1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Breaking News. 2 00:00:22,955 --> 00:00:27,715 Speaker 1: One legged Trump challenges Biden and others to ask kicking 3 00:00:27,835 --> 00:00:35,195 Speaker 1: contest quote. I hereby challenge Rupert Murdoch and sons Biden, 4 00:00:35,755 --> 00:00:45,715 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal heads two acuity tests. Today, impossibly, infuriatingly embarrassingly, 5 00:00:45,795 --> 00:00:48,755 Speaker 1: we have now circled back to what, with the benefit 6 00:00:48,755 --> 00:00:52,995 Speaker 1: of hindsight, appears to be the saddest possible thing, the 7 00:00:53,155 --> 00:00:56,835 Speaker 1: highlight of the Trump presidency in the mixed mind of 8 00:00:56,915 --> 00:01:01,475 Speaker 1: Donald Trump July twenty twenty, or perhaps earlier, when he 9 00:01:01,555 --> 00:01:05,555 Speaker 1: was told to memorize an endless strain of complicated, unconnected, 10 00:01:05,955 --> 00:01:09,795 Speaker 1: ill defined words, possibly from other languages, and then not 11 00:01:10,395 --> 00:01:13,795 Speaker 1: just to remember them, but to remember them in the 12 00:01:13,875 --> 00:01:25,875 Speaker 1: exact order person, woman, man, camera, t the I proved 13 00:01:25,915 --> 00:01:31,395 Speaker 1: I was all there, Trump said, proudly, horrifyingly, again and 14 00:01:31,475 --> 00:01:35,515 Speaker 1: again and again, to every interviewer at every campaign speech, 15 00:01:35,675 --> 00:01:38,115 Speaker 1: to everybody who would hold still long enough to listen, 16 00:01:38,395 --> 00:01:41,195 Speaker 1: beaming like a toddler who had managed to poop in 17 00:01:41,315 --> 00:01:46,195 Speaker 1: the potty chair. Mostly anyway, I aced it. I aced 18 00:01:46,315 --> 00:01:52,555 Speaker 1: the test. We thought those were the most humiliating things 19 00:01:52,555 --> 00:01:55,555 Speaker 1: he could ever say about himself. And that test, which 20 00:01:55,595 --> 00:01:58,915 Speaker 1: on the mental or intellectual soundness scale is slightly above 21 00:01:59,795 --> 00:02:02,355 Speaker 1: They put a mirror under his nose to see if 22 00:02:02,355 --> 00:02:06,315 Speaker 1: he's still breathing. We were wrong for last night. Somebody 23 00:02:06,395 --> 00:02:09,795 Speaker 1: evidently told Trump about the Wall Street Journal poll showing 24 00:02:09,875 --> 00:02:13,235 Speaker 1: seventy three percent of registered voters believe Joe Biden is 25 00:02:13,275 --> 00:02:16,795 Speaker 1: too old to run for president. The not unexpected number 26 00:02:16,835 --> 00:02:18,955 Speaker 1: given that the Wall Street Journal poll was run by 27 00:02:18,995 --> 00:02:22,955 Speaker 1: a former Trump pollster, But in that context, the second 28 00:02:23,035 --> 00:02:28,475 Speaker 1: number was actually shocking. Forty seven percent of registered voters 29 00:02:28,795 --> 00:02:32,395 Speaker 1: in the pro Trump poll run by a pro Trump 30 00:02:32,755 --> 00:02:36,915 Speaker 1: ex Trump polster, forty seven percent think Trump is too 31 00:02:36,995 --> 00:02:40,995 Speaker 1: old to run. And after a typo in his first 32 00:02:41,035 --> 00:02:44,115 Speaker 1: sentence of his rage post last night, he got right 33 00:02:44,155 --> 00:02:46,995 Speaker 1: to it. Quote a few years ago, I was the 34 00:02:47,035 --> 00:02:50,235 Speaker 1: only one to agree to a mental acuity test. And 35 00:02:50,715 --> 00:02:54,955 Speaker 1: asd it haste is of course in caps well, I 36 00:02:55,115 --> 00:02:59,955 Speaker 1: hereby challenged Rupert Murdoch and sons Biden wsj heads to 37 00:03:00,315 --> 00:03:04,075 Speaker 1: acuity tests. I will name the place and the test, 38 00:03:04,275 --> 00:03:07,035 Speaker 1: and did will be a tough one. Nobody will come 39 00:03:07,115 --> 00:03:12,275 Speaker 1: even close to me. Unquote. He trashed the journal. He 40 00:03:12,355 --> 00:03:16,155 Speaker 1: called it globalist, damaged goods phony and rigged. He is 41 00:03:16,435 --> 00:03:20,715 Speaker 1: enraged again over this one issue over which he cannot 42 00:03:20,715 --> 00:03:25,035 Speaker 1: possibly control himself, the reality that he is not a 43 00:03:25,155 --> 00:03:29,475 Speaker 1: sane or intelligent man. And that was just the start 44 00:03:29,515 --> 00:03:33,435 Speaker 1: of it. It devolved from there. It devolved into his 45 00:03:33,475 --> 00:03:40,675 Speaker 1: claim that the true test of non mental strength is golf. Quote. 46 00:03:40,715 --> 00:03:43,355 Speaker 1: We can also throw some physical activity into it. I 47 00:03:43,555 --> 00:03:46,635 Speaker 1: just won the senior club championship at a big golf club. 48 00:03:47,795 --> 00:03:50,275 Speaker 1: As an aside, he means his own golf club. He 49 00:03:50,315 --> 00:03:54,355 Speaker 1: said so earlier. He cheats at all golf courses. There 50 00:03:54,395 --> 00:03:57,515 Speaker 1: are hundreds of witnesses. He cheats at his golf courses 51 00:03:57,595 --> 00:04:02,035 Speaker 1: with impunity. He cheats literally in New Jersey over his 52 00:04:02,155 --> 00:04:06,955 Speaker 1: wife's dead body. Quoting again, I just won the senior 53 00:04:06,995 --> 00:04:09,715 Speaker 1: club championship at a big golf club with many very 54 00:04:09,715 --> 00:04:13,795 Speaker 1: good players. To do so, you need strength, accuracy, touch, 55 00:04:13,915 --> 00:04:19,115 Speaker 1: and above all, mental toughness. Ask Brett Behar Fox, a 56 00:04:19,315 --> 00:04:21,835 Speaker 1: very good golfer. Yeah, that's who I'm going to to 57 00:04:21,955 --> 00:04:25,835 Speaker 1: decide mental and physical confidence in a seventy seven year old, 58 00:04:25,955 --> 00:04:31,995 Speaker 1: insane megalomaniac Brett Freaking Bear. The Wall Street Journal and 59 00:04:32,075 --> 00:04:35,595 Speaker 1: Fox are damaged goods and their failed de sanctimonious push 60 00:04:35,595 --> 00:04:40,115 Speaker 1: and stupid seven hundred and eighty million dollar settlement. Where's 61 00:04:40,155 --> 00:04:42,795 Speaker 1: the rest of that sentence? There isn't one, And the 62 00:04:42,795 --> 00:04:47,275 Speaker 1: final thrust of this intellectual argument proving he is the 63 00:04:47,355 --> 00:04:51,195 Speaker 1: smartest man in the world, an intellectual argument that would 64 00:04:51,195 --> 00:04:57,355 Speaker 1: make Einstein wheap and run away. All in caps, neurons, 65 00:04:58,275 --> 00:05:06,875 Speaker 1: exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. I met Donald Trump 66 00:05:06,995 --> 00:05:10,995 Speaker 1: on Thursday, December fifteenth, nineteen eighty three, at a breakfast 67 00:05:11,035 --> 00:05:14,595 Speaker 1: symposium here in New York City featuring the owners of 68 00:05:14,715 --> 00:05:19,635 Speaker 1: four New York area sports franchises. The CNN cameraman and 69 00:05:19,755 --> 00:05:23,835 Speaker 1: the deck operator and I left the hotel having interviewed 70 00:05:23,835 --> 00:05:27,715 Speaker 1: each of them in silence. As we got to the van, 71 00:05:28,035 --> 00:05:32,875 Speaker 1: I finally broke that silence. Well, I said to the cameraman, 72 00:05:33,595 --> 00:05:37,155 Speaker 1: what the f is wrong with that guy? The other 73 00:05:37,195 --> 00:05:41,835 Speaker 1: two burst into laughter. Little did we know that was 74 00:05:42,075 --> 00:05:48,715 Speaker 1: his mental high point. That was nearly forty years of 75 00:05:48,835 --> 00:05:53,755 Speaker 1: Trumpion mental deterioration ago. And every time I think we 76 00:05:53,835 --> 00:05:59,195 Speaker 1: have hit rock bottom, Trump finds a new high in low. 77 00:05:59,235 --> 00:06:03,915 Speaker 1: And yet even at this possible bottom of the bottomless pit, 78 00:06:04,835 --> 00:06:09,795 Speaker 1: he still seems slightly aware that he is in danger. 79 00:06:10,755 --> 00:06:13,715 Speaker 1: It's not enough to challenge the Murdochs and Biden and 80 00:06:13,755 --> 00:06:19,315 Speaker 1: the journal editors to acuity tests. They must be acuity 81 00:06:19,395 --> 00:06:28,835 Speaker 1: tests that Trump selects and locates Parson, woman Man, Camera 82 00:06:29,795 --> 00:06:40,835 Speaker 1: TV and geez Burgers. There I run rings around geologically, Joe, 83 00:06:41,035 --> 00:06:47,715 Speaker 1: you old poopy pants. If I'm Joe Biden or Rupert 84 00:06:47,795 --> 00:06:51,635 Speaker 1: Murdoch or anybody else named Murdoch or the journal hanchos, 85 00:06:51,995 --> 00:06:55,475 Speaker 1: I take Trump up on this offer immediately, and I 86 00:06:55,555 --> 00:06:58,275 Speaker 1: see how quickly he forgets that offer. And then I 87 00:06:58,355 --> 00:07:01,595 Speaker 1: start bringing it up daily, and I start bringing it 88 00:07:01,675 --> 00:07:06,155 Speaker 1: up hourly, bring it up, Keep bringing it up, President Biden, 89 00:07:06,595 --> 00:07:12,715 Speaker 1: this is your magic Wand where is Trump's acuity test? 90 00:07:13,115 --> 00:07:20,235 Speaker 1: Where is our acuity showdown? And maybe somebody will say 91 00:07:20,235 --> 00:07:24,275 Speaker 1: to Trump mat Biden and the Murdocks remembered this phrase 92 00:07:24,715 --> 00:07:30,475 Speaker 1: ECF number forty seven dash three. Because ECF number forty 93 00:07:30,475 --> 00:07:34,115 Speaker 1: seven dash three, that could be the most important phrase 94 00:07:34,195 --> 00:07:39,155 Speaker 1: this week in trump Land, because something will happen today 95 00:07:40,115 --> 00:07:44,755 Speaker 1: involving ECF number forty seven Dash three, which could lead 96 00:07:44,795 --> 00:07:47,075 Speaker 1: to a gag order being imposed on Trump by the 97 00:07:47,155 --> 00:07:48,675 Speaker 1: end of the week or the beginning of next week, 98 00:07:48,875 --> 00:07:51,955 Speaker 1: or maybe it's sanctions or maybe it is a speeded 99 00:07:52,035 --> 00:07:56,435 Speaker 1: up Washington Trials start date. Unfortunately, barring the most unlikely 100 00:07:56,475 --> 00:07:59,075 Speaker 1: of circumstances, we will not know what it is today 101 00:07:59,155 --> 00:08:03,355 Speaker 1: nor which outcome it will produce. But today is when 102 00:08:03,395 --> 00:08:06,395 Speaker 1: the Trump legal team has to tell Judge Tanya Chutkin 103 00:08:06,755 --> 00:08:11,115 Speaker 1: whyat does not want made public. Whatever is the background 104 00:08:11,635 --> 00:08:15,755 Speaker 1: to this filing by Jack Smith last week, I'll quote 105 00:08:15,755 --> 00:08:19,715 Speaker 1: it again. Such a requirement would grind litigation in this 106 00:08:19,835 --> 00:08:22,795 Speaker 1: case to a halt, which is particularly infeasible given the 107 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:27,755 Speaker 1: pressing matters before the court, including the defendant's daily extra 108 00:08:27,915 --> 00:08:31,635 Speaker 1: judicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool in 109 00:08:31,755 --> 00:08:39,075 Speaker 1: this case, as described in the government's motion c ECF 110 00:08:39,675 --> 00:08:47,475 Speaker 1: number forty seven Dash three person woman, man, camera, dB 111 00:08:48,875 --> 00:08:55,195 Speaker 1: cheezburgers and if you have a copy of ECF number 112 00:08:55,235 --> 00:08:57,795 Speaker 1: forty seven, Dash three, give me a ring, because I don't. 113 00:08:58,235 --> 00:09:00,875 Speaker 1: Nobody outside the court is supposed to. It's under seal. 114 00:09:01,555 --> 00:09:06,235 Speaker 1: But it is clearly about Trump's statements and or revelations, 115 00:09:06,795 --> 00:09:09,035 Speaker 1: And it could be about his threats to the judge 116 00:09:09,035 --> 00:09:12,035 Speaker 1: and the prosecutors and the world. And it could be 117 00:09:12,075 --> 00:09:14,755 Speaker 1: about some piece of evidence he alluded to that didn't 118 00:09:14,795 --> 00:09:17,555 Speaker 1: really register with you or me or anybody following this 119 00:09:17,595 --> 00:09:20,475 Speaker 1: stuff even more closely than we are, but which caused 120 00:09:20,475 --> 00:09:23,395 Speaker 1: a couple of garbage cans inside the Special Council's office 121 00:09:23,475 --> 00:09:29,115 Speaker 1: to spontaneously burst into flames last week. Trump's ambulance chasers 122 00:09:29,155 --> 00:09:32,755 Speaker 1: were to respond to Judge Chutkin unless they were able 123 00:09:32,795 --> 00:09:36,075 Speaker 1: to find a way to delay it or that nice 124 00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:40,995 Speaker 1: miss Habba misplaced her brain again. Smith is to respond 125 00:09:41,075 --> 00:09:43,515 Speaker 1: on Wednesday, although one thing we already know about Smith 126 00:09:43,555 --> 00:09:45,155 Speaker 1: is that he will be ready to respond exactly eleven 127 00:09:45,195 --> 00:09:47,235 Speaker 1: minutes and forty seven seconds after he reads whatever the 128 00:09:47,235 --> 00:09:49,315 Speaker 1: Trump lawyer's write today, because that's who he is, and 129 00:09:49,355 --> 00:09:50,675 Speaker 1: that's why he's in this job, and that's why he 130 00:09:50,715 --> 00:09:56,755 Speaker 1: could actually play beat the clock and win and save democracy. 131 00:09:57,355 --> 00:10:03,275 Speaker 1: Could the defendant's daily extra judicial statements that threatened to 132 00:10:03,315 --> 00:10:05,835 Speaker 1: prejudice the jury pool in in this case, as described 133 00:10:05,835 --> 00:10:08,955 Speaker 1: in the government's motion cecf. Number forty seven, Dash three, 134 00:10:09,035 --> 00:10:11,355 Speaker 1: What I would give to know the rest of that. Now. 135 00:10:14,155 --> 00:10:16,995 Speaker 1: What we do know today that is new is that 136 00:10:17,035 --> 00:10:19,595 Speaker 1: Trump or those operating on his behalf appear to have 137 00:10:19,595 --> 00:10:23,195 Speaker 1: broken more laws regarding presidential records and their storage and 138 00:10:23,275 --> 00:10:27,835 Speaker 1: their pilferage. There is a second Trump document stash in 139 00:10:27,875 --> 00:10:32,515 Speaker 1: Greater West Palm Beach, Florida, besides the Mari Lago crapshack, 140 00:10:32,955 --> 00:10:35,715 Speaker 1: with the boxes of top secret documents kept securely next 141 00:10:35,795 --> 00:10:39,435 Speaker 1: to the commode. As we slowly see developing, what will 142 00:10:39,475 --> 00:10:41,835 Speaker 1: happen to Trump if he doesn't seize power again and 143 00:10:41,955 --> 00:10:44,995 Speaker 1: he doesn't go to jail, and instead he becomes one 144 00:10:44,995 --> 00:10:47,715 Speaker 1: of those hoarders who cannot really make it from his 145 00:10:47,835 --> 00:10:50,035 Speaker 1: bed to the front door because his way is blocked 146 00:10:50,035 --> 00:10:54,315 Speaker 1: by one hundred and sixteen thousand stacked fake copies of 147 00:10:54,435 --> 00:10:58,715 Speaker 1: Time magazine proclaiming him Golfer of the Year for nineteen 148 00:10:58,955 --> 00:11:04,275 Speaker 1: eighty seven. NBC News reports that ten minutes away from 149 00:11:04,355 --> 00:11:10,795 Speaker 1: Mayor on North Flagler Drive, the quintessential Florida address North 150 00:11:11,075 --> 00:11:15,315 Speaker 1: Flagler Drive, one floor before the headquarters for the Trump 151 00:11:15,435 --> 00:11:19,075 Speaker 1: Secret Service detail in Florida, there is an unmarked post 152 00:11:19,155 --> 00:11:23,155 Speaker 1: presidential office paid for by the United States government. No, 153 00:11:23,355 --> 00:11:26,875 Speaker 1: the real one, not Trump's pretend one. And that while 154 00:11:26,915 --> 00:11:29,955 Speaker 1: the presumption is there are no secret documents there now, 155 00:11:30,755 --> 00:11:34,235 Speaker 1: that does not mean there weren't lots before or might 156 00:11:34,315 --> 00:11:38,995 Speaker 1: not be some now. NBC reports that Trump's lawyers ordered 157 00:11:39,035 --> 00:11:41,715 Speaker 1: a private firm to search the office for just such 158 00:11:41,755 --> 00:11:45,835 Speaker 1: secret materials, and at least one box of classified stuff 159 00:11:46,635 --> 00:11:50,035 Speaker 1: was reportedly moved from marri A Lago to North Flaggler 160 00:11:50,075 --> 00:11:55,195 Speaker 1: and then apparently back to mari Lago. Boxes everywhere, says 161 00:11:55,195 --> 00:11:58,755 Speaker 1: an NBC source, the state of that office is generally cluttered, 162 00:12:00,715 --> 00:12:04,275 Speaker 1: like going inside Trump's brain. Don't wear your good shoes 163 00:12:05,195 --> 00:12:09,755 Speaker 1: piled against walls, boxes piled not against walls. Current and 164 00:12:09,875 --> 00:12:14,075 Speaker 1: recent ex employees of Trump political action committees like Bo Harrison, 165 00:12:14,475 --> 00:12:18,915 Speaker 1: Molly Michael, and Desiree Thompson and Thompson still works for 166 00:12:19,035 --> 00:12:22,355 Speaker 1: Save America Pack have had access, and while that is 167 00:12:22,435 --> 00:12:25,595 Speaker 1: not a crime, you can do both. If those Trump 168 00:12:25,635 --> 00:12:30,315 Speaker 1: political employees are doing political stuff in the government paid 169 00:12:30,395 --> 00:12:34,835 Speaker 1: for office on North Flagler, they are violating five US 170 00:12:34,875 --> 00:12:39,635 Speaker 1: Codes seven three two four political activities on duty. This 171 00:12:39,715 --> 00:12:41,595 Speaker 1: will not send any of them to jail, but it 172 00:12:41,635 --> 00:12:45,275 Speaker 1: should send Department of Justice investigators to North Flagler immediately. 173 00:12:46,955 --> 00:12:49,435 Speaker 1: The maddening part of this, of course, is that as 174 00:12:49,475 --> 00:12:52,435 Speaker 1: Trump never managed to establish any kind of line dividing 175 00:12:52,475 --> 00:12:56,155 Speaker 1: politics and corruption and what passed for his actual job 176 00:12:56,195 --> 00:12:59,795 Speaker 1: in the White House, he also never managed to establish 177 00:12:59,875 --> 00:13:03,435 Speaker 1: any kind of line dividing politics and corruption and sheer 178 00:13:03,475 --> 00:13:07,915 Speaker 1: in confidence and con fusion. NBC went to the menacing 179 00:13:08,195 --> 00:13:11,875 Speaker 1: lumpy Trump spokesman Stephen Chung for comment about the North 180 00:13:11,915 --> 00:13:16,435 Speaker 1: Flagler office, and Chung's response quote, I've never heard of 181 00:13:16,435 --> 00:13:21,795 Speaker 1: a North Flagler office, unquote, leaving the astonishing possibility that 182 00:13:21,955 --> 00:13:26,715 Speaker 1: somebody in the Trump camp for the first time might 183 00:13:27,475 --> 00:13:37,275 Speaker 1: accidentally be telling the truth. The next story is simple. 184 00:13:37,995 --> 00:13:41,435 Speaker 1: Jenny Thomas and Leonard Leo must be indicted on corruption charges, 185 00:13:41,475 --> 00:13:44,515 Speaker 1: and Clarence Thomas must be indicted for influence peddling and 186 00:13:44,555 --> 00:13:49,035 Speaker 1: the leaking of Supreme Court decisions in advance, and we're 187 00:13:49,075 --> 00:13:52,275 Speaker 1: probably profiteering off insider knowledge of what those decisions were 188 00:13:52,275 --> 00:13:54,635 Speaker 1: to be. And he must be removed from the court 189 00:13:54,675 --> 00:13:58,435 Speaker 1: immediately by any legal means, including arrests. And until all 190 00:13:58,475 --> 00:14:00,395 Speaker 1: this happens, the Supreme Court of the United States is 191 00:14:00,435 --> 00:14:03,915 Speaker 1: illegitimate and its jurisdiction over the laws and people of 192 00:14:03,955 --> 00:14:06,915 Speaker 1: this nation is no more valid than person, woman, man 193 00:14:06,915 --> 00:14:12,875 Speaker 1: camera TV. If you missed Politico's Breakthrough report yesterday, find 194 00:14:12,915 --> 00:14:18,075 Speaker 1: it and read it. Months before the infamous Citizens United decision, 195 00:14:18,115 --> 00:14:22,315 Speaker 1: in which supposed First Amendment defender and hero Floyd Abrams 196 00:14:22,635 --> 00:14:25,915 Speaker 1: helped a bunch of goons led by David Bossi sell 197 00:14:26,035 --> 00:14:30,915 Speaker 1: out democracy in this country. Clarence Thomas's wife and Leonard 198 00:14:30,995 --> 00:14:33,995 Speaker 1: Leo and the Thomases. Oh, I'm just a friend who 199 00:14:34,075 --> 00:14:37,875 Speaker 1: likes to give the Thomas' money. Friend Harland Crowe organized 200 00:14:37,915 --> 00:14:42,395 Speaker 1: exactly the kind of limitless, boundless political slush fund in 201 00:14:42,435 --> 00:14:45,075 Speaker 1: which corporations could funnel any amount of money they chose 202 00:14:45,155 --> 00:14:49,275 Speaker 1: to buy limitless political advertising and influence on behalf of 203 00:14:49,315 --> 00:14:52,715 Speaker 1: an issue or a candidate, provided the money did not 204 00:14:52,875 --> 00:14:59,155 Speaker 1: go directly to the candidate. Leo and Jinny Thomas had 205 00:14:59,195 --> 00:15:04,315 Speaker 1: it ready to go before Jinny Thomas's husband helped make 206 00:15:04,355 --> 00:15:09,635 Speaker 1: it happen. Politico offered a damning timeline of events in 207 00:15:09,635 --> 00:15:12,555 Speaker 1: addition to the Great Article in Brief September nine, two 208 00:15:12,595 --> 00:15:15,635 Speaker 1: thousand and nine, the oral arguments concluded in Citizens United. 209 00:15:16,075 --> 00:15:18,875 Speaker 1: Two months later, Cleta Mitchell, now where do we know 210 00:15:18,915 --> 00:15:22,035 Speaker 1: that name from? Filed an application with the IRS to 211 00:15:22,035 --> 00:15:25,835 Speaker 1: create an organization called Liberty Central, Inc. On behalf of 212 00:15:25,915 --> 00:15:30,315 Speaker 1: Jenny Thomas. December thirty one, two thousand and nine. Jenny 213 00:15:30,315 --> 00:15:33,355 Speaker 1: Thomas signs the incorporation paperwork, Leonard Leo is listed as 214 00:15:33,355 --> 00:15:35,675 Speaker 1: a director, and in the following week's half a million 215 00:15:35,715 --> 00:15:39,075 Speaker 1: in seed money is donated by Harlan Crowe. January fourteenth, 216 00:15:39,075 --> 00:15:42,675 Speaker 1: twenty ten, Virginia approves the request by Jenny Thomas to 217 00:15:42,875 --> 00:15:49,635 Speaker 1: incorporate Liberty Central, Inc. One week later, Citizens United is 218 00:15:49,675 --> 00:15:54,075 Speaker 1: handed down by the Supreme Court. February Jenny Thomas tells 219 00:15:54,115 --> 00:16:00,115 Speaker 1: Seapack She's been called to the front lines, out of 220 00:16:00,155 --> 00:16:04,315 Speaker 1: the cult and into the front lines, and on and 221 00:16:04,355 --> 00:16:08,875 Speaker 1: on and on and on. At the time, I called 222 00:16:08,915 --> 00:16:11,875 Speaker 1: Citizens United a worse decision by the Court than even 223 00:16:11,955 --> 00:16:16,315 Speaker 1: dread Scott and the fascists mocked me. This damning political 224 00:16:16,435 --> 00:16:19,235 Speaker 1: timeline goes on for more than a dozen more dates, 225 00:16:19,235 --> 00:16:23,315 Speaker 1: but one more stands out symbolically. October ninth, twenty ten, 226 00:16:23,995 --> 00:16:29,035 Speaker 1: Jenny Thomas leaves a voicemail demanding an apology from Anita Hill. 227 00:16:31,155 --> 00:16:38,995 Speaker 1: They are scum. Jenny Thomas is scum. Clarence Thomas is scum, 228 00:16:39,795 --> 00:16:48,995 Speaker 1: Leonard Leo is scum. Harlan Crow is scum. Cleta Mitchell 229 00:16:50,755 --> 00:16:59,435 Speaker 1: is scum. Finally, I guess this is comic relief. It 230 00:16:59,595 --> 00:17:02,075 Speaker 1: used to ring in the furthest reaches of my mind, 231 00:17:02,155 --> 00:17:05,915 Speaker 1: and now I hear it weekly, daily, hourly, and always 232 00:17:05,995 --> 00:17:09,235 Speaker 1: it's a little louder than it was last time. The 233 00:17:09,235 --> 00:17:11,955 Speaker 1: theory that this country is just a contiguous group of 234 00:17:12,035 --> 00:17:17,155 Speaker 1: regional tribes that once were sort of held together by 235 00:17:17,195 --> 00:17:19,275 Speaker 1: nothing more solid than the fact that there were only 236 00:17:19,795 --> 00:17:23,315 Speaker 1: three television networks, so that the odds were great, that 237 00:17:23,355 --> 00:17:29,835 Speaker 1: despite the fundamental and unsolvable differences, statistically, at least we 238 00:17:29,915 --> 00:17:34,915 Speaker 1: all shared some basic cultural element. Oh yeah, I saw 239 00:17:35,035 --> 00:17:38,035 Speaker 1: petticoat Junction the other night too, and that new Bobby 240 00:17:38,155 --> 00:17:44,355 Speaker 1: Joe is a dish or Artie Johnson is funny, or hey, look, 241 00:17:44,755 --> 00:17:51,475 Speaker 1: ABC just changed newscasters again. That's sixteen times this year. Now, 242 00:17:52,515 --> 00:17:57,755 Speaker 1: those long gone gossamer bonds are a distant memory. And 243 00:17:57,835 --> 00:18:00,475 Speaker 1: we have people born and raised in this country, the 244 00:18:00,595 --> 00:18:05,115 Speaker 1: children of countless generations here, and they are speaking a 245 00:18:05,195 --> 00:18:08,915 Speaker 1: language which they think is English, and which the other 246 00:18:09,435 --> 00:18:14,995 Speaker 1: native born speakers around them think is English. But it's 247 00:18:15,075 --> 00:18:18,835 Speaker 1: not English. We take you to rapid cities South Dakota. 248 00:18:19,915 --> 00:18:23,795 Speaker 1: This woman is a grandmother, presumably someone whom the thin 249 00:18:23,955 --> 00:18:27,595 Speaker 1: veneer of civilization and education has at least brushed over 250 00:18:27,715 --> 00:18:33,595 Speaker 1: once or twice across the decades. She owns clothes, she's 251 00:18:33,675 --> 00:18:38,035 Speaker 1: wearing them in the correct position. She has jewelry, she 252 00:18:38,195 --> 00:18:42,835 Speaker 1: was wearing a pleasant summer hat, fetching almost She's nearly 253 00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:46,275 Speaker 1: in tears as she talks about Trump. I too would 254 00:18:46,275 --> 00:18:48,115 Speaker 1: be in tears if I was feeling and saying what 255 00:18:48,195 --> 00:18:50,955 Speaker 1: she was feeling and saying. Because she's not actually speaking English, 256 00:18:51,235 --> 00:18:55,035 Speaker 1: but she does not know this. She is yearning for 257 00:18:55,155 --> 00:18:58,675 Speaker 1: what she believes Trump brings, and what Trump brings, in 258 00:18:58,755 --> 00:19:07,715 Speaker 1: her words, is stabability. Yeah, I'm very excited and helpful. 259 00:19:07,915 --> 00:19:11,595 Speaker 1: It gives me hope of security and just stabability. I 260 00:19:11,715 --> 00:19:13,675 Speaker 1: like what you said. I mean, that's a very authentic answer. 261 00:19:13,875 --> 00:19:18,315 Speaker 1: Alas we are lost. We cannot possibly educate these people 262 00:19:18,355 --> 00:19:22,075 Speaker 1: in time. They do not know they need help. They 263 00:19:22,075 --> 00:19:25,915 Speaker 1: would never accept that they need help. They would never 264 00:19:25,955 --> 00:19:29,635 Speaker 1: admit that they are stupid. They would never accept the 265 00:19:29,675 --> 00:19:33,395 Speaker 1: idea that the word stabability came to them in a dream. 266 00:19:34,715 --> 00:19:40,595 Speaker 1: They would shoot you rather than accept your correction. Besides, Madam, 267 00:19:40,915 --> 00:19:45,275 Speaker 1: I believe that the word you actually meant there in 268 00:19:45,395 --> 00:19:55,075 Speaker 1: terms of Trump was stabability. Also of interest here voice, okay, 269 00:19:55,115 --> 00:19:57,835 Speaker 1: a little scratchy, not too much stamina, Bear with me. 270 00:19:59,315 --> 00:20:05,635 Speaker 1: Stabability or instabability. Some slight marble size chunk of it 271 00:20:05,715 --> 00:20:07,955 Speaker 1: has returned to the universe. The great day has come. 272 00:20:08,715 --> 00:20:13,155 Speaker 1: Behold the age is closed. This is January first, in 273 00:20:13,195 --> 00:20:19,155 Speaker 1: the year one ac after Chuck. We are free from 274 00:20:19,155 --> 00:20:22,955 Speaker 1: one of the countless destructive factors in our land. Chuck 275 00:20:23,035 --> 00:20:25,955 Speaker 1: Todd is gone as the host of Meet the Press. 276 00:20:27,115 --> 00:20:31,195 Speaker 1: On the other hand, his final words were in essence, 277 00:20:31,515 --> 00:20:33,755 Speaker 1: I did a great job, and I made America smarter. 278 00:20:34,955 --> 00:20:38,315 Speaker 1: And no, he didn't seem to be stoned. That's next. 279 00:20:38,395 --> 00:20:42,795 Speaker 1: This is an all new edition of Countdown. This is 280 00:20:43,115 --> 00:20:54,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alberman. Postscripts to the news, some headlines, 281 00:20:54,235 --> 00:20:58,715 Speaker 1: some updates, some snarks, some predictions, dateline Washington, and now 282 00:20:58,795 --> 00:21:02,595 Speaker 1: he belongs to the ages. Chuck Todd signed off as 283 00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:05,595 Speaker 1: the host of NBC's Meet the Press, and he left 284 00:21:05,595 --> 00:21:10,155 Speaker 1: as he started, with his head completely up his ass 285 00:21:10,795 --> 00:21:13,915 Speaker 1: quote on my first day on the job of Meet 286 00:21:13,955 --> 00:21:16,715 Speaker 1: the Press, I was handed an audience survey of Sunday 287 00:21:16,755 --> 00:21:19,635 Speaker 1: show viewers, and the number one reason folks said they 288 00:21:19,675 --> 00:21:22,395 Speaker 1: tuned in was not because the person was behind the 289 00:21:22,475 --> 00:21:26,595 Speaker 1: chair or the guests. It was simply to get educated. 290 00:21:27,155 --> 00:21:31,075 Speaker 1: So for nearly a decade, I've had the honor of 291 00:21:31,155 --> 00:21:38,755 Speaker 1: helping to explain America to Washington and Washington to America. 292 00:21:38,915 --> 00:21:44,715 Speaker 1: Can you imagine, at any point in your life being 293 00:21:45,275 --> 00:21:50,515 Speaker 1: that divorced from reality to think that you explained anything 294 00:21:51,315 --> 00:21:56,795 Speaker 1: to anybody other than how not to do television, how 295 00:21:56,835 --> 00:22:01,395 Speaker 1: not to report the news, how not to interview people, 296 00:22:02,275 --> 00:22:06,875 Speaker 1: how not to represent truth, and most importantly, how not 297 00:22:07,315 --> 00:22:11,875 Speaker 1: to represent the urgent needs of the nation in which 298 00:22:12,195 --> 00:22:18,475 Speaker 1: you live. I have always said that someday the American 299 00:22:18,515 --> 00:22:22,595 Speaker 1: Psychiatric Association would officially declare that the compulsive need to 300 00:22:22,755 --> 00:22:28,235 Speaker 1: be on television is a full fledged mental illness requiring treatment. 301 00:22:29,035 --> 00:22:33,995 Speaker 1: I am genuinely surprised that that day was not yesterday 302 00:22:34,035 --> 00:22:39,475 Speaker 1: after Chuck Todd said that and added, quote, it's that 303 00:22:39,795 --> 00:22:43,715 Speaker 1: education piece that I'm hanging my hat on for the 304 00:22:43,755 --> 00:22:49,355 Speaker 1: rest of my professional life. Unquote. I have known Chuck 305 00:22:49,395 --> 00:22:52,555 Speaker 1: Todd since the year two thousand and five. He does 306 00:22:52,595 --> 00:22:57,915 Speaker 1: not own a hat, He does not have a professional life. Chuck, 307 00:22:58,755 --> 00:23:01,275 Speaker 1: do not let the door hit you in the ass 308 00:23:01,715 --> 00:23:04,995 Speaker 1: on the way out, or, to be more precise, Chuck, 309 00:23:05,155 --> 00:23:09,075 Speaker 1: do not let both sides of the door hit you 310 00:23:09,115 --> 00:23:13,315 Speaker 1: in the ass on the way out. Oh and if 311 00:23:13,315 --> 00:23:15,315 Speaker 1: you think it's going to get better under his replacement, 312 00:23:15,395 --> 00:23:19,035 Speaker 1: Kristin Welker, It's not. Let me remind you of this 313 00:23:19,075 --> 00:23:23,315 Speaker 1: from my podcast of August twenty fourth, Three Trump hoodlums 314 00:23:23,715 --> 00:23:28,315 Speaker 1: led by Jason Miller were, according to Politico, whining and 315 00:23:28,435 --> 00:23:32,595 Speaker 1: dining a dozen of the top national political reporters at 316 00:23:32,595 --> 00:23:36,915 Speaker 1: a steakhouse called Rare in Milwaukee. The point was to 317 00:23:37,155 --> 00:23:42,435 Speaker 1: let Trump be there yet remain personally in absentia, and 318 00:23:42,555 --> 00:23:46,435 Speaker 1: to continue taking his shots at Ron DeSantis by remote control. 319 00:23:46,835 --> 00:23:50,875 Speaker 1: Jason Miller and Chris Lasovita and Stephen Chung handed these 320 00:23:50,995 --> 00:23:55,635 Speaker 1: dozen reporters packs of putting snacks that would be a 321 00:23:55,675 --> 00:24:01,035 Speaker 1: shot at DeSantis, and they handed them DeSantis debate bingo cards, 322 00:24:01,435 --> 00:24:05,235 Speaker 1: which called DeSantis de sanctimonious and invoked his varying nunciations 323 00:24:05,275 --> 00:24:07,555 Speaker 1: of his names. How many times he would say woke 324 00:24:07,915 --> 00:24:10,075 Speaker 1: and Ron DeSantis can melt in the hot sun for 325 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:12,755 Speaker 1: all I care. Because the issue is not which fascist 326 00:24:12,835 --> 00:24:17,395 Speaker 1: politicians thugs were doing the insulting and which fascist politicians 327 00:24:17,475 --> 00:24:21,275 Speaker 1: thugs were on the receiving end, it's who was there. 328 00:24:22,035 --> 00:24:25,195 Speaker 1: Josh Dawsey of The Washington Post was there. Dana Bash 329 00:24:25,275 --> 00:24:27,235 Speaker 1: of CNN was there, I wish I was surprised by 330 00:24:27,275 --> 00:24:31,155 Speaker 1: that name. An NBC reporter named Dasha Burns, the chief 331 00:24:31,155 --> 00:24:34,875 Speaker 1: election correspondent of CBS News, Robert Costa, a producer there 332 00:24:34,955 --> 00:24:40,715 Speaker 1: named Finn Gomez, Rachel Scott, Senior congressional correspondent ABC, Shane Goldmacher, 333 00:24:40,755 --> 00:24:44,355 Speaker 1: New York Times, Rob Crilly UK's Daily Mail. He was 334 00:24:44,355 --> 00:24:46,915 Speaker 1: the one who started the whole Biden no comment on 335 00:24:46,995 --> 00:24:50,675 Speaker 1: Hawaii right wing feeding frenzy. He was the Pool reporter. 336 00:24:51,515 --> 00:24:54,075 Speaker 1: He never heard Biden say no comment, but he and 337 00:24:54,115 --> 00:24:56,475 Speaker 1: some other people thought they could read his lips at 338 00:24:56,515 --> 00:24:59,035 Speaker 1: a great distance, so they attributed that quote to him, 339 00:24:59,035 --> 00:25:02,155 Speaker 1: and it still attributed to him. And also at the 340 00:25:02,195 --> 00:25:05,915 Speaker 1: merriment with Jason Miller and Steve Evan Chung before the 341 00:25:05,955 --> 00:25:09,715 Speaker 1: first Republican debate, eating their food and participating in their 342 00:25:09,755 --> 00:25:14,555 Speaker 1: slimming of another candidate and laughing along with them. Kristen Welker, 343 00:25:15,275 --> 00:25:20,835 Speaker 1: the new pre corrupted host of NBC's Meet the Press, 344 00:25:21,675 --> 00:25:24,635 Speaker 1: And as a PostScript, if you want to feel even 345 00:25:24,715 --> 00:25:27,755 Speaker 1: worse about the media and the coverage of politics in 346 00:25:27,795 --> 00:25:33,515 Speaker 1: this country, the lead item in the Politico Daily newsletter yesterday, 347 00:25:34,155 --> 00:25:42,835 Speaker 1: the Jenny Thomas Scotis scandal. No Chuck Todd's farewell speech 348 00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:51,515 Speaker 1: after his firing, then Jenny Thomas because Politico also could 349 00:25:51,555 --> 00:25:54,435 Speaker 1: not tell the difference between the relative whereabouts of the 350 00:25:54,515 --> 00:26:12,755 Speaker 1: ass and the elbow. This is Sports Center. Wait, check that, 351 00:26:13,875 --> 00:26:21,395 Speaker 1: not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman in sports. 352 00:26:21,475 --> 00:26:25,315 Speaker 1: The embattled president of the Spanish Football Association, Luis Rubialis, 353 00:26:25,595 --> 00:26:27,875 Speaker 1: who forced to kiss on the mouth of star player 354 00:26:27,955 --> 00:26:32,315 Speaker 1: Jenny Hermoso after Spain's World Cup title win, has told 355 00:26:32,395 --> 00:26:38,795 Speaker 1: interviewer Pierce Morgan he will finally resign, possibly just to 356 00:26:38,795 --> 00:26:44,275 Speaker 1: get Pierce Morgan to shut up for two seconds. Michigan 357 00:26:44,275 --> 00:26:47,395 Speaker 1: State Football has suspended its head coach Mel Tucker, possibly 358 00:26:47,395 --> 00:26:50,435 Speaker 1: as a precursor to firing him. This came hours after 359 00:26:50,555 --> 00:26:53,595 Speaker 1: USA Today reported that after months of working with survivor 360 00:26:53,675 --> 00:26:57,315 Speaker 1: Brenda Tracy to raise awareness with his athletes about sexual 361 00:26:57,315 --> 00:27:01,355 Speaker 1: abuse and rape e harrassment, she alleges coach Tucker got 362 00:27:01,395 --> 00:27:04,155 Speaker 1: on the phone with her last year and made sexual 363 00:27:04,155 --> 00:27:10,755 Speaker 1: comments and began to masturbate mel Tucker. Mel Mother Tucker 364 00:27:11,355 --> 00:27:16,635 Speaker 1: now suspended without pay indefinitely. I wonder how he's gonna 365 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:30,075 Speaker 1: spend all that spare time. Thank you, Nancy Baust and 366 00:27:30,195 --> 00:27:33,155 Speaker 1: it may be time to start rescheduling the major tennis tournaments. 367 00:27:33,155 --> 00:27:35,435 Speaker 1: One fan collapsed during the US Open here in New 368 00:27:35,515 --> 00:27:39,235 Speaker 1: York last week. Men's third seed Daniel Medvedev said into 369 00:27:39,235 --> 00:27:42,035 Speaker 1: a court side camera quote one player is gonna die 370 00:27:42,195 --> 00:27:45,715 Speaker 1: and they're going to see. And climate protesters interrupted a 371 00:27:45,755 --> 00:27:47,955 Speaker 1: match last week, one of them gluing his own feet 372 00:27:48,035 --> 00:27:51,275 Speaker 1: to the stadium floor. The Associated Press reports that in 373 00:27:51,315 --> 00:27:54,835 Speaker 1: the last forty five years, temperatures at the Grand Slam 374 00:27:54,875 --> 00:27:58,715 Speaker 1: tennis events are up an average of five degrees and 375 00:27:58,715 --> 00:28:02,315 Speaker 1: that by twenty fifty the Australian Open, according to one calculation, 376 00:28:02,715 --> 00:28:05,555 Speaker 1: will have an average real feel at mid court of 377 00:28:06,395 --> 00:28:10,795 Speaker 1: one and forty seven. This underscore is the unlikeliest truth 378 00:28:10,875 --> 00:28:14,035 Speaker 1: of the coming climate catastrophe and maybe our best hope. 379 00:28:14,435 --> 00:28:16,995 Speaker 1: There are two areas in which the average human and 380 00:28:17,035 --> 00:28:20,395 Speaker 1: the average denier will get the message first. And they 381 00:28:20,395 --> 00:28:24,315 Speaker 1: are not scientific and they are not political. They are insurance. 382 00:28:24,875 --> 00:28:27,675 Speaker 1: The big insurers are already dropping out of markets like 383 00:28:27,755 --> 00:28:34,035 Speaker 1: Florida and sports. Outdoor sports schedules, especially tournaments, especially tennis tournaments, 384 00:28:34,195 --> 00:28:38,115 Speaker 1: will be destroyed as summers like this one become the norm. 385 00:28:38,755 --> 00:28:41,195 Speaker 1: Someday soon you will not have to be a protester 386 00:28:41,515 --> 00:28:44,475 Speaker 1: to get glued in place at the US Tennis Open. 387 00:28:44,715 --> 00:28:47,675 Speaker 1: That will not be glue. That will be your outer 388 00:28:47,755 --> 00:28:52,035 Speaker 1: layer of skin, which has melted and stuck you to 389 00:28:52,155 --> 00:29:08,795 Speaker 1: your seat, still ahead on countdown nine to eleven. Twenty 390 00:29:08,875 --> 00:29:12,835 Speaker 1: two years later, the story of Thomas Reyis and the 391 00:29:12,875 --> 00:29:15,675 Speaker 1: story of what is now the bright, straight clear line 392 00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:18,755 Speaker 1: from the nightmare of that day to the nightmare of 393 00:29:18,795 --> 00:29:22,515 Speaker 1: Trump and American fascism. First, the daily round up of 394 00:29:22,515 --> 00:29:25,195 Speaker 1: the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who 395 00:29:25,195 --> 00:29:30,475 Speaker 1: constitute today's worst persons in the world. The Bronze Shawn 396 00:29:30,595 --> 00:29:35,235 Speaker 1: Spicer speaking of Trump and fascism. There somebody from ground zero, 397 00:29:36,035 --> 00:29:39,635 Speaker 1: former Trump pressler and now host of The Shawn Spicer Show, 398 00:29:40,795 --> 00:29:45,635 Speaker 1: whose Twitter account has one hundred and fifty two followers 399 00:29:45,675 --> 00:29:49,355 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty two, possibly because he does stuff 400 00:29:49,435 --> 00:29:52,715 Speaker 1: like this a poll quote yes or no? Do you 401 00:29:52,795 --> 00:29:57,955 Speaker 1: think every single GOP presidential candidate could be Joe Biden? 402 00:29:57,995 --> 00:30:02,555 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, it remained on his feed like that. 403 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:07,555 Speaker 1: B I think he meant beat, but who knows? Could 404 00:30:07,675 --> 00:30:10,955 Speaker 1: every single GOP presidential candidate could be Joe Biden in 405 00:30:10,995 --> 00:30:13,675 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. It remained on his feed uncorrected like 406 00:30:13,715 --> 00:30:16,955 Speaker 1: that for the following three days. The runner up Elon Musk, 407 00:30:17,475 --> 00:30:20,395 Speaker 1: How many shovels can one man own? Because all he 408 00:30:20,435 --> 00:30:23,795 Speaker 1: does is keep digging. Somebody posted that fifteen of the 409 00:30:23,835 --> 00:30:29,075 Speaker 1: twenty three monkeys in whom Musks mad scientists implanted neuralinks 410 00:30:29,115 --> 00:30:32,115 Speaker 1: have reportedly died. Well, Musk had to answer that, of 411 00:30:32,155 --> 00:30:36,395 Speaker 1: course he is compulsive. Quote no monkey has died as 412 00:30:36,395 --> 00:30:40,235 Speaker 1: a result of a neuralink implant. First, our early implants 413 00:30:40,515 --> 00:30:44,835 Speaker 1: to minimize risk to healthy monkeys, we chose terminal moneies 414 00:30:45,755 --> 00:30:49,555 Speaker 1: close to death already unquote. We'll skip the Freudians slip 415 00:30:49,955 --> 00:30:54,395 Speaker 1: where he wrote monies instead of monkeys and just concentrate 416 00:30:54,435 --> 00:30:57,315 Speaker 1: on the fact that Elon Musk took a bunch of 417 00:30:57,435 --> 00:31:01,315 Speaker 1: dying monkeys and turned their last days on this earth 418 00:31:01,675 --> 00:31:06,435 Speaker 1: into tortuous surgery and the implanting of Musk brand machines 419 00:31:06,675 --> 00:31:12,835 Speaker 1: that promptly killed them. Elon, who's getting the first human neuralink? 420 00:31:13,075 --> 00:31:19,075 Speaker 1: Are you volunteering the winner? For sheer unawareness of his 421 00:31:19,115 --> 00:31:23,995 Speaker 1: own world? Though? Is Greg Guttersnipe of Fox News complaining 422 00:31:23,995 --> 00:31:28,395 Speaker 1: about a protest blocking a pregnant woman's access to healthcare. Now, 423 00:31:28,475 --> 00:31:30,715 Speaker 1: just think about that for a second. I mean, that's 424 00:31:30,915 --> 00:31:34,915 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd level of self unawareness. We can't block a 425 00:31:34,955 --> 00:31:39,715 Speaker 1: pregnant woman's access to healthcare. It's way too complicated an 426 00:31:39,715 --> 00:31:42,355 Speaker 1: irony for Greg to comprehend. So let it pass. Let 427 00:31:42,395 --> 00:31:45,515 Speaker 1: it pass. But his response after that was amazing. We 428 00:31:45,635 --> 00:31:47,755 Speaker 1: deserve that right as well. And I think that we 429 00:31:47,795 --> 00:31:51,555 Speaker 1: should be posting their exact names and addresses online on 430 00:31:51,635 --> 00:31:54,395 Speaker 1: social on websites, so if you desire to make their 431 00:31:54,435 --> 00:31:57,515 Speaker 1: lives extra difficult, you have the right too. They do 432 00:31:57,595 --> 00:32:00,995 Speaker 1: a group protest, what's wrong with a personal protest? Connect 433 00:32:01,035 --> 00:32:03,795 Speaker 1: the cost to the actions docs the people who are 434 00:32:03,835 --> 00:32:09,755 Speaker 1: destroying other people poll's experiences. Gutfeld is an extraordinarily stupid man, 435 00:32:09,955 --> 00:32:14,555 Speaker 1: convinced he is an extraordinarily brilliant man. In ten thousand lifetimes, 436 00:32:14,755 --> 00:32:17,275 Speaker 1: it will never occur to him that what the deranged 437 00:32:17,355 --> 00:32:20,475 Speaker 1: man who live streamed himself approaching the home of Barack 438 00:32:20,515 --> 00:32:25,115 Speaker 1: Obama looking for access tunnels so he could go hunt Obama? 439 00:32:25,515 --> 00:32:28,395 Speaker 1: That he was doing that using information supplied in a 440 00:32:28,435 --> 00:32:32,715 Speaker 1: social media post made by Donald Trump. A doxing by 441 00:32:32,755 --> 00:32:37,795 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, He'll never understand that. To be Gutfeld, to 442 00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:40,235 Speaker 1: be on Fox, to be a fascist, to be a 443 00:32:40,275 --> 00:32:45,635 Speaker 1: Republican is to believe you can never do wrong and 444 00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:49,515 Speaker 1: no rules apply to you, and no one else can 445 00:32:49,555 --> 00:32:54,475 Speaker 1: ever be right. I will not suggest doxing Greg Guttfeld. 446 00:32:54,915 --> 00:32:59,555 Speaker 1: I mean, who would want to see where he lives. Also, 447 00:32:59,835 --> 00:33:02,755 Speaker 1: more importantly, I have been the victim of doxing done 448 00:33:02,875 --> 00:33:06,995 Speaker 1: by a viewer of the Fox News channel. I would 449 00:33:07,035 --> 00:33:10,675 Speaker 1: not even wish it on hosts of Fox News. After all, 450 00:33:10,715 --> 00:33:13,635 Speaker 1: if there is a hell, they already have a studio 451 00:33:13,795 --> 00:33:19,035 Speaker 1: set up there that will suffice Greg. Oh wait, Trump 452 00:33:19,235 --> 00:33:25,555 Speaker 1: dalks somebody. I'm going to tell got film Today's worst, 453 00:33:26,035 --> 00:33:47,555 Speaker 1: I said, And hell, finally to the number one story 454 00:33:47,595 --> 00:33:51,435 Speaker 1: on the Countdown, And it's happened. In preparing this script 455 00:33:51,475 --> 00:33:53,995 Speaker 1: for this edition, and to be fair, still a little 456 00:33:53,995 --> 00:33:57,275 Speaker 1: hazy from my illness, I had to carefully calculate the 457 00:33:57,355 --> 00:34:00,115 Speaker 1: dates on each page based on the last show, which 458 00:34:00,195 --> 00:34:05,475 Speaker 1: was September eighth last week, And I typed out today's 459 00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:09,115 Speaker 1: date and it did not immediately shock me or strike 460 00:34:09,155 --> 00:34:14,915 Speaker 1: me as anything significant. I just typed nine eleven, twenty 461 00:34:14,955 --> 00:34:20,955 Speaker 1: twenty three. Well, it's understandable. It's twenty two years. I 462 00:34:21,075 --> 00:34:24,835 Speaker 1: mention it to young people, and I get the looks 463 00:34:25,155 --> 00:34:28,115 Speaker 1: I must have given to my folks. Twenty two years 464 00:34:28,155 --> 00:34:30,555 Speaker 1: after Pearl Harbor, or twenty two years after the end 465 00:34:30,595 --> 00:34:35,395 Speaker 1: of World War Two, nothing of importance happened to me 466 00:34:35,675 --> 00:34:39,115 Speaker 1: on September eleventh, two thousand and one. I mean, against 467 00:34:39,275 --> 00:34:43,875 Speaker 1: statistical probability. I had friends acquaintances in each of the 468 00:34:43,915 --> 00:34:47,635 Speaker 1: two towers and three out of the four planes, and 469 00:34:49,035 --> 00:34:51,475 Speaker 1: I only learned of the death of one of them 470 00:34:51,475 --> 00:34:56,395 Speaker 1: from the missing posters. I rather unexpectedly became a street 471 00:34:56,395 --> 00:34:59,395 Speaker 1: news reporter for old friends, one who ran an LATV 472 00:34:59,475 --> 00:35:02,235 Speaker 1: station and one who ran an LA all news radio station. 473 00:35:02,515 --> 00:35:04,835 Speaker 1: I felt more keenly that day than any other in 474 00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:06,955 Speaker 1: my life that I was the descendant of countless New 475 00:35:07,035 --> 00:35:11,635 Speaker 1: York cops and firefighters. My grandfather, my mother's father, drove 476 00:35:11,675 --> 00:35:14,555 Speaker 1: a hook and ladder in the Bronx. I have his badge. 477 00:35:15,395 --> 00:35:17,555 Speaker 1: I was taken by cops for a series of harrowing 478 00:35:17,595 --> 00:35:21,595 Speaker 1: behind the police line walks behind ground zero. I can 479 00:35:21,635 --> 00:35:23,675 Speaker 1: still hear in my head the matter of factness of 480 00:35:23,715 --> 00:35:26,835 Speaker 1: a dispatcher's voice coming across one of the radios saying 481 00:35:27,435 --> 00:35:30,675 Speaker 1: body parts found on fourteenth floor of the World Financial Center, 482 00:35:31,115 --> 00:35:35,235 Speaker 1: and another equally weary and broken voice repeating it body 483 00:35:35,275 --> 00:35:39,035 Speaker 1: parts found on fourteenth floor of World Financial Center. I 484 00:35:39,075 --> 00:35:43,355 Speaker 1: didn't see the attacks my apartment then only faced uptown. 485 00:35:43,955 --> 00:35:45,995 Speaker 1: When I woke up that morning, all I saw was 486 00:35:46,035 --> 00:35:49,155 Speaker 1: as beautiful a sky as I had ever seen before 487 00:35:49,235 --> 00:35:53,115 Speaker 1: and to this day, have ever seen since. By the 488 00:35:53,155 --> 00:35:55,315 Speaker 1: time I got down to the street, there were already 489 00:35:55,355 --> 00:35:59,995 Speaker 1: people with glazed eyes and dust covered shoes and pants 490 00:36:00,515 --> 00:36:03,275 Speaker 1: who were just reaching my neighborhood from their walk from 491 00:36:03,275 --> 00:36:06,395 Speaker 1: the Trade Center. The Trade Center was seventy five blocks 492 00:36:06,435 --> 00:36:11,275 Speaker 1: south of where I lived. I was the witness who 493 00:36:11,315 --> 00:36:16,395 Speaker 1: didn't see anything. However, I had already been on the 494 00:36:16,475 --> 00:36:18,715 Speaker 1: radio in La three times, and I was on my 495 00:36:18,755 --> 00:36:21,315 Speaker 1: way to Times Square for a television shot when I 496 00:36:21,355 --> 00:36:24,075 Speaker 1: realized it was now hours later, and I had ne eaten, 497 00:36:24,555 --> 00:36:26,475 Speaker 1: and I was just passing one of my places, a 498 00:36:26,475 --> 00:36:30,675 Speaker 1: restaurant called Red Eye Grill, and unbelievably it was open, 499 00:36:31,635 --> 00:36:35,955 Speaker 1: half a dozen waiters, familiar faces, hugs, tears. They made 500 00:36:35,955 --> 00:36:38,275 Speaker 1: me my regular meal, they didn't charge me for it, 501 00:36:38,955 --> 00:36:41,035 Speaker 1: and then I went to the restroom to wash up, and 502 00:36:41,075 --> 00:36:43,355 Speaker 1: there was an attendant in there, and I recognized him too, 503 00:36:43,395 --> 00:36:45,835 Speaker 1: And after I was finished being even more embarrassed than 504 00:36:45,915 --> 00:36:47,835 Speaker 1: usual at the whole process of somebody handing me a 505 00:36:47,995 --> 00:36:51,395 Speaker 1: washcloth in a bathroom, I reached to give him a tip, 506 00:36:51,435 --> 00:36:53,555 Speaker 1: and I found exactly three quarters in my pocket and 507 00:36:53,595 --> 00:36:56,475 Speaker 1: a fifty dollars bill in my wallet. And the attendant said, oh, 508 00:36:56,515 --> 00:36:59,075 Speaker 1: I'll take those quarters. I can't use the payphone with 509 00:36:59,115 --> 00:37:02,835 Speaker 1: a fifty. And I didn't understand what he meant, so 510 00:37:02,915 --> 00:37:06,075 Speaker 1: I asked him, what do you mean. He introduced himself. 511 00:37:06,435 --> 00:37:11,355 Speaker 1: His name was Thomas Reyis, he explained. Two weeks earlier, 512 00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:14,435 Speaker 1: Thomas Reyess said he had been laid off by an 513 00:37:14,435 --> 00:37:17,475 Speaker 1: investment firm that he had worked for downtown. They liked him, 514 00:37:17,675 --> 00:37:19,915 Speaker 1: he liked them, But jobs like his came and went, 515 00:37:19,955 --> 00:37:23,355 Speaker 1: and he was out fired on August twenty fourth, two 516 00:37:23,355 --> 00:37:26,315 Speaker 1: thousand and one. But he said they told him that 517 00:37:26,355 --> 00:37:28,115 Speaker 1: if he wanted to, he could keep his desk for 518 00:37:28,155 --> 00:37:30,235 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, maybe even a month. He could 519 00:37:30,275 --> 00:37:32,835 Speaker 1: come in and use their computer and call around looking 520 00:37:32,875 --> 00:37:35,355 Speaker 1: for work, maybe even pick up a shift at the 521 00:37:35,355 --> 00:37:38,915 Speaker 1: firm here and there freelance. But to that point in 522 00:37:39,035 --> 00:37:42,075 Speaker 1: large part because labor Day had been the previous Monday, 523 00:37:42,595 --> 00:37:45,475 Speaker 1: and in New York you leave for labor Day a 524 00:37:45,515 --> 00:37:48,315 Speaker 1: week before and you come back a week after. There 525 00:37:48,355 --> 00:37:51,115 Speaker 1: were no openings yet for him in the investment business 526 00:37:51,195 --> 00:37:54,635 Speaker 1: or anything else that he could find. But years before 527 00:37:55,035 --> 00:37:57,355 Speaker 1: he had worked odd jobs at that place, the Red 528 00:37:57,395 --> 00:38:00,555 Speaker 1: Eye Grill, including as the attendant in the men's room, 529 00:38:01,235 --> 00:38:04,075 Speaker 1: and this was the only place where they had offered 530 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:08,035 Speaker 1: him a paycheck to do anything. He was still going 531 00:38:08,075 --> 00:38:10,475 Speaker 1: to his old job and his old desk every day 532 00:38:10,595 --> 00:38:13,395 Speaker 1: except when Red Eye called and said they needed him 533 00:38:13,395 --> 00:38:18,475 Speaker 1: in the men's room. He had been on Wall Street. 534 00:38:18,915 --> 00:38:22,315 Speaker 1: He was now not just the men's room attendant. He 535 00:38:22,355 --> 00:38:26,435 Speaker 1: was the backup men's room attendant at a restaurant in Midtown. 536 00:38:27,435 --> 00:38:30,915 Speaker 1: And that morning, seven am, seven point thirty, he was 537 00:38:30,955 --> 00:38:33,915 Speaker 1: going out the door to his desk in the investment 538 00:38:33,955 --> 00:38:37,155 Speaker 1: firm to work the phones again when his cell phone rang. 539 00:38:37,715 --> 00:38:40,275 Speaker 1: The guy doing the mid day shift in the men's 540 00:38:40,355 --> 00:38:43,755 Speaker 1: room at Red Eye Grill on Seventh Avenue had called 541 00:38:43,755 --> 00:38:48,115 Speaker 1: in sick. He had, if he wanted it, eight hours 542 00:38:48,115 --> 00:38:50,875 Speaker 1: of work coming to him sixty bucks seventy five with 543 00:38:51,035 --> 00:38:55,035 Speaker 1: tips if he wanted it, and so that was how 544 00:38:55,355 --> 00:38:58,435 Speaker 1: Thomas Reyis was in the men's room at the Red 545 00:38:58,435 --> 00:39:00,875 Speaker 1: Eye Grill at fifty seventh Street on sixth Avenue, handing 546 00:39:00,915 --> 00:39:04,835 Speaker 1: out very few towels to very few customers on September eleven, 547 00:39:04,955 --> 00:39:07,675 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, rather than sitting at his desk 548 00:39:09,515 --> 00:39:13,075 Speaker 1: in the World Trade Center. And that is also why 549 00:39:13,075 --> 00:39:15,395 Speaker 1: he wanted my quarters and not my fifty dollars bill, 550 00:39:15,435 --> 00:39:18,955 Speaker 1: because he was trying to use the restaurant payphone to 551 00:39:18,995 --> 00:39:24,915 Speaker 1: call his friends who still worked at the investment firm's office, 552 00:39:24,955 --> 00:39:27,235 Speaker 1: which was on floors one hundred and one, one hundred 553 00:39:27,235 --> 00:39:29,195 Speaker 1: and two, one hundred three, one hundred four and one 554 00:39:29,235 --> 00:39:33,755 Speaker 1: hundred five of World Trade Center Building number one, because 555 00:39:33,755 --> 00:39:37,315 Speaker 1: his old firm was Canter Fitzgerald, and he was not 556 00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:41,235 Speaker 1: there that day only because the full time men's room 557 00:39:41,275 --> 00:39:45,635 Speaker 1: attendant at the restaurant had called in sick, and I 558 00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:47,595 Speaker 1: wished him luck with his phone calls, and I got 559 00:39:47,595 --> 00:39:49,115 Speaker 1: out of there as quickly as I could, because I 560 00:39:49,115 --> 00:39:51,635 Speaker 1: had seen the video and he clearly had not seen 561 00:39:51,675 --> 00:39:54,755 Speaker 1: the video. They were all dead at Canter Fitzgerald, including 562 00:39:54,795 --> 00:39:58,555 Speaker 1: two classmates of mine from college, Amon mcaaney Mike Tanner. 563 00:39:59,235 --> 00:40:01,195 Speaker 1: They were dead in the pyre of the building in 564 00:40:01,195 --> 00:40:04,435 Speaker 1: which I had started my television career twenty years and 565 00:40:04,475 --> 00:40:08,235 Speaker 1: a mo month before. The brother of another friend of 566 00:40:08,235 --> 00:40:10,955 Speaker 1: mine was in the other tower. I had a friend, 567 00:40:11,555 --> 00:40:14,035 Speaker 1: one of my cameramen on my show at Fox Sports, 568 00:40:14,155 --> 00:40:17,675 Speaker 1: who I'd worked with literally three months before, Tom Peccarelli. 569 00:40:17,835 --> 00:40:21,675 Speaker 1: He was on one plane, the former MSNBC guest Barbara 570 00:40:21,755 --> 00:40:25,595 Speaker 1: Olson was on another. A hockey acquaintance of mine, Garnet 571 00:40:25,595 --> 00:40:29,995 Speaker 1: Ace Bailey, was on a third plane. I went to 572 00:40:30,035 --> 00:40:31,555 Speaker 1: the bar at the Red Eye Grill and I asked 573 00:40:31,555 --> 00:40:33,755 Speaker 1: the bartender to change the fifty for me and to 574 00:40:33,795 --> 00:40:36,755 Speaker 1: give me all the coins he could spare. It was 575 00:40:36,795 --> 00:40:39,795 Speaker 1: probably five dollars worth, and I kept two tens for 576 00:40:39,875 --> 00:40:41,555 Speaker 1: myself just in case. And I went back to the 577 00:40:41,595 --> 00:40:42,955 Speaker 1: men's room and I gave the rest and all the 578 00:40:42,955 --> 00:40:47,995 Speaker 1: coins to Thomas Reyes for his phone calls. Apparently the 579 00:40:47,995 --> 00:40:51,475 Speaker 1: battery was gone on his cell, and I hope I 580 00:40:51,515 --> 00:40:54,435 Speaker 1: did a good job not letting him know that none 581 00:40:54,475 --> 00:40:59,475 Speaker 1: of his friends would be answering. I mentioned Mike Tanner. 582 00:40:59,515 --> 00:41:01,355 Speaker 1: I did not know he was dead until much later 583 00:41:01,395 --> 00:41:06,595 Speaker 1: September twenty fourth. About Amon Mcananey. I knew right away 584 00:41:06,635 --> 00:41:08,395 Speaker 1: that morning. He had been one of the heroes of 585 00:41:08,435 --> 00:41:12,195 Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety three attack on the Trade Center. On 586 00:41:12,235 --> 00:41:14,995 Speaker 1: that day, he had guided a human chain of survivors 587 00:41:14,995 --> 00:41:18,435 Speaker 1: down one hundred flights of smoky stairwells. He worked on 588 00:41:18,435 --> 00:41:21,555 Speaker 1: one of the uppermost floors. But this time, in two 589 00:41:21,595 --> 00:41:23,795 Speaker 1: thousand and one, there were no chains for him to lead, 590 00:41:25,915 --> 00:41:27,955 Speaker 1: though no one who knew him has ever had a 591 00:41:28,035 --> 00:41:32,955 Speaker 1: seconds doubt that he tried. Mike Tanner was the starting 592 00:41:33,035 --> 00:41:36,115 Speaker 1: quarterback and Amon Mcananey the starting wide receiver. In the 593 00:41:36,115 --> 00:41:39,955 Speaker 1: first sporting event I ever covered for money fifteen dollars 594 00:41:39,995 --> 00:41:42,835 Speaker 1: from United Press International to cover a Cornell football game 595 00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:45,635 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six, And wouldn't you know, the only 596 00:41:45,715 --> 00:41:51,235 Speaker 1: thing that happened all day was Amon dropping a punt 597 00:41:51,515 --> 00:41:54,635 Speaker 1: setting up the other guy's field goal. Cornell loses three 598 00:41:54,635 --> 00:41:56,515 Speaker 1: to nothing, and I'm supposed to write two hundred words 599 00:41:56,515 --> 00:41:59,915 Speaker 1: about it and telling this story as methodically as possible. 600 00:41:59,995 --> 00:42:02,275 Speaker 1: I only summon up about one hundred and ten words, 601 00:42:02,915 --> 00:42:05,275 Speaker 1: and the UPI man in all beneath taking in my 602 00:42:05,355 --> 00:42:07,795 Speaker 1: story says, no, that's okay. You don't have to pad 603 00:42:07,875 --> 00:42:10,155 Speaker 1: it out with ninety words. On the early fall weather. 604 00:42:10,555 --> 00:42:15,275 Speaker 1: We'll still send you the fifteen bucks kid. And I 605 00:42:15,355 --> 00:42:17,595 Speaker 1: found out about Mike Tanner the way too many people 606 00:42:17,635 --> 00:42:20,595 Speaker 1: found out about loved ones, or friends, or fellow alumni, 607 00:42:20,795 --> 00:42:24,475 Speaker 1: or just anonymous to them, smiling faces who suddenly counted 608 00:42:24,515 --> 00:42:26,755 Speaker 1: every bit as much as those we knew in that 609 00:42:26,875 --> 00:42:31,195 Speaker 1: horrible month. Mike's face and name were on a missing 610 00:42:31,235 --> 00:42:35,275 Speaker 1: poster on Canal Street in Manhattan. I stopped and stared 611 00:42:35,275 --> 00:42:37,995 Speaker 1: at it for five minutes. I missed a report I 612 00:42:38,035 --> 00:42:40,915 Speaker 1: was supposed to file for KFWB Radio in Los Angeles. 613 00:42:42,395 --> 00:42:48,555 Speaker 1: Somehow the circumstances of finding out that way foretold accurately 614 00:42:48,675 --> 00:42:50,995 Speaker 1: how much shock and pain there was yet to come. 615 00:42:51,995 --> 00:42:55,435 Speaker 1: But the point is I had a nine to eleven story, 616 00:42:56,755 --> 00:43:00,675 Speaker 1: and you did too, probably even at remote distances, even 617 00:43:00,755 --> 00:43:04,795 Speaker 1: friend of a friend of a friend. Some lucky, very 618 00:43:04,795 --> 00:43:07,795 Speaker 1: ones don't. Some went through their entire lives and go 619 00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:10,235 Speaker 1: through their entire lives still unaffected by nine to eleven. 620 00:43:11,355 --> 00:43:14,195 Speaker 1: And now with time, more and more people think of 621 00:43:14,235 --> 00:43:18,355 Speaker 1: it like Pearl Harbor, like World War Two, like the 622 00:43:18,355 --> 00:43:21,515 Speaker 1: assassination of Lincoln. Then it has to be that way, 623 00:43:21,915 --> 00:43:25,715 Speaker 1: or we would never survive. But for those of us 624 00:43:25,755 --> 00:43:28,875 Speaker 1: who still have the stories. Democrats have them, and Republicans 625 00:43:28,875 --> 00:43:31,755 Speaker 1: have them, and those who thought the Iraq War made 626 00:43:31,835 --> 00:43:34,675 Speaker 1: sense have them, and those who knew it for what 627 00:43:34,795 --> 00:43:38,515 Speaker 1: it was have them. We were all in that sad 628 00:43:38,555 --> 00:43:42,875 Speaker 1: thing together, and we always will be. But unfortunately, as 629 00:43:42,915 --> 00:43:47,275 Speaker 1: the anniversaries of nine to eleven began, President Bush and 630 00:43:47,355 --> 00:43:50,475 Speaker 1: the Republicans were making it clear that somehow their part 631 00:43:51,115 --> 00:43:56,355 Speaker 1: of this enforced tragic togetherness was more important than the 632 00:43:56,395 --> 00:44:00,915 Speaker 1: part of their critics. The only positive of nine eleven 633 00:44:00,955 --> 00:44:03,235 Speaker 1: and the days and weeks and years that so slowly 634 00:44:03,515 --> 00:44:07,115 Speaker 1: and painfully followed it, it was the unanimous humanity here in 635 00:44:07,155 --> 00:44:11,395 Speaker 1: New York and throughout the country. The government, the President 636 00:44:11,435 --> 00:44:16,075 Speaker 1: in particular, was given every possible measure of support. Those 637 00:44:16,115 --> 00:44:21,955 Speaker 1: who did not belong to the President's party tabled that reality. 638 00:44:22,235 --> 00:44:25,315 Speaker 1: Those who doubted the mechanics of his election the year 639 00:44:25,315 --> 00:44:31,235 Speaker 1: before ignored that those who wondered about his qualifications forgot 640 00:44:31,275 --> 00:44:38,435 Speaker 1: that nearly unanimous support of his government was granted. And 641 00:44:38,475 --> 00:44:40,595 Speaker 1: that is something that cannot be taken away from that 642 00:44:40,675 --> 00:44:44,075 Speaker 1: government by its critics. It can only be squandered by 643 00:44:44,075 --> 00:44:47,435 Speaker 1: those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, 644 00:44:47,795 --> 00:44:52,995 Speaker 1: but to take political advantage of them. Terrorists did not 645 00:44:53,115 --> 00:44:56,915 Speaker 1: come and steal our newly regained sense of being American 646 00:44:56,955 --> 00:45:00,515 Speaker 1: first and political fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats, nor did 647 00:45:00,515 --> 00:45:05,675 Speaker 1: the media, nor did the people. The president and those 648 00:45:05,715 --> 00:45:09,235 Speaker 1: around him and those who followed him in his party, 649 00:45:10,235 --> 00:45:15,635 Speaker 1: they did that. They promised bipartisanship and then showed that 650 00:45:15,675 --> 00:45:18,955 Speaker 1: to them bipartisanship meant that their party would rule and 651 00:45:18,995 --> 00:45:21,675 Speaker 1: the rest of us would follow or be branded with 652 00:45:21,795 --> 00:45:27,595 Speaker 1: ever escalating hysteria, as morally or intellectually confused, as appeasers, 653 00:45:27,955 --> 00:45:32,035 Speaker 1: as those who, in Vice President Cheney's words, validate the 654 00:45:32,115 --> 00:45:39,115 Speaker 1: strategy of the terrorists. These men promised protection and then 655 00:45:39,155 --> 00:45:41,635 Speaker 1: showed that to them protection meant going to war against 656 00:45:41,675 --> 00:45:46,395 Speaker 1: the despot whose hand they had once shaken, who did 657 00:45:46,395 --> 00:45:49,595 Speaker 1: not have WMD, who did not have a damn thing 658 00:45:49,595 --> 00:45:54,235 Speaker 1: to do with nine to eleven, against whom plans had 659 00:45:54,235 --> 00:45:59,355 Speaker 1: been laid many years before nine to eleven. The polite 660 00:45:59,395 --> 00:46:02,275 Speaker 1: phrase for how so many of us were duped into 661 00:46:02,355 --> 00:46:06,635 Speaker 1: supporting a war, or at least acquiescing to it, on 662 00:46:06,715 --> 00:46:09,115 Speaker 1: the false premise that it had something to do with 663 00:46:09,195 --> 00:46:14,555 Speaker 1: nine to eleven, is lying by inference the impolite phrase 664 00:46:14,675 --> 00:46:20,075 Speaker 1: is war crime. The america we live in now, in 665 00:46:20,115 --> 00:46:24,395 Speaker 1: which one party believes its hatred is love, its fascism 666 00:46:24,515 --> 00:46:28,595 Speaker 1: is freedom, its depravity is purity. That began as the 667 00:46:28,715 --> 00:46:32,315 Speaker 1: nine to eleven anniversaries began to follow one upon the other, 668 00:46:33,435 --> 00:46:36,755 Speaker 1: after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and the love 669 00:46:36,915 --> 00:46:41,355 Speaker 1: and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death, after 670 00:46:41,475 --> 00:46:45,555 Speaker 1: monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion, and turning that 671 00:46:45,595 --> 00:46:49,435 Speaker 1: fear into the campaign slogan of election after election, we 672 00:46:49,595 --> 00:46:52,715 Speaker 1: arrived in a world in which when Trump enacted the 673 00:46:52,795 --> 00:46:59,195 Speaker 1: worst imaginable cliche wrapping himself in a flag, wrapping himself 674 00:46:59,275 --> 00:47:04,835 Speaker 1: in an American flag, the morons thought that proved he 675 00:47:04,915 --> 00:47:11,675 Speaker 1: loved America. So two have they succeeded in this and 676 00:47:11,795 --> 00:47:16,475 Speaker 1: are still succeeding, and still, although they don't call it that, 677 00:47:17,075 --> 00:47:21,995 Speaker 1: this government, well, the government of Trump, the government in 678 00:47:22,075 --> 00:47:26,955 Speaker 1: waiting of Trump, uses nine to eleven, uses the hatreds 679 00:47:26,995 --> 00:47:29,715 Speaker 1: of nine to eleven as a wedge to pit Americans 680 00:47:30,235 --> 00:47:36,475 Speaker 1: against Americans. This is an odd point at which site 681 00:47:36,475 --> 00:47:40,875 Speaker 1: a television program, especially one from March nineteen sixty but 682 00:47:40,995 --> 00:47:43,755 Speaker 1: long ago a series called The Twilight Zone broadcast a 683 00:47:43,795 --> 00:47:46,755 Speaker 1: riveting episode called The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. 684 00:47:47,715 --> 00:47:51,915 Speaker 1: In brief, a meteor sparks rumors of an invasion by 685 00:47:51,955 --> 00:47:56,955 Speaker 1: extraterrestrials disguised as humans. The electricity goes out in a neighborhood. 686 00:47:57,355 --> 00:48:02,235 Speaker 1: One neighbor pleads for calm. Suddenly his lights and only 687 00:48:02,355 --> 00:48:06,395 Speaker 1: the lights in his house, go back on. Someone therefore 688 00:48:06,435 --> 00:48:12,755 Speaker 1: suggests he must be the alien. Then another man's car 689 00:48:12,955 --> 00:48:18,875 Speaker 1: starts suddenly as charges and suspicion and panic overtake the street, 690 00:48:19,475 --> 00:48:24,995 Speaker 1: guns are inevitably produced, an alien is shot. He turns 691 00:48:24,995 --> 00:48:27,235 Speaker 1: out to be just another neighbor who was returning from 692 00:48:27,315 --> 00:48:30,915 Speaker 1: going for help. The camera then pulls back to a 693 00:48:30,955 --> 00:48:35,635 Speaker 1: nearby hill where two extraterrestrials are seen manipulating a small 694 00:48:35,635 --> 00:48:41,315 Speaker 1: device that can jam electricity. The veteran tells his novice 695 00:48:41,355 --> 00:48:44,395 Speaker 1: that there's no need to actually attack, you just turn 696 00:48:44,435 --> 00:48:47,315 Speaker 1: off a few of the human machines, and then quote, 697 00:48:47,355 --> 00:48:50,355 Speaker 1: they picked the most dangerous enemy they can find, and 698 00:48:50,675 --> 00:48:56,795 Speaker 1: it's themselves. And then, in perhaps his finest piece of writing, 699 00:48:56,875 --> 00:48:59,675 Speaker 1: Rod Serling sums it up with words of remarkable prescience, 700 00:49:00,075 --> 00:49:03,875 Speaker 1: given where we have found ourselves in ever increasing measures 701 00:49:04,355 --> 00:49:08,475 Speaker 1: since September eleventh, two thousand and one. The tools of 702 00:49:08,595 --> 00:49:14,115 Speaker 1: conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. 703 00:49:15,155 --> 00:49:20,755 Speaker 1: There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to 704 00:49:20,875 --> 00:49:26,395 Speaker 1: be found only in the minds of men. For the record, 705 00:49:27,235 --> 00:49:32,395 Speaker 1: prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, 706 00:49:32,755 --> 00:49:36,515 Speaker 1: frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its 707 00:49:36,515 --> 00:49:55,955 Speaker 1: own for the children, and the children yet unborn. I've 708 00:49:55,995 --> 00:49:57,795 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 709 00:49:57,835 --> 00:50:00,315 Speaker 1: for listening. Countdown has come to you from our studios 710 00:50:00,315 --> 00:50:02,435 Speaker 1: in New York. Here are the credits. Most of the 711 00:50:02,475 --> 00:50:05,715 Speaker 1: music arrange produced and performed by Brian raym John Phillip, Shaneale, 712 00:50:05,915 --> 00:50:09,555 Speaker 1: who are the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards 713 00:50:09,555 --> 00:50:12,875 Speaker 1: by John Phillip Schanel, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, 714 00:50:13,275 --> 00:50:16,995 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 715 00:50:16,995 --> 00:50:19,835 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports 716 00:50:19,915 --> 00:50:22,835 Speaker 1: music is the Ulberman theme from ESPN two. It was 717 00:50:22,875 --> 00:50:26,595 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis. Courtesy of ESPN Inc. Musical 718 00:50:26,595 --> 00:50:29,515 Speaker 1: Comments by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organist ever. 719 00:50:30,035 --> 00:50:33,155 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Richard Lewis. Everything else 720 00:50:33,195 --> 00:50:35,675 Speaker 1: is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this, 721 00:50:35,675 --> 00:50:38,835 Speaker 1: the nine and seventy ninth day since Donald Trump's first 722 00:50:38,835 --> 00:50:42,035 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 723 00:50:42,435 --> 00:50:46,435 Speaker 1: Convict him now while we still can. The next schedule 724 00:50:46,435 --> 00:50:49,355 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow boltons, as the news warrants and as 725 00:50:49,435 --> 00:50:53,115 Speaker 1: this continuing throat infection permits till then. I'm Keith Olberman. 726 00:50:53,555 --> 00:51:01,555 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Gives 727 00:51:01,555 --> 00:51:06,155 Speaker 1: me hope, a security and just stapability. Countdown with Keith 728 00:51:06,195 --> 00:51:11,235 Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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