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Remebering a Good Man, and a Good Friend & Senator, Lindsey Graham · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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Speaker 3: Good Monday morning, and it's nice to have you with
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Speaker 3: us on the forty seven Morning Update, And we start
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Speaker 3: with the tragic news Senator Lindsey Graham has passed away.
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Speaker 3: It was described as a brief and sudden illness, and
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Speaker 3: now we're being told it was a cardiac arrest. President
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Speaker 3: shocked as he talked to him just hours before this happened.
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Speaker 2: Story number one.
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Speaker 3: Lindsay Graham is an individual who many people don't realize.
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Speaker 3: For more than thirty years, he was an active duty
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Speaker 3: the Air Force, National Guard and the Air Force Reserved.
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Speaker 3: He actually served his country in uniform ultimately retiring with
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Speaker 3: the rank of colonel. He joined the United States Air
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Speaker 3: Force as a judge advocate general attorney, known as Jack.
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Speaker 3: He also graduated from the University of South Carolina, where
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Speaker 3: he earned his law degree, and chose a life of service,
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Speaker 3: as he described instead of taking the easier road. Lindsay
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Speaker 3: Graham was a guy who said he just was never
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Speaker 3: going to quit. And by the time he was twenty
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Speaker 3: one years old, both his parents had passed away. Now
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Speaker 3: imagine that for a moment, still in college, trying to
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Speaker 3: figure out your future, and suddenly Lindsay was responsible not
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Speaker 3: only for yourself, but also for helping raise his younger sister.
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Speaker 3: Many people would be overwhelmed. Lindsay Graham didn't act like it.
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Speaker 3: His service, he continued in the military. He saw the
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Speaker 3: world differently, as he described it, because he'd warned the uniform.
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Speaker 3: He understood by the way, the cost of war, He
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Speaker 3: understood sacrifice, He understood what Americans wanted America to look
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Speaker 3: like and be represented around the globe. And then he
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Speaker 3: was first elected in office. Well guess what it wasn't
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Speaker 3: in Washington. It was a South Carolina House of Representatives
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Speaker 3: then Congress. In nineteen ninety four. That was the Republican
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Speaker 3: Revolution you may remember, led by Newt Gingrich, and America
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Speaker 3: at that moment in nineteen ninety four, with the Contract
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Speaker 3: of America was demanding change. Lindsey Graham quickly developed a
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Speaker 3: reputation for doing his homework. He wasn't, by the way,
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Speaker 3: the loudest member in ninety four either. He wasn't chasing
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Speaker 3: television cameras like so many elected officials do now. He
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Speaker 3: actually became known as a workhorse, as someone who actually
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Speaker 3: read the legislation, someone who could actually explain the constitutional
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Speaker 3: questions because he was a lawyer, someone his colleagues actually
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Speaker 3: trusted his opinion on legal matters. And then in two
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Speaker 3: thousand and two, South Carolina they faced a very historic moment.
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Speaker 3: The legendary centers strom Thurman retired after nearly a half
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Speaker 3: century in the Senate. Now those many described as it would
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Speaker 3: be impossible shoes to fill, and South Carolina's placed their
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Speaker 3: trust in Lindsey Graham. In January of three, he took
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Speaker 3: the oath of office as a United States Center. It would
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Speaker 3: become the defining chapter of his storied life. Almost immediately,
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Speaker 3: national security became his signature issue and You've got to
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Speaker 3: remember the timing of why that was so important. America
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Speaker 3: was still living in the shadows of September the eleventh.
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Speaker 3: He was a man that was in the military. He
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Speaker 3: was an individual that served his country, and the war
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Speaker 3: on Terror was dominating Washington and also legislation. Now, Graham
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Speaker 3: became one of the senates leading voices of defense, intelligence,
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Speaker 3: and military affairs. Right away. He wasn't interested, by the
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Speaker 3: way in isolation. He believed America's strength prevented larger conflicts,
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Speaker 3: and that was his philosophy. Whether you agreed with him
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Speaker 3: or not, he didn't waiver. It guided him through his
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Speaker 3: entire time in the Senate. He also became one of
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Speaker 3: Senator John McCain's closest allies and closest friends. The two
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Speaker 3: were nearly inseparable on foreign policy. They traveled on Codel's
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Speaker 3: together around the world. They visited our troops multiple times
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Speaker 3: in the Middle East, They met with our allies together,
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Speaker 3: and they warn't against America's enemies as a strong United front.
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Speaker 3: He also was really good friends with some Democrats. Talk
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Speaker 3: about that in a moment. Now, if John mccamm was speaking,
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Speaker 3: by the way about national security, you better believe Lindsey
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Speaker 3: Graham wasn't far away. One of the things people often
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Speaker 3: misunderstood about Graham was that he could disagree fiercely without
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Speaker 3: making it personal. He actually built relationships across the aisle.
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Speaker 3: He worked with Democrats when he thought it served the country,
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Speaker 3: and he also fought his own party when he believed
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Speaker 3: that Republicans were wrong on an issue. Now that independence
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Speaker 3: frustrated people on both sides of the isle at the time,
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Speaker 3: he was a man that well literally had a beat
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Speaker 3: to his own drum, not of the Republican Party in general.
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Speaker 3: It reflected his belief that elected officials should think for themselves.
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Speaker 3: He wasn't trying to become a celebrity, even though he
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Speaker 3: became one. He wasn't trying to become effective. But his
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Speaker 3: influence grew and so did his responsibilities. While in the Senate,
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Speaker 3: he got bigger committee assignments because of his understanding of
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Speaker 3: the laws. Then he started getting more national television appearances.
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Speaker 3: Then he started getting more foreign policy mentions, Then he
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Speaker 3: started getting the military briefings, and then his shining moment
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Speaker 3: many would believe was act Supreme Court confirmations. By the
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Speaker 3: end of his first decade in the Senate, Lindsey Graham
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Speaker 3: had become one of the most recognizable Republican voices in America,
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Speaker 3: not because he sought the fame, but because colleagues increasingly
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Speaker 3: relied upon him his military experience, his legal background, his
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Speaker 3: understanding of the constitutional issues, and most importantly, his willingness
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Speaker 3: to dive into the difficult problems facing America. Lindsey Graham's
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Speaker 3: willingness to do that made him different. Those are the
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Speaker 3: qualities that made him one of the Senate's most influential members.
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Speaker 3: You didn't have to agree with every vote, you didn't
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Speaker 3: have to support every position, but you had to acknowledge
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Speaker 3: the seriousness with which he approached the job. And perhaps
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Speaker 3: that's the greatest lesson from Lindsey Graham's life, especially his
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Speaker 3: early life. He proved that your job, an adversarial job,
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Speaker 3: doesn't define you. He believed very much in his word
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Speaker 3: meaning something. He was a guy that believed much in character.
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Speaker 3: Much of that came from the military and losing his
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Speaker 3: parents I didn't stop him growing up in a small town.
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Speaker 3: That didn't limit him serving food in a family restaurant,
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Speaker 3: didn't keep him from someday somehow serving the United States Senate.
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Speaker 3: In many ways, Lindsey Graham was an American story, a
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Speaker 3: young man from central South Carolina who lost everything early,
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Speaker 3: worked harder than almost anyone around him, studied harder than
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Speaker 3: anyone else, served his nation in the uniform, and became
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Speaker 3: one of the most influential centers of his generation. That,
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Speaker 3: by the way, is a remarkable life. And by the way,
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Speaker 3: that's only the first half of the story. Now, President
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump called in to Meet the Press to talk
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Speaker 3: about Lindsey Graham now and who he'd become and how
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Speaker 3: close to a friend he was in an ally, even
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Speaker 3: though they fought against each other in twenty sixteen for
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Speaker 3: the presidency. You may not remember this, but lind ran
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Speaker 3: in that election against Donald Trump. They were competitors that
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Speaker 3: then became close friends. Many described Lindsay a's a guy
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Speaker 3: that had unfettered access to not only the President, but
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Speaker 3: to the White House. The President acknowledging that in his
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Speaker 3: Meet the Press conversation. He said that not everybody just
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Speaker 3: gets to come in all the time, and he said
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Speaker 3: I liked him. He was my friend. He was over
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Speaker 3: at the White House all the time. We talked about
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Speaker 3: issues all the time. That is who Lindsey Graham became
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Speaker 3: to the president. The President of the United States of
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Speaker 3: America shocked, calling in to Meet the Press talking about
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Speaker 3: the loss of Lindsey Graham, someone he was close with,
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Speaker 3: an ally, someone who actually ran against him for president
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Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen. They became dear friends, and they were
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Speaker 3: working together on the Save Act. And the President had
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Speaker 3: this to say as he called in to NBC's Meet
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Speaker 3: the Press, if his.
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Speaker 5: Public service and his lasting impact on the Senate and
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Speaker 5: the country, and to start us off and do that.
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Speaker 5: Joining me now on the phone is President Donald Trump
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Speaker 5: for reaction to the death of his close friend. President Trump,
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Speaker 5: thank you for joining us, and my condolences to you.
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you. He's a tough one to lose. He
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Speaker 4: was great. He was unique in every way.
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Speaker 5: Actually he was, mister President. And I know that we
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Speaker 5: are all just absorbing this news. We are all in shock.
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Speaker 5: Can you tell us, mister President, how you receive this
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Speaker 5: news and your immediate gut reaction when you heard it.
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Speaker 4: So what makes it even stranger is that I got
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Speaker 4: a call last night sometime, you know, the early evening,
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Speaker 4: maybe in the sevens, and he called and he said,
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Speaker 4: we're all set for the Save America Act. He was
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Speaker 4: pushing the Save America Act like crazy. He got back,
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Speaker 4: said he just landed from Ukraine. Said, that's a long
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Speaker 4: trip to mac He said, he sounded a little tired,
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Speaker 4: but perfect, but a little bit tired. I had a
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Speaker 4: right to be. And he was a worker. He was
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Speaker 4: really a worker. But but he sounded great. Actually, but
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Speaker 4: he was. He was. He actually said he was tired,
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Speaker 4: but he wanted to pass to Save America Act. And
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Speaker 4: I said, well, we're going to get it done, Lindsey,
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Speaker 4: we're going to get it done. I'll see you like soon.
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Speaker 4: We thought we might even meet today. And then that
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Speaker 4: was it. And that was, you know, very around the time.
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Speaker 4: It couldn't have been much longer. It could have been
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Speaker 4: his last call. I don't know exactly, but I got
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Speaker 4: a message about one o'clock in the morning from one
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Speaker 4: of the people at his office that he had passed away.
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Speaker 4: I said, you got it. I just can't believe it.
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Speaker 4: He was like a member of the family to me.
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Speaker 4: It's very tough. Actually, it's amazing, mister he was. He was.
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Speaker 4: He was such an advocate. He was, you know, if
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Speaker 4: he if he wanted to get something and you know,
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Speaker 4: he had a unique ability. He was able to deal
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Speaker 4: with democrats. If I had a problem, a real problem,
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't often ask, but if I had a problem
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Speaker 4: with a Democrat, he could work it out. He was
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Speaker 4: a great He was a great politician.
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Speaker 5: Actually, he loved his work. Mister President, I hear you
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Speaker 5: saying that in this final conversation, that you have emblematic.
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Speaker 5: He was tireless, but it brought him such joy, didn't.
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Speaker 4: It was there was nobody like him. He loved being
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Speaker 4: a politician and he was going to win his election.
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Speaker 4: He was going to win it big. I endorsed him
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Speaker 4: very early, and he was going to win it big.
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Speaker 4: He had it, just had it made, and he just
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Speaker 4: loved being a politician. I said, the reason I'm endorsing
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Speaker 4: you is because I got to make sure you win,
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Speaker 4: because if you didn't win, I don't think you could
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Speaker 4: handle life. I really don't. He was a man. You know,
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Speaker 4: there are guys that can lose and they go into
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Speaker 4: something else. I can't imagine doing anything else. I said,
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Speaker 4: if you weren't a he was senator, I don't know
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Speaker 4: if you could live very long, and look what happens.
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Speaker 4: He was going to have a big victory, and the
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Speaker 4: people loved him. Everybody loved him. Well, No, he had
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Speaker 4: some minimum. He was a tough cookie. Don't misunderstand. He
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Speaker 4: was a tough cookie in many ways. If he wanted
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Speaker 4: to get something, if he thought he was right, and
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Speaker 4: he had people against him, he could be very tough. Actually,
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Speaker 4: but he was a good person.
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Speaker 5: Mister President is just extraordinary. You just spoke with him
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Speaker 5: last night his office as he passed away from a
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Speaker 5: brief and sudden illness. Are you learning any more details
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Speaker 5: about how and why he may have passed. Did he
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Speaker 5: tell you anything in that phone call, mister President, about
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Speaker 5: not feeling well?
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Speaker 4: No, he said he's a little tired. It was a
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Speaker 4: long trip, you know, many hours, and he had just
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Speaker 4: gotten back. And the I mean it must have been
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Speaker 4: right after that, because I understand the police or whoever
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Speaker 4: it is, came there at about seven point thirty eight
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Speaker 4: o'clock in the evening something like that, so somebody notified him.
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Speaker 4: But no, he felt okay. I mean I actually on
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Speaker 4: the on the call, he told me christ and he said,
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Speaker 4: you know, I feel good, but I'm tired. He was fine.
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Speaker 4: I knew him, I know him well. He would he
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Speaker 4: would let you know if he wasn't really well. He
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Speaker 4: had days we did and feel so well, and he'd
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Speaker 4: let you know about it. But he was a fantastic person.
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Speaker 4: He was a man who are you going to watch?
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Speaker 4: It's going to be a very big thing with him.
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Speaker 4: He's going to be appreciated more now than he was
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Speaker 4: when he was living, I think.
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Speaker 5: And just to make that point, I mean, authorities were
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Speaker 5: called to his home responding to initial reports of a
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Speaker 5: cardiac arrest, again his office saying a brief and sudden illness.
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Speaker 5: Do you have any more details?
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Speaker 4: I would think it would be that because when I
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Speaker 4: spoke to him, it could have been, you know, minutes before,
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Speaker 4: based on you know, the the fact that I heard
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Speaker 4: about the call, whatever time that was, so was shortly before.
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Speaker 4: But it had to be something like that because he
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Speaker 4: was other than being tired, he was fine, and so
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Speaker 4: it had to be something like that. That would just
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Speaker 4: be a quick end and maybe that's not the worst
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Speaker 4: way to go, you know, he had the fine moments.
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Speaker 4: His moment on Brett Kavanaugh was one of the classics,
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Speaker 4: I think in the history of the Senate. His moment
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Speaker 4: was literally, I mean literally one of the great classics
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Speaker 4: of anyone in the Senate when he defended Brett Cavanah
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Speaker 4: so brilliantly, and Brett might not have made it except
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Speaker 4: for that they were treating him very unfairly, good man.
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Speaker 4: They treated him so unfairly, and Lindsey was so angry
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Speaker 4: at the Senate because of it, and he had really
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Speaker 4: an emotional moment, and I think that saved Brett Kavanaugh's
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Speaker 4: Supreme Court you know, ascension. He Lindsay did something that
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Speaker 4: he was just so angry at the way Brett was
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Speaker 4: being treated by the Democrats. It was so unfair.
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Speaker 5: It was I want to ask you more about his legacy.
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Speaker 4: See Lindsay got that over. Lindsey did a thing there
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Speaker 4: that was I think nobody else could have done that.
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Speaker 5: Let me ask you a little bit more about his legacy.
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Speaker 5: And I know you remember this moment, mister President, back
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Speaker 5: in twenty fifteen, when he was one of your challengers
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Speaker 5: on the campaign trail, the two of you facing off
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Speaker 5: against each other, and then he very quickly became one
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Speaker 5: of your staunchest allies, mister President, and he and that
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Speaker 5: pros played golf together frequently on the phone together. What
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Speaker 5: do you think it is about Senator Graham that allowed
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Speaker 5: him to make that transition from competitor to ally so
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Speaker 5: quickly and so forcefully.
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Speaker 4: Well, I got to know Lindsey during the campaign. I
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Speaker 4: didn't really know then. I met him once or twice,
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Speaker 4: but nothing. And I got to know him during the campaign.
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Speaker 4: He was tough, but he said I'll see you in
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Speaker 4: South Carolina. You know he was. But when it came
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Speaker 4: to South Carolina, went South Carolina by a lot, and
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Speaker 4: I sort of I sort of ran the table on
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Speaker 4: everybody and it was good and he appreciated it. He
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Speaker 4: respected it, and we sort of got a little bit friendly,
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Speaker 4: and just the friendship grew, It just grew. And he
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Speaker 4: was an amazing advocate. He was I don't know how
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Speaker 4: you find anybody like him. He was so intent. I
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Speaker 4: mean he literally called me about the Save America Act.
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Speaker 4: That's why he's you know, that's where I heard he
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Speaker 4: think of it. He's traveling for many many hours. That's
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Speaker 4: a long flight, that's a long trip, and he, you know,
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Speaker 4: calls me about the Save America Act. He thought we
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Speaker 4: were going to get it past. You remember the very
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Speaker 4: big this is a big this is a big blow
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Speaker 4: to the Save America act.
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Speaker 5: Let me tell you, do you remember, mister President, what
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Speaker 5: was the last thing you said to him? What was
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Speaker 5: the last thing he said to you?
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Speaker 4: I said, We'll see you soon, come over any time
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Speaker 4: you want. He came into the White household because I
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Speaker 4: liked him. I can't do that with everybody, but he
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Speaker 4: come in a lot. And he was a great like
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Speaker 4: a gauge at a temperature gauge of the Senate. He
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Speaker 4: was somebody that most Democrats liked, some didn't, but most
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Speaker 4: Democrats liked and just about all of the Republicans, like Lindsey.
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Speaker 4: He got a lot with everybody, and yet he was
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Speaker 4: He was a tough cookie in a lot of ways,
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Speaker 4: but he had Honestly, he was a great politician. People
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Speaker 4: don't realize what a good politician he was. He could
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Speaker 4: he could go in and get something approved. He would.
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Speaker 4: He would just get people on his side. He was
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Speaker 4: really a talented you're not don say you probably never
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Speaker 4: heard me say that about anybody, because you know there
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Speaker 4: aren't too many of them. Let me tell you, sometimes
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Speaker 4: you'll meet somebody that had been there for twenty five
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Speaker 4: years ahead did they say this? And this man was
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Speaker 4: a great politician. He really got it to that.
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Speaker 5: Point, mister President, it's nearly impossible to think about replacing
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Speaker 5: Senator Lindsey Graham. And yet the governor of the great
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Speaker 5: state of South Carolina is going to need to appoint
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Speaker 5: someone on an interim basis. There will also be a
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Speaker 5: special election called do you have I know it's only ours,
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Speaker 5: but is there someone you think he should appoint us?
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Speaker 5: There someone you think he will I have.
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Speaker 4: Somebody that I think would be great, but I don't
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Speaker 4: want to say it now because it just, you know,
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Speaker 4: it's too soon with Lindsey. I don't want to even
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Speaker 4: talk about anybody. But I do have somebody that I
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Speaker 4: think is really good. The governor is a good friend
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Speaker 4: of mine. I've endorsed him, you know, I endorsed him
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Speaker 4: early on, and he endorsed me right from the beginning,
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Speaker 4: as a person that never did this before. In twenty sixteen,
20:55
Speaker 4: he came out and very strongly endorsed me, and then
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Speaker 4: I made up for it. Somebody from office that I
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Speaker 4: didn't think was so good moved her over to the
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Speaker 4: United Nations. Ninety five percent of that of my doing
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Speaker 4: that because the United Nations yeb was not exactly tough.
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Speaker 4: It could be very important. But you know she was
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Speaker 4: okay at it. But I did it because Henry McMaster
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Speaker 4: was the lieutenant governor and by moving her, I got
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Speaker 4: myself a great really a great guy. Henry McMaster has
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Speaker 4: been a really good governor, really good guy. And you
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Speaker 4: know that that position cleared out and Henry's been a
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Speaker 4: great governor. You know now he's turned out, but he
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Speaker 4: he he's going to do the right thing. I think
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Speaker 4: Henry will be fantastic. Remember he endorsed me out of nowhere.
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Speaker 4: He just he said I like that guy the best,
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Speaker 4: and he campaigned for me with his wife, with peg.
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Speaker 4: He campaigned for me. I'd say, who is that man
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Speaker 4: that's campaigning all the time. I hardly knew him. They said,
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Speaker 4: that's the lieutenant governor. So they have a great governor
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Speaker 4: and he's going to make a good desis. But ultimately
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Speaker 4: it's going to be an election pretty soon, as I
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Speaker 4: understand the rules. Every state is different, but ultimately they'll
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Speaker 4: have an election. Now, some people joining some are good,
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Speaker 4: some are bad. But I have somebody that I like,
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Speaker 4: but I'm not going to tell you who now because
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Speaker 4: it's too soon. All right, fair enough, we was never
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Speaker 4: glad i'd be in this position. Yeah, I said, I
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Speaker 4: thought Lindsay was going to be living forever. I never thought.
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Speaker 4: I never I said, Lindsay, you're going to live forever.
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Speaker 4: And he was going to have a big victory, you know,
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Speaker 4: he was. He was scheduled to win by a lot.
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Speaker 4: He had my support, and he was scheduled he was
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Speaker 4: going to win by a lot. He was going to
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Speaker 4: have one of his best elections ever. And now he's
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Speaker 4: got this terrible well.
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Speaker 5: I had the great honor of being able to talk
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Speaker 5: to him a couple of times this week, mister President,
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Speaker 5: and as you can imagine, we talked about a lot
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Speaker 5: of foreign policy, We talked about a lot of Iran,
22:54
Speaker 5: and in honor of him, I want to still have
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Speaker 5: some of those conversations. Those are the conversations he wanted
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Speaker 5: to have here this morning, mister President, you obviously launched
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Speaker 5: a fresh round of strikes overnight. Iron said overnight, the
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Speaker 5: straight of Warmose is closed. Sentcom came out this morning
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Speaker 5: and said, the straight of Warmose is open. Which is it,
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Speaker 5: mister president?
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Speaker 4: And I don't want to talk about it because I
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Speaker 4: want to honor the life of Lindsey Graham. So I
23:20
Speaker 4: don't want to talk about it. I told you that
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Speaker 4: before the call. Yeah, it's open. We bombed the hell
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Speaker 4: out of them last night. They're very, very evil and
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Speaker 4: sick people. We had meetings with them for the last day.
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Speaker 4: Agreed to a deal yesterday, a perfect deal for US.
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Speaker 4: No nuclear, no this, no that, no nothing. They've gave
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Speaker 4: up everything. And then after that they left the room,
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Speaker 4: and then within an hour they launched a groan, then
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Speaker 4: a ship. I said, your people are sick. You're sick people,
23:54
Speaker 4: and so it's one of those things. I don't want
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Speaker 4: to talk about it.
23:56
Speaker 5: Finally, before I want to talk about I want.
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Speaker 4: To talk about one person today, Lindsey Graham.
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Speaker 5: As we should, mister President. Just finally, before I let
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Speaker 5: you go, what is the legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham,
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Speaker 5: Mister President.
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Speaker 4: He's got so many legacies, but one of the legacies
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Speaker 4: is a Supreme Court justice who's excellent, named Brett Kavanaugh.
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Speaker 4: That's one of the legacies. That's a big legacy because
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Speaker 4: Brett was being treated very unfairly. I don't think he
24:22
Speaker 4: could have gotten through without Lindsay's classic. I mean, if
24:27
Speaker 4: you go back into the top ten, I think it
24:29
Speaker 4: would be a top ten at top five in the
24:31
Speaker 4: history of the Senate. The emotion, the anger, the love,
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Speaker 4: the whole thing, everything was in that. I called him up.
24:39
Speaker 4: I said, that's one of the great classics of all times.
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Speaker 4: He was a great politician, he really was. He got
24:45
Speaker 4: along with a lot of people that you wouldn't think of.
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Speaker 4: He was somebody that loved our country and he fought
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Speaker 4: very hard for the country. And I know he was
24:54
Speaker 4: going to do your show today. He told me I'm
24:56
Speaker 4: doing Meet the Press. Can you believe it? He said, here,
24:59
Speaker 4: I am. Do we meet the press for him? But
25:03
Speaker 4: he told me last night he was doing Meet the Press,
25:05
Speaker 4: you know. But I said, just relax and take it easy, lids.
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Speaker 4: He just got back from a long trip, but he
25:13
Speaker 4: was I thought he was just gonna live forever. And
25:17
Speaker 4: it didn't work out that way. I said, we'll see
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Speaker 4: you soon. Come over anytime you want. He came into
25:23
Speaker 4: the White House walkers. I liked him. I can't do
25:26
Speaker 4: that with everybody, but he come in a lot, and
25:29
Speaker 4: he was a great Like a gauge at a temperature
25:32
Speaker 4: gauge of the Senate. He was somebody that most Democrats liked,
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Speaker 4: some didn't but most Democrats liked and just about all
25:45
Speaker 4: of the Republicans like Lindsey. He got a little with everybody.
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Speaker 3: It's truly incredible to think that Lindsey Graham was just
25:53
Speaker 3: in Ukraine. He was fighting to get the Save America
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Speaker 3: Act pass. He was planning on spending time with the
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Speaker 3: President hours after they spoke to talk about how to
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Speaker 3: get the Save America Act passed. And now Lindsey Graham
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Speaker 3: is no longer with us. Our thoughts and prayers with
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Speaker 3: Lindsay Graham's family and friends. America has lost a great patriot,
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Speaker 3: that is for sure.
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