1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. As 2 00:00:22,115 --> 00:00:25,875 Speaker 1: they say at the Big sports drafts, Jack Smith, you 3 00:00:25,955 --> 00:00:30,035 Speaker 1: are on the clock. As soon as midnight passed on 4 00:00:30,075 --> 00:00:33,075 Speaker 1: the East Coast, the Special Council's window of warning to 5 00:00:33,155 --> 00:00:38,115 Speaker 1: the recipient of the target letter Strawberry Letter twenty two closed. 6 00:00:38,675 --> 00:00:40,995 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has had his chance to testify to the 7 00:00:40,995 --> 00:00:43,435 Speaker 1: grand jury or demand that evidence be submitted to the 8 00:00:43,475 --> 00:00:46,315 Speaker 1: grand jury, or that other witnesses be questioned by the 9 00:00:46,355 --> 00:00:49,795 Speaker 1: grand jury. And all evidence suggests he did not even 10 00:00:49,835 --> 00:00:52,995 Speaker 1: bother to say no thanks. So Jack Smith can and 11 00:00:53,115 --> 00:00:59,035 Speaker 1: will indict him at any time on god knows how 12 00:00:59,115 --> 00:01:02,595 Speaker 1: many violations of US Code eighteen section two four to 13 00:01:02,715 --> 00:01:06,675 Speaker 1: one conspiracy against rights that is, the suppression of vote 14 00:01:06,755 --> 00:01:10,795 Speaker 1: counting statute with or without violence, and US Code eighteen 15 00:01:10,875 --> 00:01:14,755 Speaker 1: section three seven to one conspiracy to defraud the United States, 16 00:01:15,115 --> 00:01:18,355 Speaker 1: and US Code eighteen section one five one two corruptly 17 00:01:18,435 --> 00:01:23,115 Speaker 1: obstructing an official proceeding. And the only question is when 18 00:01:23,395 --> 00:01:27,715 Speaker 1: Smith notifies him, and thus when Trump pauses from chain 19 00:01:27,915 --> 00:01:32,795 Speaker 1: eating cheeseburgers and threatening revolutions long enough to leak the news. 20 00:01:33,995 --> 00:01:39,235 Speaker 1: The cheeseburgers is a gratuitous shot, though not an inaccurate one. 21 00:01:39,595 --> 00:01:44,755 Speaker 1: The threatening revolutions is neither a gratuitous shot nor an 22 00:01:44,875 --> 00:01:50,395 Speaker 1: inaccurate one. From the Simon Conway Show on WHO Radio 23 00:01:50,555 --> 00:01:54,155 Speaker 1: in Des Moines, just going viral last night. 24 00:01:54,115 --> 00:01:56,795 Speaker 2: Say Jacksmith says, Okay, I'm going to put Donald Trump 25 00:01:56,795 --> 00:01:59,595 Speaker 2: in jail. I think it's a very dangerous thing to 26 00:01:59,995 --> 00:02:04,675 Speaker 2: even talk about, because we do have a tremendously passion 27 00:02:04,955 --> 00:02:09,635 Speaker 2: group of voters, and I mean, maybe you know, maybe 28 00:02:09,675 --> 00:02:12,075 Speaker 2: one hundred, one hundred and fifty. I've never seen anything 29 00:02:12,115 --> 00:02:14,875 Speaker 2: like it, much more passion than they had in twenty twenty, 30 00:02:14,955 --> 00:02:17,195 Speaker 2: and much more passion than they had in twenty sixteen. 31 00:02:17,635 --> 00:02:19,955 Speaker 2: I think it would be very dangerous. 32 00:02:20,315 --> 00:02:24,235 Speaker 1: We all know Trumpe's well enough by now to know 33 00:02:24,395 --> 00:02:28,875 Speaker 1: by now what that means, and that is Trump threatening stochastically. 34 00:02:29,475 --> 00:02:34,435 Speaker 1: There's that word again, something worse than January sixth. January sixth, 35 00:02:34,435 --> 00:02:37,235 Speaker 1: which of course he had nothing to do with, except 36 00:02:37,235 --> 00:02:40,275 Speaker 1: now when it serves his purpose. Do you threaten this 37 00:02:40,315 --> 00:02:44,075 Speaker 1: country with violent revolution and remind us about January sixth? 38 00:02:44,075 --> 00:02:45,755 Speaker 1: Then I would point out that this is why the 39 00:02:45,835 --> 00:02:50,435 Speaker 1: National Guard has access to tanks, and I would remind 40 00:02:50,435 --> 00:02:53,195 Speaker 1: Trump and those with him that unlike last time, Trump 41 00:02:53,275 --> 00:02:55,955 Speaker 1: is not in charge of the National Guard. And if 42 00:02:56,075 --> 00:02:58,275 Speaker 1: last time went so badly that he is about to 43 00:02:58,275 --> 00:03:01,315 Speaker 1: be indicted on dozens of federal charges worth up to 44 00:03:01,395 --> 00:03:05,715 Speaker 1: ten years in prison per count, how bad do y'all 45 00:03:05,795 --> 00:03:10,595 Speaker 1: suppose it's going to go this time? There actually were 46 00:03:10,635 --> 00:03:14,915 Speaker 1: two major developments yesterday and a surprising political poll, maybe 47 00:03:14,915 --> 00:03:18,235 Speaker 1: even two of them that could reset the conventional wisdom 48 00:03:18,315 --> 00:03:22,595 Speaker 1: on a third party spoiler being a third party spoiler 49 00:03:22,795 --> 00:03:26,595 Speaker 1: next year. Let's do the news developments first, one of 50 00:03:26,595 --> 00:03:31,795 Speaker 1: Trump's judicial appointees got too cute by half, and because 51 00:03:31,835 --> 00:03:34,195 Speaker 1: he did, the rest of us found out that Jack 52 00:03:34,235 --> 00:03:37,715 Speaker 1: Smith's grand jury was indeed still meeting yesterday in Washington, 53 00:03:38,075 --> 00:03:42,315 Speaker 1: and it was still hearing testimony from Trump's box carrier 54 00:03:42,395 --> 00:03:45,915 Speaker 1: and water carrier, Will Russell, and for the third time 55 00:03:45,955 --> 00:03:51,475 Speaker 1: from Will Russell. Because Trump's shell companies, well shell campaign committees, 56 00:03:51,675 --> 00:03:55,515 Speaker 1: are paying for a lot of the legal representation for 57 00:03:55,515 --> 00:03:59,275 Speaker 1: former Trump staffers sucked into the January sixth vortex of 58 00:03:59,395 --> 00:04:03,355 Speaker 1: Trump ego plus Trump coup, A lot of these idiots, everybody, 59 00:04:03,355 --> 00:04:08,115 Speaker 1: from some oathkeepers to Cash Patel, have the same lawyer. 60 00:04:08,835 --> 00:04:12,595 Speaker 1: His name is Stanley Woodward and yesterday Stanley Woodward had 61 00:04:12,675 --> 00:04:17,195 Speaker 1: to be in two places at once. Stanley Woodward represents 62 00:04:17,235 --> 00:04:19,995 Speaker 1: Will Russell and he was doing so in front of 63 00:04:19,995 --> 00:04:23,115 Speaker 1: the Jack Smith grand Jury at two pm yesterday in Washington, 64 00:04:23,515 --> 00:04:27,115 Speaker 1: when he was also due in the courtroom of Trump 65 00:04:27,155 --> 00:04:31,515 Speaker 1: appointee Trevor McFadden for the verdict reading for another Trump 66 00:04:31,595 --> 00:04:34,955 Speaker 1: appointee who happened to be a January sixth violence defendant, 67 00:04:35,475 --> 00:04:39,675 Speaker 1: Federico Cline, which sounds like the name of a Sherlock 68 00:04:39,755 --> 00:04:44,355 Speaker 1: Holmes character. Federico Kleine was getting sent to the Big 69 00:04:44,395 --> 00:04:48,035 Speaker 1: House and his lawyer wasn't there, and this judge McFadden 70 00:04:48,075 --> 00:04:51,155 Speaker 1: demanded to know where he was and sent his people 71 00:04:51,195 --> 00:04:53,355 Speaker 1: to find the lawyer, and the lawyer appeared, and he 72 00:04:53,395 --> 00:04:56,595 Speaker 1: asked for a sidebar to explain in private, and judgemcfadden 73 00:04:56,635 --> 00:05:00,035 Speaker 1: decided to bigfoot and said, no, tell the entire class, 74 00:05:00,195 --> 00:05:02,235 Speaker 1: and I hope you brought enough gum for all of them. 75 00:05:02,715 --> 00:05:05,915 Speaker 1: And Woodward said, I'll have to buy a grand jury secrecy, 76 00:05:05,915 --> 00:05:08,435 Speaker 1: and McFadden told him go ahead, and so he did. 77 00:05:08,995 --> 00:05:12,675 Speaker 1: The grand jury hearing, the Jack Smith Donald Trump Coup 78 00:05:12,995 --> 00:05:17,555 Speaker 1: Revolution Insurrection grand Jury hearing was running long because every 79 00:05:17,635 --> 00:05:21,155 Speaker 1: time they asked this Will Russell guy something, he and 80 00:05:21,355 --> 00:05:26,395 Speaker 1: or the attorney brought up executive privilege. Trump's executive privilege 81 00:05:26,395 --> 00:05:30,595 Speaker 1: which expired with his presidency. We don't know the specifics 82 00:05:30,595 --> 00:05:32,835 Speaker 1: beyond that, but we also were not supposed to even 83 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:36,555 Speaker 1: know the executive privilege part. So thanks Judge Bigfoot, and 84 00:05:36,635 --> 00:05:39,635 Speaker 1: thank you Stanley Woodward, who might as well run TV 85 00:05:39,715 --> 00:05:43,155 Speaker 1: spots advertising himself with the tagline did you do a coup? 86 00:05:43,435 --> 00:05:47,515 Speaker 1: Call Woodward and not Bernstein, January sixth, Attorneys one, eight hundred. 87 00:05:47,635 --> 00:05:51,515 Speaker 1: I'm not going to jail for Trump. You have seen 88 00:05:51,595 --> 00:05:54,835 Speaker 1: photos of this Will Russell, whether you knew it or not. 89 00:05:55,395 --> 00:05:58,675 Speaker 1: There were shots the day Trump was finally vomited out 90 00:05:58,715 --> 00:06:00,875 Speaker 1: of the White House, and there was a picture of 91 00:06:00,915 --> 00:06:04,275 Speaker 1: two guys, a tall one and a small one, was 92 00:06:04,315 --> 00:06:08,635 Speaker 1: wearing a mask, and they were carrying Trump banker's boxes 93 00:06:08,715 --> 00:06:12,435 Speaker 1: to Marine one. This is January twentieth, twenty twenty one, 94 00:06:12,515 --> 00:06:15,475 Speaker 1: high noon, and the tall one is Will Russell, and 95 00:06:15,515 --> 00:06:18,635 Speaker 1: I think the short one is Walt Nauda, but the 96 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:23,715 Speaker 1: masks make it difficult to be sure. Thanks Fauci. By 97 00:06:23,755 --> 00:06:26,395 Speaker 1: September of last year, this Russell had been subpoena to 98 00:06:26,435 --> 00:06:29,395 Speaker 1: testify into the events leading up to the events at 99 00:06:29,395 --> 00:06:31,875 Speaker 1: the Capitol on January sixth. So that's how long he's 100 00:06:31,915 --> 00:06:34,555 Speaker 1: been testifying about this and why they would still be 101 00:06:34,635 --> 00:06:38,795 Speaker 1: talking executive privilege. Alissa Farrow was on CNN and she 102 00:06:38,955 --> 00:06:42,755 Speaker 1: suggested she knew Russell and that Russell was almost Trump's 103 00:06:42,795 --> 00:06:44,915 Speaker 1: body man, and he was certainly next to him at 104 00:06:44,915 --> 00:06:48,395 Speaker 1: the ellipse on the sixth and could easily corroborate the 105 00:06:48,435 --> 00:06:52,675 Speaker 1: Cassidy Hutchinson two key pieces of testimony, that Trump wanted 106 00:06:52,715 --> 00:06:55,875 Speaker 1: to go to the Capitol himself, you know, to supervise 107 00:06:56,035 --> 00:06:59,315 Speaker 1: the coup, and that Trump told people to take down 108 00:06:59,355 --> 00:07:02,035 Speaker 1: the magnetometers because none of the guns that might be 109 00:07:02,115 --> 00:07:06,715 Speaker 1: there that day were meant to harm him anyway. The 110 00:07:06,755 --> 00:07:10,155 Speaker 1: bigger picture is confirmed by this idiot. Judge Jack Smith 111 00:07:10,315 --> 00:07:13,675 Speaker 1: is still taking testimony on the topics he is presumably 112 00:07:13,715 --> 00:07:17,035 Speaker 1: about to indict Trump on here in round two. You're 113 00:07:17,075 --> 00:07:21,595 Speaker 1: on the clock, Jack. The consensus is no set of 114 00:07:21,635 --> 00:07:25,555 Speaker 1: indictments precludes any future further indictments for the same crime. 115 00:07:26,715 --> 00:07:30,475 Speaker 1: Any future further indictments That can't be right, isn't it 116 00:07:30,515 --> 00:07:34,475 Speaker 1: any further future indictments? The idea, I marriage your mother 117 00:07:34,515 --> 00:07:37,755 Speaker 1: because I wanted children to imagine my disappointment when you arrived. 118 00:07:39,035 --> 00:07:41,515 Speaker 1: CNN and The New York Times both reported that Smith 119 00:07:41,555 --> 00:07:45,395 Speaker 1: has worked out a voluntary interview with Bernie Carrick, the 120 00:07:45,555 --> 00:07:49,635 Speaker 1: uniquely styled ex police Commissioner of New York and ex con. 121 00:07:50,315 --> 00:07:54,915 Speaker 1: He's Rudy Giuliani's henchman and all around fascists. What he 122 00:07:54,955 --> 00:07:57,275 Speaker 1: could testify too is not clear, but it was either 123 00:07:57,315 --> 00:08:00,915 Speaker 1: inspired by Juliani's proper or it's Carick trying to point 124 00:08:00,955 --> 00:08:03,955 Speaker 1: the finger guilt away from himself and back at Rudy. 125 00:08:03,995 --> 00:08:06,475 Speaker 1: And it could be about I don't know. I don't 126 00:08:06,475 --> 00:08:09,555 Speaker 1: know how many different bad things Carrick and Giuliani have 127 00:08:09,675 --> 00:08:14,595 Speaker 1: done between them, but it's one of them. The idea, 128 00:08:14,715 --> 00:08:16,835 Speaker 1: so the grand jury and Will Russell and the tick 129 00:08:16,915 --> 00:08:19,435 Speaker 1: tick tick of the indictment clock and the late wagering 130 00:08:19,515 --> 00:08:21,715 Speaker 1: on the over under for the number of indictments is 131 00:08:21,755 --> 00:08:24,795 Speaker 1: the one major development. And the other major development takes 132 00:08:24,995 --> 00:08:28,635 Speaker 1: us out of the courts and into the house, and 133 00:08:28,715 --> 00:08:33,755 Speaker 1: it is breath takingly dumb, and we need to do 134 00:08:34,355 --> 00:08:40,035 Speaker 1: everything we can to encourage its execution. I am actually 135 00:08:40,075 --> 00:08:45,115 Speaker 1: going to suggest that you pray for this. What could 136 00:08:45,235 --> 00:08:49,995 Speaker 1: possibly make all of this instantly worse for Trump? What 137 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:54,715 Speaker 1: could Trump force his own Republican lackeys into to make 138 00:08:54,795 --> 00:08:58,395 Speaker 1: sure those Republicans who had rid themselves of the Trump 139 00:08:58,555 --> 00:09:01,915 Speaker 1: taint but have since wandered back to him out of 140 00:09:02,235 --> 00:09:07,275 Speaker 1: simple authoritarian contrariness. What could make them again move away 141 00:09:07,435 --> 00:09:11,475 Speaker 1: from the taint. How About at the same time he 142 00:09:11,555 --> 00:09:15,075 Speaker 1: is being prosecuted for trying to pull off a rigged election, 143 00:09:15,675 --> 00:09:23,835 Speaker 1: how about he re litigates the impeachments, both impeachments. You 144 00:09:24,035 --> 00:09:29,435 Speaker 1: will recall a month ago tomorrow when Marjorie Pornography Green 145 00:09:29,955 --> 00:09:34,555 Speaker 1: and a Last Stephanic introduced bills to quote expunge the 146 00:09:34,715 --> 00:09:39,755 Speaker 1: impeachments from Congressional history. Well, it wasn't their idea. It 147 00:09:39,795 --> 00:09:44,435 Speaker 1: turns out it was Kevin McCarthy's, and he has apparently 148 00:09:44,475 --> 00:09:51,115 Speaker 1: promised Trump it will happen before the recess next month. No, seriously, no, 149 00:09:51,355 --> 00:09:54,595 Speaker 1: he's not being bribed to do this by Democrats. You 150 00:09:54,675 --> 00:09:57,515 Speaker 1: will also recall, and this is why it's happening that 151 00:09:57,595 --> 00:10:00,595 Speaker 1: on the twenty seventh of last month, McCarthy went on 152 00:10:00,675 --> 00:10:04,875 Speaker 1: CNBC and said, can Trump win that election? Yeah? He can. 153 00:10:04,995 --> 00:10:07,875 Speaker 1: The question is is he the strongest to win the election? 154 00:10:08,275 --> 00:10:12,115 Speaker 1: I don't know the answer, And within hours Kevin McCarthy 155 00:10:12,315 --> 00:10:14,995 Speaker 1: was back on TV insisting, Oh, yes, I do know 156 00:10:15,035 --> 00:10:18,395 Speaker 1: the answer, and it's Trump is stronger than Hercules. And 157 00:10:18,475 --> 00:10:21,195 Speaker 1: it was clear Trump had yelled at McCarthy, possibly on 158 00:10:21,235 --> 00:10:24,515 Speaker 1: the phone and possibly simply by opening a window somewhere 159 00:10:24,555 --> 00:10:28,475 Speaker 1: and yelling at him across the country. Politico reports, Trump 160 00:10:28,675 --> 00:10:34,195 Speaker 1: demanded of McCarthy, he needs to endorse me today. And McCarthy, 161 00:10:34,195 --> 00:10:38,035 Speaker 1: who is of course with Trump, win win or tie, 162 00:10:38,795 --> 00:10:40,995 Speaker 1: had to come up with a bullshit excuse to not 163 00:10:41,235 --> 00:10:45,435 Speaker 1: endorse Trump quickly, so quickly you wouldn't believe it. To 164 00:10:45,515 --> 00:10:50,155 Speaker 1: his credit, McCarthy cobbled together some great sophistry that he 165 00:10:50,235 --> 00:10:53,915 Speaker 1: had to remain neutral through the primaries because if he didn't, 166 00:10:53,955 --> 00:10:59,675 Speaker 1: his relationship with his complicated caucus could influence which ones 167 00:10:59,835 --> 00:11:05,235 Speaker 1: of them did or did not endorse. Trump bought it, 168 00:11:05,795 --> 00:11:08,555 Speaker 1: but he of course was still enraged and demanded a 169 00:11:08,595 --> 00:11:12,195 Speaker 1: pound of McCarthy. And now McCarthy makes his fatal mistake. 170 00:11:12,955 --> 00:11:16,275 Speaker 1: The House would vote to expunge the two impeachments against 171 00:11:16,315 --> 00:11:20,235 Speaker 1: the former president, Politico wrote, And as McCarthy would communicate 172 00:11:20,275 --> 00:11:22,995 Speaker 1: through AIDS later the same day. They would do so 173 00:11:23,275 --> 00:11:28,235 Speaker 1: before August recess. Now, Politico says, quote, we're told that 174 00:11:28,275 --> 00:11:31,555 Speaker 1: Trump brings up the matter in every call he has 175 00:11:31,635 --> 00:11:35,635 Speaker 1: with McCarthy, prodding the speaker about when he will bring 176 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:42,395 Speaker 1: expungement to the floor. And guess what all but about 177 00:11:42,795 --> 00:11:48,635 Speaker 1: thirty House Republicans would rather French kiss Alejandro Majorcis than 178 00:11:48,755 --> 00:11:52,755 Speaker 1: spend any of their valuable Hunter Biden's slime time on 179 00:11:52,875 --> 00:11:58,435 Speaker 1: basically rerunning the impeachment over Trump trying to extort President 180 00:11:58,475 --> 00:12:03,275 Speaker 1: Zelenski of Ukraine, and basically rerunning the impeachment over Trump 181 00:12:03,355 --> 00:12:06,315 Speaker 1: and his little stochastic terrors of January sixth at the 182 00:12:06,395 --> 00:12:09,915 Speaker 1: same time, whether it lasts for an hour or a 183 00:12:09,955 --> 00:12:14,715 Speaker 1: week or however long House Democrats could drag it out. 184 00:12:14,755 --> 00:12:17,875 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like the Democrats' impeachment lawyer Dan 185 00:12:17,915 --> 00:12:20,115 Speaker 1: Goldman is in the House or anything. Alright, he's now 186 00:12:20,155 --> 00:12:25,275 Speaker 1: the congressman from the New York tenth oops. I say 187 00:12:25,315 --> 00:12:27,955 Speaker 1: it so often you can probably repeat it with me. 188 00:12:28,075 --> 00:12:31,595 Speaker 1: But every year I grow more convinced that the democracy 189 00:12:31,715 --> 00:12:34,675 Speaker 1: survives less because of the exertions of those of us 190 00:12:34,675 --> 00:12:37,875 Speaker 1: who are trying to preserve it and more because of 191 00:12:37,915 --> 00:12:43,875 Speaker 1: the gold plated, undulating, oscillating stupidity of those who are 192 00:12:43,875 --> 00:12:48,155 Speaker 1: trying to destroy it. And exactly what could be more 193 00:12:48,795 --> 00:12:52,235 Speaker 1: stupid than not only reminding the nation of how Trump 194 00:12:52,355 --> 00:12:55,555 Speaker 1: sold out Ukraine and tried to bully the man currently 195 00:12:55,595 --> 00:13:00,275 Speaker 1: atop the world democracy rankings, but then as soon as 196 00:13:00,315 --> 00:13:02,635 Speaker 1: you were finished with that, you then reminded the nation 197 00:13:02,675 --> 00:13:05,435 Speaker 1: that all the Republicans said about up in the immediate 198 00:13:05,475 --> 00:13:07,555 Speaker 1: wake of the coup attempt, that they'd never have anything 199 00:13:07,555 --> 00:13:09,275 Speaker 1: to do with him again. And then you take a. 200 00:13:09,315 --> 00:13:12,115 Speaker 3: Vote on it and force Republicans like David Bladeo and 201 00:13:12,195 --> 00:13:15,955 Speaker 3: Dan Newhouse to vote against expungement, and then you force 202 00:13:16,035 --> 00:13:20,275 Speaker 3: the Republicans in Biden districts to vote against expungement. And 203 00:13:20,395 --> 00:13:22,995 Speaker 3: exactly what do you do, Kevin McCarthy, if your five 204 00:13:23,075 --> 00:13:26,995 Speaker 3: seat majority cannot pass expungement, you're gonna come back next 205 00:13:26,995 --> 00:13:29,555 Speaker 3: week and try another vote to expunge the fact that 206 00:13:29,635 --> 00:13:33,835 Speaker 3: you took an expungement vote. McCarthy denies the whole thing, 207 00:13:33,915 --> 00:13:38,915 Speaker 3: except not really. He told NBC I support expungement, but 208 00:13:38,995 --> 00:13:43,155 Speaker 3: there's no deal out there, and his deputy, I think 209 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:46,475 Speaker 3: he's still a deputy. I think he's still loyal to McCarthy. Honestly, 210 00:13:46,755 --> 00:13:48,795 Speaker 3: looking at the Republican Party in the House, it's like 211 00:13:48,835 --> 00:13:51,595 Speaker 3: trying to read the personnel files at the Kremlin in 212 00:13:51,675 --> 00:13:56,995 Speaker 3: nineteen thirty five or in Tehran in nineteen eighty. His deputy, 213 00:13:57,555 --> 00:14:00,355 Speaker 3: Steve Scalise said, no, of course they won't do this 214 00:14:00,515 --> 00:14:05,555 Speaker 3: because they're busy. We're doing the appropriations bills next week, 215 00:14:05,715 --> 00:14:07,635 Speaker 3: and then of course when we return in September, we 216 00:14:07,675 --> 00:14:10,115 Speaker 3: have a lot of other appropriations bills tied up, so 217 00:14:10,155 --> 00:14:12,955 Speaker 3: we're going to be very busy. And boy, is that. 218 00:14:12,955 --> 00:14:19,835 Speaker 1: A convincing denial if you have an expungement. Politico quotes 219 00:14:19,955 --> 00:14:23,435 Speaker 1: an unnamed senior GOP member who will not even put 220 00:14:23,475 --> 00:14:26,635 Speaker 1: his name to that common sense leak. And it goes 221 00:14:26,675 --> 00:14:30,715 Speaker 1: to the floor and fails, which it probably will, then 222 00:14:30,715 --> 00:14:33,075 Speaker 1: the media will treat it like it's a third impeachment, 223 00:14:34,875 --> 00:14:39,795 Speaker 1: you think, and it will show disunity among Republican ranks. 224 00:14:39,835 --> 00:14:47,155 Speaker 1: It's a huge strategic risk. Beyond the skidtish moderates who 225 00:14:47,195 --> 00:14:50,635 Speaker 1: prefer not to take the vote. Politico writes, there's the 226 00:14:50,715 --> 00:14:54,075 Speaker 1: clutch of constitutionally minded conservatives who we are told have 227 00:14:54,195 --> 00:14:58,675 Speaker 1: privately voiced skepticism that the House has the constitutional authority 228 00:14:58,755 --> 00:15:06,115 Speaker 1: to erase a president's impeachments. Unquote, you think, oh, great, McCarthy. 229 00:15:06,155 --> 00:15:08,235 Speaker 1: Now you have your caucus members who are not just 230 00:15:08,355 --> 00:15:12,075 Speaker 1: performative fascists and actually believe there are you know, laws, 231 00:15:13,075 --> 00:15:17,675 Speaker 1: and who recognize that expungement ain't a thing, and if 232 00:15:17,715 --> 00:15:20,275 Speaker 1: it is a thing, maybe they should just expunge you. 233 00:15:20,795 --> 00:15:25,715 Speaker 1: Not good, keV ah, But Kevin McCarthy did not get 234 00:15:25,755 --> 00:15:29,235 Speaker 1: to be Speaker of the House of Representatives without having 235 00:15:29,275 --> 00:15:33,355 Speaker 1: a secret plan to escape the expungement predicament. And what 236 00:15:33,555 --> 00:15:36,435 Speaker 1: is that plan? Just tell Trump that it will be 237 00:15:36,435 --> 00:15:39,475 Speaker 1: better if the expungement vote takes place when all Washington 238 00:15:39,795 --> 00:15:45,355 Speaker 1: is back from the summer doldrums in September, and the 239 00:15:45,515 --> 00:15:52,115 Speaker 1: next plan after that one runs out late September. And 240 00:15:52,515 --> 00:15:57,195 Speaker 1: after that, oh, oh, by the end of September. And 241 00:15:57,835 --> 00:15:58,795 Speaker 1: after that. 242 00:15:59,835 --> 00:16:02,675 Speaker 4: Oh, please try to expunge. Oh please try to expunge. Oh, 243 00:16:02,715 --> 00:16:15,915 Speaker 4: please try to expunge. Oh please please MEAs. 244 00:16:11,435 --> 00:16:14,835 Speaker 1: I mentioned some surprising political poll numbers, and one is 245 00:16:14,955 --> 00:16:17,275 Speaker 1: just a happy note that you should file away and remember. 246 00:16:17,315 --> 00:16:20,675 Speaker 1: At some point over the weekend, Dave Wasserman, Chief figure 247 00:16:20,755 --> 00:16:24,475 Speaker 1: Philbert at the Cook Political Report, Mister I've seen enough 248 00:16:24,955 --> 00:16:28,875 Speaker 1: changed five of his ratings yesterday on congressional races for 249 00:16:28,955 --> 00:16:32,275 Speaker 1: next year, three downgrades for Democrats, one downgrade for a 250 00:16:32,315 --> 00:16:35,035 Speaker 1: Republican I've never heard of. And then this from the 251 00:16:35,155 --> 00:16:42,395 Speaker 1: Colorado Third Lauren Bobert moved from lean GOP to toss up. 252 00:16:43,355 --> 00:16:46,915 Speaker 1: So you go, Adam Frish, who only lost her by 253 00:16:46,955 --> 00:16:50,035 Speaker 1: five hundred and forty six votes last year. She should 254 00:16:50,035 --> 00:16:53,595 Speaker 1: be able to get some peace and quiet, enjoy her 255 00:16:53,715 --> 00:16:59,155 Speaker 1: old age, grand motherhood in retirement at the age of 256 00:16:59,195 --> 00:17:05,435 Speaker 1: thirty six thirty seven in December. But the bigger polling 257 00:17:05,515 --> 00:17:08,075 Speaker 1: news is from the Monmouth poll, and it really does 258 00:17:08,195 --> 00:17:11,435 Speaker 1: reset one of the prospective nightmares of the twenty twenty 259 00:17:11,435 --> 00:17:15,315 Speaker 1: four presidential race. Monmouth polled one group two ways, who 260 00:17:15,355 --> 00:17:18,115 Speaker 1: are you definitely or probably going to vote for next year? 261 00:17:18,155 --> 00:17:22,475 Speaker 1: Biden or Trump? Biden forty seven, Trump forty Okay. Then 262 00:17:22,555 --> 00:17:25,435 Speaker 1: they said to the same voters, who are you definitely 263 00:17:25,555 --> 00:17:28,195 Speaker 1: or probably going to vote for among Biden, Trump or 264 00:17:28,235 --> 00:17:32,515 Speaker 1: a third party ticket? This is not the answer I 265 00:17:32,595 --> 00:17:38,195 Speaker 1: was expecting to see. Biden thirty seven, Trump twenty eight, 266 00:17:39,475 --> 00:17:45,675 Speaker 1: third party ticket thirty you heard it, third party ticket 267 00:17:46,115 --> 00:17:51,755 Speaker 1: costs Biden ten points, costs Trump twelve points, finishes ahead 268 00:17:52,155 --> 00:17:57,155 Speaker 1: of Trump for second place, and the caveat is it's 269 00:17:57,275 --> 00:18:00,675 Speaker 1: always the case here the generic unnamed candidate does better 270 00:18:00,715 --> 00:18:04,195 Speaker 1: than any real life one. So they went back to 271 00:18:04,235 --> 00:18:06,835 Speaker 1: these people a third time Biden Trump or the so 272 00:18:06,915 --> 00:18:11,395 Speaker 1: called fusion no labels crap ticket of Joe Manchin and 273 00:18:11,515 --> 00:18:16,515 Speaker 1: John Huntsman, and still it's Biden forty, Trump thirty four, 274 00:18:17,075 --> 00:18:24,035 Speaker 1: Mansion Huntsman sixteen. So even a nominally non fascist, non 275 00:18:24,115 --> 00:18:28,515 Speaker 1: conservative third party candidate and a bad one costs Biden 276 00:18:28,635 --> 00:18:33,235 Speaker 1: seven points, costs Trump six points, and still gives Biden 277 00:18:33,355 --> 00:18:36,435 Speaker 1: a six point margin, and that ain't good news. But 278 00:18:36,475 --> 00:18:40,995 Speaker 1: it ain't Jill Stein Ralph Nader territory either. Monmouth did 279 00:18:40,995 --> 00:18:44,075 Speaker 1: not pull RFK Junior, and that is too bad because 280 00:18:44,235 --> 00:18:47,635 Speaker 1: he carries name recognition, especially among voters who have not 281 00:18:47,955 --> 00:18:53,875 Speaker 1: recently heard how crazy he is any future further candidates 282 00:18:55,435 --> 00:19:04,035 Speaker 1: that can't be right. Also of interest here that RFK 283 00:19:04,275 --> 00:19:09,915 Speaker 1: hearing yesterday, it's a really bad idea, Bob, before you 284 00:19:10,395 --> 00:19:13,235 Speaker 1: completely don't tell the truth about stuff you have been 285 00:19:13,275 --> 00:19:17,435 Speaker 1: recorded on video doing and saying, it's a really bad idea. 286 00:19:18,155 --> 00:19:21,635 Speaker 1: To remind everybody that you are on the record and 287 00:19:21,915 --> 00:19:25,075 Speaker 1: under oath as you do not tell the truth about it. 288 00:19:25,835 --> 00:19:30,955 Speaker 1: Not good Bob. That's next. This is countdown. This is 289 00:19:31,075 --> 00:19:43,955 Speaker 1: countdown with Keith Olberm. Postscripts to the news, some headlines, 290 00:19:44,275 --> 00:19:48,835 Speaker 1: some updates, some snark, some predictions, dateline the House Select 291 00:19:48,915 --> 00:19:54,355 Speaker 1: Subcommittee on fruitcake, Washington, DC. No indication that anybody is 292 00:19:54,355 --> 00:19:57,755 Speaker 1: actually going to prosecute Robert F. Kennedy Junior for blatantly 293 00:19:57,875 --> 00:20:01,715 Speaker 1: not telling the truth to the Jim Jordan Committee. But 294 00:20:02,555 --> 00:20:05,275 Speaker 1: he blatantly did not tell the truth to the Jim 295 00:20:05,355 --> 00:20:10,715 Speaker 1: Jordan Committee. Said first, he never told anybody to avoid vaccination. 296 00:20:11,115 --> 00:20:14,195 Speaker 5: I have never been an anti vax I have never 297 00:20:14,315 --> 00:20:17,515 Speaker 5: told anybody. I have never told the public avoid vaccination 298 00:20:18,435 --> 00:20:21,835 Speaker 5: the only thing I've asked for, and my views are 299 00:20:21,875 --> 00:20:24,955 Speaker 5: constantly misrepresented. 300 00:20:25,275 --> 00:20:30,195 Speaker 1: Never told anybody to avoid vaccination, except on that podcast 301 00:20:30,355 --> 00:20:34,395 Speaker 1: two years ago when he boasted about stopping passers by 302 00:20:34,995 --> 00:20:37,955 Speaker 1: to tell them to avoid vaccination. 303 00:20:38,395 --> 00:20:43,155 Speaker 6: You're walking down the street, and I do this now myself, 304 00:20:43,235 --> 00:20:44,875 Speaker 6: which is you know, I don't want to do it. 305 00:20:44,915 --> 00:20:46,115 Speaker 1: I'm a busybody. 306 00:20:47,155 --> 00:20:50,115 Speaker 6: I see somebody on a hiking trail with a carrying 307 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:52,195 Speaker 6: a little baby, and I said, I'm better and I 308 00:20:52,195 --> 00:20:55,435 Speaker 6: can vaccinate it. And do you hear that from me? 309 00:20:56,515 --> 00:20:59,115 Speaker 6: If he hears it from ten other people, maybe he 310 00:20:59,195 --> 00:21:02,115 Speaker 6: won't do it, you know, maybe maybe he will say 311 00:21:02,275 --> 00:21:06,515 Speaker 6: that child. And before we were all quiet because we 312 00:21:06,555 --> 00:21:08,875 Speaker 6: didn't wanted to get along with our families. 313 00:21:09,275 --> 00:21:09,675 Speaker 4: Oops. 314 00:21:10,315 --> 00:21:13,715 Speaker 1: Then he did it again about anti semitism. 315 00:21:13,875 --> 00:21:16,355 Speaker 5: By the way, I want to say this while I'm 316 00:21:16,395 --> 00:21:20,195 Speaker 5: on the record that in my entire life and why 317 00:21:20,275 --> 00:21:25,395 Speaker 5: I'm under oath, in my entire life, I have never 318 00:21:26,395 --> 00:21:30,915 Speaker 5: uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti Semitic. 319 00:21:31,275 --> 00:21:34,475 Speaker 1: In January twenty twenty two, Robert F. Kennedy Junior told 320 00:21:34,475 --> 00:21:38,475 Speaker 1: an anti vax rally quote, even in Hitler's Germany, you 321 00:21:38,515 --> 00:21:41,915 Speaker 1: could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in 322 00:21:41,955 --> 00:21:46,995 Speaker 1: an attic like a Frank did. He also posted a 323 00:21:46,995 --> 00:21:50,715 Speaker 1: photo of doctor Anthony Fauci with a Hitler mustache. Of course, 324 00:21:50,755 --> 00:21:54,995 Speaker 1: technically none of those are actually anti Semitic terms. It's 325 00:21:55,155 --> 00:21:59,835 Speaker 1: just anti semitism. His own wife, the actor Cheryl Hines, 326 00:22:00,195 --> 00:22:04,475 Speaker 1: not only publicly disavowed Kennedy, but Kennedy actually apologized for 327 00:22:04,475 --> 00:22:09,675 Speaker 1: all that not anti semitism. I'm going to assume here 328 00:22:10,315 --> 00:22:13,675 Speaker 1: that this is psychological illness or brain damage, and he 329 00:22:13,755 --> 00:22:17,075 Speaker 1: has no memory of the things that he has said. 330 00:22:17,755 --> 00:22:22,115 Speaker 1: This does happen, and as a former friendly professional acquaintance 331 00:22:22,115 --> 00:22:25,595 Speaker 1: of Robert F. Kennedy Junior, it is too painful for 332 00:22:25,635 --> 00:22:29,435 Speaker 1: me to think otherwise. But his public career needs to end. 333 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:34,635 Speaker 1: He is doing nothing but harm to anybody except to 334 00:22:34,755 --> 00:22:38,475 Speaker 1: the new Nazis of the twenty first century America dateline 335 00:22:38,515 --> 00:22:42,075 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. The Washington Post reporting that as a 336 00:22:42,275 --> 00:22:45,795 Speaker 1: Nanita Hill film was about to premiere in twenty sixteen, 337 00:22:45,875 --> 00:22:49,675 Speaker 1: the twenty fifth anniversary of Clarence Thomas's confirmation to the Court, 338 00:22:50,115 --> 00:22:54,395 Speaker 1: A quote flurry of opinion articles defending Thomas and railing 339 00:22:54,435 --> 00:22:59,715 Speaker 1: against the film appeared in news outlets, websites celebrating Thomas's 340 00:22:59,755 --> 00:23:03,275 Speaker 1: career popped up, and on Twitter, a new account using 341 00:23:03,275 --> 00:23:08,235 Speaker 1: the name Justice Thomas Fan account began serving up flattering commentary. 342 00:23:08,755 --> 00:23:10,515 Speaker 1: The Post reports all of that was part of a 343 00:23:10,635 --> 00:23:14,355 Speaker 1: bought and paid for publicity campaign financed with at least 344 00:23:14,395 --> 00:23:20,315 Speaker 1: one eight hundred thousand dollars from conservative nonprofit groups steered 345 00:23:20,315 --> 00:23:25,555 Speaker 1: to that purpose by judicial activist Leonard Leo of the 346 00:23:25,595 --> 00:23:28,515 Speaker 1: Federalist Society. You know the Federalist society, the people who 347 00:23:28,595 --> 00:23:32,155 Speaker 1: own Clarence Thomas. What do you get for the Supreme 348 00:23:32,155 --> 00:23:37,475 Speaker 1: Court justice who already has everything because Harlan Crowe buys 349 00:23:37,595 --> 00:23:41,755 Speaker 1: him gifts like the two dollars whore that he is, well, 350 00:23:42,155 --> 00:23:58,555 Speaker 1: you buy him good publicity. Stell ahead on Countdown Fridays 351 00:23:58,555 --> 00:24:01,475 Speaker 1: with Thurber and a doubleheader. The magic of James Derber 352 00:24:01,635 --> 00:24:04,275 Speaker 1: is he didn't write in just one style or on 353 00:24:04,275 --> 00:24:07,155 Speaker 1: one subject. In fact, he didn't just write. He was, 354 00:24:07,195 --> 00:24:09,995 Speaker 1: of course one of the great humorous illustrators of all time. 355 00:24:10,515 --> 00:24:13,555 Speaker 1: But if there is one through line in all his work, 356 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:18,955 Speaker 1: written or drawn, it is man versus life, and two 357 00:24:18,995 --> 00:24:21,675 Speaker 1: of the greatest examples of that are his fable of 358 00:24:21,715 --> 00:24:25,035 Speaker 1: the Mouse who went to the Country and his story 359 00:24:25,115 --> 00:24:28,435 Speaker 1: of the visit to somebody Else's bathroom, Medicine Cabinet gone 360 00:24:28,435 --> 00:24:32,275 Speaker 1: Wrong nine needles, both of them coming up first time 361 00:24:32,315 --> 00:24:33,995 Speaker 1: for the daily round up of the miss Grants, morons 362 00:24:33,995 --> 00:24:37,835 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons 363 00:24:37,875 --> 00:24:43,675 Speaker 1: in the world. Lebron's Jim Jordan mentioned the Republicans trotting 364 00:24:43,715 --> 00:24:46,315 Speaker 1: out what was left of Robert F. Kennedy Junior, and 365 00:24:46,435 --> 00:24:49,115 Speaker 1: it blew up in their faces. You knew it would, 366 00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:51,715 Speaker 1: and everybody but Bob knows that it blew up in 367 00:24:51,755 --> 00:24:56,235 Speaker 1: their face. But Jordan crossed a separate line entirely. Jordan 368 00:24:56,355 --> 00:24:58,275 Speaker 1: was reciting what he said was a history of attempts 369 00:24:58,275 --> 00:25:02,475 Speaker 1: by the Biden administration to censor Kennedy, and in doing so, 370 00:25:02,555 --> 00:25:05,715 Speaker 1: he repeated one of the sleaziest all the right wing 371 00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:09,915 Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. Jim Jordan invoked the death of baseball's all 372 00:25:09,955 --> 00:25:13,075 Speaker 1: time home run hitter and the fascist claim that he 373 00:25:13,155 --> 00:25:17,155 Speaker 1: was killed by the COVID nineteen vaccine. Quoting Jordan, Hank 374 00:25:17,195 --> 00:25:20,435 Speaker 1: Aaron passed away after he got the vaccine. Just pointing 375 00:25:20,435 --> 00:25:24,035 Speaker 1: out facts. Here is something that has or will kill 376 00:25:24,355 --> 00:25:28,795 Speaker 1: one hundred percent of its victims. Traveling to Jim Jordan's 377 00:25:28,835 --> 00:25:33,115 Speaker 1: district in Ohio north of Columbus. How many tens of 378 00:25:33,235 --> 00:25:37,195 Speaker 1: millions of people have died after going to Jim Jordan's 379 00:25:37,475 --> 00:25:41,555 Speaker 1: hometown area of Lima, Ohio. How many tens of millions 380 00:25:41,555 --> 00:25:46,395 Speaker 1: more will perish? Shouldn't we investigate this? Could Jim Jordan 381 00:25:46,515 --> 00:25:50,955 Speaker 1: be the reason? Shouldn't we shut the town down? Idiot? 382 00:25:51,995 --> 00:25:56,115 Speaker 1: The runner up Jim Jordan's South. His name is Ron DeSantis, 383 00:25:56,195 --> 00:26:00,035 Speaker 1: the creature from the Wokie Finocchi swamp. This non stop 384 00:26:00,195 --> 00:26:02,635 Speaker 1: culture war has dropped him from the top of the 385 00:26:02,675 --> 00:26:05,555 Speaker 1: list of GOP challengers to Trump, to the point where 386 00:26:05,595 --> 00:26:08,435 Speaker 1: in one poll this week, he is tied for second 387 00:26:08,515 --> 00:26:14,315 Speaker 1: with Vivek Gramaswami. So naturally, DeSantis is not changing his spiel. 388 00:26:14,395 --> 00:26:18,035 Speaker 1: He's just shouting it louder, his latest culture idea, his 389 00:26:18,115 --> 00:26:20,595 Speaker 1: latest woke thing. He went on Fox last night and said, 390 00:26:20,635 --> 00:26:23,875 Speaker 1: the state of Florida is quote going to be launching 391 00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:27,075 Speaker 1: an inquiry about bud Light and it could lead to 392 00:26:27,155 --> 00:26:31,435 Speaker 1: a derivative lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of 393 00:26:31,475 --> 00:26:35,875 Speaker 1: the Florida Pension Fund because there's got to be penalties 394 00:26:35,915 --> 00:26:38,355 Speaker 1: for when you put business aside to focus on your 395 00:26:38,355 --> 00:26:43,515 Speaker 1: social agenda unquote. Of course, DeSantis didn't seem to realize 396 00:26:43,515 --> 00:26:46,155 Speaker 1: that in making that claim, he is admitting that the 397 00:26:46,195 --> 00:26:51,795 Speaker 1: targeted criticism of Budweiser did damage Budweiser and thus did 398 00:26:52,195 --> 00:26:56,235 Speaker 1: damage the Florida Pension Funds investment in Budweiser, which is 399 00:26:56,315 --> 00:26:58,995 Speaker 1: kind of a problem since he DeSantis was one of 400 00:26:59,035 --> 00:27:01,835 Speaker 1: the leaders of the targeted criticism of Budweiser, so the 401 00:27:01,835 --> 00:27:04,515 Speaker 1: Florida Pension Fund can now turn around and sue Ron 402 00:27:04,835 --> 00:27:10,555 Speaker 1: Santas also idiot. By the way, After that nonsense, Fox's 403 00:27:10,635 --> 00:27:13,475 Speaker 1: Jesse Waters, who is the host, now eagerly asked to 404 00:27:13,555 --> 00:27:16,915 Speaker 1: Santis if he would also be suing Disney because Disney 405 00:27:17,595 --> 00:27:24,155 Speaker 1: fired six of the seven Dwarves. Apparently this hurt Jesse deeply. Honestly, 406 00:27:24,235 --> 00:27:26,835 Speaker 1: I do not know of my hatred of waters predecessor. 407 00:27:26,875 --> 00:27:30,675 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and his predecessor, Bill O'Reilly can be measured 408 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:34,515 Speaker 1: in anything, you know, smaller than light years. But the 409 00:27:34,555 --> 00:27:38,515 Speaker 1: two of them were not idiots. This kid Waters looks 410 00:27:38,555 --> 00:27:41,475 Speaker 1: like he's having some mental processing problems because he just 411 00:27:41,675 --> 00:27:45,835 Speaker 1: ate five pounds of sugar in one hour. But the winner, 412 00:27:45,915 --> 00:27:50,675 Speaker 1: well it's Tucker Carlson. Remember him? Remember the whole Tucker Carlson. 413 00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:53,755 Speaker 1: January sixth Kevin McCarthy scam, the ten thousand hours of 414 00:27:53,835 --> 00:27:57,915 Speaker 1: unseen video that would expose the real culprits and exonerate 415 00:27:57,915 --> 00:28:01,795 Speaker 1: people like the Quenon Shawman. I didn't show anything, and 416 00:28:01,835 --> 00:28:08,755 Speaker 1: now it officially has not exonerated the QAnon. Shannon Jacob Chansley, 417 00:28:08,875 --> 00:28:12,235 Speaker 1: who has already been released from prison, asked the judge, 418 00:28:12,235 --> 00:28:14,915 Speaker 1: who supervised his guilty fleet to throw out his conviction 419 00:28:15,515 --> 00:28:20,875 Speaker 1: because of the video didn't exactly work out like that, Lamberth. 420 00:28:20,875 --> 00:28:23,315 Speaker 1: The judge wrote this yesterday. Quote not only was the 421 00:28:23,355 --> 00:28:27,835 Speaker 1: broadcast repleat with misstatements and misrepresentations regarding the events of 422 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:31,795 Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one, too numerous to count, but 423 00:28:31,915 --> 00:28:35,275 Speaker 1: the host explicitly questioned the integrity of this court, not 424 00:28:35,355 --> 00:28:38,355 Speaker 1: to mention the legitimacy of the entire US criminal justice system, 425 00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:43,475 Speaker 1: with inflammatory characterizations of cherry picked videos script of their 426 00:28:43,515 --> 00:28:47,515 Speaker 1: proper context. In so doing, the judge wrote, he called 427 00:28:47,555 --> 00:28:50,355 Speaker 1: on his followers to reject the evidence of their eyes 428 00:28:50,435 --> 00:28:55,155 Speaker 1: and ears language resembling the destructive, misguided rhetoric that fueled 429 00:28:55,155 --> 00:28:58,315 Speaker 1: the events of January sixth in the first place. Unquote, 430 00:28:58,715 --> 00:29:02,435 Speaker 1: not only did the new video add nothing, wrote Judge Lamberth, 431 00:29:02,515 --> 00:29:05,955 Speaker 1: but only ten seconds of it was actually knew was 432 00:29:05,995 --> 00:29:09,395 Speaker 1: actually stuff Chansley did not have in his possession before 433 00:29:09,475 --> 00:29:13,715 Speaker 1: the sentencing, and that ten seconds had no exculpatory value. 434 00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:17,435 Speaker 1: And then there's this. The judge said that if before sentencing, 435 00:29:17,995 --> 00:29:21,475 Speaker 1: Chansley's attitude towards his own guilt and his own responsibility 436 00:29:21,875 --> 00:29:25,595 Speaker 1: had been what it is now after the Tucker Carlson 437 00:29:25,675 --> 00:29:30,115 Speaker 1: video debacle, Chansley would have ear Chanceley would have earned 438 00:29:30,155 --> 00:29:35,315 Speaker 1: a longer sentence Tucker Carlson, who almost managed to get 439 00:29:35,355 --> 00:29:39,035 Speaker 1: a guy who has already served his prison time more 440 00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:56,995 Speaker 1: prison time to day's worst person in the world. Here's 441 00:29:57,035 --> 00:29:59,275 Speaker 1: the number one story on the Countdown, and it's Fridays 442 00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:01,875 Speaker 1: with Thurber and a lot of his work details the 443 00:30:01,875 --> 00:30:07,915 Speaker 1: fundamental clash between people, husband and wife, he and various relatives, 444 00:30:08,755 --> 00:30:12,075 Speaker 1: a guy and a bed, and a seal, two animals 445 00:30:12,075 --> 00:30:15,555 Speaker 1: representing any two humans in conflict. But some of the 446 00:30:15,595 --> 00:30:18,675 Speaker 1: most magical writing is the stuff that is just about 447 00:30:18,755 --> 00:30:24,595 Speaker 1: one person alone against life. One of his stories ends 448 00:30:24,715 --> 00:30:27,635 Speaker 1: with a great grandmother struggling with a butter churn and 449 00:30:27,715 --> 00:30:31,475 Speaker 1: screaming into the void, why doesn't somebody take this goddamn 450 00:30:31,515 --> 00:30:34,195 Speaker 1: thing away from me? A line which I think could 451 00:30:34,195 --> 00:30:37,915 Speaker 1: be the start of a national anthem somewhere. Such a 452 00:30:37,955 --> 00:30:41,795 Speaker 1: story is nine needles this week's selection. As you will see, 453 00:30:41,875 --> 00:30:44,635 Speaker 1: it is a little short for our usual time frames here, 454 00:30:44,675 --> 00:30:47,355 Speaker 1: so I'll give you a bonus another man versus life 455 00:30:47,475 --> 00:30:50,675 Speaker 1: story afterwards, in the form of one of Thurber's Fables 456 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:53,275 Speaker 1: for our time, The mouse who went to the country. 457 00:30:54,075 --> 00:30:57,915 Speaker 1: But first, it's unlikely this event has ever happened to you, 458 00:30:58,475 --> 00:31:04,835 Speaker 1: but the anxiety that should be immediately familiar. Nine Needles 459 00:31:05,435 --> 00:31:10,595 Speaker 1: by James Thurber. One of the more spectacular minor happenings 460 00:31:10,595 --> 00:31:12,875 Speaker 1: of the past few years, which I am sorry that 461 00:31:12,915 --> 00:31:15,955 Speaker 1: I missed, took place in the Columbus, Ohio home of 462 00:31:15,995 --> 00:31:18,515 Speaker 1: some friends of a friend of mine. It seems that 463 00:31:18,555 --> 00:31:22,995 Speaker 1: a mister Albatross, while looking for something in his medicine 464 00:31:22,995 --> 00:31:25,555 Speaker 1: cabinet one morning, discovered a bottle of a kind of 465 00:31:25,715 --> 00:31:28,355 Speaker 1: patent medicine which his wife had been taking for a 466 00:31:28,395 --> 00:31:33,715 Speaker 1: stomach ailment. Now, mister Albatross is one of those apprehensive 467 00:31:33,795 --> 00:31:37,115 Speaker 1: men who are afraid of patent medicines and of almost 468 00:31:37,115 --> 00:31:40,835 Speaker 1: everything else. Some weeks before, he had encountered a paragraph 469 00:31:40,915 --> 00:31:44,595 Speaker 1: in a consumer's research bulletin which announced that this particular 470 00:31:44,635 --> 00:31:47,875 Speaker 1: medicine was bad for you. He had thereupon ordered his 471 00:31:47,915 --> 00:31:50,075 Speaker 1: wife to throw out what was left of her supply 472 00:31:50,195 --> 00:31:53,915 Speaker 1: of the stuff and never buy any more, she had promised. 473 00:31:54,315 --> 00:31:58,355 Speaker 1: And here now was another bottle of the perilous liquid. 474 00:31:58,715 --> 00:32:02,515 Speaker 1: Mister Albatross, a man given to quick rages, shouted the 475 00:32:02,515 --> 00:32:05,635 Speaker 1: conclusion of the story at my friend. I threw the 476 00:32:05,675 --> 00:32:12,235 Speaker 1: bottle out the bathroom window, and the medicine chest after it. 477 00:32:12,235 --> 00:32:14,715 Speaker 1: It seems to me that must have been a spectacle 478 00:32:14,795 --> 00:32:19,755 Speaker 1: worth going a long way to see. I am sure 479 00:32:19,755 --> 00:32:22,195 Speaker 1: that many a husband has wanted to wrench the family 480 00:32:22,275 --> 00:32:25,075 Speaker 1: medicine cabinet off the wall and throw it out the window, 481 00:32:25,475 --> 00:32:28,435 Speaker 1: if only because the average medicine cabinet is so filled 482 00:32:28,475 --> 00:32:34,035 Speaker 1: with mysterious bottles and unidentifiable objects of all kinds, that 483 00:32:34,115 --> 00:32:37,715 Speaker 1: it is a source of constant bewilderment and exasperation to 484 00:32:37,795 --> 00:32:41,955 Speaker 1: the American male. Surely, the British medicine cabinet, and the 485 00:32:42,195 --> 00:32:45,955 Speaker 1: French medicine cabinet, all the other medicine cabinets must be 486 00:32:46,075 --> 00:32:49,435 Speaker 1: simpler and better ordered than ours. It may be that 487 00:32:49,475 --> 00:32:54,315 Speaker 1: the American habit of saving everything and never throwing anything away, 488 00:32:54,835 --> 00:32:58,995 Speaker 1: even empty bottles, causes the domestic medicine cabinet to become 489 00:32:58,995 --> 00:33:02,155 Speaker 1: as cluttered in its small way as the American attic 490 00:33:02,275 --> 00:33:06,915 Speaker 1: becomes cluttered in its major way. I have encountered few 491 00:33:06,955 --> 00:33:10,075 Speaker 1: medicine cabinets in this country which were not packed jammed 492 00:33:10,115 --> 00:33:13,595 Speaker 1: with something between one hundred and fifty and two hundred 493 00:33:13,675 --> 00:33:18,715 Speaker 1: different items, from dental floss to boracic acid, from razor 494 00:33:18,755 --> 00:33:24,195 Speaker 1: blades to sodium perborate, from adhesive tape to coconut oil. 495 00:33:25,355 --> 00:33:28,435 Speaker 1: Even the neatest wife will put off clearing out the 496 00:33:28,475 --> 00:33:31,115 Speaker 1: medicine cabinet on the ground that she has something else 497 00:33:31,115 --> 00:33:33,475 Speaker 1: to do that is more important at that moment, or 498 00:33:33,515 --> 00:33:36,715 Speaker 1: more diverting. It was in the apartment of such a 499 00:33:36,755 --> 00:33:40,275 Speaker 1: wife and her husband that I became enormously involved with 500 00:33:40,315 --> 00:33:44,315 Speaker 1: a medicine cabinet. One morning, not long ago, I had 501 00:33:44,315 --> 00:33:46,835 Speaker 1: spent the weekend with this couple. They live on East 502 00:33:46,915 --> 00:33:51,275 Speaker 1: tenth Street, near Fifth Avenue. Such a weekend as left 503 00:33:51,275 --> 00:33:55,115 Speaker 1: me reluctant to rise up on Monday morning with bright 504 00:33:55,195 --> 00:33:58,715 Speaker 1: and shining face and go to work. They got up 505 00:33:58,755 --> 00:34:02,355 Speaker 1: and went to work, but I didn't. I didn't get 506 00:34:02,435 --> 00:34:06,635 Speaker 1: up until about to two thirty in the afternoon. I 507 00:34:06,675 --> 00:34:09,075 Speaker 1: had my face all lathered for shaving, and the wash 508 00:34:09,115 --> 00:34:12,155 Speaker 1: bowl was full of hot water, when suddenly I cut 509 00:34:12,195 --> 00:34:15,795 Speaker 1: myself with the razor. I cut my ear. Very few 510 00:34:15,835 --> 00:34:19,395 Speaker 1: men cut their ears with razors, but I do, possibly 511 00:34:19,395 --> 00:34:22,715 Speaker 1: because I was taught the old Spencerian free wrist movements 512 00:34:22,755 --> 00:34:26,275 Speaker 1: by my writing teacher in the grammar grades. The ear 513 00:34:26,555 --> 00:34:30,435 Speaker 1: bleeds rather profusely when cut with a razor, and is 514 00:34:30,515 --> 00:34:34,275 Speaker 1: difficult to get at. More angry than hurt, I jerked 515 00:34:34,275 --> 00:34:36,075 Speaker 1: open the door of the medicine cabinet to see if 516 00:34:36,115 --> 00:34:38,915 Speaker 1: I could find a stiptic pencil, and out fell from 517 00:34:38,995 --> 00:34:44,795 Speaker 1: the top shelf a little black paper packet containing nine needles. 518 00:34:46,235 --> 00:34:48,515 Speaker 1: It seems that his wife kept a little paper packet 519 00:34:48,515 --> 00:34:51,755 Speaker 1: containing nine needles on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet. 520 00:34:52,595 --> 00:34:55,195 Speaker 1: The packet fell into the soapy water of the wash bowl, 521 00:34:55,235 --> 00:34:59,555 Speaker 1: where the paper rapidly disintegrated, leaving nine needles at large 522 00:34:59,675 --> 00:35:04,075 Speaker 1: in the bowl. I was, naturally enough, not in the 523 00:35:04,315 --> 00:35:09,435 Speaker 1: best condition, either physical or mental, to recover nine needles 524 00:35:09,435 --> 00:35:13,035 Speaker 1: from a wash bowl. No gentleman who has lather on 525 00:35:13,075 --> 00:35:15,115 Speaker 1: his face and whose ear is bleeding is in the 526 00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:18,235 Speaker 1: best condition for anything, even something involving the handling of 527 00:35:18,355 --> 00:35:24,035 Speaker 1: nine large blunt objects. It did not seem wise to 528 00:35:24,075 --> 00:35:26,515 Speaker 1: me to pull the plug out of the wash bowl 529 00:35:26,515 --> 00:35:29,555 Speaker 1: and let the needles go down the drain. I had 530 00:35:29,635 --> 00:35:32,035 Speaker 1: visions of clogging up the plumbing system of the house, 531 00:35:32,475 --> 00:35:37,635 Speaker 1: and also a vague fear of causing short circuits somehow 532 00:35:37,795 --> 00:35:41,435 Speaker 1: or other. I know very little about electricity, and I 533 00:35:41,475 --> 00:35:45,035 Speaker 1: don't want to have it explained to me. Finally, I 534 00:35:45,115 --> 00:35:48,195 Speaker 1: groped very gently around the bowl, and eventually had four 535 00:35:48,235 --> 00:35:50,555 Speaker 1: of the needles in the palm of one hand and 536 00:35:50,715 --> 00:35:55,235 Speaker 1: three in the palm of the other. Two I couldn't find. 537 00:35:55,995 --> 00:35:58,955 Speaker 1: If I had thought quickly and clearly, I wouldn't have 538 00:35:58,995 --> 00:36:02,475 Speaker 1: done that. A lathered man whose ear is bleeding, and 539 00:36:02,475 --> 00:36:04,675 Speaker 1: who has four wet needles in one hand and three 540 00:36:04,715 --> 00:36:06,315 Speaker 1: and the other may be said to have reached the 541 00:36:06,355 --> 00:36:11,315 Speaker 1: lowest known point of human efficiency. There is nothing he 542 00:36:11,355 --> 00:36:16,515 Speaker 1: can do but stand there. I tried transferring the needles 543 00:36:16,595 --> 00:36:18,555 Speaker 1: in my left hand to the palm of my right hand, 544 00:36:18,555 --> 00:36:20,795 Speaker 1: but I couldn't get the off my left hand wet 545 00:36:20,915 --> 00:36:26,755 Speaker 1: needles cling to you. In the end, I wiped the 546 00:36:26,755 --> 00:36:30,035 Speaker 1: needles off onto a bath towel, which was hanging on 547 00:36:30,075 --> 00:36:32,515 Speaker 1: a rod above the bath tub. It was the only 548 00:36:32,555 --> 00:36:34,675 Speaker 1: towel that I could find. I had to dry my 549 00:36:34,755 --> 00:36:37,995 Speaker 1: hands afterward on the bath mat. Then I tried to 550 00:36:38,035 --> 00:36:42,355 Speaker 1: find the needles in the towel. Hunting for seven needles 551 00:36:42,355 --> 00:36:44,995 Speaker 1: in a bath towel is the most tedious occupation I 552 00:36:45,035 --> 00:36:47,835 Speaker 1: have ever engaged in. I could find only five of 553 00:36:47,875 --> 00:36:50,675 Speaker 1: them with the two that had been left in the bowl. 554 00:36:50,915 --> 00:36:54,515 Speaker 1: That meant there were four needles in all, missing, two 555 00:36:54,715 --> 00:36:57,675 Speaker 1: in the wash bowl and two others lurking in the 556 00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:03,035 Speaker 1: towel or lying in the bathtub under the towel. Frightful 557 00:37:03,035 --> 00:37:04,915 Speaker 1: thoughts came to me of what might happen and do 558 00:37:04,955 --> 00:37:07,635 Speaker 1: anyone who used that towel or washed his face in 559 00:37:07,675 --> 00:37:10,475 Speaker 1: the bowl or got into the tub if I didn't 560 00:37:10,515 --> 00:37:16,675 Speaker 1: find the missing needles. Well, I didn't find them. I 561 00:37:16,715 --> 00:37:18,715 Speaker 1: sat down on the edge of the tub to think, 562 00:37:18,755 --> 00:37:20,715 Speaker 1: and I decided finally that the only thing to do 563 00:37:20,835 --> 00:37:23,475 Speaker 1: was to wrap up the towel in a newspaper and 564 00:37:23,555 --> 00:37:27,075 Speaker 1: take it away with me. I also decided to leave 565 00:37:27,115 --> 00:37:29,595 Speaker 1: a note for my friends, explaining as clearly as I 566 00:37:29,635 --> 00:37:32,435 Speaker 1: could that I was afraid there were two needles in 567 00:37:32,475 --> 00:37:35,195 Speaker 1: the bathtub and two needles in the wash bowl, and 568 00:37:35,275 --> 00:37:40,955 Speaker 1: that they better be careful. I looked everywhere in the apartment, 569 00:37:40,955 --> 00:37:43,315 Speaker 1: but I could not find a pencil or a pen 570 00:37:43,995 --> 00:37:46,715 Speaker 1: or a typewriter. I could find pieces of paper, but 571 00:37:46,875 --> 00:37:50,195 Speaker 1: nothing with which to write on them. I don't know 572 00:37:50,275 --> 00:37:53,675 Speaker 1: what gave me the idea a movie I had seen, perhaps, 573 00:37:53,755 --> 00:37:56,275 Speaker 1: or a story I had read. But I suddenly thought 574 00:37:56,275 --> 00:38:00,675 Speaker 1: of writing a message with lipstick. The wife might have 575 00:38:00,715 --> 00:38:03,475 Speaker 1: an extra lipstick lying around, and if so, I concluded 576 00:38:03,675 --> 00:38:07,875 Speaker 1: it would be in the medicine cabinet. I went back 577 00:38:07,875 --> 00:38:10,315 Speaker 1: to the medicine cabinet and began poking around in it 578 00:38:10,395 --> 00:38:13,595 Speaker 1: for a lipstick. I saw what I thought looked like 579 00:38:13,675 --> 00:38:15,715 Speaker 1: the metal tip of one, and I got two fingers 580 00:38:15,755 --> 00:38:18,115 Speaker 1: around it began to pull gently. It was under a 581 00:38:18,115 --> 00:38:22,275 Speaker 1: lot of things. Every object in the medicine cabinet began 582 00:38:22,355 --> 00:38:27,035 Speaker 1: to slide. Bottles broke in the washbowl and on the floor, red, brown, 583 00:38:27,115 --> 00:38:31,915 Speaker 1: and white liquids, spurted, nail files, scissors, razor blades, and 584 00:38:31,955 --> 00:38:37,115 Speaker 1: miscellaneous objects sang and clattered and tinkled. I was covered 585 00:38:37,155 --> 00:38:44,315 Speaker 1: with perfume, peroxide, and cold cream. It took me half 586 00:38:44,355 --> 00:38:47,515 Speaker 1: an hour to get all the debris all together in 587 00:38:47,555 --> 00:38:51,475 Speaker 1: the middle of the bathroom floor. I made no attempt 588 00:38:51,475 --> 00:38:54,675 Speaker 1: to put anything back in the medicine cabinet. I knew 589 00:38:54,715 --> 00:38:57,115 Speaker 1: it would take a steadier hand than mine and a 590 00:38:57,195 --> 00:39:03,435 Speaker 1: less shattered spirit. Before I went away only partly shaved 591 00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:06,795 Speaker 1: and abandoned the shambles. I left a note saying that 592 00:39:06,835 --> 00:39:08,835 Speaker 1: I was afraid there were needles in the bathtub and 593 00:39:08,875 --> 00:39:11,355 Speaker 1: the washbowl, and that I had taken their towel, and 594 00:39:11,395 --> 00:39:13,315 Speaker 1: that I would call up and tell them everything. I 595 00:39:13,355 --> 00:39:16,235 Speaker 1: wrote it in Io Dine with the end of a toothbrush. 596 00:39:18,515 --> 00:39:20,235 Speaker 1: I have not yet called up. I am sorry to 597 00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:23,915 Speaker 1: say I have neither found the courage nor thought up 598 00:39:23,915 --> 00:39:27,235 Speaker 1: the words to explain what happened. I suppose my friends 599 00:39:27,235 --> 00:39:30,915 Speaker 1: believe that I deliberately smashed up their bathroom and stole 600 00:39:30,995 --> 00:39:35,835 Speaker 1: their towel. I don't know for sure, because they have 601 00:39:35,955 --> 00:39:42,355 Speaker 1: not yet called me up either. Nine Needles by James Thurber, 602 00:39:44,395 --> 00:39:49,395 Speaker 1: and as I suggested in a broad sense on the 603 00:39:49,435 --> 00:39:54,315 Speaker 1: same subject from his Fables for our Time and famous 604 00:39:54,355 --> 00:39:59,075 Speaker 1: poems illustrated. The Mouse who Went to the Country by 605 00:39:59,155 --> 00:40:04,395 Speaker 1: James Thurber. Once upon a Sunday there was a city 606 00:40:04,435 --> 00:40:07,195 Speaker 1: MoU who went to visit a country mouse. He hid 607 00:40:07,235 --> 00:40:09,315 Speaker 1: away on a train the country mouse had told him 608 00:40:09,315 --> 00:40:12,155 Speaker 1: to take, only to find that on Sundays it did 609 00:40:12,155 --> 00:40:15,955 Speaker 1: not stop at Beddington. Hence the city mouse could not 610 00:40:16,035 --> 00:40:19,475 Speaker 1: get off at Beddington and catch a bus for Cybert's Junction, 611 00:40:19,995 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: where he was to be met by the country mouse. 612 00:40:22,715 --> 00:40:24,995 Speaker 1: The city mouse, in fact, was carried on to Middleburg, 613 00:40:25,315 --> 00:40:27,275 Speaker 1: where he waited three hours for a train to take 614 00:40:27,355 --> 00:40:30,515 Speaker 1: him back. When he got back to Beddington, he found 615 00:40:30,515 --> 00:40:34,155 Speaker 1: out that the last bus for Sieberts Junction had just left, 616 00:40:34,555 --> 00:40:36,995 Speaker 1: so he ran, and he ran, and he ran, and 617 00:40:37,035 --> 00:40:39,755 Speaker 1: he finally caught the bus and crept aboard, only to 618 00:40:39,795 --> 00:40:41,675 Speaker 1: find that it was not the bus for Seeberts Junction 619 00:40:41,795 --> 00:40:44,835 Speaker 1: at all, but was going in the opposite direction through 620 00:40:44,955 --> 00:40:49,715 Speaker 1: Pells Hollow and Grum to a place called Wimberbee. When 621 00:40:49,755 --> 00:40:51,995 Speaker 1: the bus finally stopped, the city mouse got out into 622 00:40:52,035 --> 00:40:54,235 Speaker 1: a heavy rain and found that there were no more 623 00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:59,315 Speaker 1: buses that night going anywhere. To the hell with it, 624 00:40:59,475 --> 00:41:01,715 Speaker 1: said the city mouse, and he walked back to the 625 00:41:01,755 --> 00:41:09,515 Speaker 1: city moral. There you are, you're sitting pretty. The Mouse 626 00:41:09,715 --> 00:41:25,835 Speaker 1: who Went to the Country by James Thurber. I've done 627 00:41:25,875 --> 00:41:27,995 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 628 00:41:27,995 --> 00:41:30,155 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music arranged, produced 629 00:41:30,155 --> 00:41:33,195 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel, who 630 00:41:33,235 --> 00:41:36,155 Speaker 1: are the Countdown musical directors. Guitars, bass and drums by 631 00:41:36,155 --> 00:41:39,275 Speaker 1: Brian Ray, all orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Shaneil 632 00:41:39,755 --> 00:41:44,315 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 633 00:41:44,315 --> 00:41:46,955 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports 634 00:41:47,075 --> 00:41:50,315 Speaker 1: music which I swear we will run again someday is 635 00:41:50,355 --> 00:41:52,835 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two. It was written by 636 00:41:52,835 --> 00:41:56,555 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical comments by 637 00:41:56,635 --> 00:41:59,835 Speaker 1: Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer 638 00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:02,115 Speaker 1: today was my friend Tony Kornheiser, and everything else is 639 00:42:02,115 --> 00:42:05,475 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. Remember. Countdown is now also available 640 00:42:05,475 --> 00:42:09,635 Speaker 1: on YouTube. That is countdown for this the nine twenty 641 00:42:09,675 --> 00:42:12,955 Speaker 1: seventh day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the 642 00:42:12,955 --> 00:42:16,675 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest him again 643 00:42:17,195 --> 00:42:21,635 Speaker 1: while we still can. Would today be convenient for anybody? 644 00:42:22,235 --> 00:42:26,515 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is I don't know. Every time 645 00:42:26,595 --> 00:42:28,035 Speaker 1: I say I'm going to try to take a three 646 00:42:28,115 --> 00:42:32,035 Speaker 1: day weekend, stuff immediately happens. But if there's nothing cooking 647 00:42:32,595 --> 00:42:36,875 Speaker 1: hunt Jack Smith to Electric Bugaloo, don't be surprised. If 648 00:42:36,875 --> 00:42:41,715 Speaker 1: there's nothing Monday, I need a nap. We'll see Bulletins 649 00:42:41,755 --> 00:42:43,995 Speaker 1: is the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Olderman. 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