1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:22,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,995 --> 00:00:27,635 Speaker 1: keeps digging as he continues to refuse to acknowledge the 3 00:00:27,715 --> 00:00:31,555 Speaker 1: racist disaster at Madison Square Garden and his rally there Sunday. 4 00:00:31,595 --> 00:00:34,435 Speaker 1: One of his surrogates has now doubled down in a 5 00:00:34,475 --> 00:00:39,755 Speaker 1: bitter and almost indescribably racist and foul mouthed attack against 6 00:00:39,795 --> 00:00:44,515 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, a Trump surrogate named Brendan Dilly. 7 00:00:45,675 --> 00:00:49,555 Speaker 1: I quote him because the tape is too vile to play. 8 00:00:50,195 --> 00:00:53,115 Speaker 1: There is a concern among many mega regarding Puerto Rico. 9 00:00:53,235 --> 00:00:55,875 Speaker 1: I have no efing idea. Why if there are Puerto 10 00:00:55,955 --> 00:00:59,595 Speaker 1: Ricans who are willing to surrender America to Communism over 11 00:00:59,635 --> 00:01:03,355 Speaker 1: a comedian making a joke, F you right back to 12 00:01:03,475 --> 00:01:06,675 Speaker 1: efing Puerto Rico. If you are in the fing United 13 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:09,395 Speaker 1: States of America right now, and you're on the actual fing, 14 00:01:09,555 --> 00:01:12,435 Speaker 1: the lower forty eight, you're there, You're not on your 15 00:01:12,595 --> 00:01:17,595 Speaker 1: sass island. You have no right to complain about how 16 00:01:17,675 --> 00:01:23,195 Speaker 1: people perceive your dirty ass island. Period. To continue quoting 17 00:01:23,235 --> 00:01:26,475 Speaker 1: Brendan Dilly, the Trump surrogate. And if you're willing to 18 00:01:26,555 --> 00:01:29,915 Speaker 1: vote against Donald Trump because he accurately, or because a 19 00:01:29,955 --> 00:01:33,795 Speaker 1: comedian rather not even Donald Trump, because a comedian accurately 20 00:01:33,835 --> 00:01:36,955 Speaker 1: made a joke about the fact that your country, fing, 21 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:40,835 Speaker 1: nation state, whatever the f you guys are, territory is 22 00:01:40,995 --> 00:01:46,075 Speaker 1: overrun with trash. Fu more from Trump surrogate Brendan Dilly. 23 00:01:46,635 --> 00:01:50,515 Speaker 1: I expect more from Puerto Rican Americans. So, yes, there 24 00:01:50,595 --> 00:01:53,035 Speaker 1: was a joke made at your efing expense, and it 25 00:01:53,035 --> 00:01:56,395 Speaker 1: wouldn't be funny if your island wasn't actually a floating 26 00:01:56,515 --> 00:01:59,875 Speaker 1: trash heap. So you're not going to actually impact this 27 00:01:59,995 --> 00:02:02,555 Speaker 1: election in a negative way, no matter how much you 28 00:02:02,715 --> 00:02:08,795 Speaker 1: virtue signal about this stupid ass story. Unquote Brendan Dilly. Yesterday, 29 00:02:09,115 --> 00:02:13,155 Speaker 1: Trump says he quote loves Brendan Dilly. The campaign gives 30 00:02:13,195 --> 00:02:18,755 Speaker 1: Brendan Dilly credentials and access and video for online propaganda 31 00:02:18,955 --> 00:02:23,235 Speaker 1: for Trump. By the way, I cleaned that quote up. 32 00:02:24,515 --> 00:02:27,795 Speaker 1: The math is simple. There are five hundred and seventy 33 00:02:27,835 --> 00:02:31,915 Speaker 1: five thousand Latino voters in Pennsylvania, more than half of 34 00:02:31,955 --> 00:02:35,315 Speaker 1: them are of Puerto Rican descent. Four years ago, the 35 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:39,635 Speaker 1: state's twenty electoral College votes were decided by just eighty thousand, 36 00:02:39,835 --> 00:02:43,115 Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty five of Pennsylvania's voters, and there 37 00:02:43,195 --> 00:02:46,035 Speaker 1: are seven million of them in total, and Trump seems 38 00:02:46,075 --> 00:02:49,875 Speaker 1: determined to keep pissing off as many of them as possible. 39 00:02:50,675 --> 00:02:54,915 Speaker 1: At another quote news conference unquote, which he has streamlined 40 00:02:55,155 --> 00:03:00,595 Speaker 1: by eliminating all questions and exhausted listless, Trump pretended there 41 00:03:00,675 --> 00:03:05,035 Speaker 1: was nothing wrong with the disastrous racist garbage performance at 42 00:03:05,075 --> 00:03:08,435 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, which has been blasted by everybody, from 43 00:03:08,435 --> 00:03:11,955 Speaker 1: the Archbishop of San Juan to the singer Bad Bunny 44 00:03:11,995 --> 00:03:15,995 Speaker 1: and his forty five million followers on Instagram to Megan Kelly. 45 00:03:17,155 --> 00:03:20,675 Speaker 1: He ignored the advice of the archbishop to personally apologize 46 00:03:20,675 --> 00:03:23,915 Speaker 1: for Tony Hinchcliffe. He ignored the advice of the chairman 47 00:03:23,995 --> 00:03:27,035 Speaker 1: of the Puerto Rico GOP, who now says he will 48 00:03:27,075 --> 00:03:31,315 Speaker 1: not vote for Trump in the island's presidential beauty contest vote. 49 00:03:31,595 --> 00:03:35,715 Speaker 1: He claimed, I don't know Hinchecliff. Someone put him up there. 50 00:03:35,795 --> 00:03:39,475 Speaker 1: I don't know who he is. And then he went 51 00:03:39,515 --> 00:03:43,555 Speaker 1: and campaigned in the majority Hispanic city of Allentown, Pennsylvania. 52 00:03:43,635 --> 00:03:46,475 Speaker 1: He spent yesterday insisting he was the greatest president Puerto 53 00:03:46,555 --> 00:03:49,435 Speaker 1: Rico has ever seen, and that Sunday at Madison Square 54 00:03:49,435 --> 00:03:52,035 Speaker 1: Garden was a love fest. And of course it was 55 00:03:52,315 --> 00:03:55,915 Speaker 1: a love fest for people like that Brendan Dilly, for 56 00:03:56,035 --> 00:04:00,315 Speaker 1: people who are prejudiced against Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans and 57 00:04:00,435 --> 00:04:01,715 Speaker 1: other Hispanic people. 58 00:04:01,915 --> 00:04:05,035 Speaker 2: I don't think anybody has ever seen anything like what 59 00:04:05,195 --> 00:04:08,755 Speaker 2: happened the other night at Madison Square Garden. 60 00:04:08,795 --> 00:04:13,395 Speaker 1: The love, the love in that room. 61 00:04:13,435 --> 00:04:15,595 Speaker 2: And I want you to know that Puerto Rico stands 62 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:25,195 Speaker 2: behind you, and Puerto Rico well Field, well, we love it, 63 00:04:25,555 --> 00:04:27,315 Speaker 2: I know it very well, and we help you through 64 00:04:27,355 --> 00:04:29,155 Speaker 2: a lot of bad storms. I'll tell you we had 65 00:04:29,195 --> 00:04:32,555 Speaker 2: some really bad ones. You remember you were there when 66 00:04:32,595 --> 00:04:35,595 Speaker 2: I brought the hospital ship against everyone's advice, and we 67 00:04:35,635 --> 00:04:37,715 Speaker 2: got it in there and took care of a lot 68 00:04:37,755 --> 00:04:40,315 Speaker 2: of people. But I think no presidents done more for 69 00:04:40,355 --> 00:04:41,315 Speaker 2: Puerto Rico than I have. 70 00:04:41,555 --> 00:04:45,595 Speaker 1: It is hard to conceive that a disturbed entertainer whose 71 00:04:45,635 --> 00:04:49,955 Speaker 1: resume consists of all the clubs, shows, networks and talent 72 00:04:50,075 --> 00:04:53,915 Speaker 1: agencies that dropped him, rather than you know, anything about 73 00:04:53,915 --> 00:04:58,475 Speaker 1: any actual talent he might have, could actually decide or 74 00:04:58,515 --> 00:05:02,075 Speaker 1: at least influence the election. But then again, that description 75 00:05:02,155 --> 00:05:06,595 Speaker 1: fits not just this idiot Hinchcliff, but Trump himself and 76 00:05:06,715 --> 00:05:10,875 Speaker 1: the Hinchcliff story continues to expand. NBC News put a 77 00:05:10,915 --> 00:05:13,635 Speaker 1: hole in the Trump camp implication that they had no 78 00:05:13,755 --> 00:05:15,875 Speaker 1: idea he was going to say any of that by 79 00:05:15,915 --> 00:05:18,675 Speaker 1: reporting that the night before he uttered the Puerto Rico 80 00:05:18,835 --> 00:05:23,235 Speaker 1: line at the Garden, Hinchecliff quote workshopped it at the 81 00:05:23,275 --> 00:05:26,635 Speaker 1: comedy club The Stand on East sixteenth Street in Manhattan, 82 00:05:26,715 --> 00:05:29,395 Speaker 1: where it got no laughs, and he told the audience 83 00:05:29,435 --> 00:05:31,755 Speaker 1: several times not to worry that he would be getting 84 00:05:31,795 --> 00:05:37,315 Speaker 1: a better reaction quote tomorrow at the rally. Unquote Trump's 85 00:05:37,595 --> 00:05:41,715 Speaker 1: inability to keep this thing from growing, let alone actually 86 00:05:42,075 --> 00:05:45,155 Speaker 1: stopping it in some way, making up for it, in 87 00:05:45,195 --> 00:05:47,795 Speaker 1: some way, making up for it to the community. The 88 00:05:47,835 --> 00:05:51,355 Speaker 1: alleged comedian smeared, and this guy Dilly has doubled down 89 00:05:51,475 --> 00:05:55,795 Speaker 1: on that may literally cinch the presidency for Kamala Harris. 90 00:05:56,155 --> 00:06:02,075 Speaker 1: Even Politico noticed, actually creating a non cringe pun headline, 91 00:06:02,675 --> 00:06:09,115 Speaker 1: Trump faces a pr disaster like a wildfire. The story 92 00:06:09,115 --> 00:06:12,355 Speaker 1: has also jumped a road and touched off a separate 93 00:06:12,395 --> 00:06:16,795 Speaker 1: controversy involving other ethnic groups whose unexpected support for Trump 94 00:06:16,835 --> 00:06:19,715 Speaker 1: is now shaky at best. More on that in a second, 95 00:06:20,155 --> 00:06:23,635 Speaker 1: and then a conservative commentator got as close to bashing 96 00:06:23,675 --> 00:06:27,115 Speaker 1: Trump for this as anybody in the cult could conceivably 97 00:06:27,275 --> 00:06:31,275 Speaker 1: dare when a frantic Megan Kelly not so mad at 98 00:06:31,275 --> 00:06:32,475 Speaker 1: his campaign staff. 99 00:06:32,635 --> 00:06:35,755 Speaker 3: You're trying to win an election in which you're hemorrhaging 100 00:06:35,835 --> 00:06:40,995 Speaker 3: female voters. Maybe when you present in front of hundreds 101 00:06:41,035 --> 00:06:44,875 Speaker 3: of thousands, at least at Madison Square Garden, you clean 102 00:06:44,955 --> 00:06:47,675 Speaker 3: up the bro talk just a little so you don't 103 00:06:47,715 --> 00:06:51,395 Speaker 3: alienate women in the middle of America who are already 104 00:06:51,435 --> 00:06:55,355 Speaker 3: on the fence about Republicans. Do they have no women 105 00:06:55,595 --> 00:06:59,475 Speaker 3: advising their campaign? Is there no actual woman sitting behind 106 00:06:59,475 --> 00:07:02,435 Speaker 3: the scenes coming up with a guest lineup and saying, 107 00:07:02,675 --> 00:07:05,075 Speaker 3: let's just have a word with the g who are 108 00:07:05,115 --> 00:07:08,875 Speaker 3: going to be speaking about. This isn't the bar, this 109 00:07:09,115 --> 00:07:14,195 Speaker 3: isn't their living room. This is a campaign. This is politics. 110 00:07:14,635 --> 00:07:17,475 Speaker 3: We're trying to get him elected. We don't need to 111 00:07:17,675 --> 00:07:23,035 Speaker 3: rally the base or guys anymore. And it's not helpful 112 00:07:23,155 --> 00:07:25,635 Speaker 3: even if we do want to rally the base or guys, 113 00:07:26,035 --> 00:07:31,315 Speaker 3: to go full off color insults to different racial groups 114 00:07:31,315 --> 00:07:33,715 Speaker 3: and so on. I get it, trust me, nothing that 115 00:07:33,795 --> 00:07:37,795 Speaker 3: was said offended me. I'm almost unoffendable, but I understand 116 00:07:37,915 --> 00:07:41,315 Speaker 3: how this plays, especially with women, and it was an 117 00:07:41,435 --> 00:07:42,835 Speaker 3: eft up choice. 118 00:07:43,035 --> 00:07:46,475 Speaker 1: The others still growing tendril of this calamity that only 119 00:07:46,475 --> 00:07:50,075 Speaker 1: Trump could have let fester came on CNN, which has 120 00:07:50,075 --> 00:07:52,915 Speaker 1: turned its ten PM Abby Phillip Auer into a kind 121 00:07:52,915 --> 00:07:56,475 Speaker 1: of Jerry Springer's Show of Politics, which is itself kind 122 00:07:56,515 --> 00:07:59,715 Speaker 1: of ironic, since Jerry Springer was first a newscaster, then 123 00:07:59,835 --> 00:08:03,515 Speaker 1: a Cincinnati politician, and only lastly the host of the 124 00:08:03,555 --> 00:08:07,555 Speaker 1: original wrestling style talk show. In any event, as four 125 00:08:07,675 --> 00:08:11,235 Speaker 1: or five or thirty or however many pundits they could 126 00:08:11,275 --> 00:08:14,755 Speaker 1: squeeze around a table ill designed for the purpose yelled 127 00:08:14,795 --> 00:08:17,555 Speaker 1: at each other over the trumpest shots at Puerto Rico 128 00:08:17,595 --> 00:08:21,675 Speaker 1: and Latinos. The man MSNBC fired a year ago without 129 00:08:21,675 --> 00:08:25,195 Speaker 1: a peep out of its millionaire primetime hosts. Made Hassan 130 00:08:26,035 --> 00:08:30,195 Speaker 1: stated in passing that yes, he supported Palestinians, whereupon a 131 00:08:30,315 --> 00:08:35,155 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan and JD. Vance bro named Ryan Gurdusky snapped, 132 00:08:35,675 --> 00:08:40,235 Speaker 1: I hope your beeper doesn't go off. You will recall 133 00:08:40,715 --> 00:08:44,315 Speaker 1: Israel managed to sabotage thousands of pages carried not by 134 00:08:44,395 --> 00:08:48,955 Speaker 1: Palestinians but by the terrorist gang Hesblah in Lebanon last month. 135 00:08:49,755 --> 00:08:53,755 Speaker 1: Hassan replied with astonishment, did your guests just say I 136 00:08:53,795 --> 00:08:58,275 Speaker 1: should be killed? On live TV? And Gurdusky wound up 137 00:08:58,275 --> 00:09:01,435 Speaker 1: making a tepid apology before they threw him off the 138 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:05,195 Speaker 1: show and presumably returned his place at the fight table 139 00:09:05,435 --> 00:09:10,635 Speaker 1: to its regular occupant, the Trump sycophant, Scott Jennings. It 140 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:15,275 Speaker 1: was nauseating television, beneath even CNN in its desperation to 141 00:09:15,355 --> 00:09:18,875 Speaker 1: continue to outrate this podcast. But for once, that's not 142 00:09:18,955 --> 00:09:24,475 Speaker 1: the point. Trump's opening acts racism towards Hispanics could not 143 00:09:24,555 --> 00:09:28,435 Speaker 1: only cost in Pennsylvania and maybe North Carolina, where one 144 00:09:28,515 --> 00:09:33,115 Speaker 1: hundred thousand Puerto Ricans reside, or Wisconsin sixty five thousand, 145 00:09:33,275 --> 00:09:36,515 Speaker 1: or Michigan fifty thousand, where By the way, the Susquehanna 146 00:09:36,555 --> 00:09:39,395 Speaker 1: poll that closed Sunday has her up by five. The 147 00:09:39,475 --> 00:09:42,995 Speaker 1: latest nationally is Mourning Consult Harris by three. But they 148 00:09:43,155 --> 00:09:46,555 Speaker 1: like to look at what voters are hearing. Morning Consults 149 00:09:46,555 --> 00:09:48,875 Speaker 1: says forty five percent of likely voters say they have 150 00:09:48,955 --> 00:09:52,915 Speaker 1: heard something positive about Harris recently, and forty nine percent 151 00:09:52,955 --> 00:09:55,835 Speaker 1: said they have heard something negative about Trump recently, and 152 00:09:55,875 --> 00:09:59,715 Speaker 1: that's before the stuff at the Garden or Brendan Dilly. 153 00:09:59,995 --> 00:10:04,915 Speaker 1: But the garden thing has now also replicated itself Trump 154 00:10:05,035 --> 00:10:09,755 Speaker 1: versus Latino's crisis into a Trump versus Latino's crisis and 155 00:10:10,235 --> 00:10:14,595 Speaker 1: a Trump versus Arab American crisis, in part because of 156 00:10:14,635 --> 00:10:16,835 Speaker 1: the Beefer line, and in part because of a letter 157 00:10:17,195 --> 00:10:20,595 Speaker 1: signed by one hundred Palestinian, Arab and Muslim leaders in 158 00:10:20,715 --> 00:10:24,355 Speaker 1: Arizona urging those in their communities to vote for Harris 159 00:10:24,555 --> 00:10:26,995 Speaker 1: no matter what misgivings they may have about the Biden 160 00:10:27,035 --> 00:10:30,915 Speaker 1: administration position on the conflict in the Middle East, ostensibly 161 00:10:30,995 --> 00:10:35,755 Speaker 1: because Trump's position on that conflict is even more hardline. Plus, 162 00:10:35,875 --> 00:10:39,955 Speaker 1: Trump also wants this little Muslim ban and those camps 163 00:10:39,955 --> 00:10:43,195 Speaker 1: he's planning for the Hispanics. They were originally designed in 164 00:10:43,275 --> 00:10:48,235 Speaker 1: Trump's disease mind for the Muslims. The question facing Trump 165 00:10:48,395 --> 00:10:51,955 Speaker 1: six days out from the election is is there anybody 166 00:10:52,075 --> 00:10:56,875 Speaker 1: left to offend? As the proverbial scales seemed to fall 167 00:10:56,915 --> 00:11:00,075 Speaker 1: from the eyes of groups who had somehow convinced themselves 168 00:11:00,075 --> 00:11:02,755 Speaker 1: he was less fatal to them than he was last time. 169 00:11:03,195 --> 00:11:07,235 Speaker 1: What else could go wrong? How about Elon Musk, Trump, 170 00:11:07,275 --> 00:11:12,875 Speaker 1: commissioner of tax breaks for stoned megabillionaires and friend of Putin, 171 00:11:13,635 --> 00:11:16,395 Speaker 1: saying that to save money, Trump will have to crash 172 00:11:16,435 --> 00:11:21,155 Speaker 1: the economy and there'll be haircuts and hardships for everybody 173 00:11:21,915 --> 00:11:25,555 Speaker 1: except him, because what kind of hardships could he get? 174 00:11:26,035 --> 00:11:28,675 Speaker 1: And also what kind of haircuts could he get given 175 00:11:28,675 --> 00:11:31,515 Speaker 1: that he buys his in the lawn and garden department 176 00:11:31,595 --> 00:11:38,155 Speaker 1: at Minards. Also, speaker Mike Johnson chose now to attack 177 00:11:38,755 --> 00:11:43,315 Speaker 1: Obamacare at a private event in Pennsylvania, insisting Trump would 178 00:11:43,355 --> 00:11:47,115 Speaker 1: make massive changes to the wildly popular Affordable Care Act 179 00:11:47,355 --> 00:11:50,475 Speaker 1: because of how mean it is to the insurance industry. 180 00:11:51,115 --> 00:11:58,595 Speaker 1: No Obamacare, one attendee asked Johnson, incredulously, No Obamacare. Johnson 181 00:11:58,755 --> 00:12:02,395 Speaker 1: jauntily replied, and yes, of course, that's sent off yet 182 00:12:02,435 --> 00:12:05,035 Speaker 1: another problem for Trump, a reminder that when he asked 183 00:12:05,035 --> 00:12:09,115 Speaker 1: for details of his health plan during his debate with 184 00:12:09,195 --> 00:12:12,115 Speaker 1: Vice President Harris, Trump had come back with what was 185 00:12:12,395 --> 00:12:15,555 Speaker 1: even for him a moronic answer that he didn't have 186 00:12:15,595 --> 00:12:19,715 Speaker 1: a plan yet, but he quote has concepts of a plan. 187 00:12:20,555 --> 00:12:25,635 Speaker 1: Oh and options options of concepts of a plan in 188 00:12:25,715 --> 00:12:29,715 Speaker 1: the not too distant future. Oh and the Puerto Rico 189 00:12:29,875 --> 00:12:33,635 Speaker 1: insults revived interest in a little noticed snippet from one 190 00:12:33,675 --> 00:12:36,955 Speaker 1: of the endless books about the Trump administration, the Peter 191 00:12:37,115 --> 00:12:41,635 Speaker 1: Baker Susan Glasser Effort, The Divider that when in twenty 192 00:12:41,755 --> 00:12:46,435 Speaker 1: nineteen and twenty twenty, Trump became obsessed with buying Greenland 193 00:12:46,555 --> 00:12:51,435 Speaker 1: from Denmark, one of his ideas was to trade a 194 00:12:51,635 --> 00:12:56,075 Speaker 1: US asset for Greenland, a US asset he had just 195 00:12:56,235 --> 00:13:11,715 Speaker 1: called quote dirty, a US asset called Puerto Rico. Okay, 196 00:13:11,835 --> 00:13:15,195 Speaker 1: Dana Bash says, it's exactly what the Harris camp wanted. 197 00:13:15,635 --> 00:13:19,155 Speaker 1: So I guess the Vice president's speech on the ellipse worked, 198 00:13:19,675 --> 00:13:23,195 Speaker 1: where she was perfectly framed by countless American flags and 199 00:13:23,235 --> 00:13:26,555 Speaker 1: the White House portico in one of a thousand photographs 200 00:13:26,595 --> 00:13:29,555 Speaker 1: you can find with a two second Google search. She 201 00:13:29,635 --> 00:13:31,995 Speaker 1: had a bigger crowd last night than Trump did on 202 00:13:32,075 --> 00:13:34,675 Speaker 1: January sixth, then don't think he hasn't heard about that, 203 00:13:35,475 --> 00:13:39,315 Speaker 1: and she actually did sell her closing argument last night. 204 00:13:40,915 --> 00:13:44,315 Speaker 4: America. For too long we have been consumed with too 205 00:13:44,395 --> 00:13:50,675 Speaker 4: much division, chaos, and mutual distrust, and it can be easy, 206 00:13:50,755 --> 00:13:55,115 Speaker 4: then to forget a simple truth. It doesn't have to 207 00:13:55,115 --> 00:13:58,435 Speaker 4: be this way. It doesn't have to be this way. 208 00:13:59,995 --> 00:14:05,955 Speaker 4: It is time to stop pointing figures, to stop pointing 209 00:14:06,035 --> 00:14:11,435 Speaker 4: fingers and start locking arms. It is time to turn 210 00:14:11,675 --> 00:14:16,675 Speaker 4: the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear 211 00:14:17,595 --> 00:14:22,315 Speaker 4: and division. It is time for a new generation of 212 00:14:22,435 --> 00:14:32,755 Speaker 4: leadership in America, and I am ready to offer that 213 00:14:32,995 --> 00:14:43,435 Speaker 4: leadership as the next president of the United America. 214 00:14:44,275 --> 00:14:47,355 Speaker 1: I could play much more of the Harris speech, but 215 00:14:47,435 --> 00:14:50,155 Speaker 1: I wouldn't know when to stop. We are now at 216 00:14:50,195 --> 00:14:54,275 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand canceled Washington Post subscriptions for 217 00:14:54,435 --> 00:14:58,515 Speaker 1: David fulcnflict of NPR. The numbers shot up by one 218 00:14:58,675 --> 00:15:04,355 Speaker 1: quarter after Post owner Jeff Bezos's self stroking article explaining 219 00:15:04,395 --> 00:15:07,555 Speaker 1: why he decided to suddenly stop endorsements of all political 220 00:15:07,595 --> 00:15:12,075 Speaker 1: candidates just before the presidential election. Well not him, of course. 221 00:15:12,075 --> 00:15:15,115 Speaker 1: He didn't do this. His people, well not his people, 222 00:15:15,595 --> 00:15:18,915 Speaker 1: the Post's people and those people who met with Trump 223 00:15:18,955 --> 00:15:22,075 Speaker 1: on behalf of his people at the rocket ship company 224 00:15:22,075 --> 00:15:26,235 Speaker 1: Bezos owns. According to NPR, those weren't his people either. 225 00:15:27,075 --> 00:15:30,915 Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty thousand cancelations, which according to the 226 00:15:31,035 --> 00:15:35,235 Speaker 1: NPR calculation, represents ten percent of all of the Post's 227 00:15:35,595 --> 00:15:40,035 Speaker 1: readership income. Semaphore News as the La Times, had around 228 00:15:40,035 --> 00:15:44,035 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand subscriptions lost eighteen thousand, that'd be a 229 00:15:44,075 --> 00:15:47,315 Speaker 1: little less than five percent of its incoming and seeing 230 00:15:47,315 --> 00:15:51,435 Speaker 1: an opportunity to slip stream behind the big scared names. 231 00:15:51,635 --> 00:15:54,835 Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Times revealed that it didn't endorse in 232 00:15:54,875 --> 00:15:58,315 Speaker 1: the presidential race either, but it had decided that in July. 233 00:15:59,155 --> 00:16:02,875 Speaker 1: It was just that nobody noticed. Andrew Mitchell says she 234 00:16:02,955 --> 00:16:07,155 Speaker 1: is retiring from her midday show on MSNBC after the inauguration. 235 00:16:08,275 --> 00:16:14,635 Speaker 1: Two points, how could anybody tell? Secondly, she is doing so, 236 00:16:14,795 --> 00:16:18,155 Speaker 1: presumably to devote more time to falling asleep off the 237 00:16:18,235 --> 00:16:23,115 Speaker 1: air rather than on it. Mitchell says she'll do more 238 00:16:23,155 --> 00:16:27,475 Speaker 1: reporting now. The Reporter's Club from Washington hailed her as 239 00:16:27,515 --> 00:16:30,355 Speaker 1: one of the all time greats. In point of fact, 240 00:16:30,395 --> 00:16:32,195 Speaker 1: even when I was still at NBC, which is now 241 00:16:32,235 --> 00:16:36,075 Speaker 1: more than thirteen years ago, producers were warned to check 242 00:16:36,115 --> 00:16:40,475 Speaker 1: her scripts, that she viewed all news stories almost exclusively 243 00:16:40,915 --> 00:16:44,595 Speaker 1: through one lens and one lens only. What did it 244 00:16:44,675 --> 00:16:48,155 Speaker 1: mean for the economy, what did it mean for the investors? 245 00:16:49,275 --> 00:16:52,715 Speaker 1: And speaking of leaving MSNBC, I have to tell you 246 00:16:52,755 --> 00:16:55,555 Speaker 1: this story. I think if I tell it to you, though, 247 00:16:55,635 --> 00:16:58,675 Speaker 1: I should just quote it verbatim. At least a couple 248 00:16:58,755 --> 00:17:02,155 Speaker 1: of paragraphs of a very interesting piece and a very 249 00:17:02,235 --> 00:17:07,555 Speaker 1: long one from former investigative at Gawker, Gizmodo insider and 250 00:17:07,675 --> 00:17:15,235 Speaker 1: business insider JK. Trotter, now writing at Interesting Mysteries dot com. 251 00:17:16,195 --> 00:17:22,035 Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down quote. Eight years ago. In 252 00:17:22,075 --> 00:17:25,115 Speaker 1: the spring of twenty sixteen, reporters in New York City 253 00:17:25,195 --> 00:17:28,835 Speaker 1: began to hear whispers about a drama unfolding at the 254 00:17:28,875 --> 00:17:37,915 Speaker 1: Midtown headquarters of NBC. Sources, colleagues, friends, and acquaintances. All 255 00:17:37,955 --> 00:17:40,835 Speaker 1: of them had heard something about the relationship between Today's 256 00:17:40,835 --> 00:17:48,075 Speaker 1: Show co host Tamaron Hall and presidential candidate Donald Trump. 257 00:17:49,635 --> 00:17:52,355 Speaker 1: The rumor went like this. In the latter half of 258 00:17:52,395 --> 00:17:57,115 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, NBC journalists unearthed evidence that Hall and Trump 259 00:17:57,555 --> 00:18:01,875 Speaker 1: conducted an affair in the years before he declared his candidacy. 260 00:18:02,795 --> 00:18:06,755 Speaker 1: Some of the evidence, mister Trotter goes on, indicated that 261 00:18:07,035 --> 00:18:12,195 Speaker 1: Hall became pregnant by Trump and later obtained an abortion. 262 00:18:13,235 --> 00:18:16,835 Speaker 1: Says mister Trotter, the whispers appeared to be leaking out 263 00:18:16,835 --> 00:18:21,515 Speaker 1: of thirty Rockefeller Plaza because NBC officials were unsure of 264 00:18:21,555 --> 00:18:26,275 Speaker 1: how to address the situation. Continuing the quote. Eager to 265 00:18:26,355 --> 00:18:29,595 Speaker 1: scoop a competitor on its own turf, Reporters outside of 266 00:18:29,715 --> 00:18:34,115 Speaker 1: NBC swarmed their sources within the network for information, but 267 00:18:34,235 --> 00:18:37,915 Speaker 1: they struggled to find a path to publication. Important details 268 00:18:37,955 --> 00:18:41,715 Speaker 1: were fuzzy or disputed, and sources knowledge was often third 269 00:18:41,795 --> 00:18:44,675 Speaker 1: or fourth hand. The gravity of the allegation and the 270 00:18:44,755 --> 00:18:48,435 Speaker 1: visibility of its subjects provided little margin for error. Any 271 00:18:48,515 --> 00:18:52,875 Speaker 1: story would require nearly perfect sourcing. No news outlet published 272 00:18:52,875 --> 00:18:57,875 Speaker 1: a single word about the rumor to continue from JKA here, 273 00:18:58,395 --> 00:19:01,955 Speaker 1: but there was in fact some truth to it, according 274 00:19:01,995 --> 00:19:05,755 Speaker 1: to people familiar with the matter. NBC journalists did indeed 275 00:19:05,875 --> 00:19:11,915 Speaker 1: investigate Hall and Trump's relationship in the fall of twenty fifteen, 276 00:19:12,515 --> 00:19:17,635 Speaker 1: and says JK. Trotter, found evidence that supported the existence 277 00:19:17,675 --> 00:19:21,195 Speaker 1: of an affair that led to Hall's pregnancy and subsequent abortion. 278 00:19:22,075 --> 00:19:24,435 Speaker 1: They had gathered this material as part of a larger 279 00:19:24,475 --> 00:19:29,275 Speaker 1: reporting project about Trump's past girlfriends. The evidence was compelling 280 00:19:29,395 --> 00:19:34,395 Speaker 1: enough to continue investigating as Trump's campaign gained steam. To 281 00:19:34,555 --> 00:19:37,715 Speaker 1: finish up the long quote from mister Trotter. However, nothing ever, 282 00:19:37,795 --> 00:19:41,155 Speaker 1: came of the reporting project. NBC never published a story 283 00:19:41,155 --> 00:19:44,875 Speaker 1: about Trump's ex girlfriends or his relationship with Hall, and 284 00:19:44,995 --> 00:19:49,635 Speaker 1: less than two weeks after Trump's inauguration, Hall abruptly left 285 00:19:49,635 --> 00:19:53,195 Speaker 1: the network. These events created a mystery that has never 286 00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:59,835 Speaker 1: been solved what exactly happened between Trump, Hall and NBC. 287 00:20:02,275 --> 00:20:04,595 Speaker 1: For the rest of it, I'm just going to go 288 00:20:04,715 --> 00:20:10,275 Speaker 1: over and stand out of the traffic lanes. I refer 289 00:20:10,355 --> 00:20:15,075 Speaker 1: you to Interesting Mysteries dot com. Do you need me 290 00:20:15,155 --> 00:20:18,315 Speaker 1: to spell it? I notice there is nothing in there 291 00:20:18,355 --> 00:20:22,515 Speaker 1: about Prince and the endless rumors about my old friend 292 00:20:22,595 --> 00:20:26,635 Speaker 1: Tamarn and Prince, most of which did, in fact seem 293 00:20:26,675 --> 00:20:30,835 Speaker 1: to be fueled by Tamarn. I never did figure her out. 294 00:20:31,635 --> 00:20:34,235 Speaker 1: In point of fact, I asked her out. She said, yes, 295 00:20:34,315 --> 00:20:36,475 Speaker 1: we had one dinner planned which I had to cancel 296 00:20:36,995 --> 00:20:40,075 Speaker 1: when my dad got sick. Then a few months later 297 00:20:40,115 --> 00:20:42,675 Speaker 1: she asked me why we hadn't gone out yet, And 298 00:20:42,715 --> 00:20:46,155 Speaker 1: then I left NBC and that was the last of that. 299 00:20:47,915 --> 00:20:53,795 Speaker 1: So who knows. Maybe the answer is it Interesting Mysteries 300 00:20:54,675 --> 00:21:03,555 Speaker 1: dot com? Are you the daddy. 301 00:21:04,995 --> 00:21:05,235 Speaker 4: Not me? 302 00:21:05,395 --> 00:21:07,475 Speaker 1: Pell? Also of interest here, in an all new edition 303 00:21:07,515 --> 00:21:12,235 Speaker 1: of Countdown, somebody prominent has defended the racist remarks by 304 00:21:12,275 --> 00:21:16,395 Speaker 1: this guy. Hinchcliff compared it to Tony Hinchcliff's performance at 305 00:21:16,395 --> 00:21:19,915 Speaker 1: a roast of the football player Tom Brady and the 306 00:21:19,955 --> 00:21:24,515 Speaker 1: man who defended it is the most overrated person in 307 00:21:24,555 --> 00:21:30,835 Speaker 1: the history of political television commentary. No, not me, somebody else. 308 00:21:31,275 --> 00:21:38,315 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 309 00:21:38,475 --> 00:22:02,155 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I am 310 00:22:02,275 --> 00:22:07,475 Speaker 1: so old that I went with Trump news conference where 311 00:22:07,515 --> 00:22:10,955 Speaker 1: he actually didn't give a speech and sort of fell 312 00:22:10,955 --> 00:22:14,595 Speaker 1: asleep while standing up, but instead of answered questions and 313 00:22:14,635 --> 00:22:19,755 Speaker 1: did interviews. And it was just the other day. Well, no, 314 00:22:19,875 --> 00:22:22,635 Speaker 1: forty one years ago. Things I promised not to tell. 315 00:22:22,955 --> 00:22:28,595 Speaker 1: I met Donald Trump when I was twenty four years old, 316 00:22:29,155 --> 00:22:32,635 Speaker 1: and even then I knew he was nuts. Oh, and 317 00:22:32,675 --> 00:22:35,875 Speaker 1: he later wrote me a fan letter. Coming up first, 318 00:22:35,955 --> 00:22:39,635 Speaker 1: So my guest announcer you heard there was Tony Kornheiser 319 00:22:40,035 --> 00:22:43,635 Speaker 1: from ESPN, because six years ago I was in DC 320 00:22:44,355 --> 00:22:47,435 Speaker 1: co hosting Pardon the Interruption with him there for ESPN, 321 00:22:47,635 --> 00:22:49,875 Speaker 1: having a great time doing it. And I was sitting 322 00:22:49,915 --> 00:22:52,115 Speaker 1: in the executive producer's office at the middle of the 323 00:22:52,195 --> 00:22:55,435 Speaker 1: day and he had three TVs on his wall. One 324 00:22:55,475 --> 00:22:59,915 Speaker 1: had CNN, one had MSNBC, one had Fox. It was midday, 325 00:23:00,515 --> 00:23:05,835 Speaker 1: so The MSNBC anchor was Katie turry. Hey, the producer said, 326 00:23:05,955 --> 00:23:09,115 Speaker 1: it's your ex Then I looked at the CNN monitor. 327 00:23:09,595 --> 00:23:15,315 Speaker 1: Their guest was Olivia Newsy heard too, I said, sort 328 00:23:15,355 --> 00:23:19,395 Speaker 1: of quietly. He didn't quite understand what I meant. Fox 329 00:23:19,555 --> 00:23:21,395 Speaker 1: was in a commercial break, and I said to him, 330 00:23:21,435 --> 00:23:24,435 Speaker 1: you know, if when they come back from break, Laura 331 00:23:24,635 --> 00:23:27,355 Speaker 1: Ingram is somehow on the air on Fox right now, 332 00:23:27,555 --> 00:23:32,315 Speaker 1: I expect silver dollars or gold bullion to start pouring 333 00:23:32,355 --> 00:23:36,795 Speaker 1: out of your television because I hit the X jackpot. 334 00:23:37,915 --> 00:23:40,835 Speaker 1: On that note, Let's put more coins in the machine 335 00:23:40,875 --> 00:23:43,995 Speaker 1: and pull the one armed bandits lever and see how 336 00:23:44,035 --> 00:23:45,995 Speaker 1: we do as we look at the latest new idiots 337 00:23:46,035 --> 00:23:49,075 Speaker 1: to talk about the daily roundup of the misgrants morons 338 00:23:49,115 --> 00:23:52,795 Speaker 1: undone and krugrif x specimens who constitute two days worse 339 00:23:52,875 --> 00:23:57,195 Speaker 1: persons in the world. Come on, baby, the bronze were 340 00:23:57,555 --> 00:24:01,635 Speaker 1: Olivia Newsy. I have stayed out of the substance of 341 00:24:01,675 --> 00:24:09,235 Speaker 1: this perfect soap opera because they're all wrong. They're all idiots, 342 00:24:09,955 --> 00:24:15,035 Speaker 1: they're all behaving like children. They're all behaving immorally and 343 00:24:15,115 --> 00:24:20,915 Speaker 1: amorlly and self destructively. It's a if you were to 344 00:24:21,235 --> 00:24:25,115 Speaker 1: offer this up to the nation's psychiatrists, there'd be a 345 00:24:25,155 --> 00:24:29,515 Speaker 1: bidding war for each of them. New Zy, her badly haired, 346 00:24:29,595 --> 00:24:32,115 Speaker 1: dyed ex fiancee, whom she used to call a stalker, 347 00:24:32,195 --> 00:24:35,795 Speaker 1: Ryan Lizza, And of course my ex friend RFK Junior, 348 00:24:36,075 --> 00:24:39,555 Speaker 1: who is slightly more in my favor maybe is sort 349 00:24:39,595 --> 00:24:41,915 Speaker 1: of number one in the rankings in my mind, because, 350 00:24:42,035 --> 00:24:44,835 Speaker 1: as I've noted previously, he's five years older than I am. 351 00:24:45,195 --> 00:24:47,875 Speaker 1: So when Olivia and I broke up nearly a decade ago, 352 00:24:48,275 --> 00:24:52,515 Speaker 1: turns out I was actually too young for her. AnyWho 353 00:24:53,195 --> 00:24:56,275 Speaker 1: The Daily Beast, where Olivia used to work and with 354 00:24:56,355 --> 00:24:59,075 Speaker 1: whom I secretly negotiated her contract. I mean, why not 355 00:24:59,755 --> 00:25:03,475 Speaker 1: I've negotiated and signed like one hundred and seventeen contracts 356 00:25:03,875 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: she had signed. Why shouldn't I do the bargaining behind 357 00:25:07,395 --> 00:25:10,555 Speaker 1: the scenes for her? And I charged her way lower 358 00:25:10,555 --> 00:25:14,235 Speaker 1: than my usual rates. I did it for free reports 359 00:25:14,315 --> 00:25:17,835 Speaker 1: that Liza. The Daily Beast reports that Liza has filed 360 00:25:18,235 --> 00:25:22,635 Speaker 1: outrage paperwork fighting Olivia Newzy's attempt to put her entire 361 00:25:22,715 --> 00:25:27,235 Speaker 1: lawsuit against him under seal, in which she has accused 362 00:25:27,315 --> 00:25:29,875 Speaker 1: him of blackmail, phone hacking, attempting to force her into 363 00:25:29,915 --> 00:25:33,035 Speaker 1: sex and back into their engagement, and all sorts of 364 00:25:33,035 --> 00:25:35,675 Speaker 1: other stuff about their Trump book that will be coming 365 00:25:35,715 --> 00:25:40,395 Speaker 1: out in Check's notes the year twenty twenty. She wants 366 00:25:40,475 --> 00:25:43,395 Speaker 1: this case, which at one point she let leak she 367 00:25:43,475 --> 00:25:46,635 Speaker 1: was turning over to the FBI, which meant she hoped 368 00:25:46,715 --> 00:25:51,155 Speaker 1: to get him arrested. She wants it conducted out of 369 00:25:51,195 --> 00:25:55,435 Speaker 1: the public view. I hate to agree with Liza on anything, 370 00:25:55,755 --> 00:25:59,515 Speaker 1: and this predates my knowing that he even knew her, 371 00:26:00,275 --> 00:26:02,835 Speaker 1: or that I even knew her. But as the Daily 372 00:26:02,835 --> 00:26:05,515 Speaker 1: Beast notes quote, the crucial point liza a lawyers make 373 00:26:05,795 --> 00:26:07,875 Speaker 1: is that Newsy made no attempt to seal coverage of 374 00:26:07,915 --> 00:26:11,155 Speaker 1: the case or her initial filing for two weeks and 375 00:26:11,195 --> 00:26:13,595 Speaker 1: after her filing on September twenty ninth. He only did 376 00:26:13,595 --> 00:26:17,635 Speaker 1: so after Liza lodged his counter filing on October eleventh, 377 00:26:18,035 --> 00:26:21,235 Speaker 1: filing first reported exclusively by The Beast at the time. 378 00:26:21,875 --> 00:26:25,035 Speaker 1: Mister Lizza's answer to the petition should be just as 379 00:26:25,035 --> 00:26:29,715 Speaker 1: public as her Newsy's self serving and self publicized allegations. 380 00:26:30,275 --> 00:26:34,155 Speaker 1: Liz's lawyers argue the petition was available on the public 381 00:26:34,155 --> 00:26:36,795 Speaker 1: docket for a full two weeks after September twenty ninth, 382 00:26:36,875 --> 00:26:40,875 Speaker 1: Yet Miss Newsy did not move to seal. To the contrary, 383 00:26:40,915 --> 00:26:43,835 Speaker 1: why do I keep seeing a seal? Why do I 384 00:26:43,875 --> 00:26:47,315 Speaker 1: keep seeing a Thurber seal? I don't know if it's 385 00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:50,515 Speaker 1: still there, By the way, but Olivia got the moral 386 00:26:50,595 --> 00:26:53,835 Speaker 1: to one of Thurber's fables that I read you periodically. 387 00:26:53,955 --> 00:26:57,435 Speaker 1: She got a tattooed on her shoulders across her shoulders 388 00:26:57,715 --> 00:27:00,115 Speaker 1: when we were together. I forget which one. It may 389 00:27:00,115 --> 00:27:02,355 Speaker 1: have been, the Moth and the Star. I'll have to 390 00:27:02,355 --> 00:27:05,715 Speaker 1: figure that one out anyway, because I had the moth 391 00:27:05,795 --> 00:27:10,035 Speaker 1: done on my arm anyway. Yet Ms Newzy did not 392 00:27:10,235 --> 00:27:19,035 Speaker 1: move to seal. To the contrary, she affirmatively stoked press coverage. Then, 393 00:27:19,115 --> 00:27:22,275 Speaker 1: mere hours after Miss Newsy's council received mister Lizza's answer, 394 00:27:22,435 --> 00:27:24,435 Speaker 1: and the day before the public hearing on her petition, 395 00:27:24,635 --> 00:27:28,835 Speaker 1: Miss Newzy suddenly moved to seal everything Ms Newsy cannot 396 00:27:28,835 --> 00:27:32,515 Speaker 1: provide and discuss her petition and its allegations with news organizations, 397 00:27:32,675 --> 00:27:35,875 Speaker 1: and then seek to seal the very record she created 398 00:27:35,915 --> 00:27:41,155 Speaker 1: so as to silence mister Lizza in this litigation. By god, 399 00:27:41,435 --> 00:27:44,635 Speaker 1: I can't argue against him. Plus, what fun will this 400 00:27:44,755 --> 00:27:47,795 Speaker 1: be if it's under seal, because if you think this 401 00:27:47,915 --> 00:27:51,395 Speaker 1: is going away, it isn't. There's another detail that has 402 00:27:51,435 --> 00:27:55,475 Speaker 1: come out now. He's hired a former Bill Clinton attorney, 403 00:27:55,475 --> 00:27:59,835 Speaker 1: Bob Barnett. She's hired a guy who charges five thousand 404 00:27:59,835 --> 00:28:03,355 Speaker 1: dollars for the first meeting and then eight hundred dollars 405 00:28:03,395 --> 00:28:06,035 Speaker 1: an hour. And trust me, if there's one thing I'm 406 00:28:06,075 --> 00:28:09,555 Speaker 1: an authority on, it's how Olivia handles money. And the 407 00:28:09,595 --> 00:28:13,875 Speaker 1: summary of that is she doesn't. I wonder if there's 408 00:28:13,915 --> 00:28:17,435 Speaker 1: a secret bankroll involved in this? Who in this scenario 409 00:28:17,595 --> 00:28:21,915 Speaker 1: with two ink stained, poorly paid wretches and Robert F. 410 00:28:22,035 --> 00:28:26,795 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, maybe somebody else might have money? 411 00:28:27,235 --> 00:28:30,835 Speaker 3: Oh? 412 00:28:31,195 --> 00:28:34,675 Speaker 1: I wonder is that possible? Is he bankrolling her in this? 413 00:28:36,955 --> 00:28:39,595 Speaker 1: Just like wiring her the money or sending it to 414 00:28:39,635 --> 00:28:44,315 Speaker 1: her from Venmo? Never in person? Obviously? Okay, the runner up? 415 00:28:44,355 --> 00:28:46,835 Speaker 1: Why look? Look who it is? The runner up? Wor 416 00:28:46,955 --> 00:28:51,875 Speaker 1: Sir Laura Ingram? Did you know that? In addition to 417 00:28:51,915 --> 00:28:54,635 Speaker 1: her nightly Fascism Hour on Fox, she has a website 418 00:28:54,635 --> 00:28:57,115 Speaker 1: in which she writes about herself in the third person, 419 00:28:57,315 --> 00:28:58,115 Speaker 1: Can I pick them? 420 00:28:58,195 --> 00:28:58,435 Speaker 3: Or what? 421 00:28:59,355 --> 00:29:02,675 Speaker 1: Two worse persons? And they're both my exes? Although to 422 00:29:02,715 --> 00:29:05,355 Speaker 1: be fair. Laura was only one date, and that time 423 00:29:05,395 --> 00:29:08,515 Speaker 1: she took me hostage quote. In her recent appearance on 424 00:29:08,595 --> 00:29:11,995 Speaker 1: Fox and Friends, Laura shared a powerful message with hosts 425 00:29:11,995 --> 00:29:16,915 Speaker 1: and viewers, underscoring the undeniable momentum building across the country. 426 00:29:16,995 --> 00:29:21,675 Speaker 1: She addressed the enthusiasm for former President Donald Trump, enthusiasms, 427 00:29:21,995 --> 00:29:25,595 Speaker 1: and the broader populist movement, painting a vivid picture of 428 00:29:25,635 --> 00:29:28,915 Speaker 1: a nation that is ready to embrace change and restore 429 00:29:28,955 --> 00:29:35,115 Speaker 1: American values she meets white people. Reflecting on the scene 430 00:29:35,115 --> 00:29:42,515 Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, Laura noted the palpable excitement the 431 00:29:42,555 --> 00:29:47,275 Speaker 1: crowd proudly sported red hats and pro Trump attire a 432 00:29:47,355 --> 00:29:50,875 Speaker 1: courageous statement in New York City. Well, they were in 433 00:29:50,915 --> 00:29:55,475 Speaker 1: the Jim Dolans building. He's a fascist. What was brave 434 00:29:55,555 --> 00:29:58,235 Speaker 1: about that? You've got James Dolan, owner of the garden, 435 00:29:58,275 --> 00:30:03,235 Speaker 1: the Rangers, the Knicks, fascist who bans people who criticize 436 00:30:03,275 --> 00:30:05,995 Speaker 1: the team? I mean fan and not media. You want 437 00:30:05,995 --> 00:30:09,875 Speaker 1: to ban the media, I guess ban fans who criticize 438 00:30:09,955 --> 00:30:14,915 Speaker 1: him or the teams, and install facial recognition systems so 439 00:30:14,995 --> 00:30:17,555 Speaker 1: that anybody who works for a company that's suing one 440 00:30:17,555 --> 00:30:20,875 Speaker 1: of his companies. They don't get admission to Radio City 441 00:30:20,955 --> 00:30:24,675 Speaker 1: Musical or a Knick game or a Rangers game. But yeah, 442 00:30:24,675 --> 00:30:27,155 Speaker 1: it was dangerous to be in Madison Square Garden. If 443 00:30:27,155 --> 00:30:30,555 Speaker 1: you're a Nazi, you feel the energy in the room, 444 00:30:30,755 --> 00:30:35,035 Speaker 1: Laura observed, emphasizing that the atmosphere was not overstated. There 445 00:30:35,115 --> 00:30:37,275 Speaker 1: was a happiness in there. I'm sorry I haven't done 446 00:30:37,315 --> 00:30:41,675 Speaker 1: my accent now when the happiness in there, she added, 447 00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:44,915 Speaker 1: countering the often negative narratives portrayed in the media. Yes, 448 00:30:45,235 --> 00:30:47,115 Speaker 1: I would agree with her here the people who hate 449 00:30:47,155 --> 00:30:52,355 Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and Hispanics were extremely happy on Sunday. Moreover, 450 00:30:52,915 --> 00:30:56,075 Speaker 1: Laura suggested that this visible support reflects a shift in 451 00:30:56,155 --> 00:31:00,715 Speaker 1: attitude nationwide the days of heine who you're supporting our owner, 452 00:31:01,155 --> 00:31:04,315 Speaker 1: she asserted. She recalled her recent visit to Texas A 453 00:31:04,355 --> 00:31:07,635 Speaker 1: and M, noting that even on college campuses, Trump supporters 454 00:31:07,675 --> 00:31:11,955 Speaker 1: are beginning to express their beliefs openly. Laura emphasized that 455 00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:15,675 Speaker 1: Americans deserve the right to voice their views freely, whether 456 00:31:15,755 --> 00:31:19,995 Speaker 1: backing Trump or Harris on college campuses. At the end 457 00:31:20,035 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: of the day, I think a lot of kids have 458 00:31:22,635 --> 00:31:27,795 Speaker 1: been afraid to be who they are she said, this 459 00:31:27,955 --> 00:31:31,315 Speaker 1: is true. The racists have been afraid. There's been a 460 00:31:31,355 --> 00:31:35,835 Speaker 1: sheet shortage at most colleges. Think about it, until people 461 00:31:35,915 --> 00:31:39,755 Speaker 1: like Laura and Fox enabled the racists, they were afraid, 462 00:31:40,395 --> 00:31:45,995 Speaker 1: suitably afraid, permanently afraid. You know who else Laura has enabled, 463 00:31:46,435 --> 00:31:49,195 Speaker 1: based on the photo on her website, people who get 464 00:31:49,355 --> 00:31:52,955 Speaker 1: serial plastic surgery. If you go look at this, don't 465 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:55,635 Speaker 1: say I didn't warn you. All right, So here we 466 00:31:55,675 --> 00:31:58,075 Speaker 1: are in a podcast version of that scene I described 467 00:31:58,115 --> 00:32:02,115 Speaker 1: in the Pardon the Interruption offices Ingram on one screen, 468 00:32:02,595 --> 00:32:06,995 Speaker 1: Newsy on another. Could the third one b Katie Turr 469 00:32:07,915 --> 00:32:10,315 Speaker 1: or any of my other exes who names I never 470 00:32:10,355 --> 00:32:13,035 Speaker 1: mentioned because they're not in the media, and I would 471 00:32:13,035 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: have had to bring them up and sort of expose 472 00:32:15,875 --> 00:32:19,915 Speaker 1: them to public comment. No, I don't do that. The 473 00:32:19,955 --> 00:32:26,115 Speaker 1: winner the worst, Ah, Sorry, it's John Stewart. John Stewart, 474 00:32:26,675 --> 00:32:29,795 Speaker 1: the all time third best host of the Daily Show 475 00:32:30,155 --> 00:32:35,035 Speaker 1: after Kilbourne and Noah. Kilbourne and I last spoke in 476 00:32:35,035 --> 00:32:38,155 Speaker 1: two thousand when he retracted an apology on me. It's 477 00:32:38,155 --> 00:32:41,235 Speaker 1: not like we're still buddies or anything. And I was 478 00:32:41,275 --> 00:32:45,075 Speaker 1: probably his best friend at ESPN. I have to say this. 479 00:32:45,795 --> 00:32:49,195 Speaker 1: The only Katie Terr connection is. Katie Turrer agreed that 480 00:32:50,115 --> 00:32:52,635 Speaker 1: Kilbourne was much better on the Daily Show than Stuart was. 481 00:32:53,235 --> 00:32:55,155 Speaker 1: I don't get John Stuart. I didn't get him in 482 00:32:55,155 --> 00:32:57,915 Speaker 1: the nineties when he was the host of Comedy Central's 483 00:32:58,155 --> 00:33:02,155 Speaker 1: Short Attention Span Theater. I didn't get him when he 484 00:33:02,195 --> 00:33:04,675 Speaker 1: only got the Daily Show assignment because somebody at CBA 485 00:33:04,835 --> 00:33:08,355 Speaker 1: got stoned and thought Kilbourne was the ideal follow up 486 00:33:08,395 --> 00:33:10,875 Speaker 1: to Letterman and they gave him the Late Late Show. 487 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:14,795 Speaker 1: During the Bush years, I thought John did some brave stuff, 488 00:33:15,315 --> 00:33:19,355 Speaker 1: but it was amazingly formulaic and stopped being funny very fast, 489 00:33:19,395 --> 00:33:22,595 Speaker 1: and he had this weird grudge against me and anybody 490 00:33:22,675 --> 00:33:26,555 Speaker 1: else who criticized Bush on TV with just occasional humor, 491 00:33:26,635 --> 00:33:29,835 Speaker 1: because I don't know, he was the only one allowed 492 00:33:29,835 --> 00:33:33,315 Speaker 1: to do that. I don't get John Stuart. Well, now 493 00:33:33,395 --> 00:33:35,355 Speaker 1: I don't get him even more than I used to 494 00:33:35,355 --> 00:33:40,315 Speaker 1: not get him. John Stuart has defended Tony Hinchcliffe, the 495 00:33:40,475 --> 00:33:44,155 Speaker 1: racist who posing as a comedian, got up at Madison 496 00:33:44,155 --> 00:33:48,475 Speaker 1: Square Garden and called Puerto Rico garbage and compared Latino's 497 00:33:48,515 --> 00:33:52,315 Speaker 1: moving here to a cheap method of birth control, and 498 00:33:52,395 --> 00:33:54,995 Speaker 1: did so so he could get cheap laughs from the 499 00:33:55,115 --> 00:34:00,275 Speaker 1: cheap racists at Trump's cheap Nazi rally at Madison Square, 500 00:34:00,475 --> 00:34:03,875 Speaker 1: cheap Garden, And as we found out, he workshopped the 501 00:34:03,955 --> 00:34:06,235 Speaker 1: jokes the night for at a New York comedy club 502 00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:08,475 Speaker 1: and he got no laughs, and he did the jokes anyway, 503 00:34:08,515 --> 00:34:10,955 Speaker 1: And anybody who's ever done comedy knows that is the 504 00:34:10,995 --> 00:34:13,635 Speaker 1: surest sign that the point is not to get a 505 00:34:13,715 --> 00:34:17,155 Speaker 1: laugh with your material, but to wear your racism like 506 00:34:17,195 --> 00:34:20,875 Speaker 1: an emblem or symbol. I don't know emblem or symbol. 507 00:34:22,035 --> 00:34:26,435 Speaker 1: I just read random emblems, like a swastika maybe. Anyway, 508 00:34:26,555 --> 00:34:33,235 Speaker 1: John Stewart defended this guy Hinchcliff quote. Obviously in retrospect, 509 00:34:33,515 --> 00:34:36,435 Speaker 1: having a roast comedian come to a political rally a 510 00:34:36,475 --> 00:34:40,195 Speaker 1: week before election day and roasting a key demographic probably 511 00:34:40,195 --> 00:34:43,115 Speaker 1: not the best decision by the campaign politically, But to 512 00:34:43,235 --> 00:34:46,835 Speaker 1: be fair, the guy's just really doing what he does. 513 00:34:48,555 --> 00:34:53,315 Speaker 1: First off, the misunderstanding here that the issue is how 514 00:34:53,355 --> 00:34:56,555 Speaker 1: this affects this idiot nobody ever heard of before and 515 00:34:56,595 --> 00:34:59,995 Speaker 1: now we'll never hear of again, except in this context, Hinchcliff, 516 00:35:00,155 --> 00:35:05,475 Speaker 1: that's not the issue. That's like, you know, blaming the 517 00:35:05,515 --> 00:35:11,395 Speaker 1: bullet but saying that it's fair here. It's okay because 518 00:35:11,435 --> 00:35:13,995 Speaker 1: the guy's just really doing what he does his job, 519 00:35:14,875 --> 00:35:17,155 Speaker 1: his job as being a racist in public on behalf 520 00:35:17,195 --> 00:35:19,635 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Well, then why isn't he in the 521 00:35:19,675 --> 00:35:22,875 Speaker 1: House Republican leadership Because they're not funny either, they're just 522 00:35:22,995 --> 00:35:25,875 Speaker 1: racist bastards like this guy. Everything is fine as long 523 00:35:25,915 --> 00:35:28,555 Speaker 1: as you're just really doing what you do. Is that 524 00:35:28,635 --> 00:35:32,555 Speaker 1: true for a bank robber? John or Ted Bundy? I'm 525 00:35:32,715 --> 00:35:36,395 Speaker 1: just doing what I do. John Stewart was not done. 526 00:35:36,435 --> 00:35:39,635 Speaker 1: He continued to defend Tony Hinchcliffe by showing highlights of 527 00:35:39,715 --> 00:35:43,235 Speaker 1: Hingecliffe at a similar event to the German American Bunned 528 00:35:43,275 --> 00:35:47,515 Speaker 1: eighty fifth anniversary Roast of Minorities at Madison Square Garden 529 00:35:47,555 --> 00:35:50,675 Speaker 1: on Sunday. John Stewart played video of Hingecliff making jokes 530 00:35:50,875 --> 00:35:53,515 Speaker 1: at exactly the same kind of thing, a roast of 531 00:35:54,715 --> 00:36:00,755 Speaker 1: Tom Brady, the football player, the most vanilla man in 532 00:36:00,795 --> 00:36:04,035 Speaker 1: the history of sports. And then John Stewart played these 533 00:36:04,075 --> 00:36:09,195 Speaker 1: clips and laughed, Yes, yes, of course, terrible boo. There's 534 00:36:09,195 --> 00:36:11,555 Speaker 1: something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny. 535 00:36:11,675 --> 00:36:13,715 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, 536 00:36:13,755 --> 00:36:16,115 Speaker 1: bringing him to a rally and having him not do 537 00:36:16,355 --> 00:36:19,675 Speaker 1: roast jokes. That'd be like bringing Beyonce to a rally 538 00:36:19,715 --> 00:36:23,835 Speaker 1: and not and then he gave the patented oops stare 539 00:36:24,035 --> 00:36:27,275 Speaker 1: that John Stewart has used only seventeen thousand times so 540 00:36:27,395 --> 00:36:32,635 Speaker 1: far this decade. The implication is here that being a 541 00:36:32,715 --> 00:36:36,395 Speaker 1: Beyonce not singing at a Kamala Harris event is the 542 00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:39,155 Speaker 1: same as it would be if Tony Hinchcliffe went to 543 00:36:39,195 --> 00:36:42,395 Speaker 1: a Trump fascist rally and was not a racist bastard 544 00:36:42,595 --> 00:36:46,315 Speaker 1: and did not slander Puerto Ricans and Hispanics, And that 545 00:36:46,515 --> 00:36:49,835 Speaker 1: slandering Puerto Ricans and Hispanics at a political rally a 546 00:36:49,875 --> 00:36:53,195 Speaker 1: week before an election is exactly the same as making 547 00:36:53,235 --> 00:36:57,875 Speaker 1: a few jokes about Tom effing Brady because I guess 548 00:36:57,875 --> 00:37:01,235 Speaker 1: what I finally get, John Stewart. John Stewart is a 549 00:37:01,435 --> 00:37:06,635 Speaker 1: freaking idiot. Somewhere long ago, John Stewart decided that comedians 550 00:37:06,835 --> 00:37:09,795 Speaker 1: were always to be defended, no matter if they harmed 551 00:37:10,075 --> 00:37:14,475 Speaker 1: individuals or groups of people, and that jokes were just jokes, 552 00:37:15,075 --> 00:37:17,715 Speaker 1: and if you have a problem with jokes, it's your problem. 553 00:37:18,115 --> 00:37:21,635 Speaker 1: Tony Hinchcliffe was just doing his job. Of course, you 554 00:37:21,635 --> 00:37:26,035 Speaker 1: should make sick racist jokes about a minority group that 555 00:37:26,195 --> 00:37:30,395 Speaker 1: is already under attack a minority group, jokes about them 556 00:37:30,395 --> 00:37:33,795 Speaker 1: that will encourage violence against them and aid the effort 557 00:37:33,835 --> 00:37:38,995 Speaker 1: of a madman who wants to become dictator, and then 558 00:37:39,035 --> 00:37:42,475 Speaker 1: put people like John Stewart in a concentration camp. Because 559 00:37:42,475 --> 00:37:45,235 Speaker 1: that's the same as saying Tom Brady has banged too 560 00:37:45,235 --> 00:37:49,755 Speaker 1: many supermodels. Because we should all be good sports about comedy, 561 00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:52,915 Speaker 1: and we should laugh whenever it helps a comedian, even 562 00:37:52,915 --> 00:37:55,875 Speaker 1: if it leads to death threats against the people the 563 00:37:55,915 --> 00:38:01,195 Speaker 1: comedian clearly hates. Comedy Central has just announced John Stewart 564 00:38:01,235 --> 00:38:04,155 Speaker 1: will continue to do one episode of The Daily Show 565 00:38:04,235 --> 00:38:09,355 Speaker 1: per week into next year, unless Tony Hinchcliff's demented racism 566 00:38:09,595 --> 00:38:13,195 Speaker 1: helps Trump get elected, in which case John will be 567 00:38:13,235 --> 00:38:16,355 Speaker 1: busy living in the cell next to mine in the camp, 568 00:38:16,475 --> 00:38:21,715 Speaker 1: insisting but they were just jokes. I mean, Tom Brady 569 00:38:21,715 --> 00:38:25,995 Speaker 1: didn't put us in a camp, right, Let me go, John, 570 00:38:26,195 --> 00:38:31,155 Speaker 1: People don't matter. Racism doesn't matter. Only laughs matter. Stuart 571 00:38:31,715 --> 00:38:36,995 Speaker 1: two days worst person. I'm sorry it wasn't Katie Turr 572 00:38:37,235 --> 00:38:49,755 Speaker 1: in the world to the number one story on the 573 00:38:49,755 --> 00:38:53,155 Speaker 1: Countdown and the Things You Never Know and the things 574 00:38:53,195 --> 00:38:56,635 Speaker 1: you'll never realize at the time that someday you will 575 00:38:56,675 --> 00:39:02,995 Speaker 1: need to promise not to tell. I met Trump when 576 00:39:03,035 --> 00:39:08,035 Speaker 1: I was twenty four years old. It's a pretty good story. 577 00:39:08,915 --> 00:39:11,635 Speaker 1: His hair was still its original color. Then more or 578 00:39:11,755 --> 00:39:14,435 Speaker 1: less it was thinning. He'd done something to it. It 579 00:39:14,515 --> 00:39:19,835 Speaker 1: was combed strangely. He was weird, unsettling, unnatural. But it 580 00:39:19,875 --> 00:39:22,595 Speaker 1: was New York in nineteen eighty three. Everybody had done 581 00:39:22,635 --> 00:39:25,995 Speaker 1: somebody of their hair. I had a perm everybody was 582 00:39:26,075 --> 00:39:31,955 Speaker 1: weird and unsettling. But if you had said this this 583 00:39:32,075 --> 00:39:34,515 Speaker 1: in the future, this is how this will end up. 584 00:39:34,755 --> 00:39:38,315 Speaker 1: I would never have believed you. The president thing, the 585 00:39:38,395 --> 00:39:42,155 Speaker 1: coop thing, the dictatorship thing, the violence thing, the burying 586 00:39:42,235 --> 00:39:45,195 Speaker 1: the wife on the golf course thing. No, no, no, 587 00:39:45,395 --> 00:39:47,315 Speaker 1: I would have believed all that. I mean, he was 588 00:39:47,435 --> 00:39:51,595 Speaker 1: really weird. I meant the President mccheese thing. 589 00:39:51,835 --> 00:39:54,155 Speaker 2: I like China and I like President Cheese. 590 00:39:54,715 --> 00:39:56,955 Speaker 1: And here's another clip that slipped through the cracks, but 591 00:39:56,995 --> 00:39:59,555 Speaker 1: only for a moment. This was Newsmax. This was the 592 00:39:59,595 --> 00:40:02,995 Speaker 1: interview where Trump just kept talking and talking and talking, 593 00:40:03,155 --> 00:40:07,875 Speaker 1: and even poor dumb Greg Kelly glazed over as he listened, 594 00:40:08,115 --> 00:40:11,395 Speaker 1: and Trump said his big takeaway from the New York 595 00:40:11,475 --> 00:40:15,835 Speaker 1: trial was that none of the jurors smiled at him. 596 00:40:18,195 --> 00:40:20,315 Speaker 1: The light bulb went off over my head. This is 597 00:40:20,555 --> 00:40:24,395 Speaker 1: far more important than it could possibly seem at first. Blush. 598 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:27,075 Speaker 1: There's no way. You heard me say, you're long before 599 00:40:27,115 --> 00:40:30,595 Speaker 1: the verdict that mother Teresa couldn't get a fair trial here. 600 00:40:30,635 --> 00:40:35,555 Speaker 1: I said that, and no, you couldn't. I never saw 601 00:40:35,595 --> 00:40:37,835 Speaker 1: a glimmer of a smile from the jury. No, this 602 00:40:38,035 --> 00:40:41,835 Speaker 1: was a venue that was very unfair. Oh my god, 603 00:40:41,875 --> 00:40:45,835 Speaker 1: did I have a flashback there. I have had the 604 00:40:45,875 --> 00:40:48,755 Speaker 1: misfortune to meet Trump in person four times, the first 605 00:40:48,875 --> 00:40:52,795 Speaker 1: late in nineteen eighty three, and each time I saw 606 00:40:52,875 --> 00:40:57,435 Speaker 1: the exact moment that his face went from an emotionless, 607 00:40:57,875 --> 00:41:04,395 Speaker 1: almost lifeless, certainly non human mask to a beaming, phony smile. 608 00:41:05,315 --> 00:41:10,595 Speaker 1: That's who he is, That's what he thinks is his asset, 609 00:41:10,835 --> 00:41:14,395 Speaker 1: an irresistible smile. You and I look at him and 610 00:41:14,435 --> 00:41:17,955 Speaker 1: see a face of evil and debauchery, and mostly a 611 00:41:17,995 --> 00:41:20,515 Speaker 1: guy who claims to be rich and yet clearly buys 612 00:41:20,555 --> 00:41:23,515 Speaker 1: his makeup at the cheap end of the notions department 613 00:41:23,515 --> 00:41:27,515 Speaker 1: at Filein's basement. But he really thinks he can sell 614 00:41:27,555 --> 00:41:31,595 Speaker 1: anybody anything and somewhere early in life he decided his 615 00:41:31,715 --> 00:41:35,235 Speaker 1: means of doing that was to mimic a human smile 616 00:41:35,835 --> 00:41:39,715 Speaker 1: and really make it as big and as preposterous as possible. 617 00:41:39,835 --> 00:41:42,755 Speaker 1: And he's done this now for at least seventy years, 618 00:41:43,395 --> 00:41:47,675 Speaker 1: from his childhood dementia to this dementia. And the way 619 00:41:47,715 --> 00:41:53,315 Speaker 1: he registers a sail with people, his receipt for convincing 620 00:41:53,395 --> 00:41:57,515 Speaker 1: them to do his bidding is their smile in return. 621 00:41:57,835 --> 00:42:00,355 Speaker 1: So the jury didn't smile at him, so the jury 622 00:42:00,435 --> 00:42:02,955 Speaker 1: was biased against him, so the jury was corrupt, so 623 00:42:02,995 --> 00:42:05,115 Speaker 1: the trial was rigged. So when he it has these 624 00:42:05,195 --> 00:42:07,435 Speaker 1: crazy things, there is a part of him that truly 625 00:42:07,515 --> 00:42:11,075 Speaker 1: believes it is ridge, because they are, as the kids say, 626 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:16,595 Speaker 1: not buying what he's selling. He believes life is a transaction, 627 00:42:16,915 --> 00:42:19,515 Speaker 1: and when he gives you his smile, you have to 628 00:42:19,555 --> 00:42:24,795 Speaker 1: give him yours, and then he owns you. I met 629 00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:26,875 Speaker 1: him in the lobby of the apartment building I used 630 00:42:26,915 --> 00:42:31,835 Speaker 1: to live at here, the no longer Trump Palace. I 631 00:42:31,875 --> 00:42:34,195 Speaker 1: saw him first, then he saw me. Then he whispered 632 00:42:34,195 --> 00:42:36,755 Speaker 1: to one of his flunkies. I'm guessing he was double 633 00:42:36,835 --> 00:42:38,835 Speaker 1: checking it was me. Then he stared at me for 634 00:42:38,835 --> 00:42:42,195 Speaker 1: a moment. Then when he thought I was first looking 635 00:42:42,195 --> 00:42:46,115 Speaker 1: at him, his dead face turned immediately into that fake smile. 636 00:42:47,315 --> 00:42:50,995 Speaker 1: Remember the Senko de Mayo Taco Bowl tweet from twenty 637 00:42:51,075 --> 00:42:53,875 Speaker 1: sixteen where he says, I love Hispanics, like there were 638 00:42:54,195 --> 00:42:56,475 Speaker 1: actual Hispanics in the taco bowl and he was eating 639 00:42:56,515 --> 00:43:01,195 Speaker 1: them that fake smile. But his eyesight is not as 640 00:43:01,195 --> 00:43:03,635 Speaker 1: good as he lets on, so he doesn't know that 641 00:43:03,755 --> 00:43:08,755 Speaker 1: you have seen him from He had done the same 642 00:43:08,795 --> 00:43:12,355 Speaker 1: thing twice in the lobbies of thirty Rock at NBC, 643 00:43:12,595 --> 00:43:16,275 Speaker 1: once stopping just to shake hands, once actually stopping to 644 00:43:16,275 --> 00:43:19,355 Speaker 1: tell me how good countdown was and how pissed off 645 00:43:19,715 --> 00:43:22,315 Speaker 1: his buddy Bill O'Reilly would get whenever he told him 646 00:43:22,315 --> 00:43:25,115 Speaker 1: how good countdown was, and then striding off. And I 647 00:43:25,235 --> 00:43:28,635 Speaker 1: watched to see if I could see that fake smile 648 00:43:28,715 --> 00:43:31,635 Speaker 1: that had appeared so suddenly vanished just as suddenly, but 649 00:43:31,675 --> 00:43:36,395 Speaker 1: his back was turned to me. However, December fifteenth, nineteen 650 00:43:36,435 --> 00:43:39,315 Speaker 1: eighty three, CNN sends me to cover a New York 651 00:43:39,355 --> 00:43:43,995 Speaker 1: Post sports forum where owner George Steinbrenner of the New 652 00:43:44,075 --> 00:43:46,835 Speaker 1: York Yankees, owner Fred Wilpond of the New York Mets, 653 00:43:46,835 --> 00:43:48,955 Speaker 1: Sonny Werblin of the New York Rangers, and Nixon, this 654 00:43:49,395 --> 00:43:52,435 Speaker 1: real estate hump Trump who owned the sort of pro 655 00:43:52,435 --> 00:43:55,155 Speaker 1: football team in New Jersey. They would speak and do 656 00:43:55,235 --> 00:43:58,235 Speaker 1: interviews and meet fans and whatever, and I interviewed them 657 00:43:58,235 --> 00:44:00,835 Speaker 1: all briefly, and when it came time to interview this 658 00:44:00,915 --> 00:44:04,275 Speaker 1: Trump guy, he stood there and looked at me like 659 00:44:05,115 --> 00:44:09,395 Speaker 1: he was trying to guess my weight. Then we put 660 00:44:09,435 --> 00:44:11,435 Speaker 1: the camera light on and there it was, this big 661 00:44:11,555 --> 00:44:14,035 Speaker 1: fake smile out of nowhere. And I asked some questions 662 00:44:14,075 --> 00:44:16,355 Speaker 1: about the New Jersey Generals, and he boasted he was 663 00:44:16,435 --> 00:44:19,235 Speaker 1: hiring a new name coach who used to coach the Jets. 664 00:44:19,275 --> 00:44:21,475 Speaker 1: Only turned out he hadn't hired him yet, and he 665 00:44:21,475 --> 00:44:23,355 Speaker 1: spent a week cleaning up that mess. And when I 666 00:44:23,395 --> 00:44:25,315 Speaker 1: said thank you, when we turned the light off, he 667 00:44:25,395 --> 00:44:28,795 Speaker 1: turned off the big fake smile zap, it was gone, 668 00:44:29,195 --> 00:44:33,715 Speaker 1: and the blank look repeated in his eyes. A couple 669 00:44:33,755 --> 00:44:35,595 Speaker 1: of years ago, on a cold night, I turned a 670 00:44:35,635 --> 00:44:38,595 Speaker 1: corner here and a familiar but older face shouted Keith, 671 00:44:39,115 --> 00:44:42,555 Speaker 1: And suddenly I realized, it's a CNN cameraman I haven't 672 00:44:42,595 --> 00:44:45,195 Speaker 1: seen in thirty years. Remember when we covered Trumpet that 673 00:44:45,275 --> 00:44:48,355 Speaker 1: sports thing? He says, and I realized he was the 674 00:44:48,355 --> 00:44:51,515 Speaker 1: cameraman that day at the post thing. Remember what you 675 00:44:51,555 --> 00:44:54,355 Speaker 1: said about him? And I didn't And he laughs, and 676 00:44:54,355 --> 00:44:56,835 Speaker 1: he says, we were walking back to the truck and 677 00:44:56,915 --> 00:45:00,275 Speaker 1: you didn't say anything, and that worried us, because when 678 00:45:00,275 --> 00:45:02,075 Speaker 1: have you ever shut up for five minutes? And so 679 00:45:02,155 --> 00:45:04,195 Speaker 1: finally I say, what's bothering you? And you stopped and 680 00:45:04,235 --> 00:45:05,795 Speaker 1: you turning, you looked at me and Jimmy, and you 681 00:45:05,835 --> 00:45:09,555 Speaker 1: said that last guy we interviewed Trump, What the f 682 00:45:09,715 --> 00:45:25,835 Speaker 1: is wrong with that guy? I think back often to 683 00:45:25,915 --> 00:45:31,435 Speaker 1: that day in nineteen eighty three. I know I'm not 684 00:45:31,435 --> 00:45:33,755 Speaker 1: going to say what I'm thinking. Thanks for listening. I've 685 00:45:33,795 --> 00:45:35,715 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Five episodes 686 00:45:35,755 --> 00:45:38,435 Speaker 1: a week. Again, we're posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. 687 00:45:38,555 --> 00:45:42,075 Speaker 1: Follow me for the podcast promo videos as well. We 688 00:45:42,155 --> 00:45:45,275 Speaker 1: run them on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram and 689 00:45:45,315 --> 00:45:51,075 Speaker 1: of course facetick once again. Soon I will run out 690 00:45:51,115 --> 00:45:56,235 Speaker 1: of these hybrid names for the social media platforms. Once again, 691 00:45:56,275 --> 00:45:59,755 Speaker 1: there is a Monday countdown, and please forward this podcast 692 00:45:59,795 --> 00:46:03,875 Speaker 1: to anybody. Forward it to John Stewart, I don't care, 693 00:46:04,715 --> 00:46:08,915 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillips, Shanelle musical directors of Countdown arranged, produced, 694 00:46:08,915 --> 00:46:12,195 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration 695 00:46:12,235 --> 00:46:15,315 Speaker 1: and keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, 696 00:46:15,315 --> 00:46:18,595 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and 697 00:46:18,595 --> 00:46:21,595 Speaker 1: fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 698 00:46:21,955 --> 00:46:25,555 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 699 00:46:25,755 --> 00:46:28,915 Speaker 1: ESPN two. It was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy 700 00:46:28,915 --> 00:46:32,235 Speaker 1: of the ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by 701 00:46:32,235 --> 00:46:34,555 Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer today has 702 00:46:34,595 --> 00:46:39,435 Speaker 1: mentioned was my friend Tony Kornheiser. Everything else was pretty 703 00:46:39,595 --> 00:46:44,115 Speaker 1: much my fault. That's countdown for today. Six days until 704 00:46:44,115 --> 00:46:48,715 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election. How's the breathing going 705 00:46:48,755 --> 00:46:52,955 Speaker 1: out there. It's also the three hundred and ninety fourth 706 00:46:53,035 --> 00:46:58,075 Speaker 1: day since convicted felon dissociative fugue Jade Trump got away 707 00:46:58,115 --> 00:47:01,555 Speaker 1: with his first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 708 00:47:01,635 --> 00:47:04,395 Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the election, use the metal 709 00:47:04,435 --> 00:47:07,675 Speaker 1: health system, use presidential immunity to keep him from doing 710 00:47:07,675 --> 00:47:16,675 Speaker 1: it again while we still have chance. The next scheduled 711 00:47:16,675 --> 00:47:20,275 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news requires till the 712 00:47:20,315 --> 00:47:23,595 Speaker 1: next one. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 713 00:47:24,475 --> 00:47:42,875 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 714 00:47:43,115 --> 00:47:48,395 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 715 00:47:48,475 --> 00:47:52,075 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.