1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:22,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. And finally, 2 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:27,515 Speaker 1: the Teflon is falling off the Teflon Dawn the Madison 3 00:00:27,555 --> 00:00:31,035 Speaker 1: Square Garden, Puerto Rico is garbage disaster is not only 4 00:00:31,075 --> 00:00:33,635 Speaker 1: not going away, it is still getting worse, with the 5 00:00:33,675 --> 00:00:38,355 Speaker 1: news that Trump staffers vetted that statement and the tasteless 6 00:00:38,355 --> 00:00:41,995 Speaker 1: reference to Latino's entering the country and the rest of 7 00:00:42,035 --> 00:00:46,955 Speaker 1: the Tony Hinchcliff comments, and that Tony Hinchcliff's comments originally 8 00:00:46,955 --> 00:00:50,235 Speaker 1: included a line in which he dropped the sea word 9 00:00:50,835 --> 00:00:54,755 Speaker 1: in describing Kalina Harris. The news site The Bulwark is 10 00:00:54,795 --> 00:00:58,555 Speaker 1: reporting that, and that Trump staffers directed Hinchcliff to take 11 00:00:58,595 --> 00:01:01,755 Speaker 1: the sea word out, but that they somehow missed all 12 00:01:01,795 --> 00:01:05,835 Speaker 1: the anti Hispanic material, or, as they have outclaimed, Hinchcliffe 13 00:01:06,035 --> 00:01:09,395 Speaker 1: ad libbed all that, even though the video clearly shows 14 00:01:09,435 --> 00:01:13,555 Speaker 1: him reading his material off the same teleprompter everybody else 15 00:01:13,675 --> 00:01:18,075 Speaker 1: at the garden used on Sunday, Day three of Trump's 16 00:01:18,115 --> 00:01:21,875 Speaker 1: self immolation among Hispanic voters, who make up twelve percent 17 00:01:21,915 --> 00:01:24,795 Speaker 1: of the electorate one week before the election, and no 18 00:01:24,955 --> 00:01:29,635 Speaker 1: sign that it, like every previous racist Trump controversy, is 19 00:01:29,715 --> 00:01:32,955 Speaker 1: actually abating still the lead story at the New York Times, 20 00:01:32,955 --> 00:01:34,875 Speaker 1: and at one point the New York Times had six 21 00:01:35,115 --> 00:01:38,315 Speaker 1: front page stories about it, still the front page story 22 00:01:38,355 --> 00:01:41,635 Speaker 1: at the Washington Post and on the Fox News talk shows, 23 00:01:41,875 --> 00:01:44,435 Speaker 1: and at the Wall Street Journal and at the ultra 24 00:01:44,475 --> 00:01:49,235 Speaker 1: conservative Washington Examiner. And when the Trump campaign's defense is 25 00:01:49,955 --> 00:01:52,555 Speaker 1: well at least he didn't call her a rhymes with 26 00:01:52,755 --> 00:01:56,795 Speaker 1: bunt like he planned, they have actually stepped neck high 27 00:01:56,835 --> 00:01:59,995 Speaker 1: in it, especially since the pro Trump pack run by 28 00:01:59,995 --> 00:02:04,395 Speaker 1: Elon Musk posted tweets based on the C word literally 29 00:02:04,995 --> 00:02:09,795 Speaker 1: that say, the sea word, even the fig leaf, usually 30 00:02:09,835 --> 00:02:12,795 Speaker 1: accepted by the both Sidesest media looking for a way, 31 00:02:13,075 --> 00:02:17,115 Speaker 1: some way, anyway to avoid slamming Trump, has opened up 32 00:02:17,195 --> 00:02:21,555 Speaker 1: a whole new line of stories itself. The disingenuous statement 33 00:02:21,595 --> 00:02:27,995 Speaker 1: from the conveniently reappearing Latina spokesperson disavowing the jokes only 34 00:02:28,075 --> 00:02:30,835 Speaker 1: served to spin off a series of further reports on 35 00:02:31,035 --> 00:02:35,075 Speaker 1: all the other remarks Hingecliff and the others made Sunday 36 00:02:35,115 --> 00:02:38,875 Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, from the line about African Americans 37 00:02:38,915 --> 00:02:43,115 Speaker 1: and watermelons and the line calling the Vice President's staff 38 00:02:43,435 --> 00:02:48,075 Speaker 1: pimp handlers to everything that that man Stephen Miller said, 39 00:02:48,795 --> 00:02:51,875 Speaker 1: and the story is still expanding. Joe Rogan and Robert F. 40 00:02:51,955 --> 00:02:55,475 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior have been sucked under. David Corn of Mother 41 00:02:55,595 --> 00:02:58,875 Speaker 1: Jones notes that Kennedy is so tied to Puerto Rico. 42 00:02:59,235 --> 00:03:03,035 Speaker 1: He was once arrested there alongside Al Sharpton and the 43 00:03:03,075 --> 00:03:08,435 Speaker 1: actor Edward James, almost protesting naval bombing exercises, and he 44 00:03:08,475 --> 00:03:11,235 Speaker 1: gave one of his children. One of his children we 45 00:03:11,315 --> 00:03:16,355 Speaker 1: know about the middle name, Viekees. Kennedy spoke after Hinchcliffe 46 00:03:16,395 --> 00:03:18,995 Speaker 1: did at Madison Square Garden. He said nothing about the 47 00:03:19,035 --> 00:03:22,875 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico garbage shot, and when Corn got hold of Kennedy, 48 00:03:22,995 --> 00:03:25,275 Speaker 1: Kennedy said he was unaware of it. He would have 49 00:03:25,355 --> 00:03:28,035 Speaker 1: said something had he known. When pressed to take the 50 00:03:28,075 --> 00:03:31,235 Speaker 1: opportunity to say something about it now, he said, I 51 00:03:31,275 --> 00:03:34,115 Speaker 1: think it was unfortunate, and he promptly hung up the 52 00:03:34,115 --> 00:03:40,435 Speaker 1: phone on Corn. Kennedy's sad five words remain the closest 53 00:03:40,475 --> 00:03:44,315 Speaker 1: thing to regret that anybody actually known to be involved 54 00:03:44,355 --> 00:03:47,275 Speaker 1: with the Trump campaign has uttered, And that too has 55 00:03:47,315 --> 00:03:50,195 Speaker 1: become a story as all the news outlets who have 56 00:03:50,275 --> 00:03:54,915 Speaker 1: hesitated all these years to just ask Trump's enablers what 57 00:03:55,075 --> 00:03:58,515 Speaker 1: they think of his latest hate or his latest threat 58 00:03:58,675 --> 00:04:01,795 Speaker 1: or his latest lie? Are all doing so about this? 59 00:04:02,595 --> 00:04:07,515 Speaker 1: Musk no comment, no comment. Eric doesn't know where he is, 60 00:04:08,035 --> 00:04:11,915 Speaker 1: all right, Junior did retweet the video of all that stuff. 61 00:04:12,115 --> 00:04:17,755 Speaker 1: Tulsey Gabbard doesn't know where she is. Lara, no comment, Milania, 62 00:04:17,835 --> 00:04:20,435 Speaker 1: that's not in her contract. Tucker Carlson, not even a 63 00:04:20,475 --> 00:04:25,195 Speaker 1: maniacal laugh. It fell to JV to say something, and 64 00:04:25,235 --> 00:04:28,595 Speaker 1: of course JD. Vance said something stupid, saying he hadn't 65 00:04:28,715 --> 00:04:32,275 Speaker 1: seen the joke. Maybe it's a stupid racist joke, but 66 00:04:32,315 --> 00:04:34,395 Speaker 1: he doesn't know, and he hasn't seen it, and he's 67 00:04:34,395 --> 00:04:36,555 Speaker 1: not going to comment on it. As he continued to 68 00:04:36,595 --> 00:04:39,275 Speaker 1: comment on it, but quotes, we have to stop getting 69 00:04:39,275 --> 00:04:42,155 Speaker 1: so offended at every little thing in the United States 70 00:04:42,195 --> 00:04:45,875 Speaker 1: of America. I'm just I'm so over it. And one 71 00:04:45,915 --> 00:04:48,075 Speaker 1: wonders if he would feel that way about a rally 72 00:04:48,115 --> 00:04:51,115 Speaker 1: with jokes about men who wear eyeliner or who have 73 00:04:51,235 --> 00:04:57,595 Speaker 1: sham marriages, just to pick two topics to comedy standards 74 00:04:57,875 --> 00:05:01,475 Speaker 1: at random, comedy standards that I haven't seen and can't 75 00:05:01,475 --> 00:05:04,995 Speaker 1: comment on. If Vance is really over it, he may 76 00:05:05,035 --> 00:05:09,915 Speaker 1: be the only one now the entire Hinecliff Latino's Puerto 77 00:05:10,035 --> 00:05:14,835 Speaker 1: Rico story has mainlines back to Joe Rogan. Thanks to 78 00:05:14,875 --> 00:05:18,475 Speaker 1: the independent journalist Jacqueline Sweet, we have this. 79 00:05:19,275 --> 00:05:23,195 Speaker 2: It would behoove him to hire a few great comics 80 00:05:23,235 --> 00:05:26,555 Speaker 2: to just tour with him and just write one liners 81 00:05:26,675 --> 00:05:30,035 Speaker 2: about all these different people. I mean, if he could 82 00:05:30,035 --> 00:05:32,075 Speaker 2: remember them. I mean, I know he likes to go 83 00:05:32,155 --> 00:05:33,915 Speaker 2: off his own head, but if he can remember a 84 00:05:33,915 --> 00:05:37,355 Speaker 2: few Hinchcliff bangers, if he hires Hinchcliff to take him 85 00:05:37,395 --> 00:05:37,795 Speaker 2: on the road. 86 00:05:39,595 --> 00:05:43,915 Speaker 1: Analysis of why this has stuck to Trump the way 87 00:05:43,995 --> 00:05:48,275 Speaker 1: other stories had not is largely irrelevant, if not meaningless. 88 00:05:48,275 --> 00:05:50,635 Speaker 1: But there is a bottom line here that may be 89 00:05:50,835 --> 00:05:56,195 Speaker 1: operating on an unconscious level with tens of millions Americans 90 00:05:56,315 --> 00:05:59,275 Speaker 1: all at the same time. It is one word that 91 00:05:59,395 --> 00:06:04,035 Speaker 1: Hinchcliff used, because that one word was also a word 92 00:06:04,395 --> 00:06:09,955 Speaker 1: Trump used again and again last week in Arizona. There's 93 00:06:10,075 --> 00:06:13,275 Speaker 1: literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of 94 00:06:13,315 --> 00:06:16,635 Speaker 1: the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it's called Puerto Rico. 95 00:06:16,995 --> 00:06:20,475 Speaker 3: We're a dumping ground. We're like a garbage can for 96 00:06:20,555 --> 00:06:26,115 Speaker 3: the world. That's what's happened. That's what's happened. Were like 97 00:06:26,155 --> 00:06:29,995 Speaker 3: a garbage can. You know, it's the first time I've 98 00:06:30,035 --> 00:06:33,475 Speaker 3: ever said that, And every time I come up and 99 00:06:33,515 --> 00:06:35,395 Speaker 3: talk about what they've done to our country, I get 100 00:06:35,435 --> 00:06:39,115 Speaker 3: angry and angry. First time I've ever said garbage can. 101 00:06:39,155 --> 00:06:42,995 Speaker 3: But you know what, it's a very accurate description garbage. 102 00:06:43,595 --> 00:06:47,635 Speaker 1: Three times, there has not been time to pull on 103 00:06:47,715 --> 00:06:50,955 Speaker 1: the damage to what had been Trump's unprecedented support from 104 00:06:50,995 --> 00:06:55,115 Speaker 1: Hispanic voters. As I mentioned yesterday, her polling advantage among 105 00:06:55,195 --> 00:06:59,235 Speaker 1: them for ABC News over the weekend had grown from 106 00:06:59,315 --> 00:07:03,235 Speaker 1: twelve points on October first to thirty points ahead of 107 00:07:03,275 --> 00:07:06,835 Speaker 1: Trump on October twenty seven. The first poll that shows 108 00:07:06,995 --> 00:07:10,555 Speaker 1: what the Madison Square Garden event did to those few 109 00:07:10,675 --> 00:07:13,995 Speaker 1: remaining Trump Ispanic voters and his support in general, will 110 00:07:13,995 --> 00:07:17,235 Speaker 1: of course extend the story into a fourth day, or 111 00:07:17,275 --> 00:07:20,195 Speaker 1: fifth day, or sixth day. It is likely to still 112 00:07:20,235 --> 00:07:24,355 Speaker 1: be front of mind on election day. All in all, 113 00:07:24,435 --> 00:07:29,955 Speaker 1: what could be the final God help Me vibe shift 114 00:07:30,275 --> 00:07:34,875 Speaker 1: before election Day is clearly in Harris's favor. The Tofts 115 00:07:34,995 --> 00:07:39,315 Speaker 1: University Cooperative election study closing last Friday has her ahead 116 00:07:39,355 --> 00:07:42,635 Speaker 1: by four fifty one to forty seven among likely voters 117 00:07:42,675 --> 00:07:46,235 Speaker 1: in their model, by six fifty two forty six among 118 00:07:46,235 --> 00:07:50,715 Speaker 1: those who say they have voted or definitely will vote 119 00:07:50,835 --> 00:07:54,235 Speaker 1: Nate Silver again of use when he's just crunching batting 120 00:07:54,275 --> 00:07:58,075 Speaker 1: averages or Google searches. Reports that there was more searching 121 00:07:58,155 --> 00:08:01,475 Speaker 1: for Trump after the garden disaster than at any other 122 00:08:01,555 --> 00:08:05,435 Speaker 1: time online since the guy showed up on Trump's golf course, 123 00:08:05,915 --> 00:08:10,635 Speaker 1: and for hours, Tony Hinchcliff got more Google searches than 124 00:08:10,755 --> 00:08:16,355 Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. Guessing here, little of what popped up helped 125 00:08:16,435 --> 00:08:21,235 Speaker 1: either of them. There is so much of God help 126 00:08:21,315 --> 00:08:24,835 Speaker 1: me vibe shift towards Harris that even The New York 127 00:08:24,875 --> 00:08:29,315 Speaker 1: Times has noticed quoting officials within the Harris campaign and 128 00:08:29,355 --> 00:08:32,315 Speaker 1: people with whom they have shared candid assessments, believe she 129 00:08:32,395 --> 00:08:35,075 Speaker 1: remains in a solid position in the northern Blue Wall 130 00:08:35,155 --> 00:08:39,955 Speaker 1: states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, saying internal polling shows 131 00:08:39,955 --> 00:08:43,155 Speaker 1: her slightly ahead in all three, though by as little 132 00:08:43,235 --> 00:08:46,435 Speaker 1: as a half a percentage point. They think she remains 133 00:08:46,475 --> 00:08:50,475 Speaker 1: competitive across the four Sun Belt battleground states. Arizona and 134 00:08:50,515 --> 00:08:53,635 Speaker 1: North Carolina appear to be the toughest swing states from 135 00:08:53,635 --> 00:08:56,715 Speaker 1: Miss Harris, these Democrats said, and they feel better about 136 00:08:56,755 --> 00:09:00,515 Speaker 1: Georgia and Nevada. This jibes with what I've heard of 137 00:09:00,555 --> 00:09:04,395 Speaker 1: those candid assessments, with a caveat that my quote unquote 138 00:09:04,395 --> 00:09:09,035 Speaker 1: sore are pretty peripheral and also more importantly, could easily 139 00:09:09,035 --> 00:09:12,595 Speaker 1: completely overlap with some of the ones talking to the Times. 140 00:09:13,115 --> 00:09:16,475 Speaker 1: As to the Trump campaign, Well, clearly they still have 141 00:09:16,595 --> 00:09:21,275 Speaker 1: an out of controlled dumpster fire going. Ah right, what 142 00:09:21,475 --> 00:09:25,035 Speaker 1: is it you keep in dumpsters again? I guess they 143 00:09:25,155 --> 00:09:30,715 Speaker 1: just trashed their own momentum into the dust bin of history. 144 00:09:31,235 --> 00:09:34,635 Speaker 1: Or as they say, and by day I mean Tony 145 00:09:34,675 --> 00:09:40,035 Speaker 1: Hinchcliffe and his pal Donald Trump, garbage in, garbage out. 146 00:09:49,195 --> 00:09:53,435 Speaker 1: I'm only happy when it rains. As in fitting irony, 147 00:09:53,555 --> 00:09:56,875 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris takes the podium today at the Ellipse from 148 00:09:56,915 --> 00:10:00,675 Speaker 1: which Trump escalated himself from nightmarish lame duck to active 149 00:10:00,755 --> 00:10:04,115 Speaker 1: lethal threat to the Republic, amid the little seventh grader 150 00:10:04,195 --> 00:10:08,835 Speaker 1: teases about Trump's secret with Mike Johnson. As our brethren 151 00:10:08,955 --> 00:10:11,435 Speaker 1: in the Northwest warm their hands by the fires of 152 00:10:11,475 --> 00:10:15,475 Speaker 1: the burning ballot drop boxes. As all that happens, thoughts 153 00:10:15,515 --> 00:10:18,035 Speaker 1: naturally turn to the next Trump coup attempt, and there 154 00:10:18,035 --> 00:10:21,115 Speaker 1: will be one. For months, it has been evident that 155 00:10:21,155 --> 00:10:24,835 Speaker 1: Trump World is being guaranteed a victory to gin them 156 00:10:24,915 --> 00:10:29,195 Speaker 1: up for insurrection. Again, that Mike Johnson would enable that, 157 00:10:29,875 --> 00:10:33,395 Speaker 1: and he would be wearing a military uniform by sunset, 158 00:10:33,875 --> 00:10:37,995 Speaker 1: if they can find one in the boys department at Tjmax. 159 00:10:39,235 --> 00:10:42,035 Speaker 1: But of all the things to fear, the most publicized 160 00:10:42,195 --> 00:10:46,275 Speaker 1: is the least realistic. Professors Lawrence Tribe, Neil Buchanan, and 161 00:10:46,315 --> 00:10:49,515 Speaker 1: Michael Darf Michael Dorff of Cornell, by the Way, have 162 00:10:49,595 --> 00:10:53,195 Speaker 1: written a somewhat labored piece for The Washington Post, the 163 00:10:53,355 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: gist of which is, No, you don't need two hundred 164 00:10:56,915 --> 00:11:00,595 Speaker 1: and seventy or more electoral College votes to become president. 165 00:11:01,115 --> 00:11:04,195 Speaker 1: And no, just because nobody gets two hundred and seventy 166 00:11:04,275 --> 00:11:07,475 Speaker 1: or more electoral College votes that does not trigger a 167 00:11:07,515 --> 00:11:11,515 Speaker 1: so called contingent election, in which the congressional delegation of 168 00:11:11,555 --> 00:11:14,755 Speaker 1: each state gets one vote for president and the Republican 169 00:11:14,835 --> 00:11:19,875 Speaker 1: always wins the end quoting them. The relevant language in 170 00:11:19,915 --> 00:11:23,635 Speaker 1: the twelfth Amendment is admirably clear. The person having the 171 00:11:23,675 --> 00:11:27,755 Speaker 1: greatest number of electoral votes shall be the president if 172 00:11:27,835 --> 00:11:31,435 Speaker 1: such number be a majority of the whole number of 173 00:11:31,515 --> 00:11:35,995 Speaker 1: electors appointed. If that majority is not achieved, the House 174 00:11:36,035 --> 00:11:39,675 Speaker 1: would properly decide the election. The Professor's right. There are 175 00:11:39,715 --> 00:11:43,515 Speaker 1: only two situations in which that could happen, both highly unlikely. First, 176 00:11:43,595 --> 00:11:46,955 Speaker 1: there could be a tie vote in the electoral College. Second, 177 00:11:47,075 --> 00:11:50,435 Speaker 1: a third party candidate could take enough electoral votes from 178 00:11:50,475 --> 00:11:53,515 Speaker 1: the top two to prevent anyone from winning a majority 179 00:11:53,515 --> 00:11:58,875 Speaker 1: of electors. One plausible scenario, they continue, involves Harris winning 180 00:11:58,915 --> 00:12:01,795 Speaker 1: all of the swing states except North Carolina and Georgia, 181 00:12:02,115 --> 00:12:04,795 Speaker 1: and thus besting Trump two hundred and eighty seven to 182 00:12:04,795 --> 00:12:08,315 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty one. Suppose that Trump then succeeds 183 00:12:08,635 --> 00:12:13,275 Speaker 1: in preventing the appointment of any Pennsylvania electors, Harris should 184 00:12:13,355 --> 00:12:16,035 Speaker 1: still win two hundred and sixty eight to two hundred 185 00:12:16,075 --> 00:12:18,555 Speaker 1: and fifty one. This is where an accurate reading of 186 00:12:18,555 --> 00:12:21,555 Speaker 1: the twelfth Amendment comes in. It doesn't matter that Harris's 187 00:12:21,555 --> 00:12:23,795 Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty eight votes would not be a 188 00:12:23,875 --> 00:12:27,155 Speaker 1: majority of the full five hundred and thirty eight electoral 189 00:12:27,195 --> 00:12:30,435 Speaker 1: college votes. The amendment says the victor must receive a 190 00:12:30,555 --> 00:12:35,555 Speaker 1: majority of the whole number of electors appointed, not that 191 00:12:35,715 --> 00:12:39,435 Speaker 1: could have been appointed. In this example, she would win 192 00:12:39,475 --> 00:12:42,075 Speaker 1: by virtue of having received a majority of the five 193 00:12:42,155 --> 00:12:47,115 Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen votes cast after Pennsylvania's were discarded. The 194 00:12:47,155 --> 00:12:51,715 Speaker 1: professors note that there are still nightmare scenarios spinning off 195 00:12:51,715 --> 00:12:55,475 Speaker 1: of this one that they have just banished, not hold 196 00:12:55,555 --> 00:13:01,075 Speaker 1: up Pennsylvania's electors, but flip them to Trump, or hold 197 00:13:01,115 --> 00:13:06,755 Speaker 1: up Pennsylvania's electors and Arizona's Wisconsins so that there are 198 00:13:06,755 --> 00:13:09,035 Speaker 1: no votes for any of those three states, and Trump 199 00:13:09,115 --> 00:13:13,035 Speaker 1: has a majority of all the rest. And congratulations, you've 200 00:13:13,035 --> 00:13:17,395 Speaker 1: stolen the election. I note, though, that you've also touched 201 00:13:17,395 --> 00:13:23,035 Speaker 1: off civil war, having overlooked one critical detail. The party 202 00:13:23,195 --> 00:13:26,475 Speaker 1: of the president elect from whom the election was just 203 00:13:26,675 --> 00:13:32,675 Speaker 1: stolen would still be running the government and law enforcement 204 00:13:33,395 --> 00:13:38,435 Speaker 1: and running what's the name of that place in Virginia 205 00:13:39,115 --> 00:13:48,315 Speaker 1: the Pentagon. Also of interest here, it is not enough 206 00:13:48,315 --> 00:13:52,155 Speaker 1: to threaten supposedly impartial journalists with retribution if they criticized 207 00:13:52,155 --> 00:13:54,795 Speaker 1: Trump or fail to bury critical stories about him, or 208 00:13:54,835 --> 00:13:59,035 Speaker 1: both sides them into meaninglessness. You must also reward them 209 00:13:59,035 --> 00:14:02,795 Speaker 1: when they do these things. And so we have the 210 00:14:02,915 --> 00:14:08,475 Speaker 1: story of a constantly self humiliating stenographer at CNN who, 211 00:14:08,555 --> 00:14:12,715 Speaker 1: during the Biden Trump debate, encapsulated everything that is wrong 212 00:14:12,755 --> 00:14:16,755 Speaker 1: with news in twenty first century America. So who got 213 00:14:16,795 --> 00:14:21,115 Speaker 1: the big profile in the big newspaper yesterday claiming this 214 00:14:21,355 --> 00:14:28,755 Speaker 1: is that person's moment. Why that same constantly self humiliating stenographer. 215 00:14:28,795 --> 00:14:37,195 Speaker 1: Who else that's next? This is countdown? This is countdown 216 00:14:37,435 --> 00:15:00,715 Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman still ahead on this edition of countdown. 217 00:15:00,755 --> 00:15:04,035 Speaker 1: So why if Rudy Giuliani has any sense that Trump 218 00:15:04,155 --> 00:15:08,475 Speaker 1: ruined his if Trump's lies literally just caused a court 219 00:15:08,675 --> 00:15:12,635 Speaker 1: order that Rudy turn over his apartment in New York 220 00:15:12,675 --> 00:15:15,635 Speaker 1: to the election workers he slandered in Georgia, And if 221 00:15:15,635 --> 00:15:18,635 Speaker 1: the man Juliani has long blame for keeping him from 222 00:15:18,675 --> 00:15:22,555 Speaker 1: becoming president, Joe Biden is not even on the ballot 223 00:15:22,595 --> 00:15:27,555 Speaker 1: next Tuesday. Why why was Rudy Giuliani at Sunday's Nazi 224 00:15:27,595 --> 00:15:31,795 Speaker 1: Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. Well, first of all, 225 00:15:31,875 --> 00:15:34,675 Speaker 1: Rudy now lives in a hallway at Penn Station underneath 226 00:15:34,675 --> 00:15:37,355 Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, so he only had to get up 227 00:15:37,355 --> 00:15:41,555 Speaker 1: the one flight of stairs. But I have long argued 228 00:15:41,595 --> 00:15:45,275 Speaker 1: here that though it looks like Rudy was sane and 229 00:15:45,315 --> 00:15:49,515 Speaker 1: went crazy, actually, based on my first had experience with him, 230 00:15:49,715 --> 00:15:53,715 Speaker 1: he was always crazy. He simply used to have and 231 00:15:53,755 --> 00:15:58,435 Speaker 1: has since lost the ability to pretend he is sane. 232 00:15:58,555 --> 00:16:02,115 Speaker 1: I experienced this first nearly thirty years ago at a 233 00:16:02,155 --> 00:16:04,475 Speaker 1: baseball event. They had me mc on the steps of 234 00:16:04,475 --> 00:16:06,795 Speaker 1: Say Hall of New York, where Rudy acted like a 235 00:16:06,835 --> 00:16:11,995 Speaker 1: malfunctioning robot. But the other day the World Series story 236 00:16:12,075 --> 00:16:15,035 Speaker 1: I had forgotten popped back into my head. I think 237 00:16:15,075 --> 00:16:18,115 Speaker 1: this was at Shay Stadium in two thousand and I 238 00:16:18,155 --> 00:16:20,035 Speaker 1: can't remember if it was after the Mets won the 239 00:16:20,115 --> 00:16:24,475 Speaker 1: National League pennant or it was after the Yankees won 240 00:16:24,515 --> 00:16:27,035 Speaker 1: the World Series, but in either event, we were doing 241 00:16:27,035 --> 00:16:30,195 Speaker 1: the postgame show on Fox from a little roped off 242 00:16:30,235 --> 00:16:34,315 Speaker 1: area inside one of the locker rooms, and for several 243 00:16:34,315 --> 00:16:38,555 Speaker 1: segments I could see Rudy hovering at the fringes, waiting 244 00:16:38,635 --> 00:16:42,635 Speaker 1: to be asked to join us on a national broadcast. Oh, 245 00:16:42,715 --> 00:16:45,675 Speaker 1: here's the most important person in the room, baseball fans, 246 00:16:46,115 --> 00:16:50,875 Speaker 1: a mayor. Remember this is pre nine to eleven. Finally, 247 00:16:51,075 --> 00:16:53,955 Speaker 1: during a commercial break, seconds before we came back into 248 00:16:53,995 --> 00:16:56,475 Speaker 1: the studio that we had created for ourselves in the 249 00:16:56,475 --> 00:16:59,995 Speaker 1: Mets or Yankees' locker room, and Aid leaned in and 250 00:17:00,035 --> 00:17:03,715 Speaker 1: whispered something to Rudy, and Rudy promptly jumped over the 251 00:17:03,835 --> 00:17:06,555 Speaker 1: rope over the velvet rope. I didn't know he could 252 00:17:06,635 --> 00:17:09,995 Speaker 1: do that. And the aid produced a chair from somewhere 253 00:17:10,195 --> 00:17:13,795 Speaker 1: and put it next to me, and Rudy, uninvited, sat 254 00:17:13,875 --> 00:17:16,275 Speaker 1: down next to me and grabbed one of the handheld 255 00:17:16,315 --> 00:17:19,075 Speaker 1: mics on the floor and said to me, Hi, I'm 256 00:17:19,075 --> 00:17:22,035 Speaker 1: Mayor Juiani, And I said, I know we've met. We 257 00:17:22,475 --> 00:17:25,675 Speaker 1: did a whole event together, and he sat there through 258 00:17:25,715 --> 00:17:28,915 Speaker 1: the entire segment while we interviewed a Mets player and 259 00:17:28,955 --> 00:17:32,475 Speaker 1: totally ignored him. We ignored him in large part because 260 00:17:32,515 --> 00:17:34,155 Speaker 1: of what I'd been through with him five or six 261 00:17:34,235 --> 00:17:39,035 Speaker 1: years earlier. See here's the point. Rudy was desperate, is desperate, 262 00:17:39,315 --> 00:17:43,435 Speaker 1: will always be desperate. Trump ruined his life, So what 263 00:17:43,515 --> 00:17:47,715 Speaker 1: Trump's giving him time on stage? I fully expect after 264 00:17:47,755 --> 00:17:51,195 Speaker 1: Giuliani finally shuffles off, there will be a camera crew 265 00:17:51,195 --> 00:17:55,115 Speaker 1: at his grave side someday and his arm will shoot 266 00:17:55,115 --> 00:17:56,475 Speaker 1: out of the ground like at the end of the 267 00:17:56,555 --> 00:17:59,955 Speaker 1: movie we Carry, only instead of trying to grab another victim, 268 00:18:00,395 --> 00:18:03,875 Speaker 1: it will be holding a microphone pointing back towards the grave. 269 00:18:04,075 --> 00:18:10,315 Speaker 1: So Rudy keep talking. The real Ruddy Giuliani story coming 270 00:18:10,395 --> 00:18:15,635 Speaker 1: up in things I promised not to tell Happy World series. First, 271 00:18:15,675 --> 00:18:18,115 Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. The 272 00:18:18,195 --> 00:18:20,595 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Krueger 273 00:18:20,595 --> 00:18:25,275 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute two day's worst persons in the 274 00:18:25,315 --> 00:18:28,595 Speaker 1: world Lebron's worst. Well, since we're on the subject Trump, 275 00:18:28,995 --> 00:18:31,355 Speaker 1: this is from nearly two weeks ago, and I'm sorry 276 00:18:31,395 --> 00:18:33,635 Speaker 1: I didn't bring it up sooner. But as you know 277 00:18:34,075 --> 00:18:37,955 Speaker 1: all too well, the big pile of Trump's spit gets 278 00:18:37,995 --> 00:18:42,235 Speaker 1: so high that it falls over on a weekly basis, 279 00:18:42,475 --> 00:18:46,435 Speaker 1: proving that gravity exists. This just got lost in the pile. 280 00:18:47,195 --> 00:18:50,195 Speaker 1: This was at one of his you know, Chautauqua tent shows. 281 00:18:50,515 --> 00:18:53,835 Speaker 1: This one was in Greenville, North Carolina, in which he 282 00:18:53,915 --> 00:18:56,955 Speaker 1: explained that the members of the Border Patrol Agent's Union 283 00:18:57,035 --> 00:19:01,155 Speaker 1: told him he was the best president ever, sir, better 284 00:19:01,235 --> 00:19:05,195 Speaker 1: than George Washington, and better, sir than Abraham Surleencoln, sir, 285 00:19:05,675 --> 00:19:09,435 Speaker 1: because the border agent supposedly told him, sir that you're better, 286 00:19:09,475 --> 00:19:15,155 Speaker 1: sir on the border, sir than Lincoln was. Sir. There 287 00:19:15,555 --> 00:19:20,115 Speaker 1: are what five six things Lincoln did that no other 288 00:19:20,155 --> 00:19:23,475 Speaker 1: American president, maybe no other world leader has ever done. 289 00:19:24,155 --> 00:19:26,315 Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's fair to say that maintaining 290 00:19:26,395 --> 00:19:30,435 Speaker 1: the border of the United States of America successfully at 291 00:19:30,475 --> 00:19:33,755 Speaker 1: all costs was one of those things that nobody else 292 00:19:33,795 --> 00:19:37,995 Speaker 1: has ever done. I believe that was the original issue 293 00:19:37,995 --> 00:19:40,475 Speaker 1: in that whole Civil War thing, unless that was just 294 00:19:40,715 --> 00:19:45,475 Speaker 1: because woke. Honestly, I think this way more often than 295 00:19:45,475 --> 00:19:47,635 Speaker 1: I say it. On top of everything else going on 296 00:19:47,715 --> 00:19:52,155 Speaker 1: in that vast, unexplored lethal jungle between his ears, there 297 00:19:52,195 --> 00:19:54,315 Speaker 1: are moments when I think that Trump gets up there 298 00:19:54,355 --> 00:19:59,595 Speaker 1: half the time, stoned out of his gord. Runner up 299 00:19:59,635 --> 00:20:03,835 Speaker 1: worser Caroline Kitchener, a writer for the Washington Post. Nothing 300 00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:07,355 Speaker 1: against Caroline Kitchener, she just went into the most detail. 301 00:20:07,955 --> 00:20:11,115 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper said this to other people at the Post 302 00:20:11,155 --> 00:20:14,275 Speaker 1: said this to other journalists, said this to. The argument 303 00:20:14,395 --> 00:20:17,595 Speaker 1: she and the others have made was that when readers 304 00:20:17,635 --> 00:20:22,155 Speaker 1: responded to The Washington Post's irresponsibility and disgrace by censoring 305 00:20:22,155 --> 00:20:25,555 Speaker 1: its own pro forma endorsement of Harris, when they responded 306 00:20:25,595 --> 00:20:30,635 Speaker 1: by canceling their own subscriptions, Caroline Kitchener wrote, when you cancel, 307 00:20:30,995 --> 00:20:35,435 Speaker 1: you are hurting us, not our owner. I admit we 308 00:20:35,475 --> 00:20:39,715 Speaker 1: should be boycotting Amazon and the Washington Post. Maybe that'll 309 00:20:39,715 --> 00:20:43,355 Speaker 1: sentence Jeff Bezos to a fate worse than life with 310 00:20:43,515 --> 00:20:47,915 Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez. But MS Kitchener's message don't blame us, we're 311 00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:52,315 Speaker 1: only employees, is wrong at its core. I mean, first 312 00:20:52,355 --> 00:20:55,435 Speaker 1: of all, it sounds like we're just following orders. But 313 00:20:55,675 --> 00:20:58,115 Speaker 1: more practically, lots of people quit the La Times when 314 00:20:58,115 --> 00:21:00,715 Speaker 1: they did this. Lots of people have quit the Washington 315 00:21:00,715 --> 00:21:03,835 Speaker 1: Post when they did this, and the people who stayed 316 00:21:03,835 --> 00:21:07,715 Speaker 1: there are covering up for Jeff Bezos, who clearly did this. 317 00:21:07,715 --> 00:21:10,595 Speaker 1: This British exile they brought in to run the paper 318 00:21:10,595 --> 00:21:16,115 Speaker 1: into the ground. Lewis, he's lying about this. Clearly. You 319 00:21:16,235 --> 00:21:21,475 Speaker 1: have to stand for something sometime. I understand quitting your 320 00:21:21,515 --> 00:21:24,195 Speaker 1: job is an extreme measure, especially in a time in 321 00:21:24,195 --> 00:21:27,795 Speaker 1: which your industry is evaporating. Note I will never criticize 322 00:21:27,795 --> 00:21:32,155 Speaker 1: people for not quitting their jobs if their circumstances don't 323 00:21:32,195 --> 00:21:35,555 Speaker 1: provide them with a safety net. But don't criticize the 324 00:21:35,595 --> 00:21:38,995 Speaker 1: customers because they no longer trust the company you work for. 325 00:21:39,875 --> 00:21:42,835 Speaker 1: It's certainly more your fault than it is the customer's fault. 326 00:21:44,915 --> 00:21:47,715 Speaker 1: I mean this is personal for me too. I once 327 00:21:47,755 --> 00:21:51,395 Speaker 1: worked for Rupert Murdoch. It was hardly my fault. He's 328 00:21:51,435 --> 00:21:53,875 Speaker 1: the devil. On the other hand, I signed up for it. 329 00:21:53,875 --> 00:21:56,875 Speaker 1: They didn't force me to take the millions. If anything, 330 00:21:57,635 --> 00:22:00,835 Speaker 1: As anything but a subservient employee, I probably took a 331 00:22:00,835 --> 00:22:03,355 Speaker 1: few days off Rupert Murdoch's life. And I'm proud of that. 332 00:22:03,515 --> 00:22:06,955 Speaker 1: I'm goddamn proud of that. And by the way, the 333 00:22:06,995 --> 00:22:09,515 Speaker 1: reason I stopped working for him was when I tripped 334 00:22:09,515 --> 00:22:12,315 Speaker 1: over a sports story that was about him selling the 335 00:22:12,475 --> 00:22:15,715 Speaker 1: LA Dodgers. I went to his office first for guidance. 336 00:22:15,875 --> 00:22:18,595 Speaker 1: It was a business conflict. It was a conflict between 337 00:22:18,875 --> 00:22:23,035 Speaker 1: his baseball business and his TV sports business. And if 338 00:22:23,035 --> 00:22:25,235 Speaker 1: they had said to me kill the story, I would have. 339 00:22:25,515 --> 00:22:28,075 Speaker 1: He owned the network, was his candy store, He owned 340 00:22:28,115 --> 00:22:30,355 Speaker 1: the ball club. There was his other candy store. Now 341 00:22:30,395 --> 00:22:33,195 Speaker 1: I might have quit after that, I don't know, But 342 00:22:33,355 --> 00:22:36,875 Speaker 1: they didn't say kill it. His PR person, his personal 343 00:22:36,915 --> 00:22:40,075 Speaker 1: full time PR person, crafted a denial and said, as 344 00:22:40,075 --> 00:22:42,875 Speaker 1: long as you run this along with your story, if 345 00:22:42,915 --> 00:22:46,195 Speaker 1: you're reporting his solid go ahead. What's what we hired 346 00:22:46,235 --> 00:22:49,115 Speaker 1: you to do. And then Rupert saw the story on 347 00:22:49,155 --> 00:22:52,235 Speaker 1: the air and fired me for having followed his rules. 348 00:22:53,475 --> 00:22:56,755 Speaker 1: The problem, mis Kitchener, is that Jeff Bezos has clearly 349 00:22:56,795 --> 00:23:00,435 Speaker 1: proven himself to be a weather vane. Last time, the 350 00:23:00,435 --> 00:23:04,555 Speaker 1: interest of the Washington Post collided with his other business interests, 351 00:23:05,115 --> 00:23:07,355 Speaker 1: his money that he was going to have to give 352 00:23:07,395 --> 00:23:10,675 Speaker 1: his wife when they tried to blackmail him over Lauren Sanchez, 353 00:23:10,875 --> 00:23:14,315 Speaker 1: and he defended the Post. He's not gonna make that 354 00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:17,155 Speaker 1: mistake again, is he. If you think he's killing the 355 00:23:17,235 --> 00:23:19,875 Speaker 1: endorsement is not the start of how he will compromise 356 00:23:19,915 --> 00:23:24,955 Speaker 1: the newspaper next time, and eventually compromise you. You're being naive. 357 00:23:25,875 --> 00:23:29,315 Speaker 1: Turns out, Miss Kitchener is the beat reporter on the 358 00:23:29,435 --> 00:23:33,435 Speaker 1: abortion news beat. You think if Trump comes to Jeff 359 00:23:33,475 --> 00:23:38,315 Speaker 1: Bezos and says, I've got a three billion dollar interstellar 360 00:23:38,675 --> 00:23:42,835 Speaker 1: space let's go to the planet Andromeda in this galaxy 361 00:23:42,875 --> 00:23:45,515 Speaker 1: of skyron project for you, but I don't want any 362 00:23:45,595 --> 00:23:50,075 Speaker 1: more coverage of the pro abortion protests, you think your 363 00:23:50,155 --> 00:23:54,235 Speaker 1: job isn't going away. Ms Kitchener, devote your energies not 364 00:23:54,275 --> 00:23:57,035 Speaker 1: to criticizing those readers who have left your platform, but 365 00:23:57,115 --> 00:24:02,515 Speaker 1: towards joining them. Bezos has destroyed your platform. Find a 366 00:24:02,555 --> 00:24:07,355 Speaker 1: new one before your platform collapses beneath you. And incidentally, 367 00:24:07,395 --> 00:24:10,995 Speaker 1: you have my sympathies. Caroline Kitchener's story came onto my 368 00:24:11,115 --> 00:24:14,315 Speaker 1: radar because she wrote, quote, my mom just told me 369 00:24:14,435 --> 00:24:18,795 Speaker 1: she canceled her subscription to the Washington Post. She reads 370 00:24:18,835 --> 00:24:21,875 Speaker 1: every one of my stories. It was a heartbreaking call. 371 00:24:22,115 --> 00:24:24,155 Speaker 1: I understand why she did it, but I asked her 372 00:24:24,195 --> 00:24:29,235 Speaker 1: to reconsider. Oh God, honestly, though, if mom thinks your 373 00:24:29,235 --> 00:24:35,635 Speaker 1: employer sucks, listen to mom new paper, but not the 374 00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:39,475 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. Because our winners, the Wall Street Journal 375 00:24:39,875 --> 00:24:45,035 Speaker 1: and writer Isabella Siemenetti and CNN's David Shalien and CNN's 376 00:24:45,115 --> 00:24:48,155 Speaker 1: Dana Bash. They have combined to bring us what might 377 00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:51,915 Speaker 1: be the dumbest article I have ever read about TV news. 378 00:24:52,035 --> 00:24:56,155 Speaker 1: Dumber even then, say the fifty dumbest articles I've read 379 00:24:56,275 --> 00:25:01,395 Speaker 1: just about myself. The title CNN's Dana Bash, a trusted 380 00:25:01,435 --> 00:25:06,835 Speaker 1: political referee, is having a moment. She won kudos from 381 00:25:06,875 --> 00:25:09,995 Speaker 1: Trump and landed a Major Harris interview, but says it 382 00:25:09,995 --> 00:25:14,355 Speaker 1: has been a slow climb to the top. Was it 383 00:25:14,515 --> 00:25:18,115 Speaker 1: Major Harris a quarterback somewhere or was he an anchor? 384 00:25:18,155 --> 00:25:21,915 Speaker 1: Major Harris? I know that name from somewhere in what world? Though? 385 00:25:21,955 --> 00:25:26,715 Speaker 1: Are kudos from Trump positive? I mean Trump wants his 386 00:25:26,875 --> 00:25:30,675 Speaker 1: mobs to kill everybody at CNN? What does it, quto 387 00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:34,435 Speaker 1: or if you prefer kudo from Trump about a CNN 388 00:25:34,515 --> 00:25:38,395 Speaker 1: talking head mean, does it mean Trump wants them to 389 00:25:38,515 --> 00:25:43,435 Speaker 1: kill her? Last? It means he views her as favoring him, 390 00:25:43,875 --> 00:25:48,515 Speaker 1: as breaking the rules for him, as benefiting him, as 391 00:25:48,635 --> 00:25:52,195 Speaker 1: cheating for him. If Trump likes you, it means you 392 00:25:52,315 --> 00:25:57,555 Speaker 1: have broken some law or moral code. Congratulations, Trump likes you, 393 00:25:59,915 --> 00:26:03,195 Speaker 1: and for once in this case, he's right. Dana Bash 394 00:26:03,315 --> 00:26:06,155 Speaker 1: is not having a moment. She and Jake Tapper and 395 00:26:06,275 --> 00:26:11,715 Speaker 1: CNN permanently stained themselves by participating in a presidential debate 396 00:26:11,875 --> 00:26:15,555 Speaker 1: in which they let one candidate lie NonStop for ninety minutes, and, 397 00:26:15,595 --> 00:26:18,235 Speaker 1: as she's quoted in the piece saying, she still thinks 398 00:26:18,395 --> 00:26:21,795 Speaker 1: that was the right route to go, her reaction to 399 00:26:21,835 --> 00:26:25,075 Speaker 1: Trump's lies as a journalist on her network, on her 400 00:26:25,195 --> 00:26:30,435 Speaker 1: show were to say, we'll be right back after that's 401 00:26:30,475 --> 00:26:35,555 Speaker 1: commerce hewn. Of course Trump likes her, She's a Trump enabler. 402 00:26:38,235 --> 00:26:40,395 Speaker 1: But this is a Murdoch paper, the Wall Street Journal. 403 00:26:40,435 --> 00:26:43,555 Speaker 1: So here's this article about her that skips lightly by 404 00:26:43,635 --> 00:26:47,195 Speaker 1: that and also by her next journalistic self immolation. Her 405 00:26:47,235 --> 00:26:50,675 Speaker 1: response to Kamala Harris's town hall on CNN last week. 406 00:26:50,795 --> 00:26:54,755 Speaker 1: The Vice President was still on stage when Dana Bash 407 00:26:54,835 --> 00:26:57,995 Speaker 1: piped in from the anchor desk with how quote people 408 00:26:58,115 --> 00:27:01,395 Speaker 1: she was talking to had said Harris had failed in 409 00:27:01,435 --> 00:27:04,275 Speaker 1: her goal to seal the deal or finish the sale, 410 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:08,435 Speaker 1: or whatever cliche she used. We have no idea to 411 00:27:08,475 --> 00:27:13,955 Speaker 1: this day who those people were, no identification at all. Politicians, 412 00:27:14,355 --> 00:27:18,955 Speaker 1: shoeshine men, Democrats, Republicans, Trump family members, people in the 413 00:27:18,995 --> 00:27:24,515 Speaker 1: control room, passers by. There have been few journalists to 414 00:27:24,715 --> 00:27:29,035 Speaker 1: fail to understand the essence of their job more spectacularly 415 00:27:29,355 --> 00:27:35,355 Speaker 1: in consecutive gigantic showcases than Dana Bash. But because CNN 416 00:27:35,435 --> 00:27:37,275 Speaker 1: and the Journal are trying to suck up to Trump 417 00:27:37,435 --> 00:27:41,035 Speaker 1: right now, we get this crap just to sell the 418 00:27:41,115 --> 00:27:45,475 Speaker 1: thing further. The Wall Street Journal reporter interviewed as somebody 419 00:27:45,515 --> 00:27:51,355 Speaker 1: to get a quote from CNN's political director, the equally inert, 420 00:27:51,875 --> 00:27:57,275 Speaker 1: incompetent a moral David Shalien, who is still defending the 421 00:27:57,355 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: CNN farcical town hall with Trump a year ago, who said, quote, 422 00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:06,435 Speaker 1: this is just Dana's cycle. She has just owned it. 423 00:28:07,875 --> 00:28:11,755 Speaker 1: Shelian Isabella Siminetti the Wall Street Journal and Dana Danna, 424 00:28:11,835 --> 00:28:14,715 Speaker 1: if this is your cycle, Take a look carefully, the 425 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:21,235 Speaker 1: wheels fell off Bash two Days, Worst Persons her cycle 426 00:28:21,955 --> 00:28:48,675 Speaker 1: in ther and through the number one story on the 427 00:28:48,715 --> 00:28:51,835 Speaker 1: Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised 428 00:28:51,875 --> 00:28:56,235 Speaker 1: not to tell. I hear this question about Rudy Giuliani 429 00:28:56,755 --> 00:29:01,475 Speaker 1: a lot. When did his life go so horribly horribly wrong? 430 00:29:01,995 --> 00:29:06,955 Speaker 1: Here was America's mayor the rock in the hours of crisis, 431 00:29:07,035 --> 00:29:10,875 Speaker 1: after nine to eleven? What is he now? After literally 432 00:29:10,995 --> 00:29:13,675 Speaker 1: years of trying to sell the Hunter Biden laptop story? 433 00:29:13,675 --> 00:29:19,115 Speaker 1: Who does the Hunter Biden laptop story bite him? Four 434 00:29:19,395 --> 00:29:24,835 Speaker 1: seasons gardening, the mascara running down his face, gashes, emissions 435 00:29:24,875 --> 00:29:30,875 Speaker 1: at phony election hearings, the Sasha Baron Cohen film. I mean, 436 00:29:31,355 --> 00:29:34,515 Speaker 1: even back then, I thought it was nuts that people 437 00:29:34,555 --> 00:29:37,275 Speaker 1: actually thought Rudy Giuliani was the front runner for the 438 00:29:37,315 --> 00:29:40,275 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight Republican presidential nomination. What he was 439 00:29:40,475 --> 00:29:43,875 Speaker 1: widely held to be just that in two thousand and six, 440 00:29:43,915 --> 00:29:48,435 Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, and by the time it happened, 441 00:29:48,635 --> 00:29:51,155 Speaker 1: he was already on his way to spending millions of 442 00:29:51,195 --> 00:29:55,955 Speaker 1: dollars to finish last. But it was the final nail 443 00:29:56,035 --> 00:29:58,915 Speaker 1: in the coffin in which he still lives. At a 444 00:29:58,915 --> 00:30:02,115 Speaker 1: Democratic debate in two thousand and seven October thirtieth, before 445 00:30:02,155 --> 00:30:05,515 Speaker 1: the field shook out everybody but Obama and Hillary, one 446 00:30:05,515 --> 00:30:08,755 Speaker 1: of the other candidates was excoriating the Republicans and their 447 00:30:08,795 --> 00:30:12,515 Speaker 1: exploitation of terrorism and the al Qaeda attacks, and that 448 00:30:12,595 --> 00:30:16,635 Speaker 1: other candidates said of Giuliani, quote, there's only three things 449 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:20,115 Speaker 1: he mentions in a sentence, A noun, a verb, and 450 00:30:20,275 --> 00:30:25,955 Speaker 1: nine to eleven. The candidate was Joe Biden. The phrase 451 00:30:26,035 --> 00:30:28,715 Speaker 1: a noun, a verb and nine to eleven ended Rudy 452 00:30:28,755 --> 00:30:33,675 Speaker 1: Giuliani's career, and Giuliani's dislike of Joe Biden, many decades old, 453 00:30:33,715 --> 00:30:37,435 Speaker 1: turned to hatred at that exact moment, which is why 454 00:30:37,475 --> 00:30:40,395 Speaker 1: we got to where we got to in twenty and twenty. 455 00:30:41,795 --> 00:30:43,875 Speaker 1: That was also the exact moment at which any hopes 456 00:30:43,955 --> 00:30:49,755 Speaker 1: Julianni had being elected anything anywhere ever again vanished. But 457 00:30:50,955 --> 00:30:53,235 Speaker 1: it was clear to me as far back as September 458 00:30:53,235 --> 00:30:55,715 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, that's sadly, what we saw at 459 00:30:55,715 --> 00:30:58,315 Speaker 1: that time was a bad man having a few good 460 00:30:58,435 --> 00:31:02,155 Speaker 1: days before that month was out. Giuliani's response to the 461 00:31:02,155 --> 00:31:07,395 Speaker 1: attack on democracy was to himself attacked democracy, to propose 462 00:31:07,435 --> 00:31:10,635 Speaker 1: that the November election to choose his successor to be 463 00:31:10,755 --> 00:31:14,075 Speaker 1: Mayor of New York should be postponed, or that at 464 00:31:14,155 --> 00:31:17,035 Speaker 1: least he should stay on for a few months as 465 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:22,835 Speaker 1: co mayor because he was irreplaceable. There had always been 466 00:31:22,915 --> 00:31:26,035 Speaker 1: more subtle hints that Giuliani was never a good man, 467 00:31:26,275 --> 00:31:29,715 Speaker 1: just a slightly smarter one, a more debious one. The 468 00:31:29,835 --> 00:31:34,315 Speaker 1: venomous Rudy, the scheming Rudy, the a moral Rudy, the 469 00:31:34,395 --> 00:31:37,955 Speaker 1: Rudy with a bad song in his heart, leaked out 470 00:31:37,995 --> 00:31:40,875 Speaker 1: from time to time, and often inside the world of sports, 471 00:31:40,915 --> 00:31:44,675 Speaker 1: which is where I met him. You will remember, Rudy 472 00:31:44,715 --> 00:31:48,835 Speaker 1: Giuliani was a professional New York Yankees fan. He always 473 00:31:48,875 --> 00:31:52,355 Speaker 1: went to the games for free, mind you, dugout seats 474 00:31:52,395 --> 00:31:56,875 Speaker 1: for himself, his wife, his other wife, his next wife, 475 00:31:57,235 --> 00:32:00,635 Speaker 1: the kids, the friends. When I still had friends in 476 00:32:00,755 --> 00:32:03,915 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, they estimated Rudy used to cost them thousands 477 00:32:03,995 --> 00:32:07,835 Speaker 1: of dollars every time he showed up. He always left 478 00:32:07,915 --> 00:32:12,075 Speaker 1: via the clubhouse. He always wore a Yankees cap. He 479 00:32:12,155 --> 00:32:14,995 Speaker 1: billed himself as quote the number one Yankee fan. And 480 00:32:15,035 --> 00:32:17,875 Speaker 1: then when the Boston Red Sox were playing in the 481 00:32:17,875 --> 00:32:20,275 Speaker 1: two thousand and seven World Series, when he was campaigning 482 00:32:20,275 --> 00:32:23,315 Speaker 1: for president in New Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani suddenly announced he 483 00:32:23,395 --> 00:32:26,995 Speaker 1: was rooting for the Red Sox. This is like being 484 00:32:27,035 --> 00:32:30,555 Speaker 1: a Trump fan and announcing you are rooting for democracy. 485 00:32:32,075 --> 00:32:36,715 Speaker 1: But I went back with Rudy Giuliani even longer than that. 486 00:32:37,755 --> 00:32:40,395 Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety five or nineteen ninety six, I was 487 00:32:40,435 --> 00:32:43,755 Speaker 1: asked by the Deputy Mayor of New York City, Fran Writer, 488 00:32:44,235 --> 00:32:46,875 Speaker 1: and the staff of the Baseball Hall of Fame to 489 00:32:47,115 --> 00:32:50,755 Speaker 1: travel from ESPN in Connecticut, literally to the steps of 490 00:32:50,835 --> 00:32:53,995 Speaker 1: New York City Hall to MC an event for what 491 00:32:54,115 --> 00:32:57,595 Speaker 1: must have been thirty five members of the Baseball Hall 492 00:32:57,635 --> 00:33:01,115 Speaker 1: of Fame, maybe the largest group of them ever assembled 493 00:33:01,155 --> 00:33:05,475 Speaker 1: in one place in one moment in time. Deputy Mayor 494 00:33:05,515 --> 00:33:08,595 Speaker 1: approached me and the Mayor a few steps behind her 495 00:33:08,675 --> 00:33:12,475 Speaker 1: on that gorgeous spring day. As she began to introduce us, 496 00:33:12,515 --> 00:33:16,715 Speaker 1: she realized he had begun to wander off. Ruddy, Ruddy, 497 00:33:17,435 --> 00:33:20,835 Speaker 1: She bellowed, he wandered back, Rody, This is Keith Olberman 498 00:33:20,875 --> 00:33:23,635 Speaker 1: from ESPN. He's going to be the MC. You will 499 00:33:23,635 --> 00:33:26,755 Speaker 1: have to introduce him after you speak. The mayor seemed 500 00:33:26,755 --> 00:33:30,475 Speaker 1: to be having trouble focusing on me or anything else. 501 00:33:31,195 --> 00:33:33,755 Speaker 1: I thought of the old joke, just keep your eyes 502 00:33:33,795 --> 00:33:37,435 Speaker 1: on the Olberman in the middle. He extended a hand, 503 00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:42,795 Speaker 1: missed mine, then recalibrated. As we shook hands, he grunted. 504 00:33:43,835 --> 00:33:46,435 Speaker 1: The Deputy mayor now roared at him, Rody, you have 505 00:33:46,475 --> 00:33:50,235 Speaker 1: to introduce him. His name is Keith Olberman from ESPN. 506 00:33:50,475 --> 00:33:55,435 Speaker 1: He's the MC. Juliani turned and looked at her like 507 00:33:55,515 --> 00:33:59,595 Speaker 1: he'd never seen her before. He grunted again. Deputy Mayor 508 00:33:59,715 --> 00:34:03,915 Speaker 1: writer now screamed at Rudy Giuliani, repeat it to me. 509 00:34:06,355 --> 00:34:08,795 Speaker 1: He looked at me, then he looked back at her 510 00:34:09,235 --> 00:34:12,835 Speaker 1: and he said, his name is Keith Alderman from ESPN. 511 00:34:12,995 --> 00:34:17,675 Speaker 1: He's the MC. With annoyance. Writer said thank you, and 512 00:34:17,755 --> 00:34:23,275 Speaker 1: Juliani smiled and wandered off again. And I half seriously thought, 513 00:34:24,275 --> 00:34:27,875 Speaker 1: did I just meet a body double? Is he a replicant? 514 00:34:28,755 --> 00:34:31,755 Speaker 1: Is he a well built robot? This can't be the 515 00:34:31,795 --> 00:34:36,195 Speaker 1: actual mayor. Well it was. I took my seat in 516 00:34:36,235 --> 00:34:38,075 Speaker 1: the front row of the stage that had been built 517 00:34:38,075 --> 00:34:40,715 Speaker 1: atop the City Hall steps as the crowd gathered, and 518 00:34:40,755 --> 00:34:43,115 Speaker 1: it was a good one, maybe three or four hundred people. 519 00:34:43,915 --> 00:34:46,675 Speaker 1: The President of the Hall of Fame spoke first. The 520 00:34:46,715 --> 00:34:50,315 Speaker 1: mayor sat next to me. Juliani leaned in at one 521 00:34:50,355 --> 00:34:53,835 Speaker 1: point and whispered, to me, your name is Keith Alderman 522 00:34:54,235 --> 00:34:59,875 Speaker 1: from ESPN. You're the MC I talk, I introduce you. 523 00:35:01,155 --> 00:35:05,035 Speaker 1: I said something encouraging, and he smiled broadly, like a 524 00:35:05,115 --> 00:35:09,435 Speaker 1: child who was about to get some candy. The President 525 00:35:09,475 --> 00:35:11,915 Speaker 1: of the Baseball Hall of Fame wrapped up introduced Juliani, 526 00:35:11,955 --> 00:35:14,035 Speaker 1: who bounced up to the stage and thanked him and 527 00:35:14,435 --> 00:35:17,555 Speaker 1: got his name wrong. He then launched into a speech, 528 00:35:17,635 --> 00:35:20,275 Speaker 1: taking credit for the great weather and the terrific early 529 00:35:20,315 --> 00:35:22,275 Speaker 1: season performance of the New York Yankees and the New 530 00:35:22,355 --> 00:35:26,235 Speaker 1: York Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York 531 00:35:26,275 --> 00:35:28,395 Speaker 1: Giants who had moved out of New York in nineteen 532 00:35:28,435 --> 00:35:30,275 Speaker 1: fifty seven. But if he had been mayor, then they 533 00:35:30,275 --> 00:35:31,875 Speaker 1: wouldn't have moved out in New York, would have the 534 00:35:31,955 --> 00:35:34,475 Speaker 1: four teams it deserves. And look at all these great players. 535 00:35:34,515 --> 00:35:36,035 Speaker 1: Will let me now turn it over to a good 536 00:35:36,035 --> 00:35:38,355 Speaker 1: friend of mine and a great baseball man. And he 537 00:35:38,395 --> 00:35:47,115 Speaker 1: looked at me and he forgot everything. Silence, titters of 538 00:35:47,195 --> 00:35:50,315 Speaker 1: laughter from the crowd, and finally he looked the other way. 539 00:35:50,355 --> 00:35:53,235 Speaker 1: Behind him, where the Deputy mayor had her head in 540 00:35:53,315 --> 00:35:57,195 Speaker 1: her hands. Rudy Giuliani into a microphone that picked up 541 00:35:57,195 --> 00:36:01,955 Speaker 1: everything he said, said loudly, what's his name? Who is he? 542 00:36:03,715 --> 00:36:06,955 Speaker 1: And now the of laughter in the crowd turned to 543 00:36:07,075 --> 00:36:09,315 Speaker 1: a little bit louder laughter, and some of the Hall 544 00:36:09,355 --> 00:36:12,435 Speaker 1: of Fame players seated behind me gave me pats of 545 00:36:12,515 --> 00:36:17,835 Speaker 1: consolation on my shoulder. Fran Ryder screamed, Keith Olberman from ESPN, 546 00:36:17,955 --> 00:36:23,795 Speaker 1: the MC you repeated it to me. Juliani turned back 547 00:36:23,835 --> 00:36:25,515 Speaker 1: to the crowd as if there had been no way 548 00:36:25,555 --> 00:36:27,715 Speaker 1: they could have heard or seen any of this, and 549 00:36:27,755 --> 00:36:30,395 Speaker 1: he said, so let me turn it over to a 550 00:36:30,395 --> 00:36:34,915 Speaker 1: good friend of mine and a great baseball man, Keith Obolman, 551 00:36:35,755 --> 00:36:46,035 Speaker 1: our NC from ESPM. I just sat there, more laughs, 552 00:36:46,355 --> 00:36:49,435 Speaker 1: more consolations from the players behind me. I can still 553 00:36:49,435 --> 00:36:52,235 Speaker 1: hear the laugh of the late Detroit Tigers great Al 554 00:36:52,315 --> 00:36:55,835 Speaker 1: Kayline rising above the others. Al later came over to commiserate. 555 00:36:56,755 --> 00:36:59,755 Speaker 1: As I thought, should I get there and say thank 556 00:36:59,795 --> 00:37:05,355 Speaker 1: you Mayor Dinkins, or better yet, thank you Mayor LaGuardia. 557 00:37:05,635 --> 00:37:10,035 Speaker 1: I then concluded, no, I can't do that. I'm representing ESPN. 558 00:37:10,355 --> 00:37:13,555 Speaker 1: I'm representing the Baseball Hall of Fame. As I thought 559 00:37:13,555 --> 00:37:17,035 Speaker 1: that he said it again. So now I got up 560 00:37:17,075 --> 00:37:20,675 Speaker 1: and I told the crowd sorry, I wasn't sure he 561 00:37:20,755 --> 00:37:25,035 Speaker 1: meant me. So if you are saying to yourself, what 562 00:37:25,195 --> 00:37:28,715 Speaker 1: on earth happened to Rudy Giuliani with that brown schitz 563 00:37:28,755 --> 00:37:31,675 Speaker 1: pouring down his face, I am saying to you he 564 00:37:31,755 --> 00:37:35,435 Speaker 1: has been this crazy for at least thirty years. You 565 00:37:35,515 --> 00:37:40,035 Speaker 1: were just lucky enough to have not previously noticed. It 566 00:37:40,155 --> 00:37:44,915 Speaker 1: is all true, or my name ain't Keith Obelman our 567 00:37:45,155 --> 00:38:02,555 Speaker 1: NC from ESPM. I've done all the damage I can 568 00:38:02,595 --> 00:38:05,795 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening to it five episodes 569 00:38:05,835 --> 00:38:08,755 Speaker 1: a week again, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Follow 570 00:38:08,795 --> 00:38:14,075 Speaker 1: me for the podcast promo videos too on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, 571 00:38:14,115 --> 00:38:20,835 Speaker 1: Instagram and tick you once again. There is a Monday countdown. 572 00:38:22,035 --> 00:38:25,235 Speaker 1: Please forward this podcast which was not the Monday Countdown 573 00:38:25,315 --> 00:38:29,035 Speaker 1: to well. Forward it to anybody. Really, I don't care 574 00:38:29,075 --> 00:38:32,155 Speaker 1: at this point. Once it leaves here, it's not my 575 00:38:32,275 --> 00:38:35,395 Speaker 1: responsibility who listens to it or what they do after 576 00:38:35,435 --> 00:38:38,955 Speaker 1: they listen to it. Brian Ray and John Phillip shaneal 577 00:38:39,035 --> 00:38:41,755 Speaker 1: who do not share my opinion. In that are the 578 00:38:41,835 --> 00:38:44,875 Speaker 1: musical directors of Countdown, and they arranged, produced and performed 579 00:38:45,155 --> 00:38:48,435 Speaker 1: most of our music, which is what musical directors should do. 580 00:38:49,115 --> 00:38:52,315 Speaker 1: Mister Shanale handled orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray was on 581 00:38:52,355 --> 00:38:54,715 Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums, and it was produced by 582 00:38:54,755 --> 00:38:58,955 Speaker 1: TKO Brothers, which was Brian's idea to represent me and 583 00:38:59,075 --> 00:39:03,355 Speaker 1: him and John Phillips Chanel. Our satirical and pithy musical 584 00:39:03,355 --> 00:39:06,675 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 585 00:39:07,035 --> 00:39:09,915 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 586 00:39:10,195 --> 00:39:13,875 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy BESPN Inc. Other music 587 00:39:13,955 --> 00:39:17,555 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. It dawns on 588 00:39:17,675 --> 00:39:21,755 Speaker 1: me that the number of musical staffers on Countdown exceeds 589 00:39:21,795 --> 00:39:25,595 Speaker 1: the number of editorial staffers on Countdown by a whole lot. 590 00:39:25,755 --> 00:39:30,555 Speaker 1: See there's Brian and John and Nancy, and then there's 591 00:39:30,555 --> 00:39:33,675 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis from ESPN. That's four, and I'm trying 592 00:39:33,675 --> 00:39:35,675 Speaker 1: to remember. I believe there were five guys and No 593 00:39:35,795 --> 00:39:40,355 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. That's nine musical staffers and the one editorial 594 00:39:40,435 --> 00:39:43,835 Speaker 1: guy me and I'm also part of TKO brothers, so 595 00:39:43,875 --> 00:39:48,155 Speaker 1: it's actually ten to one. Oh wait, there's another editorial employee. 596 00:39:48,195 --> 00:39:50,795 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Kenny Maine. Thanks for 597 00:39:50,835 --> 00:39:53,835 Speaker 1: standing with me, Kenny. It's ten to two. Everything else, 598 00:39:53,875 --> 00:39:58,515 Speaker 1: of course, was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown 599 00:39:58,555 --> 00:40:01,675 Speaker 1: for today, one week until the twenty twenty four presidential election, 600 00:40:02,195 --> 00:40:06,275 Speaker 1: the one three hundred and ninety third day since convicted 601 00:40:06,315 --> 00:40:10,075 Speaker 1: felon dissociative fugue j Trump got away with his first 602 00:40:10,075 --> 00:40:13,995 Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 603 00:40:14,475 --> 00:40:17,355 Speaker 1: So if you can do your math, if it's seven 604 00:40:17,435 --> 00:40:19,955 Speaker 1: days till the election, and this is day thirteen ninety 605 00:40:19,995 --> 00:40:24,155 Speaker 1: three since the coup attempt, the election day is fourteen 606 00:40:24,235 --> 00:40:29,955 Speaker 1: hundred days even since January sixth, all right, use the election, 607 00:40:30,115 --> 00:40:32,875 Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity to keep 608 00:40:32,915 --> 00:40:38,395 Speaker 1: him from doing it again. Always have a chets. The 609 00:40:38,475 --> 00:40:41,635 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires 610 00:40:41,755 --> 00:40:44,795 Speaker 1: until the next one. I'm Keith Oulderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, 611 00:40:45,395 --> 00:41:08,275 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 612 00:41:08,315 --> 00:41:13,115 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 613 00:41:13,155 --> 00:41:17,835 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.