1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio The 2 00:00:24,795 --> 00:00:33,275 Speaker 1: Disaster in Alaska, starring the cheese burger eating surrender Monkey. 3 00:00:34,635 --> 00:00:37,995 Speaker 1: We have to quote Winston Churchill, suffer to defeat without 4 00:00:37,995 --> 00:00:41,755 Speaker 1: a war because we forget. We do not merely have 5 00:00:41,835 --> 00:00:46,635 Speaker 1: an evil deranged president. We have an evil deranged president 6 00:00:46,675 --> 00:00:53,635 Speaker 1: who is also a moron. And today Trump Putin's butt boy, 7 00:00:54,035 --> 00:00:59,475 Speaker 1: Putin's errand carrier will deliver Putin's message to Zelenski in Washington, 8 00:00:59,915 --> 00:01:03,595 Speaker 1: and Zelensky will be accompanied by EU President vonder Lane, 9 00:01:04,075 --> 00:01:09,315 Speaker 1: Natosectary General Ruta, Presidents Macrone of France and Stuba of Finland, 10 00:01:09,555 --> 00:01:12,435 Speaker 1: Prime Minister Starmer of the UK and Maloney of Italy, 11 00:01:12,635 --> 00:01:16,275 Speaker 1: Chancellor Meritz of Germany. And Trump will be accompanied by 12 00:01:16,595 --> 00:01:23,075 Speaker 1: a large selection of mirrors from the disaster in Alaska 13 00:01:23,435 --> 00:01:29,395 Speaker 1: to the Nazi occupied territory of Washington, d C. I 14 00:01:29,435 --> 00:01:33,035 Speaker 1: hope they wrote down for Trump the message. Putin expects 15 00:01:33,115 --> 00:01:36,795 Speaker 1: him to relay, because otherwise he will think. Putin wanted 16 00:01:36,875 --> 00:01:39,875 Speaker 1: him to tell Zelenski that Trump really won the twenty 17 00:01:39,915 --> 00:01:44,195 Speaker 1: twenty election and that voting by mail is unreliable, even 18 00:01:44,195 --> 00:01:48,035 Speaker 1: though Russia has voting by mail established in twenty twenty 19 00:01:48,475 --> 00:01:53,555 Speaker 1: by Putin. But Trump's takeaway from all that was He's right, 20 00:01:53,835 --> 00:01:57,355 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden is the devil. Trump is an utter imbecile. 21 00:01:57,835 --> 00:02:02,315 Speaker 1: He is like a lazy Susan of incompetence, evil and farting. 22 00:02:02,755 --> 00:02:05,115 Speaker 1: You never know which in a given twenty four hour 23 00:02:05,235 --> 00:02:10,235 Speaker 1: period he will express the most of seventy two hours 24 00:02:10,275 --> 00:02:12,875 Speaker 1: after the Farcent Anchorage, we have some idea of what 25 00:02:12,955 --> 00:02:17,315 Speaker 1: Trump's impression of Neville Chamberlain consisted of. Trump's most recent 26 00:02:17,315 --> 00:02:21,595 Speaker 1: addition to his clown car dictatorship is named Steve Whitcoff. 27 00:02:21,995 --> 00:02:25,475 Speaker 1: And Steve Whitcoff was previously known only in New York 28 00:02:25,795 --> 00:02:29,435 Speaker 1: only for tenant complaints in his apartment buildings, and he 29 00:02:29,475 --> 00:02:32,395 Speaker 1: once tried to illegally raise the rent on a mere 30 00:02:32,595 --> 00:02:37,075 Speaker 1: eighteen thousand residents at a time, and for the website 31 00:02:37,115 --> 00:02:41,515 Speaker 1: The Observer quote used to carry a gun while collecting rents. 32 00:02:42,195 --> 00:02:47,275 Speaker 1: Despite all that, Whitcoff is still a clown, a twerp, 33 00:02:47,755 --> 00:02:51,875 Speaker 1: and most importantly a mark a sucker, a dupe. He 34 00:02:51,915 --> 00:02:54,955 Speaker 1: went on CNN yesterday claiming that Putin had agreed to 35 00:02:55,115 --> 00:03:00,995 Speaker 1: quote legislative enshrinement within the Russian Federation not to go 36 00:03:01,075 --> 00:03:04,635 Speaker 1: after any other territories when the peace deal is caught, 37 00:03:06,035 --> 00:03:09,955 Speaker 1: and he added legislative enshrinement in the Russian Federation not 38 00:03:10,115 --> 00:03:14,635 Speaker 1: to go after any other European countries and violate their sovereignty. 39 00:03:16,275 --> 00:03:19,355 Speaker 1: Now that's nebel Chamberlain in nineteen thirty eight, because those 40 00:03:19,555 --> 00:03:24,875 Speaker 1: Putin promises are Hitler nineteen thirty eight at Munich about Czechoslovakia, 41 00:03:25,155 --> 00:03:28,635 Speaker 1: and they were all lies, as Putin's promises to this 42 00:03:28,795 --> 00:03:34,475 Speaker 1: idiot whitcof are all lies. It is bad enough to 43 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:39,995 Speaker 1: platform Putin and debase US soldiers by having them literally 44 00:03:40,235 --> 00:03:44,555 Speaker 1: kneel before Putin and roll out a red carpet for Putin, 45 00:03:44,755 --> 00:03:48,955 Speaker 1: but it is something else altogether. To believe and propagate 46 00:03:49,035 --> 00:03:53,435 Speaker 1: the lies Putin is smearing all over your face. Whitcough, 47 00:03:54,395 --> 00:04:01,715 Speaker 1: you mark, you sucker, you dupe. Actually I take back 48 00:04:01,755 --> 00:04:04,155 Speaker 1: what I said before. I hope they did not write 49 00:04:04,195 --> 00:04:07,715 Speaker 1: Putin's message to Zelensky and Europe down for Trump, because 50 00:04:07,715 --> 00:04:11,275 Speaker 1: if they did, one of Trump's delegation of dopes presumably 51 00:04:11,395 --> 00:04:14,595 Speaker 1: left what they wrote down along with the eight pages 52 00:04:14,635 --> 00:04:18,515 Speaker 1: of confidential phone numbers and pronunciation guides in the printer 53 00:04:19,635 --> 00:04:24,075 Speaker 1: in the business center in the Hotel Captain Cook, twenty 54 00:04:24,075 --> 00:04:29,155 Speaker 1: minutes from Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in beautiful downtown Anchorage, Alaska. 55 00:04:30,115 --> 00:04:33,595 Speaker 1: Eight pages of things like how to pronounce the name 56 00:04:33,835 --> 00:04:44,315 Speaker 1: putin pbo tihn, just think pooh. Also this listed where 57 00:04:44,315 --> 00:04:46,755 Speaker 1: everybody was supposed to sit and what their phone numbers 58 00:04:46,795 --> 00:04:51,355 Speaker 1: were at the Hotel Captain Cook, and when Trump was 59 00:04:51,395 --> 00:04:55,435 Speaker 1: supposed to give Putin his commemorative gift. And this was 60 00:04:55,475 --> 00:04:59,635 Speaker 1: a surprise. The commemorative gift was not the Dunetsk region 61 00:04:59,675 --> 00:05:05,635 Speaker 1: of Ukraine. No, it was an American bald eagle desk statue. 62 00:05:05,835 --> 00:05:10,395 Speaker 1: American bald eagle, you say, I assume that's Stephen Miller 63 00:05:12,275 --> 00:05:16,795 Speaker 1: who left the documents there. I'm betting on the idiot 64 00:05:16,835 --> 00:05:19,395 Speaker 1: who thinks that the German bad guy was named Hilter 65 00:05:19,835 --> 00:05:22,515 Speaker 1: and that it's with the Nobel Peace Prize, and who 66 00:05:22,555 --> 00:05:25,395 Speaker 1: is dumber than a box of two hundred pounds of rocks. 67 00:05:26,035 --> 00:05:31,795 Speaker 1: The press secretary, Oh, I left it inside. What's missing 68 00:05:32,035 --> 00:05:36,715 Speaker 1: in the absolute and absolutely justifiable disgust that one of 69 00:05:36,755 --> 00:05:39,875 Speaker 1: the other occupants of the Trump clown car left the 70 00:05:39,915 --> 00:05:45,515 Speaker 1: itinerary in the printer in the business center at the 71 00:05:45,515 --> 00:05:47,595 Speaker 1: the place they went to when they couldn't get into 72 00:05:47,635 --> 00:05:51,355 Speaker 1: Motel six or wherever is that. The key events at 73 00:05:51,475 --> 00:05:54,915 Speaker 1: Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, we know from these documents were 74 00:05:54,955 --> 00:05:59,475 Speaker 1: held in the Billy Mitchell room. And if the bitterness 75 00:05:59,555 --> 00:06:02,595 Speaker 1: of the irony of the Billy Mitchell room is not 76 00:06:02,675 --> 00:06:07,875 Speaker 1: immediately apparent to you, let me plane. Billy Mitchell was 77 00:06:08,235 --> 00:06:13,115 Speaker 1: an American hero, the American World War One pilot witnessed 78 00:06:13,155 --> 00:06:16,795 Speaker 1: to the Right Brothers in nineteen oh eight, who almost 79 00:06:16,955 --> 00:06:21,275 Speaker 1: alone realized then, or a decade after he saw the 80 00:06:21,355 --> 00:06:25,715 Speaker 1: Right Brothers that all subsequent war would be decided not 81 00:06:25,835 --> 00:06:30,795 Speaker 1: by ships but by planes and other lighter than air craft. 82 00:06:31,795 --> 00:06:35,515 Speaker 1: As his bosses branded him a lunatic, in nineteen twenty one, 83 00:06:35,635 --> 00:06:38,475 Speaker 1: he got them to let him send some rickety by 84 00:06:38,595 --> 00:06:42,355 Speaker 1: planes with two thousand pound bombs to sink the captured 85 00:06:42,395 --> 00:06:47,235 Speaker 1: World War One German dreadnought the Austriesland. And they all 86 00:06:47,355 --> 00:06:50,595 Speaker 1: laughed as the giant boat took bomb after bomb after 87 00:06:50,675 --> 00:06:54,795 Speaker 1: bomb for the turf first two bombing runs and barely moved. 88 00:06:54,955 --> 00:06:57,595 Speaker 1: And then on the third run, Mitchell's handful of planes 89 00:06:57,675 --> 00:07:01,555 Speaker 1: hit it just right and it spun like a rotisserie 90 00:07:01,635 --> 00:07:09,035 Speaker 1: oven roller and sank within second, and Mitchell's bosses ignored 91 00:07:09,435 --> 00:07:13,235 Speaker 1: the meaning of what they saw. But the Japanese observers, 92 00:07:13,435 --> 00:07:16,155 Speaker 1: who the nineteen twenty one equivalents of Pete Hegseth and 93 00:07:16,195 --> 00:07:20,675 Speaker 1: Cash Bettel invited to watch this demonstration live, said it 94 00:07:20,715 --> 00:07:23,555 Speaker 1: was an extraordinary event and they had so much to 95 00:07:23,675 --> 00:07:29,595 Speaker 1: learn from it. Our government wound up court martialing Billy Mitchell, 96 00:07:30,435 --> 00:07:32,475 Speaker 1: but the Japanese went home, and a couple of years 97 00:07:32,555 --> 00:07:35,075 Speaker 1: later Mitchell said that one fine Sunday morning, they'd be 98 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:39,715 Speaker 1: back in a squadron to attack some of our Pacific bases, 99 00:07:39,915 --> 00:07:45,555 Speaker 1: like he picked one at random, Pearl Harbor in the 100 00:07:45,595 --> 00:07:53,435 Speaker 1: Billy Mitchell room. Donald Trump hosted the disaster in Alaska 101 00:07:54,075 --> 00:07:56,875 Speaker 1: and now to the Nazi occupied territory of Washington and 102 00:07:56,915 --> 00:08:00,875 Speaker 1: the meeting with Zelenski and especially Ruta. Ruta has already 103 00:08:00,875 --> 00:08:03,595 Speaker 1: proven he can manipulate Trump's ego at least as well 104 00:08:03,595 --> 00:08:08,035 Speaker 1: as Putin can. It is there today that boss Hog 105 00:08:08,235 --> 00:08:13,155 Speaker 1: Trump will deliver Putin's message, or Trump's version of it, 106 00:08:13,195 --> 00:08:16,475 Speaker 1: whatever Trump can remember through his brain damaged, self obsessed 107 00:08:16,555 --> 00:08:21,555 Speaker 1: Hayes or whatever they didn't leave on the printer. I 108 00:08:21,635 --> 00:08:24,235 Speaker 1: suspect he will tell Zlensky that the way to achieve 109 00:08:24,315 --> 00:08:27,515 Speaker 1: an end to the war in Ukraine is to lose. 110 00:08:29,915 --> 00:08:32,595 Speaker 1: It is amazing to think that maybe the big picture 111 00:08:32,595 --> 00:08:36,035 Speaker 1: of what happens when we have a psychopathic narcissist running 112 00:08:36,075 --> 00:08:38,715 Speaker 1: the country into the ground is not just the death 113 00:08:38,715 --> 00:08:42,515 Speaker 1: of Ukraine and the loss of security for Europe. But 114 00:08:42,595 --> 00:08:45,875 Speaker 1: maybe that isn't the big picture. What Trump has shown 115 00:08:45,955 --> 00:08:49,675 Speaker 1: Putin again and again and again, and as recently as Friday, 116 00:08:49,915 --> 00:08:53,915 Speaker 1: is that he has no conception of why countries fight 117 00:08:54,795 --> 00:08:59,235 Speaker 1: or what is meant by the word territory. He hears 118 00:08:59,235 --> 00:09:04,395 Speaker 1: about land and regions and occupation, and he thinks somebody 119 00:09:04,435 --> 00:09:07,835 Speaker 1: wants wants to trade a duplex in Trump Tower for 120 00:09:07,955 --> 00:09:13,795 Speaker 1: a four bedroom in Trump World Tower. Nothing else makes 121 00:09:14,035 --> 00:09:18,635 Speaker 1: sense to him. This isn't life or death, or freedom 122 00:09:19,035 --> 00:09:22,595 Speaker 1: or tyranny. It's like the rest of the world is. 123 00:09:22,635 --> 00:09:29,235 Speaker 1: To Trump, it's a real estate deal. And in revealing 124 00:09:29,275 --> 00:09:31,955 Speaker 1: this to Putin, he lays out, as the Americans laid 125 00:09:31,955 --> 00:09:34,875 Speaker 1: out to the Japanese visitors at Billy Mitchell's Flying Circus, 126 00:09:35,035 --> 00:09:38,515 Speaker 1: how to defeat this country in a land war in 127 00:09:38,555 --> 00:09:42,115 Speaker 1: the next four years. Simply sees any building that still 128 00:09:42,115 --> 00:09:44,435 Speaker 1: has the word Trump on it. And he will hand 129 00:09:44,475 --> 00:09:48,275 Speaker 1: you anything if only you'll give it back to him, 130 00:09:48,515 --> 00:09:51,115 Speaker 1: especially if you have seized what is now the most 131 00:09:51,155 --> 00:09:54,555 Speaker 1: important piece of land in the world to Trump, the 132 00:09:54,675 --> 00:10:00,715 Speaker 1: new parking lot he put up when he paved over 133 00:10:00,755 --> 00:10:07,555 Speaker 1: the paradise that had been the White House lawn. There 134 00:10:07,555 --> 00:10:10,275 Speaker 1: are too many comparisons between Trump and Ukraine and Neville 135 00:10:10,315 --> 00:10:13,235 Speaker 1: Chamberlain and Czechoslovakia. The problem with them is Chamberlain was 136 00:10:13,315 --> 00:10:15,955 Speaker 1: naive and wrong, but he wasn't Trump. He didn't think 137 00:10:15,955 --> 00:10:18,475 Speaker 1: it was a good meeting because Hitler invited him to 138 00:10:18,515 --> 00:10:20,915 Speaker 1: go for a beer next time he was in Germany. 139 00:10:21,875 --> 00:10:27,395 Speaker 1: Chamberlain screwed up. I mean he screwed up. But Trump 140 00:10:27,435 --> 00:10:32,555 Speaker 1: is worse. Trump is screwed up. The message from Putin 141 00:10:33,115 --> 00:10:36,875 Speaker 1: Trump thinks was a triumph, by the way, actually boils 142 00:10:36,955 --> 00:10:41,635 Speaker 1: down to next time you're in Russia, Donald, try and 143 00:10:41,715 --> 00:10:48,715 Speaker 1: find me quote. Let's be clear, said a TV political commentator. 144 00:10:48,995 --> 00:10:52,115 Speaker 1: The so called summit with Vladimir Putin did absolutely nothing 145 00:10:52,155 --> 00:10:56,675 Speaker 1: to advance any American interests in any way. That's a fact. Instead, 146 00:10:56,795 --> 00:11:01,675 Speaker 1: Vladimir received a massive platform in exchange for zero concessions whatsoever, 147 00:11:01,955 --> 00:11:05,675 Speaker 1: and then Putin used that platform to take after shot 148 00:11:05,835 --> 00:11:10,035 Speaker 1: after shot at our country, the United States of America. 149 00:11:10,515 --> 00:11:12,755 Speaker 1: And what do we get in return for this grand 150 00:11:12,835 --> 00:11:17,875 Speaker 1: gesture that will enrich Vladimir Putin and Russia. Nothing we 151 00:11:18,035 --> 00:11:26,915 Speaker 1: got nothing. Appeasement doesn't work, has never worked, never will work. Unquote. 152 00:11:27,675 --> 00:11:32,235 Speaker 1: The TV commentator was Sean Hannity, and the date of 153 00:11:32,235 --> 00:11:37,635 Speaker 1: that commentary was June sixteenth, two thousand and twenty one. 154 00:11:37,675 --> 00:11:40,635 Speaker 1: And the president meeting with Putin was President Biden. And 155 00:11:40,715 --> 00:11:43,515 Speaker 1: it wasn't in the days in at Wasilla, it was 156 00:11:43,555 --> 00:11:46,515 Speaker 1: in Geneva. And the quote was unearthed by John Pasentino 157 00:11:46,795 --> 00:11:49,515 Speaker 1: at the news site Status And Sean Hannity is a 158 00:11:49,555 --> 00:11:52,715 Speaker 1: whore and Donald Trump is an idiot. And what Zelenski 159 00:11:52,795 --> 00:11:55,235 Speaker 1: and the European leaders should do today is tell Trump 160 00:11:55,395 --> 00:11:58,235 Speaker 1: that Ukraine and the EU and its member nations have 161 00:11:58,315 --> 00:12:01,115 Speaker 1: thought real hard about it, and they are now withdrawing 162 00:12:01,195 --> 00:12:03,755 Speaker 1: their recognition of the government of the United States of 163 00:12:03,755 --> 00:12:11,795 Speaker 1: America because we are just too effing stupid. Oh I 164 00:12:11,875 --> 00:12:17,795 Speaker 1: forgot the coup de gras. Milania wrote a letter. Milania 165 00:12:17,875 --> 00:12:21,995 Speaker 1: wrote a letter to Putin calling for peace in Ukraine 166 00:12:22,395 --> 00:12:28,355 Speaker 1: for the protection of innocent children, if Milania Trump gave 167 00:12:28,395 --> 00:12:32,195 Speaker 1: a shit about the protection of innocent children, she'd write 168 00:12:32,235 --> 00:12:39,275 Speaker 1: a letter to her goddamned husband, a letter to putin 169 00:12:40,155 --> 00:12:44,835 Speaker 1: about protecting people. It's so pathetic and so useless that 170 00:12:44,915 --> 00:12:49,075 Speaker 1: Milania Trump has suddenly made herself into a candidate to 171 00:12:49,315 --> 00:13:18,435 Speaker 1: join the Democratic leadership in the House. The disaster in Alaska. 172 00:13:22,395 --> 00:13:26,555 Speaker 1: Now about the Nazi occupied territory of Washington, d C. 173 00:13:26,795 --> 00:13:28,955 Speaker 1: We need to face the fact that Trump has declared 174 00:13:28,995 --> 00:13:33,795 Speaker 1: war against the United States of America. There is no 175 00:13:33,915 --> 00:13:38,515 Speaker 1: national emergency in d C or anywhere else. There certainly 176 00:13:38,595 --> 00:13:41,795 Speaker 1: is nothing in DC that is as bad as it 177 00:13:41,875 --> 00:13:46,995 Speaker 1: is in Ohio, West Virginia, and South Carolina, whose governors 178 00:13:47,115 --> 00:13:50,595 Speaker 1: are Trump whares, and who have now decided to seek 179 00:13:50,675 --> 00:13:54,395 Speaker 1: to curry favor with the Furer by sending their own 180 00:13:54,515 --> 00:13:57,915 Speaker 1: National Guard troops to Washington to now double the number 181 00:13:57,955 --> 00:14:00,835 Speaker 1: present there, even though nearly all the troops are being 182 00:14:00,875 --> 00:14:03,875 Speaker 1: sent not into the areas of DC that actually have 183 00:14:04,155 --> 00:14:08,435 Speaker 1: some islands, but to the areas that have some liberals 184 00:14:10,555 --> 00:14:14,595 Speaker 1: to say nothing of the analysis of Philip bump X 185 00:14:14,675 --> 00:14:18,195 Speaker 1: of the Washington Post. You remember the Washington Post. It 186 00:14:18,275 --> 00:14:23,275 Speaker 1: used to be a newspaper. Quote The FBI reported that 187 00:14:23,355 --> 00:14:27,115 Speaker 1: fully forty three cities in those three states, Ohio, West Virginia, 188 00:14:27,115 --> 00:14:30,235 Speaker 1: and South Carolina, had higher rates of violent crime in 189 00:14:30,275 --> 00:14:33,595 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four than did d C. More than one 190 00:14:33,635 --> 00:14:36,875 Speaker 1: point two million people live in those cities, including more 191 00:14:36,915 --> 00:14:40,995 Speaker 1: than nine hundred thousand in Ohio alone, Yet that state's 192 00:14:41,075 --> 00:14:44,915 Speaker 1: National Guard is being deployed to d C to protect 193 00:14:44,915 --> 00:14:50,435 Speaker 1: the capital's seven hundred thousand odd residents. Half a million 194 00:14:50,555 --> 00:14:55,635 Speaker 1: Ohioans live in cities with higher homicide rates than DC. 195 00:14:59,075 --> 00:15:03,515 Speaker 1: One disaster has been forestalled. District Attorney Bondi rewrote her 196 00:15:03,635 --> 00:15:07,555 Speaker 1: order that SU imposed the head of the DEEA over 197 00:15:07,635 --> 00:15:10,635 Speaker 1: the mayor and the police chief of the District of Columbia. 198 00:15:11,315 --> 00:15:13,995 Speaker 1: That's what they told the court anyway, because Bondi was 199 00:15:13,995 --> 00:15:16,235 Speaker 1: about to get her balls handed to her by the 200 00:15:16,355 --> 00:15:19,355 Speaker 1: judge in the lawsuit against her. What are they telling 201 00:15:19,355 --> 00:15:22,835 Speaker 1: the public? From Politico quote? In a statement, White House 202 00:15:22,875 --> 00:15:27,115 Speaker 1: spokesperson Abigail Jackson said the Trump administration quote is not 203 00:15:27,275 --> 00:15:30,795 Speaker 1: backing down, and that the new order requires city officials 204 00:15:30,995 --> 00:15:34,475 Speaker 1: quote to comply fully and completely with federal immigration law 205 00:15:34,515 --> 00:15:39,915 Speaker 1: and authorities unquote. This leaves in place the possibility of 206 00:15:39,955 --> 00:15:43,435 Speaker 1: what might be the best possible outcome here the prospect 207 00:15:43,475 --> 00:15:50,835 Speaker 1: of Trump's brown shirts fighting the actual police of District Columbia. Now, 208 00:15:50,875 --> 00:15:54,595 Speaker 1: if this sounds crazy to you DC police versus the 209 00:15:54,675 --> 00:15:59,915 Speaker 1: National Guard, let me tell you about June sixteenth, eighteen 210 00:16:00,075 --> 00:16:04,555 Speaker 1: fifty seven. It is called the New York City Police Rise, 211 00:16:06,235 --> 00:16:09,515 Speaker 1: or as they called it then, the great police Riot 212 00:16:11,835 --> 00:16:15,395 Speaker 1: in front of City Hall, which looked then pretty much 213 00:16:15,395 --> 00:16:17,915 Speaker 1: the way it looks now, with a bunch of steps 214 00:16:19,315 --> 00:16:22,355 Speaker 1: near what would become the Brooklyn Bridge. Thirty years later, 215 00:16:24,155 --> 00:16:28,635 Speaker 1: they had dissolved the New York Municipal Police because the Mayor, 216 00:16:28,715 --> 00:16:33,315 Speaker 1: Fernando Wood had been abused by them and had abused them, 217 00:16:33,475 --> 00:16:36,555 Speaker 1: and the city of New York was in turmoil, and 218 00:16:36,595 --> 00:16:39,995 Speaker 1: there had been formed a second New York City police 219 00:16:40,035 --> 00:16:44,635 Speaker 1: department called the Metropolitan Police. And so on June sixteenth, 220 00:16:44,635 --> 00:16:49,515 Speaker 1: eighteen fifty seven, the New York Municipal Police and the 221 00:16:49,555 --> 00:16:54,755 Speaker 1: New York Metropolitan Police duked it out on the steps 222 00:16:55,435 --> 00:16:59,915 Speaker 1: of City Hall. How could a shoot them out on 223 00:16:59,955 --> 00:17:02,875 Speaker 1: the streets of DC be the best possible outcome because 224 00:17:02,915 --> 00:17:06,275 Speaker 1: it would be cops shooting now National Guard and not 225 00:17:06,755 --> 00:17:13,235 Speaker 1: you know, civilians. We are headed for something like this, 226 00:17:15,435 --> 00:17:22,755 Speaker 1: people are going to get shot, probably within months, probably 227 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:26,635 Speaker 1: since this is being staged in Washington. It is being 228 00:17:26,755 --> 00:17:32,635 Speaker 1: test run in Washington, probably in Washington, while one person 229 00:17:32,755 --> 00:17:36,075 Speaker 1: in DC is going to try to seize control of 230 00:17:36,115 --> 00:17:39,955 Speaker 1: the city either before or after the midterms. And you 231 00:17:40,035 --> 00:17:53,995 Speaker 1: can guess who that is. So be prepared. And now 232 00:17:54,035 --> 00:17:59,115 Speaker 1: we rejoin the Jeffrey Epstein scandal already in progress. There 233 00:17:59,155 --> 00:18:02,715 Speaker 1: have been a lot of cease and desist letters flying around. 234 00:18:02,715 --> 00:18:06,075 Speaker 1: So let me just quote somebody quoting somebody quoting somebody else. 235 00:18:08,035 --> 00:18:13,355 Speaker 1: On the website Blue Sky, I saw Josh Marshall of 236 00:18:13,435 --> 00:18:19,115 Speaker 1: TPM posting photos provided by somebody called Quentin Thomas. Photos 237 00:18:20,035 --> 00:18:22,755 Speaker 1: posted by Marshall from mister Thomas of a book by 238 00:18:22,755 --> 00:18:26,435 Speaker 1: a man named Andrew Lowney about another man called Prince Andrew. 239 00:18:26,435 --> 00:18:28,155 Speaker 1: And the book is called entitled, and it was just 240 00:18:28,235 --> 00:18:32,995 Speaker 1: published in the United Kingdom in Andrew Lownie's book, as 241 00:18:32,995 --> 00:18:36,195 Speaker 1: photographed by mister Quinton Thomas and posted by mister Marshall. 242 00:18:36,195 --> 00:18:39,235 Speaker 1: Mister Lowney writes, and I've adjusted this slightly. Quote. In 243 00:18:39,275 --> 00:18:45,675 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, somebody told one author that he 244 00:18:45,755 --> 00:18:53,675 Speaker 1: had facilitated the relationship between somebody else and his future 245 00:18:53,715 --> 00:19:01,315 Speaker 1: wife another somebody else. It follows that with a quote 246 00:19:01,395 --> 00:19:10,475 Speaker 1: passage indented attributed to somebody else else and dated two 247 00:19:10,515 --> 00:19:13,515 Speaker 1: thousand and seven quote the first time somebody had sex 248 00:19:13,635 --> 00:19:19,395 Speaker 1: with somebody else was on my plane. Little did somebody 249 00:19:19,675 --> 00:19:23,155 Speaker 1: else else know. I beat him to the punch by 250 00:19:23,315 --> 00:19:34,035 Speaker 1: a year. H Speaking of Epstein polling, g Elliott Morris's 251 00:19:34,155 --> 00:19:37,075 Speaker 1: strength in numbers notes a new poll from the Canadian 252 00:19:37,115 --> 00:19:40,515 Speaker 1: firm Ledger finds that forty seven percent of Republicans say 253 00:19:40,515 --> 00:19:42,755 Speaker 1: they would still vote for Trump even if he were 254 00:19:42,795 --> 00:19:48,235 Speaker 1: implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. Two things A this poll 255 00:19:48,355 --> 00:19:51,115 Speaker 1: was covered as if that's a shockingly small amount of 256 00:19:51,155 --> 00:19:54,475 Speaker 1: GOPED defection. But given we know how loyal partisans are, 257 00:19:54,595 --> 00:19:57,995 Speaker 1: I think Morris writes, fifty three percent of a base 258 00:19:58,075 --> 00:20:03,475 Speaker 1: saying they'd look elsewhere is notable and high. But be 259 00:20:03,915 --> 00:20:06,355 Speaker 1: careful with headline. Like these studies have found people are 260 00:20:06,435 --> 00:20:09,395 Speaker 1: very bad at predicting how they behave in the future 261 00:20:09,715 --> 00:20:15,475 Speaker 1: given new information, namely in that they overestimate change. I 262 00:20:15,555 --> 00:20:18,675 Speaker 1: would point out that if fifty three percent of Trump's 263 00:20:18,715 --> 00:20:22,235 Speaker 1: Republican supporters would bail on him in this poll and 264 00:20:22,275 --> 00:20:26,235 Speaker 1: that number is double what actually happens. That would mean 265 00:20:26,235 --> 00:20:29,275 Speaker 1: that a quarter of Trump's Republican supporters would bail on him. 266 00:20:30,035 --> 00:20:35,555 Speaker 1: That would be enough. Meanwhile, in polling from YouGov, a 267 00:20:35,595 --> 00:20:39,395 Speaker 1: total of thirty six percent of American adults say that 268 00:20:39,515 --> 00:20:43,635 Speaker 1: jobs at inflation are their number one priority. It had 269 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:46,755 Speaker 1: been twenty eight percent during the first month of this 270 00:20:47,035 --> 00:20:51,635 Speaker 1: Trump second term, now thirty six percent. It is now 271 00:20:51,675 --> 00:20:54,875 Speaker 1: equal to the high point of that number. Jobs and 272 00:20:54,995 --> 00:20:58,515 Speaker 1: inflation are their number one priority thirty six percent. That 273 00:20:58,995 --> 00:21:04,755 Speaker 1: is the high water mark of the Joe Biden presidency. 274 00:21:06,075 --> 00:21:09,475 Speaker 1: The rest of these numbers are from Pew Research, and 275 00:21:09,515 --> 00:21:16,675 Speaker 1: this is Trump approval. He's five points underwater among white people, 276 00:21:17,155 --> 00:21:22,155 Speaker 1: sixty eight points underwater among Blacks, forty three percent underwater 277 00:21:22,355 --> 00:21:31,395 Speaker 1: among Hispanics, thirty five points underwater. Among Asians ages eighteen 278 00:21:31,475 --> 00:21:34,995 Speaker 1: to twenty nine, he's thirty three points underwater, thirty to 279 00:21:35,075 --> 00:21:38,795 Speaker 1: forty nine thirty one points underwater. But of course, his 280 00:21:38,915 --> 00:21:42,955 Speaker 1: base the older folks aged fifty to sixty four nine 281 00:21:42,955 --> 00:21:47,035 Speaker 1: points underwater, ages sixty five and up nine points underwater. 282 00:21:47,275 --> 00:21:50,435 Speaker 1: So of everybody in the country over the age of fifty, 283 00:21:51,275 --> 00:21:56,155 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's disapproval is fifty three or fifty four percent. 284 00:21:58,355 --> 00:22:05,915 Speaker 1: He's thirteen points underwater amongst males, women twenty eight percent underwater. 285 00:22:07,595 --> 00:22:13,195 Speaker 1: High school degree or less, fifteen points underwater. College graduate 286 00:22:13,595 --> 00:22:18,915 Speaker 1: thirty one percent or less, postgraduate thirty three percent or less. 287 00:22:19,075 --> 00:22:23,315 Speaker 1: And as an aside, that difference thirty one percent for 288 00:22:23,355 --> 00:22:26,995 Speaker 1: college grads thirty three percent for postgraduates underscores the theory 289 00:22:27,035 --> 00:22:29,515 Speaker 1: I've had since childhood that you do not need to 290 00:22:29,515 --> 00:22:36,115 Speaker 1: go to anything beyond college. Anyway. Back to it, he's 291 00:22:36,195 --> 00:22:44,155 Speaker 1: net minus twenty two approval, thirty eight percent, disapproval sixty percent. 292 00:22:47,395 --> 00:22:49,995 Speaker 1: Back to the big picture. Morris also notes Pew looks 293 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:54,035 Speaker 1: at the cross tabs of their Trump approval rating data. 294 00:22:54,235 --> 00:22:57,955 Speaker 1: It was forty seven percent approval for Trump when the 295 00:22:58,035 --> 00:23:01,595 Speaker 1: term started. It is thirty eight percent now, and it 296 00:23:01,675 --> 00:23:05,555 Speaker 1: concludes Trump's rating has slipped more on among his younger 297 00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:08,675 Speaker 1: voters than among older adults who had voted for him. 298 00:23:10,115 --> 00:23:13,315 Speaker 1: A few weeks in, Trump's job approval rating among those 299 00:23:13,315 --> 00:23:16,275 Speaker 1: who had voted for him varied little by age. Morris 300 00:23:16,275 --> 00:23:19,915 Speaker 1: writes nine to ten or more Trump voters under thirty 301 00:23:19,915 --> 00:23:24,395 Speaker 1: five approved of his job performance, same as in the 302 00:23:24,435 --> 00:23:28,635 Speaker 1: older age groups. Today, Trump's rating remains overwhelmingly high among 303 00:23:28,675 --> 00:23:32,315 Speaker 1: his voters ages fifty and older, but it has slipped 304 00:23:32,795 --> 00:23:37,355 Speaker 1: among the younger voters. Sixty nine percent of Trump voters 305 00:23:37,435 --> 00:23:41,435 Speaker 1: under thirty five now approve. That's twenty three points less 306 00:23:42,675 --> 00:23:47,115 Speaker 1: than at the start of the term, twenty three points 307 00:23:47,155 --> 00:23:50,915 Speaker 1: less it was ninety two percent approval among younger voters. 308 00:23:51,315 --> 00:23:54,555 Speaker 1: It is now sixty nine. About a third of the 309 00:23:54,635 --> 00:23:58,515 Speaker 1: young people who voted for Trump do not approve of 310 00:23:58,875 --> 00:24:04,875 Speaker 1: him as president. While this is extraordinarily good news in 311 00:24:04,955 --> 00:24:07,275 Speaker 1: terms of elections if we still have them, it is 312 00:24:07,355 --> 00:24:09,915 Speaker 1: bad news because, as dumb as he is, Trump read 313 00:24:09,995 --> 00:24:14,035 Speaker 1: these two or more likely had somebody read them to him. 314 00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:17,915 Speaker 1: The worse he is doing, the more he senses reality 315 00:24:17,995 --> 00:24:21,475 Speaker 1: is cornering him, and the more troops he will bring 316 00:24:21,795 --> 00:24:25,195 Speaker 1: onto the streets of the blue cities, just waiting for 317 00:24:25,235 --> 00:24:34,075 Speaker 1: the chance to shoot you. The over arching lesson this week, 318 00:24:34,635 --> 00:24:40,235 Speaker 1: from c to Shining Sea, from the disaster in Alaska 319 00:24:40,435 --> 00:24:45,235 Speaker 1: to the Nazi occupied territory of Washington, d C. Is 320 00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:49,555 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump has declared war on the United States 321 00:24:49,915 --> 00:24:57,955 Speaker 1: of America. Also of interest here, it's happened the monkeys 322 00:24:58,195 --> 00:25:02,595 Speaker 1: have written all of Shakespeare. Somebody has won the lottery 323 00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:06,195 Speaker 1: and not blown the money on a seven hundred thousand 324 00:25:06,195 --> 00:25:10,515 Speaker 1: square foot palace made out of ketchup. And Pierce Morgan 325 00:25:10,995 --> 00:25:15,595 Speaker 1: has done something journalistic. Pierce Morgan has posted a meme 326 00:25:16,235 --> 00:25:19,835 Speaker 1: of Trump on his way to Alaska to meet Putin, 327 00:25:20,315 --> 00:25:28,475 Speaker 1: wherein Trump is shown wearing bright red kneepads. That's next, 328 00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:33,955 Speaker 1: This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith old Woman 329 00:25:55,115 --> 00:25:57,835 Speaker 1: still add on this editionive Countdown. I had the pleasure 330 00:25:58,355 --> 00:26:02,555 Speaker 1: of reading a comment over the weekend in which it 331 00:26:02,675 --> 00:26:08,635 Speaker 1: was claimed that the HBO Aaron Sorkin series Newsroom was 332 00:26:08,715 --> 00:26:13,635 Speaker 1: the worst episodic or film depiction of journalism, TV or 333 00:26:13,675 --> 00:26:22,795 Speaker 1: otherwise in the history of the English language. I'm not alone. 334 00:26:23,155 --> 00:26:28,955 Speaker 1: I'm not alone. Somebody else knows, but I must say 335 00:26:29,715 --> 00:26:31,675 Speaker 1: worse than the history of the English language. I think 336 00:26:31,675 --> 00:26:36,155 Speaker 1: that's exaggerating. It was not nearly that good. But what 337 00:26:36,315 --> 00:26:39,275 Speaker 1: made it even worse was the astonishing amount of dialogue 338 00:26:39,355 --> 00:26:44,835 Speaker 1: Sorkin allegedly cut and pasted from other people figuratively in 339 00:26:44,875 --> 00:26:49,035 Speaker 1: the case of me, literally according to a friend of 340 00:26:49,075 --> 00:26:53,355 Speaker 1: mine who was his ex girlfriend and said he cut 341 00:26:53,395 --> 00:26:56,795 Speaker 1: and pasted stuff out of her emails to him and 342 00:26:57,155 --> 00:27:04,235 Speaker 1: turned them into dialogue. My dad says it there, and 343 00:27:04,315 --> 00:27:08,635 Speaker 1: then it comes out of Jeff Daniels's mouth over there next. 344 00:27:08,675 --> 00:27:12,275 Speaker 1: In things I promise not to tell first, Believe it 345 00:27:12,355 --> 00:27:14,835 Speaker 1: or not, they're still more new idiots talk about the 346 00:27:14,915 --> 00:27:18,315 Speaker 1: roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens 347 00:27:18,435 --> 00:27:24,035 Speaker 1: who constitute today's other worst persons in the world. The 348 00:27:24,115 --> 00:27:30,595 Speaker 1: Bron's worst international fop Pierce Morgan, disgraced ex British journalist 349 00:27:31,235 --> 00:27:35,635 Speaker 1: and disgraced ex American journalist. It's a hell of a combo, Peers. 350 00:27:37,035 --> 00:27:42,715 Speaker 1: Hours before the disaster in Alaska began, he tweeted, as 351 00:27:42,755 --> 00:27:45,195 Speaker 1: President Donald Trump lens in Alaska, I wish him the 352 00:27:45,315 --> 00:27:47,715 Speaker 1: very best of luck in trying to secure an end 353 00:27:47,755 --> 00:27:50,715 Speaker 1: to the horrendous war in Ukraine. It's refreshing to see 354 00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:55,355 Speaker 1: a US president who genuinely prefers peace to war. Beneath 355 00:27:55,395 --> 00:27:57,395 Speaker 1: that is a picture of Trump at the top of 356 00:27:57,435 --> 00:28:02,115 Speaker 1: the stairs Air Force one waving. This is an actual 357 00:28:02,155 --> 00:28:05,595 Speaker 1: picture of Trump. He's waving to no crowd. He's just 358 00:28:05,635 --> 00:28:07,915 Speaker 1: posing for a photograph. He does this every time he 359 00:28:07,955 --> 00:28:10,235 Speaker 1: gets to the top of the stairs. He waves, whether 360 00:28:10,235 --> 00:28:13,155 Speaker 1: there's somebody there or not. We think he knows there's 361 00:28:13,155 --> 00:28:17,315 Speaker 1: nobody there, but nobody's sure. But the key ingredient here 362 00:28:17,395 --> 00:28:21,555 Speaker 1: is he's wearing not just bright red knee pads over 363 00:28:21,595 --> 00:28:25,515 Speaker 1: his pants, but they look like they're from roller Derby. 364 00:28:26,755 --> 00:28:29,595 Speaker 1: I mean, these knee pads would be way too much 365 00:28:30,635 --> 00:28:34,195 Speaker 1: for the National Football League in the nineteen thirties. I 366 00:28:34,235 --> 00:28:38,355 Speaker 1: mean they are knee pads the size of his neck, 367 00:28:41,155 --> 00:28:46,715 Speaker 1: bright red knee pads with I might add supporting straps 368 00:28:47,075 --> 00:28:51,955 Speaker 1: both on top and below what clear to be appear 369 00:28:51,995 --> 00:28:55,795 Speaker 1: to be plastic. They look kind of like baseball catchers, 370 00:28:55,835 --> 00:29:01,795 Speaker 1: shint guards, and kneepads. Pierce Morgan wishing Trump luck as 371 00:29:01,795 --> 00:29:08,355 Speaker 1: he goes to Alaska to meet Putin wearing kneepads. Morgan, 372 00:29:08,515 --> 00:29:13,235 Speaker 1: the hacking the voicemail guy deleted this tweet and reposted 373 00:29:13,275 --> 00:29:16,755 Speaker 1: it with a different photo without explanation. When other posters 374 00:29:16,835 --> 00:29:21,315 Speaker 1: asked wtf bub, he blithely said he hadn't noticed the 375 00:29:21,355 --> 00:29:24,595 Speaker 1: kneepads until after he posted it. He just changed photos, 376 00:29:25,115 --> 00:29:30,195 Speaker 1: as one does as one hacks. Paul McCartney's voicemail, for instance, 377 00:29:31,115 --> 00:29:35,715 Speaker 1: intered national scum. Moreover, that was the first bit of 378 00:29:35,755 --> 00:29:39,035 Speaker 1: actual journalism. Pierce Morgan has ever done, and he deleted it. 379 00:29:39,875 --> 00:29:42,555 Speaker 1: The first clever thing he's ever done, the first thing 380 00:29:42,595 --> 00:29:44,515 Speaker 1: in which he did not make himself look like an 381 00:29:44,595 --> 00:29:48,395 Speaker 1: asshole on at least two continents at the same time, 382 00:29:48,635 --> 00:29:54,515 Speaker 1: and he deleted it. The runner up worser Attorney General 383 00:29:54,595 --> 00:30:01,475 Speaker 1: Pam Blondie, This is an actual post. This is presumably 384 00:30:01,555 --> 00:30:05,275 Speaker 1: something that she thought of or somebody he thought of, 385 00:30:08,235 --> 00:30:10,475 Speaker 1: and they vetted it, and they thought about it, and 386 00:30:10,515 --> 00:30:14,795 Speaker 1: they posted it anyway, much like Pierce Morgan. Maybe Pierce 387 00:30:14,835 --> 00:30:18,635 Speaker 1: Morgan posted this for them. If you touch any law 388 00:30:18,715 --> 00:30:23,035 Speaker 1: enforcement officer, we will come after you. I just learned 389 00:30:23,035 --> 00:30:26,915 Speaker 1: that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice no longer. 390 00:30:27,275 --> 00:30:29,715 Speaker 1: Not only has he fired, he has been charged with 391 00:30:29,795 --> 00:30:33,195 Speaker 1: a felony. This is an example of the deep state 392 00:30:33,515 --> 00:30:35,795 Speaker 1: we have been up against for seven months. As we 393 00:30:35,835 --> 00:30:42,235 Speaker 1: work to refocus. Dj Ah, you will not work in 394 00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:47,755 Speaker 1: this administration, she said, while disrespecting our government and law enforcement. 395 00:30:49,035 --> 00:30:53,115 Speaker 1: What is this somebody shooting a bazooka at the White House? 396 00:30:53,835 --> 00:30:58,915 Speaker 1: Some terrorists with nuclear weapons. Pierce Morgan posting a picture 397 00:30:58,915 --> 00:31:01,555 Speaker 1: of the President wearing knee pads on his way to 398 00:31:01,715 --> 00:31:06,835 Speaker 1: fellate putin, no, sir, it is a repost of a 399 00:31:06,875 --> 00:31:11,115 Speaker 1: New York Post article DC man charged with felony assault 400 00:31:11,195 --> 00:31:19,035 Speaker 1: after hitting federal agent with subway sandwich. Pam Bondi and 401 00:31:19,075 --> 00:31:27,035 Speaker 1: the federal government laid low by a guy throwing a 402 00:31:27,195 --> 00:31:32,075 Speaker 1: sub sandwich. A hero a HOGI, the Hogi from Hell, 403 00:31:34,155 --> 00:31:37,355 Speaker 1: an example of the deep State. We have been up against. 404 00:31:38,435 --> 00:31:41,435 Speaker 1: You touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after 405 00:31:41,515 --> 00:31:47,235 Speaker 1: you with or without lettuce a that should have read 406 00:31:47,315 --> 00:31:50,875 Speaker 1: if you touch any law enforcement officer except on January sixth, 407 00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:53,475 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, or if you're wearing a Trump hat, 408 00:31:54,515 --> 00:32:00,235 Speaker 1: be imagine posting this in fury and her unrighteous indignation, 409 00:32:00,635 --> 00:32:05,755 Speaker 1: herself martyring that the deep State endangered the mighty Warriors 410 00:32:05,755 --> 00:32:11,555 Speaker 1: from Trump's isis by throwing a sandwich at it. Posting 411 00:32:11,595 --> 00:32:14,675 Speaker 1: this and never realizing you have made another fool out 412 00:32:14,675 --> 00:32:21,635 Speaker 1: of yourself and Trump isis and Trump and see the 413 00:32:21,715 --> 00:32:28,435 Speaker 1: reference to deep State. Pambody's voice, deep State am I right? 414 00:32:30,875 --> 00:32:35,955 Speaker 1: But the winners the worst CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, Oh 415 00:32:35,955 --> 00:32:40,075 Speaker 1: It's bad Sorkin day and House Minority Leader Akeem Jeffries. 416 00:32:40,635 --> 00:32:42,835 Speaker 1: I don't know in which order they should resign, but 417 00:32:42,955 --> 00:32:46,435 Speaker 1: they should both resign. These two men may be the 418 00:32:46,435 --> 00:32:51,115 Speaker 1: most overrated figures in their businesses in a generation. Four 419 00:32:51,235 --> 00:32:56,875 Speaker 1: times the smooth shallow Sorkin insisted that the Democratic candidate 420 00:32:56,875 --> 00:32:59,315 Speaker 1: for Mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani, lives in a 421 00:32:59,395 --> 00:33:05,315 Speaker 1: quote rent controlled apartment. Mamdani does not live in a 422 00:33:05,395 --> 00:33:08,515 Speaker 1: rent controlled apartment. He lives in what is called here 423 00:33:08,595 --> 00:33:12,395 Speaker 1: a rent stabilized apartment. There's a big difference between these 424 00:33:12,435 --> 00:33:14,435 Speaker 1: two things. In addition to the fact that it's not 425 00:33:14,515 --> 00:33:17,555 Speaker 1: the same words, Andrew Ross Sorkin and you fed up 426 00:33:18,315 --> 00:33:21,555 Speaker 1: in the simple business of reading words on TV, which 427 00:33:21,595 --> 00:33:24,315 Speaker 1: I think is your job, unless you volunteer at CNBC. 428 00:33:26,035 --> 00:33:28,835 Speaker 1: Knowing people at CNBC and having worked off and on 429 00:33:28,955 --> 00:33:32,595 Speaker 1: with CNBC for twenty seven years, it's possible he doesn't 430 00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:37,435 Speaker 1: get paid for that job. Actually, there is a big difference. 431 00:33:37,475 --> 00:33:40,555 Speaker 1: Twenty two thousand apartments are rent controlled in this city. 432 00:33:40,915 --> 00:33:43,035 Speaker 1: To live in one of them, you have to have 433 00:33:43,115 --> 00:33:47,875 Speaker 1: lived in it since at least nineteen seventy one, or 434 00:33:47,915 --> 00:33:50,875 Speaker 1: you have to have inherited it from somebody who lived 435 00:33:50,915 --> 00:33:54,075 Speaker 1: in it since at least nineteen seventy one. About fifteen 436 00:33:54,155 --> 00:33:56,355 Speaker 1: years ago, I lived in a building that had people 437 00:33:56,395 --> 00:34:00,195 Speaker 1: who had been living in it since the forties. They 438 00:34:00,235 --> 00:34:05,075 Speaker 1: were in rent controlled apartments. You really couldn't raise the 439 00:34:05,115 --> 00:34:08,715 Speaker 1: rent on them. But it has to be you have 440 00:34:08,755 --> 00:34:11,115 Speaker 1: to have been there since nineteen seventy one or earlier. 441 00:34:11,275 --> 00:34:16,195 Speaker 1: Zoraon Mamdani was born in nineteen ninety one. Mamdani lives 442 00:34:16,235 --> 00:34:21,275 Speaker 1: in a rent stabilized apartment. Half of all the apartments 443 00:34:21,275 --> 00:34:25,355 Speaker 1: in New York City at all price ranges, are rent stabilized. 444 00:34:25,835 --> 00:34:30,195 Speaker 1: All rent stabilized means is the landlord can only raise 445 00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:32,595 Speaker 1: the rent so much every year. It's two point seventy 446 00:34:32,635 --> 00:34:35,155 Speaker 1: five percent from one year to the next on a 447 00:34:35,155 --> 00:34:37,995 Speaker 1: one year lease, or five and a quarter percent if 448 00:34:37,995 --> 00:34:41,195 Speaker 1: you want a two year lease. Half of all apartments 449 00:34:41,195 --> 00:34:47,115 Speaker 1: in this city are rent stabilized. Zoron Mamdani lives in 450 00:34:47,155 --> 00:34:49,635 Speaker 1: one of those. I live in one of those. At 451 00:34:49,715 --> 00:34:52,595 Speaker 1: least half the people I have known in the entirety 452 00:34:52,595 --> 00:34:55,275 Speaker 1: of my lifetime in New York since nineteen fifty nine 453 00:34:55,315 --> 00:34:57,755 Speaker 1: have lived in one of those. They're not for what 454 00:34:57,835 --> 00:35:01,555 Speaker 1: this buffoon Sorkin said, for poor people. They are merely 455 00:35:01,595 --> 00:35:07,275 Speaker 1: for people who are not billionaires. What happened was Andrew Cuomo, 456 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:11,275 Speaker 1: who already lost the Democratic nomination, said this about Mamdani 457 00:35:11,555 --> 00:35:13,955 Speaker 1: and said he lived in a rent control department, which 458 00:35:13,995 --> 00:35:17,555 Speaker 1: is not true, because Cuomo cannot handle being a loser 459 00:35:17,955 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: and will do anything to defeat Mamdani or anybody else. Now, 460 00:35:22,715 --> 00:35:27,675 Speaker 1: mister Sorkin of CNBC repeated Cuomo's made up bullshit story 461 00:35:28,675 --> 00:35:32,235 Speaker 1: four times and said this live on the air to 462 00:35:32,315 --> 00:35:36,635 Speaker 1: the minority leader, the Democratic leader in the House, one 463 00:35:36,675 --> 00:35:39,235 Speaker 1: of the top five Democrats in the country. It came Jeffries, 464 00:35:39,395 --> 00:35:44,435 Speaker 1: who still has not endorsed the Democratic nominee for mayor 465 00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:47,795 Speaker 1: of the city that Jeffries represents in the House, nominee 466 00:35:48,315 --> 00:35:54,035 Speaker 1: chosen by Democrats in the city that chose Jeffries. Zoran Mamdani. 467 00:35:54,275 --> 00:35:57,435 Speaker 1: He's the nominee. He's not running for the nomination. He's 468 00:35:57,475 --> 00:36:00,435 Speaker 1: not a candidate. He beat the crap out of Andrew 469 00:36:00,475 --> 00:36:04,235 Speaker 1: Cuomo and every other Democrat and all the other Democrats 470 00:36:04,755 --> 00:36:09,915 Speaker 1: at Cuomo and a Keem Jeffries have endorsed him, but 471 00:36:10,075 --> 00:36:12,955 Speaker 1: not a Keem Jeffries, who's playing some other kind of 472 00:36:13,075 --> 00:36:18,115 Speaker 1: game there. And by the way, Jeffries did not correct 473 00:36:18,195 --> 00:36:22,115 Speaker 1: Andrew Ross Sorkin, as Andrew Ross Sorkin got it wrong 474 00:36:22,555 --> 00:36:26,995 Speaker 1: four times. Jeffries, who so far has been nearly a 475 00:36:27,075 --> 00:36:29,915 Speaker 1: total disaster as House minority leader, he might as well be. 476 00:36:30,075 --> 00:36:33,955 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer answered, not with an endorsement of Mam Donnie finally, 477 00:36:36,075 --> 00:36:41,715 Speaker 1: nor a repudiation of Cuomo's falsehood that this lazy, sloppy, 478 00:36:41,755 --> 00:36:46,115 Speaker 1: overrated clown. Sorkin repeated, but he said, quote, it's a 479 00:36:46,195 --> 00:36:49,275 Speaker 1: legitimate issue that has been raised, and the Mam Donnie 480 00:36:49,315 --> 00:36:54,915 Speaker 1: campaign is going to address it. First off, that's a 481 00:36:54,955 --> 00:36:59,595 Speaker 1: stronger phrase than he's used about Trump. Secondly, Congress and Jeffries, 482 00:36:59,715 --> 00:37:03,635 Speaker 1: it isn't a legitimate issue. It's a lie, and it's 483 00:37:03,675 --> 00:37:06,635 Speaker 1: a lie you didn't curt when afforded that opportunity. It 484 00:37:06,715 --> 00:37:10,115 Speaker 1: is a smear against your party's candidate who you have 485 00:37:10,195 --> 00:37:16,035 Speaker 1: not endorsed, a candidate who has won something already, unlike 486 00:37:16,075 --> 00:37:18,755 Speaker 1: the great job you did in the House elections last year. 487 00:37:20,395 --> 00:37:23,035 Speaker 1: And the issue that has to be raised is why 488 00:37:23,075 --> 00:37:27,075 Speaker 1: are you still the minority leader, Why are you the 489 00:37:27,155 --> 00:37:30,955 Speaker 1: lead Democrat in the House. Why at best, don't you 490 00:37:31,075 --> 00:37:34,595 Speaker 1: know the difference between New York City rent control departments 491 00:37:34,755 --> 00:37:37,955 Speaker 1: and New York City rent stabilized apartments When you represent 492 00:37:38,515 --> 00:37:44,315 Speaker 1: New York effing City in Congress, a Keem, Jeffries and 493 00:37:44,315 --> 00:37:52,275 Speaker 1: Andrew Wrong Sorkin torps, resign leave take that lying shit 494 00:37:52,355 --> 00:38:24,675 Speaker 1: Cuomo with you Today's other worst persons And finally our 495 00:38:24,755 --> 00:38:27,235 Speaker 1: number one story in the Countdown Things I promised not 496 00:38:27,355 --> 00:38:30,955 Speaker 1: to tell And back to my favorite topic, me. I 497 00:38:30,995 --> 00:38:33,875 Speaker 1: heard Jeff Daniels say the words, and in the next 498 00:38:33,915 --> 00:38:37,155 Speaker 1: minute my cell phone rang. It was an ex girlfriend. 499 00:38:37,555 --> 00:38:40,835 Speaker 1: While we were talking, an email arrived from another ex girlfriend, 500 00:38:40,835 --> 00:38:42,955 Speaker 1: and then in came a text from the current girlfriend 501 00:38:42,995 --> 00:38:46,315 Speaker 1: at her folks house, then two more emails, and before 502 00:38:46,355 --> 00:38:50,355 Speaker 1: I was off the phone to voicemails, and then regular 503 00:38:50,435 --> 00:38:53,275 Speaker 1: friends started to contact me. This is just over ten 504 00:38:53,355 --> 00:38:56,835 Speaker 1: years ago now. It was Sunday, August fifth, twenty twelve. 505 00:38:57,355 --> 00:39:01,315 Speaker 1: Jeff Daniels was playing the controversial newscaster and commentator on 506 00:39:01,475 --> 00:39:06,235 Speaker 1: Aaron Sorkin's HBO series Newsroom, which was based structurally on 507 00:39:06,395 --> 00:39:10,075 Speaker 1: Me and Countdown. And I know this because Aaron Sorkin 508 00:39:10,195 --> 00:39:13,195 Speaker 1: told me so before he filmed any of it. And 509 00:39:13,275 --> 00:39:15,635 Speaker 1: I know this because he asked me if he could 510 00:39:15,675 --> 00:39:18,235 Speaker 1: base the pilot episode on what happened to Me at 511 00:39:18,355 --> 00:39:21,955 Speaker 1: MSNBC in the spring and summer of twenty ten and 512 00:39:22,035 --> 00:39:24,275 Speaker 1: I know this because he came in and shadowed the 513 00:39:24,315 --> 00:39:27,235 Speaker 1: staff of Countdown for two days to get the feel 514 00:39:27,315 --> 00:39:29,595 Speaker 1: for the place. And I know this because he wound 515 00:39:29,675 --> 00:39:35,235 Speaker 1: up basing one character, Maggie Jordan, on my assistant Margaret Judson, 516 00:39:35,755 --> 00:39:39,035 Speaker 1: and then hiring Margaret Judson as a consultant, and then 517 00:39:39,195 --> 00:39:41,115 Speaker 1: hiring her as an actress to play a part that 518 00:39:41,275 --> 00:39:44,315 Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be her. And I know this because 519 00:39:44,355 --> 00:39:47,235 Speaker 1: he was furious when I would not fly to Denver. 520 00:39:47,355 --> 00:39:50,035 Speaker 1: I think it was to do a cameo in the pilot. 521 00:39:50,315 --> 00:39:52,315 Speaker 1: And I know this because he said he was hiring 522 00:39:52,395 --> 00:39:54,555 Speaker 1: me as a consultant. And I know this because I 523 00:39:54,595 --> 00:39:58,115 Speaker 1: never saw a dime out of it. This was the 524 00:39:58,155 --> 00:40:00,875 Speaker 1: second time Aaron Sorkin had based one of his TV 525 00:40:01,035 --> 00:40:04,315 Speaker 1: series on one of my TV series. The other was 526 00:40:04,395 --> 00:40:07,995 Speaker 1: called Sports Night, and Esquire magazine once asked me to 527 00:40:08,155 --> 00:40:11,235 Speaker 1: interview Sorkin about Sports Night, and I asked him the 528 00:40:11,235 --> 00:40:14,395 Speaker 1: real tough question, what was the origin of Sports Night? 529 00:40:14,755 --> 00:40:18,955 Speaker 1: And his answer was, quote, you are the origin. So 530 00:40:19,035 --> 00:40:21,555 Speaker 1: when The New York Times had called me about Newsroom, 531 00:40:21,635 --> 00:40:24,235 Speaker 1: I lightheartedly said it was nice to know in advance 532 00:40:24,315 --> 00:40:27,275 Speaker 1: this time that Aaron Sorkin was making a TV series 533 00:40:27,315 --> 00:40:32,155 Speaker 1: about me. Sorkin did not like this at all, and 534 00:40:32,195 --> 00:40:34,955 Speaker 1: he told all his actors to tell all their interviewers 535 00:40:34,995 --> 00:40:37,235 Speaker 1: that this was not true. And I know that because 536 00:40:37,315 --> 00:40:39,475 Speaker 1: Jeff Daniels told me that that was what Sorkin had 537 00:40:39,475 --> 00:40:44,835 Speaker 1: told him. Sorkin is interesting. I had known him for 538 00:40:44,875 --> 00:40:47,075 Speaker 1: about ten or twelve years when he came in to 539 00:40:47,155 --> 00:40:49,795 Speaker 1: countdown to see what it looked and felt like, and 540 00:40:49,875 --> 00:40:53,715 Speaker 1: he was twenty minutes late. And my assistant Margaret after 541 00:40:53,755 --> 00:40:56,315 Speaker 1: whom he named Maggie Jordan, whom he then hired away 542 00:40:56,315 --> 00:40:58,355 Speaker 1: from me, and whom he finally hired as an actress 543 00:40:58,395 --> 00:41:00,835 Speaker 1: to play Tess Weston, and she was great. By the way. 544 00:41:01,475 --> 00:41:04,275 Speaker 1: Margaret brings him in and he apologizes for being late, 545 00:41:04,315 --> 00:41:06,315 Speaker 1: and he said he's staying in a hotel two blocks 546 00:41:06,355 --> 00:41:08,275 Speaker 1: away and he should have just walked, but instead he 547 00:41:08,315 --> 00:41:10,795 Speaker 1: got in a car, and the next thing he knew, 548 00:41:10,795 --> 00:41:14,155 Speaker 1: he was six blocks away, caught in traffic caused by 549 00:41:14,195 --> 00:41:17,155 Speaker 1: the complete shutdown of one of the crosstown streets for 550 00:41:17,315 --> 00:41:21,155 Speaker 1: midday construction. And I laughed and I said, well, like 551 00:41:21,275 --> 00:41:23,755 Speaker 1: my late father, the architect used to say, New York, 552 00:41:24,235 --> 00:41:27,075 Speaker 1: it'll be a great town whenever they finish it, and 553 00:41:27,115 --> 00:41:30,315 Speaker 1: he laughed, and I laughed, And two years later, in 554 00:41:30,355 --> 00:41:34,395 Speaker 1: the seventh episode of the HBO Newsroom series, first aired 555 00:41:34,435 --> 00:41:37,675 Speaker 1: on August fifth, twenty twelve, and re aired throughout the week, 556 00:41:38,235 --> 00:41:41,915 Speaker 1: Jeff Daniels as the anchorman, Will McAvoy, who wasn't me 557 00:41:42,075 --> 00:41:44,995 Speaker 1: but actually kind of was me, is late to his 558 00:41:45,075 --> 00:41:48,955 Speaker 1: newsroom because he gets caught in Manhattan traffic caused by 559 00:41:48,995 --> 00:41:52,315 Speaker 1: Sunday night street construction, and he says to his exasperated producer, 560 00:41:52,995 --> 00:41:55,995 Speaker 1: new York, it'll be a great town whenever they finish it. 561 00:41:57,395 --> 00:42:00,915 Speaker 1: That's when my phone and email blew up, and the 562 00:42:00,915 --> 00:42:04,275 Speaker 1: then girlfriend, and like forty percent of all of my 563 00:42:04,395 --> 00:42:08,675 Speaker 1: exes ever all had the same question, New York, it'll 564 00:42:08,715 --> 00:42:11,075 Speaker 1: be a great town whenever they finish it. Isn't that 565 00:42:11,115 --> 00:42:13,995 Speaker 1: what your dad used to say? Even the ones who 566 00:42:14,035 --> 00:42:16,635 Speaker 1: never met my dad knew this because I used to 567 00:42:16,715 --> 00:42:20,115 Speaker 1: quote him constantly, Because the real humor in the quote 568 00:42:20,115 --> 00:42:22,035 Speaker 1: is the fact that my dad was an architect and 569 00:42:22,115 --> 00:42:25,515 Speaker 1: construction was his business. New York, It'll be a great 570 00:42:25,595 --> 00:42:29,595 Speaker 1: town whenever they finish it. And then one of the 571 00:42:29,675 --> 00:42:32,195 Speaker 1: last of the exes reached out, she waited until the 572 00:42:32,235 --> 00:42:34,915 Speaker 1: show was over. Now, I don't think any of us 573 00:42:35,075 --> 00:42:38,675 Speaker 1: is proud of this, but she had also dated Sorkin 574 00:42:38,755 --> 00:42:42,835 Speaker 1: once or twice, and since she had written celebrity stories 575 00:42:42,835 --> 00:42:45,115 Speaker 1: for a New York newspaper, he had later asked her 576 00:42:45,155 --> 00:42:48,435 Speaker 1: by email what the world of gossip reporting was like, 577 00:42:48,475 --> 00:42:51,715 Speaker 1: and she told him by email. And what she now 578 00:42:51,795 --> 00:42:55,435 Speaker 1: told me made Aaron Sorkin's use of my dad's quote 579 00:42:55,915 --> 00:42:59,035 Speaker 1: and other parts of my life seem like possible coincidences. 580 00:42:59,435 --> 00:43:03,115 Speaker 1: She said she was watching the third, maybe fourth episode 581 00:43:03,115 --> 00:43:06,835 Speaker 1: of Newsroom and in wa a new character, a gossip columnist, 582 00:43:06,915 --> 00:43:09,795 Speaker 1: a woman, and the first sentence the character said was 583 00:43:10,595 --> 00:43:14,395 Speaker 1: my friend. An ex said word for word something she 584 00:43:14,515 --> 00:43:17,035 Speaker 1: had sent to Sorkin in one of the emails about 585 00:43:17,035 --> 00:43:20,395 Speaker 1: the gossip business. She said, when she heard it, her 586 00:43:20,395 --> 00:43:23,595 Speaker 1: face started to get read, and it would keep getting reader. 587 00:43:24,155 --> 00:43:27,315 Speaker 1: The gossip columnist character's second line had also been cut 588 00:43:27,355 --> 00:43:30,795 Speaker 1: and pasted from my ex's email, then her long speech, 589 00:43:30,835 --> 00:43:33,555 Speaker 1: then all of her dialogue. She said in her second scene, 590 00:43:33,635 --> 00:43:36,595 Speaker 1: my ex actually managed to record that episode and to 591 00:43:36,675 --> 00:43:39,275 Speaker 1: find her own email to Sorkin and to compare them. 592 00:43:39,315 --> 00:43:41,555 Speaker 1: And she said, other than changing a couple of tenses 593 00:43:42,635 --> 00:43:47,355 Speaker 1: he had used her answers verbatim. I met the actor 594 00:43:47,475 --> 00:43:50,315 Speaker 1: Josh Charles during the two thousand World Series. I was 595 00:43:50,355 --> 00:43:53,675 Speaker 1: there anchoring it for Fox Sports. Josh was there promoting 596 00:43:53,675 --> 00:43:57,355 Speaker 1: his new show on Fox. Josh had played Dan Rydell 597 00:43:57,955 --> 00:44:01,275 Speaker 1: on Sorkin's Sports Night series, and even Sorkin and I agree, 598 00:44:01,355 --> 00:44:05,355 Speaker 1: dan Rydell is just me with a different haircut. I 599 00:44:05,475 --> 00:44:07,995 Speaker 1: was walking up Sixth Avenue one day in October two 600 00:44:08,075 --> 00:44:11,955 Speaker 1: thousand and from several blocks away, I saw Josh Charles 601 00:44:12,075 --> 00:44:15,475 Speaker 1: walking towards me, so I had several minutes to prepare 602 00:44:15,475 --> 00:44:19,035 Speaker 1: what I could say to him. This was not spontaneous, sadly, 603 00:44:19,755 --> 00:44:22,835 Speaker 1: but after our eyes met and I smiled and he 604 00:44:22,835 --> 00:44:25,435 Speaker 1: gave me that yes, I'm on TV, look that I 605 00:44:25,515 --> 00:44:29,675 Speaker 1: recognize and have myself deployed. He switched suddenly to shock 606 00:44:29,755 --> 00:44:32,795 Speaker 1: and even a little apprehension, and I said the line 607 00:44:32,835 --> 00:44:35,315 Speaker 1: I had been rehearsing in my head for several minutes. 608 00:44:35,915 --> 00:44:39,555 Speaker 1: Excuse me. You don't get to say this often in life, 609 00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:43,755 Speaker 1: but didn't you used to play me on TV? Right 610 00:44:43,795 --> 00:44:46,275 Speaker 1: there on Sixth Avenue, Josh told me about the ordeal 611 00:44:46,395 --> 00:44:48,635 Speaker 1: of working with and for Aaron Sorkin, and I thought 612 00:44:48,675 --> 00:44:51,755 Speaker 1: he just met for actors, but I later found out 613 00:44:52,595 --> 00:44:55,195 Speaker 1: because New York. It'll be a great time whenever they 614 00:44:55,235 --> 00:44:58,395 Speaker 1: finish it. Josh and I are still friends. We've gone 615 00:44:58,395 --> 00:45:01,395 Speaker 1: to ballgames together. We were in a fantasy baseball league together. 616 00:45:01,435 --> 00:45:04,315 Speaker 1: And one night on my ESPN two show, we came 617 00:45:04,355 --> 00:45:07,355 Speaker 1: back from commercial, giving the audience no warning or explanation, 618 00:45:07,675 --> 00:45:10,555 Speaker 1: and we simply started co anchoring the show and calling 619 00:45:10,555 --> 00:45:13,995 Speaker 1: it Sports Night and making references to the program and 620 00:45:14,035 --> 00:45:17,075 Speaker 1: to Newsroom. And then he said, why did we keep 621 00:45:17,115 --> 00:45:19,755 Speaker 1: reading this? And I said, I don't know. I just 622 00:45:19,795 --> 00:45:23,715 Speaker 1: assumed Sorkin had run out of new ideas. The mutual 623 00:45:23,795 --> 00:45:28,595 Speaker 1: laughter that followed was sincere, there is one more punchline 624 00:45:28,635 --> 00:45:31,755 Speaker 1: to the Newsroom Sorkin story, because I was like his 625 00:45:31,915 --> 00:45:35,595 Speaker 1: seventh guest ever. When Stephen Colbert wrapped up the Colbert 626 00:45:35,795 --> 00:45:39,075 Speaker 1: Report on Comedy Central, I was invited to be on 627 00:45:39,115 --> 00:45:43,435 Speaker 1: the final farewell episode, me and like ninety nine other people. 628 00:45:43,995 --> 00:45:46,755 Speaker 1: There were so many of us, ranging from Barry Manilow 629 00:45:47,235 --> 00:45:50,835 Speaker 1: to Brian Cranston to Big Bird, that they had like 630 00:45:51,075 --> 00:45:54,275 Speaker 1: nine green rooms in the Comedy Central building. And I 631 00:45:54,355 --> 00:45:56,155 Speaker 1: get there and they send me to the green room, 632 00:45:56,195 --> 00:45:58,115 Speaker 1: I would be sharing with several other people, and I'd 633 00:45:58,155 --> 00:46:00,235 Speaker 1: trudge up a bunch of stairs to the top floor. 634 00:46:00,435 --> 00:46:02,475 Speaker 1: And in this big room there is only one other 635 00:46:02,595 --> 00:46:09,275 Speaker 1: performer there yet it's Jeff Daniels. Without saying hello, he says, now, wait, 636 00:46:09,355 --> 00:46:13,555 Speaker 1: let me explain. Sorkin told me, and I explained, and 637 00:46:13,595 --> 00:46:16,115 Speaker 1: then he explained, and then I explained some more, and 638 00:46:16,235 --> 00:46:21,755 Speaker 1: Jeff said, oh a lot. And once he said oops, 639 00:46:22,355 --> 00:46:25,675 Speaker 1: and Sorkin didn't tell me that. And after about three 640 00:46:25,675 --> 00:46:28,355 Speaker 1: minutes he said, so I owe you an apology and 641 00:46:28,395 --> 00:46:30,955 Speaker 1: I said, no, you don't. It's not your fault. And 642 00:46:30,995 --> 00:46:33,115 Speaker 1: he smiled and he said, well great, I'm glad. So 643 00:46:34,715 --> 00:46:37,115 Speaker 1: can we take a picture together that I can put 644 00:46:37,155 --> 00:46:40,635 Speaker 1: out on Twitter? And I said, yeah, absolutely, but only 645 00:46:40,675 --> 00:46:44,035 Speaker 1: if you capture it New York. It'll be a great 646 00:46:44,075 --> 00:46:59,795 Speaker 1: town whenever they finish it. I've done all the damage 647 00:46:59,835 --> 00:47:01,635 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Most of 648 00:47:01,635 --> 00:47:05,515 Speaker 1: our Countdown music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian 649 00:47:05,595 --> 00:47:08,755 Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillip Schanel, our musical directors of Countdown, 650 00:47:08,795 --> 00:47:11,635 Speaker 1: and it was produced by two Ko brothers. Mister Ray 651 00:47:11,795 --> 00:47:15,035 Speaker 1: was on guitarist, bass and drums. Mister Chanale. Therefore, by 652 00:47:15,115 --> 00:47:19,955 Speaker 1: process of elimination, handled orchestration and keyboards, our satirical and 653 00:47:19,995 --> 00:47:23,115 Speaker 1: fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 654 00:47:23,235 --> 00:47:27,755 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by 655 00:47:27,795 --> 00:47:32,675 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis, appears CURTISYVESPN Inc. Other music arranged and 656 00:47:32,715 --> 00:47:36,235 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today 657 00:47:36,315 --> 00:47:38,955 Speaker 1: was my friend from Breaking Bad and Better call Saul 658 00:47:39,195 --> 00:47:45,955 Speaker 1: Johnny Banks. Everything else was as always my fault. That's 659 00:47:45,995 --> 00:47:49,195 Speaker 1: countdown for today, Day two hundred and eleven of America 660 00:47:49,235 --> 00:47:53,115 Speaker 1: held hostage again, just two hundred and fifty two days 661 00:47:53,155 --> 00:47:55,355 Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame 662 00:47:55,355 --> 00:47:59,635 Speaker 1: brained term unless he is removed sooner by MAGA and 663 00:47:59,715 --> 00:48:04,395 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein or the actuarial tables where Caroline Levitt leaves 664 00:48:04,475 --> 00:48:09,035 Speaker 1: him the business center in the hotel and anchorage until 665 00:48:09,035 --> 00:48:11,675 Speaker 1: next time. I'm Keithuldraman. 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