1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:19,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. It's 2 00:00:19,275 --> 00:00:22,915 Speaker 1: the smoking gun that keeps on smoking. Now. We are 3 00:00:22,955 --> 00:00:26,515 Speaker 1: reliably informed that on the Bedminster tape, the Trump tape, 4 00:00:26,595 --> 00:00:30,595 Speaker 1: the first Trump tape, Trump is heard lamenting that he 5 00:00:30,715 --> 00:00:34,755 Speaker 1: did not declassify the Mark milly Iran document that he's 6 00:00:34,795 --> 00:00:39,275 Speaker 1: talking about with the ghostwriters for Mark Meadows. This ratchets 7 00:00:39,395 --> 00:00:44,635 Speaker 1: up Trump's self immolation and self incrimination. Hugo Lowell in 8 00:00:44,675 --> 00:00:47,915 Speaker 1: The Guardian with the scoop quote. For several minutes of 9 00:00:47,955 --> 00:00:51,315 Speaker 1: the audio recording, the sources said, Trump talks about how 10 00:00:51,355 --> 00:00:55,315 Speaker 1: he cannot discuss the document because he no longer possesses 11 00:00:55,395 --> 00:01:00,395 Speaker 1: the sweeping presidential power to declassify now out of office, 12 00:01:00,955 --> 00:01:03,275 Speaker 1: but suggests that he should have done so when he 13 00:01:03,395 --> 00:01:06,355 Speaker 1: was still in the White House, and yet on the 14 00:01:06,395 --> 00:01:11,275 Speaker 1: tape he discusses the document that he says he cannot 15 00:01:11,355 --> 00:01:17,915 Speaker 1: legally discuss anymore. The Trump smoking gun tape has remarkable 16 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:21,555 Speaker 1: synchronicity with the Watergate smoking gun tape, which ended the 17 00:01:21,675 --> 00:01:25,515 Speaker 1: Nixon presidency, The one from six days after the Watergate 18 00:01:25,555 --> 00:01:29,115 Speaker 1: break in in which Richard Nixon orders and gives specific 19 00:01:29,195 --> 00:01:32,955 Speaker 1: ideas for the cover up in which he pre confesses 20 00:01:33,395 --> 00:01:36,915 Speaker 1: to all the crimes of the calendar. The Supreme Court 21 00:01:37,035 --> 00:01:40,115 Speaker 1: ordered that tape released on July twenty fourth, nineteen seventy four, 22 00:01:40,155 --> 00:01:43,155 Speaker 1: and within two weeks Nixon was an ex president and 23 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:46,875 Speaker 1: for a time at least was facing prosecution. And now, 24 00:01:46,915 --> 00:01:50,475 Speaker 1: as I outlined in Wednesday Night's special bulletin edition of 25 00:01:50,515 --> 00:01:54,275 Speaker 1: this podcast, there is a Trump smoking gun tape in 26 00:01:54,315 --> 00:01:58,795 Speaker 1: which Trump two pre confesses the story that in July 27 00:01:58,875 --> 00:02:02,875 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Trump regaled two ghostwriters for Meadows autobiography 28 00:02:03,115 --> 00:02:06,035 Speaker 1: with tales of this Mark mill four page plan for 29 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:09,235 Speaker 1: war with Iran, and he seemed to be holding the 30 00:02:09,275 --> 00:02:13,035 Speaker 1: actual Iran document in his hands. The writers were taping 31 00:02:13,075 --> 00:02:17,475 Speaker 1: the conversation. Trump's press deputy, Margot Martin, was taping the conversation. 32 00:02:17,795 --> 00:02:21,115 Speaker 1: Trump knew they were taping the conversation. Thus there is 33 00:02:21,155 --> 00:02:25,555 Speaker 1: a real time recording of him breaking the law by 34 00:02:25,635 --> 00:02:28,875 Speaker 1: revealing the existence of the secret document to people who 35 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:31,115 Speaker 1: were not allowed to know that it existed. And in 36 00:02:31,155 --> 00:02:34,315 Speaker 1: the same recording he breaks the law again by revealing 37 00:02:34,355 --> 00:02:37,795 Speaker 1: the outlines of a military war plan. And in the 38 00:02:37,835 --> 00:02:41,395 Speaker 1: same recording he reveals the limitations of his right even 39 00:02:41,515 --> 00:02:46,435 Speaker 1: as president to declassify the document he is illegally quoting 40 00:02:47,995 --> 00:02:52,315 Speaker 1: Richard Nixon would get a headache from all this. CNN 41 00:02:52,355 --> 00:02:55,875 Speaker 1: broke the original story, and I promulgated last night's special edition. 42 00:02:56,035 --> 00:02:59,795 Speaker 1: Every major news organization has produced its own version, adding 43 00:02:59,835 --> 00:03:03,915 Speaker 1: some details clarifying others. The New York Times confirms something 44 00:03:03,915 --> 00:03:07,115 Speaker 1: you will hear about in depth shortly that Trump was 45 00:03:07,235 --> 00:03:10,915 Speaker 1: recorded on many occasions in twenty twenty one for books 46 00:03:10,995 --> 00:03:14,315 Speaker 1: and other purposes, and his aide, Miss Martin, did the recording. 47 00:03:14,715 --> 00:03:19,275 Speaker 1: The Times ads investigators have several, if not all, of 48 00:03:19,315 --> 00:03:22,315 Speaker 1: the recordings of book interviews that mister Trump gave. In 49 00:03:22,355 --> 00:03:25,435 Speaker 1: one interview, mister Trump said he had taken nothing of 50 00:03:25,515 --> 00:03:28,515 Speaker 1: great urgency when asked if he had anything in his 51 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:32,795 Speaker 1: possession unquote, echoing his answer in the town Hall about 52 00:03:32,795 --> 00:03:38,155 Speaker 1: whether he'd shown secret documents to anyone not really. Back 53 00:03:38,195 --> 00:03:41,635 Speaker 1: in The Guardian, Hugo Lowell reports that the Milli document 54 00:03:41,715 --> 00:03:44,275 Speaker 1: in question, which The Times notes Trump was wrong about 55 00:03:44,275 --> 00:03:47,155 Speaker 1: it was not written by Millie, was returned to the 56 00:03:47,235 --> 00:03:50,115 Speaker 1: National Archives. It is not still out there loose in 57 00:03:50,275 --> 00:03:55,115 Speaker 1: Jersey somewhere. Quoting Loll Trump's lawyers identified in what was 58 00:03:55,195 --> 00:03:59,275 Speaker 1: returned to nar a document matching the characterization of the 59 00:03:59,315 --> 00:04:03,035 Speaker 1: classified report on Iran referenced than the July twenty twenty 60 00:04:03,075 --> 00:04:07,555 Speaker 1: one recording. The Washington Post defintely begins its piece by 61 00:04:07,555 --> 00:04:10,675 Speaker 1: writing special counsel Jack Smith has obtained a twenty twenty 62 00:04:10,715 --> 00:04:14,355 Speaker 1: one recording in which Donald Trump appears to brag about 63 00:04:14,395 --> 00:04:19,075 Speaker 1: having a classified document related to Iran, brag being a 64 00:04:19,115 --> 00:04:21,795 Speaker 1: stronger word than used in any other report, and also 65 00:04:21,835 --> 00:04:24,115 Speaker 1: an interesting bit for the Freudians, given that the name 66 00:04:24,115 --> 00:04:28,635 Speaker 1: of the Manhattan District attorney who indicted Trump is Brag. 67 00:04:29,475 --> 00:04:31,835 Speaker 1: The right wing media, when they have even bothered with 68 00:04:31,915 --> 00:04:34,315 Speaker 1: this story, have stuck to the predictable angle that this 69 00:04:34,355 --> 00:04:37,995 Speaker 1: is not about classified documents, that this is about our hero, 70 00:04:38,235 --> 00:04:43,355 Speaker 1: Donald Jesus Trump averting war with Iran by repeatedly rejecting 71 00:04:43,435 --> 00:04:47,755 Speaker 1: the entreaties of the warmongers like Mark Milly. Current Trump 72 00:04:47,755 --> 00:04:51,715 Speaker 1: attorney James Trusty stuck to the magic wand theory in 73 00:04:51,755 --> 00:04:55,035 Speaker 1: an interview late last night with CNN, namely that Trump 74 00:04:55,035 --> 00:04:58,875 Speaker 1: could have easily declassified the Iran document and anything else 75 00:04:59,555 --> 00:05:03,035 Speaker 1: early on his flight to marri Lago from Washington on 76 00:05:03,115 --> 00:05:07,515 Speaker 1: January twentieth, twenty one, one, As if this were Frickin' 77 00:05:07,515 --> 00:05:14,595 Speaker 1: Hogwarts and Trump was Harry Potter, though the Hogwarts part fits. 78 00:05:14,995 --> 00:05:16,755 Speaker 1: And with that the story as I covered it, and 79 00:05:16,835 --> 00:05:34,795 Speaker 1: last night's bullet the smoking Gun, Donald Trump is on 80 00:05:34,955 --> 00:05:37,875 Speaker 1: tape not just admitting that after he left office he 81 00:05:37,995 --> 00:05:43,195 Speaker 1: kept classified top secret military plans for an American attack 82 00:05:43,315 --> 00:05:48,395 Speaker 1: on Iran, for war against Iran, not just admitting he 83 00:05:48,515 --> 00:05:52,555 Speaker 1: kept those, but boasting he kept those and describing the 84 00:05:52,595 --> 00:05:57,515 Speaker 1: details of the American attack strategy on Iran and attributing 85 00:05:57,555 --> 00:06:00,395 Speaker 1: the document and the plans to the Chairman of the 86 00:06:00,515 --> 00:06:05,195 Speaker 1: Joint Chiefs of Staff, and describing the document at least 87 00:06:05,235 --> 00:06:08,395 Speaker 1: four people, none of whom had the requisite security clearance 88 00:06:08,595 --> 00:06:12,075 Speaker 1: to even know that the document existed, let alone hear 89 00:06:12,155 --> 00:06:16,235 Speaker 1: any of the details, and saying he would like to 90 00:06:16,315 --> 00:06:20,275 Speaker 1: share those details with them, and then acknowledging he couldn't 91 00:06:20,315 --> 00:06:22,835 Speaker 1: share those details with them, because even an ex president 92 00:06:22,875 --> 00:06:27,115 Speaker 1: can't just declassify whatever he wants and acting as if 93 00:06:27,115 --> 00:06:30,315 Speaker 1: he is holding the top secret documents in his hands 94 00:06:30,555 --> 00:06:35,035 Speaker 1: and he is talking about them. And this happened in 95 00:06:35,075 --> 00:06:38,155 Speaker 1: a conversation that took place not at Mari Lago, but 96 00:06:38,275 --> 00:06:41,595 Speaker 1: at his other golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, and 97 00:06:42,315 --> 00:06:45,235 Speaker 1: the recorded conversation took place in July twenty twenty one, 98 00:06:45,275 --> 00:06:48,675 Speaker 1: before Trump had returned any of the documents he stole, 99 00:06:49,555 --> 00:06:52,595 Speaker 1: and two of the other people were there working on 100 00:06:52,635 --> 00:06:56,275 Speaker 1: the autobiography of his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, 101 00:06:57,075 --> 00:07:00,635 Speaker 1: and one of the others was Trump's former White House 102 00:07:00,675 --> 00:07:05,755 Speaker 1: press aide, Margo Martin. And Trump knew he was being recorded, 103 00:07:06,315 --> 00:07:09,115 Speaker 1: and there is some indication now that Trump demanded that 104 00:07:09,195 --> 00:07:13,275 Speaker 1: he be recorded, and the story of this meeting appears 105 00:07:13,635 --> 00:07:18,635 Speaker 1: in the Mark Meadows autobiography. And this may only be 106 00:07:18,915 --> 00:07:24,355 Speaker 1: the tip of the Trump tapes. Iceberg, quoting CNN's exclusive 107 00:07:25,515 --> 00:07:29,355 Speaker 1: during the summer of twenty twenty one, sources say multiple 108 00:07:29,395 --> 00:07:33,475 Speaker 1: people were making recordings of Trump as he held conversations 109 00:07:33,475 --> 00:07:40,315 Speaker 1: with journalists and biographers unquote. And this tape is in 110 00:07:40,355 --> 00:07:46,595 Speaker 1: the hands of Special Counsel Jack Smith, and Trump's lawyers 111 00:07:46,675 --> 00:07:49,995 Speaker 1: should be meeting with Smith now and asking for a 112 00:07:50,035 --> 00:07:53,475 Speaker 1: plea deal now, because on this tape, Trump not only 113 00:07:53,515 --> 00:07:57,955 Speaker 1: confesses to repeated violations of the Espionage Act worth ten 114 00:07:58,075 --> 00:08:03,435 Speaker 1: years in jail per violation, but maybe even more importantly 115 00:08:03,515 --> 00:08:07,235 Speaker 1: than the galling thought of this thug Trump stealing our 116 00:08:07,475 --> 00:08:12,355 Speaker 1: military plans for attacking Iran and keeping them at some 117 00:08:13,115 --> 00:08:18,875 Speaker 1: cheesy golf course in New Jersey. More galling than that, Trump, 118 00:08:18,995 --> 00:08:23,435 Speaker 1: in his own words on his own tape, also erases 119 00:08:23,755 --> 00:08:27,115 Speaker 1: the pillar of his specious defense that a president can 120 00:08:27,155 --> 00:08:29,955 Speaker 1: declassify anything he wants to just by thinking about it 121 00:08:30,035 --> 00:08:35,355 Speaker 1: or saying it or it's automatic. He is, in one 122 00:08:35,475 --> 00:08:40,755 Speaker 1: two minute span, literally committing one crime, confessing to other crimes, 123 00:08:41,195 --> 00:08:44,835 Speaker 1: disavowing his only possible defense for committing any of the crimes, 124 00:08:45,275 --> 00:08:49,195 Speaker 1: admitting he knew in real time that sharing classified information 125 00:08:49,355 --> 00:08:53,955 Speaker 1: was itself a crime, and expanding the scope of where 126 00:08:54,115 --> 00:08:57,835 Speaker 1: he illegally kept classified documents not just in mar Lago 127 00:08:57,875 --> 00:09:05,715 Speaker 1: but in New Jersey. The smoking gun, and with that 128 00:09:05,875 --> 00:09:09,675 Speaker 1: little throwaway line about multiple people making recordings of Trump 129 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:14,635 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, not just the smoking gun, but 130 00:09:14,755 --> 00:09:19,995 Speaker 1: very likely a smoking gun in a weapons depot full 131 00:09:20,035 --> 00:09:25,555 Speaker 1: of nothing but smoking guns. Ask Jack Smith for a 132 00:09:25,595 --> 00:09:29,195 Speaker 1: plea deal. Hell, Trump should just cut to the chase 133 00:09:29,195 --> 00:09:32,955 Speaker 1: and ask President Biden for a pardon deal, because if 134 00:09:32,955 --> 00:09:35,835 Speaker 1: you have not had enough crime cliches yet. In the 135 00:09:35,875 --> 00:09:38,835 Speaker 1: smoking Guns and the tips of icebergs, there is also 136 00:09:38,915 --> 00:09:44,435 Speaker 1: the inevitable can of worms, because apart from the crimes 137 00:09:44,955 --> 00:09:49,075 Speaker 1: on the Trump tape, the ones we already know about, 138 00:09:49,115 --> 00:09:52,515 Speaker 1: the ones there is already hard evidence of. In his 139 00:09:52,755 --> 00:09:59,515 Speaker 1: own voice on the Trump Tape, the first Trump Tape, 140 00:09:59,595 --> 00:10:02,555 Speaker 1: Trump was willing to break the law and reveal the 141 00:10:02,635 --> 00:10:08,355 Speaker 1: existence of an ultra secret, classified military war document about 142 00:10:08,435 --> 00:10:13,395 Speaker 1: bombing Iran for the purpose of trying to make Mark 143 00:10:13,515 --> 00:10:17,235 Speaker 1: Milli look bad after a series of articles had just 144 00:10:17,275 --> 00:10:19,035 Speaker 1: come out two years ago in which it was revealed 145 00:10:19,035 --> 00:10:21,395 Speaker 1: Milli had gone above and beyond the call of duty 146 00:10:21,435 --> 00:10:23,795 Speaker 1: to put obstacles in the way of Trump launching a 147 00:10:23,835 --> 00:10:27,995 Speaker 1: preemptive attack on Iran in the waning days of his administration, 148 00:10:28,355 --> 00:10:32,155 Speaker 1: kind of international Reichstag fire as a pretext for Trump 149 00:10:32,235 --> 00:10:35,075 Speaker 1: to declare state of emergency in this country, yet another 150 00:10:35,235 --> 00:10:40,835 Speaker 1: prong of Trump's multifaceted coup attempt. Trump was waving around 151 00:10:41,035 --> 00:10:44,715 Speaker 1: the Iran Plan or papers he implied were the Iran 152 00:10:44,875 --> 00:10:50,115 Speaker 1: Plan in order to refute Milli, to show that Milli 153 00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:52,915 Speaker 1: was just as ready to bomb Iran as he was. 154 00:10:53,915 --> 00:10:58,795 Speaker 1: Trump was willing to break these laws, willing to share 155 00:10:59,555 --> 00:11:02,795 Speaker 1: our war plans on how if we had to to 156 00:11:02,955 --> 00:11:09,115 Speaker 1: bomb Iran and subvert the entire necessary security structures of 157 00:11:09,155 --> 00:11:13,635 Speaker 1: this country to make himself look better on one or 158 00:11:13,715 --> 00:11:17,075 Speaker 1: two pages on one of the hundreds of books about 159 00:11:17,075 --> 00:11:21,115 Speaker 1: his damnable administration. He was willing to do it with, 160 00:11:22,435 --> 00:11:25,675 Speaker 1: not necessarily Mark Meadows. We have no indication that Mark 161 00:11:25,715 --> 00:11:28,515 Speaker 1: Meadows was at this meeting. He was willing to do 162 00:11:28,595 --> 00:11:32,475 Speaker 1: it with two researchers who helped Meadows with the book 163 00:11:32,675 --> 00:11:35,875 Speaker 1: and didn't even get credited on the cover or the jacket, 164 00:11:36,995 --> 00:11:40,955 Speaker 1: and Hugo Lowell in The Guardian now adds this document 165 00:11:41,155 --> 00:11:46,635 Speaker 1: was classified quote secret unquote, and that the Trump aid 166 00:11:46,795 --> 00:11:52,555 Speaker 1: Margot Martin, was asked about this milli iran document in 167 00:11:52,595 --> 00:11:55,635 Speaker 1: front of the Grand Jury in March, and she also 168 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:59,555 Speaker 1: had her laptop and her electronic devices imaged by the 169 00:11:59,595 --> 00:12:03,155 Speaker 1: Department of Justice. And also that it was Trump who 170 00:12:03,235 --> 00:12:06,835 Speaker 1: wanted the meeting with the Meadows people recorded because he 171 00:12:06,915 --> 00:12:13,675 Speaker 1: doesn't trust journalists. But now comes the question if he 172 00:12:13,795 --> 00:12:19,315 Speaker 1: was willing to tell them about this, who else was 173 00:12:19,355 --> 00:12:24,115 Speaker 1: he willing to confirm to the existence of this document 174 00:12:24,875 --> 00:12:27,755 Speaker 1: or willing to read it to, or show it to 175 00:12:27,955 --> 00:12:31,755 Speaker 1: or sell it to. Would another government in the Middle 176 00:12:31,795 --> 00:12:34,995 Speaker 1: East want to hear about American plans to bomb Iran? 177 00:12:36,355 --> 00:12:40,715 Speaker 1: What Israel? What Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia, with whom Trump 178 00:12:40,715 --> 00:12:43,395 Speaker 1: has had a series of intricate business deals for decades, 179 00:12:43,715 --> 00:12:47,955 Speaker 1: including the promotion of this sportswashing Saudi Live Golf tour. 180 00:12:48,315 --> 00:12:51,915 Speaker 1: Just last week, The New York Times reported the Jacksmith's 181 00:12:51,915 --> 00:12:55,075 Speaker 1: office had issued subpoenas to all the Trump companies for 182 00:12:55,195 --> 00:13:00,155 Speaker 1: all business dealings since twenty seventeen with seven specific countries, 183 00:13:00,395 --> 00:13:06,955 Speaker 1: including Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Ua, Kuwait. All of it 184 00:13:07,075 --> 00:13:09,875 Speaker 1: based on a theory that the documents he stole may 185 00:13:09,955 --> 00:13:14,155 Speaker 1: have found their way into those Trump business dealings with 186 00:13:14,355 --> 00:13:22,555 Speaker 1: those countries. Is the Milli Iran Plan document? One of 187 00:13:22,595 --> 00:13:28,835 Speaker 1: those documents. Did it go to the Saudis? If it did, 188 00:13:29,715 --> 00:13:32,275 Speaker 1: here we are back again in eighteen US Code seven 189 00:13:32,435 --> 00:13:37,075 Speaker 1: ninety four. Gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government, 190 00:13:38,795 --> 00:13:42,635 Speaker 1: giving a foreign government our defense information and a plan 191 00:13:42,955 --> 00:13:46,995 Speaker 1: promulgated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff for starting a 192 00:13:47,155 --> 00:13:51,195 Speaker 1: war and bombing Iran. You know that would fall under 193 00:13:51,275 --> 00:13:55,795 Speaker 1: the definition of defense information. Anybody guilty of doing that 194 00:13:55,875 --> 00:14:00,675 Speaker 1: quote shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for 195 00:14:00,835 --> 00:14:05,355 Speaker 1: any term of years or for life, except that the 196 00:14:05,435 --> 00:14:08,355 Speaker 1: sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the jury 197 00:14:08,395 --> 00:14:12,475 Speaker 1: further finds that the offense resulted in the identification by 198 00:14:12,515 --> 00:14:15,835 Speaker 1: a foreign power of an individual acting as an agent 199 00:14:15,915 --> 00:14:19,795 Speaker 1: of the United States, and consequently the death of that individual, 200 00:14:20,115 --> 00:14:27,475 Speaker 1: or it directly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, 201 00:14:27,835 --> 00:14:31,315 Speaker 1: early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation 202 00:14:31,395 --> 00:14:37,915 Speaker 1: against large scale attack, semi coolon war plans, semi colon communications, 203 00:14:37,955 --> 00:14:43,475 Speaker 1: intelligence or cryptographic information, semicolon, or any other major weapons 204 00:14:43,515 --> 00:14:52,115 Speaker 1: system or major element or defense strategy. How many of 205 00:14:52,155 --> 00:14:59,475 Speaker 1: those did he do? In this five six seven, I 206 00:14:59,555 --> 00:15:02,635 Speaker 1: have moved away from what we have just learned on 207 00:15:02,715 --> 00:15:06,955 Speaker 1: this watershed day to what might be out there yet 208 00:15:07,035 --> 00:15:11,715 Speaker 1: to learn. And even I don't really think that anybody 209 00:15:11,795 --> 00:15:15,875 Speaker 1: would try to prosecute a death penalty case against Donald Trump. 210 00:15:16,715 --> 00:15:20,155 Speaker 1: But we sure as hell have not moved that far 211 00:15:20,315 --> 00:15:24,475 Speaker 1: away from what we already do know, and it is 212 00:15:24,675 --> 00:15:29,115 Speaker 1: already serious enough that we are not far from quote 213 00:15:29,315 --> 00:15:32,915 Speaker 1: shall be punished by death or by the imprisonment for 214 00:15:33,035 --> 00:15:38,595 Speaker 1: any term of years or for life. And just listen 215 00:15:38,635 --> 00:15:41,675 Speaker 1: to this quotation that is almost certainly drawn from the 216 00:15:41,755 --> 00:15:46,275 Speaker 1: meeting at which Trump seemed to brandish the Milli memo 217 00:15:47,435 --> 00:15:50,195 Speaker 1: as it is described in the Meadows book. And sorry, 218 00:15:50,275 --> 00:15:53,315 Speaker 1: I'm not buying the whole book to read the whole excerpt. 219 00:15:53,395 --> 00:15:57,875 Speaker 1: I'm not given Mark Meadows my checks Amazon for price 220 00:15:57,915 --> 00:16:03,955 Speaker 1: of book six dollars and sixty five cents. Trump Meadows 221 00:16:04,155 --> 00:16:09,115 Speaker 1: or ghost writers rights quote recalls a four page report 222 00:16:09,155 --> 00:16:12,595 Speaker 1: typed up by Mark Milly himself. It contained the general's 223 00:16:12,595 --> 00:16:16,915 Speaker 1: own plan to attack Iran, deploying massive numbers of troops, 224 00:16:16,955 --> 00:16:20,235 Speaker 1: something he urged President Trump to do more than once 225 00:16:20,315 --> 00:16:27,875 Speaker 1: during his presidency. Unquote. In the Meadows autobiography version of 226 00:16:27,915 --> 00:16:31,035 Speaker 1: the meeting, Jack Smith has this recording of Trump revealed 227 00:16:31,155 --> 00:16:35,435 Speaker 1: enough that just repeating all that in that loan quote 228 00:16:35,595 --> 00:16:39,595 Speaker 1: or more to the Saudis or to anybody else, to 229 00:16:39,755 --> 00:16:43,595 Speaker 1: the Canadians, that is eighteen US Code seven ninety four, 230 00:16:43,635 --> 00:16:49,955 Speaker 1: gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government espionage prison. 231 00:16:53,995 --> 00:16:58,955 Speaker 1: There are four other very relevant points here. Who gave 232 00:16:59,035 --> 00:17:05,075 Speaker 1: Jack Smith the tape gave or gave up mentioned that. 233 00:17:05,115 --> 00:17:07,515 Speaker 1: Nowhere in the CNN piece is there anything indicating that 234 00:17:07,555 --> 00:17:10,875 Speaker 1: Mark Meadows was at the Smoking Gun meeting that was recorded. 235 00:17:12,715 --> 00:17:16,395 Speaker 1: But there's certainly nothing indicating that the tape, which was 236 00:17:16,595 --> 00:17:21,275 Speaker 1: recording an interview conducted for meadows own autobiography would not 237 00:17:21,395 --> 00:17:25,755 Speaker 1: belong to Meadows or at minimum to his publisher. Or 238 00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:28,395 Speaker 1: then there is this alternate theory that perhaps this is 239 00:17:28,475 --> 00:17:33,675 Speaker 1: the Margo Martin tape, and Meadows is obviously not the 240 00:17:33,675 --> 00:17:35,875 Speaker 1: only possible source for the tape, but he is one 241 00:17:35,875 --> 00:17:38,595 Speaker 1: of the possibilities, probably the lead possibility, and that in 242 00:17:38,635 --> 00:17:42,115 Speaker 1: turn again raises the possibility that Mark Meadows has flipped 243 00:17:42,155 --> 00:17:46,195 Speaker 1: on Donald Trump. It's only last Wednesday that CNN put 244 00:17:46,195 --> 00:17:48,875 Speaker 1: out a story reading quote a source close to Trump's 245 00:17:48,915 --> 00:17:51,435 Speaker 1: legal team said Trump's lawyers have had no contact with 246 00:17:51,515 --> 00:17:54,435 Speaker 1: Meadows and his team and are in the dark on 247 00:17:54,595 --> 00:17:59,595 Speaker 1: what Meadows is doing in the investigation. It also quoted 248 00:17:59,715 --> 00:18:04,475 Speaker 1: one Trump advisor as saying, we've all heard the same rumors. 249 00:18:04,955 --> 00:18:10,235 Speaker 1: No one really knows what he's doing. Though, sounds like 250 00:18:10,275 --> 00:18:13,635 Speaker 1: what Mark Meadows was doing was doing a thorough inventory 251 00:18:13,675 --> 00:18:20,795 Speaker 1: of every damn thing Trump said on damn tapes. Second 252 00:18:20,835 --> 00:18:23,875 Speaker 1: additional point, we know from CNN and other reporting that 253 00:18:23,955 --> 00:18:28,395 Speaker 1: Smith's team has asked General Milly about the document about 254 00:18:28,395 --> 00:18:32,915 Speaker 1: the Trump tape. First Trump tape, it seems that was 255 00:18:32,955 --> 00:18:35,555 Speaker 1: not in front of the grand jury, but in an interview, 256 00:18:35,595 --> 00:18:39,155 Speaker 1: but it's weirdly phrased in the CNN piece. Others have 257 00:18:39,315 --> 00:18:42,195 Speaker 1: clearly been asked about it on the record in front 258 00:18:42,235 --> 00:18:46,835 Speaker 1: of the jurors, including Margot Martin of Trump's staff. Third 259 00:18:46,915 --> 00:18:50,195 Speaker 1: additional point. Up until this story, almost everything leaking out 260 00:18:50,195 --> 00:18:53,035 Speaker 1: of the Special Council's Office has been about Trump committing 261 00:18:53,475 --> 00:18:59,595 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice, hiding documents, hiding documents from his own attorney, 262 00:18:59,915 --> 00:19:02,915 Speaker 1: having a box mover who was caught on security tape 263 00:19:02,915 --> 00:19:05,755 Speaker 1: who knows nothing about anything or penis, but is somehow 264 00:19:05,755 --> 00:19:08,435 Speaker 1: clever enough to suddenly go ask the Marri Lago it 265 00:19:08,835 --> 00:19:13,035 Speaker 1: guy how long before mister phelps this tape will self destruct? 266 00:19:14,835 --> 00:19:21,075 Speaker 1: But this story is about the meat of an underlying crime, 267 00:19:21,915 --> 00:19:27,275 Speaker 1: the theft of secret war plans. Not of obstruction, not 268 00:19:27,355 --> 00:19:30,995 Speaker 1: of destruction of evidence, but of stealing a classified document, 269 00:19:31,115 --> 00:19:33,795 Speaker 1: sharing knowledge of its existence with people who are not 270 00:19:33,795 --> 00:19:37,315 Speaker 1: supposed to know of its existence, including book researchers, for 271 00:19:37,395 --> 00:19:42,275 Speaker 1: Christ's sakes, pining to read it to them, making veiled 272 00:19:42,315 --> 00:19:46,075 Speaker 1: references to its contents, but aware guilty for knowledge, aware 273 00:19:46,755 --> 00:19:48,875 Speaker 1: that he is prevented by law from doing so, and 274 00:19:48,955 --> 00:19:55,675 Speaker 1: could not just declassify stuff at will. This is the meal, 275 00:19:55,835 --> 00:20:00,275 Speaker 1: and the obstruction is just the dessert. Federal prosecutors occasionally 276 00:20:00,355 --> 00:20:03,715 Speaker 1: prosecute just the dessert, but they are much more likely 277 00:20:03,755 --> 00:20:08,195 Speaker 1: to prosecute him diduction if there is something substantial behind 278 00:20:08,235 --> 00:20:10,955 Speaker 1: the obstruction and if the perpetrator knew he would be 279 00:20:10,995 --> 00:20:13,555 Speaker 1: committing a crime. If he committed a crime and then 280 00:20:13,595 --> 00:20:18,155 Speaker 1: he goes and commits the crime, that's pretty substantial. Plus 281 00:20:19,755 --> 00:20:24,075 Speaker 1: the document. As the former Trump lawyer Ty Cobbs said 282 00:20:24,075 --> 00:20:27,555 Speaker 1: on CNN about the Special Council's Office right now, quote, 283 00:20:28,035 --> 00:20:33,955 Speaker 1: I think they have their foot on Trump's neck. And 284 00:20:33,995 --> 00:20:41,275 Speaker 1: the fourth and final additional point Bedminster. This happened at Bedminster, 285 00:20:41,915 --> 00:20:44,995 Speaker 1: not at Mari Lago. And if for some reason the 286 00:20:45,035 --> 00:20:48,035 Speaker 1: Special Council's Office has not yet done an inch by 287 00:20:48,155 --> 00:20:51,755 Speaker 1: inch search there, it needs to be out there by sunrise. 288 00:20:52,475 --> 00:20:58,275 Speaker 1: Where is this document now? Is it still at Bedminster? 289 00:20:59,795 --> 00:21:04,475 Speaker 1: Should we go and get it? And it moves an 290 00:21:04,475 --> 00:21:07,955 Speaker 1: inn at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster from 291 00:21:07,995 --> 00:21:12,235 Speaker 1: the macabre and the silly and the category of great joke, 292 00:21:12,315 --> 00:21:15,035 Speaker 1: buzz I must tell Muffy, let's go go to Martini 293 00:21:15,475 --> 00:21:19,915 Speaker 1: to the category of is this possible? I mean what 294 00:21:20,155 --> 00:21:25,635 Speaker 1: follows is I hope pure political science fiction and the 295 00:21:25,675 --> 00:21:29,755 Speaker 1: product of having read every single Sherlock Holmes story and 296 00:21:29,795 --> 00:21:33,155 Speaker 1: seeing way too much Monty Python. I hope this is 297 00:21:33,195 --> 00:21:36,515 Speaker 1: as crazy as it might sound. But all of a sudden, 298 00:21:36,555 --> 00:21:43,275 Speaker 1: I'm not sure anymore. You are Trump. You have this 299 00:21:43,435 --> 00:21:46,635 Speaker 1: ultra secret military national defense document, and one of your 300 00:21:46,675 --> 00:21:49,515 Speaker 1: attorneys finds out and he tells you in twenty twenty 301 00:21:49,555 --> 00:21:52,595 Speaker 1: one or twenty twenty two that if they find it here, 302 00:21:53,075 --> 00:21:55,795 Speaker 1: they can prosecute you, and if they convict you, they 303 00:21:55,835 --> 00:21:57,595 Speaker 1: could put you in jail for the rest of your 304 00:21:57,635 --> 00:22:02,155 Speaker 1: life or worse. You must return this document immediately and 305 00:22:02,235 --> 00:22:06,595 Speaker 1: hope they let it go. But your Trump, of course, 306 00:22:06,635 --> 00:22:09,875 Speaker 1: you will not return it. You're Trump, You're immortal, You're 307 00:22:09,915 --> 00:22:13,715 Speaker 1: guilty of nothing. You never do what somebody tells you too, 308 00:22:13,755 --> 00:22:19,155 Speaker 1: that's for suckers. But the Iran document could be damning somehow. 309 00:22:19,155 --> 00:22:22,675 Speaker 1: You know this through the haze of your own ego. 310 00:22:23,035 --> 00:22:26,555 Speaker 1: You know you have to get rid of it. What 311 00:22:26,635 --> 00:22:30,835 Speaker 1: do you do with it? You can't destroy it, you 312 00:22:30,875 --> 00:22:33,875 Speaker 1: can't burn it. What if you somehow leave evidence that 313 00:22:33,915 --> 00:22:36,595 Speaker 1: you did that? Now there would be two charges against you. 314 00:22:37,355 --> 00:22:42,875 Speaker 1: What do you do with that document stolen war plans 315 00:22:43,915 --> 00:22:46,955 Speaker 1: at Bedminster? Where could you put it where they'll not 316 00:22:47,035 --> 00:22:49,915 Speaker 1: only never find it, but never think to look for it. Moreover, 317 00:22:50,075 --> 00:22:53,195 Speaker 1: where they would never have the audacity to search for it. 318 00:22:58,515 --> 00:23:01,995 Speaker 1: On Wednesday, July twentieth, twenty twenty two, at the Bedminster 319 00:23:02,035 --> 00:23:05,635 Speaker 1: Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey, the First Tea and 320 00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:11,035 Speaker 1: the Magnificent Main Golf Clubhouse, the body of Ivanna Marie 321 00:23:11,795 --> 00:23:14,955 Speaker 1: is On Eichkova Trump, first wife of the forty fifth 322 00:23:14,995 --> 00:23:18,075 Speaker 1: President of the United States, was laid to rest in 323 00:23:18,115 --> 00:23:24,075 Speaker 1: a beautiful private ceremony, buried quote in a rose gold 324 00:23:24,355 --> 00:23:38,035 Speaker 1: hued casket unquote very large, rose gold hewed casket. Never mind, 325 00:23:39,115 --> 00:23:49,595 Speaker 1: lock her up, dig her up. Okay. The rest of 326 00:23:49,635 --> 00:23:53,195 Speaker 1: this podcast is the original episode from Wednesday, May thirty first, 327 00:23:53,235 --> 00:23:55,475 Speaker 1: So if you've heard it already, no need to listen 328 00:23:55,515 --> 00:23:58,035 Speaker 1: again to how the LA Dodgers screwed up Pride Night 329 00:23:58,075 --> 00:24:02,155 Speaker 1: beyond all recognition, or how Mike Flynn is now selling 330 00:24:02,435 --> 00:24:06,235 Speaker 1: sperm and I will not take it personally if you 331 00:24:06,315 --> 00:24:08,595 Speaker 1: hit stop right now. I hope to update this for 332 00:24:08,635 --> 00:24:11,995 Speaker 1: a new Thursday, June first edition, but there's one more complication. 333 00:24:12,355 --> 00:24:16,555 Speaker 1: Turns out. I may have walking pneumonia, just walking pneumonia. 334 00:24:16,635 --> 00:24:19,795 Speaker 1: No boogie woogie flu. I've actually been off and on 335 00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:22,715 Speaker 1: woozy the last few weeks. The voice is beginning to go, 336 00:24:23,115 --> 00:24:25,395 Speaker 1: finally getting it looked at, and I have the stamina 337 00:24:25,475 --> 00:24:30,475 Speaker 1: of This is how not good I feel. I don't 338 00:24:30,515 --> 00:24:34,235 Speaker 1: feel good enough to come up with another simile. Sorry, 339 00:24:35,795 --> 00:24:42,355 Speaker 1: Keith at his doctors. That's next. This is countdown. This 340 00:24:43,235 --> 00:25:02,155 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith over me. This is Sports Center. Wait, 341 00:25:02,315 --> 00:25:09,875 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is countdown with Keith Aulberman 342 00:25:10,155 --> 00:25:13,475 Speaker 1: in sports. How could it possibly go more wrong for 343 00:25:13,515 --> 00:25:17,955 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers. First, they invited a satirical fundraising 344 00:25:18,115 --> 00:25:22,315 Speaker 1: drag group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride 345 00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:26,635 Speaker 1: Night at Dodgers Stadium. Then, when the infamous Catholic League, 346 00:25:26,635 --> 00:25:30,315 Speaker 1: which is actually just one obnoxious guy named Bill, came 347 00:25:30,355 --> 00:25:33,875 Speaker 1: after them for doing that, they disinvited the Sisters of 348 00:25:33,915 --> 00:25:38,875 Speaker 1: Perpetual Indulgence from Pride Night. Then, after blowback, including support 349 00:25:38,915 --> 00:25:43,075 Speaker 1: for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from actual Catholic nuns, 350 00:25:43,835 --> 00:25:48,715 Speaker 1: the Dodgers reinvited them. On Monday. Relief pitcher Anthony Bass 351 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:51,115 Speaker 1: of the Toronto Blue Jays posted a video from some 352 00:25:51,235 --> 00:25:55,195 Speaker 1: guy calling for boycotts of Target and Bud happily leaving 353 00:25:55,235 --> 00:25:58,435 Speaker 1: the Dodgers out of it. This is evil, This is demonic, 354 00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:02,475 Speaker 1: said the video that Bass posted. Yesterday, Bass issued a stiff, 355 00:26:02,595 --> 00:26:05,915 Speaker 1: thirty second apology that looked like a very well rehearsed 356 00:26:06,035 --> 00:26:10,875 Speaker 1: live hostage video. A baseball blogger named Tyrone Palmer noted 357 00:26:11,195 --> 00:26:14,515 Speaker 1: Anthony Bass is calling for a boycott of Target. Judging 358 00:26:14,555 --> 00:26:18,195 Speaker 1: by his four point five zero er and four walks 359 00:26:18,275 --> 00:26:22,355 Speaker 1: per nine innings, it looks like he's been boycotting targets 360 00:26:22,475 --> 00:26:28,275 Speaker 1: all season long. Almost simultaneous to Bass's forced to apology, 361 00:26:28,715 --> 00:26:33,875 Speaker 1: another mediocre pitcher named Trevor Williams of Washington Nationals posted 362 00:26:33,915 --> 00:26:37,555 Speaker 1: a two screenshot screed in which he said he was 363 00:26:37,635 --> 00:26:41,955 Speaker 1: quote deeply troubled that the Dodgers were inviting the Sisters, 364 00:26:42,195 --> 00:26:45,275 Speaker 1: claimed the decision was a quote violation of the Dodgers' 365 00:26:45,515 --> 00:26:50,955 Speaker 1: discrimination policy, and encouraged his quote fellow Catholics to reconsider 366 00:26:51,035 --> 00:26:54,275 Speaker 1: their support of an organization that allows this kind of 367 00:26:54,435 --> 00:26:59,155 Speaker 1: mockery of its fans to occur. Williams is not quite 368 00:26:59,235 --> 00:27:02,635 Speaker 1: as bad as Bass, but if he disappeared from baseball tomorrow, 369 00:27:02,915 --> 00:27:07,075 Speaker 1: you probably would not notice, and he might because while 370 00:27:07,075 --> 00:27:10,195 Speaker 1: he might not be as bad as Bass. Bass also 371 00:27:10,275 --> 00:27:14,195 Speaker 1: did not attack another team, the La Dodgers, no less, 372 00:27:14,435 --> 00:27:19,635 Speaker 1: and encouraged fans to boycott them. You're in the same business, pal, 373 00:27:19,915 --> 00:27:22,515 Speaker 1: or at least you were. The whole thing just keeps 374 00:27:22,515 --> 00:27:27,195 Speaker 1: getting worse and worse because of one decision. This Catholic league, 375 00:27:27,755 --> 00:27:32,395 Speaker 1: which convinced the Dodgers to uninvite these crazy drag nuns, 376 00:27:32,515 --> 00:27:36,275 Speaker 1: is actually just one guy named Bill Donahue, a loud 377 00:27:36,395 --> 00:27:39,995 Speaker 1: mouthed homophobe and bully. All the cable networks figured him 378 00:27:40,035 --> 00:27:42,995 Speaker 1: out in the nineties and stopped putting him on. When 379 00:27:43,035 --> 00:27:45,835 Speaker 1: the Dodgers finally figured that out, they reversed course and 380 00:27:45,955 --> 00:27:49,795 Speaker 1: reinvited the Sisters. But then last week, the Dodgers team leader, 381 00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:54,155 Speaker 1: the veteran pitcher Clayton Kershaw, personally announced that the Dodgers 382 00:27:54,195 --> 00:27:58,795 Speaker 1: would also be staging Christian Faith and Family Day after 383 00:27:58,875 --> 00:28:02,275 Speaker 1: an interruption that began with the pandemic. Now it becomes 384 00:28:02,355 --> 00:28:06,955 Speaker 1: evident that Kershaw decided to announce this himself. Quote. I 385 00:28:06,955 --> 00:28:09,355 Speaker 1: think we were always going to do Christian Faith Day 386 00:28:09,395 --> 00:28:12,115 Speaker 1: this year, but I think the timing of our announcement 387 00:28:12,235 --> 00:28:15,395 Speaker 1: was sped up, Kershaw told the La Times. Yes, it 388 00:28:15,515 --> 00:28:18,435 Speaker 1: was in response to the highlighting of the Sisters of 389 00:28:18,555 --> 00:28:25,315 Speaker 1: Perpetual Indulgence by the Dodgers. So Kershaw announced his team 390 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:28,875 Speaker 1: was going to hold a Christian event, boxing the Dodgers 391 00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:32,115 Speaker 1: into holding the Christian event. The team will not comment 392 00:28:32,435 --> 00:28:36,355 Speaker 1: about its own star and just complicate this more. Kershaw 393 00:28:36,395 --> 00:28:39,795 Speaker 1: has always participated in Pride Night, Quoting him again, this 394 00:28:39,835 --> 00:28:42,995 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the LGBTQ community or Pride 395 00:28:43,115 --> 00:28:45,355 Speaker 1: or anything like that. This is simply a group that 396 00:28:45,515 --> 00:28:48,955 Speaker 1: was making fun of a religion that I don't agree with. 397 00:28:49,795 --> 00:28:54,555 Speaker 1: Moral When Bill Donahue of the Catholic quote league unquote calls, 398 00:28:54,915 --> 00:28:57,835 Speaker 1: whatever bad thing you think he's trying to make happen, 399 00:28:58,355 --> 00:29:01,435 Speaker 1: there is really only one bad thing that can happen, 400 00:29:01,515 --> 00:29:04,195 Speaker 1: and that is this. You can forget that when Bill 401 00:29:04,235 --> 00:29:09,435 Speaker 1: Donahue calls, you most immediately hang up on him. Another 402 00:29:09,475 --> 00:29:11,915 Speaker 1: moment of baseball fund At least this one's between the 403 00:29:11,955 --> 00:29:14,915 Speaker 1: lines sort of. First, the Houston Astros mocked the fans 404 00:29:14,915 --> 00:29:18,155 Speaker 1: of the Oakland A's, the moribund, lame duct team that's 405 00:29:18,155 --> 00:29:21,995 Speaker 1: probably moving to Las Vegas after ownership basically starved the 406 00:29:22,035 --> 00:29:25,515 Speaker 1: franchise to death over the last five years. The Astros 407 00:29:25,555 --> 00:29:29,195 Speaker 1: tweeted a video of their offensive explosion in Oakland recently 408 00:29:29,515 --> 00:29:34,355 Speaker 1: with this caption ten runs in front of tens of fans. 409 00:29:35,155 --> 00:29:38,915 Speaker 1: This was retweeted forty six hundred times. It got seventeen 410 00:29:38,995 --> 00:29:43,835 Speaker 1: thousand likes and seven million views, and then amid the criticism, 411 00:29:44,155 --> 00:29:48,115 Speaker 1: the Astros deleted the tweets, thereby making it twice as bad. 412 00:29:49,075 --> 00:29:52,315 Speaker 1: And the beginning of the end of TV sports as 413 00:29:52,355 --> 00:29:55,635 Speaker 1: we know it is underway or something like that. The 414 00:29:56,195 --> 00:29:59,275 Speaker 1: terminology here gets kind of confusing. The Sports Business Journal 415 00:29:59,315 --> 00:30:02,995 Speaker 1: reports that Diamond Sports Group, which runs the Bally Sports 416 00:30:03,035 --> 00:30:06,675 Speaker 1: regional Networks, which carried dozens of local team broadcasts in 417 00:30:06,755 --> 00:30:10,155 Speaker 1: many sports and which went bankrupt in March, has for 418 00:30:10,195 --> 00:30:12,835 Speaker 1: the first time forfeited its rights to one of those 419 00:30:12,875 --> 00:30:15,875 Speaker 1: teams games. It has told the San Diego Padres it 420 00:30:15,955 --> 00:30:19,035 Speaker 1: will not be making its next payment to them on 421 00:30:19,075 --> 00:30:23,435 Speaker 1: the twenty year one point two billion dollar deal, and 422 00:30:23,515 --> 00:30:27,195 Speaker 1: so the TV rights for the Padres revert back to 423 00:30:27,315 --> 00:30:30,355 Speaker 1: the Padres. And I guess now the announcers will just 424 00:30:30,395 --> 00:30:32,235 Speaker 1: have to go door to door every morning asking if 425 00:30:32,275 --> 00:30:34,715 Speaker 1: anybody wants to watch that night's game and how much 426 00:30:34,755 --> 00:30:59,355 Speaker 1: they'd be willing to pay for it, Thank you, Nancy Faust. 427 00:30:59,515 --> 00:31:02,115 Speaker 1: And if you're wondering where tennis gets its reputation for 428 00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:06,275 Speaker 1: disconnection from reality. At the French Open, Marta Kostiuk lost 429 00:31:06,315 --> 00:31:10,475 Speaker 1: to number two women seed Arena Sabelenka. Costiuk refused to 430 00:31:10,515 --> 00:31:14,795 Speaker 1: shake Sabolenka's hand after the match. She never shakes Sabolenka's 431 00:31:14,835 --> 00:31:17,635 Speaker 1: hand after the match, and they always play and yes, 432 00:31:18,155 --> 00:31:22,275 Speaker 1: it is because Costiuk is from Ukraine and Sabolenka is 433 00:31:22,275 --> 00:31:27,515 Speaker 1: from Belarus, which supports Russia's terrorism in Ukraine. And Costiuk 434 00:31:27,555 --> 00:31:30,795 Speaker 1: will not shake her hand and did not shake her hand, 435 00:31:30,955 --> 00:31:34,755 Speaker 1: and the French Open crowd at Roland Garo Stadium promptly 436 00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:40,795 Speaker 1: booed the Ukrainian for not shaking her hand. And this 437 00:31:41,075 --> 00:31:44,715 Speaker 1: is how stupid that is. Costiuc of Ukraine said she 438 00:31:44,955 --> 00:31:47,835 Speaker 1: was embarrassed for the French crowd for booing her, But 439 00:31:47,955 --> 00:31:51,995 Speaker 1: then Sabolenka of Belarus said even she was amazed that 440 00:31:52,035 --> 00:31:56,035 Speaker 1: the French crowd had booed Costiuk. When both players in 441 00:31:56,155 --> 00:32:14,795 Speaker 1: this dynamic say you've screwed up you've screwed up coming up. 442 00:32:14,835 --> 00:32:16,955 Speaker 1: One day, I was the mild mannered host of a 443 00:32:16,995 --> 00:32:20,595 Speaker 1: mild mannered news magazine on MSNBC that led the show 444 00:32:20,675 --> 00:32:22,955 Speaker 1: with stories like, oh, the new edition of the Farmer's 445 00:32:22,995 --> 00:32:26,235 Speaker 1: Almanac is out, let's go live to the publisher, or 446 00:32:26,315 --> 00:32:29,755 Speaker 1: tonight we devote the hour to Saturday Night Live's newest 447 00:32:29,835 --> 00:32:34,155 Speaker 1: breakout star, Chris Catan. And then the next day I 448 00:32:34,315 --> 00:32:37,355 Speaker 1: was anchoring the State of the Union broadcast and getting 449 00:32:37,395 --> 00:32:42,395 Speaker 1: quoted by politicians as I was yesterday by Chip Next First, 450 00:32:42,395 --> 00:32:44,115 Speaker 1: the daily round up of the miss Grants, Morons and 451 00:32:44,155 --> 00:32:47,355 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger EFTs specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 452 00:32:47,395 --> 00:32:53,035 Speaker 1: the world The Bronze. Kayleie Campbell Layton, posting on Facebook 453 00:32:53,075 --> 00:32:56,075 Speaker 1: identifying as the wife of Ryan Layton, a marine based 454 00:32:56,075 --> 00:33:00,235 Speaker 1: in twenty nine Palms, California, quote, Biden left many military 455 00:33:00,235 --> 00:33:03,995 Speaker 1: service dogs to die in cobble after the evacuation. I'm 456 00:33:04,035 --> 00:33:07,515 Speaker 1: calling for public execution of this old man, and you 457 00:33:07,635 --> 00:33:11,715 Speaker 1: can't change my mind. Now. I'm a dog lover, and 458 00:33:11,835 --> 00:33:14,755 Speaker 1: the fate of the service dogs in Afghanistan grieves me, 459 00:33:15,355 --> 00:33:19,235 Speaker 1: as any dog at risk grieves me. And this woman 460 00:33:19,355 --> 00:33:22,835 Speaker 1: has also done the military is racist against white people 461 00:33:22,955 --> 00:33:25,875 Speaker 1: posts and videos about target and she should have been 462 00:33:25,915 --> 00:33:28,955 Speaker 1: arrested already for this threat against the president, and her 463 00:33:29,035 --> 00:33:30,955 Speaker 1: husband needs to be thrown out of the Marines and 464 00:33:30,995 --> 00:33:39,555 Speaker 1: directly into well. I'm assuming Congress Ryan chip Layton runner up, 465 00:33:39,675 --> 00:33:43,875 Speaker 1: Elon Musk shot and Chaser time shot. We all told 466 00:33:43,915 --> 00:33:45,915 Speaker 1: him so. We told him the blue checks are not 467 00:33:45,995 --> 00:33:50,875 Speaker 1: status symbols, they're ID cards, but he didn't listen because 468 00:33:50,915 --> 00:33:56,675 Speaker 1: he's a super genius. Yesterday, an account called aoc press 469 00:33:57,155 --> 00:34:01,875 Speaker 1: began impersonating Congresswoman Alexandria Orcasio Cortes, and it had a 470 00:34:01,915 --> 00:34:05,075 Speaker 1: blue check mark, and some of its tweets included wild 471 00:34:05,275 --> 00:34:09,315 Speaker 1: policy statements, and thus the new cognizantity of Twitter. Those 472 00:34:09,435 --> 00:34:12,515 Speaker 1: with grilled cheese for brains, who also paid ninety six 473 00:34:12,555 --> 00:34:15,155 Speaker 1: dollars a year for a blue check mark that's bigger 474 00:34:15,195 --> 00:34:18,075 Speaker 1: than their private parts, they began to believe it really 475 00:34:18,235 --> 00:34:21,715 Speaker 1: was the congresswoman saying these stupid things. And that's when 476 00:34:21,835 --> 00:34:25,475 Speaker 1: Musk replied to one of the fake accounts tweets thereby 477 00:34:25,635 --> 00:34:31,275 Speaker 1: amplifying it no pain, no gain, also no brain, no pain, 478 00:34:32,075 --> 00:34:36,075 Speaker 1: and no brain, no shame. If that's the shot. Here's 479 00:34:36,075 --> 00:34:39,315 Speaker 1: the chaser. Yesterday, Fidelity Investments, which put money in when 480 00:34:39,395 --> 00:34:42,595 Speaker 1: Musk bought Twitter, wrote down the value of its share 481 00:34:42,635 --> 00:34:45,555 Speaker 1: of the company and his He bought it for forty 482 00:34:45,555 --> 00:34:50,355 Speaker 1: four billion. Fidelity says it is now worth fifteen billion. 483 00:34:51,515 --> 00:34:55,675 Speaker 1: Elon bought it all right, but the winner Michael Flynn, Yeah, 484 00:34:55,715 --> 00:34:59,715 Speaker 1: that one, not the whole treason and overthrowing the government start. 485 00:34:59,755 --> 00:35:02,635 Speaker 1: This is his new venture. He is described as a 486 00:35:02,675 --> 00:35:07,075 Speaker 1: founding partner of for the Viewer, which is one stop 487 00:35:07,155 --> 00:35:10,155 Speaker 1: shopping for the vaxer crowd. Quote an online community of 488 00:35:10,195 --> 00:35:15,595 Speaker 1: health conscious COVID nineteen unvaccinated people, where health conscious individuals 489 00:35:15,675 --> 00:35:18,395 Speaker 1: who have rejected the vaccine can connect and find everything 490 00:35:18,435 --> 00:35:24,555 Speaker 1: they need. Friendships, dating, curated news, service providers, doctors, blood donors, 491 00:35:24,635 --> 00:35:29,715 Speaker 1: fertility options, jobs, shopping events, etc. Wait what was that 492 00:35:29,835 --> 00:35:36,035 Speaker 1: last one? And blood donors No, no, no, before that, doctors, 493 00:35:36,235 --> 00:35:43,795 Speaker 1: blood donors, fertility options, fertility options. You mean you mean 494 00:35:43,795 --> 00:35:48,755 Speaker 1: it's an unvaccinated sperm bank. Michael Flynn is now selling 495 00:35:48,875 --> 00:35:56,435 Speaker 1: unvaccinated sperm. Michael Well selling sperm? Is I guess better 496 00:35:56,475 --> 00:35:57,875 Speaker 1: than selling out the country. 497 00:35:57,915 --> 00:36:34,315 Speaker 2: Flynn two days worst person in the sperm. 498 00:36:18,795 --> 00:36:21,235 Speaker 1: Still ahead on Countdown. Chip Roy is not the first 499 00:36:21,235 --> 00:36:24,595 Speaker 1: to invoke my name happily or otherwise in Congress or 500 00:36:24,635 --> 00:36:27,755 Speaker 1: the Senate or whatnot. Dick Cheney and John McCain both 501 00:36:27,795 --> 00:36:30,715 Speaker 1: muttered angry jokes in my direction within days of each other. 502 00:36:30,955 --> 00:36:32,755 Speaker 1: And then there was the night I anchored the nineteen 503 00:36:32,835 --> 00:36:35,715 Speaker 1: ninety eight State of the Union, when two weeks earlier 504 00:36:35,755 --> 00:36:38,795 Speaker 1: I was not even a political correspondent, not even close. 505 00:36:38,875 --> 00:36:41,835 Speaker 1: That's saga. Next. First, in each tradition of Countdown, we 506 00:36:41,835 --> 00:36:44,155 Speaker 1: feature a dog. Indeed, you can help. Every dog has 507 00:36:44,195 --> 00:36:47,795 Speaker 1: its day. This is about Bentley. Bentley is a big 508 00:36:47,915 --> 00:36:50,595 Speaker 1: black dog with big ears, and he's pretty calm and 509 00:36:50,635 --> 00:36:54,075 Speaker 1: pretty happy. And somebody in Fullerton, California rescued him from 510 00:36:54,075 --> 00:36:56,675 Speaker 1: a pound and clearly did not quite get the whole 511 00:36:57,075 --> 00:36:59,675 Speaker 1: what do we do next part and simply took Bentley 512 00:36:59,675 --> 00:37:02,875 Speaker 1: to a dog boarding place, a kennel, an upscale kennel 513 00:37:02,875 --> 00:37:05,475 Speaker 1: that calls itself a pet lodge, and it got him 514 00:37:05,475 --> 00:37:08,755 Speaker 1: a space, and it left him there for two hundred 515 00:37:08,755 --> 00:37:13,235 Speaker 1: and eighteen nights at thirty eight dollars a night and 516 00:37:13,275 --> 00:37:16,795 Speaker 1: eighty four dollars to board one healthy dog. My friend 517 00:37:16,795 --> 00:37:20,395 Speaker 1: Alana Rizzo from MLB network and her rescue. Gidri's Guardian 518 00:37:20,755 --> 00:37:23,475 Speaker 1: is contributing to ransoming Bentley and she could use your 519 00:37:23,515 --> 00:37:27,075 Speaker 1: financial help. You can find her on Twitter at Gidresguardian 520 00:37:27,155 --> 00:37:29,955 Speaker 1: dot org or on my Twitter feeds. I thank you 521 00:37:30,115 --> 00:37:32,955 Speaker 1: and Bentley thanks you from the Dog Hotel in California, 522 00:37:33,235 --> 00:37:35,875 Speaker 1: where you can check out but you can never leave. 523 00:37:41,035 --> 00:37:43,475 Speaker 1: Now to the number one story on the countdown and 524 00:37:43,595 --> 00:37:45,835 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell and the state of 525 00:37:45,915 --> 00:37:50,915 Speaker 1: the Union nineteen ninety eight. When I left ESPN and 526 00:37:50,995 --> 00:37:54,115 Speaker 1: signed with MSNBC the first time in nineteen ninety seven, 527 00:37:54,195 --> 00:37:57,435 Speaker 1: it was not to become a political commentator nor even anchor. 528 00:37:57,955 --> 00:38:00,355 Speaker 1: I went there to do what the president of NBC 529 00:38:00,435 --> 00:38:05,835 Speaker 1: News America needed most, a live, hour long news magazine 530 00:38:05,875 --> 00:38:10,315 Speaker 1: show from Secaucus, New Jersey. So unfocused that on consecutive 531 00:38:10,395 --> 00:38:13,395 Speaker 1: nights we led with the threat of a terrorist group 532 00:38:13,435 --> 00:38:16,275 Speaker 1: called al Qaeda, and then the next night we led 533 00:38:16,315 --> 00:38:21,315 Speaker 1: with the publication of the Farmers Almanac. I mean, this 534 00:38:21,515 --> 00:38:24,755 Speaker 1: was the news at eight pm, the lead story that 535 00:38:24,915 --> 00:38:29,795 Speaker 1: published the Farmers Almanac. Again, here's our live guest, the publisher. 536 00:38:30,195 --> 00:38:31,795 Speaker 1: Here's a gunner rain next year. 537 00:38:33,275 --> 00:38:33,995 Speaker 2: I had. 538 00:38:35,355 --> 00:38:40,155 Speaker 1: Regrets. Anyway, the good part of the job was sports. 539 00:38:40,195 --> 00:38:42,875 Speaker 1: I hosted baseball in the World Series and even did 540 00:38:42,955 --> 00:38:45,635 Speaker 1: some Super Bowl stuff for NBC, and in mid January 541 00:38:45,635 --> 00:38:48,035 Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety eight I flew to the West Coast 542 00:38:48,035 --> 00:38:51,475 Speaker 1: to work on that and do this magazine show, The 543 00:38:51,555 --> 00:38:56,195 Speaker 1: Big Show on MSNBC from entertainment venues in LA, most 544 00:38:56,235 --> 00:38:59,835 Speaker 1: of them associated with NBC. On the afternoon of Tuesday, 545 00:38:59,915 --> 00:39:02,395 Speaker 1: January twentieth, nineteen ninety eight, we were on the set 546 00:39:02,395 --> 00:39:05,395 Speaker 1: of Third Rock from the Sun preparing to interview at 547 00:39:05,395 --> 00:39:10,635 Speaker 1: Star John Liscow when my producer, Phil Griffins sidled over, You, 548 00:39:10,875 --> 00:39:13,235 Speaker 1: my little friend, are about to become a political host. 549 00:39:13,515 --> 00:39:16,195 Speaker 1: The President got caught with some chippy in the White 550 00:39:16,195 --> 00:39:23,355 Speaker 1: House chippy, oh not sex. Sex looks like just you know, 551 00:39:24,115 --> 00:39:26,475 Speaker 1: and then he lied about it in the deposition Saturday. 552 00:39:26,995 --> 00:39:28,675 Speaker 1: I asked him how to the hell anybody knew about 553 00:39:28,675 --> 00:39:31,075 Speaker 1: what the deposition said when it was just four days 554 00:39:31,115 --> 00:39:33,515 Speaker 1: after he gave the deposition and those things are supposed 555 00:39:33,515 --> 00:39:36,435 Speaker 1: to be you know, secret. Beach me Drudge put it 556 00:39:36,475 --> 00:39:39,795 Speaker 1: out yesterday, and I asked him if credible news organizations 557 00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:43,595 Speaker 1: like NBC were actually quoting an internet guy best known 558 00:39:43,675 --> 00:39:47,835 Speaker 1: for his hat about what was a potentially impeachable offense. 559 00:39:48,515 --> 00:39:51,275 Speaker 1: A lot of people were close on this story. Griffin said, 560 00:39:51,435 --> 00:39:54,315 Speaker 1: we were close. Lisa Myers almost had it. Sunday Night. 561 00:39:55,035 --> 00:39:57,835 Speaker 1: Newsweek finally put out a more detailed version about ninety 562 00:39:57,835 --> 00:40:00,795 Speaker 1: minutes ago. It was their scoop. Drudge just stole it 563 00:40:00,835 --> 00:40:02,995 Speaker 1: from them. I think it was Isakov who wrote it. 564 00:40:03,275 --> 00:40:05,275 Speaker 1: You'll have to interview Tim Russer to lead the show. 565 00:40:05,355 --> 00:40:07,355 Speaker 1: The president may resign. We'll do it from right here. 566 00:40:09,955 --> 00:40:11,715 Speaker 1: You back that up. What was that you said, we'll 567 00:40:11,715 --> 00:40:14,955 Speaker 1: do it from right here, part about the president resigning? Oh, yeah, 568 00:40:14,955 --> 00:40:19,395 Speaker 1: the president might resign. Thus, half an hour later, I 569 00:40:19,515 --> 00:40:22,195 Speaker 1: was hooked up my satellite with Tim Russard from the 570 00:40:22,275 --> 00:40:25,635 Speaker 1: Washington Bureau, listening to him outline the possibilities that the 571 00:40:25,675 --> 00:40:30,515 Speaker 1: president might resign before sunrise. I nodded with as much 572 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:34,235 Speaker 1: gravitas as I could fake, despite the elements of farce 573 00:40:34,315 --> 00:40:37,315 Speaker 1: that were apparently obvious only to me in the story 574 00:40:37,355 --> 00:40:40,275 Speaker 1: and in where I was seated. In the background of 575 00:40:40,315 --> 00:40:43,155 Speaker 1: my close up stood the refrigerator from the kitchen set 576 00:40:43,195 --> 00:40:45,875 Speaker 1: of Lithgo's show Third Rock from the Sun, and on 577 00:40:45,995 --> 00:40:50,035 Speaker 1: the refrigerator, complete with its decorative magnets, speaking their silent 578 00:40:50,115 --> 00:40:54,595 Speaker 1: and suddenly completely hip gag. The magnets were a banana 579 00:40:54,875 --> 00:40:59,675 Speaker 1: surrounded on either side by a strawberry. Phil. I said 580 00:40:59,715 --> 00:41:02,075 Speaker 1: to Phil, as we tried to plan a smooth transition 581 00:41:02,195 --> 00:41:04,955 Speaker 1: from that taped Russert interview about the possibility from a 582 00:41:04,955 --> 00:41:08,275 Speaker 1: resignation of the president, to a taped interview with John Lithgow, 583 00:41:08,835 --> 00:41:11,195 Speaker 1: and then back to the live speculations of a couple 584 00:41:11,235 --> 00:41:13,835 Speaker 1: of political writers for the rest of the hour. We're 585 00:41:13,835 --> 00:41:16,635 Speaker 1: not going to have to do this every day, are we, 586 00:41:17,515 --> 00:41:19,595 Speaker 1: Griffin laughed, Of course not. What do you think this 587 00:41:19,675 --> 00:41:22,355 Speaker 1: is the end of the world. He was right. We 588 00:41:22,435 --> 00:41:24,515 Speaker 1: did not do it every day. We did it for 589 00:41:24,515 --> 00:41:29,875 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighteen consecutive shows, starting that night with 590 00:41:29,955 --> 00:41:33,355 Speaker 1: the banana and the strawberry magnets over my shoulder. Our 591 00:41:33,475 --> 00:41:39,315 Speaker 1: ratings kept doubling. Following Tuesday, my thirty eighth birthday, I 592 00:41:39,435 --> 00:41:42,195 Speaker 1: was back in New York hosting a roundtable of political 593 00:41:42,235 --> 00:41:44,675 Speaker 1: heavyweights in the hour leading up to Bill Clinton State 594 00:41:44,715 --> 00:41:47,475 Speaker 1: of the Union address that night, and the lack of 595 00:41:47,555 --> 00:41:49,995 Speaker 1: NBC News and Phil Griffin had decided that I should 596 00:41:49,995 --> 00:41:54,475 Speaker 1: host a second live report once the NBC network guys Russert, 597 00:41:54,595 --> 00:41:58,075 Speaker 1: Tom Brokaw a couple of others had wrapped up their analysis, 598 00:41:58,115 --> 00:42:00,955 Speaker 1: which we were also carrying on MSNBC, so I would 599 00:42:00,995 --> 00:42:04,795 Speaker 1: come on at eleven o'clock after Brokaw and Russert two hours, 600 00:42:04,795 --> 00:42:08,515 Speaker 1: My little friend, this is our nightline. I was doing 601 00:42:08,515 --> 00:42:10,595 Speaker 1: my best to keep a straight face when during a 602 00:42:10,595 --> 00:42:14,115 Speaker 1: commercial break at maybe eleven forty five, maybe midnight, halfway 603 00:42:14,155 --> 00:42:17,475 Speaker 1: through my wrap up show, Griffin materialized next to my 604 00:42:17,555 --> 00:42:21,715 Speaker 1: anchor desk. He had this stunned but not unhappy look, 605 00:42:22,675 --> 00:42:24,315 Speaker 1: like when he used to smoke a lot of dope 606 00:42:24,355 --> 00:42:27,035 Speaker 1: when we worked together in the eighties. We have the 607 00:42:27,075 --> 00:42:30,355 Speaker 1: preliminary ratings, my little friend, I hope you're sitting down, 608 00:42:30,755 --> 00:42:34,715 Speaker 1: I pointed at myself seated in the chair. The pregame 609 00:42:34,755 --> 00:42:38,515 Speaker 1: show that did a one point one. Our average rating 610 00:42:38,835 --> 00:42:41,875 Speaker 1: at MSNBC before this presidential stuff came up had been 611 00:42:41,915 --> 00:42:45,275 Speaker 1: an zero point three. This was now four times the 612 00:42:45,315 --> 00:42:48,275 Speaker 1: previous ratings. In the past week, it had surged to 613 00:42:48,315 --> 00:42:51,235 Speaker 1: an zero point six, and Griffin had insisted to me 614 00:42:51,275 --> 00:42:53,755 Speaker 1: that Andy Lack was so happy he had wet his pants. 615 00:42:54,195 --> 00:42:56,395 Speaker 1: But this is the kicker here, buddy. We have the 616 00:42:56,435 --> 00:43:00,315 Speaker 1: immediate since the President finally stopped talking speech, did an eight, 617 00:43:00,875 --> 00:43:04,315 Speaker 1: broke on Russer the wrap up, did an six. Since 618 00:43:04,315 --> 00:43:07,915 Speaker 1: eleven o'clock, you've been doing a one point seven. You 619 00:43:07,955 --> 00:43:11,035 Speaker 1: have had three times the audience of Tom Brokaw, three 620 00:43:11,075 --> 00:43:14,195 Speaker 1: times the audience of the old man himself. This isn't 621 00:43:14,195 --> 00:43:16,835 Speaker 1: just people crossing over from NBC to watch more. This 622 00:43:16,875 --> 00:43:19,915 Speaker 1: is people watching the speech, turning off the old man, 623 00:43:20,155 --> 00:43:24,675 Speaker 1: then turning back at eleven to watch you. I tried 624 00:43:24,675 --> 00:43:27,875 Speaker 1: to assimilate what he was telling me. For the first 625 00:43:27,875 --> 00:43:31,995 Speaker 1: time in my life, my ego refused to cooperate. The 626 00:43:31,995 --> 00:43:34,595 Speaker 1: stage manager barked his queue of thirty seconds until the 627 00:43:34,675 --> 00:43:37,355 Speaker 1: end of the commercial break. Phil Griffin shook my hand. Oh, 628 00:43:37,355 --> 00:43:39,435 Speaker 1: and by the way, that thing you said at the 629 00:43:39,435 --> 00:43:41,235 Speaker 1: start of the hour about it. It was as if 630 00:43:41,315 --> 00:43:43,635 Speaker 1: the Intern had opened the door to the chamber and said, 631 00:43:43,875 --> 00:43:47,635 Speaker 1: mister speaker, the President of the United States. That's already 632 00:43:47,715 --> 00:43:51,875 Speaker 1: included in the Associated Press story one point seven, my 633 00:43:51,915 --> 00:43:54,835 Speaker 1: little friend, don't f it up. Actually you can't f 634 00:43:54,875 --> 00:43:57,035 Speaker 1: it up. We're in for the long haul now. Revel 635 00:43:57,075 --> 00:44:02,755 Speaker 1: in it. Me quoted about the Clinton Lewinsky story in 636 00:44:02,835 --> 00:44:05,635 Speaker 1: the main coverage of the State the Union address on 637 00:44:05,675 --> 00:44:10,275 Speaker 1: the Associated Press Wire. Eight months after I stopped giving 638 00:44:10,315 --> 00:44:15,035 Speaker 1: the scores of the Greater Stuttgart Invitational tennis tournament on ESPN, 639 00:44:16,475 --> 00:44:20,235 Speaker 1: I had this sudden, horrible feeling that the usually slow 640 00:44:20,355 --> 00:44:24,435 Speaker 1: to decide American viewing public had instantly concluded that, for 641 00:44:24,475 --> 00:44:28,355 Speaker 1: some reason elusive even to me, they really like to 642 00:44:28,395 --> 00:44:33,315 Speaker 1: hear me talk about the whereabouts of the president's penis. 643 00:44:34,675 --> 00:44:37,075 Speaker 1: If I could have figured out how to f up 644 00:44:37,115 --> 00:44:39,355 Speaker 1: the rest of the hour, I would have done it 645 00:44:39,435 --> 00:44:43,515 Speaker 1: right then I didn't. The next day it got worse. 646 00:44:43,595 --> 00:44:45,715 Speaker 1: The ratings were so great last night, buddy, they want 647 00:44:45,795 --> 00:44:48,115 Speaker 1: us to go live every night at eight and eleven 648 00:44:48,515 --> 00:44:50,715 Speaker 1: only about the President. The eleven is going to be 649 00:44:50,795 --> 00:44:53,835 Speaker 1: called crisis in Washington. Finally we get what we want. 650 00:44:54,195 --> 00:44:58,955 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin was dancing around, it'll be our nightline. Since 651 00:44:59,035 --> 00:45:02,235 Speaker 1: joining MSNBC, I had not taken any time off, and 652 00:45:02,315 --> 00:45:05,195 Speaker 1: I actually had a vacation booked in Hawaii the next 653 00:45:05,195 --> 00:45:10,075 Speaker 1: week with a young lady. Uh yeah about that. Phil 654 00:45:10,155 --> 00:45:13,395 Speaker 1: finally announced, well, that's what we have to talk about, Keith. 655 00:45:13,395 --> 00:45:14,955 Speaker 1: They want you to commit to this for at least 656 00:45:14,955 --> 00:45:19,235 Speaker 1: six weeks, so it's this or Hawaii. I explained Hawaii 657 00:45:19,315 --> 00:45:22,875 Speaker 1: to Phil. Lac said he'd probably pay for you to 658 00:45:22,915 --> 00:45:26,315 Speaker 1: go do that whenever this is over. I said, in 659 00:45:26,355 --> 00:45:28,995 Speaker 1: my opinion that probably would not be good enough, and 660 00:45:29,035 --> 00:45:31,475 Speaker 1: Griffin said neither did he, but that it was just 661 00:45:31,515 --> 00:45:35,355 Speaker 1: for openers, and Lack told him that I could have 662 00:45:35,515 --> 00:45:39,115 Speaker 1: three wishes, and I could anchor NBC nightly News at 663 00:45:39,195 --> 00:45:41,275 Speaker 1: least on the weekends and a couple of times during 664 00:45:41,275 --> 00:45:44,835 Speaker 1: the week Just personally, I'd recommend you do it. I 665 00:45:44,875 --> 00:45:46,715 Speaker 1: got the impression that the show's going to happen whether 666 00:45:46,755 --> 00:45:49,235 Speaker 1: we agree to it or not, Griffin said. He mentioned 667 00:45:49,235 --> 00:45:52,315 Speaker 1: something about Brian Williams or maybe John Gibson being poor 668 00:45:52,355 --> 00:45:57,595 Speaker 1: second choices, but viable ones. He said, viable ones. I 669 00:45:57,675 --> 00:46:00,475 Speaker 1: told Phil I had some calls to make. Griffin suggested 670 00:46:00,595 --> 00:46:03,155 Speaker 1: Lack needed a decision within the hour, that he wanted 671 00:46:03,275 --> 00:46:07,675 Speaker 1: White House and Crisis on there that night. Wait, that 672 00:46:07,715 --> 00:46:10,195 Speaker 1: didn't sound like what he'd called it before, Phil. Is 673 00:46:10,235 --> 00:46:14,995 Speaker 1: it white House in crisis or Crisis in Washington? Phil 674 00:46:15,035 --> 00:46:18,075 Speaker 1: Griffin seemed introspective for a moment, then got in touch 675 00:46:18,115 --> 00:46:22,355 Speaker 1: with the news executive within what's the difference it's going 676 00:46:22,435 --> 00:46:26,595 Speaker 1: to be our nightline. I almost suggested to him that 677 00:46:26,595 --> 00:46:30,275 Speaker 1: that should be the title MSNBC presents it's going to 678 00:46:30,315 --> 00:46:35,955 Speaker 1: be our Nightline. On and on This went for weeks 679 00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:39,755 Speaker 1: four months. I mocked the story. The ratings went up. 680 00:46:40,275 --> 00:46:42,875 Speaker 1: I tried to quit the show. The ratings went up. 681 00:46:43,395 --> 00:46:46,475 Speaker 1: I gave a speech insulting the network for covering the story. 682 00:46:46,515 --> 00:46:50,115 Speaker 1: Twenty four to seven. The ratings went up. Fox Sports 683 00:46:50,155 --> 00:46:52,955 Speaker 1: approached me and offered me five times when NBC was 684 00:46:52,995 --> 00:46:55,275 Speaker 1: paying me to go out to LA to do their 685 00:46:55,355 --> 00:46:58,835 Speaker 1: sportscast LA, which was kind of near Hawaii, nowhere near 686 00:46:58,835 --> 00:47:03,795 Speaker 1: the Clinton Lewinski story. And the ratings went up, and 687 00:47:03,915 --> 00:47:05,875 Speaker 1: I was debating all this and the fact that I 688 00:47:05,915 --> 00:47:07,835 Speaker 1: had a contract and I had agreed to do it. 689 00:47:07,875 --> 00:47:09,955 Speaker 1: And then one night in early spring, I got home 690 00:47:09,995 --> 00:47:12,355 Speaker 1: after another night of this crap. I put my feet up. 691 00:47:12,355 --> 00:47:15,395 Speaker 1: I was half watching something on NBC while really just 692 00:47:15,435 --> 00:47:17,955 Speaker 1: staring off into the distance, wondering what I had done 693 00:47:17,995 --> 00:47:21,155 Speaker 1: to deserve this, mulling my own future, when the snare 694 00:47:21,275 --> 00:47:24,675 Speaker 1: drum and the violent string section of an NBC news 695 00:47:24,755 --> 00:47:29,155 Speaker 1: promo interrupted me. Wednesday, on a very special edition of Nightline, 696 00:47:29,475 --> 00:47:33,515 Speaker 1: Jane Paully and the former Miss America. There she was 697 00:47:33,555 --> 00:47:37,195 Speaker 1: for a second, had tilted her look grave, journalistic, even scholarly. 698 00:47:37,555 --> 00:47:41,555 Speaker 1: Jane Paully, the ten year host of NBC's landmark Today Show, 699 00:47:41,835 --> 00:47:44,035 Speaker 1: the one who had then switched to primetime because the 700 00:47:44,155 --> 00:47:47,475 Speaker 1: journalism had slowly ebbed out of morning television and she 701 00:47:47,515 --> 00:47:49,795 Speaker 1: couldn't do it anymore. She was sitting there in a 702 00:47:49,835 --> 00:47:53,035 Speaker 1: two shot with a Miss America from too many Miss 703 00:47:53,035 --> 00:47:57,595 Speaker 1: Americas ago, the former brunette, former redhead, now former blonde, 704 00:47:57,595 --> 00:48:00,275 Speaker 1: whose jet black hair made her look a little frightening. 705 00:48:00,995 --> 00:48:03,675 Speaker 1: Why the hell was Jane Paully interviewing her on the 706 00:48:03,755 --> 00:48:08,595 Speaker 1: signature albeit superficial NBC thrice weekly magazine show Nightline No 707 00:48:08,715 --> 00:48:11,195 Speaker 1: less Well, in a split second, the promo gave me 708 00:48:11,315 --> 00:48:14,995 Speaker 1: my answer, Jane, did you have sex with the President 709 00:48:14,995 --> 00:48:18,795 Speaker 1: of the United States? Ex Miss America? Yes, Yes I did, 710 00:48:19,115 --> 00:48:21,955 Speaker 1: announcer That's Wednesday on a very special edition to Nightline 711 00:48:21,995 --> 00:48:28,195 Speaker 1: only on NBC America's news source. With genuine terror, I screamed, 712 00:48:28,915 --> 00:48:32,475 Speaker 1: I shouted aloud to no one, check please, and I 713 00:48:32,555 --> 00:48:49,995 Speaker 1: called my agent to talk about Fox. I've done all 714 00:48:50,035 --> 00:48:51,915 Speaker 1: the damage I can do. Here. Here are the credits. 715 00:48:51,955 --> 00:48:54,395 Speaker 1: Most of the music was arranged, produced and performed by 716 00:48:54,395 --> 00:48:57,195 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, who are the countdown 717 00:48:57,275 --> 00:49:01,955 Speaker 1: musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Janelle, guitars, 718 00:49:01,995 --> 00:49:06,115 Speaker 1: bass and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Brothers. Other 719 00:49:06,155 --> 00:49:09,635 Speaker 1: Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 720 00:49:10,035 --> 00:49:13,195 Speaker 1: Sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, and 721 00:49:13,235 --> 00:49:16,315 Speaker 1: it was written by Mitch Warren Davis. Courtesy of ESPN eight. 722 00:49:16,835 --> 00:49:20,435 Speaker 1: Musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 723 00:49:20,755 --> 00:49:23,835 Speaker 1: Our announcer was my friend Stevie van zandt everything else 724 00:49:23,915 --> 00:49:26,315 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 725 00:49:26,355 --> 00:49:29,435 Speaker 1: the eight hundred and seventy sixth day since Donald Trump's 726 00:49:29,435 --> 00:49:32,115 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 727 00:49:32,195 --> 00:49:35,475 Speaker 1: United States. Don't forget to keep arresting him while we 728 00:49:35,555 --> 00:49:39,115 Speaker 1: still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Till then 729 00:49:39,195 --> 00:49:43,115 Speaker 1: I'm the ever important policy Genius Keith Olderman. Good morning, 730 00:49:43,195 --> 00:49:46,275 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 731 00:49:51,235 --> 00:49:58,195 Speaker 3: The ever important policy Genius Keith Olberman. Biden has still 732 00:49:58,275 --> 00:49:59,915 Speaker 3: kicked McCarthy's. 733 00:50:00,195 --> 00:50:04,515 Speaker 1: But countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 734 00:50:04,875 --> 00:50:10,195 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 735 00:50:10,315 --> 00:50:12,275 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.