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Yes, here we have a random act of journalism from NBC News.
And the headline, Condoleezza Rice, AIDS, Colin Powell, also got classified information on personal emails.
Yes.
So you see, there's nothing to see here regarding Mrs. Clinton.
Why, Colin Powell, the titular head of the Republican Party, one of the greatest moderates ever to have lived.
If anybody will ever have a book written about them, Great Moderates in American History, it will be Colin Powell.
That book doesn't exist, by the way.
You ever seen great moderates in American history?
You just haven't seen it.
Great line crossers in American history.
The great compromisers in American history.
You don't see those books, but you will see it about Colin Powell.
State Department officials, State Department, this is the place where Hillary Clinton used to work, keep in mind.
State Department officials have determined that classified information was sent to the personal email accounts of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the senior staff of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
NBC News has learned.
In an interview with NBC News, Colin Powell challenged this, saying nothing that went to his personal account was secret.
Condoleezza Rice did not respond initially to an interview request.
In a letter to Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy, dated February 3rd, State Department Inspector General Steve Linick said that the State Department has determined that 12 emails examined from their archives contain national security information, now classified secret or confidential.
Two of the messages were sent to Powell's personal account, and 10 were sent to personal accounts to people that worked for Condoleezza Rice.
How timely.
Right after a Democrat debate, do you realize that didn't even come up in the debate last night?
Do you realize that?
Not one quick out of 150 FBI agents pursuing the case, not one question about this for Mrs. Clinton.
Ben Jealous, the former head of the NAA LCP, says he's going to endorse Bernie Sanders.
The endorsement's a potential boost for Crazy Bernie, who has struggled to gain traction among African-American voters, though he has made small gains on Hillary Clinton.
He's way ahead in New Hampshire, but after that, he's nowhere, right?
Crazy Bernie owns New Hampshire, at least right now, looks like it.
But you get out of New Hampshire, move on down the campaign trail, and Bernie Sanders is with the Chuckwag, you know, Cyanara, right?
Not there.
Well, yeah, for now, I know.
Well, I tell you, I was right about Hillary.
I knew this was going to happen.
She's having all kinds of trouble with women in this campaign and specifically young women, the millennial women.
And it was exactly as I forecast.
And admittedly, this is not a tough prediction to make, but these young women of millennial age who have been raised on the fact that everybody's out to rape them on campus and that men are predators and society doesn't care.
When they see what Mrs. Clinton's role was in supporting her husband, the sexual predator, and when they find out what her role was in destroying the women who came forth with allegations that her husband was mistreating them, they're not going to put up with it.
They don't have any rock star connection to Clintons.
They don't go back to the 90s and think the Clintons are the end-all of American politics or America.
They're not going to lie, and they don't.
Am I the only one that predicted that?
No, come on.
There have to be others who have seen that.
But Snerdley says, well, I don't know I'm the only one to predict it.
It was flat out easy to spot.
All you have to do is examine the rape culture on campus today and the general state of feminism today.
And then you realize that when these women in the 90s were either not even born or not old enough to have any memory whatsoever, so they weren't affected by the national love affair that the media had with the Clintons and all this.
I mean, there's no connection to them in that regard.
And there's nothing to it in this, in the current culture, there's nothing worse than a woman whose role is to make it easier for men to behave in their predatory ways.
She was an enabler.
She was an enabler of her husband.
She knew that she was being cheated on.
She's the most cheated-on woman in America.
These young women, this is not something that they're going to end up respecting, and they don't.
You know, there was a point in this thing last night that I thought was really telling about Hillary Clinton.
And it's one of the reasons why I think she can be beat in the general election.
And I first started pointing it out during her book tour.
I still can't believe she's got $14 million.
I can believe it.
You know, I know how these people, the establishment works.
This $650,000 to do a speech for Goldman Sachs.
Now, let me explain the connection to you.
Goldman Sachs, former CEO there, one of many, is a guy named Bob Rubin, Robert Rubin.
Robert Rubin happened to be the Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration, the first year, the first term of it.
And that's all you need to know.
All of these former CEOs at Goldman Sachs are a club.
You've got Lloyd Blankfein.
You've got John Corzine.
You've got Rubin.
I mean, they're all a club, and they all exist to perpetuate what their predecessors were doing.
So the Clintons know Bob Rubin.
They added to his resume by making him Treasury Secretary.
He was able to parlay that going back to Citibank after he left the Clinton regime when Citibank was in big trouble, and it didn't help.
He was not able to save it.
He did not add to his resume, but it didn't matter.
The resume had already been etched in stone.
So at that level, people don't fail.
And when they do in the Democrat side, they fail up to make, like Jimmy Carter, the worst president ever, and he's one of the big stars of the Democrat Party these days.
You really do fail up in that party.
They herald their failures.
They put them at the top of the totem pole.
So anyway, there's the connection.
So Goldman Sachs wants Hillary to come make a speech.
They don't want to hear Hillary make a speech.
That's not what this is.
They want to figure out how to get $650,000 to her.
Campaign donations, that's tough.
Limits, reporting.
Hey, I got it.
Let's have her come give a speech.
So they have her come give a speech.
Nobody pays attention to what she says.
It doesn't matter what she says.
She could come show up for 10 minutes talking about knitting.
It doesn't matter.
The whole thing was nothing more than a ruse for them to be able to give her $650,000 because that's what happens in the establishment.
That's how they take care of each other and scratch each other's backs and how they make sure each other stay rich.
And Goldman Sachs was just one of many funneling money to Bill and or Hillary Clinton in this manner.
So anyway, the question was brought up last night.
Like Anderson Cooper said, $650,000 to do a speech?
I explained that.
And Hillary looked at the audience and kind of shrugged her shoulders.
Well, that's what they offered.
That's not what they offered.
That's not how nobody's going to offer her $650,000 to hear her come.
She will put you to sleep.
She's a screeching bore.
There's nothing charismatic, enigmatic about Mrs. Clinton would make you want to listen to her talk.
Certainly not $650,000 worth.
Trump might be able to get that after all this is over, but she never could.
Her book deal, $14 million, another example of how it all works inside the establishment.
People want to take care of Mrs. Clinton because she's going to remain in power.
So here comes the publishers, $14 million.
Please remember us, Mrs. Clinton, when you become president, so forth and so on.
She didn't sell any books.
Came time for the book tour.
Nobody shows up.
She couldn't draw a crowd.
And the reason is she doesn't have any readers.
She doesn't have a connection with her audience.
Like Jeb Bush, you see this just begging people in the audience to applaud?
Begging people to clap.
Could you please clap?
Because there isn't a connection.
Look, I'm not mentioning this as criticism of anybody.
It's just the way it is.
Whatever you want to say about Trump, he has this connection with his supporters.
There's a bond there.
There is a connection.
Jeb doesn't have it.
Hillary doesn't have it.
Any number.
Lindsey Graham didn't have it.
Chris Christie doesn't have it.
It's rare.
It's what makes performers or candidates, office holders.
It's what sets them apart.
You really have a connection.
Bernie has it to one degree or another.
Yeah, Bernie has it.
There's a connection, but Mrs. Clinton doesn't.
And it was illustrated last night.
This was, to me, stunning.
And I think this is one of the reasons why I think she can be beaten.
A man in the audience asked Hillary a question about end-of-life decisions.
He said he had colon cancer, that it was terminal, that he was going to vote for her.
And he said that he came to the town hall to ask her if she would speak broadly on the subject of terminal cancer and end-of-life decisions.
And she didn't know what to do because she's not a warm, in-touch person.
She doesn't know how.
She's cold.
She is distant.
At the end of the question, she nicely thanked this guy.
It was an elderly gentleman.
She thanked him for his question, said she hadn't thought much about the issue, but it was really great that he was bringing it up.
Now, here you had a dying man, an admitted dying man, standing right in front of a woman who says that she is and wants to be the champion of everyday Americans.
This was akin to the, it's a little bit different, but it was kind of like the question Michael Dukakis got about what he would do if his wife was raped.
Remember that?
Bernard Shaw asking, and Dukakis sat there and gave this clinical, left-wing textbook answer about protecting the rapists' rights, civil rights and legal rights, and making sure that he didn't go off the handle with emotion.
And Bernard Shaw couldn't believe it.
Governor Dukakis, I've just asked you a hypothetical, your wife has been raped, and you'd even raise an eyebrow at the prospect.
You can't even get emotional.
No, he had to answer it from the playbook.
Well, Bernie, we must consider the rights of all involved in a circumstance like this, the rights of the accused.
Of course, the accused is only the accused in our society.
And I want to make sure the accused was not denied his civil rights.
People were appalled that there wasn't one syllable of even attempted fake outrage that in the hypothetical his wife had been ruled.
That's what this reminded me of.
The Dukakis question was from a journalist, Bernard Shaw.
And Dukakis, he didn't talk about the inhumanity of the crime that he was to imagine perpetrated on his wife.
He just was a disaster.
See, here's a guy with terminal colon cancer, decided that he would travel to a town hall and ask Hillary Clinton a question.
He's standing just feet away, several feet away.
Now, most people watching this had to be filled with sadness and sympathy.
The guy was reaching out.
He got out of his bed to go see her.
He thinks that he has such respect for her.
He wanted to know.
He was seeking some comfort that what was happening to him was going to have some meaning to the country at large in the hands of Hillary Clinton as president.
And Hillary Clinton, you could tell she was fumbling around, concerned that she wasn't prepared with a policy answer.
She was looking for a policy answer like Dukakis was from the policy playbook.
She hadn't even dreamed of a question like this.
She didn't have a canned answer.
She didn't display any heartfelt emotion for the guy.
She didn't talk to him.
She didn't empathize.
She didn't ask him a single question.
She didn't ask if she could speak directly to him as a human being.
She didn't ask if there was anything she could do for him.
She did not make a human connection with this guy who walked all this way to tell her he's dying.
He's going to vote for her because he thinks that what's happened to him is happening to a lot of people and she can take his experience and make something of it and help other people.
And Hillary is sitting there trying to conjure up a policy-related answer.
She didn't ask him any questions about his family.
She didn't ask him what his life was like.
She didn't ask him how he was dealing with it.
Now, she wasn't mean.
I'm not saying she was Nurse Ratchet here.
She just didn't know how to handle a stranger sharing his personal tragedy with her.
She was clueless, folks.
She hadn't the slightest because I think it illustrated the phony, baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller hype that liberalism itself is.
Liberalism supposedly is where all of this compassion is.
And where all of the understanding and the big-hearted love and so on.
She was clueless.
She hadn't the slightest idea.
You could tell she was worried if she didn't come up with the right policy answer, it would hurt her.
That was stunning to me.
Okay, time for me to take a breath here.
Now, what that means is we go to the phones.
And this is Greg in Russellvania, Ohio.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Great to be here.
It's an honor and a pleasure to talk to you on my 5-2 birthday.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I just wanted to say that for all the laughs that he got, I don't believe that former President Carter's comments about his willingness to vote for Trump was a joke.
I think he was dead serious about that.
He wants somebody malleable, and we've had two damn many malleable presidents in my lifetime.
It's time we got somebody up there willing to stand his ground and fight the fight until it's over and bring home a win and not Trump.
Well, I think you're right.
I think Jimmy Carter is being serious.
I mean, Jimmy Carter's not trying to be funny.
He doesn't know how to be funny.
Has Jimmy Carter ever tried to be funny?
He was being dead serious.
He's over there in the House of Aristocrats.
All right.
And he's out there saying what he doesn't like about Trump and what he likes about Trump and doesn't like about Cruz.
Cruz is rock solid, rock-ribbed.
We're not going to change Cruz mind anything.
He's committed.
But Trump, he's malleable.
We can work with Trump.
I would much prefer Trump over Cruz.
Makes total sense if you're Jimmy Carter that you would be petrified of a committed Reagan conservative.
You'd be scared to death.
I mean, Jimmy Carter basically is the failure he is because of Ronaldo's Magnus.
It makes perfect sense that he would want somebody walking in the shadows in the shoes of Ronaldos Magnus to lose.
I think that's one of the greatest endorsements Cruz could have gotten.
By the way, did you see, folks, that the Nobel Prize Committee has been advised that Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Well, so was I. I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
When was this?
2000, well, it might have been 2007 or 2008.
Landmark Legal Foundation nominated me for the Nobel Peace Prize, officially nominated.
It was a real deal.
That would have been 2007, 2008.
That was the year Obama won it.
I think it was the year Obama won it.
And Obama won the Peace Prize on the come.
And they have said that if they could, they'd take it back because he's been a war president.
He has not been a president.
He's not stopped wars.
2007 is when it was.
So Donald Trump's an august company now.
He also has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Anyway, Greg, thanks to the call.
Appreciate it.
Not enough time to be fair with another.
Well, here's the way to look at that Hillary thing.
Can you imagine if Bill Clinton had answered the question?
If Bill, he would have walked over to a guy, would have hugged a guy.
You would have seen a tear come down his face.
You would have made some connection to health care and how it isn't working and how the Democrats are the ones to fix it.
I mean, Bill Clinton would have owned that.
Can you imagine?
Everybody would be crying.
And here's Hillary fumbling around in her memory for some policy answer.
You know, what would Alinsky say?
What am I supposed to say?
What's the Olinski book on this?
What's Rules for Radicals say when somebody's really, oh my God, he's not a Republican either.
What do I do?
What do I do?
And she was stumped.
I don't know.
That's a good question.
That is a good.
You are the first to ask me what I think of the Super Bowl.
You're the first question I've had about the Super Bowl since a week ago Sunday.
I'm not.
Not a single person has asked me why.
Huh.
Well, I said I didn't know a big deal, but not everybody hurt me.
There's no scuttlebutt about it.
My point is, not even in my vast circle of acquaintances, friends, groupies, and so forth.
There's not a single person that's asked me about the Super Bowl.
I mean, not even if I'm going.
I mean, usually, hey, you got any room left?
Could I go with it?
None of that.
Just an observation.
Sal in Knoxville, Tennessee.
I'm glad you waited.
It's your turn.
How are you doing?
Hi, Rush.
Good.
Thank you.
I just wanted to have, I had an opinion about Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.
First, Ted Cruz, I think that if he wants to get over this Ben Carson issue, he needs to man up and do exactly what Donald Trump would do.
Donald Trump would give this staffer a raise because this staffer did exactly what he was supposed to do.
He didn't do anything wrong, and he did it very well.
I think that Ben Carson, if he is as mature and decent as we all think he is, then when it's time for him to drop out, he should endorse Ted Cruz.
Well, now it's a I think, well, I should say, because I don't know.
I don't, the odds are that Dr. Carson was going to drop out.
But I think he had a lot invested in Iowa, and he had a lot invested in New Hampshire beyond that.
But then there's others who say, no, no, no, he's going to stay in this for as long as he can because there's an opportunity he's got.
You know, former presidential candidate on your resume for speechmaking and TV appearances and so forth.
Plus, I gather he's enjoying himself.
He is enjoying the opportunity to get to meet people, travel the country, and have them meet him.
This whole episode, however, is just, I don't know how to describe it other than this comes across as childish.
This is politics.
Your point that if Trump staffer had done this, it would have been such a heads-up move.
It would have been right what is called for at the moment.
Take out an opponent.
My God, go for it.
Give the guy a raise and mention his name.
Well, it's too late for Cruz to do that because he's apologized.
Cruz tried to move this thing along by apologizing because that's what Dr. Carson said he wanted.
And furthermore, Senator Cruz did not blame it on the staffer.
He took the full force of the attack himself.
And a lot of people would have blamed the staffer.
A lot of people would say, I didn't know this was going on.
And I have fired the reprobate who did this.
And I just want you to know that's not who I am.
And that's not the values of my campaign.
And I want to make sure it doesn't happen again.
And to make sure it doesn't happen again, I have fired the puts that did it.
Cruz did not do that.
Apparently, the apology wasn't enough, and it hasn't been taken.
Let's go back to the audio soundbites.
Here is Cruz.
This is in Goffstown, New Hampshire yesterday, held a press conference.
During the Q ⁇ A, he was asked, can you tell us a little bit about your thoughts that Trump wants not only to do a redo of the Iowa caucuses, but thinks that your results should be nullified.
It is no surprise that Donald is throwing yet another temper tantrum, or if you like, yet another Trumper tantrum.
It seems his reaction to everything is a pro-a-fit to engage in insults because he's losing it.
Look, we need a commander-in-chief, not a Twitterer-in-Chief.
We need someone with judgment and the temperament to keep this country safe.
I don't know anyone who would be comfortable with someone who behaves this way, having his finger on the button.
I mean, we're liable to wake up one morning, and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark.
What?
Nuked Denmark?
All places to nuke.
Well, yeah, what's interesting about this, this is always the way that the left used to go about criticizing Reagan.
Reagan was too dangerous, too immature, too dunce-like to ever put in a position where his finger would be on a nuclear button.
That's always something that Democrats say about your average Republican being stupid, dangerous, immature.
And here's Cruz turning it around and accusing Trump of being that kind of character.
He wasn't finished.
He had a little bit more to say about this.
The American people are not interested in this circus sideshow of insults.
You know, my girls are five and seven.
And I got to tell you, Caroline and Catherine are better behaved than a presidential candidate who responds by insulting everyone every day.
Ted Cruz, that got a lot of response.
People like that.
Now, when we come back, Cruz goes on CNN and tells the truth of the timeline here.
What happened?
That he didn't do anything.
That it was the Carson camp that had to tell somebody that they were leaving the campaign.
I mean, CNN found out from somebody, and that somebody was somebody in the Carson campaign.
And the Rubio campaign found out who it is.
Well, no.
Well, the Rubio campaign found out, and they added to it as well.
It wasn't just Cruz.
It was the Rubio campaign capitalizing on this while prior to the Iowa caucuses.
But it was a reporter named Moody, Greg Moody, Jeff Moody, whatever his name is at CNN.
He had the original tweet that Carson was leaving the campaign and going to Florida and was not going to the national prayer breakfast and not go to New Hampshire.
By the way, the latest is that Carson is not going to New Hampshire, even after the prayer breakfast.
He's going to North Carolina, North Carolina.
Now, we have nothing against North Carolina here, but the action's in South Carolina in terms of upcoming primaries.
But Carson's going to go to North Carolina.
He's not going to go to New Hampshire.
At least not a media.
Anyway, all of this, this ball was put in motion by Carson's campaign with a tweet on CNN.
So Cruz goes on and getting the timeline.
And they just couldn't handle the fact that he was telling everybody CNN's the reason all this happened.
They spent the rest of the night last night calling it a liar.
We have the predatory preludatory soundbites share with you after this when we get back.
Okay, first, before the Ted Cruz soundbites, and I have not forgotten, we got the story here on how it's immoral, USA Today, immoral for you to watch the Super Bowl because of the concussions.
You're furthering the culture that's killing the combatants of the game.
You are immoral if you watch this game.
Details coming up.
We have the audio of the exchange between the colon cancer guy and Hillary Clinton.
I just want you to hear this.
The guy's name is Jim Kinnan, and here's his question to Hillary.
I'm walking with colon cancer with the word terminal very much in my vocabulary, comfortably and spiritually.
But I wonder what leadership you could offer within an executive role that might help advance the respectful conversation that is needed around this personal choice that people may make as we age and deal with health issues or be the caregivers of those people to help enhance their end of life with dignity.
Well, you see what this is about.
I mean, this guy is terminal cancer.
He's looking to Hillary to pick up this cause.
And he wants to be involved in the expansion of this national discussion, death with dignity, end of life.
And listen to this.
This is just classic disconnect, inability to relate, to have any kind of just commiseration whatsoever with this poor guy.
First of all, thank you for being here.
Thank you so much for being part of this great New Hampshire primary process.
And thank you for your support.
And I really appreciate your asking the question.
I have to tell you, this is the first time I've been asked that question.
I don't have any easy or glib answer for you.
I think I would want to really immerse myself in the ethical writings, the health writings, the scientific writings, the religious writings.
I know some other countries, the Netherlands and others, have a quite open approach.
I'd like to know what their experience has been because we have to be sure that nobody is coerced, nobody's under duress, and that is a difficult line to draw.
So I thank you.
I thank you so much for raising this really important, absolutely critical question that we're all going to have to do some thinking about.
It was just you talk about talking past the guy.
That's why I say it was almost akin to the Dukakis rape question.
And something else popped into my mind as I was listening to this that was akin to, and it popped out of my mind just as quickly.
But it, what?
It was.
That's exactly what's this woman at a televised pro-Obamacare seminar at the White House, the average ordinary Americans.
A woman comes in and asks Obama about her 100-year-old mother who wants a pacemaker and her will to live.
And will we be making exceptions for people based on their will to live in Obama?
No, no, no.
We can't get into such a will to live.
No, no.
In most cases, we're really just going to have to think about giving them a pill.
And it was just, that whole thing blew my mind.
Citizen asking a president if mother can get a pacemaker.
If it's the president's business.
But thank you for your question.
Thanks for your support.
I need to examine the writings.
I need to examine the scientific writings, the ethical writings, the health writings, the religious writings.
I want to look at what they're doing in the Netherlands for crying out loud.
And thank you so much for coming.
And thank you so much for our support for something we're all going to have to think about at some point in our life.
Mrs. Clinton is never going to get to this.
You know damn well she's never going to have this question.
These people have gotten away for too damn long with this supposed ownership of big-hearted compassion and understanding for the downtrodden and the little people.
And they haven't the slightest idea how to even relate.
Thank you for your support.
It's not why the guy showed up.
It's what these politicians, everything, everything has to be about them.
It's just striking.
I'd have to move the crew's sound bites and see you in the next hour.
Let me grab a phone call quick.
That would be Andrew in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Hello, sir.
Glad you're here.
Hello.
Hey.
Neoconservatives, Ram fans, Dittos for you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I think the whole bogus Iowa, the non-bump Iowa winning story is more of an effort to protect Hillary than it is to knock anybody on the Republican side.
And in doing so, not only are they protecting Hillary, they're protecting Ted Cruz.
Well, maybe.
I mean, but I don't think that when it's all over, they're interested in protecting Ted Cruz.
That's the difference.
What he's talking about, folks, is the conventional wisdom that's being reported in New Hampshire today with the drive-bys is that New Hampshire voters make it a point not to rubber stamp what happens in Iowa.
Meaning, when New Hampshire sees how Iowa votes, they make certain to vote the other way.
Meaning, there's no way Cruz is going to win here because the people of New Hampshire don't want to look like they're rubber stamping what Iowa did.
So therefore, there's no bump.
There's no bump for Cruz.
He ain't going to get a bump.
It may not have, well, if even won Iowa, it doesn't mean anything.
We hate Cruz.
We're going to do everything we can to keep Cruz down.
But his point is, well, we don't know who won on the Democrat side in Iowa.
But by the same token, if they think Hillary won, then they can't go vote for Hillary.
They've got to vote Bernie.
And his theory is they're protecting Hillary.
She's supposed to lose anyway in New Hampshire, so don't make a big deal of it when it happens.
And that's true.
And the polling data says she's going to get skunked in New Hampshire.
It's after New Hampshire that crazy Bernie really doesn't even show up anywhere, folks.
I hate to tell you, but fastest three hours in media, still a lot to cram in here, folks.
And I'm feeling better.
I think I was premature in thinking that my battery life crisis had returned.