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And I have more response coming in from Trump supporters reacting to the 49-second soundbite I played in the previous hour.
So I'm going to play it again here.
In case some of you are just now tuning in, so you'll be in context.
I played a Trump soundbite from an interview with Greta Van Sustrin back in 2012 on the Fox news channel, in which he just speaks glowingly of Mrs. Clinton and Bill Clinton.
And I have, I played on purpose because I wanted to gauge reaction to it.
I want to see what Trump supporters would say about it, whether anybody, I could find any Trump supporter, worried or shocked or surprised or betrayed.
I was looking perhaps for any and all of that.
And so far, zipped, zero nada.
The reaction continues to come in, and it's either explain it away type reaction or supportive.
One person said, I hope they make an ad out of that.
I hope they do.
That's the single best thing that could happen to Trump in this campaign.
So here's the bite.
There's one thing not in it.
Greta Van Sustrin asks Trump about Hillary Clinton's vote in support of the Iraq war.
Trump has, from the beginning of that whole thing, been opposed to it.
He claims that he was originally opposed to it.
There have been some people try to find evidence of that.
Haven't been able to.
Trump says, well, I was a businessman.
They were quoting me every time I said something back then.
But he is consistent.
I mean, for the longest time, he's been totally opposed to the Iraq war.
He thinks it's a dumb thing to do.
It was stupid.
And he was asked by Greta Van Sustrin, what do you think?
I mean, she voted for it.
And he said, you know what?
You've got to keep in mind, Greta, that Hillary was lied to about weapons of mass destruction, all that rest of this.
She was lied to by the Bush administration.
So he doesn't hold her vote against her four years ago.
Today, he's running against her like it's the stupidest thing she'd done.
And it's typical of stupid things that she does and will do.
And it's a black mark against her.
Now, if I really wanted to, I could remind you that everything the Bush administration said about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction was said almost word for word by Bill Clinton back in 1998 during the Lewinsky business when he was trying to distract everybody.
Remember, launching missiles into aspirin factories in the Sudan and launched a missile into a Baghdad office complex, such that a Baghdad office complex is an office complex.
But nevertheless, he launched a missile into a building on a Saturday night that killed a janitor.
And that was it.
But you go back, we've got the sound bites.
They are in our archives of every Democrat, Bill Clinton, every Democrat in the House and Senate, saying the exact same things about Hussein and weapons of mass destruction that George W. Bush said.
It's uncanny.
It really is uncanny.
Now, my point is, it doesn't matter that Hillary was lied to about it.
She believed it.
She goes back, obviously, to the days when her husband was president.
And they all thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction back then.
In 1998, by 2002, 2003 came along, they thought he had added to this knockback.
Everybody thought so.
It's only as a matter of convenience once no WMD was found.
Then the Democrats get to pretend like they were all lied to.
They get to pretend like they were all given the shaft.
They were all misled.
And Bush lied.
People died.
They got tricked.
They didn't get tricked.
They all thought the same thing on their own without Bush having to tell them a thing.
And they had previously authorized use of force against Saddam Hussein back in 1998 on the same premises.
This whole thing is a Cluster.
Screw folks.
It's all smoke and mirrors.
But the point is, Greta Van Sustrin asks Trump, you know, you're opposed to the Iraq war.
She voted for it, and he excused her.
Well, she was lied to.
You've got to remember.
So here's the rest of it in 49 seconds.
Hillary Clinton, I think, is a terrific woman.
I mean, I'm a little biased because I've known her for years.
I live in New York.
She lives in New York, and I've known her and her husband for years, and I really like them both a lot.
And I think she really works hard, and I think she, again, she's given an agenda that's not all of her, but I think she really works hard, and I think she does a good job, and I like her.
She says she's out at the end of this term.
You think we're going to see her again running for office?
I think so.
I think, you know, assuming she's healthy, which I hope she will be, I think she probably runs after the next four years, I would imagine.
You support her?
I don't want to get into this because I'll get myself into trouble.
That's why I asked you to see if we can travel.
I just like her.
I like her and I like her husband.
Her husband made a speech on Monday at Mar-a-Lago, and it was very well received.
And he's a really good guy, and she's a really good person and woman.
Okay, so I'm getting more response.
I played that to see what Trump supporters would say.
I wanted to gauge their reaction.
I wanted to find out if any of them felt betrayed.
I wanted to find out if any of them were worried.
Oh, my God.
He loves the Clintons.
Oh, geez, because, you know, they, the Clintons, I mean, that's the reason why everybody's animated or should be.
She's got to be defeated.
Here he is talking about how much he respects her, loves her, supports her.
Same thing with Bill.
Another response I got: I hope they make an ad out of that.
I so hope they make an ad out of it.
You know why, Rush?
Because this shows that Trump is not your average Republican hate monger.
This shows that Trump is open-minded.
And four years ago, he did like Hillary.
And Trump has often said, Rush, that he's friends with everybody.
He gets along with everybody.
He's going to unite everybody.
And then another response came in similar to the one I just shared with you, which is, this is so good.
I hope they make that into an ad because it shows that Trump's opposition to Hillary is based on substance, not because she's a woman or not because she's a Democrat, but his opposition to her is real.
That was four years ago, Rush.
Anybody can change.
Another person said, hey, I used to like George W. Bush, too.
So the response is coming in.
The ones I'm seeing in the email, I mean, I haven't run across any.
I'm basically inviting people to be critical now, but there hasn't been any.
It's all one way or another.
Trump supporters are finding a way to not be upset by that and actually turn that into a positive.
There's another preemptive Trump defense.
It kind of goes like this.
Well, you know, you take any 12-second clip of Trump from years ago and you take it out of the larger context that we now have of the guy.
And you can't do that.
That's not fair.
That's not right.
It doesn't mean anything.
There are 12-second clips of Trump from the 80s and 90s that show he's exactly the same way then as he is now, that show him very consistent.
But you go out, you take 12 seconds here, 15 seconds of anybody four years ago, take it out of context, and who knows what you can do with it.
You have to, see, this is what people have to do to defeat Trump.
They have to go back four years and try to say he's a hypocrite.
And Rush, it isn't going to work because we don't care.
Trump is not the politician.
He's not an.
That's the reaction I'm getting.
Now, I want to go back and share with you an ad.
Replay this from yesterday.
A Hillary Clinton super PAC has released an ad attacking Trump and his view is of women using Trump's own words.
Now, there is video to this, but we don't obviously have the video.
We've got the audio here.
And it's just, it's one little soundbite after another of Trump commenting on women.
And this is the Hillary camp using a 30-year-old playbook, thinking this is how we're going to win.
All we have to do is go out and get these Republicans and these conservatives and just tell people what they say.
It's going to be so obnoxious, and people so object to it that that's how we're going to cream them.
Not going to work here.
It's apples and oranges.
Trump is not your 30-year playbook Republican, subject to the same old policies and procedures.
But anyway, here's the ad: Hillary Super PAC started yesterday.
Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.
She came to my wedding.
She ate like a pig.
And seriously, the wedding cake was like missing in action.
Does she have a good body now?
Of course.
Does she have a fat ass?
Absolutely.
Well, I just don't respect her as a journalist.
I have no respect for her.
I don't think she's very good.
I think she's highly overrated.
But when I came out, you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.
Well, obviously, it's great outer beauty.
I mean, we could say politically correct that the look doesn't matter, but the look obviously matters.
Like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful.
Donald Trump, knocking supermodel Heidi Klum in the New York Times, saying, Heidi Klum, sadly, she's no longer a 10.
A person who's flat-chested is very hard to be a 10.
Okay, right.
You know what?
The women get it better than we do, folks.
They get it better than we do.
I see.
So you treat women with respect.
I can't say that either.
And that's Donald Trump.
That's an ad.
The Hillary Clinton Super PAC ran, and they expect women to abandon Trump in droves, and they expect everybody because it's so horrible.
It's so mean-spirited, so misogynistic.
Well, the Trump campaign has responded to Hillary's ad with a Benghazi ad featuring families.
We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video.
She lied to me.
She told me it was the fault of the video.
She said we are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son.
So she did say to you that the Benghazi attack was caused by protests.
Absolutely.
I don't know why that's funny.
So they've got Hillary's cackling laugh in there, and they've got all these quotes from these family members of Benghazi on record with how Hillary Clinton lied to them about the video being responsible for the loss of their family member.
So that's Trump's response to the Hillary Super PAC ad quoting him on his thoughts on women.
Which of the two is the more powerful, do you believe?
The Trump Benghazi ad.
Clearly, Trump supporters would say that, and they are saying that.
Is this no, this is about FakeBook.
That's a different thing.
Let me take a break here.
We'll come back and get back to the phones.
People want to weigh in.
Lots of comment waiting, and we'll have that when we get back.
And back to the phones.
So Williamsburg in Brooklyn trying to make this into the new Upper West Side.
Are you aware of that?
And a bunch of literary people are moving over there, a bunch of leftists that can't afford Manhattan, Upper West Side, East Side, downtown, Uptown.
A lot of musicians trying to turn Williamsburg into a satellite Upper West Side.
We got a guy from there.
Andy, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, sir.
You bet.
I am a Trumpster, and I would like to defend Mr. Trump.
As a businessman, a New York 58-year-old businessman, I can tell you, New York, well, you have to.
Hillary, of course, could be bought.
Now, Trump owns an empire here in New York.
If he wants to get ahead, he has to grease the politicians' hands.
That's right.
Such as Guamo, Hillary.
They're all connected at the hip.
I understand.
Walmart did not succeed here in New York too well.
I got to drive 60 miles to the nearest Walmart.
They coaxed them.
But Walmart is a little bigger.
They play a different game.
Mr. Trump, of course, doesn't necessarily per se likes Hillary.
He's just saying that because you have to buy the person.
Folks, I got to tell you here, old Andy, he has a point.
Walmart, I mean, not just New York, Chicago.
A bunch of metro areas told Walmart, you don't get anywhere near here.
It didn't matter if it would help their constituents save money.
It didn't matter if because Walmart didn't hire union people.
So Walmart wasn't going to be permitted in.
And Walmart didn't have a bunch of lobbyists running around greasing the skids of local politicians.
So they had, you know, the nearest one to Manhattan, 60 miles away or 60-minute drive, depending on how you look at it.
So here's Andy saying, hey, look, Trump's a big businessman, very successful.
And Democrats run the show.
She lives up there in Chappaqua.
I mean, you're not going to get anywhere in New York by ripping into Democrats.
It just didn't.
So yet another, shall we say, defense of Trump and not going to hold it against him for being praiseworthy of Mrs. Clinton.
Andy, I appreciate the call.
This Jay in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Rush.
Rush.
I just tuned into you when you were ripping Paul Ryan.
I've never heard you more subtle in my life.
No, no, I was not ripping.
I was reading an email from a friend.
No, I was not ripping Paul Ryan.
I see.
Well, anyways, you related to him pretty heavy.
But anyways, I did not.
I did not.
I was telling you, I was giving you an example of the kind of things that Trump supporters hope he says to Paul Ryan.
And that was an email from a friend of mine who told me that's what he hoped Trump would say.
It wasn't me.
Still, it was well done, well put out.
Oh, you like it.
I misunderstood.
So I just talked somebody out of praise.
The media made a comment about Donald Trump.
She said he wouldn't understand the gravity of the position as president of the United States.
And I'd suggest to Madam Clinton, Madam, the term being used as an House of Prostitution, that she's well returned to the term.
The root word is being grave.
She put four people there.
And whose responsibility was Benghazi?
Who gave the order to stand down?
And who provided aid and comfort to the enemy?
Who compromised national security with their server?
And I say, Euler did this as a prime candidate for treason and certainly not president of the United States.
You know, there are a lot of examples of this.
Let's look at, by the way, I hear what you're saying.
And this is something I think the Democrats don't calculate because they have such a slavish media.
The Democrats, Obama, Hillary, get away with lying about that Benghazi attack.
They get away with it.
Oh, yeah, as a video.
The media, remember what we talked about the other day, about the way the media covers Obama.
They don't cover Obama or any Democrat in any way related to news.
They cover Obama like it's a movie or a book or daily soap opera script.
And this is the old discussion we had about the concept of the MacGuffin in a book or a movie.
The MacGuffin is what the hero wants.
It could be a thing.
It could be a conquest.
It could be victory over another person.
But whatever the hero wants is the MacGuffin.
And the Democrat media, of course, is only interested in whether or not Obama gets what he wants.
So in the case of Obamacare, there was never any investigation of what Obamacare actually was from the drive-by media.
We had to do that.
And a bunch of bloggers had to do it.
And a bunch of conservative think tankers.
And that's the only reason people had any idea what was in those 2,000 pages because the media didn't.
The media only cared whether Obama would get it, would get it passed.
That's all that mattered.
And then on the other side, you have the villains, the people trying to stop the hero from getting what he wants.
And those are always the Republicans.
And so the coverage of any Obama story is not the substance of it and not the detail of it and not the good or the bad.
It's whether or not Obama will get it.
Whether Obama will be hurt.
Will Obama be helped?
That's the way the media covers everything.
So after Benghazi, Obama concocts this story that it was an internet video that led to protests that led to the murders of the four Americans.
The media didn't question it.
They asked, will Obama get away with this?
Obama wants to blame it on the video.
Will he succeed?
And they began the reporting then was only on the efforts of Obama and Hillary to make everybody believe that it was the video.
The media never once questioned it.
They never once poured any doubt on it.
All they did was cover it from the perspective, will Obama get away with this?
Obama wants people to think that it was a video.
Will he get what he wants?
Mrs. Clinton is out there doing the same thing, and the media treats her the same way.
The Democrats are used to this.
They're used to the media greasing the skids.
They're used to the media not investigating the substance of what they do.
And yet, caller after caller here can tell us why they don't like Mrs. Clinton.
Benghazi, Libya, every substantive failure that the drive-by media has never reported, people know it.
But Hillary's unaware of it.
She doesn't think she's going to get called on it because in her experience, she gets away with whatever because the media helps her get what she wants.
That's why she's in for a rude awakening, I think.
All over this election.
Your host, that would be me, Rush Limboy, your guiding light, a man, a legend, a way of life, Uttered something, he has made a comment yesterday about the way Trump is campaigning and how Trump has brought to the campaign a standard operating behavior or procedure in social media called trolling.
And I just casually, as in an offhand comment, I didn't make a big deal of it.
I just happened to say that trolling is big.
It's big out there on Twitter.
It's big on FakeBook.
It's all over social media.
And so it's what Trump does.
He sits around and he trolls Twitter all night and all day long.
And he is the first politician to do so in such consistent and frequent ways.
And it's just, it's another way that Trump has distinguished himself from your average, ordinary, everyday politician.
It doesn't go anywhere near it.
Might have campaign staff doing it here or there, but it's focus grouped.
It's tested.
You know, Trump's just shooting from the hip.
So I mentioned this, and it was picked up on by a bunch of people in the drive-by media.
And Chris Cuomo actually kind of blew the lid when he admitted that he heard about this from Media Matters.
You know, you're not supposed to say, if you're a drive-by media person ripping into me or trying to, you're not supposed to say that you got your information from Media Matters.
You're supposed to make it look like you knew it on your own.
But it's true.
They don't listen to this program.
They did drive-by's known, Chris Cuomo, anyway.
And they wouldn't even think of going to my website to actually check what I said.
They just rely on Media Matters.
So this is, let's see, actually three soundbites.
The first two relate to that specifically, and the third one is related to it in an offhand way.
CNN's New Day, Chris Cuomo, speaking with CNN politics correspondent Dylan Byers about what I said on this program yesterday.
Things have changed.
Social media, Rush Limbaugh had an interesting point the other day.
Talk about how things have changed.
Media Matters, which is a lefty outlet, has an article about Limbaugh, who is not a lefty, saying that Donald Trump has introduced trolling to campaigning.
And there is no question that these campaigns have waves of haters who come after the media and others who go against them.
What do you make of the dynamic?
Now, you see, you know why he, you see why he likes it?
He thinks I'm equating Trump with being a hater.
That's not what I meant.
I'm talking about the constant presence.
But to these guys, you know, they sit around.
I guarantee, folks, do not doubt me on this.
You don't know these people like I do.
They can't digest.
They can't fathom people hating them.
They are of a mindset that they tell themselves they're universally loved and respected and looked up to because they're media people and they're good liberals.
Now, they know conservatives don't like them, but they think that that's fringe and away over there.
But it bothers them when they have a bunch of people that join Twitter threads that say mean things about them.
They don't like it.
So they think that I have hit on something here, even though I'm not a lefty.
I have pointed something out that's true.
And it is that there's all kinds of haters out there.
And they're calling the trolls haters because they're trolling them in the media.
So that's what Chris Cuomo is talking about, that Trump has introduced trolling, and that means Trump's trollers are hating on the media and hating other people.
He asked Dylan Byers about it, the chief political correspondent at CNN, who said this in Russia.
I think that's exactly right.
And I think that Donald Trump has played a very unique role in doing that.
And that's because he's been more active on social media and especially on Twitter than any presidential candidate in history.
Donald Trump has a very aggressive and vocal group of supporters.
And while we can't identify every anonymous Twitter troll, I think there are a lot of people on there who are ready to take on anyone who they think would stand in the way of Donald Trump's nomination or anyone who they see as opposing Trump.
So they're just all excited.
Yeah, I pointed something out that they just, they had to run with.
They had to make a point because, again, it's just another example of things happening outside their sphere of influence.
They can't control it.
They can't stop the trolls.
And they can't stop the trolls from hating on them.
And it's, I'll tell you something else.
You know, the news that FakeBook has all these 20-something Ivy League grads that are actually choosing the news rather than the algorithms doing it.
I'm trying to make the point of how significant this is when you look at what seven out of 10 Americans' primary news source is the Fake Book newsfeed.
It's huge.
FakeBook has over a billion people worldwide.
They blanket the United States and the news feed on FakeBook, which is curated by a bunch of leftists.
So now what you have, you have all these drive-by leftists who are learning that their work is dependent on FakeBook to be seen.
People don't automatically tune in CNN anymore or ABC or CBS or what have you.
Unless there's a particular personality that people watch and then want to have an appointment with every day.
But for the most part, the daily news cycle, people are going to FakeBook and they're bothered by it.
And so now they're starting to tailor what you like.
Late night comedy shows have to produce skits and bits that'll go viral later that night and the next day on social media.
That's how they measure success, not ratings.
How much content from a late night show ends up in a video that goes viral the next day?
Same thing here.
These people are having to ask themselves, how do we get our news in the fake book news feed?
And they don't like it because there's all kinds of trolls out there.
So that's why, against their better judgment, they are praising me for pointing something out that they think offers them an excuse or whatever they think it is.
Now, last night on special report with Brett Baer, during the All-Star panel, Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard was talking about Trump's upcoming visit to Capitol Hill to meet with congressional leaders.
And Brett Baer said, what does Donald Trump have to do, Steve, on Capitol Hill on Thursday with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell?
What's he got to do?
2008, I remember sitting on the Straight Talk Express with John McCain, asking him why he wasn't reaching out more to conservatives, why he wasn't picking up the phone and calling Rush Limbaugh, trying to bridge that gap.
And McCain's answer to me basically at the time was, I don't need to.
Mitt Romney came late, I think, to embracing and trying to go after the Tea Party, make sure that they were enthusiastic about him.
Donald Trump saying this weekend, I don't need the conservatives, that is crazy.
If he doesn't have the conservatives, the conservatives beyond the Never Trumpers, he will lose.
Well, in the sense that it's a Republican base, Hayes has a point.
But I don't think Trump meant he's not going to reach out to conservatives.
He does reach out to conservatives all the time.
I think, well, I don't know.
I'd have to guess.
But I think the context of this is that Trump is not going to grobble to Paul Ryan is what Hayes means.
Well, I don't know if Hayes means that or not, but that's what I gather Trump's not going to do.
Trump believes that he won, and therefore the losers have to gravitate to him.
But the fact that Trump is not reaching out to conservatives is crazy.
All Trump has said, he says, look, I'm a conservative.
What difference does it make anymore?
He has said that.
I'm conservative.
Everybody knows that.
I'm one of the greatest conservatives there is.
I'm one of the greatest conservatives ever been.
There's Reagan, and then there's me.
But what difference does that make now?
We got big problems out here.
Conservatism alone is not the sole answer to everything, is what his point is.
But we all know he's got conservative advisors.
Whether he listens to them is another thing, but he's got them.
You know that list of conservative advisors that Trump is growing and growing.
You just have to listen to them tell you.
They'll all tell you how many of them are tight with Trump and how many of them are getting close and advising him every day.
Not time for a phone call.
So, obscene profit break.
And back to the phones when we return.
Do not go away, folks.
Bernie Sanders, back to his campaign for just a second because we've got some just-in audio from Bernie Sanders on PMS NBC when Henri Mitchell, NBC News, watching them.
She said to Bernie, is it the bottom line about you versus Hillary and who would be the stronger candidate that she's now fighting a war on two fronts?
She's getting beat up by Donald Trump every day.
Aside from him calling you crazy Bernie in his tweet, he's been embracing you.
He's building you up.
He likes the fact that you're taking her down.
So she's fighting Donald Trump.
She's fighting Bernie Sanders, and that's depressing her overall.
It isn't fair, is it, Bernie?
Andrea, I don't accept that proposition.
Last I heard Hillary Clinton is running for president of the United States.
I am running for president of the United States.
Trump is running for president of the United States.
And what a candidate does is make his or her best case to the American people.
I have gotten attacked and attacked and attacked.
My record has been misinterpreted and lied about.
The issue of this campaign is to go out to the American people and talk about why the American people are working, are struggling.
Hillary Clinton has got to make that case.
Trump has got to make that case.
Sanders has got to make that case.
And here again, you have Andrea Mitchell indicating the media doesn't cover the news.
The media tells the hero side of the story.
So in her version of things, Hillary Clinton is the hero.
Hillary wants to be nominated.
Hillary wants to be president.
And so the whole thing is about: will Hillary get what she wants?
Not whether she's qualified, not whether she's any good.
And so it's all unfair.
As far as Andrea's concerned, Hillary's having to get beat up by Trump every day, and Bernie's beating her up.
And it's just not fair.
She's having to run against two people now and so forth.
And it doesn't matter that it's presidential politics and it is what it is.
It's not fair.
It might stop Hillary from getting what she wants.
See, in this situation, Bernie is the villain.
Because Bernie's trying to deny the heroine what she wants.
And Andrea wants the heroine to get what she wants.
And that's how she covers the story.
She doesn't cover it in terms of actual substance and developments and news and what have you.
So it's ultimately unfair, you see.
Poor Hillary, Bernie's ripping her to shreds and Trump's ripping her to shreds.
And she asks Crazy Bernie, isn't that not essentially fair?
And so then Mitchell said, I'm just saying that the opposition to Hillary Clinton, the negatives against her, have been built up by Donald Trump just hammering away at her.
And up until now, at least, he's not been going after you as much.
So she's fighting two candidates, and you're only fighting one.
And so what she's saying is not fair, Bernie, it's not fair.
Hillary has a tougher road to get what she wants, and it's not fair.
And this is Bernie's next response to it.
Oh, really?
Andrea, in every state that we have won, in 19 states, we have had to take on the entire Democratic establishment.
We've had to take on senators and governors and mayors and members of Congress.
That's what we have taken on.
So please do not moan to me about Hillary Clinton's problems.
I'm in this race to win.
He's exactly right about it.
Don't invent her problems.
What do you've had to tackle a stacked deck, Andrea?
Everybody knows the game's rigged against me.
You're talking about how it's unfair for her.
But see, that's exactly right.
Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi.
It looks like Nancy Pelosi is prepared here to, if I authorized, if I released you, if I asked you to go out there and do an Operation Chaos 2.0, it sounds to me like Pelosi would be all for it.
This is today in Washington, a Peter G. Peterson Foundation fiscal summit.
This guy's the former Treasury Secretary for Nixon.
And he's got this deal where all these Democrats show up.
And Pelosi showed up, and she spoke about the campaign and the presidential race today.
I'm respectful of the fact that Donald Trump has been, we assume, will be nominated.
The people have spoken.
And by the way, I am not a supporter of superdelegates.
I am one, but I don't support them.
I haven't even endorsed yet in the election because I think that there should be no doubt that what the people say is what the outcome will be.
It's not over yet.
It's what Pelosi's saying.
It's not.
And isn't this typical of these people?
Well, you know, I'm not a supporter of superdelegates.
I am one, but I don't support.
Well, then resign.
You know, give away your super delegate status.
Maybe she can't.
Maybe by being a ranking Democrat, she's automatically a superdelegate.
This is typical the way they do things.
No, I don't support.
I don't support the way we've rigged the rules, but I can't do anything about it other than say I'm not endorsing anybody.
She clearly, Pelosi clearly wants crazy Bernie to win this.
Here's John and Houston.
We head back to the phones.
I'm glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Assuming Donald Trump does win the nomination, what's to keep him from coming out and just saying, I don't want to do any debates.
You know, I don't want to give her a forum or an audience she wouldn't normally have.
I'm going to have press conferences.
I'm going to have rallies.
I'm going to have whatever.
Laying out my plan, laying out my vision, laying out my cabinet.
It's a good question.
I was just going to say that, you know, why, you know, do I give the RNC another hook over him where he has to do what they say?
He just said, I'm not going to do it.
He's not done it before.
Well, the debates are not RNCDNC.
The debates occur under the auspices of what?
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
Media.
Dun, dun, dun.
Yeah, but it's the League of Women Voters, Presidential Commission on Debate.
It's the League of Women Voters.
And it's a good question about: are these candidates required?
Are they manned?
I mean, if they don't show up, what are you going to do to them?
Dock them five electoral votes?
I mean, it doesn't work that way.
I've flaunted every convention up to this point.
There's no reason to say, yeah, I just don't want to do this.
I'm not going to give her the privilege.
Well, you know, this is what I expected in the first Fox debate that blew up.
You know, I actually, you go back and get my transcript that day.
I actually predicted that Trump would do exactly that, not show up or else show up and say, this is crazy.
16 people on this stage, it's not even a debate.
We're not going to get anywhere doing this.
And I don't even know why.
I expected him to continue blowing up politics as usual.
But he didn't.
He showed up at the debate and he played by the rules in terms of, you know, when the blue light went on, the red light, he shut up.
He didn't hog it, didn't try to blow it up for anybody else.
But as to not showing up and instead, you know, screw that.
I'm just going to do another rally.
And if Hillary wants to come, she's welcome.
I'll just do a press conference.
I think his people eat it up.
But I also think that some of his supporters just want to see him in a debate and just rocking Hillary.
Well, you know what I'm talking about.
I can't.
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