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RUSH: Charlie Rose, 27 more women have come forward to say that Charlie did the nasty against their will. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: “Charlie Rose Accused of Sexual Misconduct by 27 More Women.” And it’s further been learned that three CBS executives over the course of the many years that Charlie Rose was out Charlie Rose-ing these women knew about it and didn’t do anything. CBS was alerted to his alleged behavior as early as 1986 and as recently as April of last year, and they didn’t do anything about it. An additional 27 women have now come forward, 14 CBS...

RUSH: One of the sore spots that we’ve all had since the campaign of 2016 began is been the Never Trumpers, and people like them who disagree with the premise that the country is in crisis, right? You have a bunch of Never Trumpers, you have conservative intellectuals who don’t think there is anything particularly odd about what’s going on in the country. We’re certainly not a crisis. They don’t see immigration as a crisis. They don’t see losing the culture as a crisis. They think we’re nuts for looking at things this way! The only thing that’s changed here...

RUSH: There’s another home run column today at the Tablet by Lee Smith. It’s very long. It prints out to 10 pages. I’m not gonna have a chance to read through all of it, but he leads with what I thought was the most scandalous event at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, and it wasn’t the comedienne. The most scandalous thing that happened was the award that they gave to CNN. Now, just to review this, James Clapper was the Director of National Intelligence for Obama. Without going through an entire timeline, I’m gonna tell you what...

RUSH: Kanye West has done it again, folks. Kanye West has tweeted out something about slavery that is literally brilliant if you have the capacity to understand the underlying point to begin with, which civil rights racial activists do not. People like Marc Lamont Hill and some of these others that are going bonkers over Kanye do not understand his comment. He said (paraphrased): “Slavery, 400 years? If it’s 400 years, it’s a choice.” I know exactly what Kanye West means. Do you know what he means, Mr. Snerdley? It’s brilliant, but the problem is it’s gonna go over everybody’s...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, Kanye West, I never thought I’d be saying this, is starting to tweet some really fascinating things. He’s now quoting Dr. Thomas Sowell in his tweets. BREAK TRANSCRIPT BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: As is always the case, folks, there are other things out there that I want to get into, and I’ve alluded to one of them. Kanye West and some of the things that he is tweeting, which have led to both Maxine Waters telling him to shut up or else and the Crips have practically threatened to put a hit out on Kanye West. BREAK...

RUSH: So I’m just watching CNN. The Drive-By Media is going bonkers today over the nomination of Ronny Jackson to head up the VA. Now, for those of you who don’t know, Ronny Jackson’s a White House physician, and he’s the guy that gave Donald Trump his last physical and raved and raved and raved about Donald Trump’s health. And the Drive-Bys and the Democrats immediately began to attack his fairness and integrity, veritably accusing him of lying about Trump’s health, accusing him of making it up, accusing him of being partisan. ow his nomination to be head of the...

RUSH: Yeah, the little guy was just cruising right along. It was as good a speech as Nicholas Sarkozy gave. I don’t think people remember this, but Sarkozy, when he was the president of France, came to Washington, had a big state dinner and had a joint speech, had a speech before joint session of Congress. And he dazzled and he wowed everybody. And the guy came off as much more of a patriotic conservative American than any Democrat in the House of Representatives. And today, the new French president, Macron, was off on the same riff and he was...

RUSH: Oh, look, the French president has arrived on his little jet. Do you know that — this is great. (interruption) What’s so funny? Well, it is. It looks like an Airbus A310 or A320 or something. It’s not a 747. It’s smaller than Trump’s jet. It’s smaller than Trump’s personal jet. Trump’s personal jet is 757. This is an A320. It’s a nice airplane; don’t misunderstand. At any rate, they’re having dinner tonight at Mount Vernon. Trump is hosting Macaroni at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. Folks, if you haven’t been to Mount Vernon, they have rebuilt...

RUSH: There’s an op-ed in the Washington Post today. It’s by Beverly Weintraub. And the headline: “‘Sully’ Was Just a Hero. Why Label the Southwest Captain a ‘Female Pilot’?” Beverly Weintraub — by the way, this is cool. She’s a Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the New York Daily News editorial board. She’s a member of the Ninety-Nines. Do you know what that is? You probably don’t. It’s an international organization of women pilots. Millie Limbaugh And she’s on the board of directors of the Air Race Classic. My mom was a Ninety-Nine. (interruption) Yeah, my mom was a pilot....

RUSH: Let me tell you the truth about something. Every one of these Drive-By Media hypocrites that are going on and on and on about conflict of interest regarding Sean Hannity would be the first people to accept an up-close and personal relationship with Barack Obama any day of the week, Hillary Clinton any day of the week, and they wouldn’t have any problem covering it up. They would all brag about it. They all strive, they all wanted to impress Obama, they wanted to be in Obama’s inner circle. What the hell does it mean when you write that,...

RUSH: I want to share with you a piece I found here in the failing U.S. News & World Report. I didn’t even know that U.S. News was still around. I don’t think it is as a magazine. But it’s there, because I found something on a website claiming to be U.S. News. And the headline is: Building a Wall in the Dark.” The subhead: “Congress is using budget shenanigans to funnel Pentagon money to President Trump’s border wall.” And the writer here is Ryan Alexander, opinion contributor. Now, this is dated back in July of 2017. It’s not about...

RUSH: Here’s Chuck You Schumer. This is in Washington today on the Senate floor. Audio sound bite No. 24. SCHUMER: Overall, we Democrats are very happy with what we’ve been able to accomplish on a number of very important priorities to the middle class in America: infrastructure, education, opioid treatment, mental health, child care. This spending agreement brings that era of austerity to an unceremonious end and represents one of the most significant investments in the middle class in decades. RUSH: I don’t know, folks. I just want to puke when I hear this stuff. I just want to vomit....

RUSH: So yet another esteemed member of the journalism community is suggesting that the Mueller investigation shut down. It’s Daniel Henninger at the Wall Street Journal. He believes that it should shut down because it’s on the verge of destroying virtual systems, virtual systematic destruction. This takes me to what I think of this… I guess this is what I think of this omnibus budget bill. We’ve had two hours here of dealing with it. I have taken more calls than usual today because a lot of people are fit to be tied over it and wanted to weigh in,...

RUSH: I don’t know how you can say first and foremost. But one of the items is the firing of Andrew McCabe and the fact that he is not losing his pension. Andrew McCabe was not fired by anything Donald Trump had anything to do with. Andrew McCabe was fired after an inspection, an investigation of the FBI and its handling of the Hillary Clinton email mess by the Office of Inspector General. The Office of Inspector General, the head of that agency, was appointed by Barack Obama. And the original reason for the internal investigation of the FBI was...

RUSH: What has taken the place of McCabe now — and this is where you are really at the right place today — Facebook and Cambridge analytics, the Drive-Bys and the left are all over this. When you hear Cambridge analytics, you need to think Mercers. The Mercers own Cambridge analytics. What they’re trying to tell everybody is that Cambridge analytics hacked or cheated or gamed Facebook and ended up collecting very personal data on 50 million Americans who participated in a survey that Cambridge analytics conducted on Facebook. And so you are being told that Facebook has been victimized,...

RUSH: When we left the program yesterday, the bridge at Florida International University had collapsed only moments ago. There was still some confusion being reported. The way it was being reported, I thought the bridge was open. The bridge wasn’t open. The span had been put in place on Saturday. The bridge not supposed to open ’til early next year. At any rate, the left has already found a way to politicize this. The left has already found a way to incorporate the name Donald Trump into the assignation or the assignment of blame. When, in fact, the culprit here...

RUSH: Yesterday I said that the Democrats had a golden opportunity. With the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Devin Nunes and run by the Republicans with the House Intelligence Committee announcing the end of their investigation into collusion between Trump and Russia to the affect the election because they found no evidence. They have interviewed 73 witnesses, done tens of thousands of hours of interviews. They haven’t a shred of evidence. They ended the investigation. Nothing to see here. And I said, “This is a golden opportunity for about Pencil Neck, Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, ’cause now all he’s got to...

RUSH: So this is funny. So Trump has finally selected Larry Kudlow to become chairman of the National Council of Economic advisers. He’s replacing Gary Cohn, who was too much a globalist and was asked to go back to Goldman Sachs or somewhere. So CNN is announcing this by saying, “Trump Taps TV Personality as New Economic Adviser.” Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee. Now, for those of you that don’t know, Larry Kudlow is a veteran of the markets. arry Kudlow was a star at Bear Stearns, and he was heavily involved in policymaking in the Reagan years. He’s been around a long, long...

RUSH: Let’s turn to the nomination of Gina Haspel. Gina Haspel has been chosen by Trump to be the director of the CIA. She’s been the deputy director for a number of years, and the way the CIA and the Department of Justice in many ways… The way they’re structured is that the deputy… At the CIA especially, the deputy is the day-to-day operations director. There is a director of operations, but the deputy director is generally the lifer who has reams and reams of CIA experience in the field, at Langley, and basically is in the know of pretty...

RUSH: Now to Tillerson and all of this going on in Washington. I want to ask you if you remember something. Didn’t the media…? Didn’t the media tell us…? I mean, way, way back. I’m talking here near… It may even be during the transition, but it was around the time Trump selected Tillerson. Didn’t the media tell us that Trump picked Tillerson to be secretary of state as a payback to Russia for Russia helping Trump win the White House? You can look it up. My memory does not fail me. You remember all of those stories about how...