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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast. Oh, and it is impeachment day number two, as Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland is behind the podium as we speak just a little bit after 12:00 noon Eastern Time. And this is an incredible sight to see because the facts, by and large of this impeachment, if you've been watching it in the last 24 hours, whether in live real time or in the replays overnight, the principal fact is not in doubt the fact that there was a riot at the Capitol.

But what is still in doubt are two important pieces of this puzzle.

And as I've been watching this, and I know as as many of you have been watching this, getting ready to listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show today, and I'm so honored to be sitting in once again for for one of my great heroes in broadcasting, and that is Rush Limbaugh.

I find myself scratching my head because the fact of the riot is not in doubt. The fact of the culpability of a former president is the thing. That's a contention. And this has taken on a feeling to me of near religious certitude. In many ways, it mirrors the contentions that we saw take place with the Russia collusion hoax and the Ukraine impeachment hoax, the true believers truly believe that the president of the United States directed hundreds or thousands of people to lay siege to the capital.

But all of those people are the same people who already can't stand. The president couldn't stand him for four years, couldn't stand him for five, five and a half when he started running for office, coming down the golden escalator.

It's an incredible thing to watch play out here because.

The trauma and the drama of the attack on the capital is not in doubt, the culpability is what's the central question? But even before we get to that central question, we have to answer something even more important, whether or not this is even a legitimate proceeding.

I get it. I watched the vote yesterday. I watched six Republicans defect. Originally, it was going to be five, but we ended up with a Bill Cassidy defection at the last possible minute, going over and saying, no, no, this this this process, this process is indeed a legitimate process.

It's OK to impeach a president no longer in the office of the presidency, no longer able to be be removed from office. He was removed from office on January the 20th at 12 noon. And yet we continue to see this sales pitch go on from Jamie Raskin.

And today we'll see Swalwell bring his best arguments. We'll see any number of characters out here playing a role in trying to sell this impeachment point.

And so what I would ask of you, and I know so many of you watched the coverage in real time, live time of this impeachment over the last 24 hours.

I'd love to get your thoughts at one 800, 82 to 202 because.

I just don't think. That they've gotten anywhere close enough to try to say the president was responsible for this. You know, it's not in doubt the fact that the president was upset about the outcome of the election, the president wanted the voices of the 74 million plus people who voted for him to have those voices heard.

But at no time did you get anything approaching. Everybody gather together on my order. On the count of three, we go we do this sort of stuff.

There is no direct culpability with the president. And what we're seeing play out is something really, really important.

We're seeing a television show. Now, if you watched the 13 minutes. That was dropped yesterday by Jamie Raskin, put together by a very powerful law firm in Washington, D.C., that constructed that video to make it as poignant and as as as powerful as they possibly could.

Complete and replete with swear words of plenty, invective, homophobic insults, you name it, they stacked everything into that from the people who are participating in the riot and the assault on the capital. They wanted to make this as shocking as they possibly could. And yes, I'll grant you, it is a shocking thing to see. It is a terrible thing to see when you see people attacking the capital.

But as serious as that video was, as serious as that video is. One thing remains. There's no connection to the president directing that attack. And so, like a television program, you're going to get a part two today, what you had yesterday was the shocking video up front.

And now Representative Raschein, impeachment manager Raskin from Maryland is is carefully and deliberately laying out the case against the president, the former president, United States Donald Trump, and is laying out the arguments that will then undergird the next video that's going to drop.

And that's what you're going to see today. More shocking videos, more police body cam, more stuff that's going to get you upset and emotional.

And you should feel that way.

But not at the president, not at the former president of the United States, you should feel that way for the law breakers. We looked at what was happening on that day, January the 6th, just a little bit over a month ago, and we saw the violence take place in that building. Violence against police officers and conservatives and the president of the United States right there with them had been condemning for the better part. Of of for years, the notion that the cops should be defunded, that the cops should be targeted, that the cops should be attacked, that was established.

That was an established position by people who supported the president, who supported law and order, and what the Democrats saw in that attack was an opportunity to flip the script, that they seem as excited to try to say that law enforcement has been sold out by this president and by the president's supporters as much as any other issue.

You see, we knew you wouldn't really support law enforcement.

That's not true at all because the people that were fighting cops on January the 6th were fighting cops as criminals.

Those are criminal acts, the beating up of a cop, the crushing of a cop, the harming of a cop, the beating with a stick, those are all criminal acts. Conservatives are being consistent when they say we condemn acts of violence against law enforcement and our public institutions.

They still haven't made the case. They haven't laid out the proof that this president is responsible for what it is that took place on that day.

And that's important because if you are looking at this story and as you watch these videos, you have to continue to ask yourself. In what universe, in what arena? Would the president of the United States, Donald Trump? Call for a direct act of violence against the very institutions that he has stood up for consistently, that his supporters have stood up for consistently, and this is the important point. We're looking at the remnants of the resistance, making the argument that President Trump should be barred from ever running again.

Go back to the central contention on January the 6th, what was the main political argument that was taking place in the House and in the Senate on that day?

Go back to just before the riot breaking out. It was the idea that.

The House and the Senate might intervene to try to bring about an investigation and further consideration of the electors that had been certified by states, and the argument that the progressives made at that point was, you cannot override the states, you cannot override the millions of people.

Who? Voted.

In a certain way, who voted for Biden on Election Day, and yet the exact the exact argument is what's playing out today in the Senate, in that Senate chamber, Democrats are saying we don't believe the 74 million plus people who voted for President Trump should be allowed to vote for him again in 2024. And so we're going to ask the Senate. Set in motion by House impeachment managers to intervene to such an extent that they convict President Trump and, B, bar him from running for office.

For the presidency of the United States. Let that sink in. They want to take their impeachment article presented in front of the 100 senators there in Washington, D.C. and rely on 67.

Right. You need two thirds.

So 67 senators to decide that you may not consider Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States in 2024 because a group of lawless criminals assaulted the capital.

So you and I see this and you and I understand that that would be rank hypocrisy by any standard, but to them, to them, it's just.

It's just Wednesday, it's just another Wednesday in which they try to disenfranchise the 74 million plus voters on a on a sham charge, that isn't really constitutional.

I mean, I get it. The Senate voted. They voted to consider this this impeachment argument. But the fact of the matter is that doesn't make it right.

And they want those senators to then sit in judgment to convict and to make sure this president is not eligible to run again, so much fear.

Do they have so much fear?

Do they have that they want an institutional imposition of a block on this man from running again?

And they'll do whatever it takes, the same people that wiretapped, the same people that abused the FISA courts, the same people who brought about an impeachment without being able to challenge the eyewitnesses nor name them, think nothing of showing a series of horrifying videos and asking you to draw the conclusion to stop the president of the United States from running again.

This is political theater and this is the most basic version of petty politics. There can be your reaction to what you've seen so far, your takeaways. Have you been convinced? I'd love to hear from you. My name is Bret Winnable.

I'm in for Rush Limbaugh, one 800 202 282. We'll be back right after.

I am in for Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 800 to 202 is the phone number to be a part of the conversation. I'm watching Jamie Raskin stand there on Capitol Hill in the Senate talking about the case that is being laid out against former President Donald Trump, the attempt to impeach him and remove him from office.

Let me give a little bit of I'm going to give a tiny sliver of credit to the Democrats.

It's not going to matter. It's not going to affect how this case ends up turning out. But if you look at Jamie Raskin and you put him side by side with Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler in that first impeachment proceeding, this guy this guy is a person that people will listen to.

Adam Schiff was was such a craven political operator, along with Jerry Nadler, that I think people immediately wrote them off.

This this case being argued by Jamie Raskin is going to be persuasive to the people who are who are persuaded by light, by video presentations and slick, slick sort of moves in that way.

It was interesting to watch the presentation from Jamie Raskin yesterday. And of course, also don't forget Jonah Gousse, who came up right after him, making these arguments tied back to, you know, the governor of Bengal 250 years ago and all the all the sort of things that were being talked about as as the predicates for allowing an extra constitutional or an unconstitutional impeachment trial of a president who's no longer in office.

And it was striking because these are the very people that they were celebrating, the very people, the founders who in their day jobs, they'd be trying to cancel their trying to cancel your Jeffersons and and your atom's.

They're trying to get rid of those people.

They don't want them to be remembered in any way, shape or form. But oh, my gosh, how they celebrated the wisdom, the knowledge that raw talent and and fortuitous ness of having these men, these dead old white guys running the show, they held them up as heroes.

They fully embraced it in a love embrace the notion of textualism and originalism, how it is that those words written in the Constitution, of course, carry the full weight and and import of anything you might imagine reading.

These were near holy documents as far as the progressive is bringing this case were concerned yesterday and they were they were on their face appearing to be very persuasive people. And yet they will think nothing in the coming days, weeks, months and years of abandoning the position on originalism or textualism. What does it mean when it's written?

What is the context of the time in which the the arguments are written inside the Constitution and when it comes around to that Second Amendment?

Oh, no, they'll be running for the hills at the notion of textualism or originalism.

We have a right to keep and bear arms.

What the founders didn't mean that they meant to well supplied militia or the the defense that you often hear as it relates to the Fourth Amendment and the decisions involving, of course, abortion and Roe versus Wade or or whether or not you have the right to to freely speak, to give a speech, to get out in protest, to do those sorts of things. It's really a remarkable thing as he as he points to a piece of reporting that's up right now from BuzzFeed, that's more of the originalism that the progressives are going to do.

They're going to be using the BuzzFeed as a as a source for the information that you're going to need in this in this impeachment trial.

But let's talk about a bit of reporting coming out of the national pulse.

Extraordinary chat logs reveal alleged plan to turn Trump rally into violent riot. Wait a minute.

That the president was in charge of turning the Trump rally into a violent riot. But apparently screenshots from a Dischord chat channel allegedly hosted by John Sullivan, a far left anti Trump activist who appears to have incited violence at the U.S. Capitol while posing as a journalist, revealed he and his followers infiltrated the January 6th Save America March in Washington, D.C.. The Unearthed screenshot. Follows Sullivan's arrest for his role in the capital riot, which included calls to violence such as We got to get this house burned and it's our house blanky Blanca's an affidavit can reveal.

The Dischord channel is allegedly affiliated with Sullivan's oh, wow, this is an unfortunate word, Insurgents USA Group, which describes itself as, quote, forming a rainbow coalition to unite all people under one banner to fight for liberation and freedom for all people.

And that sounds like the recipe for an insurrection, right? I mean, I, I don't claim to be an expert on insurrections, but I do believe that that looks like an insurrection thing right there.

I mean, this is this is an incredible thing to see.

You have leftists infiltrating, going in and trying to take over. Yes. Yes. Because when you have a large grouping of people you know as well as I do with what they call mob psychology, the mob takes on a a mind of its own.

And if you have well coordinated, disciplined, positioned individuals, you can steer a mob to do absolutely anything.

I mean, my gosh, have you ever gone to a mall during the holidays or to a crowded store and you feel like the pulsing of the of the crowd moving kind of just takes you along for the ride whether you intend to go to a particular place or not?

Well, if you have committed trained insurgents, which is apparently what Sullivan's cadre of people were, you absolutely can can take advantage of that. You can storm the ramparts. You can run at the cops. You can take down those barriers and then look back to the crowd and say, come on, come on, come this way, let's go this way.

It wasn't President Trump that was out there commanding the crowd to follow him as they stormed the parapets and the barricades. It was obviously coordinated.

Individuals working under a banner of something very specific on whatever it is, the Rush Limbaugh Show. So ask yourself this question.

What is the broader reason for this trial that we're watching take place? We've already established that it's obviously intended to stop President Trump from running for re-election in 2024. But what's the broader mission here?

Because if we could project ourselves two weeks into the future, let's say, and let's let's pretend the worst happens, let's pretend President Trump was convicted and blocked from running for the presidency again.

What's the longer game playing out here with this trial? And that's what you have kind of strip away to to get an idea of, because I do not believe he's going to be convicted. I do not believe he's going to be blocked from from running for the presidency.

But but assume for a moment that what the what you're seeing play out here in the Senate is it comes to pass.

What's the longer game? The longer game is this.

And I'll flesh it out for you in just a few moments.

The longer game is to stop you and you and you and you from resisting the change that is coming to the country.

What's the old Chinese proverb that Rahm Emanuel used once upon a time in crisis, there's opportunity.

You never let a good crisis go to waste.

You know, it's important to understand what it is that's going on here, I've been reading the Stoics all this new year that we've just come into, you know, the Stoics that the people who who lived in the ancient times and and stated things about government and governance and behaviour and public behavior. Marcus Aurelius was one of these and he's got a great quote. It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

This impeachment move, as with many of the moves, with the executive orders, are designed to make you dance like a puppet, to dance to the tune of the piper, calling it from Washington, D.C.. And in just a couple of moments, I'm going to tell you what the longer game is here, it's a very important thing to understand as you watch what happens in these coming days, weeks and months.

But first, we go out to Rosann, who is in Holtsville, New York, out on Long Island. Arisan, welcome to the program.

It says here that you were at the rally that the president put together there for January the 6th. What happened in terms of police protection, security and that sort of stuff?

Oh, yes. I was at the rally and I explained to the to the producer there that I also attended the March for Life Rallies, many of them. So I'm aware of the DC and how they set up a rally of this size. And first thing that we noticed, arriving from a bus, Long Island, that there were hardly any police at all, unlike the March for Life rally there on every corner there everywhere, you can't miss them to ask directions.

This that helped people. There were there were minimal. I saw two policemen and a plainclothesman walking down from, I think was New York Avenue to the Ellipse. And I saw a couple up on the roofs by the Washington Monument. Right. And that was about it until we walked through the Mall, the West Side to the Capitol. We saw a couple of Capitol Police on the top levels. It was it was they were nowhere to be found.

And it was very odd. It was very strange. And what bothered me and a lot of the people that went is that the police, the Capitol Police, the people in charge of the police knew that there were violent actors going to be there and coming out. Reports, sure, Bailey, that they knew these people with bombs, with weapons were going to infiltrate the rally. We never were notified. But yet the mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, sent out a tweet on everyone's phone at 4:00 in the afternoon of a curfew when she should have tweeted out in the morning when we got off the buses that look at we have reports of violent actors.

Be careful whatever to give us some notification. Sure. We were not notified. It was very upsetting.

Well, let me let me just say this. And I appreciate the call, Roseanne.

And what you're saying comports with a lot of what I've heard sitting here in Charlotte talking to people who were there at the rally who were not part of the riot or were not part of of what it was that would go down later in the day.

And so we have a tale of two realities going on here. OK, the first reality is the impeachment effort to try to blame this on the president. The second reality is the failings in the security that took place there at the Capitol.

And it's easy to point this back and say to the president, the president did this, the president did that, all that sort of stuff.

But he's not responsible for four ground level based level security there at the Capitol.

That's just not the case. As Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader then Mitch McConnell, they have much more to say about security and the security profile at the Capitol, much more so than the president the president can call in for.

You can recommend that the National Guard go in for backup and that sort of stuff.

But the reality is this is this is about being controlled at the Capitol and this is why this impeachment is so unfortunate. And I appreciate that call.

Rosen, this is why the impeachment so unfortunate, because rather than get down to the facts of what it was, it happened and what failed on that day, we've gone to impeachment.

We haven't done a single solitary hearing yet into the the sergeant at arms, into the Capitol Police, into the National Guard, into the D.C. Metro cops.

We don't know what that security profile was. In fact, we don't even know what the final finding for the Federal Bureau of Investigation was as a result of this.

This is all still TBD out there in the ether.

Here we are a month later and we don't know the full tick tock of all the elements.

Sure, we know what the rioters did. We watched what they did. It was shocking. But have we heard the the police calls on the radio?

Have we heard the stuff that was being called out by dispatch or by any of the leadership in the in the security environment?

We have not heard that. And that's why, you know, many people want to see a 9/11 style commission to investigate this.

But you should put the should put the cart after the horse, not the other way around. The impeachment is putting the cart before the horse. And it leads me to the to the broader point I wanted to raise, which is why is this happening? This is happening in an effort, a coordinated effort to blunt any resistance.

And I'm not saying resistance of a kinetic nature where people go out and they they trash property and they do things like that.

They need to minimize any resistance that may manifest itself from imagination, from the the Trump supporters out there, the 74 million people. Because right now, here's what we've got. We've got a president of the United States in.

Joe Biden, who is not delivering the goods. It's true, he's not delivering the goods, you continue to have a failed rollout of the vaccine, you continue to have schools not fully opening. We're just now barely getting the conversation completed with the Chicago teachers unions to get back to business. You know, the Jen Psaki and a press conference yesterday said we can count, we can count success as being a school opened 50 percent one day a week.

People are not happy with the performance of this new president. He had 100 days to to work the magic.

And all he's done is sign a bunch of executive orders undoing things that the president, President Trump did and in addition, killed thousands of jobs with the Keystone XL pipeline is creating absolute catastrophe at the borders by not enforcing the border restrictions that we watched happen throughout that time.

And so, as a consequence, what the political operation needs in D.C. with the Democrats in control is a tamped down resistance.

This is about demoralizing you and and your friends.

Why? Because we saw what happened in the wake of the election of President Obama and Vice President Biden in 2000 eight.

Going into 2009, you saw the early foundations of the Tea Party movement take root.

And that was a resistance movement, a resistance of the poor Arculus bill of Obamacare, the expansion, the spending, all that sort of stuff. The Tea Party was originally taxed enough already, right.

That was the T.A.. Nancy Pelosi lived through that once, Chuck Schumer watched that, and so did President Biden, and they have decided that they have got to tamp you down early.

They have got to put you in league with the maniacs that rioted.

They have got to put you in that same basket of deplorable all 74 million of you, even though that that label does not apply to you because they are not going to be able to withstand the political pushback from people at the state level, at the regional level and at the federal level when it comes to diminishing returns, high unemployment, tax increases, job killing, rapprochement with the Iranians, rapprochement with China, it's a bad look.

And they've got to make sure that you're not able to adequately voice your opinions in that regard.

One 800 202 282. I'm Brett, we're in for Rush Limbaugh. We'll be back right after this. And I am Brent.

We're in for Rush Limbaugh today on this beautiful Wednesday, watching the incitement of insurrection argument getting played out there at the impeachment part two. And I want to certainly invite you to be a part of the conversation if you've been watching this impeachment, if you've been moving with the different sort of contours of it, would love to get your reaction at 800 202 to 82. But we'd be making a huge mistake if we understand the longer game here, if we fail to see one of the Telx in the longer game here.

Last week, Molly Ball puts out a piece in Time magazine essentially bragging about how it was that the system was able to pull off a win for Team Biden. It's a very lengthy piece, but it is one well worth reading. Do not dismiss it simply because it comes from a political perspective that you disagree with. It's important to understand all the different sorts of angles that were played here. And what you saw play out was a confluence of factors, political actors getting together to ensure that President Trump would be defeated and that his supporters would be demoralized.

And that's an important component to remember.

We are we are watching something happen in real time here, folks. We're watching a transition in this country in real time. Big tech has gotten involved. Big labor has gotten involved, big government has gotten involved. The teachers unions have gotten involved, you name it. These are all people who got together over the course of the months running up to the election to act in coordination to ensure that Donald Trump would not be a would not be reelected to the presidency of the United States.

And this matters greatly because that same grouping of actors, that same grouping of individuals, is continuing to operate to this very day.

I mentioned the AFL-CIO teaming up with the Chamber of Commerce, teaming up with the with the street agitators and the protest groups in the social justice movement, all in an effort to make sure Donald Trump would not be re-elected to the presidency of the United States.

And and even though just last week you saw Richard Trumka angrily denouncing the fact that jobs are being killed in the middle of the country with the Keystone XL pipeline, he's still on board with this.

You have the continuing ban inside social media of many high profile conservatives, including, obviously, the president of the United States who cannot give real time rebuttals to what it is that's going on with this impeachment trial.

He's been muzzled in that in that regard.

And this is all with an eye towards, again, demoralizing the energy out there that would seek to to try to stop what it is that Team Biden is pushing in terms of the agenda.

Again, the slow roll of the covid-19 vaccines going out, the slow roll of the opening of states and businesses around the country, because this is not about equities like you're hearing about.

This is not about lifting all boats.

This is about the most basic motivator of all time, and that is control.

Control is the most important commodity when it comes to government, because government manufactures nothing but control. They they tax you, they regulate you, they control your freedom of movement, they control your ability to build a house, purchase a house, drive a car, drive a particular kind of all those sorts of things. All government is, to paraphrase George Washington, is force.

But but what you have laid bare in that successful conspiracy to rig the 2020 election, which is essentially what that TIME magazine piece is, what you have laid laid bare is the fact that, yes, the election appeared to be rigged, maybe not at the voting machine level or the depressed turnout level, but with a coordination and a collusion that's writ large.

covid Lockdown's are going to go down in history as the single most devastating thing to American liberty in the last 50 years, the fact that they can control whether you go to work, whether you go to school, whether you're able to pay your bills, whether you're allowed to shop, how you're allowed to congregate, how you're allowed to fly, those those restrictions now in place.

Have been devastating not just for the American economy, but for the American psyche. And now we find out, as President Trump was calling out the World Health Organization, all these months, we're nearly a year into this thing.

All these months the president was calling out the World Health Organization for collusion with China and Tedros as being a lapdog of the Chinese and and taking money and currying favor with the Chinese, only to find out that, of course. They don't know where the human flu came from, except for the fact that it manifested in Wuhan, but we're pretty sure it's not from a wet market and we're pretty sure it's not from the virology lab.

It's just like magic. Releasing that piece of information. And that piece of information is reacted to with a hearty laugh and a doubt. Ladies and gentlemen, it's about control. It is about control. And you have to understand that if you understand nothing else here, because that's the ultimate stake in this game, whether it's controlling your health care, whether it's controlling your income, whether it's controlling your freedom of movement, whether it's controlling your ability to go now to Capitol Hill to lobby your lawmakers so that you can ask them or you can demand that they follow particular paths when it comes to politics and policy.

And you're greeted with a fence and razor wire. That is not a free country. One 800 202 282, we're for Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh reputable and for Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Jamie Raskin and Joe Nagus are basically wrapping up some of their components of their arguments as we speak.

And we're going to continue to monitor and watch very closely how these arguments ebb and flow. But essentially, what you're getting is guilt by association.

You're getting an argument that essentially says Donald Trump ordered people to go and sack the capital and as a consequence, Donald Trump needs to be prevented from running for president again, needs to be convicted and prevented from running for president again.

But the sham of this trial continues to just be apparent to even the most casual observer because of the absence, obviously, of Justice John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court, who should be presiding over this.

And even the president of the Senate, Vice President Harris, could have been a a fine alternative to sit there and and pass judgment. But instead, we've got leaky Leahy sitting there who is both judge and juror. This is, without a doubt, an illegitimate proceeding. And we need to all understand this because, as I said, it's about control and tamping down your resistance to the plan.

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Download it now. And I appreciate the opportunity to sit in for Rush Limbaugh. It is a momentous occasion for a lot of reasons, most importantly because I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh, but mostly today because we're continuing to watch closely this impeachment proceeding take place in Washington, D.C. And Joaquin Castro is now the manager who is up presenting the case. So far, we've had presentation of of people talking through tweets and social posts about how it is that the president was was directing them in some way to go about rioting.

I think when you dig down, though, in much of this evidence, what you're seeing is the president was directing them to express themselves, express their displeasure to their their legally elected representatives there at the Capitol.

The president did not call upon his supporters to take hockey sticks and baseball bats and stanchions and shields and helmets and grappling hooks to go and attack and lay siege to the Capitol. It just wasn't just was not the case. This was a confluence of events with a number of different motivations happening at the same time. And as I said earlier in that first hour, it's a mob mentality that takes root. But I'm struck by something here. It's very interesting.

Joaquin Castro is is is making the case is pressing the case that the president delegitimized over the course of weeks and months the outcome of the election that that he said essentially in the weeks and months before the election, after the election and then before the rioting, that the election was fraudulent, that it was stolen, that it was it was just it wasn't it wasn't right. You know, in November the 5th, stop the count. Stop the fraud, you know, tweets, tweets like that, you can say stop the count and stop the fraud without implying that it's important to go and riot.

I don't take stop the fraud and stop the count from. I don't take that as meaning. We need to go and riot at the capital, we don't that's not the way we comport ourselves. But Joaquin Castro is an interesting character because remember when Julian Castro was running for the presidency and Joaquin was out there and we were called a number of ugly incidents taking place.

And I just I just want to I just want to give you a bit of evidence by implication, if I can. All right.

So Joaquin Castro, in the wake of all of the terrible shooting at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas, remember that a couple of years ago, Joaquin Castro went on his own accord and pulled together the names of donors, the names of donors to the Trump presidential election and campaign who happen to live in San Antonio.

Joaquin Castro is from Senate. He represents San Antonio, Texas. That's where his district is.

And the implication people drew at the time was, wait a minute, what are you what are you doing here, Congressman Castro?

Are you saying that because somebody donated money to Trump, they should face some sort of a consequence? Now, in that world, we could easily take the Trump arguments that Castro and Raschein and Nagase and Cecile Laney are making against President Trump. And we could say, well, what is this? Why would you post the names, phone numbers and addresses of people who donated money to to to the Trump for president campaign?

What are you implying? Why the address? Why the phone numbers?

Are you implying people should should confront these people at their homes, at their businesses, that they should be intimidated and not be permitted to do business in the city of San Jose? Now, that that's an implication, too. And that's that's lost to history.

I mean, you can you can Google what I'm talking about. It's it is a fact. But but Joaquin Castro at the time said, well, this is all publicly available information.

I'm not responsible for for causing people to go and take some kind of action against citizens who just wrote checks and gave money to a campaign. But I mean, they they need to understand there's a cost, right?

Well, OK.

Words mean things. Words mean things. And so to the extent that we couldn't say that Joaquin Castro was saying, go and do stuff to these people who donated money, that's what his intention was then.

We can also not say that Donald Trump, President Trump at the time ordered people to go to the capital, to thrash the capital, to attack the members of Congress.

But see that that's one of those things that's tricky because it's logical. Right, it's it's rules for me, the rules for the but not for me, and so what we're getting again, let me let me give another dive into this into this impeachment process that's playing out.

We're getting video that's very serious video. We're getting tweets. We're getting declarations by the president. We're getting more video of of now people banging on the windows at the counting centers in places like Philadelphia with the implication being, well, these are the same sort of people that would go riot. There's a white pickup truck with American flags and trump flags driving on a street.

It's all the kind of stuff that they throw out there and intend for Americans to stick together in their minds as meaning, aha.

These were the foundations of the orders going out there to cause a ruckus and to intimidate people. Here's the dirty little secret for the impeachment managers, and I know you hate this, I know you hate this more than anything, conservatives.

Trump supporters, independents, liberals have a right to go and protest and to make their voices heard.

They have that as a sacred right, you have the right to lobby your lawmakers, you have the right to make a speech on a corner. Yes, you have a right to drive a white pickup truck with a Trump flag in the back and an American flag, if you want.

In the same way, you could drive a Prius with a Harris Biden flag hanging out of the window, you'd be within your rights.

We're not saying you're going to go in riot and destroy property. But this is the creation, this is the imaging that's been put together to create in your mind, well, look, these people on the street yelling about fraud. Why that's exactly the same mentality as the people who are going in attacking the Capitol, guilt by association.

And it's not even association. 822 to 82 to weigh in on this, I just think it's incredible to watch and to unpack this in very real time. This is live real time argument coming from Joaquin Castro as he tries to contend that all of these things are related and interconnected.

Somebody who would wave a Trump flag is somebody who would storm the capital with a Trump flag. When we know that John Sullivan, a name that we talked about in an article in the National Pulse in the first hour, somebody who was a left wing agitator, an Antifa type agitator who went into the crowd to help direct the crowd, telling people in the crowd to burn it down. Those are calls to action targeting the capital for his own political intent.

And that is a very serious thing, because what you have in John Sullivan is an insurrection. What you have in John Sullivan is sedition against the capital. And yet these same impeachment managers are using video provided. By John Sullivan's websites and discords and all that sort of stuff to try to press this case. It's a hugely important reality now. Now, your favorite congressperson from the West Coast and formerly of Fang Fang fame is Eric Swalwell coming to the to the dais.

He's coming up to the podium to begin his line of argumentation. I'm looking forward to the question time for these impeachment managers. And I'm wondering if Senator Cruz will ask him about the relationship with Fang Fang once upon a time.

Look, everything's got to be fair game. We need to know what the motivation is that's going on here. When you when you look at how this is playing out. And let's not forget, Eric Swalwell is an MVP of the impeachment sham from the last go around.

He was one of the the main hard charging progressives who was out there trying to convince you that the president was was a traitor.

But the reality is the president wasn't a traitor. The president was highly effective. And the folks that are putting him on trial after he left office understand that more than anybody, because they understand that because he is so effective, he has to be stopped from running again.

The fact that you look at the spread on the votes, you look at the spread on all the votes across the country, and you look at the differentiation between Trump and Biden, and you look at the full machine that went behind Biden, Harris and attempted to suppress Trump pants.

And you would be well within your rights and thoughts to think that in a rematch situation, Trump and Pence or Trump and another person running as his vice president would certainly be a formidable match.

And that's a fact. Now, one of the bits of sound that came out of yesterday's vote, remember, there were six Republicans who voted to proceed with this sham trial today.

One of them was Bill Cassidy from Louisiana. Bill Cassidy was sort of cornered by the press coming out of the chamber yesterday and was asked a very direct question, you know, what do you think happened in there? And now people were saying that the president's attorneys were very ineffective. They seem to be sort of kind of kind of calling it an audible on the line there. They weren't really focused.

And in fact, Bruce Castor said during his presentation, the lead attorney for the president, that that he had decided to scrap his presentation when he saw how good Jamie Raskin was.

Probably not a great look when it comes to testifying. And Bill Cassidy, as a consequence, came out and said, listen, these these lawyers were too disorganized. This cut number 25. This is Republican senator from Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, saying this about the disorganization of the Trump lawyers.

President Trump's team were disorganized. They did everything they could. But to talk about the question at hand and when they talked about it, they kind of glided over it almost as if they were embarrassed of their arguments. Accepting cut 27, he still contends he's an impartial juror. He's very impartial, he could still carry this thing out.

This is Bill Cassidy on on being impartial.

And I'm an impartial juror and one side is doing a great job and the other side is doing a terrible job on the issue at hand as an impartial juror. I'm going to vote for the side that did the good job.

So, you know, what he's doing is virtually signaling he's trying to say to the rest of the world, come on, you can still put me on NBC News with Chuck Todd. You can still put me on ABC with George Stephanopoulos because I'm open minded.

I'm an open minded guy. He's going to end up probably voting not to convict, but he just wanted to be famous for a day. I understand the spotlight is incredibly seductive.

Coming up, Mark Cuban gets rid of the national anthem before the Mavericks games. What's the long game there?

Plus, your phone calls at 800 202 202. I'm Brett Wytheville, in for Rush Limbaugh. It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.

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One thing I'm certain of is that Mark Cuban is catching a lot of heat online right now. He has confirmed Mark Cuban is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He's also, of course, well known for his his appearance on on Shark Tank, a very successful television franchise. Well, he is now confirmed that the national anthem is not being played as NBA games. This is being described as the the WOAK movement of defiance that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started nearly five years ago is now evolved, at least in one aspect involving a team and one owner.

And that owner is Mark Cuban.

He has come out and said by this act that it's just not going to fit, it's not going to comport with with what he is doing there at that franchise.

You know, it's interesting because you don't have a lot of people now in the in the game, you know, watching a lot of people that are packing the the arena.

And so that national anthem is is usually played during a commercial break. So it's not really seen on television, but it's sending a very specific message. Right. It's sending a message that we can discard the national anthem, the very thing that people regard as unifying, like why do you play the national anthem before a game?

Will you do it because you're bringing everybody together to say, hey, we are unified, we are united as Americans and we're about to enjoy this this event.

I just watched the beginning of this impeachment trial today. They started with a prayer and they did the Pledge of Allegiance. They didn't do the national anthem, but they did the Pledge of Allegiance.

So Mark Cuban says, you know, the national anthem is optional. We'll just scrap that.

We'll get that out of here. We're not going to do the national anthem. And the reality is, we have to be honest here.

Mark Cuban owns the Dallas Mavericks. He's the owner. He gets to dictate whether or not it gets played before the games.

He canceled it. Now, don't forget that this is the same four billion dollar man who always opposes as a supporter of the little guy, unless, of course, you're a well-heeled, very powerful human rights violator like the Chinese Communist Party, then he doesn't really know much about that.

Remember back in October of twenty twenty, I remember it like it was yesterday. He's talking to Megan Kelly on her podcast and he says this being an NBA owner and knowing that China violates human rights, he noted, well, they're a customer of ours. And guess what, Megan? I'm OK doing business with China. We also have to pick our battles. I wish we could solve all the world's problems, but we can't.

So we just get rid of the America and get rid of the national anthem. America is evil, China. Well, depending on how you view China, they're less evil because they are. There's somebody that we're in business with right now.

And he looks away and he looks away, he doesn't doesn't really pay attention, don't really care about that China thing. He says, I personally put a priority on domestic issues. I'm against human rights violations all around the world.

China's not the only country with human rights violations. That's true.

That's true. But the Chinese Communist Party is uniquely evil with the way it treats its people concentration camps that utilize rape, slave labor, forced conversion of Muslims from their faith to communism. And as for slave labor, this is especially ugly as the reporting has come out in the recent months.

The out in western China, an ethnic minority are being forced to pick cotton.

Forced to pick cotton under servitude. I wonder where that cotton goes from western China.

I wonder if it gets manufactured into some of the products that the NBA makes available to fans, whether it's in the sneakers or or in the jerseys or in the shorts.

Mark, come on. It's about the dollars, right? He understands it's strictly business and China is huge business for the NBA. Mark Cuban understands that it's about the bottom line. It's just business.

It's nothing personal, 800 to eight to to eighty two. I'm Brett Wytheville.

Rush and the proceedings continue there at the United States Senate as the trial of former President Donald Trump continues. Eric Swalwell making the case that the president of the United States was going to be there at the rally on January the 6th.

He was going to be there at all.

We knew what was coming was going to be there at the rally. Yeah, he was going to be there at the rally.

It's the president goes to a lot of places and riots don't always break out. But they broke out that day and the president didn't lead the riot.

So so as much as a guy like Eric Swalwell wants to, you know, overly push this, it's important to understand that they're essentially repeating the same facts over and over again. There was a riot on January 6th. There had been a Trump rally that day. People attack to the Capitol after the Trump rally. We know what that means, wink, wink.

It means that people committing criminal acts.

Were. Caught engaging in criminal acts do remember the narrative in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the riots that took place, do you remember the narrative that came from MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN? Do you remember the narrative? The narrative was really clear. It was, hey, these were peaceful protesters who found themselves caught up in a riot because it was hijacked by bad people. That standard does not apparently apply to the capital.

Because as as far as let's be frank and tells me on Twitter, the best evidence that Trump didn't call for an insurrection, the overthrow of government is the fact that with 100000 supporters on hand to do so, you know, things didn't things didn't get totally nuts because the overwhelming majority of the people at the rally were not rioters.

And so if we're going to cut the benefit of the doubt to Black Lives Matter to folks who were out protesting as part of their inherent civil liberties to protest against police violence or looking for police reform or what have you, and I support it.

I support any kind of protest you want to have. You go out, you do your march, you make your arguments, you try to win people to your side. No problem. That is a sacred right as a human being, the freedom of expression, the freedom to redress your grievances.

Nobody has a right to go out and smash a window at a mall or to burn a car dealership or to burn down a target in Minneapolis.

That's illegal in the same way that storming into the Capitol is illegal as well.

I can think of exactly one character, one person who was present at both of those events. We had John Sullivan, who was present at some of the riots and the Antifa fights that we saw taking place. And John Sullivan was apparently present at this.

I'm not saying he's guilty for all of it, but what I am saying is that guy's got a lot more culpability than President Trump does. 822 to 82. Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick is launching a spaak.

Now, many people don't know what a spaak is, a spack is an investment vehicle that pulls together money with the intent of purchasing or developing some other project or entity.

So this would be the easiest way to explain it to you.

You know, hedge fund, you pour your money into the hedge fund, people decide they're going to invest in in a couple of different things. The spack is let's pull together a bunch of money and then go find something to spend the money on as an investment. So Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL player and social justice icon for Nike, intends to raise two hundred and fifty million dollars through a blank check company. Mission Advancement will target a U.S. consumer firm that has a social mission.

The Spack board will be made up of entirely of black, indigenous and people of color. This is according to Markets Insider over at The Business Insider, Colin Kaepernick has become the latest big name to jump into the world of Sparks, a blank check company that intends to buy a consumer business with a social purpose.

So so they may decide we're going to go buy a beer company, a soda company, a clothing company, an Internet company, what have you.

And so he's now pulling this all together with an effort towards taking over some of the facade.

Sparks took off in earnest last year. They continue to boom into 2021. Shaq has one. Paul Ryan is part of one. Billy Beane, the baseball executive, he's he's part of it. This is the hot new thing that we're seeing play out.

It's interesting because I continue to see in the wake of the Super Bowl games that the Super Bowl game that took place this past weekend, you know, people saying Colin Kaepernick needs to be signed to an NFL team.

Colin Kaepernick is apparently doing quite well for himself and doesn't need to be sacked in terms of playing in the NFL.

And he hasn't played in the NFL in going on six years, five years.

Twenty sixteen was the last time he was in the NFL and had a ride since then. And so he's now using his brand, his marketability to go out there and find himself in a position where maybe he's going to be a billionaire.

You know, there are plenty of people for whom football doesn't work out, and I get that he's a cause celeb, but until you see the desire to get out there and perform on the field, this notion of NFL blackballing it doesn't it really just doesn't seem to.

It just really doesn't seem to carry the day. Dave is up next on The Rush Limbaugh Show. Brett Wonderwall sitting. And Dave, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Mr. Brent. I want to, first of all, say to Mr. Rush out there, if you're listening, I claim the authority of Jesus Christ in the fact that scripture says no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper. And that's not what I say. That's what God's word says. And I appreciate you having me on to the people out there in the press about Bill Cassidy. He's in my district, and I think the press needs to challenge him before he goes making a decision about the constitutionality of this so-called impeachment and needs to find out what his constituents.

But because I can testify right now, his people in his district don't feel that way at all. At least Senator John Kennedy, at least he has a pulse on what the people of Louisiana feel. And this this so-called Bill Cassidy. I don't know where this guy is coming from. We're just living down here in this district and in the state. So I appreciate that. Let me have that comment and.

Sure you've got it. I appreciate you being out there, Dave, and I appreciate you checking in. Look, the reality is Bill Cassidy is elected on a statewide basis in the same way that Senator Kennedy is elected on a statewide basis. I think he's getting a little spotlight, I think. I don't want to cast aspersions on his motivations because I can't get into his head. But I think he was attempting to convey to people I'm going to be open minded with this process.

The real test, the pudding, the proof in the pudding is going to be whether or not he votes to convict. He simply voted to proceed.

And really, it wasn't in doubt that they would be proceeding. He was unique, though, in being somebody who had voted no originally with with Rand Paul's resolution and then changed his mind to saying, yes, we should proceed with this trial. It is constitutional. Let me go next to B B in Pittsburgh, wants to check in on Mark Cuban. Welcome to the program.

Bret, I agree with Mark Cuban's decision because I think a lot of people like myself that used to be patriotic don't really feel very patriotic.

And I know you mentioned well, you mentioned you mentioned people on the Senate impeachment, the hand on the Bible. I thought to myself, gee, this is a farce. These people are corrupt. Just because they say that doesn't mean they mean it. And we're not unified. We watched an election out of control. We watched a lot of things happen. We watched people, our neighbors lose their businesses and somebody like me that used to be very patriotic.

I just think it's a joke now. The whole thing's a joke.

Well, I would I would hasten to tell you to just hold on there, because the reality is we are not the government. The American people are not the government. The government operates as its own institution there. They supposedly represent us. I get that that's the that's the way government is is laid out.

But we the people, we the people should remain patriotic. We should want to fly our flags. It is now when the country is at risk that we should be the Patriots. We shouldn't be the springtime patriots. We should be the wintertime patriots as well when things are going tough. And in terms of unity, I appreciate that. Call me. But in terms of unity, it's important to understand this more than anything. The most unified I saw America in my life was in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, and we were unified in grief and we were unified in righteous anger.

And I hate the notion that it takes something like that or this attack on the capital to bring us together. We have to ask the obvious question. What broke us apart?

It's not be in Pittsburgh or Brett in Charlotte or or or Steve in Louisiana.

What broke us apart are the political forces at work in Washington, DC and in state capitals. They rely on us being divided so that they won't be held accountable. And that's what we have to remember.

Do not allow elected politicians to steal your joy or to steal your patriotism. We owe our nation so much more.

I'm Brett. We're in for Rush Limbaugh.

It's the Rush Limbaugh Show, reputable in for Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh Show. And I can't tell you how happy. I am to be spending this time with the greatest audience and all of talk radio. What do you say we jump back out and check in with Doug in southern Illinois wanting to talk about Mark Cuban? Doug, welcome to the program. What's on your mind today?

How are we doing? I just want to weigh in on this. The subject of the I saw something I and I think it is one of the most un-American, disrespectful and insulting things you could do to any serious men or women or any of that are out there right now. I hope I hope it blows up in my Cuban face. I think he is a commie, I think is a full communist supporter. I do not like him. And yeah, I just I do not agree with it.

I think that is very, very unpatriotic. And you cannot call yourself a patriot. And I agree with that. Well, here's here's the thing.

And I appreciate that call, Doug. But Mark Cuban is worth four billion dollars plus. He is he certainly is a guy who's a capitalist. But I think to try to explain what he's doing and I'm not defending what he's doing, it's his business.

He can he can decide how he wants to offend customers all he wants.

But I believe what he's doing is is even more more pernicious than being a communist or something like that.

He's pandering.

He's trying to say, look, I'm going to play to the audience that I believe the team has and I'm going to get rid of the national anthem because I need to get back in the headlines. I need to be relevant to the conversation again. I need to do all of this sort of stuff. And so I think it's a publicity stunt.

I think he's doing it and he'll probably have it happen.

It's been going on now for a number of weeks since they came back to play the NBA season. So, you know, it's not like he just started doing this, but I think it's a publicity play. It's a publicity stunt.

But it is it is tone deaf as all get out to sit back and say, I care about people suffering in the United States of America when the biggest partner of the NBA right now is is the People's Republic of China.

And the Chinese Communist Party controls everything that goes on in that country, from social credit scoring to surveilling, to cracking down in a brutal way on Hong Kong to cracking down in a brutal way on the wiggers.

And it's interesting that you have Colin Kaepernick developing this SPAC who's who's who's super woak and super, you know, leading in regards to the social justice movement.

But he's in bed with Nike, Nike, who has extensive business assets over in the People's Republic of China.

And the NBA has huge interests in the People's Republic of China.

And you have people who are willing to just look the other way, who are willing to say, listen, I get it.

This human rights violations used to hear this a lot in the 80s and in the 90s.

And you would hear these phrases like that's just that's just how it is over there. We really can't we shouldn't really focus on this. It's not it's not a big deal. Well, no, it is a big deal because either we stand for human rights or we don't.

And to be a billionaire who is going to pander to Xi Jinping regime, I think is is a remarkably tone deaf play and a remarkably tone deaf ploy. And to sacrifice the American national anthem to try to appear to have more chokepoints, I think is is unfortunate because that national anthem does represent unity and a unifying force.

Right now, the the Senate is in recess for this trial. They're going to come back into session here very shortly and resume their arguments against the former president, Donald Trump.

One thing I was struck by was looking at that Senate chamber understanding, having been to Washington, D.C., as many of you have as well, and seeing the Senate chamber, that's not exactly a spacious place. The idea that you're cramming in 100 senators plus the impeachment managers plus the the lawyers that are defending the president, plus the staff and all the press, how are they social distancing inside that chamber? I get it.

Everybody's wearing a mask or maybe two masks or five masks. But social distancing has got to be a difficult task inside that chamber.

It's a relatively small room in which they are doing this trial. I'm going to go back to the phones and talk to Lee next up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lee, welcome to the show. Yeah, I was watching the impeachment today, and it really startled me and I was very concerned about just something that I perceived and I think we all need to be concerned about. It seems that it's not just simply the impeachment of President Trump, but it seems to be a trial against opinion, against the amendment to have free speech, which I really believe we've lost in our country today.

That First Amendment, the first right that our forefathers thought to give us, seems to me that the only thing that's being attacked is the fact that Trump has disagreed with the elections, that he has desired to challenge them and that, you know, the election was rigged or that he was robbed of the victory. It seems like that's what's on trial. He has a different opinion than the narrative of the left. Yes, you are me. You look, you are correct.

I was talking about this in in that first hour, this notion of preventing resistance, preventing people from stepping up to say they weren't going to be happy with the Biden initiatives, with the Biden policies and those sorts of things. This is a two step process. First, you isolate and you prevent President Trump from from being out there and part of the debate and running for the presidency.

And secondly, you try to sideline all 74 million plus supporters who voted for him and let them know that they're not going to get to call the tune in the body politic for the time being.

We have got to work against that. Bret Wytheville in for Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show. All right, I'm going to channel my my hero, Rush Limbaugh, and say not enough time to be fair with a caller. But coming up here in this next hour, I want to have a full bodied conversation, whatever the heck that means.

I want to have a full bodied conversation about schools not opening up.

This is insane. The idea that the Chicago teachers unions can hold the city of Chicago hostage when it comes to educating their kids.

The very possibility that Randi Weingarten in the U.S. and the American Federation of Teachers can call the tunes here when it when it comes to reopening is insane. I thought we were supposed to trust the science and trust the data, but instead we're supposed to trust the union bosses when it comes to reopening. I'm in North Carolina. I'm watching this fight play out. They're just starting to reopen from about a year ago in Charlotte.

Many of you have closed down school districts. And why are we being ignored and what's with this soft soaping coming from? Well, Jen Psaki, we'll get you those details straight ahead. Equitable in for Rush Limbaugh.

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Well, the impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump has now resumed. Madeleine Dean, a relative newcomer to the Congress, is presenting her attacks on the president and making the case for the impeachment managers there in the Senate chamber. We anticipate that we will at some point begin to hear the defense case laid out by the by the defense attorneys in this regard.

Not a lot new here. It's an important story.

It's something that's got the attention of the country in the world.

But what we're hearing is a lot of what we have heard so far from the from the press outlets who have done their best work in trying to take down former President Donald Trump, both when he was within office and now that he is out of office.

And so they're trying to make the case now that the president attempted to retain the presidency by talking about fraud, pressuring the Justice Department, attacking senators and members of Congress, pressuring Mike Pence, all these sorts of things.

And none of this none of this speaks to specific guilt as it relates to the riot in the capital.

I mean, if we're going to take a look at all the topics discussed by the president in the run up to the to the election and then after the election and then try to pick and choose what it is that led to the rioting at the capital, you're going to have to be much more specific.

This idea that this president is essentially going to be invalidated for future office because of an incitement charge, for lack of a better word, ought to have with it evidence that he incited people to take the very acts that they took at the Capitol on January the 6th.

And the reality is the president of the United States gave a speech, Rudy Giuliani gave a speech, Donald Trump Jr. gave a speech. A number of people appeared at the Ellipse to make a speech on January the 6th. And as I've gone back and looked at that video, I didn't hear any of them say, OK, now, on the count of three, everybody run to the capital and attack. Now, it's very popular to watch the cable morning shows, especially your CNN and your your your mouth DNC, and to watch the coverage coming out of this.

And what they're basically doing in trying to make the case is to say, look at how terrible the attack on the Capitol was.

We can grant that it was terrible. It was lawlessness. There are people now being arrested, taken into custody, prosecuted.

Q And on Shoman guy, I mean, you've seen all the people that are the highest profile folks that have been targeted by federal law enforcement in a vast, vast effort to take them into custody and bring charges against them for what they did that day in the capital.

But what should not be overlooked, it should not be overlooked, is that the overwhelming majority of people did not go into the capital, did not attack the institutions of government.

In fact, they went to the speech. They heard the speech, they consumed the speech, and then they went about their own business.

If they had any intention of going anywhere near the Capitol, it was it was likely to just make their voices heard. But but they didn't step onto the Capitol property. They didn't go into the buildings. They didn't smash the windows.

And the real proof that that this spontaneous riot was, in fact, that spontaneous riot, at least to the folks in the Capitol. Was the fact that you didn't see an overwhelming police presence, you didn't see an overwhelming sergeant at arms backup presence, you didn't see it with the Metro D.C. police, you didn't see any of those sorts of things. You didn't see Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C., come out and say anything until after the event.

So so there was no intel or expectation that this was going to be be within play.

So it raises the question, how did you miss the cues, how did you miss the looming evidence?

How did you miss any of this?

We know again, John Sullivan, a veteran of of riots and a non peaceful protests alike, because we've seen the reporting coming out of national polls and other sites. This is a person who was present there.

This is a person who who was was rooting from the left for property to be destroyed and for for the for the legitimacy of the of the institution of the Congress to be called into question. But again, with all of this evidence being laid out, it doesn't add up to the president of the United States told people to go to the Capitol, smash things and hurt people. That was a specific group of people. I think it's 250 people that have been arrested so far.

You look at that crowd and tell me how many you think were in that crowd, broadly speaking, at at the speech. It's it's tens and tens and tens and tens of thousands of people who didn't go in riot.

You've got two hundred and fifty people that are facing charges and are under investigation there. They're the people that went in and caused the damage and created the mayhem and took the lives of innocent people. But it was not the overwhelming majority of the people that went to that rally to hear what the president had to say. And this is this is an important point because it speaks to the fact that you have a great deal of fear in this country on the left, a lack of confidence when it comes to to the governing mandate that Joe Biden and Vice President Harris have.

And I'm not saying the mandate's not legitimate or he's not legitimate. I'm not going down that road. But the confidence by the American people to look at at Joe Biden and to look at Vice President Harris and to say, OK, they got a plan, this is going to work.

This is great. Remember, we were told they were building they were building a team of super smart, experienced hands when it came to came to the that the challenges that we faced.

Joe Biden constantly bragged during the the election process how he had personally shepherded the response to the H1N1 virus, how Ron Klain had effectively managed that huge pandemic.

But apparently all that expertise is now out the window. All they would say during the campaign was, oh, well, the president got rid of the playbook. And so we have to start from scratch. You have at least, what, four vaccines, five vaccines at your disposal. You have the entirety of the federal government. You have the Defense Production Act at your disposal. What's going on with the distribution?

Those are questions that are legitimate. You made it a point to campaign and say that there was incompetence, ineffective governance, and that this was a president not worthy of the support of the American people. You did that for two years. The campaign effectively began in earnest in January of 2019.

And so you started that campaign and you made those arguments time after time after time. But now we've not seen the results.

We see businesses still being shuttered, schools still being shuttered.

We've seen people's personal fortunes destroyed. Now you're talking about tax hikes. You're talking about sucking up to the Iranians. You're talking about getting back together with the communist Chinese. You're talking about killing Keystone XL pipelines and not securing the American border with Mexico.

None of that puts people back to work. None of that gets people more confident that they can go back to work, that they're going to get the vaccine in their arm and that they're able to get back to normal life.

And yet and yet we're devoting hours and hours of time yesterday and today to essentially a public relations presentation from the impeachment managers, talking about how it is that the riot was a terrible thing.

And you must pin the sole responsibility on the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who was president at the time and is no longer in office.

Are you kidding me? This is the hottest, biggest issue right now in America. No, it's not because the hottest big is the biggest issue right now in America is the fact that America is not back to work. Some states are many are not.

Kids are not in school. And it's my contention as I sit here sitting in the Carolinas. Looking at the situation that this is a concerted effort to bring about pressure on the parents and the taxpayers and the businesses to secure concessions on behalf of the teachers unions and in some cases in states that don't have unions, the teachers associations, this is not about putting butts back in seats. This is about putting dollars in the coffers. This is about putting power in the hands of the teachers.

And in fact, if I can be so bold as I sit here behind this this microphone that is not the golden EIB microphone, but is is is a microphone nonetheless.

If I were to take you back in time a year ago yesterday. Before the shutdown, but before the the covid-19 shutdown, the the woman flew shutdown, the headline in the National Interest magazine, American Tragedy The Epidemic of Violence Against Teachers. See, a year ago, before anybody was paying attention to the covid-19 and the pandemic, people were looking at the schools, epidemics of school shootings, epidemics of violence against teachers, progressives calling for an end to the classroom, to prison pipeline.

Right. All these progressive solutions that were being offered up.

I believe when you look at at the state of education one year ago today, one year ago today, with with the numbers of teachers being subjected to violence in classrooms because students couldn't be expelled, couldn't be kicked out because of progressive education policies.

I believe those teachers now say, you know what, let's keep them out of the school. Let's keep them out of the school. I feel comfortable teaching virtually. Students committed violent acts, it was being documented a year ago among teachers in a sample who had been victimized at least once, 37 percent said the parents of students were responsible, 21 percent relate incidents by their own colleagues. Most of those incidents involved harassment and physical attacks.

Here's here's the dirty little secret.

I believe you have a class of teachers in the schools around the country who do not want to see the schools fully reopen because they're safer teaching in a virtual environment.

Either from covid or violence from students, and I believe the teachers unions are more than happy to pursue that avenue, to fundamentally transform education in a bit of a great reset.

Because the responsibility is so much easier when you're teaching a virtual group of students than having to actually be in that classroom understaffed, overworked and forced, forced to comport with suboptimal working conditions. 800 hundred eight two two eight eight two on Brett, whatever. What's the Rush Limbaugh show quarterback? Right.

Look, I'm a huge fan of Russia's see, I told you so. And it's not just about the teachers staying out of school.

Rush predicted that when you look at the the broader spectrum of work in America today, in the world of the pandemic, well, people are going to eventually say are the nine to five workday is dead.

We don't need to be at the office. Come on now, look, Salesforce, Salesforce is huge. Corporation says the nine to five workday is dead and will provide three new ways for employees to work, including the possibility of working from home for ever. The new guidelines, which Salesforce is calling work from anywhere, offers employees three different options for how they're going to work moving forward, flex fully remote and office based, Salesforce said the decision to offer the new ways of working is based on employee wellness, the surveys that they've gotten sending around since the beginning of the pandemic.

Now, Rush called this rush called this back in. In May of 2020, Rush predicted that many, many people would start working from home and companies will allow it forever.

Here's Rush. But it's not going to take long for all these people to realize they don't have to commute from Connecticut to Manhattan.

The business is to realize we don't need to rent all this business office space. And then the people like it's like the Tech Valley people, the Silicon Valley people, employees. They don't have to pay 3000 dollars a month rent in San Francisco now. They can pack up and move to Idaho. They can pack up and they can move to Hawaii if they want and still work for Facebook or Twitter or whatever, because it's now been established. They don't have to be in the office.

And the longer these companies, not just tech. No longer these companies in these blue states. Make it clear as a bell that they can function without having a staff come into the office every day, these governors are screwing themselves in ways they can't even see yet. That's Rush Limbaugh back in May of 2010.

Here's the important takeaway from that as well, because at some point, all that empty real estate, all that empty office space, all those those missing tax revenues that would be coming in.

Well, those governors are going to figure out ways to tax you and penalize you as you sit in your home out in suburbia rather than commuting into the city.

I'm not surprised that this is the new way of going about business, you end up saving a ton of money if you're a corporation that doesn't want to have to carry all those responsibilities of cubicles and offices.

What a moment for Rush Limbaugh 822 Tuesday to Melissa in Raleigh, North Carolina, beautiful part of the country. Melissa, what's on your mind today? Hi.

Well, I knew early on in the show you ask about people how they felt if they watched the impeachment trial. I started watching it yesterday morning. I didn't want to, but I thought, oh, I'll be up on things and see the minute they put that video on, I turned it off. They had digitally enhanced that video. It was loud and the language was just incredible. Absolutely. And I just turned it off and I said to my husband, they have doctored that to the point that they're making it louder in enhancing certain sounds.

So later on in the day, I mean, as disgusted as I was over that and the Democrats later on in the day turned the news on and one of Trump's attorneys was on there. And so we sat down to watch it. We were so disgusted with him that we couldn't believe it.

He bobbed around.

My husband said he makes me nervous. He held it. He took a drink of water and held his hand on his head in a very unusual way. And the point he was talking so quickly that he just wasn't making any sense.

And I thought, you know, these Republicans are thinking that this is a done deal, that everybody's going to all Republicans are going to vote not to impeach him.

I think his attorneys and the Republicans who do support him are taking this too lightly. If that's all he has in the way of attorneys, he's in big trouble because they were just awful.

Well, let me let me let me jump let me jump in here, because I totally get your point, Melissa. And I was underwhelmed in the extreme with the attorneys that were defending the president.

Castro showed up. The first guy showed up and said, well, Raschein and them did such a great job with their presentation, we decided to change our presentation. Are you kidding me? I mean, that's that's that's lunacy.

And then shown was was making his arguments, which were kind of generically political.

This is such an easy case to fight because you are simply fighting over the piece of real estate that says, did the president tell them to riot or did the president not tell them to riot? He did not tell them to riot. Case closed. And these guys are overcomplicating it. In defense of Mr. Schoen, the man who was drinking the water and touching the back of his head, the my understanding is that that he is somebody who wears a kippah or a yarmulke.

He's Jewish.

And and when you take a drink of water and you are wearing one on the back of your head, you're to hold it so it doesn't come off your head. And so I think it's a force of habit. He didn't have it on in the chamber, but that's that's at least some of the chattering that I have heard in talking about that behavior. It was it was certainly distracting to people who who are unfamiliar with seeing that. But this I'm hoping that these attorneys are going to tighten the case way up and do a much better job presenting moving forward.

Time will tell and equitable. It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.

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John is in beautiful Yorktown, Virginia. John, welcome to the program. What's on your mind today? Brett, thanks very much for filling in for us. Thank you, sir. I have a little different perspective on January six. The Democrats say that the attack on the Capitol was another 9/11. And I'm suggesting it was really another it was a repeat of Benghazi, a stop and think about it. They left the ambassador and our people there in an indefensible situation.

And then when the attack happened, they didn't send anything in any air cover because they said the optics were bad. And then they blamed an innocent guy saying that a YouTube video or something was responsible. They had the guy charged and put in jail and here we go again. And it's the same people they had the ability they knew in advance. And I'm talking about the mayor and probably Pelosi and maybe McConnell, who knew that there was an attack coming, according to the FBI, to two sources, one of them here in Hampton Roads, and they decided to do nothing.

Why did they decide to do? Why did they decide to do nothing? That is the question. And I see a tremendous similarity where they're blaming an innocent guy and the real people responsible haven't been brought to justice.

OK, so so let me go down this road with you for just a moment on this, John. I think it's an interesting take looking at another sort of a terrorist attack, but obviously not being September the 11th.

Do you believe there will be robust hearings into this?

Will we know what the full story is or will this sort of go down the memory hole and it'll just be attached to former President Trump and they'll just kind of move on down the road to the next thing? Do you think we will find out? Will there be hearings? Will there be testimony? Will there be, you know, audio recordings of police officers or calls or things like that?

Do you think we will find all that stuff out?

Well, the track record of the head of the FBI, Ray, would lead me to think, no, I have the feeling we're not going to learn what the truth is. And that's sad. I would like to think that Republicans will make an effort, but they don't have control of Congress. They don't have control of anything at this point. And I hope that they have the backbone. But they they're not behind at the controls.

So I'm going to I'm going to play devil's advocate. I appreciate that call, John. I appreciate you being out there. Here's what I would say.

I want to believe that Speaker Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, anybody who was aware of this would not let this thing take place because Ariete riot gets out of control so quickly that you would have a bunch of innocent people harmed or killed. I mean, we already had five people lose their lives and dozens of people injured in this melee. I, I think what we're going to see.

In the aftermath of all of this is the great classic blame story and what it's going to be is this go back to September the 11th. Remember, nobody was fired as a result of the September 11th failures. Not one person was fired. Nobody lost their job.

Go go back to the mortgage meltdown in 2008. In that case, you had you had blatant incompetence. You had people lending money to people who should never have borrowed money, all that sort of stuff. You end up with a big meltdown, right. What's the big short? What do you see in both of those cases? What you see is, well, the system failed. It's always the system failed 9/11 and the system failed the meltdown. The system failed Benghazi.

The system failed. These are all.

And so what I believe will happen is the great American Magoffin, which is the device that that, of course, Alfred Hitchcock always created as the thing that you didn't know what it was, but it was the driver of the stories of all the great Alfred Hitchcock movies was a MacGuffin. Didn't matter what it was. It was a box and it was a MacGuffin. And it just was the thing that was propelling the story forward. The systemic failure will be the MacGuffin for this, where people will look back and say, well, you know, we just we didn't understand the intelligence.

We kind of blew it. We didn't understand what was really coming. We can get the scope, but we've learned and here's a report and we're going to reassign fifteen people and these other people are retired. And this will not happen again. Yeah, this will not happen again because you've got the capital covered in mud and rebar and iron fencing and razor wire and 15000 National Guard troops.

To what end? Just curious, Ben in Hilton Head, South Carolina, is up next, then welcome to the program. What's on your mind?

Hybrid all over the capital. I've been waiting for conservative radio and TV to bring up motive because Trump and his and his campaign were effectively in the fourth quarter, 15 seconds to go. Mm hmm. They were on their own, their own 40. And the only possible chance he had was Ted Cruz running around in the end zone with a bunch of big guys. And the last thing that he needed was to have that procedure interrupted. Yep. You're right, you're right.

In fact, the Fortune Taylor, Marjorie Taylor Green said that very thing yesterday. She said she said it wrecked everything when it came to the certification challenges. Then we've ended up with a mess.

Absolutely. I just. But if you really want to get conspiratorial and look at it from the other side on why was all the security rejected with plenty of advance warning? Who would benefit by it being interrupted because here's a here's a crew that's, to their own surprise, had almost pulled off the ultimate heist and this was the only thing that could keep them from succeeding. By some magic, Cruz was able to round up enough support to get that Sunday, during which time it was obvious that there was more and more evidence coming in, circling in from around the country.

Not hardly enough time to get all of it. But it was it was a threat. It was increasing. And they really didn't need him the coming days to put a story together. I just thought I just thought this should have been a lot more discussion in the last month about motive, because I think it would have served his defense. Well, sure. Sure. To be able to put that up front.

Look, Ben, I think it's I think it's a very fair point that you raise there. And let's let's go back then to the summer, to the riots in the summer. And let's go back to the day that the the clearing of Lafayette Park took place. And the president made that famous walk to the church. Right. Made his make the walk to the church. And he had the Bible in his hand. And what was the narrative coming after that?

Well, that Donald Trump is is an authoritarian who didn't respect peaceful protesters, who had there were people who had burned the church in the overnight, burned the basement of the church.

And so he was castigated for deploying any sort of force to clear the park in Lafayette and to get and to make that walk to the church.

They were going to impeach him over that. They said he didn't respect that. They didn't respect the right to protest peaceful protest. So he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. If he had if he had gone out and spoken to the crowd of the listeners and had National Guard troops flanking all around that speech or cops or some blend there in the narrative you would have had coming out of this was look at the authoritarian. He's threatening to use the military against the the citadel of democracy, which is the capital.

So he didn't do that because he didn't think this thing was going to turn into an absolute meltdown riot. So the point that you raise, Ben, I think is is a valid point. I think it's an interesting point, and I think it's a very possible point. The the political equation in its entirety was demolished at that moment.

The three greatest villains in American politics were Donald Trump, Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz and Josh Haley never picked up a weapon or fought anybody. They were merely objecting and they were denied that very opportunity to lay out a broader vision because of the anger and angst that happened in the wake of the rioting at the capital.

You are, I believe, more right than than many will realize in that we don't know how things would have played out with a debate and a challenge with the results. But we do know how they did play out with a riot taking place.

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Just a few short weeks into Joe Biden's presidency, those liberal ambitions have crashed into a stark economic and political reality.

As Trump's trial opens yesterday in the Senate, Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO that spent millions to get Biden elected, excoriated him on his climate policies for erasing thousands of good paying jobs. Gas prices, which hit the working class hard, are starting to creep up. The Congressional Budget Office warned that the plan to impose fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage would cost one point four million jobs. And a new poll by just the news added to the red flags just a couple of days ago.

A solid majority of Americans believe raising the minimum wage is a jobs killer. Just 20 days into his presidency, Biden's hopes for a bipartisan covid stimulus bill foundered for lack of a Republican buy in.

You add all this stuff up and what you're watching, what you're watching, folks, is a a first 100 days looking to crash and burn.

It's not lost on so many of us who understand that Joe Biden is so wrong so many times that anybody could have predicted this as it relates to school reopenings.

Well, I thought Stephen Scarless had a terrific point that he raised in the last couple of days.

He said, well, as the teachers unions oppose resuming regular in-person education due to coronavirus, maybe you need a chilled. Trans union to compete with the teachers union because the children need to be represented. I think that's a terrific idea and one that I might get behind. Jim in Oklahoma. You're up next. Jim, welcome to the program.

Brett, thanks for taking my call. Thank you. Well, I've got a theory. I mean, you know, we've got this senator sitting on the like in the judge and jury chair of this farce of an impeachment trial. And you know what his way Trump's attorneys are acting right now. I mean, why couldn't you know Ted Cruz representing? Because, you know, he wanted to represent the state of Texas, wanted to, you know, sued the other states because of the election irregularities that were going on.

So I'm just curious to know what you think about, you know, if Trump could actually use Ted Cruz to represent him?

Yeah, I think Ted Cruz is much more important as a as a sitting voter. I don't know that you were going to bring him in there to be a an attorney in this regard. He's somebody who's going be able to ask questions. So he'd almost be like an attorney without the full power of being a lawyer there. But you're right, when you talk about Pat Leahy sitting there in judgment, that that I think is the greatest indictment of this being a kangaroo court that's imaginable.

You have a situation where a sitting senator who has already declared Trump guilty is sitting as as the administrator of this trial proceeding. And, you know, it's certainly I think it's I think it's foolhardy to to to think that Leahy's going to going to run this in a fair way. He hasn't had to he hasn't had to rule on any kind of procedural stuff at this point. So he's he's mostly been ceremonial. But the fact of the matter is, it makes this thing look incredibly partisan.

Representative Stacey Plaskett is is the impeachment manager who is addressing the the Senate right now as part of this trial. She's a Democrat from the Virgin Islands. It's not lost on me that we're seeing the same old coastal folks there who are pursuing this prosecution of President Trump.

The only the only outlier being, of course. Well, you'd have to say Madeleine Dean. She's from Pennsylvania and of course, Joe Nagase from from Colorado.

But two reliably blue states and states that are not representative of the broad spectrum of people in this country who are concerned that what we're seeing is a is a potential not just miscarriage of justice, but a veto, a veto by sitting senators driven by House members who are desperate to make sure that President Trump is not on the ballot in in 2024. And what they want is to get the Senate to go along and play ball, convict the man, and then rule essentially to vote, essentially to prohibit him from running again for any office at the federal level.

That tells you a lot when you're trying to get somebody disqualified while you're in the midst of that fight, while you're in the midst of, shall you say, fight, maybe I shouldn't say fight, but while you're in the midst of that struggle, that battle, that game, it says something about the lack of confidence that you have regarding your message and your ability to carry the day.

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