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but everything happening to the Democrat Party today. If you go back and you look at excerpts of the award winning broadcast, go to the Russia Limbo dot com, you'll find that I predicted this implosion of the Democrat Party. And that's exactly what it is. I mean, you get people writing, well, what happened to Democrats this week is unserious. It's worse than unserious. What happened to the Democrat Party

is that they have lost their entire moral foundation. Excuse me, I got a call coming on here, and uh, I'm not gonna worry about hitting the cough switch as often as they just just bear with me here. I mean that they have lost their entire moral foundation, and they lost it four years ago. This is what happens. Let this be a lesson to you, folks. In your personal life with this. What happens when you become consumed with hatred. Hatred is of poison. It destroys you because hatred can

never be requited, Hatred can never be rewarded. Hatred can never make you happy. Hatred means you're requiring on something painful or bad to happen to other people. And that's just not the way the happiness. That's not the route uh to success of any kind. And it's where the Democrat Party is. And I'll break this down and I'll explain it in great, great detail as the program unfolds. Telephone number if you want to be with us, today's eight eight to the email address L Rush Bowe and

e I v net dot us. So the last time I was here and we were together was Monday, and I have to tell you, it feels like it's been two weeks with everything that has happened since then, but it hasn't. It's it's just it's just been one week. And the last thing that I did on Monday was inform all of you of a medical diagnosis, advanced lung cancer.

And I told you Monday that I really wished that I could not announce it because I don't like making things about me, and I promised you that I was not going to live every aspect of this on the air. Millions of you have been through it. It's nothing that millions of Americans aren't experiencing or haven't experienced. That you don't need me sharing all of the details with you, And I wouldn't want to do it anyway, because there's

a lot of factors involved, including privacy and distraction. Just no, And by the way, folks, I don't know. Really, I'm gonna be hopscotching through much of this first hour as thoughts erupt in my fertile gray cells. I don't have anything written here. I don't have any monologue scripted. I don't I haven't made any notes to make sure that I don't forget anything, because I'm not worried about forgetting anything. I'm very confident that I'm gonna get everything said here

today that I want to say. Uh. Despite living in the public eye, I really am a private person for just a host of reasons, most of which I'm that's just who I am. I'm not. I want whatever I'm known for to speak for itself during these three hours. And uh, and some other things. But but you know, I'm not intra stood in being in the news all the time for whatever reason. Of course I can't help, but I am in the news all the time, but it's not something I seek. Nevertheless, it has been one

of the biggest blessings. You don't understand now when what lou Garig when he was diagnosed with a l S in the nine twenties, he's announcing his retirement. This after he has been the iron Man. He's played in all these consecutive games that the record wasn't broken until cal Ripken Jr. Came along And he's standing at home play the Yankee Stadium, and he said, after having announced, the world knew that he had a l S. Everybody knew what it was, that it was fatal, and that there

was no chance of recovery. And there still isn't right away, And lou Garig said, today, I consider myself the luckiest man on earth. I've seen that black and white film replayed numerous times in my life, and don't misunderstand. I know he meant it, but the first two or three times I heard it, I had trouble proced How in the world can anybody feel lucky after having been told that you have a disease from which there is no

recovery and that it's fast. And even though I there was a part of me that, Okay, this is something that famous people are supposed to say. He's been very successful in life, he was uniquely talented to play baseball and all that, and I thought, Okay, clearly there is a portion of Lou Lou Garring that thinks he has to say this, And now I know that's all wrong. Now I know that there was nothing forced or phony or public relations related about it. The because I feel

the same way, I cannot. I cannot thank all of the people that I have heard from since Monday, and they are still getting hold air people. I had no idea they knew how to get hold of me. Uh. And the the sentiments they the thoughts they are expressing are just incredibly nice and supportive. And to have this kind of support, uh, and to know it, to be fully aware of it, Yeah, it does make me one of the luckiest people alive. And I I'm trying to

respond to everybody. I haven't even made a dance in it. I haven't had a whole lot of time too but i've i've I'm going to try. Some people have written excuse me three or four times, and other people are suggesting, Hey, I know this treatment, I know this hospital, I know this treatment place. You need to call it. I thank you for all of that. I just am inundated with so much love and support, more than more than I

ever knew. And it's it's really true when I sit here, think about how lucky I am that all this has happened to me. Now. I know many of you want to know the story of the State of the Union address on Tuesday night and how that all happened, and someday I hope to be able to tell you the entire story. I can't tell you the entire story now without divulging uh medical details that I frankly don't want to give people an opportunity to start investigating and writing

about and pronouncing opinions in this kind of thing. People know enough about about what I have. It's it's late stage, it's advanced lung cancer. But there's good news associated with the diagnosis and the treatment. So we are where I am to have the first procedure that will set up the beginning of treatment. This is Tuesday, and it is scheduled for five o'clock in the afternoon. We took no clothes, Catherine and I. We just we went grub City with shorts t shirts. I mean, the whole week is going

to be in a hospital. There's no reason to take a coat in time. There's no reason to uh pack a whole bunch of stuff that you're never gonna use. Light was the by word the proceed Your was gonna be five o'clock in the afternoon. Have to show up for it at twelve noon to do the prep, talk to the doctors and so forth. Nine am phone rings. I've got the number in my address book, so it's the White House. So I answered the phone and they said,

and you, uh, can you hope for President Trump? He said, yes, Rush, Rush, How are you doing, buddy? Great to hear from you. Hey, look what are you doing later today? And I said, well, I have serious medical procedure that's gonna start all this at five o'clock. Well, look, what's the doctor's name. I want to call him and have him to lay it for a couple of days because I need you down here tonight. I said, uh, Mr President, Um, I'm I'm I'm stunned. He's he said, Look, your health comes first,

there's no question. But but but can't they just do half of what they're gonna do and then and then send you down here? I mean, believe me, you don't want to miss this. There's gonna be great. It's gonna a great deal. Want to missus? Well, I don't know what's up. I mean, he told me that he was going to He wanted me to be his guest at the State of Union. Is gonna mentioned my name, recognized me, hung up the phone, and for the next hour and

a half, I agonized. I literally agonized over what to do. Catherine and I were both sitting in a hotel room as time is marching on. We're faced with the possibility of having to ask an entire medical team to broom their schedule and reschedule to accommodate this. But we haven't told him yet. We're discussing the logistics. Now. There's something else. Earlier that day, I had sent e I B one to take my nieces from New York to Cape Girardo, and it wasn't going to be available to me until

four thirty in the after noon. So I'm putting that in the equation. I mean, there's no way to even get there, even if I want to. Once we charter, we could we could do that. But no clothes, no shirt, no tie, no socks, I mean not no dress, shoes zip zero, not a Catherine saying you've got to do that. You can't not do this. I said, how are we gonna do it? She said, leave it to me? Hour and a half later, called the President back, tried to tell him no, Remember, I don't know what's going to happen.

I have no idea. I just he has told me by the way I should. He has told me that he's going to present me with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but a couple of weeks from now in the Oval Office. I had no idea at this point on Tuesday morning, this is going to happen State of the Union, and

he didn't tell me during all these phone calls. I called him back around ten to Pty, intending to be as persuasive as I could, to thank him and just say that there was too much here to overcome to get down there, including the medical schedule, loom doctors and everything they've been and this this story. If if I could, and some day I'm going to be able to give you every detail here. But for people that do not know Donald Trump, this story will explain him, his essence,

his attitude toward life. They're simply is nothing you can't do. There's nothing that can't be done, and there's not a single obstacle that can't be dealt with. And it's not even hard, it's not even He didn't have to stop and think for a moment about this. Now, granted, he's got presidential power. If he wants to clear us into Reagan National, if he wants to send a car for us and get us from the airport to the way, he can do all of that. But he was but

and he did, and he was willing. But but the fact was that this is what he wanted. But not for him, you see him, It was for me, and he wasn't going to let me talk myself out of it. Part of me is not wanting to create any problems for him. I mean, he's got so many more important things to do than to deal with logistics. And I totally may say, you think I'm gonna do it, I got people here. What do you mean I'm gonna call a guy here in an hour, all this will be done.

All you gotta do is just find a way to get with and get the close. So Catherine, this was just this was amazing too. Catherine got in gear and again without divulging too much in about we went and met the doctor. We kept the appointment at noon to discuss what was going to happen, sign of papers, get as much of the procedure out of the way as we could, and then to tell the doctor, Hey, I have been summoned to Washington. Can can this be moved

to tomorrow? Sure, it's not a problem. In fact, show up at five thirty tomorrow morning before anybody else gets here. We'll get it started. We'll get it. Everybody was just as cooperative helpful as they could be. We get back from the meeting with the doctors about two hours and in our hotel room is fifteen sport coats, different sizes, four or five different ties, a bunch of shorts, different sizes, and all I had to do was try on various things and find an outfit that fit. I did have

taken back. I did have a pair of slacks because it was cold where we went, so I wasn't working in shorts with me. But I did wear slacks and the slacks from a suit. But I mean we were looking at even sending the plane down the floor to get my suit in the time, but I couldn't because it was on the way to Missouri. So anyway, Capita arranged for a bunch of stuff to be delivered from local retail outlets, including for her. She had nothing either,

nothing that would be suitable for the house chamber. Pardon me, Yeah, it was stuff off the road. When do you get it. There's no time for a tailor. There's no time for a seamstress. Yeah, that's why there was fifty and different sport coats. Mr Snerdle, It's why there four or five different church different next sizes sleeve links. I told him what I wear, But you ever know from from manufactured

to manufacture brand debrand, nothings consistent in clothes. And there was only one of the of the whatever it was ten or fifties, only one fit, only one that I could button. The slave length was perfect, but only one that I could. But what do you mean, you're used You're used to what over here on the other you're oh, you're used to offer Look I don't have a tailor eater. What do you people think I have? Somebody makes myself. When's the last time you saw me in a suit

was in December? And that's an off the rack suit. I haven't bought a suit in ten years because I don't like clothes shopping, because precisic is nothing does fit off the wreck. I get better things to do. To sit there and be measured three or four times again? It right? And if that was what was was somewhat miraculous about this is that Katherine got enough delivered that something worked. And when when I saw the ties, so

these are the dullest ties. I don't wear invisible ties like this is, I said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but this is this is this is how they interpreted what you said you want turned out to be perfect. The tie turned out to be the pre fit color for what was to come later. Anyway, I gotta take a break. There's still a lot to this story, and there's more than I can tell you today about Donald Trump and who he is and why he's unbeatable, folks, He's indomitable.

There's these these clowns, the Democrats. They still have no idea what they're up against. They haven't the slide. There's nobody. There's nobody in the Democrat Party, There's nobody in American politics. It even comes close to the personality and the the overall attitude towards life of Donald Trump. It's incredible. Now, look in this storm, we're not even at the White House yet. I still have a ways to go in explaining what all happened here on on Tuesday, but there's

not enough time in this segment. I kind of went overboard in the first one, so so bear with me here. I just want to reiterate something. You look at what happened in Iowa, and given I told the President there was a meeting, I'm jumping ahead, but there was a meeting in the Yellow Oval. Teddy Roosevelt loved the Oval Office so much he had an exact replica built in the Residents and it's yellow. It's the same dimensions as the Oval Office in the West Wing. The entire Trump

family is there. And the subject of the Democrats meltdown in Iowa, the Hawkeye cark I came up and I said, Mr President, don't you find a little ironic these people running around the last four years claiming you cheated with Russia. You're gonna cheat and look what happened. These people are stillicon Valley running their operations. They can't even count votes. When are they gonna blame Russia for this? When are they gonna blame you for this? And he got a

big laugh out of it. What a bunch of incompetent, arrogant More on this in a minute. Half my brain time behind my back still just to make it fair. The e IV network and russlan ball wrapping up. Oh, by the way, it's all line Friday. So when we get to the phones about a quarterinal three this afternoon, whatever you want to talk about will be fine. No. I hope to be able to get the phones much

much much sooner than that. Um, this experience that Katherine and I had, And look, folks, I have Look, I've known Donald Trump for years and I've been really fortunate the past year played golf with him a number of times when he's down here then in Florida. Um, and I've gotten to know him person. I know Donald Trump when I saw him come down the escar. I know.

I've known Donald Trump from the moment he got into this and I knew he was gonna win two weeks after he got into this, and I never had any doubts about it, and I fully totally understand. The Democrats are discombobulation with it. They have no idea what they're up against. They still don't the deep state, all these people that have tried to run Donald Trump out of town, they just they have no idea. Folks they have they literally, I don't think, know anybody like him, which is a shame.

They don't know people like Donald Trump. They may even have disdain for people like Donald If you look at Donald Trump's life, He's lived a full and complete life, and not everything has been um what we would characterize as exemplary, but that's the point. He's lived. He has gotten everything life has to offer, and he's not finished, and he attacks it each and every day. And he has no what's the words he's got, He's got no

self doubt. He doesn't let what other people might think of what he wants to stop him from doing it or from saying what he wants to say. He's just a unique personality. And the fact that the political establishment, in fact that some of both parties don't understand it is Uh, not hard to understand, because there is a way of doing things, the standard operating procedure in electoral politics,

and you can see the contrast. But watch watching any Democrat during the Hawkeye Hawk Eye, the lead up and then that night when the vote mess happened, and listen to any of them talk and every speech, even the hand gestures are rehearsed, focus grouped, the words that they say, focus grouped practiced. None of it is real, and all of it is pandering. Every bit of it is pantmit Romney epitomizes the pandering. Romney is pandering to other losers.

For some reason, Romney thinks this is his route to victory. He hasn't the slightest idea what his future is, but it doesn't include victory, not even close. And he's gonna find out sooner than later. But in this day, this past Tuesday, there was simply no way it wasn't going to happen. And he never made a demand. I want to try to be clear about this so that as many of you as possible understand the personalities. There's nothing. There was no demanding, there was nothing offensive, there was

nothing butlittally, there was nothing it's a unique person. That isn't that that that is able to persuade people to do what they want and make them happy they're doing it even when they don't think they can. In Donald Trump's world, there simply is no can't, especially when it comes to when it comes to trying. So we tell him late in the afternoon on Tuesday that we're going to accept the invitation. He's thrilled. He was ecstatically happy, but as I was to learn later, not for himself.

He U pardoner the sniffles here. First I called you, I've got a little bit of a bronchial congestion, chess cold coming on any rate. He's he's uh, He's on the phone and saying, look, of course, of course your health comes first. There's no question. You gotta put your health first. Can't the doctor take some of it out now and then go get the rest of it tomorrow? What's his name? It was? But there was never a demand there was. There just wasn't any way we were

going to be able to decline it. That just wasn't gonna happen. We figured that out, and then all the logistics fell into place, and we arrived in Washington and were picked up and taken to the White House. We were met by Hogan get Lee in the Communication shop. I went to the library in the White House, which

is UH. It's off the Diplomatic entrance Area's the elevator to the UH Residents, where the First Lady was posing for photos with all of the people who were being recognized in the gallery that night, and we were last in line on purpose because after we posed for the photo with the First Lady, we were then escorted to the to the Residents to meet the Trump family in the Yellow Oval. Again, that is a room in the Residents.

It's not far down the hall. If it's if you keep walking past it, you'll run into the Lincoln Bedroom in the Queen's bedroom, and it's the exact dimensions of the Oval office in the West wing. Teddy Roosevelt loved that room. He it made for the residents, exact measurements, with the predominant color being yellow. Hang on here just

a second. Books. So we're escorted into the room by Mrs Trump and we chat with her for two or three minutes, and then the Trump family began to come in Ivanka, Donald Jr. Eric, their wives, spouses, and then the President came in and sat down and started talking about the award and the medal and what it means and how special it is and how uh thrilled he was that we were able to make it, and Fox, Uh, I don't know if I should. I'm just gonna I'm

gonna go ahead and tell you this. I realized that it's going to open the floodgates of a bunch of people in the media, but at this stage, I don't care. I never have cared, and I'm not going to start caring now what they say. One of the reasons I was reluctant was I just wasn't sure I deserved this. You look at I mean, it's the highest civilian honor that the country awards. It's the exact same award that Congress give the Congressional Medal of Honor to Presidential Medal

of Freedom. It's exact same thing. Uh. There are different requirements. Uh. Military people who qualify are awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor with sometimes the ceremony at the White House. But this is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And there was a part of me. I'm a radio talk show host and I sit here behind this microphone and i'm and I talk, and this is, by the way, nothing new.

Remember when I was at the National Review fiftieth anniversary dinner in Washington, some of you will remember this story. I'm sitting at Mr Buckley's table and a man walks up to me who has been severely wounded in battle, and he asks if I could come over to his table to meet others at his table who also have been wounded. So I did, and I got over there, and I was listening to these guys who have nearly died defending the country, telling me how much they enjoy

listening to my program. And I said to you guys and said, you know, I I don't know, guys, you've faced bullets, almost died. I sit behind the microphone and enclosed room and talk. And the leader of the wounded warriors said, sir, we all have our role and I've never forgotten it. And I remember when I start did questioning, gee, is this something I really have earned or deserved? I remembered that statement from the I mean really severely wounded. We all have our roles. And then I said I can't.

I can't react to this in a way that diminishes their appreciation. I can't sit here and say, oh, come on, guys, you know I'm not worth this. They can't do that. It means everything in the world to them that I came over and they wanted to tell me this, and so you can't. You can't phony up the humility and and act. So I gutted it up and I told him how much I appreciated it, how stunned I was, how much it meant to me to know that they were out there and it was a great evening. It's

the same thing. Decided, Okay, drop this, drop this business. That the president wants to give it to you, that's all that matters. You've you've got to do it. But I just I'm jumping back in time because that was one of the um items of when we're deciding whether to do this or not. And I didn't tell Katy. Katherine's hearing this for the first time. I think I may have said, you think I really deserve I don't know,

but I don't think I did. So we get there, presidents talking and we have the joke about the Democrats in Iowa, and he's sitting on an ottoman a footstool. We're on sofas facing each other, Mrs Trump, other family members. He's on an ottoman by himself, no ties where. He's got his jacket on, crisp white shirt unbuttoned. And I said, you know, I couldn't do this. Whenever I used to do anything like this, like a big speech or Russia, I had to be alone with no distractions. I couldn't

have a bunch of people around me. I said that one of the reasons I don't None of it was scripted, and I had lived everything so on. Need to make sure my brain was working and not distracted. And and he said, no, this is this. This we love this, We love this is this is historic. We've got such a great story to tell. You know that Donald Trump is not ashamed two trumpet his accomplishments and achievements because they're real. He does have his own version of humility.

You have to know how to spot it. It happens in every rally. Donald Trump will tell everybody in the world how much he appreciates their support. One way or the other. Could be thirty seconds, could take him two minutes. But everybody at a Trump rally knows that he appreciates them and doesn't take any of their support their presence for granted. So then after this and the joking about the Democrats and my suggesting that maybe the Russians were behind this disaster in Iowa, it was time to leave.

And this was something I never knew. I never knew how all of this happened, all those guests sitting up there with the first lady in the gallery. I never knew how it all happened. But now I do, and I will tell you when we get back. Okay, So the way they get everybody over uh, and I'm I'm truncating this. They've got a couple of busses, minivans that they're very nice, don't misunderstand minivans. They put all the guests in, and the guests are the tail end of

the caravan. It is a massive carabany that more SUV has ever seen in a row. And we left the White House about a fifteen to get over there, and they hustle you in um to the gallery and you sit down and I've never been in the gallery. Oh yeah, I haven't, senate, never in the house. I have seen the house chamber from floor level. You're not allowed to

go out there if you're not a member. And it was pretty full, and we got there at thirty and all the Republicans are just they're looking up and they're waving thumbs up. It was I don't know if it

was so. It was so inspiring and gratifying, and there was just a if you can imagine an enveloper of like a wave of warmth that just swept over me sitting there, every Republican, Congressman, every Senator, every looking down there, and then to see the Democrats not doing a thing, and they're dressed in all white and so forth, and it was it was just it was just a moving, moving night and sitting there, can't believe we're there, can't believe it happened, can't believe it all came together and

then it happened. Almost every American family knows the pain when a loved one is diagnosed with a serious illness. Here tonight is a special man be loved by millions of Americans who just received a Stage four advanced cancer diagnosis. This is not good news, but what is good news is that he is the greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet. Rush Limball, thank you for your decades of Tyla's devotion to our country. This is the

the House Chamber, the State of the Union. Mom and Dad would not have believed it kind of thing was not possible. Yeah, and Rush. In recognition of all that you have done for our nation, the millions of people a day that you speak to and that you inspire, and all of the incredible work that you have done for charity, I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Now I thought this was coming in

a couple of weeks. In the Oval Office, somebody jab is turned to your right, Turn to your right, turn away from the First Lady. Okay, m hm yea. I will now ask the First Lady of the United States to present you with the honor. Please, And Pelosi is going nunsense. Once she starts ripping up the speech, Pelosi is still ticked off. She can't see scoph You have no idea what this is like of all the things you think might happen to your inn life. Congratulations, Thank you, Catherine.

This is not one of them. I've got to take a break. There's one other thing about this, I have to impart those, so stick with us. For me. The highlight though, was Sergeant Williams, brought back from Afghanistan, hadn't seen his kids and his wife in years. That moment he came down those steps. You have to have been there to understand the power of that moment. That's not twenty one. This is Howie Carr, who was on Tucker Carlson Show on the Fox Newest channel on Wednesday night.

And Howie Carson, why not just say why did you say? I disagree with Russia? But why does every disagreement have to have to be kind of perverted into a race conversation? Okay, they disagree with Rush, fine, Well why do they have to call everyone they dislike a racist? Every time? That's Tucker Carlson asking, that's the way it is with liberals. If they disagree with you, ergo you are a racist.

And it doesn't matter that Russia has raised millions of dollars for charities, leukemia foundations with the Betsy Ross t shirt more recently, he's done all that. He's a historical figure in American politics, I would say, and in the radio industry. I'll tell you one thing. He never wrote around on Jeffrey Epstein's jet, Unlike a certain former president of the United States. He never tried to cow ronan pharaoh into stopping his expose as of Harvey Weinstein, like

Hillary Clinton's people did. It's ridiculous, it's really loathsome. All of that is a is A is a good point. It's clearly clearly a two way street. Um. And then the vice president is what I was looking for. This is vice As I mentioned, he called me after the State of the Union on Tuesday as we were headed

back to the airport. And let's see, he was with this is Wednesday morning in a Fox Wait a minute, yeah, Fox Newest Jil Fox and Friends, and Doocy said, your longtime friend Rush Limbaugh, President awarded him the Medal of Freedom. Rush didn't see it coming. It always happens in the White House, not Congress, so Rush didn't see it coming. I reached him shortly after hand Catherine left the capital, and he was very moved and told me that he was going to spend the rest of his life trying

to earn it. And I said, Russia, you've already earned it. Everything you've done up hold values and ideals that have made this country great. Rush told me last night that his wife said that God is working in all of this, and uh, I believe that moment which the president, we all found out about Rush, and then the President just had this thought to say, I want to have you come to the State of the Union. But and he said, I know you've got some medical procedures this week, but

I'd like to have you there. But he didn't tell him he was going to give him the highest civilian honor. And so there were people when it happened, It's okay, you've got to turn to the right, you've got to turn away from the first lady. It's okay. And it was special night