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These new revelations raise fresh concerns that, with the approval of the FBI, foreign governments were meddling in the 2016 election. ============================================================= The recently released transcript of George Papadopoulos’s congressional testimony reveals a significant fact: Papadopoulos’s introduction to Joseph Mifsud—the source of the “Russia has Hillary’s emails” tip that purportedly prompted the FBI to launch an investigation into the Trump campaign—was arranged mere days after Papadopoulos announced he was joining the Trump campaign. Saturday evening, Papadopoulos rocked Twitter with claims that “a woman in London, who was the FBI’s legal attaché in the U.K.” encouraged him “to meet Joseph Mifsud...

Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans: We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential. As we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs for all Americans. Millions of our fellow citizens are watching us now, gathered in this great chamber, hoping that we will govern not as two parties but as one Nation. The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican agenda or a Democrat agenda. It is the agenda of the American...

RUSH: Man, oh, man, folks, are the liberals letting the cat out of the bag on a couple of key issues of theirs. It is stunning! It is stunning to me. I pointed that out last week when this Northam business began and the New York State Senate action on post-birth abortion, not partial birth, post-birth abortion, getting a standing ovation in New York State Senate. Ralph Northam basically saying the same thing, and now they’re not even talking about that. They’re covering that up with this blackface business and his lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax. So they’ve let the cat...

RUSH: We happily welcome to the program Senior Presidential Adviser Kellyanne Conway. It’s been a long time since you’ve been here. It’s great to have you back, Madam. CONWAY: It’s wonderful to be with you, Rush. I just left the president. He hosted a lunch for the anchors ahead of the State of the Union tonight, and he’s really excited about addressing the nation. RUSH: Yeah. I knew he was gonna do that. You can tell by which anchors who work at night are doing reports at 11 o’clock in the morning from the White House. You know that there’s...

RUSH: Here we are. We finally got there. The Andrew Cuomo New York state income tax crisis. I want to lead into this by using this as a teachable moment. The fact that we have to keep teaching this or informing, the fact that the people do not learn this is… Well, if you let it, it’s depressing. But more than that, it is extremely instructive in how we can never assume that issues are solved forever or for any substantive length of time, because we have an institution out there that is attempting to revise history and lie and...

RUSH: Grab sound bite No. 1 first. There’s a new 15-minute video that the lawyers for the Covington kids have assembled, and they are serious. These people have sent letters of notification of potential lawsuits to named members of the Drive-By Media. Everybody at CNN that reported on this and lied about it. The same thing for reporters, wherever they are — Fox, NBC, the names and the networks themselves. They’re warning them that if they don’t apologize and make this right, that they’re going to be targeted for a massive defamation and slander lawsuit because of what they did...

RUSH: Man, that game was so boring last night, I betcha some people wish that some players had kneeled during the anthem and raised their fists. You don’t think so? You don’t think some people would have — I’m not saying I wish it would have happened, but I’m just saying I betcha there are some. Calling it a throwback game because it featured defense. That was not a throwback game. That was just — ah, folks, that was just a quarterback for the Rams not ready for the stage is what that was and maybe an offensive game plan,...

RUSH: In the latest effort to get Donald Trump, there is a leak to Axios, which is a website along the lines… It’s an offshoot of Politico and Vox and so forth. It’s basically some attempt at newfangled journalism where every paragraph you stop and say, “What does it mean?” Then you write another paragraph, “What is this about?” Then you write another paragraph and you say, “What’s the future?” Then you write, “Why is it important?” and so forth. It’s just a new way of presenting the news. Apparently, “[a] White House source has leaked nearly every day of...

House Lawmakers on Saturday released the transcript of former FBI Director James Comey’s closed-door testimony, just 1-day after being questioned about the FBI’s decisions related to Hillary Clinton's email server and the 2016 presidential election.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and House Oversight/Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, published the 235-page transcript as a part of an agreement with Comey. He initially challenged the subpoena to appear before the committee and instead pressed for a public hearing out of concerns his comments would be selectively leaked and taken out of context.The details of the transcript revealed that Comey...

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today released the transcripts of two interviews committee investigators conducted with Judge Brett Kavanaugh following allegations published in recent news reports.  The first interview was conducted on Monday, September 17, 2018, one day after the Washington Post revealed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s identity.  Committee Democrats were invited but refused to take part in the interview. The second interview was conducted Tuesday, September 26, following allegations by Deborah Ramirez were published in the New Yorker. Committee Democrats were reportedly investigating Ramirez’s claims, but did not share such information with Committee Republicans.  Committee Democrats attended this...

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On Thursday, the Justice Department’s inspector general released a long-anticipated report on the FBI’s handling of the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server that handled classified information. Here are some quick takeaways from the report. 1. Learn How To Interpret An IG Report 2. FBI Agent Who Led Both The Clinton and Trump Probes Promised He’d Prevent Trump’s Election 3. Comey Mishandled The Clinton Probe In Multiple Ways 4. Comey Is Slippery And Weird 5. FBI Has A Massive Leak Problem And Is Doing Nothing About It 6. FBI Almost Got Away With Ignoring Clinton Emails...

RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we spent some time discussing cultural rot and how it’s happening in education. We had a very lengthy story yesterday about a woman who attended a convention of college administrators. She was 40 years old and she was astounded at what she was seeing and hearing at this convention. She always thought that the primary method of liberal indoctrination of young people happened in the classroom, until she went to this convention, then she found out all of the administrative people are even sicker, like the guidance counselors and course advisers and so forth. The...

Rep Gohmert appeared on Fox News Sunday to talk about the FISA abuse memo which was released Friday. Gohmert also revealed he is requesting the House Judiciary Committee subpoena the FISA court hearing transcripts. “I have prepared a letter that I plan to submit to and hopefully have other people sign on with me tomorrow on our Judiciary Committee we have a great Chairman [Bob Goodlatte] on our Judiciary Committee. He wants to get to the facts and what I’m asking him for is that we as the Judiciary Committee subpoena the transcripts from the FISA court hearings, the four...

RUSH: “Rand Paul Calls for Investigation of Obama Officials Colluding Against Trump: ‘Worse than Watergate!’” This happened yesterday. Rand Paul “on Thursday called for an investigation about ‘high ranking Obama government officials’ who might have worked together to stop the election of President Trump. Time to investigate high-ranking Obama government officials who might have colluded to prevent the election of @realDonaldTrump! This could be WORSE than Watergate!’ “Paul’s call adds a high-profile voice to the chorus of Republicans who are calling for a special counsel to investigate whether Obama officials tried to stop Trump’s election…'” I mean… (sigh) You know,...

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,...

September 19, 2017 The full text of President Donald J. Trump’s speech to the United Nations 72nd General Assembly can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/19/remarks-president-trump-72nd-session-united-nations-general-assembly The full video of President Donald J. Trump’s speech to the United Nations 72nd General Assembly can be found here: https://youtu.be/H8xHdGSJWLs

President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time on Tuesday. In his speech, he focused on the threat posed by North Korea, and on Iran’s government and the Iran nuclear deal. Trump referred to North Korean leader Kim Jung Un as “rocket man,” and described him as being on “a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.” He also threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if the US finds itself “forced to defend itself or its allies.” On Iran, Trump demanded that “Iran's government must stop supporting terrorists, begin serving its own people, and...

Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Tillerson, members of the Cabinet, General Dunford, Deputy Secretary Shanahan, and Colonel Duggan. Most especially, thank you to the men and women of Fort Myer and every member of the United States military at home and abroad. We send our thoughts and prayers to the families of our brave sailors who were injured and lost after a tragic collision at sea, as well as to those conducting the search and recovery efforts. I am here tonight to lay out our path forward in Afghanistan and South Asia. But before I provide the details of...

President Trump addressed the nation on Monday from Fort Myer military base in Arlington, Va., to lay out his military plans for Afghanistan. Following is the full transcript of those remarks, as released by the Federal News Service.