NASHional Briefing Weekend Segment 4

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, final segment of the National Briefing with me
Kelly Nash. And I mentioned earlier, and I mentioned this
all the time that I do come to you from Columbia,
South Carolina, but I do do a national radio show
and it airs out of the home market of KFYI Phoenix,
which I love Phoenix. And here's the thing. When you're

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doing these types of shows, you have to wonder to yourself.
Am I talking about things that are interesting to me
because I live in South Carolina? Or is it interesting
to the nation. I think that the passing of Lindsey
Graham is a thing that most conservatives at least are
interested in. I understand that Lindsay Graham had a very
we'll say, contentious relationships with the Republican Party. Lindsay I

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don't want to say he was a friend of mine,
but he was a guest on my show many times
and had great discussions with Lindsay Graham. And one of
the things that I think a lot of Americans who
don't like Lindsay Graham thought he was a warhawk. Even
the President joke to Lindsay never met a war he
didn't like. I didn't think that that was quite fair.

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Lindsey also loved South Carolina. I think most people know
the backstory with his sister and how he had to
raise her beginning when he was twenty one, and all
of those types of things. But more importantly, on the
national stage and or the international stage, Lindsey Graham thought
it was important for America to project strength. And the
reason he thought so was because that was the way

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to keep the peace. He was a big proponent of
the bigger and badder you look, the less likely somebody
is to want to mess with you. That was the
basic theory. And Lindsay proudly served in the military for
I think thirty one years. He was in the Air Force,
and then he moved over to the Air National Guard.
We're renaming one of the Air Force. Well, it's not

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an Air Force base. I'm sorry, it's a joint base.
Charleston will now be renamed in him honor. The other
thing about Lindsay Graham that I think is somewhat fascinating
was how his position changed when it comes to term limits.
Because literally, on his last visit to the station here,
I played for him a clip that C Span had
of him from nineteen ninety eight. I think it was.

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And he was a House member, he was not yet
a senator, and he was on the floor making a
speech about the importance of passing term limits and how
we needed fresh new ideas and blood in DC. And
you know, obviously that didn't work out that way. And
I asked him why or how did that change? And
he said, strom Thurman changed his opinion. I think most

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of you have heard the name strom Thurman. He died
at like one hundred years old. He'd served South Carolina
for like sixty five seventy years or something ridiculous. But
strom Thurman's point to Lindsay was that government only works
if there are people who understand how to run the show.
And Lindsay was a master of back channeling, and he

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really knew how to help get things through the Senate.
He knew how to manipulate the president, not just Donald Trump,
but Joe Biden, Barack Obama. He knew how to do
these types of things. He was a skilled statesman, and
he was willing he would actually tell And we talked
to several people who had told us that Lindsay would

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tell them, I'm going to vote yes on this because
it's the right thing but because we're going to have
enough yes votes and it's going to be really tough
for conservatives to defend this vote, you should vote no
to protect yourself when you go home. And that's the
game of politics. It's a blood sport. Lindsey Graham understood it,
and he only wanted the best for America. And he

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will be tremendously missed by all of us here in
South Carolina, and I think by a lot in America.
And if you have any thoughts on Lindsay or anything
else that you'd like to share with me, my at
on social media is Kelly Nash Radio. I hope you
enjoy the rest of your weekend. You are escaped from
the mainstream echo chamber. The National Briefing