1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:24,395 --> 00:00:28,715 Speaker 1: director of Ice, Tom Hoeman that his boss, the Secretary 3 00:00:28,715 --> 00:00:32,955 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security, Christy Nome, must be arrested for contemptive court. 4 00:00:34,355 --> 00:00:38,955 Speaker 1: It should be Trump being arrested for contemptive court, potentially 5 00:00:38,995 --> 00:00:42,355 Speaker 1: for ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court. But we 6 00:00:42,435 --> 00:00:44,555 Speaker 1: already know how the laws of this land have already 7 00:00:44,595 --> 00:00:47,315 Speaker 1: been corrupted to protect the greatest criminal in our history. 8 00:00:48,275 --> 00:00:51,835 Speaker 1: That it cannot be him will simply hasten the latest 9 00:00:51,835 --> 00:00:55,435 Speaker 1: iteration of the constitutional crisis created by a lawless chief 10 00:00:55,435 --> 00:00:58,675 Speaker 1: executive who still has the military behind him. We are 11 00:00:58,715 --> 00:01:02,355 Speaker 1: headed for a flash point, perhaps as soon as today. 12 00:01:03,435 --> 00:01:10,675 Speaker 1: To summarize, Trump believes he is God. But in the interim, 13 00:01:10,795 --> 00:01:13,555 Speaker 1: it is time for US District Judge PAULA. Zennis to 14 00:01:13,675 --> 00:01:18,715 Speaker 1: send this rogue government a message, a warning. In fact, 15 00:01:18,755 --> 00:01:22,355 Speaker 1: it is well past time. Time was two days ago 16 00:01:22,355 --> 00:01:25,235 Speaker 1: at five o'clock in the afternoon. Nome and Homan are 17 00:01:25,275 --> 00:01:29,035 Speaker 1: now in contempt of that Judge's orders. In the case 18 00:01:29,155 --> 00:01:34,075 Speaker 1: of the Nome Homan Ice abduction, the disappearing of a 19 00:01:34,075 --> 00:01:36,835 Speaker 1: Maryland man already under the protection of the government of 20 00:01:36,875 --> 00:01:41,315 Speaker 1: the United States Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They are in contempt 21 00:01:41,395 --> 00:01:45,635 Speaker 1: of the orders, not of some judge, as the fascist 22 00:01:45,715 --> 00:01:49,595 Speaker 1: idiot Stephen Miller and his brown Shirts call any representative 23 00:01:49,595 --> 00:01:53,115 Speaker 1: actual law and order. They are in contempt of the 24 00:01:53,195 --> 00:01:57,795 Speaker 1: laws of the United States of America. Is not some judge. 25 00:01:57,915 --> 00:02:00,395 Speaker 1: They are in contempt of the nation, and they are 26 00:02:00,435 --> 00:02:05,315 Speaker 1: on the verge of being in contempt of the Supreme Court. 27 00:02:07,115 --> 00:02:12,435 Speaker 1: This timeline, in its briefest form. Trump's death squads admitted 28 00:02:12,475 --> 00:02:17,035 Speaker 1: they had seized and deported the wrong man to L. Salvador. 29 00:02:17,915 --> 00:02:21,995 Speaker 1: Then they collectively made the shrug eboji, he's out of 30 00:02:22,035 --> 00:02:25,275 Speaker 1: our hands. He's under the sovereign control of another nation. 31 00:02:26,355 --> 00:02:30,235 Speaker 1: Too bad. In other words, we kidnap him, you keep 32 00:02:30,315 --> 00:02:35,835 Speaker 1: them First. Judge Zennis ordered mister Abrego Garcia to be 33 00:02:35,995 --> 00:02:40,515 Speaker 1: returned from L. Salvador, and the torture there gave a deadline. 34 00:02:40,595 --> 00:02:44,315 Speaker 1: Government blew it off. They went to the Supreme Court, 35 00:02:44,355 --> 00:02:47,395 Speaker 1: which ordered last Thursday that mister Abrago Garcia's release at 36 00:02:47,475 --> 00:02:53,395 Speaker 1: least be facilitated by Trump's gangs. Judge Zennis ordered updates. 37 00:02:54,075 --> 00:02:56,835 Speaker 1: The delicacy here was, you don't want to interfere with 38 00:02:56,955 --> 00:03:01,715 Speaker 1: US foreign policy. It's irrelevant, but apparently it is in 39 00:03:01,795 --> 00:03:06,075 Speaker 1: the books. And then came the first of two curveballs. Friday, 40 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:10,955 Speaker 1: President Ted Bundy. Trump told his hand picked stenographer reporters 41 00:03:10,995 --> 00:03:13,875 Speaker 1: aboard Air Force one quote, if the Supreme Court said 42 00:03:13,915 --> 00:03:16,955 Speaker 1: bring somebody back, I would do that. I respect the 43 00:03:17,035 --> 00:03:21,435 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I have great respect for the Supreme Court. 44 00:03:22,275 --> 00:03:25,835 Speaker 1: As usual, Trump showing his mental illness, saying something, then 45 00:03:25,995 --> 00:03:29,155 Speaker 1: re ordering the same words and thinking he said something new. 46 00:03:31,715 --> 00:03:36,555 Speaker 1: This erased his own lawyer's argument that this country could 47 00:03:36,635 --> 00:03:40,275 Speaker 1: do nothing itself to bring this man back from l Salvador. 48 00:03:41,915 --> 00:03:44,635 Speaker 1: Trump bluntly said, if ordered to buy the Supreme Court, 49 00:03:44,675 --> 00:03:48,475 Speaker 1: he would bring mister Abrego Garcia back, which necessarily means 50 00:03:48,595 --> 00:03:51,315 Speaker 1: he and his thug government can bring him back. So 51 00:03:51,435 --> 00:03:53,995 Speaker 1: when his lawyer simply said that same thing again, no 52 00:03:54,075 --> 00:03:57,395 Speaker 1: we can't. He's l Salvadoran. Now only they said it 53 00:03:57,435 --> 00:04:02,115 Speaker 1: louder on Saturday, they looked like championship idiots. Well, Trump 54 00:04:02,195 --> 00:04:04,915 Speaker 1: wasn't gonna make that last. He rushed to make sure 55 00:04:04,915 --> 00:04:07,115 Speaker 1: that if anybody's going to look like the championship idiot 56 00:04:07,155 --> 00:04:11,715 Speaker 1: of this government here, it would be him. Quote looking 57 00:04:11,795 --> 00:04:15,835 Speaker 1: forward to seeing President Bukela of El Salvador on Monday. 58 00:04:16,675 --> 00:04:21,115 Speaker 1: Our nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations 59 00:04:21,275 --> 00:04:25,475 Speaker 1: and build a future of prosperity. President bucell has graciously 60 00:04:25,595 --> 00:04:28,955 Speaker 1: accepted into his nation's custody some of the most violent 61 00:04:29,075 --> 00:04:32,755 Speaker 1: alien enemies of the world, and in particular, the United States. 62 00:04:33,395 --> 00:04:36,755 Speaker 1: These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, 63 00:04:36,995 --> 00:04:40,395 Speaker 1: a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up 64 00:04:40,395 --> 00:04:44,475 Speaker 1: to President b and his government. They will never threaten 65 00:04:44,635 --> 00:04:52,435 Speaker 1: or menace our citizens again unquote. The enemies of the world, 66 00:04:52,515 --> 00:04:56,155 Speaker 1: in particular of the United States are Christynomme, Tom Holman, 67 00:04:56,315 --> 00:05:02,595 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, and especially Donald Trump. In the flippant one 68 00:05:02,635 --> 00:05:05,635 Speaker 1: point eighty contained in that post, Trump is either lying 69 00:05:05,715 --> 00:05:08,075 Speaker 1: now or he was lying aboard Air Force one on 70 00:05:08,155 --> 00:05:10,555 Speaker 1: Friday when he said he would obey a Supreme Court 71 00:05:10,595 --> 00:05:13,555 Speaker 1: order to bring him back. Is the potential for an 72 00:05:13,595 --> 00:05:18,755 Speaker 1: actual constitutional stalemate that could tear the country apart, not later, 73 00:05:19,195 --> 00:05:24,315 Speaker 1: not in twenty twenty eight. Now, Trump has now corrected 74 00:05:24,315 --> 00:05:27,475 Speaker 1: his original willingness to go along with the Supreme Court, 75 00:05:27,915 --> 00:05:30,955 Speaker 1: and in passive aggressive form, he has explained in that 76 00:05:31,115 --> 00:05:34,675 Speaker 1: post that he has the right to seize anyone in 77 00:05:34,755 --> 00:05:39,275 Speaker 1: this country, citizen or not, criminal or not accused or not, 78 00:05:39,755 --> 00:05:42,675 Speaker 1: and not just expel them, but then to pretend that 79 00:05:42,875 --> 00:05:46,795 Speaker 1: never mind jurisdiction. He can't even ask his co conspirator, 80 00:05:46,955 --> 00:05:52,155 Speaker 1: this tinpot dictator, Bukake, to do him a solid and 81 00:05:52,275 --> 00:05:56,035 Speaker 1: fix what might otherwise go into our history as a 82 00:05:56,195 --> 00:05:59,715 Speaker 1: near fatal skid, out of which the nation and even 83 00:05:59,795 --> 00:06:08,395 Speaker 1: Trump somehow steered. No. The likeliest outcome is, of course, 84 00:06:08,395 --> 00:06:12,315 Speaker 1: that Trump's concierge, Supreme Court never does order him to 85 00:06:12,395 --> 00:06:16,235 Speaker 1: return Abrego Garcia to his family, never says that in 86 00:06:16,315 --> 00:06:19,635 Speaker 1: so many words, so Trump doesn't have to ignore their order. 87 00:06:19,835 --> 00:06:22,875 Speaker 1: That's why you own the Supreme Court, why you pack 88 00:06:22,955 --> 00:06:26,995 Speaker 1: it with lunatics who have ecstatic religious visions, or who drink, 89 00:06:27,315 --> 00:06:30,675 Speaker 1: or who take bribes, so they can spend all of 90 00:06:30,715 --> 00:06:34,515 Speaker 1: their time finding that fine line along which they do 91 00:06:34,635 --> 00:06:38,195 Speaker 1: not destroy their own court and their own phony baloney jobs, 92 00:06:38,355 --> 00:06:42,355 Speaker 1: but also don't challenge you in even the slightest, mildest way, 93 00:06:42,555 --> 00:06:47,795 Speaker 1: shape or form. Because inside the White House, the crisis 94 00:06:47,835 --> 00:06:50,835 Speaker 1: here is that this happened because somebody working for Trump 95 00:06:51,235 --> 00:07:00,275 Speaker 1: admitted a mistake. We couldgo today, this expanding, burgeoning, unchecked immoral, incompetent, 96 00:07:00,555 --> 00:07:06,075 Speaker 1: impaired terrorist government of President Ted Bundy Trump admitted it 97 00:07:06,115 --> 00:07:09,955 Speaker 1: had completely screwed up and should not have seized this man, 98 00:07:10,275 --> 00:07:12,355 Speaker 1: should not have sent him to a torture chamber in 99 00:07:12,435 --> 00:07:16,955 Speaker 1: El Salvador. The government insisted it no longer had any 100 00:07:16,995 --> 00:07:21,115 Speaker 1: influence on mister Abrago Garcia because El Salvador now has jurisdiction, 101 00:07:21,395 --> 00:07:27,835 Speaker 1: but it also admitted it screwed up. The pirates working 102 00:07:27,875 --> 00:07:32,315 Speaker 1: for Nome and Homan would only tell the court over 103 00:07:32,315 --> 00:07:35,955 Speaker 1: the weekend that mister Abrigo Garcia is alive and secure 104 00:07:36,835 --> 00:07:41,515 Speaker 1: under the quote sovereign domestic authority of El Salvador. Tough shit, 105 00:07:41,635 --> 00:07:44,795 Speaker 1: Christy Nome, get on a plane and go get him, 106 00:07:45,075 --> 00:07:51,275 Speaker 1: or you go to jail or Homan, go see your 107 00:07:51,355 --> 00:07:56,595 Speaker 1: idiot boss and have him slap a tariff on L Salvador. 108 00:07:58,475 --> 00:08:01,315 Speaker 1: Nome and Homan and their gestapo have not only refused 109 00:08:01,355 --> 00:08:04,155 Speaker 1: to comply, but ignored the judge's deadline five pm two 110 00:08:04,235 --> 00:08:08,875 Speaker 1: days ago to supply any information about how they will 111 00:08:08,915 --> 00:08:12,235 Speaker 1: proceed to return their victim from L Salvador and why 112 00:08:12,955 --> 00:08:15,315 Speaker 1: they have stalled. Even though this real life version of 113 00:08:15,395 --> 00:08:20,315 Speaker 1: Kafka's the trial began a month ago Saturday, March twelfth, 114 00:08:20,795 --> 00:08:23,915 Speaker 1: and Judge Zennis first ordered him released ten days ago. 115 00:08:27,155 --> 00:08:31,515 Speaker 1: These arrogant fascist bastards, Homan and Gnome are in contempt 116 00:08:31,595 --> 00:08:35,875 Speaker 1: of court, as is the DHS official Michael Kozak, who 117 00:08:36,075 --> 00:08:40,875 Speaker 1: signed the evasion of Judge Zennis's order and submitted it 118 00:08:40,915 --> 00:08:43,515 Speaker 1: to her on Saturday. They may all be in contempt 119 00:08:43,515 --> 00:08:48,195 Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court. The entire Trump Gestapo. The number 120 00:08:48,275 --> 00:08:52,395 Speaker 1: of violations of mister Abrago Garcia's writes they are responsible 121 00:08:52,435 --> 00:08:58,235 Speaker 1: for is probably already in the dozens. Arrest them today. 122 00:08:58,995 --> 00:09:01,395 Speaker 1: I don't care if they're freed in twenty minutes. Arrest 123 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:07,275 Speaker 1: them today. Put some fear into these people. To quote 124 00:09:07,555 --> 00:09:14,515 Speaker 1: President Nixon, in a just America, only when a Brego 125 00:09:14,555 --> 00:09:16,955 Speaker 1: Garcia is returned to his family and his pregnant wife 126 00:09:16,955 --> 00:09:21,115 Speaker 1: and his autistic son, should Garden Nome be able to 127 00:09:21,115 --> 00:09:24,155 Speaker 1: go home to a closet full of action adventure Barbie 128 00:09:24,195 --> 00:09:28,835 Speaker 1: outfits and should home and go home to his presumably bottle, 129 00:09:30,155 --> 00:09:34,235 Speaker 1: not before this has been going on for a month. 130 00:09:36,355 --> 00:09:39,595 Speaker 1: A real life version of Kafka's The Trial, where the 131 00:09:39,595 --> 00:09:42,155 Speaker 1: defendant is never told what he's charged with or by 132 00:09:42,155 --> 00:09:48,675 Speaker 1: whom March twelfth, those who did this should spend a 133 00:09:48,755 --> 00:09:51,115 Speaker 1: year in jail for every day a Brego Garcia has 134 00:09:51,115 --> 00:09:57,515 Speaker 1: been brutalized in our name. Put Christy Noman Tom Holman 135 00:09:57,595 --> 00:10:03,235 Speaker 1: in jail to day for contempt. They kidnapped this man 136 00:10:04,715 --> 00:10:10,515 Speaker 1: based on fabricated, imaginary bullshit evidence that they will not produce. 137 00:10:12,995 --> 00:10:15,555 Speaker 1: Trump's gangsters pulled him out of his car in an 138 00:10:15,555 --> 00:10:20,275 Speaker 1: Ikea parking lot and disappeared him in front of his 139 00:10:20,435 --> 00:10:24,915 Speaker 1: terrified five year old boy. They held him for three days, 140 00:10:25,235 --> 00:10:28,915 Speaker 1: violated all of his rights, denied him legal representation, shifted 141 00:10:28,955 --> 00:10:32,115 Speaker 1: him off to a hostile country run by power mad Latino. 142 00:10:32,195 --> 00:10:35,715 Speaker 1: Trump didn't bother to tell his family what had happened 143 00:10:35,755 --> 00:10:37,875 Speaker 1: to him, let him call his wife to say goodbye 144 00:10:37,875 --> 00:10:40,835 Speaker 1: only three days later, let her find out where he 145 00:10:40,955 --> 00:10:43,795 Speaker 1: was by seeing photos him days after that in the 146 00:10:43,835 --> 00:10:48,635 Speaker 1: gulag in Al Salvador. She saw it on the news. 147 00:10:51,235 --> 00:10:56,755 Speaker 1: The government of the United States, the real one, the 148 00:10:56,875 --> 00:11:02,675 Speaker 1: legal one, the one with judges and laws and right 149 00:11:02,715 --> 00:11:06,395 Speaker 1: and wrong, not this bullshitang of Trump bullies. Who I 150 00:11:06,435 --> 00:11:08,715 Speaker 1: hope I live long enough to see one day on 151 00:11:08,795 --> 00:11:13,235 Speaker 1: trial at the International Court of Justice at the Hague 152 00:11:13,435 --> 00:11:17,235 Speaker 1: the real government of the United States. The laws ordered 153 00:11:17,275 --> 00:11:20,395 Speaker 1: him released ten days ago, and it has not happened. 154 00:11:20,475 --> 00:11:23,235 Speaker 1: And I want people to burn in hell for it. 155 00:11:25,675 --> 00:11:29,075 Speaker 1: And this is a case in which the Trumpists admit 156 00:11:30,075 --> 00:11:34,835 Speaker 1: they disappeared an innocent man and made an administrative error. 157 00:11:35,235 --> 00:11:44,675 Speaker 1: How many others are there? That's the point, not how 158 00:11:44,715 --> 00:11:49,675 Speaker 1: many others there are. The administrative error part is the 159 00:11:49,715 --> 00:11:53,635 Speaker 1: real issue here, not the idea that these brutal, incompetent 160 00:11:53,755 --> 00:11:56,275 Speaker 1: morons set up a system in which they had no 161 00:11:56,555 --> 00:12:00,035 Speaker 1: emergency cord to pull when they eft up, in case 162 00:12:00,075 --> 00:12:03,155 Speaker 1: they effed up and targeted a victim and not a purp. 163 00:12:05,395 --> 00:12:10,155 Speaker 1: This is dragging on deliberately Christy Noman, Tom Holman and 164 00:12:10,155 --> 00:12:13,195 Speaker 1: the gutless corporate lawyers who represent them in this administration, 165 00:12:13,275 --> 00:12:16,115 Speaker 1: the most gutless lawyers, in which the terms gutless and 166 00:12:16,195 --> 00:12:19,795 Speaker 1: corporate lawyers have become synonymous. They are dragging this on 167 00:12:20,075 --> 00:12:23,395 Speaker 1: because they had to admit this was a mistake, and 168 00:12:23,475 --> 00:12:27,835 Speaker 1: now they see an opportunity to exploit even that admission 169 00:12:28,035 --> 00:12:31,795 Speaker 1: that they screwed up, to deliver the message passively but 170 00:12:31,835 --> 00:12:35,195 Speaker 1: still aggressively, that even when they are wrong, they are 171 00:12:35,235 --> 00:12:38,555 Speaker 1: still right, because even when they are wrong? What do 172 00:12:38,715 --> 00:12:40,475 Speaker 1: you think you are going to be able to do 173 00:12:40,555 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: about it? If they are going to ignore the Supreme 174 00:12:42,955 --> 00:12:47,635 Speaker 1: Court or just the federal courts or the district courts, 175 00:12:48,035 --> 00:12:50,315 Speaker 1: what do you think you are going to be able 176 00:12:50,315 --> 00:12:53,515 Speaker 1: to do about it? Missus Abrago Garcia, what do you 177 00:12:53,675 --> 00:12:55,595 Speaker 1: think you are going to be able to do about it? 178 00:12:55,875 --> 00:12:58,595 Speaker 1: Judge Zinnis, what do you think you are going to 179 00:12:58,595 --> 00:13:04,115 Speaker 1: be able to do about it? America? What do you 180 00:13:04,235 --> 00:13:06,195 Speaker 1: think you are going to be able to do about it? 181 00:13:06,475 --> 00:13:12,875 Speaker 1: Nicole Misharoni? Do you know who Nicole Mischaroni is? She 182 00:13:13,035 --> 00:13:15,795 Speaker 1: is another potential victim of what Trump's worms will doubtless 183 00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:19,835 Speaker 1: call an administrative error. In the middle of the night, 184 00:13:20,675 --> 00:13:23,835 Speaker 1: this following email from a no reply address at Homeland 185 00:13:23,835 --> 00:13:30,315 Speaker 1: Security Christy Garden, Nomes Secretary, appeared in Nicole Mischaroni's inbox 186 00:13:33,955 --> 00:13:37,075 Speaker 1: for eleven, twenty twenty five notice of termination of parole. 187 00:13:37,475 --> 00:13:40,435 Speaker 1: It is time for you to leave the United States. 188 00:13:41,755 --> 00:13:44,755 Speaker 1: You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security 189 00:13:44,835 --> 00:13:47,555 Speaker 1: paroled you into the United States for a limited period 190 00:13:47,795 --> 00:13:50,675 Speaker 1: for soon to eight USC eleven eighty two D five 191 00:13:50,755 --> 00:13:53,595 Speaker 1: A and eight CFR two one two point five e 192 00:13:53,715 --> 00:13:58,395 Speaker 1: DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole 193 00:13:59,395 --> 00:14:03,435 Speaker 1: unless it expires sooner. Your parole will terminate seven days 194 00:14:03,435 --> 00:14:05,355 Speaker 1: from the date of this notice. If you do not 195 00:14:05,475 --> 00:14:09,195 Speaker 1: depart the United States immediately, you will be subject to 196 00:14:09,235 --> 00:14:23,155 Speaker 1: potential law enforcement actions, etc. Sent to Nicole Mischeroni. Nicole Mischeroni, 197 00:14:23,555 --> 00:14:31,115 Speaker 1: who was born in Newton, Massachusetts, which is still in 198 00:14:31,155 --> 00:14:38,155 Speaker 1: the United States unless Trump has ordered it traded for Greenland. Newton, 199 00:14:38,235 --> 00:14:43,955 Speaker 1: Massa chosets. Nicole Mischceroni's family has been in the United 200 00:14:43,995 --> 00:14:50,195 Speaker 1: States for four generations. She is an immigration lawyer. She 201 00:14:50,315 --> 00:14:54,435 Speaker 1: posted the email on social media almost lightheartedly. She wrote, 202 00:14:54,475 --> 00:14:57,195 Speaker 1: some personal news, The Department of Homeland Security has given 203 00:14:57,235 --> 00:15:00,195 Speaker 1: me seven days to leave the US. Does anyone know 204 00:15:00,275 --> 00:15:06,595 Speaker 1: if you can get Italian citizenship through great grandparents. Her assumption, 205 00:15:07,555 --> 00:15:10,715 Speaker 1: the baseline assumption of those reacting in horror to that email, 206 00:15:11,075 --> 00:15:14,195 Speaker 1: is still that this is a mistake, another administrative error, 207 00:15:14,195 --> 00:15:18,035 Speaker 1: a slip of some sort, her name going into their 208 00:15:18,115 --> 00:15:23,515 Speaker 1: system there among the brown shirts for disappearance instead of 209 00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:28,515 Speaker 1: one of her clients. That was my first reaction. Ha ha, 210 00:15:28,675 --> 00:15:30,755 Speaker 1: She's lucky. Trump only wants to deport her and not 211 00:15:30,795 --> 00:15:33,075 Speaker 1: slap a terif on her. I no longer think this. 212 00:15:34,875 --> 00:15:37,995 Speaker 1: It is absolutely plausible. They just screwed this up. They 213 00:15:37,995 --> 00:15:43,275 Speaker 1: screw everything else up, and it's absolutely plausible. They screwed 214 00:15:43,315 --> 00:15:46,595 Speaker 1: up the Kilmar Abrego case. Hell, they got Elon Musk 215 00:15:46,675 --> 00:15:50,675 Speaker 1: working for them, and this brain damaged bully Tom Holman 216 00:15:52,435 --> 00:15:55,955 Speaker 1: and Christy Nome, who by now has the exact identical 217 00:15:55,955 --> 00:16:03,595 Speaker 1: molecular composition as an inflatable backyard swimming pool. Or these 218 00:16:03,635 --> 00:16:09,355 Speaker 1: are mistakes made on purpose, doesn't matter either way. They 219 00:16:09,355 --> 00:16:11,595 Speaker 1: want to leave you with the impression that not only 220 00:16:11,635 --> 00:16:15,195 Speaker 1: are they rounding up a few actual criminals, along with 221 00:16:15,315 --> 00:16:18,275 Speaker 1: thousands of people whose only crime was the mistaken belief 222 00:16:18,475 --> 00:16:21,875 Speaker 1: that even Ted Bundy Trump's America was a good place, 223 00:16:22,235 --> 00:16:25,275 Speaker 1: a better place, a place worth risking your life to 224 00:16:25,315 --> 00:16:28,515 Speaker 1: get to. You know what our ancestors thought. Not only 225 00:16:28,555 --> 00:16:30,795 Speaker 1: are they rounding up people who are guilty or might 226 00:16:30,835 --> 00:16:32,955 Speaker 1: be guilty, they may just round up people who could 227 00:16:32,995 --> 00:16:37,555 Speaker 1: not possibly be guilty, like Nicole Misheroni of the Newton Missaronies, 228 00:16:38,475 --> 00:16:44,595 Speaker 1: or Keith Olberman of the Bronx Ulermans, or you, or, 229 00:16:44,635 --> 00:16:49,235 Speaker 1: as it turns out, thousands of native born Americans and 230 00:16:49,395 --> 00:16:53,635 Speaker 1: naturalized US citizens born in other places, and green card 231 00:16:53,675 --> 00:16:57,075 Speaker 1: holders and people under the protection of the government as 232 00:16:57,195 --> 00:17:00,555 Speaker 1: ordered in the courts, because sending them like Kilmar Abrego 233 00:17:00,595 --> 00:17:03,355 Speaker 1: Garcia to a place like Al Salvador can or will 234 00:17:03,355 --> 00:17:09,355 Speaker 1: get them killed. Thousands and thousands of administrative errors, thousands 235 00:17:09,395 --> 00:17:16,675 Speaker 1: of conceivably maybe even likely, intentional errors to scare them 236 00:17:17,675 --> 00:17:22,515 Speaker 1: and scare you. Keep your head down, don't make waves, 237 00:17:24,395 --> 00:17:26,755 Speaker 1: Be like the television networks, be like the law firms, 238 00:17:26,795 --> 00:17:30,515 Speaker 1: Be like Columbia University. To borrow the bully speak of 239 00:17:30,555 --> 00:17:36,315 Speaker 1: the tariffs. Don't retaliate. You wouldn't want to be accidentally 240 00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:40,115 Speaker 1: sent to El Salvador because your folder was next to 241 00:17:40,195 --> 00:17:43,715 Speaker 1: some actual target. You wouldn't want to go to a 242 00:17:43,875 --> 00:17:46,275 Speaker 1: rally or a protest. Your photo could winde up next 243 00:17:46,275 --> 00:17:53,955 Speaker 1: to that of Machmod Khalil. Arrest Tom Holman and Christy 244 00:17:54,035 --> 00:17:57,915 Speaker 1: Nome for contemptive court today. Maybe we will get lucky 245 00:17:57,915 --> 00:18:01,035 Speaker 1: and their prison stay will get sucked into the phones 246 00:18:02,435 --> 00:18:05,075 Speaker 1: of Mike Waltz and Elon Musk, and instead of one 247 00:18:05,155 --> 00:18:07,875 Speaker 1: hour in the cleanest holding cell in Washington, d C. 248 00:18:08,235 --> 00:18:15,195 Speaker 1: They'll get disappeared to the Panama Canal I'm sorry, Christy, 249 00:18:16,235 --> 00:18:45,555 Speaker 1: you know how it goes. That's another administrative error. I 250 00:18:45,675 --> 00:18:48,915 Speaker 1: invoked the name Mackmood Khalil, and if he does not 251 00:18:49,195 --> 00:18:52,875 Speaker 1: sound familiar to you, Mackmood Khalil can be removed from 252 00:18:52,875 --> 00:18:55,595 Speaker 1: the United States even though he has broken no laws 253 00:18:56,475 --> 00:18:58,955 Speaker 1: and the entirety of the case against him is that 254 00:18:59,035 --> 00:19:04,035 Speaker 1: little shit. Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio who embellished a story 255 00:19:04,035 --> 00:19:08,475 Speaker 1: about his own as a political refugee from Cuba at 256 00:19:08,515 --> 00:19:13,195 Speaker 1: the two page memo that he promulgated, a two page 257 00:19:13,195 --> 00:19:16,475 Speaker 1: memo that is worthy of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, 258 00:19:16,515 --> 00:19:20,515 Speaker 1: in which you can be arrested for pre crimes, in 259 00:19:20,555 --> 00:19:23,035 Speaker 1: which they calculate you're going to do something bad, so 260 00:19:23,035 --> 00:19:25,995 Speaker 1: they're going to arrest you. Now, a two page memo 261 00:19:26,035 --> 00:19:30,835 Speaker 1: in which Rubio confirmed Khalil's pro Palestinian protests at Columbia 262 00:19:30,955 --> 00:19:34,795 Speaker 1: University were quote otherwise lawful, but insisted that letting him 263 00:19:34,835 --> 00:19:40,555 Speaker 1: stay here as outlined by you know the laws, would 264 00:19:40,675 --> 00:19:44,995 Speaker 1: undermine quote US policy to combat anti Semitism around the 265 00:19:44,995 --> 00:19:47,435 Speaker 1: world and in the United States. In addition to efforts 266 00:19:47,435 --> 00:19:50,355 Speaker 1: to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the 267 00:19:50,435 --> 00:19:54,155 Speaker 1: United States, condoning anti Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in 268 00:19:54,195 --> 00:19:58,475 Speaker 1: the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy object. 269 00:19:58,555 --> 00:20:00,995 Speaker 1: I got bad news for you, Marco, by that standard, 270 00:20:01,395 --> 00:20:05,395 Speaker 1: by the anti Semitism standard, Trump, who his own wife 271 00:20:05,395 --> 00:20:08,995 Speaker 1: said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches on a 272 00:20:08,995 --> 00:20:13,675 Speaker 1: bedside table in their home. Trump needs to be expelled 273 00:20:13,795 --> 00:20:21,835 Speaker 1: as a dangerous anti Semite before nightfall. And the Secretary 274 00:20:21,875 --> 00:20:26,595 Speaker 1: of Defense and Vodka Pete Hegseth under whose Reich at 275 00:20:26,595 --> 00:20:30,555 Speaker 1: the Pentagon. The Pentagon has thrown out Tony Morrison's books 276 00:20:31,155 --> 00:20:33,875 Speaker 1: from the library at the Naval Academy, but it has 277 00:20:33,995 --> 00:20:38,715 Speaker 1: kept at the Hegseth Naval Academy library the two copies 278 00:20:38,755 --> 00:20:44,355 Speaker 1: they have there, of mind com under these same rules, 279 00:20:44,635 --> 00:20:46,875 Speaker 1: Hegseth needs to be on a slow boat somewhere by 280 00:20:46,915 --> 00:20:50,835 Speaker 1: the end of the week. We are moving into pre 281 00:20:50,995 --> 00:20:55,955 Speaker 1: crimes and future crimes and thought crimes. And these the 282 00:20:56,035 --> 00:20:59,115 Speaker 1: Khalil case, and in a tangential but real way, the 283 00:20:59,195 --> 00:21:03,635 Speaker 1: kilmar Abrego and Nicole Misheroni cases too. They are harbingers 284 00:21:03,675 --> 00:21:07,195 Speaker 1: of a Trumpian rock to not only break all the 285 00:21:07,275 --> 00:21:10,395 Speaker 1: laws and all the morality in this country, and not 286 00:21:10,435 --> 00:21:13,835 Speaker 1: only to criminalize dissent, but to try to scare you 287 00:21:14,355 --> 00:21:21,555 Speaker 1: out of even thinking about dissenting. Trump doesn't just want 288 00:21:21,715 --> 00:21:26,035 Speaker 1: Khalil out of Columbia. He hasn't just demanded Columbia under 289 00:21:26,075 --> 00:21:30,075 Speaker 1: my old friend, Acting President Claire Shipman cow Tau to 290 00:21:30,155 --> 00:21:35,995 Speaker 1: Trump's political demands. Trump wants legal control of Columbia University. 291 00:21:36,435 --> 00:21:39,395 Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal reports Trump wants a consent decree, 292 00:21:40,435 --> 00:21:43,675 Speaker 1: a consent to cree, a ruling giving a federal judge 293 00:21:43,795 --> 00:21:48,875 Speaker 1: the legal authority to enforce whatever promises the spineless morons 294 00:21:48,915 --> 00:21:52,115 Speaker 1: running that university made in order to not lose four 295 00:21:52,155 --> 00:21:56,155 Speaker 1: hundred million in grants out of an endowment of fifteen billion. 296 00:21:58,035 --> 00:22:00,435 Speaker 1: These words are not used in the Wall Street Journal story, 297 00:22:00,435 --> 00:22:02,955 Speaker 1: but essentially the threat is clear, agree to our demands, 298 00:22:03,195 --> 00:22:07,235 Speaker 1: agree to the consent decree, or we will blackmail you 299 00:22:07,515 --> 00:22:11,555 Speaker 1: into it. You can challenge this decree in court, and 300 00:22:11,675 --> 00:22:14,475 Speaker 1: every day you challenge this decree in court, we will 301 00:22:14,515 --> 00:22:20,235 Speaker 1: find more federal funding to cancel. They only have fifteen 302 00:22:20,275 --> 00:22:22,235 Speaker 1: billion dollars. How can we afford the loss of four 303 00:22:22,275 --> 00:22:27,315 Speaker 1: hundred billion. They don't teach math at Columbia anymore, evidently, 304 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:32,795 Speaker 1: and if Columbia folds on this, and frankly, all Columbia 305 00:22:32,835 --> 00:22:36,995 Speaker 1: has been doing for the last year is folding, I 306 00:22:36,995 --> 00:22:39,795 Speaker 1: mean its administration and more importantly, its bored or making 307 00:22:39,835 --> 00:22:43,395 Speaker 1: its infamously bad football team look like national champions. Others 308 00:22:43,475 --> 00:22:49,395 Speaker 1: will follow. We've already seen Harvard cave and frankly, Cornell wobble. 309 00:22:51,355 --> 00:22:54,675 Speaker 1: We are gradually moving towards the moment Columbia is already there, 310 00:22:54,835 --> 00:22:58,315 Speaker 1: when the nation's campuses are such laboratories of cowardice, such 311 00:22:58,395 --> 00:23:04,195 Speaker 1: greenhouses of spinelessness, where their only hope of survival may 312 00:23:04,195 --> 00:23:08,155 Speaker 1: be the students on those campuses reading in extensively on 313 00:23:08,275 --> 00:23:12,355 Speaker 1: how they all settled things like this in the nineteen sixties. 314 00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:18,515 Speaker 1: If a place like Columbia becomes nothing but a Trumpest 315 00:23:18,595 --> 00:23:22,675 Speaker 1: factory under the control of a Trumpest judge and some 316 00:23:22,915 --> 00:23:28,995 Speaker 1: kind of Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere, it is 317 00:23:29,075 --> 00:23:31,715 Speaker 1: time for the students to and I mean this metaphorically, 318 00:23:31,755 --> 00:23:33,595 Speaker 1: of course, it is time for the students to burn 319 00:23:33,955 --> 00:23:40,155 Speaker 1: it all down. By the way, the acronym for my 320 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:46,875 Speaker 1: new hypothetical Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere would be 321 00:23:48,115 --> 00:24:00,675 Speaker 1: douche elon Musk can be poster boy of that too. 322 00:24:01,555 --> 00:24:07,315 Speaker 1: I am Musk, I am in charge of Boushe Douche 323 00:24:07,955 --> 00:24:11,395 Speaker 1: is moving rapidly on all sides towards Orwell's thought crime. 324 00:24:13,195 --> 00:24:17,035 Speaker 1: I think Khalil is an idiot, having seen similar protests 325 00:24:17,075 --> 00:24:19,675 Speaker 1: to his in the streets of my own hometown. I 326 00:24:19,795 --> 00:24:22,195 Speaker 1: cannot think of any group in my lifetime that has 327 00:24:22,195 --> 00:24:25,355 Speaker 1: done more damage to its own cause than the pro 328 00:24:25,475 --> 00:24:30,715 Speaker 1: Palestinian protesters in New York. If they planned to make 329 00:24:30,755 --> 00:24:35,555 Speaker 1: themselves and their case look worse, they couldn't have done more. 330 00:24:36,475 --> 00:24:40,675 Speaker 1: And he still must be defended or the nation is dead. 331 00:24:43,035 --> 00:24:45,915 Speaker 1: He must still be defended because Trump literally wants one 332 00:24:45,915 --> 00:24:50,395 Speaker 1: of his own former employees prosecuted for refusing to lie 333 00:24:50,435 --> 00:24:57,075 Speaker 1: for him prosecuted. Chris Krebs was appointed ahead the Cybersecurity 334 00:24:57,115 --> 00:25:02,235 Speaker 1: and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to address foreign threats, including 335 00:25:02,275 --> 00:25:06,715 Speaker 1: against elections, October twenty twenty. He did his job, no threats, 336 00:25:06,835 --> 00:25:10,395 Speaker 1: no tampering, no rigging. Now Trump has issued an executive 337 00:25:10,515 --> 00:25:15,955 Speaker 1: order demanding the DOJ investigate Chris Krebs for criminality for 338 00:25:16,195 --> 00:25:23,115 Speaker 1: not lying. Quote Crabs through CISA falsely and baselessly denied 339 00:25:23,195 --> 00:25:28,315 Speaker 1: that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. I 340 00:25:28,355 --> 00:25:33,395 Speaker 1: think that deserves to be read again. Crebs falsely and 341 00:25:33,515 --> 00:25:38,315 Speaker 1: baselessly denied that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. 342 00:25:40,755 --> 00:25:43,595 Speaker 1: I hereby deny that the twenty twenty election was rigged 343 00:25:43,635 --> 00:25:50,555 Speaker 1: and stolen. I hereby confirmed Donald Trump is crazy. And 344 00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:53,795 Speaker 1: most of all, I hereby confirm donald Trump lost the 345 00:25:53,835 --> 00:25:58,355 Speaker 1: twenty twenty election and trafficked with the Russians for the 346 00:25:58,395 --> 00:26:06,195 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election. False and baselessly denied that the twenty 347 00:26:06,235 --> 00:26:08,755 Speaker 1: twenty election was rigged and stolen. Does not get more 348 00:26:08,915 --> 00:26:14,115 Speaker 1: orwellian than that. But of course the essence of Trump's 349 00:26:14,155 --> 00:26:20,355 Speaker 1: bullshit is the man Trump appointed to make sure the 350 00:26:20,395 --> 00:26:26,315 Speaker 1: election was legit said the election was legit. The election 351 00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:31,675 Speaker 1: took place under the aegis of the Trump administration. Trump 352 00:26:31,875 --> 00:26:37,315 Speaker 1: was president, then the election integrity was the responsibility of 353 00:26:37,355 --> 00:26:41,795 Speaker 1: Trump and his administration. Trump's appointee, part of Trump's administration, 354 00:26:41,995 --> 00:26:45,235 Speaker 1: found that nothing was rigged. So Trump once him prosecuted 355 00:26:45,555 --> 00:26:55,155 Speaker 1: for saying that Trump administration handled the election honestly. Somewhere 356 00:26:55,275 --> 00:27:00,515 Speaker 1: Orwell and Kafka are bidding for the rights to this story, 357 00:27:01,435 --> 00:27:05,435 Speaker 1: and the story's not over. Ice again is the Home 358 00:27:05,435 --> 00:27:08,595 Speaker 1: and Garden GNOME group whose leaders should be jailed for contempt, 359 00:27:08,875 --> 00:27:11,715 Speaker 1: posted to x and Instagram that it would stop any 360 00:27:11,915 --> 00:27:19,635 Speaker 1: ideas that tried to enter the US illegally. You heard me, yes, 361 00:27:19,915 --> 00:27:24,395 Speaker 1: you that idea and the red Buick pull over. The 362 00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:29,635 Speaker 1: posts were deleted per Rolling Stone, sent without proper approval, 363 00:27:30,875 --> 00:27:33,675 Speaker 1: was the quote from the spokesman. The excuse was they 364 00:27:33,715 --> 00:27:39,555 Speaker 1: meant not ideas, but intellectual property. That's a cover story. 365 00:27:39,595 --> 00:27:42,995 Speaker 1: I will say it's an unexpectedly plausible one from this 366 00:27:43,115 --> 00:27:46,595 Speaker 1: group of defective brains on high school dropouts. One and 367 00:27:46,635 --> 00:27:52,155 Speaker 1: them things called again ideas you ever had one? No? No, 368 00:27:52,275 --> 00:27:55,795 Speaker 1: what are you like? Or it's just another unintentional, intentional 369 00:27:55,835 --> 00:27:58,875 Speaker 1: slip up, asked Mack MoU Khalil about the illegal entry 370 00:27:58,875 --> 00:28:05,315 Speaker 1: of ideas temporal juxtaposition. A judge in Delaware rules in 371 00:28:05,395 --> 00:28:12,195 Speaker 1: the dominion lawsuit against Newsmax for defamation, says the propaganda 372 00:28:12,275 --> 00:28:15,635 Speaker 1: feed made false and defamatory statements against dominion. The judge 373 00:28:15,675 --> 00:28:20,715 Speaker 1: said that another triumph for their lawyers, same lawyers as 374 00:28:20,715 --> 00:28:24,315 Speaker 1: in the case against Fox seven hundred and eighty five 375 00:28:24,355 --> 00:28:30,915 Speaker 1: million dollars, same lawyers, Sussman Godfrey. Later that day, Trump 376 00:28:30,995 --> 00:28:34,355 Speaker 1: issued another executive order. He uses more of them than 377 00:28:34,395 --> 00:28:40,555 Speaker 1: he uses toilet tissue, revoking security clearances and pulling federal 378 00:28:40,595 --> 00:28:46,195 Speaker 1: contracts from Sussman Godfrey Stephen Miller quote, this firm is 379 00:28:46,275 --> 00:28:51,755 Speaker 1: very involved in the election misconduct. Again a reminder the 380 00:28:51,795 --> 00:28:55,595 Speaker 1: election misconduct. This worm Miller refers to is refusing to 381 00:28:55,675 --> 00:29:02,515 Speaker 1: pretend there was election misconduct. They are now trying to 382 00:29:02,635 --> 00:29:10,115 Speaker 1: prosecute the truth out of existence. The humorous relief is 383 00:29:10,155 --> 00:29:14,235 Speaker 1: now the tariffs. When the lightest news of the day 384 00:29:14,315 --> 00:29:17,075 Speaker 1: is the destruction of the world economy, we may be 385 00:29:17,195 --> 00:29:21,155 Speaker 1: in a bad place. If you haven't noticed. The tariff 386 00:29:21,195 --> 00:29:26,115 Speaker 1: effect on the bond market also drove mortgages up to 387 00:29:26,315 --> 00:29:30,755 Speaker 1: seven point one percent. And I'm going to need to 388 00:29:30,795 --> 00:29:34,955 Speaker 1: see Howard Lutnick's government id even in this government of 389 00:29:34,995 --> 00:29:37,115 Speaker 1: the idiots, by the idiots, for the idiots. I am 390 00:29:37,115 --> 00:29:41,115 Speaker 1: not convinced this guy is actually employed by Trump. It 391 00:29:41,195 --> 00:29:45,555 Speaker 1: may be a very well constructed, complicated delusion on his part. 392 00:29:47,235 --> 00:29:50,635 Speaker 1: First they had tariffs on everything, then they suspended the 393 00:29:50,675 --> 00:29:54,115 Speaker 1: tariffs on the smartphones and the laptops cause Tim Apple. 394 00:29:54,955 --> 00:29:57,835 Speaker 1: Then Lutnik went on This Week on ABC yesterday announced 395 00:29:57,835 --> 00:30:02,235 Speaker 1: there will be new tariffs on smartphone and laptops. Also, 396 00:30:02,395 --> 00:30:07,035 Speaker 1: remember Trump's little hint he's going to raise drug prices 397 00:30:07,235 --> 00:30:14,555 Speaker 1: just cuz Lutnick. Semiconductors and pharmaceuticals will have a tariff 398 00:30:14,595 --> 00:30:21,035 Speaker 1: model in order to encourage them to re sure the tariffs. 399 00:30:22,275 --> 00:30:27,355 Speaker 1: Clap on, clap off, clap on, clap off the tariffs. 400 00:30:29,515 --> 00:30:33,875 Speaker 1: I don't believe Lutnick really works there. In fact, I 401 00:30:33,915 --> 00:30:37,275 Speaker 1: do not believe his name is really Lutnick. I think 402 00:30:37,315 --> 00:30:41,595 Speaker 1: he's just Maury Kessler, the two pay salesman from Goodfellas. 403 00:30:44,915 --> 00:30:47,435 Speaker 1: And Yes, of course, the tariffs and Trump's nine thirty 404 00:30:47,475 --> 00:30:51,795 Speaker 1: seven AM post that day were market manipulation. CNN asked 405 00:30:51,835 --> 00:30:55,595 Speaker 1: Representative Carlos Jimenez of Florida, this is a great time 406 00:30:55,675 --> 00:31:00,995 Speaker 1: to buy. Is that market manipulation? Jimenez his answer a 407 00:31:01,115 --> 00:31:04,635 Speaker 1: denial that he did not realize was actually a can 408 00:31:04,755 --> 00:31:08,995 Speaker 1: Feshion quote. No, he said, actually, we had lunch with 409 00:31:09,035 --> 00:31:11,875 Speaker 1: a major stockbroker from New York and we were talking 410 00:31:11,875 --> 00:31:13,995 Speaker 1: to him about tariffs, and one of the things he 411 00:31:14,035 --> 00:31:22,035 Speaker 1: said was it's time to buy. A Congressman, that's evidence 412 00:31:22,195 --> 00:31:27,435 Speaker 1: of what you just denied. I'd like to amend my remarks. 413 00:31:28,555 --> 00:31:35,155 Speaker 1: Consumer confidence craters down eleven percent this month fifty point eight. 414 00:31:35,195 --> 00:31:38,315 Speaker 1: That's the second lowest reading since the University of Michigan 415 00:31:38,395 --> 00:31:41,075 Speaker 1: started to do this in nineteen fifty two. It is 416 00:31:41,115 --> 00:31:43,955 Speaker 1: lower than it was during the Great Recession. It is 417 00:31:44,035 --> 00:31:49,995 Speaker 1: down thirty points since Trump was elected. In short, Americans 418 00:31:50,195 --> 00:31:55,755 Speaker 1: felt better about buying stuff, felt better about our future. 419 00:31:56,795 --> 00:32:10,035 Speaker 1: During the Cuban missile crisis, somebody sent fire to the 420 00:32:10,075 --> 00:32:13,155 Speaker 1: official home of the governor of the fifth most populous 421 00:32:13,155 --> 00:32:16,115 Speaker 1: state in the nation early Sunday morning, with him in 422 00:32:16,195 --> 00:32:23,315 Speaker 1: it and his family significant damage. Family evacuated, nobody hurt. 423 00:32:25,195 --> 00:32:28,835 Speaker 1: Twelve hours later, not a word from the President, from 424 00:32:28,915 --> 00:32:33,235 Speaker 1: Attorney General Pam Blondie, from Homeland Security Secretary Garden, and 425 00:32:33,275 --> 00:32:37,595 Speaker 1: nome nobody. Washington Post put the story low enough on 426 00:32:37,635 --> 00:32:39,515 Speaker 1: its front page. I had to scroll down one whole 427 00:32:39,515 --> 00:32:41,795 Speaker 1: page to find it. The New York Times required you 428 00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:45,995 Speaker 1: to scroll down four screens. It was between the John 429 00:32:46,115 --> 00:32:49,995 Speaker 1: Ham story and the story on fashion at the Master's 430 00:32:49,995 --> 00:32:54,115 Speaker 1: Golf Tournament. It was three screens below the story about 431 00:32:54,155 --> 00:33:00,715 Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live's latest parade of the not at all funny. Well, 432 00:33:00,995 --> 00:33:03,755 Speaker 1: we don't know the motive yet, we don't need to 433 00:33:03,795 --> 00:33:08,195 Speaker 1: know the goddamned motive a governor's mansion was set on fire. 434 00:33:10,355 --> 00:33:15,875 Speaker 1: China halts exports lead New York Times story is not 435 00:33:15,995 --> 00:33:19,635 Speaker 1: as meaningful to this country's future as somebody trying to 436 00:33:19,755 --> 00:33:23,595 Speaker 1: burn down a governor's home with him and his family 437 00:33:23,955 --> 00:33:33,035 Speaker 1: in it. Motive you're waiting for. Motive that it happened 438 00:33:33,075 --> 00:33:38,835 Speaker 1: is not enough. A coincidence in which a pyromaniac selected 439 00:33:38,875 --> 00:33:43,035 Speaker 1: a random building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the governor just 440 00:33:43,155 --> 00:33:50,115 Speaker 1: happened to be inside. That wouldn't be enough. And I 441 00:33:50,155 --> 00:33:53,315 Speaker 1: haven't even mentioned it was Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania 442 00:33:53,915 --> 00:33:59,035 Speaker 1: during passover. But we got this great story about John 443 00:33:59,075 --> 00:34:08,795 Speaker 1: Ham's John Hamply. The Democratic Party is pushing back against 444 00:34:08,875 --> 00:34:14,235 Speaker 1: all of this. Senator Schumer, the majority leader. Forgive me, 445 00:34:14,675 --> 00:34:21,035 Speaker 1: the minority leader, forgive me the minority guy. Senator Schumer, 446 00:34:22,395 --> 00:34:28,235 Speaker 1: forgive me. Chuck has a tweet Chuck Schumer Thursday quote. 447 00:34:28,595 --> 00:34:32,675 Speaker 1: History will remember April ninth, twenty twenty five as America's 448 00:34:32,995 --> 00:34:37,315 Speaker 1: actual liberation Day, the day that President Trump backed down 449 00:34:37,595 --> 00:34:46,315 Speaker 1: from his ridiculous tariff fiasco. Oh, it's like a joke 450 00:34:46,395 --> 00:34:48,875 Speaker 1: of some sort. You had a team working on this 451 00:34:50,315 --> 00:34:56,875 Speaker 1: for Day Teams social Media seventy one consultants. Well, I 452 00:34:56,875 --> 00:35:01,315 Speaker 1: think we should play off the actual Liberation Day now 453 00:35:01,355 --> 00:35:07,435 Speaker 1: that the tariffs have been delayed. Is not funny, not insightful, 454 00:35:07,515 --> 00:35:10,315 Speaker 1: not witty, not relevant, and, as it turned out, not 455 00:35:10,355 --> 00:35:13,955 Speaker 1: factually accurate. Within an hour, it was all changed again. 456 00:35:15,915 --> 00:35:19,955 Speaker 1: I am surprised by one thing. Chuck Schumer put out 457 00:35:19,955 --> 00:35:25,595 Speaker 1: a tariff mocking Trump's Liberation Day. We hear at the 458 00:35:25,595 --> 00:35:28,515 Speaker 1: New York Times. How is it We're not We're not 459 00:35:28,555 --> 00:35:31,715 Speaker 1: putting a story about this on the front page. I mean, 460 00:35:32,355 --> 00:35:34,675 Speaker 1: I know, I'm I'm I'm breaking all the rules here, 461 00:35:34,715 --> 00:35:36,955 Speaker 1: But shouldn't this be higher than the than the than 462 00:35:36,995 --> 00:35:45,635 Speaker 1: the John ham story. I'm sorry to track John hamm 463 00:35:45,635 --> 00:35:52,795 Speaker 1: into this nice Man college classmate of the Last Line, 464 00:35:52,835 --> 00:35:57,875 Speaker 1: producer of Countdown on MSNBC, Nikki nice Man. Good actor 465 00:35:58,115 --> 00:36:02,115 Speaker 1: also of interest here. Bad actor Bill Maher provides a 466 00:36:02,155 --> 00:36:05,755 Speaker 1: propaganda video for Trump, but of coorse he does his 467 00:36:05,835 --> 00:36:09,755 Speaker 1: bosses want him to. What he doesn't realize is that 468 00:36:09,795 --> 00:36:12,995 Speaker 1: all the nice things Trump did for him that he 469 00:36:13,075 --> 00:36:19,675 Speaker 1: recited like a hostage in the video, all those things, 470 00:36:20,395 --> 00:36:22,915 Speaker 1: all those things he praised Trump for, he already praised 471 00:36:22,915 --> 00:36:26,835 Speaker 1: Trump for them ten years ago. You know how I 472 00:36:26,915 --> 00:36:32,075 Speaker 1: know this because Bill told me on the air on 473 00:36:32,235 --> 00:36:36,875 Speaker 1: his show how impressed he was in twenty sixteen with Trump, 474 00:36:37,115 --> 00:36:44,395 Speaker 1: how he then felt betrayed by Trump. Bill, he's betraying 475 00:36:44,435 --> 00:36:51,315 Speaker 1: you again right now, Bill, You're an idiot. That's next. 476 00:36:51,795 --> 00:37:18,835 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Stell 477 00:37:18,875 --> 00:37:21,115 Speaker 1: ahead on this edition of Countdown. Does the show seem 478 00:37:21,115 --> 00:37:24,795 Speaker 1: a little ragged to you? Seems a little ragged to me. 479 00:37:25,915 --> 00:37:28,795 Speaker 1: I'll explain with an announcement about the future of this show. 480 00:37:29,995 --> 00:37:34,075 Speaker 1: I mean, like the immediate future. Like this week first, 481 00:37:34,275 --> 00:37:36,515 Speaker 1: believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to 482 00:37:36,595 --> 00:37:39,555 Speaker 1: talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning 483 00:37:39,595 --> 00:37:44,475 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons 484 00:37:44,675 --> 00:37:48,915 Speaker 1: in the world. There's so many of them. This week 485 00:37:48,955 --> 00:37:52,075 Speaker 1: I had to do dedications and the induction of a 486 00:37:52,155 --> 00:37:59,475 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame member of the Worst Person's Pantheon. The 487 00:37:59,515 --> 00:38:03,755 Speaker 1: dedication is to ABC's This Week, which actually put out 488 00:38:03,795 --> 00:38:08,635 Speaker 1: this lineup yesterday. As the old joke goes, this was 489 00:38:08,715 --> 00:38:15,235 Speaker 1: on TV right now. ABC's This Week Commerce Secretary Howard 490 00:38:15,315 --> 00:38:19,475 Speaker 1: Lutnik Howard is an idiot. Not only that, but they 491 00:38:19,475 --> 00:38:22,635 Speaker 1: don't tell Howard anything, so he always talks about things 492 00:38:23,075 --> 00:38:28,475 Speaker 1: that were true or at least being sold six days ago. 493 00:38:28,915 --> 00:38:35,835 Speaker 1: Howard is six days late. Their Senator Elizabeth Warren Fine. 494 00:38:35,875 --> 00:38:45,715 Speaker 1: The other guests, Stephen A. Smith, Panel, Donna Brazil, Ranks Prebus, 495 00:38:46,435 --> 00:38:49,875 Speaker 1: who was one of the Republican fascists who started all this. 496 00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:54,315 Speaker 1: Rachel bade of Politico, and there's plenty I could say 497 00:38:54,315 --> 00:38:56,395 Speaker 1: about her, but the worst I could think of is 498 00:38:56,755 --> 00:39:01,835 Speaker 1: of Politico. And Sarah Isger, who works for ABC News 499 00:39:01,875 --> 00:39:04,915 Speaker 1: and pretends to be neutral when she is in fact 500 00:39:05,275 --> 00:39:12,275 Speaker 1: a conservative jackass. Somehow, in booking a panel Ton forsil 501 00:39:12,555 --> 00:39:17,075 Speaker 1: Reine's previous Rachel Bade Sarah Isger with Stephen A. Smith 502 00:39:17,115 --> 00:39:21,195 Speaker 1: as your expert, they managed to not book wile E. Coyote, 503 00:39:21,595 --> 00:39:28,875 Speaker 1: Professor Irwin Corey, and Max Effing Headroom. Please somebody tells 504 00:39:28,915 --> 00:39:34,555 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith he needs to do some homework. Steven 505 00:39:34,715 --> 00:39:38,715 Speaker 1: spent his time ranting about how if any Republican supports 506 00:39:38,795 --> 00:39:42,035 Speaker 1: Trump running for a third term, he doesn't want to 507 00:39:42,035 --> 00:39:46,275 Speaker 1: hear them talk about the Constitution. Ever, again, Stephen doesn't 508 00:39:46,315 --> 00:39:49,475 Speaker 1: get it. Stephen hasn't been paying attention. Steven doesn't know 509 00:39:49,515 --> 00:39:53,555 Speaker 1: what he's talking about. The Republicans have been talking about 510 00:39:53,635 --> 00:39:57,835 Speaker 1: Trump running for a third term, actively publicly in what 511 00:39:58,315 --> 00:40:02,875 Speaker 1: counts for their version of intellectual journals, since twenty twenty three, 512 00:40:03,315 --> 00:40:07,475 Speaker 1: and they mean it, and they will do it, and 513 00:40:07,515 --> 00:40:10,755 Speaker 1: they will pervert the Constitution to achieve it. They are 514 00:40:10,795 --> 00:40:13,875 Speaker 1: working on it now. The point at which you say, 515 00:40:13,915 --> 00:40:16,035 Speaker 1: don't talk to me about it again, or I never 516 00:40:16,035 --> 00:40:18,235 Speaker 1: want to hear you talk about the Constitution was like 517 00:40:18,355 --> 00:40:24,715 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. You are not Steve arguing about the Minnesota 518 00:40:24,795 --> 00:40:29,435 Speaker 1: freaking timberwolves with that half wit Christopher Russo on ESPN. 519 00:40:29,515 --> 00:40:34,635 Speaker 1: Here these people are out to take your vote, your vote, 520 00:40:34,675 --> 00:40:38,835 Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith's vote away from you, and to deport 521 00:40:38,955 --> 00:40:43,515 Speaker 1: any of your friends who were not born here. Get 522 00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:48,635 Speaker 1: serious about this, or stop wasting everybody's time. You might 523 00:40:48,635 --> 00:40:51,435 Speaker 1: as well be telling the Republicans they need to be 524 00:40:51,435 --> 00:40:56,595 Speaker 1: better citizens. They have long since burned that vote Stephen 525 00:40:56,635 --> 00:41:04,235 Speaker 1: A and the governor's mansion. I'm not objecting in the 526 00:41:04,275 --> 00:41:09,235 Speaker 1: slightest to sportscasters talking politics or converting to becoming political 527 00:41:09,275 --> 00:41:13,395 Speaker 1: commentators or political figures. I'm the last person on earth 528 00:41:13,395 --> 00:41:16,795 Speaker 1: to say that, but walk in with twenty twenty five information. 529 00:41:17,155 --> 00:41:20,115 Speaker 1: Don't come in here arguing nineteen seventy four to me, 530 00:41:22,195 --> 00:41:28,035 Speaker 1: Jesus make us all look bad. I mean, a two 531 00:41:28,075 --> 00:41:30,755 Speaker 1: week training program and you could be up to date 532 00:41:30,795 --> 00:41:33,475 Speaker 1: at least and not say stupid things like that. I 533 00:41:33,515 --> 00:41:35,715 Speaker 1: don't want to hear them talk about the Constitution ever. 534 00:41:35,915 --> 00:41:39,435 Speaker 1: They don't care about the Constitution. The Constitution is there 535 00:41:39,515 --> 00:41:41,835 Speaker 1: for them to twist it and warp it and send 536 00:41:41,835 --> 00:41:44,955 Speaker 1: it through the Supreme Court they own. That's already made 537 00:41:45,155 --> 00:41:49,995 Speaker 1: shit up. Like presidential immunity, which is nowhere in the Constitution, 538 00:41:50,675 --> 00:41:54,115 Speaker 1: is nowhere in any of the federalists papers, is nowhere 539 00:41:54,155 --> 00:41:59,235 Speaker 1: in anything resembling a document from the founding of this nation. 540 00:41:59,955 --> 00:42:06,235 Speaker 1: No founding father believed in presidential immunity. Of them, if 541 00:42:06,235 --> 00:42:09,275 Speaker 1: you could find one, the answer to that would be, okay, 542 00:42:09,315 --> 00:42:11,875 Speaker 1: one of them did. Out of the two or three 543 00:42:11,955 --> 00:42:14,755 Speaker 1: hundred people who made the Constitution what it is today. 544 00:42:16,595 --> 00:42:18,555 Speaker 1: Don't talk to me about the God. Don't talk to 545 00:42:18,595 --> 00:42:22,115 Speaker 1: me about Republicans not talking about the Constitution they think 546 00:42:22,155 --> 00:42:25,195 Speaker 1: they own it. Don't talk to me about Don't talk 547 00:42:25,235 --> 00:42:29,715 Speaker 1: to me about the Constitution. This is literally a topic 548 00:42:30,115 --> 00:42:34,715 Speaker 1: they got passed in the twentieth century. The Republicans can 549 00:42:34,875 --> 00:42:41,555 Speaker 1: rationalize anything, Steven, you are behind the curve here. Take 550 00:42:41,595 --> 00:42:47,275 Speaker 1: a two week course and figure it out. As I said, 551 00:42:47,275 --> 00:42:50,315 Speaker 1: we also have a worse Person's Hall of Famer to announce. 552 00:42:50,595 --> 00:42:53,315 Speaker 1: This is from last Wednesday, so I'm sure you saw 553 00:42:53,355 --> 00:42:57,115 Speaker 1: it or heard it already. It's a little old, so 554 00:42:57,155 --> 00:42:59,835 Speaker 1: I'm not putting it in the list, but yes, this 555 00:42:59,955 --> 00:43:06,195 Speaker 1: is true. Linda McMahon, missus wrestling the Secretary of Education 556 00:43:06,355 --> 00:43:10,835 Speaker 1: so stupid she used to be married to Vince McMahon 557 00:43:13,035 --> 00:43:17,595 Speaker 1: selected a Secretary of Education because she doesn't have one 558 00:43:17,675 --> 00:43:21,875 Speaker 1: and thus doesn't understand why it's not okay to eliminate 559 00:43:22,035 --> 00:43:26,195 Speaker 1: education going forward or the Department of Education. But she 560 00:43:26,275 --> 00:43:29,715 Speaker 1: has proved she's just right for the Trump administration. If 561 00:43:29,755 --> 00:43:32,475 Speaker 1: everybody who's been appointed to a cabinet position is there 562 00:43:32,595 --> 00:43:35,875 Speaker 1: to destroy the United States of America, they got their 563 00:43:35,995 --> 00:43:39,555 Speaker 1: dame right here. Linda McMahon is the greatest Secretary of 564 00:43:39,675 --> 00:43:42,755 Speaker 1: Education of all time. She will make sure that she 565 00:43:42,955 --> 00:43:46,395 Speaker 1: snamps out education in this country better than anybody else 566 00:43:46,435 --> 00:43:52,475 Speaker 1: possibly could. At an event, she twice referred to the 567 00:43:52,475 --> 00:43:58,115 Speaker 1: future of artificial intelligence in schools by calling artificial intelligence 568 00:43:58,995 --> 00:44:07,235 Speaker 1: a one, as in Steak Sauce, a one. Well, we 569 00:44:07,315 --> 00:44:09,875 Speaker 1: need more a one. Where would a one be it? 570 00:44:10,235 --> 00:44:15,675 Speaker 1: This puts her in the worst person's mispronunciation of numbers 571 00:44:15,755 --> 00:44:20,795 Speaker 1: exhibit next to Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, who is 572 00:44:20,795 --> 00:44:24,395 Speaker 1: an obgyn who still thinks the terrorist attack from two 573 00:44:24,435 --> 00:44:31,075 Speaker 1: thousand and one is called nine to eleven if only 574 00:44:31,115 --> 00:44:35,715 Speaker 1: we'd had a one on nine to eleven. On the 575 00:44:35,755 --> 00:44:39,635 Speaker 1: other hand, the Steak Sauce people are delighted by this. Finally, 576 00:44:39,675 --> 00:44:44,515 Speaker 1: to the nominees for Today's Worst Person's Awards, the Bronze Worse, 577 00:44:45,635 --> 00:44:48,875 Speaker 1: Bill Maher. I know I've been talking about my college 578 00:44:48,995 --> 00:44:52,915 Speaker 1: classmate a lot recently. I would make him worse persons again, 579 00:44:52,995 --> 00:44:57,435 Speaker 1: But first off your board of that. Secondly, I'm bored 580 00:44:57,435 --> 00:45:02,035 Speaker 1: of that. Thirdly, Bill is shrinking so rapidly into obscurity 581 00:45:02,555 --> 00:45:05,155 Speaker 1: that I wonder by the time I got through two 582 00:45:05,195 --> 00:45:08,235 Speaker 1: other stories before telling his, I wonder if anybody would 583 00:45:08,235 --> 00:45:13,355 Speaker 1: still remember who he was. As you know, at the 584 00:45:13,395 --> 00:45:18,595 Speaker 1: insistence of Bill's new friend, Kid Rock, who maybe the 585 00:45:18,635 --> 00:45:21,395 Speaker 1: first person Bill's ever considered a friend who had better 586 00:45:21,475 --> 00:45:26,155 Speaker 1: morals than Bill does. Kid Rock took him to the 587 00:45:26,195 --> 00:45:32,275 Speaker 1: White House to meet Trump, and Bill came out of 588 00:45:32,315 --> 00:45:38,755 Speaker 1: it fully cool, aidd Everything I'm not liked about him was, 589 00:45:38,795 --> 00:45:41,035 Speaker 1: I swear to God absent, at least on this night. 590 00:45:41,115 --> 00:45:44,755 Speaker 1: With this guy. I never felt I had to walk 591 00:45:44,755 --> 00:45:47,555 Speaker 1: on eggshells around him. And honestly I voted for Clinton 592 00:45:47,635 --> 00:45:50,395 Speaker 1: and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to 593 00:45:50,475 --> 00:45:53,195 Speaker 1: them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump. 594 00:45:53,715 --> 00:45:57,275 Speaker 1: Make of it what you will. What I make of 595 00:45:57,315 --> 00:46:02,075 Speaker 1: it is, Bill, you're going senile. You are forgetting that. 596 00:46:02,195 --> 00:46:06,515 Speaker 1: You said more or less that exact same thing in 597 00:46:06,595 --> 00:46:11,355 Speaker 1: the year twenty sixteen. I know this because it was 598 00:46:11,435 --> 00:46:15,955 Speaker 1: during a conversation you and I had on your show 599 00:46:16,595 --> 00:46:22,235 Speaker 1: about Trump, about how extraordinary it was that the Trump 600 00:46:22,355 --> 00:46:28,395 Speaker 1: we had met was this generous, all about you talk 601 00:46:28,475 --> 00:46:32,995 Speaker 1: about anything, gracious guy. And then he came out and 602 00:46:33,075 --> 00:46:36,795 Speaker 1: started talking about basically wanting to kill all the Hispanics. 603 00:46:37,275 --> 00:46:41,195 Speaker 1: We couldn't figure out this disparity, I said, we don't 604 00:46:41,235 --> 00:46:43,595 Speaker 1: have to figure it out. There are two Donald Trump's 605 00:46:43,595 --> 00:46:46,795 Speaker 1: who are both absolutely plausible and convincing, and we can't 606 00:46:46,795 --> 00:46:50,195 Speaker 1: have a president who has more than one personality. Sorry, 607 00:46:51,675 --> 00:46:56,355 Speaker 1: you said you felt he had deceived you. Guess what, 608 00:46:56,595 --> 00:46:59,435 Speaker 1: Bill he had And guess what the other day at 609 00:46:59,435 --> 00:47:02,275 Speaker 1: the White House he deceived you again. You know why, 610 00:47:02,395 --> 00:47:05,395 Speaker 1: because you're gullible, because you want to be he flattered, 611 00:47:05,715 --> 00:47:08,995 Speaker 1: because that's all he does. Because he found your button 612 00:47:09,035 --> 00:47:11,035 Speaker 1: and he pushed it and pushed it and pushed it, 613 00:47:11,155 --> 00:47:14,115 Speaker 1: and he got you to put out quotes that they 614 00:47:14,155 --> 00:47:17,195 Speaker 1: have now used, and got you to put out a 615 00:47:17,235 --> 00:47:20,715 Speaker 1: monologue on your dying show on television, which they have 616 00:47:21,035 --> 00:47:25,075 Speaker 1: used to sell the idea that he is a good 617 00:47:25,155 --> 00:47:29,435 Speaker 1: president and a good person. They are using you. Bill. 618 00:47:31,915 --> 00:47:37,035 Speaker 1: On the other hand, somebody's watching your video. You're a 619 00:47:37,075 --> 00:47:39,955 Speaker 1: moron now And I know that. As I say that, 620 00:47:40,435 --> 00:47:45,795 Speaker 1: mar added millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. The only 621 00:47:45,915 --> 00:47:50,195 Speaker 1: sphincter around here, Bill is Bill Maher, and you have 622 00:47:50,275 --> 00:47:54,795 Speaker 1: long since ceased to be liberal. I've had so many 623 00:47:54,835 --> 00:47:58,435 Speaker 1: conversations with prominent people who are much less connected, people 624 00:47:58,435 --> 00:48:00,715 Speaker 1: that don't look you in the eye, people that don't 625 00:48:00,715 --> 00:48:02,675 Speaker 1: really listen because they just want to get to their 626 00:48:02,715 --> 00:48:05,715 Speaker 1: next thing, people who's respired. What's the things you say? 627 00:48:06,155 --> 00:48:11,675 Speaker 1: Just doesn't track none of that with him. Bill, He's 628 00:48:11,715 --> 00:48:19,675 Speaker 1: a narcissistic sociopath, possibly a narcissistic psychopath. Bill, he's Ted Bundy, 629 00:48:20,355 --> 00:48:24,715 Speaker 1: He's President Ted Bundy Trump. This is what he does. 630 00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:28,715 Speaker 1: He uses people. He looks them in the eye, he 631 00:48:28,795 --> 00:48:32,595 Speaker 1: figures out what it is they're most susceptible to and 632 00:48:32,675 --> 00:48:35,035 Speaker 1: does it to them. And then they think he's just 633 00:48:35,155 --> 00:48:39,355 Speaker 1: wonderful and he's theirs, and that the real Trump is 634 00:48:39,395 --> 00:48:43,195 Speaker 1: the one they saw, not the one who is bundling 635 00:48:43,315 --> 00:48:48,195 Speaker 1: Americans off the streets and sending them to torture chambers 636 00:48:48,195 --> 00:48:53,875 Speaker 1: in El Salvador or stochastically encouraging terrorism inside the United 637 00:48:53,875 --> 00:48:59,435 Speaker 1: States against his political opponents. People that don't look you 638 00:48:59,475 --> 00:49:00,955 Speaker 1: in the eye. He looks you in the eye and 639 00:49:00,995 --> 00:49:04,875 Speaker 1: tells you he had a copy of Hitler's speech is 640 00:49:05,675 --> 00:49:12,315 Speaker 1: on his nightstand in nineteen ninety. People that don't really 641 00:49:12,395 --> 00:49:14,475 Speaker 1: listen because they just want to get to their next thing. 642 00:49:14,715 --> 00:49:17,915 Speaker 1: Next thing is subverting the Constitution and serving a third 643 00:49:18,035 --> 00:49:21,235 Speaker 1: term and then claiming we don't need any more elections 644 00:49:21,235 --> 00:49:24,515 Speaker 1: because he's doing a great job. People whose response to 645 00:49:24,595 --> 00:49:27,875 Speaker 1: things you say just doesn't track none of that with him. No, 646 00:49:28,115 --> 00:49:30,955 Speaker 1: they're putting out press releases saying he's healthy, and the 647 00:49:30,955 --> 00:49:33,475 Speaker 1: evidence of being healthy is that he won another one 648 00:49:33,475 --> 00:49:36,115 Speaker 1: of his golf tournaments at his course where he's allowed 649 00:49:36,115 --> 00:49:43,515 Speaker 1: to cheat. Bill, he used you again somehow nine years ago. 650 00:49:43,635 --> 00:49:48,195 Speaker 1: You figured it out. Since then you've forgotten. Stop forgetting. 651 00:49:48,235 --> 00:49:55,235 Speaker 1: You have some small remaining responsibility here. Use that, not 652 00:49:55,355 --> 00:49:58,595 Speaker 1: that Bill Maher wasn't seeking to be used. I may 653 00:49:58,635 --> 00:50:01,595 Speaker 1: be guilty of overthinking this whole thing. Bill Maher works 654 00:50:01,635 --> 00:50:05,875 Speaker 1: now for the same fascists at Warner Bros. Discovery, led 655 00:50:05,875 --> 00:50:10,195 Speaker 1: by this guy David Zaslav, who took over and corrupted CNN. 656 00:50:11,875 --> 00:50:14,715 Speaker 1: They let the people who would collaborate with them, who 657 00:50:14,715 --> 00:50:17,955 Speaker 1: would appease Trump, people like Jake Tapper, they let them 658 00:50:17,995 --> 00:50:20,995 Speaker 1: stay and fired everybody else. They said, to hell with 659 00:50:21,035 --> 00:50:23,155 Speaker 1: the ratings. We're not in it for the money. We're 660 00:50:23,155 --> 00:50:26,315 Speaker 1: here to neutralize and neoter CNN, And we're here to 661 00:50:26,355 --> 00:50:30,515 Speaker 1: neutralize and neoter what had been a boring but rather 662 00:50:30,595 --> 00:50:36,515 Speaker 1: reliably liberal show every Friday night on HBO. I want 663 00:50:36,515 --> 00:50:37,715 Speaker 1: to know what they're going to try to do to 664 00:50:37,795 --> 00:50:41,555 Speaker 1: John Oliver. But John Oliver is made of something. I 665 00:50:41,555 --> 00:50:43,875 Speaker 1: have known Bill Mars since nineteen seventy eight, and he 666 00:50:43,955 --> 00:50:48,875 Speaker 1: was a shameless, self interested opportunist with no real principles 667 00:50:48,875 --> 00:50:55,555 Speaker 1: then and he's gone downhill since then. This may not 668 00:50:55,675 --> 00:50:58,515 Speaker 1: have been the primary motive for what he did, which 669 00:50:58,555 --> 00:51:03,075 Speaker 1: is to provide the Trump camp with promotional material, with propaganda, 670 00:51:03,395 --> 00:51:08,195 Speaker 1: with propaganda video. This may not have been his primary goal, 671 00:51:08,955 --> 00:51:12,075 Speaker 1: but it was maybe his secondary goal. He did this 672 00:51:12,155 --> 00:51:15,235 Speaker 1: so he can keep his show on HBO. And if 673 00:51:15,235 --> 00:51:18,195 Speaker 1: there's no HBO show, there are no Bill Maher stand 674 00:51:18,275 --> 00:51:22,355 Speaker 1: up specials, there are no Bill Maher events anywhere. There's 675 00:51:22,355 --> 00:51:25,795 Speaker 1: nobody in the audience cheering for Bill Maher. I've been 676 00:51:25,795 --> 00:51:28,355 Speaker 1: in front of that audience. It's intoxicating. They have a 677 00:51:28,435 --> 00:51:32,275 Speaker 1: nice room that creates a nice bounce. What's probably three 678 00:51:32,355 --> 00:51:35,515 Speaker 1: hundred people sounds like three thousand. You get addicted to 679 00:51:35,595 --> 00:51:39,395 Speaker 1: that pretty quickly. Then you remember it's three hundred people. 680 00:51:43,155 --> 00:51:45,475 Speaker 1: I'm going to try to stop talking about Bill Maher 681 00:51:45,515 --> 00:51:53,235 Speaker 1: now our runner up worser Trump. CBS News reports that 682 00:51:53,315 --> 00:51:58,835 Speaker 1: on March third, the cell phone of retired Lieutenant General H. R. 683 00:51:59,035 --> 00:52:04,875 Speaker 1: McMaster rang used to work for the White House. He 684 00:52:04,955 --> 00:52:09,155 Speaker 1: was the National Security Advisor for the first thirteen months 685 00:52:09,195 --> 00:52:13,115 Speaker 1: of the first Trump Reich, so, needless to say, he 686 00:52:13,235 --> 00:52:16,355 Speaker 1: was surprised when the voice on the other side said 687 00:52:17,155 --> 00:52:20,555 Speaker 1: it's the White House calling for you. I assume he 688 00:52:20,595 --> 00:52:28,035 Speaker 1: said something like which White House? Our White House. A 689 00:52:28,115 --> 00:52:32,875 Speaker 1: day earlier, on March second, Trump had in fact insulted 690 00:52:33,115 --> 00:52:36,315 Speaker 1: Hr McMaster lasted him on social media as a weak 691 00:52:36,395 --> 00:52:40,715 Speaker 1: and totally ineffective loser. McMaster had just appeared on CBS 692 00:52:40,715 --> 00:52:44,555 Speaker 1: on sixty Minutes. He had voiced skepticism about the Trump 693 00:52:44,635 --> 00:52:48,995 Speaker 1: overture towards Putin and Putin's supposed willingness to end the 694 00:52:49,035 --> 00:52:53,915 Speaker 1: war in Ukraine, which Trump believed, does not apparently believe now, 695 00:52:53,955 --> 00:52:57,675 Speaker 1: but may soon resume believing when he needs to change 696 00:52:57,675 --> 00:53:02,035 Speaker 1: the subject again. Anyway, the phone according to CBS with 697 00:53:02,115 --> 00:53:04,515 Speaker 1: their sources, I think we can guess who the source 698 00:53:04,595 --> 00:53:08,355 Speaker 1: was who could recount the phone call. The phone call 699 00:53:08,395 --> 00:53:14,315 Speaker 1: began with Trump saying Henry, Henry is how Trump opened 700 00:53:14,355 --> 00:53:17,355 Speaker 1: the call before launching into the conversation. According to two 701 00:53:17,435 --> 00:53:24,835 Speaker 1: sources who were not authorized to discuss private conversations, the 702 00:53:24,875 --> 00:53:29,995 Speaker 1: former National Security advisor, mister McMaster interrupted, Uh, mister President, 703 00:53:30,075 --> 00:53:36,555 Speaker 1: this is hr McMaster. Trump then asked, dismissively, why the 704 00:53:36,875 --> 00:53:40,315 Speaker 1: f would I talk to hi McMaster, and then Trump 705 00:53:40,395 --> 00:53:43,955 Speaker 1: launched into a scathing critique of his former aid. Two 706 00:53:44,035 --> 00:53:49,555 Speaker 1: sources said. According to CBS, the call was brief. The 707 00:53:49,995 --> 00:53:53,755 Speaker 1: explanation for this is because the White House is really 708 00:53:53,755 --> 00:53:57,195 Speaker 1: good and this administration is really good at screwing up 709 00:53:57,235 --> 00:54:01,595 Speaker 1: elemental communications like signal chats and phone calls. He was 710 00:54:01,635 --> 00:54:06,795 Speaker 1: trying to reach the former governor, Henry McMaster, and they 711 00:54:06,875 --> 00:54:09,755 Speaker 1: presumably would be in the rolodex at the White House, 712 00:54:09,955 --> 00:54:14,915 Speaker 1: the electronic equivalent of a rolodex Henry mcmallory with McMaster Kama, 713 00:54:14,995 --> 00:54:21,235 Speaker 1: Henry McMaster comma hr. Perhaps, since he only hires idiots, 714 00:54:21,795 --> 00:54:24,475 Speaker 1: let's look at the Press secretary as an example of this. 715 00:54:24,675 --> 00:54:28,835 Speaker 1: Since he only hires idiots, let's look at the Attorney 716 00:54:28,835 --> 00:54:32,395 Speaker 1: General Blondie for a moment. Since he only hires idiots. 717 00:54:32,875 --> 00:54:36,355 Speaker 1: Perhaps the person thought hr McMaster and Henry McMaster were 718 00:54:36,395 --> 00:54:40,755 Speaker 1: the same person. In any event, this was not some 719 00:54:40,995 --> 00:54:44,195 Speaker 1: fifth dimensional chess in which Trump got to call up 720 00:54:44,715 --> 00:54:48,035 Speaker 1: hr McMaster and abuse him. He doesn't have the guts 721 00:54:48,075 --> 00:54:52,315 Speaker 1: to do that. The last line of the CBS report 722 00:54:52,355 --> 00:54:55,555 Speaker 1: is the best one here. Quote the call was brief, 723 00:54:57,715 --> 00:55:04,115 Speaker 1: as is our winner. Judge Janine Piro, former very brief 724 00:55:04,235 --> 00:55:09,515 Speaker 1: senator orio candidate from New York. One of the hosts 725 00:55:09,555 --> 00:55:13,075 Speaker 1: of Fox News, and although it is an extraordinary competition 726 00:55:13,395 --> 00:55:16,515 Speaker 1: and each day is like watching the finals of some 727 00:55:16,715 --> 00:55:21,395 Speaker 1: Olympic event, day after day after day, every day since 728 00:55:21,515 --> 00:55:26,555 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, Janine Piro is possibly. I mean, there's 729 00:55:26,635 --> 00:55:31,155 Speaker 1: Jesse Waters there, the other people on in the morning, 730 00:55:31,235 --> 00:55:35,795 Speaker 1: Brian Killmead, but it's very possible that Janine Piro. If 731 00:55:35,795 --> 00:55:38,835 Speaker 1: I had to pick just one, Janine Piro would be 732 00:55:38,875 --> 00:55:42,075 Speaker 1: the person I chose to be the stupidest person ever 733 00:55:42,595 --> 00:55:46,075 Speaker 1: on Fox News. And I have dated people who worked 734 00:55:46,075 --> 00:55:54,235 Speaker 1: at Fox News. Janine Piro. Something adds to the veneer 735 00:55:54,395 --> 00:55:58,435 Speaker 1: of Janine's stupidity that is not there with say, Harris Faulkner, 736 00:55:59,195 --> 00:56:02,555 Speaker 1: who pretends to have some sort of veneer of sophistication. 737 00:56:03,515 --> 00:56:10,115 Speaker 1: Janine Piro resembles and sounds like every substitute teacher I 738 00:56:10,235 --> 00:56:14,395 Speaker 1: had in the fifth grade in the public schools of 739 00:56:14,395 --> 00:56:18,555 Speaker 1: Hastings on Hudson, New York. Okay, class, I'll be back 740 00:56:18,595 --> 00:56:23,075 Speaker 1: in a minute. I gotta go smoke. You'd sit. Don't 741 00:56:23,155 --> 00:56:29,995 Speaker 1: light the building on fia, Janine Piro. We found out 742 00:56:30,035 --> 00:56:33,355 Speaker 1: there are people who are between the ages of wine 743 00:56:33,395 --> 00:56:39,155 Speaker 1: and four who are getting Social Security Janine Piro said, 744 00:56:40,155 --> 00:56:44,395 Speaker 1: She was thereupon interrupted by Jessica Tarlov, the liberal on 745 00:56:44,595 --> 00:56:48,755 Speaker 1: the whichever the five, the outnumbered moron today, whatever the 746 00:56:48,835 --> 00:56:52,915 Speaker 1: show is called. Jessica Tarlov, who I can only assume 747 00:56:54,035 --> 00:57:00,475 Speaker 1: is either serving some sort of public service work release 748 00:57:00,595 --> 00:57:05,275 Speaker 1: program from some past crime, or perhaps is has been 749 00:57:05,315 --> 00:57:09,195 Speaker 1: sent here by some deity that is making her serve 750 00:57:09,235 --> 00:57:11,835 Speaker 1: out something that she did in a past life. It 751 00:57:11,915 --> 00:57:15,235 Speaker 1: must have been something really, really bad. She's the one 752 00:57:15,275 --> 00:57:19,195 Speaker 1: out there who has to somehow not turn around. When 753 00:57:19,275 --> 00:57:22,435 Speaker 1: Janine Piro says, we found out there are people who 754 00:57:22,435 --> 00:57:25,115 Speaker 1: are between the ages of want and faugh who are 755 00:57:25,155 --> 00:57:30,355 Speaker 1: getting Social Security and not ball up her fist and 756 00:57:30,395 --> 00:57:35,235 Speaker 1: give her a round house right to the jaw. Jessica 757 00:57:35,275 --> 00:57:38,795 Speaker 1: Tarlov does not do this. People always said, why do 758 00:57:38,875 --> 00:57:42,675 Speaker 1: you not have a Republican on your show, Keith? Why 759 00:57:42,675 --> 00:57:47,395 Speaker 1: do you not have a foil who can debate you 760 00:57:47,435 --> 00:57:50,755 Speaker 1: and point out when on occasion you are mistaken? Why 761 00:57:50,755 --> 00:57:54,715 Speaker 1: do you not do this? The answer is because eventually, 762 00:57:54,875 --> 00:57:57,715 Speaker 1: no matter how many years I might go through without it, 763 00:57:58,995 --> 00:58:04,315 Speaker 1: I would ball up my fist, or more likely I'd 764 00:58:04,315 --> 00:58:09,075 Speaker 1: simply throw some water or maybe the script or just 765 00:58:09,555 --> 00:58:12,675 Speaker 1: smack somebody with the script. Jessica Tarloff does not do 766 00:58:12,755 --> 00:58:15,635 Speaker 1: any of these things. It is to her great credit. 767 00:58:16,155 --> 00:58:19,355 Speaker 1: I admire her greatly. As much as I admire her 768 00:58:19,395 --> 00:58:23,235 Speaker 1: insight and her honesty, I admire more than anything else, 769 00:58:23,995 --> 00:58:30,155 Speaker 1: her ability to simply spew facts, to spit the fire 770 00:58:30,235 --> 00:58:35,995 Speaker 1: of truth at flammable risks. Like Janine Piro. We found 771 00:58:36,075 --> 00:58:38,115 Speaker 1: out there are people who are between the ages of 772 00:58:38,195 --> 00:58:43,875 Speaker 1: one and four who are getting suchal se gerrity. Jess Katarlov, 773 00:58:44,555 --> 00:58:52,915 Speaker 1: that's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead. Janine 774 00:58:52,915 --> 00:58:57,035 Speaker 1: Piro ignored that. Just talk right through it, never even 775 00:58:57,195 --> 00:59:01,555 Speaker 1: heard it. Because I'm just gonna guess here if she's 776 00:59:01,675 --> 00:59:03,555 Speaker 1: like those teachers that I had in the fifth grade, 777 00:59:03,755 --> 00:59:10,675 Speaker 1: because shardon nay, Janine, Page ten must be here somewhere. 778 00:59:10,835 --> 00:59:13,595 Speaker 1: Hold on, let me get page ten of my speech. 779 00:59:13,755 --> 00:59:16,715 Speaker 1: Do you have page ten? Page ten's got to be 780 00:59:16,795 --> 00:59:20,995 Speaker 1: here somewhere. Just hold up the news conference. I'll find 781 00:59:21,035 --> 00:59:26,315 Speaker 1: page ten. We'll get it done eventually. Piro two days 782 00:59:26,355 --> 01:00:02,595 Speaker 1: worse person in the world. I've done all the damage 783 01:00:02,635 --> 01:00:05,515 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. As I 784 01:00:05,635 --> 01:00:08,395 Speaker 1: mentioned a segment ago, I think the show's been a 785 01:00:08,435 --> 01:00:11,275 Speaker 1: little ragged today, possibly because three quarters of it has 786 01:00:11,315 --> 01:00:17,115 Speaker 1: been ad libbed, and I believe this will be the 787 01:00:17,155 --> 01:00:20,635 Speaker 1: only episode this week. I have mentioned that I am 788 01:00:20,675 --> 01:00:24,595 Speaker 1: on some heavy duty antibiotics for a digestive issue and 789 01:00:24,635 --> 01:00:30,395 Speaker 1: they are working well, really well. The problem is essentially gone. 790 01:00:30,875 --> 01:00:34,515 Speaker 1: And I don't know how many different presidential administrations that 791 01:00:34,555 --> 01:00:37,155 Speaker 1: problem has been there. That's how bad a problem this is. 792 01:00:37,875 --> 01:00:42,715 Speaker 1: That's gone well. However, the further along the drugs get, 793 01:00:43,435 --> 01:00:47,475 Speaker 1: the more side effects there are. The problem is essentially gone, 794 01:00:47,515 --> 01:00:51,195 Speaker 1: so is my stamina, my sleep schedule, occasionally my voice, 795 01:00:51,195 --> 01:00:54,195 Speaker 1: and as you could hear in worse persons, any self 796 01:00:54,195 --> 01:00:59,355 Speaker 1: restraint I might have whatsoever. So it's probably a good 797 01:00:59,355 --> 01:01:01,795 Speaker 1: idea if I don't do a second episode this week, 798 01:01:01,875 --> 01:01:03,875 Speaker 1: because who the hell knows what I would say that 799 01:01:05,635 --> 01:01:08,595 Speaker 1: I edited stuff out of the second segment, Thank you 800 01:01:08,715 --> 01:01:14,115 Speaker 1: very much anyway, if I can to be serious, although 801 01:01:14,115 --> 01:01:16,675 Speaker 1: I did do the edits, I'm going to skip Thursday's 802 01:01:16,715 --> 01:01:20,595 Speaker 1: episode if something changes or the news demands it, or 803 01:01:20,635 --> 01:01:21,915 Speaker 1: if I'm up in the middle of the night and 804 01:01:21,915 --> 01:01:24,795 Speaker 1: I just want to record forty five to sixty minutes 805 01:01:24,835 --> 01:01:29,835 Speaker 1: about Bill Maher or Stephen A. Smith, I'll do it. 806 01:01:29,915 --> 01:01:32,155 Speaker 1: I'll post something if there's a news bullet and I'll 807 01:01:32,155 --> 01:01:35,715 Speaker 1: post something even if it's five minutes. But otherwise I 808 01:01:35,795 --> 01:01:38,075 Speaker 1: need to actually just not do this for a week 809 01:01:38,315 --> 01:01:40,155 Speaker 1: or anything for a week if I can get away 810 01:01:40,195 --> 01:01:42,395 Speaker 1: with it. So don't be surprised if there is no 811 01:01:42,515 --> 01:01:45,915 Speaker 1: episode Thursday. I have to rest this voice. It may 812 01:01:45,995 --> 01:01:49,915 Speaker 1: sound wonderful and malifluous to you. It's a real strain 813 01:01:49,995 --> 01:01:53,635 Speaker 1: to get this out right now. Any who, enough about me? 814 01:01:53,875 --> 01:01:57,195 Speaker 1: What do you think about me? Brian Raine, John Phillip 815 01:01:57,235 --> 01:02:00,675 Speaker 1: Shanelle musical directors have Countdown Arrange produced and performed most 816 01:02:00,715 --> 01:02:04,275 Speaker 1: all of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 817 01:02:04,275 --> 01:02:06,555 Speaker 1: Mister was on the guitars, bass and drums, and it 818 01:02:06,595 --> 01:02:10,195 Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical 819 01:02:10,235 --> 01:02:13,795 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 820 01:02:14,675 --> 01:02:18,035 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, 821 01:02:18,155 --> 01:02:21,675 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other 822 01:02:21,795 --> 01:02:24,755 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 823 01:02:25,195 --> 01:02:28,435 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend John Dean. Everything else was, 824 01:02:28,515 --> 01:02:32,315 Speaker 1: as ever, my fault, you know, if there's no episode 825 01:02:32,355 --> 01:02:34,995 Speaker 1: on Thursday. It just occurred to me for the first time. 826 01:02:35,315 --> 01:02:39,675 Speaker 1: I'll have to ask Nancy Faust this by correspondence. Maybe 827 01:02:39,675 --> 01:02:42,555 Speaker 1: we could just put on forty five minutes of Nancy's 828 01:02:42,675 --> 01:02:46,315 Speaker 1: greatest recordings for this show, of which there is at 829 01:02:46,395 --> 01:02:50,155 Speaker 1: least a bank of forty five minutes. Quite seriously, most 830 01:02:50,155 --> 01:02:52,635 Speaker 1: of it less than a minute each, all of it marvelous. 831 01:02:52,835 --> 01:02:55,315 Speaker 1: You just put that on. Say hi, this is countdown. 832 01:02:55,315 --> 01:02:58,195 Speaker 1: This is Keith al Rumina. Now, oh Nancy, and just 833 01:02:58,195 --> 01:03:02,355 Speaker 1: play all the stuff I have in the file. It's 834 01:03:02,355 --> 01:03:08,555 Speaker 1: an idea, just joking around. That's countdown for today. Just 835 01:03:09,635 --> 01:03:12,235 Speaker 1: seventy eight days until the scheduled end of his lane 836 01:03:12,315 --> 01:03:16,315 Speaker 1: duck and lame brained term unless Musk removes him sooner 837 01:03:16,915 --> 01:03:20,875 Speaker 1: or the actuarial tables do remember impeach Trump. It will 838 01:03:20,915 --> 01:03:23,555 Speaker 1: not work now, it will win the Democrats the mid terms, 839 01:03:23,915 --> 01:03:28,875 Speaker 1: and I want polling on a presidential recall vote to 840 01:03:28,995 --> 01:03:34,275 Speaker 1: put pressure on the fourteen Republican senators and four Republican 841 01:03:34,675 --> 01:03:40,875 Speaker 1: representatives who could save our asses and by hour, I 842 01:03:41,035 --> 01:03:46,795 Speaker 1: maane the American nation. This is why I don't like 843 01:03:46,835 --> 01:03:51,675 Speaker 1: to add lub until next time. I'm Keith Olberman, good Morning, 844 01:03:51,875 --> 01:04:22,355 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, screw Bill Maher and good Luck. Countdown 845 01:04:22,395 --> 01:04:26,155 Speaker 1: with Keith Oldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 846 01:04:26,235 --> 01:04:31,195 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 847 01:04:31,235 --> 01:04:33,035 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.