1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:19,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,155 --> 00:00:27,995 Speaker 1: So there was a red wave, a wave goodbye to 3 00:00:28,155 --> 00:00:32,435 Speaker 1: your tsunami. Am I right? Sanity got up off the match. 4 00:00:32,595 --> 00:00:35,995 Speaker 1: We beat the undead zombies with some well placed shovels. 5 00:00:36,315 --> 00:00:41,595 Speaker 1: Fetterman defeated Oz. Free crudities for everybody, mass Triano. The 6 00:00:41,635 --> 00:00:46,315 Speaker 1: election denier lost, Cox, the election denier lost, Zelden, Michael's Bailey, 7 00:00:46,475 --> 00:00:52,915 Speaker 1: Jensen and Crockett in Minnesota. Tutor Fricking Dixon bluntly this 8 00:00:52,995 --> 00:00:55,915 Speaker 1: could turn out to be the best mid terms for 9 00:00:55,995 --> 00:01:01,155 Speaker 1: any first term president in decades. Joe Biden goes in 10 00:01:01,315 --> 00:01:07,275 Speaker 1: one day from nomination Dark Horse two superhero Dark Brandon. 11 00:01:08,075 --> 00:01:13,155 Speaker 1: Even Lindsey Graham says it was definitely not a Republican wave. 12 00:01:14,075 --> 00:01:17,755 Speaker 1: The economy doomed the Democrats. No, everybody forgot about the 13 00:01:17,755 --> 00:01:21,875 Speaker 1: Supreme Court and abortion. No, election denial was more important 14 00:01:21,915 --> 00:01:26,915 Speaker 1: than democracy. No, And as a bonus, regardless of who 15 00:01:26,995 --> 00:01:31,715 Speaker 1: ultimately gets the House seems like the Republicans, and who 16 00:01:31,715 --> 00:01:36,715 Speaker 1: gets the Senate seems like the Democrats. Trump is already 17 00:01:36,755 --> 00:01:42,235 Speaker 1: getting skewered by his own people. John Fetterman is the 18 00:01:42,275 --> 00:01:46,395 Speaker 1: Senator elect from Pennsylvania. Josh Shapiro is the Governor elect 19 00:01:46,475 --> 00:01:50,755 Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. Westmore is the governor elect of Maryland. Moura 20 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:55,515 Speaker 1: Healey wins in Massachusetts. Senator Hassan re elected in New Hampshire. 21 00:01:55,835 --> 00:02:00,515 Speaker 1: Senator Murray re elected in Washington. Brian Shots reelected in Hawaii. 22 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:04,235 Speaker 1: Fox News was the first to call Michigan for Governor Whittmer, 23 00:02:04,715 --> 00:02:08,795 Speaker 1: Governor Pritzker, and Senator Duckworth reelected in Illinois. Senator Bennett 24 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:12,675 Speaker 1: in Colorado. Governor hokel elected in New York. Governor McKee 25 00:02:12,715 --> 00:02:16,115 Speaker 1: re elected in Rhode Island. Governor Waltz re elected in Minnesota. 26 00:02:16,355 --> 00:02:20,035 Speaker 1: Governor Evers re elected in Wisconsin, defeating the Republican who 27 00:02:20,115 --> 00:02:24,115 Speaker 1: said no Republican would ever lose another election. There after, 28 00:02:24,235 --> 00:02:32,635 Speaker 1: he won by Felicia. Abortion rights confirmed by ballot measures 29 00:02:32,635 --> 00:02:37,155 Speaker 1: in California and Michigan and Vermont. Secretary of State in Michigan, 30 00:02:37,235 --> 00:02:43,675 Speaker 1: Jocelyn Benson beats that demonic sex Lady Karamo Representatives Abigail 31 00:02:43,715 --> 00:02:47,755 Speaker 1: span Berger and Jennifer Weston in Virginia one over lunatic Deniers, 32 00:02:47,755 --> 00:02:52,995 Speaker 1: though Elaine Luria lost. Marcy Captor Clock the military Liar 33 00:02:53,155 --> 00:02:58,035 Speaker 1: j R. Madjuski, Whiley Nickel edges Cawthorne Clone Bohines. In 34 00:02:58,115 --> 00:03:03,635 Speaker 1: North Carolina, gen Z Democrat Maxwell Atajandro Frost won a 35 00:03:03,715 --> 00:03:07,915 Speaker 1: House seat for more Orlando. He's twenty five. The Georgia 36 00:03:08,035 --> 00:03:10,115 Speaker 1: Senate will probably wind up in a runoff or a 37 00:03:10,155 --> 00:03:16,155 Speaker 1: recount or both. We'll see. Even Lauren Bobert, a prohibitive favorite, 38 00:03:16,435 --> 00:03:18,875 Speaker 1: was on the ropes against the Democrat Adam Frish in 39 00:03:18,915 --> 00:03:23,635 Speaker 1: Colorado with more than eighty five in votes being counted 40 00:03:23,875 --> 00:03:27,475 Speaker 1: like one per day, more like no bert Am I right, 41 00:03:28,035 --> 00:03:31,355 Speaker 1: they would have to escort her out of the Capitol. 42 00:03:31,515 --> 00:03:35,755 Speaker 1: But Matt Gates was reelected, won the youth vote. Also 43 00:03:35,835 --> 00:03:40,635 Speaker 1: Marjorie Trailer Park Green, Joe Uli Wilson, Virginia Fox, Governor's 44 00:03:40,675 --> 00:03:44,195 Speaker 1: abbot Kemp Gnome Scott Ivy, and the Oklahoma bone head 45 00:03:44,275 --> 00:03:48,235 Speaker 1: Kevin Stitt, all re elected. J De Vance won in Ohio, 46 00:03:48,635 --> 00:03:52,195 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio was reelected, Chuck Grassley was reelected, even though 47 00:03:52,195 --> 00:03:56,875 Speaker 1: we're not sure he's still alive, And Sarah Huckabee is 48 00:03:56,875 --> 00:03:59,675 Speaker 1: the governor elect of Arkansas so she can resume her 49 00:03:59,715 --> 00:04:03,595 Speaker 1: career as a serial liar in her home state. Still 50 00:04:04,195 --> 00:04:08,635 Speaker 1: no ad tsunami no red wave, and why not. There 51 00:04:08,715 --> 00:04:11,435 Speaker 1: was one nugget in the early exit polls that was 52 00:04:11,515 --> 00:04:17,915 Speaker 1: noted and then discarded. Suburban women nationwide went fifty seven Democrats. 53 00:04:18,315 --> 00:04:22,875 Speaker 1: Biden had won them by fifty six. So congratulations to 54 00:04:23,235 --> 00:04:27,835 Speaker 1: Politico and Yahoo and Reuter's congratulations on burying your own 55 00:04:27,915 --> 00:04:31,715 Speaker 1: polls that showed the Democrats ahead in the generic congressional ballot. 56 00:04:31,955 --> 00:04:35,075 Speaker 1: So you could tow the line with the corporate red 57 00:04:35,235 --> 00:04:41,275 Speaker 1: narrative the unresolved races. The Republicans are clearly softening everybody 58 00:04:41,355 --> 00:04:44,115 Speaker 1: up for more cheating charges and five will get you 59 00:04:44,195 --> 00:04:47,435 Speaker 1: ten that no mainstream reporter points out that claiming this 60 00:04:47,875 --> 00:04:51,435 Speaker 1: will catch them in an error of logic. The spiel 61 00:04:51,555 --> 00:04:55,315 Speaker 1: has been that only votes counted before sunrise Wednesday should 62 00:04:55,355 --> 00:04:58,675 Speaker 1: actually count like they were in the the good old 63 00:04:58,795 --> 00:05:02,315 Speaker 1: days from I don't know Trump's last adder all overdose, 64 00:05:03,315 --> 00:05:06,995 Speaker 1: but if the Democrat leading as of sunrise Wednesday, the 65 00:05:07,075 --> 00:05:12,915 Speaker 1: Republicans would say that is cheating. In Arizona, when of 66 00:05:12,915 --> 00:05:16,195 Speaker 1: the vote had been counted, Katie Hobbs was clocking carry 67 00:05:16,275 --> 00:05:19,475 Speaker 1: Lake by fourteen points and Mark Kelly was thumping Blake 68 00:05:19,555 --> 00:05:23,955 Speaker 1: Masters by eighteen. By the rule of Trump Hobbs and 69 00:05:24,075 --> 00:05:28,595 Speaker 1: Kelly are the winners. The Republican problem in Arizona was 70 00:05:28,755 --> 00:05:32,275 Speaker 1: evident and viewable in real time even before vote results 71 00:05:32,275 --> 00:05:35,995 Speaker 1: started to pile in early in the day. Tabulators at 72 00:05:35,995 --> 00:05:39,035 Speaker 1: around forty five of the voting locations in Maricopa County, 73 00:05:39,035 --> 00:05:42,955 Speaker 1: that's Phoenix broke. Those are not voting machines. You complete 74 00:05:42,955 --> 00:05:45,435 Speaker 1: your ballot, then you stick it in the tabulator. If 75 00:05:45,435 --> 00:05:48,235 Speaker 1: the tabulator is not working, you put the ballot in 76 00:05:48,275 --> 00:05:51,675 Speaker 1: a sealed ballot box and it is tabulated later when 77 00:05:51,675 --> 00:05:55,555 Speaker 1: the tabulator is working. It's not even a clerical error, 78 00:05:55,595 --> 00:05:59,155 Speaker 1: it's a machine that's not working right. But the Republicans 79 00:05:59,155 --> 00:06:01,875 Speaker 1: seized on this as if it had been an invasion 80 00:06:01,995 --> 00:06:06,115 Speaker 1: from Nicaragua. They demanded a judge extend voting hours there 81 00:06:06,155 --> 00:06:09,595 Speaker 1: by three hours, even though nobody was kept from voting 82 00:06:09,875 --> 00:06:12,635 Speaker 1: or even delayed from voting. The judge denied it, so 83 00:06:12,675 --> 00:06:15,675 Speaker 1: they immediately used that as an excuse for a loss 84 00:06:15,715 --> 00:06:19,115 Speaker 1: that had not happened yet. And then Fox Brett Bear, 85 00:06:19,835 --> 00:06:22,635 Speaker 1: who pretends to be a news anchor, said, quote, for 86 00:06:22,715 --> 00:06:24,795 Speaker 1: it to happen here, for it to happen now in 87 00:06:24,875 --> 00:06:28,075 Speaker 1: this way is kind of strange. Even though it was 88 00:06:28,115 --> 00:06:33,275 Speaker 1: not strange at all. And the real giveaway. Mark Fincham, 89 00:06:33,395 --> 00:06:36,795 Speaker 1: the psycho guy in the Cowboy had running to run 90 00:06:36,835 --> 00:06:41,315 Speaker 1: the elections and stop them, then tweeted, in cold panic, 91 00:06:41,595 --> 00:06:44,315 Speaker 1: while voting was still going on in Arizona, quote, we 92 00:06:44,395 --> 00:06:47,715 Speaker 1: need two hundred k more votes. Please text and call 93 00:06:47,795 --> 00:06:50,435 Speaker 1: your family and friends to check on them. We need 94 00:06:50,475 --> 00:06:54,115 Speaker 1: them to get to the polls. A sap. Well, I 95 00:06:54,115 --> 00:06:55,675 Speaker 1: don't have a lot of relatives, but I don't know 96 00:06:55,715 --> 00:06:58,155 Speaker 1: anybody who's got a family with more than two people 97 00:06:58,155 --> 00:07:01,755 Speaker 1: in it. And then Carrie Lake, the failed small market 98 00:07:01,835 --> 00:07:05,715 Speaker 1: local newscaster or for you, Harry Potter and the dolorous 99 00:07:05,755 --> 00:07:10,275 Speaker 1: umbrage of Arizona, blamed her early shellacking on the tabulators, 100 00:07:10,315 --> 00:07:15,155 Speaker 1: and she looked tiny and frail and small market as 101 00:07:15,195 --> 00:07:19,635 Speaker 1: she did so. And now finally, the bonus of all bonuses. 102 00:07:20,275 --> 00:07:26,435 Speaker 1: You know who's getting blamed. Trump is getting blamed. An 103 00:07:26,435 --> 00:07:30,675 Speaker 1: analyst said this last night. This is a searing indictment 104 00:07:30,755 --> 00:07:35,115 Speaker 1: of the Republican Party. The analyst was Mark Teesson on 105 00:07:35,275 --> 00:07:40,635 Speaker 1: Fox News. The Fox News White House corresponded tweeted, GOP 106 00:07:40,875 --> 00:07:44,475 Speaker 1: source tells me quote, if it wasn't clear before, it 107 00:07:44,555 --> 00:07:50,595 Speaker 1: should be now we have a Trump problem. Trump, of course, 108 00:07:50,595 --> 00:07:54,675 Speaker 1: did not bigfoot every Republican candidate by announcing Monday, but 109 00:07:54,755 --> 00:07:57,955 Speaker 1: he did try to make election day about himself mob boss, 110 00:07:57,995 --> 00:08:01,915 Speaker 1: threatening de Santis and McConnell and most importantly reporters. Again, 111 00:08:02,395 --> 00:08:06,395 Speaker 1: you will remember his rally promise to reporters or publishers 112 00:08:06,435 --> 00:08:09,075 Speaker 1: to reveal their sources by threatening to send them to 113 00:08:09,195 --> 00:08:14,435 Speaker 1: prison to be raped. There Rolling Stone reporting on Tuesday, 114 00:08:14,555 --> 00:08:17,755 Speaker 1: Trump actually asked one of his lawyers how to put 115 00:08:17,835 --> 00:08:22,195 Speaker 1: reporters in jail. But the big background story of the 116 00:08:22,235 --> 00:08:26,795 Speaker 1: mid terms. Trump gave an interview to the Network News Nation. 117 00:08:26,995 --> 00:08:30,755 Speaker 1: It was fawning and self congratulatory, but it has turned 118 00:08:30,795 --> 00:08:35,715 Speaker 1: out to be prophetic. Tonight, win or lose the results 119 00:08:35,755 --> 00:08:39,475 Speaker 1: for Republicans. Um how much of that will be because 120 00:08:39,515 --> 00:08:42,595 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump? Well, I think if they win, I 121 00:08:42,635 --> 00:08:44,875 Speaker 1: should get all the credit, and if they lose, I 122 00:08:44,915 --> 00:08:47,275 Speaker 1: should not be blamed at all. Okay, but it will 123 00:08:47,355 --> 00:08:50,635 Speaker 1: probably be just the opposite. When they win, I think 124 00:08:50,675 --> 00:08:52,795 Speaker 1: they're going to do very well. I'll probably be given 125 00:08:52,875 --> 00:08:56,235 Speaker 1: very little credit. Even though in many cases, right, you 126 00:08:56,315 --> 00:09:00,755 Speaker 1: are insane as that was Trump was not wrong about 127 00:09:00,795 --> 00:09:03,915 Speaker 1: that part. He endorsed three thirty candidates, and even if 128 00:09:03,915 --> 00:09:06,475 Speaker 1: the Republicans man narrow victories and take both the House 129 00:09:06,475 --> 00:09:09,835 Speaker 1: and the Senate, he will take a huge hit. And 130 00:09:09,875 --> 00:09:11,955 Speaker 1: the ones who will hit him fastest will be Kevin 131 00:09:12,035 --> 00:09:16,635 Speaker 1: McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, especially after the guy Trump did 132 00:09:16,635 --> 00:09:20,235 Speaker 1: not like in Colorado who got the GOP nomination. Anyway, 133 00:09:20,315 --> 00:09:24,475 Speaker 1: Joe O. Day lost the Senate race. Trump showed his 134 00:09:24,635 --> 00:09:29,035 Speaker 1: party what this all means to him. He posted, oh 135 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:33,795 Speaker 1: Day lost big, make America great again, as if the 136 00:09:33,875 --> 00:09:40,115 Speaker 1: seat had not been won by the Democrats. They're blaming Trump. 137 00:09:41,595 --> 00:09:44,475 Speaker 1: But back to the main point. Call me a cock 138 00:09:44,515 --> 00:09:47,955 Speaker 1: eyed optimist. Of course, I am well known as Captain Positive. 139 00:09:48,555 --> 00:09:51,435 Speaker 1: But I look at the mid terms this way. Maybe, 140 00:09:51,795 --> 00:09:55,355 Speaker 1: just maybe more than fifty of our friends and neighbors 141 00:09:55,355 --> 00:09:57,915 Speaker 1: are still not crazy enough to give up democracy in 142 00:09:57,955 --> 00:10:01,235 Speaker 1: exchange for a dollar off a gallon of gas. Maybe 143 00:10:01,715 --> 00:10:05,155 Speaker 1: more than fifty of us would still not swap lower 144 00:10:05,195 --> 00:10:09,035 Speaker 1: prices for dessert for deciding who's president based on who 145 00:10:09,035 --> 00:10:12,915 Speaker 1: has the largest support from street gangs. Maybe more than 146 00:10:12,955 --> 00:10:16,515 Speaker 1: fifty of Americans would still not agree to seeing their 147 00:10:16,555 --> 00:10:19,875 Speaker 1: neighbors carted off to concentration camps. Even if it did 148 00:10:19,915 --> 00:10:23,195 Speaker 1: mean those who were left would get vouchers to send 149 00:10:23,235 --> 00:10:28,755 Speaker 1: their kids to religious schools. What a night. Thank you 150 00:10:28,835 --> 00:10:32,235 Speaker 1: for your attention. We hope you enjoyed the two mid terms, 151 00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:34,835 Speaker 1: or as they will forever be known from here on 152 00:10:34,955 --> 00:10:53,235 Speaker 1: in the Red Dribble. Still ahead, the newest witness interviewed 153 00:10:53,275 --> 00:10:55,955 Speaker 1: by the One six Commission is so important they're keeping 154 00:10:55,995 --> 00:11:00,635 Speaker 1: his name secret. But AOC names names. Well, she names 155 00:11:00,675 --> 00:11:04,275 Speaker 1: one name. Can you guess which right winger precipitates the 156 00:11:04,315 --> 00:11:08,195 Speaker 1: most death threats against her? And speaking of the right wing, 157 00:11:08,315 --> 00:11:10,315 Speaker 1: I have alluded to this many times, but I have 158 00:11:10,395 --> 00:11:14,395 Speaker 1: never told the important part of the story before. All Right, 159 00:11:14,555 --> 00:11:17,435 Speaker 1: nearly a quarter century ago, I went out on two 160 00:11:17,555 --> 00:11:21,795 Speaker 1: dates with Laura Ingram, though to be fair, the second 161 00:11:21,795 --> 00:11:24,675 Speaker 1: one was actually closer to me being kidnapped. What she 162 00:11:24,835 --> 00:11:29,395 Speaker 1: revealed about that vast right wing conspiracy Hillary Clinton identified 163 00:11:29,795 --> 00:11:33,315 Speaker 1: remains with me to this day, as do the scars. 164 00:11:34,075 --> 00:11:42,355 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith 165 00:11:42,355 --> 00:11:49,235 Speaker 1: old Woman still ahead on countdown. Tucker Carlson versus Peacock 166 00:11:49,435 --> 00:11:54,275 Speaker 1: versus Brett Farve for worst person dishonors. That's a fight. 167 00:11:54,835 --> 00:11:57,395 Speaker 1: And everybody who has ever dated has made a mistake. 168 00:11:57,595 --> 00:12:01,955 Speaker 1: Mine was named Laura Ingram. But there's a little bit 169 00:12:01,955 --> 00:12:06,315 Speaker 1: more to that story, and it applies to today's tical scene. First, 170 00:12:06,395 --> 00:12:08,555 Speaker 1: in each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need. 171 00:12:08,635 --> 00:12:11,635 Speaker 1: You can help. Every dog has its day. You saved 172 00:12:11,715 --> 00:12:15,515 Speaker 1: Ace from the crisis at the New York Pound. Now 173 00:12:15,555 --> 00:12:20,475 Speaker 1: somebody needs to rescue Princess Wiggles. She's shy, uncertain around dogs, 174 00:12:20,475 --> 00:12:24,235 Speaker 1: but she could be adopted tomorrow maybe better. Pledges to 175 00:12:24,315 --> 00:12:27,355 Speaker 1: help a rescue outfit pull her out because she has 176 00:12:27,395 --> 00:12:30,355 Speaker 1: contracted pneumonia in the pound, and the pounds response to 177 00:12:30,355 --> 00:12:32,595 Speaker 1: that illness is, of course, to blame the dog and 178 00:12:32,715 --> 00:12:35,435 Speaker 1: kill it as quickly as possible. The sadness here the 179 00:12:35,475 --> 00:12:38,475 Speaker 1: pneumonia is really treatable. You don't want her around other 180 00:12:38,515 --> 00:12:40,635 Speaker 1: dogs for a while, but even that can change quickly. 181 00:12:40,955 --> 00:12:44,355 Speaker 1: Princess Wiggles is my pinned tweet at tom Jumbo Grumbo. 182 00:12:44,795 --> 00:12:47,235 Speaker 1: If you can foster or adopt her, or pledge to 183 00:12:47,235 --> 00:12:50,315 Speaker 1: help rescue, please respond to the tweet retweet If you can, 184 00:12:50,875 --> 00:13:08,595 Speaker 1: I thank you, and Princess Wiggles thanks you. Pot Scripts 185 00:13:08,635 --> 00:13:13,395 Speaker 1: to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions, stateline, Washington. 186 00:13:13,475 --> 00:13:16,275 Speaker 1: The January six Committee has interviewed the driver of the 187 00:13:16,515 --> 00:13:19,715 Speaker 1: suv in which Trump traveled on the day of the 188 00:13:19,795 --> 00:13:23,675 Speaker 1: coup attempt. He is the one Cassidy Hutchinson testified was 189 00:13:23,755 --> 00:13:26,315 Speaker 1: at the wheel when Trump tried to grab the wheel 190 00:13:26,875 --> 00:13:30,115 Speaker 1: and grab the driver and get himself to the capital 191 00:13:30,155 --> 00:13:33,115 Speaker 1: to lead the assault. He has not been named publicly. 192 00:13:33,475 --> 00:13:35,555 Speaker 1: It is an important bit of the narrative, but the 193 00:13:35,595 --> 00:13:38,915 Speaker 1: fixation on it, even to show Trump's for knowledge or 194 00:13:38,955 --> 00:13:43,115 Speaker 1: willing participation in the violence, seems a little overwrought. There 195 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:45,115 Speaker 1: may be more to this than even we know from 196 00:13:45,195 --> 00:13:50,595 Speaker 1: Cassidy Hutchinson dateline, charmel shake at COP seven in Egypt. 197 00:13:51,195 --> 00:13:53,675 Speaker 1: You don't know what I'm talking about, do you? COP 198 00:13:55,035 --> 00:13:57,915 Speaker 1: is getting no coverage here it should. It is the 199 00:13:58,275 --> 00:14:01,715 Speaker 1: seven International Conference on Climate Change, and there's actually a 200 00:14:01,795 --> 00:14:05,515 Speaker 1: good development. The small countries are getting wiped out by 201 00:14:05,555 --> 00:14:09,875 Speaker 1: climate change effects. First, the large ones have been refusing 202 00:14:09,875 --> 00:14:13,475 Speaker 1: to help them financially. That may be changing at COPE. 203 00:14:13,915 --> 00:14:17,595 Speaker 1: Before this session only Scotland has offered any money two 204 00:14:17,635 --> 00:14:23,435 Speaker 1: million dollars. Now Australia has pledged fifty million, Denmark thirteen, Ireland, ten, 205 00:14:23,515 --> 00:14:26,475 Speaker 1: the Scots five point seven more. Of course, the money 206 00:14:26,515 --> 00:14:30,475 Speaker 1: needs to be in the billions. The United States pledge. Well, 207 00:14:31,115 --> 00:14:35,355 Speaker 1: we've offered the country's a laurel and hearty welcome and 208 00:14:35,475 --> 00:14:39,795 Speaker 1: dateline Kiev. Apparently, after gentle pressure from this country, Ukrainian 209 00:14:39,835 --> 00:14:44,595 Speaker 1: President Voladimir Zelenski has changed a vital position. He would, 210 00:14:44,675 --> 00:14:47,715 Speaker 1: he says, now negotiate with Russia even if Putin is 211 00:14:47,755 --> 00:14:51,035 Speaker 1: not deposed to end the war. He is to stick 212 00:14:51,075 --> 00:14:55,795 Speaker 1: though to his basic precepts, safeguards for Ukrainian territorial integrity, 213 00:14:56,115 --> 00:15:00,515 Speaker 1: justice for Russian war criminals, and compensation from the Kremlin. 214 00:15:13,155 --> 00:15:19,435 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 215 00:15:20,435 --> 00:15:26,755 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith in Sports. Dusty Baker, at age 216 00:15:26,755 --> 00:15:30,955 Speaker 1: seventy three and newly crowned first time World Series winning manager, 217 00:15:31,035 --> 00:15:33,515 Speaker 1: the oldest manager ever to win the World Series, says 218 00:15:33,595 --> 00:15:36,035 Speaker 1: he will be back to run the Houston Astros again 219 00:15:36,115 --> 00:15:39,315 Speaker 1: next season. Dusty says nothing has been signed, but both 220 00:15:39,315 --> 00:15:41,915 Speaker 1: sides are agreed to it. Dusty Baker is beloved in 221 00:15:41,955 --> 00:15:44,555 Speaker 1: the game, but here is an inside tip about the 222 00:15:44,635 --> 00:15:47,915 Speaker 1: strength of his beloveditude and how it has grown over 223 00:15:47,955 --> 00:15:51,235 Speaker 1: the years. One thing that happens to all baseball reporters 224 00:15:51,475 --> 00:15:54,755 Speaker 1: and fans. Is this sequence of events. When you are 225 00:15:54,795 --> 00:15:58,635 Speaker 1: a kid, most managers are older than your parents, maybe 226 00:15:58,635 --> 00:16:03,315 Speaker 1: your grandparents. When you start reporting, there are now managers 227 00:16:03,355 --> 00:16:06,795 Speaker 1: that you remember seeing as a player. As you age, 228 00:16:06,835 --> 00:16:10,035 Speaker 1: suddenly all the managers were guys you covered as a player. 229 00:16:10,835 --> 00:16:13,075 Speaker 1: Later on you find out you are older than some 230 00:16:13,275 --> 00:16:15,875 Speaker 1: or most of the managers. If you're me, a guy 231 00:16:15,915 --> 00:16:18,275 Speaker 1: gets named manager of the Yankees, who you met when 232 00:16:18,315 --> 00:16:21,835 Speaker 1: he was thirteen years old. Finally, you get to the 233 00:16:21,875 --> 00:16:24,235 Speaker 1: point where you can count the managers who are older 234 00:16:24,235 --> 00:16:27,515 Speaker 1: than you on the fingers of one hand, so you 235 00:16:27,635 --> 00:16:32,155 Speaker 1: root for them desperately so they manage forever. That's Dusty 236 00:16:32,155 --> 00:16:34,555 Speaker 1: Brian Snicker of the Braves and Buck show Alter of 237 00:16:34,555 --> 00:16:37,275 Speaker 1: the Mets. For me, the others are all younger than 238 00:16:38,395 --> 00:16:40,915 Speaker 1: the poet Ralph Humphreys was the son of a major 239 00:16:40,995 --> 00:16:44,555 Speaker 1: leaguer who played briefly for the eight three New York Giants. 240 00:16:45,115 --> 00:16:48,115 Speaker 1: He wrote a magnificent poem about how baseball fans go 241 00:16:48,195 --> 00:16:51,355 Speaker 1: from infancy to old age while the damn players just 242 00:16:51,435 --> 00:16:54,675 Speaker 1: get younger. It's called polo grounds and it ends with 243 00:16:54,715 --> 00:16:58,955 Speaker 1: this time is of the essence the crowd and players 244 00:16:59,355 --> 00:17:01,595 Speaker 1: are the same age always, but the man in the 245 00:17:01,635 --> 00:17:07,715 Speaker 1: crowd is older every season. Come on, play ball. When 246 00:17:07,755 --> 00:17:11,675 Speaker 1: relief pitcher Jesse Roscoe joined the New York Yankees at 247 00:17:11,675 --> 00:17:15,315 Speaker 1: the age of forty six in his twenty fourth Major 248 00:17:15,395 --> 00:17:18,275 Speaker 1: League season, one of three teams he pitched for that year, 249 00:17:18,715 --> 00:17:21,355 Speaker 1: when I was only forty four and had known him 250 00:17:21,355 --> 00:17:23,035 Speaker 1: since he was twenty two and I was twenty, I 251 00:17:23,075 --> 00:17:25,315 Speaker 1: said to him, Jess, if you ever get to the 252 00:17:25,315 --> 00:17:27,755 Speaker 1: point where they're not offering you enough money so you 253 00:17:27,875 --> 00:17:30,795 Speaker 1: keep on pitching, I know like twenty guys my own 254 00:17:30,835 --> 00:17:34,395 Speaker 1: age who will throw in ten grand each to you 255 00:17:34,795 --> 00:17:37,115 Speaker 1: just so you can keep pitching. And Jesse, we can 256 00:17:37,195 --> 00:17:39,795 Speaker 1: keep saying, thank God, there's at least one ball player 257 00:17:39,915 --> 00:17:56,315 Speaker 1: who's still older than I am. A ball player who 258 00:17:56,395 --> 00:18:00,235 Speaker 1: is older than I am would have to be already 259 00:18:00,275 --> 00:18:06,475 Speaker 1: sixty four years old late six e four by opening 260 00:18:06,555 --> 00:18:14,275 Speaker 1: day ahead, we'll go backwards in time and talk about 261 00:18:14,315 --> 00:18:17,395 Speaker 1: the time I went out with Laura Ingram and then 262 00:18:17,435 --> 00:18:20,595 Speaker 1: the time that she tried to kidnap me. First, the 263 00:18:20,675 --> 00:18:23,555 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miscrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effect 264 00:18:23,555 --> 00:18:27,475 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two day's worst persons in the World 265 00:18:28,315 --> 00:18:31,875 Speaker 1: le Bronze, the NBC Peacocks service, which has announced exactly 266 00:18:31,915 --> 00:18:35,075 Speaker 1: what you needed to see, a three part series premiering 267 00:18:35,075 --> 00:18:37,635 Speaker 1: at the end of the month called Casey Anthony, Where 268 00:18:37,675 --> 00:18:41,355 Speaker 1: the Truth Lies. If you don't know the name Casey Anthony, 269 00:18:41,435 --> 00:18:43,515 Speaker 1: lucky you. I'm not gonna say. She was the center 270 00:18:43,915 --> 00:18:46,515 Speaker 1: of the last tabloid case to get wall to wall 271 00:18:46,555 --> 00:18:49,795 Speaker 1: TV coverage, But when her daughter disappeared and was then 272 00:18:49,835 --> 00:18:54,235 Speaker 1: found dead, her trial was wall to wall. She was 273 00:18:54,275 --> 00:18:56,715 Speaker 1: found not guilty, and now NBC is doing a series 274 00:18:56,755 --> 00:18:59,475 Speaker 1: on her so everybody can make money. I mean, man, 275 00:18:59,475 --> 00:19:02,475 Speaker 1: why not a streaming series about Jeffrey Dahmer while you're 276 00:19:02,475 --> 00:19:08,355 Speaker 1: at wait what? There has been one? Oh for Christ 277 00:19:09,155 --> 00:19:12,835 Speaker 1: the runner up Everybody's Favorite Flailing football star X star 278 00:19:12,995 --> 00:19:17,235 Speaker 1: Brett Farve scandal, the scandal where he redirected state welfare 279 00:19:17,235 --> 00:19:19,195 Speaker 1: funds to build a volleyball stadium for his daughter to 280 00:19:19,235 --> 00:19:22,675 Speaker 1: play in that Mississippi state. Now this is a new scandal. 281 00:19:23,355 --> 00:19:27,595 Speaker 1: Farv is the largest outside investor in two companies claiming 282 00:19:27,635 --> 00:19:31,995 Speaker 1: they are developing a nasal spray to prevent concussions and 283 00:19:32,115 --> 00:19:35,555 Speaker 1: a cream to treat them. Just rub it in your brain. 284 00:19:36,555 --> 00:19:39,435 Speaker 1: A million dollars at least he invested in this ESPN 285 00:19:39,435 --> 00:19:42,835 Speaker 1: reporting that the company is both owned by Jake Van Landingham, 286 00:19:42,875 --> 00:19:47,195 Speaker 1: Prevacus and press all m d exaggerated the effectiveness of 287 00:19:47,235 --> 00:19:50,315 Speaker 1: the drugs and overstated their own connections to the NFL. 288 00:19:50,995 --> 00:19:53,115 Speaker 1: And this is all to be found in court documents. 289 00:19:53,635 --> 00:19:57,395 Speaker 1: Plus that Mississippi welfare money scandal with the volleyball court. 290 00:19:57,595 --> 00:20:00,235 Speaker 1: Van Landingham got two more than two million bucks out 291 00:20:00,275 --> 00:20:02,635 Speaker 1: of it. He says, I had no idea this was 292 00:20:02,675 --> 00:20:05,435 Speaker 1: welfare money. And I've always been an up standing person 293 00:20:05,475 --> 00:20:10,355 Speaker 1: when it comes to research. Speaking of upstanding, exaggeration and overstatement, 294 00:20:10,755 --> 00:20:13,555 Speaker 1: don't forget the time far sent pictures of his junk 295 00:20:13,595 --> 00:20:17,635 Speaker 1: to a fellow employee of the New York Jets. Exaggeration indeed. 296 00:20:17,795 --> 00:20:21,155 Speaker 1: But our winner the jimminy glick of Fox News Tucker Carlson. 297 00:20:21,515 --> 00:20:25,115 Speaker 1: We sometimes forget that behind the buffoonish appearance and girly 298 00:20:25,235 --> 00:20:30,995 Speaker 1: voice lies a well. What Congresswoman Alexandriacasio Cortez called him 299 00:20:30,995 --> 00:20:35,195 Speaker 1: on the syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club, a stochastic terrorist. 300 00:20:35,435 --> 00:20:37,515 Speaker 1: Let me quote her. I can tell you a hundred 301 00:20:37,515 --> 00:20:39,755 Speaker 1: and ten percent one of the largest sources of death 302 00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:43,435 Speaker 1: threats I get is Tucker Carlson. Every time that dude 303 00:20:43,475 --> 00:20:46,195 Speaker 1: put my name in his mouth the next day. This 304 00:20:46,275 --> 00:20:48,955 Speaker 1: is like what stochastic terrorism is, when you use a 305 00:20:49,075 --> 00:20:51,995 Speaker 1: very large platform to turn up the temperature and target 306 00:20:52,035 --> 00:20:55,915 Speaker 1: an individual until something happens, and then when something happens, 307 00:20:55,915 --> 00:20:58,155 Speaker 1: because it's indirect, you say, oh, I had nothing to 308 00:20:58,195 --> 00:21:01,955 Speaker 1: do with that. Tucker Carlson, God forbid anything happens. He 309 00:21:02,035 --> 00:21:05,875 Speaker 1: plays a massive role in political violence, like it comes 310 00:21:05,915 --> 00:21:11,115 Speaker 1: on his doorsteps specifically exactly, congresswoman exactly. And I can 311 00:21:11,155 --> 00:21:14,275 Speaker 1: add he's also an identity thief and a megalomaniac and 312 00:21:14,315 --> 00:21:18,875 Speaker 1: a horrible human being. Tucker, don't forget. I also whitewashed 313 00:21:18,955 --> 00:21:22,275 Speaker 1: Kanye West the anti semite, the day before he destroyed himself. 314 00:21:22,315 --> 00:21:40,315 Speaker 1: Carlson two days worst Person and the World to the 315 00:21:40,395 --> 00:21:42,795 Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown. In my favorite topic, 316 00:21:42,915 --> 00:21:46,475 Speaker 1: Me and Things, I promised not to tell my tattered 317 00:21:46,515 --> 00:21:51,075 Speaker 1: little diary from informs me the twenty five years ago. 318 00:21:51,115 --> 00:21:53,075 Speaker 1: This week, in the second month of my news career 319 00:21:53,115 --> 00:21:56,715 Speaker 1: at MSNBC, one of my guests for the first time 320 00:21:57,435 --> 00:22:03,035 Speaker 1: was one of the network's original contributor commentators. Original MSNBC 321 00:22:03,195 --> 00:22:09,435 Speaker 1: talent Laura Ingram. This began a process that ended in 322 00:22:09,595 --> 00:22:14,115 Speaker 1: us going out on two dates, and something she told 323 00:22:14,115 --> 00:22:16,715 Speaker 1: me on the first of these dates has resonated with 324 00:22:16,715 --> 00:22:22,515 Speaker 1: me literally every month since and is relevant to politics today. 325 00:22:24,395 --> 00:22:27,155 Speaker 1: I know, I know, I did not so much date 326 00:22:27,235 --> 00:22:32,155 Speaker 1: her as survive her. Even then before nine eleven helped 327 00:22:32,235 --> 00:22:35,595 Speaker 1: to slide her cheese off her cracker. I find a 328 00:22:35,635 --> 00:22:40,075 Speaker 1: diary entry referring to her as Hurricane Laura. That was March. 329 00:22:41,875 --> 00:22:50,875 Speaker 1: Beware the odds of March Julius Caesar. I didn't, honestly, 330 00:22:50,875 --> 00:22:52,995 Speaker 1: and God helped me. Nearly forty eight years of dating, 331 00:22:53,035 --> 00:22:55,035 Speaker 1: I have not been a kiss and teller. I have dated. 332 00:22:55,355 --> 00:22:58,275 Speaker 1: I don't know dozens, and we're a couple of hundred, 333 00:22:58,355 --> 00:23:03,475 Speaker 1: actually thirteen seriously, with maybe three exceptions. You don't know 334 00:23:03,515 --> 00:23:07,275 Speaker 1: any of their name. One of them, now a political writer, 335 00:23:07,355 --> 00:23:11,595 Speaker 1: basically lived with me for three years. I keep that confidence. 336 00:23:13,035 --> 00:23:15,795 Speaker 1: So why am I telling this story violating that? Because 337 00:23:16,115 --> 00:23:18,915 Speaker 1: not three months after that first date, when we were 338 00:23:18,915 --> 00:23:21,955 Speaker 1: still going out, Laura Ingram asked me if she could 339 00:23:21,955 --> 00:23:23,435 Speaker 1: look at a speech I was going to give it 340 00:23:23,515 --> 00:23:28,675 Speaker 1: Cornell's graduation weekend and offer suggestions. This is so long ago. 341 00:23:29,195 --> 00:23:33,675 Speaker 1: I literally facted it to her. Sure enough, a couple 342 00:23:33,675 --> 00:23:36,875 Speaker 1: of days later, I'm watching Imus in the morning, which 343 00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:40,795 Speaker 1: was televised by my network MSNBC, and they're on his desk. 344 00:23:41,195 --> 00:23:45,035 Speaker 1: In front of him is the fact copy of my speech, 345 00:23:45,115 --> 00:23:49,275 Speaker 1: and he is reading from my facts. I could recognize 346 00:23:49,555 --> 00:23:53,795 Speaker 1: the exact sequence of the vertical stripes. My cheap facts 347 00:23:53,875 --> 00:23:56,795 Speaker 1: machine used to streak all of my outgoing pages with 348 00:23:57,875 --> 00:24:00,355 Speaker 1: Laura used to go on his show a lot, so 349 00:24:00,435 --> 00:24:04,395 Speaker 1: to curry favor with Imus, she sent him the speech 350 00:24:04,755 --> 00:24:08,955 Speaker 1: without asking me. As I told her that day, all 351 00:24:09,035 --> 00:24:12,675 Speaker 1: bets are now off. So I've told parts of this 352 00:24:12,755 --> 00:24:16,355 Speaker 1: story before, like She had been a Supreme Court clerk 353 00:24:16,395 --> 00:24:19,915 Speaker 1: for Clarence Thomas, and our first date consisted of taking 354 00:24:19,955 --> 00:24:22,435 Speaker 1: me on an insider's tour of the court and having 355 00:24:22,475 --> 00:24:25,675 Speaker 1: me sit in his chair in tribute to him. I 356 00:24:25,715 --> 00:24:29,475 Speaker 1: did not say or do anything constructive. She then cooked 357 00:24:29,475 --> 00:24:32,035 Speaker 1: me the largest steak I had ever seen that did 358 00:24:32,075 --> 00:24:34,995 Speaker 1: not have a rodeo cowboy riding on it, and we 359 00:24:35,075 --> 00:24:38,275 Speaker 1: watched a woman later discredited because she could not keep 360 00:24:38,275 --> 00:24:41,635 Speaker 1: her stories straight, go on sixty minutes and make allegations 361 00:24:41,635 --> 00:24:45,995 Speaker 1: against Bill Clinton. This is my perfect date, Laura told 362 00:24:45,995 --> 00:24:51,995 Speaker 1: me seared into my memory. But the important Laura Ingram 363 00:24:52,075 --> 00:24:55,395 Speaker 1: story sitting there in the middle of all the debris. 364 00:24:56,115 --> 00:24:59,395 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever told this. The first date 365 00:24:59,515 --> 00:25:02,315 Speaker 1: was only about six weeks after the then First Lady 366 00:25:02,355 --> 00:25:04,515 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton got on the Today Show and blamed the 367 00:25:04,955 --> 00:25:09,035 Speaker 1: at best exaggerated scandal about her husband and Monica Lewinsky 368 00:25:09,075 --> 00:25:15,195 Speaker 1: on the quote vast right wing conspiracy. That is sound stupid, 369 00:25:15,555 --> 00:25:17,835 Speaker 1: Laura said that night, as she showed me her small 370 00:25:17,915 --> 00:25:20,795 Speaker 1: office upstairs, I expected that she was about to decry 371 00:25:20,875 --> 00:25:25,035 Speaker 1: the idea that Republicans would exploit television, talk radio and 372 00:25:25,075 --> 00:25:27,435 Speaker 1: the brand new Internet to try to bring down a 373 00:25:27,475 --> 00:25:30,635 Speaker 1: president from the other party. And I said, so naive 374 00:25:30,755 --> 00:25:34,195 Speaker 1: little boy that I was no, not that, of course 375 00:25:34,235 --> 00:25:37,555 Speaker 1: we're doing that. She was kind of offended that I 376 00:25:37,635 --> 00:25:40,675 Speaker 1: doubted the conspiracy part, I explained, I had only been 377 00:25:40,755 --> 00:25:44,395 Speaker 1: covering politics for two months. At the end of the day, 378 00:25:44,555 --> 00:25:47,515 Speaker 1: she said, end of the day, constantly, at the end 379 00:25:47,555 --> 00:25:50,995 Speaker 1: of the day, it's that vast part. It's not vast, 380 00:25:51,475 --> 00:25:54,395 Speaker 1: vast right wing conspiracy. Why, I bet there's not even 381 00:25:54,475 --> 00:25:58,875 Speaker 1: thirty of us. Laura Ingram then explained that she was 382 00:25:58,955 --> 00:26:01,875 Speaker 1: essentially the central desk for what she called the miniature 383 00:26:02,035 --> 00:26:05,315 Speaker 1: right wing conspiracy. She showed me a tied page that 384 00:26:05,435 --> 00:26:08,355 Speaker 1: had the facts numbers of about two dozen people. There 385 00:26:08,395 --> 00:26:11,515 Speaker 1: at the top are the sources. She said. There was 386 00:26:11,555 --> 00:26:14,635 Speaker 1: Ted Olsen, the attorney, founder of the so called Arkansas 387 00:26:14,675 --> 00:26:17,915 Speaker 1: Project and the husband of Barbara Olsen, a constant presence 388 00:26:17,955 --> 00:26:21,075 Speaker 1: as a talking head on cable news. She later died 389 00:26:21,075 --> 00:26:25,475 Speaker 1: on nine eleven. Everybody liked her. There were several numbers 390 00:26:25,475 --> 00:26:27,875 Speaker 1: in the office of Independent Council ken Starr. One of 391 00:26:27,915 --> 00:26:32,195 Speaker 1: them read B. Kavanaugh. I said, who's that? She said, 392 00:26:32,275 --> 00:26:36,635 Speaker 1: nobody impartant. The only other name I remember was Spencer Abraham, 393 00:26:36,675 --> 00:26:39,515 Speaker 1: who then was a senator from Michigan. She said, they, 394 00:26:39,555 --> 00:26:42,835 Speaker 1: including the people in ken Starr's office, sent her all 395 00:26:42,835 --> 00:26:47,515 Speaker 1: the rumors, the ideas, stuff about Clinton. Stuff they made up, 396 00:26:47,955 --> 00:26:50,715 Speaker 1: and she distributed them to the other parts of the list. 397 00:26:50,795 --> 00:26:55,515 Speaker 1: That's these numbers. One number was marked Hannity Radio, another 398 00:26:55,715 --> 00:27:01,355 Speaker 1: Hannity TV, O'Reilly Radio, O'Reilly TV. There was one for Limbaugh. 399 00:27:01,795 --> 00:27:04,595 Speaker 1: There was one mark Justice Thomas, and I pointed to it. 400 00:27:05,155 --> 00:27:08,155 Speaker 1: He likes to stay and farmed. Now, maybe the most 401 00:27:08,155 --> 00:27:10,755 Speaker 1: important name is not on that list. That's Matt Dredge. 402 00:27:11,915 --> 00:27:15,835 Speaker 1: She said. Matt Drudge used all her stuff, but he 403 00:27:15,875 --> 00:27:17,795 Speaker 1: didn't want any of it to be traceable, very big 404 00:27:17,835 --> 00:27:21,355 Speaker 1: on not traceable, So I never facts it to him, 405 00:27:21,395 --> 00:27:23,715 Speaker 1: She said, I just give it to my brother. This 406 00:27:23,755 --> 00:27:27,435 Speaker 1: is when she still liked her brother. He sees Drudge 407 00:27:27,475 --> 00:27:30,675 Speaker 1: all the time. He gives the stuff to Drudge. Now 408 00:27:30,675 --> 00:27:35,235 Speaker 1: over here is my baseball collection. See, there were reasons 409 00:27:35,235 --> 00:27:38,835 Speaker 1: to go out with her. At the time, I could 410 00:27:38,835 --> 00:27:41,515 Speaker 1: think only of an old cartoon I had once seen. 411 00:27:41,835 --> 00:27:45,315 Speaker 1: It was an octopus working in the post office, using 412 00:27:45,355 --> 00:27:49,235 Speaker 1: all eight of its limbs to sort the mail. But 413 00:27:49,315 --> 00:27:51,315 Speaker 1: every couple of weeks it dawns on me afresh. Then 414 00:27:51,315 --> 00:27:54,355 Speaker 1: I was actually a witness to one of the earliest 415 00:27:54,395 --> 00:27:58,315 Speaker 1: configurations of the machinery. And there is no doubt today 416 00:27:58,315 --> 00:28:02,395 Speaker 1: whether it is vast or miniature. It's beast, the machinery 417 00:28:02,435 --> 00:28:04,675 Speaker 1: that links the right wing politicians and those who are 418 00:28:04,755 --> 00:28:07,955 Speaker 1: supposed to be above the fray, like Supreme Court justices 419 00:28:07,995 --> 00:28:11,555 Speaker 1: and special prosecutors and people like that. They're with the 420 00:28:11,635 --> 00:28:14,915 Speaker 1: right wing publicity outlets that pretend to be news organizations 421 00:28:14,915 --> 00:28:17,875 Speaker 1: like Fox and Drudge and O. A. N. And Newsmax, 422 00:28:18,155 --> 00:28:20,075 Speaker 1: and the ones that don't even pretend, like those who 423 00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:25,395 Speaker 1: succeeded Limbaugh. This machine is, in fact, everything that your 424 00:28:25,435 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: typical paranoid conservative, Republican fascist trumpist thinks is being run 425 00:28:32,275 --> 00:28:37,955 Speaker 1: by George Soros or Bill Gates or Dr Fauci or me. 426 00:28:39,515 --> 00:28:41,555 Speaker 1: You want to be able to say, there are reports 427 00:28:41,715 --> 00:28:45,475 Speaker 1: or accusations about some Democrat or a liberal figure or celebrity. Well, 428 00:28:45,515 --> 00:28:48,755 Speaker 1: somebody puts a rumor in at one end of the machinery, 429 00:28:49,515 --> 00:28:51,355 Speaker 1: or somebody makes up a rumor at one end of 430 00:28:51,355 --> 00:28:54,115 Speaker 1: the machinery. It is then sent to dozens of other people. 431 00:28:54,195 --> 00:28:59,795 Speaker 1: They repeat it, voila. Suddenly there are reports. The reports 432 00:28:59,835 --> 00:29:02,355 Speaker 1: then get fed back to Fox News or Bright Bart 433 00:29:02,635 --> 00:29:06,995 Speaker 1: or the Wall Street Journal or the Supreme Court, or 434 00:29:07,035 --> 00:29:11,915 Speaker 1: they're just tweeted by a thousand bots simultaneously. You want 435 00:29:11,995 --> 00:29:15,715 Speaker 1: to push this ancient racist, anti Semitic paranoia called the 436 00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:18,515 Speaker 1: Great Replacement, but you want it to come out washed 437 00:29:18,555 --> 00:29:22,955 Speaker 1: clean enough that soulless opportunists like at least Stephanic and 438 00:29:23,075 --> 00:29:25,595 Speaker 1: jd Vance can say it aloud on the campaign trail 439 00:29:25,755 --> 00:29:30,795 Speaker 1: without forfeiting their candidacies. This is the machinery, and I 440 00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:33,875 Speaker 1: saw the machinery when it was just a list of 441 00:29:33,875 --> 00:29:37,395 Speaker 1: twenty and thirty people, And at that moment I barely 442 00:29:37,435 --> 00:29:42,075 Speaker 1: recognized the importance of what I saw. Then again, I 443 00:29:42,115 --> 00:29:45,395 Speaker 1: was still on that night, recovering from not just the 444 00:29:45,435 --> 00:29:50,755 Speaker 1: giant steak, but something far more visceral. Earlier that day, 445 00:29:51,115 --> 00:29:54,355 Speaker 1: as we were leaving the Supreme Court, Laura Ingram had 446 00:29:54,355 --> 00:29:57,755 Speaker 1: boasted about getting even with an ex boyfriend by going 447 00:29:57,835 --> 00:30:00,955 Speaker 1: back into what had been their house and putting up 448 00:30:01,395 --> 00:30:05,275 Speaker 1: exact copies of all the photos of the two of 449 00:30:05,315 --> 00:30:08,035 Speaker 1: them together that he had taken down from his walls. 450 00:30:09,395 --> 00:30:12,955 Speaker 1: And when he got smart and changed the locks, she 451 00:30:13,035 --> 00:30:16,675 Speaker 1: went back again to finish the job. Found her key 452 00:30:16,715 --> 00:30:21,995 Speaker 1: didn't work so naturally as you would. She stuffed his 453 00:30:22,115 --> 00:30:25,635 Speaker 1: garden hose through the mail slot of his front door 454 00:30:25,715 --> 00:30:29,715 Speaker 1: and turned on the outdoor Spiggott ten thousand. Now I 455 00:30:29,795 --> 00:30:32,995 Speaker 1: was wearing the hirn went Flora's ruined, she said proudly, 456 00:30:33,755 --> 00:30:44,595 Speaker 1: And part of me screamed, flee, flee. Now I didn't flee. Later, 457 00:30:45,035 --> 00:30:49,315 Speaker 1: as I tried to sleep, two noises kept me awake, snoring, 458 00:30:49,955 --> 00:30:54,635 Speaker 1: not my own, and Laura's dog. Laura's dog kept talking 459 00:30:54,755 --> 00:31:03,915 Speaker 1: in his sleep. I mean almost in syllables, yeah like that. 460 00:31:05,715 --> 00:31:08,595 Speaker 1: It was something like degrees out and I was on 461 00:31:08,635 --> 00:31:11,395 Speaker 1: the second floor. And yet I resolved that if her 462 00:31:11,435 --> 00:31:16,675 Speaker 1: dog really did make that last leap to formulate actual syllables. 463 00:31:16,795 --> 00:31:19,675 Speaker 1: And it turned out her dog was the one telling 464 00:31:19,675 --> 00:31:22,035 Speaker 1: her what to do, I was simply going to leave 465 00:31:22,075 --> 00:31:27,635 Speaker 1: by the window without bothering to open it first. The 466 00:31:27,675 --> 00:31:30,355 Speaker 1: next morning, Laura and I walked her dog. We got 467 00:31:30,395 --> 00:31:32,635 Speaker 1: to an empty field. She threw a tennis ball, He 468 00:31:32,675 --> 00:31:35,795 Speaker 1: went and got it. She cocked her arm back again. 469 00:31:35,835 --> 00:31:40,315 Speaker 1: He took off, loving life as he did. She did 470 00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:43,315 Speaker 1: not throw it. He went forty fifty sixty feet, then 471 00:31:43,395 --> 00:31:48,675 Speaker 1: stopped and looked back at her with such disappointment and 472 00:31:48,675 --> 00:31:53,675 Speaker 1: and even a sense of betrayal, and she said, loudly, 473 00:31:53,715 --> 00:31:56,395 Speaker 1: without a trace of affection for him or anything else, 474 00:31:57,595 --> 00:32:02,355 Speaker 1: wait far at which is when I realized I was 475 00:32:02,395 --> 00:32:09,475 Speaker 1: being courted to be the next dog. A few weeks later, 476 00:32:09,555 --> 00:32:11,595 Speaker 1: back home in New York, I got home from working 477 00:32:11,675 --> 00:32:14,075 Speaker 1: in early morning shift filling in for the commentator Paul 478 00:32:14,115 --> 00:32:16,515 Speaker 1: Harvey at ABC Radio. I was just waking up from 479 00:32:16,515 --> 00:32:20,315 Speaker 1: a tortured nap when the phone rang. It's Laura. I'm downstairs. 480 00:32:20,315 --> 00:32:23,675 Speaker 1: We're going to my old law firms party at the museum. 481 00:32:23,795 --> 00:32:26,755 Speaker 1: I said. I was exhausted. We're going, or I'll just 482 00:32:26,795 --> 00:32:29,155 Speaker 1: stay here at this pay phone outside your planes calling 483 00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:36,235 Speaker 1: you all night. We went the next option opportunity probably 484 00:32:36,275 --> 00:32:38,115 Speaker 1: was going to be me on the wrong end of 485 00:32:38,115 --> 00:32:42,715 Speaker 1: the hostage drama. Turned out she was not invited to 486 00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:46,795 Speaker 1: her party. We're crashing it. I'm going to drink heavily. Frankly, 487 00:32:46,795 --> 00:32:48,995 Speaker 1: it was a great party. I got to meet Hillary 488 00:32:48,995 --> 00:32:52,235 Speaker 1: Clinton's mother and her brother. And if you think the 489 00:32:52,275 --> 00:32:56,315 Speaker 1: fascists are completely sincere about everything, even their neuroses and 490 00:32:56,355 --> 00:33:00,315 Speaker 1: their paranoia, no, Laura Ingram hugged Hillary Clinton's mother and 491 00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:06,435 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton's brother. They seem to be friends. Later we 492 00:33:06,435 --> 00:33:08,675 Speaker 1: wound up meeting friends of her in the Oak bar 493 00:33:08,755 --> 00:33:13,195 Speaker 1: at the Plaza Hotel, where she kept drinking. I was astonished. 494 00:33:14,315 --> 00:33:17,395 Speaker 1: After about her sixth Cosmopolitan on top of everything she'd 495 00:33:17,435 --> 00:33:20,195 Speaker 1: had at the party, she began to droop her head, 496 00:33:20,275 --> 00:33:24,035 Speaker 1: nodding like a bobble head doll. Her friends said, Okay, 497 00:33:24,075 --> 00:33:26,755 Speaker 1: that's it, we'll take care of the check. You take 498 00:33:26,795 --> 00:33:30,435 Speaker 1: care of her. She had not gotten a hotel room 499 00:33:30,515 --> 00:33:33,435 Speaker 1: or anything, and if you've ever heard of anybody who 500 00:33:33,475 --> 00:33:36,395 Speaker 1: needed to be poured into a cab because they were 501 00:33:36,435 --> 00:33:38,835 Speaker 1: so drunk. You don't really know what that means until 502 00:33:38,875 --> 00:33:43,515 Speaker 1: you have to pour them into a cab. Frankly, I 503 00:33:43,675 --> 00:33:46,715 Speaker 1: wanted to put her in a hotel somewhere, but the 504 00:33:46,795 --> 00:33:51,275 Speaker 1: spectacle would have made the gossip pages. She basically could 505 00:33:51,275 --> 00:33:54,555 Speaker 1: not stand up, so I took her to my apartment, 506 00:33:54,595 --> 00:33:56,635 Speaker 1: put her into my bed, and I went and slept 507 00:33:56,675 --> 00:33:59,275 Speaker 1: on the couch at the far end of the apartment, 508 00:33:59,795 --> 00:34:02,195 Speaker 1: which is where I was hours later in the morning 509 00:34:02,195 --> 00:34:05,075 Speaker 1: when she woke me up because she came parading through 510 00:34:05,675 --> 00:34:08,195 Speaker 1: using my phone to call my assistant to get a 511 00:34:08,235 --> 00:34:11,435 Speaker 1: car sent to my address to take her to the airport, 512 00:34:11,715 --> 00:34:13,875 Speaker 1: and to make sure that everybody in my office knew 513 00:34:14,155 --> 00:34:18,435 Speaker 1: she had stayed overnight at my apartment. And all I 514 00:34:18,515 --> 00:34:22,635 Speaker 1: kept thinking was why didn't I follow my instincts. 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