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RUSH: One of the things CNN can’t let go of is the Mueller report says that Donald Trump told Jeff Sessions, quote (paraphrased), “I’m screwed. Oh, my God. I’m screwed. This is the end of my presidency,” when Mueller was appointed. Well, now, you can imagine how that is going to be analyzed and amplified on. “Well! (sputtering) That obviously means Trump knew he was guilty. It obviously meant the inspector was going to get to the bottom of it and that was the end of his presidency.” Again (snort), Robert Mueller concluded that there was no collusion between the...

RUSH: Hi, folks. Rush Limbaugh here and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. I’m just jumping straight into it. This report is exactly what I thought it was gonna be, and it is being reacted to exactly as I thought it would be reacted to. There is no need for a 400-page report. There’s only one reason for a 400-page report, and that is to create the news environment that is occurring right now. This report could have been issued in one page: We found no evidence of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign, period, and we don’t have...

RUSH: Now, Victor Davis Hanson was on Fox last night with Laura Ingraham talking about Notre Dame. Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist. He is a Peloponnesian War expert, ancient Greece, and that entire era expert. And, as such, he’s also an expert on religions. Not theology per se, although he’s quite learned. But he is a perfect person to talk to about the situation with Notre Dame in Paris and what is to become of it. He’s the perfect person to ask to analyze what’s being said about it, particularly the rebuilding. So the question, first question: “Victor, you...

RUSH: Yeah, itÂ’s a fascinating case study as almost everything is these days with the Drive-By Media, the media left, the media-Democrat complex. The Notre Dame Cathedral fire. It is simply unacceptable. It is not tolerable. You must not even breathe the possibility of arson because if itÂ’s arson then fingers will point in one direction, and weÂ’re not gonna point in that direction. WeÂ’re not gonna permit fingers to point. WeÂ’re not gonna even allow thoughts in that direction. No, no, no, no, my friends. But letÂ’s play the game just to start for just a second here. Even...

RUSH: You know, we’ve had all these stories the past two, three weeks about all the money the Democrat candidates are raising. Crazy Bernie raised this much, Kamala Harris raised this much, Mayor Pete raised seven million. Mayor Pete officially announced yesterday, by the way. And the oppo research was instant. The oppo research attacks on Mayor Pete were instant. And you know what it was? That he one time said “all lives matter.” Oh, he did! So here come the White Walkers of the left to come in here, the marching dead from the left to try to start...

RUSH: There is fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, and it looks huge. The wooden roof appears to be on the way to becoming fully engulfed. There was originally just a small plume of smoke that came out of it from a distant photographer, but now they’ve got news cameras in there, and it is massive, this fire at Notre Dame. It has preempted coverage of the imminent release of the Mueller report on all of cable news. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Notre Dame Cathedral continues to burn. The main spire there has collapsed. That’s one of the identifying...

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 1. This is President Trump late Friday afternoon. He tweeted it first, and then he doubled down on the idea, and I just wanted you to hear him say it because we only had the tweet on Friday when I was still doing the program. But I just love this. Trump: Let's see if sanctuary cities have open armsTHE PRESIDENT: We’ll bring the illegal — really, you call them the illegals. I call them the illegals. They came across the border illegally. We’ll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area...

RUSH: Let’s stick with the lighthearted news, this being Open Line Friday. “Boston Globe Publishes, Then Edits Op-Ed Encouraging Waiters to ‘Tamper With’ Trump Official’s Food.” So it’s a dirty political trick for Trump to be thinking about sending illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities, and William Barr should not be using the word “spying” when talking about what the FBI does. That’s somehow a dirty political trick, and so is Trump sending illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities. But the “Boston Globe Publishes [an] Op-Ed Encouraging Waiters to ‘Tamper With’ Trump Official’s Food — The Boston Globe found itself in hot...

RUSH: In other lighthearted news, James Comey. Did you see? These are bizarre comments James Comey made yesterday at a cyber security conference outside San Francisco. By the way, does anybody find it strange that Comey is still out there weighing in on all this? He’s been fired. He has been repudiated. He was discredited in a lot of this. Yet he’s still out there. Clapper’s still out there. Brennan’s still… Well, Brennan’s kind of gone underground. But Comey was at a cyber security conference outside San Francisco. He got a question about Barr’s comments about spying during his hearing...

RUSH:  Say, how many of you remember the name Greg Craig?  It probably rings a bell out there.  Well, he was just indicted.  Greg Craig was just indicted for false statements involving his dealings with Ukraine.  Man, oh, man! You talk about Trump-Russia collusion? Look at all of these clowns that were messing around with Ukraine. The Clintons were messing around in Ukraine. Manafort was.  But Greg Craig? Greg Craig? Pfft! This is this guy is a left-wing Democrat near the top of the pecking order.  He’s in Richard Ben-Veniste territory. And this guy being indicted? This is big!  Obviously,...

RUSH: So Julian Assange has been arrested in the Ecuadoran embassy in the U.K. The Drive-By Media is ecstatic. And for those of you that are not clear on why, the Drive-By Media is again manufacturing a wholesale lie. And the lie is that WikiLeaks was the recipient of data from the computers and networks, the Democrat National Committee, that were hacked by Russians. This is a myth. This is a story. The Russians hacked the DNC computers and then gave whatever they got to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, who then began to publish it in September and October of...

RUSH: If there were real journalism in America today, there would be questions right now that these real journalists would really want to ask people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, such as, “President Obama, were you made aware of spying on the Trump campaign while you were in office?” “President Obama, are you shocked at the possibility of spying on a political campaign in post-Watergate America?” “President Obama, are you supportive of Attorney General Barr’s efforts to fully investigate the reasons for this spying?” “President Obama, if FISA courts were deceived in any way by your FBI, would you...

RUSH: Mr. Snerdley came in to me today and said, “You know, you’re gonna have to stop saying that you predicted it, because it’s gonna get so redundant you’re gonna start irritating people. You could say it every day.” No sooner, no sooner — in fact, let’s grab audio sound bite number 1. I want to remind you what’s going on. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. We’re here and ready to go for three hours. Telephone number, 800-282-2882.In the second hour of the program yesterday, in the monologue segment — that would be the first segment — I told...

RUSH: What were, ladies and gentlemen, the two big lies before the midterm elections? Let’s remember. The Drive-By Media pushed two big lies nonstop, constantly, in the weeks leading up to the midterms. One, that Mueller was about to release his report, which would show Trump was guilty of collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice. The second big lie that was repeated as news repeatedly before the midterms was that the migrant caravans coming north and the crisis at the border were part of a giant myth made up by Trump. There wasn’t any crisis at the border and...

RUSH: I honestly don’t think that what has happened today has sunk in yet. I’m watching CNN. They’ve got a graphic: “Barr: I think spying did occur on Trump campaign. But the AG says no specific evidence, only concerns so far.” I’m looking at that screen, that picture of CNN. Now, for over two years every time I looked up at CNN the chyron graphic had to do with Trump colluding with Russia, for over two years, all day, every day. Maybe they took a break and did other news, but the central focus of CNN — I’m using CNN...

RUSH: Folks, this is great. This is very, very good. It was only yesterday right here on this program we were discussing the testimony at the time of the attorney general, William Barr, before a bunch of these inflated ego congressional committees. And Mr. Snerdley asked me a question: “Do you think there will ever actually be an investigation into what happened, into who did this, who was behind this coup to get rid of a president, overturn the presidential elections, and do you think that we will ever see results from it?” And I paused, and I said to...

RUSH: It’s one of those days, folks — and there aren’t many — but when they happen, you need to stop, take stock and take notice. This is one of those days that is a bad day for leftists around the world. In Israel, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu won reelection for a fifth term. Now, leading up to it we got the same kind of news leading up to the 2016 race, Bibi was hated, he was despised, he was a criminal, he was a thug, he was corrupt, and there was no way. His own party hated his guts....

RUSH: I could put this in my own words, but Victor Davis Hanson had a piece yesterday about now that this has happened, is this gonna be standard operating procedure? Are we gonna have an ongoing named special counsel to sit in daily assessment of any president going forward? Are we now going to have an unelected, named investigator that is investigating every president every day of his presidency? Because this does set a precedent if this isn’t stopped, if this isn’t properly characterized, if this isn’t properly exposed for what’s really happened here, then how do you keep it...

RUSH: As per usual in these circumstances, this is an amazing thing to watch. You got all these Democrats on this committee that’s led by Serrano from New York, Jose Serrano from New York, and they got Bill Barr, the attorney general. They think they’re gonna get to the bottom because the Democrats without fake news and without conspiracies don’t have any news. They’ve got nothing going on unless they make it up or get a conspiracy. So they are convinced, they’re convinced that they’re gonna get the truth out of Barr today. They are convinced that they’re gonna put...

RUSH: Oh, man, folks, this was great. This was awesome. The president was in the Oval Orifice having a meeting with the president of Egypt. They let the media in there during all these ceremonial, “Hey, Prez. How you doing?” there by the fireplace, and the press started asking questions, and the president went off on immigration. We are working on the audio sound bites even now. He went off on it! He went off on the court system. He went off on the Democrats in Congress. He said the Democrats in Congress are a terrible thing. You know, I...