On the eve of the impeachment vote, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) was a no-show due to a “family emergency,” causing him to miss the last procedural step in the impeachment process. Nadler is supposedly is helping his wife, Joyce Miller, who is ill, and had to return home to New York. Nadler is expected to return before Wednesday afternoon before the House’s impeachment vote.

The House Rules Committee was scheduled to set the groundwork for the House’s floor debate and vote on Wednesday. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) will fill in for Nadler to present the articles of impeachment to the Rules Committee.

Nadler was criticized by radio personality Rush Limbaugh for not showing up at the Rules Committee hearing. Limbaugh said Nadler was “exposed as a full-fledged, 100% liar,” in the IG report. Limbaugh also stated the Democrats on The Rules Committee are lying.

“The IG report has totally exposed Nadler as a full-fledged, 100% liar. This is great. I’ve continued to dig into the IG report,” stated Limbaugh.

“Nadler cannot be at the Rules Committee hearing today because there’s some sort of family emergency in New York. I don’t know what it is. Doesn’t matter. So Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, is taking his place. And these people are just lying through their teeth. They are continuing to lie through their teeth,” Limbaugh said.

“This guy said the president has abused his office, engaged in misconduct, and they give the quote where the president said, ‘Look at Article II. I can do anything I want.’ They know they’re lying about this! He didn’t say he can do anything he wants. It was in the context of an interview two different times. One with George Stephanopoulos in which he’s saying Article II gave him the power to fire Robert Mueller if he wanted to, could do anything he wants regarding Mueller. They know they’re taking that out of context. They know that they’re lying about this,” he stated.

“And if they’re lying about one thing, you have to assume they’ll be lying about a lot of things. The one thing that is unmistakable in all of this, they don’t even have a crime. They do not have an impeachable offense. The second thing that Raskin did, they’re still repeating the Trump joke, that Trump asks Russia to go find 30,000 Hillary emails and five hours later, the Russians hacked the server,” added Limbaugh.

“That’s not possible. When Trump cracked that joke, the DNC server had already been hacked, it had already been shut down. We still don’t know who really did it. But it was out of the way. Trump’s cracking a joke and making fun of the media and making fun of the Democrats, and these clowns throw it in their articles of impeachment. They’re just lying through their teeth. And it’s over and over and over again, and the media, of course, enables it, trying to make it look like it’s real, and none of it is.”

“Trump’s cracking a joke and making fun of the media and making fun of the Democrats, and these clowns throw it in their articles of impeachment,” added Limbaugh. “They’re just lying through their teeth. And it’s over and over and over again, and the media, of course, enables it, trying to make it look like it’s real, and none of it is.”