RUSH: You know, programs like yesterday can be frustrating for me because the news is breaking while the program is happening, and I simply don\u2019t have time, I just don\u2019t have the opportunity to do the proper amount of research, education, or what have you, such as Comey\u2019s testimony. I mean, so many contradicting things, so many questionable things, so many weird questions, questions that weren\u2019t asked, answers provided that raised other questions. But there wasn\u2019t time to dig into it, so I left here frustrated as I could be yesterday because of that.<\/p>\n
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So I had some time yesterday and last night to really get into this stuff, and I was really gratified, I have to tell you I was gratified, because much of what I opined yesterday, particularly in the third hour of the program was just knee-jerk reaction opinion. Well, “knee-jerk” is the wrong term, but immediate opinion based on what I was seeing rooted in my instincts, and I was gratified to learn that my record is unbroken, my instincts are unparalleled here.<\/p>\n
So we\u2019ll spend some time going back over some of these things to point out what I think some people might have missed and some of the glaring questions that ended up not being asked yesterday. For example, let me just give you an example. You probably think, based on what\u2019s been reported, whether you saw it or not, you probably think that there was some collusion between Trump and the Russians, that everybody thinks there was, they just haven\u2019t found any evidence yet. So the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
And some of you — and I don\u2019t mean this in a negative way, but you are worried that there may be some guilt here that Trump has engaged in that they\u2019re gonna find, and you\u2019re gonna be “Oh, no.” And all this is based on the way this has been reported. The Democrat questions, which were not really questions, they were Democrat talking points yesterday, over half of the questions the Democrats asked Comey were just Democrat talking points designed to keep that lunatic base of theirs at bay.<\/p>\n
I also am more convinced than ever that what the Democrats were largely doing yesterday was just that: feeding the paranoid, insane Democrat base, because the expectations that there\u2019s going to be an impeachment of Donald Trump have been raised so high that the Democrat base will accept nothing less than that. And that\u2019s the pressure that everybody\u2019s operating under here, including, I believe, Comey.<\/p>\n
For example, we learned yesterday that the Obama FBI — this is very important here, folks — we learned that the FBI began to investigate the Trump campaign back in July for colluding with the Russians to rig the election. That was the Obama FBI. That was the Obama Department of Justice. That means that was Loretta Lynch, who was the attorney general. That means it was Obama who clearly would have been in the loop on it. Despite Obama\u2019s public statements that there\u2019s nothing there, they couldn\u2019t have cheated, they couldn\u2019t have done this, that was for public consumption, but what was really happening was an investigation.<\/p>\n
It may have even begun before Trump got the nomination, but certainly it happened in the month of July because Comey admitted that it did. Seven months later, admitted to by Comey, there is still no evidence of any collusion whatsoever. None. And was affirmatively stated by Comey and the director of the National Security Agency that there is zip, zero, nada evidence that the Russians tampered with anything to do with votes on Election Day or in the early voting, at any time, none. There won\u2019t be any evidence because that would be impossible to pull off.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, we know for an absolute fact that there was real, provable collusion between the Democrat National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to rig their primary. We know without doubt, because of Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz and her computer at the Democrat National Committee, that the Democrat National Committee and Hillary Clinton sabotaged the primary and the Democrat Party to ensure that Crazy Bernie Sanders would lose.<\/p>\n
There has been no investigation by the FBI of this collusion. There doesn\u2019t seem to be even any interest in the collusion between the Clinton campaign and the Democrat National Committee, which involves computer hacks, folks. You might say, “Well, Rush this is interparty, didn\u2019t involve Russia.” It involves computer hacks. According to them, the DNC computer was hacked. We also know that the FBI repeatedly asked to inspect the DNC network, and they were refused permission to do so.<\/p>\n
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The NSA has surveillance on the Russian ambassador. The Russian ambassador has a phone call or two or three or four, whatever, with Michael Flynn. The NSA, therefore, knows what Michael Flynn said and what the Russian ambassador said, but Flynn was not the target. The law clearly states that since Flynn\u2019s not the target, what he says can\u2019t be disseminated. A special warrant would have to be granted, would have to be sought for them to take action on what they heard Flynn say. No such warrant, we have been told or we have been able to find, exists.<\/p>\n
And yet the deep state has released details of the conversation involving Flynn and the Russian ambassador. That\u2019s the unmasking. In normal legal circumstances, we\u2019re not even supposed to know who the Russian ambassador\u2019s talking to; he\u2019s the target. And if it inadvertently picks up conversations involving Americans, inadvertent is what predominates here, and it\u2019s not supposed to be used, it\u2019s not supposed to be disseminated. But it was, and that was the only crime that was actually mentioned yesterday.<\/p>\n
And on that only crime that was mentioned yesterday, the FBI director, James Comey, refused to say whether there was an investigation of that going on. He would not characterize an investigation. He would not answer yes or no because he didn\u2019t want anybody to know whether or not classified data, information had been discussed in any of these phone calls, so he said no, not gonna tell you. Didn\u2019t get permission.<\/p>\n
We also find out that Comey said that he sought permission from the Department of Justice to reveal the investigation into the Trump collusion with Russia. He made a big deal of saying (paraphrasing), “Normally we don\u2019t make public these investigations, but this is so important, this is so, so, so important that we sought permission.” And it was granted.<\/p>\n
Yeah, well, Jeff Sessions has recused himself from all this. Permission was granted by an Obama appointee that\u2019s still the deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice, Dana Boente, a man. So Obama fingerprints are all over everything in this, which means to me that all of this is political, that very little of this is legal.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what was rubbing me raw all day yesterday while watching this and being hamstrung by not being able to… I just didn\u2019t have the time to check things as they happened. Comey did not even say that there would be an investigation of the unmasking of Flynn, and yet he said he was announcing the investigation of Trump colluding with Russia because the public had a right to know. I guess the public doesn\u2019t have a right to know that they might be unmasked for partisan reasons if they end up being in a conversation with somebody that the NSA is surveilling.<\/p>\n