Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
Speaker 1: New York Times has to fire Maggie Haberman, and Justice
Speaker 1: Juan mer Shaan of the New York State Supreme Court
Speaker 1: has to jail Trump and order into his courtroom in
Speaker 1: New York City to testify under oath the Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House, Mike Johnson, Senators Tuberville and Vance, Congressman Byron
Speaker 1: Donald's and Corey Mills, Governor Bergram of North Dakota, and
Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswami, who is some kind of I don't know,
Speaker 1: TV infomercial guy. Because Tuberville has spilled the beans, all
Speaker 1: of those Trump whorees who have shown up the first
Speaker 1: two days of his trial in New York City did
Speaker 1: so as part of some kind of plan to help
Speaker 1: Trump subvert the gag order. Tuberville says this. Tuberville said
Speaker 1: this on the Newsmax propaganda network. So we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the gag order plot first, And I apologize if this
Speaker 1: is a little ragged, but as I said, there is
Speaker 1: a sinus infection in progress, and this is the most
Speaker 1: I could let the doctors or get from the doctors
Speaker 1: to let me do. We're sort of blowing through the headlines.
Speaker 1: Once again. Let me turn to my cliche of cliches.
Speaker 1: Democracy survives less because of our efforts to preserve it
Speaker 1: than because of the stupidity of those trying to destroy it.
Speaker 1: They were there yesterday, Mike Johnson at a trial showing
Speaker 1: loyalty and fealty to Trump, just in time to see
Speaker 1: what happened to Mike Cohen, who showed loyalty and fealty
Speaker 1: to Trump, just as Johnson saw or should have seen,
Speaker 1: or has now evidently forgotten what happened to Mike Vents
Speaker 1: when he showed loyalty and fealty to Donald Trump. Loyalty
Speaker 1: and fealty to Trump is weakness. He will use you,
Speaker 1: exploit you, and then try to get a crowd to
Speaker 1: hang you, Speaker Johnson. Johnson, who attended the trial yesterday,
Speaker 1: stood behind Trump in the background, did not go into
Speaker 1: the court, and simply held a news conference at which
Speaker 1: he declared Trump was innocent. Is particularly dishonorable, even for
Speaker 1: a Republican Speaker of the House, even for a Louisiana
Speaker 1: congressman from the Republican Party, even for a tiny Johnson
Speaker 1: responding flacidly about a porn star Johnson is interfering with
Speaker 1: a defendant and with a prosecution, a defendant who has
Speaker 1: been indicted by a grand jury, and he has declared
Speaker 1: him innocent. It is borderline obstruction of justice legally, Ethically,
Speaker 1: it is utter obstruction of justice. Mike Johnson should have
Speaker 1: resigned already. A responsible Republican party, even a somewhat non
Speaker 1: corrupt Republican party, would have thrown him out yesterday. Somewhere
Speaker 1: there must be, in a parallel universe a kind of
Speaker 1: ethical Marjorie Taylor Green who takes umbrage at the Speaker
Speaker 1: of the House using taxpayer money to go to New
Speaker 1: York and declare the biggest criminal in the history of
Speaker 1: the United States innocent without hearing any of the evidence,
Speaker 1: or of course caring about any of the evidence, because
Speaker 1: all it is to them now is power. They don't
Speaker 1: care how they get it, they don't care what it
Speaker 1: costs them to maintain it, and frankly, once they are
Speaker 1: in office, they will kill all of us to maintain it.
Speaker 1: An hour longer. That is what Mike Johnson and the
Speaker 1: other ones, particularly this Ignoramus Tubberville, who looks like he
Speaker 1: escaped from a mausoleum, somewhere and is still somehow talking.
Speaker 1: These guys are revealing to us how far they will
Speaker 1: go to show that they are behind Trump because Trump
Speaker 1: can win them power, and all that matters to them
Speaker 1: in the world is power. The world itself can go
Speaker 1: to hell, and obviously under Trump it will. When Charles
Speaker 1: Manson was arrested and indicted and I believe about to
Speaker 1: go on trial in the Sharon Tate murders of nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty nine, and my exact memory of this and the
Speaker 1: precise timeline is a little vague because I was ten
Speaker 1: or eleven years old at the time. But as the
Speaker 1: trial was about to begin, perhaps just before jury selection,
Speaker 1: or maybe even after the jury had been selected, President
Speaker 1: Richard Nixon intimated that he believed that Manson was guilty. Well,
Speaker 1: they nearly declared a mistrial, They nearly sent Charles Manson
Speaker 1: home for a because Nixon had said something publicly suggesting
Speaker 1: that Manson probably was guilty. I don't think there is
Speaker 1: a parallel legally the other way, in which because Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: a tiny idiot, a corrupt Speaker of the House, a Republican,
Speaker 1: these things all mean the same thing. Just because he
Speaker 1: said Trump is innocent. That does not mean a judge
Speaker 1: somewhere can declare Trump guilty, although I wish it worked
Speaker 1: that way. There's nothing I don't think that Judge Merschawn
Speaker 1: can do to Johnson, or to Tuberville or that weasel jd.
Speaker 1: Vance or Byron Donald's who is simply a prostitute, or
Speaker 1: Corey Mills, or this god awful burghum from North Dakota
Speaker 1: or Ramaswami. Ramaswami we let off because he did one
Speaker 1: of the funniest Freudian slips of all time, which I'll
Speaker 1: get to in a moment. I don't think they can
Speaker 1: do anything legally to them except to bring them into
Speaker 1: his courtroom and say, what did President Trump tell you
Speaker 1: to say? What did don Trump tell you to say?
Speaker 1: What did this asshole Trump tell you to say? And
Speaker 1: he certainly can do something to Trump, even if he
Speaker 1: has no hard and fast evidence in front of him
Speaker 1: other than what Tubberville said, which I'm about to play
Speaker 1: for you. He can say you are in contempt of
Speaker 1: court and you are going to Rikers Island. Do not
Speaker 1: pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars. Because if
Speaker 1: Trump went further and literally asked them to say the
Speaker 1: things he is forbidden from saying by the gag order.
Speaker 1: This would be contempt of court by Trump. The gag
Speaker 1: order says not only that he may not talk about
Speaker 1: the jury, talk about the case, talk about the witnesses,
Speaker 1: talk about their honesty, insult the judge's daughter, which several
Speaker 1: of them did. Not only he can't do those things,
Speaker 1: but he cannot instruct others to do so, because if
Speaker 1: Trump asked them to say the thing he is forbidden
Speaker 1: from saying by the gag order, its contemptive court. And
Speaker 1: guess what, Senator Dumbo himself. Tubberville went on Newsmax and
Speaker 1: basically said, oh yeah, Trump did ask us to say
Speaker 1: the things he's forbidden from saying by the gag order.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we have more and more senators and Congressmen go
Speaker 2: up every day to represent him and be able to
Speaker 2: go out and overcome this gag order. And that's one
Speaker 2: of the reasons we went is to be able to
Speaker 2: speak our peace of for President Trump.
Speaker 1: It is a sobering time to consider that we have
Speaker 1: elected one of the stupidest college football coaches to ever
Speaker 1: live into the Senate, that we have put him there,
Speaker 1: and despite those ears, he never listens. The good news
Speaker 1: is we have put into the Senate one of the
Speaker 1: stupidest college football coaches who ever lived. And he gives
Speaker 1: away the plot in this case that is meant literally
Speaker 1: the plot for Trump to get around the gag order.
Speaker 1: You heard what he just said. And Justice Merschaan, who
Speaker 1: has not been aggressive about the penalty phase of contemptive court,
Speaker 1: but has been aggressive about dealing with this issue and
Speaker 1: telling people he wants them to act in a certain
Speaker 1: way and holding hearings. He should hold a hearing, and
Speaker 1: he should bring in Tommy Tupperville, and he should bring
Speaker 1: in all the rest of them and Johnson. He should
Speaker 1: bring them in and swear them in and have them testify,
Speaker 1: and vivek Ramaswami and see if you can get vivek
Speaker 1: Ramaswami to repeat this Freudian slip, the Freudian slip of
Speaker 1: the trial, and perhaps so far the Freudian slip of
Speaker 1: the year. May God bless our country.
Speaker 2: I pray for our future, and let's pray for our
Speaker 2: country being stronger on the other side of this disgusting
Speaker 2: sham politician prosecution.
Speaker 1: This once again proves that just because you talk fast
Speaker 1: does not mean you are talking true. Ah, thank goodness
Speaker 1: for vivike Ramaswami. A psychology friend of mine once explained
Speaker 1: that the faster you talk, the more likely it is
Speaker 1: that something true will sneak out before you even realize
Speaker 1: you've said it. And particularly that's true, she said, if
Speaker 1: you are lying at high speed, and if you are
Speaker 1: lying at high speed and the truth comes out like
Speaker 1: that about the scam politicians, it is comforting to know
Speaker 1: that when I call vivike Ramaswami a Trump whore, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's your evidence. He's a Trump whore. He is deliberately
Speaker 1: telling things that are not true, saying them aloud, participating
Speaker 1: in plots, and he doesn't even believe that there's anything
Speaker 1: worthwhile in Trump. He is too. Vivike Ramaswami a scam.
Speaker 1: This obscured to some degree the actual cross examination of
Speaker 1: Michael Cohen. And again, I am just amazed by how
Speaker 1: many stupid people there are attempting to overthrow this government,
Speaker 1: Todd Blanche, Trump's lawyer being one of them. Todd Blanche's
Speaker 1: first question to Michael Cohen, you went on TikTok and
Speaker 1: called me a crying little shit just before this trial began,
Speaker 1: and Cohen calmly said, sounds like something I would say.
Speaker 1: And it went on and on and on and on
Speaker 1: from there, just trying to get Cohen on the record
Speaker 1: saying all the nasty things he said about Trump and
Speaker 1: about others, and then all the other nice things he
Speaker 1: had said about Trump, to indicate that he said one
Speaker 1: thing once and something else the other time. But where
Speaker 1: did they start. They started with the insult to Todd
Speaker 1: Blanche and the question from Todd Blanche about Todd Blanche.
Speaker 1: They thought this would impeach Michael Cohen as a witness,
Speaker 1: because us here's the shocking thing. Trump's world consists of
Speaker 1: people who, to some degree, unlike vivid Ramaswami, actually believe
Speaker 1: the bullshit, their own bullshit. They believe the first piece
Speaker 1: of Trump World, that apparently everybody who gets sucked into it,
Speaker 1: actually believes that the world agrees with them, almost unanimously,
Speaker 1: that they are the victims here, that they are being crucified,
Speaker 1: that he is some sort of Christ with bad hair.
Speaker 1: They believe this somewhere in the back of this moron
Speaker 1: Blanche's mind when he said that, and God calling to
Speaker 1: confirm that he had called Blanche a crying little shit
Speaker 1: that the trial should have ended right there. That is
Speaker 1: how these people now think, Wow, you got him to
Speaker 1: admit he wants to see Trump in jail and that
Speaker 1: he lied for Trump and then told the truth about Trump. Wow,
Speaker 1: great lawyer. I hope it's a flat rate than rather
Speaker 1: than per hour. There's one other thing about reading all
Speaker 1: of these quotes, or confirming all of these quotes that
Speaker 1: touched a nerve with me. I have never testified, but
Speaker 1: I did undergo one of the worst ordeals of my life,
Speaker 1: and compared to the ordeals of others in similar situations,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that bad. But I did two days of
Speaker 1: a deposition in twenty thirteen in my lawsuit against al
Speaker 1: Gore and Company, and it turned out later that the
Speaker 1: attorney was somewhat friendly to me and literally pulled punches
Speaker 1: legally could have hit me a little bit harder, did not.
Speaker 1: We had friendly conversations afterwards. In any event, one thing
Speaker 1: my attorneys did, and my attorneys were the best, and
Speaker 1: they prepared me with one thousand wonderful pieces of advice
Speaker 1: to take into a deposition, and one of the best
Speaker 1: of them was if they ask you to read your
Speaker 1: own emails or your own words, and they're filled with
Speaker 1: insults and obscenities about anybody in the organization. Don't say well,
Speaker 1: what I meant was, don't equivocate, don't say well I
Speaker 1: was a little angry at the time. Don't say embrace them,
Speaker 1: sing them, especially the obscenities. And I was handed an
Speaker 1: email about fifty of them they handed me at various
Speaker 1: times through these two days, and I was asked to
Speaker 1: read this, and I suddenly remembered it. The nicest thing
Speaker 1: in this email, which was probably about one hundred words long,
Speaker 1: was when I called one of the executives a jiminy
Speaker 1: cricket passed bastard. That was the nicest, most polite thing.
Speaker 1: The rest of it was just a string of adjectival
Speaker 1: curse words. And I started to hedge and hesitate, and
Speaker 1: then I rem I heard my lawyer's advice, and I
Speaker 1: yelled it, do I have your permission to call this?
Speaker 1: And they actually asked me if I would quiet down
Speaker 1: a little bit. And it was the last time that
Speaker 1: they actually thought they were going to threaten me by
Speaker 1: getting me to read my own words aloud. And now
Speaker 1: to the other topic. I asked yesterday for a Walter
Speaker 1: Cronkite moment from The New York Times, some awareness that
Speaker 1: everything we know in this country, every freedom, every piece
Speaker 1: of history, every law rests on Donald Trump or any
Speaker 1: other Republican not becoming president next January twentieth. It is
Speaker 1: a black and white choice. It is binary. If Trump
Speaker 1: gets elected, the democracy is over. We may never have
Speaker 1: an election again. We may not get out from under
Speaker 1: the yoke of Trump until he dies. He may try
Speaker 1: to stay in office forever and turn it into a
Speaker 1: kind of monarchy, or make the presidency of the United
Speaker 1: States much like the presidency of Russia. It's a nice word,
Speaker 1: but it really doesn't have anything to do in terms
Speaker 1: of describing the job. You get that, I get that,
Speaker 1: Trump gets that. The New York Times, the New York Times,
Speaker 1: does not get that. What I want from them is
Speaker 1: some sudden awareness, as in the examples I gave yesterday.
Speaker 1: Walter Cronkite had in nineteen sixty eight, after a trip
Speaker 1: to Vietnam, as Walter Cronkite had very early on in
Speaker 1: the Watergate scandal in October of nineteen seventy two, to
Speaker 1: come out and take a stance in defense of this
Speaker 1: nation and in defense of this nation at an imperiled time,
Speaker 1: as the New York Times did during the Civil War,
Speaker 1: and not often since. I asked for a Walter Cronkite moment,
Speaker 1: and I got a Judith Miller moment for the second
Speaker 1: time in this trial, but apparently the first time anybody noticed.
Speaker 1: There were texts introduced as part of the People's case
Speaker 1: against Trump. People's exhibit to sixty texts from February thirteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen from witness Michael Cohen to Maggie Haberman of
Speaker 1: The New York Times. Quote, Big Boss, just to prove
Speaker 1: my responding to complaint and statement, Please start writing and
Speaker 1: I will call you soon. Big Boss just approved my
Speaker 1: responding to complaint and statement. Well, what did Maggie Haberman
Speaker 1: write on February thirteenth, twenty eighteen? What was she texting
Speaker 1: off the record with Michael Cohen about on February thirteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. While there it is on the internet. February thirteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, New York Times by Maggie Haberman. Quote Michael D. Cohen,
Speaker 1: President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, said on Tuesday that he
Speaker 1: paid one hundred and thirty thousand dollars out of his
Speaker 1: own pocket to a pornographic film actress who had once
Speaker 1: claimed to have had an affair with mister Trump. In
Speaker 1: the most detailed explanation of the twenty sixteen payment made
Speaker 1: to the actress, mister Cohen, who worked as a counsel
Speaker 1: to the Trump organization for more than a decade, said
Speaker 1: he was not reimbursed for the payment. Neither the Trump
Speaker 1: Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the
Speaker 1: transaction with miss Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment,
Speaker 1: either directly or indirectly. Mister Cohen said in a statement
Speaker 1: to The New York Times, the payment to miss Clifford
Speaker 1: was lawful and was not a campaign contribution or a
Speaker 1: campaign expenditure by anyone. She printed it. There are no caveats,
Speaker 1: There are no questions about the authenticity of the statement.
Speaker 1: She printed it. She printed it as if the only
Speaker 1: thing that were a fact in here that mattered was
Speaker 1: that Cohen said this, not whether or not it was true.
Speaker 1: February fourteenth, twenty eighteen, by Maggie Haberman. Oh, he got
Speaker 1: two articles in which she lied for him and Trump
Speaker 1: and The New York Times lied for Michael Cohen and
Speaker 1: Trump February fourteenth, twenty eighteen by Maggie Haberman The New
Speaker 1: York Times. The admission by President Trump's longtime personal lawyer
Speaker 1: that he sent one hundred thirty thousand dollars to a
Speaker 1: pornographic film actress blah blah, blah, blah blah, has raised
Speaker 1: potential legal questions ranging from breach of contract to ethics violations.
Speaker 1: That's the range. Breach of contract to ethics violations. Not
Speaker 1: an attempt to subvert the twenty sixteen presidential election. Not
Speaker 1: lies on behalf of the then president of the United States.
Speaker 1: Not hush money being paid to a pornographic actress so
Speaker 1: that her story would not come out and sink his campaign. No,
Speaker 1: has raised potential legal questions. That's all she wrote. That's
Speaker 1: where that phrase comes from. That's all she wrote. The
Speaker 1: lawyer Michael D. Cohen told The New York Times, well,
Speaker 1: therefore it must be true on Tuesday that he had
Speaker 1: used his own funds to facilitate the payment, adding that
Speaker 1: neither the Trump organization nor the Trump campaign had reimbursed
Speaker 1: him for the payment. He insisted that the payment was legal,
Speaker 1: So she lied for Cohen, and Cohen lied for Trump
Speaker 1: and Trump lied to the American people to get elected.
Speaker 1: And there it is still online, not even a correction
Speaker 1: note at the bottom of it by the New York Times.
Speaker 1: Nothing better than a New York Times correction note, We're sorry,
Speaker 1: we destroyed the country. We got this one small detail wrong.
Speaker 1: When this came out, that these texts to Maggie Haberman
Speaker 1: from Michael Cohen indicated that she was an accessory after
Speaker 1: the fact to the Michael Cohen bullshit story on behalf
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, for which he is now on trial,
Speaker 1: for which Cohen went to jail. When this came out,
Speaker 1: surprisingly enough, there was a lot of criticism of Maggie
Speaker 1: Haberman and The New York Times, and in fact, in
Speaker 1: some quarters, Maggie Haberman was defended. She was defended by,
Speaker 1: for one, the editor in chief of Mother Jones, which
Speaker 1: is not exactly a conservative organization. I read this defense
Speaker 1: with great interest and took it quite seriously and said, well,
Speaker 1: you got this one wrong. The editor in chief said, Look,
Speaker 1: there are transactions in any relationship with any source, and
Speaker 1: that's true. I've had them. I've had them in sports,
Speaker 1: have had them in news. Often you will help a
Speaker 1: source by quoting them. On a story that maybe you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have otherwise, quoted them in, or paraphrasing something they said,
Speaker 1: or emphasizing what they said as opposed to what somebody
Speaker 1: else said, or in some other way making a story
Speaker 1: easier for them. You can even ethically shade a story
Speaker 1: towards them or their point of view in areas of dispute.
Speaker 1: It's very flexible, the relationship between a source and a reporter.
Speaker 1: I mean, to begin with, the source is giving you
Speaker 1: information you probably should not be having, and you are
Speaker 1: giving them anonymity that they probably should not be getting.
Speaker 1: But all of this is always predicated. And I was
Speaker 1: told this, I guess in high school. I certainly was
Speaker 1: told it at my college radio station, where we apparently
Speaker 1: had higher ethical standards of journalism than The New York
Speaker 1: Times does now, and definitely at my first news organization,
Speaker 1: United Press International. The premise of any transaction between a
Speaker 1: reporter and a source is that whatever you wind up
Speaker 1: printing or reporting or publishing must be the truth. It
Speaker 1: is not enough merely to be a fact that somebody
Speaker 1: has told you something. That fact of somebody telling you
Speaker 1: something may itself contain a lie or a series of lies.
Speaker 1: Or enough lies to influence the outcome of a presidential election.
Speaker 1: It's not enough to have a series of facts. You
Speaker 1: have to tell the god damned truth. And Maggie Habrenman
Speaker 1: does not tell the goddamned truth. This is the difference.
Speaker 1: There are facts. Donald Trump says he's actually Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: only with bad hair. Well, let's just print that without
Speaker 1: any notation that it's crazy. You could factually say, well,
Speaker 1: Trump said that, Therefore we can print it because it's factual.
Speaker 1: If I said the democracy is hanging by a thread
Speaker 1: from the top of the Washington Monument right now and
Speaker 1: we need everyone to rally towards it, to have a
Speaker 1: Walter Cronkite moment, well it's a fact that I've said. That,
Speaker 1: is it the truth? You have to put some effort
Speaker 1: into it. And there are circumstances under which no amount
Speaker 1: of digging by the reporter can verify whether or not
Speaker 1: the facts of the statement are in fact truth. There
Speaker 1: are occasions in which there's no way to do that.
Speaker 1: And conceivably, when Michael Cohen texts you, big boss, just
Speaker 1: to prove my responding to complain and statement on February thirteenth,
Speaker 1: and you're writing on February thirteenth, you may not be
Speaker 1: able to disprove what he has told you. But if
Speaker 1: you're writing it again on February fourteenth, to goddamn betterwell
Speaker 1: have checked it out. And Maggie Haberman did not do it.
Speaker 1: She did not do it. And what happens after that? Well,
Speaker 1: who got the Pulitzer Prize for covering Trump? Maggie Haberman
Speaker 1: of the New York Times, who was in court the
Speaker 1: other day dismissing Michael Cohen's testimony about what Trump told
Speaker 1: her would happen if the stormy Daniel's story got out,
Speaker 1: what would happen to his marriage? She dismissed it as
Speaker 1: legal hearsay. Trump says to Michael Cohen, well, I won't
Speaker 1: be on the market for long. And she dismisses that
Speaker 1: at hearsay in the New York Times, and no one
Speaker 1: corrects her. And they will sit there and twist this
Speaker 1: and turn themselves into pretzels with so many knots to
Speaker 1: convince themselves at the New York Times that they have
Speaker 1: done nothing wrong, that they are the paragons of journalism,
Speaker 1: that they have never made a mistake, despite that fellow
Speaker 1: Blair they fired years ago just made up every story
Speaker 1: and every source he ever had, and despite Judith Miller,
Speaker 1: who I am, and again I will congratulate you if
Speaker 1: you don't know who Judith Miller was. Judith Miller was
Speaker 1: the Maggie Haberman of two thousand and two and two
Speaker 1: thousand and three. Judith Miller was the irreproachable New York
Speaker 1: Times reporter who actually turned out to be merely serving
Speaker 1: the role of the person who washed the Bush governments.
Speaker 1: Lies about the non existence of weapons of mass destruction
Speaker 1: in Iraq, the lynchpin to the phony made up George W.
Speaker 1: Bush will burn in hell if any of the world's
Speaker 1: religions are correct. Bullshit. The person who sold that more
Speaker 1: than Colin Powell sold it at the United Nations was
Speaker 1: Judith Miller of the New York Times in other worlds,
Speaker 1: in other markets, Judith Miller's crimes against journalism were so
Speaker 1: profound and so many that her organization would have gone
Speaker 1: out of business. It didn't. In fact, she got a
Speaker 1: best seller out of it, a best seller on the
Speaker 1: New York Times bestseller list. Judith Miller wrote story after
Speaker 1: story simply repeating what the White House under Bush and
Speaker 1: Rumsfeld and Cheney and Colin Powell all said. And we
Speaker 1: put Colin Powell last because he later went out there
Speaker 1: and said, I got it all wrong. I didn't know
Speaker 1: I was lying. I was lying. Set it on NBC.
Speaker 1: Still he lied. They all lied, and Judith Miller was
Speaker 1: the one who typed the lies up and put them
Speaker 1: in the goddamned New York Times. And when she was caught,
Speaker 1: when they forced her to resign after she had also
Speaker 1: outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent on behalf of
Speaker 1: Scooter Libby, who was another one of these Bushies. After
Speaker 1: they destroyed Valerie Plame's intelligence career to try to discredit
Speaker 1: her husband because her husband had written a piece in
Speaker 1: The New York Times explaining that there were no weapons
Speaker 1: of mass destruction because the uranium that Saddam Hussein supposedly
Speaker 1: bought in Niger did not exist. After Judith Miller bent
Speaker 1: the rules of the New York Times to discredit and
Speaker 1: op ed printed in The New York Times that contained
Speaker 1: more journalistic integrity in it than in the entirety of
Speaker 1: her career. After they forced her out, she explained, quote,
Speaker 1: my job isn't to assess the government's information and be
Speaker 1: an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell
Speaker 1: readers of the New York Times what the government thought
Speaker 1: about Iraq's arsenal bullshit. Judith Miller wound up on Fox News,
Speaker 1: which is where she should have been all along. People
Speaker 1: who can contort themselves into pretzels explaining why their immorality
Speaker 1: is morality wind up on Fox News. What is a
Speaker 1: fact and what is the truth and what is the difference?
Speaker 1: And the answer is Maggie Haberman could not tell you.
Speaker 1: That is why the New York Times must fire her.
Speaker 1: Getting less publicity from the New York Times. A grotesque
Speaker 1: ass named a Steed Herndon, who is a New York
Speaker 1: Times White House correspondent who has been in this podcast before.
Speaker 1: Somebody writes on Twitter x about the unlikelihood that President
Speaker 1: Biden can fix all the flaws in his presidency before
Speaker 1: the election, and he subtweets the link to this article
Speaker 1: and says, I've said this one hundred times, but it's
Speaker 1: not the message. It's the messenger. That is not to
Speaker 1: say he can't win. He can, but the msnbcfication of
Speaker 1: National Democrats has blinded them to his problems. DEM's cleared
Speaker 1: the field for an unpopular candidate. You do that, you
Speaker 1: get a hard election. Astead Herndon emphasis in ass ass Also,
Speaker 1: he continued in his thread, what I'm antagonizing the glibness
Speaker 1: is part of the problem. While I'm antagonizing Biden's age
Speaker 1: is overcovered from mental acuity angle and undercovered as the
Speaker 1: filter to which voting public views this administration. Vibe killer.
Speaker 1: If you are still saying something in public about vibes,
Speaker 1: and it's not meant ironically like the summer hats that
Speaker 1: were in vogue for men about fifteen years ago until
Speaker 1: everybody went, no, they did look stupid. We're not being
Speaker 1: ironically funny by wearing them. If you're not saying vibes
Speaker 1: as an insult to everybody who's ever used the phrase vibes,
Speaker 1: retire from public life. Have your brain washed. Stop using
Speaker 1: vibe killer. Astaed Herndon contributes to sense of lack of progress.
Speaker 1: He's still going on about Biden's age. Big reason legislative
Speaker 1: economic wins haven't translated. Where did we hear this guy
Speaker 1: Herndon before? Oh, in February it was Herndon of the
Speaker 1: New York Times who posted Biden's age is very clearly
Speaker 1: the most important non Trump issue in this elect poling
Speaker 1: says so voters say so, it's just the White House
Speaker 1: slash DC have had a sort of gentleman's agreement for
Speaker 1: the last year to pretend like it's not. Maybe that
Speaker 1: ends now. This guy Herndon was the guy who believed
Speaker 1: that the subject of Joe Biden's age had been undercovered,
Speaker 1: that the media was covering up for him, not unlike
Speaker 1: it covered up for the fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt
Speaker 1: was in a wheelchair. Now he didn't say that, I did.
Speaker 1: Just the White House DC have had a sort of
Speaker 1: gentleman's agreement for the last year to pretend like it's not.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, the age thing while still sitting there in
Speaker 1: the background, it's not selling as a campaign issue, not
Speaker 1: in terms of Washington elites like this guy Herndon and
Speaker 1: this idiot Maggie Haberman and the idiots that they work for.
Speaker 1: But now that it's not there in public, you'll notice
Speaker 1: that mister Herndon did not bring it up, He did
Speaker 1: not lead with it. He mentioned it in his second
Speaker 1: part of his thread because he's obsessed with it and
Speaker 1: can't get over it. Biden's age is overcovered from mental
Speaker 1: acuity angle, and undercovered is the filter to which voting
Speaker 1: public views this administration. Vibe killer. He's looking for other
Speaker 1: things to hit Biden with because the entire Times revenge
Speaker 1: age porn thing against Piden for not doing the Q
Speaker 1: and A with them is for real, and they've had
Speaker 1: to find something new. Got a fire, Herndon, got a fire, Haberman,
Speaker 1: the editor Joe Kahn after that interview. He has no
Speaker 1: credibility whatsoever outside of his own office. And I wonder
Speaker 1: how much he has inside his own office, because guess what,
Speaker 1: I like Joe Biden, just mine. But if you told
Speaker 1: me tomorrow that we'd have to force Joe Biden off
Speaker 1: the ticket today in favor of Lawrence O'Donnell as the
Speaker 1: next president of the United States to preserve the democracy,
Speaker 1: I would say, President Biden, thank you for your service.
Speaker 1: You will always be my friend. You're off the ticket.
Speaker 1: This is about democracy or dictatorship. And this this mother
Speaker 1: effort from the New York Times is talking about vibe killers.
Speaker 1: That's where we are. Vibe killer. The Time still hasn't
Speaker 1: figured this out yet. This is democracy or dictatorship in
Speaker 1: the fall. The Times has not figured this out. Yet
Speaker 1: I asked somebody there to overthrow the government of the
Speaker 1: New York Times and get me a Walter Cronkite moment,
Speaker 1: because as if we did not have enough going on
Speaker 1: to suggest this is necessary. Yesterday Trump posted Fox News
Speaker 1: should let Judge Janine cover the trial, not Eric Sean,
Speaker 1: who has no clue what's going on, just another rhino.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Eric Sean before I was surprised he continued
Speaker 1: to work there. I've known him since I was in
Speaker 1: television news at the beginning of my career at CNN, Honest, straightforward.
Speaker 1: Somehow it worked for Fox all these years. Now Trump
Speaker 1: is trying to get him fired. Last week, Trump tried
Speaker 1: to give direction to Sean, told him he wanted him
Speaker 1: to read more of Greg Jarrett's analysis of the trial
Speaker 1: and his coverage. Understand that if Trump is elected next year,
Speaker 1: he will not be bothering to put posts up on
Speaker 1: truth Social or you must read this, or you go
Speaker 1: to jail's social or whatever it would be called. Under
Speaker 1: a Trump presidency dictatorship, he will simply have Eric Seawan
Speaker 1: arrested if he doesn't like what Eric Seawan has reported,
Speaker 1: and he'll have Maggie Habraman arrested too, and you'll have
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson arrested too. If Mike Johnson displeases him. Joe Con,
Speaker 1: Joe Con will already be inside in the camps with me.
Speaker 1: On day one, New York Times has to fire Maggie Haberman,
Speaker 1: Justice Wan Mshawn has to jail Trump, and he has
Speaker 1: to bring in Mike Johnson and Tuberville and Vance and
Speaker 1: Byron Donalds and Bergham and all the rest, and say,
Speaker 1: tell me about the plot to get around my gag order.
Speaker 1: And when you tell me the truth, that's when I
Speaker 1: will let Trump out of rikers. I have talked far
Speaker 1: longer than my doctors would permit. The rest of the
Speaker 1: show will be a rehash of yesterday's Oddly enough, it
Speaker 1: will be the one in which I asked the New
Speaker 1: York Times to give me a Walter Cronkite moment. But
Speaker 1: I will close with one humorous anecdote, just to leven
Speaker 1: the moment, so that you don't jump off anything right
Speaker 1: after this amortization of Brian Ray's theme and thus also
Speaker 1: of interest here and the last new thing in this podcast,
Speaker 1: and if you turn it off, I will have no
Speaker 1: offense whatsoever. Is something Laura Ingram said last night, because
Speaker 1: it is turned into one of those weeks in which
Speaker 1: every time I go on social media, there is something
Speaker 1: that Laura Ingram, who I went out with for a while,
Speaker 1: has said that is insane, or something that Katie Turr,
Speaker 1: who I lived with for three years has said that
Speaker 1: is insane. Or there's another one whose name I don't
Speaker 1: bring up because not many people know about their relationship.
Speaker 1: Apparently got herself kicked out of the coverage of the
Speaker 1: Trump trial for violating the rules from the judge. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I lived with her too. I make bad choices.
Speaker 1: I've only been dating fifty years. Why would I get
Speaker 1: it right? But Laura Ingram said something last night that
Speaker 1: actually made me smile. Didn't intend to make me smile
Speaker 1: when she said this, but she made me smile. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: when do you get to the point, she said, and
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing here, when do you get to the point
Speaker 1: where you would believe a Michael Cohen or a Stormy
Speaker 1: Daniels instead of a Donald Trump? And I thought, well,
Speaker 1: when I completed the second grade and they graduated me
Speaker 1: up to the third grade, I suppose Laura, why The
Speaker 1: New York Times owes us a Walter Cronkite moment. That's next,
Speaker 1: this accountant. We need a Walter Cronkite moment from the
Speaker 1: New York Times. The New York Times needs one day,
Speaker 1: one day soon, one day now, to devote the entirety
Speaker 1: of the front page to one headline and one editorial
Speaker 1: signed by the publisher Sealzburger, and the editor Cohn, and
Speaker 1: the key columnists, and the important correspondence headlined Trump Imperils
Speaker 1: Democracy sub headlined your life at Stake and he is insane.
Speaker 1: I'll get to the trial and Michael Cohen and how
Speaker 1: they got what they needed from him, which was a
Speaker 1: headline in the Washington Post with the word calmly in it.
Speaker 1: But first we need a Walter Cronkite moment from the
Speaker 1: New York Times. And instead we get the backup, backup, backup, backup,
Speaker 1: election reporters, backup, trying to be witty as Trump crashes
Speaker 1: and burns intellectually, morally and phonetically, and as his whorees
Speaker 1: like Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott try to erase the
Speaker 1: bright lines of democracy while they think we are not
Speaker 1: watching them, and as his jihadists try to sabotage the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four election. The Times needs its Walter Cronkite
Speaker 1: moment too, like Cronkite shocking the nation out of much
Speaker 1: of its Vietnam delusion, Like Cronkite personally moving Watergate to
Speaker 1: the front burner, the Times needs its Cronkite moment to
Speaker 1: save itself. We need a Times Cronkite moment to just
Speaker 1: add to our dwindling chances of saving this democracy. Saturday,
Speaker 1: Trump went to a Philadelphia area seaside resort called Wildwood,
Speaker 1: drew maybe ten thousand cultists, eleven thousand lied, and had
Speaker 1: the Republican mayor there lie and say it was eighty thousand.
Speaker 1: He talked, he complained, He complained that immigrant students don't
Speaker 1: speak English, and immediately afterwards he said something like bordenin Riviv,
Speaker 1: and he said something else like Carrie Daudite. By right,
Speaker 1: he claimed the president between Ford and Reagan was named
Speaker 1: Jimmy Conners. He said the Chinese were preparing to invade Beijing,
Speaker 1: which is their own capital. He insisted the entire country
Speaker 1: was grateful that he killed off Roe v. Wade. He
Speaker 1: thanked by name the Supreme Court justices who gutted Roe V. Wade.
Speaker 1: He suddenly invoked the fictional Cannibal character Hannibal Lecter, seemed
Speaker 1: to praise Hannibal Lector, claimed the character Hannibal Lecter was
Speaker 1: dead and got the name of the movie wrong, and
Speaker 1: then insisted all immigrants are Hannibal Lecter. And all of
Speaker 1: that was after he was introduced by some immigrant who
Speaker 1: called him President Chump, and the New York Times story
Speaker 1: by a sixth stringer named Michael Gold mentioned none of that.
Speaker 1: This was what Joe Conn's writer told consumers of the
Speaker 1: most influential news organization in America. Quote. After a long
Speaker 1: and often tense week in his criminal trial in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: Trump took part in a time honored ritual enjoyed by
Speaker 1: countless New Yorkers. In need of a break, he went
Speaker 1: to the shore. Oh oh, how clever, Michael Gold. The
Speaker 1: New York Times could save a lot of money by
Speaker 1: firing all of its political reporters and simply asking the
Speaker 1: fictional Twitter writer Doug J. Balloon of New York Times
Speaker 1: pitchpot fame to write all of its leads because they
Speaker 1: are now sounding exclusively like the Times pitch bot clunky
Speaker 1: attempts at wit that don't quite land. Trump has renounced
Speaker 1: his New York residence. He is thus not a New Yorker,
Speaker 1: Michael Gold. Wildwood is not a destination for New Yorkers anyway,
Speaker 1: It's for Philadelphians. And he is the greatest criminal in
Speaker 1: the nation's history. Michael Gold. He is not in need
Speaker 1: of a break. He is in need of a lifetime
Speaker 1: prison sentence. This occurred over a weekend in which three
Speaker 1: of Trump's most fierce, most dishonest, most anti democracy supporters
Speaker 1: in the Senate went on national television and said, sure,
Speaker 1: they would accept the outcome of the election so long
Speaker 1: as Trump won. The Times headline about that was Vance
Speaker 1: says he would accept the election results with a caveat,
Speaker 1: which sounds like he's wearing a tie with a caveat,
Speaker 1: a lovely floral caveat. Yet it was also a weekend
Speaker 1: in which a small newsroom called the Bucks County Beacon
Speaker 1: wrote about how Trump's sewer rats are openly subverting the
Speaker 1: election today, not twenty twenty, not twenty twenty two, but
Speaker 1: one in November quote. The RNC and its allies have
Speaker 1: already sued in five states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Nevada
Speaker 1: to challenge their voter roles, accuracy, and in turn, voter's credentials.
Speaker 1: In Georgia, a Republican bill empowering mass challenges of voter
Speaker 1: registrations was signed into law on May seventh. More importantly,
Speaker 1: the Beacon also reveals the existence of something on the
Speaker 1: right wing social media site Telegram called the Election Education Channel,
Speaker 1: which is encouraging and setting the stage for legal and
Speaker 1: extra judicial challenges to every single stage of every presidential
Speaker 1: vote count in conceivably every single precinct in this country.
Speaker 1: The kind of Sidney Powell Jenna ellis legal quicksand we
Speaker 1: saw after the twenty twenty election, only while the votes
Speaker 1: are still being counted, and immediately thereafter in every county
Speaker 1: in this country, to create chaos and genuine danger. The Times.
Speaker 1: The Times has reported none of that. It has instead
Speaker 1: let Maggie Haberman dismiss as hearsay Michael Cohen's first hand
Speaker 1: recounting of what Trump told him about not being on
Speaker 1: the market for long. If Millennia dumped him, and if
Speaker 1: Haberman doesn't know the legal definition of here, say get
Speaker 1: rid of her. And The Times made room for an
Speaker 1: op ed bashing Joe Biden written by Mark Penn, a
Speaker 1: dishonest right wing polster who has been posing as a
Speaker 1: Democrat for at least twenty years, and it made room
Speaker 1: for a report on the upcoming attempts to sabotage the
Speaker 1: election by the Republicans. No, a radio shock jock named
Speaker 1: Charlemagne the God, a reactionary who does nothing but take sides,
Speaker 1: and they pronounced he is someone The Times fell for
Speaker 1: it quote who won't take sides? We need a Walter
Speaker 1: Cronkite moment out of the New York Times. If the
Speaker 1: the reference eludes you, First of all, congratulations on your youth.
Speaker 1: Then to explain briefly for all of the almost biblical
Speaker 1: invocations of his supposed impartiality and the use of the
Speaker 1: name Walter Cronkite as a substitute for complete impartiality in reporting.
Speaker 1: The three biggest moments in the career of the great
Speaker 1: CBS newsman were when he barely stopped himself from crying
Speaker 1: while reporting the assassination of President Kennedy. When he burst
Speaker 1: through the constraints of his job as the anchor of
Speaker 1: the CBS Evening News to present fully informed, but fully
Speaker 1: opinionated commentaries, first on Vietnam, and then four years later
Speaker 1: on Watergate. In February of nineteen sixty eight, Walter Cronkite
Speaker 1: went to Vietnam, and he spent a week there talking
Speaker 1: to people on the record and off, and he went
Speaker 1: back to his desk, and on February twenty seventh, nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight, he delivered an extraordinary closing editorial after a
Speaker 1: long report on our status in Vietnam. His editorial began with,
Speaker 1: we have been too often disappointed by the optimism of
Speaker 1: the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington to have
Speaker 1: faith any longer in the silver linings they find in
Speaker 1: the darkest clouds. His commentary ended with it is increasingly
Speaker 1: clear to this reporter that the only rational way out
Speaker 1: then will be to negotiate not as victors, but as
Speaker 1: an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to
Speaker 1: defend democracy and did the best they could. President Lyndon
Speaker 1: Johnson was not watching Walter Cronkite live that night, but
Speaker 1: Bob Scheffer insists Johnson told him he did see clips,
Speaker 1: and Schaefer and Bill Moyers insist the President did then
Speaker 1: say something like if I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America,
Speaker 1: and Johnson soon after then announced he was not going
Speaker 1: to run for reelection in October nineteen seventy two. Cronkite
Speaker 1: may have topped himself at a time when only the
Speaker 1: Washington Post was giving Nixon's Watergate scandal daily coverage. Yes,
Speaker 1: the New York Times was largely asleep at the switch
Speaker 1: then too. At that point, Walter Cronkite devoted roughly half
Speaker 1: of the editorial content time of two editions of the
Speaker 1: CBS Evening News just to the one story to Watergate,
Speaker 1: fourteen minutes out of what was basically a twenty two
Speaker 1: minute newscast on Friday, October twenty seventh, and what was
Speaker 1: cut down to eight minutes due to the threats of
Speaker 1: the Nixon administration and the pleas of Walter Kronkite's terrified
Speaker 1: bosses on Tuesday, October thirty first, Walter Cronkite did not
Speaker 1: f around. We need that out of the New York Times,
Speaker 1: and we need it now. And if the Times does
Speaker 1: not have a Walter Cronkite moment in it, they need
Speaker 1: to get everybody out of their building and then fload
Speaker 1: that building because the Times is simply now mocking the
Speaker 1: idea of responsible American journalism. And also, I know that
Speaker 1: area I used to work a block away at sixth
Speaker 1: and fortieth. The City of New York could really use
Speaker 1: that lot for parking. And no, I'm not expecting a
Speaker 1: Walter Cronkite moment from the New York Times. The New
Speaker 1: York Times does not make mistakes, let alone correct them.
Speaker 1: Don't you know that, by the way, if you missed
Speaker 1: it as the Times did, what follows is a mashup
Speaker 1: of Trump's now constant indecipherability and Trump on President Jimmy
Speaker 1: Conners and Trump on the late great Hannibal Lecter, and
Speaker 1: then Trump walking away from the microphones yesterday when an
Speaker 1: astute reporter at the trial asked him, Hannibal Lector, we'll
Speaker 1: play this and then we'll go to court.
Speaker 2: We're going to evict this man, the worst president by far.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Connors is Jimmy. Jimmy Connors is good. He's also happy.
Speaker 1: Jimmy is a very happy man, both of them. And
Speaker 1: they don't speak English. They're sitting in chairs listening to a.
Speaker 2: Teacher talking English, and they don't speak English, and.
Speaker 1: They won't mean Biden's burden silence of the lamb.
Speaker 2: Has anyone ever seen the silence of the lymps?
Speaker 1: The late Great Hannibal Elector, He is a wonderful man.
Speaker 1: He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner. Remember the
Speaker 1: last saying, excuse me, I'm about to have a friend
Speaker 1: for dinner. Is this poor doctor walk by? I'm about
Speaker 1: to have a friend for dinner.
Speaker 2: But Hannibal Elector, congratulations, the late Great Hannibal Lector.
Speaker 1: No reason to put any of that madness in the times.
Speaker 1: What I'd have to leave out the Jersey Shore references.
Speaker 1: Michael Cohen calmly describes Trump's hush money instructions, reads the
Speaker 1: headline in the Washington Post today. The sub headline quotes, Trump,
Speaker 1: just do it. That's what the prosecution needed out of Cohen,
Speaker 1: and it needs it again out of him today and
Speaker 1: especially whenever the cross examination begins. It needs him making
Speaker 1: more self abnegating jokes about angry even for me. It
Speaker 1: needs him testifying, as he did yesterday, that he was
Speaker 1: there in Trump Tower days before Trump was sworn in
Speaker 1: as President of the United States, with Alan Weiselberg reviewing
Speaker 1: a handwritten document with Trump to repay Cohen for the
Speaker 1: stormy Daniel's hush money and how they would hide it
Speaker 1: amid legal fees, and testimony that Trump said smart individuals
Speaker 1: had told him Trump to pay the one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars to Stormy Daniels, and that Trump told
Speaker 1: him he knew if the Daniels story got out it
Speaker 1: would be a disaster for the campaign that it needs
Speaker 1: Michael Cohen producing one outstandingly sleazy quote from Trump per
Speaker 1: day on the stand, like he did yesterday about the
Speaker 1: time Cohen asked Trump about the impact on his wife,
Speaker 1: Milania if the story got out, and Trump said, don't worry.
Speaker 1: How long do you think I'll be on the market for?
Speaker 1: Not long? That's the quote Haberman of The Times falsely
Speaker 1: dismissed as hearsay, and the quote that underscores all of
Speaker 1: us who have viewed the latest of the many Trump
Speaker 1: quote marriages unquote as exactly what Trump clearly viewed it
Speaker 1: as a contract negotiated with terms dictated by the market.
Speaker 1: How long do you think I'll be on the market for?
Speaker 1: And all of it that Cohen testified to and testifies
Speaker 1: to today and in the cross examination accompanied by receipts,
Speaker 1: metaphorical receipts and literal ones trial notes. In passing, Trump
Speaker 1: wanted some distinguished Republicans to show up and show solidarity,
Speaker 1: but he could only get Tommy Tuberville, JD. Vance, and
Speaker 1: Nicole Mally attackus OH and Brenna Bird. Brenna Bird is
Speaker 1: the Attorney General of Iowa who was there in court,
Speaker 1: who should be disbarred, because whatever you think of this
Speaker 1: case or this defendant, you cannot be the head of
Speaker 1: criminal enforcement in any state and show up in court
Speaker 1: to kiss the ass of a defendant in another state.
Speaker 1: It is disqualifying. Senators Vance and Tubberville do not have
Speaker 1: to worry about that. They have long since disqualified themselves.
Speaker 1: They caught Trump sleeping again in court, and somebody finally
Speaker 1: aptly compared this to his alertness during the Egene Carroll trial.
Speaker 1: Vance stayed only for the morning session yesterday, and then
Speaker 1: he and Tubberville blew town and Vance, violating court rules,
Speaker 1: evidently was tweeting from his phone in the courtroom. I
Speaker 1: saw a media report a few days ago. He wrote
Speaker 1: that Trump looked like he was falling asleep or board
Speaker 1: or something. The obvious narrative they're trying to sell is yeah,
Speaker 1: Biden is mentally unfit, but this other guy's bad too.
Speaker 1: It's an absurd narrative. I'm thirty nine years old and
Speaker 1: I've been here for twenty six minutes and I'm about
Speaker 1: to fall to sleep. Unquote. I'm sorry, Sonny, but how
Speaker 1: does your failed mental health help Trump. It's like saying
Speaker 1: I'm jd Vance and I have multiple chins that shows
Speaker 1: that Trump is in the best possible health. This scumbag
Speaker 1: Tubberville meanwhile went out to a propaganda conference with the
Speaker 1: media and said that the people in the court were quote,
Speaker 1: supposedly American citizens. Supposedly American citizens. He segued right from
Speaker 1: that into an insult towards the district attorney, and of
Speaker 1: course what he was saying was now that was code for, hey,
Speaker 1: this Alvin Brad guy is black. Today, Vivek Ramaswami will
Speaker 1: be there with Trump if Ramaswami can get his hair
Speaker 1: done in time. And ABC News reports that Junior Trump
Speaker 1: has gone to visit Peter Navarro in federal prison, and
Speaker 1: I look at it this way, good practice for Junie
Speaker 1: for once Dad goes there. Last point, the nice thing
Speaker 1: about this nightmare is that Trump and his defense team
Speaker 1: and his cultists and his Republican supporters have so little
Speaker 1: to work with that they always telegraph their response because
Speaker 1: generally speaking, they can only find one response per crisis.
Speaker 1: And the response to Michael Cohen is He's a liar.
Speaker 1: He lied, He's a convicted liar. The jury can't trust
Speaker 1: a liar. America can't trust a liar. Leave aside that
Speaker 1: liar might as well be Trump's actual middle name. But
Speaker 1: say this long enough to Cohen and they expect him
Speaker 1: to blow up in the witness box. Say this long
Speaker 1: enough to the fascists and they'll forget that Cohen was
Speaker 1: convicted of lying on Trump's behalf. Say this long enough,
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll all forget that. If we disqualified everybody
Speaker 1: who has ever lied for Donald Trump, we had to
Speaker 1: wipe out about ninety nine percent of the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: wouldn't we. I've done all the damage I can do here.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and
Speaker 1: John Phillips Chanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music.
Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, the bass, and the drums,
Speaker 1: and mister Shanelle handled the orchestration and the keyboards. It
Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of
Speaker 1: the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed.
Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two,
Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our
Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. The
Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was my
Speaker 1: friend Howard Fineman, and everything else was pretty much my fault.
Speaker 1: Let's countdown for this the one hundred and seventy sixth
Speaker 1: day until the two twenty four presidential election, but twenty
Speaker 1: fifth day since Dictator Jay Trump's first attempted coup against
Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the
Speaker 1: legal system such as it is, use the mental health system,
Speaker 1: Use presidential immunity if it happens, use the not regularly
Speaker 1: given elector objection option. Use the campaign to stop him
Speaker 1: from doing it again while we still can. The next
Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Again. I'm going to label that
Speaker 1: as probable game time decision till the next one. I'm
Speaker 1: Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.
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