1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:26,835 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Donald 2 00:00:26,915 --> 00:00:30,755 Speaker 1: John Trump cannot continue as president of the United States. 3 00:00:31,355 --> 00:00:37,915 Speaker 1: He is at this moment having a full scale psychological breakdown. Obviously, 4 00:00:39,635 --> 00:00:46,075 Speaker 1: so we're agreed good. However, lost in this quicksand of 5 00:00:46,115 --> 00:00:49,835 Speaker 1: this latest Trump full length, complete and total seventy two 6 00:00:49,995 --> 00:00:52,795 Speaker 1: hours of delusion of something just this side of a 7 00:00:52,835 --> 00:00:56,395 Speaker 1: fugue state, Trump has let it slip. He has provided 8 00:00:56,515 --> 00:01:00,395 Speaker 1: enough clues to suggest that his next insane scheme may 9 00:01:00,435 --> 00:01:06,395 Speaker 1: be a rollout of an absolutely fabricated, amazingly intricate, high octane, 10 00:01:06,515 --> 00:01:10,555 Speaker 1: full volume cell of the conspiracy theory that the twenty 11 00:01:10,635 --> 00:01:13,635 Speaker 1: twenty presidential election was not only fixed, but that it 12 00:01:13,715 --> 00:01:20,675 Speaker 1: was fixed by Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela. And that's why 13 00:01:20,715 --> 00:01:27,635 Speaker 1: we renditioned him. You heard me, Trump revealed intentionally. I 14 00:01:27,675 --> 00:01:31,395 Speaker 1: think he had a question planted at that putinesque multi 15 00:01:31,435 --> 00:01:36,835 Speaker 1: hour dissociative episode only with reporters present, that they may 16 00:01:36,875 --> 00:01:40,515 Speaker 1: be about to start an attempt to gaslight and sainwash 17 00:01:40,595 --> 00:01:44,155 Speaker 1: at the same time some sort of Maduro confession to 18 00:01:44,275 --> 00:01:47,875 Speaker 1: fixing it for Biden and then pardoning Maduro and prosecuting 19 00:01:47,915 --> 00:01:50,235 Speaker 1: Biden and Who knows if Trump takes it further and 20 00:01:50,275 --> 00:01:53,235 Speaker 1: tries to apply whatever this is supposed to mean to 21 00:01:53,475 --> 00:01:58,395 Speaker 1: the midterms or to this continuing quixtic anti constitutional belief 22 00:01:58,435 --> 00:02:01,235 Speaker 1: that he's entitled to a third term. Who knows if 23 00:02:01,275 --> 00:02:04,035 Speaker 1: his brain will not have oozed out his ears by 24 00:02:04,115 --> 00:02:07,155 Speaker 1: then by next week. But I think the first part 25 00:02:07,195 --> 00:02:09,835 Speaker 1: is true. I think they are really going to try 26 00:02:09,875 --> 00:02:12,395 Speaker 1: the first part. They're going to try to draw all 27 00:02:12,475 --> 00:02:16,195 Speaker 1: the imaginary lunatic threads together and make them into one 28 00:02:16,515 --> 00:02:21,955 Speaker 1: giant imaginary lunatic plot to quote prove quote Trump quote 29 00:02:22,075 --> 00:02:28,475 Speaker 1: one quote the twenty twenty election. Thanks to Maduro. This 30 00:02:28,515 --> 00:02:32,275 Speaker 1: has been the holy grail down at the flat earth 31 00:02:32,435 --> 00:02:36,955 Speaker 1: spontaneous human combustion. There wasn't a moon landing end of 32 00:02:37,035 --> 00:02:40,155 Speaker 1: the Trumpest spectrum. And I don't know why this came 33 00:02:40,235 --> 00:02:43,595 Speaker 1: up this week unless Trump has decided that he has 34 00:02:43,595 --> 00:02:47,835 Speaker 1: no way out of Minnesota except letting Ice slowly just vanish, 35 00:02:48,155 --> 00:02:50,555 Speaker 1: the way he had to let the war on California 36 00:02:50,675 --> 00:02:54,835 Speaker 1: slowly just vanish. And that even Trump knows Greenland is 37 00:02:55,115 --> 00:02:58,355 Speaker 1: petering out. And now it's obvious he has lost all 38 00:02:58,395 --> 00:03:01,795 Speaker 1: interest in Iran, and now his cult is getting really 39 00:03:01,835 --> 00:03:04,555 Speaker 1: bored with the Nobel Peace Prize stuff since he already 40 00:03:04,555 --> 00:03:11,595 Speaker 1: got one, even though it's you know, used, Trump shortly 41 00:03:11,675 --> 00:03:14,515 Speaker 1: will be trying to sell and expecting the congressional and 42 00:03:14,595 --> 00:03:19,195 Speaker 1: senatorial whorees he owns to endorse. One of the favorite, 43 00:03:19,315 --> 00:03:22,915 Speaker 1: albeit dumbest conspiracy theories about the twenty twenty election that 44 00:03:22,995 --> 00:03:28,395 Speaker 1: it was fixed for President Biden by software design created 45 00:03:28,555 --> 00:03:34,235 Speaker 1: financed a shot by Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela. In reality, 46 00:03:34,355 --> 00:03:37,955 Speaker 1: Nicholas Maduro is a man who struggles to successfully zipper 47 00:03:38,035 --> 00:03:42,395 Speaker 1: his own windbreaker. But since long before the twenty twenty election, 48 00:03:42,595 --> 00:03:45,635 Speaker 1: the Trump gang has been pushing this nonsense that somebody 49 00:03:45,715 --> 00:03:49,395 Speaker 1: or some company or some magical force in Venezuela fixed 50 00:03:49,435 --> 00:03:53,115 Speaker 1: all the voting machines, because for six years now it 51 00:03:53,195 --> 00:03:56,595 Speaker 1: has been evident that nothing in Trump's damaged mind is 52 00:03:56,755 --> 00:04:03,475 Speaker 1: capable of processing the reality that he's lost Those around 53 00:04:03,555 --> 00:04:07,275 Speaker 1: him had large he tamped down the Maduro rigged that election, 54 00:04:07,395 --> 00:04:10,315 Speaker 1: you know delusion, But of course in the last year 55 00:04:10,755 --> 00:04:14,235 Speaker 1: those who could tamp him down have lost all influence 56 00:04:14,275 --> 00:04:16,555 Speaker 1: on him. He weeded out those who were good at it, 57 00:04:16,875 --> 00:04:19,835 Speaker 1: and has previously noted Trump's metal incapacity and his utter 58 00:04:20,035 --> 00:04:22,155 Speaker 1: certainty that he is right and the rest of us 59 00:04:22,195 --> 00:04:26,155 Speaker 1: are wrong grows by the hour. And then at that 60 00:04:26,235 --> 00:04:29,875 Speaker 1: news conference, Trump really spilled the beans on this. He 61 00:04:29,955 --> 00:04:31,955 Speaker 1: didn't do a lot, he didn't do it for a 62 00:04:31,955 --> 00:04:35,395 Speaker 1: long time. But if you were listening carefully amid all 63 00:04:35,515 --> 00:04:40,115 Speaker 1: of the truly delusional, nonsensical, no line of thought drek, 64 00:04:40,195 --> 00:04:45,275 Speaker 1: there were two gems on the pile of Trump shaped dung. 65 00:04:47,195 --> 00:04:50,875 Speaker 1: There is an alternative way to interpret this country's extra 66 00:04:50,955 --> 00:04:54,355 Speaker 1: legal kidnapping of the dictator of Venezuela on the pretext 67 00:04:54,355 --> 00:04:58,155 Speaker 1: of leaving his deputy in charge of that country, when 68 00:04:58,195 --> 00:05:01,515 Speaker 1: in fact she was the one our own anti drug 69 00:05:01,555 --> 00:05:06,515 Speaker 1: trafficking agencies were focused on, not him blowing up the 70 00:05:06,595 --> 00:05:09,475 Speaker 1: Venezuelan fishing boats and the Venezuelan fishermen and going in 71 00:05:09,515 --> 00:05:14,435 Speaker 1: and renditioning another leader might have had some vague connection 72 00:05:14,515 --> 00:05:18,155 Speaker 1: to the international drug trade. But this alternate theory, which 73 00:05:18,195 --> 00:05:22,235 Speaker 1: makes just as much lack of sense, it was that 74 00:05:22,275 --> 00:05:24,275 Speaker 1: it was in reality to accomplish this one thing, to 75 00:05:24,315 --> 00:05:27,595 Speaker 1: get Maduro into a US prison, to get him under 76 00:05:27,635 --> 00:05:31,795 Speaker 1: Trump's control, and then get him to confess or confirm 77 00:05:31,995 --> 00:05:34,755 Speaker 1: or invent some story in which no Biden didn't win 78 00:05:34,795 --> 00:05:37,435 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Trump really won in twenty twenty, and 79 00:05:37,475 --> 00:05:45,075 Speaker 1: he Nicholas Maduro and his Venezuelan mastermind somehow used in 80 00:05:45,435 --> 00:05:49,875 Speaker 1: space lasers, probably to change Trump votes to Biden votes 81 00:05:50,595 --> 00:05:56,715 Speaker 1: by the billions. If you can still hear me over 82 00:05:56,755 --> 00:06:01,515 Speaker 1: your own laughter or uncontrollable tears, let me remind you 83 00:06:01,595 --> 00:06:04,395 Speaker 1: of Trump's phone call from July twenty fifth, two thousand 84 00:06:04,475 --> 00:06:10,035 Speaker 1: nineth to the then non household name president of Ukraine, 85 00:06:10,875 --> 00:06:17,195 Speaker 1: Voladimir's Zolensky, which was in essence an extortion attempt, whereby 86 00:06:17,195 --> 00:06:19,835 Speaker 1: Trump would supply Ukraine with weapons he was already obligated 87 00:06:19,875 --> 00:06:22,795 Speaker 1: to supply by treaty in exchange for a little favor 88 00:06:22,835 --> 00:06:25,475 Speaker 1: in which Zelensky would provide or producer, simply make up 89 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:28,395 Speaker 1: evidence that fifteen months ahead of the twenty twenty election, 90 00:06:28,795 --> 00:06:33,155 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was being investigated in Ukraine for corruption. It 91 00:06:33,195 --> 00:06:36,395 Speaker 1: was a simple and itsself corrupt trade. Trump would extort 92 00:06:36,875 --> 00:06:41,075 Speaker 1: fabricated slander against his leading likely opponent in twenty twenty 93 00:06:41,315 --> 00:06:44,155 Speaker 1: in exchange for the weapons with which Zelensky might save, 94 00:06:44,475 --> 00:06:48,555 Speaker 1: you know, the lives of his people. It's a hostage 95 00:06:48,595 --> 00:06:52,835 Speaker 1: situation in any event. You might remember Trump got impeached 96 00:06:52,835 --> 00:06:57,595 Speaker 1: for it. Maybe you read about that the first impeachment 97 00:06:57,835 --> 00:07:00,755 Speaker 1: of the two. Well, already you can see what Trump 98 00:07:00,875 --> 00:07:03,955 Speaker 1: learned from all that. A simple one to one agreement 99 00:07:03,995 --> 00:07:07,635 Speaker 1: with another press that it is insufficient and in fact dangerous. 100 00:07:07,995 --> 00:07:11,235 Speaker 1: A box of phony documents smearing Biden would have been 101 00:07:11,555 --> 00:07:15,555 Speaker 1: insufficient and dangerous in anyways, Zelenski didn't share Trump's gift 102 00:07:15,635 --> 00:07:18,595 Speaker 1: for corruption. What Trump realized at the end of this 103 00:07:18,835 --> 00:07:24,635 Speaker 1: that he needed needs was something more dramatic and seemingly unanswerable, 104 00:07:24,755 --> 00:07:30,795 Speaker 1: like a prison cell confession from Nicholas Maduro, drug kingpin, 105 00:07:32,275 --> 00:07:37,795 Speaker 1: victim of oh US army gallantry, a confession for Maduro 106 00:07:37,875 --> 00:07:41,515 Speaker 1: that he fixed the twenty twenty election for Biden because 107 00:07:41,515 --> 00:07:43,795 Speaker 1: we've never had an explanation on how it was done, 108 00:07:43,955 --> 00:07:47,555 Speaker 1: and this guy would say anything. It's Nicholas effing Maduro. 109 00:07:49,195 --> 00:07:51,315 Speaker 1: And whether or not they pull this off, whether or 110 00:07:51,315 --> 00:07:53,795 Speaker 1: not it gets far enough for them to devote all 111 00:07:53,835 --> 00:07:56,355 Speaker 1: of the resources of the United States of America to 112 00:07:56,595 --> 00:08:00,355 Speaker 1: selling you this bullshit, whether or not they can convince 113 00:08:00,355 --> 00:08:03,795 Speaker 1: people it's real. Trump on Tuesday made two comments that 114 00:08:03,915 --> 00:08:08,755 Speaker 1: confirm he sure as hell is going to try comment 115 00:08:08,875 --> 00:08:12,235 Speaker 1: number one unsolicited so rigged election. 116 00:08:12,315 --> 00:08:15,155 Speaker 2: Everybody knows that now and by the way, numbers are 117 00:08:15,155 --> 00:08:17,355 Speaker 2: coming out that show it even more plainly. 118 00:08:18,075 --> 00:08:20,195 Speaker 3: We caught him, We caught. 119 00:08:20,075 --> 00:08:27,795 Speaker 1: Him, We caught them now. Trump is incapable of not lying, 120 00:08:28,315 --> 00:08:29,995 Speaker 1: so he could have said that at any time. But 121 00:08:30,035 --> 00:08:33,275 Speaker 1: the key to interpreting and understanding Trump's lies is to 122 00:08:33,275 --> 00:08:37,155 Speaker 1: remember that he sells them so well because he has 123 00:08:37,315 --> 00:08:41,235 Speaker 1: convinced himself that they are not lies. It may be 124 00:08:41,355 --> 00:08:46,475 Speaker 1: only temporary, but he believes that's true. Maybe he believes 125 00:08:46,475 --> 00:08:48,835 Speaker 1: it for half an hour, half a day. Who knows, 126 00:08:50,715 --> 00:08:53,395 Speaker 1: and what he needs is and it may be only 127 00:08:53,475 --> 00:08:57,275 Speaker 1: a temporary, fixed, temporary support, but inevitably he needs somebody 128 00:08:57,355 --> 00:09:01,915 Speaker 1: saying something to him about the subject, or he sees 129 00:09:01,955 --> 00:09:04,955 Speaker 1: something on Fox News, or he reads a post or 130 00:09:05,355 --> 00:09:08,755 Speaker 1: more importantly, looks at a meme on truth Social because 131 00:09:08,795 --> 00:09:12,435 Speaker 1: I'm not fully convinced he's literate, and that supplies him 132 00:09:12,435 --> 00:09:15,195 Speaker 1: anew with the bullshit. He needs to turn around and 133 00:09:15,235 --> 00:09:18,635 Speaker 1: try to sell these fantasies to the marks out there, 134 00:09:19,715 --> 00:09:24,315 Speaker 1: his supporters. So what happened here, or more correctly, who 135 00:09:24,435 --> 00:09:28,315 Speaker 1: lied to him and said something had happened with Maduro? 136 00:09:28,715 --> 00:09:32,755 Speaker 1: And that translated in his diseased dissolving cortex into we 137 00:09:32,875 --> 00:09:36,795 Speaker 1: caught them. That was also provided Tuesday by one of 138 00:09:36,795 --> 00:09:39,755 Speaker 1: those propaganda plants who have replaced about one third of 139 00:09:39,795 --> 00:09:43,115 Speaker 1: the journalists who are trotted in to read pre written 140 00:09:43,195 --> 00:09:46,515 Speaker 1: quote questions unquote, which are designed to get Trump to 141 00:09:46,595 --> 00:09:49,315 Speaker 1: remember that it is now time to roll out a 142 00:09:49,395 --> 00:09:54,835 Speaker 1: conspiracy theory slowly in advance, before later detonating the whole 143 00:09:54,915 --> 00:10:00,595 Speaker 1: megaton package of bullshit. This plant, and nobody yet connected 144 00:10:00,635 --> 00:10:04,475 Speaker 1: to the Trump disinformation complex, has ever been better described 145 00:10:04,515 --> 00:10:07,835 Speaker 1: by that word plant in all of its meetings. This 146 00:10:07,995 --> 00:10:11,755 Speaker 1: plant is named Kara Castro Nuova, and she is an 147 00:10:11,955 --> 00:10:15,915 Speaker 1: X boxer, not an IFC fighter, A real old fashioned 148 00:10:16,115 --> 00:10:20,035 Speaker 1: punch you in the face, cross eyed woman boxer whose 149 00:10:20,115 --> 00:10:24,155 Speaker 1: journalistic resume runs the entire gamut. I mean, listen to 150 00:10:24,275 --> 00:10:29,595 Speaker 1: this series of great experiences in news. She's gone from 151 00:10:29,755 --> 00:10:34,835 Speaker 1: NBC's Dieting Show, The Biggest Loser, to voice artistry work 152 00:10:34,875 --> 00:10:38,115 Speaker 1: on the video game Grand Theft Auto to her current 153 00:10:38,155 --> 00:10:43,955 Speaker 1: position White House correspondent for the Mike Lindell News TV 154 00:10:44,195 --> 00:10:52,195 Speaker 1: Network Pillow Talk. Laugh all you want, but this background, 155 00:10:52,395 --> 00:10:58,835 Speaker 1: with this background, Kara Castro Nueva is like, only two 156 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:04,075 Speaker 1: notches down on the journalistic scoreboard from Barry Weiss and 157 00:11:04,195 --> 00:11:09,755 Speaker 1: only one notch down from Stephen A. Smith. Still, when 158 00:11:09,795 --> 00:11:13,275 Speaker 1: it was time for missus castro Nuova to deliver her 159 00:11:13,395 --> 00:11:16,675 Speaker 1: line about Maduro, to read it off a card in 160 00:11:16,715 --> 00:11:19,075 Speaker 1: front of her face or off of her phone, it 161 00:11:19,115 --> 00:11:22,275 Speaker 1: was hard to tell which. For somebody who could actually 162 00:11:22,875 --> 00:11:26,395 Speaker 1: go into Madison Square Garden and hit somebody else in 163 00:11:26,435 --> 00:11:30,355 Speaker 1: front of people in the face, she sure was terrified. 164 00:11:30,715 --> 00:11:33,675 Speaker 4: Thank you so much, President Trump. Kara Kastronova from Glyndell TV. 165 00:11:33,955 --> 00:11:37,635 Speaker 4: And you spoke earlier about the twenty twenty election. Now 166 00:11:37,715 --> 00:11:41,195 Speaker 4: that Maduro is in US custodying he was criminally charged, 167 00:11:41,435 --> 00:11:43,795 Speaker 4: has any more information emerged that you could share with 168 00:11:43,875 --> 00:11:48,315 Speaker 4: us regarding Venezuelan election software and Venezuelan ties to tampering 169 00:11:48,435 --> 00:11:51,275 Speaker 4: with the twenty twenty election? And would you consider speaking 170 00:11:51,315 --> 00:11:55,155 Speaker 4: to Maduro personally in prison in New York to get 171 00:11:55,155 --> 00:11:57,875 Speaker 4: some answers on Venezuela's involvement with the twenty twenty election. 172 00:11:58,115 --> 00:11:59,795 Speaker 1: No, I don't think I would be doing that. 173 00:11:59,875 --> 00:12:02,835 Speaker 3: I think my lawyership very unhappy. 174 00:12:01,515 --> 00:12:08,035 Speaker 1: If yeah, they've learned, they've learned something, So would Trump 175 00:12:08,075 --> 00:12:11,275 Speaker 1: go and talk to Maduro personally in jail about the 176 00:12:11,275 --> 00:12:15,635 Speaker 1: twenty twenty election, like Jack Ruby wanting to meet with 177 00:12:15,675 --> 00:12:20,115 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court justices after the Kennedy assassination. No, no, 178 00:12:20,195 --> 00:12:24,955 Speaker 1: of course, not. Have Trump's scumbags already gone and talked 179 00:12:24,995 --> 00:12:29,435 Speaker 1: to Maduro personally about the twenty twenty election. Sure, and 180 00:12:29,515 --> 00:12:35,555 Speaker 1: Trump says they've learned some things. And as you heard earlier, 181 00:12:36,555 --> 00:12:41,275 Speaker 1: we caught them. It's not hard to construct the rest 182 00:12:41,275 --> 00:12:43,275 Speaker 1: of this in your own mind. You don't really need 183 00:12:43,355 --> 00:12:46,955 Speaker 1: me for this part. They proceed with the prosecution of Maduro, 184 00:12:47,555 --> 00:12:50,195 Speaker 1: and then Trump produces a few more shots across Joe 185 00:12:50,275 --> 00:12:54,355 Speaker 1: Biden's bow. He hinted at prosecuting Biden last week for 186 00:12:54,475 --> 00:12:59,195 Speaker 1: what he suggested was illegally being president, and he's hinted 187 00:12:59,275 --> 00:13:02,115 Speaker 1: again this week. Quote Biden and the radical left thugs 188 00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:04,835 Speaker 1: that surrounded the resolution desk in the Oval Office, and 189 00:13:04,875 --> 00:13:07,235 Speaker 1: of course the illegal use of the auto pen. They 190 00:13:07,275 --> 00:13:13,355 Speaker 1: should be in jail, as we know, those posts and 191 00:13:13,635 --> 00:13:18,035 Speaker 1: memos to Pam Bondi are interchangeable. And oh, by the way, 192 00:13:18,035 --> 00:13:20,395 Speaker 1: it's the resolute desk, Grandpa. 193 00:13:20,555 --> 00:13:25,075 Speaker 3: We are thousands of miles away, separated by a giant ocean. 194 00:13:26,515 --> 00:13:28,795 Speaker 3: It's a war that should have never started, and it 195 00:13:28,835 --> 00:13:32,835 Speaker 3: wouldn't have started if the twenty twenty US presidential election 196 00:13:32,955 --> 00:13:35,675 Speaker 3: weren't rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows 197 00:13:35,715 --> 00:13:40,075 Speaker 3: that they found out. People will soon be prosecuted for 198 00:13:40,155 --> 00:13:45,275 Speaker 3: what they did. It's probably breaking news, but it should be. 199 00:13:45,435 --> 00:13:48,115 Speaker 3: It's a rigged election. Can't have rigged elections. 200 00:13:48,555 --> 00:13:51,875 Speaker 1: So first he softens up the field with some more 201 00:13:52,195 --> 00:13:56,075 Speaker 1: not so veiled threats against Biden and his administration. Then 202 00:13:56,075 --> 00:13:59,515 Speaker 1: at some point there is a bombshell leak that Maduro 203 00:13:59,635 --> 00:14:03,675 Speaker 1: is ready to confess that he has information vital to 204 00:14:04,715 --> 00:14:08,115 Speaker 1: and the QAN on about the twenty twenty election, and 205 00:14:08,195 --> 00:14:11,355 Speaker 1: a wave of panic sweeps through magaland that they're gonna 206 00:14:11,395 --> 00:14:15,035 Speaker 1: epstein him in present, and by epstein, I mean suicide him, 207 00:14:14,995 --> 00:14:17,115 Speaker 1: I don't mean Trump breaking the law and covering up 208 00:14:17,155 --> 00:14:19,835 Speaker 1: all the Maduro documents that he was required to release 209 00:14:19,835 --> 00:14:23,275 Speaker 1: a month ago, like all the Epstein documents. And then 210 00:14:23,275 --> 00:14:27,515 Speaker 1: there's some kind of in jail interview. Martha McCallum would 211 00:14:27,515 --> 00:14:31,355 Speaker 1: be okay, Tony de Koppel would be better. Of course, 212 00:14:31,395 --> 00:14:35,795 Speaker 1: he might be working for Mike Lindel TV by then anyway, 213 00:14:35,795 --> 00:14:38,955 Speaker 1: finally there is a congressional hearing. James Comer would be nice, 214 00:14:39,035 --> 00:14:42,315 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan would be better, and then presto chango. Maduro 215 00:14:42,355 --> 00:14:45,955 Speaker 1: either gets pardoned. Remember the joke when they kidnapped him. 216 00:14:46,115 --> 00:14:48,835 Speaker 1: Maduro should just go into court the first minute and 217 00:14:48,875 --> 00:14:52,315 Speaker 1: say what are the charges? Then say I plead guilty, 218 00:14:52,555 --> 00:14:54,715 Speaker 1: then say, in the same breath, Okay, so I'm a 219 00:14:54,795 --> 00:14:59,315 Speaker 1: drug dealer, where's my pardon? Trump? Maduro gets pardoned, or 220 00:14:59,355 --> 00:15:02,235 Speaker 1: his sentence gets reduced to time served, or they give 221 00:15:02,275 --> 00:15:06,555 Speaker 1: him his own island somewhere, or or this is the 222 00:15:06,555 --> 00:15:15,795 Speaker 1: CBS Evening News with Nicholas Maduro. Okay, I maybe getting 223 00:15:15,835 --> 00:15:20,435 Speaker 1: carried away here, but this is the next scam. Whether 224 00:15:20,555 --> 00:15:23,755 Speaker 1: it is of any practical use or not is debatable, 225 00:15:24,115 --> 00:15:26,395 Speaker 1: But no matter the answer, it is essential that Trump 226 00:15:26,435 --> 00:15:31,195 Speaker 1: convinces everybody he really won because of yet another version 227 00:15:31,235 --> 00:15:37,235 Speaker 1: of our old friend Annosagnosia. The thought that somewhere somebody 228 00:15:37,275 --> 00:15:40,835 Speaker 1: believes he lost. Truly, two hundred and fifty two hundred 229 00:15:40,835 --> 00:15:44,995 Speaker 1: and seventy five million Americans believe that at least, but 230 00:15:45,035 --> 00:15:48,835 Speaker 1: he doesn't believe that either. The thought that anybody believes 231 00:15:48,835 --> 00:15:51,995 Speaker 1: he's a loser, that they laugh at him about twenty twenty. 232 00:15:52,155 --> 00:15:58,035 Speaker 1: This is intolerable to Trump still forever it is unfixable. 233 00:15:59,835 --> 00:16:02,395 Speaker 1: He will die and his last thought will be about 234 00:16:02,395 --> 00:16:07,275 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. But the point now to our 235 00:16:07,315 --> 00:16:09,595 Speaker 1: purposes right now is that no matter what Trump has 236 00:16:09,595 --> 00:16:13,555 Speaker 1: accomplished in the last year of hell, and as impossible 237 00:16:13,595 --> 00:16:16,555 Speaker 1: as this sounds, there is some comfort to the reality 238 00:16:16,595 --> 00:16:21,115 Speaker 1: that his hell has been worse than ours because he 239 00:16:21,275 --> 00:16:26,835 Speaker 1: is so deeply mentally disturbed, and the thought that people 240 00:16:27,355 --> 00:16:32,195 Speaker 1: repudiated him, that he did not defeat an opponent, that. 241 00:16:32,195 --> 00:16:42,195 Speaker 5: He lost an election is always there, waiting to blank 242 00:16:42,275 --> 00:16:45,035 Speaker 5: out the vision of life in front of him. It's 243 00:16:45,155 --> 00:16:51,195 Speaker 5: always there to ruin even his most evil fun And 244 00:16:51,235 --> 00:16:56,555 Speaker 5: so we had the Zelensky bullshit of twenty nineteen, and 245 00:16:56,635 --> 00:16:58,875 Speaker 5: I think what we learned this week is we are 246 00:16:59,035 --> 00:17:03,555 Speaker 5: probably going to have the Maduro bullshit of twenty twenty six. 247 00:17:28,035 --> 00:17:30,315 Speaker 5: Now I should go back to my original premise here 248 00:17:30,315 --> 00:17:35,835 Speaker 5: that he cannot continue as president once again. No shit, Keith, Well, 249 00:17:35,955 --> 00:17:39,235 Speaker 5: you really stayed up nights thinking about that one. How 250 00:17:39,235 --> 00:17:42,475 Speaker 5: to fix this when there are still only motives for 251 00:17:42,555 --> 00:17:45,795 Speaker 5: his enablers to keep him there and there are as 252 00:17:45,875 --> 00:17:48,275 Speaker 5: yet no real motives for them to get him out 253 00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:51,595 Speaker 5: of there. I still don't know. I saw a member 254 00:17:51,635 --> 00:17:55,475 Speaker 5: of the British House of Lords ask in public when 255 00:17:56,195 --> 00:17:59,115 Speaker 5: Trump's Republican supporters would turn on him. This was a 256 00:17:59,195 --> 00:18:06,755 Speaker 5: conservative British peer, the upper crust of the Conservatives, the 257 00:18:06,875 --> 00:18:10,315 Speaker 5: sons and grandsons of the guys who wanted to make 258 00:18:10,315 --> 00:18:15,275 Speaker 5: a deal with Hitler. And he thinks the Republicans will 259 00:18:15,315 --> 00:18:18,275 Speaker 5: eventually turn on Trump and are about to do it. Well, 260 00:18:18,315 --> 00:18:22,395 Speaker 5: why you turn on him? And if you succeed and 261 00:18:22,395 --> 00:18:26,155 Speaker 5: he's out of power, he can't pardon you. If you 262 00:18:26,235 --> 00:18:29,715 Speaker 5: turn on him, you lose your power, probably immediately. You 263 00:18:29,995 --> 00:18:32,835 Speaker 5: lose your seat in Congress or the Senate or wherever 264 00:18:32,875 --> 00:18:35,395 Speaker 5: else you are. If you turn on him, you lose 265 00:18:35,435 --> 00:18:37,955 Speaker 5: all the money that is being siphoned to you, all 266 00:18:37,995 --> 00:18:40,635 Speaker 5: the stock tips you get in advance, all the access 267 00:18:40,675 --> 00:18:43,115 Speaker 5: to pardons for your friends. If you turn on him, 268 00:18:43,235 --> 00:18:50,155 Speaker 5: the Epstein files are released, possibly before nightfall. So no, 269 00:18:50,555 --> 00:18:53,475 Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I don't have a fix yet. I don't 270 00:18:53,475 --> 00:18:56,555 Speaker 5: know when this became my personal responsibility, but nobody else 271 00:18:56,555 --> 00:18:58,955 Speaker 5: seems to be interested in trying to solve it. But 272 00:18:59,275 --> 00:19:02,275 Speaker 5: I do have an endless supply of analogies, and that 273 00:19:02,355 --> 00:19:05,035 Speaker 5: thing Tuesday, other than the Maduro part, was like watching 274 00:19:05,035 --> 00:19:08,595 Speaker 5: a movie length version of an all time classic Saturday 275 00:19:08,635 --> 00:19:11,635 Speaker 5: Night Live sketch that might be before your time. The 276 00:19:11,675 --> 00:19:19,555 Speaker 5: great Dan Ackroid in full six foot tall giant bosomie attire, 277 00:19:20,355 --> 00:19:26,355 Speaker 5: portraying the French chef the famed Julia Child on PBS. 278 00:19:26,075 --> 00:19:29,555 Speaker 3: Who talked like this save a Liver. 279 00:19:30,595 --> 00:19:35,155 Speaker 1: Only he portrayed her having just sliced up chicken and 280 00:19:35,315 --> 00:19:41,555 Speaker 1: accidentally cutting her wrist and bleeding unbelievably profusely and quickly 281 00:19:41,555 --> 00:19:44,075 Speaker 1: beginning to pass out from loss of blood, all while 282 00:19:44,235 --> 00:19:46,955 Speaker 1: still trying to continue her show and her cooking lesson. 283 00:19:48,075 --> 00:19:53,435 Speaker 1: Ackroyd begins to almost sing save the Liver, Save and 284 00:19:53,595 --> 00:19:57,395 Speaker 1: bounce from topic to topic to topic, and he she 285 00:19:58,035 --> 00:20:02,675 Speaker 1: ends up with, I remember when I was a little. 286 00:20:02,315 --> 00:20:07,435 Speaker 5: Girl and my mother I said to me, we. 287 00:20:07,395 --> 00:20:10,635 Speaker 2: Had a place called Creedmore Creed more than anybody know 288 00:20:10,755 --> 00:20:14,115 Speaker 2: that Creed Moore, who was a big I said, Mom, 289 00:20:14,995 --> 00:20:17,435 Speaker 2: why are those bars on the building? I used to 290 00:20:17,475 --> 00:20:21,635 Speaker 2: play little league baseball there at the place called Cunningham Park. 291 00:20:23,395 --> 00:20:26,555 Speaker 2: Who's quite the baseball player you wouldn't believe, But I 292 00:20:26,635 --> 00:20:30,795 Speaker 2: said to my mother. Mom, she would be there, always 293 00:20:30,835 --> 00:20:33,235 Speaker 2: there for me. She said, son, you could be a 294 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:37,075 Speaker 2: professional baseball player. I said, thanks, Mom, I said, why 295 00:20:37,075 --> 00:20:38,915 Speaker 2: are those bars on the windows? 296 00:20:39,835 --> 00:20:43,475 Speaker 3: Big building, big powerful. 297 00:20:42,955 --> 00:20:46,795 Speaker 1: Building, everything but save the liver. Thank you, Julia Child. Trump, 298 00:20:47,795 --> 00:20:54,275 Speaker 1: baseball and insane asylums. By the way, exhaustive studies of 299 00:20:54,315 --> 00:20:57,915 Speaker 1: the surviving box scores from Trump's three years as the 300 00:20:57,955 --> 00:21:01,675 Speaker 1: first basement at NIMA, the New York Military Academy. He 301 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:05,395 Speaker 1: went there instead of to reform school show that this 302 00:21:05,635 --> 00:21:09,035 Speaker 1: future Hall of famer mommy told him so had a 303 00:21:09,075 --> 00:21:15,275 Speaker 1: high school career batting average of one thirty eight. I 304 00:21:15,315 --> 00:21:20,875 Speaker 1: mean that's less than mine. The rest of Trump's brain 305 00:21:21,195 --> 00:21:24,235 Speaker 1: bleeding out, like Acroyd's version of Julia Child, was reflected 306 00:21:24,275 --> 00:21:27,515 Speaker 1: in his overnight social media dump that preceded that press conference, 307 00:21:27,675 --> 00:21:31,035 Speaker 1: leaking the text from Emmanuel Macron and NATO's Secretary General 308 00:21:31,075 --> 00:21:33,435 Speaker 1: Mark Rute and retweeting the guy who said the real 309 00:21:33,555 --> 00:21:36,555 Speaker 1: enemy is NATO and the UN and that Greenland meme 310 00:21:36,635 --> 00:21:39,315 Speaker 1: and the Greenland Canada meme and the threat to tear 311 00:21:39,515 --> 00:21:42,835 Speaker 1: French wines if Trump doesn't get Macron to pony up 312 00:21:42,875 --> 00:21:45,675 Speaker 1: a billion dollars to jump to Trump's new alternate un 313 00:21:45,715 --> 00:21:48,715 Speaker 1: the Legion of Doom or whatever he's calling it, and 314 00:21:48,795 --> 00:21:50,995 Speaker 1: his insistence that he doesn't care about the Nobel but 315 00:21:51,035 --> 00:21:53,755 Speaker 1: Norway does fix the Nobel Prizes And isn't it too 316 00:21:53,755 --> 00:21:56,555 Speaker 1: bad there are too many insane killers around you that 317 00:21:56,635 --> 00:21:59,915 Speaker 1: you can't talk to. Does he own a mirror? And 318 00:21:59,955 --> 00:22:03,235 Speaker 1: then the only one that really mattered? Whereas if we 319 00:22:03,315 --> 00:22:05,995 Speaker 1: needed a reminder that it is not that Trump does 320 00:22:06,035 --> 00:22:09,315 Speaker 1: not feel anything for other people, it is that Trump 321 00:22:09,435 --> 00:22:13,955 Speaker 1: cannot really process the idea that there are other people 322 00:22:14,835 --> 00:22:18,475 Speaker 1: on this planet and that there are things in their 323 00:22:18,595 --> 00:22:23,995 Speaker 1: lives that have nothing to do with Trump. Renee Good's wife, 324 00:22:24,195 --> 00:22:28,435 Speaker 1: per Trump, is a liar who never cared about her. 325 00:22:28,555 --> 00:22:31,715 Speaker 1: Didn't care about her as she watched her being murdered 326 00:22:32,075 --> 00:22:35,315 Speaker 1: by an ice thug. No no, no no, It was 327 00:22:35,355 --> 00:22:37,875 Speaker 1: clear because she sang like an opera singer, like a 328 00:22:37,875 --> 00:22:42,595 Speaker 1: professional opera singer, so loud, a professional agitator who did 329 00:22:42,635 --> 00:22:46,435 Speaker 1: not respond the right way according to Trump, to witnessing 330 00:22:46,475 --> 00:22:49,675 Speaker 1: her wife being murdered, didn't have the right kind of pain, 331 00:22:49,835 --> 00:22:53,675 Speaker 1: according to Donald Trump, when street thugs working for Donald 332 00:22:53,675 --> 00:22:59,275 Speaker 1: Trump killed Renee Good, but Renee Good's father he's important 333 00:22:59,315 --> 00:23:04,515 Speaker 1: here because Renee Good's father is a Trump. 334 00:23:05,435 --> 00:23:11,595 Speaker 2: When she was shot, there was another woman that was screaming, shame, shame, shame, shame. Right, 335 00:23:11,755 --> 00:23:17,075 Speaker 2: he said, so loud, like a professional opera singer. She 336 00:23:17,155 --> 00:23:20,395 Speaker 2: was so loud and so professional. 337 00:23:21,355 --> 00:23:21,995 Speaker 3: She wasn't a. 338 00:23:21,915 --> 00:23:25,795 Speaker 2: Woman that was hurt, like, oh my heart's injured. She 339 00:23:25,915 --> 00:23:31,795 Speaker 2: was a professionals. Shame shame. She's screaming, shame shap I said, 340 00:23:31,835 --> 00:23:35,995 Speaker 2: that's not a normal person. That's that's a professional. These 341 00:23:36,035 --> 00:23:39,355 Speaker 2: are professional agitators and professional people that want to see 342 00:23:39,355 --> 00:23:42,435 Speaker 2: our country do badly. I felt horribly when I was 343 00:23:42,475 --> 00:23:48,115 Speaker 2: told that the young woman who was I had the tragedy. 344 00:23:48,195 --> 00:23:50,675 Speaker 2: It's a tragedy. It's a horrible thing. Everybody would say 345 00:23:50,755 --> 00:23:54,595 Speaker 2: Ice would say the same thing. But when I learned 346 00:23:54,635 --> 00:23:59,795 Speaker 2: her her parents, and her father in particular is like, I. 347 00:23:59,715 --> 00:24:01,155 Speaker 3: Hope he still is, but I don't know. 348 00:24:02,155 --> 00:24:06,315 Speaker 2: Was a tremendous Trump fan, was all for Trump, loved Trump, 349 00:24:07,675 --> 00:24:12,875 Speaker 2: and you know, it's terrible. I was told that by 350 00:24:12,875 --> 00:24:14,915 Speaker 2: a lot of people. They said, oh, he loves you. 351 00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:16,795 Speaker 1: He was hoped. 352 00:24:17,115 --> 00:24:19,355 Speaker 3: I hope he still feels that way. And I sorry, 353 00:24:19,755 --> 00:24:20,555 Speaker 3: hard situation. 354 00:24:20,675 --> 00:24:24,875 Speaker 2: But her father was a tremendous and parents for tremendous 355 00:24:25,155 --> 00:24:25,955 Speaker 2: Trump fans. 356 00:24:27,035 --> 00:24:29,315 Speaker 1: And so there is the true lesson of Trump's invasion 357 00:24:29,355 --> 00:24:32,675 Speaker 1: of Minnesota, his terrorism against that state and its people, 358 00:24:32,875 --> 00:24:37,315 Speaker 1: his white trash racism towards Somali Americans, the evolution of 359 00:24:37,355 --> 00:24:41,635 Speaker 1: his white trash racism towards African Americans when Trump and 360 00:24:41,675 --> 00:24:45,195 Speaker 1: his white trash father were prosecuted for it by the 361 00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:49,235 Speaker 1: Nixon administration in nineteen seventy three. There is the true 362 00:24:49,315 --> 00:24:53,115 Speaker 1: lesson of ICE's refusal to pay medical bills for the 363 00:24:53,155 --> 00:24:57,115 Speaker 1: injuries and illnesses its gestapo has inflicted on our neighbors 364 00:24:57,235 --> 00:25:00,915 Speaker 1: and our friends and our citizens, the true lesson of 365 00:25:00,955 --> 00:25:03,435 Speaker 1: the laws that were supposed to protect those people, and 366 00:25:03,555 --> 00:25:07,355 Speaker 1: usu lesson of the fact that the FBI found cause 367 00:25:07,435 --> 00:25:09,795 Speaker 1: to investigate the murder of Renee Good, but dropped it 368 00:25:09,835 --> 00:25:12,315 Speaker 1: so the Department of Justice could instead keep the focus 369 00:25:12,435 --> 00:25:15,555 Speaker 1: on trying to prosecute Mayor Fry and Governor Walls for 370 00:25:15,635 --> 00:25:21,435 Speaker 1: what they said about Ice. For what you may say 371 00:25:21,475 --> 00:25:24,315 Speaker 1: next about Ice or anything else Trump doesn't like you saying. 372 00:25:25,595 --> 00:25:28,555 Speaker 1: Therein lies the true lesson of all the horrors that 373 00:25:28,595 --> 00:25:30,835 Speaker 1: have played out, thanks holly to the madness of the 374 00:25:30,955 --> 00:25:34,915 Speaker 1: terrorist Donald John Trump, we discover that the true lesson, 375 00:25:34,955 --> 00:25:38,515 Speaker 1: the true tragedy, the true crisis, is something else altogether. 376 00:25:38,755 --> 00:25:44,315 Speaker 1: That the true victim here is Trump, because the woman 377 00:25:44,395 --> 00:25:47,915 Speaker 1: he murdered by proxy was the daughter of one of 378 00:25:47,955 --> 00:25:53,515 Speaker 1: his fans. And the unbelievable, the unbearable may now happen 379 00:25:54,155 --> 00:26:02,355 Speaker 1: to Trump. Her father may for some reason not be 380 00:26:02,515 --> 00:26:16,955 Speaker 1: a Trump fan. More in passing congrats to the Vice 381 00:26:16,995 --> 00:26:19,915 Speaker 1: President and the Second Lady of the United States, JB. 382 00:26:20,115 --> 00:26:24,835 Speaker 1: And Usha Vance. The latter, the second lady, I have 383 00:26:24,995 --> 00:26:28,995 Speaker 1: only now learned. I was this many days old when 384 00:26:29,035 --> 00:26:32,555 Speaker 1: I found out that the Vice President's wife goes by 385 00:26:32,595 --> 00:26:41,875 Speaker 1: the unfortunate acronym of slot us slowtus. How slow is 386 00:26:41,915 --> 00:26:48,995 Speaker 1: she exactly? Slottus? Who you call on a slot? Well, anyway, 387 00:26:49,155 --> 00:26:52,355 Speaker 1: my congratulations because they have a fourth child on the way, 388 00:26:52,635 --> 00:26:57,475 Speaker 1: And my congratulations particularly to missus Vance. Your couch motif 389 00:26:57,675 --> 00:27:06,275 Speaker 1: lingerie has worked yet again. Oh the pillows also of 390 00:27:06,315 --> 00:27:08,715 Speaker 1: interest here. So you'd think if you'd been on TV 391 00:27:08,875 --> 00:27:11,675 Speaker 1: doing the news for an hour or more every night 392 00:27:11,755 --> 00:27:13,715 Speaker 1: for nearly a quarter of a century, and you were 393 00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:16,275 Speaker 1: on a network that was once widely thought to be 394 00:27:16,355 --> 00:27:18,955 Speaker 1: liberal and once widely thought to be anti Trump and 395 00:27:18,995 --> 00:27:23,035 Speaker 1: once widely watched that you would not react with a condescending, 396 00:27:23,355 --> 00:27:28,195 Speaker 1: disbelieving smirk when a sitting United States Senator finally came 397 00:27:28,235 --> 00:27:32,115 Speaker 1: out and said to you, Trump is insane. You might 398 00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:37,515 Speaker 1: think that, then again, you are not Anderson Effing Cooper. 399 00:27:38,475 --> 00:27:42,555 Speaker 1: That idiot is next. This is an all new episode 400 00:27:43,035 --> 00:28:09,555 Speaker 1: of Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman still ahead 401 00:28:09,595 --> 00:28:12,275 Speaker 1: on this all new edition of Countdown. This time of year, 402 00:28:12,555 --> 00:28:18,275 Speaker 1: just forty nine years ago, and I am at LaGuardia 403 00:28:18,355 --> 00:28:21,955 Speaker 1: Airport in New York about to board a flight along 404 00:28:21,955 --> 00:28:24,875 Speaker 1: with the president of Corneill University. And that's when I 405 00:28:25,115 --> 00:28:30,115 Speaker 1: and I alone look out the window towards where the 406 00:28:30,155 --> 00:28:32,515 Speaker 1: plane is parked, and I notice they are trying to 407 00:28:32,555 --> 00:28:40,355 Speaker 1: repair the undercarriage with paper towels, paper towels that they 408 00:28:40,355 --> 00:28:46,155 Speaker 1: are stuffing up into the underside of the craft. I 409 00:28:46,195 --> 00:28:51,675 Speaker 1: swear next, in Things I promised not to tell first 410 00:28:51,675 --> 00:28:53,635 Speaker 1: of believe it or not, there's still more new idiots 411 00:28:53,675 --> 00:28:55,835 Speaker 1: to talk about. The roundup of the miscrants, morons and 412 00:28:55,915 --> 00:29:01,435 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons 413 00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:08,475 Speaker 1: in the world's worse the NFL Buffalo Bills, Chapter one 414 00:29:08,595 --> 00:29:11,955 Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen of the punishment that is being the 415 00:29:11,995 --> 00:29:15,755 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. They lose their NFL playoff game thirty three 416 00:29:15,795 --> 00:29:19,275 Speaker 1: to thirty to the Denver Broncos. Then the next morning 417 00:29:19,395 --> 00:29:23,075 Speaker 1: they fired their head coach, and then the screw ups 418 00:29:23,155 --> 00:29:29,275 Speaker 1: began their posted press release begins. The Buffalo Bills announced 419 00:29:29,315 --> 00:29:31,755 Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott has been relieved of his duties as 420 00:29:31,795 --> 00:29:35,435 Speaker 1: head coach, and then they launched into the obligatory oh 421 00:29:35,515 --> 00:29:40,275 Speaker 1: but we still love him from owner Terry Pagoula and 422 00:29:40,395 --> 00:29:45,515 Speaker 1: Terry Bakula's quote is, Sean has done an admiral job 423 00:29:46,235 --> 00:29:50,475 Speaker 1: of leading our football team. Sean has done an admiral 424 00:29:50,675 --> 00:29:58,675 Speaker 1: job of leading our football team. II MATI. If your 425 00:29:58,835 --> 00:30:04,715 Speaker 1: owner thinks the adjective is admiral not admirable, the the 426 00:30:04,795 --> 00:30:10,755 Speaker 1: problem isn't the coach. And if your owner still hasn't 427 00:30:10,835 --> 00:30:16,315 Speaker 1: had the post with the typo deleted like three days later, 428 00:30:17,235 --> 00:30:27,075 Speaker 1: the problem isn't going to be fixed. Admiral I spoke 429 00:30:27,195 --> 00:30:30,795 Speaker 1: straight ahead. The runner up worser labor Secretary Laurie Chavez 430 00:30:30,875 --> 00:30:35,995 Speaker 1: Dureamer going down with her ship or something under investigation 431 00:30:36,075 --> 00:30:39,195 Speaker 1: by the Inspector General in her department, who is a 432 00:30:39,275 --> 00:30:43,955 Speaker 1: former Republican congressman. Now you may remember Chavez Dureamer from 433 00:30:43,995 --> 00:30:48,515 Speaker 1: her proclamation that she was elected Labor secretary. Somebody has 434 00:30:48,595 --> 00:30:51,515 Speaker 1: to explain the elections to her, and her later decision 435 00:30:51,555 --> 00:30:55,075 Speaker 1: to hang a giant Kim Jong unstyle building sized banner 436 00:30:55,115 --> 00:30:59,235 Speaker 1: of Trump from the top of the Labor Department headquarters. Well, 437 00:30:59,675 --> 00:31:02,075 Speaker 1: it turns out she's had time to do other things 438 00:31:03,155 --> 00:31:07,835 Speaker 1: like one of this is in her own office, allegedly 439 00:31:07,875 --> 00:31:10,155 Speaker 1: an affair with somebody who works for her in the 440 00:31:10,195 --> 00:31:16,075 Speaker 1: Department of Labor, and telling her office leaders to fabricate 441 00:31:16,195 --> 00:31:20,275 Speaker 1: quote unofficial or rather official unquote trips to make it 442 00:31:20,355 --> 00:31:24,595 Speaker 1: look like these gallivantings where their bow were actually listening 443 00:31:24,715 --> 00:31:29,715 Speaker 1: tours about labor issues nationally, labor issues in places such 444 00:31:29,715 --> 00:31:35,715 Speaker 1: as the Angels Strip club outside Portland. But that's not 445 00:31:35,875 --> 00:31:40,275 Speaker 1: why she's on the list. I don't judge people here 446 00:31:41,155 --> 00:31:43,875 Speaker 1: more than once a minute. I don't judge people here. 447 00:31:44,075 --> 00:31:47,515 Speaker 1: And remember, every moment that a Trump cabinet family member 448 00:31:48,195 --> 00:31:51,995 Speaker 1: is breaking his or her marital oath is one last 449 00:31:51,995 --> 00:31:57,315 Speaker 1: moment they are spending screwing the country. No, she wins 450 00:31:57,355 --> 00:32:01,195 Speaker 1: the silver because Secretary Lorie chavezder Riemer's attorney is named 451 00:32:01,875 --> 00:32:10,315 Speaker 1: doctor Nick Oberheiden. Her lawyer is doctor Nick like from 452 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:15,675 Speaker 1: the Simpsons, Hi everybody but doctor Nick as a lawyer, 453 00:32:16,115 --> 00:32:20,875 Speaker 1: So he's half Doctor Nick and half Lionel Huts. What 454 00:32:21,035 --> 00:32:26,395 Speaker 1: could possibly go wrong? But the winner worst a tie 455 00:32:26,675 --> 00:32:28,675 Speaker 1: and it's two people who belong together as two of 456 00:32:28,715 --> 00:32:33,155 Speaker 1: the most overrated journalists of the generation. We start with 457 00:32:34,275 --> 00:32:37,355 Speaker 1: one a Jim Vanda Hih, co founder of Politico, a 458 00:32:37,395 --> 00:32:40,795 Speaker 1: co founder of Axios, and obviously already heading to hell 459 00:32:41,275 --> 00:32:44,315 Speaker 1: for those two accomplishments. But as the nation dissolves around 460 00:32:44,395 --> 00:32:48,475 Speaker 1: him and politics becomes nothing but insanity, bribery, violence, and cowardice, 461 00:32:48,635 --> 00:32:51,315 Speaker 1: Jim Vanda Hih has his finger on the pulse of 462 00:32:51,355 --> 00:32:57,035 Speaker 1: America in crisis. He posts quote Axios quiz. Nearly twenty 463 00:32:57,035 --> 00:33:00,915 Speaker 1: democrats viewed as possible twenty twenty eight contenders on trans 464 00:33:01,075 --> 00:33:04,915 Speaker 1: rights almost all ducked it. We asked, what is your 465 00:33:04,915 --> 00:33:07,715 Speaker 1: response to the question can a man become a woman? 466 00:33:08,555 --> 00:33:14,035 Speaker 1: Ram the rare dim to speak bluntly, there it is 467 00:33:14,955 --> 00:33:19,555 Speaker 1: the pressing question of our time, and I guess it 468 00:33:19,675 --> 00:33:22,515 Speaker 1: was asked simply in order to be able to write 469 00:33:22,635 --> 00:33:25,955 Speaker 1: that seeming throwaway at the end, ROM the rare dem 470 00:33:25,955 --> 00:33:30,595 Speaker 1: to speak bluntly. Rom, since you probably don't know, is 471 00:33:30,755 --> 00:33:36,635 Speaker 1: Rom Immanuel Clinton and Obama B list staffer, the forgotten 472 00:33:36,675 --> 00:33:39,555 Speaker 1: former mayor of Chicago and one of the new crop 473 00:33:39,635 --> 00:33:42,875 Speaker 1: of those like Stephen A. Smith suffering from the disease 474 00:33:42,995 --> 00:33:45,875 Speaker 1: known as sure nobody knows who the fi am, but 475 00:33:45,915 --> 00:33:48,035 Speaker 1: I'm going to be president next time. I swear I 476 00:33:48,115 --> 00:33:54,875 Speaker 1: swear president no of America. And he spoke bluntly about 477 00:33:55,275 --> 00:33:58,555 Speaker 1: the decisive issue of the twenty twenty eight primaries in general, 478 00:33:59,075 --> 00:34:02,555 Speaker 1: which is how you answer possibly the dumbest of all 479 00:34:02,635 --> 00:34:07,555 Speaker 1: the magus smeary talking points. Had to find something they 480 00:34:07,555 --> 00:34:10,115 Speaker 1: could compliment Rob Manuel about, and that's what it was. 481 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:13,195 Speaker 1: Sharing honors with the guy who made this crap up, 482 00:34:13,275 --> 00:34:17,475 Speaker 1: Jim Vanda High. Somebody from a very rare category journalists. 483 00:34:17,755 --> 00:34:22,595 Speaker 1: Even more overrated than Jim Vanda High CNN's Anderson Cooper. 484 00:34:23,675 --> 00:34:27,435 Speaker 1: Now in year twenty five of the world's longest running 485 00:34:27,795 --> 00:34:32,755 Speaker 1: failed marketing campaign, millions and millions of dollars have been 486 00:34:32,795 --> 00:34:37,355 Speaker 1: spent by owner after owner after owner of CNN to 487 00:34:37,555 --> 00:34:41,835 Speaker 1: make him America's newsman, and he has still never won 488 00:34:42,275 --> 00:34:47,155 Speaker 1: his own time slot in cable. He still never actually 489 00:34:47,235 --> 00:34:51,715 Speaker 1: produced a commentary or even an observation that you can remember. 490 00:34:53,915 --> 00:34:56,475 Speaker 1: I admit he's gone to a lot of crises and 491 00:34:56,475 --> 00:35:00,275 Speaker 1: and done crisis porn, and his eyes have always matched 492 00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:05,515 Speaker 1: his bulletproof vest. But his greatest ac pomplishment to date 493 00:35:05,555 --> 00:35:08,875 Speaker 1: is getting drunk on New Year's even giggling. I mean 494 00:35:08,915 --> 00:35:13,795 Speaker 1: it is, Although the remark that brings him onto this 495 00:35:13,835 --> 00:35:16,475 Speaker 1: list alongside Jim Vanda I is somewhere among his top 496 00:35:16,515 --> 00:35:20,635 Speaker 1: ten failures. Are you ready? Cooper on CNN praises European 497 00:35:20,715 --> 00:35:24,675 Speaker 1: leaders for looking for an off ramp with Trump about Greenland, 498 00:35:25,395 --> 00:35:29,035 Speaker 1: and then asks Senator Reuben Diego if he really thinks 499 00:35:29,075 --> 00:35:32,715 Speaker 1: there is such an off rant and Diego letter rip. 500 00:35:33,315 --> 00:35:37,115 Speaker 1: Diego replies, quote, No, I've been very clear. He is 501 00:35:37,155 --> 00:35:41,635 Speaker 1: a madman. He is insane. He's only thinking about himself. Hey, 502 00:35:42,355 --> 00:35:46,075 Speaker 1: At which point Cooper interrupts. Cooper screws up his face. 503 00:35:46,675 --> 00:35:49,235 Speaker 1: Cooper gives him that I really need to get my 504 00:35:49,395 --> 00:35:52,475 Speaker 1: eyes examined, looked. I can't see anything with these glasses. 505 00:35:52,675 --> 00:35:54,875 Speaker 1: Is that my car on fire in the parking lot? 506 00:35:55,635 --> 00:36:00,555 Speaker 1: You know that? Look? Whereupon Anderson Cooper then says, shocked, 507 00:36:00,835 --> 00:36:03,715 Speaker 1: as if it has never occurred, not just to him, 508 00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:06,235 Speaker 1: but it has never to anybody in the history of 509 00:36:06,235 --> 00:36:11,595 Speaker 1: the world before quote, you really think he's insane? Diego 510 00:36:11,675 --> 00:36:16,715 Speaker 1: interrupts back, Yes, I'm sorry. Where are we at this 511 00:36:16,835 --> 00:36:19,355 Speaker 1: moment that we don't understand what's happening in this country. 512 00:36:19,835 --> 00:36:23,275 Speaker 1: He is not rational right now. None of this is rational. 513 00:36:23,595 --> 00:36:28,035 Speaker 1: Everyone needs to stop pretending this is rational, so Diego, 514 00:36:28,115 --> 00:36:31,595 Speaker 1: even after being interrupted by this idiot, Anderson Cooper gives 515 00:36:31,635 --> 00:36:35,595 Speaker 1: him a perfect chance to redeem himself, to come back 516 00:36:35,835 --> 00:36:38,795 Speaker 1: and be a journalist for once, to be on TV 517 00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:42,675 Speaker 1: with some value more than a trained chimpanzee would have 518 00:36:43,035 --> 00:36:47,275 Speaker 1: reading your script for you. You should not be fungible with 519 00:36:47,635 --> 00:36:53,475 Speaker 1: well educated animals of the jungle. And yet Anderson Cooper 520 00:36:53,515 --> 00:36:56,955 Speaker 1: has afforded the opportunity to come back and respond to 521 00:36:57,275 --> 00:37:01,395 Speaker 1: everyone needs to stop pretending this is rational. Subtext Anderson, 522 00:37:01,435 --> 00:37:06,675 Speaker 1: I'm talking about you. And what does he say? He 523 00:37:06,755 --> 00:37:09,915 Speaker 1: does not say Trump isn't just insane, He's having a breakdown. 524 00:37:10,315 --> 00:37:15,355 Speaker 1: He instead Anderson Cooper. He instead mumbles, Senator rimand Gego, 525 00:37:16,355 --> 00:37:20,075 Speaker 1: I appreciate your time tonight, Thanks very much, Holly crap. 526 00:37:20,155 --> 00:37:24,755 Speaker 1: That was it? When you think sometimes, why are we 527 00:37:24,835 --> 00:37:27,795 Speaker 1: in this mess? How did we get here? How did 528 00:37:27,835 --> 00:37:32,715 Speaker 1: it get worse? Where does Anderson Cooper buy his clothes? 529 00:37:33,155 --> 00:37:37,435 Speaker 1: What boys department at JC penny would sell them to him? 530 00:37:37,715 --> 00:37:40,635 Speaker 1: How did some part of the establishment not push back 531 00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:44,555 Speaker 1: against any of this? Since twenty ft fifteen. Think of 532 00:37:44,635 --> 00:37:49,995 Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper in the earliest days of year twelve, of 533 00:37:50,075 --> 00:37:55,955 Speaker 1: this Whitman's sampler of all the imagined hells. Who's looking 534 00:37:56,075 --> 00:37:59,355 Speaker 1: like he's just eating some prunes so he can dismiss 535 00:37:59,395 --> 00:38:02,235 Speaker 1: a US Senator who is actually willing to tell the truth, 536 00:38:02,675 --> 00:38:05,955 Speaker 1: and interrupt that US senator and say, you really think 537 00:38:05,995 --> 00:38:14,155 Speaker 1: he's insane? Yes, he's insane, Emma Effer, He's insane. Anderson Cooper, 538 00:38:14,435 --> 00:38:17,675 Speaker 1: get on your goddamn TV show and tell people, start 539 00:38:17,715 --> 00:38:19,795 Speaker 1: telling them at the start of the hour, and don't 540 00:38:19,835 --> 00:38:24,835 Speaker 1: stop till it's the end of the hour. Anderson, Yeah, 541 00:38:24,875 --> 00:38:26,835 Speaker 1: I really think he's insane. And you know what, Anderson, 542 00:38:26,875 --> 00:38:28,675 Speaker 1: I think you're still just the host of the mole 543 00:38:28,795 --> 00:38:33,435 Speaker 1: pretending to be a newsman. Cooper, Today's with Jim Vander 544 00:38:33,515 --> 00:38:44,995 Speaker 1: High other worst persons in the world. Things I promised 545 00:38:44,995 --> 00:38:48,115 Speaker 1: not to tell and this one is about Dale Corson. 546 00:38:48,875 --> 00:38:51,875 Speaker 1: Dale Corson was president of Corneill University when I got 547 00:38:51,875 --> 00:38:56,115 Speaker 1: there as an undergraduate in a preceding century. He served 548 00:38:56,155 --> 00:38:58,635 Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy seven. He had 549 00:38:58,635 --> 00:39:02,195 Speaker 1: been before that in their physics department for twenty three years. 550 00:39:02,395 --> 00:39:06,355 Speaker 1: He helped design the school's synchrotron. He chaired the physics department. 551 00:39:06,355 --> 00:39:08,475 Speaker 1: He was dean of the College of Engineering, and he 552 00:39:08,635 --> 00:39:14,395 Speaker 1: was co discoverer of asteteine, which is element number eighty five. 553 00:39:14,635 --> 00:39:17,275 Speaker 1: And okay, it's time to face this. What have you 554 00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:22,315 Speaker 1: done with your life? Dale Corson co discovered an element. 555 00:39:25,035 --> 00:39:28,355 Speaker 1: I was staring out the waiting room window at the 556 00:39:28,395 --> 00:39:31,795 Speaker 1: Allegheny airplane that we were supposed to have already boarded 557 00:39:31,835 --> 00:39:34,595 Speaker 1: on a frigid New York morning in January of nineteen 558 00:39:34,675 --> 00:39:39,475 Speaker 1: seventy seven. Allegheny, which became US Air, but was colloquially 559 00:39:39,555 --> 00:39:43,755 Speaker 1: known as Agony Airlines. These were the days when the 560 00:39:43,795 --> 00:39:47,315 Speaker 1: bus monopoly in this country meant that the flight from 561 00:39:47,355 --> 00:39:49,955 Speaker 1: New York to Ithaca, New York, cost just a couple 562 00:39:49,995 --> 00:39:54,155 Speaker 1: bucks more and was far easier than the bus did 563 00:39:54,515 --> 00:39:57,315 Speaker 1: if you didn't mind the occasional stop in the rome 564 00:39:57,515 --> 00:40:01,155 Speaker 1: Utica Airport, and the continuous feeling that we were flying 565 00:40:01,275 --> 00:40:03,515 Speaker 1: low enough that you could reach out the window and 566 00:40:03,555 --> 00:40:08,835 Speaker 1: pull fruit off the trees not an issue. In January 567 00:40:08,835 --> 00:40:12,675 Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy seven, there was just snow everywhere. These 568 00:40:12,675 --> 00:40:15,155 Speaker 1: were also the days when you boarded a small flight 569 00:40:15,315 --> 00:40:18,795 Speaker 1: upstate by first sitting in a room twenty yards from 570 00:40:18,795 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: where the large propeller plane rested, then going out a 571 00:40:22,155 --> 00:40:26,115 Speaker 1: nondescript ordinary door, and then up a staircase with wheels, 572 00:40:26,795 --> 00:40:30,515 Speaker 1: no security, no formality, and judging by the fact that 573 00:40:30,555 --> 00:40:34,235 Speaker 1: we were now twenty minutes late for boarding, no punctuality. 574 00:40:35,155 --> 00:40:38,795 Speaker 1: That's what I noticed, the two Allegheny employees skipping down 575 00:40:38,835 --> 00:40:42,155 Speaker 1: the stairs from the airplane and ducking under the belly 576 00:40:42,195 --> 00:40:46,555 Speaker 1: of the craft and pointing with cartoon like animation at 577 00:40:46,595 --> 00:40:52,795 Speaker 1: the underside. I'm fairly confident my astonishment has added this detail. 578 00:40:52,875 --> 00:40:55,755 Speaker 1: But when I picture the performance, and from where we 579 00:40:55,795 --> 00:41:00,555 Speaker 1: all sat behind soundproofed windows, they were two mimes. You 580 00:41:00,555 --> 00:41:04,395 Speaker 1: couldn't hear anything, but I swear I saw one of 581 00:41:04,435 --> 00:41:08,435 Speaker 1: them slap his own forehead and point upwards suddenly, as 582 00:41:08,475 --> 00:41:14,035 Speaker 1: if trying to act out the word Eureka. The one 583 00:41:14,075 --> 00:41:18,035 Speaker 1: guy bolted up the stairs back into the airplane, and 584 00:41:18,315 --> 00:41:22,275 Speaker 1: as I waited, wondering what he would bring down, he 585 00:41:22,675 --> 00:41:26,435 Speaker 1: trapes back down those stairs with astonishing rapidity, returning with 586 00:41:26,475 --> 00:41:31,635 Speaker 1: what seemed to be a large floppy object waving in 587 00:41:31,755 --> 00:41:37,795 Speaker 1: the cold January wind, an object maybe six eight inches high, 588 00:41:38,515 --> 00:41:41,715 Speaker 1: maybe a foot long. And it was only when he 589 00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:44,915 Speaker 1: peeled the top off of this object and handed it 590 00:41:45,315 --> 00:41:48,555 Speaker 1: to his taller colleague that I realized what I was seeing. 591 00:41:48,595 --> 00:41:51,115 Speaker 1: What he was holding. The man had a stack of 592 00:41:51,115 --> 00:41:56,155 Speaker 1: paper towels in his hands, a stack of paper towels 593 00:41:56,395 --> 00:41:59,835 Speaker 1: that he had brought down from the airplane to where 594 00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:03,515 Speaker 1: they were looking at the underside of the airplane that 595 00:42:03,555 --> 00:42:07,115 Speaker 1: we were supposed to fly in that airplane to Ithaca, 596 00:42:07,195 --> 00:42:12,275 Speaker 1: New York. As the guy's buddy raised one hand over 597 00:42:12,315 --> 00:42:15,235 Speaker 1: his head, and then another hand over his head, and 598 00:42:15,235 --> 00:42:19,435 Speaker 1: then another hand over his head, the horror finally dawned 599 00:42:19,435 --> 00:42:23,115 Speaker 1: on me in full. There was something wrong with the plane, 600 00:42:23,675 --> 00:42:28,235 Speaker 1: something that these guys thought they could fix by stuffing 601 00:42:28,875 --> 00:42:35,875 Speaker 1: paper towels into it. Suddenly I was in a William 602 00:42:35,955 --> 00:42:39,755 Speaker 1: Shatner Twilight Zone episode. The other passengers in the waiting 603 00:42:39,835 --> 00:42:43,595 Speaker 1: room dozed, or were immersed in their newspapers, or were 604 00:42:43,635 --> 00:42:47,675 Speaker 1: simply not looking. I alone could see the gremlins guaranteeing 605 00:42:47,715 --> 00:42:50,995 Speaker 1: our doom by trying to fix a plane with some 606 00:42:51,435 --> 00:42:57,915 Speaker 1: bounty paper towels. Or perhaps George Carlin's observations about doctors 607 00:42:58,075 --> 00:43:03,275 Speaker 1: had been transposed to this scene qualitatively provably. Somewhere on Earth, 608 00:43:03,315 --> 00:43:06,915 Speaker 1: there had to be literally the word the world's worst airplane, 609 00:43:07,675 --> 00:43:14,115 Speaker 1: and we were about to get on it. I was 610 00:43:14,155 --> 00:43:17,595 Speaker 1: still a few weeks shy of my eighteenth birthday, and 611 00:43:17,675 --> 00:43:22,595 Speaker 1: I had no idea what to do. Oddly, it really 612 00:43:22,635 --> 00:43:26,115 Speaker 1: didn't dawn on me that, bottom line, I didn't have 613 00:43:26,155 --> 00:43:28,355 Speaker 1: to get on the airplane. I could let everybody else 614 00:43:28,355 --> 00:43:30,995 Speaker 1: in the room go to their doom. I didn't think 615 00:43:31,075 --> 00:43:34,195 Speaker 1: of that. I felt like I had to do something. 616 00:43:34,995 --> 00:43:38,875 Speaker 1: So I looked around at the disinterested airline staff, my 617 00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:42,835 Speaker 1: soon to be co victims, all inattentive to the mad 618 00:43:42,875 --> 00:43:46,275 Speaker 1: evidence of our impending disaster. And then I heard the 619 00:43:46,395 --> 00:43:49,355 Speaker 1: rustle of a newspaper being folded up and put away, 620 00:43:49,395 --> 00:43:51,915 Speaker 1: and appearing from behind it was a man in a 621 00:43:51,995 --> 00:43:57,235 Speaker 1: hat and old framed glasses, and I recognized him at once. 622 00:43:57,555 --> 00:44:00,195 Speaker 1: He looked a little like Leo G. Carroll from the 623 00:44:00,275 --> 00:44:03,355 Speaker 1: Man from Uncle and north By Northwest. But in fact 624 00:44:03,715 --> 00:44:11,155 Speaker 1: he was Cornell University President Dale Corson. I was never, 625 00:44:11,515 --> 00:44:14,315 Speaker 1: and since then, have never been so happy to see 626 00:44:14,595 --> 00:44:19,235 Speaker 1: an authority figure in my life. I screwed up the 627 00:44:19,275 --> 00:44:22,155 Speaker 1: courage to go over to President Corson. I checked back 628 00:44:22,235 --> 00:44:24,955 Speaker 1: over my shoulder to make certain that Laura and Hardy 629 00:44:25,035 --> 00:44:28,955 Speaker 1: were still forcing the paper towels into the Allegheny disaster Liner, 630 00:44:28,995 --> 00:44:33,475 Speaker 1: and then I spoke, squeakily and hurriedly, President Corson. You 631 00:44:33,515 --> 00:44:37,635 Speaker 1: don't know me, but I'm a Cornell student, Classes seventy nine. Hi, 632 00:44:38,075 --> 00:44:40,715 Speaker 1: I think there's something you need to see about our 633 00:44:40,795 --> 00:44:44,355 Speaker 1: plane out there, even just as a scientist, you need 634 00:44:44,395 --> 00:44:47,155 Speaker 1: to see it. And I gestured behind me a little 635 00:44:47,155 --> 00:44:51,475 Speaker 1: too wildly. I remember the amused but indulgent look on 636 00:44:51,515 --> 00:44:55,835 Speaker 1: that magnificently craggy face of his as he rose wordlessly, 637 00:44:56,155 --> 00:44:58,315 Speaker 1: and I remember just as well how quickly that looked 638 00:44:58,435 --> 00:45:02,755 Speaker 1: changed to astonishment and then anger. He put his hand 639 00:45:02,795 --> 00:45:05,715 Speaker 1: on my shoulder. You might as well have a seat. 640 00:45:06,435 --> 00:45:10,715 Speaker 1: Don't worry you and I are not getting on that plane. 641 00:45:12,115 --> 00:45:15,075 Speaker 1: I lingered just long enough to hear fragments of what 642 00:45:15,155 --> 00:45:18,595 Speaker 1: he said to the Allegheny gate attendant, and how his 643 00:45:18,715 --> 00:45:21,635 Speaker 1: voice got slightly louder in his tone, slightly crisper with 644 00:45:21,675 --> 00:45:25,795 Speaker 1: each sentence. We have students and faculty here, he said, 645 00:45:25,915 --> 00:45:31,115 Speaker 1: And if I remember correctly, your airline does some promotion 646 00:45:31,515 --> 00:45:35,395 Speaker 1: on campus. And finally something about if you'd ever like 647 00:45:35,475 --> 00:45:40,795 Speaker 1: to use our air space again. But to be fair, 648 00:45:40,835 --> 00:45:45,355 Speaker 1: my imagination may be adding that last line regardless. Within 649 00:45:45,435 --> 00:45:47,915 Speaker 1: five minutes there was an announcement that flights such and 650 00:45:47,955 --> 00:45:51,835 Speaker 1: such to Ithaca had been canceled due to equipment problems. 651 00:45:52,795 --> 00:45:55,595 Speaker 1: I chuckled at the word equipment, and I saw President, 652 00:45:55,555 --> 00:45:59,675 Speaker 1: of course in chuckling two. It wasn't equipment problems, it 653 00:45:59,755 --> 00:46:04,755 Speaker 1: was paper towel problems. We would all be transferred, the 654 00:46:04,795 --> 00:46:09,035 Speaker 1: announcement said to an alleghany jet leaving for Elmira, New 655 00:46:09,115 --> 00:46:12,275 Speaker 1: York in about twenty minutes, and then bust to Ithaca 656 00:46:12,555 --> 00:46:18,515 Speaker 1: at no additional charge. In the confusion of changing gates, 657 00:46:18,995 --> 00:46:22,115 Speaker 1: maybe even terminals, for all I know, I lost sight 658 00:46:22,155 --> 00:46:25,995 Speaker 1: of President Corson, But as I got onto our sleek 659 00:46:26,475 --> 00:46:31,555 Speaker 1: not fifty years old towel free jet to Elmira, I 660 00:46:31,635 --> 00:46:35,795 Speaker 1: saw him again seated near the front. He smiled up 661 00:46:35,835 --> 00:46:38,515 Speaker 1: at me. I thanked him for taking care of us, 662 00:46:38,555 --> 00:46:42,355 Speaker 1: and he laughed, that's what I'm here for. And then 663 00:46:42,355 --> 00:46:45,075 Speaker 1: he said, by the way, good work. And then he 664 00:46:45,115 --> 00:46:46,955 Speaker 1: asked me what my school and my major were, and 665 00:46:46,995 --> 00:46:53,075 Speaker 1: I told him communications, really, have you considered engineering? And 666 00:46:53,115 --> 00:46:54,915 Speaker 1: I told him my dad was an architect, and that 667 00:46:54,995 --> 00:46:57,755 Speaker 1: the actual math and the physics and the hard work 668 00:46:57,795 --> 00:46:59,835 Speaker 1: were the vane of his existence and I would never 669 00:46:59,875 --> 00:47:02,075 Speaker 1: do it in a million years, as well as he could. 670 00:47:02,115 --> 00:47:05,395 Speaker 1: And he hated every minute of it and laughed again, 671 00:47:05,435 --> 00:47:10,035 Speaker 1: and he said, yes, I can understand that. Well clearly. 672 00:47:10,115 --> 00:47:12,875 Speaker 1: At least you have the eye of a reporter. I 673 00:47:12,915 --> 00:47:29,995 Speaker 1: guess that's that's some consolation. I've done all the damage 674 00:47:29,995 --> 00:47:33,355 Speaker 1: I can do here. Get the paper towels. Thank you 675 00:47:33,395 --> 00:47:36,275 Speaker 1: for listening. Most of our Countdown music was arranged, produced 676 00:47:36,315 --> 00:47:39,275 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray on guitars, bass and drums, 677 00:47:39,595 --> 00:47:42,875 Speaker 1: and John Phillip Schenel handling orchestration and keyboards, and they, 678 00:47:42,915 --> 00:47:45,875 Speaker 1: of course are our musical directors of Countdown. It was 679 00:47:45,915 --> 00:47:49,715 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical comments 680 00:47:49,755 --> 00:47:52,835 Speaker 1: are by the best Baseball stadium organists ever Nancy Faust. 681 00:47:53,155 --> 00:47:56,475 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, 682 00:47:56,675 --> 00:48:00,795 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis, Curtisy VESPN Inc. 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So, on the other hand, just 689 00:48:25,555 --> 00:48:28,715 Speaker 1: one Thoy ninety four days until the scheduled end of 690 00:48:28,755 --> 00:48:32,155 Speaker 1: his lame duck and lame brained term unless he is 691 00:48:32,195 --> 00:48:37,715 Speaker 1: removed sooner by Maga and Epstein and affordability and marble 692 00:48:37,915 --> 00:48:43,115 Speaker 1: armrests and Venezuela and his ice Gestapo and of course Greenland. 693 00:48:44,475 --> 00:48:47,235 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Monday. Bulletins is the news 694 00:48:47,355 --> 00:48:50,235 Speaker 1: warrants until the next one. I'm Keith Olbriman. Good morning, 695 00:48:50,235 --> 00:49:13,795 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 696 00:49:13,995 --> 00:49:18,475 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. 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