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Ainsley Earhardt | Fox News Host | 07-13-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: So yesterday morning I woke up to the tragic news
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  Speaker 3: that Lindsey Graham had passed away overnight.
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  Speaker 2: I found out about five am.
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  Speaker 3: I ran downstairs and put on Fox and Friends, the
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  Speaker 3: weekend show, you know, Rachel, Charlie and Dom griff and
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  Speaker 3: they did walk to walk coverage. I gotta tell you
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  Speaker 3: my three favorite parts of the show were BB because
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  Speaker 3: no one knows his you' more than me, Sean Hannity,
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  Speaker 3: who's going to join me this morning at eight fifty
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  Speaker 3: because I love Sean and Sean's fiance who's parted that
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  Speaker 3: great trio every morning on Fox and Friends, Ainsley Erhart.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I'd love to he gets showing and Ainsley
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  Speaker 3: on tomorrow and showing up here. She is Ainsley Earhart Angsley,
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  Speaker 3: Good Monday morning. Let me stop by saying I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Very sorry, thank you, said, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 4: having me on. I'm honored to come on and talk
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  Speaker 4: about our friend. I grew up in South Carolina. And
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  Speaker 4: yesterday morning at three am, Shawn and missed a text
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  Speaker 4: from Tim Scott, our other senator in South Carolina and
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  Speaker 4: also a dear friend of ours. And around four o'clock,
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  Speaker 4: Sean said he woke up and he said, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I thought, why do I have a miss call from
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  Speaker 4: Lindsay Graham? And he checked his messages and he had
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  Speaker 4: several texts from different friends saying that Lindsay Graham had
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  Speaker 4: passed away. And Sean, you know, we both are up
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  Speaker 4: early with this news and just in shock because Lindsay
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  Speaker 4: talked to Sean almost every night, if not every night,
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  Speaker 4: and they would talk for a long time about Israel
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  Speaker 4: because they both loved Israel too, or do love Israel,
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  Speaker 4: and just about politics and Lindsey Graham, you know, this
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  Speaker 4: was his life. People would always say, you know, he's
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  Speaker 4: not married, and we would say, no, he is. He's
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  Speaker 4: married to his job. He just couldn't turn it off.
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  Speaker 4: He loved it. He lived for foreign policy, he lived
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  Speaker 4: for South Carolina. He was so proud of our state,
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  Speaker 4: loved golfing, and was just the happiest when he was
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  Speaker 4: at home. And I talked to his sister and some
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  Speaker 4: of his staffers yesterday and I'm just to tell them
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  Speaker 4: we love them and we're thinking about them. And there
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  Speaker 4: were tears and everyone is in disbelief. He apparently had
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  Speaker 4: just come home from this trip to Ukraine, and that's
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  Speaker 4: a really difficult trip because it's a ten hour plane.
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's plane rides and then there's a ten
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  Speaker 4: hour train ride. And he did this regularly, and so
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  Speaker 4: he was complaining of just not feeling very well. He
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  Speaker 4: landed at Dulles on Saturday afternoon, went home to watch
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  Speaker 4: the soccer game, and was going to do some a
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  Speaker 4: TV interview on Sunday morning, and then said, if I
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  Speaker 4: don't feel well, I'll go to the doctor on Sunday
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  Speaker 4: or I'll call the doctor. But I think I'll be okay.
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  Speaker 4: I just need to rest and probably just exhausted from
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  Speaker 4: the trip. And at about eight thirty, DC Fire and
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  Speaker 4: Ems responded to a report of chest pains at his house,
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  Speaker 4: and from what I understand, one of his staffers who
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  Speaker 4: he had talked to a few of his staffers that night,
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  Speaker 4: just complaining of not feeling great, they had called ems
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  Speaker 4: and then eight thirty five they showed up, so it
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  Speaker 4: was very quick, and his dead bolt was secured, so
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  Speaker 4: they had to force entry and knock the door down apparently,
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  Speaker 4: and then at eight fifty they radioed the CPR was
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  Speaker 4: in progress, and I know they tried chess compressions for
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  Speaker 4: a long time and then they just couldn't save his life.
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  Speaker 2: Said horrible, just horrible.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I got to tell you, you got me all
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  Speaker 3: emotional watching the show yesterday, because, like you said, he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't married. He was married to politics, so he had
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  Speaker 3: no children. But the story of how he lost both
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  Speaker 3: of his parents at a young age and given the choice,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to move on, he actually adopted his own
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  Speaker 3: sister and raised her. And you spoke to his sister yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: She has to be an absolute mess, But what a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful story of a man dedicated to family, right, Angeley.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, she lives in Lexington, which is just a
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  Speaker 4: suburb of where I grew up, and it's a great area,
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  Speaker 4: and her name is Darlene and she was only thirteen
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  Speaker 4: when both of their parents died. As you know, we've
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  Speaker 4: all heard this story. And Lindsay was at the University
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  Speaker 4: of South Carolina, which is where I went to and
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  Speaker 4: I would always see him Sean, and I would see
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  Speaker 4: him at the Carolina games when we would go back
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  Speaker 4: home for the football games. And he just loved our
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  Speaker 4: team and loved our state. And so he was at
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  Speaker 4: USC and would go back and forth to Central South
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  Speaker 4: Carolina where his or Seneca, which is where his aunt
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  Speaker 4: Burna May lives. She died three years ago, and so
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  Speaker 4: his sister Darlene went to live with Burnamy and her husband,
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  Speaker 4: and Linda would go back and forth from college to
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  Speaker 4: see his sister and help take care of her, and
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  Speaker 4: that happened. He was in nineteen seventy six, so it
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  Speaker 4: was almost fifty years ago. His mother was Millie, and
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  Speaker 4: she died of cancer. And then fifteen months later their
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  Speaker 4: dad died and he went by the nickname of Dude,
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  Speaker 4: and he died of a heart attack. So there were
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  Speaker 4: heart problems, and the preliminary findings are showing that he
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  Speaker 4: died of an aortic dissection, which is a pair that
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  Speaker 4: occurs in the inner wall of the aorta. And so
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  Speaker 4: his sister said, you know, we did have heart problems
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  Speaker 4: in our family, and she was wondering if maybe it
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  Speaker 4: was some sort of a blood plot or something from travel.
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  Speaker 4: But she just said, you know, I'm just in utter shocks.
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  Speaker 4: He was my best friend and you know she's now.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever had to plan a
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  Speaker 4: funeral and go through this, it's just a whirlwind and
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  Speaker 4: you don't you're grieving, but you're also trying to make plans,
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  Speaker 4: and especially at this level, at such a grand level.
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  Speaker 4: He was a senator and represents South Carolina for so
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  Speaker 4: long and it's going to be so many people loved
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  Speaker 4: him and he loved golf. All of his staff was
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  Speaker 4: saying that he loved to play the Ocean course which
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  Speaker 4: is at Kiowa, which is just beautiful. It's right on
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  Speaker 4: the water. And then Yamen's Hall he loved and he
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  Speaker 4: would play with Tray Couti every week and last night
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  Speaker 4: on Trey's show, he got choked up. He said, man,
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  Speaker 4: my friend, I'll see you on the first tee. But
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  Speaker 4: he just he loved going up to North Carolina to
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  Speaker 4: cashers and play all the golf courses, the Cliffs golf courses,
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  Speaker 4: which are just beautiful up in the mountains and they
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  Speaker 4: overlook the Carolinas. And there was an ad because Lindy,
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  Speaker 4: as you know, just one the you know, the primary,
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  Speaker 4: the Republican primary, and his sister was in an ad
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  Speaker 4: and it was such a cute political ad. But she
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  Speaker 4: talked about how Lindsay responded the day that their dad died,
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  Speaker 4: and she said that Lindsay came running in and he
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  Speaker 4: grabbed me and he hugged me and he said, I'm
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  Speaker 4: so sorry, but it's going to be okay. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to take care of you. And she said, and that's
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  Speaker 4: exactly what he did. And so I just my heart
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  Speaker 4: is with her and all the prayers. And I said, Darlene,
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  Speaker 4: because I remember when my mom died and my grandparents
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  Speaker 4: had passed away. I talked to my aunt and she said, Ainsley,
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  Speaker 4: I just feel like such an orphan. And I said, Darlene,
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  Speaker 4: I know you feel so alone. She said, I just
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  Speaker 4: feel so alone. She said, we just would talk all
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  Speaker 4: the time. He was my best friend. And Lindsay and
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  Speaker 4: I were at the state dinner recently said this is
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  Speaker 4: the last time I think I saw him. I know
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  Speaker 4: I talked to him since. But we were at the
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  Speaker 4: State dinner when King Charles visited the White House and
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  Speaker 4: President Trump and Malania invited both of us, and Sean
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  Speaker 4: couldn't go, so I was there with some coworkers, but
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  Speaker 4: you know, I went alone, and Lindsay said he was
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  Speaker 4: He talked to his staff and his staff said he
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  Speaker 4: wasn't sure if he was going to go because even
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  Speaker 4: though he's used to politics and he gets to wear
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  Speaker 4: a black tie, he loves South Carolina. He's like, should
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  Speaker 4: I go to Washington, should I do this State dinner?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be by myself, and he said he
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  Speaker 4: told his staff. I was so relieved when they stopped
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  Speaker 4: me next to Ainsley, and I was glad that Milania
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  Speaker 4: did that. It's a little overwhelming when you're in a
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  Speaker 4: room with such big leaders and you might not know
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  Speaker 4: who you're sitting next to, and you don't know their story,
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  Speaker 4: and you know you can make conversation, which is something
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  Speaker 4: that you know it's always nice and fun to do.
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  Speaker 4: But I was so relieved that Lindsay was next to
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  Speaker 4: me because I wanted to catch up with him and
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  Speaker 4: he's one of Sean, my fiance's best friends, and he
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  Speaker 4: represents my state. And he always was asking about my parents,
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  Speaker 4: and that night, how's your dad, how's he doing? Tell him,
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  Speaker 4: I said hey, and he actually went and we left
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  Speaker 4: and we said thank you for being my date. And
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  Speaker 4: it was just one of the highlights of my life
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  Speaker 4: actually being at that dinner. It was just fabulous and
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  Speaker 4: the music was unbelievable. It was all military music, and
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  Speaker 4: they played Phantom of the Opera and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: Broadway productions and it was just they surrounded all the
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  Speaker 4: room and stood around behind us and in front of
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  Speaker 4: us and just played these beautiful songs. Lindsay and I
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  Speaker 4: were in awe and so I was just nice. It
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  Speaker 4: was that was a nice way to I had no
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  Speaker 4: idea that was going to be the last time I
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  Speaker 4: would see him. And then when my mom died, said
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  Speaker 4: we had her funeral, and South Carolina, you have the
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  Speaker 4: funeral at the church, but the day before you have
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  Speaker 4: the visitation and that's at the funeral home and sometimes
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  Speaker 4: it's open coffin and open casket, and that's what my
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  Speaker 4: family has always done. So were my family was standing
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  Speaker 4: around the casket and it was a long line out
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  Speaker 4: out to the parking lot, and they said it was
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  Speaker 4: the second largest funeral they had ever had. And my
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  Speaker 4: mom was just loved and so my mom and dad
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  Speaker 4: just wonderful people. And dad actually worked part time at
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  Speaker 4: the funeral home, so we had a lot of support.
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  Speaker 4: And Lindsey Graham waited in that line. Some people waited
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  Speaker 4: for four hours. And he just meant a lot to me.
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  Speaker 4: Could have just come to the funeral, He could have
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  Speaker 4: just sent flowers or sent a little note that he
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  Speaker 4: actually stood in that line, and you know, and gave
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  Speaker 4: me a hug and gave Shawn a hug and talked
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  Speaker 4: to my dad. Just meant meant the world. He had
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  Speaker 4: a really good heart.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds that way.
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  Speaker 3: This is the lovely Angeley Airhart, part of the Box
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  Speaker 3: and Friends crew, of course every morning on Fox News. Spartanburg,
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina girl and clearly very very close with Lindsay
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  Speaker 3: as was her fiance Sean Hannity. And I did hear
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  Speaker 3: the story he.
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  Speaker 2: Said when you told your father, yes, say your father
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  Speaker 2: said he's dead.
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  Speaker 3: And you're like yeah, And so in the final I
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  Speaker 3: know you have to run, but in the final couple
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  Speaker 3: of seconds and I hate doing this because it's always
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  Speaker 3: got watching and emotional. But if in fact you got
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  Speaker 3: a trip to heaven this morning for just an hour
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  Speaker 3: just to talk to Lindsay Graham, what would you tell
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Sean and I were talking about this. You said,
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  Speaker 4: I just want to tell him. I'm so mad at you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you were, if you weren't feeling well,
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  Speaker 4: why didn't you call the doctor. Why didn't you call me?
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  Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell me? You know, it's always that
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  Speaker 4: we always feel that way. Just I would just say,
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  Speaker 4: you are a great man. Thank you for serving South Carolina,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for loving Israel, thank you for loving America
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  Speaker 4: and putting country first. You could have been a million
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  Speaker 4: a millionaire four times over, and you chose to love
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  Speaker 4: America and take the paycheck of a senator, and we
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  Speaker 4: really appreciate it. Lindsay, you were loved, and you love Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: You grew up in a Southern Baptist and now you're
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  Speaker 4: with your parents. So have fun and give Jesus a
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  Speaker 4: big hug for me, and I'll see you out there
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  Speaker 4: soon perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully not soon.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, take it easy, Angsley, You're beautiful You're great. This
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  Speaker 3: was a great conversation. Again, my heart goes out to you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for doing this, Ainsley, and good luck doing
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  Speaker 3: four hours this morning on this.
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  Speaker 2: You're great. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you Sid God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you too.
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  Speaker 3: There she is Ainsley Earhart, one of the great three
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  Speaker 3: on Box and Friends on Box News every morning. Hope,
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  Speaker 3: Beyonce Sean Hannity will join us at eight fifty this morning,
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  Speaker 3: we'll take a short break. Lots more to do on
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  Speaker 3: the untimely and tragic death of our friend Lindsay Graham.
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