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Trump orders flags across US to half-staff after Graham's passing · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: For more now Tennessee Senator Marshall Blackburn, who served with
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  Speaker 1: Senator Graham in the Senate for eight years. They recently
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  Speaker 1: worked together on a bill to combat sanctuary city policies.
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  Speaker 1: Senator welcome, It's good.
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  Speaker 2: To be with you, and we're all saddened by the
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  Speaker 2: loss of Lindsey Graham. He was someone who really believed
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  Speaker 2: in robust, respectful bipartisan debate and in solving problems. And
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  Speaker 2: that is one of the things that we were doing
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  Speaker 2: with the two to eighty seven g Enhncement Act to
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  Speaker 2: encourage states to do the right thing, encourage cities and
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  Speaker 2: counties to partner up with ICE, and to help with
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  Speaker 2: President's goal of deportations for those that are in the
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  Speaker 2: country illegally. And he had partnered up with me on
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  Speaker 2: the Save America Act on a provision that I have
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  Speaker 2: and Mike. This one would have allowed the states to
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  Speaker 2: be in sale devies for using the Save System at DHS,
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  Speaker 2: which is a database that contains the names of those
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  Speaker 2: that are in the country legally or illegally but are
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  Speaker 2: not citizens. And we did these provisions because it would
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  Speaker 2: put it into a budget bill that could go through
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  Speaker 2: the Reconciliation process, and of course we did the big
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  Speaker 2: beautiful bill, We did the Reconciliation two point zero, and
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  Speaker 2: currently we're working on Reconciliation three point zero. But we
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  Speaker 2: are really going to miss Lindsey Graham. He was truly
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  Speaker 2: a fearless patriot.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump today said that his loss was definitely a
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  Speaker 1: blow to the Save America Act. Is that your feeling,
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  Speaker 1: and what if you named it for Senator Graham? Might
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  Speaker 1: that help get some more support.
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  Speaker 2: I would really appreciate the opportunity to have it on
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  Speaker 2: the floor, to pass it in his honor. He truly
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  Speaker 2: believed an election integrity and the fact that people should
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  Speaker 2: be citizens and that they should show an ID when
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  Speaker 2: they go to vote. And that is something Tennesseeans believe.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that eighty five percent of the American public
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  Speaker 2: shares that belief. So putting these on the floor and
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  Speaker 2: passing them in Lindsay's honor, since he was working with
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  Speaker 2: those of us who have co sponsored and sponsored legislation
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  Speaker 2: that makes up these provisions and puts the heft into it. Mike,
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  Speaker 2: that would be so appropriate that we would take our
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  Speaker 2: time and do that.
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  Speaker 1: You are a member of Saint Judiciary. You have a
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  Speaker 1: big hearing starting this week for Todd Glance to be
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  Speaker 1: the next Attorney General. What about the passing of Senator
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  Speaker 1: Graham's impact on this confirmation process for the next Attorney General?
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  Speaker 2: And we began working on this for our July fourth
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  Speaker 2: State work period, and we will go back to that.
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  Speaker 2: That is going to mean that we will have to
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  Speaker 2: push through that hearing. I am sure will end up
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  Speaker 2: having the votes to get him out of committee and
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  Speaker 2: then also to get him through his confirmation vote on
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  Speaker 2: the floor. Todd Blanche has served President Trump well, and
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate the diligence that he has shown as the
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  Speaker 2: acting Attorney General, and I have no doubt that he
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  Speaker 2: is going to honor that continuing work and serve the
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  Speaker 2: American people well in the post as Attorney General.
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  Speaker 1: I'm struck because Senator Graham was a fierce competitor, fought
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  Speaker 1: hard for what he believed in. But a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are coming out today and remembering a different colleague,
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  Speaker 1: somebody that was also very human in dealing with the
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  Speaker 1: other side. What about that?
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  Speaker 2: And I saw that Senator Graham and I campaigned together
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  Speaker 2: for him in South Carolina and for me in Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: and he and I shared that belief that you build
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  Speaker 2: a campaign from the bottom up, and you build a
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  Speaker 2: big ten and you invite everyone to come and support you.
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  Speaker 2: And on the ground with him in South Carolina, people
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  Speaker 2: referred to him as Lindsay, not as Senator, and they
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  Speaker 2: embraced him. And I could just experience that warmth that
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  Speaker 2: a room would have for him when I was there
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  Speaker 2: in South Carolina and then when he would be here
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  Speaker 2: in Tennessee, the fact that people appreciated how he stood
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  Speaker 2: for law and order, the rule of law, how he
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  Speaker 2: backed our military, how he believed in a border that
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  Speaker 2: was secure. To also his support for the Save Act
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  Speaker 2: and wanting to find a way to get that across
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  Speaker 2: the floor. Like I said, we had those provisions that
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  Speaker 2: could work their way into the budget bill because you
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  Speaker 2: have to tie that to that appropriations and budgeting process,
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  Speaker 2: and incentivizing states to do the right thing was one
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  Speaker 2: of those ways we were trying to thread that needle
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  Speaker 2: and get this passed.
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  Speaker 1: Senator Marshall Blackburn, I'm grateful to have your perspective on
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  Speaker 1: a sad day in American politics. Thank you very much. Indeed,
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