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Lindsey Graham DEAD at 71 | Episode 329 · V

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  Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Monday. We have a
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  Speaker 1: massive show ahead for you. Some breaking news over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: staggering news. Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina, has
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  Speaker 1: passed away at the age of 71. Shocking news for
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  Speaker 1: all of us to find out what we know at
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  Speaker 1: this hour. I will share with you also reactions, of course,
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  Speaker 1: pouring in from not just around the country, but from
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  Speaker 1: around the planet. We've got a lot to discuss on
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  Speaker 1: that subject. The senator who we thought might not be
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  Speaker 1: long for the world is still with us, Mitch McConnell.
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  Speaker 1: We just got a proof of life update from Mitch
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  Speaker 1: McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao. We'll have some updates
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  Speaker 1: for you on that. Also, the Save America Act with
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  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham's passing, the math gets more complicated, but the
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  Speaker 1: push has received new vigor. We'll explain why on that subject.
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  Speaker 1: And the war in Iran, we've got a lot on
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  Speaker 1: that as well. So much to get to all ahead
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  Speaker 2: Boom.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into it, ladies and gentlemen. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: big show for you. And I want to first and
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  Speaker 1: foremost get right to the breaking news of the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham has passed away at the age of 71
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  Speaker 1: years old. The longtime Republican... senator from South Carolina, before that,
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  Speaker 1: a member of the House of Representatives, and for decades,
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  Speaker 1: a member of the United States military as well. He's
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  Speaker 1: a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Sudden news that
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  Speaker 1: he has just passed. A sudden illness overtook him, and
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  Speaker 1: he's gone. He's gone. And it's, I mean, obviously, deeply
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  Speaker 1: upsetting to lose somebody under these circumstances. The world is
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  Speaker 1: in mourning. The president of the United States has already
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  Speaker 1: said that for the remainder of this week, flags will
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  Speaker 1: be flown at half staff for the rest of the week.
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  Speaker 1: But what exactly happened here? Well, we got some breaking
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  Speaker 1: news Sunday night from Lindsey Graham's communications director, Taylor Reedy.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what she said about the subject. She said,
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  Speaker 1: the medical examiner of the District of Columbia has done
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  Speaker 1: some preliminary work already and found that he suffered an
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  Speaker 1: aortic dissection, due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, an aortic dissection.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, there was a tear in the aorta,
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  Speaker 1: that critical artery to the heart. There was a tear
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  Speaker 1: in it, and as a result, he went pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They say that once that tear begins, your chances of
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  Speaker 1: survival rapidly decline over the ensuing hours. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't even realize what they're suffering. They just
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  Speaker 1: think they're not feeling well suddenly, and then they're gone.
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  Speaker 1: And even people who make it to the hospital, the
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  Speaker 1: chance of success is pretty tough. So they say the
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  Speaker 1: death certificate is pending until all of the toxicological and
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  Speaker 1: microscopic testing are finalized. And at that point, the death
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  Speaker 1: certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death
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  Speaker 1: and appropriately classify the manner of death. So they're taking
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  Speaker 1: a deeper look at everything that was going on chemically
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  Speaker 1: inside of his body prior to his passing. Now, immediately,
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  Speaker 1: We did hear from his fellow South Carolina Senator Tim Scott,
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  Speaker 1: who was on one of the Sunday shows with Margaret
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  Speaker 1: Brennan this weekend, indicating to her that he understood this
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  Speaker 1: to be very likely a heart attack. But, of course,
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  Speaker 1: as always, waiting for more information. Here's what he said
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  Speaker 1: on that subject.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Graham's staff said that he had a sudden and
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  Speaker 3: brief illness. Do you know what happened? Because it shocked us, frankly, overnight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know the details anymore that his staff
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  Speaker 2: has released. My hunch was it was a heart attack.
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  Speaker 2: But I hate to just give you my opinion on
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  Speaker 2: what I've heard from people that are close in circle.
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll have more information over the next couple
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  Speaker 2: of days, but it appears to have been a heart attack.
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  Speaker 1: Appears to have been a heart attack. Now, you may
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  Speaker 1: be wondering perhaps, like, well, why are we going with
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  Speaker 1: the appears? What's the situation here? Why is there any skepticism? Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, like, we're just waiting for the medical examiner.
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  Speaker 1: That's true in every death, especially a death that's this
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  Speaker 1: high profile with so much attention on it. A death
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  Speaker 1: that's this sudden. What were the circumstances that he would
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  Speaker 1: pass like this? Now, the rumor mill, of course, was
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  Speaker 1: buzzing this weekend. about Lindsey Graham and the circumstances of
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  Speaker 1: his death, because he was just in Kiev a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago. The day before he died, he was in
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  Speaker 1: Kiev in Ukraine. And while he was there, he was
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  Speaker 1: meeting with Zelensky. He toured a drone factory. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham is a guy, I'm not going to do
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  Speaker 1: much throat clearing on Lindsey Graham. You know my feelings
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  Speaker 1: on Lindsey Graham. I've constantly been very critical of his
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  Speaker 1: appetites when it comes to foreign policy. I think that
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  Speaker 1: we need a much more reasonable Washington than the one
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  Speaker 1: that Lindsey Graham represented in life. But I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to spend this episode litigating his politics on that subject.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to point out the obvious. The guy
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  Speaker 1: was for a very aggressive posture towards Russia and Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And as a result, there's no doubt that there are
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  Speaker 1: people within Russia and Iran, within both of those regimes,
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  Speaker 1: who would very much like to see Lindsey Graham perish
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  Speaker 1: from this earth. So, of course, the rumor mill was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely buzzing this weekend about the fact that he just
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  Speaker 1: came back from overseas with a lot of adversaries who
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  Speaker 1: would be interested in seeing his demise. So what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Here he is visiting Ukraine. He was in Kiev now
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  Speaker 1: 48 hours ago or so. This is just some video
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  Speaker 1: footage of that. Here he is talking from Ukraine. Watch this.
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  Speaker 4: We've reached agreement with the White House on a version
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  Speaker 4: of the Russian sanctions.
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  Speaker 2: Bill that they will support.
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  Speaker 4: It means it's going to become law. So when I
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  Speaker 4: get back to Washington, I'm going to go with Senator
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  Speaker 4: Blumenthal to the Republican and Democratic leader to see if
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  Speaker 4: we can find time to move this Russian sanctions package
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  Speaker 4: that would give tools to President Trump to help end
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  Speaker 4: this war. There are some things we can do on
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  Speaker 4: the technology front to build on the lethality of Ukraine
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  Speaker 4: to protect itself from ballistic missile attack. If we did
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  Speaker 4: that combined with creating tools to punish those countries that
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  Speaker 4: prop up Putin, that make money off this war, then
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  Speaker 4: I think we've got the best chance since I've been
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  Speaker 4: coming here in the last five years to get Putin
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  Speaker 4: to the peace table.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So he's saying we're doing a new sanctions package. We're
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  Speaker 1: working on that. I'm going back to Washington to deal
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  Speaker 1: with this aggression towards Russia. That was Lindsey Graham in
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  Speaker 1: some of the final moments of his life, making an
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  Speaker 1: announcement over there in Kiev in Ukraine. Additionally, we've got
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  Speaker 1: footage of him meeting with Zelensky, which Zelensky put this out. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this was prior to the news of Graham's passing. Here's
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  Speaker 1: that footage.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Shaking hands with various members of the U.S. delegation.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for coming.
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  Speaker 4: Got a little update for you here. Just tell me
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  Speaker 4: when I can talk. But good visit with the President, right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that we had a really good meeting.
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  Speaker 2: The mood was good.
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  Speaker 1: At the NATO summit.
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  Speaker 6: We had some very important results. I think that the
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  Speaker 6: decision of President Trump about licenses, positive signals about Patriot licenses,
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  Speaker 6: were important.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so more footage, some of the last known
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  Speaker 1: footage of Lindsey Graham in life as he was visiting Ukraine. Now, again,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, the rumor mill was absolutely buzzing on
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  Speaker 1: this subject. But just so you understand, the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: is already saying that there is no indication whatsoever of
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  Speaker 1: foul play. that this appears to be that Lindsey Graham
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  Speaker 1: did indeed perish from a natural cause, which is that
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  Speaker 1: he had a tear in his aorta. And it occurred
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  Speaker 1: to a 71-year-old man who had a history of high
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  Speaker 1: blood pressure and a father who suffered cardiac arrest at
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  Speaker 1: the age of 69. years old. Here is the update.
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  Speaker 1: This is from Fox telling us the perspective from the
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  Speaker 1: White House and the FBI. As of yesterday, take a
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  Speaker 1: look at this.
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  Speaker 3: So President Trump here at the White House earlier today
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  Speaker 3: had ordered that all flags across the country be lowered
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  Speaker 3: to half staff in support of the life of the
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  Speaker 3: late Senator Lindsey Graham. Now, we also know that it
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  Speaker 3: was early this morning that the senator's team, their official office,
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  Speaker 3: releasing that he had died of what they are calling
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  Speaker 3: a brief and sudden illness. The FBI are at Senator
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  Speaker 3: Graham's residence, although there is no indication of foul play,
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  Speaker 3: according to the federal law enforcement. Earlier today, FBI Director
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  Speaker 3: Kash Patel said that the FBI would assist local authorities
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  Speaker 3: and make every resource available. So The Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 3: reporting that emergency responders were dispatched to Graham's home last
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  Speaker 3: night and performed CPR on an individual suffering from cardiac arrest.
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  Speaker 3: 71-year-old Lindsey Graham was elected to the Senate more than
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  Speaker 3: 20 years ago. He was a loud voice in the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party. He was also a close friend to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: The two spoke just last night. So President Trump here at.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 1: That is true. I'll get to that in just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's remarks on his last call with Lindsey Graham
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  Speaker 1: in just a moment. Before I get there, though, I
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  Speaker 1: want to share with you Dr. Mark Siegel. who was
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  Speaker 1: also on Fox this weekend, he was assessing the medical
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  Speaker 1: risks in Graham's life and saying that it is very
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  Speaker 1: legitimate to think that somebody of his age and his
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  Speaker 1: medical history would be in a situation to suffer this
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  Speaker 1: kind of awful fatal heart attack, well, specifically aortic attack.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look here, Dr. Mark Siegel, on that subject.
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  Speaker 7: Watch.
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  Speaker 8: Well, first of all, of course, great sadness and has
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  Speaker 8: been emphasized the role he played, extraordinary role he played
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  Speaker 8: in bringing up his sister, Darlene, when his parents both
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  Speaker 8: died suddenly close together, father dying of heart disease. And
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  Speaker 8: as someone looking at the medical details, when his father
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  Speaker 8: dies of heart disease, a sudden cardiac arrest when he's
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  Speaker 8: so young, you wonder whether there could be that risk
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  Speaker 8: for him in terms of heart disease. And when he
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  Speaker 8: has a sudden cardiac arrest now at the age of 71,
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  Speaker 8: There's 350,000 per year of out-of-the-hospital cardiac arrests. Only 10%
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  Speaker 8: of them make it, because as you can imagine, you
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  Speaker 8: can't get there fast enough to restart the heart right away.
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  Speaker 8: And so most of them don't make it. The vast
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  Speaker 8: majority don't make it. And most of the time, it's
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  Speaker 8: heart disease that causes this, Charlie, like a heart attack,
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  Speaker 8: a sudden heart attack, especially since He was just on
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  Speaker 8: a long plane flight, which can increase that risk of
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  Speaker 8: a clot happening. Now, none of that is known, and
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  Speaker 8: I'm not suggesting that that's the cause. I'm giving you
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  Speaker 8: the statistics of what's likely, especially at his age. You
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  Speaker 8: start to see sudden heart disease occurring and heart attacks
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  Speaker 8: occurring right around that age.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Dr. Mark Siegel giving us some of
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  Speaker 1: the medical perspective on this. Now, of course, we weighed
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  Speaker 1: all the details from the medical examiner. We'll find out
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  Speaker 1: more about toxicology and what else may have been in
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  Speaker 1: his system. But the reality here, of course, is the
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  Speaker 1: only reality we can get our arms around at this
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  Speaker 1: moment is very obvious, which is Lindsey Graham has perished.
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  Speaker 8: He's gone.
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  Speaker 1: But before he died, he talked to the president of
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  Speaker 1: the United States. And I've got that from the president
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  Speaker 1: in just a moment, who jumped on several of the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday shows to to honor the life of Lindsey Graham
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  Speaker 1: and to just give us his perspective on that relationship. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: the two men at one point were fierce political enemies
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  Speaker 1: back in 2016, and a lot changed. A lot changed
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 1: The president of the United States has indeed weighed in
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  Speaker 1: on his final call with Lindsey Graham. He spoke to
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  Speaker 1: him Saturday night, just hours before he died. And here is,
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  Speaker 1: he relayed that conversation on Meet the Press this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: He joined the Sunday shows to talk about Lindsey Graham's life.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen here.
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  Speaker 9: President Trump, thank you for joining us and my condolences
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  Speaker 9: to you.
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  Speaker 10: Well, thank you. He's a tough one to lose. He
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  Speaker 10: was great. He was unique and every way, actually.
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  Speaker 9: He was, Mr. President, and I know that we are
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  Speaker 9: all just absorbing this news. We are all in shock.
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  Speaker 9: Can you tell us, Mr. President, how you received this
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  Speaker 9: news and your immediate gut reaction when you heard it?
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  Speaker 10: So what makes it even stranger is that I got
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  Speaker 10: a call last night sometime in, you know, the early evening,
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  Speaker 10: maybe in the sevens, and he called and He said,
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  Speaker 10: we're all set for the Save America Act. He was
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  Speaker 10: pushing the Save America Act like crazy. He got back,
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  Speaker 10: said he just landed from Ukraine. I said, that's a
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  Speaker 10: long trip to make. He said, he sounded a little tired,
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  Speaker 10: but perfect. But a little bit tired. I had a
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  Speaker 10: right to be. And he was a worker. He was
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  Speaker 10: really a worker. But he sounded great, actually. But he
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  Speaker 10: actually said he was tired. But he wanted to pass
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  Speaker 10: the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 5: And I said.
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  Speaker 10: Well, we're going to get it done, Lindsay. We're going
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  Speaker 10: to get it done. I'll see you, like, soon. We
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  Speaker 10: thought we might even meet today. And then that was it.
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  Speaker 10: And that was, you know, very around the time. It
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  Speaker 10: couldn't have been much longer. It could have been his
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  Speaker 10: last call. I don't know exactly, but I got a
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  Speaker 10: message about 1 o'clock in the morning from one of
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  Speaker 10: the people at his office that he had passed away.
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  Speaker 10: I said, I just can't believe it. He was like
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  Speaker 10: a member of the family to me. It's very tough, actually.
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  Speaker 10: It's amazing. Mr. President. He was such an advocate. If
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  Speaker 10: he wanted to get something, and he had a unique ability.
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  Speaker 10: He was able to deal with Democrats and Republicans. If
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  Speaker 10: I had a problem, a real problem, I wouldn't often ask.
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  Speaker 10: But if I had a problem with a Democrat, he
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  Speaker 10: could work it out. He was a great politician, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Nice words from the President of the United States. I'm
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  Speaker 1: remembering Lindsey Graham. And just pointing out that in his
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  Speaker 1: final conversation that Graham was pushing what you've been pushing,
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  Speaker 1: what I've been pushing, the Save America Act. A gavel
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  Speaker 1: in today in honor of Lindsey Graham for the Save
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  Speaker 1: America Act, one of his final pushes in life, as
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  Speaker 1: he told the president that he was working on getting
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  Speaker 1: it passed. In fact, Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee, who
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  Speaker 1: has been one of the great champions, the singular great
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  Speaker 1: champion in the United States Senate to get the Save
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  Speaker 1: America Act passed, said this weekend that now we should
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  Speaker 1: pass it immediately to honor Senator Lindsey Graham's life and
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  Speaker 1: his final push for the legislation. Here's Mike Lee on
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  Speaker 1: what we should do to honor Lindsey Graham here as
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  Speaker 1: a country. and to restore faith in our elections.
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  Speaker 5: Watch.
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: Lindsey Graham spent a lot of time with, like me,
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: he had a lot of enthusiasm for this bill. which
• 18:42
  Speaker 11: I introduced in the Senate about two and a half
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: years ago. I believe, Maria, that there are multiple paths
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: ahead by which we could pass this. Maybe that involves
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: attaching it to another must-pass vehicle. Maybe it involves bringing
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: up one on the floor and debating it until it passes,
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: something that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I've long advocated.
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: Maybe it involves picking out pieces of it that could
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: be implemented through creative uses of budget reconciliation. I'm not
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: terribly partial to any of these three. I personally prefer
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: the second. I think that would give us our best chance.
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: But I will take any opportunity to debate this, any
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: opportunity to cause it to become law because the American
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: people deserve it. The American people want it. Voters overwhelmingly
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: support it to the tune of about 80%. That's Democrats
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: and Republicans alike. One of the best ways we could
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: honor Lindsey Graham's legacy would be to take this up
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: and pass it this month.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Take it up and pass it immediately. To honor Lindsey Graham.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You know, you heard the president say a moment ago
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that Lindsey Graham was one of these Republicans, no doubt
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: an establishment guy in terms of his ability to navigate
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the corridors of Washington, D.C. He has these good relationships
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: with Democrats. If Democrats want to show any sort of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: sympathy or concern for the passing of Lindsey Graham, they
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: should support the legislation that he just asked for in
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: his final breaths on this earth, the Save America Act.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Restore integrity to our elections. Come on, Democrats. This is
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: your opportunity. Demonstrate some humanity. I doubt that they will.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: But Mike Lee is right. Honor Lindsey Graham by passing
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the Save America Act. And pass it immediately. You know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I had my quibbles with Lindsey Graham about the Save
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: America Act because I remember I shared with you he
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: said something on a South Carolina radio show earlier this year.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: that I construed as a mere can kick that sometime
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in the fall, they would get to it. We'll do
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it in a third reconciliation package. And for all those reasons,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I was very, well, candidly upset because I construed it
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: as nothing more than an effort to placate us and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: pretend like they were actually getting something done. But if
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham is in his final phone call with President
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Trump telling him he wants to get the Save America
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Act passed, I'm going to take that. I'm going to
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: take his encouragement. And I'm going to tell the rest
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: of the United States Senate here, do what Lindsey Graham wanted.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Get this done. Get it done. And get it done now.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: We'll see what the Senate does as things get fired
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: up this week. But Mike Lee is right to note that. Now,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of... One of the things that distinguishes
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the right from the left, I don't know if you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: noticed this this weekend on social media, Like, I know
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of people on the right, including myself, have
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: been critical of Lindsey Graham for all sorts of things
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: over time. Again, this is not a show where I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: intend to really do much of that. But did you
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: notice that the right sent him off in a very
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: gracious way? That the right was just kind of in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: mourning and honoring the life of a guy who lived
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: it so well and highlighting his greatest moments, not attacking
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: him for what you would construe as his worst. That's
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: what the right would do. Now, meanwhile, over on Blue
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Ski and all these like crazy left-wing platforms, they were
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: cheering the death. It's so insane. I'm not going to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: spend time showing you clips or posts from these people,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: but they're soulless. There's no humanity whatsoever. There's something really
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: dark about watching someone die and then cheering on their death,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: especially for an American senator, an American citizen. It's just
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: really gross. That's not the attitude on the right. The
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: attitude on the right was just filled with humanity, including
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: people remembering some of the great moments that Lindsey Graham
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: was responsible for. In fact, let me share a clip
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: from President Trump first, who has a favorite Lindsey Graham moment.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: President Trump said that Lindsey Graham's finest moment was his
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: defense of Brett Kavanaugh Here he is on CNN with
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Jake Tapper this weekend. Again, on Sunday, he was calling
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: all the Sunday shows to talk about Lindsey Graham. And
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: here's what he said about the late senator.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Watch. I think his finest moment was his defense of
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: Brett Kavanaugh, who's a terrific guy and was treated very,
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: very unfairly by the Democrats. Very unfair. I've never seen
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: anything like it. Maybe the worst I've ever seen anyone treated.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: That includes me. Well, maybe not me. But it includes
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: just about everybody.
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: He was treated unfairly.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: So unfairly. And Lindsey, as you remember, had that moment. And,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: you know, I'll tell you, Jake, I think it was
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: the top ten, maybe a top five moment in the Senate.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: It was an incredible display. And he did it from
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: the heart. He felt strongly about Brett. And he did
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: it from the heart. And it turned that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: Whole thing around.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: He was really amazing. That was one they should replay.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: All right, then, Mr. President, I agree with that. This
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: is that moment, Senator Lindsey Graham. speaking up on behalf
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: of Brett Kavanaugh in the face of the evil that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the Democrats were advancing to try and destroy him. Here's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: what the president of the United States considers Senator Lindsey
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Graham's finest moment.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: Watch.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Are you aware that at 9.23 on the night of
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: July the 9th, the day you were nominated to the
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Supreme Court by President Trump, Senator Schumer said, 23 minutes
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: after your nomination, I will oppose Judge Kavanaugh's nomination with
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: everything I have. I have a bipartisan, and I hope
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: a bipartisan majority will do the same. The stakes are
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: simply too high for anything less. Well, if you weren't
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: aware of it, you are now. Did you meet with
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Senator Dianne Feinstein on August 20th?
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: I did meet with Senator Feinstein.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Did you know that her staff had already recommended a
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: lawyer to Dr.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Ford?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I did not know that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Did you know that her and her staff had this
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: allegation allegations for over 20 days.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I did not know that at the time.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: to us. What you want to do is destroy this
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: in 2020. You've said that, not me. You've got nothing
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: them that Lindsey said, oh, because I voted for them.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: I would never do to them what you've done to
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: been in politics. And if you really wanted to know
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: you've done to this guy. Are you a gang rapist?
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: No.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. Boy,
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I hope the American.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: People can see through this sham. That you knew about
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: it and you held it. You had no intention of
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: protecting Dr.
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: Ford.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: None.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: She's as much of a victim as you are. God,
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: I hate to say it because these have been my friends.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: But let me tell you when it comes to this.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: You're looking for a fair process. You came to the
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: wrong town at the wrong time, my friend. Do you
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: consider this a job interview?
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: The advice and consent role is like a job interview.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: You consider that you've been through a job interview.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: I've been through a process of advice and consent under
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: the Constitution.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Would you say you've been through hell? I've been through
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: hell and then some. This is not a job interview.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: This is hell. This is going to destroy the ability
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: of good people to come forward because of this crap.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Your high school yearbook.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: You have interacted with professional women all your life.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Not one accusation.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: You're supposed to be Bill Cosby when you're a junior
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: and senior in high school. And all of a sudden,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: you got over it. It's been my understanding that if
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: you drug women and rape them for two years in
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: high school, you probably don't stop.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Here's my understanding.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: If you lived a good life, people would recognize it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: like the American Bar Association has the gold standard. His
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: integrity is absolutely unquestioned. He is the very circumspect in
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: his personal conduct, harbors no biases or prejudices. He's entirely ethical,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: is a really decent person. He is warm, friendly, unassuming.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: He's the nicest person.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: The ABA.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: One thing I can tell you you should be proud of, Ashley,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: You should be proud of this, that you raised a
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: daughter who had the good character to pray for Dr.
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: Ford.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: the most despicable thing I have seen in my time
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: in politics.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: You want this seat?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: I hope you never get it. I hope you're on
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: the Supreme Court. That's exactly where you should be. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I hope that the American people will see through this charade.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: And I wish you well.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And I intend to vote for you.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: And I hope everybody who's fair-minded will.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: That was a hell of a performance by Lindsey Graham.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: And between the two of them, between Brett Kavanaugh and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, they got that across the finish line. Brett
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Kavanaugh becoming a Supreme Court justice in the face of
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: truly some of the most disgusting political slanders we have
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: seen in our entire lives directed at Brett Kavanaugh. Amazing,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: just amazing. Now more in a moment on President Trump's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: relationship with Lindsey Graham, because as I mentioned before, you
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: may remember back in 2015, 2016, these two men did
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: not get along at all. In fact, they were out
• 29:11
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• 29:14
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: So it's true, you know, the president didn't always get
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: along with Lindsey Graham. In fact, you may remember there
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: was a time when they had such fierce political competition
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: in the 2016 election that President Trump gave out Senator
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham's cell phone number, then presidential candidate Lindsey Graham's
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: cell phone number, on a rally stage. Do you remember this?
• 32:01
  Speaker 12: So Lindsey Graham says to me, please, please, whatever you
• 32:05
  Speaker 12: can do, You know what I'm saying? I said, what's
• 32:07
  Speaker 12: this guy, a beggar? He's like begging me to help
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: him with Fox and Friends. So I say, okay, and
• 32:13
  Speaker 12: I'll mention your name. He said, could you mention my name?
• 32:16
  Speaker 12: I said, yes, I'll mention. And he gave me his number,
• 32:18
  Speaker 12: and I found the card. I wrote the number down.
• 32:22
  Speaker 12: I don't know if it's the right number. Let's try.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: It.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: 202-228-0292. I don't know.
• 32:29
  Speaker 12: Maybe it's, you know, it's three, four years ago, so
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: maybe it's an old number.
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: 202-228-0292. 0292.
• 32:38
  Speaker 12: So, I don't know, give it a shot. Your local politician,
• 32:44
  Speaker 12: you know? He won't fix anything, but at least he'll
• 32:46
  Speaker 12: talk to you.
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: That was such a crazy moment. Nobody had ever seen
• 32:55
  Speaker 13: anything like that before. And by the way, at the time,
• 32:58
  Speaker 13: it wasn't Lindsey Graham's old number. It was, at the time,
• 33:01
  Speaker 13: his current number. So people started calling it as soon
• 33:05
  Speaker 13: as President Trump gave it out.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Boy, that was a move. That was another move that
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: only President Trump would ever pull off. And then what
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: ensued after that? Well, Lindsey Graham, of course, had to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: change his cell phone number, but he did make fun
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of the whole experience. Here he is. He did a
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: video with our friend Benny Johnson, making light of the
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: fact that President Trump gave out his cell phone number
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: during the campaign. Watch this. Lindsey Graham destroys his cell phone.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Here we go. he's got a cleaver he puts it
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: in a blender hits it with a golf club lights
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: it on fire pretty funny it's just a bunch of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: clips for those of you on the audio podcast just
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: clips of Lindsey Graham destroying cell phones every way imaginable
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Throwing cinder blocks on top of them.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Or if all else fails, you can always give your
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: number to the Donald.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Pretty funny. And to be clear, you know, this is
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: one of those things. Lindsey Graham, you know, He would
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: argue like crazy with people in Washington. One of the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: stories that's coming out right now is that he would
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: have all these fierce debates with Democrats or with people
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: on his own side of the aisle. And then he
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: would fight for them. He would fight for Republicans constantly,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: including Republicans he disagreed with vehemently. I can't tell you
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: how many posts I saw this weekend from Republicans saying,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: we didn't agree at all on foreign policy. Yet this
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: guy would show up to fight for Republicans whenever he could.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It was an interesting cat. You know, President Trump indicated
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: that he was one of the finest politicians.
• 35:12
  Speaker 13: Ever.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: In fact, here's J.D. Vance saying the following.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: J.D.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Vance, who expresses in his post about Lindsey Graham, that
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: he had all sorts of disagreements with him. He said
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham came from humble beginnings and he became one
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: of the most powerful lawmakers in the most powerful nation
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: on Earth. His story was a fundamentally American one. Early
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: in my Senate tenure, I remember getting into a shouting
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: match with Lindsey about a Ukraine funding bill at lunch
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and then learning the very next day that he was
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: pushing rail legislation that I really cared about behind the scenes.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: That was Lindsey Graham. He fought like hell for the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: things he believed in, and he was just as willing
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to go to bat for you when it counted. Lindsey
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: had the best sense of humor in the Senate. He
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: loved the game of politics. He was constantly asking which
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: races were up and down and how he could help.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: As he liked to say, quote, I don't care if
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: you're an isolationist or a religious fanatic. So long as
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: you have an R next to your name, I want
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: you to win. We certainly had our disagreements, but I
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: couldn't help but like him. A one of a kind
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: figure in our politics. I'll be praying for him and
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: his family, says J.D.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: Vance.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Stephen Miller also to be is another one who's honoring
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham. Again, how different the right is from the left, huh?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Miller and Graham clearly did not see eye to eye
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: on immigration. Just to be absolutely clear about this. Lindsey Graham,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: at one point, was leading the push in the Republican
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Party for amnesty. He was a part of the Gang
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of Eight amnesty bill back in the early 2000 teens.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Stephen Miller is on the polar opposite side of that debate.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Stephen Miller wants secure borders, he wants to deport illegal aliens,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and he doesn't want amnesty for illegals. But that does not,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: despite the fact that they had that massive difference, Stephen
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Miller is still honored the man. And here's what he
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: said of him. At the end of a particularly thrilling
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: to the room and said, quote, I've never had this
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: much fun in my life. I cannot describe to you
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: how much joy President Trump's leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and uproarious laughter. As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: those who cherished him to know just how much he
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: do you get to be exactly where you want to be,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: when you want to be there, with who you want
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to be with, doing precisely what you want to do.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: That was every moment for Lindsey. When President Trump won
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: in November of 2024, Lindsey was exultant, elated, and determined.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: He couldn't wait to spearhead work as the budget chairman
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: on the reconciliation bill that would cement President Trump's most
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: important campaign promises. I'll never forget the Senate lunch when
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a couple senators were a tad off the program, and Lindsey,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: in his inimitable way, made sure everyone was on side
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: by the time we left. It was a glorious thing
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to witness. He knew how to move a room. Lindsay
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: was a senator's senator. The job was everything to him.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Truly did he believe in the splendor of the office
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and the noble lineage behind it, of which he was
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: the worthy heir. He was a senator in the mold
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: of those who fashioned the institution, someone who still had
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the ability in a heated exchange to use rhetorical power
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: to change the course of events. which is why we
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: will never forget his legendary Kavanaugh moment. We rarely think
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: that we are out of time with our friends. So
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: while there is a lot more I wish I could
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: have said to Lindsay, I'm glad that more than once
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I told him what that moment meant to the whole
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: nation and why he was the only senator who could
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: have done it with such utter perfection. Most importantly, I
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: had the chance to tell him on many occasions what
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: his friendship meant to me and to us all. There
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: was never once a time he didn't answer a phone
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: call and lend whatever assistance was required. It was never
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a question with Lindsay. He believed deeply in the code
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: of friendship and loyalty. The fact that Lindsay started out
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: as a political opponent only to become one of the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: president's most steadfast and faithful supporters underscores that Lindsay believed
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: emphatically in the voice of the people. There's a lot
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: more I would like to say. His passing at a
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: time when he had been never more dynamic is as
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: unexpected as it is shocking. In many respects, Lindsay was
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the last of a breed of American senator who's like
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: we may not yet see again for a long time.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: He lived every minute in the arena, a political gladiator
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: to the very last. More than anything now, our thoughts
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: are with his sister, nieces, and loved ones. We pray
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: that God will ease their sorrow and heal their pain.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Lindsay can never be replaced and will never be forgotten. Godspeed,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: my friend. Nice send-off from Stephen Miller. By the way,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Stephen's a great writer. Holy cow. Great writing and a
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: great way to honor Lindsey Graham, who he said he
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: lived every single moment in the arena. Every moment. The
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: president had a lot to say about Lindsey Graham this weekend.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: And I have one more clip for you on this subject.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Then we'll move on to the issue of Iran. We
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: do have some more to get to with you today.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: But the president was on Meet the Press. I told
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: you before. And while he was there, they tried, basically,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Kristen Welker tried to change the conversation to talk about Iran.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: And the president, it's kind of funny because he says,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about anything except Lindsey Graham. And then
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: he gives a little bit of information about Iran. But
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: then he goes, but all I really want to talk
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: about is Lindsey Graham. Here's the president of the United States.
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: Iran said overnight the Strait of Hormuz is closed. CENTCOM
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: came out this morning and said- The Strait of Hormuz
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: is open.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Which is it, Mr.
• 40:51
  Speaker 10: President?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: And how are you going to respond?
• 40:53
  Speaker 10: And I don't want to talk about it because I
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: want to honor the life of Lindsey Graham, so I
• 40:57
  Speaker 10: don't want to talk about it. I told you that
• 40:59
  Speaker 10: before the call. Yeah. It's open.
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: We bombed the hell out of them last night. They're very,
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: very evil and sick people. We had meetings with them
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: for the last day. They agreed to a deal yesterday,
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: a perfect deal for us. No nuclear, no this, no that,
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: no nothing.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: They gave up everything.
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: And then after that, they left the room. And then
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: within an hour, they launched a drone at a ship.
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: I said, you people are sick. You're sick people. And
• 41:31
  Speaker 10: so it's one of those things. I don't want to
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: talk about it.
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: Finally, before I let you go.
• 41:35
  Speaker 10: I want to talk about one person today, Lindsey Graham.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about anything else. By the way,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: do you see what he said at the top? He's like,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: you know, we talked about this before the interview started.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the condition for me to come on this program at
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: all was that I'm only talking about Lindsey Graham and
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: nothing else. And then Kristen Welker violated the agreement. She
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: is the journalistic equivalent of Iran, violating the memorandum of
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: understanding on Meet the Press immediately. The president's like, wait,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I thought we talked about this. I'm not talking about
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: any other issue. But then, of course, he couldn't help himself.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: He gave a little bit of detail about what's going
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: on with Iran. Now, On that front, on the Iranian front,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: just to be clear, a lot of back and forth
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. CENTCOM has announced hundreds of strikes on
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: the Iranians because the Iranians keep launching attacks at various
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: ships that are trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: and now at US military facilities. The CNBC report this
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: morning The U.S. and Iran have been exchanging strikes as
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz standoff escalates, they say. Iran responded
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: to a fresh wave of strikes from U.S. forces over
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: the weekend by launching attacks on American military bases in
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: several Gulf states, deepening a standoff over the strategically vital
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz. The latest exchange cast further doubt over
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: the future of the interim peace agreement signed last month,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: a deal that, of course, had paved the way to
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: reopen the Strait and end the war after 60 days later.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: of negotiation. The Iranians, they can't get control of the
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: psychos within their own regime. I've told you before about
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the factionalism that exists there. There are different elements within Iran.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Not all of them want to negotiate with the United States.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Some of them want to stop a deal entirely. Many
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: of the most crazed lunatics are with the IRGC. And
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: as a result, they are trying to blow up or
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: disable ships that are transiting the strait And then firing
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: at U.S. military bases throughout the Middle East. Well, we're
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: not going to stomach that. In fact, we're just going
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to blast the hell out of you if you dare
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: take a shot at us. Violence will be met with
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: overwhelming violence by the United States. Here's CENTCOM on that
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: subject overnight. This is brand new from CENTCOM. United States
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Central Command completed a new wave of offensive strikes against
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Iran July 12th, hitting dozens of targets in multiple locations,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: precision munitions, all to degrade Iran's ability to continue attacking
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: international shipping flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM forces
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: struck Iranian military air defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and drone capabilities, and small boats using U.S. fighter aircraft,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: naval vessels, one-way attack aerial drones. and one-way attack sea
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: drones for the first time. You got that? Remember that detail.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: We're now using one-way attack sea drones in combat, presumably
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: to destroy these small boats that have been used for
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: laying mines and menacing ships in the Strait. We're now
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: hitting them with sea drones, attack sea drones. The Strait
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Iran does not control it. Iran does not control it,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: CENTCOM said.
• 45:07
  Speaker 12: U.S.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Forces are postured and prepared to ensure that freedom of
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: navigation remains available to commercial shipping, despite Iran's continued unwanted aggression, harassment, threats.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: You can see here some of the planes taking off
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: of these aircraft carriers. Man, the American military is so cool.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Just imagine going up against this. Imagine the sound of
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: this stuff coming towards you. Pardon our noise. That's the
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: sound of freedom. And then you got some of this
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: aerial footage of Iranian targets being dusted. Just where did
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: it go? It's gone. It's gone.
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Iran, if they had any sense about them whatsoever, they'd
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: stop inviting these types of kinetic face slaps. But I
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if they've got the sense.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: The Trump administration doesn't trust them. Never have. And said, hey,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: we're going to see what we can do here. We're
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: going to offer you a way out. And they refuse
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: to take it. They refuse to accept a hand up.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: So now they're just getting a backhand. which they've earned
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: it big time. The Strait of Hormuz is open. Trump
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: officials have been saying this weekend, despite the fact that
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Iran keeps insisting, oh, we closed it down. It's open
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: to all vessels seeking to lawfully transit the International Waterway. CENTCOM,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: with that update to let everybody know, it is open
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: for transit.
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: U.S.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Forces are positioned and prepared to ensure freedom of navigation
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: remains available despite unwarranted Iranian aggression, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declarations.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Iran does not control the strait. Traffic is flowing. Traffic
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: is flowing. One more other big element for you on
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: what's going on in the region. Iran claimed that they
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: killed a number of our troops this weekend. They claimed
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: three American service members were killed in Kuwait by strikes
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: from Iran. That claim, like so much of what the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Iranian regime claims, is false, not true. Our men are
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: not even injured.
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: Claim.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Iranian propaganda claimed today that three American service members were
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: killed in Kuwait by strikes from Iran.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: U.S.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Central Command says false.
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: Truth.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: There are zero reports of U.S. service member deaths or
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: injuries in the region. All personnel are accounted for. So
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: that's the Iran update here is the president both keeps
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: on offering the handout to basically say, hey, I'd like
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: to make a deal with you. And with the other hand,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: slaps the hell out of them. So we're doing a
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: little carrot, little stick, and we'll see what we can
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: get out of Iran as we maintain navigation and free
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Updates, of course, as always,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: as we get them on that subject. Before we go today,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: I want to go back to the state of U.S.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: senators for a moment. We told you about Lindsey Graham.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Anybody else see this news this weekend and were shocked
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: to see that it was Lindsey Graham and not Mitch McConnell?
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I know it sounds weird to say, but Mitch McConnell's
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: health has been in such a dismal situation that you
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: sort of assume that he can't be that long for
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: the world. And then you're like, what, Lindsey Graham? This
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: isn't even computing. Josh, our producer Josh, was the one
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: who told me that Lindsey Graham passed away. I woke
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: up Sunday morning to a text from Josh saying, holy crap,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: and I'm looking, is this even real? Lindsey Graham? But
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, meanwhile, well, is very much apparently alive. Mitch McConnell,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: we just got a proof of life update from Mitch McConnell.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: consisting of a photo of him sitting with his wife,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Elaine Chao, inside of a rehab facility. Let me see
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: if I can fit this to screen for you. I
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: wasn't handling some of the tech myself today. Here is
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell. He's dressed up in his civvies.
• 49:39
  Speaker 10: There he is.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Seated next to Elaine Chao. He's holding a newspaper as well. Now,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: this is interesting because, I don't know, Chad, do you
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: remember last week I was saying, hey, can we get
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: some video of, I was asking for video, I believe,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: of Mitch McConnell. So instead of like random U.S. senators
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: calling him and having 20-minute conversations with him, maybe he
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: could like talk to the rest of us and hold
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: up a copy of today's newspaper so we know that
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: he's actually alive and that it's the present date. Well,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: that newspaper, you maybe can see here, I don't know
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: how much you can see on your screen right now
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: if you're watching rebel.com slash Vince. There's a baseball player
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: on there, and then they've got like a news article
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: on the right-hand side of the page. So one would
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: assume this is the sports section of whatever paper he's holding,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: and one would also assume that the paper to check
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: would be the Washington Post. And sure enough, here is
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: the Washington Post Sunday edition from this is the sports section.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: And right on the cover, you can see it's a
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: story about, it says homegrown talent, Nationals kickoff, first draft
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: of new era with local product. What's the guy's name? Hackapan?
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Forgive me for not knowing his name. I'm trying to
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: read it here. And then up here, you see Noskova
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: claims title in all Czech showdown. That does look like
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: the same newspaper for those of you wondering. This is
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: the same newspaper he's holding. So the funny thing is,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: you know that this whole photo is staged. The McConnell
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: photo is so obviously staged in such a way as
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: to convey that he's actually alive. They're trying to convey
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: that message clearly. So he's holding today's, well, yesterday's sports
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: section of the Washington Post, not because he was just
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: incidentally reading the post. No, they put it on his lap.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: They're like, we need people to know that you're alive.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Let's just use today's newspaper. It's a proof of life photo.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Elaine Chao, who for some reason stayed in China after
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the man collapsed in mid-June, finally shows back up in
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the United States and now she's posing with him. So
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: there's a bit, kind of a bit of a face-saving
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: exercise for Elaine Chao here. Oh, look, I'm by my
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: husband's side. The whole thing is like so obviously staged,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: but there's Mitch McConnell, apparently alive in a rehab facility.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: They released a statement from him, or somebody wrote it,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: saying that he's grateful for all the prayers and that
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: he sent a message to his fellow Kentuckians. He said,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I've had more than my share of experience with physical vulnerabilities.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Surviving childhood polio meant spending my entire life with mobility challenges.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: They haven't exactly gotten easier to manage with age. And
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: last month I took a fall, which landed me in
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: the hospital. My doctors have confirmed I didn't break any
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: bones or suffer a concussion. I didn't have a heart
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: attack or a stroke. I don't have any tumors or hemorrhages,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: but I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I've
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: What is he doing in the Senate still? I can
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: assure you that I've been a good patient. At my age,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: I've submitted to every test they can think of to
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: help figure out what caused this incident. and I'm continuing
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: with signs of continued progress, I've been able to move
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: from my hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: will keep regaining my strength. Anyway, he goes on to
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: say he's not going to be back at the Senate
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: anytime soon. His staff is basically doing the job for him,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: and he's apparently attentive from a distance. But in case
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: you're wondering, are we going to see Mitch McConnell on
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: the Senate floor anytime? Are we going to see him
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: casting a vote for the Save America Act? No, no.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: So our slim margins right now are even slimmer with
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: the sudden passing of Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell not
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: being able to show up to work, but posting proof
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: of life photos. Yeah, well, that's that. I've got a
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: lot more updates to get to today. We've got so
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: much to talk about. One thing we have to talk
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: about is the process for replacing Lindsey Graham. Suddenly, frenzied
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: movement on that subject. Obviously, the president of the United
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: States is going to weigh in very heavily, no doubt,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: on who he thinks to replace Lindsey Graham. I'll be
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: covering some of this on the big national radio show today.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: The governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, has a big
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: task ahead of him as he appoints a replacement in
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the short term, and they get these elections underway to
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: get a full-time replacement going into the next year. Lindsey
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Graham was in the middle of a reelection campaign. He
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: was expected to sail to reelection So now it's a
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: little bit more chaos in South Carolina. We'll keep you
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: attuned to those details, both on the radio show and
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: on the podcasts to come. And of course, everything that's
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: transpiring now in Washington, this is a chaotic way to
• 54:43
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• 54:46
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• 54:50
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• 54:52
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• 54:53
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• 54:56
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• 54:58
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• 55:02
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• 55:04
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• 55:07
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• 55:10
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• 55:12
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• 55:16
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• 55:17
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  Speaker 1: for you throughout the week. Thank you for being here
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  Speaker 1: with me today.
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  Speaker 4: The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Soccer Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I'm your host, Megan Klingenberg, and I am super stoked
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  Speaker 3: to be joined by Daryl Dike.
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  Speaker 4: Arguably, your most impressive quality cannot be measured.
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  Speaker 11: You're a guy who is the.
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  Speaker 1: Definition of grit.
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  Speaker 12: Injuries have ended plenty of careers, but instead you decided
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  Speaker 12: yours would only be a chapter instead of the ending.
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  Speaker 11: Welcome to the show, Daryl.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good intro right there. That's good.
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  Speaker 4: The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Soccer Podcast.
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