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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Attorney General of the United States of America must resign.

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Speaker 1: If he will not do so, President Biden must fire him,

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Speaker 1: not for appointing a special counsel to confirm the likely

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Speaker 1: inadvertence of documents found in Biden's storage. You can argue

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Speaker 1: that appointment either way. Long term, it will likely work

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Speaker 1: to Biden's advantage. Now, Merrick Garland must go because the

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Speaker 1: first of his employees at the Department of Justice to

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Speaker 1: whom he handed the keys to this case was a

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Speaker 1: Trump appointee, and yesterday the second of his employees at

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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice to whom he handed the keys

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Speaker 1: to this case was another Trump appointee who just happens

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Speaker 1: to also have his own page on the website of

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Speaker 1: the Federalist Society. And more important than either of those points,

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland must be replaced immediately, because in the crazed

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Speaker 1: media stampede of the last five days, one extraordinarily important

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Speaker 1: development has been completely ignored. And because of that development,

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Speaker 1: we are left to wonder whether the prosecution of Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: which is vital to the safety, security, and continuation of

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Speaker 1: the United States, of America. We are left to wonder

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Speaker 1: if the prosecution of Trump is at risk because Merrick

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Speaker 1: Garland does not know what he is doing. Where did

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Speaker 1: CBS News get the confidential information Monday about an investigation

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Speaker 1: involving the President of the United States, Just sixty eight

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Speaker 1: days after the case was first self reported by the

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Speaker 1: President's lawyers, just sixty one days after the FBI first

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Speaker 1: began merely to assess the documents, just fifty six days

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Speaker 1: after the Attorney General assigned a U. S Attorney to

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Speaker 1: conduct a preliminary investigation to see if a special council

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Speaker 1: might be necessary, And just four days after that special

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Speaker 1: council first reported back to the Attorney General. Who was

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Speaker 1: the source the one source per the CBS News report

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Speaker 1: from just this past Monday. Who was the source who

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Speaker 1: enabled CBS and then the rest of the networks and

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Speaker 1: the rest of the national news organizations to stampede in

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Speaker 1: behind CBS and to present this story literally hours after

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Speaker 1: the Republicans confirmed they had dedicated an investigative committee to

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Speaker 1: harassing the President and his family. Who is the source?

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Speaker 1: Forty eight hours later, when as the story began to flag,

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Speaker 1: somebody enabled NBC News to re ignite it with a

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Speaker 1: report of the discovery of another document or documents. In

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Speaker 1: point of fact, here the word who is misleading. I

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Speaker 1: have used it as shorthand. I really mean, from what

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Speaker 1: organization could confidential, preliminary, earliest stages details about what is

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Speaker 1: almost certainly a legally trivial matter, but is almost perfectly

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Speaker 1: designed for any American news organization to hype and inflate

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Speaker 1: and repeat and repeat. From what organization could such perfect

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Speaker 1: fodder for an American both sides? Is um, what aboutism?

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Speaker 1: Political orgy emerge? Who in the institutional sense, who would

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Speaker 1: know about the confidential and preliminary investigations touching on the

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Speaker 1: President of the United States by the Department of Justice. Well, sir,

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Speaker 1: I know I am going quite a ways out on

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Speaker 1: likeliest source of such a leak about the inner workings

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Speaker 1: of the Justice Department would be somebody in the Justice Department,

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Speaker 1: unless you wish to argue that one of President Biden's

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Speaker 1: attorneys leaked this to CBS News to a nondescript correspondent

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Speaker 1: and weekend anchor in the network's Chicago bureau named Adriana Diaz.

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Speaker 1: The literal who in who leaked this in violation of

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Speaker 1: all Department of Justice policy and several federal laws may

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Speaker 1: be especially relevant later, but for now we'll have to

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Speaker 1: Garland handed the Nascent investigation too. And just to start

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Speaker 1: in chronological order, let's look at that United States attorney.

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Speaker 1: He did give it to you on November. His name

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Speaker 1: is John Lausch And again just looking at him first,

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Speaker 1: appointed as the U S Attorney in Chicago on November two,

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Speaker 1: And we see he clerked for a federal appeals judge

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Speaker 1: by the former Congressman Louis Gomert of Texas. And then

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Speaker 1: original plan was to replace U S Attorney laush is

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Speaker 1: that is a total coincidence. The point for even suggesting

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Speaker 1: the possibility that it's not a total coincidence takes us

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Speaker 1: back to my original note. The special counsel in the

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Speaker 1: Biden case has been appointed. There is no undoing these things,

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Speaker 1: and bluntly, there would be nothing to be gained by

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Speaker 1: even trying to undo them. There were arguments for and

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Speaker 1: against a Biden special council. Those arguments are gone now.

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Speaker 1: The point is, if two taught us anything, particularly from

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, for instance, it's that when something leaks,

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Speaker 1: we must now look to see who might have leaked

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Speaker 1: their colleagues or their attorney general. Somebody, almost certainly somebody

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Speaker 1: from the Department of Justice, leaked the Biden story. Broke

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice regulations and federal law. Put this story

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Speaker 1: out the day the Republicans took over the House and

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Speaker 1: launched their Party of Inquisition. Put this story out just

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Speaker 1: as Trump Special counsel Jack Smith was broadening his investigation

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Speaker 1: election recount and lawsuit grift. Somebody saw the media playing

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Speaker 1: somebody appointed by Trump John lausch Well, No, Sir, I

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Speaker 1: meant Robert her whom Garland named yesterday as the special

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Speaker 1: look at this another coincidence, the same president as Laosh

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Speaker 1: the Federalist Society on Funny Dog On Things. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: on the Federalist Society website. Why Robert Her, the new

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland, and frankly, this decides it for me. I

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Speaker 1: do not know what Merritt Garland wants. I do not

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Speaker 1: for seventy seven lifetimes. What I do know now is

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Speaker 1: that setting aside everything to do with Trump. Merrick Garland

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Speaker 1: is a desperately terrible, incompetent Attorney General. The leak to

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Speaker 1: What the hell kind of sieve are you running over there?

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Speaker 1: Mr Attorney General? And even if long odds are defied

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Speaker 1: here and these leaks somehow originated elsewhere, it was still

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Speaker 1: And it was then again Merrick Garland who just put

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Speaker 1: are not. You are incompetent and naive. Then Mr President,

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Speaker 1: The clock is taking on our ability to save this democracy.

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Speaker 1: The time to act is one year and nine months ago.

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Speaker 1: The second best time to act is today, unless you

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Speaker 1: want Trump to confess. Oh wait, right, he just did again.

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Speaker 1: I do not think Merrick Garland should be fired because

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Speaker 1: somebody he trusted almost certainly leaked the news of the documents.

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Speaker 1: I do not think he should be fired because he

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Speaker 1: named a special prosecutor. I do not think he should

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Speaker 1: be fired because the two people he put in charge

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Speaker 1: of this were a point ease of Trump and therefore

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Speaker 1: beholden to him one way or the other. I think

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland should be fired because he's an idiot, because

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Speaker 1: perhaps he tried too hard in a time when simplicity

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Speaker 1: actually would have worked better. I know this is an

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Speaker 1: odd thing to close with. I need the break, even

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Speaker 1: if you don't. There is actually a James thurber fable,

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Speaker 1: the moral of which applies here. I think it is

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Speaker 1: called the Bear who Let It Alone. In the woods

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Speaker 1: of the far West, there once lived a brown bear

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Speaker 1: who could take it or let it alone, he would

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Speaker 1: go into a bar where they sold need, a fermented

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Speaker 1: drink made of honey, and he would have just two drinks.

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Speaker 1: Then he would put some money on the bar and say,

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Speaker 1: see what the bears in the back room will have,

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Speaker 1: and he would go home. But finally he took to

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Speaker 1: drinking by himself most of the day. He would reel

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Speaker 1: home at night, kick over the umbrella stand, knocked down

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Speaker 1: the bridge lamps, and ram his elbows through the windows.

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Speaker 1: Then he would collapse on the floor and lie there

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Speaker 1: until he went to sleep. His wife was greatly distressed

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Speaker 1: and his children were very frightened. At length, the bear

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Speaker 1: saw the error of his ways and began to reform.

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Speaker 1: In the end, he became a famous teetotaler and a

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Speaker 1: persistent temperance lecturer. He would tell everybody that came to

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Speaker 1: his house about the awful effects of drink, and he

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Speaker 1: would boast about how strong and well he had become

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Speaker 1: since he gave up touching the stuff. To demonstrate this,

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Speaker 1: he would stand on his head and on his hands,

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Speaker 1: and he would turn cart wheels in the house, kicking

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Speaker 1: for the umbrella stand, knocking down the bridge lamps, and

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Speaker 1: ramming his elbows through the windows. Then he would lie

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Speaker 1: down on the floor, tired by his healthful exercise, and

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Speaker 1: go to sleep. His wife was greatly distressed, and his children.

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Speaker 1: We're very frightened. Moral, you might as well fall flat

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Speaker 1: on your face as lean over too far backwards. M.

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Speaker 1: Good luck to us all. Thank you, good morning, good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. M. Countdown with Keith Alderman

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