1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:28,675 --> 00:00:31,555 Speaker 1: The former president of the United States will now have 3 00:00:31,755 --> 00:00:35,875 Speaker 1: to be prosecuted for espionage. This is one of four 4 00:00:36,035 --> 00:00:40,475 Speaker 1: staggering implications left unstated in the New York Times already 5 00:00:40,555 --> 00:00:44,435 Speaker 1: staggering bombshell report that Trump had hidden more than three 6 00:00:44,715 --> 00:00:49,675 Speaker 1: hundred classified documents at Mari Lago. The first implication is obvious. 7 00:00:49,715 --> 00:00:54,195 Speaker 1: More than three hundred classified documents. This is what spies do. 8 00:00:54,755 --> 00:00:58,675 Speaker 1: There is no prosecutorial discretion here. Trump will have to 9 00:00:58,835 --> 00:01:03,515 Speaker 1: be prosecuted. Moreover, the Times matter of factly adds that 10 00:01:03,595 --> 00:01:08,075 Speaker 1: on August eight, quote officials left with twenty six boxes, 11 00:01:08,275 --> 00:01:13,315 Speaker 1: including eleven sets of material marked as classified, adding one 12 00:01:13,435 --> 00:01:18,435 Speaker 1: set had the highest level of classification top secret slash 13 00:01:18,675 --> 00:01:23,915 Speaker 1: Sensitive compartmented information. He will have to be prosecuted and 14 00:01:23,995 --> 00:01:28,475 Speaker 1: given the set of gravely secret T S slash SCI documents, 15 00:01:28,635 --> 00:01:33,955 Speaker 1: he will have to be prosecuted for espionage. The third 16 00:01:34,075 --> 00:01:38,155 Speaker 1: implication is that investigators now have security video of Trump 17 00:01:38,475 --> 00:01:43,435 Speaker 1: or somebody acting on his behalf moving documents, maybe moving 18 00:01:43,555 --> 00:01:47,115 Speaker 1: classified documents, maybe moving T S slash s c I 19 00:01:47,395 --> 00:01:52,475 Speaker 1: documents from one container to another to presumably hide them 20 00:01:52,515 --> 00:01:56,235 Speaker 1: from further FBI searches. That is the meaning of this 21 00:01:56,395 --> 00:02:00,515 Speaker 1: detail in the Times about the subpoenas served at Marilago 22 00:02:00,635 --> 00:02:06,555 Speaker 1: on June for surveillance footage, quoting again, it revealed people 23 00:02:06,715 --> 00:02:10,555 Speaker 1: moving boxes in and out, and in some cases appearing 24 00:02:10,595 --> 00:02:15,595 Speaker 1: to change the containers some documents were held in. The 25 00:02:15,755 --> 00:02:18,435 Speaker 1: fourth implication from the Times reporting is a little bit 26 00:02:18,435 --> 00:02:22,635 Speaker 1: more obvious that Trump may still be hiding more classified 27 00:02:22,715 --> 00:02:27,755 Speaker 1: documents at mari Lago right now, quoting again, the Justice 28 00:02:27,795 --> 00:02:31,275 Speaker 1: Department investigation is continuing, suggesting that officials are not certain 29 00:02:31,315 --> 00:02:34,915 Speaker 1: whether they have recovered all the presidential records that Trump 30 00:02:34,995 --> 00:02:37,875 Speaker 1: took with him from the White House, and in seeking 31 00:02:37,915 --> 00:02:41,835 Speaker 1: a second round of security footage, the Justice Department wants 32 00:02:41,835 --> 00:02:44,715 Speaker 1: to review tapes for the weeks leading up to the 33 00:02:44,755 --> 00:02:51,475 Speaker 1: August eighth search. After seven years of the degradation Donald 34 00:02:51,555 --> 00:02:54,315 Speaker 1: Trump has brought to this country and to each of us, 35 00:02:54,395 --> 00:03:00,035 Speaker 1: it is hard to be astounded any longer. These implications, however, 36 00:03:00,635 --> 00:03:04,515 Speaker 1: are astounding. It is one thing to hear about the 37 00:03:04,715 --> 00:03:09,035 Speaker 1: vague belief that Trump had taken documents somehow related to 38 00:03:09,155 --> 00:03:11,635 Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. It is quite another thing to read that 39 00:03:11,715 --> 00:03:14,635 Speaker 1: among them was a set of documents with the highest 40 00:03:14,875 --> 00:03:19,435 Speaker 1: possible security classification. It is a crime to remove them. 41 00:03:19,475 --> 00:03:22,555 Speaker 1: It is another crime to possess them. It is yet 42 00:03:22,555 --> 00:03:26,515 Speaker 1: another crime to show them to anybody. It is espionage, 43 00:03:27,275 --> 00:03:30,315 Speaker 1: and it would be a different level of crime altogether, 44 00:03:30,635 --> 00:03:34,195 Speaker 1: a level of crime this country has previously prosecuted as 45 00:03:34,235 --> 00:03:37,955 Speaker 1: a capital offense to give them, to sell them, or 46 00:03:37,995 --> 00:03:42,115 Speaker 1: to offer to do either to anyone from a foreign country. 47 00:03:42,835 --> 00:03:46,435 Speaker 1: And none of these crimes would be mitigated in the 48 00:03:46,555 --> 00:03:52,755 Speaker 1: slightest even if Trump actually had somehow declassified the documents. 49 00:03:52,795 --> 00:04:00,475 Speaker 1: That's how serious this is. There are lesser issues too. 50 00:04:00,675 --> 00:04:04,355 Speaker 1: You would also not want to be Christina Bob right now. 51 00:04:04,715 --> 00:04:07,875 Speaker 1: He is the former one American news talking head and 52 00:04:07,955 --> 00:04:11,475 Speaker 1: Trump attorney, though I will need to see her diploma 53 00:04:11,555 --> 00:04:15,155 Speaker 1: to be fully convinced of that now. After Trump returned 54 00:04:15,235 --> 00:04:19,035 Speaker 1: fifteen boxes of missing documents in June, The Times reports 55 00:04:19,075 --> 00:04:22,835 Speaker 1: that Trump attorney Evan Corcoran drafted a statement and Bob, 56 00:04:22,995 --> 00:04:27,155 Speaker 1: quote said to be the custodian of the documents, signed 57 00:04:27,635 --> 00:04:31,755 Speaker 1: the statement. What Bob signed says that quote, to the 58 00:04:31,795 --> 00:04:35,595 Speaker 1: best of her knowledge, all classified material that was there 59 00:04:35,595 --> 00:04:39,435 Speaker 1: had been returned. According to two people familiar with the statement, 60 00:04:39,835 --> 00:04:43,155 Speaker 1: at minimum Christina Bob will now have to be investigated 61 00:04:43,195 --> 00:04:47,475 Speaker 1: and perhaps prosecuted. If this cascade of nightmares were not enough, 62 00:04:47,755 --> 00:04:51,635 Speaker 1: there is one more colorful detail. The fifteen boxes Trump 63 00:04:51,635 --> 00:04:56,555 Speaker 1: returned in January of this year, by themselves, included quote 64 00:04:56,595 --> 00:05:00,075 Speaker 1: more than one and fifty sensitive documents from the CIA, 65 00:05:00,715 --> 00:05:05,435 Speaker 1: the National Security Agency, and the FBI, spenning a variety 66 00:05:05,515 --> 00:05:10,595 Speaker 1: of topics of national security interest. Just to make this 67 00:05:10,875 --> 00:05:15,675 Speaker 1: all that much worse, After two weeks of inertia, Trump 68 00:05:15,795 --> 00:05:18,795 Speaker 1: finally filed a legal motion Monday about the search. It 69 00:05:18,915 --> 00:05:23,155 Speaker 1: demands that a special master be pointed to review everything 70 00:05:23,235 --> 00:05:27,395 Speaker 1: removed from Mari Lago. As Ryan Goodman of Just Security rites, 71 00:05:27,715 --> 00:05:31,275 Speaker 1: at its core, Trump's court filing is Alice in Wonderland. 72 00:05:31,635 --> 00:05:34,675 Speaker 1: As a legal argument, its central demand is for a 73 00:05:34,755 --> 00:05:37,955 Speaker 1: special master to filter out all the documents for which 74 00:05:37,955 --> 00:05:42,035 Speaker 1: there is executive privilege. But those are the very kinds 75 00:05:42,195 --> 00:05:48,755 Speaker 1: of documents that belong in the national archives. More extraordinary still, 76 00:05:49,275 --> 00:05:52,795 Speaker 1: in the legal document he had filed under his name, 77 00:05:53,315 --> 00:05:57,955 Speaker 1: Trump confirms earlier off the record reporting boasts that he 78 00:05:58,035 --> 00:06:00,995 Speaker 1: instructed one of his attorneys. His motion does not identify 79 00:06:01,035 --> 00:06:04,435 Speaker 1: which one to pressure, bully and threaten the Attorney General 80 00:06:04,555 --> 00:06:07,035 Speaker 1: the United States in the hours or perhaps even the 81 00:06:07,075 --> 00:06:10,115 Speaker 1: minutes before Merritt Garland addressed the nation about the search 82 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:14,035 Speaker 1: at Mari Lago, quoting what Trump somehow believed would make 83 00:06:14,155 --> 00:06:18,875 Speaker 1: him look good. Quote. On August eleven, two thousand two, 84 00:06:18,995 --> 00:06:22,395 Speaker 1: Council for Trump spoke to Mr Bratt, that's the Justice 85 00:06:22,435 --> 00:06:26,155 Speaker 1: Department Liaison by telephone. The first item of discussion was 86 00:06:26,195 --> 00:06:29,635 Speaker 1: a message from President Trump to Attorney General Merrick Garland. 87 00:06:29,835 --> 00:06:33,315 Speaker 1: The message was as follows. President Trump wants the Attorney 88 00:06:33,355 --> 00:06:35,875 Speaker 1: General to know that he has been hearing from people 89 00:06:35,955 --> 00:06:38,675 Speaker 1: all over the country about the raid. If there was 90 00:06:38,755 --> 00:06:42,235 Speaker 1: one word to describe their mood, it is quote angry unquote. 91 00:06:42,475 --> 00:06:45,435 Speaker 1: The heat is building up, the pressure is building up. 92 00:06:45,595 --> 00:06:48,555 Speaker 1: Whatever I can do to take the heat down, to 93 00:06:48,715 --> 00:06:52,435 Speaker 1: bring the pressure down, just let us know end quote. 94 00:06:53,995 --> 00:06:57,315 Speaker 1: It is impossible to imagine how Donald Trump could be 95 00:06:57,355 --> 00:07:01,075 Speaker 1: in deeper trouble than he is right now, unless perhaps 96 00:07:01,075 --> 00:07:04,355 Speaker 1: somebody were to report the exact nature of the f 97 00:07:04,555 --> 00:07:10,395 Speaker 1: S slash SCI Highest Security classification documents he stole. There 98 00:07:10,435 --> 00:07:13,995 Speaker 1: are other new developments, obviously overshadowed by these extraordinary ones, 99 00:07:14,035 --> 00:07:18,875 Speaker 1: worth a brief recap. Judge Reinhardt, in reviewing the possible 100 00:07:18,955 --> 00:07:22,835 Speaker 1: unsealing of the search warrant affidavit, issued statements suggesting he 101 00:07:22,915 --> 00:07:26,995 Speaker 1: is leaning against doing so. Quote, I was and am 102 00:07:27,155 --> 00:07:30,995 Speaker 1: satisfied that the facts sworn by the affiant are reliable. 103 00:07:31,755 --> 00:07:34,435 Speaker 1: I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will 104 00:07:34,475 --> 00:07:37,875 Speaker 1: be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, 105 00:07:38,115 --> 00:07:41,635 Speaker 1: but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further 106 00:07:41,715 --> 00:07:44,875 Speaker 1: from the government and quote. In other words, the judge 107 00:07:44,915 --> 00:07:47,875 Speaker 1: already thinks so much in the affidavit may have to 108 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:51,715 Speaker 1: be redacted that virtually all he might release would be 109 00:07:51,755 --> 00:07:55,275 Speaker 1: page after page fully blacked out, save for the occasional 110 00:07:55,315 --> 00:08:02,675 Speaker 1: words the or and and Trump. Remarkably, Reinhart also expressed 111 00:08:02,715 --> 00:08:07,715 Speaker 1: his concern about how unsealing this might affect Trump's personal safety, 112 00:08:07,795 --> 00:08:12,475 Speaker 1: Quoting him again, the affidavit raises physical aspects of the premises. 113 00:08:12,795 --> 00:08:16,115 Speaker 1: Disclosure of these details could affect the Secret Services ability 114 00:08:16,355 --> 00:08:21,115 Speaker 1: to carry out its protective function. This factor weighs in 115 00:08:21,235 --> 00:08:27,315 Speaker 1: favor of ceiling and the reaction from Trump land Trump's 116 00:08:27,355 --> 00:08:30,835 Speaker 1: Lackey cash Patel blames the g s A. The Government 117 00:08:30,915 --> 00:08:35,035 Speaker 1: Services Administration is responsible for packaging and parceling those documents, 118 00:08:35,315 --> 00:08:37,955 Speaker 1: they were the ones who moved those documents to Mari 119 00:08:38,075 --> 00:08:42,155 Speaker 1: Lago and quote. If that doesn't stick, Patel will presumably 120 00:08:42,155 --> 00:08:46,075 Speaker 1: move on to blaming Allied Van Lines and early Tuesday morning, 121 00:08:46,155 --> 00:08:50,115 Speaker 1: in one of the greatest misjudgments in espionage history since 122 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:55,595 Speaker 1: alger his denied knowing Whittaker Chambers, somebody, maybe Trump himself, 123 00:08:56,075 --> 00:08:59,075 Speaker 1: sent John Solomon, the former journalist, a letter from the 124 00:08:59,155 --> 00:09:03,755 Speaker 1: National Archives to Trump Attorney Evan Corkoran from last May. 125 00:09:03,915 --> 00:09:07,035 Speaker 1: Solomon pasted it, tweeted it, and wrote a piece that 126 00:09:07,115 --> 00:09:11,435 Speaker 1: completely ignores what's in the letter. In the letter, acting 127 00:09:11,515 --> 00:09:15,035 Speaker 1: United States Archivist Deborah Wall has written a virtual play 128 00:09:15,035 --> 00:09:18,835 Speaker 1: by and play of the government's repeated attempts in one 129 00:09:19,355 --> 00:09:22,475 Speaker 1: to get Trump to explain what happened to the boxes 130 00:09:22,515 --> 00:09:26,995 Speaker 1: of missing classified documents. Her letter also explains why documents 131 00:09:26,995 --> 00:09:30,995 Speaker 1: returned to the Archives in January two were not analyzed 132 00:09:31,035 --> 00:09:33,995 Speaker 1: by the Department of Justice until this May and June, 133 00:09:34,435 --> 00:09:36,555 Speaker 1: which in turn explains why there was no visit to 134 00:09:36,595 --> 00:09:39,515 Speaker 1: Mari Lago until June, which in turn explains why there 135 00:09:39,555 --> 00:09:42,115 Speaker 1: was a sudden sense of urgency in July and August 136 00:09:42,115 --> 00:09:44,635 Speaker 1: of this year for documents that had been missing for 137 00:09:44,755 --> 00:09:50,755 Speaker 1: eighteen months. Archivist Wall describes broadly how Trump, more than 138 00:09:50,795 --> 00:09:54,555 Speaker 1: a year after he left office, tried to claim executive 139 00:09:54,675 --> 00:09:58,555 Speaker 1: privilege over these documents, and the FBI and the intelligence 140 00:09:58,555 --> 00:10:01,395 Speaker 1: community held back until it could get clearance from the 141 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:04,675 Speaker 1: Biden white House that if it looked at the documents 142 00:10:04,675 --> 00:10:08,835 Speaker 1: Trump headstole and it would not be violating executive privilege. 143 00:10:09,275 --> 00:10:12,995 Speaker 1: The Archives and the FBI and the intelligence community needed 144 00:10:13,035 --> 00:10:15,995 Speaker 1: the Biden white House to say no, if there somehow 145 00:10:16,275 --> 00:10:19,635 Speaker 1: is some sort of executive privilege over these documents, we 146 00:10:20,555 --> 00:10:24,955 Speaker 1: who have the exclusive distributorship of executive privilege, we will 147 00:10:24,995 --> 00:10:30,675 Speaker 1: not object to waiving executive privilege. Solomon and presumably Trump 148 00:10:30,795 --> 00:10:33,995 Speaker 1: clearly think the references in the letter to Biden and 149 00:10:34,035 --> 00:10:37,755 Speaker 1: the current administration will let Trump and Trump supporters paint 150 00:10:37,835 --> 00:10:42,875 Speaker 1: the entire investigation search and now the inevitable prosecution as 151 00:10:42,995 --> 00:10:47,755 Speaker 1: mere political attacks on Trump by Biden. But the letter 152 00:10:47,835 --> 00:10:51,395 Speaker 1: from the Archives also shows that Trump has been consciously 153 00:10:51,515 --> 00:10:56,235 Speaker 1: trying to hide these documents since at least January of 154 00:10:56,275 --> 00:11:01,195 Speaker 1: this year, and that his attorney stonewall throughout April. There 155 00:11:01,275 --> 00:11:05,355 Speaker 1: is no longer any chance that Trump aid some sort 156 00:11:05,355 --> 00:11:10,355 Speaker 1: of stupid Trumpian mistake. He chose to hide them. It 157 00:11:10,515 --> 00:11:14,435 Speaker 1: is a pure crime, no other options, and what's in 158 00:11:14,475 --> 00:11:18,155 Speaker 1: them may be more startling than we ever imagined. Quoting 159 00:11:18,635 --> 00:11:22,195 Speaker 1: among the materials in the boxes, archivist Wall writes on 160 00:11:22,315 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: May tenth of this year, are over one hundred documents 161 00:11:25,715 --> 00:11:30,235 Speaker 1: with classification markings, comprising more than seven hundred pages. Some 162 00:11:30,355 --> 00:11:35,955 Speaker 1: include the highest levels of classification, including Special Access program 163 00:11:36,435 --> 00:11:41,355 Speaker 1: S AP materials. Note that, well, continuing the quote, access 164 00:11:41,395 --> 00:11:43,995 Speaker 1: to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of 165 00:11:43,995 --> 00:11:48,635 Speaker 1: our ongoing criminal investigation, but the executive branch must also 166 00:11:48,675 --> 00:11:52,075 Speaker 1: conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the 167 00:11:52,115 --> 00:11:57,075 Speaker 1: apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported. 168 00:11:58,035 --> 00:12:00,635 Speaker 1: In their late night rush to try to make Trump 169 00:12:00,675 --> 00:12:03,275 Speaker 1: the victim here, they have neglected to note what Kyle 170 00:12:03,395 --> 00:12:06,875 Speaker 1: Cheney of Politico right, The letter does more to show 171 00:12:06,915 --> 00:12:11,075 Speaker 1: how Trump and his team resisted the Archives entreaties than 172 00:12:11,155 --> 00:12:13,875 Speaker 1: anything that has come out so far, and this is 173 00:12:14,035 --> 00:12:19,915 Speaker 1: all before subsequent trenches were discovered at Marilago more ominous still. 174 00:12:20,835 --> 00:12:25,595 Speaker 1: Back to s A P investigative reporter Jason Leopold notes 175 00:12:25,635 --> 00:12:30,835 Speaker 1: that Special Access program S AP materials are highly classified 176 00:12:30,915 --> 00:12:36,355 Speaker 1: and sometimes referred to as black projects end quote. In 177 00:12:36,395 --> 00:12:39,995 Speaker 1: other words, black ops, off the books, c I, A 178 00:12:40,155 --> 00:12:43,795 Speaker 1: skullduggery and such. Trump may have stolen documents dealing with 179 00:12:43,875 --> 00:12:47,595 Speaker 1: the most secret operations run by this government, the very 180 00:12:47,595 --> 00:12:51,715 Speaker 1: existence of which is a classified secret. His crime here 181 00:12:51,915 --> 00:12:56,155 Speaker 1: is twice as bad as it was before Solomon published 182 00:12:56,235 --> 00:13:01,795 Speaker 1: that letter from the archivist. So the breadth of the 183 00:13:01,835 --> 00:13:05,835 Speaker 1: documents Trump took from Marilago makes prosecut usian inevitable. That 184 00:13:05,995 --> 00:13:08,995 Speaker 1: one set of these documents has the highest possible secret 185 00:13:09,035 --> 00:13:14,035 Speaker 1: classification makes prosecution for espionage inevitable. The wording of the 186 00:13:14,075 --> 00:13:17,835 Speaker 1: Times article reveals there may be video of people mishandling 187 00:13:17,875 --> 00:13:22,155 Speaker 1: these classified documents. The Times reporting is clear the FBI 188 00:13:22,315 --> 00:13:24,915 Speaker 1: and d o J are not certain that there are 189 00:13:24,995 --> 00:13:29,875 Speaker 1: not more classified documents still being deliberately hidden by Trump illegally. 190 00:13:30,475 --> 00:13:33,475 Speaker 1: Trump's own side has released a letter confirming he made 191 00:13:33,475 --> 00:13:36,675 Speaker 1: a choice to hold onto documents when asked to return them, 192 00:13:36,795 --> 00:13:38,995 Speaker 1: and that the documents may have referred to off the 193 00:13:39,035 --> 00:13:43,995 Speaker 1: books international intelligence operations. One or more of Trump's lawyers 194 00:13:44,035 --> 00:13:46,995 Speaker 1: may have lied to the FBI about illegal possession of 195 00:13:46,995 --> 00:13:52,755 Speaker 1: classified documents, and Trump in his own legal filing has confirmed, yes, 196 00:13:53,115 --> 00:13:59,435 Speaker 1: he threatened the Attorney General and the nation with violence. Lastly, 197 00:14:00,675 --> 00:14:03,675 Speaker 1: they have not done so. Almost certainly they will not 198 00:14:03,835 --> 00:14:08,035 Speaker 1: do so now. But this would be a real good 199 00:14:08,035 --> 00:14:12,315 Speaker 1: time for Trump's supporters in government, in the Republican Party, 200 00:14:12,835 --> 00:14:18,795 Speaker 1: in the country, in the world to bail out on him. 201 00:14:18,835 --> 00:14:22,875 Speaker 1: It is unimaginable that from here on in that there 202 00:14:22,875 --> 00:14:27,515 Speaker 1: will not be professional casualties for those who defend this man, 203 00:14:28,075 --> 00:14:32,435 Speaker 1: who is now on a path towards becoming the most 204 00:14:32,515 --> 00:14:50,035 Speaker 1: damaging spy in American history. Wolf still ahead on countdown. 205 00:14:50,555 --> 00:14:54,595 Speaker 1: Not enough treachery for you, Well, Trump's cracking crew, Hey, 206 00:14:54,635 --> 00:14:57,875 Speaker 1: you're cracking is showing Sidney Powell and the other Khan 207 00:14:57,995 --> 00:15:00,955 Speaker 1: women and Khan men actually did more than just try 208 00:15:00,995 --> 00:15:03,195 Speaker 1: to shake the foundation of this nation. They appear to 209 00:15:03,275 --> 00:15:08,555 Speaker 1: have illegally di distributed sensitive election data taken from Michigan 210 00:15:08,555 --> 00:15:12,195 Speaker 1: and Georgia and distributed it to, among others, a friend 211 00:15:12,195 --> 00:15:17,835 Speaker 1: of Sean Hannity's and a professional surfer. Dude, are you 212 00:15:17,955 --> 00:15:21,955 Speaker 1: tired of sports sponsorships and on field ads? Tough? They're 213 00:15:21,955 --> 00:15:28,635 Speaker 1: now selling sports sponsorships for injured player rehabilitation stints and 214 00:15:28,715 --> 00:15:31,115 Speaker 1: the story of the most talented newsman I have ever 215 00:15:31,155 --> 00:15:33,355 Speaker 1: worked with, and how his ability to get the job 216 00:15:33,435 --> 00:15:35,955 Speaker 1: done on no sleep, with no prep when he wasn't 217 00:15:35,955 --> 00:15:41,475 Speaker 1: really there led to his self destruction. That's next. This 218 00:15:41,635 --> 00:15:59,675 Speaker 1: is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith old Woman coming 219 00:15:59,755 --> 00:16:04,075 Speaker 1: up the newest sales pitch in sports. This growing poll 220 00:16:04,475 --> 00:16:08,755 Speaker 1: is brought to you by First. In each edition of Countdown, 221 00:16:08,795 --> 00:16:11,275 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need somewhere in the country 222 00:16:11,315 --> 00:16:14,475 Speaker 1: whom you can help. 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To find 232 00:16:44,155 --> 00:16:46,355 Speaker 1: out more about Roxy, please go to my Twitter feed 233 00:16:46,355 --> 00:16:49,955 Speaker 1: for Dogs in Need that's at tom Jumbo Grumbo. You 234 00:16:49,995 --> 00:16:54,275 Speaker 1: will find the tweet about Roxy and see photos. Email addresses, links, 235 00:16:54,315 --> 00:16:57,755 Speaker 1: everything you need. And you can also help Roxy merely 236 00:16:57,835 --> 00:17:01,875 Speaker 1: by retweeting my biography of her. Spread the word about Roxy. 237 00:17:01,915 --> 00:17:05,515 Speaker 1: It's at Tom Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter. Thank you very much. 238 00:17:16,035 --> 00:17:18,875 Speaker 1: Coming up on countdown. It had to happen. Trump is 239 00:17:18,915 --> 00:17:21,635 Speaker 1: actually competing for the honor of being the latest worst 240 00:17:21,675 --> 00:17:25,635 Speaker 1: person in the world. Plus, yes, everything in sports now 241 00:17:25,715 --> 00:17:29,395 Speaker 1: has a dollar sign on it, even injured ballplayers minor 242 00:17:29,515 --> 00:17:33,835 Speaker 1: league rehabs. Coming up first. Postcripts to news, some headlines, 243 00:17:34,275 --> 00:17:42,395 Speaker 1: some thoughts, some snark. Dateline Atlanta glad to see all 244 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:46,595 Speaker 1: those cracking election deniers upheld the sanctity of the electoral process. 245 00:17:46,675 --> 00:17:51,075 Speaker 1: The Washington Post reporting quote sensitive election system files obtained 246 00:17:51,075 --> 00:17:55,635 Speaker 1: by attorneys working to overturn Trump's defeat were shared with 247 00:17:56,035 --> 00:18:00,915 Speaker 1: election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and right wing commentators. The Sullivan 248 00:18:01,035 --> 00:18:04,635 Speaker 1: Strickler firm, a computer group of some sort from joy 249 00:18:04,795 --> 00:18:08,835 Speaker 1: Ja records from a lawsuit show got into one computer 250 00:18:08,915 --> 00:18:12,435 Speaker 1: in that state because then election supervisor Miss d Hampton 251 00:18:12,595 --> 00:18:16,475 Speaker 1: said the quote election was not done true and correct. 252 00:18:17,275 --> 00:18:20,595 Speaker 1: Among those the Post reports downloaded all of this sensitive 253 00:18:20,675 --> 00:18:24,075 Speaker 1: data and yes, these may be crimes. Doug Logan of 254 00:18:24,195 --> 00:18:28,475 Speaker 1: cyber Ninja's John Basham, a meteorologist from Texas who has 255 00:18:28,515 --> 00:18:32,115 Speaker 1: appeared with Sean Hannity watch the weather, like John a 256 00:18:32,195 --> 00:18:36,035 Speaker 1: podcaster named Altman who has called for gallows to be 257 00:18:36,075 --> 00:18:38,275 Speaker 1: built to quote, take care of all these traitors to 258 00:18:38,315 --> 00:18:43,435 Speaker 1: our nation, and most importantly, Conan Hayes, a former professional surfer. 259 00:18:44,035 --> 00:18:47,275 Speaker 1: If you're wondering these sound like crimes, Keith, well, you 260 00:18:47,315 --> 00:18:50,115 Speaker 1: ain't heard nothing yet. All the records in the lawsuit, 261 00:18:50,235 --> 00:18:53,355 Speaker 1: all all the names of innocent bystanders and voters and such, 262 00:18:53,435 --> 00:18:56,075 Speaker 1: they're supposed to be blacked out in all these legal filings. 263 00:18:56,075 --> 00:18:58,635 Speaker 1: But quote from the Post. The text beneath some of 264 00:18:58,635 --> 00:19:01,395 Speaker 1: the blacked out blocks became visible when a Post reporter 265 00:19:01,475 --> 00:19:05,115 Speaker 1: copied and pasted it into a separate file. I'm thinking 266 00:19:05,115 --> 00:19:08,995 Speaker 1: monkeys with typewriters here. Dateline New York The Times has 267 00:19:09,035 --> 00:19:12,115 Speaker 1: published an op ed by the editor of the National Review, 268 00:19:12,435 --> 00:19:15,835 Speaker 1: Rich Lowry. It's about the Marilago search headline can you 269 00:19:15,915 --> 00:19:18,355 Speaker 1: tell me what would happen if the FBI were investigating 270 00:19:18,395 --> 00:19:21,395 Speaker 1: a democrat. If the shoe were on the other foot 271 00:19:21,395 --> 00:19:24,595 Speaker 1: and a high profile democrat were similarly targeted, the left 272 00:19:24,595 --> 00:19:27,115 Speaker 1: would be just as suspicious of the authorities and defensive 273 00:19:27,115 --> 00:19:29,715 Speaker 1: of the target, as the right has been. It takes 274 00:19:29,715 --> 00:19:33,115 Speaker 1: this idiot Lowry eight paragraphs to remember that this country 275 00:19:33,155 --> 00:19:36,155 Speaker 1: came to a complete stop for all of the year 276 00:19:37,235 --> 00:19:41,875 Speaker 1: because President Clinton was being investigated for a stained dress. 277 00:19:42,515 --> 00:19:46,515 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, whom the FBI announced it was again investigating 278 00:19:46,595 --> 00:19:49,435 Speaker 1: over emails on the same level of sensitivity of your 279 00:19:49,475 --> 00:19:53,075 Speaker 1: appointment reminders from your dentist days before the two thousand 280 00:19:53,115 --> 00:19:56,475 Speaker 1: sixteen presidential election. Hillary Clinton does not appear in Lowry's 281 00:19:56,555 --> 00:20:00,555 Speaker 1: article til paragraph eleven. Why the Times felt it needed 282 00:20:00,595 --> 00:20:04,675 Speaker 1: to give this wretch Lowry a platform? I cannot guess more. 283 00:20:04,955 --> 00:20:06,795 Speaker 1: If it was going to give him a platform, why 284 00:20:06,795 --> 00:20:09,515 Speaker 1: did it not simply reprint the greatest thing Rich Lowry 285 00:20:09,555 --> 00:20:13,315 Speaker 1: ever wrote once again from October second, two thousand and eight, 286 00:20:13,555 --> 00:20:16,995 Speaker 1: after the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. 287 00:20:17,315 --> 00:20:21,315 Speaker 1: It's Rich Lowry of the National Review quote, A very 288 00:20:21,355 --> 00:20:23,795 Speaker 1: wise TV executive once told me that the key to 289 00:20:23,835 --> 00:20:26,595 Speaker 1: TV is projecting through the screen. It's one of the 290 00:20:26,675 --> 00:20:29,875 Speaker 1: keys to the success of say a Bill O'Reilly, who 291 00:20:29,915 --> 00:20:32,115 Speaker 1: comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. 292 00:20:32,555 --> 00:20:34,555 Speaker 1: We all know how that turned out. By the way. 293 00:20:34,795 --> 00:20:37,715 Speaker 1: Let me get back to this. Palen two projects through 294 00:20:37,755 --> 00:20:41,395 Speaker 1: the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only 295 00:20:41,475 --> 00:20:44,635 Speaker 1: male in America who when Palen dropped her first wink, 296 00:20:45,115 --> 00:20:49,555 Speaker 1: sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, hey, 297 00:20:50,355 --> 00:20:54,155 Speaker 1: I think she just winked at me. And her smile 298 00:20:54,795 --> 00:20:57,755 Speaker 1: by the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, 299 00:20:57,795 --> 00:21:00,435 Speaker 1: it was so sparkling, it was almost mesmerizing. It said 300 00:21:00,675 --> 00:21:04,515 Speaker 1: little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living 301 00:21:04,715 --> 00:21:08,635 Speaker 1: hmes of America. This is quality. Can't be learned. It's 302 00:21:08,915 --> 00:21:13,515 Speaker 1: either something you have or you don't. And then she's 303 00:21:14,155 --> 00:21:19,155 Speaker 1: got it. I'll remind you again that ain't Menkan or 304 00:21:19,155 --> 00:21:22,875 Speaker 1: even Woodward and Bernstein. But remember the difficulty degree that 305 00:21:22,995 --> 00:21:26,315 Speaker 1: rich Lowry faced here about writing his piece about Sarah Palin. 306 00:21:27,595 --> 00:21:45,355 Speaker 1: He was writing it with one hand. This is Sports Center. Wait, 307 00:21:45,515 --> 00:21:53,155 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman 308 00:21:53,675 --> 00:21:56,275 Speaker 1: from the World of Wide Sports. Tom Brady is back 309 00:21:56,275 --> 00:21:58,755 Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after an absence of eleven 310 00:21:58,795 --> 00:22:02,195 Speaker 1: days for unexplained personal reasons. The hot rumor mentioned on 311 00:22:02,235 --> 00:22:05,475 Speaker 1: a pregame telecast by a rival team executive is that 312 00:22:05,515 --> 00:22:09,635 Speaker 1: Brady was busy filming episodes of the TV reality show 313 00:22:09,715 --> 00:22:13,395 Speaker 1: The Masked Singer, which beats the other rumor, which was 314 00:22:13,755 --> 00:22:16,275 Speaker 1: that Brady had to stay inside and out of the 315 00:22:16,355 --> 00:22:20,915 Speaker 1: sun for eleven days while they refilled those fifty caskets 316 00:22:20,955 --> 00:22:25,115 Speaker 1: full of soil from his native country. And Bryce Harper 317 00:22:25,155 --> 00:22:27,395 Speaker 1: will soon be back with the Philadelphia Phillies. It's not 318 00:22:27,435 --> 00:22:29,835 Speaker 1: so much where he's been. He broke his thumb on 319 00:22:29,955 --> 00:22:35,035 Speaker 1: june's been rehabilitating. It's about his rehab with the Phillies 320 00:22:35,115 --> 00:22:38,755 Speaker 1: minor league team, the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs. Harper will 321 00:22:38,795 --> 00:22:41,555 Speaker 1: be playing for them tonight, presumably a few days more 322 00:22:41,635 --> 00:22:44,195 Speaker 1: before returning to the Philadelphia lineup. But even that is 323 00:22:44,235 --> 00:22:47,235 Speaker 1: not the interesting part. It's that the Iron Pigs press 324 00:22:47,275 --> 00:22:53,515 Speaker 1: release about Harper includes a sponsorship quote Bryce Harper's rehab appearances, 325 00:22:53,595 --> 00:23:00,275 Speaker 1: presented by Good Shepherd Rehabilitation. They're selling sponsorships for rehab 326 00:23:00,435 --> 00:23:03,955 Speaker 1: stints now and this isn't even the first one. When 327 00:23:04,035 --> 00:23:06,715 Speaker 1: Mitch Hannah grew the Seattle Mariners went to the Miners 328 00:23:06,795 --> 00:23:09,875 Speaker 1: last month to get back into shape with the Everett Aquisocks. 329 00:23:10,475 --> 00:23:13,875 Speaker 1: The Aquasocks put out a graphic showing Hanniger and an 330 00:23:13,875 --> 00:23:19,395 Speaker 1: ad identifying its rehab sponsor Major League Pizza. Unfortunately, the 331 00:23:19,435 --> 00:23:21,315 Speaker 1: ad was composed in such a way that it looks 332 00:23:21,355 --> 00:23:25,675 Speaker 1: like the place is called Major League Pizza Rehab. Still, 333 00:23:25,715 --> 00:23:28,635 Speaker 1: it could be worse. My college town Antheca, New York 334 00:23:28,675 --> 00:23:31,635 Speaker 1: has never actually had a minor league team, but it 335 00:23:31,715 --> 00:23:34,675 Speaker 1: has a company that runs an ambulance service and a 336 00:23:34,795 --> 00:23:38,635 Speaker 1: funeral home. And the ambulance service boasts that it often 337 00:23:38,715 --> 00:23:43,555 Speaker 1: transports patients to places like Binghamton, Elmira, Rochester, Syracuse, all 338 00:23:43,595 --> 00:23:50,795 Speaker 1: of which do have minor league teams. Places called Bangs, Bangs, Ambulance, Bangs, 339 00:23:50,915 --> 00:23:55,035 Speaker 1: funeral home. This player's rehab is brought to you by Bangs, 340 00:23:55,115 --> 00:23:59,275 Speaker 1: ambulance and funeral home. Don't forget whether you're going out 341 00:23:59,315 --> 00:24:03,235 Speaker 1: forever or only for a little while. Go out with 342 00:24:03,395 --> 00:24:31,275 Speaker 1: a bangs. Thank you, Nancy Faust still ahead. I am 343 00:24:31,355 --> 00:24:34,355 Speaker 1: reminded right now the most talented broadcaster I ever worked with, 344 00:24:34,435 --> 00:24:37,315 Speaker 1: and how his talent and his genius and his ability 345 00:24:37,355 --> 00:24:40,315 Speaker 1: to work through days when he wasn't really there were 346 00:24:40,315 --> 00:24:43,515 Speaker 1: the causes of his self destruction. First, it's the daily 347 00:24:43,595 --> 00:24:46,595 Speaker 1: roundup of the miscrants, morons and dunning Kruger effects specimens 348 00:24:46,595 --> 00:24:51,435 Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world le bronze. 349 00:24:51,475 --> 00:24:55,555 Speaker 1: Wisconsin grubernatorial candidate Tim Michaels running for the nomination, He 350 00:24:55,635 --> 00:24:58,955 Speaker 1: promised a self funded campaign, said he would not accept 351 00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:02,635 Speaker 1: any individual donations of more than five dollars. His newest 352 00:25:02,675 --> 00:25:06,835 Speaker 1: campaign fundraising message this week, please send me twenty dollars 353 00:25:08,035 --> 00:25:11,835 Speaker 1: the silver we stay in Wisconsin. Somebody got to Ron Johnson, 354 00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:14,915 Speaker 1: the Republican senator from both that state and Russia, and 355 00:25:14,995 --> 00:25:17,915 Speaker 1: asked Johnson if he would testify to the January six 356 00:25:17,955 --> 00:25:21,355 Speaker 1: committee about his role as a courier attempting to deliver 357 00:25:21,395 --> 00:25:26,035 Speaker 1: a message about fake electoral slates device President Pence. His 358 00:25:26,155 --> 00:25:28,835 Speaker 1: answered quote, I had nothing to do with the January 359 00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:31,155 Speaker 1: six I had nothing to do with the alternate slate. 360 00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:32,875 Speaker 1: I had no idea that anybody was gonna ask me 361 00:25:32,915 --> 00:25:35,595 Speaker 1: to deliver those. My involvement in that attempt to deliver 362 00:25:35,675 --> 00:25:37,955 Speaker 1: spanned the course of a couple of seconds. I knew 363 00:25:37,995 --> 00:25:40,915 Speaker 1: nothing about it. I had virtually no involvement. Literally, my 364 00:25:40,955 --> 00:25:44,555 Speaker 1: involvement lasted seconds. Honest. I ran out of gas, I 365 00:25:44,635 --> 00:25:46,675 Speaker 1: had a flat tire, I didn't have enough money for 366 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:49,155 Speaker 1: cab fair My talks, didn't come back from the cleaners. 367 00:25:49,315 --> 00:25:51,555 Speaker 1: An old friend came in from out of town. Someone 368 00:25:51,595 --> 00:25:55,795 Speaker 1: stole my car, there was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locus. 369 00:25:55,875 --> 00:26:01,355 Speaker 1: It wasn't my fault. I swear to God. Okay, once again, 370 00:26:01,395 --> 00:26:03,435 Speaker 1: I may have embellished the quote a little bit, but 371 00:26:04,075 --> 00:26:07,755 Speaker 1: Johnson is clearly offering as his defense, I was only 372 00:26:07,835 --> 00:26:10,435 Speaker 1: involved in the plot to overthrow the government for a 373 00:26:10,515 --> 00:26:15,795 Speaker 1: couple of seconds. That's not a good defense. And a reminder, 374 00:26:15,835 --> 00:26:20,755 Speaker 1: when President Kennedy was assassinated, it took eleven seconds. But 375 00:26:20,835 --> 00:26:23,235 Speaker 1: our winner, for the first time in this series, it's 376 00:26:23,475 --> 00:26:28,395 Speaker 1: l Duche himself. We are honored, sir. The marks, the rubs, 377 00:26:28,395 --> 00:26:31,235 Speaker 1: the victims, the suckers who donated to the Trump Save 378 00:26:31,315 --> 00:26:35,595 Speaker 1: America political committee may not know the difference between freedom 379 00:26:35,635 --> 00:26:37,955 Speaker 1: and fascism, but they sure as health thought their money 380 00:26:38,075 --> 00:26:41,675 Speaker 1: was going to whatever they think Save America means. It 381 00:26:41,715 --> 00:26:45,075 Speaker 1: turns out six hundred and fifty thousand dollars donated by 382 00:26:45,075 --> 00:26:49,435 Speaker 1: the unloved, the uneducated, and the unwashed has now been 383 00:26:49,475 --> 00:26:54,875 Speaker 1: donated by Trump's Save America pack to the Smithsonian Institution, 384 00:26:55,435 --> 00:26:58,395 Speaker 1: and the Smithsonian Institution has now confirmed that that six 385 00:26:58,435 --> 00:27:02,875 Speaker 1: hundred fifty dollars will be spent to commission to portraits 386 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:08,555 Speaker 1: of Donald and the and your Trump, including artists, fees, shipping, framing, 387 00:27:08,555 --> 00:27:12,995 Speaker 1: installation and events. They've left out protective feces, proof glass, 388 00:27:13,635 --> 00:27:15,755 Speaker 1: but I'm thinking they're gonna have to spring for that too. 389 00:27:16,115 --> 00:27:20,755 Speaker 1: Six d fifty grand for Smithsonian paintings of an incubus 390 00:27:20,835 --> 00:27:25,795 Speaker 1: and a succubus. Donald could be worse. They could be 391 00:27:25,915 --> 00:27:43,755 Speaker 1: nude paintings Trump Today's worst person and the world. Finally 392 00:27:43,795 --> 00:27:45,795 Speaker 1: to our number one story on the countdown and my 393 00:27:45,875 --> 00:27:48,995 Speaker 1: favorite topic, me and I suppose he came into my 394 00:27:49,035 --> 00:27:51,355 Speaker 1: mind because not only did one of Trump's lawyers called 395 00:27:51,395 --> 00:27:55,155 Speaker 1: Judge Reinhardt Judge Reinhold last week, but so did the 396 00:27:55,155 --> 00:27:59,275 Speaker 1: New York Daily News. But I once worked with a newscaster, 397 00:27:59,515 --> 00:28:02,995 Speaker 1: the most talented person I have ever worked with, and 398 00:28:03,075 --> 00:28:05,595 Speaker 1: he not only made an unbelievable blooper and one of 399 00:28:05,595 --> 00:28:07,915 Speaker 1: the big radio stations in New York, but after he 400 00:28:08,035 --> 00:28:09,835 Speaker 1: did that, they warned him that if he ever did 401 00:28:09,835 --> 00:28:12,035 Speaker 1: something like that again, they would fire him. And he 402 00:28:12,075 --> 00:28:15,755 Speaker 1: did it again, and they fired him. His name was 403 00:28:15,835 --> 00:28:19,155 Speaker 1: Will Spence, and by the time he was eighteen years old, 404 00:28:19,195 --> 00:28:22,275 Speaker 1: he was the news director of a radio station in Connecticut, 405 00:28:22,475 --> 00:28:24,595 Speaker 1: and he was a substitute anchor at the age of 406 00:28:24,635 --> 00:28:27,915 Speaker 1: eighteen on the top all news radio station in the country, 407 00:28:27,995 --> 00:28:31,675 Speaker 1: w CBS in New York eighteen. Not long after that, 408 00:28:31,715 --> 00:28:33,875 Speaker 1: he went to NBC and was the original newsman on 409 00:28:33,955 --> 00:28:36,995 Speaker 1: Don Imus's radio show. He jumped right from that to 410 00:28:37,075 --> 00:28:40,355 Speaker 1: being a TV reporter on the NBC station in New York. 411 00:28:40,395 --> 00:28:44,275 Speaker 1: Age and the sky was the limit, and he was 412 00:28:44,555 --> 00:28:48,555 Speaker 1: simply a genius and fitting the best definition of that word, 413 00:28:48,875 --> 00:28:52,315 Speaker 1: someone who could do something with ease that nobody else 414 00:28:52,315 --> 00:28:56,115 Speaker 1: would even attempt. Will Spence was reporting for the NBC 415 00:28:56,235 --> 00:28:59,195 Speaker 1: station Channel four in New York on New York's fiscal 416 00:28:59,275 --> 00:29:01,635 Speaker 1: crisis of the late seventies, and he had scooped the 417 00:29:01,635 --> 00:29:06,315 Speaker 1: competition and gotten details of a complicated rescue plan with 418 00:29:06,475 --> 00:29:11,875 Speaker 1: debt transference and algorithms and adjusted interest rates and and 419 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:15,515 Speaker 1: and not one moment of his important scoop was on camera. 420 00:29:15,715 --> 00:29:18,555 Speaker 1: The people who gave him that story would not permit 421 00:29:18,595 --> 00:29:23,075 Speaker 1: themselves to be recorded or even quoted. So Will simply 422 00:29:23,115 --> 00:29:25,195 Speaker 1: had his cameraman set up at the foot of the 423 00:29:25,195 --> 00:29:27,795 Speaker 1: snaps of New York City Hall and said to him, 424 00:29:27,955 --> 00:29:31,915 Speaker 1: following me stop at Park Row and then three to one, 425 00:29:32,315 --> 00:29:35,155 Speaker 1: and then Will began to walk. The cameraman was next 426 00:29:35,195 --> 00:29:36,915 Speaker 1: to him, and he began to walk, and for two 427 00:29:36,915 --> 00:29:40,235 Speaker 1: and a half minutes, with impeccable sentence, structure and diction 428 00:29:40,595 --> 00:29:45,635 Speaker 1: and complete accuracy, Will Spence took this extraordinarily complicated rescue 429 00:29:45,635 --> 00:29:51,075 Speaker 1: plan for New York's hemorrhaging finances with algorithms and explained 430 00:29:51,115 --> 00:29:55,995 Speaker 1: it calmly, succinctly, expertly, simply a little touch of snark 431 00:29:56,075 --> 00:29:59,075 Speaker 1: in his voice. And he kept walking and kept walking, 432 00:29:59,315 --> 00:30:02,115 Speaker 1: and kept walking, and kept looking to the cameraman by 433 00:30:02,115 --> 00:30:04,235 Speaker 1: his side, and then away into the ground, and then 434 00:30:04,235 --> 00:30:06,315 Speaker 1: back to the cameraman, and then he stopped on the 435 00:30:06,355 --> 00:30:09,675 Speaker 1: sidewalk of Park Row, where he was perfectly framed by 436 00:30:09,715 --> 00:30:14,075 Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Bridge. Will Spence new center for at City Hall. 437 00:30:15,755 --> 00:30:18,835 Speaker 1: I couldn't do that in a million years, and I'm 438 00:30:18,875 --> 00:30:22,675 Speaker 1: okay with doing stuff like that, to be fair, that 439 00:30:22,915 --> 00:30:27,555 Speaker 1: was take two. On take one, Will had missed timed 440 00:30:27,595 --> 00:30:29,635 Speaker 1: what he wanted to say and where he wanted to walk, 441 00:30:29,635 --> 00:30:31,995 Speaker 1: and instead of he and the cameraman stopping on the 442 00:30:32,035 --> 00:30:36,435 Speaker 1: sidewalk of the street Park Row, the cameraman stopped, but 443 00:30:36,555 --> 00:30:39,435 Speaker 1: Will had not yet finished, so Will kept walking into 444 00:30:39,435 --> 00:30:42,035 Speaker 1: the street itself, and the video then showed him diving 445 00:30:42,115 --> 00:30:44,995 Speaker 1: out of the way as a garbage truck barreled toward 446 00:30:45,115 --> 00:30:49,955 Speaker 1: him on Park Row at about forty five. And that 447 00:30:50,075 --> 00:30:53,115 Speaker 1: was the other side of Will Spence. For every act 448 00:30:53,115 --> 00:30:56,875 Speaker 1: of genius, there was a garbage truck heading towards him 449 00:30:56,915 --> 00:30:59,995 Speaker 1: with his name on it. I don't know what happened 450 00:30:59,995 --> 00:31:01,875 Speaker 1: to Channel four, but I do know he got fired. 451 00:31:02,475 --> 00:31:04,555 Speaker 1: I know that when I met him in when I 452 00:31:04,595 --> 00:31:06,595 Speaker 1: was twenty one and he was thirty, I was convinced 453 00:31:06,595 --> 00:31:09,515 Speaker 1: he was closer to forty. And on the morning shift 454 00:31:09,555 --> 00:31:11,875 Speaker 1: of the New York radio station where we both worked, 455 00:31:12,235 --> 00:31:15,715 Speaker 1: Will had a little trouble with his own schedule. He 456 00:31:15,755 --> 00:31:18,595 Speaker 1: was supposed to be there at three fifteen am and 457 00:31:18,715 --> 00:31:21,355 Speaker 1: on the air for his first newscast at five am. 458 00:31:21,395 --> 00:31:24,915 Speaker 1: The station was w n w AT it's decades old 459 00:31:25,035 --> 00:31:30,195 Speaker 1: news sound was the bonga bongas that sound, Bonga bonga, 460 00:31:30,235 --> 00:31:34,635 Speaker 1: bonga bonga, repeating endlessly. I saw Will Spence walk in 461 00:31:34,675 --> 00:31:38,715 Speaker 1: one morning, pale as a sheet in his raincoat, gesticulating 462 00:31:38,795 --> 00:31:41,635 Speaker 1: wildly with his left hand for a news desk assistant 463 00:31:41,875 --> 00:31:47,075 Speaker 1: to hand him a script, any script, at exactly five am, 464 00:31:47,235 --> 00:31:50,195 Speaker 1: no actually a few seconds after five am, so late 465 00:31:50,195 --> 00:31:52,275 Speaker 1: that the dish jockey was already playing the W N 466 00:31:52,275 --> 00:31:54,755 Speaker 1: A W news sound. And we were at about the 467 00:31:54,835 --> 00:32:00,195 Speaker 1: eighth or ninth Bonga bonga, and I saw him a 468 00:32:00,275 --> 00:32:03,155 Speaker 1: small stack of copy jammed into his left hand by 469 00:32:03,155 --> 00:32:06,475 Speaker 1: the desk assistant, stack of copy he had not even 470 00:32:06,555 --> 00:32:10,755 Speaker 1: looked at, with his raincoat still on. Sit down, throw 471 00:32:10,835 --> 00:32:16,275 Speaker 1: his microphone toggle open and say, falllessly, it's eighty three 472 00:32:16,315 --> 00:32:19,715 Speaker 1: degrees in reigning at five o'clock. I'm Will Spence meyr Cutch. 473 00:32:19,755 --> 00:32:22,835 Speaker 1: We'll meet this morning with representatives of the aditations to discuss. 474 00:32:23,515 --> 00:32:25,755 Speaker 1: Like he had been there for hours and written the 475 00:32:25,755 --> 00:32:29,075 Speaker 1: copy himself and practiced it aloud for three or four 476 00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:33,635 Speaker 1: times from the standpoint of the viewer or the listener. 477 00:32:33,755 --> 00:32:36,315 Speaker 1: Will could sound perfect when he had crafted a thing 478 00:32:36,315 --> 00:32:39,195 Speaker 1: of genius, like the walking stand up on the Fiscal Crisis. 479 00:32:39,275 --> 00:32:41,755 Speaker 1: But he could also sound perfect when he had just 480 00:32:41,955 --> 00:32:45,955 Speaker 1: staggered into the booth having successfully found the location of 481 00:32:45,995 --> 00:32:50,475 Speaker 1: the radio station on the eighth or ninth Bonga. And 482 00:32:50,595 --> 00:32:54,995 Speaker 1: unfortunately that skill was his undoing on the night of Wednesday, 483 00:32:55,075 --> 00:32:59,515 Speaker 1: July eighty, Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan was in deep 484 00:32:59,515 --> 00:33:03,595 Speaker 1: discussions with former president former Vice President Gerald Ford about 485 00:33:03,675 --> 00:33:07,355 Speaker 1: Ford running with him as Reagan's vice president. It was 486 00:33:07,555 --> 00:33:11,555 Speaker 1: unprecedented in American history. It led all the newscasts that night. 487 00:33:11,835 --> 00:33:14,595 Speaker 1: It was the featured story on all the wire services. 488 00:33:14,995 --> 00:33:18,595 Speaker 1: Books have been written about this evening and those discussions, 489 00:33:19,595 --> 00:33:23,115 Speaker 1: and they all fell apart about eleven PM because Ford 490 00:33:23,155 --> 00:33:25,715 Speaker 1: made it clear to Reagan that whoever was president, whoever 491 00:33:25,835 --> 00:33:28,795 Speaker 1: was vice president, Ford expected them to be more or 492 00:33:28,915 --> 00:33:33,315 Speaker 1: less co presidents. Before the calendar had turned to Thursday, 493 00:33:33,395 --> 00:33:37,795 Speaker 1: July sevent the deal was dead. Reagan had selected George H. W. 494 00:33:37,955 --> 00:33:42,795 Speaker 1: Bush as his running mate, and our timeline was irrevocably altered. 495 00:33:43,315 --> 00:33:47,315 Speaker 1: How Dare you Sir? At About five hours later, and 496 00:33:47,355 --> 00:33:51,075 Speaker 1: about twelve bongas into the five o'clock newscast on Thursday 497 00:33:51,195 --> 00:33:54,835 Speaker 1: July seventeen, in walked Will Spence, this time simply grabbing 498 00:33:54,875 --> 00:33:57,555 Speaker 1: the first stack of copy he saw falling into the 499 00:33:57,555 --> 00:34:02,035 Speaker 1: announced booth, opening up his mic and starting to read. Unfortunately, 500 00:34:02,075 --> 00:34:05,795 Speaker 1: what he had grabbed was the previous It's nine PM 501 00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:09,955 Speaker 1: newscast script. W Nis three degrees in reigning at five o'clock, 502 00:34:10,035 --> 00:34:13,075 Speaker 1: I am Will Spence. It seems certain of American history 503 00:34:13,115 --> 00:34:15,875 Speaker 1: bid a man will run for president, den his running 504 00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:19,395 Speaker 1: mate will be a former president the Republican nineteen eighty ticket, 505 00:34:19,995 --> 00:34:25,635 Speaker 1: Riggan and Forward. Those who were there in the newsroom 506 00:34:25,835 --> 00:34:28,955 Speaker 1: told me they were startled by how many people were 507 00:34:28,995 --> 00:34:32,515 Speaker 1: actually listening to the five am news. And we're willing 508 00:34:32,555 --> 00:34:36,355 Speaker 1: to call in and complain and call Will Spence an idiot. 509 00:34:37,515 --> 00:34:41,155 Speaker 1: Upper management wanted to call him something else fired. But 510 00:34:41,235 --> 00:34:44,195 Speaker 1: he had a guardian angel at w n AW in, 511 00:34:44,235 --> 00:34:46,475 Speaker 1: the news director Sam Hall, who had also been his 512 00:34:46,555 --> 00:34:49,475 Speaker 1: boss in the Imas days. And Sam gave him another chance, 513 00:34:49,515 --> 00:34:54,195 Speaker 1: but said do it again and you're gone. I really 514 00:34:54,235 --> 00:34:57,195 Speaker 1: don't know what was wrong with Will. He told me 515 00:34:57,235 --> 00:35:01,875 Speaker 1: he smoked a lot of weed. He said he was hypoglycemic. 516 00:35:02,635 --> 00:35:04,635 Speaker 1: Somebody at w NBC said he used to sit here 517 00:35:04,715 --> 00:35:08,315 Speaker 1: his desk, pressing his hands to his skull and mumbling, tumors. 518 00:35:08,755 --> 00:35:12,995 Speaker 1: I can feel them growing tumors. He was sometimes charming. 519 00:35:13,155 --> 00:35:17,515 Speaker 1: He gave extraordinarily good career advice, sometimes constructively, and sometimes 520 00:35:17,675 --> 00:35:21,595 Speaker 1: advice that was designed to leave you bleeding. During a 521 00:35:21,635 --> 00:35:25,875 Speaker 1: commercial break, preceding one of my short sportscasts. I sat 522 00:35:25,915 --> 00:35:28,915 Speaker 1: down in the booth with him, and as an aggressively 523 00:35:29,075 --> 00:35:32,315 Speaker 1: cheerful ad for a bank played in the background, will 524 00:35:32,595 --> 00:35:37,435 Speaker 1: let loose on me? So I heard him and this 525 00:35:37,515 --> 00:35:42,275 Speaker 1: commercial for the bank mixed together juxtaposed like this. You 526 00:35:42,355 --> 00:35:45,595 Speaker 1: have potential, Alderman, but you have to change your entire delivery. 527 00:35:45,755 --> 00:35:48,595 Speaker 1: We're the friendly bank. You can go up to danky stadium, 528 00:35:48,595 --> 00:35:50,675 Speaker 1: interview every player and every fan, and play all the 529 00:35:50,715 --> 00:35:52,675 Speaker 1: little cuts you on on the radio. But you get 530 00:35:52,675 --> 00:35:55,475 Speaker 1: nowhere if you can't read the script like a man. 531 00:35:55,755 --> 00:35:59,635 Speaker 1: We're the bank that cares about you. Your nasal. You 532 00:35:59,715 --> 00:36:02,275 Speaker 1: sound constipated. You get nowhere in this business. On the 533 00:36:02,315 --> 00:36:04,275 Speaker 1: other hand, I could read the phone book on the 534 00:36:04,315 --> 00:36:07,035 Speaker 1: air and I could sound like the Bible. Come in 535 00:36:07,075 --> 00:36:11,155 Speaker 1: and see our friendly tellers today. Shape up or you're fired, 536 00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:15,835 Speaker 1: and by the way, fix your damned eyebrows. Manhattan Bank 537 00:36:16,235 --> 00:36:19,475 Speaker 1: member f D I c now it's sports. Good morning 538 00:36:19,515 --> 00:36:26,515 Speaker 1: to Pulberman. I said nothing. For a second, maybe more. 539 00:36:26,635 --> 00:36:30,635 Speaker 1: I contemplated using a falsetto, and I finally stammered through 540 00:36:30,675 --> 00:36:34,195 Speaker 1: my thirty seconds, got up to leave, and as Spence 541 00:36:34,235 --> 00:36:38,955 Speaker 1: through to the weather man, Spence said, and that sucked too. 542 00:36:41,075 --> 00:36:43,515 Speaker 1: I was the only person left at w NW who 543 00:36:43,555 --> 00:36:46,435 Speaker 1: liked him, and I was beginning to hate him. He 544 00:36:46,435 --> 00:36:48,915 Speaker 1: would take me aside sometimes and tell me that his 545 00:36:48,995 --> 00:36:51,715 Speaker 1: first wife and her divorce lawyer were up in the 546 00:36:51,795 --> 00:36:56,395 Speaker 1: blimp following him around the city. Sometimes he claimed they 547 00:36:56,395 --> 00:36:59,275 Speaker 1: were working in cahoots with the news director Sam Hall 548 00:36:59,435 --> 00:37:02,755 Speaker 1: to destroy him, when in fact Hall was the only 549 00:37:02,835 --> 00:37:06,835 Speaker 1: thing standing between him and unemployed him. Somebody once made 550 00:37:06,875 --> 00:37:10,915 Speaker 1: a mild joke about him in his age in the newsroom, 551 00:37:10,995 --> 00:37:14,395 Speaker 1: and he threw a stapler at them. He complained one 552 00:37:14,435 --> 00:37:17,195 Speaker 1: of the women there was stalking him. In fact, he 553 00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:22,435 Speaker 1: was stalking her, and inevitably, on October third, nineteen eighty, 554 00:37:22,475 --> 00:37:25,035 Speaker 1: he either made an impossibly unlucky grab for an old 555 00:37:25,035 --> 00:37:29,155 Speaker 1: script during the seventeenth Bonga or something, or more likely 556 00:37:29,275 --> 00:37:31,795 Speaker 1: somebody in the news room set him up. Ww do 557 00:37:31,955 --> 00:37:34,595 Speaker 1: It's fifty degrees and reigning at five o'clock. I'm will 558 00:37:34,715 --> 00:37:37,955 Speaker 1: Spence the whoope. John Paul the Second made history arriving 559 00:37:37,955 --> 00:37:40,595 Speaker 1: in our city yesterday and today it took her tip parade. 560 00:37:40,595 --> 00:37:43,395 Speaker 1: And then he will address the faithfuttle at Madison Square 561 00:37:43,395 --> 00:37:48,475 Speaker 1: garden coverage of the Pope all day unders that had 562 00:37:48,515 --> 00:37:54,075 Speaker 1: happened on October three, nineteen seventy nine. This was now 563 00:37:54,275 --> 00:38:02,315 Speaker 1: October three. Will Spence was reading literally year old news. 564 00:38:04,395 --> 00:38:07,155 Speaker 1: As I recall, they fired him before his shift ended, 565 00:38:07,195 --> 00:38:13,995 Speaker 1: maybe before the next newscast year old news. Months later, 566 00:38:14,035 --> 00:38:16,155 Speaker 1: I was working at the r k O radio network 567 00:38:16,235 --> 00:38:18,275 Speaker 1: for my boss, Charlie Steiner, one of the voices of 568 00:38:18,315 --> 00:38:22,475 Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Now, when RKO expanded and started a second network, 569 00:38:22,515 --> 00:38:26,235 Speaker 1: and they brought in to run it, Sam Hall. Sam 570 00:38:26,235 --> 00:38:28,435 Speaker 1: Hall hired a bunch of guys with great pipes, and 571 00:38:28,515 --> 00:38:31,035 Speaker 1: he hired Will Spence. Oh no, I say it took 572 00:38:31,035 --> 00:38:34,715 Speaker 1: my advice. Look at this. Something whizzed past me and 573 00:38:34,795 --> 00:38:37,475 Speaker 1: stuck in a box of wire copy. It's a Brazilian 574 00:38:37,515 --> 00:38:42,635 Speaker 1: throwing dagger. I have a collection at r KO. On 575 00:38:42,755 --> 00:38:45,635 Speaker 1: the night of the Grammys, Will interweaved a clip of 576 00:38:45,715 --> 00:38:48,675 Speaker 1: every winning song into his script live on the air, 577 00:38:48,795 --> 00:38:51,915 Speaker 1: throwing cartridges left and right as he did it. The 578 00:38:51,995 --> 00:38:54,955 Speaker 1: next hour he updated it with the latest winner. The 579 00:38:55,075 --> 00:38:57,595 Speaker 1: next hour, he updated it with the latest winner. After 580 00:38:57,635 --> 00:39:02,515 Speaker 1: that it was utter unqualified genius. And he also told 581 00:39:02,515 --> 00:39:04,395 Speaker 1: me at r k OH there was a woman stalking him, 582 00:39:04,435 --> 00:39:06,915 Speaker 1: who in fact he was stalking, And he addressed everybody 583 00:39:06,955 --> 00:39:12,155 Speaker 1: by their job title, tape editor, come here. And once 584 00:39:12,155 --> 00:39:15,835 Speaker 1: they postponed a nine am staff meeting until three pm 585 00:39:15,915 --> 00:39:18,155 Speaker 1: and didn't tell him before he drove in from his 586 00:39:18,195 --> 00:39:21,075 Speaker 1: house in Connecticut. So he simply went to his Manhattan 587 00:39:21,115 --> 00:39:24,435 Speaker 1: studio apartment and, as he told me, smoked pot for 588 00:39:24,475 --> 00:39:28,035 Speaker 1: six hours. And then he came back and insulted literally 589 00:39:28,115 --> 00:39:30,995 Speaker 1: every member of the forty person staff, went from one 590 00:39:31,115 --> 00:39:33,795 Speaker 1: to the other to the other, saying as nasty a 591 00:39:33,875 --> 00:39:36,995 Speaker 1: thing as he could think of about them. When our nicest, 592 00:39:37,275 --> 00:39:42,515 Speaker 1: sweetest news editor stood up on her desk and screamed, Spence, 593 00:39:42,795 --> 00:39:44,875 Speaker 1: get the f out of here before I kill you, 594 00:39:45,235 --> 00:39:50,435 Speaker 1: before we all kill you, he was genuinely shocked ashen. 595 00:39:50,915 --> 00:39:53,395 Speaker 1: He came over to me, A lot of the bravado 596 00:39:53,515 --> 00:39:58,635 Speaker 1: was gone. Older woman, for God's sake, help me, help me. 597 00:39:59,355 --> 00:40:03,595 Speaker 1: Keith Well, I heard his life story. It took two hours. 598 00:40:03,715 --> 00:40:06,475 Speaker 1: We went into Steiner's office. We stole two of Charlie 599 00:40:06,595 --> 00:40:10,915 Speaker 1: cigars and smoked them. It was the living embodiment of 600 00:40:10,915 --> 00:40:13,315 Speaker 1: the phrase just because you're paranoid, it does not mean 601 00:40:13,315 --> 00:40:15,995 Speaker 1: they are not out to get you. I was trying 602 00:40:15,995 --> 00:40:18,995 Speaker 1: to think how to help him when days later news 603 00:40:19,035 --> 00:40:23,195 Speaker 1: came that he had been hired as a TV reporter 604 00:40:23,315 --> 00:40:26,115 Speaker 1: by another New York TV station, w A b C. 605 00:40:26,315 --> 00:40:29,235 Speaker 1: I witnessed news and then over there on his first day, 606 00:40:29,315 --> 00:40:31,795 Speaker 1: was bitten by a dog and he wanted to go 607 00:40:31,835 --> 00:40:33,675 Speaker 1: to the hospital to get checked out. They made him 608 00:40:33,675 --> 00:40:40,235 Speaker 1: go out on another story instead. Dogs, garbage trucks. They 609 00:40:40,235 --> 00:40:43,915 Speaker 1: all had Will's name on them. A decade later, Will 610 00:40:43,955 --> 00:40:45,915 Speaker 1: wound up in l A, where I had made my 611 00:40:45,995 --> 00:40:49,035 Speaker 1: mark by then as a local TV sportscaster. He had 612 00:40:49,035 --> 00:40:51,675 Speaker 1: been hired by a rival station and still did those 613 00:40:51,755 --> 00:40:56,715 Speaker 1: incredible intricate walking stand ups now live every night, usually 614 00:40:56,715 --> 00:41:00,555 Speaker 1: from a crime scene on the eleven o'clock news. One night, 615 00:41:00,635 --> 00:41:04,315 Speaker 1: his own crew managed to not just sabotage him, but 616 00:41:04,435 --> 00:41:08,075 Speaker 1: not him down with a slow moving car, live on 617 00:41:08,115 --> 00:41:11,875 Speaker 1: the air while he was declaiming into the camera. His 618 00:41:11,955 --> 00:41:14,275 Speaker 1: last job, at yet another l A station, he got 619 00:41:14,315 --> 00:41:17,275 Speaker 1: because the aging woman anchor there fifteen years his senior, 620 00:41:17,635 --> 00:41:21,635 Speaker 1: had taken a fancy to him. She got fired. He 621 00:41:21,715 --> 00:41:24,275 Speaker 1: got fired, And one day the phone rang at MSNBC 622 00:41:24,995 --> 00:41:29,995 Speaker 1: maybe two thousand six. It was Will Spence the Pope 623 00:41:30,835 --> 00:41:34,515 Speaker 1: had sent a hit squad to kill him. He said 624 00:41:35,195 --> 00:41:38,715 Speaker 1: the whole Catholic Church was involved. Did I have the 625 00:41:38,795 --> 00:41:42,155 Speaker 1: number of the woman who used to stalk him? It 626 00:41:42,235 --> 00:41:46,955 Speaker 1: was far more awful than it sounds. I think somebody 627 00:41:46,995 --> 00:41:50,155 Speaker 1: sent me an email. Early in April two eight, I'm 628 00:41:50,155 --> 00:41:52,995 Speaker 1: pretty sure that's how I found out Will Spence had 629 00:41:53,075 --> 00:41:55,835 Speaker 1: driven his car at high speed into a bridge abutment 630 00:41:55,915 --> 00:41:59,595 Speaker 1: in Ventura County, outside l A. There was a story 631 00:41:59,715 --> 00:42:02,315 Speaker 1: that he had had heart problems and had just seen 632 00:42:02,395 --> 00:42:04,835 Speaker 1: his doctor and gotten bad news, but we'll never know 633 00:42:05,035 --> 00:42:08,315 Speaker 1: for sure. I went to put together a little tribute 634 00:42:08,315 --> 00:42:12,755 Speaker 1: to him that night on countdown and online I could 635 00:42:12,795 --> 00:42:15,195 Speaker 1: not find a single photo of him, nor any form 636 00:42:15,235 --> 00:42:20,635 Speaker 1: of biography. Even now, there is one photo accompanying a 637 00:42:20,795 --> 00:42:24,515 Speaker 1: sad tribute to him, published a couple of weeks later 638 00:42:24,555 --> 00:42:27,395 Speaker 1: in one of the newspapers in Venturatt County. It was 639 00:42:27,435 --> 00:42:30,995 Speaker 1: a tribute not unlike this one. What a wasted life, 640 00:42:32,115 --> 00:42:34,875 Speaker 1: how much you wanted to hate him and couldn't. And 641 00:42:35,075 --> 00:42:38,795 Speaker 1: on YouTube there is a tape of one Will Spence 642 00:42:38,875 --> 00:42:45,115 Speaker 1: TV report from November Channel seven in New York. This 643 00:42:45,195 --> 00:42:47,955 Speaker 1: talent who could decipher the plan to save New York 644 00:42:47,995 --> 00:42:52,555 Speaker 1: City from bankruptcy and recite it as he walked Exists 645 00:42:52,635 --> 00:42:56,755 Speaker 1: Forever for two minutes and forty six seconds of his 646 00:42:56,875 --> 00:43:01,835 Speaker 1: report on the marriage of Luke and Laura from ABC's 647 00:43:01,955 --> 00:43:07,795 Speaker 1: General Hospital and by the a even it is brilliant. 648 00:43:18,235 --> 00:43:19,915 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. 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