MSNBC Countdown 20:00 hour anchored live by Keith Olbermann.

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Event Date(s): 02/07/2005 | Description: 20:00:00 MSNBC Countdown anchored live by Keith Olbermann. 20:00:11 Olbermann voices over preview video. 20:02:13 Olbermann voices over a graphic with inset stills of"Watergate" committee witness John Dean testifying during"Watergate" hearings in 1973. One of the most enduring American political mysteries may soon be solved: Deep Throat is reportedly near unmasking. Olbermann reports that in a newspaper column, Watergate figure John Dean says he still doesn't know who the high-level leaker was, but he's heard Deep Throat is ill and his obituary is written. Footage from the movie"Deep Throat", the infamous 1972 adult film courtesy of Warner Brothers. Graphic with inset still of former acting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director L Patrick Gray, former President Richard Nixon attorney Leonard Garment, Nixon Deputy Counsel John Sears. 20:04:05 Olbermann is joined live by Nixon White House Counsel John Dean from an undisclosed location. John Dean discusses the health of the man known as Deep Throat. Still of Dean an former newspaper editor Ben Bradley holding newspaper. Graphic with inset still of then advisor to President Richard Nixon, Pat Buchanan. 20:12:55 Olbermann voices over a wide shot of Pope John Paul II looking out of his hospital window in Rome, Italy. He reports on the health of the Pope. Clip of the Pope speaking. Medium shot of the Pope being helped down stairs. 20:18:31 NBC's Peter Alexander reports on the latest trend in the medical world promises patients won't have to wait. Several dozen hospital ERs advertise a 30-minute pledge. Some forced to sit get an apology, others earn gift cards worth $25. Perhaps the most generous offer at Aurora Baycare in Green Bay, Wisconsin, home of the 33-minute guarantee. Wall clock. Hands toss FedEx packages on conveyor. FedEx truck drives along road. Man cuts pizza. Man drives car with Domino's Pizza ad on the roof. Mechanic wipes car's dipstick. Medical personnel stand in emergency room. Clips from TV show"ER". Hands affix blood pressure cuff. Digital readout. Elderly man with thermometer in his mouth. Door marked"Waiting Room" opens to reveal people waiting inside. Neon sign"Emergency Entrance" Door marked"Emergency Entrance" Woman holds baby on her lap. $25 gift card. Aurora Bay Fire Department Paramedic Unit ambulance leaves garage. Sign"Aurora BayCare Medical Center""Guaranteed 33 minutes or it's free" Hands punch time card in time clock. Rebecca Richards holds her toddler son Triston on her lap as doctor asks her"any medications he takes every day?". Triston's face. Triston sits on bed in exam room as Richards holds him as doctor writes on clipboard. Doctor uses stethoscope on Triston's chest. In interview Aurora BayCare's Dr Steve Stroman says"I love it when patients say to me, `I came in and no one was here,' because the waiting room was empty." MS: Richards holds Triston as he cries. In interview Richards says"It's mainly to get in, get out, and make sure he's taken care of." Monitors seen. People work at computer monitors. IV is inserted into arm. Woman lies in bed in emergency room. Nurse works with IV bag. In interview man says"There's no question that in the emergency department today, there's a frustration. There's a wait to be actually seen by the doctors." Emergency entrance with setting sun in background. Billboard in field advertising Aurora BayCare's 33-minute guarantee. Peter Alexander reports on-camera from emergency room. In interview Dr Joseph Cline says"It's responding to patients' desires, which is appropriate. I just think we need to be cautious." Emergency medical technicians unload patient on gurney from ambulance and wheel gurney through hospital corridor. In interview Emergency Department nurse Sue Wolfe says"To guarantee it on a regular basis is unrealistic." Nurse helps elderly woman from wheelchair and asks her"Where does it hurt? In your hip mostly, or..." Emergency medical technicians wheel gurney through hospital corridor. Doctors and EMTs work on patient. Hands tie tourniquet around arm. As medical personnel work on patient, others swing medical equipment overhead. Alexander signs off in vo from Green Bay. 20:25:07 Olbermann reports the"Oddball" portion of his show. Medium shot of man placing unidentified substance on his face. Medium shot of man doing a backflip on skies and into the water in Norway. Shots of competitors and spectators. Shots from the"Battle of the Oranges" in Italy. Shots of man who had a nail stuck in his neck. X-rays of nail in neck. 20:32:44 WCMH-TV News correspondent Beth Dalponte reports that Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick charged with drunk driving. Monitor showing police video of two State Troopers standing next to Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick's vehicle at a gas station. Police video clip of a State Trooper standing next to Resnick's vehicle on the shoulder of the road. Speaking with a trooper, Resnick says there's nothing wrong with me. oh my there's no alcohol on me. Resnick takes an alcohol test. Resnick says"I don't believe it was .216 that's ridiculous. I don't know what I would have to have had to consume." Resnick says I've always said that Supreme Court judges should be driven around by State Troopers. I mean, they do it for the US Supreme Court. This is just so embarrassing to me. I'm just dying. Resnick says look, I've decided a lot of cases that favor you guys and now look what you're doing to me. Police video of Resnick standing between two officers. Dalponte signs off from Columbus, Ohio. 20:34:56 Olbermann reports female mud wresting involving US soldiers that took place in Iraq Graphic with inset stills of female mud wresting with one another. 20:35:45 Olbermann voices over shots of bombed out cars in Mosul, Iraq. 20:36:20 NBC's David Gregory that going back just about to the beginning of the republic, the president's budget has traditionally been a wish list. David Gregory reports this year, at over $2 1/2 trillion, it is again, but some traditional items like trains and farms have lost out to a sign of the times: defense and homeland security. During cabinet meeting photo op President George W. Bush holds copy of budget and says"we're submitting our budget today." People line up to receive copies of the budget. Exterior of the Capitol, zoom-in on dome. Side view of cabinet members seated around table; panning shot across table to President George W. Bush. President Bush says"it's a budget that focuses on results. The taxpayers of America don't want us spending their money on something that's not achieving results." Insert image of budget with heading"$2.6 trillion budget" and supered text:"scale back or eliminate 150 government programs" and"$20 billion savings next year" Insert image of budget with deficit stamp over supered figure"$427 billion" Office of Management& Budget Director Joshua Bolton enters room and walks to podium. Bolton reads prepared text:"If we maintain the policies of economic growth and spending restraint reflected in this budget, the deficit is expected to decline in 2006 and each of the next four years." Insert image of the budget with heading"Big Winners." Pentagon seal and supered figure"$419 billion" and arrow indicating a five percent raise over last year. Insert image of the budget and Homeland Security seal . Woman customer talks with woman at pharmacy counter. Blue pills are separated and counted on tray. Side view of the President and the cabinet seated at table. Moving image insert of farmer with cows near trough below heading"Budget Losers" Moving image insert of Amtrak train leaving station with super"Annual Subsidy Disappears" Moving image insert of child reading book Moving image insert of doctor examining infant with super"Programs are Cut." Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) removes black cloth from right hand side of graphic on chart MS: Senator Conrad says the budget plan"is going to cut the cops program by 96 percent. That program has put 100,000 police officers on the street in this country." David Gregory signs off on camera:"White House officials admit they don't expect to get everything they're asking for, but conservatives are urging the president to be tough, even to veto spending excesses, if he's serious about cutting the deficit." 20:28:33 Olbermann voices over shots of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Shot of Rice with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. 20:39:22 Top Three Sound Bites. Rapper Snoop Dogg comments, Democratic Massachusetts Senator John Kerry with radio show host Don Imus, Fox reporter Geraldo Rivera. 20:44:43Clip from the movie"Animal House" courtesy of Universal Pictures. 20:44:52 Olbermann is joined live by actor/director Peter Riegert from New York City, New York. Riegert discusses actor John Vernon who recently passed away. He discusses the movie and John Vernon's performance. Footage from movies staring Riegert. 20:50:20 Olbermann voices over a shot of Fox newscaster Bill O'Reilly walking indoors. Shots of O'Reilly during his television broadcast. 20:50:54 Olbermann voices over inset video footage of entertainer Bill Cosby. He discusses a woman who is accusing entertainer Bill Cosby of groping her. 20:55:14 Clip from commercial advertising website godaddy.com. Olbermann reports that the commercial was pulled off the air during the Superbowl. 20:56:14 Olbermann is joined live by advertising executive Jerry Della Femina from New York City, New York. They discuss the commercial for godaddy.com was pulled off the air during Superbowl Sunday.