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<\/p>\nRUSH: Sherman, Texas.\u00a0 This is David.\u00a0 Greetings.\u00a0 Welcome to the EIB Network.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Hi, Rush.\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna apologize for that guy.\u00a0 I\u2019m worried that House Democrats are gonna now pass legislation that will limit President Trump\u2019s ability to defend us and engage preemptively, and we cannot wait on Congress to declare war because, you know, a supersonic ICBM could reach us in 10 minutes delivering nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, this is another great example. When I come up and say that there\u2019s no difference in the Iranians and the Democrats, “Oh, that\u2019s going a little too far.” Who is it that\u2019s trying to handcuff the president in a potential situation you just described as defending the country?\u00a0 It\u2019s the Democrats.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Yeah, and they\u2019re threatening now to limit his power, and that could just spell the end of everything.\u00a0 It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 It is totally believable.\u00a0 This is the… It shouldn\u2019t surprise you.\u00a0 I made the point yesterday. I made a prediction yesterday.\u00a0 All of this stuff is eventually gonna get folded into their impeachment effort, and, lo and behold, let me grab the bite. Let\u2019s see here. Grab number 41.\u00a0 I predicted this.\u00a0 I predicted this yesterday that they were gonna open up impeachment hearings in the House. They\u2019re gonna fold this whole Iranian stuff into it.\u00a0 And this afternoon on PMSNBC, Pencil Neck showed up with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.<\/p>\n
This is all about John Bolton has said that he will testify if subpoenaed by the Senate.\u00a0 So, that\u2019s its own separate story. This has ignited the Democrats once again, \u2019cause they think what Bolton is saying is, “Hey, I\u2019ll come in and I\u2019ll unload on Trump if you subpoena me.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait!”\u00a0 That\u2019s what they think Bolton is saying.\u00a0 They are so excited.\u00a0 They think Bolton is ready to turn tail.\u00a0 They think Bolton is ready to come in and unload on Trump and tell \u2019em everything about Russian collusion and the Ukrainian phone call and whatever else — the Steele dossier — that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
Whatever they dream about being true, they think Bolton is signaling that he\u2019s ready to come in and turn on Trump.\u00a0 So Andrea Mitchell is asking Pencil Neck about this, and this is what he said…<\/p>\n
SCHIFF:\u00a0 We haven\u2019t taken that off the table.\u00a0 Uh, I think what — what makes the most sense, though, frankly, uh, Andrea, is for him to testify in the Senate trial.\u00a0 I do think that the pause in sending the articles has had a very salutary effect in flushing out McConnell and making it clear that he is working in cahoots with the president as part of this cover-up, uh, and fleshing out, uh, where the moderate Republican senators are.\u00a0 The only thing that was clear from John Bolton up \u2019til now was that if we subpoenaed him, he would sue us and it would take ultimately years in court before we could secure his testimony.\u00a0 So I think the pause has had a (sputters) very important impact.\u00a0 It\u2019d be up to the speaker when the time is right to transmit those articles.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Will you subpoena Bolton? We haven\u2019t taken that off the table. This is about a number of things, but they want to fold this Iranian stuff into the impeachment on the basis that Trump is unfit, that he is engaging in misconduct. And of course now they\u2019re saying, \u201cWell, he didn\u2019t get our permission. He didn\u2019t come in and use the War Powers Act, and we want to limit what he can do in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
You know, I have a different view of people who are worried about this. Let them do this stuff. They are in the process, folks, of finally telling everybody who they are. And I don\u2019t mind them doing it. The common sense reaction right now is when Schiff or any of these guys come out and says — or anybody else, Pelosi, “We need to limit what Trump can do.” Trump is only acting to defend the United States. Everybody in the world knows this. Everybody in this country knows this. They want to limit this president\u2019s ability.<\/p>\n
I think a lot of people lose track because we get caught up in all this and we go moment to moment to moment. But the cumulative effect of the Democrats and their efforts, unending, to get Trump, that are now into their fourth year, has not been lost on people. I\u2019m talking about average, ordinary Americans who are watching this, and I still think that there are millions of them that just continue to seethe in various stages of anger over this.<\/p>\n
Now, substantively, yeah, this is dire consequences and serious if they actually would succeed in being able to limit. But there\u2019s this thing called the Constitution. They\u2019re not gonna be able to pull this off. They can huff and puff about it, they can talk about it, I can give you examples in history. Thomas Jefferson. Let\u2019s go back. Thomas Jefferson waged war against the Barbary pirates in Africa the early days of Islamic terrorists, and Jefferson did this without any consent from Congress whatsoever, and there are countless other examples of this.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s just more huffing and puffing. And it is ultimately an admission by the Democrats that they are impotent. There\u2019s not a thing they have been able to do to stop Trump. Why do you think this is gonna work? They haven\u2019t been able to stop him. They haven\u2019t been able to stop his agenda.<\/p>\n
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