EPISODE 11: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN 8.15.22
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
MONTHS MORE OF TRUMP'S NUCLEAR DOCUMENTS
A BLOCK: (0:00) Of Roy Cohn, The Rosenberg Executions, and Donald Trump (2:45) Officials predict "many months" before the Trump Theft story "plays out" (5:30) Every possible angle of "Classification/Declassification" is hyped, except Charlie Savage's note that none of the laws Trump may have broken "turn on whether information was deemed to be unclassified" (6:01) In one week Trump's Cover-Up Team produced 31 DIFFERENT excuses why Trump did nothing wrong, and I review them (11:10) This obscures the only real debate: do you pursue Trump for a 10-year sentence per count, or a 20-year sentence, because we can't do to him what Cohn did to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
B BLOCK (13:12) Every Dog Has Its Day: Cheer Bear (14:49) Postscripts To The News: The IRS coming to kill you nonsense; The Boeberts (Again).(16:50) When I met Salman Rushdie and wondered if he had enough security (19:25) How come nobody's talking about baseball's new steroid scandal? If the man the game attempted to market as the new face of the sport, who was "here to change the game" is suspended until next year, it's more than Fernando Tatis who is in trouble (23:55) The Norwegian Government, Ted Cruz and Kevin McCarthy vie for honors as The Worst Persons In The World.
C BLOCK (29:31) Things I Promised Not To Tell: 45 years ago Tuesday, Elvis Presley died. It is little remembered, but the day he shuffled off, he was due to start a concert tour in the Northeast. For his scheduled appearance in Syracuse, Elvis's promoters bought commercial time on every radio station within an hour of the arena. That included the Cornell radio station I was running at the time, and I did the commercial! (35:33) The actual Elvis concert commercial I did, from WVBR-FM, Ithaca, New York, from August 1977 - when I was 18 years old (37:17) What happened on our station's main newscast the moment Elvis died (39:20) ELVIS OWES ME MONEY. Fin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch. It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy. |
| 0:11.6 | Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism. Like so much. |
| 0:18.3 | You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week. I'm that host. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Danish Ward's host of Stealing Superman, a new I Heart original podcast about the most unlikely art heist of all time. |
| 0:40.0 | It was Nick Cage's own personal national treasure. At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comics. |
| 0:52.0 | But who? Listen to Stealing Superman on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your favorite shows. |
| 1:01.0 | Where were you in 92? Bouncing your butt to Sir Mixlot? Wondering if you, like Billy Ray Cyrus, could pull off a moment? |
| 1:07.0 | Now I had as a podcast all about it. I'm Jason Longfied and on my new show, Where Were You in 92, we take a ride through the major hits, one hit wonders and shocking scandals that shaped the wildest 12 months in music history. |
| 1:17.0 | You know, the president came after me, everybody, time, one, or with madness. |
| 1:22.0 | Music was magic and I had completely burned that to the ground. |
| 1:26.0 | I realized I'm the forbidden fruit. So listen and follow Where Were You in 92 on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. |
| 1:35.0 | Countdown with Keith Olverman is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 2:02.0 | Cone. Roy Cone died 36 years ago this month. Roy Cone was Trump's first mentor, his attorney from 1973 through 1985. |
| 2:14.0 | Defended him, cut a deal when the government charged Trump with racist rental practices. |
| 2:19.0 | Reportedly it was Roy Cone who introduced Trump to an immigrant businessman trying to make his move in this country in the early 1980s, a man named Rupert Murdock. |
| 2:29.0 | Thoughts of Roy Cone encouraged me to remind you again of what I referenced here last Friday about the inference that Trump stole top secret classified documents related to nuclear weapons. |
| 2:42.0 | Namely that as recently as 1953 this country executed two people, a husband and wife, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for having provided documents related to nuclear weapons to a foreign government. |
| 2:55.0 | The Rosenberg trial turned in large part on the testimony of Ethel Rosenberg's brother David Greenglass who said that he had given the nuclear documents from the Manhattan Project to his sister and his brother-in-law and that they gave those nuclear documents to the Russians. |
| 3:13.0 | The assistant United States attorney who conducted the direct examination of Greenglass who so dramatically drew out Greenglass's implication of the Rosenbergs who would later claim he also persuaded the judge to impose the death penalty on the Rosenbergs was Roy Cone. |
| 3:33.0 | Donald Trump's Roy Cone. |
| 3:37.0 | Mark Twain did not actually say history never repeats itself but it rhymes, but it rhymes. |
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