1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:26,875 --> 00:00:30,275 Speaker 1: A sitting United States senator has now threatened this nation 3 00:00:30,355 --> 00:00:34,795 Speaker 1: with quote, riots in the streets if Donald Trump is prosecuted, 4 00:00:34,955 --> 00:00:38,515 Speaker 1: If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for misshandling classified 5 00:00:38,555 --> 00:00:42,355 Speaker 1: information after the Clinton debacle, which you presided over and 6 00:00:42,355 --> 00:00:44,715 Speaker 1: did a hell of a good job, there'll be riots 7 00:00:44,795 --> 00:00:48,235 Speaker 1: in the streets. Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina talking 8 00:00:48,275 --> 00:00:51,715 Speaker 1: to the disgraced ex Congressman Trey Gouty, now a host 9 00:00:52,155 --> 00:00:56,115 Speaker 1: on Fox News Channel. Last night. Donald Trump took that 10 00:00:56,195 --> 00:00:59,675 Speaker 1: clip and posted it on his account on the small 11 00:00:59,755 --> 00:01:05,315 Speaker 1: social media platform he operates. He has endorsed riots in 12 00:01:05,395 --> 00:01:09,795 Speaker 1: the streets. If you hoped for a moment that Lindsey 13 00:01:09,835 --> 00:01:13,915 Speaker 1: Graham might have misspoken, or been carried away or been drunk, 14 00:01:14,635 --> 00:01:18,115 Speaker 1: he did not and was not sticking behind that fig 15 00:01:18,195 --> 00:01:20,635 Speaker 1: leaf of that passive voice. He added in the same 16 00:01:20,675 --> 00:01:24,595 Speaker 1: interview later, quote there literally will be riots in the street. 17 00:01:26,035 --> 00:01:28,835 Speaker 1: First of all, you cannot have a sitting United States 18 00:01:28,875 --> 00:01:32,315 Speaker 1: senator threatened the piece of this nation with riots. And 19 00:01:32,435 --> 00:01:35,355 Speaker 1: you cannot have a sitting United States senator try to 20 00:01:35,475 --> 00:01:38,555 Speaker 1: blackmail the Department of Justice with the threat of violence. 21 00:01:38,595 --> 00:01:42,315 Speaker 1: It is intolerable, it is unforgivable. It is caused for 22 00:01:42,595 --> 00:01:46,155 Speaker 1: censure by the Senate and expulsion from the Senate. You 23 00:01:46,275 --> 00:01:51,955 Speaker 1: cannot publicly encourage nor condone mass violence. It is what 24 00:01:52,115 --> 00:01:56,395 Speaker 1: got the senators of the Confederacy expelled in eighteen sixty one. 25 00:01:57,595 --> 00:02:00,995 Speaker 1: If Lindsey Graham will not resign today, he must be 26 00:02:01,075 --> 00:02:04,835 Speaker 1: expelled by the United States Senate. His words are are 27 00:02:04,835 --> 00:02:08,155 Speaker 1: the last thing a U. S. Senator should ever say, 28 00:02:08,195 --> 00:02:11,235 Speaker 1: but especially at this hour, no matter if he is 29 00:02:11,275 --> 00:02:16,555 Speaker 1: being forced, coerced, or blackmailed into willing such violence into existence. 30 00:02:17,395 --> 00:02:22,075 Speaker 1: Perhaps more importantly, I do not know when Lindsey Graham 31 00:02:22,155 --> 00:02:26,595 Speaker 1: lost touch with reality. But Donald Trump is going to 32 00:02:26,675 --> 00:02:31,355 Speaker 1: be prosecuted for mishandling classified information, and right now he 33 00:02:31,515 --> 00:02:34,195 Speaker 1: is almost certainly on track to be prosecuted for much, 34 00:02:34,515 --> 00:02:37,515 Speaker 1: much worse. What do you say, lindsay, if there's a 35 00:02:37,555 --> 00:02:41,475 Speaker 1: prosecution of Donald Trump for espionage, will there be rioting 36 00:02:41,475 --> 00:02:44,155 Speaker 1: in the streets. If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump 37 00:02:44,235 --> 00:02:48,915 Speaker 1: for treason, will there be rioting in the streets? And 38 00:02:48,955 --> 00:02:52,275 Speaker 1: behind all of that is the sheer arrogance and the 39 00:02:52,355 --> 00:02:58,795 Speaker 1: utter ignorance of the disloyal, treacherous, scumbag fascists like Lindsey 40 00:02:58,835 --> 00:03:02,635 Speaker 1: Graham and others in the Trump called riots in the streets. 41 00:03:03,555 --> 00:03:07,035 Speaker 1: Senator who can trolls the federalization of the National Guard 42 00:03:07,355 --> 00:03:11,555 Speaker 1: to suppress civil disorder in the streets like Lindsay Graham's 43 00:03:11,635 --> 00:03:15,435 Speaker 1: riots in the streets? Who has the troops? Senator who 44 00:03:15,475 --> 00:03:19,795 Speaker 1: has the tanks? Senator who has the law on its side? Senator, 45 00:03:21,075 --> 00:03:25,955 Speaker 1: these grotesque civil war mongers never stopped to think for 46 00:03:25,995 --> 00:03:30,715 Speaker 1: a moment that they would be crushed. There will not 47 00:03:30,915 --> 00:03:34,355 Speaker 1: be another January sixth in this country. And if the 48 00:03:34,395 --> 00:03:38,595 Speaker 1: price of preserving the freedom of this nation is for 49 00:03:38,715 --> 00:03:42,355 Speaker 1: the fascists and the authoritarians to riot in the streets 50 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:44,875 Speaker 1: in defense of a trader, then they will have brought 51 00:03:44,875 --> 00:03:47,635 Speaker 1: that upon themselves, and they will pay the price of 52 00:03:47,715 --> 00:03:50,195 Speaker 1: making the gravest mistake in the history of this country 53 00:03:50,355 --> 00:03:54,755 Speaker 1: since the Confederate States seceded. And that has to be 54 00:03:54,835 --> 00:03:58,635 Speaker 1: made clear to the Lindsay Graham's of this country today 55 00:03:58,675 --> 00:04:03,475 Speaker 1: and the Donald Trump's today. You riot, you lose, You 56 00:04:03,595 --> 00:04:07,155 Speaker 1: pay for it, because at the heart of all this 57 00:04:07,275 --> 00:04:11,595 Speaker 1: tough talk is the desperate, cowardly, pathetic attempt to help 58 00:04:11,715 --> 00:04:17,315 Speaker 1: Donald Trump escape justice by blackmail. As this week begins, 59 00:04:17,355 --> 00:04:19,795 Speaker 1: it is clearer than ever before that Donald Trump has 60 00:04:19,835 --> 00:04:23,235 Speaker 1: sold this country out. He has taken lists of the 61 00:04:23,315 --> 00:04:28,875 Speaker 1: names of our foreign agents, informants, sources, even spies. He 62 00:04:28,915 --> 00:04:33,475 Speaker 1: has almost certainly divulged them, possibly to the Russians. He 63 00:04:33,555 --> 00:04:38,395 Speaker 1: has compromised the h c S, the Human Intelligence Control System, 64 00:04:38,435 --> 00:04:44,235 Speaker 1: and he took HCS marked documents. These would be acts 65 00:04:44,275 --> 00:04:48,515 Speaker 1: of espionage. He would be a spy. He would have 66 00:04:48,635 --> 00:04:52,435 Speaker 1: been treason. This to this country, with its greatest secrets, 67 00:04:52,435 --> 00:04:56,155 Speaker 1: with the lives of its most courageous heroes. He would 68 00:04:56,195 --> 00:04:59,835 Speaker 1: then have to be prosecuted under eighteen US Code seven 69 00:04:59,955 --> 00:05:05,475 Speaker 1: nine four quote. Whoever communicates, deliveries, or transmits to any 70 00:05:05,555 --> 00:05:14,915 Speaker 1: foreign government any document, writing, code, book, sketch, photographed, photographic, negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, 71 00:05:15,075 --> 00:05:20,035 Speaker 1: or information relating to the national defense, shall be punished 72 00:05:20,035 --> 00:05:24,195 Speaker 1: by death or by imprisonment for any terms of years 73 00:05:24,395 --> 00:05:31,595 Speaker 1: or for life. End quote. Shall be punished by death. 74 00:05:34,235 --> 00:05:38,275 Speaker 1: The emerging picture of the dozens and dozens of accusations 75 00:05:38,275 --> 00:05:43,195 Speaker 1: of crimes of espionage against Trump suggests this could be 76 00:05:43,235 --> 00:05:49,195 Speaker 1: a capital case. It must be prosecuted as such. It 77 00:05:49,315 --> 00:05:52,115 Speaker 1: is frankly amazing to me that Trump has not yet 78 00:05:52,155 --> 00:05:54,875 Speaker 1: been taken into custody and kept where we keep the 79 00:05:54,915 --> 00:06:00,835 Speaker 1: suspected spies. Last year, summarized the New York Times, quote 80 00:06:01,115 --> 00:06:03,395 Speaker 1: a top secret memo sent to every c I A 81 00:06:03,475 --> 00:06:07,075 Speaker 1: station around the world, Old warned about troubling numbers of 82 00:06:07,155 --> 00:06:13,635 Speaker 1: informants being captured or killed. End quote. Last year September, 83 00:06:16,155 --> 00:06:19,955 Speaker 1: eight months after Trump left the White House with the documents, 84 00:06:20,035 --> 00:06:24,115 Speaker 1: he took the secret documents of the highest possible classification 85 00:06:24,315 --> 00:06:27,275 Speaker 1: of secrecy, so many of them bearing that Mark h 86 00:06:27,475 --> 00:06:32,835 Speaker 1: c S Human Intelligence Control System. They vanished January, the 87 00:06:32,915 --> 00:06:36,395 Speaker 1: CIA warns its people worldwide of the dramatic rise in 88 00:06:36,435 --> 00:06:42,195 Speaker 1: the numbers of informants being captured or killed. September. The 89 00:06:42,275 --> 00:06:47,755 Speaker 1: allegations are there. Trump sold them out, sold out their lives, 90 00:06:47,835 --> 00:06:50,515 Speaker 1: or gave them away for whatever reason. I don't give 91 00:06:50,515 --> 00:06:54,315 Speaker 1: a god damn about his reasons. And it could be Russia, 92 00:06:54,915 --> 00:06:57,555 Speaker 1: could be Saudi Arabia, could be North Korea, could be 93 00:06:57,595 --> 00:07:00,995 Speaker 1: all of them. But as ever, all the timelines, all 94 00:07:00,995 --> 00:07:06,315 Speaker 1: the sequences, all the juxtapositions point to Russia. The reporter 95 00:07:06,435 --> 00:07:09,795 Speaker 1: Jenny Cone noted it at the time. July thirty one, 96 00:07:09,955 --> 00:07:13,995 Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, Trump spoke to Putin. On August third, 97 00:07:14,195 --> 00:07:17,875 Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, Trump asked the Director of National Intelligence 98 00:07:17,955 --> 00:07:23,155 Speaker 1: Dan Coates for a list of our top spies. A 99 00:07:23,235 --> 00:07:27,795 Speaker 1: list of our top spies. On August twelve, two thousand nineteen, 100 00:07:27,875 --> 00:07:31,315 Speaker 1: quoting the Washington Post, Trump's interaction with a foreign leader 101 00:07:31,355 --> 00:07:33,995 Speaker 1: that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an 102 00:07:34,075 --> 00:07:37,195 Speaker 1: official in the U. S Intelligence community to file a 103 00:07:37,275 --> 00:07:42,635 Speaker 1: formal whistleblower complaint. On September tenth, two thousand nineteen, a 104 00:07:42,715 --> 00:07:46,595 Speaker 1: Russian newspaper reported the name and location of a former 105 00:07:46,595 --> 00:07:49,355 Speaker 1: Putin official living in suburban Washington, d C. And just 106 00:07:49,475 --> 00:07:53,475 Speaker 1: coincidentally suggested quote he may have been an American agent 107 00:07:53,475 --> 00:07:57,115 Speaker 1: who was spirited out of Russia after providing information linking 108 00:07:57,395 --> 00:07:59,955 Speaker 1: Putin to his country's campaign to interfere in the two 109 00:07:59,995 --> 00:08:07,315 Speaker 1: thousand sixteen US presidential election. Need More, the podcaster Tom 110 00:08:07,395 --> 00:08:12,835 Speaker 1: Joseph noted this Saturday night. On July sixteenth, two thousand eighteen, 111 00:08:12,875 --> 00:08:17,115 Speaker 1: Trump infamously met with Putin in Helsinki. Putin was asked 112 00:08:17,115 --> 00:08:19,755 Speaker 1: by the press about interfering with the two thousand sixteen 113 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:23,115 Speaker 1: American elections, He denied it. Trump was asked who he believed, 114 00:08:23,515 --> 00:08:27,275 Speaker 1: his own American intelligence community, which said Russia did interfere, 115 00:08:27,755 --> 00:08:32,435 Speaker 1: or the Russian dictator Putin. His answer was Putin. As 116 00:08:32,435 --> 00:08:39,795 Speaker 1: Putin denied Russian interference, Trump nodded. July six, two thousand eighteen. 117 00:08:39,915 --> 00:08:43,355 Speaker 1: Four days later, July twenty, out of nowhere, the FBI 118 00:08:43,515 --> 00:08:47,275 Speaker 1: set out a three tweet thread. Quote in nineteen fifty 119 00:08:47,355 --> 00:08:51,195 Speaker 1: one began the final tweet. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, David 120 00:08:51,235 --> 00:08:54,995 Speaker 1: green Glass, and Morton Sobel were each convicted of conspiracy 121 00:08:55,035 --> 00:08:57,635 Speaker 1: to commit espionage in what was dubbed at the time 122 00:08:57,995 --> 00:09:01,355 Speaker 1: as the Trial of the Century. End quote, the bureau 123 00:09:01,435 --> 00:09:04,355 Speaker 1: included a link to the official FBI story of their 124 00:09:04,435 --> 00:09:08,075 Speaker 1: tree Sason. It was not the anniversary of any significant 125 00:09:08,075 --> 00:09:11,355 Speaker 1: event in that timeline. There was no reason the FBI 126 00:09:11,395 --> 00:09:14,795 Speaker 1: should have brought it up that day, As Tom Joseph wrote, 127 00:09:14,915 --> 00:09:18,155 Speaker 1: Saturday Night, quote, a reminder to everyone that the FBI 128 00:09:18,275 --> 00:09:21,955 Speaker 1: just kind of sort of tweeted this four days after 129 00:09:22,035 --> 00:09:25,355 Speaker 1: Trump bent the knee to Putin in Helsinki. These traders 130 00:09:25,755 --> 00:09:31,275 Speaker 1: passed nuclear secrets to Russia in April of two thousand eighteen, 131 00:09:31,355 --> 00:09:34,155 Speaker 1: London's Daily Mail reported that the Saudi prince mohamm had 132 00:09:34,195 --> 00:09:39,315 Speaker 1: been Salman. MBS bragged that in October two thousand seventeen, 133 00:09:39,355 --> 00:09:43,675 Speaker 1: he had received classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner. The 134 00:09:43,715 --> 00:09:46,875 Speaker 1: paper quoted a sources saying Kushner quote took a list 135 00:09:46,995 --> 00:09:49,675 Speaker 1: out of these people who had been trashing Ben Salmon 136 00:09:49,755 --> 00:09:52,715 Speaker 1: in phone calls and said, quote, these are the ones 137 00:09:52,755 --> 00:09:58,195 Speaker 1: who are your enemies. Days later, Salmon rounded up hundreds 138 00:09:58,235 --> 00:10:06,315 Speaker 1: of Saudia's torturing some extorting others for money. The FBI 139 00:10:06,435 --> 00:10:09,875 Speaker 1: agent Robert Hansen first became a Russian spy in nineteen 140 00:10:09,915 --> 00:10:14,635 Speaker 1: seventy nine. He stole and sold thousands of documents. He 141 00:10:14,715 --> 00:10:18,995 Speaker 1: compromised the names of Russian agents working secretly for the 142 00:10:19,075 --> 00:10:23,915 Speaker 1: United States. The Russians executed many of them. Hansen sold 143 00:10:23,955 --> 00:10:27,075 Speaker 1: American strategies in the event of nuclear war. He sold 144 00:10:27,155 --> 00:10:31,235 Speaker 1: counter intelligence to tales, He sold weapons specifications, anything he 145 00:10:31,275 --> 00:10:34,315 Speaker 1: could find. Finally, he was arrested in two thousand one, 146 00:10:34,355 --> 00:10:37,515 Speaker 1: and he pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty for 147 00:10:37,635 --> 00:10:46,595 Speaker 1: his crimes. His espionage is mishandling of classified documents. He 148 00:10:46,715 --> 00:10:51,915 Speaker 1: is serving fifteen consecutive life sentences. Aldridge Aims began selling 149 00:10:51,915 --> 00:10:54,835 Speaker 1: secrets to Russia in nineteen five. His crimes were similar 150 00:10:54,875 --> 00:10:57,675 Speaker 1: to those of Hanson. He was arrested in nineteen At 151 00:10:57,715 --> 00:11:04,035 Speaker 1: least ten American sources died because of Aldridge Aims. He 152 00:11:04,275 --> 00:11:07,955 Speaker 1: is sir being life in prison without the possibility of parole. 153 00:11:09,995 --> 00:11:12,795 Speaker 1: At the other end of this spectrum, in a Defense 154 00:11:12,835 --> 00:11:16,115 Speaker 1: Department employee on temporary assignment at the embassy in Manila 155 00:11:16,395 --> 00:11:20,475 Speaker 1: named Asia Lavarello took a few secret documents back to 156 00:11:20,515 --> 00:11:23,635 Speaker 1: the hotel where she was staying. She also kept in 157 00:11:23,675 --> 00:11:27,955 Speaker 1: her office desk notes of meetings pertaining to confidential secret 158 00:11:28,035 --> 00:11:32,155 Speaker 1: level materials. There was never the slightest indication nor allegation 159 00:11:32,195 --> 00:11:35,475 Speaker 1: of malicious intent. She just did not get the rules 160 00:11:35,475 --> 00:11:40,235 Speaker 1: about mishandling classified information. She just screwed up. She got 161 00:11:40,915 --> 00:11:47,395 Speaker 1: three months in prison. The Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, 162 00:11:48,395 --> 00:11:51,435 Speaker 1: has taken the extraordinary step of telling how Chairs that 163 00:11:51,515 --> 00:11:54,355 Speaker 1: her office will now evaluate the damage and the potential 164 00:11:54,475 --> 00:11:59,195 Speaker 1: risk of damage to the national defense caused by Trump's 165 00:11:59,235 --> 00:12:03,235 Speaker 1: taking the classified documents. Juliet Kiam, who was our go 166 00:12:03,355 --> 00:12:06,675 Speaker 1: to National security anily in my days at MSNBC and 167 00:12:06,675 --> 00:12:09,635 Speaker 1: now serves in that role at CNN, says there is 168 00:12:09,675 --> 00:12:12,395 Speaker 1: only one reason such an assessment would be made, and 169 00:12:12,435 --> 00:12:14,595 Speaker 1: that the House would be notified of it. To find 170 00:12:14,635 --> 00:12:18,875 Speaker 1: out how many American agents and sources have been compromised, 171 00:12:19,155 --> 00:12:23,395 Speaker 1: and to try to save them before other governments find 172 00:12:23,435 --> 00:12:27,835 Speaker 1: them and kill them. Quoting her, that would be primary, 173 00:12:27,995 --> 00:12:33,355 Speaker 1: Juliet said on CNN yesterday, just to protect human life. 174 00:12:34,915 --> 00:12:37,875 Speaker 1: As Ryan Goodman from Just Security notes, the affidavit for 175 00:12:37,915 --> 00:12:41,555 Speaker 1: the Mari Lago search warrant virtually convicts Trump of obstruction 176 00:12:41,595 --> 00:12:45,035 Speaker 1: of justice and the attempt to conceal classified documents. As 177 00:12:45,035 --> 00:12:47,915 Speaker 1: a start. On June eighth, he notes, the Department of 178 00:12:47,995 --> 00:12:51,235 Speaker 1: Justice warned Trump's lawyers to keep all the documents in 179 00:12:51,275 --> 00:12:54,915 Speaker 1: the storage room at Mari Lago. In the affidavid, which 180 00:12:54,955 --> 00:12:58,795 Speaker 1: is August five, probable cause has been found that the 181 00:12:58,875 --> 00:13:02,755 Speaker 1: documents are now in other rooms. In the search itself, 182 00:13:02,795 --> 00:13:06,715 Speaker 1: August eight, documents were found in Trump's office and in 183 00:13:06,795 --> 00:13:11,995 Speaker 1: Trump's bedroom. The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has broken a story 184 00:13:12,035 --> 00:13:15,715 Speaker 1: of a woman calling herself Anna droth Child who conned 185 00:13:15,715 --> 00:13:21,115 Speaker 1: her way into Mari Lago and played golf with Trump 186 00:13:21,875 --> 00:13:26,315 Speaker 1: and Lindsey Graham and The three of them are pictured 187 00:13:26,355 --> 00:13:29,915 Speaker 1: together making the stupid Maga thumb up their ass gesture 188 00:13:30,355 --> 00:13:35,515 Speaker 1: on the course at Mari Lago in May. The problem 189 00:13:35,515 --> 00:13:38,275 Speaker 1: her real name is not annadroth Child. Her real name 190 00:13:38,355 --> 00:13:41,315 Speaker 1: is in a yes scision, and she is a Russian 191 00:13:41,315 --> 00:13:45,515 Speaker 1: speaking Ukrainian. The FBI interviewer ten days ago. Canada has 192 00:13:45,515 --> 00:13:50,195 Speaker 1: been investigating her since February. How could she have ever 193 00:13:50,355 --> 00:13:55,035 Speaker 1: made it passed Trump's inpregnable wall of security at Mari Lago? 194 00:13:55,275 --> 00:13:58,435 Speaker 1: How could she have ever fooled the Bringer of Riots 195 00:13:58,515 --> 00:14:04,675 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham. Then there is the issue of the special Master. Trump. 196 00:14:05,115 --> 00:14:09,235 Speaker 1: Trump appointed judge in Florida says she is leaning towards 197 00:14:09,435 --> 00:14:12,035 Speaker 1: ordering one to see if anything was improperly taken in 198 00:14:12,075 --> 00:14:15,075 Speaker 1: the search of Mari Lago. She wants a Justice Department 199 00:14:15,115 --> 00:14:18,915 Speaker 1: answer by tomorrow and plans a hearing Thursday. The fix 200 00:14:18,995 --> 00:14:21,755 Speaker 1: may be in, but it also may be too late. 201 00:14:22,235 --> 00:14:25,675 Speaker 1: The search was three weeks ago. Today the issue is 202 00:14:25,795 --> 00:14:28,635 Speaker 1: essentially moot. The d O J and d N I 203 00:14:28,795 --> 00:14:32,075 Speaker 1: presumably have all the evidence they need, and no special 204 00:14:32,115 --> 00:14:37,475 Speaker 1: master can shove the toothpaste back up Donald Trump's tube. Moreover, 205 00:14:38,155 --> 00:14:41,835 Speaker 1: a special master who can review documents carrying the highest 206 00:14:41,835 --> 00:14:44,835 Speaker 1: possible secrecy classification. Do you think you can just get 207 00:14:44,835 --> 00:14:47,995 Speaker 1: one delivered by Uber? It could be weeks or months 208 00:14:48,315 --> 00:14:53,075 Speaker 1: before such a person could be found. More importantly, Trump's 209 00:14:53,115 --> 00:14:56,955 Speaker 1: grandstanding suit gives the Department of Justice the legal opportunity 210 00:14:56,995 --> 00:15:00,635 Speaker 1: to refute all of Trump's bullcrap in this nonsensical suit, 211 00:15:01,035 --> 00:15:04,275 Speaker 1: or to express in a detailed way the gravity of 212 00:15:04,315 --> 00:15:08,635 Speaker 1: the rhymes for which it is already investigating Trump. We 213 00:15:08,715 --> 00:15:13,755 Speaker 1: may now legally learn things Merrick Garland could not previously 214 00:15:13,835 --> 00:15:16,995 Speaker 1: have told us. We could learn it tomorrow, We could 215 00:15:17,115 --> 00:15:22,475 Speaker 1: learn it Thursday. In closing, I will repeat when I 216 00:15:22,515 --> 00:15:26,555 Speaker 1: said Friday after a different Trump friendly Fox guests said 217 00:15:27,155 --> 00:15:30,275 Speaker 1: that the levels of secret classification suggested that Trump may 218 00:15:30,315 --> 00:15:36,515 Speaker 1: have taken things like nuclear strike retaliation options or lists 219 00:15:36,675 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: of American agents and sources. He got the second one, right, 220 00:15:42,795 --> 00:15:46,315 Speaker 1: We will see about the first. But as I said then, 221 00:15:46,395 --> 00:15:51,275 Speaker 1: I repeat, now, whatever you think this is, just assume 222 00:15:51,955 --> 00:15:56,035 Speaker 1: it is far worse than you have imagined or could 223 00:15:56,035 --> 00:16:02,515 Speaker 1: possibly imagine. And remember what Lindsey Graham said to Fox. 224 00:16:02,995 --> 00:16:07,155 Speaker 1: If there's a prosecution Donald Trump for mishandling classified information 225 00:16:07,635 --> 00:16:10,555 Speaker 1: after the Clinton debacle, which you presided over and did 226 00:16:10,555 --> 00:16:12,875 Speaker 1: a hell of a good job. There'll be riots in 227 00:16:12,995 --> 00:16:16,675 Speaker 1: the streets. Trump will be prosecuted, lindsay. And if you 228 00:16:16,715 --> 00:16:19,275 Speaker 1: get the riots you want, Senator Graham, please make sure 229 00:16:19,715 --> 00:16:24,915 Speaker 1: to be there up front where the authorities can see you. 230 00:16:34,915 --> 00:16:37,435 Speaker 1: Still ahead on Countdown as ever, tough to transition from 231 00:16:37,515 --> 00:16:41,355 Speaker 1: that to anything else, but an American president's approval ratings 232 00:16:41,395 --> 00:16:44,235 Speaker 1: just went up. It is also the anniversary of the 233 00:16:44,275 --> 00:16:47,595 Speaker 1: first Countdown Special Comment, and I'll tell you how James 234 00:16:47,635 --> 00:16:51,595 Speaker 1: Gandolfini unintentionally helped to write it. No, I did not 235 00:16:51,795 --> 00:16:55,595 Speaker 1: buy that baseball card. And Donald Trump Jr. Appears to 236 00:16:55,595 --> 00:17:02,035 Speaker 1: be obsessed with Donald Trump seniors crotch. That's next, this Discountdown. 237 00:17:10,715 --> 00:17:20,235 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Overman coming up. James Gandolfini 238 00:17:20,355 --> 00:17:22,355 Speaker 1: never knew it, but he helped me to write the 239 00:17:22,395 --> 00:17:26,955 Speaker 1: first Countdown Special Comments sixteen years ago today, plus Marco 240 00:17:27,075 --> 00:17:29,675 Speaker 1: Rubio says he paid off his student debt with the 241 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:33,835 Speaker 1: book he wrote that he didn't write. God is this 242 00:17:33,915 --> 00:17:37,035 Speaker 1: guy is stupid? First, in each edition of Countdown, we 243 00:17:37,115 --> 00:17:39,675 Speaker 1: feature a dog in need whom you can help. Every 244 00:17:39,715 --> 00:17:43,675 Speaker 1: dog has its day. Florence in Philadelphia is a pibble 245 00:17:43,835 --> 00:17:47,395 Speaker 1: terrier mixed puppy. She was in the kill shelter. There 246 00:17:47,395 --> 00:17:49,355 Speaker 1: she was adopted and then she was returned. But she 247 00:17:49,435 --> 00:17:53,035 Speaker 1: was returned with both of her front legs shattered. The 248 00:17:53,115 --> 00:17:56,275 Speaker 1: claim is she fell while running in the backyard. It's 249 00:17:56,315 --> 00:18:00,835 Speaker 1: palpable nonsense. She's been harmed Outcast Rescue is the five 250 00:18:00,875 --> 00:18:04,035 Speaker 1: oh one C three nonprofit trying to get Florence well. 251 00:18:04,675 --> 00:18:07,115 Speaker 1: But this will be surgery, pins in the leg's physical 252 00:18:07,155 --> 00:18:08,835 Speaker 1: therapy twice a week, A lot to do and a 253 00:18:08,835 --> 00:18:11,955 Speaker 1: lot of money needed. It will take months. Outcast is 254 00:18:11,955 --> 00:18:15,755 Speaker 1: doing a fundraiser for Florence on Cuddly. Find out more 255 00:18:15,755 --> 00:18:17,995 Speaker 1: about Florence and how you can contribute. Check my Twitter 256 00:18:18,035 --> 00:18:21,355 Speaker 1: feed for dogs in need at tom Jumbo Grumbo look 257 00:18:21,395 --> 00:18:23,675 Speaker 1: for the tweet about Florence and if you can't donate, 258 00:18:23,715 --> 00:18:27,355 Speaker 1: just retweeting it can make a huge difference and thank you. 259 00:18:36,035 --> 00:18:39,115 Speaker 1: Coming up on countdown. Baseball just finished killing off the 260 00:18:39,195 --> 00:18:42,075 Speaker 1: Hidden reason the World Series used to draw forty million 261 00:18:42,115 --> 00:18:45,395 Speaker 1: TV viewers each game. No, I did not buy the 262 00:18:45,435 --> 00:18:49,075 Speaker 1: Mantle card? And why is Donald Trump Jr? Obsessed with 263 00:18:49,195 --> 00:18:53,635 Speaker 1: Daddy's groin? First postscripts to the news, some headlines, some 264 00:18:53,755 --> 00:19:03,915 Speaker 1: thoughts some snark. Date Line West fifty seven Street, New York. 265 00:19:04,035 --> 00:19:07,115 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's presidential approval ratings have risen again in the 266 00:19:07,155 --> 00:19:11,635 Speaker 1: CBS News Polis up to forty. For contrast, Trump's high 267 00:19:11,635 --> 00:19:15,275 Speaker 1: point was forty seven, and Trump left office at thirty four. 268 00:19:15,675 --> 00:19:19,675 Speaker 1: If Joe had said fascist instead of semi fascist, he 269 00:19:19,715 --> 00:19:24,395 Speaker 1: would be at fifty three. Easy Dateline, Washington, Axios and 270 00:19:24,435 --> 00:19:27,835 Speaker 1: others report a new, updated COVID vaccination will be approved 271 00:19:27,835 --> 00:19:30,115 Speaker 1: this weekend, available as soon as next week. It will 272 00:19:30,155 --> 00:19:33,795 Speaker 1: supposedly be more effective against oh Macron. It will also 273 00:19:33,835 --> 00:19:37,355 Speaker 1: supposedly be the last free COVID vaccination. And you can 274 00:19:37,395 --> 00:19:39,795 Speaker 1: read that one of two ways. Either we are moving 275 00:19:39,835 --> 00:19:43,355 Speaker 1: towards the place where we treat COVID like flu. Hey, 276 00:19:43,395 --> 00:19:45,155 Speaker 1: you know you should get a COVID shot, but it's 277 00:19:45,195 --> 00:19:50,555 Speaker 1: your call, or we are in big trouble. Dateline, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 278 00:19:50,755 --> 00:19:53,395 Speaker 1: A two thousand thirteen dress up photo of the faculty 279 00:19:53,435 --> 00:19:55,835 Speaker 1: at the U. S. Army Heritage and Education Center in 280 00:19:55,915 --> 00:20:00,435 Speaker 1: Carlisle has surfaced Reuter's Got It First. It shows Pennsylvania 281 00:20:00,475 --> 00:20:04,835 Speaker 1: gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano of the Republican Fascist Party in 282 00:20:05,395 --> 00:20:11,275 Speaker 1: a Confederate uniform. Mass Triano is a state senator representing Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 283 00:20:11,595 --> 00:20:15,635 Speaker 1: which the Confederates burned to the ground in eighteen sixty four, 284 00:20:16,035 --> 00:20:19,235 Speaker 1: which fits because that's what mass Triano is trying to 285 00:20:19,275 --> 00:20:24,675 Speaker 1: do to Pennsylvania this time too. Dateline Taipei City. After 286 00:20:24,755 --> 00:20:29,675 Speaker 1: a visit their senator Marcia Blackburn of Tennessee, Musha slammed 287 00:20:29,755 --> 00:20:33,435 Speaker 1: roundly for calling the people of Taiwan quote the Taiwans 288 00:20:33,875 --> 00:20:37,555 Speaker 1: in a tweet. Turns out this is a thing by Republicans. 289 00:20:37,555 --> 00:20:41,955 Speaker 1: No explanation offered. Last month, Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher called 290 00:20:41,995 --> 00:20:46,275 Speaker 1: them the Taiwans, and in a press briefing, and unidentified 291 00:20:46,315 --> 00:20:50,115 Speaker 1: Trump administration official also called them the Taiwans. We think 292 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:52,435 Speaker 1: it's a thing. It just also could be explained by 293 00:20:52,475 --> 00:20:56,035 Speaker 1: the fact that they're all stupid. Dateline Conrode Texas Lucas 294 00:20:56,075 --> 00:20:59,355 Speaker 1: Bowen has been arrested for attempted online solicitation of a 295 00:20:59,435 --> 00:21:03,155 Speaker 1: minor for sex. Ordinarily not much of a national news story, 296 00:21:03,195 --> 00:21:07,755 Speaker 1: except at the time Bowen was what else the political 297 00:21:07,795 --> 00:21:12,195 Speaker 1: director of the Texas Right to Life group the quote 298 00:21:12,195 --> 00:21:16,035 Speaker 1: pro life unquote organization then fired him, purged him from 299 00:21:16,035 --> 00:21:19,595 Speaker 1: its records, deleted entire web pages featuring him, including the 300 00:21:19,635 --> 00:21:22,875 Speaker 1: page where he was the Texas Right to Life Training 301 00:21:22,875 --> 00:21:28,795 Speaker 1: director for college students, and dateline Madison, Wisconsin. In an 302 00:21:28,795 --> 00:21:33,435 Speaker 1: appearance on Fox Nudes, Senator Ron Johnson tells Maria Barbaromo, quote, 303 00:21:34,155 --> 00:21:37,235 Speaker 1: people in Wisconsin think I'm a tool of Vladimir Putin 304 00:21:40,155 --> 00:22:06,595 Speaker 1: and and this is Sports Center. Wait that not anymore. 305 00:22:07,395 --> 00:22:14,195 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Alberman in Sports Okay. To 306 00:22:14,275 --> 00:22:16,515 Speaker 1: answer the text and emails from my friends, No, I 307 00:22:16,555 --> 00:22:19,115 Speaker 1: did not buy the mint condition graded nine and a 308 00:22:19,155 --> 00:22:21,995 Speaker 1: half out of ten, nineteen fifty two tops Mickey Mantle 309 00:22:22,035 --> 00:22:25,675 Speaker 1: card that Heritage Auctions says it's sold for twelve million, 310 00:22:25,795 --> 00:22:29,155 Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars yesterday. Nor did I sell it. 311 00:22:29,555 --> 00:22:31,515 Speaker 1: I already have three copies of that card. I've had 312 00:22:31,555 --> 00:22:33,635 Speaker 1: one since nineteen seventy two. I got one with some 313 00:22:33,715 --> 00:22:36,035 Speaker 1: neat printers marks on the side, and I have another 314 00:22:36,075 --> 00:22:39,795 Speaker 1: autograph by Mickey Mantle. Also, I hate graded cards. I 315 00:22:39,835 --> 00:22:44,315 Speaker 1: hate them. Somebody else is not buying. Fernando tatises Ringworm 316 00:22:44,395 --> 00:22:48,675 Speaker 1: excuse for using steroids. Adidas Sporting Goods has fired him 317 00:22:48,675 --> 00:22:51,795 Speaker 1: as a spokesman, quoting them, we believe that sports should 318 00:22:51,835 --> 00:22:54,835 Speaker 1: be fair. We have a clear policy on doping and 319 00:22:54,875 --> 00:22:58,755 Speaker 1: can confirm that our partnership with Fernando Tattis Jr. Will 320 00:22:58,835 --> 00:23:03,075 Speaker 1: not continue. Just guessing, I do not think the tattoos 321 00:23:03,075 --> 00:23:07,315 Speaker 1: steroids scandal is over yet. And speaking of baseball, did 322 00:23:07,355 --> 00:23:09,955 Speaker 1: you know that there used to be two baseball leagues? 323 00:23:10,635 --> 00:23:13,595 Speaker 1: With the release of its three major league schedules, the 324 00:23:13,595 --> 00:23:17,035 Speaker 1: American and National leagues have effectively ceased to exist. It's 325 00:23:17,075 --> 00:23:19,955 Speaker 1: not literally true, not yet anyway, but the number of 326 00:23:19,995 --> 00:23:23,795 Speaker 1: games played against the other league has jumped from twenty 327 00:23:23,835 --> 00:23:27,475 Speaker 1: this year to forty six next year, as expected. In 328 00:23:27,515 --> 00:23:31,035 Speaker 1: other words, three out of every ten games will now 329 00:23:31,155 --> 00:23:34,195 Speaker 1: pit teams that are not competing with each other for 330 00:23:34,235 --> 00:23:37,955 Speaker 1: a playoff spot. As recently as ninete the number of 331 00:23:37,995 --> 00:23:40,155 Speaker 1: games out of every ten that didn't matter head to 332 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:44,195 Speaker 1: head was none out of every ten. The premise of 333 00:23:44,195 --> 00:23:46,595 Speaker 1: the regular season, every team plays every other team in 334 00:23:46,635 --> 00:23:49,235 Speaker 1: its league, the same number of games for every team 335 00:23:49,275 --> 00:23:52,595 Speaker 1: that has almost completely vanished the regular season used to 336 00:23:52,675 --> 00:23:57,195 Speaker 1: establish who was best based on identical schedules. You played 337 00:23:57,235 --> 00:23:59,635 Speaker 1: the Red Sox twenty two times a year I played 338 00:23:59,675 --> 00:24:01,675 Speaker 1: the Red Sox twenty two times a year. It was 339 00:24:01,715 --> 00:24:04,275 Speaker 1: about the closest thing you could ever get of a 340 00:24:04,275 --> 00:24:07,795 Speaker 1: fair sessment of who was best, unless everybody played the 341 00:24:07,915 --> 00:24:12,795 Speaker 1: entire season all in the same day. This interleague schedule, 342 00:24:12,875 --> 00:24:16,715 Speaker 1: which has picked almost randomly, deranged this. If you played 343 00:24:16,715 --> 00:24:18,595 Speaker 1: the Red Sox six times a year and I didn't 344 00:24:18,635 --> 00:24:20,835 Speaker 1: have to play them at all, and the Red Sox 345 00:24:20,875 --> 00:24:24,115 Speaker 1: were really good, that was six tougher games I did 346 00:24:24,155 --> 00:24:27,115 Speaker 1: not have to play. If the Red Sox were really bad, 347 00:24:27,475 --> 00:24:30,955 Speaker 1: that was six easier games that I didn't get to play. 348 00:24:30,955 --> 00:24:33,715 Speaker 1: To some degree or other, each World Series winner since 349 00:24:33,715 --> 00:24:38,675 Speaker 1: the instituted interleague play has been determined by how easy 350 00:24:38,795 --> 00:24:43,155 Speaker 1: or difficult their interleague schedule was, and their interleague schedule 351 00:24:43,275 --> 00:24:49,515 Speaker 1: was based mostly on TV ratings. Although this new interleague schedule, 352 00:24:49,595 --> 00:24:52,915 Speaker 1: in which everybody plays everybody else once a year, is 353 00:24:52,955 --> 00:24:56,075 Speaker 1: closer to being fair, it still isn't fair because each 354 00:24:56,075 --> 00:25:00,875 Speaker 1: team will also play one other team twice for TV ratings. 355 00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:04,675 Speaker 1: But the new schedule is truly repugnant for a reason, 356 00:25:04,675 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: and that the people running baseball have never understood and 357 00:25:07,475 --> 00:25:11,435 Speaker 1: will never understand the idea that there were two leagues 358 00:25:11,835 --> 00:25:15,115 Speaker 1: whose teams never played each other except in the World Series, 359 00:25:15,595 --> 00:25:19,795 Speaker 1: was the hidden essence of baseball's appeal for a century. 360 00:25:20,035 --> 00:25:23,635 Speaker 1: The American and National Leagues, unlike every other subdivision in 361 00:25:23,715 --> 00:25:28,275 Speaker 1: every other sport, are not artificial creations, not arbitrary bunchings 362 00:25:28,275 --> 00:25:31,595 Speaker 1: of team like the NBA Eastern Conference or the National 363 00:25:31,595 --> 00:25:35,675 Speaker 1: Hockey League Metropolitan Division. The National League was founded in 364 00:25:35,755 --> 00:25:39,715 Speaker 1: eighteen seventies six. It fought off rival businesses called the 365 00:25:39,755 --> 00:25:44,275 Speaker 1: American Association, the Union Association, the Players League. Then in 366 00:25:44,395 --> 00:25:47,475 Speaker 1: nineteen o one, the American League was founded. It stole 367 00:25:47,635 --> 00:25:50,395 Speaker 1: nearly all of the National League stars by paying them 368 00:25:50,475 --> 00:25:53,635 Speaker 1: higher salaries, and though the league's officially ended their war 369 00:25:53,715 --> 00:25:57,155 Speaker 1: in nineteen o three, as late as a dispute in 370 00:25:57,195 --> 00:26:00,395 Speaker 1: the off season of nineteen twenty, the Boston Red Sox, 371 00:26:00,475 --> 00:26:03,555 Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees quit the American 372 00:26:03,675 --> 00:26:07,915 Speaker 1: League and poined the National League. Obviously, they fixed that 373 00:26:07,995 --> 00:26:10,595 Speaker 1: and everybody went back to where they were. The two 374 00:26:10,675 --> 00:26:13,795 Speaker 1: leagues reinstituted the World Series between the champions of the 375 00:26:13,795 --> 00:26:16,395 Speaker 1: two leagues, which had been abandoned in eighteen ninety, and 376 00:26:16,435 --> 00:26:19,875 Speaker 1: the sport flourished. The mid season All Star Game, American 377 00:26:19,955 --> 00:26:23,835 Speaker 1: League Heroes versus National League Heroes was introduced in nineteen 378 00:26:23,875 --> 00:26:27,275 Speaker 1: thirty three, and the sport continued to flourish, But the 379 00:26:27,395 --> 00:26:31,515 Speaker 1: people in the American League hated the people in the 380 00:26:31,595 --> 00:26:34,195 Speaker 1: National League, and vice versa. The two leagues had their 381 00:26:34,195 --> 00:26:36,875 Speaker 1: own umpires, their own baseball, their own strike zones, their 382 00:26:36,875 --> 00:26:41,995 Speaker 1: own headquarters in their own cities. Until nineteen fifty nine nine, 383 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:45,715 Speaker 1: it was illegal for an American League team to trade 384 00:26:45,915 --> 00:26:49,395 Speaker 1: any of its players to a National League team unless 385 00:26:49,435 --> 00:26:51,835 Speaker 1: every team in the American League had agreed to let 386 00:26:51,875 --> 00:26:56,755 Speaker 1: those players leave the American League. They were not friendly rivals, 387 00:26:57,235 --> 00:27:01,115 Speaker 1: and there were American League fans and National League fans, 388 00:27:01,275 --> 00:27:05,195 Speaker 1: and each remained completely convinced that some of the stars 389 00:27:05,235 --> 00:27:07,795 Speaker 1: in the other league were good players, but most of 390 00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:10,395 Speaker 1: them were just wannabes who could not make it an 391 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:14,355 Speaker 1: hour league. At the All Star Game, league presidents promised 392 00:27:14,355 --> 00:27:19,435 Speaker 1: bonuses two players if their team won, and fans actually 393 00:27:19,795 --> 00:27:22,955 Speaker 1: bet on the All Star Game, which was played to 394 00:27:23,115 --> 00:27:27,235 Speaker 1: the death. And when World Series time came around, everybody 395 00:27:27,435 --> 00:27:30,955 Speaker 1: everybody had a rooting interest in the World Series. If 396 00:27:30,955 --> 00:27:33,395 Speaker 1: you were a Yankees fan and the Tigers were in 397 00:27:33,475 --> 00:27:36,195 Speaker 1: the World Series, you rooted for the Tigers. If you 398 00:27:36,235 --> 00:27:37,995 Speaker 1: were a Mets fan and the Cardinals were in the 399 00:27:37,995 --> 00:27:40,755 Speaker 1: World Series, you rooted for the Cardinals. Now, if they 400 00:27:40,755 --> 00:27:44,435 Speaker 1: were a hated regular season rival think Yankees and Red 401 00:27:44,475 --> 00:27:47,155 Speaker 1: Sox or Dodgers and Giants, you could root against the 402 00:27:47,155 --> 00:27:50,195 Speaker 1: team in your league, but either way you had a 403 00:27:50,315 --> 00:27:52,715 Speaker 1: rooting interest in the World Series. Even if your team 404 00:27:52,715 --> 00:27:56,115 Speaker 1: had finished last. You stayed home to watch the game 405 00:27:56,155 --> 00:27:59,435 Speaker 1: in the middle of a weekday. The first World Series 406 00:27:59,435 --> 00:28:02,955 Speaker 1: that I traveled to cover as a professional, the Kansas 407 00:28:02,955 --> 00:28:06,435 Speaker 1: City Royals against the Philadelphia Philly six games. Involving a 408 00:28:06,555 --> 00:28:10,435 Speaker 1: large TV market versus a tiny TV market, it averaged 409 00:28:10,515 --> 00:28:15,795 Speaker 1: per game forty two million, three hundred thousand TV viewers. 410 00:28:15,835 --> 00:28:18,395 Speaker 1: Because it was the World Series and nobody had ever 411 00:28:18,435 --> 00:28:21,755 Speaker 1: seen the Royals play the Phillies before, there was no 412 00:28:21,875 --> 00:28:24,755 Speaker 1: interleague play, and neither team had ever won the World 413 00:28:24,755 --> 00:28:27,835 Speaker 1: Series before, And with some exceptions, if you were an 414 00:28:27,835 --> 00:28:30,475 Speaker 1: American League fan, you rooted for the Kansas City Royals 415 00:28:30,515 --> 00:28:31,995 Speaker 1: in that World Series, and if you were in National 416 00:28:32,075 --> 00:28:35,115 Speaker 1: League fan, you rooted for the Philadelphia Phillies. And look, 417 00:28:35,155 --> 00:28:38,075 Speaker 1: I know as well as anybody that a lot has 418 00:28:38,155 --> 00:28:41,795 Speaker 1: changed in sports and television since night. But that World 419 00:28:41,835 --> 00:28:45,515 Speaker 1: Series averaged forty two million viewers per game and they 420 00:28:45,595 --> 00:28:49,355 Speaker 1: got fifty five million for the decisive sixth game. And 421 00:28:49,515 --> 00:28:54,715 Speaker 1: last year the World Series averaged eleven million viewers per 422 00:28:54,755 --> 00:28:59,595 Speaker 1: game and quick who played in it? Dodgers in Tampa Bay. Right, No, 423 00:28:59,835 --> 00:29:03,115 Speaker 1: that was That was the year before baseball managed to 424 00:29:03,275 --> 00:29:06,795 Speaker 1: destroy the or annek rooting interest in the World Series 425 00:29:06,795 --> 00:29:10,795 Speaker 1: that had developed over fifty years because A it already 426 00:29:10,875 --> 00:29:13,275 Speaker 1: seemed like all the American League teams had played all 427 00:29:13,315 --> 00:29:15,795 Speaker 1: the National League teams during the season anyway because of 428 00:29:15,835 --> 00:29:19,115 Speaker 1: interleague play, and now they will actually I've all played 429 00:29:19,155 --> 00:29:23,355 Speaker 1: each other anyway, and be the schedule has been rendered 430 00:29:23,435 --> 00:29:25,555 Speaker 1: meaningless as a way of being certain that the best 431 00:29:25,595 --> 00:29:29,795 Speaker 1: teams are in the World Series. And see, because baseball 432 00:29:29,915 --> 00:29:32,395 Speaker 1: is not two separate leagues of ten or twelve or 433 00:29:32,435 --> 00:29:36,235 Speaker 1: fourteen teams each, but just one big mess of thirty teams, 434 00:29:36,635 --> 00:29:39,435 Speaker 1: the odds that it will be your team playing in 435 00:29:39,435 --> 00:29:42,355 Speaker 1: the World Series have dropped from ten to one to 436 00:29:42,595 --> 00:29:46,795 Speaker 1: fifteen to one. And d there are no more American 437 00:29:46,875 --> 00:29:50,515 Speaker 1: League fans and no more National League fans. So unless 438 00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:54,875 Speaker 1: it is your personal team in the World Series, why 439 00:29:54,875 --> 00:29:59,235 Speaker 1: would you watch? I watched last year. A couple of 440 00:29:59,235 --> 00:30:03,515 Speaker 1: times I changed the channel watched my hockey team instead. 441 00:30:04,435 --> 00:30:07,835 Speaker 1: And I a baseball fan for fifty six seasons. And 442 00:30:07,875 --> 00:30:11,675 Speaker 1: the former TV host of the World Series had to 443 00:30:11,675 --> 00:30:16,995 Speaker 1: go look up who played in the most recent World Series. 444 00:30:18,675 --> 00:30:22,515 Speaker 1: It was the Braves over the Astros. The Braves one 445 00:30:23,995 --> 00:30:39,715 Speaker 1: apparently still ahead. This is the anniversary of the day 446 00:30:39,755 --> 00:30:42,995 Speaker 1: I wrote Longhand on a plane, the first ever Countdown 447 00:30:43,075 --> 00:30:45,995 Speaker 1: special comment. But this thing I promised not to tell 448 00:30:46,555 --> 00:30:48,915 Speaker 1: is of the role in its creation, played not by me, 449 00:30:49,595 --> 00:30:52,835 Speaker 1: but by the late actor James Gandelfoenie. First, the daily 450 00:30:52,875 --> 00:30:55,315 Speaker 1: round up of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect 451 00:30:55,315 --> 00:31:00,915 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. Lebronze 452 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:05,755 Speaker 1: Kim Crockett, the Republicans Minnesota crazy Cat candidate for Secretary 453 00:31:05,755 --> 00:31:09,795 Speaker 1: of State. CNN on Earth Radio interview in which Kim 454 00:31:09,875 --> 00:31:14,235 Speaker 1: Crockett said of her hallucinations of fraud during the election. 455 00:31:14,835 --> 00:31:17,955 Speaker 1: We are still the American people, and I'm betting on us. 456 00:31:18,515 --> 00:31:21,475 Speaker 1: This is a challenge. Maybe we needed to wake up call. 457 00:31:22,315 --> 00:31:27,115 Speaker 1: This is our nine eleven funny. I always thought that 458 00:31:27,195 --> 00:31:30,915 Speaker 1: maybe nine eleven was the American People's nine eleven. It 459 00:31:30,995 --> 00:31:34,355 Speaker 1: seems a little unpatriotic, even for a Republican, but maybe 460 00:31:34,355 --> 00:31:37,435 Speaker 1: she thinks of her party is representing a different country. 461 00:31:37,715 --> 00:31:40,555 Speaker 1: Speaking of the runner up, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, 462 00:31:41,195 --> 00:31:44,835 Speaker 1: the self owns by Republicans over loan forgiveness and let's 463 00:31:44,835 --> 00:31:49,475 Speaker 1: save some time here and call themself. Loans are innumerable, 464 00:31:49,955 --> 00:31:53,355 Speaker 1: but Rubio, as usual, has topped them all. The day 465 00:31:53,355 --> 00:31:56,035 Speaker 1: I got elected to the Senate, he told Fox I 466 00:31:56,075 --> 00:31:58,995 Speaker 1: had over a hundred thousand dollars still in student loans 467 00:31:59,235 --> 00:32:01,035 Speaker 1: that I was able to pay off because I wrote 468 00:32:01,035 --> 00:32:05,075 Speaker 1: a book. National Journal and Newsweek and a bunch of 469 00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:09,115 Speaker 1: other organizations report Marco Rubio did not write the book 470 00:32:09,155 --> 00:32:12,395 Speaker 1: he says he wrote. They say he hired a political 471 00:32:12,475 --> 00:32:16,595 Speaker 1: strategist named Mark Salter to write quote his unquote book, 472 00:32:17,075 --> 00:32:19,555 Speaker 1: and he may have used money from his pack to 473 00:32:19,635 --> 00:32:24,075 Speaker 1: pay Salter twenty grand in total. Mr big spender too, 474 00:32:25,155 --> 00:32:29,275 Speaker 1: Marco is just not smart, but our winner. Speaking of 475 00:32:29,395 --> 00:32:32,795 Speaker 1: not smart, Junior Trump, after the release of the Mari 476 00:32:32,875 --> 00:32:35,635 Speaker 1: Lago search affidavit, with its heavy use of the black 477 00:32:35,715 --> 00:32:39,715 Speaker 1: box redaction bar Donald Trump Jr. Posted a photo of 478 00:32:39,795 --> 00:32:43,915 Speaker 1: his father playing golf but with a black box reduction 479 00:32:43,955 --> 00:32:47,395 Speaker 1: bar going down from his belt buckle to his knees 480 00:32:47,915 --> 00:32:53,715 Speaker 1: and the caption redact. This junior thinks he's praising what 481 00:32:53,915 --> 00:32:57,915 Speaker 1: carry Lake referred to as b d E. I don't know, 482 00:32:58,155 --> 00:33:01,875 Speaker 1: maybe it's just me. I looked at it and I said, hey, Junior, 483 00:33:02,635 --> 00:33:05,835 Speaker 1: thanks for covering up the peace staying on Trump's pants. 484 00:33:06,875 --> 00:33:10,355 Speaker 1: Donald Dad still doesn't love me, does it? Even after 485 00:33:10,395 --> 00:33:16,675 Speaker 1: all this crap? Trump Junior two Day's worse person and 486 00:33:16,795 --> 00:33:33,075 Speaker 1: the world. Finally to our number one story on the 487 00:33:33,115 --> 00:33:36,795 Speaker 1: countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised 488 00:33:36,795 --> 00:33:40,475 Speaker 1: not to tell. The guy in the lounge at L 489 00:33:40,515 --> 00:33:43,195 Speaker 1: a X had been watching me for about half of 490 00:33:43,235 --> 00:33:46,075 Speaker 1: my walk to the seat, Caddie cornered to his I 491 00:33:46,155 --> 00:33:49,675 Speaker 1: wasn't actually paying attention to him. There was this troublesome 492 00:33:49,715 --> 00:33:53,795 Speaker 1: news story I was reading on my phone, and this 493 00:33:53,835 --> 00:33:56,035 Speaker 1: was maybe the second or third time in my life 494 00:33:56,075 --> 00:33:59,515 Speaker 1: I had ever read any story on my phone. Since 495 00:33:59,555 --> 00:34:04,955 Speaker 1: this was Tuesday, August two thousand six and two. Read 496 00:34:05,035 --> 00:34:07,195 Speaker 1: a news story on your phone way back then that 497 00:34:07,275 --> 00:34:09,795 Speaker 1: required a very special kind of phone and a very 498 00:34:09,835 --> 00:34:13,475 Speaker 1: special kind of patience. But when I sat down, the 499 00:34:13,515 --> 00:34:17,875 Speaker 1: gentleman spoke up, how you doing? The big meaty hand 500 00:34:18,035 --> 00:34:22,275 Speaker 1: came towards mine like you look. It was James Gandelfoenie, 501 00:34:22,515 --> 00:34:25,995 Speaker 1: the actor. I put my phone down. I think I 502 00:34:26,035 --> 00:34:28,195 Speaker 1: did my best to get a conversation going with him, 503 00:34:28,235 --> 00:34:32,635 Speaker 1: something about the sopranos, something about this story on my phone. Nothing. 504 00:34:33,515 --> 00:34:37,995 Speaker 1: He listened, he smiled like you look, he repeated, and 505 00:34:38,035 --> 00:34:41,195 Speaker 1: then he sat back into his chair. The guy traveling 506 00:34:41,195 --> 00:34:43,755 Speaker 1: with him looked at me with a sympathetic shrug. I 507 00:34:43,795 --> 00:34:46,395 Speaker 1: went back to my phone, and then not long after, 508 00:34:46,475 --> 00:34:49,195 Speaker 1: somebody wandered into our corner of the lounge and started 509 00:34:49,195 --> 00:34:53,675 Speaker 1: shouting with glee. Mr Gandelfoenie, well this is perfect. I 510 00:34:53,715 --> 00:34:58,395 Speaker 1: have regards for you from Jensen Pfaff from Summerstock and Winowski, Vermont. 511 00:34:59,515 --> 00:35:04,955 Speaker 1: James Gandalfinie lit up like Christmas, Jensen Faff. You couldn't then, 512 00:35:05,035 --> 00:35:08,515 Speaker 1: then you must be Chris Matt wallbecka. How summer stopped 513 00:35:08,555 --> 00:35:12,115 Speaker 1: going in Winoski? Are they doing Fiddler again? Who's playing TeV? 514 00:35:13,475 --> 00:35:17,595 Speaker 1: I'm making up the names. I'm not making up the enthusiasm. 515 00:35:17,675 --> 00:35:21,355 Speaker 1: James Gandelfenie the embodiment of one of the single most 516 00:35:21,395 --> 00:35:24,995 Speaker 1: complicated one of the single most evil, one of the 517 00:35:25,035 --> 00:35:29,395 Speaker 1: single most compelling characters in television history. Tony Soprano talked 518 00:35:29,435 --> 00:35:32,115 Speaker 1: to this guy for thirty minutes up to and pass 519 00:35:32,195 --> 00:35:34,875 Speaker 1: boarding time for our flight to New York about the 520 00:35:34,955 --> 00:35:40,355 Speaker 1: history of the repertory Committees of the Northeast. When did 521 00:35:40,355 --> 00:35:43,515 Speaker 1: they last do? Our town in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. 522 00:35:43,755 --> 00:35:47,475 Speaker 1: Death of a salesman? Was climfloor w Frondorf the third 523 00:35:47,515 --> 00:35:50,075 Speaker 1: still running the stage for it? And did he start 524 00:35:50,115 --> 00:35:53,355 Speaker 1: there in nineteen ninety or was it? And on and 525 00:35:53,595 --> 00:35:57,315 Speaker 1: on and on and on and on and on and 526 00:35:57,515 --> 00:36:02,915 Speaker 1: on and on and on. My dreams of a thoughtful 527 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:06,955 Speaker 1: coast to coast political conversation with James Gandelfoenie were dashed. 528 00:36:08,555 --> 00:36:11,315 Speaker 1: The man was an authority on Summer Stock. It brought 529 00:36:11,395 --> 00:36:16,155 Speaker 1: him alive. It brought this other guy there alive, gandel 530 00:36:16,235 --> 00:36:19,675 Speaker 1: Foeni's traveling buddy, who later introduced himself while Gandelfoenie was 531 00:36:19,715 --> 00:36:23,115 Speaker 1: in the bathroom, as his bodyguard said, it really was 532 00:36:23,235 --> 00:36:25,875 Speaker 1: like this. He's a good guy, but there are really 533 00:36:25,915 --> 00:36:29,955 Speaker 1: only two topics He'll talk about, Summer Stock and Rutgers 534 00:36:30,075 --> 00:36:35,635 Speaker 1: University football. I groaned, tell me about it, he said, 535 00:36:36,475 --> 00:36:40,035 Speaker 1: so Instead of talking to James Gandelfoenie, I went back 536 00:36:40,075 --> 00:36:42,915 Speaker 1: to the phone and read this one disturbing story again. 537 00:36:43,115 --> 00:36:45,835 Speaker 1: It was about the then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 538 00:36:46,195 --> 00:36:48,075 Speaker 1: and it was about how any of us who disagreed 539 00:36:48,115 --> 00:36:51,555 Speaker 1: with the Bush administration's policy in Iraq were indeed just 540 00:36:51,715 --> 00:36:56,075 Speaker 1: disagreed with the Bush administration itself, were morally or intellectually confused. 541 00:36:56,715 --> 00:36:59,555 Speaker 1: It is sixteen years later, and as I read this, 542 00:36:59,995 --> 00:37:03,115 Speaker 1: I am still enraged at the nerve of this god 543 00:37:03,275 --> 00:37:08,075 Speaker 1: damned Rumsfeld to upset that and two veterans of foreign wars, 544 00:37:08,115 --> 00:37:13,475 Speaker 1: as I recalled, Anyway or Takeoff kept getting pushed back 545 00:37:13,515 --> 00:37:16,795 Speaker 1: and back. The drinks in first class kept getting pushed 546 00:37:16,875 --> 00:37:20,955 Speaker 1: forward and forward, and my ire about Rumsfeld kept getting 547 00:37:20,995 --> 00:37:24,875 Speaker 1: pushed upwards and upwards. And so I took the few 548 00:37:24,915 --> 00:37:28,515 Speaker 1: pages of my trip itinerary, and instead of talking to 549 00:37:28,755 --> 00:37:34,195 Speaker 1: James Gandalfoenie about whichever Rutgers football players had also performed 550 00:37:34,235 --> 00:37:38,395 Speaker 1: in Summer Stock, I scratched out what turned out to 551 00:37:38,395 --> 00:37:41,035 Speaker 1: be a very long commentary in which I would run 552 00:37:41,075 --> 00:37:44,035 Speaker 1: the next night on the TV version of this podcast. 553 00:37:44,075 --> 00:37:47,355 Speaker 1: And I needed some name for this commentary that indicated 554 00:37:47,355 --> 00:37:48,835 Speaker 1: that if I did anymore. They were not going to 555 00:37:48,915 --> 00:37:54,395 Speaker 1: be nightly events, so I called them special Comments. And 556 00:37:54,435 --> 00:37:57,795 Speaker 1: that's how James Gandalfoenie helped to create the Special Comment 557 00:37:57,915 --> 00:38:01,915 Speaker 1: and indeed create or at least recreate countdown. When we 558 00:38:02,035 --> 00:38:05,155 Speaker 1: landed at JFK in New York, he shook my hand 559 00:38:05,515 --> 00:38:08,355 Speaker 1: said like you look for the third time, and I 560 00:38:08,435 --> 00:38:12,315 Speaker 1: never saw him again. But he also factored in one 561 00:38:12,315 --> 00:38:16,115 Speaker 1: of the worst sixty minutes of my life Wednesday, June 562 00:38:16,195 --> 00:38:21,435 Speaker 1: nine two. And please don't misunderstand me. I am not 563 00:38:21,515 --> 00:38:25,075 Speaker 1: saying that my day that day even compared remotely to 564 00:38:25,115 --> 00:38:28,715 Speaker 1: that of others, certainly not compared to his day. I'm 565 00:38:28,755 --> 00:38:32,515 Speaker 1: just saying I have never had another hour quite like this. 566 00:38:33,595 --> 00:38:36,875 Speaker 1: I was at Yankee Stadium, the guest of friends or 567 00:38:36,915 --> 00:38:39,795 Speaker 1: a Yankees game. We were in the restaurant, the all 568 00:38:39,835 --> 00:38:42,555 Speaker 1: you can eat restaurant, the Bottomless Pit, a very good 569 00:38:42,595 --> 00:38:45,635 Speaker 1: food restaurant, and I was visiting with a friend of mine, 570 00:38:45,635 --> 00:38:48,275 Speaker 1: a New York City news anchor whose family owns a 571 00:38:48,355 --> 00:38:51,715 Speaker 1: popular New York restaurant. The Yankees used to pay some 572 00:38:51,795 --> 00:38:54,675 Speaker 1: of the city's greatest eateries to come up from time 573 00:38:54,675 --> 00:38:58,195 Speaker 1: to time and serve their specialties at Yankee Stadium for 574 00:38:58,275 --> 00:39:00,835 Speaker 1: one night, and that night it was Fresco by Scotto's, 575 00:39:01,115 --> 00:39:05,755 Speaker 1: and helping dish out the lasagna was Rosanna Otto, whom 576 00:39:05,755 --> 00:39:08,395 Speaker 1: I knew from TV News, which he anchored on the 577 00:39:08,435 --> 00:39:11,395 Speaker 1: station for which I had once interned in college, which 578 00:39:11,475 --> 00:39:13,755 Speaker 1: was a block from where I now lived. And we're 579 00:39:13,835 --> 00:39:16,435 Speaker 1: chatting pleasantly about all that nonsense, when all of a sudden, 580 00:39:16,435 --> 00:39:18,875 Speaker 1: a big man rushes over to her and does his 581 00:39:18,955 --> 00:39:22,235 Speaker 1: best to whisper, but he's crying and talking louder than 582 00:39:22,235 --> 00:39:25,155 Speaker 1: he thinks he is, and I realized he's Steve Sharippa 583 00:39:25,235 --> 00:39:27,595 Speaker 1: from the Sopranos. I knew him instantly. He used to 584 00:39:27,595 --> 00:39:30,555 Speaker 1: sit in the seats behind mine. I met Elaine Brocco 585 00:39:30,675 --> 00:39:32,315 Speaker 1: through him. And by the way, you have not lived 586 00:39:32,715 --> 00:39:35,475 Speaker 1: until you've taken the subway downtown from Yankee Stadium with 587 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:39,675 Speaker 1: Elaine Brocko. And now Steve Sharippa throws his arms around 588 00:39:39,755 --> 00:39:42,835 Speaker 1: Rosanna Scado and he keeps saying, Jimmy's dead. Jimmy's dead. 589 00:39:42,835 --> 00:39:46,715 Speaker 1: In Rome in a hotel, Michael found him. I knew 590 00:39:46,755 --> 00:39:49,355 Speaker 1: three things instantly. One there was no chance Steve Sharippa 591 00:39:49,395 --> 00:39:52,675 Speaker 1: was mistaken about Jimmy being dead. Nor that the Jimmy 592 00:39:52,715 --> 00:39:57,595 Speaker 1: he was talking about was somehow not James Gandolfini. James 593 00:39:57,595 --> 00:40:01,315 Speaker 1: Gandolfini was dead. Two I knew the Michael he met 594 00:40:01,355 --> 00:40:04,115 Speaker 1: was Gandalfoni's teenage son. And three I knew I was 595 00:40:04,115 --> 00:40:08,875 Speaker 1: not supposed to know any of this. Rosanna Scatto looked 596 00:40:08,875 --> 00:40:12,835 Speaker 1: at me in horror and I said, I will say nothing. 597 00:40:12,875 --> 00:40:16,395 Speaker 1: My condolences to both of you. They nodded. Sippa said 598 00:40:16,395 --> 00:40:18,435 Speaker 1: he was leaving the ballpark to go comfort their friends 599 00:40:18,435 --> 00:40:21,995 Speaker 1: from the show. I don't know how many people knew 600 00:40:22,035 --> 00:40:24,795 Speaker 1: at that point that James gandolfoen Hee was indeed dead. 601 00:40:25,395 --> 00:40:27,555 Speaker 1: Later it turned out he had only been pronounced dead 602 00:40:27,595 --> 00:40:30,075 Speaker 1: at eleven PM in Italy five PM in New York, 603 00:40:30,115 --> 00:40:33,755 Speaker 1: and it was maybe about six fifteen. I checked Twitter 604 00:40:33,835 --> 00:40:38,555 Speaker 1: on my phone, nothing. I checked the major news websites. Nothing. 605 00:40:39,555 --> 00:40:41,675 Speaker 1: It would be six weeks before I would be going 606 00:40:41,715 --> 00:40:44,195 Speaker 1: back on the air for them. But technically I did 607 00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:47,675 Speaker 1: work for ESPN already. And if you work for ESPN 608 00:40:47,755 --> 00:40:49,795 Speaker 1: and you've just found out that one of the most 609 00:40:49,835 --> 00:40:53,315 Speaker 1: famous actors in the world has died, you also work 610 00:40:53,395 --> 00:40:57,595 Speaker 1: for ABC News. And I will confess. The thought flashed 611 00:40:57,635 --> 00:40:59,955 Speaker 1: through my head, I should tell them, or at least 612 00:40:59,995 --> 00:41:03,675 Speaker 1: I should warn them that it's coming, and I dismissed 613 00:41:03,715 --> 00:41:06,235 Speaker 1: that idea just as quick clean. There was a code 614 00:41:06,435 --> 00:41:10,675 Speaker 1: to this, and the code was, if the death has 615 00:41:10,715 --> 00:41:14,835 Speaker 1: not been announced, it's because not everybody who shouldn't find 616 00:41:14,875 --> 00:41:19,515 Speaker 1: out from the damn news has found out yet. Period 617 00:41:20,595 --> 00:41:24,195 Speaker 1: we went through this when Tim Russer died, NBC was 618 00:41:24,235 --> 00:41:27,155 Speaker 1: the last network to announce that Tim had passed away. 619 00:41:27,555 --> 00:41:30,715 Speaker 1: I know, I was the anchor on MSNBC because we 620 00:41:30,715 --> 00:41:34,315 Speaker 1: weren't sure everybody who needed to know already knew, and 621 00:41:34,395 --> 00:41:39,715 Speaker 1: we waited until we were sure. I can't describe this 622 00:41:39,795 --> 00:41:43,555 Speaker 1: feeling of knowing of this man's death. My girlfriend was 623 00:41:43,635 --> 00:41:46,075 Speaker 1: with me, had our two friends who had treated us 624 00:41:46,075 --> 00:41:48,235 Speaker 1: to the game, and I had to tell somebody. So 625 00:41:48,275 --> 00:41:50,115 Speaker 1: I took my girlfriend aside, and she looked at me 626 00:41:50,195 --> 00:41:53,395 Speaker 1: kind of blankly, because well, that's why I didn't last, 627 00:41:54,235 --> 00:41:56,395 Speaker 1: and being an Italian from New Jersey, she was always 628 00:41:56,435 --> 00:42:00,155 Speaker 1: kind of offended by the sopranos anyway. So this left 629 00:42:00,155 --> 00:42:02,235 Speaker 1: me with one of the most striking feelings of being 630 00:42:02,275 --> 00:42:06,315 Speaker 1: alone of my entire life. I knew a tidal wave 631 00:42:06,395 --> 00:42:10,515 Speaker 1: of sadness was coming. And I couldn't warn people. The 632 00:42:10,595 --> 00:42:12,955 Speaker 1: ankey game got underway, and still the news had not broken, 633 00:42:12,995 --> 00:42:16,195 Speaker 1: and I kept wondering about warning ABC. And that's when 634 00:42:16,235 --> 00:42:19,995 Speaker 1: I heard it, a kind of groan going around the ballpark. 635 00:42:20,755 --> 00:42:24,835 Speaker 1: I checked Twitter again. The story had broken. Deadline. Hollywood 636 00:42:24,835 --> 00:42:28,675 Speaker 1: broke the embargo at seven twenty Eastern time. Really it 637 00:42:28,715 --> 00:42:32,275 Speaker 1: was deadline. I really thought somehow I would feel better 638 00:42:32,315 --> 00:42:36,235 Speaker 1: now that everybody else knew. I did not just flashed 639 00:42:36,275 --> 00:42:40,115 Speaker 1: back to the waiting room at L a X, like 640 00:42:40,235 --> 00:42:54,355 Speaker 1: your work. I've done all the damage I can do here. 641 00:42:54,395 --> 00:42:55,995 Speaker 1: This is where I asked you to rate and review 642 00:42:56,075 --> 00:43:02,235 Speaker 1: the podcast, No Positively. The Countdown theme from Beethoven's Ninth Arrange, 643 00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:05,195 Speaker 1: produced and performed by Countdown musical directors Ryan Ray and 644 00:43:05,235 --> 00:43:09,715 Speaker 1: John Philip Chanelle. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, 645 00:43:10,195 --> 00:43:12,555 Speaker 1: the guitars, the bass and the drums by Brian Ray. 646 00:43:12,715 --> 00:43:16,835 Speaker 1: Produced by t Ko Brothers. The other Beethoven selections have 647 00:43:16,875 --> 00:43:21,035 Speaker 1: been arranged and performed by No Horns allowed our sports Music. 648 00:43:21,115 --> 00:43:25,075 Speaker 1: The ESPN two Alderman theme written by Mitch Warren Davis 649 00:43:25,115 --> 00:43:30,195 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN Incorporated. Musical comments throughout by Nancy Faust, 650 00:43:30,235 --> 00:43:35,595 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today with 651 00:43:35,635 --> 00:43:39,755 Speaker 1: Stevie Van's Aunt, Let's countdown for this the six day 652 00:43:40,155 --> 00:43:43,195 Speaker 1: said Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 653 00:43:43,235 --> 00:43:47,595 Speaker 1: government of the United States. New episode tomorrow. Till then, 654 00:43:47,875 --> 00:43:51,755 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. 655 00:44:00,155 --> 00:44:03,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I heart Radio. 656 00:44:04,035 --> 00:44:06,995 Speaker 1: For more podcast from I heart Radio, visit the i 657 00:44:07,115 --> 00:44:11,475 Speaker 1: heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.