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June 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Pete Hegseth's book is called In the Arena.
And of course, I, as a powerful, influential member of the media, uh, had an advanced copy.
And it's and I sometimes share with you things that I'm reading.
Uh goes in spurts.
But that's a good one.
And Pete's a good guy.
Popped up on Fox News.
Who is this guy?
And now he's everywhere on Fox News.
And uh runs a veterans foundation and some other things.
His event.
But it's called In the Arena.
Greetings and welcome back.
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Just two more bites in I'm going to move on to Hillary Clinton.
Uh one of the things I mentioned in the aftermath of the Trump presser yesterday was Audio Summit number 10 here.
Uh this is a prediction that I made.
What they're trying to say is that they have forced Trump into donating money that he never intended to donate.
He was just saying that he was going to.
That's their premise.
And they're trying to catch Trump and all that.
He knows it, and he's fed up with it.
Then that was the point of the press conference yesterday.
Or their the the media's role in it.
Uh Washington Post got this all started by claiming that Trump has never intended to donate the money.
He was hoarding it or never raised it or what have you.
And uh because they they could only find 5.6 million when he had promised six million.
And so I thought they had a major scandal on their hands that Trump calls the press conference, and I said when it was over, um they're gonna claim credit here as having forced Trump into donating money he never intended to donate.
He was just saying he was going to.
But they have made Trump follow through on his promises, which he would not have done were it not for the brave brave people in the drive-by media.
Well, let's see if I'm right.
We have put together a media montage of uh various media commentary following the presser from yesterday afternoon into last night.
Trump did not cut those checks, at least half of them, until the past week after the Washington Post started pressing.
He finally started giving money when the Washington Post called him out.
If it had it been for the media, he would not have donated.
Half of the donations were given after the Washington Post began looking a lot of the checks that were written were written on the Monday that the Washington Post called.
He did not give any money until he was shamed into it.
He only wrote the checks after the Washington Post asked, show me the money.
A day later, make the donation.
He said he was going to give this money and didn't do it until frankly the Washington Post started looking at the Peter.
That was one of the easiest predictions I have ever made.
I knew that was going to be the uh the case.
Now, moving on to Mrs. Clinton, last night the lead with Jake Tamper.
He had uh an exclusive interview with Mrs. Clinton.
Not too many people get those.
And he said, Donald Trump today said that he raised at least 5.6 million dollars for veterans' charities.
He provided an accounting of those donations.
Your campaign says nobody should be fooled by Trump's stunt.
What do you mean by that, Mrs. Clinton?
Well, I think the problem here is the difference between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump does.
He's bragged for months about raising six million dollars for veterans and donating a million dollars himself.
But it took a reporter to shame him into actually making his contribution and getting the money to veterans.
So I uh you know, look, I'm glad he finally did, but I don't know uh that he should get much credit for that.
Right.
Okay, so that's Mrs. Clinton.
Now, usually it would stop there.
But Jake Tapper said, Well, he said that you haven't given anything to veterans groups.
What's your response to that, Mrs. Clinton?
What have you given to veterans' charities and more broadly, what have you done for veterans?
Well, I of course have given money uh to veterans uh charities.
I've also worked, starting as first lady, to deal with some of the problems veterans had.
I worked as a senator on the armed services committee on many things, for example, increasing death benefits for families of befallen from just twelve thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars.
So much of the work that I've done has meant tens of millions of dollars in increasing.
Just makes me want to throw A personal commitment.
You know what she's saying?
She said, Well, I've made sure that we in government have used a lot of other people's money and directed it to the veterans.
I have increased veterans' benefits.
I've seen to it that other people's money has been increased from $10,000 to $12,000.
Or $12,000 to $100,000.
So much of the work I've done has meant tens of millions of dollars.
Not my own, of course, because I don't give anybody money.
I don't donate to charity, but I make sure that the force of law separates other people from their money so that it goes to places so that I don't have to give it.
That's what her answer meant.
She may not like my translation, but that's exactly what.
Of course I've given money to veterans' charities.
I've worked, starting as first lady to deal with some of the problems.
I worked as a senator in the Armed Services Committee.
I have increased death benefits for families.
Yeah, other people's money.
Somebody looked into it and they found that she's donated 70 grand.
$70,000.
But of course, as a good liberal, Mrs. Lenada's jump change.
I have I have arranged for much more than that.
I have used the force of law to increase the amount of the federal budget that comes from other people's taxes.
What a cheap cop-out.
That that kind of stuff just it sickens me and angers me at the same time.
Claiming credit for having the courage to pass new legislation that directs the federal government to spend even more.
And then wanting credit for having a big heart and charitable intentions.
One more from Jacob Tapper.
Jake Tapper here on uh CNN is lead with Jake Tapper show.
He said in an editorial out today, USA Today called your private email server a threat to national security.
One that uh you repeatedly ignored despite multiple warnings.
And they added that you were now going to have to convince voters that you can put the national security of the U.S. above your own short-term self-interest.
Do you see this is a challenge that you have to face to convince voters that you'll put national security ahead of your own interest?
And I want you to listen to this because basically what Jake Tapper's asking her, and you don't hear this.
You don't see this much.
That's why this interview that he did stands out.
If anybody else doing this interview would have stopped after her first answer, nobody else that I can think of would have gone in and asked her what she's done for vets.
But the she's basically being asked to answer a question on her honesty here and listen to the stumbling and the stuttering as she seeks and searches in vain to answer it.
Well, I I uh I I think that uh is uh uh obvious.
I always have.
And the report, just to go back to the actual report, makes it clear that personal email use was the practice under other secretaries of state, and that the rules that they are now referencing were not clarified until after I had left.
So she can't answer the question, and then when she does, she lies again.
The rules were crystal crystal clear and she broke them.
And she's well, but the rules, the rules were not clarified until after I left.
That's BS.
The rules are made clear to everybody walks in there for the first time.
The rules descend from the law.
The rules in the State Department on these emails and servers and so forth descend from federal law.
Statutory law.
That's why it's incorrect to say that all she did was was violate some rules.
But then I think she stepped in it again when she said if she had it to do all over again, she wouldn't do it the way she if she knew that.
What does that mean?
Yeah, I I made some mistakes.
I I wouldn't make that same mistake again.
Whoa, what what does that mean?
And I referenced this earlier, so I want to play the bite.
This is number 15.
I mentioned that I had heard some drive-by say they'd love to be insulted by Hillary.
It's it's Nancy Cortis.
On CBS this morning, Nora O'Donnell speaking with the CBS congressional correspondent about Trump's press conference yesterday.
He said was it until the Washington Post reporter last week that Trump had not yet donated to an organization of one million dollars, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
A day later he makes a donation, including the Associated Press saying last week half the checks were donated.
How is Hillary Clinton's campaign responded?
What do you think they'll do?
Those of us who cover the Hillary Clinton campaign would love to have a press conference, even if she insulted us.
She hasn't done one for months and months.
And why not?
She's just, you know, not that comfortable in that setting.
Last week, for example, when this big new report came out from the State Department's Inspector General, there were a lot of us on the campaign trail who were dying to ask for questions about it.
Uh, and she avoided all of us.
She's just not interested in getting the kinds of tough questions out there on the trail.
Lots of people shouting at her.
Uh, that's not her milieu while Donald Trump, of course, is very comfortable with that.
You know, you hear it's it's almost like, yeah, we understand she doesn't like these, so we're not going to push her on it.
I mean, we'd love it if she show up, but we're not going to make a big deal because she's not comfortable, you know.
Mrs. Clinton just isn't comfortable having all kinds of people shout things at her, makes her nervous, and we understand that.
You know, Trump happens to love that, and he just gets off on that.
But Mrs. Clinton, she we we'd love her to show up.
God, we love her to death.
Oh my god, do we love Hillary?
Oh, but she just doesn't like a gaggle of us hanging around asking questions, shouting them.
We understand that.
She's she's not interested in getting kinds of tough questions out there, and we wouldn't either.
You know, we wouldn't like to have those questions, so we understand that she doesn't want to answer them, so we don't ask them.
Of course, the myth there is that they ask her tough questions.
Maybe I'm missing examples of it, but I don't recall a lot of tough questions.
Now, Hillary, given the number of lies, everything may qualify as a tough question.
I don't know.
Now, here's Doug Schoen and his piece in the in the Wall Street Journal debate.
Clinton might not be the nominee.
And I want to remind you of the couple things I said at the top of the program.
This, you know, if this sentiment is gaining credibility that she might not be the nominee.
It's gaining credibility on the Democrat side.
Look, throw out the uh the rules here.
Throw out the conventional wisdom, throw out the ages old playbook, and look at something as it is happening.
On the Trump side, you have a candidate who is a pop culture hero, a pop culture star.
You have somebody who is becoming a political and pop culture star.
It's not many politicians that can do that crossover.
You know, politics is showbiz for the ugly, and that's why politics has its own Oscars and has its own stuff like the White House Correspondence Dinner where they invite real celebrities to show up and give them credibility.
But you there aren't too many politicians that cross over and are legitimate political stars and pop culture stars, and Trump is.
Whether you like it or not, and I'm not opining on it, I'm just it's what it is.
And there is enthusiasm on the Trump side, like there isn't anywhere else in this entire campaign.
No other candidate, Republican Democrat, Independent, has anything like this going on.
Trump, I read this morning, has achieved 100% name recognition, meaning he's the most famous person on the planet right now.
Do you remember one of the arguments that the establishment people were making back last summer and into early fall, is that the fact that Trump was already so well known was what was going to eventually doom his prospects.
Because he had no room to grow, they said.
He's already got high name recognition.
He's got a very high Q factor.
There's nowhere to go but down for Donald Trump.
They've been wrong On every level of analysis.
So now you have Trump in this unmistakable.
This is the Trump support is more than just political support for a candidate.
And you compare that the Democrats see it, everybody sees it.
You can't miss it.
It equals excitement.
It equals buzz.
People are having a good time.
The candidate is having a good candidate may be having the best time of his life.
Everybody involved in this is soaking it up and eating it up, and they're making the most of it.
They're laughing, enjoying, they're having a great time, and over on the Democrat side, there isn't even a speck of anything like that.
It is sheer boredom.
It is sheer dryball.
It is it's dull.
It is gray.
It is scandal wrapped.
There's no excitement.
Mrs. Clinton is not only not a political star, she has no hope of being a pop culture crossover star.
She doesn't, even the people gonna vote for her hold their nose to do it in many cases.
They're doing it because there's a D next to her name, not because they're attached or connected to her in any way.
We know that that doesn't exist.
The Democrat Party ought to be scared to death.
Just like the Republican Party put was back in 92 when this was happening in a much more limited way, but still happening with Perot.
But I mean, what has happened Perot?
This it even pales in comparison to this thing with Trump.
This is you can't create this.
This is and that's another thing that bugs them.
This is totally genuine.
They can't go out and when a tea party popped up.
They could go out and manufacture its counterpart, Occupy Wall Street, and they could use the media to make it look like that it was a natural effervescence of legitimate Democrat socialist thought.
But Occupy Wall Street was bought and paid for.
They can't go out and buy.
They can't create.
There is no Hollywood star.
There is no Hollywood agent.
There is no Hollywood image maker that can go out and create for Hillary Clinton what is happening legitimately on the Trump side.
Do you know what I read today?
Ari Emmanuel.
Do you know who he is?
He's Rom Emanuel's brother, right?
Exactly.
Not a surgeon, he's an agent.
He is one of the biggest, most successful Hollywood agents.
I mean, he's the agent to agents.
He runs agents.
He's he's he's the new and has been for a long time, Michael Ovitz.
He's the guy, nothing happens in town without going through him.
He wants to script Trump's convention.
He he's an avowed Democrat.
I know the guy.
One year at the ATT celebrity classic, they seated me next to him thinking there would be fireworks, like CBS sat me next to Camille Paglio.
They thought there'd be fisticuffs.
But he was a great guy, he's nice, inviting me to his house to watch the Oscars.
He's a good guy.
He's still he's a dynamical Democrat, liberal, don't miss that's the point.
He wants to script Trump's convention.
People want to be part of whatever this is happening with Trump.
And showbiz people especially.
My point is there's nothing that can even get close to this on the Democrat side.
And they think Hollywood and that kind of stardom is theirs, that they own that, that they are in the Hollywood left and all that big with the Democrats.
So there's my point is there's all kinds of panic and fear that she's not going to be the nominee.
There's all kinds of panic and fear that she ought not be.
That they need to pull her.
They need to get because there's far more excitement for dull and crazy Bernie.
So we will discuss this after that brilliant yet lengthy setup after this.
Let me grab a call quickly, squeeze it in.
We're gonna go to uh Springtown, Texas, and Herman Herman, where is Springtown, Texas?
We're just north of Fort Fort Worth, Texas.
Right, okay, cool.
Yeah, you can see the light when it's dark outside.
Right where it is, not far from South Fork.
No, not at all.
That's right.
I went through there uh the other day.
Yeah, cool.
Uh you uh you're you're a genius.
I I know you know that, but uh the brilliance that you put forth everything.
I just have to chuckle and think about what you're saying.
I think that you knew that somebody was gonna come up and run that was gonna touch the frustrations of everybody in America and change things and and force change.
You may or may not have known it was Trump, but it I would almost bet you a shot of your favorite tequila that when you heard that Trump was running, you smiled because you knew what the chaos that that was going to cause.
And uh the potential you know, change and and uh let me be honest.
Let me jump it out because you're very, very shrewd and perceptive, and you're very complimentary, and I thank you very much uh for calling me a genius.
I really appreciate it.
But I was of the opinion Trump wouldn't run.
I I actually thought it was promotion for the celebrity apprentice show.
But but, but but but but after his announcement on July, when everybody was laughing their severe silly and saying, what a joke, he doesn't even I warned everybody that first day that he was going to be a star.
I warned everybody, and and there weren't a whole lot of people believed it for the longest time.
And even today, there are there are those who still think that Trump is gonna step in it and implode and blow up like they thought he would after that first day.
Um I did I did think that somebody outside the confines of politics as usual is what it was gonna take to shake things up.
You're right about that.
Doug Sean's piece in the Wall Street Journal today.
Clinton might not be the nominee.
A Sanders win in California would turbocharge the mounting Democrat unease about Mrs. Clinton's viability.
And he begins to piece this way.
There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democrat nominee for president.
This guy's a former Clinton pollster.
He's a regular on Fox News.
He's uh one of the ranking, probably top five or top ten Democrat analysts, strategists, pollsters or what have you.
He writes, how could this happen, given that her nomination's been considered a sure thing by virtually everyone in the media and in the party?
Notice he included the media in that.
It's been a foregone conclusion that Hillary's gonna be the nominee in the media and in the party, because there's no difference.
The media is the party and Versa Vice.
The inevitability behind Mrs. Clinton's nomination will be in large measure eviscerated if she loses the June 7 California primary to crazy Bernie, and that could well happen.
Now, the point of this piece, I'm gonna get some pull quotes here.
Point of this piece is holding out plugs Biden and Elizabeth Warren as replacement options.
Check this pull quote from the Doug Schoen piece.
Mr. Biden would be cast as the white knight rescuing the party and the nation from a possible Trump presidency to win over Sanders supporters, he would likely choose as his running mate somebody like Senator Elizabeth Warren, who's respected by the party's left wing.
Now, I don't know Doug Schoen, I've not met him, but I'm guessing here that if he's writing this, they're already talking about this.
He's just not openly speculating here for the sake of having column material.
What this means that this is being discussed, which ought not surprise people, but it will some.
Where is President Obama in all of this asks Mr. Schoen so far?
He has largely stayed out of the campaign, other than to say that he doesn't believe Mrs. Clinton compromise national security with her homebrew email server.
Yeah, yada yah.
Obama is in charge of the drip-dip-dip-dip-dip-dip-dip-dip-dip.
It continues to happen here.
I I I I wouldn't be surprised.
My own thinking.
I think Obama'd Be fine if she's not the nominee, but he doesn't want his fingerprints on it, like he doesn't want his fingerprints on much else.
But with her poll numbers dropping, her legal headaches increasing, the Sanders candidacy showing renewed vigor, and Donald Trump looming as a wrecking ball for the president's legacy, Mr. Obama and advisor Valerie Jarrett must begin sending signals to the Democrat National Committee and to the vice president that a Biden rescue operation would not displease the White House.
So Sean's saying, hey, look, Obama, Valerie, whoever, you better start the smoke signals, and you better let everybody know that you'd be perfectly fine with Biden taking over.
Because if Obama's not down with it, it won't happen, supposedly.
Now, Mr. Schoen writes that all of these remain merely possibilities, but it is easier now than ever to imagine a scenario in which Hillary Clinton is not the Democrat presidential nominee.
Folks, they are scared.
You have to put this in context.
For months, for years, 2016 was going to be a Democrat coronation.
They were going to be coming off a popular, overwhelmingly undefeatedly popular Barack Obama.
Hillary was going to step in there and maybe even expand the popularity and the vibe and the image and all that.
It was going to be a coronation.
Whoever the Republicans nominated were going to get creamed in a landslide, and this has been operating theory for years, last two or three years.
And now it's all upside down.
And they are scared.
The Trump phenomenon's unnerving everybody, everybody in politics.
It's unnerving a lot of people in talk radio, it's it's it's nerving a lot of people, conservatism in the media.
You know why?
Well, there's all kinds of reasons.
There's all kinds of reasons, including anger, jealousy, envy, uh, and things that are more personal, like someone's position in the establishment being so up-ended they're no longer in it.
So there's all kinds of reasons why the Trump phenomenon is unnerving a lot of people.
The Democrats know that Hillary Clinton is outclassed as a star, as a candidate, as a person that people want to be with and hang around with, want to be able to call a friend or whatever.
She's just been totally exposed as a fraud, dull nothing burger in the middle of all this light shining on the Trumpster.
They know, they know that Hillary Clinton can never have this kind of enthusiasm behind her.
She could never have this kind of adoration, this kind of appreciation, even in her own party, and especially in her own party.
So, what to do?
Well, there are many problems they face here.
If they want Biden, there is the problem of crazy Bernie and his supporters.
And if the effort to take Hillary out happens before their convention, and they don't throw it to Bernie, they've got Chicago 1968 times five on their hands.
So, that tells us, using intelligence guided by experience, that if there is a forthcoming move made on Hillary, it'll happen after the convention, after which Hillary's supporters or Bernie supporters will have been dealt with.
They will maybe have been brought on board somehow, some way, you know, the typical unity attempts will be made at the convention to bring Bernie Sanders people on board.
They don't want Bernie's people going to Trump.
So they'll make whatever efforts they can.
If they can get through the convention, and a lot depends on California, if they get through the convention with Hillary as a nominee, and then the FBI drops what they've got, and DOJ looks at it and says, you know, this is we can't cover this up.
This is too much.
So they indicate and she loses the FBI primary, then they plug in plugs.
And they will ameliorate the Bernie Sanders supporters who will suspect that all of this was planned to ace him out.
They will try to buy Bernie's voters with Elizabeth Warren as the VEP to keep them, keep Bernie's voters on board.
That's what they're all thinking here.
But just the fact that they're writing about this.
And then, folks, if that happens, if any of this happens that I just described, then whatever Bill Crystal is planning is guaranteed to happen.
I mean, that's going to be a go signal for Crystal and whoever he's got.
David French and then Gary Johnson over there at a libertarian center.
You could end up.
We could end up.
If all this happens with a four-person race.
Now, we have to understand Bill Crystal, no matter what you think, is not think David French is going to be elected president, and that won't be the purpose.
The purpose is to deny Trump.
And save Crystal's position and others in the establishment.
So forth.
The independent guy, they're libertarian guys, they've got their own agenda and so forth, but they've got money woes, big time money woes.
All of this is a real, real long shot.
And if Hillary wins California, it kind of aces all of it out.
But that's the first place it starts.
But if they decide they have to take Hillary Clinton out, that I can see where that is a go signal for these third party people.
Because that just that means the whole thing's been turned upside down.
And in that scenario, who knows what's possible?
Who knows what can happen?
So, as always, we'll be here.
Explaining, defining, analyzing, predicting, and being right all along.
Callahan, Florida.
Ken, glad you waited.
You're next.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi, Rox.
This is Ken.
I just wanted to thank you so much for your service.
I'm a longtime listener.
Uh I recently got your book for my granddaughter Penelope.
And Penelope is two years old.
And uh I've thoroughly enjoyed reading the book to her.
It is her first book that isn't just a picture book, and it keeps her attention, and it's one of the ways that I'm able to bond with my granddaughter.
No kidding.
That's that's it.
That is exactly the thing that we hoped would happen.
That's exactly one of the things we hoped would happen with these books is that specifically grandparents would would take time to read them to their grandkids, even if they're too young to read themselves.
That's all you know what?
I want you to hold on, Ken, because we've got a whole bunch of stuff that we can send your your granddaughter, even at two years old.
We've got a stuffed Liberty doll, for example, that's it's not stuffed.
Pardon?
That would be great.
Oh, she'll she'll she'll love it.
She'll she may not yet appreciate who Liberty is, but it won't be long before she does.
She'll love this thing.
We got some other things, too.
Um please, please hang on so we can get uh a shipping address to get this stuff out.
We got a big meeting going on even this very moment about upcoming events regarding Rush Revere, time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
So, wow, that's fabulous.
I I can't thank you enough for that.
It's exactly, exactly the kind of thing that we hoped would happen.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We are out of busy broadcast time today.
I'm thinking about flying to Memphis and picking up a FedEx package.
They just can't get to me on time.
It's happening about 20% of the time now.
Stuff doesn't get out of Memphis on time, even though it's there in plenty of time to make the plane to Palm Beach at 20% of the time.
So I'm waiting for let me fly up there and pick it up myself.
They probably won't let me do that.
Anyway, I'll be back here tomorrow.
Everything's cool.
See you then.
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