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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, the second of the day.

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Speaker 1: In the wake of the Potomac River crash, and now

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Speaker 1: Trump has insulted the dead. He has insulted those who

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Speaker 1: died aboard American Eagle Flight five three four to two

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Speaker 1: and aboard the US Army Blackhawk helicopter which collided Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: That extraordinary insult in a moment, But perhaps worse yet,

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Speaker 1: it turns out that within hours of Trump's insane insistence

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Speaker 1: and inclusion DEI the dog whistle for pure unabated racism,

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Speaker 1: It did not have anything to do with DEI. It

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Speaker 1: had more to do with the Department of Government Efficiency DGE.

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Speaker 1: Air Traffic control, guiding both the passenger flight and the

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Speaker 1: chopper as they approached National Airport in DC Wednesday night,

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Speaker 1: was reportedly understaffed, and instead of a controller in charge

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Speaker 1: the same person was doing both jobs simultaneously. If the

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Speaker 1: philosophy of any individuals was at fault here, it was

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Speaker 1: that of Trump and Evon musk and the rabid desire

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Speaker 1: of impossibly and unnecessarily rich people to gain more money

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Speaker 1: they could never live long enough to spend because of

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Speaker 1: their hateful fear that some ordinary person somewhere has one

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Speaker 1: This wasn't Dei, It was Dge. The New York Times

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Speaker 1: has now reported that the disaster, and perhaps the forerunner

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Speaker 1: of the trimming of the federal budget not a fat

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Speaker 1: but of bone life and death protection for this nation's citizens,

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Speaker 1: took place in a context of chronic understaffing at National Airport.

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Speaker 1: Quoting the first internal FAA report, Sydney Ember and Emily

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Speaker 1: the staffing at the air traffic Control tower in DC

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Speaker 1: That quote is from the FAA report. The Times ads

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Speaker 1: quote the controller who was handling helicopters in the airport's

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Speaker 1: vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing

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Speaker 1: and departing from its runways. Those jobs, the Times continues,

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Speaker 1: typically are assigned to two controllers rather than one. This

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Speaker 1: of pilots may not be able to hear each other. Unquote.

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Speaker 1: It was to fulfill the cliche a disaster waiting to happen,

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Speaker 1: been exacerbated by the mindless buyout offer Musk reportedly steamrolled

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Speaker 1: the controllers union and the FAA, and sixty seven people,

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Speaker 1: including several young girls just starting their figure skating careers,

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Speaker 1: are dead because of it, and Trump exploited those deaths

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Speaker 1: by associate them not with understaffing and insufficient government spending,

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Speaker 1: the same DEI regulations that Trump has railed about for

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Speaker 1: Those regulations have been in place since twenty thirteen, meaning

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Speaker 1: his acolytes, at his siicophants, and his cult members, did

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Speaker 1: eliminate these supposedly disastrous guidelines, which are in fact present

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Speaker 1: to protect against racism and sexism and white supremacism like

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Speaker 1: Trump's racism and sexism and white supremacism. And on the

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Speaker 1: same score, the stumbling response to the tragedy from the

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Speaker 1: NEPO hire now serving as Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy,

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Speaker 1: the nondescript former congressman whose wife was one of Pete

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Speaker 1: on the twenty nineteen bill HR two six seven, the Transportation, Housing,

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Speaker 1: and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act in English

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Speaker 1: escalating crisis of Trump's self awareness or lack of self

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Speaker 1: This is wherein he insulted the dead. He insisted it

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Speaker 1: and then he circled back to insisting that he already

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Speaker 1: Trump late Thursday afternoon did the almost unthinkable. He trivialized

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Speaker 1: the healing rituals of mourning to which the grief stricken

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Speaker 1: will doubtless turn in the coming days. The visit to

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Speaker 1: the crash site. You will hear clearly Trump mocking a

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Speaker 1: But towards the end, the reporter talks over Trump's answer,

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Speaker 1: So what he says at the end is less clear.

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Speaker 1: Listen carefully, he finishes with, you tell me, what's the site?

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Speaker 1: The water? You want me to go swimming? Do you

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Speaker 1: what's the site to order? What's the site? The water?

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Speaker 1: You want me to go swimming? There is no human

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Speaker 1: being inside Donald Trump. There is no empathy. There is

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Speaker 1: And behind even that minimal, lowest bar of sympathy, something

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Speaker 1: else has newly broken inside Trump. Even last year, even

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Speaker 1: level of Trumpian inhuman behavior. What's the site the water?

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Speaker 1: this bulletin is a repeat of Wednesday Afternoon's first update.

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Speaker 1: If you've heard that already, feel free to hit stop

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Speaker 1: right now. Thank you for listening. This is a countdown

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Speaker 1: bulletin podcast. I'm Keith Olbriman. In a a news conference

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Speaker 1: suggesting actual, virulent, uncontrolled madness and requiring his immediate removal

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Speaker 1: under the terms of the twenty fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

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Speaker 1: The President of the United States of America insisted that

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Speaker 1: US military personnel in a helicopter. This nightmare excuse for

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Speaker 1: a human being insisted this accident was caused by DEI.

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Speaker 1: This is the President of the United States who forced

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Speaker 1: week ago yesterday, froze the hiring of new air traffic controllers,

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Speaker 1: the previous Republican presidency, the quantity and quality of which

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Speaker 1: Elina Haba called it last night on television in a

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Speaker 1: malapropism with tragic implications. Quote, Dee, it's Dei. When they

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Speaker 1: But Trump is certain because he's Trump, and he is

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Speaker 1: Dunning and Krueger long ago established by asking participants how

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Speaker 1: the Dunning Kruger effect, and it has now reached its terminal, final, tragic,

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Speaker 1: insolvable nader in Donald Trump, I will add here that

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Speaker 1: It is also I add with I hope gravity and

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Speaker 1: it has been a countdown bulletin podcast. The next scheduled

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Speaker 1: edition is Monday. I'm Keith Alreman. Countdown with Keith Alreman

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