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Feb. 16, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2017, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
Yeah, when I saw that, I said, Well, this is a coup.
I can't believe this.
I thought it was an the Obama shadow government is gonna is actually in the middle of a coup when I saw this last night.
And I went to bed last night thinking it was a coup.
And then I gotta clean my glasses.
Why couldn't I have discovered this before the Anyway, so I get up here today and I started looking at the news and I found out no, it's not a coup, and it's not even being accurately reported.
And I said, damn it!
I fell for fake news again.
Or misleading news.
Did you see the story last night where the Intel ate was a it was one of these Wall Street Journal breaking news alerts?
Stop everything you're doing, including if you're going to church, stop right now and read this.
And it was one of these things, intelligence agencies have decided to stop providing President Trump with any data.
And I said, wait a minute.
I mean, with everything else that's gone on, and now these guys, if you stop and think about this for just a second, yet the president of the United States, we have a world that is on fire.
I mean, it really is.
The world's on fire all around us.
Now these Intel guys, we already know the games they're playing with Flynn.
We already know, and we keep learning about this.
And by the way, two more stories today of absolutely no evidence that Flynn talked about sanctions with the Russians on that call.
And absolutely no evidence that the Russians had anything to do with the outcome of the election.
The story continues to be written, and yet if these guys who are undermining Trump have now decided they're just not going to provide him with any intel, and that you know many of them are Obama holdovers for what else is that?
But but a but a silent coup.
How can a president not be provided intel from around the world?
I th that was you see, I believed it could be possible, because I know liberals and I who I know who they are, and I and I know everything about them better than they know themselves.
So I believe it could be entirely true.
So I made it a point to follow up on that today when I got in here, and I found out that the story is much ado about nothing, and in fact it was clickbait for all intents and purposes.
It was just designed to cause the exact reaction I had.
I later learned that this is common, that it's it's that that it really was about how a lot of intel is not presented to presidents and before it's sifted and before it's analyzed.
And all this was a story that takes a common occurrence, and they tried to make it look like something brand new and unprecedented.
Now, if it worked on me, and I came in here and I researched it and I found out today that the original take I had on it was wrong.
But can you imagine how this would work on people who are not highly trained, seasoned broadcast specialist and media experts like me.
I shudder to think.
At any rate, folks, great to have you here.
The telephone number, if you want to be with us, 800-282-288-2, and the email addresses L. Rushbo at EIB net.us.
The president with a press conference today was originally scheduled for noon, and then they moved it to 1230.
I wonder why.
They moved it to 1230, and the ostensible purpose of the press conference is to announce the new labor secretary pick.
He is uh Alexander Acosta.
He's uh obviously Hispanic.
He clerked to the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
He's a former member of the uh of the labor board, so uh that's the primary purpose.
Now, I don't know if Trump's gonna take any questions outside of this.
I only see one podium there.
So they're not gonna give the labor secretary his own podium.
And you know, Trump the folks, it is hilarious.
The drive-bys are up in arms.
They're claiming that Trump is destroying the conversation by not calling on him.
At the press conference yesterday with Bibi Netanyahu, uh the president called on Katie Pavlich of Town Hall, who, by the way, is a never Trumper.
Katie Pavl is not she she doesn't like Trump.
She never has liked Trump.
I don't know if she's moderated on Trump now.
My brother knows her very, very well.
I've never met her.
But apparently she's uh she's a never Trumper and hasn't moderated much.
And so Trump called on somebody doesn't agree with him.
She's from Town Hall.com, she editor-in-chief there.
And then he called on somebody from the Christian Broadcast Network.
And the drive-bys are just ABCC and NC.
They are just livid.
Trump is violating a constitution by not calling on them.
So I went to the Constitution, and I want I looked at the First Amendment, the freedom of the press part, and I looked, I can't find where it says presidents have to call on CNN.
And I and I didn't see the constitutional requirement that presidents call on NBC, CBS, or ABC, but Dan Rather.
Dan Rather says this is worse than Watergate.
Did you see Tom Friedman in the New York Times yesterday?
These people, I didn't think it was possible to become more unhinged, but they doing it.
Tom Friedman said, We had the attack on Pearl Harbor, and that was bad.
And then we had the attack on 9-11, and that was bad.
And then we had the attack on November 6th, 2016.
And that was so he equated the election of Donald Trump to 9-11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
And he's still employed there.
This is insanity.
And of course, Thomas L. Friedman, the L stands for loopy, is considered one of the deans of the establishment press corps.
I remember I wouldn't expect you to remember this, but I I remember early on in the Obama administration.
Do you remember the first two or three months?
He would have these workshops at the White House in a big room.
I think it was the East Room.
And one of the like a summit on jobs, and then a summit on Gitmo, and a summit on this or summit on that.
And he would bring in a bunch of academics and media types.
Well, not too many media types, but he would bring in specialists, and he'd have a group in one in all the four corners of the room.
And they would work for two or three hours, say on jobs.
And at the end of the day, they would report to Obama.
And the problem would be solved.
There'd be a two or three-hour job summit, and they'd all tell Obama what they had done, what they'd talked about, what brilliant ideas they'd put on paper, and Obama would announce another successful job summit, and everybody, whoa, man, this guy really cool.
We fixed jobs.
Well, Freedman was at one of these things.
It's a freedman.
He's a columnist.
He believes that the Chicons are setting the pace for the world.
I never understood something about Friedman.
Friedman believes in climate change, believes that the U.S. is destroying the world.
If you go to China, you'll die of pollution.
And yet he loves these people.
At any rate, I'm asking myself, what's Friedman doing there?
And it was tipped.
Folks, this was this was your average egghead establishment academic theoreticians have never gotten their hands dirty, much less dirt under their fingernails, unless it's playing golf, getting your tea out of the ground.
That's it.
And I'm why and Obama, they had cameras and they're televising some of this.
And Obama is traveling the entire room.
He stops in one corner and visits a group there, and they look up admiringly at him and report their progress.
Yes, Mr. President, we're having a great conversation here on jobs.
Many, many ideas are being circulated in Obama.
Very good.
Very good.
He goes off to the next corner and talk to the next group.
And Friedman was in one of those groups.
What is he doing there?
I mean, here's a guy, and they all thought they mattered, and they all thought they were making a difference.
But more than that, there's a term for this that I cannot I cannot say on the air.
There's a you've you've heard the term.
It's the first word star.
And the last word describes an act that in some instances produces a child, in others produces an abortion.
So you have the star or the celebrity or whatever.
And This is a room full of these people.
And at the end of the day, they haven't done diddly squat, but they really are feeling special, like they really matter.
And it was classic liberalism.
Think about something, talk about something.
Hold hands, say kumbaya, and at the end of three hours of this, think that you've solved a problem.
And so Friedman comes out with his piece yesterday comparing the election of Trump to the attack on America on 9-11 with 3,000 people died and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
And I think, geez, all you can do is um is just laugh at this stuff.
Okay, Rasmussen has a presidential popularity poll out approval poll.
Obama at, I'm sorry, Trump is at 55% in this poll.
The only other poll out there that I have seen, presidential approval number was what?
Gallup?
And it had Trump at 40%.
And Rasmussen has Trump at 55.
It's a poll of likely U.S. voters.
Trump at 55 approval, 45 disapproval.
The latest figures include 38% who strongly approve of the way Trump is performing, and 36% who strongly disapprove.
Trump is going to Melbourne, Florida on Saturday.
He's going to have a rally.
And I suggested that he do this.
I done no, no, I don't know.
No, no, I'm just selling you.
I suggest that he do this.
You've heard me say it.
Trump's support base, his voters are all that he has.
He needs this stuff.
He's got to create scenarios where there are photos and pictures of thousands and thousands of people in love with Trump and going nuts to counter some of the phony fake news that the drive-bys are putting out.
So I think that I see this rally.
It's sold out, that means the tickets are free, but it's sold out.
It's at 5 p.m. on Saturday up in Melbourne.
You ever been to Melbourne, Mr. Snerdley?
Yeah, it's right up the road there.
Um fact, if you don't like the Miami weather radar, tune into the Melbourne weather radar.
And uh we are covered by both sweeps.
Um so that'll go probably an hour, hour and a half, and then Trump will come back here.
So if you need to get around here, do it between 5 and 6:30 on Saturday.
And President's Day is Monday, right?
Wendy knew that before anybody.
I'm I'm seriously thinking, you know, I get screwed on these Monday house.
Nobody ever tells me about them.
And I show up here, and I'm seriously thinking, this is intense here.
I mean, this is I was telling somebody the other day, oh, I got an email yesterday from a friend who was a good job, great show.
I said, you know, I tell you, I'll be honest with you, I don't remember it being more intense.
I'm sure it has, I just don't recall it.
I don't remember the number of hours required.
Uh just to stay even with the flow of news, this with it to stay prepped and so forth.
It it genuinely, it really is.
Uh I'm sure back in the early Clinton days it might have been like this, the early Obama days, Gulf War I and Gulf War II, but I don't know, it just seems uh just incredibly.
There's no rest, there's no breakup, there's no, you have to you have to purp I have to purposefully carve out some time and just forget everything.
But I don't have to.
If I no matter what I'm doing, something is gonna happen.
Phone's gonna blare or something's gonna happen.
Like that, like that alert I got last night, a Wall Street Journal, and then a New York Times had one the night before.
Both of them ending up to be really exaggerated.
Cybercast News Service, 60% of refugee arrivals since the judge halted Trump's executive order come from five of the seven countries that Trump wanted to temporarily limit those people getting into the country.
60% of the refugees admitted to the U.S. since Judge Robart out in Seattle put a stay on the executive order, originate from five of the seven countries identified by Trump, and Obama, by the way.
Uh as the most risky.
Trump had a series of tweets today.
I wouldn't worry about Trump.
I know a lot of people are putting themselves in Trump's shoes.
You watch the news.
You see the assaults.
You see the drive by.
You see it, you expose yourself to it.
You know what's going on, you wonder, my God, how's the guy holding up?
I mean, you know how you feel, and even about you.
You know how much pressure you feel, and even about you.
It's about Trump.
And everything that I have been able to amass witness put together says he's fine.
Not that he's unaware, don't he's not living in a bubble.
It's just that he's committed to his agenda and all of this stuff is noise.
And the media is not the number one thing in his world in terms of shaping his opinions on things or his agenda or his uh daily attitude.
New York Times had a story that ran, I guess it was yesterday or maybe last night.
I heard about it last night.
Conservative talk radio stands by Trump despite turmoil.
I didn't see the story.
Snerdley sent it to me.
Between the resignation of his national security advisor and the revelation that his campaign aides and other associates had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence officials.
It's been a tough week for President Trump.
But if his supporters on the right were beginning to doubt him, there was no sign of it on conservative talk radio where Mr. Trump's contention that he was a victim of leaks and entrenched Washington insiders lit up the phone lines around the country.
Then this.
They quote me, but it's a selective quote, and they leave out the crucial thing in it, and that is what I was talking about.
Here's the quote that they published.
There is no evidence for the primary assertion that's driving this entire attack on Trump.
Rush Limbaugh, the prominent host, said.
This attack, continuing to quote me here, this attack is coming from the shadows of the deep state, where former Obama employees remain in the intelligence community.
In another accusation, Limbaugh said they're lying about things, hoping to make it easier for them and the Obama shadow government to eventually get rid of Trump and everybody in his administration.
And that's it.
So they quote me saying there's no evidence for the primary assertion driving this, but they never mention what I identify as the primary assertion.
So the reader is left to assume, and how many people reading this stuff actually thought, well, well, what's the primary assertion?
They're just going to read it and absorb it, absorb it.
There's no evidence for the primary assertion driving this entire attack on Trump.
So the reader is free to fill in the blank whatever they think the primary attack is.
What I was talking about is this.
And then they this is a purposeful omission.
It has to be purposeful.
The primary assertion that I dispute is that the Russians and Trump hacked the election, causing Hillary to lose.
That is a fraudulent phony assertion.
There's no evidence.
There has never been any evidence.
They have looked.
Turns out Obama has been investigating Trump since before the election on this stuff.
Why, by the way, was he doing that?
If they thought Hillary was going to win in a landslide, why were they investigating Trump?
But they were.
We've learned that in a news story.
See, Obama was investigating Trump and ties to the Russians as far back as early October.
And the point I made yesterday was there is no evidence.
The primary thing that fuels this, the energy that's fueling all of this stuff on Flynn, is that the Russians hacked the election and cheated and determined the outcome, guaranteeing that Hillary lost.
I think it's kind of important, New York Times, if you're going to quote me to put what I'm talking about in the quote.
By the way, folks, last night, On the Senate floor and on the House floor.
I, your beloved host, Rush Limbaugh was blamed for people losing food stamps in the last eight years.
I Rush Limbaugh, Senator Dick Turbin took out after me, and uh Mark Vesey, Democrat in Texas, they both blamed me for a attacking labor unions and then promoting government shutdowns, which led to food stamp cuts and so forth.
Now, why in the world would would I be blamed on the floor of the House for something that happened during the Obama administration?
What in the world is the politics of this?
And the answer is two words.
Fundraising.
But nevertheless, I'll take it.
It's a badge of honor.
Just wish my parents were alive.
Hear their son's name regaled on the Senate floor.
So the AP had a story today that Trump is overwhelmed by all these crises.
No, he's not.
Trump had a very casual meeting with 10 or 12 members of Congress today talking about the agenda.
He was joking, he was lighthearted.
It was excellent.
It was it was off the cuff, informal.
It was just and it was funny and it was charming.
He's not stressed over all this, or what would they say?
Um overwhelmed.
If anything, he is late.
If anything, he's listening to the program here for as long as he can before he has to go out there and announce the new labor secretary.
Well, we'll jip it whenever it happens.
I don't know if there's going to be any questions beyond the introduction of the labor secretary.
I mean, Trump gets in, gets it, and gets out.
At the joint pressure with B.B. Netanyahu yesterday was four questions.
And I I really hope he continues ignoring ABC CBSNBC.
But if Dan Rather were there, that wouldn't be a bad guy to call on.
But Dan Rather's not going to be there.
So when it happens, we'll jip it here.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Last night, Senate floor during debate on the nomination of Mick Mulvaney.
He's a Republican South Carolina be director of the Office of Management Budget, and he's gonna make it.
Here's Durbin, Dick Durbin of Illinois, again, debate on the nomination of the guy to be director of OMB.
When Mr. Mulvaney and the Republicans succeeded in shutting down the government for 16 days in 2013, it cost the American economy 20 billion dollars.
Do you remember that?
Rush Limbaugh got on his radio show and said, if they shut down the government, no one will even notice.
Well, guess what, Mr. Limbaugh?
They noticed.
People struggling to survive in America who relied on programs like food stamps.
They had their food in jeopardy and in danger.
Because Congressman Mulvaney and his friends thought that a display of political power here shutting down the government was just the right recipe for America.
Wait a minute.
These clowns told us throughout all these shutdowns, this 16 days, big whoop that no welfare was ever affected, right?
There was no welfare checks interrupted, food, nothing.
There weren't any cutbacks.
There wasn't a suspension of food stamps being available.
What is this is lying through his teeth here?
And blame this on me.
Mr. Limbaugh got on his radio shows, they shut down the government, nobody will notice.
They don't notice it when they don't told about it.
You would be amazed at the number of times the government's actually shut down for arcane uh budgetary constitutional reasons.
It happens a lot, and if you don't know about it, it doesn't affect you only when there's a bunch of media hype.
But they've always said that no impact ever comes.
The last time they said there was starving kids in 95 on that budget deal, but but to throw me in the mix.
Uh it just means, folks, that the mention of my name forces lunatic liberals to go to their checkbooks and start writing checks to Democrats.
That's what this means.
It has to.
Well, there may be a little bit more to it than that, but that's clearly part of it.
Now let's go over to the House.
This is during general speeches.
When members just get up there and and start blabbing.
It was last night, and this is uh Congressman Mark Visi, Democrat Texas talking about jobs and labor unions.
One of the reasons why we've seen the decline of pay in this country is because uh the Republicans and their efforts to undermine labor.
And when you start talking about undermining labor, and when you turn on these talk radio shows, you turn on the Rush Limbaugh show.
They're always talking about how bad unions are in this country.
Think about the middle class jobs that many of these union shops brought to all communities, whether they were it was the white community, Hispanic community, black, they allow people to be able to put some food on the table.
Who was it that wrote off the white working class in the last election?
The Democrat Party, starting with an up-ed by Thomas B. Edsel, that ran in the New York Times in November of 2011.
They announced it as a campaign strategy.
They were going to ignore white working class voters and instead throw in with what they thought was going to be a majority of all the minorities in this country combined into one giant coalition.
But even even beyond that, how do I make this sound light?
That's right.
I I I'm taking food off people's tables.
That's exactly right.
Uh people want to put food on the table, and I'm taking food out of the mouths of babies.
I'm taking food off their tables, because I have criticized unions at some point.
All of this going Obama's eight years.
So I guess um we were more effective than we knew in gumming up the works of the Obama regime.
Just I just I I don't know, folks.
Chris Salizza in the Washington Post was listening yesterday.
Here's the headline is peace that I think it just cleared.
I don't know if this made the newspaper or if it's their website.
Rush Limbaugh is exactly right about how Donald Trump can fix his problems.
Do you remember what I said yesterday about this?
Or were you you?
That's exactly right.
Exactly.
Well, I didn't know if you heard it because you've been there screening calls in the first hour, and you're not able to.
They quote me and they quote me accurately.
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk radio icon has a solution and a very good one to Trump's current malaise.
Here is an excerpt of Limbaugh's advice from his show on Wednesday.
I'm going to tell you what I think is the best thing Donald Trump could do.
Just focus on repealing Obamacare and then focus on tax reform, and then just move full speed ahead on the domestic agenda, make tracks, do it, obviously, bring in people, have meetings, bring the Republicans up, the Democrats up, as the president in a room telling them this is why we were all elected.
This is why you Democrats lost.
This is what we're going to do.
We're going to work together, we're going to move these tax cuts forward, we're going to reform the tax code, we're going to repeal Obamacare.
None of this, oh man, I don't know.
We should maybe wait two years.
None of that, just do it.
If Trump would engage at full speed on his domestic agenda, which is why he was elected, then his people will stay with him no matter what this Obama shadow government tries.
So Lizza writes, that is very, very smart.
That had to pain them.
I mean, this whole story had to pain them because it's exactly they had to admit if Trump did that, he can once again leave them in the dust.
If Trump would you know, I know Ryan had a press conference today on Obamacare, and he said that when they get back from the President's Day break.
Well Congress the President's Day is Monday.
What is Congress got a month off for that?
When when when do they come back after the Yeah, usually within a few days?
Well, if they come back, he whines up whenever they get back from the President's Day break, they're gonna go full speed on Obamacare.
I don't know.
I just threw that out there taking President's Day off.
You know, I'm I'm not gonna I'm I'm not gonna have a weekend off because I gotta get up early to be on Fox News Sunday.
Uh so that means I gotta be here way, way earlier than I would normally be anywhere on a Sunday.
On Sunday, I don't play golf till noon.
Saturday I play early, but Sunday.
Sunday I just sleep till I wake up, whenever that is.
Usually not much later, body clock being what it is.
So I don't know.
Uh but if I do, you'll need a guest host, right?
Or a best of.
Can you imagine the best of we have to choose from?
Ho, ho, ho, ho.
So it might not even need a guest.
But I'll think it, I'll let you know.
I'll let you know.
When's the l what's the latest you would need to know in order to go out and secure a guest host?
Are there any guest hosts left?
Because every every one of them ends up getting their own national show.
Who today would be the last day.
Okay, so I've got to decide by the day.
All right.
We'll take a brief time out.
The Trump presser still has not begun.
Mr. President's okay.
You can go out now.
Um I got most of what I intended to get in the first half hour anyway, so we're good.
We're cleared.
Well, we have a chance.
Let's sneak in a caller.
It's Jeff in Kansas City.
Welcome, Jeff.
Great to have you.
How are you doing?
I'm fantastic, Rush.
Thanks for taking the calls.
A lot of yours listening.
Appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, uh, just Colin, you were you were talking earlier about uh how you were quoted in the press uh in regard to Flynn not uh them not having any evidence against Flynn in regard to the calls that he had made.
I think the one important thing you missed was that they also did not point out that you were quoting the New York Times when you did that.
That's an excellent point.
That is a superb.
He's exactly right.
What he is talking about, thank you, Jeff.
I'm being short here because Trump may come out at any moment.
Um New York Times has a story, conservative talk radio stands by Trump despite turmoil, as though we're it.
Trump's got nobody left but me and a couple other hosts.
That's it.
Everybody's abandoned Trump.
Trump's got nobody left, except of course me.
Damn it.
And then they quote me as saying there is no evidence for the primary assertion driving the entire attack on Trump.
This attack is coming from the shadows of the deep state where former Obama employees remain in the intelligence community.
They never identify what I was talking about.
What I was talking about was this idiotic assertion that the Russians and Trump worked together to hack the the election, guaranteeing that Hillary would lose.
And what Jeff's point is, that's the New York Times story.
It's the New York Times story that I was objecting to and disagreeing with and blowing up.
And they quote me talking it, but they never mention I'm reporting on their story, commenting on their story, and they left out the central thing I was talking about.
When I say there's no evidence for the primary assertion driving this entire attack on Trump, they don't identify what I was talking about.
So whoever read this really doesn't know what I was talking about.
I was talking about the primary assertion, the reason all of this investigating is going on.
The excuse for all of this is that the Russians hacked the election, and that Trump was working with them.
And they've been investigating this maybe since before October.
And so I'm gonna ask my question again.
At all of this time, near October, uh early part of November, September, they thought Hillary was gonna win.
They had their own polls.
They believed every poll that they produced that showed Hillary was up by five, up by six.
They were ignoring every bit of evidence that Trump was doing well.
And they literally thought this election, even nine o'clock on election night, they still thought, and Hillary thought she's gonna win.
So in the midst of this confidence that they're gonna win the election, why in the world they're investigating Trump.
What what what is the point?
There has to be a reason why they were doing it.
And now the fact that they're liberals and they want to destroy political opponents, that's that's a big factor.
Uh investigating Trump and and coming up with something to ruin him, sends a signal to any other Republican or anybody else that might someday think about Running against the Democrat Party.
Here is Josh in BRIC, New Jersey.
Hey, Josh, I'm glad you called, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Um, I have a quick question for you.
You said during the transition that uh we're living in very precarious times, and Trump can't go out and uh knock Obama personally.
Um now that with with all that's been revealed, and as you've pointed out, this Obama shadow government, which is beyond leaks.
It's it's deeper than that.
Right.
Do you believe it's time for Trump to take off the gloves and go after Obama personally?
Not until they can actually find Obama fingerprints.
I mean, you know it's you know it's Obama, you know that he's there, you know that he's got these 250 organizations, you know, George Soros.
But if you're gonna do that, that's akin to going after the king.
Not that Obama's still president, but you're going after the the guy running a Democrat Party.
You better be able to have without doubt evidence.
You better have conclusive evidence.
There's another way of doing it, though, without doing it that way.
The one thing my my buddy Andy McCarthy at National Review wrote a huge piece that has a central theme, and it is this that Trump should release the transcript of the phone call between Flynn and the Russian ambassador.
Because I've got two more stories here today at the top of my stack of the Flynn stack.
Two more stories, NBC and NPR, both quoting intelligence officials, admitting they have no evidence to support the fact that Trump was working with the Russians.
They have no evidence that that the election was actually hacked.
They have evidence that the Russians were trying, they have evidence that the Russians were meddling, but they don't have any evidence that the Russians had anything to do with the outcome of the election, and they don't have any evidence, and they've heard the call.
Officials who have heard the call, according to NPR and NBC, are saying that there is no evidence that that Flynn discussed the lifting of sanctions.
It's not even clear who made the call.
It's some say that the Russian ambassador made the call.
NSA was was was monitoring him because these the Russians, the NSA monitors our enemies.
I mean, they're tapping and monitoring his phone calls, and that's how they heard about this.
And it what it looks like is that the Russian ambassador kept bringing things up, and Flynn didn't commit to anything, but they were able to say Flynn was discussing with the Russian ambassador.
This whole thing, folks, is just dirty filthy.
But they own the narrative on it.
They've been able to create this narrative, but now in the aftermath, here come these two news reports.
There's no evidence that this happened.
No evidence here.
Release that tape.
If they released a transcript of that tape, and everybody can read it and hear it and discover that there was none of what has been alleged, that would be the same as exposing.
Not maybe Obama, but the shadow government.
People that are out there uh doing what they can to undermine Trump.
You we do.
Grab soundbite number six.
Uh the drive-bys are miffed that Trump is not calling on him.
Trump is gonna take questions beyond the subject of his new labor secretary.
We have a montage of the media expressing their anger at Trump not calling on the President Trump avoiding some of these tough questions we just alluded to, right?
By calling on only conservative outlets again today.
How much longer can he keep up this uh strategy with the media?
For the third time in a row at a press conference, President Trump called on only reporters from conservative news organizations.
He's avoiding the other networks, mainstream reporters who were clearly not happy with the fact that in this press conference did not call on mainstream news organizations, is leaning heavily on calling on conservative outlets.
It's not because we're complaining as journalists.
But they're cherry-picking the questions, basically.
They're not getting tough questions.
Will he stay concentrated as he has been doing on reporters from conservative outlets who are not asking him the pressing questions?
All of the questions have been handled by conservative press, and I I think Wolf, there's no other way to describe it but the fix is in.
How juicy is that?
A drive-by journalist whining and moaning about the fix being in because he is not being called on.
As I pointed out, Katie Pavlich was called on from Town Hall.
She's she's not a Trump supporter.
It's just she didn't ask him about Flynn.
And that's the only thing that matters, don't you know?
Flynn!
What did Trump know?
And when did he know it?
That's all that matters.
It's all that matters.
And if nobody asks him that, then journalism didn't really happen.
And if journalism didn't happen, it means nobody tried to destroy Trump.
And that is what they will not tolerate.
The Trump press conference has begun.
He just announced a new labor secretary.
We have to take our top of the hour break.
This ought to still be going on when we come back.
And we'll jip it at that point.
The uh conservative news outlets, as opposed to journalists, uh, will be asking questions.
See you then.
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