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<\/p>\nRUSH: Ken in Los Angeles, you\u2019re next, and it\u2019s great to have you too. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, Russia. My… I\u2019m concerned about your 99%, uh, mistake-free rating. Uh, I have only, uh, heard from your program… Uh, none of the other conservative radio or talk hosts, that the Iranians did not even sign the, quote, uh, “agreement.” And I was concerned that every time you mentioned it — I\u2019ve heard you mention it about two or three times — that that counts against your percentage. It\u2019s important for me to make sure that you know that, uh, your listeners are covering your back. So if you could double-check that, I would greatly appreciate it and pass it on.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I\u2019m trying to remember where I\u2019ve seen it. I\u2019ve seen it three times this week or twice, that the Iranians… It was not even… It\u2019s not a formally ratified agreement.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And the —<\/p>\n
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CALLER: You can research that. I\u2019ve got a couple more things, quickly. Charles Krauthammer, a name from our past. My recollection is when Obama was first elected — this concerns his legacy — that Krauthammer made a statement that Obama\u2019s presidency is going to destroy the ability of blacks to get into, uh, politics. Not politics. The presidency. Does that ring a bell with you at all?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Not specifically. Let me understand. You think you remember Krauthammer saying that Obama\u2019s election would then prevent other African-Americans from winning the presidency ever again?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Because he\u2019s — because he\u2019s — would do what he has proven to do. I\u2019m not sure how Krauthammer knew that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, look. Let me just tell you, and you can get your Rush spies out there to try to tell me I\u2019m wrong about that. My memory is that Krauthammer loved Obama at the first on the sophistication level, that Krauthammer was very eager and open-minded about Obama because of his intelligence and his sophistication, his think tank wonkishness. That\u2019s my impression, that Krauthammer was originally in the David Brooks camp, not quite that he liked him because of the sharp crease in his slacks.<\/p>\n
But he, you know, had dinner with Obama at George Will\u2019s house, and these guys were all singing Obama\u2019s praises. Now, that\u2019s not to say that Krauthammer didn\u2019t later say it. I myself have said it. I didn\u2019t say it exactly that way. I said that the Obama presidency is gonna be a setback. If it blows up, it\u2019s going to ruin chances for African-Americans to get elected down the road. But nobody will ever say that because it\u2019d be a racist thing to believe, think, or say, but —<\/p>\n
CALLER: As you anticipated, maybe Krauthammer did, too, that Obama would overstep his bounds and clearly he has.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, the risk always… Now, this may be what Krauthammer said, because you\u2019re talking about early on, before anybody could really know what Obama was gonna do, although I want to tell you: I had no doubt that if Obama succeeded in implementing what he wanted, it was gonna be disaster for the country, and that turned out to be true. But my thought on this is that there were people suggesting that if Obama failed, that it was going to provide an obstacle for future African African-American presidential prospects. But I think it was a generic statement, not related to Obama specifically but rather related to how successful or unsuccessful he might be.<\/p>\n
CALLER: All right, and one more question.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I understand perfectly what you were talking about in connection with the Department of… I mean, the attorney general\u2019s department not disclosing the information that he has. But what\u2019s the endgame? I mean, when does that come out? How does it come out? I have no idea. I mean, if they know all this, why don\u2019t they, you know, bring… bring… bring it out to, you know, bring to light. What are they waiting for? Are they waiting to gather you think more information? I —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, about what specifically? Are you talking about the informant that we\u2019re talking about today or are you just talking about…?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Correct. No, the informant.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, here\u2019s the answer to this. The answer to this is that Donald Trump, as president, can force the release of any of this any time he wants. He can force the release of the FISA warrant, the application. He can declassify anything he wants. He can make public anything he wants. So the question is, “Why doesn\u2019t he? Why hasn\u2019t he revealed and declassified what\u2019s in the FISA warrant application so that we don\u2019t have to guess anymore?”<\/p>\n
If there is an informant, the FBI hired an informant in his campaign, why doesn\u2019t he declassify this and tell the attorney general to release it? Well, there we have to start speculating and my guess is that there\u2019s two explanations for it. One is that Trump\u2019s in-house counsel — his White House lawyers — have got him convinced that if he orders this, that the media is gonna start shouting obstruction of justice, and that the American people are gonna believe that Trump is obstructing justice about telling the DOJ what to do.<\/p>\n
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And as a PR thing, they do not want that. Even though he can do it — it\u2019s constitutional through and through — his lawyers have got him convinced that it would be a bad move because it would look to the low-information crowd and a lot of other people like he\u2019s obstructing justice. Even though all he\u2019s doing or would be doing is revealing information that the House is asking to see, and they are entitled to it. The president cannot obstruct by exercising his constitutional duties. But his lawyers, I am told, fear the PR hit.<\/p>\n
The second explanation, Ken — and I think this one is very high on the probability list. I think the president likes the perception that they\u2019re out to get him. He loves tweeting about the witch hunt. He loves tweeting that they\u2019re out to get him. “Why don\u2019t they do this? Why are they doing this?” Fake this, Fake Media, fake news. I think he believes — and this is not a criticism; don\u2019t hear it this way. I think he believes that appearing as a victim of this giant deep state effort to get rid of him solidifies the bond he has with his supporters.<\/p>\n
At some point, all of this is the basket made public because at some point the Mueller thing is gonna be over. And the interesting thing to me is what report is Mueller going to write when there isn\u2019t any evidence of collusion? And will we ever see it? Mueller will submit his report to Rosenstein, not us. Will that report be absent evidence but a critique of Trump\u2019s lack of sophistication and morals? Who knows what it\u2019s gonna be! But if there isn\u2019t any hard evidence of guilt, this report is still gonna be so critical of Trump, you can\u2019t imagine. That\u2019s my guess. But I think in terms of all this that so far is redacted, unreleased, that\u2019s gonna be totally up to Trump as to how much of it — if any of it — is ever made public.<\/p>\n
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