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Speaker 1: What is your reaction to hearing what Donald Trump says

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Speaker 1: and disgusted.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to talk to the Trump support us

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Speaker 2: for a minute. I don't know who you are, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know why you like this guy. I think

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Speaker 2: what you like about him. He appears to be strong

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Speaker 2: when the rest of us are week. He's a very

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Speaker 2: successful business man, and he's gonna make everything great. He's

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Speaker 2: gonna take all the problems of the world and put

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Speaker 2: him in a box and make your life better. That's

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Speaker 2: what he's selling. Here's what you're buying. He's a race baiting, xenophobic,

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Speaker 2: religious bigot. He doesn't represent my party. He doesn't represent

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Speaker 2: the values that the men and women who wear the

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Speaker 2: and I don't think he has a clue about anything,

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Speaker 2: He's just trying to get his numbers up and get

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Speaker 2: the biggest.

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Speaker 3: Reaction you can.

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Speaker 2: He's putting our soldiers and diplomats at risk. He's empowering

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Speaker 2: the enemy. In this ban, if it's actually enacted, would

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Speaker 2: take people who had been interpreters who came to our

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Speaker 2: side in a rock in Afghanistan, who under siege in

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Speaker 2: their own countries and basically becomes a death sentence for them.

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Speaker 2: And what mister Trump is doing is undercutting everything we

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Speaker 2: stand for. He's undercutting how you win the war. He's

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Speaker 2: empowering the enemy, and he's putting people at risk or

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Speaker 2: serving our country. Now he's never served going to a

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Speaker 2: military high school. Donald, it's really not military service. You've

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Speaker 2: never warned the uniform. You know how you win this war.

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Speaker 2: You side with people in the faith who reject this

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Speaker 2: ideology which is ninety nine percent. And you know how

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Speaker 2: you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go

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Speaker 2: to Hill.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that was a then sixty year old Lindsey Graham

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Speaker 4: talking about then seven year old Donald Trump and might

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Speaker 4: have the tables have turned? That was twenty fifteen, eleven

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Speaker 4: years ago. Lindsey Graham died, of course, this weekend, Saturday night,

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Speaker 4: aortic dissection, which means the lining for the inside of

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Speaker 4: he died suddenly this weekend. And you know, we're going

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Speaker 4: to go through the wreckage, and we're going to go

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Speaker 4: through the comments, and we're going to go through everything

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Speaker 4: that everybody is saying about Lindsey Graham. We're going to

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Speaker 4: talk about whether or not you can actually mourn this gentleman,

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Speaker 4: if you even want to call the man from Kentucky gentleman,

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Speaker 4: knowing what he has done to America for Donald Trump

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Speaker 4: over the course of the last several years, including the

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Speaker 4: last year and a half where he's really turned up

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Speaker 4: the crazy with Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: We've also got a Mitch.

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Speaker 4: McConnell's saite and we've also got a New York Times

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Speaker 4: lawsuit that Donald Trump is now sending reporters, sorry's sending

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Speaker 4: FBI to reporters doors and houses for reporting honestly on him.

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Speaker 4: This is dead air. My name is Dean Blundell. That

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Speaker 4: of course is my friend Steve Schmidt. You knew Let's

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Speaker 4: just start with Lindsay Graham. You knew him well. Lindsey

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Speaker 4: Graham died this weekend a ortic dissection, which we talked about.

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Speaker 4: It was a heart attack fresh from Ukraine. You have

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Speaker 4: been all over it since he passed.

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Speaker 3: Lindsay knew better. He chose worse.

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Speaker 4: It was the piece that you put up prior, just

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Speaker 4: after learning that he did pass away.

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Speaker 3: And then of course your last piece.

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Speaker 4: Don't sanitize the Sinner was absolutely spectacular. I need everybody

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Speaker 4: to go and read this piece, Steve Schmidt's substack the warning.

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Speaker 4: It is truly remarkable the way that you've been able

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Speaker 4: to actually talk about this honestly, because this is not

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Speaker 4: a good man, Steve, not a good man at all.

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Speaker 5: No, this is a tragic story.

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Speaker 6: And when you watch that video at the front which

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Speaker 6: opened our show today, you see very clearly that Lindsey

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Speaker 6: Graham understood from the very beginning what Donald Trump was,

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Speaker 6: what the danger of Donald Trump was, and he articulated

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Speaker 6: it with perfect clarity. I remember talking with Lindsey Graham

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Speaker 6: old and she was a horseback rider, and Lindsey Graham

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Speaker 5: Horse on the White House law.

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Speaker 6: I knew Lindsay Graham very well in the way that

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Speaker 6: experience which a presidential campaign is at close quarters at

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Speaker 6: the highest level around the candidate on the bus, on

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Speaker 6: the plane around the country, the absurdity of.

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Speaker 5: The late nights and early morning. And I had a million.

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Speaker 6: Laughs with Lindsey Graham. But as a moral proposition, there

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Speaker 6: police and we've become so hapituated to Donald Trump's malignant narcissism,

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Speaker 6: his insanity, frankly, that we've become inor to the small

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Speaker 6: narcissism that's endemic among so many practitioners of politics and

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Speaker 6: so many people on the media, in the media, on television.

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Speaker 6: And you see the words I choose to remember about

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Speaker 6: Lindsey Graham.

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Speaker 5: A lot of that this week, A lot of that.

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Speaker 6: I choose to remember when I had a white Russian

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Speaker 6: with him eighteen years ago. Or I choose to remember

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Speaker 6: when he made me laugh, or when I went on

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Speaker 6: this codell to this country, or it was this moment

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Speaker 6: on the campaign trail.

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Speaker 5: Or it was this or that, And I.

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Speaker 6: Choose to remember being offered by powerful people with tremendous

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Speaker 6: platforms is another way of saying, I choose to forget

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Speaker 6: and not to see and.

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Speaker 5: Be indifferent towards Alex Predri and Renee Good.

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Speaker 6: And the child laying on a concrete floor that Lindsay

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Speaker 6: Graham used to be able to see the dignity of

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Speaker 6: to power out of a sense of needyness and relevancy.

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Speaker 6: And so Lindsey Graham cannot see the humanity in the

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Speaker 6: humanity of an innocent child in God's Lindsey Graham was

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Speaker 6: a warmonger who stood idly by as a lie became

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Speaker 6: a contagion in undermined America's civilization by attacking the most

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Speaker 6: fundamental concept of it, which is that we pick our

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Speaker 6: leaders through an election process. Lisay Graham had no doubt

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Speaker 6: about who won the election. He said, count me out

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Speaker 6: after January sixth, and then sometime later says Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: Time, second only to God.

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Speaker 6: He sat idly by as Trump compared himself to God,

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Speaker 6: for Ukraine, an ally of Ukraine. Please, Lindsey Graham is

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Speaker 6: one of the most despicable men of his age.

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Speaker 5: He's a villain, a hollow man.

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Speaker 6: Of hollow character's life had terrible negative consequences. So when

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Speaker 6: the center of Lindsey Graham's life, that Lindsay Graham's life's

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Speaker 6: meaning in his work devolves to this little piece that

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Speaker 5: L Vizel.

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Speaker 6: Talked about the opposite of love was indifference, and Lindsey

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Speaker 6: Graham was an indifferent man to depravities, and he debased

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Speaker 6: hollowness that existed in him, this neediness to be in

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Speaker 6: the room surely before its death is reported. I can't die.

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Speaker 6: I have to keep working. And so again we see

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Speaker 6: concept of the indispensable man.

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Speaker 5: And now he's gone. And what did he leave behind.

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Speaker 6: He left wreckage of the mightiest republic in the history

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Speaker 6: to their opposition to the greatest obscenities and indecency that

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Speaker 6: Jim Crow. And what it is is a confession of

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Speaker 6: sorts that they really don't care. What it's all about

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Speaker 6: is that white Russian on that plane sometime not about

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Speaker 6: what their friend did. And that's not the case as

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Speaker 6: I see it in the middle of a crisis. So

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Speaker 6: when we think about someone's death, we have to think

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Speaker 6: his whole life, his whole effect.

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Speaker 5: It's dubious, it's terrible. It's not too soon.

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Speaker 6: To render a judgment because it's a warning to many

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Speaker 6: and our number can be up at any time. People

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Speaker 6: he was out of shape. Nobody should be falling out

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Speaker 6: Because in the end, Lindsey Graham died a maga. He

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Speaker 5: There's that Frost poem about the road not taken.

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Speaker 6: It's broadly misunderstood, and so a lot of people want

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Speaker 6: to remember Lindsey Graham through a personal prism. Some vestigal

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Speaker 6: it's frivolous, and it's demeaning to people who've been hurt

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Speaker 6: who pretend to understand the seriousness of this moment eleven

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Speaker 6: acious fascism. What an appalling moment. The sanctimony and the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, spares All.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you watch people get as close as they

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Speaker 4: talk about, right, And to be able to have that conversation,

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Speaker 4: your piece that you did today, and I urge you

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Speaker 4: to read it. And I know Nancy Mace, we'll get

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Speaker 5: She's been just like appeared. Do you think that was

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Speaker 6: She's our We both support her completely in South Carolina. Absolutely, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: the our Republican candidate you are hope to be the

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Speaker 6: Republican nominee to face off against the wonderful doctor Annie Andrews.

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Speaker 3: You go, nance you go, nance go get it.

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Speaker 4: But I want to get to a piece that you

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Speaker 4: put in your piece today here at the warning Steve Schmidt.

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Speaker 4: At Steve Schmidt is where you can find him on substack.

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Speaker 4: It's it's truly brilliant writing where you included that Robert

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Speaker 4: Frost poem which was also incredible. I had not read

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Speaker 4: that about the roadless traveled, but you point out Trump's

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Speaker 4: And that's not public service. This guy just destroyed his

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Speaker 6: Shallowest of men always when you know absolutely and you

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Speaker 6: fitting tribute. I suppose for a South Carolina senator, that

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Speaker 4: So let me ask you a question. I don't know

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Speaker 6: Michael's take, and so I want to my cake is

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Speaker 6: You know, you can, you know, you can assess me

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Speaker 6: Well known on that day, and that interaction, beyond any

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Speaker 6: And so anybody judging Michael Fanone, I would say, has

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Speaker 5: Not matter any more?

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Speaker 6: Lindsey Graham was the.

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Speaker 5: Exact opposite opportunist.

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Speaker 6: The greatest opportunist of this era, a complete and total fraud.

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Speaker 3: You call them a pilot fish.

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Speaker 5: Parasite, to his sidekick, to his pilotfish.

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Speaker 6: And then when that shark died, the pilot fish needed

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Speaker 5: The sea, the Trump shark.

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Speaker 6: But the pilot fish is the pilot fish. The pilot

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Speaker 5: I gotta get this outie deal, done it.

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Speaker 6: And so now he's stone cold in a box, betrayed

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Speaker 6: his country, disgraced himself, ruined his reputation, and his eulogists

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Speaker 6: is the architect of a lost war with Iran. I

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Speaker 6: Trump's fucking reckless stupidity. M.

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Speaker 3: I want to I want to play a clip for

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Speaker 4: You want to talk about Donald Trump's reckless stupidity, Let's

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Speaker 4: talk about his completely inept eulogy of Lindsay Graham. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's making his rounds. He's making his rounds. He's making

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Speaker 4: You've got world leaders that were chummy with Lindsey Graham

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Speaker 3: Right. I remember when Charlie Kirk died.

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Speaker 4: Is like, the last words Charlie Kirk said to me

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Speaker 3: The last words, well.

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump is as feckless and as weird as this

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Speaker 4: is on Kristen Welker's Meet the Press this weekend, or

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Speaker 4: it was a face Nation, I can't remember anyway. This

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Speaker 4: is Christian Walker and he was asked, this is his

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Speaker 4: first appearance after finding out that Lindsey Graham passed away.

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Speaker 4: This is how he chose to remember a guy who

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Speaker 4: said he was a bigot, the xenophobe and a racist.

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Speaker 3: Let's play that clip if we.

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Speaker 1: Can, mister President. And I know that we are all

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Speaker 1: just absorbing this news. We are all in shock. Can

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Speaker 1: you tell us, mister President, how you receive this news

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Speaker 1: and your immediate gut reaction when you heard it.

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Speaker 7: So what makes it even stranger is that I got

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Speaker 7: a call last night sometime, you know, the early evening,

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Speaker 7: maybe in the sevens, and he called and he said,

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Speaker 7: we're all set for the Save America Act. He was

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Speaker 7: pushing the Save America Act like crazy. He got back,

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Speaker 7: said he just landed from Ukraine. I said, that's a

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Speaker 7: long trip to me. Case said, he's founded a little tired,

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Speaker 7: but perfect.

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Speaker 5: But it's a little bit tired.

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Speaker 7: I had a right to be man he was a worker.

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Speaker 7: He was really a worker. But but he sounded great. Actually,

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Speaker 7: but he was he was. He actually said he was tired,

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Speaker 7: but he wanted to pass the Save America Act. And

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Speaker 7: I said, well, we're going to get it done. Lindsay,

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Speaker 7: we're going to get it done. I'll see you like soon.

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Speaker 7: We thought maybe we might even meet today. I said,

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Speaker 7: you got it. I just can't believe it. He was

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Speaker 7: like a member of the family. To me. It's very tough.

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Speaker 3: Actually, there you go, there you go.

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Speaker 4: It's a member of the family, Steve, he's a member

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Speaker 4: of the Lindsey Graham was like a member of the

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Speaker 4: family to me.

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Speaker 5: I rest my case.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's nothing else to say. You nailed it.

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Speaker 3: Everybody used to go and read that piece.

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Speaker 4: By the way, go to Steve Schmidt's the warning right

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Speaker 4: here on substack and you can get that right now.

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Speaker 4: I've also put that in the daily newsletter over at

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Speaker 4: Dean Blundell dot substack dot com.

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Speaker 3: We've got a couple of issues here.

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Speaker 4: Not only is the Lindsey Graham, you know, Senate seat

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Speaker 4: up for grabs, We've also maybe got one in Kentucky

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Speaker 4: that's up for grabs.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Did we have a Mitch McConnell's sighting and is this real?

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Speaker 4: Do we have a picture of Mitch McConnell being held

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Speaker 4: up by his wife? Do we it's very weekend at Bernie's.

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Speaker 4: Do we have that picture?

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Speaker 3: Can we?

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Speaker 5: There?

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Speaker 3: We go? There we.

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Speaker 5: There's there's Yeah, But I worry about when I see

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Speaker 5: this picture?

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Speaker 3: Uh huh?

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Speaker 6: Is the waiter that woke up in Bavaria saying where

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Speaker 6: the fuck did my tablecloth go? Man?

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Speaker 4: Mitch is wearing it and he's holding a newspaper. This

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Speaker 4: is in This is in DC, where he is apparently

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Speaker 4: recovering since the fourteenth of June.

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Speaker 3: What are we now? Twenty eight days?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're about twenty eight, twenty nine days that no

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Speaker 4: one has seen or heard from him. Mitch released the

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Speaker 4: statement along with his picture. His office did this picture

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Speaker 4: is highly suspect?

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Speaker 5: Doesn't right to me?

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Speaker 4: It doesn't seem right to me either. But a want

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Speaker 4: of your thoughts on this because this is not a

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Speaker 4: fake photo. But it might be a fake photo. It

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Speaker 4: might be from in twenty twenty three, it might not

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Speaker 4: be from twenty twenty three. Pretty sure his wife is

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Speaker 4: still in China, So this is weird, but he says

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Speaker 4: that he can't wait to get back to work. Steve,

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Speaker 4: He's got a lot of work to do on the

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Speaker 4: Senate floor. And we apparently have a proof of life

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Speaker 4: picture here. I would love your thoughts because I don't

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Speaker 4: even know where to say.

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Speaker 6: I don't to be precise and not nitpicky, but he

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Speaker 6: hasn't said anything, right.

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Speaker 5: We just have a picture. Yeah, okay, So.

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Speaker 6: I am not a conspiracy person by temper, mean disposition,

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Speaker 6: by precedent across the board. And definitely my dad, who

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Speaker 6: you you have met and spent him with, is not.

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Speaker 5: And my dad is eighty years old.

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Speaker 6: He's a great guy, smart guy. We're driving in the car.

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Speaker 6: He was the deputy Majority leader of the New Hampshire

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Speaker 6: House of Representatives. He's a rock ribbed Republican, though appalled

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Speaker 6: by Donald Trump and sees the insanity clearly. And we're driving,

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Speaker 6: and I'm in the passenger seat, and I got dad.

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 6: Just when the Senate Majority Leader John Dune says, I

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Speaker 6: talked to Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes, just straight up,

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Speaker 6: do you believe that guy and my dad was like driving?

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Speaker 5: He's right, he's driving, he just like looked at me

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Speaker 5: and he goes, of course not right, so and so right.

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Speaker 6: Really, if you think about it, and this is a

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Speaker 6: sign of the decay and rot of the country. I mean, truthfully,

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Speaker 6: who's to know? Who's to know?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 6: So it's crazy the majority leader of what was the

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Speaker 6: world's greatest deliberative body just full on, flat out cannot

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Speaker 6: be trusted in twenty twenty six, in July of twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty six, when he says I talked to Mitch McCall

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Speaker 6: for twenty minutes or or of course, preposterously Scott Jennings, right,

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Speaker 6: no credibility whatsoever. I talked to I talked to miss

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Speaker 6: McColl for twenty minutes.

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Speaker 5: Well, what did you talk about? What you talking about? Oh,

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Speaker 5: we were talking about the history of the Senate.

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Speaker 6: We were talking about Okay, I'm sure you were. Now

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Speaker 6: what do we know?

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Speaker 5: Right? The guys toes up in the back of the ambulance.

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Speaker 6: Everybody is moving in slow motion, right, like you're at

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Speaker 6: the I don't know where, right, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 6: on the Sweet Team line, right at the Graham Wake,

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Speaker 6: I suppose in Charleston and right slow motion line, right,

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Speaker 6: you know, kind of movement on on on the ambulance crew,

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Speaker 6: after you get a call from CPR, after you get

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Speaker 6: a after you get a call about this eighty four

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Speaker 6: year olds unconscious and he's got no cardiac also that

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Speaker 6: loan behold right, he's got this snazzy carrying tablecloth on

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Speaker 6: that he's wearing with his with his wife delightfully reaching

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Speaker 6: behind him to it. Maybe a secret spot, you know.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to get too innimate here, but but

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Speaker 6: he's got no there's no tape on his hands, there's

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Speaker 6: no evidence of IV nothing O, there's no he's just

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Speaker 6: he's just hanging out. He's got I mean, it looks

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Speaker 6: like a hospital chair, looks like a hospital pillow. He's

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Speaker 6: got the paper, he's sitting up. They look happy. I mean,

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Speaker 6: she might have just been promoted to field marshal. We

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Speaker 6: don't know about right back from back from China. No

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Speaker 6: one has explained any of that. What's going on to

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Speaker 6: I don't know, But I honestly I don't believe a

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Speaker 6: word yeah of these people. And the issue is it's

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Speaker 6: about power. It's about the vote. He holds a proxy

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Speaker 6: vote or someone does for his committee votes. With some

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Speaker 6: committee votes coming forward, and they need to offer proof

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Speaker 6: of this is outrageous. And again, you know what Mitch

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Speaker 6: McConnell's legacy is is he broke the reputation of what

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Speaker 6: was the world's greatest deliberative bodies so fucking badly right

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Speaker 6: that at and let's just say in the most generous

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Speaker 6: conceivable space that perhaps he's in a transitional period.

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Speaker 5: That who's to know? Is is his legacy? Who's to know?

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Speaker 5: Who can know? Right?

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Speaker 6: Trust is evaporated so profoundly, so earthshakingly terribly.

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Speaker 5: Who's to know? Mitch McConnell.

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Speaker 6: And and this guy ran in nineteen eighty four for

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Speaker 6: the US Senate against d Huddleston, as we talked about

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Speaker 6: when we first addressed this a week ago, the famous

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Speaker 6: ad with the bloodhounds searching for d Huddleston, his elderly

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Speaker 6: opponent Mitch McConnell promising to follow term limits. And here

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Speaker 6: we are, at the end, the total immolation of the

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Speaker 6: traditions of the Senate, the functioning of the Senate. He's

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Speaker 6: a vandal and in this force weekend at Bernie's in Kentucky,

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Speaker 6: another disgrace.

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Speaker 3: The picture though, dude, like this, I can't the picture.

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Speaker 4: I don't believe a word of it either. And here's

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Speaker 4: the sad part, is it. I hate conspiracy theorists. I

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Speaker 4: hate conspiracy theories. I'm a hard data guy. You're a

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Speaker 4: hard data guy. Strategy and polling and winning elections. That

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Speaker 4: comes with numbers that you can prove out. That comes

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Speaker 4: with facts, right, It just comes with facts. The reason

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Speaker 4: why we are here is because we like to deliver facts.

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Speaker 4: There is not one single fact that you can draw

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Speaker 4: a straight line from when it comes to this ridiculous

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Speaker 4: fucking picture or the statement that that authentic case that any.

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Speaker 3: Of this is real.

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Speaker 4: They're just odds from Mitch's office. And he did release

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Speaker 4: the statement. By the way, I just want to point

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Speaker 4: that I.

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Speaker 5: Can't what's on the cover of the paper? Is it

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Speaker 5: Today's paper?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Now that's the the I think that the DC paper.

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Speaker 4: I don't know which one sports section that has been

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Speaker 4: verified Washington Post?

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Speaker 3: Is it's it the Post? Okay?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he did say and it I just I

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Speaker 4: want you.

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Speaker 5: To why paper glowing there like it's.

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Speaker 3: Like he did say this.

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Speaker 4: He's undergone a battery of tests as doctors try to

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Speaker 4: determine what led to a fall, which is why he

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Speaker 4: was in the hospital. Doctor confirmed that I didn't break

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Speaker 4: any bones or suffer a concussion.

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Speaker 3: I didn't have a heart attack or stroke. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was

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Speaker 4: briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital while receiving

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Speaker 4: excellent care over the past several weeks.

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Speaker 3: Uh got pneumonia. I got pneumonia. You just throw that

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Speaker 3: one in.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, like I did when I had It's

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Speaker 4: it's unbelievable to me that nobody that people are just

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Speaker 4: accepting this as as as a real statement from me.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 4: They did have CPR, like when the when the ambulance

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Speaker 4: was called, they were they were performing CPR, and which

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Speaker 4: means he's dead.

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Speaker 6: I had to Dick Cheney had cardiac surgery in two

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Speaker 6: thousand and five.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and.

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Speaker 6: He was extremely guarded about his privacy. And when I've

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Speaker 6: given advice to candidates over over the years on on

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Speaker 6: these questions you, I've always viewed my job as helping

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Speaker 6: them find what it is that they believe right through

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Speaker 6: a through a process. But in these cases right of privacy,

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Speaker 6: I've always put my thumb on the scale of an advocate,

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Speaker 6: which is to you should protect your privacy and your

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Speaker 6: kids privacy, and that the invasions of privacy that come

645
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Speaker 6: from being in public life have boundaries and limits, and

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Speaker 6: know where the fuck offline is and know and know

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Speaker 6: how to hold.

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Speaker 5: It and in Cheney in in that space.

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Speaker 6: Whatever whatever one may think about his view of these issues,

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Speaker 6: no one's going to accuse him of being overly disclosing

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Speaker 6: right about about how he feels about things about things

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Speaker 6: that happen. So at any rate, he understood. It's the

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Speaker 6: vice president of the United States. He's gonna be under

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Speaker 6: general anesthesia for a couple of hours in a medical procedure.

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Speaker 6: When they woke them up, he's in the recovery room.

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Speaker 6: I walked into the room night add tubes in. He

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Speaker 6: had all sorts of shit going on, beeping machines and

658
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Speaker 6: everything else, but he was alert and awake, and he said,

659
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Speaker 6: how you doing, sir?

660
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 5: Oh? And he.

661
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 6: You know, I said, you know what day it is?

662
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 6: I said what day is it? I? So, what's your

663
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 6: day job? I'm the Vice President of the United States.

664
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 6: Are you ready to get back to work?

665
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 5: Yep?

666
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 6: Said see you later, sir walked out, said the Vice

667
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 6: President in his recovery.

668
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:50,720
Speaker 5: It's awake and alert.

669
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 6: There's no question about my credibility whatsoever when I would

670
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 6: go out speed king, it's a deputy assistant to the

671
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 6: president counselor or the vice president of the United States,

672
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 6: to the American people? Are you kidding me? And so

673
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 6: this is a very very big deal. Total lack of responsibility,

674
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 6: total lack of judgment. But what's new, utter lack of credibility?

675
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 5: So bad? Right?

676
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 6: And the burdens on them, not us, Right, We're on

677
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 6: the high ground of reasonableness here, not them. Only a

678
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 6: fucking moron would take their word for it that this

679
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 6: guy's alive. In neither the statement nor the picture does

680
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 6: anything to alter my posture on that you have done

681
00:44:54,400 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 6: everything you can, through deed and word and craziness, to

682
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 6: make it seem that there's somewhere between a likelihood to

683
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 6: at least some probability the Mitchell McConnell's dead.

684
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 3: What did you say last week?

685
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 4: Was like six percent chance of someone who goes through

686
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 4: that process or that kind of injury or that kind

687
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 4: of mass six percent chance he's not a vegetable or dead.

688
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 6: Six percent If you're if you're taken out of your

689
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 6: house after you're doing chest compressions on you in an ambulance.

690
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not good.

691
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 4: But the picture though, Yeah, I mean, but the picture, guys,

692
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 4: he's good. Listen before we get look at it.

693
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 3: I can't stop laughing. Every time I look at this picture,

694
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 3: I laugh.

695
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 4: I don't I don't want to move on for Mitch,

696
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 4: but I want to put a little bit of a button

697
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 4: in this because I know we have to talk about

698
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 4: the New York Times in this lawsuit and uh, the

699
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 4: FBI coming down on reporters from the New York Times.

700
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 3: Uh, and just this this crazy abusive story.

701
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 4: But but the one thing I will I will say

702
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 4: before we move on from from Mitch McConnell is there

703
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 4: is a real balance of power thing going on in

704
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 4: the Senate right now. You lost Lindsey Graham, right literally,

705
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 4: he's no longer there, and now you've got, like, if

706
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 4: we can put that that that uh, the graphic of

707
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 4: the actual Senate seats up here. Uh, you've got Mitch McConnell,

708
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 4: who may or may not be dead, right, And if

709
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 4: you look at the balance of the power in the Senate,

710
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 4: this is something, right, I mean, you know, yeah, we're

711
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 4: having some laps. And yes, we're talking about the seriousness

712
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 4: of the legacy of of of uh, you know, Lindsey Graham,

713
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 4: and and whether or not Mitch McConnell is alive or

714
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 4: dead in that crazy weekend of Bernie's pictures. But this

715
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 4: is UH, this is something the balance of power in

716
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 4: the Senate.

717
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 7: Uh.

718
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 4: And and I want your thoughts on this, because you know,

719
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 4: where do we go from here? Where do the GOP

720
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 4: go from here? Who is going to take that seat?

721
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 4: I don't know how that process looks. I know Donald

722
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 4: Trump suggested earlier today he thought his sister Darlene. Get

723
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 4: Darlene in there. She could be a great interim senator.

724
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 4: But walk me through that picture.

725
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 6: I have a couple of abiding principles here. And the

726
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 6: first is to appreciate that there is no flower in

727
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 6: all the world more delicate than the male ego. And

728
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 6: and and the second one is nothing quite breeds contempt

729
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 6: like proximity. And so all of that exists in multitudes

730
00:47:54,320 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 6: inside the poisonous terrarium where all of the drum of

731
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 6: all of this is going to play out right in

732
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 6: despicable fashion.

733
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 5: And so.

734
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:20,919
Speaker 6: We're in this moment where you have John Cornyn, And

735
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 6: you have the doctor who voted for Robert Kennedy, who

736
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 6: just lost his primary to a true five star maga

737
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 6: whack job who's running against a great candidate named Jamie

738
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 6: Davis in Louisiana, who is who is a prosecutor.

739
00:48:54,960 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 5: No excuse me, I think he's a farmer, and he

740
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 5: can win that race.

741
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 6: He can win that race, and he should be being

742
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 6: supported by the National Party, which is a story for

743
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 6: a different, different day.

744
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 5: But at any rate, when.

745
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 6: You look at all of this, in all of these places,

746
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 6: what you see is people who have been betrayed by

747
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 6: Trump who are ready to give it back to him.

748
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 6: So on any given day, right, depending on what mood

749
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 6: John Cornn wakes up in what mood Cassidy wakes up in,

750
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 6: the Democrats might have a majority in the Senate. So

751
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 6: Donald Trump has lost his ability to control what's going

752
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 6: on because there is no replacement for Lindsey Graham in

753
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 6: the sense that no one gives a fuck enough about

754
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 6: doing all the things that Lindsey Graham did because they

755
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:16,760
Speaker 6: have other things to do. Right, He's like the person

756
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 6: on the PTA that was the chair of fourteen different

757
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 6: cookie committees, right, and no one wants to be the

758
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 6: chair of the Cookie Committee, so there's not going to

759
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 6: be any more bake sales. So Lindsey Graham that Hubris

760
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 6: that I'm going to do these things this weekend bringing

761
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 6: peace between the Saddi's right. It's almost manic in disposition.

762
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 5: Crazy.

763
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

764
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 6: But that's gone now, right, That doesn't that doesn't exist.

765
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Speaker 3: It's a loss for Trump too.

766
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,399
Speaker 6: And that's so that's a loss because no one else

767
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 6: has the energy right to do the things that Lindsay

768
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 6: Graham did for Trump. No one wants to go on

769
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 6: the list lick Trump's boots quite like Lindsay Graham did.

770
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 6: No one else wants to be in Trump's family. No

771
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 6: one else wants to be on predator patio. No one

772
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,919
Speaker 6: else wants to do the things that Lindsey Graham did

773
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 6: to debase himself to be there on predator patio.

774
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:28,959
Speaker 3: That's a great point. That's a great point.

775
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 4: He was desperate enough to be that guy, right, and

776
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 4: he doesn't have that guy anymore.

777
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, great point.

778
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,839
Speaker 4: Listen before we go, and I do want to get

779
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 4: to the story with the New York Times. Trump just

780
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 4: sent federal agents to New York Times journalist homes because

781
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 4: they reported on his free Katari jet not having defensive

782
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 4: capabilities to stop a missile. Secret service stepped in Turkey

783
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 4: at the NATO summit. They said, sir, you need to

784
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 4: take Air Force one home the other air Force one.

785
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 4: So he did created this fantastic lie saying, oh, it's

786
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 4: just a straight line. We're just showing it off. That's

787
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 4: all we're doing is showing it off. But a secret service, Yeah,

788
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 4: that's what he did. We're going to lack of airfield

789
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 4: in England just showing it off. It's all good, and uh,

790
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 4: the these it's it's created a much bigger story, a

791
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 4: much bigger issue because now Donald Trump pissed the New

792
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 4: York Times reporters.

793
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 3: Four of them, four reporters leaked the story.

794
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 4: And the reporters are Tyler Pager, Eric Liften, Eric Schmidt,

795
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 4: and Julian E. Barnes, all four incredible journalists for the

796
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 4: New York Times.

797
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 3: And uh, now they have been.

798
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 4: Served subpoenas because Donald Trump is sending the DOJ to

799
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 4: their homes to get them to testify and share with him.

800
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 4: Who possibly leaked that story to these four New York

801
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 4: Times reporters. I mean, this is on the heels of

802
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:54,240
Speaker 4: several of these attempts to chill the the mainstream media

803
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 4: and and their critique or their honest critique of Donald Trump.

804
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 4: This is unbelievable to me. Now he's suing The New

805
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 4: York Times, I don't know for how much. You don't

806
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 4: have that information. And he's suing these four reporters at

807
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 4: the same time sending Department of Justice. I don't know

808
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 4: if they were Homeland Security FBI, have no idea, but

809
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,240
Speaker 4: I know Cash Bttel is involved.

810
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 6: This.

811
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 4: This is beyond the pale, Like I mean, this is

812
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 4: crazy to me.

813
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:20,240
Speaker 3: Crazy.

814
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 6: Well, there's so much to talk about in this, but

815
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 6: let's just start with the most basic aspect of it all,

816
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 6: which is the First Amendment for bads.

817
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 5: This it forbids.

818
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 6: It it is not allowed. This is government coercion. This

819
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 6: is an assault on the free press, a direct attack

820
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 6: by the President of the United States by his order,

821
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 6: executed through his henchmen, through federal police, that are trampling

822
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 6: on the most fundamental of American rights. George Washington was

823
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 6: routinely defamed by the loyalist presses, and when the war

824
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 6: was over, he went to the loyalist press, and he

825
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 6: posted guards outside the door lest it be burned down,

826
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 6: excuse me, burned down by by angry by angry New Americans. Right,

827
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 6: this is this is not negotiable. The First Amendment doesn't

828
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 6: exist at the whim of Donald Trump. Frankly, it's an

829
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 6: impeachable act. It is a violation of his constitutional oath.

830
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:40,720
Speaker 6: It is a flagrant abuse of power and of the law.

831
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 6: The circumstances of it all are farcical, over and over

832
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:54,919
Speaker 6: and over again. You're compelled, if you offer commentary on

833
00:54:55,080 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 6: any type of regular basis, to try and contextualize was happening.

834
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:10,320
Speaker 6: That plane is the singular, singular, over two hundred and

835
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 6: fifty years of history, most corrupt object that has ever

836
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 6: been involved in a corrupt transaction between two parties involving

837
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 6: an American person out of seven hundred million Americans who've

838
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 6: ever lived there.

839
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 5: It is.

840
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 6: The four hundred million dollar plane that Trump is represented.

841
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 6: He intends to keep despite prohibitions that make it illegal

842
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 6: to accept a gift when he leaves office. And so

843
00:55:55,080 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 6: right now, if you're a Democrat running for president, you're

844
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 6: going to be asked about this, And frankly, you have

845
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 6: a lot of shit to talk about in meetings as

846
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 6: you're planning a presidential campaign, so you can't linger too

847
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 6: long on obvious things. He can't keep the airplane if

848
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:22,439
Speaker 6: we intend to maintain the republic, period, So at any rate,

849
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 6: he flew on this obscenity to Europe. Air Force one

850
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 6: is a military aircraft flown by military pilots that carries

851
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:52,400
Speaker 6: the American commander in chief, the head of state, the

852
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 6: head of government, the President of the United States, and

853
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 6: the nuclear determined an. That aircraft has countermeasures.

854
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 5: It's not a toy, it's not a palace.

855
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 6: It is a symbol of American power and prestige and might.

856
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 6: It is the aircraft of the President of the United States.

857
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,439
Speaker 6: But not good enough for Trump. So Trump flew over

858
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 6: there and guess what, from Turkey it wasn't safe to

859
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 6: fly back because he was worried about it being shot down,

860
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:48,919
Speaker 6: or more appropriately, the Secret Service was where the US

861
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 6: Air Force was, or the CIA was, somebody was, So

862
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 6: we had a return on the military air craft. And

863
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 6: this was reported as was appropriate for it to be

864
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 6: reported because it's a news story, and he has responded

865
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 6: by dispatching federal agencies reporters and I have bad news

866
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 6: for the federal agents carrying out orders badging the box

867
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 6: to the left, gun in the box to the right.

868
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 6: If I get my way about it, I mean, I'm

869
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 6: a political activist.

870
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 5: I may lose the fight. I may lose the fight, but.

871
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 6: There are many of us who insist, and we have

872
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 6: a reconcilable difference. Obviously with all these Democrats praising Lindsey

873
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 6: Graham because they.

874
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 5: Can't see the damage.

875
00:58:56,360 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 6: They choose to look away, because they're indifferent, because they're

876
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 6: small minded narcissists. It's about me and my way Russian

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Speaker 6: with Lindsey, not about the child on the floor being

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Speaker 6: given food with worms in it, taunted with cupcakes around

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Speaker 6: Christmas time by sadistic guards.

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Speaker 5: No, we can't talk about that. We can't see them.

881
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Speaker 6: Now's a time for the celebration of the great statesman, Please.

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Speaker 5: Apologist for what.

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00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 6: He knew to be wrong, the man who was derelict

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Speaker 6: in his duty more so than any other figure, Because

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Speaker 6: more than any other figure, Lindsey Graham was the guy

886
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Speaker 6: who knew. And we know that because he left a

887
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 6: record well said, as always this has been dead air.

888
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Speaker 4: That of course, the always indispensable Steve Schmidt walking through

889
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Speaker 4: the records of the weirdest weekend we have had in

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Speaker 4: a very very long time, with the death of Lindsey

891
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 4: Graham and the appearance of one Mitch McConnell, and the

892
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 4: subpoenas to reporters for reporting the news, all of this,

893
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 4: of course revolving.

894
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Speaker 3: Around one Donald Trump.

895
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 4: And this is all news and information y'all probably don't

896
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 4: get anywhere else, which is why we do it. That's

897
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 4: why we call it dead air, and brought to you,

898
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 4: of course by our friends here at the Save America Movement.

899
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 4: Please go and subscribe to the Save America Movement. Substack

900
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 4: at the Save America Movement right here. You can also

901
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 4: get them on YouTube. You can also go to their website,

902
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 4: the Save Americamovement dot org and donate. Donate, donate, and

903
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 4: join the team. This is the largest political activist group.

904
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 4: It is about democracy in the United States of America,

905
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 4: founded by real patriots, serviced by you, real patriots who

906
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 4: want your country back. And that is why the Save

907
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 4: America Movement exists these Save America Movement dot org.

908
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 3: Please go there today and as always, you.

909
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 4: Know I put out to the last piece that you

910
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 4: did about Lindsey Graham choosing this, This is.

911
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 3: What he chose, this is who he is.

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Speaker 4: If you need to read the the definitive, well, if

913
01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 4: you definitely need to read the definitive writing of Steve

914
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 4: Schmidt on the life and times of one Lindsay Graham

915
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 4: and why it's okay to not celebrate the man. That

916
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 4: was the conversation we had today. So please go to

917
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 4: Steve Schmidt's substack at Steve Schmidt The Warning Steve Schmidt

918
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 4: give him a sub as well, and I'm over at

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Speaker 4: Dean Blundelle dot substack dot com. Steve, thanks for doing this, brother,

920
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 4: really appreciate it. I know we're going to be rounding

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Speaker 4: the bases on Saturday for another show, and I don't

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Speaker 4: know if the Jays are back in town until next week,

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Speaker 4: so we might have to schedule at dinner.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, like and I I just if I could, Right,

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Speaker 6: There's two things I'd like to read as we close out.

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Speaker 5: Because we will all die.

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Speaker 6: What does it say on your arm Dean in tattoo

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Speaker 6: for the audience, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's Latin.

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01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 4: It says a more fatti which is embraced fate, all

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Speaker 4: of it, the good and the bad.

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01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 3: And momento Mauri, Remember you will die. Only two certainties

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Speaker 3: you have.

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Speaker 5: Yet, Remember you will die.

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Speaker 6: And it's uncomfortable to talk about death and gratitude for life.

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Speaker 6: And one of the things I admire is are people.

937
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 6: Brayden Fisher, a young pitcher with the Blue Jays, talked

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Speaker 6: about his father Norm as a guy who just passed

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Speaker 6: away too young at sixty five, as someone who never

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Speaker 6: had a bad day. And I've always I've always admired

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Speaker 6: people that have had that disposition, that they can see

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Speaker 6: the joy right all the time, on every day, because

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Speaker 6: our life is so short and we're not its authors,

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Speaker 6: and any day can can be our last. And what

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01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 6: we do, particularly those of us who stand for causes,

946
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 6: you're going to be measured against the causes you stand for.

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Speaker 6: And if you live a public life, your integrity will

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Speaker 6: be measured.

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Speaker 5: When George Marshall.

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Speaker 6: One of the greatest heroes of the Republic, passed away,

951
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Speaker 6: a man who was the Army Chief of Staff, the

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Speaker 6: most important army officer of the Second World War, Secretary

953
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Speaker 6: of Defense, the moral architect of the rebuilding of Europe,

954
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Speaker 6: the Secretary of State.

955
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Speaker 5: When he died, this is.

956
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Speaker 6: What Harry Truman said about him. General Marshall was an

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Speaker 6: honorable man, a truthful man, a man of ability, a

958
01:03:55,560 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 6: man of the greatest ability.

959
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 5: He was the.

960
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Speaker 6: Greatest general since Robert Lee. He was the greatest administrator

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Speaker 6: since Thomas Jefferson. Until the day I die, I will

962
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Speaker 6: never cease to marvel. How under the most unbelievable pressures

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01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 6: in strained, General Marshall remains steadfast and unchanging, a warm hearted, considered, considerate,

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Speaker 6: generous and modest man. And then you think about a

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Speaker 6: life of dignity and grace.

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Speaker 5: That is peerless.

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Speaker 6: And in every baseball stadium the number forty two is

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Speaker 6: hung remembering the life of Jackie Robinson. And so, in

969
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Speaker 6: the aftermath of the death of Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump

970
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Speaker 6: demands we set in motion of a reversal of progress

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Speaker 6: that you can trace back to the glorious deeds of

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Speaker 6: black and other segregated combat unit World War Two. They

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Speaker 6: were part of what was called the double V campaign,

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Speaker 6: victory over fascism abroad, victory over racism at home. And

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Speaker 6: so the armed forces are desegregated, and Jackie Robinson plays

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Speaker 6: baseball and breaks the color barrier. It's the same year

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Speaker 6: color barriers broken in professional football.

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Speaker 5: And when he dies too young.

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Speaker 6: Jesse Jackson delivers the eulogy, and I consider this to

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Speaker 6: be the greatest eulogy ever delivered for one person by another,

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Speaker 6: and I'd just like to read it because I think

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Speaker 6: it is a fitting measure of a man's life. On

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Speaker 6: July twelfth was the eighty second an anniversary of the

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Speaker 6: death of Teddy Roosevelt, Junior Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt, Junior,

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Speaker 6: recipient of four Silver Stars, the Distinguished Service Cross, five

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Speaker 6: of the highest valor awards in the US Armed Forces,

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Speaker 6: recipient of two Purple Hearts, man who was in his

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Speaker 6: lifetime chairman of American Express, Governor General of the Philippines,

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Speaker 6: Governor General of Puerto Rico, narrowly lost the New York

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Speaker 6: Governor's race. The eldest son of the President of the

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Speaker 6: United States, who, when he was a young man, believed

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Speaker 6: he would never have a name.

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01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 5: A reputation of his own.

994
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 6: A brilliant combat leader, he insists that he will lead

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Speaker 6: his men ashore on D Day, and when the troops land,

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Speaker 6: Teddy Roosevelt recognizes instantly they're in the wrong place and

997
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 6: famously says, we'll start the war from here. He used

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Speaker 6: every connection. He had to overcome the order that said

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Speaker 6: no way, you're not landing in the first wave. And

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Speaker 6: he became the only general officer to land in the

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Speaker 6: first wave. He was the oldest man, fifty six. He

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Speaker 6: came ashore with a cane and a sidearm and under

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Speaker 6: fire directed the troops. He was the only father who

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Speaker 6: had a son in the first wave. And he was

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Speaker 6: the only general who came ashore in the first wave.

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Speaker 6: And Teddy Roosevelt died eighty two years of a day

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Speaker 6: that Lindsey Graham died, and his grave is embossed with

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Speaker 6: the gold appropriate for our recipient of the Medal of

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Speaker 6: Honor in the American Cemetery above Colville, saying, where all

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Speaker 6: the graves faced west back towards home, across the ocean,

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01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 6: they crossed to defend liberty. That's the sacrifice, and that's

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Speaker 6: the dimensions of Lindsey graham betrayal. So when we think

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01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 6: about a life, think about what Jesse Jackson said about

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Speaker 6: Jackie Robinson. Today, we must balance the tears of sorrow

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Speaker 6: with the tears of joy, mix the bitter with the

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01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:24,559
Speaker 6: sweet death and life. Jackie, there's a figure in history

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Speaker 6: was a rock in the water, creating concentric circles and

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Speaker 6: ripples of new possibility. He was medicine. He was immunized

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Speaker 6: by God from catching the diseases.

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Speaker 5: That he fought.

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Speaker 6: The Lord's arms of protection enabled him to go through

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Speaker 6: dangers seen and unseen, and he had the capacity to

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Speaker 6: wear glory with grace. Jackie's body was a temple of God,

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01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 6: an instrument of peace. We would watch him disappear into

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Speaker 6: nothingness and stand back as spectators and watch the suffering

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Speaker 6: from afar. The mercy of God intercepted this process Tuesday

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Speaker 6: and permitted him to steal away home where referees are

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Speaker 6: out of place and only the supreme Judge of the

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01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 6: universe speaks. And so now Lindsey Graham stands before the

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Speaker 6: Supreme Judge of the universe. And that is a jurisdiction

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Speaker 6: beyond our reach. But we remember who he was with clarity,

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Speaker 6: and in this time of crisis, can offer no false

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01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 6: evasions or memories to a man who knew better and

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01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:42,240
Speaker 6: did worse by choice, the master of his fate, who

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01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 6: yoped it to a vicious fascism and a cult of

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01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 6: personality headed by a rapist whose best friend was Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 5: So I'll sustain and take no lectures.

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Speaker 6: From powerful men and women who tell me it's not

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01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 6: the time to speak clearly about the truth. Graham is

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Speaker 6: a tragedy, but he's a tragedy by choice.

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Speaker 3: That, of course is Steve Schmidt. Thank you, Steve.

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01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 4: This has been dead air, brought to you by the

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01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:18,840
Speaker 4: Save America Movement, and that is a per perfect place

1044
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:20,200
Speaker 4: to end for today.

1045
01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 3: We will see you again on Saturday.

1046
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 4: Please subscribe, Please share this with as many people as

1047
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 4: humanly possible at Steve Schmidt right here on substack at

1048
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 4: It's Dean Blundell here on substack, and of course the

1049
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Speaker 4: Save America Movement here on substack as well the Save

1050
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 4: America Movement dot org.

1051
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 3: Go and donate, Go and join today. Thanks Steve. Talk

1052
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 3: to you Saturday.

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Speaker 5: Go see Tan