1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:27,835 --> 00:00:35,915 Speaker 1: This is simple. Arrest Trump now while we still can 3 00:00:37,835 --> 00:00:39,995 Speaker 1: quote now that the FBI and d o J have 4 00:00:40,115 --> 00:00:44,955 Speaker 1: been caught in a massive and determinative election rigging scam, 5 00:00:44,995 --> 00:00:49,075 Speaker 1: are they going to change the results of presidential election? 6 00:00:49,475 --> 00:00:54,915 Speaker 1: They should three exclamation points. Trump has now posted a 7 00:00:54,955 --> 00:00:58,595 Speaker 1: clear and unmistakable call to overthrow the duly elected government 8 00:00:58,595 --> 00:01:01,795 Speaker 1: of the United States of America again, and he has 9 00:01:01,835 --> 00:01:04,115 Speaker 1: done so in the wake of a Trump appointed judge 10 00:01:04,435 --> 00:01:08,715 Speaker 1: makeing up executive post presidential Trump privilege, postulating a Trump 11 00:01:08,795 --> 00:01:13,235 Speaker 1: exclusion for the prosecution of espionage or worse, proposing Trump immunity, 12 00:01:13,475 --> 00:01:16,435 Speaker 1: executing a special Master that even the Trump Attorney General 13 00:01:16,475 --> 00:01:21,195 Speaker 1: calls quote a crock of bleep. And Trump's response to 14 00:01:21,315 --> 00:01:24,955 Speaker 1: the corruption of this venal Trump lackey is to demand 15 00:01:25,235 --> 00:01:28,795 Speaker 1: he now be installed as president of the United States 16 00:01:28,995 --> 00:01:33,275 Speaker 1: and President Biden removed from office, advocating again for what 17 00:01:33,795 --> 00:01:38,595 Speaker 1: the fifth time, the tenth time, the thousandth time, advocating 18 00:01:38,675 --> 00:01:42,995 Speaker 1: for some unnamed they to usurp representative government in this 19 00:01:43,115 --> 00:01:48,635 Speaker 1: country and to claim him dictator. What are we waiting for? 20 00:01:49,355 --> 00:01:53,995 Speaker 1: What is going to stop our version of Hitler, our 21 00:01:54,235 --> 00:01:59,195 Speaker 1: version of pin O'sheay, our version of Mussolini, our version 22 00:01:59,275 --> 00:02:03,115 Speaker 1: of Putin, when he already owns the judges, when he 23 00:02:03,115 --> 00:02:06,475 Speaker 1: already owns six of the eleven judges on the Appeal 24 00:02:06,555 --> 00:02:10,915 Speaker 1: Court to which this special master order written in crayon 25 00:02:11,075 --> 00:02:16,035 Speaker 1: by a Cretan will go. When the worst he will 26 00:02:16,075 --> 00:02:18,515 Speaker 1: get out of this is months of delay, during which 27 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:22,195 Speaker 1: he can give away or sell our secrets or fundraise 28 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:26,355 Speaker 1: off our secrets. Because it is now official, Trump owns 29 00:02:26,435 --> 00:02:31,995 Speaker 1: the courts. Arrest him now and detain him on the 30 00:02:32,075 --> 00:02:35,755 Speaker 1: evidence already seen of the stolen nuclear documents, and the 31 00:02:35,795 --> 00:02:39,555 Speaker 1: stolen documents full of American sources and assets abroad, and 32 00:02:39,595 --> 00:02:43,635 Speaker 1: the forty three classified folders with the secret documents already 33 00:02:43,795 --> 00:02:47,395 Speaker 1: lost or boastfully shown off to spies posing as rich 34 00:02:47,435 --> 00:02:50,915 Speaker 1: golfing women who are sold or given to the Saudias, 35 00:02:51,155 --> 00:02:54,395 Speaker 1: or given to the Russians, or given to god knows who. 36 00:02:54,635 --> 00:03:01,635 Speaker 1: Arrest Trump now while we still can. Are they going 37 00:03:01,715 --> 00:03:06,995 Speaker 1: to change the results of the residential election by what 38 00:03:07,355 --> 00:03:12,435 Speaker 1: means besides the illegality and the betrayal and the treachery 39 00:03:12,515 --> 00:03:17,835 Speaker 1: and the treason of seriously demanding some kind of election nullification. 40 00:03:18,155 --> 00:03:21,835 Speaker 1: Do we somehow think at this late date that he 41 00:03:21,875 --> 00:03:26,835 Speaker 1: means this should be done peacefully. Trump already directed an 42 00:03:26,835 --> 00:03:30,595 Speaker 1: attempted coup against this country twenty months ago today, and 43 00:03:30,675 --> 00:03:33,235 Speaker 1: he is still not in shackles somewhere that he has 44 00:03:33,275 --> 00:03:37,315 Speaker 1: continually returned to his song of stochastic terrorism, and not 45 00:03:37,395 --> 00:03:41,395 Speaker 1: a week ago Lindsey freaking Graham forecast riots. And we 46 00:03:41,475 --> 00:03:45,195 Speaker 1: are sitting around waiting for Merrick Garland to decide whether 47 00:03:45,275 --> 00:03:48,555 Speaker 1: or not to appeal the ruling of the Federalist Society 48 00:03:48,595 --> 00:03:52,435 Speaker 1: Trump rubber stamp judge or trying to summon the courage 49 00:03:52,475 --> 00:03:55,475 Speaker 1: to act in advance of a midterm election, because we 50 00:03:55,635 --> 00:03:59,475 Speaker 1: can't prosecute a political figure who has endorsed a candidate, 51 00:03:59,755 --> 00:04:03,635 Speaker 1: and that stupid rule is much more important than stopping 52 00:04:03,675 --> 00:04:07,595 Speaker 1: at its source, the deceit, the matter of faction, the evil, 53 00:04:07,835 --> 00:04:11,995 Speaker 1: the sedition, the treason, the source of all that is 54 00:04:12,035 --> 00:04:18,635 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Arrest him now while we still can this 55 00:04:19,035 --> 00:04:25,155 Speaker 1: quote judge, unquote Eileen Canon, never before a judge, never 56 00:04:25,195 --> 00:04:27,515 Speaker 1: in her first thirty nine years, anything higher in the 57 00:04:27,595 --> 00:04:31,915 Speaker 1: legal profession than an assistant United States attorney, but a 58 00:04:31,995 --> 00:04:36,835 Speaker 1: sixteen year member in good standing of the fascist federalist society. 59 00:04:37,075 --> 00:04:39,635 Speaker 1: She has exceeded all her possible authority, and all her 60 00:04:39,635 --> 00:04:42,875 Speaker 1: obvious limited intelligence, and all her non existent integrity, and 61 00:04:42,995 --> 00:04:48,915 Speaker 1: demanded a special Master to protect Trump from justice because 62 00:04:48,995 --> 00:04:52,515 Speaker 1: of quote the interest in ensuring the integrity of an 63 00:04:52,635 --> 00:04:58,435 Speaker 1: orderly process amidst swirling allegations of bias, There are no 64 00:04:58,595 --> 00:05:03,195 Speaker 1: swirling allegations of bias. Fox News makes up an excuse 65 00:05:03,355 --> 00:05:07,275 Speaker 1: of bias that isn't there, and bright Bart fabricates swirling 66 00:05:07,315 --> 00:05:09,875 Speaker 1: allegations that are not there. And this clown of a 67 00:05:09,995 --> 00:05:13,515 Speaker 1: judge can then say, oh, I can cite this bias 68 00:05:13,595 --> 00:05:16,435 Speaker 1: that does not exist without having to assert it myself. 69 00:05:16,555 --> 00:05:19,555 Speaker 1: I can just attribute it to somebody else, the same 70 00:05:19,795 --> 00:05:26,275 Speaker 1: somebody else's who made it up, the corrupted, enraging excuses 71 00:05:26,315 --> 00:05:30,595 Speaker 1: of quote judge unquote Eileen Canon would also permit this 72 00:05:30,715 --> 00:05:34,195 Speaker 1: kind of statement. Eileen Cannon was born in Cali, Columbia, 73 00:05:34,355 --> 00:05:37,435 Speaker 1: and Callie is where the Calli drug cartel was located. 74 00:05:37,595 --> 00:05:40,155 Speaker 1: So in the interest of ensuring the integrity of an 75 00:05:40,235 --> 00:05:45,835 Speaker 1: orderly judicial process amidst swirling allegations of Callie drug cartel connections, 76 00:05:46,035 --> 00:05:50,275 Speaker 1: Judge Cannon must be disqualified. No intelligent or fair person 77 00:05:50,395 --> 00:05:53,955 Speaker 1: would prop up such a nonsensical excuse to smear a judge. 78 00:05:54,075 --> 00:05:56,595 Speaker 1: Yet this judge has just propped up such a nonsensical 79 00:05:56,635 --> 00:05:59,275 Speaker 1: excuse to smear the Department of Justice and the FBI. 80 00:06:02,035 --> 00:06:05,995 Speaker 1: On the other hand, it is evident that Judge Eileen 81 00:06:06,115 --> 00:06:09,715 Speaker 1: Cannon does not know how to read. On May ten, 82 00:06:10,475 --> 00:06:13,795 Speaker 1: the National Archives wrote to Trump's lawyers and stated the 83 00:06:13,835 --> 00:06:18,115 Speaker 1: White House, the real one with the real president in it, 84 00:06:18,195 --> 00:06:21,915 Speaker 1: was deferring to the Archives and would not invoke executive 85 00:06:21,915 --> 00:06:26,195 Speaker 1: privilege on the documents trump stole. And that letter was 86 00:06:26,235 --> 00:06:28,955 Speaker 1: not leaked by the Department of Justice. It was leaked 87 00:06:28,995 --> 00:06:33,075 Speaker 1: by Trump flunkey John Solomon. It is clear as a bell. 88 00:06:33,715 --> 00:06:37,595 Speaker 1: It says Biden is not invoking executive privilege on the 89 00:06:37,595 --> 00:06:43,235 Speaker 1: documents trump stole. In her ruling yesterday, the quote judge 90 00:06:43,275 --> 00:06:47,875 Speaker 1: insists the incumbent president has not upheld or withdrawn such 91 00:06:47,915 --> 00:06:52,235 Speaker 1: an assertion of executive privilege. She's wrong on the basic 92 00:06:52,475 --> 00:06:55,715 Speaker 1: established facts of the case. She is a political hack 93 00:06:56,115 --> 00:07:02,235 Speaker 1: paying back the corrupt politician who put her in her robes. Now, practically, 94 00:07:03,315 --> 00:07:07,195 Speaker 1: what do and what can we do to stop a 95 00:07:07,315 --> 00:07:10,515 Speaker 1: lawless madman bent on the overthrow of the government of 96 00:07:10,555 --> 00:07:14,035 Speaker 1: the United States, to say nothing of a lawless judge 97 00:07:14,115 --> 00:07:18,555 Speaker 1: and the lawless cult behind her. These crises will not 98 00:07:18,675 --> 00:07:22,995 Speaker 1: be resolved with the ordinary institutionalized brain dead slow walk, 99 00:07:23,355 --> 00:07:26,075 Speaker 1: slow motion. We have all the time in the world 100 00:07:26,115 --> 00:07:30,795 Speaker 1: machinations of the Department of Justice. That department must act 101 00:07:30,795 --> 00:07:32,795 Speaker 1: with the severity and the swiftness we would expect if 102 00:07:32,795 --> 00:07:35,195 Speaker 1: the United States had been invaded by a foreign nation 103 00:07:35,475 --> 00:07:38,475 Speaker 1: and its soldiers were being welcomed and aided and escorted 104 00:07:38,595 --> 00:07:43,195 Speaker 1: by spies and Turncoats and Trumps within this country. There 105 00:07:43,195 --> 00:07:47,115 Speaker 1: are six steps which immediately come to mind. First, it 106 00:07:47,155 --> 00:07:51,355 Speaker 1: goes without question that impeachment proceedings must immediately begin against 107 00:07:51,435 --> 00:07:55,275 Speaker 1: Judge Cannon, and the Department of Justice must investigate what contact, 108 00:07:55,275 --> 00:07:58,155 Speaker 1: if any, she had with Trump and or his emissaries. 109 00:07:58,195 --> 00:08:04,075 Speaker 1: Before there is how shall I phrase this swirling allegations 110 00:08:04,075 --> 00:08:08,475 Speaker 1: of bias against Canon? Why I even heard someone suggesting 111 00:08:08,755 --> 00:08:12,515 Speaker 1: she might be guilty of obstruction of justice? It may 112 00:08:12,595 --> 00:08:15,155 Speaker 1: or may not work, But a dictum of Muhammad Ali 113 00:08:15,235 --> 00:08:18,035 Speaker 1: applies here. When the other guy comes into punch, you 114 00:08:18,515 --> 00:08:21,475 Speaker 1: make sure it hurts them at least as much, if 115 00:08:21,515 --> 00:08:24,515 Speaker 1: not more, then it hurts you. If we cannot impeach 116 00:08:24,635 --> 00:08:29,355 Speaker 1: Judge Cannon, punish her for her perfidy. The second step 117 00:08:29,355 --> 00:08:31,875 Speaker 1: that can be taken is obviously, the Department of Homeland 118 00:08:31,915 --> 00:08:35,475 Speaker 1: Security has previously defined terrorist organizations as those wishing to 119 00:08:35,515 --> 00:08:38,115 Speaker 1: overthrow the government of the United States of America or 120 00:08:38,115 --> 00:08:42,675 Speaker 1: the rule of law here, or both. Clearly, that defines 121 00:08:43,075 --> 00:08:49,915 Speaker 1: the Federalist Society. Justices Alito, Barrett Gorsih, Kavanaugh Thomas, Federalist Society, 122 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:54,795 Speaker 1: Senator Ted Cruz Federalist Society. Senator Holly of the Infamous 123 00:08:54,795 --> 00:08:59,475 Speaker 1: Eternal raised fist of support to the January six insurrectionists, 124 00:09:00,035 --> 00:09:04,315 Speaker 1: Federalist Society that would be proudly corrupt. Attorney General Jeffrey 125 00:09:04,315 --> 00:09:09,635 Speaker 1: Clark Federalist Society, John Eastman Federalist Society, the Heller Second 126 00:09:09,635 --> 00:09:16,035 Speaker 1: Amendment Lie, Federalist Society, Citizens United Federalist Society. What terrorist 127 00:09:16,155 --> 00:09:19,675 Speaker 1: group has done more practical harm to representative government in 128 00:09:19,675 --> 00:09:23,555 Speaker 1: this country than the Federalist Society? Call it what it is. 129 00:09:23,915 --> 00:09:31,155 Speaker 1: Declare the Federalist Society a terrorist organization. The third step 130 00:09:31,235 --> 00:09:33,555 Speaker 1: that can be taken. Last week, Ryan Goodman of just 131 00:09:33,715 --> 00:09:36,875 Speaker 1: Security noted that when the Department of Justice answered Trump's 132 00:09:36,875 --> 00:09:41,835 Speaker 1: lies at his distortions in his Special Master smoke screen filing. 133 00:09:42,395 --> 00:09:45,555 Speaker 1: The d o J corrected Trump's specific lie that the 134 00:09:45,635 --> 00:09:49,355 Speaker 1: May e eleventh Grand jury subpoena demanded only quote, a 135 00:09:49,435 --> 00:09:51,795 Speaker 1: review of boxes moved from the White House to Florida. 136 00:09:52,395 --> 00:09:55,475 Speaker 1: The subpoena, the d o J said, was not so limited, 137 00:09:55,515 --> 00:09:59,115 Speaker 1: instead seeking any and all documents or writings in the 138 00:09:59,235 --> 00:10:05,275 Speaker 1: custody or control of Trump, without limitation to where they 139 00:10:05,315 --> 00:10:10,475 Speaker 1: were stored unquote. Do you see it yet? Ms? Goodman wrote, 140 00:10:11,235 --> 00:10:14,795 Speaker 1: the d o J made a large point out of 141 00:10:14,835 --> 00:10:17,915 Speaker 1: the fact that the grand jury subpoena demanded all documents 142 00:10:18,075 --> 00:10:24,275 Speaker 1: with classified markings in Trump's custody or control, not just Florida, 143 00:10:25,515 --> 00:10:29,235 Speaker 1: not just Florida. So this is simple too. The Department 144 00:10:29,275 --> 00:10:32,155 Speaker 1: of Justice must now get a search warrant and search 145 00:10:32,275 --> 00:10:36,355 Speaker 1: Trump's golf club and cemetery at Bedminster, New Jersey. And 146 00:10:36,435 --> 00:10:38,595 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice must now get a search warrant 147 00:10:38,595 --> 00:10:41,395 Speaker 1: in search Trump's home and offices at his building on 148 00:10:41,475 --> 00:10:43,835 Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue in New York City. And if it needs 149 00:10:43,835 --> 00:10:46,395 Speaker 1: any help on the ladder, I am right around the corner. 150 00:10:46,635 --> 00:10:51,315 Speaker 1: Just call the fourth step the January sixth committee. How 151 00:10:51,315 --> 00:10:53,715 Speaker 1: many hearings does it have planned? For this month, double 152 00:10:53,795 --> 00:10:57,875 Speaker 1: the number put Trump's first attempt to overthrow the government 153 00:10:58,035 --> 00:11:05,395 Speaker 1: on TV every goddamn day. The fifth step President Biden 154 00:11:05,435 --> 00:11:08,475 Speaker 1: should take his Philadelphia's speech to the nation last Thursday 155 00:11:08,515 --> 00:11:12,675 Speaker 1: and deliver it again, because in just the four days 156 00:11:12,675 --> 00:11:15,315 Speaker 1: since the President spoke, not only has every word of 157 00:11:15,315 --> 00:11:19,475 Speaker 1: what he said been proved and proved again to be true, 158 00:11:19,955 --> 00:11:22,835 Speaker 1: and now proved once more by Trump's latest demand for 159 00:11:23,115 --> 00:11:27,995 Speaker 1: armed revolution. But while critics and fawning journalistic dilettants are 160 00:11:28,115 --> 00:11:31,515 Speaker 1: still wringing their hands over the presence of a couple 161 00:11:31,555 --> 00:11:36,035 Speaker 1: of marines behind the podium, it turns out that President 162 00:11:36,075 --> 00:11:40,155 Speaker 1: Biden gave that speech while walking on eggshells, while bending 163 00:11:40,195 --> 00:11:45,035 Speaker 1: over backwards, while speaking in pleasant, gentle euphemisms. Do not, 164 00:11:45,315 --> 00:11:49,035 Speaker 1: Mr Presidents say, Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans represent 165 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:52,235 Speaker 1: an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic? 166 00:11:52,475 --> 00:11:56,555 Speaker 1: Dropped the sugarcoating Mr President say, What's true? Donald Trump 167 00:11:56,635 --> 00:11:59,875 Speaker 1: and the Maga Republicans are at this hour attempting to 168 00:12:00,075 --> 00:12:03,595 Speaker 1: overthrow the duly elected government of the United States and 169 00:12:03,795 --> 00:12:09,035 Speaker 1: destroy the very foundations of our republic. Do not stop, 170 00:12:09,155 --> 00:12:13,275 Speaker 1: Mr President at Maga Republicans do not respect the Constitution. 171 00:12:13,315 --> 00:12:15,595 Speaker 1: They do not believe in the rule of law. They 172 00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:18,275 Speaker 1: do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse 173 00:12:18,355 --> 00:12:20,955 Speaker 1: to accept the results of a free election. Tell them 174 00:12:20,995 --> 00:12:25,555 Speaker 1: what is true today. Maga Republicans are working to suspend 175 00:12:25,675 --> 00:12:29,155 Speaker 1: and rewrite the Constitution. They do not believe in the 176 00:12:29,275 --> 00:12:32,075 Speaker 1: rule of law, They do not recognize the will of 177 00:12:32,075 --> 00:12:35,755 Speaker 1: the people. They refuse to conduct free elections. They have 178 00:12:35,835 --> 00:12:39,635 Speaker 1: corrupted the courts and have bought judges and prostituted justice 179 00:12:39,795 --> 00:12:45,955 Speaker 1: and defended treason by Trump speak plainly, Mr President not. 180 00:12:46,675 --> 00:12:49,915 Speaker 1: They see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer 181 00:12:49,995 --> 00:12:54,915 Speaker 1: power after the election as preparation for the four elections. 182 00:12:55,035 --> 00:12:58,235 Speaker 1: Spell it out. They see their MAGA failure to stop 183 00:12:58,235 --> 00:13:01,835 Speaker 1: a peaceful transfer power after the election as an excuse 184 00:13:02,595 --> 00:13:07,035 Speaker 1: to invalidate a lawful election today and sees power today 185 00:13:07,075 --> 00:13:11,355 Speaker 1: and install Trump as unelected dictator today and maybe kill 186 00:13:11,515 --> 00:13:17,315 Speaker 1: people today and dispense Mr President with the motionless marines 187 00:13:17,395 --> 00:13:22,435 Speaker 1: in the background, talk the language these MAGA insurrectionists, cowards understand. 188 00:13:22,635 --> 00:13:26,835 Speaker 1: Have the entire goddamn twenty ninth Infantry Division standing behind you. 189 00:13:26,875 --> 00:13:30,555 Speaker 1: I don't care. Maybe they'll get it. Then. The future 190 00:13:30,595 --> 00:13:34,955 Speaker 1: of this country, this democracy, this republic, representative government in 191 00:13:34,995 --> 00:13:38,395 Speaker 1: the United States of America now depends on the following. 192 00:13:38,875 --> 00:13:41,835 Speaker 1: When this creature Trump wins a lawless victory in a 193 00:13:41,835 --> 00:13:44,995 Speaker 1: corrupt court and written by a terrorist judge who is 194 00:13:45,035 --> 00:13:48,315 Speaker 1: in his pocket, and Trump responds by asking his vermin 195 00:13:48,435 --> 00:13:51,515 Speaker 1: cult quote, are they going to change the results of 196 00:13:51,555 --> 00:13:57,235 Speaker 1: the presidential election? We need the maga's editionists to quake 197 00:13:57,675 --> 00:14:01,275 Speaker 1: in fear. We need them to answer, don't look at me. 198 00:14:01,595 --> 00:14:05,075 Speaker 1: I'm loyal to this country, whether they are or they 199 00:14:05,075 --> 00:14:10,355 Speaker 1: are not. And then there is a sixth and last step. 200 00:14:11,795 --> 00:14:16,675 Speaker 1: In the last seven years, Trump has slowly devolved from 201 00:14:16,715 --> 00:14:19,155 Speaker 1: being the worst threat to this country since Huey Long, 202 00:14:20,035 --> 00:14:22,595 Speaker 1: to the worst threat to this country since those who 203 00:14:22,635 --> 00:14:26,155 Speaker 1: called for civil war after the disputed eighteen seventy six election, 204 00:14:26,435 --> 00:14:30,035 Speaker 1: to the worst threat since the actual Civil war, to 205 00:14:30,515 --> 00:14:34,875 Speaker 1: where he is right now, as we stand in front 206 00:14:34,915 --> 00:14:40,995 Speaker 1: of this abyss. He is the worst threat to representative 207 00:14:41,115 --> 00:14:46,955 Speaker 1: government in our history period. The Department of Justice has 208 00:14:46,955 --> 00:14:50,675 Speaker 1: the goods on Trump on espionage. It has had one 209 00:14:50,715 --> 00:14:53,635 Speaker 1: month to analyze it. No judge can order it to 210 00:14:53,755 --> 00:14:57,995 Speaker 1: forget what it has seen. Indict Trump, Arrest Trump. If 211 00:14:58,035 --> 00:15:02,315 Speaker 1: you have to drag Trump off by his feet. He 212 00:15:02,475 --> 00:15:05,235 Speaker 1: is a clear and present danger to the this country, 213 00:15:05,395 --> 00:15:09,515 Speaker 1: and every minute we wait gives him more time to 214 00:15:09,715 --> 00:15:15,475 Speaker 1: grow and more suckers to harvest and corrupt and deploy. 215 00:15:17,115 --> 00:15:34,075 Speaker 1: Arrest Trump now while we still can still ahead? Who 216 00:15:34,115 --> 00:15:38,675 Speaker 1: said this? With Hillary Clinton selling but her emails hats 217 00:15:38,715 --> 00:15:41,635 Speaker 1: at thirty dollars of pop, Merrick Garland will have to 218 00:15:41,715 --> 00:15:45,675 Speaker 1: explain the prospect of one politician going to jail while 219 00:15:45,715 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: the other goes retail. Your hint from worse persons. I 220 00:15:51,875 --> 00:15:55,315 Speaker 1: put this idiot on TV Sports. I am hoping you 221 00:15:55,355 --> 00:15:59,035 Speaker 1: are not a Rafa Nadal fan, and I hope you 222 00:15:59,035 --> 00:16:01,475 Speaker 1: are not a Tom broke Off fan. I will tell 223 00:16:01,515 --> 00:16:04,035 Speaker 1: you this story. Once went in and tried to get 224 00:16:04,075 --> 00:16:08,195 Speaker 1: me fired at the behest of the Republican Party. That's next. 225 00:16:08,275 --> 00:16:28,555 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman coming up. Yeah, CNN, 226 00:16:28,755 --> 00:16:33,315 Speaker 1: keep focusing on Biden's marines instead of you know, Trump's 227 00:16:33,315 --> 00:16:36,795 Speaker 1: marines or Trump's you know plan for a dictatorship in 228 00:16:36,835 --> 00:16:40,555 Speaker 1: this country. Looking at you, Brianna Keller. First, in each 229 00:16:40,675 --> 00:16:42,915 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need whom 230 00:16:42,955 --> 00:16:45,955 Speaker 1: you can help. Every dog has its day. Rufio has 231 00:16:45,995 --> 00:16:48,915 Speaker 1: been in the pound at the town of Hempstead in 232 00:16:48,955 --> 00:16:55,115 Speaker 1: New York since February nine pound terrier mix. He was 233 00:16:55,195 --> 00:16:58,155 Speaker 1: used in a puppy mill. He needs a solo dog home. 234 00:16:58,195 --> 00:17:00,995 Speaker 1: He's either nine or ten years old now. The staff 235 00:17:01,035 --> 00:17:03,275 Speaker 1: loves him. They find him laid back and cuddly, and 236 00:17:03,395 --> 00:17:06,275 Speaker 1: his only drawback he gets nervous around new people, so 237 00:17:06,355 --> 00:17:10,075 Speaker 1: he needs time to adjust. But he lived eight years outdoors, 238 00:17:10,115 --> 00:17:12,475 Speaker 1: two years in the shelter, and his whole life has 239 00:17:12,515 --> 00:17:16,515 Speaker 1: been waiting for a human of his own. Adoption At 240 00:17:16,715 --> 00:17:19,795 Speaker 1: t O h mail dot org is their email address. 241 00:17:19,915 --> 00:17:22,115 Speaker 1: Just go to My Feet for Dogs on Twitter at 242 00:17:22,155 --> 00:17:25,475 Speaker 1: Tom Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter and look for my tweet 243 00:17:25,475 --> 00:17:29,675 Speaker 1: about Rufio r u f I O and act accordingly 244 00:17:29,875 --> 00:17:46,235 Speaker 1: and thank you very much. Coming up on countdown Oh 245 00:17:46,355 --> 00:17:49,155 Speaker 1: the day Tom Brokaw tried to get me fired from 246 00:17:49,155 --> 00:17:53,275 Speaker 1: political coverage at MSNBC because he wanted to anchor a 247 00:17:53,395 --> 00:17:56,515 Speaker 1: debate that fell to him after Tim Russer died. It's 248 00:17:56,555 --> 00:17:59,915 Speaker 1: an unhappy story, except ultimately for me because I got 249 00:17:59,915 --> 00:18:02,715 Speaker 1: twenty two million dollars out of it. First postcripts to 250 00:18:02,755 --> 00:18:13,475 Speaker 1: the news, some headlines, some thoughts some snark dateline Wilkes Barry, Pennsylvania, 251 00:18:13,555 --> 00:18:16,835 Speaker 1: if somehow you missed it Joe Biden's points, all of 252 00:18:16,875 --> 00:18:20,515 Speaker 1: them were proved by Trump and his bandshe Cultists at 253 00:18:20,515 --> 00:18:23,595 Speaker 1: their bund rally there. One of the warm up acts 254 00:18:23,635 --> 00:18:26,835 Speaker 1: was a woman named Cynthia Hughes, who runs a support 255 00:18:26,875 --> 00:18:30,675 Speaker 1: group for January six seditionists. Ms. Hughes is not even 256 00:18:30,715 --> 00:18:34,715 Speaker 1: trying to hide the Nazism part. The story she told 257 00:18:35,195 --> 00:18:39,795 Speaker 1: was of her poor persecuted political prisoner convict nephew, Tim Cusanelli, 258 00:18:40,195 --> 00:18:44,795 Speaker 1: who merely caused plays as Hitler wearing the little mustache, 259 00:18:45,075 --> 00:18:48,795 Speaker 1: wearing the slovenly haircut, and saying, quote Hitler should have 260 00:18:48,835 --> 00:18:53,595 Speaker 1: finished the job, but yeah, don't arrest Trump dateline. Also 261 00:18:53,675 --> 00:18:57,275 Speaker 1: Wilkes Barry Trump himself called President She of China smart 262 00:18:57,435 --> 00:19:00,915 Speaker 1: because he rules one point five billion people quote with 263 00:19:00,995 --> 00:19:04,275 Speaker 1: an iron fist. But Trump is no threat to America, 264 00:19:04,315 --> 00:19:08,555 Speaker 1: and yet don't arrest Trump or anything dateline. Wilkes Barry 265 00:19:08,635 --> 00:19:12,675 Speaker 1: Trump invoked Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and insisted without 266 00:19:12,715 --> 00:19:16,675 Speaker 1: any evidence that Fetterman uses illicit drugs, all of them, 267 00:19:16,715 --> 00:19:19,675 Speaker 1: including fentonil even though in the same speech it was 268 00:19:19,715 --> 00:19:22,315 Speaker 1: Trump who said Mark Zuckerberg came to see him at 269 00:19:22,355 --> 00:19:25,595 Speaker 1: the White House last week. And it was Trump who 270 00:19:25,595 --> 00:19:29,395 Speaker 1: has sounded stoned continuously since two thousand fifteen. But yeah, 271 00:19:29,475 --> 00:19:34,515 Speaker 1: don't arrest Trump. Dateline Washington, the Federalist website, posts on 272 00:19:34,555 --> 00:19:38,635 Speaker 1: Trump's theft of classified documents and its possible espionage. The 273 00:19:38,675 --> 00:19:41,875 Speaker 1: headline quote, it would be lunacy to do what d 274 00:19:41,915 --> 00:19:45,075 Speaker 1: o J suggests Trump did with the opening line of 275 00:19:45,115 --> 00:19:47,715 Speaker 1: the story quote. While the theory the d o J 276 00:19:47,915 --> 00:19:51,755 Speaker 1: paint seems simple enough, it just doesn't pass a sanity test. 277 00:19:52,395 --> 00:20:00,395 Speaker 1: Oh oh, so close, there's so close, but that last 278 00:20:00,635 --> 00:20:05,555 Speaker 1: bolt of electrical energy, it'd be lunacy to d J 279 00:20:05,835 --> 00:20:11,315 Speaker 1: suggests Trump did, which means which means come on, just 280 00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:17,235 Speaker 1: come on, get out of the slime and just come on. Ah, 281 00:20:17,515 --> 00:20:20,715 Speaker 1: last bolt of electrical energy cannot jump across that last 282 00:20:20,795 --> 00:20:25,035 Speaker 1: tiny synapse. So close. Yeah, but known arrest Trump? And 283 00:20:25,155 --> 00:20:29,435 Speaker 1: dateline London, London. How did this get here? The vote 284 00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:32,675 Speaker 1: is in and the new leader of the UK Conservative 285 00:20:32,715 --> 00:20:35,835 Speaker 1: Party and thus the country's unelected prime minister, the latest 286 00:20:35,875 --> 00:20:39,435 Speaker 1: one is Liz Trust. She's the one who facially resembles 287 00:20:39,435 --> 00:20:42,635 Speaker 1: the evil version of Tweetie Bird from the Looney Tunes 288 00:20:42,635 --> 00:20:46,315 Speaker 1: cartoon Hide and Go Tweet. She is the fourth Prime 289 00:20:46,355 --> 00:20:50,075 Speaker 1: Minister of England since two thousand sixteen. The previous four 290 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:53,435 Speaker 1: prime ministers had lasted a total of thirty two years 291 00:20:53,475 --> 00:20:57,555 Speaker 1: among them. So it's official Britain has run out of 292 00:20:57,835 --> 00:21:16,955 Speaker 1: prime ministers. This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. 293 00:21:17,555 --> 00:21:24,555 Speaker 1: This is countdown with Keith in Sports. Well, if your 294 00:21:24,675 --> 00:21:30,315 Speaker 1: second favorite tennis player meon Serena Williams, was Raphael Nadal. Sorry, 295 00:21:30,675 --> 00:21:33,555 Speaker 1: After winning thirty one of thirty three matches against Americans 296 00:21:33,555 --> 00:21:36,075 Speaker 1: at major tournaments, twenty seven and a row against Americans 297 00:21:36,115 --> 00:21:38,675 Speaker 1: dating back to two thousand five, twenty two in a 298 00:21:38,795 --> 00:21:42,155 Speaker 1: row against anybody at a Grand Slam, Nadal lost to 299 00:21:42,275 --> 00:21:45,755 Speaker 1: twenty second seed and twenty six ranked Francis t Fo 300 00:21:45,955 --> 00:21:48,435 Speaker 1: six four four six six four six three at the 301 00:21:48,475 --> 00:21:51,795 Speaker 1: US Open. Well done for him, said Nadal afterwards. He 302 00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:55,395 Speaker 1: was better than me, just as important. A tennis guy 303 00:21:55,435 --> 00:21:58,715 Speaker 1: reported from the US Open that there to cheer t 304 00:21:58,915 --> 00:22:02,835 Speaker 1: Fo was the singer's seal bearing a U s Open credential. 305 00:22:03,115 --> 00:22:06,595 Speaker 1: All media credentials and they're similar credentials list first and 306 00:22:06,715 --> 00:22:10,155 Speaker 1: last name, So as Kenny Doocey tweeted the first name 307 00:22:10,155 --> 00:22:15,755 Speaker 1: on the credential reads Seal. The last name Seal, It says, 308 00:22:16,235 --> 00:22:21,195 Speaker 1: Seal Seal. Baseball. Aaron Judge hits his fifty fourth homer 309 00:22:21,235 --> 00:22:23,315 Speaker 1: and his Yankees beat the Twins five to two, and 310 00:22:23,395 --> 00:22:25,955 Speaker 1: Judges on a pace for sixty five home runs, which 311 00:22:25,955 --> 00:22:29,515 Speaker 1: would break the recognized record for most in a season 312 00:22:29,555 --> 00:22:32,195 Speaker 1: sixty one by Roger Marris of the Yankees in one 313 00:22:32,275 --> 00:22:35,795 Speaker 1: for a sixty two game season, sixty by Babe Ruth 314 00:22:35,835 --> 00:22:40,475 Speaker 1: of the Yankees in four game season. If you think 315 00:22:40,755 --> 00:22:44,355 Speaker 1: the actual record belongs to Barry Bonds, you live in 316 00:22:44,355 --> 00:22:47,555 Speaker 1: the San Francisco Bay area. And if you think the 317 00:22:47,595 --> 00:22:52,635 Speaker 1: actual record belongs to Mark McGuire, you are Mark McGuire. 318 00:22:53,635 --> 00:22:56,995 Speaker 1: And we have a follow up to the great Oakland 319 00:22:57,075 --> 00:23:01,715 Speaker 1: Can't Beat Fun at the Old Ballyard Caper. The police 320 00:23:01,715 --> 00:23:04,595 Speaker 1: department there is released images of the couple who alleged 321 00:23:04,835 --> 00:23:08,595 Speaker 1: engaged in a sex act at the A's game on 322 00:23:08,715 --> 00:23:13,395 Speaker 1: August one. The Oakland Police Department, it said, is releasing 323 00:23:13,395 --> 00:23:16,755 Speaker 1: this photo and hopes the community can help identify these 324 00:23:16,795 --> 00:23:20,875 Speaker 1: two individuals. Well, well, okay, but in the photo you release, 325 00:23:20,915 --> 00:23:40,075 Speaker 1: they're wearing clothes thank you, Nancy Faust. If I did 326 00:23:40,075 --> 00:23:42,195 Speaker 1: and convicted, the couple could face a fine of a 327 00:23:42,235 --> 00:23:44,475 Speaker 1: thousand dollars and up to six months in jail, plus 328 00:23:44,475 --> 00:23:48,155 Speaker 1: an additional public scolding for actually going to an Oakland 329 00:23:48,155 --> 00:23:52,435 Speaker 1: A's game. And final Jeopardy is almost never about sports, 330 00:23:52,475 --> 00:23:55,635 Speaker 1: but there it was last night. Quote one, this Hall 331 00:23:55,675 --> 00:24:00,435 Speaker 1: of Fame athlete launched oh Maha Productions, and I flashed 332 00:24:00,435 --> 00:24:03,155 Speaker 1: back to the two times I appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy. 333 00:24:03,475 --> 00:24:06,235 Speaker 1: I was a celebrity. Then it was a sports episode 334 00:24:06,235 --> 00:24:09,435 Speaker 1: with Bob Costas and then Sports Center anchor Robin Roberts 335 00:24:09,475 --> 00:24:13,635 Speaker 1: in and sure enough, this picture won twenty games six 336 00:24:13,715 --> 00:24:16,635 Speaker 1: straight years in the fifties, and Bob and I, who 337 00:24:16,755 --> 00:24:19,035 Speaker 1: know a little baseball between us, looked at each other 338 00:24:19,155 --> 00:24:21,795 Speaker 1: and rolled our eyes and just stood back and pointed 339 00:24:21,795 --> 00:24:25,075 Speaker 1: to Robin, and she kind of tentatively answered, who is 340 00:24:25,435 --> 00:24:29,035 Speaker 1: Robin Roberts And then I did a politics edition against 341 00:24:29,075 --> 00:24:31,315 Speaker 1: Al Franken and Gretchen Carlson. It must have been two 342 00:24:31,395 --> 00:24:35,155 Speaker 1: thousand four, and one of the categories was I swear 343 00:24:35,755 --> 00:24:40,275 Speaker 1: prime time presidential players, and Alex Trebek then explained it 344 00:24:40,315 --> 00:24:43,755 Speaker 1: was Saturday Night Live sketches about presidents, and I looked 345 00:24:43,755 --> 00:24:47,115 Speaker 1: at Al, who had been appearing on, and re writing for, 346 00:24:47,355 --> 00:24:50,515 Speaker 1: and producing Saturday Night Live, off and on for thirty years. 347 00:24:50,515 --> 00:24:53,995 Speaker 1: At that point I went come on and Al just shrugged, 348 00:24:53,995 --> 00:24:57,435 Speaker 1: and all the questions were about sketches that he had 349 00:24:57,435 --> 00:25:00,715 Speaker 1: written for Saturday Night Live. So I said to Trebec, 350 00:25:01,115 --> 00:25:04,795 Speaker 1: listen Trebek in Double Jeopardy, one of the categories us 351 00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:09,475 Speaker 1: to be Sports Center anchors or I'm leaving. Well, it wasn't, 352 00:25:09,675 --> 00:25:12,035 Speaker 1: by the way to the final Jeopardy question last night 353 00:25:12,235 --> 00:25:16,035 Speaker 1: in this Hall of Fame, athlete launched Omaha Productions and 354 00:25:16,115 --> 00:25:33,755 Speaker 1: one guy responded, who is nature Boy? Rick Flair still 355 00:25:33,795 --> 00:25:36,475 Speaker 1: ahead on countdown? Oh. The Republicans put out a nine 356 00:25:36,555 --> 00:25:39,035 Speaker 1: eleven snuff film in the middle of their convention. They 357 00:25:39,075 --> 00:25:42,515 Speaker 1: televised it on all networks. So I apologized, and Tom 358 00:25:42,595 --> 00:25:46,115 Speaker 1: Brokaw sided with the Republicans, and all I got out 359 00:25:46,155 --> 00:25:49,635 Speaker 1: of it was a lot of money. Where's the daily 360 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:52,835 Speaker 1: roundup of the miscrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens 361 00:25:52,835 --> 00:25:56,275 Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world. Le Bronze 362 00:25:56,315 --> 00:26:00,875 Speaker 1: the election denying nut job, Christina Karamo, the actual Republican 363 00:26:00,955 --> 00:26:04,115 Speaker 1: nominee for Secretary of State in Michigan. Between the delusions 364 00:26:04,155 --> 00:26:09,715 Speaker 1: she has about something about wizards and sex and demons. 365 00:26:10,195 --> 00:26:13,155 Speaker 1: I don't know anymore. Anyway, the adjective in question may 366 00:26:13,195 --> 00:26:16,395 Speaker 1: be truer than we even thought. Court filings from last 367 00:26:16,475 --> 00:26:18,555 Speaker 1: year have been revealed now in which her ex husband 368 00:26:18,555 --> 00:26:21,315 Speaker 1: says when he told her he wanted a divorce, Karamo 369 00:26:21,395 --> 00:26:24,915 Speaker 1: tried to quote wrestle control of the vehicle while the 370 00:26:24,995 --> 00:26:27,275 Speaker 1: father was driving with the children in the back and 371 00:26:27,355 --> 00:26:34,235 Speaker 1: crash it, specifically stating quote effort, I'll kill us all unquote. Well, 372 00:26:34,875 --> 00:26:37,275 Speaker 1: now we know where Trump found this one. Trying to 373 00:26:37,315 --> 00:26:40,115 Speaker 1: grab the wheel while somebody else's driving seems to be 374 00:26:40,155 --> 00:26:43,435 Speaker 1: the minimum requirement to join the good old Trump organization. 375 00:26:44,795 --> 00:26:49,595 Speaker 1: Lebronze to Jonathan Turley. Turley actually wrote this, and The 376 00:26:49,675 --> 00:26:52,635 Speaker 1: Hill actually published it, and then he actually promoted it. Thus, 377 00:26:52,755 --> 00:26:56,955 Speaker 1: Lee quote with Hillary Clinton selling but her emails hats 378 00:26:56,995 --> 00:26:59,795 Speaker 1: at thirty dollars of pop Merrick Garland will have to 379 00:26:59,835 --> 00:27:03,555 Speaker 1: explain the prospect of one politician going to jail while 380 00:27:03,595 --> 00:27:10,315 Speaker 1: the other goes retail. There's a lot of journalism stuff 381 00:27:10,315 --> 00:27:12,955 Speaker 1: that I've done that I need to apologize to you for. 382 00:27:14,075 --> 00:27:20,155 Speaker 1: But putting Jonathan Turley on television. That's that's probably the worst. 383 00:27:21,195 --> 00:27:25,195 Speaker 1: I feel great shame. But speaking which our winner, Brianna 384 00:27:25,315 --> 00:27:27,955 Speaker 1: Keller of CNN and all the others who were cheated 385 00:27:27,995 --> 00:27:30,555 Speaker 1: when ethics were handed out but got doubles when they 386 00:27:30,595 --> 00:27:35,235 Speaker 1: distributed journalistic both sides is him. It has been several 387 00:27:35,275 --> 00:27:39,035 Speaker 1: hours now since she has said or written something about 388 00:27:39,035 --> 00:27:42,355 Speaker 1: how because she's married to a Green Beret, the real 389 00:27:42,555 --> 00:27:46,035 Speaker 1: importance of the Biden speech Thursday was the presence of 390 00:27:46,115 --> 00:27:49,355 Speaker 1: Marines in the background. What a heinous crime that was, 391 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:53,915 Speaker 1: as opposed to the whole you know, trying to stop 392 00:27:53,995 --> 00:27:57,075 Speaker 1: fascism and trying to say freedom of the press for 393 00:27:57,235 --> 00:28:00,755 Speaker 1: people like Brianna Keller who foolishly think it will always 394 00:28:00,755 --> 00:28:03,435 Speaker 1: just sort of be there forever and ever. So let's 395 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:07,875 Speaker 1: hit that big marine controversy and ignore the Trump campaign 396 00:28:07,915 --> 00:28:11,395 Speaker 1: commercial in which two Marines not only appear, but they 397 00:28:11,395 --> 00:28:14,755 Speaker 1: actually opened the door for him in a commercial for 398 00:28:14,835 --> 00:28:18,915 Speaker 1: the Trump Fascist Party. And this nitwit Keller then writes 399 00:28:18,955 --> 00:28:22,355 Speaker 1: a piece for the CNN website complaining that I called 400 00:28:22,435 --> 00:28:25,995 Speaker 1: for her to be fired when her own new CNN boss, 401 00:28:26,355 --> 00:28:29,315 Speaker 1: one of the people who helped to fund Trump's January 402 00:28:29,395 --> 00:28:32,475 Speaker 1: six rally the new Guy who throws around all the 403 00:28:32,555 --> 00:28:36,675 Speaker 1: power at CNN. He got Brian Stelter and John Harwood 404 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:41,075 Speaker 1: now fired for political reasons purely, and this Keller's idiotic 405 00:28:41,115 --> 00:28:45,915 Speaker 1: public protest consisted of just quote Harwood. You will be 406 00:28:45,955 --> 00:28:50,235 Speaker 1: missed at CNN, but go on complain about the Marines 407 00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:53,275 Speaker 1: behind Biden when your own bosses are picking off the 408 00:28:53,315 --> 00:28:56,475 Speaker 1: people around you at CNN. And someday, no matter how 409 00:28:56,515 --> 00:28:59,475 Speaker 1: hard you try to please them, they will still decide 410 00:28:59,475 --> 00:29:03,075 Speaker 1: you have been insufficiently pro Trump, and they will fire 411 00:29:03,155 --> 00:29:07,035 Speaker 1: you too, and you will be the last person who 412 00:29:07,155 --> 00:29:13,555 Speaker 1: saw it coming. Brianna Keller of CNN Today's Worst Person 413 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:32,675 Speaker 1: and the World Google finally our number one story on 414 00:29:32,715 --> 00:29:36,315 Speaker 1: the countdown in my favorite topic me, I missed the 415 00:29:36,315 --> 00:29:39,555 Speaker 1: exact anniversary by a day, but it's close enough. The 416 00:29:39,635 --> 00:29:43,275 Speaker 1: demand for spots in the Chase Stadium press box that 417 00:29:43,395 --> 00:29:45,715 Speaker 1: night was so great that there was a signed seating. 418 00:29:46,115 --> 00:29:48,595 Speaker 1: I had no real reason to be there, but as usual, 419 00:29:48,675 --> 00:29:50,755 Speaker 1: the New York Mets took care of me, and so 420 00:29:50,875 --> 00:29:53,315 Speaker 1: on Friday, the fifth of September two tho eight, I 421 00:29:53,355 --> 00:29:57,115 Speaker 1: was shoulder to shoulder with reporter friends watching the Mets 422 00:29:57,155 --> 00:29:59,715 Speaker 1: begin to blow their three game Pennant race lead against 423 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:02,595 Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Philly Sorry Vets fans for bringing this up again. 424 00:30:03,195 --> 00:30:06,195 Speaker 1: Brett Myers had just druck out New York's David Wright 425 00:30:06,355 --> 00:30:10,155 Speaker 1: looking when my phone rang. It was my agent, Jane Sage. 426 00:30:10,675 --> 00:30:13,835 Speaker 1: They just called. She said, flatly, you and Matthews have 427 00:30:13,915 --> 00:30:16,795 Speaker 1: been fired from anchoring the presidential debates because of what 428 00:30:16,915 --> 00:30:21,795 Speaker 1: you said. What I had said had been said three 429 00:30:21,915 --> 00:30:25,195 Speaker 1: nights previously. Chris Matthews and I were co anchoring the 430 00:30:25,275 --> 00:30:29,635 Speaker 1: Republican Convention on MSNBC. He was there in Minneapolis. I 431 00:30:29,675 --> 00:30:32,275 Speaker 1: was in the studios in New York, ostensibly so I 432 00:30:32,275 --> 00:30:35,595 Speaker 1: could also anchor hurricane coverage, although it was pretty clear 433 00:30:35,635 --> 00:30:37,235 Speaker 1: that at least half the reason I was not in 434 00:30:37,315 --> 00:30:41,515 Speaker 1: Minneapolis was because the Republicans had threatened NBC or said 435 00:30:41,515 --> 00:30:44,675 Speaker 1: they couldn't guarantee my safety or something like that, and 436 00:30:44,995 --> 00:30:49,595 Speaker 1: NBC folded. So I was the one during MSNBC's coverage 437 00:30:49,595 --> 00:30:52,195 Speaker 1: of the two thousand eight Republican Convention who had to 438 00:30:52,235 --> 00:30:55,475 Speaker 1: throw it to a video they were introducing that we 439 00:30:55,555 --> 00:30:58,715 Speaker 1: had been told by the Republicans was a quote tribute 440 00:30:59,355 --> 00:31:02,355 Speaker 1: to the dead of nine eleven. It was in fact 441 00:31:02,715 --> 00:31:06,355 Speaker 1: a snuff film. All of the images that all of 442 00:31:06,355 --> 00:31:09,435 Speaker 1: the networks had stopped showing within weeks or even days 443 00:31:09,475 --> 00:31:13,515 Speaker 1: of the attacks, all of those images were in this video. 444 00:31:13,635 --> 00:31:16,675 Speaker 1: People jumping and falling to their deaths from the World 445 00:31:16,755 --> 00:31:20,835 Speaker 1: Trade Center on nine eleven, endless replays of the planes 446 00:31:20,915 --> 00:31:26,035 Speaker 1: hitting the towers, dismembered bodies in the plaza, the building collapses, 447 00:31:26,235 --> 00:31:29,235 Speaker 1: the equally terrifying scenes at the Pentagon, and all with 448 00:31:29,355 --> 00:31:34,555 Speaker 1: a grotesque Robert Davy voiceover emphasizing that this was all 449 00:31:34,635 --> 00:31:39,155 Speaker 1: the Democrats fault. The message was simple, elect Obama and 450 00:31:39,235 --> 00:31:44,315 Speaker 1: you will die like this. I was angry, just on 451 00:31:44,315 --> 00:31:46,675 Speaker 1: that base level. For the five and a half years 452 00:31:46,675 --> 00:31:49,075 Speaker 1: I had been back at MSNBC, we had been rigorous 453 00:31:49,115 --> 00:31:52,475 Speaker 1: about not showing any of that video. There were rules 454 00:31:52,515 --> 00:31:55,115 Speaker 1: that if we had to for some reason, we should 455 00:31:55,315 --> 00:31:57,875 Speaker 1: show only the skill images, and even then only with 456 00:31:57,915 --> 00:32:01,275 Speaker 1: extensive warnings to the viewers. But I knew from my 457 00:32:01,355 --> 00:32:04,195 Speaker 1: conversations with the president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin, who had 458 00:32:04,195 --> 00:32:06,595 Speaker 1: only known for twenty eight years at that point, that 459 00:32:06,715 --> 00:32:09,635 Speaker 1: he would insist that on the scene in Minneapolis, Matthews 460 00:32:09,915 --> 00:32:12,275 Speaker 1: and Tom broke Aw, whose career at NBC I had 461 00:32:12,315 --> 00:32:16,035 Speaker 1: resurrected after Brian Williams had buried him alive two years earlier, 462 00:32:16,275 --> 00:32:20,155 Speaker 1: that one or both of them would rebuke the GOP 463 00:32:20,395 --> 00:32:22,875 Speaker 1: for showing not a nine eleven tribute, but, as I 464 00:32:22,915 --> 00:32:27,035 Speaker 1: just said, a nine eleven snuff film. The video ended, 465 00:32:27,075 --> 00:32:30,075 Speaker 1: and we came out to Brokaw with Matthews, and Brokaw 466 00:32:30,355 --> 00:32:35,395 Speaker 1: kind of coughed, and Matthews said wow. And he turned 467 00:32:35,395 --> 00:32:38,435 Speaker 1: to Brokaw and said, in that loose fire hose delivery 468 00:32:38,475 --> 00:32:42,115 Speaker 1: of his tom that kind of underscoring terrorism. Big thing 469 00:32:42,155 --> 00:32:45,555 Speaker 1: with Republican says they try to stop Obama. Brokaw droned 470 00:32:45,595 --> 00:32:51,475 Speaker 1: on approvingly, the Republicans sneaking a snuff film of band 471 00:32:51,635 --> 00:32:55,875 Speaker 1: video onto MSNBC and by the way, also onto CNN, 472 00:32:55,875 --> 00:33:00,115 Speaker 1: onto NBC, onto CBS, onto ABC without any warning. That 473 00:33:00,235 --> 00:33:04,355 Speaker 1: was not mentioned by Brokaw or Matthews. Back to New 474 00:33:04,395 --> 00:33:08,115 Speaker 1: York Keith, I was supposed to add Libertaz about what 475 00:33:08,115 --> 00:33:10,595 Speaker 1: we were expecting from the Republican convention for the rest 476 00:33:10,635 --> 00:33:12,995 Speaker 1: of the night and then throw to a commercial instead, 477 00:33:13,035 --> 00:33:15,315 Speaker 1: I said, and this is a paraphrase, the original tape 478 00:33:15,475 --> 00:33:19,075 Speaker 1: disappeared that night that before we moved on. I felt 479 00:33:19,075 --> 00:33:22,075 Speaker 1: I needed to apologize that we at MSNBC and for 480 00:33:22,115 --> 00:33:25,955 Speaker 1: that matter, NBC News, had extremely strict rules about not 481 00:33:26,075 --> 00:33:29,235 Speaker 1: showing that video. The Republicans had just shown you without 482 00:33:29,275 --> 00:33:32,915 Speaker 1: any warning, without any context, and we certainly would not 483 00:33:32,955 --> 00:33:35,835 Speaker 1: have shown the horror and death and blamed it on 484 00:33:35,875 --> 00:33:37,715 Speaker 1: the Democrats, or for that matter, blamed it on on 485 00:33:37,755 --> 00:33:39,355 Speaker 1: the Republicans. I said, if we had done such a 486 00:33:39,395 --> 00:33:42,795 Speaker 1: thing ourselves, there would have been people fired at NBC News. 487 00:33:43,875 --> 00:33:46,955 Speaker 1: The public program the GOP provided said that was going 488 00:33:46,995 --> 00:33:49,595 Speaker 1: to be a nine eleven tribute film, I said, and 489 00:33:49,675 --> 00:33:52,475 Speaker 1: so did the private conversations with the network, which included 490 00:33:52,515 --> 00:33:55,155 Speaker 1: the reminder from NBC and MSNBC that we had rules 491 00:33:55,155 --> 00:33:58,035 Speaker 1: against showing the scenes of the horrible death and mutilation 492 00:33:58,075 --> 00:34:02,475 Speaker 1: and destruction. So I apologized on behalf of whoever trusted 493 00:34:02,475 --> 00:34:05,555 Speaker 1: the Republicans to live up to their word that MSNBC 494 00:34:05,715 --> 00:34:08,555 Speaker 1: viewers were forced to see the video our network had 495 00:34:08,635 --> 00:34:14,155 Speaker 1: long before vowed never to show again. So three nights later, 496 00:34:14,555 --> 00:34:18,035 Speaker 1: without as much as an email, this Griffin guy had 497 00:34:18,075 --> 00:34:21,515 Speaker 1: called my agent and told her I was fired. Matthews 498 00:34:21,595 --> 00:34:27,515 Speaker 1: two from our further coverage of the upcoming McGain Obama debates. 499 00:34:27,555 --> 00:34:29,915 Speaker 1: She related these details to me as I walked down 500 00:34:29,955 --> 00:34:32,275 Speaker 1: the many ramps in the back of Shasee Stadium towards 501 00:34:32,315 --> 00:34:34,915 Speaker 1: the subway. I told her to call Griffin back and 502 00:34:34,915 --> 00:34:37,755 Speaker 1: tell him I had quit on the spot right then, 503 00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:40,475 Speaker 1: and he could work his way out of the ensuing disaster. 504 00:34:41,155 --> 00:34:45,635 Speaker 1: Liberal network MSNBC fires liberal host Ulberman for criticizing conservatives 505 00:34:45,635 --> 00:34:48,795 Speaker 1: for sneaking nine eleven snuff film onto MSNBC. He could 506 00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:51,195 Speaker 1: figure that out any way he wanted, and he could 507 00:34:51,195 --> 00:34:54,715 Speaker 1: hear my response on I don't know, Good Morning America, CBS, 508 00:34:54,755 --> 00:34:57,755 Speaker 1: This Morning, the PBS News Hour, and any other news 509 00:34:57,835 --> 00:35:00,835 Speaker 1: program that bothered to ask me to stop by and talk. 510 00:35:02,435 --> 00:35:05,115 Speaker 1: I phoned my live in girlfriend, Katie turn Holder. I 511 00:35:05,155 --> 00:35:06,995 Speaker 1: was on my way home, and I made a few 512 00:35:06,995 --> 00:35:10,315 Speaker 1: phone calls to friendly voices within the NBC management structure 513 00:35:10,315 --> 00:35:12,795 Speaker 1: and got from them a clear picture of what had happened. 514 00:35:13,235 --> 00:35:16,435 Speaker 1: And despite the spotty cell service along the elevated line 515 00:35:16,475 --> 00:35:18,955 Speaker 1: heading back to Manhattan, I got a message from a 516 00:35:18,955 --> 00:35:22,595 Speaker 1: newspaper reporter friend who neatly tied together all that I 517 00:35:22,635 --> 00:35:26,835 Speaker 1: was hearing elsewhere. Tom Brokaw is going around NBC saying 518 00:35:26,915 --> 00:35:30,275 Speaker 1: he got you fired from the debates because the Republicans 519 00:35:30,315 --> 00:35:35,755 Speaker 1: told him to. Nine maybe ten months earlier, Phil Griffin 520 00:35:35,755 --> 00:35:37,315 Speaker 1: had come to me and asked me if I would 521 00:35:37,355 --> 00:35:40,835 Speaker 1: be okay with this guy who had been kind of 522 00:35:40,915 --> 00:35:45,635 Speaker 1: disappeared by the network. Tom brokeaw was his name appearing 523 00:35:45,715 --> 00:35:48,955 Speaker 1: during our weekly coverage of the Democratic and Republican primaries. 524 00:35:49,395 --> 00:35:51,955 Speaker 1: Just a couple of minutes, like from a perspective desk. 525 00:35:52,235 --> 00:35:56,195 Speaker 1: That's all he wants to do. He's really Tom's really unhappy. 526 00:35:56,195 --> 00:35:59,755 Speaker 1: Brian has frozen him out of everything. Brian Williams. Of course, 527 00:36:00,155 --> 00:36:03,835 Speaker 1: I was appalled, but not surprised. The power had gone 528 00:36:03,875 --> 00:36:06,595 Speaker 1: to Brian's head, and of course there it had not 529 00:36:06,875 --> 00:36:10,475 Speaker 1: met much resistance. Plus, as I said to Griffin, you're 530 00:36:10,515 --> 00:36:12,875 Speaker 1: asking me if I'd like to add Tom Broke cause 531 00:36:12,955 --> 00:36:17,835 Speaker 1: experience and Tom Broke caused gravitas two stuff I'm anchoring 532 00:36:17,835 --> 00:36:19,275 Speaker 1: when I'm not sure I know as much as I 533 00:36:19,315 --> 00:36:22,075 Speaker 1: really need to know to do this right, you're asking 534 00:36:22,115 --> 00:36:26,035 Speaker 1: me this. Tom fit in beautifully, and twice after those 535 00:36:26,075 --> 00:36:29,115 Speaker 1: long Tuesday evenings in the primary season, he sent me 536 00:36:29,195 --> 00:36:32,715 Speaker 1: brief emails awarding me what he called the game ball 537 00:36:33,675 --> 00:36:36,435 Speaker 1: because he was so impressed by my ability to balance 538 00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:40,235 Speaker 1: the roles at political anchor and political commentator, having tried 539 00:36:40,275 --> 00:36:42,835 Speaker 1: this myself. One of them read, I know what a 540 00:36:42,955 --> 00:36:48,675 Speaker 1: perilous tight rupeless is game ball to care. I'm mocking 541 00:36:48,755 --> 00:36:50,915 Speaker 1: him now, but these meant so much to me. I 542 00:36:50,995 --> 00:36:54,035 Speaker 1: printed the emails out and carried them in my wallet. 543 00:36:55,435 --> 00:36:58,835 Speaker 1: And now he was claiming he had gotten me fired because, 544 00:36:58,875 --> 00:37:02,115 Speaker 1: as my newspaper friends said, the Republicans told him to. 545 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:06,515 Speaker 1: That was not hard to un pack either. Tim Russers 546 00:37:06,595 --> 00:37:09,515 Speaker 1: had died on June three of that year. I anchored 547 00:37:09,555 --> 00:37:11,355 Speaker 1: that night until two in the morning. It was still 548 00:37:11,355 --> 00:37:14,595 Speaker 1: an open wound. There were still tears. We didn't know 549 00:37:14,675 --> 00:37:17,355 Speaker 1: it then, but the structure of NBC News and the 550 00:37:17,915 --> 00:37:22,315 Speaker 1: perilous tight group balancing NBC and MSNBC had died with 551 00:37:22,355 --> 00:37:25,315 Speaker 1: Tim Russers. So did the role of moderator of the 552 00:37:25,355 --> 00:37:28,755 Speaker 1: second debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, scheduled for 553 00:37:28,795 --> 00:37:31,875 Speaker 1: about a month after my subway ride on October seven 554 00:37:31,955 --> 00:37:35,155 Speaker 1: in Nashville. Tim had not even been buried yet when 555 00:37:35,195 --> 00:37:38,395 Speaker 1: Brokaw began to angle to get that assignment, along with 556 00:37:38,435 --> 00:37:41,235 Speaker 1: brushing away the dirt of his petty anti role on 557 00:37:41,315 --> 00:37:45,115 Speaker 1: the MSNBC Prospective desk. We never saw him again in 558 00:37:45,235 --> 00:37:48,595 Speaker 1: order that he could take Tim's spot as Brian Williams 559 00:37:48,635 --> 00:37:53,275 Speaker 1: sidekick on Big NBC. The month before August, there was 560 00:37:53,315 --> 00:37:54,995 Speaker 1: a story coming out of the east end of the 561 00:37:54,995 --> 00:37:57,755 Speaker 1: third floor at thirty Rock, where NBC News management sat 562 00:37:57,755 --> 00:38:00,835 Speaker 1: around not doing much of anything, that a Republican goon 563 00:38:01,155 --> 00:38:04,435 Speaker 1: named Ed Gillespie had been in there with Griffin and 564 00:38:04,475 --> 00:38:07,395 Speaker 1: the NBC News president Steve Cappus, trying to get me 565 00:38:07,835 --> 00:38:11,155 Speaker 1: silenced or fired or off the convention coverage or something, 566 00:38:11,755 --> 00:38:14,635 Speaker 1: and that somebody prominent within NBC News was in there 567 00:38:14,635 --> 00:38:19,315 Speaker 1: with Gillespie or was invoked by Gillespie. The rumor mill 568 00:38:19,475 --> 00:38:23,195 Speaker 1: wasn't certain. As I switched from the elevated seven train 569 00:38:23,235 --> 00:38:26,115 Speaker 1: to the underground F train. The whole thing came together 570 00:38:26,635 --> 00:38:30,675 Speaker 1: before my comments about the GOP Convention nine eleven snuff film. 571 00:38:31,075 --> 00:38:34,155 Speaker 1: Ed Gillespie had come in and had somehow vaguely threatened 572 00:38:34,155 --> 00:38:38,395 Speaker 1: Cappus and Griffin about me using as leverage the debate 573 00:38:38,435 --> 00:38:42,155 Speaker 1: which Tom Brokaw was now supposed to moderate, and when 574 00:38:42,435 --> 00:38:46,915 Speaker 1: I apologized for their video on our air, Gillespie must 575 00:38:46,915 --> 00:38:49,675 Speaker 1: have turned it into an either or get rid of me, 576 00:38:49,875 --> 00:38:54,235 Speaker 1: or McCain would refuse to participate in any debate moderated 577 00:38:54,235 --> 00:38:59,395 Speaker 1: by Brokaw or anybody from NBC News. And Brokaw had 578 00:38:59,395 --> 00:39:02,075 Speaker 1: already come back from the dead once in two thousand eight, 579 00:39:02,075 --> 00:39:04,275 Speaker 1: and he would be damned if he would be forced 580 00:39:04,315 --> 00:39:08,355 Speaker 1: to do a second time. But as the train took 581 00:39:08,395 --> 00:39:10,195 Speaker 1: me home to an apartment, I was now going to 582 00:39:10,235 --> 00:39:13,075 Speaker 1: have to sell. Since I had just quit MSNBC on 583 00:39:13,115 --> 00:39:16,835 Speaker 1: the spot for folding to such obvious Republican blackmail, something 584 00:39:16,875 --> 00:39:21,435 Speaker 1: else now occurred to me. Why would MSNBC or NBC 585 00:39:21,795 --> 00:39:25,555 Speaker 1: or our parent corporation at the time, GE actually think 586 00:39:25,635 --> 00:39:28,675 Speaker 1: that they could remove me from the debate coverage on 587 00:39:28,995 --> 00:39:32,635 Speaker 1: MSNBC where the Rachel Meadows Show had yet to be born, 588 00:39:33,275 --> 00:39:35,595 Speaker 1: and the three times a night my show ran accounted 589 00:39:35,595 --> 00:39:39,195 Speaker 1: for something like six of the entire day's network audience, 590 00:39:39,675 --> 00:39:43,115 Speaker 1: and do that without getting a really bad reaction from 591 00:39:43,115 --> 00:39:48,275 Speaker 1: our audience. Plus, if a newspaperman already knew the Brokaw part, 592 00:39:48,955 --> 00:39:53,955 Speaker 1: how could this story be avoided? MSNBC announced it had 593 00:39:53,995 --> 00:39:56,635 Speaker 1: removed its liberal star Keith all Reman from coverage of 594 00:39:56,675 --> 00:40:01,035 Speaker 1: the McCain Obama presidential Debates. Sources confirmed former NBC News 595 00:40:01,035 --> 00:40:05,795 Speaker 1: anchorman Tom Brokaw, now an MSNBC commentator on Alverman's coverage, 596 00:40:06,315 --> 00:40:09,675 Speaker 1: had helped Republican Party to blackmail NBC into the decision. 597 00:40:10,195 --> 00:40:14,235 Speaker 1: Alderman immediately resigned, saying, quote in succumbing to this coercion 598 00:40:14,275 --> 00:40:17,035 Speaker 1: on behalf of John McCain, NBC has now forfeited any 599 00:40:17,155 --> 00:40:20,195 Speaker 1: right to further be called a news organization, and I'm 600 00:40:20,235 --> 00:40:22,835 Speaker 1: sad to say MSNBC, which I built, is now dead. 601 00:40:23,875 --> 00:40:29,155 Speaker 1: My god, MSNBC and NBC News for that matter, would 602 00:40:29,155 --> 00:40:33,435 Speaker 1: have committed corporate suicide before the weekend was over. At 603 00:40:33,475 --> 00:40:35,315 Speaker 1: that point, it dawned on me that the only thing 604 00:40:35,355 --> 00:40:38,035 Speaker 1: that could save the credibility of the whole news division 605 00:40:38,115 --> 00:40:41,675 Speaker 1: and the careers of Griffin and Cappus and NBC Network 606 00:40:41,715 --> 00:40:45,395 Speaker 1: President Jeff Zucker, and especially the career of Tom Brokaw 607 00:40:45,995 --> 00:40:50,075 Speaker 1: was for me to publicly state that I had asked 608 00:40:50,635 --> 00:40:54,275 Speaker 1: to be removed from anchoring the debates because the whatever 609 00:40:54,795 --> 00:40:57,475 Speaker 1: was just too much blah blah blah for me, and 610 00:40:57,515 --> 00:41:00,075 Speaker 1: I felt I should stick to the post debate analysis 611 00:41:00,115 --> 00:41:04,395 Speaker 1: and commentary. NBC would now have a choice. They could 612 00:41:04,395 --> 00:41:07,475 Speaker 1: fire me from the debates and destroy everything, including the 613 00:41:07,835 --> 00:41:10,155 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars a year or so in profit that 614 00:41:10,275 --> 00:41:15,555 Speaker 1: NBC made off MSNBC or I could you know why 615 00:41:16,155 --> 00:41:19,635 Speaker 1: and claim it was my idea and save everybody's ass, 616 00:41:19,675 --> 00:41:23,515 Speaker 1: including my own. I got out of the subway and 617 00:41:23,595 --> 00:41:25,635 Speaker 1: raced home. Katie met me at the door with a 618 00:41:25,635 --> 00:41:28,355 Speaker 1: big hug. She had been crying. Relax, I said, I'm 619 00:41:28,355 --> 00:41:30,915 Speaker 1: not quitting. In fact, I'm going to get a huge raise. 620 00:41:31,035 --> 00:41:35,235 Speaker 1: Now listen carefully. I called my agent and I explained 621 00:41:35,315 --> 00:41:37,635 Speaker 1: the idea that had lit over my head on the 622 00:41:37,675 --> 00:41:41,515 Speaker 1: subway like a lightbulb to both of them. I said, 623 00:41:41,595 --> 00:41:43,875 Speaker 1: you call Phil Griffin back and explained to him that 624 00:41:43,915 --> 00:41:47,915 Speaker 1: I will personally save his job and Steve Campuses and 625 00:41:48,075 --> 00:41:51,755 Speaker 1: Jeff Suckers and Tom broke A's and everybody else's. I'll 626 00:41:51,795 --> 00:41:55,395 Speaker 1: take the fall instead of letting them all get fired 627 00:41:55,475 --> 00:41:59,595 Speaker 1: by the MSNBC audience. I'll say this was my idea, 628 00:41:59,915 --> 00:42:03,835 Speaker 1: and all it will cost Phil is twelve million dollars. 629 00:42:04,235 --> 00:42:06,795 Speaker 1: And he has to leak the terms so everybody knows 630 00:42:06,835 --> 00:42:09,955 Speaker 1: it costs him twelve million dollars. And she paused for 631 00:42:09,995 --> 00:42:12,915 Speaker 1: a second and said it's genius. It might not quite 632 00:42:12,995 --> 00:42:15,875 Speaker 1: be twelve million, but I bet, I bet they'll pay 633 00:42:15,915 --> 00:42:20,715 Speaker 1: you at least nine. On Sunday, several news organizations reported 634 00:42:20,755 --> 00:42:23,395 Speaker 1: I had asked to be taken off the anchor desk 635 00:42:24,075 --> 00:42:27,235 Speaker 1: two months and one week later, The New York Times wrote, quote, 636 00:42:27,635 --> 00:42:31,595 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman, the anchor of Countdown on MSNBC, has extended 637 00:42:31,595 --> 00:42:35,075 Speaker 1: his contract through the next presidential election season. The network 638 00:42:35,115 --> 00:42:39,635 Speaker 1: announced Mr Alderman and MSNBC essentially tore up the four year, 639 00:42:40,035 --> 00:42:42,835 Speaker 1: four million dollar year contract they signed last year and 640 00:42:42,875 --> 00:42:45,715 Speaker 1: replaced it with one worth about seven and a half 641 00:42:45,755 --> 00:42:49,835 Speaker 1: million a year on That was a three and a 642 00:42:49,835 --> 00:42:54,955 Speaker 1: half million dollar raise for four years, a total of 643 00:42:56,395 --> 00:43:00,835 Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars. Except the new contract added two years 644 00:43:00,835 --> 00:43:03,435 Speaker 1: to my old deal, so the race was actually twenty 645 00:43:03,435 --> 00:43:09,195 Speaker 1: two million dollars. All stories have a punchline. This punch 646 00:43:09,235 --> 00:43:12,355 Speaker 1: line is about Tom Brokaw. We would have gotten away 647 00:43:12,395 --> 00:43:15,955 Speaker 1: with this cleanly. NBC would have gotten its money's worth 648 00:43:15,955 --> 00:43:17,875 Speaker 1: for the twenty two million in hush money, which is 649 00:43:17,915 --> 00:43:19,755 Speaker 1: what it was that it had to pay me because 650 00:43:19,755 --> 00:43:22,835 Speaker 1: I had agreed with them rolling over for the Republican 651 00:43:22,875 --> 00:43:26,435 Speaker 1: Party blackmail. Except Brokaw could not keep his mouth shut, 652 00:43:27,155 --> 00:43:30,515 Speaker 1: so proud was he of preserving his role as the 653 00:43:30,555 --> 00:43:34,155 Speaker 1: moderator of the October seven NBC debate that he had 654 00:43:34,235 --> 00:43:39,395 Speaker 1: to explain in explicit detail in public how he went 655 00:43:39,435 --> 00:43:42,435 Speaker 1: to his bosses at NBC News and threatened them on 656 00:43:42,515 --> 00:43:47,195 Speaker 1: behalf of the GOP. On September twenty nine, two eight, 657 00:43:47,235 --> 00:43:50,275 Speaker 1: a lengthy and glowing broke Off profile appeared in The 658 00:43:50,275 --> 00:43:53,635 Speaker 1: New York Times. Quote Mr Brokaw said that over the 659 00:43:53,675 --> 00:43:58,155 Speaker 1: summer he had quote advocated within the executive suite of 660 00:43:58,235 --> 00:44:01,515 Speaker 1: NBC News to modify the anchor duties of the MSNBC 661 00:44:01,635 --> 00:44:04,395 Speaker 1: hosts Keith all Woman and Chris Matthews on Election Night 662 00:44:04,435 --> 00:44:08,435 Speaker 1: and Knights when there were presidential debates. Mr Brocas said 663 00:44:08,475 --> 00:44:11,795 Speaker 1: he had also conducted some shuttle diplomacy in recent weeks 664 00:44:11,835 --> 00:44:15,555 Speaker 1: between NBC and the McCain campaign. His mission, he said, 665 00:44:15,595 --> 00:44:19,595 Speaker 1: was to assure the candidates aids that despite some negative 666 00:44:19,675 --> 00:44:23,355 Speaker 1: on air commentary by Mr Olberman in particular, Mr McCain 667 00:44:23,475 --> 00:44:29,635 Speaker 1: could still get a fair shake from NBC News. Unquote, Oh, 668 00:44:29,715 --> 00:44:34,875 Speaker 1: that was his mission. The hell it was. Happily Broca 669 00:44:35,115 --> 00:44:38,755 Speaker 1: just could not resist boasting even further. The next sentence 670 00:44:38,915 --> 00:44:43,475 Speaker 1: actually reads, quote Mr Brokaw said he had been told 671 00:44:43,475 --> 00:44:46,435 Speaker 1: by a senior McCain aide whom he did not name, 672 00:44:47,075 --> 00:44:49,995 Speaker 1: that the campaign had been reluctant to accept an NBC 673 00:44:50,115 --> 00:44:53,435 Speaker 1: representative as one of the moderators of the three presidential 674 00:44:53,435 --> 00:44:59,235 Speaker 1: debates until his name was invoked. Quote. One of the 675 00:44:59,315 --> 00:45:02,795 Speaker 1: things I was told by this person was that they 676 00:45:02,795 --> 00:45:06,915 Speaker 1: were so irritated. They said, if it's an NBC moderator 677 00:45:06,955 --> 00:45:10,595 Speaker 1: for any of these debates, we won't go. Mr Brokaw said, 678 00:45:11,395 --> 00:45:15,235 Speaker 1: quoting him again. My name came up, and they said, oh, hell, 679 00:45:15,755 --> 00:45:19,395 Speaker 1: we have to do it, because it's going to be Brokaw. 680 00:45:21,635 --> 00:45:25,035 Speaker 1: There is a second punchline after all this, when the 681 00:45:25,075 --> 00:45:28,155 Speaker 1: new format came out and I was sitting there counting 682 00:45:28,195 --> 00:45:32,315 Speaker 1: my money, MSNBC had David Gregory quote anchor unquote the 683 00:45:32,355 --> 00:45:37,155 Speaker 1: debate coverage. David was terrific during this. Practically all this meant, anyway, 684 00:45:37,235 --> 00:45:39,795 Speaker 1: was that I was on the air until literally nine 685 00:45:39,995 --> 00:45:43,115 Speaker 1: seconds before each debate began, which is when I said, 686 00:45:43,315 --> 00:45:45,995 Speaker 1: now here's David Gregory. And he was then on for 687 00:45:46,075 --> 00:45:48,555 Speaker 1: four or five minutes after the debate ended, which is 688 00:45:48,595 --> 00:45:52,195 Speaker 1: when he said, now here's Keith Olberman. And on election 689 00:45:52,315 --> 00:45:56,595 Speaker 1: night itself, with David again formally anchoring per the Republican 690 00:45:56,635 --> 00:46:00,035 Speaker 1: Blackmail at ten PM. To his great credit and to 691 00:46:00,115 --> 00:46:04,315 Speaker 1: my eternal gratitude, David Gregory said, with the last voting 692 00:46:04,355 --> 00:46:06,795 Speaker 1: booth closing at eleven p m, NBC News can now 693 00:46:06,875 --> 00:46:09,635 Speaker 1: project the winner of the two thousand and eight presidential election, 694 00:46:10,515 --> 00:46:19,715 Speaker 1: Keith Bless him. Plus, I still have all the money, 695 00:46:23,275 --> 00:46:25,835 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. If 696 00:46:25,835 --> 00:46:28,075 Speaker 1: you're listening, do me favor. Give this a good review 697 00:46:28,235 --> 00:46:30,275 Speaker 1: or rating, or whatever the kids you're doing these days. 698 00:46:30,835 --> 00:46:34,155 Speaker 1: The Countdown theme from Beethoven's Ninth arranged, produced and performed 699 00:46:34,155 --> 00:46:37,275 Speaker 1: by Countdown Musical directors Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. 700 00:46:37,635 --> 00:46:41,235 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle. Guitarist, bass 701 00:46:41,275 --> 00:46:44,275 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray. Produced by t k O Brothers. 702 00:46:45,155 --> 00:46:47,955 Speaker 1: The other beethsoven selections have been arranged and performed by 703 00:46:47,995 --> 00:46:52,035 Speaker 1: No horns allowed. 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