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RUSH: Everybody thinks the immigration news today is worthy of bombshell, and it’s big. Trump’s meeting with everybody talking about what to do with the DACA, the DREAMers. But that’s not the bombshell news today. The bombshell news today that is not being discussed anywhere in the Drive-By Media, there has been further examination of the texts sent between the FBI agent Peter Strzok and his “paramour,” Lisa Page, the woman with whom he was having an affair. And this examination of their texts makes it look almost conclusively like they were leaking FBI material to the media. Peter Strzok...

RUSH: Let me ask a question again, before moving on to audio sound bites. If, as Michael Wolff alleges in this book of his, that Donald Trump did not want to win the presidency, never intended to win it, in fact, actively wanted to lose, he was running for other reasons, and if his wife, Melania Trump, never did believe that they were gonna win and was assured by her husband not to worry, he wasn’t gonna win, he wasn’t serious about winning, so upset she was crying on election night, could somebody explain to me why, then, Trump was...

RUSH: We’ve got the Wolff book out there, and there’s something about the Wolff book that it just hit me today, and I don’t think anybody has put this together. If they have, I haven’t seen it. What is one of the big claims in this Wolff book? And that is that Trump never wanted to be president, right? Never expected to win, did not want to win. Melania Trump was in tears on election night after they won. Okay. Fine. Then why was Trump colluding with the Russians to tilt the election against Hillary? If he didn’t want to...

RUSH: Trump has been busy tweeting. Last night just before midnight, Trump, “I authorized zero access to the White House. I actually turned down this author many times. I never spoke with him for the book. It’s full of lies, misrepresentations, and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve.” So Bannon has now earned a Trumpian nickname. When that happens to you, that’s not good. I mean, Crooked Hillary will always now forever be known as Crooked Hillary. To a certain extent, Lyin’ Ted. I mean, he’s always gonna...

RUSH: On the Today show today, Savannah Guthrie, who, by the way… Here’s another thing: When they announced that Matt Lauer has been fired for sexual harassment, all these people on the Today show said (sobbing), “Oh, my God! Oh ho! Oh, I feel so bad! Oh, I didn’t know!” They all knew. They probably all knew that Bannon was the leaker. They all knew about Matt Lauer. They are acting like, “Oh my God, it’s such a shock! We didn’t know.” He had a button in his office that locked the door from the inside from the desk! Anyway,...

RUSH: There’s another thing here that I need to… Not get off my chest. It hasn’t been that big a deal. This whole idea that Trump and Bannon are some sort of massive populist movement, and therefore that is bad and it’s nationalistic? That’s not what has been going on here. Populism is not been what’s going on. This is sour grapes losers using this term to describe it. Now, maybe Bannon, some of his people picked it up and ran with it because, “If that’s what people thought it was, then fine. We’ll give ’em what they think we’re...

RUSH: Now, CNN Jake Tapper last night spoke with former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter and Rebecca Berg, a CNN infobabe, about a new poll that shows that 78% of Republicans believe Robert Mueller’s investigation is an effort to discredit Trump. See, I think they saw this poll, too, and now the American people think the Mueller investigation’s a bunch of garbage, so it makes it safe to do something that joins the American people who do not side with Mueller. Tapper wants his expert guests here to explain what that could possibly mean. So Tapper says, “That’s a...

RUSH: Nikki Haley, our U.N. ambassador, had the tweet of the year. Nikki Haley tweeted the following: “At the U.N. we’re always asked to do more & give more,” meaning America. The U.N., we, the United States. We’re always asked to do more and give more. “So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American ppl, abt where to locate OUR embassy, we don’t expect those we’ve helped to target us. On Thurs there’ll be a vote criticizing our choice. The U.S. will be taking names.” That is her tweet about the vote today at the U.N....

RUSH: We have the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, joining us for a few minutes here to exult and to explain the future with now the tax cut having passed both the House and Senate. What happens next, Mr. Speaker? When does this actually go into effect, and how will people first notice it? SPEAKER RYAN: Hey, Rush, longtime listener, fourth time caller. RUSH: Congratulations, by the way. SPEAKER RYAN: Thank you. RUSH: This is a big, big deal for you all, a testament to stick-to-itiveness. SPEAKER RYAN: It is. Yeah. We’ve been pushing this thing. I mean, I...

RUSH: Now, let me deal with this right off the top here, the reason that the House is having to revote on the tax bill. Folks, it’s like a broken record, but the media, they’re just lying, they’re just flat-out lying about pretty much everything about the tax bill. And if the polling numbers are right, that only 26% of the American people support it, that’s why, but I’m not sure I believe the polling data. The Drive-Bys are so hell-bent on attacking Republicans that they have claimed the Republicans screwed up with some of the provisions in the tax...

RUSH: So here we are, folks, it’s Tuesday, and that must mean tax cuts. That must mean the House is gonna vote on the Trump tax cut bill today, and then after that the Senate is gonna take up debate and maybe probably vote on it tonight. Now, over in the Senate, they’ve sent Mike Pence over there. He’s gonna be presiding over the vote because they’re not sure about Flake. Senator McCain is back home in Arizona. He will not vote. So they have a margin of one. If Flake decamps and votes against it, they’re gonna need Pence’s...

RUSH: I want to take an opportunity today to delve into the positive and the affirmative. There’s way too much negativity out there, folks. It’s way too easy to get caught up in it. It is intended for you to get caught up in it. The negativity in the Drive-By Media and the people, as I say it, write the daily script for the soap opera that is what we think of as news coming out of Washington primarily, but nationwide, is designed to depress you. It’s designed to dispirit you. It’s designed to make you despondent. What it really...

RUSH: The headline: “Obama Let Hezbollah Run Cocaine into the U.S. in Order to Facilitate the Iran Deal Getting Done.” I’m gonna tell you, the damage this man and his administration have done to this country is still largely unknown, and it will continue to dribble out, and we will have more revelations of it. “In 2008, the DEA launched ‘Project Cassandra’ to track Hezbollah’s trafficking of drug and weapons, money laundering and other criminal activities, some of which were happening in the U.S. As Project Cassandra carried on, the Obama administration threw a series of roadblocks in its way,...

RUSH: Now, let me tell you what Donald Trump’s on the verge of doing. Donald Trump’s on the verge of repealing the Obamacare individual mandate via the passage of tax reform. This is going to be huge, not just in terms of achieving something legislatively in his first year in office, but the substance of the tax cut is going to be huge. The American economy is roaring. The Federal Reserve in New York City has raised their forecast for fourth quarter GDP growth to near 4%. Barack Obama never exceeded 1.5% economic growth. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Trump’s on the...

RUSH: Man, oh, man, a lot of crabby people out there. And I’m hearing from I don’t know how many, but it’s more than I can count. And I’ll share with you some of the crabbiness today. And there’s other stuff out there besides the crabbiness of the election. Here’s the phone number if you want to be on the program. 800-282-2882. Email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us. The first crabby email. “Dear Rush: You know everybody’s blaming McConnell and everybody’s blaming Bannon, but I blame you. I don’t recall you ever endorsing Roy Moore. I don’t recall you ever urging people to...

RUSH: Man, oh, man, what a strategy the Democrats seem to have assembled here, folks. I mean, it looks like they’re willing to throw an endless number of people overboard on the sexual harassment stuff just to get Trump and Roy Moore. It’s kind of breathtaking to behold this. Greetings. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us. There are more sexual harassment revelations today. The NFL Network and three players, including Marshall Faulk and Ike Taylor. Ike Taylor, number 24, cornerback for the Steelers, former. And Marshall...

RUSH: Let’s go to the audio sound bites, the aforementioned Frank Luntz focus group in Alabama. This actually happened on Friday on HBO’s Vice News Tonight. It’s a show there. They had the pollster, Frank Luntz come in there. He’s the establishment Republican pollster and focus grouper. And they put together a group of Alabama voters to talk about the Senate election that is tomorrow. And during a discussion about support for Roy Moore, voters Scottie Porter, Chuck Moore, and Luntz had this little exchange. PORTER: I’m not voting for him because I like him. I’m voting for him because...

Chris Matthews, EIB Guest Host? Mar 14, 2008 RUSH: This is Dean in Beulah, Iowa. Am I pronouncing that right? CALLER: Yes, you are. RUSH: Thank you, sir. Welcome to the program. CALLER: Thank you. Mega dittos, Rush. Hey, I was just wondering, I’ve been a fan of the show for a long time, and has Chris Matthews ever guest hosted your show? RUSH: Yes, he has. CALLER: And why did you do that. RUSH: Well, you know, there was a time that… Help me out on this, Snerdley. It was the mid-nineties, right? CALLER: Yeah, at least that long...

RUSH: Something that’s got me rather disappointed today. I must admit I’m a bit down. There’s a column by David Brooks in the New York Times today, and the title of the column is “The GOP Is Rotting.” So I figured I had to play prominently in this because I’ve always played prominently in David Brooks columns. I’m always held up as one of the primary perpetrators in the dissolution of the party, the damage to the party. But I didn’t make the cut in this column. Sarah Palin and Fox News are held out today as the primary perps...

RUSH: I got tell you, folks, I’m stunned, I’m surprised, I’m shocked. I thought that Al Franken would try to hang in there for another week. I thought he would try to make it past December 12th because that’s the key date. I told Snerdley that I was all ready for Franken to continue to stay in the Senate, not resign, defy his party. I told Snerdley, I told Snerdley before the program, just to get it on record, why I thought Franken would do that. Turns out I was wrong. Greetings. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh and broadcast...