1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,115 --> 00:00:24,715 Speaker 1: may have done the one thing that would force the 3 00:00:24,955 --> 00:00:31,315 Speaker 1: entire Republican Party to repudiate him. The Israeli IDF, Intelligence 4 00:00:31,355 --> 00:00:36,235 Speaker 1: Corps and the Mossad reportedly think Donald Trump has damaged 5 00:00:36,275 --> 00:00:41,715 Speaker 1: the security of the nation of Israel. Quote top brass 6 00:00:41,755 --> 00:00:45,595 Speaker 1: in the Israeli Defense Establishment, writes the intelligence and strategic 7 00:00:45,595 --> 00:00:50,755 Speaker 1: affairs correspondent Yossi Melman in the Israeli newspaper Auretz, are 8 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:54,915 Speaker 1: concerned that secret documents seized from Trump include material whose 9 00:00:54,955 --> 00:01:01,435 Speaker 1: exposure has damaged Israel's security. Melman outlines the extraordinary layering 10 00:01:01,475 --> 00:01:04,355 Speaker 1: of American and Israeli defense intelligence and even notes that 11 00:01:04,395 --> 00:01:09,315 Speaker 1: quote under special circumstances, Israel and American espionage agents and 12 00:01:09,395 --> 00:01:15,235 Speaker 1: commandos also engage in joint operations conducted in total secrecy, 13 00:01:15,635 --> 00:01:22,755 Speaker 1: jeopardized by a quote boastful chatterbox like Trump. More importantly, 14 00:01:22,795 --> 00:01:26,035 Speaker 1: Melman quotes two senior Israeli defense officials, one from the 15 00:01:26,075 --> 00:01:30,555 Speaker 1: Mosad and the other from the Intelligence Corps as saying, quote, 16 00:01:30,635 --> 00:01:34,075 Speaker 1: It's an absolutely reasonable possibility that some of the documents 17 00:01:34,075 --> 00:01:39,315 Speaker 1: are about Israel and its capabilities, maybe even its nuclear program, 18 00:01:39,515 --> 00:01:44,155 Speaker 1: unquote and reading between the lines. In this story, Melman 19 00:01:44,235 --> 00:01:47,715 Speaker 1: and his sources never once mentioned the tale of Trump 20 00:01:47,875 --> 00:01:50,155 Speaker 1: reading the details of the Mark Millie planned to attack 21 00:01:50,195 --> 00:01:56,195 Speaker 1: Iran to Mark Meadows ghostwriters. So presumably what Israeli intelligence 22 00:01:56,235 --> 00:01:59,995 Speaker 1: fears is that Trump has damaged other elements of their 23 00:02:00,115 --> 00:02:05,675 Speaker 1: nation's security. And now another fault line opens before us 24 00:02:06,075 --> 00:02:11,875 Speaker 1: between Trump and Republican sacred cow dogma, Trump versus troops, 25 00:02:12,235 --> 00:02:18,195 Speaker 1: Trump versus law and order, Trump versus Israel. All Republican 26 00:02:18,235 --> 00:02:21,235 Speaker 1: claims of adherents and loyalty to these three topics do 27 00:02:21,355 --> 00:02:25,035 Speaker 1: not hold up to scrutiny. Trump not only evaded military service, 28 00:02:25,275 --> 00:02:28,115 Speaker 1: he's called the US dead of World War One, suckers 29 00:02:28,155 --> 00:02:32,635 Speaker 1: and losers. The Republicans are simultaneously trying to militarize the police, 30 00:02:33,035 --> 00:02:36,635 Speaker 1: yet to fund the national detectives of the FBI, but 31 00:02:37,555 --> 00:02:42,875 Speaker 1: damaging the twenty first century Republican parties supposed allegiance to 32 00:02:43,115 --> 00:02:47,475 Speaker 1: Israel is the most sacred of all the cows because 33 00:02:47,515 --> 00:02:51,515 Speaker 1: it is viscerally important to the party's fanatical religious base. 34 00:02:52,275 --> 00:02:55,635 Speaker 1: Polling from as recently as twenty eighteen confirms that at 35 00:02:55,715 --> 00:02:59,595 Speaker 1: least half of all the evangelicals don't give two actual 36 00:02:59,835 --> 00:03:04,515 Speaker 1: spits about actual Jews or the actual nation of Israel. 37 00:03:05,195 --> 00:03:07,995 Speaker 1: This is simply a tent pole belief of their cult 38 00:03:08,395 --> 00:03:11,595 Speaker 1: that before all them Bible thumpers can go to Heaven 39 00:03:12,115 --> 00:03:16,555 Speaker 1: in a rapture, all the Jews have to be in 40 00:03:16,715 --> 00:03:20,235 Speaker 1: Jerusalem and they all have to be converted or die. 41 00:03:20,875 --> 00:03:24,475 Speaker 1: The Republicans pretend allegiance to Israel in order to maintain 42 00:03:24,555 --> 00:03:28,555 Speaker 1: ownership of the evangelicals who need Jerusalem preserved so that 43 00:03:28,635 --> 00:03:32,635 Speaker 1: they can be converted when the clock strikes rapture o'clock. 44 00:03:35,035 --> 00:03:37,475 Speaker 1: On the surface, the Israelis are as loyal to Trump 45 00:03:37,555 --> 00:03:40,075 Speaker 1: as he pretends to be to them, but that there 46 00:03:40,115 --> 00:03:43,115 Speaker 1: are deep doubts was confirmed when Benjamin Notat in Yahoo 47 00:03:43,115 --> 00:03:46,355 Speaker 1: became one of the first foreign leaders to congratulate Joe 48 00:03:46,395 --> 00:03:49,755 Speaker 1: Biden on his election in twenty twenty, and Trump swore 49 00:03:49,915 --> 00:03:53,755 Speaker 1: like a Steve Adore. And those doubts, as Melman points 50 00:03:53,755 --> 00:03:58,435 Speaker 1: out in Aratz, stem from him damaging the Israeli defense. 51 00:03:58,595 --> 00:04:02,355 Speaker 1: Already in the spring of twenty seventeen, Trump bragged to 52 00:04:02,435 --> 00:04:06,395 Speaker 1: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and they're ambassador to Washington, 53 00:04:06,435 --> 00:04:10,595 Speaker 1: Sergei Kissliak, that he had gotten intelligence about ices from 54 00:04:10,715 --> 00:04:14,875 Speaker 1: quote a Middle Eastern ally. Within weeks, the Mossad had 55 00:04:14,915 --> 00:04:18,675 Speaker 1: evidence that, simply because Trump couldn't keep his big mouth shut, 56 00:04:18,995 --> 00:04:22,715 Speaker 1: Trump had endangered one of the Mosad agents. Later it 57 00:04:22,755 --> 00:04:25,915 Speaker 1: concluded there was also a chance Trump had compromised undisclosed 58 00:04:26,155 --> 00:04:30,915 Speaker 1: Israeli technology that had garnered the intelligence. So on top 59 00:04:30,995 --> 00:04:34,515 Speaker 1: of pending trial in New York and in Florida, Trump 60 00:04:34,995 --> 00:04:39,195 Speaker 1: may have gotten the Mosad mad at him. Nice work, Sparky, 61 00:04:40,475 --> 00:04:44,435 Speaker 1: And it is now unmistakably clear that other key Republicans 62 00:04:44,475 --> 00:04:48,195 Speaker 1: are looking for climb downs from the Trump train, and 63 00:04:48,275 --> 00:04:52,915 Speaker 1: he keeps providing them. All any GOP figure who wants 64 00:04:52,915 --> 00:04:55,355 Speaker 1: out now needs to say, is the Masad thinks Trump 65 00:04:55,395 --> 00:04:59,395 Speaker 1: has damaged Israeli security and Trump's evangelical support will begin 66 00:04:59,475 --> 00:05:02,595 Speaker 1: to fade and Trump will be on his way out. 67 00:05:03,235 --> 00:05:07,115 Speaker 1: Because another AP publican took another climb down yesterday, and 68 00:05:07,155 --> 00:05:10,715 Speaker 1: once again it was one of those three key third 69 00:05:10,875 --> 00:05:15,915 Speaker 1: rails who it was that wasn't shocking his vehemence. His 70 00:05:16,075 --> 00:05:19,995 Speaker 1: vehemence is kind of shocking. Quote the very prospect that 71 00:05:20,035 --> 00:05:23,795 Speaker 1: what is alleged here took place, Mike Pence said yesterday 72 00:05:23,795 --> 00:05:28,555 Speaker 1: on CNBC creating an opportunity where highly sensitive classified material 73 00:05:28,795 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 1: could have fallen into the wrong hands, even inadvertently. That 74 00:05:32,675 --> 00:05:38,635 Speaker 1: jeopardizes our national security unquote. But wait, there's more. Quote. 75 00:05:39,155 --> 00:05:42,715 Speaker 1: It puts at risk the men and women of our 76 00:05:42,995 --> 00:05:48,435 Speaker 1: armed forces. Mister Pence will order the Trump versus troops 77 00:05:48,515 --> 00:05:55,235 Speaker 1: please medium rare with the extra nikky Haley its personal dressing. Quote. 78 00:05:55,835 --> 00:05:58,515 Speaker 1: As the father and father in law of two men 79 00:05:58,555 --> 00:06:01,795 Speaker 1: that currently serve in the armed forces of the United States, 80 00:06:02,035 --> 00:06:05,835 Speaker 1: I will never diminish concerns over the handling of classified materials. 81 00:06:06,195 --> 00:06:08,635 Speaker 1: The documents that were alleged to be in the President's 82 00:06:08,675 --> 00:06:13,515 Speaker 1: possession describing defense capabilities of our country, potential vulnerabilities of 83 00:06:13,555 --> 00:06:17,035 Speaker 1: the United States and our allies. If these materials had 84 00:06:17,075 --> 00:06:20,555 Speaker 1: ever inadvertently made their way in the hands of foreign interests, 85 00:06:20,795 --> 00:06:26,395 Speaker 1: it would jeopardize the security of our country unquote. Oh 86 00:06:26,475 --> 00:06:28,995 Speaker 1: oh wait, there's more and more. Pence is going in 87 00:06:29,035 --> 00:06:31,395 Speaker 1: for a second helping of the nicky Haley it's personal 88 00:06:31,515 --> 00:06:34,595 Speaker 1: dressing quote, as well as the safety and security of 89 00:06:34,635 --> 00:06:40,595 Speaker 1: our armed forces. If that were not enough, Pence also 90 00:06:40,755 --> 00:06:44,035 Speaker 1: went on The Moron Show That's Clay Travis and Buck 91 00:06:44,115 --> 00:06:49,595 Speaker 1: Sexton and absolutely refused to guarantee Trump a pardon. They 92 00:06:49,795 --> 00:06:52,955 Speaker 1: insulted him. He laughed at them, they talked over him. 93 00:06:53,235 --> 00:06:56,275 Speaker 1: He talked over them. He kept saying day in court 94 00:06:56,435 --> 00:06:58,835 Speaker 1: and belief in the justice system, and they kept making 95 00:06:58,875 --> 00:07:02,835 Speaker 1: their usual oinking noises. Don't get me wrong, I'm not 96 00:07:02,875 --> 00:07:05,675 Speaker 1: praising Pence. I don't give a damn Pence. I'm just 97 00:07:05,835 --> 00:07:11,475 Speaker 1: underscoring the degree to which he is climbing down to 98 00:07:11,755 --> 00:07:13,675 Speaker 1: all the climb downs in the world from all the 99 00:07:13,755 --> 00:07:16,275 Speaker 1: old guard Republicans guarantee that Trump would not win the 100 00:07:16,275 --> 00:07:20,675 Speaker 1: GOP primaries. Of course, not that didn't guarantee it in 101 00:07:20,675 --> 00:07:24,675 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, did it. But do you think if the 102 00:07:24,715 --> 00:07:27,795 Speaker 1: Republican hierarchy, including lots of folks who are still supporting 103 00:07:27,835 --> 00:07:31,555 Speaker 1: Trump right now, decided that to nominate him again would 104 00:07:31,555 --> 00:07:37,195 Speaker 1: be absolute and unavoidable electoral suicide for them, that they 105 00:07:37,235 --> 00:07:40,475 Speaker 1: would not do something anything to stop him from getting 106 00:07:40,555 --> 00:07:43,675 Speaker 1: their nomination, Because if he really breaks the bonds between 107 00:07:43,675 --> 00:07:46,035 Speaker 1: the Party and the troops and the party and law 108 00:07:46,035 --> 00:07:49,195 Speaker 1: and order and the Party and Israel, he takes all 109 00:07:49,235 --> 00:07:53,035 Speaker 1: of them down with him. And the day Donald Trump 110 00:07:53,115 --> 00:07:57,075 Speaker 1: guarantees that Kevin McCarthy or Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell 111 00:07:57,115 --> 00:08:04,275 Speaker 1: cannot get reelected. That is the day Trump disappears. I 112 00:08:04,275 --> 00:08:07,195 Speaker 1: mean Donald might even get the damn Mosad on his ass. 113 00:08:08,635 --> 00:08:12,435 Speaker 1: So all that is still percolating. There are developments too 114 00:08:12,475 --> 00:08:15,075 Speaker 1: today in the current case against Trump and the ones 115 00:08:15,075 --> 00:08:18,275 Speaker 1: that might be just around the corner. The continuing fly 116 00:08:18,595 --> 00:08:21,995 Speaker 1: in the ointment in Florida is looming larger and larger 117 00:08:22,035 --> 00:08:25,075 Speaker 1: with every new day. Now, The New York Times has 118 00:08:25,115 --> 00:08:28,675 Speaker 1: analyzed the trial record of Trump appoint judge Eileen Cannon 119 00:08:28,915 --> 00:08:33,635 Speaker 1: and basically discovered there is no trial record. Quote she 120 00:08:33,755 --> 00:08:36,755 Speaker 1: had not previously served as any kind of judge. Charlie 121 00:08:36,835 --> 00:08:40,035 Speaker 1: Savage rites, and because ninety eight percent of federal criminal 122 00:08:40,075 --> 00:08:43,155 Speaker 1: cases are resolved with plea deals, she has had only 123 00:08:43,195 --> 00:08:46,635 Speaker 1: a limited opportunity to learn how to preside over a trial. 124 00:08:47,275 --> 00:08:50,795 Speaker 1: The hard numbers two hundred and twenty four criminal cases 125 00:08:50,835 --> 00:08:54,315 Speaker 1: on her watch. Two hundred and twenty out of two 126 00:08:54,395 --> 00:08:58,195 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four never went to trial. The four 127 00:08:58,235 --> 00:09:00,875 Speaker 1: that did were routine quote like a fellow who was 128 00:09:00,995 --> 00:09:03,915 Speaker 1: charged with illegally possessing a gun. In all, the four 129 00:09:03,995 --> 00:09:12,315 Speaker 1: cases added up to fourteen trial days unquote fourteen Canon 130 00:09:12,315 --> 00:09:15,595 Speaker 1: has been an actual judge doing actual judge things for 131 00:09:15,755 --> 00:09:20,195 Speaker 1: fourteen days. I wonder if anybody would be willing to 132 00:09:20,235 --> 00:09:23,595 Speaker 1: go explain to her, take her under their wing, and 133 00:09:23,635 --> 00:09:25,715 Speaker 1: tell her what she needs to do in this trial, 134 00:09:26,155 --> 00:09:29,795 Speaker 1: some Trump legal expert like Jeff Clark or Cash Patel 135 00:09:30,235 --> 00:09:35,395 Speaker 1: or Baked Alaska. If this case proceeds with Cannon at 136 00:09:35,395 --> 00:09:38,475 Speaker 1: the bench and Trump's influence on her factual or just 137 00:09:38,555 --> 00:09:42,915 Speaker 1: assumed prejudice towards him, one wonders if Jack Smith has 138 00:09:42,955 --> 00:09:46,435 Speaker 1: a backup plan. Oh, by the way, Ryan Goodman and 139 00:09:46,435 --> 00:09:49,995 Speaker 1: Andrew Weisman does think Jack Smith has a backup plan, 140 00:09:50,395 --> 00:09:52,755 Speaker 1: They write in The Atlantic, if you had another dog 141 00:09:52,875 --> 00:09:55,275 Speaker 1: in this case that did nothing in the night. The 142 00:09:55,315 --> 00:10:00,235 Speaker 1: Miami indictment Goodman and Weissman note conspicuously excludes many facts 143 00:10:00,275 --> 00:10:05,995 Speaker 1: surrounding Trump's actions in Bedminster, New Jersey. What boxes were 144 00:10:06,035 --> 00:10:08,875 Speaker 1: taken there, what they contained, how they were kept at 145 00:10:08,875 --> 00:10:12,075 Speaker 1: the golf club. Their silence suggests that there might be 146 00:10:12,195 --> 00:10:15,515 Speaker 1: more to come from the famously hard charging Smith and 147 00:10:15,595 --> 00:10:20,115 Speaker 1: his team of prosecutors. In short, they are suggesting that 148 00:10:20,155 --> 00:10:23,755 Speaker 1: the Special Council specifically did not indict Trump in Florida 149 00:10:24,115 --> 00:10:26,475 Speaker 1: for the reading of the Mark Milli Iran war plan 150 00:10:26,995 --> 00:10:29,995 Speaker 1: just in case something came a cropper in Florida, and 151 00:10:30,075 --> 00:10:32,915 Speaker 1: not just the prospect of a crooked judge like canon. 152 00:10:33,155 --> 00:10:36,115 Speaker 1: They note that unlike the wilful retention of the documents, 153 00:10:36,155 --> 00:10:39,995 Speaker 1: including the Milli Iran document, which obviously happened in Florida, 154 00:10:40,395 --> 00:10:44,875 Speaker 1: the telling of the Milli Iran story happened in Jersey. 155 00:10:45,675 --> 00:10:48,595 Speaker 1: Goodman and Weissman note two aspects of the Espionage Act, 156 00:10:48,595 --> 00:10:51,315 Speaker 1: which I've cited here previously. Quote one makes it a 157 00:10:51,355 --> 00:10:55,955 Speaker 1: crime to intentionally communicate national defense information to people not 158 00:10:56,075 --> 00:10:58,515 Speaker 1: authorized to receive it, and the other makes it a 159 00:10:58,515 --> 00:11:04,355 Speaker 1: crime to intentionally disclose classified information to the same So 160 00:11:04,475 --> 00:11:09,115 Speaker 1: if he just told the Meadows ghostwriters the Iran details 161 00:11:09,635 --> 00:11:12,075 Speaker 1: like the number of American troops that would have been involved, 162 00:11:12,235 --> 00:11:15,315 Speaker 1: or just to pick a country at random what Israel 163 00:11:15,395 --> 00:11:18,875 Speaker 1: would do in the scheme, but he did so without 164 00:11:19,075 --> 00:11:22,955 Speaker 1: giving them the classified document that would be communicating national 165 00:11:22,955 --> 00:11:26,355 Speaker 1: defense information. Jack Smith could proceed against Trump in New 166 00:11:26,435 --> 00:11:30,595 Speaker 1: Jersey for leaking national defense secrets. And if Trump's response 167 00:11:30,675 --> 00:11:34,115 Speaker 1: was I declassified that document, Smith could respond, sure, great, 168 00:11:34,155 --> 00:11:39,035 Speaker 1: whatever classified or unclassified, don't enter into it. There are 169 00:11:39,075 --> 00:11:42,595 Speaker 1: a lot of new small Trump details today, including the 170 00:11:42,715 --> 00:11:45,835 Speaker 1: day last fall when one of Trump's lawyers tried to 171 00:11:45,875 --> 00:11:49,075 Speaker 1: convince Trump to negotiate a deal with Merrick Garland that 172 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:52,835 Speaker 1: would preclude charges. That was Christopher Kais, according to the 173 00:11:52,915 --> 00:11:55,595 Speaker 1: Washington Post, and Trump said no, I'm going to fight this. 174 00:11:56,235 --> 00:11:59,635 Speaker 1: There's also Lindsey Graham threatening America again over this, and 175 00:11:59,675 --> 00:12:02,275 Speaker 1: the National Archives getting pissed off at Trump again. And 176 00:12:02,315 --> 00:12:07,955 Speaker 1: please remember, pissing off the National archivists is ultimately what 177 00:12:08,195 --> 00:12:11,315 Speaker 1: got Trump arrested. And I will get to all that, 178 00:12:11,795 --> 00:12:15,675 Speaker 1: but I remain fascinated by the blessed irreverence and the 179 00:12:15,795 --> 00:12:20,275 Speaker 1: risk taking of the British TV producer Sophie Alexander at 180 00:12:20,275 --> 00:12:23,835 Speaker 1: her shouted question to Trump that briefly interrupted the Trump 181 00:12:23,955 --> 00:12:28,515 Speaker 1: celebration narrative inside a Cuban bakery after his arraignment Tuesday. 182 00:12:29,075 --> 00:12:33,555 Speaker 1: I'll repeat it briefly. We don't have any TV journalists 183 00:12:33,875 --> 00:12:39,195 Speaker 1: like her here now none. The last one was probably 184 00:12:39,355 --> 00:12:44,395 Speaker 1: Sam Donaldson, but that's not the point here today. Yesterday, 185 00:12:44,515 --> 00:12:47,515 Speaker 1: the guy who got in the face of Miss Alexander 186 00:12:47,555 --> 00:12:51,355 Speaker 1: of Sky News during the bruhaha in the bakery self 187 00:12:51,555 --> 00:12:55,355 Speaker 1: identified and as if this story were not interesting enough. 188 00:12:55,435 --> 00:12:58,635 Speaker 1: You will not believe who he turns out to be, 189 00:12:59,795 --> 00:13:02,395 Speaker 1: largely because a lot of us thought he was dead. 190 00:13:03,155 --> 00:13:06,355 Speaker 1: But just listen to this again, and listen carefully, and 191 00:13:06,435 --> 00:13:09,435 Speaker 1: wait for when you hear the guy who calls her 192 00:13:09,795 --> 00:13:14,275 Speaker 1: a stupid bee. President Trump, are you ready to go 193 00:13:14,355 --> 00:13:47,355 Speaker 1: to jail? That was Michael R. Kaputo, who at seven 194 00:13:47,515 --> 00:13:50,755 Speaker 1: fifty six Eastern time yesterday morning replied to somebody who 195 00:13:50,755 --> 00:13:53,835 Speaker 1: tweeted a freeze frame of the video asking if that 196 00:13:54,035 --> 00:13:58,395 Speaker 1: were him, by replying, quote, yes, tell your mommy. She 197 00:13:58,555 --> 00:14:02,515 Speaker 1: left her dog eared and underlined copy of communist manifesto 198 00:14:02,635 --> 00:14:06,195 Speaker 1: in the booth, and she's banned for life from Versailles. 199 00:14:07,235 --> 00:14:10,435 Speaker 1: That's the name of the bakery, quoting again, also she 200 00:14:10,555 --> 00:14:14,635 Speaker 1: smelled like feet. Puto spent the rest of the day 201 00:14:14,675 --> 00:14:17,955 Speaker 1: tweeting memes, most of which did not have relevance to 202 00:14:17,995 --> 00:14:21,115 Speaker 1: the incident, and insults that would embarrass a thirteen year 203 00:14:21,155 --> 00:14:24,435 Speaker 1: old on TikTok, I mean he was in multiple dozens 204 00:14:24,435 --> 00:14:28,075 Speaker 1: of replies and tweets by sunset. Does that name sound 205 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:32,435 Speaker 1: at all familiar? Michael R. K. Puto worked in the 206 00:14:32,475 --> 00:14:36,995 Speaker 1: Trump government, worked in the Boris yeltsin government in Russia 207 00:14:38,115 --> 00:14:40,875 Speaker 1: worked pr to try to make Putin more popular in 208 00:14:40,915 --> 00:14:45,595 Speaker 1: the US. Was in Ukraine for a while, was the 209 00:14:45,675 --> 00:14:49,115 Speaker 1: Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services who tried to 210 00:14:49,155 --> 00:14:52,915 Speaker 1: fix the COVID stats to make Trump look better. And 211 00:14:52,955 --> 00:14:55,595 Speaker 1: then he said left wing hit squads were going to 212 00:14:55,715 --> 00:14:59,395 Speaker 1: kill him. And finally, two days after that, he gave 213 00:14:59,515 --> 00:15:03,875 Speaker 1: one of the greatest exit lines in the history of 214 00:15:03,915 --> 00:15:07,995 Speaker 1: the United State dates government when he suddenly announced quote 215 00:15:09,915 --> 00:15:16,875 Speaker 1: that's next. This is kinda this is countdown with Keith Oberman. 216 00:15:25,555 --> 00:15:29,075 Speaker 1: Post scripts to the news. Some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 217 00:15:29,115 --> 00:15:33,795 Speaker 1: some predictions, date line, the Versailles Cafe Miami. Back to 218 00:15:33,835 --> 00:15:38,155 Speaker 1: the self identification of the former Trump HHS Assistant Secretary 219 00:15:38,235 --> 00:15:42,435 Speaker 1: Michael Koputo as the man who yelled stupid b in 220 00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:44,915 Speaker 1: the face of the Sky News reporter at the Trump 221 00:15:44,995 --> 00:15:48,235 Speaker 1: celebration Tuesday in Miami, and I left you hanging about 222 00:15:48,275 --> 00:15:51,875 Speaker 1: his matchless exit line when he finally quit in September 223 00:15:51,915 --> 00:15:56,195 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. This guy is like Roger Stone Light. Listen 224 00:15:56,275 --> 00:15:58,315 Speaker 1: to this resume and then I'll give you the quote. 225 00:15:58,515 --> 00:16:03,755 Speaker 1: Former Alie North associate and Carl Palladino, New York Governor 226 00:16:03,835 --> 00:16:09,835 Speaker 1: campaign manager and Bush senior campaign staffer and astro turfist 227 00:16:09,915 --> 00:16:13,555 Speaker 1: for Trump's bid to buy the Buffalo bills and longtime 228 00:16:13,675 --> 00:16:17,275 Speaker 1: sexist and racist Twitter troll. And he lived in Russia, 229 00:16:17,595 --> 00:16:20,595 Speaker 1: and he was an advisor to Boris Yeltsin's government and 230 00:16:20,635 --> 00:16:22,795 Speaker 1: Boris Yeltsin, And then he did work for a company 231 00:16:22,955 --> 00:16:26,515 Speaker 1: trying to improve the reputation of Vladimir Putin inside the US. 232 00:16:26,755 --> 00:16:29,875 Speaker 1: And he lived in Ukraine. And most infamously, he was 233 00:16:29,955 --> 00:16:32,915 Speaker 1: the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services under Trump. 234 00:16:32,995 --> 00:16:36,715 Speaker 1: You picture him, yet, this is the guy who tried 235 00:16:36,795 --> 00:16:40,755 Speaker 1: to alter all the reports on COVID from the CDC 236 00:16:40,835 --> 00:16:43,795 Speaker 1: the Centers for Disease Control to make them look better 237 00:16:43,835 --> 00:16:47,355 Speaker 1: for Trump. He tried to stop publication of the conclusion 238 00:16:47,355 --> 00:16:52,315 Speaker 1: that kids could transmit COVID or that chloroquin was useless. 239 00:16:52,915 --> 00:16:56,235 Speaker 1: Still not got him? How about his charge that CDC 240 00:16:56,395 --> 00:17:00,875 Speaker 1: scientists were engaged in sedition and were you know, trying 241 00:17:00,915 --> 00:17:04,635 Speaker 1: to kill him? On September thirteenth, twenty twenty, it was 242 00:17:04,835 --> 00:17:08,355 Speaker 1: this same guy, Capudo, who posted a video on Facebook 243 00:17:08,435 --> 00:17:12,995 Speaker 1: claiming the CDC was a quote resistant unit meeting in 244 00:17:13,155 --> 00:17:17,275 Speaker 1: coffee shops planning their next attacks. On Trump, he said 245 00:17:17,355 --> 00:17:20,595 Speaker 1: left wing quote hit squads are being trained all over 246 00:17:20,675 --> 00:17:23,995 Speaker 1: this country unquote, and he told people to buy ammunition, 247 00:17:24,115 --> 00:17:29,075 Speaker 1: and then came the wow, finish quote, you understand that 248 00:17:29,115 --> 00:17:32,315 Speaker 1: they're going to have to kill me. And unfortunately, I 249 00:17:32,435 --> 00:17:36,915 Speaker 1: think that's where this is going, and that's not even 250 00:17:37,035 --> 00:17:42,275 Speaker 1: the quote. Two days later, Capudo took medical leave from 251 00:17:42,275 --> 00:17:46,275 Speaker 1: the Trump administration, admitting this is the quote that his quote, 252 00:17:47,155 --> 00:17:53,715 Speaker 1: mental health has definitely failed. Oh and then he said 253 00:17:53,755 --> 00:17:56,035 Speaker 1: he had throat cancer that had spread and we all 254 00:17:56,035 --> 00:17:59,195 Speaker 1: felt sorry for him. And then Tuesday there he was 255 00:17:59,235 --> 00:18:03,915 Speaker 1: in the Versailles Bakery in Miami, gaunt, screaming at a 256 00:18:04,155 --> 00:18:07,755 Speaker 1: TV and then tweeting about it all day yesterday. And 257 00:18:07,795 --> 00:18:11,755 Speaker 1: evidently he's involved in running this new Spanish language version 258 00:18:11,795 --> 00:18:16,635 Speaker 1: of a kind of Newsmax called Americano Media and rage, 259 00:18:16,675 --> 00:18:54,995 Speaker 1: tweeting mental health has definitely failed. You say you, Nancy Faust, dateline, Washington, 260 00:18:55,155 --> 00:18:58,435 Speaker 1: Back to the origin point. The National Archives is done 261 00:18:58,715 --> 00:19:02,835 Speaker 1: listening to Trump surrogates lie about the Presidential Records Act. 262 00:19:02,995 --> 00:19:06,755 Speaker 1: Trump himself obviously, but also the ex Trump attorney Tim Parlatori, 263 00:19:07,035 --> 00:19:09,995 Speaker 1: who keeps insisting that the PRA has a clause in 264 00:19:10,035 --> 00:19:12,995 Speaker 1: it that says an ex president quote is supposed to 265 00:19:13,035 --> 00:19:15,275 Speaker 1: take the next two years after they leave office to 266 00:19:15,355 --> 00:19:18,035 Speaker 1: go through all these documents to figure out what's personal 267 00:19:18,035 --> 00:19:24,635 Speaker 1: and what's presidential. The National Archives is big mad again. Quote. 268 00:19:25,115 --> 00:19:28,275 Speaker 1: The PRA requires that all records created by presidents and 269 00:19:28,355 --> 00:19:31,235 Speaker 1: vice presidents be turned over the National Archives and Records 270 00:19:31,235 --> 00:19:35,915 Speaker 1: Administration NARA at the end of their administrations. There's no 271 00:19:36,075 --> 00:19:40,315 Speaker 1: history practice or provision in law for presidents to take 272 00:19:40,355 --> 00:19:43,555 Speaker 1: official records with them when they leave office to sort through, 273 00:19:44,115 --> 00:19:46,715 Speaker 1: such as for a two year period, as described in 274 00:19:46,795 --> 00:19:51,795 Speaker 1: some reports. As I said, you know what happened last 275 00:19:51,795 --> 00:19:55,955 Speaker 1: time the Archives got pissed. Trump got arrested. How's this 276 00:19:56,115 --> 00:20:02,035 Speaker 1: parlatory doing, Dateline Washington, how's Lindsey Graham doing. He's nuts, right, 277 00:20:02,595 --> 00:20:05,955 Speaker 1: or he's being blackmailed. Or he's nuts because he's being blackmailed. 278 00:20:06,195 --> 00:20:09,315 Speaker 1: Those are my guesses. Last year he threatened riots in 279 00:20:09,355 --> 00:20:12,155 Speaker 1: the street if Trump were indicted, and instead the other 280 00:20:12,235 --> 00:20:15,075 Speaker 1: day he got a Trump punk yelling at a British 281 00:20:15,155 --> 00:20:19,235 Speaker 1: TV producer. Yesterday he went back for more, quoting lindsay, 282 00:20:19,395 --> 00:20:22,435 Speaker 1: if the Special Council in dieth President Trump in Washington 283 00:20:22,515 --> 00:20:25,755 Speaker 1: d C for anything, related to January sixth, that will 284 00:20:25,755 --> 00:20:30,555 Speaker 1: be considered a major outrage by Republicans because you could 285 00:20:30,555 --> 00:20:34,715 Speaker 1: convict any Republican of anything in Washington. D c oh 286 00:20:34,795 --> 00:20:39,195 Speaker 1: No Republicans in the middle of a major outrage. Lindsey 287 00:20:39,235 --> 00:20:41,835 Speaker 1: Graham is outraged. What are you gonna do? Get Michael 288 00:20:41,915 --> 00:20:45,475 Speaker 1: Kapudo to go yell at Jack Smith, We get the 289 00:20:45,595 --> 00:20:50,915 Speaker 1: National archivists on you. Lastly, dateline Atlanta. As I mentioned yesterday, 290 00:20:50,995 --> 00:20:54,035 Speaker 1: despite New York State Attorney General Tis james contention that 291 00:20:54,155 --> 00:20:57,555 Speaker 1: all non federal prosecutions of Trump will now be paused, 292 00:20:57,995 --> 00:21:01,595 Speaker 1: Atlanta's police department sent one official to Miami Tuesday to 293 00:21:01,635 --> 00:21:04,115 Speaker 1: see how to protect the city in case in case 294 00:21:04,315 --> 00:21:07,275 Speaker 1: he's an died in Georgia as well, now comes a 295 00:21:07,395 --> 00:21:10,035 Speaker 1: formal announcement from the office of Fulton County d A. 296 00:21:10,155 --> 00:21:15,435 Speaker 1: Fannie Willis quote the federal indictments will not have any 297 00:21:15,515 --> 00:21:21,115 Speaker 1: impact on the Fulton County election investigation. Get on that 298 00:21:21,195 --> 00:21:37,835 Speaker 1: midnight train to Georgia. Donny still ahead on countdown. Nearly 299 00:21:38,075 --> 00:21:41,995 Speaker 1: five decades ago, I was talked out of going to 300 00:21:42,035 --> 00:21:44,995 Speaker 1: what I thought was my top choice university because of 301 00:21:45,955 --> 00:21:50,235 Speaker 1: Howard Stern things. I promised not to tell coming up 302 00:21:50,275 --> 00:21:52,355 Speaker 1: first to daily round up of the miscrants, morons and 303 00:21:52,435 --> 00:21:56,595 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger Effet specimens who constitute two day's worst persons 304 00:21:56,595 --> 00:22:01,395 Speaker 1: in the world, The brons. Elon Musk, the boy is 305 00:22:01,435 --> 00:22:04,595 Speaker 1: not right in the head. Ninety nine percent of his 306 00:22:04,835 --> 00:22:07,395 Speaker 1: fanboys probably have no idea what he is proposing. With 307 00:22:07,515 --> 00:22:11,435 Speaker 1: a tweeted reply to his paid fanboy David Sachs, they 308 00:22:11,435 --> 00:22:14,555 Speaker 1: were exchanging complaints about government not doing what they wanted 309 00:22:14,595 --> 00:22:17,475 Speaker 1: it to do, when Sachs made a reference to ancient Rome, 310 00:22:17,555 --> 00:22:20,995 Speaker 1: and Musk replied, perhaps we just need a modern day 311 00:22:21,115 --> 00:22:27,715 Speaker 1: Sulla Sullah. Sullah was the first dictator as we understand 312 00:22:27,755 --> 00:22:31,075 Speaker 1: the term. He overthrew what was left of the Roman Republic. 313 00:22:31,115 --> 00:22:35,195 Speaker 1: He slaughtered civilians and political opponents to install himself as dictator. 314 00:22:35,395 --> 00:22:37,395 Speaker 1: He then made sure the army took an oath of 315 00:22:37,435 --> 00:22:40,755 Speaker 1: loyalty to him rather than to the Roman state, and 316 00:22:40,795 --> 00:22:44,475 Speaker 1: he was the role model for later disastrous dictators like 317 00:22:44,555 --> 00:22:49,235 Speaker 1: Julius Caesar and Caligula. And Musk wants one for America. 318 00:22:49,795 --> 00:22:52,915 Speaker 1: I think instead, what we need here is Elon Musk 319 00:22:53,035 --> 00:22:57,355 Speaker 1: to get a CT scan. The runners up Fox News 320 00:22:57,435 --> 00:23:00,995 Speaker 1: and The New York Times together again. One of the 321 00:23:01,035 --> 00:23:04,035 Speaker 1: saddest realities of news today, yesterday, and if there's any 322 00:23:04,115 --> 00:23:07,275 Speaker 1: left tomorrow, oh, is that one of the most rewarded 323 00:23:07,315 --> 00:23:10,395 Speaker 1: skills is can you turn off your morals and your 324 00:23:10,435 --> 00:23:13,995 Speaker 1: sense of the difference between facts and truth? If you can, 325 00:23:14,035 --> 00:23:16,515 Speaker 1: you get pushed up that editorial in Business Chain in 326 00:23:16,515 --> 00:23:19,875 Speaker 1: a hurry. What do I mean by this? Well, when 327 00:23:19,955 --> 00:23:22,755 Speaker 1: David Zaslav, the guy looking to find a new boss 328 00:23:22,755 --> 00:23:24,795 Speaker 1: of CNN for the second time and his two years 329 00:23:24,795 --> 00:23:28,275 Speaker 1: in charge of it, said that CNN was improved because quote, 330 00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:31,195 Speaker 1: Republicans weren't on the air during the McCarthy hearings. For 331 00:23:31,235 --> 00:23:33,635 Speaker 1: those four days, we had seventy five Republicans on the air. 332 00:23:33,835 --> 00:23:35,795 Speaker 1: Forty one went on us before they went on Fox. 333 00:23:35,835 --> 00:23:37,515 Speaker 1: And the reason is they're not going to get one 334 00:23:37,515 --> 00:23:41,275 Speaker 1: more vote on Fox. That's what I mean. No conception 335 00:23:41,395 --> 00:23:44,235 Speaker 1: of the news as anything but an end to itself, 336 00:23:44,675 --> 00:23:48,275 Speaker 1: as opposed to a way to improve and encourage, you know, 337 00:23:48,275 --> 00:23:54,035 Speaker 1: knowledge and freedom. Just ooh more Republicans or ooh, better graphics, 338 00:23:54,355 --> 00:23:58,235 Speaker 1: you know, the world. According to Chuck Todd, some people 339 00:23:58,275 --> 00:24:02,715 Speaker 1: think a dictatorship would be a bad idea, and they 340 00:24:02,755 --> 00:24:05,315 Speaker 1: all do it. Front page of the New York Times yesterday. 341 00:24:05,355 --> 00:24:08,475 Speaker 1: Three line, two column headline upper right, momentous scene in 342 00:24:08,555 --> 00:24:13,875 Speaker 1: Miami as Trump pleads not guilty. Three column glory photo 343 00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:17,915 Speaker 1: upper left, showing Trump confidently not falling down the jetway 344 00:24:18,035 --> 00:24:21,275 Speaker 1: stars from his plane with the giant American flag on 345 00:24:21,355 --> 00:24:25,515 Speaker 1: its tail just touching his shoulder. If you did not 346 00:24:25,835 --> 00:24:28,875 Speaker 1: know Trump had just become the first ex president to 347 00:24:28,915 --> 00:24:33,475 Speaker 1: be booked on federal charges and accused of endangering national 348 00:24:33,515 --> 00:24:37,195 Speaker 1: security and troops, you might have thought the dramatic headline 349 00:24:37,235 --> 00:24:38,795 Speaker 1: and photo was from the morning after he won the 350 00:24:38,795 --> 00:24:42,835 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election, because somebody laying out the Times first 351 00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:47,115 Speaker 1: page tried to be neutral in the headline, and that 352 00:24:47,195 --> 00:24:50,835 Speaker 1: photography editor really liked that shot. Well. Sure, in this photo, 353 00:24:50,875 --> 00:24:53,595 Speaker 1: Trump is shown eating babies, But look at the light 354 00:24:53,675 --> 00:24:56,315 Speaker 1: shining in his eyes and the flag just touching his 355 00:24:56,435 --> 00:25:01,515 Speaker 1: shoulder near the babies. And then there's the Fox News 356 00:25:01,555 --> 00:25:04,355 Speaker 1: part of our runners up, Suzanne Scott, still, the CEO 357 00:25:04,435 --> 00:25:08,635 Speaker 1: of that organization. After an amazing trifecta, not only did 358 00:25:08,635 --> 00:25:13,235 Speaker 1: the irrepressibly stupid Brian Killmead introduced the channel's live coverage 359 00:25:13,235 --> 00:25:16,635 Speaker 1: of Trump from Bedminster Tuesday night by calling him the 360 00:25:16,675 --> 00:25:19,355 Speaker 1: President of the United States in a dog whistle to 361 00:25:19,435 --> 00:25:22,515 Speaker 1: election deniers. But just as his show ended and the 362 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:27,275 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity pooh Flinging Hour began, Fox did a split 363 00:25:27,315 --> 00:25:29,675 Speaker 1: screen of Biden speaking at the White House and Trump 364 00:25:29,675 --> 00:25:33,195 Speaker 1: speaking in New Jersey, with the on screen caption reading quote, 365 00:25:33,555 --> 00:25:36,435 Speaker 1: wanna be dictator speaks at the White House after having 366 00:25:36,435 --> 00:25:41,075 Speaker 1: his political rival arrested. Fox says, kill Mead just slipped, 367 00:25:41,795 --> 00:25:45,915 Speaker 1: which is possible. He is a moron. Fox also said 368 00:25:45,915 --> 00:25:48,955 Speaker 1: the dictator chiron was taken down immediately and was addressed, 369 00:25:48,955 --> 00:25:52,155 Speaker 1: which is crap. It was up there for twenty seven seconds, 370 00:25:52,635 --> 00:25:54,675 Speaker 1: and for all we know, it was addressed by giving 371 00:25:54,715 --> 00:25:57,875 Speaker 1: whoever approved it a raise. Iwuld you like to do 372 00:25:57,875 --> 00:26:01,075 Speaker 1: the nine o'clock show? And then there was the chaser 373 00:26:01,115 --> 00:26:04,355 Speaker 1: to these two shots. Fox was carrying the White House 374 00:26:04,355 --> 00:26:08,235 Speaker 1: Press briefing yesterday when the Press Secretary was asked about 375 00:26:08,275 --> 00:26:11,675 Speaker 1: that dictator graphic, and in the middle of her answer, 376 00:26:12,115 --> 00:26:15,755 Speaker 1: they cut away. So anchor John Roberts, you know how 377 00:26:15,795 --> 00:26:18,595 Speaker 1: old John Roberts is. He's two hundred and six. So 378 00:26:18,715 --> 00:26:22,155 Speaker 1: John Roberts could sigh and then say quote, A Florida 379 00:26:22,235 --> 00:26:27,275 Speaker 1: family was caught off guard after discovering a massive crocodile 380 00:26:27,835 --> 00:26:32,435 Speaker 1: made itself home in their pool at two o'clock in 381 00:26:32,475 --> 00:26:35,755 Speaker 1: the morning. Apart from the fact that Fox is in 382 00:26:35,795 --> 00:26:38,035 Speaker 1: free fall right now and can't decide whether it wants 383 00:26:38,075 --> 00:26:41,355 Speaker 1: to embrace the kind of dictator Biden line so it 384 00:26:41,395 --> 00:26:44,635 Speaker 1: can compete again with the Newsmaxes, or it wants to 385 00:26:44,715 --> 00:26:46,955 Speaker 1: be considered an actual news organization like the one that 386 00:26:46,995 --> 00:26:50,355 Speaker 1: fired Tucker Carlson and settled the dominion case, the key 387 00:26:50,435 --> 00:26:53,915 Speaker 1: takeaway from these three mini stories is at any other 388 00:26:54,035 --> 00:26:57,395 Speaker 1: time in Fox's history, it would have been the lead 389 00:26:57,515 --> 00:27:00,395 Speaker 1: story in American journalism and one of the lead stories 390 00:27:00,435 --> 00:27:03,715 Speaker 1: of all kinds of news in the country. Then that's 391 00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:08,075 Speaker 1: the silver lining. The comparatively muted reaction to this underscore 392 00:27:08,115 --> 00:27:12,595 Speaker 1: is the fact of Fox's declining influence. But our winner 393 00:27:13,315 --> 00:27:17,035 Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro, the squeaky voice star of The Daily Wire, 394 00:27:17,635 --> 00:27:22,915 Speaker 1: going after Sesame Street for celebrating Pride Month, speculating that 395 00:27:22,995 --> 00:27:26,555 Speaker 1: the show will soon present quote Bert and Ernie in 396 00:27:26,755 --> 00:27:31,755 Speaker 1: assless chaps in the Sesame Street Pride Parade. Presumably that 397 00:27:31,835 --> 00:27:35,835 Speaker 1: will be the next step over at Sesame Street. Shapiro 398 00:27:35,955 --> 00:27:39,475 Speaker 1: thus continues a rather disturbing trend on all these fascist 399 00:27:39,635 --> 00:27:43,835 Speaker 1: streaming shows, his the one that belongs to Matt Walsh Blog, 400 00:27:44,395 --> 00:27:48,875 Speaker 1: Nick Fouentes's Tucker Carlson's Greg Gutfelds. They are all not 401 00:27:49,155 --> 00:27:54,595 Speaker 1: just obsessed with sexualizing children and using sexual terms like that, 402 00:27:55,035 --> 00:27:57,835 Speaker 1: but they immediately dive right into the deep end of 403 00:27:57,875 --> 00:28:01,915 Speaker 1: the imagery with phrases like Bert and Ernie in assless chaps, 404 00:28:02,195 --> 00:28:05,555 Speaker 1: Hey Bert, what are they talking about? Which show surprising 405 00:28:05,635 --> 00:28:12,595 Speaker 1: familiarity with such scenes and topics. Hmmm. By the way, 406 00:28:12,595 --> 00:28:15,195 Speaker 1: five seconds after saying that Ben Shapiro welcomed as his 407 00:28:15,275 --> 00:28:19,075 Speaker 1: guest Mike Pence, Mike Pence immediately thanked Shapiro for his 408 00:28:19,155 --> 00:28:22,795 Speaker 1: quote clarion voice and added I'm a fan of all 409 00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:26,035 Speaker 1: your work, and for several moments he continued to fawn 410 00:28:26,035 --> 00:28:33,235 Speaker 1: over Shapiro and kiss his assless chaps Ben Hood. Everybody 411 00:28:33,235 --> 00:28:36,235 Speaker 1: thinks of male fictional characters wearing assless chaps. It's not 412 00:28:36,315 --> 00:28:39,435 Speaker 1: just me or those other right wing perverts projecting Shapiro 413 00:28:40,035 --> 00:28:46,115 Speaker 1: today's worst person in the If there's ever been an 414 00:28:46,195 --> 00:29:02,595 Speaker 1: assless chap, it's Ben Shapiro, wor just ahead. So it 415 00:29:02,635 --> 00:29:06,835 Speaker 1: was October nineteen seventy four, and the other principal figure 416 00:29:06,835 --> 00:29:08,835 Speaker 1: in the story denies it was him. And I usually 417 00:29:08,875 --> 00:29:12,035 Speaker 1: hate such inexactitude, but I think the story is worth 418 00:29:12,075 --> 00:29:14,875 Speaker 1: it because the guy who denies it was him was 419 00:29:14,915 --> 00:29:18,635 Speaker 1: Howard Stern. Things I promise not to tell. Coming up first. 420 00:29:18,675 --> 00:29:20,795 Speaker 1: In each edition of Countown, we feature a dog in need. 421 00:29:20,835 --> 00:29:23,715 Speaker 1: You can help every dog. As it's day, we continue 422 00:29:23,715 --> 00:29:26,275 Speaker 1: at the crisis in New York City, with literally dozens 423 00:29:26,275 --> 00:29:29,355 Speaker 1: of dogs on the kill list in the city pound. Here, 424 00:29:30,115 --> 00:29:34,075 Speaker 1: Sleeky Dog is about ten. His behavior suggests he was 425 00:29:34,115 --> 00:29:36,555 Speaker 1: once a happy family pet who wound up on the streets. 426 00:29:36,795 --> 00:29:40,715 Speaker 1: He became suspicious of humans, but he now joyfully interacts 427 00:29:40,715 --> 00:29:42,955 Speaker 1: with them, even in the hellhole that is the shelter. 428 00:29:43,795 --> 00:29:45,755 Speaker 1: He's got all the strikes against him. He's got a 429 00:29:45,755 --> 00:29:48,795 Speaker 1: black coat, he's a senior dog. He does not like 430 00:29:48,875 --> 00:29:52,635 Speaker 1: other dogs. He's emaciated, and there are health issues. He 431 00:29:52,715 --> 00:29:54,955 Speaker 1: needs our pledges to help a rescue pull him out 432 00:29:54,955 --> 00:29:57,635 Speaker 1: of there and save him. You can find Slinky Dog 433 00:29:57,715 --> 00:30:01,115 Speaker 1: on my Twitter feed, and if you can pledge, please 434 00:30:01,155 --> 00:30:05,275 Speaker 1: do so. But even just your retweet may help him. 435 00:30:05,515 --> 00:30:08,715 Speaker 1: I thank you, and Slinky Dog thanks you as well. 436 00:30:23,195 --> 00:30:26,595 Speaker 1: I was fifteen years old and just starting my college visits. 437 00:30:26,915 --> 00:30:29,795 Speaker 1: My dad and I flew the very inexpensive Eastern Shuttle 438 00:30:29,835 --> 00:30:33,875 Speaker 1: to Boston and Commonwealth Avenue and the Boston University School 439 00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:37,075 Speaker 1: of Public Communications, which had surprised us by not only 440 00:30:37,155 --> 00:30:39,715 Speaker 1: offering me early admission when I had not requested it, 441 00:30:39,875 --> 00:30:43,115 Speaker 1: but which upon arrival knocked us over by saying they 442 00:30:43,155 --> 00:30:47,635 Speaker 1: wanted to offer me a merit scholarship, a free ride, 443 00:30:48,035 --> 00:30:52,755 Speaker 1: all expenses paid. To be fair, I was the editor 444 00:30:52,795 --> 00:30:55,075 Speaker 1: of the high school newspaper and editor of the yearbook, 445 00:30:55,115 --> 00:30:57,155 Speaker 1: sports director of the radio station. I'd been in the 446 00:30:57,235 --> 00:31:00,315 Speaker 1: drama group. I had researched and had published a baseball 447 00:31:00,355 --> 00:31:03,155 Speaker 1: reference book earlier that year, and I was the associate 448 00:31:03,235 --> 00:31:06,275 Speaker 1: editor of the first guide to Sports Memorabilia. And I 449 00:31:06,275 --> 00:31:08,755 Speaker 1: had an internship lined up in the public relations department 450 00:31:08,755 --> 00:31:11,315 Speaker 1: of the Boston Celtics. So the admission was not much 451 00:31:11,315 --> 00:31:15,075 Speaker 1: of a surprise. The merit scholarship, let me tell you, 452 00:31:15,515 --> 00:31:20,955 Speaker 1: the merit scholarship appealed fantastically to my father. My dad 453 00:31:20,995 --> 00:31:24,275 Speaker 1: had already been socked for five years of private school 454 00:31:24,595 --> 00:31:28,595 Speaker 1: because I was too bored to do well in public school, 455 00:31:29,195 --> 00:31:32,475 Speaker 1: and now he was facing college money. This was new 456 00:31:32,675 --> 00:31:36,435 Speaker 1: territory in Olberman Land. Nobody that we knew of on 457 00:31:36,595 --> 00:31:39,955 Speaker 1: either side of my family had graduated from a four 458 00:31:40,035 --> 00:31:43,635 Speaker 1: year college since one of my great grandfathers got a 459 00:31:43,635 --> 00:31:47,475 Speaker 1: degree in wrought iron design round about eighteen eighty five, 460 00:31:48,635 --> 00:31:50,875 Speaker 1: and my dad had been offered a scholarship at a 461 00:31:50,915 --> 00:31:53,875 Speaker 1: top architecture college and could not afford to take it. 462 00:31:54,395 --> 00:31:56,875 Speaker 1: They were so poor he had to go to work 463 00:31:56,955 --> 00:31:59,995 Speaker 1: right out of high school or his brother had no 464 00:32:00,115 --> 00:32:03,995 Speaker 1: chance of finishing high school. Free college and a good 465 00:32:04,035 --> 00:32:06,955 Speaker 1: one in the field his son wanted to go into. 466 00:32:07,195 --> 00:32:11,875 Speaker 1: Dad liked this very much. The tour of what was 467 00:32:11,915 --> 00:32:15,035 Speaker 1: then called the School of Public Communications went well. It 468 00:32:15,155 --> 00:32:17,275 Speaker 1: was early fall, and there are a few places in 469 00:32:17,275 --> 00:32:20,075 Speaker 1: the Northeast that do not look their best in early fall. 470 00:32:20,515 --> 00:32:23,195 Speaker 1: We were in the middle of Boston, but there were trees. 471 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:26,115 Speaker 1: It was far from home, but it was down the 472 00:32:26,115 --> 00:32:30,995 Speaker 1: block from Fenway Park. I think the admissions director took 473 00:32:31,075 --> 00:32:34,835 Speaker 1: us into the main studio of the Boston University AM 474 00:32:34,915 --> 00:32:38,075 Speaker 1: station and introduced us to the disc jockey or pointed 475 00:32:38,115 --> 00:32:40,875 Speaker 1: at him or something, and then the admissions director left. 476 00:32:40,915 --> 00:32:44,355 Speaker 1: He must have, because what followed in the studio was 477 00:32:44,475 --> 00:32:48,075 Speaker 1: not what that guy wanted me to hear. The disc 478 00:32:48,155 --> 00:32:51,555 Speaker 1: jockey was a gaunt, kind of greasy looking kid, with 479 00:32:51,635 --> 00:32:54,035 Speaker 1: hair down to the floor and the attitude of an 480 00:32:54,035 --> 00:32:57,315 Speaker 1: inquisitor working on too little sleep. He claimed to be 481 00:32:57,355 --> 00:33:00,515 Speaker 1: a junior to me. He looked to be about thirty 482 00:33:00,595 --> 00:33:03,675 Speaker 1: years old. We were not introduced by name, or if 483 00:33:03,675 --> 00:33:05,915 Speaker 1: we were, I had forgotten his by the time he 484 00:33:05,955 --> 00:33:11,035 Speaker 1: finished saying it. Where you're from, kid, Westchester? I told him, Oh, yeah, 485 00:33:11,115 --> 00:33:12,675 Speaker 1: I'm from Long Island. You got a problem with that, 486 00:33:13,715 --> 00:33:16,835 Speaker 1: I said, na, I had relatives on Long Island. Good answer, 487 00:33:17,355 --> 00:33:21,955 Speaker 1: So you're applying here. I told him about the merit scholarship. Uh, 488 00:33:22,075 --> 00:33:25,595 Speaker 1: Lottie da some kind of phenom. I explained about the 489 00:33:25,595 --> 00:33:28,995 Speaker 1: Celtics internship. Listen, kid, you sound like you know what 490 00:33:29,035 --> 00:33:31,755 Speaker 1: you're doing, so don't make the same mistake I did. 491 00:33:32,315 --> 00:33:34,395 Speaker 1: The first two years. You don't get to take any 492 00:33:34,515 --> 00:33:40,195 Speaker 1: radio or TV classes, just general studies. I suddenly remembered 493 00:33:40,235 --> 00:33:43,435 Speaker 1: having read that. I asked him, what was the point 494 00:33:43,435 --> 00:33:46,315 Speaker 1: of just repeating high school for two more years? Exactly? Okay, 495 00:33:46,475 --> 00:33:49,995 Speaker 1: you get it. And what's worse, the grad students they 496 00:33:50,075 --> 00:33:53,115 Speaker 1: control the real radio station. It's like organized crime. Here 497 00:33:53,555 --> 00:33:56,915 Speaker 1: see this radio station, this crapshack. You can only hear 498 00:33:56,955 --> 00:33:59,395 Speaker 1: this in the dorms. And it took me three years 499 00:33:59,795 --> 00:34:01,755 Speaker 1: just to get two shows a week here Tuesdays and 500 00:34:01,835 --> 00:34:06,035 Speaker 1: Thursday's Middays. Nobody's in the dorms midday. Total waste of 501 00:34:06,035 --> 00:34:09,435 Speaker 1: my time and my exceptional talent. And so far the 502 00:34:09,475 --> 00:34:13,555 Speaker 1: classes are crap. So maybe what you do is keep 503 00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:19,035 Speaker 1: the internship, but ditch the scholarship. I think it was 504 00:34:19,075 --> 00:34:21,435 Speaker 1: at this point that my father said we had to 505 00:34:21,435 --> 00:34:24,995 Speaker 1: get to the airport. He did not want me hearing 506 00:34:25,195 --> 00:34:32,115 Speaker 1: more about ditching the scholarship. My college admissions strategy had 507 00:34:32,115 --> 00:34:34,075 Speaker 1: been this, maybe just go to the best school and 508 00:34:34,115 --> 00:34:36,395 Speaker 1: let the radio and TV stuff come to me, but 509 00:34:37,395 --> 00:34:39,875 Speaker 1: maybe go to a school that was really good in 510 00:34:39,995 --> 00:34:43,475 Speaker 1: radio and TV and let the education just come to me. 511 00:34:44,435 --> 00:34:47,915 Speaker 1: Then there was this Celtics internship, confusing things even further, 512 00:34:47,955 --> 00:34:50,635 Speaker 1: and now the offer of the free ride from BU. 513 00:34:51,795 --> 00:34:55,355 Speaker 1: So my radio TV schools were BU with Ethacic College 514 00:34:55,355 --> 00:34:59,075 Speaker 1: as the safety, and my good schools were forgive me. 515 00:34:59,675 --> 00:35:02,555 Speaker 1: Harvard and Cornell is my safety, which is kind of 516 00:35:02,635 --> 00:35:04,875 Speaker 1: unfair because my graduating class in high school I had 517 00:35:04,915 --> 00:35:07,075 Speaker 1: like seventy kids in it, and four of us were 518 00:35:07,115 --> 00:35:09,475 Speaker 1: applying to Harvard, and two of them had four point 519 00:35:09,595 --> 00:35:12,675 Speaker 1: zero grade averages dating back to the womb, and I didn't. 520 00:35:12,715 --> 00:35:14,435 Speaker 1: And my only chance they were going to accept me 521 00:35:14,435 --> 00:35:18,715 Speaker 1: would be because I would be only sixteen. Bu was 522 00:35:18,795 --> 00:35:21,035 Speaker 1: obviously a yes if they were going to pay for it. 523 00:35:21,035 --> 00:35:22,635 Speaker 1: Ithico was a yes. But I got a tour of 524 00:35:22,635 --> 00:35:26,715 Speaker 1: the dorms and the elevators were full of trash. This 525 00:35:26,835 --> 00:35:29,515 Speaker 1: is not a euphemism, this is not a value judgment. 526 00:35:29,515 --> 00:35:33,795 Speaker 1: The elevators had ankle high garbage in them. Cornell had 527 00:35:33,835 --> 00:35:37,395 Speaker 1: a communications program, but I couldn't find out much about it, 528 00:35:37,875 --> 00:35:39,995 Speaker 1: and I couldn't find out much about the radio station 529 00:35:40,595 --> 00:35:44,035 Speaker 1: except that it was not dominated by grad students. Plus 530 00:35:44,035 --> 00:35:46,795 Speaker 1: Cornell had accepted me, and as I expected, Harvard had not. 531 00:35:47,555 --> 00:35:49,755 Speaker 1: And not that this still bothers me, but I remember 532 00:35:49,755 --> 00:35:52,035 Speaker 1: that the letter was dated April ninth, nineteen seventy five, 533 00:35:52,035 --> 00:35:53,355 Speaker 1: and it was waiting for me in the mail when 534 00:35:53,395 --> 00:35:54,995 Speaker 1: I got back from the Yankees home opener on the 535 00:35:55,035 --> 00:35:57,555 Speaker 1: afternoon of Saturday, April twelve. Not that it still bothers me. 536 00:35:58,875 --> 00:36:02,355 Speaker 1: Freaking Harvard, so I had like a week to choose 537 00:36:02,355 --> 00:36:05,275 Speaker 1: between Cornell and a scholarship to b U. And then 538 00:36:05,395 --> 00:36:08,235 Speaker 1: somewhere I read a story about how they had found 539 00:36:08,315 --> 00:36:11,715 Speaker 1: a kid dead in the hallway of that big freshman 540 00:36:11,795 --> 00:36:14,635 Speaker 1: dorm we'd seen in Boston, and I told my dad 541 00:36:14,675 --> 00:36:16,715 Speaker 1: I would thus never be comfortable there, And of course 542 00:36:16,755 --> 00:36:19,755 Speaker 1: that was just crap. I kept flashing back to what 543 00:36:19,795 --> 00:36:22,795 Speaker 1: the kid on the carrier current BU radio station with 544 00:36:22,915 --> 00:36:24,995 Speaker 1: the streamy hair down to the floor told me, and 545 00:36:24,995 --> 00:36:28,315 Speaker 1: I kept thinking I'm not going to get any radio experience. 546 00:36:28,395 --> 00:36:33,035 Speaker 1: Until late nineteen seventy seven, I just couldn't do it, 547 00:36:33,635 --> 00:36:37,235 Speaker 1: and so I went to Cornell and Dad started writing checks. 548 00:36:38,275 --> 00:36:40,075 Speaker 1: And before I get to the punchline of this one, 549 00:36:40,115 --> 00:36:43,515 Speaker 1: I have to mention sophomore year. My dad drives me 550 00:36:43,555 --> 00:36:45,635 Speaker 1: and my stuff up to Cornell and he gets turned 551 00:36:45,635 --> 00:36:47,995 Speaker 1: around looking for my dorm, and I say, yeah, the 552 00:36:48,035 --> 00:36:50,315 Speaker 1: good part is where we are. If you take the 553 00:36:50,355 --> 00:36:53,155 Speaker 1: next left, we'll be at the Cornell Architecture School, and 554 00:36:54,155 --> 00:36:56,035 Speaker 1: whereupon he cuts me off and says, yeah, I know. 555 00:36:56,075 --> 00:36:58,915 Speaker 1: It's Randhall, next left, second building on the right. I said, 556 00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:01,315 Speaker 1: how do you know that? He says, Remember I told 557 00:37:01,355 --> 00:37:03,875 Speaker 1: you I was offered an architecture scholarship, but I couldn't 558 00:37:03,915 --> 00:37:06,395 Speaker 1: take it because we didn't have any money, and your 559 00:37:06,475 --> 00:37:08,275 Speaker 1: uncle Bill wouldn't have been able to finish high school. 560 00:37:08,955 --> 00:37:12,675 Speaker 1: And I said yeah, and he said yeah. The scholarship 561 00:37:12,755 --> 00:37:16,395 Speaker 1: was to hear. During all the time I wrestled with 562 00:37:16,475 --> 00:37:18,995 Speaker 1: which colleges to apply to, let alone, which one to 563 00:37:19,075 --> 00:37:22,835 Speaker 1: go to. My dad never told me that. Probably the 564 00:37:22,875 --> 00:37:25,635 Speaker 1: first time I had respect for him as one sort 565 00:37:25,675 --> 00:37:31,595 Speaker 1: of adult to another, and I still do anyway, fifteen 566 00:37:31,675 --> 00:37:34,155 Speaker 1: years later or whenever it was, I'm doing sports in 567 00:37:34,195 --> 00:37:37,115 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and late on a Saturday night, the syndicated 568 00:37:37,195 --> 00:37:39,995 Speaker 1: version of some New York radio shock jock show comes 569 00:37:39,995 --> 00:37:42,835 Speaker 1: on the TV and I look and it's the Don't 570 00:37:42,835 --> 00:37:46,715 Speaker 1: Make My Mistake kid kid from Boston University in nineteen 571 00:37:46,755 --> 00:37:48,915 Speaker 1: seventy four. His name turns out to be Howard Stern, 572 00:37:49,195 --> 00:37:55,435 Speaker 1: and he looks exactly the same. Years pass and for 573 00:37:55,475 --> 00:37:58,395 Speaker 1: some reason, when Howard Stern leaves AM radio to put 574 00:37:58,395 --> 00:38:01,835 Speaker 1: his show on satellite. The first day of the satellite show, 575 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:04,995 Speaker 1: he invites people from TV networks and newspapers to cover 576 00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:08,955 Speaker 1: the big switch, and from NBC he asks for me. 577 00:38:10,515 --> 00:38:12,435 Speaker 1: So I got up and I go and I get 578 00:38:12,435 --> 00:38:14,075 Speaker 1: a moment with him, and I do a shtick for 579 00:38:14,155 --> 00:38:16,675 Speaker 1: my MSNBC show and then I say, listen, we've met 580 00:38:16,715 --> 00:38:19,075 Speaker 1: and he says nah, and I tell him and he says, 581 00:38:19,315 --> 00:38:22,915 Speaker 1: I don't remember meeting you, and I say, of course not. 582 00:38:23,035 --> 00:38:25,355 Speaker 1: I was fifteen and we were not really introduced, and 583 00:38:25,715 --> 00:38:27,435 Speaker 1: I mean, I had no idea it was you until 584 00:38:27,435 --> 00:38:29,635 Speaker 1: I saw you on TV. And he says it can't be. 585 00:38:29,675 --> 00:38:32,235 Speaker 1: And I say, when you were a junior at BU, 586 00:38:32,395 --> 00:38:35,555 Speaker 1: didn't you do only Tuesday and Thursday middays on the 587 00:38:35,595 --> 00:38:38,475 Speaker 1: carrier current station? And weren't you already bitter about it 588 00:38:38,675 --> 00:38:41,475 Speaker 1: and bitter about management? And he says, yeah, but I 589 00:38:41,475 --> 00:38:44,795 Speaker 1: don't remember meeting you. And so this was January two 590 00:38:44,875 --> 00:38:48,595 Speaker 1: thousand and six, and every time our paths have crossed since, 591 00:38:48,795 --> 00:38:52,235 Speaker 1: we basically have repeated this conversation live or by text 592 00:38:52,315 --> 00:38:54,475 Speaker 1: or whatever. And he insists, yeah, but I don't remember 593 00:38:54,515 --> 00:38:56,475 Speaker 1: meeting you. And I have to explain that we didn't 594 00:38:56,515 --> 00:38:59,195 Speaker 1: meet by name and I was much shorter than and 595 00:38:59,235 --> 00:39:01,955 Speaker 1: he says something like how would that work? And sooner 596 00:39:02,035 --> 00:39:05,475 Speaker 1: or later I just give up. But it was him. 597 00:39:06,275 --> 00:39:08,475 Speaker 1: I met Howard Stern in nineteen seventy four when he 598 00:39:08,515 --> 00:39:10,395 Speaker 1: was twenty years old and I was fifteen, and he 599 00:39:10,955 --> 00:39:17,235 Speaker 1: personally talked me out of going to Boston University. Thank you, Howard, 600 00:39:18,035 --> 00:39:21,115 Speaker 1: and nicely as things worked out with Cornell and the 601 00:39:21,155 --> 00:39:24,595 Speaker 1: best radio training ground in the country that Cornell contained 602 00:39:24,955 --> 00:39:44,675 Speaker 1: and contains. Yes, I'm still bitter about Harvard. I swear 603 00:39:44,715 --> 00:39:47,435 Speaker 1: it was him. 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