1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. If 2 00:00:21,995 --> 00:00:26,555 Speaker 1: America is saved, if Joe Biden is reelected, if Trump 3 00:00:26,595 --> 00:00:29,715 Speaker 1: goes to jail. It will turn out that the process 4 00:00:29,795 --> 00:00:32,835 Speaker 1: began late on a San Francisco night in November twenty 5 00:00:32,875 --> 00:00:38,075 Speaker 1: twenty three, when Biden specifically and explicitly tied Donald Trump 6 00:00:38,195 --> 00:00:42,155 Speaker 1: to the Nazis. In just the last few days, the 7 00:00:42,155 --> 00:00:45,795 Speaker 1: President said to several thousand at a DNC fundraiser, Trump 8 00:00:45,875 --> 00:00:48,755 Speaker 1: has said, if he returns to office, he's going to 9 00:00:48,955 --> 00:00:52,275 Speaker 1: go after all those who oppose him and wipe out 10 00:00:52,315 --> 00:00:57,435 Speaker 1: what he called the vermin. Quote the vermin in America 11 00:00:57,875 --> 00:01:02,035 Speaker 1: a specific phrase with a specific meaning. It echoes language 12 00:01:02,035 --> 00:01:06,555 Speaker 1: you heard in Nazi Germany in the third the President 13 00:01:06,555 --> 00:01:09,675 Speaker 1: of the United States continued. And it isn't even the 14 00:01:09,715 --> 00:01:13,795 Speaker 1: first time. Trump also recently talked about quote, the blood 15 00:01:13,875 --> 00:01:17,875 Speaker 1: of America is being poisoned. The blood of America is 16 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:23,715 Speaker 1: being poisoned. Again echoes the same phrases used in Nazi Germany. Folks, 17 00:01:24,235 --> 00:01:28,235 Speaker 1: we can't fail. We can't fail to treat the threat 18 00:01:28,435 --> 00:01:34,315 Speaker 1: that he poses. I mean, we can't. And with that, 19 00:01:34,955 --> 00:01:39,395 Speaker 1: the President's recent reluctance to acknowledge Trump's evil, to acknowledge 20 00:01:39,435 --> 00:01:42,595 Speaker 1: the fact that he is America's Hitler came to an 21 00:01:42,715 --> 00:01:46,755 Speaker 1: abrupt end. There is no video or audio of what 22 00:01:46,835 --> 00:01:50,555 Speaker 1: President Biden said, not yet anyway. It was a fundraiser 23 00:01:50,795 --> 00:01:53,995 Speaker 1: technically off the record, though a poll reporter is admitted, 24 00:01:54,155 --> 00:01:57,515 Speaker 1: and that's where we got the quotes from. Besides which 25 00:01:57,555 --> 00:02:00,395 Speaker 1: there was Biden's meeting with President she of China and 26 00:02:00,515 --> 00:02:03,795 Speaker 1: thousands of Middle East War protesters on the streets outside 27 00:02:03,795 --> 00:02:06,955 Speaker 1: the fundraiser, and the TV cameras would have gone there anyway, 28 00:02:06,995 --> 00:02:10,795 Speaker 1: even though frankly, our role in the Middle East, even 29 00:02:10,875 --> 00:02:15,235 Speaker 1: as hostage negotiator, and our role in China is meaningless 30 00:02:15,235 --> 00:02:19,395 Speaker 1: if we become a dictatorship in January twenty twenty five. 31 00:02:20,475 --> 00:02:23,355 Speaker 1: But there's no video, so there was no network news 32 00:02:23,395 --> 00:02:26,035 Speaker 1: coverage of it, and thus the big newspapers were able 33 00:02:26,035 --> 00:02:28,515 Speaker 1: to bury it, which they were no doubt glad to do, 34 00:02:28,595 --> 00:02:30,955 Speaker 1: because it is much easier to pretend that one of 35 00:02:30,995 --> 00:02:34,315 Speaker 1: the candidates were president is not Hitler than to go 36 00:02:34,395 --> 00:02:36,195 Speaker 1: out on a limb, as they had to go out 37 00:02:36,195 --> 00:02:39,035 Speaker 1: on a limb Monday and Tuesday, because the candidate keeps 38 00:02:39,035 --> 00:02:42,475 Speaker 1: shouting yes, I am I am Hitler. Listen to me 39 00:02:42,635 --> 00:02:48,435 Speaker 1: quote Hitler. But make no mistake about why Joe Biden 40 00:02:48,555 --> 00:02:51,635 Speaker 1: said what he said where he said it a it's 41 00:02:51,755 --> 00:02:55,595 Speaker 1: the truth, and it pisses him off, and we need 42 00:02:55,755 --> 00:03:00,395 Speaker 1: him pissed off at Trump b fundraisers that are not 43 00:03:00,555 --> 00:03:04,195 Speaker 1: recorded are the perfect place to see what happens when 44 00:03:04,235 --> 00:03:07,875 Speaker 1: you say something big and important and not everybody on 45 00:03:07,915 --> 00:03:12,155 Speaker 1: your team is convinced you should say it. Biden said it, 46 00:03:12,635 --> 00:03:16,315 Speaker 1: quoted Trump on going after opponents, quoted Trump essentially quoting 47 00:03:16,395 --> 00:03:19,635 Speaker 1: Hitler about Berman, quoted Trump essentially quoting Hitler about the 48 00:03:19,675 --> 00:03:23,195 Speaker 1: blood of a nation, said Nazi Germany twice and the 49 00:03:23,235 --> 00:03:26,595 Speaker 1: world did not end, and half a dozen Democratic moderates 50 00:03:26,635 --> 00:03:31,395 Speaker 1: did not endorse Mary Anne Williamson and David Axelrod didn't 51 00:03:31,395 --> 00:03:37,635 Speaker 1: say an effing word. And now to make the campaign commercials, 52 00:03:38,395 --> 00:03:43,795 Speaker 1: and now to invoke Trump and his Nazism in every speech, 53 00:03:44,355 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: and now to make the last leap and make this 54 00:03:47,555 --> 00:03:50,475 Speaker 1: into what it should be made into, that Trump is 55 00:03:50,515 --> 00:03:54,435 Speaker 1: not just echoing Nazi Germany in the thirties, and he's 56 00:03:54,475 --> 00:03:58,355 Speaker 1: not just using the language or the phrases of the Nazis. 57 00:03:58,515 --> 00:04:02,875 Speaker 1: That Trump is emulating Adolf Hitler, that Trump is channeling 58 00:04:02,915 --> 00:04:07,995 Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler, that Trump, all intents and purposes, is our 59 00:04:08,395 --> 00:04:14,555 Speaker 1: at all Hitler. This has merits besides the essential fact 60 00:04:14,555 --> 00:04:18,035 Speaker 1: that it is true, and that those who are willing 61 00:04:18,035 --> 00:04:21,075 Speaker 1: to say it are trusting their own integrity and testing 62 00:04:21,115 --> 00:04:25,795 Speaker 1: the integrity of those who hear these terrible truths. Those 63 00:04:25,835 --> 00:04:31,155 Speaker 1: other merits are political, as pundit after pundit has written 64 00:04:31,235 --> 00:04:35,035 Speaker 1: Biden off and poll after poll has not shown him 65 00:04:35,035 --> 00:04:39,115 Speaker 1: having clinched victory already, I have yet to hear anyone 66 00:04:39,195 --> 00:04:41,995 Speaker 1: even postulate what I think happens to be true, that 67 00:04:42,035 --> 00:04:45,195 Speaker 1: if the tepid response from Democrats reflected in the polls 68 00:04:45,435 --> 00:04:49,195 Speaker 1: is correct, much of it, maybe nearly all of it, 69 00:04:49,235 --> 00:04:54,275 Speaker 1: is because Democrats already know Trump is Hitler. Democrats already 70 00:04:54,275 --> 00:04:57,995 Speaker 1: know he plans a reign of terror if he regains power. 71 00:04:58,115 --> 00:05:01,235 Speaker 1: Democrats already know that the twenty twenty four election is 72 00:05:01,355 --> 00:05:04,355 Speaker 1: life and death for the United States of America, and 73 00:05:04,675 --> 00:05:07,835 Speaker 1: Democrats want their president to get up there every day 74 00:05:07,875 --> 00:05:14,075 Speaker 1: and kick the living shit out of Trump. And I'll 75 00:05:14,115 --> 00:05:17,035 Speaker 1: note here that if Americans, understanding that the economy is 76 00:05:17,115 --> 00:05:20,915 Speaker 1: finally healing from COVID, continues to be as slow as 77 00:05:20,955 --> 00:05:24,715 Speaker 1: it has been thus far, Biden nomics is not going 78 00:05:24,755 --> 00:05:29,035 Speaker 1: to win him reelection. And as I have screamed about before, 79 00:05:29,635 --> 00:05:34,035 Speaker 1: if the ad campaign is the proof of performance, kind, 80 00:05:34,115 --> 00:05:37,395 Speaker 1: how many great things Joe Biden has done. The greatest 81 00:05:37,435 --> 00:05:43,315 Speaker 1: of these remains beating Trump. Running on the life or 82 00:05:43,435 --> 00:05:47,195 Speaker 1: death of the state platform rather than any of the 83 00:05:47,275 --> 00:05:51,915 Speaker 1: other possibilities. Isn't just the truest option, the most energizing option, 84 00:05:52,275 --> 00:05:56,515 Speaker 1: and the best option. It may actually be the only option. 85 00:05:58,475 --> 00:06:01,635 Speaker 1: Do you think Abraham Lincoln ran in eighteen sixty four 86 00:06:01,755 --> 00:06:07,795 Speaker 1: on the economy? I confess that in twenty twenty I 87 00:06:07,995 --> 00:06:10,955 Speaker 1: was uncertain what would happen when Joe Biden faced Trump 88 00:06:10,995 --> 00:06:14,035 Speaker 1: in the debates. And then he got up and with 89 00:06:14,155 --> 00:06:18,795 Speaker 1: restraint and with more disgust than rage, but with toughness 90 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:21,955 Speaker 1: and actual guts, and not the kind of guts Trump 91 00:06:22,155 --> 00:06:25,155 Speaker 1: sprays on his face every morning along with his fake tan. 92 00:06:25,675 --> 00:06:28,995 Speaker 1: Joe Biden got to the debate stage and each time 93 00:06:29,315 --> 00:06:33,435 Speaker 1: he put a metaphorical hole through Trump, and that is 94 00:06:33,475 --> 00:06:36,155 Speaker 1: what energized the base, and that is what led to 95 00:06:36,195 --> 00:06:40,155 Speaker 1: the decisive victory. And that is why today, wherever else 96 00:06:40,235 --> 00:06:43,595 Speaker 1: we are, and whatever other nightmares we face, we are 97 00:06:43,635 --> 00:06:47,835 Speaker 1: not dealing today with the second term of a Trump presidency. 98 00:06:48,115 --> 00:06:50,435 Speaker 1: And at this point of the second term of a 99 00:06:50,475 --> 00:06:54,355 Speaker 1: Trump presidency, he would have already explained to America that 100 00:06:54,475 --> 00:06:56,795 Speaker 1: he was going for a third term. And if you 101 00:06:56,915 --> 00:07:00,235 Speaker 1: didn't like it, or the Constitution said he couldn't, your 102 00:07:00,395 --> 00:07:04,115 Speaker 1: only other choice was he'd just invoked the Insurrection Act 103 00:07:04,115 --> 00:07:08,115 Speaker 1: and not whole twenty twenty four election, and every one 104 00:07:08,155 --> 00:07:14,235 Speaker 1: of those effeckless, gutless, unpatriotic Republican whores would have acquiesced 105 00:07:14,275 --> 00:07:17,675 Speaker 1: to the end of democracy in this country. That is 106 00:07:17,755 --> 00:07:23,315 Speaker 1: where we would be today if Joe Biden hadn't kicked 107 00:07:23,315 --> 00:07:26,435 Speaker 1: the shit out of dementia j Trump in twenty twenty. 108 00:07:27,115 --> 00:07:30,475 Speaker 1: That's where we would be today if Joe Biden didn't 109 00:07:30,515 --> 00:07:33,355 Speaker 1: do what some of his campaign advisors warned him not 110 00:07:33,515 --> 00:07:36,675 Speaker 1: to do in twenty twenty, which was to confront Trump's 111 00:07:36,755 --> 00:07:40,635 Speaker 1: evil face to face. Well, it is time to do 112 00:07:40,715 --> 00:07:44,355 Speaker 1: it again. And the speech to the donors in San 113 00:07:44,355 --> 00:07:49,675 Speaker 1: Francisco was a good start, a successful trial balloon. And 114 00:07:49,755 --> 00:07:53,235 Speaker 1: now the president must raise the temperature as rapidly as 115 00:07:53,235 --> 00:07:56,315 Speaker 1: he thinks best a degree at a time, or all 116 00:07:56,355 --> 00:07:59,115 Speaker 1: at once if he wants because he also told that 117 00:07:59,235 --> 00:08:03,795 Speaker 1: audience about Trump's embrasive political violence. He also invoked Trump's 118 00:08:03,875 --> 00:08:08,195 Speaker 1: thirst for revenge. He also invoked his thirst for retribution. 119 00:08:08,635 --> 00:08:11,835 Speaker 1: He hung the overturning of Roe V. Wade around Trump's neck. 120 00:08:11,995 --> 00:08:15,635 Speaker 1: He cited the Republican's electoral failures under his iron thumb. 121 00:08:15,795 --> 00:08:18,675 Speaker 1: He compared him to Herbert Hoover, he called him a loser, 122 00:08:18,795 --> 00:08:23,475 Speaker 1: and the two references by name to the Nazis. And 123 00:08:23,555 --> 00:08:28,195 Speaker 1: he summed it up quote, there's a lot of reasons 124 00:08:28,235 --> 00:08:34,195 Speaker 1: to be against Donald Trump, but damn he shouldn't be president. 125 00:08:36,675 --> 00:08:41,475 Speaker 1: Workshop that there's a campaign slogan in there somewhere, my friend, 126 00:08:42,595 --> 00:08:48,355 Speaker 1: maybe Goddamn Trump shouldn't be president, or Jesus Christ Trump 127 00:08:48,355 --> 00:08:53,555 Speaker 1: shouldn't be president, or my choice. There's a lot of 128 00:08:53,595 --> 00:08:58,515 Speaker 1: reasons to be against Donald Trump because Damn Hitler shouldn't 129 00:08:58,555 --> 00:09:07,315 Speaker 1: be president. I bash dot Com every day here truth 130 00:09:07,395 --> 00:09:11,435 Speaker 1: be told. Probably not enough, but it gave a good 131 00:09:11,435 --> 00:09:14,595 Speaker 1: and serious account of Biden San Francisco invoking of Trump 132 00:09:14,675 --> 00:09:19,155 Speaker 1: the Nazi, which then virtually fell off its front page 133 00:09:19,235 --> 00:09:23,195 Speaker 1: by the middle of the afternoon, still up on Politico's 134 00:09:23,355 --> 00:09:26,595 Speaker 1: front page. Meanwhile, there is the remarkably bad deep dive 135 00:09:26,675 --> 00:09:30,635 Speaker 1: on how Biden can still turn it around by Jonathan Martin, 136 00:09:30,995 --> 00:09:35,035 Speaker 1: who used to be taken seriously. Jonathan Martin takes twelve 137 00:09:35,075 --> 00:09:38,595 Speaker 1: paragraphs to get to his little afterthought that Trump quote 138 00:09:38,955 --> 00:09:41,595 Speaker 1: is an exiled strong man who's taken over a traditional 139 00:09:41,635 --> 00:09:45,395 Speaker 1: political party and is attempting to reclaim office to consolidate 140 00:09:45,435 --> 00:09:48,915 Speaker 1: power and punish his enemies with little regard for the constitution. 141 00:09:49,155 --> 00:09:51,515 Speaker 1: Just ask him. And then he finally gets around to 142 00:09:51,635 --> 00:09:53,755 Speaker 1: if Biden thinks the country is on the line, he 143 00:09:53,795 --> 00:09:59,155 Speaker 1: should act like it. A beautiful summary, and then just 144 00:09:59,195 --> 00:10:03,435 Speaker 1: as quickly after literally just that one sentence, if Biden 145 00:10:03,475 --> 00:10:05,195 Speaker 1: thinks the country is on the line, he should act 146 00:10:05,195 --> 00:10:08,435 Speaker 1: like it literally after just that one sentence. When you think, oh, 147 00:10:08,435 --> 00:10:11,155 Speaker 1: here comes the stuff about calling Trump out day after day, 148 00:10:11,275 --> 00:10:14,715 Speaker 1: hour after hour. In evermore dire and knife edged words 149 00:10:14,755 --> 00:10:17,195 Speaker 1: like fascist and Nazi and Hitler, we find out what 150 00:10:17,315 --> 00:10:21,475 Speaker 1: Politico's Martin thinks Biden has to change to save representative 151 00:10:21,475 --> 00:10:25,395 Speaker 1: government in this country. He has to stop quote calling 152 00:10:25,515 --> 00:10:33,515 Speaker 1: David Axelrod a prick unquote calling David Axelrod a prick. 153 00:10:33,995 --> 00:10:36,035 Speaker 1: As a person who has heard Biden use the word 154 00:10:36,075 --> 00:10:38,595 Speaker 1: says he does in private is not a strategy to 155 00:10:38,635 --> 00:10:43,595 Speaker 1: win two hundred and seventy electoral votes. Ah, there goes 156 00:10:43,675 --> 00:10:47,195 Speaker 1: my campaign in twenty eight I had the banners already 157 00:10:47,195 --> 00:10:51,795 Speaker 1: printed up. Then Martin complains about PG versions of the 158 00:10:51,835 --> 00:10:56,435 Speaker 1: same animus and litigating polling and not doing enough to 159 00:10:56,515 --> 00:11:01,115 Speaker 1: court Dean Phillips. And why isn't rom Emmanuel running this campaign? 160 00:11:01,155 --> 00:11:04,675 Speaker 1: What about the roles of Mike Dunnillen and Jennifer o'mann 161 00:11:04,995 --> 00:11:07,675 Speaker 1: Dyllon and Ron Klain and my god, how many voters 162 00:11:07,755 --> 00:11:13,795 Speaker 1: knew how any of those people are? The ones who 163 00:11:13,995 --> 00:11:18,995 Speaker 1: know who David Axelrod was are saying, Hey, know what, 164 00:11:19,155 --> 00:11:23,475 Speaker 1: David Axelroddy is a prick? Good called Joe. And the 165 00:11:23,555 --> 00:11:27,115 Speaker 1: point of a deep name dropping dive like this one 166 00:11:27,155 --> 00:11:31,995 Speaker 1: in Politico should be the writer concluding, you know where 167 00:11:32,075 --> 00:11:34,915 Speaker 1: Biden has screwed up and needs to fix it. He 168 00:11:34,995 --> 00:11:38,755 Speaker 1: shouldn't have called David Axelrod a prick. He should have 169 00:11:38,835 --> 00:11:46,515 Speaker 1: called Donald Trump a prick. The other headlines in what 170 00:11:46,715 --> 00:11:49,395 Speaker 1: is probably a coincidence of timing, but is still a 171 00:11:49,395 --> 00:11:52,315 Speaker 1: delicious one. Nonetheless, in the wake of the treason charges 172 00:11:52,315 --> 00:11:55,635 Speaker 1: in Ukraine against the three primary sources of the smearing 173 00:11:55,675 --> 00:11:58,835 Speaker 1: of Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden has filed a motion to 174 00:11:58,875 --> 00:12:02,595 Speaker 1: the Delaware Court hearing his case two subpoena Bill Barr 175 00:12:03,275 --> 00:12:06,715 Speaker 1: and his former aides Richard Hugh and Jeffrey Rosen, and 176 00:12:06,795 --> 00:12:11,915 Speaker 1: a guy named Trump. The premise is that the DOJ 177 00:12:12,115 --> 00:12:15,715 Speaker 1: guys used Giuliani's evidence, which we now know came from 178 00:12:15,795 --> 00:12:19,995 Speaker 1: accused Russian spies, and that Trump personally pressured DOJ to 179 00:12:20,155 --> 00:12:23,355 Speaker 1: prosecute Hunter Biden, which of course is what Trump just 180 00:12:23,435 --> 00:12:26,195 Speaker 1: threatened to do in a second term to everybody who 181 00:12:26,235 --> 00:12:31,395 Speaker 1: opposes him. It was Clarence Darrow who might have been 182 00:12:31,395 --> 00:12:34,275 Speaker 1: thinking of the Hunter Biden case when he observed that 183 00:12:34,395 --> 00:12:38,595 Speaker 1: nothing is funnier than the fisherman being pulled into the 184 00:12:38,675 --> 00:12:44,915 Speaker 1: lake by the fish. America's leading expert on parking lot law, 185 00:12:44,955 --> 00:12:47,475 Speaker 1: Alina Haba, has filed for a mistrial in the New 186 00:12:47,515 --> 00:12:50,915 Speaker 1: York City Trump fraud case. Watch for Judge Arthur Ngern's 187 00:12:50,955 --> 00:12:53,315 Speaker 1: reaction to this one. You may recall there is a 188 00:12:53,355 --> 00:12:58,755 Speaker 1: gag order against Trump and his attorneys preventing them from 189 00:12:58,795 --> 00:13:03,995 Speaker 1: any public comment about courtrooms staff. The mistrial motion is 190 00:13:03,995 --> 00:13:09,315 Speaker 1: pretty much nothing except courtroom staff, specifically the court clerk. 191 00:13:09,635 --> 00:13:12,755 Speaker 1: The one Trump doxed the one Trump claimed was running 192 00:13:12,795 --> 00:13:16,475 Speaker 1: the trial, the one Trump insisted was Chuck Schumer's girlfriend. 193 00:13:16,915 --> 00:13:21,435 Speaker 1: She is cited by name eight times in the Trump motion, 194 00:13:21,955 --> 00:13:26,275 Speaker 1: The title principal law clerk is used forty four times, 195 00:13:26,995 --> 00:13:30,755 Speaker 1: and Geron warned the attorneys against doing things like this, 196 00:13:31,355 --> 00:13:34,435 Speaker 1: So I'd say we have a one or two percent 197 00:13:34,595 --> 00:13:40,995 Speaker 1: chance of seeing Alina Haba jailed for contempt in Atlanta. 198 00:13:41,235 --> 00:13:43,995 Speaker 1: The lawyer for Trump co defendant Misty Hampton, who is 199 00:13:43,995 --> 00:13:46,555 Speaker 1: accused in the scheme to illegally break into the voting 200 00:13:46,555 --> 00:13:50,635 Speaker 1: machines in Coffee County, Georgia, says he the attorney leaked 201 00:13:50,715 --> 00:13:54,115 Speaker 1: some of those proffer videos, and Fannie Willis has asked 202 00:13:54,115 --> 00:13:56,235 Speaker 1: the court to revoke the bail of Trump co defendant 203 00:13:56,235 --> 00:13:59,555 Speaker 1: Harrison Floyd, who took the tweets with the clips of 204 00:13:59,595 --> 00:14:03,155 Speaker 1: those proffer videos and subtweeted them with the intent, according 205 00:14:03,235 --> 00:14:07,195 Speaker 1: to Willis, to intimidate other witnesses and to obstruct justice. 206 00:14:07,795 --> 00:14:10,795 Speaker 1: And Willis and the defendants compromised on a protective order 207 00:14:10,995 --> 00:14:14,275 Speaker 1: that would have sealed basically every witness comment or testimony 208 00:14:14,355 --> 00:14:17,475 Speaker 1: or proffer and reduced it to just sealing those parts 209 00:14:17,475 --> 00:14:20,155 Speaker 1: of those comments that might be sensitive, whatever the hell 210 00:14:20,275 --> 00:14:25,555 Speaker 1: sensitive means, and closing arguments in the Colorado Fourteenth Amendment 211 00:14:25,595 --> 00:14:30,555 Speaker 1: disqualification case. Trump's lawyer not the Parking Lot one, the 212 00:14:30,595 --> 00:14:34,035 Speaker 1: former favorite for the nomination for governor of Colorado who 213 00:14:34,315 --> 00:14:37,955 Speaker 1: washed out that one. He said the decisions from Minnesota 214 00:14:37,995 --> 00:14:42,395 Speaker 1: and Michigan on the fourteenth Amendment showed a developing national 215 00:14:42,475 --> 00:14:47,315 Speaker 1: consensus on the issue, provided the nation consists of two states. 216 00:14:48,955 --> 00:14:51,595 Speaker 1: I think I now know why he washed out. The 217 00:14:51,595 --> 00:14:54,635 Speaker 1: Trumps side also said he should not be disqualified because 218 00:14:54,675 --> 00:14:57,195 Speaker 1: that would deny his voters the chance to vote for 219 00:14:57,235 --> 00:15:01,155 Speaker 1: their favorite. The judge can rule within forty eight hours 220 00:15:01,315 --> 00:15:04,635 Speaker 1: or more, and her name does not include the name 221 00:15:04,675 --> 00:15:08,075 Speaker 1: a of a famous American actor. By the way, on 222 00:15:08,115 --> 00:15:10,675 Speaker 1: the last point about voting for your favorite and having 223 00:15:10,715 --> 00:15:13,515 Speaker 1: that right denied, can I just state I'd like to 224 00:15:13,595 --> 00:15:17,275 Speaker 1: vote for Abraham Lincoln and buy that logic? Doesn't he 225 00:15:17,355 --> 00:15:25,355 Speaker 1: have to be on the ballot too? Also of interest here, 226 00:15:25,435 --> 00:15:28,835 Speaker 1: the FBI director testifies to the House of Representatives and 227 00:15:28,955 --> 00:15:32,595 Speaker 1: one Republican focuses in on the real truth the smoking 228 00:15:32,755 --> 00:15:38,995 Speaker 1: gun from the January sixth The tempted coup, ghost buses, 229 00:15:41,435 --> 00:15:45,835 Speaker 1: ghost buses says the FBI director. It's a common phrase, 230 00:15:46,595 --> 00:15:56,195 Speaker 1: says the congressman. Ghost buses, says the FBI director. And 231 00:15:56,275 --> 00:16:01,995 Speaker 1: then suddenly Ray Parker Junior appears and says, Oh. 232 00:16:01,755 --> 00:16:12,355 Speaker 2: Nancy, get the something parked at your insurrection? 233 00:16:13,595 --> 00:16:15,595 Speaker 3: Who you gonna call God? 234 00:16:18,035 --> 00:16:19,555 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust. 235 00:16:20,395 --> 00:16:20,995 Speaker 3: That's next. 236 00:16:21,035 --> 00:16:21,955 Speaker 1: This is countdown. 237 00:16:23,555 --> 00:16:25,995 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 238 00:16:37,755 --> 00:16:44,195 Speaker 4: This is Sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 239 00:16:45,035 --> 00:16:49,195 Speaker 4: is countdown with Keith Olberman. 240 00:16:48,915 --> 00:16:57,035 Speaker 1: In sports dateline, Cleveland, Ohio. Well there it is. Baseball's 241 00:16:57,075 --> 00:17:00,475 Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians have essentially fired one of their top pitchers 242 00:17:00,515 --> 00:17:06,195 Speaker 1: because the cable TV sports market has collapsed. I told 243 00:17:06,195 --> 00:17:10,835 Speaker 1: you so. Guardian's president Chris Antonetti says the team designated 244 00:17:10,875 --> 00:17:14,395 Speaker 1: the pitcher Cal Quantrell for assignment to save the five 245 00:17:14,435 --> 00:17:17,395 Speaker 1: and a half million dollars or more that it would 246 00:17:17,395 --> 00:17:20,035 Speaker 1: have had to pay him next year, in part because 247 00:17:20,035 --> 00:17:25,035 Speaker 1: of the quote financial uncertainty over Bally's Sports TV going 248 00:17:25,115 --> 00:17:29,235 Speaker 1: belly up. Cleveland's entire team payroll last year was eighty 249 00:17:29,315 --> 00:17:33,955 Speaker 1: nine million dollars. Its income just from bally TV was 250 00:17:33,995 --> 00:17:37,315 Speaker 1: supposed to be fifty five million. It does not know 251 00:17:37,355 --> 00:17:40,155 Speaker 1: how much of that it will wind up getting other 252 00:17:40,395 --> 00:17:43,955 Speaker 1: former Bally's teams. The Padres are having a fire sale, 253 00:17:44,075 --> 00:17:46,995 Speaker 1: the Twins are reducing They may also have to make 254 00:17:47,075 --> 00:17:52,755 Speaker 1: similar draconian personnel decisions. Baseball, basketball, and hockey could face 255 00:17:52,875 --> 00:17:56,155 Speaker 1: genual financial crisis the likes of which we have not 256 00:17:56,235 --> 00:17:59,475 Speaker 1: seen since several NBA teams nearly went out of business 257 00:17:59,515 --> 00:18:04,835 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two. Well sports, it was nice while 258 00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:12,875 Speaker 1: it lasted. That is, while the TV money lasted. Dateline, Brooklyn. 259 00:18:13,395 --> 00:18:16,875 Speaker 1: It's hard to know if this was serious or satire, 260 00:18:16,995 --> 00:18:19,955 Speaker 1: So I'll just read it to you and let you decide. 261 00:18:19,995 --> 00:18:22,875 Speaker 1: It is supposedly off Reddit, and it was posted as 262 00:18:22,915 --> 00:18:30,115 Speaker 1: a screenshot on Twitter, and it's either pure evil or 263 00:18:30,435 --> 00:18:37,635 Speaker 1: pure genius from a user called NBA Circle, et cetera. 264 00:18:38,915 --> 00:18:42,675 Speaker 1: Should the Brooklyn Nets kill five of their players to 265 00:18:42,835 --> 00:18:48,475 Speaker 1: trigger a disaster draft to improve their roster? Continue the quote. 266 00:18:48,635 --> 00:18:51,675 Speaker 1: The NBA disaster draft is a contingency plan to be 267 00:18:51,795 --> 00:18:53,955 Speaker 1: used when five or more players on a team have 268 00:18:54,155 --> 00:18:58,115 Speaker 1: died or have been dismembered in the draft, the team 269 00:18:58,155 --> 00:19:01,115 Speaker 1: whose players died will be able to draft the amount 270 00:19:01,155 --> 00:19:04,235 Speaker 1: of players from other teams equivalent to how many they 271 00:19:04,275 --> 00:19:08,315 Speaker 1: had lost. Other teams, though are only allowed to protect 272 00:19:08,355 --> 00:19:11,675 Speaker 1: five players from being drafted, but many teams have good 273 00:19:11,795 --> 00:19:15,035 Speaker 1: six men that are available with the nets having bad 274 00:19:15,115 --> 00:19:19,275 Speaker 1: contracts on underperforming such as Ben Simmons. But they could 275 00:19:19,355 --> 00:19:23,475 Speaker 1: also just kill two way players and benchwarmers to fill 276 00:19:23,475 --> 00:19:28,155 Speaker 1: out those five kills to get the disaster draft. Also, 277 00:19:28,195 --> 00:19:31,235 Speaker 1: according to Bill Simmons, the team would also get the 278 00:19:31,275 --> 00:19:35,115 Speaker 1: first pick in next year's draft. Now, this next draft 279 00:19:35,115 --> 00:19:38,635 Speaker 1: class is weak, so I could understand their hesitancy and 280 00:19:38,875 --> 00:19:42,595 Speaker 1: being a repeat offender, that is, killing five players on 281 00:19:42,635 --> 00:19:46,995 Speaker 1: your team on two separate occasions could raise some eyebrows, 282 00:19:47,395 --> 00:19:51,115 Speaker 1: but this could still greatly improve them. No doubt. Killing 283 00:19:51,155 --> 00:19:55,115 Speaker 1: your players with bad contracts and then killing your benchwarmers 284 00:19:55,155 --> 00:20:00,315 Speaker 1: for six men would generally improve them and many other teams. 285 00:20:00,875 --> 00:20:05,075 Speaker 1: What do you guys think and should any other teams 286 00:20:05,155 --> 00:20:13,035 Speaker 1: do this? And who should they kill? End quote? Now again, 287 00:20:13,395 --> 00:20:18,355 Speaker 1: this is either the greatest satire of the mindless sports 288 00:20:18,395 --> 00:20:22,875 Speaker 1: fan that I have ever read, or it's the greatest 289 00:20:22,915 --> 00:20:27,515 Speaker 1: example of the mindless sports fan I have ever read. 290 00:20:28,555 --> 00:20:31,075 Speaker 1: I am praying it is the first and not the second. 291 00:20:31,755 --> 00:20:34,675 Speaker 1: Otherwise we're talking about someone who wants to see a 292 00:20:34,715 --> 00:20:37,475 Speaker 1: real life version of the ending to the movie network 293 00:20:37,955 --> 00:20:40,075 Speaker 1: where to get out of the contract with the anchor 294 00:20:40,115 --> 00:20:43,915 Speaker 1: who had the bad ratings, they have him assassinated, or 295 00:20:44,035 --> 00:20:48,035 Speaker 1: more seriously, it would be a repeat of the career 296 00:20:48,155 --> 00:20:52,435 Speaker 1: of tennis great Monica Cellis, who was stabbed by a 297 00:20:52,555 --> 00:21:18,475 Speaker 1: crazed fan of her rival, Stepie Groff. Still ahead of 298 00:21:18,555 --> 00:21:21,475 Speaker 1: us on Downdown if you missed it yesterday, Rudy Giuliani 299 00:21:21,555 --> 00:21:25,275 Speaker 1: is in new trouble. His three sources in Ukraine for 300 00:21:25,355 --> 00:21:28,835 Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden dirt. Well, they've just been indicted there 301 00:21:29,315 --> 00:21:33,635 Speaker 1: on charges of treason because they're actually Russian spies. And 302 00:21:33,675 --> 00:21:36,475 Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden dirt is not only not real, it 303 00:21:36,555 --> 00:21:42,075 Speaker 1: was also provided by the Russian military disinformation program and 304 00:21:42,195 --> 00:21:46,315 Speaker 1: Rudy bought it. So people are again asking when did 305 00:21:46,395 --> 00:21:49,835 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani go nuts. My first answer to that is 306 00:21:49,875 --> 00:21:53,075 Speaker 1: May twenty eighth, nineteen forty four, the day he was born. 307 00:21:53,635 --> 00:21:56,635 Speaker 1: Now I'm just guessing about that, but I can personally 308 00:21:56,715 --> 00:21:59,355 Speaker 1: verify that he was already kind of nuts in nineteen 309 00:21:59,435 --> 00:22:02,195 Speaker 1: ninety five or nineteen ninety six. That was the day 310 00:22:02,235 --> 00:22:05,755 Speaker 1: when Rudy Giuliani invited me over to his office, to 311 00:22:05,875 --> 00:22:09,675 Speaker 1: the mayor's office at City Hall in New York in 312 00:22:09,755 --> 00:22:12,795 Speaker 1: Things I Promised not to tell, coming up first time 313 00:22:12,795 --> 00:22:14,795 Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and 314 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:18,395 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 315 00:22:18,435 --> 00:22:21,355 Speaker 1: the world, and prefacing this with the fact that I 316 00:22:21,475 --> 00:22:24,515 Speaker 1: like to try to use new stories that you haven't 317 00:22:24,515 --> 00:22:27,795 Speaker 1: heard before. So the fact that Elon Musk proved again 318 00:22:27,915 --> 00:22:31,395 Speaker 1: yesterday he's an anti Semite doesn't make the list here 319 00:22:31,795 --> 00:22:35,075 Speaker 1: if you didn't hear. Musk was responding to a guy 320 00:22:35,115 --> 00:22:38,955 Speaker 1: who tweeted something that matched almost word for word the 321 00:22:39,075 --> 00:22:41,715 Speaker 1: diseased credo of the man who had shot up the 322 00:22:41,715 --> 00:22:47,675 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Temple about how Jewish communities something something something hatred 323 00:22:47,715 --> 00:22:52,035 Speaker 1: against whites. Musk's reply to that was, quote, you have 324 00:22:52,195 --> 00:22:56,595 Speaker 1: said the actual truth. Let's just accept this as the 325 00:22:56,675 --> 00:23:02,155 Speaker 1: actual truth about Elon Musk and stop being surprised by it. Instead, 326 00:23:02,235 --> 00:23:07,035 Speaker 1: here surprises Worseanna Keeler of CNN and her special guest 327 00:23:07,155 --> 00:23:11,315 Speaker 1: Joe Lieberman of this latest Trump stalking horse group No 328 00:23:11,475 --> 00:23:15,395 Speaker 1: Labels Yes. Brianna Keeler was the first CNN anchor to 329 00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:17,995 Speaker 1: try to suck up to her new conservative bosses by 330 00:23:18,035 --> 00:23:20,955 Speaker 1: going conservative on the air. She's still at it, even 331 00:23:20,995 --> 00:23:23,995 Speaker 1: though they've demoted her once already. I'm not gonna call 332 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:26,715 Speaker 1: what she did an interview with Joe Lieberman, because she 333 00:23:26,795 --> 00:23:29,275 Speaker 1: just let Lieberman come on and explain now there was 334 00:23:29,355 --> 00:23:32,595 Speaker 1: no way that no labels would throw the election to Trump, 335 00:23:33,195 --> 00:23:37,915 Speaker 1: and then she asked such probing follow up questions as uugh. 336 00:23:39,315 --> 00:23:41,635 Speaker 1: After years of just letting her get away with basically 337 00:23:41,675 --> 00:23:44,835 Speaker 1: applying as much journalistic skill as would a blow up doll, 338 00:23:45,635 --> 00:23:49,995 Speaker 1: CNN has to do something about Brianna Keeler Worser speaking 339 00:23:50,075 --> 00:23:52,395 Speaker 1: of Trumps stalking horses. Thank god, none of them are 340 00:23:52,435 --> 00:23:55,515 Speaker 1: smart enough to actually keep it a secret, like Dean Phillips, 341 00:23:55,515 --> 00:23:59,275 Speaker 1: the Minnesota congressional quote Democrat unquote who just happens to 342 00:23:59,275 --> 00:24:02,955 Speaker 1: have accepted donations from Harlan Crowe, owner and operator of Justice, 343 00:24:02,955 --> 00:24:06,435 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas. If there's any more of the secret to 344 00:24:06,555 --> 00:24:09,635 Speaker 1: still keep to himself, Dean Phillips has just given that 345 00:24:09,675 --> 00:24:13,675 Speaker 1: away too. He tweeted an article complimenting his own chances 346 00:24:14,155 --> 00:24:17,835 Speaker 1: of beating Joe Biden in a primary debate. The article 347 00:24:18,035 --> 00:24:22,995 Speaker 1: that Dean Phillips, a Democrat, got and tweeted, is from 348 00:24:23,435 --> 00:24:28,675 Speaker 1: the Washington Examiner, an ultra right wing, almost QAnon level newspaper, 349 00:24:29,155 --> 00:24:33,235 Speaker 1: and the Examiner's money quote that quote Democrat unquote Dean 350 00:24:33,275 --> 00:24:37,315 Speaker 1: Phillips pulled out and put into his tweet is quote 351 00:24:37,395 --> 00:24:40,675 Speaker 1: if Biden debates Phillips, Dean will be the Democrat nominee 352 00:24:40,675 --> 00:24:43,835 Speaker 1: and he will be considerably more difficult for Trump defeat 353 00:24:43,875 --> 00:24:48,755 Speaker 1: than Biden unquote. And that unqualified support and endorsement of 354 00:24:48,795 --> 00:24:51,915 Speaker 1: Dean Phillips instead of the incumbent President of the United 355 00:24:51,955 --> 00:24:56,715 Speaker 1: States for the Democratic nomination was from noted Democrat Matt Gates. 356 00:24:57,715 --> 00:25:02,635 Speaker 1: All Right, Gates is that lunatic, fascist Republican from Florida. 357 00:25:02,795 --> 00:25:05,555 Speaker 1: It seems to me that if you run for the 358 00:25:05,595 --> 00:25:08,795 Speaker 1: Democratic nomination for anything, and you are not actually a Democrat, 359 00:25:09,195 --> 00:25:11,875 Speaker 1: you should at least be liable to be sued by 360 00:25:11,955 --> 00:25:17,155 Speaker 1: voters for monetary damages for fraud, in which case Representative 361 00:25:17,195 --> 00:25:19,475 Speaker 1: Dean Phillips should save time right now and just to 362 00:25:19,515 --> 00:25:24,675 Speaker 1: clear bankruptcy. But our winners two other congress people, Marjorie 363 00:25:24,715 --> 00:25:29,915 Speaker 1: Taylor Green and Claire Higgins a Louisiana. As a devoted listener, 364 00:25:29,955 --> 00:25:32,075 Speaker 1: you will probably have noticed that I have struggled to 365 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:35,755 Speaker 1: find an apt set of new middle names for ms 366 00:25:35,955 --> 00:25:41,995 Speaker 1: Green Marjorie Trader Green, Marjorie trailer Park Green, Marjorie Barney 367 00:25:42,035 --> 00:25:46,275 Speaker 1: Rubble Green. But ultimately I think maybe simple and honest 368 00:25:46,395 --> 00:25:50,115 Speaker 1: is better. She was trying to bully FBI Director Christopher 369 00:25:50,235 --> 00:25:53,275 Speaker 1: Ray at a hearing, and I'm not a Christopher Ray 370 00:25:53,315 --> 00:25:55,555 Speaker 1: fan or anything, but she held up a blow up 371 00:25:55,595 --> 00:25:58,955 Speaker 1: of some texts and a Fox News story about something 372 00:25:59,075 --> 00:26:02,835 Speaker 1: and she tried to play gotcha with them with Christopher Ray. 373 00:26:02,875 --> 00:26:06,995 Speaker 1: And that's when Christopher Ray confirmed, did this woman is 374 00:26:06,995 --> 00:26:09,555 Speaker 1: really just Marjorie Moron Green, isn't she? 375 00:26:09,795 --> 00:26:10,715 Speaker 5: Were you aware of this? 376 00:26:11,595 --> 00:26:11,835 Speaker 1: Comes? 377 00:26:12,155 --> 00:26:14,235 Speaker 6: As I said, I haven't seen the photos that you're 378 00:26:14,235 --> 00:26:15,915 Speaker 6: holding up before. 379 00:26:16,475 --> 00:26:19,835 Speaker 5: Maybe well I posted them on my Twitter account. It's public, 380 00:26:20,115 --> 00:26:20,315 Speaker 5: you know. 381 00:26:20,315 --> 00:26:22,115 Speaker 4: Maybe I don't spend a lot of time on Twitter. 382 00:26:22,195 --> 00:26:24,595 Speaker 5: Well, you know you sho oh, I'm sure you do. 383 00:26:24,955 --> 00:26:28,835 Speaker 5: Because the Department of Homeland Security and organized with other offices, 384 00:26:29,075 --> 00:26:31,955 Speaker 5: has censored many Americans, including myself. 385 00:26:32,115 --> 00:26:33,955 Speaker 6: I'm not part of the Department of Homeland Security. 386 00:26:34,235 --> 00:26:38,035 Speaker 1: Marjorie Moron Green, who doesn't know the FBI isn't part 387 00:26:38,075 --> 00:26:41,595 Speaker 1: of the Department of Homeland Security. Marjorie hoisted on her 388 00:26:41,635 --> 00:26:45,275 Speaker 1: own Petard Green, I just can't decide so many choices, 389 00:26:46,235 --> 00:26:48,635 Speaker 1: speaking of which there was more to comfort poor FBI 390 00:26:48,715 --> 00:26:53,435 Speaker 1: Director Ray. He was then grilled by Louisiana congresson Clay Higgins, 391 00:26:53,595 --> 00:26:58,075 Speaker 1: who has the intelligence of a New Orleans oyster, a 392 00:26:58,235 --> 00:27:00,195 Speaker 1: spoiled New Orleans oyster. 393 00:27:00,675 --> 00:27:03,875 Speaker 6: If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol 394 00:27:03,875 --> 00:27:08,075 Speaker 6: on January was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI 395 00:27:08,195 --> 00:27:11,075 Speaker 6: sources and or agents, the answer is emphaticals. 396 00:27:11,075 --> 00:27:12,155 Speaker 1: You're saying no. 397 00:27:12,155 --> 00:27:15,715 Speaker 6: No, you're saying no, you're very violence orchestrated by FBI 398 00:27:15,835 --> 00:27:17,515 Speaker 6: sources or agents. 399 00:27:17,795 --> 00:27:20,795 Speaker 7: Are you familiar with with you know what a ghost 400 00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:24,515 Speaker 7: vehicle is? Director, Director of the FBI, certainly should you 401 00:27:24,515 --> 00:27:26,235 Speaker 7: know what a ghost bus is? 402 00:27:26,275 --> 00:27:27,195 Speaker 6: A ghost bus? 403 00:27:27,195 --> 00:27:27,915 Speaker 1: Ghost bus? 404 00:27:27,955 --> 00:27:29,435 Speaker 6: I'm not sure I've used that term before. 405 00:27:29,475 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 7: Okay, It's pretty common in long enforced It's a vehicle 406 00:27:35,595 --> 00:27:42,435 Speaker 7: that's that's used for secret purposes. It's painted over. These 407 00:27:42,475 --> 00:27:45,155 Speaker 7: two buses in the middle here, they were the first 408 00:27:45,155 --> 00:27:48,795 Speaker 7: to arrive at Union Station on January sixth, zero five hundred. 409 00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:51,035 Speaker 7: I have all this evidence. I'm showing you a tip 410 00:27:51,075 --> 00:27:51,835 Speaker 7: of the sized. 411 00:27:51,555 --> 00:27:52,555 Speaker 1: Spur, mister chairman. 412 00:27:52,635 --> 00:27:57,795 Speaker 7: These two buses completely white. These buses are nefarious in 413 00:27:57,955 --> 00:28:03,115 Speaker 7: nature and were filled with FBI and Forman stressed as 414 00:28:03,155 --> 00:28:06,395 Speaker 7: Trump supporters. You can get blow it on top Capital 415 00:28:06,395 --> 00:28:08,675 Speaker 7: on January sixth, Ye your day is coming. 416 00:28:09,835 --> 00:28:16,155 Speaker 1: I think you mean ghost Bosster, mister Higgins, Marjorie Taylor Green, 417 00:28:16,235 --> 00:28:19,115 Speaker 1: and Clay Higgins. I can't decide on Higgins. Does he 418 00:28:19,195 --> 00:28:22,755 Speaker 1: sound more like a bad impression of John Candy in 419 00:28:22,795 --> 00:28:26,075 Speaker 1: the Oliver Stone movie JFK or a bad impression of 420 00:28:26,435 --> 00:28:29,795 Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon in the Oliver Stone movie JFK. You a 421 00:28:29,835 --> 00:28:36,795 Speaker 1: handsome man, mister Christopher Ray, Today's West, pay Soon's and the. 422 00:28:36,915 --> 00:28:51,515 Speaker 3: Wall, Get do something, Parked? Hey you insurrection? Who you're 423 00:28:51,555 --> 00:28:56,035 Speaker 3: gonna call? God Boss? Thank you? 424 00:28:56,235 --> 00:29:08,395 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust Udy Giuliani again in Things I Promised not 425 00:29:08,515 --> 00:29:15,075 Speaker 1: to tell, I hear this question about Rudy Giuliani a lot. 426 00:29:15,995 --> 00:29:20,075 Speaker 1: When did his life go so horribly horribly wrong? Here 427 00:29:20,275 --> 00:29:24,755 Speaker 1: was America's mayor the rock in the hours of crisis, 428 00:29:24,835 --> 00:29:28,675 Speaker 1: after nine to eleven? What is he now? After literally 429 00:29:28,795 --> 00:29:31,475 Speaker 1: years of trying to sell the Hunter Biden laptop story? 430 00:29:31,515 --> 00:29:36,915 Speaker 1: Who does the Hunter Biden laptop story bite him? Four 431 00:29:37,195 --> 00:29:42,635 Speaker 1: seasons gardening, the mascara running down his face, gashes emissions 432 00:29:42,675 --> 00:29:48,715 Speaker 1: at phony election hearings the Sasha Baron Cohen film. I mean, 433 00:29:49,155 --> 00:29:52,315 Speaker 1: even back then, I thought it was nuts that people 434 00:29:52,355 --> 00:29:55,075 Speaker 1: actually thought Rudy Giuliani was the front runner for the 435 00:29:55,115 --> 00:29:58,115 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight Republican presidential nomination. What he was 436 00:29:58,275 --> 00:30:01,675 Speaker 1: widely held to be just that in two thousand and six. 437 00:30:01,715 --> 00:30:06,235 Speaker 1: In two thousand and seven, and by the time it happened, 438 00:30:06,435 --> 00:30:08,955 Speaker 1: he was already on his way to spending millions of 439 00:30:08,995 --> 00:30:13,755 Speaker 1: dollars to finish last. But it was the final nail 440 00:30:13,875 --> 00:30:16,715 Speaker 1: in the coffin in which he still lives. At a 441 00:30:16,715 --> 00:30:19,915 Speaker 1: Democratic debate in two thousand and seven, October thirtieth, before 442 00:30:19,955 --> 00:30:23,315 Speaker 1: the field shook out everybody but Obama and Hillary, one 443 00:30:23,315 --> 00:30:26,555 Speaker 1: of the other candidates was excoriating the Republicans and their 444 00:30:26,595 --> 00:30:30,315 Speaker 1: exploitation of terrorism and the al Qaeda attacks, and that 445 00:30:30,395 --> 00:30:34,435 Speaker 1: other candidates said of Giuliani, quote, there's only three things 446 00:30:34,435 --> 00:30:37,915 Speaker 1: he mentions in a sentence, A noun, a verb, and 447 00:30:38,075 --> 00:30:43,755 Speaker 1: nine to eleven. The candidate was Joe Biden. The phrase 448 00:30:43,835 --> 00:30:46,515 Speaker 1: a noun, a verb and nine to eleven ended Rudy 449 00:30:46,555 --> 00:30:51,155 Speaker 1: Giuliani's career and Giuliani's dislike of Joe Biden. Many decades 450 00:30:51,195 --> 00:30:54,915 Speaker 1: old turned to hatred at that exact moment, which is 451 00:30:54,995 --> 00:30:57,435 Speaker 1: why we got to where we got to in twenty 452 00:30:57,595 --> 00:31:01,195 Speaker 1: and twenty. That was also the exact moment at which 453 00:31:01,195 --> 00:31:06,475 Speaker 1: any hopes Julianni had being elected anything anywhere ever again vanished. 454 00:31:07,475 --> 00:31:10,555 Speaker 1: But it was clear to me as far back as 455 00:31:10,555 --> 00:31:13,355 Speaker 1: September two thousand and one. That's sadly, what we saw 456 00:31:13,355 --> 00:31:15,835 Speaker 1: at that time was a bad man having a few 457 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:19,835 Speaker 1: good days before that month was out. Giuliani's response to 458 00:31:19,875 --> 00:31:24,715 Speaker 1: the attack on democracy was to himself attack democracy, to 459 00:31:24,835 --> 00:31:28,315 Speaker 1: propose that the November election to choose his successor to 460 00:31:28,355 --> 00:31:31,675 Speaker 1: be mayor of New York should be postponed, or that 461 00:31:31,795 --> 00:31:34,275 Speaker 1: at least he should stay on for a few months 462 00:31:34,635 --> 00:31:40,435 Speaker 1: as co mayor because he was irreplaceable. There had always 463 00:31:40,475 --> 00:31:43,835 Speaker 1: been more subtle hints that Giuliani was never a good man, 464 00:31:44,075 --> 00:31:47,515 Speaker 1: just a slightly smarter one, a more devious one. The 465 00:31:47,635 --> 00:31:52,115 Speaker 1: venomous rudy, the scheming rudy, the a moral rudy, the 466 00:31:52,195 --> 00:31:55,755 Speaker 1: rudy with a bad song in his heart, leaked out 467 00:31:55,795 --> 00:31:58,635 Speaker 1: from time to time, and often inside the world of sports, 468 00:31:58,715 --> 00:32:02,515 Speaker 1: which is where I met him. You will remember Rudy 469 00:32:02,515 --> 00:32:06,635 Speaker 1: Giuliani was a professional New York Yankees fan. He always 470 00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:10,155 Speaker 1: went to the games for free. Mind you, dugout seats 471 00:32:10,195 --> 00:32:14,715 Speaker 1: for himself, his wife, his other wife, his next wife, 472 00:32:15,035 --> 00:32:18,475 Speaker 1: the kids, the friends. When I still had friends at 473 00:32:18,555 --> 00:32:21,795 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, they estimated Rudy used to cost them thousands 474 00:32:21,795 --> 00:32:25,635 Speaker 1: of dollars every time he showed up. He always left 475 00:32:25,715 --> 00:32:29,875 Speaker 1: via the clubhouse. He always wore a Yankees cap. He 476 00:32:29,955 --> 00:32:32,795 Speaker 1: billed himself as quote the number one Yankee fan. And 477 00:32:32,835 --> 00:32:35,675 Speaker 1: then when the Boston Red Sox were playing in the 478 00:32:35,675 --> 00:32:38,075 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven World Series, when he was campaigning 479 00:32:38,075 --> 00:32:41,115 Speaker 1: for president in New Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani suddenly announced he 480 00:32:41,195 --> 00:32:44,795 Speaker 1: was rooting for the Red Sox. This is like being 481 00:32:44,835 --> 00:32:48,355 Speaker 1: a Trump fan and announcing you are rooting for democracy. 482 00:32:49,875 --> 00:32:54,515 Speaker 1: But I went back with Rudy Giuliani even longer than that. 483 00:32:55,555 --> 00:32:58,195 Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety five or nineteen ninety six, I was 484 00:32:58,235 --> 00:33:01,555 Speaker 1: asked by the Deputy Mayor of New York City, Fran Writer, 485 00:33:02,035 --> 00:33:04,915 Speaker 1: and the staff of the Baseball Hall of Fame. You 486 00:33:04,955 --> 00:33:08,555 Speaker 1: travel from ESPN in Connecticut, literally to the steps of 487 00:33:08,635 --> 00:33:11,795 Speaker 1: New York City Hall to mc an event for what 488 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:15,395 Speaker 1: must have been thirty five members of the Baseball Hall 489 00:33:15,435 --> 00:33:18,915 Speaker 1: of Fame, maybe the largest group of them ever assembled 490 00:33:18,955 --> 00:33:22,955 Speaker 1: in one place, in one moment in time. The Deputy 491 00:33:22,995 --> 00:33:26,235 Speaker 1: Mayor approached me and the Mayor a few steps behind 492 00:33:26,235 --> 00:33:29,515 Speaker 1: her on that gorgeous spring day. As she began to 493 00:33:29,595 --> 00:33:34,475 Speaker 1: introduce us, she realized he had begun to wander off. Ruddy, Ruddy, 494 00:33:35,235 --> 00:33:38,635 Speaker 1: She bellowed. He wandered back, Brody, this is Keith Olberman 495 00:33:38,675 --> 00:33:41,435 Speaker 1: from ESPN. He's going to be the MC. You will 496 00:33:41,435 --> 00:33:44,555 Speaker 1: have to introduce him after you speak. The mayor seemed 497 00:33:44,555 --> 00:33:48,275 Speaker 1: to be having trouble focusing on me or anything else. 498 00:33:48,995 --> 00:33:51,555 Speaker 1: I thought of the old joke, Just keep your eyes 499 00:33:51,595 --> 00:33:55,235 Speaker 1: on the Olberman in the middle. He extended a hand, 500 00:33:55,715 --> 00:34:00,595 Speaker 1: missed mine, then recalibrated. As we shook hands, he grunted. 501 00:34:01,635 --> 00:34:04,195 Speaker 1: The Deputy mayor now roared at him, Rody, you have 502 00:34:04,235 --> 00:34:08,035 Speaker 1: to entroduce him. His name is Keith Alderman from ESPN. 503 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:13,235 Speaker 1: He's the MC. Giuliani turned and looked at her like 504 00:34:13,315 --> 00:34:17,395 Speaker 1: he'd never seen her before. He grunted again. Deputy Mayor 505 00:34:17,515 --> 00:34:21,755 Speaker 1: writer now screamed at Rudy Giuliani, repeat it to me. 506 00:34:24,155 --> 00:34:26,595 Speaker 1: He looked at me, then he looked back at her 507 00:34:27,035 --> 00:34:30,635 Speaker 1: and he said, his name is Keith Alderman from ESPN. 508 00:34:30,795 --> 00:34:35,475 Speaker 1: He's the MC with annoyance. Writer said thank you, and 509 00:34:35,555 --> 00:34:41,075 Speaker 1: Juliani smiled and wandered off again. And I half seriously thought, 510 00:34:42,075 --> 00:34:46,235 Speaker 1: did I just meet a body double? Is he a replicant? 511 00:34:46,555 --> 00:34:49,555 Speaker 1: Is he a well built robot? This can't be the 512 00:34:49,595 --> 00:34:53,995 Speaker 1: actual mayor. Well it was. I took my seat in 513 00:34:54,035 --> 00:34:55,875 Speaker 1: the front row of the stage that had been built 514 00:34:55,875 --> 00:34:58,515 Speaker 1: atop the City Hall steps as the crowd gathered, and 515 00:34:58,595 --> 00:35:00,915 Speaker 1: it was a good one, maybe three or four hundred people. 516 00:35:01,715 --> 00:35:04,395 Speaker 1: The President of the Hall of Fame spoke first. The 517 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:08,115 Speaker 1: may sat next to me. Giuliani leaned in at one 518 00:35:08,155 --> 00:35:11,595 Speaker 1: point and whispered to me, your name is Keith Alderman 519 00:35:12,035 --> 00:35:17,715 Speaker 1: from ESPN. You're the MC. I talk. I introduce you. 520 00:35:18,955 --> 00:35:22,795 Speaker 1: I said something encouraging, and he smiled broadly, like a 521 00:35:22,915 --> 00:35:27,235 Speaker 1: child who was about to get some candy. The President 522 00:35:27,275 --> 00:35:29,715 Speaker 1: of the Baseball Hall of Fame wrapped up introduced Juliani, 523 00:35:29,755 --> 00:35:31,875 Speaker 1: who bounced up to the stage and thanked him and 524 00:35:32,235 --> 00:35:35,355 Speaker 1: got his name wrong. He then launched into a speech 525 00:35:35,435 --> 00:35:38,075 Speaker 1: taking credit for the great weather in the terrific early 526 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:40,075 Speaker 1: season performance of the New York Yankees and the New 527 00:35:40,155 --> 00:35:44,035 Speaker 1: York Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the New York 528 00:35:44,075 --> 00:35:46,195 Speaker 1: Giants who had moved out of New York in nineteen 529 00:35:46,235 --> 00:35:48,075 Speaker 1: fifty seven. But if he had been mayor, then they 530 00:35:48,075 --> 00:35:49,715 Speaker 1: wouldn't have moved out in New York, would have the 531 00:35:49,755 --> 00:35:52,275 Speaker 1: four teams it deserves. And look at all these great players. 532 00:35:52,315 --> 00:35:53,835 Speaker 1: Will let me now turn it over to a good 533 00:35:53,835 --> 00:35:56,155 Speaker 1: friend of mine and a great baseball man. And he 534 00:35:56,195 --> 00:36:04,955 Speaker 1: looked at me, and he forgot everything. Silence, titter of 535 00:36:05,035 --> 00:36:07,875 Speaker 1: laughter from the crowd. And finally he looked the other 536 00:36:07,915 --> 00:36:10,875 Speaker 1: way behind him, where the Deputy Mayor had her head 537 00:36:10,955 --> 00:36:14,795 Speaker 1: in her hands. Rudy Giuliani into a microphone that picked 538 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:19,435 Speaker 1: up everything. He said, said loudly, what's his name? Who 539 00:36:19,515 --> 00:36:23,795 Speaker 1: is he? And now the titters of laughter in the 540 00:36:23,835 --> 00:36:26,755 Speaker 1: crowd turned to a little bit louder laughter, and some 541 00:36:26,795 --> 00:36:29,515 Speaker 1: of the Hall of Fame players seated behind me gave 542 00:36:29,555 --> 00:36:33,635 Speaker 1: me pats of consolation on my shoulder. Fran Ryder, screamed, 543 00:36:34,075 --> 00:36:37,675 Speaker 1: Keith Alderman from ESPN, the MC you repeated it to me. 544 00:36:39,195 --> 00:36:42,715 Speaker 1: Juliani turned back to the crowd, as if there had 545 00:36:42,755 --> 00:36:44,755 Speaker 1: been no way they could have heard or seen any 546 00:36:44,795 --> 00:36:47,555 Speaker 1: of this. And he said, so, let me turn it 547 00:36:47,595 --> 00:36:49,475 Speaker 1: over to a good friend of mine and a great 548 00:36:49,515 --> 00:37:00,875 Speaker 1: baseball man, Keith Obelman our NC from ESPM. I just 549 00:37:00,955 --> 00:37:06,715 Speaker 1: sat there, more laughs, more concerts from the players behind me. 550 00:37:06,755 --> 00:37:09,115 Speaker 1: I can still hear the laugh of the late Detroit 551 00:37:09,155 --> 00:37:12,475 Speaker 1: Tigers great Al Kayline rising above the others. Al later 552 00:37:12,555 --> 00:37:16,115 Speaker 1: came over to commiserate. As I thought, should I get 553 00:37:16,115 --> 00:37:20,555 Speaker 1: there and say thank you Mayor Dinkins, or better yet, 554 00:37:20,715 --> 00:37:25,795 Speaker 1: thank you Mayor LaGuardia. I then concluded, no, I can't 555 00:37:25,835 --> 00:37:29,715 Speaker 1: do that. I'm representing ESPN. I'm representing the Baseball Hall 556 00:37:29,715 --> 00:37:32,555 Speaker 1: of Fame. As I thought that, he said it again. 557 00:37:33,675 --> 00:37:36,875 Speaker 1: So now I got up and I told the crowd sorry, 558 00:37:37,675 --> 00:37:41,275 Speaker 1: I wasn't sure he meant me. So if you are 559 00:37:41,355 --> 00:37:45,195 Speaker 1: saying to yourself, what on earth happened to Rudy Giuliani 560 00:37:45,275 --> 00:37:48,155 Speaker 1: with that brown schitz pouring down his face, I am 561 00:37:48,235 --> 00:37:51,155 Speaker 1: saying to you he has been this crazy for at 562 00:37:51,235 --> 00:37:55,315 Speaker 1: least thirty years. You were just lucky enough to have 563 00:37:55,395 --> 00:38:00,475 Speaker 1: not previously noticed. It is all true, or my name 564 00:38:00,595 --> 00:38:19,035 Speaker 1: ain't Keith Obelman our NC from es PM. I've done 565 00:38:19,075 --> 00:38:21,235 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 566 00:38:21,275 --> 00:38:24,275 Speaker 1: Countdown has come to you from the Vince Scully Studios 567 00:38:24,315 --> 00:38:28,915 Speaker 1: at the Olderman Broadcasting Empire here in New York Countown. 568 00:38:28,955 --> 00:38:31,995 Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel arranged, produced, 569 00:38:31,995 --> 00:38:35,115 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration 570 00:38:35,155 --> 00:38:38,635 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, 571 00:38:38,635 --> 00:38:41,875 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including 572 00:38:41,875 --> 00:38:45,515 Speaker 1: some other Beethoven work, was arranged and performed by No 573 00:38:45,675 --> 00:38:49,515 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. Sports music is courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And 574 00:38:49,555 --> 00:38:51,515 Speaker 1: it was written by Mitch Warren Davis, so we call 575 00:38:51,595 --> 00:38:55,755 Speaker 1: it the Olderman theme from ESPN two. Our satirical and 576 00:38:55,835 --> 00:38:59,475 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust, the best baseball 577 00:38:59,515 --> 00:39:02,755 Speaker 1: stadium morganist ever. Our announcer today was Dennis Leary, and 578 00:39:02,915 --> 00:39:06,475 Speaker 1: everything else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown 579 00:39:06,475 --> 00:39:09,635 Speaker 1: for this, the one forty fifth day since dementia J. 580 00:39:09,755 --> 00:39:12,795 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 581 00:39:12,835 --> 00:39:16,915 Speaker 1: the United States. Convict him now while we still can. 582 00:39:17,915 --> 00:39:20,955 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins as the news 583 00:39:20,995 --> 00:39:24,555 Speaker 1: warrants till then, I'm Keith Alderman, Good morning, good afternoon, 584 00:39:24,635 --> 00:39:44,755 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 585 00:39:44,755 --> 00:39:49,595 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 586 00:39:49,595 --> 00:39:54,275 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.