1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oldman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:29,515 --> 00:00:37,515 Speaker 1: Trump Is Screwed, Trump is really really screwed. Trump is really, 3 00:00:37,675 --> 00:00:43,355 Speaker 1: really really screwed. The Department of Justice answered Trump's moronic 4 00:00:43,515 --> 00:00:47,795 Speaker 1: Special Master lawsuit emerged early this morning, and in it, 5 00:00:48,235 --> 00:00:53,275 Speaker 1: Trump destroys his own contention that he had declassified everything. 6 00:00:53,715 --> 00:00:57,395 Speaker 1: And there is, as they said so cynically in the 7 00:00:57,435 --> 00:01:03,155 Speaker 1: movie The American President quote, there is art from the 8 00:01:03,195 --> 00:01:05,795 Speaker 1: gaudiness of the carpeting and picture, it looks like we 9 00:01:05,875 --> 00:01:09,475 Speaker 1: are at Mari Lago, where the five bright yellow folders 10 00:01:09,475 --> 00:01:12,515 Speaker 1: with the big red letters top Secret slash s c 11 00:01:12,755 --> 00:01:18,515 Speaker 1: I Sensitive Compartmented Information are screwn on the floor, along 12 00:01:18,515 --> 00:01:22,675 Speaker 1: with the less glimmering red and white secret SCI folder 13 00:01:23,035 --> 00:01:26,155 Speaker 1: and the several documents with the big red secret stamp 14 00:01:26,235 --> 00:01:29,235 Speaker 1: on them. And they are why you do not file 15 00:01:29,395 --> 00:01:33,915 Speaker 1: a legal demand for anything three weeks after they have 16 00:01:34,035 --> 00:01:37,155 Speaker 1: all been found and reclaimed by the government after you, 17 00:01:37,275 --> 00:01:40,115 Speaker 1: Donald John Trump have stolen them and will be going 18 00:01:40,155 --> 00:01:43,595 Speaker 1: to prison because you stole them. Because when you file 19 00:01:43,715 --> 00:01:46,635 Speaker 1: a legal demand and fill it up with your bull 20 00:01:46,715 --> 00:01:51,555 Speaker 1: crap excuses and petty complaints, the Department of Justice gets 21 00:01:51,595 --> 00:01:55,875 Speaker 1: to answer you soon or late, in this case, very 22 00:01:55,995 --> 00:02:00,555 Speaker 1: late Tuesday night. And whether or not you wanted, every 23 00:02:00,595 --> 00:02:04,515 Speaker 1: newspaper in the world will soon have a photo of 24 00:02:04,755 --> 00:02:09,875 Speaker 1: top secret, sensitive compartmented information sitting on the floor. And 25 00:02:09,915 --> 00:02:12,995 Speaker 1: if it isn't your floor, so what people will think 26 00:02:13,035 --> 00:02:18,675 Speaker 1: it is your floor and you have just lost We 27 00:02:18,875 --> 00:02:23,275 Speaker 1: don't even know what's in the folders. We don't need 28 00:02:23,395 --> 00:02:32,035 Speaker 1: to know. You are screwed. Trump's last line of defense 29 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:35,675 Speaker 1: was this lame brained insistence that there are no declassified 30 00:02:35,715 --> 00:02:39,035 Speaker 1: documents at Mari Lago, and there never were because he 31 00:02:39,075 --> 00:02:45,075 Speaker 1: had declassified all of them secretly openly somehow. But in June, 32 00:02:45,315 --> 00:02:49,435 Speaker 1: it says in the government answer released early this morning, 33 00:02:49,995 --> 00:02:54,595 Speaker 1: when the supposed entire stash of documents were originally turned 34 00:02:54,675 --> 00:03:00,515 Speaker 1: over to the government, Trump had said otherwise about declassifying, 35 00:03:00,795 --> 00:03:05,355 Speaker 1: quoting the document, when producing the fifteen boxes, the former 36 00:03:05,435 --> 00:03:10,035 Speaker 1: president never asserted executive privilege over any of the documents, 37 00:03:10,315 --> 00:03:12,715 Speaker 1: nor claimed that any of the documents in the boxes 38 00:03:12,755 --> 00:03:19,435 Speaker 1: containing classification markings had been declassified unquote later in the document, 39 00:03:19,635 --> 00:03:23,795 Speaker 1: quoting again when producing the documents, neither counsel nor the 40 00:03:23,835 --> 00:03:28,915 Speaker 1: custodian asserted that the former president had declassified the documents 41 00:03:29,035 --> 00:03:34,555 Speaker 1: or asserted any claim of executive privilege. Instead, council handled 42 00:03:34,595 --> 00:03:37,955 Speaker 1: them in a manner that suggested council believed that the 43 00:03:38,035 --> 00:03:44,515 Speaker 1: documents were classified. The d o J answer revealed early 44 00:03:44,555 --> 00:03:47,795 Speaker 1: this morning is filled with other metaphorical daggers. Through Trump's 45 00:03:47,835 --> 00:03:53,035 Speaker 1: metaphorical heart, He and his team personally concealed classified documents 46 00:03:53,075 --> 00:03:58,115 Speaker 1: in June. When government investigators went to Marilago to reclaim them, 47 00:03:58,155 --> 00:04:01,515 Speaker 1: there were more than a hundred documents in thirteen boxes 48 00:04:01,795 --> 00:04:07,155 Speaker 1: in Trump's residents. Investigators found owned end quote three classified 49 00:04:07,155 --> 00:04:10,555 Speaker 1: documents that were not located in boxes, but we're rather 50 00:04:10,675 --> 00:04:16,835 Speaker 1: located in desks in the quote forty five office. He 51 00:04:16,915 --> 00:04:21,675 Speaker 1: was keeping our top secret documents in the desk at 52 00:04:21,675 --> 00:04:27,675 Speaker 1: a country club in Florida. Oops, you mean oops? Don't 53 00:04:27,675 --> 00:04:32,555 Speaker 1: you just say oops and get out. We also learned 54 00:04:32,595 --> 00:04:34,835 Speaker 1: from the d o J answer that when the June 55 00:04:34,875 --> 00:04:40,075 Speaker 1: boxes were turned over, the former President's council explicitly prohibited 56 00:04:40,115 --> 00:04:43,515 Speaker 1: government personnel from looking inside any of the boxes that 57 00:04:43,595 --> 00:04:48,515 Speaker 1: remained in the storage room unquote, and Trump's people said, oh, 58 00:04:48,635 --> 00:04:50,915 Speaker 1: don't worry, there are no documents in there. And of course, 59 00:04:50,995 --> 00:04:53,355 Speaker 1: during the FBI search on August eight, that turned out 60 00:04:53,355 --> 00:04:59,755 Speaker 1: there were documents in there substruction of justice. He might 61 00:04:59,755 --> 00:05:03,875 Speaker 1: as well have confessed to it. And speaking of confessions, oh, 62 00:05:04,035 --> 00:05:07,555 Speaker 1: one of Trump attorneys, the TV one, it was previously 63 00:05:07,595 --> 00:05:13,595 Speaker 1: reported as that Christina bob she signed a sworn document 64 00:05:14,155 --> 00:05:17,035 Speaker 1: saying that everything classified had been turned over and it 65 00:05:17,115 --> 00:05:19,555 Speaker 1: hasn't she better cut a plea deal as fast as 66 00:05:19,595 --> 00:05:24,035 Speaker 1: she can. None of this is new, but all of 67 00:05:24,075 --> 00:05:27,595 Speaker 1: it is crushing, and more importantly, all of it is 68 00:05:27,635 --> 00:05:33,835 Speaker 1: easily digested, and it provides Trump apologists with not very 69 00:05:33,915 --> 00:05:42,075 Speaker 1: much to work with, and there is art, and it 70 00:05:42,155 --> 00:05:44,315 Speaker 1: gives us a fresh answer to what had already been 71 00:05:44,395 --> 00:05:48,035 Speaker 1: Tuesday's question of the Day, voiced by President Biden in 72 00:05:48,075 --> 00:05:53,235 Speaker 1: Wilkes Barry, Pennsylvania. Where the hell are we? Well, I 73 00:05:53,235 --> 00:05:55,955 Speaker 1: can tell you where the hell Trump is. He's up 74 00:05:57,515 --> 00:06:01,595 Speaker 1: Eugene Levy sitcom. And the walls are now closing in 75 00:06:01,635 --> 00:06:05,555 Speaker 1: from all directions because whoever had told Joe Biden not 76 00:06:05,675 --> 00:06:10,155 Speaker 1: to ever use the presidency to call out fascism and 77 00:06:10,235 --> 00:06:15,155 Speaker 1: political violence and the Republican Party, whoever told him that 78 00:06:15,155 --> 00:06:19,115 Speaker 1: that person has clearly been fired. But the idea you 79 00:06:19,235 --> 00:06:22,955 Speaker 1: turn on a television and see senior Centers and congressman saying, 80 00:06:23,195 --> 00:06:26,715 Speaker 1: if such and such happens, there'll be blood in the street. 81 00:06:28,155 --> 00:06:30,755 Speaker 1: Where the hell are we? Where the hell are we? 82 00:06:30,875 --> 00:06:33,595 Speaker 1: How is Lindsey Graham going to answer that? I didn't 83 00:06:33,635 --> 00:06:37,635 Speaker 1: say blood in the streets. I said riots in the streets. Actually, 84 00:06:37,675 --> 00:06:40,435 Speaker 1: I'm giving Lindsey Graham way too much credit. He did 85 00:06:40,515 --> 00:06:43,715 Speaker 1: answer President Biden, and he was not nearly that clever. 86 00:06:44,195 --> 00:06:47,555 Speaker 1: In fact, he just straight up wid Yeah. So what 87 00:06:47,595 --> 00:06:52,075 Speaker 1: I said Sunday was America's reject I reject violence, but 88 00:06:52,115 --> 00:06:55,675 Speaker 1: I also reject a double standard here. So if they 89 00:06:55,715 --> 00:06:59,155 Speaker 1: try to prosecute President Trump from miss heelling classified information 90 00:06:59,635 --> 00:07:03,275 Speaker 1: after the Clinton debacle when she was Secretary of State, 91 00:07:03,635 --> 00:07:06,635 Speaker 1: people in this country will lose faith in law enforcement. 92 00:07:06,995 --> 00:07:10,275 Speaker 1: So last night on Fox Lindsey Graham said that Sunday 93 00:07:10,355 --> 00:07:14,035 Speaker 1: night on Fox, he had said, one, Americans reject violence, 94 00:07:14,395 --> 00:07:19,155 Speaker 1: two I reject violence, and three if Trump is prosecuted, 95 00:07:19,155 --> 00:07:23,395 Speaker 1: Americans will lose faith in law enforcement. Well, that settles it. 96 00:07:23,515 --> 00:07:25,955 Speaker 1: We'll just have to take Lindsey Graham's word for it 97 00:07:25,995 --> 00:07:28,315 Speaker 1: that that's what he said Sunday night, rather than there'll 98 00:07:28,315 --> 00:07:30,795 Speaker 1: be riots in the streets. It's just too bad. There 99 00:07:30,875 --> 00:07:35,835 Speaker 1: wasn't some log or transcription or mechanical reproduction of what 100 00:07:35,875 --> 00:07:39,835 Speaker 1: he actually said on Fox Sunday Night, so somehow, through 101 00:07:39,875 --> 00:07:44,115 Speaker 1: some sort of magic, we could hear him again reject 102 00:07:44,315 --> 00:07:48,635 Speaker 1: violence on Sunday Night. If there's a prosecution of Donald 103 00:07:48,635 --> 00:07:53,155 Speaker 1: Trump for misshandling classified information after the Clinton debacle, which 104 00:07:53,155 --> 00:07:55,435 Speaker 1: you've presided over and did a hell of a good job, 105 00:07:55,755 --> 00:07:59,395 Speaker 1: there'll be riots in the streets. Yeah, Lindsey Graham never 106 00:07:59,475 --> 00:08:02,075 Speaker 1: said any of the things he now claims he said, 107 00:08:02,235 --> 00:08:04,835 Speaker 1: and it's on tape, and you know as well as 108 00:08:04,875 --> 00:08:08,155 Speaker 1: I do. It doesn't matter. The Fox News idiots will 109 00:08:08,195 --> 00:08:11,435 Speaker 1: believe the second version and pretend they never heard the first. 110 00:08:12,035 --> 00:08:17,195 Speaker 1: What a pathetic, lying, little Trump whore Lindsey Graham has become. 111 00:08:18,035 --> 00:08:21,795 Speaker 1: It is genuinely impossible to recreate that time when Lindsey 112 00:08:21,875 --> 00:08:26,075 Speaker 1: Graham was considered one of the reasonable Republicans, or for 113 00:08:26,155 --> 00:08:30,035 Speaker 1: that matter, to recreate the time when there were reasonable Republicans. 114 00:08:30,715 --> 00:08:33,275 Speaker 1: All I know is when he sold his soul. I 115 00:08:33,315 --> 00:08:35,835 Speaker 1: hope Lindsey Graham got a great price for it, because 116 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:40,035 Speaker 1: he's gonna be in hell for a long time. But 117 00:08:40,195 --> 00:08:42,995 Speaker 1: back to Joe Biden in Wilkes Barry, and also the 118 00:08:43,035 --> 00:08:46,835 Speaker 1: anticipation of his Defense of Freedom's speech tomorrow night in Philadelphia. 119 00:08:46,915 --> 00:08:53,035 Speaker 1: One word. Finally, the speech in Wilkes Barry, the semi 120 00:08:53,075 --> 00:08:55,755 Speaker 1: fascism speech from last week, and whatever he says in 121 00:08:55,795 --> 00:08:59,475 Speaker 1: Philly will have done more to normalize calling Republicans what 122 00:08:59,555 --> 00:09:03,315 Speaker 1: they have become than anything else in the last seven years. 123 00:09:03,835 --> 00:09:09,475 Speaker 1: What they have become authoritarians, fascists, cultists, bigots, homophobes, misogynists, 124 00:09:09,515 --> 00:09:14,395 Speaker 1: anti semits, often literally Nazis. Each time President Biden says 125 00:09:14,435 --> 00:09:19,555 Speaker 1: just one of these words, even semi fascist, every reporter 126 00:09:19,795 --> 00:09:24,115 Speaker 1: covering him or covering this country, or every writer writing 127 00:09:24,155 --> 00:09:28,155 Speaker 1: about this country has to say it too. Every time 128 00:09:28,195 --> 00:09:31,195 Speaker 1: Biden says one of these words, every Democratic candidate can 129 00:09:31,235 --> 00:09:33,835 Speaker 1: push through the hole in the wall that Biden opened 130 00:09:33,915 --> 00:09:37,715 Speaker 1: last week, and the thing begins to expand exponentially. Soon 131 00:09:37,835 --> 00:09:41,835 Speaker 1: every Democratic voter and every horrified Republican can say what 132 00:09:41,915 --> 00:09:44,875 Speaker 1: their instinct to find the middle road and the lowest 133 00:09:44,875 --> 00:09:48,435 Speaker 1: common denominator have told them to never say, namely that 134 00:09:48,515 --> 00:09:52,715 Speaker 1: the Republicans are evil, that they intend to overthrow democracy, 135 00:09:52,755 --> 00:09:55,955 Speaker 1: that they advocate strongman rule, that they have sold their 136 00:09:55,995 --> 00:10:01,675 Speaker 1: souls for power, then Senator John Kerry talked to me 137 00:10:01,755 --> 00:10:04,675 Speaker 1: once about a series of commentaries I did on Countdown 138 00:10:04,795 --> 00:10:07,595 Speaker 1: in two thousand five and two thousand six, pointing out 139 00:10:07,915 --> 00:10:11,355 Speaker 1: how many times George W. Bush and the Republicans had 140 00:10:11,395 --> 00:10:14,275 Speaker 1: faced a political downturn or crisis, or just a news 141 00:10:14,315 --> 00:10:17,915 Speaker 1: cycle that was favorite to the Democrats, and then suddenly, 142 00:10:17,915 --> 00:10:22,075 Speaker 1: out of nowhere, somebody changed the color on the Homeland 143 00:10:22,115 --> 00:10:26,115 Speaker 1: Security terrorism advisory chart from yellow to orange, or orange 144 00:10:26,155 --> 00:10:28,955 Speaker 1: to red, or suddenly, out of nowhere, a dirty bomber 145 00:10:29,075 --> 00:10:34,075 Speaker 1: suspect was arrested somewhere, or suddenly architectural plans of US 146 00:10:34,075 --> 00:10:36,875 Speaker 1: office buildings turned up in an al Qaeda safe house 147 00:10:36,875 --> 00:10:40,675 Speaker 1: in Baghdad. And all I said was, how many of 148 00:10:40,715 --> 00:10:44,635 Speaker 1: these juxtapositions of timing have to turn out to not 149 00:10:44,755 --> 00:10:49,835 Speaker 1: be coincidences before we have a serious problem in this country. 150 00:10:50,155 --> 00:10:52,715 Speaker 1: John Kerry told me all the Democrats knew what the 151 00:10:52,755 --> 00:10:56,995 Speaker 1: Republicans were doing. He said, we were all afraid to 152 00:10:57,035 --> 00:11:00,795 Speaker 1: say it. What if it's somehow was actually a coincidence. 153 00:11:01,395 --> 00:11:05,595 Speaker 1: You you weren't afraid. You were either too dumb were 154 00:11:05,635 --> 00:11:08,355 Speaker 1: too smart to not say it. And then you stuck 155 00:11:08,355 --> 00:11:10,715 Speaker 1: your head through that wall and we just followed you 156 00:11:10,835 --> 00:11:13,275 Speaker 1: through it. But once you said it, then we could 157 00:11:13,275 --> 00:11:15,035 Speaker 1: all say it. And when we all said it, then 158 00:11:15,035 --> 00:11:17,075 Speaker 1: the voters all said it, and they all said, hey, 159 00:11:17,075 --> 00:11:22,195 Speaker 1: you're right, and then we won the midterms. So when 160 00:11:22,275 --> 00:11:27,155 Speaker 1: Joe Biden says semi fascism or any of those other words, 161 00:11:27,515 --> 00:11:31,035 Speaker 1: the rest of them, the rest of us, can all 162 00:11:31,395 --> 00:11:35,715 Speaker 1: say it. And don't forget. Though the healer is the 163 00:11:35,755 --> 00:11:38,035 Speaker 1: president Joe Biden wanted to be, it was not the 164 00:11:38,075 --> 00:11:41,155 Speaker 1: president that this era was to let him become. But 165 00:11:41,315 --> 00:11:44,515 Speaker 1: do not forget that Biden took plenty of effective yet 166 00:11:44,555 --> 00:11:48,515 Speaker 1: dignified swings at Trump during the campaign and in the 167 00:11:48,555 --> 00:11:52,275 Speaker 1: debates especially, Joe Biden took plenty of effective yet dignified 168 00:11:52,395 --> 00:11:57,555 Speaker 1: kicks to Trump's groin and when he beat Trump, and 169 00:11:57,635 --> 00:12:00,235 Speaker 1: it cannot be the only thing we judged Joe Biden by, 170 00:12:00,355 --> 00:12:02,555 Speaker 1: but we should remember more than we do that he 171 00:12:02,675 --> 00:12:06,395 Speaker 1: beat Trump. Joe Biden put the swings and the kicks 172 00:12:06,395 --> 00:12:10,555 Speaker 1: away and tried to heal this nation. Unfortunately, we still 173 00:12:10,595 --> 00:12:13,235 Speaker 1: had too much fighting here to do yet, and we 174 00:12:13,315 --> 00:12:15,715 Speaker 1: still have too much fighting here to do yet. Because 175 00:12:16,115 --> 00:12:18,795 Speaker 1: it is us or them, they have said, so we 176 00:12:18,915 --> 00:12:23,115 Speaker 1: must defeat them. But if the President of the United 177 00:12:23,155 --> 00:12:24,995 Speaker 1: States will keep saying what he has said in the 178 00:12:25,075 --> 00:12:30,515 Speaker 1: last week, there will be momentum. To paraphrase the most 179 00:12:30,595 --> 00:12:33,795 Speaker 1: searing line in the movie The Manchurion Candidate, the one 180 00:12:34,035 --> 00:12:36,755 Speaker 1: that actually resonates the most with people who have covered 181 00:12:36,835 --> 00:12:41,715 Speaker 1: or been in politics. Paraphrasing it just slightly, what are 182 00:12:41,715 --> 00:12:43,795 Speaker 1: they writing about all over this country? And what are 183 00:12:43,795 --> 00:12:46,675 Speaker 1: they saying? Are they saying, are there any fascists in 184 00:12:46,715 --> 00:12:49,835 Speaker 1: the Republican Party? Of course not, They're saying how many 185 00:12:49,915 --> 00:12:55,635 Speaker 1: fascists are there in the Republican Party? Unfortunately for all 186 00:12:55,675 --> 00:13:00,595 Speaker 1: of us, the answer seems to be approaching infinity. Trump 187 00:13:00,635 --> 00:13:04,195 Speaker 1: has now morphed again. He's now the drunk who keeps 188 00:13:04,235 --> 00:13:08,315 Speaker 1: texting his ex. Do not misread his spasm yesterday posting 189 00:13:08,315 --> 00:13:11,235 Speaker 1: the worst sixty or seventy or how many ever he 190 00:13:11,275 --> 00:13:13,315 Speaker 1: posted of the worst and most degrading of the Q 191 00:13:13,475 --> 00:13:17,115 Speaker 1: and on phantasms. This is not Trump going fully insane. 192 00:13:17,395 --> 00:13:22,035 Speaker 1: This is Trump repeating his greatest hit. He is doing 193 00:13:22,075 --> 00:13:26,035 Speaker 1: this now because last time he did it, it worked. 194 00:13:27,035 --> 00:13:31,035 Speaker 1: This is the same playbook he used before January six. 195 00:13:31,275 --> 00:13:34,315 Speaker 1: He's only changed it slightly. He's only directed it to 196 00:13:34,355 --> 00:13:38,275 Speaker 1: a slightly different audience, and his degree of personal desperation 197 00:13:38,315 --> 00:13:41,675 Speaker 1: is only slightly higher, though the amount of this country 198 00:13:41,715 --> 00:13:44,275 Speaker 1: he is willing to destroy to get his own way 199 00:13:44,595 --> 00:13:48,915 Speaker 1: is certainly exponentially greater. And like January six, this too 200 00:13:48,955 --> 00:13:52,315 Speaker 1: is stochastic terrorism. The premise of Q and On is 201 00:13:52,315 --> 00:13:55,355 Speaker 1: that Trump still somehow controls the military, and it will 202 00:13:55,515 --> 00:14:01,555 Speaker 1: rise up and hang everybody that each Q follower wants hanged. 203 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:06,075 Speaker 1: He is calling out to these most deranged of his followers, 204 00:14:06,155 --> 00:14:08,995 Speaker 1: not the practical bullies and thugs and gun nuts who 205 00:14:08,995 --> 00:14:12,475 Speaker 1: were so effective on January six, but the million freaks 206 00:14:12,875 --> 00:14:15,875 Speaker 1: who dream of hanging Hillary Clinton, and who dream of 207 00:14:15,955 --> 00:14:19,875 Speaker 1: dropping nuclear weapons on democratic cities only without hurting a 208 00:14:19,955 --> 00:14:23,515 Speaker 1: single Republican, and who believed JFK Jr. Is coming back 209 00:14:23,515 --> 00:14:28,475 Speaker 1: from the dead only as an idiotic fascist. And yes, 210 00:14:28,515 --> 00:14:32,195 Speaker 1: they are dangerous in their way, but not really except 211 00:14:32,195 --> 00:14:34,835 Speaker 1: for that one in a million who actually has a 212 00:14:34,915 --> 00:14:38,835 Speaker 1: bomb storied in his basement or knows where Michael Flynn 213 00:14:38,915 --> 00:14:45,675 Speaker 1: has stashed all the juice. Yesterday, Trump dropped the pretense 214 00:14:45,675 --> 00:14:48,475 Speaker 1: and quoted the Q and On catchphrases himself, and he 215 00:14:48,515 --> 00:14:51,955 Speaker 1: reposted some of the actual made up Q messages. He 216 00:14:51,995 --> 00:14:56,795 Speaker 1: turned back against vaccinations, which he had supported so wildly 217 00:14:57,195 --> 00:14:59,835 Speaker 1: that he posted an obviously fake message about a book 218 00:14:59,875 --> 00:15:02,995 Speaker 1: that could cure COVID, a message that was falsely attributed 219 00:15:03,035 --> 00:15:06,235 Speaker 1: to his own daughter. Throw his daughter overboard if it 220 00:15:06,235 --> 00:15:09,435 Speaker 1: means gaining power again, to hell with her. And he 221 00:15:09,475 --> 00:15:11,395 Speaker 1: posted a picture from the State of the Union with 222 00:15:11,435 --> 00:15:15,155 Speaker 1: the words your enemy in what ironically looks like a 223 00:15:15,155 --> 00:15:19,235 Speaker 1: redaction bar over the face of Vice President Harris. Also 224 00:15:19,275 --> 00:15:22,195 Speaker 1: the words is not over the face of President Biden, 225 00:15:22,675 --> 00:15:26,075 Speaker 1: and the words in Russia over the face of Speaker Pelosi. 226 00:15:26,715 --> 00:15:29,835 Speaker 1: And then last night a bomb threat was called into 227 00:15:29,835 --> 00:15:34,275 Speaker 1: Boston's Children's Hospital because they have a pediatric and adolescent 228 00:15:34,315 --> 00:15:36,875 Speaker 1: transgendered health program, and the police then had to set 229 00:15:36,915 --> 00:15:39,915 Speaker 1: up a security perimeter in the adjacent neighborhood. And that 230 00:15:39,955 --> 00:15:42,555 Speaker 1: happened hours after Trump dived off the end of the 231 00:15:42,635 --> 00:15:45,435 Speaker 1: pier into the deep, polluted waters of the Full Q 232 00:15:45,595 --> 00:15:51,195 Speaker 1: And on conspiracy, but of course that's just juxtaposition of timing. 233 00:15:51,395 --> 00:15:56,315 Speaker 1: No doubt Trump knew what was in the boxes at 234 00:15:56,355 --> 00:15:59,635 Speaker 1: Mari Lago, and he knew on which of his gaudiest 235 00:15:59,675 --> 00:16:04,035 Speaker 1: carpets he had thrown them, Like so many baseball cards, 236 00:16:04,715 --> 00:16:07,355 Speaker 1: and he knew who he had shown them to, or 237 00:16:07,435 --> 00:16:10,075 Speaker 1: gave them to, or sold them to the son of 238 00:16:10,075 --> 00:16:13,555 Speaker 1: a bitch. And in his adult mind he may even 239 00:16:13,595 --> 00:16:17,355 Speaker 1: have been aware that the special master suit would backfire 240 00:16:17,755 --> 00:16:21,475 Speaker 1: so spectacularly and give the Defense Department its chance to 241 00:16:21,515 --> 00:16:25,395 Speaker 1: prove he obstructed justice and denied the documents were classified 242 00:16:25,475 --> 00:16:28,355 Speaker 1: now and not have to wait for, you know, a trial. 243 00:16:29,955 --> 00:16:32,995 Speaker 1: So in going where we go, one we go all? 244 00:16:33,515 --> 00:16:36,835 Speaker 1: What a moronic phrase that is. Do not believe for 245 00:16:36,875 --> 00:16:39,515 Speaker 1: a moment that Trump is scared or losing any remaining 246 00:16:39,595 --> 00:16:43,435 Speaker 1: sliver of sanity. He is going for broke. Last time 247 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:46,435 Speaker 1: he merely wanted the vice president hanged and senators and 248 00:16:46,475 --> 00:16:51,475 Speaker 1: representatives assassinated. Now it's everybody. He is calling out, the 249 00:16:51,555 --> 00:16:55,155 Speaker 1: lunatics who were too lunatic for January six, as crazy 250 00:16:55,235 --> 00:16:57,955 Speaker 1: and as disconnected from the permanence of death as any 251 00:16:58,035 --> 00:17:01,035 Speaker 1: suicide bomber. In hopes not of election or even this 252 00:17:01,115 --> 00:17:04,555 Speaker 1: impossible restoration or getting all of his stuff back at 253 00:17:04,675 --> 00:17:08,715 Speaker 1: our lago, Trump no longer has time to maintain that 254 00:17:08,835 --> 00:17:13,155 Speaker 1: minimalist sugarcoating. He wants to take this country over, and 255 00:17:13,195 --> 00:17:15,595 Speaker 1: if there has to be death and destruction and civil 256 00:17:15,595 --> 00:17:19,235 Speaker 1: war and Lindsey Graham's riots in the streets. He will 257 00:17:19,275 --> 00:17:25,115 Speaker 1: applaud and say, I have earned this. This country is mine. 258 00:17:25,675 --> 00:17:31,275 Speaker 1: You are mine at our best defense, and it may 259 00:17:31,315 --> 00:17:34,915 Speaker 1: be the best imaginable defense, come to think of it 260 00:17:34,995 --> 00:17:37,835 Speaker 1: is a seventy nine year old man who wanted only healing, 261 00:17:37,915 --> 00:17:42,875 Speaker 1: but whose patience has, thank goodness, run out, and he 262 00:17:42,995 --> 00:17:46,795 Speaker 1: has had enough of the malarkey. And to use an 263 00:17:46,835 --> 00:17:51,435 Speaker 1: even older cliche than malarkey, he has finally pushed the 264 00:17:51,475 --> 00:17:56,035 Speaker 1: little snowball down from the top of the mountain. Watch 265 00:17:56,595 --> 00:18:00,795 Speaker 1: it roll. But the idea you turn on a television 266 00:18:00,795 --> 00:18:04,195 Speaker 1: and see senior centers and congressman saying if such and 267 00:18:04,275 --> 00:18:08,955 Speaker 1: such happens, there'll be blood in the street. When the 268 00:18:08,955 --> 00:18:19,635 Speaker 1: hell are we still ahead on countdown? Do you know 269 00:18:19,715 --> 00:18:23,715 Speaker 1: who was the first on air person ever hired by CNN? 270 00:18:24,955 --> 00:18:28,515 Speaker 1: He was on the Nixon enemies list. This was his birthday, 271 00:18:28,515 --> 00:18:29,835 Speaker 1: and I will tell you the day I had to 272 00:18:30,395 --> 00:18:35,035 Speaker 1: interrupt his very serious news analysis show. It's the breaking 273 00:18:35,595 --> 00:18:40,155 Speaker 1: college football stuff. Speaking of college football, what about herschel 274 00:18:40,155 --> 00:18:43,955 Speaker 1: Walker's bike? Is herschel Walker's bike? Okay? Won't somebody think 275 00:18:43,955 --> 00:18:48,195 Speaker 1: about herschel Walker's bike, and you may see Aaron Rodgers, 276 00:18:48,235 --> 00:18:52,435 Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic, Kyrie Irving and others as whiny little boys 277 00:18:52,435 --> 00:18:55,155 Speaker 1: who are secretly afraid of the little vaccination needle. But 278 00:18:55,235 --> 00:18:59,035 Speaker 1: you're wrong. We'll meet the prominent sports commentator who has 279 00:18:59,075 --> 00:19:03,475 Speaker 1: now compared them all for strength, for independence, for defiance 280 00:19:03,515 --> 00:19:10,355 Speaker 1: against the government to Mohammad Ali. No, I'm not kidding. 281 00:19:11,075 --> 00:19:23,595 Speaker 1: That's next this Discountdown. This is Countdown with Keith old 282 00:19:23,595 --> 00:19:31,475 Speaker 1: Woman coming up. A sports blogger compares the anti vacs 283 00:19:31,635 --> 00:19:35,555 Speaker 1: I'm afraid of needles, whining of Novak Djokovic and Aaron 284 00:19:35,635 --> 00:19:40,075 Speaker 1: Rodgers to Muhammad Ali refusing induction into the military when 285 00:19:40,115 --> 00:19:42,595 Speaker 1: the US government wanted to get him killed on the 286 00:19:42,635 --> 00:19:47,715 Speaker 1: fields of Vietnam. Yeah, that's exactly the same thing. First, 287 00:19:47,715 --> 00:19:49,915 Speaker 1: in each edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 288 00:19:49,915 --> 00:19:52,195 Speaker 1: need whom you can help. Every dog has its day, 289 00:19:52,475 --> 00:19:55,075 Speaker 1: and we go back to the Riverside, California kill shelter. 290 00:19:55,155 --> 00:19:58,875 Speaker 1: There are so many extraordinary beautiful dogs. They're big, friendly 291 00:19:58,955 --> 00:20:02,715 Speaker 1: shepherds and huskies with different colored eyes. Have a look 292 00:20:02,755 --> 00:20:06,315 Speaker 1: at their site and have a particular at Hadley. She's 293 00:20:06,355 --> 00:20:08,875 Speaker 1: dog friendly. She's five years old, white and tan with 294 00:20:08,915 --> 00:20:11,795 Speaker 1: a brownish black back and they will kill her soon 295 00:20:11,875 --> 00:20:13,995 Speaker 1: unless we can get her out. We need a foster 296 00:20:14,195 --> 00:20:16,995 Speaker 1: or adopter in the area. We can probably arrange for 297 00:20:17,035 --> 00:20:19,435 Speaker 1: a local rescue service to handle the mechanics. To find 298 00:20:19,435 --> 00:20:21,875 Speaker 1: out more about Hadley and the other dogs on death 299 00:20:21,995 --> 00:20:24,675 Speaker 1: Row at Riverside, check my Twitter feed for dogs in 300 00:20:24,675 --> 00:20:27,835 Speaker 1: need at tom Jumbo Grumbo look for the tweet about 301 00:20:27,835 --> 00:20:30,595 Speaker 1: Hadley and if you can't donate, just retweeting it can 302 00:20:30,635 --> 00:20:45,795 Speaker 1: make a huge difference for her and thank you. Coming 303 00:20:45,875 --> 00:20:49,275 Speaker 1: up on countdown, herschel Walker says his bike is not bent. 304 00:20:49,555 --> 00:20:54,155 Speaker 1: Repeating herschel Walker says his bike is not bent. This 305 00:20:54,275 --> 00:20:57,875 Speaker 1: was an answer to a question about his mental health, Belie. 306 00:20:58,035 --> 00:21:01,675 Speaker 1: Whereas persons coming up first postscripts to the news, some headlines, 307 00:21:01,755 --> 00:21:13,115 Speaker 1: some thoughts, some snark. Dateline Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachov is dead. 308 00:21:13,515 --> 00:21:16,515 Speaker 1: That it is impossible to recreate the hope he provided 309 00:21:16,515 --> 00:21:18,595 Speaker 1: to a world forty years ago that seemed to be 310 00:21:18,755 --> 00:21:22,555 Speaker 1: marching towards imminent nuclear war is reflected by the fact 311 00:21:22,635 --> 00:21:25,475 Speaker 1: that about half of the coverage of his death at 312 00:21:25,515 --> 00:21:29,315 Speaker 1: the age of references his role as the last leader 313 00:21:29,315 --> 00:21:32,955 Speaker 1: of the Soviet Union, and the other half references the 314 00:21:32,995 --> 00:21:37,875 Speaker 1: pizza commercial he did in the missing part of his story. 315 00:21:38,075 --> 00:21:41,275 Speaker 1: Right now, what he accomplished peacefully, the end of the 316 00:21:41,315 --> 00:21:44,435 Speaker 1: Soviet Union, though that was not the plan, the reuniting 317 00:21:44,475 --> 00:21:46,955 Speaker 1: of Germany, the end of fascism, and the promotion of 318 00:21:46,995 --> 00:21:51,155 Speaker 1: democracy in Europe is all being undone as we speak 319 00:21:51,555 --> 00:21:57,395 Speaker 1: by Vladimir Putin, with help from people like Orbon and others. Dateline. Greenland. 320 00:21:57,675 --> 00:22:01,515 Speaker 1: Experts on glaciers and specifically the Greenland ice Sheet say 321 00:22:01,555 --> 00:22:05,115 Speaker 1: that it will lose hundreds of trillions of met tons 322 00:22:05,155 --> 00:22:07,715 Speaker 1: of ice in the next seventy eight years, and thus 323 00:22:07,795 --> 00:22:11,715 Speaker 1: by the year ocean levels will rise about ten and 324 00:22:11,755 --> 00:22:14,595 Speaker 1: a half inches. That is, if we were to stop 325 00:22:14,635 --> 00:22:20,555 Speaker 1: emitting greenhouse gases, say Friday about five pm Eastern. You 326 00:22:20,595 --> 00:22:23,555 Speaker 1: can do this math yourself in your own home. Ocean 327 00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:27,435 Speaker 1: and sea levels ten and a half inches higher at 328 00:22:27,515 --> 00:22:30,395 Speaker 1: least will mean downtown Manhattan will be under a foot 329 00:22:30,475 --> 00:22:33,275 Speaker 1: or more of water as far north as Wall Street 330 00:22:33,515 --> 00:22:36,155 Speaker 1: and Lagardia Airport and the Statue of Liberty and the 331 00:22:36,195 --> 00:22:41,915 Speaker 1: Hampton's Bye Bye Dateline Castleberry, Florida, the Seminole County Republican 332 00:22:41,915 --> 00:22:45,155 Speaker 1: headquarters was sprayed with naughty words that's according to GOP 333 00:22:45,355 --> 00:22:49,195 Speaker 1: chair Rona Romney McDaniel, who tweeted a photo of the 334 00:22:49,315 --> 00:22:54,075 Speaker 1: phrase eat blank Fascists on the windows and said that 335 00:22:54,195 --> 00:22:58,155 Speaker 1: means it was Joe Biden's fault. As many skeptics have noted, 336 00:22:58,355 --> 00:23:01,835 Speaker 1: whoever painted the message on the window of GOP headquarters 337 00:23:01,835 --> 00:23:06,555 Speaker 1: in Castleberry, Florida was careful not to spray any paint 338 00:23:06,835 --> 00:23:12,995 Speaker 1: over the Republican logo itself, just around it. So I 339 00:23:13,115 --> 00:23:18,275 Speaker 1: have my doubts. On the other hand, eat blank fascists. 340 00:23:30,875 --> 00:23:37,155 Speaker 1: This is sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 341 00:23:38,155 --> 00:23:44,395 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Aberman in sports. I'll confess I 342 00:23:44,435 --> 00:23:46,395 Speaker 1: do not keep up to date on the Swedish Ice 343 00:23:46,435 --> 00:23:50,555 Speaker 1: Hockey Association, but it is that nation's governing puck's body, 344 00:23:50,595 --> 00:23:54,035 Speaker 1: and I'm standing and applauding it figuratively. It has announced 345 00:23:54,075 --> 00:23:56,795 Speaker 1: that any Swedish nationals who play in the Russian Hockey 346 00:23:56,835 --> 00:23:59,995 Speaker 1: League the k h L, will not be eligible for 347 00:24:00,115 --> 00:24:03,795 Speaker 1: selection to Sweden's national team. Not only should we be 348 00:24:03,915 --> 00:24:07,395 Speaker 1: doing that here in North America, but frankly, given the 349 00:24:07,435 --> 00:24:10,995 Speaker 1: war conducted by Russia against our ally Ukraine and the 350 00:24:11,035 --> 00:24:13,955 Speaker 1: threats Russia has made against NATO and the attacks on 351 00:24:14,035 --> 00:24:17,555 Speaker 1: our democracy. Russia has run and will run again. Ask 352 00:24:17,595 --> 00:24:22,195 Speaker 1: yourself why the National Hockey League permits Russian nationals to 353 00:24:22,315 --> 00:24:27,315 Speaker 1: play in the US and Canada, especially Alexander Ovechkin of Washington, 354 00:24:27,635 --> 00:24:31,715 Speaker 1: especially when he is a putent propagandist whose Integra Instagram 355 00:24:31,755 --> 00:24:36,555 Speaker 1: Avatar photo to this moment shows him smiling and standing 356 00:24:36,635 --> 00:24:42,075 Speaker 1: next putin. Why are we giving these unapologetic Russians our 357 00:24:42,275 --> 00:24:47,915 Speaker 1: sports money? Ban them? Ban them all. Start with Ovechkin 358 00:24:48,595 --> 00:24:51,475 Speaker 1: a happy interval. Monday night at the Milwaukee Brewers game, 359 00:24:51,515 --> 00:24:54,075 Speaker 1: in the eighth inning, Pirates five, Brewers three, and some 360 00:24:54,155 --> 00:24:58,115 Speaker 1: personal message goes up on the stadium scoreboard, including this 361 00:24:58,155 --> 00:25:01,675 Speaker 1: one quote, Mark, your friendship means the world to me. 362 00:25:02,395 --> 00:25:06,675 Speaker 1: Let's not wreck it. Some poor guy got, as they say, 363 00:25:06,915 --> 00:25:13,475 Speaker 1: friend zoned on the scoreboard at the ball game. Moments later, 364 00:25:13,515 --> 00:25:16,315 Speaker 1: Brewers rookie Garrett Mitchell hit his first major league homer 365 00:25:16,355 --> 00:25:19,155 Speaker 1: to tie the game against Pittsburgh at five, and inning later, 366 00:25:19,195 --> 00:25:21,715 Speaker 1: Preston Hero of Milwaukee hit a walk off homer to 367 00:25:21,715 --> 00:25:25,035 Speaker 1: win the game seven to five. Tuesday morning, Brewers outfielder 368 00:25:25,115 --> 00:25:28,755 Speaker 1: Christian Yellich tweeted about the public friend zoning of poor 369 00:25:28,835 --> 00:25:32,275 Speaker 1: Mark quote down two in the eighth inning. The dugout 370 00:25:32,315 --> 00:25:36,515 Speaker 1: looked up, saw this and said, let's win one from Mark. 371 00:25:36,955 --> 00:25:41,275 Speaker 1: We got you man. Moron Alert. For those of you 372 00:25:41,395 --> 00:25:44,915 Speaker 1: for whom bar Stool Sports is too intellectually challenging, there 373 00:25:45,035 --> 00:25:48,835 Speaker 1: is out kick the coverage. Its face is Clay Travis, 374 00:25:48,875 --> 00:25:52,635 Speaker 1: who spent most of Tuesday on Fox Nudes channel comparing 375 00:25:52,675 --> 00:25:57,115 Speaker 1: the anti vaccine, anti science, anti somebody may know more 376 00:25:57,155 --> 00:26:01,035 Speaker 1: about this than me stance of tennis player Novak Djokovic 377 00:26:01,675 --> 00:26:06,035 Speaker 1: to Muhammad Ali in the sixties. Jokovich was not admitted 378 00:26:06,075 --> 00:26:08,195 Speaker 1: to this country and thus is not playing in the 379 00:26:08,315 --> 00:26:12,195 Speaker 1: US Open this week because he's not vaccinated. Because he's 380 00:26:12,235 --> 00:26:15,795 Speaker 1: afraid of a little freaking needle. He tried to fuzzy 381 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:19,555 Speaker 1: his way into the Australian Open even though he's not vaccinated, 382 00:26:19,595 --> 00:26:22,675 Speaker 1: and didn't get away with that. When he finished comparing 383 00:26:22,755 --> 00:26:27,875 Speaker 1: this selfish, arrogant, under educated drama queen Djokovic to Muhammad Ali, 384 00:26:27,995 --> 00:26:33,195 Speaker 1: Clay Travis then compared football's Aaron Rodgers and basketball's Kyrie 385 00:26:33,235 --> 00:26:37,675 Speaker 1: Irving to Muhammad Ali. If you don't know Ali's story, 386 00:26:37,755 --> 00:26:39,275 Speaker 1: and I'm going to go out on a limb here 387 00:26:39,275 --> 00:26:41,715 Speaker 1: and say it's pretty clear Clay Travis does not know 388 00:26:42,035 --> 00:26:46,075 Speaker 1: f about Muhammad Ali's story. When Ali was heavyweight champ 389 00:26:46,515 --> 00:26:50,395 Speaker 1: and converting to Islam, the United States government changed his 390 00:26:50,515 --> 00:26:54,115 Speaker 1: draft status from one Y, which is you don't draft 391 00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:57,635 Speaker 1: this guy, to one A and at a time during 392 00:26:57,675 --> 00:27:00,595 Speaker 1: the Vietnam War, when the average draft he was eighteen 393 00:27:00,675 --> 00:27:05,675 Speaker 1: or nineteen, Ali was drafted at the age of twenty four. 394 00:27:05,995 --> 00:27:09,155 Speaker 1: The idea was to, you know, send him to Vietnam 395 00:27:09,195 --> 00:27:11,875 Speaker 1: and if he got killed, he got killed. So when 396 00:27:11,955 --> 00:27:14,435 Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the army, our 397 00:27:14,475 --> 00:27:16,755 Speaker 1: government tried to put him in prison for five years. 398 00:27:17,515 --> 00:27:20,955 Speaker 1: The boxing organizations stripped him of his title, they refused 399 00:27:20,955 --> 00:27:24,195 Speaker 1: to let him fight anywhere, They confiscated his passport. He 400 00:27:24,235 --> 00:27:26,955 Speaker 1: didn't fight for three and a half years, and ultimately 401 00:27:27,115 --> 00:27:29,075 Speaker 1: he said if he had to go to jail, he 402 00:27:29,075 --> 00:27:33,115 Speaker 1: would do so. By contrast, Aaron Rodgers of the Green 403 00:27:33,155 --> 00:27:37,315 Speaker 1: Bay Packers got his feelings hurt when people called him 404 00:27:37,355 --> 00:27:41,195 Speaker 1: a liar for lying when he implied he had been vaccinated. 405 00:27:41,835 --> 00:27:45,195 Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember, Clay Travis, when did they try 406 00:27:45,235 --> 00:27:48,035 Speaker 1: to put Rogers in jail for five years or send 407 00:27:48,115 --> 00:27:51,715 Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving to get shot somewhere in a war. So 408 00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:54,995 Speaker 1: when Clay Travis put his racist bull crap out on 409 00:27:55,035 --> 00:27:58,475 Speaker 1: the official network of racist bullcrap Fox News, I replied 410 00:27:58,515 --> 00:28:01,835 Speaker 1: on Twitter that, yeah, it was racist bull crap. How 411 00:28:01,955 --> 00:28:05,395 Speaker 1: is it racist, wrote the anguished Clay Travis, the racism 412 00:28:05,435 --> 00:28:08,875 Speaker 1: dripping from his hands. To compare athletes of both races 413 00:28:09,555 --> 00:28:12,315 Speaker 1: who stood up to government mandates even though people like 414 00:28:12,435 --> 00:28:16,915 Speaker 1: you ridiculed them for not being sheep. COVID is our 415 00:28:17,115 --> 00:28:26,755 Speaker 1: modern era Vietnam, Sonny kid child, COVID is not our 416 00:28:26,915 --> 00:28:31,595 Speaker 1: modern era of Vietnam. Nobody with an i Q larger 417 00:28:31,635 --> 00:28:35,195 Speaker 1: than that of a Polo Mallet believes COVID is our 418 00:28:35,315 --> 00:28:38,995 Speaker 1: modern era of Vietnam. If you think COVID and Vietnam 419 00:28:39,235 --> 00:28:42,995 Speaker 1: are comparable, you are a bigger moron than your website. 420 00:28:43,035 --> 00:28:46,875 Speaker 1: Out kicked the racists would suggest. I'm sorry I read 421 00:28:46,915 --> 00:28:51,715 Speaker 1: that wrong. It's out kicked. The coverage Clay wasn't finished, 422 00:28:51,755 --> 00:28:54,555 Speaker 1: and those who refused shots are like those who refused 423 00:28:54,555 --> 00:28:59,955 Speaker 1: to be drafted. Both defied government. So if you Clay 424 00:29:00,115 --> 00:29:04,955 Speaker 1: defied government and you know shot somebody, your de fence 425 00:29:04,995 --> 00:29:08,675 Speaker 1: would be like Muhammad Ali and Aaron Rodgers. I defied 426 00:29:08,755 --> 00:29:14,035 Speaker 1: government and shot somebody. What am I doing? Watch this jackass, 427 00:29:14,315 --> 00:29:29,595 Speaker 1: Travis try it still ahead. It is the birthday of 428 00:29:29,635 --> 00:29:33,115 Speaker 1: the late Daniel Shore. Forty years later, it still amazes 429 00:29:33,155 --> 00:29:36,035 Speaker 1: me that as CNN began, I got to work alongside 430 00:29:36,035 --> 00:29:38,635 Speaker 1: a man who was not only a legendary journalist, but 431 00:29:38,755 --> 00:29:42,315 Speaker 1: was on Richard Nixon's enemies list, and one night, at 432 00:29:42,355 --> 00:29:45,435 Speaker 1: the start of his very serious CNN news show, he 433 00:29:45,515 --> 00:29:49,155 Speaker 1: had to throw it to me for breaking sports news 434 00:29:49,195 --> 00:29:51,675 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell. Coming up first, the 435 00:29:51,755 --> 00:29:55,155 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect 436 00:29:55,155 --> 00:29:59,795 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. Le 437 00:29:59,875 --> 00:30:02,555 Speaker 1: bronze to Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who was doing what 438 00:30:02,595 --> 00:30:04,795 Speaker 1: I said at the start of the program Lindsey Graham 439 00:30:04,795 --> 00:30:08,995 Speaker 1: could not do. He's hiding behind semantics. He was caught 440 00:30:09,035 --> 00:30:13,555 Speaker 1: on tape by the provocateur reporter Lauren windsor Ted's argument. 441 00:30:13,675 --> 00:30:17,555 Speaker 1: Nowhere in this clip do I actually say I want 442 00:30:17,635 --> 00:30:25,155 Speaker 1: to defund the FBI? All you're doing a fighter and 443 00:30:25,275 --> 00:30:30,955 Speaker 1: you get actually need to find all the maybe get 444 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:35,355 Speaker 1: to marry him. He FBI after all the which it 445 00:30:35,555 --> 00:30:37,915 Speaker 1: is horrific, the abuse of power at the FBI, and 446 00:30:37,915 --> 00:30:41,075 Speaker 1: it's wrong, and there needs to be a fleet house 447 00:30:41,115 --> 00:30:43,715 Speaker 1: cleaning that did that happens. I'm gonna be able to 448 00:30:43,755 --> 00:30:46,475 Speaker 1: do that when I think we need to fight to 449 00:30:46,555 --> 00:30:48,515 Speaker 1: do that. We need to fight to have real oversight. 450 00:30:50,075 --> 00:30:53,435 Speaker 1: Ted Cruise does not, in fact say I want to 451 00:30:53,515 --> 00:30:57,515 Speaker 1: defund the FBI unquote. But you know, when Lauren Windsor 452 00:30:57,635 --> 00:31:00,515 Speaker 1: thanks him and says it's imperative that you defund the FBI, 453 00:31:00,915 --> 00:31:04,315 Speaker 1: he doesn't push back. He didn't push back at all. 454 00:31:05,035 --> 00:31:07,195 Speaker 1: He doesn't push back a little bit. He goes further. 455 00:31:07,675 --> 00:31:10,995 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz says the FBI is guilty of quote horrific 456 00:31:11,115 --> 00:31:14,835 Speaker 1: abuse and says there must be a complete house cleaning 457 00:31:14,835 --> 00:31:18,835 Speaker 1: at the FBI. So no, Ted Cruz did not say 458 00:31:19,035 --> 00:31:24,995 Speaker 1: defund the FBI. He said worse. Runner up Joe Rogan 459 00:31:25,035 --> 00:31:27,795 Speaker 1: of the Joe Rogan three hour torture experience. It's not 460 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:29,955 Speaker 1: easy to fill three hours when you are as dumb 461 00:31:29,995 --> 00:31:32,595 Speaker 1: as Joe. He has now done a ranking of White 462 00:31:32,595 --> 00:31:35,435 Speaker 1: House press secretaries, and to show you how much he 463 00:31:35,475 --> 00:31:39,595 Speaker 1: knows about this topic or anything except steroids, he has 464 00:31:39,715 --> 00:31:43,475 Speaker 1: chosen as the best because she brought binders with her 465 00:31:43,555 --> 00:31:48,075 Speaker 1: to the podium quote an assassin, the best ever at 466 00:31:48,075 --> 00:31:51,835 Speaker 1: that job, the FFing Michael Jordan of White House Press Secretaries, 467 00:31:52,555 --> 00:32:00,355 Speaker 1: and he then said she was named Mick enemy Kaylee mcenenny. 468 00:32:01,515 --> 00:32:06,035 Speaker 1: We think Joe Row means Kaylee mcinaney, but you know 469 00:32:06,195 --> 00:32:13,915 Speaker 1: CTE MN. But our winner, herschel Walker, the Republican fascist 470 00:32:13,995 --> 00:32:16,115 Speaker 1: candidate running for the Senate in Georgia. We think he 471 00:32:16,155 --> 00:32:18,795 Speaker 1: knows he's running. We can't be sure, first tweeted out 472 00:32:18,835 --> 00:32:21,715 Speaker 1: what he thought was his best shot against the incumbent, writing, 473 00:32:21,915 --> 00:32:25,515 Speaker 1: while Reverend Warnock was calling law enforcement thugs and bullies, 474 00:32:25,795 --> 00:32:28,755 Speaker 1: I was proud to serve the blue as an honorary 475 00:32:28,795 --> 00:32:33,195 Speaker 1: agent and special Deputy Sheriff of Cobb County for many years. 476 00:32:33,355 --> 00:32:36,475 Speaker 1: And there it is on Twitter, a photo of a 477 00:32:36,595 --> 00:32:41,955 Speaker 1: card reading herschel Walker, special Deputy Sheriff and the number 478 00:32:42,035 --> 00:32:45,595 Speaker 1: they've assigned him as three five three four three four 479 00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:49,315 Speaker 1: being his football uniform number. And who's gonna break it 480 00:32:49,355 --> 00:32:51,955 Speaker 1: to him that this ranks just below the McGruff Junior 481 00:32:52,035 --> 00:32:59,035 Speaker 1: crime Fighter badge. But it's laminated then, oh no. They 482 00:32:59,115 --> 00:33:03,555 Speaker 1: put herschel on Live TV News Max, and co host 483 00:33:03,595 --> 00:33:09,835 Speaker 1: Katrinez Shih asked him about those mean Democrats bringing up 484 00:33:09,835 --> 00:33:14,275 Speaker 1: whether or not Herschel might have CTE or a cognitive problem, 485 00:33:14,395 --> 00:33:17,235 Speaker 1: or he's just really stupid or whatever is causing all this. 486 00:33:17,675 --> 00:33:21,235 Speaker 1: She used the polite but not especially accurate phrase mental health, 487 00:33:21,875 --> 00:33:26,835 Speaker 1: and Herschel sort of kind of answered by saying, they 488 00:33:26,835 --> 00:33:29,315 Speaker 1: can continue to bring all this what they want to 489 00:33:29,355 --> 00:33:31,875 Speaker 1: do against me, because people know what I stand for. 490 00:33:32,275 --> 00:33:35,435 Speaker 1: And then the rest of his answer went off the rails, 491 00:33:35,875 --> 00:33:39,475 Speaker 1: or more correctly, it went off the bike. Pathe Walk 492 00:33:39,555 --> 00:33:42,395 Speaker 1: is still standing. My bike has not bent, so anyone 493 00:33:42,435 --> 00:33:44,675 Speaker 1: can ride my bike like he's seemed to have Chuck 494 00:33:44,755 --> 00:33:47,595 Speaker 1: Schumer and uh Joe Biden riding his bike because he 495 00:33:47,675 --> 00:33:52,195 Speaker 1: seemed to be voting for whatever they say. Now, who 496 00:33:52,235 --> 00:33:55,155 Speaker 1: can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to 497 00:33:55,155 --> 00:33:57,915 Speaker 1: Gabby Walker for clearly stating what needed to be said. 498 00:33:57,955 --> 00:34:01,155 Speaker 1: I'm particularly glad these lovely children were here today to 499 00:34:01,195 --> 00:34:05,075 Speaker 1: hear that speech. Not only was it authentic fascist bish, 500 00:34:05,395 --> 00:34:08,595 Speaker 1: it expressed a courage little scene in this day and age. 501 00:34:10,155 --> 00:34:14,035 Speaker 1: His bike isn't bent? What the hell does that mean? 502 00:34:14,275 --> 00:34:18,555 Speaker 1: My bike is not bent? His bike isn't bent. Well, no, 503 00:34:18,675 --> 00:34:22,675 Speaker 1: but Herschel's wheels are not an alignment, his gearshift is scripted, 504 00:34:22,715 --> 00:34:27,635 Speaker 1: and clearly his axle nuts are loose. Herschel, I'm an 505 00:34:27,675 --> 00:34:31,195 Speaker 1: honorary Cobb County Agent, and my bike isn't bent Walker. 506 00:34:31,595 --> 00:34:51,755 Speaker 1: Two Day's Worst Parson and the World. And finally to 507 00:34:51,795 --> 00:34:54,835 Speaker 1: our number one story on the Countdown and my favorite subject, 508 00:34:55,355 --> 00:35:00,915 Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. August one, 509 00:35:01,235 --> 00:35:05,755 Speaker 1: the birthday of Daniel Shore, when a great journalists of 510 00:35:05,755 --> 00:35:08,555 Speaker 1: the twentieth century. I had the privilege of working with 511 00:35:08,635 --> 00:35:10,955 Speaker 1: Daniel Shore when I broke in at CNN when I 512 00:35:10,955 --> 00:35:13,555 Speaker 1: was twenty two, and the occasion of his birthday he 513 00:35:13,595 --> 00:35:17,955 Speaker 1: was born in nineteen sixteen and he died in reminded 514 00:35:17,955 --> 00:35:20,435 Speaker 1: me of just how amazing the group was with whom 515 00:35:20,475 --> 00:35:24,635 Speaker 1: I started just in the New York Bureau. In one 516 00:35:25,035 --> 00:35:27,995 Speaker 1: we had Peter Arnett, who had won a Pulitzer Prize, 517 00:35:28,315 --> 00:35:32,395 Speaker 1: and Jim Clancy and Jim Miklaschowski and Frank de Ford 518 00:35:32,435 --> 00:35:35,915 Speaker 1: from Sports Illustrated and Bella Abzugged the ex congress person 519 00:35:35,955 --> 00:35:39,795 Speaker 1: as commentators. There were Bill Zimmerman and Lou Waters in Atlanta, 520 00:35:39,875 --> 00:35:43,075 Speaker 1: and in d C. Bernard Shaw and John Holliman, and 521 00:35:43,155 --> 00:35:47,875 Speaker 1: a young assignment desk editor named Kathy Currich and Daniel 522 00:35:47,955 --> 00:35:51,475 Speaker 1: Shore more on him in a moment. First, I have 523 00:35:51,555 --> 00:35:54,435 Speaker 1: previously told the story about how my TV career began 524 00:35:54,555 --> 00:35:59,395 Speaker 1: almost by accident in August, and it wasn't my accident 525 00:35:59,875 --> 00:36:03,475 Speaker 1: because Lou Dobbs and his girlfriend Debbie Sigura had to 526 00:36:03,515 --> 00:36:05,875 Speaker 1: get out of the Sea then New York Bureau in 527 00:36:05,915 --> 00:36:09,635 Speaker 1: a hurry. I had actually applied to this new cable 528 00:36:09,715 --> 00:36:13,715 Speaker 1: news network thingy and met with its sports boss Bill McPhail, 529 00:36:14,355 --> 00:36:17,675 Speaker 1: himself the Hall of Fame brother and Hall of Fame 530 00:36:17,875 --> 00:36:20,755 Speaker 1: son of Hall of famers. I had also met there 531 00:36:20,795 --> 00:36:23,475 Speaker 1: with its New York boss Mary Alice Williams one hot 532 00:36:23,555 --> 00:36:27,395 Speaker 1: day in April night. All they told me was their 533 00:36:27,435 --> 00:36:30,075 Speaker 1: offices were in the lobby of number one World Trade 534 00:36:30,075 --> 00:36:34,355 Speaker 1: Center later better and more tragically known as the North Tower. 535 00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:38,275 Speaker 1: When I arrived, I found that the only office or 536 00:36:38,435 --> 00:36:41,755 Speaker 1: store or anything in the lobby of number one World 537 00:36:41,795 --> 00:36:46,195 Speaker 1: Trade Center was some kind of electronics display showroom. I 538 00:36:46,275 --> 00:36:49,755 Speaker 1: went in deeply suspicious that I was being pranked, and 539 00:36:49,875 --> 00:36:52,875 Speaker 1: wandered to a counter in the back, and I asked 540 00:36:52,875 --> 00:36:58,955 Speaker 1: the guy, there is the cable news network office around 541 00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:02,475 Speaker 1: here somewhere, and he matter of factly pointed behind him 542 00:37:02,635 --> 00:37:06,115 Speaker 1: right through here. This a law armed me because it 543 00:37:06,155 --> 00:37:09,595 Speaker 1: appeared that the only thing behind him was a solid 544 00:37:09,595 --> 00:37:13,755 Speaker 1: wall ornamented with vertical wooden slats that kind of echoed 545 00:37:13,795 --> 00:37:18,995 Speaker 1: the external design of the trade center towers. I said, uh, 546 00:37:19,035 --> 00:37:21,035 Speaker 1: And without a word, and without even looking at me, 547 00:37:21,235 --> 00:37:24,075 Speaker 1: he pushed backwards against part of the wall, revealing it 548 00:37:24,155 --> 00:37:27,515 Speaker 1: was a very well hidden door. And that door led 549 00:37:27,515 --> 00:37:29,635 Speaker 1: to a stairwell, which in turn led to what looked 550 00:37:29,675 --> 00:37:33,035 Speaker 1: like a break room in it making coffee. Was Mary 551 00:37:33,075 --> 00:37:36,275 Speaker 1: Alice Williams. I recognized her from her long career in 552 00:37:36,315 --> 00:37:39,075 Speaker 1: local news in New York, and as she welcomed me, 553 00:37:39,155 --> 00:37:41,475 Speaker 1: I heard a flushing sound in the background at a 554 00:37:41,555 --> 00:37:46,115 Speaker 1: door behind her opened. There emerged from the men's room 555 00:37:46,235 --> 00:37:49,195 Speaker 1: Bill McPhail, formerly the president of CBS Sports and the 556 00:37:49,195 --> 00:37:51,875 Speaker 1: man who dreamed up Monday Night Football and got fired 557 00:37:51,875 --> 00:37:55,395 Speaker 1: by CBS because they thought it was a ludicrous idea. 558 00:37:56,715 --> 00:38:00,035 Speaker 1: On that day in April nine, CNN's New York bureau 559 00:38:00,035 --> 00:38:04,355 Speaker 1: consisted of a coffee machine, a unisex bathroom, a small 560 00:38:04,675 --> 00:38:07,675 Speaker 1: ad rador, a lunch table that could seat four, and 561 00:38:07,795 --> 00:38:11,915 Speaker 1: Mary Alice Williams. McPhail was just visiting from headquarters in Atlanta. 562 00:38:12,555 --> 00:38:15,475 Speaker 1: There was an interview. I do not remember any of it. 563 00:38:15,795 --> 00:38:18,435 Speaker 1: All I remember is leaving there convinced there was no 564 00:38:18,555 --> 00:38:22,195 Speaker 1: chance CNN would ever get on the air, certainly not 565 00:38:22,275 --> 00:38:27,235 Speaker 1: on schedule. On June one, CNN, possibly because of my 566 00:38:27,355 --> 00:38:30,195 Speaker 1: obvious wisdom on that point, did not hire me to 567 00:38:30,235 --> 00:38:32,555 Speaker 1: be its first New York sports reporter, nor even at 568 00:38:32,595 --> 00:38:35,595 Speaker 1: second New York sports reporter. But about a year later, 569 00:38:35,675 --> 00:38:39,275 Speaker 1: a great sports columnist named Stan Isaac's from the newspaper 570 00:38:39,395 --> 00:38:43,955 Speaker 1: Newsday wrote a glowing profile of me, and every Sunday 571 00:38:43,995 --> 00:38:47,475 Speaker 1: one of his four or five weekly Newsday columns would 572 00:38:47,475 --> 00:38:51,435 Speaker 1: be reprinted in the Sunday national edition of the Washington Post, 573 00:38:51,715 --> 00:38:55,755 Speaker 1: which was all who had displaced Washingtonian Rick Davis, who 574 00:38:55,755 --> 00:38:59,595 Speaker 1: was CNN's number two sports executive could get delivered in Atlanta. 575 00:39:00,275 --> 00:39:03,075 Speaker 1: Davis was bemoaning the lack of humor on his new 576 00:39:03,115 --> 00:39:07,075 Speaker 1: network sportscast sitting at his breakfast nook in Atlanta when 577 00:39:07,075 --> 00:39:09,395 Speaker 1: he turned the page of his national edition at the 578 00:39:09,435 --> 00:39:13,835 Speaker 1: Washington Post to find that week's stand Isaac's column, which 579 00:39:13,875 --> 00:39:16,595 Speaker 1: was the one he had written about me. He tore 580 00:39:16,635 --> 00:39:18,915 Speaker 1: the article out and brought it to his boss McPhail 581 00:39:18,955 --> 00:39:21,235 Speaker 1: the next morning, and McPhail said, oh, I interviewed that 582 00:39:21,355 --> 00:39:24,115 Speaker 1: kid last year. Maybe I should go talk to him again. 583 00:39:25,635 --> 00:39:28,955 Speaker 1: This time, Bill McPhail interviewed me at the famous Algonquin Hotel. 584 00:39:29,915 --> 00:39:33,075 Speaker 1: CNN was already starting another network by this point, called 585 00:39:33,115 --> 00:39:37,395 Speaker 1: CNN two. They would shortly rename it Headline News. McPhail 586 00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:40,795 Speaker 1: and Davis had an idea to fill CNN two sports 587 00:39:40,835 --> 00:39:44,635 Speaker 1: department with radio sportscasters who would never appear on camera, 588 00:39:44,915 --> 00:39:49,475 Speaker 1: just highlights and narration, and I was their first choice. 589 00:39:50,115 --> 00:39:52,715 Speaker 1: McPhail took a sip of his vodka martini and asked 590 00:39:52,755 --> 00:39:54,555 Speaker 1: me how much I was making in radio in New 591 00:39:54,635 --> 00:39:57,315 Speaker 1: York and I said forty two tho dollars and he 592 00:39:57,435 --> 00:40:00,955 Speaker 1: literally spit some of the martini onto me. A lot. 593 00:40:01,515 --> 00:40:04,395 Speaker 1: We're planning to hire five sportscasters for a total of 594 00:40:04,475 --> 00:40:07,315 Speaker 1: nine the thousand, and I said, well, I hope the 595 00:40:07,315 --> 00:40:09,835 Speaker 1: other four guys can live on thirty thousand dollars between them, 596 00:40:09,835 --> 00:40:11,675 Speaker 1: because there's no way I'm going to Atlanta for less 597 00:40:11,675 --> 00:40:14,755 Speaker 1: than sixty Like. Fail laughed and said, well, figure out 598 00:40:14,755 --> 00:40:16,395 Speaker 1: a way to get you to see an ad sports. 599 00:40:16,595 --> 00:40:19,275 Speaker 1: We need that humor and we need to keep most 600 00:40:19,315 --> 00:40:23,275 Speaker 1: of that sixty grand. He certainly got the latter accomplished. 601 00:40:23,795 --> 00:40:27,635 Speaker 1: Literally six weeks later, the Dabbs thing erupted. Mcfail's New 602 00:40:27,715 --> 00:40:31,395 Speaker 1: York sports reporter, Debbie Sigura, moved with her boyfriend Lou 603 00:40:31,475 --> 00:40:35,595 Speaker 1: Dabbs to Atlanta, fast, very fast. So now McPhail needed 604 00:40:35,595 --> 00:40:38,635 Speaker 1: a new sports reporter in New York, and they had 605 00:40:38,675 --> 00:40:40,875 Speaker 1: liked my work, but they were being pestered by one 606 00:40:40,915 --> 00:40:42,875 Speaker 1: of their anchors who really wanted the job. So they 607 00:40:42,915 --> 00:40:45,755 Speaker 1: tried him, but gave him lots of vacation time, so 608 00:40:45,795 --> 00:40:47,355 Speaker 1: I had to come in every month and fill in 609 00:40:47,395 --> 00:40:50,755 Speaker 1: for five hundred dollars a week. Eventually they sent the 610 00:40:50,755 --> 00:40:53,835 Speaker 1: other guy back to Atlanta and offered me a contract 611 00:40:54,475 --> 00:40:58,195 Speaker 1: for twenty five thousand dollars a year. I did not 612 00:40:58,395 --> 00:41:00,915 Speaker 1: mind the one third pay cut from radio. I considered 613 00:41:00,955 --> 00:41:04,275 Speaker 1: it the charge for the vocational training this new CNN 614 00:41:04,315 --> 00:41:07,515 Speaker 1: thing would provide. But as I said to Bill McPhail, 615 00:41:08,115 --> 00:41:11,035 Speaker 1: you are paying me five dollars a week freelance. That's 616 00:41:11,075 --> 00:41:13,675 Speaker 1: twenty six thousand a year, and now you're offering me 617 00:41:13,715 --> 00:41:17,715 Speaker 1: a cut to twenty five thousand a year. He said, 618 00:41:17,835 --> 00:41:20,275 Speaker 1: but you're getting a contract. And I said, is their 619 00:41:20,515 --> 00:41:24,235 Speaker 1: health insurance or a retirement fund or something? And he said, nah, 620 00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:26,995 Speaker 1: it's just a contract. And I said, you're kidding and 621 00:41:27,035 --> 00:41:29,955 Speaker 1: he said, yeah, I wouldn't sign it either. Let me 622 00:41:29,955 --> 00:41:31,675 Speaker 1: see if I can get to the other thousand, and 623 00:41:31,715 --> 00:41:35,595 Speaker 1: he did, and I signed, and I was a TV guy. 624 00:41:35,955 --> 00:41:38,075 Speaker 1: The number of meetings they had to have to get 625 00:41:38,075 --> 00:41:42,195 Speaker 1: me that extra thousand dollars took weeks, and in three 626 00:41:42,275 --> 00:41:45,515 Speaker 1: years at CNN, I would never make as much money 627 00:41:45,835 --> 00:41:48,995 Speaker 1: there as I had in my last year in radio. 628 00:41:50,155 --> 00:41:52,755 Speaker 1: So there are a thousand stories about this nearly three 629 00:41:52,795 --> 00:41:55,435 Speaker 1: year stint I had at CNN as it was just starting, 630 00:41:55,435 --> 00:41:57,635 Speaker 1: and I certainly was just starting. And if you listen 631 00:41:57,715 --> 00:41:59,515 Speaker 1: long enough here you will hear me tell you all 632 00:41:59,555 --> 00:42:02,235 Speaker 1: of them. Maybe the best is the time during the 633 00:42:03,035 --> 00:42:06,675 Speaker 1: two football strike when Ted Turner staged a pickup game 634 00:42:06,755 --> 00:42:10,635 Speaker 1: full of NFL players at RFK Stadium in Washington, and 635 00:42:10,715 --> 00:42:12,995 Speaker 1: they had me sit next to him throughout the game 636 00:42:13,075 --> 00:42:17,315 Speaker 1: to cover it for CNN Sports. Between beers and wine 637 00:42:17,435 --> 00:42:21,195 Speaker 1: and swigs from his flask, Ted explained his plan to 638 00:42:21,235 --> 00:42:24,275 Speaker 1: win a victory from the National Labor Relations Board that 639 00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:27,155 Speaker 1: would have allowed the football Union to take all the 640 00:42:27,315 --> 00:42:31,195 Speaker 1: NFL players away from the NFL teams and instead give 641 00:42:31,235 --> 00:42:35,955 Speaker 1: them to a league entirely owned by the players and ted. 642 00:42:38,555 --> 00:42:42,515 Speaker 1: But that story takes a long time. The best short 643 00:42:42,595 --> 00:42:45,475 Speaker 1: story with which I will close here was about me 644 00:42:45,555 --> 00:42:48,435 Speaker 1: and the man I started with here, Daniel Shore. He 645 00:42:48,555 --> 00:42:52,075 Speaker 1: was the last guy hired at CBS News by Edward R. Murrow. 646 00:42:52,315 --> 00:42:55,115 Speaker 1: He was the CBS Moscow bureau chief in the nineteen 647 00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:58,315 Speaker 1: fifties and sixties. He was the top CBS correspondent in 648 00:42:58,355 --> 00:43:02,835 Speaker 1: Washington and broke story after story in a totally dead pan, 649 00:43:03,075 --> 00:43:07,755 Speaker 1: monotone manner. He was on Richard Nixon's enemies list, and 650 00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:11,795 Speaker 1: he resigned from CBS News rather than reveal a story 651 00:43:11,875 --> 00:43:15,635 Speaker 1: source that Congress wanted, and the moment Turner got CNN 652 00:43:15,675 --> 00:43:18,955 Speaker 1: off the ground, the first guy he hired was Daniel Shore. 653 00:43:19,915 --> 00:43:22,235 Speaker 1: He was an imposing figure, but a lovely man who 654 00:43:22,275 --> 00:43:25,515 Speaker 1: had like a four year old son. And one night 655 00:43:25,635 --> 00:43:29,875 Speaker 1: must have been the final Associated Press College Football poll 656 00:43:30,035 --> 00:43:33,275 Speaker 1: was to be announced. It would establish that season's national champion. 657 00:43:33,475 --> 00:43:35,715 Speaker 1: And I got a call from Atlanta saying, we will 658 00:43:35,755 --> 00:43:38,675 Speaker 1: get the result at exactly six nine, and you'll go 659 00:43:38,715 --> 00:43:40,875 Speaker 1: on the air with it is breaking news at exactly 660 00:43:40,915 --> 00:43:45,395 Speaker 1: six thirty, and I said six thirty that's when the 661 00:43:45,475 --> 00:43:50,195 Speaker 1: Daniel Shore Show starts. And sure enough, that night CNN 662 00:43:50,275 --> 00:43:54,635 Speaker 1: viewers saw and heard good evening. I'm Daniel Shore. I'll 663 00:43:54,675 --> 00:43:56,795 Speaker 1: be interviewing the head of the c i A about 664 00:43:56,795 --> 00:44:00,995 Speaker 1: the scandal there I revealed last night. But first, here 665 00:44:01,155 --> 00:44:16,435 Speaker 1: is Keith Olberman in New York with Some Sports. I've 666 00:44:16,475 --> 00:44:17,995 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. This is 667 00:44:17,995 --> 00:44:20,115 Speaker 1: where I ask you to rate and review the podcast 668 00:44:20,155 --> 00:44:22,315 Speaker 1: and subscribe and I don't know, take it door to 669 00:44:22,355 --> 00:44:24,235 Speaker 1: door for me, tell them it's outstanding, and you listen 670 00:44:24,275 --> 00:44:29,515 Speaker 1: to it three four times. I'm Daniel Sure. Here's Keith 671 00:44:29,595 --> 00:44:33,155 Speaker 1: all the women with some Sports. The Countdown theme from 672 00:44:33,155 --> 00:44:36,875 Speaker 1: Beethoven's Ninth arranged, produced and performed by Countdown musical directors 673 00:44:36,915 --> 00:44:40,395 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. All orchestration and keyboards 674 00:44:40,395 --> 00:44:44,035 Speaker 1: by John Philip Chanelle. 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Let's countdown 682 00:45:10,315 --> 00:45:13,635 Speaker 1: for this the six second day since Donald Trump's first 683 00:45:13,635 --> 00:45:16,115 Speaker 1: attempt at coup against the democratically elected government of the 684 00:45:16,195 --> 00:45:19,995 Speaker 1: United States. A new episode tomorrow till then. I'm Keith 685 00:45:19,995 --> 00:45:23,875 Speaker 1: all Reman. Good Morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 686 00:45:34,715 --> 00:45:38,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alderman is a production of I heart Radio. 687 00:45:38,595 --> 00:45:41,515 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the I 688 00:45:41,635 --> 00:45:45,995 Speaker 1: heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.