RUSH: How does something like this get stopped when the deputy attorney general in charge of all this will not even furnish questions that House committees are seeking answers to, will not furnish documents? The House of Representatives is asking for the original letter that Rosenstein gave Mueller that constitutes the charge, the instructions on what Mueller\u2019s supposed to do. This is the people\u2019s business. The representatives of the people, House of Representatives, is making a legitimate request of the Department of Justice, the deputy attorney general, the guy who gave Mueller his marching orders, “Let us see that letter!”<\/p>\n
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And Rosenstein\u2019s telling him to go to hell. (imitating Rosenstein) “You go pound sand. I don\u2019t owe you anything. You don\u2019t have a right to see that.” And they say, “The hell we don\u2019t!” So that\u2019s why there are discussions that you may have heard about impeachment proceedings against Rosenstein. And Rosenstein is now saying, “You can\u2019t intimidate me. I\u2019m not gonna respond to pressure like that.”<\/p>\n
So clearly the, quote, unquote, deep state is resisting all legitimate efforts and requests and demands to produce evidence that would explain what\u2019s going on here. What instructions did Mueller actually get? What are his instructions? What are the charges he was given? Under what auspices is Mueller operating? And Rosenstein will not turn it over. Trump could force that if he wanted to. Trump could force the release of all kinds of things.<\/p>\n
But now they\u2019re trying to basically claim that the president of the United States exercising his constitutional duties is obstructing justice. Do you realize, folks, how infuriating that is? These people are literally trying to upend the United States Constitution, to subvert it or to go around it, and they\u2019re attempting to establish that the president, by firing Comey, has obstructed justice.<\/p>\n
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One of the things Rudy said last night in his interview is that Mueller\u2019s whole case, as far as Rudy has been able to ascertain, that Mueller\u2019s whole case is Comey! That Mueller has thrown all of his eggs on the obstruction charges in with Comey! That Comey\u2019s unassailable, in Mueller\u2019s eyes. For crying out loud, if Comey is the case, then Mueller is relying on somebody who has been seriously charged with lying a number of times.<\/p>\n
You know, we\u2019ve learned a lot about Comey\u2019s initial answers when his book tour began. For example, let\u2019s revisit this from yesterday\u2019s program. When Comey was being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos, remember when Stephanopoulos asked Comey if he told Trump that the dossier was written and paid for with money from the Clinton campaign? And Comey said, “No. That was not my goal.” That kind of zoomed past me when I first heard it, I said, “That doesn\u2019t make any sense.” I focused on the fact that, to Comey, the fact that Hillary wrote the thing didn\u2019t seem of interest and didn\u2019t tell Trump about?<\/p>\n
I mean, to admit that the whole thing, the foundation of this investigation is not real would end the investigation. Comey, “No, no, no, I don\u2019t think it was a big deal. It wasn\u2019t my goal.” And then, in congressional testimony, or maybe in another interview about his book, Comey was asked about this again. And he said, “No, no, no. My assignment was –” So, “No, that wasn\u2019t my goal,” and “my assignment was.”<\/p>\n
Well, we now know what those answers mean. His assignment came from James Clapper, Obama\u2019s Director of National Intelligence. The assignment was to tell Trump about the dossier. That was it. Not where it came from, not who\u2019s it was, just tell him about it. That was Comey\u2019s goal. That was his assignment. Because once Comey told Trump, then CNN had a news hook, CNN had a reason to report it.<\/p>\n
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The dossier had been known by people for months, but it hadn\u2019t been reported on \u2019cause nobody could confirm any of it, \u2019cause none of it\u2019s true. But these people wanted it in the news. So Clapper assigns Comey, FBI director, to tell Trump about it. Comey did on January 6th. Comey tells Clapper, “Mission accomplished. I did my assignment. My goal has been reached. I told Trump about it.”<\/p>\n
Clapper then called CNN and told CNN that the FBI director had just informed the president-elect about the dossier. Three days later, four days later, January 10th, CNN runs this massive story about the dossier, including the golden showers. They get an award for that last Saturday night at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. James Clapper and John Brennan, CIA, arranged this whole thing. Shortly after the January 10th running of the story, CNN then hires Clapper!<\/p>\n
So essentially Clapper was paid by CNN to get that dossier in the news by having Comey tell Trump about it. This is, according to Rudy, this and other things are Mueller\u2019s case, that firing Comey is the obstruction? Then we get these questions from yesterday that Mueller wants to know what Trump was thinking. So if Comey is the bulk of Mueller\u2019s case, then Mueller is not the bright guy that we\u2019ve all been told he is. Any responsible investigator would realize Comey\u2019s damaged goods now, especially writing about all this in the book.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Fox has some little guy — I think they do this on purpose. I don\u2019t know this little guy\u2019s name. He\u2019s bald. He\u2019s of slight build, shall we say, have no idea what his name is, and he\u2019s on as a, quote, unquote, Democrat strategist or analyst.<\/p>\n
And this guy is a joke. He\u2019s earnest and he\u2019s enthusiastic, and he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. He is a partisan rat. Meaning that he\u2019s down there in the gutter with this stuff. And he was on with Jason Chaffetz yesterday. I watched a little bit, this was during commercial break, and this guy, Chaffetz was looking at him like, “Who are you? Why are you here?” And this guy obviously thinks a lot of himself. Every time he makes a point, he thinks everybody should be speechless with its brilliance.<\/p>\n
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But he was trying to tell everybody that Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction because Donald Trump said that he was firing James Comey to stop the investigation! Well, I\u2019m sorry, but Donald Trump knew that the investigation wasn\u2019t gonna be stopped by firing Comey. Just like it wouldn\u2019t be stopped if he fired Mueller. They\u2019d just replace Comey, then they just replace Mueller, if that were to happen. And Trump never said it.<\/p>\n
Trump never said he was trying to stop the investigation. The reason Trump fired Comey — does anybody remember? Do any of you remember what the given reason was why Trump fired Comey? Well, he couldn\u2019t trust him because Comey would not publicly say what he had told Trump privately! He had told Trump privately three times he was not a target. And Trump said, “I want you to tell people this publicly if you\u2019re telling me,” and Comey wouldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
And in Trump\u2019s letter announcing he was firing Comey, remember, he made reference, “Even though you have told me three different times I am not a target.” That\u2019s the first we ever knew that Comey was telling Trump he wasn\u2019t a target. But Trump also fired Comey because it was the recommendation of Rosenstein, folks! Rosenstein wrote a letter recommending that Comey be fired for a whole bunch of professional reasons. But at no time did Donald Trump ever say that he was going to stop the investigation by firing Comey!<\/p>\n
And yet here\u2019s this little guy on Fox just ranting on and on and on about it and that that means that Trump is guilty of obstruction. Trump is not guilty of obstruction. He has the right to fire the FBI director. And these people are trying to turn Trump engaging in constitutional duties as criminal, obstruction of justice. There\u2019s something that I don\u2019t know if anybody is thinking about. I\u2019m sure somebody is somewhere, but everything Mueller is doing here, everything this investigation is doing, it doesn\u2019t just stop with Trump.<\/p>\n
You know, whatever precedents are set here and whatever boundaries are broken and whatever new territory is staked out by the intelligence communities and law enforcement is gonna have a forever impact on the presidency. So whatever these people get away with in investigating Trump and in their minds hopefully throwing him out of office, whoever follows in Trump\u2019s footsteps is going to have to deal with those same precedents.<\/p>\n
And there is a precedent being set here, there is a process underway by which the president of the United States is being established as being subordinate to the intelligence community and the Department of Justice. Because if you watch this, if you land from Mars and you turn on TV and start watching this, you\u2019re gonna conclude that the most powerful person in the country is Robert Mueller and that the president of the United States serves at the pleasure of Robert Mueller. And if Robert Mueller decides that he doesn\u2019t want Trump to be president, then Trump\u2019s not gonna be.<\/p>\n
And, I\u2019m sorry, but that is not the case! No special counsel has anywhere near the power of the president of the United States, in terms of the Constitution or any other structure. And neither does the deputy attorney general or the attorney general. The president is the executive branch, and everybody there serves at his pleasure.<\/p>\n
But these people are setting it up that if they succeed in getting rid of Trump, then every president thereafter is going to be seen in terms of legal precedent subordinate to, in this case the intelligence community and the DOJ because they\u2019re the ones running this show and acting like the president is beneath them, underneath them, however in the power structure of things.<\/p>\n
The Constitution is being reconfigured here, and depending on how this ends, it is going to have precedent setting aspects for the office of the presidency as well.<\/p>\n
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BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: By the way, I want to reemphasize something. You land here from Mars, and you turn on any news network, you know what you\u2019re gonna think? You\u2019re gonna think that there\u2019s this person whose job is to investigate the president every day and that this person is responsible for if presidents stay in office or not. That\u2019s what you\u2019re gonna think.<\/p>\n
And you\u2019re gonna think, in this case if you just land from Mars, it\u2019s Robert Mueller. And you\u2019re gonna think it is a feature of American government, that there\u2019s some guy who has the overall power and ability to determine whether or not presidents of the United States stay in office. We have here something called the independent or special counsel law that needs to be done away with, precisely for this reason. Well, and there are many others.<\/p>\n
And I would maintain that you don\u2019t have to land here from Mars to think that. All you have to be is an average American low-information voter, and you pay attention now and then, you might think that there is a permanent overseer. That there is a permanent, never-ending investigation of the president and that this person determines whether or not the president should stay in office. That\u2019s what this has become. And there\u2019s no end in sight to it. They keep trying to invent crimes, manufacture instances of crime, usually process crimes and lying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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