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December 9, 2016, Friday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
	Okay, look, it's Friday, and we don't have a whole lot of time.
	I'm learning here that I can't get it all in every day, so I'm gonna stop wasting time.
	We're just gonna get started in sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	Right on, open line Friday.
	All yours today, folks.
	Whatever you want to talk about, have at it.
	It doesn't have to be Trump.
	It doesn't have to be politics.
	It doesn't have to be Washington.
	It can be anything you want.
	It usually never is, but it can be.
	Mr. Snertley standing by to politely screen your calls.
	At 800.
	When I say that, Mr. Sturdley feels I'm constraining him.
	800-282-2882.
	If you want to send an email, L Rushbow at EIB net.us.
	Okay, breaking news here just before the program began.
	And on the surface, it might not seem like much, but it's a classic example of why you're fortunate to have me as your host.
	The Drive By Media and the well, a Trump campaign release in the Drive by Media picking it up, that Trump is expected to tap Representative Kathy McMorris Rogers, who is a member of the Republican leadership in the House.
	She's the state of Washington.
	Trump is expected to pick her to lead the Interior Department.
	Now listen to what the Wall Street Journal says, how they characterize this.
	Ms. Rogers, a senior member of the House representatives, if confirmed by the Senate, would lead Mr. Trump's efforts to open up federal lands and waters to fossil fuel development and reverse environmental policies.
	The regime of Obama has pursued over the past eight years.
	I sure as hell hope so.
	But let me tell you what I think this really is.
	Can I tell you what I think this really is?
	I think this is the cabinet pick that Trump is giving Rentz Pribus.
	I think Rentz is being permitted to pick a member of the cabinet.
	And this is his pick, and so now the Republican establishment can stop pushing Mitt.
	Or whoever else it is they want, because this is the establishment pick.
	That's what I think this is.
	She may be imminently qualified, too.
	I don't know.
	I just I find it fascinating the way the Wall Street Journal, everybody thinks they're, you know, on our side of things.
	Ms. Rogers would lead Mr. Trump's efforts to open up federal lands and waters to fossil fuel to You got under the saying that is like showing Dracula the cross.
	You know, global warming, ladies and somebody, some some some politician said this the other day, yesterday, maybe, and he's got it exactly right.
	This whole climate change global warming thing has become a religion, and the reason that the point about that is that since it's a religion, you can't criticize it.
	Just like you're not allowed to criticize the basics of Islam or Christianity.
	You can, I mean, if you can you can criticize Christians all day long, but you can't tell Christians they're full of it.
	You can't tell Muslims they're full of it, you can't tell Jewish people they're full of it.
	And you can't tell climate change people they're full of it.
	They're religion.
	And therefore it's a faith, and it's not up for debate, it's not up for argument, and this is the way they've categorized it.
	And one of the tenets of the religion is that oil is an absolutely destructive element and ought not ever be used.
	It's it's in the climate change uh top ten, uh, if you will.
	And so writing it the way they have here.
	Ms. Rogers would lead Mr. Trump's efforts to open up federal lands and waters to fossil fuel development and reverse environmentalist wacko policies, the Obama administration's pursued over the past eight years.
	Look, I don't think there's any doubt that that's on the agenda.
	I'm looking at Trump's picks, and I don't think there's any doubt what he's doing here.
	You know, one of the uh one of the potential nominees or choices for Secretary of State.
	They just said on Fox News is stock is rising.
	Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon.
	No, no, I'm not I'm not joking.
	Have you ever, by the way, heard of a better name for a CEO of an oil company, Rex Tillerson.
	And he looks like a Rex Tillerson.
	He's a good guy.
	And you know why Trump likes him?
	The guy does deals.
	He has to, as the CEO of Exxon.
	They do business in 50 countries.
	This guy negotiates deals on behalf of big oil.
	And Exxon is number one big oil.
	And Trump is very proud of this team he's putting together.
	He says, you know, that the left is trying to rip him that they're all rich, they're all distant, they're all, they're all unlike most Americans.
	And of course, that's not the case at all.
	Obama, uh Trump is saying, I want people who've made a fortune.
	I want people to know how to make money in America.
	I want people to be able to grease the skids for other people to make money in the country.
	I want people who know how to do that, and I want people who can lead in doing that.
	Obama doesn't have anybody that knows how to make money other than have it donated to them.
	And his cabinet, you know, Obama had three generals in his cabinet too.
	Do you remember the media making a big deal of it?
	He had three four stars in his cabinet.
	Do you remember the media making a big deal about it?
	They didn't.
	You know why?
	Because Obama's generals were not warrior generals.
	Obama's generals were the politically correct generals that uh that are appeasement oriented and do whatever Obama wanted, no matter whether it was good or bad.
	But Trump is very proud of the people that he's named in his cabinet, and I don't know if it's going to be Rex Tillerson or not.
	I only know what I just saw in Fox, in which they say his stock is rising.
	But I can honestly tell you I've always admired Rex Tillerson.
	Uh I'm having a mental block that the name of the guy he replaced.
	This guy was a classic oil company CEO.
	I remember a picture of this guy after Exxon had reported massive record profits, and of course the media hated that.
	And they ran a picture of his predecessor.
	His name is on the tip of my tongue.
	It'll come to me.
	Anyway, Rex Tillerson replaced this guy, and Rex Tillerson is Hollywood.
	Good looks.
	Rex Tillerson is the entire package.
	I Lee Raymond, that's right, Lee Raymond.
	And I'm sure I could find the photo that I'm thinking about.
	He did this biggest grin on his face.
	Uh uh that that accompanied the story at record profits for Exxon Mobil.
	And I just loved it because I knew how the left was going to react to it.
	Anyway, uh it is open line Friday.
	Once again, the telephone number's 800-282-2882.
	Folks, I want to share with you an email that I got.
	And it's actually tough to pick one.
	We are so blessed.
	Uh Catherine and I and everybody on the Rush Revere, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans team.
	We just published our fifth book in the series, Rush Revere and the Presidency, fifth book in three years.
	And the purpose of the Rush Revere, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, is these are books for young people to teach them the glorious truth of the founding of the greatest nation on earth, the United States of America, precisely because it's not being taught in enough places in America anymore.
	And I'll tell you how this all came about.
	It was easily seven years ago now.
	The late novelist Vince Flynn was at one of the spring flings that I hosted at my house.
	Basically a guy golf weekend, long weekend.
	And he kept imploring me to write a book before the next election came around.
	So the book would be available ready for the next election, and this would have been, you know, it might have even been for the 2008 election.
	And I kept saying, Vince, I've been there and done that.
	I just I I I'm still not old enough to do memoirs, and I'm I'm not he said, you don't know, You've got to you gotta just do a book that takes all the brilliance that you've uttered on the radio and get all those monologues transcribed and then publish a book out.
	It'd be easy.
	I said, No, it wouldn't be easy.
	I'd have to hire somebody to do this.
	You're you're talking at the time, it was like 17, 18 years of material.
	I mean, it would be, it would be wouldn't even know where to begin.
	And I couldn't delegate it.
	I'd have to do it myself.
	I'm the only one who knows what I said when in a vague way.
	And but he kept pushing me, and he kept pushing me, he kept pushing me, and I kept saying, I don't know if I've got the impetus, the desire to do it right now.
	And during one of these conversations, my wife Catherine said, Why don't you why don't you do a book for a history book for children?
	And that gave me pause.
	She said, Yeah, it's a demographic nobody would ever think that you'd write about it, and you care about it.
	You talk about it all the time.
	You talk about how education's so screwed up, and you talk about how important it is for people to learn the truth of America and that are not learning it.
	And that lit a fire.
	It honestly did.
	Now that, because it was something new.
	It was something I hadn't done.
	The book that Vince was talking about, no question I'll do that book someday.
	But there was nothing really new in it.
	It was just a repackaging and representation of things I've already said.
	And when I would tell him that, yeah, yeah, yeah, but but you say so much, not everybody can possibly have heard everything you said.
	You realize how much brilliance of yours is just laying there on your website unread.
	And I said, maybe not unread, but it's hard to remember it all.
	He said, Yeah, that's right.
	You've got you've got this.
	So he kept pushing and pushing and so I probably will do that.
	But the concept of a children that was exciting because it was new.
	It was something I hadn't done before.
	I didn't know if I could do it.
	It had all the elements of a challenge, and that's all it took.
	So we we got busy doing this, and I found out I wasn't going to be able to do it myself because we had to have illustrations, and I had to have somebody fact check the history.
	And uh I needed assistance in in writing dialogue for uh people anywhere from 10 to 13 years old, because I I don't have kids and therefore I'm not around people that age very long.
	So we put together the just the absolute best team to do this, and the first book was Rush Revere and The Pilgrims.
	And it the whole point of the series is to start at the very outset of the idea of America, which is a free people, electing leaders whose purpose is to protect and ensure the freedoms of the people of the country.
	Not the other way around, not a monarchy, not a dictatorship, even a benevolent dictatorship.
	It was this was going to be a representative republic, and it was historic.
	There was nothing had ever been done like it in America before, and that had been lost.
	The uniqueness, the greatness, the genuine specialness that is the United States.
	People who were born here and grow up, it's just what is.
	And if they're not taught how hard it was, if they're not taught how great the founders were, if they're not taught the obstacles, the adversity, if they're not taught the genuine miracle that had to take place for this nation to form, then they're not gonna regard it as anything special, and they're gonna be very open to what they are being taught, and that is how America's flawed, and how America is imperfect.
	And that's what American history has largely become.
	How America's unjust, how America is immoral from the days of its founding, how America's a nation of bigots and extremists and racists, and it's always ticked me off.
	So the idea of having a way or getting involved in a project to counter that.
	Now that was exciting and it was challenging.
	So Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims got it started, and now we're up at number five, Rush Revere in the presidency.
	And I'll tell you, folks, it is heartwarming.
	We've got the Rush Revere website, the Rush Revere Facebook page, which we keep separate from Rush Limbaugh.com.
	We we sometimes post in both places, but the operations are Separate and apart.
	And we get pictures.
	And we get emails from families and children reading these books.
	And we get stories from people who tell us their kids never liked history, never liked reading, and now they can't get enough.
	They want their parents to read the books to them constantly.
	They can't wait for the next one to come out.
	I can't tell you what a what a feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction it is.
	And then when you see the pictures, and I could I could read to you countless numbers of emails from readers all day long.
	Let me just pick one last night.
	It's from Melissa.
	We started reading Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims again last night, and my young children love it.
	My nine-year-old son was just found reading it to his younger siblings in my bed while they were supposed to be getting ready for a day of school.
	It's a good thing they're homeschooled.
	I can't wait to expand our Rush Revere Library.
	Thank you for making history fun.
	My kids hate to put your books down.
	They can't get enough of Liberty's antics.
	Never before has history held their attention.
	This is exactly what we were aiming for.
	And to have this kind of affirmation, day in and day out, is so rewarding, I can't describe it.
	History back to the email.
	History is especially important to our family as a military family.
	We definitely believe the old saying that those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it.
	Seeing the world today and watching the riots taking place, I often wonder if these children understand history or civics at all.
	It's really made me push more history into my children's curriculum.
	Anyway, thanks again for these wonderful books.
	And then there's a picture of their three kids in bed with the oldest one reading to the younger two.
	Right?
	There it is.
	The premise is that I am Rush Revere.
	And I'm a substitute teacher at a place called Menchester Middle School.
	And I have a and I I dress up as I'm a big history buff and I dress up as Paul Revere, colonial attire, and I have a horse.
	By virtue of a lightning strike, can time travel and talk.
	And can become invisible.
	The horse's name is Liberty, and Liberty can only time travel back, not forward, and can well can return to present day, but can only time travel back in history and only to American history.
	And that's the vehicle that we use to teach the history.
	We actually take the readers on time travel trips back to the events that we are attempting to teach, so that the reader is actually immersed in the event, and the people, the founders involved, actually converse with the students that time travel back with revere and liberty as they converse with themselves.
	And it's fun to try to make sure the founders, they don't know that we're time traveling back, to keep that all straight too.
	But it's a wonderful vehicle that allows us to teach history in a way that's not just a recitation, and not just with pictures, but it actually takes the reader, the young reader back and involved them in it, and that's how they remember it.
	And that's how it makes an impression.
	Book five just came out on the 24th of November.
	It's Rush Revere and the Presidency.
	It's about the presidency of George Washington.
	One of the students at Manchester Middle wants to be school president, but for all the wrong reasons.
	Wants fame, wants to be cool, wants to be hip, wants the students at the school think he's cool and all that.
	Rush Revere realizes it's entirely wrong reason to want to be president of anything, suggests we time travel back and talk to George Washington about his presidency, and that's how we explain the presidency to young people and how we explain to them it came to be and why it's not a kingship or monarchy and so forth.
	It's it's a um really a fun thing to do.
	And I just we we uh I haven't haven't uh touted this most recent book much lately because there's been so much going on, but I wanted to mention it again because so much feedback is coming in.
	It's Rush Revere and the Presidency, and thanks to all of you who are making it once again a bestseller.
	I've got to take a brief time out.
	We'll do that and come back with much more after this.
	You sit.
	By the way, the picture on the email I just described With the three kids in Mom's bed reading Rush Revere, the eldest child reading the other two.
	We've posted the picture at Facebook.com Rush Revere.
	Folks, there are five books, as I say, Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims got got it all started.
	This one's Rush Revere and the presidency.
	One of the great things is that every time there's a new book, all of the others in the in the series get fresh attention and fresh sales.
	And it's folks, we we really, really believe in this series now because of actual experience, the impact that they are having.
	And if if you are at all worried about what your kids are facing or will face in school, this would be an excellent excellent way to get them started on understanding the truth and the greatness of the uniqueness and the specialness that is the uh United States.
	They're hardcover books, they're not children's books in a sense they're not coloring book, they're not they're not picture books.
	We even have adults tell us that they learn things they weren't taught as they as they read through these.
	That's a little added uh bonus as well.
	And I don't spend a lot of time talking about this as I as I mentioned because of so many other things in the news out there to talk about, but I wanted to take a moment today because so many people work so hard on this, and we are so proud of it.
	And we believe in the mission.
	There is a mission here, which is to teach the truth of the absolute unique greatness that is the United States, and there is no better time than now when we have a transition in power, and it looks like we're back in what used to be the direction this country was always on, and that was growth, expansion uh and and greatness.
	We have a president who actually wants to make that happen.
	These books just dovetail tremendously with that.
	Barack Obama has ordered a full review of the hacking of the 2016 election by the Russians.
	I kid you not, details are coming up.
	Very quickly, did a little look scene at Kathy McMorris Rogers, who I believe is the Rentz Prebus cabinet pick.
	No, no, I I'm and I'm not being critical of it.
	I actually think it's I I think Trump has given Rentz Prevus, who's his chief of staff and is from the GOP establishment.
	I think he's given Rentz a cabinet pick.
	And it's Kathy McMorris Rogers.
	I mean, she comes from the Republican establishment.
	This is supposed to appease the establishment types who may be the ones pushing Romney.
	That we don't know.
	Uh Trump's interest in Romney may be genuine, too.
	But I have no doubt that the establishment.
	Look, folks, I don't care what you think and what you hear.
	Don't doubt me on this.
	The Republican establishment and many of the never Trumpers, and some in the so-called conservative movement are still very upset that Trump is elected, very doubtful Trump knows what he's doing, would do anything they could to get people they know and trust inside Trump's cabinet.
	So far, they've failed.
	I dare say that most of the people Trump has chosen, neither party would have picked at precisely.
	But look at where these cabinet picks are coming from.
	They're not coming from the Northeast.
	They're not coming from Harvard.
	They're not coming from Brown University or the Ivy League.
	They're coming from Oklahoma, from Indiana, from Iowa.
	They are great warrior generals.
	They are all just profoundly, greatly successful.
	Self-starting business people who know how it's done.
	They are people who've had to deal with the encumbering regulations and the obstacles placed in their way by bureaucrats that haven't the slightest idea how to do what these men and women do.
	They have no business getting in the way.
	They have no business imposing their way on these people.
	I understand the need for some regulation.
	I'm not talking about unfettered anything here.
	But the reason for fear is unwarranted.
	It's like this fake news stuff going on out there.
	You know what this fake news stuff is?
	The fake news is the drive-by media.
	The fake news was all of the polling going into this election.
	The fake news is all of the misreporting on Trump.
	The fake the reason why there is any fake news is because the mainstream media has lost its credibility.
	You realize if there was any news entity out there, call it the mainstream media, call anything.
	If there was a news entity that had credibility and was trustworthy, then fake news would be spotted immediately, and it would not succeed.
	But there is no authority anymore.
	The drive-by media announced that they were getting rid of objectivity.
	They announced that they were going partisan.
	They did it on the front page of the New York Times in a piece by Jim Rutenberg.
	And they said they had to abandon the principles of journalism because the possibility of Donald Trump being elected was so outrageous and unacceptable.
	They had to pull out all the stops and do anything they could to defeat him, which meant bye-bye journalism.
	Now, I understand that the drive-bys have not been practicing real journalism for a long time.
	But in the in the eyes of many, including low information voter crowd, they still had credibility.
	If the New York Times said it, if CBS ABC said it, tendency was to believe it.
	That's gone.
	Nobody believes anything they hear anymore.
	Nobody trusts anything.
	The mainstream media has abandoned the very things which gave it credibility, which provided its authority, its moral authority, everything else.
	As such, there is not a news industry today that has credibility and authority and believability, and that is why this so-called fake news has sprung up and has become so widespread.
	And now the fake news is practiced by the mainstream media.
	Hillary Clinton, it was a purveyor of fake news.
	Barack Obama originated fake news when they came up with this theory that it was a video responsible for the terrorist attack in Benghazi.
	And the drive-by media picked it up and ran with it.
	And everybody knew it was untrue.
	From Obama to Hillary on down, they knew it was untrue, but they were trying to make people believe it.
	Fake news has always been around.
	It's been called satire.
	It's called parody.
	We are among the greatest practitioners of it and have been for the entire history of this program.
	But everybody wants to get an act.
	And so all kinds of people are trying their hand at it now.
	The drive-by's can can raise holy hell, and they can point fingers of blame, but they better be right at themselves because they are the reason.
	Fake news exists.
	They are the reason you can't tell anymore what's fake and what isn't.
	But you know what?
	Audiences know.
	Audiences trust Donald Trump.
	You in this audience trust me, and that is something I have always known and never take for granted.
	And I make certain that if if I engage in what I call parody or satire, and if I do it wrong, and you get the wrong impression, if you're not laughing at it, if you're not in on the joke, then I have to go make it right at uh at some point.
	But there's a lot of news out there, and it's there's there's no single industry-wide entity that's believed anymore.
	That's why fake news.
	I mean, how ironic is it?
	Grab audio soundbite number one.
	Brian Williams.
	You remember Brian Williams?
	Brian Williams used to be the anchor of the NBC Nightly News until it was found out that he was literally lying and making up stories about the events he had covered, and inserting himself in the stories and telling the audience that he was there when something happened and knew the people involved, and he was totally exposed as a made-up lie.
	And NBC, people inside were actually trying to save him and his job.
	He went on an extended leave of absence, and they finally brought him back, put him on MSNBC in charge of breaking news.
	And Brian Williams Tuesday night on his show called the 11th Hour with Brian Williams.
	Here's a portion of his report about Trump's transition team firing the son of National Security Advisor nominee Mike Flynn for passing on a fake news story on Twitter.
	Another former general in the Trump Circle is receiving new attention.
	His National Security Advisor designate Mike Flynn.
	Flynn's son was fired by the Trump transition today for passing on fake news stories via Twitter.
	But his dad, the retired Army three-star general, has passed on some gems himself.
	Here are a few.
	Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and has secretly waged war on the Catholic Church.
	As well as charges that the president is a jihadi who laundered money for Muslim terrorists.
	As we talked about here last night, fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience.
	Stop it because fake news played a role in this election.
	For Brian Williams to announce he was fake news.
	He was, in fact, maybe the poster child for it.
	You know what I'm not comfortable saying this, because I know the guy.
	I've met him in the old days when I went over to MSNBC when they were in Fort Lee, and I would make the mistake of appearing over there, and I'd run into him in his office.
	He's funny as he could be.
	He could do stand-up if he wanted to.
	But I'm sorry to say he's the poster child for fake news, and here he is telling everybody that that there's uh fake news played a role in this election.
	Fake news, Mike.
	Here's you want some fake news.
	MSNBC host falsely accuses Fox News of holding Christmas party at Trump's Washington Hotel.
	Stephanie Rule, R-U-H-L-E, PMSNBC host claimed that Fox News had held its Christmas party at Trump's recently opened Washington Hotel.
	There's just one problem.
	Fox News hasn't had its Christmas party yet.
	Fox News has not had a Christmas party, and it's not going to be at Trump's hotel.
	Just make it up.
	And that's what MSNBC does.
	And now Hillary's out there shooting off her mouth about it as though fake news is why she lost.
	She lost because she's unappealing as a candidate.
	She's lost because she didn't work hard at it.
	She lost because she has no idea how to relate to average ordinary Americans.
	She called half the country deplorable, and she's continuing that characterization by virtue of her behavior in the post-election aftermath.
	But I'm going to tell you this, folks, it redounds to our benefit.
	The more the Democrats remain in denial about why they lost, the deeper in doo-doo they're going to be, and the harder it's going to be for them to extricate themselves.
	The longer they lie to themselves about why they lost and why they've been losing since 2008, the better off for everybody who is opposed to them.
	There's a great thing happening out there right now, folks.
	Low information voters and people all over the country are finally seeing.
	They're not being told, they are seeing, they are witnessing who and what liberals and liberalism is.
	They are seeing the extremism.
	They are witnessing it firsthand.
	Nobody's telling them.
	We've already done that.
	I've spent my life here explaining liberalism and defining it to people.
	Some believed it, some took it under advisement, some it didn't matter.
	But now this hysteria, this unhinged lunatic behavior, they are demonstrating it to everybody.
	And the more they do, the better off everybody is.
	The more people that understand just how unhinged, unrealistic and divorced from reality liberalism is, and how damaging, how hurtful that it is, the better everybody is, better off everybody.
	And you look, and you know another point that has to be made here.
	It's all happening not because commentators are telling people.
	It's not happening because the so-called arbiters of conservatism who've been telling people and warning people for decades about the dangers is not because of that.
	It's not because of me.
	It's not because of anybody, it's because of the liberals themselves in defeat, unhinged, in denial, incapable of accepting the reasons why they lost.
	So now they're out there in this childlike behavior, blaming everything and everybody else.
	And they are it's it's free and clear for everybody to see just who these people are.
	And Hillary Clinton and Obama are leading the charge.
	Rex Tillerson, by the way.
	One more thing about Rex Tillerson.
	He's the CEO of Exxon.
	But they found a picture of Lee Raymond, and we put it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
	If you want to take a look at the picture I was describing, the previous Exxon CEO.
	Rex Tillerson is a devout Christian who attends church and Bible study every week.
	And he is the CEO of ExxonMobil.
	He has done deals with friendly nations, enemy nations, fifty nations around the world.
	He's in charge of the largest fossil fuel petroleum company in the world.
	He runs the biggest company that produces the fuel that runs the engine of freedom in the world.
	Back in just a second.
	You want to know what fake news is?
	Fake news is hands up, don't shoot.
	And that fake news lasted for two years, coming out of Ferguson, Missouri.
	There was no hands up, don't shoot.
	It didn't happen.
	You know more fake news?
	I can't breathe.
	I can't breathe.
	Eric Gardner in New York, supposedly choked by policemen.
	He didn't, he had a heart attack.
	There was no hands up, don't shoot.
	Michael Brown was not running away from the copy, wasn't surrendering, his hands weren't up, but everybody was lying about it.
	You want fake news?
	The left owns fake news.
	I'm sorry to get so agitated about it here, but I'm not my wit's end on this.
	The latest batch of fake news is that the Russians are responsible for Hillary's loss because they wanted Trump to win, so they hacked voting machines.
	They have done recounts in three states.
	Trump is picking up votes in two of the three states.
	The entire recount is flawed.
	There was never any fraud that was could be measured in terms of any any hackery.
	The Russians didn't have anything to do with it, but the Democrats are telling themselves that's why they lost big time fake news.
	And CNN has breaking news that Obama has ordered a full review of 2016 election hacking by the Russians.
	The news comes from Lisa Monaco, who's an advisor to Homeland Security Counterterrorism.
	And then there's this.
	Republicans ready to launch wide-ranging probe of Russia despite Trump's stance.
	Now, what do you think when you hear that headline?
	Well, are you still confused?
	Well, don't be.
	Because the headline makes it look like the Republicans in Washington are going to look into this business of the Russians hacking.
	It isn't the Republicans, it's Lindsey Graham and McCain.
	Senator Lindsey Graham said he plans to spearhead legislation to hold a series of investigative hearings, and McCain joined him.
	That's it.
	The headline, Republicans ready to launch wide-ranging probe.
	So now Bomba's gonna run around, and you know what?
	The Republicans realize this is a problem too, because they've decided to join me in this investigation.
	The Republicans haven't decided to do anything.
	A couple of people that wish Trump weren't president on the Republican side.
	McCain and Lindsey Graham are doing this.
	But the Republicans are fake news!
	It's fake news.
	The fake news is the everyday news you see on any network you choose to listen to or watch or any newspaper you care to open.
	First call today, Ron in Osceola, Indiana.
	Great to have you, sir at EIB Network.
	Hello.
	Rush, it's such an honor to speak with you today.
	I'm a longtime listener.
	I go back almost to the beginning of your show.
	And I'm a first-time caller, so uh the reason I wanted to call you is to talk about uh your book series.
	And we just purchased our first book for our eight-year-old grandson, uh, the Great Pilgrim's book.
	But I was curious as to if you had any suggestions as to which book we should start with, with our grandchildren and uh that's it how we should proceed.
	That's it.
	You had the first one in the series is the one to start with because the pilgrims and their story sets the stage for what was to become the United States a couple hundred years later.
	It's profound.
	The pilgrims arrive here in the 1600s.
	It's stunning who they were, why they came, what drove them to get on a tiny little ship and go someplace nobody knew anything about.
	It is one of the most compelling stories.
	It's mistaught.
	The whole story of the pilgrims is taught as a Thanksgiving story, the Indians saving them from themselves because they were incompetent and foolish and didn't know what they were doing, and nothing could be further from the truth.
	That book.
	Do you have do you say you have that book?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I'm going to send you the other four.
	I need I need you to hang on.
	No, I'm serious.
	You've got the right book to start, and I'm gratified that you're going to uh show the the book to your eight-year-old grandson.
	Well, thank you so much.
	Right now, also um every caller of the past three weeks has been offered a brand new iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.
	Would you like one?
	If so, which one?
	Absolutely.
	Uh 7 Plus.
	All right.
	What what's your carrier?
	ATT.
	AT.
	Pick your color.
	Uh, what colors do you have?
	It'd be for my wife, because I have a six plus that I'm calling you on.
	Let me send her a rose gold iPhone 7 plus.
	Hang on, we'll get the address.
	It'll be 256 gigabytes.
	It'll work on ATT out of the box.
	You'll have to take it, maybe get your number transferred from hers to the new one, but it'll be save the box when you take it to the store if that's what you do.
	But tell them it was a gift.
	And then they'll set you right up.
	Don't hang up so we got your address for the books and the phone after this one.
	It's open line Friday.
	We got a full boat of calls.
	We're gonna try to get through more calls on Friday than we do normally.
	So uh be prepared.
	We and we have tons of stuff to get to today.
	The excitement and the thrills are never ending on the EIB network.
	We just have to take brief pauses now and then like this one.

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