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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This

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Speaker 1: is a Countdown bulletin podcast. I'm Keith Olberman and soon

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Speaker 1: to be former Senate Minority Leader. Chuck Schumer has canceled

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Speaker 1: at least all of this week stops on his book

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Speaker 1: tour about ten hours before its first event at the

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Speaker 1: Enoch Pratz Central Library in Baltimore was to begin Monday evening,

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Speaker 1: and about twenty four hours after I questioned if this

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Speaker 1: tour could possibly go on as scheduled. I questioned that

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Speaker 1: here on Monday's edition of the Countdown podcast. This is

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Speaker 1: the first good strategic decision by Chuck Schumer in years,

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Speaker 1: and it reflects his personal courage. If anything could better

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Speaker 1: explain why Chuck Schumer is the wrong man to be

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Speaker 1: leading the minority opposition party as the President of the

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Speaker 1: United States attempts to eliminate democracy and institute an authoritarian regime.

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Speaker 1: If anything else, underscored what a weasel Chuck Schumer is.

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Speaker 1: Where he is timeline wise, why he thinks this is

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Speaker 1: still sometime in the twentieth century, Why he needs to go,

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Speaker 1: why he needs to resign from the Senate. It's this

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Speaker 1: he cannot face his own voters and his own protesters

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Speaker 1: protesting his own cowardice. It's cowardice in the face of cowardice.

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Speaker 1: In addition to this, of course, the guy who was

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Speaker 1: going to go with Schumer and be his interlocutor in

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Speaker 1: this his inquisitor. His interviewer was Congressman Richie Torres, who

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Speaker 1: had publicly criticized the Democrats, the ten the Quizzlings who

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Speaker 1: passed the Trump Enabling Act on Friday, the Enabling Act

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Speaker 1: consisting of the Continuing Resolution to keep the government from

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Speaker 1: shutting down, which would have been seen as Elon Musk's fault,

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Speaker 1: which the Republicans are trying to do anyway, And of

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Speaker 1: course in there the poisoned pill that Schumer happily swallowed

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Speaker 1: on behalf of America that hides any inquiry from Musk.

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Speaker 1: Musk cannot be his actions cannot be, The Dodge people

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Speaker 1: cannot be examined by Congress. That's part of the bill

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Speaker 1: that Schumer approved. Well, the tour would have been fun Officially,

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Speaker 1: it has been, according to Schumer's office, canceled due to

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Speaker 1: consecurity concerns. Senator Schumer's book events are being rescheduled yes

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Speaker 1: to the year twenty two seventy four. Unofficially, the opposite

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Speaker 1: of security is, of course, insecurity, and that's Chuck Schumer.

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Speaker 1: At the moment. Unofficially, Chuck Schumer has no idea how

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Speaker 1: to proceed now, not only as the Democratic leader in

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Speaker 1: the Senate, not only as a Senator, but in his

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Speaker 1: own personal life. He is days away from the end

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Speaker 1: of his professional career. As I suggested, it's very easily obtained.

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Speaker 1: Thirty six Democrats and Sanders form their own caucus, because

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Speaker 1: if you're not going to use forty seven minority votes

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Speaker 1: in the Senate to try to slow Trump down, what's

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Speaker 1: the difference If you only have thirty seven votes, You

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Speaker 1: create your own new Democrats or New Zoo Review or

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, and then if they

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Speaker 1: are nice to you, you invite the other nine on

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Speaker 1: the condition that Chuck Schumer resigns from the Senate. More

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Speaker 1: on Schumer's cowardice that plan in particular, and the Democrats

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Speaker 1: plight in a moment. But there are two other breaking

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Speaker 1: headlines on Monday, the insane idiot dictator Trump with something

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Speaker 1: absolutely astonishingly dictatorial and nineteen eighty four ish even for him,

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Speaker 1: which has already blown up in his face because, as usual,

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Speaker 1: he did not think one step beyond his own ego. Quote.

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Speaker 1: The pardons that Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of

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Speaker 1: political thugs and many others are hereby declared void, vacant,

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Speaker 1: fact that they were done by Auto Penn. In other words,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden did not sign them, but more importantly, he

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Speaker 1: did not know anything about them. The necessary pardoning documents

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Speaker 1: nothing about them, and the people that did may have

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Speaker 1: committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee who

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Speaker 1: destroyed and deleted all evidence obtained during their two year

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Speaker 1: witch hunt of me. As an aside, no evidence was destroyed,

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Speaker 1: and many other innocent people should fully understand that they

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Speaker 1: the pardons hold. The fact is they were probably responsible

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Speaker 1: Biden did not know anything about these pardons because Trump

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Speaker 1: of his insanity. He now believes that because he thinks it.

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Speaker 1: It happened. This has been the guiding force of Trump's life, obviously,

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Speaker 1: blaming this on a president being too mentally incompetent to

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Speaker 1: issue of presidential mental incompetence to be raised, to be

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Speaker 1: somebody who is insane to head down himself. Maybe insane

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Speaker 1: Dictator Trump should ask Schumer for advice on this second

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Speaker 1: immediate problem. Even if this were valid, Biden is in

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Speaker 1: fact on the record about these pardons, signing them, and

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Speaker 1: no question that he intended to pardon these people. If

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Speaker 1: George Orwell's nineteen eighty four, you destroy the newspapers first,

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Speaker 1: then announce it, not announce it, and then destroy all

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Speaker 1: the old newspapers. Duh. Listen to the press secretary on this.

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Speaker 1: If you've forgotten who she is this time, her name

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Speaker 2: If the president was even consulted about his legally binding

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Speaker 2: into because certainly that would propose perhaps criminal or illegal

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Speaker 2: behavior if staff members were signing the President of the

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Speaker 2: talking about the issuing preemptive pardons to these people, But

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Speaker 3: Is there any evidence on that he wasn't aware of it.

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Speaker 2: You're a reporter, you should find out.

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Speaker 1: A reminder that the press secretary to the President of

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Speaker 1: Which leads us to the third question. A president can

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Speaker 1: invalidate the previous president's pardons in a tweet in a

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Speaker 1: none of that is true. Just because an airplane is

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Speaker 1: be invalidated for any reason, There has never been a

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Speaker 1: already gave pardons to, all the January sixth terrorists, Enrique

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Speaker 1: from the last administration. Roger Stone got a pardon, Paul Maniford,

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Speaker 1: Denesh Desuza, Scooter Libby, Bernie Effing, Carrick, Charles Kushner, Steve Bannon,

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Speaker 1: these people are all worried now. Susan B. Anthony got

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Speaker 1: a pardon, and Pete Rose was the next one up.

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Speaker 1: Somewhere Pete Rose is going well, there goes my bet

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Speaker 1: So why the hate and violence against me? All he's

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's illegally voided American aid worldwide and

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Speaker 1: So hey, CNN, how's uh letting that pimp Scott Jennings

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Speaker 1: a meeting with him, a photo op, and when the

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Speaker 1: cameras are all rolling, then you kick him in the

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Speaker 1: balls and you take the consequences. You don't make a

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Speaker 1: deal with him the next day, selling out the people

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Speaker 1: who put you in office. Politicos sometimes uses anonymous sources irresponsibly,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure that's the case here. They often

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Speaker 1: also look through the wrong end of the telescope, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's the case here either. Quote. One

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Speaker 1: Democratic senator granted anonymity to share private discussions, said, conversations

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Speaker 1: are starting about whether Schumer should be their leader going forward.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of concern about the failure to have

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Speaker 1: a plan and execute on it. The senator said. It's

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Speaker 1: not like you couldn't figure out that this is what

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Speaker 1: was going to happen behind closed doors. Even some longtime

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Speaker 1: Schumer allies are raising the specter that his time has passed. Quote.

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Speaker 1: Biden is gone, Pelosi is in the background. Schumer is

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Speaker 1: the last one left from that older generation, said one

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Speaker 1: New York based donor who is a longtime supporter of

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Speaker 1: a leader. I do worry that the older generation thinks

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four was just about inflation. But no, the

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00:29:43,155 --> 00:29:45,875
Speaker 1: game has changed. It's not left wing or moderate, it's

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Speaker 1: everyone now saying the game is different now. But he

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Speaker 1: was set up to battle in two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: and we're a long way from two thousand and six. Or,

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Speaker 1: as the Hollywood writer director Mike Saminek wrote much more succinctly,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad,

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Speaker 1: but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast. There

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Speaker 1: are two other polling notes from those polls yesterday. The

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Speaker 1: CNN one asked Democrats to pick the leader who quote

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Speaker 1: best reflects the core values of the party. AOC is

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Speaker 1: at the top at ten percent, Kamala at nine, Bernie

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Speaker 1: at eight, a King Jeffreys at six, Jasmine Crockett at four,

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Speaker 1: Obama at four. Oh yeah, Obama, Remember Obama. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he'll be dropping a protest playlist any day, soon after

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Speaker 1: he does his hoops bracket. Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer is

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Speaker 1: at two percent. No One the choice No One is

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Speaker 1: at thirty percent. AOC has five times Schumer's support. No

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Speaker 1: One has fifteen times Schumer's support, and Schumer at two percent,

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Speaker 1: is tied with Elissa Slotkin. The other poll, Trump's favorability

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Speaker 1: among all voters is already four points underwater and twelve

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Speaker 1: underwater on the economy. I mean, how do you f

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Speaker 1: this up in both directions, Chuck? Just as Trump begins

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Speaker 1: to drown on the economy, and just as Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: was retweeting somebody who wrote Stalin Mao and Hitler didn't

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Speaker 1: murder millions of people, their public sector workers did. And

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Speaker 1: even in the White House, Musk was seen to be imploding.

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Speaker 1: And then in response to that imploding, the White House

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Speaker 1: itself managed to implode and attack the racist Musk by

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Speaker 1: going even more racist than him. Musk blithely tells Cudlow

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Speaker 1: Scotchy Scotchy scotch on Fox Business about cutting entitlements. In

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Speaker 1: her Red Letter newsletter, Tara Palmery writes, even though Trump's

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Speaker 1: staffers are terrified of Musk, they know that if you

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Speaker 1: try to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, you die.

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Speaker 1: Politically speaking, quote, it's no longer simmering resistance. People are

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Speaker 1: effing furious. Set a source with knowledge of the situation,

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Speaker 1: and then comes the the coup to lack of grass.

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Speaker 1: Quote Medicaid is not just for black people in the ghetto.

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Speaker 1: These are our voters, unquote, set a Republican operative close

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Speaker 1: to the White House. How is that not the quote

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Speaker 1: on the lips of every Democrat in this country today?

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Speaker 1: Medicaid is not just for black people in the ghetto,

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Speaker 1: said a Republican operative close to the White House. These

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Speaker 1: are our voters. How is it not the quote on

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Speaker 1: every Democrat's lip today two words Chuck Schumer, or maybe

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Speaker 1: the quote from that little torp Marco Rubio, who, like Schumer,

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Speaker 1: actually thought he could bargain with Trump and instead wound

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Speaker 1: up having to be the front man for the first

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Speaker 1: assault on freedom of speech and extra legal extraditions, and

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Speaker 1: now having to expel the duly appointed South African ambassador

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Speaker 1: to the United States because Elon wants to make apartheid

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Speaker 1: great again. Rubio had to call South Africa's ambassador Rasoul

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Speaker 1: quote a race baiting politician who hates America, who is

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Speaker 1: no longer welcome here, because Rasoul gave a speech Friday

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Speaker 1: in which he said Trump was quote mobilizing white supremacy

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Speaker 1: in the US and abroad as well. So what's your

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Speaker 1: complain about that, little Marco? Trump is mobilizing white supremacy

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Speaker 1: in the US, and so is Musk, and so Marco,

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Speaker 1: are you you complicit? Little shit? And by the way,

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Speaker 1: a race baiting politician who hates America and is no

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Speaker 1: longer welcome here, Marco, since that also describes Trump, does

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Speaker 1: this mean you're going to expel Trump? Because somebody is

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Speaker 1: damn well gonna have to also of interest here, I'm

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Speaker 1: under the weather, so this will be kind of short today.

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Speaker 1: But the worst Person's list is the never ending feast.

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Speaker 1: And as the world collapses and Trump openly ignores the

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Speaker 1: courts and starts deporting people illegally. Yesterday, guess what the

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Speaker 1: lead story was at Politico. The tone of a DC

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Speaker 1: dinner for reporters, the tone I swear to God, ah,

515
00:35:15,955 --> 00:35:21,075
Speaker 1: there's nothing fatally wrong with our media political industrial complex.

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Speaker 1: Now that's next Ursless countdown. This is countdown with Keith

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Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on countdown. When I'm sick, I always

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Speaker 1: think of my craziest visit to the doctor ever. I

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Speaker 1: was twenty one ish and the somewhat surprise outcome. So

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Speaker 1: my face stuck to the side of the train and

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Speaker 1: they had to help me break free from the window,

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00:36:12,155 --> 00:36:17,315
Speaker 1: like that's never happened to you first, believe it or not.

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Speaker 1: There's still more new idiots to talk about. The daily

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00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:22,675
Speaker 1: roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens

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Speaker 1: who constitute today's other worst persons.

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Speaker 3: In the world.

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Speaker 1: Here are the nominees the Bronze Worse Poletiko. I know

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Speaker 1: I praised them earlier, like Trump, this only lasts three

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Speaker 1: to four minutes. That's as much time as it's going

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Speaker 1: to buy you. Illegal deportations, US citizens being locked up

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Speaker 1: because they were born somewhere else and were a told

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Speaker 1: JA I was sick. I'm going to leave that in

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Speaker 1: for evidence, illegal deportations, US citizens being locked up because no,

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Speaker 1: I really did leave that in because they were born

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Speaker 1: somewhere else and we're returning to the country. Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: still eluding the much needed tranquilizing Dart Schumer imploding, and

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Speaker 1: the lead item in Sunday's Politico Playbook newsletter The grid

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Speaker 1: Iron Dinner Saturday Night in Washington. The grid Iron Dinner,

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Speaker 1: despite the name, that's a journalism event. And to be fair,

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Speaker 1: Politico is about Washington and about journalism about Washington. And

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Speaker 1: I know that's not always evident from what they write,

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Speaker 1: especially with the drama constantly surrounding the people who work

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Speaker 1: there and the new fascist owners from Europe. But do

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Speaker 1: you think once, just once, you could lead with the

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Speaker 1: you know, earth shattering news like if Schumer is going

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Speaker 1: to be deposed, or if there are planes full of

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Speaker 1: people who have a legal right to be here, who

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Speaker 1: have been illegally deported by the insane dictator of the

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Speaker 1: United States, instead of a few words about the effing

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Speaker 1: Gridirn dinner, twenty six paragraphs about the grid Iron dinner,

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Speaker 1: the first twenty six paragraphs of your newsletter scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

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Speaker 1: I'll get to the news somewhere, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Polit

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Speaker 1: ago twenty six paragraphs about the grid Iron dinner and

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Speaker 1: how they didn't toast the president. I will confess I

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Speaker 1: am sufficiently under the weather that when I first read

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Speaker 1: they toasted the president, my mood cheered briefly, where's the

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Speaker 1: photo of that? Holy crap. I also realized that for

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Speaker 1: a couple of years I have been mistakenly telling people

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Speaker 1: that it was at the grid Iron dinner that Dick

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Speaker 1: Cheney as Vice president made that joke about me that

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Speaker 1: I still love. It wasn't at the grid Iron dinner.

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Speaker 1: It was at the radio and TV correspondence dinner. And yes,

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Speaker 1: if it's a Saturday, there is another Journalisimalism dinner in DC.

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Speaker 1: Since you asked, I'll just well, I was going to

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Speaker 1: read the way ad we covered it, but you know

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Speaker 1: the clip is on YouTube, so in case you.

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Speaker 3: Don't know it Moe's blog is titled Moe Rock of

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Speaker 3: one to eighty only half as tedious as the regular News.

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Speaker 3: Among his other credits, Moe used to host a TV

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Speaker 3: show called Things I Hate About You. I'm sure I've

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Speaker 3: seen that program only I believe it's now called Countdown

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Speaker 3: with Keith Overman. Keith not here tonight to savor my company,

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Speaker 3: but we roared. I'm Jack Turnian.

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Speaker 1: There's a joke about Kreith Olderman. Anyway. The point of

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Speaker 1: this was the first twenty six paragraphs on a dinner

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Speaker 1: like that, about jokes like that. The first twenty six man,

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Speaker 1: not the like six paragraphs of headlines, and then twenty

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Speaker 1: six paragraphs about the Gridiron dinner, but the first twenty

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Speaker 1: six paragraphs underscoring this fact. The night they finally kidnap

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Speaker 1: all the reporters off the streets, the last thing every

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Speaker 1: Washington correspondent will file is a piece about what their

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Speaker 1: friends were wearing at the time they were disappeared. The

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Speaker 1: runner up worser Alena Haba official administration nit wit. I've

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Speaker 1: said it so many times, you can say it with me.

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Speaker 1: The future and survival of democracy depends less on our

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Speaker 1: strenuous efforts to preserve it than it does on the

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Speaker 1: stupidity of those who intend to destroy it. That is

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Speaker 1: being tested now. But as long as we have the

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Speaker 1: Secretary of knit wittedness, Alina Habba, I believe we will

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Speaker 1: prevail after we get rid of Schumerlenahaha, responding to something

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Speaker 1: or another about about the attempts to stop human extortion

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Speaker 1: and trafficking. And I don't know if they were claiming.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who they're claiming the Pope is a trap.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who they were claiming there was a trafficker.

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Speaker 1: And Alena Habba writes, thank you, let's pray for the

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Speaker 1: many victims of human extortion as a result of the

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Speaker 1: last administration's neglect and failures. And then the prayer emoji

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Speaker 1: and this note, this community note. Alna Habba supported the

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Speaker 1: Tate brothers who are under investigation for human trafficking. There's

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Speaker 1: a reason you go into parking lot law, and that's

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Speaker 1: because it's a challenge to you. I wanted to stretch

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Speaker 1: my mind. It went entirely one inch wide. But the

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Speaker 1: winner is the worst. Marco Rubio and naib Buclei, Kelly.

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Speaker 1: As you know, a federal court blocked the illegal deportation

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Speaker 1: of Venezuelans by the insane dictator to a concentration camp

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Speaker 1: in a third party country. El Salvador planes were in

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Speaker 1: the air already, and so the administration decided not to

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Speaker 1: turn the planes around and announced it was not defying

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Speaker 1: the court, and announced it was defying the court. Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 1: the Little Shit Secretary of Little Shit, boasted about it,

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Speaker 1: and the President of Al Salvador, it's just a brand name.

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Speaker 1: There's not really a president, like we don't really have

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Speaker 1: a president, we have an insane dictator. Naib Bukel, president

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Speaker 1: of Al Salvador, screen shoted the headline from the New

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Speaker 1: York Post about the judge blocking Trump from invoking the

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Speaker 1: Alien Enemies Act, and President Bukel added quote oopsie too

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Speaker 1: late and added the crying laughing emoji because somewhere along

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Speaker 1: the line emoji became fascist. That's president asshole of l Salvador. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: keep laughing, see you at the World Court at the Hague,

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Speaker 1: buddy in twenty twenty nine, unless your own people take

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Speaker 1: care of their problem. Five years ago, this alleged president

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Speaker 1: wanted approval from the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly for a one

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Speaker 1: hundred and nine million dollar loan for his Territorial Control Plan.

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Speaker 1: So to deliver the message, President Bukake or whatever his

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Speaker 1: name is, set forty soldiers over to the Legislative Assembly

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Speaker 1: to say hell. In twenty nineteen, President Bukela introduced that plan,

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Speaker 1: the Territorial Control Plan, to reduce the homicide rate. It

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Speaker 1: was reduced only actor alleged the US Department of State

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Speaker 1: bu Kela negotiated with the gangs in El Salvador to

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Speaker 1: reduce the homicide rate. Hey, do me a solid kill

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Speaker 1: fewer people, Okay? And you know who alleged that with

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Speaker 1: the State Department under which presid is it alleged he

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Speaker 1: did that, Trump's State Department. But now Trump's newhore at

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Speaker 1: the State Department. Marco's he's Besti's with this guy, Marco

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Speaker 1: Rubio and alleged President Bucelly of Al Salvador. What happened

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Speaker 1: to that guy to Turte from the Philippines again? Oh

637
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Speaker 1: oh boy, two days worst persons. I can't hit this

638
00:44:31,835 --> 00:44:45,555
Speaker 1: high note in the world. Shoe the number one story

639
00:44:45,555 --> 00:44:47,435
Speaker 1: on the countdown and things I promised not to tell.

640
00:44:47,475 --> 00:44:49,915
Speaker 1: And this is anything but an important career story. But

641
00:44:49,955 --> 00:44:52,555
Speaker 1: I was reminded of it recently, and I laughed like hell,

642
00:44:52,635 --> 00:44:56,315
Speaker 1: so I thought, maybe you should too. I haven't seen

643
00:44:56,395 --> 00:44:58,555
Speaker 1: all of them in this country, but to my mind,

644
00:44:58,595 --> 00:45:01,995
Speaker 1: the most underrated of American rivers is the one I

645
00:45:02,035 --> 00:45:05,155
Speaker 1: grew up along. The Hudson gets a bad rad because

646
00:45:05,155 --> 00:45:09,035
Speaker 1: it's associated with New York City and the deteriorating remnants

647
00:45:09,075 --> 00:45:11,915
Speaker 1: of the city's once dominant piers, some of which have

648
00:45:11,995 --> 00:45:15,635
Speaker 1: been unused and rotting for half a century now. But

649
00:45:15,795 --> 00:45:19,035
Speaker 1: further upstate, literally just past the city line, the Hudson

650
00:45:19,115 --> 00:45:23,235
Speaker 1: is a magnificent river just to watch, never mind ride on.

651
00:45:23,995 --> 00:45:26,475
Speaker 1: This is particularly true during a stretch in which the

652
00:45:26,475 --> 00:45:28,795
Speaker 1: western side of the river is fronted by a series

653
00:45:28,835 --> 00:45:33,075
Speaker 1: of sheer cliffs called the Palisades, brownish black and striated,

654
00:45:33,515 --> 00:45:36,555
Speaker 1: carved as the river took shape millions of years ago,

655
00:45:36,595 --> 00:45:40,075
Speaker 1: but always looking like they had been carefully designed for

656
00:45:40,355 --> 00:45:45,435
Speaker 1: esthetic effect. Unfortunately, they are best seen from the commuter

657
00:45:45,595 --> 00:45:48,675
Speaker 1: railroad that runs along the Hudson into Westchester County, New York,

658
00:45:49,115 --> 00:45:51,835
Speaker 1: instead of a series of parks or even private palaces.

659
00:45:52,195 --> 00:45:55,235
Speaker 1: Our forefathers had the presence of mind to build factories

660
00:45:55,235 --> 00:45:58,635
Speaker 1: and copper processing plants and other nightmares right on the

661
00:45:58,715 --> 00:46:03,075
Speaker 1: Hudson because of the obvious transportation benefits the Hudson provided,

662
00:46:03,555 --> 00:46:05,675
Speaker 1: and so the train tracks were laid out next to

663
00:46:05,675 --> 00:46:07,635
Speaker 1: the river because that made it even easier to get

664
00:46:07,675 --> 00:46:10,155
Speaker 1: stuff to and from the big city. And damn the

665
00:46:10,275 --> 00:46:13,395
Speaker 1: views or the ability to appreciate life on the water

666
00:46:14,035 --> 00:46:19,235
Speaker 1: or the pollution. Still, if you ever find yourself now

667
00:46:19,275 --> 00:46:22,755
Speaker 1: taking a train from Grand Central Station into the western

668
00:46:22,795 --> 00:46:26,435
Speaker 1: half of Westchester, get a window seat on the left

669
00:46:26,475 --> 00:46:28,515
Speaker 1: side of the trainer. Better yet, when you come back

670
00:46:28,515 --> 00:46:31,235
Speaker 1: into New York City, sit on the right side, on

671
00:46:31,275 --> 00:46:34,475
Speaker 1: the river side, and you will get fifteen minutes or

672
00:46:34,515 --> 00:46:40,915
Speaker 1: more of the most magnificent view imaginable out the big windows. Winter's, spring, summer,

673
00:46:41,075 --> 00:46:44,715
Speaker 1: or fall. The palisades provide the Hudson with a magnificent

674
00:46:44,875 --> 00:46:49,875
Speaker 1: frame that's almost like a miniature Grand Canyon. I remember

675
00:46:49,875 --> 00:46:52,915
Speaker 1: thinking of all this that one day, early in nineteen

676
00:46:52,995 --> 00:46:55,075
Speaker 1: eighty I was finally feeling a little better, thanks to

677
00:46:55,115 --> 00:46:58,915
Speaker 1: doctor Cecilini. Doctor Cecilini had been my physician since I

678
00:46:58,995 --> 00:47:01,835
Speaker 1: was a boy, and he was the school doctor, and

679
00:47:01,915 --> 00:47:05,475
Speaker 1: he'd been the town doctor since about teen forty four,

680
00:47:05,915 --> 00:47:08,795
Speaker 1: and he always name dropped other patients I'd never heard of.

681
00:47:09,515 --> 00:47:12,035
Speaker 1: And as I finished my last growth spurt at the

682
00:47:12,115 --> 00:47:14,435
Speaker 1: end of my twentieth year, I had frequent back pain,

683
00:47:14,515 --> 00:47:17,675
Speaker 1: no fun at all, and sleeping on the floor helped

684
00:47:17,675 --> 00:47:20,395
Speaker 1: a little, but not enough. And finally Cecilini, who had

685
00:47:20,435 --> 00:47:22,795
Speaker 1: been a hospital doctor during World War Two and had

686
00:47:22,835 --> 00:47:28,035
Speaker 1: seen everything, said hey, just get this prescription filled. Take

687
00:47:28,075 --> 00:47:29,715
Speaker 1: one on them every day for the next week. It's

688
00:47:29,715 --> 00:47:32,595
Speaker 1: called a muscle relaxing. This will loosen up your back,

689
00:47:33,595 --> 00:47:37,835
Speaker 1: always lessen the pain. Well, bet, just don't you know,

690
00:47:37,955 --> 00:47:41,315
Speaker 1: don't operate any heavy machinery. Do you operate heavy machinery

691
00:47:41,355 --> 00:47:45,315
Speaker 1: when you do those sportscasts? Yars Keith had a patient

692
00:47:45,355 --> 00:47:47,715
Speaker 1: try to run a processor at the copper factory while

693
00:47:47,715 --> 00:47:50,555
Speaker 1: he took this nineteen fifty seven, we lost three fingers.

694
00:47:50,955 --> 00:47:53,275
Speaker 1: Leonardo ben Venuti, you know any of the ben Venuties

695
00:47:53,315 --> 00:47:58,995
Speaker 1: used to live on Williams Street. I laughed, this was

696
00:47:59,075 --> 00:48:03,115
Speaker 1: him every time, the ben Venuti's on william Street, the

697
00:48:03,195 --> 00:48:08,715
Speaker 1: Smiths on Williams Street, the Williams on Smith Street. Anyway,

698
00:48:08,755 --> 00:48:11,355
Speaker 1: back to the muscle relaxance. I don't think I had

699
00:48:11,395 --> 00:48:14,755
Speaker 1: ever heard of them before, let alone taken one. I

700
00:48:14,835 --> 00:48:17,435
Speaker 1: took my barking back to the pharmacy in my hometown

701
00:48:17,475 --> 00:48:20,275
Speaker 1: of Hastings On Hudson, New York. I got the prescription filled.

702
00:48:20,315 --> 00:48:22,875
Speaker 1: I bought a soda at the pizza parlor across the street,

703
00:48:22,915 --> 00:48:26,315
Speaker 1: and I ambled down the tiny village's picturesque business district.

704
00:48:26,795 --> 00:48:30,555
Speaker 1: It's three blocks long, past the statue our old neighbor,

705
00:48:30,675 --> 00:48:34,315
Speaker 1: Jacques Lipshits donated, and the ultra modern library, and right

706
00:48:34,355 --> 00:48:37,515
Speaker 1: into the train station. It was January. It was about

707
00:48:37,515 --> 00:48:40,315
Speaker 1: twelve degrees and as I waited for the train to

708
00:48:40,315 --> 00:48:42,115
Speaker 1: make its forty minute trip into the city and my

709
00:48:42,195 --> 00:48:44,955
Speaker 1: job as a sportscaster for the radio network of United

710
00:48:44,995 --> 00:48:47,555
Speaker 1: pres International, I took the pill what were they called again,

711
00:48:48,395 --> 00:48:53,515
Speaker 1: muscle muscle relaxance that doctor C had given me and

712
00:48:53,835 --> 00:48:57,035
Speaker 1: given his other patient, Rico Rendazzo Or was that some

713
00:48:57,115 --> 00:49:00,595
Speaker 1: guy he mentioned in nineteen sixty six to me. I

714
00:49:00,635 --> 00:49:02,995
Speaker 1: worked the night shift at UPI, so the train was

715
00:49:03,035 --> 00:49:05,395
Speaker 1: almost always empty, and thus I almost always had my

716
00:49:05,515 --> 00:49:10,395
Speaker 1: choice of window seats. Midday and midwinter combined to make

717
00:49:10,435 --> 00:49:13,955
Speaker 1: the sun glisten with extra sparkle off the magnificent Hudson,

718
00:49:13,995 --> 00:49:17,395
Speaker 1: and the sun's angle was such that the palisades behind

719
00:49:17,435 --> 00:49:21,395
Speaker 1: them gleamed brightly as well. And I was thinking about

720
00:49:21,435 --> 00:49:25,155
Speaker 1: just how gorgeous they were, and how underrated the Hudson was,

721
00:49:25,835 --> 00:49:33,155
Speaker 1: and and and I felt myself drifting away. I felt

722
00:49:33,195 --> 00:49:37,595
Speaker 1: two hands, one on each shoulder, shaking me violently. Hey buddy, hey, hey, hey,

723
00:49:37,755 --> 00:49:41,835
Speaker 1: hey buddy. I fought to open my eyes and to

724
00:49:41,915 --> 00:49:45,915
Speaker 1: avoid the bad breath now enveloping my face. As I

725
00:49:45,955 --> 00:49:48,475
Speaker 1: finally came around, I realized it was the conductor who

726
00:49:48,555 --> 00:49:52,315
Speaker 1: had just taken my ticket. The train wasn't moving. In fact,

727
00:49:52,595 --> 00:49:54,635
Speaker 1: only half of the lights were on in the train.

728
00:49:55,035 --> 00:49:59,595
Speaker 1: The palisades were long gone, not the Hudson nor the Palisades,

729
00:49:59,635 --> 00:50:03,235
Speaker 1: but darkness came in through the windows. I was completely confused.

730
00:50:03,475 --> 00:50:05,315
Speaker 1: Am I'd shake it off. You gotta get out of here.

731
00:50:05,635 --> 00:50:07,915
Speaker 1: This is as far as we go. Train's going out

732
00:50:07,915 --> 00:50:09,995
Speaker 1: of service. You don't get off now, you'll be parked

733
00:50:10,035 --> 00:50:12,115
Speaker 1: under thirty seventh straight for the rest of the day.

734
00:50:13,675 --> 00:50:16,075
Speaker 1: Through my fog and my haze, I finally began to

735
00:50:16,155 --> 00:50:19,435
Speaker 1: understand what had happened and where I was. And I

736
00:50:19,475 --> 00:50:22,595
Speaker 1: began to try to stand when a horrifying awareness overtook me.

737
00:50:22,955 --> 00:50:25,675
Speaker 1: I could not move the right side of my face.

738
00:50:26,435 --> 00:50:30,115
Speaker 1: What was worse, I could barely feel the right side

739
00:50:30,115 --> 00:50:33,315
Speaker 1: of my face. Good God, what had happened to me?

740
00:50:34,115 --> 00:50:37,075
Speaker 1: Was this? Like that haunting episode of Alfred Hitchcock where

741
00:50:37,075 --> 00:50:39,475
Speaker 1: the woman is struggling to wake up and remember the

742
00:50:39,515 --> 00:50:42,555
Speaker 1: details of the accident out on San Francisco Bay the

743
00:50:42,635 --> 00:50:45,635
Speaker 1: night before, Only as it finally comes back to her,

744
00:50:45,675 --> 00:50:49,035
Speaker 1: it turns out the accident had drowned her boyfriend. And

745
00:50:49,115 --> 00:50:51,315
Speaker 1: the reason it was so difficult to remember was, as

746
00:50:51,355 --> 00:50:53,235
Speaker 1: she realized only when she got up and saw her

747
00:50:53,235 --> 00:50:56,435
Speaker 1: reflection in a mirror, that the accident hadn't happened last night,

748
00:50:56,555 --> 00:50:58,995
Speaker 1: but it had happened in nineteen oh five, and she'd

749
00:50:59,035 --> 00:51:01,395
Speaker 1: been in an insane asylum for half a century. Was

750
00:51:01,435 --> 00:51:02,435
Speaker 1: that what had happened to me?

751
00:51:04,395 --> 00:51:04,435
Speaker 5: No?

752
00:51:04,715 --> 00:51:08,635
Speaker 1: Actually, as I discovered when my struggle finally freed my

753
00:51:08,795 --> 00:51:11,995
Speaker 1: face from the train window to which it had stuck,

754
00:51:12,755 --> 00:51:17,515
Speaker 1: because I had drooled for like thirty five consecutive minutes,

755
00:51:17,595 --> 00:51:19,835
Speaker 1: because I had taken the muscle relaxing, because I had

756
00:51:19,835 --> 00:51:22,635
Speaker 1: taken an honest empty stomach, because I knew nothing about

757
00:51:22,715 --> 00:51:26,915
Speaker 1: muscle relaxance, because I was out cold with my mouth open,

758
00:51:27,275 --> 00:51:30,355
Speaker 1: pressed up against the train window on a twelve degree day,

759
00:51:30,595 --> 00:51:36,715
Speaker 1: and I had gotten frozen to the glass. Look, it

760
00:51:36,755 --> 00:51:39,355
Speaker 1: was not quite half a century in an insane asylum,

761
00:51:39,435 --> 00:51:42,995
Speaker 1: but certainly more embarrassing. It seemed like it took me

762
00:51:43,075 --> 00:51:47,195
Speaker 1: half a century to pull all of this together. I

763
00:51:47,235 --> 00:51:50,435
Speaker 1: stood up wobbly. I apologized to the conductor, and I

764
00:51:50,515 --> 00:51:56,595
Speaker 1: mumbled back pain new drug. And as I banked from

765
00:51:56,595 --> 00:51:59,555
Speaker 1: one side of the doorway to the other and bounced

766
00:51:59,595 --> 00:52:03,195
Speaker 1: out onto the platform, the conductor shouted after me, only

767
00:52:03,275 --> 00:52:08,515
Speaker 1: take him at night. Huh that little saga? Yeah, Doc,

768
00:52:08,595 --> 00:52:10,595
Speaker 1: my back is better, but I left half the skin

769
00:52:10,675 --> 00:52:12,915
Speaker 1: on my right cheek frozen into the one twenty from

770
00:52:12,915 --> 00:52:17,915
Speaker 1: Hastings to Grand Central. He'd probably say, yeah, that happened

771
00:52:17,915 --> 00:52:21,555
Speaker 1: to another patient of mine, Carlo John Lombardo. That reminded

772
00:52:21,555 --> 00:52:23,915
Speaker 1: me of a much later story from doctor Cecilini, and

773
00:52:23,955 --> 00:52:26,755
Speaker 1: I don't want to leave the wrong impression here. Edward

774
00:52:26,795 --> 00:52:31,195
Speaker 1: Cecilini was a terrific doctor. He practiced into his nineties.

775
00:52:31,475 --> 00:52:33,115
Speaker 1: He used to tell me to come visit him at

776
00:52:33,115 --> 00:52:35,835
Speaker 1: his practice in his home on Farragut Parkway anytime I

777
00:52:35,835 --> 00:52:38,595
Speaker 1: was up from the city visiting my folks. Well, Josh,

778
00:52:38,635 --> 00:52:42,035
Speaker 1: shoot the phrase, and he'd tell me about something about

779
00:52:42,075 --> 00:52:46,435
Speaker 1: treating Umberto Flambini in the Army hospital in nineteen forty four,

780
00:52:46,995 --> 00:52:48,595
Speaker 1: and he'd asked me if I went to school with

781
00:52:48,635 --> 00:52:50,875
Speaker 1: Marco Bartolini and then say he had to go. He

782
00:52:50,955 --> 00:52:53,515
Speaker 1: was taking a course over at Sony Purchase about the

783
00:52:53,555 --> 00:52:57,195
Speaker 1: latest computer aided diagnostic till the man was ninety years old.

784
00:52:57,435 --> 00:53:03,075
Speaker 1: He never stopped learning, great man, and did he howl

785
00:53:03,275 --> 00:53:07,675
Speaker 1: at the muscle relaxing start. Sorry, sorry, I didn't warn you.

786
00:53:07,755 --> 00:53:10,155
Speaker 1: Oh well, I just take him at night. I had

787
00:53:10,155 --> 00:53:14,755
Speaker 1: another patient through that nineteen seventeen. It's just all right anyway.

788
00:53:14,795 --> 00:53:17,435
Speaker 1: Now it's nineteen ninety five and I'm working at ESPN,

789
00:53:17,595 --> 00:53:20,235
Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to fly to Vancouver to do a

790
00:53:20,275 --> 00:53:23,035
Speaker 1: cameo in an Adam Sandler golf movie, which I suppose

791
00:53:23,115 --> 00:53:25,075
Speaker 1: was Happy Gilmour. And I didn't want to try to

792
00:53:25,115 --> 00:53:29,555
Speaker 1: fly to Chicago and then change for Vancouver after going

793
00:53:29,555 --> 00:53:31,675
Speaker 1: the two hours from the middle of Connecticut to JFK.

794
00:53:32,075 --> 00:53:34,955
Speaker 1: So I came in to my folks house the day

795
00:53:34,995 --> 00:53:37,195
Speaker 1: before I took the folks out to dinner. I stayed

796
00:53:37,235 --> 00:53:39,435
Speaker 1: over in the spare room to leave from their house

797
00:53:39,475 --> 00:53:41,875
Speaker 1: to the airport in the morning, and at some point

798
00:53:41,955 --> 00:53:43,715
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, I began to have

799
00:53:43,875 --> 00:53:47,075
Speaker 1: chest pains. Literally the top of my ribs hurt, and

800
00:53:47,115 --> 00:53:49,635
Speaker 1: my breathing was constricted, and I couldn't get back to sleep.

801
00:53:49,795 --> 00:53:51,355
Speaker 1: And now I'm thinking, I don't know what's wrong, but

802
00:53:51,435 --> 00:53:54,995
Speaker 1: something is wrong. So I canceled the trip and I

803
00:53:55,035 --> 00:53:57,195
Speaker 1: head up to doctor Cecilmini as soon as he's opened

804
00:53:57,235 --> 00:53:59,355
Speaker 1: up shop, and he's eighty five now, and he gives

805
00:53:59,395 --> 00:54:01,155
Speaker 1: me the big welcome as usual, and I tell him

806
00:54:01,155 --> 00:54:04,315
Speaker 1: this story and he says, oh, yeah, I've tried to

807
00:54:04,315 --> 00:54:06,635
Speaker 1: think it notting to worry about, but we we should

808
00:54:06,675 --> 00:54:08,395
Speaker 1: get this on the record, just in case your movie

809
00:54:08,475 --> 00:54:11,835
Speaker 1: company gets pissy with you about canceling dad. Happened to

810
00:54:11,835 --> 00:54:16,195
Speaker 1: another friend of mine, patient Francesco Lulla Bridget. He had

811
00:54:16,235 --> 00:54:18,635
Speaker 1: a cameo and Moby Dick in nineteen fifty six. He

812
00:54:18,675 --> 00:54:21,275
Speaker 1: had cancel He wanted it soon. How about you get

813
00:54:21,275 --> 00:54:23,715
Speaker 1: your dad just drive you up to the hospital, Dobbs Ferry,

814
00:54:24,235 --> 00:54:26,915
Speaker 1: I meet you there and oh like half an hour,

815
00:54:26,955 --> 00:54:29,595
Speaker 1: hour and a half something like that. Let me just

816
00:54:29,675 --> 00:54:31,195
Speaker 1: run a couple of tests on you. When we got

817
00:54:31,195 --> 00:54:33,795
Speaker 1: you out. There's no rush whatsoever. What's ther now? He

818
00:54:33,835 --> 00:54:36,035
Speaker 1: stares off in his space for a second, and he

819
00:54:36,075 --> 00:54:38,115
Speaker 1: looks back at me. He says, I got a I

820
00:54:38,155 --> 00:54:41,155
Speaker 1: got an idea A little simpler. I have to go

821
00:54:41,195 --> 00:54:43,795
Speaker 1: there later up to drop off some paperwork on some

822
00:54:43,875 --> 00:54:47,795
Speaker 1: other guy, Frisco Gaspouci no Frisco. Anyway, Just give me

823
00:54:47,795 --> 00:54:49,875
Speaker 1: a second. I'll call him. I'll tell him what's coming up.

824
00:54:49,995 --> 00:54:51,595
Speaker 1: I just you just hop in the car with me

825
00:54:51,635 --> 00:54:53,115
Speaker 1: and go out in the waiting room, cause I'm gonna

826
00:54:53,155 --> 00:54:55,355
Speaker 1: call him about Frisco. And I got to worry about

827
00:54:55,355 --> 00:54:59,555
Speaker 1: doctor patient confidentiality, but about Frisco gospooci sa. You know,

828
00:54:59,875 --> 00:55:01,395
Speaker 1: I gotta worry about that. So I don't want you

829
00:55:01,475 --> 00:55:06,275
Speaker 1: listening to this. So now Ed Cecilini is driving me

830
00:55:06,315 --> 00:55:08,395
Speaker 1: to Dobbs Ferry Hospital, and I'm thinking about how much

831
00:55:08,435 --> 00:55:11,515
Speaker 1: he defines the idea of a really dedicated doctor, and

832
00:55:11,555 --> 00:55:13,675
Speaker 1: how every other patient he's ever mentioned to me, I've

833
00:55:13,715 --> 00:55:16,515
Speaker 1: never heard of one of them. And we get to

834
00:55:16,555 --> 00:55:19,155
Speaker 1: the hospital, I don't know. We talked about baseball or

835
00:55:19,195 --> 00:55:21,235
Speaker 1: my folks or something, and he drives right up to

836
00:55:21,235 --> 00:55:23,195
Speaker 1: the er and we walk in like it's nothing, and

837
00:55:23,195 --> 00:55:26,795
Speaker 1: he waves to the admitting nurse. Hi, Sheila, how's your son, Shila?

838
00:55:27,315 --> 00:55:29,675
Speaker 1: And he points at me. He says, that's the guy,

839
00:55:29,795 --> 00:55:31,715
Speaker 1: and he says, like it was absolutely the way they

840
00:55:31,795 --> 00:55:33,835
Speaker 1: do it at every hospital. You can go all his

841
00:55:33,835 --> 00:55:35,835
Speaker 1: info from him. After we run this little check on,

842
00:55:35,995 --> 00:55:39,035
Speaker 1: all right, and we go right into the room and

843
00:55:39,115 --> 00:55:40,995
Speaker 1: two nurses are in there and they say hi, and

844
00:55:41,035 --> 00:55:42,555
Speaker 1: one of them tells me to take off my shirt.

845
00:55:42,595 --> 00:55:45,435
Speaker 1: The other starts shaving places on my chest, and before

846
00:55:45,435 --> 00:55:47,475
Speaker 1: I know what's happening, I've got electrodes on me and

847
00:55:47,475 --> 00:55:49,635
Speaker 1: they're hooking me up to an EKG and they're drawing blood.

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Speaker 1: Doc Bernardo Pietro Sante and Umberto Flambini, and all these

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Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Once again, my apologies for the relative brevity. Not feeling

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Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Just four hundred and six days

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Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Again, We'll see as

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Speaker 1: always bulletins as the news warrants. Remember impeach Trump. Impeach

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Speaker 1: Trump won't work now, but it will win the Democrats

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