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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbough Show podcast.
And let me thank you Team EIB and Rush himself
for allowing me this incredible honor to sit in for
Rush doing it from radio studio in Seattle Katt dot
com and do a morning show there every morning. It's
it's going to be a show organized around things that

(00:21):
we've learned. I want to talk about something we learned
about our President Donald John Trump yesterday and it's something extraordinary.
You know, we live in historic times. My prayers are
with you. People who've lost jobs, are in the process
of trying to save businesses. I talked this morning to
the receptionist at work. She's terrified. She's lost two jobs.
My prayers are with you, My belief is with you also.

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And the President yesterday signaled something that the media and
it's filthy. It is just utterly filthy what the media
is attempting to do to this president in this time.
This is from CNN Reopen America or save Americans. Trump
seems to have decided and do you see what they're doing.
They're they're putting the presidents in a box that you

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can go completely towards an entire shutdown of the country,
or you can be a savage. The President signaled something
incredibly important, and I think it could end up making
President Trump even more historic. Leaders in circumstances like we
face today, they must make the hardest decisions. Every leader

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who has ever had to put troops into war has
had to make a fundamentally heartbreaking decision. Men and women
will die because we will defend this nation. Donald Trump
doesn't want this to happen. The President doesn't want lives lost.
We can see this in his actions. We can see
this in the policies, and we'll talk about the policies

(01:54):
in the show. But we learned something about President Trump
as he began to transmit that we can not let
this economy die. Now, I'd love to hear from you
which you think of the president, which you think about
the balance between the economy and the health at eight
hundred two eight two two eight eight two. But the
President is signaling that he understands that our economic health

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serves our physical health, that the economic health of a
free republic is served by its economy because it is
the engine that allows us greatness. It is the engine
that allows us to make respirators. It is the engine
that allows us to have drugs that are showing great promise.
This mix of drugs is showing great promise. The three
drugs commonly made it showing great promise. In France. There's

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a doctor in the York who's used this. He's used
it with I believe three hundred people, as I recall
hearing it a podcast, and he's had no deaths. When
the President says we are going to have to get
our country going again and the meat, he wants to
make this an argument between saving America or the economy,

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it's an act to filth. It is. I spent the
weekend researching every possible point of view I could on
the virus. Because I'm not an epidemiologist. I'm a business guy.
I'm a broadcaster, I'm a startup guy. I'm a Christian
and my dad, I'm a husband. I'm these things. What
I looked for was the commonalities because there's so much

(03:19):
disagreements on let's say, the death rates. There's disagreements on
the protocols. There's a disagreement on how long can we
keep Americans out of work. There's a lot of disagreement
that there's some commonalities and then it hit me. Now,
speaking as a lay person, non epidemiologist, non scientist, it
hit me, why have I been uncomfortable with the approach

(03:42):
that we're taking. I've been uncomfortable because it seems to
me that we're taking these incredible gifts that God has grandedness,
our intelligence, our ability to create medicines and therapeutics and vaccines,
our ability to see this coming right and to respond,
our ability to help on it. There all of these
great gifts that we have. But there's one gift that

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it seems to me that people in public health are
afraid to use or that they are convinced that they
can work without this gift. And it's the gift of
herd immunity. Now, I didn't know what herd immunity was.
I didn't understand how potent it was. And I'm not
saying that I have the fix. I'm saying that it's

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remarkable if you think about something herd immunity. People saying, yes,
herd immunity, that is, getting a lot of people who
are immune to the disease is helpful, right, and it
could also be the key to getting the economy back.
Here's what I mean. If a bunch of us have
been exposed to the disease. Younger people who are in
almost nine percent a case, is not going to die,

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not going to get that sick. If we have that
in the nation, the disease has fewer places to land.
I didn't know this until I learned this this weekend,
that herd immunity means the disease has fewer places to live.
Now in the city of New York, that's that's inoperable.
I mean the death rate there are probably the infection

(05:05):
rate there is five times higher than what it is
around the country. You guys are in a hot zone.
You're going to have to deal with this differently. But
other areas like Montana, there's six cases I think in
Montana's you guys, say, a listener told me the herd
immunity means the disease has fewer places to land, and
it kills the disease. So one of the commonalities is
a lot of doctors saying, wait a minute, maybe we

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need the herd immunity. Maybe we need young, healthy people
to be exposed to this, so that there's maybe sixty
percent of people who've been through the disease. If some
of them got six. Some of them didn't even feel it,
and the disease bounces off of them. Because we're going
to have to bring the economy back. And the President
saying we're going to have to bring the economy back
is a factual statement. He has a nation to save.

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Part of this nation's health is its economy. Part of
this nation's health is the status that we've gained as
a nation that can take care of it people. Because
of the wealth we've built. There will be you know,
health is mental health. When we hit if we hit
a depression, thirty forty percent economy, you're going to have
a mental health crisis in this country. So one of

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the commonalities is heard immunity. We're fighting against it. And
you think about this from a perspective of faith, which
is how I look at things. And I know this
will be mischaracterized. Okay, So a guy feel inof for
Russia Limball, Toddermans and for Russia Emball. He says, pray
the flu away. Well, okay, I do pray. I do
pray to not get the flu, and others did not
get it. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that
old people have great wisdom to share with us. They've lived.

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They can say, hey, you know what the watering holes
over here if you're thinking from an adaptation perspective, or
don't use that tree to build your house. That wood
is soft, or you know what, sun better investment advice
than the stock at this time is going to be
a bond, or hey, you know, use ten percent of
your income to tie to your church, etc. They can
share this wisdom for us. Because older people are not

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as a depth or physically able to go fight disease,
they're young people get to act as a buffer to
this disease. So heard immunity would mean getting young people
back into the workforce. And here's the second commonality I
saw in all the research. So there could be disagreements
on protocol, etc. The other commonality I saw was this,

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there are three patient groups. We are doing a one
size fits none approach. And I understand it. I applaud
the president. I understand the views of state governors who
are saying shut it down. I understand those views. Those
views are defensible, But for how long? This is what
the president is signaling. How long can we stay shut
down and not lose the nation, not lose our mental health,

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not lose lives through depression, which the President mentioned maybe
the first time I've seen a president talk about depression
in that way, personal depression. The other commonalities are three
patient groups. There's a group of Americans of our neighbors
and our friends and our family who if they come
in contact with this they're going to die. Those people
need to be in quarantine. They need to be protected.

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We are good enough communicators, good enough people to be
able to say, if you have if you are this age,
you have these co morbid factors, you need to stay away.
Your family, they love you, they need to stay away
from you. The foods you get, the packaging needs to
be cleansed and disinfected. We need to do everything we
can to protect you. You need to be isolated. There's

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a second group of people. They're younger, they don't have
as many co morbid factors, etc. They're people who maybe
need to self quarantine and still be kept away from
people who have or coming into the contract of this virus,
people who are building up this herd immunity. Then there's
this third group, and the third group is those of
us who can come in contact with this virus and

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not get violently ill or ill at all. And it
might be that God's plan for us is to be
this buffer to get this disease so that seven and
ten people or six and ten or five and ten,
and the virus comes in contact with it can't land.
And in that way, what I understand from the research
is then it can't live. We're a good enough nation,

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We're a powerful enough nation, we're good enough communicators to
be able to have this third way to save Americans
and save the economy. Because saving the economy is going
to save Americans. President Trump is signaling something historic and difficult.
And imagine the difficult nature of this. Imagine how hard

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it is for the president to say, we're going to
have to take some risks. We can't stay hidden. We're
going to have to revive the economy. There's a stress test.
We'll talk about this later in the show in some detail.
There's a stress test from time to time that we
put on our banks. We set up scenarios, worst case scenarios,

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and those worst case scenarios are, hey, can the bank survive? Well,
they've survived the scenarios. But right now we're at a
position where our financial circumstance in fact, goes beyond their
worst case scenarios. Now, the great news is the government
is acting. The great news is President Trump is pushing.
The great news is President Trump is listening to the

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epidemiologist and the doctors. And the better news is he's
made a brave statement he will not let the nation die.
They have to figure out a third way. The third way,
as I see it's as an amateur, as a non doctor,
is what I just described. Some people are locked away,
some people are in self quarantine, other people are in

(10:39):
the economy. Seems to me to do otherwise is to
try to fight God's plan rather than take advantage of it.
It's Todd Hermann filling in for Russia Limbaugh on the
EIB network. Well, thanks for all the kind notes on
social media. I appreciate that and all the prayers for
Rush Russia. Limbaugh is doing what Russia Limba needs to do,

(11:00):
and we need him back. And so the key to
that is the mayor of Realville Ghlson does what the
mayor must do. Joining us now is Senator Jim Dementz
and good to talk to you again, Senator. Appreciate you
coming on Russias Show with us. Good morning, Todd. Great
to be with you. I hope you Folcus on New
York are doing okay today. Well, I'm out in Seattle.

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The team new York. They're a good share. But it's
scary back there, Senator, it's scary. I know you're you're
in what in Seattle and they're in New York And
I'm in South Carolina today. So we've got the country covered. Yes, yes,
we're well spread out. Jim de Mint is leading the
Conservative Partnership Institutes and is working on something to get

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America back to work again. And Senator, I don't know
if you hadn opportunity to hear my opening remarks, but
it's occurred to me there's a third way forward as
I see it, and to get America back to work.
But I'd rather hear from you, senators. So what are
you doing and how do you think we can accomplish
it to get America back to work and still take
care of people healthwise? What Todd? No one knows exactly

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what to do right now, so we need to remember
to keep praying and asking for wisdom in this situation.
It's clearly a situation that we have not navigated before.
But the point a lot of us as conservatives are
trying to make to the President and to the public,
and actually we're hearing the same thing from people as

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we call around the country. As Americans have always been
willing to risk their lives for freedom, for a chance
at opportunity, and to leave this country better than they
found it. And I think President Trump has done a
great job in trying to round up the resources get
everybody working on the healthcare side of this. There's some

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cures that look very hopeful. A lot of the test
kits and ventilators are now online and being delivered. So
he's doing everything I think that we possibly can. And
we're doing this because we are looking at the possibility
of a worst case scenario. What I think is missing
Todd here is we need to understand the worst case

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scenario if we keep this economy shut down much longer,
the loss of jobs and the shutdown of the economy,
what that could do as far as human suffering, I mean,
is very very real. And the campaign that we're trying
to lead as conservatives is to let Americans, or let
Trump know, the President Trump and the administration, Congress know

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that we know we have to start planning and talking
about the process of getting America back to work. Todd,
when I hear us saying, Okay, let's look at this
in sixty days, I just don't think people understand where
the economy is going to be in sixty days. Our
feeling is that next week we need to look at

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where healthcare and infection statistics are and start talking about
the forty five states that have low infection rates and
how the governors and mayors can get things open back up.
I just think we start we need to start balancing
the conversation between the possible risk on the healthcare side

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and compare that to the very real threat of what's
going to happen to America if we don't get back
to work. I couldn't agree more. Senator Jim Demid is
with us and Senator I spent the weekend. I'm a
lot of fun. My family loves me because they sit
around then read research papers and medical papers. And I'm
not pretending to be a doctor. I know you're not
doing that either, Senator, but there's these commonalities a couple things.

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One is heard immunity, and we're gonna talk about more
about that, which is getting a lot of Americans in
contact with this virus so that they develop antibodies. That
means the virus has fewer places to live. And then
there's this Senator, and you've worked on the hill, You've
done you great things on the hill. I believe we're
a great enough nation, Senator, to take the two groups
that are most at risk and to communicate with them.

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If you're older and you have co morbid condition, you
need to be kept away. You need to be in quarantine,
and officially so. And I think we could find places
for that. I do lovely places to help human beings.
The other group are people who could self quarantine, but
with tight, tight suggestions on how to do that and
get the younger people who would all likelihood, Senator, are
not going to go contract this disease to get back

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out right. I work in the media, so we're considered
a necessity, which is weird. But I'm here at risk
and I'll continue to do that because I believe in
this economy. So what about our approach like that, Senator,
Do we have what it takes as a nation to
protect those two groups and to get younger people back
into the workforce. Well, that's exactly the way we need
to think. I mean, we can't say we're all shut down.

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We've got to realize that there are ways that we
could open the economy back up and minimize the risk
to those people who are in those high risk groups.
But we cannot keep saying that where everything is going
to close down. I know close to me here the
BMW plant, which is mostly robotics, that it would be
a situation where most of the people there are relatively young.

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They can have their social distancing, but if it stays
closed down, all their suppliers are closed down, the customer
groups or that just one thing, if they use the
criteria you're talking about, Todd, let's be careful, let's be smart,
but let's don't keep talking about the worst case of

(16:23):
this healthcare. We need to start talking about the process
of getting America back to work. I know that's how
Trump is thinking, because he's starting to see that the
cure here may be worse than the disease, and he's
i think looking for more public support and ideas like
you just said that we can do this in a
very intelligent way that minimizes the risk to those who

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are in those high risk groups. And Senator Jim Demens
with us. A Senator, I want to just depart a
little bit from the conversation to get America back to work,
because it would be remiss if I didn't ask you.
We've got a couple minutes left in this segment. I
would be remiss if I didn't ask you, Senator, about
your observations of this debate and the Senate over this
relief bill. But we're not time to get into the

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specific um, you know, functions of the bill. But Senator,
I am, I am easy. I'm as cynical as it
gets with DC. I'm stunned at what the Democrats are
doing within this bill. We've got about a minute to this.
I mean, how bad is it with the Democrats are
trying to stuff into this It's I mean, I was
in the Senate eight years, a House six years. I've
never seen anything this bad. They're putting the country at

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risk trying to get all of this what we call
Christmas tree ornaments of collective bargaining for government employees, bail
out for the postal unions, emissions or airlines things like
you say, we can't get into all of it, but
it's unconscionable that they're trying to take a one tree
in dollar bill to over two tree and and they

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they're holding the president hostage. They're trying to make him
make a decision between the economy and looking like he's
not doing anything. I just think it's an unconscionable situation.
And the media is covering for him, yes, or covering
for the Democrats right now. They would blow the Republicans

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out of the water. If Republicans were doing something like this,
I couldn't agree more. How do people get in touch
with you, Senator to Mint if they want to help
the effort? What Conservative Partnership dot Org. I'd love for
folks to be in touch. Our whole job is to
support and build the conservative movement around the country, especially
those on Capitol Hill. Okay, there it is, Senator Jim

(18:34):
the Mints a pleasure you talked against, Sir God Speeds.
Your folks there in South Carolina appreciate you coming on
Russia's show with us. It's Todd Herman filling in for Russia.
Limbaugh on the EIB Network will continue the conversation with
you as we roll along in the program. Oh, I
really appreciate the opportunity to be here the Notes to Rush.
You can go to Russia Limbaugh dot com upper left
end side of the website. There's a special notes to

(18:57):
Rush section. I've heard Mark Stein, who knows us really well,
express how much that means to the mahaw. So if
you have an opportunity to do that, appreciate it. On Twitter,
someone just said this to me. I felt really bad,
But then I looked at our profiles and she's notes
here that Rachel Maddow is a road scholar. So I
feel less bad now. Based on the first two segments
of the show, we talked about we can protect the

(19:18):
most vulnerable Americans vulnerable to the Wuhan flu. We could
protect them, and we can get young people back to work,
and we can build her community to make the nation safer,
and we can save the economy. And admitting I'm not
an epidemiologist or a doctor, so Vicky writes, so death panel,
I'm saying her way. So death panels are good. Now

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you'd like to quarantine senior citizens. The modern Republican Party
has no dignity. Wait, we're shutting down entire states, VICKI,
I'm talking about caring for people so they don't get
the disease and so that the nation doesn't crumble into
economic ruin. It's incredible. You have the same leftists who
will talk all day long about income inequality and we

(19:59):
need a three hundred five thousand dollars minimum wage, and certainly,
just just spend the money. There's a new economic policy,
new money theory. Let's just spend it and then then
we'll figure out how to pay for it. Just write
the check. They're the same people who say, wait, everybody
needs free phones, the same people who say you should
be able to compel someone to do something for you
in terms of healthcare, because we should be able to

(20:19):
compare and compel labor. And then they look at a
situation like this and all of a sudden they want
to call it death panels. When what are we really
talking about. We're talking about keeping people safe in a
way that keeps the economy going, because the economy is
what raises people from poverty. It's also what's gonna have
to pay for this. You know what's a twenty two
trillion dollars that's going to go up to twenty four trillion.

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We've got two and twenty trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities.
One day that check is gonna come do so. I
spent the weekend reading about reading these medical papers. I
heard commonalities, heard immunity is a good thing, and there
are three classes of patients. We should be able to
threat these three classes of classes of patients differently rather
than trying to treat them the same. Have economic benefit

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and health benefit. Martin from Cadillac, Michigan joins us. Martin,
you're on the Russia Lumba program. It's Todd Herman fielding
and appreciate you calling a doctor Martin. Thank you, Thank you, Todd.
And full disclosure. I'm an allergist and a clinical immunologist.
To speaking to your points, I'm going to speak from
a medical perspective, not a political one. The containment failed,

(21:25):
the mitigation has failed, the virus is here and it's
all hands on deck. It's herd immunity time. You know,
the vast majority of patients that we are testing, these
are only the high risk patients because we don't have
enough test kits. They're coming back negative. What is that
telling us? That's telling us that these people are immune.

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If we look at the Italian data under the age
of thirty zero percent risk of debt. I'm really concerned
of how many suicides, drug overdoses, and other fallouts we're
going to have with this thing if we continue to
keep the country shut down. We need to continue to

(22:08):
build up our hospitals and clinics to deal with this.
I'm not taking this virus lightly at all, But if
we don't have the infrastructure, what's going to happen the
next time this happens. What's going to happen with us
missing other patients who have influenza, who have heart attacks.
We're all panicked about this coronavirus. We need to, like

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you said, we need to look at these patients and
stop generalizing and start individualizing, and that will be the
way we overcome this. The elderly their targets because their
immune systems weighing overtime. So let me ask you this question,
doctor in Martin's with this kind of like Michigan, do
I correctly understand herd immunity that when a number of us,

(22:53):
let's say it's sixty percent of us have had the virus,
some of us has gotten sick, it's been painful, it's
the flu. Others have not even felt it that once.
That's happened if we've built up anybodies. It's my understanding
then that societally, the disease has fewer places to land,
and it hastens the death of the virus. It makes
it it makes it harder for the virus to live

(23:14):
in our country. Is that correct? Absolutely? Herd immunity is
the dead end for the virus. Herd immunity tells the
virus you have nowhere to go. The people who get
exposed to the virus, who are immune to it, kill
it off before the virus can reproduce in their bodies,
and they cough it out. Okay, that see, And this

(23:35):
is this is why I knew doctor that I was
incomfortable with this approach. And then I read and I
read and I read and tell us of these commonalities.
I think God has plans for us, and we don't
need to get all the religious or intelligent design, et cetera.
But I think I would believe you. Okay with you
on the God thing. All right, that's good, Well, let's
be together in that. And what a gift that you called.
I appreciate it, and thanks for being on the front

(23:57):
lines of this. Is that allergists and epidemologists. I know
you are. Thanks for calling Roshi's show, Martin, appreciate you
very much, godspeed, Thank you. See this is and this
is what is? If did you have a sense that waits, wait, wait, wait,
what are we doing now? And let me give it
another And then you said, okay, I'm learning about herd immunities.
Let me give you another example. Sometimes firefighters fight fire

(24:20):
with fire. I know we're human beings. I know we're
not going to burn human beings. I know New York
is a separate case. I know Los Angeles is blown up,
it's a hot zone. They need to be treated separately.
But when firefighters sometimes burned down the fuel, you know,
for the for the fire where it's headed, or they
try to put a natural barrier in its way, like
a river or a lake, they're taking advantage of what

(24:40):
nature has. We have herd immunity. It seems to me
that people who are who've been, you know, their entire
careers has been about disease response. I hate to say
it this way, but they've normalized the idea of shutting
the country down. They've normalized it. And in any executive team,
you have to have a yan and a Yang. You do.
You have to have people who are let's say, product
people and then safety people. Cation point. One of the

(25:02):
things Boeing did that was a mistake is they dis
empowered their quality control people. They made them less powerful
than the product people. Henceforth you ended up with these
flawed airplanes. The president is doing the right thing. He
has a team of people, some viewing it from an
epidemiological perspective, some viewing it from the perspective of the economy,

(25:24):
which is health, mental, and otherwise. The president has to
walk the balance. That's what a CEO does. Karen from Lakeville, Missourip.
You're on the Russia Lumbaugh program. Stodd Herman filling in.
Oh no, it's it's Lakeville, Lakeville, Springfield, Springfield. Hi Karen,
welcome to Russia Show. Thank you, go ahead. I just

(25:48):
was thinking this morning and talking to my youngest son,
and I just I have buried his son when I
was ten rom asthma, his twin brothers, but we revived
him the night at the funeral. So he has asked
and I have another child, stasand of grandkids. As I'm
very you know, very worried about him. But I was
talking to my youngest son. You know, let's put we

(26:08):
throw these young people out in our wars, and how
many have died for us for what we have. And
now I'm willing as an elderly person to help try
to get this back on track. We can't do this,
and I'm so thankful. I have a business here, very
small business, and it has done well and we're still working.
But I'm scared they're going to shut us down. Construction

(26:30):
shut down. And you know, we can survive because we're
a healthy little business and I provide insurance for my employees.
We pay it all, We fund their health savings. And
if I've always wanted to say this, if I, as
a small business can do this, why can't other businesses
do it? Because I don't. I have more than they
ever dreamed of, but I don't live, you know, like

(26:52):
movie stars. So I'm like And my son even said,
and this just may mecause he's my baby at thirty nine,
you know, he has children. He said, Mom, I'm willing
to die too. If it's what it takes to get
this economy. We've got to go to work and quit enabling.
I don't like any of this bailing people out. I
have family and friends that are taking advantage of disability

(27:14):
and medicate. Stop. I feel like our whole government isn't
enabling work. Yeah, yeah, I hear in your voice the
commitment of a born, free American woman who's saying that
we're going to take these risks. We take him in war.
You've lost a son, you've revived another. I hear the

(27:36):
pride and I hear the love, and I think we
can walk this line. You're doing it in your small business.
I believe are a great enough nation that we can
walk this line between protecting the vulnerable and also moving
this country forward, because our economy is our health. At
the end of the day or at the end of
a period of time a quarter, two weeks, a month,
we don't know. Karen, God go with you. I appreciate

(27:57):
you calling Russia's show and bless you and your family,
and thanks again, and call Russias show again when I'm
on because I can't I can't get permission to call Mark.
But God, bless you, Karen, Thank you very very much.
Thank you. So what was it John Mellencamp, who's a
he's a leftist like his music. Didn't he say something
about ain't that America. I know he meant it sarcastically.

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I don't. I don't mean it sarcastically. That's America. Coming
up in the Russian book program. Next hour, Tom Cotton,
the Senator, is going to join us to talk about
what the Democrats are trying to shove into this relief bill.
When we come back, I want to talk about DC
what they're doing in this bill, in the darker this bill,
in the words of this bill, and this the acts

(28:39):
of theft that Nancy Pelosi and by the way, some
Republicans not quite the same of engaged in. I want
to talk about that in some ways to prevent that
as we continue to rebuild or keep the Republic rolling
as she should. Taught herman in for Russia Limbau on
the EIB network, sought herman in for Rush Limbaugh on
the EAB network. Coming up next hour, Senator Tom Cotton

(28:59):
will come to talk about join us on the program,
talk about what the Senate is facing in terms of
Nancy pelosi shopping spree. So here's one thing that she
wants to do. It is incredible. It is just insane
to watch the Democrats shove everything they want to do
anyway into a bill that is related to bailing people
out with the virus, people in companies. They want to

(29:21):
release all the prisoners, so hey, let's do this. Now,
there's states they're doing that. They want to grab guns.
So there's cities like Bellingham, Washington saying, hey, maybe we
could grab the guns. Now, maybe they're not gonna do that.
No CoP's gonna go knock on your door take your guns.
So they're just selling that for donations, et cetera, to
try to raise money. Yeah, Pelosi with a bailout bill
for local journalists, a retirement fund for local journalists, the

(29:45):
buying even better, more biased coverage. They have that the
funding for the Kennedy Center. If you're a struggling business person,
like we just we just heard from a struggling business
person paying the bills and insurance for people. If you're struggling,
I want you to rest assured the Kennedy Center is
gonna get thirty five million bucks. So, I mean, I

(30:06):
know that will help you in Indiana, and I know
that will help you in Kansas, that the Kennedy Center's
gonna get thirty five million dollars in the midst of
this bailout everything they want to do, and the Green
New Deal is suddenly a part of this. They have
these racial they have to insert racial grievances and things.
So they want to debate whether corporate boards should have

(30:26):
to disclose the racial disparities on their boards. You know what,
if you're a corporate board, the names are published. He
could do that with a simple Internet A or a
you know, a software API. You could pull that data
in and look at it. No one, there's no law
that needs to force boards to do that. So you
watch this shopping spree and it tells us so much.

(30:49):
They want to do these things, so why not do
it during a force fire? And I'm not this is
not hyperbolic. Looting is a crime of opportunity looting. So
during Katrina people went and looted homes. During other instances,
people you know of disaster, people go and loot homes.
We have a national disaster, and Nancy Pelosi's response is

(31:11):
to loot the treasury and to loot you with things
they wanted. Anyway, It's like a looter walks by a
store and says, man, they've got a lot of great
watches in there. I want an opportunity to break in
and steal those watches, and then the disaster happens and
the looter goes down, they get those watches or whatever
it is Pelosi is to say, they want this stuff.

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They know they want it because they want to continue
to change America into a nation of people beholden to
government who must suckle upon the teat of government mightily
in order to make it through their days. It's like
being a drug addict. That's what they're looking for. It's
a phenomenal thing to observe, isn't it. So Senator Tom
Cotton to join us the next hour to talk about

(31:53):
these things. Mark from Iran, Pennsylvania. You're on the Russia
MBA Program's Todd Herman filling in for rush Hi. Mark Hi,
I'd like to talk about another bailout. These four senators
that bailed out of the market, you know, whenever ahead
of everybody else in the last couple of days, really
haven't heard a lot about it. Now you've had one

(32:14):
congressman senator on or you're going to have another one
coming on. You know, they all cover for each other,
you know, Oh, we got to give them the benefit
of the doubt. But the average person's in the floor.
Oh one k. You know they're not getting the information,
you know, from a produciary perspective, they're not being told, Hey,
great time to get out of the market. Yeah. These people,

(32:37):
swamp creatures, three of them Republicans, and I consider myself
to be a conservative, have just absolutely, in my opinion,
defied everything that they've swore to do in representing the
people in the United States. And they can say they
have these blind trusts and their advisors did it and

(32:57):
they didn't have any any input. But wait a minute.
The one gal, the blonde, the blonde sweetheart, she says, Oh,
I'm gonna blind trust And well, wait a minute. Your
husband's in charge of you know, he's the number one
guy in the stock exchange, right, right, really, come on, right,
you can tell me, you know, you can tell me
the you know, the world's flat, we know it's round.

(33:20):
You can tell me till you you know, are blue
in the face. I think the Trump needs to have
at least the three Republican senators asked them to resign. Well,
I think what ye when there's as that, when when
there's a financial crisis like this, will the market come back? Sure?
Will about the trust factor has gone. I couldn't agree more.

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You're talking about Burr, Kofler, Finstein, and Inhoff Finstein, the
only Democrat in that bunch, the one that's most disturbing
to me, two of them, Kofler and Burr. When you're
out telling your fellow investors one thing and then you
are secretly doing another, or you're telling the American people
one thing and you're telling you know and your investments
are happening another way, I don't. First of all, there's

(34:03):
a difference between a blind trust that literally means you
have no control and a trust that you are not
active in. Secondly, or thirdly, there is the opportunity to
just pass a note, just send a note. I've watched it.
I've watched it, Mark, I watched Barney Frank give insider
trading tips minutes after they've bailed out Greece, literally telling

(34:24):
people to buy Greek bonds with information that was not
in the news yet. And it's bipartisan. They want these things.
If it's proven, if it's proven that these guys went
out and sold stock based upon what they knew that
was not in the news, it's not enough for me
to see resignations. I want to see jail time. I'm sorry,
I want to see this because when I've worked at
Microsoft and we were thinking of buying a company, if

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we went into an intent to purchase, we got notes
from management saying you cannot trade anything, do anything, say anything,
tell anybody. If you do, it's gonna be grounds for
instant firing. I appreciate the call mark very much. Todd
Herman in for Rush Limbaugh on the EB network. Welcome
back to Russia, Limbob almost went earlier. Todderman filling in

(35:07):
for Russia Limbob Brian on a Twitter Yes, God had plans,
just as he had a plan for the Israelites to
survive the plague and free themselves as Slavery told them
to shelter on the night to pass over. Yeah, we're
talking about selective shelter. It's the thing we've been talking about.
Do we need to treat everybody the same or can
we actually recognize the fact that there are differences among us,

(35:28):
amongst us the three different patient populations. Take a quick
call Larry from Deer Park, New York. Sorry, it's gotta
be quick, Larry. Welcome to the Russia Show. Yes, Hello,
how are you doing, Todd, Mega diddos and you're doing
a great John, thank you. I just wanted to mention
I've been hearing so many people I heard of Rand
Paul last week on the radio talking about the one

(35:49):
thousand dollars as a as a redistribution plan, as a
you know, as a subsidy, and a lot of other people,
but that it's really not. It was money in the
first place. The government got it from tax money. They
shut us down for safety reasons, and now we're just
getting that back to keep our heads above water. Yeah,

(36:10):
and that's really happy that. I hate to cut you off.
It's just we've got this hard break at the top
of that. It's it's an annoying thing. I know, it
sucks to get on Russias show and then have to
have to get hurt ship. But what you're saying is
the way this is designed. You're exactly right, Larry, You're
exactly right that it's something the government has done that's
causing this. They're not doing it by choice, but it's
something they have to do. However, when we're seeing other

(36:32):
stuff shoved into it, that's right question. Todd Herman for Rush,
let me thank you for allowing me to spend some
time with you today. It is and will always be
an incredible honor to sit in for Rush. Senator Tom
Cotton's going to join us talk about the looting that
the Democrats are doing to your money in relation to
the bailout bill to help build the relief bill for

(36:54):
the Wuhan flu. He's coming up. We're going to join
now a Fox News town hall with the President United
States and the pandemic Response Team. We'll see others goes
and we'll have Senator caught In coming up. So we're
going to join UF. Let's stop drilling oil. They had
things in there that were terrible. Windmills all over the
place and all sorts of credits for windmills. They kill

(37:15):
the birds and ruin the real estate right. A lot
of problems, I mean a lot of problems. And I said,
I'm not signing this two trillion dollars now. They've really
hard to avoid some of the stores. You could argue,
but we have great things for not only companies. Forget
the companies. The companies are nothing other than they are
an employer of thousands and thousands of people, and they

(37:37):
pay them very well. We want to protect our workers.
I want to protect our workers workers first, but you
have to protect companies like Boeing. They had a real
bad year, let's face it, with the problems, and they
were in trouble before this, and then all of a
sudden this happened. We can't lose a Bowing and we
can't lose some of these companies and companies, frankly, Bill
that were solid as like triple A companies because of

(38:00):
what's happened over the list couple of weeks, they go
from triple A to being like they could use a
hand tough time. We can't do right. We can't lose
those companies. If we lose those companies, we're talking about
hundreds of thousands of jobs, millions of jobs. The faster
we go back, the better it's going to be. We
have a pent up energy that's going to be unbelievable.
We're gonna bring it back fast. I really believe I've

(38:21):
got a lot more questions, and said as my colleague
Harris faulk neuro allow her to rejoin the conversation now, Harris,
do I have a ear plug here? If I could
do that, go ahead, Harris, I'll relay and translate. Okay, hello,
mister President, so good to see you today. This will
be a little bit to relay. I understand you guys

(38:41):
are going back and forth on the economy and employers,
but more than sixty six percent of people are employed
by small businesses. The VP talk a little bit about this.
We hear you dropping big companies names. The question here
is how do you shore up both as you look forward? Yeah,

(39:02):
the question is a good one, and it's point to
you're talking about Boeing and yet you've got what two
thirds of American businesses or small business right, and you
think about what they're trying to do in terms of
adjusting to this new reality has been thrown on them.
What will you do for small business? Okay, well, first
of all, I have to say that Harris is one
of my favorite people. And I didn't hear a word

(39:23):
she said, and I was hoping it wasn't too devastating
a question, but she is a fantastic person. I have
to say that. Okay, now that I've said it, because
I can't hear Harris. But no, the bill is very
much focused on the small business person. It's very much
focused on small companies, including restaurants and all sorts of
small companies, and what people don't realize. You know, you're

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talking about these massive We have the greatest companies of
the world. You talk, you add them all up, and
the small businesses are just about equal in size to
these massive companies, of which we have many. Also, it's
the engine of our country, small business. This bill is
absolutely aimed at the small business and the worker and

(40:06):
the workers of those small businesses and the owners. The
owners are going to need help, they're going to need
some loans, they're going to need things, and we're gonna
be able to take care of them because we don't
want those small businesses to go out of business, nor
do we want the big businesses to go out of business.
When they said, mister President, we got to shut this down,
how hard did you push back? Well, I've never heard
of such a thing. We've had flues where we lose

(40:27):
thirty six thousand, We've lost as many, I guess as
seventy eight thousand people in one year. And they came
in and they said, to be sure, we're gonna have
to close the country. I said, what are you talking about, Well,
we have a virus. It's coming in and I knew that,
and I made the early decision with China, so I
already closed it off to China. And that was a
long time before they came in. But they came in

(40:50):
experts and they said, we're gonna have to close the country.
I said, we've got to close the country before. This
has never happened before. You're gonna you're saying, I said,
are you serious about this? We are going to take
this country that's fully employed, where we have one hundred
and sixty million people working, and you tell me we
have to close it, and people are going to go

(41:11):
out of business and they're going to go bankrupt and
they're not going to have jobs. What are we talking
about here? This don't forget. This hasn't never been done.
We've had flues before, we've had viruses before, so this
is something new. And this is why I say we
have to I gave it two weeks, and you know,
I guess by Monday or Tuesday, it's about two weeks,

(41:31):
and we'll assess at that time and we'll give it
some more time if we need a little more time,
but we have to open this country. When they came
to you and have that conversation with you, how long
did it take you to accept that new reality? I look,
I accept things. I understand things very quickly. I mean
I understood exactly what they were saying. But we can
socially distance ourselves and go to work, and you'll have

(41:55):
to work a little bit harder. You can clean your
hands five times more than you used to. You don't
have to shake hands anymore with people. That might be
something good coming out of this, although I must tell
you as a politician, it's a lot warmer when you
walk into a crowd and you're shaking a lot of
people's hands. You love, they love me, and I love them,
you know. But it is a little bit colder. But
but you won't be shaking hands for at least a while,

(42:18):
and things will happen. But we have to put the
country to work. Look, you're gonna lose a number of
people to the flu, but you're gonna lose more people
by putting a country into a massive recession or depression.
Either to lose people, you're going to have suicides by
the thousands. You're going to have all sorts of things happen.

(42:40):
You're gonna have instability. You can't just come in and say,
let's close up the United States of America, the biggest,
the most successful country in the world by far. You
know when I came in, when I was elected, and
you knew this number China was going to overtake us
in the year twenty nineteen wasn't even close. We went
way up and they didn't. We've done great. They pay

(43:01):
us a fortune in tariffs and everything else, and yet
we have a good relationship with them. We just signed
a trade deal, but with the number one in the
world by far. And now a few people walk into
the Oval office say, sir, we have to close up
the country. I said, what do you think that, mister President?
Must have been a very difficult thing to accept, one

(43:23):
of the most difficult decisions I've ever made, because I
knew that when you do it, as soon as you
do it, you're going to drop. I mean, they're talking
about twenty or twenty five points of GDP. Nobody's ever
heard at twenty five points. If we went down a point,
that's a big deal. Now, all of a sudden, you're
basically turning off the country. I said, this has never

(43:44):
been done before. What are you talking about? But we
understand it. You have hotspots, but we've had hotspots before,
We've had horrible flus. I mean, think of it. We
average thirty six thousand people death death. I'm not talking
about cases. I'm talking about death. Thirty six thousand deaths

(44:04):
a year. People die thirty six from the flu. But
we've never closed down the country for the flu. So
you say to yourself, what is this all about? Now?
How did you it's never been How did you process that?
Not good? I wasn't happy about it, and I also

(44:25):
knew that I had to do it. Look with Turkey,
I give this as an example. In Syria, I said,
sign a deal with the Kurds, make peace Urduwan. He
didn't want to. He's a man who loves Turkey and
I have a very good relation. I said, sign a deal.

(44:45):
He didn't really want to. The Kurds didn't really want to,
and it went on, you know, the so called safe
zone recently a few months ago, I should sign a deal,
do me a favorite, sign a deal, get it done.
They didn't really want to. All of a sudden, they
start fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, and it was vicious, and
other countries got involved. Now I say, let's sign a deal.
They said, okay, we'll sign a deal. We needed a

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period because I don't think if I would have not
done it, we would have been unbelievably criticized for not
doing it. But it's never been done before. One more,
somehow the word got out that this is the thing
we're supposed to be doing. Now we've had some really
bad epidemics and other things. I mean, we're going to

(45:31):
this pandemic, but we've had bad epidemics. I'm sure they
could have been called pandemics. But we never did anything
like this before. But I had to do it. It's
been very painful for a country and very destabilizing for
a country. And we have to go back to work
much sooner than people thought. And people can go back
to work and they can also practice good judgment. One

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last question, then we'll get back to our viewers here too.
A month ago, the CDC had an initial test that failed.
At that moment late February, you said it's perfect, and
it wasn't perfect. So what happened there in the early stages. Well,
what I said in late February, I said it's perfect
was my conversation with the head of the Ukraine. That's
what I really said it's perfect. Okay, that was another scandal, nonsense,

(46:15):
a total witch hunt. But this one is a much
different thing. We had other administrations, not just the last one.
They built up a platform, they built up a test,
but the test was no good. It didn't handle large
numbers of people. It was okay for a very small group,
but not for a large group. So we had to

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break it down. Did the CDC screw up or did
you screw? No, we did not screw what did this?
And I don't think CDC screwed up either. They had
a test that would have worked for a small group
of people, in other words, for a normal problem. I
don't think anybody could have in all fairness to CDC.
And this is a big government agency and they're very

(46:57):
good people in there, but nobody ever expected a thing
like this. Nobody would say that millions and millions of
people would have been tested. So what we did is
we broke that egg. We broke that system, and we've
created a new system that now we're doing unbelievably big
numbers and it's set for the future. Should we ever
need it again. I hope we don't need it again. Hey,

(47:20):
that was part of the Foxtown Hall with the presidented
States responding questions about the virus, and we'll keep track
of that and see what's going on. It's Todd Herman
and for Rushambo, Tom Cotton. Senator Tom Cotton joins us,
coming up to talk about the looting of the treasury
and of your retirements that the Democrats are attempting as
they want to shove everything into this relief build that's

(47:40):
next on the Russia Bot program on the EIB Network's
Todd Herman filling in for Russia Limbo the EIB Network
joining us now, Senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton. It's been
in the midst of watching the Democrats attempt to shove
every possible thing they want to do anyway into a
massive spending bill that's designed to help people who've been

(48:03):
hit by what we've had to do as a nation
in the midst of the COVID nineteen. Senator Tom Cotton,
Welcome the Russia's program. It's Todd Herman filling in. Good
to talk to you again. Hey, Todd, good to be
on with you. I'm you know what, Senator, it's difficult
for me to be stunts and I don't know that
I'm stunts, but I'm so unbelievably angry to see that
Obama phones are back, that the Kennedy Senator is getting funded,

(48:25):
that we are building retirement accounts for local journalists in
the midst of this national disaster. I know you're a senator.
You have to keep your temper on the floor, but
tell me, man to man, how are you are you
angry about this? So Todd? It was completely disgraceful, shameful
what the Democrats did yesterday. The Republican Senators had worked

(48:46):
in good faith over the weekend with many of our
Democratic counterparts to craft different parts of this very large
and very complex bill, and we thought we're in a
good place on Sunday, and here comes Nancy Pelosi, flying
back from San Francisco, rolling a fourteen hundred page grenade
into the room in the form of her own bill, which,
just to give you a sense of scale, Todd, is

(49:07):
about three times longer than our bill. And as I
pointed out yesterday on the floor, it had all these ideological,
wishless items from the far left that they've never been
to a pass because they're not popular. They have nothing
to do with the coronavirus. They want to take over
our state's election or our nation's election machinery when they

(49:28):
can't even count their own votes in the Iray Democratic CAUCUSUS.
They want airplanes to be carbon neutral by twenty twenty five,
which I'm sure it doesn't apply, by the way, to
Nancy Plosi's plan. They want to forgive all of the
debt the post Office owes to taxpayers. Now, look, the
post Office has struggled for some time. We've worked to

(49:51):
try to give them some temporary relief to restructure their
business model. And I have the highest degree of respect
for all the men and the women of Postal Service,
many of whom are out right now delivering the mail
in the middle of the pandemic. But is it really time,
in the middle of that pandemic to be talking about
forgiving the loans the taxpayers have made to the postal Service.
I could go on and on, Todd, but it's just

(50:14):
disgraceful how the Democrats used this legislation to try to
shoehorn in all of their ideological hobby horses. I know
that President Trump overnight and Senator McConnell have drawn a
firm line said they're not going to accept those kind
of things. Negotiations are ongoing, but Todd, we could have
probably passed to Bill Sunday night if the Democrats hadn't

(50:35):
demanded all these ridiculous things. Senator to Tom Cotton's with
us from Arkansas. This requires speculation in near part. And
here's so I'm gonna ask a question. I just want
to send it that this way, a Senator, is we're
taking calls from Americans saying, look, I'm an elderly American
and you know what, if it risked my life to
bring the economy back, I'll do it. We didn't ask

(50:55):
for these calls, and it's shocking the number of people
who are calling this that we are taking calls from
business owners are saying, look, I want to stay open,
and they also have respect for the fact that there
are other people who are deeply vulnerable to this disease
and this virus. We're looking at this third way. So
I hear these Americans making these sacrifices, Senator, and I
have to ask you this is it's even a but

(51:18):
now question legitimately, is there any sense of shame from
Nancy Pelosi? Are there do you see any any looks
of shame on the faces of your Democratic colleagues, or
are they just all in on this nonsense? The only
thing I see from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer is smirks,
gleefully rubbing their hands together at how much of their
how much of your money they're going to be able
to get Democratic hands on? How much of your life

(51:40):
they're gonna be able to take over by trying to
hijack this badly, badly urgent legislation to try to stop
this pandemic and try to stop some of the suffering
from the pandemic. Is there anything that can be done
once President Trump wins reelection and we have more Republican seats?
Is there anything that could be done procedurally to take

(52:02):
a relief bill like this? I've been thinking about this,
you know, as it was prepporum for the show. Can
we put a limit on a relief bill to say
it handles one thing? Well? I would do this way
starts with the named population. Here's who we're helping, here's
the size of the population, Here's what we're doing, and
everything must be related to that. Is there anything we
can do to stop this utter looting? They aid this

(52:25):
solution to that? Is what we're doing. Now, it's President Trump,
Senor McConnell, and a United Senate Republican front just saying no,
we're drawing a line and saying we're not going to
tolerate any of this. We will listen to reasonable requests.
And in fact, I've laid time out, you know, either
on the Senate floor on social media, saying you know what, Regrettably,
I think three months of enhanced unemployment may not do

(52:47):
the job, because I think the effects of this virus
are going to be so severe and long lasting. So
I'd be willing to give a fourth month. I'm willing
to give them more money to our hospitals because again, regrettably,
I think many of them are going to be over whelmed.
But to add in things like money for an opera
house in Washington, DC where Nancy Pelosi likes to take
her rich friends, or demanding carbon neutrality for airplanes, it's

(53:11):
just ridiculous. That's why we've drawn the line, and that's
why I think ultimately the Democrats will give in and
all those demands tied, because they know that it is
politically untenable. Would this be easier for us to have
an honest movement? On this if the media was not
covering for the Democrats, I don't know, Senator Caught. If
you saw the New York Times evolving headline where they

(53:31):
started by saying, truthfully, the Democrats are holding up the
stimulus plan. Then they added that, oh, they're trying to
get protection for workers. They kept evolving it to cover
for the Democrats. Would would it be easier if the
media wasn't doing that well? That is certainly a difference
between the two parties. Taught is that Democrats know when
they engage in such blatant political gamesmanship that the media

(53:53):
is going to carry water for them. And the best example,
as you outline, is the evolving headlines of the time
that that goes from what happened Democrats locked the bill
to oh, there was just some kind of partisan divide
in the too bad, Too bad. There's no motive actor there, nobody, filly.

(54:13):
It was just a natural, naturally occurring partisan divide. Imagine that.
But in the end, again, their position is so preposterous,
and the President and Senate Republicans have drawn such a
firm line that I think that they'll have to back
off of it. The American people won't tolerate this much longer. Well,
I sure hope that I appreciate you joining us on
short notice, Senator Tom Cotton, senator from Arkansas, and thanks

(54:36):
for fighting this battle, coming on and speaking out. We
appreciate you very much, Senator Cotton, thanks you for coming up.
Thank you very much. Todd all right, well, come back.
It's Todd Herman filling informercial on the AMB network. I
want to get to the phone calls eight hundred two
eight two to eight eight two and get your voice
in this conversation and return to talking about huge herd immunity.
In other ways we can fight this virus and bring

(54:57):
the economy back. Todd Herman in for Rush Limbaugh. There
is normal morality, and I understand that different face and
different views of morality, and that people can be atheists
and have moral structures, etc. I understand that there is
a morality. Then there is a Washington DC morality. It's different.

(55:20):
Then there is the elitist in Washington, DC. And that's
a different reality. Even beyond that, further, there is a
moral structure within the elites of the Democrat Party that
is empty of feeling. It is empty of anything but

(55:45):
hubris in pursuit of power and control, and it is
based upon their customers. You are a product in this
bill to them. You just heard Senator Cotton talk about

(56:06):
this wish list of leftism they're putting in this bill.
You're a product. Your pain is a product they can
sell you. Think of the coldness of this. If Americans
who are sick, you have Americans who are scared. You
have Americans who are scared of becoming sick. You have

(56:28):
businesses shaking and perhaps falling. You have people losing their jobs.
Our receptionists lost two of her three jobs. They were
just talking to her this morning. And you have Nancy
Pelosi going to her customers saying, I can sell you

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their pain. So she goes to the Kennedy Senator. She
goes to her rich donors there. I mean, this is
this is the one that tops it all. Kennedy Senator
doesn't have it, doesn't have it, doesn't have lobbyists. It's
just a place she likes to go. And I've been
there and it's beautiful and it's filled with the elites.
I took my daughter there to see the Nutcracker. We

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got the tickets from a friend of mine. Everybody there
was rich. I saw the parking lot, So who's your customer?
Then the people she goes to the opera with, or
her customers, she can go say, I got thirty five
million for this, and all I had to do was
sell the pain of the American people, bitter clingers. You

(57:38):
go further into this and some of the things that
she's selling, she's selling the union's more collective bargaining power
in the midst of this pain, in the midst of
people losing jobs. There are twenty thousand people worth Boeing
furloughed out where I'm in Seattle today, and she's selling
their pain of the union bosses, not to help them,

(58:02):
but to the union bosses. And in the case of
the local journalists, she's not even responding to lobbyists. She
wants in this relief bill. She wants a retirement plan
for local journalists, for regional journalists, city based journalists. She's

(58:23):
buying their supports even more biased with your pain, you
are a product. You're a product. We took calls from
people in the first hour who are sacrificing, and Nancy
Pelosi sees that as something she can merchandise. So she

(58:47):
goes to big college, and she says, I'm gonna wipe
out these loans. That's a PR boost for you, it's
a PR boost for me. She's buying votes, and she's
going to big college which ninety percent, ninety five percent,
ninety eight percent of their donations go back to the
Democrat Party. She's buying them. She's bought their points of view.

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They'll put out any research paper that advances any leftism,
any sort of leftist cause, they'll put out. She's bought
that's and she's selling you to them. She's selling your
pain to them. It's Nancy policy. I've got pain to sell.
I've got desperation to sell. I've got bad health to sell.
Get shit desperation. Hey, you want out to two pac college,

(59:34):
I'll give you a two pac We'll write off the
debt for your students, and we'll do a nine point
five billion dollars giveaway. I read the most fascinating article
about those colleges. They could, the private colleges, the big ones,
the big elite colleges. Most of them could take their
endowments and pay for legitimately free college, not taxpayer supported,

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legitimately free, just based upon the interest payments from their endowments,
and the endowments would never go down, they never decrease
in value, not based upon the payments to the students.
But she will sell your pain to them, and so

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she seeks even more influenced with them by saying, do
you see how cold she is? This is how cold
she is. Then we get to the power seeking. See
it's cyclical. She serves her customers, who are the big donors.
They are the unions, they are big college, they are
big insurance, they are they leftist collective. Then she gets
into okay, so now I get some of mine. Also

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in a Corona Wuhan flu relief phil bill, you have
Nancy Pelosi saying she wants to have same day voter registration. Well,
nothing can go wrong there, don't worry. You can't go
say something's going to go wrong when you flood the
polls with same day voter registration. Right, it's that the

(01:01:06):
wish the wish list from leftist except it is you've
read of the cloud Piven strategy. Do you know what
that is? America runs on debt, give it more debt.
America runs on migrants, legal migrants than flood the system.
America runs on law and order, then flood the court
systems with criminals. Cloud Piven, I think it was Francis. Yes,

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Francis Fox Piven was the author of the motor voter
legislation the President Clinton signed. So now Nancy Polois is
saying we need same day registration. Well, I wonder if
you could rush a whole bunch of people into a
swing district, have them same day register, and have their
votes be presumed to count and swing an election. What

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do you need to swing in election in a in
a in a swing district a thousand people? Then you
have this ballot harvesting. You're read about this in California.
This is where third party go knock on the door. Hi,
I'm Bill from the Democratic Party. I'd like to harvest
your ballots. Have you voted? Why? Yes, Bill, I have.

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Here's my ballots that goes to the next house. Hi.
And he's looking at his voter registration in your Republican Hi.
I'm Bill, a concerned American collecting ballots. I will take
them to the mailing place for you. Would you like
to give me your ballot? And some trusting person says, sure,

(01:02:29):
you take him in for me. I can save the
postage and then Bill goes and burns them. So she's
putting that into this into a relief package. James Robinson
probably Robbins wrote a great piece on this in USA Today.

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He often writes for National Review Board of Contributors, author
of This Time We Win, He went this. A lot
of these examples are from him, this work. So what
am I tell you? Judge people by what they do
in a crisis. Lots of people can be great, upstanding citizens,

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or appear to be until there's a crisis. You're seeing
the actual Nancy Pelosi. You're seeing the woman that when
I lived in DC, I learned that every morning, every morning,
she goes down to have her hair done professionally, to
have her skin worked on professionally. Every morning. That's her focus.

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And what are you to her? What is your pain?
What is your worry? It's a product that she can
sell for money or influence or in the case at
the Kennedy Center, for giggles, Hey, look what I did?
Are the great Pelosi? Some of the seats in the

(01:04:03):
Kennedy Center looking kind of rough. That's a new velvet
for him. It's a new lights in the parking center.
Plus the wine glasses. I saw scratch on one of them.
I'm just supposed to be crystal. That's your Nancy Pelosi
and the Left. It's taught herman in for RUSHALYMBA yeah,

(01:04:25):
b Network, it's taught herman in for Russia. Limbaugh on
the EIB network. Thanks for all the notes on social media.
Oh and bos nerdly just hit me up, said, hey,
you forgot to mention. He didn't say this. It's a
great time to mention Christine Pelosi. I just I think
that was a rant. I just went on about Pelosi
selling you and selling your pain to her donors and

(01:04:46):
her buddies, and just for giggles, Christine Pelosi, this is
Nancy Pelosi's daughter. So Rand Paul tests positive for the
Wuhan virus and and she comes out and says, oh, yeah,
Rand Paul's neighbor was right, you know, the neighbor who
went and beat Ran Paul up and and cost him
part of a lung which probably put him in the

(01:05:08):
high risk category for this. He was right. This is
Nancy Pelosi's daughter. Apple, meet the tree. You recognize the tree. Apple,
that's from hence you came. Let's talk to Larry in
deer Park, New York. Larry, you're on the Russian Bot program.
It's Todd Herman filling in. I think we're gonna go
to Larry. No, we're not gonna go to Larry's, isn't you? Oh,

(01:05:31):
let's do Edward and Rawleigh. Edward and Rawley. You're on
the Russian Bot program. Tod Herman filling in. Hih Edward,
Hi there, thank you for him and the other program.
Miss your rush. What an honor must be for you
to step in for those big shoes there. Shout out
to my wife. She got eighteen wheels under her. Hey.
But to the point I think the Senator said, should

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not vote for this bill and not allow the liberals
to left us to get their stuff in there if
it does pass. What do you think about the president
doing that line item vitos. I don't believe that the
president has the right to do the power to do
the line item veto. If he did, it would be
a great thing in this case where he could go
through and actually line item veto or do the line

(01:06:15):
item vito. I'd like to see that. I think, you know,
I share your concern on this, and then I also
want to live since she gave such a great honor
to Rush. I want to live in reality, and part
of the reality here is that he has the Democrats
to deal with. He's only going to get out what
he can what they'll allow, and that's that's a reality
he has to deal with. Right So what what would

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you prefer to see? Actually, what would you prefer to
see them do? In this case? How would you prefer
to see the AID structured? The AIDE structure? Should this
be towards healthcare and fighting the virus? And well, yeah, yeah,
anything outside of that shouldn't be there. And you shouldn't
go from to a two million request to a two
training request. I couldn't agree more. And obviously the fraud

(01:06:58):
and what Nancy Post's doing, she's looting. I mean, I
can't put it anymore clearly. It's a crime of opportunity.
She is a high and big money looter, just and worse,
you know what, I'll just say this and tell me
if I'm wrong, Edward. What she's doing is worse looting
than someone who sees a guitar store in the midst
of a hurricanes. Is I'm being to go steal all

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those guitars because she's actually stealing twice. She's you know,
selling someone's pain. She's doing this with tax money, and
she's doing it on a massive level as we're in
the midst of a national emergency. Doesn't that make her
a worse looter? It does? And then done, and also
consider this, If Trump gives her what she wants, then
we don't need biting. Right, there's one way to look

(01:07:43):
at it. I don't think we need Biden. That all.
I appreciate the call, Edward, thanks very very much. We've
been talking about the balance the president must walk. He's
announcing he is. He is transmitting to you he has
to walk a balance. There's the health concern. We've got
vulnerable people, two classes of pay. One extremely vulnerable. If
they come in contact with the virus, they will die.

(01:08:04):
In all light, I mean they will die. The other
class of people that be greatly health impacted. I am
saying we can care for those people and keep those
people in quarantine and not in jail. Celles. Someone said, oh,
walk them up. No, I mean care for them and
let younger people into the society to a build herd
immunity so the virus dies more quickly. We become safer

(01:08:27):
and b get the workplace back together. I'm not pretending
to be a doctor an epidemiologist. This is just based
upon the studies I've read. This weekend bill in Houston, Texas.
You're on the Russian Bob program. It's Todderman filling in
high built. Yeah, yeah, hey, thanks for having me on. Listen.
The point I want to make is I'm going to
fact stop your comment about the President making a balance here,
and that is I haven't heard anyone talk about the numbers.

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But if we're going to spend two trillion dollars on
this disease and there say thirty thousand people that die,
that means we're going to spend sixty six million dollars
per person. And for that price, we should really be
concentrating on the old folks and sequestering them. And this matter.
You can give old people like me who stay in
our home anyway, you can give us free blue the

(01:09:12):
Cavalart and don't perry on champagne, and you'll still come
out financially ahead. So my message is, make us old
folks stay at home. You young people get back to work,
and let's get the economy rolling again. Yeah, this is
what I've been trying to say that the show, and
some people have misconstrued this bill to imagine in their
mind that what I'm saying is, hey, I'm all excited

(01:09:34):
to put at risk the lives of senior citizens, etc.
Or that this is World War two and I'm marching
out the battle. No, I'm saying that there's a balanced
presidents must walk. I love your math, right, math is powerful.
That's a great way to think of it. Great call.
How are things in Houston? You guys okay down there? Absolutely?
I think this is h Yeah, it's pretty much of

(01:09:55):
a day to day. It's a non event to most
of us. All Right, Well, I but continues to be that.
Appreciate you calling Russia show. It's Todd Herman filling in. Well,
I'll come back. I want to go a little early
to the break because I'd like to come back, and
I want you to hear some words of optism, optimism
from the Maha Rushi himself. I want you to hear this.
We come back. It's Todd Herman filling in for Rush
on the EIB network. It's Todd Herman and for Russia.

(01:10:18):
Limbaugh on the EIB Network appreciates you hanging with this,
all the comments on social media, etc. I wanted to
play this clip and we'll get to these next hour.
The EIB team is putting together some words from the
Maha from Maha Rushi and their important words we're gonna
get to the next hour. One is a Russia really
talking about optimism, and you don't get to do what

(01:10:44):
Russia has done and build what he's done without optimism.
You you always are flying in the face of people
who say that can't be done always, and people who
want to believe it can't be done because they're invested
in believing it can't be done because they don't want
others to do it because they didn't get to do it.
And I want you to hear the optimism. I want

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you to hear something else that I think is vitally important,
because I'm seeing that people are wanting to misunderstand what
we're talking about. When we're talking about our nation and
we're talking about the president transmitting that he intends to
get the economy rolling again, that's what he intends to do.
I don't hear him saying end people's lives and he

(01:11:29):
doesn't mean that. He doesn't mean it at all, when
you are the president of three hundred and thirty million people,
there is a balance that must be achieved in a pandemic.
Number one is the health of the American people, quite clearly.
Number two is the health of the nation, all of us.

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And the health of the nation is we are not
our economy, but our honomy is a store for us,
a store of our life energy. Our combined life energy
is in that economy. Your work and my work is
in this economy. No matter what you do in your job,

(01:12:14):
your work and my work is reflected in this economy.
That's our life energy. And we can use that, we
can waste that life energy. We could decrease it. We
could go through and shut down the country altogether, shut
down the economy altogether, and not put a date certain
on when we're gonna bring it back. And what happens
to energy in you know, when it's stored, when batteries,
I mean, if you don't use them, eventually the energy
is gone. So our health is tied to our economy.

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Our long term health is very tied to it. And
if you can imagine a circumstance greater than that, be
my guest Taherman for Rush oh, thank you for spending
time with for me today. Rush so wants to be
with you. It's really hard on him talking to the
people at eb BE telling me this. He's doing what

(01:13:02):
needs to get done. He is to take care of himself.
We need the MAHA back. Sodderman filling in Farosh. Thanks
to my friends at Katt Radio at Katt dot com
do the morning show there. I'm doing this from the
studio in Seattle, so I appreciate that very much. There's
so much that we've covered in the show, and there's
a bit of a structure to it. The first hour
we talked about what we as a nation I have

(01:13:24):
learned about our president Donald Trump. We've learned that he
cares about America. We've learned that he is going to
make an incredibly brave, incredibly difficult decision that's going to
require walking the razor's edge, and he's prepared to do it.
That razor's edge is caring for the economy, which if
it sinks, if it goes down into thirty forty percent unemployments,

(01:13:48):
you will have death. You'll have it through suicides, you'll
have it through depression, lack of health. You can have
generational health problems, and he's going on the other side
of that razor walk. He's going to take care of
the American people, the most vulnerable. He is looking for
that razor's edge, and this is an act of bravery

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that great leaders go through. The second hour, we talked
about what we've learned about the left because we've we've
learned they're worse than we thought. Well, I mean, that's difficult,
but we learned that they're they're more cold and calculating
that we could have ever imagined with what they're shoving
into this bill. Tom Cotton, Senator, joined us to talk
about that. He's front sentator to that, so we talked

(01:14:29):
about that. In this particular segment of the show. I
want to talk about what we have learned from this
experience and what we can continue to learn so we
protect ourselves. But I want to start. I want to
start by going to the Maha Rushi. I want to
go to him and him bringing about what has been
one of the difference makers in his life is optimism.

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And Russia said at one point, can we take him
meg a minute to recognize how lucky we are to
live in this country at this time, despite what's going on.
You know, after nine to eleven they found Bush reading
the four year olds in a school in Florida. Had
to go get him and tell him what happened. And
Peter Jennet, well, you know, some presidents are better at
this than others. Meaning comforting the American people is a

(01:15:13):
slap at Bush. And it was a pat on the
back that Bill Clinton. It's the same old, same old,
these Republicans. They don't care, They don't care about you,
They have no compassion, they have no heart, and to
boot their idiots. They can't talk, they can't reason, they
can't explain, and it's so sad because they're so thick

(01:15:38):
that they can't understand the complexity of us. It's meanwhile,
not a one of these people has ever accomplished five
percent of what Donald Trump has. Not a one of
them could do Donald Trump's job given what he faces.
Opposition wise, they couldn't. They wouldn't last a day putting
up with the Donald Trump has to put up with.

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They haven't accomplished in their lives anything close to what
Donald Trump has. And yet here we have to sit
here and listen the fact that they don't think Trump
understand the complexities at the job, whereas, of course Obama
and any other Democrat would these clowns that tell us
who's smartened the elites, the brilliant people, and they're the

(01:16:21):
ones that got us in this mess in the first place.
They're the ones that don't understand market economies, that don't
believe in market economies. They're the ones that put everything
in front of America because America doesn't deserve to be
a superpower America as a price to pay for stealing
so much around the world. I just I get so
sick and impasto. I don't have room for panic here, folks.

(01:16:44):
I don't have emotional room. I don't have emotional time
for panic. Also not panicking because it's going to end.
All this stuff does. If one thing my life has
taught me is that there are cycles up, down, good, bad,
And I don't care what anybody says. There is no
better time to be alive as a human being on

(01:17:07):
planet Earth than March twelfth, twenty twenty and going forward.
And there's no better place to be alive on planet
Earth than the United States of America on March twelfth,
twenty twenty. And this is all going to end. And
it's going to end when somebody finally wakes up and

(01:17:30):
realizes it's nowhere near as bad and it's not going
to get as bad as everybody is afraid that it
might be as some people want it to be. And
then we're going to move forward and this economy is
going to rebound, The stock market's going to rebound. It's
gonna shock everybody, and it's probably gonna happen way before

(01:17:51):
the November elections, which is going to really disappoint the media,
it really disappoint the Democrat Party. That's themall. She's doing
what he does better than any human being has ever done.
It's and so to jump off of what Rush said
in that clip, I want to talk about things that
we now know and that we can now carry forward
for future generations, for our lifetime. These are things that

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we've learned. Number One, Taiwan. Taiwan is effectively free of
the Wuhan virus Wuhan virus COVID nineteen. Taiwan. The China
is trying to steal next door to China. How are

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they because they recognize China for what it is. The
leadership in Taiwan understands China to be what China is.
It is be clear. The Chinese government is a malignancy,
first of all against its own people, secondly against the world.
They continue to have these flues come up because of

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the wet markets, the lack of hygiene that can't be
bothered to change. Yeah, because it's a moneymaker for them.
So what did Taiwan do. They learned from the last epidemic,
the Stars epidemic. China's not going to tell the truth.
The first time they got a sniff that this was
going on, the Taiwanese started to monitor flights, monitor people
coming in from Muhan. Then they got the ventilators out

(01:19:17):
because they'd planned for that. Then they started to mobilize.
They had one hundred and twenty seven protocols in place
already for this, and they are effectively free of the
virus of the Huan virus and their next door to China,
they're controlled by China. China wants to absorb them. They
did those things without the permission of China. They acted

(01:19:39):
in defiance of the regime, the dictators of China. So
now we know Taiwan, next door to China, recognizes China
for what it is. We have an opportunity to learn optimism.
We've learned something China is a malignancy. They're going to
continue to produce these viruses because the government doesn't care
about human life over there, their citizens or their subjects,

(01:20:01):
and not yours. So that's an opportunity for us. We've
learned this. The other thing that we've learned is that
Congress has given way too much power to the bureaucracy.
Now a lot of us knew that, but if we
had an honest media, they can report this. When you
have to have a president of the United States say

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that in the case of an emergency, doctors can work
across state lines. A doctor who's license to work in
the state of California can go work in the state
of Washington or the state of Texas in the midst
of an emergency. That it took a presidential act to
do that should cause us to look at something. Could,

(01:20:42):
in fact, the federal government offer a federal licenses That's
what it takes. Not that I think the federal government
is going to be any better at licensing doctors than states,
but if they could do that, then we could have
doctors not have to wait to get the approval I'm sorry,
I can't. I see your leg is broken and your
femer you know, is broken in half and you're bleeding

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all over. But I'm only licensed from the state of Texas.
We've learned this. These learnings go with us. They don't
have to stay in the disaster. They go with us.
We've learned that the best university labs, the best private
labs in the United States, which would likely mean in

(01:21:25):
the world, needed the permission of the Center for Disease
Control in order to create tests for the Wuhan virus.
And I have an article here. I'm trying to get
to this in more depth. Leader in the show, it
turns out that apparently the CDC lied to the President
of the United States. Oh yeah, we've got the test

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thing nailed. We're good, But they weren't. We turned to
the private market, and look what we have we're working
on having. They're working to get something. You stab your finger,
put your fingerprint on it. Now you've been tested this
self swabbing kits that are coming out. Do you see
how quickly that is a move? These are things that
we have learned. We've also learned this our healthcare system

(01:22:10):
has been appropriated by the government's insurance company. Combine no
bigger lobbyists than insurance companies who succeeded in forcing you
to buy a product you don't want from companies you
don't like at prices you can't afford, for services you
will never use. Our emergency room structure is hurting. We
don't have enough emergency rooms. Solution you Harvard University to

(01:22:34):
have a forty nine billion dollars endowment. Something along those lines.
Got an idea, you continue to take federal moneies. Were
people who've never been to college underwrite your doctors to go.
They're okay, they're gonna maybe they're gonna be doctors. A
lot of them turn out to be nbas, by the way,
because they want to be medical administrators. That's where the
money is. How about this, You go to Harvard, you
use any federal taxpayer money. Congratulations, you're working in an

(01:22:55):
er until it's paid back. Then. This is something else
we've learned. Obamacare stole from surgeons the right to expand
their practices, so you have private surgeons, private facilities. Obamacare
said you can't add new equipment, you can't expand them.
They made those doctors join hospitals. How about if we

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had a better distributed healthcare system where emergency surgeries and
emergency processes could be undertaken by entrepreneurial doctors. We've learned
so much there's reason to be optimistic if we'll act
on this information. Information is not power, Information is potential power.
If we'll act on these learnings. The next time China
has a flu, the Chinese government allows we can be

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like Taiwan and not be that effective or affected at all,
as taught Herman in for Rusia Lamba on the EIB network. Hey,
thanks for listening to Russia's show. It is a tremendous
honor and if I get to do it again, it
will always forever be a tremendous honor. On Twitter, So
Schumer and Mansion want to control of the money's given

(01:24:01):
to the corporations. I didn't see them asking the same
questions when Obama's stimulus was passed, or when Mansion's daughter
of the price of the EpiPen. Good, solid, strong point.
Thank you for that. A suck to Randy in o'calla Florida, Randy,
welcome to russia emboss program. It's Todd Herman keeping the
seat warm for l rushbout God, thank you so much.

(01:24:25):
I'm a twenty nine year listener and a graduate of
the EIP Institute, and I know my job as a caller,
which is to make the host look good. Well done.
You you make that so easy because you bring us
positive conservative solutions just in the in line with what
Rush says and what line with what the President says.

(01:24:48):
And one of the solutions that's been discussed is a
payroll tax holiday. And you said, well, let's go one better.
Let's end the payroll taxes. That's that's the largest tax
at eighty percent of American workers pay. And we can
end the payroll tax, in the income tax, end the
investment taxes, and replace them with a single flat, simple

(01:25:12):
sales tax on new goods. And we can do it
at almost the flip of the switch. So let's go
with the payroll tax holiday now, and then let's pass
HR twenty five, which is the Fair Tax Act of
twenty nineteen. And you will watch this economy takeoffs like
it's been shot full of rocket fuel, because that's what

(01:25:33):
will really help small business get this tax burden off
their back. Rady, I could agree more, and I will
make one. I'll make one correction to you, though, sir,
there are no graduates of the EIB Academy of EB Institute.
There's no graduates because Rush continues to teach. So that's
one one thing that I would just add. But you

(01:25:53):
did a great job of making me look good. And
I'm going to say something about the fair tax, Randy.
If you don't know what this is, it's a consumption
based sales tax. You can learn about it at FairTax
dot org. Okay, they don't pay anything. This is me,
This is just me, Todd. I just like this approach.
This would revolutionize the country. You would be You get
a waiver for about the first fifty sixty thousand dollars
you spend, depending on your family, etc. How many kids

(01:26:14):
you have. After that, things are tax on a flat rate.
We want to know what happens. No longer can Nancy
Pelosi sell your pain. No longer can you work out
secret deals to sell your pain to people like she's done.
Now she's selling your pain to her lobbyists at the
big unions, etc. Everybody pays the same rate. The irs
is gone, and people are incentivized to save versus spending

(01:26:35):
because your tax on that span Secondly, when you look
at a house that's built, you look at a house
that stands tall, that you've built, that you have value
added taxes on the cutting down of the tree. There's
a tax. Now, the processing of the tree, the shipping
of the tree, there's tax at every level. You take
a six hundred thousand dollars house suddenly two hundred thousand dollars.
But the house is just as good. Great call, Randy,
appreciate that very very much. This is another thing we've learned,

(01:26:57):
is the potency of acts like this. Let's take what
we're learning in this terrible, terrible circumstance. So many people afraid.
Let's take the learnings. Let's start taking a list. Let's
you and I together create a list of things we're
learning in this circumstance. You don't always get the outcome
you want in life, but you get an outcome. This
is the outcome we're in now. People are scared. Some
people's health is bad. I want to go through a

(01:27:18):
comparison in next segment between a listener who sent me
a note from Montana and a person I know in
New York. This is another thing we've learned, is we're
doing a one size fits non solution. You like these
emails at the way they compare. Let's talk to Bob
or on the road in Maryland. Bob, you're on the
Russian program. Is Todd Herman filling in? Hi, Todd, thanks

(01:27:39):
so much for taking my call. I'm a small practitioner
in Maryland accountant have some small business clients, small restaurants,
all small business and big ones too. Hey, they're payroll
taxes on the EFTPS or something like that government website.
There's codes, there's bank account numbers, there's pass words. It's
offer it as all secure. You make your payroll, you

(01:28:02):
pay your payroll taxes to the government. What if the
government What if there was a way to ask the
government to cover your next couple of payrolls GROS pay
all pay and ask the government to transfer from its
bank account into your bank account. And this could happen instantly,
It could happen tomorrow, your gross payroll with full accountability ability.

(01:28:23):
They know you, they know your number, they know your situation,
they know where you are. You would get reimburse your payroll.
You would run a payroll and give your employees who
are laid off now and not working there are payroll
checks supported the government. It's a great idea, support about
the tax payer because it government there that any money,
but it's it's a great idea, and then there may
be this. We then mayde have the opportunity to go

(01:28:44):
down and track down any fraudsters because remember Medicare forgive
this Medicaid Medicare Medicare belief as a ten percent of
their budget goes to fraud. So you're saying, we know
who you are. We've got your ei N employee identification number,
We've got that, we've got your sole security number if
you're not using an ei N, so if all as
we can track you down. See, this is the sort
of creativity to look at places like this because it's

(01:29:04):
also targeted. My biggest challenge with the relief bill is
it's not targeted. It seems so broadly based. Right, let's
talk about the population we need to help, and let's
help them first, Bob, thanks for the phone call. Appreciate that.
You see what I'm saying with this bill is that
it seems that we're going to send money to everybody.
I want to know the targeted populations were helping. I
would suggest that we start in the hot zone cities.

(01:29:27):
Los Angeles is a hot zone. New York is the
hot zone. Seattle has been a hot zone. That we
start in these cities. Why are we talking about a
countrywide thing? Well, there are people who are employees of
Boeing or other companies that have been shut down. Some
retailers have shut down nationwide. Okay, so now we expand
the pool a little bit. All right, so we're talking
about people who work for national retailer who shut down.

(01:29:49):
Now we've expanded the pool, but it's still not everybody.
One of our callers did the math and said, what
we're talking about sixty six million dollars per person? Right,
So why don't we use that to put people in
luxury places where they can be quarantined. There's so much
to be learning this. We'll come back more calls. I
want to get a ton of your phone calls in
eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. How

(01:30:09):
you view the bailout bill. Want to hear what you
think about the president's approach to this. Love to hear
from small business owners and how you're weathering this storm.
Eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. I
will tell you this We're a huge nation, and there
is this temptation to want to treat us all as one.
So come back. I want to share a couple of emails,
one from a listener in Montana, a listener to my

(01:30:31):
radio show in the morning. Another from a friend of
mine in New York who's having these distinctly different experiences.
But I will stitch this together this way. The president
is the president of three hundred and thirty million people.
He has told you something very important, the walking of
this razor's edge, the razor being the gap between the
economy and the health. That man is demonstrating the greatest

(01:30:56):
quality of any great leader. He's saying he's going to
do the hardest of things, and he's announcing it. He
deserves enormous credit. There's Donald Trump for that enormous credit.
It's an active bravery. Stottman in for Russia, Limbaugh on
the EIB networks, just reading some of the comments to
social media, Well, I appreciate all the notes and particularly

(01:31:18):
the incredible prayer chain that started for Russia. Limbaugh Stoderman
filling in eight hundred two eighty two two eight eighty two.
If you want to be part of the program, as
Russia might say. Reading this in the city of Texas.
I say this only because we started the program with
words of optimism from Maha Rushi and playing off of that.
Then things that we've learned and things we can take

(01:31:38):
with us, and that this can turn into an advantage
for us in the future if we'll keep haf of
what we learned. There's still miraculous things going on in
this nation, and people just amaze me with their good cheer.
I read this piece about a pastor named Stephen Wilson,
the crazy crazy man nuts. He became religious, found God, decided, Hey,

(01:32:00):
you know what, I committed some crimes. I'm gonna turn
myself in for crimes I committed. He lives in the
state of Texas. He went to prison, Yeah, walked in, said,
committed these crimes. I'm changing my life. I'm gonna go
to prison. You know what he found out in these prisons.
The state of Texas has a twenty one percent recidivism rate,

(01:32:21):
compared to a national recidivism rate of sixty to eighty percent.
Why optimism, Why because they've brought a belief in something
larger than themselves. They brought a belief in God. They
studying this to these men in these prisons at sistemas
rate has gone down. What did they not do? They
didn't give in to despair? What did they not do?
They didn't say, well, this guy's can't be They can't

(01:32:42):
be saved, They can't be turned around. Saved religiously, but
also more to the point of this program, saved societally.
If this can happen in the midst of this and
what we're facing, imagine the things we can do based
upon the learnings. Taiwan is largely unaffected from covoid from
the Wuhan. I can't even say COVID nineteen. I can
say that the right way, I'm saying the wrong way.

(01:33:02):
I've been saying Huhan flu so much I can't even
go to the other way. What we're facing now, what
we're going through now, can turn into an amazing advantage
for us if we'll keep track of the learnings, and
if we will follow the president down this razor's edge
and just what he's going to walk between the economy
of health is so incredible and such an active bravery.
John from Frost, Texas, You're on the rush limb By program.

(01:33:24):
It's Todd Herman filling in. Hi John, Hey, um boy,
I tell you say you got it going. Um. I'm
so proud of Trump because he's a citizen president, which
is what our family involved is really intended. And there's
the fabric of America is just is amazing live. I
live near a rugal community. I mentioned Frost. I live

(01:33:44):
two and a half miles out of there, twenty three miles.
Three different walmarts, so I'm in a rural area and uh,
I have people calling me offered me you I'm going
to the store. Can I help you? It's just amazing
how you know, food shows up, how we help each other.
We don't depend on everything. I worked in North Korea,

(01:34:07):
so must they called me grandfather John. Um. I worked
in the run during desert storm and also been to
your earthquake. Been doing this work for fifty years. You
got asthma from nine to eleven, working three months, cleaning
seven months, and fifty apartment I believe eighty five. It's
just amazing how people can help each other. Just for

(01:34:27):
the phone call. I'm so thrilled with the with the
how can I put it? The the strengths of the
American fabric that's beneath the politics, and he's all that
sort of myths. You know. It's yeah, I was just
gonna say, it's just a beautiful thing you're saying. John.
You know, Um, I was talking this morning. I mentioned

(01:34:47):
a couple of times I just I guess I'll just
say it. You know. I saw a receptionist this morning
if the radio station setting which she worked, and I said,
good morning, Donna, and I said, how are you. She said,
I'm okay, and she always says I'm good, and know
this is the difference, and I'm someone who turns to
these things. I said, well, you always say good. What's
going on? And she shared with me she'd lost two jobs.
She's worried about losing this job because we're on lockdown

(01:35:09):
in Washington State. And that act of talking to her,
like I got to learn something about her, but I
also got to share with her some humanity and not
people will gather around her. This is who we are,
and this is why we're going to succeed in this
is because we're turning to our neighbors. Even as the
government does its thing and the President Trump is trying
very hard, we're returning to our neighbors. John, that's a
great phone call. I appreciate that very very much. And

(01:35:30):
to see what John's done here is we went, we
bookmarked this. We start with Texas and this thing that's
going on in the prison is a low recidativism rate.
Now see what other gift he's offered. He's offered the
fabric of the nation. Let me read just two emails
for you, just to remind her that the president is
the president of three hundred and thirty million people. He's
not the president of New York, which is a hot zone,
or Los Angeles, which is a hot zone. Those cities

(01:35:51):
are hurting. It's incredibly scary there. They have to treat
things differently than some of the rest of the nation.
But he's the president of the entire United States of America.
These are two quick messages. One from a listener to
my local show in Seattle. Karen, you've mentioned wondering if
there's been an overreaction to the virus. I too had
this concern, especially being here in Montana. The governor shut

(01:36:14):
down the schools as soon as there was a first
case in our state, and most of the small businesses
are closed as well. A regularly checker Department of Health
and Human Services site for updates on the spread of
the virus. We currently have thirty four cases, of which
a half no longer have it, zero deaths. On the
same site. Out of curiosity, I looked at the influencers
at influenza stats. This past week alone, we had eight

(01:36:35):
hundred and sixty nine cases, twenty nine hospitalizations in one death.
Montana alone had ten thousand, seven hundred and thirty nine
cases of influenza and thirteen deaths. Our population is still
under one million during the flu seasons of what four
to five months are realized that China virus is an
unknown there's not a cure, but the proportion to which

(01:36:56):
the stuff is being done seems crazy. Just had to
get that off my chest. That's Montana. I would suggest
to you that Montana is a different nation, not just
a different state, but a different nation is than is
New York City. So now let's go to this and
this comes from a friend of mine in New York.
So my friend writes, the rational side of me agrees

(01:37:19):
with the note from the listener in Montana that you shared.
I totally get what the listeners saying, but it's a
very different thing here in New York City. There's so
much uncertainty in not knowing who to trust, especially politicians
in the media. I want things to get back to normal.
I believe me. I live in apartment, which is very
different quarantine situation than a nice, big house in the
suburbs with the yard. I'd like nothing more than to

(01:37:40):
be able to get out and go back to work.
But I'm totally freaked out at the same time because
cases blowing up of the city. An acquaintance two blocks
from me in the East village is in the ICU. Granted,
not the healthiest guy to begin with, but not old either.
Two different experiences from two great human beings, both going
through this in different ways. My point is this, we

(01:38:02):
are a fabric of a country with a different states,
different experiences that should be treated differently. We're also different
people healthwise. If you take one thing away from the show,
it's just this. I'm not a doctor. I'm not an epidemiologist.
I could never be a scientist. It's not what I do.
I read all weekend long. I had a tactic in mind,
a goal in mind. What are the commonalities? Get rid

(01:38:25):
of the arguments. Everybody can disagree on protocols, and this
protocol and this drug combination and that drug combination, this
far of a lockdown, etc. What are the commonalities in
the scientists who are arguing. They all agree that I
read there are three populations. This country is good enough,
we are strong enough, We have enough caring that we

(01:38:48):
can take the people in the top group. These are
the people that they're old and they have co morbid conditions.
If they get in touch at the virus, it's going
to kill them. We can make sure that they're quarantined
in a safe way. We can communicate that through all
the channels. The president could speak to the nation, here's
what must happen. Then the second layer down are people
who are likely to get sick and may die. They

(01:39:10):
can be quarantined at home, but with strict protocols that
the American people can learn. The third group are the
people who are very, very unlikely to get real sick
with this some of us almost infantestimally unlikely to even
feel it. We can get back to work. We could
also build a herd immunity. This is another commonality in

(01:39:32):
the articles I'm reading people talking about herd immunities. We
had a doctor called into Russia's program saying, and I
read it two or three epidemiologists this weekend about herd immunities.
That when enough people are immune to this the disease,
the virus does not have a place to live. So
in this fabric of America, these different states, these different
experiences of this virus, we've got different people with different needs.

(01:39:56):
Right now. The elderly and the people with comrid conditions
need to be protected. We must commit to that. We've
got the money sixty six million dollars per person in
the stimulus bill. Then you've got the rest of us.
We need to get back to work, not just for us,
because the failure to get this country operating economically will
lead to long term mental health issues. It will lead

(01:40:18):
to long term physical health issues. It's inexorably true. The
financial decline of the world lifeboat could lead to a
world catastrophe. President Trump is going to walk that Razors line.
That is a phenomenal decision. Come back with more of
your phone calls. Eight hundred two eight two two eight
eight two is Todd Herman filling in for Russia Limbab
the EAB network. Todd Herman filling in for Rush Limbo

(01:40:41):
and the EAB network. Ken Matthews this here yesterday. Great job,
Mark Stein, and I well, I think I speak for
of us. What's incredible honor to fill in for Rush.
He so wants to be with you. He's taking care
of what needs to get taken care of. Let's talk
to Susan in Lexington, Kentucky. Susan, you're in the Russian
MBA program. Is Todd Herman filling in? Well, Todd, Hello, Susan.

(01:41:03):
I just want to say I appreciated those great and
positive words from our Rush though America's mighty freedom fighter. Yes, indeed, yes, indeed,
thank you, and I look forward to his return, even
even with his half his brain tied behind his back,
We're looking forward to him being back. Good. You know

(01:41:23):
the program? Well, I know you called about the CDC
in a question, right, Well I did. I'm just wondering
how they might feel if from one of your loved ones.
So it's one of the forty one thousand who since
October had died of influenza and not even a blink

(01:41:44):
was given to their passing. Wow, that is a potent point.
And we're talking all about the Wuhan virus. But people
lost forty one thousand human beings, family members, father's, sisters
to influenza, and no one cared except for the family. Wow,
nothing closed, nothing's shut down, not a blink of an eye.

(01:42:07):
I would be totally offended to look and see what's
happening now. When everyone weathered the storm of their passing
nonetheless precious than every person who may be passing now.
Their preciousness is just significant as significant they are. A

(01:42:27):
loss of life is just as real to those grieving families.
That's just a brilliant and potent point and something for
us to reflect upon. The media's driven such panic around this,
and look, it's a serious thing. There's no cure, we
understand that. But the media, Susan, they're so obsessed. They're
so obsessed with saying the pilot doesn't have control of
the airplane. They're so obsessed with saying the doctor has

(01:42:49):
lost his scalpel. This is what they want to do
to this president. And they see it as an opportunity,
and it's it's a it's a it's a it's a crime.
It's an opportunity, it's a criminal act, in my judgment,
of an opportunity. To take a national emergency and use
it to steal election. I appreciate the phone call Susan.
That was incredible. This is so important to hear this.
This is Russia, Limbaugh predicting what the Democrats would do

(01:43:11):
about this. This is what Rush said before he left
about Trump's response to this. Every day it's proving to
be more and more true. I read a piece today
where the drive by me to forget where it was.
Trump has got to realize this isn't about him. Corona
Wrivers isn't about him. He doesn't think it's about him.
You know, I sit here, like I were talking yesterday,
I remain totally perplexed, and I know I ought not be,

(01:43:35):
but I am at the continual utter ignorance and lack
of understanding that political professionals in Washington have. Understanding Donald
Trump's support, understanding the people that's supported, understand the people
to make up his base. They continue to exhibit a
degree of arrogant ignorance that's just mind boggling to meet.

(01:43:57):
Donald Trump does not think this is about him. It
is in their convoluted minds. They're telling us more about
who they are when they engage in this distant analysis
of Trump, like they're trying to make people believe that
Trump doesn't care a whit about you and didn't care
a whit about your family. That all Trump cares about

(01:44:17):
is whether or not his image is going to be
hurt because a coronavirus. And so as far as Trump
is concerned, the coronavirus is all about him and about
his reputation and about his future. And if these people
haven't figured out that, if there is one politician in
American today who actually does care about the American people,

(01:44:38):
it's Donald Trump. And you can see it every day
simply from the policies that he tries to implement, the
policies and he supports the agenda that he has implemented.
He's all about making America great, not about making Trump great.
In his mind, he's already great, didn't have to get
any greater than he is. It isn't about him, you know.

(01:45:00):
Go back. We played a SoundBite from Trump's town hall
that he had with the Fox Newest People last week,
which is the highest rated town hall Fox has ever had.
And he always portrays the truth at some point. But
even when he is being jocular, even when he's joking,
and he said, he said to Breadbear, I actually think

(01:45:22):
we're saving the country. Saving the country that obviously about him.
He doesn't need to be saved. Trump's got it made.
Trump has made it the old American vernacular, that's saved himself.
Saving the country is about preserving it for its people.
And I remain flabbergasted that Trump's critics, from top to

(01:45:46):
bottom and left or right, never Trumpers on our side,
the rabid leftist on their side, continue to think that
Trump's ego is so self evolved in self focus that
he doesn't care or isn't concerned about anybody at Look.
I can tell you anecdotally firsthand experience, donald Trump cares

(01:46:11):
about a lot more than himself. There's a part of
me that says, they do understand this. They just can't
let go of it. They can't let go of this
way of criticizing Trump. They can't let go of the
idea that they are going to find a way to
distance Trump supporters from Trump. They're going to find a
way to drive a wedge, and they're going to keep
using the same techniques that have failed now for four

(01:46:32):
plus years and counting. Okay, that's maha Rushi talking about
what they were going to do and how Trump was
going to act, and here's what you see. This is
where we're at. Come back and wrap up. The Show's
Todd Herman in for Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
Thank you to tm IB in New York, Mike, Greg,
Keith bo Ali, everybody for holding this altogether. It's just

(01:46:53):
been an honor to fill in. Thank you for listening
of the phone calls. I don't like it's easy to
get down about our circumstance, but you know what we're
not Italy. Did you read this? This is phenomenal. There
is a epidemiologist in Italy or probably a virologist, Robert B. Brioni.
He's being labeled a right wing wacko, which shouldn't surprise

(01:47:15):
people because he spoke common sense. He was saying, when
the Attians were starting to notice that the Wuhan virus
was taking over, hey maybe we should not hug Chinese tourists.
Not to be mean, but I don't know that Chinese
want to be hugged. But no, that wasn't okay. The mayor,

(01:47:37):
a mayor of Florence, Mayor Dario Nardella, knowing that the
virus was there promoted a hugged Chinese person, which is
not only pandering because I don't know he walk up
here are your Chinese? Why? Well, I need to hug
it because the mayor said so. So at least we've
not reached that level of stupidity. But that's why we
vote votes. Todderman in for Russia, Lumba F.

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