{"id":13025,"date":"2013-03-06T19:44:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:44:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-06T19:44:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:44:59","slug":"fearless_cruz_breaks_down_holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/06\/fearless_cruz_breaks_down_holder\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless Cruz Breaks Down Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/48203\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, because it appears, Mr. Snerdley, that Ted Cruz actually goaded Holder into admitting that killing Americans with drones on US soil is unconstitutional.  We\u2019ve got three bites.  I don\u2019t think I can get \u2019em all in, but we\u2019ll get started because these are great.  Ted Cruz is fearless.  This is a lesson for conservatives everywhere.  They\u2019ve been writing Holder letters. They\u2019ve been doing all kinds of things, but Ted Cruz challenged him face-to-face this morning in Washington during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER:  I would not think that that would be an appropriate use of any kind of lethal force.  We would deal with that in the way that we typically deal with a situation like that. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jsy01ljGcy0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CRUZ:  With all due respect, General Holder, my question wasn\u2019t about appropriateness or prosecutorial discretion.  It was a simple legal question:  Does the Constitution allow a US citizen on US soil who doesn\u2019t pose an imminent threat to be killed by the US government?<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER:  I do not believe that &#8212; again, you have to look at all of the facts.  But on the facts that you have given me &#8212; and this is a hypothetical &#8212; I would not think that in that situation the use of a drone or lethal force would be appropriate, because &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CRUZ:  General Holder, I have to tell you, I find it remarkable that in that hypothetical &#8212; which is deliberately very simple &#8212; you are unable to give a simple one-word, one-syllable answer: &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That\u2019s exactly right, exactly right.  And then Cruz said, &#8220;You keep saying appropriate, Mr. Holder.  My question isn\u2019t about propriety.  It\u2019s a simple question about whether something is constitutional or not.  &#8220;As Attorney General, you\u2019re the chief legal officer of the country.  Do you have a legal judgment on whether it would be constitutional to kill a US citizen on US soil in those circumstances using a drone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER:  A person who is not engaged as you described &#8212; this is the problem with hypotheticals, but the way in which you have described this person sitting at the cafe, not doing anything imminently, the use of lethal force would not be appropriate, would not be something &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CRUZ:  I find it remarkable that you still will not give an opinion on the constitutionality.  Let me move on to the next topic, \u2019cause we &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER:  Translate my &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CRUZ:  &#8212; we\u2019ve gone round and round.<\/p>\n<p>HOLDER:  Let me be clear.  Translate my appropriate to no.  I thought I was saying no, all right?  No.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/CruzHolder.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  So he got him to say no, it wouldn\u2019t be constitutional.  But he didn\u2019t want to.  But this is how you do it.  Cruz isn\u2019t afraid.  He wasn\u2019t afraid of public opinion. He wasn\u2019t afraid of what would be said about the fact he was attacking an African-American attorney general. He had no fear.  These guys want to kill American citizens with drones, and he wants them to stand up and admit that they think they\u2019ve got the right to do it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So Eric Holder, in the last sound bite, &#8220;Okay, you want a one-word answer? No, it isn\u2019t constitutional to kill somebody sitting in a cafe that\u2019s not provoking anybody with a drone.&#8221;  Ted Cruz takes a little victory lap in the next sound bite.<\/p>\n<p>CRUZ:  Well, then I am glad.  After much gymnastics, I am very glad to hear that it is the opinion of the Department of Justice that it would be unconstitutional to kill a US citizen on US soil if that individual did not pose an imminent threat.  That statement has not been easily forthcoming.  I wish you had given that statement in response to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13028\">Senator Paul\u2019s letter asking you it<\/a>.  And I will point out that this week I will be introducing legislation in the Senate to make clear that the US government cannot kill a US citizen on US soil absent an imminent threat; and I hope, based on that representation, that the department will support that legislation.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  We\u2019ll see.  We\u2019ll see.  I am not gonna hold my breath.  Eric Holder wants to take away our guns.  Oh, speaking of that, let me see if I can find this real quick. I got so much paper here, folks.  I\u2019ve got a story here, a guy named John Lott Jr. knew Obama back in the early 2000s&#8230; here it is.  This is a story from the Cybercast News Service. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his new book, At the Brink, economist and author John Lott Jr., assesses the presidency of Barack Obama and recalls conversations regarding gun laws they had while working at the University of Chicago.  In Chapter Three, Mr. Lott discusses gun-control and takes the reader back to his time at the University of Chicago, where he and then-professor Barack Obama spoke on numerous occasions about guns in America. &#8216;I don\u2019t believe people should be able to own guns,\u2019 Obama told Lott one day at the University of Chicago Law School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So this would be back in the early 2000s. &#8220;I don\u2019t believe people should be able to own guns,&#8221; Obama told Lott.  Lott explains that he first met Obama shortly after completing his research on concealed handgun laws and crime.  &#8216;He did not come across as a moderate who wanted to bring people together,\u2019 Lott writes.&#8221;  Well, it makes sense.  He\u2019s not that.  He doesn\u2019t want to bring people together!  I gotta tone it down.  I\u2019m trying to reinvent myself here just a bit to be less threatening to 24-year-old women.  I realize I raise my voice and say, &#8220;He doesn\u2019t want to bring people together!&#8221;  (imitating 24-year-old women) &#8220;That scares me. I don\u2019t want to hear that, please.&#8221; Okay. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/holderCruz.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The evidence is clear. We\u2019ve looked at this now, we\u2019re into our fifth year, the country is more divided than ever, no bipartisan. The president said that he wanted to get rid of the old politics, bring in this new era. It\u2019s only gotten worse.  He\u2019s not interested in bringing people together and he\u2019s got this quote from Obama and we\u2019ve got all kinds of Obama interviews from back then where he\u2019s told his union buddies how he\u2019s gonna get single-payer health care. How he\u2019s gonna worm this and worm that, if he ever became president, how he would do it, and he\u2019s doing it, doing everything that we\u2019ve heard him say at earlier periods in his life.  And now John Lott quotes him in a new book, &#8220;I don\u2019t believe people should be able to own guns.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>You think he\u2019s changed his mind? <\/p>\n<p>So my point is, Eric Holder and Obama, if they could, I\u2019m convinced if they could, they would eliminate the right to own weapons. And until Ted Cruz forced the issue, they wanted to try to make the case to kill Americans with drones.  And yet somehow I\u2019m the extremist.  Somehow American conservatives are the extremists, when it took Ted Cruz a half hour to get Holder to admit it\u2019s unconstitutional to just randomly kill an American with a drone.  I\u2019ll tell you, there\u2019s another conservative out there, actually four.  Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Ken Cuccinelli, who is running for governor in Virginia.  I interviewed him for the upcoming issue of the Limbaugh Letter. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m interviewing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13981\">Angelo Codevilla today, he of the Ruling Class article fame<\/a>. I\u2019m interviewing him this afternoon for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.  Cuccinelli was great, and I have a couple of sound bites from him.  But Cuccinelli, Ted Cruz, these guys are take no prisoners.  They\u2019re exactly what is necessary. They\u2019re fearless. They\u2019re unafraid to define Obama and the Democrats as they are and for who they are, what they\u2019re doing.  They\u2019re fearless.  You just heard Cruz, not afraid of Holder at all.  He wasn\u2019t afraid of being called a racist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites, because it appears, Mr. Snerdley, that Ted Cruz actually goaded Holder into admitting that killing Americans with drones on US soil is unconstitutional. We\u2019ve got three bites. I don\u2019t think I can get \u2019em all in, but we\u2019ll get started because these are great. 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