TRUMP'S RUNNING A PROTECTION RACKET PRESIDENCY - 6.30.25

SEASON 3 EPISODE 143: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL REPORT: Which is worse? That Trump is running a “Protection Racket Presidency” and bribed one Senator to vote for his Big Beautiful Soak The Poor Budget Bill while metaphorically bumping off one Senator who wouldn’t? Or that Trump threatened Israel, threatened the government of Israel, if Israel's courts don’t do what HE wants on behalf of Netanyahu – and nobody noticed.

Which is worse?

Well it’s a trick question because these are actually just two different aspects of the same story. It’s a protection racket. These are a) the domestic operations of the protection racket, and b) the international operations of the protection racket.

Thom Tillis, the vaguely responsible Republican senator from North Carolina, refused to let Trump politically rape him Saturday night and would not vote to advance the budget bill. Trump had been threatening him for weeks, months, accelerated it, finally began to ask for volunteers to primary him, Tillis announced yesterday he will retire from the senate at the end of his term next year.

So much for Mr. Tillis. So much for somebody, anybody, in the Republican party saying “I owe this country something.” So much for the thought that when the country is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell ‘em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Tiller. I don’t know where I’ll be then, but I’ll know about it and I’ll be happy.” Well I know where Thom Tillis will be: he’ll be back home in Cornelius, North Carolina. Presumably drinking heavily. Reflecting on how he represents the utter moral and ethical decline of the already near-bankrupt and nearly-totally-declined Republican Party.

Meanwhile Senator Lisa Murkowski turns out to be Susan Collins with less Kibuki make-up. She sold her soul to get herself a carveout for Alaska, only to find out the Senate Parliamentarian says it violates the Senate's Byrd Rule and the carveout must be carved out. Lol.

AND TRUMP THREATENED TO DEFUND ISRAEL - what would be the end of the political career of any other American figure - and nobody noticed. And it seems to have worked.

ALSO: WHY KRISTEN GILLIBRAND MUST RESIGN (and get treatment), Stephen Miller has a financial interest in the ICE raids, the plot to make Eric Adams the Republican nominee for mayor of New York, and you missed the new SCOTUS rulings on porn! Pay attention, Mike Johnson!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Which
is worse? Which is worse? That Trump is running a

(00:28):
protection racket presidency and bribed one Senator to vote for
his big, beautiful, soak the poor budget bill while metaphorically
bumping off another Senator who wouldn't vote for it. Or
that Trump threatened Israel, threatened the government of Israel, threatened
funds for Israel if Israel's courts won't do what he wants,

(00:54):
and nobody here noticed that. Which is worse? Well, it's
a trick question because these are actually just two versions
of the same story. It is a protection racket. There
are just two parts of the protection racket. There is
the domestic operations of the protection racket and the international

(01:17):
operations of the same protection racket. Trump is trying to
take over control of everything in the world. Tom Tillis,
the vaguely responsible Republican senator from North Carolina, refused to
let Trump politically rape him Saturday night and would not

(01:39):
vote to advance the budget bill. Trump had been threatening
him for weeks months, then accelerated it finally began to
ask online for volunteers to primary Tillis Tillis then announced
yesterday he will retire from the Senate at the end
of his term next year. So much for mister Tillis.

(01:59):
So much for somebody, anybody in the Republican Party say
saying I owe this country something. I'm staying I'm going
to fight this son of a bitch. I don't care. No,
he's taking the noble way out. He's going to just retire.

(02:21):
Retire to hell, you coward. So much for the thought
that when the country is up against it and the
breaks are beating, the boys tell them to go out
there with all they got and win, just one for
the Tiller. I don't know where I'll be then, but
I'll know about it and I'll be happy. Well, I

(02:42):
know where Tom Tillis will be. He'll be back home
in Cornelius, North Carolina, or somewhere, presumably drinking heavily reflecting
on how he represents the utter moral and ethical decline
of the already near bankrupt and nearly totally declined Republican Party.
Tillis began by refusing nine years ago to vote on

(03:04):
o Obamba's Supreme Court nominee in an election year, a
made up rule that violated the Constitution, and we'll send
Mitch McConnell to hell, do not pass, go, do not
collect two hundred dollars. Immediately, Tillis went from that to
calling the Access Hollywood tape indefensible and then defending the

(03:26):
man who's on the Access Hollywood tape, to co authoring
legislation to protect the Robert Muller Special Council role, to
voting with Trump anyway ninety percent of the time, to
one last gasp from inside the Borg collective about what
was right and what was wrong, to what he did

(03:46):
the next morning, running the f away. So now the
Republicans will nominate somebody worse than Tom Tillis, somebody who
doesn't even stand up for twelve hours before running away,
somebody who walks in with a big sign already hanging
around his or her neck, a homemade sign reading political prostitute.

(04:13):
The ideal choice would be Tim Scott, but of course
he's already the Republican senatorial political prostitute from North Carolina.
I can't elect him twice. I think, yes, that's right,
We've elected Tim Scott again. He's now two senators from
North Carolina. They might try somebody from the North Carolina

(04:34):
delegation in Doctor Tungue's three D House of Representatives, but
the seat will probably be up for grabs next year.
The Democrats have some candidates, so punch Bowl News is
reporting buzz about the nrc SA chair Richard Hudson, and
the RNC chair Michael Wattley, and a local gal from

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Wilmington named Lara Lee Yanaska, though you may know her
by her married name Lara Trump. And if you'd like
to t the protection racket analogy and go instead with
the crime family analogy, there you go. For all I know,
Tillis is running away because he didn't get the Murkowski

(05:18):
and so much for that ass clown two. I don't
want to hear about what she might be able to
do defend off Trump. I don't want to hear about
her ethical wrestling matches. I don't want to hear about
her Susan Collins concerns only with less kabuki theater makeup
than Collins wears. She saw what Trump's big beautiful crush

(05:40):
the middle class, increase the debt by Trillion's bill and
raise your electricity bill thirty percent bill would do to her,
and she knew the difference between right and wrong wrong
would have been missing her opportunity at a Trump bribe
from the Times quote, a new provision allowing individuals in

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a non contiguous state to be exempt from enforcing new
work requirements imposed on snap formerly known as food stamps,
appeared aimed at mollifying Miss Murkowski of Alaska. Her state
would be hit with billions of dollars in nutrition assistance
costs as a result of the legislation, and she had
cited the provision as one of her chief concerns. She's

(06:25):
very concerned. The bill also includes new health provisions designed
to benefit Alaska, as well as new tax benefits for
fishermen in the state. Waters of any guesses Alaska. Well, congratulations,
Senator Murkowski. You successfully sold out three hundred and thirty

(06:48):
million Americans to benefit the seven hundred and forty thousand Alaskans,
and cleverly you did it without checking first with the
Senate parliamentarian, who promptly ruled at the how to buy
Alaska's vote. Proviso violates the Bird Rule, which prohibits extraneous, well,

(07:09):
among other things, extraneous bribery from budget reconciliation measures in
the Senate. Sorry Murkowski, you sold your soul for nothing.
There will be no Murkowski carveout, and there will be
no refund. Of course, now we have to watch to
see how soon before Trump starts to threaten the Senate parliamentarian,

(07:31):
or if the Senate Parliamentarian vanishes. I'm not even going
to mention the name of the Senate Parliamentarian. I'll just
mention they have been praised in the past by John
Thune and John Cornyn, and they have served under the
last four Ping pong administrations democratic, Republican, democratic, and of
course the most recent one fascist dictatorial. Oh and about

(08:19):
threatening Israel. Trump is both so out of control but
also so gone in the head that he posted two
startling things, startling even for him on his crapshack social
media site. One was evidently some kind of private thank
you note intended for somebody named Jamie, which he somehow

(08:40):
for some reason posted instead on quote truth it's a
brand name, unquote social Now, Jamie could have been JD. Vance.
I mean, we don't really know how many different names
he's had in his past. We think it's just these three,
but he could be Jamie, could have been Jamie Fox,

(09:02):
could have been Jamie Fox. Because maybe Trump thinks Jamie
Fox and Fox News are the same thing. Who knows
the other thing that he posted was an attempt to
take his protection racket presidency and extend it to bullying
and owning the courts in other countries. Who is the

(09:24):
John Roberts of Israel? Who is the Elito? Who is
the Clarence Thomas quote? It is terrible what they are
doing in Israel to bb nothing Yahoo, He is a
war hero and a prime minister who did a fabulous
job working with the United States Brakes greats and says
got her into dangerous nuclear threat in a ret By
the way, they didn't get rid of the dangerous nuclear

(09:45):
threat in Iran. They're going to be enriching the uranium
within a month. Importantly, he is right now in the
process of negotiating a deal with a MAS which has
been negotiating since October of twenty twenty three, which will
include getting the hostages back. Yeah. How is it possible
that the Prime Minister of Israel can be forced to
sit in a courtroom all day long over nothing? Cigars, bugs,

(10:06):
bunny doll, et cetera. It is a political witch hunt
very similar to the witch hunt that I was forced
to endure this travesty blah blah blah blah blah, interfere
with bother of blah blah, bah bah blah blah blah.
The United States of America spends billions of dollars a year,
far more than on any other nation, protecting and supporting Israel.
We're not going to stand for this. We just had

(10:28):
a great victory with Prime Minister net and Yahoo at
the Helm, and this greatly tarnishes our victory. Let bb go.
He's got a big job to do. I've read a
lot of political analysis of this, domestic and some international,
and not once do I see anybody telling it to
co sell you briefly, like it really ease. That's a threat.

(10:51):
That's a threat by the President of the United States
against the State of Israel. That is a threat against
Israel to cut American funding, to cut the billions of
years llians of dollar a year. That's a threat if
the courts don't do what the president wants. Not the

(11:14):
president of Israel, the president of the United States, which
is a different country now ordinarily throughout our history, and
Israel's an American president publicly threatening Israel. That would be
the moment, we said, and that's when his political career ended.
But of course Trump's support of Israel isn't about Israel
or Jewish people. He doesn't like either of them. It's

(11:38):
about the evangelicals here and their apocalyptic vision of the
end of the world. How Netnyahu fits into the rapture.
If an Iranian mulla suddenly swapped hairstyles and headgear and
pronounced that Mike Kakabee is absolutely right and God had

(12:01):
just told him so, Trump would support the mulla to
replace Netnyahu. Immediately he threatened Israel and just to make
this a little worse, it seems like it may have worked.
Remembering the law of A and then B that B

(12:25):
is not always caused by A from the Reuters reporter
in Jerusalem quote. The Jerusalem District Court canceled this week's
hearings in Prime Minister Netanya Who's long running coruption trial,
accepting a request the Israeli leader made, citing classified diplomatic
and security grounds. It was unclear whether a social media
post by US President Trump influenced the court's decision. Trump
suggested blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, Where's Chuck

(12:50):
Schumer on this? Where's Chuck Schumer, whom Trump keeps calling
a quote Palestinian. Where's Chuck Schumer standing up for once
in his life and saying, I am a Palestinian. You
fat You just threatened to cut funds from Israel, just
threatened to cut off American funds from Israel. You anti

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Semite bastard. Where is Kristin Gilibrand? Where's Kristin Gilibrand calling
Trump an anti Semite or at least anti Israel. Where
is she? Kristin Gilibrand, who, by the way, has now
done exactly two things since assuming her Senate office in

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two thousand and nine and becoming the most inert Democratic
senator in history. She went nuts on radio on NPR
Live for Christ's sakes, repeating every maga lie about the
Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, which is in

(13:54):
the state of New York, which apparently Senator Jilibrand does
not know, every maga lie about Zoran mom Donny, who
is not an Tai Semitic and has not praised the Intifada,
and he is bronx. He's a lot of other things too,
but he's bronx. In fact, he's Bronx science, which makes

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him more American than I am, because I didn't actually
go to school in the Bronx. I'm just from the Bronx.
Kristen Gillibrand now adds to being the first to move
to force out al Franken from the Senate for something
that would now be deemed insufficient to get him into

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the Trump administration. Al Franken, who was a thousand times
the Senator Gillibrand would be if she served one thousand years.
She has now added to that an attack on the
Democratic nominee in the biggest city that she represents in
the Senate allegedly represents because you will never convince me

(15:03):
she's not in the the Senate from New York as
some kind of bizarre witness relocation program thingy.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
He does not support violent intifida? Is that fair?

Speaker 3 (15:16):
So, Brian, I didn't hear your exchange with him, but
if I was speaking to him directly, I would simply say,
that is not how the words are received, and it
doesn't matter what meaning you have in your brain, it
is not how the word is received. And when you
use a word like is sofada to many Jewish Americans
and Jewish New Yorkers. That means you are permissive for
violence against Jews. It is a serious word. It is
a word that has deep meaning. It has been used

(15:38):
for wars across time, and violence and destruction and slaughter
and murder against the Jews. It is a harmful, hurtful,
inappropriate word for anyone who wants to represent a city
as diverse as New York City with eight million people.
And I would be very specific in these words, and
I would say you may not use them again if
you expect to represent everyone ever again, because they are
received as hateful and divisive and harmful. And that's it.

(15:59):
So I appreciate that he told you he didn't mean that,
and that's great.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Rat also clarifyre he was clarifying that he never said
globalized the antifada. He was asked in an interview if
he would denounce the phrase globalize the antifada, and then
that led to this kind of conversation. You know that
you were just referring to, but that he was never
out there saying globalized the antifada. He was asked about
other people who used it. So just just to be
precise about what happened there.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yes, well, as a leader of the city of diversites,
New York City with eight million people, as the largest
Jewish population in the country, we should denounce it. And
that's it, period. And you can't celebrate it, you can't
value it, you can't lift it up. And that is
what that is the challenge.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
She should be institutionalized. No one has ever heard her
speak that fast, frenzied, nor that insane, nor addressing anything.
She's completely wrong, obviously, but she's so animated about it.
This is the first time Jillibrand has managed to confirm
she's not some sort of plastic blow up doll, but

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an actual human being. And how does she do it?
She does it but losing her mind and attacking very
possibly the most responsible politician who happens to be a
Muslim in this country, a guy who is far more
of a New Yorker than she is. Resign, Get out,
you're worthless, Maga parroting Albany clown. Resign. She now says

(17:25):
she misspoke. I'll tell you when she misspoke. She misspoke
when she took the oath of office. I do solemnly
swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of
the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's
when she misspoke. You just carried Trump's water for him,
you moronic cipher. You just carried Cuomo's water for him,

(17:47):
and Trump's and Curtis Sliwa, you know, the Guardian Angels
idiot in the stupid beret. You carried the water of
all those people against the Democratic nominee in the biggest
city you represent. By the way, let me tell you something.
Apparently you don't know, Senator Jillibrand. You are in the
Democratic Party, and you know what's going on behind the

(18:12):
scenes here right that she played right into. I would
assume she was part of this, except she's too stupid
to be a part of anything planned. A New York
Post financial reporter writes, quote, prominent donors are gunning to
get Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa a job in the
Trump administration in hopes of pushing him out of New

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York City's mayoral race. Source has told me the aim
is to open up the GOP nomination and the nearly
thirty percent of the vote someone running in that lane
is expected to get four Current Mayor Eric Adams, so
Adams could run as the Republican nominee against I'm Danny

(18:58):
Adams could run pretending to be the anti anti Semitism
candidate and get introduced by Sneako, and Curtis Sliwa could
become Trump's new Secretary of Berets. And I was reminded
that last November, the guy who isn't zoraon Mamdani, whom

(19:18):
Jillibrand just helped. Sliwa said this on Staten Island to
an Israeli reporter regarding anti Semitism. This is right before
the last election.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
I tell the Jews all the time, I'm a gentile.
It's in our DNA. You need to wake up and
understand that we always blame the Jews no matter what happens.
Curtis Sliwa, whom Jillibrand helped by the way President protection Racket,
gave his game away about New York too yesterday with
Maua Badawomo quote, whoever's mayor of New York is going

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to have to behave themselves or the federal government is
coming down very tough on them financially. We already know
this drill. Trump wants Cuomo as mayor no matter what
he says about Cuomo. But Adams will do because they
dropped the corruption charges against Adams and made sure they
could reinstate them at any point. And they already announced

(20:14):
the investigation of Cuomo and they could charge him at
any point. So with Mayor Cuomo or Mayor Adams, Trump
can blackmail them into anything, especially into letting Trump's ISIS
raids continue here. And now we have the money injected

(20:34):
into the equation by Trump, I will go back to
the one solution to all this swallowed up by Trump's
Los Angeles ISIS raids. The day after the solution was
spoken by Gavin Newsom June sixth. Haven't heard it since
for obvious reasons. But this is it. What are we
going to do this? We're going to do this. What

(20:55):
could we possibly do to stop Trump?

Speaker 5 (20:56):
This?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
This is what we can do stop Trump. Are there
any solutions? It seems like every guardrail this is the guardrail.
What he wrote on June sixth was the governor, Californians
pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over
eighty billion dollars more in taxes than we get back.
Maybe it's time to cut that off. Donald Trump, it's

(21:17):
going to reach that point. It is a protection racket.
And the only thing that stops a protection racket in
the absence of law enforcement, and law enforcement is part
of the protection racket. The only thing is to have
a greater financial gun pointed at the people running the
protection racket than they have pointed at you. Let's get

(21:37):
to it right now. Let's get it started right now.
Never mind the midterms, never mind twenty twenty eight. We'll
deal with them when they happen. We can deal with
this now. The Blue states and their attorneys general and
their tax experts and their governors should convene right now
with Gavin Newsom and see what can be done to
stop forwarding federal tax money to the federal government from

(22:02):
the Blue States right now, to starve Trump into submission
right now. Starve him because A it will work, and
because B in our sad times, this is actually the
closest thing we will see for decades to ethical. We

(22:30):
used to split our big decisions in life fifty to fifty,
or at least it seemed that way as late as
when I was in college and in my twenties and
in my thirties. People quit jobs on principle, or at
least on the fear of getting caught. People did things
and didn't say but I got paid a million dollars

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to do this, and everybody didn't just go, oh, okay,
it's all right. Then I'm not just judging here. I
took a job at Fox once, lots of reasons, lots
of ancillary fact. There's the tipping point was they were
going to pay me five times when I was making
at NBC. I've done it. But we used to do
this on a fifty to fifty basis. Half your decisions

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in life for you, half your decisions in life for
you and everybody basically ethics or cash. Now what is
it ninety nine to one? When was the last time
somebody did anything, anything important, anything permanent, irretrievable, because to

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do otherwise was just wrong. I'll wait. Murkowski not only
did she not do that, she didn't even do anything smart.
She sold out and it turned out she doesn't get
what she sold out for till us. I have taken
my stand, and now I'm going to run away and

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the rest of you can deal with this, cause I'll
be in North Carolina. And what's not like it's going
to affect me. It's not like the stochastic terrorism is
ever going to affect me just because we had a
political assassination in this country earlier this month, Trump, anybody
named Trump, to do something right rather than for profit.

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Starve the federal government, Starve Maga, Starve Trump, and they'll understand.
They will fold immediately because they will do what's right
to protect their money. In times like this, I always
think of one scene from what I think is probably

(24:45):
the most underrated motion picture of all time. It was
considered a bomb when it came out. I think it
should be considered a classic. It's improved over the half
a century since its release to no, that's actually very good.
But when it came out, people were so disappointed because
the book was so big and rich and nuanced, then
layered and intricate, you couldn't have made a perfect movie

(25:07):
out of it. This is actually almost a perfect movie.
It's called Catch twenty two. This is after Lieutenant Nately,
the character who's played by of all people, Art Garfunkle,
gets blown up when the American generals and Lieutenant Milo
Minderbinder make a deal with the Germans. The Germans will

(25:29):
pay full value for some worthless cotton from minder Binders
so called syndicate he's running the black market during the
Second World War, if the Americans will bomb their own
air base on behalf of the Germans. Now, if this
sounds familiar to you, like it's something that's been in

(25:49):
the news recently, well that's because Trump now claims the
Iranians responded to the bombing of their nuclear sites by
warning us in advance they were going to go and
bomb the US base at Katar, And Trump says, they said,
what time, one o'clock? And Trump says, I said, one
o'clock is fine, and we let them bomb us. After

(26:10):
the bombing run in the movie Catch twenty two, Martin
Balsom says, as the bombs are following American bombs on
an American base to pay off a deal with the Germans,
Martin Balsom says, it's all part of the contract. Isn't
that what we're fighting for? Anyway? The dialogue that I'm
referring to sums up America right now today and sums

(26:31):
up what Michael Nichols, the director, saw coming when he
made the movie in nineteen sixty nine. In nineteen seventy.
What Joseph Heller must have seen when he wrote the
novel in nineteen fifty three and when he lived this
experience in the Second World War. Nately is dead, literally
blown to pieces. Yosarian is his friend, the protagonist, played

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to perfection in the movie by Alan Arkin. Lieutenant Minderbinder.
Nately died a wealthy man, Yusrian. He had over sixty
shares in the syndicate, Yosrian. What difference does that make.
He's dead, minder Binder. Then his family will get it. Y'sarian.
He didn't have time to have a family, minder Binder.
Then his parents will get it. Y'sarian. They don't need it,

(27:15):
they're rich. Minder Binder. Then they'll understand. That's today's Maga,
that's today's Republicans. That's Tom Tillis, that's Murkowski, that's John Roberts,
that's all of them. They don't need it. They'll rich.

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Then they'll understand that's today's Trump, that's today's America. By
the way, for real, belly laugh. In the movie, that character,
the ultimate cynic, the ultimate grifter, Milo Minderbinder is played
also perfectly by John Voight. Headlines Headlines so many headlines.

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Number one Washington Posts the United States obtained intercepted communications
between senior Iranian officials assessing this month's military strikes on
Iran's nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less
devastating than they had expected. Per four sources, the communication
intended to be private. Did you copy? Hag seth On?
This included Iranian government officials speculating as to why the

(28:35):
strikes directed by Trump were not as destructive and extensive
as they anticipated per sources. I'm waiting to hear that Trump,
who has promised to sue all the news organizations who
say that it was not obliteration. I'm waiting for him,
after bombing Iran, to sue Iran for not saying they

(29:01):
got really, really obliterated. Senator Roger Marshall, you remember him,
the one who thinks our last great terrorist attack in
this country is pronounced nine to one one. Senator Roger
Marshall disagrees. He claims that Trump strikes led to total
devastation of the Iran in nuclear facilities, citing my assessment.

(29:22):
Everything I can see, I'll just add everything I can see.
Senator Marshall is a gynecologist. Headline number two. Trump made
up a statistic. If his budget bill were to fail.
He said there would be a sixty eight percent tax increase.
This is what he used against Tillis. Tillis is supporting

(29:43):
a sixty eight percent tax increase. Made up where he
got it where he saw it? I don't know. I'm
assuming Jamie told him about it. There is the possibility
that the President of the United States of America currently
actively has an invisible friend named Jamie, which would increase

(30:04):
his total no number of friends to one number three. Oh,
by the way, we no longer have a constitution.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Oops.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
The Supreme Court did not just rule that a federal
district judge cannot stop a presidential proclamation even if it
is illegal, even if it would, say, kill people. The
Supreme Court said, if it's illegal, even if it could
kill people, a federal judge cannot really delay it, let
alone overrule it. Let's just cut right to the extreme here.

(30:35):
Trump has already issued a presidential proclamation demanding Miles Taylor
be investigated for treason and anybody associated with Miles Taylor.
What if Trump now ratchets it up. I mean, he's
losing his mind actively every day. There's something else that
makes no sense, Jamie. What if he suddenly issues a

(30:57):
presidential proclamation and who the hell's going to stop him?
Now a judge in Israel?

Speaker 5 (31:04):
If he so.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Suddenly declares that twenty people, including Miles Taylor, just for
the sake of argument, are guilty of treason, you know,
how far do you want to take this. Let's cut
out the courts thing. I'm Trump. I'm now going to
be the courts. I'm going to make the decisions and
the outcomes and the sentences. I am both judge and judy.

(31:30):
What if he does that, who's going to stop him?
So what if it's totally illegal and Miles Taylor sues
or one of the other twenty people on the list
of these people are treason is decapitate them? They sue,
and a federal judge issues a temporary restraining order while

(31:50):
it goes up to the Supreme Court, and good luck
up there, Miles. Oops, you other nineteen are not part
of this lawsuit. You're out of luck. You remain on
the kill list. That's the problem. You have to be
part for a federal judge anywhere to overrule a crazy
ass president doing illegal things. For a federal judge to

(32:12):
step in and just stop it. Let alone overruling it.
Just delay it for thirty days or thirty minutes to
be delayed. You can only be protected by that delay
if you're part of some sort of class action suit.
If Miles Taylor and the other nineteen don't sue, the

(32:35):
judge can save the one person who sued, or if
they coordinate everybody in the class action suit. If they don't, sorry,
the rest of you are dead. Obviously, this is the
worst case scenario. On the other hand, Trump is the
worst case scenario. The Supreme Court of the United States
the worst case scenario, because the actual case will simply

(32:57):
the one we're talking about here that precipitated all this
will simply strip citizenship from people born in this country.
This will happen next October. If you doubt it will
happen next October, I'd like to congratulate you on waking
from that coma you fell into late in twenty fourteen.
It's not that we're going fascist or dictatorial. We've gone fascist.

(33:20):
We've gone dictatorial. This asshole president is telling the courts
in Israel what to do, and they're doing it. If
some of the people who have citizenship stripped, and don't
say that too many times too fast. If some of
them sue, maybe a district court can put a hold

(33:41):
on it. But if they're not in the suit, they're
gone abreco garcia. If they are in the suit, and
of course it eventually goes to the Supreme Court, then
I say, oh, guess what Scotus has been bought corrupt
another concierge Trump Court. He's already boasting about that.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Now.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Of course, if Milania Trump did skirt the law getting
her citizenship, I don't know what does that mean about
Baron Trump? Does he have to spend his whole life
wondering if somebody is gonna try this routine on him?
Maybe he should start looking for that class action suit
right now? You never know. It's spike strips thrown a

(34:26):
few miles ahead on the road of justice, which leads
us to headline number four, the human strike strike strip
or spike strip in English. Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller owns

(34:47):
between one hundred and one hundred thousand and one dollars
and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in financial stock
in Pallunteer Technologies or Polantier Technologies. One of the biggest
contractors of ikes isis that, according to his recent financial

(35:10):
disclosure in a report by the Project on Government Oversight,
Miller owns stock between one hundred k and two hundred
and fifty k in one of the leading contractors for
ice see he has put his money where his evil
is and headline number five in a set of five

(35:33):
collect them all. A different court ruling Supreme Court six'
three vote siding with The Texas Attorney General ken look
at me When i'm talking To paxton of holding a
state law that requires pornography sites must verify that their
visitors are eighteen years or. Older there was A First

(35:53):
amendment challenge to, this so all porn sites must verify
that their visitors are eighteen or. Older AND i mentioned
this entirely for the benefit of The speaker of The,
House Mike. Johnson this is my six one hundred and

(36:16):
twenty third episode of The countdown, podcast and the third
anniversary of this show is not until the first Of,
august that would. Be it calculates out to it roughly
Means i'm doing you, know how many per, day how
many per? Week it calculates to a Lot friday is a.
Holiday i'm taking it, off and guess What i'm gonna

(36:37):
take next week off. Too i'll be back On july.
Fourteenth the next three countdowns will not. Occur the good news,
IS i guess this is good news depending on whether
you like this show or. Not if you don't like
this show and you're listening to, it you have my.
Sympathies the good news IS i expect to have WHEN

(36:57):
i return some news on what the kids these days
call expanding my footprint in the. Interim also of, interest
here forty six years since my all professional, debut the
first sports cast From july nineteen seventy. Nine this just
in sports news From july nineteen seventy, nine and more,
relevantly this was said by A United States senator To

(37:20):
Laura ingram about about The iranian bombing run, quote the
operation that you ran will go down in the anals
Of american. History please guess What i'm going to say about.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
That.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Next that's. Next this is. Countdown this is countdown With
Keith olberman still ahead on this initiative. Countdown it's anniversary

(38:09):
time my first, sportscasts the first day THAT i was
paid just to do. Broadcasting my Boss Sam rosen AND
i did Press International audio network or, service AND i
still have the, tapes and shockingly, ENOUGH i am willing

(38:31):
to let you listen to. Them i'll explain the whole
story and play the whole. Tape. Next In THINGS i
promised not to tell, First believe it or, not there
are still more new idiots to talk. About the roundup
of the miss, grants morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens
who constitute today's other worst persons in the. World let

(38:52):
me start with a bonus story before we get to
the actual. Nominees this is about the Show. Jeopardy this
is How The Daily beast reported this. Story Contestant Emily
croke secured her victory when she correctly answered a clue
about The Folger Shakespeare library Founders Henry clay And Emily Jordan.
Folger but For, kroke the excitement didn't stop with her.

(39:13):
Win that's my great great, Aunt emily, acclaimed, exclaimed excuse,
me the. Contestant the reveal took, everyone including Host Ken,
Jennings by, Surprise Emily. Folger the one we mentioned in
the clue is the person, You Emily croke are named
after Asked, jennings getting a nod From croke in. Return

(39:33):
while the studio audience seemed delighted Over kroke's fortunate, coincidence
fans were more divided when the clip Hit Jeopardy's. Instagram
some fans kept the congratulations, rolling Celebrating kroke's ancestral power
and extraordinary, luck while one critical viewer, asked how is
anyone not a family member supposed to deduce the correct?
Reply what AM i? Missing wrote another conflict of? Interest? Weird?

(39:59):
Right what are the? Odds? Actually the odds are surprisingly.
HIGH i have been On jeopardy. Twice it's Celebrity. Jeopardy,
FINE i won, money not for myself but for. Charities
you still have to get the answers. Right you still
run the risk of utter. Humiliation Gretchen carlson was on against.

(40:20):
Me she got the name of a city she had
worked in in local television. Wrong she finished like minus
twenty eight. Hundred so, anyway the first Time i'm on,
it and we're trying real hard because most of us
know each. Other first Time i'm on, it it's a sports.
Thing It's Bob, Costas Robin. Roberts when she was still

(40:41):
AT espn and me and upcomes a baseball, answer and
it's like, this he won twenty games six times for
The phillies in the. Fifties So bob AND i know
the answer to this. Question and we both sort of
look at each other and in unspoken, friendship sort of lean,

(41:05):
back put our buzzers down and point At. Robin and
she is not a big baseball, person never, was never will.
Be but she knows the answer to. This she thinks
she sort of gets, it because why Would costas And,
olderman the two baseball guys not answer. It she buzzes
in and, goes who Is Robin, roberts And trebek, goes

(41:31):
here's the correct. Answer you have the. Board so so
you talk about. Coincidences, yeah they actually put in a,
question the answer of which was the name of one
of the. Contestants then four years, later five years, later
the next Time i'm on, it it's, politics It's, washington it's,

(41:54):
Me Gretchen, carlson AS i referred To Al franken before
he was senator and Before Kristen jillibrand sabotaged. Him they
reveal the jeopardy category pote pourri potent potables blah blah
blah blah blah, blah and Then Prime Time. Presidents my jaw.
DROPS i, said what is, That, alex And trebek, Says Primetime,

(42:24):
Presidents Saturday Night live characters who portrayed presidents over the.
Years AND i just looked At al and he laughed and,
smirked AND i looked and looked at the audience and did?
It what AM i missing? Here al ran the. Category
he had control of the board because of the coin,

(42:45):
flip and he ran the. Category he answered all five
questions before any of us could get in because the
first words were clues to, him because he wrote four
of the five sketches on which the questions were. Based
SO i said after, that WHEN i next got the, Board,
ALEX i expect the Final jeopardy category at better goddamned

(43:08):
Be SportsCenter anchors from the nineteen. Nineties, oh she's a
great great ant aunt of the. Contestant it's, Like, oh
it's a. Conflict it's a. Fix, no, no, no this
was a. Fix they Fixed Celebrity jeopardy. TWICE i won't
Forget frebec. Anyway the Bronze Emily compenno or a Compagno

(43:35):
the nice thing about being On fox is you can be,
stupid as stupid As trump guessing as he did the other,
day that The Civil war ended in eighteen sixty, nine
and the audience will never call you out on it
because the audience is far more. Stupid this is What
Emily compagno, Said Ma'm danny is talking about, Handouts he's

(43:56):
talking about. Gimmicks the reason older people think of socialism
as breadlines is because they lived Through World WAR ii
and through communist. Adventures World War two ended eighty years
ago this, summer meaning the youngest people who lived Through
World War two are literally eighty and they were. INFANTS

(44:18):
i don't think they remembered these communist adventure. Breadlines Ms.
Compagno as old As fox's audience.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
Is if you.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Were six When Pearl harbor was, bombed you are or
you are about to turn, ninety not even the Average
fox viewer is. Ninety but actually the stupidest part is
the bread. Lines the breadlines in this country had nothing
to do with. Socialism, socialism in, fact cured the. Breadlines

(44:50):
socialism the breadlines began in this country Under Herbert hoover
nineteen twenty Nine President Republican President Herbert. Hoover and if
you remember The republican breadlines because of The republican unrestrained capitalism,
depression you're way over ninety. Something you cannot say About

(45:10):
Emily COMPAGNO'S, iq the runner Up Worsir Chris, Cuomo he remarkably,
enough is actually the Dumb cuomo. Brother he hates the
person who is killing The Democratic. Party, well this is.
News he hates his, brother his corrupt, Brother. Andrew, oh

(45:30):
he doesn't Mean. Andrew Jim clyburn Thinks andrew is the
future of The Democratic party when he's like my Age
Eleanor Holmes, norton who's running for office again at, whatever late,
eighties early. Nineties, no the person who's killing The Democratic,
party according To Chris, cuomo Is Alexandria Acasio. Cortez on

(45:54):
his show on The nick At night OF tv News News,
Nation Chris cuomo decided the country is full Of iranian
cells or, something and it's the fault of her quoting.
Him this is why immigration resonated with the, many not just.
Maga the majority is not afraid of, migrants As trump may,
like but they are afraid of these Guys iranian nationals

(46:14):
with jihadist. Sympathies you let them in with a laxity
THAT aoc and other radicals insisted. On and the far
left is actively embracing people who are the enemy pro,
hamas people who chant, globalize The, intifada The palestinian uprising
characterized by over one hundred and thirty suicide. Bombings, Really
chris really is. Stupid i'm not picking ON, Aoc you're

(46:35):
picking on. HER i respect her success in developing a.
Following she has a, job in other, words in. Politics
you and your, brother. DON'T i just think that she's
killing her. Party she's a deranged form Of. Democrat please sue,
Him please sue him for whatever three or four dollars
he has. Left AND i am pointing her out because

(46:57):
she's at the top of the food. Chain a RECENT
cnn pull she found she's the Top democratic leader who
best reflects the core values of The Democratic. Party this
is By democratic. Voters she ranked higher Than Harris Jeffrey's
newsome Even. Obama are you kidding? Me she couldn't be
less about what made The Democratic party. Great apparently you are.
Wrong Your Democratic party was killed off by people Named

(47:21):
cuomo who did make The Democratic party? Great, chris why
his Dad Mario? Cuomo you know, WHAT i was a
big fan Of Mario. CUOMO i met him once and
it was a great. Honor but having Watched andrew And
Chris cuomo these last ten fifteen years or, so BEFORE
i believe they are Actually mario's, Sons i'm gonna have

(47:41):
to see paternity. Tests Andrew, cuomo you know what he.
Did let's briefly review What chris. Did chris was while
anchoring primetime news ON, cnn serving as his brother's media
advisor at meetings with other advisors during a crisis a political.

(48:03):
Scandal while he was a newscaster allegedly covering the same
scandal on the air AT, cnn he helped to whitewash
his BROTHER'S covid scandals and women's scandals on the, air
and when called on this conflict of, interest his solution
to covering his brother's scandal was to not cover it,
all to just drop the, subject rather than doing what

(48:27):
you would do in this, situation which is to, say good,
Evening I'm Chris, cuomo and this is The Chris Cuomo
i'm smarter than you are, show and our first story
is about my, brother the governor Of New. York so
we'll cover that, now AND i will step aside and
turn it over for five minutes to anybody else who works.
Here that's how you cover. It that's how you avoid

(48:49):
a conflict of. Interest you step, aside your newscast covers.
It you have nothing to do with. It you can't rebutt,
it you can't deal with. It that's how you cover
it if you're a. Journalist happily For Chris, cuomo he's
not a. Journalist he never was a. Journalist he's A
tv guy and also not very good at. It he
went on the air and simply solved this conflict of

(49:10):
interest that he might say something favorable to his corrupt
brother who would have to resign as governor of a.
State he simply settled this by not covering the story at,
all in other, words covering it. Up aocized the problem

(49:31):
with The Democratic, party not The cuomos Or kristin Gilibrand,
london but our, winner the Worst, Senator Bernie, moreno the
idiot senator From ohio who replaced the previous idiot senator
From OHIO Jv vance when he became the Idiot Vice

(49:51):
President moreno was On Laura Ingram's fox show and claimed
about The iran bombing, that as we, know was the
greatest event in world history Since christ came back from the,
dead at least according To. Trump he, Said Senator moreno
To Laura, ingram the operation that you ran will go
down in the anals Of American. History you can hear

(50:16):
the clip. ONLINE i could risk playing it for you,
here but Knowing, fox this would be the one they
would complain. About you'll have to trust. Me he said,
It he, said. Anals why WOULD i bother to make
up something stupid On fox when they produce one hundred
stupid things a day without any writer's. Embellishments he said Of,

(50:38):
iran the operation that you ran will go down in
the anals Of American. History, SENATOR i believe the word
is pronounced. ANNALS i think you meant. ANNALS i hope
you meant. Annals Senator, bernie please don't talk To lauringram about. Anals,

(51:03):
moreno two days are five person to the number one

(51:23):
story on The countdown and THINGS i promised not to,
tell and it is hardly that. Today in, fact it
is more accurately show and. Tell there is no particular
excuse for, this except for the fact THAT i found
these the other. Day they are three SPORTSCASTS i did
in the first ten weeks of my professional, career From
july Through september of nineteen seventy, nine and to, me

(51:46):
the fun part of this is hearing the old timy
names and a few events that are still talked, about
like the night of the infamous disco demolition In chicago
and one of the many Nights Nolan ryan bid for
a no hit. Game and then there's reporting on the
retirement of one of my favorite players and SOMETHING i
could not physic do today THAT i did that. Day

(52:07):
you don't have to listen to all of. THEM i
won't take it. Personally you don't have to listen to
any of them in. Fact but in their, defense they're
each just two minutes. Long the first one was on
the morning Of, Tuesday july, tenth nineteen seventy. Nine the
thousand stations on The united Pres International radio NETWORK Upi
audio were expecting to hear our sports Director Sam, rosen

(52:28):
their usual morning, man to appear on their feed for
the nine forty FIVE am, sportscast but at about eight
forty eight. Am sam had told the new guy me
THAT i wasn't just training and watching him do all those.
SPORTSCASTS i would be doing the nine forty five. Surprise
what you will hear first is the talk up, newscasters business,

(52:51):
reporters sportscasters would tell the stations live that they were
there and that their broadcast was coming up exactly ten
seconds From.

Speaker 6 (52:59):
Mark stations live sports will, begin preceded by one second
to coming up ten seconds From.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Mark, INCIDENTALLY i never figured out Who mark was here
it is here's the sports.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
Guest good.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
Morning three members of The Houston astros named this morning
to Manager Tommy Losorda's National league pitching staff for Next
Tuesday's All Star. Game top Winner Joe nicro tapped By,
lesorda along With Joaquin andehar and Reliever Joe. Sambido routing
out the, staff Veteran Steve carlton Of philadelphia and Gay
Lord perry of The, Padres Steve rodgers Of, montreal The
Cubs Bruce suiter.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
And Cincinnati's Mike.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
Lacas and speaking of The All, stars you would Think
Don baylor and his EIGHTY rbi would be a shoe
in for the al. Outfield baylor drove in another run
last night as The angels Whipped boston six to. Nothing
but matter of, fact he placed fourteenth in the.

Speaker 7 (53:53):
Voting the most important thing for me right now is
just to win on This. BLOKA a lot of people
have brought up to The All star, thing AND i
can't do anything about. That you, know those voter any
things THAT i can't do something. About this fall closing
on side produced on this club.

Speaker 6 (54:06):
Warf when they did last night As Nolan ryan struck out.
Twelve that Puts california a half game up On texas
in The. West elsewhere in The american The orioles lead
is up to. Three in The, east they Beat oakland
by the score of seven to. Three it was The
Blue jays Seven milwaukee, One minnesota Over detroit five to
three As Jerry kuzman won his Eleventh The White sox
Stopped texas five to. Four In cleveland OVER kc eight to.

(54:27):
Two The New York yankees were, off but they made
an important move for their pennant hopes the activation of
injured relief Pitcher Rich gossage over in The National Montreal's
eastern lead is up to five and a. Half Bill
lee blanked The dodgers three Zip phillies over The giants
four to, two The cardinals Beating cincinnati six to three
In chicago Seven atlanta.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
Four at The Padam.

Speaker 6 (54:47):
Games In San juan a big upset and the eight
hundred meter Run American James robinson Shocking Cuban olympic Champ Alberto.
Jantarina THE us boosted its gold medal total to eighty.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
One both the men's and.

Speaker 6 (54:57):
Women's basketball teams remain, undefeated and for the second time
in his, Career Crack Montreal canadian's Goaltender Ken Drive and
has called it, quits dried and going back to the
law books at the age of thirty. One this time
it looks, permanent though the habs saying the big goalie
is welcome back at any. Time from a sports desk
if You United Press, International I'm Keith.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Oberman what NO nfl camp news? Today that whole sports
guest would be nothing BUT nfl camp. News well it's
not bad CONSIDERING i was twenty years old AND i
was going on no. SLEEP i was having an out
of body, experience and the tape is running a little,
FAST i should tell you about that tone that starts
each one of. These the tone was used for automated.

(55:37):
Stations that would be the signal for them to take
the network as it, were and put me on their automated,
stations and it had another automated quality to. It the
guy who succeeded me once went in there a little,
impaired and when the tone generator did not generate the
tone because somebody had switched it off instead of just
doing his sportscast, anyway he got up and. Left they

(55:59):
threw him back in the booth and somebody shouted. Talk
they fired him not long. After so That's, tuesday my
first sportscast as a. Professional By, FRIDAY i was on my.
OWN i was anchoring the night shift AT, upi six
sportscasts one an, hour starting at five forty. Five the
big news that day was what had happened the night
before at The Tigers White sox, doubleheader when The socks

(56:22):
tried to tap into the nation's sincere anti disco zeitgeist
by blowing up a bunch of disco records between. Games,
what as the kids, say could possibly go.

Speaker 6 (56:35):
Wrong after pondering the evidence for the better part of the,
Day American league President lee McPhail has forfeited the second
game of last Night's Chicago detroit doubleheader to the Visiting.
Tigers between, games anti disco promotional event escalated into big
trouble and estimated seven thousand fans stormed the field and wreaked.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Havoc the second game never got.

Speaker 6 (56:55):
Underway socks Centerfielder Chet lemon was upset by the, forfeit
but as he told, reporters there was more to worry
about last night than who won and who.

Speaker 5 (57:02):
Lost you know THAT i could do or say anything like,
that only anything.

Speaker 8 (57:06):
About, it you, know there's the only things that happened
was out of my. Control i'm happy THAT i can
go out the day and play.

Speaker 6 (57:12):
BASEBALL i think we're lucky that every ball player is
able to walk around and nobody get.

Speaker 8 (57:17):
Hurt, everybody just not only the ball, players with anybody
that was pushing enough to get away from here last
night without getting hurt or anything like. That is that
has to be, Pushing you, know it. Happens you know
it's a, shame but it.

Speaker 6 (57:29):
Happens it's just the way.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
The social system.

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Is detroit And chicago are scheduled for a plain old
night game later. Today, meanwhile the disc jockey who led
the anti disco stunt refused to take the blame for the.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
Incident Steve dahl said it was not his.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Fault he claims the media have distorted the event and
other baseball. News The Cincinnati reds have extended Manager john McNamara's.
Contract McNamara will be skipper In cincinnati at least through
the nineteen eighty. Season it'll be The United states In
Puerto rico tonight playing for the basketball gold medal at
The Pan American, games and THE us will have Coach
Bobby knight at. Courtside knight today got a postponement of

(58:02):
his assault trial until the twenty second of next. Month
also this, evening The american women's hoop squad goes for
gold Against. Cuba in action this, afternoon THE us took
golds in both men's and women's tennis, doubles and Mel
purcell took the men's single. Title in, Golf Ed daugherty
is all alone atop The Greater Milwaukee. Open he shot
a six hundred sixty six, today one stroke ahead Of Vick.
Regolato and at The Women's open In, Connecticut Sandra palmer

(58:24):
And Debbie massy share the, lead that, is early in
the second. Round from the sports, desk have You United Press.
International I'm Keith.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
OVERMAN i love Chet lemon there saying it wasn't. Him
it was the, system, Man it's the. System by the,
Way guess who was the organist At Kamiski park for
that disco demolition night for The White sox And tigers
on that night In august of nineteen seventy. Nine, yes
our Own Nancy. Faust all, right SO i think that
was the six forty five sports cast on the night
of the, Thirteenth maybe it was the seven forty, five

(58:53):
but by nine to forty Five Disco Demolition night aftermath
was no longer the lead. Story in an early evening
start In, anaheim a man whose name is now inseparable
from no hitters use when my ten forty five sportscast
began on the verge of throwing another.

Speaker 6 (59:09):
One through eight innings At, Anaheim Nolan ryan of The
California angels has a no hitter going against The New York.
Yankees ryan's no hitter preserved with one out in the
eighth inning When Jim spencer lined a dying quail to
center field that the official score ruled an. Error, Again
Ryan bidding for his fifth no hitter of his.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Career he leads The.

Speaker 6 (59:28):
Yankees three to nothing going into the ninth inning An
American league. Final, Tonight minnesota Beat toronto six to four
in The National The padres came up with three in
the ninths to Beat montreal seven to five in the
first of a. Doubleheader The mets got two rbi From
Steve henderson as they won the opener of their Night
Twin night or rather with The giants seven to. Six
the home run bats propelled The braves to a thirteen
to four mashing Of. Pittsburgh Jeff burrows at a grand

(59:51):
slam And Bob horner hit two, homers and The phillies
beat The dodgers three to. Two American League President lee
McPhail has declared a forfeit in the second game of
last night's.

Speaker 4 (59:59):
Scheduled Detroit chicago.

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
Doubleheader the nightcap was never played because thousands of fans
dreamed onto the field during a promotional event after the.
Opener al Spokeswoman Phyllis marriage Reads president mcphale's official.

Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
Decision it was the judgment of the umpires that it
was not possible to start the second game of The
july twelfth doubleheader because of inadequate crowd control and damage
to the playing, field both of which are the specific
responsibility of the home. Team it is therefore required of
me THAT i declared this game forfeited To detroit by
a score of nine to.

Speaker 6 (01:00:32):
Nothing at The PanAm games In San, juan THE us
women took the silver medal in, basketball dropping their final
game To cuba ninety one eighty six this. Evening, Meanwhile
America's Mary decker took the fifteen hundred meter race And
wi La plotte won the gold in the one meter low.
Hurdles this, afternoon THE us took gold medals in both
men's and women's tennis, doubles and Mel purcell won the
gold in men's. Singles in, golf Fitzgeralen britz leading the

(01:00:55):
pack at THE Us Women's open In. Connecticut she shot
a two hundred part today and as the lead by
two strokes after the second. Round and At doherty leads
The Greater Milwaukee. Tournament he has a one stroke. Lead
from the sports DESK If United Press, International I'm Keith Oberman.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
That's a lot of information for a two minute. Sportscast
Kid Nolan, ryan by the, way did not get his
fifth no hitter that. Night An angels infielder fumbled A
Thurman monthson ground ball to start the ninth. Inning Then
Greg nettles popped. Out Then Reggie jackson got the First
yankee hit of the, game and a moment later a
sacrifice fly took Away ryan's shutout. Two it was the

(01:01:29):
second of five Times Nolan ryan lost a no hitter
in the. Ninth he would get his fifth no hitter
two years later and got seven for his career and
lost five in the. Ninth, Amazingly Thurman munson would be
dead just twenty days. Later there would be moments At
Yankee stadium the rest of that year that were not
overwhelmed by the shock of his, death but they were very.
Few On september, sixteenth nineteen seventy, nine the Great yankees

(01:01:53):
And athletics Pitcher jim Canfish hunter was honored in a retirement,
ceremony AND i got to cover, it and THEN i
got to hear my reports on the air on one
of The New york radio. STATIONS i grew up listening
to Honored Catfish, hunter who's retiring at the end of the.

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Season Keith oberman, reports.

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After receiving gifts serious and comical and the praise of his,
teammates as manager and the, Fans Catfish hunter marked his
retirement ceremony by noting the important people who could not
attend three.

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PEOPLE i wish him in here, today.

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Got, time clutch.

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My dad.

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And.

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Money poter leaves The yankees to retire to his farm In,
Hertford North. Carolina Keith oberman At Yankee, Stadium New.

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York he's retiring at the end of the, season And
Keith oberman has.

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The Tales yankee. Showered they're retiring right hander with, gifts
a trip To, hawaii a pickup, truck and even a brown.
Elephant after his teammates and the fans thanked, him it
was time For Catfish hunter to do the thinking AND
i thank you for all the gifts that receives the,
day and Thank god for giving me strength and let

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me be a mall player.

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What always wanted to.

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Be thank you very much. So thirty minute ceremony was
the symbolic end Of hunter's fifteen year major league, career
a career that Has today featured two hundred and twenty four.
Victories hunter says he'll miss his, teammates but he's missed
his family even more and plans to become a gentleman
farmer In North. Carolina Keith oberman At Yankee stadium In New.

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York two things about. That it was such a different.
TIME i got to the ballpark early That sunday, morning
and perhaps an hour before the, CEREMONY i Saw Jim
hunter sitting by himself in the. DUGOUT i approached him
for an, interview explaining WHO i was and saying if
he was trying to take in the last day and
just contemplate, THINGS i was sorry to have, intruded and
of course we could skip the. Interview he laughed and,

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said Now i'm just sitting here waiting for them to
give me them gag. Gifts there was no pr, person
no entourage to keep me, away just. HIM i tried
to get him to repeat his most famous quote and
his famous SoundBite that all of us who ever heard
it kept repeating to each other for, years where he
insisted his marm was just, fine which was the answer
to the, question, catfish how's your arm marm? Feels real,

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good and that leads me to the second. PostScript there
was also no malt. BOX a malt box is an
audio feed from a live event at a press conference
or off something like a public address system while you
know player is retiring and giving his farewell. SPEECH i
asked The YANKEES pr man if there was SOMEWHERE i
could plug in to Record hunter's. Address, NOPE i, said

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you don't have a malt box for The Catfish hunter retirement. Speech.
Nope COULD i get on the field and just tape
my microphone to THE pa mic and then stay crouched
over with the, Photographers. Nope SO i had to get.
CREATIVE i was sent to get the. Speech those clips
Of Catfish hunter talking about his teammates and supporters reverberating

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through the vast caverns Of Yankee stadium over THE pa
system were recorded by me standing atop a garbage can
next to the hot dog stand next to The Yankee
stadium press, box and while balancing and trying not to
fall off the damn, thing extending my right arm completely
above my head and sticking my microphone into one of

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THE pa speakers hanging from the. Ceiling it. WORKED i
got the. Tape, HUH i mean you can still hear.
It it's more than forty three years ago, now And
i'm still proud of. It on the other, hand AS
i recalled, this my rotator cuff passed out just by
remembering the Pain i've done all the DAMAGE i can.

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Do here to my rotator. Cuff thank you for. Listening
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