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<\/p>\nRUSH: The Democrats now have 24 hours to make their case, two 12-hour days, \u2019cause the first day, the rules debate was yesterday. Twenty-four hours. Have you ever heard of any criminal trial with an opening argument, an opening statement of a week or four days. Twenty-four hours.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s the rub. They don\u2019t have a case. They don\u2019t have a crime. They don\u2019t have an impeachable offense. And yet they\u2019re going to take 24 hours to present what they are going to try to convince people are crimes and impeachable offenses. I don\u2019t know how people are gonna put up with it. I don\u2019t know how people are gonna watch 24 hours of this.<\/p>\n
I really think the Republicans have only one sensible move here. Don\u2019t engage them point by point \u2019cause they don\u2019t have a case. The rejoinder to all of this must be you don\u2019t have a case, you don\u2019t have an offense, you don\u2019t have an impeachable offense, you don\u2019t have a crime, which is why you\u2019re demanding witnesses \u2019cause you\u2019re desperately hoping somebody could be forced to say something.<\/p>\n
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You shut down your own investigation, Democrats, after telling everybody you\u2019ve made the cases. It was irrefutable. You could close it down and move it over to the articles of impeachment, take it over on to the Senate because you had made the case. Now you get to the Senate, and guess what? They\u2019re whining and moaning that they\u2019re not gonna get a fair trial.<\/p>\n
Now, sadly, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m like most people. I have no tolerance for whining and complaining \u2019cause I don\u2019t know how to deal with it. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m supposed to say. But that\u2019s all these people are doing. And I think a lot of people don\u2019t mind other people whining and moaning because it gives them an excuse to join in the whining and moaning.<\/p>\n
What I have found when you start telling other people your problems, 80% don\u2019t care and 20% are glad that you have them. But it\u2019s never persuasive. After a while whining and moaning and complaining turns people off. But that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. Here. Grab sound bite number 21. This is Pencil Neck. The Democrats held a press conference outside on Capitol Hill outside the Senate chamber. And here\u2019s Adam Schiff.<\/p>\n
SCHIFF: The House should have the opportunity to prove its case. And if we prove our case, the Senate should convict and remove the president from office. But the Senate should allow us a fair trial. Let the American people hear what John Bolton has to say. Let the people here what Mick Mulvaney has to say or Secretary Pompeo or any of the other witnesses with relevant information.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Right. Why didn\u2019t you call \u2019em? Why didn\u2019t you call \u2019em. Well, because you didn\u2019t need \u2019em. You said your case was made. You were ready to take your two pathetic articles of impeachment over to the Senate, make the case \u2019cause you had made it, slam dunk. Let the people hear what John Bolton has to say? What we need is for Schiff to be on the stand.<\/p>\n
Adam Schiff is the witness that needs to be called, and we need to find out from Adam Schiff, when did you first meet the whistleblower and when did you two people plan this? Why didn\u2019t you call the whistleblower? Why did you drop the whistleblower as the primary impetus for all of this? Why didn\u2019t the whistleblower continue to be the primary evidence maker and engine of your case?<\/p>\n
We know the answers to all of this. I just wonder, 24 hours of these people making a case, they have no choice here but than to keep lying, to keep making things up, to keep trashing the president. They claim Trump is serial at it and it\u2019s part of his being. These people are out of control on all of this. And now this bleating and pleading for fairness, the Senate should allow us a fair trial?<\/p>\n
Like I said, before the break at the top of the hour you was watching — I don\u2019t know what it was — the cable news, six of one, a half dozen of the other, and I think Congressman Lee Zeldin was the guest. And the question came, “Do you think, because we\u2019ve got polling data, the American people want a fair trial.” Well, of course. If you ask them, \u201cDo you want an unfair trial or fair trial,\u201d what do you think the answer is gonna be? Do you want a fair trial? The American people say they want a fair trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cShould the Republicans agree to call witnesses so that, uh, they\u2019re seen to be conducting a fair trial?\u201d The impetus always falls upon the Republicans. The presumption is the Republicans are gaming the system. The presumption is the Republicans are cheating, the Republicans are denying these poor Democrats. Is it up to the Republicans to allow witnesses so they can be seen. Isn\u2019t it always? Is it up to the Republicans to let this happen or let that happen so that people can see that Republicans are not racist, sexist, bigots, homophobes?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the way to deal with it. The way to deal with this, the Democrats have shown up in this chamber from the House as bullies. You\u2019ve got Schiff and you\u2019ve got Nadler and you\u2019ve got the rest of them. They are showing up as bullies, and that\u2019s how they need to be treated and reacted to. They whine and moan about a fair trial. The Senate should allow us a fair trial. When you wouldn\u2019t even call these witnesses yourself.<\/p>\n
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What do you think Bolton\u2019s gonna say? What do you think Mulvaney is gonna say? Let me explain this Mulvaney business. You may remember this. Mulvaney is the chief of staff. He had a press conference in, I don\u2019t know, a few months ago, but in relation to all this. And Mulvaney is a dyed-in-the-wool literalist and realist. And he doesn\u2019t suffer fools well.<\/p>\n
So the press, \u201cWhat do you think? Did the president, did the president withhold aid?\u201d And Mulvaney: This is the way it works. It\u2019s not just us. Hey, wake up. This is how you conduct foreign policy. You\u2019re always trying to use leverage. Every president in history has attempted to bend foreign countries to our will. We are trying to make allies, and we\u2019re trying to make allies act in our best interests. We\u2019ve got several ways of doing that. Wake up. This is how it happens.<\/p>\n
Press doesn\u2019t get that. All the press heard was Mulvaney, “Of course Trump did it. Of course he did it, and we\u2019re happy he did it.” They think Mulvaney just indicted Trump with his answer, when all Mulvaney did was tell the truth about how American foreign policy is conducted by a president who is trying to make America great again, put America first, have allies who we are paying end up actually helping us and supporting us.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing unusual whatsoever about Trump\u2019s relationship with Ukraine. He\u2019s not the first president to use the leverage of foreign aid to get what we want out of a foreign country. But this is all being portrayed as though Ukraine is some little island somewhere of helpless waifs and without us they might not even exist and President Trump is so mean that he was withholding money from them until Ukraine put Joe Biden in jail for it. And that\u2019s what they want people to think this was about, and it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
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So they want to get Mulvaney up there, and they want him to repeat what he said because they think Mulvaney indicts Trump. But all Mulvaney is doing is trying to tell these brick heads in the media how this stuff actually works in the real world and how it happens.<\/p>\n
So 24 hours to make their case, 24 hours. With not a single bit of relevant evidence, not a single impeachable offense. Lord, can you imagine the tripe people are gonna hear? And for how long are they gonna put up with it? And the Republicans, of course, they get their chance to respond to this, they make their case as well. And I just think the Republicans ought to continue as the primary driver of their presentation that the Democrats have nothing, there is no evidence, there isn\u2019t any impeachable offense.<\/p>\n
The reason they want additional witnesses is because they don\u2019t have — every witness they brought up before their committee, before Schiff\u2019s committee, was asked point-blank, “Did you ever see the president commit an impeachable offense?” Not one of them was able to raise their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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