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RUSH: This is David “Rodham” Gergen today on CNN. The anchor, John King said, “What goes through your mind on this day when you think about where we are in the calendar and the consequential election that’s just ahead?” GERGEN: Yeah. The president and the White House come out and show some humility about this — to recognize, in fact, that they could have done a better job — I think it’s gonna go one way. If, on the other hand, what we see is a president within just a few days bouncing into our living rooms by television and...

RUSH: Amy Coney Barrett has also tested negative for the virus. She has been in contact with senators, Mike Lee, who have tested positive for it. So there’s a lot of people that will be announcing the results of tests. I just saw Chris Wallace on Fox saying he’s not gonna get tested. He was at the debate too. You might have remember remembered him. He was the moderator, and he said he’s not gonna get tested until Monday, he and his wife, because you gotta wait. You gotta wait for stuff to happen and settle in out there. It...

RUSH: Meanwhile, even before President Trump’s COVID news, Dianne Feinstein and every other Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee were demanding that Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing be delayed. Just as we predicted. The minute I heard that they were gonna go ahead and allot weeks for hearings, folks, I got a bad feeling about this. We just do not learn, and it’s not even that. We, of course, learn. Lindsey Graham cannot possibly be ignorant about what the Democrats’ intentions are here. We don’t need to do any hearings. This whole thing has got to happen before the election!...

RUSH: All right, sir. Let’s see how many of you remember. Pretty much this entire busy broadcast week when the subject of Judiciary Committee hearings for the next Supreme Court nominee have come up, many of you have said, “We need to do it, Rush, we need to have the hearings so that the Democrats do their usual, predictable meltdown and that everybody can see it, everybody can see what the Democrats are doing right before the election. We need to do it.” And by extension you are saying, “Screw our nominee. Our nominee needs to have a spine of...

RUSH: Hey, guess who’s going to Kenosha? And no, it’s not us. Guess who’s going to Kenosha? (interruption) That’s exactly right. Sleepy Joe is going to Kenosha on Thursday, after telling everybody that Trump better not go, it would be a drastic error, it would be a huge mistake, it would be a faux pas, something that shouldn’t be done. Trump’s only gonna cause the town to burn down even more. He shouldn’t go. The Democrats all said, “Trump, don’t go.” The mayor, the governor, “Please don’t come. We don’t want you here.” Trump went. It went well. It went...

If it was prerecorded, that would be interesting to know because that means they could have done 15,000 takes to get it right. But I’m not aware that it was prerecorded, and I’m not aware that they said that it was. At any rate, two things — three things — we’re gonna do here before we get back to the phones. One thing Biden did… Whether it was live or on tape, one thing Biden did last night was repeat this humongous lie that Trump said that the Aryan Nation’s white supremacists, neo-Nazis at the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally three years...

RUSH: I feel like I’ve been here before. I feel like I’ve done that. I feel like this is deja vu. I feel like this thing has happened before and we’ve commented on it before and I’ll be darned if I can find anything different to say about it from previous years. I’m kind of hamstrung here. But that’s why I’m here, folks, to give you a perspective that you haven’t heard anywhere else. JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it’s Open Line Friday! RUSH: And I have to tell you the easiest thing in the world would...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room5:36 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: I want to start by providing information on our response to Tropical Storm Isaias. It’s a very interesting name. last week, the storm hit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and I’ve issued emergency declarations to support a response in both of those areas. So that’s Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.This week, the storm passed just east of Florida. Got a little bit lucky. Didn’t hit Florida too hard. Working with the governor, working with everybody. But it did not hit directly as a lot of people thought it...

RUSH: I want to start with the effort here that is now in full swing to defeat Donald Trump on November 3rd. We have massive new polling data that shows it is hopeless. Trump may as well quit. He may as well give up. Changing campaign managers, it isn’t gonna matter. Trump is gone. Everything but he hasn’t packed and left the White House yet, but for all intents and purposes Trump should realize it’s over and he should leave. We’ve got the modelers back, the COVID-19 modelers who have never been right. These are people saying 150,000 will be...

RUSH: There is something else happening out there that has me just as ticked off as now this Durham business does, and that is this joke of a judge, Emmet Sullivan. Have you heard about this? Have you heard the latest? Judge Sullivan went out got a lawyer. He went out and got David Gregory’s wife, Beth Wilkinson, went and got a lawyer. This judge, Emmet Sullivan, has now asked for the entire en banc Court of Appeals to hear his case. I predicted that he would go en banc, meaning he wants the entire roster of judges, not just...

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room4:37 P.M. EDTMS. MCENANY:  Hello, everyone.  Good afternoon.  Today, President Trump welcomed to the White House President López Obrador of Mexico.  The meeting reaffirmed the incredibly strong ties between President Obrador and President Trump.  The leaders noted that many people have bet against their ability to work together in a strong and productive fashion.  But rest assured, they work together, and they work together well.  The U.S.-Mexico relationship has never been stronger or more productive, thanks to the leadership of President Trump.The USMCA, in particular, is a major win for our two countries and...

RUSH: All right. So the big, big news here is that the U.S. Court of Appeals has granted Michael Flynn’s motion to force Judge Sullivan to dismiss the case. Now, as a matter of law this is the only way this could have turned out. But, see, there’s a problem. “As a matter of law” is up to debate recently in this country. This case should not even have gotten as far as this. It’s absurd. The Department of Justice, the executive branch, decided they had no evidence, they didn’t want to charge Flynn — that he had been set...

The following is a full transcript of the Oral Arguments held by the DC Circuit Appellate Court in reference to a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus by General Michael T. Flynn, supported by the Department of Justice, to stop the now innecesary proceedings in the District Court. A decision from the three-Judge panel will be forthcoming. The arguments were held by teleconference due to restrictions imposed by COVID-19 measures rendering an appearance in court impossible. This is NOT an official document, but the author's rendition of the recording of the teleconference:

RUSH: Now, I realize something. I realize a lot of you are just pulling your hair out. You’re at wits’ end. Everything that you can. You voted for Trump, you knew exactly what he wanted to do, you wanted him to succeed. You had no idea the opposition to Trump would be this bad. You had no idea these people would never give up — you had no idea — and so now you’re saying, “Why even bother voting Republican? Our streets are burning to hell. Democrat cities and states are being taken over by the mob, and we’re now...

RUSH: Now, the Supreme Court decision on DACA. What this essentially means is that one president can create policy with an executive order, but another president can’t eliminate it. Now, that’s just absurd. Obama couldn’t get legislation passed. He couldn’t get Congress to pass anything he wanted on DACA, on these DREAMer kids, so he did it all with executive order. So, because he did, the Trump administration chose the executive order to eliminate the Obama policy via executive order. But the chief justice, John Roberts, said, “No, no, no, no, no! You can’t do it this way. You gotta...

RUSH: And once again, ladies and gentlemen, President Trump was right when he forecast an economic recovery starting now. He was right about the shape. It would be a V-shaped recovery. He was right about when it would begin. He was right that it would take place in the first place. And because heÂ’s been right again, the left cannot let this stand. The Democrats and the left cannot let this stand, so be ready for whatever they come up with to take this news off the news. JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, itÂ’s Open Line Friday!...

RUSH: There also, ladies and gentlemen, you know, one of the themes that I have been on for a long time, but I’ve been intensely trying to drive home a point for the last two weeks, three weeks, and that is the utter failure of the Democrat Party to come through for its constituents. You’ve heard me say this I don’t know how many times. Maybe you’re a little tired of hearing me say it. The Democrat Party has been promising utopia. And yet where is all this police brutality happening? In Democrat blue states. It’s so bad that they’re...

RUSH: This is also a big day. Ten years ago today, Kathryn and I walked down… Well, Kathryn walked down the aisle. I stood there and waited. I stood there and waited and waited and I kept hoping. I wanted to see the door open at the long way down at the end of the hall. I kept looking and the door didn’t open. I said, “What’s going on? I hope the door opens.” I looked for her dad; I couldn’t find her dad. I looked for her brother; I couldn’t find her brother. I said, “They gotta be with...

RUSH: So Drew Brees, the quarterback for the New Orleans Saints — Drew Brees, who up until 24 hours ago was a hero in New Orleans. Drew Brees had done so much for that community. He had donated time, significant amounts of money in the post-Katrina aftermath and recovery of New Orleans. He was a favorite son. I mean, he was beyond reproach, impeccable reputation, impeccable image. Star quarterback, one of the greatest quarterbacks the history of the game. He took the Saints to Super Bowl win some years ago, but always kept them in contention. He was an exciting...

RUSH: So the deep state, the establishment, the elites, whatever you want to call ’em, they’re not gonna let up trying to make Donald Trump out to be a dictator, all because the Park Police cleared Lafayette Park 15 minutes before curfew. I want to show you a couple of pictures. Put the picture up of Trump at St. John’s Church. This is what’s got ’em so bent out of shape. “How dare he! Why, he took a book, the Bible — which he hasn’t even read, probably — and he used the military to clear out decent Americans so...