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RUSH: Let's start at the beginning on this, because what Comey did in
the first place is... You can't put all this in context without going
back and looking. It was July 5th, I think it was. I'm not sure about
the date, but that's when Comey announced everything he had found, all
the evidence that Hillary Clinton had violated this and violated that
and maybe told some distortions here. She didn't...
At that point, she had not lied to the FBI, but she may have lied to
Congress. She may have lied to the American people, which is not the
same as lying in your FBI interview. So what Comey does, is he
comes
out and explains what they found, and it was a list of crimes.
And it
was comprehensive. But that was unprecedented. This hardly
ever
happened. When's the last time you can remember the director of
the
FBI announcing what he had found in an investigation of anything?
Normally that's the Department of Justice. That's the attorney general
that announces these things.
I
have this on good authority that agents who worked the case and agents
who didn't work the case were just livid over how all of this went down
because they know. They know what was found. They know in no other case
does the husband of a perp get to arrange a meeting on a faraway
airport tarmac with the attorney general to discuss the case. It just
doesn't happen! That's, "Hello, mistrial," if it ever goes to court or,
"Hello, tainted investigation." They're sitting watching all of this,
the agents are, and there is credible word that Comey was facing...
You can't examine why Comey did what he did Friday without going back
to the beginning, because once you start making mistakes, you usually
continue making them in order to service the first mistakes. So
the
first mistake, being honest, was what Comey did in announcing her
crimes, listing what would have been an indictment. But then he took
the extraordinary step of saying he was recommending that she not be
prosecuted because he couldn't find any intent and no reasonable
prosecutor would take this case to court.
And everybody signed off on it. This was, of course, after Bill
Clinton had met on the tarmac with the attorney general, Loretta
Lynch. I mean, everything about this has just been one mistake
after
another because it's involving the Clintons, and they corrupt
everything that they touch. So the theories began to Comey...
Remember, his reputation going into this is one of unimpeachable
integrity. Everybody that's ever known James Comey has talked
about
his character and his integrity and the fact that he's a straight
shooter and doesn't go partisan one way or the other and is a strict
law-and-order guy.
Everybody who's ever worked with him or knows him said this about
him.
Then that whole press conference happens, and there are numerous
reactions to it. But in the grand scheme of things that shouldn't
have
happened. Why did it? Well, theories abound. I'll
tell you what mine
is: I think that Comey knew that no matter what he recommended, there
wasn't gonna be a prosecution. Bill Clinton had met with Loretta
Lynch. His boss is Barack Obama. He knows that they are not
going to
pursue Hillary Clinton.
Another thing: He didn't want to be the guy the history books wrote
about as the guy who took out the duly nominated presidential candidate
of the Democrat Party. "Don't want to go there," he says to
himself.
"That's not for me to do." Throughout the criminal justice system
there is a philosophy that -- and I'm paraphrasing this, but it goes
along the lines that justice knows no timeline. Meaning you don't
delay justice for elections, you don't delay justice for birthdays, you
don't delay justice for Christmas.
When you've got the case, you go forward with it. But this
clearly was
a case of justice affected by an election and one man, Comey, not
wanting to be the guy in history books who took her out. And
that's
what it would be. And he's smart enough to know that. He
doesn't want
that for himself. He may not want that to be the case
anyway. So he
reads off this list of irregularities and crimes and whatever. I
think
he was laying it out for the American voters. I think he was
actually
trying the case not before judge and jury, but before the American
voters with that press conference.
This
guy McCabe, whose wife got all that money from Terry McAuliffe, if that
news hadn't hit, if we hadn't learned that this McCabe, the number two
guy in the FBI, if we hadn't learned that McAuliffe, the governor of
Virginia had been funneling money to this guy's wife and this guy's had
a role in the Clinton investigation, the Hillary investigation, if we
hadn't learned that, they might have been able to sweep this under the
rug by saying, "You don't have a warrant for the Huma data on Weiner's
laptop."
I don't have any idea if that's true. It's just my theory.
I think he
cares deeply about this. I think he finds everything that's gone
on
here really problematic, and if it weren't the Clintons and if it
weren't an election -- if it weren't the fact she's a Democrat nominee
-- I think it would have gone an entirely different way. So he
lays it
out for the American people. Well, that causes problems.
Because
agents who did the investigation know full well what they've got on
her. In addition to whatever he announced, they know full well
what
they found.
They worked very hard on it, and there were a lot of irregularities in
this case that don't usually happen. For example, Cheryl Mills --
who
is really nothing more than an aide to Hillary Clinton, a very exalted
executive assistant. She's never been her lawyer. But
during
Hillary's FBI interview, they gave Cheryl Mills immunity. They let her
sit in on the Hillary interview and then acknowledged that she was
Hillary's lawyer, which gave them attorney-client privilege, which
meant anything that Cheryl Mills said could not be used in the
investigation.
Even granting her immunity, you have to be an agent in the FBI looking
at this saying, "What in the Sam Hill is going on? This is not
how we
do investigations. This is not how we work at all. Why is
this woman
being called a lawyer for this interview? Why is she being
granted
immunity?" And then, to add insult to injury, the FBI announced
that
after all this they were gonna destroy the laptop computer of Cheryl
Mills and one other person. And when that happened, we're all
scratching our heads: Why in the world are they destroying the laptop?
Well, because in other criminal cases like, say, involving drugs, they
destroy the evidence. After it's been used for your investigation
and
you wrap the investigation, whether it results in a trial or not, you
destroy the evidence. You get rid of the cocaine. You get rid of
the
whatever it is. Well, in this case it was laptop computers. You
get
rid of them. Except we now know they didn't. Some rogue agents --
"rogue," in this case, is a loosely used term -- kept the laptop.
They
didn't throw it away, and the agents in...
I have this on good authority that agents who worked the case and
agents who didn't work the case were just livid over how all of this
went down because they know. They know what was found. They know in no
other case does the husband of a perp get to arrange a meeting on a
faraway airport tarmac with the attorney general to discuss the
case.
It just doesn't happen! That's, "Hello, mistrial," if it ever goes to
court or, "Hello, tainted investigation." They're sitting watching all
of this, the agents are, and there is credible word that Comey was
facing...
I hate... I don't want to use the word "mutiny,"
but it's been used by
others. But that there was just discontent and disunity and all kinds
of trouble inside the FBI as a result of the first Comey announcement,
and then subsequent interviews where Cheryl Mills was granted immunity
and then proclaimed a lawyer, when she's never acted as Hillary's
lawyer -- and then her laptop ordered to be destroyed. So then
you get
to the Friday Comey announcement. Look, all of this is
speculation.
Some of it well informed, by the way, but it's still speculation.
I
don't know. Nobody really knows.
And the bottom line is: Is it gonna have an impact on the
election?
Yes. That's the bottom line. That's what people want to
know. We've
dealt with that. There's no question that it will. But it's
still
interesting to discuss what happened. So Comey is dealing... He's
got
this... Remember, go back to the first Comey press conference. He's of
impeccable integrity, impeccable character. He has endorsements from
everybody who's ever worked with him that he's a straight shooter, a
straight up guy, not partisan.
He is Clark Kent. This guy, you cannot corrupt him. He's
incorruptible! And now, for the first time in his life, he's facing
allegations he's never had to face that will taint his reputation,
which then the piece de resistance has to be that in the -- and karma's
a wonderful thing. They're looking at four different investigations of
the Clinton Foundation, and they're looking for some reason at Carlos
Danger (Anthony Weiner), and they discover something for which they
don't have a warrant.
Here's the way the legals work on this. Let's say that agents are
investigating a perp for bank robbery. So they get a search warrant for
the perp's house to see if they could find the money. While
they're in
there, they find a huge stash of cocaine. Well, the warrant says
they
only have right for the money, but if they find the cocaine, the courts
and the law say they can seize the cocaine, because they have lawful
entry.
Red
flag after red flag after red flag. Because of the potential -- we
don't know if it's really happening, but good authority that agents
inside the FBI are just livid and prepared to go public, by the way.
Comey and his sullied reputation, a lot of things have come together
here that apparently compelled Mr. Comey to go forward and make the
announcement on Friday.
Okay. So, in this case, they've got a warrant for Danger's
computer,
but they're looking at what he did with the sexting and with the girls
and whatever. And in the process they find that Abedin might have lied
through her teeth, that there might be classified State Department U.S.
government documents on Weiner's computer; they don't have a warrant
for that. They don't need a warrant to use it, but to keep it
totally
clean, they go get one, and they got it. They were issued the
warrant. And you know who forced that to happen?
This guy McCabe, whose wife got all that money from Terry McAuliffe, if
that news hadn't hit, if we hadn't learned that this McCabe, the number
two guy in the FBI, if we hadn't learned that McAuliffe, the governor
of Virginia had been funneling money to this guy's wife and this guy's
had a role in the Clinton investigation, the Hillary investigation, if
we hadn't learned that, they might have been able to sweep this under
the rug by saying, "You don't have a warrant for the Huma data on
Weiner's laptop."
But because attention was focused and because news had been made of
McAuliffe funding this guy's wife, he was the guy that led the charge
to get the proper warrant to make sure that they could look at Weiner's
computer on which there are supposedly access to 650,000 emails.
Now,
they're obviously not all on that computer. Many of them are
gonna be
on a server, but you've got links to them there. And it may well
be
that Huma has committed perjury by promising that she had given up
everything to the FBI, had given over everything to the FBI, that she
had nothing left, that she had been totally forthcoming.
And now here comes Weiner and they find something on there that's
serious enough at this stage, you talk about impacting an election, you
talk about not wanting to run the case on Hillary because she's the
duly elected nominee, what about the pressure they faced here? It
must
have been so compelling they had to do this.
Let's go through it the other way. Let's say they ignore this,
she
gets elected, this investigation's gonna go on, folks. They're
not
gonna conclude this before the election. And if they do, that's a
whole 'nother thing. I've gotta make a note to myself to get back
to
that because that's another possibility here that you don't want to
think about. The odds are they can't finish this investigation
one way
or the other before the election, so it's gonna be ongoing. So
let's
say she wins, and we've got a president-elect under serious criminal
investigation and many of her support staff. Not cool. Not
good. No
matter how you slice it. It's not good that the Democrat Party's
nominated this woman who has been the subject of an ongoing, legitimate
criminal investigation which has even ensnared our dear president and
turned him into a liar.
So they look at what they've got, they go public, Comey goes out Friday
and says (paraphrasing), "We've learned additional things." The
left
said, "Wait, what did you learn?" Comey says, "I haven't looked
at the
emails yet, but we've got a serious indication that there's something
very, very serious here to find." "What is it?" Well, they
look and
they found state.gov email addresses on some of the email. So
state.gov and Hillary Clinton dot whatever on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Red flag after red flag after red flag. Because of the potential
-- we
don't know if it's really happening, but good authority that agents
inside the FBI are just livid and prepared to go public, by the
way.
Comey and his sullied reputation, a lot of things have come together
here that apparently compelled Mr. Comey to go forward and make the
announcement on Friday.
largeAnd believe you me, he knew he was gonna get hit from the
Democrats. They loved him two months ago. He was the
greatest guy in
America two months ago. He was the finest American. He was an American
everybody should listen to. Now all of a sudden Harry Reid has
announced that he's got a friend who says that Comey has broken the
law, the Hatch Act. Comey has not broken the Hatch Act, by the
way.
This is just a technique we now know that Harry Reid uses.
So Comey has revived the investigation because he couldn't resist
mounting pressure inside the FBI by agents. This is, of course,
people
who are in there and know. Those people say the atmosphere inside
the
FBI has been toxic ever since last July when she was exonerated.
Ed
Klein, U.K. Daily Mail, says that Comey told his wife he was depressed
by the stack of resignation letters piling up on his desk from agents
who were unhappy and didn't want to keep working there.
He was worried Republicans would accuse him of
granting Hillary
political favoritism after the presidential election. He's facing
all
these different things. I think finally what happened was, if you
want
to know the truth, I think finally what happened to James Comey is that
old saying that I paraphrased earlier that "justice knows no clock" has
finally prevailed here.
So the question, will it affect the election? Hell, yes. We
don't
know how much, and we don't know to what end, but hell, yes, it's
gonna. You only have to look at Democrat reaction to this to know
that.
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