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May 20, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 20, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Somebody has let Fat Finger out of a cage today at the Dow Jones Industrial Average, now down 302 points moments ago, it was down 335.
So Fat Fingers back.
I never found the guy the first time, but whoever he is is out of the cage and we're plunging again.
Uh may as well get into why.
Uh ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, by the way, did you see that they did the two gate crashers at the state dinner for the Indian Prime Minister got caught near the White House last night?
They were trying to get in again.
I wish I wish that they had made it.
White House gate crashers, the Salahis stopped by Secret Service near the White House last night.
From the Palm Beach Post.
Surprised this one made the cut.
In Florida, a state accustomed to tracking the minutia of impending hurricanes, forecasting is everything.
But recent forecasts coming from those planning to protect Florida's coast from another potential disaster, the oil spewing from the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon rig, are much different than the forecasts from scientists and environmentalist wackos who study and guard the coast.
The state emergency responders downplayed the threat to Florida in a briefing for Senate President Jeff Etwater yesterday.
South Floridians can expect an occasional tarball to wash ashore, which happens every day, happens all the time, but they probably will never see oil from the recent spill lapping onto the beaches.
This from Florida emergency management director David Halstead.
So the environmentalist wackos and the uh the doomsayers are saying, look out, Florida gets into Florida Straits, gonna get up there panhandle on the East Coast, may get into Gulf Stream or it's gonna be horrible.
If a hurricane comes up, look out.
But David Halstead, Florida Emergency Management Director, said, nah, if we look at two weeks in the Florida sun, most of that's gonna be evaporated.
There's a possibility you'll see some very little of any sheen.
Even make it down all the way to the keys.
It's all going to evaporate.
And remember, they're looking for missing oil out there.
As I mentioned yesterday, this is light crude, stuff that uh gasoline kerosene is refined from.
And you know if you've ever spilled gasoline on your yard or at the pump, it evaporates pretty quickly.
And light crude does too.
So here you have a Florida local guy.
Not gonna see much here.
It's good.
Most of it's gonna uh most of it's gonna evaporate.
Uh now the Doug Darling, who is the Florida Environmental Preservation Department chief, said even if the oil sheen was caught in the loop current, environmental damage in South Florida would be minimal.
If dolphins or manatees swim through it, come up to surface for air, they're gonna get a slight coating, but the fish swimming at a hundred feet, not gonna be affected by it at all.
So Florida emergency management people are saying, hey, no biggie.
Same thing that I have been saying before I even heard from these guys.
And of course, I have been excoriated and continue to be excoriated and raked over the coals.
In fact, uh, let's see if I can find the sound bites.
Hang with me, Mike, because I'm now totally out of order.
Here we are, number four.
Number four and number five.
Last night on hard ball with Chris Matthews, spoke with the Sierra Club executive director, Michael Brun, and he might pronounce it Bruni, about the Gulf Oil spill and me.
So they bring the Sierra Club on To respond, but they never ask the pertinent question.
Which is if the Sierra Club hadn't pushed drilling further and further out to sea, would this catastrophe have occurred?
We drill far out, and we have to drill down deep, because wackos like the Sierra Club refuse to allow, and they put political pressure on cowardly politicians, refuse to allow drilling domestically, or any new drilling, or even close to the shore.
So the question from Matthews, Rush Limbaugh seems to be, as of this moment, still the recognized head of the Republican Party on matters everywhere.
What do you make of him blaming you for the oil spill?
You know, Rush Limbaugh is always good for a good belly laugh.
You know, we think that the issue here is what BP is saying.
It just shows that their recklessness doesn't extend, extends well beyond their oil drilling.
I was down in the Gulf, and the pollution that we're seeing there, this the oil plume that's just on the surface, it goes for miles and miles and miles, and it is a disaster through and through.
We've got the the CEO of BP, who is a geologist, he's a PhD.
He has said that the majority of this is going to evaporate and be emulsified.
He has said that compared to the entire water volume of the Gulf of Mexico, we've about poured the equivalent of a thimble full of oil in there.
And we have these two Florida emergency management guys.
Fish swimming a hundred feet below, not going to say anything.
The manatees and uh and a dolphin surfacing for air, they might have a light coating, but we're not going to sit hanging in Florida other than tarballs, it's all going to evaporate.
Well, who are we supposed to believe?
Those people or an environmentalist wacko from the Sierra Club, who is part of a group of people who wants a disaster.
They love this disaster.
It's a political opportunity.
They politicize everything.
This disaster, the better for them, the worse it is.
Because they can point fingers of blame at big oil, at capitalism.
All of their enemies.
And anybody who tries to explain this rationally then becomes a target of ridicule as well.
They love the disaster.
They are sad.
Remember yesterday?
All of the anticipation, all of the reports.
Oh boy, tarballs and the Florida Keys, yay!
All right.
And then the authorities said, um, different kind of oil.
These uh tarballs are not from the oil spill.
Ah, damn it!
Are you sure?
Check again.
No, we've checked.
The oil is not from the oil spill.
Ah!
Damn, what a bunch of bad luck.
They want the disaster, folks.
They want the tumult and the chaos that's going on down in Arizona.
They are willing to destroy or stand by and watch the private sector of this country be destroyed if it will lead to more further power for themselves.
Make no mistake about it.
So after that bite, oh yeah, you know, limbaugh, good for a good belly laugh.
Um here is what BP is saying.
Recklessness doesn't extend well beyond the oil drilling.
Matthews then says, Do you think that they're doing a good job out there?
The BP people, I mean, I don't sense they're operating as if this is an extreme problem.
They're sort of they're sort of doing their best, I suppose, but they're not doing it.
No, they're not doing it.
But to be fair, there are workers for BP and for others right now who are working around the clock to try to fix this.
The reality is that you just you can't contain a mess of this size.
It's very difficult because it's never been done before.
And that's why the Sierra Club has been arguing for decades that offshore oil drilling in shallow or deep water is highly risky, and we can't drill our way to energy independence.
And so we need to be focusing on a real solution to America's oil addiction, and hopefully that will come as a result of this disaster.
That is utter nonsense.
Utter political pap.
We've been arguing for decades.
Offshore oil drilling in shallow or deep water is highly risky.
Uh the reality is you can't contain a mess of this size.
Very difficult because it's never been done before.
There was an oil spill larger than this in Mexico, Extarc 1.
And the sea turtles survived.
They've damaged in the process, but we're back to normal from it.
These things happen.
This is not the first.
And it's by no means the largest.
But here come the doomsayers, the environmentalist wackos, who see an opportunity here to convince you, let's just stop drilling.
What can you believe the idiocy?
The ill logic of saying we cannot drill our way to energy independence.
That's just sophistry.
Stupidity.
It's the only way we're going to have energy independence.
Quick timeout.
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Back to the phones to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
This is Starr.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Russ.
This is um a great pleasure for me to get to talk to you.
I wish I weren't so angry at the moment.
I'm angry too, but uh we'll be angry together.
Okay, sounds good.
I just wanted to let you know.
I grew up in Mexico.
My dad um is a pastor, and probably crossed the border, you know, over thirty times in my eighteen years that I was down there.
And I will tell you there were many times when we were pulled over for no reason.
And my dad always had to have papers on hand to show uh the police.
And it was as a as a child, I mean, it was it was we just got used to it.
I mean, it was uncomfortable.
Wait, I want to understand something.
You got you were you were crossing from Mexico to the United States, and you were asked for papers.
Well, we that too.
I mean, any time we had to come back in, but this was when we would go into Mexico because we lived down there.
I mean, we would come back out every six months we would have to come out or whatever.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm confused.
You said you're you said you grew up in Mexico, so I I thought so but you're talking about when you leave the United States and go to Mexico, the Mexicans ask for your papers 30 times.
Is that what you were saying?
Um, absolutely.
Every time we would cross over, and let's to be clear, my my parents are American.
I mean, I'm I'm an American citizen and they they're Americans.
He was we were missionaries down there.
And so my dad would we'd have to go to the border when we leave the states and go into Mexico.
We would have to fill out paperwork, they would search our cars.
Um everything that you've said that you've read that would happen definitely happens when you go into their country.
They want to know what you're gonna do there.
I know Senor Wences today confirmed it, or last night with uh Wolf Wolf Blitzer on uh on CNN.
No, no, no question about it.
Look at this headline.
World stocks tumble as debt woes rumble on.
World markets fell sharply once again Thursday, as uh uh sentiment continued to be hit by concerns about the continent's debt crisis.
This would be Europe.
And figures showed an unexpected increase in U.S. jobless claims last week.
The worries left most of the world's leading indices now trading below where they started in 2010.
And people say, what's causing this today?
A number of people send me emails.
They think I'm an expert in it.
Rush, what's going on?
What's happening?
It's called liberalism.
It's called socialism.
What the hell is the European Union?
It is collapsing.
Greece is collapsing.
Spain, our model, Obama's model for green energy.
Twenty percent unemployment, shutting down their green energy industry.
It's it didn't produce anything.
It cost jobs.
They're rioting again in Greece over proposed cuts, not eliminations, cuts in salaries, benefits, and pensions.
And of course, the people here watching all this, and we're looking at it, and we see what?
The failure of socialism.
Now remember, Obama and his buddies believe that communism socialism is the best way for a nation to organize its affairs and for a government to control its people.
When you ask them, well, how come it hasn't worked yet in human history?
Well, because uh right people haven't been in charge.
But now they're the right people.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
Was that the slogan?
We're the ones we've been waiting for.
What he meant was I'm the one you've been waiting for.
So, I mean, every day we're in debt too.
Get up every day.
Obama's spending another 800 billion on this, another 800 million on that, another 45 million there to shore up teachers somewhere in Michigan or wherever.
We don't have any of this money.
And we're continuing to spend it with no regard whatsoever.
Now unemployment's climbing back up, and even with this news today, the Associated Press tries to spin it as good news.
It's incredible.
Oh, yeah, it's good news.
More people are filing for unemployment.
That means more people are looking for work.
It means they're not finding work.
Here is uh Robert in Austin, Texas.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
I want to make a quick point about Calderon and his comments about the assault weapons ban, the unit United States somehow not or not having the ban contributing to the cartel violence.
And I think this is a fallacious argument because the banited states specifically outlaws outlaws semi-automatic weapons.
The weapons that are being used by the drug cartels are fully automatic.
Military great weapons.
They include fully automatic grenade launchers, grenades, anti-tank missiles.
None of that stuff is sold in the United States.
It's illegal to possess that kind of stuff.
So you have just illustrated the real point here.
The real point's not our drug laws.
This is simply Senor Wensis beating up on America.
This is an agent of Obama.
Remember, they're all Obama.
Everybody in his administration, and not Felipe Calderoni is this Obama.
Obama doesn't like guns.
Obama doesn't like the Second Amendment.
So here we've got a situation in Mexico.
He brings in the Mexican president, gives him a state dinner.
I don't know if there was a price for this, but I wouldn't be surprised.
And so here you have the Mexican president saying everything Obama thinks and says.
Right.
And you'll notice that Hillary and Obama try to pair up this notion that we are equally responsible for the cartel violence because we are demanding the drugs.
Yep.
And they all and they throw in the notion that we have to outlaw these violent weapons that are being exported to Mexico that's calling out causing all the violence.
They try to tie those two things together.
Just like they try to tie together the idea that, yes, we have an immigration problem, but the real solution is comprehensive immigration reform.
Amnesty.
Right.
Yes.
Well, but the root level of all this, these are the results.
These are details.
At the root level of all this is what?
A dislike for this country.
And any opportunity to blame this country for any problem.
This administration will take it.
I mentioned to you that back in April, went to Washington for the annual Horatio Alger presentation awards.
And I'm listening to the recipients of these awards.
To be nominated and to be admitted in the Horatio Alger organization.
You have to have started from nothing.
And have become something.
You can't get in if you're born to a wealthy family or if you inherited a lot of money.
You have to start from veritably nothing.
And to listen to these people talk about America and the opportunities.
One guy had lost his entire fortune, a billion dollars at age 55 and put it back together.
He started with nothing, made a billion, lost it, got it back, worked hard to get it.
Hear these people, we're not that far from the White House.
To listen to these people speak of this country, it struck me.
We don't have anybody in the regime.
We don't have anybody in the White House speaking of this country in terms of its greatness, of its potential, of its goodness, Of its decency.
We don't have anybody speaking in appreciation for people that have come before us.
Be they military, political, medical, what have you, none of the great achievements of the past are acknowledged.
Instead, the country is apologized for specious things, things that we have long ago fixed, attempted to fix, corrected, righted, what have you.
Now we're importing allies, supposed allies, leaders, to parrot the same thing said by Obama and people in his administration.
When's the last time you heard anybody in this administration speak glowingly, respectfully, positively of this country?
It doesn't happen.
That's what struck me at this Horatio Alger dinner.
It's so rare anymore to hear it.
Welcome back.
Rush Limboy, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
From the Gallup poll, satisfaction with the United States historically low for a midterm year.
So far in 2010, an average of 23% of Americans have been satisfied with the way things are going in the United States.
That's well below the 40% historical average Gallup as measured since 1979 when it began asking this question.
The 2010 average is also the lowest Gallup is measured in a midterm election year dating to 1982.
24% were satisfied with the direction of the country then, the way things are going.
Today, 23%.
23% satisfied with the way the country are going.
Who are these 23?
Who are these people that are satisfied with this?
It is an historical lull, uh, ladies and gentlemen, but it's just incredible.
What and why?
Liberalism from the Associated Press.
The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week by the largest amount in three months.
The surge is evidence of how volatile the job market remains even as the economy grows.
Even as the economy grows, where is the economic growth?
Where is the evidence of that?
Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 471,000 last week, up by 25,000 from the previous week.
This, according to the labor department, the first increase in five weeks, the biggest jump since a gain of 40,000 in February.
This is not good news, my friends.
This is not good news.
If I were oriented politically, I'd be celebrating this.
Oh, wonderful news.
It's going to be bad for Obama.
This is not good news.
The forecast had been for claims to fall by around 4,000.
Instead, new claims were up by 25,000, or up, they're off basically by 30,000.
And I'll bet you when they revise this later, it'll be even worse.
Employers are hiring again, but not at levels needed to make a dent in the unemployment.
What's your first clue?
They're hiring again, but not at levels needed to make it.
Yeah, they're hiring and unemployment claims go up.
In this story, they try to say this is really not bad, folks, because this means that more people are in the market looking for work now and being counted.
Well, it also means they're not finding any.
Unexpected.
Once again, the AP here trying to say it's because people who stopped looking are looking again, but what does that matter?
They may have quit looking, and they may have quit being counted, and all that shows that good numbers showing unemployment dropping were just lies and distortions.
There hasn't been any significant drop in unemployment.
It just drops in the way it's counted.
Let's see.
And of course, uh it just figure out.
for the weekending May 8th, 35 states and territories saw increases in applications for new jobless benefits.
18 states saw declines.
The largest increases in applications for new job benefits, unemployment benefits, came in California, up 8,351 because layoffs in service industries and manufacturing.
And in Michigan, up by 3,175 because of layoffs in the auto industry.
What?
I thought GM was turning a profit.
Layoffs in Michigan?
Is there anybody left to lay off in Michigan?
This this makes no sense whatsoever.
Didn't we just hear from the mayor Antonio Villaraigosa?
Uh, that illegal aliens are contributing to the economic might of Los Angeles.
California has thrown open its golden gate to those economy boosting illegal immigrants.
And Michigan's auto industry, who runs that?
Obama.
The regime and the United Auto workers run the auto industry.
Where did they go wrong?
Back to the phones.
To Dallas.
Keith, thank you for uh waiting, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you for having me on, Russ.
You bet today.
I um am very, very glad that Rand Paul won.
And uh I think the demonization machine is gonna get to work because he's a threat to the uh banks that are crashing the economy here and in Europe.
Have you seen Invisible Empire for free on YouTube?
It talks about that.
Uh I have not.
I don't watch YouTube videos.
It's good.
You can see it for free.
It talks about a lot of stuff that ran that Rand Paul stands for.
Well, uh fine.
I'll uh I'll check it out as to is your question about will he be demonized?
Yes.
Uh does Colonel Sanders serve chicken?
Of course he's gonna be demonized.
Bob in Belleville, Michigan, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Rush Ditto's, and I and I'm a staunt conservative Republican.
But boy, am I mad at you?
You are missing the boat so far out that you need to be out there with with the oil rig.
Where were the Republicans when this guy was standing in front of them today, insulting our country?
Why didn't they get up and walk out?
Why didn't they get out and walk out on this yo-yo?
Why are you asking me?
And how did I miss?
I'm asking, but you're giving them a you never you uh I'm personally saying you give the Republicans a pass.
I am one.
I'm a conservative.
You don't know how many times I've yelled and screamed at you on that radio.
But you give them a pass.
Every time.
Why didn't they get up and walk out when they were passing the TARP and all of that other crap that went on and they're standing there?
Oh, we didn't why didn't they walk out?
What did they do when Clinton was in trouble?
The Democrats all stood on the steps together as a group and said we re We will re we will follow behind you.
Where are the Republicans doing that to the people of the country?
They're not.
What are you doing to help?
I'm part of the Tea Party.
I'm talking to you right now and everybody else I can talk to.
And I voted and I vote and I vote as many times and often.
I'm in Michigan.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I'm my point, Rush, is this.
I honestly feel sometimes you give them a pass because you are so with them.
I don't know what show you're listening to.
This is really it renders irrelevant everything else you're saying.
I give the Republicans a pass.
Go ask Carl Rover, George W. Bush about that.
Go ask Mitch McConnell about it.
You know, i you're very good at whining and complaining.
Well, you sit out there and do this and demand the Republicans do that, do this.
I'm off or the deep end.
I uh I have I've I called them fearful.
I said they I've chastised them for joining in a standing O a couple times.
I don't know what you're Listening to.
But even so, is that the measure?
Being willing to criticize Republicans.
My primary focus here is saving the country.
My primary focus here is focusing the blame where it belongs.
And frankly, sir, whether the Republicans stand up and walk out is irrelevant.
That's not going to change what Obama and his regime are doing.
It's not going to help an election.
It's not going to cause any change, make any difference whatsoever, except to satisfy armchair people like you who want to see some sort of action that you're not willing to take yourself.
Back after this.
This is somewhat interesting here from Reuters.
Europe's debt crisis has laid bare the fragility of global finances, and the United States, too, must tame its fiscal deficit, according to a senior CHICOM official.
He said this Thursday, spelling out Beijing's concerns before talks with Washington.
Okay, so earlier this week, we have human rights talks with Washington, and our assistant Secretary of State, Michael Posner, volunteered that we have our own human rights and discrimination problems because of the Arizona law.
So now we got some more talks happening with the ChICOMs, and they're upset about our deficit.
Will Obama agree with them on this?
Will he?
With China facing U.S. criticism for yoking its currency to a de facto dollar peg.
Assistant finance manager Zhu Zhang Go Gang Green shifted attention to Beijing's own worries about the Eurozone's woes and Washington's rising indebtedness ahead of the two countries' strategic and economic dialogue next week.
China wants quiet discussions about exchange rate issues and loud lobbying will only delay movement on the one.
Gang Green told a news conference.
External pressure and noise will do nothing but slow the reform process.
So of course the Chiccoms can continue to manipulating their currency.
Oh yeah, they can do all of this they want to get an unfair trade advantage.
It can do that.
And who are we to complain with our record of human rights violations in Arizona?
You see how this works.
The Chicoms imprison people.
They don't agree with them.
They imprison people who are dissidents.
They run over them with tanks.
Or threaten to.
And now they're complaining to us about our deficit while they're manipulate their own currency for advantages in the in in foreign trade.
And now they complain about our debt, which they have a right to do in one sense because they own a lot of it.
And we have put ourselves in a position, you know what?
Yeah, you guys have a point.
Our human rights record's not all that hot.
Look at what's going on in Arizona here.
Yeah, okay, you have a point.
What a week this is.
What an unforgettable week.
Things happening for the first time in my life as an American citizen.
Things I have not seen and things I have not heard before all this week.
I'm not surprised.
I know who these people are.
Well, maybe I am a little.
Maybe no, I can't say that I'm surprised.
I'm just angry about it.
I'm just a little angry about it.
It's just, and it's happening with such a, with a quiet atmosphere.
The media, the media is being dissed.
You know, the regime here is making a mockery of a free press.
And they're sitting around going along with it while complaining just a little bit.
Obama told them to get questions yesterday.
Yeah, they got one from Univision.
And then the Mexican contingent got the next question.
Both of them are about immigration.
So Obama could bash Arizona.
And so that Senor Wensis could bash Arizona.
There wasn't one question about Obama's sterling electoral victory on Tuesday night.
And they're now making excuses in the state controlled media.
Well, maybe he's just tired.
Maybe he's got a lot on his plate.
Chip Reed.
CBS.
I'll find it for you.
I'm gonna grab another phone call quickly.
Um, I don't have to find it.
I have it right here.
You may recall that on Monday, this is Chip Reed, uh, President uh Obama refused to take any questions from the press immediately after signing the Press Freedom Act and the Oval Orifice.
The president, who has not held a primetime press conference since last July, said this was not a press conference, and he would have something later in the week.
He was presumably referring to today's uh schedule, which is yesterday now, a joint press conference with Senor Wentz in the Rose Garden, but so-called press conferences with foreign leaders usually allow for only two questions from the White House press corpse and two from foreign reporters.
But today there was time for only one from each side, and in what I suspect was a White House effort to assure that the questioning was limited to immigration and other issues of uh U.S. Mexico concern, he called on the Univision reporter from the U.S. side.
So if his goal was to avoid answering any tough questions about yesterday's elections or the oil spill or financial regulation or Iran or Afghanistan, he succeeded.
This Chip Reed, CBS White House correspondent.
As he and Senor Wences turned to walk back toward the Oval Office, I asked loudly enough for him to hear if he had any comments on the elections.
No response.
I then shouted, do you have any plans for a real press conference?
No response.
Not that I expected one, said Chip Reed.
Hey, Chip, can I ask a question?
Do you have any plans for any real reporting any time soon?
There are so many stories out there, Chip, of uh incompetence, power grabs, corruption.
It's sickening.
Right before your very eyes, you are watching the orchestrated pummeling of this country by the president and one of his allies, Senor Wencis.
The ventroloquist dummy from Mexico.
So you're patting yourself on the back here for asking a question that didn't get an answer.
And you say you already knew the answer, which there wasn't going to be one.
But there's some real stories out there, Chip.
Um guys something changed in your job description.
Do you guys not just White House stenographers?
I know that Jonathan Alter is a stenographer for David Axelrod.
Ron Emmanuel, but I I wonder if this is spread to the entire press corps.
I mean, I don't I don't think the press is gonna turn on him.
Do you, Snertley?
Press is not gonna turn on the guy.
I do think they'll vote for him in 2012, and they will be urging all of us to vote for Obama in 2012.
I do I think they're gonna continue to vote for Democrats.
But what I just read to you here, this blog post from Chip Reed, what's saying without directly saying it, is admitting that people like Chip Reed were wrong about Obama.
I mean, he's not open, he's not a unifier, he's he's not something we've never seen before.
He's not the one, he's not the one we've been waiting for.
He was gonna be different, better, smarter, transparent, more access.
That's what Obama promised.
That's what the press predicted and reported.
Apparently they were wrong.
So Chip Reed posts this as if we should all share in his shock and amazement that there hasn't been a press conference, that the traditional rules at uh joint press conferences with foreign leaders were stood on their head.
I mean, even Chip, then the bottom line here is even when Obama held press conferences, He didn't answer anything.
So we're not missing anything here.
Other than when are you guys gonna do some reporting?
Back after this.
Okay, here's a little bit of Chip Reed.
This is after Obama signed the International Press Freedom Bill, named after Daniel Pearl.
After his remarks, Chip Reed said some things to it.
You're certainly free to ask them, Chip.
We won't be answering.
I'm not doing a press conference today.
You're certainly free to ask them, Chip.
And the rest of the press corps laughs.
Unidentified aide says, Thank you guys.
Obama says, We won't be answering.
I'm uh I'm not doing a press conference.
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