WEBVTT - Remembering Lindsey Graham 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.760 Thanks to all of you for being with us. Write 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.040 down our toll free telephone number. It's eight hundred and 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:09.000 ninety four to one Sean if you want to join us. Linda, 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.440 you didn't even try to get me annoyed today because 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.639 I guess you know it's impossible. As restless as I 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.160 get on vacation, I'm not the best vacation taker. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:21.640 That. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.840 In fact, you didn't even try to annoy me today. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.400 Something wrong that I did? You miss me that much? 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.200 Well, I feel like my resting place is annoying you. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.080 Me breathing error is annoying you. So I don't have 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:34.199 to work that hard. You know. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.640 What does that mean? Well? 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.800 No, usually you go way out of your way to 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:42.200 do something to piss me off. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.120 Just something I know, I meanway, I feel like there's 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.080 so much news. How could I do that to you today? 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:49.760 But that doesn't mean it's not coming, So you know, 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:50.640 don't hold your breath. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:56.440 Okay, So we expect one hour from now that the 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.640 Governor of the Great State of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:06.639 is going to appoint the interim person to serve out 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.280 the rest of Lindsey's term, and the process goes very 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.920 quickly in South Carolina, which I will admit in a second. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.560 On a personal note, I have a lot to say 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.400 about Senator Lindsay Graham at somebody that I knew well 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.800 and got along with well, just as I get along great. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.880 I've known Governor McMaster for a long time. Senator Tim 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.039 Scott is a dear friend of mine, has been forever, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.639 and I've known Lindsay a long time. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:33.520 Now. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:38.319 There is a report that has broken that in fact 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.679 President Trump well, first of all, he said that he 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:47.199 wants the Governor Henry McMaster to appoint Lindsey's sister, Darlene Graham, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.160 to serve the remainder of the late senator's term. If 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.040 you don't know the story, I'll tell you about it 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.040 in a minute. He recommended this to Governor McMaster. There's 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.280 a lot of rumors that may in fact be true. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.120 We will know that when that announcement is made and 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.480 get reaction, and get your reaction to it sometime in 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.960 the next hour. Anyway, if she is appointed, it's unclear 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.240 whether she'd want to run for a full term. My 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.120 expectation would be and I've spent a lot of time 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.519 on the phone with her the last couple of days 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:26.320 and she's devastated. She loved her brother, and for good reason. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.520 If you don't know a lot about Lindsay's background, he 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.119 grew up in the back room of a South Carolina bar, 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.800 actually grew up above a bar and sharing a bathroom 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.720 with patrons that worked down the street at a nearby 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.040 mill plant, and literally took baths with water heated up 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.240 on a stove. That was Lindsay's Graham's background, and he 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.640 became a US senator, first a congressman. He came in 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.880 the class of New Gambrich of ninety four and at 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.280 the age of twelve, he was working downstairs at the 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:00.640 pool hall racking tables to help with his family's financial struggles. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.120 Wasn't a great student, see student in high school, but 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.760 there's a reason for that as well. Apparently Ones blurted 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.240 out to his teacher, I want to be Governor's classmates laughed, 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.160 and then scored an eight hundred out of sixteen hundred 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:19.240 on his sat Again, you know, considering the circumstances from 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.760 which he's coming, what would you expect. He did make 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.480 it to the University of South Carolina, and he was 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:30.600 then the first person that ever attended and then finished college, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.960 and as a college student, he had to rush home. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:40.600 His mother was dying, who was pleading with her grieving son, Lindsey, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.000 let me go. Soon after, you know, she went, and 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.640 his father died in his sleep of a massive heart attack. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:54.320 And he was now he was the adult in the family. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.720 His sister who may be appointed in the next hour, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.680 should she accept and should this recommendation of President Trump 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.440 to Governor McMaster come out to be true? But that 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:13.480 thirteen year old sister of him became his responsibility. And anyway, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.160 as he often pointed out, and I spent a lot 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.920 of time, we had similar backgrounds in as much as 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.840 I've talked at length about washing dishes at twelve, and 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.080 you know, being in bars till two in the morning 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.440 at twelve, and then a cook at thirteen, and later 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.880 a bus boy and a bartender at seventeen, I mean, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.320 there's so much life experience behind that. I am so 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:42.400 grateful that I had that opportunity and loved the idea 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.080 of having money in my pocket. I loved working, you know, 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.680 even at twelve. I mean it was a very different time. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.200 Don't take this the wrong way, but I could sit 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.760 at the bar after my shift at two in the morning, 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.880 have two Saint Pauly Girl beers and fly home on 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.800 my bicycle and loved it. I felt like I was 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.679 living the life. And Lindsay and I kind of laughed 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.560 about similar upbringings in that sense, and how you learn 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:13.280 a lot about people and drinking when when you are 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.360 in a bar every day. And you know, I've said 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.880 many times on this program, every single person you know 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:24.200 has a number, meaning there's for whatever reason their number 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.080 is unique to I guess their DNA, their metabolism. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:28.560 I don't. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.840 I've never been able to solve that scientific mystery. But 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.040 for some people, the number of drinks they going to 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.800 have is zero because if they start, they can't stop, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.760 or if they have one sip, they've become the It 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.520 changes their personality dramatically. And then there are people they have, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.359 you know, one drink and they're like, whoo loopy. I 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.880 think that's kind of Linda's territory. Is that about, right, 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.200 Linda or my dead wrong eye? 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.359 I would say it's half a drink these days? 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.440 Well, then what do you have all the moonshine in 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.160 the studio that you left in New York? 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.200 That was like in there forever. I don't know. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.359 I guess somebody sent in moonshine and you asked me 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.679 once to drink it. I said, I'm not touching that garbage. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:11.320 Not happening. But you know, but other people can drink 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.560 all night and you wouldn't even notice the drinking. I mean, 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:19.080 it's a bizarre phenomenon. But usually the same characteristics would emerge. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.120 People's personality would change if they went past that number. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.000 And for women that often meant that they became flirtatious. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.360 For men, that often manifested itself in a couple of ways. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.480 You know, I love I love you, Bro, I Loo Bro, Linda, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.000 I love you. I just you know I love you. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.920 I love you, I love you, I love you, I 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.520 love every I love it, I love everybody at the bar. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.280 That's one manifestation or it would you know, they'd become 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:54.400 aggressively flirtatious or angry and aggressive and want to fight 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.240 anybody that dared get in their way or bumped into 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.760 them by accident. So you learn a lot as a kid, 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.040 and he was precocious, he was NonStop and you know 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.039 he he you know, it was it was pretty cool. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.680 The upbringing he had the fact that he'd later he 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.120 took this responsibility on of his sister and raising his 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.360 sister is an amazing story. I think it really goes 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.600 to his heart and soul and his character. And as 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:24.120 much as he loves politics, he certainly loved his family. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.119 And I know Darlene, having spoken with her many times 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.760 this weekend, it is you know, we do know that 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.960 he likely died from, you know, a tear in his 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.200 A order. I can tell you speaking with medical doctors 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.440 friends of mine that especially no heart issues. This is 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.720 not something you some some people survive. I know one 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.000 person in my life that had this happen and did 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:50.760 survive it. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.320 Most people do not survive. 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.360 And that is when you have a tear in the 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.800 inner wall of one's A order, they call it a dissection, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.960 and it was related in part to pardening of Lindsey 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:05.920 Graham's arteries. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:07.120 He was aware of it. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.560 There was, in fact blockage at a higher level than 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.680 I'd be comfortable with. If I would have known about 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.280 it as his friend, I would have been all over 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.640 him about it. But this dissection of this particular valve, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:24.760 which is so vital to life, is immediately life threatening. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:26.960 I know he didn't feel well. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.360 He'd done a lot of traveling and by the way, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.080 I know, there's a lot of people all over the 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.040 internet with a lot of theories he had been in 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.520 Turkey and then traveled, you know, to Poland, and this 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.120 long trip from Poland to a twelve hour train ride, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.800 and I know not only did he have blockage, but 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:48.559 he also had issues involving clotting that were pretty severe 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.560 as well. And you know, all of this, you know, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.480 came to my attention. You know, after his passing. I 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.600 was stunned. It happened at three o'clock in the morning, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.440 and you know, I was up since pretty much on 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:05.480 the phone from four am yesterday morning till about midnight 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.680 last night. In terms of the number of people I 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:12.760 spoke to and the number of calls that I've gotten 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.440 from people, I guess if there's one frustration that and 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.800 I expressed this when I was on Fox and Friends 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.560 yesterday morning at nine am, and it feels like an 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:28.000 eternity ago, lifetime ago. The sad thing to me is 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.520 that there was a perception of Lindsay that just wasn't true. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:38.640 That Lindsey Graham loved war, Lindsey Graham love conflict and no, Actually, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.240 he and President Trump are very much on the same page, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.640 and that is, you know, he is a strong believer 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.440 supporter in the Trump doctrine. And you know how all 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.400 of a sudden some have perverted the Trump doctrine into 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:57.440 isolationism and America first ism, and that somehow he has 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:02.120 corrupted his own promises when he's basically doing the exact 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.280 same things that he did in. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.640 His first term. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.760 Like in his first term, he took out the Isis Caliphate, 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.080 he took out the world's worst terrorist, Solmani, he took 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.400 out Bagdadi and associates. He dropped the mother of all 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:20.200 bombs on Afghanistan. That is not the actions of an isolationist. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.200 That is somebody that believes in America's first, America's safety 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.760 and security. Midnight Hammer, the President did not go into 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.520 that lightly and then. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:31.560 Later epic fury. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.160 As every person I have interviewed that would be in 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.520 a position to know, the one that has said it publicly, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:44.120 that knew, that saw the presidential daily briefing that very 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.080 few people see every day has been my friend Dan Bongino, 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.160 and he has said unequivocally that the president had no 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.800 choice I've gotten that same answer from every single person 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:56.280 that knows. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.439 Now, I know you've got this. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.600 I guess you can refer to the as the new 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:06.160 woke right of isolationists and israel bashing and hating. I 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.520 just ignore most of these people because they're just dead 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.320 on wrong in terms of what Donald Trump's philosophy is, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.400 how he defines America first, and how he defines and 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.360 lives out his very own doctrine, and his own doctrine 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.760 is playing out in Iran right now and the president 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.440 and by the way, that too is being misinterpreted by 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:32.040 so many people, and that is frustrating to me, because 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.560 he is obliterating Iran as they violate agreement after agreement. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.000 I've come to the conclusion myself that you know, all right, well, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.320 they've taken out two and a half tiers of leadership, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.480 maybe three. And you know, whoever wants to keep muddying 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:51.040 up the waters in terms of any real negotiations and 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.360 settlement and peace deal that others are on the verge 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.880 of what and willing to make with the US, those 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:02.520 people probably you know, we they need to go, meaning goodbye. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.240 You know, you have this radicalized belief convert or die, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.680 and when you die, you will be rewarded in paradise 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.280 with seventy two virgins. If they are going or planning 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.480 on disrupting, you know, any process towards a peace agreement 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.160 with the US every day or every week, as they 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.240 have now been showing themselves willing and stupid enough to do, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:28.560 then I would imagine at some point they will be 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:33.000 granted the wish of the late Ayahtolah Hominy and end 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.400 up you know, headed home. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:36.559 It is. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.600 It is amazing because you know, Lindsay had his moments, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.720 but the great belief is Lindsay doesn't didn't want peace. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.840 What he if you paid close attention the interviews I 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.240 had with him and conversations that I can privately tell 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.920 you I've had with him, just like with the President, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.120 it's you know, there's not one nation in the Middle 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:02.120 East that wasn't so great that Donald Trump got involved 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.920 in Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury. Why none of them 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.000 wanted a nuclear armed Iran, and none of them wanted 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.800 Iranian hegemony in the region, and they all wanted a 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.720 path to peace. And what Lindsey really was working towards, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.480 as the President is working towards is you know, starting 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.520 with Saudi Arabia and every other country in the region 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:28.240 would be an expansion or an addition to an expansion 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.880 of the Abraham Accords, where everybody recognizes Israel and you 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.079 create a path towards. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.640 You know, an opportunity for peace. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.160 That the region has not had in probably thousands of years, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:47.200 never mind the UN Partition Plan of nineteen forty eight, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:53.040 where you know, Bengorian, the first Prime Minister of Israel 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.640 in its modern iteration after the UN Partition Plan, you know, 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.200 reached out his hand in it in good neighborliness to 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.880 every neighboring country, and then got attacked the next day. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.560 And it's pretty much been the've Israel under fire ever since. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.680 But you know, a path to peace would be in 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.840 everybody's best interest, and that's I know was the long 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.840 term goal of Lindsay and the President combined. And I 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.960 can tell you as a friend, there was no greater 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.320 friend than Lindsay and the guy that showed more passion 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.920 than anybody I do, but he was misunderstood. Look, there 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.080 were times he pissed me off to Linda. Did I 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.920 not call him out when he pissed me off? He 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.640 really would drive me nuts sometimes. You know, we definitely 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.400 had our moments. But in the end, I mean, he 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.960 loved his country, loved his family, loved President Trump. He 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.600 was Donald Trump's best friend, elected friend in Washington. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.040 That's just the fact that very few people know played 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.680 golf with them all the time. We expect. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.920 In a half hour, Governor McMaster South Carolina rumors of 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.560 running rampant. President Trump put out a request to Governor 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:04.440 McMahon that the interim person to fill the seat of 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:11.600 Lindsey Graham should be his sister, Darlene. Not corroborated, not confirmed, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.960 but rumors I know are getting very loud within South 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.800 Carolina my contacts there, and if in fact that happens, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.400 I know, for a facul linds he couldn't be more 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:26.360 proud of his sister. I just wish people knew the 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:31.040 person that I knew. And it's hard to explain the 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.840 person that would talk, that would call me, you know, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:38.760 like President Trump late into the night. There's not many 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.960 of us that are that crazy. And Linda can corroborate 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.520 confirm that any hour within the twenty four hour day, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.800 she is likely to get a text for me. It's 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:55.840 either a story story, idea, a guest idea something. I 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.840 don't do it to annoy or I don't do it 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.160 to wake her up. But she does have apparently a 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.920 special ringer on your What do you have a special 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.720 ringer on the phone called boss? 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.040 Yes, I do. You are the one of one of 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.520 two people that gets the breakthrough and it is a 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.960 very very loud, loud ringtone. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.960 Who is the other person? 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:19.960 Well, it's the kids. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.560 But you know, oh, so all the kids have a 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:24.440 special ring tone. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:25.720 They have a special ring tone. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.000 Yes, it just cracks me out. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:34.800 But anyway, so we'll find out that replacement name coming up. Interestingly, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.240 you know, Trump is saying President Trump is saying he 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.400 wants Lindsey Graham's sister to serve out the rest of 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:44.400 his term and recommended that to Governor Henry McMaster. They 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.280 are very close friends, I can tell you, and maybe 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:48.800 some of you want to hear it, maybe some of 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.920 you don't. But it's my job to just tell you 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.400 the facts and the truth because they're real. And that 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.720 is simply that Lindsey Graham was the President's closest friend 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.680 in the US Senate in Washington. So far, the President 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.080 has only campaigned for one person this year on the 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.120 campaign trail in this midterm election year. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:09.640 Now we expect that he will do more. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.560 He's definitely made a lot of endorsements in the lead 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.199 up to this, and that was Senator to Lindsay Graham, 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.520 and that I know that. You know, I spoke to 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.000 the President yesterday and he said a publicly solid chare. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.120 He echoed what he had said, I believe on Meet 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.439 the Press. I know he was on Fox and Friends 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.679 this morning and it's simply that he spoke to Lindsay 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.679 about a half hour before he died. I spoke to 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.320 many that are in his inner circle. And when he 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.119 got back from meeting President Zelensky for the four hundred trip, 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.679 which is grinding and you know it's brutal because he 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.200 flies commercial and then he lands in Poland, then there's 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.840 a ten or twelve hour train ride to get to 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.879 Kiev and that's where he met President Zelensky, who by 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:03.359 the way, has been decimating all of Russia, which is 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.200 pretty remarkable. As we're now headed towards what the five 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.840 year anniversary, and nobody ever thought that Russia and Putin 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.920 would be on his back heels to this extent. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.240 Unreal we do have other news. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:23.360 Mitch McConnell, did you see the picture and the statement 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.639 that was released All last week? There are a lot 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.120 of questions about what happened to Mitch McConnell, and I'm 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.159 watching this unfold in real time and I'm like, all right, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.520 it sounds fishy to me, and a lot of the 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.720 neighbors are saying that, yeah, there was an emergency call 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.800 and he was taken out in a stretcher, and for 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:46.040 some reason, you know, people have been demanding proof of life, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.959 and we got that with a picture of him and 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.399 his wife and a lengthy statement that they released. I 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:56.400 guess it was Sunday evening last night. Said he attributed 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.920 what a fall to his fight with polio that he's 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.080 suffered as a kid, and anyway that landed him in 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.320 the hospital. He was briefly unconscious. It was an open 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.679 letter to the people of Kentucky and that he's recovering. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.000 You know, was hit with a mild case of pneumonia, 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.879 and doctors have confirmed that I didn't break any bones, 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.639 I didn't suffer a concussion, I didn't have a heart attack, 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.479 I didn't have a stroke, I don't have any tumors. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.879 I don't have any hemorrhaging at all, And there was 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.560 the picture. There was the photo. He said, as much 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.040 as it frustrates made, the process takes time to get 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.879 back to the Senate, and on the advice of my doctors, 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.240 I won't be able to return quite yet. But rest 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.320 assured in the meantime, I'm not taking a break from 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:38.200 my Senate business. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:39.639 That matters to you. In Kentucky. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.800 He has experienced several falls throughout the year that has 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.560 been attributed to his quote post polio condition. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.760 I don't know. I mean, what did you think of 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.159 the picture? All right? Should I even ask? I'm by 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.480 opening a really bad door here, of course you are. 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.639 You know how I feel about McConnell. Aside from the 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:01.879 fact that he's a lying rhino. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:03.000 It has nothing to do with that. 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.199 Yeah, of course it does, because this is this is 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.960 one hundred percent continuation of the lies that he's told 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.359 for many years, and now him and e Lan are 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.159 lying together and everybody's trying to cover it up, not 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.440 to mention the fact that the picture is recycled from 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.480 twenty twenty three. So then once they realize that, and 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:23.399 then everybody's like, well, the newspaper's got AI generated stuff 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.080 in it. And listen, if you run it through grock, 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.680 if you run it through chat, GPT, you run it 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.720 through any of these AI platforms that anybody's using, it 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:32.840 will tell you that the picture is like ninety five 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.600 percent AI generated because they put all this fake crap 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.800 in it, not to mention the fact the guy is 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.920 how old, if he's in the hospital, where's the IV connection? 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.280 Where he's in a hospital bed, looks like he's sitting 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:44.960 in the chair. The chair is in a weird angle 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.359 of the wall. Even if that was a real picture, 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.000 they doctored it to Helen back. It's a hot mess. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.760 And let me tell you something. He didn't write that note. 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.240 He hasn't put more than two sentences together, and how long. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.320 Don't you remember when he was at the Dais trying 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.840 to control that committee hearing, and his affor came up 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:02.840 and Trump got all ticked off and was like, don't 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.320 help him. That's disrespectful. I'm like, oh my god, do. 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.200 You remember when he was speaking and then just froze 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:10.040 and it was like he had a cia. 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:12.600 He had a mini stroke in front of everybody. 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.280 I'm like, I love how you're a doctor and you 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.359 get to diagnose and just throw out these crazy diagnosed 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.160 since advocate, did it look like that? I would tend 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.040 to agree with you, But do we know for sure? 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.440 We don't, but it was certainly strange. And then John Thune, 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.960 who was not majority leader at the time, Uh, and 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:35.240 others other and others in leadership behind him. Yeah, Uh, 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.600 this is over. We're gonna walk Mitch back. 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:39.440 To his room to his office. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:42.240 You know, first of all, he walking nowhere. He hasn't 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:43.520 walked anywhere in quite a while. 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.320 I don't think at this point. I think the last 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.680 time we saw him was in a wheelchair. So what's happening? 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.600 I don't know. Do I think they should be more transparent? 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.840 I do, And I'm not gonna be a hypocrite and 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.399 have a double standard, you know, one for Joe Biden 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:03.119 and one for Mitch McConnell, even though it's beneficial for 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:05.160 Mitch McConnell to hang on to a seat as long 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:10.080 as possible. Look, this is a problem with in terms 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:14.359 of the math. There is a very short process in 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.520