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RUSH: This is fascinating here. The guy that wrote the manifesto’s got all kinds of people coming out and defending everything he said. Scientists at Rutgers are coming out defending the guy as having been right on point with everything. He’s basically said, “Look, don’t blame anybody. Women just aren’t as interested in tech jobs, and so therefore they’re not that well suited.” This is the reason why 25% of the tech workforce in Silicon Valley is female. Nobody’s denying them. It’s just that’s not what they want to do. And you would have thought that hell has been unleashed....

RUSH: I checked the email here during the break. I got some, “Why aren’t you talking about Rosenstein on Fox News Sunday yesterday? Why aren’t you talking about Rosenstein?” My friends, I know about Rosenstein on Fox News Sunday. We’ve already talked about that! This is what I mean about being on the cutting edge of societal evolution. We’ve already talked about Mueller’s charge from Rosenstein. We’ve already talked about the wide berth that Mueller has. We’ve already talked about how there were no limits. Rosenstein — the deputy AG who appointed Mueller as the special counsel — was on...

RUSH: I told you it was gonna be this way, and now we’ve got the evidence. I told you. People came in here today, “Man, wasn’t Trump great? Wasn’t Trump great last night? Did you see that crowd in West Virginia?” I said, “Yeah.” “You don’t think that’s gonna make the people in D.C. stop and take notice?” I said, “Are you kidding me? That’s gonna make them hate him even more.” And I have the evidence to back that up. JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it’s Open Line Friday! RUSH: Open Line Friday. Getaway day here...

RUSH: Have you seen the reaction that everybody’s had to Trump’s appearance at the Boy Scouts yesterday? My God, it’s worse than if they figured out Putin has ties to Russia. These people have gone literally bonkers here! And the left doesn’t particularly like the Boy Scouts, in my recollection. President Trump went out there, said, who wants to hear about Washington, right? Trump proceeded to give them 40 minutes on Washington and ripped Washington to shreds and the Boy Scouts were loving it, “USA, USA, we love Trump.” And the left and the media and everybody once again blew...

RUSH: Are you trying to embarrass me with this or is this actually true? (interruption) “It’s on the New York Times website.” What are you doing reading the New York Times website? (interruption) All right. Okay. (interruption) Well, apparently here’s what happened. President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci as communications director as requested by the new chief of staff, John Kelly. Do you know what CNN’s reporting? CNN’s reporting that Kelly, the new chief of staff, called Comey after Trump fired him to express anger at Trump for firing Comey. So Kelly’s director of Homeland Security. Trump fires...

RUSH: I want to start with a couple of stories that may not move mountains in the daily perusal of the news. The first one here in the Wall Street Journal: “U.S. Companies Post Profit Growth Not Seen in Six Years.” Now, the reason I want to focus on this, folks, is because if you pay attention to the news, which I have often advised and suggested you not, then you would be forgiven for concluding the country is falling apart. You would seem to be perfectly logical if, after a daily diet of news, you think everything is coming...

RUSH: Twitter. This stuns me. People ask me why I’m not on Twitter. I’m not embarrassed to answer this. I can’t figure it out. I am Mr. Tech. I am the guy in this office and in anybody’s home whenever anybody has a question about their iPhone, their iPad, their network, whatever, printing, it’s me they come to. I can’t figure it out, I mean looking at it on the page. I can’t figure out who is sending what and who’s commenting. I don’t know. I don’t get these addresses @realdonaldtrump. The way it looks to me, every tweet that...

RUSH: None of this Trump-Sessions stuff makes any sense. This kind of open criticism, if it’s designed to make Sessions resign, isn’t working. And if the objective here is to get him to know, it means Trump wants him gone. And if he wants him gone, he could just fire him. He’s not doing that. I think one of the reasons why is if Sessions does go — however which way — Trump’s gotta find a new nominee for attorney general. A. Who’s gonna take it? B. How the hell are they gonna get confirmed, unless they nominate a Democrat?...

RUSH: You know the best way to illustrate the reaction here? Trump goes to the Boy Scout National Jamboree yesterday. There’s 30,000 or 40,000 scouts there. They all have parents that send them there, and you know, for the longest time the left hated the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scouts were rooted in Christian morality, good deeds, manners. The left decided, “We can’t have this! That’s an obstacle in the direction we want to go.” So they started pressuring the Boy Scouts to begin to accept gays and the Girl Scouts to accept lesbians. President Trump addresses Boy Scouts at...

RUSH: Here we go. Kurt Schlichter at Townhall. We quoted him last week on another piece that he had written. Title here: “Trump Needs To Be Smart About How He Fires Mueller.” Here’s the open: “Trump must eventually fire Robert Mueller, a partisan tool carrying water for his Establishment pals as he oversees an utterly corrupt ‘investigation’ where the only person we actually know committed any wrongdoing is his bestest buddy Jim Comey. But Trump can’t just lash out and do it, though it is well within his political and moral right to do so. No, he’s got to do...

RUSH: Dan in Wilmington, Delaware. Glad you waited. You’re next on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos and I’m gonna throw in a semper fi. I am of the opinion that Sessions should have been canned outright the day he refused himself. RUSH: Can you hang on here for a second since you just brought that up? I want to play a sound bite, and I want you to react to it. You mind if I do this? CALLER: No, go ahead. RUSH: It will be like a test-marketing little miniature survey. Hang on with me. This...

RUSH: It’s John in Madison, Alabama. Great to have you, sir. Hi. CALLER: It’s an honor, Rush. You’ve been saying that the only person that’s gonna separate Trump from his supporters is Trump, and I believe that if he gets rid of Jeff Sessions, that will be the beginning of that. Especially if he replaces him with another New Yorker, somebody like Rudy Giuliani, who was not… In fact, if I remember Rudy was anti-gun and Rudy was also pro-amnesty. RUSH: Uhhhhh, ayyyyy…. I’m not sure about amnesty. I know that Rudy at times in his life, depending on the...

RUSH: How about Jordan Spieth? Did you see Jordan Spieth’s round yesterday at the British Open? (interruption) Okay, you didn’t see it. Jordan Spieth… I mentioned this after he won the Masters a couple years ago. What I fine… I don’t want to sound like an old fogy here. But what a classy guy. He’s 24 in four days. He’s the youngest player, professional, to win the British Open. He’s the first under 24 to win three majors. He’s from Dallas. He is… If you have a daughter, he’s the guy you would want your daughter to marry. He’s the...

RUSH: So I’m sitting at home last night minding my own business, not bothering anybody. In fact, the only thing bothering anybody was the cat bothering me, mad at me that I was gone for three days. You can tell when the cat gets mad at you. Anyway, about the time the news broke that the Senate had failed at their repeal Obamacare vote, I started getting a slew of email messages from people that totally dumbfounded me. I started getting email: “This is great! This is great! Now they’re gonna vote to repeal it and have a two-year period...

RUSH: This is Gary in Oklahoma. Welcome to the EIB. Great to have you here. CALLER: Thank you, sir. Great to be here. And that parody a while ago was great. I know you got a lot on your plate and I don’t want to keep you long. I’ve been an independent most of my life and was a Democrat. And I followed Bernie Sanders, I really liked Bernie Sanders, he had all my support, until Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hillary Clinton decided they wanted to steal the nomination from him. And instead of him standing up and telling us,...

RUSH: Lower Lake, California. This is Brian. Glad you called, sir. How are you? CALLER: Hello. Good morning, Rush. I wanted to ask you a question. As of now, the Republican Congress has failed to pass Trump’s legislation in the repeal and redo of Obamacare, and later in the year they’re gonna try taxes, which will probably also fail. How do you see the possibility of them losing the House and then Trump being impeached based on anything that Mueller may find, regardless how small it is? RUSH: I am going to surprise you. I’m glad you asked me this...

RUSH: Nathan in Lynchburg, Virginia. Great to have you first today on Open Line Friday. How are you? CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing today? RUSH: Fine and dandy, sir. Thank you. CALLER: Hey, I’m gonna get straight to the point. I have a theory about why Trump went to the New York Times. He’s a master manipulator of the media, as we know. He’s had plenty of experience living in New York and dealing with them as a businessman. This is why Trump people love Donald Trump. I’ve heard a lot of Trump supporters getting nervous, getting scared, shaking...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I want to expand on something here that I just saw President Trump say right before the end of the previous hour. He said that his plan now is to just let Obamacare fail. He’s not gonna own it. He’s just gonna let it fail. Which he’s been saying for months. He said, you know, the smart thing politically for him to do be let it fail and let the Democrats absorb all the blame. Let Obama and the Democrats take the blame. Just let it fail. But Trump said — as a show of good...

RUSH: Remember Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, did the commencement speech at Harvard this year? You remember what the central theme of his commencement speech was? Guaranteed national income. We need to have a guaranteed national income. Now, he sold it on the basis that there’s so much automation coming that the United States has a responsibility to take care of the employees that are gonna be rendered unemployed because of the rapidly increasing automation that is occurring in so many American businesses. Today the San Francisco Chronicle: “Why Universal Basic Income is Gaining Support, Critics.” Apparently — and...

RUSH: Now, there’s also a story that can comes from a leak of the transcript of a phone call that Trump had with Theresa May of the U.K. Apparently, Trump has begged her to fix a warm welcome for his state visit. And he says that he will not set a date for his state visit to the U.K. until he knows he’s gonna get a better reception than what he would get today if he went. “U.S. President Warns He Will Not Visit Until He Can Guarantee a Good Reception and Pleas with Theresa May to Help Influence Public.”...