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<\/p>\nRUSH: Ah, Rudy. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with Rudy. You know what? Every time I\u2019ve looked up today, Rudy Giuliani\u2019s on TV somewhere. Every time I\u2019ve looked up, and he seems to be saying something different — earlier today he was talking about, “Yeah. I think… I think we\u2019re getting close to where the president will sit down, have an interview with Mueller and may even permit some questions on obstruction.”<\/p>\n
And then just now Rudy\u2019s on TV. “There is no way. There is no way that Trump is ever gonna sit down and have an interview with Mueller.” And Trump\u2019s out there tweeting everything left and right about all of Mueller\u2019s conflicts and when\u2019s anybody gonna say anything about it, and one of the things that\u2019s got people curious is Trump is referring to a “business deal” that he and Mueller had that nobody knows about. Everybody said, “What the hell is that and why are we only hearing about this now?”<\/p>\n
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And then there\u2019s another aspect that Trump is saying (summarized), “You know, I almost hired this guy to be FBI director, but I turned him down. The next day he\u2019s named special counsel. Comey, who I had every right to fire is his best friend and asked a special counsel; now we\u2019ve got one. And then Trump points out that 13 of the 13 lawyers on Mueller\u2019s team hate Trump and they love Hillary and they\u2019re Hillary donors.” Now, it is clear what\u2019s going on here. We\u2019ve seen this before. We saw this with the way the Clintons treated Ken Starr.<\/p>\n
But with the way the Clintons treated Ken Starr, it… I mean, what\u2019s being done this time around is nothing. Do you have that parody that you just played in the break with James Carville and Starr on the Larry King show, Mike? Can you grab that? Let me know when you have that ready to go. We did a parody of this. You had Carville, and you had Stephanopoulos. They\u2019re running around every day. They\u2019re accusing Ken Starr of being a sex pervert. They\u2019re accusing Ken Starr of having no interest in justice.<\/p>\n
They did everything they could to destroy Ken Starr. I mean, these people, the Clinton team, they established the standard on this. Trump is going after Mueller much like it\u2019s been done before by the Clintons. I remember when the Clintons were doing it there were a lot of hand wringers out there saying, “This is very, very bad. They shouldn\u2019t be treating officers of the court like Judge Starr this way; this is not good.” But the Clinton said, “The hell with this. If I\u2019m gonna sit here and be railroaded by these Republicans.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m not gonna be impeached! I\u2019m not gonna be thrown out. Who the hell…? Everybody has sex just \u2019cause I had sex with interns, big deal. They do too. I\u2019m not paying a price for this.” They went out, they literally… I mean, they were camped outside Ken Starr\u2019s house every day. They had camera\u2019s on Ken Starr as he came out of his house, and they had camera\u2019s following Ken Starr in his car on the way to work. I mean, and I\u2019m not kidding. They were portraying this guy as a lawyer for the tobacco industry, wanted to kill your kids with tobacco.<\/p>\n
And then he was trying to ruin the most moral president in history, Bill Clinton, and he was a sex pervert, and that\u2019s the only reason he cared about the case. At least what Trump is doing with Mueller is pointing out some actual conflicts. Now, this business deal that he and Mueller had, the only reference that I have seen to anything is a little line about a dispute over fees at the Trump National golf course in Virginia.<\/p>\n
Now, I happened to play this golf course about three weeks… (interruption) There\u2019s Rudy again! Now he\u2019s up there, he\u2019s on CNN: “Colluding with Russians is not even a crime.” Wait a minute. Trump has said he didn\u2019t clued. What\u2019s Rudy you doing here? Giuliani: “Not Sure Colluding with Russians Is Even a Crime.” (laughs) Well, it better not be because the position of the Trump team is that there was no collusion in the first place. This is what I mean.<\/p>\n
I look up and there\u2019s Rudy everywhere today. I mean, they are flooding the zone. We\u2019ve got the Manafort trial starting tomorrow. The Manafort trial isn\u2019t even about collusion. The Manafort trial isn\u2019t even about Russia. Do you know what the Manafort trial is about? It\u2019s about how he got rich representing a bunch of people that work in the Ukraine and so forth. It\u2019s about his lavish lifestyle. The trial of Manafort has got nothing to do with anything that happened after 2016, and some people are saying, “What the hell is this?<\/p>\n
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“We\u2019re gonna ruin this guy?” Manafort obviously hasn\u2019t flipped. Yet. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to. But the Manafort trial literally has nothing to do with why everybody thinks Mueller has a job and has to investigate Trump campaign collusion with Putin and the Russians. Trial\u2019s not even about that. Here\u2019s Rudy up there: Collusion with Russians, he\u2019s not even sure it\u2019s a crime. Well, it better not be because your position has been from the get-go there wasn\u2019t any colluding. Anyway, the dispute this golf course — and it\u2019s a private course.<\/p>\n
Like Trump has a public course, a couple of them. One of them a public course, Rancho Palos Verdes down in southern California — and it\u2019s beautiful. We shot an episode of The Haney Project there with my good friend Al Michaels, ABC Sunday Night Football. We had a blast in that episode. It\u2019s way, way down. But it\u2019s public. The Trump National course in Sterling, Virginia, is about 20 minutes from Dulles International Airport, and it\u2019s private.<\/p>\n
I guess that Mueller wanted to join, and there was a dispute over fees, would be the membership fees, the initiation and all that. I don\u2019t know whether Mueller was rejected or whether he joined and paid full boat; I have no idea. I didn\u2019t even know until yesterday when I was reading about all this. But there clear Mueller conflicts. I mean, the people he\u2019s put on his investigative people literally love Hillary Clinton and hate Trump. And the guy leading them, Andrew Weissmann, has his own history of railroading people in the DOJ starting with the Enron task force and the Ted Stevens trial.<\/p>\n
He wasn\u2019t directly involved with that, but proteges of his were. And then Comey, Comey is Mueller\u2019s, one of his best buds — and Comey engineered the selection of a special counsel and Mueller. Anyway, they\u2019re flooding the zone with this now, and it just… It reminds me of the way the Clintons dealt with this. (interruption) Yeah, I know. I know. You\u2019ve got it. I\u2019m still… I\u2019m thinking verbally here. I\u2019m trying to figure out what could the strategy be here. With Rudy all over. The engineer is saying, ” I\u2019ve got it. Can I play it?” Okay. The engineer wants to play it. Let\u2019s play it…<\/p>\n
\u201cLARRY\u201d: Good evening, and welcome to Larry King Alive. Our topic tonight, \u201cIs Ken Starr Out of Control?\u201d In our Little Rock studio, special counsel Ken Starr.<\/p>\n
\u201cSTARR\u201d: Good evening, Larry.<\/p>\n
\u201cLARRY\u201d: And in our Washington studios, Clinton advisor and former campaign manager, James Carville.<\/p>\n
\u201cCARVILLE\u201d: Hi, Larry.<\/p>\n
RUSH: When an engineer wants to do something, you\u2019d better do it. They\u2019re just like the intel guys. If you speak up against \u2019em they can make your life miserable in ways that you can\u2019t possibly understand.<\/p>\n
\u201cCARVILLE\u201d: Hi, Larry. I\u2019m just glad you gave me a chance to show America what a madman vicious dog Ken Starr really is. He\u2019s a twisted, evil man, Larry, and I know what the American people \u2014<\/p>\n
\u201cLARRY\u201d: Thank you, James. But let\u2019s hear from Ken Starr first. Ken, are you a madman?<\/p>\n
\u201cSTARR\u201d: Larry, let me just say that I only want to \u2014<\/p>\n
\u201cCARVILLE\u201d: \u2014 to destroy the president, \u2019cause he\u2019s crazy! He\u2019s so crazy with tobacco money, he\u2019s lost his mind. You can hear it in his voice. He not only wants to destroy the president, he wants to kill all your children. He wants your babies dead. He\u2019s been giving cartoons of cigarettes to every kindergartener in America, and he ain\u2019t gonna stop \u2019til all your babies are smoking like Joe Camel!<\/p>\n
\u201cLARRY\u201d: Ken, why would you give cigarettes to 5-year-olds?<\/p>\n
\u201cSTARR\u201d: Larry, I never would \u2014<\/p>\n
\u201cCARVILLE\u201d: You see? He just said he \u201cnever\u201d didn\u2019t give no cigarettes to your babies. And he\u2019s also been around showing your babies how to play with matches, \u2019cause he\u2019s been taking all kind of money from them (Cajun) Bic Zippo lighter match people \u2019cause he\u2019s a madman, Larry, a killer who wants the president and all your babies dead! And you know what else? Ken Starr\u2019s a space alien. He ain\u2019t even a real man! He\u2019s from Mars. That\u2019s right. A madman from Mars, and they\u2019re invading the planet. He flies around a space ship handing out cigarettes made by little green men to kill your babies and destroy our president.<\/p>\n
\u201cLARRY\u201d: Pretty serious charges, Ken Starr? Are you an alien?<\/p>\n
\u201cSTARR\u201d: Honestly, Larry, I \u2014<\/p>\n
\u201cCARVILLE\u201d: Larry, you can\u2019t trust a man mad Martian out to kill your babies with cigarettes and matches and destroy our president, the most moral man in America! It\u2019s a war, Larry! It\u2019s a war! Bill Clinton against the invaders from Mars trying to kill you through secondhand smoke of kindergarteners, trying to burn down your house with matches and lighters as Ken Starr flies around in a spaceship. That\u2019s it Larry! That\u2019s the plan to get us and our president!<\/p>\n
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\u201cLARRY\u201d: Quite a compelling argument. Well, we\u2019re out of time. Now, tomorrow night our show will feature a completely different subject: A psychic who says Ken Starr is using mental vibrations to keep Susan McDougal awake at night. See you then.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay; so that\u2019s the parody we did, and that was, you know, the midpoint here when they were out there trying to destroy Ken Starr. You\u2019ve got Trump, I mean, tweeting nonstop and now Rudy all over TV and they\u2019re hammering Cohen and any number of things here. Look, there are some pretty educated guesses that you and I could make over what the express purpose here is. But, I mean, the very, very base minimum they\u2019re trying to create doubt about whatever Mueller ends up saying.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no question about that. What that gives rise to is, “Are they worried about what Mueller has or what Mueller\u2019s gonna say?” Because up to now, it has been fairly easy to conclude that Mueller doesn\u2019t have anything that could lead to Trump\u2019s impeachment because there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s gonna get 67 votes in the Senate to throw Trump out of the Oval Office, because there isn\u2019t any collusion. So the best thing…<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s say if Mueller is actually on the establishment team trying to run this violent coup to get of Trump — if Mueller is actually on the establishment team, part of the deep state, that has as its objective to overturn the election results — that would mean getting rid of Trump. But then the way they\u2019re doing this, the only way — \u2019cause they\u2019re not gonna be able to do it with impeachment, folks.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not gonna get 67 votes in the Senate regardless what happens in the November elections. They\u2019re just not gonna do it. It\u2019s never been done. There\u2019s never been an impeachment conviction of a president in the United States Senate, and there\u2019s not gonna be now. The only objective would be that if Mueller\u2019s in on this is to drive Trump\u2019s personal approval numbers down so low that Trump would lose all support on Capitol Hill, and then be forced to resign.<\/p>\n
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But I know Donald Trump. He\u2019s not gonna resign if his approval ratings are at 10% \u2019cause he\u2019s not gonna believe the polls. But I think it\u2019s really… I don\u2019t think it\u2019s complicated. I think people can read into things. I think it\u2019s very simple. Trump is fed up with being attacked. He\u2019s fed up with his family being attacked. He\u2019s fed up with fake news. Now he\u2019s the fake news is whining to him, little A.J. Sulzberger (sobbing), “You\u2019d better stop criticizing us \u2019cause it could lead to violence against journalism!”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Steve Scalise got shot by a deranged Democrat at baseball practice! The bullets are flying all over the place, and here comes the media worried about violence against them, which isn\u2019t happening. You know, if you people in the media want to stop all this, then stop making things up! Just start telling the truth, doing the news! It\u2019s not hard. Just stop lying about all these things that you think Trump has done. Just stopping making up the news! Simple solution.<\/p>\n
I think it\u2019s no more complicated than Trump is fed up with being attacked, with lies, family being attacked, all these other people ancillary to him being attacked. He told me on this program during the campaign, you know, people were worried that he responded to every attack, whether it came from somebody he never heard of or a major outlet. He said, “It\u2019s the way I\u2019m wired, Rush. You attack me; I can\u2019t let it stand. I\u2019m gonna hit back. You come after me; I\u2019m gonna return fire. I can\u2019t let any of this lying stuff go unanswered.”<\/p>\n
So it may be no more complicated than that. I also think this. I think they\u2019re fed up with how there\u2019s no end in sight to this thing. I think they\u2019re fed up and they\u2019re trying to do what they can to bring it to a close by discrediting whatever is going on, because they\u2019ve been at this over a year… Well, before Mueller, even before that. Mueller\u2019s been at it a little over a year. The deep state for a half year before that. So there\u2019s been a 1-1\/2 year minimum, maybe even longer if you count the campaign.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a two-year effort, let\u2019s say, to get rid of Donald Trump. Nobody\u2019s produced a single bit of evidence that could do that. And yet nobody announces the end of the investigation. Nobody announces that we\u2019re nearing the end of the investigation. I think they\u2019re fed up and they want this stuff to end. But the fact is the Democrats and Mueller, they\u2019re gonna extend this as close to the midterms as they can. So I think the battle has been joined.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, Rudy\u2019s out there saying (paraphrased), “They don\u2019t have a damn thing. They don\u2019t have a damn thing and collusion is not a crime anyway,” which everybody knows collusion is not a crime. Statutorily, collusion is not a crime. This has never been pursuit of a crime. This whole investigation, even Mueller\u2019s has been a counterintelligence investigation. They don\u2019t have a crime. In every case that\u2019s mattered, Mueller has thrown it off to some other jurisdiction, U.S. district, Southern District New York or the national security division Justice Department.<\/p>\n
The Manafort trial is the only one he\u2019s doing, and there\u2019s nothing there involving Trump campaign.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: In the last hour on Fox I saw a chyron graphic, a banner at the bottom of the screen about Giuliani, it\u2019s a quote from Giuliani: \u201cOf 183 recordings made by Trump fixer Michael Cohen, there are only 12 of those recordings of any substance, and most of them are with media figures.\u201d Most of the recordings are not of Trump. Of the 12 Rudy says are of substance, most are with media people.<\/p>\n
Now, you have to figure that if you\u2019re a media person and that you\u2019ve talked to this guy, now you\u2019ve learned that he has recorded seemingly everybody he spoke to, whether you were a client or not. These media figures have to know that they are on tape or they were recorded on the guy\u2019s iPhone. So you would think some of these media figures might be sitting there sweating bullets over this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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