1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:29,755 --> 00:00:34,995 Speaker 1: Where Is Trump? The last twenty four hours have seen 3 00:00:35,075 --> 00:00:38,355 Speaker 1: so much Trump flak, so much Trump chaff, so much 4 00:00:38,395 --> 00:00:42,875 Speaker 1: Trump noise, so much Trump belligerents, that the subtle, stealthy, 5 00:00:42,915 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: almost inexplicable, biggest Trump story has remained almost unnoticed. Where 6 00:00:49,795 --> 00:00:53,595 Speaker 1: is Trump? This has been his week for self martyrdom, 7 00:00:53,635 --> 00:00:57,715 Speaker 1: for self projection, for self gratification. Where is he? There 8 00:00:57,755 --> 00:01:00,915 Speaker 1: are Trump ready cameras everywhere, and Trump circumstances have given 9 00:01:01,075 --> 00:01:04,675 Speaker 1: him a dozen different Trump topics to Trump choose from, 10 00:01:04,475 --> 00:01:08,115 Speaker 1: and yet his only words have been written online, even 11 00:01:08,195 --> 00:01:12,035 Speaker 1: Fox News. Since the search at Marilago. There should have 12 00:01:12,075 --> 00:01:15,675 Speaker 1: been one Trump soundbites, competing for the attention of some 13 00:01:15,955 --> 00:01:19,195 Speaker 1: and competing for the nausea of others. Instead, there have 14 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:24,795 Speaker 1: been none. Why this isn't about legal advice, It isn't restraint. 15 00:01:24,835 --> 00:01:28,555 Speaker 1: He's still using social media, still doing off camera interviews. 16 00:01:29,395 --> 00:01:32,435 Speaker 1: Is he sick? Did he have a facelift? Did he 17 00:01:32,475 --> 00:01:34,835 Speaker 1: look at the images of himself at that last golf 18 00:01:34,875 --> 00:01:38,675 Speaker 1: tournament in New Jersey and scare himself into a coma? 19 00:01:39,355 --> 00:01:42,835 Speaker 1: Trump created a Trump void so large that a Trump 20 00:01:42,955 --> 00:01:47,675 Speaker 1: rerun stepped into the gap. This went viral yesterday after 21 00:01:47,715 --> 00:01:51,555 Speaker 1: ABC and CNN did stories quoting it. Thursday, this piece 22 00:01:51,555 --> 00:01:55,355 Speaker 1: of tape will be six years old, and old Trump 23 00:01:55,435 --> 00:01:59,715 Speaker 1: is truly better than new Trump. In my administration, I'm 24 00:01:59,755 --> 00:02:06,355 Speaker 1: going to enforce all lords concerning the protection of classified information. 25 00:02:09,555 --> 00:02:12,955 Speaker 1: No one will be above the law. He would add 26 00:02:12,995 --> 00:02:15,475 Speaker 1: a PostScript now if he could, no one will be 27 00:02:15,515 --> 00:02:19,635 Speaker 1: above the law except me. Now you can tell me this. 28 00:02:19,995 --> 00:02:22,675 Speaker 1: I confess I did it too. For one shining moment 29 00:02:22,715 --> 00:02:25,835 Speaker 1: on Monday, I had hope Trump's passports had been taken. 30 00:02:26,275 --> 00:02:28,555 Speaker 1: Somebody thought he was a flight risk, somebody somewhere was 31 00:02:28,555 --> 00:02:32,515 Speaker 1: finally going to arrest him Instead, as ever, the only 32 00:02:32,555 --> 00:02:35,435 Speaker 1: thing arrested was Trump's psychological development, and the only thing 33 00:02:35,435 --> 00:02:39,675 Speaker 1: he was a risk of was manipulative self victimization bordering 34 00:02:39,675 --> 00:02:45,475 Speaker 1: on Munchausen syndrome. The passport story was just another Trump scam. 35 00:02:45,515 --> 00:02:48,515 Speaker 1: So once more, this reminder to Trump about his greatest skill, 36 00:02:48,675 --> 00:02:51,675 Speaker 1: martyring himself so others will think he has been wronged. 37 00:02:51,955 --> 00:02:55,235 Speaker 1: Quoting Nigel Plainer as Neil in the British TV comedy 38 00:02:55,235 --> 00:02:59,435 Speaker 1: series The Young Ones, quote, crucifixion is a really negative 39 00:02:59,475 --> 00:03:02,195 Speaker 1: way to kill yourself. I've tried it hundreds of times. 40 00:03:02,835 --> 00:03:05,475 Speaker 1: There's no way you can hammer in the last nail. 41 00:03:06,675 --> 00:03:10,595 Speaker 1: At one two pm Eastern Monday, L Douche tried to 42 00:03:10,635 --> 00:03:13,995 Speaker 1: hammer in the last nail, asserting quote in the raid 43 00:03:14,075 --> 00:03:18,715 Speaker 1: by the FBI of Marilago, they stole my three passports, 44 00:03:18,875 --> 00:03:22,315 Speaker 1: one expired, along with everything else. This is an assault 45 00:03:22,355 --> 00:03:25,035 Speaker 1: on a political opponent at a level never seen before 46 00:03:25,075 --> 00:03:29,355 Speaker 1: in our country, third world. But at twelve forty nine 47 00:03:29,515 --> 00:03:34,955 Speaker 1: Eastern Monday, thirty three minutes earlier, the Department of Justice, 48 00:03:34,995 --> 00:03:37,395 Speaker 1: in the person of the Counterintelligence Chief who has had 49 00:03:37,435 --> 00:03:41,555 Speaker 1: to interact with the nauseating semi people of trump Land, J. Bratt, 50 00:03:41,875 --> 00:03:45,035 Speaker 1: had contacted them and wrote, we have learned that the 51 00:03:45,075 --> 00:03:49,595 Speaker 1: Filter agents seized three passports belonging to President Trump, too 52 00:03:49,635 --> 00:03:53,395 Speaker 1: expired and one being his active diplomatic passport. We are 53 00:03:53,475 --> 00:03:55,515 Speaker 1: returning them and they will be ready for pick up 54 00:03:55,555 --> 00:03:59,675 Speaker 1: at two pm today. Trump it was who rushed to 55 00:03:59,715 --> 00:04:02,555 Speaker 1: publicize this to make himself the victim, to make it 56 00:04:02,595 --> 00:04:04,715 Speaker 1: look intentional, when not only was it the result of 57 00:04:04,755 --> 00:04:09,795 Speaker 1: his own stupidity, he really actually impossibly put a passport 58 00:04:09,835 --> 00:04:12,835 Speaker 1: they gave him while he was president and two expired 59 00:04:12,875 --> 00:04:17,755 Speaker 1: passports in one of the boxes with the whatever nuclear codes, 60 00:04:17,875 --> 00:04:22,315 Speaker 1: nuclear detonation schematics, and it got swept up by accident. 61 00:04:22,955 --> 00:04:26,355 Speaker 1: And in point of fact, he never noticed his passports 62 00:04:26,395 --> 00:04:30,315 Speaker 1: were missing until the Department of Justice voluntarily contacted his 63 00:04:30,355 --> 00:04:34,675 Speaker 1: people and said, oops, here are your passports back. And 64 00:04:34,715 --> 00:04:37,355 Speaker 1: by the way, the diplomatic passport is not expired, but 65 00:04:37,395 --> 00:04:39,275 Speaker 1: he can't use it since, no matter what he tells 66 00:04:39,355 --> 00:04:43,355 Speaker 1: himself these days, he is nothing. This was just the 67 00:04:43,435 --> 00:04:46,555 Speaker 1: low light of a dizzying twenty four hours centered on 68 00:04:46,595 --> 00:04:50,395 Speaker 1: Trump's alleged theft of top secret documents related to nuclear weapons. 69 00:04:50,875 --> 00:04:53,755 Speaker 1: There was also that off camera interview with Fox Nudes 70 00:04:54,155 --> 00:04:56,675 Speaker 1: in which he continued what even for him is amazingly 71 00:04:56,715 --> 00:05:00,475 Speaker 1: self indulgent, self pity. Trump confirmed in that interview that 72 00:05:00,515 --> 00:05:03,795 Speaker 1: he had staffers reach out to the Justice Department. Unclear 73 00:05:03,795 --> 00:05:05,755 Speaker 1: if this was the set in time he had done that, 74 00:05:06,035 --> 00:05:08,635 Speaker 1: or he was just boasting about the contact made on 75 00:05:08,715 --> 00:05:12,715 Speaker 1: his behalf to Merrick Garland, apparently just before Garland took 76 00:05:12,755 --> 00:05:15,795 Speaker 1: to the podium to confirm the search. The contact that 77 00:05:15,835 --> 00:05:18,715 Speaker 1: we've known about since last Friday. But listen to this 78 00:05:18,795 --> 00:05:22,355 Speaker 1: madness quote. People are so angry at what is taking place. 79 00:05:22,915 --> 00:05:24,715 Speaker 1: He says. He conveyed to the people who are trying 80 00:05:24,715 --> 00:05:27,355 Speaker 1: to put him in prison, whatever we can do to help, 81 00:05:27,395 --> 00:05:30,515 Speaker 1: because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. 82 00:05:30,555 --> 00:05:34,595 Speaker 1: If it isn't terrible, things are going to happen. This, 83 00:05:34,835 --> 00:05:38,195 Speaker 1: of course, is Trump's familiarity with organized crime coming to 84 00:05:38,235 --> 00:05:41,595 Speaker 1: the surface. Nice country you've got here, He's saying, it 85 00:05:41,635 --> 00:05:43,835 Speaker 1: would be a shame if something were to happen to it. 86 00:05:44,315 --> 00:05:49,195 Speaker 1: I and I alone can sell you protection, quoting again. 87 00:05:49,355 --> 00:05:53,435 Speaker 1: People are so angry at what is taking place, he says, again, 88 00:05:53,475 --> 00:05:55,755 Speaker 1: reveals more than he hides when he says people are 89 00:05:56,155 --> 00:06:00,795 Speaker 1: or people say he means himself, quoting again, the country 90 00:06:00,835 --> 00:06:03,715 Speaker 1: is in a very dangerous position. There is tremendous anger 91 00:06:03,955 --> 00:06:07,315 Speaker 1: like I've never been before. Over all the scams, we 92 00:06:07,395 --> 00:06:12,515 Speaker 1: have a new Trump catchword, scams quoting again, and this 93 00:06:12,595 --> 00:06:14,875 Speaker 1: new one. Years of scams and witch hunts and now this. 94 00:06:15,235 --> 00:06:17,315 Speaker 1: There has never been a time like this where law 95 00:06:17,435 --> 00:06:21,595 Speaker 1: enforcement has been used to break into the house of 96 00:06:21,635 --> 00:06:25,915 Speaker 1: a former president. Nothing happens to those people who perpetuate 97 00:06:25,995 --> 00:06:29,035 Speaker 1: that nothing happens with them, and then they break into 98 00:06:29,115 --> 00:06:34,115 Speaker 1: a president's house. A sneak attack where it was totally 99 00:06:34,635 --> 00:06:36,675 Speaker 1: no one ever thought a thing like this would happen. 100 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:42,435 Speaker 1: The megalomania here, at least the third time, agents dealt 101 00:06:42,435 --> 00:06:45,555 Speaker 1: with Trump and his lackeys to get back government property 102 00:06:45,755 --> 00:06:50,835 Speaker 1: secrets he stole. Then he lied about having returned them, 103 00:06:50,915 --> 00:06:54,915 Speaker 1: and this becomes transformed in his diseased mind as they 104 00:06:54,955 --> 00:06:59,635 Speaker 1: break into a president's house. A sneak attack, it's called 105 00:06:59,675 --> 00:07:05,595 Speaker 1: a warrant. It is used against criminals. There was something 106 00:07:05,875 --> 00:07:10,995 Speaker 1: notable of substance in Trump's masturbatory ramblings to Fox. He 107 00:07:11,155 --> 00:07:14,035 Speaker 1: contradicted one of his own attorneys, well, one of his 108 00:07:14,075 --> 00:07:17,835 Speaker 1: own attorneys spokesmodels. It was Christina Bob who had said 109 00:07:17,915 --> 00:07:21,315 Speaker 1: Trump and some of his family watched from New York 110 00:07:21,515 --> 00:07:25,595 Speaker 1: via security cameras as the FBI searched Mari Lago. Trump 111 00:07:25,635 --> 00:07:28,955 Speaker 1: blithely contradicted her. The agents told them to quote, turn 112 00:07:29,035 --> 00:07:31,315 Speaker 1: off the camera. No one can go through the rooms 113 00:07:31,355 --> 00:07:33,875 Speaker 1: by people were asked to stand outside. They could take 114 00:07:33,875 --> 00:07:38,595 Speaker 1: anything they want and put anything they want in. I've 115 00:07:38,635 --> 00:07:41,715 Speaker 1: never seen anything like this, Trump continued to say, as 116 00:07:41,715 --> 00:07:45,315 Speaker 1: he poured gasoline on the Constitution and the democracy and 117 00:07:45,355 --> 00:07:48,635 Speaker 1: wondered what the smell was quote, it is a very 118 00:07:48,715 --> 00:07:51,635 Speaker 1: dangerous time for our country. I will do whatever I 119 00:07:51,715 --> 00:07:55,395 Speaker 1: can to help the country. Now I have a suggestion 120 00:07:55,435 --> 00:07:57,195 Speaker 1: as to what he can best do to help the country, 121 00:07:57,275 --> 00:08:01,155 Speaker 1: but I expect you would think less of me if 122 00:08:01,235 --> 00:08:04,955 Speaker 1: I gave voice to it. As always, the only thing 123 00:08:05,075 --> 00:08:09,035 Speaker 1: keeping Trump from being institutionalized for his many, many disconnections 124 00:08:09,035 --> 00:08:11,995 Speaker 1: from reality is that fact that there are millions who 125 00:08:11,995 --> 00:08:14,635 Speaker 1: have bought into his living embodiment of the story of 126 00:08:14,675 --> 00:08:18,435 Speaker 1: the Emperor's new clothes. The usually reliable British newspaper The 127 00:08:18,475 --> 00:08:22,235 Speaker 1: Guardian ran a story headlined quote, Trump should announce run 128 00:08:22,275 --> 00:08:27,635 Speaker 1: for soon to avoid indictment. Source says that, of course, 129 00:08:27,635 --> 00:08:30,475 Speaker 1: it's not how it works, even though the source would 130 00:08:30,475 --> 00:08:32,795 Speaker 1: appear to be another one of the endless supply of 131 00:08:32,795 --> 00:08:37,555 Speaker 1: Trump attorney spokesmodels, Alina Haba, who last week quoted herself 132 00:08:37,595 --> 00:08:40,675 Speaker 1: advising Trump, if you would like me to resolve all 133 00:08:40,715 --> 00:08:43,235 Speaker 1: your litigation, you should announce that you are not running 134 00:08:43,235 --> 00:08:45,315 Speaker 1: for office, and all of this will stop. That's what 135 00:08:45,395 --> 00:08:49,715 Speaker 1: they want, you know. That might actually have been true 136 00:08:49,835 --> 00:08:54,075 Speaker 1: once it was clear Friday that having accurately perceived Trump's 137 00:08:54,115 --> 00:08:57,755 Speaker 1: threat to seed even further discord and disorder in the country. 138 00:08:57,955 --> 00:09:00,915 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland was now both enraged on behalf of the 139 00:09:00,995 --> 00:09:05,195 Speaker 1: nation and enraged personally. We learned last night from the 140 00:09:05,195 --> 00:09:09,235 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal that Garland quote deliberated for weeks over 141 00:09:09,235 --> 00:09:12,235 Speaker 1: whether to approve the application for a warrant. People familiar 142 00:09:12,235 --> 00:09:15,195 Speaker 1: with the matter said, and the decision had been the 143 00:09:15,235 --> 00:09:18,515 Speaker 1: subject of weeks of meetings between senior Justice Department and 144 00:09:18,635 --> 00:09:23,395 Speaker 1: FBI officials. The people said, whatever that reluctance was, it 145 00:09:23,395 --> 00:09:26,515 Speaker 1: seems to have passed. At the Department of Justice. Some 146 00:09:26,675 --> 00:09:29,835 Speaker 1: actually thought Garland would acceed in part to the legal 147 00:09:29,835 --> 00:09:33,955 Speaker 1: effort to unseal the affidavit upon which the Marilago search 148 00:09:34,155 --> 00:09:37,875 Speaker 1: was based. Not in the least. His department has told 149 00:09:37,915 --> 00:09:42,275 Speaker 1: the judge that the affidavit confirms national security implications and 150 00:09:42,355 --> 00:09:46,595 Speaker 1: references witnesses and investigative methods, and must remain under sealed 151 00:09:46,595 --> 00:09:50,635 Speaker 1: because quote, if disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a 152 00:09:50,755 --> 00:09:54,835 Speaker 1: roadmap to the government's ongoing investigation, providing specific details about 153 00:09:54,835 --> 00:09:57,875 Speaker 1: its direction and likely course in a matter that is 154 00:09:57,955 --> 00:10:03,115 Speaker 1: highly likely to compromise future investigative steps. Adding quote will 155 00:10:03,235 --> 00:10:07,395 Speaker 1: likely chill future operation by witnesses whose assistance may be 156 00:10:07,595 --> 00:10:11,475 Speaker 1: sought as this investigation progresses, as well as in other 157 00:10:11,555 --> 00:10:15,875 Speaker 1: high profile investigations for our purposes. The key part of 158 00:10:15,915 --> 00:10:20,755 Speaker 1: that is confirmation that there are to be further investigative steps, 159 00:10:21,235 --> 00:10:24,995 Speaker 1: and that they intend that the investigation progresses, and that 160 00:10:25,075 --> 00:10:29,515 Speaker 1: there are cooperative witnesses. And a PostScript here that I 161 00:10:29,515 --> 00:10:32,555 Speaker 1: have yet to see explained. In another filing, the Justice 162 00:10:32,555 --> 00:10:36,635 Speaker 1: Department said there had been another search warrant signed by 163 00:10:36,675 --> 00:10:39,835 Speaker 1: the same magistrate on the same date in Florida, but 164 00:10:39,955 --> 00:10:45,755 Speaker 1: it was not related to the search at Mari Lago. Meanwhile, 165 00:10:46,155 --> 00:10:48,155 Speaker 1: we seem to have reached that part of the gunfight 166 00:10:48,195 --> 00:10:50,555 Speaker 1: at the Okay Corral where they are rounding up the 167 00:10:50,595 --> 00:10:53,915 Speaker 1: Clanton gang prosecutors. In the Georgia, I just want to 168 00:10:53,955 --> 00:10:58,075 Speaker 1: find eleven thousand, seven eight votes scandal have notified Rudy 169 00:10:58,195 --> 00:11:02,755 Speaker 1: Juliani that he is a target. So Rudy is sweating. 170 00:11:04,515 --> 00:11:07,835 Speaker 1: And if Rudy is sweating, you know what that means. 171 00:11:09,155 --> 00:11:14,475 Speaker 1: There's masscara everywhere. In the same Georgia case, a federal 172 00:11:14,515 --> 00:11:17,355 Speaker 1: district judge ruled that Lindsay Graham cannot hide behind the 173 00:11:17,355 --> 00:11:20,595 Speaker 1: nonsensical defense that when he called the Georgias Secretary of 174 00:11:20,635 --> 00:11:24,275 Speaker 1: state he was just engaged in legislative fact finding, which 175 00:11:24,275 --> 00:11:28,035 Speaker 1: would excuse him from having to testify. Graham has appealed, 176 00:11:28,035 --> 00:11:29,955 Speaker 1: and that appeal will be heard by the second or 177 00:11:30,035 --> 00:11:32,915 Speaker 1: third most conservative court in the country, so he may 178 00:11:32,995 --> 00:11:36,235 Speaker 1: yet get out of it. But Washington grand Jury has 179 00:11:36,235 --> 00:11:40,155 Speaker 1: now subpoenaed Trump's first impeachment lawyer, Eric Hirshman. He's the 180 00:11:40,195 --> 00:11:43,355 Speaker 1: one who testified to the January sixth Committee that he 181 00:11:43,355 --> 00:11:46,635 Speaker 1: heard the infamous John Eastman resume his push for the 182 00:11:46,675 --> 00:11:50,075 Speaker 1: elector's coup on January seven and replied to him, quote, 183 00:11:50,235 --> 00:11:52,955 Speaker 1: are you out of your effing mind? Now? I'm going 184 00:11:52,995 --> 00:11:55,075 Speaker 1: to give you the best free legal advice you're ever 185 00:11:55,115 --> 00:11:58,555 Speaker 1: getting in your life. Get a great effing criminal defense lawyer. 186 00:11:58,595 --> 00:12:00,835 Speaker 1: You're going to need it. And then I hung up 187 00:12:00,835 --> 00:12:03,755 Speaker 1: on him. So if any of us are rooting for 188 00:12:03,795 --> 00:12:06,595 Speaker 1: anybody on Trump side of this, it's Hershman. Nobody is 189 00:12:06,635 --> 00:12:09,835 Speaker 1: saying why the grand jury subpoenaed him. Meanwhile, the Washington 190 00:12:09,915 --> 00:12:12,675 Speaker 1: Post found legal filings that proved that the Sydney Powell 191 00:12:12,755 --> 00:12:16,515 Speaker 1: voting machine coup went far further than we knew. Her 192 00:12:16,555 --> 00:12:20,995 Speaker 1: minions copied quote sensitive data from election systems in Georgia, 193 00:12:21,075 --> 00:12:24,995 Speaker 1: in Michigan, and in Nevada. Legally, these would be considered 194 00:12:25,035 --> 00:12:29,355 Speaker 1: breaches of critical infrastructure and all involved could be prosecuted 195 00:12:29,715 --> 00:12:34,315 Speaker 1: or at minimum investigated, of course, not investigated by the FBI. 196 00:12:34,715 --> 00:12:38,155 Speaker 1: Not if the Republicans returned to power. The ACE provocateur 197 00:12:38,235 --> 00:12:41,155 Speaker 1: Lauren Windsor with another coup she has now gotten the 198 00:12:41,195 --> 00:12:45,955 Speaker 1: Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts on tape, what about defunding the FBI? Though, 199 00:12:45,995 --> 00:12:48,915 Speaker 1: she asks Rickets, we could do that if we get 200 00:12:48,955 --> 00:12:51,955 Speaker 1: control of Congress, if we can control the House. And 201 00:12:51,995 --> 00:12:56,955 Speaker 1: when Pete Ricketts says defund, he means defund. Look what 202 00:12:57,075 --> 00:12:59,275 Speaker 1: his family did to the baseball team they owned, the 203 00:12:59,395 --> 00:13:03,875 Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. And lastly, it is something to say that 204 00:13:03,955 --> 00:13:06,555 Speaker 1: this event or that event is the weirdest thing to 205 00:13:06,595 --> 00:13:09,195 Speaker 1: happen in Trump world in weeks when there was a 206 00:13:09,355 --> 00:13:13,355 Speaker 1: raid at Mari Lago, but here it is the weirdest 207 00:13:13,355 --> 00:13:17,195 Speaker 1: thing to happen in Trump world in weeks. From the 208 00:13:17,315 --> 00:13:23,235 Speaker 1: podcast of Lisa Booth, the suggestion that Trump supporters may 209 00:13:23,275 --> 00:13:27,595 Speaker 1: be thinking, quote, maybe it's time to turn the page. 210 00:13:27,835 --> 00:13:30,835 Speaker 1: If we can get someone who has all Trump's policies, 211 00:13:30,875 --> 00:13:34,875 Speaker 1: who's not Trump, who would say that who would even 212 00:13:34,995 --> 00:13:41,275 Speaker 1: suggest metaphorically killing the king to the king's audience. Laura 213 00:13:41,475 --> 00:13:45,995 Speaker 1: Ingram said that while she did continue to slavishly support 214 00:13:46,075 --> 00:13:48,235 Speaker 1: him through the lens of her TV show last night, 215 00:13:48,755 --> 00:13:51,235 Speaker 1: The Lens with the Vassilion on it and the Gauze 216 00:13:51,395 --> 00:13:55,995 Speaker 1: over it, on this podcast she seemed ready to punt 217 00:13:56,675 --> 00:14:01,395 Speaker 1: the full quote. People conflate Trump with people's overall sense 218 00:14:01,475 --> 00:14:04,115 Speaker 1: of happiness in the country. But you know, we'll see 219 00:14:04,155 --> 00:14:06,795 Speaker 1: whether that what the country wants. The country, I think 220 00:14:06,915 --> 00:14:12,635 Speaker 1: is so exhausted, they're exhausted by the battle, the constant battle, 221 00:14:13,315 --> 00:14:15,755 Speaker 1: that they may believe that, well, maybe it's time to 222 00:14:15,915 --> 00:14:18,835 Speaker 1: turn the page. If we can get someone who has 223 00:14:18,875 --> 00:14:22,635 Speaker 1: all Trump's policies, who's not Trump. This is Laura Ingram. 224 00:14:22,715 --> 00:14:26,755 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram, whose obituary someday will show her stiff armed, 225 00:14:27,155 --> 00:14:30,395 Speaker 1: all too familiar to students of twentieth century German history, 226 00:14:30,475 --> 00:14:35,035 Speaker 1: salute to Trump at the two thousand and sixteen Republican Convention. 227 00:14:36,395 --> 00:14:39,635 Speaker 1: I know her a little bit, as you know, sounds 228 00:14:39,635 --> 00:14:43,795 Speaker 1: to me like able Braun wants to see other people 229 00:14:51,355 --> 00:14:54,835 Speaker 1: sell ahead. Uncountdown the moment OZ video heard around the world. 230 00:14:55,475 --> 00:14:59,075 Speaker 1: This guy is a democratic party Ringer, isn't he doesn't 231 00:14:59,075 --> 00:15:01,675 Speaker 1: he have to be at this point? He's a head 232 00:15:01,675 --> 00:15:04,795 Speaker 1: and worse Persons And if Sarah Pale and his on 233 00:15:04,835 --> 00:15:08,595 Speaker 1: the ballot today, I am legally required to again read 234 00:15:08,635 --> 00:15:12,675 Speaker 1: to you the immortal The Little starbursts through the screen 235 00:15:12,995 --> 00:15:16,875 Speaker 1: story the night Rich Lowry of the National Review believed 236 00:15:16,915 --> 00:15:21,515 Speaker 1: that Sarah Palin had winked at him. All that's next. 237 00:15:21,595 --> 00:15:44,195 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Albon Larry 238 00:15:44,275 --> 00:15:47,395 Speaker 1: David doing his impression of the legendary voice of Yankee 239 00:15:47,475 --> 00:15:51,915 Speaker 1: Stadium Bob Shepherd. Thank you, Larry. Coming up, there's Sarah 240 00:15:51,995 --> 00:15:54,835 Speaker 1: Palin news. So by law, I am required to again 241 00:15:54,915 --> 00:15:57,915 Speaker 1: read you the Rich Lowry story about her from two 242 00:15:57,955 --> 00:16:03,235 Speaker 1: thousand eight plus Worst Persons, Marjorie Trailer Park, Green, Carrie Lake, 243 00:16:03,355 --> 00:16:08,715 Speaker 1: mement Oz. How can I choose? I am only one man. First. 244 00:16:08,715 --> 00:16:11,075 Speaker 1: In each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 245 00:16:11,195 --> 00:16:14,595 Speaker 1: need whom you can help. Every dog has its day. 246 00:16:15,035 --> 00:16:17,755 Speaker 1: We go back to the kill shelter in Riverside, California, 247 00:16:17,835 --> 00:16:20,915 Speaker 1: and Sweetheart and I don't know how things could be 248 00:16:20,955 --> 00:16:23,715 Speaker 1: worse for Sweetheart. She's on the kill list there. She 249 00:16:23,915 --> 00:16:27,835 Speaker 1: is pregnant and ready to litter. They may euthanize her 250 00:16:27,875 --> 00:16:30,835 Speaker 1: and her just about ready to be born puppies. If 251 00:16:30,875 --> 00:16:33,355 Speaker 1: she's adopted, they might first spay her and that would 252 00:16:33,435 --> 00:16:36,355 Speaker 1: kill the puppies. She's just a big, old, dark gray, 253 00:16:36,355 --> 00:16:40,115 Speaker 1: friendly dog with a family. If you are interested, if 254 00:16:40,155 --> 00:16:43,595 Speaker 1: you can help, email is Rescue at riv COO r 255 00:16:43,635 --> 00:16:46,115 Speaker 1: i v c O dot org, or just go to 256 00:16:46,155 --> 00:16:49,035 Speaker 1: my account for Dogs in Need Tom Jumbo Grumbo on 257 00:16:49,075 --> 00:16:51,555 Speaker 1: Twitter to see a video of poor Sweetheart and get 258 00:16:51,555 --> 00:16:53,475 Speaker 1: the links that will take you to the website where 259 00:16:53,515 --> 00:16:55,995 Speaker 1: she is. You can also help her by retweeting my 260 00:16:56,035 --> 00:16:58,995 Speaker 1: tweet about Sweetheart. Spread the word. It's at Tom jumbo 261 00:16:59,035 --> 00:17:03,515 Speaker 1: Grumbo on Twitter. Coming up here on countdown. Hi, I 262 00:17:03,595 --> 00:17:10,715 Speaker 1: amendit oz running to be your senator. Here in checks Notes, Pennsylvania. 263 00:17:11,275 --> 00:17:16,315 Speaker 1: I'm standing here at this supermarket called checks Notes. I'm 264 00:17:16,355 --> 00:17:19,195 Speaker 1: not sure what it says here here in this town 265 00:17:19,275 --> 00:17:24,995 Speaker 1: of checks Notes. I don't know where I am. Yes, 266 00:17:25,075 --> 00:17:28,315 Speaker 1: it's the worst persons in the world. But first postscripts 267 00:17:28,315 --> 00:17:39,315 Speaker 1: to the news, some headlines, some thoughts, some snark. Dateline 268 00:17:39,355 --> 00:17:42,635 Speaker 1: Tehran as evidence builds of some connection between the government 269 00:17:42,635 --> 00:17:45,195 Speaker 1: of Iran and the New jerseyman who attacked the author. 270 00:17:45,275 --> 00:17:49,155 Speaker 1: Salmon Rushdie, a spokesperson for that country's foreign ministry, not 271 00:17:49,275 --> 00:17:53,395 Speaker 1: only denied any linkage, but Nasa Kanine added quote in 272 00:17:53,475 --> 00:17:56,275 Speaker 1: this attack, we do not consider anyone other than Salmon 273 00:17:56,355 --> 00:18:00,635 Speaker 1: Rushdie worthy of blame and even condemnation. By insulting the 274 00:18:00,715 --> 00:18:03,715 Speaker 1: sacred matters of Islam and crossing the red lines of 275 00:18:03,755 --> 00:18:06,115 Speaker 1: more than one and a half billion Muslims and all 276 00:18:06,195 --> 00:18:10,395 Speaker 1: followers of the divine religions, Salmon Rushdie has exposed himself 277 00:18:10,435 --> 00:18:13,035 Speaker 1: to the anger and rage of the people. And before 278 00:18:13,075 --> 00:18:16,595 Speaker 1: you say, what a goddamned nut job, just remember that 279 00:18:16,675 --> 00:18:20,435 Speaker 1: this exact kind of thinking is animating maybe half the 280 00:18:20,475 --> 00:18:24,195 Speaker 1: Republicans running for office right now, and the other half 281 00:18:24,235 --> 00:18:27,155 Speaker 1: are pretending to be animated by it. This is especially 282 00:18:27,155 --> 00:18:30,955 Speaker 1: relevant on this day because in Wyoming, barring the unlikeliest 283 00:18:30,995 --> 00:18:33,635 Speaker 1: of upsets, the holder of the state's loan seat in 284 00:18:33,675 --> 00:18:36,995 Speaker 1: the House, Liz Cheney, will be denied renomination and will 285 00:18:37,035 --> 00:18:41,715 Speaker 1: lose to pro pollution, pro conspiracy theory former never Trumper 286 00:18:41,795 --> 00:18:46,715 Speaker 1: now political opportunist Harriet Hagman. Comedy writer Frank Lesser has 287 00:18:46,715 --> 00:18:50,795 Speaker 1: asserted Hagman quote is actually all five kids in the Hall. 288 00:18:50,955 --> 00:18:56,515 Speaker 1: Members playing the same character and in Alaska to simultaneous 289 00:18:56,595 --> 00:19:00,035 Speaker 1: votes for that loan House seat with ranked voting, will 290 00:19:00,075 --> 00:19:02,595 Speaker 1: select someone to fill out the late Don Young's term, 291 00:19:02,675 --> 00:19:06,675 Speaker 1: and then will also select someone, possibly a different someone, 292 00:19:06,755 --> 00:19:10,835 Speaker 1: to get the full term starting in January. Sarah Palin 293 00:19:12,115 --> 00:19:16,475 Speaker 1: Yeah could Thus, in a time of paranoia, aggressive stupidity, 294 00:19:16,515 --> 00:19:22,155 Speaker 1: shameless opportunism, and conspiracy theories, Sarah Palin could lose twice 295 00:19:22,795 --> 00:19:36,275 Speaker 1: in one day. You bet you. Thus, since there is 296 00:19:36,315 --> 00:19:38,835 Speaker 1: Sarah Palin news, I must, by law again read the 297 00:19:38,875 --> 00:19:41,995 Speaker 1: singular never to be matched description of her after the 298 00:19:42,075 --> 00:19:45,675 Speaker 1: vice presidential debate October two, two thousand eight, written by 299 00:19:45,795 --> 00:19:49,315 Speaker 1: Rich Lowry of The National Review. This is as important 300 00:19:49,395 --> 00:19:52,475 Speaker 1: a piece of writing as anything ever done by Say 301 00:19:52,635 --> 00:19:57,875 Speaker 1: William Shakespeare. Quote. A very wise TV executive once told 302 00:19:57,875 --> 00:20:00,755 Speaker 1: me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. 303 00:20:01,275 --> 00:20:03,515 Speaker 1: It's one of the keys to the success of say 304 00:20:03,795 --> 00:20:06,675 Speaker 1: a Bill o'rile, who comes through the screen and grabs 305 00:20:06,675 --> 00:20:10,595 Speaker 1: you by the throat. Palin two protects through the screen 306 00:20:10,715 --> 00:20:13,995 Speaker 1: like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only male in 307 00:20:13,995 --> 00:20:17,875 Speaker 1: America who when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up 308 00:20:17,875 --> 00:20:22,355 Speaker 1: a little straighter on the couch and said, hey, I 309 00:20:22,395 --> 00:20:27,555 Speaker 1: think she just winked at me. And her smile by 310 00:20:27,595 --> 00:20:29,995 Speaker 1: the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, 311 00:20:30,075 --> 00:20:33,115 Speaker 1: it was so sparkling that was almost mesmerizing. It sent 312 00:20:33,715 --> 00:20:37,955 Speaker 1: little starbursts to the screen and ricocheting around the living 313 00:20:38,035 --> 00:20:41,675 Speaker 1: rooms of America. This is quality. It can't be learned. 314 00:20:41,675 --> 00:20:45,155 Speaker 1: It's either something you have or you don't. And man, 315 00:20:45,675 --> 00:20:51,355 Speaker 1: she's got it. And quote. Now, I know Rich Lowry's 316 00:20:51,395 --> 00:20:55,955 Speaker 1: Pale and Love from fourteen years ago is not very literary, 317 00:20:56,235 --> 00:20:58,515 Speaker 1: but you do have to remember the degree of difficulty 318 00:21:00,435 --> 00:21:18,155 Speaker 1: he was writing it with one hand. This is Sports Center. Wait, 319 00:21:18,315 --> 00:21:25,875 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman 320 00:21:26,075 --> 00:21:29,035 Speaker 1: from the World of Wide Sports. The preseason college football 321 00:21:29,075 --> 00:21:31,675 Speaker 1: poll is out. Alabama is number one, second year in 322 00:21:31,675 --> 00:21:34,835 Speaker 1: a row. Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson, Notre Dame finished the 323 00:21:34,875 --> 00:21:37,675 Speaker 1: top five. We never stopped to think how weird it 324 00:21:37,755 --> 00:21:41,195 Speaker 1: is that we accept the idea that the opinions of coaches, 325 00:21:41,315 --> 00:21:44,875 Speaker 1: writers or broadcasters actually factor into which team wins a 326 00:21:44,995 --> 00:21:48,355 Speaker 1: championship in a sport, any sport. But here it comes again. 327 00:21:48,875 --> 00:21:52,835 Speaker 1: All I know about this is that once in CNN 328 00:21:52,875 --> 00:21:54,835 Speaker 1: had me come down and spend a week in Atlanta 329 00:21:54,915 --> 00:21:58,355 Speaker 1: anchoring its sportscasts. One afternoon, one of the producers walked 330 00:21:58,395 --> 00:21:59,995 Speaker 1: up to me and handed me a sheet of paper. 331 00:22:00,595 --> 00:22:04,035 Speaker 1: It's your ballot for the CNN Associated Press College Basketball poll. 332 00:22:04,435 --> 00:22:07,155 Speaker 1: And said, I live in New York. I know nothing 333 00:22:07,195 --> 00:22:10,275 Speaker 1: about college basketball. And the producer said, I don't care. 334 00:22:10,635 --> 00:22:13,555 Speaker 1: Everybody else who votes has already voted. Just fill it 335 00:22:13,555 --> 00:22:17,275 Speaker 1: out and sign it. That was the week my alma mater, Cornell, 336 00:22:17,435 --> 00:22:20,035 Speaker 1: with a ten and sixteen record, got to vote as 337 00:22:20,075 --> 00:22:24,355 Speaker 1: the twentie best college basketball team in the nation. Coincidence, 338 00:22:24,595 --> 00:22:28,075 Speaker 1: no doubt, somebody who was actually successful at that. Pete 339 00:22:28,115 --> 00:22:31,075 Speaker 1: Kill has died at the age of ninety two, twenty 340 00:22:31,155 --> 00:22:34,115 Speaker 1: nine years as the hoops coach at Princeton University, somehow 341 00:22:34,155 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 1: managing to keep an Ivy League school without scholarships competitive 342 00:22:37,915 --> 00:22:40,395 Speaker 1: with the big boys. Eleven of his teams made n 343 00:22:40,395 --> 00:22:43,595 Speaker 1: C Double A tournaments, largely because fourteen of his teams 344 00:22:43,675 --> 00:22:46,875 Speaker 1: led the nation in defense. Kill famously once said, people 345 00:22:46,915 --> 00:22:48,675 Speaker 1: ask me, how do you want to be remembered. I 346 00:22:48,755 --> 00:22:53,115 Speaker 1: tell them I don't, sorry, coach, you will be Baseball's 347 00:22:53,115 --> 00:22:55,275 Speaker 1: postseason just got a little bit more even the l 348 00:22:55,355 --> 00:22:58,355 Speaker 1: A Dodgers say pitching ace Walker Bueller will have elbow 349 00:22:58,435 --> 00:23:02,035 Speaker 1: surgery that will end his season. And after four years 350 00:23:02,075 --> 00:23:04,435 Speaker 1: as manager of the Texas Rangers in which his team's 351 00:23:04,475 --> 00:23:09,075 Speaker 1: never one once more than of their games, Chris Woodward 352 00:23:09,115 --> 00:23:11,835 Speaker 1: has been fired. He has been replaced for now by 353 00:23:11,835 --> 00:23:15,355 Speaker 1: a coach Tony Beasley. Woodward can return to his full 354 00:23:15,395 --> 00:23:19,155 Speaker 1: time job now as body double for the actor Billy 355 00:23:19,315 --> 00:23:39,195 Speaker 1: Bob Thornton. Stella had The Alex Wagner Show premieres tonight. 356 00:23:39,395 --> 00:23:42,435 Speaker 1: That's the sixth Alex Wagner show in the last eleven years, 357 00:23:42,475 --> 00:23:45,715 Speaker 1: the third different Alex Wagner show just on MSNBC. I mean, 358 00:23:45,755 --> 00:23:49,355 Speaker 1: that's more than me and I'm actually hoping she does well. 359 00:23:50,355 --> 00:23:53,435 Speaker 1: But first, the daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and 360 00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:58,235 Speaker 1: Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 361 00:23:58,275 --> 00:24:02,355 Speaker 1: the world. Our bronze winnered the newscaster washout and Republican 362 00:24:02,395 --> 00:24:06,955 Speaker 1: nominee for Dictator of Arizona. Sorry for Governor Carrie Lake. 363 00:24:07,675 --> 00:24:11,835 Speaker 1: She said something really weird at another conservative Nazi rally. 364 00:24:11,875 --> 00:24:16,635 Speaker 1: I mean weird even for her, invoking b d E 365 00:24:17,235 --> 00:24:21,875 Speaker 1: while praising ron De Santis I'll tell you what he's got. 366 00:24:21,955 --> 00:24:23,315 Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard of this, but he's 367 00:24:23,355 --> 00:24:28,395 Speaker 1: got b d E. Anybody know what that means? Ask 368 00:24:28,435 --> 00:24:33,195 Speaker 1: your kids about it later. I call it big de 369 00:24:33,395 --> 00:24:42,115 Speaker 1: Santis energy. Right, he's got the same kind of b 370 00:24:42,355 --> 00:24:50,715 Speaker 1: d E that President Trump has, and frankly, he has 371 00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:52,955 Speaker 1: the same kind of b d E that we want 372 00:24:52,995 --> 00:24:58,715 Speaker 1: all of our elected leaders to have. Wait what, Carry? 373 00:24:58,795 --> 00:25:01,075 Speaker 1: Lake says? He has the same b d E that 374 00:25:01,155 --> 00:25:04,035 Speaker 1: we want all of our leaders to have, and she's 375 00:25:04,115 --> 00:25:07,715 Speaker 1: campaigning to become one of those leaders who has b 376 00:25:08,035 --> 00:25:12,955 Speaker 1: d E. How would that work? Carry, aren't you endorsing 377 00:25:12,995 --> 00:25:16,675 Speaker 1: that whole transsexual thing the fascist like you are promising 378 00:25:16,675 --> 00:25:21,955 Speaker 1: to stamp out? Me? Confused, Lebronze goes to Marjorie Trailer 379 00:25:21,995 --> 00:25:25,275 Speaker 1: Park Green. She says that there is discrimination against white 380 00:25:25,275 --> 00:25:27,435 Speaker 1: men in this country, so white men have a sense 381 00:25:27,475 --> 00:25:30,075 Speaker 1: of helplessness, and that leads them to spend hours and 382 00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:34,315 Speaker 1: hours alone quote which turns them to porn on the 383 00:25:34,355 --> 00:25:40,315 Speaker 1: internet and a lot of time playing video games. Congresswoman, 384 00:25:40,315 --> 00:25:43,155 Speaker 1: we thank you for the insight into your marriage, but 385 00:25:43,235 --> 00:25:47,595 Speaker 1: our winner draws, I'm sorry I misread that. It's apparently 386 00:25:47,755 --> 00:25:51,715 Speaker 1: doctor Oz. You may have seen this video it went 387 00:25:51,835 --> 00:25:55,835 Speaker 1: viral Monday, of the Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania and 388 00:25:55,955 --> 00:26:00,155 Speaker 1: northeast distributor of snake oil popping into the supermarket to 389 00:26:00,315 --> 00:26:06,195 Speaker 1: buy vegetables and blame Mr Biden for the whole thing 390 00:26:06,715 --> 00:26:09,875 Speaker 1: is grocery shopping. I'm at nurse and my wife lens 391 00:26:09,955 --> 00:26:13,835 Speaker 1: some vegetables for crue de te. Right, so is it broccoli? 392 00:26:14,395 --> 00:26:18,075 Speaker 1: That's two bucks throughout the ton of broccolet. Yeah. A 393 00:26:18,115 --> 00:26:21,235 Speaker 1: couple of things. First of all, he's buying a broccoli 394 00:26:21,435 --> 00:26:27,875 Speaker 1: for his wife's crude dete crude dete. Shouldn't it be 395 00:26:27,955 --> 00:26:31,955 Speaker 1: broccol crewe d ta. I swear to Oprah, I'm sixty 396 00:26:31,995 --> 00:26:34,955 Speaker 1: three years old. I have never previously heard anybody use 397 00:26:35,075 --> 00:26:39,435 Speaker 1: the word crewe dete charcoutery. Yes, and I have been 398 00:26:39,475 --> 00:26:45,035 Speaker 1: to a bisquetrie in Montreal bisque trie de Montreal. A 399 00:26:45,235 --> 00:26:51,155 Speaker 1: crude de t crewe dete crewdight is what we yokels 400 00:26:51,235 --> 00:26:57,435 Speaker 1: call a vegetable plate with a dip. All right, listen 401 00:26:57,435 --> 00:26:59,955 Speaker 1: to Oz once more time here. Listen to where he 402 00:26:59,995 --> 00:27:04,315 Speaker 1: says he is. Listen very carefully to Dr Oz. It 403 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:07,515 Speaker 1: doesn't ocean shopping I'm at wegner and my wife lens 404 00:27:07,555 --> 00:27:12,235 Speaker 1: some vegetables procrud to day, right, so I'm going to 405 00:27:12,315 --> 00:27:16,595 Speaker 1: do some grocery shopping. I'm at Wegner's. A lot has 406 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:18,435 Speaker 1: been made out of the fact that Oz is running 407 00:27:18,435 --> 00:27:20,715 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania but lives in New Jersey and doesn't really 408 00:27:20,715 --> 00:27:23,155 Speaker 1: seem to know very much about Pennsylvania, like how to 409 00:27:23,195 --> 00:27:24,995 Speaker 1: spell the name of the town. He claims to live 410 00:27:25,035 --> 00:27:29,635 Speaker 1: in hunting Dunn Valley with a d hunting Done. He 411 00:27:29,715 --> 00:27:33,755 Speaker 1: filed paperwork in which he spelled it hunting Ton. But 412 00:27:33,915 --> 00:27:40,315 Speaker 1: this reference to going grocery shoppings at Wegner's. There is 413 00:27:40,355 --> 00:27:44,795 Speaker 1: no supermarket or big grocery star in Pennsylvania called Wegner's. 414 00:27:45,315 --> 00:27:49,475 Speaker 1: The video from Draws shows he's at a Redner's Market. 415 00:27:49,875 --> 00:27:53,635 Speaker 1: There are also supermarkets in Pennsylvania and elsewhere called Wegman's. 416 00:27:54,275 --> 00:27:58,435 Speaker 1: There's a Winger's grocery outlet in Mifflinsburg, Pennsylvania. There's a 417 00:27:58,475 --> 00:28:03,715 Speaker 1: Wegner's disease, which is a vascular condition. And there's Mike Wagner, 418 00:28:04,035 --> 00:28:07,555 Speaker 1: who pitched for the Montreal expos in nine and nineteen 419 00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:12,395 Speaker 1: seventy but was originally signed by the Philadelphia, Phillies. It 420 00:28:12,435 --> 00:28:15,835 Speaker 1: isn't grocery shopping at nurse and my wife less some 421 00:28:15,995 --> 00:28:19,515 Speaker 1: vegetables for Truda Day, right, So in case of broccoli, 422 00:28:20,355 --> 00:28:24,275 Speaker 1: there is no Wegner's supermarket. There is a punch line 423 00:28:24,315 --> 00:28:26,995 Speaker 1: about the video and a separate one about Oz's campaign. 424 00:28:27,035 --> 00:28:30,515 Speaker 1: The video which went viral yesterday was actually from April 425 00:28:30,675 --> 00:28:33,555 Speaker 1: six of this year, and OZ got fried for it 426 00:28:33,635 --> 00:28:35,795 Speaker 1: then too. I'm sure they'll bring it back one more 427 00:28:35,835 --> 00:28:38,755 Speaker 1: time before the election. And speaking of that, the other 428 00:28:38,835 --> 00:28:42,475 Speaker 1: punch line. As the video went viral, the National Republican 429 00:28:42,515 --> 00:28:47,275 Speaker 1: Senatorial Committee announced it was cutting five million dollars worth 430 00:28:47,315 --> 00:28:51,715 Speaker 1: of television ads it was going to buy for draws 431 00:28:51,875 --> 00:28:57,155 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. Memet, Oh no, however, will I afford my 432 00:28:57,275 --> 00:29:04,755 Speaker 1: crew detay at Wegner's. Now, Oz Today's worst person in 433 00:29:04,835 --> 00:29:28,755 Speaker 1: the world? Now, who are number one? Story on the countdown? 434 00:29:28,795 --> 00:29:32,755 Speaker 1: And my favorite topic, me and things I promised not 435 00:29:32,915 --> 00:29:35,395 Speaker 1: to tell. Let me start by saying that I will 436 00:29:35,435 --> 00:29:37,915 Speaker 1: not blame you if you do not believe me about this, 437 00:29:38,035 --> 00:29:41,315 Speaker 1: but I sincerely hope everything that worries me about this 438 00:29:41,355 --> 00:29:45,635 Speaker 1: topic proves to be alarmist nonsense, and I sincerely hope 439 00:29:45,635 --> 00:29:48,075 Speaker 1: everything I recall and recount about the host in question 440 00:29:48,075 --> 00:29:51,475 Speaker 1: proves to no longer be the case. My experiences with 441 00:29:51,555 --> 00:29:55,715 Speaker 1: the cable network MSNBC have been the ultimate mixed bag. 442 00:29:56,515 --> 00:30:01,155 Speaker 1: Over the course of two different centuries, they have paid 443 00:30:01,235 --> 00:30:03,875 Speaker 1: me tens of millions of dollars. I have in turn 444 00:30:03,995 --> 00:30:07,035 Speaker 1: enabled them to make hundreds of millions of dollars. I 445 00:30:07,195 --> 00:30:09,275 Speaker 1: forced them to let me out of my contract in 446 00:30:10,315 --> 00:30:13,195 Speaker 1: when I wanted to leave. Lawyers told them they so 447 00:30:13,355 --> 00:30:15,595 Speaker 1: screwed things up in two thousand eleven that they would 448 00:30:15,595 --> 00:30:19,435 Speaker 1: lose a theoretical breach of contract case, and each side 449 00:30:19,955 --> 00:30:25,155 Speaker 1: spent intermittent parts of the last eleven years seriously negotiating 450 00:30:25,195 --> 00:30:29,715 Speaker 1: a return of countdown or at least me to MSNBC, 451 00:30:29,955 --> 00:30:34,155 Speaker 1: including to succeed the semi retiring Rachel Maddow, with those 452 00:30:34,195 --> 00:30:37,235 Speaker 1: talks finally ending when, according to the president of NBC News, 453 00:30:37,835 --> 00:30:41,715 Speaker 1: my protege, who I hired for MSNBC literally out of 454 00:30:41,755 --> 00:30:46,435 Speaker 1: my own pocket, Miss Meadow, vetoed the last plan. They 455 00:30:46,515 --> 00:30:49,835 Speaker 1: deny all this, sadly they are lying. There is a 456 00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:54,035 Speaker 1: conclusive paper trail with the CEO of NBC and the 457 00:30:54,075 --> 00:30:58,235 Speaker 1: aforementioned president of NBC News anyway, a lot of water 458 00:30:58,355 --> 00:31:01,315 Speaker 1: under the bridge, and a lot of sewage under the bridge, 459 00:31:01,355 --> 00:31:04,315 Speaker 1: and a lot of blood under the bridge. And tonight 460 00:31:04,395 --> 00:31:07,155 Speaker 1: Matt officially switches to a once a week format, which 461 00:31:07,195 --> 00:31:09,675 Speaker 1: has never worked once at a cable news network in 462 00:31:09,715 --> 00:31:12,795 Speaker 1: the history of the United States of America, and in 463 00:31:12,835 --> 00:31:15,835 Speaker 1: her time slot from Tuesday through Friday every week will 464 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:20,915 Speaker 1: be Alex Wagner. I don't think it was twelve years 465 00:31:20,955 --> 00:31:24,555 Speaker 1: ago today, but it could have been right around this time. 466 00:31:24,795 --> 00:31:27,795 Speaker 1: Lawrence O'Donnell, who succeeded Rachel maddow as my fill in 467 00:31:27,835 --> 00:31:31,395 Speaker 1: host on Countdown, premiered his own show on MSNBC on 468 00:31:31,435 --> 00:31:37,115 Speaker 1: September ten. And I know that on August six, two 469 00:31:37,155 --> 00:31:39,915 Speaker 1: thousand ten, we were looking for yet another regular guest 470 00:31:39,955 --> 00:31:43,155 Speaker 1: host for Countdown, and at some point I believe management 471 00:31:43,155 --> 00:31:46,435 Speaker 1: and I agreed on Chris Hayes, But nowhere in my 472 00:31:46,555 --> 00:31:49,475 Speaker 1: files can I confirm this nor when it would have happened. 473 00:31:49,875 --> 00:31:52,875 Speaker 1: Didn't matter much. I left in January of two thousand eleven, anyway, 474 00:31:52,875 --> 00:31:57,235 Speaker 1: But the original idea to succeed O'Donnell, to succeed Matdow 475 00:31:58,035 --> 00:32:02,835 Speaker 1: as the backup host of Countdown was Alex Wagner. I, 476 00:32:03,195 --> 00:32:06,355 Speaker 1: along with the last executive producer of the MSNBC version 477 00:32:06,355 --> 00:32:10,395 Speaker 1: of Countdown, Richard Stockwell, saw Alex Wagner from Politics Daily 478 00:32:10,435 --> 00:32:13,555 Speaker 1: and The Huffington Post on I'm pretty sure Hardball with 479 00:32:13,635 --> 00:32:18,235 Speaker 1: Chris Matthews. As we TV fatheads say, she popped jump 480 00:32:18,315 --> 00:32:20,395 Speaker 1: right off the screen in many ways, not unlike the 481 00:32:20,435 --> 00:32:24,035 Speaker 1: way Mattow did before and after all the MSNBC geniuses 482 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:27,035 Speaker 1: who claimed credit for her success now fired her in 483 00:32:27,035 --> 00:32:31,995 Speaker 1: two thousand six. Alex Wagner was well spoken, intelligent, informed, 484 00:32:32,035 --> 00:32:34,875 Speaker 1: and vivacious. And you can teach any of those things, 485 00:32:35,475 --> 00:32:37,555 Speaker 1: but you cannot teach all of them to the same 486 00:32:37,595 --> 00:32:40,555 Speaker 1: person when they are the starting points for it would 487 00:32:40,555 --> 00:32:43,915 Speaker 1: be television person. Literally. All you need after that is 488 00:32:44,115 --> 00:32:48,915 Speaker 1: a hard work and be a couple of slick mechanical skills, 489 00:32:49,155 --> 00:32:54,675 Speaker 1: like reading a teleprompter. As Stockwell and I quickly discovered, 490 00:32:54,835 --> 00:32:58,795 Speaker 1: Alex Wagner could not read the teleprompter. This seems like 491 00:32:58,835 --> 00:33:01,915 Speaker 1: such a stupid thing. It is a machine designed to 492 00:33:01,915 --> 00:33:04,435 Speaker 1: make it easier for you to read your own script 493 00:33:04,475 --> 00:33:07,555 Speaker 1: on television. I learned how to use it, admittedly, with 494 00:33:07,595 --> 00:33:10,395 Speaker 1: the gun of a live deadline pointed at my head 495 00:33:10,995 --> 00:33:13,875 Speaker 1: in about thirty minutes on the same day. I first 496 00:33:13,995 --> 00:33:17,835 Speaker 1: used it on live National TV at CNN in when 497 00:33:17,835 --> 00:33:20,315 Speaker 1: the last person I had to sell on the idea 498 00:33:20,355 --> 00:33:24,035 Speaker 1: of Rachel Maddow as a TV news anchor confessed her 499 00:33:24,075 --> 00:33:27,995 Speaker 1: greatest fear. That last person was Rachel Maddow. It turned 500 00:33:28,035 --> 00:33:32,075 Speaker 1: out that greatest fear was using the teleprompter. I said, 501 00:33:32,075 --> 00:33:34,235 Speaker 1: you went to Oxford, didn't you. You could probably learn 502 00:33:34,315 --> 00:33:37,075 Speaker 1: this took me thirty minutes. I'm betting it would take 503 00:33:37,075 --> 00:33:41,235 Speaker 1: you fifteen. What she did was she stayed late after 504 00:33:41,315 --> 00:33:43,115 Speaker 1: one of our shows together and she and I went 505 00:33:43,155 --> 00:33:46,275 Speaker 1: through the mechanics of reading the teleprompter, sitting side by side, 506 00:33:46,555 --> 00:33:49,755 Speaker 1: looking at the same script, rolling up two cameras that 507 00:33:49,835 --> 00:33:52,355 Speaker 1: were also sitting side by side. We did this for 508 00:33:52,435 --> 00:33:55,635 Speaker 1: maybe forty minutes. Then she came back for three nights 509 00:33:56,195 --> 00:33:59,795 Speaker 1: by herself, where she just practiced at least half an 510 00:33:59,795 --> 00:34:02,595 Speaker 1: hour every night. I was told they once stayed closer 511 00:34:02,595 --> 00:34:05,075 Speaker 1: to ninety minutes one night, and then on right ay, 512 00:34:05,155 --> 00:34:07,755 Speaker 1: I again stayed late and gave Rachel Maddow her final 513 00:34:07,795 --> 00:34:11,515 Speaker 1: exam on the teleprompter, and flatly she quickly became one 514 00:34:11,555 --> 00:34:15,915 Speaker 1: of the best prompter readers in the world. Now, the 515 00:34:15,995 --> 00:34:21,315 Speaker 1: prompter is not for everyone. Howard Dean tried out as 516 00:34:21,315 --> 00:34:23,555 Speaker 1: the guest host for Countdown in two thousand nine, and 517 00:34:23,555 --> 00:34:26,035 Speaker 1: one of the producers told me he began his first 518 00:34:26,035 --> 00:34:29,555 Speaker 1: show by saying, good evening, I'm Howard Dean, former governor 519 00:34:29,595 --> 00:34:34,995 Speaker 1: of Vermont. This is Countdown. When Stockwell and I lit 520 00:34:35,075 --> 00:34:37,555 Speaker 1: upon the idea that Alex Wagner might become the next 521 00:34:37,675 --> 00:34:41,755 Speaker 1: great guest host of Countdown and maybe someday, like the others, 522 00:34:42,155 --> 00:34:46,155 Speaker 1: host her own MSNBC show spun off from hours, we 523 00:34:46,195 --> 00:34:48,115 Speaker 1: invited her up for an audition and a meet and 524 00:34:48,155 --> 00:34:50,435 Speaker 1: greed and Stockwell handled the audition, and he came back 525 00:34:50,435 --> 00:34:54,755 Speaker 1: to me that night crestfallen. It wasn't only that Alex 526 00:34:54,795 --> 00:34:58,795 Speaker 1: Wagner could not read the teleprompter, Stockwell said. I told 527 00:34:58,795 --> 00:35:01,795 Speaker 1: her we can teach her the teleprompter. She could become 528 00:35:01,795 --> 00:35:03,995 Speaker 1: as good as Mattow in thirty minutes. And she said, Nah, 529 00:35:03,995 --> 00:35:07,155 Speaker 1: how hard could it be. I'll pick it up anyway. 530 00:35:07,195 --> 00:35:09,595 Speaker 1: I gotta go to a dinner party. Now, I didn't 531 00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:12,795 Speaker 1: hear that. That's what Stockwell told me. I doubt he 532 00:35:12,795 --> 00:35:16,315 Speaker 1: had the imagination to make it up. We made several 533 00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:19,395 Speaker 1: more attempts to see if there was anything there. I 534 00:35:19,475 --> 00:35:22,195 Speaker 1: had this silly idea that if we could have somebody 535 00:35:22,235 --> 00:35:24,235 Speaker 1: other than a white guy filling in for a white 536 00:35:24,275 --> 00:35:27,435 Speaker 1: guy every night, this would be good. It had been 537 00:35:27,475 --> 00:35:30,275 Speaker 1: a little part of my thinking. With hiring Rachel Maddow. 538 00:35:31,355 --> 00:35:33,595 Speaker 1: We talked to people who had worked with Alex. We 539 00:35:33,675 --> 00:35:36,235 Speaker 1: talked to our people at Countdown on the other MSNBC 540 00:35:36,355 --> 00:35:39,115 Speaker 1: shows who had produced her segments, and the same message 541 00:35:39,155 --> 00:35:43,635 Speaker 1: came back each time, nice person, very intelligent mails it in. 542 00:35:45,235 --> 00:35:48,875 Speaker 1: Life changes you. The MSNBC press release says, Alex Wagner 543 00:35:48,955 --> 00:35:50,955 Speaker 1: is now forty four years old, so she was thirty 544 00:35:50,955 --> 00:35:54,075 Speaker 1: two when all that happened. That's a lot of time 545 00:35:54,155 --> 00:35:56,835 Speaker 1: in which life may lead you from say mails it 546 00:35:56,875 --> 00:36:01,315 Speaker 1: in to say hardest working person I know, and I 547 00:36:01,355 --> 00:36:03,835 Speaker 1: hope I get to see that and to believe it. 548 00:36:04,795 --> 00:36:07,875 Speaker 1: Back in two thousand ten, even after the audition didn't 549 00:36:07,915 --> 00:36:10,835 Speaker 1: go so well, my bosses looked at hiring her, maybe 550 00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:15,555 Speaker 1: for something else. We had Countdown roundly endorsed that. They 551 00:36:15,555 --> 00:36:18,155 Speaker 1: did not hire her. The next year, though some of 552 00:36:18,195 --> 00:36:20,675 Speaker 1: the same bosses gave her her own show called Now 553 00:36:20,715 --> 00:36:23,595 Speaker 1: with Alex Wagner at Noon. It did not do well. 554 00:36:24,755 --> 00:36:27,595 Speaker 1: She seemed lost some of the time. The ratings meant nothing. 555 00:36:27,875 --> 00:36:30,915 Speaker 1: The ratings were nothing. Therefore the ratings meant nothing. They 556 00:36:30,955 --> 00:36:33,875 Speaker 1: moved the show from noon to four pm. That's Strike two. 557 00:36:34,395 --> 00:36:37,635 Speaker 1: They changed producers, changed sets, no difference, no ratings, And 558 00:36:37,635 --> 00:36:40,115 Speaker 1: after three and a half years they canceled a Strike three. 559 00:36:41,035 --> 00:36:45,435 Speaker 1: But on July fifteen, they said Wagner would soon be 560 00:36:45,475 --> 00:36:49,315 Speaker 1: reappearing on MSNBC hosting weekend show. I never heard what 561 00:36:49,395 --> 00:36:53,795 Speaker 1: happened there, but a weekend show never happened. For nine months, 562 00:36:53,795 --> 00:36:56,955 Speaker 1: she remained at MSNBC without a show, Strike four. Then 563 00:36:56,955 --> 00:36:59,315 Speaker 1: she went to The Atlantic magazine. Don't know what happened there. 564 00:36:59,315 --> 00:37:02,115 Speaker 1: But seven months later she left Strike five to go 565 00:37:02,275 --> 00:37:06,595 Speaker 1: host CBS This Morning Saturday. Sixteen months after that, no 566 00:37:06,675 --> 00:37:09,755 Speaker 1: more CBS This Morning Saturday, Strike six and off to 567 00:37:09,795 --> 00:37:12,675 Speaker 1: show Time to replace Mark I'm not wearing any pants 568 00:37:12,715 --> 00:37:16,715 Speaker 1: Halpern on a political program called The Circus. Now I 569 00:37:16,755 --> 00:37:19,555 Speaker 1: will have to confess I had forgotten about the Circus. 570 00:37:19,995 --> 00:37:23,715 Speaker 1: That's not another strike against Alex Wagner. That's on me. Then, 571 00:37:23,755 --> 00:37:26,395 Speaker 1: at the end of June this year, back to MSNBC 572 00:37:26,595 --> 00:37:31,515 Speaker 1: Tuesday through Friday at nine PM, as I said, and 573 00:37:31,555 --> 00:37:34,035 Speaker 1: having said all that I've just said, you may have 574 00:37:34,075 --> 00:37:37,275 Speaker 1: trouble believing this, But as I said, I do hope 575 00:37:37,315 --> 00:37:40,475 Speaker 1: my doubts are utterly without foundation, and that as soon 576 00:37:40,515 --> 00:37:42,955 Speaker 1: as possible, I will have to write and read one 577 00:37:42,995 --> 00:37:48,115 Speaker 1: of these apologizing to Alex Wagner and to MSNBC, Because 578 00:37:48,115 --> 00:37:50,795 Speaker 1: when I started the process of turning MSNBC from the 579 00:37:50,835 --> 00:37:54,595 Speaker 1: industry joke to the first and so far only even 580 00:37:54,755 --> 00:37:58,315 Speaker 1: kind of liberal TV news network, I did so because 581 00:37:58,315 --> 00:38:02,355 Speaker 1: I believed and still believe, that America needs a kind 582 00:38:02,395 --> 00:38:05,275 Speaker 1: of liberal TV news network. Actually, I believe we need 583 00:38:05,315 --> 00:38:09,355 Speaker 1: one as fervent as Fox Nudes, only without the racism, misogyny, paranoia, 584 00:38:09,435 --> 00:38:11,715 Speaker 1: and fabrications. In fact, I'd like there to be ten 585 00:38:11,835 --> 00:38:17,315 Speaker 1: such networks. Unfortunately, for many years, MSNBC has not been that. 586 00:38:18,795 --> 00:38:21,315 Speaker 1: I left there with a clear conscience in two thousand 587 00:38:21,315 --> 00:38:25,515 Speaker 1: and eleven because we were starting to have meetings about how, 588 00:38:25,715 --> 00:38:28,635 Speaker 1: like on Rachel's show, we could begin to incorporate people 589 00:38:28,715 --> 00:38:34,115 Speaker 1: like Pat Buchanan as regular contributors. I have nothing but 590 00:38:34,195 --> 00:38:37,315 Speaker 1: admiration for what Rachel did with the opportunity I forced 591 00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:41,995 Speaker 1: them to give her. Her success is entirely her work. 592 00:38:42,755 --> 00:38:45,395 Speaker 1: My part of that ended the day they gave her 593 00:38:45,435 --> 00:38:48,755 Speaker 1: the show, but I have to confess it. Ever since 594 00:38:48,795 --> 00:38:53,635 Speaker 1: the night when David K. Johnston produced one utterly meaningless 595 00:38:53,755 --> 00:38:57,035 Speaker 1: page of Donald Trump's tax returns that somebody had anonymously 596 00:38:57,075 --> 00:38:59,315 Speaker 1: sent him, and Rachel hyped the damn thing for forty 597 00:38:59,355 --> 00:39:02,195 Speaker 1: five minutes like it was the secret to eternal life. 598 00:39:02,915 --> 00:39:05,715 Speaker 1: I have wondered if I did not do too good 599 00:39:05,755 --> 00:39:07,955 Speaker 1: a job teaching her how to do the slick things 600 00:39:07,955 --> 00:39:12,675 Speaker 1: of television, like the teleprompter and hyping stuff. I have 601 00:39:12,995 --> 00:39:17,835 Speaker 1: periodically hyped stuff, and of course, at the heart of 602 00:39:17,875 --> 00:39:22,795 Speaker 1: the matter, the entire morning of MSNBC's programming features and 603 00:39:22,995 --> 00:39:25,835 Speaker 1: is ruled with an iron fist by one of the 604 00:39:25,875 --> 00:39:29,595 Speaker 1: worst human beings I have ever met, the man who, 605 00:39:29,635 --> 00:39:32,235 Speaker 1: every day in two thousand fifteen and the start of 606 00:39:32,235 --> 00:39:35,435 Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen tried to mainstream Donald Trump to the 607 00:39:35,555 --> 00:39:38,995 Speaker 1: MSNBC audience and only stopped when he realized that Trump 608 00:39:39,075 --> 00:39:41,955 Speaker 1: was not going to offer him the vice presidency. Joey 609 00:39:42,115 --> 00:39:49,995 Speaker 1: scars himself Joe Scarborough. There is also an afternoon program 610 00:39:49,995 --> 00:39:53,315 Speaker 1: with Nicole Wallace, whose opposition to Trump is nice, but 611 00:39:53,515 --> 00:39:55,395 Speaker 1: who people seem to forget was part of the Bush 612 00:39:55,395 --> 00:39:58,835 Speaker 1: white House media operation that sold non existent w m 613 00:39:58,915 --> 00:40:02,795 Speaker 1: D in Iraq and manipulated terror warnings to benefit Republican 614 00:40:02,835 --> 00:40:05,795 Speaker 1: political needs. And then she was the McCain campaign that 615 00:40:05,835 --> 00:40:08,915 Speaker 1: decided one day to go in blackmail Tom Brokaw into 616 00:40:08,995 --> 00:40:12,155 Speaker 1: forcing NBC management into getting me and Chris Matthews off 617 00:40:12,195 --> 00:40:16,275 Speaker 1: the coverage of the debates on MSNBC. If you trust 618 00:40:16,515 --> 00:40:20,275 Speaker 1: what Nicole Wallace tells you, you probably think Joe Scarborough 619 00:40:20,355 --> 00:40:23,075 Speaker 1: will go into history as a never trumper when he is, 620 00:40:23,115 --> 00:40:28,275 Speaker 1: in fact America's Franz von Poppen. Look him up. You'll 621 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:31,995 Speaker 1: be impressed by the analogy Franz v O N P 622 00:40:32,355 --> 00:40:37,955 Speaker 1: A p E N Franz von Scarborough. So anyway, American 623 00:40:37,995 --> 00:40:43,115 Speaker 1: democracy desperately needs a vibrant, progressive MSNBC, even if it's 624 00:40:43,155 --> 00:40:47,035 Speaker 1: one I complain about and make fun of. But that's 625 00:40:47,075 --> 00:40:50,475 Speaker 1: not what is on MSNBC right now. After Matadow blew 626 00:40:50,515 --> 00:40:52,515 Speaker 1: up the last set of negotiations for me to go 627 00:40:52,555 --> 00:40:55,395 Speaker 1: back there, I sent her a note. It was apologetic 628 00:40:55,515 --> 00:40:58,795 Speaker 1: and genuinely forlorn about the lost friendship and the lost 629 00:40:58,835 --> 00:41:03,275 Speaker 1: colleague ship, and I urged her to delay her departure 630 00:41:03,315 --> 00:41:06,475 Speaker 1: from nightly television, or maybe take a year off and 631 00:41:06,475 --> 00:41:11,075 Speaker 1: then come back before presidential campaign begins. I meant that note, 632 00:41:12,675 --> 00:41:14,595 Speaker 1: she got it and confirmed she read it and did 633 00:41:14,635 --> 00:41:18,555 Speaker 1: not reply, and I still believe that. I still think 634 00:41:18,555 --> 00:41:21,875 Speaker 1: the country needs her right now and her nightly show 635 00:41:22,475 --> 00:41:24,635 Speaker 1: and her network, no matter how flawed they may be 636 00:41:24,795 --> 00:41:28,155 Speaker 1: and how unreliable their management happens to be. I'm not 637 00:41:28,235 --> 00:41:31,075 Speaker 1: saying by stock in NBC, I would never do that 638 00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:35,915 Speaker 1: with your money, but MSNBC, as a vibrant liberal force 639 00:41:35,915 --> 00:41:39,035 Speaker 1: in this country is absolutely essential. It may not be 640 00:41:39,155 --> 00:41:41,835 Speaker 1: enough to stave off fascism, but at least we gave 641 00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:45,315 Speaker 1: it a try, and so I hope I am as 642 00:41:45,315 --> 00:41:48,115 Speaker 1: wrong about Alex Wagner's debut tonight as the president of 643 00:41:48,195 --> 00:41:50,835 Speaker 1: MSNBC was when I first went to him in the 644 00:41:50,835 --> 00:41:52,955 Speaker 1: summer of two thousand seven with the idea of a 645 00:41:53,035 --> 00:41:58,715 Speaker 1: Rachel Meadows show, and he Phil Griffin rejected it because 646 00:41:59,155 --> 00:42:03,275 Speaker 1: he couldn't understand why straight men like him would watch 647 00:42:03,315 --> 00:42:07,395 Speaker 1: a lesbian woman do political commentary. I like to think 648 00:42:07,435 --> 00:42:11,595 Speaker 1: he figured out how that would happen, because somehow he 649 00:42:11,715 --> 00:42:17,435 Speaker 1: has wound up as the president of Rachel's production company anyway, 650 00:42:18,555 --> 00:42:29,835 Speaker 1: Good luck, Alex Wagner. I've done all the damage I 651 00:42:29,835 --> 00:42:31,555 Speaker 1: can do here. This is where I ask you to 652 00:42:31,675 --> 00:42:35,035 Speaker 1: rate and review the podcast. Lie tell them it's great. 653 00:42:36,155 --> 00:42:39,275 Speaker 1: The Countdown theme is from Beethoven's ninth It was arranged, produced, 654 00:42:39,315 --> 00:42:41,915 Speaker 1: and performed by Countdown Musical directors Brian Ray and John 655 00:42:41,915 --> 00:42:46,115 Speaker 1: Philip Chanelle. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, 656 00:42:46,595 --> 00:42:49,395 Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray. 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