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So a lot of people are wondering, why did Comey do what he did?
What's happened here?
Let's start at the beginning on this, because what Comey did in the first place is, I mean, you can't put all this in context without going back and looking.
And then it was July 5th, I think it was.
I'm not sure about the date.
But that's when Comey announced everything he had found.
All the evidence that Hillary Clinton had violated this and violated that and maybe told some distortions here.
She didn't, at that point, she had not lied to the FBI, but she may have lied to Congress.
She may have lied to the American people, which is not the same as lying in your FBI interview.
So what Comey does, he comes out and explains everything they found.
And it was a list of crimes.
And it was comprehensive.
But that was unprecedented.
This hardly ever happened.
When's the last time you can remember the director of the FBI announcing what he had found in an investigation of anything?
Normally, that's the Department of Justice.
That's the Attorney General that announces these things.
You can't examine why Comey did what he did Friday without going back to the beginning, because once you start making mistakes, you usually continue making them in order to service the first mistakes.
So the first mistake, being honest, was what Comey did in announcing her crimes, listing what would have been an indictment.
But then he took the extraordinary step of saying he was recommending that she not be prosecuted because they couldn't find any intent.
And no reasonable prosecutor would take this case to court.
And everybody signed off on it.
This was, of course, after Bill Clinton had met on the tarmac with the Attorney General, Loretta Lynch.
I mean, everything about this has just been one mistake after another because it's involving the Clintons and they corrupt everything that they touch.
So the theories began that Comey did that.
Remember, his reputation going into this is one of unimpeachable integrity.
Everybody that's ever known James Comey has talked about his character and his integrity and the fact that he's a straight shooter and doesn't go partisan one way or the other and is a strict law and order guy.
Everybody who's ever worked with him or knows him said this about him.
Then that whole press conference happens and there are numerous reactions to it.
But in the grand scheme of things, that shouldn't have happened.
Why did it?
Well, theories about, I'll tell you what mine is.
I think that Comey knew that no matter what he recommended, there wasn't going to be a prosecution.
Bill Clinton had met with Loretta Lynch.
His boss is Barack Obama.
He knows that they are not going to pursue Hillary Clinton.
Another thing, he didn't want to be the guy the history books wrote about as the guy who took out the duly nominated presidential candidate of the Democrat Party.
Don't want to go there, he says to himself.
That's not for me to do.
Throughout the criminal justice system, there is a philosophy that, and I'm paraphrasing this, but it goes along the lines of that justice knows no timeline, meaning you don't delay justice for elections, you don't delay justice for birthdays, you don't delay justice for Christmas.
When you've got the case, you go forward with it.
But this clearly was a case of justice affected by an election.
And one man, Comey, not wanting to be the guy in history books who took her out.
And that's what would it be?
And he's smart enough to know that.
Doesn't want that for himself.
May not want that to be the case anyway.
So he reads off this list of irregularities and crimes and whatever.
I think he was laying it out for the American voters.
I think he was actually trying the case, not before judge and jury, but before the American voters with that press conference.
I don't have any idea if that's true.
That's just my theory.
I think he cares deeply about this.
I think he finds everything that's gone wrong, gone on here really problematic.
And if it weren't the Clintons and if it weren't an election, if it weren't the fact she's a Democrat nominee, I think it would have gone an entirely different way.
So he lays it out for the American people.
Well, that causes problems because agents who did the investigation know full well what they've got on her.
In addition to whatever he announced, they know full well what they found.
They worked very hard on it.
And there were a lot of irregularities in this case that don't usually happen.
For example, Cheryl Mills, which who is really nothing more than an aide to Hillary Clinton, a very exalted executive assistant.
She's never been her lawyer.
But during Hillary's FBI interview, they gave Cheryl Mills immunity, let her sit in on the Hillary interview, and then acknowledge that she was Hillary's lawyer, which gave them attorney-client privilege, which meant that anything Cheryl Mills said could not be used in the investigation.
Even after granting her immunity, you have to be the agent in the FBI looking at this saying, what in the Sam Hill is going on?
This is not how we do investigations.
This is not how we work at all.
Why is this woman being called a lawyer for this interview?
Why is she being granted immunity?
And then, to add insult to injury, the FBI announced that after all this, they were going to destroy the laptop computer of Cheryl Mills and one other person.
And when that happened, we're all scratching our heads.
Why in the world are they destroying the laptop?
Well, because in other criminal cases, like say involving drugs, they destroy the evidence after it's been used, after it's been used for your investigation, and you wrap the investigation, whether it results in a trial or not, you destroy the evidence.
You get rid of the cocaine.
You get rid of the whatever it is.
Well, in this case, it was laptop computers.
You get rid of it.
Except we now know they didn't.
Some rogue agents, rogue in this case is a loosely used term, kept the laptop.
They didn't throw it away.
And the agents inside, I have this on good authority, that agents that worked the case and agents who didn't work the case were just livid over how all of this went down because they know.
They know what was found.
They know the extraordinary.
In no other case does the husband of a perp get to arrange a meeting on a faraway airport tarmac with the attorney general to discuss the case.
It just doesn't.
That's hello mistrial if it ever goes to court or hello tainted investigation.
They're sitting watching all of this.
The agents are.
And there is credible word that Comey was facing.
I hate, I don't want to use the word mutiny, but it's been used by others.
But that there was just discontent and disunity and all kinds of trouble inside the FBI as a result of the first Comey announcement and then subsequent interviews where Cheryl Mills was granted immunity and then proclaimed a lawyer and when she's never acted as Hillary's lawyer and then her laptop ordered to be destroyed.
So then you get to the Friday Comey announcement.
Look, all of this speculation, some of it well-informed, by the way, but still speculation.
I don't know.
Nobody really knows.
And the bottom line is, is it going to have an impact on the election?
Yes.
I mean, that's the bottom line.
That's what people want to know.
We've dealt with that.
There's no question that it will.
But still interesting to discuss what happened.
So Comey is dealing, he's got this, remember, go back to the first Comey press conference in July, impeccable integrity, impeccable character.
Endorsements from everybody who's ever worked with him, that he's a straight shooter, a straight-up guy, not partisan.
He is Clark Kent.
This guy, you cannot corrupt him.
He's incorruptible.
And now for the first time in his life, he's facing allegations he's never had to face that will taint his reputation.
And the Piesta Resistance has to be that in the, and Karma is a wonderful thing.
They're looking at four different investigations, the Clinton Foundation, and they're looking for some reason at Carlos Danger, Anthony Weiner.
And they discover something for which they don't have a warrant.
Here's the way the legals work on this.
Let's say that agents are investigating a perp for bank robbery.
So they get a search warrant for the perp's house to see if they can find the money.
While they're in there, they find a huge stash of cocaine.
Well, the warrant says they only have right for the money.
But if they find the cocaine, the courts and the law say they can seize the cocaine because they have lawful entry.
Okay, so in this case, they've got a warrant for Danger's computer, but they're looking at what he did with the sexting and with the girls and whatever.
And in the process, they find that Abidden might have lied through her teeth that there might be classified State Department, U.S. government documents on Wiener's computer.
They don't have a warrant for that.
They don't need a warrant to use it, but to keep it totally clean, they go get one.
And they got it.
They were issued the warrant.
And you know who forced that to happen?
This guy McCabe, whose wife got all that money from Terry McAuliffe.
If that news hadn't hit, if we hadn't learned that this McCabe, the number two guy in the FBI, if we hadn't learned that McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia, had been funneling money to this guy's wife, and this guy's had a role in the Clinton investigation, the Hillary investigation, if we hadn't learned that, they might have been able to sweep this under the rug by saying, you don't have a warrant for the Huma data on Weiner's laptop.
But because attention was focused and because news had been made of McAuliffe funding this guy's wife, he was the guy that led the charge to get the proper warrant to make sure that they could look at Weiner's computer on which there are supposedly access to 650,000 emails.
Now, they're obviously not all on that computer.
Many of them are going to be on a server, but you've got the links to them there.
And it may well be that Huma has committed perjury by promising that she had given up everything to the FBI, had given over everything to the FBI, that she had nothing left, that she'd been totally forthcoming.
And now here comes Weiner and they find something on there that's serious enough at this stage.
You talk about impacting an election.
You talk about not wanting to run the case on Hillary because she's the duly elected nominee.
What about the pressure they faced here?
It must be so compelling they had to do this.
They couldn't.
Because if, let's go at the other way, let's say they ignore this.
She gets elected.
This investigation is going to go on, folks.
They're not going to conclude this before the election.
And if they do, that's a whole nother thing.
I got to make a note to myself, get back to that, because that's another possibility here that you don't want to think about.
The odds are they can't finish this investigation one way or the other before the election.
So it's going to be ongoing.
So let's say she wins.
And we've got a president-elect under serious criminal investigation and many of her support staff.
Not cool, not good.
No matter how you slice it, it's not good that the Democrat Party's nominated this woman who has the subject of an ongoing legitimate criminal investigation, which has even ensnared our dear president and turned him into a liar.
So they look at what they've got.
They go public.
Comey goes out Friday and says, we've learned additional things.
The left said, wait a minute, what did you learn?
Comey says, I haven't looked at the emails yet, but we've got serious indication that there's something very, very serious here to find.
What is it?
Well, they looked and they found state.gov email addresses on some of the emails.
So state.gov and HillaryClinton.whatever on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Red flag after red flag after red flag because of the potential, we don't know if it's really happening, but good authority that agents inside the FBI are just livid and prepared to go public, by the way.
Comey and his sullied reputation, A lot of things have come together here that apparently compelled Mr. Comey to go forward and make the announcement on Friday.
And believe you me, he knew he was going to get hit from the Democrats.
He knew they loved him two months ago.
He was the greatest guy in America two months ago.
He was the finest American.
He was an American.
Everybody should listen.
Now, all of a sudden, Harry Reed has announced that he's got a friend who says that Comey has broken the law, the Hatch Act.
Comey has not broken the Hatch Act, by the way.
This is just a technique we now know that Harry Reid uses.
So Comey has revived the investigation because he couldn't resist mounting pressure inside the FBI by agents.
This is, of course, people who are in there and know.
Those people say the atmosphere at the FBI has been toxic ever since last July when she was exonerated.
Ed Klein, UK Daily Mail, says that Comey told his wife he was depressed by the stack of resignation letters piling up on his desk from agents who were unhappy and didn't want to keep working there.
And he was worried Republicans would accuse him of granting Hillary political favoritism after the presidential election.
He's facing all these different things.
And I think finally what happened was: if you want to know the truth, I think finally what happened to James Comey is that old saying that I paraphrased earlier that justice knows no clock has finally prevailed here.
So the question: will it affect the election?
Hell yes.
We don't know how much, and we don't know to what end, but hell yes, it's going to only have to look at Democrat reaction to this to know that.
We've got polling data that's not good for Hillary either.
I'll share that with you when we come back, and I got to get your phone calls quickly, too.
So hang on.
Why does a world-class pervert have secret government emails on his home computer?
Stop and think about that for a second.
Here is Ron in Cincinnati.
Ron, you're up first today.
Great to have you.
How are you doing, sir?
Great to be here.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
You bet, sir.
All right.
Hey, I'm wondering if any of this, which is all really interesting information, you just asked, is any of this going to sway the election?
You said you bet it is.
This makes the never Trump Republicans really people that I'm very interested in.
Is this going to sway their ability to vote for Trump?
No.
Okay, what is then?
Nothing.
Well, how about this?
How about this?
Our Constitution allows for congressional oversight.
Which side's more likely to find themselves up against impeachment if Trump, if Trump is really that bad, can't those people look to get him out?
Whereas Hillary, you'd never pull her out.
She's against, she's above the law.
Well, now.
Wait a minute.
We haven't answered your first question sufficiently yet.
You let me answer it with one word, then you moved on.
You didn't say you didn't say why.
This is where the host usually exhibits brilliance, is after the question why, and you didn't ask it.
I'm sorry.
But one thing, your instinct about impeaching Trump by the Republicans is right on the money.
Do you know that?
I do know that.
Do you know how shrewd you are in contemplating that?
Well, nobody's looking at the Constitution, Rush.
And if we look at the Constitution, they were brilliant.
They gave us a ready to handle that.
Yes, yes.
Do you think, do you want Trump to be impeached?
Is that what you're saying?
Well, I don't care.
I don't care.
I know that Hillary can't.
No, you know that Hillary won't be is the difference.
Hang on, folks.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphones.
Our previous caller, his first question, do you think the latest FBI announcement will have any impact on changing the minds of never Trump Republicans to where they could vote?
And the answer to that is no.
There is nothing.
I don't see anything that could happen that could turn never Trumpers into Trumper voters.
They are Dug in on the whole concept that Trump is not even a human being in the realm of politics.
Trump is just the worst guy ever to want to be in politics.
He's just repulsive, he's repugnant, he's crass, he's all these things.
And they have lived off of that for a year or more.
And in their minds, it would be a vast compromise of principle to change their minds.
Look, folks, these people that you're asking me about, the never-Trumpers, they have never been guided by or governed by the premise that Hillary Clinton needs to lose.
If they were, if they were on the same page as we all are, that the country that our country needs for Hillary Clinton and the Obama agenda to lose and be stopped, they don't see that.
They never have.
The never-Trumpers, many of them are establishment types or, and very important here, wannabe establishment types.
Wannabe establishment types are especially dangerous because they are suck-ups to boot.
They will do whatever it takes to be accepted by the establishment.
So they read the tea leaves, and if the establishment and the people they admire in the establishment dug in against Trump, no matter what, they are going to do likewise.
So they will either not vote, because I don't want, some of them even have been saying they would vote for Hillary.
There's some former Bush officials that are really trying to destroy Comey right now, for example.
There are some former Republican officials, various elective offices, whatever, who are likewise trying to destroy Comey.
Many of them, beginning with the primaries last September, said that they would, I mean, a year ago, September, 13 months ago, said that they would vote Hillary.
A number of Republicans elected went on record saying they would vote for Hillary over Trump.
Others said that they would vote for the Libertarian.
Others said there's this guy in Utah, McMullen, is that his name?
And he's on the ballot as a conservative.
So a lot of the never Trumpers think that's a safe place for them to go.
What they're doing is trying to remain steadfast and loyal to what they believe they lead, and that is the conservative movement.
And in no way, shape, manner, or form could the conservative movement or a conservative, a Berkeyan conservative, could never, ever vote for some low life like Donald Trump.
It might affect their fundraising, which they need.
It might affect their cruises, which they need.
There could be any number of reasons for it.
But in their minds, it's rooted in principle.
So no, no matter what we learn about Hillary, they already know it.
These people know.
They're just not as bothered by it.
Remember, these are establishment types.
This has all been a very educational awakening for me, by the way, folks.
And this is a conversation for after the election.
It's not really relevant right now.
But this whole notion of what is the conservative movement and who is and who is not in it and what is a conservative.
What matters now, the only thing that matters right now is that whatever you think of the conservative movement, whoever you think is or isn't one, no matter who you think they are, they cannot unify around the concept of beating a Democrat.
That's what you have to learn.
If that's the movement you want to be part of, then you have at it.
But if they can't unify around the concept, and not just any demand, but this one, which is nothing more than a continuation of the Obama agenda, if we have Republicans slash conservatives who cannot get it up to stop this, well, just be advised they're a minority.
But there's nothing Hillary could do, nothing Comey could announce that would make them vote for Trump.
Now, Peter Thiel, what he said at the National Press Club today bears repeating.
He said Trump supporters not endorsing whatever personality defects the guy has.
That's not what it's about.
We're not enamored of Trump's braggadocio narcissism.
We're not enamored of Trump's lifestyle.
None of that.
We're just fed up with current Washington leadership.
It has failed.
And it needs to be turned upside down and emptied and re-shaken.
And that's what the vast majority of Trump supporters actually believe.
I thought Peter Thiel articulated it well.
Let me spend some time.
Oh, the impeachment.
Very quickly.
Don't be surprised.
If Trump wins, these same people I was just talking about, there's a number of them in Congress, too, won't be surprised if they prepare articles of impeachment on Trump in the first six months for whatever he does and try to make the case, go to the Senate, try to get a trial, try to get a conviction in the Senate.
Democrats will vote for it, no doubt.
The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure.
Now, the vice president would be Pence.
And so it would be an effort to retake power after having lost the election.
I mean, things are really, really fluid here.
They're exciting as they can be, too.
I wouldn't make book on it.
I mean, it's a possibility.
The only reason I mentioned it's a possibility, I've heard it suggested as a tactic.
No, there's nothing.
It's not, as far as they're concerned, Hillary can be, Hillary, they can find Hillary actually did commit murder somewhere, and it would not make them vote Trump.
The never-Trumpers that we're talking about, no matter what is learned about Hillary, they will not vote for Trump.
They will not vote to keep her out of office is what it boils down to.
If they won't vote for Trump, they in their moment, well, I'm not voting Hillary.
There's no way I'm voting for you.
Well, maybe not actually pulling the lever, but you are causing her election to happen if you don't vote for Trump.
Trump's the only person that can possibly beat her.
And if you don't support that, then you are, you own it.
You're going to be partial owner of the Clinton administration.
But as I read them, I look at, I follow them, I read them.
I think they're as anti-Trump today as I've ever seen them.
And they don't stop at anti-Trump either.
Where do you think all these attacks on conservative media are coming from?
They're not coming from the Democrats exclusively.
Anyway, yeah, got time to squeeze one more in.
Nathan Lynchburg, Virginia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
A pleasure to speak to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, James Comey's career is definitely over with.
He's put himself in a damned if I do, damned if I don't position by his lack of integrity.
I truly believe that the honorable thing that he can do at this moment is to go ahead and make the recommendation, like he should have in the first place, let the chips fall where they may, resign from his position, and move on to give the FBI some credit, give the credit back to the FBI.
They have been tainted so bad by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party and this administration that even the second in command, like you mentioned, Governor McCullough, which is not the best governor in the world, I'm obviously from the state of Virginia and I don't like him.
And I think there's corruption all around him as well.
What do you think he should do, Rush?
If you were James Comey, what would you do?
Oh, to think about that.
I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.
I think what Comey is doing now, let me phrase, I hope this is the reason, because who really knows?
But I hope that what Comey is doing now is a variation on your expressed desire, and that is, okay, you know what?
Let's just treat this as we would any other investigation.
We've got stuff that we need to look into.
I'm reopening it.
I'm putting it out there.
And I don't care what it shakes out at.
And I think it's maybe a correction for a number of reasons from his first press conference in July.
I don't know that.
And he could hear this and come out.
It's no, no, no, that's not what this is about at all.
You guys are complicating this way beyond what it needs to be.
I'm like everybody else, I'm surmising and speculating, but I think that he has come down on the side of getting it right for whatever reason, whether they found evidence here that they just can't ignore anymore.
I mean, let's face it, that list of things that Hillary did in his first press conference, they were saying they were going to ignore it.
It was prosecutable.
He invented law by saying that there wasn't any intent.
You can find intent all over these emails.
And by the way, speaking of intent, what if the Huma emails here, what if there, I'm trying to say too much too soon.
One of the things, and I made this mention on Friday, of all of these leaks from WikiLeaks, for example, there's not a single Hillary Clinton email.
Have you noticed?
It's all John Podesta and people to whom and from whom he is emailing.
There's not a single Hillary Clinton email in this dump in any of these WikiLeaks dumps.
What if, on the Huma, I should say, the Wiener laptop, what if there are HUMA emails back and forth between her and Hillary?
And what if?
What if they go a long way toward indicating that there was intent and knowledge that they were doing something illegal?
I think that's why the panic on the Democrat side, and make no mistake, they are in panic right now.
Here is Lewis in Los Angeles.
Hey, Lewis, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hive.
Hi.
Yes, I'll get to the point.
Okay, I was in Russia three years ago visiting my adopted baby.
And, of course, I was with the families and what.
And we went through the news, cycles, and whatnot.
And what I've seen is that Russia is ready for war.
They've been upgrading for the past five years.
And no thanks to Hillary and Obama because they really screwed them over.
The Russian people are really upset with them.
I mean, they are really, really mad.
Russian people are upset with who?
With Obama and Hillary.
That's too bad they can't vote.
Oh, that's true.
Well, actually, there are a lot of Armenians here.
There are a lot of Russian people here, Ukrainian people here.
I live in Los Angeles, and there's areas where there's a large population of these people.
And that's why I have an adopted baby, and she's Russian, and I care for her dearly, and she has a little boy, and I'm madly in love with both of them.
Right.
So your point is that we are in a position, a situation here that is fraught with danger with the Russians, because they're ready.
They are loaded and ready, and they're taunting us, and we've got people toying around with things in the geopolitical sense.
For example, blaming the Russians for the WikiLeaks stuff.
Apparently, the Russians have nothing to do with it.
At least that's what Assange is saying.
And it's supposedly really ticking off Putin and the Russians who don't like being blamed for this.
Who knows, folks?
But let's just, I'll just put it this way.
If it isn't true, if the Russians have nothing to do with this, and Obama and Hillary are running around blaming him, that's the kind of thing amateurs do.
That's the kind of thing people with no responsibility and no hands on the levers of power do.
Those are people that don't face the consequences of what they say, and they do.
These two people do.
Obama and Hillary both have to deal with the consequences of what they say.
She's a presidential candidate.
He is the president.
You know, blame it on the Russians.
You have Harry Reid do it.
You can have somebody on CNN.
You can have some commentator do it.
But if you're going to send the president out to do it, or Hillary out to blame the Russians, and they've got nothing to do with it, and you know they've got nothing, that is irresponsible as it can be.
And if they haven't called Putin to say, hey, look, we know you got nothing to do with this.
We're going to blame it on you anyway.
I don't think they would do that because Putin's not the kind of guy you toy around with like that.
I just think it's an illustration of the genuine rank amateur incompetence that both Obama and Hillary pose.
Now, before we get out of here in this segment, grab soundbite number eight.
This is Doug Schoen.
Doug Shoan, longtime Clinton strategist, pollster, ally, supporter.
He was on the Fox Report last night talking to Harris Faulkner.
And she said, what's your reaction to the FBI reopening this case?
I have been a supporter of Secretary Clinton.
But, and the butt is a big deal, at least to me.
Given that this investigation is going to go on for many months, if the Secretary of State wins, we will have a president under criminal investigation with whom Aberdeen under investigation, the Secretary of State, the president-elect, shouldn't she win under investigation?
Harris, under these circumstances, I am actively reassessing my support.
I'm deeply concerned that we will have a constitutional crisis if she's elected.
I want to learn more this week, see what we see.
But as of today, I am not a supporter of the Secretary of State.
Doug, now you know I like you, and you know that I have praised you numerous times.
But Doug, come on, buddy.
You've known about these people for 30 years.
You know everything about them, Doug.
You know them and their dirt, and you've helped them cover it up.
So the fact that he's backing away from her on this tells me it's just another bit of evidence that there is really something here that they can't dispose of by destroying Comey like they destroyed Ken Starr.
Because Doug Shoan, he's acting all shocked.
He's seen everything these people have done.
And now he wants to pull out there must be a serious reason to watch.
Holy smokes, do you see this, folks?
Trump, Monmouth University.
I think it was Monmouth.
I'm not sure.
Trump with an 11-point lead in a poll out today in Indiana.