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May 26, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 26, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Here's another thing.
Katie Currick's question what are you going to do about these people felons and what you know it's a it's a bogus question.
The premise of the question is not even valid.
We've already got laws on the books that deal with that.
You know, California has strict gun control laws and background check laws, didn't stop the San Bernardino II.
The San Bernardino II had a garage full of weapons.
Had Howardzers, they had grenades out there, they had uh RPG launchers.
Who knows whatever the hell they had?
It's all a crock.
Anyway, great to have you back, El Rushbow here behind the golden EIB microphone, broadcast excellence, fastest three hours in media, just to refresh your memory on how, you know, Katie Courick has roots in NBC.
Even though she's at Yahoo News, and she's uh she's also been uh the anchor for the CBS uh evening news.
But I mean, once you once you have experience in a drive-by media, you have experience in the drive-by media.
Remember the George Zimmerman Trayvon Martin incident.
NBC News purposefully doctored the 9-1-1 call tape.
The George Zimmerman 911 call tape.
I want to remind you of this.
This is the NBC Today Show, which of course, where Katie Couric used to work.
March 27th, 2012, a little over four years ago.
They played a clip of the 911 call George Zimmerman made to the police about Trayvon Martin.
Now, this is five seconds.
It goes by fast.
This is all they played from George Zimmerman's supposed 911 call to the cops.
Ready?
Three, two, one.
This guy looks like he's up to no good.
He looks black.
So you are to think, if you're watching it today's show, that this guy Zimmerman is a kooky neighborhood watch guy, and he sees this black guy in a hoodie walking around a neighborhood, and because he's a racist thug, he picks up the call of 9-1-1 and tells him it's some black guy is up to no good.
This is after Trayvon Martin has been shot, of course, and they're calling George Zimmerman a white Hispanic.
Don't forget.
New York Times for the first time ever referred to him as a white Hispanic.
You want to hear how the call really went?
That's five seconds of it that NBC aired.
It learned it was learned that an editor at NBC in Florida purposefully doctored the tape.
The guy said he did it for time constraint reasons, that they didn't have a whole lot of time.
So they had to cut to the essence of the 9-1-1 call.
Well, they can't make that claim on the Katie Courick gun control show.
They did that they added nine seconds of nothing.
So they can't claim they did it for time constraint.
They did it out of pure political bias and a desire for certain outcome to be perceived by their audience.
At NBC, they did the same thing.
They wanted everybody to think that the Zimmerman guy is a Looney Tune neighborhood watch guy running around his neighborhood looking for black people to drop the dime on because he's a racist pig.
But here is the actual 9-1-1 call where you will hear Zimmerman offered nothing.
He was answering questions from the 9-1-1 operator.
This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something.
It's raining.
He's just walking around looking about.
Okay.
And this guy, is he watched like a Hispanic?
He looks black.
Now, in the tape they aired, they have Zimmerman saying, this guy looks like he's up to no good.
He looks black.
That required editing.
It required somebody at NBC to, as they say in the old days, splice these two pits of audio together.
But George Zimmerman did not offer that Trayvon Martin looked black.
He was asked for his interpretation by the 911 operator.
So the same premise, doctoring of the tape.
Now the let's let's give this NBC guy the benefit of the doubt, because we can still make the case.
Okay, let's say that there were time constraints.
Okay, but the guy has built-in bias.
He obviously thought whoever did this at NBC and probably all of them, without knowing anything.
Ah, see a guy in a hoodie, black who's shot, and a white Hispanic neighborhood watch got a neighborhood watch guy's automatically a kook, right?
The neighborhood watch guy is a pretend cop.
The neighborhood watch guy is one of these guys that couldn't pass the cop exam, but wants to be a cop, so he arms up, gets an official-looking uniform, has a cheap little cracker jack badge, and runs around the neighborhood trying to put that's what they think a neighborhood watch people.
Then you add the black guy in the hoodie, and without knowing anything, aha!
NBC concludes that this loony tune neighborhood watch guy shot the guy in the hoodie because he was black, because it's racism.
Just like the Duke LaCrosse case.
Well, you had these white lacrosse players.
Who plays lacrosse?
Come on, that's the oddest morning.
We've got to be rich.
White guys play it.
And who was who was injured?
Why a harmless African American single mother trying to make it in a tough world, having to dance at their fraternity party.
So of course, when she says they raped her, of course it happened because that's what white lacrosse players do.
And the faculty just signed a letter.
Talk about bias.
Talk about this is it's worse than bias.
It's prejudice.
And it was existent here.
Katie Currick, same thing.
The prejudice is gun owners, dangerous.
Anti-government conspiracy theory, tin horn fat wearing kooks.
And we're gonna, we're all Timothy McVeigh times, and we're gonna put on a show on gun control here to illustrate for everybody just what kind of dangerous wackos these guys are.
Same premise.
And that's how it works.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
On today's Morning Joe, on NBC chief correspondent for Washington, Andrea Mitchell reacted to the State Department Inspector General report criticizing Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server.
Mitchell first dismissed the Clinton campaign's defense, comparing Clinton's behavior to that of her predecessor, Colin Powell, then declared the report to be hard to be seen as anything but devastating.
It's not allowed to not return those records before she left the State Department.
She violated the official records act according to the her own State Department IG appointed by Obama.
What what you've just shown now, Mika, it completely undercuts the argument Hillary's been making for more than a year that she was just trying to persuade voters that she's trustworthy.
I think the most surprising and shocking thing is their reaction, claiming this is the same as what former secretaries did.
Hillary Clinton was lying also by telling people it was nothing but a security review.
There wasn't any investigation, anything going on.
The IG report indicates the exact opposite.
So here's Andrea Mitchell on NBC today saying, gosh, there are so many flaws in Hillary's argument.
I don't see how this is anything but devastating for Hillary given the fact they've been making a completely different argument now for more than a year.
If we had the audio and we don't want the audio, we don't have enough time.
I'm just telling you that she wiped Hillary out, and Andrea Mitchell is a BFF of Hillary Clinton.
Andrea Mitchell wants Hillary to be president so bad.
That's why she's so devastated.
And we had these guys yesterday saying this is not going to go away.
This is going to stay with us throughout the whole campaign.
Democrats would say this is serious, serious stuff.
Because everybody knows, even though you try to soft-sell this and say she broke the rules, where are the rules come from?
The rules come from the law.
She broke the law, not violated some rules.
Back to the audio sound bites.
This is Charlie Rose and Mark Halpert and John Heileman.
You know, these guys Make our cut every day.
Cookie must have a thing for Halpern and Heileman.
Don't get mad, Cookie, and I'm just having fun here.
These guys make our cut every day.
We have audio sound bites on these guys every day.
They well, they've got their show on Bloomberg TV.
Mark Halperin, John Heilman.
They were guests last night on Charlie Rose's show on PBS.
And Charlie Rose said to uh Halperin, Mark.
How damaging is this?
This is not the worst thing ever done, but it's really bad.
And the report scathing is not too strong a word.
It is an indictment of how she handled this and how her aides handled it.
She shouldn't have done it.
And it plays into hands.
A Republican opposing calls her crooked Hillary.
This was not an appropriate thing to do.
Yeah.
Trump calls her crooked Hillary not an appropriate thing to do.
She lied about it after she did it.
She did what she did.
She lied about doing that and got caught.
And now she's back to what difference does it make?
It was years ago.
What difference does it make now?
It's going to be her standard refrain.
So the next bike from the Charlie Rose show, again, Halperin and Hylaman the guests.
And they keep talking about this as you will hear.
They are deeply, deeply concerned about the deep, long-lasting impact of this.
You have Donald Trump, who is now christened Hillary Clinton, Crooked Hillary.
Even for people who don't hate Hillary Clinton and are not partisan about this, they hear crooked hillary, and there's something there that echoes crooked Hillary.
As a political matter, that's a powerful argument and a narrative and a framing device that Trump is going to adopt.
You guys all know this better than I do.
Is that if the questions are raised go to the heart of your fragility?
That's the worst thing could possibly happen.
Oh, that's the worst thing that can happen if questions are raised that go to the heart of your fragility.
It's fragility.
He said fragility.
Don't he didn't say anything else.
Some of you might be confused about what Charlie was talking about there.
He was he said her fragility.
Meaning she's fragile.
But notice this now.
You guys, oh, this is Charlie.
You guys uh you all know this better than I do.
Is that if the questions are raised, go to the heart of your fragility, and these two go.
Yes!
Yes!
That's the worst thing.
That's right.
The worst thing can happen.
Questions go to heart of your fragility?
Is the worst thing can happen.
Fragility, the root of that is fragile.
Is that what they mean?
I don't think of her as fragile.
Do you?
I I'm sorry.
That just doesn't that uh.
Sorry, does it work?
Gail King, CBS this morning.
They're worried about this.
Gail King said she went to a cocktail party last night.
And everybody was sick and tired of hearing about the emails at her cocktail party.
I was at an event last night, and both Democrats and Republicans were quoting Bernie Sanders saying, I'm sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
But that was a long time ago, and he's since changed some of that.
He has, but the people at this party last night haven't.
When you have something that is a controversy and it feeds, quote, on misgivings about you, that you don't play fair or you get away with things that other people don't get away with.
It's damaging.
That's right.
It falls into a caricature or characterization of you.
That's a problem.
Do you think it will affect her campaign?
I think it already has.
The Washington Post called this inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules.
Yeah, they didn't do anything.
That's that's Nora O'Donnell there in the bathwater.
The Washington Post actually supports her on this.
They get their obligatory, ooh, this is really bad.
How could she have done this?
But then they cover for her, or they or they try to.
You know who's got to be the single most ticked-off guy in the world about all this.
Today is Bernie Sanders.
Do you think he would have that night back if he could take it back where he it was in Philadelphia's debate, and he said, and I agree that we don't need to hear any more about Mrs. Clinton's emails.
You think he would love to have that back?
Think if he would have gone in heavy on her emails back then.
He would have been seen As a precursor.
But he gave her cover on this months and months ago.
And you know darn well if he could get it back, he would.
Uh Trump's giving the first speech that he has given since uh de facto getting 1238 delegates.
Our microphones are there, I think.
Can we jip a little bit of this just to get a Mr. Trump?
Yeah, here we go.
It's in Bismarck, North Dakota.
...for being funded by big donors, big line donors...
Starting now fundraising, doing some really big ticket fundraisers.
How do you convince your supporters that you're not going to become the puppet that you would use your opponents?
Well, I'm no puppet, and I'll tell you, I'm raising the money for the party, largely for the party, and we intend to raise a lot of money for the party.
I have no idea how much, but we're raising it for senators, for congressmen, Congress.
It'll be a record for a lot of the people that are running.
We want to go in, we want to have majorities, it's very important.
Uh we have a tremendous staff of people we raised late last night, actually we raised uh in Los Angeles.
We raised a lot of money for the party, and this is money that's going into the RNC, and uh we are going to have, I think, a tremendous, we're getting thanked all over by the Republican senators, by Congressmen, uh, and hopefully we're gonna raise a lot of money, but this is money that's being raised for the party.
Yeah, and I think we're going to have a tremendous success.
I'm also continuing to fund big portions of my campaign.
Thank you.
Go ahead.
Mr. Mayor Ford was also quoted as saying that if you did release your taxes, he wouldn't advise it because it would just serve to help your adversaries.
You see, you seem to sound as if you're not going to release your taxes.
No, no, I'm releasing when we're finished with the audit.
I have to say the IRS has been very professional, and they continue to be very professional.
And when they finish, uh I've been audited, however, for 15 years, and I don't know of very many people that have been audited for 15 years.
I hear it all the time, so I don't know what that's all about.
But I think the IRS has been very professional, and as we move along, uh, if as soon as that's finished, whenever that may be, and hopefully it's gonna be before the election.
I'm fine with that.
Okay.
Just to be very specific on this, you do pay some federal taxes.
I do.
Yeah, I do.
Yes.
David, David, go ahead.
Mr. Trump, um in the wake of yesterday's uh inspector general report from the State Department by the way's emails.
You said that you have doubts about whether or not she was paying the race against you.
But are you prepared right now in a fact that call on her to get out of the race so that Americans can have more confidence in the integrity of the front runner?
Actually, I sort of like her in the race.
I want to run against her.
Look, she has bad judgment.
This was all bad judgment.
Probably illegal.
We'll have to find out what the FBI says about it.
But certainly it was bad judgment.
I just read the report.
It's devastating, the report.
It's devastating.
And very bad, very bad.
There's no reason for it.
It's just, you know, skirting on the edge all the time.
And you look back at her history, and this is her history.
Uh it's a very, very harsh report, done really by Democrats, if you think of it, appointed by Obama, and done by Democrats.
So it's shocking to see it.
It's shocking to see what she did.
And really, more than anything else, it's bad judgment.
But that's going to be up to her whether or not she wants to continue running.
All right, we've got to take a break here, folks.
That's Trump is in Bismarck, North Dakota, first press conference after uh crossing the 1237 delegate threshold.
That's a good point.
They can't say what they always say.
This IG report, vast right-wing conspiracy had nothing to do with it.
You know, stop and think of this.
Back last June and July, Hillary Clinton was thought to be on the way to a coronation.
Her nomination was a perfunctory accepted thing.
It was just it was automatic.
It was going to happen, just a matter of a calendar.
And Trump was gonna implode and be sent packing in a mass moment of embarrassment.
He was going to implode.
Well, now Donald Trump has secured the GOP nomination, surpassing the twelve hundred and thirty-seven delegate threshold.
Mrs. Clinton cannot close a deal against Bernie Sanders.
That's why I tell you, you just never know.
You just need it's a risky thing to start predicting long range political outcomes, like it is in England's nobody knows what's going to happen, and nobody knows the things that are going to transpire in uh in the time frame of which a prediction is made.
I I try to you know refrain from it as much as I can.
Just don't know.
Nobody would have predicted.
Well, I did, by the way.
I predicted 80, 90% of this.
I get I got the audio sound bites here today to prove it if anybody wants it, but I want to waste time on that.
Here's uh here's Gary in in Washington, D.C. Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Russ, good afternoon.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I'm gonna get right to the point.
Uh on that uh active duty military, and uh I'm undecided uh for the uh election right now.
It doesn't matter to me who wins because um have to work for whoever gets elected regardless.
But uh just wanted to say two things.
Uh just I've I've been asking a lot of guys that are around uh my unit, you know, ask about the election who they're gonna vote for and absolutely zero uh zero uh personnel here.
Uh I said Hillary.
That's one.
And two, um, if if uh any of us uh active duty guys uh did what she did, we would have probably been court-martialed and and sent out with a dishonorable discharge.
Now you say that this is gonna have a big impact on her election, but I disagree.
I think she's gonna continue to brainwash the left and say that you know Trump hates Mexicans, Trump Trump hates women, Trump hates Muslims, and it's gonna keep and it's gonna keep her all the way until November.
That's my that's my point.
Well, you know what's interesting about this?
I don't think there is a lot of fatigue in this email story.
I mean Gail King may run around at cocktail party people at her place where she goes to in Manhattan, maybe retired of.
I don't think there is that much fatigue on this.
Uh which is surprising you would think people would be empty.
Their emotional reservoirs are this would be empty.
Come on, can we move on?
But there's such anticipation.
Will she be indicted?
Will the FBI recommend it?
How big a crime is it?
There's still a lot of interest in this.
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Oklahoma City is John, great to have you.
I'm glad you waited, John.
Hi.
How are you doing today, Rush?
I am doing fabulously.
Thank you.
Good.
I was uh calling.
I I'm of the opinion that possibly the worst thing that could happen is if Hillary gets indicted.
The reason being is I think that will lead to a Biden Warren ticket.
She'll bring on the Bernie people, and then you'll have the contrast on stage of Hill or uh Biden, who'll be kind of calm cool, the Uncle Joe type.
throwing the gas, but it'll be funny where Trump will come across as sometimes a raving lunatic and, you know, kind of a little out of control and And maybe not the perception of it's just not going to be good, I don't think.
Plus the fact that Biden tragically lost his son earlier, tragically lost his first wife.
So he'll you know that unfortunately is will be people will empathize with him.
Trump will come across as a raving lunatic against Biden.
Is that what you're uh at times, sure.
He'll he'll go off the handle.
He'll, you know.
Well, he has that propensity.
Okay, first thing, I don't think that Hillary is going to be indicted.
Because I don't think for that to happen, that would mean Obama okay it.
And I don't think Obama wants fingerprints on whatever happens to Hillary.
That's why I think what's happening is that.
The IG report, further reviews, further interviews, the FBI leaks, they're all going to continue.
I think I think Obama would very much enjoy Hillary losing the presidential election.
I don't think that Obama wants to deal with the look.
If she gets indicted, everybody knows the trail leads back to the Oval Office.
The only way that can happen.
Because Loretta Lynch ain't gonna do anything on her own.
She's not gonna do she's not gonna do this without the authorization of Barack Husseino or Valerie Jarrett, you know, whoever really runs that show up there.
The second thing is, why does everybody automatically assume that Joe Biden's gonna parachute in here?
What do you think Bernie Sanders supporters are gonna do?
If anything takes Hillary Clinton out of this race, And the Democrat machine moves in there to put plugs in.
That means they've just they've got to totally ignore Bernie and the Plugs didn't have a single vote.
He didn't run, he didn't have a single vote.
Crazy Bernie has won a slew of states.
Now seriously, John, how in your scenario, how could they get away with denying Bernie Sanders the nomination?
Oh, I think they could they could do it to the rules change or whatever, especially if he brings on um uh Elizabeth Warren.
But you've got his supporters to deal with.
What even if you make a deal with Bernie, hey Bernie, we'll pay you two million dollars a year in retirement, we'll give you all the Ben and Jerry's you want.
Whatever it is, you still have to deal with his supporters who are not gonna just accept this.
And they're often voting for Trump if this happens.
They're not gonna hang around and vote for plugs.
That that that's a possibility, or they'll let him write the fact one.
Which will be the same as electing them, maybe.
Well, look, the crux of your point is that you would m you'd much rather see Trump versus Hillary than Trump versus Biden.
Because Biden is sympathetic figure, Hillary isn't.
Biden uh he does have this ability to BS people left and right.
I mean, he uh Biden, if you listen, he knows everybody, he's met everybody, everybody's his best friend, he's had intimate conversations with everybody.
He's loyal to Obama to a fault.
I I've probably no more loyal person than Biden.
Speeches at conventions, uh bailing Obama out of hot water here and there, running the jobs council, whatever he's been given to do, he's uh he's done it.
Then he did lose his son.
And the the word went out that his son's last words uh were close to run dead run or some such thing.
So uh your your point is that Trump would probably fare worse against plugs because of sympathetic figure he is, whereas Hillary's not.
But I think it's gonna come to that.
I mean, everybody thinks plugs will get thrown in there, but you can't just you can't just ignore what Bernie Sanders supporters, even if you could buy him off.
How do you buy off his supporters?
I don't I don't know how you do it.
Because his supporters are really into what he stands for, which is this place sucks, and it needs to be overthrown from the inside out with us in charge.
I mean, there's no middle ground with these people.
And that's what you know, plus free dope.
And plugs isn't gonna do that.
I mean, they might even go into libertarian candidate if that's the case.
This is Will in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Great to have you, sir, here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, Megadillos, but you are way overblowing this whole amnesty uh for illegal aliens and voting.
It's not the disaster you think it's gonna be.
We don't have a hundred percent voter registration in turn out in this country, we don't have an equal number of Republicans and Democrats dying every year and being replaced by new crop Republicans, Democrats, and that these illegal aliens, if they accept citizenship, which I don't think a lot of them are, are gonna show up in mass and vote and hit the scale.
It just it doesn't make any sense, and I think you're getting way I think I think you're blowing it way out of proportion.
So there's nothing to worry about then with amnesty.
I don't first off, and the first off, if if Hillary Clinton can truly come in there with a stroke of a pen, it's over.
You might as well just go ahead and start uh don't cover anything political, just cover football and golf every day.
Well, hey, what Obama has done it and the Republicans haven't tried to stop him very often.
But the but the next okay, when the next Congress comes in, if it's a Democrat Congress, then I mean what you're oh, okay.
Let's just say it happens.
What do we do then?
Would you say it's over?
New Zealand.
What do you mean New Zealand?
No, I'm just kidding.
I think I know I know what you mean.
Yeah, your plan B. Uh if it comes to a point where the American that happens and the American people just go, oh hum, all right, then I mean there's literally nothing else to do.
Well, but no, you wait a minute.
Now you just said there's nothing to worry about.
That even if they've granted amnesty, we we did not guarantee that they're gonna be overrunning the ballot box.
There's nothing to worry about.
I'm uh in that case, I'm taking it from from your from your I'm taking it from your point of view on that.
As far as I'm concerned, you're assuming that they're all gonna show up and vote, that uh, you know, this we were going to do that.
Wait a minute.
It doesn't take all of them.
If you've got eleven million out there, that's what that's the number.
And if they're granted amnesty, all it takes is ten percent of them showing up and all voting Democrat.
And that's assuming, and that's assuming no other Americans are going to vote.
No, it's it's it's including current vote patterns and turnout patterns now.
Demographic shifts and everything.
Do you think maybe that might motivate people?
So instead of 50% voter registration and out of astronaut, then we may go to like 80 or 90 percent?
That do you think that might be a motivating factor for people to get off their butts?
I mean, uh I'm 50.
I've got friends of mine, literally my age, who have never voted in their lives.
I I mean, you know, if you're let's just take so you you you're you're factoring that there may be millions of Republicans who are not voting for whatever reason, but if Hillary were to do this, that would get them out of the sofa.
I'm not saying Republicans, I'm just saying people in general.
We have overall, out of what, 220, 230 million adults in the country, how many of them over the 18 with a post are actually registered to vote?
70, and out of that, other 70%.
Okay, wait, wait, if if I'm really I'm comfortable, if if we don't have to worry about this, then this is such a loadoff.
If I've been we don't have to worry about this, then what happened in California really didn't happen.
That's the that's so wonderful.
Then then California didn't happen.
I mean, you notice there's not a Republican Party in California.
There's not going to be an elected Republican in the Senate in California.
There isn't a Republican Party in California.
Why do you think that is Russia?
If a century is 11 million people nationwide, you come in and change that much, then it's over, and yeah, maybe you should go to New Zealand.
I mean, I I mean, I'm I'm looking at how many people are in the country and how many people are actually voting.
We only have what 60 percent vote of turn.
I keep saying should you make it out like everything else is gonna stay stagnant.
Really, if that's the key, Hillary Clinton A can uh uh uh with a stroke of a pen is really make them citizens and they're actually able to vote.
The fact of the matter is, if you want to see what's gonna happen to America, look at California.
We used to own California.
Will we have governors like Reagan and Pete Wilson and George Duke Majin and Arnold Schwarzenegger?
There isn't a Republican at stake and elected anything.
The Republicans are irrelevant.
There aren't enough of them.
They have left.
A lot of people have left California while others have moved in from Mexico and Central America and so forth.
California is exactly what would happen to the United States.
Your theory is that there are a lot of people not voting, Republicans, Democrats, independent, whatever.
And when they see this happen, they're gonna say, whoa, mum, and they're gonna get off the sofa and they're gonna get out of the house, they're gonna go register and they're gonna outnumber whatever number of illegals register as Democrats.
Uh that's there's no evidence whatsoever to support that.
But beyond that, beyond that will, let's not forget what really is at the root of this law.
It is illegal.
Mrs. Clinton will not have the power to do what her website is pledging to do.
She cannot, with a stroke of her pen, create federal law or wipe it out.
She cannot yet.
That's what she's promising to do.
And the fundamental aspect of this, the foundational aspect that's got really everybody is the rule of law being obliterated.
The vote results are the result of the law being obliterated.
It's people are not racist on this.
People are not prejudiced or bigoted.
People are concerned that if the rule of law goes, why does anybody obey the law?
You know, I tell you I should have pointed this out earlier.
Glenn Reynolds, who is a law professor at Tennessee, University of Tennessee, had a piece that ran in USA Today this week.
And it was all About why do any of us obey the law?
What is it in our nature that makes us independently obey the law?
Above and beyond fear of getting caught and punished.
What is it that makes us obey the law?
And it is a it is a uh many factored answer.
The uh societal agreement and understanding of the rule of law being a foundational aspect of the country that we can't exist without it.
But his point further was that if leaders of our country in Washington routinely ignore it and routinely violate, break it and get away with it.
Why should any of the rest of us obey the law?
It was a it was it was a great column because it it does, you know, the Constitution's there, but what is the constant piece of paper?
You realize for 230 years the Constitution has survived.
Why?
It's just a piece of paper.
Why have up until Barack Obama has the Constitution ruled?
It's because the people we've elected for the most part have had an understanding and a respect for it and what it means.
But if that vanishes, then all it is is a piece of paper.
And that's nothing.
The words on it will not matter.
It is, folks, in a in a in one sense, the idea this country founded the way it was, and that constitution is the document, that constitution is the glue, and it's held this country together for 200 and some odd years because people have been willing to obey it.
But now we have people at the upper highest levels of our government willing not to obey it.
And the the dissent from that, the indications of that are horrible.
Anyway, I wish I had more time to explore this, but I got to go.
I gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
And by the way, one other thing.
I don't buy this idea that Joe Biden is untouchable.
That Joe Biden is somehow angelic and sympathetic, and this guy's run for president on his own a couple of times, hadn't gotten past the first set of primaries.
There's um there's something missing there that an open campaign demonstrates.
But we'll hold that in reserve in the event that that happens.
I don't suspect that it will.
And by the way, I'm gonna be here tomorrow.
I I feel you working tomorrow, Russia and seeing so many businesses close.
We're open.
We'll be here tomorrow.
We're not gonna be here Monday.
But um we'll be here tomorrow.
And as I say, back here tomorrow, tomorrow be open line Friday, the Memorial Day weekends.
You might be thinking now what you want to talk about tomorrow, because it doesn't have to be about all this.
Whatever you want.
Thank you so much, as always, for being part of the uh program today, and see you tomorrow.
Same time, same place.
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