1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. We 2 00:00:21,475 --> 00:00:25,035 Speaker 1: need a special council to investigate the six Conservatives on 3 00:00:25,075 --> 00:00:29,435 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. We know Harlan Crowe spent thousands on 4 00:00:29,515 --> 00:00:34,475 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas for what precise purpose. We know somebody paid 5 00:00:34,475 --> 00:00:39,795 Speaker 1: off Bret Kavanaugh's debts, who, when, why? We know Leonard 6 00:00:39,835 --> 00:00:43,395 Speaker 1: Leo's gang spent millions to put Gorsic and the others 7 00:00:43,435 --> 00:00:47,275 Speaker 1: in place. What did they get in return? We know 8 00:00:47,355 --> 00:00:50,435 Speaker 1: the Trump appointees all lied to the Senate and said 9 00:00:50,515 --> 00:00:53,675 Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade was settled law, then voted to overturn 10 00:00:53,715 --> 00:00:58,115 Speaker 1: it where they paid to do so indirectly, directly, we 11 00:00:58,195 --> 00:01:01,955 Speaker 1: know the Conservatives looked at the fourteenth Amendment, which states when, why, 12 00:01:02,035 --> 00:01:06,595 Speaker 1: and how to appeal disqualification from the ballot, and ignored 13 00:01:06,635 --> 00:01:12,035 Speaker 1: the Constitution anyway. To what end? We know those conservatives 14 00:01:12,075 --> 00:01:14,875 Speaker 1: have now signaled that they will countenance a coup or 15 00:01:14,915 --> 00:01:19,555 Speaker 1: presidentially ordered domestic assassinations or anything, so long as they 16 00:01:19,555 --> 00:01:22,675 Speaker 1: can pretend they were official acts by a president, and 17 00:01:22,755 --> 00:01:24,675 Speaker 1: so long as they don't have to rule until and 18 00:01:24,755 --> 00:01:30,195 Speaker 1: unless Trump is president again. What inducement could make even conservatives, 19 00:01:30,435 --> 00:01:37,395 Speaker 1: even conservative lawyers prostitute themselves in that way. And most 20 00:01:37,475 --> 00:01:40,155 Speaker 1: of all, we know that if the polarity was reversed, 21 00:01:40,355 --> 00:01:44,155 Speaker 1: if this were a Republican administration now, and that were 22 00:01:44,195 --> 00:01:48,475 Speaker 1: an utterly corrupt and criminal democratic president on trial and 23 00:01:48,555 --> 00:01:51,835 Speaker 1: a six ' three liberal Supreme Court impeding and slowing 24 00:01:51,875 --> 00:01:56,675 Speaker 1: and obstructing justice, we know what the Republican administration would do. 25 00:01:57,275 --> 00:02:01,275 Speaker 1: It would accuse the six liberal justices in public hourly 26 00:02:01,955 --> 00:02:05,555 Speaker 1: of corruption, and it would appoint a special council to 27 00:02:05,755 --> 00:02:10,475 Speaker 1: turn their lives upside down, and the lives of some 28 00:02:10,555 --> 00:02:14,035 Speaker 1: fictional liberal versions of Harlan Crowe and Leonard Leo and 29 00:02:14,355 --> 00:02:18,435 Speaker 1: hundreds of other people. We know this would be happening 30 00:02:18,835 --> 00:02:25,235 Speaker 1: right now. There would be a special Council prosecuting them today, 31 00:02:26,315 --> 00:02:30,475 Speaker 1: regardless of the consequences, regardless of the optics, regardless of 32 00:02:30,515 --> 00:02:34,475 Speaker 1: the blowback, regardless of the traditions, regardless of the date 33 00:02:34,675 --> 00:02:38,715 Speaker 1: on the electoral calendar. Because part of the reason Trump 34 00:02:38,755 --> 00:02:42,835 Speaker 1: and his minions and the Supreme Court are warning about 35 00:02:42,835 --> 00:02:46,515 Speaker 1: a political vortex in which every departing president will be 36 00:02:46,595 --> 00:02:50,035 Speaker 1: prosecuted by his successor is that the Conservatives are doing 37 00:02:50,035 --> 00:02:53,155 Speaker 1: what they always do. They are setting those mechanisms in 38 00:02:53,235 --> 00:02:59,195 Speaker 1: place to prosecute and marginalize and gerrymander and cheat against 39 00:02:59,315 --> 00:03:03,115 Speaker 1: Democrats and liberals and anybody who will stand in their way, 40 00:03:03,435 --> 00:03:06,955 Speaker 1: and then finding so high horse on which to jump, 41 00:03:07,115 --> 00:03:11,235 Speaker 1: and to suddenly claim that the process is sacrosanct, and 42 00:03:11,355 --> 00:03:15,595 Speaker 1: any action by any Democrat against any Republican is necessarily 43 00:03:15,715 --> 00:03:20,035 Speaker 1: partisan and wrong and against the Constitution and the founding fathers, 44 00:03:20,355 --> 00:03:24,475 Speaker 1: And now that they own the Supreme Court, it's also unconstitutional. 45 00:03:25,635 --> 00:03:30,435 Speaker 1: We need a special council appointed by the Department of 46 00:03:30,595 --> 00:03:35,035 Speaker 1: Justice to investigate the six conservative members of the Supreme 47 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:41,035 Speaker 1: Court today, and Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow and the 48 00:03:41,195 --> 00:03:45,555 Speaker 1: entirety of the Federalist Society and the Claremont Institute, and 49 00:03:45,835 --> 00:03:52,395 Speaker 1: Russell Vote and Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, all of them. 50 00:03:52,915 --> 00:03:59,035 Speaker 1: Drag them through hell as fast as possible, well as 51 00:03:59,035 --> 00:04:05,475 Speaker 1: slowly as possible, because at least three Supreme Court justices 52 00:04:05,955 --> 00:04:10,315 Speaker 1: are perjurers, and five or six of them had to 53 00:04:10,355 --> 00:04:14,995 Speaker 1: have reasons other than constitutional ones to ignore the Fourteenth Amendment, 54 00:04:15,195 --> 00:04:17,395 Speaker 1: and all six of them are clearly in the bag 55 00:04:17,875 --> 00:04:21,515 Speaker 1: for Trump presidential immunity in some form, but not for 56 00:04:21,635 --> 00:04:25,955 Speaker 1: Biden presidential immunity in any form Alito and Barrett and 57 00:04:25,995 --> 00:04:29,875 Speaker 1: Gorsich and Kavanaugh and Roberts and Thomas are crooks. We've 58 00:04:29,915 --> 00:04:32,795 Speaker 1: known that for a long time. And not only do 59 00:04:32,875 --> 00:04:35,915 Speaker 1: we need to find out now how crooked they are, 60 00:04:35,995 --> 00:04:38,275 Speaker 1: but we need to know if they and their masters 61 00:04:38,875 --> 00:04:44,875 Speaker 1: have left what these arrogant, condescending domestic conservative terrorists always 62 00:04:45,035 --> 00:04:53,915 Speaker 1: leave a trail a mile long. The attorney and analyst 63 00:04:53,995 --> 00:04:56,515 Speaker 1: Joyce Vant set a far less dramatic and maybe far 64 00:04:56,555 --> 00:05:00,875 Speaker 1: more effective than my default position of scorched earth idea. 65 00:05:00,995 --> 00:05:03,595 Speaker 1: She heard the same subtext to the Supreme Court hearing 66 00:05:03,675 --> 00:05:06,435 Speaker 1: last week. We're gonna help Trump. We just have to 67 00:05:06,475 --> 00:05:09,755 Speaker 1: figure out something to write that sounds like we're not 68 00:05:09,795 --> 00:05:14,955 Speaker 1: helping Trump. Her expectation aligns with my guests that they'll 69 00:05:14,995 --> 00:05:17,355 Speaker 1: send the case back to Tanya Chutkin with a phony 70 00:05:17,435 --> 00:05:19,915 Speaker 1: checklist that she must fill out of what might be 71 00:05:19,995 --> 00:05:25,915 Speaker 1: official duties deserving presidential immunity and what isn't deserving presidential immunity. 72 00:05:26,715 --> 00:05:29,875 Speaker 1: Vance suggests that to do what the corrupted Supreme Court 73 00:05:29,955 --> 00:05:35,275 Speaker 1: wants there, Judge Chutkin should have an evidentiary hearing on remand. 74 00:05:36,035 --> 00:05:39,915 Speaker 1: In other words, in Dvance's words, briefs, and even live 75 00:05:40,035 --> 00:05:43,675 Speaker 1: testimony where the government would get to lay out all 76 00:05:43,835 --> 00:05:48,875 Speaker 1: of its evidence against Trump. The House January sixth committee hearings, 77 00:05:48,955 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: she writes, grypt the nation. The Special Council, with access 78 00:05:52,635 --> 00:05:55,115 Speaker 1: to the powers of an investigative grand jury and the 79 00:05:55,155 --> 00:05:59,595 Speaker 1: possibility of more cooperating witnesses, would have an even larger 80 00:05:59,755 --> 00:06:05,395 Speaker 1: story to tell. In other words, no Trump trial for 81 00:06:05,515 --> 00:06:08,115 Speaker 1: subverting the election because of the Supreme Court subverted the 82 00:06:08,155 --> 00:06:11,275 Speaker 1: trial put him on trial in the court of opinion 83 00:06:11,755 --> 00:06:17,875 Speaker 1: before the election. Does this evidence about which senators Trump 84 00:06:17,955 --> 00:06:21,475 Speaker 1: called on January sixth deserve immunity? Jack, I don't know, 85 00:06:21,635 --> 00:06:24,995 Speaker 1: Tanya does it? Does this evidence of Trump demanding the 86 00:06:25,035 --> 00:06:28,315 Speaker 1: magnetometers be disabled before his speech so his militias could 87 00:06:28,315 --> 00:06:31,795 Speaker 1: bring machine guns to the Capitol? Does that deserve immunity? 88 00:06:32,235 --> 00:06:39,555 Speaker 1: Empty the damn evidence vault under oath and in his 89 00:06:39,835 --> 00:06:43,755 Speaker 1: newsletter off message, the impeccable Brian Boiler adds another layer. 90 00:06:43,955 --> 00:06:47,395 Speaker 1: If the court really does kneecap Jack Smith quote, Senate 91 00:06:47,435 --> 00:06:51,835 Speaker 1: Democrats could haul him before the Judiciary Committee to air 92 00:06:52,555 --> 00:06:57,115 Speaker 1: any information the public has a right to know. And 93 00:06:57,155 --> 00:06:59,595 Speaker 1: Boiler also adds one more dimension to something else I've 94 00:06:59,595 --> 00:07:02,195 Speaker 1: emphasized here any presidential immunity the Court might try to 95 00:07:02,235 --> 00:07:06,315 Speaker 1: invent for Trump would have to go for Biden. Bouler says, quote, 96 00:07:06,355 --> 00:07:10,035 Speaker 1: Biden could warn the Court, really the Republican justices, not 97 00:07:10,115 --> 00:07:14,315 Speaker 1: to contrive a new category of presidential immunity, official acts, 98 00:07:14,435 --> 00:07:18,915 Speaker 1: or otherwise by promising to exploit any new powers the 99 00:07:18,915 --> 00:07:23,475 Speaker 1: Court vests in him while he enjoys them. Unquote, I 100 00:07:23,595 --> 00:07:26,915 Speaker 1: love this. He also notes that there's a lot of 101 00:07:26,915 --> 00:07:29,915 Speaker 1: stuff and immunize Biden could do that would not fall 102 00:07:29,955 --> 00:07:33,155 Speaker 1: to Trump's levels, but would still remind the Court that 103 00:07:33,235 --> 00:07:35,755 Speaker 1: it does not run this country, no matter what sam 104 00:07:35,755 --> 00:07:41,795 Speaker 1: Alito thinks. To quote Boiler again, the Constitution gives the 105 00:07:41,835 --> 00:07:46,075 Speaker 1: president all kinds of non murderous powers that, if abused, 106 00:07:46,315 --> 00:07:49,675 Speaker 1: could nevertheless throw the Republic and Trump's best laid plans 107 00:07:49,835 --> 00:07:54,475 Speaker 1: into disarray. Biden could theoretically order Congress into session to 108 00:07:54,595 --> 00:07:58,395 Speaker 1: debate legislation to expand the Supreme Court. When the House 109 00:07:58,435 --> 00:08:01,155 Speaker 1: and Senate disagree, as they surely would, over when and 110 00:08:01,195 --> 00:08:04,035 Speaker 1: whether to adjourn the special session, Biden could then force 111 00:08:04,115 --> 00:08:08,555 Speaker 1: Congress in to adjournment indefinitely. It's right there in Article two. 112 00:08:08,795 --> 00:08:12,195 Speaker 1: He could leave Congress adjourned through the election, readjourn it 113 00:08:12,555 --> 00:08:16,715 Speaker 1: if necessary, and refuse to convene the House and Senate 114 00:08:16,875 --> 00:08:21,835 Speaker 1: again unless it certifies the winner of the national popular vote. 115 00:08:21,875 --> 00:08:24,635 Speaker 1: This would of course represent a flagrant violation of the 116 00:08:24,755 --> 00:08:28,635 Speaker 1: rules and the Constitution, and would plunge the nation into crisis, 117 00:08:28,675 --> 00:08:31,675 Speaker 1: but it would also be within the president's official powers 118 00:08:31,915 --> 00:08:39,435 Speaker 1: and thus presumably immune. I love that too. What these 119 00:08:39,755 --> 00:08:43,395 Speaker 1: ideas all underscore is that we, I mean all of 120 00:08:43,475 --> 00:08:45,155 Speaker 1: us who have a faint hope that there will be 121 00:08:45,275 --> 00:08:48,395 Speaker 1: representative government in this country a year from today. We 122 00:08:48,515 --> 00:08:55,115 Speaker 1: must stop assuming that being right about everything decides everything anymore, 123 00:08:55,835 --> 00:08:58,795 Speaker 1: if ever it did, and the Biden campaign is going 124 00:08:58,835 --> 00:09:00,875 Speaker 1: to have to stop assuming that the President being right 125 00:09:01,075 --> 00:09:03,915 Speaker 1: and good and Trump being the worst person in this 126 00:09:03,995 --> 00:09:09,075 Speaker 1: country's history is going to be enough. We need to 127 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:12,235 Speaker 1: go on offense, and the goal has to be to 128 00:09:12,355 --> 00:09:17,195 Speaker 1: metaphorically got the bastard and to metaphorically got all the 129 00:09:17,235 --> 00:09:21,275 Speaker 1: other bastards in Trump's gang, as said by the character 130 00:09:21,355 --> 00:09:24,315 Speaker 1: of the Prime Minister in House of Cards, the good version, 131 00:09:25,195 --> 00:09:29,955 Speaker 1: we need to put a bit of stick about because 132 00:09:29,995 --> 00:09:34,235 Speaker 1: there is already political persecution in this country, and there 133 00:09:34,355 --> 00:09:37,635 Speaker 1: is already a two tier justice system. And if you 134 00:09:37,675 --> 00:09:41,875 Speaker 1: don't believe it, ask any woman needing reproductive health care 135 00:09:42,235 --> 00:09:45,235 Speaker 1: in a red state. Ask them if they are not 136 00:09:45,355 --> 00:09:49,275 Speaker 1: being persecuted. Ask Trump's lawyers who walked out of the 137 00:09:49,275 --> 00:09:52,515 Speaker 1: Supreme Court muttering to themselves, we made up this entirely 138 00:09:52,595 --> 00:09:56,395 Speaker 1: fictitious immunity bullshit based on absolutely nothing in the Constitution 139 00:09:56,635 --> 00:09:59,035 Speaker 1: and nothing in American history. And Alito and these other 140 00:09:59,075 --> 00:10:05,675 Speaker 1: assholes said, sure, whatever the point is, Liberals, democrats, and 141 00:10:05,715 --> 00:10:10,755 Speaker 1: women and minorities and constitutionalists and small R Republicans and 142 00:10:10,875 --> 00:10:15,755 Speaker 1: small D Democrats alike, and all non fascists have to 143 00:10:15,995 --> 00:10:20,195 Speaker 1: win the political persecution that began long ago in this 144 00:10:20,275 --> 00:10:24,275 Speaker 1: country against us. And we have to win the two 145 00:10:24,355 --> 00:10:27,235 Speaker 1: tiered justice system that has kept a political party that 146 00:10:27,235 --> 00:10:29,715 Speaker 1: should have been killed off by the demographics a quarter 147 00:10:29,795 --> 00:10:33,555 Speaker 1: century ago not just alive but in power despite an 148 00:10:33,555 --> 00:10:38,435 Speaker 1: ever shrinking minority. We have to metaphorically kill them and 149 00:10:38,515 --> 00:10:43,715 Speaker 1: eat them. We need a special counsel to investigate Supreme 150 00:10:43,755 --> 00:10:47,275 Speaker 1: Court corruption and at minimum have a Robert Hrr kind 151 00:10:47,315 --> 00:10:51,515 Speaker 1: of report with which to bonk them. We need a 152 00:10:51,555 --> 00:10:55,595 Speaker 1: court evidentiary hearing and a Senate panel into what Jack 153 00:10:55,635 --> 00:10:59,035 Speaker 1: Smith found we need Biden to warn the court, maybe 154 00:10:59,075 --> 00:11:01,795 Speaker 1: in a primetime speech that would be fun, that they 155 00:11:01,795 --> 00:11:06,555 Speaker 1: are playing with fire and wearing robes while they play 156 00:11:06,595 --> 00:11:10,355 Speaker 1: with fire. We need the Biden campaign to hire a 157 00:11:10,355 --> 00:11:15,195 Speaker 1: couple of Joyce Vance's and Brian Boutler's and the Supreme Court, 158 00:11:15,995 --> 00:11:18,555 Speaker 1: where they may be many things, but tough is not 159 00:11:18,715 --> 00:11:24,715 Speaker 1: one of them, would be a great place to start. Hell, 160 00:11:24,995 --> 00:11:28,315 Speaker 1: we've seen that asshole Kavanaugh under pressure. If we can 161 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:31,515 Speaker 1: sweat them enough, he might even flip on the rest 162 00:11:31,555 --> 00:12:02,435 Speaker 1: of those dicks. I'm not sure if Trump's mental illness 163 00:12:02,475 --> 00:12:06,755 Speaker 1: has spread from speech problems to written problems, but something 164 00:12:06,835 --> 00:12:10,115 Speaker 1: is going on, something new. It could just be a 165 00:12:10,195 --> 00:12:12,795 Speaker 1: brief from a lawyer about more from I don't know, 166 00:12:12,835 --> 00:12:17,035 Speaker 1: Egene Carroll, or some other actual private legal action. Or 167 00:12:17,035 --> 00:12:20,195 Speaker 1: it could be that Trump is now so sick that 168 00:12:20,275 --> 00:12:24,275 Speaker 1: he is conflating the prosecutions in federal court in Florida 169 00:12:24,315 --> 00:12:27,515 Speaker 1: and Washington and state court in New York and Georgia 170 00:12:27,595 --> 00:12:34,075 Speaker 1: with lawsuits. Six fifteen yesterday morning, he writes, of all 171 00:12:34,115 --> 00:12:40,275 Speaker 1: of these ridiculous DC inspired lawsuits against me, drop the lawsuits, 172 00:12:42,435 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 1: the New York lawsuit, or as those of us who've 173 00:12:45,875 --> 00:12:50,795 Speaker 1: only sustained partial head injuries called the criminal trial resumes today, 174 00:12:51,555 --> 00:12:54,875 Speaker 1: and whatever is wrong with daddy evidence is that it 175 00:12:55,075 --> 00:12:59,235 Speaker 1: is hereditary. The dummer of his grown sons, Eric has 176 00:12:59,275 --> 00:13:03,035 Speaker 1: now joined Trump's fantasy that there are eleventy billion pro 177 00:13:03,075 --> 00:13:06,995 Speaker 1: Trump protesters out there being held back by sweating, heaving 178 00:13:07,075 --> 00:13:11,835 Speaker 1: New York cops. Quote. My father is drawing these massive 179 00:13:11,955 --> 00:13:17,115 Speaker 1: crowds at the New York trial. He isn't no crowds 180 00:13:17,155 --> 00:13:20,075 Speaker 1: at all. Moreover, the right wing fantasy that there are 181 00:13:20,155 --> 00:13:25,795 Speaker 1: barricades holding them back somewhere out of frame is wildly untrue. 182 00:13:25,835 --> 00:13:29,315 Speaker 1: I mean, you can't necessarily walk into the courthouse and 183 00:13:29,435 --> 00:13:32,155 Speaker 1: stop by and say hi to Donnie on the fifteenth floor. 184 00:13:33,075 --> 00:13:36,715 Speaker 1: But the blocks around the building are completely open. The 185 00:13:36,755 --> 00:13:39,915 Speaker 1: only disruptions now are on the highways when they dragged 186 00:13:39,955 --> 00:13:45,155 Speaker 1: Trump's ass to and from the courthouse Thursday. By the way, 187 00:13:45,195 --> 00:13:47,795 Speaker 1: hearing number two into Trump's gag order violations, and I'm 188 00:13:47,795 --> 00:13:50,795 Speaker 1: beginning to suspect that Justice Merchaan does not want to 189 00:13:50,835 --> 00:13:55,275 Speaker 1: do what the law tells him he must do. Also, 190 00:13:55,355 --> 00:13:58,555 Speaker 1: as the Trump hush money and election interference trial resumes, 191 00:13:58,635 --> 00:14:02,315 Speaker 1: or as he calls it, nap time, the Biden campaign 192 00:14:02,555 --> 00:14:07,075 Speaker 1: has finally found its template for going after Trump on 193 00:14:07,115 --> 00:14:13,595 Speaker 1: its social media yesterday, quote, Trump continues to sleep through 194 00:14:14,395 --> 00:14:21,995 Speaker 1: his Hailey voter problem. Brilliant and endlessly useful around the 195 00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:25,955 Speaker 1: Trump legal League, proving nobody learns anything. Ever. Rudy Giuliani 196 00:14:25,995 --> 00:14:29,395 Speaker 1: went on Real America's Voice yesterday and said that speaker 197 00:14:29,435 --> 00:14:32,275 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan should make all further Ukraine 198 00:14:32,315 --> 00:14:36,275 Speaker 1: aid dependent on I'll see if this sounds familiar. Quote, 199 00:14:36,795 --> 00:14:40,235 Speaker 1: somebody should lean on Zelensky. You want another penny, give 200 00:14:40,315 --> 00:14:45,595 Speaker 1: us your Biden file. Unquote. This is what happens when 201 00:14:45,595 --> 00:14:48,835 Speaker 1: you inject a liquid form of the viagra directly into 202 00:14:48,875 --> 00:14:55,475 Speaker 1: your own brain. Even Juliani's instinct to blackmail the man 203 00:14:56,435 --> 00:15:03,355 Speaker 1: who ended his political career goes into reruns. Meanwhile, another 204 00:15:03,515 --> 00:15:06,995 Speaker 1: version of Real America's Voice called One America News just 205 00:15:07,195 --> 00:15:11,155 Speaker 1: retracted its smear against Michael Cohen that it was he 206 00:15:11,235 --> 00:15:13,715 Speaker 1: who had the affair with Stormy Daniels. They were attracted 207 00:15:13,755 --> 00:15:17,035 Speaker 1: at just thirty three days after they smeared him. This 208 00:15:17,435 --> 00:15:22,475 Speaker 1: is a record. Hunter Biden apparently served noticed two weeks 209 00:15:22,515 --> 00:15:25,755 Speaker 1: ago that he intended to sue Fox over its endless 210 00:15:25,795 --> 00:15:29,395 Speaker 1: defamations of him, and they asked for more time to 211 00:15:30,515 --> 00:15:34,835 Speaker 1: I don't know, burn the records. I don't know, which 212 00:15:34,875 --> 00:15:38,995 Speaker 1: makes me circle back to investigations. Hunter Biden cannot sue 213 00:15:39,115 --> 00:15:42,755 Speaker 1: James Comer and Marjorie Trotsky Green over how they slandered 214 00:15:42,795 --> 00:15:46,235 Speaker 1: him in the house. But where is the Special council investigating? 215 00:15:46,395 --> 00:15:50,315 Speaker 1: Why what they said about him and what others said 216 00:15:50,355 --> 00:15:54,675 Speaker 1: about him matched sometimes word for word what Russian intelligence 217 00:15:54,715 --> 00:15:58,515 Speaker 1: disinformation said about him, and which all depended on an 218 00:15:58,515 --> 00:16:02,995 Speaker 1: expatriate Russian witness who says he was in indirect contact 219 00:16:02,995 --> 00:16:05,835 Speaker 1: with Russian intel and who that arrested for lying. 220 00:16:05,635 --> 00:16:06,275 Speaker 2: To the FBI. 221 00:16:06,555 --> 00:16:11,395 Speaker 1: It is absolutely possible that Jamie Comer and Midge Green 222 00:16:12,275 --> 00:16:17,675 Speaker 1: were maronic, dupe idiots. I mean, just look at them. 223 00:16:18,675 --> 00:16:20,835 Speaker 1: But once again, the Department of Justice has a big 224 00:16:20,915 --> 00:16:25,395 Speaker 1: budget and would be special councils apparently hang around headquarters 225 00:16:25,395 --> 00:16:28,355 Speaker 1: each morning like day workers and construction sites. Let's go, 226 00:16:30,235 --> 00:16:33,475 Speaker 1: I want seventy three special councils by the beginning of 227 00:16:33,555 --> 00:16:39,515 Speaker 1: next week. Now we know why the surge in twenty 228 00:16:39,555 --> 00:16:43,435 Speaker 1: twenty fake electors, investigations and indictments is happening. CNN found 229 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:46,595 Speaker 1: out that Kenny the Cheese. Trump lawyer Ken Chesbro had 230 00:16:46,595 --> 00:16:50,435 Speaker 1: a burner account on Twitter didn't exactly tell the Attorney 231 00:16:50,515 --> 00:16:53,395 Speaker 1: General of Michigan, Dana Nessel about it, even though investigators 232 00:16:53,435 --> 00:16:56,275 Speaker 1: asked and he said no, and the answer actually was yes. 233 00:16:57,195 --> 00:17:00,475 Speaker 1: Behind the scenes, Nestl sued and got hundreds of files, 234 00:17:00,875 --> 00:17:06,835 Speaker 1: including his dms to and from Chesbro. Now, in addition 235 00:17:06,875 --> 00:17:10,195 Speaker 1: to everything else and whatever unfolds from this everywhere else, 236 00:17:10,835 --> 00:17:13,755 Speaker 1: Chesbro may also face charges of lying to the investigators 237 00:17:13,755 --> 00:17:17,195 Speaker 1: in Michigan. The indictments on this subject in Arizona are 238 00:17:17,195 --> 00:17:21,075 Speaker 1: so panoramic that they indicted State Senator Jake Hoffman just 239 00:17:21,115 --> 00:17:24,715 Speaker 1: as he was being elected a Republican National Committee member 240 00:17:24,755 --> 00:17:29,315 Speaker 1: for Arizona. And they indicted Trump attorney's spokesmodel Christina Bob 241 00:17:29,795 --> 00:17:33,675 Speaker 1: as she was being appointed senior counsel for the same 242 00:17:33,755 --> 00:17:40,475 Speaker 1: committee's election integrity team. As Morty the pathologist says to 243 00:17:40,555 --> 00:17:42,595 Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. 244 00:17:42,675 --> 00:17:45,515 Speaker 2: And that's something metal of a drought and a water 245 00:17:45,555 --> 00:18:00,515 Speaker 2: commissioner drowns, and no cancelation yet from interviewer or interviewee. 246 00:18:00,715 --> 00:18:01,115 Speaker 2: But this. 247 00:18:02,955 --> 00:18:08,595 Speaker 1: Is how face the nation did on CBS Sunday. Join 248 00:18:08,675 --> 00:18:11,355 Speaker 1: us next week when we'll talk to South Dakota Republican 249 00:18:11,395 --> 00:18:18,755 Speaker 1: Governor Christy no about her new book, No Going Back. Oh, 250 00:18:18,955 --> 00:18:22,355 Speaker 1: there's still time for Nome to cancel, or the publicists 251 00:18:22,395 --> 00:18:25,515 Speaker 1: to cancel, or CBS to cancel, or CBS to make 252 00:18:25,555 --> 00:18:29,195 Speaker 1: it pay per view, or most appropriately, or CBS to 253 00:18:29,315 --> 00:18:33,035 Speaker 1: Lurenome into a gravel pit for the interview. There's also 254 00:18:33,035 --> 00:18:35,315 Speaker 1: the question of the book itself. It's being published by 255 00:18:35,395 --> 00:18:39,515 Speaker 1: Center Street, a conservative imprint of Hatchet, one of the 256 00:18:39,515 --> 00:18:42,155 Speaker 1: Big five publishers. It used to be Time Warner Books. 257 00:18:42,395 --> 00:18:46,155 Speaker 1: It still publishes Little Brown and many others. It may 258 00:18:46,435 --> 00:18:49,955 Speaker 1: want to bail out on this book before the boycott begins. 259 00:18:50,795 --> 00:18:54,795 Speaker 1: And as to Nome, a psychopathic sadist, I think I 260 00:18:54,835 --> 00:18:56,755 Speaker 1: said all I needed to say over the weekend on 261 00:18:56,795 --> 00:18:59,835 Speaker 1: social media about this monster, and thank you for all 262 00:18:59,875 --> 00:19:02,475 Speaker 1: of the kind words as I told the story of 263 00:19:02,475 --> 00:19:05,875 Speaker 1: my rescue mine and the moment he realized I was 264 00:19:05,915 --> 00:19:09,915 Speaker 1: now his human, and the transcendent affection of that, and 265 00:19:10,035 --> 00:19:13,955 Speaker 1: all of our time since that chance for some kind 266 00:19:13,955 --> 00:19:16,515 Speaker 1: of love like that that Gnome destroyed when she shot 267 00:19:16,595 --> 00:19:21,035 Speaker 1: poor Cricket. What matters now will be what happens when 268 00:19:21,115 --> 00:19:25,275 Speaker 1: Noome next tries to surface and do something anything that 269 00:19:25,435 --> 00:19:28,235 Speaker 1: is not about the fact that she murdered her daughter's 270 00:19:28,275 --> 00:19:32,635 Speaker 1: puppy because she failed to train it and she could 271 00:19:32,635 --> 00:19:34,715 Speaker 1: not be bothered to give it away to someone else 272 00:19:35,275 --> 00:19:39,115 Speaker 1: or to a rescue or to a shelter. I can 273 00:19:39,235 --> 00:19:45,555 Speaker 1: add only this two old found tweets. On September twenty 274 00:19:45,555 --> 00:19:48,035 Speaker 1: sixth of last year, someone tweeted a link to a 275 00:19:48,035 --> 00:19:52,275 Speaker 1: CNN story and added quote, Commander Biden bites another Secret 276 00:19:52,315 --> 00:19:55,915 Speaker 1: Service agent the eleventh known incident. No such thing as 277 00:19:55,915 --> 00:20:01,075 Speaker 1: a bad dog, just a bad owner unquote. Then two 278 00:20:01,075 --> 00:20:04,555 Speaker 1: months and nine days ago in February, another CNN link 279 00:20:04,875 --> 00:20:09,475 Speaker 1: and another subtweet, same account, Biden's dog commander bit Secret 280 00:20:09,555 --> 00:20:13,035 Speaker 1: Service personnel in at least twenty four incidents. Experts say 281 00:20:13,195 --> 00:20:18,795 Speaker 1: there are no bad dogs, just bad dog owners. I agree. 282 00:20:18,995 --> 00:20:28,515 Speaker 1: The author of both of these tweets, Corey Lewandowski. Corey Lewandowski, 283 00:20:28,555 --> 00:20:31,875 Speaker 1: as in per The New York Post, have last September fifteenth, 284 00:20:31,915 --> 00:20:35,395 Speaker 1: married Republican South Dakota Governor Christy Nome has engaged in 285 00:20:35,435 --> 00:20:40,915 Speaker 1: a year's long affair with longtime Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski. 286 00:20:41,355 --> 00:20:47,715 Speaker 1: Multiple sources told the Post Friday, quote it is our 287 00:20:47,915 --> 00:20:50,595 Speaker 1: task now to make certain that for the rest of 288 00:20:50,635 --> 00:20:53,715 Speaker 1: her life and may she live to be two hundred 289 00:20:53,715 --> 00:20:59,035 Speaker 1: and six, Christy Nome and everyone who supports her spends 290 00:20:59,115 --> 00:21:11,195 Speaker 1: every minute inside a metaphorical gravel pitch. Also of interest 291 00:21:11,195 --> 00:21:13,315 Speaker 1: here panic at the New York Times over the ag 292 00:21:13,515 --> 00:21:16,915 Speaker 1: Sealzburger Biden grudge story. And it's so bad that the 293 00:21:16,955 --> 00:21:26,555 Speaker 1: official statement from the Times denying it is anonymous. And yes, 294 00:21:27,235 --> 00:21:30,515 Speaker 1: if you were paying attention yesterday, you knew this was 295 00:21:30,555 --> 00:21:34,195 Speaker 1: going to happen. Guess who made the worst Person's list 296 00:21:34,555 --> 00:21:41,475 Speaker 1: thanks to Nancy Pelosi one of my exes. Now, can 297 00:21:41,515 --> 00:21:47,595 Speaker 1: you guess which one of my exes that's next? This 298 00:21:47,675 --> 00:21:48,475 Speaker 1: is Countdown. 299 00:21:50,715 --> 00:21:54,235 Speaker 2: This is Countdown, with Keith Olberman. 300 00:22:15,275 --> 00:22:17,475 Speaker 1: Still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown. It 301 00:22:17,515 --> 00:22:21,515 Speaker 1: is rare when one person is the star of worse 302 00:22:21,595 --> 00:22:25,475 Speaker 1: persons in the world and things I promise not to tell, 303 00:22:25,555 --> 00:22:27,915 Speaker 1: and I used to live with them, and they get 304 00:22:27,995 --> 00:22:31,635 Speaker 1: killed daily on social media, and now they get killed 305 00:22:31,675 --> 00:22:34,555 Speaker 1: on their own newscast by another friend of mine who 306 00:22:34,715 --> 00:22:36,515 Speaker 1: used to be the Speaker. 307 00:22:36,035 --> 00:22:38,275 Speaker 2: Of the House ah Preservatives. 308 00:22:39,435 --> 00:22:45,675 Speaker 1: But while it may not be Thursday, it is thurday 309 00:22:46,475 --> 00:22:49,835 Speaker 1: on things I promised not to tell coming up first, 310 00:22:50,115 --> 00:22:52,795 Speaker 1: still more new idiots to talk about, and there is 311 00:22:52,875 --> 00:22:56,595 Speaker 1: overlap the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning 312 00:22:56,635 --> 00:23:01,875 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. 313 00:23:02,475 --> 00:23:05,955 Speaker 1: The bronze. I don't want to give this two Cindy Adams. 314 00:23:06,435 --> 00:23:09,475 Speaker 1: It was her birthday party, but a she's ninety four 315 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:13,755 Speaker 1: years old, be given her career writing about celebrities. She's 316 00:23:13,795 --> 00:23:18,435 Speaker 1: a really dedicated reporter. She's taken the accuracy of her 317 00:23:18,475 --> 00:23:22,355 Speaker 1: stories way more seriously than anybody else in her field. 318 00:23:23,075 --> 00:23:23,835 Speaker 2: And see she. 319 00:23:23,875 --> 00:23:26,395 Speaker 1: Called me up years ago and said, I just saw 320 00:23:26,435 --> 00:23:28,275 Speaker 1: your show for the first time. I think it's exactly 321 00:23:28,275 --> 00:23:30,675 Speaker 1: what our country needs right now. How can I help 322 00:23:30,715 --> 00:23:34,955 Speaker 1: you in my own silly way? So the bronze is 323 00:23:34,995 --> 00:23:40,075 Speaker 1: to whoever leaked this list of guests to New York Magazine. 324 00:23:40,195 --> 00:23:45,035 Speaker 1: Quote spotted at Cindy Adams's ninety fourth birthday party, Kathy Hochel, 325 00:23:45,515 --> 00:23:52,315 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, Woody and Soon Yee, Al Sharpton, 326 00:23:52,515 --> 00:23:58,875 Speaker 1: Kelly Ann Conway, Heillo, Riley, Don Lemon, Robert Thompson, Keith Fool, 327 00:23:59,355 --> 00:24:04,035 Speaker 1: Al Sharpton, unquote, what was the title of that book, 328 00:24:04,355 --> 00:24:06,595 Speaker 1: the two twell people you meet when you Go to Hell, 329 00:24:06,995 --> 00:24:12,075 Speaker 1: was that it tell people even go Andrew Cuomo, O'Reilly, 330 00:24:12,715 --> 00:24:16,755 Speaker 1: Kelly and Conway, Jesus Cindy after they left. I hope 331 00:24:16,755 --> 00:24:21,875 Speaker 1: you counted the spoons. Also, why is al Sharpton listed twice? 332 00:24:21,955 --> 00:24:22,275 Speaker 2: Are there? 333 00:24:22,275 --> 00:24:22,475 Speaker 1: Two? 334 00:24:22,475 --> 00:24:24,355 Speaker 2: Are Al Sharpton's? Are there? 335 00:24:25,395 --> 00:24:28,035 Speaker 1: The runners up? Worser The New York Times. You may 336 00:24:28,075 --> 00:24:32,875 Speaker 1: recall that writer Peter Baker and an executive named Elizabeth 337 00:24:32,875 --> 00:24:36,275 Speaker 1: but Miller, and the publisher A. G. Selzburger all made 338 00:24:36,275 --> 00:24:41,875 Speaker 1: this last last Friday, after Politico's expos on Sealzburger's vendetta 339 00:24:41,915 --> 00:24:44,635 Speaker 1: against President Biden because he will not give The Times 340 00:24:44,835 --> 00:24:49,275 Speaker 1: a one on one exclusive, so bad that during a 341 00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:53,195 Speaker 1: one on one exclusive with Vice President Harris, he wasted 342 00:24:53,235 --> 00:24:56,515 Speaker 1: some of the time arguing with her to ask Biden 343 00:24:56,955 --> 00:24:58,075 Speaker 1: on the Times. 344 00:24:57,675 --> 00:24:59,515 Speaker 2: Behalf to do the interview pretty please. 345 00:25:00,395 --> 00:25:04,515 Speaker 1: So bad that Politico quoted a Times journalist who said, 346 00:25:04,515 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: it is Sealzburger who responded to this by ordering the 347 00:25:07,395 --> 00:25:11,995 Speaker 1: newspaper to keep doing stories on Joe Biden's age until 348 00:25:12,035 --> 00:25:16,395 Speaker 1: he proves to them he's not too old by successfully 349 00:25:16,435 --> 00:25:19,595 Speaker 1: doing a good one on one with The Times. The quote, 350 00:25:19,715 --> 00:25:22,595 Speaker 1: it's ag he's the one who's pissed that Biden hasn't 351 00:25:22,635 --> 00:25:25,955 Speaker 1: done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting 352 00:25:25,995 --> 00:25:31,235 Speaker 1: on his age. Unquote. The Times has fallen apart over this. 353 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:35,675 Speaker 1: Nobody is denying that. Sealzburger asked the Vice President, pretty 354 00:25:35,675 --> 00:25:37,795 Speaker 1: please get him to do the interview, Please please, please, 355 00:25:37,835 --> 00:25:39,635 Speaker 1: please don't let him do an interview with the Post 356 00:25:39,635 --> 00:25:42,275 Speaker 1: for God's sake. So or what if it's the Daily News, 357 00:25:42,315 --> 00:25:43,675 Speaker 1: the New York Daily News, we will have to go 358 00:25:43,755 --> 00:25:46,955 Speaker 1: out of business. I just made that part up. Nobody 359 00:25:46,995 --> 00:25:49,675 Speaker 1: is denying. The President went on with Howard Stern, though, 360 00:25:50,035 --> 00:25:52,555 Speaker 1: just to thumb his nose at The Times last week, 361 00:25:52,755 --> 00:25:56,275 Speaker 1: but this idea that the publisher ordered the negative coverage 362 00:25:56,315 --> 00:25:59,875 Speaker 1: and was intentionally or inadvertently helping Trump as a result. 363 00:26:00,115 --> 00:26:05,635 Speaker 1: As petulant revenge. On Sunday morning, Maggie Haberman posted a 364 00:26:05,795 --> 00:26:09,715 Speaker 1: seven tweet thread, each with a link to a Times 365 00:26:09,795 --> 00:26:14,955 Speaker 1: piece in which The Times had criticized Trump deportations. They'd 366 00:26:14,995 --> 00:26:18,155 Speaker 1: be bad, pulling out of NATO, that would be bad. 367 00:26:18,635 --> 00:26:23,875 Speaker 1: Prosecuting Biden problematic. It was clearly a response to the 368 00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:27,875 Speaker 1: political story on the weekend of the White House Correspondence Dinner, 369 00:26:27,915 --> 00:26:31,755 Speaker 1: no less and as a response to that, it's pretty 370 00:26:31,795 --> 00:26:34,875 Speaker 1: damn mediocre. We know Trump is bad. He says he 371 00:26:34,915 --> 00:26:36,515 Speaker 1: wants to be a dictator. He says he's going to 372 00:26:36,555 --> 00:26:39,675 Speaker 1: be bad to people. America needs the time to show 373 00:26:39,715 --> 00:26:44,675 Speaker 1: a little enthusiasm and burn Trump down like it helped 374 00:26:44,675 --> 00:26:49,715 Speaker 1: the Washington Post burn Richard Nixon down. Pretend not just 375 00:26:49,795 --> 00:26:55,315 Speaker 1: that our lives depend upon it, but just think maybe 376 00:26:55,395 --> 00:26:58,675 Speaker 1: your lives depend upon it, because your lives do depend 377 00:26:58,755 --> 00:27:03,595 Speaker 1: upon it. Two other reporters, Jonathan Swan and Peter Baker, 378 00:27:04,035 --> 00:27:07,115 Speaker 1: were sent out to defend the publisher personally. Peter Baker 379 00:27:07,155 --> 00:27:10,955 Speaker 1: texted a media reporter quote, I've never heard AG say 380 00:27:10,995 --> 00:27:15,155 Speaker 1: anything like that and can't imagine you ever would. Swan posted, 381 00:27:15,515 --> 00:27:18,315 Speaker 1: I have spoken to AG over the past year. Sorry, 382 00:27:18,355 --> 00:27:21,315 Speaker 1: he's Australian. I've spoken to Ig over the past year 383 00:27:21,355 --> 00:27:25,875 Speaker 1: about this topic. This caricature is unrecognizable. It's such a 384 00:27:25,915 --> 00:27:29,635 Speaker 1: BS mischaracterization of his views about the importance of serious 385 00:27:29,675 --> 00:27:34,675 Speaker 1: long form presidential interviews. Boys, I have bad news from 386 00:27:34,675 --> 00:27:38,515 Speaker 1: you for you. Rather, I have been personally talking to 387 00:27:38,675 --> 00:27:45,475 Speaker 1: bosses on the AG Sealzburger level. I mean owners, corporate chairman, founders, 388 00:27:45,795 --> 00:27:48,675 Speaker 1: the big guys. Since I went to work for Ted 389 00:27:48,755 --> 00:27:54,235 Speaker 1: Turner in nineteen eighty one. Emmelt Iiger the head of 390 00:27:54,275 --> 00:27:59,275 Speaker 1: Tribune Broadcasting, guys at CBS, dozens of presidents at NBC, 391 00:27:59,875 --> 00:28:03,555 Speaker 1: you name them. The higher up they are, the more 392 00:28:03,715 --> 00:28:08,115 Speaker 1: likely they are ever tell you the truth. Oh, they'll 393 00:28:08,155 --> 00:28:10,555 Speaker 1: talk to you, and they'll tell you to call them 394 00:28:10,595 --> 00:28:13,555 Speaker 1: by their first names, so you can say, I've never 395 00:28:13,595 --> 00:28:16,595 Speaker 1: heard Ag say anything like that, or I've never heard 396 00:28:16,675 --> 00:28:19,595 Speaker 1: Ted say anything like that, or you know, emmelt was 397 00:28:19,635 --> 00:28:23,995 Speaker 1: telling me, or you know. And while they're doing that, 398 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:28,475 Speaker 1: they are telling your bosses, bosses, bosses, boss exactly what 399 00:28:28,675 --> 00:28:32,675 Speaker 1: to do and to have you do it. But the 400 00:28:32,715 --> 00:28:36,395 Speaker 1: real tell on how phony the Times issued on this 401 00:28:36,955 --> 00:28:42,355 Speaker 1: was their formal denial, the statement, it is true that 402 00:28:42,395 --> 00:28:45,075 Speaker 1: The Times has sought an on the record interview with 403 00:28:45,155 --> 00:28:48,035 Speaker 1: mister Biden, as it has done with all presidents going 404 00:28:48,075 --> 00:28:50,995 Speaker 1: back more than a century. If the President chooses not 405 00:28:51,075 --> 00:28:53,795 Speaker 1: to sit down with the Times because he dislikes our 406 00:28:53,875 --> 00:28:57,915 Speaker 1: independent coverage, that is his right, and we will continue 407 00:28:57,955 --> 00:29:01,875 Speaker 1: to cover him fully and fairly either way. By the way, 408 00:29:01,915 --> 00:29:04,275 Speaker 1: this sounds like the ag Sealzburger they talked about in 409 00:29:04,315 --> 00:29:08,635 Speaker 1: the Politic, Like he wrote this statement himself. It's petulant 410 00:29:08,795 --> 00:29:13,635 Speaker 1: and it's childish. However, in meetings with Vice President Harris 411 00:29:13,635 --> 00:29:16,755 Speaker 1: and other administration officials, the publisher of The Times focused 412 00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:20,355 Speaker 1: instead on a higher principle that systematically avoiding interviews and 413 00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:24,395 Speaker 1: questions for major news organizations doesn't just undermine an important 414 00:29:24,435 --> 00:29:27,875 Speaker 1: norm and also establishes a dangerous precedent that future presidents 415 00:29:27,915 --> 00:29:30,915 Speaker 1: can use to avoid scrutiny and accountability. That is why 416 00:29:30,915 --> 00:29:34,555 Speaker 1: mister Selzberger has repeatedly urged the White House blah blah 417 00:29:34,595 --> 00:29:40,795 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. The punchline is this issue of this 418 00:29:40,995 --> 00:29:47,995 Speaker 1: Time statement about accountability and scrutiny and principle and president 419 00:29:48,715 --> 00:29:54,795 Speaker 1: and journalism, and the New York Times statement about all 420 00:29:54,835 --> 00:30:01,675 Speaker 1: this is anonymous. It's attributed to a spokesperson. Nobody will 421 00:30:01,715 --> 00:30:05,275 Speaker 1: put their name on it. We're talking about journalistic hontability 422 00:30:05,315 --> 00:30:09,955 Speaker 1: in the Times is acting as a background source frauds 423 00:30:11,835 --> 00:30:16,915 Speaker 1: sell the team Sealzburger, but our winner. Here we go. 424 00:30:18,115 --> 00:30:22,795 Speaker 1: It's finally come to this. What could possibly top ag 425 00:30:23,075 --> 00:30:27,115 Speaker 1: Sealzburger and his personal grudge against the President of the 426 00:30:27,235 --> 00:30:31,195 Speaker 1: United States, so that he is tampering with news coverage 427 00:30:31,195 --> 00:30:35,315 Speaker 1: in the New York Times to favor a guy who 428 00:30:35,315 --> 00:30:38,395 Speaker 1: would burn The New York Times to the ground and 429 00:30:38,515 --> 00:30:41,675 Speaker 1: think he was being generous by asking everybody to leave 430 00:30:41,675 --> 00:30:44,715 Speaker 1: the building first. What could top Bat on the Worst 431 00:30:44,715 --> 00:30:48,195 Speaker 1: Person's List? What could ever in a million years top Bat. 432 00:30:51,075 --> 00:30:55,155 Speaker 1: It's finally come to this. Someone I lived with for 433 00:30:55,395 --> 00:31:01,915 Speaker 1: three years, with whom I remained good friends for eight years, 434 00:31:02,315 --> 00:31:05,275 Speaker 1: whose rent I paid for the year after we broke 435 00:31:05,355 --> 00:31:08,555 Speaker 1: up so she could keep going in her career and 436 00:31:08,595 --> 00:31:12,595 Speaker 1: not have to leave New York. Such good friends that 437 00:31:12,675 --> 00:31:16,155 Speaker 1: she asked me to write her book for her. I'll 438 00:31:16,195 --> 00:31:19,715 Speaker 1: go into length about that coming up. But it's Katie 439 00:31:19,715 --> 00:31:25,675 Speaker 1: Turr and she's jumped the shark. She trends an average 440 00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:29,875 Speaker 1: of once a week, maybe it's twice a week. We're 441 00:31:29,875 --> 00:31:35,715 Speaker 1: saying something ineffably stupid and biased and pro Trump on MSNBC. 442 00:31:36,075 --> 00:31:40,075 Speaker 1: It's like watching a football team lose every week for 443 00:31:40,195 --> 00:31:45,435 Speaker 1: five seasons in a row, with the same interception at 444 00:31:45,435 --> 00:31:49,755 Speaker 1: the same moment in the same fashion every week. And 445 00:31:49,915 --> 00:31:57,715 Speaker 1: yesterday the team she lost to was quarterbacked by Nancy Pelosi. 446 00:31:57,355 --> 00:32:01,395 Speaker 3: Joe Biden is doing that created nine million jobs in 447 00:32:01,475 --> 00:32:05,435 Speaker 3: his tournament office. Donald Trump as the worst record of 448 00:32:05,595 --> 00:32:09,155 Speaker 3: job loss of any president. So we just have to 449 00:32:09,195 --> 00:32:10,275 Speaker 3: make sure people. 450 00:32:10,355 --> 00:32:11,875 Speaker 1: Know that was a global pandemic. 451 00:32:13,875 --> 00:32:17,195 Speaker 3: She had the worst record of any president. We've had 452 00:32:17,275 --> 00:32:19,675 Speaker 3: other concerns in our country. If you want to be 453 00:32:19,675 --> 00:32:23,115 Speaker 3: an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role, 454 00:32:23,315 --> 00:32:24,235 Speaker 3: but it ain't mine. 455 00:32:24,355 --> 00:32:27,715 Speaker 1: And he has a word and we know, but may 456 00:32:27,835 --> 00:32:31,555 Speaker 1: just say, okay, See, the problem isn't that Nancy Pelosi 457 00:32:31,595 --> 00:32:34,875 Speaker 1: stuffed Katie Turr in a locker in her own locker 458 00:32:35,635 --> 00:32:39,595 Speaker 1: on her own TV show Live. And the problem isn't 459 00:32:39,635 --> 00:32:41,995 Speaker 1: even that Katie, whom Trump used to try to, you know, 460 00:32:42,115 --> 00:32:46,795 Speaker 1: get killed, has become what my friend, speaker Emereta Pelosi 461 00:32:46,875 --> 00:32:49,875 Speaker 1: called her just there, an apologist for Trump, and she has. 462 00:32:50,315 --> 00:32:54,355 Speaker 1: It's what Katie mumbled during that. I don't think anybody 463 00:32:54,435 --> 00:32:58,155 Speaker 1: can accuse me of that. Katie, I'm accusing you of 464 00:32:58,155 --> 00:33:02,115 Speaker 1: becoming an apologist for Donald Trump. While she was on 465 00:33:02,155 --> 00:33:06,555 Speaker 1: the trail covering Trump in two thousand sex six, nobody 466 00:33:06,555 --> 00:33:11,835 Speaker 1: did a better job covering Trump, and nobody. Nobody supported Katie, 467 00:33:12,155 --> 00:33:17,075 Speaker 1: nor defended Katie Nor advocated for Katie even within NBC 468 00:33:17,915 --> 00:33:21,115 Speaker 1: long after I left, still advocating for her in there. 469 00:33:21,875 --> 00:33:24,595 Speaker 1: Nobody did it more than I did, and she did 470 00:33:24,675 --> 00:33:28,755 Speaker 1: great and courageous work. And somehow since then she has 471 00:33:29,515 --> 00:33:32,675 Speaker 1: turned into an apologist for Donald Trump. I'll go into 472 00:33:32,675 --> 00:33:35,155 Speaker 1: why in the last segment. I have a theory. But 473 00:33:35,275 --> 00:33:41,315 Speaker 1: the point here is, isn't there anybody who cares enough 474 00:33:41,355 --> 00:33:44,275 Speaker 1: for her to tell her that it's not just Nancy 475 00:33:44,315 --> 00:33:50,595 Speaker 1: Pelosi or some random Democrat accusing her of that. It's everybody, 476 00:33:52,035 --> 00:33:58,915 Speaker 1: everybody every day. Only the only person who even cares 477 00:33:58,955 --> 00:34:01,155 Speaker 1: this much to tell her, yes, that's what you've become. 478 00:34:01,435 --> 00:34:02,115 Speaker 2: Get some help. 479 00:34:02,275 --> 00:34:04,435 Speaker 1: I'm the only one, and I can't stand her anymore 480 00:34:05,515 --> 00:34:07,555 Speaker 1: because she turned on me too. And I'm the only 481 00:34:07,595 --> 00:34:10,715 Speaker 1: one who's willing to say this other than five million 482 00:34:10,755 --> 00:34:13,595 Speaker 1: people on Twitter every day. The first measure of mental 483 00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:18,675 Speaker 1: health is can you correctly guess? Just more or less? 484 00:34:18,715 --> 00:34:23,595 Speaker 1: Can you correctly guess what all those around you think 485 00:34:23,675 --> 00:34:26,795 Speaker 1: of you and how they would describe you. And if 486 00:34:26,795 --> 00:34:29,115 Speaker 1: the former Speaker of the House accuses you of being 487 00:34:29,115 --> 00:34:32,275 Speaker 1: a Trump apologist and you say, I don't think anybody 488 00:34:32,315 --> 00:34:34,635 Speaker 1: can accuse me of that, and within minutes, you are 489 00:34:34,635 --> 00:34:38,035 Speaker 1: trending on Twitter and everybody is saying you are a 490 00:34:38,075 --> 00:34:42,755 Speaker 1: Trump apologist. Pelosi is right, you have not correctly guessed 491 00:34:42,915 --> 00:34:45,115 Speaker 1: what those around you think of you. 492 00:34:46,035 --> 00:34:46,515 Speaker 2: Katie. 493 00:34:46,515 --> 00:34:50,835 Speaker 1: For God's sake, we'll never talk again in our lives, 494 00:34:50,915 --> 00:34:55,435 Speaker 1: and I'm fine with that. But you've lost the plot. 495 00:34:55,715 --> 00:34:59,435 Speaker 1: And worse yet, that little condescending snarl in your voice there. 496 00:34:59,475 --> 00:35:06,035 Speaker 1: To Nancy Pelosi, you sound like effing Harris Faulkner from Fox. Katie, 497 00:35:06,875 --> 00:35:11,155 Speaker 1: maybe that will wake her up ter today's worst person 498 00:35:13,035 --> 00:35:31,235 Speaker 1: in the world. More on Katie turn next. For a 499 00:35:31,355 --> 00:35:34,915 Speaker 1: year and a half after he came down that escalator, 500 00:35:35,515 --> 00:35:40,515 Speaker 1: Donald Trump tried to get Katie Urr killed, called her 501 00:35:40,515 --> 00:35:45,075 Speaker 1: out repeatedly at his campaign speeches, pointed her out to 502 00:35:45,155 --> 00:35:47,675 Speaker 1: his mobs sooner rather than later, they had to get 503 00:35:47,715 --> 00:35:54,355 Speaker 1: her Secret Service protection. Last Friday on MSNBC, Katie carried 504 00:35:54,435 --> 00:35:57,515 Speaker 1: so much water so quickly for Trump that she was 505 00:35:57,555 --> 00:36:00,635 Speaker 1: still trending for it on Saturday, and she was the 506 00:36:00,875 --> 00:36:07,315 Speaker 1: headline story on nearly every right wing propaganda website. Not good, 507 00:36:08,155 --> 00:36:10,995 Speaker 1: She insisted he was a legend in New York City. 508 00:36:11,035 --> 00:36:14,315 Speaker 1: Trump is synonymous with New York. She then posited that 509 00:36:14,355 --> 00:36:17,075 Speaker 1: there were no true victims in the business fraud case, 510 00:36:17,315 --> 00:36:19,355 Speaker 1: for which Trump must now pay three hundred and fifty 511 00:36:19,355 --> 00:36:22,515 Speaker 1: five million dollars in fines. She asked a panel of 512 00:36:22,595 --> 00:36:26,235 Speaker 1: startled guests, is this fair to go after Donald Trump 513 00:36:26,355 --> 00:36:33,755 Speaker 1: like this in this environment? Ah, don't know where to 514 00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:39,555 Speaker 1: begin here. I am beginning to suspect sort of late 515 00:36:39,675 --> 00:36:46,195 Speaker 1: blossoming Stockholm syndrome or blackmail maybe, or something else unknown 516 00:36:46,355 --> 00:36:50,395 Speaker 1: in this equation. When they asked Katie to go cover 517 00:36:50,515 --> 00:36:53,035 Speaker 1: Trump's announcement that he was running, she was working out 518 00:36:53,035 --> 00:36:56,115 Speaker 1: of NBC's London bureau and was only back here in 519 00:36:56,155 --> 00:36:57,835 Speaker 1: the city for a few days to meet her new 520 00:36:57,835 --> 00:37:01,355 Speaker 1: boss and stop buy and visit her old friends and me. 521 00:37:02,675 --> 00:37:04,835 Speaker 1: She told me she did not want anything to do 522 00:37:05,035 --> 00:37:08,555 Speaker 1: with American politics. She had gotten an interview with him. 523 00:37:08,595 --> 00:37:11,355 Speaker 1: When she eventually went to cover his announcement. He knew 524 00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:13,075 Speaker 1: that she and I had lived together in one of 525 00:37:13,075 --> 00:37:17,235 Speaker 1: his buildings. The interview was good, It was contentious in 526 00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:20,195 Speaker 1: many respects. It was the last solid interview anybody ever 527 00:37:20,235 --> 00:37:24,715 Speaker 1: did with Trump, and NBC immediately saw that and asked 528 00:37:24,715 --> 00:37:29,235 Speaker 1: her to cover his campaign full time, figuring it would 529 00:37:29,235 --> 00:37:31,195 Speaker 1: sput her out at some point, but that she had 530 00:37:31,235 --> 00:37:34,115 Speaker 1: access to him. She told me she didn't want anything 531 00:37:34,155 --> 00:37:36,115 Speaker 1: to do with that either, and I suggested that was 532 00:37:36,155 --> 00:37:38,355 Speaker 1: probably the wrong answer, and that I'd help her get 533 00:37:38,355 --> 00:37:41,915 Speaker 1: through it, that it could make her career. So off 534 00:37:41,955 --> 00:37:44,955 Speaker 1: she went. She would send me her NBC story scripts 535 00:37:44,995 --> 00:37:47,475 Speaker 1: to edit or rewrite for her, and as the threats 536 00:37:47,475 --> 00:37:50,235 Speaker 1: continued against her, I just tried to be supportive and reassuring. 537 00:37:50,955 --> 00:37:53,595 Speaker 1: I had broken up with her seven years earlier, but 538 00:37:53,635 --> 00:37:55,795 Speaker 1: we had parted at as friends. I had never had 539 00:37:55,875 --> 00:37:58,875 Speaker 1: any reason to doubt that would continue. And then one 540 00:37:58,955 --> 00:38:02,675 Speaker 1: day I attacked Kelly An Conway on Twitter. I know, 541 00:38:02,755 --> 00:38:05,755 Speaker 1: not a very high bar, but still, oh, I did it. 542 00:38:06,395 --> 00:38:08,235 Speaker 1: The next thing I know, I'm getting a text from 543 00:38:08,315 --> 00:38:10,555 Speaker 1: Katie Urr and then a phone call and she's really 544 00:38:10,675 --> 00:38:14,315 Speaker 1: angry at me, saying Conway called her up about what 545 00:38:14,395 --> 00:38:17,115 Speaker 1: I had tweeted, and that I needed to remember that 546 00:38:17,115 --> 00:38:20,315 Speaker 1: there were decent people on both sides and bad ones, 547 00:38:20,315 --> 00:38:23,035 Speaker 1: and everybody got threats and it was really inappropriate for 548 00:38:23,075 --> 00:38:26,195 Speaker 1: me to contribute to the quote dangers Kellyanne Conway faced, 549 00:38:27,595 --> 00:38:29,435 Speaker 1: I said something about, well, yeah, I'm sure there are 550 00:38:29,435 --> 00:38:31,675 Speaker 1: decent people on both sides. But she's not one of them. 551 00:38:33,315 --> 00:38:37,835 Speaker 1: I said to her, KellyAnn Conway, you're worried about about 552 00:38:37,915 --> 00:38:42,075 Speaker 1: Kelly and Conway. She's part of a gang that has 553 00:38:42,115 --> 00:38:45,955 Speaker 1: spent the last year trying to get you killed, killed, 554 00:38:46,915 --> 00:38:51,995 Speaker 1: not inconvenience, not fired, killed enough that the Secret Service 555 00:38:51,995 --> 00:38:53,075 Speaker 1: stepped in. Are you nuts? 556 00:38:54,675 --> 00:38:55,195 Speaker 2: Well? 557 00:38:55,755 --> 00:38:59,275 Speaker 1: It turned out Kelly and Conway was one of Katie's sources. 558 00:38:59,595 --> 00:39:01,755 Speaker 1: In fact, she might have been the main source for 559 00:39:01,795 --> 00:39:04,515 Speaker 1: the networks and the big newspapers during the two thousand 560 00:39:04,515 --> 00:39:08,915 Speaker 1: six sixteen campaign and beyond. Apparently she cannot stop talking. 561 00:39:09,675 --> 00:39:14,115 Speaker 1: But even so, Katie's attitude towards her and against me 562 00:39:14,355 --> 00:39:18,995 Speaker 1: was out of the blue and really offensive. Anyway, it passed, 563 00:39:18,995 --> 00:39:20,675 Speaker 1: and maybe two months later I got a text from 564 00:39:20,675 --> 00:39:24,475 Speaker 1: her at nine to fourteen PM on December eleven, twenty sixteen. 565 00:39:24,515 --> 00:39:27,835 Speaker 1: This is called having the receipts. Trump had won. Our 566 00:39:27,955 --> 00:39:30,595 Speaker 1: nightmare had begun, and Katie had gotten a book deal 567 00:39:30,635 --> 00:39:34,075 Speaker 1: about her experience. I'd been keeping a document in my 568 00:39:34,195 --> 00:39:37,515 Speaker 1: laptop with hundreds of pages of Trump stories and links 569 00:39:37,755 --> 00:39:41,235 Speaker 1: and commentaries that I used for the Resistance video series 570 00:39:41,235 --> 00:39:45,035 Speaker 1: for GQ. It was my Trump doc, and given that 571 00:39:45,115 --> 00:39:47,595 Speaker 1: Katie was writing that book. I'd offered to give her 572 00:39:47,635 --> 00:39:50,195 Speaker 1: a copy of it so she had something chronological to 573 00:39:50,315 --> 00:39:52,995 Speaker 1: use as research as she wrote her book because she 574 00:39:53,035 --> 00:39:55,355 Speaker 1: hadn't really been keeping notes, she'd just been trying not 575 00:39:55,475 --> 00:39:58,915 Speaker 1: to get killed. I still have her text. It reads, 576 00:39:59,155 --> 00:40:01,515 Speaker 1: do you still want to share your trump dock with me? 577 00:40:02,115 --> 00:40:04,435 Speaker 1: I joked back, sure, how much? And she joked back 578 00:40:04,475 --> 00:40:07,835 Speaker 1: ten twenty dollars. And while we were texting, I emailed 579 00:40:07,835 --> 00:40:10,115 Speaker 1: her the doc and I said, no charge, but don't 580 00:40:10,115 --> 00:40:12,315 Speaker 1: forget my one demand. Do not leave me out of 581 00:40:12,355 --> 00:40:16,635 Speaker 1: your acknowledgments in your book. More than a month later, 582 00:40:16,675 --> 00:40:19,755 Speaker 1: at two thirty five pm on Sunday, January twenty second, 583 00:40:19,755 --> 00:40:24,195 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, I was just back from LA and I 584 00:40:24,235 --> 00:40:26,875 Speaker 1: had just done Bill Maher's show for the last time, 585 00:40:27,315 --> 00:40:30,195 Speaker 1: and Katie Tert texted me about why they had never 586 00:40:30,315 --> 00:40:34,275 Speaker 1: invited her to be on Bill Maher's show, and then 587 00:40:34,315 --> 00:40:39,075 Speaker 1: she switched topics, quote want to write this book? I 588 00:40:39,115 --> 00:40:42,635 Speaker 1: wrote back at five point thirty two, what You're not serious? 589 00:40:42,635 --> 00:40:45,955 Speaker 1: How would that work? That's when she phoned. She was 590 00:40:45,995 --> 00:40:48,475 Speaker 1: about to give the advanced money back to the publisher. 591 00:40:48,515 --> 00:40:51,315 Speaker 1: I can't write a book. I'm like fifty thousand words short, 592 00:40:51,435 --> 00:40:52,235 Speaker 1: and it's terrible. 593 00:40:52,315 --> 00:40:52,875 Speaker 2: I'll give you. 594 00:40:52,795 --> 00:40:54,835 Speaker 1: Half the money. I'll give you more than half the money. 595 00:40:55,755 --> 00:40:57,595 Speaker 1: I pointed out to her that I had written or 596 00:40:57,635 --> 00:41:00,915 Speaker 1: rewritten dozens of her stories for NBC News and MSNBC, 597 00:41:01,435 --> 00:41:04,475 Speaker 1: and it was not a question of the money. It 598 00:41:04,515 --> 00:41:06,395 Speaker 1: was the question of what we could get away with. 599 00:41:07,235 --> 00:41:11,075 Speaker 1: No viewer and maybe only one producer in a million, 600 00:41:11,115 --> 00:41:13,915 Speaker 1: would ever notice that one sentence or one paragraph of 601 00:41:13,995 --> 00:41:16,995 Speaker 1: one script in her two minute report was actually written 602 00:41:17,035 --> 00:41:20,555 Speaker 1: by me or even sounded like me. First of all, 603 00:41:20,595 --> 00:41:23,795 Speaker 1: she was the one saying it each time I wrote 604 00:41:23,915 --> 00:41:26,155 Speaker 1: or re wrote in her name for NBC. It was 605 00:41:26,195 --> 00:41:29,355 Speaker 1: a fireable offense for her, but one that nobody would 606 00:41:29,355 --> 00:41:32,395 Speaker 1: ever think to look for, even though there is necessarily 607 00:41:32,435 --> 00:41:35,195 Speaker 1: an email trail ten miles long. But a book, a 608 00:41:35,235 --> 00:41:39,995 Speaker 1: book about Trump in my writing style, not hers in print. 609 00:41:40,715 --> 00:41:43,715 Speaker 1: I have a fairly distinct writing style, and I'm not 610 00:41:43,755 --> 00:41:48,035 Speaker 1: good at hiding it. Somebody would notice. Her publisher might 611 00:41:48,115 --> 00:41:50,635 Speaker 1: cancel it or even sue, or if it got published, 612 00:41:50,715 --> 00:41:55,035 Speaker 1: NBC might notice it and fire her. This was not 613 00:41:55,235 --> 00:41:57,235 Speaker 1: just a bad idea, I pointed out to her, and 614 00:41:57,355 --> 00:42:00,035 Speaker 1: very dubious ethically, but it stood an excellent chance of 615 00:42:00,075 --> 00:42:05,515 Speaker 1: destroying her career and maybe damaging mine. She said, oh, 616 00:42:05,795 --> 00:42:07,275 Speaker 1: And she told me she was going to talk it 617 00:42:07,315 --> 00:42:09,835 Speaker 1: over with her boyfriend Tony from CBS that night, and 618 00:42:09,875 --> 00:42:11,835 Speaker 1: her thought was to give back the advance and cancel 619 00:42:11,875 --> 00:42:14,435 Speaker 1: the book. And I said, did you think about a ghostwriter? 620 00:42:14,875 --> 00:42:16,995 Speaker 1: And she said, like who? And I said, I had 621 00:42:16,995 --> 00:42:20,035 Speaker 1: no idea. I tried to joke her out of these 622 00:42:20,075 --> 00:42:22,235 Speaker 1: grim prospects by reminding her that at least with a 623 00:42:22,315 --> 00:42:24,995 Speaker 1: several thousand dollars worth of research I gave her, I 624 00:42:25,035 --> 00:42:27,595 Speaker 1: had cut the price to no dollars and no sense. 625 00:42:27,955 --> 00:42:30,955 Speaker 1: And all I wanted was to not be left out 626 00:42:30,995 --> 00:42:34,395 Speaker 1: of the acknowledgments. The next thing I knew the book 627 00:42:34,395 --> 00:42:38,315 Speaker 1: had been published. She didn't give the money back. There 628 00:42:38,355 --> 00:42:40,235 Speaker 1: was not a paragraph of it that reads like the 629 00:42:40,235 --> 00:42:44,435 Speaker 1: rest of her writing, and the three years we lived 630 00:42:44,515 --> 00:42:48,075 Speaker 1: together is reduced to about four paragraphs in which she 631 00:42:48,235 --> 00:42:51,995 Speaker 1: tells the story of the day Kelly an Khan Job 632 00:42:52,275 --> 00:42:56,795 Speaker 1: called her to complain about me. The book dismissed me 633 00:42:57,835 --> 00:43:03,195 Speaker 1: as somebody she dated briefly in her twenties. I mean 634 00:43:03,235 --> 00:43:07,835 Speaker 1: I paid off her student loan, I rented an apartment 635 00:43:07,875 --> 00:43:10,315 Speaker 1: for her after we broke up for a year so 636 00:43:10,355 --> 00:43:13,755 Speaker 1: she could continue to work in this city and punchline 637 00:43:13,755 --> 00:43:17,155 Speaker 1: of all punchlines. Remember my one request to her, don't 638 00:43:17,195 --> 00:43:19,555 Speaker 1: leave me out of the acknowledgments. She left me out 639 00:43:19,555 --> 00:43:24,555 Speaker 1: of the acknowledgements. There were later problems. She talked me 640 00:43:24,635 --> 00:43:27,435 Speaker 1: out of doing an interview with the Washington Post that 641 00:43:27,515 --> 00:43:30,355 Speaker 1: wanted to interview me about her, saying she wasn't going 642 00:43:30,395 --> 00:43:32,955 Speaker 1: to participate in the story and it was sexist to 643 00:43:33,035 --> 00:43:35,595 Speaker 1: call her ex boyfriend, and she hoped I wouldn't do 644 00:43:35,635 --> 00:43:38,555 Speaker 1: it either, and I agreed it was sexist. Then the 645 00:43:38,675 --> 00:43:41,515 Speaker 1: article came out and she had done the interview for it, 646 00:43:42,235 --> 00:43:45,435 Speaker 1: and the article reads, her former boyfriend, Keith Olberman, refused 647 00:43:45,435 --> 00:43:47,875 Speaker 1: to comment for this article, and I look like a schmuck. 648 00:43:49,315 --> 00:43:50,915 Speaker 1: Then a month or two later, there's a New York 649 00:43:50,955 --> 00:43:53,315 Speaker 1: Times article about her and the book, and it says 650 00:43:53,355 --> 00:43:56,395 Speaker 1: I had refused the writer's request to comment to the Times. 651 00:43:56,835 --> 00:43:59,275 Speaker 1: And not only did nobody from the Times ever request 652 00:43:59,315 --> 00:44:02,475 Speaker 1: to comment, but I didn't even recognize the writer's name. 653 00:44:03,475 --> 00:44:05,515 Speaker 1: So I find it all her up and I say, 654 00:44:05,515 --> 00:44:07,475 Speaker 1: have we ever spoken before? And she says no. But 655 00:44:07,555 --> 00:44:09,875 Speaker 1: I asked Katie to ask you for a comment, and 656 00:44:09,915 --> 00:44:11,915 Speaker 1: she called me back and she said she'd spoken to 657 00:44:11,955 --> 00:44:13,715 Speaker 1: you and asked you to do the interview with me, 658 00:44:13,795 --> 00:44:17,755 Speaker 1: and you said no, and I said bad news. She 659 00:44:18,155 --> 00:44:23,395 Speaker 1: she never called me, the writer gasped. But the problems 660 00:44:23,395 --> 00:44:25,315 Speaker 1: at the times this is a subject of an entirely 661 00:44:25,355 --> 00:44:28,195 Speaker 1: different commentary. So that was the last time I had 662 00:44:28,235 --> 00:44:30,275 Speaker 1: any contact with Katie Chair. I told her that that 663 00:44:30,435 --> 00:44:32,955 Speaker 1: was it for the friendship. She said she was sorry, 664 00:44:33,635 --> 00:44:49,115 Speaker 1: she was a terrible person. I've done all the damage 665 00:44:49,155 --> 00:44:50,875 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Count On 666 00:44:50,995 --> 00:44:54,315 Speaker 1: musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneil arranged, produced, 667 00:44:54,315 --> 00:44:57,955 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, 668 00:44:57,995 --> 00:45:01,715 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, produced 669 00:45:01,715 --> 00:45:04,515 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the MA 670 00:45:04,755 --> 00:45:07,475 Speaker 1: open compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No 671 00:45:07,555 --> 00:45:10,795 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. 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Use the fourteenth Amendment and the not regularly 681 00:45:43,635 --> 00:45:47,115 Speaker 1: given elector objection option. Use the insurrection at use the 682 00:45:47,315 --> 00:45:50,475 Speaker 1: justice system, use the mental health system to stop him 683 00:45:50,555 --> 00:45:56,395 Speaker 1: from doing it again while we still can. The next 684 00:45:56,395 --> 00:46:00,115 Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bolton says, the news warrants till then, 685 00:46:00,115 --> 00:46:03,995 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Ulderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 686 00:46:04,275 --> 00:46:26,995 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olreman is a production of iHeartRadio. 687 00:46:27,275 --> 00:46:32,435 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 688 00:46:32,715 --> 00:46:34,635 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.