{"id":308568,"date":"2019-05-08T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=308568"},"modified":"2019-05-09T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:41:29","slug":"youre-watching-the-slow-creep-of-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/08\/youre-watching-the-slow-creep-of-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slow Creep of Insanity: Democrats to Hold Barr in Contempt?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: It is amazing to watch. The Democrat Party is literally losing its mind here, folks. That\u2019s what you\u2019re watching. That is what we are watching take place here. And I\u2019m gonna try to chronicle this and sensitize all this down to its base elements, take the complex and make it understandable here, what is going on.<\/p>\n

This is what the slow creep of insanity looks like. And if it were happening to a family member of yours, you would be in a state of panic right now and you would be seeking expert advice on what to do about it.<\/p>\n

Great to have you as we launch another three hours of broadcast excellence from here, the EIB Southern Command. Great to have you with us. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re on the verge of the House — what is this committee? (interruption) The Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler. There\u2019s so many of these damn committees. There\u2019s the investigations committee, there\u2019s the Judiciary Committee, there\u2019s the Intelligence Committee. Regardless, they\u2019re on the verge here of voting to hold the attorney general, William Barr, in contempt of Congress for failing to produce 2% of the Mueller report. That\u2019s what they want to see.<\/p>\n

Barr has offered to let them see the least redacted version. The only thing that he will not let them see is that which is covered by grand jury testimony. Federal law requires that grand jury testimony cannot be made public. They are essentially demanding that the attorney general break the law and hand over an unredacted version of the Mueller report to them.<\/p>\n

Now, to prove that they don\u2019t really want to see the Mueller report, that\u2019s not what this is about. You\u2019ve heard this term 6(e) material. 6(e) material is the legal identification for grand jury material when talking about law in statutory ways. And the truth of the matter is that it\u2019s this Congress, the United States Congress which passes the laws in this country which declared grand jury testimony may not be made public other than by the people who testify before it.<\/p>\n

The prosecutors cannot make it public. Nobody in that room can make it public by an act of Congress. They are asking the attorney general to violate their own law in making it public. The question to ask, in the last two months, in the last two weeks, whatever time frame, has the Democrat majority in Congress attempted to change the law, allowing grand jury material to be made public?<\/p>\n

No, they have not! It is still illegal. They have not changed the law, which they can do if they want. They can try. Somebody could have introduced legislation saying, “You know what? Going forward, grand jury material will not be protected, it will not be redacted from any legal reports. We\u2019re gonna make it all public.” They could have done that. They could have gotten that law changed. They didn\u2019t make an effort to change the law.<\/p>\n

So what this boils down to is, and just synthesizing this down to its base element, this is not about the Mueller report. This is not about what they think is in it that they don\u2019t know. It\u2019s not about the fact that they think key evidence regarding collusion or obstruction is being withheld from them. It\u2019s not about that at all.<\/p>\n

This is about discrediting the attorney general as he begins his investigation into the investigation into how this all happened. The investigation into the Obama DOJ, the investigation into James Comey, the investigation into the FISA court, the FISA warrant process, the investigation into the Steele dossier and its origins, which is Hillary Clinton, the DNC. That investigation, which Barr has already begun and which the current FBI director Christopher Wray has acknowledged he\u2019s taking part in, this is all an attempt to discredit Barr.<\/p>\n

And the best way to discredit Barr is to have it reported in your sycophantic Drive-By Media that the attorney general conducting this investigation was held in contempt by Congress. They just want this vote to take place so that the attorney general will have it said about him that he has been held in contempt of Congress. That is supposed to discredit whatever his investigation produces.<\/p>\n

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We got a random act of journalism on CNN today. Audio sound bite number 1 on the program they call Newsroom. Evan Perez, the Justice Department correspondent for CNN, was asked the following questions: “The Democrats are gonna vote to hold Barr in contempt. How symbolic is that? Is this a negotiation just like Republicans held Eric Holder in contempt and were able to get the White House to negotiate and get those documents on Fast and Furious? Is that the best case outcome for the Democrats here?”<\/p>\n

PEREZ: I find it odd that the Democrats decided to use this as the thing to hold the Attorney General in contempt over. I mean, look. They have a lot of things to be mad at him over. They accused him of misleading testimony. Obviously he didn\u2019t show up for a hearing in the past week. So there\u2019s a lot of things that they could be mad about. And this one, this is a report that is 92% public. Only 8% of it was unredacted. (sic) The Attorney General last week in his testimony said only 2% of volume 2, which is the thing that the Democrats say they care most about, the obstruction part, is redacted. So, you know, it\u2019s kind of hard to understand how they went nuclear so quickly on this. It seems rather like they have started a constitutional crisis, not the other way around.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, it\u2019s exactly right. Two percent of what they want — two volumes in the Mueller report. Volume 1 is on Russian collusion. A, there wasn\u2019t any. Volume 2 is on obstruction in which Mueller said, “Hell, I can\u2019t exonerate Trump on this, so I\u2019m gonna turn it over to Congress.” He\u2019s not supposed to exonerate anybody. It\u2019s not what prosecutors do.<\/p>\n

Anyway, volume 2 of the Mueller report dealing with obstruction, only 2% of it is redacted! Only 2%! There\u2019s nothing in this report that\u2019s gonna shed any new light on anything, and they know it, and even their buddies in the Drive-By Media, \u201cOf all things you want to hold Barr in contempt over, why not go get him for not showing up before you last week instead of this?\u201d Even the Drive-Bys are confused.<\/p>\n

The Democrats are in a hurry, as you will hear. Pelosi is losing her mind<\/a>. We\u2019ve got more evidence of this. It goes above and beyond that which we had yesterday. The House Democrats, folks, are irresponsible, they are hysterical, and it\u2019s fear, it is fear that can do this. We\u2019ve got this Horowitz inspector general report looming out there. We have Barr\u2019s investigation that has begun, the investigation of the investigation. It\u2019s driving the Democrats insane. Mueller\u2019s report, and again, try to think of it the way they do.<\/p>\n

For 2-1\/2 years, however absurd this may sound to you and however unrealistic it may sound to you, these people — the Democrats on this committee, the Democrats in the House, the Democrats in the media, the Democrats everywhere — believed that Trump had colluded with Russia because their media told them. I think even those who didn\u2019t believe it at first, got swept up, and they ended up believing it.<\/p>\n

And even if they didn\u2019t believe it, they believed that Robert Mueller was going to deliver the silver bullet, was gonna show Trump the sign of the cross that would make Trump go hide in the darkness like Dracula. They really believed! They got up every day and they believed it in their hearts. They believed it in every fiber of their existence that Mueller was going to lower the boom — and then here comes Mueller, “Sorry. Ehhhh, no collusion. Ehhhh, not enough evidence to find any obstruction.”<\/p>\n

They have lost their minds. The Mueller report destroyed the “Trump is a traitor” narrative, destroyed the “Trump stole the election” narrative. But Mueller wanted to give the Democrats something to keep the country reeling, just like Vladimir Putin wanted. Mueller gave them “Trump must prove his innocence.” This, on the obstruction side. Mueller said, “Yeah, I can\u2019t really… I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t exonerate Trump on any of this.”<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s not his job to exonerate anybody. The prosecutor\u2019s job is never to exonerate anybody. The accused does not have to prove his or her innocence. Look, you know the drill on this. Mueller wasn\u2019t fired. Mueller wasn\u2019t obstructed. There wasn\u2019t anything done to stop Mueller. His investigation was not impeded. It was not impaired. The only thing obstructed, the only thing impeded, the only thing that was blown up was the Democrats\u2019 attempted coup.<\/p>\n

So here we are. Democrats are losing their collective minds because they have nothing more than threats, abuses of power, smears and abject panic over what is headed their way, and that is the sum total explaining everything they are doing here. The media\u2019s gonna repackage Democrat panic and abuses of power as patriotism. It\u2019s like Comey said. Comey said, “No, no, no. We don\u2019t spy on people at the FBI. We investigate.”<\/p>\n

(chuckling) So they are reeling. They have fear of Barr. They have fear of Trump. They have fear of truth. They have fear of a great, roaring economy. They are afraid of their own lunatic base. They are afraid of having no ideas to counter that which is producing great results in the country at the moment — and they have an institutional fear of success, independence, and freedom, because all of those things enjoyed by people mean that people don\u2019t need Democrats.<\/p>\n

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None of this is playing out the way they dreamed for the last 2-1\/2 years. It has blown up in their faces in every way imaginable. Now, you may have trouble looking at it this way because you\u2019re watching tainted media report this. You\u2019re seeing the media report that Trump is afraid. (impression) “Trump is scared to death! Trump is trying to hide the truth. Trump…” No. Trump is declaring and has asserted executive privilege over the full Mueller report, and let me explain to you what this means.<\/p>\n

Even if the Democrats in this committee and then in the whole House vote to hold Barr in contempt, all they have done is stymie themselves for perhaps months as this winds its way through the courts to be resolved. So they hold Barr in contempt with their vote today. The White House then declares and asserts executive privilege over everything in this investigation. What does that mean? It means the Democrats do not have the Mueller report; the White House does.<\/p>\n

The White House has everything associated with the Mueller report and Congress will get none of it until the courts have had a chance to deal with this. That means there\u2019s gonna be lawsuits left and right. All of that means, it\u2019s going to take a lot of time, and don\u2019t think that… Nadler is out there saying that Trump is doing this because he wants to behave like a king, he wants to behave like a monarch, he wants to make like there is no coequal branch.<\/p>\n

That is not what is happening here.<\/p>\n

Trump is simply asserting the fact that the executive branch is independent, has its own area of government that it is in charge of and holds purview over, and they are asserting that. They are answerable to voters. They don\u2019t operate at the whim of Jerry Nadler. The executive branch is not under permanent oversight like the Mueller report made it look like the executive branch is and like Trump is. They\u2019re asserting executive privilege, and they\u2019re telling Nadler and all these Democrats, “You do not get permanent oversight over everything.<\/p>\n

“We have cooperated with you. We\u2019ve cooperated all the way down the line. But you are attempting to use this material for something totally unrelated to what your stated purpose is, and we\u2019re not gonna let you get away with it. We\u2019re simply not gonna hold ourselves up and put ourselves in the firing line so you can start shooting at us.” Again, the Democrats are not doing this because they want to know what\u2019s in the Mueller report. They\u2019re not doing this because they think there\u2019s a silver bullet in there that\u2019s gonna get Trump.<\/p>\n

Here. Let Jim Jordan from Ohio explain it. He\u2019s on the House Judiciary Committee today. This is what he said during his time…<\/p>\n