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<\/p>\nRUSH: The attorney general confirmation hearings for the former attorney general, William Barr, are in recess. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s gone into an anteroom there to get to a radio, be able to get his marching orders from me as to how to proceed for the rest of the afternoon. In which case, you know, kind of dial it back on how good buddies you are with Mueller. We get it. I think you\u2019ve done enough to put the Democrats at ease. Now time to make us feel a little bit better about what all\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n
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In addition, we have, folks — we\u2019ll get into detail about these hearings. I\u2019ve got some audio sound bites to share with you as the program unfolds today. And we\u2019re faced with the same old thing. Is this guy saying what he\u2019s saying because he knows he\u2019s gotta get the votes to get confirmed and then after that the reality happens? Is he gonna get any Democrat votes? He\u2019s already been attorney general, George H. W. Bush.<\/p>\n
I can see him not getting a single Democrat vote or maybe they assign a couple of Democrats to vote for him, but the partisanship is such that I don\u2019t see much of anything on the Democrat side that they would look at as a positive in voting to confirm the guy. And he\u2019s doing everything he can to assure them that Mueller is wonderful, that the Russians meddled and that he is not gonna do anything to stop the investigation.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not gonna get in Mueller\u2019s way, and he\u2019s not gonna let Trump get in Mueller\u2019s way. He\u2019s not gonna let Trump fire Mueller. He\u2019s not gonna let Trump correct the report. Don\u2019t worry, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee, I\u2019m not gonna let anything interfere with your claim that the Russians stole the election. He didn\u2019t say it in those words, but he did say that he wasn\u2019t gonna do anything to impede, retard — did I use that word safely? — slow down the Mueller investigation.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: William Barr has now resumed his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination Trump has made to have him become the new attorney general. And he\u2019s saying things that have a lot of people worked up. He\u2019s saying (imitating Barr), “No, no, no. Bob Mueller is a good buddy of mine, and there\u2019s no way that Bob Mueller would do a witch hunt. There\u2019s just no way. Bob Mueller is incapable of hunting witches.”<\/p>\n
And so the Drive-Bys are saying the attorney general nominee breaks from Trump! They\u2019re running stories, has Trump been bamboozled, has Trump been fooled, has Trump nominated a chicken or a fox to oversee his chicken house or whatever. And then the other thing is that Sessions should have recused him, absolutely right. Any question about Mueller, any question about Mueller\u2019s investigation, Barr is giving an answer the left and the media applaud.<\/p>\n
(paraphrasing)<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think Mueller should reveal the results of his –\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, sir, I most certainly do, according to the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think Mueller should be fired?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, sir, I do not. No way should Bob Mueller be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cDo you think Bob Mueller\u2019s investigation should be interfered with by the president?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo way, not on my watch. President Trump will not be allowed to interfere with my best buddy Bob Mueller\u2019s non-witchhunt investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you believe that the Mueller investigation should be allowed to go on for 50 years?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely, Senator, whatever Mueller needs, whenever he needs it, I, as the attorney general want to make sure he gets it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if the president wants to fire Mueller?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no way that Bob Mueller hunts witches and there is no way that Bob Mueller is an unfair guy, and I am not gonna let the president fire the guy outside of the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
So now we have to decide — now, see what I did there, by the way? I employed a common communications trait called exaggeration in order to pierce through all the noise so that you would hear me and have some idea of what\u2019s going on. Today\u2019s media, hearing this, “Limbaugh with a litany of misquotes.” I can just see it now, the way this stuff all happens. But I\u2019ve just given you a basic overview of how this has all gone.<\/p>\n
Lindsey Graham and others pointed out last week that William Barr has been friends with Mueller for many years. Their wives even attend Bible studies together. Secretly, let me ask, how many of you, when you heard that Mueller\u2019s wife does Bible study, thought, “What? Doesn\u2019t fit.” Just asking. I mean, if you\u2019re part of an overall silent coup, if you are essentially part of an effort to get Donald Trump thrown out of office, how religious are you? I\u2019ve had people make that observation to me.<\/p>\n
But, I mean, there\u2019s no question what this is. This is a gigantic silent coup designed to get rid of Donald Trump. Dianne Feinstein (paraphrasing), \u201cAre you gonna make sure this investigation goes on?\u201d She\u2019s already assuming that Mueller\u2019s got the goods and her questioning to Barr was, \u201cAre you gonna make sure we all know how the Russians meddle? Are you gonna make sure we all know how the Russians and Trump worked together?\u201d<\/p>\n
And Barr, \u201cSenator, of course within the framework of the rules and framework of the law, absolutely. Have no fear from me what might or might not happen regarding my good friend Bob Mueller.\u201d I guess it was supposed to reassure us, all this Bible study business and Mueller and Barr being best buddies. There was a memo that Barr wrote. It was 17 or 18 pages long and it was out of the blue. Now, he\u2019s the former attorney general and I should tell you that the inside-the-Beltway legal community just thinks this guy hung the Moon.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not exaggerating. I can\u2019t tell you how many people I\u2019ve spoken to, people that I trust in the legal judiciary community who think this guy is just the best, that Trump could not have chosen anybody better. Nobody is even close. That is the imprimatur that this guy comes to these hearings today with, that there\u2019s nobody else better suited for the job, nobody better. Well, he wrote a memo out of the clear blue as just an interested lawyer. And it\u2019s 17 or 18 pages, and it basically took Mueller\u2019s obstruction investigation to task.<\/p>\n