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July 8, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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That's me on this program documented to be almost always right, 99.8% of the time.
It's Friday.
Time is flying.
Let's roll.
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It's open.
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You might think that's the case every day.
It's not.
You don't see the call screening process take place here.
Don't doubt me.
Monday through Thursday, you've got to talk about the things I want to talk about, so I will stay interested so people will continue to listen.
If I get bored, they won't.
Well, I'm probably compelling even when I'm boring.
Or bored.
Because I'm probably never boring, but I don't want to take the chance.
But on Friday, you can talk about anything, but I don't care about it.
That's fine.
It's my one day where I don't pretend to be a benevolent dictator and instead become Democratic leader.
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Now, before we get to the rest of the Comey hearing yesterday, some highlights from that I want to share with you.
Some further news on Hillary Clinton email whole thing and Trump and the Republican Convention, the campaign and so forth.
There's one more thing about this event in Dallas.
And this is going to be risky.
I could very easily just not say what I'm going to say and let it happen.
It's going to happen anyway, at this point.
But I think everybody better come to grips with the fact that this is not the end of anything here.
And the next target is going to be the Republican National Convention.
And then possibly after that, the next target, the Democrat National Convention, because there's going to be huge numbers of people in both places and there's going to be lots of cameras.
And the media is going to be both places.
And in 1968, the anti-war protesters of the 60s, the Tom Hayden gang, students for a Democrat Society, wreaked utter havoc at the Democrat National Convention.
And they torpedoed their chances to win the presidency.
But I have just learned that this is, it's from a website called conservativehq.com.
I don't know of this website, but somebody I trust has sent this to me.
Excuse me.
And the headline is Democrats to spend $800,000 to disrupt GOP convention.
Begins this way.
Back in March, we explained how, and I did not know this, and I still don't know this, so I putting this out there is I'm once removed from this.
The only reason I'm sharing this with you is I don't know about the specifics of this, but I do believe from the bottom of my heart that the Republican Convention is going to be a target.
And I've thought that before this happened.
Back in March, we explained how leftist billionaire George Soros has donated at least $12 million to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Now, whether the Black Lives Matter movement started post-Trayvon Martin or Ferguson, I mean, you're not talking about that long ago.
$12 million?
Somebody on my crack staff of researchers.
Mr. Snirdley, do I have any researchers?
I mean, it sounds really big to order the crack staff around.
I don't even know if I find out if this is true.
George Soar, $12 million into the Black Lives Matter movement.
It's not just that.
It says $12,460,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement and the shadowy radical leftist network that funds it.
So apparently, Black Lives Matter is under some other Democrat protest umbrella.
And its objective is to destroy capitalism.
Its objective is to advance leftism, communism, socialism, destroy free markets, limited government, disrupt American culture.
And George Soros, whether he's actually funding this bunch or not, funds many other groups like it.
And it wouldn't matter who the nominee is.
It could be Trump, could be Jeb Bush.
It doesn't matter.
Just keep a sharp eye.
It's just going to be a couple weeks here.
And I would love to be wrong about it.
Do not misunderstand here.
I'm not one of these people predicting this, hoping it does happen because it'll be exciting, man, to talk about it.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Ed Rendell, Fast Eddie, the former governor of Pennsylvania.
Was he former mayor of Philadelphia at one time?
So former governor, former mayor, he's been chairman of the Democrat National Committee.
He's been one of Chris Matthews' best buddies on MSNB.
He is mad.
Fast Eddie is livid at Hillary Clinton.
Quote, she had me out there for six months talking about her email lying.
Ed Rendell, feeling a tad stung this week, now that the FBI director James Comey has totally blown up Hillary Clinton's claims that she never handled classified email on her private server.
Fast Eddie Rendell, a devoted Clinton surrogate, tells the Politico that he called a Clinton campaign after Comey's devastating press conference and yelled, you guys, you had me out there for six months saying none of them were marked classified.
You got to clear this up.
So apparently, Hillary's staff was telling Fast Eddie, go out there.
She was never traveling in classified documents.
None of the documents were ever marked.
So he's out there trusting everything that Cheryl Mills and Huma Weiner, Mrs. Carlos Danger, are telling him.
He's out there, God, there was never any classified data.
It's all made up.
Hillary's clean and pure as the wind.
And Comey blows that all up.
And Fast Eddie is ticked off.
He said, that was the one thing I thought we were vulnerable about.
Without that, this is an absolute grand slam home run for the secretary, meaning Comey not deciding to investigate, recommend prosecution.
I'm going to tell you, by no means is she out of the woods on this.
And this Dallas story is going to run its course.
And the presidential campaign is once again going to become prominent.
She's by no means out of the woods on this because she's not clean and pure.
Richard Vigory heads up the conservative headquarters, conservativehq.com.
Well, that's good enough for me.
I didn't know if it was Vigory.
Okay, my crack research staff came through here.
How about that?
Now, yesterday, we go back to the hearings and James Comey being questioned by members of Congress as to his thinking and his procedure.
And one of the great segments yesterday was questioning by Congressman Will Heard, H-U-R-D.
He is a Republican from Texas.
And I saw this last night, and I sent it up to Coco Jr.
And I said, you've got to give me this.
We've got it in four soundbites here.
This is just awesome.
I want you to listen.
This is Will Hurd interviewing Comey.
And it's late in the day after he's heard a lot of QA already.
And he's flabbergasted by it.
He's bothered.
He's offended by what he's heard.
And that's how he begins.
Mr. Chairman, I'm offended.
I'm offended by my friends on the other side of the political aisle saying this is political theater.
This is not political theater.
For me, this is serious.
I spent nine and a half years as an undercover officer in the CIA.
I was the guy in the back alleys collecting intelligence, passing it to lawmakers.
I've seen my friends killed.
I've seen assets put themselves in harm's way.
And this is about protecting information, the most sensitive information the American government has.
And I wish my colleagues would take this a little bit more seriously.
Amen.
He's commenting on the fact that Hillary Clinton is trafficking in secrets without any concern.
She's got classified data coming in and out of her operation via her server.
It's unsecured.
It's unprotected.
And he can't believe that people are not more bothered by this.
He's sitting there watching these hearings.
He's listening to the Democrats try to politicize this and claim that the only reason anybody cares about it is because they're politically interested in harming Mrs. Clinton.
He says, we're crying out loud.
We're talking national security.
We've got real enemies.
This stuff was, who knows who saw it now.
And he can't believe how cavalierly everybody was treating that aspect of this.
So the former Secretary of State, one of the president's most important advisors on foreign policy and national security, had a server in her basement that had information that was collected from our most sensitive assets, and it was not protected by anyone.
And that's not a crime.
That's outrageous.
People are concerned.
What does it take for someone to misuse classified information and get in trouble for it?
It takes mishandling it and criminal intent.
And so an unauthorized server in the basement is not mishandling.
Oh, no, there is evidence of mishandling here.
This whole investigation at the end focused on is there sufficient evidence of intent.
And he kept, boy, did he keep going back to that.
That's clearly his out here.
He unloaded on her again yesterday.
He unloaded on her in his press cut.
He unloaded on everything she did wrong.
But he said, look, he even admitted, Comey even admitted that if she were still Secretary of State, they could have done something about it, or he would have.
If she were still Secretary of State, or if anybody else currently in office was doing this kind of stuff, there would have been sanctions, made no doubt about it.
But she's gone now.
Look, I have no doubt what happened here.
Like I said the other day, James Comey made the decision like John Roberts did.
You know what?
This is above my pay grade.
I am not going to be the guy that takes out the Democrat presidential nominee.
I don't care.
I'm not going to do it.
If the American people don't want her, I'll tell them everything I found out about her and they can decide.
That's what he did.
But I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to sit here and be the guy that essentially destroys the campaign of the woman the Democrats have chosen to be their nominee, much like John Roberts.
You know what?
I don't care.
I'm not going to be the guy that strikes down one of the biggest pieces of legislation in the history of this country, duly passed by the elected representative.
I'm not going to be the guy.
You were raising your hand?
Are you agreeing?
What's your question?
Well, you'd be surprised.
The FBI does not record most of the people in interviews.
You know why?
They don't want a record.
They want to be able to go to court and characterize the interviews in their own way.
They don't want there to be a recorded record.
The agents have to fill out.
There's a form.
They do an interview.
There is a long form and they take notes and they make a report after it.
But they don't want a recorded version of any interview to be able to be called into court.
They're too smart to have a private server.
They're too smart to have all this stuff secret.
They don't want some defense attorney.
They want to be able to use the power they have.
They want to rely on the trust the American people have that when the FBI says something, it must be true.
So it's not unusual that they didn't record her.
Why she wasn't under oath?
Well, I don't know about that.
That is kind of odd.
But again, it was an interview.
It was not an interrogation.
And I would bet you a dollar to a donut.
Everything we know now, she wasn't under oath as a level of insulation for not having to charge her on it.
Because if she's under oath and she lies, you have to do the process charge.
You have to go get her like they did Martha Stewart.
But if there's no oath, then you can't say she officially lied to the FBI.
Make no mistake, they did not want Comey.
They did not want to get her.
They've got what she did, and they have told everybody everything.
They have painted her as an incompetent, uncaring, unsophisticated, you name it, trafficking in classified data, unsecured server in her house.
They've laid it all out.
They just didn't be the one.
Comey just doesn't want to be the guy.
Like exactly what I said yesterday.
Whether it's, as I said, race, history, media, whatever, he doesn't want to be the guy that takes out the Democrat nominee.
I think he'd be the same Republican.
I don't think he wants to be the guy that has that big an impact on a presidential race.
That's my more than educated guess.
Don't doubt me.
So here's, you know, Will Heard.
I'm still not through with him.
He's great here.
He's going, how in the world he's asking.
He doesn't call me.
How in the world can it not be a crime?
She's got our biggest secrets unsecured and a server in the basement that's unsecured.
She's got classified information.
She's misusing it.
And Comey's, well, absolutely right, but we don't think she intended any criminality.
Heard wasn't finished.
Here's the next one.
Do you all think this sends a message to other employees that if the former Secretary of State can have an unauthorized server in their basement that transmits top secret information, that that's not a problem?
Oh, I worry very much about that.
That's why I talked about that in my statement, because an FBI employee might face severe discipline.
And I want them to understand that those consequences are still going to be there.
Director Comey, do you have a server in your basement?
I do not.
Does anybody in the FBI have a server in their basement?
I don't know.
Do you think it's likely?
I think it's unlikely.
It's your job to be involved in counterintelligence as well.
Yes.
So that means protecting our secrets from foreign adversaries collecting them.
Is that correct?
Correct.
Did this activity you investigated make America's secrets vulnerable to hostile elements?
Yes.
I mean, that's pretty damn good question, right?
Will heard?
There's still one more, but I have to take a timeout.
Okay, we are back here, and the final soundbite between James Comey and Will Heard, Republican, Texas, finally says, based on what we see, do you think there is going to be other elements within the federal government that think it's okay to have an unauthorized server in their basement?
You're not charging her since nothing's going to happen to her in the legal system.
Do you think others are now going to try to do what she did to have secrecy and make sure there are no prying eyes?
Well, they better not.
That's one of the reasons I'm talking about.
So, but what is the ramifications of them doing that?
How is there going to be any consequences levered if it's not being levered here?
Because indeed, you're setting a precedent.
The precedent, I want people to understand, again, I only am responsible for the FBI, that there will be discipline from termination to reprimand and everything in between for people who mishandle classified information.
Is there such a thing as the case of first impression?
And why was this not possibly one of those?
There is such a thing, which just means the first time you do something.
The reason this isn't one of those is that's just not fair.
That would be treating somebody differently because of their celebrity status or because of some other factor doesn't matter.
We have to treat people.
It's the bedrock of our system of justice.
We treat people fairly.
We treat them the same based on their.
And that person mishandling the most sensitive information that this government can collect is not fair.
It's not fair to punish someone who did that?
Not on these facts.
Because there's no intent.
I think Heard was fabulous.
I think Will Heard was just superb.
He got his time in the afternoon yesterday.
And in fact, I think some of his time was at the same time the program was on.
It might have been afterwards.
But Comey's answer here, oh, yeah, there'll be consequences.
There's going to be a consequence.
Somebody did this in the FBI.
There would be, but there aren't for her, you see.
And that's what Heard exposed.
Oh, yeah, anybody else, there'd be consequences.
Well, wait a minute.
He asked, what about this notion of first impression?
Well, yeah, but we can't hold her to that because she's a celebrity.
And first impression means, you know, you got to pass the first time you do something.
First time, yeah, nobody.
You repeat it.
We're going to come after you.
He was making it clear.
There was never going to be any legal sanction on her, folks.
Never.
It's Open Line Friday.
We head back to the phones here.
We had a young man last week who was 11 years old that we didn't get to last Open Line Friday.
And I told Mr. Snerdley to see if we can make arrangements to call him back, because he had held on for quite a while.
So he's with us.
His name is Jonathan.
He's in Rockingham, Virginia.
And I am so happy that you let us call you back and that you're here today, Jonathan.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
Well, I'm doing pretty well, all things considered.
And I'm glad that you're here.
What's up?
What did you want to talk about last week?
I wanted to thank you for writing the book for a couple of reasons.
One of them being that in some of the schools they won't teach the kids the truth about real history, but your books are telling the truth so that the kids will know what's right.
I cannot thank you enough for that assessment.
Do you know what I saw last week?
It might have been earlier this week.
There was a story, Jonathan, it was in the Wall Street Journal, and it was somebody that had studied 73 top universities and colleges in America, and they found that in these universities, I think at 55 of them, you can get a degree in history without learning American history.
Don't have to learn American history because it's deemed not that important to worldwide events, that other things are more important, and that's what's being taught to.
So it's just incredible that here we are in America, 55 top universities, don't have the names of the colleges, universities, where you get a history degree without even learning about American history.
And that doesn't count the lies that kids are being told about American history in junior high and high school and so forth.
So I'm flattered that you like the books and that you're learning something from them.
You read them all?
I'm in the middle of the fourth one.
My favorite one is the first one about the pilgrims.
Right.
Why do you like that the best?
Because like what I just said, what they say about that is that they just came, but then the book is telling the kids why they came.
And that's because they wanted to.
You know, you're right about that.
I think we hear from a lot of people that read the books at your age that they really like book one because it's easy to understand.
The pilgrim story is actually the story of the first Thanksgiving and how the truth of that isn't told anymore.
And this book teaches it.
And it's easy to grasp.
That's what's so important about the first book.
The first book shows very simply how American history is being mistaught and the truth about it not being told.
You pick that up in the first book easier than I think the others.
The others are a little more complicated in terms of the other books tackle a few more events in history than simply one event like the Pilgrims Arriving.
And I'd also like to tell you that I've done book reports in my English class about the books.
Well, and I appreciate that.
How have those gone?
Do you get I've gotten A's on both of them?
No kidding.
That's awesome.
That's cool.
Well, look, Jonathan, I want to send you a little Rush Revere and Liberty gift package that we send to a lot of people that send us notes and communicate with us via the Rush Revere website.
So if you could hang on, I know we have your phone number.
If you give us your address, we'll send a packet of stuff out probably next week sometime.
Just a little bunch of stuff from us as a little bit of gratitude for you, to you for taking time to read the books and buy them and so forth.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you, Jonathan, very much.
I appreciate it.
You know, it's amazing, folks.
These young people that read these books, how well-spoken they all are.
I mean, last week we had a seven-year-old or eight-year-old.
And if I hadn't known other than the sound of the voice, I would never have known I was talking to somebody that young.
Same thing here with Jonathan.
Jim in Bluegrass, Iowa.
You're next.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Mega Ditto's rush.
Thank you.
State of the Hawkeye Caucus.
I'm a retired police officer.
It's been 30 years working for a fairly good size municipality.
And I've worked with minority officers, both as partners and as a supervisor.
And, you know, they, in our department, and most of the departments I was used to work with, were very much looking to hire minority officers.
They recruit, and they did an excellent job.
It's a very difficult thing because it just seems like a lot of them don't want to go in and do the job.
Saying that, I mean, all the minority officers and all the officers I've worked with have been excellent, excellent people.
But I've seen in on calls where they take more abuse from the minority community than white officers do.
What you mean?
Because they're like sellouts.
Right, exactly.
Exactly.
That would probably be the best way.
But I've seen it happen firsthand.
And it's a difficult job to begin with.
My heart and prayers go out to my brother officers and sister officers out there.
You know, there was another cop shooting today in Baldwin, Missouri outside St. Louis.
And the police officer had a confrontation with a motorist.
The motorist opened the fire.
The police officer just died, by the way.
The suspect is in custody.
Oh, my.
We had a similar incident to Ferguson in our area where an officer had stopped an individual who was unarmed.
It very much offends me to hear that.
They're unarmed.
And out of nowhere, this individual starts beating the officer, gets on top of him, and tries to take his gun to shoot him.
Well, you know, thank goodness.
You are retired, but I'm sure it was much the same.
I try to put myself in the shoes of people in the news.
I'm in the news myself quite a lot, but there's many days I give thanks I'm not in the news.
I mean, just the news that's out there.
But these cops are.
And as more of these events happen and as the news publicizes all of these, it's got to be harrowing to put on that uniform the day after something like this happens or a shooting in the Minneapolis or Louisiana or any of these events.
To go to work the next day, you have to know, you have to suspect everybody else saw the same thing, and you have to know that emotions are at a fevered pitch.
It's got to make it even more dangerous than it normally is.
And I don't think most people stop to think of it.
No, it's a difficult job at best, and all the excellent people that I've worked with over the years.
Why did you want to do it?
Why did you want to become a cop?
Because I want to help people.
I don't like to see somebody who's down and out or somebody who can't defend themselves be taken advantage of.
So it wasn't about getting bad guys.
It was about helping people.
Right.
I mean, I've always wanted to assist people.
I mean, you talk to my wife, you talk to the people who knew me, especially at a younger age, I was wanted to go out and help someone.
And it just seemed like it was the right thing to do.
I like working with all aspects of the community.
I spent a good chunk of my time in PR as well as working with kids in schools and trying to encourage them to be honorable people.
Well, when you talk about helping people, you're talking about not only people down and out, but you're talking about victims of crime.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Yep.
On what your desire to be a cop was based on finding people that commit crime, apprehending them, and having seeing that they're punished.
Well, that's certainly an element of it.
You know, you want to get to the bottom of things.
Because that's the dangerous part of it today.
That's the dangerous part of it today.
You're going after, by definition, people breaking the law who don't want to get caught.
Right.
You never know when you pull somebody.
Somebody runs a stop sign, could have all kinds of illicit contraband in the car, hoping that you don't find it.
You hope you don't find it, I'm sure.
Well, going back to the officer I was just mentioning a little bit ago, it was just a suspicious person off.
He was just walking, you know, walking down the street, and there was a suspicious call.
The officer responded, came up, and started chatting with him.
And out of nowhere, this guy starts hitting him, hitting him violently, and tries to take his gun.
So I fortunately didn't have that happen to me, but I've been involved in a number of situations where we were outnumbered in a very high-tense situation.
And, you know, you use your communication skills and calm people down and do the best you can there.
And you do everything you can.
I mean, the last thing that any officer wants to do is pull the trigger.
I've never ever, for all the officers I've ever worked with or met, have ever heard anybody say, you know, I just can't wait to go up there and do that.
You pull a trigger, it's hello, IAB, right?
You bet.
We used to have a cartoon in the back hallway, and it was an officer pointing a gun basically at the person that was viewing it.
And behind him were all these different people.
You know, there was a lawyer, you know, you better make sure you have it right.
You know, you had the citizen out there, you know, hey, it may look bad.
I can't remember what they all were.
But, you know, you had a tenth of it.
The best way I've heard it was, you had a tenth of a second to make a decision, and you had 10 years to determine whether or not.
That's why I don't think I could do the job.
I'd be too lenient.
I'd let way too many people go at traffic stops or petty this or petty that.
I'd be too lenient.
I'd be too nice a guy.
I'd be too second chance-oriented.
You cops, you've got to be, the law's the law.
You've got to, you see, somebody bring you willing to enforce it.
And doing that enhances the confrontational aspect of the whole circumstance.
The more the confrontational aspects ratcheted up, the more danger is involved.
It's gutsy work.
There's no question.
Look, I appreciate the.
Oh, Jim, I got to run.
We'll be back.
We got more after this.
Say, folks, there's one candidate, by the way, who practically every appearance praises the police.
There's one candidate in this presidential campaign who goes out of his way every appearance to acknowledge the police, to thank the police, to ask everybody to express their gratitude to the police.
Do you know who that candidate is?
That would be the Trumpster.
Listen to Jesse Jackson this morning on the BBC, BBC Radio 4.
Jesse Jackson and the BBC's Justin Webb.
It's not just the police.
There is a rage race.
It's a kind of anti-black mood, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim bashing, immigrant bashing, female bashing is a kind of mean-spirited division in the country.
And this is just one manifestation of the divide.
But you're saying that things have become worse because of that mood.
And that mood is obviously very much apparent in American politics at the moment.
You're saying that this thing that has been going on for so long has been worsened in recent times by that.
Well, the pausing of the rhetoric has had a devastating impact.
All right.
Okay.
So is there anything else that you want to add to this, Reverend Jackson?
Having you attacked, threatened, to deport 15 million immigrants, undocumented but who work?
You threaten the bill of wall between us and Mexico with whom we share 2,000 miles of border.
Just the permissiveness toward violence against black people is readily apparent, and we've been using scapegoats for deeper, I think, deeper economic and cultural fears.
But we're not the cause of them.
You're putting it at the feet of Donald Trump.
Well, he is.
He is a factor in that, but it's not just Trump, it's the followers of Trump who really believe that somehow they have lost the blacks, the Browns, the Muslims.
They've lost.
There you go.
That's Jesse Jackson to BBC today.
Not just Trump.
It's you, Trumpists.
Trump and his supporters, you people, are responsible for all of this.
The Reverend Jackson on the BBC.
I think Jesse just turned to sound like he's Brit.
He's BBC.
It's kind of like when you go on C-SPAN, you speak a little bit more like an author.
So Jesse goes to the BBC.
It's just a little bit more like a Brit, thoughtful, and deep-thinking.
A little Bill Cosby included it.
Trump!
Trump supporters!
Trump!
That's it.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence and a full week of it.
Well, an abbreviated week's come to a screeching halt, but we will be back on Monday.
God bless our police.
God bless America.
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