RUSH: Here is Dave in Panama City, Florida. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, wow. Faithful follower of yours for 28 years. Can\u2019t believe I finally made it through.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m glad you did.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve wanted to say this for a long time, but, “Dittos!”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So here\u2019s my question\/comment for you. I\u2019m assuming that Mueller\u2019s gonna be under oath tomorrow. Is that correct?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve heard a bunch of different reports and even Devin Nunes saying that he believes that Mueller or his associates have been meeting or communicating secretly with Democrats. So my question is, couldn\u2019t the first Republican that gets to ask him questions ask him very directly if he or any member of his group has been in communication of any type with any Democrat on the committee or their associates regarding their testimony today?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, now, this is an interesting question, because when this Washington Times story hit today that the DOJ was limiting the scope of the inquiry to the report, it was the Republicans who were first angered. You know why? They want to ask Mueller why he ignored the dossier. They want to ask Mueller why every one of his investigators was a Hillary donor. They want to ask Mueller all kinds of questions about the actual collusion between the Hillary campaign and Russia and why he didn\u2019t look at it, and now they can\u2019t. Now they\u2019re ticked off. Mueller did not want these questions. That\u2019s why he asked for the letter, I\u2019m convinced. So whether or not the Republicans can now ask, “Have you been conspiring with Democrats on the construction of specific answers to specific questions?” I think Mueller could say, “I\u2019m not allowed to answer that question. It\u2019s beyond the scope of my report.”<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, wouldn\u2019t that be tantamount to saying “yes”? I mean, \u2019cause if the answer was “no,” seems to me you\u2019d just say “no.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Kind of like taking the Fifth is a tantamount admission that you did it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s true. That\u2019s true. Well, I —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, I guess they could do that. This has upset the Republicans, this letter. Now, they are also among those to find out that Mueller actually requested it. I think they now realize why. Mueller did not want these questions about Hillary and Christopher Steele and the dossier and any of that, and the Democrats want all kinds of stuff that\u2019s not in the report. They want Mueller to say… The Democrats have constructed a scenario here where there\u2019s lots more that Mueller didn\u2019t say. (impression) “For what reason or not, we don\u2019t know. Mueller didn\u2019t say it \u2019cause they wouldn\u2019t let him say it. Mueller didn\u2019t say it because…”<\/p>\n
But they have created a scenario in the media, “Mueller knows a lot more than what he said. He knows Trump did it. He knows that despite what his report! He knows that Trump did it, and if you read between the lines, Mueller\u2019s admitting it.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re out there saying and trying to convince as many people of it as possible, and the reports I\u2019ve heard about Democrat staff meeting with representatives of Mueller to create answers… If that\u2019s true, then I\u2019m convinced what\u2019s happening is an attempt to create specific questions and answers that generate a sound bite moment.<\/p>\n
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Very simple. One sentence.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll give you an example. Like Mueller said in his press conference, “If we had found evidence the president didn\u2019t do it, we would have said so.” Oh! That\u2019s all it took for the media to run with Mueller had admitted something new, that Mueller knows Trump did it. “He didn\u2019t say he didn\u2019t do it.” Well, that\u2019s when the debate began — or not the debate, but the effort began to educate the American people that prosecutors don\u2019t exonerate. The prosecutors either get the goods or they don\u2019t. If they don\u2019t charge, that is it.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t run around and say what they almost found or what they think they found \u2019cause that\u2019s against the law. It is against protocol and guidelines. Therefore, again, Mueller tomorrow cannot say anything along the lines of, “We\u2019re convinced the president obstructed, but we just couldn\u2019t put the final nail in the coffin, and so we had to…” He can\u2019t say that. If you don\u2019t charge somebody… This is true at any level of prosecution, federal, state, township. If you don\u2019t charge, you do not accuse. That is the epitome of unfairness of the state against a powerless individual.<\/p>\n
The state\u2019s power is so awesome, so immense — the charging power is so immense — that if you don\u2019t use it because you don\u2019t have the evidence and you can\u2019t get a conviction, you are not permitted to say what you think the perp did but you can\u2019t prove it. You can\u2019t do that. That\u2019s essentially what they want Mueller to do tomorrow, and I think they\u2019re trying to maneuver questions and answers that will produce that sound bite result that the media can then use, whether it\u2019s true or not, to say that Mueller did, in fact, offer something new, \u2019cause that\u2019s all this is about.<\/p>\n
The fact that there\u2019s something Mueller didn\u2019t say that he knows, the fact that Mueller knows a lot more that he could legally say. They want Mueller to tell them what it is. They\u2019re convinced that Mueller knows Trump colluded; he just doesn\u2019t have the evidence. They want Mueller to say something that could be interpreted as that, and they want it in Mueller\u2019s words, not theirs. They are trying to revive this. The people responsible for this are hell-bent on getting an impeachment proceeding going.<\/p>\n
This is what tomorrow is essentially all about, and obviously (if we\u2019re to believe Barr) Mueller doesn\u2019t want much to do with this. He\u2019s asking for the limitations in a Department of Justice letter so that he doesn\u2019t have to say it himself. Anyway, how the Republicans choose to deal with this will be interesting to see, too, because I know they\u2019re loaded for bear and they were looking at this — since it\u2019s gonna happen, they were looking at it — as an opportunity to expose Mueller on the bias of his investigation. Now they may not be able to go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: How the Republicans choose to deal with this will be interesting to see, too, because I know they were loaded for bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":316659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n