Speaker 1: What a week? What what an incredible week? I mean
Speaker 1: from beginning to end, and it's still going and there
Speaker 1: is still winning that's happening today. Just incredible. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you something, folks. One thing is I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gratified about it. Now. You know, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: like to brag and I don't like to say notice me,
Speaker 1: but everything happening to the Democrat Party today. If you
Speaker 1: go back and you look at excerpts of the award
Speaker 1: winning broadcast, go to the Russia Limbo dot com, you'll
Speaker 1: find that I predicted this implosion of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what it is. I mean, you get
Speaker 1: people writing, well, what happened to Democrats this week is unserious.
Speaker 1: It's worse than unserious. What happened to the Democrat Party
Speaker 1: is that they have lost their entire moral foundation. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: I got a call coming on here, and uh, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna worry about hitting the cough switch as often
Speaker 1: as they just just bear with me here. I mean
Speaker 1: that they have lost their entire moral foundation, and they
Speaker 1: lost it four years ago. This is what happens. Let
Speaker 1: this be a lesson to you, folks. In your personal
Speaker 1: life with this. What happens when you become consumed with hatred.
Speaker 1: Hatred is of poison. It destroys you because hatred can
Speaker 1: never be requited, Hatred can never be rewarded. Hatred can
Speaker 1: never make you happy. Hatred means you're requiring on something
Speaker 1: painful or bad to happen to other people. And that's
Speaker 1: just not the way the happiness. That's not the route
Speaker 1: uh to success of any kind. And it's where the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party is. And I'll break this down and I'll
Speaker 1: explain it in great, great detail as the program unfolds.
Speaker 1: Telephone number if you want to be with us, today's
Speaker 1: eight eight to the email address L Rush Bowe and
Speaker 1: e I v net dot us. So the last time
Speaker 1: I was here and we were together was Monday, and
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, it feels like it's been
Speaker 1: two weeks with everything that has happened since then, but
Speaker 1: it hasn't. It's it's just it's just been one week.
Speaker 1: And the last thing that I did on Monday was
Speaker 1: inform all of you of a medical diagnosis, advanced lung cancer.
Speaker 1: And I told you Monday that I really wished that
Speaker 1: I could not announce it because I don't like making
Speaker 1: things about me, and I promised you that I was
Speaker 1: not going to live every aspect of this on the air.
Speaker 1: Millions of you have been through it. It's nothing that
Speaker 1: millions of Americans aren't experiencing or haven't experienced. That you
Speaker 1: don't need me sharing all of the details with you,
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't want to do it anyway, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of factors involved, including privacy and distraction. Just no,
Speaker 1: And by the way, folks, I don't know. Really, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be hopscotching through much of this first hour as
Speaker 1: thoughts erupt in my fertile gray cells. I don't have
Speaker 1: anything written here. I don't have any monologue scripted. I
Speaker 1: don't I haven't made any notes to make sure that
Speaker 1: I don't forget anything, because I'm not worried about forgetting anything.
Speaker 1: I'm very confident that I'm gonna get everything said here
Speaker 1: today that I want to say. Uh. Despite living in
Speaker 1: the public eye, I really am a private person for
Speaker 1: just a host of reasons, most of which I'm that's
Speaker 1: just who I am. I'm not. I want whatever I'm
Speaker 1: known for to speak for itself during these three hours.
Speaker 1: And uh, and some other things. But but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not intra stood in being in the news all
Speaker 1: the time for whatever reason. Of course I can't help,
Speaker 1: but I am in the news all the time, but
Speaker 1: it's not something I seek. Nevertheless, it has been one
Speaker 1: of the biggest blessings. You don't understand now when what
Speaker 1: lou Garig when he was diagnosed with a l S
Speaker 1: in the nine twenties, he's announcing his retirement. This after
Speaker 1: he has been the iron Man. He's played in all
Speaker 1: these consecutive games that the record wasn't broken until cal
Speaker 1: Ripken Jr. Came along And he's standing at home play
Speaker 1: the Yankee Stadium, and he said, after having announced, the
Speaker 1: world knew that he had a l S. Everybody knew
Speaker 1: what it was, that it was fatal, and that there
Speaker 1: was no chance of recovery. And there still isn't right away,
Speaker 1: And lou Garig said, today, I consider myself the luckiest
Speaker 1: man on earth. I've seen that black and white film
Speaker 1: replayed numerous times in my life, and don't misunderstand. I
Speaker 1: know he meant it, but the first two or three
Speaker 1: times I heard it, I had trouble proced How in
Speaker 1: the world can anybody feel lucky after having been told
Speaker 1: that you have a disease from which there is no
Speaker 1: recovery and that it's fast. And even though I there
Speaker 1: was a part of me that, Okay, this is something
Speaker 1: that famous people are supposed to say. He's been very
Speaker 1: successful in life, he was uniquely talented to play baseball
Speaker 1: and all that, and I thought, Okay, clearly there is
Speaker 1: a portion of Lou Lou Garring that thinks he has
Speaker 1: to say this, And now I know that's all wrong.
Speaker 1: Now I know that there was nothing forced or phony
Speaker 1: or public relations related about it. The because I feel
Speaker 1: the same way, I cannot. I cannot thank all of
Speaker 1: the people that I have heard from since Monday, and
Speaker 1: they are still getting hold air people. I had no
Speaker 1: idea they knew how to get hold of me. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the the sentiments they the thoughts they are expressing
Speaker 1: are just incredibly nice and supportive. And to have this
Speaker 1: kind of support, uh, and to know it, to be
Speaker 1: fully aware of it, Yeah, it does make me one
Speaker 1: of the luckiest people alive. And I I'm trying to
Speaker 1: respond to everybody. I haven't even made a dance in it.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a whole lot of time too but
Speaker 1: i've i've I'm going to try. Some people have written
Speaker 1: excuse me three or four times, and other people are suggesting, Hey,
Speaker 1: I know this treatment, I know this hospital, I know
Speaker 1: this treatment place. You need to call it. I thank
Speaker 1: you for all of that. I just am inundated with
Speaker 1: so much love and support, more than more than I
Speaker 1: ever knew. And it's it's really true when I sit here,
Speaker 1: think about how lucky I am that all this has
Speaker 1: happened to me. Now. I know many of you want
Speaker 1: to know the story of the State of the Union
Speaker 1: address on Tuesday night and how that all happened, and
Speaker 1: someday I hope to be able to tell you the
Speaker 1: entire story. I can't tell you the entire story now
Speaker 1: without divulging uh medical details that I frankly don't want
Speaker 1: to give people an opportunity to start investigating and writing
Speaker 1: about and pronouncing opinions in this kind of thing. People
Speaker 1: know enough about about what I have. It's it's late stage,
Speaker 1: it's advanced lung cancer. But there's good news associated with
Speaker 1: the diagnosis and the treatment. So we are where I
Speaker 1: am to have the first procedure that will set up
Speaker 1: the beginning of treatment. This is Tuesday, and it is
Speaker 1: scheduled for five o'clock in the afternoon. We took no clothes,
Speaker 1: Catherine and I. We just we went grub City with
Speaker 1: shorts t shirts. I mean, the whole week is going
Speaker 1: to be in a hospital. There's no reason to take
Speaker 1: a coat in time. There's no reason to uh pack
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff that you're never gonna use.
Speaker 1: Light was the by word the proceed Your was gonna
Speaker 1: be five o'clock in the afternoon. Have to show up
Speaker 1: for it at twelve noon to do the prep, talk
Speaker 1: to the doctors and so forth. Nine am phone rings.
Speaker 1: I've got the number in my address book, so it's
Speaker 1: the White House. So I answered the phone and they said,
Speaker 1: and you, uh, can you hope for President Trump? He said, yes, Rush, Rush,
Speaker 1: How are you doing, buddy? Great to hear from you. Hey,
Speaker 1: look what are you doing later today? And I said, well,
Speaker 1: I have serious medical procedure that's gonna start all this
Speaker 1: at five o'clock. Well, look, what's the doctor's name. I
Speaker 1: want to call him and have him to lay it
Speaker 1: for a couple of days because I need you down
Speaker 1: here tonight. I said, uh, Mr President, Um, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm stunned. He's he said, Look, your health comes first,
Speaker 1: there's no question. But but but can't they just do
Speaker 1: half of what they're gonna do and then and then
Speaker 1: send you down here? I mean, believe me, you don't
Speaker 1: want to miss this. There's gonna be great. It's gonna
Speaker 1: a great deal. Want to missus? Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's up. I mean, he told me that he was
Speaker 1: going to He wanted me to be his guest at
Speaker 1: the State of Union. Is gonna mentioned my name, recognized me,
Speaker 1: hung up the phone, and for the next hour and
Speaker 1: a half, I agonized. I literally agonized over what to do.
Speaker 1: Catherine and I were both sitting in a hotel room
Speaker 1: as time is marching on. We're faced with the possibility
Speaker 1: of having to ask an entire medical team to broom
Speaker 1: their schedule and reschedule to accommodate this. But we haven't
Speaker 1: told him yet. We're discussing the logistics. Now. There's something else.
Speaker 1: Earlier that day, I had sent e I B one
Speaker 1: to take my nieces from New York to Cape Girardo,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't going to be available to me until
Speaker 1: four thirty in the after noon. So I'm putting that
Speaker 1: in the equation. I mean, there's no way to even
Speaker 1: get there, even if I want to. Once we charter,
Speaker 1: we could we could do that. But no clothes, no shirt,
Speaker 1: no tie, no socks, I mean not no dress, shoes
Speaker 1: zip zero, not a Catherine saying you've got to do that.
Speaker 1: You can't not do this. I said, how are we
Speaker 1: gonna do it? She said, leave it to me? Hour
Speaker 1: and a half later, called the President back, tried to
Speaker 1: tell him no, Remember, I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I just he has told me
Speaker 1: by the way I should. He has told me that
Speaker 1: he's going to present me with the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
Speaker 1: but a couple of weeks from now in the Oval Office.
Speaker 1: I had no idea at this point on Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: this is going to happen State of the Union, and
Speaker 1: he didn't tell me during all these phone calls. I
Speaker 1: called him back around ten to Pty, intending to be
Speaker 1: as persuasive as I could, to thank him and just
Speaker 1: say that there was too much here to overcome to
Speaker 1: get down there, including the medical schedule, loom doctors and
Speaker 1: everything they've been and this this story. If if I could,
Speaker 1: and some day I'm going to be able to give
Speaker 1: you every detail here. But for people that do not
Speaker 1: know Donald Trump, this story will explain him, his essence,
Speaker 1: his attitude toward life. They're simply is nothing you can't do.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that can't be done, and there's not a
Speaker 1: single obstacle that can't be dealt with. And it's not
Speaker 1: even hard, it's not even He didn't have to stop
Speaker 1: and think for a moment about this. Now, granted, he's
Speaker 1: got presidential power. If he wants to clear us into
Speaker 1: Reagan National, if he wants to send a car for
Speaker 1: us and get us from the airport to the way,
Speaker 1: he can do all of that. But he was but
Speaker 1: and he did, and he was willing. But but the
Speaker 1: fact was that this is what he wanted. But not
Speaker 1: for him, you see him, It was for me, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to let me talk myself out of it.
Speaker 1: Part of me is not wanting to create any problems
Speaker 1: for him. I mean, he's got so many more important
Speaker 1: things to do than to deal with logistics. And I
Speaker 1: totally may say, you think I'm gonna do it, I
Speaker 1: got people here. What do you mean I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: a guy here in an hour, all this will be done.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is just find a way to
Speaker 1: get with and get the close. So Catherine, this was
Speaker 1: just this was amazing too. Catherine got in gear and
Speaker 1: again without divulging too much in about we went and
Speaker 1: met the doctor. We kept the appointment at noon to
Speaker 1: discuss what was going to happen, sign of papers, get
Speaker 1: as much of the procedure out of the way as
Speaker 1: we could, and then to tell the doctor, Hey, I
Speaker 1: have been summoned to Washington. Can can this be moved
Speaker 1: to tomorrow? Sure, it's not a problem. In fact, show
Speaker 1: up at five thirty tomorrow morning before anybody else gets here.
Speaker 1: We'll get it started. We'll get it. Everybody was just
Speaker 1: as cooperative helpful as they could be. We get back
Speaker 1: from the meeting with the doctors about two hours and
Speaker 1: in our hotel room is fifteen sport coats, different sizes,
Speaker 1: four or five different ties, a bunch of shorts, different sizes,
Speaker 1: and all I had to do was try on various
Speaker 1: things and find an outfit that fit. I did have
Speaker 1: taken back. I did have a pair of slacks because
Speaker 1: it was cold where we went, so I wasn't working
Speaker 1: in shorts with me. But I did wear slacks and
Speaker 1: the slacks from a suit. But I mean we were
Speaker 1: looking at even sending the plane down the floor to
Speaker 1: get my suit in the time, but I couldn't because
Speaker 1: it was on the way to Missouri. So anyway, Capita
Speaker 1: arranged for a bunch of stuff to be delivered from
Speaker 1: local retail outlets, including for her. She had nothing either,
Speaker 1: nothing that would be suitable for the house chamber. Pardon me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was stuff off the road. When do you get it.
Speaker 1: There's no time for a tailor. There's no time for
Speaker 1: a seamstress. Yeah, that's why there was fifty and different
Speaker 1: sport coats. Mr Snerdle, It's why there four or five
Speaker 1: different church different next sizes sleeve links. I told him
Speaker 1: what I wear, But you ever know from from manufactured
Speaker 1: to manufacture brand debrand, nothings consistent in clothes. And there
Speaker 1: was only one of the of the whatever it was
Speaker 1: ten or fifties, only one fit, only one that I
Speaker 1: could button. The slave length was perfect, but only one
Speaker 1: that I could. But what do you mean, you're used
Speaker 1: You're used to what over here on the other you're oh,
Speaker 1: you're used to offer Look I don't have a tailor eater.
Speaker 1: What do you people think I have? Somebody makes myself.
Speaker 1: When's the last time you saw me in a suit
Speaker 1: was in December? And that's an off the rack suit.
Speaker 1: I haven't bought a suit in ten years because I
Speaker 1: don't like clothes shopping, because precisic is nothing does fit
Speaker 1: off the wreck. I get better things to do. To
Speaker 1: sit there and be measured three or four times again?
Speaker 1: It right? And if that was what was was somewhat
Speaker 1: miraculous about this is that Katherine got enough delivered that
Speaker 1: something worked. And when when I saw the ties, so
Speaker 1: these are the dullest ties. I don't wear invisible ties
Speaker 1: like this is, I said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: this is this is this is how they interpreted what
Speaker 1: you said you want turned out to be perfect. The
Speaker 1: tie turned out to be the pre fit color for
Speaker 1: what was to come later. Anyway, I gotta take a break.
Speaker 1: There's still a lot to this story, and there's more
Speaker 1: than I can tell you today about Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: who he is and why he's unbeatable, folks, He's indomitable.
Speaker 1: There's these these clowns, the Democrats. They still have no
Speaker 1: idea what they're up against. They haven't the slide. There's nobody.
Speaker 1: There's nobody in the Democrat Party, There's nobody in American politics.
Speaker 1: It even comes close to the personality and the the
Speaker 1: overall attitude towards life of Donald Trump. It's incredible. Now,
Speaker 1: look in this storm, we're not even at the White
Speaker 1: House yet. I still have a ways to go in
Speaker 1: explaining what all happened here on on Tuesday, but there's
Speaker 1: not enough time in this segment. I kind of went
Speaker 1: overboard in the first one, so so bear with me here.
Speaker 1: I just want to reiterate something. You look at what
Speaker 1: happened in Iowa, and given I told the President there
Speaker 1: was a meeting, I'm jumping ahead, but there was a
Speaker 1: meeting in the Yellow Oval. Teddy Roosevelt loved the Oval
Speaker 1: Office so much he had an exact replica built in
Speaker 1: the Residents and it's yellow. It's the same dimensions as
Speaker 1: the Oval Office in the West Wing. The entire Trump
Speaker 1: family is there. And the subject of the Democrats meltdown
Speaker 1: in Iowa, the Hawkeye cark I came up and I said,
Speaker 1: Mr President, don't you find a little ironic these people
Speaker 1: running around the last four years claiming you cheated with Russia.
Speaker 1: You're gonna cheat and look what happened. These people are
Speaker 1: stillicon Valley running their operations. They can't even count votes.
Speaker 1: When are they gonna blame Russia for this? When are
Speaker 1: they gonna blame you for this? And he got a
Speaker 1: big laugh out of it. What a bunch of incompetent,
Speaker 1: arrogant More on this in a minute. Half my brain
Speaker 1: time behind my back still just to make it fair.
Speaker 1: The e IV network and russlan ball wrapping up. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's all line Friday. So when we
Speaker 1: get to the phones about a quarterinal three this afternoon,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to talk about will be fine. No.
Speaker 1: I hope to be able to get the phones much
Speaker 1: much much sooner than that. Um, this experience that Katherine
Speaker 1: and I had, And look, folks, I have Look, I've
Speaker 1: known Donald Trump for years and I've been really fortunate
Speaker 1: the past year played golf with him a number of
Speaker 1: times when he's down here then in Florida. Um, and
Speaker 1: I've gotten to know him person. I know Donald Trump
Speaker 1: when I saw him come down the escar. I know.
Speaker 1: I've known Donald Trump from the moment he got into
Speaker 1: this and I knew he was gonna win two weeks
Speaker 1: after he got into this, and I never had any
Speaker 1: doubts about it, and I fully totally understand. The Democrats
Speaker 1: are discombobulation with it. They have no idea what they're
Speaker 1: up against. They still don't the deep state, all these
Speaker 1: people that have tried to run Donald Trump out of town,
Speaker 1: they just they have no idea. Folks they have they literally,
Speaker 1: I don't think, know anybody like him, which is a shame.
Speaker 1: They don't know people like Donald Trump. They may even
Speaker 1: have disdain for people like Donald If you look at
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's life, He's lived a full and complete life,
Speaker 1: and not everything has been um what we would characterize
Speaker 1: as exemplary, but that's the point. He's lived. He has
Speaker 1: gotten everything life has to offer, and he's not finished,
Speaker 1: and he attacks it each and every day. And he
Speaker 1: has no what's the words he's got, He's got no
Speaker 1: self doubt. He doesn't let what other people might think
Speaker 1: of what he wants to stop him from doing it
Speaker 1: or from saying what he wants to say. He's just
Speaker 1: a unique personality. And the fact that the political establishment,
Speaker 1: in fact that some of both parties don't understand it
Speaker 1: is Uh, not hard to understand, because there is a
Speaker 1: way of doing things, the standard operating procedure in electoral politics,
Speaker 1: and you can see the contrast. But watch watching any
Speaker 1: Democrat during the Hawkeye Hawk Eye, the lead up and
Speaker 1: then that night when the vote mess happened, and listen
Speaker 1: to any of them talk and every speech, even the
Speaker 1: hand gestures are rehearsed, focus grouped, the words that they say,
Speaker 1: focus grouped practiced. None of it is real, and all
Speaker 1: of it is pandering. Every bit of it is pantmit
Speaker 1: Romney epitomizes the pandering. Romney is pandering to other losers.
Speaker 1: For some reason, Romney thinks this is his route to victory.
Speaker 1: He hasn't the slightest idea what his future is, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't include victory, not even close. And he's gonna
Speaker 1: find out sooner than later. But in this day, this
Speaker 1: past Tuesday, there was simply no way it wasn't going
Speaker 1: to happen. And he never made a demand. I want
Speaker 1: to try to be clear about this so that as
Speaker 1: many of you as possible understand the personalities. There's nothing.
Speaker 1: There was no demanding, there was nothing offensive, there was
Speaker 1: nothing butlittally, there was nothing it's a unique person. That
Speaker 1: isn't that that that is able to persuade people to
Speaker 1: do what they want and make them happy they're doing
Speaker 1: it even when they don't think they can. In Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's world, there simply is no can't, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to when it comes to trying. So we tell
Speaker 1: him late in the afternoon on Tuesday that we're going
Speaker 1: to accept the invitation. He's thrilled. He was ecstatically happy,
Speaker 1: but as I was to learn later, not for himself.
Speaker 1: He U pardoner the sniffles here. First I called you,
Speaker 1: I've got a little bit of a bronchial congestion, chess
Speaker 1: cold coming on any rate. He's he's uh, He's on
Speaker 1: the phone and saying, look, of course, of course your
Speaker 1: health comes first. There's no question. You gotta put your
Speaker 1: health first. Can't the doctor take some of it out
Speaker 1: now and then go get the rest of it tomorrow?
Speaker 1: What's his name? It was? But there was never a
Speaker 1: demand there was. There just wasn't any way we were
Speaker 1: going to be able to decline it. That just wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna happen. We figured that out, and then all the
Speaker 1: logistics fell into place, and we arrived in Washington and
Speaker 1: were picked up and taken to the White House. We
Speaker 1: were met by Hogan get Lee in the Communication shop.
Speaker 1: I went to the library in the White House, which
Speaker 1: is UH. It's off the Diplomatic entrance Area's the elevator
Speaker 1: to the UH Residents, where the First Lady was posing
Speaker 1: for photos with all of the people who were being
Speaker 1: recognized in the gallery that night, and we were last
Speaker 1: in line on purpose because after we posed for the
Speaker 1: photo with the First Lady, we were then escorted to
Speaker 1: the to the Residents to meet the Trump family in
Speaker 1: the Yellow Oval. Again, that is a room in the Residents.
Speaker 1: It's not far down the hall. If it's if you
Speaker 1: keep walking past it, you'll run into the Lincoln Bedroom
Speaker 1: in the Queen's bedroom, and it's the exact dimensions of
Speaker 1: the Oval office in the West wing. Teddy Roosevelt loved
Speaker 1: that room. He it made for the residents, exact measurements,
Speaker 1: with the predominant color being yellow. Hang on here just
Speaker 1: a second. Books. So we're escorted into the room by
Speaker 1: Mrs Trump and we chat with her for two or
Speaker 1: three minutes, and then the Trump family began to come
Speaker 1: in Ivanka, Donald Jr. Eric, their wives, spouses, and then
Speaker 1: the President came in and sat down and started talking
Speaker 1: about the award and the medal and what it means
Speaker 1: and how special it is and how uh thrilled he
Speaker 1: was that we were able to make it, and Fox, Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should. I'm just gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and tell you this. I realized that
Speaker 1: it's going to open the floodgates of a bunch of
Speaker 1: people in the media, but at this stage, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I never have cared, and I'm not going to start
Speaker 1: caring now what they say. One of the reasons I
Speaker 1: was reluctant was I just wasn't sure I deserved this.
Speaker 1: You look at I mean, it's the highest civilian honor
Speaker 1: that the country awards. It's the exact same award that
Speaker 1: Congress give the Congressional Medal of Honor to Presidential Medal
Speaker 1: of Freedom. It's exact same thing. Uh. There are different requirements. Uh.
Speaker 1: Military people who qualify are awarded the Congressional Medal of
Speaker 1: Honor with sometimes the ceremony at the White House. But
Speaker 1: this is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And there was
Speaker 1: a part of me. I'm a radio talk show host
Speaker 1: and I sit here behind this microphone and i'm and
Speaker 1: I talk, and this is, by the way, nothing new.
Speaker 1: Remember when I was at the National Review fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 1: dinner in Washington, some of you will remember this story.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting at Mr Buckley's table and a man walks
Speaker 1: up to me who has been severely wounded in battle,
Speaker 1: and he asks if I could come over to his
Speaker 1: table to meet others at his table who also have
Speaker 1: been wounded. So I did, and I got over there,
Speaker 1: and I was listening to these guys who have nearly
Speaker 1: died defending the country, telling me how much they enjoy
Speaker 1: listening to my program. And I said to you guys
Speaker 1: and said, you know, I I don't know, guys, you've
Speaker 1: faced bullets, almost died. I sit behind the microphone and
Speaker 1: enclosed room and talk. And the leader of the wounded
Speaker 1: warriors said, sir, we all have our role and I've
Speaker 1: never forgotten it. And I remember when I start did questioning, gee,
Speaker 1: is this something I really have earned or deserved? I
Speaker 1: remembered that statement from the I mean really severely wounded.
Speaker 1: We all have our roles. And then I said I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't react to this in a way that diminishes
Speaker 1: their appreciation. I can't sit here and say, oh, come on, guys,
Speaker 1: you know I'm not worth this. They can't do that.
Speaker 1: It means everything in the world to them that I
Speaker 1: came over and they wanted to tell me this, and
Speaker 1: so you can't. You can't phony up the humility and
Speaker 1: and act. So I gutted it up and I told
Speaker 1: him how much I appreciated it, how stunned I was,
Speaker 1: how much it meant to me to know that they
Speaker 1: were out there and it was a great evening. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing. Decided, Okay, drop this, drop this business.
Speaker 1: That the president wants to give it to you, that's
Speaker 1: all that matters. You've you've got to do it. But
Speaker 1: I just I'm jumping back in time because that was
Speaker 1: one of the um items of when we're deciding whether
Speaker 1: to do this or not. And I didn't tell Katy.
Speaker 1: Katherine's hearing this for the first time. I think I
Speaker 1: may have said, you think I really deserve I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I did. So we get there,
Speaker 1: presidents talking and we have the joke about the Democrats
Speaker 1: in Iowa, and he's sitting on an ottoman a footstool.
Speaker 1: We're on sofas facing each other, Mrs Trump, other family members.
Speaker 1: He's on an ottoman by himself, no ties where. He's
Speaker 1: got his jacket on, crisp white shirt unbuttoned. And I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't do this. Whenever I used to
Speaker 1: do anything like this, like a big speech or Russia,
Speaker 1: I had to be alone with no distractions. I couldn't
Speaker 1: have a bunch of people around me. I said that
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I don't None of it was scripted,
Speaker 1: and I had lived everything so on. Need to make
Speaker 1: sure my brain was working and not distracted. And and
Speaker 1: he said, no, this is this. This we love this,
Speaker 1: We love this is this is historic. We've got such
Speaker 1: a great story to tell. You know that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is not ashamed two trumpet his accomplishments and achievements because
Speaker 1: they're real. He does have his own version of humility.
Speaker 1: You have to know how to spot it. It happens
Speaker 1: in every rally. Donald Trump will tell everybody in the
Speaker 1: world how much he appreciates their support. One way or
Speaker 1: the other. Could be thirty seconds, could take him two minutes.
Speaker 1: But everybody at a Trump rally knows that he appreciates
Speaker 1: them and doesn't take any of their support their presence
Speaker 1: for granted. So then after this and the joking about
Speaker 1: the Democrats and my suggesting that maybe the Russians were
Speaker 1: behind this disaster in Iowa, it was time to leave.
Speaker 1: And this was something I never knew. I never knew
Speaker 1: how all of this happened, all those guests sitting up
Speaker 1: there with the first lady in the gallery. I never
Speaker 1: knew how it all happened. But now I do, and
Speaker 1: I will tell you when we get back. Okay, So
Speaker 1: the way they get everybody over uh, and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: truncating this. They've got a couple of busses, minivans that
Speaker 1: they're very nice, don't misunderstand minivans. They put all the
Speaker 1: guests in, and the guests are the tail end of
Speaker 1: the caravan. It is a massive carabany that more SUV
Speaker 1: has ever seen in a row. And we left the
Speaker 1: White House about a fifteen to get over there, and
Speaker 1: they hustle you in um to the gallery and you
Speaker 1: sit down and I've never been in the gallery. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't, senate, never in the house. I have seen
Speaker 1: the house chamber from floor level. You're not allowed to
Speaker 1: go out there if you're not a member. And it
Speaker 1: was pretty full, and we got there at thirty and
Speaker 1: all the Republicans are just they're looking up and they're
Speaker 1: waving thumbs up. It was I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was so. It was so inspiring and gratifying, and there
Speaker 1: was just a if you can imagine an enveloper of
Speaker 1: like a wave of warmth that just swept over me
Speaker 1: sitting there, every Republican, Congressman, every Senator, every looking down there,
Speaker 1: and then to see the Democrats not doing a thing,
Speaker 1: and they're dressed in all white and so forth, and
Speaker 1: it was it was just it was just a moving,
Speaker 1: moving night and sitting there, can't believe we're there, can't
Speaker 1: believe it happened, can't believe it all came together and
Speaker 1: then it happened. Almost every American family knows the pain
Speaker 1: when a loved one is diagnosed with a serious illness.
Speaker 1: Here tonight is a special man be loved by millions
Speaker 1: of Americans who just received a Stage four advanced cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 1: This is not good news, but what is good news
Speaker 1: is that he is the greatest fighter and winner that
Speaker 1: you will ever meet. Rush Limball, thank you for your
Speaker 1: decades of Tyla's devotion to our country. This is the
Speaker 1: the House Chamber, the State of the Union. Mom and
Speaker 1: Dad would not have believed it kind of thing was
Speaker 1: not possible. Yeah, and Rush. In recognition of all that
Speaker 1: you have done for our nation, the millions of people
Speaker 1: a day that you speak to and that you inspire,
Speaker 1: and all of the incredible work that you have done
Speaker 1: for charity, I am proud to announce tonight that you
Speaker 1: will be receiving our country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential
Speaker 1: Medal of Freedom. Now I thought this was coming in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. In the Oval Office, somebody jab
Speaker 1: is turned to your right, Turn to your right, turn
Speaker 1: away from the First Lady. Okay, m hm yea. I
Speaker 1: will now ask the First Lady of the United States
Speaker 1: to present you with the honor. Please, And Pelosi is
Speaker 1: going nunsense. Once she starts ripping up the speech, Pelosi
Speaker 1: is still ticked off. She can't see scoph You have
Speaker 1: no idea what this is like of all the things
Speaker 1: you think might happen to your inn life. Congratulations, Thank you, Catherine.
Speaker 1: This is not one of them. I've got to take
Speaker 1: a break. There's one other thing about this, I have
Speaker 1: to impart those, so stick with us. For me. The
Speaker 1: highlight though, was Sergeant Williams, brought back from Afghanistan, hadn't
Speaker 1: seen his kids and his wife in years. That moment
Speaker 1: he came down those steps. You have to have been
Speaker 1: there to understand the power of that moment. That's not
Speaker 1: twenty one. This is Howie Carr, who was on Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson Show on the Fox Newest channel on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: And Howie Carson, why not just say why did you say?
Speaker 1: I disagree with Russia? But why does every disagreement have
Speaker 1: to have to be kind of perverted into a race conversation? Okay,
Speaker 1: they disagree with Rush, fine, Well why do they have
Speaker 1: to call everyone they dislike a racist? Every time? That's
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson asking, that's the way it is with liberals.
Speaker 1: If they disagree with you, ergo you are a racist.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter that Russia has raised millions of
Speaker 1: dollars for charities, leukemia foundations with the Betsy Ross t
Speaker 1: shirt more recently, he's done all that. He's a historical
Speaker 1: figure in American politics, I would say, and in the
Speaker 1: radio industry. I'll tell you one thing. He never wrote
Speaker 1: around on Jeffrey Epstein's jet, Unlike a certain former president
Speaker 1: of the United States. He never tried to cow ronan
Speaker 1: pharaoh into stopping his expose as of Harvey Weinstein, like
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton's people did. It's ridiculous, it's really loathsome. All
Speaker 1: of that is a is A is a good point.
Speaker 1: It's clearly clearly a two way street. Um. And then
Speaker 1: the vice president is what I was looking for. This
Speaker 1: is vice As I mentioned, he called me after the
Speaker 1: State of the Union on Tuesday as we were headed
Speaker 1: back to the airport. And let's see, he was with
Speaker 1: this is Wednesday morning in a Fox Wait a minute, yeah,
Speaker 1: Fox Newest Jil Fox and Friends, and Doocy said, your
Speaker 1: longtime friend Rush Limbaugh, President awarded him the Medal of Freedom.
Speaker 1: Rush didn't see it coming. It always happens in the
Speaker 1: White House, not Congress, so Rush didn't see it coming.
Speaker 1: I reached him shortly after hand Catherine left the capital,
Speaker 1: and he was very moved and told me that he
Speaker 1: was going to spend the rest of his life trying
Speaker 1: to earn it. And I said, Russia, you've already earned it.
Speaker 1: Everything you've done up hold values and ideals that have
Speaker 1: made this country great. Rush told me last night that
Speaker 1: his wife said that God is working in all of this,
Speaker 1: and uh, I believe that moment which the president, we
Speaker 1: all found out about Rush, and then the President just
Speaker 1: had this thought to say, I want to have you
Speaker 1: come to the State of the Union. But and he said,
Speaker 1: I know you've got some medical procedures this week, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to have you there. But he didn't tell
Speaker 1: him he was going to give him the highest civilian honor.
Speaker 1: And so there were people when it happened, It's okay,
Speaker 1: you've got to turn to the right, you've got to
Speaker 1: turn away from the first lady. It's okay. And it
Speaker 1: was special night