1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:14,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:14,635 --> 00:00:18,595 Speaker 1: is a bullet edition of the Countdown podcast. Alexey Navalni 3 00:00:18,755 --> 00:00:23,355 Speaker 1: is dead. The Russian prison service says Vladimir Putin's most vociferous, 4 00:00:23,555 --> 00:00:27,875 Speaker 1: most vital opponent has died after a walk today. Cause 5 00:00:27,915 --> 00:00:32,395 Speaker 1: of death is being established, reads a statement. The cause 6 00:00:32,435 --> 00:00:35,875 Speaker 1: of death is Vladimir Putin. Alexey Nevali is dead and 7 00:00:35,955 --> 00:00:40,435 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is an international terrorist. Alexey Nevali is dead, 8 00:00:40,515 --> 00:00:44,515 Speaker 1: and in his own benighted land, Vladimir Putin is a 9 00:00:44,555 --> 00:00:49,435 Speaker 1: domestic terrorist. Alexey Nevalni is dead, and Vladimir Putin had 10 00:00:49,515 --> 00:00:53,435 Speaker 1: him murdered as sure as if he'd shown him over 11 00:00:53,515 --> 00:00:57,595 Speaker 1: to the window. And after years of arresting him and 12 00:00:57,675 --> 00:01:01,235 Speaker 1: barring him and warning him and threatening him and poisoning 13 00:01:01,355 --> 00:01:04,675 Speaker 1: him and jailing him and sending him to a gulag 14 00:01:04,755 --> 00:01:10,115 Speaker 1: in the Arctic Circle, Putin's Dictatorship's prison service in Yamalo 15 00:01:10,195 --> 00:01:14,435 Speaker 1: Nenets has announced that Navalani had quote felt unwell after 16 00:01:14,475 --> 00:01:19,235 Speaker 1: a walk and had almost immediately lost consciousness. Doctors had 17 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:22,075 Speaker 1: been called and tried to resuscitate him, but without success. 18 00:01:22,275 --> 00:01:25,875 Speaker 1: The emergency doctors declared the prisoner dead. Cause of death 19 00:01:25,955 --> 00:01:31,555 Speaker 1: is being established. Cause of death is Putin and his 20 00:01:31,635 --> 00:01:35,515 Speaker 1: dictatorship and his terrorism and his murder's regime, and most 21 00:01:35,555 --> 00:01:41,035 Speaker 1: importantly for our purposes, his Russian wares inside our government 22 00:01:41,275 --> 00:01:44,795 Speaker 1: and outside our government in this country. And the foremost 23 00:01:44,835 --> 00:01:48,515 Speaker 1: of the Russian wares is Donald Trump, whose efforts on 24 00:01:48,595 --> 00:01:52,355 Speaker 1: behalf of Putin and Medvedev and Lavrov and the other 25 00:01:52,475 --> 00:01:56,595 Speaker 1: Russian garbage before his own election, after his own election, 26 00:01:56,835 --> 00:02:01,075 Speaker 1: and since we shack Trump out may well go down 27 00:02:01,075 --> 00:02:04,595 Speaker 1: in American history as the greatest treachery of anybody since 28 00:02:04,915 --> 00:02:10,795 Speaker 1: Klaus Fuchs or Jefferson Davis or Benedict Arnold. Trump has 29 00:02:10,875 --> 00:02:13,115 Speaker 1: never been able to tell good from evil, but in 30 00:02:13,115 --> 00:02:15,995 Speaker 1: the case of Russia, he has long had a shallow 31 00:02:16,155 --> 00:02:21,035 Speaker 1: understanding of both, and he has always sided with Russia's evil, 32 00:02:21,315 --> 00:02:25,635 Speaker 1: with Putin's evil, he sided with it. Last week he 33 00:02:25,795 --> 00:02:29,435 Speaker 1: told Putin to go ahead and invade Europe despite our 34 00:02:29,555 --> 00:02:33,475 Speaker 1: treaties with NATO countries, and he boasted of Russia's evil. 35 00:02:33,635 --> 00:02:36,115 Speaker 1: And he has serviced it and fed it, and we 36 00:02:36,275 --> 00:02:38,875 Speaker 1: yet do not know what he has fed it, because 37 00:02:38,875 --> 00:02:43,475 Speaker 1: his own appointee overseeing his stolen documents an espionage case 38 00:02:43,475 --> 00:02:47,755 Speaker 1: in Florida, has behaved criminally in delaying and foot dragging 39 00:02:48,035 --> 00:02:52,035 Speaker 1: and corruptly slow walking his trial there. We don't know 40 00:02:52,395 --> 00:02:56,715 Speaker 1: how much Trump has helped Russia. We only know he 41 00:02:56,795 --> 00:03:01,795 Speaker 1: has valued America lesson he has valued Vladimir Putin, And 42 00:03:01,995 --> 00:03:05,595 Speaker 1: unfortunately for the rest of the world, Vladimir Putin is 43 00:03:05,635 --> 00:03:12,235 Speaker 1: alive and Donald Trump is alive, and Alexey Novalni is dead. 44 00:03:13,555 --> 00:03:16,995 Speaker 1: Trump obviously is anything but alone in his American perfidy 45 00:03:16,995 --> 00:03:20,275 Speaker 1: about Russia, far from the only perpetrator in creating the 46 00:03:20,395 --> 00:03:22,515 Speaker 1: environment in which Putin knew he could get away with 47 00:03:22,595 --> 00:03:27,195 Speaker 1: knocking Navalni off the Russian presidential ballot. I mean, where 48 00:03:27,235 --> 00:03:30,435 Speaker 1: do you think Trump got the idea that Hillary Clinton 49 00:03:30,795 --> 00:03:33,475 Speaker 1: or Joe Biden, or whoever most threatened him at the 50 00:03:33,475 --> 00:03:37,835 Speaker 1: moment quote shouldn't be allowed to run for president? Here 51 00:03:38,715 --> 00:03:42,195 Speaker 1: Putin knew Trump would do nothing when he poisoned Novalni, 52 00:03:42,595 --> 00:03:45,355 Speaker 1: and would do nothing when he seized Novalni, And he 53 00:03:45,435 --> 00:03:49,875 Speaker 1: kept Nevale as a judicial hostage until he could kill him. 54 00:03:50,235 --> 00:03:52,795 Speaker 1: And he may have known it because he had blackmail 55 00:03:52,835 --> 00:03:54,795 Speaker 1: on Trump. But whether or not any of that was 56 00:03:54,875 --> 00:03:58,355 Speaker 1: actually even remotely true. Putin also knew he did not 57 00:03:58,635 --> 00:04:03,555 Speaker 1: need blackmail. Trump would simply help Putin's terrorism because in 58 00:04:03,595 --> 00:04:10,155 Speaker 1: Putin Trump sees a role model. But here the authoritarians, 59 00:04:10,515 --> 00:04:16,395 Speaker 1: the conservatives without conscience, the American Republican Russians, the people 60 00:04:16,395 --> 00:04:20,115 Speaker 1: who literally do not care if Russia controls Ukraine because 61 00:04:20,155 --> 00:04:23,315 Speaker 1: Putin thinks it is actually Russian because of the protocols 62 00:04:23,355 --> 00:04:25,755 Speaker 1: of Catherine the Great and it now needs to be 63 00:04:25,835 --> 00:04:29,155 Speaker 1: cleansed of non Russians. There the people who will next 64 00:04:29,315 --> 00:04:32,595 Speaker 1: not care when Putin, as he telegraphed this past week, 65 00:04:32,835 --> 00:04:36,555 Speaker 1: invades Poland because he has now rewritten history, as Ron 66 00:04:36,595 --> 00:04:39,395 Speaker 1: DeSantis and the book banners are trying to rewrite history 67 00:04:39,435 --> 00:04:43,155 Speaker 1: in this country. Only there Putin has created a fantasy 68 00:04:43,195 --> 00:04:46,755 Speaker 1: world in which Poland forced Hitler to start World War II. 69 00:04:47,475 --> 00:04:50,155 Speaker 1: Putin is telling us what he intends to do with 70 00:04:50,235 --> 00:04:52,595 Speaker 1: the death of Novalni. He is telling us what he 71 00:04:52,635 --> 00:04:56,515 Speaker 1: will do to those who oppose him. And Putin, who 72 00:04:56,515 --> 00:05:00,795 Speaker 1: has just Hadnvalini killed, has his new agents here, and 73 00:05:00,915 --> 00:05:04,675 Speaker 1: the most recent of them is Tucker Carlson, who prost 74 00:05:04,755 --> 00:05:07,675 Speaker 1: tutored himself to do what Putin needed him to do, 75 00:05:07,955 --> 00:05:11,595 Speaker 1: and then Putin humiliated him and dismissed him, and Carlson 76 00:05:11,635 --> 00:05:15,675 Speaker 1: doesn't even realize it yet. Two hours Carlson sat there, 77 00:05:15,835 --> 00:05:18,595 Speaker 1: his head nodding up and down like a car dashboard 78 00:05:18,755 --> 00:05:22,675 Speaker 1: babbo head doll, and he never asked Putin about NAVALNI 79 00:05:22,835 --> 00:05:26,075 Speaker 1: And in a post interview conference, the questioner asked why not, 80 00:05:26,195 --> 00:05:30,435 Speaker 1: and Carlson had the audacity to say, quote, every leader 81 00:05:30,635 --> 00:05:36,075 Speaker 1: kills people, some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people. 82 00:05:36,835 --> 00:05:42,275 Speaker 1: And Elon Musk platforms Tucker Carlson. Frankly, we should not 83 00:05:42,395 --> 00:05:45,155 Speaker 1: let Tucker Carlson return to this country, and we should 84 00:05:45,155 --> 00:05:47,915 Speaker 1: see what we can do about throwing Elon Musk out 85 00:05:47,955 --> 00:05:52,355 Speaker 1: of this country. Carlson is that most dangerous of foreign tools, 86 00:05:52,555 --> 00:05:55,115 Speaker 1: the one too stupid to know. He is just what 87 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:59,435 Speaker 1: the Russians have always called a useful idiot, except after 88 00:05:59,475 --> 00:06:03,035 Speaker 1: the recording with Putin, Carlson is no longer useful to him. 89 00:06:03,715 --> 00:06:09,035 Speaker 1: Trump obviously is another one. Rand Paul Tommy Tuberville, Mike Johnson, 90 00:06:09,435 --> 00:06:14,155 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green hell who better defines mental incapacity as 91 00:06:14,275 --> 00:06:18,115 Speaker 1: policy than Marjorie Taylor Green and the others who have 92 00:06:18,195 --> 00:06:21,355 Speaker 1: wilted before Trump's pro Russia stance on Ukraine, and the 93 00:06:21,395 --> 00:06:24,995 Speaker 1: fact that one unelected man can threaten a series of 94 00:06:25,075 --> 00:06:29,275 Speaker 1: elected officials of the United States to do a foreign 95 00:06:29,395 --> 00:06:33,835 Speaker 1: dictator's bidding for him about Ukraine. That fact shows the 96 00:06:33,955 --> 00:06:37,435 Speaker 1: ultimate danger of Trump. He may be too old and 97 00:06:37,555 --> 00:06:41,355 Speaker 1: too deranged, and too physically ill to himself create an 98 00:06:41,395 --> 00:06:44,275 Speaker 1: America that looks like Trump's Russia, but he is ready 99 00:06:44,315 --> 00:06:47,595 Speaker 1: to put the components in place next year for somebody 100 00:06:47,635 --> 00:06:51,955 Speaker 1: else to finish the job. And then it is our 101 00:06:52,075 --> 00:06:55,155 Speaker 1: government that will send troops into another country, not too 102 00:06:55,755 --> 00:06:59,555 Speaker 1: rightly or wrongly try to stabilize that other country, or 103 00:06:59,635 --> 00:07:03,315 Speaker 1: democratize it, or nation build it, or any other cliche 104 00:07:03,435 --> 00:07:08,235 Speaker 1: pertinent to it, to take over another country for its resources, 105 00:07:08,915 --> 00:07:12,035 Speaker 1: to make a desert and call it peace, as Putin 106 00:07:12,155 --> 00:07:15,115 Speaker 1: is doing now in Ukraine, with the help of the 107 00:07:15,155 --> 00:07:19,715 Speaker 1: Republicans in the House and the Senate. And now it 108 00:07:19,795 --> 00:07:24,275 Speaker 1: is time to bury Trump's influence here and bury the 109 00:07:24,315 --> 00:07:28,275 Speaker 1: influence of those pro Russian Republican whorees who would not 110 00:07:28,395 --> 00:07:32,755 Speaker 1: give a damn if Putin took over Mexico. And to 111 00:07:32,875 --> 00:07:35,475 Speaker 1: this we look to the White House and the honorable 112 00:07:35,515 --> 00:07:38,035 Speaker 1: man who leads the free world what's left of it? 113 00:07:38,355 --> 00:07:41,395 Speaker 1: What Trump didn't give away, what Trump didn't undermine. What 114 00:07:41,475 --> 00:07:46,835 Speaker 1: Trump and Putin are not destabilizing at this minute. Nearly 115 00:07:46,915 --> 00:07:49,475 Speaker 1: three years ago, Joe Biden met with Putin at a 116 00:07:49,475 --> 00:07:52,435 Speaker 1: summit in Geneva and was as blunt as he could 117 00:07:52,435 --> 00:07:55,435 Speaker 1: have been with him. Biden warned him about human rights 118 00:07:55,475 --> 00:07:59,155 Speaker 1: and consequences. A reporter asked, Biden, what did you say 119 00:07:59,155 --> 00:08:03,595 Speaker 1: would happen if opposition leader Alexey Navalni dies. The answer 120 00:08:03,595 --> 00:08:06,755 Speaker 1: from President Biden quote, I made it clear to him 121 00:08:06,795 --> 00:08:10,475 Speaker 1: that I believe the consequences of that would be devastating 122 00:08:10,835 --> 00:08:16,035 Speaker 1: for Russia. Well, Alexei Navalni has died. The Vice President, 123 00:08:16,235 --> 00:08:19,755 Speaker 1: speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany about eight 124 00:08:19,875 --> 00:08:24,315 Speaker 1: thirty Eastern time this morning, made clear who killed him. 125 00:08:24,475 --> 00:08:28,875 Speaker 2: Before I begin today, we've all just received reports that 126 00:08:29,035 --> 00:08:33,515 Speaker 2: Alexei Navalni has died in Russia. This is, of course 127 00:08:33,675 --> 00:08:38,275 Speaker 2: terrible news, which we are working to confirm. My prayers 128 00:08:38,355 --> 00:08:41,835 Speaker 2: are with his family, including his wife Julia, who is 129 00:08:41,875 --> 00:08:46,315 Speaker 2: with us today, and if confirmed, this would be a 130 00:08:46,435 --> 00:08:52,475 Speaker 2: further sign of Putin's brutality. Whatever story they tell, let 131 00:08:52,595 --> 00:08:57,755 Speaker 2: us be clear, Russia is responsible and we will have 132 00:08:57,795 --> 00:08:59,275 Speaker 2: more to say on this later. 133 00:08:59,915 --> 00:09:04,595 Speaker 1: As the Vice president said, Navalny's wife, Navali's widow was 134 00:09:04,835 --> 00:09:09,035 Speaker 1: at the Munich Security Conference this morning. My coincidence, when 135 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:12,275 Speaker 1: news of her husband's murder came, she had the courage 136 00:09:12,275 --> 00:09:15,955 Speaker 1: to address the conference through tears, to a standing ovation 137 00:09:16,835 --> 00:09:20,115 Speaker 1: in which she urged in Russian the international community to 138 00:09:20,275 --> 00:09:25,635 Speaker 1: unite and hold Putin personally responsible and his allies, his friends, 139 00:09:25,955 --> 00:09:28,875 Speaker 1: his government for what they did to her husband and 140 00:09:28,955 --> 00:09:32,435 Speaker 1: to Russia, and that she believes this day when the 141 00:09:32,475 --> 00:09:36,035 Speaker 1: world will do so will come sooner than Putin thinks. 142 00:09:37,115 --> 00:09:40,755 Speaker 1: Ending in the rough translation of the BBC, she said 143 00:09:40,835 --> 00:09:43,915 Speaker 1: she wants Putin to know that he and his friends 144 00:09:44,675 --> 00:09:48,475 Speaker 1: will be punished. Julia Navanni also met with the US 145 00:09:48,555 --> 00:09:52,755 Speaker 1: Secretary of State Blincoln and other world leaders. In Russia, 146 00:09:53,195 --> 00:09:57,355 Speaker 1: there has been little formal response. A propagandist working for 147 00:09:57,435 --> 00:10:00,435 Speaker 1: Russian television said, thank god it was not Tucker Carlson. 148 00:10:01,515 --> 00:10:08,355 Speaker 1: Here some leadership emerged, at least solid words. Trump's Vice 149 00:10:08,395 --> 00:10:12,035 Speaker 1: President Mike Pence writes, there is no room in the 150 00:10:12,075 --> 00:10:19,635 Speaker 1: Republican Party for apologists for Putin. Alexey Navalni rip even 151 00:10:19,715 --> 00:10:23,875 Speaker 1: though sadly in fact pretty much all there is in 152 00:10:23,915 --> 00:10:30,235 Speaker 1: the Republican Party is room for apologists for Putin. What 153 00:10:30,395 --> 00:10:33,595 Speaker 1: is needed now is for President Biden to fulfill his 154 00:10:33,675 --> 00:10:38,675 Speaker 1: warning to Putin from twenty twenty one about consequences if 155 00:10:38,755 --> 00:10:42,675 Speaker 1: Navalny was killed. That statement not only needs to be 156 00:10:43,395 --> 00:10:46,675 Speaker 1: more true than ever at this minute, but how President 157 00:10:46,675 --> 00:10:50,595 Speaker 1: Biden responds in the next week to Putin killing Navalny 158 00:10:50,875 --> 00:10:54,995 Speaker 1: may decide whether the next necessity the end of Putin's 159 00:10:54,995 --> 00:10:58,195 Speaker 1: regime and the end of the political lives of Putin's 160 00:10:58,235 --> 00:11:02,275 Speaker 1: stooges in this country, and the fulfillment of Julia Navalni's 161 00:11:02,275 --> 00:11:05,275 Speaker 1: predictions today in Munich, whether or not those things happen, 162 00:11:05,995 --> 00:11:10,355 Speaker 1: whether the world can proceed in some safety and some 163 00:11:10,875 --> 00:11:16,315 Speaker 1: freedom without a menacing dictatorship spanning from Europe to Asia 164 00:11:17,075 --> 00:11:21,915 Speaker 1: to Republican national headquarters. There are many things to do, 165 00:11:22,035 --> 00:11:25,395 Speaker 1: including the complete economic isolation of Russia by the West, 166 00:11:25,795 --> 00:11:29,835 Speaker 1: a complex process that we'll meet with resistance from those 167 00:11:30,075 --> 00:11:33,675 Speaker 1: scoundrels in this country whose first loyalty is not to 168 00:11:33,755 --> 00:11:37,755 Speaker 1: this country, whose first job is to work for Vladimir Putin. 169 00:11:38,395 --> 00:11:42,635 Speaker 1: But the first step is easy comparatively, and its impact 170 00:11:42,715 --> 00:11:46,915 Speaker 1: would be manifold and devastating in Russia and in the 171 00:11:46,915 --> 00:11:52,835 Speaker 1: Republican Party. Three hundred billion dollars in Russian assets frozen 172 00:11:53,235 --> 00:11:58,275 Speaker 1: since Putin invaded Ukraine again two years and one week ago. 173 00:11:58,315 --> 00:12:03,395 Speaker 1: Next Saturday, Biden and the Western leaders should immediately not 174 00:12:03,595 --> 00:12:08,675 Speaker 1: just freeze, but claim those assets and unilaterally award them 175 00:12:08,755 --> 00:12:12,795 Speaker 1: to the government of Ukraine. That three hundred billion dollars 176 00:12:13,235 --> 00:12:17,115 Speaker 1: should begin to destroy Russian ships and should begin to 177 00:12:17,195 --> 00:12:24,835 Speaker 1: destroy Vladimir Putin's regime tomorrow morning. Vladimir Putin has killed 178 00:12:24,955 --> 00:12:32,675 Speaker 1: Alexey Navalni. We must kill Vladimir Putin's role in world affairs. 179 00:12:33,595 --> 00:12:35,555 Speaker 1: The rest of this bulletin edition is a repeat of 180 00:12:35,555 --> 00:12:39,195 Speaker 1: Friday's regular edition of Countdown. It is mostly about Trump's 181 00:12:39,275 --> 00:12:43,995 Speaker 1: legal battles here and a terrible image mistake that he made, 182 00:12:44,435 --> 00:12:48,555 Speaker 1: leading to photographs which could symbolically at least make him 183 00:12:48,995 --> 00:12:53,955 Speaker 1: the prisoner he should be. Putin can send him a 184 00:12:53,955 --> 00:13:08,675 Speaker 1: postcard in jail. Trump's attempt to stall his New York 185 00:13:08,795 --> 00:13:12,315 Speaker 1: trial has failed. That's the trial for claiming hush money 186 00:13:12,315 --> 00:13:14,995 Speaker 1: he paid to the porn star he cheated with on 187 00:13:15,115 --> 00:13:19,595 Speaker 1: his wife three months after she gave birth was legal expenses. 188 00:13:20,355 --> 00:13:22,675 Speaker 1: The New York trial will start thirty four counts as 189 00:13:22,715 --> 00:13:25,635 Speaker 1: planned March twenty fifth, and obviously the implications are that 190 00:13:25,755 --> 00:13:29,955 Speaker 1: Trump trial Air Traffic Control will now be waiving the 191 00:13:30,115 --> 00:13:34,115 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels Trump case in for a landing first, and 192 00:13:34,235 --> 00:13:37,115 Speaker 1: it just told the Trump election subversion case in DC 193 00:13:37,275 --> 00:13:40,115 Speaker 1: to go round and try to set down later. The 194 00:13:40,235 --> 00:13:45,035 Speaker 1: Trump Georgia eleven seven and eighty votes trial is encountering 195 00:13:45,115 --> 00:13:48,795 Speaker 1: some turbulence, even though the only witness claiming any evidence 196 00:13:48,835 --> 00:13:52,795 Speaker 1: of anything improper between Fannie Willis and the extra prosecutor 197 00:13:53,115 --> 00:13:57,755 Speaker 1: cannot remember how or when she found out about the affair. 198 00:13:58,115 --> 00:14:00,275 Speaker 1: And remember, the whole purpose of this is the same 199 00:14:00,315 --> 00:14:04,835 Speaker 1: purpose it always is, stalling the Trump business. And this 200 00:14:05,035 --> 00:14:09,155 Speaker 1: fraud case has already landed and might have deplayed yesterday 201 00:14:09,395 --> 00:14:12,515 Speaker 1: in the same court building as the Trump what did 202 00:14:12,515 --> 00:14:15,115 Speaker 1: you do after your son was born? I did Stormy 203 00:14:15,195 --> 00:14:19,315 Speaker 1: Daniels case, but it didn't. We may hear from Judge 204 00:14:19,395 --> 00:14:21,755 Speaker 1: Arthur and Gern with the final count and the amount 205 00:14:21,955 --> 00:14:25,035 Speaker 1: in the second New York trial as early as today. 206 00:14:25,475 --> 00:14:28,595 Speaker 1: And now the punchline to this brief resume of all 207 00:14:28,635 --> 00:14:31,915 Speaker 1: the criminal trials and other trials that Trump is currently facing. 208 00:14:32,395 --> 00:14:36,675 Speaker 1: None of that none of that is the current Trump 209 00:14:37,035 --> 00:14:56,875 Speaker 1: legal headline. You do not get to survive to become 210 00:14:57,075 --> 00:15:01,635 Speaker 1: a seventy seven year old, deranged, malignant narcissist without being 211 00:15:01,755 --> 00:15:05,795 Speaker 1: really good at controlling your own image. Trump's brain does 212 00:15:05,835 --> 00:15:09,035 Speaker 1: not work right to him. Other people are just furniture 213 00:15:09,075 --> 00:15:12,115 Speaker 1: that can move on its own. He has no courage, 214 00:15:12,275 --> 00:15:15,035 Speaker 1: no conscience, and no conception that the world was not 215 00:15:15,235 --> 00:15:20,235 Speaker 1: created solely for him. But he's good at controlling his 216 00:15:20,395 --> 00:15:25,075 Speaker 1: own image, or at least he was until he made 217 00:15:25,155 --> 00:15:29,355 Speaker 1: what could ultimately be a fatal mistake if the rest 218 00:15:29,395 --> 00:15:32,715 Speaker 1: of us just jump on it, because as he yelled 219 00:15:32,755 --> 00:15:35,715 Speaker 1: at cameras at Manhattan Criminal Court on Center Street in 220 00:15:35,755 --> 00:15:40,395 Speaker 1: New York yesterday, he made a terrible logistical decision. Whenever 221 00:15:40,475 --> 00:15:43,835 Speaker 1: Trump has talked to the media that has been separated 222 00:15:43,835 --> 00:15:47,795 Speaker 1: from him, even by those cold, imposing silver police barricades, 223 00:15:47,835 --> 00:15:50,715 Speaker 1: the one that looks like the bottom half of a 224 00:15:50,835 --> 00:15:54,835 Speaker 1: jail cell, Trump has always managed in that situation to 225 00:15:55,035 --> 00:15:57,995 Speaker 1: position himself in a way in which it is clear 226 00:15:58,515 --> 00:16:01,795 Speaker 1: that it is the media that is behind the half 227 00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:06,915 Speaker 1: jail cell barricades and not him behind them. It's simple, really, 228 00:16:06,955 --> 00:16:09,835 Speaker 1: you stand parallel to those barricades, and you make sure 229 00:16:09,875 --> 00:16:12,035 Speaker 1: you are doing so in such a way that only 230 00:16:12,475 --> 00:16:16,675 Speaker 1: barricades in front of you are visible. Even the taller 231 00:16:16,715 --> 00:16:19,115 Speaker 1: barricades will only go up to the belt line of 232 00:16:19,355 --> 00:16:22,235 Speaker 1: even an average size man as long as they are 233 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:25,395 Speaker 1: in front of him. Photographs of Trump will therefore be 234 00:16:25,555 --> 00:16:28,475 Speaker 1: cropped often, and even if they are not, the barricades 235 00:16:28,555 --> 00:16:32,955 Speaker 1: just look like ordinary railings. But something happened to Trump 236 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:37,675 Speaker 1: yesterday in court. Those police barricades were in front of 237 00:16:37,755 --> 00:16:42,235 Speaker 1: him and also behind him in a kind of loose 238 00:16:42,595 --> 00:16:48,195 Speaker 1: octagon shape. Suddenly there were these half jail cell bars 239 00:16:48,275 --> 00:16:51,795 Speaker 1: in front of him as usual, but also half jail 240 00:16:51,915 --> 00:16:56,955 Speaker 1: cell bars behind him in the distance, so that almost 241 00:16:57,035 --> 00:17:00,555 Speaker 1: every photo of him and every video of him showed 242 00:17:01,035 --> 00:17:03,955 Speaker 1: the ones in the back, and thanks to the laws 243 00:17:03,955 --> 00:17:08,595 Speaker 1: of perspective, they were even with his shoulders or somewhat 244 00:17:08,675 --> 00:17:12,395 Speaker 1: higher than his shoulders, and basically what looked like jail 245 00:17:12,515 --> 00:17:16,955 Speaker 1: cells could not be cropped out of every photo of Trump. 246 00:17:18,115 --> 00:17:21,915 Speaker 1: Just to make it worse, Trump, the incredibly good orchestrator 247 00:17:21,955 --> 00:17:26,435 Speaker 1: of his own image, exacerbated the problem somehow. His lawyer 248 00:17:26,955 --> 00:17:30,195 Speaker 1: stood behind the barricade that was placed perfectly parallel to 249 00:17:30,235 --> 00:17:33,355 Speaker 1: the two men and Trump stood to the lawyer's left, 250 00:17:33,715 --> 00:17:37,755 Speaker 1: and perhaps without ever realizing it, he put himself in 251 00:17:37,875 --> 00:17:43,235 Speaker 1: one of the corners where the front barricade angled backwards. 252 00:17:44,195 --> 00:17:48,515 Speaker 1: So if you have not seen the picture, bars in 253 00:17:48,555 --> 00:17:52,195 Speaker 1: front of Trump, a second set of bars to the 254 00:17:52,355 --> 00:17:55,955 Speaker 1: side of Trump, stretching from where he stood to back 255 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:59,795 Speaker 1: behind him, and to the right of him, a third 256 00:17:59,875 --> 00:18:03,995 Speaker 1: set of bars which sloped back from there in Trump's direction, 257 00:18:04,275 --> 00:18:08,435 Speaker 1: and then the pista resistance, the fourth set of bars 258 00:18:08,875 --> 00:18:15,555 Speaker 1: unmistakable and unavoidable at the height of Trump's shoulders. Trump 259 00:18:16,115 --> 00:18:22,115 Speaker 1: behind bars. Several times. Trump even put his hands on 260 00:18:22,195 --> 00:18:24,355 Speaker 1: the railing in front of him, and he might as 261 00:18:24,395 --> 00:18:27,035 Speaker 1: well have been shouting, get me out of this prison, yell, 262 00:18:27,115 --> 00:18:31,715 Speaker 1: lousy screw. In fact, there is one set of images. 263 00:18:31,755 --> 00:18:35,635 Speaker 1: The photographer was named Timothy Clary of Ajen's Franz Press, 264 00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:39,595 Speaker 1: and he must have put his camera over his own head, 265 00:18:40,195 --> 00:18:45,115 Speaker 1: because in his shots those back bars are literally appearing 266 00:18:45,315 --> 00:18:49,715 Speaker 1: as if they were above Trump's head. The shot is 267 00:18:49,795 --> 00:18:52,835 Speaker 1: so wide that you see perhaps two dozen people leaning 268 00:18:52,875 --> 00:18:55,795 Speaker 1: against walls and standing staring at Trump, and then in 269 00:18:55,835 --> 00:18:59,955 Speaker 1: the middle bars suggesting jail behind him above his head, 270 00:19:00,195 --> 00:19:04,555 Speaker 1: bars suggesting jail to his right, bars suggesting jail in 271 00:19:04,555 --> 00:19:06,995 Speaker 1: front of him. Looking left to right, you see the 272 00:19:07,035 --> 00:19:12,155 Speaker 1: cop outside the barricades, Trump inside the barricades, lawyer inside 273 00:19:12,155 --> 00:19:17,755 Speaker 1: the barricades, second cop outside the barricades. Even if it 274 00:19:17,835 --> 00:19:23,075 Speaker 1: is just on an unconscious level, the photograph screams Trump 275 00:19:23,995 --> 00:19:35,795 Speaker 1: in prison, Trump behind bars, Trump guilty, Trump the criminal, 276 00:19:36,595 --> 00:19:46,835 Speaker 1: Trump indicted, Trump, so indicted, Wait, so indicted. 277 00:19:47,915 --> 00:19:55,755 Speaker 3: Oh, Nancy, I'm so indicted, and I just can't fight it. 278 00:19:57,635 --> 00:20:00,835 Speaker 3: I'm about to go to jail in America likes it. 279 00:20:01,995 --> 00:20:09,155 Speaker 3: I'm so indicted, tightened, and I know, I know the 280 00:20:09,235 --> 00:20:14,315 Speaker 3: unundicted co conspirators can bite it, bite it. 281 00:20:14,995 --> 00:20:18,795 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust. More than that, though, For once, 282 00:20:19,555 --> 00:20:23,595 Speaker 1: it is Trump in that photograph, and most of those photographs, 283 00:20:23,795 --> 00:20:27,995 Speaker 1: it is Trump who is behind bars, and everybody else 284 00:20:28,115 --> 00:20:31,475 Speaker 1: in the shot is free, the court staff, the cops, 285 00:20:31,515 --> 00:20:34,715 Speaker 1: the media. I'll post the photo on Twitter x and 286 00:20:34,715 --> 00:20:38,355 Speaker 1: wherever else I can think to. I've never been on trial. 287 00:20:38,995 --> 00:20:41,875 Speaker 1: I've never actually been a witness or anything else in 288 00:20:41,915 --> 00:20:45,475 Speaker 1: a courtroom. And only once have I ever been in 289 00:20:45,515 --> 00:20:48,795 Speaker 1: a deposition. Of course, it was a two day deposition 290 00:20:48,835 --> 00:20:51,555 Speaker 1: over an issue of fifty million dollars and one of 291 00:20:51,595 --> 00:20:54,595 Speaker 1: the things my very good lawyers for that deposition hammered 292 00:20:54,675 --> 00:20:57,515 Speaker 1: into me for use in the deposition and any other 293 00:20:57,555 --> 00:21:01,395 Speaker 1: time I encountered other lawyers. It was a very simple warning, 294 00:21:02,235 --> 00:21:08,915 Speaker 1: whatever you do, try not to look guilty. And in 295 00:21:08,955 --> 00:21:14,555 Speaker 1: the picture, God does Trump look guilty. I don't know 296 00:21:14,555 --> 00:21:18,195 Speaker 1: if Nicki Gley's campaign can license that image. It merely 297 00:21:18,275 --> 00:21:21,355 Speaker 1: proves her last honest point of her campaign that a 298 00:21:21,395 --> 00:21:25,555 Speaker 1: Trump candidacy will be nothing but him in court. It's 299 00:21:25,595 --> 00:21:28,915 Speaker 1: like five hundred bucks to license the rights to use 300 00:21:28,955 --> 00:21:31,115 Speaker 1: a photo like that off Getty Images, but for a 301 00:21:31,155 --> 00:21:34,635 Speaker 1: campaign would probably be way higher. However, the Biden campaign 302 00:21:34,675 --> 00:21:38,395 Speaker 1: ought to buy that photo and the rights and the 303 00:21:38,475 --> 00:21:42,275 Speaker 1: camera and any piece of video shot from that damning angle, 304 00:21:42,595 --> 00:21:46,195 Speaker 1: and hire the cameraman and plaster it everywhere. Trump on trial, 305 00:21:46,235 --> 00:21:50,475 Speaker 1: you know he's guilty, your Republican nominee only with nominee 306 00:21:50,595 --> 00:21:54,555 Speaker 1: crossed out and defendant written above it in red. On 307 00:21:54,715 --> 00:22:10,755 Speaker 1: this photographer, Tim Clary, lead pipe, cinch, Pulitzer prize. That 308 00:22:10,915 --> 00:22:14,315 Speaker 1: sound effect. That's what the picture looks like. Meanwhile, a 309 00:22:14,355 --> 00:22:18,155 Speaker 1: California grand jury has indicted James Comer's and Sean Hannity's 310 00:22:18,155 --> 00:22:24,035 Speaker 1: and Grandpa Grassley's key FBI informant against the Bidens. He 311 00:22:24,075 --> 00:22:29,595 Speaker 1: did make all that stuff up, the infamous FD one 312 00:22:30,115 --> 00:22:35,435 Speaker 1: zero two three form that Grassley released and Comber tried 313 00:22:35,475 --> 00:22:39,915 Speaker 1: to sell as real about Barisma and bribing the Bidens. 314 00:22:40,475 --> 00:22:42,315 Speaker 1: And when they went back to the informant and they 315 00:22:42,315 --> 00:22:45,915 Speaker 1: said that a Barisma official told him in twenty fifteen, 316 00:22:45,915 --> 00:22:49,315 Speaker 1: according to his story, that he'd bribed the Bidens. But 317 00:22:49,395 --> 00:22:51,835 Speaker 1: it turned out this guy had not met with anybody 318 00:22:51,875 --> 00:22:55,195 Speaker 1: at Barrisma until two years after that, that the timeline 319 00:22:55,275 --> 00:22:58,235 Speaker 1: didn't work. It was obvious he'd made it up. He 320 00:22:58,395 --> 00:23:02,715 Speaker 1: just repeated his crap, which was where sounds awfully like 321 00:23:03,275 --> 00:23:08,435 Speaker 1: Kremlin composed info and James Comer and Chuck Grassley and 322 00:23:08,515 --> 00:23:12,995 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity served as de facto Russian agents in spreading it, 323 00:23:13,395 --> 00:23:18,035 Speaker 1: And now Alexander Smirnoff faces twenty five years in prison 324 00:23:18,115 --> 00:23:24,035 Speaker 1: for lying to the FBI in Russia. FBI sues you. 325 00:23:25,355 --> 00:23:28,035 Speaker 1: If they were democrats, James Comer would have been stripped 326 00:23:28,035 --> 00:23:31,115 Speaker 1: of his chairmanship by right now, possibly forced out of 327 00:23:31,155 --> 00:23:33,835 Speaker 1: the house already, and Chuck Grassley would have been in 328 00:23:33,915 --> 00:23:39,795 Speaker 1: jail years ago. So now Joe Biden's legal problems have 329 00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:42,715 Speaker 1: been reduced to just the one. Unfortunately, that one is 330 00:23:42,795 --> 00:23:47,155 Speaker 1: having an idiot for his attorney general. How Merrick Garland 331 00:23:47,475 --> 00:23:51,155 Speaker 1: has not resigned yet is beyond me. I assume it's 332 00:23:51,275 --> 00:23:53,715 Speaker 1: just because, as we saw in the Trump prosecutions, he 333 00:23:53,755 --> 00:23:58,515 Speaker 1: does nothing quickly or in normal time, or even slowly. 334 00:23:59,435 --> 00:24:01,875 Speaker 1: I presume he cannot go to the bathroom without a 335 00:24:01,955 --> 00:24:06,755 Speaker 1: six month long series of meetings and consultation first. Well, 336 00:24:06,795 --> 00:24:09,675 Speaker 1: now Garland's got to act fast and spit or get 337 00:24:09,715 --> 00:24:11,435 Speaker 1: off the pot, and if he won't, Biden has to 338 00:24:11,435 --> 00:24:17,395 Speaker 1: fire him again. This political prostitute, Robert Her, the Trump 339 00:24:17,435 --> 00:24:22,595 Speaker 1: appointee and now apparently de facto Trump campaign surrogate, the 340 00:24:22,635 --> 00:24:26,915 Speaker 1: centerpiece in what Politico aptly named the Biden Age plot, 341 00:24:27,275 --> 00:24:30,075 Speaker 1: Her is revealing more and more of his plans to 342 00:24:30,155 --> 00:24:35,755 Speaker 1: try to sink the president, violating all legal ethics both 343 00:24:35,755 --> 00:24:40,435 Speaker 1: of them, by including his neurological guesswork about Biden's memory 344 00:24:40,435 --> 00:24:43,755 Speaker 1: inside a special Council investigation that, oh, by the way, 345 00:24:44,075 --> 00:24:49,555 Speaker 1: cleared Biden. That wasn't enough damage to do, That wasn't 346 00:24:49,795 --> 00:24:54,955 Speaker 1: enough prostitution to perform on behalf of Donald Trump. This 347 00:24:55,115 --> 00:24:59,115 Speaker 1: bastard Her, as I keep repeating here is actively and 348 00:24:59,155 --> 00:25:04,195 Speaker 1: not even secretly, arranging to testify to at least the 349 00:25:04,235 --> 00:25:08,715 Speaker 1: House Judiciary Committee. It is now next month. CNN and 350 00:25:08,835 --> 00:25:12,275 Speaker 1: The Times reported yesterday HER's congressional testimony is set for 351 00:25:12,395 --> 00:25:16,115 Speaker 1: March twelfth, and somebody on HER's side of this equation 352 00:25:16,435 --> 00:25:21,275 Speaker 1: has spun HER's tawdry, subhuman question about the president's late 353 00:25:21,355 --> 00:25:26,195 Speaker 1: sun bo as justified because it was Biden and not her, 354 00:25:26,355 --> 00:25:30,555 Speaker 1: who first brought up bo. Biden Axios also reports that 355 00:25:30,675 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: her quote has been in discussions with Sarah Isker, the 356 00:25:34,515 --> 00:25:37,355 Speaker 1: head of public affairs and a senior counselor to Trump's 357 00:25:37,355 --> 00:25:41,035 Speaker 1: deputy attorney general during the Mueller investigation, to help him 358 00:25:41,115 --> 00:25:47,715 Speaker 1: navigate a congressional hearing. Sarah Isker Sarah Isker is the 359 00:25:47,715 --> 00:25:52,075 Speaker 1: federalist phony who attacked Trump in twenty sixteen for having 360 00:25:52,115 --> 00:25:55,995 Speaker 1: threatened to prosecute Hillary Clinton and who bashed CNN as 361 00:25:56,075 --> 00:26:00,875 Speaker 1: fake news and first went to work for Trump as 362 00:26:00,875 --> 00:26:06,235 Speaker 1: the spokesperson for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, all while pitching 363 00:26:06,275 --> 00:26:10,475 Speaker 1: herself for a job with MSNBC and CNN, and finally 364 00:26:10,515 --> 00:26:12,995 Speaker 1: being hired by CNN, which she had called fake news, 365 00:26:13,355 --> 00:26:17,955 Speaker 1: as political editor. They blew her out quickly over there, 366 00:26:18,275 --> 00:26:20,715 Speaker 1: and she was last seen at ABC News before she 367 00:26:20,835 --> 00:26:25,435 Speaker 1: signed on as Robert Hrr's assistant henchman in the aptly 368 00:26:25,475 --> 00:26:31,395 Speaker 1: titled biden Age plot. And now besides this, there is 369 00:26:31,475 --> 00:26:33,635 Speaker 1: a new twist to the biden Age plot. The New 370 00:26:33,755 --> 00:26:36,635 Speaker 1: York Times reported that before it was released, the White 371 00:26:36,635 --> 00:26:39,275 Speaker 1: House pushed back on that report, but did not take 372 00:26:39,315 --> 00:26:41,995 Speaker 1: any of the actions it or the DOJ could have 373 00:26:42,115 --> 00:26:48,635 Speaker 1: done to censor that report. Nobl not smart, but noble. 374 00:26:49,675 --> 00:26:53,395 Speaker 1: The day before the report was released, the DOJ's senior 375 00:26:53,595 --> 00:26:58,195 Speaker 1: career official, a man named Bradley Weinsheimer, wrote back that 376 00:26:58,395 --> 00:27:02,715 Speaker 1: HER's amateur doctoring and his other political opinions inserted into 377 00:27:02,755 --> 00:27:06,475 Speaker 1: his report quote fall well within the department standards for 378 00:27:06,515 --> 00:27:10,235 Speaker 1: public release. The Times does not tell you who this 379 00:27:10,435 --> 00:27:15,435 Speaker 1: Bradley Weinsheimer is. They describe him as the department's senior 380 00:27:15,555 --> 00:27:21,555 Speaker 1: career official or non political appointee. That's bullshit. He is 381 00:27:21,635 --> 00:27:25,075 Speaker 1: hardly that. He was appointed by George H. W. Bush 382 00:27:25,115 --> 00:27:27,715 Speaker 1: to the Department of Justice, and he was elevated to 383 00:27:27,795 --> 00:27:35,035 Speaker 1: his current non political position under Trump. There is nothing 384 00:27:35,195 --> 00:27:40,555 Speaker 1: stopping Merrick Garland from stopping them all dead in their tracks. 385 00:27:40,595 --> 00:27:45,355 Speaker 1: Denying the House Judiciary Committee any material at hers testimony. 386 00:27:45,875 --> 00:27:50,395 Speaker 1: There's nothing stopping him except Garland's own sluggish trees instead 387 00:27:50,395 --> 00:27:54,675 Speaker 1: of the forest phony piety about the Department of Justice 388 00:27:54,755 --> 00:27:59,875 Speaker 1: and Law with a capital L. Eric Garland already missed 389 00:27:59,915 --> 00:28:03,915 Speaker 1: his chance to redact hers utterly uninformed and politically poisoned 390 00:28:03,915 --> 00:28:08,075 Speaker 1: conspiracy thingy. And now we have this Weinsheimer guy involved 391 00:28:08,115 --> 00:28:11,075 Speaker 1: in this, and this Isker involved in this, and it 392 00:28:11,275 --> 00:28:18,075 Speaker 1: is a little miniature right wing conspiracy. Your Department of Justice, 393 00:28:18,355 --> 00:28:22,715 Speaker 1: mister Garland. It just produced a document in which some 394 00:28:22,995 --> 00:28:26,475 Speaker 1: idiot from the Federalist Society was permitted to speculate on 395 00:28:26,555 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: the president's acuity. James Comy and then Bill Barr had 396 00:28:32,275 --> 00:28:37,715 Speaker 1: already turned DOJ and its branches into a political whorehouse, 397 00:28:38,235 --> 00:28:41,475 Speaker 1: and this clown Robert Hurr just turned it into a 398 00:28:41,755 --> 00:28:47,995 Speaker 1: free political whorehouse once again. Garland has to shut this 399 00:28:48,435 --> 00:28:53,395 Speaker 1: down or Biden has to fire him and take the 400 00:28:53,435 --> 00:28:57,115 Speaker 1: fallout for doing so. Unless I don't know, Jack Smith 401 00:28:57,115 --> 00:29:00,395 Speaker 1: has threatened to quit if Garland goes. Unless it's something 402 00:29:00,475 --> 00:29:03,875 Speaker 1: like that, there is no reason to continue to trust 403 00:29:03,955 --> 00:29:08,515 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland a foolish, naive man, not just to do 404 00:29:08,595 --> 00:29:19,235 Speaker 1: the right thing, but to do anything. Remember when I 405 00:29:19,275 --> 00:29:22,795 Speaker 1: said that actor their Sunday shows deceptively edited quotes from 406 00:29:22,835 --> 00:29:26,915 Speaker 1: the non brain parts of her report, edited them like 407 00:29:26,955 --> 00:29:30,755 Speaker 1: you would edit the phrase not guilty into dot dot 408 00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:34,955 Speaker 1: dot guilty. That they needed to fire their anchors and 409 00:29:34,995 --> 00:29:40,035 Speaker 1: their anchors bosses. This is probably a coincidence, but ABC 410 00:29:40,115 --> 00:29:44,995 Speaker 1: News is president. Kim Godwin just discovered, Hey, there's another 411 00:29:45,075 --> 00:29:50,435 Speaker 1: ABC News president above her. Deborah O'Connell has been promoted 412 00:29:50,435 --> 00:29:57,315 Speaker 1: to president News Group and Network's Disney Entertainment. She has 413 00:29:57,395 --> 00:30:00,195 Speaker 1: more words in her job, so that means she's boss. 414 00:30:01,555 --> 00:30:04,675 Speaker 1: This is not necessarily cause in effect, I would actually 415 00:30:04,875 --> 00:30:09,115 Speaker 1: guess it's not clause and effect. Godwin was reportedly hated 416 00:30:09,195 --> 00:30:13,515 Speaker 1: at ABC, and evinced no earthly clue that she knew 417 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:16,955 Speaker 1: what she was doing. But the news president positions the 418 00:30:16,995 --> 00:30:20,475 Speaker 1: producers and management at the key shows. They put those 419 00:30:20,515 --> 00:30:23,795 Speaker 1: people there and keep them there, and it's usually their favorites. 420 00:30:24,355 --> 00:30:27,115 Speaker 1: Not so much with the talent, but definitely the producers 421 00:30:27,115 --> 00:30:30,755 Speaker 1: of shows like Meet the Press and This Week are 422 00:30:30,955 --> 00:30:34,675 Speaker 1: the people that the Kim Goodwins of this world want there. 423 00:30:35,515 --> 00:30:40,275 Speaker 1: So those producers, the ones, particularly at This Week, all 424 00:30:40,315 --> 00:30:44,035 Speaker 1: have to be scared right now because their boss is 425 00:30:44,075 --> 00:30:47,555 Speaker 1: no longer the boss. And by the way, after how 426 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:54,315 Speaker 1: they screwed up the her story good two other TV stories. 427 00:30:54,355 --> 00:30:57,675 Speaker 1: The Washington Post has made a million arteries run cold, 428 00:30:58,235 --> 00:31:01,235 Speaker 1: a nice little feature on biden game strategy for the 429 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:05,115 Speaker 1: election and why nearly three percent of the one hundred 430 00:31:05,115 --> 00:31:08,235 Speaker 1: and thirty million dollars Swing states ad buy that they 431 00:31:08,235 --> 00:31:11,235 Speaker 1: have arranged is going to go for Joe Biden's spots 432 00:31:11,355 --> 00:31:18,915 Speaker 1: in Omaha, Nebraska, three million, seven hundred thousand dollars worth 433 00:31:18,995 --> 00:31:22,755 Speaker 1: of Biden commercials and Biden ad and Biden's streaming stuff 434 00:31:23,595 --> 00:31:31,315 Speaker 1: in Nebraska Well in the second district of Nebraska, that 435 00:31:31,435 --> 00:31:35,115 Speaker 1: state splits its electoral votes. Four are awarded from the 436 00:31:35,155 --> 00:31:39,755 Speaker 1: deeply read first district, one is awarded from the deeply 437 00:31:40,635 --> 00:31:46,555 Speaker 1: Omaha second district. It's kind of blue there, it's a city. 438 00:31:48,395 --> 00:31:51,435 Speaker 1: I'll just read the rest of the little post story. 439 00:31:51,715 --> 00:31:55,315 Speaker 1: Under a scenario where Biden wins the three northern swing 440 00:31:55,355 --> 00:32:01,235 Speaker 1: states and the other uncontested blue states, a loss in 441 00:32:01,355 --> 00:32:05,955 Speaker 1: Nebraska's second district Well could result in a two hundred 442 00:32:05,955 --> 00:32:09,755 Speaker 1: and sixty nine two hundred and sixty nine tie, kicking 443 00:32:09,795 --> 00:32:13,395 Speaker 1: the selection of the president to the House, where Republicans 444 00:32:13,395 --> 00:32:16,355 Speaker 1: currently have an advantage in the number of state delegations 445 00:32:16,435 --> 00:32:21,475 Speaker 1: they control. And remember, if God help us, the House 446 00:32:21,675 --> 00:32:24,995 Speaker 1: ever has to decide who's going to be president. Each 447 00:32:25,475 --> 00:32:30,755 Speaker 1: state gets one vote, and right now the Republicans control 448 00:32:31,235 --> 00:32:37,835 Speaker 1: twenty six state delegations. So you're going to spend three 449 00:32:37,955 --> 00:32:42,555 Speaker 1: point seven mil in the Omaha market? Are we sure 450 00:32:42,595 --> 00:32:47,475 Speaker 1: that's enough? And a year ago today, Tucker Carlson was 451 00:32:47,515 --> 00:32:50,955 Speaker 1: already in negotiations with Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, 452 00:32:51,555 --> 00:32:56,595 Speaker 1: remember Kevin McCarthy, to unleash the greatest blockbuster in the 453 00:32:56,635 --> 00:33:01,515 Speaker 1: history of American television, the real January sixth Tapes, which 454 00:33:01,595 --> 00:33:06,715 Speaker 1: of course turned out to be several days worth of 455 00:33:06,875 --> 00:33:13,155 Speaker 1: video of empty hallways, so didn't wind up being a 456 00:33:13,195 --> 00:33:15,955 Speaker 1: full length Zupruder film. But we didn't know that then. 457 00:33:16,075 --> 00:33:20,035 Speaker 1: A year ago today, and where's Tucker Carlson now filming 458 00:33:20,755 --> 00:33:27,195 Speaker 1: inside a Moscow supermarket explaining that Russia is far better 459 00:33:27,235 --> 00:33:30,275 Speaker 1: than the United States because the prices in the supermarket 460 00:33:30,275 --> 00:33:34,875 Speaker 1: are so low, without ever noting that the prices are 461 00:33:34,915 --> 00:33:37,795 Speaker 1: still two to three times higher than the average Russian 462 00:33:37,835 --> 00:33:43,515 Speaker 1: can ever afford in his lifetime. Moreover, if you thought 463 00:33:43,635 --> 00:33:47,555 Speaker 1: Carlson's flatulent lap sitting interview with the Russian dictator Vladimir 464 00:33:47,595 --> 00:33:50,355 Speaker 1: Putin was useless, I hope you saw how it was 465 00:33:50,435 --> 00:33:56,555 Speaker 1: trashed by a critic named Vladimir Putin. Putin said, I 466 00:33:56,675 --> 00:33:59,995 Speaker 1: honestly thought he would be aggressive and ask so called 467 00:34:00,315 --> 00:34:06,475 Speaker 1: sharp questions, but he chose a different tactic unquote. What's 468 00:34:06,515 --> 00:34:16,555 Speaker 1: he implying there? What's the opposite of sharp? Dull? Soft? Worst? Yet, 469 00:34:17,515 --> 00:34:21,635 Speaker 1: Putin made Carlson release their interview unedited, and then when 470 00:34:21,675 --> 00:34:25,355 Speaker 1: it appeared on the Russian government's official site, they had 471 00:34:25,555 --> 00:34:29,155 Speaker 1: edited out the really dull parts, which turned out to 472 00:34:29,195 --> 00:34:35,635 Speaker 1: be many of Tucker Carlson's questions. One day you're in 473 00:34:35,635 --> 00:34:38,435 Speaker 1: the middle of the Kremlin praising Putin to his face. 474 00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:42,555 Speaker 1: The next day you're praising the prices in the Borsche 475 00:34:42,555 --> 00:34:46,795 Speaker 1: department at the Moscow Win Dixie. So I'd like to 476 00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:52,115 Speaker 1: congratulate Tucker Carlson, the first broadcaster to my knowledge, who 477 00:34:52,195 --> 00:35:00,435 Speaker 1: has been fired by CNN, PBS, MSNBC, Fox News and 478 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:11,515 Speaker 1: now by the KGB. Also of interest here, how many 479 00:35:11,555 --> 00:35:16,155 Speaker 1: different things does Marjorie Taylor Green not understand? I mean, 480 00:35:16,195 --> 00:35:18,755 Speaker 1: I suppose the answer is infinite. I mean, she has 481 00:35:18,795 --> 00:35:22,715 Speaker 1: spent several days congratulating herself now on being named one 482 00:35:22,755 --> 00:35:25,795 Speaker 1: of the impeachment managers for the trial of Secretary Majorcas 483 00:35:25,875 --> 00:35:31,635 Speaker 1: in the Senate, blithely unaware or blithely too stupid to 484 00:35:31,675 --> 00:35:34,155 Speaker 1: be aware that there is not going to be a 485 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:38,075 Speaker 1: trial of Secretary Majorcas in the Senate. The stunt is over. 486 00:35:38,915 --> 00:35:42,675 Speaker 1: But yesterday Marge went back to one of her favorite 487 00:35:42,715 --> 00:35:48,035 Speaker 1: gaps in her knowledge back things and she got called 488 00:35:48,155 --> 00:35:53,595 Speaker 1: out for it. Crushed. Thank you, Congressman Robert Garcia of California. 489 00:35:54,115 --> 00:35:56,515 Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. 490 00:35:58,395 --> 00:36:02,115 Speaker 2: Does his countdown with Keith Oberman. 491 00:36:03,235 --> 00:36:28,635 Speaker 1: Oberman still ahead of us on Countdown. It's Fridays with Thurber, 492 00:36:28,715 --> 00:36:31,715 Speaker 1: and we'll get back to the beginning. To my mind, 493 00:36:31,795 --> 00:36:35,115 Speaker 1: it is the quintessential Thurber story. It's the one I 494 00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:39,075 Speaker 1: heard the actor William Windham recite on public television in 495 00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:43,035 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven in his one man Thurber Show. And 496 00:36:43,115 --> 00:36:45,515 Speaker 1: I thought, I wonder if I could ever have a 497 00:36:45,675 --> 00:36:49,915 Speaker 1: job that would let me read Thurber stories out loud 498 00:36:51,315 --> 00:36:56,995 Speaker 1: for an audience. The perfection of a box to hide 499 00:36:57,075 --> 00:37:00,395 Speaker 1: in coming up first, Yes, it's the daily roundup of 500 00:37:00,435 --> 00:37:04,435 Speaker 1: the miscrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens, who constitute 501 00:37:04,475 --> 00:37:10,395 Speaker 1: two days worse parsons in the world, the bronze worse 502 00:37:11,035 --> 00:37:14,955 Speaker 1: Nike and Major League Baseball. Nike is the new supplier 503 00:37:15,115 --> 00:37:17,795 Speaker 1: of baseball's uniforms, and thus they are the people who 504 00:37:17,795 --> 00:37:23,555 Speaker 1: have brought everybody in the game into rare agreement. Everybody 505 00:37:23,555 --> 00:37:26,875 Speaker 1: in the game loves to disagree. That's the point about baseball. 506 00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:29,355 Speaker 1: It's about to end. Somebody says, oh, no, it's never 507 00:37:29,395 --> 00:37:33,195 Speaker 1: been better, says somebody else. Now we all agree. Young fans, 508 00:37:34,035 --> 00:37:38,235 Speaker 1: uniform nerds, old reporters now in their seventh decade of 509 00:37:38,275 --> 00:37:41,755 Speaker 1: going to games, and the players themselves, they are all 510 00:37:41,795 --> 00:37:49,235 Speaker 1: saying the same thing. This February, the new uniforms suck eggs. 511 00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:53,835 Speaker 1: As spring training begins, everybody can see the obvious. The 512 00:37:53,955 --> 00:37:57,915 Speaker 1: numbers and the player names have been shrunk to near illegibility. 513 00:37:58,515 --> 00:38:01,595 Speaker 1: Outfielder Taylor Ward of the Angels says they look like 514 00:38:01,755 --> 00:38:05,635 Speaker 1: replica uniforms. Somebody else said, yeah, they look like replicas 515 00:38:05,635 --> 00:38:10,315 Speaker 1: at TJ Max. But it's worse than that. The hefty 516 00:38:10,395 --> 00:38:13,995 Speaker 1: and large Angels reliever at Carlos Estevez pointed out to 517 00:38:14,035 --> 00:38:17,555 Speaker 1: reporters that the white in his team's pants does not 518 00:38:17,715 --> 00:38:21,355 Speaker 1: match the white in his team's shirts, and Estebez says 519 00:38:21,355 --> 00:38:24,115 Speaker 1: he can't fit into his pants and they will not 520 00:38:24,275 --> 00:38:27,515 Speaker 1: let him tailor his pants. I feel like I'm wearing 521 00:38:27,595 --> 00:38:33,195 Speaker 1: someone else's pants. The blue in the Cubs uniforms, according 522 00:38:33,195 --> 00:38:35,875 Speaker 1: to a Cubs player, does not appear to be the 523 00:38:35,915 --> 00:38:38,875 Speaker 1: same blue. The Cubs have warren since the mid nineteen fifties, 524 00:38:39,195 --> 00:38:44,395 Speaker 1: and they have screwed up the fabled script Dodgers uniforms 525 00:38:44,435 --> 00:38:47,395 Speaker 1: of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The shirt used to open 526 00:38:47,515 --> 00:38:51,075 Speaker 1: used to button between the O and the middle D 527 00:38:51,355 --> 00:38:54,475 Speaker 1: in the word Dodgers across the chest. Now it opens 528 00:38:54,515 --> 00:38:57,235 Speaker 1: in the middle of the O. So if an LA 529 00:38:57,355 --> 00:39:00,155 Speaker 1: player has his top buttons un button, it really looks 530 00:39:00,195 --> 00:39:10,635 Speaker 1: like his uniform reads Dugers eod Gers, Dudegers. The next 531 00:39:10,635 --> 00:39:12,595 Speaker 1: complaint will come from the fans when they find out 532 00:39:12,595 --> 00:39:14,995 Speaker 1: that the price of one of these replicant uniforms has 533 00:39:15,115 --> 00:39:20,715 Speaker 1: risen to about four hundred dollars. The runner up worser, 534 00:39:21,235 --> 00:39:26,795 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Barney Rubble, please get your deviated septum fixed. 535 00:39:26,915 --> 00:39:33,035 Speaker 1: Green the first congress person dumber than Rosie the robot 536 00:39:33,155 --> 00:39:34,435 Speaker 1: from the Jetsons. 537 00:39:34,675 --> 00:39:36,875 Speaker 4: I'm not a doctor, but I have a PhD In 538 00:39:36,955 --> 00:39:40,195 Speaker 4: recognizing bullshit when I hear it. It's time to be 539 00:39:40,315 --> 00:39:43,955 Speaker 4: honest about the vaccine injured and we need to stop 540 00:39:44,395 --> 00:39:47,915 Speaker 4: allowing these COVID nineteen vaccines to be given out to 541 00:39:48,115 --> 00:39:51,355 Speaker 4: children in lady's time has expired, and now recognize mister 542 00:39:51,395 --> 00:39:54,075 Speaker 4: Garcia from California for five minutes of questions. 543 00:39:54,315 --> 00:39:56,835 Speaker 1: Thank you, so Chairman. I'm sorry you all had to 544 00:39:56,875 --> 00:39:57,395 Speaker 1: go through that. 545 00:39:57,395 --> 00:40:01,275 Speaker 5: That was a lot of conspiracy theories and wild accusations 546 00:40:01,875 --> 00:40:05,155 Speaker 5: which we now have been debunked by medical and we 547 00:40:05,195 --> 00:40:08,595 Speaker 5: should be clear that vaccines work and save lives, and 548 00:40:08,635 --> 00:40:10,715 Speaker 5: they have millions of lives in this country. 549 00:40:11,075 --> 00:40:15,635 Speaker 1: Good lord, I mean Marjorie Taylor Green can't spell PhD. 550 00:40:17,275 --> 00:40:20,515 Speaker 1: Thank you, Congressman Garcia. But our winner the worst the 551 00:40:20,595 --> 00:40:24,435 Speaker 1: Associated Press, you know, for the most concentrated, most absurd 552 00:40:24,515 --> 00:40:28,075 Speaker 1: both siding of the presidential election. The AP, which is 553 00:40:28,155 --> 00:40:32,395 Speaker 1: usually just bland and shallow, may have won the award 554 00:40:33,195 --> 00:40:36,395 Speaker 1: for all of journalism. In the month of February. The 555 00:40:36,435 --> 00:40:40,595 Speaker 1: headline of a story analyzing Congressman elect Tom Swase's victory 556 00:40:41,035 --> 00:40:44,035 Speaker 1: in the special election in the New York Third quote, 557 00:40:44,475 --> 00:40:48,115 Speaker 1: Democrats cheered New York win as good omen for November. 558 00:40:49,155 --> 00:40:58,515 Speaker 1: But is it enough to calm anxiety over Biden? The 559 00:40:58,595 --> 00:41:04,315 Speaker 1: Associated Press. I swear to Jesus if Kamala Harris discovered 560 00:41:04,355 --> 00:41:09,835 Speaker 1: a pill guaranteeing everybody eternal life, and she was handing 561 00:41:09,835 --> 00:41:13,235 Speaker 1: them out to everybody on the street. Here take two, 562 00:41:13,675 --> 00:41:18,755 Speaker 1: somebody would write, Democrats cheer public reaction to their immortality pill, 563 00:41:19,235 --> 00:41:24,075 Speaker 1: but is it enough to calm anxiety over Biden? Today's 564 00:41:24,795 --> 00:41:50,515 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. It's been a long week. 565 00:41:51,115 --> 00:41:54,115 Speaker 1: And every time I find myself thinking it's been a 566 00:41:54,195 --> 00:41:57,395 Speaker 1: long week, I like to turn to my book of 567 00:41:57,515 --> 00:42:00,235 Speaker 1: James Thurber, and it's Fridays with Thurber. And it's been 568 00:42:00,235 --> 00:42:03,155 Speaker 1: a few fridays since I've done any James Thurber. And 569 00:42:03,275 --> 00:42:06,355 Speaker 1: so let's start at the beginning. As I've mentioned many times, 570 00:42:06,395 --> 00:42:09,275 Speaker 1: I read this story first aloud in a class in 571 00:42:09,315 --> 00:42:11,875 Speaker 1: college in nineteen seventy nine, and a friend of mine 572 00:42:11,915 --> 00:42:13,435 Speaker 1: came up to me and said, you should forget that 573 00:42:13,515 --> 00:42:17,435 Speaker 1: sportscasting thing. You should read Thurber for a living, And 574 00:42:17,515 --> 00:42:21,115 Speaker 1: I said, yeah, that'll ever happen. This is for some 575 00:42:21,275 --> 00:42:26,275 Speaker 1: reason salvation for me, Catharsis, and every other emotion that 576 00:42:26,395 --> 00:42:32,195 Speaker 1: is appropriate after it has been a long week. A 577 00:42:32,275 --> 00:42:39,755 Speaker 1: Box to Hide In by James Thurber. I waited till 578 00:42:39,795 --> 00:42:44,035 Speaker 1: the large woman with the awful hat took up her 579 00:42:44,075 --> 00:42:48,915 Speaker 1: sack of groceries and went out, peering at the tomatoes 580 00:42:48,995 --> 00:42:52,275 Speaker 1: and the lettuce on her way. The clerk asked me 581 00:42:52,315 --> 00:42:56,875 Speaker 1: what mine was. Have you got a box, I asked, 582 00:42:57,315 --> 00:43:01,195 Speaker 1: A large box. I want a box to hide in. 583 00:43:02,715 --> 00:43:06,395 Speaker 1: You want a box, he asked, I want a box 584 00:43:06,435 --> 00:43:09,275 Speaker 1: to hide in. I said, what do you mean? He said, 585 00:43:09,355 --> 00:43:12,435 Speaker 1: you mean a big box? I said, I meant a 586 00:43:12,595 --> 00:43:15,395 Speaker 1: big box big enough to hold me. I haven't got 587 00:43:15,395 --> 00:43:18,795 Speaker 1: any boxes, he said, only cottons that cans come in. 588 00:43:20,795 --> 00:43:23,355 Speaker 1: I tried several other groceries and none of them had 589 00:43:23,395 --> 00:43:26,155 Speaker 1: a box big enough for me to hide in. And 590 00:43:26,235 --> 00:43:30,315 Speaker 1: there was nothing for it but to face life out. 591 00:43:30,955 --> 00:43:34,515 Speaker 1: I didn't feel strong, and I'd had this overpowering desire 592 00:43:34,555 --> 00:43:40,755 Speaker 1: to hide in a box for a long time. Well, 593 00:43:40,835 --> 00:43:42,475 Speaker 1: what do you mean you want to hide in this box? 594 00:43:42,995 --> 00:43:47,835 Speaker 1: One grocer asked me. It's a form of escape. I 595 00:43:47,915 --> 00:43:52,195 Speaker 1: told him, hiding in a box. It circumscribes your worries 596 00:43:52,355 --> 00:43:56,955 Speaker 1: in the range of your anguish. You don't see people either. 597 00:43:58,195 --> 00:44:00,075 Speaker 1: How the hell do you eat when you're in this box, 598 00:44:00,515 --> 00:44:02,395 Speaker 1: asked the grocer, How the hell do you get anything 599 00:44:02,435 --> 00:44:05,875 Speaker 1: to eat? I said I'd never been in a box 600 00:44:05,915 --> 00:44:09,555 Speaker 1: and didn't know, but that that would take care of itself. Well, 601 00:44:09,755 --> 00:44:13,155 Speaker 1: he said, finally, I haven't got any boxes, only some 602 00:44:13,475 --> 00:44:18,035 Speaker 1: pasteboard curtains that cans come in. It was the same 603 00:44:18,475 --> 00:44:21,835 Speaker 1: every place. I gave up when it got dark and 604 00:44:21,915 --> 00:44:26,235 Speaker 1: the groceries closed, and hid in my room again. I 605 00:44:26,315 --> 00:44:28,795 Speaker 1: turned out the light and lay on the bed. You 606 00:44:28,875 --> 00:44:32,755 Speaker 1: feel better when it gets dark. I could have hit 607 00:44:32,835 --> 00:44:37,515 Speaker 1: in a closet, I suppose, but people are always opening doors. 608 00:44:38,795 --> 00:44:42,435 Speaker 1: Somebody would find you in a closet. They would be startled, 609 00:44:42,515 --> 00:44:44,995 Speaker 1: and you'd have to tell them why you're in the closet. 610 00:44:45,395 --> 00:44:48,795 Speaker 1: Nobody pays attention to a big box line on the floor. 611 00:44:49,155 --> 00:44:53,355 Speaker 1: You could stay in it for days and nobody'd think 612 00:44:53,475 --> 00:45:00,115 Speaker 1: to look in it, not even the cleaning woman. My 613 00:45:00,395 --> 00:45:02,915 Speaker 1: cleaning woman came the next morning and woke me up, 614 00:45:03,235 --> 00:45:06,155 Speaker 1: and I was still feeling bad. I asked her if 615 00:45:06,155 --> 00:45:09,195 Speaker 1: she knew where I could get a large box. How 616 00:45:09,235 --> 00:45:12,995 Speaker 1: big a box you want she asked, I want a 617 00:45:12,995 --> 00:45:15,555 Speaker 1: box big enough for me to get inside of, I said. 618 00:45:16,635 --> 00:45:21,035 Speaker 1: She looked at me with big, dim eyes. There's something 619 00:45:21,075 --> 00:45:24,955 Speaker 1: wrong with her glands. She's awful, but she has a 620 00:45:24,955 --> 00:45:29,715 Speaker 1: big heart, which makes it worse. She's unbearable. Her husband 621 00:45:29,755 --> 00:45:32,075 Speaker 1: is sick, and her children are sick, and she is 622 00:45:32,155 --> 00:45:34,595 Speaker 1: sick too. I got to thinking how pleasant it would 623 00:45:34,595 --> 00:45:36,555 Speaker 1: be if I were in a box now and didn't 624 00:45:36,555 --> 00:45:38,635 Speaker 1: have to see her. I'd be in a box right 625 00:45:38,675 --> 00:45:40,875 Speaker 1: there in the room, and she wouldn't know. I wondered, 626 00:45:40,875 --> 00:45:44,555 Speaker 1: if you had a desire to bark or laugh when 627 00:45:44,555 --> 00:45:48,155 Speaker 1: someone who doesn't know walks by the box you were in, 628 00:45:50,075 --> 00:45:52,435 Speaker 1: maybe she would have a spell with her heart. If 629 00:45:52,475 --> 00:45:56,915 Speaker 1: I did that would die right there. The officers and 630 00:45:56,955 --> 00:46:00,555 Speaker 1: the elevator man and mister Grammage would find us funny. 631 00:46:00,635 --> 00:46:03,355 Speaker 1: Dog gone thing happened at the building last night. The 632 00:46:03,395 --> 00:46:05,555 Speaker 1: doorman would say to his wife, I led in this 633 00:46:05,595 --> 00:46:07,595 Speaker 1: woman to clean up tenf and she never come out. 634 00:46:07,675 --> 00:46:10,035 Speaker 1: See She's never in there more in an hour, but 635 00:46:10,075 --> 00:46:12,715 Speaker 1: she never come out. See. So when it got time 636 00:46:12,715 --> 00:46:14,635 Speaker 1: for me to go off duty, why, I says to Krenic, 637 00:46:14,675 --> 00:46:16,435 Speaker 1: who was on the elevator. I says, what the hell 638 00:46:16,515 --> 00:46:19,835 Speaker 1: you suppose happened to that woman cleans tenf? He says 639 00:46:19,875 --> 00:46:22,115 Speaker 1: he didn't know. He says he never seen her after 640 00:46:22,155 --> 00:46:24,835 Speaker 1: he took her up. So I spoke to mister Drammage 641 00:46:24,835 --> 00:46:28,315 Speaker 1: about it. I'm sorry to bother you, mister Grammage, I says, 642 00:46:28,755 --> 00:46:32,315 Speaker 1: but there's something funny about that woman cleans tenf. So 643 00:46:32,435 --> 00:46:34,795 Speaker 1: I told him so he said we better have a look, 644 00:46:34,835 --> 00:46:36,675 Speaker 1: and we all three goes up and knots on the 645 00:46:36,675 --> 00:46:39,595 Speaker 1: door and rings the bells see and nobody answers. So 646 00:46:39,635 --> 00:46:41,835 Speaker 1: he said we'd have to walk in. So Credick opened 647 00:46:41,875 --> 00:46:43,955 Speaker 1: the door and we walked in, and here was this 648 00:46:44,035 --> 00:46:49,355 Speaker 1: woman cleans the apartment, dead as a herring on the floor, 649 00:46:50,315 --> 00:46:54,315 Speaker 1: and the gentleman that lives there was in a box. 650 00:46:57,555 --> 00:47:00,675 Speaker 1: The cleaning woman kept looking at me. It was hard 651 00:47:00,715 --> 00:47:06,635 Speaker 1: to realize she wasn't dead. It's a form of escape. 652 00:47:06,995 --> 00:47:13,395 Speaker 1: I murmured, what say? She asked, Dully, you don't know 653 00:47:13,395 --> 00:47:17,435 Speaker 1: of any large packing boxes, do you? I asked, now, 654 00:47:17,555 --> 00:47:22,755 Speaker 1: I don't. She said, I haven't found one yet, But 655 00:47:22,915 --> 00:47:27,035 Speaker 1: I still have this overpowering urge to hide in a box. 656 00:47:28,595 --> 00:47:31,595 Speaker 1: Maybe it will go away, maybe I'll be all right, 657 00:47:33,155 --> 00:47:39,915 Speaker 1: maybe it will get worse. It's hard to say. A 658 00:47:39,955 --> 00:47:57,475 Speaker 1: box to hide in by James Thurber. I've done all 659 00:47:57,515 --> 00:47:59,435 Speaker 1: the damage I can do. Here Here are the credits. 660 00:47:59,435 --> 00:48:01,955 Speaker 1: Most of the music was arranged, produced, and performed by 661 00:48:01,955 --> 00:48:04,595 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, who are the count 662 00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:09,995 Speaker 1: On musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Schaneil, guitars, 663 00:48:10,035 --> 00:48:13,635 Speaker 1: bass and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. 664 00:48:13,995 --> 00:48:16,675 Speaker 1: Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by the 665 00:48:16,675 --> 00:48:19,995 Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Olberman 666 00:48:20,075 --> 00:48:22,315 Speaker 1: theme from ESPN two and it was written by Mitch 667 00:48:22,355 --> 00:48:26,755 Speaker 1: Warren Davis and appears courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical comments 668 00:48:26,755 --> 00:48:29,995 Speaker 1: from Nancy Faust the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our 669 00:48:30,075 --> 00:48:32,755 Speaker 1: announcer was John Dean, and everything else is pretty much 670 00:48:32,795 --> 00:48:35,395 Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this the eight hundred 671 00:48:35,395 --> 00:48:38,795 Speaker 1: and sixty fourth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 672 00:48:38,795 --> 00:48:41,955 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Don't 673 00:48:41,995 --> 00:48:46,355 Speaker 1: forget to keep arresting him while we still can. The 674 00:48:46,395 --> 00:48:49,475 Speaker 1: next schedule countdown is Monday, and until then, I'm Keith Oldriman, 675 00:48:49,515 --> 00:49:10,715 Speaker 1: good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 676 00:49:10,795 --> 00:49:14,515 Speaker 1: with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more 677 00:49:14,595 --> 00:49:19,555 Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 678 00:49:19,595 --> 00:49:21,435 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.