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RUSH: I want to start with Obama and Afghanistan. Remember the Democrats told us at their debate the other night, and Obama has pounded this home every chance he gets, that the number one threat facing the world is climate change. Now, all of a sudden, the president has decided that we're not gonna get out of Afghanistan. After announcing that Bush's war in Afghanistan is over, now Obama has decided to keep people there. And, my friends, I'm wondering what is really going on here. There's something that we're not being told. There's either some internal polling data the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I mentioned to you last week that I had a story about how what we are living through right now is actually worse than the Great Depression and why nobody knows. I went back to my archives, and I got that story, and I have it here. Open borders, bigger government, free college for everybody. How many people already have free college by virtue of having their student loans forgiven or what have you? Everything these people have tried has not worked, so they want to try even more of it. "Bigger welfare state. Get rid of...

RUSH: Despite the best efforts of who knows how many people, the inexplicable has happened. On the day before the 14th anniversary of 9/11, the United States Senate sustained the Iranian Nuclear Deal, freeing Barack Hussein Obama to lift sanctions on the Iranian regime, which will for the most part immediately provide them with between $100 billion and $150 billion. It can now be said that the United States Senate -- and we would not be inaccurate to emphasize Senate Democrats, although the Republicans are as complicit.... It doesn't make any kind of common sense whatsoever if you come from...

RUSH: In relation to that, I don't know what you want to call it, the refugee crisis, the migrant crisis, whatever you want to term this that is overwhelming Europe has become its own Stack today. How many of you -- I'm relatively sure the answer to this is well over 80% -- saw the photo of the dead boy washed ashore and then picked up by a soldier? And how many of you read and believed that this was a result of this immigration crisis of people not being wanted, being forced to leave home, leave poverty, war-torn strife...

RUSH: Jeff Lord, who writes for the American Spectator, also has a piece for the Conservative Review he has out now. He's just been hired by CNN to do analysis and commentary, and he sent me a note late last night and he was digging around... He's been intrigued by this kerfuffle that Trump started in which he claimed that Mexico is sending us their human debris. Mexico is purposely sending us their worst. Mexico is getting rid of the people they don't want; they're sending them here. And he said that he had a faint memory of a news...

RUSH: Everybody who knows me is asking, "What is with this Hillary e-mail stuff? Top Secret stuff, Rush? What's going on here?" The New York Times has a story that says she's under investigation by virtue of leaks, and then the Department of Justice says, "No, it's not true," and the New York Times walks it back. But it was true. I tell you what I think. I think this is big. I think this is problematic for her. I think she's got two problems today. She's got this e-mail server problem, and she's also got the polling data in...

RUSH: Planned Parenthood. Ma Richards' daughter Cecile Richards, president now of Planned Parenthood, says that all of these videos that have been secretly made and released are "extremist videos" and they're "nothing short of an attack on women." "Planned Parenthood has been a trusted nonprofit provider of women’s health care for nearly a century," and that's the biggest misnomer about Planned Parenthood that it's about healthcare. This is one of the greatest illustrations of the butchery, if you will, of our culture and the literal attack on words to call what happens in a Planned Parenthood clinic "health"? Whether you...

RUSH: "Senator Tom Cotton and Congressman Mike Pompeo Discover 'Backroom' Iran Deals Not Shared with Congress." Not surprised, right? It turns out the US made a secret side deal with Iran on two of the more important sticking points in the negotiations. Number one, the inspection of a military base where Iran had done major nuclear weapons research in the past, and, number two, the requirement that Iran tell us about their past nuclear work, which is necessary in order to for there to be a baseline for the inspectors. I mean, we have to know how far they've made...

RUSH: Donald Trump continues to dominate the news and the news cycle. He is not backing down. Yesterday we got the news. You know, it's amazing to witness cowardice. It's all over the place. Emmitt Smith was a judge in one of Trump's beauty pageants. I guess it was Miss USA. Emmitt pulled out. Says he doesn't want to be associated with any of this stuff. Trump said, "Who needs Emmitt Smith? Judges are easy. I'll go get another." (laughing) You just got to love this. (imitating Trump) "Who needs Emmitt Smith? He's a loser anyway. He isn't a big...

Dylann Storm Roof is this guy's name. They've captured him. They captured him 245 miles away from Charleston, South Carolina, and they captured him in North Carolina. He parked the black Hyundai under a tree. Either ran out of gas or just stopped to rest overnight or what have you, but he was captured and didn't present any problems upon arrest. Such a sad event. You know, every day, the news is just depressing. You gotta work past it, you gotta work through it each and every day. Greetings, my friends, and welcome, great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the...

RUSH: Have you heard what Obama said? Grab audio sound bite number 18. This is yesterday in Washington at the White House, the president speaking to fellows of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative. OBAMA: One of the important principles for me has always been treating everybody fairly. RUSH: Right. OBAMA: So whether that's women or people of different races -- RUSH: Right, yeah. OBAMA: -- or, uh, different religious faiths -- RUSH: Right, yeah, right. OBAMA: -- or different sexual orientations -- RUSH: Oh, yeah. OBAMA: -- one of my core principles -- RUSH: Yes? OBAMA: -- is that...

RUSH: The rally that Bernie Sanders had in Iowa's got everybody nonplussed. Nobody can figure it out. I have. I know exactly why the left is going nuts over Bernie Sanders. For one thing, sex scandals are resume enhancements for the Democrat Party. They always have been and Bernie's got a little bit of a sex scandal going with that memo, his Fifty Shades of Grey impersonation that he did, his ruminations about what men are doing when they're doing other things and what women secretly want when men are doing it to them. That kind of stuff enhances Democrats....

RUSH: In the meantime, there's a little story here at PJ Media: "I just thought I’d contribute a detail to the latest news about the Clintons’ byzantine financial arrangements, specifically the limited-liability company Bill Clinton used to channel his 'consulting' profits." This is something we learned yesterday, he's got a shell corporation, a pass-through, and he was using that to hide money. He was using that to shelter money. He started a consulting business, in addition to everything else, the Crime Family Foundation, the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, the charitable foundation, all these things, he then added a consultancy...

RUSH: We got George Stephanopoulos in bigger trouble at ABC than anybody knows. ABC is more worried about this than anybody knows. That's the story on Page Six of the New York Post today, and I tend to think that it's probably true. I really do. Stephanopoulos was to be, for lack of a better term, the anchor of their entire 2016 presidential campaign coverage. And he has just rendered himself -- well, in the game of pretense, where we all pretend the media's objective, and we all pretend the media is all journalists and so forth, under that umbrella...

RUSH: You're gonna have to forgive me. I'm gonna tell you this up front. The Stephanopoulos story, my fire was lit on this years ago. This, to me, is "been there, done that." But, see, I've gotta fight that because I know to a lot of people this is earth-shattering. See, this is why it takes a concerted effort and a constant use of empathy to do this job well. See, I have the benefit of knowing everything George Stephanopoulos, Bill and Hillary Clinton, The Forehead, Begala, that whole team, Rahm Emanuel, since they burst on the national seen in...

RUSH: First the train derailment, Amtrak train derailment. Now, obviously, this is a tragedy, there is injury, there is death. And I must sadly be the one to remind you that there is a political component to this, and you will be hearing about it very soon. The political component to this is going to be -- and it will not be very long. In fact, it may have already happened. I haven't been able to monitor all this stuff constantly since this accident first happened. It's predictable as easily as the sun coming up in the morning. We're gonna...

RUSH: Michelle Obama. I'm gonna tell you something. (sigh) They're just getting started with this stuff, folks. There are 21 months to go, and I have been worried to death that this is all... I'm talking about the Obama presidency. I've been worried about it since before he was inaugurated. I have been worried that this is going to lead to racial strife unlike any that we who are alive today remember. She is continuing that. You know, the story we had on what she said dedicating the museums, the new Whitney Museum, that young blacks -- "people that look...

RUSH: Remember after Toya Graham went out there and now, as they're saying, "beat" her son upside the head when she saw him rioting? Remember the police commissioner, Anthony Batts said, "More mothers should be like Toya Graham." In fact, do you remember on Monday? I made a big deal here out of telling you -- and I played the sound bites for you -- of all the people that are focusing on the children and how parents need to get better control of their kids, it's up to the parents. You had the police chief saying so, the mayor...

RUSH: The New York Times story is by Jo Becker and Mike McIntire, and here's how it begins: "The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin's latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: 'Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.' The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. "The deal made Rosatom one of the world's largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his...

RUSH: I'll tell you, folks, the bomb bay doors remain open, and there are more bombs dropping on the Clintons even as we speak. ... "Judicial Watch announced that it has received 126 pages of documents from the State Department related to Hillary Clinton's possible conflicts of interest regarding her position as secretary of state. The initial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was placed on May 2, 2011." Four years ago, and the documents are being released today. (interruption) That's right: "OMG!" "These documents are being released as a result of a federal court order in a Freedom of...