1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Donald 2 00:00:24,515 --> 00:00:28,435 Speaker 1: Trump is self destructing over the Jeffrey Epstein cover up. 3 00:00:29,235 --> 00:00:32,475 Speaker 1: It is up to Democratic leaders and to us to 4 00:00:32,675 --> 00:00:37,315 Speaker 1: help him finish this job. Because even before he attacked 5 00:00:37,475 --> 00:00:42,875 Speaker 1: MAGA yesterday as weaklings and Republicans as stupid and said 6 00:00:42,875 --> 00:00:46,435 Speaker 1: anybody who believes the Epstein story he sold them is 7 00:00:46,515 --> 00:00:51,275 Speaker 1: a quote past supporter, and I don't want their support anymore. 8 00:00:51,395 --> 00:00:56,395 Speaker 1: Even before he himself tied the Epstein sex scandal to 9 00:00:56,555 --> 00:01:00,635 Speaker 1: his Russian conspiracy and that sex scandal, even before he 10 00:01:00,675 --> 00:01:04,035 Speaker 1: turned one scandal into three different scandals, Donald Trump had 11 00:01:04,075 --> 00:01:08,955 Speaker 1: already become the president of the Jeffrey Epstein cover up. 12 00:01:09,755 --> 00:01:12,915 Speaker 1: Trump is running the Jeffrey Epstein cover up. It is 13 00:01:13,035 --> 00:01:21,155 Speaker 1: Trump's Jeffrey Epstein cover up, President pervert, President Epstein, president pedophile, 14 00:01:21,755 --> 00:01:28,995 Speaker 1: Trump's Epstein cover up. I want to hear this every day. 15 00:01:29,875 --> 00:01:32,595 Speaker 1: I want to hear this every day from a leading Democrat, 16 00:01:32,755 --> 00:01:39,675 Speaker 1: every day, and six times on Sunday forever. I wanted 17 00:01:39,755 --> 00:01:43,595 Speaker 1: to destroy him, one day at a time. I wanted 18 00:01:43,635 --> 00:01:47,515 Speaker 1: to destroy MAGA. I wanted to bury them all under 19 00:01:47,555 --> 00:01:53,475 Speaker 1: a mountain of their own amoral, uncaring bullshit the term 20 00:01:53,515 --> 00:01:58,475 Speaker 1: Trump used yesterday, bullshit. I want them buried under their 21 00:01:58,475 --> 00:02:08,595 Speaker 1: own bullshit forever. Is it disgusting yes? Is it sleezy yes? 22 00:02:09,515 --> 00:02:14,795 Speaker 1: Is it what the trumpest scum would do? Yes? Is 23 00:02:14,835 --> 00:02:20,675 Speaker 1: it a terrible way to prevent dictatorship and terror? What 24 00:02:21,275 --> 00:02:22,635 Speaker 1: there are rules here? 25 00:02:23,155 --> 00:02:23,355 Speaker 2: No? 26 00:02:23,515 --> 00:02:27,595 Speaker 1: There are no rules. Pick up the damn tire iron. 27 00:02:28,595 --> 00:02:38,235 Speaker 1: This is campaign gold every damn day. Because Trump cannot 28 00:02:38,315 --> 00:02:41,315 Speaker 1: steer out of this skid. First of all, he is developing, 29 00:02:41,355 --> 00:02:44,075 Speaker 1: if it is not already fully baked, a sense of 30 00:02:44,155 --> 00:02:49,115 Speaker 1: complete invulnerability and a simultaneous sense that he can demand 31 00:02:49,115 --> 00:02:52,355 Speaker 1: of his base total loyalty, to the point of ordering 32 00:02:52,395 --> 00:02:57,835 Speaker 1: them to protect pedophiles. He can't even admit he has 33 00:02:57,915 --> 00:02:59,715 Speaker 1: to steer out of it, never mind take the steps 34 00:02:59,715 --> 00:03:01,715 Speaker 1: he would need to steer out of it. He can't 35 00:03:01,715 --> 00:03:05,835 Speaker 1: even react to the rather shocking and entirely unreported revelation 36 00:03:06,075 --> 00:03:09,355 Speaker 1: that there isn't a minute missing from the Epstein suicide 37 00:03:09,475 --> 00:03:13,355 Speaker 1: video edited out by Trump's own people. There is two 38 00:03:13,435 --> 00:03:17,755 Speaker 1: minutes and fifty three seconds missing. More on what that 39 00:03:17,795 --> 00:03:22,115 Speaker 1: could mean going forward in a moment, but for now, 40 00:03:22,155 --> 00:03:26,035 Speaker 1: Trump not only avoids acting on it, or just avoids 41 00:03:26,115 --> 00:03:34,355 Speaker 1: it he keeps digging every damn hour President pervert, President Epstein, 42 00:03:34,475 --> 00:03:38,995 Speaker 1: President pedophile, Trump's Epstein cover up. It is so bad 43 00:03:39,875 --> 00:03:43,835 Speaker 1: already less than a week in that even the White 44 00:03:43,875 --> 00:03:47,875 Speaker 1: House Stenography Corps has begun to sit up and take 45 00:03:47,955 --> 00:03:58,555 Speaker 1: notice the meltdown. The latest meltdown was yesterday this morning. 46 00:03:58,715 --> 00:04:01,795 Speaker 3: And you mentioned past supporters when you're talking about the 47 00:04:01,955 --> 00:04:03,075 Speaker 3: the Epstein issue. 48 00:04:03,315 --> 00:04:05,275 Speaker 1: Does that mean that you will affect it the disowning 49 00:04:05,275 --> 00:04:05,995 Speaker 1: any supporters? 50 00:04:06,035 --> 00:04:07,635 Speaker 4: You want to know, there's a lot of faith in 51 00:04:07,755 --> 00:04:08,355 Speaker 4: certain people. 52 00:04:08,475 --> 00:04:14,315 Speaker 5: Yeah, instead of talking about the things we've achieved, We've 53 00:04:14,315 --> 00:04:19,795 Speaker 5: had tremendous achievement, they're wasting their time with a guy 54 00:04:19,915 --> 00:04:24,475 Speaker 5: who obviously had some very serious problems who died three 55 00:04:24,515 --> 00:04:25,315 Speaker 5: or four years ago. 56 00:04:25,475 --> 00:04:28,195 Speaker 4: Instead they want to talk about the Epstein hooks. And 57 00:04:28,555 --> 00:04:33,315 Speaker 4: the sad part is it's people that are really doing 58 00:04:33,355 --> 00:04:34,435 Speaker 4: the Democrats work. 59 00:04:34,835 --> 00:04:39,755 Speaker 2: They're stupid. People said this was all a hoax. 60 00:04:39,835 --> 00:04:42,235 Speaker 1: Has your attorney general told you this was a hoax? 61 00:04:42,275 --> 00:04:44,635 Speaker 2: What evidence have you at the Attorney General? No, I 62 00:04:44,675 --> 00:04:45,315 Speaker 2: know it's a hoax. 63 00:04:45,355 --> 00:04:49,035 Speaker 4: It's started by Democrats. It's been run by the Democrats 64 00:04:49,075 --> 00:04:52,075 Speaker 4: for four years. You had Christopher Ray and these characters 65 00:04:52,075 --> 00:04:56,195 Speaker 4: and call me before him, and it's a bad group. 66 00:04:56,275 --> 00:04:58,795 Speaker 4: It started to actually look at the Steele dossier that 67 00:04:58,875 --> 00:05:00,275 Speaker 4: turned out to be a total hoax. 68 00:05:03,755 --> 00:05:06,235 Speaker 1: They were made up by but the Biden, you know, 69 00:05:07,155 --> 00:05:10,555 Speaker 1: and we went through years of that with the Russia 70 00:05:10,915 --> 00:05:14,555 Speaker 1: Russia Russia hugs. Why does he keep connecting his Epstein 71 00:05:14,715 --> 00:05:23,155 Speaker 1: cover up and Jeffrey Epstein to the Steel dossier. Where 72 00:05:23,715 --> 00:05:32,635 Speaker 1: would Epstein and the Steel dossier overlap be tape? Yesterday's 73 00:05:32,675 --> 00:05:37,195 Speaker 1: latest self incrimination came only after his remarkable post on 74 00:05:37,275 --> 00:05:41,235 Speaker 1: truth social again got ratioed to death by his own people. 75 00:05:42,115 --> 00:05:45,755 Speaker 1: Referred to my past supporters have bought into this bullshit 76 00:05:45,795 --> 00:05:48,395 Speaker 1: hook line and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson and 77 00:05:48,475 --> 00:05:51,875 Speaker 1: probably never will, even after being conned by the lunatic 78 00:05:51,955 --> 00:05:54,675 Speaker 1: left for eight long years. Blah blah blah blah blah. 79 00:05:54,715 --> 00:05:57,235 Speaker 1: All these people want to talk about, with strong prodding 80 00:05:57,235 --> 00:06:00,435 Speaker 1: by the fake news and the success starved Dems, is 81 00:06:00,475 --> 00:06:04,915 Speaker 1: the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. Let these weaklings continue for forward 82 00:06:04,995 --> 00:06:09,435 Speaker 1: and do the Democrats work. He's talking about his own voters. 83 00:06:10,275 --> 00:06:15,755 Speaker 1: He is yelling at his own audience. It is professional suicide. 84 00:06:16,835 --> 00:06:20,755 Speaker 1: Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work. 85 00:06:20,915 --> 00:06:23,795 Speaker 1: Don't even think about the talking of our incredible and 86 00:06:23,915 --> 00:06:30,995 Speaker 1: unprecedented success because I don't want their support anymore. This 87 00:06:31,035 --> 00:06:35,315 Speaker 1: can be arranged. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 88 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:37,955 Speaker 1: Make America great again. Well, he's really serious. He used 89 00:06:37,955 --> 00:06:41,955 Speaker 1: both of his catchphrases madness. It is utter madness, and 90 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:46,275 Speaker 1: they see it for the first time in most cases, 91 00:06:46,595 --> 00:06:51,035 Speaker 1: and they don't all have to see it. Just enough, 92 00:06:51,235 --> 00:06:56,395 Speaker 1: MAGA are calling him the Antichrist. Just enough, MAGA are 93 00:06:56,435 --> 00:07:02,675 Speaker 1: asking if he's now going to pardon Gallaine Maxwell, Just enough, 94 00:07:02,675 --> 00:07:10,075 Speaker 1: MAGA saying he's now part of the conspiracy. The worst 95 00:07:10,115 --> 00:07:12,875 Speaker 1: of the polling has not broken against him yet. Nobody 96 00:07:12,875 --> 00:07:15,195 Speaker 1: has asked the question, do you now believe less in 97 00:07:15,235 --> 00:07:17,435 Speaker 1: Trump today than you did a week ago? It hasn't 98 00:07:17,475 --> 00:07:21,475 Speaker 1: happened yet, but a you gov this week, seventy five 99 00:07:21,595 --> 00:07:27,675 Speaker 1: percent want quote all Jeffrey Epstein case documents released. Seventy 100 00:07:27,715 --> 00:07:35,275 Speaker 1: five percent of Republicans one of the morons to whom 101 00:07:35,315 --> 00:07:40,075 Speaker 1: they handed those three ring binders marked the Epstein files. 102 00:07:40,075 --> 00:07:48,275 Speaker 1: In February, rogan o'handley d C. Draino called for all 103 00:07:48,395 --> 00:07:53,195 Speaker 1: documents to be released. Called for that twenty minutes before 104 00:07:53,235 --> 00:07:58,515 Speaker 1: Trump attacked MAGA also quote, obviously this is not a 105 00:07:58,555 --> 00:08:01,995 Speaker 1: complete hoax. I don't want it to consume his presidency, 106 00:08:02,355 --> 00:08:09,715 Speaker 1: said Laura Lumer. Great work, MAGA, keep it up, and 107 00:08:09,795 --> 00:08:14,435 Speaker 1: they have to. That's what makes this so inescapable for Trump. 108 00:08:14,635 --> 00:08:19,795 Speaker 1: These slime have, in the years since Trump descended, have 109 00:08:19,915 --> 00:08:24,475 Speaker 1: created their own careers off things like the Epstein dragon 110 00:08:25,155 --> 00:08:28,235 Speaker 1: and their portrayal of Trump as the knight who would 111 00:08:28,235 --> 00:08:31,035 Speaker 1: slay it. It's not about his presidency or the cover 112 00:08:31,155 --> 00:08:35,675 Speaker 1: up or even the victims. It's about their money. And 113 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:39,315 Speaker 1: if it comes down to their money or Trump's presidency, 114 00:08:39,635 --> 00:08:47,435 Speaker 1: guess which one goes up in flames. Do I smell hamburning? No, 115 00:08:47,555 --> 00:08:51,315 Speaker 1: that's just Trump. Trump has taught them and taught them well, 116 00:08:51,635 --> 00:08:58,995 Speaker 1: always protect your money. Keep getting him angry, Keep distracting 117 00:08:59,035 --> 00:09:01,715 Speaker 1: him Democrats, keep making him insist. The Democrats made up 118 00:09:01,715 --> 00:09:05,195 Speaker 1: the Epstein files in twenty nineteen when Trump was present. No, 119 00:09:05,235 --> 00:09:07,955 Speaker 1: not in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty five, when Trump was 120 00:09:07,995 --> 00:09:12,435 Speaker 1: also president. Keep getting him to insist. Epstein died three 121 00:09:12,555 --> 00:09:16,635 Speaker 1: or four years ago. That would be when Biden was president, 122 00:09:17,275 --> 00:09:20,515 Speaker 1: instead of in twenty nineteen, when Epstein actually died. And 123 00:09:20,595 --> 00:09:25,035 Speaker 1: Trump was president. Keep getting him to demand that his 124 00:09:25,195 --> 00:09:30,075 Speaker 1: cult violate the physical laws of time and space and counting. 125 00:09:31,355 --> 00:09:35,755 Speaker 1: Keep getting him to yell at his own audience every 126 00:09:35,955 --> 00:09:39,395 Speaker 1: damn day, and six times on Sunday. Pick up the 127 00:09:39,555 --> 00:09:46,035 Speaker 1: damn tire iron for the first time since perhaps the 128 00:09:46,115 --> 00:09:49,555 Speaker 1: Access Hollywood tape. The Republicans who embraced the MAGA conspiracy 129 00:09:49,595 --> 00:09:53,235 Speaker 1: time bomb had its sown under their chests. They do 130 00:09:53,395 --> 00:09:56,835 Speaker 1: not know what to do next, so they keep doing 131 00:09:57,155 --> 00:10:00,955 Speaker 1: everything all at once. Congressman Tim Burchett says he doesn't 132 00:10:00,995 --> 00:10:05,075 Speaker 1: trust the DOJ wants more data, hours after he voted 133 00:10:05,075 --> 00:10:07,755 Speaker 1: against the Democratic bill to force the release of whatever 134 00:10:07,835 --> 00:10:12,475 Speaker 1: the DOJ has. Mike Lawler told a CNN anchor it 135 00:10:12,595 --> 00:10:15,915 Speaker 1: was nonsense that CNN was covering Epstein. The anchor, John 136 00:10:15,955 --> 00:10:19,795 Speaker 1: Berman had the balls to destroy Lawler with quote, the 137 00:10:19,955 --> 00:10:23,115 Speaker 1: deputy director of the FBI took workof Friday to protest 138 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:25,955 Speaker 1: the DOJ's handling of this. That's why we're covering it. 139 00:10:27,355 --> 00:10:31,555 Speaker 1: Nancy Mace called for the death penalty for child rapists, 140 00:10:32,235 --> 00:10:35,515 Speaker 1: thinking that nobody would have noticed that. Hours before she 141 00:10:36,075 --> 00:10:39,355 Speaker 1: voted to protect Trump and his cover up of Jeffrey 142 00:10:39,355 --> 00:10:45,835 Speaker 1: Epstein and child rapists. Charlie Kirk attacked Trump Saturday, one 143 00:10:45,955 --> 00:10:48,675 Speaker 1: eightied Monday, told his sheep to trust the government. One 144 00:10:48,875 --> 00:10:53,035 Speaker 1: eightied again Tuesday, demanding Trump release more information and fix 145 00:10:53,115 --> 00:10:57,715 Speaker 1: the Epstein mess. Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, 146 00:10:57,755 --> 00:11:01,555 Speaker 1: who comes from a town full of closets, went from 147 00:11:01,595 --> 00:11:05,355 Speaker 1: prostituting himself for Trump to insisting Pam Bondie come forward 148 00:11:05,355 --> 00:11:08,755 Speaker 1: and explain herself and release everything, and maybe have Glaine 149 00:11:08,755 --> 00:11:12,515 Speaker 1: Maxwell testify to the House of Representatives. 150 00:11:12,795 --> 00:11:16,635 Speaker 3: The question here about it that concerns either testifying or 151 00:11:16,675 --> 00:11:19,755 Speaker 3: testimony for Julane Maxwell potentially before Congress. 152 00:11:19,755 --> 00:11:23,035 Speaker 2: Or if you would support. 153 00:11:23,035 --> 00:11:25,635 Speaker 3: Members like Margin, Taylo Green or Anapoline A Luna on 154 00:11:25,715 --> 00:11:29,635 Speaker 3: the release of subpoena subpoenaing the Epsteine documents from the 155 00:11:29,715 --> 00:11:32,195 Speaker 3: DJ whether you would support either of those. 156 00:11:32,315 --> 00:11:34,875 Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't talked to Marjorie or Anna about that 157 00:11:34,915 --> 00:11:38,555 Speaker 6: specific subject, but I'm for transparency. We're intellectually consistent in this. 158 00:11:38,755 --> 00:11:39,555 Speaker 1: We look. 159 00:11:39,795 --> 00:11:42,275 Speaker 6: Reagan used to tell us we should trust the American people. 160 00:11:42,355 --> 00:11:44,155 Speaker 6: I believe in that principle. I know President Trump does 161 00:11:44,155 --> 00:11:45,835 Speaker 6: as well, and I trust him. I mean, he put 162 00:11:45,875 --> 00:11:48,355 Speaker 6: together a team of his choosing, and they're doing a 163 00:11:48,355 --> 00:11:52,035 Speaker 6: great job. It's a very delicate subject, but we should 164 00:11:52,195 --> 00:11:53,995 Speaker 6: put everything out there and let the people decide it. 165 00:11:54,355 --> 00:11:57,475 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson with Benny Johnson, and that's a couple of 166 00:11:57,555 --> 00:12:03,355 Speaker 1: ugly small Johnson's right there. That was Tuesday, yesterday. Mike 167 00:12:03,435 --> 00:12:09,195 Speaker 1: Johnson said what he said to Benny Johnson was misrepresented. Well, 168 00:12:09,275 --> 00:12:13,595 Speaker 1: if it was, he's the one who misrepresented it. But 169 00:12:13,675 --> 00:12:16,235 Speaker 1: in underscores, the Republicans are completely panicked over this. They 170 00:12:16,275 --> 00:12:18,795 Speaker 1: have no clue what to do next. This isn't in 171 00:12:18,835 --> 00:12:22,715 Speaker 1: their playbook. The moment when the streams cross and the 172 00:12:22,715 --> 00:12:27,315 Speaker 1: conspiracies collide with each other and with reality, and one 173 00:12:27,355 --> 00:12:30,035 Speaker 1: set of your lies contradicts the other set of your lies, 174 00:12:30,195 --> 00:12:33,315 Speaker 1: and you have to choose, and your choice is exactly 175 00:12:33,355 --> 00:12:37,355 Speaker 1: what you told your cult would never happen. It's perfect 176 00:12:37,835 --> 00:12:50,435 Speaker 1: Trump's Epstein cover up. Every damn day now, the Democratic 177 00:12:50,755 --> 00:12:54,715 Speaker 1: hierarchy fear apart from the now standard. We're afraid to 178 00:12:54,755 --> 00:12:58,315 Speaker 1: do anything, certainly anything that might dirty our loafers. Let's 179 00:12:58,355 --> 00:13:01,275 Speaker 1: listen to Schumer and just let them self destruct like 180 00:13:01,315 --> 00:13:03,755 Speaker 1: they did over tariffs. All right, they didn't self destruct 181 00:13:03,795 --> 00:13:06,435 Speaker 1: over tariffs, just like they did over the access Hollywood tape. 182 00:13:06,475 --> 00:13:10,195 Speaker 1: Oh right, they didn't. We stood aside and they got 183 00:13:10,235 --> 00:13:14,195 Speaker 1: away with it. Apart from the standard but old timey 184 00:13:14,235 --> 00:13:17,515 Speaker 1: politics will resume if if only we just believe hard enough, 185 00:13:17,595 --> 00:13:22,955 Speaker 1: you know, like Peter Pan. This Democratic party fear appears 186 00:13:22,995 --> 00:13:26,035 Speaker 1: to be that if Democrats push too hard, Panbondi or 187 00:13:26,115 --> 00:13:31,315 Speaker 1: especially Dan Bongino and Cash Patel could easily fabricate and 188 00:13:31,435 --> 00:13:34,995 Speaker 1: release a new set of documents that implicates only Democrats. 189 00:13:35,875 --> 00:13:39,995 Speaker 1: This is actually logical. It certainly would only be about 190 00:13:40,035 --> 00:13:42,435 Speaker 1: a three on the one to ten scale of fascist 191 00:13:42,555 --> 00:13:46,595 Speaker 1: lying and evil. On the other hand, Actor Bondi promised 192 00:13:46,595 --> 00:13:49,555 Speaker 1: to produce the documents and a client list after they 193 00:13:49,595 --> 00:13:54,075 Speaker 1: handed out those neat three ring binders in February. Why 194 00:13:54,115 --> 00:13:58,675 Speaker 1: didn't the Republicans do this then? What could have better 195 00:13:58,835 --> 00:14:03,835 Speaker 1: served their coup plans? What could have better enshrined their 196 00:14:03,875 --> 00:14:08,995 Speaker 1: dictatorship than to seize the Epstein case permanently and perjure 197 00:14:09,035 --> 00:14:12,235 Speaker 1: their way to who knows what frenzy among the idiot 198 00:14:12,315 --> 00:14:19,875 Speaker 1: magabase by releasing documents that only show Democratic perpetrators give 199 00:14:19,915 --> 00:14:27,475 Speaker 1: them exactly what they wanted. Hollywood stars democratic politicians. Case 200 00:14:27,595 --> 00:14:31,115 Speaker 1: closed that there wouldn't be any prosecutions or anything else. 201 00:14:31,155 --> 00:14:37,115 Speaker 1: Wouldn't matter. Somebody would say, Oh, they're all publicly executed. 202 00:14:37,195 --> 00:14:41,795 Speaker 1: You just didn't see it on the news. Why didn't 203 00:14:42,315 --> 00:14:44,795 Speaker 1: they just make up the worst shit their perverted lack 204 00:14:44,835 --> 00:14:47,555 Speaker 1: of souls could have read from their diaries? I mean 205 00:14:47,635 --> 00:14:52,115 Speaker 1: made up. I can't really answer that. But they didn't, 206 00:14:52,755 --> 00:14:56,915 Speaker 1: did they, And now it's too late. They chose instead 207 00:14:58,315 --> 00:15:01,635 Speaker 1: an alternate path lighting the room. They had all locked 208 00:15:01,635 --> 00:15:06,075 Speaker 1: themselves in a blaze. There is no way out. They 209 00:15:06,195 --> 00:15:10,195 Speaker 1: chose to stonewall, to cover up, to bullshit, to somehow 210 00:15:10,275 --> 00:15:13,515 Speaker 1: manage to insult the intelligence of their cult, even though 211 00:15:13,555 --> 00:15:18,755 Speaker 1: their cult doesn't have any intelligence. I guess they could 212 00:15:18,755 --> 00:15:24,755 Speaker 1: still make up a new Epstein report blaming, blaming, Zor 213 00:15:24,835 --> 00:15:28,955 Speaker 1: and Mamdani. But their problem is now none of the 214 00:15:28,995 --> 00:15:33,355 Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists, at least a third of the American voting population, 215 00:15:33,955 --> 00:15:36,835 Speaker 1: none of them will believe whatever they are now told 216 00:15:36,875 --> 00:15:41,435 Speaker 1: by Trump. They are shaken for the first time in 217 00:15:41,515 --> 00:15:45,555 Speaker 1: the last decade. This resonates in a way nothing else 218 00:15:45,795 --> 00:15:50,435 Speaker 1: possibly could. All that will stick with them is a 219 00:15:50,635 --> 00:16:00,515 Speaker 1: four word sentence, Trump's Epstein cover up. But wait, there's more. 220 00:16:01,035 --> 00:16:03,035 Speaker 1: There is one move that could make it even worse 221 00:16:03,075 --> 00:16:05,315 Speaker 1: for Trump and even better for Democrats, who recognized that 222 00:16:05,355 --> 00:16:08,635 Speaker 1: after ten years of buying candy bars, they have found 223 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:11,995 Speaker 1: the golden ticket, if only they'll stop Schumer from eating it. 224 00:16:13,035 --> 00:16:16,515 Speaker 1: Axios reports that one of the responses, the more realistic 225 00:16:16,555 --> 00:16:19,075 Speaker 1: of the MAGA infected our pitching as a possible way 226 00:16:19,235 --> 00:16:23,235 Speaker 1: to minimalize the damage to get some survivors back to 227 00:16:23,395 --> 00:16:34,315 Speaker 1: shore is a Jeffrey Epstein special counsel. Oh my god, 228 00:16:34,355 --> 00:16:37,635 Speaker 1: a special counsel targeting Pam Bondy in cash, Fortel and 229 00:16:37,715 --> 00:16:41,595 Speaker 1: the Trump deep state. Yes, oh my god, ken star 230 00:16:42,395 --> 00:16:45,995 Speaker 1: back from the dead, back from hell, but pointed directly 231 00:16:45,995 --> 00:16:52,395 Speaker 1: at Trump's heart. Let's go. Please Lord, Please Lord, Please Lord. 232 00:16:52,475 --> 00:16:55,595 Speaker 1: Let them appoint a special counsel. Please Lord, give the 233 00:16:55,595 --> 00:16:58,355 Speaker 1: Democrats how much time to keep this going? Every day 234 00:16:58,475 --> 00:17:01,035 Speaker 1: for weeks, for months, literally for the next quarter, in 235 00:17:01,035 --> 00:17:03,635 Speaker 1: seventy five days, because fortan seventy five days from now 236 00:17:03,675 --> 00:17:10,675 Speaker 1: is the midterms. But the wild card here Democrats have 237 00:17:10,755 --> 00:17:15,915 Speaker 1: to be willing to do this. I don't need Jeffrey 238 00:17:15,955 --> 00:17:19,795 Speaker 1: saying we'll get back to you. I need the Gavin 239 00:17:19,835 --> 00:17:25,195 Speaker 1: Newsom approach. I want Gavin Newsom to tweet Trump's Epstein 240 00:17:25,395 --> 00:17:31,195 Speaker 1: cover up day eight, day fifty day, seven hundred and twelve. 241 00:17:32,475 --> 00:17:35,275 Speaker 1: He seems to have the idea, the light bulb went 242 00:17:35,395 --> 00:17:40,875 Speaker 1: off over his head. Let's do this, gave do it, 243 00:17:41,395 --> 00:17:44,355 Speaker 1: Not wait for the Republicans to do it themselves. Not 244 00:17:44,595 --> 00:17:47,155 Speaker 1: let the media do it like that. Whatever happen, get 245 00:17:47,195 --> 00:17:52,195 Speaker 1: out there and attach this to everything that happens. Every 246 00:17:52,235 --> 00:17:56,475 Speaker 1: time a Republican speaks, just add well, he's doing that 247 00:17:56,595 --> 00:18:02,515 Speaker 1: to cover up for Trump's Epstein cover up. For instance, 248 00:18:02,635 --> 00:18:03,875 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson says this. 249 00:18:03,955 --> 00:18:06,795 Speaker 6: God, I'm miraculos spared the president's life. I think it's undeniable. 250 00:18:06,995 --> 00:18:09,515 Speaker 6: And he did it for an obvious purpose. And his 251 00:18:09,595 --> 00:18:12,755 Speaker 6: presidency and his life are the fruits of divine providence. 252 00:18:12,795 --> 00:18:15,275 Speaker 6: And he points that out obviously now all the time, 253 00:18:15,315 --> 00:18:16,315 Speaker 6: and he's right to do so. 254 00:18:16,675 --> 00:18:22,075 Speaker 1: Mac Johnson says that, yes, God saved Trump. Some Democrats says, yes, 255 00:18:22,115 --> 00:18:24,675 Speaker 1: God saved Trump so Trump could lead the Trump Epstein 256 00:18:24,755 --> 00:19:01,395 Speaker 1: cover up every damn day and six times on Sunday. Now, 257 00:19:01,435 --> 00:19:04,395 Speaker 1: as to what's next on this that Wired story that, 258 00:19:04,475 --> 00:19:08,075 Speaker 1: if played correctly not only reignites the thing again if 259 00:19:08,075 --> 00:19:11,235 Speaker 1: it ever ever taps down a little bit, but sends 260 00:19:11,235 --> 00:19:14,595 Speaker 1: it off to burn down yet another room full of Republicans. 261 00:19:15,515 --> 00:19:19,795 Speaker 1: Wired Rights newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes 262 00:19:19,795 --> 00:19:21,995 Speaker 1: of footage were cut from what the US Department of 263 00:19:22,115 --> 00:19:25,395 Speaker 1: Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as full, raw 264 00:19:25,435 --> 00:19:29,515 Speaker 1: surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein's 265 00:19:29,515 --> 00:19:32,755 Speaker 1: prison cell the night before he was found dead. The 266 00:19:32,875 --> 00:19:34,955 Speaker 1: video was released last week as part of the Trump 267 00:19:34,955 --> 00:19:39,435 Speaker 1: administration's commitment to fully investigate Epstein's twenty nineteen death, but 268 00:19:39,475 --> 00:19:42,155 Speaker 1: it's that has raised new questions about how the footage 269 00:19:42,155 --> 00:19:47,555 Speaker 1: was edited and assembled. Now, further analysis shows that one 270 00:19:47,595 --> 00:19:50,195 Speaker 1: of the source clips was approximately two minutes and fifty 271 00:19:50,195 --> 00:19:53,395 Speaker 1: three seconds longer than the segment included in the final video. 272 00:19:54,835 --> 00:20:00,995 Speaker 1: Footage appears to have been trimmed. Oh my god, it's 273 00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:07,635 Speaker 1: the equivalent of the Watergate eighteen minute gap. It doesn't 274 00:20:07,675 --> 00:20:10,435 Speaker 1: matter what was cut from the original video. It only 275 00:20:10,515 --> 00:20:13,355 Speaker 1: matters that something was cut from the original video. It's 276 00:20:13,395 --> 00:20:15,875 Speaker 1: like the eighteen minute gap. We think we know what 277 00:20:15,955 --> 00:20:19,275 Speaker 1: he was talking about, but it didn't matter in nineteen 278 00:20:19,355 --> 00:20:23,355 Speaker 1: seventy four, and it doesn't matter now. It doesn't matter 279 00:20:23,795 --> 00:20:26,555 Speaker 1: the stuff cut from the Epstein video could be an 280 00:20:26,635 --> 00:20:30,275 Speaker 1: ad for Trump's stakes. It doesn't matter. It's the cover 281 00:20:30,395 --> 00:20:33,675 Speaker 1: up that gets you, not the crime. It's what did 282 00:20:33,675 --> 00:20:36,155 Speaker 1: the president know and when did he know it? About 283 00:20:36,155 --> 00:20:41,915 Speaker 1: how Pam Bondi doctored the video. It's a special prosecutor, 284 00:20:41,955 --> 00:20:45,075 Speaker 1: and it's Christmas every day, and it's Gallaine Maxwell textifying 285 00:20:45,395 --> 00:20:49,315 Speaker 1: to the House of Representatives, and every Democrat on the 286 00:20:49,355 --> 00:20:51,475 Speaker 1: committee would get to ask a different version of this 287 00:20:51,635 --> 00:20:55,555 Speaker 1: same question. To your knowledge, miss Maxwell, when did Donald 288 00:20:55,635 --> 00:21:02,515 Speaker 1: Trump stop raping children? And then that brings me to 289 00:21:02,555 --> 00:21:04,955 Speaker 1: the point I have been hinting at all this time. 290 00:21:05,995 --> 00:21:09,795 Speaker 1: There is something else that is either really really stupid, 291 00:21:10,435 --> 00:21:14,875 Speaker 1: or really really ominous and grotesque and horrible, or all 292 00:21:14,915 --> 00:21:21,035 Speaker 1: of the above. The ex Republican Congressman Justin Amosh wrote yesterday, 293 00:21:21,275 --> 00:21:25,275 Speaker 1: there's something so incredibly damaging in those files that Trump 294 00:21:25,275 --> 00:21:28,995 Speaker 1: would rather nuke his base in a desperate effort to 295 00:21:29,035 --> 00:21:36,675 Speaker 1: get everyone to move on than publicly release the information. Unquote, huh, 296 00:21:37,035 --> 00:21:44,435 Speaker 1: something incredibly damaging in a tape about a pedophile sex 297 00:21:44,555 --> 00:21:51,355 Speaker 1: trafficking scum? What could it possibly be? I think Trump 298 00:21:51,395 --> 00:21:58,235 Speaker 1: has always done this. He always gives us the answer. 299 00:21:59,235 --> 00:22:02,755 Speaker 1: He just leaves enough information out there to make a 300 00:22:02,795 --> 00:22:06,635 Speaker 1: slight jump. This This is how Trump began his social 301 00:22:06,675 --> 00:22:10,555 Speaker 1: media attack on his own cult yesterday. This was the 302 00:22:10,595 --> 00:22:13,875 Speaker 1: second sentence quote, the radical left Democrats have hit pay 303 00:22:13,955 --> 00:22:18,875 Speaker 1: dirt again, Just like with the fake and fully discredited 304 00:22:18,915 --> 00:22:25,755 Speaker 1: Steele dossier. You heard the tape before. He keeps bringing 305 00:22:25,835 --> 00:22:29,435 Speaker 1: up the Steel dossier in connection to Epstein. These things 306 00:22:29,475 --> 00:22:34,235 Speaker 1: have nothing to do with each other. Or what could 307 00:22:34,275 --> 00:22:37,315 Speaker 1: be in the Steele dossier that has anything to do 308 00:22:37,395 --> 00:22:42,035 Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein? Quote the Russia Russia, Russia scam itself 309 00:22:42,035 --> 00:22:44,235 Speaker 1: a totally fake and made up story. Wait, what's in 310 00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:47,795 Speaker 1: the Russia story that it would have anything to do 311 00:22:47,835 --> 00:22:52,635 Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein? Where is the Epstein cover up overlap 312 00:22:52,715 --> 00:22:59,915 Speaker 1: with the Steele dossier and its lurid speculations and the 313 00:22:59,995 --> 00:23:06,595 Speaker 1: Russian conspiracy and its lurid reality. You know exactly where 314 00:23:06,595 --> 00:23:11,715 Speaker 1: the overlap is. The not very long leap across the 315 00:23:11,755 --> 00:23:18,875 Speaker 1: stream began to emerge the day before yesterday. Why is 316 00:23:18,915 --> 00:23:27,515 Speaker 1: he attaching the Steel dossier to Epstein? Sex? In fact, 317 00:23:27,835 --> 00:23:35,035 Speaker 1: it's probably more than sex. I think you're in for 318 00:23:35,115 --> 00:23:46,955 Speaker 1: a big surprise, Oh, Nancy, right, con. 319 00:23:48,795 --> 00:24:06,355 Speaker 2: Top lap turn Drunkna Din din don. 320 00:24:07,675 --> 00:24:26,115 Speaker 7: Bastu sick got a man fell down from bump, don't kanante. 321 00:24:25,635 --> 00:24:38,795 Speaker 1: Falst couple of notes. Still terrified of Trump and still 322 00:24:38,835 --> 00:24:41,915 Speaker 1: growing more so. The White House press corps happily fixated 323 00:24:41,955 --> 00:24:45,075 Speaker 1: on fiscal policy and whether or not Trump will fire 324 00:24:45,195 --> 00:24:49,035 Speaker 1: Jerome Powell. Because the White House press corpse still foolishly 325 00:24:49,075 --> 00:24:53,555 Speaker 1: thinks Trump is not the first post reality president, and because, 326 00:24:54,195 --> 00:24:56,635 Speaker 1: oh thank god, Jerome Powell has nothing to do with sex. 327 00:24:58,275 --> 00:25:02,755 Speaker 1: Each media outlet reported something different about Jerome Powell. Yesterday, 328 00:25:02,995 --> 00:25:05,715 Speaker 1: Trump had pulled far right House Republicans had gotten their 329 00:25:05,715 --> 00:25:09,275 Speaker 1: permission to fire Powell, scooped Politico. No, it's past that. 330 00:25:09,395 --> 00:25:12,235 Speaker 1: It's likely he's going to fire Powell, scooped Bloomberg. No, 331 00:25:12,395 --> 00:25:15,155 Speaker 1: he's about to fire Powell, scoop The New York Times. 332 00:25:15,795 --> 00:25:19,835 Speaker 1: Then Trump announced, We're not planning on doing anything. And 333 00:25:19,995 --> 00:25:22,715 Speaker 1: just to show how far he has separated himself from reality, 334 00:25:23,035 --> 00:25:25,795 Speaker 1: he gave us the real story again. He announced quote, 335 00:25:25,835 --> 00:25:29,795 Speaker 1: I was surprised he was appointed. Jerome Powell was appointed 336 00:25:30,515 --> 00:25:34,635 Speaker 1: by Trump. This is what Politico and Bloomberg and the 337 00:25:34,715 --> 00:25:38,675 Speaker 1: Times should be leading with. Trump either does not remember 338 00:25:38,715 --> 00:25:40,835 Speaker 1: that he appointed Powell or is trying to lie his 339 00:25:40,915 --> 00:25:47,995 Speaker 1: way through that reality in the same vein James Comer's 340 00:25:48,275 --> 00:25:52,475 Speaker 1: flailing Biden auto pen investigation. By the way, it'll be 341 00:25:52,555 --> 00:25:58,675 Speaker 1: a year Monday since Joe Biden bowed out Comer's investigation documents. 342 00:25:59,035 --> 00:26:06,275 Speaker 1: He's been signing them with an auto pen. Then there 343 00:26:06,355 --> 00:26:10,075 Speaker 1: is the fascist congressman from Tennessee, Andy Ogles. His second 344 00:26:10,155 --> 00:26:13,315 Speaker 1: quarter fundraising numbers are in money raised fifty three thousand, 345 00:26:13,355 --> 00:26:17,035 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seven dollars, expenses fifty four thousand, 346 00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:20,555 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty five dollars. Andy Ogles is underwater 347 00:26:20,795 --> 00:26:24,875 Speaker 1: in campaign money. This may be because most of the 348 00:26:24,915 --> 00:26:28,355 Speaker 1: people whose voices Andy Ogles listens to and hears so 349 00:26:28,515 --> 00:26:35,315 Speaker 1: clearly in his head don't actually exist. And continuing the 350 00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:39,435 Speaker 1: cynical jokes about the campaign by Andrew Cuomo to beat 351 00:26:39,555 --> 00:26:43,035 Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdani in the pro forma election for Mayor of 352 00:26:43,115 --> 00:26:45,835 Speaker 1: New York in November, after already losing to him in 353 00:26:45,915 --> 00:26:49,195 Speaker 1: the actual election the primary a month ago. Here and 354 00:26:49,315 --> 00:26:52,995 Speaker 1: the joke is the guy funding Cuomo's campaign is Mamdani. 355 00:26:53,515 --> 00:26:56,155 Speaker 1: Because nothing could make mom Danny look better than more 356 00:26:56,235 --> 00:27:00,195 Speaker 1: and more Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo has made a ludicrous 357 00:27:00,275 --> 00:27:03,195 Speaker 1: campaign video and posted it on Twitter and other social 358 00:27:03,275 --> 00:27:07,475 Speaker 1: media and labeled it in it to win it even 359 00:27:07,515 --> 00:27:12,835 Speaker 1: though he already lost it. He got ratioed, not surprising. 360 00:27:13,635 --> 00:27:16,555 Speaker 1: The actual material numbers, though, are He got five and 361 00:27:16,595 --> 00:27:21,995 Speaker 1: a half thousand likes. Mam Donnie hung a fundraising link 362 00:27:22,555 --> 00:27:26,555 Speaker 1: from the video and that got one hundred and eighty 363 00:27:26,675 --> 00:27:32,915 Speaker 1: one thousand likes. So the Cuomo video got five thousand 364 00:27:33,115 --> 00:27:35,235 Speaker 1: likes for Cuomo and one hundred and eighty one thousand 365 00:27:35,435 --> 00:27:40,355 Speaker 1: likes from Hamdani, which prompted this all time classic joke 366 00:27:40,435 --> 00:27:47,555 Speaker 1: from somebody supposedly in Sweden named pi Jakobsen quote, If 367 00:27:47,635 --> 00:27:52,235 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo hates socialism so much, why did he choose 368 00:27:53,475 --> 00:28:02,555 Speaker 1: to be publicly owned? Oh that's the best of all time. 369 00:28:02,675 --> 00:28:06,555 Speaker 1: Also of interest, here, what's that shiny gold soccer object 370 00:28:06,635 --> 00:28:10,035 Speaker 1: in the Oval office? Is it the FIFA Club World 371 00:28:10,115 --> 00:28:13,835 Speaker 1: Cup trophy that Trump swiped or is it the bald 372 00:28:14,035 --> 00:28:19,435 Speaker 1: head of FIFA president Johnny Infantino. That's next. This is Countdown. 373 00:28:21,795 --> 00:28:46,115 Speaker 1: There's his countdown with Keith Oldwoman still ahead on this 374 00:28:46,235 --> 00:28:49,795 Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown. I am just about at the 375 00:28:50,035 --> 00:28:55,675 Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary of the day I stopped smoking, kind of 376 00:28:55,915 --> 00:28:59,155 Speaker 1: all of a sudden. Didn't all get done in one day, 377 00:28:59,275 --> 00:29:01,555 Speaker 1: but there was a day where I bought out the 378 00:29:01,635 --> 00:29:06,675 Speaker 1: Nicorette supply at two New York City drug stores, and 379 00:29:06,835 --> 00:29:09,075 Speaker 1: then I went on the air at MSNBC on a 380 00:29:09,155 --> 00:29:13,115 Speaker 1: crusade to try to get across to people one simple 381 00:29:13,235 --> 00:29:16,235 Speaker 1: idea that had never previously occurred to me till that day, 382 00:29:16,835 --> 00:29:19,275 Speaker 1: that it would be easier to quit smoking if you 383 00:29:19,515 --> 00:29:22,915 Speaker 1: didn't have cancer, then if you did have cancer, to 384 00:29:22,995 --> 00:29:27,675 Speaker 1: which the president of MSNBC quite naturally responded by trying 385 00:29:27,955 --> 00:29:32,795 Speaker 1: to kill me. It was an interesting pro cancer stance 386 00:29:32,915 --> 00:29:35,755 Speaker 1: on his part, and cutting to the chase, don't wait 387 00:29:35,835 --> 00:29:38,635 Speaker 1: for it to kill you. I'll kill you things I 388 00:29:38,755 --> 00:29:42,035 Speaker 1: promised not to tell next first. Believe it or not, 389 00:29:42,115 --> 00:29:44,635 Speaker 1: there's still more new idiots to talk about the roundup 390 00:29:44,675 --> 00:29:47,515 Speaker 1: of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens 391 00:29:47,835 --> 00:29:54,555 Speaker 1: who constitute today's other worse parsons in the world, therons 392 00:29:55,235 --> 00:29:59,635 Speaker 1: worse after Trump and Gnome helped kill the drowned kids 393 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:06,235 Speaker 1: of Texas, its Department of Homeland spokesman Mica Bach quote, 394 00:30:06,755 --> 00:30:10,435 Speaker 1: it is important to note that every individual in Texas 395 00:30:10,835 --> 00:30:17,755 Speaker 1: who called FEMA had the ability to be answered. That's 396 00:30:17,835 --> 00:30:23,035 Speaker 1: brilliant phrasing on this idiot's part, the ability to be answered, 397 00:30:23,755 --> 00:30:26,395 Speaker 1: which is exactly the same phrasing you would use if 398 00:30:26,435 --> 00:30:28,835 Speaker 1: you were trying to explain that everybody who buys a 399 00:30:28,915 --> 00:30:33,035 Speaker 1: lottery ticket has the ability to win a billion dollars. 400 00:30:34,355 --> 00:30:36,195 Speaker 1: Only the odds are better in a lottery than it 401 00:30:36,355 --> 00:30:38,555 Speaker 1: was if you were trying to call FEMA. During the 402 00:30:38,595 --> 00:30:42,835 Speaker 1: Texas flooding, actor christinom and Trump got through with killing FEMA. 403 00:30:44,835 --> 00:30:49,195 Speaker 1: Micah here Mika was from the Patrick Henry College and 404 00:30:49,315 --> 00:30:54,155 Speaker 1: the Claremont Institute, noted for supporting fascism for fifty years, 405 00:30:54,595 --> 00:30:57,875 Speaker 1: and he was in the office of Congresswoman's Sparts. So 406 00:30:57,995 --> 00:31:01,995 Speaker 1: if you wonder if Trump will destroy American education, Micah 407 00:31:02,115 --> 00:31:06,835 Speaker 1: is proof he already has runner up worser. Speaking of 408 00:31:06,915 --> 00:31:12,675 Speaker 1: which mehmet Oz, Trump's head of Medicare and Medicaid. And 409 00:31:12,835 --> 00:31:16,275 Speaker 1: he went on with poor Stuart Varney, my friend who 410 00:31:16,395 --> 00:31:19,835 Speaker 1: literally taught me how to use a teleprompter this time 411 00:31:19,875 --> 00:31:23,355 Speaker 1: of year in nineteen eighty one, one of my favorite 412 00:31:23,355 --> 00:31:26,275 Speaker 1: people at CNN who got hit by lightning or something, 413 00:31:26,635 --> 00:31:29,555 Speaker 1: or who did something so bad that it turned out 414 00:31:29,675 --> 00:31:33,755 Speaker 1: this life is clearly proof that this is hell and 415 00:31:33,955 --> 00:31:38,355 Speaker 1: hell will be something worse. Stuart gets all of these guys. 416 00:31:39,235 --> 00:31:41,235 Speaker 1: He has to sit there and you can see it 417 00:31:41,555 --> 00:31:43,795 Speaker 1: pain him. Even though he went through some sort of 418 00:31:43,875 --> 00:31:47,515 Speaker 1: religious awakening, conversion, or as I said, he got hit 419 00:31:47,555 --> 00:31:52,275 Speaker 1: by lightning. He has to put a smiley face on 420 00:31:52,475 --> 00:31:58,075 Speaker 1: kicking millions off Medicaid, just as Trump covers up pedophiles 421 00:31:58,115 --> 00:32:02,755 Speaker 1: and RFK Junior eliminates vaccine. Memet Oz comes on Stu's 422 00:32:02,755 --> 00:32:07,715 Speaker 1: show and says about Medicaid, We'll be there for you, 423 00:32:07,875 --> 00:32:10,555 Speaker 1: the American people when you need help, but you got 424 00:32:10,675 --> 00:32:17,155 Speaker 1: to stay healthy yourself. Don't eat carrot cake, eat real food. Well, 425 00:32:17,515 --> 00:32:20,915 Speaker 1: this is a kind of oblique argument. I don't know 426 00:32:20,995 --> 00:32:24,155 Speaker 1: how much carrot cake is being consumed by people who 427 00:32:24,195 --> 00:32:28,395 Speaker 1: are on Medicaid and Medicare. But the point here is 428 00:32:28,515 --> 00:32:33,555 Speaker 1: that to underscore this, Oz brought onto the Varney set 429 00:32:33,835 --> 00:32:37,115 Speaker 1: a carrot cake. Brought a carrot cake with him on 430 00:32:37,195 --> 00:32:39,315 Speaker 1: a stew Varney set and written on it in icing 431 00:32:39,515 --> 00:32:44,875 Speaker 1: happy sixtieth anniversary Medicare. So here's a carrot cake, which 432 00:32:44,995 --> 00:32:47,835 Speaker 1: Oz then tries to explain to people they can't eat. 433 00:32:48,635 --> 00:32:52,115 Speaker 1: I brought it with me to torture you wait, there's 434 00:32:52,195 --> 00:32:55,515 Speaker 1: more long before his as you know when you go 435 00:32:55,715 --> 00:32:59,395 Speaker 1: shopping for your crudites. The video that helps him get 436 00:32:59,635 --> 00:33:03,995 Speaker 1: smoked in the Pennsylvania Senate race, where ninety nine percent 437 00:33:04,035 --> 00:33:10,555 Speaker 1: of the viewers said the hell's a cruditae. In twenty fourteen, 438 00:33:10,715 --> 00:33:16,435 Speaker 1: Doctor Oz's scam of the month was doctor oz monkfruit 439 00:33:16,675 --> 00:33:23,835 Speaker 1: natural sweetener healthy recipe for carrot cake. Doctor Oz boldly 440 00:33:23,915 --> 00:33:26,195 Speaker 1: told everyone to throw away sugar and artificial sweeteners in 441 00:33:26,275 --> 00:33:30,595 Speaker 1: favor of his next grapevind monkfruits. This natural sweetener has 442 00:33:30,715 --> 00:33:33,635 Speaker 1: just one calorie for serving. Try it in Duff Goldman's 443 00:33:33,915 --> 00:33:43,275 Speaker 1: monk fruit carrot cake recipe. But the winner Gianni Infantino, 444 00:33:43,995 --> 00:33:47,755 Speaker 1: the latest in a succession of slimy presidents of FIFA. 445 00:33:48,315 --> 00:33:51,555 Speaker 1: That's the World Soccer Body. No, I'm not playing the 446 00:33:51,835 --> 00:33:57,435 Speaker 1: soccer breakdown, although maybe next week. Infantino apparently gave Trump 447 00:33:58,115 --> 00:34:03,075 Speaker 1: something called the Club World Cup Trophy, which was played 448 00:34:03,115 --> 00:34:06,755 Speaker 1: for by you know, fleets, people who can move their 449 00:34:06,835 --> 00:34:12,395 Speaker 1: knees without help, healthy people, not Trump's soccer players playing 450 00:34:12,435 --> 00:34:15,315 Speaker 1: in the United States to win. Well, to be fair, 451 00:34:15,355 --> 00:34:18,075 Speaker 1: there's a championship in soccer every two weeks. That's why 452 00:34:18,195 --> 00:34:23,315 Speaker 1: soccer is popular. We won sixteen different world championships this month. 453 00:34:23,835 --> 00:34:28,795 Speaker 1: What was your record? Three and seven? Anyway, he either 454 00:34:29,395 --> 00:34:33,315 Speaker 1: gave Trump the club World Cup trophy to keep for 455 00:34:33,435 --> 00:34:38,195 Speaker 1: himself and a gold medal, or he let Trump steal them. 456 00:34:38,955 --> 00:34:42,115 Speaker 1: This is from the Daily Beast quote. English club Chelsea 457 00:34:42,275 --> 00:34:46,795 Speaker 1: easily dispatched France's Paris San German in the final of 458 00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:50,275 Speaker 1: the tournament in New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, with Trump joining 459 00:34:50,315 --> 00:34:53,635 Speaker 1: the players for the trophy trophy lift. Much to their confusion. 460 00:34:53,835 --> 00:34:56,755 Speaker 1: He got up on stage with them. He'll try this 461 00:34:56,875 --> 00:34:59,515 Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl if somebody lets him. It has 462 00:34:59,595 --> 00:35:02,795 Speaker 1: since been revealed that the intricate prize hoisted aloft by 463 00:35:02,795 --> 00:35:07,595 Speaker 1: the London club captain Reached Games was a replica because 464 00:35:07,635 --> 00:35:11,275 Speaker 1: the president of football's governing body FIFA has let Trump 465 00:35:11,435 --> 00:35:14,395 Speaker 1: use the original as an ornament in the oval office. 466 00:35:15,435 --> 00:35:17,675 Speaker 1: Daily Beast reports it's thought to have cost around two 467 00:35:17,755 --> 00:35:23,635 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand dollars. They, quoting Trump, said could 468 00:35:23,675 --> 00:35:26,115 Speaker 1: you hold this trophy for a little while? We put 469 00:35:26,155 --> 00:35:27,755 Speaker 1: it in the oval office, and then I said, when 470 00:35:27,755 --> 00:35:31,355 Speaker 1: are you going to pick up the trophy, and Infantino said, 471 00:35:31,755 --> 00:35:33,235 Speaker 1: We're never going to pick it up. You can have 472 00:35:33,315 --> 00:35:36,835 Speaker 1: it forever in the Oval office, Trump explained in a 473 00:35:36,915 --> 00:35:40,635 Speaker 1: midgame interview. He then revealed that the victor's Chelsea actually 474 00:35:40,715 --> 00:35:44,475 Speaker 1: received a replica of the original for winning the tournament. 475 00:35:45,675 --> 00:35:48,555 Speaker 1: Putin supposedly did this with one of Robert Kraft's Super 476 00:35:48,595 --> 00:35:50,835 Speaker 1: Bowl trophies. Didn't he or was it a watch or 477 00:35:50,875 --> 00:35:55,315 Speaker 1: a ring? He just kept it. It's not just the 478 00:35:55,395 --> 00:35:57,795 Speaker 1: trophy that Trump got his hands on, According to The 479 00:35:57,915 --> 00:36:01,075 Speaker 1: Daily Beast, again, The Athletic was among several outlets to 480 00:36:01,155 --> 00:36:03,995 Speaker 1: report that Infantino kept a medal aside for his friend 481 00:36:04,355 --> 00:36:08,795 Speaker 1: hand it to him after the trophy lifting ceremony. He 482 00:36:08,915 --> 00:36:13,355 Speaker 1: didn't actually lift the trophy. But Infantino, who is as 483 00:36:13,435 --> 00:36:16,795 Speaker 1: crooked as he is bald, is actually playing the long 484 00:36:16,875 --> 00:36:19,275 Speaker 1: game here. He's not as big a moron as he 485 00:36:19,395 --> 00:36:22,395 Speaker 1: might see him here. He needs Trump at some point 486 00:36:22,515 --> 00:36:25,315 Speaker 1: in the next year to publicly state that no player 487 00:36:25,835 --> 00:36:30,955 Speaker 1: or fan who comes here next year for the next 488 00:36:31,115 --> 00:36:35,075 Speaker 1: soccer tournament will as much as see Trump isis let 489 00:36:35,155 --> 00:36:37,355 Speaker 1: alone be bothered by them, to say nothing of the 490 00:36:37,475 --> 00:36:42,595 Speaker 1: upcoming Olympics in La. This is why Infantino keeps giving 491 00:36:42,715 --> 00:36:50,315 Speaker 1: Trump shiny gold objects like the goddamned trophy from the tournament. Now, Chelsea, 492 00:36:50,435 --> 00:36:53,275 Speaker 1: there are also geniuses here. They're official pictures of them 493 00:36:53,395 --> 00:36:58,435 Speaker 1: hoisting the trophy. They photoshop Trump out, just like Maga 494 00:36:58,475 --> 00:37:04,155 Speaker 1: will do. Jiohnny Infantino, Trump likes shiny gold stuff. Giohnny, 495 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:05,955 Speaker 1: you better watch shot. He doesn't decide he wants to 496 00:37:06,035 --> 00:37:10,435 Speaker 1: keep your golden cube ball noggin in the Oval office 497 00:37:10,555 --> 00:37:16,995 Speaker 1: on display. Infantino, Today's other worst person. 498 00:37:18,355 --> 00:37:21,875 Speaker 2: In the cube ball logy. 499 00:37:37,155 --> 00:37:39,635 Speaker 1: Finally our number one story in the countdown things. I 500 00:37:39,755 --> 00:37:42,595 Speaker 1: promised not to tell him back to my favorite topic, me, 501 00:37:44,155 --> 00:37:47,155 Speaker 1: How exactly was I supposed to tell the police that 502 00:37:47,315 --> 00:37:50,475 Speaker 1: the man threatening to kill me was the president of MSNBC. 503 00:37:51,395 --> 00:37:54,515 Speaker 1: He was chasing me through the studios. He was too 504 00:37:54,755 --> 00:37:58,315 Speaker 1: overweight to run. But even though he inexplicably lied and 505 00:37:58,395 --> 00:38:01,115 Speaker 1: said he was six foot seven, at six foot five, 506 00:38:01,235 --> 00:38:03,155 Speaker 1: this guy his name was Rick Kaplan, and he was 507 00:38:03,235 --> 00:38:05,835 Speaker 1: the soon to be ex president of m NBC, just 508 00:38:05,915 --> 00:38:08,315 Speaker 1: as he was already the ex president of CNN. He 509 00:38:08,435 --> 00:38:12,675 Speaker 1: still had strides as long as my own. Plus On 510 00:38:12,915 --> 00:38:16,675 Speaker 1: that night of August eighth two thousand and five. I 511 00:38:16,955 --> 00:38:20,435 Speaker 1: was multitasking. I was trying to mentally record everything he 512 00:38:20,635 --> 00:38:24,115 Speaker 1: was shouting, while also drawing him away from the live 513 00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:28,355 Speaker 1: microphones of the live studio in which he had started shouting, 514 00:38:28,955 --> 00:38:31,675 Speaker 1: while also fishing for my office key so I could 515 00:38:31,755 --> 00:38:34,875 Speaker 1: lock myself in there if need be, while also figuring 516 00:38:34,875 --> 00:38:37,115 Speaker 1: out how I would hit him if it came to that, 517 00:38:37,595 --> 00:38:41,635 Speaker 1: while also trying to register the superb double takes from 518 00:38:41,755 --> 00:38:45,195 Speaker 1: my colleagues past, whom he was stomping like an out 519 00:38:45,235 --> 00:38:50,555 Speaker 1: of shape Frankenstein, while also trying to suppress an overwhelming 520 00:38:50,875 --> 00:38:55,675 Speaker 1: and seemingly inappropriate desire to burst into laughter, while still 521 00:38:55,995 --> 00:38:59,675 Speaker 1: game planning these soon to be inevitable call to the cops. 522 00:39:00,115 --> 00:39:06,275 Speaker 1: A beautiful downtown Secaucus, New Jersey. He's trying to kill me, 523 00:39:07,075 --> 00:39:12,315 Speaker 1: my boss, the president of MSNBC. Yeah, yeah, the cable 524 00:39:12,355 --> 00:39:16,275 Speaker 1: television network. Yeah, exact down the street from the London 525 00:39:16,315 --> 00:39:21,355 Speaker 1: Fog Outlet store YEAP one MSNBC Plaza. I know it's 526 00:39:21,355 --> 00:39:27,435 Speaker 1: a dumb address. He's about sixty two seventy five two 527 00:39:27,475 --> 00:39:29,955 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty pounds. By the way, he says he's 528 00:39:29,995 --> 00:39:32,875 Speaker 1: six foot seven, but he's only six foot five. Why 529 00:39:33,795 --> 00:39:35,515 Speaker 1: why does he lie about his height or why is 530 00:39:35,555 --> 00:39:38,595 Speaker 1: he trying to kill right? Well, I did a commentary 531 00:39:38,755 --> 00:39:40,955 Speaker 1: urging the viewers to stop smoking, and he's afraid of 532 00:39:40,995 --> 00:39:42,675 Speaker 1: the mention of blood. Hello. 533 00:39:43,475 --> 00:39:43,715 Speaker 2: Hello. 534 00:39:45,395 --> 00:39:47,555 Speaker 1: As all of this played out in my head, President 535 00:39:47,675 --> 00:39:51,035 Speaker 1: Kaplan was huffing and puffing his way through our giant studio, 536 00:39:51,195 --> 00:39:54,235 Speaker 1: weaving through the news assignment area, past the makeup room, 537 00:39:54,395 --> 00:39:57,155 Speaker 1: down the hallways, nearing the offices of my show Countdown, 538 00:39:57,475 --> 00:39:59,275 Speaker 1: and past the bank of a couple of one hundred 539 00:39:59,355 --> 00:40:01,875 Speaker 1: television monitors with a different face on every one of them, 540 00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:07,075 Speaker 1: each seemingly staring slack at the executive, screaming threats at 541 00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:09,875 Speaker 1: the only guy on his own network who got any ratings. 542 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:16,035 Speaker 1: I'll pay you back, I'll get you I'll finish. 543 00:40:15,795 --> 00:40:17,875 Speaker 2: Your I'll tell y'all. 544 00:40:19,555 --> 00:40:24,275 Speaker 1: This had all begun roughly ten days earlier, in late 545 00:40:24,395 --> 00:40:27,515 Speaker 1: July two thousand and five, an oral surgeon who had 546 00:40:27,595 --> 00:40:30,115 Speaker 1: intended to examine a growth on the roof of my 547 00:40:30,275 --> 00:40:34,715 Speaker 1: mouth that instead, with one pale look, silently betrayed his 548 00:40:34,835 --> 00:40:37,675 Speaker 1: suspicion that it was cancerous. Then he cut the whole 549 00:40:37,755 --> 00:40:41,115 Speaker 1: thing out. I was on my way to work anyway. 550 00:40:41,635 --> 00:40:43,955 Speaker 1: It was too late to get a replacement, and I 551 00:40:44,115 --> 00:40:46,755 Speaker 1: was bleeding so much that our technical director and I 552 00:40:46,875 --> 00:40:50,715 Speaker 1: decided to pre record all of my on camera segments 553 00:40:50,755 --> 00:40:54,195 Speaker 1: for that night's show, thus reducing the chances of viewers 554 00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:58,315 Speaker 1: hearing me say President Bush today while blood oozed out 555 00:40:58,355 --> 00:41:00,915 Speaker 1: of my mouth, over my teeth and lips and onto 556 00:41:00,955 --> 00:41:07,275 Speaker 1: the desk like I was drecul anchor. When the following Wednesday, 557 00:41:07,315 --> 00:41:10,075 Speaker 1: I got the unexpected all clear from the surgeon's office, 558 00:41:10,115 --> 00:41:12,995 Speaker 1: I decided to devote some of each night's newscast to 559 00:41:13,115 --> 00:41:17,635 Speaker 1: a campaign to help viewers and myself quit smoking. My 560 00:41:17,875 --> 00:41:20,555 Speaker 1: premise was a simple one that I had never heard 561 00:41:20,715 --> 00:41:23,875 Speaker 1: argued before and have rarely heard argued since, that it 562 00:41:23,915 --> 00:41:27,955 Speaker 1: would be a lot easier to quit if you didn't 563 00:41:28,035 --> 00:41:32,355 Speaker 1: have cancer then if you did have cancer. I pitched 564 00:41:32,395 --> 00:41:35,275 Speaker 1: my producers on the series. I went into Rick Kaplan's 565 00:41:35,275 --> 00:41:38,035 Speaker 1: office to get his seal of approval. He was enthusiastic 566 00:41:38,115 --> 00:41:41,155 Speaker 1: and supportive, and most rare of all, he was paying attention. 567 00:41:41,835 --> 00:41:43,475 Speaker 1: And then I said, I was also going to point 568 00:41:43,515 --> 00:41:45,875 Speaker 1: out that if you got the good outcome like I had, 569 00:41:46,115 --> 00:41:48,315 Speaker 1: they would merely stick a laser in your mouth and 570 00:41:48,355 --> 00:41:51,035 Speaker 1: you'd smell your own flesh burning for like forty eight hours, 571 00:41:51,235 --> 00:41:53,315 Speaker 1: and you'd have to keep spitting out your own blood. 572 00:41:53,515 --> 00:41:58,515 Speaker 1: Don't say that. He suddenly threw his meaty hands out 573 00:41:58,595 --> 00:42:01,195 Speaker 1: towards me in a strangling gesture, and then just as 574 00:42:01,275 --> 00:42:04,315 Speaker 1: quickly clamped them over his own ears and closed his 575 00:42:04,395 --> 00:42:06,075 Speaker 1: eyes and began actually screaming. 576 00:42:06,355 --> 00:42:07,835 Speaker 2: No no no no no no no no no no 577 00:42:07,955 --> 00:42:08,355 Speaker 2: no no no. 578 00:42:09,435 --> 00:42:12,835 Speaker 1: I thought he had gone crazy, as it proved he 579 00:42:12,955 --> 00:42:17,475 Speaker 1: was just practicing for going crazy later. I'm sorry, I'm squeamish. 580 00:42:17,555 --> 00:42:19,715 Speaker 1: I got the point. I just can't findle references to, 581 00:42:19,795 --> 00:42:24,195 Speaker 1: you know, uh the red stuff. Go ahead with the series. 582 00:42:24,355 --> 00:42:29,715 Speaker 1: Just toned down the uh, the red stuff. I toned 583 00:42:29,955 --> 00:42:34,835 Speaker 1: down the red stuff. And my executive producer is Epovich 584 00:42:34,955 --> 00:42:37,435 Speaker 1: sent him the scripts and he told her to tone 585 00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:40,115 Speaker 1: down the red stuff a little more. And I went 586 00:42:40,195 --> 00:42:43,555 Speaker 1: and I did that too. We all decided to start 587 00:42:43,595 --> 00:42:47,635 Speaker 1: the anti smoking series the following Monday, August eighth, two 588 00:42:47,675 --> 00:42:51,475 Speaker 1: thousand and five. By nauseating coincidence, that was the day 589 00:42:51,555 --> 00:42:55,355 Speaker 1: actor the ABC anchorman Peter Jennings had died of lung cancer. 590 00:42:55,955 --> 00:42:59,355 Speaker 1: The MSNBC president had been a producer on jennings newscast. 591 00:42:59,955 --> 00:43:03,475 Speaker 1: I had long since written and recorded Jennings obituary, and 592 00:43:03,595 --> 00:43:07,035 Speaker 1: now this somewhat cold but still journalistically valid segue would 593 00:43:07,075 --> 00:43:09,315 Speaker 1: have to be made. We would have to go directly 594 00:43:09,995 --> 00:43:12,515 Speaker 1: from the twelve minute long Jennings oh bit to the 595 00:43:12,555 --> 00:43:16,675 Speaker 1: start of our anti tobacco campaign. Eight or nine minutes 596 00:43:16,755 --> 00:43:20,235 Speaker 1: into that pre recorded Jennings obituary, Rick Kaplan came out 597 00:43:20,275 --> 00:43:22,435 Speaker 1: of his office and walked the fifty feet or so 598 00:43:22,635 --> 00:43:25,755 Speaker 1: through the vast open newsroom to where my anchor desk was. 599 00:43:26,035 --> 00:43:29,355 Speaker 1: His eyes were full of tears. This is wonderful, he 600 00:43:29,435 --> 00:43:32,955 Speaker 1: said quietly. Peter would have liked this. He gave me 601 00:43:32,995 --> 00:43:35,355 Speaker 1: a thumbs up. Then he walked to a second desk 602 00:43:35,395 --> 00:43:38,315 Speaker 1: another fifty feet away, where his first big hire, a 603 00:43:38,395 --> 00:43:41,755 Speaker 1: woman named Rita Cosby, was about to premiere his first 604 00:43:41,835 --> 00:43:46,315 Speaker 1: big gamble, her new show immediately following mine. I was 605 00:43:46,355 --> 00:43:50,195 Speaker 1: actually moved by Rick Kaplan's comment. I did not once 606 00:43:50,275 --> 00:43:55,315 Speaker 1: think of phoning the Secaucus police. But then I began 607 00:43:55,435 --> 00:43:57,795 Speaker 1: the anti smoking segment, and as I focused on the 608 00:43:57,875 --> 00:44:00,075 Speaker 1: camera and the teleprompter in front of me and detailed 609 00:44:00,115 --> 00:44:01,915 Speaker 1: the blood and the gore and the spitting, and how 610 00:44:01,955 --> 00:44:04,395 Speaker 1: that was the good outcome out of the corner of 611 00:44:04,435 --> 00:44:08,275 Speaker 1: my mind, I saw this weird sight. The President again 612 00:44:08,595 --> 00:44:11,395 Speaker 1: left his office and waddled out along the wall thirty 613 00:44:11,435 --> 00:44:13,635 Speaker 1: feet ahead of me in the general direction of the 614 00:44:13,715 --> 00:44:17,795 Speaker 1: control rooms. Within moments, as I continued to read my script, 615 00:44:17,835 --> 00:44:20,955 Speaker 1: he was back in the studio and standing right next 616 00:44:20,995 --> 00:44:26,715 Speaker 1: to my camera, gesticulating wildly. I said, they never say it, 617 00:44:26,795 --> 00:44:28,915 Speaker 1: but wouldn't it be really easier to quit smoking when 618 00:44:28,915 --> 00:44:31,435 Speaker 1: you didn't have cancer than when you did? And Kaplan 619 00:44:31,475 --> 00:44:34,875 Speaker 1: responded with the same two handed choking gesture he had 620 00:44:34,915 --> 00:44:38,115 Speaker 1: made briefly in his office much earlier. I presumed there 621 00:44:38,195 --> 00:44:41,715 Speaker 1: was some simple problem, like that the building was on fire, 622 00:44:42,275 --> 00:44:44,075 Speaker 1: but I calculated that I could still make it to 623 00:44:44,155 --> 00:44:46,595 Speaker 1: the show's scheduled finished time eight fifty nine to fifty 624 00:44:46,715 --> 00:44:51,755 Speaker 1: nine EDT and still survive even if others perished. That's 625 00:44:51,795 --> 00:44:54,155 Speaker 1: countdown for this the eight hundred and thirtieth days since 626 00:44:54,155 --> 00:44:56,955 Speaker 1: the declaration of misson accomplished in Iraq. I'm Keith Olerman, 627 00:44:57,035 --> 00:45:00,995 Speaker 1: good night and good luck you sliver. Rick Kaplan suddenly 628 00:45:01,075 --> 00:45:04,915 Speaker 1: screamed from the other anchor desk. I could hear, and 629 00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:08,675 Speaker 1: this is my impression of her. Good evening, I'm Rita Cosby. 630 00:45:08,955 --> 00:45:11,635 Speaker 1: This is Rita Cosby Live and direct with Rida Cosby, 631 00:45:11,955 --> 00:45:15,235 Speaker 1: and I'm Rida Cosby. She was not a big woman, 632 00:45:15,315 --> 00:45:16,955 Speaker 1: but she had a voice on her, like the horn 633 00:45:17,355 --> 00:45:20,195 Speaker 1: on the Staten Island ferry if it had a cold. 634 00:45:21,155 --> 00:45:24,395 Speaker 1: You are over the top. You aren't disgusting. My first 635 00:45:24,435 --> 00:45:27,155 Speaker 1: thought was that Kamplan had forgotten that microphones fifty feet 636 00:45:27,195 --> 00:45:29,755 Speaker 1: away were live during the premiere of his pet project 637 00:45:30,195 --> 00:45:34,395 Speaker 1: sh Rina is On. I actually whispered to him, silly me, 638 00:45:35,075 --> 00:45:37,555 Speaker 1: I don't get a half if three days on you 639 00:45:37,675 --> 00:45:39,675 Speaker 1: were told by is He Poevits that the piece was 640 00:45:39,715 --> 00:45:41,475 Speaker 1: over the top and you needed to cut it, and 641 00:45:41,635 --> 00:45:45,835 Speaker 1: you didn't. I still couldn't bring myself to yell back 642 00:45:45,915 --> 00:45:48,515 Speaker 1: her in a live studio. I did cut it and 643 00:45:48,635 --> 00:45:50,475 Speaker 1: easy read it and approved it. And she said you 644 00:45:50,595 --> 00:45:54,515 Speaker 1: had two and Rita's premiere is going on over there 645 00:45:54,595 --> 00:45:56,995 Speaker 1: in that sort of direction. Maybe you should yell at 646 00:45:57,035 --> 00:45:59,675 Speaker 1: me closer to the assignment desk. Maybe I don't give 647 00:45:59,715 --> 00:46:01,755 Speaker 1: a crap. If is He approved it, then she's an 648 00:46:01,795 --> 00:46:03,915 Speaker 1: ass and I can't trust you. I can't trust you. 649 00:46:03,995 --> 00:46:04,595 Speaker 2: You're all idiot. 650 00:46:04,995 --> 00:46:06,835 Speaker 1: I can't believe you did this to me. I'm trying 651 00:46:06,835 --> 00:46:08,635 Speaker 1: to get Rita's show off the ground, and you start 652 00:46:08,675 --> 00:46:12,955 Speaker 1: talking about spitting blood into a garbage can. Well, now 653 00:46:13,035 --> 00:46:16,635 Speaker 1: I was getting angry. I couldn't resist. Yes, Rita is 654 00:46:16,835 --> 00:46:19,595 Speaker 1: in fact live and direct from that desk right over there. 655 00:46:19,795 --> 00:46:22,595 Speaker 1: And if you'll notice, she keeps looking over here at us, 656 00:46:23,115 --> 00:46:26,435 Speaker 1: wondering why you are yelling during the first minutes of 657 00:46:26,515 --> 00:46:29,915 Speaker 1: her first show. So why don't we move over here? Rick? 658 00:46:30,715 --> 00:46:33,115 Speaker 1: I began to move away from him, and we're walking 659 00:46:33,315 --> 00:46:36,875 Speaker 1: away from the live mike'son, and we're walking, and we're 660 00:46:36,915 --> 00:46:39,395 Speaker 1: walking and Rick and Keith are walking because the noise 661 00:46:39,475 --> 00:46:42,715 Speaker 1: isn't really professional. Well we're not talking professionals, are we 662 00:46:42,915 --> 00:46:47,075 Speaker 1: We're talking idiots. We were walking and he was still screaming, 663 00:46:47,515 --> 00:46:50,795 Speaker 1: you're idiots. I will never trust you again. He had 664 00:46:50,835 --> 00:46:53,715 Speaker 1: begun to trot or stumble or whatever he was doing. 665 00:46:53,995 --> 00:46:54,795 Speaker 2: This is not over. 666 00:46:54,995 --> 00:46:57,955 Speaker 1: I will pay you back, self serving garbage. I will 667 00:46:58,035 --> 00:47:00,475 Speaker 1: get you, and I'll get that A hole is he 668 00:47:00,595 --> 00:47:03,115 Speaker 1: for not staying here and reading that script? How many 669 00:47:03,195 --> 00:47:05,235 Speaker 1: times did you intend to say spit blood into a 670 00:47:05,275 --> 00:47:09,475 Speaker 1: garbage can before I stopped you. I now realized what 671 00:47:09,595 --> 00:47:13,275 Speaker 1: he thought had happened as he had gestured spasmodically at 672 00:47:13,395 --> 00:47:16,435 Speaker 1: me while he stood next to my camera. I briefly 673 00:47:16,515 --> 00:47:19,035 Speaker 1: let my focus shift to amazement at the fact that 674 00:47:19,155 --> 00:47:21,195 Speaker 1: this guy, who had been in TV news for twenty 675 00:47:21,275 --> 00:47:25,795 Speaker 1: five years, knew almost nothing about how TV worked. I 676 00:47:25,915 --> 00:47:28,675 Speaker 1: explained to him that Izzy and one of her assistants 677 00:47:28,715 --> 00:47:31,355 Speaker 1: and I had gone over the script several times and 678 00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:35,555 Speaker 1: taken out half of the Gorrier references. Then they suck 679 00:47:35,595 --> 00:47:38,635 Speaker 1: at television, and since I can't trust anybody here, since 680 00:47:38,675 --> 00:47:40,475 Speaker 1: they won't stand up to you and edit the script, 681 00:47:40,515 --> 00:47:44,395 Speaker 1: since you obviously bullied them. He bawled up his fist 682 00:47:44,875 --> 00:47:47,875 Speaker 1: and stomped his foot on the floor as he called 683 00:47:47,955 --> 00:47:50,595 Speaker 1: me a bully and now going to have to approve 684 00:47:50,875 --> 00:47:55,715 Speaker 1: every piece of your copy. By this point, I was 685 00:47:55,835 --> 00:47:58,875 Speaker 1: backing into the countdown work area with its array of 686 00:47:58,995 --> 00:48:01,795 Speaker 1: desks and all the producers Kaplin had just insulted, and 687 00:48:01,835 --> 00:48:03,915 Speaker 1: I knew one of them would dial the phone when 688 00:48:03,955 --> 00:48:07,355 Speaker 1: I said, call it cops and call this lunatics boss. 689 00:48:07,915 --> 00:48:08,635 Speaker 2: Did you hear me? 690 00:48:09,075 --> 00:48:10,515 Speaker 1: And if you don't like it and you don't want 691 00:48:10,555 --> 00:48:13,875 Speaker 1: to come into work tomorrow, that's fine too. I never 692 00:48:13,995 --> 00:48:16,835 Speaker 1: did get that part, but now I had him. I 693 00:48:16,955 --> 00:48:19,955 Speaker 1: crossed my arms in front of my chest slowly, like 694 00:48:20,075 --> 00:48:23,195 Speaker 1: you have seen every news anchor do in every television 695 00:48:23,235 --> 00:48:25,395 Speaker 1: news promo ever shown in the history of the world. 696 00:48:26,155 --> 00:48:29,995 Speaker 1: I flashed as evil a slow mo smile as I could, Oh, 697 00:48:30,835 --> 00:48:33,955 Speaker 1: I'll be here tomorrow, and then I made a sweeping 698 00:48:34,075 --> 00:48:37,515 Speaker 1: gesture back towards my staff, who were both, of course 699 00:48:38,075 --> 00:48:45,115 Speaker 1: literally and figuratively behind me, and so will all of them. Suddenly, 700 00:48:45,155 --> 00:48:47,915 Speaker 1: at that point, for no apparent reason, Rick Kaplan's hysterics 701 00:48:47,955 --> 00:48:51,555 Speaker 1: were replaced by mere confusion. He even stopped huffing at 702 00:48:51,635 --> 00:48:57,075 Speaker 1: almost normal volume. He asked me, all of who. Only 703 00:48:57,115 --> 00:48:59,675 Speaker 1: at this point did I turn around to discover that 704 00:48:59,835 --> 00:49:02,995 Speaker 1: my entire staff had already left the building. There was 705 00:49:03,115 --> 00:49:07,235 Speaker 1: nobody there behind me. Of course, there was nobody there. 706 00:49:07,555 --> 00:49:10,115 Speaker 1: As Ipovich told me later, he went into the control 707 00:49:10,195 --> 00:49:12,915 Speaker 1: room and threatened all them first. So we got on 708 00:49:12,995 --> 00:49:14,955 Speaker 1: the phone back to the office. Tell everybody to get 709 00:49:14,995 --> 00:49:17,835 Speaker 1: the hell out of the building. She paused and laughed. 710 00:49:17,875 --> 00:49:22,315 Speaker 1: I mean, we love you, but we're not crazy. Rick 711 00:49:22,435 --> 00:49:26,115 Speaker 1: Kaplan's exorcism was a brief one. He began screaming again, 712 00:49:26,915 --> 00:49:28,835 Speaker 1: I'm going to hand your career tomorrow. I'm going to 713 00:49:28,875 --> 00:49:32,835 Speaker 1: completely f you up. He turned and stumbled away from 714 00:49:32,875 --> 00:49:37,355 Speaker 1: my office. Good luck sleeping tonight. I slept like a stone. 715 00:49:38,315 --> 00:49:40,755 Speaker 1: And not because Kaplin had previously threatened to fire me 716 00:49:40,835 --> 00:49:43,955 Speaker 1: for not leaving my father's bedside after what they thought 717 00:49:44,075 --> 00:49:46,515 Speaker 1: was a heart attack to fly to LA to appear 718 00:49:46,515 --> 00:49:48,915 Speaker 1: on the Tonight show. And not because he'd once threatened 719 00:49:49,075 --> 00:49:52,155 Speaker 1: to fire me because he didn't like my tie. And 720 00:49:52,315 --> 00:49:54,515 Speaker 1: not because he had previously threatened to fire me for 721 00:49:54,635 --> 00:49:57,915 Speaker 1: not doing something during live coverage that I had already 722 00:49:57,995 --> 00:50:00,275 Speaker 1: done but he thought we hadn't done because he was 723 00:50:00,355 --> 00:50:03,235 Speaker 1: watching us, not live but on delay on his DVR 724 00:50:04,715 --> 00:50:08,275 Speaker 1: resident of a network. And I slept beautifully, not because 725 00:50:08,315 --> 00:50:11,515 Speaker 1: I correctly guessed this would be it for Rick Caplan 726 00:50:11,595 --> 00:50:14,755 Speaker 1: and it was. The next day, human resources forced him 727 00:50:14,755 --> 00:50:18,715 Speaker 1: to apologize to me, and ten months later his bosses 728 00:50:18,835 --> 00:50:24,395 Speaker 1: fired him. Nor did I snooze blessedly because of any 729 00:50:24,475 --> 00:50:28,195 Speaker 1: bravery or stoicism or fatalism on my part. But I 730 00:50:28,275 --> 00:50:31,515 Speaker 1: slept well simply because of the realization that, even after 731 00:50:31,795 --> 00:50:36,515 Speaker 1: all of this, Rick Kaplan was still only the second 732 00:50:36,755 --> 00:50:42,195 Speaker 1: or third craziest MSNBC executive I had ever worked for. 733 00:50:55,675 --> 00:50:57,635 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 734 00:50:57,715 --> 00:51:02,715 Speaker 1: you for listening. I escaped with my life twice that week. 735 00:51:03,875 --> 00:51:06,315 Speaker 1: Most of our count on music was arranged, produced, and 736 00:51:06,435 --> 00:51:08,995 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneil, our musical 737 00:51:09,035 --> 00:51:12,715 Speaker 1: directors of Countdown. It was produced by Tko Brothers. Mister 738 00:51:12,875 --> 00:51:15,435 Speaker 1: Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister Shanelle 739 00:51:15,475 --> 00:51:19,515 Speaker 1: handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical comments 740 00:51:19,875 --> 00:51:22,635 Speaker 1: are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust, 741 00:51:23,035 --> 00:51:25,795 Speaker 1: and she, of course accompanied me on my singing of 742 00:51:26,395 --> 00:51:31,115 Speaker 1: Ode to Joy in the original high German. The Olderman 743 00:51:31,195 --> 00:51:33,555 Speaker 1: theme from the ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis 744 00:51:33,635 --> 00:51:36,875 Speaker 1: Curtesy of ESPN, Inc. Is the sports music. Other music 745 00:51:36,995 --> 00:51:39,355 Speaker 1: was arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 746 00:51:39,835 --> 00:51:42,635 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad. 747 00:51:43,195 --> 00:51:48,075 Speaker 1: Everything else was, as always my fault. That's Countdown for today. 748 00:51:48,155 --> 00:51:52,035 Speaker 1: Day one hundred and seventy nine of America held hostage again, 749 00:51:52,835 --> 00:51:55,475 Speaker 1: but just two hundred and eighty four days until the 750 00:51:55,515 --> 00:51:58,755 Speaker 1: scheduled end of Trump's lane duck and lame brained term 751 00:51:58,835 --> 00:52:03,555 Speaker 1: unless he is removed sooner by Maga and Jeffrey Epstein 752 00:52:06,155 --> 00:52:09,835 Speaker 1: be tape. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. Maybe by 753 00:52:09,915 --> 00:52:11,675 Speaker 1: then I'll have an announcement on the future of this 754 00:52:11,755 --> 00:52:15,115 Speaker 1: whole thing. Till then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, 755 00:52:15,155 --> 00:52:34,995 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 756 00:52:35,035 --> 00:52:39,795 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. 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