1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,799 Speaker 1: Lindy Graham is a contemptible man. He's proven that over 2 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: and over and over again over these last seven years, 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: where he has discarded every principle, every conviction, to curl 4 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: up under Donald Trump's legs, to nuzzle up to get 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: a little warmth, a little affection, a little advancement for 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: his political career. It is truly one of the great 7 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: astonishments of the age. For me personally, it's incredible to 8 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: watch because I knew him so well. I remember an 9 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: occasion on the Straight Talk Express with John McCain. We 10 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: were in the back of the bus and the reporters 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: were all gathered around asking questions, and the phone rang. 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: I recognize the voice immediately on the other end. I 13 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: could hear it across the bus. It was Ted Kennedy. 14 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: It was Ted Kennedy calling to check up on his 15 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: friends John McCain and Lindsey Graham. It was one of 16 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: the more astonishing moments of my political career. McCain, who 17 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: had begun the summer in last place, his front running 18 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: campaign completely collapsed, had come back. He had won the 19 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: New Hampshire primary. He was on his way to becoming 20 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: the Republican nominee but he faced a primary where he 21 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: was accused of being a Rhino, a Republican in name only. 22 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: Mitt Romney was running to his right and there on 23 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: the back of the bus and playing sight John McCain 24 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: and Lindsey Graham in front of the entire press corps, 25 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: yucking it up with the lion of the Senate and 26 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: icon of the Democratic Left, Ted Kennedy. But that's who 27 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham was. He was a friendly man and a 28 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: funny one. Lindsey Graham got along with everybody, got along 29 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: with Hillary Clinton, and certainly got along with Joe Biden. 30 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: He considered Joe Biden a friend and called him as such. 31 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham talked about Joe Biden's outstanding character, talked about 32 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: his family, talked about how much there was to admire 33 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: about Joe Biden. Well, let's fast forward. Let us see 34 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: how the Trump cancer has deformed Lindsey Graham's personality. Let's 35 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: see Lindsey Graham talk about his good friend, the President 36 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 1: of the United States. Let's watch Lindsey Graham talk about 37 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: the urgent issues that will determine the type of prosperity 38 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 1: and domestic tranquility our children and grandchildren have long after 39 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham is dead, as they lived their lives for 40 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: another fifty sixty seventy years. Let's walk. 41 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 2: If you're worried about the slide of socialism, you're not 42 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: crazy if you believe there's a two tiered justice system 43 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: where the Bidens get away with stuff and they come 44 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: after Trump and make stuff up. The dossier was fake, 45 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 2: the laptop was real. You can't trust FBI DOJ anymore? Well, 46 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 2: what to do about it? If we have a Republican 47 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: control Senate just two more votes, then we can stop 48 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: all the crazy stuff. You know, Grassley being charge of thisiary, 49 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,399 Speaker 2: I'll be in charge of budget. We can call these 50 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: people into the Senate. What happened to the allegation that 51 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 2: Hunter and Joe Biden had a conversation with a guy 52 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: in Ukraine, a Breizma Gas official about money? Where did 53 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: it go? How did it get disposed of? I can't 54 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 2: ask those questions until I'm in charge. So if you 55 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: want to have an insurance policy against socialism and accountability, 56 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 2: make sure we win the Senate in twenty twenty. 57 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: Indeed, it isn't just the ranker that stands out, of course, 58 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: nor the stupidity, the abject idiocy. It's the soullessness, it's 59 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: the meanness, and it's the lack of vision, which raises 60 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: a question. If our greatest athletes wind up in the Olympics, 61 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: why are our rottenist people winding up in the Congress. 62 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: We have an enormous crisis of character and deficit in 63 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: America if these are the type of people who wind 64 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: up in what was once known as the greatest deliberative 65 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: body in the world. Lindsey Graham stands for a disgusting proposition, 66 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: a grotesque one, and it's this. He must be relevant, 67 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: he must be on television. He must be at the 68 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: center of what he perceives to be political action and 69 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: political power. No matter what, and no matter what the 70 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: cost to the country. Lindsey Graham just wants a little affection. 71 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: And the place he got it from was the lowest 72 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: place he could have gotten it from, from Donald Trump's lap, 73 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: who he climbed up on and curled into for the 74 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: last seven years. Every single thing that he claimed to 75 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: have believed, it, that he claimed he would risk his 76 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: political career for, was all utter nonsense. It was a con. 77 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: He is the emptiest and most hollow of men preaching 78 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: now a gospel of extremism. Listen to his proposition. What 79 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: he says is the urgent business of the nation is 80 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: what abusing the President's addicted to son trying to disrupt 81 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: and blow up his recovery. The allegations that Lindsey Graham 82 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: is making against President Biden and Hunter Biden are conspiracies. 83 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: They have no basis in fact outside of the fever 84 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: swamps of Fox News what occurred in the United States 85 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: Congress and anti Semite conspiracy loon like Marjorie Taylor Green 86 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: holding up pictures of the president son's privates, showing his 87 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: most deprived images from his lowest moments in life, to 88 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: what end for the purposes of making the country stronger, better, 89 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: achieving justice, domestic tranquility, prosperity. What is the point other 90 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: than the cruelty? Are they seeking to drive him to suicide? 91 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: Will Marjorie Taylor Green and the rest and Lindsey Graham 92 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,119 Speaker 1: be satisfied if the President were to lose another son? 93 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: What about all of his children? What is it that 94 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: they want beyond the destruction of this human being, whose life, 95 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: like all human life, has worth and purpose Lindsey Graham, 96 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: a soulless, an empty man, wants to do proverbial violence 97 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: to the president's family because it will hurt a political opponent. 98 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: How sick is that? Does it make your life better? 99 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: Your mothers, your fathers, your sisters, your brothers, your neighbors, 100 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: your kids? Does it fix a pothole? Does it make 101 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: the airplanes fly on time? What is the purpose of 102 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: it all? Beyond cruelty? There is a collapse of public 103 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: integrity in this country. There is a collapse of probity 104 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: and rectitude because the lowest people have reached the highest offices. 105 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is a case in point, the speaker in 106 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: name only, the man who stands for corruption at a 107 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: level like no other person who has ever inhabited his office. 108 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: He now seeks to expunge Donald Trump's impeachments, to wipe 109 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: it away. How perfectly, how to put it stalinesque. It 110 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: is what the Soviets did when a general or minister 111 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: or some communist apparatic fell out of favor. They would 112 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: simply be erased from history. They would literally disappear from 113 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: the images. I guess that's Kevin McCarthy's plan. He's going 114 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:03,719 Speaker 1: to disappear, the impeachments. They'll be gone, expunged like they 115 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: never happened, but of course they did twice. Donald Trump 116 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:14,479 Speaker 1: is twice impeached, and Donald Trump now is twice indicted 117 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: and soon to be indicted again for trying to end 118 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: American democracy, for his betrayal of his constitutional oath. Think 119 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: for a second today about the heroism, the quiet heroism 120 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: of people like Rosa Parks, whose defiance on an ordinary 121 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: day let a revolution for justice in this country. Rosa 122 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: Parks had guts. Our politicians don't think about Harriet Tubman. 123 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: Think about the young men who stormed off of landing 124 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: crafts through the steel hurling at them, slicing the person 125 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: next to them, to the people who risk their life 126 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: for liberty. Think about them as you consider the cowardice 127 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: and the scump baggery of people like Kevin McCarthy and 128 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham on this late July day, the United States 129 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: of America is worth defending. Its institutions are worth preserving, 130 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: Its noble purpose is worth making better. We have a 131 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: national crisis because the American people are apathetic and the 132 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: American people have grown detached from the politicians that shape 133 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: the destiny of the nation, and because of that we 134 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: have people like Lindsey Graham leading us. The lowest of 135 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: the low can't look up high enough to see what's ahead. 136 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 1: We all ought to remember that, because we deserve better.