WEBVTT - DONALD TRUMP: THAT'S "DONALD" WITH 47 L's - 12.15.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:21.155 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's 0:00:21.195 --> 0:00:26.115 losing streak has hit twenty seven days, his latest losing streak. 0:00:26.435 --> 0:00:28.875 MAGA knows it. The head of the Republican National Committee 0:00:28.915 --> 0:00:31.555 knows it. The Wall Street Journal knows it. The Indiana 0:00:31.635 --> 0:00:35.395 GOP knows it. The Ukrainians know it. Anybody who saw 0:00:35.395 --> 0:00:40.035 his pathetic, credit grabbing, disinformational tweet Saturday night after the 0:00:40.075 --> 0:00:43.315 Brown shooting knows it. His own economists know it, the 0:00:43.475 --> 0:00:47.395 terrorists know it. Even Trump knows it. Since the House 0:00:47.555 --> 0:00:52.555 passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November nineteenth, Trump 0:00:52.595 --> 0:00:57.515 has been sinking in quicksand sinking, and not more than 0:00:57.595 --> 0:01:01.595 one or two of his more insane, more desperate colleagues 0:01:01.875 --> 0:01:04.355 have even gotten close enough to hand him a rope 0:01:04.435 --> 0:01:07.675 for fear of being pulled down with him. His losing 0:01:07.715 --> 0:01:13.635 streak is today twenty seven days long, his latest losing streak, 0:01:14.315 --> 0:01:19.035 and they are beginning to blame him. We are facing 0:01:19.195 --> 0:01:23.115 almost certain defeats, says the purulent face of the RNC 0:01:23.435 --> 0:01:27.675 Joe Gruders about the midterms. Then, quote, this is an 0:01:27.715 --> 0:01:31.955 absolute disaster. Then if that wasn't clear enough, quote there's 0:01:31.955 --> 0:01:35.955 no sugarcoating it. This is a pending, looming disaster headed 0:01:36.035 --> 0:01:40.475 our way. And then I think, quoting me, quoting the 0:01:40.555 --> 0:01:44.835 late football owner Al Davis Gruters, says, the chances are 0:01:44.875 --> 0:01:50.355 Republicans will go down, and will go down. Hod just lose, baby, 0:01:51.275 --> 0:01:55.395 and boy has Trump been losing. He called affordability a hoax, 0:01:55.475 --> 0:01:57.995 got his arm twisted by his economists who know the 0:01:58.075 --> 0:02:00.435 last thing it is is a hoax. Tried to give 0:02:00.475 --> 0:02:04.315 a speech saying he will fix affordability rather than being 0:02:04.435 --> 0:02:09.155 crush under its weight politically, and still could not stop himself. 0:02:09.235 --> 0:02:14.115 Could not not mock those advisors, and not mock America, 0:02:14.235 --> 0:02:18.075 and not mock his own speech, and not mock affordability again, 0:02:18.435 --> 0:02:22.435 and even not mock the charts they gave him, and 0:02:23.315 --> 0:02:28.035 not mock Christmas presents. Quote you don't need thirty seven 0:02:28.155 --> 0:02:34.035 dollars for your daughter two or three? Is nice, she thinks, 0:02:34.155 --> 0:02:38.595 santi the results the next day, the Democrat Eileen Higgins 0:02:38.635 --> 0:02:41.915 swamped the MAGA loser in the election for mayor of Miami, 0:02:42.235 --> 0:02:44.715 and the Republicans coughed up what was thought to be 0:02:44.755 --> 0:02:47.675 a permanently red seat in the state House in Georgia, 0:02:47.955 --> 0:02:52.475 and Trump still kept mocking affordability, and Trump even mocked 0:02:52.915 --> 0:02:57.115 Trump twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen when he was caught saying 0:02:57.195 --> 0:03:01.715 shithole countries, and he denied he said shithole countries, and 0:03:01.755 --> 0:03:04.115 he lied and said he didn't say it, and his 0:03:04.155 --> 0:03:06.955 people who there and heard him say it, they lied 0:03:07.035 --> 0:03:08.595 and said he didn't say it. And now he says 0:03:08.675 --> 0:03:10.475 he did say it, and he said it again, and 0:03:10.515 --> 0:03:13.035 he said it about Somalia. And I don't know what 0:03:13.155 --> 0:03:17.915 it is, but somehow this group he has attacked seems 0:03:17.915 --> 0:03:21.115 to have been respected in this country, even by Republicans. 0:03:21.395 --> 0:03:26.115 And the shithole in question looks like Trump's mouth. And 0:03:26.155 --> 0:03:30.755 then there's nearby Indiana. Indiana is not a hot prospect 0:03:31.235 --> 0:03:34.475 to join the new Left, and it never has been. 0:03:34.515 --> 0:03:37.995 And yet Mike Pence was from there. And the Indiana 0:03:38.035 --> 0:03:40.955 Republicans who stared Trump down when he threatened to cut 0:03:40.995 --> 0:03:44.355 off all federal funding if they didn't readdistrict the way 0:03:44.395 --> 0:03:48.075 he wanted him to there from there, and they told 0:03:48.155 --> 0:03:51.755 him to go f himself. And then the Maga lieutenant governor, 0:03:51.755 --> 0:03:55.635 whose name is Micah Beckwith and is exactly as dumb 0:03:55.635 --> 0:04:00.515 as that sounds, first posted that threat online then deleted 0:04:00.515 --> 0:04:03.835 the post, and then, when confronted by reporters, repeated the 0:04:03.875 --> 0:04:09.515 threat almost word for word. Quote, Yes, these conversations happened. 0:04:09.915 --> 0:04:13.155 Beckwith said this to Politico. But it's not a threat, 0:04:13.275 --> 0:04:16.155 it's an honest conversation about who does the White House 0:04:16.235 --> 0:04:19.435 want to partner with. There are forty nine other states 0:04:19.435 --> 0:04:23.475 competing for all kinds of projects. Indianatol the White House today. 0:04:23.515 --> 0:04:26.155 They don't want to be a good partner to the 0:04:26.235 --> 0:04:29.515 Trump administration. And I suspect the White House will look 0:04:29.515 --> 0:04:33.595 to partner with other states before US. But did they 0:04:33.635 --> 0:04:37.635 actually say, here are projects you could lose out on 0:04:38.275 --> 0:04:42.355 if you do not deliver for us. Political Politico asked 0:04:42.355 --> 0:04:51.315 them that question, and mister Beckwith answered, quote, yes, unbelievable. Hey, Becky, One, 0:04:51.555 --> 0:04:55.235 don't blackmail. Two, don't blackmail people who aren't going to 0:04:55.275 --> 0:04:59.395 give in to blackmail. Three, when your blackmail fails, don't 0:04:59.435 --> 0:05:03.835 advertise that it's failed. And four, when you realize the 0:05:03.915 --> 0:05:07.475 validity of point three and you try to bury your advertisement, 0:05:07.675 --> 0:05:12.595 don't go back and advertise it again. Indiana thus becomes 0:05:12.715 --> 0:05:17.915 multiple Trump losses. He loses there like three times, and 0:05:18.035 --> 0:05:21.155 he also loses wherever he decides the next Indiana is 0:05:22.075 --> 0:05:26.595 and he looks, well, what's the opposite of impregnable? He 0:05:26.675 --> 0:05:32.235 looks pregnable. And there are multiple, multiple l's, not just Indiana, 0:05:32.355 --> 0:05:35.635 these beauty pageant also rans. He's tried to dress up 0:05:35.675 --> 0:05:41.675 as US attorneys Julianne Murray in Delaware Gone, the slimy 0:05:41.795 --> 0:05:49.075 Elina Haba Gone, Miss Uncongeniality, Lindsay Halligan going seven of them, 0:05:49.155 --> 0:05:54.115 by Trump's own admission going. And Trump's replacement evil plan 0:05:54.795 --> 0:05:57.035 is to eliminate blue slips in the Senate the way 0:05:57.075 --> 0:06:00.995 home state senators keep unqualified nominees from being qualified by 0:06:01.035 --> 0:06:04.275 the whores still working for the would be dictator. And 0:06:04.395 --> 0:06:07.515 John has responded to this by saying no, and Chuck 0:06:07.555 --> 0:06:10.715 Grassley has responded to this by saying, no, that's two 0:06:10.755 --> 0:06:14.675 more els in one game. No three l's in one game. 0:06:14.715 --> 0:06:19.115 He'd already tried to get them to eliminate the filibuster too, 0:06:19.395 --> 0:06:23.795 els el's els marching into the White House just in 0:06:23.875 --> 0:06:26.835 time for the construction permits to be denied for the 0:06:26.915 --> 0:06:32.635 new combination ballroom and Trump egos storage Hangar, I don't 0:06:32.675 --> 0:06:35.075 know what's going to happen to Obamacare, but He's not 0:06:35.115 --> 0:06:38.235 gonna gut it or replace it with the latest lame 0:06:38.355 --> 0:06:42.315 brained idea for a new scheme. Ran Paul's brilliant plan 0:06:42.515 --> 0:06:47.075 for you to buy your insurance on Amazon or at 0:06:47.235 --> 0:06:52.115 Sam's Club or at Costco. He Randy, maybe I can 0:06:52.155 --> 0:06:54.915 buy my insurance from your neighbor. He seemed to come 0:06:54.955 --> 0:07:00.315 out of his problems. Okay, Trump's healthcare plan fell in 0:07:00.435 --> 0:07:03.755 the Senate. Maybe he can find a new one on Amazon. 0:07:04.715 --> 0:07:07.555 Rdreie Taylor Green remains under the influence of a possibly 0:07:07.635 --> 0:07:13.115 transient but definitely tertiary stage case of conscience in open rebellion, 0:07:13.475 --> 0:07:17.195 planning one final bid to unseat Speaker Johnson before she 0:07:17.355 --> 0:07:21.235 leaves the House. The two thousand dollars tariff checks are gone, 0:07:21.355 --> 0:07:25.195 The Doge checks never happened. Buy your own insurance checks 0:07:25.195 --> 0:07:29.875 have apparently been replaced by Domino's new avoid thenoid insurance. 0:07:30.515 --> 0:07:34.875 Trump's approval numbers are frozen Pizza economy approvals down to 0:07:34.915 --> 0:07:38.955 thirty one percent, and if the Obamacare subsidies expire, that 0:07:39.035 --> 0:07:42.635 approval will drop below thirty and maybe take his overall 0:07:42.675 --> 0:07:46.395 approval with it. Because even his people realize he is 0:07:46.435 --> 0:07:51.915 turning this place into a shithole country. The Trump ells 0:07:52.755 --> 0:07:58.115 are everywhere. You can't spell kilmar Abrego, Garcia without a 0:07:58.155 --> 0:08:02.115 Trump l. The courts have ordered him to let go 0:08:02.235 --> 0:08:07.555 of the LA National Guard troops. He's losing in wars. 0:08:07.595 --> 0:08:10.755 He said he'd already settled, or would settle in twenty 0:08:10.755 --> 0:08:13.395 four hours or twenty four days or twenty four weeks. 0:08:14.195 --> 0:08:18.675 Ukraine is further from peace than ever. The Thailand Cambodia war, 0:08:18.755 --> 0:08:22.435 Trump said he ended on Friday, resumed on Saturday. His 0:08:22.555 --> 0:08:25.515 peace in the Middle East saw the Israelis kill a 0:08:25.595 --> 0:08:29.395 top Hamas commander over the weekend. An attack in Syria 0:08:29.515 --> 0:08:33.195 three Americans dead, including two service members, and he promised 0:08:33.955 --> 0:08:37.555 serious retaliation. And he would have sounded tougher if he'd said, 0:08:37.795 --> 0:08:40.755 I'm going to hit you real hard, like I said 0:08:40.755 --> 0:08:45.115 at the top. There are so many els, And for 0:08:45.155 --> 0:08:47.635 twenty seven days at least, there have been nothing but 0:08:47.915 --> 0:08:53.355 els that even Trump has begun to notice. So add 0:08:53.355 --> 0:08:56.275 that to the list of els. His ability to believe 0:08:56.275 --> 0:08:59.955 his own bullshit is showing holes. He still clings to 0:08:59.995 --> 0:09:03.595 this financial imbecility that tariffs will turn the economy into 0:09:03.595 --> 0:09:06.835 a money printing machine, even for people not named Trump 0:09:06.995 --> 0:09:10.195 or Musk or Bezos. But even he has now told 0:09:10.235 --> 0:09:14.155 the Wall Street Journal, Yeah, he doesn't know when that 0:09:14.475 --> 0:09:19.315 money printing machine will actually turn on. The Journal interviewed 0:09:19.355 --> 0:09:22.675 him Friday in the Oval, and he must have stepped 0:09:22.675 --> 0:09:25.115 in some reality and couldn't get it off his shoes, 0:09:25.875 --> 0:09:29.795 quoting them. Quoting him, he acknowledged that he couldn't predict 0:09:29.955 --> 0:09:34.075 if that would translate into political gains for Republicans next fall. 0:09:34.475 --> 0:09:38.435 Asked whether Republicans would lose the House in November, Trump 0:09:38.475 --> 0:09:42.235 said quote, I can't tell you. I don't know when 0:09:42.315 --> 0:09:46.155 all of this money is going to kick in narrator, 0:09:46.875 --> 0:09:50.755 It didn't kick in. Wait, there's more. Quote. I've created 0:09:50.795 --> 0:09:53.235 the greatest economy in history, but it may take people 0:09:53.275 --> 0:09:57.435 a while to figure all these things out. Oh they've 0:09:57.515 --> 0:10:01.395 figured it out, Donald, They figured it out. Saturday night, 0:10:01.995 --> 0:10:05.755 when rushing, stumbling, waddling to grab at it, almost literally 0:10:06.035 --> 0:10:08.955 climbing over the bodies of dead students to claim he 0:10:09.075 --> 0:10:12.995 had found their killer, Trump posted this quote, I have 0:10:13.115 --> 0:10:15.475 been briefed on the shooting that took place at Brown 0:10:15.555 --> 0:10:18.635 University in Rhode Island. The FBI is on the scene, 0:10:19.635 --> 0:10:23.115 the suspect is in custody. God bless the victims and 0:10:23.155 --> 0:10:29.875 the families of the victim's exclamation point, F you, buddy, 0:10:30.315 --> 0:10:33.275 you've stepped on your dick again. You've stepped on your 0:10:33.355 --> 0:10:37.955 tiny dick again. While millions mourned and questioned, what is 0:10:37.955 --> 0:10:40.875 wrong with this goddamn country that we throw school kids, 0:10:41.195 --> 0:10:45.435 whether toddlers or teenagers, into the volcano like we were 0:10:45.475 --> 0:10:49.315 practicing the human sacrifice madness of the Aztecs, just to 0:10:49.355 --> 0:10:51.915 protect your right to walk around with a gun. Sure, 0:10:51.915 --> 0:10:55.235 what's another bunch of human hearts? What's another bunch of kids? 0:10:55.235 --> 0:10:58.155 As long as people know that Trump alone has found 0:10:58.195 --> 0:11:03.155 the real killer. Way, what's that you're saying? They haven't 0:11:03.155 --> 0:11:06.395 found the real killer. Hadn't found the real killer when 0:11:06.395 --> 0:11:10.195 he posted that. So now in just three months, Trump's 0:11:10.235 --> 0:11:13.155 bubbleheaded FBI director who didn't know the job meant work. 0:11:13.195 --> 0:11:15.635 He thought it only met a free jet. He wrongly 0:11:15.675 --> 0:11:18.715 said they'd caught the Charlie Kirk assassin. And now Trump 0:11:18.715 --> 0:11:21.675 has made the same mistake and tried to blame his 0:11:21.715 --> 0:11:25.475 mistake on others. And when you do that, and when 0:11:25.475 --> 0:11:28.235 you post that, you open yourself up to attacks from 0:11:28.235 --> 0:11:31.115 the other side, like Chris Murphy attacked on State of 0:11:31.115 --> 0:11:34.555 the Union yesterday. He said it opaquely, he said it 0:11:34.555 --> 0:11:37.715 with nuance. But make no mistake, this is a US 0:11:37.835 --> 0:11:40.795 senator blaming the President of the United States for this 0:11:41.515 --> 0:11:48.075 gun attack and the next gun attack quote. Right now, 0:11:48.475 --> 0:11:51.435 we don't have the leadership in Washington to do anything 0:11:51.715 --> 0:11:54.875 anything to respond to the shooting this weekend. Trump has 0:11:54.875 --> 0:11:58.715 been engaged in a pretty deliberate campaign to try to 0:11:58.715 --> 0:12:03.035 make violence more likely in this country, and I think 0:12:03.075 --> 0:12:05.755 you're unfortunately going to see the results of that on 0:12:05.835 --> 0:12:09.395 the streets of America. He's knowingly restoring gun rights to 0:12:09.475 --> 0:12:12.995 dangerous people. He is cutting off grants that have bipartisan 0:12:13.075 --> 0:12:16.035 support to try to interrupt violence in our cities or 0:12:16.075 --> 0:12:19.555 to try to get necessary mental health resources to families 0:12:19.595 --> 0:12:26.635 and children in need unquote. As I said earlier, this 0:12:26.715 --> 0:12:30.075 has been going on all of these els since at 0:12:30.155 --> 0:12:34.075 least the nineteenth of November, when enough MAGA congressmen realized 0:12:34.075 --> 0:12:36.955 that only one of these things could happen. They could 0:12:36.995 --> 0:12:40.355 continue to help Trump hide the Epstein files, or they 0:12:40.355 --> 0:12:44.955 could get re elected. That's why, of all these els, 0:12:45.155 --> 0:12:47.995 the biggest Trump loss in the last twenty seven days 0:12:47.995 --> 0:12:50.475 may have been the release of those four pictures of 0:12:50.555 --> 0:12:55.715 him with Jeffrey Epstein. The photos show nothing. The photos 0:12:55.715 --> 0:12:58.955 would therefore normally mean nothing, but they serve as a 0:12:58.955 --> 0:13:02.275 reminder that Trump tried to stop you from seeing photos 0:13:02.315 --> 0:13:05.875 of him with Epstein, that those photos that were released 0:13:05.915 --> 0:13:09.075 weren't part of that tranch in the files. That doesn't matter. 0:13:09.115 --> 0:13:12.395 It only raises a kind of instinctive speculation about how 0:13:12.515 --> 0:13:16.755 much worse those other Epstein Trump photos might be. It 0:13:16.875 --> 0:13:20.075 keeps the Epstein story alive when Trump could have killed 0:13:20.075 --> 0:13:23.715 it weeks ago, months ago, even if there was stuff 0:13:23.755 --> 0:13:27.595 more incriminating about him than say, a drawn of the 0:13:27.715 --> 0:13:30.715 naked woman made out to Epstein that he may or 0:13:30.755 --> 0:13:33.275 may not have drawn. But he's sure as shit signed 0:13:33.355 --> 0:13:38.875 right over the naughty bits. Instead of moving Epstein off 0:13:38.915 --> 0:13:40.995 the table and out of the picture, he's letting it 0:13:41.115 --> 0:13:45.235 drip drip drip on him. The photos mean nothing, yet 0:13:45.275 --> 0:13:48.395 here they are just another element that says this is 0:13:48.515 --> 0:13:52.235 Trump's scandal. The way the constant coverage of Clinton Lewinsky, 0:13:52.755 --> 0:13:55.995 even when there was no actual news for days, for weeks, 0:13:56.355 --> 0:13:59.435 kept that front of mind for all of the year 0:13:59.555 --> 0:14:03.155 nineteen ninety eight. I'll tell you something at MSNBC in 0:14:03.235 --> 0:14:05.995 nineteen ninety eight the promo. But used to ask our 0:14:06.115 --> 0:14:10.795 staffers every day to give them something, anything, a news 0:14:10.995 --> 0:14:14.195 morsel that could turn into a thirty second promo for 0:14:14.315 --> 0:14:17.635 tomorrow's show. And on Thursday they used to have to 0:14:17.635 --> 0:14:22.715 turn something into a promo for Monday's show. Monday on 0:14:22.755 --> 0:14:26.235 the White House in crisis, we were locking in the 0:14:26.315 --> 0:14:30.875 crisis four days in advance. We were programming the crisis. 0:14:31.435 --> 0:14:34.315 And when we hit Friday, and those files are by 0:14:34.395 --> 0:14:37.075 law required to be released, whatever is released will be 0:14:37.075 --> 0:14:41.315 another Trump L. And whatever isn't released will be another 0:14:41.435 --> 0:14:44.635 Trump L. And lord knows how many l's there will 0:14:44.635 --> 0:14:47.515 be if there's something actually startling in the files. And 0:14:47.595 --> 0:14:50.395 that's the point. It doesn't have to be a good 0:14:50.435 --> 0:14:53.795 scandal to be a gripping scandal. It just has to 0:14:53.835 --> 0:14:58.595 have new stories every day. That's what Clinton Lewinsky's true 0:14:58.635 --> 0:15:02.755 meaning was. And as Philip Bump pointed out, Trump basically 0:15:02.755 --> 0:15:07.195 got elected by knowing this. There wasn't crap actually in 0:15:07.235 --> 0:15:10.195 wiki leaks or her emails, except that there was only 0:15:10.235 --> 0:15:16.755 something new in them. So in some more losses than 0:15:16.795 --> 0:15:20.115 the nineteen sixty two New York mets, or if you 0:15:20.155 --> 0:15:22.435 are a current New York Mets fan more losses than 0:15:22.435 --> 0:15:25.915 the twenty twenty five twenty six offseason New York Mets. 0:15:26.395 --> 0:15:28.995 And maybe it's only one hour a week, but even 0:15:29.075 --> 0:15:32.715 Trump knows it. During that hour, and way more than 0:15:32.755 --> 0:15:36.555 one hour a week, the Trump media industrial complex knows it. 0:15:36.555 --> 0:15:40.475 It's not my habit to quote the insufferable, inexhaustible phony 0:15:40.555 --> 0:15:43.555 Peggy Noonan. But when there's a column in the goddamned 0:15:43.595 --> 0:15:47.795 Rupert Murdoch goddamned Wall Street Journal titled quote Trump may 0:15:47.835 --> 0:15:51.635 be losing his touch, Yeah, I'm quoting it. One hundred 0:15:51.675 --> 0:15:54.515 and thirty six words. I swear that's it for this year. 0:15:54.675 --> 0:15:56.435 Just one hundred and thirty six words. And don't be 0:15:56.555 --> 0:16:00.315 thrown by the imaginary world in which Peggy Noonan lives. 0:16:00.955 --> 0:16:05.115 She still thinks Ronald Reagan isn't in hell, and now 0:16:05.155 --> 0:16:09.835 she thinks Charlie Kirk was a mediating force inside the 0:16:09.915 --> 0:16:14.235 Trump cult. Okay, just go with that, But the other 0:16:14.315 --> 0:16:20.915 points she makes are salient and deadly. Quote outside Washington, 0:16:20.995 --> 0:16:24.835 mister Trump's base is fighting with itself. America first is 0:16:24.875 --> 0:16:31.035 saying I'm not maga conspiracies all over Israel killed Charlie 0:16:31.635 --> 0:16:35.435 the assassination of Charlie Kirk, she writes, looks increasingly like 0:16:35.675 --> 0:16:39.395 an epical event. Did he understand how much he was 0:16:39.435 --> 0:16:42.995 holding together the Trumpian right Without the force of his 0:16:43.275 --> 0:16:48.795 mediating presence, they are cracking up percolating below unseen is 0:16:48.835 --> 0:16:52.315 the price you pay in time for success? The President's 0:16:52.355 --> 0:16:58.395 border triumph, sorry what? The president's border triumph will likely 0:16:58.435 --> 0:17:02.115 weaken his and maga's political position. He shut down illegal 0:17:02.115 --> 0:17:05.035 immigration on the southern border, which had been more less 0:17:05.035 --> 0:17:08.915 open for decades. But it was anger at illegal immigration 0:17:09.155 --> 0:17:12.635 noonan rights that kept his base cleaved to him and 0:17:12.755 --> 0:17:16.075 allied with each other. Remove the issue that made you, 0:17:16.515 --> 0:17:18.875 and you can no longer use it to gain votes 0:17:18.995 --> 0:17:25.555 or maintain unity. Unquote Oh no, oh, dear Trump's lost 0:17:25.595 --> 0:17:29.715 his touch. God damn shame not going to affect those 0:17:29.835 --> 0:17:33.515 midterms and give us enough Democratic congressman to impeach him 0:17:33.555 --> 0:17:37.435 and enough Democratic senators to remove him. Is it? Oh? 0:17:37.515 --> 0:17:41.115 Really you think so wow? That'll be fun? Let me 0:17:41.195 --> 0:17:46.155 quote this RNC blob gruters again, quoting me again, quoting 0:17:46.195 --> 0:17:50.915 al Davis again. Republicans will go down and will go 0:17:51.035 --> 0:18:12.355 down hobb okay. Two quick media notes The CBS evening 0:18:12.395 --> 0:18:15.755 news about Barry Weiss, edited by Barry Weiss, anchored by 0:18:15.795 --> 0:18:19.555 Barry Weiss, starring Barry Weiss, is not going so well. 0:18:20.155 --> 0:18:22.235 If she had not been put there to do something 0:18:22.355 --> 0:18:25.155 bad like this, her stay on this job might be 0:18:25.395 --> 0:18:30.675 as long as RONA. Romney's glorious hour and a half 0:18:30.955 --> 0:18:35.395 as an MSNBC commentator. It was Brian Steinberg and Variety 0:18:35.435 --> 0:18:38.915 who noticed this, and to whom all credit goes, And I'm 0:18:38.955 --> 0:18:41.115 just going to quote him and read his story from 0:18:41.195 --> 0:18:45.395 Variety that Barry Weiss town hall with Erica Kirk, the 0:18:45.515 --> 0:18:48.955 merry widow, the woman who used all the eyeliner left 0:18:48.995 --> 0:18:53.915 over after jd Vance got done. No real advertiser was 0:18:53.955 --> 0:18:57.875 willing to buy time on it. No real advertiser was 0:18:57.915 --> 0:19:02.595 willing to buy time on the CBS television network. Mister 0:19:02.675 --> 0:19:08.035 Steinberg writes headline, Big advertisers appear wary of CBS News's 0:19:08.075 --> 0:19:12.875 Barryweiss town Hall format during a Saturday night town hall 0:19:12.995 --> 0:19:15.675 led by Barry Weiss, the recently named editor in chief 0:19:15.755 --> 0:19:19.275 of CBS News, and I believe she liked the article 0:19:19.395 --> 0:19:23.395 so far most of Madison Avenue sought an off ramp. 0:19:23.515 --> 0:19:27.555 Steinberg writes the News special aired at eight pm on Saturday, 0:19:27.675 --> 0:19:31.355 one of the least watch hours in broadcast TV, and 0:19:31.395 --> 0:19:35.075 that may have contributed to a relative dearth of top 0:19:35.115 --> 0:19:39.435 advertisers appearing to support the show during the hour. Commercial 0:19:39.435 --> 0:19:44.275 breaks were largely filled with spots from direct response advertisers, 0:19:44.275 --> 0:19:50.115 including the taietary supplement super Beats, the home repair service 0:19:50.235 --> 0:19:56.115 HomeServe dot com, and Carfax, a supplier of auto ownership data. 0:19:56.715 --> 0:20:00.955 Viewers of the telecast on WCBS, CBS's flagship station in 0:20:00.995 --> 0:20:05.355 New York even saw a commercial for Giampet, the terra 0:20:05.435 --> 0:20:09.235 cotta figure that sprouts plant life after a few weeks. 0:20:10.555 --> 0:20:14.395 I wonder if CBS will still sprout plant life after 0:20:14.435 --> 0:20:18.595 a two weeks, continuing the article quote. A more moneyed 0:20:18.635 --> 0:20:21.795 class of sponsors was evident during the first commercial break, 0:20:21.795 --> 0:20:25.755 appearing in the nine pm hour on CBS a rebroadcast 0:20:25.755 --> 0:20:28.275 of a twenty twenty four episode of forty eight Hours. 0:20:28.635 --> 0:20:34.355 Marketers appearing included Amazon, Ferrero Group, and Procter and Gamble. Unquote, 0:20:35.915 --> 0:20:39.995 uh oh, Congratsbery Weiss and the Ellisons. You've turned CBS 0:20:39.995 --> 0:20:45.635 News into overnights. On superstation WTBS in nineteen seventy six, 0:20:46.835 --> 0:20:51.235 got a Ginsu knife collection for sale Airberry. But wait, 0:20:51.275 --> 0:20:54.675 what was that again about chiapets? Viewers of the telecast 0:20:54.715 --> 0:20:57.955 on WCBS. CBS was flagship station in New York even 0:20:57.995 --> 0:21:01.475 saw commercial for Chiapet the terracotta figure that sprout's plant 0:21:01.515 --> 0:21:05.155 life after a few weeks. Oh my god, Chia Pet Company, 0:21:05.275 --> 0:21:07.955 I'll give you one thousand dollars if you make a 0:21:08.035 --> 0:21:14.475 Barry Weiss chia pet. Please, oh please, please, please please please. Meanwhile, 0:21:14.515 --> 0:21:17.515 something that a week ago would have outdrawn the Barry 0:21:17.515 --> 0:21:21.235 Weiss town Hall with Tammy fay Baker Kirk may now 0:21:21.315 --> 0:21:25.715 belong to the Ages as well as Vivid as parts 0:21:25.795 --> 0:21:29.035 of the latest Ryan Lizzer response to Olivia Newsy may 0:21:29.075 --> 0:21:32.475 have been the whole thing has collapsed under the realization 0:21:32.555 --> 0:21:37.195 that actually the only guaranteed audience for Lizz's segments have 0:21:37.315 --> 0:21:46.955 been Olivia's other exes. Hey her book first week out, 0:21:47.715 --> 0:21:53.315 first publication week, maximum visibility. As you probably have not heard, 0:21:53.675 --> 0:21:57.155 her book, the first week sold. With all that publicity, 0:21:57.195 --> 0:21:59.475 including the most thorough job of The New York Times 0:21:59.475 --> 0:22:03.155 ever missing the lead and the next twenty off leads 0:22:03.195 --> 0:22:08.235 in its history, that book sold and sixty five copies 0:22:09.075 --> 0:22:12.475 a book that sold five thousand copies the same week, 0:22:12.595 --> 0:22:20.075 placed fiftieth among nonfiction sellers. Not great, Bob. So, barring 0:22:20.155 --> 0:22:22.555 anything else that might come up later on in this 0:22:22.635 --> 0:22:25.755 to which I could add something that is either relevant 0:22:25.915 --> 0:22:28.955 or true, I'll bow out here. But I do want 0:22:28.995 --> 0:22:32.515 to read one last paragraph, because this is the easiest 0:22:32.555 --> 0:22:35.555 way for me to get mister lendsa an answer he 0:22:35.595 --> 0:22:39.995 apparently needs. Let me quote him. Quote Olivia, this person 0:22:40.075 --> 0:22:43.035 said was starting to tell people that I might kill her. 0:22:43.675 --> 0:22:45.955 I tried to explain that Olivia watched a lot of 0:22:46.075 --> 0:22:48.915 Law and Order growing up and has an active imagination, 0:22:49.355 --> 0:22:52.435 especially when it comes to being killed. She feared that 0:22:52.475 --> 0:22:54.995 her mother would kill her. She had told me that 0:22:55.075 --> 0:22:57.955 she thought Keith might kill her, and now I have 0:22:58.075 --> 0:23:00.515 to assume she told Keith the same thing about me. 0:23:01.155 --> 0:23:03.595 Of course, she repeatedly told me that she feared Bobby 0:23:03.635 --> 0:23:06.195 would kill her. Now she was saying that I might 0:23:06.315 --> 0:23:08.675 kill her. I never heard her say one way or 0:23:08.715 --> 0:23:11.835 the other about Mark Sandford's level of interest in killing her. 0:23:12.755 --> 0:23:15.675 That's a good line. So many people were out to 0:23:15.755 --> 0:23:17.915 kill her, and yet here she was, at thirty one, 0:23:18.435 --> 0:23:24.115 somehow very much alive. End quote. Okay, Ryan. I haven't 0:23:24.155 --> 0:23:27.435 talked to her since twenty fifteen, and by the way, 0:23:27.515 --> 0:23:30.835 every contact I've had with her since twenty fifteen was 0:23:30.875 --> 0:23:34.075 about what to do with her clothes or about the 0:23:34.115 --> 0:23:36.795 health of what had been our dogs, about which she 0:23:36.915 --> 0:23:40.075 had no interest, for which I will never forgive her, 0:23:40.315 --> 0:23:44.475 and which I think summarizes her. Once I did post 0:23:44.555 --> 0:23:49.355 on Facebook twenty eighteen, maybe that the place in Central 0:23:49.395 --> 0:23:52.115 Park that you two guys like to hang out at 0:23:52.675 --> 0:23:56.195 was my utter coincidence, right on the path I walked 0:23:56.275 --> 0:23:59.475 the dogs every day, and way too near my home, 0:23:59.675 --> 0:24:02.355 and it was a miracle we hadn't run into each 0:24:02.395 --> 0:24:06.755 other already. So maybe we should all make that our DMZ. 0:24:08.195 --> 0:24:12.635 But about the killing her question, exhale Ryan, she never 0:24:12.675 --> 0:24:15.595 told me she thought you might kill her. She only 0:24:15.675 --> 0:24:23.075 told me she thought you were stalking her. Also of interest, 0:24:23.115 --> 0:24:25.755 here a top governor tries to insist Democrats have a 0:24:25.795 --> 0:24:28.355 hand in political violence in this country. And this would 0:24:28.395 --> 0:24:31.715 just be stupid if this governor weren't a Democrat, and 0:24:31.755 --> 0:24:35.355 if he weren't the democratic governor whose fascist haters tried 0:24:35.395 --> 0:24:39.115 to burn him and his family alive in their own 0:24:39.195 --> 0:24:44.235 home during passover. Worst Persons is next This is Countdown. 0:24:46.515 --> 0:25:11.315 This is Countdown with Keith Oberman still ahead on this 0:25:11.475 --> 0:25:14.435 edition of Countdown. Sixty five years ago this month, a 0:25:14.475 --> 0:25:17.395 little boy named Theo Dall was hit by a New 0:25:17.475 --> 0:25:20.275 York City cab while being pushed across the street in 0:25:20.355 --> 0:25:23.955 his baby carriage. He was never the same, nor was 0:25:23.995 --> 0:25:26.915 his father, who, in part to entertain his stricken son, 0:25:27.555 --> 0:25:30.395 wrote a book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And 0:25:30.435 --> 0:25:33.035 although the next development was not quite on that level 0:25:33.075 --> 0:25:36.755 of importance, the writing of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0:25:36.875 --> 0:25:40.835 led me to write to Theo's dad, who was the 0:25:40.915 --> 0:25:45.555 legendary both good and bad legendary Roal Doll, to write 0:25:45.635 --> 0:25:48.475 him a fan letter, and he wrote back, and he 0:25:48.515 --> 0:25:52.795 wrote back again, And these letters are referenced somehow in 0:25:52.995 --> 0:25:58.595 Roald Dahl's official biography. This very strange story ahead in 0:25:58.675 --> 0:26:01.435 things I promised not to tell first of believe it 0:26:01.515 --> 0:26:03.875 or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about. 0:26:03.915 --> 0:26:06.915 The roundup of the disagreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects 0:26:06.915 --> 0:26:12.955 specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world. 0:26:13.755 --> 0:26:18.675 The runner up to the runner up Bronze, Anna Paulina 0:26:18.835 --> 0:26:22.755 Luna the congresswoman from Smolensk. I know, I'm sorry, I 0:26:22.755 --> 0:26:26.315 got that wrong from Florida. Problem is she might as 0:26:26.355 --> 0:26:29.555 well be and it might as well be Smolensk. The 0:26:29.635 --> 0:26:33.555 Russian Embassy in the US social media account has posted 0:26:33.595 --> 0:26:38.715 her photo and quote at the invitation by at Rep. Luna, 0:26:38.875 --> 0:26:45.115 Ambassador Dartkiev visited her Christmas reception on Capitol Hill. Wonderful 0:26:45.155 --> 0:26:50.035 event with warm atmosphere and exceptional hospitality. Continue working to 0:26:50.075 --> 0:26:55.355 make Russian American relations great again. Yeah. Sorry, anybody who 0:26:55.435 --> 0:26:58.115 thinks we should have great relations with Russia before the 0:26:58.195 --> 0:27:02.635 Russians overthrow the Putent dictatorship is to totally loyal to 0:27:02.675 --> 0:27:08.595 this country, but really dumb. Not loyal and dumb. Sorry, 0:27:08.915 --> 0:27:12.435 Russia is our enemy, but there are degrees of how 0:27:12.515 --> 0:27:14.995 truly not you can be. And from the Twitter ex 0:27:15.035 --> 0:27:19.275 account of the gadfly Jay in Kiev comes this addendum 0:27:19.315 --> 0:27:22.515 to that photo of Luna to whom the Russians gave 0:27:22.595 --> 0:27:26.835 their JFK quote files unquote, because why would they ever 0:27:26.915 --> 0:27:31.795