Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The director of Ice, Tom Hoeman that his boss, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Nome, must be arrested for contemptive court. It should be Trump being arrested for contemptive court, potentially for ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court. But we already know how the laws of this land have already been corrupted to protect the greatest criminal in our history.
That it cannot be him will simply hasten the latest iteration of the constitutional crisis created by a lawless chief executive who still has the military behind him. We are headed for a flash point, perhaps as soon as today. To summarize, Trump believes he is God. But in the interim, it is time for US District Judge PAULA. Zennis to send this rogue government a message, a warning. In fact, it is well past time. Time was two days ago at five o'clock in the afternoon. Nome and Homan are
now in contempt of that Judge's orders. In the case of the Nome Homan Ice abduction, the disappearing of a Maryland man already under the protection of the government of the United States Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They are in contempt of the orders, not of some judge, as the fascist idiot Stephen Miller and his brown Shirts call any representative actual law and order. They are in contempt of the laws of the United States of America. Is not some judge.
They are in contempt of the nation, and they are on the verge of being in contempt of the Supreme Court. This timeline, in its briefest form. Trump's death squads admitted they had seized and deported the wrong man to L. Salvador. Then they collectively made the shrug eboji, he's out of our hands. He's under the sovereign control of another nation. Too bad. In other words, we kidnap him, you keep
them First. Judge Zennis ordered mister Abrego Garcia to be returned from L. Salvador, and the torture there gave a deadline. Government blew it off. They went to the Supreme Court, which ordered last Thursday that mister Abrago Garcia's release at least be facilitated by Trump's gangs. Judge Zennis ordered updates. The delicacy here was, you don't want to interfere with US foreign policy. It's irrelevant, but apparently it is in the books. And then came the first of two curveballs. Friday,
President Ted Bundy. Trump told his hand picked stenographer reporters aboard Air Force one quote, if the Supreme Court said bring somebody back, I would do that. I respect the Supreme Court. I have great respect for the Supreme Court. As usual, Trump showing his mental illness, saying something, then re ordering the same words and thinking he said something new. This erased his own lawyer's argument that this country could do nothing itself to bring this man back from l Salvador.
Trump bluntly said, if ordered to buy the Supreme Court, he would bring mister Abrego Garcia back, which necessarily means he and his thug government can bring him back. So when his lawyer simply said that same thing again, no we can't. He's l Salvadoran. Now only they said it louder on Saturday, they looked like championship idiots. Well, Trump wasn't gonna make that last. He rushed to make sure that if anybody's going to look like the championship idiot
of this government here, it would be him. Quote looking forward to seeing President Bukela of El Salvador on Monday. Our nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations and build a future of prosperity. President bucell has graciously accepted into his nation's custody some of the most violent alien enemies of the world, and in particular, the United States. These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up
to President b and his government. They will never threaten or menace our citizens again unquote. The enemies of the world, in particular of the United States are Christynomme, Tom Holman, Stephen Miller, and especially Donald Trump. In the flippant one point eighty contained in that post, Trump is either lying now or he was lying aboard Air Force one on Friday when he said he would obey a Supreme Court
order to bring him back. Is the potential for an actual constitutional stalemate that could tear the country apart, not later, not in twenty twenty eight. Now, Trump has now corrected his original willingness to go along with the Supreme Court, and in passive aggressive form, he has explained in that post that he has the right to seize anyone in this country, citizen or not, criminal or not accused or not, and not just expel them, but then to pretend that
never mind jurisdiction. He can't even ask his co conspirator, this tinpot dictator, Bukake, to do him a solid and fix what might otherwise go into our history as a near fatal skid, out of which the nation and even Trump somehow steered. No. The likeliest outcome is, of course, that Trump's concierge, Supreme Court never does order him to return Abrego Garcia to his family, never says that in so many words, so Trump doesn't have to ignore their order.
That's why you own the Supreme Court, why you pack it with lunatics who have ecstatic religious visions, or who drink, or who take bribes, so they can spend all of their time finding that fine line along which they do not destroy their own court and their own phony baloney jobs, but also don't challenge you in even the slightest, mildest way, shape or form. Because inside the White House, the crisis here is that this happened because somebody working for Trump
admitted a mistake. We couldgo today, this expanding, burgeoning, unchecked immoral, incompetent, impaired terrorist government of President Ted Bundy Trump admitted it had completely screwed up and should not have seized this man, should not have sent him to a torture chamber in El Salvador. The government insisted it no longer had any influence on mister Abrago Garcia because El Salvador now has jurisdiction,
but it also admitted it screwed up. The pirates working for Nome and Homan would only tell the court over the weekend that mister Abrigo Garcia is alive and secure under the quote sovereign domestic authority of El Salvador. Tough shit, Christy Nome, get on a plane and go get him, or you go to jail or Homan, go see your idiot boss and have him slap a tariff on L Salvador.
Nome and Homan and their gestapo have not only refused to comply, but ignored the judge's deadline five pm two days ago to supply any information about how they will proceed to return their victim from L Salvador and why they have stalled. Even though this real life version of Kafka's the trial began a month ago Saturday, March twelfth, and Judge Zennis first ordered him released ten days ago.
These arrogant fascist bastards, Homan and Gnome are in contempt of court, as is the DHS official Michael Kozak, who signed the evasion of Judge Zennis's order and submitted it to her on Saturday. They may all be in contempt of the Supreme Court. The entire Trump Gestapo. The number of violations of mister Abrago Garcia's writes they are responsible for is probably already in the dozens. Arrest them today. I don't care if they're freed in twenty minutes. Arrest
them today. Put some fear into these people. To quote President Nixon, in a just America, only when a Brego Garcia is returned to his family and his pregnant wife and his autistic son, should Garden Nome be able to go home to a closet full of action adventure Barbie outfits and should home and go home to his presumably bottle, not before this has been going on for a month.
A real life version of Kafka's The Trial, where the defendant is never told what he's charged with or by whom March twelfth, those who did this should spend a year in jail for every day a Brego Garcia has been brutalized in our name. Put Christy Noman Tom Holman in jail to day for contempt. They kidnapped this man based on fabricated, imaginary bullshit evidence that they will not produce. Trump's gangsters pulled him out of his car in an Ikea parking lot and disappeared him in front of his
terrified five year old boy. They held him for three days, violated all of his rights, denied him legal representation, shifted him off to a hostile country run by power mad Latino. Trump didn't bother to tell his family what had happened to him, let him call his wife to say goodbye only three days later, let her find out where he was by seeing photos him days after that in the gulag in Al Salvador. She saw it on the news.
The government of the United States, the real one, the legal one, the one with judges and laws and right and wrong, not this bullshitang of Trump bullies. Who I hope I live long enough to see one day on trial at the International Court of Justice at the Hague the real government of the United States. The laws ordered him released ten days ago, and it has not happened. And I want people to burn in hell for it.
And this is a case in which the Trumpists admit they disappeared an innocent man and made an administrative error. How many others are there? That's the point, not how many others there are. The administrative error part is the real issue here, not the idea that these brutal, incompetent morons set up a system in which they had no emergency cord to pull when they eft up, in case they effed up and targeted a victim and not a purp.
This is dragging on deliberately Christy Noman, Tom Holman and the gutless corporate lawyers who represent them in this administration, the most gutless lawyers, in which the terms gutless and corporate lawyers have become synonymous. They are dragging this on because they had to admit this was a mistake, and now they see an opportunity to exploit even that admission that they screwed up, to deliver the message passively but still aggressively, that even when they are wrong, they are
still right, because even when they are wrong? What do you think you are going to be able to do about it? If they are going to ignore the Supreme Court or just the federal courts or the district courts, what do you think you are going to be able to do about it? Missus Abrago Garcia, what do you think you are going to be able to do about it? Judge Zinnis, what do you think you are going to be able to do about it? America? What do you think you are going to be able to do about it?
Nicole Misharoni? Do you know who Nicole Mischaroni is? She is another potential victim of what Trump's worms will doubtless call an administrative error. In the middle of the night, this following email from a no reply address at Homeland Security Christy Garden, Nomes Secretary, appeared in Nicole Mischaroni's inbox for eleven, twenty twenty five notice of termination of parole. It is time for you to leave the United States.
You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security paroled you into the United States for a limited period for soon to eight USC eleven eighty two D five A and eight CFR two one two point five e DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole unless it expires sooner. Your parole will terminate seven days from the date of this notice. If you do not depart the United States immediately, you will be subject to
potential law enforcement actions, etc. Sent to Nicole Mischeroni. Nicole Mischeroni, who was born in Newton, Massachusetts, which is still in the United States unless Trump has ordered it traded for Greenland. Newton, Massa chosets. Nicole Mischceroni's family has been in the United States for four generations. She is an immigration lawyer. She posted the email on social media almost lightheartedly. She wrote, some personal news, The Department of Homeland Security has given
me seven days to leave the US. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great grandparents. Her assumption, the baseline assumption of those reacting in horror to that email, is still that this is a mistake, another administrative error, a slip of some sort, her name going into their system there among the brown shirts for disappearance instead of one of her clients. That was my first reaction. Ha ha, She's lucky. Trump only wants to deport her and not
slap a terif on her. I no longer think this. It is absolutely plausible. They just screwed this up. They screw everything else up, and it's absolutely plausible. They screwed up the Kilmar Abrego case. Hell, they got Elon Musk working for them, and this brain damaged bully Tom Holman and Christy Nome, who by now has the exact identical molecular composition as an inflatable backyard swimming pool. Or these
are mistakes made on purpose, doesn't matter either way. They want to leave you with the impression that not only are they rounding up a few actual criminals, along with thousands of people whose only crime was the mistaken belief that even Ted Bundy Trump's America was a good place, a better place, a place worth risking your life to
get to. You know what our ancestors thought. Not only are they rounding up people who are guilty or might be guilty, they may just round up people who could not possibly be guilty, like Nicole Misheroni of the Newton Missaronies, or Keith Olberman of the Bronx Ulermans, or you, or, as it turns out, thousands of native born Americans and naturalized US citizens born in other places, and green card holders and people under the protection of the government as
ordered in the courts, because sending them like Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a place like Al Salvador can or will get them killed. Thousands and thousands of administrative errors, thousands of conceivably maybe even likely, intentional errors to scare them and scare you. Keep your head down, don't make waves, Be like the television networks, be like the law firms, Be like Columbia University. To borrow the bully speak of
the tariffs. Don't retaliate. You wouldn't want to be accidentally sent to El Salvador because your folder was next to some actual target. You wouldn't want to go to a rally or a protest. Your photo could winde up next to that of Machmod Khalil. Arrest Tom Holman and Christy
Nome for contemptive court today. Maybe we will get lucky and their prison stay will get sucked into the phones of Mike Waltz and Elon Musk, and instead of one hour in the cleanest holding cell in Washington, d C. They'll get disappeared to the Panama Canal I'm sorry, Christy,
you know how it goes. That's another administrative error. I invoked the name Mackmood Khalil, and if he does not sound familiar to you, Mackmood Khalil can be removed from the United States even though he has broken no laws and the entirety of the case against him is that
little shit. Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio who embellished a story about his own as a political refugee from Cuba at the two page memo that he promulgated, a two page memo that is worthy of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, in which you can be arrested for pre crimes, in which they calculate you're going to do something bad, so
they're going to arrest you. Now, a two page memo in which Rubio confirmed Khalil's pro Palestinian protests at Columbia University were quote otherwise lawful, but insisted that letting him stay here as outlined by you know the laws, would undermine quote US policy to combat anti Semitism around the
world and in the United States. In addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States, condoning anti Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy object. I got bad news for you, Marco, by that standard, by the anti Semitism standard, Trump, who his own wife said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches on a bedside table in their home. Trump needs to be expelled
as a dangerous anti Semite before nightfall. And the Secretary of Defense and Vodka Pete Hegseth under whose Reich at the Pentagon. The Pentagon has thrown out Tony Morrison's books from the library at the Naval Academy, but it has kept at the Hegseth Naval Academy library the two copies they have there, of mind com under these same rules, Hegseth needs to be on a slow boat somewhere by the end of the week. We are moving into pre
crimes and future crimes and thought crimes. And these the Khalil case, and in a tangential but real way, the kilmar Abrego and Nicole Misheroni cases too. They are harbingers of a Trumpian rock to not only break all the laws and all the morality in this country, and not only to criminalize dissent, but to try to scare you out of even thinking about dissenting. Trump doesn't just want
Khalil out of Columbia. He hasn't just demanded Columbia under my old friend, Acting President Claire Shipman cow Tau to Trump's political demands. Trump wants legal control of Columbia University.
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump wants a consent decree, a consent to cree, a ruling giving a federal judge the legal authority to enforce whatever promises the spineless morons running that university made in order to not lose four hundred million in grants out of an endowment of fifteen billion. These words are not used in the Wall Street Journal story, but essentially the threat is clear, agree to our demands, agree to the consent decree, or we will blackmail you
into it. You can challenge this decree in court, and every day you challenge this decree in court, we will find more federal funding to cancel. They only have fifteen billion dollars. How can we afford the loss of four hundred billion. They don't teach math at Columbia anymore, evidently, and if Columbia folds on this, and frankly, all Columbia has been doing for the last year is folding, I mean its administration and more importantly, its bored or making
its infamously bad football team look like national champions. Others will follow. We've already seen Harvard cave and frankly, Cornell wobble. We are gradually moving towards the moment Columbia is already there, when the nation's campuses are such laboratories of cowardice, such greenhouses of spinelessness, where their only hope of survival may be the students on those campuses reading in extensively on how they all settled things like this in the nineteen sixties.
If a place like Columbia becomes nothing but a Trumpest factory under the control of a Trumpest judge and some kind of Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere, it is time for the students to and I mean this metaphorically, of course, it is time for the students to burn it all down. By the way, the acronym for my new hypothetical Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere would be douche elon Musk can be poster boy of that too.
I am Musk, I am in charge of Boushe Douche is moving rapidly on all sides towards Orwell's thought crime. I think Khalil is an idiot, having seen similar protests to his in the streets of my own hometown. I cannot think of any group in my lifetime that has done more damage to its own cause than the pro Palestinian protesters in New York. If they planned to make themselves and their case look worse, they couldn't have done more. And he still must be defended or the nation is dead.
He must still be defended because Trump literally wants one of his own former employees prosecuted for refusing to lie for him prosecuted. Chris Krebs was appointed ahead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to address foreign threats, including against elections, October twenty twenty. He did his job, no threats, no tampering, no rigging. Now Trump has issued an executive order demanding the DOJ investigate Chris Krebs for criminality for
not lying. Quote Crabs through CISA falsely and baselessly denied that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. I think that deserves to be read again. Crebs falsely and baselessly denied that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. I hereby deny that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. I hereby confirmed Donald Trump is crazy. And most of all, I hereby confirm donald Trump lost the twenty twenty election and trafficked with the Russians for the
twenty sixteen election. False and baselessly denied that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. Does not get more orwellian than that. But of course the essence of Trump's bullshit is the man Trump appointed to make sure the election was legit said the election was legit. The election took place under the aegis of the Trump administration. Trump was president, then the election integrity was the responsibility of
Trump and his administration. Trump's appointee, part of Trump's administration, found that nothing was rigged. So Trump once him prosecuted for saying that Trump administration handled the election honestly. Somewhere Orwell and Kafka are bidding for the rights to this story, and the story's not over. Ice again is the Home and Garden GNOME group whose leaders should be jailed for contempt, posted to x and Instagram that it would stop any
ideas that tried to enter the US illegally. You heard me, yes, you that idea and the red Buick pull over. The posts were deleted per Rolling Stone, sent without proper approval, was the quote from the spokesman. The excuse was they meant not ideas, but intellectual property. That's a cover story. I will say it's an unexpectedly plausible one from this group of defective brains on high school dropouts. One and them things called again ideas you ever had one? No? No,
what are you like? Or it's just another unintentional, intentional slip up, asked Mack MoU Khalil about the illegal entry of ideas temporal juxtaposition. A judge in Delaware rules in the dominion lawsuit against Newsmax for defamation, says the propaganda feed made false and defamatory statements against dominion. The judge said that another triumph for their lawyers, same lawyers as in the case against Fox seven hundred and eighty five
million dollars, same lawyers, Sussman Godfrey. Later that day, Trump issued another executive order. He uses more of them than he uses toilet tissue, revoking security clearances and pulling federal contracts from Sussman Godfrey Stephen Miller quote, this firm is very involved in the election misconduct. Again a reminder the election misconduct. This worm Miller refers to is refusing to pretend there was election misconduct. They are now trying to
prosecute the truth out of existence. The humorous relief is now the tariffs. When the lightest news of the day is the destruction of the world economy, we may be in a bad place. If you haven't noticed. The tariff effect on the bond market also drove mortgages up to seven point one percent. And I'm going to need to see Howard Lutnick's government id even in this government of the idiots, by the idiots, for the idiots. I am
not convinced this guy is actually employed by Trump. It may be a very well constructed, complicated delusion on his part. First they had tariffs on everything, then they suspended the tariffs on the smartphones and the laptops cause Tim Apple. Then Lutnik went on This Week on ABC yesterday announced there will be new tariffs on smartphone and laptops. Also, remember Trump's little hint he's going to raise drug prices
just cuz Lutnick. Semiconductors and pharmaceuticals will have a tariff model in order to encourage them to re sure the tariffs. Clap on, clap off, clap on, clap off the tariffs. I don't believe Lutnick really works there. In fact, I do not believe his name is really Lutnick. I think he's just Maury Kessler, the two pay salesman from Goodfellas. And Yes, of course, the tariffs and Trump's nine thirty
seven AM post that day were market manipulation. CNN asked Representative Carlos Jimenez of Florida, this is a great time to buy. Is that market manipulation? Jimenez his answer a denial that he did not realize was actually a can Feshion quote. No, he said, actually, we had lunch with a major stockbroker from New York and we were talking to him about tariffs, and one of the things he said was it's time to buy. A Congressman, that's evidence of what you just denied. I'd like to amend my remarks.
Consumer confidence craters down eleven percent this month fifty point eight. That's the second lowest reading since the University of Michigan started to do this in nineteen fifty two. It is lower than it was during the Great Recession. It is down thirty points since Trump was elected. In short, Americans felt better about buying stuff, felt better about our future.
During the Cuban missile crisis, somebody sent fire to the official home of the governor of the fifth most populous state in the nation early Sunday morning, with him in it and his family significant damage. Family evacuated, nobody hurt. Twelve hours later, not a word from the President, from Attorney General Pam Blondie, from Homeland Security Secretary Garden, and nome nobody. Washington Post put the story low enough on its front page. I had to scroll down one whole
page to find it. The New York Times required you to scroll down four screens. It was between the John Ham story and the story on fashion at the Master's Golf Tournament. It was three screens below the story about Saturday Night Live's latest parade of the not at all funny. Well, we don't know the motive yet, we don't need to know the goddamned motive a governor's mansion was set on fire.
China halts exports lead New York Times story is not as meaningful to this country's future as somebody trying to burn down a governor's home with him and his family in it. Motive you're waiting for. Motive that it happened is not enough. A coincidence in which a pyromaniac selected a random building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the governor just happened to be inside. That wouldn't be enough. And I haven't even mentioned it was Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania
during passover. But we got this great story about John Ham's John Hamply. The Democratic Party is pushing back against all of this. Senator Schumer, the majority leader. Forgive me, the minority leader, forgive me the minority guy. Senator Schumer, forgive me. Chuck has a tweet Chuck Schumer Thursday quote. History will remember April ninth, twenty twenty five as America's actual liberation Day, the day that President Trump backed down from his ridiculous tariff fiasco. Oh, it's like a joke
of some sort. You had a team working on this for Day Teams social Media seventy one consultants. Well, I think we should play off the actual Liberation Day now that the tariffs have been delayed. Is not funny, not insightful, not witty, not relevant, and, as it turned out, not factually accurate. Within an hour, it was all changed again. I am surprised by one thing. Chuck Schumer put out a tariff mocking Trump's Liberation Day. We hear at the New York Times. How is it We're not We're not
putting a story about this on the front page. I mean, I know, I'm I'm I'm breaking all the rules here, But shouldn't this be higher than the than the than the John ham story. I'm sorry to track John hamm into this nice Man college classmate of the Last Line, producer of Countdown on MSNBC, Nikki nice Man. Good actor also of interest here. Bad actor Bill Maher provides a propaganda video for Trump, but of coorse he does his
bosses want him to. What he doesn't realize is that all the nice things Trump did for him that he recited like a hostage in the video, all those things, all those things he praised Trump for, he already praised Trump for them ten years ago. You know how I know this because Bill told me on the air on his show how impressed he was in twenty sixteen with Trump, how he then felt betrayed by Trump. Bill, he's betraying you again right now, Bill, You're an idiot. That's next.
This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Stell ahead on this edition of Countdown. Does the show seem a little ragged to you? Seems a little ragged to me. I'll explain with an announcement about the future of this show. I mean, like the immediate future. Like this week first, believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons
in the world. There's so many of them. This week I had to do dedications and the induction of a Hall of Fame member of the Worst Person's Pantheon. The dedication is to ABC's This Week, which actually put out this lineup yesterday. As the old joke goes, this was on TV right now. ABC's This Week Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik Howard is an idiot. Not only that, but they don't tell Howard anything, so he always talks about things that were true or at least being sold six days ago.
Howard is six days late. Their Senator Elizabeth Warren Fine. The other guests, Stephen A. Smith, Panel, Donna Brazil, Ranks Prebus, who was one of the Republican fascists who started all this. Rachel bade of Politico, and there's plenty I could say about her, but the worst I could think of is of Politico. And Sarah Isger, who works for ABC News and pretends to be neutral when she is in fact
a conservative jackass. Somehow, in booking a panel Ton forsil Reine's previous Rachel Bade Sarah Isger with Stephen A. Smith as your expert, they managed to not book wile E. Coyote, Professor Irwin Corey, and Max Effing Headroom. Please somebody tells Stephen A. Smith he needs to do some homework. Steven spent his time ranting about how if any Republican supports Trump running for a third term, he doesn't want to hear them talk about the Constitution. Ever, again, Stephen doesn't
get it. Stephen hasn't been paying attention. Steven doesn't know what he's talking about. The Republicans have been talking about Trump running for a third term, actively publicly in what counts for their version of intellectual journals, since twenty twenty three, and they mean it, and they will do it, and they will pervert the Constitution to achieve it. They are
working on it now. The point at which you say, don't talk to me about it again, or I never want to hear you talk about the Constitution was like nineteen seventy. You are not Steve arguing about the Minnesota freaking timberwolves with that half wit Christopher Russo on ESPN. Here these people are out to take your vote, your vote, Steven A. Smith's vote away from you, and to deport any of your friends who were not born here. Get
serious about this, or stop wasting everybody's time. You might as well be telling the Republicans they need to be better citizens. They have long since burned that vote Stephen A and the governor's mansion. I'm not objecting in the slightest to sportscasters talking politics or converting to becoming political commentators or political figures. I'm the last person on earth to say that, but walk in with twenty twenty five information. Don't come in here arguing nineteen seventy four to me,
Jesus make us all look bad. I mean, a two week training program and you could be up to date at least and not say stupid things like that. I don't want to hear them talk about the Constitution ever. They don't care about the Constitution. The Constitution is there for them to twist it and warp it and send it through the Supreme Court they own. That's already made
shit up. Like presidential immunity, which is nowhere in the Constitution, is nowhere in any of the federalists papers, is nowhere in anything resembling a document from the founding of this nation. No founding father believed in presidential immunity. Of them, if you could find one, the answer to that would be, okay, one of them did. Out of the two or three hundred people who made the Constitution what it is today.
Don't talk to me about the God. Don't talk to me about Republicans not talking about the Constitution they think they own it. Don't talk to me about Don't talk to me about the Constitution. This is literally a topic they got passed in the twentieth century. The Republicans can rationalize anything, Steven, you are behind the curve here. Take a two week course and figure it out. As I said, we also have a worse Person's Hall of Famer to announce. This is from last Wednesday, so I'm sure you saw
it or heard it already. It's a little old, so I'm not putting it in the list, but yes, this is true. Linda McMahon, missus wrestling the Secretary of Education so stupid she used to be married to Vince McMahon selected a Secretary of Education because she doesn't have one and thus doesn't understand why it's not okay to eliminate education going forward or the Department of Education. But she
has proved she's just right for the Trump administration. If everybody who's been appointed to a cabinet position is there to destroy the United States of America, they got their dame right here. Linda McMahon is the greatest Secretary of Education of all time. She will make sure that she snamps out education in this country better than anybody else possibly could. At an event, she twice referred to the future of artificial intelligence in schools by calling artificial intelligence
a one, as in Steak Sauce, a one. Well, we need more a one. Where would a one be it? This puts her in the worst person's mispronunciation of numbers exhibit next to Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, who is an obgyn who still thinks the terrorist attack from two thousand and one is called nine to eleven if only we'd had a one on nine to eleven. On the other hand, the Steak Sauce people are delighted by this. Finally, to the nominees for Today's Worst Person's Awards, the Bronze Worse,
Bill Maher. I know I've been talking about my college classmate a lot recently. I would make him worse persons again, But first off your board of that. Secondly, I'm bored of that. Thirdly, Bill is shrinking so rapidly into obscurity that I wonder by the time I got through two other stories before telling his, I wonder if anybody would
still remember who he was. As you know, at the insistence of Bill's new friend, Kid Rock, who maybe the first person Bill's ever considered a friend who had better morals than Bill does. Kid Rock took him to the White House to meet Trump, and Bill came out of it fully cool, aidd Everything I'm not liked about him was, I swear to God absent, at least on this night. With this guy. I never felt I had to walk
on eggshells around him. And honestly I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump. Make of it what you will. What I make of it is, Bill, you're going senile. You are forgetting that. You said more or less that exact same thing in
the year twenty sixteen. I know this because it was during a conversation you and I had on your show about Trump, about how extraordinary it was that the Trump we had met was this generous, all about you talk about anything, gracious guy. And then he came out and started talking about basically wanting to kill all the Hispanics. We couldn't figure out this disparity, I said, we don't
have to figure it out. There are two Donald Trump's who are both absolutely plausible and convincing, and we can't have a president who has more than one personality. Sorry, you said you felt he had deceived you. Guess what, Bill he had And guess what the other day at the White House he deceived you again. You know why, because you're gullible, because you want to be he flattered,
because that's all he does. Because he found your button and he pushed it and pushed it and pushed it, and he got you to put out quotes that they have now used, and got you to put out a monologue on your dying show on television, which they have used to sell the idea that he is a good president and a good person. They are using you. Bill. On the other hand, somebody's watching your video. You're a moron now And I know that. As I say that,
mar added millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. The only sphincter around here, Bill is Bill Maher, and you have long since ceased to be liberal. I've had so many conversations with prominent people who are much less connected, people that don't look you in the eye, people that don't really listen because they just want to get to their next thing, people who's respired. What's the things you say? Just doesn't track none of that with him. Bill, He's
a narcissistic sociopath, possibly a narcissistic psychopath. Bill, he's Ted Bundy, He's President Ted Bundy Trump. This is what he does. He uses people. He looks them in the eye, he figures out what it is they're most susceptible to and
does it to them. And then they think he's just wonderful and he's theirs, and that the real Trump is the one they saw, not the one who is bundling Americans off the streets and sending them to torture chambers in El Salvador or stochastically encouraging terrorism inside the United States against his political opponents. People that don't look you in the eye. He looks you in the eye and tells you he had a copy of Hitler's speech is
on his nightstand in nineteen ninety. People that don't really listen because they just want to get to their next thing. Next thing is subverting the Constitution and serving a third term and then claiming we don't need any more elections because he's doing a great job. People whose response to
things you say just doesn't track none of that with him. No, they're putting out press releases saying he's healthy, and the evidence of being healthy is that he won another one of his golf tournaments at his course where he's allowed to cheat. Bill, he used you again somehow nine years ago. You figured it out. Since then you've forgotten. Stop forgetting. You have some small remaining responsibility here. Use that, not that Bill Maher wasn't seeking to be used. I may
be guilty of overthinking this whole thing. Bill Maher works now for the same fascists at Warner Bros. Discovery, led by this guy David Zaslav, who took over and corrupted CNN. They let the people who would collaborate with them, who would appease Trump, people like Jake Tapper, they let them stay and fired everybody else. They said, to hell with
the ratings. We're not in it for the money. We're here to neutralize and neoter CNN, And we're here to neutralize and neoter what had been a boring but rather reliably liberal show every Friday night on HBO. I want to know what they're going to try to do to John Oliver. But John Oliver is made of something. I have known Bill Mars since nineteen seventy eight, and he was a shameless, self interested opportunist with no real principles
then and he's gone downhill since then. This may not have been the primary motive for what he did, which is to provide the Trump camp with promotional material, with propaganda, with propaganda video. This may not have been his primary goal, but it was maybe his secondary goal. He did this so he can keep his show on HBO. And if there's no HBO show, there are no Bill Maher stand up specials, there are no Bill Maher events anywhere. There's nobody in the audience cheering for Bill Maher. I've been
in front of that audience. It's intoxicating. They have a nice room that creates a nice bounce. What's probably three hundred people sounds like three thousand. You get addicted to that pretty quickly. Then you remember it's three hundred people. I'm going to try to stop talking about Bill Maher now our runner up worser Trump. CBS News reports that on March third, the cell phone of retired Lieutenant General H. R.
McMaster rang used to work for the White House. He was the National Security Advisor for the first thirteen months of the first Trump Reich, so, needless to say, he was surprised when the voice on the other side said it's the White House calling for you. I assume he said something like which White House? Our White House. A day earlier, on March second, Trump had in fact insulted Hr McMaster lasted him on social media as a weak and totally ineffective loser. McMaster had just appeared on CBS
on sixty Minutes. He had voiced skepticism about the Trump overture towards Putin and Putin's supposed willingness to end the war in Ukraine, which Trump believed, does not apparently believe now, but may soon resume believing when he needs to change the subject again. Anyway, the phone according to CBS with their sources, I think we can guess who the source was who could recount the phone call. The phone call began with Trump saying Henry, Henry is how Trump opened
the call before launching into the conversation. According to two sources who were not authorized to discuss private conversations, the former National Security advisor, mister McMaster interrupted, Uh, mister President, this is hr McMaster. Trump then asked, dismissively, why the f would I talk to hi McMaster, and then Trump launched into a scathing critique of his former aid. Two
sources said. According to CBS, the call was brief. The explanation for this is because the White House is really good and this administration is really good at screwing up elemental communications like signal chats and phone calls. He was trying to reach the former governor, Henry McMaster, and they presumably would be in the rolodex at the White House, the electronic equivalent of a rolodex Henry mcmallory with McMaster Kama,
Henry McMaster comma hr. Perhaps, since he only hires idiots, let's look at the Press secretary as an example of this. Since he only hires idiots, let's look at the Attorney General Blondie for a moment. Since he only hires idiots. Perhaps the person thought hr McMaster and Henry McMaster were the same person. In any event, this was not some fifth dimensional chess in which Trump got to call up hr McMaster and abuse him. He doesn't have the guts to do that. The last line of the CBS report
is the best one here. Quote the call was brief, as is our winner. Judge Janine Piro, former very brief senator orio candidate from New York. One of the hosts of Fox News, and although it is an extraordinary competition and each day is like watching the finals of some Olympic event, day after day after day, every day since nineteen ninety six, Janine Piro is possibly. I mean, there's Jesse Waters there, the other people on in the morning,
Brian Killmead, but it's very possible that Janine Piro. If I had to pick just one, Janine Piro would be the person I chose to be the stupidest person ever on Fox News. And I have dated people who worked at Fox News. Janine Piro. Something adds to the veneer of Janine's stupidity that is not there with say, Harris Faulkner, who pretends to have some sort of veneer of sophistication. Janine Piro resembles and sounds like every substitute teacher I had in the fifth grade in the public schools of
Hastings on Hudson, New York. Okay, class, I'll be back in a minute. I gotta go smoke. You'd sit. Don't light the building on fia, Janine Piro. We found out there are people who are between the ages of wine and four who are getting Social Security Janine Piro said, She was thereupon interrupted by Jessica Tarlov, the liberal on the whichever the five, the outnumbered moron today, whatever the
show is called. Jessica Tarlov, who I can only assume is either serving some sort of public service work release program from some past crime, or perhaps is has been sent here by some deity that is making her serve out something that she did in a past life. It must have been something really, really bad. She's the one
out there who has to somehow not turn around. When Janine Piro says, we found out there are people who are between the ages of want and faugh who are getting Social Security and not ball up her fist and give her a round house right to the jaw. Jessica Tarlov does not do this. People always said, why do you not have a Republican on your show, Keith? Why do you not have a foil who can debate you and point out when on occasion you are mistaken? Why
do you not do this? The answer is because eventually, no matter how many years I might go through without it, I would ball up my fist, or more likely I'd simply throw some water or maybe the script or just smack somebody with the script. Jessica Tarloff does not do any of these things. It is to her great credit. I admire her greatly. As much as I admire her insight and her honesty, I admire more than anything else, her ability to simply spew facts, to spit the fire
of truth at flammable risks. Like Janine Piro. We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting suchal se gerrity. Jess Katarlov, that's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead. Janine Piro ignored that. Just talk right through it, never even heard it. Because I'm just gonna guess here if she's like those teachers that I had in the fifth grade, because shardon nay, Janine, Page ten must be here somewhere. Hold on, let me get page ten of my speech.
Do you have page ten? Page ten's got to be here somewhere. Just hold up the news conference. I'll find page ten. We'll get it done eventually. Piro two days worse person in the world. I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. As I mentioned a segment ago, I think the show's been a little ragged today, possibly because three quarters of it has been ad libbed, and I believe this will be the
only episode this week. I have mentioned that I am on some heavy duty antibiotics for a digestive issue and they are working well, really well. The problem is essentially gone. And I don't know how many different presidential administrations that problem has been there. That's how bad a problem this is. That's gone well. However, the further along the drugs get,
the more side effects there are. The problem is essentially gone, so is my stamina, my sleep schedule, occasionally my voice, and as you could hear in worse persons, any self
restraint I might have whatsoever. So it's probably a good idea if I don't do a second episode this week, because who the hell knows what I would say that I edited stuff out of the second segment, Thank you very much anyway, if I can to be serious, although I did do the edits, I'm going to skip Thursday's episode if something changes or the news demands it, or if I'm up in the middle of the night and I just want to record forty five to sixty minutes
about Bill Maher or Stephen A. Smith, I'll do it. I'll post something if there's a news bullet and I'll post something even if it's five minutes. But otherwise I need to actually just not do this for a week or anything for a week if I can get away with it. So don't be surprised if there is no episode Thursday. I have to rest this voice. It may sound wonderful and malifluous to you. It's a real strain to get this out right now. Any who, enough about me?
What do you think about me? Brian Raine, John Phillip Shanelle musical directors have Countdown Arrange produced and performed most all of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Mister was on the guitars, bass and drums, and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.
The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my friend John Dean. Everything else was, as ever, my fault, you know, if there's no episode on Thursday. It just occurred to me for the first time.
I'll have to ask Nancy Faust this by correspondence. Maybe we could just put on forty five minutes of Nancy's greatest recordings for this show, of which there is at least a bank of forty five minutes. Quite seriously, most of it less than a minute each, all of it marvelous. You just put that on. Say hi, this is countdown. This is Keith al Rumina. Now, oh Nancy, and just play all the stuff I have in the file. It's
an idea, just joking around. That's countdown for today. Just seventy eight days until the scheduled end of his lane duck and lame brained term unless Musk removes him sooner or the actuarial tables do remember impeach Trump. It will not work now, it will win the Democrats the mid terms, and I want polling on a presidential recall vote to put pressure on the fourteen Republican senators and four Republican representatives who could save our asses and by hour, I
maane the American nation. This is why I don't like to add lub until next time. I'm Keith Olberman, good Morning, good afternoon, goodnight, screw Bill Maher and good Luck. Countdown with Keith Oldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.