Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Michigan.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris fifty three, Trump forty two, Arizona Harris forty nine,
Speaker 1: Trump forty seven, Wisconsin Harris forty nine, Trump forty seven,
Speaker 1: Nevada Harris forty seven, Trump forty five, Georgia Harris forty seven,
Speaker 1: Trump forty seven, North Carolina Trump forty eight, Harris forty six,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Trump fifty Harris forty six, seven swing states combined.
Speaker 1: In these polls by Morning Consult for Bloomberg News, Harris
Speaker 1: forty eight Trump forty seven, or as Bloomberg headlined it,
Speaker 1: quote Harris erases Trump's swing state lead, but Ma Nate
Speaker 1: sil Robert tells me Harris only has a thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent chance of winning. Well Son Nate Silver is full
Speaker 1: of shit. I'll get back to that. I'll get back
Speaker 1: to him. I'll get back to why the majority of
Speaker 1: political news organizations are dismissing Harris and all the pro
Speaker 1: Harris polls, and since she replaced President Biden, they've basically
Speaker 1: all been pro Harris poles. And I'll get back to
Speaker 1: the theory of commentary and political election forecasting as it
Speaker 1: was explained to me forty years ago, and the other
Speaker 1: theory that political reporting must be like Shakespearean acting. Don't
Speaker 1: you dare try anything thought of newer than the year
Speaker 1: eighteen twenty seven. But first, I'd like to point out
Speaker 1: that there are startling differences between some of these state
Speaker 1: polls and the ones. Say Fox News published just Sunday,
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Morning Consult has her ahead by eleven in miss Michigan,
Speaker 1: Fox had her tied. In Michigan, Fox had her tied.
Speaker 1: In Pennsylvania, Bloomberg Morning Consult has her behind by four.
Speaker 1: A Pennsylvania based polster, Susquehanna, came out yesterday with Harris
Speaker 1: ahead in Pennsylvania by four. There were also two new
Speaker 1: national polls yesterday, IPSOS doing one for the Bipartisan Veterans
Speaker 1: Lobbying Group with Honor Action Harris thirty eight, Trump thirty eight,
Speaker 1: Kennedy four. And you have the famous Redfield pole, which
Speaker 1: was Trump head of Biden by one and is now
Speaker 1: Harris ahead of Trump by two. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: place no value on it because A it's based in London,
Speaker 1: and B it's Redfield, which sounds like Renfield. And if
Speaker 1: it's the Renfield Pole. Then it's a pole of Dracula's henchman,
Speaker 1: so naturally it will lean Trump. Seriously, there are lots
Speaker 1: of labyrinthine explanations about the variability of the numbers from
Speaker 1: pole to pole, especially since these are done of registered voters,
Speaker 1: But the real explanation is a lot simpler than it
Speaker 1: would seem. Early this afternoon, Wednesday afternoon, the thirty first
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's presidential campaign turns ten days old. Lots of
Speaker 1: people who have lost lots of elections by lots of
Speaker 1: votes dismissed the polls by saying, well, it's early. But
Speaker 1: if ever it were literally true that it's early, it's
Speaker 1: right now. It's early. As I said the other day,
Speaker 1: there are millions of Americans who literally do not know
Speaker 1: that Kamala Harris and not Joe Biden is the Democratic
Speaker 1: nominee for president of the United States. Millions. The poll
Speaker 1: numbers are all over the place, and incidentally, the direction
Speaker 1: is not. Those Bloomberg swing state numbers had Trump favored
Speaker 1: over Biden on the economy by fourteen points. Harris has
Speaker 1: cut this to eight points in the new Bloomberg numbers.
Speaker 1: Almost two thirds of black voters in these swing states
Speaker 1: said they were now more likely to vote in November
Speaker 1: than they had been. More than one third of all
Speaker 1: voters in the swing states said that. However, the first
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty words of the axios Am newsletter
Speaker 1: yesterday were entirely about Trump's cabinet choices and such amazingly
Speaker 1: tone def do you guys read the room? Do you
Speaker 1: guys even know there is a room? Sentences like this one.
Speaker 1: Sources said jd Vance would be very involved with planning
Speaker 1: Trump's transition the high stakes period between election day and
Speaker 1: the inauguration, as if jd Vance were not hanging on
Speaker 1: to his VP nomination by an eyelash, an eyelash with
Speaker 1: eyeliner on it. Meanwhile, the first one and twenty six
Speaker 1: words of the Politico Morning briefing yesterday, so it was
Speaker 1: twice as wrong. They were entirely about Trump's attack ad onslaught,
Speaker 1: and they included sentences like this bit of well warring quote.
Speaker 1: Trump insiders aren't fretting, far from it, According to our
Speaker 1: conversations last night with senior GOP officials, who remained confident
Speaker 1: that the sheen surrounding Harris will soon fade and their
Speaker 1: attacks on her record will sink in with critical swing voters.
Speaker 1: And of course there's that Nate Silver thing I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: in which he presents a reasonable assessment of the state
Speaker 1: of the poll of polls Trump forty four and a half,
Speaker 1: Harris forty four and a tenth, Kennedy down to five percent.
Speaker 1: But then he explains that his formula shows Trump still
Speaker 1: has a sixty one point three percent chance of winning
Speaker 1: the electoral College. And that's the essence of it. The
Speaker 1: word his, it's Axios's sources, it's Politico's insiders, it's Nate
Speaker 1: Silver's formula. The essence of running a name brand political website,
Speaker 1: especially an electoral forecast website, is to make sure that
Speaker 1: they are your sources and your formulae and your forecast,
Speaker 1: and nobody else's. This stands out now in the news business,
Speaker 1: it looks stupid. It didn't used to stand up. This
Speaker 1: is the way it used to be. When I first
Speaker 1: started at NBC News, I went on the brand new
Speaker 1: Internet to read what the hell the Washington Post had
Speaker 1: to say about this latest minuscule development in the Clinton
Speaker 1: Lewinsky investigations that we were about to do another hour
Speaker 1: about live and so I quoted them, and I then
Speaker 1: went over to the New York Times website and I
Speaker 1: waited for its twice daily update so I could print
Speaker 1: out their story and quote them. And the next day
Speaker 1: I had three NBC News vice presidents on the phone
Speaker 1: with me tell me I could never do that again.
Speaker 1: I could only use NBC reporting on that story. And
Speaker 1: I said there wasn't any NBC reporting on that story.
Speaker 1: She was off that night, and they said, well, then
Speaker 1: you can't do the story. So I said, the executive
Speaker 1: producer chose it as the lead story and built the graphics,
Speaker 1: and boy were they stumped. But we can't trust their sources.
Speaker 1: One of them said, I was appalled. You can't trust
Speaker 1: the Washington Posts and New York Times sources on this story.
Speaker 1: Our four people on this are better than their forty each.
Speaker 1: I should rely on Lisa Myers, who was wrong three
Speaker 1: times last week and was off yesterday. They actually deferred
Speaker 1: to me on that one, mostly because my show was
Speaker 1: making them money, which was a first for MSN. But
Speaker 1: the remnants of this idea, well, you can't quote CBS
Speaker 1: on NBC. This still exists in political news and electoral
Speaker 1: forecasting because you never have to identify your own sources
Speaker 1: nor explain your own formula. But you can blame your
Speaker 1: own sources and your own formula. You can claim unseen
Speaker 1: events caused your source to be wrong, or uh your
Speaker 1: formula to inaccurately self tweak or twerk. Theoretically, though I
Speaker 1: don't think this is true. You don't even have to
Speaker 1: have sources or a formula. You could have just made
Speaker 1: it up. The goal isn't accurate news at Politico or
Speaker 1: Axios or Nate Silver's website. Do you remember what Axios
Speaker 1: or Politico reported a month ago about Trump maybe active,
Speaker 1: the assassination attempt, about Biden and how he was going
Speaker 1: to stay in no matter what, do you really remember
Speaker 1: Nate Silver's numbers on the midterms. The goal is brand
Speaker 1: awareness without you actually remembering any of the ugly details.
Speaker 1: And in the more mainstream organizations, there is something else
Speaker 1: that continues to be in play, the cubby hole system,
Speaker 1: a political coverage of which I've spoken a thousand times.
Speaker 1: Harris looks to maintain momentum as honeymoon phase winds down.
Speaker 1: New York Times headline from yesterday before the Bloomberg Swing
Speaker 1: state polling a few hours later before the selection of
Speaker 1: the vice presidential candidate, which is a honeymoon phase, and
Speaker 1: before the Democratic Convention, which is another honeymoon phase. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. Harris looks to maintain momentum as honey moon
Speaker 1: phase lines down. It's almost August. It's on the calendar.
Speaker 1: It's called the Pooh Pooh method. History says X will
Speaker 1: happen now. Therefore, my prediction is X. The problem arises
Speaker 1: when nothing in history happens to match the current situation,
Speaker 1: in which case you try to jam the current situation
Speaker 1: into the history cubbyhole, whether it fits or not. The
Speaker 1: entirety of the Trump presidency was viewed this way. Remember
Speaker 1: that Washington Post column, We'll be all right no matter
Speaker 1: who gets elected. The entirety of the Trump post presidency
Speaker 1: was viewed this way. That twenty twenty three Trump campaign
Speaker 1: was viewed this way. The assassination attempt, Man goddamn Jones
Speaker 1: is still expecting a pivot right now. It just has
Speaker 1: to happen. It just has to it, says it here
Speaker 1: in the history of predictions, we have always been at
Speaker 1: war with East Asia. This brings me back to those
Speaker 1: two theories that I learned so very long ago. The
Speaker 1: Royal Shakespeare Company presents the brand new eighteen twenty seven
Speaker 1: season of performances. This is a very simple one. It
Speaker 1: is a theory that suggests that other than the real
Speaker 1: attempts to go outside the narrative in which you're playing
Speaker 1: Julius Caesar but it happened in nineteen sixty six, or
Speaker 1: it's Hamlet in Brooklyn, if you're not going completely overboard
Speaker 1: in terms of setting, if you're actually trying to present
Speaker 1: the play in the original setting in Hamlet's Denmark, in
Speaker 1: King Lear's country, if you're supposed to do it the
Speaker 1: way Shakespeare had it set up. If you try to
Speaker 1: do something that William Charles McCready wouldn't have done in
Speaker 1: eighteen thirty, goddamn you to hell. The theory is that
Speaker 1: all of the great Shakespearean actors, particularly of the twentieth century,
Speaker 1: were simply doing impression of the great Shakespearean actors of
Speaker 1: the nineteenth century. That anybody who tried anything really different
Speaker 1: got thrown out on his ass. And thus it is
Speaker 1: with political reporting. Oh, presidents have always mellowed in office.
Speaker 1: There won't be any ban, there won't be any attempt
Speaker 1: to stay in office. We've always had a peaceful transition
Speaker 1: of power, which, by the way, was never true, but
Speaker 1: we've decided to pretend it year after year after year.
Speaker 1: And somebody in the back goes, what about eighteen sixty,
Speaker 1: How peaceful was that? Try it? And the next thing
Speaker 1: you know, somebody's thrown a bag over his head and
Speaker 1: smuggled them out. The other part, of course, is the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five theory, and I'm the only one who
Speaker 1: calls it that, but it sounds pretty damn good, the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five theory. I got to work in local
Speaker 1: television the year before that and changed jobs, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to not mention this, and not mention the guy
Speaker 1: who told me this, who I had immense respect for
Speaker 1: and is no longer alive and can't defend himself, and
Speaker 1: gave me a thousand good pieces of advice, and this
Speaker 1: one really crappy piece of advice he did not long
Speaker 1: after my arrival at his station. He did a heartfelt
Speaker 1: commentary on terrorists. There was a terrorist act in which
Speaker 1: a group of terrorists took over a cruise ship and
Speaker 1: pushed a man, a passenger who was in a wheelchair
Speaker 1: off the cruise ship to show that they were serious. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you're going to do a commentary about this, you're
Speaker 1: going to come out against that. Very few television commentators,
Speaker 1: even in an unusual market like Los Angeles, would come
Speaker 1: out in favor of pushing a man who was in
Speaker 1: a wheelchair off the deck of a cruise ship. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: his commentary that night was exactly about this and how
Speaker 1: horrible terrorism was and how wrong they were to do
Speaker 1: this to this man. I believe the ship was called
Speaker 1: the Achille laure but I may have that wrong. The
Speaker 1: Achille Laurel may have been the thing that sank in
Speaker 1: the fifties. I can never keep ships straight. It's not
Speaker 1: Titanic in any event. Without my even asking him about it,
Speaker 1: I asked how often he did commentaries, and he said
Speaker 1: very rarely, because the goal of a commentary is to
Speaker 1: make sure that you never do a commentary that anybody
Speaker 1: disagrees with. I could feel lunch coming up my throat.
Speaker 1: Never do a commentary anybody disagrees with. No, if you
Speaker 1: do a commentary and it's controversial and fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the people listening don't agree with you, you've lost half
Speaker 1: your audience. And I thought, well, all right, He didn't
Speaker 1: skip math class. He's right about that. Go on, you
Speaker 1: must make sure you don't get into this trap. It's
Speaker 1: very very enticing to go out there and say something
Speaker 1: bold and provocative. And I thought, what could you say
Speaker 1: bold and prorocative about or provocative in English? What could
Speaker 1: you say about the horrors of pushing a man in
Speaker 1: a wheelchair off the deck of a ship? What could
Speaker 1: you say that might be provocative and get people angry
Speaker 1: about it? Like, you know, at least it was a
Speaker 1: good sounding splash. I mean, what could you what could
Speaker 1: you possibly No, don't answer it. I don't want to
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. But he explained that if he
Speaker 1: lost half the audience on this commentary, I suppose by
Speaker 1: coming out in favor of terrorism, and then he did
Speaker 1: another commentary that half the people agreed with, he'd be
Speaker 1: down to one quarter of his audience, and then twelve
Speaker 1: and a half percent, and soon he would just be
Speaker 1: talking to me. That man's name was Chuck Todd. No,
Speaker 1: it was not. Chuck Todd was just a boy at
Speaker 1: that point, and still is. I did not think very
Speaker 1: favorably about news commentary after that, and I swore to myself,
Speaker 1: swore to myself that I would never follow up on
Speaker 1: a kind of vague, unclear dream in the back of
Speaker 1: my head someday not only do the news, but do
Speaker 1: news commentary. I would never in my life do that,
Speaker 1: and thank god, I have never done news or news commentary.
Speaker 1: Let me blow through a couple of other headlines here
Speaker 1: Olverman does news commentary. Reuters is reporting that the Vice
Speaker 1: president is going to announce her vice presidential pick as
Speaker 1: early as Monday, before she begins a multi state battleground
Speaker 1: tour with the running mate later in the week. Two
Speaker 1: sources quota Reuters the high stakes decision on who will
Speaker 1: run blah blah blah blah blah. Harris will announce your
Speaker 1: vice presidentill pick before next week's tour of states that
Speaker 1: could swing to Republicans or Democrats in November. One of
Speaker 1: the sources said, I have no idea. I have no
Speaker 1: idea who it is. Does give you a sense of timing.
Speaker 1: There is, after all, the convention coming up, and the
Speaker 1: printing of ballots and various legal requirements for a vice
Speaker 1: president to be named a date which JD. Vance could
Speaker 1: tell you off the top of his head in every
Speaker 1: state of the Union. I like tim Walls, the governor
Speaker 1: of Minnesota. I worry about giving back some of the
Speaker 1: youth thing, since you know, he looks like Rupert Murdoch.
Speaker 1: Now if you changed his glasses, he might not look
Speaker 1: like Rupert Murdoch anymore. I'm not kidding. Worlds have turned
Speaker 1: on things like what kind of frames a guy is wearing?
Speaker 1: Polling Among them, Democrats repeatedly favors Pete footage edge. There
Speaker 1: is the possibility that you are overfilling the let's break
Speaker 1: all the boundaries at once bag. In doing that, A
Speaker 1: lot of people see Mark Kelly and say astronaut and
Speaker 1: say and I like this idea a lot. He has
Speaker 1: an identical twin brother. How would you know that you
Speaker 1: didn't have two vice presidents? And I say, have you
Speaker 1: ever heard either of them speak in public? We need
Speaker 1: a rousing campaigner here. Shapiro, who just dropped an s
Speaker 1: bomb out on the campaign trail yesterday, qualifies, absolutely, Waltz
Speaker 1: certainly qualifies. But just keep thinking. If you're gonna go
Speaker 1: with tim Ah, could could could we get Dvance to loan?
Speaker 1: Could we get jd Vance to loan some of his
Speaker 1: just for men? Maybe just just don't give back all
Speaker 1: of the youth that Kamala had Harris represents. Speaking of
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, boy oh boy, Trump sure has those great
Speaker 1: political instincts going. He's doubled down on the idea that
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, married to a Jewish Man, hates the Jews. ABC.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump, in an interview on Tuesday, claimed Harris,
Speaker 1: who is married to a Jewish man, quote, doesn't like
Speaker 1: Jewish people, and seem to agree. He agreed with a
Speaker 1: radio host who called Doug M Hoff quote a crappy Jew.
Speaker 1: I think, from an advertising point of view, that perhaps
Speaker 1: you want to have of, say several million dollars invested
Speaker 1: in billboards that simply read Trump quote a crappy Jew
Speaker 1: and offer no context, no explanation as to who he
Speaker 1: is calling a crappy Jew. Trump calls him a quote
Speaker 1: crappy jew unquote. See how far Trump gets at that point.
Speaker 1: But he went on WABC rate in New York yesterday,
Speaker 1: formerly one of the great radio stations of all time.
Speaker 1: I have worked there, and now the place where they
Speaker 1: still hope Rush Limbaugh will come back from the dead
Speaker 1: and be better than some of their other hosts, like
Speaker 1: this idiot Sid Rosenberg. Trump said that Harris looked uncomfortable
Speaker 1: while she met with Benjamin and Yahoo last week. You
Speaker 1: can see the disdain. He said. He doesn't know what
Speaker 1: the word disdain means. Number One, she doesn't like Israel.
Speaker 1: Number two, she didn't like Jewish people. You know it,
Speaker 1: I know it. Everybody knows it. Nobody wants to say it.
Speaker 1: Every time Trump refers to everybody knows it, it means
Speaker 1: he's had more conversations with the invisible people who exist
Speaker 1: only in his head. I'm right. Don't you all agree
Speaker 1: with me? See I told you they all agreed with me. Wooo,
Speaker 1: weird is a compliment for Donald Trump. Trump continued of Harris,
Speaker 1: she disliked Jewish people and Israel even more than Biden did.
Speaker 1: This host Rosenberg used to be a sportscaster. I'm not
Speaker 1: holding that against him. Used to be a bad sportscaster.
Speaker 1: I am holding that against him. He said Venus and
Speaker 1: Serena Williams were animals. He said they should be posing
Speaker 1: in a magazine, not Playboy but National Geographic. That's who
Speaker 1: Sid Rosenberg is. Scum bag. On a good day, he's
Speaker 1: a scumbag. So then they had this dialogue. He in
Speaker 1: Rosenberg Rosenberg says he's Jewish, like Bernie Sanders is Jewish.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Trump says, yeh. Rosenberg says he's
Speaker 1: a crappy jew. Yeah, Trump said again. Rosenberg goes on
Speaker 1: saying of em Hoff, he's a horrible jew. Trump says, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think you could get somewhere just
Speaker 1: this and that. Testimony from nineteen ninety from the late
Speaker 1: missus near the first t Trump, who testified that he
Speaker 1: kept a copy of Hitler's speeches on a nightstand next
Speaker 1: to his bed, and there was a big argument. Trump
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that you knew that it was
Speaker 1: not mind. COMF, No, I didn't have mine. COMF, did
Speaker 1: you have another Hitler book? No comment? Then he explained
Speaker 1: that he was given the book by somebody who was Jewish.
Speaker 1: I just think you might be able to do more
Speaker 1: with this. Donald Trump is an anti Semite. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is a racist. Why are we not doing more with this?
Speaker 1: Especially since this subject might be of some importance to
Speaker 1: the new nominee for president and her husband. Last headline,
Speaker 1: I'm beginning to think, as a veteran follower of the
Speaker 1: New York Mets baseball team that jd Vance, Trump's vice
Speaker 1: presidential nominee. Wait, let me check, yes, still a based
Speaker 1: presidential nominee. Okay, jd Vance. Watching him implode is like
Speaker 1: watching the general manager of the New York Mets self destruct.
Speaker 1: And we've had a bunch of them turned out. This
Speaker 1: whole thing he's denying about. Oh, I was just having
Speaker 1: some fun by calling Democratic women who didn't have children
Speaker 1: cat ladies. He fundraised off that while running for Senate,
Speaker 1: and Media Matters found three more Fox interviews late in
Speaker 1: July and early in August of twenty twenty one in
Speaker 1: which he went after Democrats were being childless. Let me
Speaker 1: just quote them. Vance claim during those appearances that the
Speaker 1: Left has effectively been taken over by a lot of childless,
Speaker 1: childless people, childish people, well, we're guilty of that obviously,
Speaker 1: but childless people ensuring that the Democratic Party is quote
Speaker 1: dominated by a bunch of sociopaths who don't care about
Speaker 1: America's children, and told Kamala Harris, AOC and so forth
Speaker 1: to have your own kids and layoff of mine. The
Speaker 1: night after he attacked Democratic childless cat ladies on Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson Show. Remember Tucker Carlson, Vance returned to Fox and
Speaker 1: told Tammy Bruce that he was quote sick of these
Speaker 1: bureaucrats experimenting on my children by requiring kids to be
Speaker 1: vaccinated against COVID nineteen and recommending masking in schools. There
Speaker 1: was one other observation I will leave you with on
Speaker 1: the subject of JD. Vance before he disappears, and he
Speaker 1: has some sort of personal issue like Trump threatened to
Speaker 1: kill him or something. All those childless keep saying childish, childish,
Speaker 1: childless cat ladies, all of them that he has insulted.
Speaker 1: You know who's childless? Ginny Thomas is childless. What's her
Speaker 1: husband doing again? Let's the ohh on that's writer. Her
Speaker 1: husband is the corrupt Supreme Court justice. That's right, She's
Speaker 1: a childish, childish cat lady, according to JD Vance. Bye,
Speaker 1: JD have a nice time. Hey. I understand the Mets
Speaker 1: will be looking for a general manager next year. Also
Speaker 1: of interest here, I do not mind the National Association
Speaker 1: of Black Journalists interviewing Trump on stage in Chicago, even
Speaker 1: though he's also a white supremacist who believes there are
Speaker 1: quote black jobs unquote. What I mind is them not
Speaker 1: having a journalist interview Trump. What kind of journalism is
Speaker 1: there in having moderate the panel, a person who is
Speaker 1: paid to fluff for fascism on national television every day.
Speaker 1: A Trump student huge is going to interview Trump at
Speaker 1: the NABJ convention, a biased, unsalvageable apologist for Trump. This
Speaker 1: is a terribly ironic thing for me to say, I
Speaker 1: can abide Trump being there. I cannot accept Harris fing
Speaker 1: Faulkner being there. That's next. This is countdown. This is
Speaker 1: countdown with Keith Oboman still ahead of us on this
Speaker 1: edition of Countdown. It is hard to believe that on Friday,
Speaker 1: it will have been forty five years since the captain
Speaker 1: of the New York Yankees baseball team was killed piloting
Speaker 1: his own, our own private plane, taking lessons for it
Speaker 1: at an airport in Ohio. And in those days when
Speaker 1: there was not yet an Internet, there was not yet
Speaker 1: an ESPN, there was not yet even a CNN. There
Speaker 1: were about eight prominent national radio networks covering the story
Speaker 1: in real time. The TV networks that would have were
Speaker 1: not on the air. The sportscaster on one of those
Speaker 1: radio networks was a rookie who had been in the
Speaker 1: business for about eight days and had to figure out
Speaker 1: how to cover this extraordinary story. The rookie was me.
Speaker 1: That's coming up in things I promised not to tell first,
Speaker 1: there's still more idiots to talk about. The daily roundup
Speaker 1: of the mis grants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens
Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world. And we
Speaker 1: start with honorary mention me. If you listened early yesterday,
Speaker 1: say before eight am Eastern time, you heard the show
Speaker 1: begin with the theme and then me doing this and
Speaker 1: then starting the theme again. Now this happens, I cough.
Speaker 1: I will confess to having coughed throughout my lifetime. Yes
Speaker 1: it's true. JD Vance, I'm a cougher. But what I
Speaker 1: normally do is stop the recording and start a new one.
Speaker 1: And for some reason I did not stop the recording.
Speaker 1: I simply kept recording. And so when it came time
Speaker 1: for me to edit the show together, I took the
Speaker 1: first take and played the whole thing, So you heard
Speaker 1: what I just recreated for you. This was indicative of
Speaker 1: the fact that I have something going on as usual
Speaker 1: chest wise, and it's just summer, and you know, climate
Speaker 1: change and pollution and age mostly age. So I apologize.
Speaker 1: We'll try to have heard any of that in the future.
Speaker 1: I just talked like this much easier in my voice anyway.
Speaker 1: That's why this one has been a little more disjointed
Speaker 1: and less prepared. Of course, they're a little bit more
Speaker 1: fun when they're less prepared, because I don't pre edit.
Speaker 1: For instance, the Bronze Matt Gates. Matt Gates has now
Speaker 1: written about the Venezuelan quote election unquote, and what he
Speaker 1: doesn't understand is that we're all pretty much in agreement here.
Speaker 1: Maduro lost and is trying to stay in power. And
Speaker 1: yet Matt Gates writes, Maduro lost the election in Venezuela badly,
Speaker 1: then simply declared victory anyway. He is an illegitimate dictator. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't mean to tell mister Gates his business. Who
Speaker 1: am I kidding? That's all I've done professionally since nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine is to tell other people their business. Matt Gates,
Speaker 1: who supported Donald Trump losing the election in the United
Speaker 1: States badly not four years ago, then simply declared victory
Speaker 1: anyway and tried to be an illegitimate dictator. When he
Speaker 1: writes the same thing of Maduro, Matt are you four
Speaker 1: or against? You're against this, Matt Gates. I mean it's
Speaker 1: like Matt Gates suddenly declared himself being against botox or well,
Speaker 1: botox overdoses, Botox overdoses just before you're supposed to go
Speaker 1: on stage and speak at the Republican National Convention. I
Speaker 1: owah oh, I'm uh gret uh Clara any day now
Speaker 1: talk about starting a show with a random cough. My god,
Speaker 1: runner up once again Florida would be Congresswoman Laura Lumer
Speaker 1: Trump's favorite crazy person from Florida, and god knows, there's
Speaker 1: only about a thousand in the competition for it. She
Speaker 1: put out on Twitter, scoop, I hear that a black
Speaker 1: trans doctor will be performing an abortion on a white
Speaker 1: woman live on stage at the DNC convention in Chicago
Speaker 1: this August. Now. Lumer has in the past posted a
Speaker 1: series of conspiracy theories, mostly about mash shootings. She said
Speaker 1: that the school shooting at Parkland, Florida, in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and the one a few months later in Texas at
Speaker 1: Santa Fe were staged. That the twenty seventeen Las Vegas
Speaker 1: shootings at the music concert was an ISIS guy, she
Speaker 1: claimed on Twitter, that there were crisis actors used at
Speaker 1: the Santa Fe, Texas school shooting. She said that the
Speaker 1: man arrested in South Dakota with bomb making equipment was
Speaker 1: a Antifa terrorist. In fact, he was a conservative who
Speaker 1: despised Antifa and liberals. Laura luma are also reported there
Speaker 1: the nineteen or the twenty eighteen male bombing attempts, the
Speaker 1: magabomber Sezar Sayak was a false flag operation orchestrated by Democrats.
Speaker 1: You remember, Saysar Sayak. He was the guy who had
Speaker 1: a van, every inch of which was covered with a
Speaker 1: Trump sticker of some kind, and he mailed pipe bombs
Speaker 1: to various Trump critics. And about a year later, when
Speaker 1: they opened up his computer and finished processing it and
Speaker 1: seeing if there were more things to send him to
Speaker 1: prison to life for, they found his second wave list
Speaker 1: of targets and I was on the second wave of targets.
Speaker 1: So this is what she's done before. She also accused
Speaker 1: Casey DeSantis, when Ron Desantris was running against Trump for
Speaker 1: the Republican nomination, of exaggerating her breast cancer in hopes
Speaker 1: that that would somehow get her husband more votes somehow.
Speaker 1: So that's who Laura Lumer has been and she posted
Speaker 1: that the black trans doctor would have performed an abortion
Speaker 1: on a white woman live on stage at the DNC
Speaker 1: in Chicago scoop with the little red sirens attached to
Speaker 1: it an hour and a half after that. It's very
Speaker 1: telling as well as scary, that a joke can be
Speaker 1: confused as an actual possibility for what the Democrats would do. No,
Speaker 1: that's not what happened. It's what's scary and telling here
Speaker 1: is that Laura Lumer could say something that she thought
Speaker 1: would be too ridiculous to be taken seriously, and everybody
Speaker 1: else said, well, that ranks about b B minus on
Speaker 1: her list of insane things and conspiracies that she's attempted
Speaker 1: to foist on the American public. Either because she hates
Speaker 1: the truth, she hates reality, she's willing to sell out
Speaker 1: reality to try to gain cash or whatever it is
Speaker 1: she does this for, or she's so crazy that she
Speaker 1: believes all of this crap, particularly about places like Parkland
Speaker 1: and Las Vegas, that when she said this about an
Speaker 1: a live abortion, that the DNC people went, now, that's
Speaker 1: that Lumer, all right, that's what's wrong here. That's what's
Speaker 1: telling and scary Laura Lumer go to hell, but our winners. NABJ,
Speaker 1: the National Association of Black Journalists, which as I record this,
Speaker 1: is still planning to host Trump in a live interview
Speaker 1: format event at its annual conference in Chicago today. I
Speaker 1: honor the NABJ and its history. It has done great
Speaker 1: work in a business and when I started in it.
Speaker 1: Referring back to what I said earlier about what it
Speaker 1: was like forty five years ago this Friday, there were
Speaker 1: no black people at that radio network that I worked at,
Speaker 1: Not in New York anyway. I'm not sure about the
Speaker 1: other places. I used to point this out to people
Speaker 1: and they would say, what's the difference. It's a telling
Speaker 1: truth about the business at its most successful stages, that
Speaker 1: it was widely known that your employer was probably prejudiced
Speaker 1: and happily for you you were a white guy. So
Speaker 1: I honor the nab and what it did then and
Speaker 1: what it does now. It has done great work. It
Speaker 1: should be supported. My old colleague Jamel Hill from ESPN
Speaker 1: is right. Being questioned by journalists is part of the job,
Speaker 1: at especially important in the company of black journalists. She
Speaker 1: notes other presidents and presidential candidates who have gone inside
Speaker 1: this very same form with NABJ panels at its conventions
Speaker 1: during election years. But there is a detail that Jammel
Speaker 1: has left out. The NABJ is committing suicide. Because Karen
Speaker 1: Attia is also right. She is a columnist for the
Speaker 1: Washington Post. She was co chair of the convention until
Speaker 1: this happened. They only announced it Monday night. I have
Speaker 1: decided to step down as co chair from this year's
Speaker 1: NABJ twenty four convention in Chicago. To the journalists interviewing Trump,
Speaker 1: I wish them the best of luck. While my decision
Speaker 1: was influenced by a variety of factors, she says, I
Speaker 1: was not involved or consulted with in any way with
Speaker 1: the decision to platform Trump in such a format. Well
Speaker 1: there's your problem right there. If you have to keep
Speaker 1: this a secret from the co chair of your annual convention,
Speaker 1: you may be doing something really, really stupid. Because Arion
Speaker 1: Nettles is also right. She's the author of We Are
Speaker 1: the Culture Black Chicago's influence on everything. She wrote, Not
Speaker 1: a single black media organization is represented in the panel
Speaker 1: of the moderators for this event. There are going to
Speaker 1: be three reporters or three two reporters and somebody else
Speaker 1: on stage with Trump. The conversation is to be moderated
Speaker 1: by Rachel Scott, a very fine reporter for ABC News,
Speaker 1: Kadia Gooba of Semaphore, who I do not know, and
Speaker 1: Harris Faulkner of Fox News. I guess because they could
Speaker 1: not get Judge Piro there. Judge Janine Piro could not
Speaker 1: make it to the nab BJ fast enough, so they
Speaker 1: took her back up Harris Faulkner, as ms Nettles writes,
Speaker 1: not even any black orgs on top of everything, So
Speaker 1: please don't claim to give opportunities to anyone but those
Speaker 1: who would already have them. And most importantly, the NABJ
Speaker 1: is on this list because Harris Faulkner is involved in this.
Speaker 1: She is not a journalist. She appears on a Trump
Speaker 1: propaganda channel, a Rupert Murdoch run white supremacist propagandist channel.
Speaker 1: It is there only to support Trump and to acquiesce
Speaker 1: to whatever kind of world Trump chooses for everybody, but
Speaker 1: particularly for members of minority groups. And everything contained in
Speaker 1: the NABJ, black and journalists, especially the B and the
Speaker 1: J in its initials in its acronym, are things Trump
Speaker 1: would like to see in prisoned. So do not tell
Speaker 1: me that Harris Faulkner, who is a sycophant an echo
Speaker 1: chamber for Donald Trump, is a journalist involved in interviewing
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, perhaps a stenographer, more likely, somebody to simply
Speaker 1: stare at him earnestly and nod carefully and energetically. She
Speaker 1: is a Trump apologist. She is a flunky. She is
Speaker 1: the personification of a propaganda channel. D nabj I think
Speaker 1: has two choices here. Cancel the event or do the
Speaker 1: smart thing here. Don't get rid of Trump. Take Trump
Speaker 1: out there and cut him to little Trump pieces, journalistically,
Speaker 1: take him apart, Rachel Scott, take him apart, please, miss
Speaker 1: Goba of Semaphore. But get Faulkner out of this. I'm suspecting,
Speaker 1: and I know nothing of this, but I'm suspecting when
Speaker 1: I see the name Trump and Harris Faulkner together, that
Speaker 1: Harris Faulkner is the reason Trump is doing this. Get
Speaker 1: her off the stage, put a real journalist out there
Speaker 1: instead of her from as ms Nettle's. Put it a
Speaker 1: black media organization, and I don't care if it's some
Speaker 1: high school student from Chicago. They'd be much more credible
Speaker 1: as a journalist than Harris goddamned Faulkner. It's like having
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity out there. You've got to do one of
Speaker 1: these two things here. Cancel the event or cancel Harris Faulkner,
Speaker 1: because your third option is to destroy all of your
Speaker 1: own credibility for the sake of Donald Trump, a racist
Speaker 1: and Harris Faulkner, an apologist for a racist National Association
Speaker 1: of Black Journalists. It's not too late to steer out
Speaker 1: of this skid today's worst persons in the world. August second,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine is now forty three years ago. And
Speaker 1: if I sound incredulous about that, it's because I'm incredulous
Speaker 1: about that. A certain part of me is always living
Speaker 1: back there on August second, nineteen seventy nine, and the
Speaker 1: rest of that day is seared into my memory like
Speaker 1: my name and address. One month earlier to the day,
Speaker 1: July second, nineteen seventy nine, I had been in the
Speaker 1: stands in my family seats back of first base at
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium in New York, a twenty year old Yankees fan,
Speaker 1: applauding Thurman Munson's RBI double and Lou Panelo's two for
Speaker 1: four day and Roy White's appearance. Since Roy White was
Speaker 1: my mother's favorite Yankee player, but months in particularly. He
Speaker 1: had been playing for the Yankees since I was nine.
Speaker 1: I was now twenty, thus more than half my life now.
Speaker 1: On August second, nineteen seventy nine, I was finishing the
Speaker 1: first month of my professional broadcasting career. It was my
Speaker 1: seventh or eighth solo shift anywhere for money. I was
Speaker 1: the nighttime sportscaster of United Press Internationals Radio Network one
Speaker 1: thousand stations worldwide known as UPI Audio. For my first
Speaker 1: sportscast of the night due to go at five forty
Speaker 1: five PM, I had long since finished my script. Tom
Speaker 1: Watson was leading Round one of the PGA golf in Michigan.
Speaker 1: The lawyer who owned Washington of the NFL, Edward Bennett Williams.
Speaker 1: He had just bought the Baltimore Orioles. There was an
Speaker 1: exposed Cubs matinee a baseball game in Montreal that prevailed
Speaker 1: through three rain delays. It was just about five forty
Speaker 1: three pm Eastern time, and I was making the short
Speaker 1: walk from the little sports cubby hole to the little
Speaker 1: main on air studio in UPI world headquarters in the
Speaker 1: Daily News Building, or if you saw the movie the
Speaker 1: Superman building on forty second Street in Manhattan. I was
Speaker 1: just walking past the bank of thermal printers, each making
Speaker 1: their sluggish, muted honking sound as they slowly printed stories
Speaker 1: out onto what wasn't really paper. There was the main
Speaker 1: UPI wire, the UPI Sportswire, the UPI Business Wire, the
Speaker 1: UPI International Wire, the UPI Radio wire, several internal message
Speaker 1: wires via which the UPI bureaus around the world could
Speaker 1: communicate with headquarters in New York, or as it was
Speaker 1: abbreviated NX. Those message wires were the nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 1: equivalent of texting. As I got within a foot of
Speaker 1: these machines, one of them made a noise I had
Speaker 1: never heard before, a series of ten really loud bells.
Speaker 1: As I moved over to see what the hell they
Speaker 1: could mean, the news editor, Frank Rayfield, came over to
Speaker 1: check as well. We saw the words simultaneously. We gasped simultaneously.
Speaker 1: Cleveland Bureau to NX, Sturman Munson Catcher, Captain New York Game,
Speaker 1: He's dead piloting private plane Canton Akron Airport, thirty still
Speaker 1: it stuns me to read those words aloud. As soon
Speaker 1: as they finished printing, Cleveland sent it again. The bells
Speaker 1: went off again. I could see I now had about
Speaker 1: a minute until I went on the air. The editor
Speaker 1: pointed this out to me, you'll have to add lib
Speaker 1: the sports cast. Then come out here and do a
Speaker 1: voicer just talk about his career, keep repeating that it's
Speaker 1: a bulletin, that he's dead, and that he was piloting
Speaker 1: a private plane. You know anything about him and planes?
Speaker 1: And I remember saying, oh God, I do. And he said,
Speaker 1: we'll use whatever you think fits. If more details come in,
Speaker 1: I'll bring them into you. I'll try to get somebody
Speaker 1: at the airport for some sound. I don't remember anything
Speaker 1: of what I said on the air that night, nor
Speaker 1: in the special report the voicer the editor had had
Speaker 1: me record. As soon as I finished that live sportscast,
Speaker 1: it was all recorded. I never wanted to hear any
Speaker 1: of it. I never wanted to keep any of it.
Speaker 1: I have basically the rest of my career on tape.
Speaker 1: But I knew my youth was over right then. Thurman
Speaker 1: Munson had joined the Yankees when I was nine years old.
Speaker 1: Literally more than half my life ago. He was the
Speaker 1: first good rookie I ever saw added to my team.
Speaker 1: My family was convinced he looked like my mother's cousin Billy.
Speaker 1: I met him a couple of times, had photographed him once,
Speaker 1: interviewed him once. He was gruff and forbidding, but I
Speaker 1: had never had a problem with him. What I knew
Speaker 1: about him and his plane I spoke of as generically
Speaker 1: as possible. In my mind. I flashed back to lunch
Speaker 1: in the press room at Yankee Stadium four months earlier,
Speaker 1: when I was still in college with my friend Rick Sarone,
Speaker 1: the editor, not the catcher Munson, Rick said, almost surreptitiously,
Speaker 1: leaning in toward me over the little table. Munson is
Speaker 1: flying his own plane back home to Ohio on like
Speaker 1: every day off. If the Yankees are terrified he's not
Speaker 1: as good a pilot as he thinks he is, honest
Speaker 1: to God, one of the executives is trying to get George,
Speaker 1: that would be George Steinbrenner, the owner, to trade him
Speaker 1: to Cleveland, just so he'll get out of the damn plane.
Speaker 1: They're all terrified he might wind up killing himself. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many special reports I did forty three
Speaker 1: years ago today, in addition to a new sports cast
Speaker 1: every hour. Later, a friend of mine from college who
Speaker 1: didn't even know I'd gotten the job as a sportscaster.
Speaker 1: I was so new there, told me he was driving
Speaker 1: in Buffalo listening to the all news station on the radio.
Speaker 1: He heard them say Munson had been killed, and with
Speaker 1: more here's Keith Olderman in New York. And he said
Speaker 1: he almost drove off the road because of the double shock.
Speaker 1: And I do know my boss, Sam Rosen, who did
Speaker 1: the morning shift and would have only gotten home from
Speaker 1: it around one or two pm. He came back into
Speaker 1: the office to supervise things and to put together a
Speaker 1: long memorial special to feed that the thousand stations that
Speaker 1: used our stuff would all use. I was so glad
Speaker 1: to see Sam that day. And then he handed me
Speaker 1: a piece of paper. Those are the home phone numbers
Speaker 1: for Loop and Ella and Roy White. Call them, try
Speaker 1: to do interviews. Be gentle record first, ask later like
Speaker 1: Munson they had played in that game a month before.
Speaker 1: Really was my last as a fan. Roy White had
Speaker 1: been with the Yankees since I was six years old.
Speaker 1: Lou p Andella answered his phone and somehow I asked
Speaker 1: him if he would talk to me for two minutes,
Speaker 1: and he did, and almost immediately he burst into tears.
Speaker 1: There was such raw, immediate, brutal pain in his voice.
Speaker 1: I did the only thing I could think of. I said, listen,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to do this all night. I will
Speaker 1: make copies of this interview and give it to the
Speaker 1: other radio networks so they will leave you alone. And
Speaker 1: only then did I think to ask my boss Sam,
Speaker 1: who by the way, still does the New York Rangers
Speaker 1: games on TV, if that was okay, and mercifully, Sam said,
Speaker 1: it was a great idea. When I called Roy White,
Speaker 1: and Roy White was literally on the Yankees the day
Speaker 1: I became a Yankee fan, he begged me to tell
Speaker 1: him that they had discovered some kind of a mistake
Speaker 1: that Thurman Munson was not dead. Both he and Panela
Speaker 1: were blunt, but gentle and courteous. And I did make
Speaker 1: copies of the interviews, and I can see myself handing
Speaker 1: a cassette to a guy from NBC Radio named Mike Lebenthal,
Speaker 1: who ran a kind of cartel, almost a black market
Speaker 1: among New York radio sports reporters. Those interviews the parts
Speaker 1: with Panela and White, not me, were all over radio
Speaker 1: that day. I also remember discovering, after three or four
Speaker 1: hours of literally working non stop, that I had never
Speaker 1: really known what that meant before. I remember I was
Speaker 1: supposed to be done at eleven PM, that was the
Speaker 1: end of the shift, but I stayed until one am,
Speaker 1: and I just rarely made the train, the last one
Speaker 1: of the night back to my house. I remember my
Speaker 1: boss Sam Rosen talking to our stringer in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: fellow named Rob Navius, and he said, they're killing my team.
Speaker 1: I should go to Mexico and smoke myself blind. The
Speaker 1: things you remember at a time of stress and tragedy.
Speaker 1: In my youthful misunderstanding of how these things worked, I
Speaker 1: found myself coming back to the thought that I had
Speaker 1: somehow failed Thurman Monthson by not telling somebody about that
Speaker 1: Yankee fear from April that he was not as good
Speaker 1: a pilot as he thought he was, Although even then
Speaker 1: I asked myself, who were you going to tell? There
Speaker 1: are two postscripts to my story of the twenty year
Speaker 1: old me covering the night Thurman months and died. Twenty
Speaker 1: years later, I was hosting Baseball's Game of the Week
Speaker 1: on Fox, and I asked by producer what we were
Speaker 1: doing for the monthson anniversary. He asked what anniversary. He
Speaker 1: was younger than I was. I had to explain it
Speaker 1: to him. Even then, you want to write something we
Speaker 1: can pre produce, like a minute and a half. Minute
Speaker 1: and a half. I did it, didn't think much of it.
Speaker 1: A couple of years later, I was one of the
Speaker 1: public address announcers at Old Timers Day at Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 1: invited by the PR director Rick Sarone Sam Rick Seron,
Speaker 1: who in April nineteen seventy nine told me about Munson
Speaker 1: and the private planes and the Yankees fears. It is
Speaker 1: a small world. The twenty fifth anniversary of Thurman Munson's
Speaker 1: death was just days away. His widow, Diane was there.
Speaker 1: We had never met. Then she saw me on the
Speaker 1: field and raced up to me and hugged me. That
Speaker 1: piece you did on him on the Game of the Week,
Speaker 1: when was it five years ago? That was the best
Speaker 1: memorial I've ever seen to Thurman. We both cheered up.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe she said that. I told her about
Speaker 1: that night in nineteen seventy nine, what had been like
Speaker 1: for me, I said, I knew it was almost insulting
Speaker 1: to tell her, but I thought it was important somehow
Speaker 1: to share. She hugged me again. It was deeply moving,
Speaker 1: and it is still The other PostScript I only learned
Speaker 1: of last year. For forever, and the coincidence here with
Speaker 1: my friend and former boss Sam Rosen being the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame announcer of the New York Rangers hockey team
Speaker 1: is extraordinary. But for forever, the reporter covering that hockey team,
Speaker 1: the Rangers, for the newspaper of the New York Post,
Speaker 1: has been Larry Brooks. I had forgotten until last year
Speaker 1: that the year that Thurman Munson was killed, Larry was
Speaker 1: a very very young beat reporter covering not Rangers hockey,
Speaker 1: but Yankees baseball. And somebody sent me a clipping from
Speaker 1: the New York Post from Saturday, July twenty eighth, nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine, five days before Munson's fatal plane crash. It
Speaker 1: is almost beyond belief. Larry Brooks's story began quote reports
Speaker 1: of Thurman Munson's death are exaggerated, at least slightly unquote.
Speaker 1: Of course, he was using a metaphor, Munson's knees had
Speaker 1: been giving him trouble, and the manager of the Yankees,
Speaker 1: Billy Martin, was giving him more time off between catching
Speaker 1: assignments than usual. But Larry's story also included an even
Speaker 1: more jaw dropping quote. Asked about the rumors he might
Speaker 1: not catch again this year, Munson said, I don't know
Speaker 1: who started them. It was Martin. Asked after the game
Speaker 1: how his knees felt, he said, quote sore, real sore. Hey,
Speaker 1: you might be seeing my last hurrah forty five years
Speaker 1: ago Friday. I'll never get over it. I've done all
Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown.
Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schhanelle arranged, produced,
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on
Speaker 1: the guitars, the bass end the drums, and mister Schanale
Speaker 1: handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was produced by TK Overros.
Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged
Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports
Speaker 1: music the Alderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch
Speaker 1: Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy
Speaker 1: musical comments by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever.
Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Jonathan Banks. Everything else
Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. And no, once again, I
Speaker 1: do not have any of the tapes of the Thurman
Speaker 1: Monthson coverage from the year nineteen seventy nine. It is
Speaker 1: I believe the only I'm in my life that I
Speaker 1: did not preserve or at least listen to my work
Speaker 1: on a particular story, at least for a moment. I
Speaker 1: just couldn't. And I'm not sure if the tapes were
Speaker 1: suddenly presented from somebody's archives to me today, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I could listen to them. Now that's countdown for
Speaker 1: this then ninety eighth day until the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: presidential election. They three hundred first day since convicted felon
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government
Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing.
Speaker 1: Use the mental health system. You've got it, President Biden,
Speaker 1: US presidential immunity to stop Trump from doing it again
Speaker 1: while we still can, While you still can, mister president
Speaker 1: and anti Semitic, anti immigration Republicans, please stop shooting weapons
Speaker 1: at Trump. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as
Speaker 1: the news requires. Until the next one, I'm Keith Alderman.
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