1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:23,675 --> 00:00:28,835 Speaker 1: Smoking Gun. Donald Trump is on tape not just admitting 3 00:00:28,835 --> 00:00:32,315 Speaker 1: that after he left office he kept classified top secret 4 00:00:32,555 --> 00:00:37,595 Speaker 1: military plans for an American attack on Iran for war 5 00:00:37,755 --> 00:00:41,835 Speaker 1: against Iran, not just admitting he kept those, but boasting 6 00:00:41,835 --> 00:00:46,195 Speaker 1: he kept those and describing the details of the American 7 00:00:46,235 --> 00:00:50,675 Speaker 1: attack strategy on Iran and attributing the document and the 8 00:00:50,715 --> 00:00:53,995 Speaker 1: plans to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 9 00:00:54,475 --> 00:00:58,395 Speaker 1: and describing the document to at least four people, none 10 00:00:58,395 --> 00:01:01,635 Speaker 1: of whom had the requisite security clearance to even know 11 00:01:01,755 --> 00:01:05,555 Speaker 1: that the document existed, let alone hear any of the details, 12 00:01:06,275 --> 00:01:10,075 Speaker 1: and saying he would like to share those details with them, 13 00:01:10,155 --> 00:01:13,755 Speaker 1: and then acknowledging he couldn't share those details with them, 14 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:16,755 Speaker 1: because even an ex president can't just declassify whatever he 15 00:01:16,795 --> 00:01:20,715 Speaker 1: wants and acting as if he is holding the top 16 00:01:20,795 --> 00:01:25,035 Speaker 1: secret documents in his hands and he is talking about them. 17 00:01:25,355 --> 00:01:28,835 Speaker 1: And this happened in a conversation that took place not 18 00:01:28,875 --> 00:01:32,395 Speaker 1: at Mari Lago, but at his other golf course in Bedminster, 19 00:01:32,435 --> 00:01:36,595 Speaker 1: New Jersey, And the recorded conversation took place in July 20 00:01:36,715 --> 00:01:39,915 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one before Trump had returned any of the 21 00:01:39,915 --> 00:01:43,875 Speaker 1: documents he stole, and two of the other people were 22 00:01:43,915 --> 00:01:47,555 Speaker 1: there working on the autobiography of his former chief of staff, 23 00:01:47,595 --> 00:01:52,395 Speaker 1: Mark Meadows, and one of the others was Trump's former 24 00:01:52,435 --> 00:01:56,955 Speaker 1: White House press aide, Margo Martin. And Trump knew he 25 00:01:57,035 --> 00:02:00,315 Speaker 1: was being recorded, and there is some indication now that 26 00:02:00,355 --> 00:02:04,235 Speaker 1: Trump demanded that he be recorded, And the story of 27 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:09,635 Speaker 1: this met appears in the Mark Meadows autobiography. And this 28 00:02:09,875 --> 00:02:14,075 Speaker 1: may only be the tip of the Trump tapes. Iceberg, 29 00:02:14,795 --> 00:02:19,755 Speaker 1: quoting CNN's exclusive during the summer of twenty twenty one, 30 00:02:20,195 --> 00:02:24,395 Speaker 1: sources say multiple people were making recordings of Trump as 31 00:02:24,395 --> 00:02:30,595 Speaker 1: he held conversations with journalists and biographers unquote. And this 32 00:02:30,795 --> 00:02:36,795 Speaker 1: tape is in the hands of Special Counsel Jack Smith, 33 00:02:37,755 --> 00:02:41,435 Speaker 1: and Trump's lawyers should be meeting with Smith now and 34 00:02:41,595 --> 00:02:44,995 Speaker 1: asking for a plea deal now, because on this tape, 35 00:02:44,995 --> 00:02:48,875 Speaker 1: Trump not only confesses to repeated violations of the Espionage 36 00:02:48,995 --> 00:02:54,195 Speaker 1: Act worth ten years in jail per violation, but maybe 37 00:02:54,275 --> 00:02:57,835 Speaker 1: even more importantly than the galling thought of this thug, 38 00:02:57,955 --> 00:03:03,995 Speaker 1: Trump stealing our military plans for attacking Iran and keeping 39 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:08,835 Speaker 1: them at some cheesy golf course in New Jersey. More 40 00:03:08,995 --> 00:03:13,195 Speaker 1: galling than that. Trump, in his own words on his 41 00:03:13,395 --> 00:03:18,315 Speaker 1: own tape, also erases the pillar of his specious defense 42 00:03:18,475 --> 00:03:21,315 Speaker 1: that a president can declassify anything he wants to just 43 00:03:21,355 --> 00:03:23,995 Speaker 1: by thinking about it or saying it or it's automatic. 44 00:03:26,395 --> 00:03:30,715 Speaker 1: He is, in one two minute span, literally committing one crime, 45 00:03:31,315 --> 00:03:35,555 Speaker 1: confessing to other crimes, disavowing his only possible defense for 46 00:03:35,635 --> 00:03:38,915 Speaker 1: committing any of the crimes, admitting he knew in real 47 00:03:38,955 --> 00:03:43,075 Speaker 1: time that sharing classified information was itself a crime, and 48 00:03:44,355 --> 00:03:48,875 Speaker 1: expanding the scope of where he illegally kept classified documents 49 00:03:48,915 --> 00:03:53,515 Speaker 1: not just in mar Lago but in New Jersey. The 50 00:03:53,595 --> 00:04:00,035 Speaker 1: smoking gun and with that little throwaway line about multiple 51 00:04:00,075 --> 00:04:03,435 Speaker 1: people making recordings of Trump in twenty twenty one, not 52 00:04:03,675 --> 00:04:10,235 Speaker 1: just the smoking gun, but very likely a smoking gun 53 00:04:10,755 --> 00:04:14,435 Speaker 1: in a weapons depot full of nothing but smoking guns. 54 00:04:16,275 --> 00:04:20,475 Speaker 1: Ask Jack Smith for a plea deal. Hell, Trump should 55 00:04:20,515 --> 00:04:23,075 Speaker 1: just cut to the chase and ask President Biden for 56 00:04:23,155 --> 00:04:26,315 Speaker 1: a pardon deal, because if you have not had enough 57 00:04:26,395 --> 00:04:29,675 Speaker 1: crime cliches yet, in the smoking guns and the tips 58 00:04:29,715 --> 00:04:34,235 Speaker 1: of icebergs, there is also the inevitable can of worms, 59 00:04:34,915 --> 00:04:39,435 Speaker 1: because apart from the crimes on the Trump tape, the 60 00:04:39,435 --> 00:04:43,035 Speaker 1: ones we already know about, the ones there is already 61 00:04:43,155 --> 00:04:48,275 Speaker 1: hard evidence of In his own voice on the Trump Tape, 62 00:04:48,435 --> 00:04:53,555 Speaker 1: the first Trump Tape, Trump was willing to break the 63 00:04:53,675 --> 00:04:58,115 Speaker 1: law and reveal the existence of an ultra secret, classified 64 00:04:58,275 --> 00:05:04,035 Speaker 1: military war document about bombing Iran for the purpose of 65 00:05:04,155 --> 00:05:08,315 Speaker 1: trying to to make Mark Milli look bad after a 66 00:05:08,395 --> 00:05:10,395 Speaker 1: series of articles had just come out two years ago 67 00:05:10,395 --> 00:05:12,595 Speaker 1: in which it was revealed Milli had gone above and 68 00:05:12,635 --> 00:05:14,715 Speaker 1: beyond the call of duty to put obstacles in the 69 00:05:14,715 --> 00:05:18,555 Speaker 1: way of Trump launching a preemptive attack on Iran in 70 00:05:18,595 --> 00:05:22,475 Speaker 1: the waning days of his administration kind of international Reichstag 71 00:05:22,515 --> 00:05:25,275 Speaker 1: fire as a pretext for Trump to declare state of 72 00:05:25,315 --> 00:05:29,795 Speaker 1: emergency in this country, yet another prong of Trump's multifaceted 73 00:05:29,835 --> 00:05:34,595 Speaker 1: coup attempt. Trump was waving around the Iran Plan or 74 00:05:34,635 --> 00:05:38,915 Speaker 1: papers he implied were the Iran Plan in order to 75 00:05:39,035 --> 00:05:43,355 Speaker 1: refute Milli, to show that Milli was just as ready 76 00:05:43,355 --> 00:05:47,395 Speaker 1: to bomb Iran as he was. Trump was willing to 77 00:05:47,515 --> 00:05:53,395 Speaker 1: break these laws, willing to share our war plans on 78 00:05:53,555 --> 00:05:57,555 Speaker 1: how if we had to to bomb Iran and subvert 79 00:05:57,635 --> 00:06:02,755 Speaker 1: the entire necessary security structures of this country to make 80 00:06:02,875 --> 00:06:07,355 Speaker 1: himself look better. On one or two pages on one 81 00:06:07,395 --> 00:06:11,955 Speaker 1: of the hundreds of books about his damnable administration. He 82 00:06:12,075 --> 00:06:16,475 Speaker 1: was willing to do it with, not necessarily Mark Meadows. 83 00:06:16,715 --> 00:06:19,355 Speaker 1: We have no indication that Mark Meadows was at this meeting. 84 00:06:19,875 --> 00:06:23,235 Speaker 1: He was willing to do it with two researchers who 85 00:06:23,355 --> 00:06:26,475 Speaker 1: helped Meadows with the book and didn't even get credited 86 00:06:26,555 --> 00:06:30,515 Speaker 1: on the cover or the jacket. And Hugo Lowell in 87 00:06:30,595 --> 00:06:37,395 Speaker 1: the Guardian now ads this document was classified quote secret, unquote, 88 00:06:37,715 --> 00:06:41,715 Speaker 1: and that the Trump aid Margot Martin, was asked about 89 00:06:41,835 --> 00:06:46,035 Speaker 1: this milli Iran document in front of the Grand Jury 90 00:06:46,395 --> 00:06:49,395 Speaker 1: in March, and she also had her laptop and her 91 00:06:49,435 --> 00:06:53,835 Speaker 1: electronic devices imaged by the Department of Justice. And also 92 00:06:53,875 --> 00:06:56,955 Speaker 1: that it was Trump who wanted the meeting with the 93 00:06:56,955 --> 00:07:04,435 Speaker 1: Meadows people recorded because he doesn't trust journalists. But now 94 00:07:04,475 --> 00:07:07,595 Speaker 1: come the question, if he was willing to tell them 95 00:07:07,795 --> 00:07:13,755 Speaker 1: about this, who else was he willing to confirm to 96 00:07:14,035 --> 00:07:19,155 Speaker 1: the existence of this document or willing to read it to, 97 00:07:19,395 --> 00:07:23,035 Speaker 1: or show it to or sell it to. Would another 98 00:07:23,075 --> 00:07:25,795 Speaker 1: government in the Middle East want to hear about American 99 00:07:25,875 --> 00:07:31,955 Speaker 1: plans to bomb Iran with Israel? What Saudi Arabia? Saudi 100 00:07:31,995 --> 00:07:34,115 Speaker 1: Arabia with whom Trump has had a series of intricate 101 00:07:34,155 --> 00:07:38,395 Speaker 1: business deals for decades, including the promotion of this sportswashing 102 00:07:38,515 --> 00:07:42,635 Speaker 1: Saudi Live Golf tour. Just last week, The New York 103 00:07:42,675 --> 00:07:46,235 Speaker 1: Times reported the Jacksmith's office had issued subpoenas to all 104 00:07:46,275 --> 00:07:49,875 Speaker 1: the Trump companies for all business dealings since twenty seventeen 105 00:07:50,115 --> 00:07:57,955 Speaker 1: with seven specific countries, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE Kuwait. 106 00:07:58,795 --> 00:08:01,035 Speaker 1: All of it based on a theory that the documents 107 00:08:01,075 --> 00:08:04,915 Speaker 1: he stole may have found their way into the those 108 00:08:04,955 --> 00:08:12,515 Speaker 1: Trump business dealings with those countries. Is the milli Iran 109 00:08:13,075 --> 00:08:17,915 Speaker 1: Plan document. One of those documents. Did it go to 110 00:08:17,955 --> 00:08:23,035 Speaker 1: the Saudis? If it did, here we are back again 111 00:08:23,075 --> 00:08:26,395 Speaker 1: in eighteen US Code seven ninety four. Gathering or delivering 112 00:08:26,395 --> 00:08:32,475 Speaker 1: defense information to aid foreign government, giving a foreign government 113 00:08:32,595 --> 00:08:36,715 Speaker 1: our defense information and a plan promulgated by the Joint 114 00:08:36,795 --> 00:08:41,235 Speaker 1: Chiefs of Staff for starting a war and bombing Iran. 115 00:08:41,595 --> 00:08:45,315 Speaker 1: You know that would fall under the definition of defense information. 116 00:08:46,475 --> 00:08:49,635 Speaker 1: Anybody guilty of doing that quote shall be punished by 117 00:08:49,755 --> 00:08:54,595 Speaker 1: death or by imprisonment for any term of years or 118 00:08:54,635 --> 00:08:58,835 Speaker 1: for life, except that the sentence of death shall not 119 00:08:58,915 --> 00:09:02,675 Speaker 1: be imposed unless the jury further finds that the offense 120 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:06,955 Speaker 1: resulted in the identification by foreign power of an individual 121 00:09:07,035 --> 00:09:10,675 Speaker 1: acting as an agent of the United States, and consequently 122 00:09:10,715 --> 00:09:16,315 Speaker 1: the death of that individual or it directly concerned nuclear weaponry, 123 00:09:17,075 --> 00:09:22,115 Speaker 1: military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means 124 00:09:22,115 --> 00:09:26,275 Speaker 1: of defense or retaliation against large scale attack, semi colon 125 00:09:26,835 --> 00:09:33,235 Speaker 1: war plans, semi colon communications intelligence or cryptographic information semi colon, 126 00:09:33,555 --> 00:09:37,755 Speaker 1: or any other major weapons system or major element or 127 00:09:38,115 --> 00:09:45,395 Speaker 1: defense strategy. How many of those did he do? In 128 00:09:45,515 --> 00:09:53,475 Speaker 1: this five six seven, I have moved away from what 129 00:09:53,595 --> 00:09:57,235 Speaker 1: we have just learned on this watershed day to what 130 00:09:57,515 --> 00:10:01,715 Speaker 1: might be out there yet to learn. And even I 131 00:10:01,795 --> 00:10:05,475 Speaker 1: don't really think that anybody would try to prosecute a 132 00:10:05,635 --> 00:10:09,835 Speaker 1: death penalty case against Donald Trump. But we sure as 133 00:10:09,915 --> 00:10:14,035 Speaker 1: hell have not moved that far away from what we 134 00:10:14,195 --> 00:10:18,715 Speaker 1: already do know. And it is already serious enough that 135 00:10:18,795 --> 00:10:23,075 Speaker 1: we are not far from quote shall be punished by 136 00:10:23,195 --> 00:10:26,395 Speaker 1: death or by the imprisonment for any term of years 137 00:10:26,515 --> 00:10:31,995 Speaker 1: or for life. And just listen to this quotation that 138 00:10:32,115 --> 00:10:35,115 Speaker 1: is almost certainly drawn from the meeting at which Trump 139 00:10:35,155 --> 00:10:40,755 Speaker 1: seemed to brandish the Millie memo as it is described 140 00:10:40,795 --> 00:10:43,515 Speaker 1: in the Meadows Book. And sorry, I'm not buying the 141 00:10:43,555 --> 00:10:46,275 Speaker 1: whole book to read the whole excerpt. I'm not given 142 00:10:46,355 --> 00:10:51,235 Speaker 1: Mark Meadows my checks Amazon for price of book six 143 00:10:51,355 --> 00:10:57,755 Speaker 1: dollars and sixty five cents. Trump Meadows or ghostwriters writes. 144 00:10:58,195 --> 00:11:02,315 Speaker 1: Quote recalls a four page report typed up by Mark 145 00:11:02,355 --> 00:11:05,555 Speaker 1: Millie himself. It contained the general his own plan to 146 00:11:05,555 --> 00:11:10,235 Speaker 1: attack Iran, deploying massive numbers of troops, something he urged 147 00:11:10,315 --> 00:11:13,675 Speaker 1: President Trump to do more than once during his presidency. 148 00:11:14,195 --> 00:11:20,875 Speaker 1: Enquote In the Meadows autobiography version of the meeting, Jack 149 00:11:20,875 --> 00:11:24,155 Speaker 1: Smith has this recording of Trump revealed enough that just 150 00:11:24,235 --> 00:11:28,875 Speaker 1: repeating all that in that loan quote or more to 151 00:11:28,915 --> 00:11:33,795 Speaker 1: the Saudis or to anybody else, to the Canadians, that 152 00:11:33,995 --> 00:11:36,835 Speaker 1: is eighteen US Code seven ninety four gathering or delivering 153 00:11:36,835 --> 00:11:46,595 Speaker 1: defense information to aid foreign government espionage prison. There are 154 00:11:46,635 --> 00:11:51,875 Speaker 1: four other very relevant points here. Who gave Jack Smith 155 00:11:51,955 --> 00:11:57,715 Speaker 1: the tape gave or gave up? I mentioned that. Nowhere 156 00:11:57,755 --> 00:11:59,995 Speaker 1: in the CNN piece is there anything indicating that Mark 157 00:12:00,035 --> 00:12:03,115 Speaker 1: Meadows was at the Smoking Gun meeting that was recorded. 158 00:12:04,955 --> 00:12:08,635 Speaker 1: But there's certainly nothing indicating that the tape, which was 159 00:12:08,795 --> 00:12:13,555 Speaker 1: recording an interview conducted for meadows Own autobiography, would not 160 00:12:13,635 --> 00:12:17,995 Speaker 1: belong to Meadows or at minimum to his publisher, or 161 00:12:18,035 --> 00:12:20,635 Speaker 1: then there is this alternate theory that perhaps this is 162 00:12:20,715 --> 00:12:25,915 Speaker 1: the Margo Martin tape, and Meadows is obviously not the 163 00:12:25,915 --> 00:12:28,115 Speaker 1: only possible source for the tape, but he is one 164 00:12:28,115 --> 00:12:30,835 Speaker 1: of the possibilities, probably the lead possibility, and that in 165 00:12:30,875 --> 00:12:34,395 Speaker 1: turn again raises the possibility that Mark Meadows has flipped 166 00:12:34,395 --> 00:12:38,435 Speaker 1: on Donald Trump. It's only last Wednesday that CNN put 167 00:12:38,435 --> 00:12:41,115 Speaker 1: out a story reading quote a source close to Trump's 168 00:12:41,155 --> 00:12:43,675 Speaker 1: legal team said Trump's lawyers have had no contact with 169 00:12:43,755 --> 00:12:46,675 Speaker 1: Meadows and his team and are in the dark on 170 00:12:46,835 --> 00:12:51,835 Speaker 1: what Meadows is doing in the investigation. It also quoted 171 00:12:51,955 --> 00:12:56,715 Speaker 1: one Trump advisor as saying, we've all heard the same rumors. 172 00:12:57,155 --> 00:13:02,475 Speaker 1: No one really knows what he's doing. Though sounds like 173 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:05,875 Speaker 1: what Mark Meadows was doing was doing a thorough inventory 174 00:13:05,915 --> 00:13:13,035 Speaker 1: of every damn thing Trump said on damn tapes. Second 175 00:13:13,075 --> 00:13:16,155 Speaker 1: additional point, we know from CNN and other reporting that 176 00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:20,635 Speaker 1: Smith's team has asked General Milly about the document about 177 00:13:20,635 --> 00:13:25,155 Speaker 1: the Trump tape. First Trump tape. It seems that was 178 00:13:25,195 --> 00:13:27,795 Speaker 1: not in front of the grand jury, but in an interview, 179 00:13:27,835 --> 00:13:31,395 Speaker 1: but it's weirdly phrased in the CNN piece. Others have 180 00:13:31,555 --> 00:13:34,435 Speaker 1: clearly been asked about it on the record in front 181 00:13:34,475 --> 00:13:39,075 Speaker 1: of the jurors, including Margot Martin of Trump's staff. Third 182 00:13:39,155 --> 00:13:42,435 Speaker 1: additional point. Up until this story, almost everything leaking out 183 00:13:42,435 --> 00:13:45,275 Speaker 1: of the Special Council's Office has been about Trump committing 184 00:13:45,715 --> 00:13:51,835 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice, hiding documents, hiding documents from his own attorney, 185 00:13:52,155 --> 00:13:55,115 Speaker 1: having a box mover who was caught on security tape, 186 00:13:55,155 --> 00:13:57,995 Speaker 1: who knows nothing about anything or subpoenas, but is somehow 187 00:13:57,995 --> 00:14:00,675 Speaker 1: clever enough to suddenly go ask the Marri Lago it 188 00:14:01,075 --> 00:14:04,875 Speaker 1: guy how long before mister phelps this tape will self destructed? 189 00:14:07,075 --> 00:14:13,315 Speaker 1: But this story is about the meat of an underlying crime, 190 00:14:14,155 --> 00:14:19,515 Speaker 1: the theft of secret war plans. Not of obstruction, not 191 00:14:19,595 --> 00:14:23,235 Speaker 1: of destruction of evidence, but of stealing a classified document, 192 00:14:23,355 --> 00:14:26,035 Speaker 1: sharing knowledge of his existence with people who are not 193 00:14:26,035 --> 00:14:29,555 Speaker 1: supposed to know of its existence, including book researchers, for 194 00:14:29,635 --> 00:14:34,515 Speaker 1: Christ's sakes, pining to read it to them, making veiled 195 00:14:34,555 --> 00:14:38,315 Speaker 1: references to its contents, but aware guilty for knowledge, aware 196 00:14:38,995 --> 00:14:41,155 Speaker 1: that he is prevented by law from doing so and 197 00:14:41,195 --> 00:14:47,915 Speaker 1: could not just declassify stuff at will. This is the meal, 198 00:14:48,075 --> 00:14:52,515 Speaker 1: and the obstruction is just the dessert. Federal prosecutors occasionally 199 00:14:52,595 --> 00:14:55,955 Speaker 1: prosecute just the dessert, but they are much more likely 200 00:14:55,995 --> 00:15:00,555 Speaker 1: to prosecute obstruction if there is something substantial behind the 201 00:15:00,595 --> 00:15:03,595 Speaker 1: obstruction and if the perpetrator knew he would be committing 202 00:15:03,635 --> 00:15:05,915 Speaker 1: a crime. If he commit a crime and then he 203 00:15:05,955 --> 00:15:12,675 Speaker 1: goes and commits the crime, that's pretty substantial. Plus the document. 204 00:15:13,915 --> 00:15:17,075 Speaker 1: As the former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb said on CNN 205 00:15:17,115 --> 00:15:20,755 Speaker 1: about the Special Council's Office right now, quote, I think 206 00:15:20,795 --> 00:15:26,715 Speaker 1: they have their foot on Trump's neck. And the fourth 207 00:15:26,755 --> 00:15:34,235 Speaker 1: and final additional point Bedminster. This happened at Bedminster, not 208 00:15:34,355 --> 00:15:37,555 Speaker 1: at Mari Lago. And if for some reason the Special 209 00:15:37,635 --> 00:15:40,675 Speaker 1: Council's Office has not yet done an inch by inch 210 00:15:40,875 --> 00:15:43,995 Speaker 1: search there, it needs to be out there by sunrise. 211 00:15:44,675 --> 00:15:50,555 Speaker 1: Where is this document now? Is it still at Bedminster? 212 00:15:52,035 --> 00:15:56,755 Speaker 1: Should we go and get it? And it moves an 213 00:15:56,795 --> 00:16:00,195 Speaker 1: incident at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster from 214 00:16:00,235 --> 00:16:03,755 Speaker 1: the macabre and the silly and the category of a 215 00:16:03,875 --> 00:16:06,675 Speaker 1: great joke. But I must tell Muffy, let's go get 216 00:16:06,675 --> 00:16:11,755 Speaker 1: to Martini to the category of is this possible? I 217 00:16:11,795 --> 00:16:16,715 Speaker 1: mean what follows is I hope pure political science fiction 218 00:16:17,275 --> 00:16:20,995 Speaker 1: and the product of having read every single Sherlock Holmes 219 00:16:21,035 --> 00:16:24,995 Speaker 1: story and seeing way too much Monty Python. I hope 220 00:16:25,075 --> 00:16:28,155 Speaker 1: this is as crazy as it might sound, But all 221 00:16:28,195 --> 00:16:34,395 Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm not sure anymore. You are Trump. 222 00:16:35,035 --> 00:16:38,475 Speaker 1: You have this ultra secret military national defense document, and 223 00:16:38,555 --> 00:16:40,955 Speaker 1: one of your attorneys finds out and he tells you 224 00:16:40,995 --> 00:16:43,595 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one or twenty twenty two that if 225 00:16:43,635 --> 00:16:47,155 Speaker 1: they find it here, they can prosecute you, and if 226 00:16:47,195 --> 00:16:49,195 Speaker 1: they convict you, they could put you in jail for 227 00:16:49,235 --> 00:16:52,635 Speaker 1: the rest of your life or worse. You must return 228 00:16:52,715 --> 00:16:57,835 Speaker 1: this document immediately and hope they let it go. But 229 00:16:57,915 --> 00:17:00,835 Speaker 1: you're Trump. Of course you will not return it. You're Trump, 230 00:17:00,915 --> 00:17:05,355 Speaker 1: You're immortal, You're guilty of nothing. You do what somebody 231 00:17:05,355 --> 00:17:09,395 Speaker 1: tells you too. That's for suckers. But the Iran document 232 00:17:09,955 --> 00:17:13,915 Speaker 1: could be damning somehow. You know this through the haze 233 00:17:13,955 --> 00:17:16,355 Speaker 1: of your own ego. You know you have to get 234 00:17:16,435 --> 00:17:20,835 Speaker 1: rid of it. What do you do with it? You 235 00:17:20,835 --> 00:17:24,635 Speaker 1: can't destroy it, you can't burn it. What if you 236 00:17:24,715 --> 00:17:27,475 Speaker 1: somehow leave evidence that you did that? Now there would 237 00:17:27,515 --> 00:17:31,235 Speaker 1: be two charges against you. What do you do with 238 00:17:31,475 --> 00:17:38,195 Speaker 1: that document? Stolen war plans at Bedminster? Where could you 239 00:17:38,235 --> 00:17:40,515 Speaker 1: put it? Where they'll not only never find it, but 240 00:17:40,595 --> 00:17:42,835 Speaker 1: never think to look for it. Moreover, where they would 241 00:17:42,875 --> 00:17:51,435 Speaker 1: never have the audacity to search for it. On Wednesday, 242 00:17:51,515 --> 00:17:54,875 Speaker 1: July twentieth, twenty twenty two, at the Bedminster Golf Course 243 00:17:54,875 --> 00:17:57,995 Speaker 1: in Bedminster, New Jersey, between the first Tea and the 244 00:17:58,035 --> 00:18:04,115 Speaker 1: magnificent Main Golf Clubhouse, the body of Ivanna Marie is 245 00:18:04,155 --> 00:18:07,195 Speaker 1: on each a Trump, first wife of the forty fifth 246 00:18:07,235 --> 00:18:10,315 Speaker 1: President of the United States, was laid to rest in 247 00:18:10,355 --> 00:18:16,315 Speaker 1: a beautiful private ceremony, buried quote in a rose gold 248 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:30,275 Speaker 1: hwed casket unquote very large rose goldhwed casket. Never mind, 249 00:18:31,355 --> 00:18:41,835 Speaker 1: lock her up, dig her up. Okay. The rest of 250 00:18:41,875 --> 00:18:45,435 Speaker 1: this podcast is the original episode from Wednesday, May thirty first, 251 00:18:45,475 --> 00:18:47,715 Speaker 1: So if you've heard it already, no need to listen 252 00:18:47,755 --> 00:18:50,275 Speaker 1: again to how the LA Dodgers screwed up Pride Night 253 00:18:50,315 --> 00:18:56,115 Speaker 1: beyond all recognition, or how Mike Flynn is now selling sperm. 254 00:18:57,035 --> 00:18:58,995 Speaker 1: I will not take it personally if you hit stop 255 00:18:59,115 --> 00:19:01,635 Speaker 1: right now. I hope to update this for a new Thursday, 256 00:19:01,715 --> 00:19:05,115 Speaker 1: June first edition. But there's one more complication. Turns out 257 00:19:05,155 --> 00:19:09,315 Speaker 1: I may have walking pneumonia, just walking pneumonia. No boogie 258 00:19:09,355 --> 00:19:12,555 Speaker 1: woogie flu I've actually been off and on woozy the 259 00:19:12,635 --> 00:19:15,715 Speaker 1: last few weeks. The voice is beginning to go, finally 260 00:19:15,715 --> 00:19:17,795 Speaker 1: getting it looked at, and I have the stamina of 261 00:19:19,435 --> 00:19:23,035 Speaker 1: This is how not good I feel. I don't feel 262 00:19:23,035 --> 00:19:28,315 Speaker 1: good enough to come up with another simile. Sorry, Keith 263 00:19:28,395 --> 00:19:35,595 Speaker 1: at his doctors. That's next. This is countdown. This is 264 00:19:35,715 --> 00:19:38,755 Speaker 1: countdown with Keith Oberman. 265 00:19:51,195 --> 00:19:57,515 Speaker 2: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 266 00:19:58,435 --> 00:20:03,875 Speaker 2: is countdown with Keith Olberman in sports. How could it 267 00:20:03,955 --> 00:20:07,835 Speaker 2: possibly go more wrong for the Los Angeles Dodgers. First, 268 00:20:07,835 --> 00:20:12,075 Speaker 2: they invited a satirical fundraising drag group called the Sisters 269 00:20:12,115 --> 00:20:16,395 Speaker 2: of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night at Dodger Stadium. Then, 270 00:20:16,955 --> 00:20:20,075 Speaker 2: when the infamous Catholic League, which is actually just one 271 00:20:20,155 --> 00:20:23,675 Speaker 2: obnoxious guy named Bill, came after them for doing that, 272 00:20:24,035 --> 00:20:28,995 Speaker 2: they disinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from Pride Night. Then, 273 00:20:29,115 --> 00:20:33,035 Speaker 2: after blowback, including support for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence 274 00:20:33,195 --> 00:20:39,395 Speaker 2: from actual Catholic nuns, the Dodgers reinvited them. On Monday, 275 00:20:39,435 --> 00:20:42,475 Speaker 2: relief pitcher Anthony Bass of the Toronto Blue Jays posted 276 00:20:42,475 --> 00:20:45,515 Speaker 2: a video from some guy calling for boycotts of Target 277 00:20:45,555 --> 00:20:48,955 Speaker 2: and Bud happily leaving the Dodgers out of it. This 278 00:20:49,155 --> 00:20:53,315 Speaker 2: is evil, This is demonic, said the video that Bass posted. Yesterday, 279 00:20:53,435 --> 00:20:56,875 Speaker 2: Bass issued a stiff, thirty second apology that looked like 280 00:20:56,875 --> 00:21:01,355 Speaker 2: a very well rehearsed live hostage video. A baseball blogger 281 00:21:01,435 --> 00:21:04,995 Speaker 2: named Tyrone Palmer noted Anthony Bass is calling for a 282 00:21:04,995 --> 00:21:08,315 Speaker 2: boycott of Target. Judging by his four point five zero 283 00:21:08,755 --> 00:21:12,595 Speaker 2: er and four walks per nine innings, it looks like 284 00:21:12,675 --> 00:21:18,715 Speaker 2: he's been boycotting Targets all season long. Almost simultaneous to 285 00:21:18,795 --> 00:21:24,035 Speaker 2: Bass's forced apology, another mediocre pitcher named Trevor Williams of 286 00:21:24,075 --> 00:21:29,155 Speaker 2: the Washington Nationals posted a two screenshot screed in which 287 00:21:29,195 --> 00:21:32,635 Speaker 2: he said he was quote deeply troubled that the Dodgers 288 00:21:32,675 --> 00:21:35,995 Speaker 2: were inviting the Sisters, claimed the decision was a quote 289 00:21:36,075 --> 00:21:40,955 Speaker 2: violation of the Dodgers' discrimination policy, and encouraged his quote 290 00:21:41,235 --> 00:21:45,435 Speaker 2: fellow Catholics to reconsider their support of an organization that 291 00:21:45,515 --> 00:21:49,195 Speaker 2: allows this kind of mockery of its fans to occur. 292 00:21:50,315 --> 00:21:53,075 Speaker 2: Williams is not quite as bad as Bass, but if 293 00:21:53,075 --> 00:21:57,155 Speaker 2: he disappeared from baseball tomorrow, you probably would not notice. 294 00:21:57,315 --> 00:22:00,315 Speaker 2: And he might because while he might not be as 295 00:22:00,355 --> 00:22:04,475 Speaker 2: bad as Bass. Bass also did not attack another team, 296 00:22:04,755 --> 00:22:09,635 Speaker 2: the La Dodgers, no less, had encouraged fans to boycott them. 297 00:22:10,395 --> 00:22:13,035 Speaker 2: You're in the same business, pal, or at least you were. 298 00:22:13,635 --> 00:22:16,275 Speaker 2: The whole thing just keeps getting worse and worse because 299 00:22:16,275 --> 00:22:21,275 Speaker 2: of one decision. This Catholic League, which convinced the Dodgers 300 00:22:21,315 --> 00:22:25,795 Speaker 2: to uninvite these crazy drag nuns, is actually just one 301 00:22:25,875 --> 00:22:30,435 Speaker 2: guy named Bill Donahue, a loud mouthed homophobe and bully. 302 00:22:30,555 --> 00:22:33,235 Speaker 2: All the cable networks figured him out in the nineties 303 00:22:33,275 --> 00:22:36,595 Speaker 2: and stopped putting him on. When the Dodgers finally figured 304 00:22:36,595 --> 00:22:39,835 Speaker 2: that out, they reversed course and reinvited the Sisters. But 305 00:22:39,915 --> 00:22:42,795 Speaker 2: then last week, the Dodgers team leader, the veteran pitcher 306 00:22:42,875 --> 00:22:47,075 Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw, personally announced that the Dodgers would also be 307 00:22:47,155 --> 00:22:51,915 Speaker 2: staging Christian Faith and Family Day after an interruption that 308 00:22:51,995 --> 00:22:55,635 Speaker 2: began with the pandemic. Now it becomes evident that Kershaw 309 00:22:55,715 --> 00:22:59,755 Speaker 2: decided to announce this himself. Quote, I think we were 310 00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:02,355 Speaker 2: always going to do Christian Faith Day this year, but 311 00:23:02,435 --> 00:23:05,235 Speaker 2: I think the timing of our announcement was bet up. 312 00:23:05,475 --> 00:23:08,515 Speaker 1: Kershaw told the La Times, Yes, It was in response 313 00:23:08,555 --> 00:23:12,515 Speaker 1: to the highlighting of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence by 314 00:23:12,555 --> 00:23:18,435 Speaker 1: the Dodgers, so Kershaw announced his team was going to 315 00:23:18,515 --> 00:23:21,875 Speaker 1: hold a Christian event, boxing the Dodgers into holding the 316 00:23:21,955 --> 00:23:25,435 Speaker 1: Christian event, the team will not comment about its own 317 00:23:25,555 --> 00:23:29,915 Speaker 1: star and just complicate this more. Kershaw has always participated 318 00:23:29,955 --> 00:23:32,675 Speaker 1: in Pride Night, quoting him again, this has nothing to 319 00:23:32,675 --> 00:23:36,235 Speaker 1: do with the LGBTQ community or Pride or anything like that. 320 00:23:36,515 --> 00:23:38,715 Speaker 1: This is simply a group that was making fun of 321 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:43,395 Speaker 1: a religion that I don't agree with. Moral When Bill 322 00:23:43,475 --> 00:23:47,995 Speaker 1: Donahue of the Catholic quote league unquote calls, whatever bad 323 00:23:48,075 --> 00:23:50,995 Speaker 1: thing you think he's try to make happen, there is 324 00:23:51,115 --> 00:23:54,035 Speaker 1: really only one bad thing that can happen, and that 325 00:23:54,195 --> 00:23:57,355 Speaker 1: is this. You can forget that. When Bill Donahue calls, 326 00:23:57,395 --> 00:24:02,115 Speaker 1: you must immediately hang up on him. Another moment of 327 00:24:02,115 --> 00:24:05,515 Speaker 1: Baseball fund At least this one's between the lines sort of. First, 328 00:24:05,515 --> 00:24:08,115 Speaker 1: the Houston Astros mocked the fans of the Oakland A's, 329 00:24:08,475 --> 00:24:11,435 Speaker 1: the moribund, lame duct team that's probably moving to Las 330 00:24:11,555 --> 00:24:15,635 Speaker 1: Vegas after ownership basically starved the franchise to death over 331 00:24:15,635 --> 00:24:18,875 Speaker 1: the last five years. The Astros tweeted a video of 332 00:24:18,915 --> 00:24:23,515 Speaker 1: their offensive explosion in Oakland recently with this caption ten 333 00:24:23,675 --> 00:24:28,555 Speaker 1: runs in front of tens of fans. This was retweeted 334 00:24:28,595 --> 00:24:32,195 Speaker 1: forty six hundred times. It got seventeen thousand likes and 335 00:24:32,315 --> 00:24:37,195 Speaker 1: seven million views, and then, amid the criticism, the Astros 336 00:24:37,275 --> 00:24:41,395 Speaker 1: deleted the tweets, thereby making it twice as bad and 337 00:24:41,555 --> 00:24:44,675 Speaker 1: the beginning of the end of TV sports as we 338 00:24:44,755 --> 00:24:49,115 Speaker 1: know it is underway or something like that. The terminology 339 00:24:49,115 --> 00:24:51,995 Speaker 1: here gets kind of confusing. The Sports Business Journal reports 340 00:24:52,155 --> 00:24:56,115 Speaker 1: that Diamond Sports Group, which runs the Bally Sports regional networks, 341 00:24:56,235 --> 00:24:59,715 Speaker 1: which carried dozens of local team broadcasts in many sports 342 00:24:59,795 --> 00:25:02,875 Speaker 1: and which went bankrupt in March, has for the first 343 00:25:02,875 --> 00:25:05,955 Speaker 1: time forfeited its rights to one of those teams games. 344 00:25:06,235 --> 00:25:08,635 Speaker 1: It has told the San Diego Padres it will not 345 00:25:08,755 --> 00:25:11,955 Speaker 1: be making its next payment to them on the twenty 346 00:25:12,035 --> 00:25:16,035 Speaker 1: year one point two billion dollar deal, and so the 347 00:25:16,075 --> 00:25:20,315 Speaker 1: TV rights for the Padres revert back to the Padres. 348 00:25:20,995 --> 00:25:22,875 Speaker 1: And I guess now the announceries will just have to 349 00:25:22,875 --> 00:25:25,075 Speaker 1: go door to door every morning asking if anybody wants 350 00:25:25,075 --> 00:25:27,315 Speaker 1: to watch that night's game and how much they'd be 351 00:25:27,355 --> 00:25:51,835 Speaker 1: willing to pay for it. Thank you, Nancy Faust. And 352 00:25:51,995 --> 00:25:55,035 Speaker 1: if you're wondering where tennis gets its reputation for disconnection 353 00:25:55,075 --> 00:25:58,595 Speaker 1: from reality. At the French Open, Marta Costiac lost to 354 00:25:58,675 --> 00:26:02,995 Speaker 1: number two women's seed Arena Sabelenka. Costiuc refused to shake 355 00:26:03,075 --> 00:26:07,315 Speaker 1: Sabolenka's hand after the math. She never shakes Sabolenka's hand 356 00:26:07,355 --> 00:26:10,475 Speaker 1: after the match, and they always play and yes, it 357 00:26:10,595 --> 00:26:15,755 Speaker 1: is because Costiuk is from Ukraine and Sabolenka is from Belarus, 358 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:20,115 Speaker 1: which supports Russia's terrorism in Ukraine. And Costiuk will not 359 00:26:20,275 --> 00:26:23,395 Speaker 1: shake her hand and did not shake her hand, and 360 00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:27,475 Speaker 1: the French Open crowd at Roland Garo Stadium promptly booed 361 00:26:28,315 --> 00:26:33,435 Speaker 1: the Ukrainian for not shaking her hand. And this is 362 00:26:33,635 --> 00:26:37,275 Speaker 1: how stupid that is. Costiuc of Ukraine said she was 363 00:26:37,355 --> 00:26:40,355 Speaker 1: embarrassed for the French crowd for booing her, But then 364 00:26:40,515 --> 00:26:44,355 Speaker 1: Sabolenka of Belarus said even she was amazed that the 365 00:26:44,355 --> 00:26:48,555 Speaker 1: French crowd had bowed COSTYUK. When both players in this 366 00:26:48,715 --> 00:27:07,035 Speaker 1: dynamic say you've screwed up, you've screwed up. Coming up 367 00:27:07,075 --> 00:27:09,195 Speaker 1: one day, I was the mild mannered host of a 368 00:27:09,235 --> 00:27:12,875 Speaker 1: mild mannered news magazine on MSNBC that led the show 369 00:27:12,915 --> 00:27:15,195 Speaker 1: with stories like, oh, the new edition of the Farmer's 370 00:27:15,235 --> 00:27:18,475 Speaker 1: Almanac is out, let's go live to the publisher, or 371 00:27:18,555 --> 00:27:22,035 Speaker 1: tonight we devote the hour to Saturday Night Live's newest 372 00:27:22,075 --> 00:27:26,395 Speaker 1: breakout star, Chris Catan. And then the next day I 373 00:27:26,555 --> 00:27:29,595 Speaker 1: was anchoring the State of the Union broadcast and getting 374 00:27:29,635 --> 00:27:34,635 Speaker 1: quoted by politicians as I was yesterday by Chip. Next, first, 375 00:27:34,635 --> 00:27:36,675 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning 376 00:27:36,715 --> 00:27:40,115 Speaker 1: Kruger Effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 377 00:27:40,755 --> 00:27:46,035 Speaker 1: The Bronze. Kayleie Campbell Layton, posting on Facebook identifying as 378 00:27:46,075 --> 00:27:48,675 Speaker 1: the wife of Ryan Layton, a marine based in twenty 379 00:27:48,755 --> 00:27:53,195 Speaker 1: nine Palms, California, quote, Biden left many military service dogs 380 00:27:53,195 --> 00:27:56,835 Speaker 1: to die in cobble after the evacuation. I'm calling for 381 00:27:56,915 --> 00:28:00,595 Speaker 1: public execution of this old man, and you can't change 382 00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:04,435 Speaker 1: my mind now. I'm a dog lover, and the fate 383 00:28:04,475 --> 00:28:08,155 Speaker 1: of the service dogs in Afghanistan grieves me, as any 384 00:28:08,235 --> 00:28:12,155 Speaker 1: dog at risk grieves me. And this woman has also 385 00:28:12,235 --> 00:28:15,795 Speaker 1: done the military is racist against white people, posts and 386 00:28:16,115 --> 00:28:19,035 Speaker 1: videos about target and she should have been arrested already 387 00:28:19,035 --> 00:28:21,835 Speaker 1: for this threat against the president and her husband needs 388 00:28:21,875 --> 00:28:25,435 Speaker 1: to be thrown out of the Marines and directly into well. 389 00:28:26,395 --> 00:28:33,075 Speaker 1: I'm assuming congress Ryan chip Layton runner up Elon Musk 390 00:28:33,435 --> 00:28:36,435 Speaker 1: shot and Chaser time shot. We all told him so, 391 00:28:36,675 --> 00:28:39,195 Speaker 1: We told him the blue checks are not status symbols, 392 00:28:39,555 --> 00:28:43,435 Speaker 1: they're ID cards. But he didn't listen because he's a 393 00:28:43,675 --> 00:28:50,555 Speaker 1: super genius. Yesterday, an account called aoc Press began impersonating 394 00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:55,035 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortes, and it had a blue check mark, 395 00:28:55,315 --> 00:28:59,115 Speaker 1: and some of its tweets included wild policy statements, and 396 00:28:59,235 --> 00:29:02,795 Speaker 1: thus the new cognizantity of Twitter. Those with grilled cheese 397 00:29:02,795 --> 00:29:05,475 Speaker 1: for brains, who also paid ninety six dollars a year 398 00:29:05,715 --> 00:29:08,515 Speaker 1: for a blue check mark that's bigger than their private parts, 399 00:29:08,755 --> 00:29:11,835 Speaker 1: they began to believe it really was the congresswoman saying 400 00:29:11,835 --> 00:29:15,835 Speaker 1: these stupid things. And that's when Musk replied to one 401 00:29:15,835 --> 00:29:20,475 Speaker 1: of the fake accounts tweets thereby amplifying it no pain, 402 00:29:20,595 --> 00:29:25,075 Speaker 1: no gain, also no brain, no pain, and no brain 403 00:29:25,115 --> 00:29:29,275 Speaker 1: no shame. If that's the shot, here's the chaser yesterday. 404 00:29:29,275 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: Fidelity Investments, which put money in when Musk bought Twitter 405 00:29:33,035 --> 00:29:35,515 Speaker 1: wrote down the value of its share of the company 406 00:29:35,555 --> 00:29:39,435 Speaker 1: and his He bought it for forty four billion. Fidelity 407 00:29:39,475 --> 00:29:44,515 Speaker 1: says it is now worth fifteen billion. Elon bought it 408 00:29:44,595 --> 00:29:48,355 Speaker 1: all right, but the winner. Michael Flynn, Yeah, that one, 409 00:29:49,435 --> 00:29:52,155 Speaker 1: not the whole treason and overthrowing the government start. This 410 00:29:52,235 --> 00:29:55,395 Speaker 1: is his new venture. He is described as a founding 411 00:29:55,475 --> 00:29:59,835 Speaker 1: partner of for the Pure, which is one stop shopping 412 00:29:59,835 --> 00:30:02,635 Speaker 1: for the vaxer crowd. Quote an online community of health 413 00:30:02,635 --> 00:30:07,835 Speaker 1: conscious COVID nineteen on vaccinated people, where health conscious individuals 414 00:30:07,915 --> 00:30:10,635 Speaker 1: who have rejected the vaccine can connect and find everything 415 00:30:10,675 --> 00:30:16,835 Speaker 1: they need. Friendships, dating, curated news, service providers, doctors, blood donors, 416 00:30:16,875 --> 00:30:21,995 Speaker 1: fertility options, jobs, shopping events, etc. Wait what was that 417 00:30:22,075 --> 00:30:28,275 Speaker 1: last one? Blood donors? No, no, no, before that, doctors, 418 00:30:28,475 --> 00:30:35,995 Speaker 1: blood donors, fertility options, fertility options. You mean you mean 419 00:30:36,035 --> 00:30:40,995 Speaker 1: it's an unvaccinated sperm bank. Michael Flynn is now selling 420 00:30:41,115 --> 00:30:48,675 Speaker 1: unvaccinated sperm. Michael Well selling sperm is I guess better 421 00:30:48,715 --> 00:30:53,955 Speaker 1: than selling out the country? Flynn two days worst person 422 00:30:54,915 --> 00:31:12,715 Speaker 1: in the sperm world. Still ahead on countdown. Chip Roy 423 00:31:12,795 --> 00:31:14,875 Speaker 1: is not the first to invoke my name, happily or 424 00:31:14,915 --> 00:31:18,995 Speaker 1: otherwise in Congress or the Senate or whatnot. Dick Cheney 425 00:31:18,995 --> 00:31:21,795 Speaker 1: and John McCain both muttered angry jokes in my direction 426 00:31:21,875 --> 00:31:23,755 Speaker 1: within days of each other. And then there was the 427 00:31:23,835 --> 00:31:26,395 Speaker 1: night I anchored the nineteen ninety eight State of the Union, 428 00:31:26,795 --> 00:31:30,275 Speaker 1: when two weeks earlier I was not even a political correspondent, 429 00:31:30,315 --> 00:31:33,475 Speaker 1: not even close. That's saga. Next. First, in each tradition 430 00:31:33,515 --> 00:31:35,635 Speaker 1: of countdown, we feature a dog. Indeed, you can help. 431 00:31:35,675 --> 00:31:39,475 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day. This is about Bentley. Bentley 432 00:31:39,555 --> 00:31:42,035 Speaker 1: is a big black dog with big ears, and he's 433 00:31:42,075 --> 00:31:45,355 Speaker 1: pretty calm and pretty happy, and somebody in Fullerton, California, 434 00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:48,275 Speaker 1: rescued him from a pound and clearly did not quite 435 00:31:48,315 --> 00:31:50,875 Speaker 1: get the whole what do we do next part and 436 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:53,835 Speaker 1: simply took Bentley to a dog boarding place, a kennel, 437 00:31:54,155 --> 00:31:57,155 Speaker 1: an upscale kennel that calls itself a pet lodge, and 438 00:31:57,195 --> 00:31:59,915 Speaker 1: it got him a space, and it left him there 439 00:32:00,195 --> 00:32:03,595 Speaker 1: for two hundred and eighteen nights at thirty eight dollars 440 00:32:03,595 --> 00:32:06,835 Speaker 1: a night, two hundred and eighty four dollars to board 441 00:32:06,955 --> 00:32:10,875 Speaker 1: one healthy dog. My friend Alana Rizzo from MLB Network 442 00:32:10,875 --> 00:32:14,795 Speaker 1: and her rescue Gidri's guardian is contributing to ransoming Bentley 443 00:32:14,835 --> 00:32:17,315 Speaker 1: and she could use your financial help. You can find 444 00:32:17,355 --> 00:32:20,395 Speaker 1: her on Twitter at Gidresguardian dot org or on my 445 00:32:20,475 --> 00:32:23,675 Speaker 1: Twitter feeds. I thank you, and Bentley thanks you from 446 00:32:23,715 --> 00:32:26,595 Speaker 1: the Dog Hotel in California, where you can check out 447 00:32:26,675 --> 00:32:34,435 Speaker 1: but you can never leave. Now to the number one 448 00:32:34,515 --> 00:32:36,875 Speaker 1: story on the Countdown and things I promised not to 449 00:32:36,915 --> 00:32:40,315 Speaker 1: tell and the state of the Union nineteen ninety eight. 450 00:32:41,795 --> 00:32:45,235 Speaker 1: When I left ESPN and signed with MSNBC the first 451 00:32:45,235 --> 00:32:47,315 Speaker 1: time in nineteen ninety seven, it was not to become 452 00:32:47,355 --> 00:32:50,915 Speaker 1: a political commentator nor even anchor. I went there to 453 00:32:50,955 --> 00:32:54,395 Speaker 1: do what the president of NBC News America needed most, 454 00:32:55,315 --> 00:32:59,915 Speaker 1: a live, hour long news magazine show from Secaucus, New Jersey. 455 00:33:00,475 --> 00:33:04,235 Speaker 1: So unfocused that on consecutive nights we led with the 456 00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:07,395 Speaker 1: threat of a terrorist group called al Qaeda, and then 457 00:33:07,435 --> 00:33:10,555 Speaker 1: the next night we led with the publication of the 458 00:33:10,635 --> 00:33:15,995 Speaker 1: Farmer's Almanac. I mean, this was the news at eight pm, 459 00:33:16,115 --> 00:33:20,075 Speaker 1: the lead story that published the Farmers Almanac. Again, here's 460 00:33:20,115 --> 00:33:24,035 Speaker 1: our live guest, the publisher. Here's a gun rain next year. 461 00:33:25,515 --> 00:33:31,715 Speaker 1: I had regrets. Anyway, the good part of the job 462 00:33:31,795 --> 00:33:34,555 Speaker 1: was sports. I hosted baseball in the World Series and 463 00:33:34,675 --> 00:33:37,155 Speaker 1: even did some Super Bowl stuff. For NBC, and in 464 00:33:37,235 --> 00:33:39,595 Speaker 1: mid January of nineteen ninety eight, I flew to the 465 00:33:39,595 --> 00:33:43,515 Speaker 1: West Coast to work on that and do this magazine show, 466 00:33:43,635 --> 00:33:48,195 Speaker 1: The Big Show on MSNBC from entertainment venues in LA, 467 00:33:48,235 --> 00:33:52,075 Speaker 1: most of them associated with NBC. On the afternoon of Tuesday, 468 00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:54,635 Speaker 1: January twentieth, nineteen ninety eight, we were on the set 469 00:33:54,635 --> 00:33:57,635 Speaker 1: of Third Rock from the Sun preparing to interview at 470 00:33:57,635 --> 00:34:02,875 Speaker 1: Star John Liskow when my producer Phil Griffins sidled over, you, 471 00:34:03,115 --> 00:34:05,435 Speaker 1: my little friend, are about to become a political host. 472 00:34:05,755 --> 00:34:08,435 Speaker 1: The President got caught with some chippy in the White 473 00:34:08,435 --> 00:34:15,595 Speaker 1: House chippy, oh not sex. Sex looks like just you know, 474 00:34:16,355 --> 00:34:18,715 Speaker 1: and then he lied about it in the Deposition Saturday. 475 00:34:19,235 --> 00:34:20,915 Speaker 1: I asked him how to the hell anybody knew about 476 00:34:20,915 --> 00:34:23,315 Speaker 1: what the deposition said when it was just four days 477 00:34:23,355 --> 00:34:25,755 Speaker 1: after he gave the deposition and those things they're supposed 478 00:34:25,795 --> 00:34:28,675 Speaker 1: to be you know, secret preach me. Drudge put it 479 00:34:28,715 --> 00:34:32,035 Speaker 1: out yesterday, and I asked him if credible news organizations 480 00:34:32,075 --> 00:34:35,835 Speaker 1: like NBC were actually quoting an internet guy best known 481 00:34:35,915 --> 00:34:40,075 Speaker 1: for his hat about what was a potentially impeachable offense. 482 00:34:40,755 --> 00:34:43,515 Speaker 1: A lot of people were close on this story. Griffin said, 483 00:34:43,635 --> 00:34:46,555 Speaker 1: we were close. Lisa Myers almost had it Sunday night. 484 00:34:47,275 --> 00:34:50,075 Speaker 1: Newsweek finally put out a more detailed version about ninety 485 00:34:50,075 --> 00:34:53,035 Speaker 1: minutes ago. It was their scoop Drudge just stole it 486 00:34:53,075 --> 00:34:55,235 Speaker 1: from them. I think it was Isakov who wrote it. 487 00:34:55,475 --> 00:34:57,475 Speaker 1: You'll have to interview Tim Russer to lead the show. 488 00:34:57,595 --> 00:34:59,555 Speaker 1: The president may resign. We'll do it from right here. 489 00:35:02,355 --> 00:35:04,035 Speaker 1: Back that up. What was that you said, we'll do 490 00:35:04,035 --> 00:35:07,195 Speaker 1: it from right here, No part about the president resigning. Oh, yeah, 491 00:35:07,195 --> 00:35:11,635 Speaker 1: the president might resign. Thus, half an hour later, I 492 00:35:11,755 --> 00:35:14,435 Speaker 1: was hooked up by satellite with Tim Russert from the 493 00:35:14,515 --> 00:35:17,875 Speaker 1: Washington Bureau, listening to him outline the possibilities that the 494 00:35:17,915 --> 00:35:22,755 Speaker 1: president might resign before sunrise. I nodded with as much 495 00:35:22,835 --> 00:35:26,475 Speaker 1: gravitas as I could fake, despite the elements of farce 496 00:35:26,555 --> 00:35:29,555 Speaker 1: that were apparently obvious only to me in the story 497 00:35:29,595 --> 00:35:32,515 Speaker 1: and in where I was seated. In the background of 498 00:35:32,555 --> 00:35:35,395 Speaker 1: my close up stood the refrigerator from the kitchen set 499 00:35:35,435 --> 00:35:38,115 Speaker 1: of Lithgo's show Third Rock from the Sun, and on 500 00:35:38,235 --> 00:35:42,275 Speaker 1: the refrigerator complete with its decorative magnets speaking their silent 501 00:35:42,355 --> 00:35:46,835 Speaker 1: and suddenly completely hip gag. The magnets were a banana 502 00:35:47,115 --> 00:35:51,915 Speaker 1: surrounded on either side by a strawberry Phil. I said 503 00:35:51,955 --> 00:35:54,315 Speaker 1: to Phil, as we tried to plan a smooth transition 504 00:35:54,435 --> 00:35:57,155 Speaker 1: from that taped Russert interview about the possible impeachment and 505 00:35:57,195 --> 00:36:00,835 Speaker 1: resignation of the president, to a taped interview with John Lithgow, 506 00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:03,435 Speaker 1: and then back to the live speculations of a couple 507 00:36:03,475 --> 00:36:06,075 Speaker 1: of political writers for the rest of the hour. We're 508 00:36:06,075 --> 00:36:08,875 Speaker 1: not going to have to do this every day, are we, 509 00:36:09,755 --> 00:36:11,835 Speaker 1: Griffin laughed, Of course not. What do you think this 510 00:36:11,915 --> 00:36:14,595 Speaker 1: is the end of the world. He was right. We 511 00:36:14,675 --> 00:36:16,755 Speaker 1: did not do it every day. We did it for 512 00:36:16,755 --> 00:36:22,115 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighteen consecutive shows, starting that night with 513 00:36:22,195 --> 00:36:25,595 Speaker 1: the banana and the strawberry magnets over my shoulder, our 514 00:36:25,715 --> 00:36:31,555 Speaker 1: ratings kept doubling. Following Tuesday, my thirty eighth birthday, I 515 00:36:31,675 --> 00:36:34,435 Speaker 1: was back in New York hosting a roundtable of political 516 00:36:34,475 --> 00:36:36,915 Speaker 1: heavyweights in the hour leading up to Bill Clinton State 517 00:36:36,955 --> 00:36:40,115 Speaker 1: of the Union address That night, Andy Lack of NBC 518 00:36:40,235 --> 00:36:42,515 Speaker 1: News and Phil Griffin had decided that I should host 519 00:36:42,715 --> 00:36:46,755 Speaker 1: a second live report once the NBC network guys Russert, 520 00:36:46,835 --> 00:36:50,315 Speaker 1: Tom Brokaw a couple of others had wrapped up their analysis, 521 00:36:50,355 --> 00:36:53,195 Speaker 1: which we were also carrying on MSNBC, so I would 522 00:36:53,235 --> 00:36:56,955 Speaker 1: come on at eleven o'clock after Brokaw and Russert two hours. 523 00:36:56,955 --> 00:37:00,755 Speaker 1: My little friend, this is our nightline. I was doing 524 00:37:00,755 --> 00:37:02,835 Speaker 1: my best to keep a straight face when during a 525 00:37:02,835 --> 00:37:06,635 Speaker 1: commercial break at maybe eleven four, maybe midnight, halfway through 526 00:37:06,675 --> 00:37:10,475 Speaker 1: my wrap up show, Griffin materialized next to my anchor desk. 527 00:37:10,795 --> 00:37:15,195 Speaker 1: He had this stunned but not unhappy look, like when 528 00:37:15,195 --> 00:37:16,835 Speaker 1: he used to smoke a lot of dope when we 529 00:37:16,875 --> 00:37:20,315 Speaker 1: worked together in the eighties. We have the preliminary ratings, 530 00:37:20,355 --> 00:37:23,515 Speaker 1: my little friend, I hope you're sitting down, I pointed 531 00:37:23,515 --> 00:37:27,515 Speaker 1: at myself, seated in the chair. The pregame show that 532 00:37:27,555 --> 00:37:31,875 Speaker 1: did a one point one. Our average rating at MSNBC 533 00:37:31,995 --> 00:37:34,555 Speaker 1: before this presidential stuff came up had been an ozero 534 00:37:34,635 --> 00:37:38,395 Speaker 1: point three. This was now four times the previous ratings. 535 00:37:38,995 --> 00:37:40,915 Speaker 1: In the past week, it had surged to an zero 536 00:37:40,955 --> 00:37:43,875 Speaker 1: point six, and Griffin had insisted to me that Andy 537 00:37:43,955 --> 00:37:46,515 Speaker 1: Lack was so happy he had wet his pants. But 538 00:37:46,635 --> 00:37:49,155 Speaker 1: this is the kicker here, buddy. We have the immediate 539 00:37:49,195 --> 00:37:52,555 Speaker 1: since the president finally stopped talking, speech did an eight. 540 00:37:53,115 --> 00:37:56,595 Speaker 1: Broke on Russer. The wrap up did an six. Since 541 00:37:56,595 --> 00:38:00,155 Speaker 1: eleven o'clock you've been doing a one point seven. You 542 00:38:00,195 --> 00:38:03,275 Speaker 1: have had three times the audience of Tom Brokaw, three 543 00:38:03,315 --> 00:38:06,435 Speaker 1: times the audience of the old man himself. This isn't 544 00:38:06,435 --> 00:38:09,075 Speaker 1: just people crossing over from NBC to watch more. This 545 00:38:09,115 --> 00:38:12,155 Speaker 1: is people watching the speech, turning off the old man, 546 00:38:12,395 --> 00:38:16,915 Speaker 1: then turning back at eleven to watch you. I tried 547 00:38:16,915 --> 00:38:20,115 Speaker 1: to assimilate what he was telling me. For the first 548 00:38:20,115 --> 00:38:24,195 Speaker 1: time in my life, my ego refused to cooperate. The 549 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:26,835 Speaker 1: stage manager barked his queue of thirty seconds until the 550 00:38:26,915 --> 00:38:29,595 Speaker 1: end of the commercial break. Phil Griffin shook my hand. Oh, 551 00:38:29,595 --> 00:38:31,675 Speaker 1: and by the way, that thing you said at the 552 00:38:31,675 --> 00:38:33,475 Speaker 1: start of the hour about it, it was as if 553 00:38:33,555 --> 00:38:35,875 Speaker 1: the Intern had opened the door to the chamber and said, 554 00:38:36,115 --> 00:38:39,915 Speaker 1: mister speaker, the President of the United States. That's already 555 00:38:39,955 --> 00:38:44,115 Speaker 1: included in the Associated Press story one point seven, My 556 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:47,075 Speaker 1: little friend, don't f it up. Actually you can't f 557 00:38:47,115 --> 00:38:49,275 Speaker 1: it up. We're in for the long haul now, revel 558 00:38:49,315 --> 00:38:54,995 Speaker 1: in it. Me quoted about the Clinton Lewinsky story in 559 00:38:55,075 --> 00:38:57,755 Speaker 1: the main coverage of the State of the Union address 560 00:38:57,795 --> 00:39:02,155 Speaker 1: on the Associated Press wire. Eight months after I stopped 561 00:39:02,195 --> 00:39:05,955 Speaker 1: giving the scores of the Greater stuttgard Our Invitational tennis 562 00:39:05,995 --> 00:39:11,515 Speaker 1: tournament on ESPN. I had this sudden, horrible feeling that 563 00:39:11,555 --> 00:39:15,315 Speaker 1: the usually slow to decide American viewing public had instantly 564 00:39:15,355 --> 00:39:19,635 Speaker 1: concluded that, for some reason elusive even to me, they 565 00:39:19,755 --> 00:39:23,955 Speaker 1: really like to hear me talk about the whereabouts of 566 00:39:24,075 --> 00:39:28,595 Speaker 1: the president's penis. If I could have figured out how 567 00:39:28,635 --> 00:39:31,195 Speaker 1: to f up the rest of the hour, I would 568 00:39:31,235 --> 00:39:35,035 Speaker 1: have done it right then I didn't. The next day 569 00:39:35,075 --> 00:39:37,675 Speaker 1: it got worse. The ratings were so great last night, buddy. 570 00:39:37,715 --> 00:39:39,675 Speaker 1: They want us to go live every night at eight 571 00:39:39,715 --> 00:39:42,795 Speaker 1: and eleven only about the President. The eleven is going 572 00:39:42,835 --> 00:39:45,595 Speaker 1: to be called Crisis in Washington. Finally we get what 573 00:39:45,635 --> 00:39:49,835 Speaker 1: we want. Phil Griffin was dancing around, it'll be our nightline. 574 00:39:50,915 --> 00:39:54,355 Speaker 1: Since joining MSNBC, I had not taken any time off, 575 00:39:54,395 --> 00:39:57,155 Speaker 1: and I actually had a vacation booked in Hawaii the 576 00:39:57,195 --> 00:40:01,195 Speaker 1: next week with a young lady. Uh yeah about that. 577 00:40:02,075 --> 00:40:04,955 Speaker 1: Phil finally announced, well, that's when we have to talk 578 00:40:04,995 --> 00:40:06,795 Speaker 1: about Keith. They want you to commit to this for 579 00:40:06,835 --> 00:40:10,195 Speaker 1: at least six weeks, so it's this or Hawaii. I 580 00:40:10,275 --> 00:40:14,835 Speaker 1: explained Hawaii to Phil. Lack said he'd probably pay for 581 00:40:14,875 --> 00:40:18,315 Speaker 1: you to go do that. Whenever this is over. I said, 582 00:40:18,435 --> 00:40:20,675 Speaker 1: in my opinion, that probably would not be good enough, 583 00:40:21,115 --> 00:40:23,555 Speaker 1: and Griffin said neither did he, but that it was 584 00:40:23,635 --> 00:40:27,435 Speaker 1: just for openers, and Lack told him that I could 585 00:40:27,475 --> 00:40:31,155 Speaker 1: have three wishes, and I could anchor NBC Nightly News 586 00:40:31,275 --> 00:40:33,235 Speaker 1: at least on the weekends and a couple of times 587 00:40:33,275 --> 00:40:36,995 Speaker 1: during the week Just personally, I'd recommend you do it. 588 00:40:37,035 --> 00:40:38,715 Speaker 1: I got the impression that the show's going to happen 589 00:40:38,715 --> 00:40:41,035 Speaker 1: whether we agree to it or not, Griffin said. He 590 00:40:41,115 --> 00:40:44,115 Speaker 1: mentioned something about Brian Williams or maybe John Gibson being 591 00:40:44,195 --> 00:40:48,115 Speaker 1: poor second choices, but viable ones. He said, viable ones. 592 00:40:49,755 --> 00:40:52,195 Speaker 1: I told Phil I had some calls to make. Griffin 593 00:40:52,235 --> 00:40:54,955 Speaker 1: suggested Lack needed a decision within the hour, that he 594 00:40:55,035 --> 00:40:58,915 Speaker 1: wanted White House and Crisis on the air that night. Wait, 595 00:40:59,835 --> 00:41:02,195 Speaker 1: that didn't sound like what he'd called it before, Phil. 596 00:41:02,355 --> 00:41:07,235 Speaker 1: Is it white House in Crisis or in Washington? Phil? 597 00:41:07,275 --> 00:41:09,995 Speaker 1: Griffin seemed introspective for a moment then and got in 598 00:41:10,075 --> 00:41:14,395 Speaker 1: touch with the news executive within what's the difference, it's 599 00:41:14,435 --> 00:41:18,715 Speaker 1: going to be our nightline. I almost suggested to him 600 00:41:18,715 --> 00:41:22,395 Speaker 1: that that should be the title MSNBC presents. It's going 601 00:41:22,435 --> 00:41:27,675 Speaker 1: to be our Nightline, on and on. This went for 602 00:41:27,795 --> 00:41:31,995 Speaker 1: weeks four months. I mocked the story. The ratings went up. 603 00:41:32,515 --> 00:41:35,115 Speaker 1: I tried to quit the show, the ratings went up. 604 00:41:35,635 --> 00:41:38,715 Speaker 1: I gave a speech insulting the network for covering the story. 605 00:41:38,755 --> 00:41:42,355 Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven. The ratings went up. Fox Sports 606 00:41:42,395 --> 00:41:45,195 Speaker 1: approached me and offered me five times when NBC was 607 00:41:45,235 --> 00:41:47,555 Speaker 1: paying me to go out to LA to do their 608 00:41:47,595 --> 00:41:51,075 Speaker 1: sportscast LA, which was kind of near Hawaii, nowhere near 609 00:41:51,075 --> 00:41:56,035 Speaker 1: the Clinton Lewinski story. And the ratings went up, and 610 00:41:56,155 --> 00:41:58,115 Speaker 1: I was debating all this and the fact that I 611 00:41:58,155 --> 00:42:00,075 Speaker 1: had a contract and I had agreed to do it. 612 00:42:00,115 --> 00:42:02,195 Speaker 1: And then one night in early spring, I got home 613 00:42:02,235 --> 00:42:04,515 Speaker 1: after another night of this crap. I put my feet up, 614 00:42:04,835 --> 00:42:08,115 Speaker 1: was half watching something on NBC while really just staring 615 00:42:08,155 --> 00:42:10,355 Speaker 1: off into the distance, wondering what I had done to 616 00:42:10,355 --> 00:42:13,915 Speaker 1: deserve this, mulling my own future, when the snare drum 617 00:42:14,195 --> 00:42:17,395 Speaker 1: and the violent string section of an NBC news promo 618 00:42:17,555 --> 00:42:21,435 Speaker 1: interrupted me. Wednesday, on a very special edition of Nightline, 619 00:42:21,715 --> 00:42:25,755 Speaker 1: Jane Paully and the former Miss America, there she was 620 00:42:25,795 --> 00:42:29,435 Speaker 1: for a second, had tilted her look grave, journalistic, even scholarly. 621 00:42:29,755 --> 00:42:33,795 Speaker 1: Jane Paully the ten year host of NBC's landmark Today Show, 622 00:42:34,075 --> 00:42:36,275 Speaker 1: the one who had then switched to primetime because the 623 00:42:36,395 --> 00:42:39,715 Speaker 1: journalism had slowly ebbed out of morning television and she 624 00:42:39,755 --> 00:42:42,035 Speaker 1: couldn't do it anymore. She was sitting there in a 625 00:42:42,075 --> 00:42:45,275 Speaker 1: two shot with a Miss America from too many Miss 626 00:42:45,275 --> 00:42:49,835 Speaker 1: Americas ago, the former brunette, former redhead, now former blonde, 627 00:42:49,835 --> 00:42:52,475 Speaker 1: whose jet black hair made her look a little frightening. 628 00:42:53,235 --> 00:42:55,915 Speaker 1: Why the hell was Jane Paully interviewing her on the 629 00:42:55,995 --> 00:43:00,835 Speaker 1: signature albeit superficial NBC thrice weekly magazine show Nightline No 630 00:43:00,955 --> 00:43:03,435 Speaker 1: less Well, in a split second, the promo gave me 631 00:43:03,555 --> 00:43:07,235 Speaker 1: my answer. Jane, did you have sex with the President 632 00:43:07,235 --> 00:43:11,035 Speaker 1: of the United States? Ex Miss America? Yes, Yes I did, 633 00:43:11,355 --> 00:43:14,155 Speaker 1: announcer That's Wednesday on a very special edition to Nightline 634 00:43:14,275 --> 00:43:20,475 Speaker 1: only on NBC America's news source. With genuine terror, I screamed, 635 00:43:21,155 --> 00:43:24,715 Speaker 1: I shouted aloud to no one, check please, and I 636 00:43:24,795 --> 00:43:42,235 Speaker 1: called my agent to talk about Fox. I've done all 637 00:43:42,275 --> 00:43:44,155 Speaker 1: the damage I can do. Here Here are the credits. 638 00:43:44,195 --> 00:43:46,635 Speaker 1: Most of the music was arranged, produced, and performed by 639 00:43:46,635 --> 00:43:49,395 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel. You are the Countdown 640 00:43:49,515 --> 00:43:54,195 Speaker 1: musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Chanel, guitars, 641 00:43:54,235 --> 00:43:57,835 Speaker 1: bass and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. 642 00:43:58,115 --> 00:44:00,915 Speaker 1: Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No 643 00:44:01,035 --> 00:44:05,035 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 644 00:44:05,315 --> 00:44:08,555 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 645 00:44:09,075 --> 00:44:12,675 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 646 00:44:12,955 --> 00:44:16,075 Speaker 1: Our announcer was my friend Stevie van zandt everything else 647 00:44:16,155 --> 00:44:18,555 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 648 00:44:18,595 --> 00:44:21,675 Speaker 1: the eight hundred and seventy sixth day since Donald Trump's 649 00:44:21,675 --> 00:44:24,355 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 650 00:44:24,435 --> 00:44:27,715 Speaker 1: United States. Don't forget to keep arresting him while we 651 00:44:27,795 --> 00:44:31,355 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Till then, 652 00:44:31,435 --> 00:44:35,395 Speaker 1: I'm the ever Important policy Genius Keith Olderman. Good morning, 653 00:44:35,435 --> 00:44:38,515 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 654 00:44:43,515 --> 00:44:50,435 Speaker 3: The ever important policy Genius Keith Olberman. 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