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<\/p>\nRUSH: You know, I wanted to be here today, folks, just — oops. We got a mix minus problem. Can you hear that in there? Do you hear the problem? Level check, test — we are in the process here of over \u2013 I\u2019ll tell you what we\u2019re gonna do here. I\u2019m gonna explain this snafu here which, we\u2019re going to have to temporarily work around.<\/p>\n
I was going to say I\u2019m not gonna let any government shutdown keep me out of here and I\u2019m not gonna let the EIB Network be closed if I want to be here. And I definitely wanted to be here with everything going on. Folks, it\u2019s safe to say in 30 years of doing this program there has never been a month of December like this. There has never been a Christmas season like this, and there has never been a Christmas Eve like this, with this much important news going on.<\/p>\n
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And I was fretting all weekend that I was gonna miss today, \u2019cause the arrangements are already made. And what we had started to do here, we\u2019re gonna remodel and upgrade some of our tech equipment here, both in this studio and in the control room on the other side of the glass. And they started working on it over the weekend and then I come along and say, \u201cLook.\u201d<\/p>\n
And they asked me, \u201cWhat are the odds you\u2019re gonna be here on Monday before we start ripping things apart?\u201d<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cNot very good. Can\u2019t imagine it.\u201d<\/p>\n
But then yesterday I said, \u201cYou know what? I gotta come in.\u201d So they had to stop what they were doing and try to put it all back together again just to get ready for me here today. It\u2019s gonna be at least a week or maybe a two-week project to do the tech upgrade. And there\u2019s some furniture stuff involved too. So there was a little snafu here at the beginning. I was hearing what I was saying a split second later. It\u2019s like an echo. And it\u2019s gone away, but have I lost talk-back here?<\/p>\n
Everything\u2019s fine. So you guys screwed up at first and we didn\u2019t know it. (interruption) Right. Oh, it was New York that screwed up. Oh, okay. New York screwed up. We don\u2019t know who New York is today so we\u2019ll just slough it off on New York.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it\u2019s all up and running now. Here\u2019s the phone number. Hope to chat with you on the phones today. 800-282-2882, and the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
The shutdown is obviously a top priority subject. I just need to reiterate some things about it. We\u2019re hearing that it\u2019s not going to be resolved until the new year. The Democrats have no incentive, really, to solve this until they take control of the House of Representatives on, I think, January 3rd. But I want the president to hold firm on this.<\/p>\n
This shutdown is one that the Democrats own. This would be very easy to resolve, and they don\u2019t want to do it. They don\u2019t want to do it, because I\u2019ll tell you, if you look at the media today, the Washington Post today, CNN, folks, they have Trump gone in three months. They think this is gonna lead me to the next subject we\u2019re gonna dissect here today. They believe in three months they will have fractured Trump\u2019s base, i.e., you. They think they will have split Trump\u2019s base.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you why they think that. They think that Trump has made an incorrectable error by firing Mattis and pulling us out of Syria. The Trump base is made up of two distinct types of voters: the so-called populists and standard, ordinary, everyday conservatives. And the populists don\u2019t mind getting out of Syria. The populists don\u2019t mind having power taken away from a bunch of political generals like Mattis and McMaster and so forth.<\/p>\n
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But there\u2019s another part of the Trump coalition which is conservatives who believe in an active foreign policy. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve talked to a lot of people that don\u2019t like the fact we\u2019re pulling out of Syria, that we\u2019re abandoning the Kurds, that we\u2019re abandoning allies, this is not good.<\/p>\n
The Drive-Bys and the official Washington permanent residents believe that this move by Trump has the potential to split his base. Remember when I said that Trump cannot be destroyed by the media because they didn\u2019t make him. And, by the way, this is true. If the media makes you, they can destroy you. If they don\u2019t make you, they can try to destroy you, but they can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
If you become a success and all the media does is report it and acknowledge it, has no role in it, then they can\u2019t harm you. Well, they can\u2019t destroy you. But if your success is owing fully to Media Buzz and hype, like if you do a radio show, but it\u2019s not number one but they treat you like it\u2019s number one and everybody thinks you\u2019re number one but you\u2019re nowhere near number one, if they turn on you then the fact that you\u2019re really number 10 is going to do revealed and you\u2019re finished.<\/p>\n
Well, I\u2019ve always said that the media really can\u2019t destroy Trump. Only he can. And there are some who think he\u2019s done that with this immediate withdrawal from Syria. I\u2019m sure you know people that voted for Trump that don\u2019t like this at all and I\u2019m sure you know people that voted for Trump who don\u2019t have a problem with getting out of Syria and with withdrawing half the troops out of Afghanistan. And I\u2019m sure you know some people who think, \u201cOh, my God, firing Mattis, big mistake.\u201d And I\u2019m sure you know some Trump voters who don\u2019t think it\u2019s any big deal.<\/p>\n
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So that subject I will explore and explain to your hearts\u2019 content. The other thing is the fed, the stock market, and Mnuchin. This one has a whole different group of people concerned. When Mnuchin started calling the banks — you heard about this? Steven Mnuchin is the treasure secretary, and out of the blue he announced that he\u2019d been calling six CEOs — or let me better say it — CEOs of six of the largest banks in the country. And his point was to ask them what their liquidity was.<\/p>\n
Now, these economics people speak in their own language. It\u2019s designed to keep outsiders from not understanding what they\u2019re talking about. When Mnuchin, the credit sky-is-not-falling-phone call is made and reported, and when Mnuchin is checking with the CEOs about their liquidity and assuring them that there\u2019s liquidity, what he\u2019s talking about is credit. Do people have enough money to lend? Because nobody can do anything sizable without borrowing money.<\/p>\n
So Mnuchin wanted to call these blanks, get a check on their liquidity and assure them that there was liquidity at the Fed, that borrowing and credit would still be up and running, nothing\u2019s gone south in that regard. But it\u2019s being treated as though an owner of a sports team giving a coach or manager a vote of confidence. It\u2019s relatively certain he\u2019s gonna be fired not long after. So people are thinking, why would Mnuchin do this? Mnuchin wants everybody to think the sky isn\u2019t falling, so his phone call indicates that it is.<\/p>\n
This has created a sense of panic in the market that accompanies the fact the stock market is down 4,000 points since early October, now below 22,000. And it involves the Fed and the usage of interest rates. By the way, this is another issue kind of like Syria and Mattis. There are Trump voters who actually think it\u2019s okay for the Fed to raise rates because it\u2019s stability that they care about. There are other Trump voters who think that it\u2019s sabotaging Trump to raise rates because it stalls what is a growing economy, which will ultimately hurt Trump.<\/p>\n
The one thing that runs true in all this is that the effort to destroy President Trump is in full swing. It\u2019s being waged on many different fronts. It has eventuated now that many in the Drive-By Media think it is a foregone conclusion, it\u2019s just a matter of time now.<\/p>\n
As I mentioned, the Washington Post gives Trump three months — and by three months, they mean three months until this coalition is fractured to the point that the Senate might have 67 votes to impeach if the House Democrats actually bring up impeachment charges.\u00a0\u00a0Now, don\u2019t misunderstand.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t… (chuckling) I don\u2019t think any of this is true.\u00a0\u00a0This is their mind-set.\u00a0\u00a0This has been their objective for two years and is all… What they see is destruction all around us: The stock market, foreign policy.<\/p>\n
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They think Trump is goofing up left and right, and they\u2019re happy for it to be screwing up. They\u2019re happy for this to happen! As long as they can peg it on Trump, like anything else, the Democrats will destroy whatever or weaken what for as long as it empowers them to so-called fix it later.\u00a0\u00a0There are even some really out-of-control leftists who would willingly take a financial hit if it meant getting rid of Trump.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think (chuckling) we\u2019re anywhere near that, but I\u2019m just telling you that\u2019s what they think.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s why they\u2019re in such good moods when you watch the Drive-By Media.\u00a0\u00a0They think it\u2019s over, it\u2019s just a matter of time now — and at the top of the list is the government shutdown.\u00a0\u00a0They are convinced that most Americans object to this, don\u2019t like this, and, by tradition, blame Republicans (that would be Trump) for this.\u00a0\u00a0And they think Trump has just swerved into a self-destructive move here and so forth.<\/p>\n
Whether it was a good move or not irrelevant now.\u00a0\u00a0The point is stick with it. I think it was a good move.\u00a0\u00a0I advocated it before the midterm elections, as you know.\u00a0\u00a0But the president wasn\u2019t listening to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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