1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:20,155 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. He 2 00:00:20,355 --> 00:00:24,155 Speaker 1: said it's going to be a blood bath for the country, 3 00:00:24,755 --> 00:00:27,715 Speaker 1: and we're arguing about it. Not a bloodbath for our 4 00:00:27,835 --> 00:00:31,395 Speaker 1: auto industry, not a blood bath for the imported car market, 5 00:00:31,635 --> 00:00:36,475 Speaker 1: not a blood bath for happy Honda days, a blood 6 00:00:36,475 --> 00:00:41,275 Speaker 1: bath for the country with no subsequent retraction or repudiation 7 00:00:41,555 --> 00:00:46,555 Speaker 1: by Trump of say blood baths. And we we the 8 00:00:46,635 --> 00:00:51,275 Speaker 1: people trying to stop him, we are arguing about the context, 9 00:00:51,435 --> 00:00:58,555 Speaker 1: arguing amongst ourselves. And Trump is clearly broke. He tells 10 00:00:58,595 --> 00:01:02,275 Speaker 1: the court thirty insurance underwriters would not cover his four 11 00:01:02,315 --> 00:01:04,035 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four million dollar bond in the New 12 00:01:04,115 --> 00:01:06,435 Speaker 1: York fraud case. And we're still supposed to believe he's 13 00:01:06,435 --> 00:01:09,955 Speaker 1: a billionaire, and suddenly he's a billionaire pleading poverty and 14 00:01:10,075 --> 00:01:13,675 Speaker 1: boom the moment he does that, who just reappears out 15 00:01:13,675 --> 00:01:18,875 Speaker 1: of nowhere, But Paul Manifort the international money spigot and 16 00:01:18,955 --> 00:01:25,395 Speaker 1: Russian operative and I'm still more concerned about something else where? 17 00:01:25,515 --> 00:01:30,235 Speaker 1: Is Jack Smith demanding that Judge Tanya Chutkin revoked Trump's 18 00:01:30,275 --> 00:01:33,915 Speaker 1: bail and incarcerate him after he violated the gag order 19 00:01:34,235 --> 00:01:37,875 Speaker 1: in the Elections subversion case, and maligned and threatened and 20 00:01:38,075 --> 00:01:43,075 Speaker 1: encouraged others to malign and threaten Cassidy Hutchinson, and not 21 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:50,995 Speaker 1: just any others, but federal officers, federal officers who carry guns. Quote. 22 00:01:51,915 --> 00:01:58,075 Speaker 1: Our great Secret Service has totally crushed Cassidy Hutchinson, who 23 00:01:58,195 --> 00:02:02,835 Speaker 1: I barely know made up fake stories about me roughing 24 00:02:02,915 --> 00:02:06,075 Speaker 1: up Secret Service agents from the back of the beast limo. 25 00:02:06,835 --> 00:02:11,115 Speaker 1: Has she now changed her testimony? Will she be prosecuted 26 00:02:11,155 --> 00:02:14,875 Speaker 1: for what she did and said? Trump has not just 27 00:02:15,075 --> 00:02:21,195 Speaker 1: violated the gag order in the DC subversion case. He 28 00:02:21,235 --> 00:02:23,435 Speaker 1: has not just violated a gag order that was already 29 00:02:23,475 --> 00:02:26,515 Speaker 1: pared down an appeal, but still prevents Trump and his 30 00:02:26,635 --> 00:02:30,915 Speaker 1: counsel from quote making or directing others to make public 31 00:02:31,115 --> 00:02:36,715 Speaker 1: statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential 32 00:02:36,755 --> 00:02:40,355 Speaker 1: participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding, unquote 33 00:02:41,035 --> 00:02:45,595 Speaker 1: pared down, but still clearly barring Trump from even speculating 34 00:02:46,195 --> 00:02:51,155 Speaker 1: got a likely witness such as Cassidy Hutchinson fabricated evidence 35 00:02:51,395 --> 00:02:56,435 Speaker 1: or testimony, or might be prosecuted, and clearly barring Trump 36 00:02:56,515 --> 00:03:01,475 Speaker 1: from congratulating the Secret Service for having quote totally crushed 37 00:03:01,515 --> 00:03:05,715 Speaker 1: her and barring Trump from trum trying to coerce her 38 00:03:06,075 --> 00:03:09,995 Speaker 1: with questions like has she now changed her testimony, and 39 00:03:10,155 --> 00:03:13,715 Speaker 1: for that matter, barring Trump from making public statements about 40 00:03:13,755 --> 00:03:18,075 Speaker 1: other possible witnesses, like all the members of the Secret Service. 41 00:03:19,595 --> 00:03:22,395 Speaker 1: And that was only the first part of the psycho's post. 42 00:03:23,635 --> 00:03:27,515 Speaker 1: What about the unselect j six committee. They destroyed almost everything, 43 00:03:27,795 --> 00:03:31,555 Speaker 1: including real evidence and findings. What's going to happen with them? 44 00:03:31,995 --> 00:03:38,435 Speaker 1: Serious crimes have been committed? Again, the gag order was 45 00:03:38,515 --> 00:03:44,355 Speaker 1: specifically rearranged to narrow it and yet leave it absolutely 46 00:03:44,515 --> 00:03:48,875 Speaker 1: clear that he could not threaten nor point at others 47 00:03:49,115 --> 00:03:53,755 Speaker 1: and hope that they then threatened people investigating him or 48 00:03:53,835 --> 00:03:58,555 Speaker 1: testifying against him. There's three violations of the gag order 49 00:03:58,555 --> 00:04:02,155 Speaker 1: by Trump just about Cassidy Hutchinson in one post. There 50 00:04:02,195 --> 00:04:05,155 Speaker 1: is at least one violation invoking me, members of the 51 00:04:05,195 --> 00:04:09,195 Speaker 1: Secret Service, probably way more than just one, and what 52 00:04:10,155 --> 00:04:14,115 Speaker 1: one each for the eight members of the House January 53 00:04:14,115 --> 00:04:17,515 Speaker 1: sixth committee. So there are a dozen violations of the 54 00:04:17,555 --> 00:04:20,195 Speaker 1: gag order? And where are Jack Smith and Tanya Chutkin. 55 00:04:20,555 --> 00:04:25,275 Speaker 1: This isn't legal nuance, This isn't novel lawyerly theory, this 56 00:04:25,355 --> 00:04:28,835 Speaker 1: isn't Trump's first violation of this gag order either. I 57 00:04:28,875 --> 00:04:32,755 Speaker 1: want to bail revoked today. I want his ass in 58 00:04:32,995 --> 00:04:37,315 Speaker 1: jail today. I want his lawyers to have to find 59 00:04:37,395 --> 00:04:40,795 Speaker 1: a Supreme Court judge willing to go out on that 60 00:04:41,075 --> 00:04:47,795 Speaker 1: dangerous limb and sprain him. Today he violated the gag 61 00:04:47,955 --> 00:04:55,235 Speaker 1: order twelve times in about three sentences. 62 00:04:55,235 --> 00:04:55,515 Speaker 2: Owen. 63 00:04:55,635 --> 00:05:01,595 Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in Florida, Trump's concierge judge, the former Flamenco correspondent 64 00:05:01,595 --> 00:05:06,235 Speaker 1: of the Miami Nuevo Times, Eileen Cannon, says she wants 65 00:05:06,995 --> 00:05:12,595 Speaker 1: both the defense and the prosecution to issue competing jury 66 00:05:12,635 --> 00:05:17,435 Speaker 1: instructions about the impact of the Presidential Records Act on 67 00:05:17,595 --> 00:05:22,715 Speaker 1: the charges against Trump of you know, espionage. The lawyers 68 00:05:22,755 --> 00:05:26,275 Speaker 1: who have seen it say they have never seen anything 69 00:05:26,395 --> 00:05:30,595 Speaker 1: like it. Moreover, their suggestion is it is so blatantly 70 00:05:30,795 --> 00:05:35,595 Speaker 1: stupid and unjudicial and prejudiced towards Trump, to say nothing 71 00:05:35,595 --> 00:05:38,915 Speaker 1: of the fact that the Presidential Records Act doesn't have 72 00:05:38,955 --> 00:05:41,275 Speaker 1: a damn thing to do with the classified documents and 73 00:05:41,315 --> 00:05:44,795 Speaker 1: the classified records, that it is alike allowing the defense 74 00:05:44,835 --> 00:05:48,355 Speaker 1: in a case to argue attempted murder. What the hell 75 00:05:48,475 --> 00:05:53,275 Speaker 1: is that it's so bad that it might lead the 76 00:05:53,315 --> 00:05:56,635 Speaker 1: appellate court, the eleventh Circuit that keeps overruling this nitwit 77 00:05:56,755 --> 00:06:02,235 Speaker 1: Trump appointee, to overrule her yet again and suggest that's enough. 78 00:06:02,755 --> 00:06:05,675 Speaker 1: You're over your head, lady, and you are off this case, 79 00:06:07,195 --> 00:06:10,635 Speaker 1: and then we start all over again, and Trump wins 80 00:06:10,755 --> 00:06:16,515 Speaker 1: by delay. Now about the money. Trump standing there like 81 00:06:16,635 --> 00:06:20,715 Speaker 1: rich uncle Pennybags from Monopoly, with the insides of his 82 00:06:20,795 --> 00:06:25,195 Speaker 1: empty suit pockets turned inside out and hanging there. It's 83 00:06:25,235 --> 00:06:28,875 Speaker 1: a delightful image. When you read into the story, you 84 00:06:28,915 --> 00:06:32,195 Speaker 1: find quickly that this is just another stall. He went 85 00:06:32,235 --> 00:06:35,795 Speaker 1: to thirty insurers and they all turned him down because 86 00:06:35,835 --> 00:06:38,155 Speaker 1: everybody knows for stuff like this you have to offer 87 00:06:38,315 --> 00:06:41,635 Speaker 1: cash to guarantee the bond a high percentage of the 88 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:45,115 Speaker 1: final amount you want to borrow. And he didn't offer cash. 89 00:06:45,715 --> 00:06:49,915 Speaker 1: He offered property, property, which he's also going to lose 90 00:06:50,195 --> 00:06:52,675 Speaker 1: if he doesn't get a bond somewhere. So why would 91 00:06:52,675 --> 00:06:55,715 Speaker 1: you underwrite a bond on his behalf if he could 92 00:06:55,795 --> 00:07:00,435 Speaker 1: lose the assets in question? Well you wouldn't. It is, 93 00:07:00,515 --> 00:07:06,275 Speaker 1: as Trump's lawyers wrote, a practical impossibility. But you would 94 00:07:06,435 --> 00:07:10,795 Speaker 1: offer property instead of cash in the event you wanted 95 00:07:10,795 --> 00:07:13,115 Speaker 1: to get turned down, so you could go to the 96 00:07:13,235 --> 00:07:17,555 Speaker 1: judge and ask that the whole bond thing get postponed 97 00:07:17,755 --> 00:07:23,155 Speaker 1: until after the appeals court. Here's the whole case all 98 00:07:23,235 --> 00:07:29,635 Speaker 1: over again. It's another stall, yet it's a stall with 99 00:07:29,795 --> 00:07:35,475 Speaker 1: a curious sting in its tail. The day he tries 100 00:07:35,635 --> 00:07:41,315 Speaker 1: this stall, the Washington Post reports that Paul Manifort is 101 00:07:41,435 --> 00:07:47,195 Speaker 1: back in trump Land, like Banquo's ghost wandering on to 102 00:07:47,315 --> 00:07:52,355 Speaker 1: the stage in Macbeth. Trump is considering bringing Paul Manafort 103 00:07:52,475 --> 00:07:56,035 Speaker 1: back to run part of his campaign again, just like 104 00:07:56,075 --> 00:08:01,755 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen Russia. Manifort Russian operative and already approven 105 00:08:01,835 --> 00:08:05,355 Speaker 1: Trump asset, so much so that Trump had to him 106 00:08:05,515 --> 00:08:12,475 Speaker 1: for felony convictions Russia because he's seemingly tied into every 107 00:08:12,715 --> 00:08:19,235 Speaker 1: illicit money source in the known world Russia. And what 108 00:08:19,435 --> 00:08:23,475 Speaker 1: does Trump want Paul Manafort to do on the campaign. 109 00:08:24,035 --> 00:08:27,475 Speaker 1: He wants him to run the twenty twenty four Republican 110 00:08:27,555 --> 00:08:33,555 Speaker 1: convention in Milwaukee, like the twenty sixteen Republican convention in Cleveland, 111 00:08:33,875 --> 00:08:38,795 Speaker 1: the one at which Trump met all those Russians backstage, 112 00:08:38,955 --> 00:08:42,835 Speaker 1: and before you knew it, the Republican Party had changed 113 00:08:42,915 --> 00:08:47,595 Speaker 1: one key. But seemingly obscure part of its campaign platform 114 00:08:47,635 --> 00:08:52,995 Speaker 1: when they went from vehemently supporting this small democracy somewhere 115 00:08:53,075 --> 00:08:56,555 Speaker 1: under threat to selling that small democracy out. You know 116 00:08:56,595 --> 00:08:59,675 Speaker 1: the convention when Manafort, who had worked for pro Russian 117 00:08:59,715 --> 00:09:03,075 Speaker 1: oligarchs in Ukraine as long ago as two thousand and four, 118 00:09:03,355 --> 00:09:06,875 Speaker 1: when Paul Manifort suddenly I got Trump suddenly to get 119 00:09:06,915 --> 00:09:13,675 Speaker 1: the GOP to sell out Ukraine. Trump says he has 120 00:09:13,715 --> 00:09:15,875 Speaker 1: no money, and all of a sudden, here is the 121 00:09:15,915 --> 00:09:20,275 Speaker 1: reanimated corpse of Paul Manifort. That'd be the Paul Manafort 122 00:09:20,315 --> 00:09:23,475 Speaker 1: who a bipartisan Senate Committee report in twenty twenty declared 123 00:09:23,515 --> 00:09:28,235 Speaker 1: a grave intelligence risk, and who is already his own, living, 124 00:09:28,315 --> 00:09:33,315 Speaker 1: breathing Russian pipeline. While Trump needs money, and while the 125 00:09:33,355 --> 00:09:36,555 Speaker 1: Biden administration is apparently still planning on giving Trump the 126 00:09:36,595 --> 00:09:42,235 Speaker 1: traditional intelligence briefings they give you all the opposition presidential candidates. 127 00:09:42,275 --> 00:09:47,915 Speaker 1: Because there's still a few documents Trump hasn't stolen yet 128 00:09:48,395 --> 00:09:50,315 Speaker 1: and Paul Manifort hasn't seen yet. 129 00:09:52,915 --> 00:09:56,315 Speaker 2: You want to give him an intelligence briefing. Okay, here's 130 00:09:56,315 --> 00:10:03,115 Speaker 2: what you do. You tell Trump quote person woman marn 131 00:10:03,955 --> 00:10:11,235 Speaker 2: Camera TV. You tell him that's also an intelligence briefing. 132 00:10:12,715 --> 00:10:16,955 Speaker 2: Not only will we keep him from selling more secrets 133 00:10:17,035 --> 00:10:20,275 Speaker 2: or stealing more secrets, or having Manafort do whatever with 134 00:10:20,355 --> 00:10:23,955 Speaker 2: the secrets, but Trump will be delighted. He'll tell the 135 00:10:23,995 --> 00:10:27,355 Speaker 2: story every goddamn chance he gets and thinks it's gonna 136 00:10:27,355 --> 00:10:31,635 Speaker 2: show he's such an intelligent guy, and he can tell 137 00:10:31,675 --> 00:10:35,635 Speaker 2: all the other inmates about it when Judge Chutkin gets 138 00:10:35,675 --> 00:10:40,195 Speaker 2: off her butt and revokes his bail for having violated 139 00:10:40,275 --> 00:10:51,035 Speaker 2: the gag order in that case one dozen times. 140 00:10:54,315 --> 00:10:54,755 Speaker 3: Now. 141 00:10:55,355 --> 00:11:02,435 Speaker 1: Bloodbath and beyond sure, he didn't really mean it. He 142 00:11:02,515 --> 00:11:07,275 Speaker 1: merely sent out a fundraising email yesterday's subject line blood bath, 143 00:11:09,235 --> 00:11:12,555 Speaker 1: which ended with deliver the liars in the fake news 144 00:11:12,595 --> 00:11:17,035 Speaker 1: a message that they'll never forget. And he was only 145 00:11:17,075 --> 00:11:19,995 Speaker 1: talking about the blood bath within the confines of the 146 00:11:19,995 --> 00:11:25,635 Speaker 1: foreign car market and manufacturing in Mexico. But Speaker of 147 00:11:25,675 --> 00:11:28,475 Speaker 1: the House Mike Johnson told Republicans at a private event 148 00:11:28,515 --> 00:11:31,155 Speaker 1: in Texas, quote, I think it was obvious for anyone 149 00:11:31,195 --> 00:11:33,075 Speaker 1: who takes the time to watch his speech and to 150 00:11:33,115 --> 00:11:36,195 Speaker 1: realize what he was saying. Really he was one hundred 151 00:11:36,235 --> 00:11:40,915 Speaker 1: percent correct. Now, no, Trump didn't really mean it, but 152 00:11:40,955 --> 00:11:43,715 Speaker 1: he told Fox quote, if you don't use certain rhetoric. 153 00:11:43,795 --> 00:11:46,035 Speaker 1: If you don't use certain words that maybe aren't very 154 00:11:46,115 --> 00:11:49,195 Speaker 1: nice words, nothing will happen. Yes, yes, you know what 155 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:51,675 Speaker 1: won't happen if you don't use certain words. A blood 156 00:11:51,675 --> 00:11:57,195 Speaker 1: bath won't happen. And you and I expect this. He's 157 00:11:57,235 --> 00:12:01,955 Speaker 1: been saying something obviously violent or vile or virulent or 158 00:12:02,035 --> 00:12:09,075 Speaker 1: racist or anti Semitic, or homophobic or sexist every week 159 00:12:09,955 --> 00:12:13,635 Speaker 1: for a decade, and we expect him to deny it. 160 00:12:14,355 --> 00:12:17,355 Speaker 1: And we expect his little ren fields like this worm 161 00:12:17,635 --> 00:12:21,195 Speaker 1: Johnson to echo the cover story. Well, he's living in 162 00:12:21,235 --> 00:12:24,475 Speaker 1: a little space between the meetings, and we expect them 163 00:12:24,475 --> 00:12:27,275 Speaker 1: to say, he didn't mean that kind of blood bath. 164 00:12:27,435 --> 00:12:31,435 Speaker 1: He meant this kind of blood bath. But honest to God, 165 00:12:31,955 --> 00:12:37,915 Speaker 1: we the pro democracy, anti Trump forces, we are still 166 00:12:38,435 --> 00:12:42,075 Speaker 1: in the middle of an argument with ourselves over whether 167 00:12:42,155 --> 00:12:46,955 Speaker 1: a psychopathic would be dictator and hitler wannabee who values 168 00:12:47,035 --> 00:12:49,995 Speaker 1: no human life except his own, and whose mental state 169 00:12:50,115 --> 00:12:53,115 Speaker 1: is rapidly deteriorating, and who has used the threat of 170 00:12:53,155 --> 00:12:57,875 Speaker 1: political violence for a decade and uses apocalyptically violent language 171 00:12:57,875 --> 00:13:00,435 Speaker 1: to enrage his cult and who tried to get his 172 00:13:00,515 --> 00:13:03,795 Speaker 1: thugs to overthrow our government and who is now obsessed 173 00:13:03,835 --> 00:13:07,075 Speaker 1: with personal We are in the middle of an argument 174 00:13:07,755 --> 00:13:13,795 Speaker 1: over whether Trump really meant to threaten an actual blood 175 00:13:13,835 --> 00:13:16,795 Speaker 1: bath if he is not restored to power, or if 176 00:13:16,835 --> 00:13:20,075 Speaker 1: he just meant it metaphorically and economically and only within 177 00:13:20,115 --> 00:13:23,075 Speaker 1: the limited context and foreign importance of the automobile industry. 178 00:13:25,635 --> 00:13:28,675 Speaker 1: We're actually arguing over this. We the people who will 179 00:13:28,715 --> 00:13:32,635 Speaker 1: save this democracy or go to Trump brand re education 180 00:13:32,875 --> 00:13:39,155 Speaker 1: concentration hotels because we didn't save the democracy. We are 181 00:13:39,195 --> 00:13:43,635 Speaker 1: wasting our time arguing over this. And the media, the 182 00:13:43,675 --> 00:13:48,795 Speaker 1: mainstream media, the legacy media, the lethargy media, call him 183 00:13:48,835 --> 00:13:53,355 Speaker 1: what you will. Awakened like rip van winkled to the 184 00:13:53,395 --> 00:13:58,635 Speaker 1: reality of Trump's years of the rhetoric of a mass murderer, 185 00:13:58,995 --> 00:14:03,755 Speaker 1: and every one of them down to god damned NBC 186 00:14:04,155 --> 00:14:08,675 Speaker 1: News headline the blood bath and hand wrung over the 187 00:14:08,715 --> 00:14:12,275 Speaker 1: blood bath and publicized the bloodbath and got the message 188 00:14:12,275 --> 00:14:15,515 Speaker 1: out about the bloodbath to at least a comparative handful 189 00:14:15,555 --> 00:14:21,075 Speaker 1: of independence or low info voters and usually reliable right 190 00:14:21,275 --> 00:14:25,115 Speaker 1: on the money people like Ian Bremer are looking at 191 00:14:25,115 --> 00:14:31,875 Speaker 1: the biggest, fattest, healthiest yield of anti Trump revulsion in years, 192 00:14:32,715 --> 00:14:37,155 Speaker 1: and anti Trump horror in years, and Ian Bremer's reaction 193 00:14:37,355 --> 00:14:42,275 Speaker 1: is it's disingenuous and embarrassing, and the mainstream media is 194 00:14:42,395 --> 00:14:45,435 Speaker 1: proving incapable of turning the needle down from eleven. And 195 00:14:45,475 --> 00:14:51,915 Speaker 1: I'm thinking the media is at eleven about Trump. Eleven 196 00:14:52,715 --> 00:14:58,275 Speaker 1: what out of a thousand, because hey, guess what giving 197 00:14:58,355 --> 00:15:00,475 Speaker 1: Trump the benefit of the doubt? And why are you 198 00:15:00,635 --> 00:15:05,795 Speaker 1: doing that? When he tweeted statistical impossible to have lost 199 00:15:05,875 --> 00:15:09,155 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. Big protest in DC on January sixth, 200 00:15:09,195 --> 00:15:15,275 Speaker 1: be there will be wild. He meant that the speeches 201 00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:19,595 Speaker 1: would be wild, and maybe maybe he really was going 202 00:15:19,595 --> 00:15:23,115 Speaker 1: out on a limb. Maybe he also meant the buffet 203 00:15:23,235 --> 00:15:29,755 Speaker 1: at the Willard Hotel would also be wild. He said 204 00:15:30,755 --> 00:15:36,875 Speaker 1: bloodbath in the country, and he said bloodbath at the 205 00:15:36,875 --> 00:15:40,475 Speaker 1: same time he was saying immigrants are not really people, 206 00:15:41,155 --> 00:15:44,075 Speaker 1: and as he was threatening to imprison the January sixth 207 00:15:44,115 --> 00:15:48,555 Speaker 1: Committee and to let the January sixth terrorists escape, and 208 00:15:48,635 --> 00:15:52,435 Speaker 1: he replaced the real national anthem with a new one 209 00:15:53,355 --> 00:15:56,155 Speaker 1: in which he speaks. And oh, by the way, he 210 00:15:56,195 --> 00:15:59,675 Speaker 1: repeated his call to terminate the constitution. But I'm sure 211 00:16:00,155 --> 00:16:04,555 Speaker 1: he meant bloodbath as in a nice hot bath that 212 00:16:04,915 --> 00:16:13,395 Speaker 1: will make your blood circulate, health fiere in the bath, 213 00:16:13,475 --> 00:16:14,795 Speaker 1: and you're not going to be able. 214 00:16:14,555 --> 00:16:17,635 Speaker 4: To sell those guys if I get elected. Now, if 215 00:16:17,675 --> 00:16:19,915 Speaker 4: I don't get elected, it's going to be a blood 216 00:16:19,915 --> 00:16:22,315 Speaker 4: bath for the whole that's going to be the least 217 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:23,875 Speaker 4: of it. It's going to be a blood bath for 218 00:16:23,915 --> 00:16:25,475 Speaker 4: the country that'll be the least of it. 219 00:16:25,755 --> 00:16:30,475 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the horribly and unfairly 220 00:16:30,595 --> 00:17:00,395 Speaker 1: treated January sixth hostages. I pledge allegiance to the flag 221 00:17:00,795 --> 00:17:03,635 Speaker 1: of the United and of course this threat of political 222 00:17:03,755 --> 00:17:06,635 Speaker 1: violence if he is not given power the presidency with 223 00:17:06,875 --> 00:17:10,835 Speaker 1: total immunity, by the way, total veto power over every 224 00:17:10,955 --> 00:17:14,875 Speaker 1: federal employee, Supreme Court on his side by a two 225 00:17:14,955 --> 00:17:18,795 Speaker 1: to one margin, with every comp in the nation immunized 226 00:17:18,835 --> 00:17:22,315 Speaker 1: from prosecution by him and thus personally beholden to him. 227 00:17:22,635 --> 00:17:26,875 Speaker 1: After he invokes the Insurrection Act and suspends all the 228 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:32,955 Speaker 1: laws on day one as a dictator. He's never said 229 00:17:32,995 --> 00:17:35,915 Speaker 1: anything like that before. Not once has he even used 230 00:17:35,915 --> 00:17:37,795 Speaker 1: the blood imagery before either. 231 00:17:38,035 --> 00:17:40,475 Speaker 2: It is a very sad thing for our country. 232 00:17:41,315 --> 00:17:43,395 Speaker 4: It's poisoning the blood of our country. 233 00:17:44,195 --> 00:17:47,115 Speaker 3: It's so bad, and people are coming in with disease and. 234 00:17:47,115 --> 00:17:50,875 Speaker 4: The radical left thugs that live like vermin within the 235 00:17:50,915 --> 00:17:52,395 Speaker 4: confines of our country. 236 00:17:53,115 --> 00:17:56,915 Speaker 5: I don't think the people of the United States would 237 00:17:56,995 --> 00:17:59,515 Speaker 5: stand for it. If it happened, I think you'd have 238 00:17:59,675 --> 00:18:02,795 Speaker 5: problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we've 239 00:18:02,835 --> 00:18:05,235 Speaker 5: never seen before. I don't think the people of the 240 00:18:05,315 --> 00:18:07,235 Speaker 5: United States would stand for it. 241 00:18:07,595 --> 00:18:09,115 Speaker 1: What kind of problems, mister President. 242 00:18:09,155 --> 00:18:11,955 Speaker 5: I think they'd have big problems, big problems. I just 243 00:18:11,995 --> 00:18:14,995 Speaker 5: don't think that stand for it. They will not sit 244 00:18:15,115 --> 00:18:17,675 Speaker 5: still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes. 245 00:18:17,755 --> 00:18:22,115 Speaker 3: You can't sit home if you're sick, as in dog 246 00:18:22,395 --> 00:18:26,635 Speaker 3: isn't kind. Even if you vote and didn't pass. 247 00:18:26,355 --> 00:18:27,155 Speaker 1: Away it's worth it. 248 00:18:27,275 --> 00:18:28,635 Speaker 2: It'll be bedlam in the country. 249 00:18:28,675 --> 00:18:29,555 Speaker 1: It's a very bad thing. 250 00:18:29,715 --> 00:18:32,635 Speaker 6: If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for miss handling 251 00:18:32,675 --> 00:18:36,955 Speaker 6: classified information after the Clinton debacle, which you presided over 252 00:18:36,995 --> 00:18:38,875 Speaker 6: and did a hell of a good job, they'll be 253 00:18:39,035 --> 00:18:40,235 Speaker 6: riots in the streets. 254 00:18:40,635 --> 00:18:44,395 Speaker 1: And the riots he promised he promised, never mind Lindsay 255 00:18:44,435 --> 00:18:47,195 Speaker 1: Graham if he didn't get the nomination in twenty sixteen, 256 00:18:47,595 --> 00:18:50,715 Speaker 1: and the violence in the streets he promised in twenty twenty, 257 00:18:50,875 --> 00:18:54,155 Speaker 1: and the terrible things he promised in twenty twenty three. 258 00:18:54,875 --> 00:18:57,555 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see it. I don't see any. 259 00:18:57,595 --> 00:19:00,435 Speaker 1: Theme about blood or violence or if you don't elect me, 260 00:19:00,515 --> 00:19:06,275 Speaker 1: my mobs will kill you. The media is overreacting. This 261 00:19:06,355 --> 00:19:10,915 Speaker 1: knob is not supposed to go to eleven just because 262 00:19:10,915 --> 00:19:14,475 Speaker 1: this Sunday is the first anniversary of him saying that 263 00:19:14,515 --> 00:19:17,075 Speaker 1: if he was arrested over the Stormy Daniel's hush money, 264 00:19:17,075 --> 00:19:20,155 Speaker 1: the nation would be subjected to quote death and destruction. 265 00:19:21,795 --> 00:19:24,435 Speaker 1: I'm sure he only meant about foreign cars, the death 266 00:19:24,475 --> 00:19:34,595 Speaker 1: and destruction of foreign cars. Seriously, as everybody around Trump denied, 267 00:19:34,755 --> 00:19:38,555 Speaker 1: he meant blood bath. No, no, no, no, no, only 268 00:19:38,555 --> 00:19:40,715 Speaker 1: a blood bath in terms of you know, toyota than 269 00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:45,715 Speaker 1: a final set of questions. This is the creature who 270 00:19:45,835 --> 00:19:49,515 Speaker 1: has poisoned the blood of our nation, and he said 271 00:19:49,555 --> 00:19:53,675 Speaker 1: something grotesque enough to break through the standard media reaction 272 00:19:53,755 --> 00:19:57,715 Speaker 1: of it's just Trump, let's worry about Biden's new sneakers, 273 00:19:59,155 --> 00:20:02,235 Speaker 1: and our side is saying, uh, yeah, there are blood 274 00:20:02,235 --> 00:20:06,875 Speaker 1: baths and then there are blood baths. Did Trump respond 275 00:20:06,955 --> 00:20:13,915 Speaker 1: by renouncing violence. Did he deny that he meant to 276 00:20:14,115 --> 00:20:18,435 Speaker 1: use the word blood bath? Did he even renounce just 277 00:20:19,235 --> 00:20:25,835 Speaker 1: blood baths? Did he renounce blood baths. Just renounce the 278 00:20:25,915 --> 00:20:30,635 Speaker 1: bath part. Just renounce them as say, compared to lower 279 00:20:30,755 --> 00:20:37,835 Speaker 1: volume blood loss like spurts or sprays or splatters or 280 00:20:37,915 --> 00:20:42,155 Speaker 1: stains or blood scratches or whatever you call it. When 281 00:20:42,155 --> 00:20:56,035 Speaker 1: you put leeches on, did he renounce blood leeches? We're 282 00:20:56,195 --> 00:21:01,315 Speaker 1: arguing about this sell of interest here. First rule of 283 00:21:01,395 --> 00:21:05,035 Speaker 1: running for office, Spell your own name right on all 284 00:21:05,075 --> 00:21:08,035 Speaker 1: of your own press releases. First rule of martyring a 285 00:21:08,115 --> 00:21:11,795 Speaker 1: murder victim for your racist cause, get her name right. 286 00:21:11,875 --> 00:21:16,675 Speaker 1: And yet another Republican has just failed that bar. And 287 00:21:16,835 --> 00:21:19,915 Speaker 1: the first rule of Fox News. When your baby Hitler 288 00:21:19,995 --> 00:21:23,875 Speaker 1: is in trouble because he threatened a blood bath, find 289 00:21:23,955 --> 00:21:28,475 Speaker 1: a false equivalence somewhere. Take something somebody said, or if 290 00:21:28,475 --> 00:21:31,915 Speaker 1: you can't find that, take something somebody didn't say, and 291 00:21:31,955 --> 00:21:35,075 Speaker 1: you hold them up and make them the equivalent of 292 00:21:35,115 --> 00:21:38,595 Speaker 1: Trump and call it. Call it a blue blood bath. 293 00:21:39,595 --> 00:21:43,315 Speaker 1: And guess who they found. Guess who they are equating with. 294 00:21:43,395 --> 00:21:48,155 Speaker 1: A former president of the United States. Me, I'm the 295 00:21:48,315 --> 00:21:55,115 Speaker 1: blue blood bath. They claimed I hinted at Trump's assassination, 296 00:21:55,915 --> 00:21:58,235 Speaker 1: when in fact I hinted at as I have for 297 00:21:58,275 --> 00:22:04,155 Speaker 1: a decade, him dying in prison of course, Fox has 298 00:22:04,155 --> 00:22:07,995 Speaker 1: been doing like this with me since nineteen ninety six. 299 00:22:08,555 --> 00:22:11,715 Speaker 1: That's next in an all new edition of Countdown. 300 00:22:13,595 --> 00:22:16,755 Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. 301 00:22:25,715 --> 00:22:30,035 Speaker 1: Ohe scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, 302 00:22:30,195 --> 00:22:38,795 Speaker 1: some predictions. Dateline, Washington, d C. The Environmental Protection Agency 303 00:22:38,915 --> 00:22:43,435 Speaker 1: is finally officially and utterly banned asbestos, the carcinogen still 304 00:22:43,475 --> 00:22:45,995 Speaker 1: in use today even though it was supposed to have 305 00:22:46,035 --> 00:22:50,315 Speaker 1: been banned in nineteen eighty nine. University of Florida professor 306 00:22:50,355 --> 00:22:54,235 Speaker 1: Michael Johnson with the joke quote, time for MAGA to 307 00:22:54,315 --> 00:23:03,315 Speaker 1: start huffing as bestos because Biden says it's bad for you. Dateline, North, Carolina. Well, 308 00:23:03,395 --> 00:23:06,915 Speaker 1: Trump has a winner in his new RNC chairman, Michael Wattley, 309 00:23:07,235 --> 00:23:10,755 Speaker 1: the former Brooks Brothers rioter from two thousand and election 310 00:23:10,875 --> 00:23:14,355 Speaker 1: denier from twenty twenty, went on Fox News and was 311 00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:17,755 Speaker 1: unable to get through the new Trump campaign slogan once 312 00:23:18,475 --> 00:23:22,115 Speaker 1: without having the truth escape? Are you better off now 313 00:23:22,155 --> 00:23:25,755 Speaker 1: than you were four years ago? Under Trump? Trump's Republican 314 00:23:25,835 --> 00:23:29,795 Speaker 1: National Committee chair says, you bet, you're ass You're better 315 00:23:29,875 --> 00:23:32,195 Speaker 1: now than you were four years ago under Trump? Were 316 00:23:32,195 --> 00:23:33,435 Speaker 1: you better off four years ago? 317 00:23:33,475 --> 00:23:34,275 Speaker 2: Than you are today. 318 00:23:34,515 --> 00:23:37,115 Speaker 1: The answer for this entire country is no. I mean 319 00:23:37,195 --> 00:23:40,395 Speaker 1: yet we are better off today, or we will. The 320 00:23:40,395 --> 00:23:44,835 Speaker 1: new Trump RNC Chairman's first task will be to find 321 00:23:44,995 --> 00:23:52,435 Speaker 1: the next new Trump RNC chairman. Dateline, New York City, 322 00:23:52,595 --> 00:23:56,875 Speaker 1: Our extraordinary Mayor Eric Adams has now been sued by 323 00:23:56,955 --> 00:23:59,995 Speaker 1: a former colleague from their days in the police department, 324 00:24:00,395 --> 00:24:03,755 Speaker 1: using the same survivor's law by which e Gen Carrol 325 00:24:03,875 --> 00:24:08,595 Speaker 1: sued Trump. Lorna Beach Matura has filed on Adams, saying 326 00:24:08,595 --> 00:24:10,875 Speaker 1: that when she went to him in nineteen ninety three 327 00:24:10,915 --> 00:24:13,875 Speaker 1: for help with an issue with the job, he demanded 328 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:17,195 Speaker 1: help with an issue with a job. That's not just 329 00:24:17,635 --> 00:24:21,675 Speaker 1: snide writing on my part. Quoting the suit, Adams told 330 00:24:21,755 --> 00:24:24,235 Speaker 1: plaintiff that he thought he could help her, but that 331 00:24:24,355 --> 00:24:28,075 Speaker 1: he quote also needed some help unquote and began rubbing 332 00:24:28,115 --> 00:24:32,235 Speaker 1: his penis through his clothes with his hand unquote. At 333 00:24:32,315 --> 00:24:35,355 Speaker 1: least he didn't say God had told him to ask her. 334 00:24:36,955 --> 00:24:43,395 Speaker 1: Don't blame me. I voted for the garbage lady date 335 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:47,235 Speaker 1: line Bluffdale, Nevada. At a campaign stopped there, Half Elephant. 336 00:24:47,275 --> 00:24:51,035 Speaker 1: Senator Tommy Tumberville revealed that America is quote lives in 337 00:24:51,155 --> 00:24:55,555 Speaker 1: our kids to satanic cult We've got to get back 338 00:24:55,595 --> 00:24:59,795 Speaker 1: to the Constitution. With that, Senator Tumberville held up a 339 00:24:59,835 --> 00:25:02,795 Speaker 1: pocket edition of the Constitution and waved it towards the crowd, 340 00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:05,115 Speaker 1: which is when a lot of the folks realized there 341 00:25:05,715 --> 00:25:14,915 Speaker 1: that Tuberville was holding the Constitution book upside down. Dateline, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 342 00:25:14,955 --> 00:25:18,035 Speaker 1: Here we go again. This poor woman allegedly murdered by 343 00:25:18,035 --> 00:25:22,475 Speaker 1: an undocumented immigrant Lake and Riley. Republicans thought that they 344 00:25:22,515 --> 00:25:25,715 Speaker 1: could exploit her death to push the Trump cause. All 345 00:25:25,755 --> 00:25:28,595 Speaker 1: they managed to do is exploit her death and repeatedly 346 00:25:28,635 --> 00:25:31,995 Speaker 1: get her name wrong. First, it was Marjorie Taylor Green, 347 00:25:32,035 --> 00:25:34,795 Speaker 1: who later quoted herself telling President Biden at the State 348 00:25:34,795 --> 00:25:38,115 Speaker 1: of the Union that her name was Lincoln Riley. Then 349 00:25:38,235 --> 00:25:40,835 Speaker 1: Green did a live interview in which she called her 350 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:43,955 Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley. Then Trump signed a picture of her in 351 00:25:43,995 --> 00:25:48,275 Speaker 1: which he misspelled Lake and Riley. The next fail Wyoming 352 00:25:48,355 --> 00:25:51,435 Speaker 1: Senator John Barrasso as in, well you know what the 353 00:25:51,515 --> 00:25:52,155 Speaker 1: name sounds like. 354 00:25:52,275 --> 00:25:57,235 Speaker 6: Joe Biden apologized for the murderer of Lincoln of Lake 355 00:25:57,315 --> 00:25:58,675 Speaker 6: and Riley for calling. 356 00:25:58,395 --> 00:26:05,555 Speaker 1: Him Dateline East Hampton, New York bad enough to get 357 00:26:05,635 --> 00:26:09,795 Speaker 1: somebody else's name wrong, How about your own name? John Avlon, 358 00:26:10,235 --> 00:26:13,595 Speaker 1: the former Daily Beast editor who famously wrote an entire 359 00:26:13,715 --> 00:26:16,355 Speaker 1: both sides of this book about the political extremes and 360 00:26:16,395 --> 00:26:20,075 Speaker 1: throughout it never once realized the term wing nut was 361 00:26:20,155 --> 00:26:24,315 Speaker 1: only used about and by right wingers, has hit a 362 00:26:24,395 --> 00:26:28,875 Speaker 1: real block the spelling of his own name. Avlon is 363 00:26:28,955 --> 00:26:31,395 Speaker 1: running for Congress, and sure enough, he has put out 364 00:26:31,435 --> 00:26:35,035 Speaker 1: a press release thanking the East Hampton Democratic Party for 365 00:26:35,235 --> 00:26:42,195 Speaker 1: its endorsement of quote John Avalon ava Ln. The candidate's 366 00:26:42,275 --> 00:26:47,755 Speaker 1: name is Avlon avln. If it makes him feel any better, 367 00:26:48,435 --> 00:26:56,635 Speaker 1: he also misspelled east Hampton and dateline Rifle, Colorado. Hello, 368 00:26:57,155 --> 00:27:01,355 Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert is back with a Bobert Bible babble. We 369 00:27:01,515 --> 00:27:04,355 Speaker 1: know nothing pleases God except faith, she said in a 370 00:27:04,435 --> 00:27:08,515 Speaker 1: rum podcast, or just fans thing or whatever the hell 371 00:27:08,515 --> 00:27:11,715 Speaker 1: they do on rumble. It's not our works that please him. 372 00:27:11,795 --> 00:27:17,715 Speaker 1: Unquote O contrera monfrere actually in James two fourteen to seventeen. 373 00:27:18,035 --> 00:27:20,715 Speaker 1: Quote if a brother or sister is poorly clothed and 374 00:27:20,795 --> 00:27:23,115 Speaker 1: lacking in daily food, and you say go in peace, 375 00:27:23,155 --> 00:27:26,875 Speaker 1: be warmed and filled, without giving him the things they 376 00:27:26,955 --> 00:27:30,235 Speaker 1: need for the body, what good is that asks the 377 00:27:30,275 --> 00:27:33,795 Speaker 1: Bible faith by itself. If it does not have works, 378 00:27:34,155 --> 00:27:39,075 Speaker 1: is dead. So Lauren Bobert has the Bible exactly backwards. 379 00:27:39,315 --> 00:27:42,915 Speaker 1: Well there's your problem right there. Please madam stick to 380 00:27:42,955 --> 00:28:02,675 Speaker 1: what you know. Thank you, Nancy Faust. Is that Bobert 381 00:28:02,675 --> 00:28:26,755 Speaker 1: reaching across the aisle again, stell ahead of us on 382 00:28:26,755 --> 00:28:28,875 Speaker 1: this all new edition of Countdown. This has been going 383 00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:34,115 Speaker 1: on since nineteen ninety six. Rupert Murdoch's Fox News made 384 00:28:34,155 --> 00:28:36,555 Speaker 1: up a story about me again, this one that I 385 00:28:36,635 --> 00:28:40,435 Speaker 1: quote hinted at a Trump assassination when I am on 386 00:28:40,595 --> 00:28:43,595 Speaker 1: record for eight years now insisting no, no, no, I 387 00:28:43,635 --> 00:28:47,635 Speaker 1: want him convicted so he can die in prison. This 388 00:28:47,675 --> 00:28:49,955 Speaker 1: goes up on the wall next to the Murdoch New 389 00:28:50,035 --> 00:28:53,075 Speaker 1: York Post story claiming I ripped the name plaque off 390 00:28:53,155 --> 00:28:56,835 Speaker 1: my door and threw it at one of my own producers. Yeah. 391 00:28:56,835 --> 00:28:59,675 Speaker 1: I did that, except the plaque was made out of 392 00:29:00,235 --> 00:29:02,795 Speaker 1: computer paper. It's a piece of paper I threw at 393 00:29:02,795 --> 00:29:06,155 Speaker 1: the guy. It was a joke. Things I promised not 394 00:29:06,275 --> 00:29:11,195 Speaker 1: to tell. Addition three and forty two of Murdoch makes 395 00:29:11,235 --> 00:29:15,515 Speaker 1: crap up next for still more idiots to talk about 396 00:29:15,555 --> 00:29:17,875 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning 397 00:29:17,955 --> 00:29:23,155 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worse persons in 398 00:29:23,235 --> 00:29:28,035 Speaker 1: the world besides Murdoch. First, the Bronze worse baseball San 399 00:29:28,075 --> 00:29:31,395 Speaker 1: Francisco Giants. They announced that they and their public addressed 400 00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:35,275 Speaker 1: announcer for almost the quarter of the century, Renelle Brooks Moon, 401 00:29:35,435 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: had mutually agreed to part ways after being ununbiled to 402 00:29:38,475 --> 00:29:41,635 Speaker 1: reach an agreement on a new contract. In fact, it 403 00:29:41,715 --> 00:29:44,995 Speaker 1: is beginning to appear that the Giants fired her. As 404 00:29:45,035 --> 00:29:48,355 Speaker 1: she was described in one column, she's the team's most 405 00:29:48,475 --> 00:29:52,715 Speaker 1: visible non playing black employee. By hell, if you look 406 00:29:52,715 --> 00:29:55,155 Speaker 1: at the Giants roster, you can leave out non playing. 407 00:29:56,035 --> 00:29:58,915 Speaker 1: Another veteran Bay Area baseball reporter says, there is much 408 00:29:58,955 --> 00:30:00,795 Speaker 1: more to this story to come, and it's likely this 409 00:30:00,875 --> 00:30:03,275 Speaker 1: and I quote from Anne Killian's column in the San 410 00:30:03,315 --> 00:30:06,595 Speaker 1: Francisco Chronicle quote, it's a terrible move for a team 411 00:30:06,595 --> 00:30:10,515 Speaker 1: who's majority owner Charles Johnson funds right wing politicians that 412 00:30:10,555 --> 00:30:13,875 Speaker 1: were supportive of undermining a democratic election and who have 413 00:30:13,915 --> 00:30:18,555 Speaker 1: tried to disenfranchise black voters across America. Brooks Moon was 414 00:30:18,595 --> 00:30:20,995 Speaker 1: one of the few in the Giants organization to publicly 415 00:30:21,035 --> 00:30:24,955 Speaker 1: decry Johnson's political activity. She was also outspoken in twenty 416 00:30:25,035 --> 00:30:28,235 Speaker 1: twenty in support of Black Lives Matter. It doesn't take 417 00:30:28,275 --> 00:30:34,515 Speaker 1: a crazy Johnson backed conspiracy theorist to connect the dots unquote. Yeah, 418 00:30:34,635 --> 00:30:38,595 Speaker 1: the Giant's owner is one ugly tiny Johnson, and he's 419 00:30:38,595 --> 00:30:41,315 Speaker 1: a high octane trump nut who just fired the fans 420 00:30:41,395 --> 00:30:44,795 Speaker 1: favorite person with the franchise who isn't one of their 421 00:30:44,915 --> 00:30:49,955 Speaker 1: announcers or Willie Mays. Hopefully his customers beat the ever 422 00:30:50,075 --> 00:30:54,155 Speaker 1: loving financial crap out of this guy Johnson the runner 423 00:30:54,235 --> 00:30:58,315 Speaker 1: up worser Christy nom First, we saw the governor South 424 00:30:58,395 --> 00:31:01,195 Speaker 1: Dakota post a rambling five minute video about how she 425 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:05,355 Speaker 1: got a great new smile at some dentist's office in Texas. 426 00:31:06,235 --> 00:31:09,315 Speaker 1: This video had everything in it except the quote, is. 427 00:31:09,275 --> 00:31:11,555 Speaker 3: This real life? 428 00:31:11,715 --> 00:31:15,315 Speaker 1: South Dakota Democrats demanded an investigation of whether or not 429 00:31:15,435 --> 00:31:18,955 Speaker 1: Nome used state funds to travel to Texas for the 430 00:31:19,075 --> 00:31:21,915 Speaker 1: caps or the straightening, or the implants or whatever they 431 00:31:21,915 --> 00:31:25,675 Speaker 1: did to her mouth. South Dakota Republicans demanded an investigation 432 00:31:25,715 --> 00:31:27,195 Speaker 1: of why she didn't get all the work done in 433 00:31:27,275 --> 00:31:31,795 Speaker 1: South Dakota. Then Governor Nome went back online and started 434 00:31:31,795 --> 00:31:36,555 Speaker 1: pitching coffee and then custom made in souls and a book, 435 00:31:37,675 --> 00:31:45,155 Speaker 1: everything except Nome Stakes and Nome University. Look, Governor nom 436 00:31:45,235 --> 00:31:49,115 Speaker 1: is this close to selling her own lingerie. But our 437 00:31:49,195 --> 00:31:53,515 Speaker 1: winner the worst. The Republican National Committee, Lara Trump proprietor. 438 00:31:54,155 --> 00:31:57,475 Speaker 1: Not only did the co chair Michael Wattley say no, 439 00:31:57,595 --> 00:31:59,315 Speaker 1: of course, we're not better off than we were four 440 00:31:59,395 --> 00:32:01,795 Speaker 1: years ago. That's crazy thinking, oh my god, what did 441 00:32:01,795 --> 00:32:04,835 Speaker 1: I just say? Thanks Mike, but also the R and 442 00:32:04,875 --> 00:32:08,755 Speaker 1: See Research Twitter account posted a video intended to mock 443 00:32:08,875 --> 00:32:12,435 Speaker 1: President Biden as they keep trying to reignite the Biden 444 00:32:12,555 --> 00:32:17,435 Speaker 1: age plot. Quote Biden slowly descends the Capitol steps ran 445 00:32:17,475 --> 00:32:20,075 Speaker 1: the caption to the video as his handlers keep a 446 00:32:20,115 --> 00:32:24,955 Speaker 1: watchful eye, points toward the motorcade, and shuffles back into 447 00:32:24,955 --> 00:32:29,515 Speaker 1: his limo vigor unquote about the handlers from the video. 448 00:32:30,155 --> 00:32:32,995 Speaker 1: Two guys, one on either side of the president, neither 449 00:32:33,035 --> 00:32:35,835 Speaker 1: of whom the Republican National Committee appears to have recognized. 450 00:32:36,315 --> 00:32:39,475 Speaker 1: Now the one on the left, Leo Varadkar, the Prime 451 00:32:39,475 --> 00:32:43,195 Speaker 1: Minister of Ireland. Well, okay, you're with the Republican National Committee. 452 00:32:43,195 --> 00:32:46,675 Speaker 1: Why would you recognize any foreigner besides Putin? But the 453 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:49,755 Speaker 1: guy walking next to the President on the right. The 454 00:32:49,835 --> 00:32:52,315 Speaker 1: little guy with the horn, rim glasses and that creepy 455 00:32:52,355 --> 00:32:55,315 Speaker 1: look on his face. He doesn't look at all familiar 456 00:32:55,395 --> 00:32:59,755 Speaker 1: to you, boys. He haven't seen him lately anywhere. That's uh. 457 00:33:00,035 --> 00:33:01,195 Speaker 3: I don't know how to tell you this. 458 00:33:01,755 --> 00:33:06,355 Speaker 1: That Republican National Committee is the Republican Speaker of the House, 459 00:33:06,435 --> 00:33:11,075 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson, you didn't recognize Mike Johnson, your 460 00:33:11,075 --> 00:33:12,875 Speaker 1: own Speaker of the House standing next to President by 461 00:33:13,835 --> 00:33:18,315 Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee. We're the RNC. We agree you're 462 00:33:18,355 --> 00:33:20,235 Speaker 1: not better off than you were four years ago, and 463 00:33:20,275 --> 00:33:22,235 Speaker 1: we don't know who the hell the Republican Speaker of 464 00:33:22,235 --> 00:33:26,715 Speaker 1: the House is. The Republican National Committee helping America defeat 465 00:33:26,795 --> 00:33:30,875 Speaker 1: Trump and all the down ballot Republicans two days worst. 466 00:33:31,795 --> 00:33:32,515 Speaker 2: What am I saying? 467 00:33:32,835 --> 00:33:50,915 Speaker 3: Best persons in the world, you're the number. 468 00:33:50,635 --> 00:33:53,155 Speaker 1: One story on the countdown and my favorite topic me 469 00:33:53,355 --> 00:33:55,435 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. And here we 470 00:33:55,475 --> 00:34:00,715 Speaker 1: go again, Rupert Murdoch's quote news outlets unquote shooting themselves 471 00:34:00,835 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: in the groin yet again while they were aiming at me. 472 00:34:05,635 --> 00:34:09,315 Speaker 1: A little timeline is required on this one. April eighteen 473 00:34:09,475 --> 00:34:13,155 Speaker 1: sixty five, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, was 474 00:34:13,155 --> 00:34:17,635 Speaker 1: assassinated May twenty twenty, maybe earlier. May twenty twenty was 475 00:34:17,635 --> 00:34:21,995 Speaker 1: the earliest I remembered or found. Trump started claiming he 476 00:34:22,115 --> 00:34:27,595 Speaker 1: had been treated far worse than Abraham Lincoln had. March sixteenth, 477 00:34:27,715 --> 00:34:31,435 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Trump said it again. Then Biden Harris 478 00:34:31,475 --> 00:34:35,515 Speaker 1: Headquarters tweets the clip, adding Trump says he's been treated 479 00:34:35,555 --> 00:34:39,715 Speaker 1: worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated also March sixteenth, 480 00:34:39,715 --> 00:34:44,755 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I retweeted that, adding there's always the hope. 481 00:34:44,755 --> 00:34:48,755 Speaker 1: March eighteenth, twenty twenty four, Fox News publishes a story 482 00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:52,795 Speaker 1: first headlined Keith Olderman appears to hope for Trump assassination, 483 00:34:53,475 --> 00:34:56,195 Speaker 1: but the headline was then changed to Keith Olderman sparks 484 00:34:56,235 --> 00:35:00,115 Speaker 1: outrage by hinting at Trump assassination with a blue stripe 485 00:35:00,195 --> 00:35:06,235 Speaker 1: over my face, reading blue blood bath. On some level, 486 00:35:06,315 --> 00:35:09,595 Speaker 1: I am the same as Trump. To the New York 487 00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:12,515 Speaker 1: Post and the Fox News and all the rest of 488 00:35:12,595 --> 00:35:16,235 Speaker 1: Murdoch's outlets. Well, I was tempted to answer this by 489 00:35:16,235 --> 00:35:20,715 Speaker 1: saying I was just referring to the auto industry. In reality, 490 00:35:21,155 --> 00:35:24,955 Speaker 1: obviously I was and am hoping that Trump will be right, 491 00:35:25,315 --> 00:35:27,875 Speaker 1: and that he will be treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, 492 00:35:27,915 --> 00:35:31,955 Speaker 1: something worse than assassination, which would be that Trump is 493 00:35:32,035 --> 00:35:35,715 Speaker 1: convicted and dies in prison. I don't know how many 494 00:35:35,835 --> 00:35:40,395 Speaker 1: times I have said this, maybe more than Trump's ludicrous 495 00:35:40,515 --> 00:35:43,275 Speaker 1: charge that he's been treated worse than Lincoln. I may 496 00:35:43,315 --> 00:35:45,275 Speaker 1: have actually said it more than he has said that. 497 00:35:45,635 --> 00:35:49,595 Speaker 1: I think I first said I hope he dies in prison. 498 00:35:49,715 --> 00:35:54,515 Speaker 1: I expect he dies in prison in twenty sixteen. This 499 00:35:54,675 --> 00:35:57,715 Speaker 1: is because I hope he dies in prison. But of 500 00:35:57,755 --> 00:36:01,755 Speaker 1: course the point of this is Murdoch and Fox, and 501 00:36:01,875 --> 00:36:04,395 Speaker 1: especially the New York Post have been doing this to me. 502 00:36:04,475 --> 00:36:11,315 Speaker 1: So it's about nineteen ninety six, always always getting it wrong, 503 00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:14,155 Speaker 1: ever since I caught the Post in a lie that 504 00:36:14,275 --> 00:36:17,075 Speaker 1: year about a couple of hockey players that it claimed 505 00:36:17,195 --> 00:36:19,275 Speaker 1: had been thrown out of a New York City bar 506 00:36:19,395 --> 00:36:23,595 Speaker 1: for knocking over tables to the horror of customers, when 507 00:36:23,635 --> 00:36:26,555 Speaker 1: in fact I was with them, and they left the 508 00:36:26,595 --> 00:36:29,715 Speaker 1: place in their own form of horror, because as one 509 00:36:29,715 --> 00:36:33,355 Speaker 1: of them, Eric Lindross, stood up, he almost knocked over 510 00:36:33,435 --> 00:36:35,995 Speaker 1: the chair he was sitting in. He said to the other, 511 00:36:36,115 --> 00:36:39,075 Speaker 1: John Leclair, I think I've had enough. We got to 512 00:36:39,115 --> 00:36:42,715 Speaker 1: go home, Johnny, and they politely left, but not before 513 00:36:42,755 --> 00:36:46,275 Speaker 1: asking if I needed a lift. In two thousand and one, 514 00:36:46,755 --> 00:36:49,395 Speaker 1: the Post slammed me because I attended a New York 515 00:36:49,435 --> 00:36:54,355 Speaker 1: Mets game while wearing cargo shorts. A few years later, 516 00:36:54,395 --> 00:36:56,915 Speaker 1: the Post showed a picture somebody had snapped of me 517 00:36:57,075 --> 00:36:59,515 Speaker 1: leaning against one of the gates of Central Park here 518 00:36:59,515 --> 00:37:03,115 Speaker 1: in New York and said I was alone and depressed. Actually, 519 00:37:03,155 --> 00:37:07,995 Speaker 1: I was alone and early to my dental appointment across 520 00:37:08,035 --> 00:37:10,155 Speaker 1: the street, and I was trying to talk myself into 521 00:37:10,195 --> 00:37:14,555 Speaker 1: actually going into my doctor's office. There was a brief 522 00:37:14,635 --> 00:37:18,155 Speaker 1: interruption in the year during the two and a half 523 00:37:18,275 --> 00:37:21,435 Speaker 1: years or so that I worked for Murdoch in sports, 524 00:37:21,835 --> 00:37:26,835 Speaker 1: a brief interruption in these constantly hilarious stories before Murdoch 525 00:37:27,075 --> 00:37:30,875 Speaker 1: personally fired me after I had reported, with his office's 526 00:37:30,915 --> 00:37:33,555 Speaker 1: full approval in advance that he was working behind the 527 00:37:33,555 --> 00:37:36,715 Speaker 1: scenes to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, which 528 00:37:36,715 --> 00:37:40,435 Speaker 1: he was. Murdoch later boasted about firing me, but he 529 00:37:40,515 --> 00:37:43,235 Speaker 1: didn't say that. He didn't boast about it until after 530 00:37:43,715 --> 00:37:49,035 Speaker 1: he had sold the LA Dodgers baseball team. The origin 531 00:37:49,275 --> 00:37:52,515 Speaker 1: of the Post's quarter century of badly aimed shots at 532 00:37:52,555 --> 00:37:56,595 Speaker 1: me stems from that firing. When Murdoch fired me, his 533 00:37:56,715 --> 00:37:59,715 Speaker 1: minions did it slowly in stages over the course of 534 00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:02,355 Speaker 1: a couple of days, in hopes that they could get 535 00:38:02,395 --> 00:38:06,195 Speaker 1: me angry and bait me into you attacking Fox and 536 00:38:06,355 --> 00:38:09,435 Speaker 1: News Corp. In the newspapers, so that then they could 537 00:38:09,515 --> 00:38:12,795 Speaker 1: fire me for cause that way they wouldn't owe me 538 00:38:12,835 --> 00:38:15,795 Speaker 1: the rest of the money on my contract. Instead, as 539 00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:19,155 Speaker 1: I've mentioned here before, given the choice between waiting eight 540 00:38:19,275 --> 00:38:22,355 Speaker 1: months to insult someone and getting a lot of money, 541 00:38:22,475 --> 00:38:25,835 Speaker 1: or getting no money and yelling at them right now, 542 00:38:25,955 --> 00:38:30,355 Speaker 1: I'll always wait the eight months. I remained quiet for 543 00:38:30,435 --> 00:38:34,795 Speaker 1: eight lovely months, and Rupert had to pay me one 544 00:38:34,875 --> 00:38:40,035 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a month to do that best job 545 00:38:40,435 --> 00:38:45,595 Speaker 1: I ever had. So whenever this happens and somebody says, 546 00:38:45,595 --> 00:38:48,555 Speaker 1: why don't you sue Murdoch, go sue News Corp? Sue 547 00:38:48,555 --> 00:38:50,875 Speaker 1: the New York Post, I always say, what kind of 548 00:38:50,875 --> 00:38:53,355 Speaker 1: money could I get from them that could hurt them 549 00:38:53,395 --> 00:38:55,835 Speaker 1: more than that eight hundred thousand dollars back in two 550 00:38:55,915 --> 00:38:59,635 Speaker 1: thousand and one. Also, most of the stuff they do 551 00:38:59,715 --> 00:39:03,475 Speaker 1: is so hilariously wrong, like the worse than Lincoln story 552 00:39:03,795 --> 00:39:09,675 Speaker 1: that it's transfer apparently desperate. But twice they threatened me 553 00:39:09,875 --> 00:39:12,795 Speaker 1: with stories that I had to take some action about. 554 00:39:12,835 --> 00:39:17,075 Speaker 1: Once they completely made one up, and once they ran 555 00:39:17,195 --> 00:39:19,595 Speaker 1: a story even though the FBI and the Department of 556 00:39:19,595 --> 00:39:24,475 Speaker 1: Homeland Security specifically asked them not to run it. The 557 00:39:24,595 --> 00:39:27,675 Speaker 1: obligatory reminder before I tell you those two stories, you 558 00:39:27,715 --> 00:39:31,275 Speaker 1: should never believe any source story you read in The 559 00:39:31,275 --> 00:39:35,715 Speaker 1: New York Post, or indeed on any media outlet owned 560 00:39:35,715 --> 00:39:40,035 Speaker 1: by the Murdochs like Fox. They occasionally report real things, 561 00:39:40,075 --> 00:39:45,115 Speaker 1: but just as often they make stuff up, not exaggerate, 562 00:39:45,555 --> 00:39:51,675 Speaker 1: or get slightly wrong or twist, but utterly fabricate. On 563 00:39:51,835 --> 00:39:54,435 Speaker 1: April eleventh, two thousand and five, the New York Post 564 00:39:54,555 --> 00:39:57,475 Speaker 1: was to run exactly the kind of story I'm talking about, 565 00:39:57,635 --> 00:40:02,035 Speaker 1: only under threat of multiple lawsuits did they actually spike it. 566 00:40:03,035 --> 00:40:05,835 Speaker 1: I hadn't told this story before I was reminded of it. 567 00:40:05,955 --> 00:40:08,235 Speaker 1: I think going through the mechanics of it will illustrate 568 00:40:08,315 --> 00:40:13,075 Speaker 1: just how evil an organization NewsCorp actually is, and more importantly, 569 00:40:13,155 --> 00:40:18,115 Speaker 1: how unreliable it is as a source of news. As 570 00:40:18,155 --> 00:40:21,315 Speaker 1: a New York Post page six gossip story, This one, though, 571 00:40:21,355 --> 00:40:26,835 Speaker 1: had everything. It attacked MSNBC, It had quotes from informed sources, 572 00:40:26,915 --> 00:40:30,035 Speaker 1: and even at one points it had a witness. Now 573 00:40:30,075 --> 00:40:32,915 Speaker 1: the witness disappeared during the evolution of this story, but 574 00:40:32,955 --> 00:40:35,515 Speaker 1: at one point it had a witness. It had somebody 575 00:40:35,915 --> 00:40:39,595 Speaker 1: prominent insulting Peter Jennings, the newscaster, right after he had 576 00:40:39,595 --> 00:40:42,315 Speaker 1: revealed he had lung cancer. And it was constructed in 577 00:40:42,355 --> 00:40:45,235 Speaker 1: such a way that if I did not comment on it, 578 00:40:45,435 --> 00:40:48,275 Speaker 1: they could print the story, then come back the next day, 579 00:40:48,675 --> 00:40:51,475 Speaker 1: rehash it and add that I was still refusing to 580 00:40:51,515 --> 00:40:55,875 Speaker 1: comment on it. But there was one overriding problem. It 581 00:40:56,155 --> 00:40:59,115 Speaker 1: was a complete fabrication, and thus it was full of 582 00:40:59,155 --> 00:41:03,795 Speaker 1: events that didn't happen and people who did not exist. 583 00:41:05,035 --> 00:41:09,955 Speaker 1: New York Post page six contacted MSNBC's then media relations 584 00:41:09,955 --> 00:41:14,035 Speaker 1: guy Jeremy Gaines on Thursday, April seventh, two thousand and five, 585 00:41:14,115 --> 00:41:18,035 Speaker 1: with the following story. Keith Olderman, a quote frequent critic 586 00:41:18,075 --> 00:41:22,475 Speaker 1: of President Bush, had refused to anchor the coverage of 587 00:41:22,515 --> 00:41:25,635 Speaker 1: the death of Pope John Paul the Second pretended to 588 00:41:25,675 --> 00:41:30,235 Speaker 1: be ill and called in sick instead. There was, as 589 00:41:30,275 --> 00:41:34,075 Speaker 1: I suggested earlier, a major problem here. I had anchored 590 00:41:34,115 --> 00:41:36,555 Speaker 1: the coverage of the death of Pope John Paul the Second. 591 00:41:36,835 --> 00:41:41,155 Speaker 1: I had been anchoring the primetime coverage four hours each weeknight, 592 00:41:41,515 --> 00:41:45,035 Speaker 1: day after day leading up to the potiffs passing. There 593 00:41:45,075 --> 00:41:49,155 Speaker 1: were viewers who had seen me. There were studio staffers. 594 00:41:49,555 --> 00:41:53,835 Speaker 1: Carl Bernstein was there. He was the Inn studio papal expert. 595 00:41:53,875 --> 00:41:56,115 Speaker 1: He was on the air with me every night for 596 00:41:56,275 --> 00:42:00,035 Speaker 1: like six nights in a row. There were video tapes. 597 00:42:00,915 --> 00:42:03,635 Speaker 1: Joe Tory, then the manager of the New York Yankees, 598 00:42:03,715 --> 00:42:07,915 Speaker 1: called me to compliment me on my reverential coverage of 599 00:42:07,955 --> 00:42:11,875 Speaker 1: the Pope's illness. That did not stop The New York 600 00:42:11,955 --> 00:42:15,235 Speaker 1: Posts in the first version that page six told us 601 00:42:15,275 --> 00:42:18,155 Speaker 1: it was going to print. Their unnamed source had been 602 00:42:18,195 --> 00:42:22,355 Speaker 1: on board and Amtrak Asella train going from Washington, DC 603 00:42:22,555 --> 00:42:26,355 Speaker 1: to New York, sitting near my agent as my agent 604 00:42:26,435 --> 00:42:29,595 Speaker 1: talked to somebody on a cell phone. This is apparently 605 00:42:30,035 --> 00:42:34,475 Speaker 1: a very favorite construction when the New York Post wants 606 00:42:34,515 --> 00:42:37,795 Speaker 1: to make up a story about somebody their witness said. 607 00:42:37,835 --> 00:42:40,555 Speaker 1: My agent complained that I had had a quote meltdown 608 00:42:41,075 --> 00:42:44,915 Speaker 1: after quote calling in sick. Rather than anchoring the papal coverage, 609 00:42:44,915 --> 00:42:48,555 Speaker 1: which I anchored, but there was more quote. Alderman, a 610 00:42:48,715 --> 00:42:52,515 Speaker 1: frequent critic of the president's policies, said it was better 611 00:42:52,555 --> 00:42:56,435 Speaker 1: in sports. They quoted my agent quoting me into the phone. 612 00:42:56,555 --> 00:43:00,835 Speaker 1: I'll be dealing with this all day now. Apart from 613 00:43:00,835 --> 00:43:03,075 Speaker 1: the fact that I had anchored the coverage, they said 614 00:43:03,155 --> 00:43:05,715 Speaker 1: I had not anchored. There was another major flaw in 615 00:43:05,755 --> 00:43:10,195 Speaker 1: this story. My agent was not on a train from 616 00:43:10,315 --> 00:43:13,915 Speaker 1: Washington to New York on the day in question, or 617 00:43:13,995 --> 00:43:16,835 Speaker 1: the week in question, or the month, or in fact 618 00:43:17,195 --> 00:43:20,475 Speaker 1: the year in question. My agent told me she thought 619 00:43:20,515 --> 00:43:22,795 Speaker 1: she had once been on a train from Washington to 620 00:43:22,835 --> 00:43:27,315 Speaker 1: New York in the year nineteen sixty seven. My agent 621 00:43:27,395 --> 00:43:31,035 Speaker 1: at that time lived a top Mount Shasta in California, 622 00:43:31,315 --> 00:43:34,755 Speaker 1: and so seldom left there that when she once drove 623 00:43:34,875 --> 00:43:37,595 Speaker 1: to town to get the mail, I asked her for the 624 00:43:37,635 --> 00:43:41,115 Speaker 1: details of her trip because I jokingly suggested to her 625 00:43:41,435 --> 00:43:47,075 Speaker 1: we should lead the newscast with it. So the next day, Friday, 626 00:43:47,195 --> 00:43:49,795 Speaker 1: April eighth, two thousand and five, New York Post Page 627 00:43:49,835 --> 00:43:52,555 Speaker 1: six came back with a different version of this same story. 628 00:43:52,715 --> 00:43:56,355 Speaker 1: They had misheard their source. Of course, it wasn't my 629 00:43:56,715 --> 00:43:59,755 Speaker 1: agent on the train from DC to New York. It 630 00:43:59,875 --> 00:44:03,155 Speaker 1: was a woman who worked for my agent, A woman 631 00:44:03,275 --> 00:44:07,355 Speaker 1: named Susan. Woman named Susan, whom I had, they would report, 632 00:44:07,435 --> 00:44:11,035 Speaker 1: already phoned three times that morning, and I was to 633 00:44:11,035 --> 00:44:14,355 Speaker 1: meet her urgently at the boat House in Central Park, 634 00:44:15,635 --> 00:44:19,715 Speaker 1: presumably because meeting her in the middle of Penn Station 635 00:44:19,835 --> 00:44:21,715 Speaker 1: when she got off that train would have been a 636 00:44:21,755 --> 00:44:26,595 Speaker 1: little too public. MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines responded again with some 637 00:44:26,755 --> 00:44:32,795 Speaker 1: irrefutable refutations. Nobody named Susan worked for my agent. In fact, 638 00:44:33,235 --> 00:44:36,915 Speaker 1: nobody at all worked for my agent. She was independent. 639 00:44:37,315 --> 00:44:40,235 Speaker 1: She had a working relationship with a small agency in 640 00:44:40,275 --> 00:44:43,755 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and basically they covered her phone calls when 641 00:44:43,795 --> 00:44:46,795 Speaker 1: she was on vacation, which she almost never was, because 642 00:44:46,795 --> 00:44:51,075 Speaker 1: she never left the top of Mount e Fin Shasta. 643 00:44:51,195 --> 00:44:53,875 Speaker 1: We called that agency and they confirmed that not only 644 00:44:53,915 --> 00:44:56,635 Speaker 1: did they not have anybody working for them named Susan, 645 00:44:56,795 --> 00:44:59,435 Speaker 1: but nobody from that agency was even on the East 646 00:44:59,475 --> 00:45:04,915 Speaker 1: Coast or had been so far that entire year. At 647 00:45:04,915 --> 00:45:07,755 Speaker 1: this point I called the television columnist of The New 648 00:45:07,795 --> 00:45:10,035 Speaker 1: York Post and off the record, explained to him that 649 00:45:10,075 --> 00:45:12,835 Speaker 1: I was kind of furious, and this time I was 650 00:45:12,875 --> 00:45:16,195 Speaker 1: actually going to sue, but that NBC was far angrier 651 00:45:16,235 --> 00:45:18,475 Speaker 1: than I was, and that they were going to sue 652 00:45:18,475 --> 00:45:21,795 Speaker 1: as well, and sue the editor of page six. Personally, 653 00:45:22,595 --> 00:45:25,515 Speaker 1: I calmly went through the facts of this. This guy, 654 00:45:25,835 --> 00:45:28,675 Speaker 1: the TV guy, had a conscience, he sighed. He said 655 00:45:28,675 --> 00:45:30,755 Speaker 1: he got those kind of calls more often than I 656 00:45:30,795 --> 00:45:33,395 Speaker 1: would believe. And I said, no, I believe it. And 657 00:45:33,435 --> 00:45:35,075 Speaker 1: he said he would go to the editor of page 658 00:45:35,075 --> 00:45:37,835 Speaker 1: six and explain somebody was lying to him, the editor, 659 00:45:38,035 --> 00:45:40,555 Speaker 1: and he was going to get himself sued into bankruptcy 660 00:45:40,875 --> 00:45:47,395 Speaker 1: over a really obviously untrue and completely disproved story. Okay, 661 00:45:47,435 --> 00:45:49,755 Speaker 1: So now, a couple hours later, New York Post Page 662 00:45:49,795 --> 00:45:53,075 Speaker 1: six calls again demanding a comment from me on the 663 00:45:53,075 --> 00:45:58,635 Speaker 1: third different version of their exhaustive papals scoop. No, the 664 00:45:58,675 --> 00:46:01,835 Speaker 1: woman their witness heard, who they first said was my agent, 665 00:46:02,315 --> 00:46:03,875 Speaker 1: then said she had gotten it wrong. It was a 666 00:46:03,915 --> 00:46:06,195 Speaker 1: woman named Susan worked for my agent. She had now 667 00:46:06,195 --> 00:46:08,835 Speaker 1: become a woman who worked for my agent, whose name 668 00:46:08,875 --> 00:46:12,755 Speaker 1: the witness never heard, but she was talking to somebody 669 00:46:12,915 --> 00:46:17,435 Speaker 1: else named Susan. And there was an additional quote now 670 00:46:17,475 --> 00:46:21,755 Speaker 1: thrown in, I'll be dealing this all day now, had 671 00:46:21,835 --> 00:46:25,035 Speaker 1: morphed into I'll be dealing with this all day now. 672 00:46:25,275 --> 00:46:28,355 Speaker 1: The same week Peter Jennings makes his announcement about having 673 00:46:28,475 --> 00:46:32,075 Speaker 1: lung cancer. This idiot, a frequent critic of President Bush, 674 00:46:32,155 --> 00:46:34,875 Speaker 1: is sitting around in his pajamas calling me about this. 675 00:46:37,155 --> 00:46:39,955 Speaker 1: I'll spare you how I know this was not true. 676 00:46:40,035 --> 00:46:41,555 Speaker 1: It has something to do with the fact that I 677 00:46:41,595 --> 00:46:47,195 Speaker 1: don't wear pajamas. Years later, a former gossip reporter in 678 00:46:47,275 --> 00:46:50,795 Speaker 1: Murdoch's employ explained to me that his celebrity and gossip 679 00:46:50,835 --> 00:46:54,715 Speaker 1: people are taught never to back down from a confrontation, 680 00:46:55,035 --> 00:46:56,915 Speaker 1: and that if the subject of one of their hit 681 00:46:56,995 --> 00:47:01,035 Speaker 1: jobs fires back or tries to refute, or especially threatens 682 00:47:01,115 --> 00:47:04,475 Speaker 1: legal action, to keep making the story worse and worse 683 00:47:04,515 --> 00:47:08,275 Speaker 1: for them. And in the first decade of this century, anyway, 684 00:47:08,315 --> 00:47:10,235 Speaker 1: you were supposed to try to work in a defense 685 00:47:10,275 --> 00:47:10,995 Speaker 1: of George W. 686 00:47:11,155 --> 00:47:11,715 Speaker 3: Bush. 687 00:47:12,435 --> 00:47:16,395 Speaker 1: But there's also what she said, they called an emergency exit. 688 00:47:16,955 --> 00:47:20,115 Speaker 1: If there is no question that the story is nonsensical, 689 00:47:20,475 --> 00:47:23,195 Speaker 1: if the basic spine of the story does not line 690 00:47:23,315 --> 00:47:28,715 Speaker 1: up with provable facts, just abandon it. Abandon it. Don't 691 00:47:28,755 --> 00:47:31,755 Speaker 1: tell the subject of your attack that you are abandoning it. 692 00:47:32,075 --> 00:47:34,715 Speaker 1: Just don't make any more phone calls, don't send any 693 00:47:34,715 --> 00:47:39,235 Speaker 1: more emails about it. Just vanish, Just disappear the story, 694 00:47:40,115 --> 00:47:43,115 Speaker 1: and then send the name of the subject of the 695 00:47:43,155 --> 00:47:46,515 Speaker 1: story that you've just punted. Send it around to all 696 00:47:46,555 --> 00:47:48,675 Speaker 1: the other Murdoch operations to see if they can come 697 00:47:48,755 --> 00:47:51,555 Speaker 1: up with any dirt on the subject, to punish them 698 00:47:51,875 --> 00:47:58,995 Speaker 1: for fighting back against Rupert Murdoch's lies. So they abandoned 699 00:47:58,995 --> 00:48:01,955 Speaker 1: the story, and it took the New York Post a 700 00:48:02,075 --> 00:48:05,395 Speaker 1: year and a half to get me back and to 701 00:48:05,475 --> 00:48:08,435 Speaker 1: get back the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. 702 00:48:09,635 --> 00:48:12,315 Speaker 1: On September twenty six, two thousand and six, I opened 703 00:48:12,355 --> 00:48:15,995 Speaker 1: an envelope bearing a California postmark at my home in 704 00:48:16,075 --> 00:48:19,395 Speaker 1: New York. I shouldn't have done it, but bluntly, I'll 705 00:48:19,395 --> 00:48:22,515 Speaker 1: confess to this. I thought it was some baseball cards 706 00:48:22,555 --> 00:48:27,595 Speaker 1: I had bought off eBay. Well it wasn't. The envelope 707 00:48:27,875 --> 00:48:33,315 Speaker 1: contained a sticky substance looked like draino mixed with talcum powder, 708 00:48:33,635 --> 00:48:37,195 Speaker 1: and it fell out, and accompanying notes said it was anthrax. 709 00:48:37,595 --> 00:48:40,115 Speaker 1: Now I and other liberals would get a taste of 710 00:48:40,155 --> 00:48:44,715 Speaker 1: our own medicine. Even reading those chilling words and having 711 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:48,915 Speaker 1: covered the actual anthrax letters terrorist attacks of two thousand 712 00:48:48,955 --> 00:48:51,435 Speaker 1: and one. When I was with CNN, I knew it 713 00:48:51,475 --> 00:48:55,435 Speaker 1: was an anthrax. The guy who supposedly sent the actual 714 00:48:55,475 --> 00:48:58,915 Speaker 1: anthrax in two thousand and one was an expert in 715 00:48:58,995 --> 00:49:02,195 Speaker 1: the field, and even he masshandled the stuff so badly 716 00:49:02,235 --> 00:49:07,315 Speaker 1: that supposedly he gave himself anthrax. And on the other hand, 717 00:49:08,395 --> 00:49:10,955 Speaker 1: I know the odds were impossible, but what if I 718 00:49:11,115 --> 00:49:14,675 Speaker 1: was wrong. My apartment building was filled with little old 719 00:49:14,755 --> 00:49:18,355 Speaker 1: ladies who had lived there since Roosevelt was president. I 720 00:49:18,395 --> 00:49:22,875 Speaker 1: only assumed that meant Franklin, not Theodore. The odds were 721 00:49:23,515 --> 00:49:25,995 Speaker 1: I don't know one in a billion that it was anthrax. 722 00:49:26,715 --> 00:49:29,595 Speaker 1: But who was I to dismiss this one in a 723 00:49:29,635 --> 00:49:32,595 Speaker 1: billion chants that these little old ladies were going to 724 00:49:32,635 --> 00:49:36,315 Speaker 1: get anthrax? Who was I to make that call? So 725 00:49:36,435 --> 00:49:41,075 Speaker 1: instead I made a call. I called the FBI. Well, 726 00:49:41,235 --> 00:49:44,075 Speaker 1: it was quite an evening. The cops showed up, the 727 00:49:44,155 --> 00:49:46,595 Speaker 1: FBI showed up. They said, of course it's not anthrax, 728 00:49:46,635 --> 00:49:48,755 Speaker 1: but we have to act like it is. Welcome to 729 00:49:48,835 --> 00:49:52,475 Speaker 1: our new world. The hazmat squad came in. They set 730 00:49:52,555 --> 00:49:55,115 Speaker 1: up a command post in the building. They swept my 731 00:49:55,195 --> 00:49:56,755 Speaker 1: apartment and they said, okay, now you have to go 732 00:49:56,755 --> 00:49:59,995 Speaker 1: to the emergency room for tests. And I said, it's 733 00:49:59,995 --> 00:50:02,355 Speaker 1: not anthrax. You just said so, And they said, if 734 00:50:02,355 --> 00:50:05,195 Speaker 1: we have to do this, you have to do this too. 735 00:50:05,755 --> 00:50:06,395 Speaker 2: I laughed. 736 00:50:06,595 --> 00:50:08,555 Speaker 1: Plus, if you don't, we can arrest you as a 737 00:50:08,595 --> 00:50:10,675 Speaker 1: threat to public health, and we could make you go 738 00:50:10,755 --> 00:50:14,995 Speaker 1: to the hospital. So out I went into an ambulance 739 00:50:15,395 --> 00:50:19,195 Speaker 1: dressed in a hazmat suit one size too small that 740 00:50:20,835 --> 00:50:24,595 Speaker 1: really cut in the groin. I spent the night getting 741 00:50:24,675 --> 00:50:28,195 Speaker 1: checked out. The FBI then called and said, it's like 742 00:50:29,115 --> 00:50:33,755 Speaker 1: it's like draino with ivory soap flakes. But they also 743 00:50:33,875 --> 00:50:36,435 Speaker 1: said there had been other letters that had arrived that 744 00:50:36,635 --> 00:50:39,315 Speaker 1: night and the night before, sent to people like the 745 00:50:39,475 --> 00:50:44,235 Speaker 1: chairman of CBS and David Letterman's office and Nancy Pelosi 746 00:50:44,755 --> 00:50:46,995 Speaker 1: and some poor guy who happened to have the name 747 00:50:47,115 --> 00:50:50,755 Speaker 1: John Stuart who was not the John Stuart. And they 748 00:50:50,795 --> 00:50:53,315 Speaker 1: couldn't make me do this, but it would really help 749 00:50:53,715 --> 00:50:56,835 Speaker 1: if I did not report what happened on my TV 750 00:50:56,955 --> 00:51:01,395 Speaker 1: show that night, just for the one day do it tomorrow, 751 00:51:01,555 --> 00:51:03,395 Speaker 1: because they had a lead on the guy who had 752 00:51:03,435 --> 00:51:05,715 Speaker 1: sent all these letters, and I want to scare him off. 753 00:51:06,035 --> 00:51:11,635 Speaker 1: And I said, sure, I'm a patriot. The next day, 754 00:51:12,275 --> 00:51:14,995 Speaker 1: while we were still observing the embargo on the story 755 00:51:15,075 --> 00:51:18,195 Speaker 1: my story, planning to run it at eight o'clock at night. 756 00:51:18,795 --> 00:51:22,115 Speaker 1: New York Post page six led with a picture of 757 00:51:22,155 --> 00:51:28,475 Speaker 1: me with the headline powder Puff spooks Keith and making 758 00:51:28,515 --> 00:51:31,635 Speaker 1: sure to identify me as quote, a frequent critic of 759 00:51:31,635 --> 00:51:35,995 Speaker 1: President Bush's policies. The New York Post mocked me for 760 00:51:36,155 --> 00:51:39,315 Speaker 1: not just assuming it was fake antrax and ignoring it, 761 00:51:39,355 --> 00:51:42,315 Speaker 1: and claimed I insisted the cops should take me to 762 00:51:42,355 --> 00:51:46,195 Speaker 1: the hospital. Quote whether they gave him a lollipop on 763 00:51:46,315 --> 00:51:51,115 Speaker 1: the way out isn't known. By the way, one of 764 00:51:51,155 --> 00:51:54,075 Speaker 1: the actual anthrax letters in two thousand and one, one 765 00:51:54,075 --> 00:51:56,875 Speaker 1: of the letters with actual anthrax in it that got 766 00:51:56,915 --> 00:52:00,875 Speaker 1: some people sick and killed a little old lady, had 767 00:52:00,915 --> 00:52:04,315 Speaker 1: been mailed to the New York Post, and one of 768 00:52:04,355 --> 00:52:08,715 Speaker 1: their st had contracted anthrax. And still this was their 769 00:52:08,755 --> 00:52:14,635 Speaker 1: attitude towards anthrax threats. Anyway, as it turned out, there 770 00:52:14,675 --> 00:52:17,235 Speaker 1: was a guy in California sending out these threatening letters, 771 00:52:17,275 --> 00:52:19,555 Speaker 1: each with fake anthrax, to about a dozen people. 772 00:52:19,635 --> 00:52:20,955 Speaker 2: He sent me four of them. 773 00:52:21,035 --> 00:52:25,795 Speaker 1: Ultimately, I soon knew the FBI guys by their first names. 774 00:52:26,115 --> 00:52:29,315 Speaker 1: I pointed out to FBI Doug that the last envelope 775 00:52:29,315 --> 00:52:31,395 Speaker 1: I received had a bar code on it. Maybe they 776 00:52:31,395 --> 00:52:33,195 Speaker 1: could track the guy that way. And he said, oh, 777 00:52:33,235 --> 00:52:35,515 Speaker 1: you're right, And the next thing I knew the FBI 778 00:52:35,595 --> 00:52:39,515 Speaker 1: had just videotaped the suspect mailing yet another letter to me, 779 00:52:39,635 --> 00:52:43,355 Speaker 1: the fifth from his home in Woodland Hills, California. And 780 00:52:43,395 --> 00:52:47,995 Speaker 1: I swear to god he actually lived in his mother's 781 00:52:48,075 --> 00:52:53,115 Speaker 1: basement at age thirty seven or something. And FBI Doug said, 782 00:52:53,595 --> 00:52:55,475 Speaker 1: do we have your permission to pull a letter out 783 00:52:55,515 --> 00:52:58,155 Speaker 1: of the mailbox and open it? I said sure, And 784 00:52:58,235 --> 00:53:00,395 Speaker 1: the next thing I knew the guy was sentenced to 785 00:53:00,595 --> 00:53:04,595 Speaker 1: prison for like eighteen months, but not before FBI does 786 00:53:04,675 --> 00:53:08,755 Speaker 1: Doug said, by the way, that barcode, you noticed it 787 00:53:09,755 --> 00:53:12,835 Speaker 1: connected to the post office here, and that's where we 788 00:53:12,915 --> 00:53:15,755 Speaker 1: found his address. And we also found the fact that 789 00:53:15,795 --> 00:53:20,155 Speaker 1: he purchased a postal money order for fifteen dollars made 790 00:53:20,155 --> 00:53:25,155 Speaker 1: out to the Catherine Harris for Florida Senate campaign, if 791 00:53:25,195 --> 00:53:29,755 Speaker 1: you remember her from Gore V. Bush and his online history. 792 00:53:29,835 --> 00:53:31,955 Speaker 1: We looked that all up. It's all about how she, 793 00:53:32,195 --> 00:53:36,435 Speaker 1: Catherine Harris and some woman named Laura something or another. 794 00:53:36,715 --> 00:53:39,075 Speaker 1: They are the most beautiful women in history. And I 795 00:53:39,155 --> 00:53:48,755 Speaker 1: said Laura, Laura Ingram, and FBI Doug said, yeah, that's it, 796 00:53:49,355 --> 00:53:54,835 Speaker 1: Laura Ingraham. And if that isn't ten years of my 797 00:53:54,955 --> 00:53:58,435 Speaker 1: life in one sentence, courtesy of The New York effing Post, 798 00:53:58,955 --> 00:54:15,555 Speaker 1: I don't know what is. I've done all the damage 799 00:54:15,555 --> 00:54:17,795 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical 800 00:54:17,835 --> 00:54:20,755 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and 801 00:54:20,795 --> 00:54:24,315 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 802 00:54:24,355 --> 00:54:27,755 Speaker 1: bass and drums, and mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 803 00:54:28,075 --> 00:54:31,035 Speaker 1: Produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the 804 00:54:31,035 --> 00:54:35,075 Speaker 1: Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 805 00:54:35,435 --> 00:54:38,195 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 806 00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:42,275 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our 807 00:54:42,395 --> 00:54:45,355 Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the 808 00:54:45,395 --> 00:54:49,755 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was, and 809 00:54:49,915 --> 00:54:53,035 Speaker 1: this was a preview of my reference to Carl Bernstein. 810 00:54:53,155 --> 00:54:56,435 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend John Dean. Everything else 811 00:54:56,555 --> 00:54:59,035 Speaker 1: is pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this two 812 00:54:59,115 --> 00:55:02,475 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty second day until the twenty twenty four 813 00:55:02,595 --> 00:55:05,755 Speaker 1: presidential election and the one hundre in sixty ninth day 814 00:55:06,075 --> 00:55:08,995 Speaker 1: since I hope Donald Trump dies in prison after being 815 00:55:09,035 --> 00:55:12,635 Speaker 1: convicted and his first attemption to coup against the democratically 816 00:55:12,755 --> 00:55:16,355 Speaker 1: re elected government of the United States. Use the fourteenth 817 00:55:16,395 --> 00:55:20,435 Speaker 1: Amendment and the not regularly given elector objection option, use 818 00:55:20,475 --> 00:55:24,035 Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act, use the justice system, use the mental 819 00:55:24,075 --> 00:55:27,195 Speaker 1: health system to stop him from doing it again while 820 00:55:27,275 --> 00:55:30,755 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Boltons 821 00:55:30,795 --> 00:55:33,275 Speaker 1: is the news warrants. Never believe anything you read in 822 00:55:33,315 --> 00:55:35,715 Speaker 1: the New York Post, Fox News or see on Fox 823 00:55:35,755 --> 00:55:38,875 Speaker 1: News till then. I'm Keith Aulderman. Good morning, good afternoon, 824 00:55:38,915 --> 00:56:00,955 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 825 00:56:00,955 --> 00:56:05,755 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 826 00:56:05,795 --> 00:56:10,475 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.