RUSH: Ray in Livermore, California. Glad you waited. You\u2019re up next. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Fundamentally erasing the last president\u2019s fingerprints dittos to you. Rush, the president has assembled a fantastic team, much like your crew there at EIB, including Mike Pompeo. I watched the full three hours yesterday through a Fox feed on the internet, and, Rush, it was fantastic. This guy, he\u2019s like Norm from Cheers.<\/p>\n
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He not only looks like Norm, he speaks in this calm, cool, collected kind of everyday man voice, and just one by one slapped down these neosocialists, whatever they are, Democrat socialists who are trying to box him in. They were trying to outsmart him and they were trying to have a game of wits with somebody and they forgot to bring their own.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. They weren\u2019t even on the same playing field. And of course, Pompeo is from Kansas. They think already that makes them smarter than he is. They\u2019re from New Jersey, they\u2019re from New York, this is Bob Menendez, who barely didn\u2019t go away to jail cavorting around with the donors, babes in foreign countries and so forth.<\/p>\n
And he\u2019s sitting there with his air of superiority, they all had it, they think Pompeo is like an Archie Bunker type. Like you say, he\u2019s an overweight guy walking in there, doesn\u2019t speak particularly like you think he should. He just mowed \u2019em down. We\u2019ve got the audio coming up. You\u2019re right. He mowed them down. They set themselves up to be mowed down!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Trump couldn\u2019t have picked a better lead blocker than Mike Pompeo. I would put Mike Pompeo in every single secretary\u2019s seat in Trump\u2019s office, in his cabinet. The guy is just fantastic and it was a pleasure watching it. I would say to the Rush listeners, go to YouTube — well, I guess unfortunately that\u2019s the only place you can go — and pull up the Fox feed and watch the full three hours if you can. It\u2019s better than anything on network TV, I\u2019ll tell you that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, since you have recommended it so highly, we have a significant number of sound bites, examples from that which you devoted three hours to yesterday watching. And it is choice. And Pompeo, for example, he told these people that the United States is not gonna recognize Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea. And they\u2019re all thinking they\u2019re gonna entrap Pompeo.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not kidding. He\u2019s the secretary of state. They thought they were gonna entrap him into somehow admitting that Trump and Putin had colluded. I mean, this is how arrogant they are. And I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s dumb, stupid, genuinely stupid, but after all this time to still act like that there is some secret smoking gun bit of evidence that Trump and Putin did collude to steal the election of Hillary, they still literally believe this, and that somebody knows it, and in this case it was Pompeo, and they were somehow gonna trick him into admitting it.<\/p>\n
And instead he comes up and basically says Putin can go to hell. We are not gonna recognize Putin\u2019s annexation of Crimea. They didn\u2019t know what to do! They really think that this guy and Trump are in bed with Putin! Now, first off we have a montage. When you listen to this, I want you to imagine what it would be like if every elected Republican and every member of the Trump administration defended the president the way Pompeo does here.<\/p>\n
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POMPEO: This is President Trump\u2019s administration. Make no mistake who\u2019s fully in charge of this and who is directing each of these activities. There\u2019s a narrative that has developed that somehow President Trump is weak on Russia. I\u2019m sorry, the president has a prerogative to choose who\u2019s in meetings or not. What matters is what President Trump has directed us to do. I don\u2019t need secondhand understandings of what President Trump is instructing his administration to do. You somehow disconnect the administration\u2019s activities from the president\u2019s actions. Every sanction that was put in place was signed off by the President of the United States. The president\u2019s been unambiguously clear. The president called the ball over 200 times to sanction Russian entities. That\u2019s pretty strong. Oh fear not, Senator. Fear not. This president runs this government.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You see in this montage what we\u2019re able to illustrate here is that these people — these are senators — some cases Democrats or Republicans, too, like Bob Corker, they really think that Trump is such an idiot that he\u2019s not doing anything. That he goes out and he tweets, and he does the rallies and he has the public things at the White House, but it\u2019s really the people behind the scenes, really the smart people, like Kelly, the chief of staff, and like Pompeo here and Wilbur Ross, they\u2019re really running this country. It\u2019s not Trump, he doesn\u2019t know enough, Trump doesn\u2019t care enough, Trump isn\u2019t smart enough. In fact, Trump, if we let him get too close to the levers of power it could actually be dangerous \u2019cause he\u2019s so stupid, he doesn\u2019t know who our enemies are. Trump thinks that Americans are the bad guys and our enemies are the good guys.<\/p>\n
And this is what they think, and this is the position they took in their questioning yesterday of Pompeo. And he just swatted back at this stuff. He was aghast hearing this stuff. (imitating Pompeo) “I assure you President Trump is running this administration. The president called the ball over 200 times, sanction Russian enemies, 200 different sanctions. The president did it. Not me, not the chief of staff, he did it.”<\/p>\n
So now let\u2019s go to questioning from Bob Menendez, disgraced Democrat senator from New Jersey. His questioning here is about the president\u2019s meeting with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. And Pompeo\u2019s being asked what really happened in there? So far only the translators know. But we know Trump is an idiot, so who was really in there protecting the United States? What really happened in there? You tell us, Pompeo. What did these world leaders do? How did they take us to the cleaners \u2019cause Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. That was the umbrella under which the questioning took place. So here is Menendez asking Pompeo about Trump\u2019s private meeting with Putin.<\/p>\n