this thing that fits into the worst possible and most 29 00:02:09,995 --> 00:02:14,075 Speaker 1: easily digestible of all presidential story templates, the event that 30 00:02:14,155 --> 00:02:18,875 Speaker 1: looks with every new drip drip drip less and less 31 00:02:18,915 --> 00:02:24,315 Speaker 1: like what the president originally said it was. It is 32 00:02:24,395 --> 00:02:28,995 Speaker 1: still even if worse literally comes to worst, nothing like 33 00:02:29,595 --> 00:02:37,355 Speaker 1: the Trump stolen nuclear secrets and probable espionage scandal story. Unfortunately, 34 00:02:38,235 --> 00:02:40,355 Speaker 1: the way they have handled that this wine House has 35 00:02:40,355 --> 00:02:44,235 Speaker 1: now justified every media outlet that has said all that 36 00:02:45,035 --> 00:02:49,475 Speaker 1: and will say all that and then add, well, yeah, 37 00:02:49,515 --> 00:02:56,275 Speaker 1: but unfortunately this wine house is absolutely right. Documents innocently 38 00:02:56,355 --> 00:02:59,595 Speaker 1: found and never missed by the archives in six years 39 00:02:59,715 --> 00:03:04,835 Speaker 1: and immediately returned and then a search was invited at 40 00:03:04,835 --> 00:03:10,355 Speaker 1: all bears no resemblance at all to Trump's deliberate thievery 41 00:03:10,435 --> 00:03:13,635 Speaker 1: and legal manipulations to never return any of the documents 42 00:03:13,675 --> 00:03:17,755 Speaker 1: he stole, the three hundred of them. And even though 43 00:03:17,795 --> 00:03:22,675 Speaker 1: political whores like Oversight Chairman James Comer are comparing a 44 00:03:22,715 --> 00:03:25,315 Speaker 1: mouse to an elephant, the White House has made it 45 00:03:25,355 --> 00:03:29,155 Speaker 1: look like it tried to hide the mouse. And worst 46 00:03:29,155 --> 00:03:32,675 Speaker 1: of all, the White House has given Trump's apologists and 47 00:03:32,715 --> 00:03:37,995 Speaker 1: cultists and propagandists something to now trot out every time 48 00:03:38,035 --> 00:03:42,875 Speaker 1: Trump's espionage is broached. And yes, that's something is as 49 00:03:42,955 --> 00:03:47,515 Speaker 1: phony as a three dollar bill. But unfortunately, once again 50 00:03:47,875 --> 00:03:51,715 Speaker 1: it's Biden's people who have made it look like they 51 00:03:51,715 --> 00:03:57,555 Speaker 1: were trying to hide the three dollar bill. And first 52 00:03:57,635 --> 00:04:00,115 Speaker 1: this White House had to confirm a story leaked to 53 00:04:00,195 --> 00:04:03,595 Speaker 1: CBS News. Then two days later it had to change 54 00:04:03,635 --> 00:04:07,035 Speaker 1: its story to add a newfound document. Then the day 55 00:04:07,035 --> 00:04:09,475 Speaker 1: after that it had to change its story again to 56 00:04:09,515 --> 00:04:12,235 Speaker 1: address a higher page count. Than the day after that, 57 00:04:12,275 --> 00:04:15,075 Speaker 1: it had to change their story again to address the 58 00:04:15,115 --> 00:04:18,275 Speaker 1: appointment of a special counsel. Then last Wednesday, it had 59 00:04:18,275 --> 00:04:21,835 Speaker 1: to change its story again to include another document. Then Thursday, 60 00:04:21,835 --> 00:04:23,995 Speaker 1: it had to change its story again to include another 61 00:04:23,995 --> 00:04:27,115 Speaker 1: five documents, and then Saturday, it had to completely change 62 00:04:27,115 --> 00:04:30,475 Speaker 1: its story to cover its invitation to the Department of 63 00:04:30,515 --> 00:04:34,315 Speaker 1: Justice to search the President's home and the d j's 64 00:04:34,395 --> 00:04:39,755 Speaker 1: removal of six unidentified items at the invitation of the President. 65 00:04:41,595 --> 00:04:44,075 Speaker 1: I believed Joe Biden when he said there was no 66 00:04:44,235 --> 00:04:49,115 Speaker 1: there there, because there wasn't and there isn't. And in 67 00:04:49,155 --> 00:04:54,035 Speaker 1: the non their their space, there have now been seven 68 00:04:54,115 --> 00:04:58,595 Speaker 1: different stories. And if there were seven different stories about 69 00:04:58,635 --> 00:05:02,315 Speaker 1: how much the president is cooperating, that's the same thing 70 00:05:02,915 --> 00:05:05,515 Speaker 1: as seven different stories about exactly how much the president 71 00:05:05,915 --> 00:05:09,915 Speaker 1: donated to charity last year. And if those numbers changed 72 00:05:10,075 --> 00:05:13,435 Speaker 1: seven times, they would get people scratching their heads. And 73 00:05:13,515 --> 00:05:15,275 Speaker 1: I don't know who thought this was a good idea, 74 00:05:15,275 --> 00:05:17,995 Speaker 1: and I'm hoping it wasn't President Biden, because if it wasn't, 75 00:05:18,035 --> 00:05:20,595 Speaker 1: he can fire everybody who did. And he should do 76 00:05:20,675 --> 00:05:27,035 Speaker 1: that today. And the President should do something more, something proactive, 77 00:05:27,315 --> 00:05:30,235 Speaker 1: because whether he likes it or not, or his press 78 00:05:30,275 --> 00:05:33,315 Speaker 1: secretary likes it or not, or his advisers like it 79 00:05:33,435 --> 00:05:36,435 Speaker 1: or not, or you and I like it or not, 80 00:05:37,115 --> 00:05:41,715 Speaker 1: he has lost control of the narrative. A narrative as 81 00:05:41,755 --> 00:05:44,275 Speaker 1: bad and as terminally afflicted by what about is um 82 00:05:44,355 --> 00:05:46,915 Speaker 1: and both sides is him as the American political media 83 00:05:47,115 --> 00:05:50,795 Speaker 1: is so that when they keep saying, you watch, there 84 00:05:50,835 --> 00:05:53,795 Speaker 1: will be something here, we know where the omniscient political media, 85 00:05:54,075 --> 00:05:57,075 Speaker 1: and you give them something like this, at some point 86 00:05:57,555 --> 00:06:01,155 Speaker 1: it actually kind of stops being their fault and their 87 00:06:01,275 --> 00:06:04,875 Speaker 1: desperate need for clicks and ratings and self worth are 88 00:06:04,915 --> 00:06:08,715 Speaker 1: not entitled to, and it stops being about their inability 89 00:06:08,755 --> 00:06:13,115 Speaker 1: to process anything except templates and formula stories, and the 90 00:06:13,195 --> 00:06:18,195 Speaker 1: problem becomes your own, and the proactive thing President Biden 91 00:06:18,315 --> 00:06:21,915 Speaker 1: might do pertains less to the investigation of his mice 92 00:06:22,395 --> 00:06:26,195 Speaker 1: than it pertains to the investigation of Trump's elephants. The 93 00:06:26,275 --> 00:06:30,515 Speaker 1: most important relevance of the materials in Delaware and at 94 00:06:30,515 --> 00:06:34,995 Speaker 1: the Biden think tank is their impact on the Trump investigation, 95 00:06:35,595 --> 00:06:38,515 Speaker 1: because the argument that formed on day one of this 96 00:06:38,675 --> 00:06:42,995 Speaker 1: in the gelatinous mass that is the hive mind that 97 00:06:43,075 --> 00:06:47,075 Speaker 1: protects and self immolates for Trump, was that since you 98 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:51,355 Speaker 1: can't prosecute a sitting president, well you shouldn't prosecute Trump either, 99 00:06:51,435 --> 00:06:55,235 Speaker 1: because two laws and that's not fair and deep state 100 00:06:55,355 --> 00:06:58,915 Speaker 1: and Biden ran on unifying and those other dimwitted, irrelevant 101 00:06:58,955 --> 00:07:02,835 Speaker 1: catchphrases and brand names the Republicans and the fascists use. 102 00:07:04,875 --> 00:07:07,595 Speaker 1: I think what President Biden should do, and if he 103 00:07:07,635 --> 00:07:12,075 Speaker 1: has a better idea, go ahead. This is mine. What 104 00:07:12,235 --> 00:07:14,915 Speaker 1: I think Biden should do is turn the argument on 105 00:07:14,995 --> 00:07:19,395 Speaker 1: its head and the narrative on its ear. There is 106 00:07:19,475 --> 00:07:23,235 Speaker 1: no law that prevents the Department of Justice from prosecuting 107 00:07:24,035 --> 00:07:27,515 Speaker 1: or considering prosecuting the sitting president, or deciding not to 108 00:07:27,635 --> 00:07:30,795 Speaker 1: prosecute the sitting president, and leaving all that to Congress. 109 00:07:30,955 --> 00:07:35,595 Speaker 1: There is only precedent and departmental policy. President Biden should 110 00:07:35,595 --> 00:07:40,075 Speaker 1: tell his Attorney General to waive that precedent, to suspend 111 00:07:40,195 --> 00:07:44,675 Speaker 1: that departmental policy. He should say his certitude and confidence 112 00:07:44,715 --> 00:07:49,595 Speaker 1: that his documents SAGA is inadvertent and innocent and inconsequential 113 00:07:49,915 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: is not only intact today, but it is stronger than ever, 114 00:07:53,675 --> 00:07:56,675 Speaker 1: and that to reassure the country on this he is 115 00:07:56,795 --> 00:08:00,515 Speaker 1: volunteering to be subject to the same legal consequences that 116 00:08:00,515 --> 00:08:04,435 Speaker 1: would face any other citizen. I'm not guilty, and moreover, 117 00:08:04,795 --> 00:08:08,755 Speaker 1: this is how much I'm not guilty. Not only would 118 00:08:08,755 --> 00:08:12,275 Speaker 1: it completely reverse the momentum of this story and utterly 119 00:08:12,395 --> 00:08:17,355 Speaker 1: shift the spotlight back to the prosecution of Trump, probably 120 00:08:17,435 --> 00:08:22,475 Speaker 1: for espionage, but it also wouldn't change damn thing practically, 121 00:08:22,515 --> 00:08:25,235 Speaker 1: because the only thing you could charge Biden for anyway 122 00:08:25,315 --> 00:08:29,195 Speaker 1: would be the terrible mismanagement of this story. And since 123 00:08:29,195 --> 00:08:32,395 Speaker 1: the Attorney General does nothing anyway, and it's a slow 124 00:08:32,555 --> 00:08:35,715 Speaker 1: nothing at that, he's not going to accept a recommendation 125 00:08:35,795 --> 00:08:40,715 Speaker 1: from anybody to change something. He's not going to accept 126 00:08:40,715 --> 00:08:44,115 Speaker 1: a recommendation from anybody, even the President, to change departmental 127 00:08:44,155 --> 00:08:47,915 Speaker 1: policy about prosecuting a sitting president. He doesn't want to 128 00:08:47,955 --> 00:08:53,195 Speaker 1: do anything past the year eight. So Biden proposes this, 129 00:08:53,395 --> 00:08:56,715 Speaker 1: and Garland rejects it, and Biden has done his part, 130 00:08:56,915 --> 00:09:00,035 Speaker 1: and then he can eat his cake and keep it too, 131 00:09:00,315 --> 00:09:03,795 Speaker 1: and re established that indeed there is no there there. 132 00:09:05,555 --> 00:09:08,035 Speaker 1: Because the question I have not yet heard addressed, let 133 00:09:08,035 --> 00:09:13,275 Speaker 1: alone answered, is this, Since a sitting president can't be charged, 134 00:09:13,955 --> 00:09:17,355 Speaker 1: how can a sitting president be cleared? What is the 135 00:09:17,555 --> 00:09:20,955 Speaker 1: endgame of this special council, This special council, who, by 136 00:09:20,955 --> 00:09:24,555 Speaker 1: the way, owes his job to Trump if charges are impossible, 137 00:09:24,715 --> 00:09:29,475 Speaker 1: what is he doing here? The endgame is he turns 138 00:09:29,515 --> 00:09:35,275 Speaker 1: over anything he finds too exculpatory. We're convicting, he turns 139 00:09:35,355 --> 00:09:40,115 Speaker 1: anything he finds over to the House Judiciary Committee Jim 140 00:09:40,595 --> 00:09:44,595 Speaker 1: Jordan's while at the same time this buttonhead, James Comer, 141 00:09:44,715 --> 00:09:49,435 Speaker 1: goes after the president's family. Firstly, the White House or 142 00:09:49,475 --> 00:09:52,715 Speaker 1: its friends needs to bury Jim Jordan and Jim Comber, 143 00:09:52,715 --> 00:09:55,115 Speaker 1: and that means a heavy lean on the atrocity of 144 00:09:55,195 --> 00:09:58,355 Speaker 1: Jordan's negligence in the sexual abuse scandal at Ohio State 145 00:09:58,755 --> 00:10:03,275 Speaker 1: and on the on record charges by Comber's college girlfriend 146 00:10:03,355 --> 00:10:05,915 Speaker 1: that he hit her and threatened her life. Her name 147 00:10:05,995 --> 00:10:10,515 Speaker 1: is Marilyn Thomas. Look her up. Dirty these two bastards 148 00:10:10,675 --> 00:10:16,795 Speaker 1: up but fast, and most importantly, get control of this 149 00:10:16,915 --> 00:10:20,275 Speaker 1: out of control fire hose of a document story, because 150 00:10:20,755 --> 00:10:24,875 Speaker 1: if it continues to proceed like this, it ends with 151 00:10:24,955 --> 00:10:29,595 Speaker 1: Comber and Jordan's and all the other worms using it 152 00:10:29,635 --> 00:10:32,995 Speaker 1: to impeach the president. I mean, they'll try to impeach 153 00:10:33,035 --> 00:10:37,555 Speaker 1: him anyway, but right now they have something with what 154 00:10:37,715 --> 00:10:41,315 Speaker 1: artists call very similitude to it. It doesn't have to 155 00:10:41,435 --> 00:10:45,275 Speaker 1: be real, it only has to look real. And Biden 156 00:10:45,315 --> 00:10:48,355 Speaker 1: has to take that back, and after the seven different stories, 157 00:10:48,555 --> 00:10:52,075 Speaker 1: he has to break it into a million pieces, and 158 00:10:52,115 --> 00:10:54,875 Speaker 1: he damned well better do that. Not just for himself, 159 00:10:55,515 --> 00:10:57,795 Speaker 1: but for the prosecution of Trump, which is the most 160 00:10:57,835 --> 00:11:00,475 Speaker 1: important part, and for all the rest of us who 161 00:11:00,475 --> 00:11:03,035 Speaker 1: have defended him since this story broke on, who in 162 00:11:03,035 --> 00:11:06,435 Speaker 1: a time without nuance, have had to rethread a new 163 00:11:06,475 --> 00:11:09,235 Speaker 1: needle seven different times in two weeks, and who are 164 00:11:09,235 --> 00:11:13,155 Speaker 1: now getting drip drip dripped on, not by scandal or 165 00:11:13,315 --> 00:11:18,435 Speaker 1: theft or espionage, but by amateurish story management by a 166 00:11:18,515 --> 00:11:23,835 Speaker 1: guy or the guy's employees, but by a guy who's 167 00:11:23,875 --> 00:11:27,435 Speaker 1: been doing this since they swore him in as a 168 00:11:27,515 --> 00:11:33,155 Speaker 1: senator fifty years and thirteen days ago, and who bluntly 169 00:11:33,955 --> 00:11:51,875 Speaker 1: ought to have known God damned better than this. I mean, 170 00:11:51,915 --> 00:11:54,595 Speaker 1: the goddamn piece of nothing story is not just gonna 171 00:11:54,635 --> 00:11:57,155 Speaker 1: go away of its own accord. Stopped thinking like that 172 00:12:00,875 --> 00:12:03,595 Speaker 1: still ahead. So when they investigated the Supreme Court league, 173 00:12:03,595 --> 00:12:05,995 Speaker 1: none of the justices were under oath, so it was 174 00:12:06,115 --> 00:12:12,515 Speaker 1: just opinion poll. How many times have we all said this, 175 00:12:12,955 --> 00:12:15,995 Speaker 1: I was not a drag queen. Guys, I was young 176 00:12:16,155 --> 00:12:18,435 Speaker 1: and I had fun at the festivals. Sue me for 177 00:12:18,555 --> 00:12:21,755 Speaker 1: having a life. By the way, is that quote George 178 00:12:21,795 --> 00:12:26,475 Speaker 1: Santos or Brett Kavanaugh sports? So a month from now 179 00:12:26,475 --> 00:12:29,475 Speaker 1: they'll be playing exhibition games at spring training, and chaos 180 00:12:29,555 --> 00:12:33,315 Speaker 1: unlike anything we have seen in baseball will unfold as 181 00:12:33,355 --> 00:12:37,195 Speaker 1: three titanic rules changes that no player is ready for 182 00:12:37,555 --> 00:12:41,475 Speaker 1: are introduced, all at the same time, plus Olberman's full 183 00:12:41,515 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 1: proof method for raising batting averages and utterly fitting given 184 00:12:45,875 --> 00:12:48,035 Speaker 1: the lead commentary about the White House and the media, 185 00:12:48,715 --> 00:12:50,795 Speaker 1: let me tell you about the day George W. Bush's 186 00:12:50,835 --> 00:12:54,115 Speaker 1: geniuses thought I was on their side, so they tried 187 00:12:54,115 --> 00:12:56,555 Speaker 1: to send me talking points with which to discredit and 188 00:12:56,595 --> 00:12:59,675 Speaker 1: Iraq war critic, and instead they wind up revealing all 189 00:12:59,715 --> 00:13:02,395 Speaker 1: the people within NBC News they knew they could rely 190 00:13:02,595 --> 00:13:06,475 Speaker 1: on things I promised out to tell. That's next. This 191 00:13:06,715 --> 00:13:19,915 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is countdown. With Keith Olberman still ahead. 192 00:13:19,995 --> 00:13:24,395 Speaker 1: Say seen that new Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault film premiered Friday, 193 00:13:24,875 --> 00:13:29,475 Speaker 1: They're already adding new info into it and continuing on 194 00:13:29,475 --> 00:13:32,275 Speaker 1: the subject of White houses trying to control the narrative. 195 00:13:32,835 --> 00:13:35,435 Speaker 1: There's the story of the day. George Bush's people just 196 00:13:35,515 --> 00:13:38,235 Speaker 1: knew I was gonna slam Iraq war critic Joe Wilson 197 00:13:38,315 --> 00:13:40,555 Speaker 1: for them, and they wanted to help me with talking points, 198 00:13:40,555 --> 00:13:45,715 Speaker 1: but they could not remember how to spell my name. First. 199 00:13:45,715 --> 00:13:48,075 Speaker 1: In each addition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 200 00:13:48,115 --> 00:13:51,555 Speaker 1: need you can help. Every dog has its day to Submashian. 201 00:13:52,075 --> 00:13:55,035 Speaker 1: He's a handsome little docks and mix in Brooklyn and 202 00:13:55,155 --> 00:13:58,395 Speaker 1: angels for mistreated animals, a m a rescue, just trying 203 00:13:58,395 --> 00:14:00,955 Speaker 1: to get him into see an oncologist. There is an 204 00:14:00,995 --> 00:14:04,475 Speaker 1: angry looking melanoma on his jaw and tongue. The good 205 00:14:04,475 --> 00:14:07,195 Speaker 1: news his dogs do very well with cancer treatments, but 206 00:14:07,235 --> 00:14:09,155 Speaker 1: you have to know exactly what you're dealing with, so 207 00:14:09,235 --> 00:14:11,755 Speaker 1: he needs aspirates of his lymph nodes and maybe some 208 00:14:11,915 --> 00:14:14,635 Speaker 1: organs and chest X rays, psychology. If you've had a 209 00:14:14,715 --> 00:14:16,715 Speaker 1: dog with cancer as I have, you know the drill. 210 00:14:17,075 --> 00:14:19,435 Speaker 1: It's possible. They can't do anything for Sebastian, but if 211 00:14:19,435 --> 00:14:23,035 Speaker 1: they can, let's You can find Sebastian on his go 212 00:14:23,195 --> 00:14:26,315 Speaker 1: fund Me page or on my Twitter feeds. Donate if 213 00:14:26,315 --> 00:14:29,115 Speaker 1: you can, retweet if you can't, I thank you and 214 00:14:29,195 --> 00:14:43,235 Speaker 1: Sebastian thanks you. Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some snarks, 215 00:14:43,315 --> 00:14:47,475 Speaker 1: some predictions, dateline, Park City, Utah. They kept its secret 216 00:14:47,555 --> 00:14:50,795 Speaker 1: until the day before it's premiere at the Sun Dance Festival. 217 00:14:51,195 --> 00:14:54,115 Speaker 1: Justice the new Doug Liman documentary on the sexual assault 218 00:14:54,115 --> 00:14:58,395 Speaker 1: allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Now they are re editing 219 00:14:58,475 --> 00:15:01,795 Speaker 1: it because as soon as the movie was revealed, new 220 00:15:01,835 --> 00:15:05,235 Speaker 1: information and tips started to come in. Unlike the FBI, 221 00:15:05,275 --> 00:15:07,715 Speaker 1: the producers are following up on them. As it is. 222 00:15:07,875 --> 00:15:11,955 Speaker 1: Justice contains new witness testimony from a classmate about Kavanaugh's 223 00:15:11,955 --> 00:15:15,275 Speaker 1: assault on Deborah ramire As at Yale, and new testimony 224 00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:18,075 Speaker 1: from the same man, Max Styre, president of the Partnership 225 00:15:18,075 --> 00:15:21,755 Speaker 1: for Public Service at Yale with Ramirez and Kavanaugh, who 226 00:15:21,835 --> 00:15:25,675 Speaker 1: says he personally witnessed Kavanaugh assault another woman in exactly 227 00:15:25,755 --> 00:15:29,555 Speaker 1: the same way. Dateline, Washington, the investigation of the Roe v. 228 00:15:29,835 --> 00:15:33,755 Speaker 1: Wade leak by Supreme Court Martial GAYL. Curly, the one 229 00:15:33,795 --> 00:15:39,035 Speaker 1: that produced nothing except absolute certainty that no leads direct 230 00:15:39,195 --> 00:15:43,915 Speaker 1: towards any justices nor their spouses. Turns out it was 231 00:15:43,955 --> 00:15:48,195 Speaker 1: not exactly an investigation, Marshall Curly confirming the justices were 232 00:15:48,235 --> 00:15:51,995 Speaker 1: all spoken to, but none were under oath, so it 233 00:15:52,115 --> 00:15:55,515 Speaker 1: was not so much an investigation as it was an 234 00:15:55,555 --> 00:16:01,075 Speaker 1: opinion poll. And Dateline New York Congressman George Santos denied 235 00:16:01,155 --> 00:16:04,635 Speaker 1: he'd ever performed as a drag queen then his Wikipedia 236 00:16:04,875 --> 00:16:07,835 Speaker 1: editing profile turned out to have mentioned yeah he was. 237 00:16:08,435 --> 00:16:11,755 Speaker 1: Then uh, he denied it all again while caught in 238 00:16:11,795 --> 00:16:16,395 Speaker 1: a fairly standard walking scrum at LaGuardia Airport, got a 239 00:16:16,555 --> 00:16:21,555 Speaker 1: dragon and had fun at a festival. Assue me for 240 00:16:21,635 --> 00:16:31,755 Speaker 1: having a life. This is how No, it's not how 241 00:16:31,795 --> 00:16:33,515 Speaker 1: you conduct an interview, but it's the only thing you 242 00:16:33,555 --> 00:16:37,155 Speaker 1: have when you won't do a real interview, Katara. They 243 00:16:37,195 --> 00:16:38,915 Speaker 1: also caught him in what is believed to be his 244 00:16:38,995 --> 00:16:42,795 Speaker 1: third different lie about his mother and nine eleven. First 245 00:16:42,835 --> 00:16:46,475 Speaker 1: he said she escaped the towers that day from her office. 246 00:16:46,915 --> 00:16:49,595 Speaker 1: Then he said she got sick there with what eventually 247 00:16:49,595 --> 00:16:53,475 Speaker 1: became the cancer that killed her. Now her immigration record 248 00:16:53,475 --> 00:16:55,715 Speaker 1: has turned up, but it shows santos Is mother was 249 00:16:55,755 --> 00:17:13,195 Speaker 1: not even in the country on nine eleven. This is 250 00:17:13,675 --> 00:17:20,875 Speaker 1: Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This is Countdown 251 00:17:21,515 --> 00:17:25,515 Speaker 1: with Keith Alberman in sports. A great honor to have 252 00:17:25,595 --> 00:17:28,875 Speaker 1: won the Senior Club Championship at Trump International Golf Club, 253 00:17:29,075 --> 00:17:31,115 Speaker 1: one of the best courses in the country in Palm 254 00:17:31,155 --> 00:17:34,435 Speaker 1: Beach County, Florida. Competed against many fine golfers and was 255 00:17:34,515 --> 00:17:37,515 Speaker 1: hitting the ball long and straight in a very real way. 256 00:17:37,595 --> 00:17:40,675 Speaker 1: It serves as a physical exam, only much tougher. You 257 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:43,435 Speaker 1: need strength and stamina to win, and I have strength 258 00:17:43,475 --> 00:17:47,395 Speaker 1: and stamina and most others don't. You also need strength 259 00:17:47,435 --> 00:17:51,915 Speaker 1: and stamina to govern. End quote Trump last night a 260 00:17:52,435 --> 00:17:57,715 Speaker 1: yen not really, it's freaking golf. Be competed against many 261 00:17:57,795 --> 00:18:01,275 Speaker 1: fine golfers, all of whom are just standing there off 262 00:18:01,315 --> 00:18:06,595 Speaker 1: camera smiling like he is. See it's freaking golf. As 263 00:18:06,635 --> 00:18:09,835 Speaker 1: to Trump's golf scandal is tie into the Saudi Arabian 264 00:18:09,875 --> 00:18:13,915 Speaker 1: Blood Money Tour. Live talk about log rolling. One time 265 00:18:13,915 --> 00:18:17,555 Speaker 1: golfer Greg Norman, now CEO of Live, was asked about 266 00:18:17,595 --> 00:18:20,515 Speaker 1: the murder of journalist Jamal Kashagi at the behest of 267 00:18:20,555 --> 00:18:25,115 Speaker 1: Saudi Prince Ben Salman. His answer quote, I think everybody 268 00:18:25,235 --> 00:18:29,835 Speaker 1: learns from their mistakes. The interview speaking of mistakes was 269 00:18:29,915 --> 00:18:33,075 Speaker 1: by Dan Abrams of News Nation, which is owned by 270 00:18:33,075 --> 00:18:36,115 Speaker 1: the Next Star Company. It was promoted by The Hill, 271 00:18:36,555 --> 00:18:39,715 Speaker 1: which is owned by the Next Star Company, and Live 272 00:18:39,835 --> 00:18:42,195 Speaker 1: TV or Live has just done a TV deal with 273 00:18:42,235 --> 00:18:46,155 Speaker 1: the CW Network, which is owned by oddly enough, the 274 00:18:46,195 --> 00:18:50,115 Speaker 1: Next Star Company. Hockey took them like three weeks to 275 00:18:50,155 --> 00:18:53,955 Speaker 1: do it, during which they lent popular incumbent coach Bruce Boudreau, 276 00:18:54,075 --> 00:18:57,875 Speaker 1: who saved the team a year ago, twists slowly, slowly 277 00:18:58,035 --> 00:19:01,795 Speaker 1: in the wind. But the Vancouver Cadux have finally fired 278 00:19:01,795 --> 00:19:05,035 Speaker 1: Boudreaux and replaced him with Rick Tockett, who takes the 279 00:19:05,115 --> 00:19:09,235 Speaker 1: demotion from intermission analyst for the TNT National Hockey League coverage. 280 00:19:09,555 --> 00:19:12,675 Speaker 1: The Canucks, who were vivisected by everybody in the National 281 00:19:12,675 --> 00:19:16,395 Speaker 1: Hockey League were making Boudreaux suffer like that, then made 282 00:19:16,395 --> 00:19:19,955 Speaker 1: a pathetic attempt to save their reputation yesterday by tweeting 283 00:19:19,955 --> 00:19:24,875 Speaker 1: a graphic reading Bruce Boudreau thank you, which is ironic 284 00:19:24,955 --> 00:19:28,595 Speaker 1: because the team's real message to Boudreau clearly was a 285 00:19:28,675 --> 00:19:33,035 Speaker 1: different two word phrase, but it also ended in you, 286 00:19:44,075 --> 00:19:46,995 Speaker 1: thank you, Nancy Faust. And lastly, a month from now, 287 00:19:47,275 --> 00:19:50,315 Speaker 1: just a month from now, baseball will just be starting 288 00:19:50,315 --> 00:19:53,715 Speaker 1: at spring training schedule in Florida and Arizona. And as 289 00:19:53,835 --> 00:19:56,915 Speaker 1: warm as that makes you feel, this means we will 290 00:19:56,915 --> 00:20:00,715 Speaker 1: now see the implementation of three new rules. First, a 291 00:20:00,795 --> 00:20:03,555 Speaker 1: ban on infield shifts so that two fielders have to 292 00:20:03,595 --> 00:20:06,315 Speaker 1: be on either side of second base as each pitch 293 00:20:06,515 --> 00:20:12,035 Speaker 1: is thrown. Greetings, baseball's new illegal defense rule. Second, with 294 00:20:12,075 --> 00:20:15,035 Speaker 1: nobody on base, pitchers will have just fifteen seconds to 295 00:20:15,195 --> 00:20:18,075 Speaker 1: throw a pitch. Twenty seconds with somebody on base or 296 00:20:18,075 --> 00:20:20,995 Speaker 1: it's a ball. Third, batters have to be in the 297 00:20:20,995 --> 00:20:25,035 Speaker 1: batter's box no later than eight seconds left on that clock. Well, 298 00:20:25,035 --> 00:20:29,035 Speaker 1: this will be a breeze fifteen seconds. Ken Ley Jansen, 299 00:20:29,155 --> 00:20:33,315 Speaker 1: the reliever now of Boston, averaged twenty six seconds per 300 00:20:33,355 --> 00:20:36,635 Speaker 1: pitch last year, and a hundred other major league pitchers 301 00:20:36,755 --> 00:20:40,555 Speaker 1: average twenty seconds or more. The infield shift, meanwhile, is 302 00:20:40,595 --> 00:20:43,955 Speaker 1: designed to create more non home run offense, but nobody's 303 00:20:43,995 --> 00:20:48,515 Speaker 1: explained how it's gonna make hitters trying for singles instead 304 00:20:48,555 --> 00:20:52,275 Speaker 1: of home runs. Here's a tip. If you want batting 305 00:20:52,275 --> 00:20:54,995 Speaker 1: averages to go up, do what they did in seven. 306 00:20:55,435 --> 00:20:57,955 Speaker 1: This led to the all time record for highest batting 307 00:20:57,995 --> 00:21:01,275 Speaker 1: average in a season, not only being shattered, but being 308 00:21:01,315 --> 00:21:05,715 Speaker 1: shattered by sixty three points by Tip O'Neill of the St. 309 00:21:05,795 --> 00:21:09,355 Speaker 1: Louis Browns. This is what you do. You change the 310 00:21:09,435 --> 00:21:13,275 Speaker 1: scoring rules so that every walk counts as a hit. 311 00:21:15,155 --> 00:21:17,035 Speaker 1: It makes as much sense as trying to change where 312 00:21:17,035 --> 00:21:19,595 Speaker 1: the fielders stand, how long the picture has to throw, 313 00:21:19,875 --> 00:21:21,555 Speaker 1: how soon the hitter has to be in the box 314 00:21:21,595 --> 00:21:27,475 Speaker 1: all at the same time, Baseball It's survived the people 315 00:21:27,475 --> 00:21:29,835 Speaker 1: who have run it and owned it since the late 316 00:21:30,155 --> 00:21:47,595 Speaker 1: nineteenth century. Time now for the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons, 317 00:21:47,595 --> 00:21:50,875 Speaker 1: and done in Kruger effect specimens. Who constitute today's worst 318 00:21:51,035 --> 00:21:58,475 Speaker 1: persons in the world? Lebron's former UN ambassador Nicky Haley? Wait, 319 00:21:58,475 --> 00:22:02,515 Speaker 1: did that really happen? She was un ambassador? Any who? 320 00:22:02,555 --> 00:22:06,435 Speaker 1: Former Secretary of State Mike POMPEII Oh, wait, did that 321 00:22:06,515 --> 00:22:11,235 Speaker 1: really happen? Secretary of State Mike Pompeio any who? Pompeo 322 00:22:11,315 --> 00:22:14,875 Speaker 1: says Haley once essentially went around him. Wait, did that 323 00:22:14,955 --> 00:22:19,595 Speaker 1: really happen to anyway? To meet with Ivanka and Kushner 324 00:22:20,075 --> 00:22:24,115 Speaker 1: about becoming vice president. Hailey denies this, saying she quote 325 00:22:24,435 --> 00:22:27,795 Speaker 1: never had a conversation with Jared, Ivanka or the President 326 00:22:27,875 --> 00:22:34,515 Speaker 1: about the vice president ship. Vice president ship, you say, 327 00:22:34,715 --> 00:22:39,195 Speaker 1: have you ever heard that before? Vice president ship? Search 328 00:22:39,275 --> 00:22:42,035 Speaker 1: the internet. You'll find that it appears that since the 329 00:22:42,115 --> 00:22:45,075 Speaker 1: year eighteen sixty seven the term has been used once 330 00:22:45,875 --> 00:22:50,555 Speaker 1: in interview with somebody reminiscing about Lyndon Johnson, and the 331 00:22:50,595 --> 00:22:54,195 Speaker 1: eight sixty seven reference was from a British writer Surely, 332 00:22:54,395 --> 00:22:58,915 Speaker 1: Miss Haley did not mean vice president ship. She meant 333 00:22:59,155 --> 00:23:03,475 Speaker 1: vice president to tud. The runners up those who installed 334 00:23:03,475 --> 00:23:06,235 Speaker 1: the computer controlled eating system in the new high School 335 00:23:06,275 --> 00:23:11,675 Speaker 1: at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, which is outside Springfield. On August one, 336 00:23:12,075 --> 00:23:16,475 Speaker 1: the software failed and since that day all the lights 337 00:23:16,515 --> 00:23:19,515 Speaker 1: at the high school have been on all the time. 338 00:23:20,435 --> 00:23:22,795 Speaker 1: They can't figure out how to turn them off. Staffords 339 00:23:22,875 --> 00:23:26,435 Speaker 1: sometimes go around and unscrewed light bulbs from the seven 340 00:23:26,435 --> 00:23:30,235 Speaker 1: thousand light fixtures in the school in the desperate attempt 341 00:23:30,275 --> 00:23:34,075 Speaker 1: to not waste energy and money. What's the problem now? 342 00:23:34,115 --> 00:23:37,395 Speaker 1: The company that installed the lights has been sold and 343 00:23:37,635 --> 00:23:41,395 Speaker 1: merged several times, and the new new, new, new company 344 00:23:41,795 --> 00:23:45,795 Speaker 1: has had a supply chain issue. Why don't we getting 345 00:23:45,795 --> 00:23:50,075 Speaker 1: that off switch in from Brazil? So there it is. 346 00:23:50,115 --> 00:23:52,915 Speaker 1: You've always wondered what the literal definition of this cliche was. 347 00:23:52,995 --> 00:23:55,795 Speaker 1: Here it is the lights are on, but no one's home. 348 00:23:56,715 --> 00:24:01,875 Speaker 1: Speaking of which, our winner, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, as 349 00:24:01,915 --> 00:24:04,955 Speaker 1: his Dallas Cowboys were losing an NFL playoff game last 350 00:24:04,995 --> 00:24:08,515 Speaker 1: night to San Francisco nineteen to twelve, after the Niners 351 00:24:08,515 --> 00:24:12,075 Speaker 1: had messed with his head in his pregame warmups. Cowboys kicker. 352 00:24:12,075 --> 00:24:16,275 Speaker 1: Breton Marr missed the point after during that snooze fest, 353 00:24:16,795 --> 00:24:21,115 Speaker 1: and Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, thought he had shown 354 00:24:21,115 --> 00:24:23,555 Speaker 1: a great sense of humor about himself and his team 355 00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:27,195 Speaker 1: when he tweeted, I swear I can kick as good 356 00:24:27,235 --> 00:24:30,995 Speaker 1: as the Dallas Cowboys kicker. We all laughed and we 357 00:24:31,035 --> 00:24:33,595 Speaker 1: all had a good time, and then about a thousand 358 00:24:33,675 --> 00:24:38,115 Speaker 1: people replied yeah, and I swear he can govern a 359 00:24:38,235 --> 00:24:42,835 Speaker 1: state as good as you can governor Greg bluntly he 360 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:46,675 Speaker 1: put it on a t for us. Abbott two days 361 00:24:47,875 --> 00:25:04,275 Speaker 1: worst partson in the world. Finally to the number one 362 00:25:04,315 --> 00:25:07,755 Speaker 1: story on the countown and my favorite topic, me and 363 00:25:07,875 --> 00:25:11,075 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell. And on Monday May third, 364 00:25:11,115 --> 00:25:14,555 Speaker 1: two thousand four, my executive producer phoned me at home 365 00:25:14,595 --> 00:25:18,115 Speaker 1: and said, we got Ambassador Joe Wilson. He'll be on 366 00:25:18,195 --> 00:25:22,235 Speaker 1: the show tomorrow. Within hours, the communications office of the 367 00:25:22,235 --> 00:25:25,675 Speaker 1: White House of George W. Bush began a desperate, ceaseless, 368 00:25:25,995 --> 00:25:31,755 Speaker 1: tireless effort to send me one email with talking points 369 00:25:31,795 --> 00:25:37,115 Speaker 1: about Ambassador Joe Wilson, which repeatedly, hilariously failed to get 370 00:25:37,155 --> 00:25:39,395 Speaker 1: through to me because none of them could spell my 371 00:25:39,515 --> 00:25:44,155 Speaker 1: name correctly. By late in the evening of May the third, 372 00:25:44,235 --> 00:25:46,075 Speaker 1: and throughout the morning of May the fourth, I got 373 00:25:46,115 --> 00:25:50,075 Speaker 1: calls and forwarded emails from people throughout NBC who had 374 00:25:50,075 --> 00:25:52,555 Speaker 1: received emails of their own from the Bush White House 375 00:25:52,555 --> 00:25:56,595 Speaker 1: Communications Office, all of them with attachments addressed to Keith 376 00:25:56,675 --> 00:26:00,715 Speaker 1: Oberman without the L, Keith Olberman with only one N, 377 00:26:01,515 --> 00:26:05,515 Speaker 1: kayath Alderman Keith spelled wrong, and even Keith Overman with 378 00:26:05,595 --> 00:26:10,995 Speaker 1: a V. This was actually truly the first day I 379 00:26:11,035 --> 00:26:13,395 Speaker 1: believed I was having an impact on the Bush White House, 380 00:26:13,435 --> 00:26:17,915 Speaker 1: and also the first day I realized they were incredibly stupid. 381 00:26:17,955 --> 00:26:23,035 Speaker 1: There democracy still had a slim chance. The Internet had 382 00:26:23,075 --> 00:26:26,475 Speaker 1: been operating at more or less its present speed since 383 00:26:26,515 --> 00:26:31,435 Speaker 1: about or My name was all over the Internet in 384 00:26:31,595 --> 00:26:35,835 Speaker 1: articles about my news career, about my sports career, about 385 00:26:35,875 --> 00:26:39,555 Speaker 1: my previous news career. There were articles I had written, 386 00:26:39,595 --> 00:26:42,435 Speaker 1: there were books I had written, and these people who 387 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:44,835 Speaker 1: were trying to reshape the United States of America into 388 00:26:44,875 --> 00:26:51,635 Speaker 1: a reactionary, conservative, cruel, xenophobic, semi authoritarian state, we're not 389 00:26:51,715 --> 00:26:55,875 Speaker 1: smart enough to figure out how to spell my name 390 00:26:57,955 --> 00:27:00,035 Speaker 1: just so we know who we are talking about. By 391 00:27:00,075 --> 00:27:03,795 Speaker 1: this point, Scott McClellan had succeeded the infamous Ry Fleischer 392 00:27:03,915 --> 00:27:07,875 Speaker 1: as press secret Terry. His deputies were Dana Perino, who 393 00:27:07,875 --> 00:27:10,555 Speaker 1: went from being the stupidest person ever to be White 394 00:27:10,555 --> 00:27:13,635 Speaker 1: House Press secretary to being one of the stupidest persons 395 00:27:13,635 --> 00:27:16,875 Speaker 1: ever to have a show on Fox News, Pamelas Stevens, 396 00:27:17,195 --> 00:27:19,675 Speaker 1: who later wound up as a producer at CNN. Because 397 00:27:19,675 --> 00:27:23,955 Speaker 1: political press people are exactly like unemployed football coaches or 398 00:27:23,995 --> 00:27:27,755 Speaker 1: baseball managers who get TV jobs and then leave the 399 00:27:27,755 --> 00:27:31,035 Speaker 1: TV jobs to go back onto the field. The communications 400 00:27:31,075 --> 00:27:34,235 Speaker 1: director was named Dan Bartlett, and there was another communications 401 00:27:34,235 --> 00:27:37,595 Speaker 1: person there named Nicole Wallace, who has somehow shaken off 402 00:27:37,595 --> 00:27:41,155 Speaker 1: the stink of working for both George and Jeb Bush 403 00:27:41,155 --> 00:27:44,675 Speaker 1: and is now considered a darling of MSNBC, even though 404 00:27:44,715 --> 00:27:47,955 Speaker 1: her only true non fascist credential is she doesn't like 405 00:27:47,995 --> 00:27:52,235 Speaker 1: Trump either. The crack White House media team representing the 406 00:27:52,235 --> 00:27:54,435 Speaker 1: most powerful man in the world in the anxious and 407 00:27:54,475 --> 00:27:57,555 Speaker 1: foreshadowing years after nine eleven, and not one of them 408 00:27:57,555 --> 00:28:01,835 Speaker 1: could even find anybody else who could spell my name, 409 00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:07,475 Speaker 1: let alone spell it themselves. More on them in a moment, 410 00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:10,955 Speaker 1: But I need to explain who Joe Wilson was if 411 00:28:10,995 --> 00:28:15,915 Speaker 1: you don't know, and why he was so important. Long 412 00:28:15,955 --> 00:28:19,155 Speaker 1: before Colin Powell confessed to Tim Russer that he had 413 00:28:19,195 --> 00:28:21,355 Speaker 1: been lied to by the White House and thus he 414 00:28:21,435 --> 00:28:24,515 Speaker 1: himself had lied to the United Nations about Saddam Hussein's 415 00:28:24,555 --> 00:28:29,115 Speaker 1: imaginary weapons of mass destruction. Those were the excuses from 416 00:28:29,155 --> 00:28:32,635 Speaker 1: Bush Cheney for dragging this country into an unnecessary and 417 00:28:32,835 --> 00:28:37,075 Speaker 1: national soul destroying war in Iraq with lies and torture 418 00:28:37,115 --> 00:28:41,235 Speaker 1: and scapegoating and suppression and brutality. Before that, there was 419 00:28:41,275 --> 00:28:45,435 Speaker 1: Ambassador Joseph Charles Wilson the fourth and in two thousand two, 420 00:28:45,475 --> 00:28:48,515 Speaker 1: after pressure from the White House, the CIA sent him 421 00:28:48,515 --> 00:28:51,115 Speaker 1: back to the scene of his first diplomatic posting, the 422 00:28:51,155 --> 00:28:55,675 Speaker 1: African nation of Niger to get proof for Bush that 423 00:28:55,795 --> 00:28:59,435 Speaker 1: Saddam was trying to buy yellow cake uranium there to 424 00:28:59,515 --> 00:29:03,195 Speaker 1: make nuclear bombs. Is out of and Wilson quickly found 425 00:29:03,195 --> 00:29:05,875 Speaker 1: out it was nonsense, and he reported back and the 426 00:29:05,875 --> 00:29:09,555 Speaker 1: Bush White House promptly buried his findings and instead, in 427 00:29:09,595 --> 00:29:11,675 Speaker 1: the two thousand three State of the Union address just 428 00:29:11,755 --> 00:29:14,995 Speaker 1: before he started bombing Iraq, George W. Bush said, the 429 00:29:15,035 --> 00:29:19,075 Speaker 1: British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant 430 00:29:19,115 --> 00:29:22,915 Speaker 1: quantities of uranium from Africa. It was and remains a 431 00:29:22,995 --> 00:29:28,515 Speaker 1: complete lie, and war occurred because of it, and Joe 432 00:29:28,555 --> 00:29:31,355 Speaker 1: Wilson called it a complete lie in an op ed 433 00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:35,315 Speaker 1: in the New York Times on July six, two thousand three. 434 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:38,755 Speaker 1: The Iraq War was still at this stage defined by 435 00:29:39,075 --> 00:29:41,715 Speaker 1: rah Rah, we're winning, but Sadam's w M D and 436 00:29:41,755 --> 00:29:44,355 Speaker 1: his biological weapons and his chemical weapons might be over 437 00:29:44,395 --> 00:29:47,115 Speaker 1: the next hill, and you'd better not criticize what we're doing, 438 00:29:47,235 --> 00:29:51,315 Speaker 1: or maybe your terrorist Joe Wilson said, the emperor had 439 00:29:51,315 --> 00:29:55,075 Speaker 1: no clothes. In two thousand three, he was an American 440 00:29:55,115 --> 00:29:59,195 Speaker 1: hero of the highest order. A week later, a Dick 441 00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:03,795 Speaker 1: Cheney flunkey named Scooter Libby and a Deputy Secretary of 442 00:30:03,835 --> 00:30:07,915 Speaker 1: State named Army began a campaign to punish Joe Wilson 443 00:30:07,995 --> 00:30:11,915 Speaker 1: and discredit him. They leaked to a dyspeptic and hate 444 00:30:11,915 --> 00:30:15,635 Speaker 1: filled columnist named Robert Novak, who is now working in 445 00:30:15,675 --> 00:30:19,595 Speaker 1: the Bureau in Hell, that Wilson's wife was an undercover 446 00:30:19,715 --> 00:30:22,315 Speaker 1: agent for the CIA, and that her name was Valerie Plame, 447 00:30:22,715 --> 00:30:25,715 Speaker 1: and that the pair of them were dirty Democrats. And moreover, 448 00:30:25,755 --> 00:30:28,955 Speaker 1: it was Plaie who had urged that her own husband 449 00:30:28,955 --> 00:30:33,235 Speaker 1: be sent to Niger to deliberately not find the uranium 450 00:30:33,475 --> 00:30:38,115 Speaker 1: or the Sadam Hussein signed receipts, or whatever Bush expected 451 00:30:38,155 --> 00:30:42,275 Speaker 1: to find there. The Bush white House destroyed the career 452 00:30:42,635 --> 00:30:46,795 Speaker 1: of risk, the life of and ruined several assignments and 453 00:30:46,835 --> 00:30:51,635 Speaker 1: contacts of one of this country's own secret CIA agents, 454 00:30:51,675 --> 00:30:55,675 Speaker 1: just to make her husband look bad. So in May 455 00:30:55,715 --> 00:30:58,315 Speaker 1: two thousand four, when Joe Wilson wrote a book about 456 00:30:58,315 --> 00:31:01,395 Speaker 1: all this crap, and he inexplicably wanted to go on MSNBC, 457 00:31:01,995 --> 00:31:03,995 Speaker 1: which was still at that point trying to be more 458 00:31:04,035 --> 00:31:07,555 Speaker 1: conservative than Fox Nudes, and wanted to go on My 459 00:31:07,635 --> 00:31:11,235 Speaker 1: little Watched show, which was considered the neutral outlier on 460 00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:15,475 Speaker 1: a network full of Joe Scarbrowse and Michael Savages. This 461 00:31:15,555 --> 00:31:18,795 Speaker 1: was a happy surprise for us, which was followed by 462 00:31:18,835 --> 00:31:22,155 Speaker 1: this wonderful, flailing effort by the Bush White House to 463 00:31:22,195 --> 00:31:25,555 Speaker 1: send me talking points about Joe Wilson before I interviewed him. 464 00:31:25,595 --> 00:31:28,555 Speaker 1: They not only could not spell my name, but they 465 00:31:28,635 --> 00:31:32,555 Speaker 1: were utterly convinced that my interview was designed to discredit 466 00:31:32,715 --> 00:31:36,155 Speaker 1: Joe Wilson. The talking points, which eventually got to me 467 00:31:36,195 --> 00:31:40,035 Speaker 1: from Assistant Press Secretary Pamela Stevens, consisted of six items 468 00:31:40,075 --> 00:31:44,755 Speaker 1: over two pages. The headings were as follows. One political motivation. 469 00:31:45,475 --> 00:31:48,355 Speaker 1: This was about Wilson calling Dick Cheney a lying s 470 00:31:48,395 --> 00:31:50,595 Speaker 1: o B about a year after the knee Jaire trip. 471 00:31:50,995 --> 00:31:53,275 Speaker 1: I couldn't figure this one out. Dick Cheney was a 472 00:31:53,355 --> 00:31:56,915 Speaker 1: lying s ob. That's how I got to be vice president. Two. 473 00:31:57,355 --> 00:32:01,235 Speaker 1: Gingbridge spokesman calls allegations about alleged March two thousand three 474 00:32:01,315 --> 00:32:06,555 Speaker 1: meeting completely false. This sided Newt Ingrish and his people 475 00:32:07,595 --> 00:32:10,835 Speaker 1: as if they were good sources, as opposed to the 476 00:32:10,875 --> 00:32:13,795 Speaker 1: punch lines they already were back then. In two thousand four, 477 00:32:15,075 --> 00:32:18,595 Speaker 1: talking point number three, McClellan points out political objective, and 478 00:32:18,715 --> 00:32:24,195 Speaker 1: four McClellan addresses accusations. These were quotes from the press secretary. 479 00:32:24,635 --> 00:32:27,795 Speaker 1: This man suddenly quit that job two years later two 480 00:32:27,795 --> 00:32:31,795 Speaker 1: thousand six, and confessed he had repeatedly lied for George W. 481 00:32:31,995 --> 00:32:33,715 Speaker 1: Bush and the others, and now he just couldn't take 482 00:32:33,755 --> 00:32:36,755 Speaker 1: it anymore. And he would come on my show and 483 00:32:36,795 --> 00:32:39,675 Speaker 1: give one of the best Atonement interviews I've ever heard. 484 00:32:39,715 --> 00:32:44,595 Speaker 1: It went on for forty five minutes. Five Fleischer says 485 00:32:44,675 --> 00:32:49,075 Speaker 1: VP office did not request trip. A quote from McClellan's predecessor, 486 00:32:49,475 --> 00:32:52,835 Speaker 1: who unless he is talking about baseball, you should assume 487 00:32:53,155 --> 00:32:57,795 Speaker 1: he's lying. Plus he might be lying about baseball. And finally, 488 00:32:57,915 --> 00:33:02,075 Speaker 1: six statement by George J. Tennant July eleven, two thousand three. 489 00:33:02,195 --> 00:33:04,435 Speaker 1: This was a quote from the CIA director which they 490 00:33:04,435 --> 00:33:07,915 Speaker 1: thought was their home run, and it basically consisted of this. 491 00:33:08,715 --> 00:33:14,435 Speaker 1: Bush never saw that report. That was it. There are 492 00:33:14,475 --> 00:33:17,195 Speaker 1: three punch lines to this story. Number one. I don't 493 00:33:17,275 --> 00:33:20,315 Speaker 1: know why the Bush Communications office assumed I was there 494 00:33:20,315 --> 00:33:22,915 Speaker 1: to take down Joe Wilson, But the moment I saw 495 00:33:22,955 --> 00:33:26,235 Speaker 1: these talking points, any lingering doubt I had that they 496 00:33:26,275 --> 00:33:30,635 Speaker 1: were not all lying bastards down there was erased. I 497 00:33:30,835 --> 00:33:33,235 Speaker 1: used the talking points in my interview, all right. I 498 00:33:33,275 --> 00:33:36,275 Speaker 1: read them out loud to Joe Wilson, and he rebutted 499 00:33:36,275 --> 00:33:39,795 Speaker 1: each of them with impeccable charm and elegance. He and 500 00:33:39,915 --> 00:33:42,675 Speaker 1: Valerie Plaine became regular guests on My show and would 501 00:33:42,675 --> 00:33:44,675 Speaker 1: beat the crap out of George Bush with the plum 502 00:33:45,275 --> 00:33:50,195 Speaker 1: right through the morning of January nine. Second punch line. 503 00:33:50,635 --> 00:33:54,395 Speaker 1: A year earlier, a supply clerk with a maintenance company 504 00:33:54,395 --> 00:33:58,075 Speaker 1: on the ground in Iraq was captured Private Jessica Lynch. 505 00:33:58,515 --> 00:34:01,235 Speaker 1: The military and the Bush administration immediately put out the 506 00:34:01,235 --> 00:34:04,595 Speaker 1: story that she was being tortured by them evil Iraq 507 00:34:04,675 --> 00:34:09,755 Speaker 1: he Sadam Hussein doctors. There was the glorious rescue of 508 00:34:09,875 --> 00:34:13,635 Speaker 1: Jessica Lynch which followed, and the parades and the you 509 00:34:13,715 --> 00:34:16,755 Speaker 1: better not question this story period, which lasted about six 510 00:34:16,875 --> 00:34:22,235 Speaker 1: weeks until a Toronto newspaper printed a substantially different account 511 00:34:22,875 --> 00:34:27,115 Speaker 1: that Lynch was rescued from an Iraqi hospital and a 512 00:34:27,195 --> 00:34:31,195 Speaker 1: US military team in good faith went into extractor, but 513 00:34:31,275 --> 00:34:33,875 Speaker 1: that this was all arranged not by some sort of 514 00:34:34,035 --> 00:34:38,875 Speaker 1: part of intelligence or US operations or the Allies, but 515 00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:43,035 Speaker 1: by the Iraqi doctors, some of whom sneaked over to 516 00:34:43,235 --> 00:34:46,355 Speaker 1: American lines at great danger and said, one of your 517 00:34:46,355 --> 00:34:48,395 Speaker 1: soldiers is hurt and we don't have the right equipment 518 00:34:48,475 --> 00:34:51,395 Speaker 1: to help her. Could you swing by and pick her up? 519 00:34:52,875 --> 00:34:56,075 Speaker 1: I reported that version on MSNBC, and the next day, 520 00:34:56,555 --> 00:35:00,595 Speaker 1: as I was still taking my coat off, my boss, 521 00:35:00,595 --> 00:35:02,475 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin called me in and said that the head 522 00:35:02,515 --> 00:35:06,115 Speaker 1: of NBC News and the President into NBC, Bob Wright, 523 00:35:06,635 --> 00:35:09,355 Speaker 1: had been on the phone all morning to him, insisting 524 00:35:09,395 --> 00:35:13,155 Speaker 1: I should be fired for implying that the Bush administration 525 00:35:13,155 --> 00:35:16,515 Speaker 1: had lied. Griffin proudly said he had talked him into 526 00:35:16,635 --> 00:35:20,715 Speaker 1: letting me get away with just apologizing to the troops. 527 00:35:22,235 --> 00:35:24,755 Speaker 1: I can't even read this with a straight face now, 528 00:35:24,835 --> 00:35:28,355 Speaker 1: twenty years later, apologizing to the troops who rescued her, 529 00:35:30,235 --> 00:35:33,315 Speaker 1: I must credit myself when my brain was fulled in 530 00:35:33,675 --> 00:35:37,555 Speaker 1: that I did some quick thinking. The demand was comical 531 00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:41,115 Speaker 1: nonsense journalistically. On the other hand, if I agreed to 532 00:35:41,155 --> 00:35:46,235 Speaker 1: apologize to okay, the troops who rescued her, whoever you want, 533 00:35:47,675 --> 00:35:50,115 Speaker 1: I would get the chance to tell the whole real 534 00:35:50,275 --> 00:35:55,275 Speaker 1: story of Jessica Lynch again. So I did. The apology 535 00:35:55,355 --> 00:35:59,675 Speaker 1: was fifteen seconds, and while unnecessary, was sincere. I didn't 536 00:35:59,675 --> 00:36:01,115 Speaker 1: want to make the troops look bad. They didn't know 537 00:36:01,115 --> 00:36:04,195 Speaker 1: anything about this crap. I made sure, however, that the 538 00:36:04,235 --> 00:36:07,075 Speaker 1: retail of the true Lynch rescue story took about two 539 00:36:07,075 --> 00:36:10,515 Speaker 1: and a half minutes. That was in June of two 540 00:36:10,515 --> 00:36:13,995 Speaker 1: thousand three. So why as of May of two thousand four, 541 00:36:14,155 --> 00:36:17,115 Speaker 1: the Bush White House thought I was sympathetic to them, 542 00:36:17,195 --> 00:36:20,155 Speaker 1: I'll never know, or why they bothered with me, I'll 543 00:36:20,195 --> 00:36:23,955 Speaker 1: never know, which brings me to the last point, the 544 00:36:24,115 --> 00:36:28,115 Speaker 1: unintended side effect with the long term impact of all 545 00:36:28,155 --> 00:36:31,635 Speaker 1: those failed White House emails with my name misspelled. Was 546 00:36:31,675 --> 00:36:35,955 Speaker 1: that this Pamelas Stevens person promptly forwarded them to people 547 00:36:36,075 --> 00:36:42,035 Speaker 1: around NBC whom she considered friendly to George W. Bush. 548 00:36:42,235 --> 00:36:45,395 Speaker 1: One of them was Tom broke Aw's assistant, another was 549 00:36:45,395 --> 00:36:48,635 Speaker 1: in the office of future NBC News president Steve Cappus, 550 00:36:48,875 --> 00:36:51,755 Speaker 1: and the final one was to some guy named George Rebay. 551 00:36:52,955 --> 00:36:54,995 Speaker 1: And so I found out all the people in the 552 00:36:55,035 --> 00:36:59,035 Speaker 1: Bush administrations we like them, list at NBC News who 553 00:36:59,075 --> 00:37:03,555 Speaker 1: I should avoid under all circumstances. Let's see broke Aus assistance. 554 00:37:03,595 --> 00:37:06,195 Speaker 1: So no broke cause somebody in Campus's office and no 555 00:37:06,355 --> 00:37:11,515 Speaker 1: Campus and this guy George Rebay. And George Rebay turned 556 00:37:11,515 --> 00:37:16,355 Speaker 1: out to be a guy hired by MSNBC from Fox 557 00:37:16,435 --> 00:37:21,675 Speaker 1: News to go work for George Scarborough. He fell out 558 00:37:21,675 --> 00:37:23,875 Speaker 1: of favor with Joe Scarborough, and I guess he didn't 559 00:37:23,955 --> 00:37:28,315 Speaker 1: henchman enough for Joe's taste, and his influence fell to 560 00:37:28,395 --> 00:37:30,955 Speaker 1: a guy. I don't think I've mentioned him to you yet. 561 00:37:31,355 --> 00:37:49,075 Speaker 1: Chris flicked Countdown has come to you from the studios 562 00:37:49,075 --> 00:37:52,995 Speaker 1: of Alderman Broadcasting Empire World headquarters in the Sports Capsule 563 00:37:53,035 --> 00:37:55,555 Speaker 1: Building in New York. Thank you for listening. Here are 564 00:37:55,595 --> 00:37:57,875 Speaker 1: the credits. Most of the music, including our theme from 565 00:37:57,875 --> 00:38:01,875 Speaker 1: Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray 566 00:38:01,955 --> 00:38:05,115 Speaker 1: and John Philip Channel. There the countdown musical to Rectors, 567 00:38:05,475 --> 00:38:09,515 Speaker 1: all orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Channel, guitars, bass 568 00:38:09,595 --> 00:38:13,155 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray, produced by T k O Brothers. 569 00:38:13,955 --> 00:38:16,755 Speaker 1: Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No 570 00:38:16,955 --> 00:38:20,155 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Old Woman theme 571 00:38:20,195 --> 00:38:22,515 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, and it was written by Mitch Warren 572 00:38:22,595 --> 00:38:27,315 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by Nancy Faust. 573 00:38:27,315 --> 00:38:30,475 Speaker 1: The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was 574 00:38:30,515 --> 00:38:33,555 Speaker 1: Tony Kornheiser. Everything else is pretty much my fault. So 575 00:38:33,635 --> 00:38:38,275 Speaker 1: let's countdown for this, the day since Donald Trump's first 576 00:38:38,275 --> 00:38:41,355 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 577 00:38:41,395 --> 00:38:45,595 Speaker 1: Arrest him now while we still can. The next scheduled 578 00:38:45,635 --> 00:38:48,235 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Till then. I'm Keith Olberman. Good Morning, 579 00:38:48,235 --> 00:39:07,115 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Alderman 580 00:39:07,235 --> 00:39:10,715 Speaker 1: is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts 581 00:39:10,715 --> 00:39:13,395 Speaker 1: from I Heart Radio, visit the I heart Radio app, 582 00:39:13,475 --> 00:39:16,835 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.