RUSH: Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifying today before the House Judiciary Committee. It had its moments of high comedy when Sheila Jackson Lee got her turn to start asking questions. This is the representative from Houston who took over the seat for the esteemed Mickey Leland when he was killed in an accident in Ethiopia. He was on a mission there to feed the poor, and he died there, plane crash or some such thing. I forget the specific details, but she took over his seat.<\/p>\n
She is the member of Congress who, on a visit to NASA, was looking at the Mars Rover — they had the video turned on — the Mars Rover was sending pictures back from Mars. Sheila Jackson Lee asked NASA administrators if they were gonna have it go over to where the astronauts had planted the flag.<\/p>\n
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Of course, the NASA administrators had to deal with that with much diplomacy, because of course we\u2019d never been to Mars and as far as we know there\u2019s not an American flag there. We do know that if there was an American flag there, Colin Kaepernick would take a knee, even on Mars. It\u2019s on the moon. And the NASA administrators had to very diplomatically remind her, “No, no. You\u2019re getting our moon and the planet of Mars confused.”<\/p>\n
“Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.” So she didn\u2019t have much time when she got to her turn to ask questions, and she really didn\u2019t want any answers. I mean, it\u2019s just these rat-tat-tat, one allegation, one accusation after another. And Jim Jordan, congressman from Ohio, had a very pointed question to Sessions about why he has not appointed a special counsel on the Clintons.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, the Jeff Sessions hearings today before the House Intelligence Committee. Now, I have to tell you something. I watched some of this during the breaks, and I\u2019m gonna be really up front with you: It was embarrassing. It was embarrassing to have these various members (and most of the ones that I\u2019m talking about are Democrats) who apparently had no problem whatsoever illustrating their complete ignorance of the U.S. Constitution. For example, one Democrat was asking Sessions if he would have the guts to prosecute Trump for expressing an interest in any investigation.<\/p>\n
“Because, you know, that\u2019s unconstitutional, Mr. Attorney General. That is a violation. The president cannot do that!”<\/p>\n
It is not. The president runs the Justice Department! The president is entitled to know anything going on! It may not be politically correct, but he can. He can ask for any bit of information he wants and be given it. But here you had a Democrat claiming that Sessions didn\u2019t have the guts to prosecute Trump in such a circumstance. Just sheer illiteracy of the United States Constitution — and that doesn\u2019t even talk about Sheila Jackson Lee. I mean, it\u2019s embarrassing. You know, we talk about what kids in school today are learning and what they think.<\/p>\n
My friends, some of these elected members of our Congress are so ignorant of the founding documents of this country that it is scary. They just make it up, whatever they think is or is not constitutional — and with Trump, most everything is unconstitutional that these doing. And then they badger. They badger Sessions in a way that most judges would not even permit it, because they ask him questions that he can\u2019t answer. If he answers one way, they accuse him of lying and hiding information.<\/p>\n
If he doesn\u2019t answer, they accuse him of stonewalling and not knowing or hiding something. And then most of their questions had innuendo that he\u2019s lying about the Russians and that he did collude and that he knows Trump colluded, but he doesn\u2019t have the guts to say so. It was a spectacle. It is ignorance. It\u2019s stupidity on parade! We have a little bit of it. We\u2019ll start here. This is the question from John Conyers. Conyers had a list of questions. He could barely read them, and he tried to get Sessions.<\/p>\n
“These are all ‘yes\u2019 or ‘no.\u2019 I just want to know, yes or no: Did you beat your wife before you left for the hearing today? When you talked to the Russians about colluding, did Hillary Clinton\u2019s name come up positive or not?” Stupid questions like that. Sessions said (impression), “I\u2019m not sure I understand what you\u2019re asking me, Congressman,” and Conyers would get frustrated and accusing him of stalling. But here is one of Conyers\u2019 questions: “Are you recused from investigations that involve Secretary Clinton?”<\/p>\n