RUSH: Bob Woodward, as you know, is the dean from Woodward and Bernstein — Watergate. He\u2019s still the go-to journalist on investigative journalism that destroys presidents. Woodward and Bernstein showed how it\u2019s done. That act, Watergate, has inspired every journalist — practically everybody in journalism school — to show that they could do it, too: Take down powerful people. Well, this “dossier” last week that McCain was so eager for that he sent somebody on a jet across the Atlantic Ocean to the U.K. to pick up a copy of it and bring it back and give it to James Comey at the FBI?<\/p>\n
This is the thing that Trump had hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed Obama and Michelle had slept in at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow. We found out, by the way, that even Brennan at the CIA and James Clapper, who works for Obama, had both said there\u2019s nothing to this. This is all bogus. We presented this to Trump as an example of the kind of stuff that\u2019s out there that he needs to be aware of. Trump has said he wouldn\u2019t accept. He didn\u2019t want a daily briefing on intelligence. He doesn\u2019t need to be told how to open a door every day, so why do I need the same intel every day? I\u2019m a smart guy; I can figure it out.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re trying to tell him, “You do need a briefing from us every day,” and so this was an example. They wanted to say, “This is why you need to have us brief you, \u2019cause this is the kind of stuff that\u2019s out there.” Well, McCain and the Democrats and the media tried to make this real! They tried to sell this as real, all this golden shower stuff like the prostitutes urinating on Obama\u2019s bed, and it\u2019s filled with our stuff that\u2019s been floating around Washington for many, many months.<\/p>\n
Almost a year, and nobody ran with it \u2019cause none of it\u2019s ever been verified until BuzzFeed and CNN decided to unload on it because they\u2019re all at their wits\u2019 end on destroying Trump. So Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday brought in Bob Woodward and said this: “What do you think of the way the intelligence community handled that so-called Russian dossier? And overall, what do you think of the way they\u2019ve handled Donald Trump?”<\/p>\n
WOODWARD: I think what\u2019s underreported here is Trump\u2019s point of view on it. I\u2019ve lived in this world for 45 years where you get things and people make allegations. That is a garbage document. It never should have been presented as part of an intelligence briefing. So Trump\u2019s right to be upset about that. When people make mistakes, they should apologize.<\/p>\n