1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Hidden 2 00:00:25,635 --> 00:00:30,715 Speaker 1: behind Trump's complex, multi layered, endless hallucination that his addressed 3 00:00:30,755 --> 00:00:33,795 Speaker 1: to Congress shows he is beloved and the stock market 4 00:00:33,835 --> 00:00:38,035 Speaker 1: isn't crashing, and Speaker Johnson's chief of staff wasn't arrested 5 00:00:38,075 --> 00:00:41,075 Speaker 1: on a dui right after the speech, and the maggots 6 00:00:41,115 --> 00:00:44,435 Speaker 1: aren't furious at him, and the newest polling doesn't suggest 7 00:00:44,475 --> 00:00:46,875 Speaker 1: he's already lost nearly a fifth of the Trump bros 8 00:00:46,995 --> 00:00:50,275 Speaker 1: Under thirty and they aren't booing, They're saying, let's go 9 00:00:50,435 --> 00:00:53,795 Speaker 1: Bronzer and al Green. Isn't the first sign of life 10 00:00:53,795 --> 00:00:57,155 Speaker 1: in the Democratic resistance. There is a much more real 11 00:00:57,675 --> 00:01:01,515 Speaker 1: and much more stark truth going on here. Trump has 12 00:01:01,635 --> 00:01:05,395 Speaker 1: already made his first move in the process of trying 13 00:01:05,395 --> 00:01:11,195 Speaker 1: to make not loving him illegal. The attempt is underway 14 00:01:11,555 --> 00:01:18,275 Speaker 1: to make protesting the Trump dictatorship against the law. Trump 15 00:01:18,355 --> 00:01:21,515 Speaker 1: gassed protesters near the Whitehousing twenty twenty. He spent the 16 00:01:21,555 --> 00:01:26,795 Speaker 1: last campaign promising anti protesting laws, and he began to 17 00:01:26,955 --> 00:01:30,875 Speaker 1: roll out the new plot this week. This was Tuesday 18 00:01:30,875 --> 00:01:34,955 Speaker 1: morning before his telethon before a crowd of supplicants otherwise 19 00:01:34,955 --> 00:01:37,755 Speaker 1: known as the Republican members of the Congress and the Senate, 20 00:01:37,795 --> 00:01:42,595 Speaker 1: and those Democrats not named al Green quote, all federal 21 00:01:42,635 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: funding will stop for any college, school or university that 22 00:01:47,155 --> 00:01:54,395 Speaker 1: allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent 23 00:01:54,515 --> 00:01:58,235 Speaker 1: back to the country from which they came. American students 24 00:01:58,235 --> 00:02:03,275 Speaker 1: will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. 25 00:02:03,835 --> 00:02:09,155 Speaker 1: No masks, thank you for your attention to this matter. A. 26 00:02:09,795 --> 00:02:14,235 Speaker 1: He's really effing nuts, isn't he. B that's about Israel 27 00:02:14,275 --> 00:02:17,155 Speaker 1: and Gaza, right, I mean, that's what he has to 28 00:02:17,195 --> 00:02:21,795 Speaker 1: mean by college school or university that allows illegal protests, right, 29 00:02:21,835 --> 00:02:25,435 Speaker 1: I mean the protests at universities last year in particular. 30 00:02:25,675 --> 00:02:29,315 Speaker 1: We're just about the Middle East. And frankly, the odds 31 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:32,875 Speaker 1: are whether you favor Israel or the Palestinians or neither, 32 00:02:33,395 --> 00:02:36,795 Speaker 1: you thought at least one of those protests for somebody 33 00:02:36,875 --> 00:02:39,675 Speaker 1: against somebody else, you thought one of them was inappropriate. 34 00:02:40,715 --> 00:02:47,755 Speaker 1: Except where in that statement does Trump say funding will 35 00:02:47,755 --> 00:02:50,075 Speaker 1: be cut off for any college that doesn't stop Middle 36 00:02:50,075 --> 00:02:56,115 Speaker 1: East protests or pro Palestinian protests or pro Israel protests. 37 00:02:56,275 --> 00:03:00,355 Speaker 1: Where does it say sending agitators back to the country 38 00:03:00,355 --> 00:03:04,395 Speaker 1: from which they came means the Middle East? Where does 39 00:03:04,435 --> 00:03:09,395 Speaker 1: it say American students will be permanently expelled only if 40 00:03:09,435 --> 00:03:14,075 Speaker 1: they've invaded Jewish or Muslim buildings on camp. It doesn't 41 00:03:14,075 --> 00:03:17,755 Speaker 1: say that Trump is as always doing a bait and switch. 42 00:03:18,235 --> 00:03:22,275 Speaker 1: You are putting constraints and limits on what he wrote. 43 00:03:22,595 --> 00:03:28,435 Speaker 1: He is not. This is his only skill. Let me 44 00:03:28,555 --> 00:03:32,035 Speaker 1: rewrite what he wrote to reflect reality. The reality inside 45 00:03:32,035 --> 00:03:38,035 Speaker 1: Trump's plans to imprison you. All federal funding will stop 46 00:03:38,075 --> 00:03:42,075 Speaker 1: for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests. 47 00:03:42,715 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: Protests like Black Lives Matter are now illegal. Protests to 48 00:03:47,555 --> 00:03:52,075 Speaker 1: save Medicare are now illegal. Protests against your favorite president 49 00:03:52,355 --> 00:03:57,915 Speaker 1: me are now illegal. Agitators will be imprisoned. American students 50 00:03:57,915 --> 00:04:00,835 Speaker 1: will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. 51 00:04:01,915 --> 00:04:07,515 Speaker 1: No Masks, no Democrats, all musk Thank you for your 52 00:04:07,555 --> 00:04:13,715 Speaker 1: attention to this matter. Do you see it now? Trump 53 00:04:13,755 --> 00:04:16,755 Speaker 1: also rolled out an element of the coming Trump Protection 54 00:04:16,955 --> 00:04:22,555 Speaker 1: laws during that test Tuesday night in Washington, that test 55 00:04:22,635 --> 00:04:25,835 Speaker 1: of the limit of human endurance for one man praising 56 00:04:25,915 --> 00:04:30,395 Speaker 1: himself by making shit up. That was his speech to 57 00:04:30,435 --> 00:04:36,035 Speaker 1: the Joint Session. I think that speech is over by now. 58 00:04:37,875 --> 00:04:40,995 Speaker 1: He patted himself on the back for new anti deep 59 00:04:41,155 --> 00:04:44,715 Speaker 1: fake laws. Did you hear that part of it intended 60 00:04:44,835 --> 00:04:50,475 Speaker 1: to protect women against explicit fabricated sexual videos, or more correctly, 61 00:04:51,475 --> 00:04:54,035 Speaker 1: what women think is intended to protect them against such 62 00:04:54,075 --> 00:04:58,355 Speaker 1: ai fabrications. But Trump could not resist all of the misogyny, 63 00:04:58,395 --> 00:05:02,195 Speaker 1: the rape culture, violence, tech pros Tate Rose, and the 64 00:05:02,195 --> 00:05:05,795 Speaker 1: Elon Musk philosophy that not even a b rusted penile 65 00:05:05,915 --> 00:05:10,275 Speaker 1: implant can stop him from propagating endlessly. All of that 66 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:14,395 Speaker 1: now married to the monstrous new elements of artificial intelligence, 67 00:05:14,955 --> 00:05:19,035 Speaker 1: and the law that comes out is actually there to 68 00:05:19,235 --> 00:05:25,115 Speaker 1: protect Donald Trump. Happily he had to go off script 69 00:05:25,195 --> 00:05:26,035 Speaker 1: and reveal it. 70 00:05:26,315 --> 00:05:28,835 Speaker 2: And once it passes the House, I look forward to 71 00:05:29,395 --> 00:05:33,395 Speaker 2: signing that bill into law. Thank you, and I'm going 72 00:05:33,475 --> 00:05:35,515 Speaker 2: to use that bill for myself too, if you don't mind, 73 00:05:36,235 --> 00:05:39,355 Speaker 2: because nobody had treated worse than I do online nobody. 74 00:05:41,075 --> 00:05:47,035 Speaker 1: Firstly, that's insane as usual, but he is insane, and 75 00:05:47,115 --> 00:05:48,755 Speaker 1: every time he appears in front of a camera and 76 00:05:48,795 --> 00:05:52,715 Speaker 1: does not kill somebody or begins speaking in tongues, people 77 00:05:53,395 --> 00:05:57,475 Speaker 1: forget the insanity and applaud the fact that they have 78 00:05:57,595 --> 00:06:03,995 Speaker 1: forgotten the Cohn They forget the self absorption, They forget 79 00:06:04,035 --> 00:06:11,435 Speaker 1: his true greatness cheating people. The anti deep fake porn 80 00:06:11,555 --> 00:06:17,235 Speaker 1: law is there, yes, to address the explicit purpose, but 81 00:06:17,315 --> 00:06:19,835 Speaker 1: it's also there and can be used so he can 82 00:06:19,955 --> 00:06:25,075 Speaker 1: prosecute you for that video that got hacked into the 83 00:06:25,075 --> 00:06:27,355 Speaker 1: headquarters of Housing in Urban Development the other day, the 84 00:06:27,355 --> 00:06:30,875 Speaker 1: deep fake on a loop of Trump sucking Elon Musk's toes. 85 00:06:32,595 --> 00:06:35,555 Speaker 1: At least I think it's a deep fake. If you 86 00:06:35,595 --> 00:06:39,755 Speaker 1: have not seen this video, don't, But what else could 87 00:06:39,755 --> 00:06:43,875 Speaker 1: it cover? AI and deep fakes are a cataclysmic nightmare 88 00:06:43,915 --> 00:06:48,035 Speaker 1: for women and for human privacy. But yes, there actually 89 00:06:48,075 --> 00:06:50,995 Speaker 1: is another worse level beyond that. It's when AI deep 90 00:06:51,035 --> 00:06:55,195 Speaker 1: fakes become so prevalent that anybody can claim this or 91 00:06:55,275 --> 00:07:01,755 Speaker 1: that real video is in fact a fake. I mean, 92 00:07:01,795 --> 00:07:06,395 Speaker 1: that's the Trump playbook twenty election was real. He claimed 93 00:07:06,435 --> 00:07:11,435 Speaker 1: it's a fake. Will Trump now say and his slaves 94 00:07:11,475 --> 00:07:13,675 Speaker 1: now repeat that the video of him looking at underage 95 00:07:13,715 --> 00:07:16,675 Speaker 1: girls at Mari Lago with Jeffrey Epstein in nineteen ninety 96 00:07:16,675 --> 00:07:19,835 Speaker 1: two is not real, that it's just a deep fake, 97 00:07:19,995 --> 00:07:22,395 Speaker 1: that it's always been a deep fake, that we've always 98 00:07:22,435 --> 00:07:26,075 Speaker 1: been at war with East Asia. NBC you say that's 99 00:07:26,115 --> 00:07:29,195 Speaker 1: your video, it's a deep fake, and here's the District 100 00:07:29,195 --> 00:07:32,555 Speaker 1: of Columbia US Attorney Ed. I'll believe anything, Martin to 101 00:07:32,715 --> 00:07:35,675 Speaker 1: prosecute you for it, or for Trump to sue you 102 00:07:35,795 --> 00:07:38,395 Speaker 1: for it for twenty billion dollars. So you better make 103 00:07:38,435 --> 00:07:43,955 Speaker 1: another donation to the Trump Library, the Trump Library of money. 104 00:07:45,875 --> 00:07:48,035 Speaker 1: There is no limit to what the deep fake law 105 00:07:48,035 --> 00:07:52,875 Speaker 1: could conceivably allow Trump to prosecute. Make a satirical video 106 00:07:52,955 --> 00:07:58,155 Speaker 1: of Trump that's an illegal deep fake, portray him on 107 00:07:58,315 --> 00:08:04,515 Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live. It's James Austin Johnson. Prosecute him. It's 108 00:08:04,755 --> 00:08:07,835 Speaker 1: Darryl Hammond. Oh no, it's a deep fake. Prosecute him. 109 00:08:07,875 --> 00:08:13,715 Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin, definitely prosecute him, says Trump. It's a network 110 00:08:13,755 --> 00:08:19,555 Speaker 1: anchor finally snapping. My money would be on Tom Lamas, 111 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:22,635 Speaker 1: who just got the NBC job yesterday and who was, 112 00:08:22,755 --> 00:08:26,715 Speaker 1: if you can imagine this, a production assistant on the 113 00:08:26,755 --> 00:08:29,115 Speaker 1: first show I did at MSNBC when I returned in 114 00:08:29,155 --> 00:08:32,955 Speaker 1: two thousand and three, proving contrary to reports, I am survivable. 115 00:08:34,395 --> 00:08:38,755 Speaker 1: My money is on Tom Lamas. If Tom Lamas snaps 116 00:08:38,955 --> 00:08:42,275 Speaker 1: one night and runs every pro Nazi Hitler esque thing, 117 00:08:42,315 --> 00:08:45,595 Speaker 1: Trump has ever said one night on NBC Nightly News. 118 00:08:46,355 --> 00:08:50,275 Speaker 1: Trump could dismiss it as deep fakes and prosecute Lamas 119 00:08:50,315 --> 00:08:53,835 Speaker 1: and NBC News and Comcast, and god knows they'll pay 120 00:08:53,915 --> 00:08:59,075 Speaker 1: up or not defend their journalists. You sure you want 121 00:08:59,115 --> 00:09:03,475 Speaker 1: this job, Tommy? Stretch this out to its extreme, and 122 00:09:03,515 --> 00:09:05,675 Speaker 1: it would affect the great white whale of Trump history. 123 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:12,275 Speaker 1: What if there is a Trump pee tape, a real one, 124 00:09:12,675 --> 00:09:14,875 Speaker 1: or never mind there's a real one, or that it's 125 00:09:14,875 --> 00:09:16,955 Speaker 1: a pee tape, never mind that. What if there's just 126 00:09:17,195 --> 00:09:21,595 Speaker 1: something from which all of this originates, the Paul Manifort connection, 127 00:09:21,955 --> 00:09:25,315 Speaker 1: the krasnof the spy story, which is probably crap, the 128 00:09:25,395 --> 00:09:28,435 Speaker 1: compromant which is probably not crap, all of it. What 129 00:09:28,755 --> 00:09:33,235 Speaker 1: is the possibility here that there is a smoking video 130 00:09:33,435 --> 00:09:40,915 Speaker 1: of something just him taking a wheelbarrow full of rubles. Oh, 131 00:09:41,035 --> 00:09:43,315 Speaker 1: and that's now a deep fake and the new law 132 00:09:43,355 --> 00:09:51,275 Speaker 1: will what Trump prosecute you for retweeting it? Because his 133 00:09:51,395 --> 00:09:54,755 Speaker 1: allegation that it's a deep fake doesn't have to be true. 134 00:09:54,875 --> 00:09:57,115 Speaker 1: None of it has ever had to be true. He 135 00:09:57,315 --> 00:09:59,115 Speaker 1: just has to have the money to hire a lawyer 136 00:09:59,155 --> 00:10:02,395 Speaker 1: to sue you over it, or to have control over 137 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:07,515 Speaker 1: the prosecutors to arrest you and force you to fight 138 00:10:07,635 --> 00:10:10,235 Speaker 1: back and waste a year of your life, five, ten, 139 00:10:10,355 --> 00:10:12,795 Speaker 1: twenty years of your life, one hundred thousand dollars, a 140 00:10:12,835 --> 00:10:17,115 Speaker 1: million dollars, twenty million dollars. Do you think ABC settled 141 00:10:17,115 --> 00:10:24,195 Speaker 1: over Stephanopoulos and the wording of the rape liability question 142 00:10:25,955 --> 00:10:30,595 Speaker 1: because that which Trump claimed was true? Or do you 143 00:10:30,635 --> 00:10:34,475 Speaker 1: think that CBS was willing to bargain over the Kamala 144 00:10:34,515 --> 00:10:39,195 Speaker 1: Harris interview because what Trump was saying was true. Do 145 00:10:39,195 --> 00:10:42,315 Speaker 1: you think the Des Moines Register cartoon lawsuit is true? 146 00:10:42,955 --> 00:10:45,595 Speaker 1: It isn't the jury verdict that matters. It's showing you 147 00:10:45,635 --> 00:10:48,035 Speaker 1: a list of legal fees you'll have to pay and 148 00:10:48,075 --> 00:10:51,235 Speaker 1: your businesses that will be cut off. And let's circle 149 00:10:51,275 --> 00:10:54,595 Speaker 1: back to the campus protests. Post All federal funding will 150 00:10:54,635 --> 00:10:59,035 Speaker 1: stop for any organization that allows anything Trump doesn't like. 151 00:11:00,555 --> 00:11:03,235 Speaker 1: Agitators will be imprisoned and or permanently sent back to 152 00:11:03,275 --> 00:11:07,155 Speaker 1: the country from which they come. Americans will be permanently 153 00:11:07,195 --> 00:11:14,155 Speaker 1: expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. You now have 154 00:11:14,315 --> 00:11:18,635 Speaker 1: been warned that is what is going to happen next, 155 00:11:19,955 --> 00:11:23,395 Speaker 1: or you won't be warned. There's no warning in Idaho, 156 00:11:23,915 --> 00:11:28,835 Speaker 1: right Teresa Bourne poll protests at the public town hall 157 00:11:29,155 --> 00:11:32,755 Speaker 1: held by the Kutenaie County Republican Central Committee in Kurtelin, 158 00:11:33,715 --> 00:11:36,475 Speaker 1: and the next thing she knows, she's being manhandled carried 159 00:11:36,475 --> 00:11:39,195 Speaker 1: out by three men dressed in black. They are wearing 160 00:11:39,235 --> 00:11:42,435 Speaker 1: no badges, no uniforms, no IDs, they don't even have 161 00:11:42,555 --> 00:11:48,795 Speaker 1: security emblems on. They try to zip tie her, and 162 00:11:48,835 --> 00:11:52,515 Speaker 1: then the sheriff of the town steps in and threatens 163 00:11:52,555 --> 00:11:56,835 Speaker 1: to pepper spray her, and he records all this on 164 00:11:56,955 --> 00:12:01,475 Speaker 1: video as she repeatedly asks what are literally black shirts 165 00:12:02,155 --> 00:12:09,555 Speaker 1: to identify themselves and theyse The sheriff has posted that 166 00:12:09,675 --> 00:12:12,195 Speaker 1: video along with a photo of himself and Governor Abbott 167 00:12:12,235 --> 00:12:15,755 Speaker 1: of Texas grinning, and a photo of himself at the 168 00:12:15,755 --> 00:12:19,955 Speaker 1: Trump inauguration alongside oh members of the New York Police Department. 169 00:12:22,235 --> 00:12:24,995 Speaker 1: The police chief has begun an investigation of the company 170 00:12:25,035 --> 00:12:28,075 Speaker 1: that sent the rent at Gestapo and the Republicans who 171 00:12:28,155 --> 00:12:31,875 Speaker 1: hired that company, and the charges against Ms Barnpole are 172 00:12:31,915 --> 00:12:36,595 Speaker 1: being dropped. There is that the charges are being dropped 173 00:12:36,595 --> 00:12:40,475 Speaker 1: this time and who will next be manhandled by unmarked 174 00:12:40,475 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 1: security while elected law enforcement officials videotape it like RFK 175 00:12:46,115 --> 00:12:49,075 Speaker 1: Junior would videotape a bear he killed in Central Park, 176 00:12:49,635 --> 00:12:54,315 Speaker 1: or maybe my ex girlfriend who's next to be manhandled 177 00:12:54,315 --> 00:13:26,595 Speaker 1: that way. Congressman Al Green. Perhaps Congressman Al Green now 178 00:13:26,755 --> 00:13:30,315 Speaker 1: my front runner and first choice, and it could change, 179 00:13:30,515 --> 00:13:33,755 Speaker 1: but now my front runner for the Democratic nomination for 180 00:13:33,875 --> 00:13:37,315 Speaker 1: president in twenty twenty eight, because he's the only Democrat 181 00:13:37,435 --> 00:13:43,635 Speaker 1: I can verify is still breathing. Boycotting that address was, 182 00:13:44,075 --> 00:13:46,715 Speaker 1: as I may have mentioned before, it happened a move 183 00:13:46,915 --> 00:13:51,235 Speaker 1: from the year nineteen sixty eight, because of course, not 184 00:13:51,555 --> 00:13:58,155 Speaker 1: going somewhere is an invisible form of protest. Did you 185 00:13:58,195 --> 00:14:04,115 Speaker 1: see me, I wasn't there holding up those paddle signs 186 00:14:04,995 --> 00:14:08,195 Speaker 1: with the unreadable words on them. That was the absolute 187 00:14:08,275 --> 00:14:10,875 Speaker 1: dumbest thing Democrats have ever done. I mean, at least 188 00:14:10,875 --> 00:14:16,875 Speaker 1: since they stopped backing segregation in the sixties. They looked 189 00:14:17,115 --> 00:14:20,195 Speaker 1: like they were rich idiots bidding at a charity auction 190 00:14:21,075 --> 00:14:26,955 Speaker 1: to raise money to repaint the beachside cabanas in the Hamptons. 191 00:14:27,955 --> 00:14:31,755 Speaker 1: Or they looked like ping pong players who had gotten lost. 192 00:14:34,115 --> 00:14:38,635 Speaker 1: I mean, it was invisible and impotent. You want to 193 00:14:38,635 --> 00:14:41,515 Speaker 1: bring props to a congressional speech in the era of 194 00:14:41,595 --> 00:14:45,075 Speaker 1: Bobert or Green or whoever it was suing for the 195 00:14:45,155 --> 00:14:48,075 Speaker 1: right not to be scanned for guns. As you go 196 00:14:48,115 --> 00:14:53,475 Speaker 1: into the congressional chamber, you want to bring a prop 197 00:14:53,515 --> 00:14:57,755 Speaker 1: bring a goddamn bazooka, or at least bring smoke bombs. 198 00:14:59,755 --> 00:15:05,555 Speaker 1: I mean, it's Capitol Hill. According to Trump, You're allowed 199 00:15:05,555 --> 00:15:07,835 Speaker 1: to attack it and try to kill people inside of it. 200 00:15:08,755 --> 00:15:16,075 Speaker 1: That's the Trump doctrine. Now, little paddles with the word 201 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:22,235 Speaker 1: no on it didn't quite cut it, but Al Green 202 00:15:22,275 --> 00:15:25,835 Speaker 1: cut it. Al Green got it exactly right. And shame 203 00:15:25,995 --> 00:15:29,555 Speaker 1: on every Democrat passed whom he was walked out who 204 00:15:29,555 --> 00:15:32,075 Speaker 1: did not stand up and walk out with him in protest, 205 00:15:32,155 --> 00:15:35,155 Speaker 1: which would be one hundred goddamn percent of them. If 206 00:15:35,195 --> 00:15:37,515 Speaker 1: you think walking out on Trump will somehow cost you 207 00:15:37,595 --> 00:15:42,475 Speaker 1: the non existent middle and damage your reelection chances and 208 00:15:42,515 --> 00:15:46,795 Speaker 1: get you written up in the wrong newsletters, you're wrong, 209 00:15:47,475 --> 00:15:52,515 Speaker 1: but I get it. You're a terrified, textbook fungible, useless politician. 210 00:15:53,555 --> 00:15:56,555 Speaker 1: But to not see as it unfolds in front of 211 00:15:56,555 --> 00:16:00,395 Speaker 1: you as a win win. Rising to the defense of 212 00:16:00,435 --> 00:16:05,275 Speaker 1: a colleague whose outburst was half the Bobert Green, Karen 213 00:16:05,315 --> 00:16:09,595 Speaker 1: Honking and a quarter of Joe Wilson's racist you lie 214 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:12,315 Speaker 1: scream against Obama in two thousand and nine. If you 215 00:16:12,395 --> 00:16:14,675 Speaker 1: don't see that as it happens in front of you, Hey, 216 00:16:14,715 --> 00:16:16,315 Speaker 1: I'm going to stand up with him. I'll get my 217 00:16:16,435 --> 00:16:20,155 Speaker 1: name in the papers next him. Oh my god, Martyrdom points. 218 00:16:20,435 --> 00:16:22,515 Speaker 1: If you don't see that, that means you're just a 219 00:16:22,555 --> 00:16:31,675 Speaker 1: moron Democrat. The optics of unidentified goons ordering a seventy 220 00:16:31,755 --> 00:16:37,475 Speaker 1: seven year old congressman and his cane out while JD. 221 00:16:37,795 --> 00:16:41,795 Speaker 1: Free Speech Vance smirks and applauds with his mincing, little 222 00:16:41,875 --> 00:16:47,475 Speaker 1: trained seal flippers is the essence of an organic viral 223 00:16:47,635 --> 00:16:54,315 Speaker 1: video that would win awards. The optics of ten were 224 00:16:54,315 --> 00:16:57,715 Speaker 1: twenty or thirty Democrats, then spontaneously rising with him would 225 00:16:57,715 --> 00:17:01,395 Speaker 1: have won the night. And I hate with every fiber 226 00:17:01,435 --> 00:17:03,275 Speaker 1: of my being the idea that we have now that 227 00:17:03,315 --> 00:17:05,915 Speaker 1: we have to win the night. But Trump is getting 228 00:17:05,915 --> 00:17:08,875 Speaker 1: to build his cask of a Monteata wall around you, 229 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:13,115 Speaker 1: brick by goddamned brick, because he won the night night 230 00:17:13,195 --> 00:17:15,435 Speaker 1: after night for much of twenty twenty four. We have 231 00:17:15,555 --> 00:17:18,355 Speaker 1: to play this game or he will kill us with it. 232 00:17:19,155 --> 00:17:21,235 Speaker 1: So get in the game, or get up from those 233 00:17:21,235 --> 00:17:23,835 Speaker 1: seats in the House and from the Senate and start 234 00:17:23,875 --> 00:17:26,235 Speaker 1: walking and don't stop until you are neck high in 235 00:17:26,275 --> 00:17:28,795 Speaker 1: the Potomac. Matter of fact, don't stop. When you are 236 00:17:28,875 --> 00:17:32,635 Speaker 1: neck high in a Potomac. We can replace you and 237 00:17:32,755 --> 00:17:37,755 Speaker 1: no one will know you were ever there. And by 238 00:17:37,795 --> 00:17:41,755 Speaker 1: the way, of course, the Republicans who did not face 239 00:17:41,795 --> 00:17:43,715 Speaker 1: any of this when it was Republicans doing this to 240 00:17:43,795 --> 00:17:46,755 Speaker 1: Joe Biden or Barack Obama, because the Democrats would never 241 00:17:46,795 --> 00:17:52,315 Speaker 1: consider doing this. The Republicans are talking about censuring Representative Green. 242 00:17:53,075 --> 00:17:57,275 Speaker 1: There is a vote on this this morning unless they 243 00:17:57,635 --> 00:17:59,555 Speaker 1: think better of it and make it all go away. 244 00:18:00,595 --> 00:18:03,395 Speaker 1: And I guarantee you any Democrat who goes along with 245 00:18:03,515 --> 00:18:09,355 Speaker 1: this is finished. In fact, I promise you I will 246 00:18:09,395 --> 00:18:13,155 Speaker 1: do everything I can to finish them. More importantly, I 247 00:18:13,195 --> 00:18:15,595 Speaker 1: don't think the censure motion is going anywhere because it 248 00:18:15,635 --> 00:18:18,115 Speaker 1: was floated by Speaker Mike Johnson, and his chief of 249 00:18:18,155 --> 00:18:21,275 Speaker 1: staff was so affected by Trump's speech he was literally 250 00:18:21,395 --> 00:18:25,675 Speaker 1: arrested on a dui right after that. Well, it was 251 00:18:25,715 --> 00:18:27,595 Speaker 1: either the Trump speech or the chief got a look 252 00:18:27,595 --> 00:18:31,195 Speaker 1: at the porn consumption report that Johnson shares with his 253 00:18:31,275 --> 00:18:36,355 Speaker 1: own son on their app So Johnson has other things 254 00:18:36,395 --> 00:18:41,835 Speaker 1: to worry about. So mighty ugly, Johnson, you have their Republicans. Incidentally, 255 00:18:43,035 --> 00:18:47,595 Speaker 1: Johnson's chief of Staff's dui. That was three hours after 256 00:18:47,675 --> 00:18:51,075 Speaker 1: Johnson at the speech trotted out the widow of a 257 00:18:51,275 --> 00:19:02,595 Speaker 1: man killed by an undocumented immigrant in a dui. Back 258 00:19:02,635 --> 00:19:05,435 Speaker 1: to the point, we need people who understand politics and 259 00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:08,995 Speaker 1: protest and optics, and who are not afraid to get 260 00:19:09,035 --> 00:19:14,315 Speaker 1: walked out by the authorities, and are not afraid to 261 00:19:14,315 --> 00:19:17,195 Speaker 1: get arrested if need be. As al Green said as 262 00:19:17,235 --> 00:19:22,395 Speaker 1: they brought this up yesterday, I'll do it again. He 263 00:19:22,435 --> 00:19:24,515 Speaker 1: didn't have to say he's not afraid to get arrested. 264 00:19:26,315 --> 00:19:29,235 Speaker 1: If I could do one thing that transcends time and space, 265 00:19:29,635 --> 00:19:32,555 Speaker 1: I would clone John Lewis and put about three hundred 266 00:19:32,555 --> 00:19:35,835 Speaker 1: of him into democratic politics right now. Oh, you think 267 00:19:35,875 --> 00:19:38,795 Speaker 1: this is bad? Did you see when they beat me 268 00:19:39,075 --> 00:19:45,515 Speaker 1: over the head on the bridge? Chuck Schumer having trouble 269 00:19:45,555 --> 00:19:53,755 Speaker 1: with traffic is not a great crisis in the months 270 00:19:53,755 --> 00:19:55,755 Speaker 1: to come, In the years to come, if there are 271 00:19:55,915 --> 00:19:58,155 Speaker 1: years to come, we are going to need democratic leaders 272 00:19:58,195 --> 00:20:02,275 Speaker 1: who are not afraid to get arrested, and not arrested 273 00:20:02,315 --> 00:20:05,035 Speaker 1: for getting drunk after a Trump speech and drive into 274 00:20:05,075 --> 00:20:08,875 Speaker 1: an official capital vehicle either. And so far the list 275 00:20:08,875 --> 00:20:14,195 Speaker 1: of Democrats who I'm confident in uh is uh are 276 00:20:15,075 --> 00:20:20,435 Speaker 1: is well, there's al Green, I think AOC. But she 277 00:20:20,555 --> 00:20:23,635 Speaker 1: stayed home. She thought that was the right move. And 278 00:20:23,675 --> 00:20:26,195 Speaker 1: there are others who, probably looking at it again, would 279 00:20:26,195 --> 00:20:27,955 Speaker 1: go I should have been there and walked out with him. 280 00:20:29,715 --> 00:20:34,475 Speaker 1: But really, you could have seen this coming, and you 281 00:20:34,515 --> 00:20:36,355 Speaker 1: could have been there and walked out with Al Green. 282 00:20:36,875 --> 00:20:41,555 Speaker 1: And guess what, you are back to square one because 283 00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:55,955 Speaker 1: you didn't. And so Trump largely won the night. In 284 00:20:55,995 --> 00:20:58,955 Speaker 1: football parlance, he threw two hundred and seventy six interceptions 285 00:20:59,155 --> 00:21:01,835 Speaker 1: and fumbled one hundred and fourteen times. And because the 286 00:21:01,915 --> 00:21:05,075 Speaker 1: already moronic Washington press corps has now been dumbed down 287 00:21:05,115 --> 00:21:08,755 Speaker 1: even further because of market conditions and naked pucellanimous fear, 288 00:21:09,835 --> 00:21:13,235 Speaker 1: the toadies at the right wing site Politico rushed to 289 00:21:13,395 --> 00:21:18,355 Speaker 1: hile Trump, I want to read you two examples. I mean, 290 00:21:18,395 --> 00:21:22,235 Speaker 1: this is John Harris, very serious journalist, reminding us that 291 00:21:22,315 --> 00:21:26,915 Speaker 1: they all approach covering events like this, the raw boned 292 00:21:26,995 --> 00:21:29,875 Speaker 1: truth of which is an insane man who just sold 293 00:21:29,915 --> 00:21:33,555 Speaker 1: this country out to Russia talks longer than anybody else 294 00:21:33,595 --> 00:21:37,555 Speaker 1: in history, all of it about himself, says he's done 295 00:21:37,555 --> 00:21:41,435 Speaker 1: better than George Washington, and lies literally dozens of times 296 00:21:41,635 --> 00:21:44,955 Speaker 1: while making a threat to prosecute dissenters, which you, by 297 00:21:44,955 --> 00:21:49,875 Speaker 1: the way, completely missed. They all approach covering this with 298 00:21:49,995 --> 00:21:52,595 Speaker 1: one thought and one thought only, not have I captured 299 00:21:52,595 --> 00:21:55,835 Speaker 1: the headline here, or the essence or the hidden news story, 300 00:21:56,035 --> 00:21:59,075 Speaker 1: But rather, what if I write something different than what 301 00:21:59,115 --> 00:22:08,035 Speaker 1: everybody else writes, I'll be mocked, John Harris, Trump, he writes, again, 302 00:22:08,115 --> 00:22:11,195 Speaker 1: showed why the presidency is such a powerful platform from 303 00:22:11,195 --> 00:22:14,475 Speaker 1: which to wage national arguments, even as predecessor Joe Biden 304 00:22:14,555 --> 00:22:17,515 Speaker 1: was never able to use it to good effect. By contrast, 305 00:22:17,555 --> 00:22:21,115 Speaker 1: Trump in his showmanship, the boasts and bluster, the indignation 306 00:22:21,195 --> 00:22:25,515 Speaker 1: and insults, the ability to channel popular frustrations demonstrated anew 307 00:22:26,195 --> 00:22:28,955 Speaker 1: why he has vexed opponents of both parties for the 308 00:22:28,995 --> 00:22:35,235 Speaker 1: past decade. Unquote, somebody wrote something like that about Hitler's 309 00:22:35,235 --> 00:22:39,795 Speaker 1: first speech as chancellor. We don't know who that somebody was, 310 00:22:39,875 --> 00:22:45,675 Speaker 1: because I would expect he wound up any concentration camp. Oh, 311 00:22:45,715 --> 00:22:48,355 Speaker 1: the boasts and the bluster, nothing about all the dead 312 00:22:48,395 --> 00:22:52,595 Speaker 1: from COVID. Because Trump didn't want his numbers to look bad. 313 00:22:53,995 --> 00:22:59,715 Speaker 1: Nothing about calling Liz Warren Pocahontas in the equivalent of 314 00:22:59,715 --> 00:23:03,515 Speaker 1: the State of the Union address. Nothing oh demonstrated anew 315 00:23:03,555 --> 00:23:06,355 Speaker 1: why he is vexed moments of both parties for the 316 00:23:06,395 --> 00:23:12,275 Speaker 1: past decade. Then there's this from the right wing site, 317 00:23:12,275 --> 00:23:16,115 Speaker 1: Politico's Rachel Bade. That's bad only with an E at 318 00:23:16,115 --> 00:23:21,955 Speaker 1: the end. Congratulations. Attention, hungry House Democrats. You stole the 319 00:23:21,995 --> 00:23:26,355 Speaker 1: spotlight from Donald Trump on Tuesday Night. Your reward undercutting 320 00:23:26,355 --> 00:23:28,555 Speaker 1: your own message in the fight against Trump, making your 321 00:23:28,595 --> 00:23:31,155 Speaker 1: party look small on deathbit and making Trump look at 322 00:23:31,155 --> 00:23:37,235 Speaker 1: the commanding figure he desperately wants to be. She's an idiot. 323 00:23:38,595 --> 00:23:43,875 Speaker 1: In its same massive vowel movement, Politico praised the celebration 324 00:23:44,115 --> 00:23:51,835 Speaker 1: of disruption, praised the defying of backlash. Disruption you mean 325 00:23:51,835 --> 00:24:00,755 Speaker 1: al Green, I know by Trump incompetent democracy destroying front 326 00:24:00,835 --> 00:24:05,595 Speaker 1: running bastards at Politico and not just at Political because 327 00:24:05,635 --> 00:24:08,555 Speaker 1: they all move around. Somebody just left NBC for Politico, 328 00:24:08,595 --> 00:24:10,475 Speaker 1: and I think somebody from Politico just went to NBC. 329 00:24:12,915 --> 00:24:15,315 Speaker 1: And I will spare you more of this with one exception, 330 00:24:15,435 --> 00:24:17,635 Speaker 1: because this is one of the all time greatest, worst 331 00:24:17,635 --> 00:24:21,755 Speaker 1: takes ever this is and the author is not a surprise. 332 00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:26,275 Speaker 1: But the quality of how bad this is is is 333 00:24:26,475 --> 00:24:32,595 Speaker 1: his mona Lisa, his mona Lisa of stupidity. I'll read 334 00:24:32,595 --> 00:24:35,715 Speaker 1: it first and then tell you who said this. This 335 00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:39,515 Speaker 1: speech will play very well for Trump. Yes, he has 336 00:24:39,555 --> 00:24:42,195 Speaker 1: repeated a whole lot of lies he tells all the time, 337 00:24:46,955 --> 00:24:53,235 Speaker 1: but he's also poignantly highlighted trans issues, Wokeness, Lake and Riley, 338 00:24:53,315 --> 00:24:56,475 Speaker 1: et cetera. And those are eighty twenty issues for the 339 00:24:56,475 --> 00:25:00,435 Speaker 1: public in his favor. The speech is a master work 340 00:25:00,755 --> 00:25:05,675 Speaker 1: of shareable content and moments. Trump is reality TV show 341 00:25:05,715 --> 00:25:12,195 Speaker 1: producer and star, and he is showing it tonight. Almost 342 00:25:12,275 --> 00:25:16,675 Speaker 1: got into Rich Lowry Little starbursts in Sarah Palin's eyes 343 00:25:16,835 --> 00:25:19,715 Speaker 1: territory at the end. There you could almost see the 344 00:25:19,755 --> 00:25:27,795 Speaker 1: guy who wrote this doing a Joni Ernst. But the 345 00:25:27,835 --> 00:25:38,875 Speaker 1: author there can only be one, Chris Solisa. At the 346 00:25:38,875 --> 00:25:41,715 Speaker 1: heart of all this is this truth. If Trump agreed 347 00:25:41,715 --> 00:25:45,475 Speaker 1: to let Putin attack Washington, DC with tactical nukes and 348 00:25:45,555 --> 00:25:48,395 Speaker 1: the Democrats held a last second news conference calling Trump 349 00:25:48,395 --> 00:25:51,035 Speaker 1: a trader and a murderer, half the Washington press corps 350 00:25:51,035 --> 00:25:53,395 Speaker 1: would rise to Trump's defense. Because he cannot shake the 351 00:25:53,475 --> 00:25:58,075 Speaker 1: idea that there are still rules, there are rules. There 352 00:25:58,115 --> 00:26:01,035 Speaker 1: are no rules here. There have not been rules in 353 00:26:01,155 --> 00:26:04,995 Speaker 1: Washington for a decade. But they still want, they still need, 354 00:26:05,155 --> 00:26:08,435 Speaker 1: They still cannot function without cubby holes for everything. There 355 00:26:08,475 --> 00:26:11,355 Speaker 1: are to them only eleven different stories in Washington, and 356 00:26:11,435 --> 00:26:15,555 Speaker 1: whatever this is, it has to be one of them. 357 00:26:15,635 --> 00:26:19,355 Speaker 1: It can't be deliberately manipulating the stock market by turning 358 00:26:19,435 --> 00:26:23,275 Speaker 1: tariffs on and off. That's not one of these eleven stories. Well, 359 00:26:23,275 --> 00:26:25,315 Speaker 1: how would we cover that, Well, we can't. Don't cover 360 00:26:25,395 --> 00:26:31,195 Speaker 1: it at all. Okay, So al Green's audacity and forward 361 00:26:31,235 --> 00:26:38,715 Speaker 1: thinking and pro democracy courage is reduced to disrespecting the presidency. 362 00:26:39,515 --> 00:26:42,395 Speaker 1: I have bad news for you, Washington d C. Press Corps. 363 00:26:42,515 --> 00:26:48,355 Speaker 1: There is no presidency. There is no president. The office 364 00:26:48,395 --> 00:26:51,435 Speaker 1: of President of the United States, for all practical purposes, 365 00:26:51,715 --> 00:26:58,395 Speaker 1: no longer exists. There is just a madman, a senile 366 00:26:58,515 --> 00:27:03,035 Speaker 1: bully no one has had the courage to stand up to, 367 00:27:03,995 --> 00:27:07,555 Speaker 1: rapidly using his remaining shreds of self control. There is 368 00:27:07,595 --> 00:27:12,035 Speaker 1: no president to disrespect. There is only a dictator building 369 00:27:12,075 --> 00:27:18,435 Speaker 1: that wall around us and around you, the media, and 370 00:27:18,515 --> 00:27:25,195 Speaker 1: around the courts, and you, the media and the courts, 371 00:27:25,635 --> 00:27:31,515 Speaker 1: and most of the Democrats, you guys are busy handing 372 00:27:32,035 --> 00:27:41,515 Speaker 1: him the effing bricks. Also of interest here I teased 373 00:27:41,555 --> 00:27:45,555 Speaker 1: at the beginning some startling but happy polling news for you, 374 00:27:45,635 --> 00:27:47,675 Speaker 1: and I will deliver. How about six weeks into the 375 00:27:47,715 --> 00:27:50,235 Speaker 1: dictatorship and Trump has already seen his support among men 376 00:27:50,395 --> 00:27:59,035 Speaker 1: under thirty. Dive deeply underwater. Trump, bro, you've been doged. 377 00:28:00,715 --> 00:28:03,155 Speaker 1: It's next. This is Countdown. 378 00:28:05,555 --> 00:28:08,795 Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Oberman. 379 00:28:16,835 --> 00:28:21,035 Speaker 1: Postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks. 380 00:28:21,115 --> 00:28:24,395 Speaker 1: Still ahead of us of course, worst persons. And Nancy 381 00:28:24,475 --> 00:28:28,435 Speaker 1: Mace was today years old before she learned there was 382 00:28:28,475 --> 00:28:34,195 Speaker 1: a difference between a boy lion and a girl lion. Next, 383 00:28:38,195 --> 00:28:41,155 Speaker 1: this is the Countdown podcast. And these are the places 384 00:28:41,155 --> 00:28:46,075 Speaker 1: where there's news. Kateline harvid yad headquarters of the research 385 00:28:46,155 --> 00:28:51,075 Speaker 1: company Social Space, actually located at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 386 00:28:51,315 --> 00:28:54,355 Speaker 1: They tell Puck News that it is faint at this point, 387 00:28:54,555 --> 00:28:57,875 Speaker 1: but the writing is on the wall for Trump's support 388 00:28:58,475 --> 00:29:02,595 Speaker 1: with men under thirty, possibly the pivotal point of the 389 00:29:02,635 --> 00:29:06,195 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election. Quoting Puck, six weeks into the 390 00:29:06,195 --> 00:29:10,395 Speaker 1: new presidency, John Delvolfi of Social Space said that Trump' 391 00:29:10,395 --> 00:29:14,835 Speaker 1: support among young voters is already taking an unambiguous hit. Overall, 392 00:29:14,875 --> 00:29:18,115 Speaker 1: favorability with the younger voters has dropped seven points since 393 00:29:18,115 --> 00:29:22,155 Speaker 1: his January poll. The weekend before the inauguration. He came 394 00:29:22,155 --> 00:29:25,195 Speaker 1: into office with a fifty percent favorable among gen z. 395 00:29:25,595 --> 00:29:29,435 Speaker 1: He's now at forty three. Since mid January, Trump's favorable 396 00:29:29,515 --> 00:29:34,275 Speaker 1: rating has dropped most significantly among young rural voters, down 397 00:29:34,395 --> 00:29:40,155 Speaker 1: seventeen points, independence down thirteen points, white women down ten points, 398 00:29:40,315 --> 00:29:43,995 Speaker 1: and women overall down ten points. At the same time, 399 00:29:44,035 --> 00:29:47,515 Speaker 1: Trump's standing among young white men has remained about the same, 400 00:29:48,155 --> 00:29:52,755 Speaker 1: But in January, sixty two percent of men under thirty 401 00:29:53,035 --> 00:29:56,355 Speaker 1: had approved of Trump's handling of the economy. Now just 402 00:29:56,555 --> 00:30:00,515 Speaker 1: forty eight percent approve. That's a drop of fourteen points 403 00:30:00,595 --> 00:30:04,275 Speaker 1: in one month. On handling inflation, Trump has taken a 404 00:30:04,315 --> 00:30:07,835 Speaker 1: fifth teen point hit, dropping from fifty five percent approval 405 00:30:07,995 --> 00:30:11,675 Speaker 1: before the inauguration to forty percent today. And as Puck 406 00:30:11,715 --> 00:30:16,515 Speaker 1: additionally notes, those bad numbers and they are actually horrible. 407 00:30:17,155 --> 00:30:23,355 Speaker 1: They are themselves three weeks worse and three weeks old. Now. 408 00:30:23,715 --> 00:30:26,995 Speaker 1: These numbers were conducted in the middle of February. So 409 00:30:27,115 --> 00:30:30,275 Speaker 1: who knows what the impact of all of this nonsense 410 00:30:31,075 --> 00:30:35,875 Speaker 1: about tariffs and everything else has factored in. Here Trump 411 00:30:36,075 --> 00:30:38,675 Speaker 1: is in trouble with the people who put him over 412 00:30:38,715 --> 00:30:44,755 Speaker 1: the top dateline Kiev. Speaking of which headline, Putin pauses 413 00:30:44,955 --> 00:30:49,395 Speaker 1: US military aid to Ukraine. In case that got right 414 00:30:49,435 --> 00:30:53,115 Speaker 1: past you, I'll just say it again, Putin pauses US 415 00:30:53,235 --> 00:30:57,395 Speaker 1: military aid to Ukraine. Let me explain something, as I 416 00:30:57,515 --> 00:31:00,995 Speaker 1: understand it, about what may not be fully evident at 417 00:31:01,075 --> 00:31:04,435 Speaker 1: first glance, to the situation in Ukraine. On the one 418 00:31:04,755 --> 00:31:10,115 Speaker 1: subject peacekeepers that is so desperately important to both sides. 419 00:31:10,515 --> 00:31:14,395 Speaker 1: Why is Putin desperate to make sure peacekeepers and other 420 00:31:14,515 --> 00:31:18,315 Speaker 1: truce enforcers if there is one, if there is a deal. 421 00:31:18,755 --> 00:31:21,915 Speaker 1: Why there are no Americans? Why is Zelensky just as 422 00:31:21,995 --> 00:31:25,795 Speaker 1: insistent that there be at least some American troops there 423 00:31:25,835 --> 00:31:30,635 Speaker 1: doing something to keep the peace. Well, there must be Americans, 424 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:35,315 Speaker 1: because otherwise all of the peacekeepers would be European. When 425 00:31:35,835 --> 00:31:41,635 Speaker 1: Putin violates any ceasefire, Well, he can't shoot Americans. Not yet. 426 00:31:42,795 --> 00:31:46,195 Speaker 1: He wants to fight Europeans. He would fight Europeans, he 427 00:31:46,235 --> 00:31:50,875 Speaker 1: would shoot European peacekeepers. He wants, in fact, an excuse 428 00:31:51,075 --> 00:31:54,275 Speaker 1: to fight Europeans. That's the whole point of Ukraine. It 429 00:31:54,435 --> 00:31:57,195 Speaker 1: is a warm up for going into Poland and other 430 00:31:57,315 --> 00:32:01,275 Speaker 1: parts of Europe. That's the whole reason we have been 431 00:32:01,315 --> 00:32:04,555 Speaker 1: defending Ukraine for three years. The whole point that Trump 432 00:32:04,875 --> 00:32:08,675 Speaker 1: not understand, the whole reenactment of nineteen thirty eight and 433 00:32:08,755 --> 00:32:11,235 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine. That Trump could never understand in a 434 00:32:11,275 --> 00:32:13,915 Speaker 1: million years, because there's no cash in it for him. 435 00:32:14,435 --> 00:32:19,915 Speaker 1: The peacekeepers, if they are not American, guarantee war in Europe, 436 00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:25,995 Speaker 1: which is why Zelenski and smart people want Americans as 437 00:32:26,075 --> 00:32:32,355 Speaker 1: part of any peacekeeping force. Dateline, Washington, shocking. I know, 438 00:32:33,075 --> 00:32:35,755 Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down for this part, but did 439 00:32:35,795 --> 00:32:40,915 Speaker 1: you know Trump's cabinet and staff are full of absolute 440 00:32:41,195 --> 00:32:45,435 Speaker 1: flaming morons. I mean, if there were such a thing, 441 00:32:45,475 --> 00:32:49,755 Speaker 1: who would you pick first in the moron fantasy draft 442 00:32:50,155 --> 00:32:53,675 Speaker 1: of the Trump administration? Would you go with? Alina haba 443 00:32:53,995 --> 00:32:59,355 Speaker 1: White House advisor on parking lots who has just slimed veterans. 444 00:33:00,155 --> 00:33:02,635 Speaker 4: Starting to think about maybe some of those veterans who 445 00:33:02,635 --> 00:33:05,635 Speaker 4: worked for the federal government and maybe what the administration 446 00:33:05,755 --> 00:33:08,315 Speaker 4: can do to at least help salvage their lives. 447 00:33:08,395 --> 00:33:10,915 Speaker 5: Well, as you know, we care about veterans trumendously. I 448 00:33:10,915 --> 00:33:13,235 Speaker 5: mean that's something the President has always cared about anybody 449 00:33:13,275 --> 00:33:16,155 Speaker 5: and blew anybody that serves this country. But at the 450 00:33:16,195 --> 00:33:18,995 Speaker 5: same time, we have taxpayer dollars. We have a fiscal 451 00:33:19,035 --> 00:33:22,275 Speaker 5: responsibility to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually work. 452 00:33:22,715 --> 00:33:24,955 Speaker 5: That doesn't mean that we forget our veterans by any means. 453 00:33:24,955 --> 00:33:26,475 Speaker 5: We are going to care for them in the right way. 454 00:33:26,475 --> 00:33:28,555 Speaker 5: But perhaps they're not fit to have a job at 455 00:33:28,595 --> 00:33:30,435 Speaker 5: this moment or not willing to come to work, and 456 00:33:30,475 --> 00:33:32,715 Speaker 5: we can't. You know, I wouldn't take money from you 457 00:33:32,755 --> 00:33:34,995 Speaker 5: and pay somebody and say sorry, you know they're not 458 00:33:35,035 --> 00:33:36,715 Speaker 5: going to come to work. It's just not acceptable. 459 00:33:37,035 --> 00:33:39,355 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not qualified or ready or willing to take 460 00:33:39,395 --> 00:33:46,155 Speaker 1: an important job like cheap advisor on bimbos to the 461 00:33:46,155 --> 00:33:49,315 Speaker 1: White House now, as if he hadn't already made it 462 00:33:49,395 --> 00:33:52,475 Speaker 1: unsafe for any American official to travel in Europe. There's 463 00:33:52,515 --> 00:33:56,635 Speaker 1: another candidate, jd. Vance. He may be the number one 464 00:33:56,715 --> 00:33:58,835 Speaker 1: draft choice in the Moron draft because he may have 465 00:33:58,915 --> 00:34:02,795 Speaker 1: single handedly canceled the Trump state visit to meet the 466 00:34:02,875 --> 00:34:06,395 Speaker 1: King of England. He may or may not have meant 467 00:34:06,875 --> 00:34:11,395 Speaker 1: British troops and British wars and British dead, but they 468 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:14,155 Speaker 1: sure think he did when he said this. 469 00:34:14,675 --> 00:34:17,395 Speaker 4: If you want real security guarantees, if you want to 470 00:34:17,435 --> 00:34:21,715 Speaker 4: actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, 471 00:34:22,075 --> 00:34:26,075 Speaker 4: the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic 472 00:34:26,235 --> 00:34:29,315 Speaker 4: upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way 473 00:34:29,355 --> 00:34:33,595 Speaker 4: better security guarantee than twenty thousand troops from some random 474 00:34:33,635 --> 00:34:36,955 Speaker 4: country that hasn't fought a war in thirty or forty years. 475 00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:41,395 Speaker 1: The problem for jd JV is there are so many 476 00:34:41,435 --> 00:34:44,515 Speaker 1: skeletons in his closet he may have to have extra 477 00:34:44,595 --> 00:34:49,075 Speaker 1: closets put into his closet. Give me like five hundred 478 00:34:49,075 --> 00:34:51,515 Speaker 1: to one odds on this and I'll predict right now 479 00:34:51,555 --> 00:34:54,435 Speaker 1: and take a bet that he resigns from that office 480 00:34:54,515 --> 00:34:58,835 Speaker 1: before the term expires. And lastly, in the derby of 481 00:34:59,035 --> 00:35:02,235 Speaker 1: dumb in the race to be the first draft choice 482 00:35:02,275 --> 00:35:06,475 Speaker 1: in our fantasy Fantasy league, is Caroline Levitt, the former 483 00:35:06,635 --> 00:35:10,275 Speaker 1: star center fielder of the softball team at her college 484 00:35:10,315 --> 00:35:14,595 Speaker 1: in wherever the hell it was. She had just said 485 00:35:15,195 --> 00:35:18,515 Speaker 1: that she thought God had given her a special skill 486 00:35:18,675 --> 00:35:23,915 Speaker 1: the ability to communicate. And here she is right after 487 00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:28,395 Speaker 1: that communicating that Trump's addressed to Congress would be attended 488 00:35:28,435 --> 00:35:30,675 Speaker 1: by a dead guy. 489 00:35:31,315 --> 00:35:35,115 Speaker 6: There will be everyday American heroes and attendance. Stephanie Diller, 490 00:35:35,155 --> 00:35:37,315 Speaker 6: whom you mentioned, who lost her husband in the line 491 00:35:37,315 --> 00:35:39,635 Speaker 6: of duty at the hands of an illegal immigrant. You 492 00:35:39,675 --> 00:35:42,755 Speaker 6: have Mark Foegel, who, of course, because of President Trump's 493 00:35:43,195 --> 00:35:46,955 Speaker 6: Peace through Strength efforts were returned from Russian captivity. Corey 494 00:35:46,995 --> 00:35:50,955 Speaker 6: Compratour who lost his life protecting his family in Butler, Pennsylvania. 495 00:35:51,395 --> 00:35:54,755 Speaker 1: That's the firefighter who was shot when they tried to 496 00:35:54,835 --> 00:35:59,315 Speaker 1: shoot Trump. I don't know if you have one of 497 00:35:59,355 --> 00:36:02,235 Speaker 1: the top three draft choices, you can't go wrong with 498 00:36:02,315 --> 00:36:07,515 Speaker 1: any of these three idiots and Dateline des Moines, Iowa 499 00:36:07,715 --> 00:36:12,035 Speaker 1: Senator Joni Ernst was a late yes on Pete Hegseth's nomination. 500 00:36:12,355 --> 00:36:14,875 Speaker 1: There's all kinds of guesses now as to why she 501 00:36:15,075 --> 00:36:18,715 Speaker 1: said yes, and this as the reason. It sounds good, 502 00:36:18,995 --> 00:36:21,155 Speaker 1: but it doesn't hold up to logic because if this 503 00:36:21,275 --> 00:36:23,955 Speaker 1: had been the reason, then it wouldn't have come out. Still, 504 00:36:24,395 --> 00:36:27,715 Speaker 1: it came out at its efing funny. In fact, it's 505 00:36:27,795 --> 00:36:32,555 Speaker 1: effing hilarious. In twenty fourteen, Jony Ernst ran for the 506 00:36:32,595 --> 00:36:36,195 Speaker 1: Senate in Iowa and put up a controversial campaign ad 507 00:36:36,235 --> 00:36:41,275 Speaker 1: in which she boasted that she had experienced castrating hogs 508 00:36:43,875 --> 00:36:48,475 Speaker 1: castrating hogs, and thus she would be an expert in 509 00:36:48,635 --> 00:36:54,835 Speaker 1: Washington in finding and getting rid of pork now. Pro 510 00:36:54,875 --> 00:36:59,035 Speaker 1: Publica reports this. Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed 511 00:36:59,035 --> 00:37:02,475 Speaker 1: that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had 512 00:37:02,515 --> 00:37:07,115 Speaker 1: inappropriate romantic relationships with five women, including three who worked 513 00:37:07,115 --> 00:37:12,115 Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. Major General Christopher Finnity's colleagues told investigators 514 00:37:12,115 --> 00:37:15,075 Speaker 1: the relationships were highly inappropriate, as they could give the 515 00:37:15,115 --> 00:37:19,115 Speaker 1: Air Force undue influence in Congress. I honestly felt sick 516 00:37:19,155 --> 00:37:21,795 Speaker 1: to my stomach, one said, according to a report about 517 00:37:21,795 --> 00:37:25,835 Speaker 1: the investigation, because it just felt so sleazy. Well, no 518 00:37:25,915 --> 00:37:28,675 Speaker 1: doubt that's why it was so much fun. But one 519 00:37:28,675 --> 00:37:31,515 Speaker 1: of the women whose relationship with Finity was scrutinized by 520 00:37:31,515 --> 00:37:36,515 Speaker 1: the Inspector General was Senator Jony Ernst, according to two 521 00:37:36,555 --> 00:37:40,915 Speaker 1: sources with knowledge of the investigation, Pro Publica continues, the 522 00:37:40,955 --> 00:37:45,635 Speaker 1: Iowa Republican and combat veteran you Bet is one of 523 00:37:45,635 --> 00:37:49,315 Speaker 1: the most influential voices on the Hill. About the military. 524 00:37:50,195 --> 00:37:55,355 Speaker 1: I see, and she sits on Oh there's more to that. 525 00:37:55,395 --> 00:37:59,115 Speaker 1: She sits on the Senate's Armed Services Committee, which oversees 526 00:37:59,155 --> 00:38:02,315 Speaker 1: the Pentagon and plays a crucial role in setting its 527 00:38:02,355 --> 00:38:05,235 Speaker 1: annual budget. And yes, I'd make exactly the same kind 528 00:38:05,235 --> 00:38:07,875 Speaker 1: of thirteen year old's jokes if this was about a man. 529 00:38:08,755 --> 00:38:12,115 Speaker 1: Three other sources told Pro Publica that around twenty nineteen, 530 00:38:12,155 --> 00:38:16,035 Speaker 1: Earnst that a previous romantic relationship with a legislative affairs 531 00:38:16,075 --> 00:38:19,635 Speaker 1: official for a different branch of the military, the Navy. 532 00:38:21,195 --> 00:38:23,955 Speaker 1: There's a joke there about swimming to troop ships. We'll 533 00:38:23,995 --> 00:38:26,795 Speaker 1: just let that go. But I'm not letting this one go. 534 00:38:27,395 --> 00:38:33,435 Speaker 1: You're telling me that Jony Ernst went to DC to 535 00:38:33,515 --> 00:38:37,995 Speaker 1: get all the pork she could find. Wait, wait, it's 536 00:38:37,995 --> 00:38:44,595 Speaker 1: worse that twenty fourteen castrating pigs ad. Jony Earnst punchline, 537 00:38:45,155 --> 00:38:48,915 Speaker 1: which she delivered herself, was about her goal when she 538 00:38:48,995 --> 00:38:53,595 Speaker 1: got to Washington, which was, in fact, quote, let's make 539 00:38:53,635 --> 00:38:58,995 Speaker 1: them squeal. You bet. 540 00:39:27,275 --> 00:39:29,835 Speaker 3: Then, finally, believe it or not, there's still more new 541 00:39:29,875 --> 00:39:33,515 Speaker 3: idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons 542 00:39:33,515 --> 00:39:37,355 Speaker 3: and dunning Krueger e fects specimens who constitute today's other. 543 00:39:37,995 --> 00:39:43,235 Speaker 1: Worst persons in the world. Here the nominees the Bronze 544 00:39:43,235 --> 00:39:48,515 Speaker 1: worst Jeff she Shell owld pal from Fox. Jeff Shell, 545 00:39:49,755 --> 00:39:52,875 Speaker 1: Jeff Shell, and I worked with Lauren Sanchez at Fox. 546 00:39:55,155 --> 00:39:58,995 Speaker 1: He's the incoming boss of CBS after NBC fired him 547 00:39:59,035 --> 00:40:02,835 Speaker 1: over a woman. He'll be the boss of CBS whenever 548 00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:07,675 Speaker 1: the Paramount sky Dance murder finally happens, or or he's 549 00:40:07,715 --> 00:40:11,235 Speaker 1: the boss right now. Legally, my former friend, who's defensive, 550 00:40:11,275 --> 00:40:13,955 Speaker 1: his deception was once you should have known I was 551 00:40:14,035 --> 00:40:18,355 Speaker 1: lying is, according to Oliver Darcy, as Status already pressuring 552 00:40:18,435 --> 00:40:24,155 Speaker 1: CBS News to settle Trump's bullying lawsuit so that Trump 553 00:40:24,195 --> 00:40:27,275 Speaker 1: doesn't corruptly hold up that merger I just mentioned between 554 00:40:27,395 --> 00:40:31,555 Speaker 1: the Paramount Company and sky Dance. A couple problems here. 555 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:34,555 Speaker 1: First of all, the lawsuit is bullshit. This is that 556 00:40:34,755 --> 00:40:38,195 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris editing thing, and now the dictator wants ten 557 00:40:38,275 --> 00:40:41,275 Speaker 1: billion dollars in damages for something that didn't have a 558 00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:45,715 Speaker 1: goddamn thing to do with him. But secondly, Jeff Shell 559 00:40:45,915 --> 00:40:50,155 Speaker 1: isn't the head of CBS because Paramount and Skydance haven't merged, 560 00:40:50,675 --> 00:40:52,915 Speaker 1: and the sky Dance people are legally not supposed to 561 00:40:52,915 --> 00:40:56,275 Speaker 1: be involved in CBS decisions, let alone running things until 562 00:40:56,275 --> 00:40:59,715 Speaker 1: the merger is complete. As Oliver Darcy puts it, quote, 563 00:40:59,795 --> 00:41:03,595 Speaker 1: by attempting to influence decisions at CBS News, Shell may 564 00:41:03,595 --> 00:41:07,795 Speaker 1: have aired and potentially opened Paramount and Skydance up to 565 00:41:07,875 --> 00:41:15,315 Speaker 1: regulatory scrutiny. Well you should have known I was lying. Now. 566 00:41:15,355 --> 00:41:18,315 Speaker 1: This sounds awfully familiar to some of us, because fifteen 567 00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:21,835 Speaker 1: years ago, Jeffshell was one of the top executives at Comcast. 568 00:41:22,595 --> 00:41:26,715 Speaker 1: In the same situation, Comcast was about to merge with 569 00:41:26,915 --> 00:41:31,835 Speaker 1: NBC takeover NBC. That was a huge slow merger, and 570 00:41:31,875 --> 00:41:35,075 Speaker 1: once again Comcast people were not supposed to have any 571 00:41:35,195 --> 00:41:39,155 Speaker 1: say on day to day stuff at NBC until merger day, 572 00:41:39,315 --> 00:41:42,075 Speaker 1: which was January first, twenty eleven. And yet what do 573 00:41:42,155 --> 00:41:45,635 Speaker 1: I find in my files a series of emails to 574 00:41:45,795 --> 00:41:51,235 Speaker 1: me from jeffs Shell at his Comcast address, encouraging me 575 00:41:51,395 --> 00:41:55,115 Speaker 1: not to leave MSNBC and to hang in there and 576 00:41:55,155 --> 00:41:57,475 Speaker 1: not worry about Jeff Sooker, and telling me how much 577 00:41:57,635 --> 00:42:00,395 Speaker 1: fun he and I would have together if I stayed 578 00:42:00,435 --> 00:42:02,875 Speaker 1: at NBC when he would come in and run it. 579 00:42:03,595 --> 00:42:06,715 Speaker 1: The dates on these emails else El Sir. A couple 580 00:42:06,795 --> 00:42:10,475 Speaker 1: of them are July twenty ninth, twenty ten, five months 581 00:42:10,555 --> 00:42:14,115 Speaker 1: before JEFFS. Shell was actually allowed to try to influence 582 00:42:14,435 --> 00:42:19,635 Speaker 1: stuff at NBC or the people there. Huh So maybe 583 00:42:19,675 --> 00:42:21,835 Speaker 1: his previous experience doing this is why he got the 584 00:42:21,875 --> 00:42:26,715 Speaker 1: CBS gig runner up appeaser Governor Jared Poulis of Colorado, 585 00:42:27,035 --> 00:42:30,355 Speaker 1: I keep telling you, playing nice with the fascists is 586 00:42:30,395 --> 00:42:33,235 Speaker 1: not only going to get your thrown out of the party, 587 00:42:33,555 --> 00:42:36,115 Speaker 1: it's also going to get you run over first by 588 00:42:36,155 --> 00:42:40,475 Speaker 1: the fascists. Polis praised Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Then he 589 00:42:40,555 --> 00:42:44,995 Speaker 1: went on vs. Joe on MSNBC. On there, he praised 590 00:42:44,995 --> 00:42:48,675 Speaker 1: the Trump and Musk efforts to gut FEMA, and how 591 00:42:48,715 --> 00:42:52,795 Speaker 1: have they repaid his quote bipartisanship unquote. Republicans are angry 592 00:42:53,075 --> 00:42:57,155 Speaker 1: that Colorado prosecuted Trump vote denier Tina Peters. They have 593 00:42:57,235 --> 00:43:02,155 Speaker 1: demanded Governor Polus hardened Tina Peters or Trump will try 594 00:43:02,155 --> 00:43:06,395 Speaker 1: to cut off federal funds to Colorado. Do you see 595 00:43:06,515 --> 00:43:10,515 Speaker 1: what happens, Jared? Do you see what happens Jared when 596 00:43:10,555 --> 00:43:14,875 Speaker 1: you fill it in yourself. By the way, trump ists 597 00:43:15,195 --> 00:43:17,155 Speaker 1: go ahead try to cut off federal funds to a 598 00:43:17,155 --> 00:43:19,835 Speaker 1: blue state. All the other blue states will then cut 599 00:43:19,875 --> 00:43:23,395 Speaker 1: off their funds to the federal government, and your president 600 00:43:23,395 --> 00:43:25,675 Speaker 1: will be overthrown before the end of the month by 601 00:43:25,755 --> 00:43:29,475 Speaker 1: MAGA because people in the red states will start starving 602 00:43:29,755 --> 00:43:33,475 Speaker 1: without the blue state money. But our winner, on top 603 00:43:33,515 --> 00:43:39,395 Speaker 1: of a field day of great candidates Nancy Mace. Nancy Mace, 604 00:43:40,035 --> 00:43:44,275 Speaker 1: congress Woman of North Carolina, although probably not of this earth, 605 00:43:45,475 --> 00:43:47,715 Speaker 1: how many dumb things has she done in office so far? 606 00:43:47,795 --> 00:43:50,795 Speaker 3: Started with telling the I skip morning sex with my 607 00:43:50,955 --> 00:43:55,315 Speaker 3: unmarried partner to be here on time story at Senator 608 00:43:55,355 --> 00:43:56,555 Speaker 3: Tim Scott's prayer. 609 00:43:56,275 --> 00:44:00,475 Speaker 1: Breakfast he was. It was we will have sex. 610 00:44:00,315 --> 00:44:04,355 Speaker 3: Later, reverend the unmarried partner she lived with, and then 611 00:44:04,355 --> 00:44:06,835 Speaker 3: there were loud threats of lawsuits when they broke up 612 00:44:06,875 --> 00:44:09,675 Speaker 3: and argued over who actually owned their house. That was 613 00:44:09,715 --> 00:44:13,995 Speaker 3: another story involving Nancy Mace. Well, this isn't quite that graphic, 614 00:44:14,035 --> 00:44:17,235 Speaker 3: but in many ways it's really much more disturbing. Nancy 615 00:44:17,275 --> 00:44:20,435 Speaker 3: Mayce has posted on social media an animated video of 616 00:44:20,475 --> 00:44:24,235 Speaker 3: a lion the wind blowing through its hair, along with 617 00:44:24,315 --> 00:44:27,235 Speaker 3: her comment quote, women want someone who will go to 618 00:44:27,275 --> 00:44:29,795 Speaker 3: battle for them. I am your lion. 619 00:44:30,235 --> 00:44:35,035 Speaker 1: Hear me roar. The lion in Nancy May's tweet is 620 00:44:36,115 --> 00:44:40,675 Speaker 1: a male. I am your lion. Hear me roar, and 621 00:44:40,715 --> 00:44:41,915 Speaker 1: the lion she. 622 00:44:42,115 --> 00:44:45,315 Speaker 3: Is is a guy. 623 00:44:46,075 --> 00:44:47,155 Speaker 1: Nancy Hell. 624 00:44:47,675 --> 00:44:49,755 Speaker 3: Maybe now we know why she broke up with the 625 00:44:49,755 --> 00:44:59,075 Speaker 3: boyfriend Mace two days other worse person than the world. 626 00:45:19,395 --> 00:45:21,235 Speaker 3: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 627 00:45:21,275 --> 00:45:23,675 Speaker 3: you for listening. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle. The 628 00:45:23,715 --> 00:45:27,755 Speaker 3: musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced, and performed most up 629 00:45:27,755 --> 00:45:31,435 Speaker 3: bar music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray 630 00:45:31,515 --> 00:45:34,075 Speaker 3: was on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced 631 00:45:34,075 --> 00:45:37,675 Speaker 3: by Tko Brothers. 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