RUSH: James in Brooksville, Florida, to you, sir. Open Line Friday. Hi. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m very fine, and I really appreciate getting a chance to speak with you before I die. I\u2019m 79. But I\u2019m a patriot. I live in a Republican county. You wouldn\u2019t know it by the people who vote here because they all went to Hillary. But I\u2019m very concerned over hearing this morning that our vice president has hired his own individual counsel on this Russian thing. Can you tell me why? Is he not trusting Trump anymore?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything to do with that. I think they\u2019re both potential targets. I mean, once you\u2019ve got the independent counsel out there just going anywhere with no limits on anything. And, believe me, Mueller has no limits. He can look at anything he wants. That\u2019s one of the things that\u2019s wrong with this.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Is he afraid of Mueller?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I don\u2019t think he\u2019s afraid of Mueller. I think it\u2019s just common sense. When the Department of Justice has authorized this vast and massive special counsel to start looking at things, sometimes you need a lawyer more than ever when you\u2019re innocent.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that\u2019s true. Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So I don\u2019t think Pence going out and getting a lawyer indicates that he thinks Trump is in trouble. I just think it\u2019s a natural thing for somebody in the administration to do. They\u2019re being targeted. By the way, there\u2019s a school of thought running around in Washington on Capitol Hill, one of the explanations, when you start asking Republicans, “Why are you not trying to move the Trump agenda? Why are you sitting on your hands? Why do you let Democrats run the show?” One of the answers you get is, “We\u2019re waiting for Pence.”<\/p>\n
I ran this theory by a sitting member of the Republican House of Representatives, and he thought, “Rush, I haven\u2019t heard that. I haven\u2019t heard a word of that.” And he started looking into it, and he wrote me back. He said, “I must ask your forgiveness.” There are apparently — I don\u2019t know what the number is, but there are enough Republicans, some in the House, who are convinced that Trump\u2019s gonna be impeached. They are convinced that Trump is toast. And they want to hold off on moving the Trump agenda until he\u2019s gone so it then becomes President Pence.<\/p>\n
I mean, Pence is one of them. Pence is a governor. Pence is a member of the House. Pence is a friendly. Pence is a guy they understand and know. They\u2019re not embarrassed. They\u2019re not ashamed or any of that. And I think there\u2019s some validity. Take Pence out of it. I think there\u2019s a sizable group of Republicans that think Trump isn\u2019t going to make it. And, as such, they are sitting on their hands and not advancing Trump\u2019s agenda because they think that once Trump goes, his agenda is gonna be the next thing and that anybody that voted for it is gonna get the same treatment Trump got. So even though they\u2019re running the show, you just don\u2019t see much evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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