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Lindsey Graham · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think of the passing of Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask American mama's she.
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  Speaker 1: Said, and joining us now are American mama Terry Nannerville.
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  Speaker 1: So Lindsay Graham passed away over the weekend due to
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  Speaker 1: a sudden coronary problem a a ordic not dissection. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I diseection. Okay, So what did you think when you
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  Speaker 1: first heard the news?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was shocked when I first heard the news.
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  Speaker 3: He's young. I know, to younger people, seventy one's not young,
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  Speaker 3: but I was like, gosh, that's young.
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  Speaker 4: Well compared to our recent presidents.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a baby.
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  Speaker 3: But I you know what's so interesting is immediately the
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy conspiracy theorist out, so you're like, oh, wait, what
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  Speaker 3: they had a target on his head? What the Iranians
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  Speaker 3: had threatened his life? He had just gotten finished with
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  Speaker 3: the meeting with Zelenski, Like what, Then you find out
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  Speaker 3: the facts that he's had a heart issue, his father
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  Speaker 3: died of this when he was like late sixties, and
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  Speaker 3: then you're like, okay, this was probably get all that
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  Speaker 3: tenfoil stuff out of my off of my head, it
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  Speaker 3: probably was what it was. And then as you start
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  Speaker 3: hearing things about Lindsey Graham, I didn't know much about
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  Speaker 3: him as a person. You start hearing the things about
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  Speaker 3: his mom died at like fifty three, and then fifteen
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  Speaker 3: or sixteen months later his dad died. So he in college,
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  Speaker 3: he took guardianship over his little sister, who was thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: and then when he was twenty two, he adopted her
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  Speaker 3: so that she could receive the military benefits. And then
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  Speaker 3: you realize that they go on and it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: like any funeral that you go to, people say things
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  Speaker 3: about the people the deceased that you never knew they
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  Speaker 3: did or accomplished, and you're like, gosh, I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: You know that happens every time I go to a
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  Speaker 3: funeral of somebody, no matter how old, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea. I wish I had known that before.
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  Speaker 3: So then I started feeling sad. I thought he really
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  Speaker 3: was a true patriot. He was able to apparently get
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  Speaker 3: along with people on both sides, even Corey Booker, others
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  Speaker 3: like Democrats came out and said, look, we were not
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  Speaker 3: aligned on a lot of the issues political issues, but
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  Speaker 3: he was my friend, right and I'm going to miss him.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the traits that they all talked about
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  Speaker 3: was his sense of humor. They all talked about how
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  Speaker 3: funny he was, and that does win people over. He
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  Speaker 3: was a strong He was Trump's nemesis the first term
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  Speaker 3: and then became one of his greatest allies and greatest friends.
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  Speaker 3: So to hear President Trump kind of get choked up, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just he lost someone like a family member.
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  Speaker 4: I do think President Trump actually was affected by this,
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  Speaker 4: just given how quickly he wanted to do media on it,
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  Speaker 4: the way he responded. I do think President Trump was
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  Speaker 4: genuinely moved by losing Lindsay Grim.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was also moved. Today we find out
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  Speaker 3: that his sister is going to you know, the governor
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  Speaker 3: who's a Republican governor of South Carolina. Master chose her
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  Speaker 3: and that was actually who Trump wanted. And so your
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  Speaker 3: first thought is, wait, what are her credentials? How is
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  Speaker 3: she going to be able to do this? And then
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  Speaker 3: we think about our very own Louisiana and Julia Letlow
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  Speaker 3: and her taking over her husband's spot and what a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful job she did, And I think.
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  Speaker 4: And she's now the front runner to be the next Louisiana,
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  Speaker 4: so I think.
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  Speaker 3: And then listening to her interview, there was an interview
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  Speaker 3: that she did with Dana Bash years ago, talked about
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  Speaker 3: how poor they were when they were growing up, that
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  Speaker 3: they lived in a one room. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: attached to their store that they had. The parents had.
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  Speaker 3: This really just a meek, modest store that they had
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  Speaker 3: or a restaurant, and she in one room. They all
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  Speaker 3: had one room. That's where they their living room, their
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  Speaker 3: dining room, their beds like the couch, and that's where
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  Speaker 3: they stayed. They were very, very poor, so to know,
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  Speaker 3: I think if anybody knows his stance on things, and
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  Speaker 3: he was even though he would do business with the left,
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  Speaker 3: right and he but when it came to the main
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  Speaker 3: issues for us for President Trump, for Republicans, he stood
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  Speaker 3: firm on that. And I think the one time he
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  Speaker 3: won me over was when Kavanaugh was going through his
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  Speaker 3: hearings and they're brutal, and we all could feel like,
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  Speaker 3: this is this man is being unfairly maligned and trashed.
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  Speaker 3: It did. It was terrible, and we all had this
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  Speaker 3: gut feeling that this is this is wrong she's not
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  Speaker 3: telling true like there was so much proof on his side,
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  Speaker 3: but it was Lindsey Graham who had the courage to
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  Speaker 3: speak up to his these are his friends in that room,
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  Speaker 3: and he said, basically with such self righteous indignation, power, yes,
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  Speaker 3: and conviction, what you are doing to him is wrong.
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  Speaker 3: What you're doing I can't And he apologized to him, saying,
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry for what your family's going through. But
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  Speaker 3: the point he made was, you came if you wanted
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  Speaker 3: a fair trial, right, you came to the wrong at
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  Speaker 3: the wrong time. And we all know that because the
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  Speaker 3: left wanted power, they thought, if we can just hold
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  Speaker 3: this seat open until we hopefully win in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 3: we can kill it power. And he had the guts,
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  Speaker 3: even though he was friends with them on the left right,
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  Speaker 3: to call them out.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a highlight of his career.
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  Speaker 3: It really was.
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  Speaker 1: If you like to ask our American Mama's a question,
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  Speaker 1: go to our website americangroundreader dot com slash Mama's and
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  Speaker 1: click on the ask the Mama's button. Terry Ntiville, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you