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Norm Coleman | Former Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota & Former Senator from Minnesota | 07-13-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: Sea is apply. Okay, As I just mentioned, my cousin
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  Speaker 3: Norm Coleman, very very close with Lindsay, as close as anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Top morning for Norm, but kind enough to hop on
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  Speaker 3: with me right now. Norm, I love you, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: very very sorry for all laws.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you Sid and tough day yesterday, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you had B Beyond there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a strongest supporter in the United States, and if you
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  Speaker 1: think back in the history of Israel, the strongest.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to be.
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  Speaker 1: One of them. But these guys, you know, Lindsay had seniority.
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  Speaker 1: We got elected by together in two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 1: so I've known them literally since both were elected class
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  Speaker 1: of two thousand and two. Saxony Shamblas was in that class,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Cornyan was in there is in that class.
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  Speaker 1: So Lindsay would have been the last man standing but BB.
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  Speaker 1: But Israel didn't have a better friend in the United
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  Speaker 1: States then Lindsey Graham. And so for BB to cole
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  Speaker 1: and I thought that was really special. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was important. I am certainly uplifted by buy the kind
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  Speaker 1: of tributes to Senator Graham that he so richly deserved.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're everywhere. Hannity is coming up after you. And
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  Speaker 3: Sean was also very very close with Lindsay as his fiance.
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  Speaker 2: She was on earlier.
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  Speaker 3: Ainsley Earhart also very very close Trump, very very close,
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  Speaker 3: Trey Dowdy, you you all the guys that were so
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  Speaker 3: close with Lindsay. And you know, yesterday when he got back,
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot of talk out there and I
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  Speaker 3: got involved, but I took it down from my social
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  Speaker 3: media about how he seemingly healthy, seventy one year old
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  Speaker 3: man who spent time in Ukraine just five days before that,
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  Speaker 3: the IRGC was saying we're going to kill him. And
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  Speaker 3: then you know, yeah, and then you Ron took.
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  Speaker 1: Question a quick story. I am. I'm glad that was.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we were pasted it. You know, we think
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  Speaker 1: we know the course. But I'll just tell you a
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  Speaker 1: quick story. When I in two thousand and five, I
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  Speaker 1: chaired the Western hemssub Committee, I went to Cuba, uh
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  Speaker 1: I met with Oswaldo Pay, a leader of the Varilla movement,
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  Speaker 1: an anti Castro movement within Cuba. Uh and and in
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  Speaker 1: the in his house, it was him who was a
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  Speaker 1: labor leader that had enprisoned about seventy people a couple
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  Speaker 1: of months before. And then this woman who's had a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Women in white. They protested Castro every Sunday after mask,
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  Speaker 1: wearing white. Within six months of my meeting with them,
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  Speaker 1: two to three were dead. So they were dead. One
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  Speaker 1: died of an infection, well she got nick during the march,
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  Speaker 1: which they poisoned her classic Russian. The other the other
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  Speaker 1: died in an auto accident.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And so I understand, but but you know, apparently you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I never knew he had any hard issues. But
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line is that that folks wanted dead. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they want him dead because he was the champion of freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody we will, anyone who championed freedom lost Buster Bus
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  Speaker 1: the hero, us the champion. The other day when Lindsay
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  Speaker 1: passed on, he was you know, he took on the Russians,
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  Speaker 1: he took on the Iranians. Uh, he took on all
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  Speaker 1: the bad guy He was out there to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: America is the strongest nation on earth. We are not
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  Speaker 1: going to let tyrants and thugs kind of dictate for
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  Speaker 1: us and so and again getting back to Israel, they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have had a better friend than cenravil Linz's.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I mean Phebe was even this morning, he
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  Speaker 3: was on with me, and hour ago he was still
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  Speaker 3: shook up yesterday, he was really shook up over over
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay's death. But you know what I knew about Lindsay
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  Speaker 3: and you know him again better than almost anyone, was
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  Speaker 3: that while he was a fervent Republican, I mean a
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  Speaker 3: strong Republican leader in the Senate, I mean I'm nervous now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm really nervous about South Carolina. But regardless of the politics,
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  Speaker 3: while he was a fervent Republican senator, he was a
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  Speaker 3: type of guy helped chew you up, like he did
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  Speaker 3: during the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, shoot him up. But he
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  Speaker 3: was also one of the few Republican senators who had
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  Speaker 3: no issue going to the other side of the aisle
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  Speaker 3: and actually talking to some of these terrible.
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  Speaker 1: People sid sid He took multiple trips to Israel with
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  Speaker 1: with Bloomenthal. Okay, who gets along with Bloomenthal.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody, no one, No one.
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  Speaker 1: Gets one gets along with Wlilmanhal But Lindsay they did
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  Speaker 1: a number and I would talk to him afterwards, uh
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  Speaker 1: and and and so he was he was carrying that.
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  Speaker 1: He was doing the shuttle diplomacy. I did a couple
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  Speaker 1: of trips with him when we went to to Read
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  Speaker 1: and went to Jerusalem to kind of kind of he
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  Speaker 1: was carrying the torch, the flame of Israel, sort of integration.
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  Speaker 1: He believed if that would happen, that would be transformed,
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  Speaker 1: it would transform the Middle East, it would put a
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  Speaker 1: ran in a corner. Uh And and the our world
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  Speaker 1: would then kind of work with Israel and it'd be
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  Speaker 1: a new door on a new day. And he literally
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  Speaker 1: he was doing shuttle diplomacy. But he took blooming Bow
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  Speaker 1: with him on a number of trips and a cancel.
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  Speaker 1: No one got along gets along with bloom but Lindsay
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  Speaker 1: Graham did. And I think it's a testament to him
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  Speaker 1: focus on he wanted to get something done. He was
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  Speaker 1: going to work with whoever he needed to work with
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  Speaker 1: to get that done. And he was enormously successful at it.
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  Speaker 3: And Dick Bloomenthal, of course, stolen Baller. He's a guy
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  Speaker 3: in Connecticut that said he served he of a serve
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  Speaker 3: and believe it or not, Lindsey Graham on Friday, the
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  Speaker 3: day before he died, I played the audio this morning.
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  Speaker 2: He spoke in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 3: He talked about more sanctions on the Russians, and when
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  Speaker 3: I get back to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna make this work.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I feel better than ever closer to peace
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  Speaker 3: at any point in the last five years. And he
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  Speaker 3: actually said Norm Coleman, when I get back to Washington,
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  Speaker 3: d C.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to Dick Blumenthal. He said it
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  Speaker 2: the day before he died.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I mean we had a number of conversations
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  Speaker 1: where he was, he had a relationship there, he worked,
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  Speaker 1: and then it was important in the end. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, you know, we're watching Israel kind of getting marginalized.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats can't support Israel. It can't be Democrats support Israel
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  Speaker 1: today if you want to be moving the Democrat party.
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  Speaker 1: So he developed relations with folks on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the aisle who was standing with him, standing with Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And again, these are tough times in the Jewish state,
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  Speaker 1: but Lindsey Graham was there doing what he needed to
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  Speaker 1: do to make sure that our best ally, our strongest ally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, had the strength to be able to move forward,
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  Speaker 1: and again having be beyond was a testament to somebody
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  Speaker 1: that certainly Israelis recognized was a great friend and a
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  Speaker 1: great leader. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I will send you that BB conversation. Yeah, the next
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  Speaker 3: couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing about Lindsay too is what a great story.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I was talking to Ainsy Earhart this morning
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  Speaker 3: and she said, people said he never got married, and
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  Speaker 3: she said, oh, no, no, no, no, he got married, all right.
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  Speaker 3: He married politics, he married freedom, he married America.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he married.
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  Speaker 3: And then the story about him taking care of his
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  Speaker 3: sister after his mother and father both died at young ages.
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  Speaker 3: What a beautiful story on him.
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  Speaker 1: I think the story of his life is the story
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  Speaker 1: of the American dream, growing up in the back of
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  Speaker 1: his parents are at a barn and the pool hall,
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  Speaker 1: and he grew up in you know, like one of
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  Speaker 1: two rooms and living behind it and rose to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest members of the United States Senate,
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  Speaker 1: chaired the Budget Committee, did reconciliation, you know. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he was at the center if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: issues on foreign policy in the last twenty years thirty
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  Speaker 1: Whendsey Grahand was at the center of all of those
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  Speaker 1: and by the ways, and I have to say that
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  Speaker 1: he had an incredible sense of humor. He was He's
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  Speaker 1: a funny, funny guy. I was with him in the
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  Speaker 1: desert with the Crown p trans to his Crown Prince,
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  Speaker 1: how do you get through the Crown Prince. Crown Prince
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to explain how he actually gets elected. By the way, Lindsey,
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  Speaker 1: he just had a sense you didn't what he was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with, with with with crown princes, with presidents, with
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was. He just had this incredible sense of humor.
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  Speaker 1: And really, if you're with him, you have a laugh
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  Speaker 1: at some point time. You will laugh. And it's something
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  Speaker 1: even for himself to face. Even with Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's I get along with Trump, I like Trump, he
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  Speaker 1: likes Trump, you know, and he would He was just
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  Speaker 1: a pretty extraordinary We lost we lost a great one
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  Speaker 1: the other day. Tragic, unfathomable, difficult to comprehend. But on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, you can reflect on on on things
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  Speaker 1: that he's done and who he is, and that will
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  Speaker 1: put a smile on your face.
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  Speaker 3: This is Mike was in the amazing Norman Coleman, it
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  Speaker 3: was very, very close with Lindsey Graham, and Bbe actually
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  Speaker 3: made it a point on this show less than an
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  Speaker 3: hour ago to talk about Lindsay Graham's sense of humor.
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  Speaker 3: How about that everybody knows about it. Look, I'd be
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  Speaker 3: remiss to let you go. You are a New York boy.
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  Speaker 3: I know you spent a lot of the last many
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  Speaker 3: years between Iowa and Minnesota and Florida and Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: But you're a Brooklyn boy.
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  Speaker 3: And when you go up to Bethel Woods, like we
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  Speaker 3: did two weeks ago, Daniel and I and the kids
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  Speaker 3: to see the Doobie Brothers in Santana. That movie you're
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  Speaker 3: in it, you are Brooklyn through and through.
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  Speaker 2: Norm Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: So I was at Witchstock and I didn't hail I'm
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  Speaker 1: about Clinton. But I was at Witchdack. I did in
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  Speaker 1: Hell but I but I made it ask a nice nation.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I'll be coming back to New York
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  Speaker 1: to watch the final of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Oh good.
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  Speaker 1: I was in Miami and I was in Boston. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't grow up with soccer, but I gotta say it's
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  Speaker 1: a spectacle. It is a spectacle. It's amazing. Uh And
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  Speaker 1: this will be this will be a big, big event.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, some some bright things on the horizon
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  Speaker 1: after a very tough.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's great, Yeah, be it the finals. I know
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  Speaker 3: you were there because I got a text from Andrew Giuliani.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, I'm sitting with a guy who keeps talking
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  Speaker 3: smack about you. I'm gonna put him on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: It was you. You were sitting there with Andrew Giuliani.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Andrew Giuliani he leads the White House
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  Speaker 1: task force on the World Cup. So yeah, the presidents,
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  Speaker 1: the chairman, JD. Van's the vice to every cabinet secretary.
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  Speaker 1: Hegseth is on it, Mullen is on it. They're all
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  Speaker 1: on it. He is phenomenal, he is smart, he's collaborative.
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  Speaker 1: Working with him was a joy. This has been a
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  Speaker 1: great success, and he quietly he should get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit for an extraordinary young man with great talent,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been a joy to work with him. He's
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  Speaker 1: done a great job. He's been a great event. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we'll get through only a couple more games.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: But America hasn't had such good publicity around the world
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  Speaker 1: since we won World War Two.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, this is right, right.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, though, one of these games I
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  Speaker 3: can't stand because I hate both countries because they hate
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  Speaker 3: the Jews, like the Democrats France in Spain.
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  Speaker 2: Who the hell do you root for there?
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  Speaker 1: Who? Yeah? Better than better fans than Morocco.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's true, I guess they are.
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  Speaker 3: But I was getting to the point of your Brooklyn boy,
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  Speaker 3: because I have spent the last couple of months like
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  Speaker 3: nobody else, you know that norm Nobody beats up Mom
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  Speaker 3: Donnie like I do. Nobody And uh, you know, last
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  Speaker 3: week he pulled the nonsense. He left off little Italy,
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  Speaker 3: not just literally, but he left off Greek neighborhoods and
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  Speaker 3: German neighborhoods and Jewish neighborhoods and Irish neighborhoods in this
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  Speaker 3: ridiculous immigration on Clay Mount. Now he's changed it because
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  Speaker 3: he probably got a call up on the mob. They're
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  Speaker 3: coming to get him. But have you ever in your law.
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  Speaker 1: A little lily what?
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  Speaker 2: Now he's putting it back right?
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  Speaker 3: But have you ever ever seen anybody like this in
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  Speaker 3: your long political career? No?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't. But the sad thing is it's a harbinger
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  Speaker 1: of things to come. In the Democrat Party you started.
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  Speaker 1: Then in the congression elections in Brooklyn, you've seen other
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  Speaker 1: parts of the country Democrat Party has moved way, way,
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  Speaker 1: way to the left. It's a communists. I'm sorry, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's but if it was just an isolated deal
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  Speaker 1: do one thing. But it's it's a shame and said
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  Speaker 1: I said, there's a number of times in year show,
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  Speaker 1: I'm reminded of what Edge guy and I want to
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  Speaker 1: say this my friend's in New York. But what Ed
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  Speaker 1: kach Wentz said, when you lost an election, the people
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  Speaker 1: have spoken. They deserve to be punished. They how you
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  Speaker 1: got him elected, I don't know, but there's a price
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  Speaker 1: to be paid. Unfortunately, I think that's a harb and
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  Speaker 1: that's where the strength and the Democratic by Chuck Schumer's
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  Speaker 1: days are over. They're over. He's done. He's a dead
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  Speaker 1: man walking. Uh. And and and the far left controls everything.
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  Speaker 1: They're so called center will play to the far left.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not good news about so those who love America,
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  Speaker 1: who care about the security of our country, who believe
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  Speaker 1: in free enterprise, believe in the American spirit, to believe
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  Speaker 1: in the American dream.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: This is a disgrace as a tragedy, but that's what
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  Speaker 1: you got, representing the city of New York again. Born
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  Speaker 1: and bred in Brooklyn. I can take the boy out
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  Speaker 1: of Brooklyn. You can't. You can't. You can't Brooklyn out
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  Speaker 1: of the Boy. I know it's still in my heart.
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  Speaker 3: I know it is because I know that you were
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  Speaker 3: standing next to me many many years ago in the
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  Speaker 3: NFC Champion Chip Game Kerry Collins and the Giants taking
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  Speaker 3: on Dante Culpepper and the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: You were sickly whody with the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, one, yes, Thanks for reminding me.
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  Speaker 2: The game's already goes. Listen. I still love these guys,
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  Speaker 2: Jim Kat Cabbage, I used to.
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  Speaker 1: Love all those g and Kyle Road. Uh, it'll come on.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, it's great. Thank you for calling in today.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's a very very tough day. If you
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  Speaker 3: know how much Lindsay loved you and how much you
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  Speaker 3: loved him, So thank you for calling in. You're a special,
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  Speaker 3: special person. You're my cousin. I love you anyway, but
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  Speaker 3: you're a special.
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  Speaker 1: Celebrating Thank you for celebrating the legacy of a great man.
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  Speaker 1: Really much appreciated.
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  Speaker 3: You got it. God bless you all right, I love you,
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  Speaker 3: I see you. That's my first cousin, Norman Coleman, former
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  Speaker 3: senator from the Great State of Minnesota, also spent eight
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  Speaker 3: years as a mayor of Saint Paul, My first cousin,
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  Speaker 3: the oldest of eight children from my aunt Beverly.
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  Speaker 2: She's gone.
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  Speaker 3: My uncle Norman, war hero, he's gone, but what a
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  Speaker 3: terrific kid. Hopefully his sister's Candy Shining and Margie are
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  Speaker 3: listening right now.
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