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RUSH: Mr. Snerdley came in to me today and said, “You know, you\u2019re gonna have to stop saying that you predicted it, because it\u2019s gonna get so redundant you\u2019re gonna start irritating people. You could say it every day.” No sooner, no sooner — in fact, let\u2019s grab audio sound bite number 1. I want to remind you what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. We\u2019re here and ready to go for three hours. Telephone number, 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n

In the second hour of the program yesterday, in the monologue segment — that would be the first segment — I told you for 10 minutes how despondent and glum the faces on CNN were. For two years they had spent every day and all day and multiple times a day assuring themselves and everybody Trump was going down. He was gonna go down because Mueller was gonna produce evidence of collusion. They were gonna prove Trump was a traitor and all that.<\/p>\n

And then yesterday William Barr came along and took the ball away from \u2019em, and they for the first time in two years are on defense. We are on offense. The glum, the depression, you could see it on their faces. They had taken everything they believed in away from them with one comment, “Yes, I think there was spying on the Trump campaign.” And I told everybody. \u201cBut don\u2019t get used to it, because they\u2019re going to come out of it. Tomorrow they will have something that rejuvenates or, here, listen to me warn you. This is in the third hour of the program yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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RUSH ARCHIVE: They\u2019ll come out of it tomorrow. They\u2019ll have a whole new attitude tomorrow to deal with this. And it\u2019ll involve Barr being a phony, maybe unqualified, whatever they have to do to right the ship. But today you can see this blank, stunned disbelief, depression, despondency, disappointment on their faces. Not constantly. You have to know how to look at it.\u00a0Now you know what they\u2019ll do. They\u2019ll switch on a dime to new Trump scandals.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is it too much to ask if maybe it\u2019s a big coincidence that, all of a sudden, authorities found their way inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and pulled out of there Julian Assange? Who, by the way, they used to love Julian Assange, folks. We\u2019ve got the audio sound bites coming up<\/a>. The Drive-By Media, the Democrat Party used to love this guy. But just to illustrate, here\u2019s CNN after having done a 180, they can barely contain their excitement today.<\/p>\n

CAMEROTA: This is the shot of him being taken from the Ecuadorian embassy by British police.<\/p>\n

BERMAN: Oh, my god, look at him. The beard. I have not seen him looking like that. Clearly not being taken willingly. He\u2019s being dragged to the police van.<\/p>\n

CAMEROTA: You know, that\u2019s what they call the perp walk or the grab shot. And that is a fascinating one because look at how many people it\u2019s taking to take him down. He\u2019s not going willingly. He looks like Rip Van Winkle. He has aged more than seven years since he\u2019s been in there. And it\u2019s just fascinating to watch this. Let\u2019s do see again.<\/p>\n

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BERMAN: He is not walking out voluntarily. He is shouting, which just shows you his position in the world. To an extent, it is the governments of the world, minus Russia, against Julian Assange.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, they\u2019re rejuvenated, folks. They\u2019re back to life. They\u2019re back to being alive. They\u2019re back on the path of getting Trump. So excited is CNN, here is a montage that they\u2019re playing every 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: (echo) (10\/10\/16) This just came out. Wikileaks. I love Wikileaks. (10\/12\/16) This Wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. (10\/31\/16) Another one came in today. This Wikileaks is like a treasure trove. (11\/4\/16) Getting off the plane they were just announcing new Wikileaks. And I wanted to stay there, but I didn\u2019t want to keep you waiting. (11\/4\/16) Boy, I love reading those Wikileaks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, they can\u2019t get enough of this, folks. They are so transparent. They are so predictable. And I want to put all of this in perspective for you. Great to have you with us. As I say, El Rushbo here behind the Golden EIB Microphone.<\/p>\n

You have to see how the Democrats have gone after Barr since his testimony yesterday. Again, not hard to predict. You knew it was going to happen because yesterday William Barr took the ball away from them and for the first time since all of this began, they are on defense, and they can see where this is going. They can see with themselves as the targets where this is going. Here are some headlines that I put together just in a flash this morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cSchumer: Barr Must Retract ‘Spying\u2019 Shocker<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPelosi: Barr is \u2018Going Off the Rails.<\/a>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Pencil Neck \u201cSchiff: Barr ‘Doing the Bidding\u2019 of Trump, Spying Comments ‘a Disservice to the FBI.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u201cAP Interview: Pelosi: \u2018I Don\u2019t Trust Barr; I Trust Mueller.<\/a>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRep. Nadler: AG Barr Saying Trump Campaign Spying Occurred Contradicts ‘What DOJ Previously\u2019 Said.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJames Clapper: ‘Stunning and Scary\u2019 That Barr Would Raise Spying Allegation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJeffrey Toobin: AG Barr Spying Comments ‘A Dog Whistle to Talk Radio Right Wing.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNBC\u2019s Todd: AG Barr ‘Gave Credence to a Factless Conspiracy Theory<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can I ask a question? Barr announced an investigation yesterday, right? He said we\u2019re gonna look into the investigation, how it began, where it began. Because he does think that there was spying on the Trump campaign. And there was! They got a FISA warrant renewed three times.<\/p>\n

There was spying on the Trump campaign! It\u2019s not even arguable, folks. The thing is that there was even more spying than the FISA warrants. They had informants. The FBI attempted to get \u2019em hired and planted inside the Trump administration. It\u2019s now been confirmed by people in congressional testimony.<\/p>\n

Rod Rosenstein was serious about wearing a wire to go in and try to entrap Trump into saying something that they could then take to the rest of the cabinet and say, “Look, this guy\u2019s insane. He\u2019s unfit!”<\/p>\n

Now, my question is this. Aren\u2019t all of these Democrats — Schumer, Pelosi, Pencil Neck, Nadler, James Clapper, Toobin, F. Chuck Todd — are they not obstructing justice here? They\u2019re criticizing the investigator. These clowns are already obstructing justice by their own definition.<\/p>\n

I mean, weren\u2019t we told that Trump obstructed justice when he criticized Comey and then he criticized Mueller and called it a witch hunt all day? Where are the calls now for investigations of Schumer and Pelosi and F. Chuck Todd and Nadler and Clapper?\u00a0 Because it sure looks like a conspiracy to obstruct justice and prevent an investigation, if you ask me!\u00a0 It looks like these people are hell-bent on doing everything they can to stop this investigation (i.e., obstruct it) and further to discolor it and disqualify it — and, by the way, these are not empty threats.<\/p>\n

Schumer and Nadler and Schiff control the DOJ\u2019s purse strings.\u00a0 As members of Congress they\u2019re in charge of allocations, spending authorizations.\u00a0 So how can anyone doubt that we are witnessing a clear attempt to stop Barr\u2019s investigation and to obstruct justice “in plain sight,” as Nadler and Schiff might say.\u00a0 Now, you might think I\u2019m trying to be clever.\u00a0 You might think I\u2019m trying to be funny.\u00a0 Maybe so.\u00a0 But I\u2019m also dead serious.\u00a0 This is exactly the kind of thing they said Trump was guilty of obstructing.<\/p>\n

This is the exact kind of thing they were hoping Mueller would find Trump guilty of.\u00a0 They\u2019re asking Barr to step down.\u00a0 Did Trump ever ask Mueller to step down?\u00a0 Did Trump ever fire Mueller?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 They\u2019re demanding that Barr not even start this.\u00a0 They\u2019re demanding that Barr pull it back.\u00a0 Schumer is demanding that Barr take it back.\u00a0 “Barr Must Retrack ‘Spying\u2019 Shocker.”\u00a0 This is a clear attempt to obstruct the investigation.\u00a0 This is a clear and open, in-front-of-our-eyes attempt to make sure this investigation never gets going.<\/p>\n