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RUSH: I raised the question earlier. I knew I had seen this, Cookie<\/a> gave me the sound bite.  Obama did his town hall on MSNBC last night, town hall with the president, moderated by Jose Diaz-Balart, from Florida.  Jose asked questions of Obama, and one of them was, “Some people are wondering why you are focusing mostly on the undocumented population and through executive orders. Could you not also include those that are here that are participating already, like folks that came from Haiti after the horrible earthquake that hit five years ago? Are you focused at all on that? Can\u2019t you include them?” The question here really is, why are you only talking about amnesty for four and a half or five million, when there are 20 million illegals here? Why not do \u2019em all? And here\u2019s what Obama said.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What we\u2019re now proposing is in terms of expanding DACA and also for the parents of those who qualified for DACA. The reason I\u2019m confident is that we could take those steps under my powers of prosecutorial discretion. If in fact we were completely just rewriting the immigration laws, then — actually the other side would have a case. Because we can\u2019t violate statutes. We can\u2019t violate laws that are already in place.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, come on!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What we can do is make choices to implement those laws. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve done with DACA, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. I went to dinner last night with some friends that I hadn\u2019t seen in a long time. I hadn\u2019t discussed the show with them in a long time, and they said, “You know, you sound better than ever. You sound more up to it, ready to go. You just sound at the top of your game.” <\/p>\n

I said, “You all say that to me every year.” And the rejoinder, “Yeah, I remember you telling us in 1995 you said you had said it all, there was nothing left to say, and you thought it was on the downhill.” I said, “I was joking.” But I told them the show has never been harder to do. It has never been more challenging. This show has never been more stressful, and there are a whole lot of reasons for that. You\u2019re probably not interested, it\u2019s inside baseball stuff. I just sit here and get insulted every day. Do you realize how hard it is to sit here and have your intelligence insulted? <\/p>\n

This sound bite by the president saying he can\u2019t hear and change statutes. Lying through his teeth just like Clinton did, he\u2019s saying (imitating Obama), “Yeah, well, the reason I\u2019m confident we can take these steps, if we were just rewriting immigration law, because we can\u2019t, we can\u2019t violate statute.” That\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s hiding behind this whole thing of prosecutorial discretion. That is such a fraudulent construct, folks, and it\u2019s exactly what it implies. He is assuming that he\u2019s the prosecutor here, and he has the authority to tell everybody what to enforce and what not to enforce. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not changing the law, is his contention. He\u2019s just telling ICE not to enforce it. Don\u2019t deport anybody, which we are not anyway. He is granting amnesty. He\u2019s doing it in a skewed and roundabout way that allows him to say, “I\u2019m not granting amnesty to anybody. I\u2019m just using my prosecutorial discretion, and I have instructed the relevant agencies not to prosecute the crime.” You could say he\u2019s acting in a way as to forgive the commission of the crime, or he\u2019s telling his law enforcement agencies that are relevant here to ignore the crime when they see it, but he\u2019s saying, “I\u2019m not changing any statute.”<\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fine point and depending on what judge you ran the argument by, you\u2019ll have people claiming that he\u2019s exactly right and he\u2019s totally within his bounds to do this. But prosecutorial discretion is not at all what we\u2019re talking about here. It\u2019s a way Obama and the left is hiding behind what they\u2019re really doing. They are rewriting the statutes. They are ignoring the statutes. He is taking executive action. He\u2019s also claiming that he has the authority to tell law enforcement all over this country which laws to ignore and which ones to enforce because he has that discretionary power, and all the while he is not rewriting statute. <\/p>\n

This is so far beyond prosecutorial discretion. You know, prosecutorial discretion, the right way to understand it, it is used by prosecutors. When you have a defendant or a group of defendants and they are charged with all kinds of crazy things, so many charges that you wouldn\u2019t possibly go to court with all of them, you wouldn\u2019t have the time, the money, so you throw out some of the lesser things they\u2019ve been charged with and you go with the big stuff. That\u2019s basically a very simplified — and I know this because my dad was a lawyer — prosecutorial discretion. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a little bit more complicated than that. But essentially that\u2019s what it is. Prosecutors, states attorneys, DAs, US attorneys can determine which charges — but it\u2019s never used to let somebody go. Well, I shouldn\u2019t say never. It\u2019s like any other concept in law, it can be and often is abused and overused, and this is one of the classic examples. <\/line><\/p>\n

But no matter whether you\u2019re talking about prosecutorial discretion here or in dwindling down the number of charges a defendant faces in court, prosecutors cannot rewrite our law. And Obama\u2019s claiming to be the prosecutor here when he cites prosecutorial discretion. They can\u2019t rewrite the law. When Obama gives work permits and Social Security numbers to illegals, he is rewriting the law, folks. <\/p>\n

There is no prosecutorial discretion going on here. He\u2019s just saying that so that dummkopf analysts in the media will tell you it\u2019s perfectly fine, perfectly legal, and happens all the time. Cannot rewrite the law. Nobody can. That\u2019s Congress, and Congress alone. And Obama\u2019s not a prosecutor. He\u2019s head of the executive branch of the government. Took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the United States, and he\u2019s blown through that oath too many times now to even keep an accurate count.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Okay, three more sound bites, then to the phones. This one has been news all day. You may not have heard it yet, also from the Obama town hall last night with Jose Diaz-Balart of Florida. “What are the consequences, Mr. President, how do you ensure that ICE agents or Border Patrol will not be deporting people anymore? I mean, you\u2019re issuing these orders not to send people back. How do you ensure that they will follow your demand? How are you making sure that government agents will follow through on your commands? I mean, what are the consequences if they don\u2019t do what you command them to do?”<\/p>\n