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PAUL: Mr. Chief Justice.<\/p>\nRUSH: Rand Paul tried again today to get the whistleblower\u2019s name in. Sound bite 27. Here is how it went….<\/p>\n
PAUL: Mr. Chief Justice.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: The senator from Kentucky.<\/p>\n
PAUL: I have a question to present to the desk for the House manager Schiff and for the president\u2019s counsel.<\/p>\n
ROBERTS: The (cough) presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Rand Paul, for the second day in a row, is trying to get the name of the whistleblower on the record, and the chief justice of the United States (that\u2019s actually the title — Chief justice of the United States — you can add “Supreme Court,” if you want, to it) has said, “No, we\u2019re not gonna mention the whistleblower\u2019s name here.” So Rand Paul\u2019s at least trying to get that done.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, Rand Paul has just tweeted that he is not trying to get the name of the whistleblower mentioned. He says, “My question today is about whether or not people who were holdovers from the Obama National Security Council and Democrat partisans conspired with Schiff staffers to plot impeaching the president before there were formal House impeachment proceedings,” and he\u2019s actually talking about somebody named Sean Misko as well as Ciaramella. So the chief justice is joining the Democrats and the media in suppressing that fact in this whole process.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Rand Paul is getting a little fed up. The chief justice, John Roberts, is censoring his questions. He\u2019s in the Senate. This is question and answer time. This is where senators get to ask the lawyers and the House managers questions. Rand Paul has had his questions censored each of the past two days. So he\u2019s released it.<\/p>\n
Rand Paul tweeted<\/a>, “My question today is about whether or not individuals who were holdovers from the Obama National Security Council and Democrat partisans conspired with Schiff staffers to plot impeaching the President before there were formal House impeachment proceedings.” He wants to ask that question. I don\u2019t know to whom he wanted it asked. He must have been asking it to Schiff, the House managers. He might have been asking it to the Republicans. Well, the president\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n But the point is, the question doesn\u2019t mention the whistleblower, and the question does not mention the whistleblower\u2019s name, and yet the chief justice is censoring it. And the chief justice is saying, “We\u2019re not gonna have the whistleblower\u2019s name mentioned while I preside over this trial.” Well, there\u2019s a name here besides the whistleblower that\u2019s involved in this. You know, the whistleblower is Eric Ciaramella. But there\u2019s a friend of his, a guy named Misko, Sean Misko.<\/p>\n Sean Misko and the whistleblower were both Obamaites on the National Security Council staff, and they did not leave when Trump was inaugurated. They stayed, and they are the source of everything going on here. Ciaramella is the whistleblower. He was not on the phone call. He was told about it — we think from Vindman. But his buddy, Sean Misko, was hired by Schiff before the proceedings began, and we know that the whistleblower met with Schiff and members of Schiff\u2019s staff before he went to the inspector general.<\/p>\n Now, whistleblowers are supposed to blow the whistle to the inspector general of whatever department that they are blowing the whistle on. But Ciaramella did not go to the IG. He went to Schiff, and then it was Schiff and his staff that prepared the whistleblower complaint and then took it to the IG. You need to remember: The inspector general made a ruling and changed a rule on the fly that would permit secondhand knowledge to be admissible from whistleblowers.<\/p>\n Prior to this, a whistleblower had to have firsthand knowledge of what he was blowin\u2019 the whistle on. Ciaramella did not. He was not on the phone call. Remember Ciaramella\u2019s first characterization of the phone call. (impression) “It was shocking! It was terrifying! I was scared to death at what it meant for my country. Oh, my God, I couldn\u2019t contain myself. I had to report it.” Then Trump releases the transcript of the call, and there\u2019s nothing shocking or terrifying or anything close to that.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when this all began to blow up on Schiff, and that\u2019s why the whistleblower has not been heard from. It\u2019s why he\u2019s not been named. It\u2019s why Schiff doesn\u2019t want him called as a witness. Because the conspiracy of the whistleblower and Sean Misko working with Schiff and his staff to make all this happen would be revealed, and they don\u2019t want it to be revealed — and that\u2019s ultimately why there aren\u2019t gonna be any witnesses. Mark my words.<\/p>\n But the story here is the chief justice censoring all of this, the chief justice not allowing this question. Let me read to you Rand Paul\u2019s question again: “My question today is about whether or not individuals who were holdovers from the Obama National Security Council and Democrat partisans conspired with Schiff staffers to plot impeaching the President before there were formal House impeachment proceedings,” and then Rand Paul tweeted out the question that Roberts censored:<\/p>\n “My exact question was: Are you aware that House intelligence committee staffer [Sean] Misko had a close relationship with Eric Ciaramella while at the National Security Council together and are you aware and how do you respond to reports that Ciaramella and Misko may have worked together to plot impeaching the President before there were formal house impeachment proceedings.” This is Rand Paul the tweet:<\/p>\n “My question is not about a ‘whistleblower\u2019 as I have no independent information on his identity. My question is about the actions of known Obama partisans within the NSC and House staff and how they are reported to have conspired before impeachment proceedings had even begun.” Now, this, folks… (chuckles) Look, all this is true. Rand Paul\u2019s asking a question to which everybody in the Senate chamber knows the answer. Do not doubt me. The chief justice knows the answer. Everybody knows the answer.<\/p>\n Sen. @RandPaul<\/a>: “My question made no reference to any whistleblower\u2026”<\/p>\n He then reads the question.<\/p>\n “I think this is an important question. One that deserves to be asked.” pic.twitter.com\/D2iafDrv4X<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) January 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/APP-073018-Rand-Paul.jpg\")
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