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RUSH: We know for a fact that the Hillary campaign was getting oppo research on Trump from the Ukrainian government, and that led to Paul Manafort being fired as campaign manager. And nobody in the mainstream media or anywhere else batted an eye about Ukraine helping Hillary. And of course the Russian lawyer didn’t help Trump; she isn’t connected with the Russian government anyway. She’s more connected to Fusion GPS than she is to Putin. And Fusion GPS happens to be the group that created the phony Trump golden showers dossier. So, anyway, Jr. E Junior has released the email...

RUSH: President Trump has weighed in on the trials and tribulations of his son Donald Jr. He says, “I applaud my son’s transparency.” Wouldn’t it have been great if Trump Jr. had just deleted the emails and said, “It’s what Hillary did!” Too late for that now. Here is Edmond in Lexington, Illinois. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush. Before I make my main point, I want to thank you for teaching me that the Democrat Party is a branch of the media. That and a little bit of bourbon at night and it keeps my...

RUSH: Man, oh, man. I watch this corrupting obsession that the anti-Trump forces all over this country, highlighted, of course, by the Drive-By Media, have. And it’s everything I can do to avoid laughing and feeling snarky and so forth. I feel like I’m watching people — and I do watch this in the daytime. I don’t watch cable news at night, as you know, but I watch this and I actually think I’m watching people lose their minds. This is what it looks like. If you have had the occasion, sad occasion in your life to witness a friend...

[snip]CALLER: Hi, Rush. I’m fine. I hate to interrupt your train of thought here, but I have had a question here for about a week. Last Tuesday you were talking about Obamacare, indicated that, you know, passed by the Dems, how basically it was a shell. That the secretary of Health and Human Services then packed with mandates, exceptions, and exclusions. And I’m just wondering now that we have another, different secretary, why can’t he get in there and rip all that crap out of there?[snip]RUSH: Now, okay, here’s the answer to the question. “Why can’t we just go in...

RUSH: “Women with master’s degrees and doctorates are freezing their eggs because there are not enough educated men in the world, according to a new study. Researchers interviewed 150 women who were having their eggs frozen at eight clinics in the U.S. and Israel between June 2014 and August 2016. More than 80 percent of participants had college degrees.” Some have master’s, some have MD, PhD. And the lead author of the study, a professor at Yale, Marcia Inhorn, said, “There is a major gap. They are literally missing men. There are not enough college graduates for them. In simple...

RUSH: George Clooney… Now, wait. We’re not going into Entertainment Tonight. George Clooney has decided to leave London. He’s gonna pack up his wife, Amal Clooney, and their two kids and they’re gonna move back to LA. I don’t know how many of you knew that they even moved to London, but that’s where her gig is. She’s a worldwide human rights, civil rights lawyer. So So Clooney moved over there — no surprise — and now he wants to leave. It’s not that he wants to come back here. (interruption) It’s that he wants to leave there. That’s the...

RUSH: Now, I want to correct something you said toward the end of the previous hour. I said that Trump is the first president… I actually quoted Roger Kimball at PJ Media saying that Trump with this speech in Poland today, stands a good chance of going down in history as one of America’s great presidents. And he makes the point that what Trump said today, in the specific way Trump said it, is the first time it’s been said by an American president since Ronald Reagan. Now, I think that needs a little qualification, because George W. Bush was...

RUSH: CNN, folks, it’s hilarious. It is amazing. It’s unbelievable to watch what this collection of people claiming to be journalists is doing to themselves. It’s a circular firing squad. They’re shooting themselves in the foot. They’re setting themselves on fire, and they’re doing it all with righteous indignation at a man they hate running intellectual and tactical rings around them. So Trump is over there in Poland and in Germany and he’s doing his no-apology tour, as opposed to Obama’s, which were apology tours. You know, Trump’s not apologizing for anything. And the press, “So, are you ready to...

RUSH: Here’s this Wall Street Journal story: “Could Trump Really Be Draining the Swamp?” This is five days ago now. The subheadline is: “The water appears to be receding in key Beltway bureaucracies.” “The Senate still hasn’t voted on Obamacare reform, U.S. workers are still waiting for tax cuts to…” Oh. That’s another story. I don’t know if I’m gonna have a chance to get into it today, but you’ve heard that Bannon has leaked that he wants Trump to go the for tax increases on the rich. You’ve not heard that? Yeah. This came out yesterday, the day before,...

RUSH: This is a fascinating poll result. It’s IBD, Investor’s Business Daily. Headline: “People Like The Senate Health Bill More Than They Realize — Just 33% of the public say they approve of the Senate plan to repeal and replace Obamacare and 62% oppose it, the latest IBD/TIPP Poll finds. However, many of the specific provisions in the Senate bill get majority support. … Unlike other polls, the IBD/TIPP Poll restricted its findings on the Republicans’ Obamacare replacement plans to the 77% who say they’ve been following the health care debate closely.” So this poll is not include people unfamiliar...

RUSH: Let’s look at Trump here and his tweets now on Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. If you go back to the campaign, Trump has branded people that he considers his opponents. We got Low Energy Jeb. We have Little Marco. We had Lyin’ Ted. We had Crooked Hillary. Now we have Low IQ Crazy Mika and Psycho Joe. Trump’s tweets today have everybody bewildered. What in the world is he thinking? And it’s actually not that. The tweets tell us what he’s thinking. Why in the world did he do it? What is the point here? I don’t claim...

RUSH: This is a website called Intellectual Takeout. Snerdley, pay attention. You’ll like this. Headline: “Clinical Psychologist: Women ‘Hate’ Harmless Men.” You know, every so often, folks, these stories cross our proverbial desk here. Every six months or so you get a story about male-female relationships of the day and how they’ve changed, you know, what men look for in women today versus 20 years ago, 30 years ago, and vice versa. And we have another one today from a clinical psychologist claiming — his name is Jordan Peterson is the clinical psychologist, professor of psychology University of Toronto. He’s...

RUSH: Here’s another thing. Do you remember the Gulf oil spill? What is the main thing you remember, aside from the actual spill in the news, what’s the main thing that you remember about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? That’s right, they couldn’t find the oil. It was the biggest oil spill in the history of oil spills — they couldn’t find the oil. Do you remember they even had field trips? They had little schoolkids from grade school, and they put ’em on buses and drove ’em down to the Gulf Coast and they gave...

RUSH: This is actually funny. The media is focused on the fact that the Supreme Court’s gonna hear the travel ban case in October. They’re not focusing on the fact that the court upheld it. It’s amazing. I’m watching CNN during the break, and CNN grudgingly discussing that, yes, the court has upheld the travel ban, but they’re gonna hear the case in October. CNN holding out the possibility that the Supreme Court will side with the Ninth Circuit in affirming the ban’s unconstitutional. It’s the exact opposite of what is going to happen. As I so brilliantly theorized mere...

RUSH: So I just checked the emails during the break. “Rush, why are you spending so much time on this?” Because the Drive-Bys have dropped this. You would think after a 36-page story on Friday in the Washington Post, that story was dropped to dominate the Sunday shows, which was then intended to create news to start into this week, to further the whole notion that Trump colluded with Russia. This Washington Post story, in some ways, may have even backfired, because I don’t know whether they intended this or not, but this does not help the Democrats. It makes...

RUSH: Frank Luntz lives in Los Angeles. Frank Luntz powwows with Hollywood people, does work for them, and then travels back and forth to Washington, works for political people. He does focus groups and other kinds of consumer audience research. He invited some people to his house. He invited Republicans and Democrats. Actually, he invited Republican congressmen to his House in LA and then invited a bunch of Hollywood leftists to the same get-together. It was Luntz trying to reach across the aisle. It was Luntz trying to put together the Republicans with the Democrats. I think, Scalise was there,...

RUSH: Yesterday — and this, ladies and gentlemen? The people that watch CNN or read the New York Times do not know about this. But they’re gonna hear it because we have the audio sound bites coming up. Yesterday President Trump met with the nation’s leading technological CEOs, such as the CEO of Microsoft, the chairman and CEO of Alphabet, Eric Schmidt. He’s not the CEO anymore, but he’s the chairman. He’s the head honcho in emeritus, in perpetuity. Tim Cook from Apple. There were a number of them there, and it was just like the cabinet meeting that Trump...

RUSH: Hey, the Supreme Court has handed down a decision that’s gonna have some ramifications. They have ruled for, in favor of an Asian-American rock band that calls themselves The Slants. Snerdley, you’re a big music guy. Have you ever heard of The Slants, Asian-American rock band called The Slants? I never have. You have heard of them? You like their music? Ohhh, but you’ve not heard their music, you never heard of ’em ’til the story hit? All right. Well, get this. In a win for Asian-American rock band The Slants — and this has got possible ramifications, good...

RUSH: Okay, so I have a little bit more time to study CNN. Now, I have observed that CNN is been very, very low-key here today since the event happened in Alexandria, Virginia. And I think there are many possible explanations for this. But I do believe that one of them is that this obviously puts a damper on the anti-Trump hysteria that is CNN (for a few hours at least). I mean, you gotta tamp it down. But you know what else? I’ve had people look at this for me ’cause I, of course, during the first hour of...

RUSH: Look, I don’t want to start off here with a nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah See, I Told You So, but, man, I called it. I predicted it. Yesterday we had the cabinet meeting, and it was amazing. It was the first cabinet meeting with every cabinet secretary there. It’s taken this long to have them all confirmed. So they’re there, and it started out with each cabinet secretary, like the first day back in school from the summer. What you did during the summer; who you are; who’s your neighbor, what have you been working on; what are you gonna be working...