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January 21, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Anybody see the uh the cover of the New York Post this morning?
You did?
I love it.
The headline, the headline, this weekend is going to be whiter than the Oscars.
It's a big snowstorm.
Not supposed to laugh, right?
Sounds like a sounds like a hate crime of some sort on the front page of the New York Post.
Maybe another argument for global warming snow is racist.
Anyway, the big news about all this is that the mayors of Washington, D.C. and New York City and so forth, other officials can't wait to be first to close schools.
Big blizzard coming.
So schools are going to be shut down, and you know what else is going to shut down?
The federal government is going to shut down.
Oh no!
Yes, indeed.
Another government shutdown, this one brought to us by God.
God must be a Republican then.
Well, it's an act of God, force major.
This is an insurance language.
Something like this happens.
They call it act of God.
Never hear anything terrible about how a snowstorm shuts down the government.
We never hear about how people can't function.
And I mean, federal workers are praise to the hilt for trying to get in.
And we are told to respect their efforts and so forth.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
It's great to have you here.
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Yesterday on this program we had a caller who said, and I I don't think he was joking.
I don't even think he was half to.
I think this caller was serious.
And he said, you know, the Republican establishment's really missing the boat here.
If they really hate Trump, and if they really want to get rid of Trump, they should all come out and endorse him.
And if they did that, then half the Trump supporters out there, since they hate the establishment would think something's up and maybe abandon Trump and go to Cruz or something.
And lo and behold, we wake up today to the news.
Well, maybe some of you saw it last night.
I was still working on my battery problem.
I was.
I was working on the battery, and I isolated it.
I know what it is.
I'm unable to fix it because I don't run iCloud.
But anyway, I isolated it.
I figure out what the problem is.
I haven't isolated the exact from what I know, I know what the problem is.
So it made it been news last night, but Bob Dole has come out and said, oh yeah, Donald Trump, far, far, far more preferable than Ted Cruz.
And then I have a story here in the stack of stuff about all of the donors that are warming up to Trump.com Republican donors quietly coming around to the idea that Donald Trump could be their party's nominee.
While many major Republican donors still can't abide the idea of Trump as their standard bearer, and some remain flat out in denial about the strength of Trump's candidacy.
Interviews with the GOP business owners and CEOs in six states suggest shifting attitudes toward the controversial billionaire.
Trump has to date rejected financial support from wealthy donors, saying he doesn't want to owe them if he gets into office.
But winning the acceptance or even the favor of donors could prevent a big money assault against Trump and ultimately benefit him in a multi-billion dollar general election.
I don't know if Trump said he wouldn't accept any money in a general election.
I don't I I don't know.
He might have only meant the primaries when he said he wasn't gonna take any money.
Who knows?
But the it is kind of coincidental the timing.
All of a sudden these establishment types come out for Trump, and what it really signifies is their hatred for Ted Cruz.
They just folks, this is it's a most incredible thing to sit here and watch all of this.
They literally despise Ted Cruz.
They are beside themselves with hatred for Ted Cruz.
That That goes goes beyond the rational.
Except if it is rational if you understand the establishment's absolute hatred and distaste for conservatism.
These people are out there actually, some of them are actually saying that they would actively publicly support and vote for Hillary Clinton over Ted Cruz.
Other elected Republicans are saying so, Republican consultants, typical establishment members, even some donors.
And so the make no mistake, if there is a an establishment shift here to Trump, it is to cut Cruz off at the pass.
They clearly think that they could make deals with Trump.
They look down the road and they say Trump is president.
They think they'll be able to go to Trump and make deals and agree with the Democrats and come up with compromises and so forth, but they are aware that no such deal making that damages the country will ever occur with Ted Cruz.
And so they are telegraphing their fears, letting it be known exactly where they come down on all this.
But Bob Dole dragged out of there wherever he was.
Trump would be better nominee than Cruz.
It's fascinating to watch this stuff.
It really is.
I sit around, I marvel, I look at this, I try to keep track of it all and have it make sense.
And that's what we do here.
Analyze all this and explain it to you.
There was a shock poll result that came out of New Hampshire yesterday.
This is after the program, I got home, and I'm in the midst of isolating and tracking down my uh battery life problem, and it's on every device, by the way.
It's not yet every iPhone and every iPad.
I took a break from it, went back to working on the program today, and I get this headline for John Kasich, a new wind in New Hampshire.
Stories out of the Cincinnati Inquirer, but basically what it's the real clear politics rolling averages poll, Kasich is in second place in New Hampshire.
He's 20 points behind Trump.
It's like 32 to 12.
And then Cruz is at 11.
And everybody's well, well, what that what happened here?
How in the world did this happen?
Kasich.
So it was just a minor blip that caused people to uh scratch their heads just a little bit, and to realize that none of this means anything now until maybe even not for fundraiser we get right now.
It doesn't mean anything until the actual votes come in.
Uh North Carolina, Donald Trump is adding to his lead there.
Is it 38% and has the highest favorability?
North Carolina was the first place that polling ever found Donald Trump leading the Republican presidential race.
He just keeps getting stronger there.
This is from public policy polling, a liberal bunch headquartered in North Carolina.
Their latest numbers have uh Trump at 38, 16% for Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio is at 11, Ben Carson's at 8.
Mike Huckabee and Jeb at 6% each, Chris Christie at 4%, and then the Rethers at John Kasich, for example, North Carolina's at 2% after coming in uh 12% second place in New Hampshire.
Trump is up five points over where he was a month ago.
I have been moving on to Hillary Clinton here for a second.
I have been watching this supposed FBI investigation.
And with the news that we had yesterday, I mean, it this has been serious now for a long time.
We only know what's been leaked.
But what we know, we're pretty confident is accurate because of the number of places from which it's come and the credibility of many of the people who've seen the data, among them Joe de Genova, who uh many everybody knows Joe Dejenova.
He doesn't make things up, he doesn't exaggerate.
I mean, he's uh he's a you can be a political partisan, but he's he's right down the middle when it comes to law and order, and he was one of the first credible people to start talking about the voluminous evidence the FBI is collecting.
A hundred and fifty FBI agents tracking down Mrs. Clinton and her email server and whether or not she was trafficking in classified information.
And we had the news yesterday that the inspector general looking into this had informed the intelligence committees in the House and Senate just how bad this is, that she was openly trafficking in super top secret information that's even beyond top secret in its classification.
And then we learned that Mrs. Clinton's other server, not the one in Chappaqua, but another private server, had a satellite client at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
Essentially, whatever was on Hillary's server there was accessible by Bill Clinton and other people, presumably at the Clinton Foundation.
And both contained data, documents, top secret, and higher in classification.
Now, this has been a drip drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, as you know.
And we've been speculating on what role does Obama play in.
And they should go one of two ways.
One way is Obama doesn't want Hillary Clinton anywhere near the White House after he's gone.
He doesn't want her anywhere near his agenda.
He doesn't want her doing anything that might result in getting more praise, greater legacy, or doing damage to his agenda, whatever it is.
And so he's responsible for the drip drip, drip, drip, drip, drip that just daily erodes her image, credibility, and all that.
The other side of the coin is that no matter how bad it is, and no matter what's involved, there will not be an indictment.
The FBI, the DOJ will not go after Mrs. Clinton, because to go after Mrs. Clinton would be to risk having whatever she has on Barack Obama being made public.
As in a likely scenario, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama playing golf one day, and Clinton takes Barack aside and issues a standard Clinton heads-up warning.
Hey, buddy, you don't know you got that investigation going, my wife.
I know how I know how this all works, I do, but I just want to let you know something, bud.
It works both ways.
Something comes out of this.
I guarantee you we got some stuff on you.
I just I just warn you, Brock.
I mean, you could do one of two ways.
You just keep going, status quo, nobody knows nothing, or we can blow it up.
It's totally up to you.
So those are the two scenarios.
But over here, outside all of that, is the FBI.
The FBI.
I don't care who is in charge of it.
I don't, I don't care at what point in history you're discussing the FBI, the people there do not, will not put up with any allegations, accusations, thoughts that they have become corrupted.
And this is the thing that has made me wonder what really is going to happen here.
There's even a story at the Hill.com about this today.
And they really get to the nuts and bolts of it.
A couple of pull quotes.
It's now undeniably clear that the results of the FBI investigation Will be the end of one of two things.
It'll either be the end of Hillary's bid for the White House or it'll be the end of the legitimacy of the FBI.
At least when it comes to prosecuting cases on the mishandling of classified material.
In other words, if you have worked with classified material for more than a day, it seems highly implausible someone could receive any of this, aforementioned over an unsecure medium without alarm bell sounding.
However, reading about a special access program on an unclassified device would make anyone even remotely familiar with intelligence mess their pantsuit.
Meaning the FBI has got to make a decision.
If they don't indict, they are forever going to be thought to be corrupt.
And do they want that?
The people at the FBI, James Comey, James, I don't know James Comey.
I only know people, he was he was uh top lieutenant for John Ashcroft when he was the Attorney General, and Ashcroft had just tremendous respect across the board for people.
I can't believe what I've heard about James Comey that he wants any part of any possibility that people would begin to think the FBI has been corrupted.
See, if they don't, if if with all these weeks and all of this data, all of this news that apparently has been gathered about Mrs. Clinton, the investigation, which many people think should have resulted in an indictment months ago.
If there isn't one, you know, Genova talks about the people inside the DOJ and the FBI who would revolt if there isn't an indictment or something happening toward Mrs. Clinton because of the nature of the evidence, the overwhelming volume of it.
So if the Obama DOJ does nothing, waves it, sits on it, then the obvious question that's going to be asked is the FBI become corrupted.
And don't forget this.
There's all kinds of people at the FBI who are never talked about.
I mean, they're they're not high enough up that they appear publicly, that they are quoted, but they are careered, they have devoted their lives to it, they cherish the place, they consider it to be the foremost criminal investigative body in the world, and the last thing any of those people want is for anybody to think that it's corrupt in there or has been corrupted, and this is what they all have to be thinking.
They all have to be considering, given what's out there, and if what's out there is legitimately close to the reality of what they have, and if no indictment comes, people are going to start asking that question.
That's why the Hill.com here.
One of two things is going to happen.
Either Hillary's bid for the White House gets interrupted here, or the legitimacy of the FBI is going to be called into question.
And do you think the FBI?
And all the people working there want to have their legitimacy questioned.
I mean, the FBI is going to continue to exist and fight crime after all of this.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here, folks.
You hang on.
We'll be right back and keep going after this.
Guess who wants another debate?
Hillary.
Hillary wants another debate.
And so she's gonna get it.
Now, up to this time, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz has told everybody she did everything she could to maximize the opportunities for American voters to see these great candidates in the Democrat Party debate as they run for the Democrat nomination.
She did everything she could to put these candidates out there in the best time slots she could find.
Saturday nights when nobody watches TV up against National Football League playoff games.
The next debate, yes, Super Bowl Sunday, a halftime show.
Put it on Al Jazeera as one of their swan song broadcasts.
No, apparently it's going to be Monday night, January 25th, which is Monday night.
And it's going to be on CNN.
A Democratic town hall debate during prime time on Monday.
And it's all because Bernie Sanders is in the polling and in fundraising is just cleaning a clock.
Wasn't supposed to happen.
In fact, you know, there's some similarities in what's happening in both parties here vis a vis.
It's a bit of a stretch when you start making these comparisons, but uh Trump clearly an outsider.
Democrat-based voters look at Bernie Sanders as an outsider to boot.
Hillary's looked at as the establishment candidate.
They're fed up with their establishment, at least as embodied by Hillary.
Oh, by the way, some of you may have seen that somebody secured a Freedom of Information Act request and a whole bunch of documents from the Clinton Library massage parlor about Trump are going to be released.
That's true, but not till April.
Hang on here a second.
So I got some emails during the break about the FBI.
Um one of them from a friend reminding me I had forgotten this, reminding me that there were two FBI agents found guilty of manufacturing evidence to frame former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens during his re-election bit.
I do remember that.
I remember they took Ted Stevens out.
They manufactured evidence Ended up being a Martha Stewart kind of case.
Well, they manufactured evidence, they thought he was lying.
Anyway, after it was all over, they found out he'd done nothing.
Now, I didn't forget that.
I had I had forgotten that a couple of FBI agents were found guilty of uh planning evidence or doing something to frame him in in that manufacturing evidence, not in order to get a conviction.
But see, this is my point.
Um you know what else?
Don't discount this.
Another friend reminds me, making a murderer.
Now, don't poop with this.
Tens of thousands of people have watched that show on Netflix.
It's one of their highest-rated theories.
And in that show, if you haven't seen it, in that show, the prosecutor is trying to nail the perp here.
The show makes it look like somebody went to the age-old case vial in the evidence locker and found a vial of blood from the perp and then punctured it with a hypodermic and got some and planted it in the perp's car.
So as to put his DNA in the not his car, the car of the murder victim.
And to resolve the dispute, the prosecutors, what they had to find uh uh a test that would determine not DNA, but determine whether or not there was evidence of tampering with the blood by virtue breaking the seal.
I don't know the science here.
But there wasn't a test at that time that was being run.
There had been in the past, and it had been thrown out because it was not judged to be accurate enough.
Well, the prosecutors going after Stephen Murph, uh Stephen Avery, convinced the FBI to reinstitute this test to find out if the blood had actually been tampered with.
There's no dispute that it was the it was the uh accused, but there was apparently a test to find out if the blood had been tampered with.
I forget the specifics here.
And the FBI was brought in.
The FBI was brought in to test the blood, and in a record amount of time came back and said, nope, this blood wasn't tampered with.
There's no way our tests confirm that there's no the bottom line was our test confirmed, the prosecution's not playing any games here.
What they're asserting is legit.
Well, the majority of people watching this show don't believe that.
They believe that the evidence was planted.
They believe the cops had a vendetta against this Avery guy.
And that's what this documentary wanted its audience to think.
So it's just another bit of evidence here that there are tens of thousands of people watch this show who think the FBI was complicit in a frameup.
Then you have the Ted Stevens scenario where two FBI agents were actually convicted for manufacturing evidence.
And Stevens, when it was all said and done, was for the most part exonerated.
Now the people of the FBI, I guarantee you, don't like this.
There's some really quality, decent people there.
The idea that this organization's come under this cloud now and the suspicion that it's totally governed by politics, uh, it it has been immune from that for the most part.
The IRS is somewhat of an example.
The IRS, I mean, everybody had their suspicions that presidents and powerful political people could call somebody at the IRS an order and audit of a political opponent.
In fact, we heard that Nixon wanted to do this during Watergate.
We also learned that he didn't get away with it.
But we do know now that the Obama administration did.
The Obama administration sicked the IRS on Tea Party groups and denied them over and over again tax exempt status, denying them the opportunity for fundraising.
And that's pretty much been confirmed at Lois Lerner and all this.
So the IRS has never enjoyed the clean and pure as a wind-driven snow image the FBI has.
But it really wasn't close.
But now there's no everybody's of the opinion the IRS can be pointed politically, because who populates it?
When you have Obama acolytes, I mean the really the reason they couldn't find a smoking gun, for example, on Lois Lerner, smoking gun memo, say from the West Wing instructing her to deny tax exempt status.
There wasn't a need for what she didn't need to be told.
She's just like Obama.
Everybody in these positions is Obama White or Obama Jr.
They all have a deep-seated opposition and in some cases hatred for Republicans and conservatives.
So Lois Lerner wouldn't need a memo.
She wouldn't need to be told to mess with the Tea Party.
She would do it on her own because she hates them anyway.
Well, that's the kind of thing the FBI has always, for the most part, been immune from.
Law enforcement has, in general, a profound amount of respect.
I mean, let me demonstrate it.
No matter what the crime, no matter what the instance, you're reading the news, you're watching the news, and you hear a report of a crime.
And if the reporter or the anchor says law enforcement sources say you believe everything that you hear next, because you don't think you can't believe law enforcement would pursue somebody that isn't guilty.
You wouldn't, you just in now, this is not universal either.
There are all kinds of people, I know African Americans have a constant, never-ending suspicion of the police.
But my experience is that law enforcement as an institution gets the benefit of the doubt practically all the time.
When they say somebody did something, most average ordinary people believe it.
Because most average ordinary people want to believe that law enforcement isn't corrupt.
They want to believe that it's fair and square, and they want to believe that law enforcement wouldn't waste its time going after people who aren't guilty because there are too many who are.
and I speak of this with personal experience, folks.
Now, back to the FBI and Mrs. Clinton.
As I said, I don't know James Comey, but I know of him, and I know how guarded he is about his own reputation and the FBI's and whatever other agency he might happen to work for or at someday.
I'm just telling you, there are people in that FBI, right?
who don't want any part of anybody asking the question, has the place been corrupted?
And this Hillary Clinton scenario poses a grave, grave danger to the ongoing reputation of the FBI.
Largely because of what is already thought to be factual that's in the public domain now, news wise about Mrs. Clinton and her server and classified documents and her emails.
You add to that that General Petraeus is on the verge of having his entire career wiped out, destroyed, turned upside down.
Everything he's ever done is about to be called into question.
He could be stripped of everything, including his pension and any other benefits that he has accrued after a lifetime in the military.
Eight, ten years ago, David Petraeus was the top of the tree.
You couldn't get a more respected military person in this country than General David Petraeus.
And after seven years of working for Obama, it's possible because he shared classified information with a woman he was sleeping with, who was not his wife.
She was a journalist, married and so forth.
If you want to get down to degrees, this woman was in love with Petraeus and did not want to do anything to harm him beyond what they were already doing by having affairs.
I mean, these people were smart.
You know, they never sent emails back and forth.
You know how they did it?
The drafts folder at Gmail.
They used the same account, but they never sent a single email to each other.
They wrote their notes to each other and kept them in the draft folder.
So all they had to do was log in, go to the draft folder, and find the most recent email, not sent, but stored in the drafts folder, and that's how they stayed in touch.
It's become a favored technique now among people engaged in this kind of behavior.
The point I'm making here is that Petraeus, yeah, he was bragging, who knows, uh divulging some of this classified data to this woman who was writing his biography.
Mrs. Clinton's sharing this data with who the hell knows all over the world.
Mrs. Clinton accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from who knows who around the world for whatever purpose, but we know they're not giving money to the Clintons because they want to hang out at the Clinton Global Initiative.
They're not giving money to the Clintons because they want to go chasing women with Bill after the ball game one night.
They're giving money to the Clintons because what they want the Clintons to do for them if and when the Clintons get back in the White House.
This is my point far, far greater damaging implications than what Petraeus did.
And Petraeus is on the verge of having his life and military career entirely destroyed.
If nothing happens to Hillary Clinton, I guarantee you people is the FBI totally political now?
Have they just been bought and paid for?
They totally corrupt as Obama blackmailing people.
These are the kind of questions are going to be raised.
And my only point is there's some really, really great people at the FBI.
A lot of former Marines.
A lot, a lot of war heroes find their way to the FBI.
They don't want any part of this.
And if there's a whiff that Hillary Clinton's going to get a pass when they have voluminous evidence, it's not going to be a pleasant place to be.
But this ongoing possibility, the FBI has been corrupt.
They don't want people asking that question.
So this uh this story at the hill.com is uh It's an interesting perspective.
One of two things is going to happen here.
Either she's going to get indicted or the FBI is going to lose its great reputation for legitimacy.
Back after this.
Don't go.
You know, I have spent this entire week delving deeply, working diligently to make the complex understandable.
Trying to analyze and explain to people things they seem not to understand.
Meaning, I've been trying to explain to people why Trump is where he is, why Trump has the support that he has, and why those who are supporting Trump are doing so.
I have not announced a preference for any candidate during all this.
And yet, it's amazing, despite my efforts at making complex things simple and understandable.
It is clear that some people are so reactionary that they are unable.
I mean, I don't I haven't even delved into nuance on this.
I haven't needed to get that detailed.
It's pretty cut and dried.
And yet there are people who still claim not to understand what's going on here.
And look at the headlines here on Drudge, for example.
Oh, by the way, there's video.
Hillary Clinton shows up.
Where did she was it?
Beaumont, Texas that she went into.
Where did she get?
She went to Beaumont, Texas, and six people showed up to greet her.
And she ignored them.
Six people.
She does not have a connection, folks, with any of her supporters.
This Hillary Clinton support is so thin, it's so weak, it's based on the fact that her last name is Clinton and that there's a capital D next to her name.
But she doesn't have any.
She doesn't have nearly the connection with her supporters that Cruz has, for example, with his or that Trump has.
And then six people show up and she ignores them to boot, acts all upity and everything.
So here's some of these headlines, and these are all panic-related headlines.
Trump, strongest primary performance in modern history.
Media struggles to understand support among evangelicals.
Davos, this is the World Economic Forum.
Global elite fear Trump.
Norman Lear.
Donald Trump is America's middle finger, or giving America the middle finger, what have you.
And all of this opposition or fear is rooted in a lack of understanding what's happening here.
And I'm not going to go through everything that I went through yesterday.
But to me, this isn't, it just isn't complicated.
You may not like it, but it isn't complicated.
I think the I think the reason a lot of people on the right are angry is because you have some hard-bitten furrow through and through rock-ribbed, totally principled conservatives.
And they want the Republican conservative base to be based on a thorough, total, complete understanding and agreement with conservative principles and beliefs, as these have been announced by the people that believe in them, the blogs, the think tanks, or what have you.
And what they're learning here is that, again, not to overdo the phrase, but this the degree of conservatism in the Republican Party has been overestimated.
It's not just conservative principles that hold people who are conservative together.
There are many different things.
And the fool-blown conservatives are a little bothered by this because it makes them think maybe they're not that important.
Maybe it could be bothersome.
But it's it's that's not what they should be worried about.
There's nothing hard to understand here.
The people supporting Ted Cruz, The people supporting Trump, the one thing they have in common, the one thing, and there is one thing they have in common.
They don't want any more of the Democrat Party of Obama of the left.
They don't want any more.
They want it stopped.
Just getting warmed up.
Some editorial cartoonists stole my joke here.
You hear the one about two Corinthians walking into a bar?
There's an editorial cartoon on it out there now.
I love it.
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