Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
Speaker 1: director of Ice, Tom Hoeman that his boss, the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security, Christy Nome, must be arrested for contemptive court.
Speaker 1: It should be Trump being arrested for contemptive court, potentially
Speaker 1: for ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court. But we
Speaker 1: already know how the laws of this land have already
Speaker 1: been corrupted to protect the greatest criminal in our history.
Speaker 1: That it cannot be him will simply hasten the latest
Speaker 1: iteration of the constitutional crisis created by a lawless chief
Speaker 1: executive who still has the military behind him. We are
Speaker 1: headed for a flash point, perhaps as soon as today.
Speaker 1: To summarize, Trump believes he is God. But in the interim,
Speaker 1: it is time for US District Judge PAULA. Zennis to
Speaker 1: send this rogue government a message, a warning. In fact,
Speaker 1: it is well past time. Time was two days ago
Speaker 1: at five o'clock in the afternoon. Nome and Homan are
Speaker 1: now in contempt of that Judge's orders. In the case
Speaker 1: of the Nome Homan Ice abduction, the disappearing of a
Speaker 1: Maryland man already under the protection of the government of
Speaker 1: the United States Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They are in contempt
Speaker 1: of the orders, not of some judge, as the fascist
Speaker 1: idiot Stephen Miller and his brown Shirts call any representative
Speaker 1: actual law and order. They are in contempt of the
Speaker 1: laws of the United States of America. Is not some judge.
Speaker 1: They are in contempt of the nation, and they are
Speaker 1: on the verge of being in contempt of the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: This timeline, in its briefest form. Trump's death squads admitted
Speaker 1: they had seized and deported the wrong man to L. Salvador.
Speaker 1: Then they collectively made the shrug eboji, he's out of
Speaker 1: our hands. He's under the sovereign control of another nation.
Speaker 1: Too bad. In other words, we kidnap him, you keep
Speaker 1: them First. Judge Zennis ordered mister Abrego Garcia to be
Speaker 1: returned from L. Salvador, and the torture there gave a deadline.
Speaker 1: Government blew it off. They went to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: which ordered last Thursday that mister Abrago Garcia's release at
Speaker 1: least be facilitated by Trump's gangs. Judge Zennis ordered updates.
Speaker 1: The delicacy here was, you don't want to interfere with
Speaker 1: US foreign policy. It's irrelevant, but apparently it is in
Speaker 1: the books. And then came the first of two curveballs. Friday,
Speaker 1: President Ted Bundy. Trump told his hand picked stenographer reporters
Speaker 1: aboard Air Force one quote, if the Supreme Court said
Speaker 1: bring somebody back, I would do that. I respect the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I have great respect for the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: As usual, Trump showing his mental illness, saying something, then
Speaker 1: re ordering the same words and thinking he said something new.
Speaker 1: This erased his own lawyer's argument that this country could
Speaker 1: do nothing itself to bring this man back from l Salvador.
Speaker 1: Trump bluntly said, if ordered to buy the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: he would bring mister Abrego Garcia back, which necessarily means
Speaker 1: he and his thug government can bring him back. So
Speaker 1: when his lawyer simply said that same thing again, no
Speaker 1: we can't. He's l Salvadoran. Now only they said it
Speaker 1: louder on Saturday, they looked like championship idiots. Well, Trump
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna make that last. He rushed to make sure
Speaker 1: that if anybody's going to look like the championship idiot
Speaker 1: of this government here, it would be him. Quote looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing President Bukela of El Salvador on Monday.
Speaker 1: Our nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations
Speaker 1: and build a future of prosperity. President bucell has graciously
Speaker 1: accepted into his nation's custody some of the most violent
Speaker 1: alien enemies of the world, and in particular, the United States.
Speaker 1: These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador,
Speaker 1: a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up
Speaker 1: to President b and his government. They will never threaten
Speaker 1: or menace our citizens again unquote. The enemies of the world,
Speaker 1: in particular of the United States are Christynomme, Tom Holman,
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, and especially Donald Trump. In the flippant one
Speaker 1: point eighty contained in that post, Trump is either lying
Speaker 1: now or he was lying aboard Air Force one on
Speaker 1: Friday when he said he would obey a Supreme Court
Speaker 1: order to bring him back. Is the potential for an
Speaker 1: actual constitutional stalemate that could tear the country apart, not later,
Speaker 1: not in twenty twenty eight. Now, Trump has now corrected
Speaker 1: his original willingness to go along with the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: and in passive aggressive form, he has explained in that
Speaker 1: post that he has the right to seize anyone in
Speaker 1: this country, citizen or not, criminal or not accused or not,
Speaker 1: and not just expel them, but then to pretend that
Speaker 1: never mind jurisdiction. He can't even ask his co conspirator,
Speaker 1: this tinpot dictator, Bukake, to do him a solid and
Speaker 1: fix what might otherwise go into our history as a
Speaker 1: near fatal skid, out of which the nation and even
Speaker 1: Trump somehow steered. No. The likeliest outcome is, of course,
Speaker 1: that Trump's concierge, Supreme Court never does order him to
Speaker 1: return Abrego Garcia to his family, never says that in
Speaker 1: so many words, so Trump doesn't have to ignore their order.
Speaker 1: That's why you own the Supreme Court, why you pack
Speaker 1: it with lunatics who have ecstatic religious visions, or who drink,
Speaker 1: or who take bribes, so they can spend all of
Speaker 1: their time finding that fine line along which they do
Speaker 1: not destroy their own court and their own phony baloney jobs,
Speaker 1: but also don't challenge you in even the slightest, mildest way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. Because inside the White House, the crisis
Speaker 1: here is that this happened because somebody working for Trump
Speaker 1: admitted a mistake. We couldgo today, this expanding, burgeoning, unchecked immoral, incompetent,
Speaker 1: impaired terrorist government of President Ted Bundy Trump admitted it
Speaker 1: had completely screwed up and should not have seized this man,
Speaker 1: should not have sent him to a torture chamber in
Speaker 1: El Salvador. The government insisted it no longer had any
Speaker 1: influence on mister Abrago Garcia because El Salvador now has jurisdiction,
Speaker 1: but it also admitted it screwed up. The pirates working
Speaker 1: for Nome and Homan would only tell the court over
Speaker 1: the weekend that mister Abrigo Garcia is alive and secure
Speaker 1: under the quote sovereign domestic authority of El Salvador. Tough shit,
Speaker 1: Christy Nome, get on a plane and go get him,
Speaker 1: or you go to jail or Homan, go see your
Speaker 1: idiot boss and have him slap a tariff on L Salvador.
Speaker 1: Nome and Homan and their gestapo have not only refused
Speaker 1: to comply, but ignored the judge's deadline five pm two
Speaker 1: days ago to supply any information about how they will
Speaker 1: proceed to return their victim from L Salvador and why
Speaker 1: they have stalled. Even though this real life version of
Speaker 1: Kafka's the trial began a month ago Saturday, March twelfth,
Speaker 1: and Judge Zennis first ordered him released ten days ago.
Speaker 1: These arrogant fascist bastards, Homan and Gnome are in contempt
Speaker 1: of court, as is the DHS official Michael Kozak, who
Speaker 1: signed the evasion of Judge Zennis's order and submitted it
Speaker 1: to her on Saturday. They may all be in contempt
Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court. The entire Trump Gestapo. The number
Speaker 1: of violations of mister Abrago Garcia's writes they are responsible
Speaker 1: for is probably already in the dozens. Arrest them today.
Speaker 1: I don't care if they're freed in twenty minutes. Arrest
Speaker 1: them today. Put some fear into these people. To quote
Speaker 1: President Nixon, in a just America, only when a Brego
Speaker 1: Garcia is returned to his family and his pregnant wife
Speaker 1: and his autistic son, should Garden Nome be able to
Speaker 1: go home to a closet full of action adventure Barbie
Speaker 1: outfits and should home and go home to his presumably bottle,
Speaker 1: not before this has been going on for a month.
Speaker 1: A real life version of Kafka's The Trial, where the
Speaker 1: defendant is never told what he's charged with or by
Speaker 1: whom March twelfth, those who did this should spend a
Speaker 1: year in jail for every day a Brego Garcia has
Speaker 1: been brutalized in our name. Put Christy Noman Tom Holman
Speaker 1: in jail to day for contempt. They kidnapped this man
Speaker 1: based on fabricated, imaginary bullshit evidence that they will not produce.
Speaker 1: Trump's gangsters pulled him out of his car in an
Speaker 1: Ikea parking lot and disappeared him in front of his
Speaker 1: terrified five year old boy. They held him for three days,
Speaker 1: violated all of his rights, denied him legal representation, shifted
Speaker 1: him off to a hostile country run by power mad Latino.
Speaker 1: Trump didn't bother to tell his family what had happened
Speaker 1: to him, let him call his wife to say goodbye
Speaker 1: only three days later, let her find out where he
Speaker 1: was by seeing photos him days after that in the
Speaker 1: gulag in Al Salvador. She saw it on the news.
Speaker 1: The government of the United States, the real one, the
Speaker 1: legal one, the one with judges and laws and right
Speaker 1: and wrong, not this bullshitang of Trump bullies. Who I
Speaker 1: hope I live long enough to see one day on
Speaker 1: trial at the International Court of Justice at the Hague
Speaker 1: the real government of the United States. The laws ordered
Speaker 1: him released ten days ago, and it has not happened.
Speaker 1: And I want people to burn in hell for it.
Speaker 1: And this is a case in which the Trumpists admit
Speaker 1: they disappeared an innocent man and made an administrative error.
Speaker 1: How many others are there? That's the point, not how
Speaker 1: many others there are. The administrative error part is the
Speaker 1: real issue here, not the idea that these brutal, incompetent
Speaker 1: morons set up a system in which they had no
Speaker 1: emergency cord to pull when they eft up, in case
Speaker 1: they effed up and targeted a victim and not a purp.
Speaker 1: This is dragging on deliberately Christy Noman, Tom Holman and
Speaker 1: the gutless corporate lawyers who represent them in this administration,
Speaker 1: the most gutless lawyers, in which the terms gutless and
Speaker 1: corporate lawyers have become synonymous. They are dragging this on
Speaker 1: because they had to admit this was a mistake, and
Speaker 1: now they see an opportunity to exploit even that admission
Speaker 1: that they screwed up, to deliver the message passively but
Speaker 1: still aggressively, that even when they are wrong, they are
Speaker 1: still right, because even when they are wrong? What do
Speaker 1: you think you are going to be able to do
Speaker 1: about it? If they are going to ignore the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court or just the federal courts or the district courts,
Speaker 1: what do you think you are going to be able
Speaker 1: to do about it? Missus Abrago Garcia, what do you
Speaker 1: think you are going to be able to do about it?
Speaker 1: Judge Zinnis, what do you think you are going to
Speaker 1: be able to do about it? America? What do you
Speaker 1: think you are going to be able to do about it?
Speaker 1: Nicole Misharoni? Do you know who Nicole Mischaroni is? She
Speaker 1: is another potential victim of what Trump's worms will doubtless
Speaker 1: call an administrative error. In the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: this following email from a no reply address at Homeland
Speaker 1: Security Christy Garden, Nomes Secretary, appeared in Nicole Mischaroni's inbox
Speaker 1: for eleven, twenty twenty five notice of termination of parole.
Speaker 1: It is time for you to leave the United States.
Speaker 1: You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security
Speaker 1: paroled you into the United States for a limited period
Speaker 1: for soon to eight USC eleven eighty two D five
Speaker 1: A and eight CFR two one two point five e
Speaker 1: DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole
Speaker 1: unless it expires sooner. Your parole will terminate seven days
Speaker 1: from the date of this notice. If you do not
Speaker 1: depart the United States immediately, you will be subject to
Speaker 1: potential law enforcement actions, etc. Sent to Nicole Mischeroni. Nicole Mischeroni,
Speaker 1: who was born in Newton, Massachusetts, which is still in
Speaker 1: the United States unless Trump has ordered it traded for Greenland. Newton,
Speaker 1: Massa chosets. Nicole Mischceroni's family has been in the United
Speaker 1: States for four generations. She is an immigration lawyer. She
Speaker 1: posted the email on social media almost lightheartedly. She wrote,
Speaker 1: some personal news, The Department of Homeland Security has given
Speaker 1: me seven days to leave the US. Does anyone know
Speaker 1: if you can get Italian citizenship through great grandparents. Her assumption,
Speaker 1: the baseline assumption of those reacting in horror to that email,
Speaker 1: is still that this is a mistake, another administrative error,
Speaker 1: a slip of some sort, her name going into their
Speaker 1: system there among the brown shirts for disappearance instead of
Speaker 1: one of her clients. That was my first reaction. Ha ha,
Speaker 1: She's lucky. Trump only wants to deport her and not
Speaker 1: slap a terif on her. I no longer think this.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely plausible. They just screwed this up. They
Speaker 1: screw everything else up, and it's absolutely plausible. They screwed
Speaker 1: up the Kilmar Abrego case. Hell, they got Elon Musk
Speaker 1: working for them, and this brain damaged bully Tom Holman
Speaker 1: and Christy Nome, who by now has the exact identical
Speaker 1: molecular composition as an inflatable backyard swimming pool. Or these
Speaker 1: are mistakes made on purpose, doesn't matter either way. They
Speaker 1: want to leave you with the impression that not only
Speaker 1: are they rounding up a few actual criminals, along with
Speaker 1: thousands of people whose only crime was the mistaken belief
Speaker 1: that even Ted Bundy Trump's America was a good place,
Speaker 1: a better place, a place worth risking your life to
Speaker 1: get to. You know what our ancestors thought. Not only
Speaker 1: are they rounding up people who are guilty or might
Speaker 1: be guilty, they may just round up people who could
Speaker 1: not possibly be guilty, like Nicole Misheroni of the Newton Missaronies,
Speaker 1: or Keith Olberman of the Bronx Ulermans, or you, or,
Speaker 1: as it turns out, thousands of native born Americans and
Speaker 1: naturalized US citizens born in other places, and green card
Speaker 1: holders and people under the protection of the government as
Speaker 1: ordered in the courts, because sending them like Kilmar Abrego
Speaker 1: Garcia to a place like Al Salvador can or will
Speaker 1: get them killed. Thousands and thousands of administrative errors, thousands
Speaker 1: of conceivably maybe even likely, intentional errors to scare them
Speaker 1: and scare you. Keep your head down, don't make waves,
Speaker 1: Be like the television networks, be like the law firms,
Speaker 1: Be like Columbia University. To borrow the bully speak of
Speaker 1: the tariffs. Don't retaliate. You wouldn't want to be accidentally
Speaker 1: sent to El Salvador because your folder was next to
Speaker 1: some actual target. You wouldn't want to go to a
Speaker 1: rally or a protest. Your photo could winde up next
Speaker 1: to that of Machmod Khalil. Arrest Tom Holman and Christy
Speaker 1: Nome for contemptive court today. Maybe we will get lucky
Speaker 1: and their prison stay will get sucked into the phones
Speaker 1: of Mike Waltz and Elon Musk, and instead of one
Speaker 1: hour in the cleanest holding cell in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: They'll get disappeared to the Panama Canal I'm sorry, Christy,
Speaker 1: you know how it goes. That's another administrative error. I
Speaker 1: invoked the name Mackmood Khalil, and if he does not
Speaker 1: sound familiar to you, Mackmood Khalil can be removed from
Speaker 1: the United States even though he has broken no laws
Speaker 1: and the entirety of the case against him is that
Speaker 1: little shit. Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio who embellished a story
Speaker 1: about his own as a political refugee from Cuba at
Speaker 1: the two page memo that he promulgated, a two page
Speaker 1: memo that is worthy of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report,
Speaker 1: in which you can be arrested for pre crimes, in
Speaker 1: which they calculate you're going to do something bad, so
Speaker 1: they're going to arrest you. Now, a two page memo
Speaker 1: in which Rubio confirmed Khalil's pro Palestinian protests at Columbia
Speaker 1: University were quote otherwise lawful, but insisted that letting him
Speaker 1: stay here as outlined by you know the laws, would
Speaker 1: undermine quote US policy to combat anti Semitism around the
Speaker 1: world and in the United States. In addition to efforts
Speaker 1: to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the
Speaker 1: United States, condoning anti Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in
Speaker 1: the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy object.
Speaker 1: I got bad news for you, Marco, by that standard,
Speaker 1: by the anti Semitism standard, Trump, who his own wife
Speaker 1: said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches on a
Speaker 1: bedside table in their home. Trump needs to be expelled
Speaker 1: as a dangerous anti Semite before nightfall. And the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense and Vodka Pete Hegseth under whose Reich at
Speaker 1: the Pentagon. The Pentagon has thrown out Tony Morrison's books
Speaker 1: from the library at the Naval Academy, but it has
Speaker 1: kept at the Hegseth Naval Academy library the two copies
Speaker 1: they have there, of mind com under these same rules,
Speaker 1: Hegseth needs to be on a slow boat somewhere by
Speaker 1: the end of the week. We are moving into pre
Speaker 1: crimes and future crimes and thought crimes. And these the
Speaker 1: Khalil case, and in a tangential but real way, the
Speaker 1: kilmar Abrego and Nicole Misheroni cases too. They are harbingers
Speaker 1: of a Trumpian rock to not only break all the
Speaker 1: laws and all the morality in this country, and not
Speaker 1: only to criminalize dissent, but to try to scare you
Speaker 1: out of even thinking about dissenting. Trump doesn't just want
Speaker 1: Khalil out of Columbia. He hasn't just demanded Columbia under
Speaker 1: my old friend, Acting President Claire Shipman cow Tau to
Speaker 1: Trump's political demands. Trump wants legal control of Columbia University.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal reports Trump wants a consent decree,
Speaker 1: a consent to cree, a ruling giving a federal judge
Speaker 1: the legal authority to enforce whatever promises the spineless morons
Speaker 1: running that university made in order to not lose four
Speaker 1: hundred million in grants out of an endowment of fifteen billion.
Speaker 1: These words are not used in the Wall Street Journal story,
Speaker 1: but essentially the threat is clear, agree to our demands,
Speaker 1: agree to the consent decree, or we will blackmail you
Speaker 1: into it. You can challenge this decree in court, and
Speaker 1: every day you challenge this decree in court, we will
Speaker 1: find more federal funding to cancel. They only have fifteen
Speaker 1: billion dollars. How can we afford the loss of four
Speaker 1: hundred billion. They don't teach math at Columbia anymore, evidently,
Speaker 1: and if Columbia folds on this, and frankly, all Columbia
Speaker 1: has been doing for the last year is folding, I
Speaker 1: mean its administration and more importantly, its bored or making
Speaker 1: its infamously bad football team look like national champions. Others
Speaker 1: will follow. We've already seen Harvard cave and frankly, Cornell wobble.
Speaker 1: We are gradually moving towards the moment Columbia is already there,
Speaker 1: when the nation's campuses are such laboratories of cowardice, such
Speaker 1: greenhouses of spinelessness, where their only hope of survival may
Speaker 1: be the students on those campuses reading in extensively on
Speaker 1: how they all settled things like this in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 1: If a place like Columbia becomes nothing but a Trumpest
Speaker 1: factory under the control of a Trumpest judge and some
Speaker 1: kind of Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere, it is
Speaker 1: time for the students to and I mean this metaphorically,
Speaker 1: of course, it is time for the students to burn
Speaker 1: it all down. By the way, the acronym for my
Speaker 1: new hypothetical Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere would be
Speaker 1: douche elon Musk can be poster boy of that too.
Speaker 1: I am Musk, I am in charge of Boushe Douche
Speaker 1: is moving rapidly on all sides towards Orwell's thought crime.
Speaker 1: I think Khalil is an idiot, having seen similar protests
Speaker 1: to his in the streets of my own hometown. I
Speaker 1: cannot think of any group in my lifetime that has
Speaker 1: done more damage to its own cause than the pro
Speaker 1: Palestinian protesters in New York. If they planned to make
Speaker 1: themselves and their case look worse, they couldn't have done more.
Speaker 1: And he still must be defended or the nation is dead.
Speaker 1: He must still be defended because Trump literally wants one
Speaker 1: of his own former employees prosecuted for refusing to lie
Speaker 1: for him prosecuted. Chris Krebs was appointed ahead the Cybersecurity
Speaker 1: and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to address foreign threats, including
Speaker 1: against elections, October twenty twenty. He did his job, no threats,
Speaker 1: no tampering, no rigging. Now Trump has issued an executive
Speaker 1: order demanding the DOJ investigate Chris Krebs for criminality for
Speaker 1: not lying. Quote Crabs through CISA falsely and baselessly denied
Speaker 1: that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. I
Speaker 1: think that deserves to be read again. Crebs falsely and
Speaker 1: baselessly denied that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen.
Speaker 1: I hereby deny that the twenty twenty election was rigged
Speaker 1: and stolen. I hereby confirmed Donald Trump is crazy. And
Speaker 1: most of all, I hereby confirm donald Trump lost the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty election and trafficked with the Russians for the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election. False and baselessly denied that the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election was rigged and stolen. Does not get more
Speaker 1: orwellian than that. But of course the essence of Trump's
Speaker 1: bullshit is the man Trump appointed to make sure the
Speaker 1: election was legit said the election was legit. The election
Speaker 1: took place under the aegis of the Trump administration. Trump
Speaker 1: was president, then the election integrity was the responsibility of
Speaker 1: Trump and his administration. Trump's appointee, part of Trump's administration,
Speaker 1: found that nothing was rigged. So Trump once him prosecuted
Speaker 1: for saying that Trump administration handled the election honestly. Somewhere
Speaker 1: Orwell and Kafka are bidding for the rights to this story,
Speaker 1: and the story's not over. Ice again is the Home
Speaker 1: and Garden GNOME group whose leaders should be jailed for contempt,
Speaker 1: posted to x and Instagram that it would stop any
Speaker 1: ideas that tried to enter the US illegally. You heard me, yes,
Speaker 1: you that idea and the red Buick pull over. The
Speaker 1: posts were deleted per Rolling Stone, sent without proper approval,
Speaker 1: was the quote from the spokesman. The excuse was they
Speaker 1: meant not ideas, but intellectual property. That's a cover story.
Speaker 1: I will say it's an unexpectedly plausible one from this
Speaker 1: group of defective brains on high school dropouts. One and
Speaker 1: them things called again ideas you ever had one? No? No,
Speaker 1: what are you like? Or it's just another unintentional, intentional
Speaker 1: slip up, asked Mack MoU Khalil about the illegal entry
Speaker 1: of ideas temporal juxtaposition. A judge in Delaware rules in
Speaker 1: the dominion lawsuit against Newsmax for defamation, says the propaganda
Speaker 1: feed made false and defamatory statements against dominion. The judge
Speaker 1: said that another triumph for their lawyers, same lawyers as
Speaker 1: in the case against Fox seven hundred and eighty five
Speaker 1: million dollars, same lawyers, Sussman Godfrey. Later that day, Trump
Speaker 1: issued another executive order. He uses more of them than
Speaker 1: he uses toilet tissue, revoking security clearances and pulling federal
Speaker 1: contracts from Sussman Godfrey Stephen Miller quote, this firm is
Speaker 1: very involved in the election misconduct. Again a reminder the
Speaker 1: election misconduct. This worm Miller refers to is refusing to
Speaker 1: pretend there was election misconduct. They are now trying to
Speaker 1: prosecute the truth out of existence. The humorous relief is
Speaker 1: now the tariffs. When the lightest news of the day
Speaker 1: is the destruction of the world economy, we may be
Speaker 1: in a bad place. If you haven't noticed. The tariff
Speaker 1: effect on the bond market also drove mortgages up to
Speaker 1: seven point one percent. And I'm going to need to
Speaker 1: see Howard Lutnick's government id even in this government of
Speaker 1: the idiots, by the idiots, for the idiots. I am
Speaker 1: not convinced this guy is actually employed by Trump. It
Speaker 1: may be a very well constructed, complicated delusion on his part.
Speaker 1: First they had tariffs on everything, then they suspended the
Speaker 1: tariffs on the smartphones and the laptops cause Tim Apple.
Speaker 1: Then Lutnik went on This Week on ABC yesterday announced
Speaker 1: there will be new tariffs on smartphone and laptops. Also,
Speaker 1: remember Trump's little hint he's going to raise drug prices
Speaker 1: just cuz Lutnick. Semiconductors and pharmaceuticals will have a tariff
Speaker 1: model in order to encourage them to re sure the tariffs.
Speaker 1: Clap on, clap off, clap on, clap off the tariffs.
Speaker 1: I don't believe Lutnick really works there. In fact, I
Speaker 1: do not believe his name is really Lutnick. I think
Speaker 1: he's just Maury Kessler, the two pay salesman from Goodfellas.
Speaker 1: And Yes, of course, the tariffs and Trump's nine thirty
Speaker 1: seven AM post that day were market manipulation. CNN asked
Speaker 1: Representative Carlos Jimenez of Florida, this is a great time
Speaker 1: to buy. Is that market manipulation? Jimenez his answer a
Speaker 1: denial that he did not realize was actually a can
Speaker 1: Feshion quote. No, he said, actually, we had lunch with
Speaker 1: a major stockbroker from New York and we were talking
Speaker 1: to him about tariffs, and one of the things he
Speaker 1: said was it's time to buy. A Congressman, that's evidence
Speaker 1: of what you just denied. I'd like to amend my remarks.
Speaker 1: Consumer confidence craters down eleven percent this month fifty point eight.
Speaker 1: That's the second lowest reading since the University of Michigan
Speaker 1: started to do this in nineteen fifty two. It is
Speaker 1: lower than it was during the Great Recession. It is
Speaker 1: down thirty points since Trump was elected. In short, Americans
Speaker 1: felt better about buying stuff, felt better about our future.
Speaker 1: During the Cuban missile crisis, somebody sent fire to the
Speaker 1: official home of the governor of the fifth most populous
Speaker 1: state in the nation early Sunday morning, with him in
Speaker 1: it and his family significant damage. Family evacuated, nobody hurt.
Speaker 1: Twelve hours later, not a word from the President, from
Speaker 1: Attorney General Pam Blondie, from Homeland Security Secretary Garden, and
Speaker 1: nome nobody. Washington Post put the story low enough on
Speaker 1: its front page. I had to scroll down one whole
Speaker 1: page to find it. The New York Times required you
Speaker 1: to scroll down four screens. It was between the John
Speaker 1: Ham story and the story on fashion at the Master's
Speaker 1: Golf Tournament. It was three screens below the story about
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live's latest parade of the not at all funny. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't know the motive yet, we don't need to
Speaker 1: know the goddamned motive a governor's mansion was set on fire.
Speaker 1: China halts exports lead New York Times story is not
Speaker 1: as meaningful to this country's future as somebody trying to
Speaker 1: burn down a governor's home with him and his family
Speaker 1: in it. Motive you're waiting for. Motive that it happened
Speaker 1: is not enough. A coincidence in which a pyromaniac selected
Speaker 1: a random building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the governor just
Speaker 1: happened to be inside. That wouldn't be enough. And I
Speaker 1: haven't even mentioned it was Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: during passover. But we got this great story about John
Speaker 1: Ham's John Hamply. The Democratic Party is pushing back against
Speaker 1: all of this. Senator Schumer, the majority leader. Forgive me,
Speaker 1: the minority leader, forgive me the minority guy. Senator Schumer,
Speaker 1: forgive me. Chuck has a tweet Chuck Schumer Thursday quote.
Speaker 1: History will remember April ninth, twenty twenty five as America's
Speaker 1: actual liberation Day, the day that President Trump backed down
Speaker 1: from his ridiculous tariff fiasco. Oh, it's like a joke
Speaker 1: of some sort. You had a team working on this
Speaker 1: for Day Teams social Media seventy one consultants. Well, I
Speaker 1: think we should play off the actual Liberation Day now
Speaker 1: that the tariffs have been delayed. Is not funny, not insightful,
Speaker 1: not witty, not relevant, and, as it turned out, not
Speaker 1: factually accurate. Within an hour, it was all changed again.
Speaker 1: I am surprised by one thing. Chuck Schumer put out
Speaker 1: a tariff mocking Trump's Liberation Day. We hear at the
Speaker 1: New York Times. How is it We're not We're not
Speaker 1: putting a story about this on the front page. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm I'm I'm breaking all the rules here,
Speaker 1: But shouldn't this be higher than the than the than
Speaker 1: the John ham story. I'm sorry to track John hamm
Speaker 1: into this nice Man college classmate of the Last Line,
Speaker 1: producer of Countdown on MSNBC, Nikki nice Man. Good actor
Speaker 1: also of interest here. Bad actor Bill Maher provides a
Speaker 1: propaganda video for Trump, but of coorse he does his
Speaker 1: bosses want him to. What he doesn't realize is that
Speaker 1: all the nice things Trump did for him that he
Speaker 1: recited like a hostage in the video, all those things,
Speaker 1: all those things he praised Trump for, he already praised
Speaker 1: Trump for them ten years ago. You know how I
Speaker 1: know this because Bill told me on the air on
Speaker 1: his show how impressed he was in twenty sixteen with Trump,
Speaker 1: how he then felt betrayed by Trump. Bill, he's betraying
Speaker 1: you again right now, Bill, You're an idiot. That's next.
Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Stell
Speaker 1: ahead on this edition of Countdown. Does the show seem
Speaker 1: a little ragged to you? Seems a little ragged to me.
Speaker 1: I'll explain with an announcement about the future of this show.
Speaker 1: I mean, like the immediate future. Like this week first,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning
Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons
Speaker 1: in the world. There's so many of them. This week
Speaker 1: I had to do dedications and the induction of a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame member of the Worst Person's Pantheon. The
Speaker 1: dedication is to ABC's This Week, which actually put out
Speaker 1: this lineup yesterday. As the old joke goes, this was
Speaker 1: on TV right now. ABC's This Week Commerce Secretary Howard
Speaker 1: Lutnik Howard is an idiot. Not only that, but they
Speaker 1: don't tell Howard anything, so he always talks about things
Speaker 1: that were true or at least being sold six days ago.
Speaker 1: Howard is six days late. Their Senator Elizabeth Warren Fine.
Speaker 1: The other guests, Stephen A. Smith, Panel, Donna Brazil, Ranks Prebus,
Speaker 1: who was one of the Republican fascists who started all this.
Speaker 1: Rachel bade of Politico, and there's plenty I could say
Speaker 1: about her, but the worst I could think of is
Speaker 1: of Politico. And Sarah Isger, who works for ABC News
Speaker 1: and pretends to be neutral when she is in fact
Speaker 1: a conservative jackass. Somehow, in booking a panel Ton forsil
Speaker 1: Reine's previous Rachel Bade Sarah Isger with Stephen A. Smith
Speaker 1: as your expert, they managed to not book wile E. Coyote,
Speaker 1: Professor Irwin Corey, and Max Effing Headroom. Please somebody tells
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith he needs to do some homework. Steven
Speaker 1: spent his time ranting about how if any Republican supports
Speaker 1: Trump running for a third term, he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: hear them talk about the Constitution. Ever, again, Stephen doesn't
Speaker 1: get it. Stephen hasn't been paying attention. Steven doesn't know
Speaker 1: what he's talking about. The Republicans have been talking about
Speaker 1: Trump running for a third term, actively publicly in what
Speaker 1: counts for their version of intellectual journals, since twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: and they mean it, and they will do it, and
Speaker 1: they will pervert the Constitution to achieve it. They are
Speaker 1: working on it now. The point at which you say,
Speaker 1: don't talk to me about it again, or I never
Speaker 1: want to hear you talk about the Constitution was like
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. You are not Steve arguing about the Minnesota
Speaker 1: freaking timberwolves with that half wit Christopher Russo on ESPN.
Speaker 1: Here these people are out to take your vote, your vote,
Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith's vote away from you, and to deport
Speaker 1: any of your friends who were not born here. Get
Speaker 1: serious about this, or stop wasting everybody's time. You might
Speaker 1: as well be telling the Republicans they need to be
Speaker 1: better citizens. They have long since burned that vote Stephen
Speaker 1: A and the governor's mansion. I'm not objecting in the
Speaker 1: slightest to sportscasters talking politics or converting to becoming political
Speaker 1: commentators or political figures. I'm the last person on earth
Speaker 1: to say that, but walk in with twenty twenty five information.
Speaker 1: Don't come in here arguing nineteen seventy four to me,
Speaker 1: Jesus make us all look bad. I mean, a two
Speaker 1: week training program and you could be up to date
Speaker 1: at least and not say stupid things like that. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear them talk about the Constitution ever.
Speaker 1: They don't care about the Constitution. The Constitution is there
Speaker 1: for them to twist it and warp it and send
Speaker 1: it through the Supreme Court they own. That's already made
Speaker 1: shit up. Like presidential immunity, which is nowhere in the Constitution,
Speaker 1: is nowhere in any of the federalists papers, is nowhere
Speaker 1: in anything resembling a document from the founding of this nation.
Speaker 1: No founding father believed in presidential immunity. Of them, if
Speaker 1: you could find one, the answer to that would be, okay,
Speaker 1: one of them did. Out of the two or three
Speaker 1: hundred people who made the Constitution what it is today.
Speaker 1: Don't talk to me about the God. Don't talk to
Speaker 1: me about Republicans not talking about the Constitution they think
Speaker 1: they own it. Don't talk to me about Don't talk
Speaker 1: to me about the Constitution. This is literally a topic
Speaker 1: they got passed in the twentieth century. The Republicans can
Speaker 1: rationalize anything, Steven, you are behind the curve here. Take
Speaker 1: a two week course and figure it out. As I said,
Speaker 1: we also have a worse Person's Hall of Famer to announce.
Speaker 1: This is from last Wednesday, so I'm sure you saw
Speaker 1: it or heard it already. It's a little old, so
Speaker 1: I'm not putting it in the list, but yes, this
Speaker 1: is true. Linda McMahon, missus wrestling the Secretary of Education
Speaker 1: so stupid she used to be married to Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: selected a Secretary of Education because she doesn't have one
Speaker 1: and thus doesn't understand why it's not okay to eliminate
Speaker 1: education going forward or the Department of Education. But she
Speaker 1: has proved she's just right for the Trump administration. If
Speaker 1: everybody who's been appointed to a cabinet position is there
Speaker 1: to destroy the United States of America, they got their
Speaker 1: dame right here. Linda McMahon is the greatest Secretary of
Speaker 1: Education of all time. She will make sure that she
Speaker 1: snamps out education in this country better than anybody else
Speaker 1: possibly could. At an event, she twice referred to the
Speaker 1: future of artificial intelligence in schools by calling artificial intelligence
Speaker 1: a one, as in Steak Sauce, a one. Well, we
Speaker 1: need more a one. Where would a one be it?
Speaker 1: This puts her in the worst person's mispronunciation of numbers
Speaker 1: exhibit next to Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, who is
Speaker 1: an obgyn who still thinks the terrorist attack from two
Speaker 1: thousand and one is called nine to eleven if only
Speaker 1: we'd had a one on nine to eleven. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, the Steak Sauce people are delighted by this. Finally,
Speaker 1: to the nominees for Today's Worst Person's Awards, the Bronze Worse,
Speaker 1: Bill Maher. I know I've been talking about my college
Speaker 1: classmate a lot recently. I would make him worse persons again,
Speaker 1: But first off your board of that. Secondly, I'm bored
Speaker 1: of that. Thirdly, Bill is shrinking so rapidly into obscurity
Speaker 1: that I wonder by the time I got through two
Speaker 1: other stories before telling his, I wonder if anybody would
Speaker 1: still remember who he was. As you know, at the
Speaker 1: insistence of Bill's new friend, Kid Rock, who maybe the
Speaker 1: first person Bill's ever considered a friend who had better
Speaker 1: morals than Bill does. Kid Rock took him to the
Speaker 1: White House to meet Trump, and Bill came out of
Speaker 1: it fully cool, aidd Everything I'm not liked about him was,
Speaker 1: I swear to God absent, at least on this night.
Speaker 1: With this guy. I never felt I had to walk
Speaker 1: on eggshells around him. And honestly I voted for Clinton
Speaker 1: and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to
Speaker 1: them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Make of it what you will. What I make of
Speaker 1: it is, Bill, you're going senile. You are forgetting that.
Speaker 1: You said more or less that exact same thing in
Speaker 1: the year twenty sixteen. I know this because it was
Speaker 1: during a conversation you and I had on your show
Speaker 1: about Trump, about how extraordinary it was that the Trump
Speaker 1: we had met was this generous, all about you talk
Speaker 1: about anything, gracious guy. And then he came out and
Speaker 1: started talking about basically wanting to kill all the Hispanics.
Speaker 1: We couldn't figure out this disparity, I said, we don't
Speaker 1: have to figure it out. There are two Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: who are both absolutely plausible and convincing, and we can't
Speaker 1: have a president who has more than one personality. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you said you felt he had deceived you. Guess what,
Speaker 1: Bill he had And guess what the other day at
Speaker 1: the White House he deceived you again. You know why,
Speaker 1: because you're gullible, because you want to be he flattered,
Speaker 1: because that's all he does. Because he found your button
Speaker 1: and he pushed it and pushed it and pushed it,
Speaker 1: and he got you to put out quotes that they
Speaker 1: have now used, and got you to put out a
Speaker 1: monologue on your dying show on television, which they have
Speaker 1: used to sell the idea that he is a good
Speaker 1: president and a good person. They are using you. Bill.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, somebody's watching your video. You're a
Speaker 1: moron now And I know that. As I say that,
Speaker 1: mar added millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. The only
Speaker 1: sphincter around here, Bill is Bill Maher, and you have
Speaker 1: long since ceased to be liberal. I've had so many
Speaker 1: conversations with prominent people who are much less connected, people
Speaker 1: that don't look you in the eye, people that don't
Speaker 1: really listen because they just want to get to their
Speaker 1: next thing, people who's respired. What's the things you say?
Speaker 1: Just doesn't track none of that with him. Bill, He's
Speaker 1: a narcissistic sociopath, possibly a narcissistic psychopath. Bill, he's Ted Bundy,
Speaker 1: He's President Ted Bundy Trump. This is what he does.
Speaker 1: He uses people. He looks them in the eye, he
Speaker 1: figures out what it is they're most susceptible to and
Speaker 1: does it to them. And then they think he's just
Speaker 1: wonderful and he's theirs, and that the real Trump is
Speaker 1: the one they saw, not the one who is bundling
Speaker 1: Americans off the streets and sending them to torture chambers
Speaker 1: in El Salvador or stochastically encouraging terrorism inside the United
Speaker 1: States against his political opponents. People that don't look you
Speaker 1: in the eye. He looks you in the eye and
Speaker 1: tells you he had a copy of Hitler's speech is
Speaker 1: on his nightstand in nineteen ninety. People that don't really
Speaker 1: listen because they just want to get to their next thing.
Speaker 1: Next thing is subverting the Constitution and serving a third
Speaker 1: term and then claiming we don't need any more elections
Speaker 1: because he's doing a great job. People whose response to
Speaker 1: things you say just doesn't track none of that with him. No,
Speaker 1: they're putting out press releases saying he's healthy, and the
Speaker 1: evidence of being healthy is that he won another one
Speaker 1: of his golf tournaments at his course where he's allowed
Speaker 1: to cheat. Bill, he used you again somehow nine years ago.
Speaker 1: You figured it out. Since then you've forgotten. Stop forgetting.
Speaker 1: You have some small remaining responsibility here. Use that, not
Speaker 1: that Bill Maher wasn't seeking to be used. I may
Speaker 1: be guilty of overthinking this whole thing. Bill Maher works
Speaker 1: now for the same fascists at Warner Bros. Discovery, led
Speaker 1: by this guy David Zaslav, who took over and corrupted CNN.
Speaker 1: They let the people who would collaborate with them, who
Speaker 1: would appease Trump, people like Jake Tapper, they let them
Speaker 1: stay and fired everybody else. They said, to hell with
Speaker 1: the ratings. We're not in it for the money. We're
Speaker 1: here to neutralize and neoter CNN, And we're here to
Speaker 1: neutralize and neoter what had been a boring but rather
Speaker 1: reliably liberal show every Friday night on HBO. I want
Speaker 1: to know what they're going to try to do to
Speaker 1: John Oliver. But John Oliver is made of something. I
Speaker 1: have known Bill Mars since nineteen seventy eight, and he
Speaker 1: was a shameless, self interested opportunist with no real principles
Speaker 1: then and he's gone downhill since then. This may not
Speaker 1: have been the primary motive for what he did, which
Speaker 1: is to provide the Trump camp with promotional material, with propaganda,
Speaker 1: with propaganda video. This may not have been his primary goal,
Speaker 1: but it was maybe his secondary goal. He did this
Speaker 1: so he can keep his show on HBO. And if
Speaker 1: there's no HBO show, there are no Bill Maher stand
Speaker 1: up specials, there are no Bill Maher events anywhere. There's
Speaker 1: nobody in the audience cheering for Bill Maher. I've been
Speaker 1: in front of that audience. It's intoxicating. They have a
Speaker 1: nice room that creates a nice bounce. What's probably three
Speaker 1: hundred people sounds like three thousand. You get addicted to
Speaker 1: that pretty quickly. Then you remember it's three hundred people.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to stop talking about Bill Maher
Speaker 1: now our runner up worser Trump. CBS News reports that
Speaker 1: on March third, the cell phone of retired Lieutenant General H. R.
Speaker 1: McMaster rang used to work for the White House. He
Speaker 1: was the National Security Advisor for the first thirteen months
Speaker 1: of the first Trump Reich, so, needless to say, he
Speaker 1: was surprised when the voice on the other side said
Speaker 1: it's the White House calling for you. I assume he
Speaker 1: said something like which White House? Our White House. A
Speaker 1: day earlier, on March second, Trump had in fact insulted
Speaker 1: Hr McMaster lasted him on social media as a weak
Speaker 1: and totally ineffective loser. McMaster had just appeared on CBS
Speaker 1: on sixty Minutes. He had voiced skepticism about the Trump
Speaker 1: overture towards Putin and Putin's supposed willingness to end the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine, which Trump believed, does not apparently believe now,
Speaker 1: but may soon resume believing when he needs to change
Speaker 1: the subject again. Anyway, the phone according to CBS with
Speaker 1: their sources, I think we can guess who the source
Speaker 1: was who could recount the phone call. The phone call
Speaker 1: began with Trump saying Henry, Henry is how Trump opened
Speaker 1: the call before launching into the conversation. According to two
Speaker 1: sources who were not authorized to discuss private conversations, the
Speaker 1: former National Security advisor, mister McMaster interrupted, Uh, mister President,
Speaker 1: this is hr McMaster. Trump then asked, dismissively, why the
Speaker 1: f would I talk to hi McMaster, and then Trump
Speaker 1: launched into a scathing critique of his former aid. Two
Speaker 1: sources said. According to CBS, the call was brief. The
Speaker 1: explanation for this is because the White House is really
Speaker 1: good and this administration is really good at screwing up
Speaker 1: elemental communications like signal chats and phone calls. He was
Speaker 1: trying to reach the former governor, Henry McMaster, and they
Speaker 1: presumably would be in the rolodex at the White House,
Speaker 1: the electronic equivalent of a rolodex Henry mcmallory with McMaster Kama,
Speaker 1: Henry McMaster comma hr. Perhaps, since he only hires idiots,
Speaker 1: let's look at the Press secretary as an example of this.
Speaker 1: Since he only hires idiots, let's look at the Attorney
Speaker 1: General Blondie for a moment. Since he only hires idiots.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the person thought hr McMaster and Henry McMaster were
Speaker 1: the same person. In any event, this was not some
Speaker 1: fifth dimensional chess in which Trump got to call up
Speaker 1: hr McMaster and abuse him. He doesn't have the guts
Speaker 1: to do that. The last line of the CBS report
Speaker 1: is the best one here. Quote the call was brief,
Speaker 1: as is our winner. Judge Janine Piro, former very brief
Speaker 1: senator orio candidate from New York. One of the hosts
Speaker 1: of Fox News, and although it is an extraordinary competition
Speaker 1: and each day is like watching the finals of some
Speaker 1: Olympic event, day after day after day, every day since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, Janine Piro is possibly. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: Jesse Waters there, the other people on in the morning,
Speaker 1: Brian Killmead, but it's very possible that Janine Piro. If
Speaker 1: I had to pick just one, Janine Piro would be
Speaker 1: the person I chose to be the stupidest person ever
Speaker 1: on Fox News. And I have dated people who worked
Speaker 1: at Fox News. Janine Piro. Something adds to the veneer
Speaker 1: of Janine's stupidity that is not there with say, Harris Faulkner,
Speaker 1: who pretends to have some sort of veneer of sophistication.
Speaker 1: Janine Piro resembles and sounds like every substitute teacher I
Speaker 1: had in the fifth grade in the public schools of
Speaker 1: Hastings on Hudson, New York. Okay, class, I'll be back
Speaker 1: in a minute. I gotta go smoke. You'd sit. Don't
Speaker 1: light the building on fia, Janine Piro. We found out
Speaker 1: there are people who are between the ages of wine
Speaker 1: and four who are getting Social Security Janine Piro said,
Speaker 1: She was thereupon interrupted by Jessica Tarlov, the liberal on
Speaker 1: the whichever the five, the outnumbered moron today, whatever the
Speaker 1: show is called. Jessica Tarlov, who I can only assume
Speaker 1: is either serving some sort of public service work release
Speaker 1: program from some past crime, or perhaps is has been
Speaker 1: sent here by some deity that is making her serve
Speaker 1: out something that she did in a past life. It
Speaker 1: must have been something really, really bad. She's the one
Speaker 1: out there who has to somehow not turn around. When
Speaker 1: Janine Piro says, we found out there are people who
Speaker 1: are between the ages of want and faugh who are
Speaker 1: getting Social Security and not ball up her fist and
Speaker 1: give her a round house right to the jaw. Jessica
Speaker 1: Tarlov does not do this. People always said, why do
Speaker 1: you not have a Republican on your show, Keith? Why
Speaker 1: do you not have a foil who can debate you
Speaker 1: and point out when on occasion you are mistaken? Why
Speaker 1: do you not do this? The answer is because eventually,
Speaker 1: no matter how many years I might go through without it,
Speaker 1: I would ball up my fist, or more likely I'd
Speaker 1: simply throw some water or maybe the script or just
Speaker 1: smack somebody with the script. Jessica Tarloff does not do
Speaker 1: any of these things. It is to her great credit.
Speaker 1: I admire her greatly. As much as I admire her
Speaker 1: insight and her honesty, I admire more than anything else,
Speaker 1: her ability to simply spew facts, to spit the fire
Speaker 1: of truth at flammable risks. Like Janine Piro. We found
Speaker 1: out there are people who are between the ages of
Speaker 1: one and four who are getting suchal se gerrity. Jess Katarlov,
Speaker 1: that's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead. Janine
Speaker 1: Piro ignored that. Just talk right through it, never even
Speaker 1: heard it. Because I'm just gonna guess here if she's
Speaker 1: like those teachers that I had in the fifth grade,
Speaker 1: because shardon nay, Janine, Page ten must be here somewhere.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me get page ten of my speech.
Speaker 1: Do you have page ten? Page ten's got to be
Speaker 1: here somewhere. Just hold up the news conference. I'll find
Speaker 1: page ten. We'll get it done eventually. Piro two days
Speaker 1: worse person in the world. I've done all the damage
Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. As I
Speaker 1: mentioned a segment ago, I think the show's been a
Speaker 1: little ragged today, possibly because three quarters of it has
Speaker 1: been ad libbed, and I believe this will be the
Speaker 1: only episode this week. I have mentioned that I am
Speaker 1: on some heavy duty antibiotics for a digestive issue and
Speaker 1: they are working well, really well. The problem is essentially gone.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how many different presidential administrations that
Speaker 1: problem has been there. That's how bad a problem this is.
Speaker 1: That's gone well. However, the further along the drugs get,
Speaker 1: the more side effects there are. The problem is essentially gone,
Speaker 1: so is my stamina, my sleep schedule, occasionally my voice,
Speaker 1: and as you could hear in worse persons, any self
Speaker 1: restraint I might have whatsoever. So it's probably a good
Speaker 1: idea if I don't do a second episode this week,
Speaker 1: because who the hell knows what I would say that
Speaker 1: I edited stuff out of the second segment, Thank you
Speaker 1: very much anyway, if I can to be serious, although
Speaker 1: I did do the edits, I'm going to skip Thursday's
Speaker 1: episode if something changes or the news demands it, or
Speaker 1: if I'm up in the middle of the night and
Speaker 1: I just want to record forty five to sixty minutes
Speaker 1: about Bill Maher or Stephen A. Smith, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: I'll post something if there's a news bullet and I'll
Speaker 1: post something even if it's five minutes. But otherwise I
Speaker 1: need to actually just not do this for a week
Speaker 1: or anything for a week if I can get away
Speaker 1: with it. So don't be surprised if there is no
Speaker 1: episode Thursday. I have to rest this voice. It may
Speaker 1: sound wonderful and malifluous to you. It's a real strain
Speaker 1: to get this out right now. Any who, enough about me?
Speaker 1: What do you think about me? Brian Raine, John Phillip
Speaker 1: Shanelle musical directors have Countdown Arrange produced and performed most
Speaker 1: all of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards.
Speaker 1: Mister was on the guitars, bass and drums, and it
Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical
Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.
Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two,
Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other
Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.
Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend John Dean. Everything else was,
Speaker 1: as ever, my fault, you know, if there's no episode
Speaker 1: on Thursday. It just occurred to me for the first time.
Speaker 1: I'll have to ask Nancy Faust this by correspondence. Maybe
Speaker 1: we could just put on forty five minutes of Nancy's
Speaker 1: greatest recordings for this show, of which there is at
Speaker 1: least a bank of forty five minutes. Quite seriously, most
Speaker 1: of it less than a minute each, all of it marvelous.
Speaker 1: You just put that on. Say hi, this is countdown.
Speaker 1: This is Keith al Rumina. Now, oh Nancy, and just
Speaker 1: play all the stuff I have in the file. It's
Speaker 1: an idea, just joking around. That's countdown for today. Just
Speaker 1: seventy eight days until the scheduled end of his lane
Speaker 1: duck and lame brained term unless Musk removes him sooner
Speaker 1: or the actuarial tables do remember impeach Trump. It will
Speaker 1: not work now, it will win the Democrats the mid terms,
Speaker 1: and I want polling on a presidential recall vote to
Speaker 1: put pressure on the fourteen Republican senators and four Republican
Speaker 1: representatives who could save our asses and by hour, I
Speaker 1: maane the American nation. This is why I don't like
Speaker 1: to add lub until next time. I'm Keith Olberman, good Morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, screw Bill Maher and good Luck. Countdown
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