opening monologue<\/a>, Nancy Pelosi was quoted as saying she couldn\u2019t guarantee — I\u2019m paraphrasing — that the House would vote on impeachment. So I think your point is very valid that they\u2019re about to ready to throw in the towel and she wishes she could pull the plug on this right now.<\/p>\nRUSH: Wait a second. You are the second person who\u2019s told me this, and I can\u2019t find verification of this. So I need to ask you: Did you actually hear her say it or did someone else say that she said it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, this was a sound bite from her.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And did she say some…? Did a reporter say, “Will you be looking at an article of impeachment?” Did she say, “I don\u2019t know that. We haven\u2019t made a decision to impeach. That\u2019s what the inquiry is about,” or did she flat-out say that they are not going to vote on impeachment?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: She said the possibility was there that they would not vote, and that was it. Again, I\u2019m paraphrasing. But that was Fox News, and right after that you went into the fact that they are running out of steam on this and the plug needs to be pulled, and I think she realizes that. She also made another interesting statement asking Trump to come offer exculpatory evidence, which is, “We\u2019re running out of ammo, Mr. President. Give us something we can twist and turn around. We don\u2019t have anything.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, Trump\u2019s already provided exculpatory evidence. By the way, it\u2019s not up to the accused to prove he didn\u2019t do it, although in Trump\u2019s case we could probably throw that out the window. The phone call is the evidence. The phone call transcript is the evidence that the whistleblower and everybody else is lying about this. The phone call is the exculpatory evidence. That\u2019s the problem they\u2019ve got. Let me remind you again, folks, the way this was supposed to go.<\/p>\n
The whistleblower was going to be the star. The whistleblower was gonna be the hero. The whistleblower was gonna carry the day. The whistleblower was going to be able to characterize this phone call however he wanted to. The theory was that Trump would never release the transcript of the call no matter what, because presidents don\u2019t do that. They protect executive privilege. They don\u2019t set the precedent of letting the legislative branch get their noses that deep into the executive branch because of separation of powers.<\/p>\n
So they thought Trump and his advisers would hold fast on not releasing the transcript of the call. That would allow the whistleblower to say whatever he wanted to say was on that call, and then Trump not releasing it would be the equivalent of covering it up or obstructing the impeachment inquiry. That\u2019s what they were going to ride to victory. Trump releasing the transcript blew that to smithereens, and they had to scramble and come up with Plan B. Plan B is what we\u2019ve got, what we watched. They\u2019re trying to make it look like it was Plan A.<\/p>\n
Now, I\u2019ve had two people tell me… This is very frustrating for me, because I can\u2019t find anybody to confirm it, but I\u2019ve had two people tell me that Pelosi said there will not be a vote. If she had said that, that would be the headline. I\u2019ve quoted what she said, but I\u2019ve got people disagreeing. This is what she said. A reporter said, “Will you be looking into an article of impeachment?” Pelosi: “I don\u2019t know that. We haven\u2019t made a decision to impeach. That\u2019s what the inquiry\u2019s all about.”<\/p>\n
Now, if people are hearing that as Pelosi saying, “We\u2019re not gonna vote,” that\u2019s not what she said here in that quote. She didn\u2019t say, “There will not be a vote.” That\u2019s not at all what she said yet. It may be trending in that direction; it\u2019s not what she said. She said, “I don\u2019t know that. We haven\u2019t made a decision to impeach. That\u2019s what the inquiry\u2019s all about.” Now, if yesterday had gone as planned, she would have answered, “Hell, yes, we\u2019re gonna vote. Probably Friday. Hell, yes, we\u2019re gonna vote!<\/p>\n
If they had it, she would have said, “Hell, yes! I\u2019m putting together the vote even now.” Pelosi… Go back to what Harold Ford said. If she did not get some Republicans on this, then she\u2019s got an even tougher way to go here because impeachment has to have a bipartisan nature to it, and she doesn\u2019t have that yet, and she\u2019s acknowledging in her answer that she\u2019s not near a vote. What she said, essentially, was that yesterday was a bomb and we don\u2019t know yet, and that\u2019s… There\u2019s nothing more to it than that yet.<\/p>\n
George Kent (the bow tie guy) yesterday actually made the case for investigating Burisma and the Bidens. He actually did.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So a bunch of people in the email, \u201cRush, Rush, Rush, Rush, you\u2019re making a mistake. Don\u2019t act like this is over.\u201d Folks, don\u2019t misunderstand me. I\u2019m talking about yesterday. Remember, I am the guy who said this is going to be like Kavanaugh. As they try things and they fail, another one\u2019s gonna pop up.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t know this has bombed out on \u2019em yet. I mean, some of the network people do. You can tell by the questions, you can tell by the answers. Look, in a self-contained way yesterday, as a self-contained day, was a bomb. It doesn\u2019t mean in their minds their whole effort has bombed out. It just that yesterday was a bomb. It didn\u2019t produce anything. There was nothing memorable, there was nothing mind-blowing, there was nothing of any substance that\u2019s going to even shock anybody.<\/p>\n
They had literally nothing yesterday, and they built everybody up to expect that it was gonna be one bombshell after another yesterday. And they had two witnesses that can\u2019t even testify directly to anything the president\u2019s done or said because they\u2019ve never spoken to him and they haven\u2019t met him. So yesterday was a bomb. But it doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019re cashing it in. And Pelosi has not said there isn\u2019t gonna be a vote.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna do the hearings again tomorrow and they\u2019re gonna hope to try to come up with something to make up for the bomb that yesterday was. A lot of people have a lot riding on this, especially Adam Schiff. But all of the Democrat Party and Pelosi. So of all people not seduced by any of this, fear not, my friends, it isn\u2019t me. I\u2019m just telling you in a flat-out, factual way that yesterday was a total, total disaster. And it was not what anybody on the left was expecting.<\/p>\n
Now, they make these misjudgments constantly. They have a total misunderstanding — this all falls into the category of the disconnect that exists between Washington, D.C., and the rest of the country, and particularly when it comes to the Democrats. They literally have lost the ability to relate to most Americans.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ll guarantee you these people in the diplomatic corps and in the interagency group and all these people, the CIA and the national security counsel, they don\u2019t even want to relate to you. They don\u2019t even think you should be electing the president. Because you\u2019re gonna screw up like you did with Trump. And then they\u2019re gonna have to come in and they\u2019re gonna try to take over foreign policy because you elected somebody that doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not elected, they\u2019re not accountable, they\u2019ve got no reason to care what you think. And they don\u2019t. As such, they\u2019re not gonna even try to relate to you. They\u2019re gonna talk to each other in their own world, which is what we got yesterday. And I\u2019m sure that probably some people that watched yesterday thought it was bombshell, that thought Taylor and George Kent were just the end of the world, man, they were fabulous.<\/p>\n
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But in terms of actually communicating with or relating to and making a connection with the American people, there was none. But, again, I\u2019m just telling you, when the lead item on Drudge is Kellyanne Conway and her husband\u2019s marriage, there was nothing in the hearings yesterday. Both networks are still covering the school shooting. They haven\u2019t even broken away from it.<\/p>\n
There hasn\u2019t been a panel discussion on how bad it was for Trump yesterday. There hasn\u2019t been a panel discussion on how Trump\u2019s days are numbered. There hasn\u2019t been a panel discussion on anything. They gave take whirl earlier this morning on CNN. They don\u2019t have anything. That doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t try to make something else up.<\/p>\n
Remember, the whistleblower was an entire series of lies. The whistleblower, just like Schiff, has lied repeatedly as committee chairman when he characterized the phone call. They\u2019ve got a lot invested in this, and they\u2019re gonna keep plugging away at it, if I know them as I think I do. That\u2019s why Pelosi at some point is going to have to make a decision and is probably very nervous right now. But then I\u2019m crediting her for a modicum of intelligence that she may not have on this herself. I think she does.<\/p>\n
We got a couple Pelosi sound bites from the press conference today. Don\u2019t have the bite where everybody thinks that she said that there will not be a vote. That\u2019s not what she said. Again, and I\u2019m having Cookie roll that off so you actually can have the audio of Pelosi saying it. But a reporter asked her: \u201cWill you be looking into an article of impeachment?\u201d And she cut him off. She said, “I don\u2019t know that. We haven\u2019t made a decision to impeach. That\u2019s what the inquiry is about. And when the committee decides on that, then they\u2019ll decide what the articles are.”<\/p>\n
Now, some people heard that as, “Well, she just said there isn\u2019t gonna be a vote.” No, she didn\u2019t say that. She said they not gonna be a vote yet. I guarantee you she wants there to be a vote and she wanted there to be a vote yesterday. She wanted yesterday to be so jam-packed with stuff that the country was demanding that Trump be thrown out of office last night. That\u2019s what their hopes were.<\/p>\n
So here are a couple of bites, her press conference, every Thursday she does it. This was a little bit before noon Eastern time. CBS infobabe Nancy Cordes: \u201cYou talked about bribery. That\u2019s a very, very serious, serious charge.\u201d<\/p>\n
PELOSI: We\u2019re talking Latin around here, E pluribus unum from anyone, from anyone. Quid pro quo, bribery. Bribery. And that is in the Constitution attached to the impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n
CORDES: So what was the bribe here?<\/p>\n
PELOSI: The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a — uh, uh, of a fake investigation into, uh, the, uh, election. That\u2019s bribery. Yesterday I think — I do believe the truth will set us free. And so the truth coming from the president\u2019s own appointee, the president\u2019s own appointee describing bribery.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, but, see, that didn\u2019t happen. I mean, the bottom line is the president never got his investigation and Ukraine did get their money. We told you they\u2019re gonna drop quid pro quo and move down the road to bribery and extortion because they figure people don\u2019t know what quid pro quo is, but bribery that\u2019s easy to understand.<\/p>\n
But grab Joe Lockhart again. Grab sound bite number 4. I\u2019m gonna use a Democrat spokesman for Clinton to undercut what Pelosi just said. The question he got was from Alisyn Camerota. \u201cMost working people can\u2019t be glued to their TVs.\u201d Translation: Nobody watched this yesterday, Joe. We had such high hopes, Joe, nobody saw it. Next question: \u201cDo you think that there\u2019s any way that this could move the needle for some \u2013” Joe, is there anything we could do since nobody watched it, Joe? Is there anything we can do to make them hate Trump even more?<\/p>\n
LOCKHART: Republicans did what they needed to do, which was they just need to give their base something to hold on to. And I think their best argument was the simplest argument, which is the aid went through, and there were no investigations. Now, it\u2019s an argument that falls apart with one more piece of information, but they\u2019re not gonna get that from Fox News. They\u2019re not gonna get that from Rush Limbaugh. So I think there\u2019s nothing there that moves the hard-core MAGA base.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Translation: We had nothing, Alisyn, that\u2019s gonna move this in any direction at all because the main charge of quid pro quo and bribery didn\u2019t happen. Trump did not demand an investigation while releasing the money. So Pelosi\u2019s answer here is connected to nothing. Pelosi\u2019s answer here is a rote and scripted answer she was going to say at this presser regardless of substance or context.<\/p>\n
So she gets a question, “You talked about bribery. That\u2019s a very \u2013\u201d In fact, I\u2019m sure Pelosi told the press corps: \u201cSome of you asked me about bribery. I want to talk — So somebody in the press core, \u201cOkay, tell me about bribery.\u201d And here comes here scripted answer that is not related to what happened yesterday.<\/p>\n
Cordes says, \u201cSo what was the bribe?\u201d \u201cWell, the bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of fake investigation into the election. That\u2019s bribery.\u201d Except it didn\u2019t happen. There still haven\u2019t been these mythical investigations and Ukraine got their money, as Lockhart just pointed out.<\/p>\n
So Pelosi\u2019s answer here is a generic, scripted answer that she just wants the media to report to continue this lying mischaracterization of what Trump did. And she\u2019s trying to erase the fact that nothing happened in the hearings yesterday. That\u2019s all they can do, folks, is try to tell you that what you saw yesterday you didn\u2019t see, that what was boring as hell yesterday was actually a series of bombshells. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re in the process of trying to do. But they can\u2019t convince anybody of it, and the media isn\u2019t going along with it.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s the next one. Chad Pergram of Fox News Channel, he\u2019s a producer, said, “Do you think there is a way, considering that all they\u2019re doing in all the depositions, is there any way the House could not impeach?\u201d<\/p>\n
PELOSI: Perhaps you have not heard me (snickers) when I have said, “This is something we\u2019re very — do with a heavy heart. This is very prayerful, because impeachment is — is a divisive thing in our country. It\u2019s hard, and it… (sputters) The place that our country is now, it\u2019s not a time where we go to 70% when President Nixon walked out of the White House. By the way, what President Trump has done on the record in terms of — of acting to advantage his… A foreign power to help him in his own election and, uh, the, uh, the obstruction of information about that — the cover-up — makes what Nixon did look almost small.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Again, let me tell you what we have there. Folks, this is an answer that is absolutely devoid of any context of what happened yesterday. Her answer is what she wants people to think happened yesterday. Her answer contains information that she and the Democrats were hoping would be revealed yesterday. This answer of hers contains their agenda. It contains the attempt that they were making here to get rid of Trump.<\/p>\n
The problem that she has is that none of what she has described here has happened. Let\u2019s go through it. First, his question: “Is there any way that you could not impeach?” If she had said, by the way, that there\u2019s not gonna be a vote on impeachment, this would have been where she would have said so. She did not. So if it\u2019s going around Twitter or anywhere that Pelosi said there\u2019s not gonna be a vote, folks, it isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n
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She hasn\u2019t said that yet. What she said was, “Perhaps you have not heard me when I said this is something we\u2019re very… We do with a heavy heart. It\u2019s very prayerful, because impeaching is a divisive thing in our country.” Well, exactly. It\u2019s very rare, and we had public hearings into impeaching Donald Trump yesterday — and, folks, you can\u2019t find any news about it. There isn\u2019t any news right now. I mean, I\u2019m looking at cable news networks.<\/p>\n
They aren\u2019t talking about it, and they haven\u2019t been for the last two to three hours (and not much before that), and the big news of the day has been Kellyanne Conway and her husband and whatever he\u2019s saying on MSNBC. It isn\u2019t a big deal. Yesterday was a total bomb-out for them. (wailing) “Yeah, we had this major, gigantic thing that we hardly ever do in America \u2019cause it\u2019s so prayerful, it\u2019s so important. We impeached yesterday! We began the impeachment inquiry.”<\/p>\n
Yeah, you can\u2019t find any evidence that it happened by virtue of looking at the news. Am I the only one who thinks this is a big deal? I think it is profound that they\u2019ve got nothing to say about what happened yesterday. But her answer? Man, this is… Well, I want to stop short of going the psycho route, but listen to this. (impression) “The place that our country is now, it\u2019s — it\u2019s — it\u2019s not a time where you go to 70% when Nixon walked out of the White House.”<\/p>\n
What? (impression) “It\u2019s not a time where you go to 70% when Nixon walked…”? Meaning we don\u2019t have 70% of the people demanding that Trump go? By the way, after pointing out that we don\u2019t have 70% saying Trump should go like we had with Nixon (impression), “By the way, what President Trump has done on the record in terms of acting to advantage his — a — a — a foreign power to help him in his own election and the obstruction of information about…”<\/p>\n
No. He hasn\u2019t done that, Ms. Pelosi.<\/p>\n
See, this is what the whistleblower\u2019s mission was. She is reading from the script they wrote six weeks ago. The script was to be: “Whistleblower testifies he heard Trump on this phone call demanding this and demanding that and telling Ukraine they\u2019re gonna get jack until they do it.” Trump was not gonna refute it because he wasn\u2019t gonna release the transcript. So they were gonna be able to say what she just said here.<\/p>\n
(impression) “By the way, what President Trump has done on the record in terms of acting to advantage a foreign power to help him in his own election and the obstruction of information about that, the cover-up, makes what Nixon did…” There hasn\u2019t been a cover-up! He released transcript. That\u2019s why they don\u2019t know what to do. There isn\u2019t a cover-up. What there is, is their technique and their plan has been exposed — and Pelosi is telling us what it was.<\/p>\n
This answer is Pelosi literally telling us what their attempt to get Trump was gonna be based on, and she is saying it as though it has happened even though it hasn\u2019t — and this is the problem they have had from the very beginning of all of this. They haven\u2019t had a shred of evidence to back up any of the accusations or allegations against Trump that they have made. They literally have nothing. They never have had anything.<\/p>\n
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And Pelosi\u2019s answer here — for people who are up to speed and following this — is quite illustrative. She, in fact, slipped up in this answer because she has just unveiled where she wanted this to go. She unveiled with that answer what their plan was. (impression) “He was covering up. He was using foreign policy to screw a political opponent. He was withholding foreign aid from a valued ally until they investigated his opponent.” None of that has happened, and yet she just answered the press conference as though it did and as though it\u2019s ongoing.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. I found the sound bite where everybody thinks Pelosi said that she\u2019s not gonna have a vote on impeachment, and it\u2019s from this press conference, and it was from a question from the CBS infobabe, Nancy Cordes. “Could we be looking at an article of impeachment having to do with bribery?”<\/p>\n
PELOSI: I don\u2019t know that! We don\u2019t even — haven\u2019t made — made a decision to impeach. That\u2019s what the inquiry is about, and when the — the committee —<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s it. Stop the tape. That\u2019s what people heard (summarized): “We haven\u2019t even made a decision to impeachment.” She means conduct a vote. They have made a decision. See, that\u2019s even quite telling. This isn\u2019t even an impeachment. This is the so-called inquiry. Schiff called it the equivalent of a grand jury. The problem is grand juries don\u2019t get conducted in the public. But, anyway, what she\u2019s telling people is (impression), “This is still the inquiry, and then next week the Republicans get to bring in some witnesses, and who knows where it\u2019s gonna go.”<\/p>\n
Now, the interpretation of this, I don\u2019t even… (impression) “We haven\u2019t made a decision to impeach. That\u2019s what the inquiry\u2019s about.” I think people are combining the uber-reality that yesterday was a total bomb with Pelosi saying, “We haven\u2019t even made a decision to impeach,” and then concluding that she\u2019s decided it was a bomb and so there isn\u2019t gonna be a vote. That\u2019s not what she\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s still hedging her bets, and at this juncture it\u2019d be very helpful to replay Harold Ford and what he said, but I\u2019m not gonna have time to squeeze that in before the break. So we\u2019ll do that coming back. I\u2019m finally able now to understand why everybody thought she said that there was not gonna be a vote. She didn\u2019t say that, but I can see where (after my opening and brilliant monologue) you might have thought she did.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, let\u2019s go back and listen to Harold Ford. This was Monday on the Fox News Channel, Fox News Reporting. This is the old Shepard Smith hour, 3 p.m. hour. Bret Baier was hosting that day. He had Harold Ford, former member of Congress, Tennessee. Question: “We\u2019re getting ready for these public hearings on impeachment. How much do you think this impeachment show factors in the campaign trail? What 2020 candidates are talking about this ahead of the debate in Atlanta?\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a good question. He\u2019s basically saying, “Harold, how is this impeachment thing playing with the candidates running for the Democrat nomination?” And here\u2019s his answer…<\/p>\n
FORD: By Wednesday evening I think we\u2019re gonna have a very strong sense. I think by Wednesday evening, and perhaps Friday afternoon after the ambassador comes forward, we\u2019re gonna have a much better sense of Nancy Pelosi, who I think has been the most mature of all the politicians in D.C. around this issue, \u2018cause I don\u2019t think she really wanted to do this. But, if she does not feel that Democrats can have a sound vote, bipartisan vote, and maybe even move to the Senate with a chance to remove the president, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if she didn\u2019t pull this in the next several days, if this first week does not go well.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, my friends, he\u2019s the only guy that I could find alluding to this. But he\u2019s probably by no means the only guy thinking about it. He\u2019s the only guy that said it. By the way, yesterday was a bomb. He said, “I think by Wednesday evening, and perhaps Friday afternoon after the ambassador comes forward,” that would be Sondland, “we\u2019re gonna have a much better sense,” well, Yovanovitch, “of Nancy Pelosi, who I … don\u2019t think she really wanted to do this.<\/p>\n
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“But, if she does not feel that Democrats can have a sound vote, bipartisan vote,” if they\u2019re not gonna succeed in a conviction in the Senate, “I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if she didn\u2019t pull this…” You go back to her own words in the sound bite we just played (impression), “I don\u2019t know that! We don\u2019t even — we haven\u2019t made a decision to impeach.” Can I give you another indication? This story just ran (well, it\u2019s been up for a couple hours) on Yahoo News. Headline: “U.S. House Speaker Seeks to Pass Mexico, Canada Trade Pact This Year.”<\/p>\n
Wait. What? So the day after, the day after…? Do you know what\u2019s striking my friends? All of my staff thinks I\u2019m making way too big a deal out of the lack of media coverage on yesterday\u2019s impeachment hearings. They all think I\u2019m stepping too deep in it, and I love I\u2019m the only guy that gets it. I love being… After 30 years, they still think I\u2019m misreading this. They think I\u2019ve gone too deep into this, that the Democrats have some sneaky plan they\u2019re gonna unveil tomorrow and I\u2019m gonna end up being embarrassed. I\u2019m the guy who said they\u2019re gonna try that.<\/p>\n
The Kavanaugh approach: As everything they try bombs out, they\u2019ve got something waiting in the wings. Anyway, here we are: The day after. I cannot tell you how much was riding on yesterday. They know they don\u2019t have two weeks to make this case. They knew they had the first hour. That\u2019s what makes yesterday so astounding to me. They knew they had to put everything they had, the best they had into the first hour, otherwise they\u2019re gonna lose the audience. The audience is not gonna wait for a story to take two weeks to be told here.<\/p>\n
They want to know it tomorrow. They\u2019ve been expecting it. They\u2019ve promised! The Democrats have been promising everybody they\u2019ve got the goods on Trump for three years. Yesterday, the cascade was to begin — and the knew the first hour was it. If they didn\u2019t grab people and hold \u2019em in the first hour, it\u2019s over, and they didn\u2019t. Those two dryballs? They may be perfectly fine public servants, they may be perfect for what they do, but they are not captivating. They are, by definition, behind-the-scenes people. They are by definition.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re never supposed to know what they do. They become the public face of this? And when they were asked point-blank, “Can either of you tell me what the impeachable offense in the phone call was?” Crickets. Dead silence. So here we are, the day after — the day after the big reveal, the day after the opening day of impeachment hearings — and what does Pelosi do? She announces that the intention of Democrat caucus is to pass the Mexico and Canada trade bill this year. What? What?<\/p>\n
Exactly. Another data point, that Pelosi sees the Democrats are in a bad position. Pelosi knows that she is in a position of weakness here. She knows that the Democrat presidential candidates are in a tight spot. So after yesterday\u2019s disaster, Pelosi announces that the top item on the agenda for the House Democrats is to pass the Canada-Mexico trade fact this year. Folks, she needs something to change the subject. She needs something to change the subject that her so-called moderates can run on in 2020, because right now… She hornswoggled all those people who got elected in 2018 from Trump districts.<\/p>\n
She hornswoggled them into voting for Schiff\u2019s impeachment, and it bombed out yesterday, and so now she\u2019s got to do something to give those people something to run on other than impeachment because they\u2019re not gonna be able to succeed doing that. So here she comes. (impression) “Guess what we Democrats are for? We want to pass the Canada-Mexico trade pact!” Whoever heard of this starting today, yesterday? (interruption) My staff still thinks I\u2019m wrong. I can tell by it looks on their faces.<\/p>\n
My staff still thinks I\u2019m overemphasizing this, but I am not. In fact… Don\u2019t misunderstand me. I don\u2019t want Pelosi to cancel this. I\u2019m not trying to talk her into wiping it out. I want her to continue. If the president has done something horrific, I — as an American citizen — want to know. I want Pelosi to keep at this. I want her to not cave. I want her to keep going. Let Schiff continue to call his witnesses. (interruption) Now the staff is really looking at me in a strange way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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