RUSH: Mitch McConnell just slammed the gavel down on Chuck You Schumer, but I want to explain to you how he did it and how he is right and what Schumer\u2019s request for additional witnesses in a Senate trial means.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: They know they have no case. As evidenced by the fact that Chuck You Schumer wants the Senate to call four witnesses that Schiff didn\u2019t call.<\/p>\n
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Now, there\u2019s a reason Schiff didn\u2019t call the witnesses. We would have lost. Trump does not have to furnish the witnesses. Obama didn\u2019t. In 2014, Obama said — it was not about Fast and Furious. It was about something else. But Obama was telling members of Congress: If you want to talk to my assistants, you\u2019re not gonna get to talk to \u2019em. Executive privilege, separation of powers. They don\u2019t speak for me. They\u2019re not coming up to talk to you.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the same thing here. They want Mulvaney, they want John Bolton, they want Don McGahn, they want somebody else. And they want the Senate to continue the investigation. That\u2019s what that really means, and that\u2019s not gonna happen. And McConnell told \u2019em, \u201cHey, look, we don\u2019t do the investigation. You make the case and you present the case to us, and we sit and decide it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Let me give you the equivalent of what Schumer\u2019s asking. Forget impeachment. Let\u2019s go to court \u2019cause that\u2019s what\u2019s this is gonna become. It\u2019s gonna become a trial. Let\u2019s say the prosecution, after failing and knowing it\u2019s failed to make its case, asks the jury, \u201cJury, we want you to investigate some more on this. Here\u2019s some people we want you to go talk to.\u201d That would never be permitted. If the prosecution doesn\u2019t have its case, it doesn\u2019t have its case. It\u2019s not up to the jury, in this case the Senate. It\u2019s not up to the Senate to carry the investigation forward, but there is a nefarious reason that Schumer wants to do this.<\/p>\n
If he could con McConnell into calling some witnesses, then they can have this trial go on all year. If McConnell ever agreed to call four witnesses that the Democrats want, then that parade would never stop. Now, McConnell shot it down today in a speech on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, a couple things are being bandied about today as a result of Chuck You Schumer demanding that the Senate call three to four witnesses that were not called during the House impeachment proceedings — and that\u2019s a very key point. McConnell went to the floor of the Senate today and made it clear that the Constitution is why he\u2019s not gonna be calling any Democrat witnesses. He\u2019s not gonna be calling any witnesses, because they do not do any investigation in the Senate.<\/p>\n
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The Senate trial is not an ongoing Democrat investigation of the president. The Constitution says the investigation takes place in the House. After they investigate, they prepare their articles of impeachment — the charges, the indictment. They then present the charges (via the House managers) to the Senate, and that\u2019s it. From that point on the Senate acts as a jury with the chief justice acting as the trial judge, and the House managers make the case. Now, Schumer\u2019s claiming that they need three, four witnesses — or more.<\/p>\n
Well, the reason is they haven\u2019t made a case in the House.<\/p>\n
The House doesn\u2019t have a case — and Schumer knows this, and the Democrats know it.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s really a replay of the Kavanaugh circumstance. When Kavanaugh was on the verge of being confirmed, here came Christine Blasey Ford out of nowhere. Schumer\u2019s demand of three to four witnesses is akin to asking for three to four Christine Blasey Fords to be entered into the fray after the House has ended its investigation — and the Turtle shot it down today. It\u2019s not the end of it, because the Democrats are not gonna go away and they have other strategies up their sleeves, but it was good.<\/p>\n
Now the next thing up is: Could the Senate dismiss the case on day one?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Mitch McConnell today rejecting the demands of Chuck You Schumer that the Senate call some witnesses if and when there is a trial.<\/p>\n
MCCONNELL: The Senate Democratic leader would apparently like our chamber to do the House Democrats\u2019 homework for them. He wants to volunteer the Senate\u2019s time and energy on a fishing expedition to see whether his own ideas could make Chairman Schiff\u2019s sloppy work more persuasive than Chairman Schiff himself bothered to make it. If the Senate volunteers ourselves to do House Democrats\u2019 homework for them, we will only incentivize an endless stream of dubious partisan impeachments in the future, and we will invite future Houses to paralyze future Senate with frivolous impeachments at will.<\/p>\n