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Nov. 3, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2016, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
And we find ourselves in all too familiar a situation.
Amazing how history repeats.
Greetings, folks.
How are you?
It's great to have you here with us on yet another excursion in a broadcast excellence hosted by me, your guiding light, Rush Limboy, here behind the golden EIB microphone for yet another three-hour extravaganza.
A telephone number if you want to appear on the program is 800 282-2882.
The email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.us.
It's amazing the way things work out.
Now, my my first comment is we find ourselves in a usual position.
During the 90s, we had Bill Clinton who was misleading and lying to the American people.
Practically all the time about matters of substance.
But because he's the president, people believe him.
People believe the president.
It just in the book.
It's in the cards.
People believe the president, particularly when the media never ever questions the president.
They don't always believe the president, such as Richard Nixon, such as Ronald Reagan.
But even with Reagan, Reagan was able to overcome the media.
But the point is the media was never ever really challenging or questioning the honesty of Clinton, and they're not now with Obama.
And who are we?
We have clear evidence and news that we have corruption out the wazoo, including in the White House, not just the State Department.
And the president of the United States is out.
He's doing right now a campaign appearance, just wrapped it up, I guess, in Florida for Hillary, and it is filled with things that are just not true.
They just simply are not true.
But he's the president.
And the president, the office of the presidency, still has amazing respect and people, particularly young people, and that's who the audience was for his appearance today.
They believe it.
Uh give you an example.
Obama yesterday and today is saying that the Department of Justice does not act on innuendo and rumors.
And that's all this is.
And so the Department of Justice is who's wrong here.
The FBI is who is wrong here.
James Comey is wrong.
Everybody looking into the Clinton Foundation, everybody looking into the Clinton private email server, they're wrong.
Obama says this is nothing more than innuendo and rumor, and we don't act on that.
As a nation, he's saying, that's not who we are.
We don't do that.
Obama pronounced Hillary innocent of all wrongdoing regarding her server.
Remember that?
When he said she was just careless, but she had no evil intent.
Now Obama is signaling that the FBI should not be investigating the foundation or the private server because all of this is just innuendo and rumor, and that's all it's based on.
And so when he says it, we we find ourselves on the outside looking in, and there's no way, folks.
There's simply no way, even all of us on this so-called side of the media aisle.
There's no way all of us can compete with the revered and respected office of the presidency.
And yet we must, we must plod on this program because President Obama is not telling anybody the truth about this.
He knew that Hillary Clinton had an illegal server in her basement.
He used a fake name to communicate with her on it.
We have now learned today from another WikiLeaks dump that Huma Abaddon advised the White House multiple times when Hillary changed her email address so that Obama would have it.
And here he's out there saying there was nothing to see here.
This is there's nothing to investigate.
It's in your window, it's rumor.
She didn't do anything.
Hillary didn't.
She didn't have any evil intent.
She didn't do anything wrong.
This is just a powerful forces that are usually arrayed against us trying to stop us again.
And it's just it it gets it in maddening, it gets frustrating, and any other number of adjectives to describe.
What's happening here?
This is the architect of Obamacare, which is destroying the health care system in this country and the insurance system in this country.
A president who has done great damage to the greatest economy in the world with his different ideas for it.
Let me be charitable and withdraw that Obama has done anything of this on purpose.
I know some of you people may not want to hear that, can't contemplate a press week when it elected me.
Okay, let's just say he's incompetent and doesn't know what he's doing.
He's an avowed socialist.
Socialism doesn't work.
We'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but nevertheless, the economy is in the crapper.
And it shows no signs of rebounding.
I don't care what they do with the unemployment numbers.
We haven't had any significant economic growth, not enough growth to produce good jobs, career oriented jobs, since this man assumed office.
But to hear him tell the tale, we've never been stronger, we're never better, we're doing just gangbusters out there.
And if Donald Trump's elected, it's back to the dark ages.
It's the end of the world.
And people believe this.
And when the president says it, people are not comfortable not trusting their president.
People are not comfortable doubting their president.
And here we are again.
This was our position all through the 90s, and once again we find ourselves in the same position, trying to get people's attention, trying to wake them up and to and to understand what is actually going on in UNDO, nothing to see here.
The president said that he didn't even know about Hillary Clinton's basement server until he read about it in the news.
But we now know that he was communicating regularly with her via that server and knew she had it and that it was off the grid because he was using the fake name.
And now today we learn that Huma Abaddon advised the White House, meaning him, something like eight or nine times when Hillary changed her email address so that he would have it so that he could send her emails via her private server and her address.
And he's out there telling people that there's nothing but a new window here.
Now, on this program yesterday, bouncing off a column by Andy McCarthy.
Yesterday's program was one for the ages.
And what happened after this program on Fox News last night, expanding it, providing detail.
I mean, this is bombshell stuff that happened yesterday in this campaign and in this country.
It's bombshell stuff, and you will not find a syllable of it anywhere in the mainstream media.
It started with McCarthy's column yesterday.
The Clinton emails are critical to the Clinton Foundation investigation.
What we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, is that the Clinton Foundation is actually the focus.
There are two FBI investigations.
They are running in tandem, and they should have been one investigation from the get-go.
The two investigations are of her private server, and whatever classified information has been taking place there that she's been trafficking in, thereby subjecting the country to national security risks.
We know that that's that 99% chance that her server has been hacked by five world powers.
99% chance her server has been hacked.
The other investigation was of the Clinton Foundation.
The foundation investigation has been going on since early 2015.
But we didn't know until recently, like this week or late last week, that there was a serious investigation of the Clinton Foundation.
We were of the opinion that the investigation into her email server had bled over and had caused attention to be focused on the foundation, but no, the foundation is its own investigation and for specific pay for play reasons.
Have the Clintons been selling United States foreign policy?
Have the Clintons been engaging in pay for play, meaning you pay them and they'll play ball with you by giving you policy considerations or what have you.
There is little doubt in the layman's world that that has been going on.
Proving it is quite another matter, but there's little doubt, and especially in the political world, there's no doubt in my mind that's what's been going on, and that's why she set up the server in the first place.
The entire reason for the server in her basement was not because she wanted privacy, per se.
It's not because she wanted convenience.
It's not because she didn't want to go to the hassle of having a state department.gov email address.
It's not because she didn't trust people.
The reason she set up the server in her basement was specific, and it was to be able to conduct business for the foundation and keep those emails from ever being seen by anybody, including Freedom of Information Act requests.
And what the Clintons have been doing via their foundation is where the real criminality is.
There's negligence and intent over on the email server side with classified data being trafficked and so forth.
But over here at the foundation, that is where the Clintons have been engaging.
It well, Rudy Giuliani said that if their name were Italian, they would have already been indicted because what they've got going there is essentially a uh a mafia type operation, certainly a RICO racketeering and organized crime type uh operation.
So after spending some time yesterday detailing all of this and explaining why the foundation investigation is the real key, and then explaining that the foundation investigation is being stonewalled.
There are two different offices conducting these two investigations.
The investigation into the foundation is being conducted by the Eastern District of New York, U.S. Attorney's Office that's out in Brooklyn.
That office was headed by Loretta Lynch for six years.
She was the U.S. attorney there, and she was appointed by Bill Clinton.
Obama then plucked her from the Eastern District and made her attorney general.
At the Eastern District for six years, she staffed the place.
So all of the lawyers, all the investigators that work there are her hires and thus simpatico with her.
The FBI agents that have been conducting this investigation, these two investigations ended up bleeding together.
And the agents discovered this and have been asking for further ammunition and uh and and permission.
And the Justice Department, Loretta Lynch, has been stonewalling the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
And again, the foundation is the reason why the server was set up in her basement.
Now, what was going on?
What is pay-for-play?
Essentially, is how the Clintons got rich.
You set up a charitable foundation.
Remember now the Clintons leave Washington in 2000.
By Hillary's estimation, broke.
They were broke.
She has offered that as an explanation for why she had to behave in certain ways.
They hadn't earned some money.
They left the White House broke.
They even stole some furniture from the White House on the way out.
The real purpose of the foundation was to help rebuild Bill Clinton's image from the Lewinsky days.
He set up a charity, do good works around the world, recapture an image and a reputation.
But it was also to a way to get personally rich within the umbrella of the Clinton Foundation, you know, the Clinton Global Initiative.
And they hit donors up all over the world.
They hit governments up, they had wealthy individuals from all over the world, and they were soliciting these donations to their foundation and soliciting being hired personally to give speeches, to be consultants to companies, and this is how you go from the White House broke to now having a net worth of $350 million plus, having done what?
Set up a charity.
Who sets up a charity and gets rich?
Charities give money away.
But it hasn't worked out that way with the Clintons.
Anyway, these investigations have been going on all this time.
Well, we've been distracted, not distracted, but we've been focused on the on the uh classified data and perhaps national security violations.
What's really been going on is Hillary Clinton leveraging her position as Secretary of State to engender and get donations to their foundation and personal payments to both Bill and Hillary for speech making or to be hired as consultants or what have you.
So as Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton, and by the way, I'm sure as they're soliciting donations for the for the Foundation while she's secretary, they're also alluding, she might be president someday.
So they are essentially offering the foreign policy of the United States or other considerations to donors to their foundation, and this is what has been learned.
So spending quite a bit of time on this yesterday, got home last night, turned on Fox News to watch special report with Brett Bayer, and it was astounding.
The timing on this could not have been better.
Folks, here's what it seems like.
Seems like the FBI rank and file, the agents, the investigators who have been thwarted and shut down by the Department of Justice.
This is my interpretation of things, but it seems to me that rank and file FBI agents know that just reams and reams of corruption has gone on here by the Clintons.
And nobody is paying attention.
They have done their best to inform people the media will not do their job anymore.
The evidence that has been exposed and presented has been ignored.
The FBI agents are, I think, hell-bent on having people find out what they have known, what they've learned.
They tried to do all they could for a year or more internally, but were met with roadblock after roadblock after roadblock from the Department of Justice.
They were left with no option but then to start leaking out all of this information that they have accrued during the investigation of both the foundation and Hillary's email server in the basement, which are essentially the same thing.
And it seems to me that they decided to get hold of Brett Baer and Fox News and tell him everything that they knew, and he began his reporting on this last night.
And here's how it well, got to take a break here.
I just saw the clock, got to take a break.
But it's it's astounding.
Folks, it's just astounding, and it exists in a cocoon universe.
It is it is the evidence of corruption.
It's how the establishment works to protect itself.
It's insider versus outsider, elite versus not.
Everything is wrapped up in this.
And half the country or more is not going to find out about a quick timeout back after this.
And here's how Brett Baer began his report last night on special report.
He's also on with uh on the record with Britt Hume.
This is summation of what he had.
The Clinton Foundation investigation is far more expansive than anybody has reported.
It was believed that the laptops that they had after a narrow review for classification emails were going to be destroyed by the FBI.
We have been told that those definitively have not been destroyed.
The Clinton Foundation investigation is so expansive, they have interviewed and reinterviewed many people.
They described the evidence that they have as, quote, a lot of it, and there is an Avalanche coming every day with WikiLeaks and the new emails.
They are, quote, actively and aggressively pursuing this case.
Now, and they are being slow walked.
Um, Anthony McCarthy referred to this in his column a couple days ago, that the DOJ uh attorney general slow walking the investigation, trying to impede it, actually.
But they are interviewing people, you know, they granted certain people immunity here, like Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson.
They have discovered, folks, that some of the people granted immunity have been lying.
You do not lie when you get immunity.
The immunity is in the process of being pulled, and I'm told that there are people they're talking to that are preparing to rat out major players in this investigation because it's getting to the point where you tell what you know to save yourself.
It's that serious.
This is not about emails.
People say, I'm second tired hearing about emails.
Not about emails, folks.
It's about corruption at the highest levels of our government for all kinds of reasons, including personal enrichment by the Clintons.
We've got a surprise coming.
Stick with us.
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Okay, folks, the elections in five days.
We obviously have all been thinking a lot about the presidency and what it means to us and how much we invest in it, how important it is to us individually, personally, how important it is to our country and how unique an office it is around the world.
And we are certainly in one of the most important presidential elections in our history.
Living through this modern day election, and I've lived through a lot of them.
And each one of them, every one of them seemed as crucially important as the previous one, if not more so.
We invest so much, passion, effort, desire, in presidential elections.
Those of us who care and are involved in this, it has a profound meaning.
And living through it, particularly living through this election, inspired me to go back and really examine the whole office of the presidency.
You know, the Hillsdale College people have this online course recently about the presidency, the current Supreme Court, but they devoted even some time to the constitutional aspects of the presidency.
And I was inspired to go back and really look at how our first presidential elections came to be and why.
Because if you look at the traditions, the institutions of this country and how they've survived over 250 years, it's momentous.
And it's awe-inspiring.
And in a nutshell, after the long, hard fight for independence from the British, our founding fathers and patriots never wanted to live under tyrant rule again.
They never wanted to be under the thumb of a king.
The days that we're just supposed to take our beatings were over.
They fought for the freedoms described in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence.
They worked to ensure that we would always, our liberty and freedom would always be protected.
George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States in 1789 to be the leader of the American people.
The role of president was created to serve the people instead of the people serving him.
There was no king, although the morality of George Washington is what gave us our modern-day presidency, because even after the hard-fought battle for independence, human nature is what it is, and some devout believers in Washington wanted him to be king.
They believed in him so much in his morality that they had no problem If he was king, but he resisted.
He resisted the opportunity to be king.
He did not want it.
Not after what he had fought for.
It was the first time in history, folks, that anything like this had ever happened.
And it reminds me how important the presidency is, and how many have sacrificed for our right to actually vote and participate in the selection of the person who will be president.
The people who fought and gave their lives and sacred fortunes to create this system.
We all know now very well and how vital it is that we continue to pass these traditions on to the next generation.
So here's that we were inspired at Rush Revere to do the next Rush Revere book on the presidency.
And I am extatically excited to announce today, right now, the latest book in the Adventures of Rush Revere series, Rush Revere and the Presidency.
It's available for pre-order right now, today.
Now, in this in this adventure, Liberty, the time traveling talking horse, and the crew of students travel back in time to meet the first presidents and first ladies.
We focus on the women, the wives of the first presidents of this country.
We give a lot of attention to them and their roles they played.
The time travelers experience the election process firsthand during the days of the first presidency.
Through the magic of time travel, they speak with, they get to know George Washington, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, the other incredible patriots and founding fathers.
In this book, one of the students, Cam, is interested in becoming student body president of his middle school.
So how perfect is it that we can time travel back and he can get advice from George Washington on how to run for president and how to do it, what's important.
Folks, it's one of the most amazing teaching elements and methods that we have come up with yet in order to make this book for young people relevant to today, and to try our best to get them to understand the traditions and institutions from our founding that still matter as much, if not more so, than today.
Now, these books, they are a true labor of love.
We hear from hundreds of thousands of young readers and teachers and parents and grandparents all across the country who have a new real love and understanding of America, American history, and our founding, and they now love reading about it.
It's simply incredible.
The pictures, and you can see them at RushRevere.com.
They send us these pictures, they dress up as founding fathers or colonial citizens, colonial era citizens, young people dressed up as George Washington or Betsy Ross, the book reports, the photos of class projects that are pouring in are heartwarming.
They give us real hope for a bright future, and it's hundreds of thousands that we get as a result of these books.
It's uh it's folks, it's magic to be able to connect with young readers this way.
And on these subjects, subjects that normally to them are boring and not exciting.
But they are taken to these events, and they participate in these events as they read these books, and therefore these events in American history so important come to life, and the reader is actually part of them.
And we want every young American to learn the story with our incredible founding, what makes this country such a miracle, and why it is so important to preserve it as founded.
Because the efforts to undermine the greatness of this country are constant, and they have been around since the country was founded.
And it's an ongoing effort to preserve liberty, to preserve the Constitution, to preserve the presidency, all of these institutions as defined.
The court, the three branches of government, the separation of powers, all of this is crucial for young people, and actually everybody to understand, and that Has been our project and task.
The name of the latest book, The Adventures of Rush Revere Series book is Rush Revere and the Presidency, and it's available right now today for pre-order at Amazon Books a Million, Barnes and Noble, Zybooks, I'm sure at Apple has it as uh as well.
So it's number five, folks.
It's the fifth book in this series.
Rush Revere and the Presidency, as I say available for pre-order now.
And the timing, well, we intended it this way, but I'm telling you it still sends chills up and down my spine and goosebumps with everything going on.
Just the opportunity to have the truth of this country's greatness in its history, explained and taught in engaging ways.
Tremendous opportunity.
Rush Revere and the presidency.
Now I want to take a brief time out here, and uh your phone calls are coming up, but I will spend a little bit more time dissecting the um corruption involving the Clinton Foundation, but more importantly, the degree to which the FBI investigation has dug in, it is deep, folks.
They are already interviewing witnesses.
They are canceling immunity agreements, from what I understand, because people who are granted limited or use immunity have been lying.
And that's you start lying after you've got immunity.
We're talking felony and real kinds of bad, bad stuff.
And the investigation is much further along than anybody knows.
It's to the point now where some people are beginning to rat out others in order to save themselves.
So a lot to unpack here.
And there's still continuing news in the campaign.
It's like two different campaigns.
I've got news on one stack here where Hillary's won in the landslide's already over.
Drive buys are telling us over in the other stack, no way, no how.
In fact, it's just the exact opposite.
Stay right here.
And we will unpack all of it, make all this complexity understandable for the next couple hours here on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
Another WikiLeaks email dump.
Nothing to do with the Foundation investigation.
Listen to this.
An email from John Podesta to Hillary Clinton has been discovered.
Podesta explaining to Hillary Clinton that Obama is desperate to bail out the insurance companies in Obamacare.
You realize the collusion that's gone on there has been collusion during the campaign, during the Democrat primaries.
The DOJ and others were communicating with Podesta to give Hillary a heads up on anything that might be coming her way so she could prepare for it.
Bernie Sanders, you people that supported Bernie Sanders, where are you today?
Do you realize how the whole deck was stacked against you from the Democratic National Committee, the presidency on down, everything about the Bernie campaign was nothing more than an exercise in futility.
It was, as we told you here, it was never going to amount to anything.
But Bernie supporters actually believed that it was a real campaign, he had a real chance.
It was being undermined by the Clinton campaign.
Undermined in cooperation with the White House.
And elements to protect Hillary from whatever might be coming down the pike, say at the Department of Justice, Peter Kadzik, the close friend of uh Podesta.
But we're still this this latest email, that's all I have.
I need to get more information on it.
This is what I meant yesterday.
You prepared a show.
You get ready to go here, and then stuff keeps happening while the program is on.
And it's uh it's a challenge to stay on top of it as it all happens.
But Podesta emailed a Hillary explaining that Obama is desperate to bail out the insurance companies in Obamacare.
Why?
Because it's failing, because it's bombing.
He had guaranteed the insurance company's profitability.
Obama had, in order to rope them in.
Look, take the time.
Under normal circumstances, the insurance companies would want no part of a government-run health care business.
They would want no part of the government running their business.
No business would.
Obama understands this.
So to rope them in, is Obama, in order to get it passed and to sell it needs to make it look as though it has as much support from mainstream America as possible.
So they come up with the individual mandate.
The individual mandate, which is what the Supreme Court case in Obamacare was all about.
A law requiring every citizen to buy health insurance.
That is not constitutional.
The federal government cannot require you to buy anything.
Well, when John Roberts, the chief justice, got hold of this, he changed that mandate to a tax.
The government can tax you any day, all day, as much or as long as it wants.
So they changed that mandate to a tax.
But as far as the insurance companies were concerned, why they can't lose.
They're in a meeting with Obama, and Obama says, Yeah, well, we're going to mandate every American and have to buy policy from you.
What?
You are going to make it a law that people have to buy our product?
Where do we sign up?
They couldn't wait to get in on this deal.
What business wouldn't want in on this?
The government's going to make every citizen buy your product or you get fined and maybe go to jail.
And even with that, it didn't work.
People didn't buy.
They couldn't afford.
They can't afford now.
Not everybody gets subsidies.
The subsidies are a but just.
If something has to be subsidized, it's not worth doing anyway.
Something of this magnitude.
So the insurance companies are getting killed.
They are dropping like flies.
They're dropping out of Obamacare.
In Florida, I think there are only two companies now that are offering uh private health insurance.
All of this, I think, is by design for the government to eventually take over this broken system and give us single-payer national health care.
But uh Obama didn't want it happening that soon.
He didn't he didn't want it to happen overnight.
He wanted the insurance companies to survive.
So he wanted to bail them out.
Now here's a guy who hates his supporters, think he hates the banks and hates big business.
These are the people ripping the country apart, right?
Big corporation, big drug, big pharma, big retail, big oil.
These are the enemies of the Democrat Party.
Big insurance.
We're gonna bring them to their knees, Obama and Hillary say we're in bed with them.
Like Hillary's in bed with Wall Street.
So it is uh it's eye-popping what we continue to learn here about the degree of deceit and corruption that we have been governed by and still are.
And so many desperately want out from underneath it.
That's what this election's about.
Grab a quick phone call.
We'll start Alexandria, Virginia.
This is uh Sean, great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I I am baffled at how corrupt Hillary Clinton is and how she's still being compared to Donald Trump.
The stuff that Donald Trump has done is not anything near comparable to Hillary.
And beyond that, what has Donald Trump done?
He's built a business, he's employed people, and now he's running for president, uh, and he hasn't even been in politics before.
He seems to be doing an amazing job.
I can't see how how you can possibly compare the two.
Yeah, that's exactly right, and it's exactly why Obama today and Hillary every day are out campaigning on the premise that Trump is unfit and he's unqualified, and they do it on the basis of his character and his personality.
And yet, everything Obama and Hillary have been in charge of.
Nobody can say it's going great, and nobody can say they want more of it.
We're the absolute health care disaster, health insurance disaster, we're in a foreign policy disaster.
We have uh that's continuing to unfold.
The economy is no great shape.
You're right.
Trump's fingerprints aren't on any of it.
I think it's one of the reasons, explanations why they really don't know how to campaign against somebody like this.
I mean, it's easy to besmirch somebody who's been in politics.
You could lie about them and blame this or that political event on them, but Trump fingerprints are on nothing.
Whatever is going wrong in the country, you cannot blame Donald Trump for it.
To me, this is another reason why Hillary ought not even be close.
So we'll see how it manifests.
But you got a great observation there.
We have another timeout.
You'll be back here in just a second.
Don't go away.
I forgot to hold up the book.
The new book.
There it is.
Rush Revere and the Presidency.
I'm holding it up for people on the Ditto Cam to be able to see.
When we get back, I have asked Peter Schweitzer to spend some time on the program.
He uh wrote a book called Clinton Cash.
And the FBI has used his book as part of the investigation into the pay-for-play aspects of the foundation.
And a movie has even been made off of his research.
So I just I want to get his take on the latest developments.
So we'll have him to lead off the next segment and uh we'll go on from there.
But you don't want to miss anything today, folks.
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