Feb. 13, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Yes, sir, Rebob, here we are, my friends, back at it, El Rushbo and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. | |
| Happy to be with you. | |
| As always, hope everybody had a great weekend. | |
| And now we're back and we're locked and loaded and we are ready for battle because that's what this seems to be. | |
| Each and every day, and the left is intensifying the latest meme, the latest narrative, Donald Trump is mentally unstable. | |
| Donald Trump is insane. | |
| Donald Trump is unhinged. | |
| Donald Trump is mentally unsuited. | |
| That's been on HBO with Bill Maher. | |
| It's been on the, it's in the Senate with Al Franken on Bill Maher. | |
| It's Chuck Yo Schumer is echoing. | |
| Well, he's not echoing those sentiments per se, but he's weighing in afterward to make it appear as though that is the case. | |
| The effort to undermine the Trump White House is in full force. | |
| And one of the ways that they're doing it, I want you to be prepared for this. | |
| The drive-bys consider Trump to have an insatiable ego. | |
| They believe that above all else, Donald Trump is ruled by his ego, meaning he wants to be loved and everybody to love him and he wants everybody to think he's a winner and that he's the best. | |
| But most importantly, that Donald Trump is obsessed with people believing that he is in charge. | |
| Now, he's just the president of the United States. | |
| I don't know why that would be such a big sell. | |
| But they're intent on telling people that that's what Trump cares about. | |
| He doesn't care about any of this other stuff. | |
| So one of the ways they're trying to undermine Trump, you've seen these covers, Time magazine and other stories, saying Steve Bannon is actually the president. | |
| That Steve Bannon is actually the guy who is the power behind the throne. | |
| That is a psychological operation. | |
| That is designed to tick Trump off and fire Bannon. | |
| They want Trump sitting in the White House seeing this stuff. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| They think Bannon's running a show. | |
| Well, I'll show them. | |
| And he calls Bannon in and says, look, I got to fire you. | |
| Everybody thinks you're the president, and you haven't done anything to disabuse them of that, so you're gone. | |
| And then they go to work on Stephen Miller next. | |
| They already are. | |
| He showed up on all the Sunday shows yesterday. | |
| The guy's good. | |
| So they're going to go after him. | |
| They already are. | |
| Details on that coming up. | |
| And they're going to go after everybody and anybody who they think they could sell as the brain behind Donald Trump. | |
| The reason Donald Trump is president. | |
| The things Donald Trump says, the policies Donald Trump comes up with are not his. | |
| They are all the result of AIDS. | |
| And they want Trump to end up firing everybody. | |
| They want him to end up firing his cabinet. | |
| So you could, folks, don't laugh. | |
| I mean, well, it is kind of comical, but this is one of the ways that they're going to go about this. | |
| Did anybody watch the Grammys last night? | |
| I have just one little observation about it. | |
| This is the, it's something that you're not going to see reported in a lot of places, but let's weigh some things. | |
| Every day, multiple times a day, all day long, all you are seeing is stories on the opposition to Trump in the form of rioters and protesters. | |
| You name it. | |
| People upset with Trump's immigration, his executive order, all of that. | |
| It's just nothing but opposition. | |
| And as I've said, the objective is to make you, Trump supporters, believe that Trump's losing it, that the country hates Trump, that the election was a mistake, that even you Trump supporters are beginning to abandon Trump. | |
| And it's the old saw that you're supposed to get depressed and dispirited and think, yeah, they got us again, that this isn't real. | |
| The victory isn't really real. | |
| It was fake. | |
| It was the result of cheating or what have you. | |
| And of course, there aren't any counterprotests. | |
| I mean, when the left shows up at Berkeley, when the left shows up, there aren't any counterprotests. | |
| Well, last night at the Grammys, there was a woman on the red carpet who showed up in a gown that said, make America great again. | |
| Her name is Joy Villa, and she obviously came off just version, well, based on the pictures, it appeared she was a Trump supporter. | |
| Do you know what happened to her album sale? | |
| Her album sales have shot through the roof, up 18 million percent. | |
| Her album sales are up 18 million percent within a matter of hours of wearing the now famous Make America Great Again dress. | |
| Joy Via's album, Make the Static, has skyrocketed in the sales ranking on Amazon. | |
| Previously, the album was ranked number 543, 202. | |
| I didn't know that you could rank so low. | |
| I thought a bunch of liberal books were down in that 200,000 range, but I didn't know that they ranked things that low. | |
| She, just after being seen on TV wearing a Make America great gown, her album went from number 543,000 to number three. | |
| The top three albums under the movers and shakers categories all belong to her, Joy Villa. | |
| Her album, Make the Static, is currently a better seller than both Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. | |
| Now, I mention this because this is the, this is no question, it is a reaction. | |
| These are Trump supporters and the American people with an opportunity to push back and to demonstrate that they're out there and that they haven't lost anything and that they're having, they're not smaller in number. | |
| They haven't lost any passion. | |
| That's exactly what this is. | |
| And that's how it should be seen. | |
| This is an excellent example of pushback. | |
| This is an excellent example of how such a one-sided story can be countered with the truth. | |
| And the truth is that the Democrat Party lost. | |
| They haven't done anything to change why they lost. | |
| They're going even further left to the point now that ranking Democrat, one Democrat running for chairman of the DNC, is out saying this party's off the rails and it's all upset about things that don't matter. | |
| We've got to get back. | |
| Jim Webb, who ran for the Democrat Party nomination, presidential nomination, is also out saying much the same thing. | |
| So while the left is losing and while they are imploding and while they can't win elections, the news media is filled with stories designed to make you think that everybody who voted for Trump regrets it. | |
| And if they had to do it over again, they would have voted for Hillary. | |
| That's essentially the news. | |
| You know, as I watch, I ask myself a question as I watch all of this stuff. | |
| I literally, I asked, did Trump win the election? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, what's changed? | |
| I mean, the reporting that we're getting on the resistance and the opposition to Trump is in no way in perspective. | |
| Nor is it in proportion. | |
| I mean, it's obviously fake in its own ways, and it's amplified beyond its actual reality and so forth. | |
| But what are the odds here that everybody that voted for Trump is mad at him now? | |
| What are the odds that everybody voted for Trump thought a heck with it? | |
| I didn't want any of this. | |
| This is not what I voted for. | |
| This is not what I thought I was going to get. | |
| I don't like the idea. | |
| That hasn't happened. | |
| That has not happened. | |
| And by the way, there's nobody out there with an actual story saying that's happened. | |
| That's all part of the psyops. | |
| Trying to make you think it's happened. | |
| Let's go to the audio sound bites, a little bit of a demonstration of this. | |
| NPR Thursday, the Leonard Alopate show. | |
| He spoke with a senior editor from The Atlantic, somebody named Derek Thompson, who has a book called Hitmakers, The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction. | |
| And Leonard Alopate, the host here at NPR, says, are political campaigns now just another form of entertainment, kind of like hit production? | |
| Are political campaigns basically forms of media companies now? | |
| You can think of the White House as a movie studio with the president as its star and these PR people as the means of distributing the president's message. | |
| Politics is entertainment. | |
| If we were following the logic of your argument, cable and the internet would have diminished the power of political commentators. | |
| But Rush Limbaugh is still very influential. | |
| Incredibly influential. | |
| And you've seen the power shift over time from broadcast networks to cable networks and then to talk radio. | |
| Right now, I think we are truly seeing not only a president who sees himself as essentially a media company, but now a news ecosystem that sees itself as having to broadcast challenging messages against the White House. | |
| I mean, right now, I think that the theme of politics is entertainment has never been more true. | |
| So you see, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump and his election and his campaign had nothing to do with issues. | |
| Donald Trump, his presidency, his campaign have nothing to do with ideas and substance and things having gone wrong in the country that people want fixed. | |
| No, no, no, no, no. | |
| It's all just PR now. | |
| It's all just a media show. | |
| And Trump is a fantastic entertainer. | |
| Where have I heard that analogy before? | |
| Oh, about me. | |
| I am alternately the leader of the Republican Party, and then I am nothing more than an entertainer, depending on the mindset of the left here. | |
| The idea that there is no substance to Trump, that there is nothing related to issues or policy. | |
| This is another example of how the left is trying to comfort itself and lie to itself by telling themselves that their ideas weren't rejected. | |
| They were just out-entertained. | |
| Trump just, he's a better entertainer than Hillary was, and it's a lament. | |
| This is so bad. | |
| This is what politics has become. | |
| This is so bad for America. | |
| It's just one giant entertainment show. | |
| And Trump's a better entertainer. | |
| And Limbaugh has more influence than we thought he would ever have. | |
| Limbaugh was supposed to have faded away by now, but instead, Limbaugh is more powerful than everything. | |
| This is not fair and it's not right. | |
| That's the sum total of this soundbite. | |
| Because the NPR guy, you hear what he said? | |
| He said, well, if we were following the logic of your argument, cable and the internet would have diminished the power of political commentators. | |
| But Rush Limbaugh is still very influential. | |
| Incredibly influential, says the guest. | |
| And you've seen the power shift over time from the broad. | |
| I actually think these guys are a couple years behind what is going on and what has gone on. | |
| But I really do. | |
| I think both these guys have missed what's happening here by two years. | |
| But if I go over here, let me explain that later because there's a transition I want to make here. | |
| Because there is a Forbes story featuring noted presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. | |
| And Brinkley's story is essentially how Trump is basically non-substantive, is off his rocket. | |
| Let me get the headline of this thing real quickly if I can, just because I only printed the last page because it's all it's got on it. | |
| But now I realize I can't find it. | |
| Here we go. | |
| This is it. | |
| No. | |
| Is this right? | |
| Trump reviews Tom Final. | |
| It's a story. | |
| It's not about Brinkley. | |
| He's quoted. | |
| It's a political story about how Trump's White House is imploding. | |
| And it's basically about Michael Flynn on his way out to be followed by Bannon. | |
| Rynch Priebus. | |
| Reince Priebus is also this story. | |
| He's on the way out today. | |
| Reince Priebus is done. | |
| Bannon is going to be done because Trump's going to fire him because the media thinks Bannon's president and Trump is just a placeholder. | |
| This is the way they're working it. | |
| In this story that's on the Politico, there's a quote from Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian recently met with Trump, said the presidency had been off to the rockiest start I can remember, quote unquote, the Trump presidency. | |
| David Douglas Brinkley is off to the rockiest start I can remember. | |
| And then he said this. | |
| Everything Trump rolls out is done so badly. | |
| It reeks of being short-staffed and not having a true pecking order of production from the White House. | |
| They're just releasing comments. | |
| They're just releasing tweets. | |
| And they're just releasing policies willy-nilly. | |
| It's been a very convulsive and confusing first two weeks, but nevertheless, it's been salad days if you care about Republican policies. | |
| Well, bingo, there it is. | |
| So here we have over at NPR, Leonard Lopate and an author of a book saying, there's no substance to Trump. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| It's purely entertainment now. | |
| Politics is the entertainment. | |
| And Trump's a better entertainer than Hillary. | |
| Trump's a better entertainer than Democrats have. | |
| And now when he's got Limbaugh on his side, they're doubling down on us, and we have no prayer. | |
| But then you come over here to Douglas Brinkley, and he says, if you care about Republican policies, the Trump administration has been salad days. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Because it's filled with substance. | |
| There are issues and ideas. | |
| Donald Trump has rolled out more substance or tried to in the first three weeks of his presidency than you normally get in the first six months to nine months of your average presidency. | |
| In fact, some people are saying, slow down. | |
| You're going too fast. | |
| You're trying to do too much. | |
| But over at NPR, that's just entertainment. | |
| No, it's not even really substance and issues. | |
| So the left can't even come together on how it is they want to oppose Trump, other than to say he's mentally unstable. | |
| And how did that work out for him? | |
| And that was Hillary's number one campaign platform plank. | |
| Trump's unsuitable. | |
| Trump's not prepared. | |
| Trump's insane. | |
| Trump's mentally maladjusted. | |
| Trump is a lunatic. | |
| Trump is dangerously unhinged. | |
| We don't want him or his finger anywhere near the nuclear codes. | |
| They just keep recycling this stuff. | |
| And they don't realize that it is they who are devoid issues. | |
| It is they who are imploding. | |
| It is they who seem to have no key cohesive unity. | |
| And it is them that no matter what they do, they can't stop Trump. | |
| Now, the Trump administration threw a new guy out there yesterday, Stephen Miller, who's long been part of the campaign. | |
| He was the warm-up act for Trump at his rallies, and he's been a senior strategist all along in there. | |
| And it isn't going to be long before Trump's going to have to fire him because he's obviously smarter than Trump and is telling Trump what to think and what to say, just like Bannon and just like Priebus and just like Flynn. | |
| There are four people Trump's going to have to fire now or that are already in trouble. | |
| Stephen Miller was on the four network programs yesterday, the Sunday shows, and kicked it. | |
| And the left today and the media is doing their best to destroy him. | |
| I have the sound bites of that coming up. | |
| All kinds of ICE raids, the immigration raids. | |
| Here's Trump's executive order, which has been shut down, and yet ICE is showing up all over illegal immigrant America and deporting them. | |
| USA Today, USA Today actually has a story, what to do if ICE knocks on your door and you're illegal. | |
| Don't answer it. | |
| Don't answer it and call him immigration lawyer. | |
| We'll be back here, folks. | |
| Yeah, you have to remember, folks, about the media. | |
| Most of them never got anywhere near a Trump rally. | |
| Most of them never watched one on TV or actually listened to one. | |
| So you who voted for Trump, who did hear everything he said, those of you who attended his rallies, you know what his issue-oriented agenda is. | |
| And you know that since even before he was inaugurated, he has begun to implement much of that agenda. | |
| So you're happy, as Brinkley said, salad days, if you like Republican policies. | |
| But the media, they didn't go. | |
| Those who were there didn't really pay any attention to it because they thought Trump never had a chance. | |
| This was just loony tunes. | |
| They went out there because they were obligated to, but they paid no attention to it. | |
| So everything Trump is doing, I'm not exaggerating. | |
| The Trump agenda is a shock to them. | |
| They didn't pay any attention to it. | |
| We know this. | |
| They gave the Trump campaign no serious chance whatsoever. | |
| They lied to themselves. | |
| They lied to Hillary. | |
| They lied via their polls. | |
| The media is as much as anybody responsible for the Democrat loss by creating this inevitability of a Hillary win in everybody's mind, and they didn't take Trump seriously. | |
| Here comes Trump. | |
| He gets elected. | |
| He starts implementing the agenda, and they're outraged. | |
| But yet anybody that paid any attention knew exactly what was coming, and it's come. | |
| It's on schedule. | |
| Some things are lagging, but I mean, the implementation of the agenda is well underway, and the drive-bys are beside themselves. | |
| They don't know what to do, how to react to it. | |
| Welcome back, El Rushbo meeting, and surpassing all audience expectations. | |
| Every day, some of the other headlines, things I hope to be able to get to later today. | |
| And I think I saw that Trump has a press conference today at 2 o'clock. | |
| Half the time, I don't know if what I see on cable news. | |
| He does. | |
| Yeah, there he is. | |
| So at 2 o'clock, which means, I mean, we're going to be jipping it. | |
| There's no ifs, ands, or uts about that. | |
| Now, I don't know how long we're going to stay with it. | |
| That, of course, is totally up to me and my highly refined and expertise in judgmental matters on the quality of programming. | |
| So, if I sense that it's ho-hum, boring, whatever, out we will be. | |
| But we will join it. | |
| We'll jip it. | |
| These things never start on time. | |
| So, my guess is it'll start sometime in the monologue segment of the 2 p.m. hour, which means that I'm going to have to hustle to get to some things here that I would normally say for the third hour. | |
| Now, this is a story from the publication slate.com. | |
| And here's the headline: We used terrible science to justify smoking bans. | |
| Secondhand smoke isn't as bad as we thought. | |
| And this is a bunch of leftist health Nazi types. | |
| These are the environmentalist wackos and health freaks that basically think human existence is destroying the planet. | |
| These are people that really think the surest way to save the planet is for there to be many, many, many fewer humans, only a select few elite smart ones. | |
| And other than that, get rid of everybody because they just do nothing but take and destroy and plunder and pollute. | |
| And I'm not making it up. | |
| Many on the left think that, and it's particularly in the environmentalist wacko movement, which we have been chronicling here for three decades. | |
| And folks, this secondhand smoke ban or this secondhand smoke theory, we found this go back in the 1990s, the United Nations/slash World Health Organization did a multi-year study with many, many thousands of people. | |
| And they found that there was no relation. | |
| I mean, absolutely no relationship between secondhand smoke and cancer. | |
| Zero zilchnata. | |
| They suppressed that report. | |
| The World Health Organization did not release it. | |
| We had access to it because we had developed fans, followers back then who were very much interested in this. | |
| They had access to it and they showed it to us. | |
| And it was all prepared for release. | |
| And at the last minute, the United Nations, for obvious reasons, decided to shelve it because it didn't fit with the current anti-tobacco company narrative at the time. | |
| And it didn't fit with all the environmental wacko stuff at the time. | |
| And it didn't fit with the anti-capitalist meme of the time. | |
| But you don't even need to study common sense. | |
| Common sense would not, this is not to say secondhand smoke is not uncomfortable. | |
| And it's not to say that it stinks, doesn't stink. | |
| It's not to say that there's anything beautiful about it, but it's not deadly. | |
| It never was dead. | |
| In fact, it doesn't even make people sick. | |
| There was no documentation that people were actually made sick by it. | |
| But it was because of the secondhand smoke bogus studies that these draconian smoking bans were put into place. | |
| Now, I know nobody cares about it now. | |
| I mean, the smoking bans, you can't smoke anywhere, is accepted, and nobody has a problem with it. | |
| It's one of those little bastions of freedom that we willingly said goodbye to. | |
| You want to hear something interesting? | |
| I told you I went to an annual cigar dinner down here last week. | |
| It was at the Old Palm Golf Club. | |
| Marvin Shankin, Cigar Aficionado magazine sponsored it. | |
| And I love going to these things. | |
| I love meeting the cigar guys. | |
| Cigar manufacturers. | |
| Did you know the cigar fad took place in the early 90s when Cigar Aficionado was born? | |
| And I, of course, began touting them on the air. | |
| Those two things led to a massive fad, as it were, a four or five-year period where everybody was smoking cigars. | |
| And you could smoke them publicly in bars and restaurants. | |
| I remember going to dinner at 21 at 21 in New York and after dinner lighting up a cigar. | |
| And only one time, you want to hear only one time did a patron sitting close by complain. | |
| You know what they did? | |
| They moved him. | |
| They didn't move me and they didn't ask me to put out the cigar. | |
| They moved that guy. | |
| There was only one complaint. | |
| He said, I can't eat. | |
| This stinks. | |
| They said, fine, sir, we'll move you over here. | |
| And they moved him to a different part of the restaurant. | |
| Now, of course, no such thing would happen. | |
| Here's the thing. | |
| Cigar guys are having record sales. | |
| There are more manufacturers. | |
| The big manufacturers can't, they can't make enough product. | |
| The premium cigar, my question is, where are people smoking them? | |
| You can't smoke them anywhere. | |
| So, what I asked the manufacturers, where can you smoke them? | |
| You can't smoke them inside anywhere. | |
| Well, there are a couple of, I've mentioned a couple of golf clubs where you can smoke anywhere, and I love them. | |
| But, you know, the ban, the smoking bans are everywhere. | |
| Yet, people are finding a way to smoke them, is the point. | |
| But just so you know, secondhand smoke, we told you about this 20 years ago, that it was much ado about nothing, that you're not going to get cancer from secondhand smoke. | |
| It might make you uncomfortable, you might hate the smell, but it's not going to make you sick. | |
| And it still won't. | |
| Now, people were talking themselves into being sick. | |
| Now, here's another little headline: Black Lives Matter, co-founder, appears to label white people defects. | |
| Story from the Toronto Sun, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto, argued that white people are recessive genetic defects and purportedly mused about how the white race could be wiped out, according to a post on what appears to be her Facebook page. | |
| Her name is Yusra Kogali. | |
| She has faced increased scrutiny over the past year after Black Lives Matter Toronto gained political influence following their disruption of the Toronto Pride Parade and confrontations with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. | |
| On Friday, Toronto police announced they would not participate in this year's upcoming parade. | |
| It's been a long-standing demand of Black Lives Matter Toronto and one that the Board of Pride Toronto recently backed in a controversial vote. | |
| Anyway, this babe has a track record of inflammatory, divisive. | |
| Why is that not racist to say? | |
| Why is there a serious news story about the intellect and the life and the policy positions of this nutcase? | |
| Black Lives Matter co-founder appears to label white people defects, recessive genetic defect. | |
| Why is that okay? | |
| And why if somebody came along who was not part of Black Lives Matter or not a racial minority and began to poke fun at this woman, you know what they would be in for. | |
| Why is she allowed? | |
| And why is any racial minority allowed to get away with this kind of thing? | |
| And then why is it that when certain white people react to it and fight back, they are condemned? | |
| And is there no end to this? | |
| Canada, did Canada have slavery? | |
| Does Canada have the original sin of slavery, which permits a Black Lives Matter operative there to call white people recessive genetic defects? | |
| Yeah, you see, we're just supposed to take it, accept it, smile, and move on. | |
| Nothing to see here because we're supposed to be understanding and we're supposed to be bigger. | |
| But when does this stuff end? | |
| And if this is a serious story, it's like an analysis of this woman and her political life and her influence and her education and why she believes this in an effort to actually support the claim that she makes from her perspective, of course. | |
| And yet, if the opposite were stated by anybody, can you, you don't even want to think about what would happen. | |
| And I submit to you, it's little things like this that add up and add up, have a cumulative effect, boiling over, and nobody ever really knows why, except the people, the objects of this derision. | |
| They hear it, they see it for years and years and years, and they see the imbalance in terms of coverage and treatment. | |
| It's like, in a way, we're going to get to this. | |
| We get to the Steve Miller, Steve Miller soundbites, but look at what the left wants to do to Kellyanne Conway, and I guess even some Republicans over her supposed endorsement of Ivanka Trump products vis-a-vis Nordstrom. | |
| I have a few more things I want to add to that, but we're going to take a break and come back and play some bites from Stephen Miller, Trump supporter and policy advisor who was on all the Sunday shows yesterday. | |
| See what you think. | |
| Okay, so the Trump White House trotted out a not a spokesman, but one of their insign policy advisors to appear on the Sunday show, Stephen Miller, who is in his 30s. | |
| He's a wonderkind of sorts. | |
| He went to Duke. | |
| He's from Santa Monica, Santa Cruz. | |
| He's from a very leftist part of California, but is a rock-ribbed conservative. | |
| Trump found him working for Jeff Sessions. | |
| And he is a very articulate spokesman and unruffleable. | |
| He's extremely solid. | |
| In fact, I looked at some of the comments on the ABC website after he appeared with Stephanopoulos. | |
| Stephanopoulos, who was so classic yesterday, being disrespectful, subtly so, with pointed editorial comments about Miller. | |
| Well, you've provided no evidence. | |
| You still, for the record, you have not provided any evidence. | |
| Do you want to claim that you can make it? | |
| Meanwhile, Susan Rice shows up to lie to Stephanopoulos and everybody about Benghazi on five shows, and they all lap it up like addicts. | |
| Not once did Stephanopopopopolis, well, you haven't provided any evidence that the video actually was the reason for the killings in Benghazi. | |
| Not a single time. | |
| Our soundbites come from this week, but he showed up on all the programs. | |
| Let's get started here. | |
| First question that we have, do you think everyone being removed right now, meaning illegal immigrants, because these ICE raids, by the way, about these ICE raids, something you need to know. | |
| Drive-bys are obsessed today with what's being reported as Trump's huge immigration roundup. | |
| Never mind, these raids being executed were planned months ago under the Obama regime, folks. | |
| I'm not making it up. | |
| I'd never make it up. | |
| This is what's happening. | |
| Never mind that Obama himself ordered numerous raids. | |
| It didn't just net a couple hundred illegal aliens. | |
| Obama had raids that netted 7,500 illegals and deported them. | |
| But that was never, I mean, it was reported, but nobody ever had a problem with it when Obama did it. | |
| Nobody, the media, nobody thought it was inhumane. | |
| Nobody thought it was untoward. | |
| Nobody thought it was terrible. | |
| They barely even mentioned it. | |
| Now, Obama-era raids, just like that military operation in Yemen, that was planned during the Obama administration. | |
| So are these raids that you're reading about. | |
| So Stephanopoulos is asking Miller, do you think everyone being removed right now is a threat to national security? | |
| I think, first of all, that it would be improper, unethical, and wrong for me in the White House to pick up the phone and call an ICE officer and say, well, we know you encounter someone who's here illegally, and we know they have a final order of removal, and we also know that they're a convicted felon, but we would like you to ignore all of those laws. | |
| What would you say, George, if I pick up the phone and called an FBI agent and said, I know you're investigating a tax evasion case, and I know the person you're investigating is a convicted felon, and I know they've absconded from justice, but I want you to pretend none of that happened, burn the file, go back to your desk, don't do anything. | |
| Would you think that would be an ethical and appropriate action for me to take? | |
| Now, I love this. | |
| And by the way, Trump tweeted this morning his thanks to his own aide for defending him so well. | |
| I mean, you never see a president do that. | |
| Did Obama tweet his support and appreciation for Susan Rice? | |
| No. | |
| Obama wanted you to think he had nothing to do with what she said. | |
| But Trump's out there tweeting, thanks to Stephen Miller, defending me so well on lying fake news or whatever it was the tweet said. | |
| But here's Stephanopoulos. | |
| The point of Stephanopoulos' question is, okay, you guys are rounding up all these innocent, harmless illegals and you're just throwing them out of the country. | |
| You really think they're a threat to national security? | |
| And Miller answers it as a rule of law question. | |
| He says, well, first of all, it would be really improper, unethical, and wrong for the White House to pick up the phone and call an ICE officer and say, hey, if you find an illegal who violated the law, ignore it. | |
| We wouldn't do that. | |
| We're simply enforcing the law here, George. | |
| It might look strange to you because it hasn't been done in the last eight years. | |
| But that's the point of Miller's bite here. | |
| We're just enforcing the law. | |
| He doesn't say these are Obama-era ordered raids, but they are. | |
| I'm not even sure Stephanopoulos knows that. | |
| And Miller tries to make the point. | |
| Look, George, if we know somebody's out there, like if you know a friend of yours is evading taxes and we've got all the evidence, do you think we should pick up the phone and call the IRS and tell them to forget it? | |
| And his point is, why should we forget and ignore people breaking the law, George? | |
| All we're doing, Trump said from the get-go, American laws are going to be enforced. | |
| He was a big law and order guy during the campaign, during his appearances and his rallies. | |
| And here's Stephanopoulos, one of the people that didn't listen, didn't pay any attention while Trump was campaigning. | |
| And now, because his sensibilities are offended, because these are minorities, these are people of color, and they're poor people, and they're illegal. | |
| And you're kicking them out. | |
| Threats to national security. | |
| No, it's not national security, George. | |
| It says we're enforcing the law. | |
| And of course, Stephanopoulos had no answer for any of these retorts from Stephen Miller. | |
| He just, well, okay, well, then, okay, well, okay, how about this? | |
| And then on to the next question. | |
| And as you will hear, Miller nukes the next question. | |
| Well, yeah, but I didn't hear for the record anything. | |
| You still didn't answer my question. | |
| Now, on to the next question. | |
| And it went on and on like that. | |
| And Miller, they didn't fluster him. | |
| And what they're really, really upset today is that Miller pointed out that there's voter fraud everywhere. | |
| And Stephanopoulos did what the drive-bys are doing. | |
| Give me the evidence. | |
| Give me the evidence. | |
| And Miller said, go to New Hampshire, George. | |
| I mean, everybody in New Hampshire politics is saying they bust people in here and there. | |
| And so now New Hampshire's up in arms and the drive-bys are up in arms. | |
| Trump once again lying about non-existent voter fraud. | |
| Anyway, I have to take a break here, but we. | |
| We have lots more as you can tell, so don't go away, folks. | |
| I'll be right back. | |
| By the way, the story on Reince Priebus being on his way out comes from Chris Ruddy of Newsmax.com, who is a very, very close friend of the Trumpster. | |
| I think he was there with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinso Abe Shinso Abe and his wife. | |
| And he's telling CNN that Priebus is not doing a good job. | |
| And people think, my gosh, would Ruddy be doing that without Trump's consent? |
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