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Speaker 2: Common sense for the American people.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the.

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Speaker 1: Scott Jenning Shows.

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Speaker 4: Today, we mourn the shocking death of US Senator Lindsey Graham.

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Speaker 4: Washington grapples with the loss of one of the most

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Speaker 4: unique and important policymakers in our capital. We'll talk to

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Speaker 4: Congressman Russell Fry of South Carolina, who may well be

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Speaker 4: a contender to replace Lindsey Graham in the Senate, as

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Speaker 4: well as veteran journalist Josh Kraushar about the enormous whole

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Speaker 4: that Graham's passing leaves in Washington. Today is Monday, July thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on this day.

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Speaker 4: Two years ago, twenty twenty four, America came within inches

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Speaker 4: of one of the darkest moments in its history. Former

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Speaker 4: President Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 4: when a gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop. One

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Speaker 4: bullet gray's Trump's right ear, missing his head by mere millimeters.

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Speaker 4: In the crowd behind the president, fifty year old volunteer

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Speaker 4: firefighter Corey Compartori did what fathers do. He threw himself

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Speaker 4: over his wife and daughters, sacrificing his own life to

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Speaker 4: Service snipers ended the attack. Then came the image the

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Speaker 4: world will never forget. As agents rushed to remove him

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Speaker 4: from the stage, a bloodied Donald Trump stood, raised a

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Speaker 4: fist into the air and shouted fight, Fight, Fight. Butler

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Speaker 4: stands as a reminder that in America, our political battles

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Speaker 4: must always be settled with ballots, not bullets. We remember

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Speaker 4: Corey Compartoi's extraordinary sacrifice. We remain grateful that President Trump survived,

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Speaker 4: and we pray that our nation never again comes so

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Speaker 4: close to such a tragedy. For today's tragic news, However,

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Speaker 4: while you slept on Saturday night, US Senator Lindsay Graham

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Speaker 4: of South Carolina tragically passed away seventy one years old.

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Speaker 4: Not known to be in bad health, preliminary findings indicate

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Speaker 4: Graham suffered a fatal aortic dissection.

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Speaker 1: He had just.

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Speaker 4: Returned from a trip to Ukraine and was scheduled to

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Speaker 4: appear on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday morning. Instead,

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Speaker 4: on that same show, a clearly shaken President Trump called

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Speaker 4: in to eulogize his good friend.

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Speaker 1: Listen to cut two.

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Speaker 4: Do you remember, mister President, what was the last thing

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Speaker 5: What was the last thing he said to you?

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Speaker 6: I said, we'll see you soon, come over anytime you want.

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Speaker 6: He came into the White household because I liked him.

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Speaker 6: He can't do that with everybody, but he come in

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Speaker 6: a lot, and he was a great like a gauge

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Speaker 6: just about all of the Republicans Like Lindsey. He got

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Speaker 6: tough cookie in a lot of ways, but he had Honestly,

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Speaker 6: he was a great politician. People don't realize what a

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Speaker 6: good politician he was. He could he could go in

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Speaker 6: I don't say you probably never heard me say that

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Speaker 6: Let me tell you, sometimes you'll meet somebody that'd been

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Speaker 6: And this man was a great politician. He really got it.

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Speaker 4: Lindsey Graham had spoken to President Trump just hours before

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Speaker 4: he passed away. Graham served in the Senate since two

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Speaker 4: Now you might recall that he ran against Trump in

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Speaker 4: In the process, Lendsey Graham became one of the most

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Speaker 4: He understood the value of American power. He believed America

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Speaker 4: good politician. Graham is remembered fondly by so many by Trump,

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Speaker 4: by his colleagues, Republicans, Democrats. Lendsey Graham knew how to

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Speaker 4: Here's more of the President's remembranus on Meet the Press

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Speaker 6: You know he has divine moments. His moment on Brett

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Speaker 6: Kavanaugh was one of the classics in the history of

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Speaker 6: treating him very unfairly, good man. They treated him so unfairly,

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Speaker 6: And Lindsey was so angry at the Senate because of it,

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Speaker 6: that saved Brett Kavana's Supreme Court you know, ascension. He

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Speaker 6: Lindsay did something that he was just so angry at

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Speaker 6: that over. Lindsay did a thing there that was I

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Speaker 1: I agree with President Trump.

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Speaker 4: I think that was Lindsey Graham's finest hour, that Brett

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Speaker 1: He turned the tide back for Kavanaugh.

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Speaker 4: He exposed the hypocrisy of the left like few others

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Speaker 1: If you remember this epic rant, good for you.

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Speaker 4: If you don't, well, you're going to hear it in

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Speaker 4: its entirety here on the Scott Jennings Show later this hour. Now,

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Speaker 4: Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina has scheduled a four

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Speaker 4: o'clock Eastern news conference. The expectation is that he will

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Speaker 4: announce that Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, will take

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Speaker 4: That term runs through the end of the year. That's

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Speaker 4: what President Trump is recommending, that Graham's sister fulfill the

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Speaker 4: final few months here. You know, Lindsey Graham raised his

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Speaker 4: of Lindsey Graham's story. Actually, Graham was twenty two and

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Speaker 4: A lot of names are surfacing today. I keep my

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Speaker 4: Republican leaders in the Palmetto State. He joins us in

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Speaker 4: just a few minutes to discuss the legacy of Lindsey Graham.

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Speaker 4: You know, one of Senator Graham's great gifts was humor.

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Speaker 4: He was witty and self deprecating. It's a great communications

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Speaker 4: lesson one that his colleague, Senator Tim Scott took to heart.

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Speaker 4: Listen to Tim Scott, remember his friend cut number four.

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Speaker 7: Lindsey Graham taught me some really important lessons. He's a

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Speaker 7: lot wittier than I am, so I don't try to

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Speaker 7: be who I'm not. But humor does matter. Self deprecating

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Speaker 7: especially in public office, and I've learned that lesson from

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Speaker 7: Lindsay I've used it. I tell jokes sometimes on the

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Speaker 7: campaign troll. When I was a freshman in high school,

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Speaker 7: I was not doing very well life. My father and

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Speaker 7: I failed both World Geography, Civics, Spanish and English. And

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Speaker 7: one of my jokes I've told several times is that

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Speaker 7: That joke because of my personal misery. But I got

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Speaker 7: that the necessity of lightning the room from Lindsey Graham,

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Speaker 7: and I have several other jokes, because when life is

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Speaker 7: easier is to take that painful experience turn it into

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Speaker 7: blessing for other people.

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Speaker 4: Senator Tim Scott remembering his friend Lindsey Graham, and we'll

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Speaker 4: It is Monday, July the thirteenth, broadcasting live from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Common Sense for the American people.

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Speaker 4: Well, well, well, well that's all I have to say

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Speaker 4: today to everybody who doubted yours truly, to everybody out

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Speaker 1: There who said Scott is off his rocker. He's making

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Speaker 4: Therefore you can't trust anything he says. Well, you guys

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Speaker 4: To what am I referring, Well, you may be aware

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Speaker 4: that last Tuesday I reported via social media my ex account,

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Speaker 4: that I had received a telephone call from Mitch McConnell,

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Speaker 4: Kentucky Senior Senator. I simply said on social media, I'd

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Speaker 4: We're grateful for your time. Thanks for joining us. I

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Speaker 4: Russell, I couldn't help but think about last August when

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Speaker 9: Well, I think it all starts with hard work, right.

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Speaker 9: I think it just opens up so many doors. Right

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Speaker 9: I remember talking to Lindsay one time and I said, Lindsay, look,

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Speaker 9: But he just delivered that not only from a policy perspective,

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Speaker 9: you know, he was very integral and focusing on veterans,

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Speaker 9: but really from a constituent service on the ground, and

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Speaker 9: you know, there was a tremendous amount of success, and

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Speaker 9: so where we would have snags, we would partner with

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Speaker 9: him and his team. They were very experienced and they

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Speaker 9: really took a lot of time to deliver, you know,

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Speaker 9: not just policy, but the actual wins for individual veterans.

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Speaker 9: And he made it the hallmark of his office because

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Speaker 9: of his appreciation for what people have sacrificed in their

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Speaker 9: service to the country.

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Speaker 4: Congressman Russell Fry of South Carolina is our guest discussing

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Speaker 4: the legacy of Lindsey Graham. Russell, I hate to do it,

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Speaker 4: but I do want to talk a little politics with you.

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Speaker 4: Lindsey Graham was in an interesting position and this whole

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Speaker 4: story is taking place at an interesting time. He was

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Speaker 4: actually on the ballot this year, and just a few

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Speaker 4: weeks ago South Carolina had its primary. Senator Graham did

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Speaker 4: have a primary which he easily won with President Trump's backing.

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Speaker 4: So he was going to be on the ballot in November.

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Speaker 4: This current term was ending for him. There is now

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Speaker 4: a vacancy. Talk to us about the process in South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: How does the current term finish, how does that vacancy

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Speaker 4: gets filled? And then what happens now to elect a

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Speaker 4: new Senator with the Senator Graham's passing.

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Speaker 9: So there's two parts of that equation. The first one

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Speaker 9: is the immediate finishing of his current term. So from

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Speaker 9: now until the end of December, the governor has the

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Speaker 9: ability under state law here to appoint somebody to fill

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Speaker 9: that forward.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 8: We've seen this happen in other states.

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Speaker 9: There's a discussion about whether that person is the next

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Speaker 9: senator or whether that person is a caretaker just for

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Speaker 9: the term. Don't know what the governor's thinking is on that,

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Speaker 9: but I would assume I think that there's probably a

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Speaker 9: caretaker scenario. Somebody could guide the seat, guide the and

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Speaker 9: be a vote until the end of the year. But

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Speaker 9: what it also triggers part two of this equation is

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Speaker 9: a special election primary.

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Speaker 8: Look, Lindsay was our nominee for November.

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Speaker 9: He was facing off against I think a petition candidate

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Speaker 9: and a Democrat, and so he was our and so

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Speaker 9: there will be a primary to fill to replace him

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Speaker 9: as the Republican nominee for the full six year term

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Speaker 9: because he was up this year. That process will take

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Speaker 9: place pretty quickly. Filing opens, I think not this Tuesday,

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Speaker 9: but the following Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: The election is two or three weeks after that.

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Speaker 8: If there's a runoff that there's.

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Speaker 9: Multiple candidates, two weeks after that, it's a very quick process.

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Speaker 9: By mid August, you're going to have a new nominee

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Speaker 9: for South Carolina for the United States Senate on the

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Speaker 9: Republican side.

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Speaker 4: Russell, what are the rules in South Carolina around if

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Speaker 4: you are already appearing on the ballot for something else

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Speaker 4: and a situation like this occurs, can you appear on

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Speaker 4: the ballot for two different offices because this is unusual?

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Speaker 4: Or would you have to give up another nomination or

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Speaker 4: another office in order to run in this special election.

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Speaker 9: My understanding is that if you secured the nomination, that

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Speaker 9: you would kate a different nomination. Say if you were

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Speaker 9: the treasurer, right if you were running for state treasurer

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Speaker 9: and then you succeeded here and you won, you could

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Speaker 9: vacate that nomination and then it trickles to filling that

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Speaker 9: void as well. So you've got a lot of these

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Speaker 9: things that are out there, and certainly we're saying relatively

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Speaker 9: unchartered territory, we haven't had something like this happened in

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Speaker 9: a while. Our state tends to keep senators for a

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Speaker 9: very long time.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we had strom Thurman.

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Speaker 5: Who served fifty years, Frits Hollings.

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Speaker 8: Senator Graham was, you know, approaching thirty. In the Congress,

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Speaker 8: Tim Scott's been there for a couple of.

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Speaker 9: Terms, and so the senators in South Canina, we tend

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Speaker 9: to send them back, and so it's a little bit

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Speaker 9: of a new territory for us, but there would be

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Speaker 9: there would be that process.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Congressman Russell Fry of South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: I know you're traveling and you're headed back to Washington

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Speaker 4: as the Congress gets back to town. We thank you for

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Speaker 1: Today. You've heard the narratives, now get the truth.

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Speaker 3: It's the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show, and thanks to

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Speaker 4: Russell Fry from South Carolina for joining us today. As

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Speaker 4: we remember the legacy of Lindsey Graham, who sadly passed

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Speaker 4: away this weekend, I think one of the biggest parts

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Speaker 4: of Lindsey Graham's legacy standing up to the Democrat smear

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Speaker 4: machine and saving the confirmation of Brett Kavanall. I will

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Speaker 4: never forget Lindsey Graham's passion in that committee room as

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Speaker 4: he stood up to those Democrats as they were trying

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Speaker 4: to smear a good man in Brett Kavanaugh. I think

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Speaker 4: Lindsay Graham saved Brett Kavanall with this exchange in this

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Speaker 4: speech in the Senate Judiciary Committee. We listened to it

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Speaker 4: in its entirety. Now on the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 10: Are you aware that at nine to twenty three on

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Speaker 10: the night of July, of the night the day you

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Speaker 10: were nominated to the Supreme Court by President Trump, Senator

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Speaker 10: Schumer said twenty three minutes after your nomination, I will

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Speaker 10: oppose Judge Kavanaugh's nomination with every thing I have. I

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Speaker 10: have a bipartisan I hope a by person majority will

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Speaker 10: do the same. The stakes are simply too high for

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Speaker 10: anything less. Well, if you weren't aware of it, you

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Speaker 10: are now. Did you meet with Senator Diane Feinstein on

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Speaker 10: August twentieth?

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Speaker 5: I did meet with center Fine.

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Speaker 10: Did you know that her staff had already recommended a

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Speaker 10: lawyer to doctor Ford.

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Speaker 5: I did not know that.

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Speaker 10: Did you know that her and her staff had this

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Speaker 10: allegations for over twenty days?

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Speaker 5: I did not know that at the time.

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Speaker 10: If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come

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Speaker 10: to us. What you want to do is destroy this

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Speaker 10: guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you went

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Speaker 10: in twenty twenty. You've said that, not me. You've got

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Speaker 10: nothing to apologize for. When you see Soda Maron Kagan,

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Speaker 10: tell him that Lindsay said, Oh, because I voted for them,

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Speaker 10: I would never do to them what you've done to

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Speaker 10: this guy. This is the most unethical sham.

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Speaker 3: Since I've been in politics.

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Speaker 10: And if you really wanted to know the truth, you

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Speaker 10: sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to

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Speaker 10: this guy. Are you a gang rapist?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 10: I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through.

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Speaker 3: Boy, y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it.

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Speaker 10: I hope the American people can see through this sham

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Speaker 10: that you knew about it and you held it. You

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Speaker 10: had no intention of protecting doctor Ford none.

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Speaker 3: She's as much of a victim as you are.

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Speaker 10: God, I hate to say it because these have been

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Speaker 10: my friends, but let me tell you when it comes

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Speaker 10: to this, you're looking for a fair process. You came

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Speaker 10: to the wrong town at the wrong time. My friend,

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Speaker 10: Do you consider this a job interview?

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Speaker 5: The advice and consent role is like a job.

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Speaker 3: You consider that you've been through a job interview.

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Speaker 5: I've been through a process of advice and consent under

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Speaker 5: the Constitution.

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Speaker 3: Would you say you've been through hell.

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Speaker 5: I've been through hell and then some.

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Speaker 3: This is not a job interview. Yeah, this is hell.

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Speaker 10: This is going to destroy the ability of good people

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Speaker 10: to come forward.

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Speaker 3: Because of that crap your high school yearbook.

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Speaker 10: You have interacted with professional women all your life, not

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Speaker 10: one accusation. You're supposed to be Bill Cosby when you're

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Speaker 10: a junior and senior and high school and all of

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Speaker 10: a sudden you got over it.

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Speaker 3: It's been my understanding.

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Speaker 10: That if you drug women and rape them for two

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Speaker 10: years in high school, you probably don't stop.

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Speaker 3: Here's my understanding. If you lived a.

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Speaker 10: Good life, people would recognize it.

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Speaker 3: Like the American Bar Association has the goal standard.

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Speaker 10: His integrity is absolutely unquestioned. He is the very circumspect

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Speaker 10: in his personal conduct, harbors no biases or prejudices. He's

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Speaker 10: entirely ethical. Is a really decent person. He is warm, friendly, unassuming.

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Speaker 10: He's the nicest person.

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Speaker 3: The ABA.

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Speaker 10: The one thing I can tell you you should be

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Speaker 10: proud of Ashley. You should be proud of this that

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Speaker 10: you raised a daughter who had the good character to pray.

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Speaker 3: For doctor Ford.

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Speaker 10: To my Republican colleagues, If you vote no, you're legitimizing

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Speaker 10: the most despicable thing I have seen in my time

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Speaker 10: in politics. You want this seat, I hope you never

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Speaker 10: get it. I hope you're on the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly where you should be.

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Speaker 10: And I hope that the American people will see through

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Speaker 10: this charade, and I wish you will, and I intend

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Speaker 10: to vote for you, and I hope everybody who's fair

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Speaker 10: minded will.

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Speaker 4: What a memory Lindsey Graham going to bat for Brett

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Speaker 4: Kavanaugh and taking the Democrats to task they were smearing

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Speaker 4: Brett Kavanaugh. We're going to take a break. When we

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Speaker 4: come back more news. It's Scott Jennings on Salem. Thanks

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Speaker 4: for being with us. Stay here, Conday, July thirteenth, broadcasting

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Speaker 4: live from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Common Sense for the American People,

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Speaker 4: the original home of common Sense. I went around Independence

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Speaker 4: Hall late last night, beautiful night here in Philly. I

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Speaker 4: was peering in the windows, thinking about those founding fathers

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Speaker 4: and all the debates and words that inspired our country,

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Speaker 4: the common sense they brought to bear. Now we call

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Speaker 4: this show common Sense for the American People. So glad

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Speaker 4: you're here.

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Speaker 1: A couple of check of the headlines here.

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Speaker 4: A man was arrested by Capitol police at the North

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Speaker 4: side barricade of the Capitol Building today. That's the Senate

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Speaker 4: side of the Capitol. They found him carrying a gun

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Speaker 4: near the premises. The north barricade is now closed as

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Speaker 4: police handle the situation. They are calling for folks to

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Speaker 4: avoid the area until further notice. And at four o'clock

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Speaker 4: Eastern this afternoon, we are expecting the Governor of South Carolina,

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Speaker 4: Henry McMaster, to announce that he will appoint Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene,

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Speaker 4: to fill out the remainder of his Senate term. Lindsey

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Speaker 4: Graham's term was ending this year and Lindsey Graham was

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Speaker 4: going to be on the ballot in November, but to

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Speaker 4: fill his term. We're expecting Governor McMaster in just a

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Speaker 4: little while to announce Darlene. And it's also what President

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Speaker 4: Trump has said he would like to see happen, so

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Speaker 4: unfolding events due to the tragic loss of.

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Speaker 1: Senator Lindsey Graham.

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Speaker 4: Congress is back in session today and we're going to

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Speaker 4: check out what's going on Capitol Hill with our friend

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Speaker 4: Congressman from the state of Iowa, Zach Nunn, Congressman Nunn,

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Speaker 4: thanks for joining us. I want to start here. You're

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Speaker 4: an Air Force guy. Lindsey Graham was an Air Force guy.

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Speaker 4: We all will up to this tragic and shocking news

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Speaker 4: on Sunday morning. Your reflections on the leadership lessons of

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Speaker 4: Lindsay Graham.

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Speaker 11: Well, Scott, you're absolutely all right. Look, Lindsay was nu

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Speaker 11: only a friend to me, he was a mentor.

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Speaker 8: Early on.

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Speaker 11: We both turned you know, blue seats red. His hadn't

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Speaker 11: been turned in over one hundred years since the eighteen seventies.

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Speaker 8: And here's the reality.

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Speaker 11: We both served nullly in the US Air Force, but

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Speaker 11: we both continue to be one of that select group

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Speaker 11: of members of Congress who continued to deploy even after

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Speaker 11: we were elected. Lindsay spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Speaker 11: I mean, I think it is fitting that he lost

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Speaker 11: his life after battle harnessed service coming back from Ukraine

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Speaker 11: trying to end a conflict between Russia and the West

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Speaker 11: and calling out Iran's threat to both the United States

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Speaker 11: and our allies in Israel.

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Speaker 8: But also I.

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Speaker 11: Think it should really be remembered that, you know, he

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Speaker 11: was a family man. He took care of his daughter

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Speaker 11: or his younger sister, Darlene here. His parents passed away

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Speaker 11: when he was very young, and I'm thrilled to see

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Speaker 11: that Darlene is going to be joining us in the

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Speaker 11: US Senate.

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Speaker 8: Can tearing up continue on?

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Speaker 11: Lindsay's just incredible lifetime of service. And I'll also say this,

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Speaker 11: you know, we should remember the affable Lindsay Graham as

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Speaker 11: much as the fighter that Lindsay Graham.

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Speaker 8: The lion that Lindsay Graham was in the Senate here.

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Speaker 11: He was a guy who could have a disagreement with you,

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Speaker 11: but do it by not being disagreeable.

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Speaker 8: I remember the first time he came out to Iowa.

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Speaker 11: Scott was at the fabled Field of Dreams and he

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Speaker 11: was wearing a blue polo shirt. He walked through the

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Speaker 11: cornfield and the Cubbies came up to him and said, hey,

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Speaker 11: are you the umpire for this game coming up?

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Speaker 8: And Lindsay Graham, without missing a beat and true Lindsay.

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Speaker 11: Form was like, yeah, I'm the Empire and Nancy Pelosi,

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Speaker 11: she's out of it here. I mean, that's just the

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Speaker 11: kind of guy he was, and he couldmit it at

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Speaker 11: every single beat on this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hadn't thought about until you just mentioned it.

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Speaker 1: You know, Lindsay Grant.

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Speaker 4: Of course, he ran for president in twenty sixteen, right,

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Speaker 4: and I'm sure he made a lot of political trips

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Speaker 4: to Iowan probably has a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 4: friends out there. Well, we've been remembering him, Zach throughout

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Speaker 4: this entire show. I think one of his finest moments,

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Speaker 4: and I heard President Trump talking about this on TV

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Speaker 4: Sunday morning, was his story defense of Brett Kavanaugh. When

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Speaker 4: those Democrats were smearing Brett Kavanaugh, trying to derail that nomination.

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Speaker 4: It was Lendsey Graham who stood up in committee and

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Speaker 4: absolutely dressed them down.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things I.

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Speaker 4: Loved about him the most was he never backed down

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Speaker 4: from a fight. You had Democrats trying to smear Kavanaugh,

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Speaker 4: so you've got him doing it in the Senate Judiciary Committee,

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Speaker 4: and you also had him doing it on the international stage.

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Speaker 4: As you mentioned, he can tell the difference between right

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Speaker 4: and wrong, between moral and im moral, who are the

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Speaker 4: good guys and who are the bad guys. A lot

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Speaker 4: of people can't do that these days, but Lendsey Graham could,

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Speaker 4: and he would stand up for the good guys in

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Speaker 4: every situation.

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Speaker 1: Those voices are few and far between. I think you

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Speaker 1: have one of them, my friend.

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Speaker 4: But his example on that should be for those of

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Speaker 4: us who care about right and wrong, His example on

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Speaker 4: standing up for right should be something we remember for

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Speaker 4: a long time.

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Speaker 11: Scott, You're absolutely right. And I just want to give

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Speaker 11: real credit to the Senator himself. He engaged in every

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Speaker 11: single one of those battles. I mean, whether he was

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Speaker 11: Chairman of Judiciary, Chairman of Budget. I mean he was

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Speaker 11: in the healthcare battles, he was in there on border security.

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Speaker 11: And he was also a guy who was principled enough

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Speaker 11: to say, like, hey, I believe firmly in this, but

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Speaker 11: I'm also going to work with parties, whether it's President

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Speaker 11: Trump on occasion even working with Democrats to bring him

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Speaker 11: across the island and say let's get meaningful policy and

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Speaker 11: legislation done. This is the kind of guy who when

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Speaker 11: you think a statesman, it's Lindsay Graham. And he didn't

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Speaker 11: haven't have to agree with him on every single issue

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Speaker 11: he stood on, but at least he was in the

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Speaker 11: fight and he was making the argument for folks out there.

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Speaker 11: You've got to appreciate a guy who can do.

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Speaker 4: That Zach Non, congressman from Iowa, is our guest here

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Speaker 4: on the Scott Jennings Show. Zach, you're back in Washington.

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Speaker 4: There's been a two week recess. Congress is back in

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Speaker 4: town today. What can we expect this week? Are we

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Speaker 4: going to see news on potential budget? Are we going

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Speaker 4: to see news on possibly a reconciliation three point zero?

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Speaker 1: What's your expectation.

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Speaker 11: Well, here's my expectation that the House continues to move

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Speaker 11: forward on the things that matter. One, we were able

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Speaker 11: to pass three times the Save America Act in my

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Speaker 11: home state of Iowa. We've already done this. It makes

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Speaker 11: a lot of sense. We've proven that it can work.

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Speaker 11: I would say Iowa has set the gold standard in

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Speaker 11: this and Iowa was still one of these highly competitive states. Look,

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Speaker 11: my district's one of the most competitive, non gerrymandered districts.

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Speaker 11: Left to determine whether we're going to have a control

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Speaker 11: of the House of Representatives going forward, whether Speaker Johnson

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Speaker 11: is going to be able to keep that gavel or

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Speaker 11: pass over to these crazy progressives on the left in

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Speaker 11: New York who want to dismantle the police, who have

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Speaker 11: said nine to eleven was deserved.

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Speaker 8: On the US. Nobody wants that. But to be able

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Speaker 8: to do that, we've got to get a.

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Speaker 11: Number of policy issues three through Congress, and I think

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Speaker 11: this week gives us a real opportunity. I hearkened to

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Speaker 11: Speaker Johnson inviting the Vice President to meet with Republicans

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Speaker 11: this week, And before we kick it off, we've got

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Speaker 11: to get some major policy issues through. First and foremost

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Speaker 11: for me, the National Defense Authorization Act. This helps not

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Speaker 11: only fund our military troops. I'm a military guy. We

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Speaker 11: just in one hundred and twenty Iowa National Guard guys

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Speaker 11: on a deployment to Washington, of all places, after coming

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Speaker 11: back from Iraq and Syria. I want to make sure

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Speaker 11: we fund our military forces on what they need, not

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Speaker 11: only their pay, but being able to make sure that

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Speaker 11: our weapon systems are up to snuff. And after we've

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Speaker 11: expended nearly half of our service to air missiles against Iran,

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Speaker 11: I want to make sure we're ready for that next fight,

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Speaker 11: protecting the homeland, holding off China, and holding both Iran

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Speaker 11: and Russia accountable. And then we've got Reconciliation three point

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Speaker 11: zero and another series of other very important appropriation bills

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Speaker 11: to be able to work through this week gives us

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Speaker 11: the opportunity to get after it, because then in August

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Speaker 11: it's game on back in Iowa. We're going to the

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Speaker 11: state Fair. But everybody's got to get back to their

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Speaker 11: district and work with their constituents.

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Speaker 4: Zach We reported to our audience last week about this

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Speaker 4: letter that came out of the Republican Study Committee to

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Speaker 4: the Commissioner of the WNBA about the treatment of Kaitlin Clark.

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Speaker 4: You signed onto this letter and you have a special connection.

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Speaker 4: Caitlin Clark is from your hometown. Please tell me we're

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Speaker 4: going to stay on this. I think she's being treated

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Speaker 4: atrociously by this league and they need to answer questions.

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Speaker 8: You Scott, You're absolutely right. And look, here's the reality.

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Speaker 11: Caitlyn Clark has been not only a national hero, she

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Speaker 11: has been a once in a generation savior for the WNBA.

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Speaker 11: And that's with a number of incredible young ladies who

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Speaker 11: have all come forward and done great things here. But

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Speaker 11: Kaitlyn grew up in my hometown. She was in Westermoine

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Speaker 11: in Iowa. She played for Dowling. She went on to

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Speaker 11: play for the fabled University of Iowa Hawkeyes, and she

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Speaker 11: has done a phenomenal job with the Fever, bringing not

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Speaker 11: only millions of new viewers, but also billions of dollars

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Speaker 11: to the WNBA and the commissioner specifically. But what she's

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Speaker 11: also racked up is not only the number one scoring

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Speaker 11: advantage in NCAA Division One Men's and women scoring, she's

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Speaker 11: also become one of the most fouled players in the WNBA.

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Speaker 11: Everything from being hipchecked violently, eye gouge's throat punches, also

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Speaker 11: a number of the very aggressive fouls being called repeatedly

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Speaker 11: after the game was over, so not even giving her

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Speaker 11: a break while she's in the And we've seen her

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Speaker 11: be out of games now for back injuries because of

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Speaker 11: some of these very aggressive fouling on the court.

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Speaker 8: And here's the reality.

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Speaker 11: We now want to hold the commission accountable at the WNBA.

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Speaker 8: If they can.

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Speaker 11: Cash in and franchise Caitlin, they should be able to

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Speaker 11: protect her on the court. I've got five little girls.

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Speaker 11: They love watching basketball. They love watching Caitlin do what

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Speaker 11: she does so gracefully and so ardently. But what they

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Speaker 11: don't love is seeing somebody bullied by thugs on.

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Speaker 8: The court who think they can get away with it.

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Speaker 11: And so what this has done is to say we

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Speaker 11: expect the commission to be able to want protect players

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Speaker 11: on the court. We've asked them how they're going to

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Speaker 11: do that, What is the accountability and how do you

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Speaker 11: hold bad players accountable? And also what happens online and

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Speaker 11: off the court to protect all of these players. So

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Speaker 11: this is a real attempt to make sure that the

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Speaker 11: WNBA has refs that are somewhat above with the WWE

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Speaker 11: offers in a comical ring and really take care of

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Speaker 11: young women at the height of their career so that

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Speaker 11: we don't destroy our best and ruin the league at

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Speaker 11: and seven here if we want this to keep going, Scott.

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Speaker 4: Great issue to get into. Zach Nunn, Congressman from Iowa,

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Speaker 4: we'll see you soon. Thanks for your leadership for our

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Speaker 4: country and I hope to get out to Iowa to

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Speaker 4: It's Scott Jennings on Salem. Stay with us, and welcome

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Speaker 4: back to the Scott Jennings Show here on Monday broadcast

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Speaker 4: to you. Why from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Glad to be here

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Speaker 4: in Philly today. You know, I think I've been to

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Speaker 4: two Major League Baseball All Star Games, in nine in

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Speaker 4: Saint Louis and then a few years ago it was

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Speaker 4: attend the Major League Baseball home run derby. So I'm

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Speaker 4: looking forward to getting out to Citizens Bank Park tonight.

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Speaker 4: He happen to be at the ballpark, come by, say hello,

882
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Speaker 4: I've got my glove. Everett's with me, He's got his glove,

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Speaker 4: and so we're looking forward to being peppered with home runs.

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Speaker 1: Tonight at the Home Run Derby.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk a little more politics in just

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Speaker 4: a moment, but first I want to give you a

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Speaker 4: word from our friends at the Market Institute. This is

888
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Speaker 4: the reality that the bureaucrats don't want to talk about,

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Speaker 4: and it's that Alzheimer's is becoming an economic time bomb.

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Speaker 4: Our country simply isn't ready. Cases are on track to

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Speaker 4: nearly double to fourteen million by the year twenty sixty.

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Speaker 4: This will put pressure on families, the workforce, on Medicare,

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Speaker 4: on Medicaid. Here is the part that should really get

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Speaker 4: your attention. American families already shoulder most of the burden

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Speaker 4: for this. It's about four hundred grand over the cost

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Speaker 4: of a life of someone with Alzheimer's to take care

897
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Speaker 4: of them, and families cover seventy percent of that. Now

898
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Speaker 4: our competitors in the world, they've noticed. They're not standing still. China,

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Speaker 4: in fact, has launched a national priority to aggressively expand

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Speaker 4: early diagnosis and treatment. Here in the United States, we're

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Speaker 4: still waiting until it's too late. We can turn it around.

902
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Speaker 4: We have the tools to do this.

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Speaker 1: We have simple blood tests.

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Speaker 4: In fact, to spot the early signs of Alzheimer's that

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Speaker 4: can keep you healthier, longer and in the workforce. Now,

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Speaker 4: four out of five voters say they are more likely

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Speaker 4: to support a candidate who prioritizes better access to Alzheimer's detection, diagnosis,

908
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Speaker 4: and treatment. It's good for families, good for the economy,

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Speaker 4: and frankly, it is just good common sense, which you

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Speaker 4: know we care about here on the show. Join the

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Speaker 4: fight at Marketinstitute dot org. That's Market Institute or now

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Speaker 4: politics of this Lendsy Graham business. One thing I want

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Speaker 4: to talk about the Save America Act. Now, some people

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Speaker 4: have recommended that we change the name of the Save

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Speaker 4: America Act to the Lindsey Graham Save America Act. I

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Speaker 4: think that's a terrific idea. Would that help get it

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Speaker 4: passed in the Senate? I don't know, but I know this.

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Speaker 4: He deserves it because he fought for it. And President

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Speaker 4: Trump is right. He is right to continue to fight

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Speaker 4: for the Save America Act. He's right to fight for it.

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Speaker 4: As I told Caitlin Collins on CNN on Friday night,

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Speaker 4: take a listen.

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Speaker 5: Look.

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Speaker 4: I think the President is part of the legislative process.

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Speaker 4: He has opinions, he has the right to use the

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Speaker 4: leverage of his office to try to get the Congress

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Speaker 4: to do things. In this particular case, he's not stopping

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Speaker 4: the bill from becoming law, but he is using it

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Speaker 4: to make a point. His top priority is to Save

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Speaker 4: America Act. And by the way, he's not wrong about this.

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Speaker 4: Fast majorities of Americans want voter ID. They think this

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Speaker 4: is not an unreasonable thing. They think it's common sense

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Speaker 4: to try to secure our elections in that way, and

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Speaker 4: so he's making his political point about that. I think

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Speaker 4: he's right about it. I think the Save America Act

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Speaker 4: would be good, and I think some of the stuff

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Speaker 4: in there is very common sense to And you were

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Speaker 4: talking about bipartisan ideas. There's no more bipartisan idea in

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Speaker 4: America than voter ID in our elections. And so the President,

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Speaker 4: I think, has a political point to make, and he's

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Speaker 4: well within his bounds to make it. President Trump, by

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Speaker 4: the way, is hardly the first political leader in this

943
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Speaker 4: country recently to care about election laws.

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Speaker 1: In fact, when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House.

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Speaker 4: H R one, the number one bill in the House

946
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Speaker 4: under Pelosi, was an election bill that had to do

947
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Speaker 4: with federalizing our elections. So both parties have had opinions

948
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Speaker 4: about how to run elections in this country. It's not

949
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Speaker 4: unique to Donald Trump, but he certainly feels strongly about it.

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Speaker 4: And I can tell you this, every single Republican I

951
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 4: know just about thinks it's a good idea, and so

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Speaker 4: I can see why the President's touting it because his

953
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Speaker 4: base absolutely wants it.

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Speaker 1: Now you can hear in that debate right there.

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Speaker 8: I hear people all.

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Speaker 4: The time talking about, Oh, we need more bipartisanship, Oh,

957
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Speaker 4: we need things that bring people together. What is unequivocally

958
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Speaker 4: true is that the Save America Act, securing our elections

959
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Speaker 4: with voter ID, making sure that only citizens can vote

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Speaker 4: in our elections, It's about as bipartisan as it gets huge,

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Speaker 4: huge majorities of the American people Republicans, Democrats, Independence, black, white, Hispanic, male, female,

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Speaker 4: young and old. It doesn't get any more unifying than

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Speaker 4: doing common sense things like requiring an ID, like making

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Speaker 4: sure that only American citizens can vote in our elections.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't get any more common sense and bipartisan than that.

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Speaker 4: Let's honor Lindsey Graham, make it the Lindsay Graham Save

967
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Speaker 4: America Act, and let's honor the fact that our nation

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Speaker 4: was founded on common sense by passing this common sense bill.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break.

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Speaker 4: More to come on the Scott Jenning Show right after this.

971
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Speaker 1: If the leftists haven't had enough yet, there's more.

972
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Speaker 3: This is the Scott Jenning Shows.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show. So grateful of

974
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Speaker 1: you're along for the ride. Today.

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Speaker 4: We are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it's been fun to

976
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Speaker 4: be here. We've been here just for a short period

977
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Speaker 4: of time, but boy, you can't walk around Philadelphia without

978
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Speaker 4: seeing some history. Last night we landed, got over the hotel,

979
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Speaker 4: took a little walk late last night, beautiful night around

980
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Speaker 4: Independence Hall and just looking at that building and thinking

981
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Speaker 4: about what our founding fathers did there. Really inspirational walk

982
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Speaker 4: last night. I'll tell you what else could be of

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Speaker 4: some inspiration to you. My next message, I will inspire

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Speaker 4: you to take a vacation in November, and please take

985
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Speaker 4: it with us.

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Speaker 1: We're going on the Gulf of America.

987
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Speaker 4: Cruise mid November, in and out of Lauderdale right after

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Speaker 4: the election. The time is we only have a few

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Speaker 4: days left to get you on this cruise. If you

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Speaker 4: want to go. You got to text the word cruise

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Speaker 4: to nine four eight seven eight. Text the word cruise

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Speaker 4: to nine four eight seven eight. Gulf of America, Eurodam,

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Speaker 4: beautiful ship, great food, turquoise waters, white sand beaches, Mike Gallagher,

994
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Speaker 4: Larry O'Connor, Kurt Schlickter, Jen horn yours Truly, it's going

995
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Speaker 4: to be an amazing trip. We want you there. Text

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Speaker 4: the word cruise to nine four eight seven eight. Hey,

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Speaker 4: welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show. Here live from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 4: Routing out the show before I head over to Citizens

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Speaker 4: Bank tonight for the Major League Baseball Home run Derby,

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Speaker 4: I'm bringing in my good friend, the editor of Jewish Insider,

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Speaker 4: one of the smartest political analysts and journalists in Washington, DC.

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Speaker 1: Josh Krauscher.

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Speaker 4: Josh, thanks for joining me here on the show today.

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Speaker 8: Void.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot to discuss. Let's start with Lindsey Graham.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, we all woke up on Sunday morning to the

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Speaker 4: shocking news Lindsay Graham had passed away. And you know

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Speaker 4: the layers of political reverberations here are vast. There's the

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Speaker 4: national overlay. You know, his friendship with Trump, the bridge

1010
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Speaker 4: that he served in DC between the MAGA wing and

1011
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Speaker 4: the you know, the Republicans in the Senate. That's enormous.

1012
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Speaker 4: The South Carolina political implications. Let's start there. Let's start

1013
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Speaker 4: with the national piece. You know you've covered Lindsay Graham

1014
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Speaker 4: for years. Talk to us about your experiences with him,

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Speaker 4: and then how this changes Washington with his passing.

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Speaker 12: Well, thanks Scott for having me. Look, Lindsay Graham was

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Speaker 12: a giant in the Senate. He was a giant on

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Speaker 12: the international stage on foreign policy. And I think that

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Speaker 12: that I mean, certainly I kind of wear two hats

1020
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Speaker 12: these days as a political analyst and as editor in

1021
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Speaker 12: chief of Jewish Insider. His work maintaining a strong US

1022
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Speaker 12: Israel alliance is something that I've covered firsthand over the

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Speaker 12: last three years. But he's really one of those rare Republicans.

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Speaker 12: I would call him a hawkish internationalist who you know,

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Speaker 12: people say he had different evolutions throughout his career and

1026
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Speaker 12: long career in politics, but the reality is he has

1027
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Speaker 12: stuck to his principles when he came to his view

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Speaker 12: of foreign policy. You won't find many politicians, Scott in

1029
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Speaker 12: the United States Senate who are both as strongly outspoken

1030
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Speaker 12: about a strong US Israel relationship as they are about

1031
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Speaker 12: a strong support for Ukraine. And it's the feet of Russia.

1032
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Speaker 12: He just got back from Kiev before his untimely passing.

1033
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Speaker 12: But that is who Lindsey Graham is. He has strong

1034
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Speaker 12: beliefs about the projection of American power for good around

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Speaker 12: the world. Sadly, we see this on the left far

1036
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Speaker 12: too much. You see pockets of this on the right

1037
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Speaker 12: these days, that there's a lack of belief in American exceptionalism.

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Speaker 12: Lindsey Graham was an American exceptionalist. I remember when he

1039
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Speaker 12: was a younger senator and was spending time on codels

1040
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Speaker 12: with Senator McCain, Senator Lieberman.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to believe that they're all gone.

1042
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Speaker 12: It's hard to believe that those three giants of foreign policy.

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Speaker 12: I mean, you look at little sections of American history,

1044
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Speaker 12: like the post war period. The Vandenburg was like the

1045
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Speaker 12: Vandenburg generation, where he was a prominent republican internationalist who

1046
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Speaker 12: led the creation of a lot of the international institutions

1047
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Speaker 12: and the foreign policy that held us in good stead

1048
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Speaker 12: in that period.

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Speaker 2: And I view Lindsay Graham in that same way that he.

1050
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Speaker 12: Really not only because of his relationships, because his tire.

1051
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Speaker 12: The guy never slept. I mean, this guy was traveling

1052
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Speaker 12: around the world. He got you know, like you said,

1053
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Speaker 12: just got back from Ukraine and literally did it in

1054
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Speaker 12: the devotion of a strong American role in the world

1055
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Speaker 12: and protecting American interests around the globe. So a real

1056
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Speaker 12: legacy for Lindsay Graham, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, on the international front, and for whatever reason, people

1058
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Speaker 4: are having trouble with this these days. Lindsay could always

1059
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Speaker 4: tell the good guys from the bad guys, whether it

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Speaker 4: was on Russia, Ukraine, whether it was on what's going

1061
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Speaker 4: on in the Middle East with Israel in its fight

1062
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Speaker 4: against Tamas and all these Iranian terror proxies. Graham was

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Speaker 4: unapologetic about telling you, Okay, here's the good guys, and

1064
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Speaker 4: here's the bad guys, and here's what the American role

1065
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Speaker 4: in this ought to be.

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Speaker 1: He never backed down from it.

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of people on these issues they're

1068
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Speaker 4: trying to read the tea leaves or they're putting their

1069
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Speaker 4: finger in the air.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to say too much because the wind

1072
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Speaker 4: seems to be blowing a certain direction.

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Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham never suffered from that.

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Speaker 4: He believed in American power, but he believed in American

1075
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Speaker 4: power to be used in fights where you could tell

1076
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Speaker 4: the good guys from the bad guys, you know, good

1077
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Speaker 4: versus evil, and where you could tell the people who

1078
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Speaker 4: were fighting for Western civilization and the people who were not.

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Speaker 4: And he you know, look, there's a lot of isolationists

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Speaker 4: out there, a lot on the right and a lot

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Speaker 4: on the left. Lindsey was in their face every single

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Speaker 4: day about why America is a force for good in

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Speaker 4: the world. And so that voice is it's going to

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Speaker 4: be sorely missed. I wonder, actually, Josh, who is going

1085
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Speaker 4: to sort of step into that gap. It's hard to

1086
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Speaker 4: replace a Lindsay Grahamer step into those shoes, but somebody

1087
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Speaker 4: with those values is going to have to step forward

1088
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Speaker 4: and sort of fill that space that is left behind.

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Speaker 4: He was an unapologetic, unsubtle, clear communicator on those topics.

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Speaker 12: Well, it's just communication skills too, Scott. That was so important.

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Speaker 12: I mean in every way of congressional life. He could

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Speaker 12: give equip as well as anyone in the Senate. Foreign

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Speaker 12: policy can be a very complicated subject and people frankly

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Speaker 12: don't pay much attention to it. But Lindsay could really

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Speaker 12: lay out the stakes in a very direct way and

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Speaker 12: served a lot of presidents, from you know.

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Speaker 2: President Bush, Orge W.

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Speaker 12: Bush Post nine to eleven to President Trump. Now, I mean,

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Speaker 12: you don't see that's another thing. A lot of folks

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Speaker 12: who were kind of, you know, very close with the

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Speaker 12: former president George W. Bush and John McCain and don't

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Speaker 12: have the same relationship with Donald Trump. But he understood

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Speaker 12: the value of those relationships, whether they were domestic and

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Speaker 12: politically within the Republican Party or whether they were internationally

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Speaker 12: and maintaining good stead with our allies. And it is

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Speaker 12: because he was a very Look, he was a likable guy.

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Speaker 12: Anyone who's interviewed him, enemy or people who disagreed with

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Speaker 12: him or agreed with him, he would always take the

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Speaker 12: time to talk to you. I was had the honor

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Speaker 12: of interviewed him a number of occasions and always felt

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Speaker 12: like you know, it was a real conversation. And look,

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Speaker 12: he he understood, like you said, Scott, he understood who

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Speaker 12: the bad guys were and the good guys were. Sadly,

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Speaker 12: that's lost in a lot of our political discourse these days.

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Speaker 12: I mean, your old boss Mitch McConnell another one of

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Speaker 12: those Republicans who really, you know, and I think, understood

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Speaker 12: politics too. The relationship with Donald Trump is a legitimately

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Speaker 12: close personal relationship. They go golfing and they developed that

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Speaker 12: after a pretty heated twenty sixteen presidential primary competition against

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Speaker 12: each other. But also Lindsey Graham understood the value of

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Speaker 12: face to face relationships, that you can't get things done

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Speaker 12: by just kind of keeping yourself on this on this

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Speaker 12: like ideological high horse. And he was able to make deals.

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Speaker 12: He was able to actually compromise with Democrats in a

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Speaker 12: lot of key areas. I mean we were talking about

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Speaker 12: foreign policy. He was chair of the Budget Committee. He

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Speaker 12: was a pivotal player in the Kavanaugh got getting Kavanaugh

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Speaker 12: confirmed to the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 2: With a very famous speech on the Senate floor.

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Speaker 12: This is someone who, I mean, you know, there's so

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Speaker 12: many walks of congressional life that Lindsey Graham hasn't been

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Speaker 12: has been involved in. I would argue that foreign policy

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Speaker 12: is defining legacy, and I think the history books will

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Speaker 12: write it that way. But my god, like, he has

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Speaker 12: been involved in so many areas of political life going

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Speaker 12: back to you know, frankly immigration back back in the

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Speaker 12: early years of his Senate career, and he was one

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Speaker 12: of the original, you know, revolutionaries in the nineteen ninety

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Speaker 12: four Congressional Republican revolution, back back when he first got

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Speaker 12: elected to the House. So this is someone who was

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Speaker 12: just a real powerhouse. Just couldn't dislike the guy. And

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Speaker 12: I'm still shocked, Scott. I mean, he seemed like he

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Speaker 12: was in great health, no sign of any any issues,

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Speaker 12: and all of a sudden you wake up Sunday and

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Speaker 12: he's not with us anymore.

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Speaker 2: So it's a real tragedy.

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Speaker 4: Josh, you cover politics, you know South Carolina. What do

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Speaker 4: you think is going to happen next? My view is

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Speaker 4: the governor McMaster is likely to appoint a caretaker to

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Speaker 4: fill out this term. But I believe under South Carolina law,

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Speaker 4: they'll have a snap election here basically to fill Lindsay

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Speaker 4: Graham's nomination.

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Speaker 1: He was on the ballot this year, and of.

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Speaker 4: Course there's no shortage of Republicans down there who might

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Speaker 4: want to run for this. What's your eyes and ears

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Speaker 4: telling you who's most likely to get that Republican nomination

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Speaker 4: for the Senate. That's Senator Lindsay Graham leaves behind Yes Scott.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of names that have been floated.

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Speaker 12: I would disregard a lot of Joe Wilson has taken

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Speaker 12: himself out of the picture because the House majority is

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Speaker 12: so slender. So I think Wilson was mentioned, I don't

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Speaker 12: think he's going to be the pick, and I don't

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Speaker 12: think he's gonna run for the seat as well. You know,

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Speaker 12: Secretary of Treasury is South Carolinian also has been mentioned.

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Speaker 2: I kind of doubt that.

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Speaker 12: I don't know if being a senator is a preferable

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Speaker 12: job to being a powerful Secretary of the Treasury. So

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Speaker 12: you know, we'll see we're these people being mentioned end

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Speaker 12: up landing. Look, I think the lieutenant governor who President

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Speaker 12: Trump initially endorsed, yeah, unequivocally for the for the gubernatorial

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Speaker 12: race is going to be very closely watched.

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Speaker 2: President Trump has also.

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Speaker 12: Said that he hasn't mentioned any names, but there's someone

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Speaker 12: he has in mind in who he would endure. So

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Speaker 12: if that's a lieutenant governor, or, if that's someone else,

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Speaker 12: I think they would have a have an upper hand

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Speaker 12: in winning that seat. But look, there, I will say

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Speaker 12: that a lot of the big, big names South Carolinians

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Speaker 12: who would have been natural successors to Lindsey Graham, someone

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Speaker 12: like a Nicky Haley or Trey Goudie. I think their

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Speaker 12: time may have passed in South Carolinan. I think they

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Speaker 12: are very respected figures, but I wonder where the party

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Speaker 12: is now, and I think it's changed a little bit

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Speaker 12: since their heyday, since their time in office at least.

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Speaker 12: So look, I think I would put my money on

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Speaker 12: the Lieutenant Governor Pamela Avett. And uh Look, I think

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Speaker 12: there are a lot of other high, high profile folks

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Speaker 12: to keep an eye on, but I think the folk

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Speaker 12: the person who who Donald Trump is is endorsing, is

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Speaker 12: the one to watch in that race.

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Speaker 1: Of course, of course there's one other name.

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Speaker 4: I interviewed him in the first hour of the show today,

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Speaker 4: Congressman Russell Fry of South Carolina. He represents the Myrtle

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Speaker 4: Beach area. I was actually down there with Russell last August.

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Speaker 4: He has this thing called the Freedom Fry. I mean,

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Speaker 4: the guy's organized.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's.

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Speaker 4: Relatively new, but pretty organized. Lindsay Graham was there and

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Speaker 4: made a great speech that night, as probably the last

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Speaker 4: time I was spent some time with Lindsay really but

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Speaker 4: I've got my eye on him. Let's shift gears got

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Speaker 4: about a minute here. The intrigue around Mitch McConnell sort

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Speaker 4: of evaporated over the weekend when his office put out

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Speaker 4: a statement on Sunday saying he's in the hospital and

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Speaker 4: he's actually in rehab. Now out of the hospital and

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Speaker 4: in rehab, but he won't be coming back to the

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Speaker 4: Senate at least for the next few days. With Lindsay

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Speaker 4: Graham's passing and Mitch McConnell's absence, what does this do

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Speaker 4: to Senate Republicans right now in the agenda they have

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Speaker 4: to get done over the next few weeks.

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Speaker 12: Well, look, Scott, it shrinks the pure math terms, shrinks

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Speaker 12: the majority, and when you're dealing with the Save Act

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Speaker 12: or anything that is going to come down to a

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Speaker 12: close vote, having two having two vacancies there is going

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Speaker 12: to be really tough to just manage the Senate floor.

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Speaker 12: So you know, not to mention all the institutional knowledge

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Speaker 12: that is being vacated with the Senator McConnell's illness and

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Speaker 12: Senator Graham's passing. So look, redlock has been the name

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Speaker 12: of the game in Washington. It's been hard for Republicans

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Speaker 12: to get. I mean, that's why Trump has been insistent

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Speaker 12: about getting rid of the filibuster, because it thought he'sier

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Speaker 12: to get fifty votes than sixty votes. But even getting

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Speaker 12: fifty is a little challenging, as Trump is finding out,

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Speaker 12: and losing two rock solid Republican votes is going to

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Speaker 12: make it even harder.

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Speaker 4: As Josh Krafshauer, he is the editor in chief of

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Speaker 4: Jewish Insider, one of the sharpest political analysts in Washington,

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Speaker 4: d C. We'll come back with Josh after this break

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Speaker 4: and talk more Senate politics. We'll go from South Carolina

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Speaker 4: to Maine where the Democrats have to replace Graham Plattner

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Speaker 4: up on the ballot. So Josh hang with us here

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Speaker 4: through this break. Before we go to break, I do

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Speaker 4: want to talk to you about my friends over at chapter.

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Speaker 1: Chapter is important to me.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you why, because they helped me get my

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Speaker 4: parents into the right situation on Medicare. If you're on Medicare,

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Speaker 4: or if you're helping your parents or another loved one

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Speaker 4: navigate Medicare, you know it's confusing. You get a lot

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Speaker 4: of a gobbled book out there. The only question you

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Speaker 4: ever really have is are we on the right plan

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Speaker 4: or not. This is where Chapter steps in. They are

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Speaker 4: advisors to you, not to the insurance companies, and they

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Speaker 4: help you answer that question, are we on the right plan?

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Speaker 4: I put my parents through this consultation for my dad.

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Speaker 4: They helped them find a new doctor. For my mom,

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Speaker 4: they actually figured out how to help her save six

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Speaker 4: hundred dollars a year on her plan G So a

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Speaker 4: few minutes of their time and all of a sudden

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Speaker 4: new physician and saving six hundred bucks. I think Chapter

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Speaker 4: could do the same thing for you. Here's how you

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Speaker 4: get a hold of Chapter. You dial pound two fifty,

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Speaker 4: you say Medicare plan. You dial pound two point fifty

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Speaker 4: and say Medicare plan, and it's a free call, no pressure.

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Speaker 4: You won't regret it more with Josh Kraushower. When we

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Speaker 4: come back, it's Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us.

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Speaker 4: And welcome back to the Scott Jennings Show. Rounding out

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Speaker 4: the show today with Gosh Kraushower, one of the sharpest

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Speaker 4: political analysts in Washington, d C. Josh, let's talk a

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Speaker 4: couple of other Senate races, Maine, in Michigan.

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Speaker 1: I want to start in Maine.

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Speaker 4: Grand Platner finally dropped out and pulled his name out,

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Speaker 4: and now the Democrats have to replace him on the ballot.

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Speaker 1: Hey, who do you think it's going to be?

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Speaker 4: And b have the Democrats irreparably damaged themselves and their

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Speaker 4: quest to defeat Susan Collins.

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Speaker 12: Yes, the fact that you're seeing a civil war within

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Speaker 12: the Democratic Party in real time on social media at

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Speaker 12: the very least, shows just how deep the divisions within

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Speaker 12: the party run. The fact that someone who was as

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Speaker 12: transgressive as Platner was and saying he was a communist,

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Speaker 12: you know, all the neo Nazi tattoo, the neo Nazi tattoo,

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Speaker 12: the misogynistic rhetoric, and of course the sexual abuse and an

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Speaker 12: allegation of rape. The fact that that it took that

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Speaker 12: final straw to break the camel's back, so to speak,

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Speaker 12: telling about where where the Democratic Party is? That this

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Speaker 12: guy could get as many votes as he did in

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Speaker 12: the primary not that long ago, despite all that was

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Speaker 12: known about him and all the problems that we're out there.

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm in.

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Speaker 7: I mean I.

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Speaker 12: As an independent, as someone who watches this stuff and

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Speaker 12: tries to call balls and strikes like I'm at least

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Speaker 12: heartened that it happened too late. But it looks like

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Speaker 12: the establishment of the Democratic Party has woken up and

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Speaker 12: realized you can actually fight against a party that doesn't

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Speaker 12: or I shouldn't say a party, a faction, a socialist

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Speaker 12: dsa faction that doesn't want you to win, that cares

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Speaker 12: more about taking down the mainstream element of the Democratic

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Speaker 12: Party than it does about winning elections and general elections. So, look,

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Speaker 12: I think they're in They're in a real challenge because

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Speaker 12: the divisions still are there.

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Speaker 10: There.

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Speaker 12: They are candidates running for this convention that are much

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Speaker 12: more in the mold of Platner, Troy Jackson, who's a

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Speaker 12: legislative leader who is ideologically sympathetic to Platner, even th

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Speaker 12: though any may who knows about his personal life, but

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Speaker 12: that that'll get scrutinized as the campaign goes on. But

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Speaker 12: they're also more mainstream candidates who look, I don't think

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Speaker 12: there are particularly I don't think if if Chuck Schumer

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Speaker 12: had to pick his top recruits after Janet Mills, I'm

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Speaker 12: not sure if the list of candidates running would have

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Speaker 12: been on the top of his list. Uh, you know

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Speaker 12: the guy to watch I think is that Narovshaw is

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Speaker 12: his name. He ran for governor doctor finished in first place.

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Speaker 12: It's ranked choice, so he actually didn't win the nomination.

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Speaker 12: But he's a more quote unquote moderate mainstream figure. I

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Speaker 12: don't think he has the juice that a lot of

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Speaker 12: you know, even past Democratic challengers against Susan Collins had,

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Speaker 12: So look, I think Susan Collins is in much better

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Speaker 12: shape than she looked a few you know, certainly like

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Speaker 12: a few months ago. And look, and I think the

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Speaker 12: Democratic divisions are gonna are gonna continue to be a problem,

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Speaker 12: even even though they got the worst baggage out of

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Speaker 12: their way in Grand Platner.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's advantaged Susan Collins. I thought I

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Speaker 4: think it was advantage anyway with Platner and all of

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Speaker 4: his baggage. But the way the Democrats have revealed themselves

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Speaker 4: to be completely in totally craven power hungry, They were

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Speaker 4: willing to overlook a Nazi tattoo, all sorts of other allegations.

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Speaker 4: I just I think the Democrats have hurt themselves. I

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Speaker 4: think it's gonna haunt whoever they wind up nominating. We'll

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Speaker 4: keep an eye on that. Over in Michigan, another fascinating

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Speaker 4: Democratic primary.

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Speaker 1: See if Hailey Stevens and you have this.

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Speaker 4: Character Abdul al Sayed, he's one of these socialist align

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Speaker 4: radicals out there. Do you think Abdul l Sayed is

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Speaker 4: currently in first place in that Democratic primary or too

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Speaker 4: close to call right now?

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Speaker 12: That race is moving fast. Mcmorra was the third candidate

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Speaker 12: she dropped out of the race. You know, different strategists

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Speaker 12: will tell you different things, but I do think she

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Speaker 12: took more of the vote away from Hailey Stevens, both women,

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Speaker 12: both kind of liberal minded, establishment oriented women.

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Speaker 2: So there is this one on one matchup.

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Speaker 12: Now more elected leaders on the Democratic side in Michigan

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Speaker 12: that were scared, frankly to take sides.

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Speaker 2: Now, you know, let me take one step back.

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Speaker 12: Platner gave a lot of the mainstream Democrats covering other

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Speaker 12: races to speak out against the crazy candidates. So I

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Speaker 12: think there was a fear in the Democratic Party that

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Speaker 12: if you spoke out against Graham Platner, like Jake Auchinclaus

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Speaker 12: did in Massachusetts, and so these guys like you know,

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Speaker 12: you get attacked from your own side. And a lot

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Speaker 12: of Democrats did not want to engage in these primaries

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Speaker 12: because they thought that they would actually lose the fight

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Speaker 12: internally because Platner was so damaged in a kind of

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Speaker 12: obvious way. He's damaged other like minded extremist candidates, so

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Speaker 12: El said, fits that bill. He's both Platneer and l said,

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Speaker 12: by the way, are extreme, viruently anti Israel. They have

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Speaker 12: a hape of Israel that's beyond I think healthy. Absolutely,

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Speaker 12: And that's one other thing that again again, look, you

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Speaker 12: can criticize Israeli policy.

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Speaker 2: I think there's plenty of room for debate.

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Speaker 12: But the fact that they you know, in the case

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Speaker 12: of Lsiet, he doesn't even want to acknowledge the state

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Speaker 12: of Israel as a Jewish state. That allows someone like

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Speaker 12: Hiley Stevens to kind of claim the liberal mantle, which

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Speaker 12: is like, I don't like Babe, I don't agree with

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Speaker 12: Israel's policy on everything, but I actually want two states

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Speaker 12: to live side by side in peace. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 12: you actually appeal the more left of center voters who

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Speaker 12: don't want to destroy Israel as a platform policy as

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Speaker 12: l Sid seems to want.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're watching this Michigan race with fascination because Abdul

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Speaker 4: Lsied is the most radical, the most extreme candidate for

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Speaker 4: the US Senate right now for Democrats, and you know

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Speaker 4: a lot of energy behind that campaign. Josh, thanks for

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Speaker 4: joining me. I'm done for the day. I'm headed to

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Speaker 4: the home run derby and we'll talk to you when

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Speaker 4: the All Star break is over.

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Speaker 1: With my friend, I know you're a Nance fan. I'm

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Speaker 1: for the cards.

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Speaker 4: We both we're both rebuilding a little some struggles and

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Speaker 4: hopefully the Nats can find some pitching in the second half.

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Speaker 12: As long as Bryce Harper doesn't win the home run derby,

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Speaker 12: I'll be all.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Josh, see you guys. Tomorrow's Scott Jennings. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to them.