{"id":330868,"date":"2019-12-09T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=330868"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:36:52","slug":"animal-house-hearing-witness-becomes-interrogator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/09\/animal-house-hearing-witness-becomes-interrogator\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal House Hearing: Witness Becomes Interrogator!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, I want to go back to what\u2019s happening in this &#8212; you know what? This hearing here, Animal House makes this look like I don\u2019t know what. You know, the Dean Wormer investigation of the fraternity? Makes that look legit. You know what these people are doing? I\u2019ll just give you one thing I just heard and it was during the top-of-the-hour break. The first witness that was called was a lawyer, Democrat counsel by the name of Berke, Barry Berke.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-330907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WItnessLawyerCastorBerke-e1575922900873.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d not seen him before during any of this. I haven\u2019t watched it all. And then after Berke, we had the Republican counsel, Mr. Castor. Then they take a break, and they go for questioning. And this guy Berke, the opening witness, is now questioning the Republican lawyer. And Louie Gohmert is beside himself. (imitating Gohmert) \u201cWhat the hell? This is a violation of House rule 665(b)14(z), what the hell are you doing there? How can this guy go down there, be a witness, and show up and be your interrogator?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the Round Mound of the Gavel is pounding the gavel. &#8220;Gentleman will suspend. Gentleman will suspend.&#8221; And Louie is, &#8220;Well, what the hell did he have to pay to be able to do &#8211;&#8221; And you should have seen the look that Nadler gave Gohmert and said, &#8220;The gentleman will cease casting aspersions on members.&#8221; But this is so irregular, I cannot \u2013 (laughing) the opening witness now becomes an interrogator of the Republican. The Republican\u2019s not gonna get called up there to be an interrogator, guarantee you, \u2019cause the Republicans didn\u2019t think of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-330834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120919-Nadler-Gavel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120919-Nadler-Gavel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/APP-120919-Nadler-Gavel-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But then there was this. This guy Berke now is asking Goldman. Now, Goldman is Schiff\u2019s lackey. Goldman is the MSNBC contributor who served as Schiff\u2019s lawyer during his committee hearings. That would be the Intelligence Committee. This is the judiciary. So now this guy Berke is asking Goldman, &#8220;In your experience as an esteemed lawyer, is it usual that you can expect someone to tell someone that they\u2019re actually breaking the law during the call?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Goldman says, &#8220;Well, in my experience as a lawyer defending all kinds of reprehensible characters, I think it\u2019s highly unlikely that, say in this case, the president would say to Mr. Lazinsky, \u2018Look, I\u2019m gonna break the law by asking you a question here, and I want you to do it anyway.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not even hearsay. It\u2019s worse than that. They are manufacturing conversations that didn\u2019t happen. They are assuming &#8212; so let me rephrase this &#8212; I wanna make sure the power of this is understood. The first witness is now the lawyer questioning the Republican and a new Democrat lawyer. And he gets to Goldman, the Democrat lawyer, and he says, &#8220;Okay. In your experience as a lawyer representing people, is it likely that a perp, say, who has ill intent would identify this ill intent to somebody he\u2019s speaking with on the phone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Goldman says, &#8220;My experience is, dealing with these kind of people, that someone breaking the law in the middle of a phone call does not advise the other person on the call that he is breaking the law. So it\u2019s unlikely that President Trump would have admitted he was breaking the law when talking to President Zelensky.\u201d What, even though we know he was? What is this? This is worse than Schiff making up the contents of a call. This is these two Democrats off in fairy land imagining something that didn\u2019t happen based on their knowledge and experience in previous cases and how perps behave.<\/p>\n<p>(doing imitation) \u201cNo, it\u2019s highly unlikely that President Trump, in this case I know that\u2019s who you\u2019re asking about, it\u2019s highly unlikely that President Trump would say to President Zelensky., \u2018Look. I\u2019m gonna do something here that\u2019s illegal. I want you to ignore that, and I want you to do it anyway. I guarantee you it\u2019ll be okay.\u2019 In my experience, perps do not operate this way. People engage in criminal behavior do not admit it when they\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s entirely manufactured. This thing never happened &#8212; they\u2019re now getting into what it is they think is the mind-set of this sick and evil Trump. This question did not call for any evidence. It called for hearsay, and it called for speculation on the part of the lead Democrat lawyer, pure speculation beyond hearsay in an effort to convince people watching that Trump knew he was engaging in illegal activity but he was smart enough not to tell Zelensky that he knew it was illegal.<\/p>\n<p>But we all know it was illegal and he was doing it, and this is why there\u2019s no evidence for Trump doing it is because perps do not admit it when they\u2019re in the process. That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying &#8212; Trump\u2019s guilty, he knew he was guilty, and because he didn\u2019t say he was doing something illegal is how we know he was doing something illegal. That was the point these jerks were trying to make.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is the audio sound bite.&nbsp; This is Louie Gohmert in disbelief that Nadler is allowing his first witness to then leave the witness chair and go back up to the committee chair and become an interrogator of witnesses.&nbsp; This is how that sounded&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7r9EuE9jZRE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT:&nbsp; This is not appropriate to have a witness &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>NADLER: (banging gavel) Does the gentleman have a point of order?<\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT:&nbsp; &#8212; be a questioner of somebody &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>NADLER: (banging gavel) Does the gentleman have a point of order?<\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT: &#8212; that was a witness when he was!<\/p>\n<p>NADLER: (banging gavel) The gentleman will suspend. The&#8230; (sputtering)<\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT:&nbsp; It\u2019s just wrong.&nbsp; There is no rule nor precedent for anybody being a witness, and then getting to &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>NADLER: (banging gavel) That is not a point of order. (banging gavel)<\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT: &#8212; come up and question &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>NADLER: (banging gavel) I have ruled and it\u2019s not &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT: &#8212; and so the point of order is he\u2019s inappropriate to be up here asking questions.<\/p>\n<p>NADLER:&nbsp; That\u2019s not a point of order!&nbsp; He\u2019s in accordance with Rule 66, with &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>GOHMERT:&nbsp; How much money do you have to give to get to do that? (chuckling)<\/p>\n<p>NADLER: (banging gavel) The gentleman will not cast aspersions on members of the staff or the committee.&nbsp; Mr. Berke has the time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; You should have seen the look that the Round Mound of the Gavel gave Gohmert when he said that. He stared him down.&nbsp; Literally, folks, the first witness is now interrogating the Republican lawyer.&nbsp; To the phones we go.&nbsp; Federalsburg, Maryland, Mike, welcome to the program, sir.&nbsp; Hello.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-330905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NADLER-LOOK-LOUIE-e1575922784666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Hey, Rush.&nbsp; Hello.&nbsp; So tell me. These things are so outrageous. You\u2019ve made the case time and time again. You spent your whole monologue talking about how outrageous is. It\u2019s so over the top, you can\u2019t even begin to explain what\u2019s going on there.&nbsp; We just hear a cut from Nadler gaveling down somebody over something that\u2019s so absurd, it defies our imagination that it\u2019s even occurring. And in the midst of all that &#8212; you\u2019re right &#8212; you compare it to Animal House!&nbsp; And I\u2019m thinking, I put it to you, Rush: Exactly when do we see value out of this in the Republicans to continue being a part?&nbsp; When do the Republicans need to walk away and say, &#8220;Enough is enough; we\u2019re not gonna participate in it anymore&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Well, you know, interestingly enough, there is a massive movement out there in social media for that exact thing to happen.&nbsp; A lot of people are asking, &#8220;Why are the Republicans even giving this thing any dignity by being there?&nbsp; This thing is such an obviously stacked deck. It\u2019s not even a legitimate hearing. It\u2019s nothing more than a political event with a bunch of hacks coming in advertised as witnesses and lawyers and so forth, that the Republicans ought to just get up and leave.&#8221;&nbsp; I think it\u2019s the optics of empty chairs that probably&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I would guess that they\u2019ve discussed it.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know.&nbsp; But I would guess it\u2019s been discussed.&nbsp; But they do lend it legitimacy by being there. Plus, I\u2019m sure they feel they need to be there to help call out some of these outrages for people who are watching.&nbsp; But give it the rest of the afternoon.&nbsp; Remember the pattern here, ladies and gentlemen.&nbsp; Remember the formula &#8212; and remember something else.&nbsp; It\u2019s hard to remember this, and even now some of you may disagree with my professional assessment here.&nbsp; But this has blown up on them!<\/p>\n<p>Every time they\u2019ve gone public with any aspect of the Trump-Russia collusion coup, it has not gone well for them.&nbsp; The Kavanaugh thing didn\u2019t go well for them when they tried to take something made up public.&nbsp; They finally put all their eggs in the Mueller basket.&nbsp; There was nothing in the report.&nbsp; There was nothing in the aftermath. So then they said, &#8220;We need Mueller, we need Mueller,&#8221; \u2019cause they had convinced themselves that the Mueller report did have things in it but that Bill Barr, the AG, had cornered the damn thing and had gone rogue on it and was misreporting what it said and that Bob Mueller was mad.<\/p>\n<p>So they bring Mueller up to testify, and that blew up on them when he didn\u2019t even know what was in his own report.&nbsp; And now this, the polling data from these three battleground states, Trump\u2019s approval numbers? It\u2019s all on the rise.&nbsp; You\u2019re not alone when you see this thing as an abject circus.&nbsp; The tendency is to think nobody else recognizes it.&nbsp; The tendency is to think the Democrats are getting away with it.&nbsp; But this hearing&#8230; I told you last week, they did this day on purpose to mask the IG report, to cover it up, to make sure it didn\u2019t get any coverage in their house organs &#8212; CNN, New York Times, or what have yoBut this is a total circus, and anybody watching this&#8230; Remember, a lot of people watch cop shows now. A lot of people watch lawyer shows, a lot of people watch courtroom shows &#8212; and the amount of hearsay, the amount of speculation, the lack of any hard evidence here is abundantly clear.&nbsp; The Democrats don\u2019t have anything other than horror of the allegation, that Donald Trump was telling Ukraine to do an investigation of the Bidens or they wouldn\u2019t get any money to defend themselves against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s pretty much the case, and that this is abuse of power and that it\u2019s a cover-up and that Trump is obstructing Congress by not providing documents, instead going to court.&nbsp; They don\u2019t have anything when their lawyers have to lie about video excerpts they\u2019ve edited, when their lawyers have to get into speculation and hearsay.&nbsp; This is what raw hatred is.&nbsp; It poisons you, folks, and these people are long gone.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; The full House voted last month, as part of their vote on the impeachment process, to allow Republicans to have a day of hearings.&nbsp; And the Round Mound of the Gavel, Jerry Nadler, just denied them that, even after the full House voted last month to allow it.&nbsp; Reuters has the story: &#8220;U.S. House Judiciary Chair Rejects Republicans\u2019 Bid for Impeachment Witnesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So Nadler\u2019s not even allowing Trump witnesses at this hearing today, even after the Republicans had been promised &#8212; after a full House vote &#8212; that those witnesses could be called.&nbsp; From the article: &#8220;The Democratic head of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee,&#8221; the Round Mound of the Gavel, today &#8220;rejected Republican lawmakers\u2019 request for eight witnesses to appear as part of the panel\u2019s impeachment inquiry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The requested witnesses fall &#8216;outside the parameters of the impeachment inquiry,'&#8221; said Nadler. So in addition to all of the other outrages happening today, Jerry Nadler has denied a full House vote that permitted the Republicans a chance to call eight witnesses.&nbsp; Nadler says today that after he found out who the witnesses are, that they are outside the purview.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right now I just heard a smidgen of it, but Doug Collins seems to be moving in for the kill on Daniel Goldman, the MSNBC lawyer for the Democrats here, asking how the media was tipped off on various subpoenas and who did that. And Goldman, \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s how he did it, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, don\u2019t give me that.\u201d And then I had to come back here to the busy broadcast. So we\u2019re finding this stuff as it goes, and again I just want to remind you the pattern. In the afternoon the entire tone of all this changes once the Republicans get their go at these people. And that\u2019s a little bit of what\u2019s happening now.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats, the bottom line is, they\u2019ve got nothing. They\u2019re standing on quicksand, essentially, as their foundation, and they are relying on their symbiotic relationship with the mainstream media to use the first two to two and a half hours of these hearings every day as long as they\u2019ve been going on to make the case, and then they\u2019re banking on the fact that what happens after the lunch break is not gonna be seen by nearly as many people, and even if it is it\u2019s not gonna be reported on by the Drive-By Media. But these people are being made to look like amateurs here this afternoon. In addition to the tricks they\u2019re playing by having an opening lawyer as a witness then go up and start questioning the Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here is the actual exchange between Barry Berke &#8212; he\u2019s the first Democrat witness who then Nadler calls up to the committee as the counsel. So a witness who got a 30-minute opening statement uncontested and then got 30 minutes of questioning by Democrats now is up on the committee sitting next to Nadler asking questions. It\u2019s unprecedented. A witness then becomes interrogator.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the exchange where this lawyer, Barry Berke, talking to the MSNBC lawyer Goldman, this is the pure speculation hypothetical, projection, everything. It is a question &#8212; and they\u2019re just making things up. This is the segment where they\u2019re discussing how just it never happens that felons and lawbreakers tell other people that they\u2019re breaking the law at the time they\u2019re doing it. Not in my experience. It just doesn\u2019t happen. Here\u2019s the exchange. It runs about 36 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>BERKE: Would you agree that if President Trump was acting corruptly, wrongfully, abusing his power, that it was unlikely he was gonna confess to President Zelensky that he was asking for the investigation explicitly to help his 2020 election prospects?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-330914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GOLDMAN-e1575923733813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN: My experience is 10 years as a prosecutor you almost never have a defendant or someone who\u2019s engaging in misconduct who would ever explicitly say, in this case, \u201cPresident Zelensky I\u2019m going to bribe you now,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m going to ask for a bribe,\u201d or \u201cI am now going to extort you.\u201d That\u2019s not the way these things work.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: A, that didn\u2019t happen. B, they\u2019re making it up. And because Trump didn\u2019t do this, they\u2019re saying he\u2019s guilty of it. Because he didn\u2019t do it proves his guilt. Let\u2019s go back to the question. \u201cWould you agree \u2013&#8221; this is asking for an opinion, not a fact witness, this is just some guy that doesn\u2019t even know Trump, the guy\u2019s not in Trump\u2019s orb, he is a Trump hating liberal Democrat hack lawyer from MSNBC who, by the way, was at the Southern District of New York during the Bush administration. \u201cWould you agree that if President Trump was acting corruptly &#8211;\u201d If? You mean, you still can\u2019t go beyond if yet? And how many weeks in are we?<\/p>\n<p>You have to parse this stuff, folks. I\u2019m the guy that sees the stitches on the fastball here, and the curveball as well. \u201cWould you agree that if President Trump was acting corruptly, wrongfully, abusing his power, that it was unlikely he was gonna confess that to President Zelensky, it was unlikely that he was asking for the investigation explicitly to help his 20 \u2013&#8221; so what they\u2019re getting at here since Trump didn\u2019t do this, he\u2019s obviously guilty of it.<\/p>\n<p>Since he did not abuse his power, since he did not tell Zelensky that he wanted dirt on Biden for his 2020 campaign (imitating Goldman), \u201cOh,\u201d says Goldman, \u201cOh, no, my experience, 10 years as a prosecutor, you almost never have &#8211;\u201d Almost never? \u201c&#8211; have a defendant who would ever explicitly say, \u2018President Zelensky, I\u2019m gonna bribe you.\u2019\u201d This is as bad as Schiff making up the transcript of the phone call.<\/p>\n<p>These two guys don\u2019t know anything on this phone call beyond that transcript. But they\u2019re assuming that Trump is meddling in the 2020 election asking Zelensky. But he didn\u2019t admit it. One of the defenses, \u201cTrump didn\u2019t ask this guy for any help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, in your experience would a perp ask and identify that he\u2019s trying to bribe the guy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, my experience is that people engaging in bribes don\u2019t actually say that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing.\u201d BS. I don\u2019t know a person alive who\u2019s being bribed that doesn\u2019t know that it\u2019s happening to them. You ever been blackmailed? You ever been bribed? You know it, right, when it happens to you? But these guys are, \u201cPoor Zelensky, Trump wouldn\u2019t tell him he was engaging in \u2013&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, it\u2019s all made up. It\u2019s all speculation, and this MSNBC lawyer is answering it on the basis of his 10 years of experience as a prosecutor. \u201cYou almost never have a defendant.\u201d Trump\u2019s a defendant now. \u201cOh, yeah, you almost never have a defendant engaging in misconduct who would ever, ever say, \u2018Hey, Zelensky, I\u2019m breaking the law, I\u2019m bribing you, buddy. But I can\u2019t tell you that, all right?\u2019&#8221; It\u2019s hopeless. These guys are slime, folks, they\u2019re just abject slime. They are slugs.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here is the exchange between the ranking Republican member of the Judiciary Committee Doug Collins today, Republican, Georgia.&nbsp; He\u2019s speaking to the Democrats\u2019 MSNBC lawyer, Daniel Goldman.&nbsp; He said, &#8221; Somebody took the phone records that you asked for, took those numbers, then said, &#8216;Let\u2019s play Match Game.'&#8221; By the way, is not amazing that the same people telling us that we can\u2019t find out who the whistleblower is, that we must protect the identity of the whistleblower&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a moral duty to protect the identity! Why, the Trump administration might kill the whistleblower!&#8221; The same people unmask the phone numbers of Devon Nunes and John Solomon and others, same people! Adam Schiff. The same slimeballs.&nbsp; So this is what Collins is asking about to the MSNBC lawyer.&nbsp; &#8220;Somebody took the phone records that you asked for, took those numbers, then said, &#8216;Let\u2019s play Match Game.\u2019&nbsp; Who ordered the Match Game from the members of the Congress and the press?&nbsp; Was that you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kehjJoVO2hA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN:&nbsp; I don\u2019t think anyone did, sir.<\/p>\n<p>COLLINS:&nbsp; Then how did you get them&#8230;? Okay, come on. That\u2019s the most ridiculous item I\u2019ve ever heard.&nbsp; Who ordered them to actually match from members of Congress and the press?&nbsp; Was it you or was it Chairman Schiff that said, &#8220;While we\u2019re doing this, let\u2019s see if this matches Chairman Nunes\u2019 number&#8221;?&nbsp; Somebody along the way just didn\u2019t all of a sudden have an epiphany, unless you\u2019re getting ready to throw a low-level staffer under the bus. So who did it? Was it chairman Schiff or was it you?<\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN: Ummm. (stammering)<\/p>\n<p>COLLINS:&nbsp; Be careful.&nbsp; You\u2019re under oath.<\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN:&nbsp; I &#8212; I &#8212; I know I\u2019m under oath, sir.<\/p>\n<p>COLLINS:&nbsp; Then answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN:&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t matter, and I will answer the question if you give me a second here. It\u2019s not a simple answer.<\/p>\n<p>COLLINS:&nbsp; The same second that was not afforded to my witness, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN: (crosstalk) the questions.<\/p>\n<p>COLLINS: Who decided to leak it, by the way? And while you\u2019re thinking about how you\u2019re going to answer that question &#8212; who decided to leak it, the information &#8212; why did you include it in the report?<\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN: That\u2019s not a leak, sir.<\/p>\n<p>COLLINS:&nbsp; Who ordered it?<\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN: (silence)<\/p>\n<p>COLLINS: Was it you or was it Chairman Schiff, and then why was it decided &#8212; except for nothing but smear purposes &#8212; to be included in the Schiff report?<\/p>\n<p>GOLDMAN: (stammering) I &#8212; I &#8212; I\u2019m not going to get into the deliberations of our investigation with you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Right.&nbsp; &#8220;I have nothing to tell you here.&#8221;&nbsp; They want to know how the hell did these phone numbers get matched up to people.&nbsp; Who did it?&nbsp; Who authorized it, and then who released, \u2019cause it\u2019s in Schiff\u2019s report? This guy will not answer. (impression) &#8220;I\u2019m not gonna get into discussions of our investigation with you.&#8221;&nbsp; They got caught again, and they just will not explain how and what and why they did anything they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now this whole thing&#8230;In fact, I just watched another exchange, this time between the Round Mound of the Gavel and the MSNBC lawyer.&nbsp; The Round Mound of the Gavel had to go in and do damage control. So he\u2019s asking a bunch of leading questions about the phone metadata and the phone numbers that these people tagged and were following. What they were trying to do is, okay, they saw this number talking to this number for this length of time, and this number talking to that number for this length of time, and they want to find out, &#8220;Whose numbers are these?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They find out it was John Solomon, a journalist, and they find out it was Rudy and they find out it was some other people and so they put this in Schiff\u2019s report, and that\u2019s what Doug Collins asked about. &#8220;Who did this?&nbsp; Who decided to match these numbers up with names?&nbsp; Who decided to do this?&nbsp; Is it you?&#8221;&nbsp; So this guy wouldn\u2019t answer Collins, but when the Round Mound of the Gavel got in there to try to clean it up, he kept using the word &#8220;scheme.&#8221; The MSNBC lawyer kept using the word &#8220;scheme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(impression) &#8220;Well, we found this number, and this number was involved with the scheme &#8212; and this number over here, that person ended up being involved in the scheme. The scheme?&nbsp; The president\u2019s scheme to serve justice! The president\u2019s scheme to obstruct Congress. The president\u2019s scheme to meddle in the 2016 election. These people were all involved in the scheme.&#8221;&nbsp; So now Trump was engaged in a &#8220;scheme,&#8221; about which and for which there remains no evidence &#8212; and there remains no identifiable, impeachable offense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So the Democrats are probably gonna accuse Trump in an article of impeachment of obstructing Congress by not furnishing witnesses and documents. And yet when that weasel Goldman was asked by Collins, &#8220;Well, how did you match these numbers, how did you do this investigation?&#8221; &#8220;I\u2019m not telling you that.&#8221; Oh, so they get to hide the way they\u2019re doing things. The president doesn\u2019t. That\u2019s how this works?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This hearing here, Animal House makes this look like I don&#039;t know what. You know, the Dean Wormer investigation of the fraternity? 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