I've had it for a couple of days, a story at Clinton.
By the way, two things on Bill Clinton.
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There was a, I saw a video the other day, Bill Clinton standing behind Gabby Giffords and her husband.
It was obviously a campaign appearance, and Gabby and her husband were talking about the upcoming election, the primary, and Clinton was standing.
Did you see this?
Clinton standing behind him?
I've got to be very careful here describing this.
But it looked like he didn't know where he was.
He kept chewing on his tongue, kept wise wide open and literally looked totally, totally out of it as an aging person looked not inebriated or any of that, just not there.
It was striking.
It was, whoa, what is this?
And then the next story on Clinton was he's out there talking about speaking up for Hillary.
He said, we've got to clean up the legacy, the disaster of the last eight years.
And I say, what the heck is this about?
And everybody thought maybe Obama's going to unleash the DOJ on Hillary.
And maybe Clinton's heard about it.
And then they asked Clinton about it.
No, I won't talk about it.
I'm talking about the Republicans.
The Republicans' legacy last eight years.
It's an absolute disaster.
It's something that only Hillary can fix it.
And everybody said, what the Republicans didn't do diddly squat the last eight years.
The Republicans didn't do anything.
So there's a lot of people wondering, where's Bill?
Clearly, something's changing out there.
Ladies and gentlemen, the previous caller, that young woman from Chapel Hill, which is where the University of North Carolina is.
I mean, that was that.
That was a model.
I mean, I think that was your classically educated college student, circa 2016.
And she was upset at my categorization of Hillary Clinton as a wuss.
Because Hillary's first reaction to the Brussels bombing was to say that the United States response must be consistent with our values and says we waterboarding and so forth.
And the young lady was perplexed.
Why would I call Hillary a wuss?
Because she was right.
We need peace.
We need peace.
The United States must be peaceful.
And it's a delicate thing talking to people of that particular mindset because they have been educated and raised in many places to believe that all conflict.
any conflict, is injustice.
Competition is conflict.
Disagreeing with somebody about something, anything is conflict.
And that's disagree.
So when the terror attack happens, to have an opinion about it that is in conflict with some, that's not right.
That's injustice.
We should be more open and make blanket requests for peace.
Everybody come together, but don't start affixing blame anywhere.
You don't have the right to blame anybody.
We're all guilty.
We're all victims.
We're all oppressors, whatever it is.
And any conflict is injustice because there should be unanimity in agreement.
We should all be getting along.
Now, the reason this has been taught this way, it is it is an adjunct to political correctness, which the purpose of which is to silence anybody who isn't a liberal from speaking up and saying anything, thinking out loud, speaking out loud.
And so to categorize conflict, i.e.
disagreeing with a liberal, is injustice, you see.
So I spoke out against Mrs. Clinton.
That's conflict.
That's not productive.
It's injustice.
It's not fair.
It isn't right.
And why would you call Hillary?
Why would you?
The way they've been educated, it literally does not compute.
You would be critical of a Democrat.
You would be critical of a liberal.
You'd be critical.
They're not taught that Democrats are great.
They're taught it by Association of People.
Conservatives are rotten, not because they say conservatives are rotten.
They tar and feather everybody who is.
And they build up and celebrate and promote anybody who's a liberal.
They never use the word liberal or conservative in educating these kids.
But the message is clear.
If you disagree with a liberal, which is the norm, liberalism is just what is.
It's as normal as water exists and air.
And to disagree with it is, well, that's just injustice.
And that's as far as it goes.
There is no critical thinking involved here.
All there is, I can't believe he said that.
I can't believe he said anything that about Hillary.
You can't do that.
You just can't do that.
And that's what she was wanting an explanation.
How can you do that?
Now, the answer is, you really want to elect this woman president?
She not only, in her first statement after this thing, warns the United States about what it might do, this is the woman who let Benghazi happen.
Four Americans dead, and then lied to everybody about why.
There is nothing to recommend this woman to be president if you're a critical thinker, if you have any understanding of the way things really happen.
But that's not how they're raised.
That's not how they're educated.
All conflict is injustice.
But from their standpoint, conflict is, it's everything.
Every conflict is, but disagreeing with a liberal is also conflict.
It's not supposed to happen.
Can I share with you something from the New York Times?
Back on January, what was this?
Put on the reading glass.
January 28th.
This is March the 22th.
So we're almost two months.
The headline is, Donald Trump finds new city to insult.
Dateline London.
He incensed Paris and London by saying that some of their neighborhoods were so overrun with radicals that the police were too scared to enter.
He raised Scottish tempers by threatening to pull the plug on his investments there, including his luxury golf courses, if British politicians barred him from entering Britain.
And now, Donald J. Trump has upset the already beleaguered people of Belgium, calling its capital, Brussels, a hellhole.
Asked by Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about the feasibility of his proposal to bar foreign Muslims from entering the U.S., Mr. Trump argued that Belgium and France had been blighted by the failure of Muslims in these countries to integrate and to assimilate.
Trump said to Maria Bartieromo, I know it's Bartaromo, but if you listen to the way it's Barcharomo.
Anyway, I'm just pronouncing the way I hear it, folks.
Anyway, he said to Maria Barcharomo, there's something going on, Maria.
Go to Brussels.
Go to Paris.
Go to different places.
There's something going on and it's not good.
Where they want Sharia law, where they want this, where they want things that it just isn't good.
And less than two months later, Belgium blows up.
Brussels blows up.
New York Times, Donald Trump finds New City to insult Brussels.
Story today from BuzzFeed, Belgian authorities overwhelmed by terror investigations.
Within minutes of a bomb blast at Brussels' main airport, mobile phone and internet networks crashed after a second attack struck a metro station in Meadowbeek, which feeds the main European Union complex.
And that's, again, from my first hour, that's you see, to understand this, and please, look, you might think this is a little over the top.
It isn't, folks.
It isn't to leftists and to quasi-leftists, to anybody who's not a conservative.
Let's just put it that way: Europe.
That's the site.
Europe is the site of utopia.
Denmark, Brussels, Saveden.
It's all there.
That's where the grand experiment's already begun.
That's where it's going to eventually flower.
That's where utopia is, Europe.
And these clowns have come along and they blew it up.
By God, don't they not know?
If we could all live together there, we can live in harmony.
We can live in peace.
We can live without conflict.
Don't they know why they are taking this personally?
Blowing, I guarantee you, blowing up Mailbeak, which feeds the main European Union complex.
That'd be like blowing up the underground railroad subway system, whatever, to the U.S. Capitol.
You know, hit anything, but damn, oh my God, this is a direct hit on our utopian site.
Remember, in utopia, utopia is where all conflict subsides.
Utopia is where all conflict goes away.
Utopia is with everybody realizes peace, unity, oneness, sameness, equality, justice, you know, all these things.
And these clowns hit it.
These terrorists, they just targeted it.
It's dispiriting because the very existence of this place is supposed to send out like cosmic waves that this is the place where we are all finally going to come together as one.
And they went out and hit it.
It's double depressing to them for that reason.
Belgian counterterrorism officials have been on high alert for years as hundreds of citizens and residents have departed for the battlefields of Syria and Iraq.
One Belgian official said that besides the names of hundreds of fighters believed to be abroad, the security services have more than 200 open files related to threats at home and in Europe.
Virtually every, listen to this, virtually every police detective and military intelligence officer in Belgium is focused on international jihad investigation.
There isn't any time for murder, robbery, any of the other everyday crimes that everybody is focused on jihad.
And even with that, the jihadists succeeded.
The official from the intelligence agency said, look, we just don't have the people to watch anything else.
And frankly, we don't have the infrastructure to properly investigate or monitor hundreds of individuals suspected of terror links, as well as pursue the hundreds of open files.
This is utopia.
This is what everybody aspires to.
And they are not equipped to deal with the harsh realities of the world, including that there are bad guys who want to kill us simply because we're alive.
They don't want to kill us because they don't like our values.
That's another Hillary and Obama.
We must maintain our value.
This is not a value question for them.
It's a religious question.
We're infidels.
It's no more complicated than that.
Plus, we are at war with them, or we're going through the motions of it anyway.
But back to Trump.
So back in January 28th, the New York Times gets all over him for insulting Brussels and telling everybody that, look, it's going to happen there.
They're not prepared for it.
All this massive immigration in Belgium and other European nations, and there's no assimilation.
They're living together amongst each other.
They're not becoming citizens of these countries, and they are not learning the specific ways of life in these countries.
So the Times insults Trump and rigs on Trump.
And now we have a story of the Politico, Trump on Brussels attacks.
I told you so.
Donald Trump said today he's been warning about the importance of border security for some time, a comment that comes in response to the explosions in Brussels.
He says, I've been talking about this for a long time.
Look at Brussels, he said in a phone interview.
This on Fox and Friends today.
Not on the Fox Business Network like he did originally with a Maria Barcheromo.
So, okay.
What else do we have here?
Investors Business Daily, now just known as Investors, I think Investors.
Editorial: Clinton email scandal.
It's time Hillary suspended her campaign.
What that means is it's time for the Republicans to stand up and say, Mrs. Clinton, there's too much going on with you here.
There's a lot of smoke now.
We think we see some flames.
We think you should suspend your campaign.
This is what Dingy Harry would do.
Mitt Romney hasn't paid his taxes in 25 years.
A friend of mine told me, we think Romney should suspend his campaign to look into it.
Well, Investors Business Daily thinks that Mrs. Clinton ought to be told she should suspend her campaign to find out exactly what went on with who and how much intel classified data is out there now because of her screw-ups.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Every day, just to make it fair.
Barrington, Illinois, John, as we head back to the phones, you're next.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
You know, I think I speak for some others who have been throwing drinks or shouting back at the radio when people like Susan from a couple days ago come on, and the first thing out of their mouth is, there's no difference between Trump and Hillary.
And I can't believe that you let her go on without proving that statement up.
Wait a minute.
Now, I'm having trouble remembering that.
I'm not disputing you, but a lot of stuff happens here every day.
I think I know who you're talking about.
Was she the one that wanted to ridicule the Trump supporters into behaving?
That's not my memory is somebody getting mad at me for not supporting Cruz and condemning Trump.
But I don't recall.
Go ahead.
Time is dwindling.
She was not going to vote for Trump.
I believe she was for Cruz.
And, you know, my point is, people need to get their priorities straight.
This is, we have a 57-game exhibition schedule to pick our starter for the political Super Bowl.
And there's only one political Super Bowl.
And you cannot undo the process.
And the people that are not willing to put our best candidate forward and the one that all of us are participating in choosing.
Wait, you're laboring under a very important misunderstanding.
And that is that given this season, there are a lot of Republicans who are more than willing to lose this election rather than have Trump win it as a Republican.
Well, I think the priorities are out of order.
Pardon me?
Those priorities are out of order.
Not to them.
That's how they save their jobs.
That's how they save their prestige.
That's how they save their self-esteem.
Well, I think they won't have a job then because I don't think there will be a party after that.
Because I think between the Tea Partiers and the Trump supporters, they're gone forever if this is somehow undone.
Well, no, no, no, no.
They'll still have their magazines.
I'm not talking about they'll still have their pundit jobs.
They will still have their good standing in the club.
No, this is a serious point.
I'm not trying to interrupt you here, even though I'm out of time.
It's a serious.
The unity you talk about, it doesn't exist.
Okay, here's John back in Barrington, Illinois.
I didn't want to shortchange you on your time there since I interrupted you to try to disabuse you of one of your premises, and that is that everybody's going to be united behind a nominee if it's Trump.
I don't know.
I wish it would happen, too.
I even said so on Fox News Sunday, that everybody would finally realize the enemy is Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.
But there's so many people on our side personally invested in maintaining their own position in life.
The establishment of the club in Washington, wherever, that Trump being elected effectively leaves them out of power.
That's horrible from their perspective.
Well, number one, I think that's just as ridiculous as saying Trump is a Nazi.
I mean, Washington isn't going to go away, and if the Republicans have control of all three branches of government, you know, there's plenty of room in the government in the process for everybody to work on something.
And if Trump is going to do as much to push projects ahead, I think there'll be plenty of work for everybody to go around.
It may not be as much as they want to do in the area that they want to do, but I think he's just going to reset the priorities.
You know, one of the things I was thinking about was since Reagan, there's only three, now four guys, including Cruz, that I consider guys that are willing to completely go to the mat for Republican or conservative principles.
And that's Gingrich, Trump, and Cruz.
Everybody else, to me, you know, Romney, if he would have had any, would have taken it to Obama and made the last election about Obama's record, he didn't do that.
And to me, that's an evidence of a lack of combativeness.
And, you know, under Gingrich and Reagan, there was progress made on conservative and free market principles.
So I think it requires somebody who's got some combativeness to push things ahead in those areas.
And if Trump is only 50% conservative, that's 50% conservative and combative to me is better than 100% conservative and not combative.
Right, no, all of that, we're talking past each other because you're talking about this from a standpoint of perspective that the people I'm talking about are not interested in.
You're interested in winning the election, beating back liberalism, stopping the things going wrong in the country, repairing the economy, repairing the border, repairing all of these cultural rottings that are going on.
The people I'm talking about who are talking about voting for Hillary before voting for Trump, none of that matters to them.
This is why I have spent so much time in recent weeks trying to explain it, that it's personal.
It's about maintaining their current position in life that they fear would be imperiled if Trump were to win or if anybody outside the establishment were to win.
The opposition to Trump is categorized by the people I'm talking about, which is a finite number of people.
I'm not talking about everybody that opposes Trump.
I'm talking about, I don't know how to be more explicit than I have been.
I just don't want to name names here.
But the people that are responsible for this line of thinking, you can put them in a couple of blocks of Washington, D.C., and they are trying to motivate other people to agree with them.
And it's those people that are out there saying, some of them are elected Republicans, others are in the pundit occracy, some are in the media, some are at K-Street, some are lobbyists, some are campaign consultants or whatever.
And they're all saying that Trump is so bad, so unacceptable, that we'll vote for Hillary first.
Now, there's no way under the sun that a Republican in this era votes for Hillary Clinton or does anything to enable her to be elected who is actually engaged in taking things seriously.
They can't do that.
This country is at a crossroads, and there's not a whole lot of time here between us and the edge of the cliff.
And the election of Hillary Clinton or whoever would get the nomination if she doesn't is, to anybody really thinking, totally unacceptable.
These people are not analyzing it the way you did and the way you do.
They're not looking at it in ideological terms.
And, you know, Trump's acceptable because he's maybe half conservative or 25%.
He's not them.
He never has been them.
He's not part of them.
He's not qualified.
Besides, he poses a threat.
Think of these guys as individual wizards of Oz, and somebody's about to rip the curtain open.
And they're about to be exposed.
These are the people I'm talking about.
The Wizard of Oz didn't care what happened to Ozzy.
He cared what happened to him.
And it's not very many people, but it doesn't take many people to have the power to run the apparatus here that is known as the Republican National Convention or the upper echelons of the Republican Party.
Look, another politico story today.
Another El Rushbo, see, I told you so.
The headline, Trump's foreign policy team baffles GOP experts.
Now, one of the people named is Walid Ferris, who is excellent on international Islamic terrorism.
He's a frequent guest on TV.
I cite the guy practically every time he appears on TV.
He makes so much sense in identifying who the players are and what their real motivations are and what their tactics are and where the real alliances are in this mess that we call the Middle East and Islamic terrorism and so forth.
But here's the nut of this story, if you will.
It's the political.
Michael Crowley writes it.
Trump's foreign policy team baffles GOP experts.
Republicans can't figure out the mogul's quirky mix of advisors.
And then we go to page two.
I'm not going to give the name because I don't want this person to start getting inundated with mail.
That's not the point.
A former official in the George W. Bush State Department, who is now a fellow at the Hoover Institution, said to the politico, I don't know any of these Trump foreign policy people.
You know, national security is hard to do well, even with first-rate people.
It's almost impossible to do well with third-rate people.
Well, this is pretty much translation.
I don't know these people.
They're not in the club.
These people, Trump's name, I never heard of them.
I don't know who these people are.
We can't have them.
I don't know them.
I've never heard of them.
It's like the famous New York writer Pauline Kahle after the election of Richard Nixon in 1972.
She's a New Yorker.
And she said, I have no idea how this happened.
I don't know anybody that voted for Nixon.
So here you have a former Bush State Department.
I don't recognize any of these people.
I never heard of them.
I don't know any of them.
You know, national security is hard to do well, even with people like me.
But you put people in there I never heard of.
Oh, no, we can't have that.
Classic.
They're not in the club.
And that's, frankly, what most people think is a plus is getting people.
Let's face it, the club ain't doing too hot, folks.
The club has been messing things up here for at least seven years, if not longer.
Anyway, Steve, I appreciate the call.
John, I'm sorry, I appreciate the call.
I've got things to do that are backing up on me here.
I still have a lot of soundbites to get in here.
So sit tight, folks, because there's much more straight ahead.
When are we going to start questioning who's on Obama's foreign policy team?
When are we going to start questioning who's on Hillary's foreign policy team?
When are we?
Look, I know it's the Republican primary, and I know the contest right now is for the Republican nomination.
I get that.
But the problem is all of this vitriol at Trump or at Cruz or back and forth, when it's over, none of it's going to end up being redirected into Democrats where it really needs to be directed.
I mean, Hillary's out there.
Let me tell you what she just did.
Because I made note, she was just on CNN, and she was talking about the terror attacks.
It was a lengthy interview they did.
And it happens every time.
It happened after San Bernardino.
It happened after Fort Hood.
It happened every time.
Even when it's an attack that has nothing to do with Islam, like the Colorado movie theater shooting, but when it might be, when people think it might be, every time after Brussels today, Hillary Clinton went out there and she said, look, it's a mistake to start criticizing Islam.
We cannot go to war with an entire religion.
We need to recruit Muslims to help us stop these attacks.
Every time there's an attack, Hillary Clinton or Obama or your average Democrat, the first thing they do is stand up and tell us what we better not be thinking and what we better not be planning and what we better not do.
And all of it adds up to, you'd better not blame who's responsible for this because that's not who we are.
American values are not that.
We are not going to blame who's responsible for this.
Meanwhile, has anybody noticed what ISIS is doing?
Well, I'll tell you what ISIS is doing.
ISIS is branching out.
ISIS is no longer a localized Middle East operation.
They are taking their war to the West.
They are moving their war, and they went to the seat of the European Union today and blew it up.
ISIS, this has not happened in Syria.
This did not happen in Iraq.
It did not happen in Libya.
It happened in Brussels.
There's NATO.
Hell, everything we negotiate.
The World Trade Organization, the World Court.
I'm telling you, it's the left utopia, and ISIS just hit them in their roots.
And here's Mrs. Clinton.
We cannot blame an entire religion.
We cannot betray our own values.
We cannot be thinking of waterboarding.
We didn't do anything.
But as far as Mrs. Clinton is concerned, we're on the cusp of also being culpable here unless we maintain our values.
I'm telling you, these people are going to get us wiped out.
They are so conflict-averse, except when it comes to us.
They will happily and gladly be in conflict with us Republicans and conservatives 24-7.
Because apparently to them, we pose a greater threat to them than ISIS does.
You know why?
Because they see us as wanting to take away their power.
They see ISIS as some far-off, distant little cult.
They're not taking it seriously.
Obama still doesn't take it seriously.
This is Cruz's whole point when he says that Obama won't even call it what it is.
But there she was again, Mrs. Clinton.
We cannot blame an entire religion.
Who is?
Well, Trump is missing them, but Trump is blaming.
No, Trump is not doing it.
He's simply saying when something like this happens, you've got to put measures in place to make sure that these kinds of people are not getting into your country via some other program, the refugee resettlement program, the immigration program, or what have you.
Anyway, first thing out of their mouths is a warning to us.
You better not be doing what I know you're thinking of doing.
You better hold on to our values.
You better not be thinking torture.
You better not be thinking waterboarding.
You better not be thinking, go to war with an entire religion.
After every attack at San Bernardino, after this, after Fortune, take your pick.
After the next one, she'll be out saying the same thing.
Warning us, who had nothing to do with it, what we better not be thinking, what we better not be planning, what we better not be doing.
Meanwhile, ISIS is headed our way.
Here is Robert in Coronado, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
All right.
Thank you, Rush.
Conservatives like myself should share in the responsibility for what's gone on in the liberal universities and colleges across the country.
And very briefly, I'll tell you why.
We're very successful, many of us.
We graduated many, many years ago, 30-some years ago, from these institutions.
And we dutifully send money to them every year, you know, with some student calling us up and telling us how much they appreciate our help.
And we, you know, when you got into medical school so many years ago, and we send them the money, and incrementally, these universities have become something totally different from what we attended.
Yet we send them money as if we're sending money to the same institution it was 35 years ago, and it's not.
Well, yeah, I get your point.
I think it still was pretty bad 35 years ago, but your point still is.
I didn't graduate from one, but you did.
So we'll talk about you.
You got out of the place.
You survived.
You became what you became.
Well, let's not use you because I don't want to put you on.
Your point is that people who have known what these universities are for years continue to send money, continue to send their kids while condemning the product.
It's a bunch of it's a bunch of stuff teaching liberalism.
They're indoctrinating kids with a bunch of leftist propaganda.
But we're sending our kids to and we're paying the freight and we're being boosters.
We're donating maybe to the athletic department or what have you.
That's your point, right?
That is the point.
And, Rush, I get the newsletters, you know, quarterly newsletters, and I incrementally would notice more social justice stuff creeping in, gender studies and so forth.
And, I mean, it's not the same place.
Well, what do you think?
Your kids are not going to be affected by it when you still send them there?
Not you specifically, but in general.
You think people think?
Well, no.
I'm just saying why should I fund it?
I mean, it's like my kids are going to school now in a different place.
And believe me, they tell me the stuff that instructors tell them about, oh, if somebody was living in a house and couldn't afford to pay it, wouldn't it be better from a social standpoint if they were allowed to continue to live in their house?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
That was from housing.
That was famous for the housing crisis.
Yeah, the bank screwed them in the first place, right?
Yeah, and, you know, and so I don't think the institution is necessarily going to change, but why should we fund it?
I mean, that's it.
But not only that, do you know what the Harvard endowment, nobody ought to be giving Harvard a dime.
Their endowment is in the double-figure billions.
But yet, you know, some erstwhile tycoon will give them money to put his name on the next building they build.
Anyway, Robert, I appreciate the call.
We've got to take another time out, folks.
Fastest three hours in media here.
Be right back.
Yeah.
I got this here.
More Republicans feel embarrassed by campaign polls.
Where do you think this story runs?
New York Times.
New York Times.
Most Republicans feel embarrassed by campaign poll says.
Well, we'll get into that.
And some soundbites that I still want to run by you here, folks.
The next hour is going to go whizzing by out there.