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Mitch McConnell runs the Senate.<\/p>\nRUSH: Let me share with you the benefit of my wisdom, which is born of intelligence guided by experience. The Senate trial — this charade, this impeachment trial — is underway, and the stage now is debating all these Democrat motions they\u2019re making to change the rules that McConnell has announced to allow them to call witnesses. This is gonna go on a long time today, but I\u2019m gonna tell you what the outcome will be. Mitch McConnell\u2019s rules will define the trial. The Democrats are not going to succeed in pressuring McConnell.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter what they say about him, doesn\u2019t matter how he\u2019s portrayed. They are not going to succeed in getting him to change his perception, his view of the Senate\u2019s role in this entire fiasco. Now, if you want to watch whatever number of hours it takes for all of this to transpire, you\u2019re more than welcome to, but I\u2019m just telling you: At the end of the day, this impeachment trial will be conducted under the rules that Mitch McConnell has established. Do you know why?<\/p>\n
Mitch McConnell runs the Senate.<\/p>\n
The Republicans run the Senate.<\/p>\n
Adam Schiff has nothing to say about what happens in the Senate.<\/p>\n
Chuck You Schumer has nothing to do about what happens in the Senate because he doesn\u2019t run it.<\/p>\n
They are left grasping at air, desperate to find four Republican senators to give them 51 votes to allow new witnesses and new evidence and all of that. There are a couple of sound bites from the Turtle himself mere moments ago. He may be… The Turtle may be kind of the perfect person to handle something like this. He\u2019s not gonna be moved off of his vision of what the Senate is — and let me tell you what that is. When I first…<\/p>\n
Well, it wasn\u2019t the first time, but it was one of my early conversations with Senator McConnell. This is years and years and years ago. I think it was during Clinton and he was explaining the limited capacity the Senate had to deal because they didn\u2019t have 60 votes. It was a big, big deal. Sixty votes means… If you don\u2019t have 60 — even if you have 52, 53 — you\u2019re still not running anything at the end of the day, because you need 60 to make anything happen in the Senate, like choke off a filibuster.<\/p>\n
He said to me, “The purpose of the Senate,” here\u2019s the analogy, “is we\u2019re the saucer. The House delivers us a bunch of heated stuff. That coffee is overflowing in that cup. It\u2019s so hot, you couldn\u2019t touch it. It collects in the saucer and cools off. That\u2019s our role. That\u2019s the role the United States Senate, Rush,” and he\u2019s not gonna be moved off of that vision. He\u2019s not gonna allow Schumer to run roughshod, not gonna allow the media to run roughshod over the process.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not gonna surrender control of this process to the minority, just like Schiff did not surrender control to the Republicans in his fiasco, sham hearings in the House. They didn\u2019t produce anything! They don\u2019t have an impeachable offense, folks. They don\u2019t have a crime, and they know they don\u2019t have a crime. So they\u2019re desperately trying to find one; so they want all these people from the administration to come testify open-ended. It doesn\u2019t matter who, doesn\u2019t matter what, just ask the questions.<\/p>\n
And McConnell is saying, “That\u2019s not our role here, buddy. Things come over here to cool off. We\u2019re not gonna let you start pouring hot coffee back in the saucer once you get over here.” Here\u2019s a couple of sound bites from McConnell from… Let\u2019s see. This is, I think… Actually, I don\u2019t know if this is on the floor of the Senate or if it\u2019s a presser. Let me see. (muttering) Whatever. It doesn\u2019t matter. Here, we have two bites, and this is the Senate majority leader explaining his role here…<\/p>\n
MCCONNELL: This is a unique responsibility which the framers of our Constitution knew, that the Senate and only the Senate could handle. Our founders trusted the Senate to rise above short-term passions and factionalism. Today we will consider and pass an organizing resolution that will structure the first phase of the trial. This initial step will offer an early signal to our country. “Can the Senate still serve our founding purpose? Can we still put fairness, evenhandedness, and historical precedent ahead of the partisan fashions of the day?” Today\u2019s vote will contain some answers.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s the cup-and-saucer analogy expressed in a different way. (summarized) “Can we serve our founding purpose? Can we rise above the short-term passions and the factionalism?” Here\u2019s the second bite…<\/p>\n
MCCONNELL: We may hear a team of managers led by the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee chairmen argue that the Senate must precommit ourselves to reopen the very investigation they themselves oversaw and voluntarily shut down. It would be curious to hear these two House chairmen argue that the Senate must precommit ourselves to supplementing their own evidentiary record, to enforcing subpoenas they refuse to enforce, to supplementing a case they themselves have recently described as “overwhelming — overwhelming and beyond any reasonable doubt.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The floor of the Senate is where these remarks were made. I really want to… Let me parse and break down the second bite here. “We may hear a team of managers led by [Schiff and Nadler] argue that the Senate must precommit ourselves to reopen the very investigation they [in the House] shut down,” and they shut it down after saying there was “overwhelming” evidence, and that the hour was so near and so close that they couldn\u2019t wait! They had to move forward. They couldn\u2019t call any more witnesses.<\/p>\n
They had to get going because time was of the essence because Trump poses an existential threat, yada yada yada. Gotta do it! Gotta go now! They pointed out that they had an “overwhelming” case. They had a case way beyond reasonable doubt. Now they get to the Senate, and what happened to that case? What happened to their overwhelming, beyond-any-reasonable-doubt evidence? They don\u2019t have it, they never have had any, and McConnell is not gonna let the Senate be turned into a circus.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s even got a “kill switch” built in. We had the story yesterday that if it turned into that — and Schiff is gonna try to make it that. The Democrats are gonna try, no matter what. At the end of the day, McConnell\u2019s rules are going to prevail, and Schumer and his crowd are not gonna be able to call witnesses. They\u2019re gonna be out there trying to intimidate Republicans in the hallways and in the elevators, four Republican senators. They\u2019re gonna be shouting “cover up” and “unfair” and “the people are being ill-served” and all of that, and it\u2019s just gonna fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n
So let me now, after all of that, set the table here, and again, many of you… I\u2019m looking at the call roster. They\u2019re all to deal with this, and I understand that. But, folks, nobody, nobody covered Trump\u2019s Davos speech. Trump\u2019s Davos speech today reflecting his attitude about America, the great history in the last three years of economic success and the promise of more in the future is what the American people should have heard rather than this garbage here in this so-called impeachment trial.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s why I spent the time on it, \u2019cause nobody covered it. Not just because of time difference, but because CNN, PMSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS no way they want Trump shown in a good light. So Adam Schiff (Pencil Neck) and Nadler raced to the microphone this morning to complain about McConnell\u2019s resolution which sets the schedule for the Senate trial proceedings.<\/p>\n
Now, today is supposed to be the first day of the Senate proceedings. Last night McConnell introduced a resolution laying out the timeline for the trial, and that resolution\u2019s what\u2019s gonna be voted on today. If the Senate passes the resolution, each side will be given 24 hours to argue their case over two days. The Senators will then be given 16 hours for questioning. So 24 hours over two days is 12 hours a day, noon to midnight.<\/p>\n
Now, Chuck You Schumer and Schiff and the rest of the Democrats are complaining that McConnell\u2019s schedule is too tight, it\u2019s too compressed, it doesn\u2019t give \u2019em enough time to jigger the results. They say that Clinton\u2019s Senate trial allowed 24 hours of arguments over four days.<\/p>\n
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But the Clinton trial actually finished their opening arguments in three days and there were four articles of impeachment against Clinton, not just two, and they were substantive. Clinton had committed crimes, such as perjury and suborning — he had committed legitimate crimes. There are none here.<\/p>\n
Now, McConnell\u2019s resolution, i.e., the rules, do not permit any witnesses or any new evidence until after the opening arguments are heard. At that time if the Senate votes to hear from witnesses, it will depose the witnesses first — we will not see that — and then vote on whether they should testify.<\/p>\n
That also ticks off the Democrats who claim it\u2019s all part of the Republican cover-up of Trump\u2019s crimes. This is exactly what Schiff did. He took depositions of people, Republicans in some cases were not even permitted to be in the room. And those who were in the room were not permitted to ask questions. He took depositions and determined what, if anything, they said that he wanted them to then say publicly. McConnell is simply saying we\u2019re gonna have much the same kind of procedure. The witnesses will be deposed first and then there will be a vote on whether the testimony that\u2019s been heard should actually be given before the Senate.<\/p>\n
The Democrats are now all repeating the mantra that the Republicans are engaging in a cover-up by not calling witnesses that the Democrats demand, and these witnesses are people like Lev Parnas and John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney. They are of the belief that there\u2019s a whole lot of administration people that can\u2019t wait to drop the dime on Trump. Yeah, man, a lot of administration people hate Trump and they can\u2019t wait to join this effort to get him thrown out of office, is what they\u2019re hoping.<\/p>\n
But the Democrats, Schiff over in the House, they didn\u2019t call Lev Parnas. They didn\u2019t call John Bolton when they were conducting their hearings in the House. Now, one of the reasons they said they didn\u2019t, well, it\u2019s gonna take too much time and the president was engaging in a cover-up anyway, the president was obstructing.<\/p>\n
No, the president was gonna go to court, constitutionally, and assert executive privilege and claim that these people should not have to testify. And Schiff and his boys knew that that court fight would last all the way \u2019til the summer. And so Schiff and the boys, okay, well — there\u2019s ladies there, too, I know. Sometimes you can\u2019t tell who\u2019s who there. Schiff and the boys said, \u201cWe\u2019re not gonna let \u2019em waste time.\u201d<\/p>\n
So they didn\u2019t call Bolton, they didn\u2019t call Parnas, they didn\u2019t call any of the witnesses they\u2019re now demanding that McConnell let them call in the Senate. Speaking of cover-ups, isn\u2019t the mother of all cover-ups how the Democrats are fighting hearing from Joe and Hunter Biden? Do you know that at one point the round mound of the gavel, Jerry Nadler said: You know what? If it comes down to hearing from Hunter Biden or no witnesses, I\u2019m voting no witnesses.<\/p>\n
They do not want any part of the Republicans getting a chance to ask Hunter Biden or his dad or Biden\u2019s brother anything. That\u2019s the mother of all cover-ups. The mother of all cover-ups is the Democrats fighting every which way they can to keep Hunter Biden from testifying. Not to mention that this entire sham has been a concerted effort to cover up the biggest political scandal in the history of the country, and that is the attempt to overturn the 2016 election. That\u2019s the big cover-up.
\nThat\u2019s why all of this is happening is to keep any investigation of all of that from occurring publicly.<\/p>\n
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So McConnell has the votes for his timeline, he has the votes for his rules, for his resolution. He\u2019s got the 51 votes to pass his rules, his resolution, which is the timeline, 24 hours over two days, 12 hours a day. The Democrats whining and moaning and caterwauling is for show. Now, the thinking is the Senate trial should be over before February 4th, which is the date of the State of the Union address. Who knows. With the Democrats involved here and the toss-up, we don\u2019t know what the chief justice role is gonna be and how he\u2019s gonna come down on some of this stuff. That remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m fairly confident I can tell you that after all of this caterwauling today that Mitch McConnell\u2019s rules and Mitch McConnell\u2019s resolution will prevail, and the Democrats are gonna be left shrieking about a cover-up and they\u2019re not gonna call their witnesses.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: By the way, one thing about the House and Lev Parnas, who\u2019s this — you know — watch it, Rush. Watch it. Like I told you, I\u2019ve been amazed in the early days of some of Trump\u2019s staffing decisions, and I don\u2019t know how in the world Rudy gets involved with somebody like Lev Parnas, but he did, and it is what it is.<\/p>\n
But the bottom line is Lev Parnas was not covered by executive privilege, meaning Schiff could have called Lev Parnas any day he wanted and nobody could have stopped him. Schiff could have brought Lev Parnas. He\u2019s this Ukrainian the guy that claims that Trump\u2019s lying every time he opens his mouth about it, and Rudy\u2019s out saying this guy, Parnas, you know, I knew him and his wife. I\u2019m stunned that this guy\u2019s misrepresenting everything that\u2019s happened between us.<\/p>\n
Well, somebody scared the hell out of Parnas or else is offering him a lot of money. But all that aside, Schiff could have called Lev Parnas. He\u2019s not protected by executive privilege. He\u2019s not part of the regime. He\u2019s not part of the administration. The Democrats had no excuse not to call Lev Parnas.<\/p>\n
Now, they couldn\u2019t have gotten Bolton, and they couldn\u2019t have gotten Mulvaney because of executive privilege, but they could have called Parnas, and they didn\u2019t. They didn\u2019t call a whistleblower. You want to talk about a real cover up, not calling the whistleblower. The whistleblower, who got all this started. Why not call the whistleblower?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you why you don\u2019t call the whistleblower, because you gotta protect Schiff, because Schiff and the whistleblower conspired to move this whole thing off the dime before Trump had released the transcript. The whistleblower never heard the phone call. Remember, he got it secondhand we think from Lieutenant Colonel Vindman — O say can you see.<\/p>\n
The whistleblower\u2019s original report was terrifying, it was shocking, it was frightening. \u201cI couldn\u2019t stay silent.\u201d And then Trump releases the transcript. And then it was discovered the whistleblower first called somebody in Schiff\u2019s office. Schiff then put him in line with the inspector general. Everybody ended up being corrupted. That\u2019s why the whistleblower is not gonna be called, to protect Schiff.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: I just saw a graphic up there that the Turtle has decided to expand the evidence presentation to three days instead of two. That\u2019s probably to satisfy some recalcitrant Republicans.<\/p>\n
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We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: There\u2019s a couple of things here to warn you about. The Drive-By Media is all ecstatic because they think McConnell has already caved by giving an additional day to present cases, two days was the original, 12 hours a day, 24 hours total. He\u2019s now moved it to three. Many liberal journalists, “See? He\u2019s beginning to cave. He knows that he\u2019s about to lose four Republicans.”<\/p>\n
That is not the case. In fact, what I think you\u2019re gonna hear some about it\u2019s gonna be downplayed. But there are some Democrat senators who are getting fed up. Schiff had the opportunity to call all the — he\u2019s the committee chairman over there. He\u2019s the Intelligence Committee chairman. He could have called these witnesses any day he wanted, and he didn\u2019t. And now he\u2019s come into their chamber and preaching to them and demanding, they\u2019ve got a duty to do it.<\/p>\n
And some of them, I\u2019m telling you, you\u2019re not gonna hear this, but it\u2019s reverberating there, it\u2019s percolating, some Democrats, “What the hell is our job for?” It\u2019s one thing, Democrat unity, but for some little pea brain to come over from the House and start chastising the Senate for not doing its duty when Schiff could have called these witnesses and now putting the onus on them to do it. The media wants you to think McConnell is caving and that four Republican recalcitrants are maybe gonna win the day and Schumer may end up running the trial. Don\u2019t fall for any of that. It\u2019s the usual attempt to dispirit you, depress you, and all of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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