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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This

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Speaker 1: is Countdown for Wednesday, January twenty fourth, twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: day nine of Donald J. Trump's dementia crisis. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe Nikki Haley blew that six nothing lead she had

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Speaker 1: in Dixville, notch. I can believe though, that Trump, bright, orange,

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Speaker 1: glossy and sweating at his petty victory speech did not

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Speaker 1: do as well as he needed to, as well as

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Speaker 1: his cult needed him to, as well as they expected

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Speaker 1: him to, because ten minutes after the polls closed in

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire last night, Marjorie Taylor Barney Rubbell Green was

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Speaker 1: on one of the fascist propaganda channels claiming the vote

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Speaker 1: had been rigged against Trump, even though he had clearly

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Speaker 1: won by a lot. And I know she's insane, but

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Speaker 1: so is he, and so are they. Trump himself, who

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Speaker 1: will never be accused of being gracious in victory, was

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Speaker 1: clearly more angry than triumphant, and at times he seemed

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Speaker 1: even more angry with the microphone that would not move

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Speaker 1: when he tried to adjust it than he was even

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Speaker 1: at Nikki Haley. And he was plenty angry at Nikki Haley.

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Speaker 2: Who the hell was the impostor that went up on

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Speaker 2: the stage before and like claimed a victory.

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Speaker 3: She did very poorly. Actually she had to win.

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Speaker 2: The governor said she's gonna win, she's gonna win, She's

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Speaker 2: gonna win.

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Speaker 3: Then she failed badly.

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Speaker 1: Still dementia. Jay Trump was so true to himself last night, cranky, vindictive, small,

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Speaker 1: full of easily refuted factual lives to cover up the

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Speaker 1: reality that he lost to Hampshire in two consecutive presidential elections.

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Speaker 1: Just petty. He complained for a while, and then he

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Speaker 1: had his creepy new Renfield Viviq Ramaswami get up and

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Speaker 1: in soell America's intelligence for another minute or so. And

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Speaker 1: then Trump got back up and basically turned his stochastic

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Speaker 1: terrorist gun in the direction of Nicki Haley, muted this

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Speaker 1: time with a third party involved to carry out the threat.

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Speaker 1: But muted or not, this was still a threat against

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Speaker 1: Nicki Haley.

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Speaker 3: And just a little note to Nicki.

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Speaker 2: She's not going to win, but if she did, she

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Speaker 2: would be under investigation by those people in fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: And I could tell you five reasons why already not

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Speaker 2: big reasons.

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Speaker 3: A little stuff that she doesn't want to talk about.

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Speaker 2: But she will be under investigation within minutes, and so

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Speaker 2: would Ron have been.

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Speaker 3: But he decided to get out. He decided to get out.

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Speaker 1: What an asshole. Anyway. Haley has vowed to stay in

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Speaker 1: this race, even though she will not do as well

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Speaker 1: in her own state of South Carolina as she did

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Speaker 1: in New Hampshire, and even though Trump will clearly have

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Speaker 1: done slightly better against the field than he did against

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Speaker 1: the field in Iowa, and more or less he will

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Speaker 1: hit everybody's expectations, but I guess his own with fifty

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Speaker 1: seven percent or more. Haley has also hung two albatrosses

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Speaker 1: around her own neck. You cannot say, as she did,

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Speaker 1: we almost got half the votes and not have that

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Speaker 1: shouted at you every day for the next month, even

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Speaker 1: if the context of that performance makes almost half the

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Speaker 1: votes more impressive than it might initially sound. Her second

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Speaker 1: problem is more symbolic. If you cannot do very well

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Speaker 1: in a state that has the same initials as you do,

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Speaker 1: you have a problem. The overall issue, underscored time and

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Speaker 1: time again within the Republican Party for the last thirty years,

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Speaker 1: is that political office is no longer attracting as many

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Speaker 1: quality human beings as it used to And when I

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Speaker 1: say quality human beings, I mean non felons and non idiots.

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Speaker 1: Trump is a felon, Haley is an idiot, DeSantis is

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Speaker 1: an idiot, Ramaswami is two idiots, and Tim Scott is

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Speaker 1: three idiots. There is also probably little to be gleaned

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Speaker 1: were not registered Republicans, and so the exits were far

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Speaker 1: too optimistic for our purposes. Anyway, forty four percent voting

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Speaker 1: is unfit for the presidency, But probably more than half

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Speaker 1: of that forty four percent are not registered Republicans, and

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Speaker 1: the registered Republicans went for Trump by about three quarters.

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Speaker 1: As to the general election, of course, three quarters. If

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Speaker 1: would win in a landslide. There was one interesting exit

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Speaker 1: poll number. Eight percent of Hailey supporters say they would

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Speaker 1: be dissatisfied if Trump wins the nomination, and dissatisfied is

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Speaker 1: not automatically the same as I will never vote for him,

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Speaker 1: but that is still a huge number eighty eight percent,

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Speaker 1: And even if all the registered Republicans were in the

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Speaker 1: You've still got a large enough number of dissatisfied Republicans

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Speaker 1: that if the number were repeated nationally, it would sink

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Speaker 1: If forty five percent, forty percent of Republicans are dissatisfied

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Speaker 1: with Trump as the nominee, it would sink Trump. There

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Speaker 1: wasn't actually a Democratic primary in Hampshire last night, and

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Speaker 1: Biden wasn't even on the beauty pageant ballot that they

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Speaker 1: about sixty eight percent terrifically impressive. Dean Phillips got most

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Speaker 1: of the rest, and he managed to be ungracious in defeat,

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Speaker 1: I believe the technical term for what he's been doing

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Speaker 1: lately is hallucinating, except perhaps when he reversed his statement

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Speaker 1: from Tuesday that he would consider running as the no

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Speaker 1: labels candidate. If he had done that, he would have

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Speaker 1: had to have entered a witness relocation program. As always,

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Speaker 1: a primary sucks the oxygen right out of the political room.

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Speaker 1: And that is too bad because there actually was a

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Speaker 1: huge nuts and bolts presidential race news story yesterday and

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Speaker 1: it got buried. Susquehanna Polling and Research not the best,

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Speaker 1: but pretty good in Pennsylvania even when it has seemed

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Speaker 1: like an outlier. Susquehanna Polling and Research did a week

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Speaker 1: long poll ending Sunday on the presidential race. It has

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Speaker 1: Biden winning in Pennsylvania forty seven to thirty nine. Polls

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Speaker 1: show Biden up in Pennsylvania, but like by one. As

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Speaker 1: John Harwood wrote, and he was the first reporter fired

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Speaker 1: by the right wing regime when it took over CNN,

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Speaker 1: small c conservative. John Harwood wrote yesterday, quote, we're in

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Speaker 1: early stages of massive analytics shift from Biden's in big

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Speaker 1: trouble to Trump's in big trouble. I think he's right.

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Speaker 1: I think this is just the start. And now Dementia

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Speaker 1: watch twenty twenty four. Thank you, Nancy Faust. Apart from

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Speaker 1: the stuff on the ground in New Hampshire yesterday, Several

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Speaker 1: other cries for help have emerged from the hellscape of

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Speaker 1: Trump's addled brain. Most disturbing among them, he reposted an

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Speaker 1: AI image supplied by a cultist of him praying in

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Speaker 1: a church. How do we know it's Ai, Well, he's

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Speaker 1: praying in a church. But the dementia part of it is.

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Speaker 1: This man who is obsessed with his own image reposted

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Speaker 1: clearly afflicted with the so far unsalvable bugaboo of AI.

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Speaker 1: Bonus fingers in the picture which is about Trump praying

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Speaker 1: two thumbs. Sure, put it out, they'll never know the difference.

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Speaker 1: Not long after, Trump posted all caps, I get much

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Speaker 1: better poll numbers against Biden. And of course he spelled

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Speaker 1: pole wrong pol e as in stripper pole. And of

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Speaker 1: course he did. He's a moron. He didn't go to school.

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Speaker 1: Dad bought him a series of diplomas. It's not his

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Speaker 1: stupidity he's always had that. It's his decreasing ability to

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Speaker 1: check just in case somebody does notice how stupid he is.

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Speaker 1: How do you bring these nicky Hailey goods, someone who

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Speaker 1: has voted for you in twenty twenty but said they

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Speaker 1: don't want you now.

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Speaker 3: Vote, How do you bring them back into the ticket.

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Speaker 3: All vote for me again? You can all vote for

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Speaker 3: me again, everybody. And I'm not sure we need too many.

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Speaker 1: That was Londonderry, New Hampshire, about one thirty yesterday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: where firs He said all of Haley's voters would vote

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Speaker 1: stupid thing even for Trump to say, given that forty

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Speaker 1: three percent of Haley's voters in Iowa said they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: Leaning independence nationally, fourteen percent of them say they won't

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Speaker 1: and Democratic leaners who say they won't vote for President Biden.

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Speaker 1: Trump would need every vote he could get, and just

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Speaker 1: as Haley was willing to question Trump's mental state, so

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Speaker 1: is her leading advocate from New Hampshire Governor Chris Sanunu

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Speaker 1: Trump has no energy, he said at least twice. The

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Speaker 1: guy can barely read a teleprompter right now on quote

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Speaker 1: why governor whatever do you mean?

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Speaker 4: Which is incapable of solving even the solst smallest problem,

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Speaker 4: the simplest of problems, we can no longer solve.

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Speaker 3: We can't do anything. We are an institute and a

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Speaker 3: powerful death penalty.

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Speaker 1: We will put this on incapable of solvent. You say

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Speaker 1: we are an institute, Uh huh in a powered death penalty.

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Speaker 1: First rule of teleprompter club is pre read the goddamned

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Speaker 1: script moron. Second rule of teleprompter club is never use

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Speaker 1: the third person.

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Speaker 3: Yes, oh, yes, and quickly says President Trump. We will

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Speaker 3: be there very quickly.

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Speaker 1: And the first rule of campaign club is never write

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Speaker 1: your opponent's commercials for him. I have told you before

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Speaker 1: of the reported Biden campaign belief that they want Trump

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Speaker 1: to wrap up the nomination quickly, because the campaign's research

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Speaker 1: indicates that three out of four undecided voters still really

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Speaker 1: can't or won't believe Trump will be the Republican nominee,

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Speaker 1: and when he is, that will produce what Biden campaign

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Speaker 1: staffer is quaintly characterized as the quote, oh, shit moment

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Speaker 1: and then a huge swing towards Biden. Don't write Biden's

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Speaker 1: ads for him. Example number one. If you don't want

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Speaker 1: to be connected to the lunatic fringe cult called QAnon,

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Speaker 1: shouts out their nonsensical slogan, and especially don't follow it

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Speaker 1: traders of January sixth will and don't write Biden's ads

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Speaker 1: for him. Example number two. If you are not mentally well,

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Speaker 1: or if you want people to disbelieve the mounting evidence

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Speaker 3: And they calmly walk to a seat bing ding ding

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Speaker 3: ding ding ding.

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Speaker 4: They've only got seventeen seconds to figure this whole thing

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Speaker 4: out right, bomb okay, Misi launch phin pom six eye.

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Speaker 3: Free.

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Speaker 5: Why these are the stakes?

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Speaker 3: Bing ding ding ding ding ding Misi launch phin pom.

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Speaker 1: We must either love each other or we must die.

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Speaker 1: Vote for President Biden on November fifth. The stakes are

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Speaker 1: too high for you to stay home in stuff that

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Speaker 1: is neither dementia or New Hampshire if you're wondering where

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Speaker 1: the Republican impeachment theater went a huge blow yesterday at

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Speaker 1: a House oversight Chairman Congressman Jamie comb Over last week,

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Speaker 1: the attorney for Kevin Morris, one of the Hunter Biden

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Speaker 1: witnesses Comber deposed in private, demanded that Comer immediately release

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Speaker 1: the full transcript of the deposition and said that Comber

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Speaker 1: had lied about what Morris had said. The lawyer used

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Speaker 1: the word mischaracterized, He meant the word lied. Now some

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Speaker 1: of the transcripts of the depositions have come out, selected

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Speaker 1: by Republicans on the Committee, and in them two of

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's friends have testified under oath that they never

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Speaker 1: story of a man who was drowning in a river

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Speaker 1: one man train over a trestle over that river saw him,

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Speaker 1: then saw a work train coming on in the opposite

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Speaker 1: direction on the other track, scribbled a note about the

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Speaker 1: drowning man, rolled it up into the ball, and threw

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Speaker 1: it into the window of the passing train engine. The

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Speaker 1: engineer read the note, stopped the train at the trestle,

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Speaker 1: and they saved the drowning man. It is an extraordinary story.

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Speaker 1: I do not do it justice, and I certainly do

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Speaker 1: not do justice. How Charles Osgood told that story. My

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Speaker 1: heart only stopped racing about five minutes after he signed off.

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Speaker 1: The only time in my life I have ever written

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Speaker 1: to anybody in this business asking for a copy of

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Speaker 1: their script, it was to Charles Osgood for that Idaho story.

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Speaker 1: I still have the copy somewhere. Osgood did at least

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Speaker 1: one book of his scripts called the osgood Files. If

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Speaker 1: you want to learn how to write for stuff that's

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Speaker 1: going to be read aloud, get it. Fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: maybe I bumped into him at a corner deli in

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Speaker 1: my neighborhood. I introduced myself. I told him about that

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Speaker 1: story nineteen eighty one. He said, goodness. I got to

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Speaker 1: tell him. That's how good he was at what he did.

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Speaker 1: He then said goodbye, as he used to on all

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Speaker 1: of his television appearances. See you on the radio. Charles

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Speaker 1: Osgoode was ninety one years old, still ahead on countdown.

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Speaker 1: Since I am about to mention somebody from MSNBC as

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Speaker 1: the worst person in the world spoiler alert, why not

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Speaker 1: also tell you about the day I ran into somebody

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Speaker 1: else from there who could win that honor? The guy who,

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Speaker 1: while my father was dying, filled in for me on

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Speaker 1: the network, and while he did so, he tried to

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Speaker 1: get me fired. He tried to take over my show,

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Speaker 1: and when that failed, he tried to rustle all my

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Speaker 1: producers to go work for him on his own show.

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Speaker 1: Who could it be? Coming up? In Things I promised

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Speaker 1: not to tell? First time For the daily roundup of

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Speaker 1: the Miscreants, Morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens, who constitute

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Speaker 1: two days worst persons in the world except for that

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Speaker 1: one guy Lebrons worse Mayor Eric Adams of New York City.

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Speaker 1: The tone deafness.

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Speaker 3: It hurts.

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Speaker 1: This is a tiny thing, but so is Eric Adams.

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Speaker 1: New York's City Council scheduled a press conference in the

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Speaker 1: did not authorize it. The city council was going to

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Speaker 1: do something that went against Mayor Adams's ego. So his

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Speaker 1: staffers went down to where they were setting up the

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Speaker 1: chairs that were being placed for the press and the

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Speaker 1: council members, And of course they got themselves recorded on

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Speaker 1: video doing so, looking like petty, childish amateurs. And that's

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Speaker 1: probably unfair to the staffers because we all know that

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Speaker 1: the petty childish amateur in City Hall in New York

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Speaker 1: is the mayor. The runners up worser Chaia Rachick, the

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Speaker 1: libs of TikTok Witch, whereas Harvard's Alejandro Carrabaio calls her

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Speaker 1: terrorist Chaia Rachick and Oklahoma Superintendent of Schools Ryan Walters

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Speaker 1: in August, Raychick targeted a Tulsa elementary school librarian because

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Speaker 1: because she's one of the worst persons in the world.

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Speaker 1: That's why she targeted the other woman. The school received

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Speaker 1: at least half a dozen bomb threats because Raychick is

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Speaker 1: supported by the kind of coward slug lunatics who do

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Speaker 1: that stuff now writing, no one has done more to

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Speaker 1: expose what the radical left is all about, porn in schools,

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Speaker 1: woken doctrination. This fascist school superintendent Walter As named her

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Speaker 1: to the Oklahoma State School Library Media Advisory Committee. I

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Speaker 1: say this every time, and I mean it because the

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Speaker 1: fascists are not going to stop voluntarily, and you're not

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Speaker 1: going to vote them out, and you're not going to

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Speaker 1: get the Supreme Court to stop them, not in Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: you're not the Only way to beat them is to

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Speaker 1: break them. And the only way to break them is

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Speaker 1: for every employer outside of Oklahoma and every college and

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Speaker 1: junior college and grad school outside of Oklahoma to state

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Speaker 1: simply that an Oklahoma high school diploma is not sufficient

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Speaker 1: to get a job or to get admission to a

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Speaker 1: college outside Oklahoma. In other words, the states that are

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Speaker 1: trying to turn public education into fascism factories, or to

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Speaker 1: destroy it outright. They have to be quarantined, blockaded. But

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Speaker 1: our winner the worst, worse even than that, Joey Scars,

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Speaker 1: MSNBC's hot and cold double faucet of running fraud. It's fake,

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Speaker 1: non conservative. The man who mainstreamed Trump on the network,

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Speaker 1: the man who wanted to be Trump's vice president, the

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Speaker 1: man who now pretends like that never happened. The man

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Speaker 1: who broke up his co host's marriage, the man who

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Speaker 1: wants carried water for Newt Gingrich, the single biggest scumbag

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Speaker 1: I have ever worked with, Joe fing Scarborough. Remember when

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Speaker 1: MSNBC fired the host of its top weekend show, No No, No,

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Speaker 1: not Meydi Hassan. The one before that, Tiffany Cross. She's

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Speaker 1: finally gone public with what happened. Tiffany Cross said she

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Speaker 1: had an on air argument over race with oh who

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Speaker 1: knows Joe Scarborough a racist? Or, as she calls him

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Speaker 1: on her new podcast, Joe Scarborough MSNBC's favorite white boy.

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Speaker 1: I guess he's favorite. There's nobody whiter. And after that, Scarborough,

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Speaker 1: she says, did everything he could to undermine her and

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Speaker 1: keep her from getting her own show and then get

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Speaker 1: her own show canceled.

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Speaker 3: Quote.

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Speaker 1: There's an unspoken rule that you're not supposed to disagree

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Speaker 1: with Joe, and I didn't get the memo. You may

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Speaker 1: remember once at a convention, I once said after Joe,

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Speaker 1: throughout standard Republican talking points, that he should go get

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Speaker 1: a shovel. He was so shocked that I actually said

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Speaker 1: that about him on the air. It was an accident.

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Speaker 1: My mic wasn't supposed to be open. I was glad

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Speaker 1: it was open. I apologized to him for saying it

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Speaker 1: on the air. It was true. Joe Scarborough shovels shit

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Speaker 1: every day anyway. I know the feeling that miss Cross

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Speaker 1: is having here. Scarborough sabotaged my show when he could,

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Speaker 1: and Madows and then Lawrence O'Donnell's, and he basically sabotaged

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Speaker 1: every show he did not control. He had something never

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Speaker 1: found out what on the previous MSNBC president, Phil Griffin,

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Speaker 1: who got fired two years ago, and he used it

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Speaker 1: against Griffin. He got some of my guests canceled, he

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Speaker 1: got some of them banished from the network. He had

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Speaker 1: his staffers trying to find out our upcoming guest bookings

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Speaker 1: on countdown so he could steal the guests, or screw

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Speaker 1: up the scheduling, or threaten them that if they went

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Speaker 1: on my show, they couldn't go on his show. After

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Speaker 1: he attacked me once on Twitter, a violation of MSNBC

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Speaker 1: rules that was supposed to result in an automatic suspension,

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Speaker 1: Scarborough threatened the president, Phil Griffin, and me and my

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Speaker 1: agent and my producer that if he was suspended, as

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Speaker 1: the rule said, he would tell everybody I got him

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Speaker 1: suspended because he was a conservative and I secretly ran

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Speaker 1: the place. Tiffany Cross also said that her other fatal

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Speaker 1: mistake was not criticizing Trump enough. That may sound like

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Speaker 1: a paradox, but she wanted to talk a host of

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Speaker 1: issues not related directly to the presidential race or the

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Speaker 1: Trump crises, and MSNBC told her to cut it out

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Speaker 1: and just do what they said, which is what they

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Speaker 1: did to me in nineteen ninety eight when I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about something other than Clinton Lewinsky. Cross also

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Speaker 1: said after Tucker Carlson accused her of trying to start

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Speaker 1: a genocide against American white people, No, we don't want

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Speaker 1: to kill all white people, Tucker, just one's named Tucker.

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Speaker 1: The network didn't even issue a statement in support of her,

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Speaker 1: and after it fired her, it planted as many bad

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Speaker 1: stories about her as it could. That is the NBC

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Speaker 1: Playbook and the Scarborough Playbook, and Scarborough has long run

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Speaker 1: roughshot over official management there, which is why MSNBC has

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Speaker 1: sunk into mediocrity in a time when events should have

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Speaker 1: given it a monopoly. It has done so because of

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Speaker 1: three words, Joe Scarborough's ego. So thank you Tiffany Cross

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Speaker 1: for reminding us Joe Scarborough two days and every days

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Speaker 1: worst first in and let he got to get up

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Speaker 1: at two o'clock or morning now to the number one

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Speaker 1: story on the countdown on my favorite topic, me and

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Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell. Early on the afternoon

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Speaker 1: of Monday May twenty third, twenty sixteen, I bounced out

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Speaker 1: of my New York City apartment building, began to walk

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Speaker 1: past the tourist trap brunch spot in the lobby, and

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Speaker 1: froze there at one of the cramped outdoor tables staring

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Speaker 1: my own staring down at him in blank surprise. Was

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Speaker 1: Laurence O'Donnell. I decided to go silly, hey, get out

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Speaker 1: of my house. He laughed. I laughed. It didn't seem forced.

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Speaker 1: He introduced me to his companion, his daughter. This, my

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Speaker 1: dear is Keith ol Rman. Keith started us all at MSNBC,

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Speaker 1: and then he left. And here Lawrence gave one of

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Speaker 1: his long pauses, and we crashed it. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: be generous, I started to politely contradict him, and I

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Speaker 1: just couldn't do it. Yeah, pretty much anyway, About thirty

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Speaker 1: seconds of courteous nothingness followed, and I wish the O'Donnell's well,

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Speaker 1: and then I left. It was the most pleasant experience

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Speaker 1: I ever had with Lawrence O'Donnell. In fact, it might

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Speaker 1: have been the only pleasant experience I ever had with

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Speaker 1: Lawrence O'Donnell. After I finally convinced and bullied and blackmailed

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Speaker 1: MSNBC management into letting Rachel Meadow become the regular guest

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Speaker 1: host for my show, and she aced it and then

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Speaker 1: rightly got her own show, and she aced that and

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Speaker 1: became a star. I went looking for a new guest host.

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Speaker 1: My first idea was a frequent guest we had named

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Speaker 1: Chris Hayes. I didn't get far had its own idea,

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Speaker 1: and my input was not required they wanted former Vermont

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Speaker 1: governor and Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean. And Howard is

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Speaker 1: a really smart guy and great on TV. But Howard

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Speaker 1: had a bit of a teleprompter problem. One of my

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Speaker 1: producers swears that Howard once read good Evening. I'm Howard Dean,

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Speaker 1: former governor of Vermont. This is countdown. I do know.

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Speaker 1: Whatever he did on the air, it was bad enough

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Speaker 1: that one week when I was off and at the

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Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, and a

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Speaker 1: baseball news story broke and he was filling in for me.

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Speaker 1: My producers called me there and asked me to come

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Speaker 1: on from the streets of Cooperstown and be a guest

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Speaker 1: on my own show, just to help Howard Dean out. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Their next idea was a guy who had been kicking

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Speaker 1: around MSNBC since its founding in nineteen ninety six. Lawrence

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Speaker 1: O'Donnell was one of the original MSNBC Friends, The MSNBC

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Speaker 1: Friends political pundits who sat on clear stools at a

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Speaker 1: clear table or in a set designed to look like

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Speaker 1: a booth at a coffee shop. No, I'm not making

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Speaker 1: this up. Among the friends were and Colter and Laura Ingram,

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Speaker 1: if you can believe it, once or twice an hour,

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Speaker 1: the rather CNN like all news coverage on MSNBC in

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Speaker 1: its first couple of years, would pause and three or

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Speaker 1: more of these friends would appear, chew over the MSNBC

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Speaker 1: headlines and then disappear. Lawrence O'Donnell was one of the friends.

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Speaker 1: It was as bad as it sounds. Then Lawrence o'donald

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Speaker 1: pretty much disappeared. You would see him on MSNBC as

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Speaker 1: a guest every once in a while, but mostly he

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Speaker 1: pursued his acting and producing career. He played President Bartlett's

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Speaker 1: father on the West Wing, the one who beat him.

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Speaker 1: Throughout college, Lawrence was very convince and then around two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight, we started getting pressure to bring him

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Speaker 1: in as a guest on Countdown, like once a week

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Speaker 1: or twice a week. I was not sure what that

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Speaker 1: was all about, but he had been a Senate staffer

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Speaker 1: and he knew the healthcare debate and other wonky stuff

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Speaker 1: pretty well, so I gave my assent for whatever that

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Speaker 1: was worth. Not long after that, Lawrence came into my office.

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00:43:27,355 --> 00:43:29,915
Speaker 1: He really needed my support, he said, to get him

641
00:43:29,955 --> 00:43:32,835
Speaker 1: more involved in MSNBC. He knew I had gone to

642
00:43:32,915 --> 00:43:36,315
Speaker 1: bat for Rachel, and before her, I'd gone to bat

643
00:43:36,395 --> 00:43:39,075
Speaker 1: for Tom Brokaw, and for people like Chuck Todd and

644
00:43:39,155 --> 00:43:41,835
Speaker 1: Chris Hayes and others who are now getting steady incomes

645
00:43:41,875 --> 00:43:45,875
Speaker 1: from NBC. I don't remember his argument on his own behalf.

646
00:43:45,915 --> 00:43:48,115
Speaker 1: I do remember I didn't have much of a reason

647
00:43:48,195 --> 00:43:50,555
Speaker 1: to say no, and he wasn't asking me to do

648
00:43:50,675 --> 00:43:54,035
Speaker 1: a lot, so I said yes. The next thing I knew,

649
00:43:54,515 --> 00:43:57,235
Speaker 1: I was reading a memo announcing that Lawrence O'Donnell had

650
00:43:57,235 --> 00:44:00,235
Speaker 1: been appointed as the new full time guest host of Countdown.

651
00:44:01,875 --> 00:44:04,035
Speaker 1: This was in the winter of two thousand and nine,

652
00:44:04,955 --> 00:44:07,675
Speaker 1: when my late dad was fighting so valiantly to stay

653
00:44:07,675 --> 00:44:11,195
Speaker 1: alive after colon cancer and more importantly, a series of infections.

654
00:44:11,995 --> 00:44:15,475
Speaker 1: Dad had the immune system of an alien. The average

655
00:44:15,515 --> 00:44:17,955
Speaker 1: white cell count in a healthy adult is between four

656
00:44:18,035 --> 00:44:21,355
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven thousand. One night, Dad's was at thirty

657
00:44:21,555 --> 00:44:24,835
Speaker 1: three thousand, and the doctors told me to prepare to

658
00:44:24,995 --> 00:44:27,995
Speaker 1: make the call to let him go. They had one

659
00:44:28,155 --> 00:44:31,635
Speaker 1: antibiotic left to try on him. The next morning, Dad's

660
00:44:31,675 --> 00:44:34,395
Speaker 1: white cell count, which had been thirty three thousand, was

661
00:44:35,155 --> 00:44:41,595
Speaker 1: eight thousand. Onward he fought. Unfortunately, he was eighty years

662
00:44:41,635 --> 00:44:45,515
Speaker 1: old and he had not exercised since Harry Truman was president,

663
00:44:46,035 --> 00:44:49,515
Speaker 1: and eventually he ran out of Houdini tricks. I had

664
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Speaker 1: been visiting him twice a day for six months while

665
00:44:52,155 --> 00:44:55,435
Speaker 1: still doing Countdown and the NBC Sunday Night Football Show.

666
00:44:55,475 --> 00:44:58,795
Speaker 1: But now, as it hit late February of twenty ten,

667
00:44:59,355 --> 00:45:02,395
Speaker 1: his bright days became fewer and farther in between, and

668
00:45:02,515 --> 00:45:04,875
Speaker 1: the hope that was propelling me to keep being his

669
00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:08,755
Speaker 1: full time caregiver and Countdown's full time host both began

670
00:45:08,835 --> 00:45:11,875
Speaker 1: to fade. In the last two weeks of my dad's life,

671
00:45:11,915 --> 00:45:14,435
Speaker 1: as the doctors tried all the long shot things, I

672
00:45:14,595 --> 00:45:19,315
Speaker 1: asked MSNBC for a leave of absence. Finally the inevitability

673
00:45:19,395 --> 00:45:23,155
Speaker 1: became inarguable, and we let Dad go. On Saturday, March thirteenth,

674
00:45:23,195 --> 00:45:26,715
Speaker 1: twenty ten. My sister held his hand and I read

675
00:45:26,795 --> 00:45:29,115
Speaker 1: him his favorite Thurber story, and as soon as I

676
00:45:29,195 --> 00:45:33,075
Speaker 1: finished it, he exhaled deeply and peacefully, and he died.

677
00:45:34,155 --> 00:45:38,955
Speaker 1: I think I took another week off, maybe two, and

678
00:45:39,115 --> 00:45:42,395
Speaker 1: I vaguely recall emails from friends at Countdown that I

679
00:45:42,515 --> 00:45:45,595
Speaker 1: may have paid passing attention to but I really didn't.

680
00:45:46,635 --> 00:45:49,395
Speaker 1: Most of the staff, including people who came up from Washington,

681
00:45:50,035 --> 00:45:53,435
Speaker 1: like Howard Feynman or Gene Robinson of the Washington Post,

682
00:45:54,155 --> 00:45:57,835
Speaker 1: always friends to me. They attended my dad's memorial service.

683
00:45:58,475 --> 00:46:01,635
Speaker 1: I believe Lawrence o'donald, who was of course filling in

684
00:46:01,755 --> 00:46:03,795
Speaker 1: for me on Countdown, was there, too, but maybe not,

685
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Speaker 1: I do not remember. And then came the day when

686
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Speaker 1: I went back to the office full time and my

687
00:46:09,475 --> 00:46:14,235
Speaker 1: assistant grabbed me both hands on my wrist. You did

688
00:46:14,315 --> 00:46:16,955
Speaker 1: not answer my emails, she said, with a fervency she

689
00:46:17,155 --> 00:46:21,075
Speaker 1: rarely exhibited. For God's sake, do not ever leave me

690
00:46:21,195 --> 00:46:25,435
Speaker 1: alone with Lawrence O'Donnell again, I snapped back to attention.

691
00:46:25,955 --> 00:46:30,755
Speaker 1: Had he, you know, bothered her? Not that way, she said,

692
00:46:30,955 --> 00:46:32,955
Speaker 1: But he's a son of a bitch. He treats me

693
00:46:32,995 --> 00:46:34,795
Speaker 1: and everybody who was in a producer here like dirt.

694
00:46:35,235 --> 00:46:37,395
Speaker 1: And since you didn't read my emails, I just have

695
00:46:37,515 --> 00:46:39,555
Speaker 1: to tell you this. He's trying to get you fired

696
00:46:39,875 --> 00:46:42,075
Speaker 1: so he can take over Countdown. And if you think

697
00:46:42,155 --> 00:46:44,555
Speaker 1: he's nuts, one of your senior producers is in on

698
00:46:44,675 --> 00:46:49,555
Speaker 1: it too with him. I have to admit, even now,

699
00:46:50,075 --> 00:46:52,395
Speaker 1: of all the things I went through at that very

700
00:46:52,755 --> 00:46:59,355
Speaker 1: very strange place MSNBC. Even now, this story still shocks me.

701
00:47:00,755 --> 00:47:03,515
Speaker 1: The senior producers of Countdown consisted of a guy who'd

702
00:47:03,555 --> 00:47:08,115
Speaker 1: been a producer who booked satellite transmissions for MSNBC until

703
00:47:08,235 --> 00:47:11,795
Speaker 1: I asked that he'd be promoted, and one was a

704
00:47:11,875 --> 00:47:14,315
Speaker 1: guest booker for the daytime shows until I asked that

705
00:47:14,435 --> 00:47:17,715
Speaker 1: she be promoted. Another was a line producer who was

706
00:47:17,755 --> 00:47:20,155
Speaker 1: well regarded only for his ability to time a show

707
00:47:20,475 --> 00:47:23,355
Speaker 1: until I asked for him to be promoted. And then

708
00:47:23,395 --> 00:47:24,915
Speaker 1: there was the old friend of mine who had been

709
00:47:24,955 --> 00:47:27,875
Speaker 1: blown out of ESPN in a sexual harassment porn link

710
00:47:27,955 --> 00:47:30,875
Speaker 1: email scandal and was headed back to college to start

711
00:47:30,915 --> 00:47:33,915
Speaker 1: his career all over again until I asked that he'd

712
00:47:33,955 --> 00:47:38,035
Speaker 1: be hired and then promoted. I did some digging and

713
00:47:38,075 --> 00:47:40,195
Speaker 1: I was going to confront O'Donnell about it when somebody

714
00:47:40,275 --> 00:47:42,715
Speaker 1: told me he had tweeted something negative about me and

715
00:47:42,875 --> 00:47:45,035
Speaker 1: about Countdown. So I got a hold of him and

716
00:47:45,115 --> 00:47:46,955
Speaker 1: I said, this did not seem to be in keeping

717
00:47:47,315 --> 00:47:50,995
Speaker 1: with MSNBC traditions and rules, you know, the ones about

718
00:47:51,075 --> 00:47:53,515
Speaker 1: not peeing inside the tent. And he said, what do

719
00:47:53,595 --> 00:47:57,475
Speaker 1: you know about MSNBC? Traditions. I've been here since nineteen

720
00:47:57,555 --> 00:48:02,315
Speaker 1: ninety six. I never left and came back. So I

721
00:48:02,435 --> 00:48:04,475
Speaker 1: went to my boss, the president of the network field,

722
00:48:04,995 --> 00:48:07,515
Speaker 1: the one who would not hire Rachel Maddow, And before

723
00:48:07,555 --> 00:48:09,075
Speaker 1: I could say they'd have to get rid of him,

724
00:48:09,115 --> 00:48:11,715
Speaker 1: Griffin said it was all academic. They were preparing the

725
00:48:11,795 --> 00:48:14,515
Speaker 1: press release as we spoke for Lawrence's new show at

726
00:48:14,555 --> 00:48:18,355
Speaker 1: ten o'clock called The Last Word, and oh, by the way, Keith,

727
00:48:18,435 --> 00:48:20,435
Speaker 1: two of your senior producers are going with him to

728
00:48:20,515 --> 00:48:25,275
Speaker 1: run his show. If this sounds vaguely familiar to you,

729
00:48:25,515 --> 00:48:28,995
Speaker 1: it is the plot of the pilot for the old

730
00:48:29,155 --> 00:48:33,755
Speaker 1: Aaron Sorkin HBO series Newsroom. I was still friendly with

731
00:48:33,875 --> 00:48:37,555
Speaker 1: Aaron then, so he actually asked. As I related this

732
00:48:37,715 --> 00:48:40,675
Speaker 1: to him in real time in emails and phone calls,

733
00:48:40,795 --> 00:48:42,915
Speaker 1: he asked if he could use it in the plot,

734
00:48:43,075 --> 00:48:45,995
Speaker 1: rather than just what he often did, which was to

735
00:48:46,115 --> 00:48:50,035
Speaker 1: use it without asking. The problem was none of this

736
00:48:50,195 --> 00:48:52,995
Speaker 1: made any sense in the real world, although it made

737
00:48:52,995 --> 00:48:55,875
Speaker 1: a pretty good pilot for Aaron Sorkin in going into

738
00:48:55,915 --> 00:48:59,235
Speaker 1: the ten PM slot, Lawrence O'Donnell would be replacing a

739
00:48:59,475 --> 00:49:03,155
Speaker 1: rerun of Countdown, and even if O'Donnell did much better

740
00:49:03,195 --> 00:49:05,995
Speaker 1: in the ratings, much much better. There was no way

741
00:49:06,715 --> 00:49:09,115
Speaker 1: it could ever make enough money to make the move

742
00:49:09,275 --> 00:49:15,515
Speaker 1: make sense. O'Donnell's new show would necessarily cost MSNBC between

743
00:49:15,555 --> 00:49:19,115
Speaker 1: ten and fifteen million dollars to produce every year. Didn't

744
00:49:19,115 --> 00:49:20,875
Speaker 1: have anything to do with him. That was the cost.

745
00:49:21,635 --> 00:49:26,395
Speaker 1: The Countdown rerun cost, not ten fifteen million dollars a year.

746
00:49:26,875 --> 00:49:29,355
Speaker 1: It count however much they paid the guy who pushed

747
00:49:29,395 --> 00:49:32,515
Speaker 1: the play button that fired up the videotape of the

748
00:49:32,595 --> 00:49:41,755
Speaker 1: Countdown replay amortized. Later that day, a sympathetic NBC executive

749
00:49:41,755 --> 00:49:44,195
Speaker 1: called me up and explained the move to me. First,

750
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Speaker 1: Griffin was convinced O'Donnell was about to leave us and

751
00:49:47,875 --> 00:49:51,715
Speaker 1: sign with CNN. I said, well, that's a good idea

752
00:49:51,835 --> 00:49:56,235
Speaker 1: for everybody involved except CNN. Turned out CNN had not

753
00:49:56,355 --> 00:49:58,635
Speaker 1: even talked to him, but Griffin did not know that.

754
00:49:59,435 --> 00:50:02,795
Speaker 1: More importantly, Comcast had already finalized its agreement to buy

755
00:50:02,995 --> 00:50:06,035
Speaker 1: NBC effective the following January, and as part of the deal,

756
00:50:06,475 --> 00:50:09,395
Speaker 1: they were entitled to review what all the executives in

757
00:50:09,475 --> 00:50:11,835
Speaker 1: the company had done, and they had already looked at

758
00:50:11,955 --> 00:50:15,355
Speaker 1: MSNBC President Phil Griffin and discovered he had never done

759
00:50:15,475 --> 00:50:20,115
Speaker 1: anything in panic. Griffin told colleagues he had to launch

760
00:50:20,195 --> 00:50:26,555
Speaker 1: a new show of his own immediately. This is the

761
00:50:26,635 --> 00:50:29,995
Speaker 1: series Aaron Sorkin should have made. As to the producers

762
00:50:29,995 --> 00:50:32,755
Speaker 1: who left my show to go with O'Donnell while my

763
00:50:32,955 --> 00:50:35,795
Speaker 1: father was dying, one of them told me a couple

764
00:50:35,835 --> 00:50:38,715
Speaker 1: of years after she left MSNBC for the last time,

765
00:50:39,635 --> 00:50:41,955
Speaker 1: every day when I went into that Last Word office,

766
00:50:41,995 --> 00:50:45,555
Speaker 1: I realized you were getting your revenge on me without

767
00:50:45,675 --> 00:50:49,235
Speaker 1: even having to lift a finger. Lots of people I've

768
00:50:49,275 --> 00:50:52,475
Speaker 1: worked with, probably a majority of people i've helped, have

769
00:50:52,715 --> 00:50:57,435
Speaker 1: behaved like Lawrence O'Donnell, because, remember it's television. It is

770
00:50:57,555 --> 00:51:01,395
Speaker 1: a mental illness. The comparatively healthy people are the ones

771
00:51:01,435 --> 00:51:04,395
Speaker 1: who acknowledge it's a mental illness. But Lawrence O'Donnell was

772
00:51:04,475 --> 00:51:08,755
Speaker 1: some one thing special. A year before my dad died,

773
00:51:09,395 --> 00:51:11,235
Speaker 1: almost to the day, In fact, I was in Los

774
00:51:11,275 --> 00:51:14,115
Speaker 1: Angeles appearing on Bill Maher's show, and one of the

775
00:51:14,195 --> 00:51:17,035
Speaker 1: other guests that night was the actress Carrie Washington. She

776
00:51:17,235 --> 00:51:19,875
Speaker 1: was very nice to me, very sweet, a very big fan,

777
00:51:20,355 --> 00:51:23,675
Speaker 1: and she asked to stay in touch. Sure enough, after

778
00:51:23,755 --> 00:51:26,035
Speaker 1: my father died, after the memorial. After I was back

779
00:51:26,075 --> 00:51:28,195
Speaker 1: at work, I had to go to his house for

780
00:51:28,275 --> 00:51:30,835
Speaker 1: the first time since he had passed away. It was

781
00:51:30,915 --> 00:51:34,595
Speaker 1: about as much fun as it sounds. In the car

782
00:51:34,875 --> 00:51:37,795
Speaker 1: on the way back into New York City. The solemnity

783
00:51:37,955 --> 00:51:40,715
Speaker 1: of it. Both my parents died within eleven months of

784
00:51:40,795 --> 00:51:44,155
Speaker 1: each other. It really hit me for some reason for

785
00:51:44,355 --> 00:51:47,155
Speaker 1: the first time, full force, and I was about to

786
00:51:47,315 --> 00:51:51,595
Speaker 1: lose it when the car approached a billboard overlooking the

787
00:51:51,675 --> 00:51:54,315
Speaker 1: West Side Highway in New York City. And whose big

788
00:51:54,435 --> 00:51:58,875
Speaker 1: smiling face was on the ad on that billboard, Carrie Washington.

789
00:51:59,755 --> 00:52:01,915
Speaker 1: And it flashed me right back to her kindness in

790
00:52:02,195 --> 00:52:04,475
Speaker 1: la and it helped me overcome this bump in my

791
00:52:04,475 --> 00:52:07,515
Speaker 1: mid morning. So I wanted to drop her a note,

792
00:52:07,755 --> 00:52:12,555
Speaker 1: nothing big, nothing suggestive. I wasn't hinting at asking her out.

793
00:52:13,435 --> 00:52:16,675
Speaker 1: Just you never know how you might help somebody in

794
00:52:16,755 --> 00:52:21,595
Speaker 1: a time of crisis. Thanks for letting me smile. That

795
00:52:21,755 --> 00:52:24,315
Speaker 1: was the whole message. I asked my assistant to figure

796
00:52:24,315 --> 00:52:25,635
Speaker 1: out how to get it to her, and that was

797
00:52:25,675 --> 00:52:30,435
Speaker 1: the end of it, except a week later, the fact

798
00:52:30,475 --> 00:52:33,035
Speaker 1: that I wrote her a note wound up in a

799
00:52:33,155 --> 00:52:41,315
Speaker 1: column written by an colter. I was astonished how why,

800
00:52:41,635 --> 00:52:45,915
Speaker 1: and Colter it was her usual the brain doesn't quite

801
00:52:46,195 --> 00:52:48,715
Speaker 1: work right kind of stuff. She implied, I was hitting

802
00:52:48,755 --> 00:52:51,235
Speaker 1: on Carrie Washington and said how stupid I had to

803
00:52:51,315 --> 00:52:53,675
Speaker 1: be to not realize she was involved with somebody, and

804
00:52:53,835 --> 00:52:56,435
Speaker 1: on and on and on, no mention of my father's passing,

805
00:52:56,795 --> 00:52:59,795
Speaker 1: or the mar show or the billboard or her smiling face.

806
00:53:01,115 --> 00:53:03,755
Speaker 1: I went back to my assistant and I said, hey,

807
00:53:04,195 --> 00:53:07,595
Speaker 1: one on earth did you do with that note to

808
00:53:07,755 --> 00:53:11,195
Speaker 1: Carrie Washington? And she said, oh, I gave it to

809
00:53:11,395 --> 00:53:15,755
Speaker 1: this Lawrence O'Donnell guy. And I said, good God, why

810
00:53:15,835 --> 00:53:18,635
Speaker 1: did you do that? And she said, well, he's dating

811
00:53:18,755 --> 00:53:21,315
Speaker 1: Carrie Washington. I thought you knew that. I thought that's

812
00:53:21,355 --> 00:53:25,035
Speaker 1: why you asked me to get it to her. So

813
00:53:25,315 --> 00:53:28,075
Speaker 1: it wasn't hard to figure out from there. Lawrence had

814
00:53:28,155 --> 00:53:31,675
Speaker 1: called his old friend from the old MSNBC Friends of

815
00:53:31,755 --> 00:53:35,435
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six and Colter and told her about the note,

816
00:53:35,955 --> 00:53:39,035
Speaker 1: inventing whatever motive his jealous little mind could dream up.

817
00:53:39,635 --> 00:53:42,515
Speaker 1: It should have gotten him fired from NBC, but unfortunately

818
00:53:42,595 --> 00:53:44,915
Speaker 1: his boss was just as much of a fourteen year

819
00:53:44,955 --> 00:53:47,995
Speaker 1: old emotionally as he was. And meanwhile, I had decided

820
00:53:47,995 --> 00:53:50,595
Speaker 1: to get out of MSNBC anyway when the time was ripe,

821
00:53:51,475 --> 00:53:54,995
Speaker 1: and as it turned out, it ripened in January twenty eleven.

822
00:53:54,995 --> 00:53:58,515
Speaker 1: I've told that story in other episodes, like sixty of them.

823
00:53:58,635 --> 00:54:02,395
Speaker 1: It's kind of complicated, and since nobody ever actually asked

824
00:54:02,435 --> 00:54:05,075
Speaker 1: me why count Down the TV show ended, probably got

825
00:54:05,075 --> 00:54:09,715
Speaker 1: another sixty episodes worth of information about that anyway in

826
00:54:09,835 --> 00:54:14,115
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, since repeatedly over the following ten years, there

827
00:54:14,155 --> 00:54:16,955
Speaker 1: were overtures by both sides to bring Countdown and Me

828
00:54:17,195 --> 00:54:20,795
Speaker 1: back to MSNBC. In twenty fifteen during the World Series,

829
00:54:20,875 --> 00:54:24,035
Speaker 1: in fact, the then president of NBC News, Andy Lack,

830
00:54:24,675 --> 00:54:26,875
Speaker 1: asked me to come back and do a new show

831
00:54:26,955 --> 00:54:30,395
Speaker 1: at MSNBC and move to Los Angeles and have a

832
00:54:30,475 --> 00:54:35,035
Speaker 1: co host, a conservative, and not do any commentaries. And

833
00:54:35,115 --> 00:54:38,715
Speaker 1: actually this new show was somehow less appealing than it sounds.

834
00:54:39,915 --> 00:54:42,635
Speaker 1: But the punchline of all punchlines is contained in what

835
00:54:42,795 --> 00:54:47,195
Speaker 1: Lack wanted to call my new twenty fifteen MSNBC show

836
00:54:47,235 --> 00:54:49,595
Speaker 1: that never was. It tells you all you really need

837
00:54:49,715 --> 00:54:52,475
Speaker 1: to know about the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell and

838
00:54:52,675 --> 00:54:56,795
Speaker 1: MSNBC and O'Donnell's place in TV history at its demise

839
00:54:57,755 --> 00:55:02,315
Speaker 1: and the end of MSNBC. NBC new president Lack was

840
00:55:02,475 --> 00:55:05,435
Speaker 1: brimming with enthusiasm about this name that he had come

841
00:55:05,515 --> 00:55:08,515
Speaker 1: up with for my new show of good the perfect title.

842
00:55:08,835 --> 00:55:12,435
Speaker 1: Lack told me, we're gonna call it The Last Word

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00:55:12,595 --> 00:55:17,315
Speaker 1: with Keith Alderman, and I didn't laugh for guffaw. I

844
00:55:17,475 --> 00:55:21,355
Speaker 1: just said, Andy, you have a show called the Last Word,

845
00:55:22,115 --> 00:55:27,435
Speaker 1: The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Andy Lack now laughed, huh,

846
00:55:28,115 --> 00:55:44,595
Speaker 1: hopefully not for much longer. I don't O'Donnell not a fan.

847
00:55:45,315 --> 00:55:48,595
Speaker 1: Scarborough not a fan. Then again, why would I be

848
00:55:48,635 --> 00:55:50,315
Speaker 1: a fan of either of them. I'm a human being.

849
00:55:51,235 --> 00:55:52,995
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John

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00:55:55,635 --> 00:55:58,515
Speaker 1: Phillips Chanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music.

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Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister

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Speaker 1: Shaneale handled orchestration and keyboards. Produced by T Brothers. Other music,

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Speaker 1: including some of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by

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Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olderman

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Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy

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Speaker 1: of espn inc Our satirical and pithy musical comments are

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Speaker 1: by Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our

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Speaker 1: announcer today is my friend Richard Lewis, and everything else

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Speaker 1: was as usual, pretty much my fault. So that's countdown

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Speaker 1: for this the two hundred and eighty seventh day until

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four US presidential election, and the one

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Speaker 1: and fourteenth day since dementia J Trump's first attempted coup

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Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use

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Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment, use the Insurrection Act, use the justice

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Speaker 1: system and the mental health system to stop him from

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Speaker 1: doing it again while we still can. The next scheduled

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Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Bolton says, the news warrants till then.

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Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olverman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and

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Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production of iHeartRadio.

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