{"id":310641,"date":"2019-05-31T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=310641"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:29:26","slug":"my-exclusive-cant-find-it-anywhere-else-parsing-and-analysis-of-barr-on-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/31\/my-exclusive-cant-find-it-anywhere-else-parsing-and-analysis-of-barr-on-cbs\/","title":{"rendered":"My Exclusive, Can\u2019t-Find-It-Anywhere-Else Parsing and Analysis of Barr on CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Okay, Bill Barr. Bill Barr in Alaska dressed appropriately. He\u2019s got on one of these, you know, checkered shirts sitting in front of a fire. It looks like men\u2019s GQ. If you\u2019re gonna go to Alaska and you weigh what Barr weighs, it\u2019s the way you would dress. It looks very fashionable, got on one of these vests, probably wearing khakis, maybe hip waders that you can\u2019t see, whatever, probably having dinner with Sarah Palin. They don\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-310576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-CBS-Barr-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-CBS-Barr-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-CBS-Barr-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their one question, Jan Crawford is the infobabe here, and the big question was not asked, just to tell you up front. She didn\u2019t ask about the variance in his statement and Mueller\u2019s statement about the Office of Legal Counsel saying you cannot indict a sitting president. Barr has said we asked him three times if that was a factor. He said no.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller goes out, said it\u2019s the only factor I had. She did not ask about that. So that answer from Barr is not here. The first question that we have, &#8220;Do you agree with the interpretation that the Office of Legal Counsel, legal opinion prevented Mueller from making a conclusion on obstruction?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BARR: I personally felt he could have reached a decision.<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORD: In your view he could have reached a conclusion?<\/p>\n<p>BARR: Right, he could have reached a conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORD: Well, and he seemed to suggest yesterday that there was another venue for this, and that was Congress.<\/p>\n<p>BARR: Well, I\u2019m not sure what he was suggesting. But, you know, the Department of Justice doesn\u2019t use our powers of investigating crimes as an adjunct to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Aw, this is just &#8212; folks, savor this. This is just delicious. This is called sharp knife dissects Mueller, but in one of the most nonconfrontational, unthreatening ways. It\u2019s done so artfully that I don\u2019t think the left knows what is happening here. One of the things about Barr that you\u2019ll hear as we go through this, how relaxed, unagitated, how level, straight line, laid back he is.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks in a very quiet yet strongly modulated, measured way. As I say, sitting in front of a fire wearing the kind of stuff you\u2019d be wearing if you\u2019re out doing the stuff you\u2019d do in Alaska. He\u2019s polite; he\u2019s nice; he listens to the female reporter and her questions. He appears truly interested in helping her understand. He appears genuinely interested in answering her questions. He seems dedicated to the premise that she is going to get the answers to the questions that she is asking.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard, if you watch this, or listen to this, it\u2019s hard to find anything mean. You can\u2019t find anything malicious about Barr. You don\u2019t see some doddering old fool wiping his nose trying to make sure the snot doesn\u2019t leak down on the shirt. You\u2019re not seeing anything at all other than total composure. But there\u2019s nothing scary about it. This is a very important fact.<\/p>\n<p>It is another reason that the Drive-Bys are ignoring this. CNN, nobody\u2019s airing this because Barr cannot be demonized. There isn\u2019t anything scary about this guy. And that\u2019s why they are ignoring Barr here and probably any other public appearances he would make other than with bombshell news. But this is one guy that they cannot frame as a scary, mean, radical, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe Republican.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-310654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-Americas-Real-Anchorman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-Americas-Real-Anchorman.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-Americas-Real-Anchorman-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, this answer &#8212; she was so shocked, she asked the question twice. Barr: &#8220;I personally felt he could have reached a decision.&#8221; &#8220;In your view he could have reached a decision?&#8221; &#8220;Right. He could have reached a conclusion.\u201d &#8220;Well, he seemed to suggest that there was another venue for this, and that was Congress.&#8221; &#8220;Well, I\u2019m not sure what he was suggesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meaning, &#8220;I don\u2019t know what he was trying to do, but I\u2019m just gonna tell you, that the Department of Justice does not transfer our powers to Congress.&#8221; (making buzzer sound) Yo time is up. So if that\u2019s what you think he\u2019s doing, we aren\u2019t. The DOJ doesn\u2019t say, &#8220;Hey, Congress, take care of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look. What is obvious as the day is long, Mueller is purely, totally political. This entire investigation has been political. It\u2019s been political since it began. It has had a political objective, not legal, not criminal. It is had a political objective of getting rid of the president of the United States. I said this yesterday in a very, very expressive audio sound bite which Fox News has been playing for people all day and asking them to react to it. One of those people was Devin Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Nunes was asked \u2013 we don\u2019t have time to squeeze it in. I\u2019ll do it after the break. Do we have time for this? No, we don\u2019t. That\u2019s my fault. I spent too much time analyzing this answer. But I\u2019ll tell you what the next question coming up is. She then says, &#8220;Well, he said that he couldn\u2019t exonerate the president, that if he could have, he would have stated so. You looked at the evidence, you looked at the same evidence, and you did exonerate the president. I mean, what\u2019s the fundamental difference between your view and his?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Barr has one of these very measured, quiet, comforting answers that is nonthreatening in any way. And we\u2019ll have that coming up plus the Bill Hemmer sound bite of me and asking for Devin Nunes\u2019 reaction to it with this whole thing. It\u2019s obvious to me and everybody else this has all been political, but it\u2019s great to see that affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Welcome back. El Rushbo with half my brain tied behind my back to make it fair, sustainable, and equitable at all times. Audio sound bite number 25. This is Bill Hemmer this morning on the Fox News Channel. His guest is Devin Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>HEMMER: Now, Rush Limbaugh has a few opinions on this. Just roll this real fast, guys. This is from yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-310688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RushAmericas-Newsroom-11_37_04-AM-e1559330812662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE: This has always been a political effort to destroy Trump before the election and after, during the transition and after his inauguration. It has always been that. It has always been telegraphed. It\u2019s always been there for all of us to see.<\/p>\n<p>HEMMER: If Limbaugh\u2019s right, what do House Democrats do, then, sir?<\/p>\n<p>NUNES: Well, I think Rush Limbaugh is right, and I was thinking about this this morning. Looking at the times that the Steele dossier&#8230; So this is the dirt that the Democrats had paid for. They began receiving that information in June of 2016, long before the election and really a long time before they briefed the president &#8212; the new president, Trump &#8212; on this in January of \u201917. It just stinks. It really stinks. I think the American people know it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-310686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Nunes-Americas-Newsroom-11_37_19-AM-e1559330794635.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It has been&#8230; There\u2019s no question it\u2019s been political, \u2019cause there\u2019s never been a crime. There has not been a crime. They never had any evidence of a crime that would support the investigation. And just to remind you: When Mueller was finally chosen to be the special counsel, he was not given a crime. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, did not give him a crime. It became a counterintelligence investigation to find out if the Russians had attempted to interfere, which they already said they knew!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, no evidence. It\u2019s always been political. Now, back to the Barr interview. Again, the question from Jan Crawford: &#8220;Mueller said that he could not exonerate the president, that if he could have, he would have. You looked at the evidence, and you did exonerate the president. I mean, what\u2019s the fundamental difference between your view and Mueller\u2019s?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BARR: Well, I think Bob said that he was not going to engage in the analysis. He was not going to make the determination one way or another. He analyzed the law and the facts. And a group of us spent a lot of time doing that and determined that both as a matter of law many of the instances would not amount to obstruction.<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORD: As a matter of law?<\/p>\n<p>BARR: As a matter of law. In other words, we didn\u2019t agree with the legal analysis, a lot of the legal analysis in the report. It did not reflect the views of the department. It was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers, and so we applied what we thought was the right law.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ciBJ4Z3EQM0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Folks, do you know how big this is? There\u2019s another reason why nobody is airing this. It\u2019s because nobody wants legal analysts on to explain what Barr is saying here. So allow me. &#8220;So Mueller said he couldn\u2019t exonerate, but you did. So what\u2019s the difference between your view and his?&#8221; And Barr said, &#8220;Well, Bob said that he wasn\u2019t going to engage in an analysis. All Bob said was that if we could have, we would have.&#8221; Barr knows that\u2019s not how American jurisprudence happens. &#8220;Bob&#8230;&#8221; Mueller. &#8220;Bob said he wasn\u2019t gonna make a determination one way or the other. But we had to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He turned it over to us. So we,&#8221; meaning a group of us. Not just me, a group of us, &#8220;analyzed the law and the facts, and a group of us spent a lot of time doing that, and we determined that as a matter of law, many of these 11 instances that Mueller cites would not amount to obstruction.&#8221; She says, &#8220;As a matter of law?&#8221; \u2019cause she\u2019s thinking, &#8220;What\u2019s law got to do with? This is a political thing!&#8221; She knows it. Everybody knows it, and just doesn\u2019t want to admit it. And Barr says, &#8220;As a matter of law. In other words, we didn\u2019t agree with the legal analysis in the report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not talking about what was factually presented in the report. He\u2019s talking about one or two lawyers on Mueller\u2019s team and their analysis, and they said, &#8220;We disagree. We looked at the law We looked at their opinion, and their opinion is wrong based on the law.&#8221; Now, he\u2019s talking about Weissmann here! &#8220;As a matter of law.&#8221; &#8220;In other words, we didn\u2019t agree with the legal analysis, a lot of the legal analysis in the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It didn\u2019t reflect the views of the department, which is concerned with the law. It was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers and so we applied what we thought was the right law.&#8221; Well, this&#8230; I say it\u2019s Weissmann. Who else would it be? I mean, there\u2019s thirteen anti-Trump lawyers on Mueller\u2019s investigative team, and what he\u2019s saying here is that the legal analysis &#8212; meaning what the lawyers, what Mueller\u2019s team thought &#8212; is not what they thought. They did an analysis of the law.<\/p>\n<p>These other people are doing their analysis on some flawed basis that Barr and his DOJ people disagreed with. So they applied the law. The Mueller team was not. That explains the difference. Got one or two lawyers on that team. And notice he didn\u2019t say Mueller. He said, &#8220;It was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers.&#8221; He knows it\u2019s Weissmann. He knows that this team was really run by Andrew Weissmann (who was on stage with Hillary when she conceded, a big-time donor) who hates Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He knows Weissmann\u2019s judicial history. He knows that Weissmann\u2019s purely political, and that\u2019s what he\u2019s saying without saying it. They don\u2019t want anybody like me in analyzing this. That\u2019s why they\u2019re not gonna play this bite on CNN, they\u2019re not gonna play this bite on MSNBC, and they\u2019re not gonna do it the New York Times. They don\u2019t want anybody explaining what Barr\u2019s talking about here.<\/p>\n<p>They want Mueller to remain as the first and final authority on the law. And what Barr is saying is, &#8220;These guys didn\u2019t even apply the law. I had to. That\u2019s why there was no obstruction.&#8221; Next question. &#8220;You\u2019ve testified you believe that spying occurred in the Trump campaign. You\u2019ve gotten some criticism for using the word &#8216;spying.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-310575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-CBS-Barr-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-CBS-Barr-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-053119-CBS-Barr-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>BARR: Yeah. I mean, I guess it\u2019s become a dirty word somehow. It has never been for me. I think there\u2019s nothing wrong with spying. The question is always whether it\u2019s authorized by law and properly predicated. And if it is, then it\u2019s an important tool the United States has to protect the country.<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORD: Some former intelligence chiefs have said the president has made that word somewhat pejorative &#8212; uh, that there\u2019s spying, this is a witch hunt, it\u2019s a hoax &#8212; and so your use of that word makes it seem that you\u2019re being a loyalist.<\/p>\n<p>BARR: You know, it\u2019s part of the craziness of the modern-day that if a president uses a word, then all of a sudden it becomes off bounds. It\u2019s a perfectly good English word. I\u2019ll continue to use it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s exactly right! He\u2019s being told that he needs to conform to the conventional wisdom of the establishment, and that is, &#8220;If Trump\u2019s talking about it, you have got to disagree with it. All the smart people, Mr. Attorney General, disagree with it. Trump\u2019s talking about spying and witch hunt. You sound like you\u2019re supporting the president!&#8221; Barr has gone farther than that, by the way. Barr has said on previous occasions that the craziness of this and the abnormality of this is this stupid investigation!<\/p>\n<p>This whole two years\/three years, the abnormality here is the investigation, and Trump is entirely reasonable in the way he\u2019s reacted to it. As a president, he\u2019s sitting here. He didn\u2019t do it, as this two-year report says, and yet he has to listen to all of these endless allegations. One more before we go to the break. This is a big one too. Jan Crawford says, &#8220;Well, what have you seen?&#8221; meaning in his investigation of the investigation. &#8220;What evidence? What makes you think that you need to take a look at this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BARR: Like many other people who are familiar with intelligence activities, I had a lot of questions about what was going on. I assumed I\u2019d get answers when I went in and I have not gotten answers that are at all satisfactory, and in fact have probably more questions, and that some of the facts that I\u2019ve learned don\u2019t hang together with the official explanations of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORD: What do you mean by that?<\/p>\n<p>BARR: That\u2019s all I really will say. Things are just not jiving.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That means people are telling different stories. That means they have not got their stories straight. The perps are not coordinated. That\u2019s what &#8220;they don\u2019t hang together&#8221; means. It means, \u201cI\u2019m talking to this perp, and he\u2019s saying one thing. I\u2019m talking to that perp, he\u2019s saying another, and they don\u2019t jive. The answers I\u2019ve gotten are not satisfactory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From this we can assume the investigation\u2019s ongoing and there is fruit to be found and that they are in the process of finding it. &#8220;I\u2019ve learned the facts don\u2019t hang together with the official explanations of what happened,&#8221; meaning what\u2019s officially out there, I can\u2019t find anybody who\u2019s telling me this. \u201cWhat do you mean by that?\u201d \u201cWell, that\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna say. Things are just not jiving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I think it is McCabe. I told you the other day that these guys are running for the hills now, and I think Mueller\u2019s press conference was him getting out of Dodge and Comey and his op-eds and all that. I think it\u2019s McCabe who is now beginning to walk back his belief that Trump is a Russian agent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-300646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-041918-McCabe-FBI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-041918-McCabe-FBI.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-041918-McCabe-FBI-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>McCabe\u2019s been selling this book out there, McCabe\u2019s been running around appearing on places like CNN where the New York Times will not allow their reporters to appear anymore \u2019cause they\u2019re too biased &#8212; ha-ha. And even as recently as three weeks ago, McCabe was insisting (imitating McCabe), &#8220;I still do, yes, I do, I do, I believe Trump is a Russian agent. I really I think it\u2019s quite likely.&#8221; He\u2019s backing off of that now that Bill Barr\u2019s investigation has begun.<\/p>\n<p>You stop and think about that. You know, \u201cI\u2019m gonna walk that back.\u201d You don\u2019t just get to walk that back. You\u2019re out there, you\u2019re on this investigation team, you\u2019ve been fired, you are conducting this, you\u2019re one of the head honchos, and you\u2019re out on television saying the president of the United States is a Russian agent, and now you think you\u2019re just gonna start walking that back? You don\u2019t get to just walk it back as though, \u201cWell, I guess I was misinformed. I guess I was wrong. Well, I guess I was misunderstood, whatever.\u201d So just be patient here, folks. It sounds like things are headed in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve still got some more Barr sound bites, then go back to the phones. I\u2019ve just got this &#8212; oh. It was McCabe. It was McCabe who said after Mueller\u2019s press conference he\u2019s now deciding to walk back his idea that Trump was a Russian agent. Oh, really? After Mueller\u2019s press conference, McCabe says that he has changed his mind on the matter. &#8220;I think the report makes clear they didn\u2019t uncover evidence of that sort of relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s been out there for three weeks, McCabe. What did Mueller say that &#8212; what did you think, that Mueller was gonna divulge &#8212; these clowns actually must have thought that Mueller was gonna go out there and add to the report! These idiots! They must literally believe that Mueller held something back or that Barr was covering &#8212; I\u2019ll tell you, this hatred that they\u2019ve got for this guy has poisoned people. It has poisoned their brains. I\u2019m not exaggerating here.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s been out for three weeks, but it was only after Mueller\u2019s presser on Wednesday that McCabe, &#8220;Well, after that I I\u2019m changing my mind. I guess there isn\u2019t any evidence that Trump is a Russian agent.&#8221; Well, Mueller was gonna say that?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hey, folks, welcome back. I\u2019ve got a good one-sentence analogy of the Mueller report, the investigation and all that on Trump. Are you ready? This is Mueller. This is Pelosi. This is the Democrats, whoever you want to say. &#8220;While we recognize the president did not actually collude with Russia or obstruct justice, he is nevertheless guilty of trying to avoid being impeached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There\u2019s another way you could put it. The Wyoming analysis. &#8220;While we recognize the subject did not actually steal any horses, he\u2019s obviously guilty of trying to resist being hanged for it.&#8221; &#8220;While we realize the president did not collude with Russia or obstruct justice, he is nevertheless guilty of trying to avoid being run out of office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, back to the William Barr interview. I left off with Barr pointing out to Jan Crawford at CBS that things are not hanging together. He\u2019s not getting the same story from all of these coup conspirators. (My words, not his.) He\u2019s saying the stories are not hanging together. That means different people are telling them different things, and what they are telling him &#8212; the things they are saying to him &#8212; are different from the official explanations of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the big take-away. He said, &#8220;I\u2019ve learned some of these facts I\u2019ve been told don\u2019t hang together with the official explanations of what happened.&#8221; Now, we don\u2019t know what those official explanations are because we don\u2019t know what he\u2019s investigated, who he\u2019s talked to, and what they\u2019ve told him. But he\u2019s talked to enough people that have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is an official explanation for when this investigation began. There\u2019s an official explanation for why. There\u2019s an official explanation of who did it, what was thought to have happened. And what he\u2019s saying is, &#8220;The various answers do not comport with the official explanations. I\u2019m getting a raft of different reasons for this thing having happened.&#8221; And she said, &#8220;What do you mean by that?&#8221; &#8220;Well, that\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna say. Things are just not jiving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very simple: The perps have not got their story straight. Some of them are running for the tall grass. Some of them are running for cover. Obviously, self-preservation has taken over here. They\u2019re not hanging together. Clapper, Brennan, Comey, whoever he\u2019s talked to. Strzok Smirk, Page, McCabe, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, James Baker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-303790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Deep-State-xx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Deep-State-xx.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Deep-State-xx-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>All these people are obviously telling him different things, and maybe their underlings as well. So let\u2019s move on to the next question. Jan Crawford said, &#8220;When you came into this job, you had a good reputation on the right and on the left. You were a guy with a good reputation. You\u2019re now somebody who is accused of protecting the president, enabling the president, lying to Congress. Did you expect that to happen coming in?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BARR: Going away, I did expect it &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORD: You did!<\/p>\n<p>BARR: &#8212; because I realize we live in a crazy, hyperpartisan period of time. And I knew that it would only be a matter of time &#8212; if I was behaving responsibly and calling \u2019em as I see \u2019em &#8212; that I\u2019d be attacked. Because nowadays, people don\u2019t care about the merits or the substance. That\u2019s one of the reasons that I ultimately was persuaded that maybe I should take it on, because I think at my stage in life, it really doesn\u2019t make any difference.<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORD: You\u2019re at the end of your career, or&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>BARR: I\u2019m at the end of my career. I\u2019ve&#8230; You know, I\u2019ve &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CRAWFORD: Yeah, is it&#8230;? But&#8230; I mean, it\u2019s a reputation that you worked your whole life on, though.<\/p>\n<p>BARR: Yeah, but everyone dies and I\u2019m not&#8230; You know, I don\u2019t believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you (chuckles) over the centuries, you know.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, now, folks, this is really, really telling, and I think there\u2019s actually a very great life lesson in this answer. The more I hear of Barr, the more I understand why nobody in the Drive-By Media is airing any of the excerpts of this interview. This answer is mind-blowing. The question comes from the standard desire in Washington, and that is to have this impeccable reputation &#8212; to be seen as great, honorable, filled with integrity, unchallengeable and all that. She\u2019s basically saying, &#8220;You\u2019ve lost that now, because you\u2019ve chosen to work with Trump, and now you\u2019re not an honest guy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he says, &#8220;You know what? I knew that, and that\u2019s why I took the job. One of the reasons I was persuaded that maybe I should take this job, is I don\u2019t have anything to prove to anybody. The only thing that matters to me is the integrity of the system of justice in this country. That\u2019s what matters: The integrity of the Department of Justice. That\u2019s what I have purview over. I\u2019m not worried about me. 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If they want to destroy my reputation, go ahead and let them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s something bigger than that at stake here, and I\u2019m not gonna let these specious little concerns about what people ultimately say about me when I\u2019m dead dictate the way I live.&#8221; As, as you well know if you\u2019re a regular listener, that, to me, is a huge and important life lesson. So she\u2019s saying, &#8220;You\u2019re at the end of your career?&#8221; &#8220;I am at the end my career. Everybody dies. 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I can\u2019t be the chief justice that says the primary signature legislation of first black president is unconstitutional.\u201d He rewrites it to make it legal. That\u2019s what pursuing legacy does for you. It really is no more complicated than that.<\/p>\n<p>Chief justice of United States has got health care, it\u2019s unconstitutional, but it\u2019s Obama\u2019s, first African-American president. \u201cI can\u2019t declare this unconstitutional. What will this do to my legacy? I don\u2019t want to be in the history books as the modern-day Roger Taney. I don\u2019t want to be the guy that said the first black president\u2019s health care bill is illegal.\u201d So he rewrites it.<\/p>\n<p>But Barr is saying, &#8220;It doesn\u2019t matter to me, my legacy is not in terms of having this be done right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Folks, do you know how big this is? There&#039;s another reason why nobody is airing this. 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