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Jan. 9, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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Do you know what it was that got all of this started?
It was a simple email.
The email said it was a top Christie Aid.
It's one of his uh one of his employees, one of his advisors, sent an email.
And the email said, time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.
And the response was, got it.
That's what started this.
Now, what does that sound like to you?
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So an aide to Governor Christie fires off an email, time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.
Response, got it.
Not traffic problems, Fort Lee.
What are you talking about?
What do you mean?
Not what do you mean, time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee?
Who's having problems?
Not traffic problems at Fort Lee.
What do you want me to do about it?
Not what do you what's going on?
Why why do you want me to mess with traffic in Fort Lee?
The message was time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee, and a response got it.
That's all it took.
What does that tell you?
It tells you that there's uh I don't know, for lack of a better word, a culture, a level of understanding.
Somebody sends out an email that it works for Governor Christie, time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.
Okay, got it.
And they know immediately to start shutting down some on ramp lanes to the George Washington Bridge.
Yeah, you mean like we did last time?
You mean you mean like we did in Parsippene that time?
You mean like we did down in Philadelphia when they fired Andy Reid?
What are you talking about?
There wasn't indeed.
No, the guy knew exactly what he was talking about when it was time for traffic problems at Fort Lee.
Anyway, a couple of heads have rolled, and you don't see this.
And one of the heads at role was a woman, and you really don't see that.
I'm told here that Christie's being praised for his performance here.
Uh but at CNN they're a little worried that Christie did not admit to whether he's a private email account or not.
Whatever that matters.
Um two people gone, one of his first uh uh well, his two-time campaign manager, who was aware of the this is the New York Post.
You gotta love the way this is written.
He also forced his two-time campaign manager who was aware of the vengeful scheme, and later played a role in the damage control effort to take his name out of the running to lead New Jersey's Republican Party.
That's that's a guy named uh Wildstein.
And this guy, this guy Wilstein, David Wilstein.
Uh this guy was thrown over the board.
I I mean lickety split.
And then Christie denied that he was that close with the guy.
Wasn't that good?
We're as close a friends as you're alluding to.
This guy was in line to run the New Jersey Republican Party.
Instead, he's gone.
The other, the deputy chief of staff, Bridget Ann Kelly, 41, who sent an email to longtime Christy Croney and then Port Authority official David Wilstein that said time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee was sent, but she's the one sent the email.
The deputy chief of staff sent the email that said, time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.
And whoever is this got it.
Now to the audio soundbites.
Doesn't matter.
It's the Pope, if it's the Polar Vortex.
You ever heard about that?
They're out there trying to say that I denied the existence of the polar vortex.
It's not what I said.
What I said was these people are trying to use the polar vortex.
I had a little fun, they just have no sense of humor.
I was talking about maybe, you know, one leg of the polar vortex is split off and caused all these problems.
But anyway, they're out.
John Holdren, who is the science advisor to Obama.
They're out there now saying that the Polar Vortex is it's cold in the North Pole because of global warming.
They are continuing to make this point.
They can't explain how.
They can't prove it.
They can't offer a solution.
What are we supposed to do to stop this?
If we're causing global warming, what are we supposed to do?
And all they can do, well, we got to reduce our carbon food.
Well, we can't.
We're putting more CO2 in the air than ever, and guess what?
It's getting cooler.
Okay, so what are we supposed to do to the reverse global warming?
Well, we got to stop driving SUV.
Well, a lot of people have.
There is no solution.
Anyway, that's off the beaten path.
Start with Juan Williams.
And then see, Juan Williams, this was uh, I guess this morning.
It was this afternoon.
It was oh.
This sound bite occurred while Christie was still speaking.
On the Fox News channel, uh, Juan Williams during happening now, the the co-host Jenna Lee said, Do you think that this has political implications that can carry through over the next several years, Juan?
We're really talking about will fellow Republicans view this as, you know, a one-time strange event, or do they see this as indicative of a deep flaw in him?
Rush Limbaugh said yesterday this is the payback attitude coming from Chris Christie.
Are the Republicans still mad at him over embracing Obama after Hurricane Sandy?
Are they going to now see this as more evidence that he's not their type of guy?
Do you think Juan Williams listened to my program yesterday?
No?
Then how does Juan Williams know what I said?
Right, exactly right.
He's reading about it.
None of these guys that put my name in these stories ever hear what I say.
They don't go to my website to find out.
They don't get rush in a hurry.
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But Juan Williams doesn't get that.
And he doesn't listen.
It would be very simple to find out what I think or say.
Either listen here or go to my website.
But they don't.
They all go to Media Matters.
That is the only way these supposed journalists know what I say, which is why they get it wrong so often, because Media Matters on purpose takes it out of context.
Okay, so that's one.
Last night, oh, sorry, this morning, CNN uh International.
Program called the News Stream, the anchor Christie Lew Stout spoke with CNN Digital national political reporter Peter Hamby about the bridge lane closure scandal surrounding Governor Christie.
And the infobabe, Christy Lew Stout, said, are Republicans turning against Chris Christie in a significant way?
Not yet.
You've seen some conservative voices come out and be critical of him.
We heard Rush Limbaugh, the radio talk show host come out yesterday and sort of criticize his leadership style and say that he punishes his enemies, etc.
But by and large, you're not seeing a lot of Republican officials come out and condemn him, ask him to resign.
No, you didn't see that, but you didn't see any of them come out and defend him either.
Not one of them did, folks.
He was on his own.
It was sort of like a drowning person.
The rule, don't get near them, they'll take you down with him.
And that's it.
Not one Democrat that Christie claims he'd been working with came out and supported him.
None of the rhinos did.
He was on his own.
John King.
CNN last night, Aaron Burnett out front, Don Lemon was filling in as the host because Aaron wasn't.
She got married or something, or isn't it pregnant or something?
She's going to have a human baby.
Anyway, Don Lemon said to John King, we were hard-pressed to find a Republican today who would defend Chris Christie.
What do you make of that?
You look at Rush Limbaugh, you look at a number of conservative commentators, the part of the Republican Party that doesn't like Chris Christie or that is suspicious of Chris Christie, they're saying this guy sounds like Richard Nixon.
He sounds vindictive.
He sounds petty.
We think he's too dangerous.
We think he's a bully.
If that sinks in, Don, if that becomes hard and concrete, the image of a guy as a bully is vindictive, well, that's not a presidential temperament.
And that has been Chris Christie's challenge from day one.
They used to love the guy.
These media types just used to love the guy.
Juan Williams, I think it was if you go back to the Juan Williams soundbite, he seemed pretty convinced that Christie was lying.
And yet he seems to believe everything Obama says about it.
This is another thing, you know, we've got the soundbite coming up, but Don Lemon had Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz on last night.
The Democrat National Committee spokes babe.
Well, it's not a babe, spokeswoman.
And he asked her point blank, well, why is it that you don't believe Christie in any of his denials, but you believe every denial Obama makes.
We'll let you hear that in due course.
Okay, just two more.
C-SPAN, Washington Journal, this morning, taking viewer calls about the Bridge Lane scandal surrounding Governor Christie.
Here's the host of Washington Journal on C-SPAN today, Greta Braunner.
Politico with the headline that Rush Limbaugh on his radio show yesterday saying that the Chris Christie, Robert Gates distractions, saying that the Chris Christie story is uh convenient for the White House and it distracts from the memoir being put out by the former defense secretary Robert Gates.
We're going to give you a chance to weigh in on that.
I don't even remember.
Did I say that?
Did I say that the Christie story was loved and adored by the White House because it it distracted from Gates?
I don't think I said that.
I what I said was I said that the White House is happy about something because it's distracting from Obamacare.
I think I might have said it was happy about Gates.
Yeah, I don't, but anyway.
So Greta Bronner, she got it from Politico, and where'd they get it?
They don't listen either.
So then she went to phones.
Uh C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and the first call is from Thomas in New Jersey.
Let me get your reaction to what Rush Limbaugh also had to say during his radio show yesterday.
He was quoted in Politico as saying, the point of the story is that Christie will do payback.
If you don't give him what he wants, he'll pay you back.
So they're taking it all the way back.
Republican convention, Romney didn't pick Christie.
Christie got even with a dull keynote speech and then embracing Obama.
So the story is they're taking this Fort Lee example and they're backtracking it.
Hmm, maybe Christie was getting even with Romney.
I do listen to Rush.
I didn't hear that yesterday, but I guess my reaction would be I would be in somewhat agreement.
I would be in somewhat agreement with what Rush said, but I wouldn't go as far.
No, of course not.
I totally agree with what Rush said, but I Wouldn't say it.
That's what that means.
I totally agree.
Everything he said.
I wouldn't say it, but I'm glad he did.
But I didn't say the bridge thing was payback for Romney.
They don't know what they're talking about.
They read it, they don't understand.
Let's see.
Yeah, let's do one more.
Stu.
F. Chuck Todd on the Today Show today, Matt Wower, speaking with F. Chuck Todd, says he has released a statement now.
Christie has.
He hasn't sat down for an interview, though.
What does he have to do, F. Chuck, to try to get his arms around this or get control of this story?
He's violating the basic rules of crisis management, right?
He spoke earlier without knowing all the facts, without making sure he wasn't going to say something that was going to bite him back, which clearly that did happen.
But at this point, he's got to get out in front of us.
He's got to own this, and somebody's got to get fired.
Obviously, he says he doesn't know this was unsanctioned behavior.
How is it that this person hasn't been fired yet?
Well, he's been fired.
Two people have been fired.
F. Chuck Todd should be happy.
Now here's a rhetorical question.
I know I I don't I know I know why isn't Sibelius fired?
Why it's a different standard, Snerdley.
You know this.
This is I made this point in the first hour.
Whatever that there's you have equivalent scandals.
In fact, you've got a much smaller scandal with this bridge thing than the IRS or then Obamacare or the website, and these media people never once suggest that Obama needs to fire anybody.
They make the case for keeping them on and and uh and defending them.
Anyway, I got it.
Let me take a break because I want to come back and I want to get started on the phones, and I want to have time to do that.
So sit tight, folks.
Back before you know it.
Okay, I need a break.
So I'm gonna go to the phones.
I'm gonna let the uh let the callers carry the program for just a while.
We'll start with Janet in Shiloh, Illinois.
You're up.
Happy New Year, last man standing.
Um how are you?
I'm great.
I'm fabulous.
Thank you.
Okay, and just one thing.
The call the other day with the seven-year-old girl.
Yeah.
Use that.
That is the cutest call in twenty years of Rush Limbaugh, and it will get the women.
Okay.
Back to Chris Christie.
What was it?
Wait a minute.
What was you gonna remember my hang on a minute now?
You've got to remember my hearing.
Here's what I heard.
Okay, now to Chris Christie.
What was that?
I don't know.
My dog.
Okay, Rosh, Rush, the lane closure.
This will make Chris Christie the next president unless you toss a wrench into it.
And you can do this.
Okay, hang on just a second.
I want to f I'd plan on taking your call off, but but you've got me intrigued here.
So uh this is gonna make Christie president unless I throw a wretched.
How is this going before we get into me and the wrench?
How does this make him president?
Because there's an appetite among Republicans for a no non- Mitt Romney was seen as a weak man ultimately.
He couldn't play tough.
He was too nice.
Are you telling me that there are Republicans out there who secretly applauding Christie for closing the lanes on the bridge?
No.
Are you telling me that there are people applauding Christie because of the way he handled the media in the press conference?
Yes, you are so smart.
Yeah, my last wild guess.
I I stumbled on it.
Okay, so he's threading the raging needle, but it's not the Reagan needle, and you know this better than anyone.
Okay.
There are, yes, there are Republicans applauding the lane closures, and we but we don't need to talk about that.
Um, Christie, okay, going back to one of Rush Limbaugh's first principles.
A tiger is a tiger.
Right.
Chris Christie is lane closure.
Ronald Reagan never tried To harm the people.
He cared and he valued and uplifted the people.
This is this is this is just disgusting.
Well, now wait a minute.
Christy denied any involvement whatsoever.
He said he lost sleep.
I don't know if people heard this.
I'm gonna let you you want the wrench?
Here's a wrench.
Here's a wrench.
Christie said in his press conference that he has not been able to sleep for two nights, but he only learned of the emails yesterday.
Oh, so why couldn't he sleep two nights ago if he only learned about this one day ago?
I love you.
I just love you.
You're so much fun.
No, but I was just...
And it's that email.
Read the email.
Time for some lane closures.
I read that and I said...
How does that mean anything?
But it's the follow-up.
Got it.
There's the culture, there's the tone.
Yeah, but Christy denied, he denied being involved in Janet.
He denied so there they're I know that.
So what?
What's a denial in politics?
What we have to say is now he's now he's shown up.
He's shown up at his two hour press conference.
He's saying, I knew nothing.
And I fired these people, and he fired a woman.
Woo-hoo.
He's really gunning for the White House, okay?
I mean this guy, he's gunning for it, and you can just see the you can see the lemmings.
You can feel them right now on the East Coast in DC, just being pulled to his to his magnet magnetism, his animal magnetism.
He's so strong, he's so cleansed.
He's gonna go to Washington.
He'll get rid of Sibelius.
No, he won't.
Oh my gosh, this is the guy that played FTSE with Obamacare.
He he is one of the guys that we he's one of the reasons why we have it.
This guy no you know him better than anyone, Rosh, and you're the one that hang on, hold that thought.
Hold hold Janet, don't go anywhere.
I'll track you down if you hang up.
It's interesting since the Chris Christie press conference ended about a half hour ago.
CNN has not talked about anything else.
They've had their cameras down in uh in Trenton where some Christie aides taking the Fifth Amendment already in the scandal.
But they have not left the story.
CNN has not left it.
They haven't talked about one other thing.
Fox right now is doing a story on how the uh Department of Justice.
Have you heard about this?
They have appointed an Obama donor to investigate the IRS scandal.
An official Obama donor, a lawyer who has donated, contributed to Obama, has been chosen to investigate the IRS in that Tea Party scandal.
Okay.
Back to Janet in Shiloh, Illinois.
Okay, so you have explained you're still there, right?
Yes, I am here.
Hi.
So you've explained why you think this could launch Christie to at least a Republican nomination.
Yes.
Now you then said this is going to happen unless I throw a wrench.
Yes.
Well, what do you mean?
What kind what what are you talking about?
What you need to articulate well, okay.
Let me just by the way, right now.
Janet Janet, hang on, I got it.
I'm backing up.
I'm backing up.
But wait a second, Janet.
I got I want you to be fully informed before you answer.
The New York Times just tweeted the following.
Oh, cool.
Despite Christie's I you're gonna love this.
The New York Times just tweeted, despite Christie's contrite apology, does the bridge scandal mean the end of his career?
No.
Yes.
Not at all.
New York Times.
So the New York Times is not letting go of the notion that Christie has destroyed his political career here.
Well, of course.
Why would they?
This is the this is the game they understand.
This is I mean, this he's this is what they put understand.
Christie's true ultimate success to the White House comes from peeling off votes from Hillary, okay?
But he has to get the Republican nomination if he stays a Republican.
Okay, and that will depend upon those people in the pleading the fifth, all right.
If he they but let's not let's not jump there.
He has to get the Republican nomination.
The way that he's been playing it is he's got one foot in the East Coast corridor, Northeast politics Democrat, prosecutor, that whole world, and he's been really saying he's Reaganesque.
And he was selected to speak at something on Reagan's behalf.
I can't remember what that was.
Well, no, he was asked to speak at the Reagan Library.
Okay, well, so they gave him gravitas.
How's that?
And the thing that happened in that speech, the QA was all.
Why aren't you running?
Why won't you run for president?
There you go.
See, there's a there's such a hunger.
There's such a real hunger for real leadership.
Well then why do you oppose the guy?
You're making a why do I oppose the guy?
Because I have a brain.
Okay, so you know the Okay, I then I understand.
So now you but you you you think it's up to me now to throw a wrench into this.
Yes.
And it's really simple.
It's not hard.
It just it's just gotta be you you know, you if you had been if you've been in the NFL rush, you would have been one of the greatest quarterbacks of all times.
You would have threaded the needle, the players would have been there usually at the when they were at the appointed moment, and you would have, you know, gone right to the Super Bowl and won him probably four times successively, you know.
I mean, hey, I mean, I just accept that about you.
So let's do that with Chris Christie, okay.
So Chris Christie, being a Republican, he has now stood up and said, Hey, this is not me.
I'm not some what did you say, air blown, dry candidate?
I'm I couldn't sleep for two days.
That's that's just oh my gosh, that's red meat to these hungry people looking for leadership.
I mean, I'm expecting Dr. Krautheimer to just be just by himself this afternoon.
He's gonna love this, okay?
Well, now that's it.
Hang on here just a second.
That almost that uh that almost raced by me and I d I just caught that you fully expect Dr. Krautama to praise uh Christie to the hilt later today.
Yes, because he's a head shrink and he understands the re an apology.
Uh someone taking um uh taking away.
Well now wait a minute, Janet Janet, wait a minute.
I'm sorry to keep interrupting you, but y i if if if Dr. Krauthammer Yes.
If you're right, if Dr. Krauthammer comes out this afternoon praises Governor Christie to the hilt, then why in the world would anybody oppose Christie?
Why would anyone in the world oppose Christie?
Well if Dr. Krauthammer comes out and effectively Well, remember if Dr. Crafthammer has already admitted he didn't know who Obama was until five weeks into his presidency.
So why should we listen to Dr. Crophammer?
I don't listen to Dr. Crophammer.
Ew.
Well, because everybody does.
I know, and like those people at National Review.
And see, you are actually the one that carries on conservatism.
You're the one that's standing at sort something screaming, stop.
And that's what you've got to do today and tomorrow.
Well, you don't think it's a little early?
No.
It's never early.
You run it up the flagpole when you've got your chance.
Okay, Rush.
You've got to look at this, and you're hitting it.
You it's the tone.
It's the tone in those emails.
It's harming the people.
Obamacare, what's Obamacare doing?
Harming the people.
How many pe we there was a story in October, November about the number of insurance policies canceled in New Jersey?
It was like 800,000.
Chris Christie should have been out there in front, screaming about the raised prices.
Screaming about the people that don't have insurance.
Well, now wait a minute.
I if if I'm not I don't think Christie was not that opposed to Obamacare.
Uh-huh.
Okay, now you're you're cluing in.
Okay.
I know you're smart.
I knew it.
You're clueing in.
This is why he's not Reagan.
We're talking about cr Christie still is pretending he's Reagan.
He's not Reagan.
Reagan would have been out in front March twenty-third, two thousand ten, saying, no way is this going to happen.
Okay?
But uh with Christie's been playing every angle, okay?
And people fall for it because they're so hungry for leadership.
And they want corruption stopped.
What have we learned under Obama?
That Washington is corruption.
I mean, those are our worst first.
Well, look, let me tell you, Janet, I will grant you that in the early days of Christie, there was a just a swarming of support because of two things.
The guy didn't take any guff from the media.
He talked back to and the unions.
He just let the unions verbally end up working with them, but I mean, in in he was voicing things that conservative Republican voters have been dying to hear from Republicans for years.
Exactly.
But then came the walk with Obama on the boardwalk.
And I do you think that the same level of enthusiasm prior to that for Christie exists today?
Well, I remember I said his success, his strategy is his success.
His ultimate success lies in peeling off votes from Hillary.
And I think it was yesterday somewhere, there's a story about Albert.
Well, wait a minute.
Republican voters are tired of hearing Republicans say they can cross the aisle.
They can work with the other side, we can cooperate.
And that's what he's talking about.
I I don't really think that.
Do you I do you honestly think that?
Because we seem to gravitate at every national election to that kind of person.
I mean, you and I might be able to do that.
Oh, I'm talking about Republican primary voters here.
I'm talking about you're you're you're talking about getting a nomination here.
Uh right.
Right.
But what well Republicans right now, Republican primary voters, not conservative, but Republican.
Well, I still happen to Janet, I closing moments here.
I still happen to believe, and more than ever, by the way, and especially now, that if a Republican, conservative Republican, ran for office, making the case that we've worked with them too long, it's time to defeat them.
We've got five years of disastrous experience.
We don't want to work any longer with this.
We don't want to help with immigration.
We don't want to help with Obama here.
We want something entirely different.
And that involves defeating these people.
I think somebody come along and make that point.
The Democrats never say they want to work with us.
The Democrats never talk about bipartisan.
They demand it from us, but they never promise that that's what they're gonna do.
They're out there demanding bipartisanship from our candidates, and they're doing so our candidates are moderates dutifully reply, okay.
I'll work with you, I'll cross the aisle.
But that's not what our voters want.
Our voters want somebody's gonna kick butt and not take names.
Especially now after five years, we've got an economic disaster, we got a debt disaster, we have a we have the health care systems being destroyed.
We've got 91 million Americans not working, we've got a welfare state out of control.
We're about to open the borders.
I think the right candidate come along and say, enough of this, it's time to stop this and roll this back and start defeating this is the answer.
I don't believe the Republicans lose every time they try this strategy of working together, bipartisanship, cooperation, it doesn't win them anything.
It might win primaries here and there, but those are you know different different ball of wax.
I just I I think there is a general uh uh th discontent that's effervescing all over this country, and I think more and more people are fed up.
They're just afraid to say so.
It's like this guy on C-SPAN today who called, who was asked.
Do you think what Limbaugh said is right?
Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't call that far.
I wouldn't say it, but I'm glad he said it.
There's I'm telling you, you still have people afraid of telling you what they really think because they're afraid of being called racist or bigots or what have you.
But I think that there is an effervescing degree.
Look at Obama's approval numbers.
Look at congressional approval numbers.
People are fed up, and once the story gets out that this New Jersey lane closure thing was not payback for a politician.
It may have been intended, but who got harmed?
Who got harmed with Obama's IRS?
The people are being harmed by politicians of both parties left and right.
Whenever they engage in whatever business they're engaging in.
Political payback, advancing their own agendas.
Who's paying the price for this?
Citizens are.
Citizens are losing their income.
They're losing job opportunities.
The private sector shrinking.
They are losing their futures.
They're losing their jobs.
They're fed up with it.
I think there's a great sense of discontent out there.
Contrary to what the media would like you to believe.
And I know there's a bunch of low information voters, and there's enough a bunch of them who fall for all the stuff in the media and on the left.
But I have not given up on the vast majority of people in this country being fed up.
They just don't have anybody speaking for them.
And the reason Christie at one time was so overwhelmingly popular is because he was doing exactly what I just described, or at least that's what people thought he was doing.
He was talking back to them.
He was not taking their BS, and he was not taking names.
He was just both the media and the unions.
And but he's he's destroyed that to a degree or damaged it greatly with the boardwalk arm and arm embrace of Obama and some of these other things.
The bloom is off that rose now.
And not because of the bridge thing.
I don't know what the lasting impact of that's going to be.
But Janet, it's been a delight.
I'm glad you called.
And I I I uh where is Shiloh, Illinois, by the way.
Are you talking to me?
Yeah.
Well, you just do the wrench.
I love you.
I adore you.
You're brilliant.
That's the wrench.
Keep throwing it.
Okay, just for the wrench.
Underscoring it.
Right on.
Okay.
And where's Shiloh, Illinois?
Well, um, it's oh gosh.
Do I see Well, Obama probably knows where I live.
Don't you think NSA goes on to me?
So, um Yeah, I think 18 miles from St. Louis.
Oh, okay.
18 miles from St. Louis.
I should know that, and I don't know that.
18 miles to St. Hi.
How are you?
Great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, EIB network, has said 800,000 insurance policies have been canceled in New Jersey.
And it's it's a mess.
It's an absolute mess.
And I tell you what, this scandal and the Obama scandals shows how petty the government is on every level and the danger of the government having so much power.
Now you got the New York Times saying, we're not moved by this.
That this he may have apologized, but that doesn't mean that this bridge scandal is over.
They think could this still be the end of his career?
CNN's not letting go.
CNN just said this is only the beginning.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Here's Christie.
We've got two of them.
Listen carefully.
This is both of these are from today, the press conference.
Here's the first one.
Listen carefully.
Believe me.
John, I haven't had a lot of sleep the last two nights, and I've been doing a lot of soul searching.
I'm sick over this.
Two nights.
A lot of soul searching, sick over this.
Haven't had a lot of sleep the last two nights.
Here's the next bite.
I was done with my workout yesterday morning and got a call from my communications director at about 850, 855, informing me of this story that had just broken on the Bergen Record website.
That was the first time I knew about this.
It's the first time I had seen any of the documents that were revealed yesterday.
Look, I'm sorry.
I've got to ask, then why didn't he sleep the first night?
He said, I haven't had a lot of sleep last two nights, a lot of soul searching.
But I just found out about this yesterday after my workout.
As an aside, I saw some snickering on CNN when he mentioned his workout.
I just want you to know.
I saw some snickering on CNN when Christie mentioned his workout.
I wasn't snickering, but I saw some on CNN.
Here is Bill Paskrell.
Bill Paskrell is uh who is Bill Pascrell?
Uh, is a Democrat, uh uh congressman, member of Congress, and he's talking to Wolf Blitzer, says a pretty shocking development if you think about it here.
This individual's now pleading the fifth down there in Trenton over there.
The fact of the matter is, this is the onion.
This is the onion, Wolf, that's unfolding leaf by leaf at a time.
And I can assure you, I can assure you from what I've known from what I've studied that this is only the beginning of what's going to be a long investigation into behavior that is reprehensible.
I understand that the U.S. attorney's gonna be looking into this as well.
We don't need a plethora of investigations, what we need the truth to come out, though, for everybody.
Plethora, it's plethora.
And but that's Democrat.
This is just the beginning.
They're just starting to peel the onion.
They haven't got it.
This investigation is gonna go on and on and on.
Yeah.
Yeah, he'd say, I'd deal with Limbaugh on this later, and I want you to be there when it happens.
All right.
Fast as three hours in media.
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