Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, so as we open the program today, there's President Obama in Washington, shows up on time for the first time in gosh knows how many months, years, to make a speech on the Iran nuke deal, starting it right before this program begins.
Is that a big deal anymore, Mr. Snirdley, or is it not a big deal?
I don't think it's any big deal anymore.
I mean, it used to be a major politician faux pas.
The Democrats would do it as a sign of one-upsmanship, but I don't think it's any big deal anymore.
These guys are all on their own self-focused awareness.
But anyway, what Obama's talking about here is the nuke deal.
And I'll tell you what he's going to say, among other things.
He's going to say that if we do not all vote to support this, that means the Iranians will hit Israel.
I'm not kidding.
That's what he's going to say.
And who knows, whatever else.
You might even say that this could suffice as a distraction.
Boy, it is not good in the Democrat Party for Hillary Clinton right now in a whole lot of ways.
And I'm still not concerned, or not convinced that that bothers Obama all that much.
So anyway, we just put it all in the hopper here today, and it comes out as it does.
It's great to have you with us, as always.
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Another teachable moment today, a veritable object lesson in how it is that the Republican Party continues to, I mean, from Mitch McConnell saying, there's no way, I don't care what anybody says, there's not going to be a government show.
Let me tell you something, folks.
If you're not willing to shut down the government in a fight to defund Planned Parenthood, they get, do you know how much, what did I say the other day, $2 billion?
And they do not provide any health services that women cannot get anywhere else outside of the number of abortions they provide.
But they don't even do mammograms.
They're not a women's health organization.
It's a front for what they are.
But Mitch McConnell trying to head off anybody that talks about a government shutdown in September, heading off to passing.
And no matter what, there isn't going to be one.
Because the Republicans still are afraid of themselves.
They're afraid of whatever they might say and do.
And government shutdown.
Oh, they think it'd be a horrible most worst thing because, of course, everybody loves government, panics if the government gets shut down.
It's just, it's getting tiresome.
It's getting tiresome to have to, I don't know, report this, pass this stuff on to you.
It's getting tiresome.
And along the same lines, an object lesson, Jeb Bush, in an innocent comment that happened to be right on the money about federal funding for women's health issues, Hillary Clinton started squawking.
And Jeb Bush, within two hours, apologized and essentially asked for forgiveness and a chance to restate it.
And the Democrat media is out there applauding Mrs. Clinton way to go, way for changing the subject, way to take Jeb down, way to do all.
And there was no reason to apologize.
There was nothing.
He didn't say anything wrong.
He said something, in fact, that a lot of Republican voters believe.
And we will illustrate all this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.
News stories on the investigation of Hillary Clinton and her server.
Now the FBI supposedly investigating her server.
I got a note from my friend Andy McCarthy today.
He's getting really frustrated overall.
He said, what do you mean, investigate the server?
To seize the damn thing.
They need to seize the server.
This is not about examining documents.
This is about examining her behavior.
This is what she, what do you mean?
Want to see the server, seize the damn thing.
So we'll get into that.
And of course, the big Republican debates.
Did you know there are two debates tomorrow, Mr. Snerdley?
There's the pregame meal, which is at 5 o'clock with the candidates that didn't make the big show.
And that's that I did too.
I wanted Carly to be in it.
Well, we'll see.
There's going to be more than just these two.
But we have the pregame meal at 5 o'clock.
And I guess when is the big show?
8?
Big show's at 9.
Okay, big show's at 9 o'clock.
And that has the big show has 10 Republicans.
Who's at the pregame meal?
Is Carly, Rick Perry?
Who else didn't make the cut?
I'm trying to do this off the top of my head.
I've got the list of the 10 here.
It's Carly and Pataki.
Gilmore.
I didn't even know Gilmore was running again.
Oh, and Lindsey Gramnesty is in the pregame meal too, right?
He didn't make the big show.
Is that right?
Have I got that right?
Oh, here's the list.
Here we go.
Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, and John Kasich.
So, yeah.
Lindsey Gramnesty is in the pregame, which is at 5 o'clock, along with Bobby Jindal.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
The earlier time slot, they're calling it earlier time slot.
I call it pregame meal.
Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fearin, and nothing in there but, well, no, we're missing a name here unless Lindsey Graham's pulled out.
And I know he hasn't pulled it.
He's in the pregame meal, Lindsey Graham.
Okay, well, then they love the name out here.
Anyway, so we will see.
You know, I made my predictions yesterday, some of them, about what's going to happen in the debate tomorrow night as it relates to as it relates to Donald Trump.
There's also a headline out there today, ladies and gentlemen, story.
It's not just a headline.
And the headline is this: it's at the Daily Beast.
Hillary Clinton's mega donors are also funding Jeb Bush.
Racetrack owners, bankers, chicken kings meet the ultra-rich bankrolling the Bush and Clinton dynasties.
And that reminds me of something I said way back last December.
I've got the date right here, December 17th, 2014.
I was the first, and I have been excoriated by this by several in the Republican establishment commentary because they didn't see the humor in it.
I said, you know what?
As you look at the two candidates and the issues they think are important and the positions they have on these issues, seems to me the perfect ticket would be Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
And those two can decide who's going to be on top, the ticket, and go from there.
You get every, I mean, Amnesty, core curriculum education, so many similarities.
And of course, there was outrage from the Republican establishment, the machine.
As I say, there were some columns and commentary from people saying, oh, this is silly.
What's happened to Rush?
This is getting rushed.
Rush would never say anything like this before.
It's silly.
I was trying to make a point here about the similarities in candidates from the establishment, that they are not that different and that they have similar views about the role of government in the daily life of the United States of America.
And it is that government should be big and it should be front and center and the focus of everything.
The Republican side thinks they can do it a little smaller and a little smarter.
The Democrat side thinks it's never big enough.
And they're the smartest in the room, but there are a lot of similarities.
And then you see this headline here, or rather, this story, Hillary Clinton's mega donors also funding Jeb Bush.
So I think I was, as usual, my friends, on the cutting edge last December.
Okay, let's just, let's go to this object lesson here with Jeb Bush.
The Washington Post has a story here that is the latest in the aftermath of everything.
And the headline is Jeb Bush's quick turnabout on women's health funding and what it tells us.
And it is by Janelle Ross.
And it's a textbook example of how the drive-by media works.
It's also a textbook example of why most Republic and how many Republican candidates are afraid of their own shadows.
Jeb said absolutely nothing wrong in his original comments.
Absolutely nothing wrong.
But the drive-bys cherry-picked his comments and it didn't matter.
There's no taking them out of context.
Didn't have to.
What he said was not wrong.
It made infinite sense.
And I have to tell you something.
I was kind of all excited.
I was excited to be able to come here and say something positive about Jeb Bush.
And I didn't even get to it before they raked it over the calls and Jeb had to try to walk it back.
But the drive-bys think that they can use Jeb's remarks to give Hillary the moral high ground here on women's health and women's rights and the war on women and all of that.
Janelle Ross at the Washington Post says, if nothing else, Jeb Bush's quick turnabout on women's health funding is a testament to the power of social media.
By Tuesday afternoon, word went out via Twitter, which is a sewer.
Well, I should say Twitter has several sewers.
The whole thing may not be a sewer, but it's got several sewers in it.
I mean, the absolute dregs of human debris lurk there anonymously.
And that's just a testament to the power of these people.
This is the army of the great unwashed, the army of low-information voters sitting around tweeting all day.
Anyway, the word went out via Twitter that Jeb Bush was talking to a group of the Southern Baptist Convention and that he was, he didn't know that half a billion dollars was needed to cover women's health issues.
He thought, we don't need to be spending that kind of money.
And here's what Bush said.
This is what got this ball rolling.
He's at the Southern Baptist Convention.
He says, the argument against this is, well, women's health issues are going to be, I mean, you're attacking.
It's a war on women.
You're attacking women's health issues.
But you can take dollar for dollar, although I'm not sure we need a half billion dollars for women's health issues.
That was it.
That's all.
Although I'm not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women's health issues.
But he continued, if you took dollar for dollar, there are many extraordinarily fine organizations, community health organizations that exist, federally sponsored community health organizations to provide quality care for women on a wide variety of health issues.
But abortion should not be funded by the government.
And for this, for what you just heard, Jeb Bush was taken to the woodshed and the Twitter sewer did its, along with the Drive-By Media, once the Drive-By Media got wind of what was happening on Twitter, they joined the party.
And it was time to destroy Jeb.
Time to destroy Jeb for insensitivity, racism, sexism, bigotry, insensitivity to the plight of women.
Even though Jeb said, I don't know what we need to do spending all this money.
And then he went on to praise all of the federal organizations that he just knows are there that are providing just wonderful health care for all of these women who are so denied it in this mean-spirited country.
Why, you would think that women cannot get health care in America, even after Obamacare, even after the Affordable Care Act.
But yet here's Jeb Bush citing all of the federal programs and praising them.
And it wasn't enough, was it?
Here's crossing the aisle, folks.
Here's trying to compromise.
Here's working with the other side.
Here is showing we can govern.
Here is showing that we can cooperate.
Here is showing that we're not hate mongers like some in our conservative media are.
And what happened?
It all blew up right back in his face because of one phrase.
Although I'm not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women's health issues.
That little aside was blown up on social media as precisely an example of the Republican Party attacking women's health issues.
And less than two hours later, the Bush campaign released a statement clarifying Jeb's comments.
And this is what that statement said.
With regards to women's health funding broadly, I misspoke, as there are countless community health centers, rural clinics, and other women's health organizations that need to be fully funded.
They provide critical services to all, but particularly low-income women who don't have the access they need.
I was referring to the hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding that goes to Planned Parenthood, an organization that was callously participating in the unthinkable practice of selling fetal organs.
Can we, it's baby.
Can we just call this what it is?
It's baby organs.
It's not fetal organs.
It's not intact and anything.
They're selling baby organs.
They are aborting babies sometimes after they're born, and they are dissecting them, and they're selling baby organs, not fetal tissue.
Now, as the Washington Post writes here, the Bush campaign's clarification is essentially an acknowledgement of the candidate's error.
But none of that matters.
Sure enough, Hillary Clinton was right there to pounce.
Hillary Clinton tweeted, Jeb Bush, you are absolutely, unequivocally wrong.
This from a woman who's out there running ads, announcing how proudly she stands with Planned Parenthood.
And then the Democrat media she had all it needed to swing into action.
We got the audio soundbites.
Some here to show you this, but this is classic.
Didn't say anything wrong.
And he gets attacked, he's conducting a war on women and then tries to correct it, and that didn't work.
When are these people going to learn?
You can't compromise.
You can't cross the aisle.
You can't extend the flying fickle finger of friendship or hand of freedom.
What are you can't?
There is no bipartisanship.
There is no cooperation.
There is no showing the other side we can govern.
They're not interested in that.
When, if ever, is the establishment on our side going to figure out the reality here.
By the way, I was right.
I nailed it.
President Obama did say during this speech: if Congress doesn't accept his Iran deal, that Israel will be at risk.
That that is when Iran will attack.
Because they'll be mad.
See?
They'll be mad.
They'll be blaming Netanyahu and all the Israelis.
And they'll be blaming, well, me, who doesn't, and everybody else.
And that'll really make the Iranians mad.
And so they will strike back by attacking Israel if we don't authorize Obama's deal.
Here's Jeb Bush.
Yesterday, National Southern Baptist Convention, the Send North America Conference.
And the Commission President Russell Moore said to Jeb, are you for defunding Planned Parenthood?
The next president should defund Planned Parenthood.
The argument against this is, well, women's health issues are going to be, you're attacking, it's a war on women, and you're attacking women's health issues.
You could take dollar for dollar, although I'm not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women's health issues.
But if you took dollar for dollar, there are many extraordinarily fine organizations, community health organizations that exist, federally sponsored community health organizations to provide quality care for women on a wide variety of health issues.
I mean, look, this is so hard.
This is so much harder than it used to be.
But I have to tell you, here we have many feel that Jeb Bush is the frontrunner.
I can't tell you the number of people think Jeb's automatically the nominee.
It's done.
Simply because of the money.
He's got more money than anybody else.
And that's how the determination is made, the forecaster prognostication.
Can't tell you the number of people.
And all the Democrats think it.
Every Democrat analyst on day all think it.
And here we have, here's our presumptive nominee here, just to use their terminology at the Southern Baptist Convention seeking credit for citing all of the federal programs for women's health.
I just.
My head's spinning because Obama's talking in circles on this Iran deal.
I just had a chance to check out some of it here, folks.
Now, one of the things that I do is make the complex understandable.
This is going to be a challenge.
It's a challenge that I'm up for.
And I'll get right to it here in just a second.
But my point about Jeb Bush and how hard this is.
I mean, here we have a man that a lot of the smart people, for what it's worth, just telling you what they think.
I'm not telling you I agree with it.
Okay?
They're just, this is just what I'm hearing.
Presumption is that Jeb is the nominee, and all of this that's going to happen between now and then is just a show.
And the reason he's a nominee, he's got the money.
He's going to end up with more money, and who has the money wins, can spend the money to wipe everybody else out.
And that's the theory.
Plus, as part of the fact that Jeb is going to have all the money, he's the establishment guy.
And all of the people that live inside the Beltway, both parties, think the establishment gets what it wants.
And they do.
So that's why the thinking.
So I'm just when I refer to Jeb as the presumptive nominee here, it's just echoing these sentiments.
Not that I also think it.
But here's a guy.
He's speaking to the Southern Baptist Convention, and he feels it necessary to praise the federal government and all of the different fully funded federal women's health programs there are.
And I'm just telling you, this strikes me because this is such at variance with what not long ago the Republican Party instinctively opposed.
It wasn't that long ago that the Republican Party instinctively was oriented toward, if not reducing the size of government, at least stopping the growth, reigning in it, at least saying so.
Maybe they never really meant it, but at least they said it.
That's even out the window now.
Now, in order to gain favor, even at the Southern Baptist Convention, you've got to praise federal programs.
And even doing that, he stepped in it with that one little aside.
Although I don't need half a billion dollars in women's health programs.
And then Twitter blew up and the media took the lead and they blew up afterwards.
And Hillary comes out with her response last night in Denver during campaign event.
Hillary Clinton said Jeb Bush said he's not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.
I'm reading it because I want to quote it exactly.
Now, he's got no problem giving billions of dollars away to super wealthy and powerful corporations, but I guess women's health just isn't a priority for him.
And then here came the apology and the clarification.
No, no, no.
I was talking about Planned Parenthood.
Then he went through a litany of praise for all the other federal programs.
The idea that there is a shortage or would be a shortage of women's health.
We've got Medicaid.
We've got Medicare.
We've got Obamacare.
We've got, we are drowning.
We're going broke, folks, in the amount of money we are spending on health care for people.
The nation is literally going broke paying some sort of welfare for a growing number of people.
We cannot afford it.
It's going to come due someday.
And so the media, they're all excited because Hillary's been rescued.
Hillary was plummeting.
Bernie Sanders was creeping up on her.
Hillary was making gaffe after gaff after gaffe.
We've got soundbites, by the way, coming up.
Hillary in South Carolina talking, being interviewed, and she's trying to put on this southern accent by dropping the G from last week, you know, talking to people like this and trying to make them think she's a southern old gal and so forth and talking about when Chelsea was born.
And yeah, I'm holding Chelsea in my lap.
She's just so messy.
Chelsea, just so messy, just so loud.
And I looked at Chelsea, I said, Chelsea, you know, you've never been a baby before, and I've never been a mama before.
We're going to have to do something.
You're going to have to come to.
He's talking about an infant.
They won't stop crying.
So here's an example.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, Leslie Lester Holt, the nightly news last night, said, Andrea, is this a one-day issue for Jeb, or did he really, really step in it pretty deeply?
Hillary Clinton pounced.
She's been so much on the defense of all the Republicans ganging up on her, her own poll numbers sliding even among women.
And now she's got an issue and an issue with the largest voting bloc, women.
Oh, man, they're so excited.
They're so desperate to reignite the war on women, and they think Jeb Bush just did it.
And so here, that's today's object lesson.
You want to talk about bipartisanship?
You want to talk about cooperation.
You want to talk about compromise.
You want to talk about crossing the aisle.
You want to talk about working together to show that things can get done in Washington.
You want to show how you can govern.
Well, tell me, how was any of this received by the people we crossed the aisle to meet?
Now, Obama, he's still speaking.
He is still giving this speech about his Iranian nuke deal.
But he characterized this in a very interesting way.
He said, we have achieved a detailed arrangement that permanently prohibits Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Now, forget the misdirection here about permanently prohibiting Iran from obtaining because we haven't.
The deal doesn't even do that.
But hell, who's going to call him on it?
He can lie.
He can make up everything he wants.
He can say this deal is whatever it is.
And who's going to call him on it?
Other than us.
We have achieved a detailed arrangement.
Now, I'm a words guy.
You know, I'm the mayor of Rioville.
And words mean things.
That's why my opposition to gay marriage is what it is.
It's because marriage is defined as a union of a man and a woman.
It's not two people, same sex.
I have devotion to words and their meanings.
I think it's one of the ways in which, by the way, our culture is being debased.
And one of the ways in which the left is debasing the culture to advance their cause is by obliterating words, the language, and how they're used and interpreted.
But the point here is, he didn't say we've achieved a detailed agreement.
He said we have achieved a detailed arrangement.
And to me, an arrangement is not an agreement.
Two people don't go to the church and get arranged.
And we don't have Senate treaties, a ratification of treaties for arrangements.
And the arrangement is that Iran, this is what we've arranged.
Iran is going to be the dominant player in the Middle East now.
Iran will remain the leading exporter of terrorism.
Iran will be flush with cash because we're dropping the sanctions.
And they will be given a clear path to a nuclear arsenal to go along with their standard, ordinary, everyday weapons.
Because we have an arrangement.
I'm telling you, it matters.
He did not say agreement.
We have achieved a detailed arrangement that permanently prohibits Iran from, but it doesn't do that.
I know he's lying about the permanence and the prohibition of a new it's unforgivable, but it's it is what it is.
It's who Obama is.
But here's the thing.
He then said sanctions would unravel if we walk away from our arrangement.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, just a second now.
The sanctions are lifted as part of the arrangement.
What is this sanctions would unravel if we walk away?
The sanctions are going away with the arrangement.
So if we walk away and there is no arrangement, are we also going to take the sanctions with us?
Why would the sanctions automatically unravel if there's no arrangement?
Why wouldn't they stay on?
But then there's another question about the sanctions that popped into my head as well.
Because Obama's out there, and this is not the first day that he said this.
You know, a lot of people are zeroing in on the sanctions being lifted because that gives Iran anywhere from $100 to $130 billion of cash that they can spend however they want.
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, has admitted that they could kill Americans with it.
They will continue to fund their operations and policies in the Middle East.
That's Hezbollah, Hamas, whoever they're in bed with.
We've acknowledged that's going to happen.
But Obama is saying that sanctions will not stop Iran from building its nuclear program.
Not just today either.
I mean, this has been part of the argument from the beginning of this arrangement to drop the sanctions because the sanctions are not going to stop them from doing anything anyway.
Well, okay, then isn't it a rather obvious question?
If you're going to claim that sanctions, economic sanctions, would not prevent the Iranians from going all nuke, then why would the threat of them unraveling prevent the Iranians from cheating?
And Obama's not trying to make the claim that we can prevent Iran from cheating with this deal and so forth, but the sanctions are the key to it.
But at the same time, he says that sanctions are not going to stop the Iranian nuclear program, and that's his excuse for getting rid of them because they're not going to stop it.
So why would the threat of re-imposing them bother the Iranians?
If the existence of sanctions is a no-big deal, then why would snapping them back on be a big deal?
And yet that's what he's out there saying would happen here.
If they cheat, that's right.
We catch the Iranians cheating.
We can put those sanctions right back on there.
But wait a minute.
You just said the sanctions are not going to stop them.
Well, that's right.
You're asking a question you're not supposed to ask.
You just both let me say it and applaud.
Oh, well, I'm sorry.
Because it doesn't make any sense.
You can't sit there and tell us that sanctions are not going to stop them from going all nuke.
And then the next breath tell us that the Iranians would be scared to death to cheat because the sanctions would be put back on them.
If they don't count, they don't count.
If they don't work, they don't work.
This is what we're dealing with here.
I have to take a quick time out, my friends El Rushbaugh and the EIB network rolling on after this.
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Time to go to the phones.
This is Melissa Chicago.
Thank you for calling.
You're up first, and it's great to have you here.
Thank you.
I was just wondering why we even need a Planned Parenthood with Obamacare.
Because since Obamacare kicked in, we haven't had to pay for any of our lady doctors and lady medicine.
So why even need Planned Parenthood at all?
Well, we're not talking about need here.
The federal government and its expenditures and growth and size is not based on need at all.
It's based on what voters want and now expect.
Planned Parenthood donates, sees to it that a lot of money is donated to the Democrat Party.
The Planned Parenthood is the Democrat Party.
So I understand your question and your question in what I would call a clean, unfettered universe is great.
Why do we need Planned Parenthood?
Everything they do happens elsewhere.
Why do we need to be paying for?
Why do we, they get, by the way, not half a million dollars, they get $2 billion.
It's an incredible amount of money they get.
And they do not do anything women's health-wise that they can't get anywhere else.
They don't do mammograms.
I made that point yesterday.
I went out on a limb a little bit because I wasn't quite sure, but it turned out I'm right.
They don't do mammograms.
Now, if you're into women's health and you don't do mammograms, you're not into women's health.
In this day and age, if you don't offer mammograms, you cannot really say that you're a women's health organization.
It's too crucial.
It's too important.
But there's so much redundancy.
This was Jeb's point.
We got a federal program here, fully funded.
Federal program over there, fully.
We got millions of them.
Well, tens and 20 of them.
And in Planned Parenthood, this is the money laundering cycle.
It's why the unions all support the Democrat Party.
Union dues end up, a portion of them, end up in the campaign coffers of Democrat candidates in the Democrat Party.
Same thing with money spent at Planned Parenthood.
The federal government, propping up Planned Parenthood, is a way for that money to get to the Democrat Party, a portion of it.
It's how this works.
So it's not about, we don't need Planned Parenthood.
We're not making budget decisions based on what's needed.
We haven't.
Baseline budgeting is not about what's needed or what's been spent or how much is going to have to be spent.
It's about making sure the budget gets bigger and bigger by a predictable amount every year.
So you, let's say you fund Planned Parenthood, take the $2 billion figure.
And you have Planned Parenthood offices all over the place.
The people that work at Planned Parenthood, the people that support Planned Parenthood, then donate to the Democrat Party.
Some of that $2 billion is donated comes back to the Democrat Party.
It's a money laundering operation.
But there's an ideological component too.
I mean, I'm not saying that the Democrats support Planned Parenthood just for the money, but you can't take the money out of the equation.
You have to always follow the money.
Right now, we haven't reached a point yet where, say, Harry Reid or Pelosi or Obama could go over to the Department of Treasury and write a check for, say, $150 billion for nefarious purposes, including the next presidential campaign.
So how do they get the money?
Well, they go out, they'll raise it from donors and whatever, but they'll also do it by funding various organizations who will then send some of that money back to the Democrat Party.
So you can't go right, you can't go to the Treasury and rob it, but you can allocate money to groups.
They're going to send a portion of what they get back to you.
And that's how you raid the federal treasury.
And then beyond that, you build up relationships based on ideological components of liberalism, in which case abortion is the sacrament.
So Planned Parenthood is sacred, folks.
It's not even in the equation of why do we need Planned Parenthood?
Because we've got everything they do over here and over here and over there, back there, up there, down there.
Why do we need them?
It's all about maintaining a Democrat Party majority.
It's all about maintaining the phoniness of a war on women and maintaining a phony theme or meme that Republicans hate women and Democrats love and protect them.
It's all part of a massive, massive headfake operation.
Be back.
Just a second.
Check the emails.
People, I'm just telling you what they're writing.
Rush, how come you're not explaining to us the Tom Brady situation in NFL?
Okay, I'll be glad to help you understand that.
The first thing that you have to understand is that this hearing, the appeal hearing with the judge, is not about deflated footballs.