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Zelenskyy calls Graham 'true DEFENDER of freedom' after sudden death · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: We turned out of the White House. Flags there have
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  Speaker 1: been lowered to have staff. An auditor of the Senator
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  Speaker 1: Alex Hogan joins us from the North Lawn High Alex
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  Speaker 1: Hi Jillian So. The President, reacting early this morning to
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  Speaker 1: this news, writing a part on truth social quote, Senator.
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay Graham, one of the greatest people and senators I
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  Speaker 2: have ever known, is dead. He was always working and
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  Speaker 2: is a true American patriot. Lindsay will be greatly missed.
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  Speaker 2: Graham currently serves as the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
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  Speaker 2: The Republican was a proponent for a more robust national
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  Speaker 2: defense and traveled the world advocating for a more aggressive
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  Speaker 2: US foreign policy. Graham advised Trump on Iran and Russia,
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  Speaker 2: and had just announced an agreement on Friday with the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration to move forward on a package of Russian sanctions.
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski reacting to this news of his death,
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  Speaker 2: writing quote, Lindsay was a true defender of freedom and
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  Speaker 2: the values that make our world safer. And Israeli Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin Ettinia, who appeared on Fox earlier this morning
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  Speaker 2: calling Graham a patriot, saying quote, I think the world
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  Speaker 2: has lost a great human being, America has lost a
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  Speaker 2: great senator, and we Israel have lost a great friend.
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  Speaker 2: Before service in public office, Graham served in the US
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  Speaker 2: Air Force as a military lawyer, and later in the
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  Speaker 2: Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve. He ran for
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  Speaker 2: the Republican presidential nomination in twenty sixteen, but dropped out
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  Speaker 2: before the primaries. Graham went from a vocal critic of
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  Speaker 2: President Trump to one of his most loyal allies, and
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  Speaker 2: in a two thousand interview with The AP, Graham explained
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  Speaker 2: that pivot, saying that his dear friend John McCain taught
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  Speaker 2: him that after an election, you have to move forward
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  Speaker 2: and you have an obligation to help the sitting president.
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  Speaker 1: Jillian Alex Hogan on the north lwn of the White
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  Speaker 1: House for us, thank you joining us now is South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Senator Tim Scott, Senator, thank you for taking time
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  Speaker 1: with us on this somber morning. I want to offer
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  Speaker 1: you the floor for reflections on Senator Graham.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, thank you. America's lost a statesman, but
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  Speaker 3: more importantly, I've lost a friend. Lindsay was just a
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  Speaker 3: powerful force for good. As you guys were just reporting
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  Speaker 3: his commitment to foreign policy. His commitment to international affairs
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  Speaker 3: was for one purpose, to make sure America remained the
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  Speaker 3: most dominant country on the planet and that Americans here
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  Speaker 3: at home and when traveling they were safer. Linza Gram
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  Speaker 3: was just a powerful force from member of the United
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  Speaker 3: States Senate. But as a friend, I'll never forget when
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  Speaker 3: I started the South kind of prayer breakfast about ten
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  Speaker 3: years ago, I called Lindsay and Lindsay is not or sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey was not a morning person. And I called him
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  Speaker 3: and I said, Lindsay, my prayer breakfast at eight am.
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  Speaker 3: He's like tim, if Jesus comes before ten am, I
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  Speaker 3: ain't going. And of course the first person in the
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  Speaker 3: room Linzi Graham, about eight oh one. He comes in
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  Speaker 3: the room eight thirty ish, and he was there. That's
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  Speaker 3: how he treated his friends. He would do the uncomfortable
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  Speaker 3: to make others comfortable. You never felt invisible in Lindsey
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  Speaker 3: Graham's presence, in part because he had so much pain
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  Speaker 3: and misery as a youngster. When his parents died fifteen
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  Speaker 3: months apart and he adopted his sister. His family became
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  Speaker 3: his sister in America, and there's not a more aggressive
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  Speaker 3: obvious public servant in this nation than Lindsey Graham. He
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  Speaker 3: loved America, and frankly, it's because he loved Americans and
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be missed.
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  Speaker 1: I can attest to what you just laid out their
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  Speaker 1: senator in terms of his ability to make people feel
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  Speaker 1: seen and make them feel important, no matter their station
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  Speaker 1: in life. He was a great friend to us on
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  Speaker 1: the show at this channel, always taking time for us,
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  Speaker 1: never dismissive of any of our requests.
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  Speaker 4: We will miss him as well.
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  Speaker 1: Every day in our program, I want to ask you
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  Speaker 1: about one of his more recent passion projects from the
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  Speaker 1: last few years, and that was making sure that Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: won in this war, this illegal war started by Russia.
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  Speaker 1: As Chad just reported a moment ago, he just returned
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  Speaker 1: from meeting with Vladimir's Lensky in the Ukraine. Who is
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  Speaker 1: going to pick up that mantle?
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  Speaker 4: Now? Moving forward in the Senate, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, the hole that Lindsey Graham left in the Senate
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  Speaker 3: cannot be filled. It will need many of us to
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  Speaker 3: step up to the plate and take on the responsibilities
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  Speaker 3: that he had from a global perspective. But here's what
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  Speaker 3: we need to remember about Lindsey and Ukraine. He wanted
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  Speaker 3: to save as many Ukrainian lives as possible because he
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  Speaker 3: knew what we all know, that Russia was the aggressor,
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  Speaker 3: that Russia was attempting through Putin to create a Ukrainian genocide,
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  Speaker 3: and Lindsey Graham wanted to stand in the gap and say,
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  Speaker 3: hades know not on my watch. And he encouraged President
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  Speaker 3: Trump to be as invested as possible. Lindsey taught to
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  Speaker 3: every single member that I can think of in the
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  Speaker 3: Senate about the importance of supporting Ukraine. And as you know,
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  Speaker 3: I know, Lindsey Graham was never kind and gentle about
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  Speaker 3: the priorities he had. He was loud and obvious and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes even obnoxious because he understood that he had the
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  Speaker 3: power of a microphone to make a difference, not for
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  Speaker 3: himself but for others. And I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a lot of work to do to find
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  Speaker 3: someone who can come close to what Lindsey Graham meant
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  Speaker 3: for this country, not to this country, but for this
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  Speaker 3: country on the global stage.
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  Speaker 1: He was also, as you know well, Senator, very proud
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  Speaker 1: of his uniformed service. He was a champion for US
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  Speaker 1: troops wherever they were stationed in the world, always fighting
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  Speaker 1: here in Washington to make sure those US troops had
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  Speaker 1: what they needed. His passing comes as this significant defense
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  Speaker 1: supplemental comes before you and your colleagues.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, one of the things that we should remember is
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  Speaker 3: the last reconciliation package that we were able to get through.
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  Speaker 3: I should use the different terms and reconciliation. Last budget
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  Speaker 3: tool that we were able to use to fund our
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  Speaker 3: national security apparatus was brought to us, in most part
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  Speaker 3: by the budget Chairman Lindsay Graham. Lindz Graham would tell
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  Speaker 3: you that he's better with words than he is with numbers.
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  Speaker 3: I'll never forget him saying that as a budget share
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  Speaker 3: He's like, now, I don't know numbers very well, but
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  Speaker 3: here we go. What he understood, though, it was the
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  Speaker 3: importance of keeping America safe, and as we moved to
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  Speaker 3: the military spending budget also known as the NDAA, we
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  Speaker 3: have a role to play to honor his service to
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  Speaker 3: this country by making sure that those men and women
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  Speaker 3: who donned the uniform for our national security and our
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  Speaker 3: safety they have the resources and the weaponry necessary to
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  Speaker 3: do their jobs. And Lindsey was not just a who
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  Speaker 3: encouraged us to do the right thing. He was absolutely
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  Speaker 3: one of the strongest cheerleaders for making sure the investment
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  Speaker 3: we made in our military was an ROI. The return
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  Speaker 3: on that invested dollar would be very strong, and that
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  Speaker 3: is something we need to continue. If you read through
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  Speaker 3: our Constitution, Article one, section eight, one of the things
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  Speaker 3: you'll see is half of our enumerated powers has to
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  Speaker 3: do with national defense. And Lindsay understood that but never
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  Speaker 3: had to say it. He just talked about the people
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  Speaker 3: like himself willing to die for our country. John fifteen
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  Speaker 3: reminds us that no greater loves does someone have than
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  Speaker 3: to lay down the life of a friend. And Lindsey
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  Speaker 3: he was that guy.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the thick of everything when he passed suddenly.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday we just talked about US foreign policy. He was
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  Speaker 1: in the thick of politics as well, up for reelection.
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  Speaker 4: He had just clinched at your party's nomination.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, we were on the campaign trail together about four
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago in South Carolina, and I'll say that one
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  Speaker 3: of the things I tried to tell Lindsey we should
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  Speaker 3: talk about a lot of things in South Carolina, foreign
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  Speaker 3: policy and affordability and other issues, and Lindsey just being
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  Speaker 3: who he was. Spent about ten seconds on fordability in
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  Speaker 3: ninety ninety minutes on foreign policy, because you can't change
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  Speaker 3: the guy. And because of that, because people in South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina understood who he was, they kept re electing him
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  Speaker 3: because they knew that he was a statesman, not a politician,
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  Speaker 3: but someone dedicated to making sure that every single day
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina families were better Because he was in public service,
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  Speaker 3: they knew every single day that rather you agreed with
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  Speaker 3: them or disagreed with him, he was sincere in his
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  Speaker 3: objective of making our nation better. And that's one of
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  Speaker 3: the reasons why, in a crowded Republican feel he came
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  Speaker 3: out on the first vote without a runoff, because people
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  Speaker 3: admired respected even when they disagreed with Lindsay Graham. You
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  Speaker 3: just you couldn't dislike them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they always liked him, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, it's a very difficult morning for all of us,
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  Speaker 1: for you in particular, thank you for taking time with
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  Speaker 1: us out of your own grieving and.
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  Speaker 4: Processing to talk to us about all this. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Make sure you call the ones you love today.
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  Speaker 3: It's such an important data remind ourselves of the importance
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  Speaker 3: of family.
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  Speaker 4: It's a beautiful reminder. Thank you.
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