1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,159 Speaker 1: I think the thing that Lindsey Graham would have enjoyed 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: most about his funeral, if he could have been there 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: to witness it, is that in the end it was 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: about Donald Trump. 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: Lindsay as the president, I'd argue, in my mind, probably 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 2: has a heavenly version of mar A Lago. It may 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: even be a little bigger. He may have a little 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: more golden in the oval office in his mansion in heaven. 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 2: And I wouldn't be surprised if he had one big, 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 2: beautiful ballroom and a arch somewhere on the property, because 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 2: he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: Everybody loves Donald and so while Lindsay lay there in 13 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: the end, the people who came looked at this guy 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: to tell the truth between the lines, of course, about 15 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: this guy who loved war, who loved killing, who was irresponsible, 16 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: who didn't understand the world that evandalized and despite all 17 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: of his travels, never cared to learn about its complexities. 18 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: This is the warning. The new documentary featured on Caton 19 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: Collins program on CNN last night about the life of 20 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham is going to be seismic because it's going 21 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: to peel back the layers of this era of insanity 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: and expose what has never been filmed before the start 23 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: of a war at the embryonic stage. We're going to 24 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: see it come to life, and we're going to see 25 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: it through the eyes of the callo men who brought 26 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: it to life, extremists and cynics, men like Pete Hagsath 27 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: and Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham did not tell anybody that 28 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: they were starring in his documentary, and even the document 29 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: manory filmmaker seems not to understand what it is that 30 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: he was filming, not if he thinks the tributes from 31 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: the world leaders are about respect. They lost a mark, 32 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: the most easily manipulated man in Washington, d C. Who 33 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: was the fulfillment of the warning that George Washington gave 34 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: about beware foreign entanglements. What Lindsey Graham effectively was was 35 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: a foreign agent for Israel certainly, but other nations. An 36 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: errand Boy the Babe Ruth of useful idiots, and the 37 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: exchanges between him and and Yahoo demonstrate a United States 38 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: Senator from South Carolina functioned as his coffee boy is erin. 39 00:02:46,880 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 3: Boy Well the letter, but. 40 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: I tell you the perfect person would be the speaker, 41 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson, Speaker Johnson. No to have to have him 42 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 2: on the letter. 43 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: I don't know. 44 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: I won't, no doubt try, but I will try. I 45 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 2: promise you. 46 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: That all of that is spilling out through all the 47 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: veneer of all of the. 48 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 4: Nonsense he did things got in Washington. Virtually everyone Republican 49 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 4: or Democrat liked Lindsey. Well, not everybody, but it's sounds good. 50 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 4: Not everybody. He was a tough cookie. Okay, I have 51 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 4: to be I have to veer from this versa. He 52 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 4: was a tough cookie, darling, but he was beautiful and. 53 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: So No, everybody didn't like Lindsay and for good reason, 54 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: because Lindsey Graham was in the business of trying to 55 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: take people's rights away in this country. He was so 56 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: empty and so alone, so in need of attention. He 57 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: found it as an international vandal. He is the opposite 58 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: of a responsible statesman. He is the opposite in every 59 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: conceivable measure of character to the great men and women 60 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: who have served honorably in offices that have defended the Constitution, 61 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: from the White House to the Senate, to the House, 62 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: to ambassadors, to the military, to the American soldier, to 63 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: the American diplomat, and scores too many others to be 64 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: able to properly mentioned. Lindsey Graham destroyed with his game 65 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: America's alliances. As a lapdog for Trump, He's destabilized the world. 66 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: The war he started that he said would be quickly 67 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: over has caused six hundred casualties, cost one hundred billion dollars, 68 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: and is entering its fifth month. 69 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 2: Lindsey, he was often unfairly characterized as a warmonger. I've 70 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 2: heard that false criticism a lot. It's not true. 71 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 4: The truth was the opposite, extremely hawkish. I will tell 72 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 4: you he never saw a war that he didn't like. 73 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 4: Only his true friends would understand that. But he wanted 74 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 4: it for the good of our country. 75 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: And America has lost that war. The only question is 76 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump will choose to announce it. Lindsey Graham 77 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: architected a quagmire because Lindsey Graham was too busy playing 78 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: his game to study, to read books, to be prepared 79 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: to understand the things that need understanding by serious people, 80 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: of which he was never one. Was a sidekick and 81 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: a court gesture, a clown in Trump's circus, A Remira 82 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: a man who attached himself to power and sought to 83 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: please it, whether it was John McCain or bb Netan 84 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: Yahoo or whomever. And Lord Almighty is America worse off 85 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: for it. Some of the most pernicious voices in America 86 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: rose to give testimony to the life of Lindsey Graham. 87 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: There is the demented huckster Franklin Graham, an apostle of 88 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: hate with a long and sordid record of extremist and 89 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: Unchristian statements. There's Tony Perkins, a right wing Christo nationalist, fascist, 90 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: an insurrectionist. All of these people, from Hannity on down 91 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: who rose to speak are the bottom of the barrel, 92 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: the detritus of the sewage that Trump has spilled into 93 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: the Republic, that he has poisoned, and that Lindsey Graham 94 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: helped him rot from within. Yesterday was well a funeral 95 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: wrapped in disgrace, though flag covered over an American casket, 96 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: was really the tribute to a foreign agent, a needy 97 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: man who died alone, surrounded by the hollow men of 98 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: a friendless Washington, who came to say goodbye on a 99 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: hot July afternoon in the second year of the second 100 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:49,239 Speaker 1: Trump presidency at a moment of global catastrophe, in national peril. 101 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: What his legacy is is perfectly clear, though certainly understated 102 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: yesterday at a funeral that does not long deserve to 103 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: be remembered. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 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