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<\/p>\nRUSH: It\u2019s Christmas Eve — I want to find out what\u2019s on your minds, chat with you. We\u2019ll do that starting in Jacksonville, Florida, with Mike. You\u2019re first. It\u2019s great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey. How you doing, Rush? I want to wish you and your wife a Merry Christmas and the best of 2019.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. Same to you, sir.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Thank you. I called because I know how to solve the shutdown problem and this immigration they\u2019ve got. They talk about the spirit of partisanship on both sides, so each side has to give up something. And what I suggest is President Trump and Republicans come to Pelosi and Schumer and say, “We can work together, okay? We\u2019re gonna take your $1.6 billion for your border security. And even though I tried, I\u2019m letting my base know I tried to stop this shutdown, we\u2019ll take the 1.6 bill, okay? That\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna accept.\u201d But the Democrats, what they\u2019re gonna have to accept, which you know as well as I do they won\u2019t, but they will be exposed when they vote against it by “no.” What the Democrats will give up is, we\u2019re gonna put a processing center on Mexico\u2019s side. And as these people come in we\u2019ll process \u2019em and vet \u2019em, make sure they\u2019re not criminals, we\u2019ll check \u2019em for diseases, whatnot. And the children and the parents, they can —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold it a minute. Hold it. Are you suggesting that we propose an immigration processing center on the Mexican side of the border and that\u2019s where everybody would be run through? Is that your idea to —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — make them agree to that in exchange for taking the $1.7 billion?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, no, no, I ain\u2019t done yet, okay? I ain\u2019t done yet. That\u2019s only just to process \u2019em through. And as they come through they\u2019re allowed to work and pay taxes. They don\u2019t get no aid, okay? They don\u2019t get no Medicaid. They don\u2019t get no health care or whatnot. They\u2019re put behind in the back of the list.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, let me just stop you. The Democrats are not gonna go for that. In fact, right now I don\u2019t think the Democrats are even offering $1.6 billion. It may be theoretically there because it used to exist, but a processing center in Mexico would require the cooperation of the Mexican government. But none of what you\u2019re doing is going to lead to what Trump\u2019s objective is, which is border security.<\/p>\n
Your way still admits people into the country but doesn\u2019t give them any benefits, no health care, no Medicaid, no this. And they\u2019re put in the back of the list, but they\u2019re still here. And that means the Democrats can still reach them. You\u2019re oriented on both sides giving something up to make a deal, which is how negotiations usually happen, but we\u2019re way beyond that on this. Although there will be a solution. It will end.<\/p>\n
There is gonna be an end, and that\u2019s what we all have to be prepared for. But if your deal allows people who somehow survive a processing center to get into the country, and that takes them from illegal to legal, I don\u2019t know how that\u2019s solving anything per se. Then you\u2019ve gotta involve the Mexican government to go along with the processing center and then you\u2019ve gotta deal with the federal court system which anything like that that happens that the courts and the left thinks the Democrats didn\u2019t get a good deal on they\u2019ll try to stop, which is part and parcel of getting anything done. But I appreciate the call. Always do.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Obi in Sanger, California. Great to have you, Obi. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Dr. Rush, thank you so much for working today.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, my pleasure. I enjoy it. I was actually looking forward to it. I made the decision yesterday afternoon and from that point on I was looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you don\u2019t know how happy it made me. I thought I was gonna have a guest host this morning. I do love your guest hosts, but it\u2019s always good to have the real thing. Anyway, some quick comments for you. First on the stock market drop, and then I want to do a little follow-up quick one on the wall and on that $150 billion. On the stock market, all the news people and the pundits, even the Fox people refer to it as being caused by, you know, this big drop we\u2019ve had in the last few months by maybe interest rate fears or trade issues and other things.<\/p>\n
The one observation none of them seem to make is that it\u2019s coincided with the Democrats taking the House. And to me clearly that is because both the public and industry realize that the Democrats are gonna do nothing but frustrate Trump economic plans, and that\u2019s why they are losing confidence in the stock market right now. So that\u2019s my first comment. Do you want to respond to that before I make a quick one?<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, go ahead because I\u2019ve only got 45 seconds. I don\u2019t want to take it away from you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Quick one on the wall. About eight months ago I sent a letter to the president and to Don Jr. saying that he should use the Army Corps of Engineers and Pentagon money and he responded to that. I mean, he came out shortly thereafter and said that\u2019s something he\u2019s thinking about doing. And I hope he does do it. He should do that. Finally, on the 150, that was frozen assets after the embassy fall, the United States froze $150 billion of Iranian assets.<\/p>\n
RUSH: When was that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: After the embassy fall back under the Carter administration.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Oh, no, no, no. I\u2019m not thinking 150 bill back that far. It\u2019s part of this current deal. I\u2019m gonna track it down. As far as the market plunge, it is clear the president, with all of his tweeting, is trying to focus all of this on the Federal Reserve and their raising rates and their promise to keep raising rates in 2019. I think there are structural reasons that this is happening as well.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I think where I\u2019m getting this $150 billion figure running around my head is that I think Obama lifted sanctions on frozen assets in Iran and since 1973 there were like $150 billion — the caller may have had a point — $150 billion of frozen assets that Obama then made available to them as part of the deal. I think that\u2019s what it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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