1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:16,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:17,035 --> 00:00:21,595 Speaker 1: is a countdown bulletin podcast around the world. Nations act 3 00:00:22,155 --> 00:00:27,315 Speaker 1: while America sleeps. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the former Prince Andrew, 4 00:00:27,355 --> 00:00:30,955 Speaker 1: has been arrested in connection with the Epstein investigations. The 5 00:00:30,995 --> 00:00:35,355 Speaker 1: former president of South Korea, who tried to overthrow democracy 6 00:00:36,075 --> 00:00:41,875 Speaker 1: and invalidate an election on spurious charges of election integrity, 7 00:00:42,355 --> 00:00:46,995 Speaker 1: has been sentenced to life. And Vladimir Zelensky has recognized 8 00:00:47,515 --> 00:00:52,155 Speaker 1: that Putin and Russia are merely stalling and he has 9 00:00:52,195 --> 00:00:57,155 Speaker 1: had enough of this quote shit. Here in America, we 10 00:00:57,275 --> 00:01:01,555 Speaker 1: have found out after extensive investigations that know when Donald 11 00:01:01,555 --> 00:01:05,035 Speaker 1: Trump posts something to truth social it means it's coming 12 00:01:05,075 --> 00:01:08,155 Speaker 1: directly from him, even though he said the contrary two 13 00:01:08,155 --> 00:01:11,555 Speaker 1: weeks ago to the breaking news from the United Kingdom 14 00:01:11,915 --> 00:01:16,035 Speaker 1: as arrested as part of the Epstein investigations, the financial 15 00:01:16,155 --> 00:01:19,235 Speaker 1: end of them. At least. There are no charges yet 16 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:23,875 Speaker 1: against the former Prince Andrew the King's brother, nor decision 17 00:01:24,035 --> 00:01:27,635 Speaker 1: on whether or not they will charge him criminally, though 18 00:01:27,635 --> 00:01:32,275 Speaker 1: he has been taken into custody. The BBC reports it's him. 19 00:01:32,955 --> 00:01:36,075 Speaker 1: The local police will identify him solely as a sixty 20 00:01:36,155 --> 00:01:38,915 Speaker 1: six year old man and by the way, it is 21 00:01:38,995 --> 00:01:43,595 Speaker 1: his birthday today. According to the rules of England and 22 00:01:43,795 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: its police force and arrests like this, they can hold 23 00:01:47,155 --> 00:01:49,635 Speaker 1: him for up to ninety six hours so through some 24 00:01:49,835 --> 00:01:54,275 Speaker 1: time on Sunday. The former Prince Andrew is facing allegations 25 00:01:54,315 --> 00:02:00,715 Speaker 1: there that he shared, leaked, gave private investment information that 26 00:02:00,795 --> 00:02:05,315 Speaker 1: pertained to the United Kingdom and its policymaking decisions on 27 00:02:05,355 --> 00:02:09,635 Speaker 1: investment levels during the crisis, particularly of two thousand and eight, 28 00:02:10,115 --> 00:02:14,235 Speaker 1: shared that information, gave that information to Jeffrey Epstein at 29 00:02:14,235 --> 00:02:18,155 Speaker 1: a time when Andrew was serving as England's United Kingdom's 30 00:02:18,275 --> 00:02:22,715 Speaker 1: Special Representative for International Trade and Investment that spanned two 31 00:02:22,795 --> 00:02:26,395 Speaker 1: thousand and one to two thousand and eleven. As you 32 00:02:26,515 --> 00:02:30,395 Speaker 1: know as well, at the same time, the former ambassador 33 00:02:30,475 --> 00:02:36,675 Speaker 1: from the UK to America, Trump's ambassador here until last September. 34 00:02:37,395 --> 00:02:42,395 Speaker 1: The former UK ambassador to the United States is himself 35 00:02:42,475 --> 00:02:46,435 Speaker 1: under investigation for the same charges and faces the possibility 36 00:02:46,755 --> 00:02:50,395 Speaker 1: of actual criminal action. Again, the local police did not 37 00:02:50,555 --> 00:02:55,635 Speaker 1: identify Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The tip off was when reporters 38 00:02:55,675 --> 00:02:58,475 Speaker 1: went to his home today to get photographs of him 39 00:02:58,515 --> 00:03:01,635 Speaker 1: at his new home in his new much more stripped 40 00:03:01,715 --> 00:03:06,795 Speaker 1: down surroundings. Andrew was not taked out by other reporters, 41 00:03:07,035 --> 00:03:11,515 Speaker 1: but by unmarked police cars. It is obviously just the 42 00:03:11,555 --> 00:03:14,035 Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg when it comes to this man, 43 00:03:14,195 --> 00:03:18,155 Speaker 1: who is under investigation and has been for about twenty 44 00:03:18,235 --> 00:03:21,955 Speaker 1: years for his connection to Epstein and Epstein's sex ring 45 00:03:22,155 --> 00:03:26,595 Speaker 1: and human trafficking ring. A royal correspondent says that it 46 00:03:26,675 --> 00:03:29,435 Speaker 1: has been at least a century since a member of 47 00:03:29,435 --> 00:03:33,155 Speaker 1: the British royal family, even one out at its extremities now, 48 00:03:33,155 --> 00:03:37,195 Speaker 1: has been arrested. A BBC correspondent has gone back to 49 00:03:37,435 --> 00:03:41,555 Speaker 1: the seventeenth century to find a more accurate precedent for 50 00:03:41,595 --> 00:03:45,435 Speaker 1: the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten today. He has compared this 51 00:03:45,955 --> 00:03:49,395 Speaker 1: to the arrest of the former Prince Andrew to that 52 00:03:49,435 --> 00:03:52,435 Speaker 1: of the former King Charles the First, who was still 53 00:03:52,515 --> 00:03:55,795 Speaker 1: King Charles the First when he was tried, convicted and 54 00:03:55,835 --> 00:03:59,475 Speaker 1: by the way executed in sixteen forty nine. There is 55 00:03:59,515 --> 00:04:02,795 Speaker 1: no suggestion that Prince Andrew the former Prince Andrew, will 56 00:04:02,835 --> 00:04:06,835 Speaker 1: face anything that dire, although significant jail time is certainly 57 00:04:06,875 --> 00:04:11,035 Speaker 1: as they say in the UK on the cards. Meanwhile, 58 00:04:11,155 --> 00:04:14,035 Speaker 1: if there is a comparison to Prince Andrew and certainly 59 00:04:14,355 --> 00:04:18,755 Speaker 1: his involvement in Epstein and the investigations of Epstein and 60 00:04:18,795 --> 00:04:21,555 Speaker 1: the scandal of Epstein and the cover up of Epstein. 61 00:04:21,875 --> 00:04:25,155 Speaker 1: It is Donald Trump in this country and nothing has 62 00:04:25,195 --> 00:04:29,275 Speaker 1: happened to him. Meanwhile, overnight in South Korea, something of 63 00:04:29,355 --> 00:04:33,555 Speaker 1: perhaps longer term relevance to what's happening here, but obviously 64 00:04:33,635 --> 00:04:37,795 Speaker 1: less of a giant headline came from Soeul, South Korea. There, 65 00:04:37,915 --> 00:04:42,395 Speaker 1: the impeached president of that nation, Yun sukyol, was found 66 00:04:42,475 --> 00:04:46,875 Speaker 1: guilty of insurrection and sentenced to life in prison over 67 00:04:46,915 --> 00:04:50,995 Speaker 1: his failed attempt to impose martial law on his country 68 00:04:51,355 --> 00:04:55,475 Speaker 1: in advance of an election, after spurious claims that there 69 00:04:55,475 --> 00:04:58,555 Speaker 1: had been tampering with an election that he was supervising. 70 00:04:59,155 --> 00:05:02,195 Speaker 1: It was a highly anticipated ruling, it had been going 71 00:05:02,275 --> 00:05:05,595 Speaker 1: on if preparations had been for several months, and it 72 00:05:05,675 --> 00:05:10,435 Speaker 1: was broadcast live across South Korean television. Prosecutors in fact 73 00:05:10,515 --> 00:05:14,195 Speaker 1: asked for the death penalty for Yun. His short lived 74 00:05:14,315 --> 00:05:17,235 Speaker 1: power grab, the polite way of saying he attempted a 75 00:05:17,315 --> 00:05:21,555 Speaker 1: palace coup had sent the Asian democracy into political turmoil 76 00:05:21,955 --> 00:05:26,235 Speaker 1: and thousands upon thousands of South Koreans protesting in the 77 00:05:26,275 --> 00:05:31,275 Speaker 1: streets demanding that he leave office and that the opposition 78 00:05:31,435 --> 00:05:34,515 Speaker 1: take over, when in fact, Jun thought he was going 79 00:05:34,555 --> 00:05:38,795 Speaker 1: to become president under dictatorial rules. If that sounds at 80 00:05:38,835 --> 00:05:42,315 Speaker 1: all familiar to you, So the British act and the 81 00:05:42,355 --> 00:05:47,155 Speaker 1: South Koreans act while we stand pointing and gaping at Trump, 82 00:05:47,875 --> 00:05:51,955 Speaker 1: and just to round this out, overnight something snapped inside 83 00:05:52,035 --> 00:05:58,075 Speaker 1: Vladimir Zelenski, the beleaguered president of the beleaguered Ukraine. Vladimir 84 00:05:58,195 --> 00:06:02,755 Speaker 1: Zelensky to some degree snapped or finally simply could not 85 00:06:02,875 --> 00:06:06,435 Speaker 1: put up with these that he had to present in 86 00:06:06,515 --> 00:06:08,835 Speaker 1: the light of what has been going on now for 87 00:06:08,915 --> 00:06:13,275 Speaker 1: a full year and a few weeks since Trump returned 88 00:06:13,275 --> 00:06:16,195 Speaker 1: to power, I have suggested here before that it is 89 00:06:16,235 --> 00:06:19,075 Speaker 1: pretty obvious to anyone who looks that the only thing 90 00:06:19,115 --> 00:06:22,395 Speaker 1: Trump has been doing since returning to power was stalling 91 00:06:22,515 --> 00:06:26,715 Speaker 1: on behalf of Vladimir Putin, that this whole dance of 92 00:06:27,035 --> 00:06:31,995 Speaker 1: sending witkoff for Kushner or Mickey Mouse to go try 93 00:06:32,075 --> 00:06:37,915 Speaker 1: to negotiate between Putin, who invaded Ukraine in twenty twenty two, 94 00:06:38,435 --> 00:06:43,275 Speaker 1: and invaded Ukraine in twenty fourteen, and has been warring 95 00:06:43,355 --> 00:06:47,395 Speaker 1: against that country in the entire period of time since that. 96 00:06:48,635 --> 00:06:51,155 Speaker 1: Finally it was clear and had to be clear to 97 00:06:51,275 --> 00:06:55,555 Speaker 1: everyone that Trump was simply doing what Putin told him 98 00:06:55,555 --> 00:06:59,635 Speaker 1: to do, to simply waste time. The more time that 99 00:06:59,675 --> 00:07:02,595 Speaker 1: could be wasted, the more Ukrainians could be killed, and 100 00:07:02,635 --> 00:07:08,355 Speaker 1: the more Ukraine damage could be inflat and Zelensky's had enough. Overnight, 101 00:07:08,395 --> 00:07:12,915 Speaker 1: he wrote on Twitter x quote, I don't need historical 102 00:07:13,155 --> 00:07:17,515 Speaker 1: shit his word to end this war and move to diplomacy, 103 00:07:17,795 --> 00:07:21,355 Speaker 1: because it's just a delay tactic. He wrote, I read 104 00:07:21,635 --> 00:07:24,795 Speaker 1: no less history books than Putin, and I learned a lot. 105 00:07:25,115 --> 00:07:27,835 Speaker 1: I know more about his country than he knows about Ukraine, 106 00:07:28,235 --> 00:07:30,795 Speaker 1: simply because I have been to Russia to many cities 107 00:07:31,115 --> 00:07:33,275 Speaker 1: and I knew a lot of people there. He has 108 00:07:33,315 --> 00:07:35,955 Speaker 1: never been to Ukraine this many times. He was only 109 00:07:35,955 --> 00:07:38,635 Speaker 1: in big cities. I went to small cities, from the 110 00:07:38,675 --> 00:07:42,555 Speaker 1: northern part to the southern part, everywhere. I know their mentality. 111 00:07:42,835 --> 00:07:45,155 Speaker 1: That's why I don't want to lose time on all 112 00:07:45,195 --> 00:07:48,875 Speaker 1: these things. It's about them. They decided to have such 113 00:07:48,915 --> 00:07:53,235 Speaker 1: a system. The Russians decided to change themselves. The Russians 114 00:07:53,275 --> 00:07:58,595 Speaker 1: decided that they needed a new Czar, it's up to them, 115 00:07:58,915 --> 00:08:02,515 Speaker 1: referring to back and forth between the two countries over 116 00:08:02,595 --> 00:08:06,315 Speaker 1: continuing negotiations which broke off off on Wednesday after the 117 00:08:06,355 --> 00:08:08,995 Speaker 1: latest fruitless round, or if you're looking at it from 118 00:08:08,995 --> 00:08:13,315 Speaker 1: Putin's perspective, the latest exactly what Putin told Trump to do. 119 00:08:14,035 --> 00:08:17,355 Speaker 1: So to recap again, the former Prince Andrew, the brother 120 00:08:17,475 --> 00:08:20,475 Speaker 1: of the King of England, has been arrested in connection 121 00:08:20,515 --> 00:08:23,715 Speaker 1: to the financial end of the Epstein cover up and 122 00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:28,795 Speaker 1: Epstein crimes. The former President of South Korea impeach for 123 00:08:28,915 --> 00:08:32,395 Speaker 1: trying to take the country over dictatorially and making up 124 00:08:32,395 --> 00:08:36,155 Speaker 1: a story about election fraud, has been not sentenced to 125 00:08:36,235 --> 00:08:39,035 Speaker 1: death as much of his countrymen wanted, but in fact 126 00:08:39,115 --> 00:08:42,795 Speaker 1: sentence to life in prison. And Voladimir Zelenski has said 127 00:08:42,835 --> 00:08:45,595 Speaker 1: what has been obviously true, and he has been obviously 128 00:08:45,635 --> 00:08:48,795 Speaker 1: suppressing in order to try to make things better, just 129 00:08:48,875 --> 00:08:51,595 Speaker 1: in case they might produce something productive in these talks 130 00:08:51,755 --> 00:08:56,115 Speaker 1: for his country Ukraine, that quote, I don't need historical 131 00:08:56,275 --> 00:09:00,075 Speaker 1: shit to end this war and move to diplomacy. It 132 00:09:00,115 --> 00:09:03,275 Speaker 1: has been already a busy day, and as I record 133 00:09:03,355 --> 00:09:06,875 Speaker 1: this bulletin podcast for you from New York, it's not 134 00:09:06,995 --> 00:09:11,875 Speaker 1: even sunrise. Yet this has been a countdown bulletin podcast. 135 00:09:12,795 --> 00:09:23,035 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production 136 00:09:23,235 --> 00:09:28,515 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 137 00:09:28,635 --> 00:09:31,995 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.