[Rush Lindell] Welcome back,
[Rush Lindell] welcome back,
[Rush Lindell] I'm here.
[Reagan] And I'm Reagan,
[Reagan] here to keep him honest.
[Rush Lindell] Try your best.
[Rush Lindell] Reagan,
[Rush Lindell] you ready for this one?
[Reagan] Hit me.
[Rush Lindell] Alex Jones.
[Rush Lindell] Alex Jones just called for Trump's impeachment.
[Reagan] Wait, seriously?
[Reagan] Over the Iran war?
[Rush Lindell] The MAGA prophet himself turning on his own guy.
[Reagan] Wow.
[Rush Lindell] We'll get into whether he's got a point or just an audience.
[Reagan] He might have a point on the process.
[Reagan] The messenger's a different story entirely.
[Rush Lindell] And this same war's leading on gas prices,
[Rush Lindell] and Jones is out there warning about a draft.
[Reagan] One of those is confirmed-the other speculation,
[Reagan] and we'll sort out which is which.
[Rush Lindell] Then there's Congress-they actually voted-Twice-numbers that'll surprise you.
[Reagan] Close votes with some defectors nobody's talking about yet.
[Rush Lindell] And later,
[Rush Lindell] my mock floor speech-Congress and-
[Rush Lindell] And Article 1,
[Rush Lindell] live and unfiltered.
[Reagan] Can't wait for that one.
[Rush Lindell] But first,
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[Reagan] So rush,
[Reagan] Alex Jones and Impeachment,
[Reagan] where do we even start?
[Rush Lindell] We start with the fact that nobody saw this coming.
[Rush Lindell] Before we dig in, a quick reminder.
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[Rush Lindell] Alex Jones wants Trump impeached.
[Reagan] I'm sorry,
[Reagan] say that again?
[Rush Lindell] You heard me.
[Rush Lindell] Alex Jones,
[Rush Lindell] the guy who's defended Trump through every single scandal since 2015.
[Rush Lindell] This week, he said the Iran war is absolutely out of control,
[Rush Lindell] and he's calling for impeachment. The 25th Amendment,
[Rush Lindell] quote,
[Rush Lindell] whatever needs to happen. Hmm.
[Reagan] That's Newsweek reporting that,
[Reagan] right?
[Rush Lindell] Newsweek, today.
[Rush Lindell] And Jones isn't just venting.
[Rush Lindell] venting. He's arguing this is an unauthorized war,
[Rush Lindell] that Congress has folded on its war powers authority over and over.
[Rush Lindell] Let that sit for a second.
[Rush Lindell] The MAGA base's loudest cheerleader just called his own guy a tyrant.
[Reagan] Okay,
[Reagan] but let's separate two things here.
[Rush Lindell] Oh, here we go.
[Reagan] No,
[Reagan] hear me out.
[Reagan] The war powers argument?
[Reagan] Legitimate.
[Reagan] Article 1 says Congress declares war,
[Reagan] not the president.
[Reagan] President,
[Reagan] that's not a Jones invention,
[Reagan] that's the Constitution.
[Rush Lindell] Exactly right.
[Rush Lindell] This anti-war rumble inside MAGA didn't start this week.
[Rush Lindell] I've been tracking it since February.
[Reagan] Sure,
[Reagan] but Jones brought receipts, too.
[Reagan] The Hill and the Washington Examiner both reported he called Trump support for the $1.15 trillion fiscal 2027 defense bill impeachable.
[Rush Lindell] And don't forget Trump already went after him. Back in April,
[Rush Lindell] he called.
[Rush Lindell] Rand Paul, Jones,
[Rush Lindell] Tucker Carlson,
[Rush Lindell] Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens'
[Rush Lindell] low IQ,
[Rush Lindell] per those same outlets.
[Reagan] So this breakup's been simmering a while.
[Rush Lindell] Simmering? It's a full pot boiling over.
[Reagan] Here's my problem,
[Reagan] though:
[Reagan] one podcaster having a meltdown isn't a coalition collapsing,
[Reagan] Alex Jones has a credibility problem.
[Reagan] Sandy Hook,
[Reagan] the lawsuits,
[Reagan] the retractions-that's a rough messenger for a strong constitution.
[Reagan] CONSTITUTIONAL POINT.
[Rush Lindell] There; the arguments sound even if the guide delivering it once told people a school shooting was staged.
[Reagan] Right; so strip the theatrics:
[Reagan] does Congress actually have the votes to check this president,
[Reagan] or is it all noise?
[Rush Lindell] That's the fight; but here's what really gets me:
[Rush Lindell] Jones didn't just say this is unconstitutional; he said it'll wreck the economy back home.
[Reagan] And that's the part people actually feel in their wallets.
[Reagan] It's...
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[Rush Lindell] Building on that, the economy angle isn't hypothetical anymore,
[Rush Lindell] Reagan.
[Rush Lindell] CNBC's reporting oil topped $100 a barrel as this war entered what they're calling a deadly new phase.
[Reagan] A hundred dollars a barrel.
[Reagan] That's real pain at the pump for every listener driving to work tomorrow.
[Rush Lindell] And somewhere,
[Rush Lindell] whoever's setting those pump prices is doing a victory lap.
[Reagan] I'm sure.
[Rush Lindell] Meanwhile,
[Rush Lindell] Jones is out there saying an expanded war would...
[Rush Lindell] Would,
[Rush Lindell] quote,
[Rush Lindell] destroy the economy and kill a bunch of our troops.
[Reagan] That part I don't dismiss.
[Reagan] Wartime spending plus an energy shock-that's basic economics,
[Reagan] not conspiracy theory.
[Rush Lindell] But then he goes further-says there's a national draft being quietly prepped.
[Reagan] Now that's the part I want to slow down on.
[Rush Lindell] Why,
[Rush Lindell] Karoline Leavitt herself said back in March a draft had not been ruled out.
[Rush Lindell] That's not nothing!
[Reagan] It's not nothing,
[Reagan] but it's also not proof of a plan.
[Reagan] Not ruling something out isn't the same as building one.
[Rush Lindell] Semantics,
[Rush Lindell] Reagan.
[Reagan] No evidence:
[Reagan] one's a documented price at the pump,
[Reagan] the other's speculation dressed up as certainty.
[Reagan] What would actually settle it?
[Reagan] Selective service issuing notices,
[Reagan] Congress debating a conscription bill.
[Reagan] Show me that and I'll say Jones called it.
[Rush Lindell] Fair enough.
[Reagan] You don't need a draft notice to feel this war in your wallet,
[Reagan] though.
[Rush Lindell] Agreed. And speaking of feeling it in your wallet,
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[Rush Lindell] So,
[Rush Lindell] back to oil and the draft chatter.
[Rush Lindell] I still say the price at the pump is the confirmed story tonight.
[Reagan] And the draft rumor is worth tracking; I'm just not panicking about it yet.
[Rush Lindell] Speaking of tracking,
[Rush Lindell] Congress actually took a vote on all this.
[Reagan] Oh, they voted and the numbers are interesting.
[Rush Lindell] Forget the pump price for a second.
[Rush Lindell] Let's talk about what Congress actually did with a pen in hand.
[Reagan] The House passed the War Powers Resolution again,
[Reagan] 214 to 208,
[Reagan] second time this year they've told him to stand down.
[Rush Lindell] Second time. And CNBC's reporting Trump's basically guaranteed to veto it anyway. So what's the...
[Reagan] The point is, it's non-binding.
[Reagan] A concurrent resolution never touches his desk. It's a message.
[Reagan] Not a chain.
[Rush Lindell] A message,
[Rush Lindell] four Republicans decided to send-Davidson,
[Rush Lindell] Fitzpatrick,
[Rush Lindell] Barrett and Massie-I'm calling them the Fantastic Four of failed attempts.
[Reagan] Failed attempts?
[Rush Lindell] They cross the aisle,
[Rush Lindell] headlines happen,
[Rush Lindell] nothing changes-that's the tremor before Jones' Aftershock.
[Reagan] The real story might be who didn't show up.
[Reagan] Stars and Stripes flagged that Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski both previous yes votes on measures like this.
[Reagan] were absent for the Senate vote.
[Rush Lindell] Absent? Not no,
[Rush Lindell] just gone?
[Reagan] Gone.
[Reagan] And the binding version failed forty-seven to forty-nine.
[Reagan] Two votes.
[Reagan] Susan Collins was the lone Republican yes.
[Rush Lindell] Two votes.
[Rush Lindell] Paul and Murkowski show up. We're talking about a binding resolution actually reaching his desk.
[Reagan] Which is why the absences matter more than the tally.
[Reagan] A no vote is a position.
[Reagan] An empty chair is a dodge.
[Rush Lindell] Oh,
[Rush Lindell] come on—you skip the votes so nobody pins a label on you.
[Reagan] Or they didn't want their name on a resolution headed straight for a veto.
[Rush Lindell] Either way; nonbinding wins the House,
[Rush Lindell] binding dies in the Senate,
[Rush Lindell] everybody claims they voted their conscience.
[Reagan] Voted or didn't vote,
[Reagan] big difference.
[Rush Lindell] And watching these same faces flip their Article One convictions depending on whose name's on the lease?
[Reagan] That's a whole separate show.
[Rush Lindell] Exactly why we're doing it next.
[Rush Lindell] Next.
[Rush Lindell] Building on that hypocrisy parade,
[Rush Lindell] I want to do a bit:
[Reagan] Oh,
[Reagan] no!
[Rush Lindell] My fellow Americans,
[Rush Lindell] today I rise to defend Article One of the Constitution which I personally discovered in twenty nineteen and then mysteriously misplaced somewhere around January twenty twenty five.
[Reagan] And the return item gets filed the day the other party wins.
[Rush Lindell] Every. Single. Time.
[Rush Lindell] Whoever's out of power.
[Rush Lindell] Out of power suddenly remembers we have a Legislature-and get this-the Hill reported back in April that Democrats floated invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment over Iran strikes.
[Reagan] Right.
[Rush Lindell] Now Alex Jones,
[Rush Lindell] who spent years mocking that exact idea,
[Rush Lindell] says it was warranted all along.
[Reagan] The costume closet is very well stocked this year.
[Rush Lindell] That's the bit.
[Rush Lindell] Everybody's wearing someone else's principles.
[Reagan] Sure,
[Reagan] but I'll push back before you take a victory lap.
[Rush Lindell] Go ahead.
[Reagan] Both sides being hypocrites doesn't make the underlying question fake.
[Reagan] Congress still hasn't voted to authorize this war.
[Rush Lindell] I'm not saying the QUESTION'S fake.
[Reagan] You're implying it, though,
[Reagan] calling it a costume lets everyone off the hook.
[Reagan] The theater is real,
[Reagan] so is the War Powers clause.
[Rush Lindell] Fair-the circus doesn't cancel the Constitution.
[Reagan] And laughing at the flip flopping feels good,
[Reagan] but it's a distraction from the actual failure.
[Reagan] Nobody's forced an up or down vote that sticks.
[Rush Lindell] Comedy breaks over,
[Rush Lindell] then.
[Reagan] It has to be,
[Reagan] because the next story isn't about floor speeches or hashtags.
[Rush Lindell] No-it's about Americans who didn't get a vote at all.
[Reagan] A base in Jordan,
[Reagan] real casualties:
[Reagan] that's where the abstraction ends.
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[Rush Lindell] Shifting from satire to Jordan,
[Rush Lindell] this isn't hypothetical:
[Rush Lindell] American service members were killed at a Jordanian air base in mid July.
[Rush Lindell] Real people,
[Rush Lindell] families getting a knock on the door.
[Rush Lindell] Yeah.
[Rush Lindell] The Christian Science Monitor reported four straight days of Iranian strikes on U.S.
[Rush Lindell] assets there,
[Rush Lindell] the base,
[Rush Lindell] then Aqaba's port and airport.
[Rush Lindell] And it didn't stop.
[Rush Lindell] It didn't.
[Rush Lindell] Al Jazeera reported a fresh barrage hit U.S. forces in Jordan on
[Speaker 4] July thirtieth.
[Rush Lindell] On July twenty ninth,
[Rush Lindell] ending a five day pause (same day Netanyahu walked into the White House), coincidence or message,
[Rush Lindell] I'll let you decide,
[Rush Lindell] but nobody saying this out loud:
[Rush Lindell] Jordan is a country Congress never debated putting troops in harm's way over.
[Rush Lindell] No hearing,
[Rush Lindell] no vote,
[Rush Lindell] no name read on the floor.
[Rush Lindell] The Christian Science Monitor also notes U.S. aid to Jordan hit a record two billion dollars this year.
[Rush Lindell] Here,
[Rush Lindell] while Amman says almost nothing publicly about strikes on its own soil,
[Rush Lindell] they're taking our money and eating the missiles quietly-that's the position we've put a partner in.
[Rush Lindell] Casualties in a country nobody in that building signed off on-this is exactly the scenario the War Powers Resolution exists for.
[Rush Lindell] Somebody's kid isn't coming home-and Congress is still arguing about who gets credit for finding Article One.
[Rush Lindell] So the real question isn't whether Trump broke a rule.
[Rush Lindell] It's what actually stops the next strike.
[Rush Lindell] That's not a floor speech.
[Rush Lindell] That's a casket. Which is exactly why I don't think impeachment is the right fight here.
[Rush Lindell] Convince me.
[Rush Lindell] Building on that,
[Rush Lindell] let's talk about impeachment itself,
[Rush Lindell] because I think Jones is making a category error.
[Rush Lindell] Removal needs two-thirds of the Senate.
[Rush Lindell] That's not happening.
[Rush Lindell] A funded,
[Rush Lindell] binding statutory limit cutting off money for further strikes is what Congress can actually pass without removing anyone.
[Rush Lindell] That's the real remedy,
[Rush Lindell] and it's the one nobody's pushing hard enough.
[Rush Lindell] Keep going; and here's what I'll give you because you earned it earlier:
[Rush Lindell] when a coalition loses its media wing it loses its energy.
[Rush Lindell] Jones carries real weight with that audience,
[Rush Lindell] but losing enthusiasm and losing votes are two different things.
[Rush Lindell] Enthusiasm fades quietly; defections shows up on a roll call.
[Rush Lindell] That's the sharpest distinction anyone's made on this show tonight.
[Rush Lindell] Thank you.
[Rush Lindell] But flip it around:
[Rush Lindell] the four defectors didn't wake up brave; somebody in their district stopped defending this war out loud,
[Rush Lindell] and that scared them faster than any floor speech did.
[Rush Lindell] When the base goes quiet,
[Rush Lindell] members start doing math.
[Rush Lindell] And math is the one language this Congress actually speaks.
[Rush Lindell] Exactly. And it's not just the House.
[Rush Lindell] The Hill reported this week that Senate Republicans are privately warning that confidence in Defense Secretary Hegseth is eroding as this thing drags on.
[Rush Lindell] Wait,
[Rush Lindell] Hegseth specifically?
[Rush Lindell] Specifically.
[Rush Lindell] That's not Alex Jones ranting into a microphone.
[Rush Lindell] That's members of the President's own party
[Speaker 4] saying it.
[Rush Lindell] own party,
[Rush Lindell] which tells you the pressure isn't coming from outside the tent anymore; it's coming from inside it,
[Rush Lindell] and that changes everything about how this plays out before November.
[Rush Lindell] Brr.
[Reagan] Ha ha.
[Speaker 3] It's more expensive.
[Speaker 5] Zooming out from Jordan,
[Speaker 5] CNBC's framing here is the one that matters.
[Speaker 5] This war's revival lands months before the midterms, right on top of paper-thin majorities.
[Speaker 3] Four defectors already crossed on that House vote.
[Speaker 3] Watch that number, folks.
[Speaker 3] If it climbs to eight,
[Speaker 3] ten,
[Speaker 3] Speaker's got a real problem,
[Speaker 3] not a headline problem.
[Speaker 5] And the Senate showed us 47 isn't 49,
[Speaker 5] whether a binding resolution ever actually
[Speaker 5] or actually gets a floor vote,
[Speaker 5] that's the second thing to track.
[Speaker 5] Right now it's dying in procedure,
[Speaker 5] not on merits.
[Speaker 3] Third thing:
[Speaker 3] Does anybody else with a microphone follow Alex Jones off that ledge?
[Speaker 3] One loyalist breaking is a story; three or four is a stampede.
[Speaker 5] I'll believe the stampede when I see it.
[Speaker 3] Fair.
[Speaker 5] So what changes my mind?
[Speaker 5] Documented conscription paperwork.
[Speaker 5] Not a rumor,
[Speaker 5] not a maybe.
[Speaker 5] Actual selective service...
[Speaker 5] Service action!
[Speaker 5] Show me that,
[Speaker 5] and I'm marching next to Jones.
[Speaker 3] Mine simpler:
[Speaker 3] ten House Republicans,
[Speaker 3] ten crossing on a binding resolution before Labor Day.
[Speaker 3] You get there,
[Speaker 3] this majority cracks wide open.
[Speaker 5] And if neither happens?
[Speaker 3] Then everybody go back to pretending they care about Article One exactly when it's convenient.
[Speaker 3] Same as always.
[Speaker 5] We'll hold you to the number Rush.
[Speaker 3] Ten Republicans,
[Speaker 3] write it down.
[Speaker 6] Mm-hmm.
[Speaker 3] So today started with Alex Jones demanding Trump's impeachment-and it ended with us talking about troops in Jordan.
[Speaker 3] Wild ride.
[Speaker 5] It really was.
[Speaker 5] And credit where it's due,
[Speaker 5] the House passed that second War Powers Resolution.
[Speaker 5] Four Republicans crossed over
[Speaker 3] Wow.
[Speaker 5] to get it done.
[Speaker 3] Four defectors.
[Speaker 3] The Senate couldn't even close the gap.
[Speaker 5] Forty-seven to forty-nine.
[Speaker 5] That's not nothing.
[Speaker 3] But the number that sticks with me?
[Speaker 3] Americans killed.
[Speaker 3] Missiles hitting.
[Speaker 7] It's hitting Aqaba.
[Speaker 8] Ah!
[Speaker 7] Congress never voted on putting them there.
[Speaker 5] Congress never voted on sending them there,
[Speaker 5] and voters deserve to know that before November.
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[Speaker 7] Reagan,
[Speaker 7] always a pleasure arguing with you.
[Speaker 5] Right back at you,
[Speaker 5] Rush.
[Speaker 7] To the listener:
[Speaker 7] we'll see you tomorrow.
[Speaker 3] Peace.