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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Buck Sexton here in for Rush on the EIB.
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	So got to keep that going.
	We've got so much to talk about today, and let's get right into it.
	Clinton has clinched.
	That's the media headline all across the board.
	And it's also historic.
	Oh, unveil all the narratives now.
	All the questions from reporters.
	The really hard-hitting stuff, you know, like, how does it feel to be the first woman to just shatter the ultimate glass ceiling?
	We're going to be hearing about this for the next few weeks.
	So get ready for that.
	They've been holding it back until now because timing and all of this matters.
	Timing will be sort of a theme, I think, throughout our discussion today, my friends, because they're trying to make the timing as good as it can possibly be for Hillary, for the Hillary narrative.
	And they're trying to right away now that we're into the, basically into the general.
	I know technically we're not in the general, but we're really actually in the general.
	They're going to try to define Trump.
	And so we'll get into that.
	But I want to start on the Democrat side, and then we'll make our way over to the Republican side and then other stories of note and interest all across the spectrum.
	So here's the deal.
	You've got a huge sigh of relief from the mainstream media because they were able to, in advance of the California primary, which let's not forget is happening today for the Democrats, along with a number of other states, New Jersey and some others, that the California primary is happening.
	And what great timing for Hillary Clinton that the news networks, most of them, get to call the race for Hillary.
	It is a mathematical certainty that she will win, they say.
	Or I should say such a high probability that we don't have to discuss the alternative.
	And I'll get into the alternatives perhaps in just a second.
	But oh, what great timing.
	I wonder if they think that this might influence voting patterns just a little bit in California.
	Is that possible?
	Is it in fact maybe, just maybe going to help Hillary squeak out a victory in California?
	Bernie, he was like two points behind.
	He was right there.
	He was nipping out our heels.
	And now Bernie's going to have a rough time.
	Because when people say a race is over, this is like when in other contests, the polls have, the media's reported, the polls have closed because it's, oh, wait, no, the polls shouldn't have been closed.
	Whoops.
	It tends to go one way, doesn't it?
	It seems that that only happens under certain circumstances for one side of the political aisle, but maybe I'm just going off the cuff there.
	I'd have to dig into the facts and figures.
	That's just my assessment.
	But it is kind of tough to get really excited to go out and vote for the burn when they've said that there's no point in voting for the burn.
	Some will still do it, of course.
	And look, the Bernie voters are, you got to give them credit for zeal.
	They also probably should get a little more criticism for punching people in the faces outside of Trump rallies and such, but you have to give them credit for at least having convictions that they stick to.
	And Bernie does not walk around with a big, instead of a sort of a campaign sign, a big for sale sign as the Clinton campaign has in the past, and certainly to a different extent, I think, does.
	Still, though, depending, I wonder how much money Bill will be making as the first spouse or the first husband while Hillary is in office.
	We will have to see.
	Because if it was okay in the past, I suppose it will be okay in the future.
	No ethical concerns there, but I digress.
	Back to California.
	Bernie Sanders could have beaten Hillary.
	And just think of what that would have meant in the most important, most populous state and the most essential state for Democrats, right?
	Blue as blue can be California.
	I think the registration advantage for Democrats over Republicans there is 17 points.
	And in recent years, there's been a surge in non-affiliated registration.
	So people say maybe that will, and that matters less for this than it would for the general, but maybe that will help Bernie to some degree.
	But Democrat-Republican, there's a 17-point advantage for the blue.
	And that means that it's really important to the campaign narrative, the Clinton campaign narrative, that in fact, Hillary wins California.
	How can you have your frontrunner lose the most important state for the Democrats in terms of electoral votes, in terms of really everything?
	California is the Democrat heartland.
	It is the Democrats.
	I mean, New York, I guess, is kind of a close second, where I'm currently broadcasting from.
	But this helps a lot, doesn't it?
	And the media was so gleeful about it.
	You can say, oh, thank heavens.
	Although I don't know if they would thank heaven or not, but thank heavens.
	There's a chance that we can do something here that will help steer Hillary towards victory.
	Because look, as much as they like to sort of pretend for a little while, as much as there was a little bit of pretense that, oh, yeah, everyone was, everyone on the left that was kind of cool was feeling the burn in one way or another.
	Bernie knows where the party's at.
	Both political party and perhaps the party party, because I've heard Bernie rallies are quite fun from friends of mine who are Bernie supporters.
	But they always knew that it was going to be Clinton.
	And what's going to be interesting to see here is there's this huge sigh of relief now, right?
	Finally, they can put aside, the media can put aside the pretense that Bernie Sanders was ever really going to be the Democrat nominee.
	But there's a little problem.
	There's a little wrinkle in this.
	And that is that technically speaking, Bernie can continue this fight all the way to Philadelphia to the convention, because until the superdelegates, and, you know, the Democrat side actually is something where the establishment is very much in the driver's seat, right?
	We heard a lot of talk about this on the Republican side in the primary about what was fair and unfair and was the voice of the Republican Party being heard or not.
	Democrats are like, we're not messing around with any of that stuff.
	We got superdelegates.
	This is how it's going to be.
	We got a lot of superdelegates, by the way.
	And they are a determining factor in this.
	And at this point, they're really the determining factor.
	But until they actually throw in with Hillary at the convention, Sanders can stay in it.
	And if for some reason, and I think now it's unlikely, or less likely even than it was.
	I think last poll I saw had Hillary ahead two points, but it was pretty much within the margin of error.
	If for some reason, the burn is able to come through and he takes all of his SJW social justice warriors and all the sort of loony left along with him because they will go.
	If Bernie goes to the convention and he's still in it, they're going to show up and they're going to cause mayhem.
	Isn't it fascinating, by the way?
	We can assume that the loony left will cause mayhem at both the Republican convention and the Democrat convention.
	Or at least, I shouldn't say assume.
	We can expect.
	We can expect that is likely.
	If Bernie Sanders stays in it, if he drops out and says, all right, follow Hillary.
	It's boring.
	It's terrible.
	But what choice do you have?
	If he goes that route, well, then I think that's what they're going to do.
	There may be some noise about it here and there.
	It's like, oh, our pure Democrat socialist candidate.
	All the think pieces, by the way, about do Americans care to see what socialism looks like?
	Do they care about what's going on in Venezuela?
	Socialism, not a good thing.
	Scandinavian countries that Bernie Sanders says he's, or rather points to and says, look at how they do things over there, reminds me, I think Marco Rubio's best line of the whole campaign when he was running Omarco was that Bernie Sanders should be running for either mayor of Stockholm or president of Sweden.
	I can't remember.
	Either one is funny.
	But even those countries aren't really socialists.
	They have large social wealth.
	They're large sort of social welfare states with high taxation.
	But you'll notice that Hillary has to be careful of that because to give the kind of state that Bernie Sanders promises means everybody has to get taxed more, including the middle class that Hillary just loves.
	Oh, she loves them.
	She loves the little guy.
	And yeah, she loves the little guy, especially if the little guy has a spare like 250 grand to get 40 minutes of her time.
	Then she thinks, you know, that's great.
	But they always were expecting Hillary to win.
	Now it looks like that's in fact what's going, or it has, I should say, it's happened, right?
	Hillary's winning.
	Unless, unless I sound like a conspiracy theorist, unless I sound like someone who is afraid of, I don't know, all kinds of crazy government things happening, Floride in the water and all the rest of it.
	What if there is, what if I'm wrong on this point?
	What if there is an indictment against Hillary?
	I give it 100 to 1 odds at this point that there will not be.
	But if you're Bernie Sanders and you've had millions and millions of dollars at this point, I think I saw a figure.
	I don't want to say, was it over, was it $200 million has been spent on that campaign?
	Something.
	I mean, he spent a lot of money, or has raised a lot of money, I should say.
	Or both.
	He spent and raised a lot of money.
	He hates special interests.
	They're the worst.
	Unless they're, you know, writing a check here and there.
	But Ernie might want to stick around because there is that chance that Hillary will be held to the same standard as other people would who have access to sensitive and classified information.
	There is that outside possibility that the FBI will find in its investigation that she was criminally negligent in her handling of classified.
	I once had a TS clearance.
	I'm familiar with these policies and procedures.
	I don't know anybody from inside the community who isn't up in arms, freaking out, screaming at the TV or the radio or wherever they're hearing this conversation going on about how there's no way a non-Clinton would get away with what Hillary Clinton did.
	All of that said, it is still my expectation that Hillary will, in fact, get away with it.
	But Bernie needs to be around because just in case, just in case, they need a candidate.
	And I know there's the story out there about how they're just going to sort of like airdrop in, like they're going to parachute into the convention in Philadelphia.
	Just think of that spectacle for a second.
	Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden.
	I'm not even sure.
	I assume Biden at the top of the ticket, although isn't that a little sexist to assume?
	Shouldn't make that assumption.
	But Bernie might stick around for a bit.
	And if he does, it will be interesting to see how it plays out at the convention because those social justice warriors, the left, movements like the movement formerly known as Occupy Wall Street, the movement known as Black Lives Matter, etc.
	They have been focused on really mostly supporting the Sanders campaign.
	If they decide to throw a collective, dare I say, collectivist tantrum at the Democrat convention, won't that be interesting?
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	So the Republican National Committee, by the way, speaking about Hillary's emails, a topic that I so much enjoy because you could just go through the timeline of, I was, nothing wrong was done.
	And then it was, it was for convenience.
	And then it was, well, I thought at the time, but maybe it was a, maybe I made a boo-boo.
	And then it was, okay, I lied, but what are you going to do?
	You know, you're kind of stuck with her.
	There's no, what are you going to do?
	There's nowhere to go.
	Well, there's somewhere to go.
	He's still waiting.
	He's there for you.
	The burn.
	But nonetheless, the RNC, according to CNN here, would have to wait 75 years for the State Department to release emails from top aides to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
	The State Department lawyers argued in a filing that gathering 450,000 pages of records from former Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and Jacob Sullivan and top State Department official Patrick Kennedy would take three quarters of a century.
	Oh, well, that's one way to go.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Given that, this is a quote.
	Given the department's current FOIA, Freedom of Information Act request workload and the complexity of these documents, it can process about 500 pages a month, meaning it would take approximately 16 and two-thirds years to complete the review of the Mills documents, 33rd and one-third years to finish the review of the Sullivan documents, and 25 years to wrap up the review of the Kennedy documents.
	Well, that's one way to get around transparency, isn't it?
	Just overload the system.
	Say the massive federal beast, such as it is, can't handle this paperwork.
	I mean, I worked in the federal government at one point.
	I can tell you, the federal government largely exists for the purpose of creating and handling and disseminating paperwork.
	That's really the area.
	That is the water in which it swims.
	That is where the federal government really excels, pushing paper around, paying people to do it, by the way, paying them pretty well.
	Better than comparable private sector jobs pay.
	But I won't get into that right now.
	So they're just saying that they won't be able to do it.
	Now, in an age of digital search, meaning you can search through email, you know, look, you can do this yourself, right?
	Some of you probably have in your Hotmail or AOL or Gmail account.
	Hotmail still exists, right?
	Or did that go away?
	People still have Hotmail accounts, don't they?
	I can't remember.
	I know people have AOL accounts.
	Because I get angry emails from people with AOL accounts sometimes.
	I know those exist.
	But you could do a search yourself for a keyword, and very quickly you'll figure out: well, oh, yeah, I guess it doesn't take that much to find certain things.
	So the State Department's saying it'll take 75 years for them to release the emails for just a few aides.
	What is the point then of these transparency laws?
	What is the point of keeping records if they're going to pretend that this is why would it take so long?
	Because of the quote, complexity of these documents.
	What's so complex about these emails?
	They shouldn't be classified.
	This is open network stuff.
	See, usually, like if you were trying to get, if you're doing a FOIA request for emails from inside the Department of Defense or inside CIA, if you're trying to get anything off of what they call the high side, trying to get anything from the classified side of things, then, yeah, that's going to take a really long time.
	And they can just deny that FOIA request, too, under national security grounds.
	This is a FOIA for unclassified emails.
	Just like any other public figure who holds office is supposed to retain emails, and those are public record.
	Do you remember the fervor with which the media went through, what was it, Sarah Palin's emails?
	I recall that.
	It was a feeding frenzy.
	They thought it was fantastic.
	Let's just find something.
	Even if it's just dumb and embarrassing, let's find something.
	But with Hillary's top aides, it's going to take 75 years to go through.
	I refuse to believe that's possible.
	Or rather, I refuse to believe that that's true.
	It's only true if you want it to be true.
	Of course, they could get through this.
	Of course, they could find some means of reviewing all these documents.
	And yet, they're going to not just push it past the election.
	They're going to say that it's impossible to ever get it.
	And they just hope the request goes away.
	So 450,000 pages of records requested for Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Jacob Sullivan and Department official Patrick Kennedy.
	75 years for those emails.
	Why can't they just release them?
	Oh, because there might be sensitive stuff in there.
	If that's the case, they shouldn't have been using unclassified email, right?
	Why should this take so long?
	Any bureaucrat should be able to sit down and sift through these things one by one.
	It's like, okay, yep, fine, fine, fine.
	This shouldn't be hard.
	And you should at least then have the ability to have a separate investigator come in who's looking for some information that falls under a FOIA, somebody with a clearance, and say, okay, well, let's look for any information that has to do with the following.
	Let's look up communications with certain individuals.
	But no, they're just going to hide behind, hide in the flabby folds of the bureaucracy because it's so easy to do.
	This email thing is not going away, and Hillary Clinton doesn't have any more stories to tell on it.
	In fact, she had the gall to say that she believes the Inspector General's report from the State Department kind of vindicated her because the policies were unclear when the IG report says no such thing, and it's clear to everybody who's read the IG report or even sections of the IG report that it was a scathing indictment, ooh, there's that word, of what Hillary Clinton did with her email server.
	And yet, they tell us there are just too many emails.
	Sorry, bro, not enough people in the federal government to go through this.
	So that's interesting.
	The next time the IRS, by the way, wants your receipts from three years ago, be like, dude, it's going to take me like a decade.
	I got so many receipts.
	Sorry, man.
	Can't do it.
	Just going to have to wait 20 years to see if I paid my taxes.
	I wonder how that will go over when the federal government's on the other side.
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	Let's take some calls.
	We have Chuck in Columbus, Ohio.
	Chuck and Buck.
	Sounds like a buddy comedy.
	What's going on?
	Hey, thanks for taking my call.
	Yeah, I was just calling to say that foregone conclusion.
	I think Democrats are going to win the White House.
	You know, Trump's just going to keep being Trump, and that's going to make Hillary electable.
	And if things don't go good for Hillary, then they bring Bernie up and Bernie, Bernie's going to beat Trump.
	And if at the convention, they take it away from Trump, then all the people that voted for him walk.
	So, you know, the GOP is going to have to sit out this one, too.
	Well, Chuck, I think, first of all, there's some recent polls.
	And I know people will say it's funny because when they want the polls to matter this far out, they'll cite them.
	And when they don't, they'll say, oh, it's too far out for it to matter.
	But there already have been polls that show Trump and Hillary very close.
	I think there have been a few national polls that show him even a little bit ahead.
	Nonetheless, no one's been able to predict.
	And one of the great things I think about this cycle for everybody, about this political cycle, is that it's been a huge dose of humility for the punditocracy, of which I suppose I'm kind of a part, although just a little bit.
	But it's been a huge dose of humility because we've been wrong collectively time and time again about Trump's chances.
	And I think that the conventional, well, there is no such thing anymore as the conventional wisdom when you're talking about what Trump will be able to accomplish in terms of winning, right?
	And I'm not saying yay or nay for Trump.
	I'm just saying no one really is going to, I don't believe there's anybody who can look at the race right now and do more than just sort of take a nice, educated guess at where they think this is all going.
	I think you can make a case that even the polls that they'll be doing up till Election Day will be skewed by the fact that there are a lot of people who won't want to admit necessarily they're going to vote for Trump who are going to vote for Trump.
	I think that's a very real phenomenon.
	I think you might have a lot of first-time voters in the states that matter.
	We know there's only really a handful of them, but I'm not as convinced as you are.
	I think that Trump can win, despite the fact that right now he's getting absolutely hammered in the press, as well as by the Republican Party.
	And we will talk about that later on in the show.
	I'm just warming everybody up so when they get mad at me, I'm closer to getting to hour three at least.
	But, Chuck, I don't think it's as lost as you do, but you could be right.
	And I also, by the way, they will not run a Democrat socialist in a national election because it'll the moment you actually start to scratch the surface with Sanders on policy, he's just offering you a lot more ineffective, slothful government and much higher taxes and promises free college.
	And there aren't enough people that get excited about free college to make up for the fact that there are a lot of people who pay taxes and are sick of it.
	We'll talk about the IRS, by the way, and their targeting of conservatives, which they admit to, and have released a list of in just a few minutes.
	Thank you for calling in, Chuck.
	That was your installment of the Chuck and Buck Show.
	Leo in Northern Virginia, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	You're speaking to Buck.
	Hey, Buck.
	Sorry, Miss Chuck.
	Hey, I actually think Hillary's going to be indicted on multiple levels.
	And so therefore, Bernie has to stick around because once she's indicted, that's going to leave them with nobody.
	They're not going to hairdrop Uncle Joe in.
	He's not going to do it.
	And I wanted to point out a little fact about the email thing, the whole server situation, that Hillary was sworn into office in January of 2009.
	In June of 2009, the same government that appointed her to that position felt cybersecurity is so critical to this nation, both on the DOD and intelligence side, that they established a thing called, wait for it, Cyber Command.
	And that's their full purpose is to keep our communications in our country and external safe and sound.
	And she still goes out.
	It was 23 June, as a matter of fact, is when it was commissioned.
	So she's not getting out of this one.
	The dirt.
	Look, let's talk about this for a second, Leo.
	So there are two steps in this process.
	You've got the FBI investigation, which we're told has, what, 150 or 150-plus agents.
	James Comey is like the ultimate by the book Boy Scout kind of a guy, I mean, in terms of his honesty and integrity.
	And this is going to be a fair investigation.
	There's going to be no politicization of it.
	Okay, let's assume all that's true.
	That's step one.
	No matter what the FBI finds, they then have to take the, because the FBI doesn't bring charges.
	As you know, they have to take that to the Department of Justice prosecutors.
	And Loretta Lynch, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, is going to have to sign off on this thing.
	And I don't see a world in which she does that.
	I do not see a reality in which an Obama-appointed attorney general decides to end the political career and perhaps end the political career of Hillary Clinton, of the Democrat frontrunner, possibly subject her to incarceration, which I think is even more unlikely.
	And in the whole process for what?
	To help the Republicans gain the White House?
	I just don't ever see that happen.
	How do you get around that, Leo?
	Do you really believe Loretta Lynch is going to say, you know, everything that I believe in and care about as a Democrat may be dramatically hurt by this, but I'm a law and order kind of person.
	So Hillary Clinton, we're going to have to bring charges.
	Sorry.
	I just don't see that happening.
	They're going to have to, Buck.
	And here's the reason.
	You've got an uproar within the FBI.
	I live here in Northern Virginia.
	I've got neighbors that work in the former agency that you've worked at.
	I've worked there and a lot of the other places.
	So, you know, you talk to people.
	Got a couple of neighbors in the FBI.
	They've been saying for months, if she's not indicted, they're going to have a massive revolt.
	And I don't mean physical revolt.
	People are going to say, you know what?
	I'm done.
	I'm retired.
	They're going to end up getting caught shit.
	But Leah, let's take, I mean, you're obviously familiar with what protecting classified means, as you say, but also you know a lot of people.
	Everyone that I know who has held a high-level government security clearance, and I've talked to about this, and these are civil, these are civil servants.
	These are, these are guys, a lot of them, and men and women who are former military, who are just sort of patriotic, who aren't highly partisan as I talk to them about this.
	And they're all like, okay, let's just be clear about one thing.
	Anybody other than Hillary Clinton who does this has his or her clearance stripped and is fired.
	I have not heard anybody who's not a Clinton flack out there, who's not somebody who's worshiping at the Clinton throne.
	I have not heard anybody deny that.
	I mean, maybe there's somebody.
	I just haven't heard them, but everyone that I talk to, and yet here we are.
	Democrats don't seem to care.
	And the only thing that will change the game right now, I mean, the media sort of ask the question, then they go, they sort of just take whatever Hillary offers.
	So prosecution, we can't even get to the stage where they say this is a disqualifying, this is disqualifying for somebody who wants to be president.
	We can't even get people to agree on that.
	So I'm just not as confident as you are, Leo.
	But you know what?
	I will be happy to eat a major helping of humble pie on this one if I'm wrong and she is indicted.
	But I'd give it, if I were the Vegas odds maker, 100 to 1 odds on this one is what I would give.
	Thanks for calling in, Leo.
	Good to talk to you.
	If we knew one more, right?
	A little time.
	I got a lot of friends here on the lines.
	One more.
	Let's do it.
	Alan in Banger Main.
	Alan, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	You're speaking to Buck Sexton.
	What is up, sir?
	Hi, Buck.
	Nice to talk to you.
	A big-time Rush Limbaugh fan.
	Always try to tune in at my lunchtime, see what's happening.
	I got a big question.
	I'm one of those Ted Cruz supporters, and I'm going to always be a Ted Cruz supporter because of what he said and what he did.
	But I want to get behind Trump.
	100%, I want to get behind because we've got to stop this Olinski light.
	We just can't let her get in there and just push her agenda.
	But I don't, Trump's not giving me any ammunition to get behind him whatsoever.
	He just keeps to appeal to Bernie Sanders voters.
	He's after them for some reason.
	But when it comes down to the nitty-gritty to the conservative group, I just don't see him even wanting to even try to even get my vote.
	I think he just thinks I'm just going to come along for the ride.
	But I wish he'd reach out, like Reagan said, you know, after Reagan lost to Ford.
	This goes to all the cruise supporters out there.
	We just can't be cynical in these days because we do.
	We have an agenda pushing Democrat.
	We have an agenda pushing Democrat people in front of us.
	Alan, I find myself in a very similar situation to you, right?
	I openly supported, and I was actually hoping to sort of just kind of give my thoughts on the primary without having to stamp on my forehead or wear a t-shirt for one candidate, but it became kind of impossible to do that if you wanted to get involved in the discussion publicly.
	So I was publicly a cruise supporter.
	I mean, that was every time I used to go on CNN at the bottom, it would say cruise supporter.
	And now I refer to myself as a recovering crew supporter because it took a little while to get over the shock, especially after that loss in Indiana.
	And I think we had actually a really strong field of candidates.
	And unfortunately, they, well, they tore each other down.
	And one candidate did more tearing down than others, but he's also the one who won.
	So I wonder what that says about the direction of our politics.
	I have major concerns too, but I've been saying since before Trump was a nominee that I am never Hillary and I'm not never Trump.
	Is it possible?
	I mean, I'm supporting Trump over Hillary.
	I will say that, right?
	Obvious.
	I don't know how that's, you know, for me.
	Wait, am I not supposed to say that?
	I'm supporting Trump over Hillary.
	You don't know that?
	I'm getting yelled at now.
	Uh-oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, I know.
	Look, I was a little rough on him in the primary, but hey, you know, we're all friends now.
	We're all hugging it out.
	But look, that also doesn't mean that, Alan, that if Trump continues to say things that are very damaging and, you know, I could see a situation where I would stay home.
	I mean, that's if he really goes off the rails, and he's giving some people real pause these days.
	So how do we unite behind Trump?
	It's the spectra.
	You're really voting against Hillary, I think, if you're a conservative who recognizes that Trump is a wild card.
	I don't know how Trump is going to govern.
	I can't tell you.
	And I think if I pretended to know, I'd be lying.
	But that's true of any president, by the way.
	I mean, we could go back and look at some previous presidents, even Republican ones, about what they said when they were running and what they did when they were actually in office.
	But I feel you on this one, Alan.
	I know it's difficult.
	And those who are never Trump, and a lot of them are my friends, and a lot of them are people that I've worked with.
	A lot of them are people I was reading for years and years back when I was in college and have a tremendous amount of respect for.
	We just disagree on what's more damaging to the country, a Hillary Clinton presidency or a Trump presidency.
	And that's kind of where we are.
	Alan, I got to get into a break now, but thank you for calling in.
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	This is the Fox News headline today.
	After first paragraph, I should say, here's the headline: Obama ready to hit campaign trail as Clinton closes in on nominations.
	And now that this thing is close to settled, Obama's going to be out there pushing for Hillary.
	And I wonder how Hillary's going to handle this because she was sort of saying for a while that she was running for Obama's third term.
	I don't know if she explicitly, I think she might have, but she didn't really explicitly say it.
	She said she continued on the policy.
	She defended Obamacare in the debates as a good thing.
	And she even said, I started Hillary Care first.
	Or, you know, I started Obamacare.
	She actually said that she was sort of the originator, in a sense, of Obamacare, sort of like she invented the internet.
	But she's the originator of Obamacare with Hillary care and was always willing to defend the Obama legacy, such as it is, because she wants that Obama political machine to sort of join forces with Hillary.
	And then she got a little rattled by the by Bernie and tried to come to Bernie's left on some things.
	The only place she really could go to the left of Bernie was on the Second Amendment, which was it's hilarious for those of us who remember Hillary talking about how she went duck hunting once back in 2008.
	And I think she fired like a 22-caliber rifle when she was 12, and so she knows guns and Obama, that left-wing Obama didn't like guns.
	That was Hillary circa 08.
	And now it's like, oh, yeah, Bernie's practically an NRA spokesman if you listen to the Clinton campaign.
	It's pretty crazy when you think about it a little bit.
	But Obama's going to be on the campaign trail now for Hillary.
	I have to say, I don't know how much, I just don't believe that he has that.
	His heart is in it.
	I don't know how else to put it.
	I just don't think, you know, Obama is, say what you will about him and his policies.
	And I've said a lot.
	And I know that the day-to-day host here, the Waterloo Rush has certainly said a lot too.
	And a lot of others.
	Say what you will about him.
	When he's pushing for Obama, he gets into his own and he knows how to do that and he won two elections.
	Say what you will.
	But when he's going to be pushing for Hillary, I think it's going to be kind of like, you know, I mean, she's not terrible.
	I mean, you know, she's not Trump.
	So she got thought.
	It's just not going to be, it's just not going to be the Obama that you're used to seeing, who, when he wants to sort of hit the switch, can give a very rousing speech.
	Put aside the policy for a second.
	The guy knows how to give a speech.
	He does have charisma.
	Hillary could charitably be described as charisma challenged.
	I think that's a fair way to put it.
	So will Obama lend some of that to her?
	Some of that personal magnetism?
	I don't think so.
	I think it's going to be kind of like, you know, eh, she's all right.
	Vote for her.
	But it's going to be half-hearted.
	That's my guess.
	Maybe I'm wrong.
	Maybe Obama's going to turn it on.
	And I wonder how much it will really help Hillary in the long run.
	And I also wonder where the Sanders supporters are going to go.
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	Oh, and by the way, there's some confusion.
	People are saying you would stay.
	I didn't say I would stay home.
	I said it's, I will support Trump over Hillary.
	This is C. I read the social media and the breaks.
	And unless Trump went totally off the rails, you know, if Trump comes out and says, you know, I'm the key master of Gozer or something and totally lose.
	I mean, I'm not going to vote for the guy just because, right?
	Ghostbusters, the only Ghostbusters, by the way.
	This new Ghostbusters doesn't count.
	We're going to pretend like it didn't even happen, gentlemen.
	I've seen the trailer.
	No way this thing isn't going to be trash.
	They have crossed the streams, but we're not all going to survive this one.
	The world is going to end after this Ghostbusters.
	It's going to be terrible.
	Don from Essex County, NJ.
	What is up, sir?
	Hi, I just wanted to say I agree with your assessment, 100 to 1, that she's not going to be prosecuted, but maybe I would add some extra reasons to that.
	I think a lot of prosecutors are going to approach it like if they prosecute, half the country says it was political.
	If they don't prosecute, the other half of the country says that it's political.
	It's kind of no win.
	So what they do is they're going to leave it to the political process to actually deal with it and give her a spanking if they decide she deserves it in the election.
	Now, to decline to prosecute is well within prosecutorial discretion.
	Although they can make a technical case, her criminal intent is not the most compelling of any case I've heard of.
	Other officials in the government have apparently done this as well.
	No, no, no.
	I agree with you on all the points about this until that one.
	The server is different and also the level of, because it's a recklessness standard, right?
	And you're correct, and you're the former prosecutor, not me.
	Although I did hold a clearance, so I've dealt with this stuff.
	You're correct that recklessness is hard to prove in a classified situation.
	You definitely get fired and lose your job for recklessness, but criminal prosecution is a pretty high bar, right?
	Yeah, yeah, it is.
	And the final thing is the Petraeus case is kind of distinguishable because he deliberately gave secrets to a lover, which isn't exactly the sloppiness that's involved.
	Yeah, that wasn't recklessness.
	There was intent there, and he got off with a pretty light warning.
	But yeah, no, 101, I agree with you.
	And also, I do think that they'll say, look, it's a political question.
	Let's let the election resolve it, and that's the way it's going to be.
	And then, of course, Hillary could pardon herself at the end.
	But thank you, Don.
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