Transcript: The Daily Beast Peddled Fake News About Devin Nunes.<\/a>”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PencilNeck-300x221.jpg\")
This is Mollie Hemingway. She\u2019s at The Federalist, and Mollie Hemingway is doing dynamic work. Mollie Hemingway, Salena Zito, there\u2019s any number of really on-the-ball journalists that are operating in Washington. Mollie Hemingway is one of them and she has a story: “Transcript: The Daily Beast Peddled Fake News About Devin Nunes.” What she demonstrates here is all of this garbage that\u2019s been manufactured by the Democrats, Adam Schiff and all the Democrats that are on his chain, on his leash.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s fed to the fake news media, who swallow it without a single question. A pull quote from the Hemingway story: “Once again, reporters got burned by believing anonymous Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Betsy Woodruff and Spencer Ackerman of the Daily Beast credulously believed their ‘sources familiar with the exchange,\u2019 who said Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, refused to deny he had coordinated with the White House when” writing the memo.<\/p>\n
Have you heard that one? (interruption) You heard? (interruption) You haven\u2019t heard? (interruption) Oh, well, that\u2019s another big one. (interruption) Yeah. Nunes coordinated writing the memo with Trump, with the White House, probably Stephen Miller. Who knows who? They put this out. Nunes is accused of writing the memo after having collaborated and coordinated with the White House, and the story says that Nunes didn\u2019t deny it. Nunes refused to deny it. (The fact is, he did.)<\/p>\n
“In fact, Nunes explicitly denied the charge before shutting down the line of questioning in order to provide other members who were not trying to hijack the hearing time to get actual committee business done.” So much of what is news is the willingness now to knowingly create a lie that then begets a narrative, and there are two big ones here. One of them was started by Adam Schiff that Devin Nunes totally rewrote the memo after it had been read by members of Congress and the committee.<\/p>\n
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That is not true. There were no substantive changes whatsoever. The second big lie is that Nunes collaborated and cooperated with the White House (that means Trump) in writing his four-page memo. That\u2019s not true. Both of those lies created a Drive-By news narrative that CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC fed off of for hours — and I don\u2019t believe they\u2019re getting it wrong. I believe they know it\u2019s wrong, and they\u2019re using incorrect information to create these narratives because they are in full-throated Trump opposition mode.<\/p>\n
This stuff is starting to burn me as it always does every day. I normally have it contained. But this is…? What are they so afraid of? If Trump did it and the FBI\u2019s proud of the way they found out that Trump did it — if Trump\u2019s guilty, if there has been collusion, if there has been obstruction, and the FBI is very proud of what they\u2019ve done — why is everybody so afraid of their methods being seen and exposed?<\/p>\n
But, man, are they trying to cover something up.<\/p>\n
Man, are they trying to keep it hidden.<\/p>\n
Man, do they not want us to know, whatever it is.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Just ask yourself a question: If Devin Nunes was trying to be sneaky and rewrite the memo after everybody had read it, does anybody think that he believes he wouldn\u2019t be caught? How absurd is this allegation? “Yeah, he rewrote it after everybody saw it and he collaborated with the White House!” That would be one of the dumbest things anybody could do because it would be discovered. The other claim that they\u2019re making — the left, Adam Schiff, the Democrats — is that there were “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo\u2019s accuracy.”<\/p>\n
Which is another way of saying, “Nunes is taking our investigation out of context! Without the context, you, the reader, can\u2019t possibly understand all that really went on.” Well, okay, then what are the “material omissions”? What are they? What has been left out? Anybody could tell us after the memo\u2019s released. What\u2019s been left out? If something\u2019s been left out that makes Nunes look bad, they should be happy to tell everybody. But they\u2019re trying to get it stopped, quashed, sequestered, beaten into smithereens, what have you.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: To Spring, Texas, and, Tom. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good morning, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s an honor and privilege to speak with you today. I have a lot of contempt for Adam Schiff, and he really gets under my skin the way he visually attacked Mr. Nunes and other Republican members of the Intel Committee. Putting out this false narrative that this information they\u2019re gonna release is all made up, trumped up, not true. You know, and the media\u2019s gonna amplify it. But he keeps pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing. The next logical step would lead to a criminal investigation to verify what\u2019s going on, and when the evidence is presented and the indictments go out and the charges go out, you know, he might be the person that we need to make all this come true.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019re talking about Trump investigating people like Schiff?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I mean, him saying that the Nunes information is made up and false about Clinton, about the obstruction in the FBI and in the Justice Department. But when they actually review it, if it goes criminal charges or criminal case… When they review the evidence, it\u2019s gonna be clear that the people that are gonna be in trouble are gonna be Comey and Clinton and Strzok and Page and Ohr and Rosenstein and McCabe and all these people. When they get so far down that road, they won\u2019t be able to turn back, and there\u2019s gonna be a lot of people that are gonna get in a lot of trouble.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Are you…? You sound convinced that when the memo comes out, that it is almost gonna require a criminal investigation of some of these people, McCabe and Comey, and some of the other people in the FBI. What makes you so certain that that\u2019s gonna happen?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think the way the left is gonna push back to say that this information is false, talking points, made up, salacious, then there\u2019s gonna have be an investigation. “Okay, who\u2019s telling the truth? Is this information real or is it made up?” When the facts are presented, there\u2019s gonna be indictments. There\u2019s gonna be charges levied.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I… (Ahem)<\/p>\n
CALLER: It can\u2019t be anything else. I mean, Hillary Clinton alone, how many felonies did she break with the mishandling of classified information and then —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. And how many indictments of her have there been?<\/p>\n
CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Zero! Look, my nickname is not Mr. Cold Water, and I don\u2019t want to be that. I know what Tom here is saying. He\u2019s saying the memo is gonna come out and the memo is going to offer strong evidence that there was deep corruption at the FBI, and then that\u2019s going to cause a connection to anybody who might have participated in peddling that stuff, which would include guys like Adam Schiff. And his theory is this is going to require another investigation because the FBI\u2019s gonna deny it. “It\u2019s just Devin Nunes\u2019s memo,” and then the FBI and these clowns are gonna deny it, say it isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not going to present any exculpatory evidence. They\u2019re just gonna say, “This isn\u2019t true, it\u2019s politicized, and we can\u2019t comment any further because of national security,” and all this, that, and the other. His theory is this is going to require further investigation which will then standpoint get to the bottom of it and he\u2019s hoping there will be indictments of Comey and McCabe and Strzok and Page and Hillary and all of that. The process that he describes would take years. This right now, Tom, is a battle for the hearts and minds of the American people.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what this is right now. But you raise a good point in that the Nunes memo will not be treated by a lot of people as factually true or as finally conclusive, especially if people in the FBI are denying it or claiming, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it\u2019s way out of context. He\u2019s left so much out of here. And we can\u2019t fill in the blanks because of national security.”<\/p>\n
Let me give you an example. I know that many of you are primed to believe that the Steele dossier was used to secure a warrant to spy on Trump by way of spying on Carter Page. Everything but confirmation of this has been reported in our media. By that I mean alternative so-called conservative media. It\u2019s out there that this FISA warrant thus was granted under false premise because the Steele dossier isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n
The Steele dossier was opposition research that was bought by Hillary Clinton, paid for by the Clinton campaign, and written by Russian agents hired by Christopher Steele, and that the FBI then took it and got a warrant to spy on Carter Page and other people with the dossier. This is what everybody thinks happens. But what if there are other things in the application for the FISA warrant besides just the dossier?<\/p>\n
There are people who have been really curious why it requires all of this to learn the FISA application, because Donald Trump as president can declassify it any time he wants. And he could have any time he wanted to in the past any number of months. And he hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
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So this has caused other scholars to start speculating, “Well, what could be in this FISA warrant application that he might not want people to see?” ‘Cause if Steele dossier was the only thing used to get the warrant, then it\u2019s a slam dunk. I mean, you release it, let everybody see that a fake, phony opposition research document was used. Then you have to ask, was the judge in on it or was the judge lied to, the FISA judge.<\/p>\n
But if there\u2019s more besides the Steele dossier, and with as much hatred as these people have for Trump, I myself have been asking could there be other things in this application to spy on Trump and Carter Page beyond the Steele dossier. And on what basis do these people hate Trump? They think Trump\u2019s the biggest immoral jackass that has ever, ever walked the streets of Washington, D.C. This guy is the reprobate of all reprobates.<\/p>\n
So what if they have amassed all kinds of other evidence to throw in there that reflects very poorly on Trump\u2019s character and morality? And if the application is ever made public because of this memo or whatever — some people are suggesting this may be why Trump himself has not declassified it because he knows there\u2019s things in there that he doesn\u2019t want people to see, above and beyond the Steele dossier.<\/p>\n
So we just don\u2019t know. What appears obvious is that the FBI and the Democrats do not want Devin Nunes\u2019s memo to see the light of day, which means they don\u2019t want anybody knowing what they\u2019ve done here. And I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt that these people were in the tank for Hillary and did everything they could to sabotage Trump\u2019s campaign and to help hers. I don\u2019t think there is any doubt about any of that.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You gotta hear Cory Booker. Cory Booker is one of these people that in the process of publicly losing his mind. It\u2019s called passion. He\u2019s clearly seeking the Democrat presidential nomination and thinks the way to get it is to appear unhinged. He was on the radio on Saturday. You would not have heard this, probably haven\u2019t heard. This is why we\u2019re playing it for you. Here\u2019s what Cory Booker said about plans to release the House Intelligence Committee FISA memo.<\/p>\n
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BOOKER: This fury and fire that has been created within the right around this is, to me, tantamount to a dangerous conspiracy theory that can undermine the important work our Justice Department and intelligence communities do. I might say tantamount to treasonous in the sense of when you violate the intelligence community\u2019s mandates around classified documentation, what should be released, you could be portraying or especially if you\u2019re revealing sources and methods or giving some color to sources and methods, you\u2019re actually endangering fellow Americans in the intelligence community and our ability to source intelligence. So to me this is something that could be potentially viewed as treasonous.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. They really don\u2019t want this coming out. And I have to say, folks, if what is in this memo is so bad, if it is so incorrect and wrong, let it come out and let the Democrats be prepared to nuke the thing and ruin the career of Devin Nunes and ruin the career of anybody else who reportedly has seen it and is telling us we all need to see it. If it\u2019s this treasonous, if it\u2019s this outrageous, if it\u2019s this wrong, if it\u2019s this incomplete, then clearly you have the evidence to demonstrate this, and you can share that with us after the memo comes out and then you can destroy the people who have done this.<\/p>\n
No, they don\u2019t want to take that route. They don\u2019t want us to see this. Except they know it\u2019s coming out. So what\u2019s happening now is the creation of the narrative that it\u2019s all wrong, that it\u2019s all partisan, that it\u2019s out of context, that it\u2019s incomplete, that it was written over again by Devin Nunes after everybody read it and that Trump and Nunes collaborated. So the effort to discredit it is happening now since they know it\u2019s coming out, which must mean that they are really afraid of what this memo says.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Breaking news bulletin. CNN is reporting that the FBI director, Christopher Wray, might resign if the memo is released. (interruption) That\u2019s your reaction, “Good-bye”? See, this is my point. You believe it. They could be making this up, or a source of theirs could be making this up. Okay. Don\u2019t care one way or another, I want that memo out. We can always replace the FBI director. Is that it?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Fran Townsend, and she worked in the Bush administration. She has a great reputation. She was I think in foreign policy. I forget exactly what her position was, but it was fairly high, fairly ranking, and she was on CBS This Morning today with Norah O\u2019Donnell. They\u2019re talking about the FBI issuing a rebuttal to the Devin Nunes memo on the entire FBI investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion story. Now, there\u2019s even more on the FBI director threatening to quit. It apparently is dire. The FBI director is said to resent having been chosen to be FBI director after Comey was fired.<\/p>\n
He said it\u2019s very disturbing for him to be chairman or the grand pooh-bah the FBI while the institution is under assault like this from this memo, and that the White House is very disturbed that Chris Wray wants to quit. And it is being portrayed as a very rocky circumstance at the White House right now. Fran Townsend… Now, she\u2019s an establishmentarian, by the way. Fran Townsend is a qualified, ranking member of the swamp. You need to know this. When I say she\u2019s highly reputed and respected, she is — in the swamp. She\u2019s an establishmentarian. She ranks right up there with \u2019em. She\u2019s got all the qualifications.<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s what she said about release of the memo…<\/p>\n
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TOWNSEND: My understanding from sources inside the FBI is that if the White House decides to release the Nunes memo, Director Wray is prepared to issue a rebuttal. And in fairness to the FBI, I mean, they feel under siege. This is the tearing down of a respected institution. Understand what this process is. I ran this unit in the Justice Department that got this FISA warrant. There is multiple internal reviews in the FBI. There\u2019s a legal review at the Justice Department. It goes to the attorney general or — in this case — the deputy who reviews it and then it goes to an independent federal judge who looks at it. No FISA warrant relies on a single piece of evidence. So if the allegation from Chairman Nunes is that they relied solely on the Steele dossier, that\u2019s not possible.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There\u2019s the rub. That really is the rub here. But no matter what these people say, tearing down the institution by exposing inappropriate behavior? How is that tearing down the institution? How is that instead not helping to rebuild it? For God\u2019s sake, if the institution has been corrupted and has been used for the political purposes of two things: Advancing a particular presidential candidate while trying to harm the opponent, doesn\u2019t that need to be exposed and doesn\u2019t that it need to be cleaned out? Why in the world would anybody want to protect that?<\/p>\n
The reason they want to protect it is because Donald Trump is the guy carrying the wrecking ball. You know what? If Chris Wray wants to quit, fine! Let Trump put one of his boys in there. I mean, you can\u2019t blame Trump for thinking that the FBI director for Obama had Obama\u2019s back. We know that Eric Holder, the attorney general, claimed that he was Obama\u2019s “wingman.” We know that these people acted for and on behalf of Obama when they were the department heads. Now we\u2019re being told, “This is example of what Trump doesn\u2019t know!”<\/p>\n
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“He doesn\u2019t know that these people don\u2019t work for him! He doesn\u2019t know that they\u2019re not there to protect him. He doesn\u2019t know that.” Well, somebody might want to tell Eric Holder, because he was clearly there, not just to protect Obama, but to advance the Obama agenda, and it looks like Comey and McCabe and the rest of these people in the FBI are hell-bent on getting Hillary Clinton elected. It looks like they were also hell-bent on denying Donald Trump — and if he did win, that they were hell-bent on somehow creating circumstances for him to be tossed out of office. But this idea…<\/p>\n
“If the allegation of Chairman Nunes is that relied solely on the Steele dossier, that\u2019s not possible.” It most certainly is possible! You cannot ignore the motive. The motive here clearly was to aid Hillary Clinton, to exonerate Hillary Clinton, which they did! One of these guys\u2019 wives was taking money from Terry McAuliffe seeking political office on her own! McCabe\u2019s wife. And then Strzok! People say, “Well, Strzok was sent packing when Mueller found out about it.” Yeah. All right. Fine and dandy. But it doesn\u2019t deny what Strzok was doing! And he had plenty of time to do it before he was sent packing.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t see a reason, like these people are panicked. What I see is a bunch of people who don\u2019t want any of this to be known. And I fall back to the same old thing. How can a bunch of easily proven lies ruin the reputation of the FBI? If the Devin Nunes memo is incomplete, if it\u2019s factually wrong, if it\u2019s taken everything out of context, it\u2019d be easy as hell to ruin Devin Nunes, if he is so dead wrong about this.<\/p>\n
If they\u2019re lying, if they\u2019re making it up, if all of this is bogus, how can things like this end up harming the FBI when the FBI will be able to demonstrate for anybody and everybody how wrong Devin Nunes and his memo is. Right? But for some reason they don\u2019t want to do that. Here\u2019s Jeffrey Toobin last night on CNN talking about the same subject, the Nunes memo and what it represents and how horrible it is that it might be released.<\/p>\n
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TOOBIN: What\u2019s going on here is that Fox & Friends and Fox News is setting the agenda not just for the House Republicans, but for the president of the United States here. They\u2019re the ones who want this released. No one else thinks this is accurate. The Democrats in the House don\u2019t think it\u2019s accurate. The FBI doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s accurate. But because the right wing of the party wants to discredit the investigation of Robert Mueller, the damage to national security is being done. This is without precedent in American history.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, come on, Jeffrey! They\u2019re just jealous that Trump watches Fox & Friends and Fox News. They hate Fox News going in. They can\u2019t stand it Fox News would have any agenda influence whatsoever. The damage to national security. Hey, Jeffrey, you ever heard of a movie called The Post? The Post, Jeffrey. Oh, yeah, in fact, it was up for some epidemic nominations. The Post. Do you know what it was about, Jeffrey? You may have forgotten.<\/p>\n
It was about Katharine Graham, Ben Bradlee, and the Washington Post who came across some secrets about how the United States had lied about everything in the Vietnam War. And the Washington Post thought that it was required to publish those things, those facts. The Washington Post thought that it was required that the lying, stinking government be pointed out.<\/p>\n
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Why is the FBI, why are the Drive-Bys, why is the Democrat Party so worried, so concerned about how they got there? You know, I\u2019ve gone through as much of this as I can absorb before it all starts to turn into a blue, purple, murky haze. And I can\u2019t find any good reasons not to disclose this memo. And then when you look at the steps being taken to prevent the memo from being released… I\u2019m telling you, this Adam Schiff guy that we affectionately call here “Pencil Neck,” this guy is shifty.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Rosenstein.jpg\")
There are people scared to death that this memo is gonna be released. It looks like it\u2019s gonna be tomorrow now that the president\u2019s gonna declassify this thing. And as a side issue, you want to share something that\u2019s not really related to this, although you could draw a line to it and connect it. Have you heard the story that the president\u2019s really unhappy with Rosenstein? Rosenstein may in fact, the deputy attorney general, may in fact have a prominent role in the memo.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Interview-J-Christian-Adams.jpg\")
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So I said to J. Christian Adams, “By the same token, Eric Holder doesn\u2019t need to be told what to do every day. Eric Holder and Barack Obama are probably in the same pod. So would you explain to me how they communicate to make it look like they\u2019re not?” And he went through the process of how it would happen. And it would involve third parties. But he essentially agreed that it wouldn\u2019t really have to happen. You have people on the same page. My point is that the time to be worried about corruption in the FBI and the DOJ…<\/p>\n