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Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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“Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the landmark news and commentary program that reordered the world of cable news, returns as a daily podcast. Olbermann’s daily news-driven mix will include his trademark “Special Comment” political analysis, the tongue-in-cheek “Worst Persons In The World” segment, and his timeless readings from the works of the immortal James Thurber. The man who turned SportsCenter into a cultural phenomenon will broaden the content to include a daily sports segment, a daily call for help for a suffering dog, and a remarkable series of anecdotes covering a career that stretc...

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May 11, 2026

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TRUMP'S LEGAL WAR AGAINST BIDEN'S COFFEE MUG - 8.8.23 08.08.2023

SERIES 2 EPISODE 8: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump made his lawyers file a 29-page document complaining about Joe Biden’s coffee mug. Trump really hates this coffee mug. Trump is really aggrieved by this coffee mug. Trump’s fractured emotional and intellectual depth perception is triggered by this coffee mug. Trump’s last thought before he dies might just be a...

LOCK HIM UP (OR AT LEAST: BRING HIM IN) - 8.7.23 07.08.2023

SEASON 2 EPISODE 7: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: If she won't revoke his pre-trial release, Judge Upadhyaya must at least bring Donald Trump into court and issue a gag order against him on social media and in public and warn him that if he threatens the judges again, or the prosecutors again, or witnesses again, or the court again, or the department of justice aga...

BULLETIN: TRUMP VIOLATES RELEASE TERMS, MUST BE DETAINED - 8.4.23 04.08.2023

BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) BULLETIN: Trump posts "If you go after me, I'm coming after you!" almost exactly 24 hours after Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya warned him: "Mr. Trump. I ask you to listen carefully to the conditions. Your most important condition of release is that you not commit a state, federal or local offense. If so, your release may be revoked. I want to remi...

IS THAT A TRUMP ROCKET DOCKET IN YOUR POCKET? 8.4.23 04.08.2023

SEASON 2 EPISODE 5: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: In a tradition as old as the nation itself, Trump has been indicted. The true headline is the accelerated timeline the Judge imposes. There can be no question they intend to begin this trial not just before the election but WELL before the election. B-Block (19:29) IN SPORTS: The shut-up-and-dribble crowd forgets to...

TRUMP'S NEW DEFENSE: JOHN EASTMAN DID IT! - 8.3.23 03.08.2023

SEASON 2 EPISODE 4: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: The "it was just free speech, you're criminalizing the 1st Amendment" defense has been replaced. Trump's lawyers, Fox News puppets, and even opponents are all rolling out a new one: John Eastman did it! Of course they are phrasing it differently. They are blaming it on Trump relying on "the advice of counsel." It's...

SMITH CHARGES TRUMP WITH INSURRECTION, SEDITION, TERRORISM, AND NEVER USES THE WORDS - 8.2.23 02.08.2023

POST-INDICTMENT TRUMP SPECIAL: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SMITH MANAGES TO CHARGE TRUMP WITH A COUP, STOCHASTIC TERRORISM, SEDITION, AND ATTEMPTING TO FOMENT A CIVIL WAR - without ever using any of these weighted and difficult-to-prove phrases and charges. It is the genius of the charging document and indeed the case. It looks and reads like a set of Obstruction, Fraud, and Civi...

BULLETIN: TRUMP INDICTED; UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATORS, KEY - 8.1.23 02.08.2023

A-Block (1:44) BULLETIN:  Trump indicted and the lone true surprise is the six unindicted co-conspirators and for once Donald Trump is not alone on the stage of infamy. And it may yet prove that the Trump Six are as important to this case as anything else because they can only BE unindicted because the Special Prosecutor is holding out hope he can make them into witnesses by deferring indicting th...

TRUMP 1/6 AND GEORGIA INDICTMENTS IMMINENT? 8.1.23 01.08.2023

IT'S THE COUNTDOWN 1ST ANNIVERSARY PODCAST A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: Indictment foreshadowing. “This is really bad news for Biden,” Trump wrote last night, though – not really, no, “which means I will probably be indicted again, soon.” Do you like THAT foreshadowing? Or how about this one? Fani Willis sends an e-mail to county commissioners asking them to make sure they keep themselves and t...

I THINK TRUMP BELIEVES DE OLIVEIRA IS ABOUT TO FLIP - 7.31.23 31.07.2023

EPISODE 257: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: It's just guess but I think Trump is TERRIFIED that his “Property Manager” Carlos De Oliveira is about to flip. Trump freaked out again last night about Jack Smith and the documents and Hilary emails and Biden documents and the Special Counsel covering the Biden documents review – and without provocation from any known dev...

"THE BOSS WANTED THE SERVER DELETED" - 7.28.23 28.07.2023

EPISODE 256: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: “The boss wanted the server deleted.” WHY would you try to destroy the security video if you didn’t do anything wrong? WHY would you try to destroy the security video if it didn’t PROVE you broke the law? WHY would you move the documents after the government said don’t move the documents, and WHY would you move the documen...

WHAT HELL WOULD GOP HAVE CAUSED HAD THAT BEEN BIDEN? 7.27.23 27.07.2023

EPISODE 255: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: What if that had been Joe Biden and not Mitch McConnell? What if that had been JOE BIDEN stopping mid-sentence, going glassy eyed and catatonic for 30 seconds, having to be led away by his colleagues, returning only to mumble his insistence he was fine - and a bad joke? What kind of Hell would the Republicans have unleashe...

WHY DID TRUMP WRITE: THEY "ARE NOW INDICTING ME"? 7.26.23 26.07.2023

EPISODE 254: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: There are no signs that the Jack Smith Grand Jury actually did indict Donald Trump yesterday in Washington. So why and how - just minutes after the Grand Jurors went home for the day - did Trump write and post: They "Are now indicting me"? Does Trump know something we don't? Or is it just that if you send out 60 social med...

NEW TRUMP INDICTMENTS COULD COME TODAY (OR NOT!) 7.25.23 25.07.2023

EPISODE 253: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump may be indicted for the January 6th attemped coup – today. Or, not! But clearly as of 1 PM eastern at the Prettyman Courthouse in DC, the window TO indict is open for the first time on this 10th day since Trump received Jack Smith’s 2nd Target Letter. The window from Target Letter to indictment last time might have b...

JACK SMITH IS ON THE CLOCK - 7.21.23 21.07.2023

COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN: EPISODE 252 A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT:  As they say at the big sports DRAFTS: Jack Smith, you are ON the clock. As soon as midnight passed on the east coast, the Special Counsel’s window of warning to the recipient of the Target Letter closed. Donald Trump has had his chance to testify to the Grand Jury or demand that evidence be submitted to the Grand Jury or...

SMITH POISED TO INDICT TRUMP FOR...RIGGING THE ELECTION! 7.20.23 20.07.2023

EPISODE 251: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: The same-day reporting on what was in Jack Smith's 2nd Target Letter to Trump was incomplete (possibly because Trump was the direct or indirect source and he only skimmed the letter and saw only the Statute Heading not the statute itself). If the Letter is any guide, The Special Counsel's centerpiece to the January 6th pro...

TRUMP INDICTMENTS TO CENTER ON PENCE, FAKE ELECTORS - 7.19.23 19.07.2023

EPISODE 250: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: We now have more Trump Trials than court schedule time FOR Trump Trials. Well - this is what we wished for! The SECOND federal set of indictments of The Defendant could be handed up as early as Thursday though Friday is likelier still and the likeliest is Trump being notified Thursday or Friday and then announcing it and w...

JUDGE CANNON WILL NOW DECIDE WHETHER WE LIVE OR DIE - 7.18.23 18.07.2023

EPISODE 248: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon will now begin to decide whether we all live or die. This, sadly, is not hyperbole. A federal judge who has presided over a total of four trials for a total of fourteen days will today make the first of a series of decisions that will ultimately end with whether we all live or die. The forest r...

BULLETIN: TRUMP FACES DOZENS MORE CHARGES; "SPRAWLING CASE" - 7.18.23 18.07.2023

EPISODE 249: BULLETIN  COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:41) BULLETIN: The SECOND set of Trump Indictments by Special Counsel Jack Smith which will come as early as Thursday in Washington – the second in as many months -- may make the first ones look like a small stack of parking tickets. As news has broken this morning and this afternoon we are seeing the outline of a HUGE number of count...

WAS TRUMP TOLD HE'LL BE PROSECUTED FOR INSURRECTION? 7.17.23 17.07.2023

EPISODE 247: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Why did Trump imply he was quote “being charged under the Insurrection Act?” Why did Trump put that out THOSE words – “Insurrection Act” on his social media propaganda site and then delete the post within half an hour and replace “Insurrection Act” with “Espionage Act”? Is there a chance somebody has told him that he may a...

HAVE LUFT AND COMER "JEOPARDIZED HOMELAND SECURITY TO HELP TRUMP" - 7.14.23 14.07.2023

EPISODE 246: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT:  As a Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz asked the trillion-dollar question – whether James Comer and the House Oversight Committee and their indicted fugitive Chinese Agent witness have quote “jeopardized Homeland Security in their search to help Donald Trump” – Comer and Nancy Mace and Speaker McCarthy and all the ot...

DEMS DEMAND GAL LUFT/JAMES COMER INVESTIGATION - 7.13.23 13.07.2023

EPISODE 245: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: Groups of Congressional Democrats have now separately called for investigations of Gal Luft and his influence on Congressional Republicans, investigations by the House Armed Services Committee, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, by the House Select Committee on China, and by the House Oversight Committee. investigatio...

DOES THE GOP KNOW WHERE THEIR FUGITIVE GAL LUFT IS? 7.12.23 12.07.2023

EPISODE 244: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: Do the Republican leaders know WHERE their fugitive foreign agent Gal Luft is? Does Senator Ron Johnson – demanding immunity for Luft so that this multi-national con-man can testify to the House – know Where Gal Luft is? Does Chairman James Comer – still insisting Luft must testify despite the damning revelation that he ha...

THE ENTIRE GOP HUNTER BIDEN "SCANDAL" CRASHES. IT'S COMEUPPANCE DAY! - 7.11.23 11.07.2023

EPISODE 243: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: It's COMEUPPANCE DAY!  The ENTIRE Republican Hunter Biden/Jo Biden fairy tale has burst and collapsed to the ground, pinning Jamie Comer and Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham and Fox News under the rubble. And the fascists’ pretend-FBI plant they swear was behind January 6th has decided to sue Fox and maybe Tucker Carlson...

AS 'THREADS' PASSES 100 MILL; MUSK HAS TO ASK FOR A BAILOUT, RIGHT? 7.10.23 10.07.2023

EPISODE 242: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Not even five days since it went live, Zuckerberg's 'Threads' has exceeded the 100,000,000 users mark. And what is Musk doing? Calling him a "cuck" and personally servicing "Libs of TikTok." He's already made a fool of himself threatening to sue Zuckerberg and he HAS sued Twitter's old law firm for accepting the money Twit...

JUDGE DETAINS TRUMP'S OBAMA-HUNTING TERRORIST FOR A WEEK - 7.7.23 07.07.2023

EPISODE 241: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: The judge in the Taylor Taranto case bought prosecutors – and former President Obama – and the COUNTRY – a little more time by NOT ruling yesterday on whether or not Taranto can be held without bail until trial. He ordered prosecution and defense to return to court NEXT WEDNESDAY to continue arguments. That MIGHT be enough...

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