July 29, 2026 • 32 mins
Mark Simone examines newly released audio in which Joe Biden discusses classified documents with the ghostwriter working on his memoir. He contrasts Biden’s handling of classified material with the investigation of Donald Trump and discusses whether Biden could still face legal consequences. The hour concludes with President Trump’s personal and emotional eulogy honoring Senator Lindsey Graham’s life, career, military service, and lasting impact on the country.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Mark Simone here on the Sean Hannity Show.
Normally I'm on our big flagship station WR in New
York and then on the iHeart app. Sean will be
back tomorrow. He's been in South Carolina today. Funeral of
Lindsey Graham. The burial took place today. You know, yesterday
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was a moving ceremony memorial at National Cathedral. President Trump
gave quite a eulogy. We'll play a bit of it
a little later on this hour. You should stay tuned
for that. So they were talking about Anthony Fauci, the
dirty little worm, but we forgot our other criminal. Joe Biden,
Old Sleepy Joe committed what appears to be a crime,
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and he recorded it. Actually, he was working on his
book and he had a ghost writer, and Joe Biden's
meeting with the guy, the writer stuff for his book,
his auto biography, and the guys recording the conversations, and
as he's talking to him at home, he's showing him
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classified documents and he actually says to him things like
these are classified. You know I'm supposed to see that.
I I shouldn't be showing this to you. It's actually,
first of all, in the case of Donald Trump, there
were a couple of classified documents at mar A Lago.
All those boxes you saw, those were not classified documents.
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You remember the fake Jack Smith, if that's really his name,
put out all these pictures of hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of boxes. Well it turned out in the end,
after they went through mar A Lago and searched every
inch of it, all they found were thirty five classified documents.
If you put them in a folder, the folders about
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an inch thick, so one inch of one box was
classified documents. All the rest were not. And the important
point is, as president of the United States, the classified
documents belonged to him. He can classify them, he can
unclassify them anytime he wants. He has full authority to
take those documents anywhere he wants as president. And remember
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when he got to mar A Lago, he was still president.
Remember Biden was being inaugurated. Trump didn't stay for the inauguration,
He left a couple hours early and was at mar
A Lago, So he was still president when he brought
those documents. They're legally his now. Joe Biden at the
time of his documents was a vice president he was
a senator, he had absolutely no authority to take classified
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documents anywhere, so he had them in his house illegally. Now,
he later tried to blame it on the staff that
they moved it, but we know from her report page
one point fifty three that Biden personally supervised the packing
of the documents in the moving of them. So they
were all over his house. They were in his garage,
they were in his basement, they were in his den.
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So he's meeting with the guy that's going to write
his book and sent to this as he shows in
the classified documents.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So this was high early on.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
In nine.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I just found all the classified stuff downstairs. I was,
I gonna ask you something else. Oh gosh, I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Think of what is.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
This was a big meeting the CIA and everyone.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
On it was.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Was that a July meeting?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And it looks like it is.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It says I've changed pins, so it's got to be
after the seventeenth of June.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And then it's a long meeting.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Where the know de brief at dear d COTUS Air
Force two two thirty pm. It was a big me down.
In a situation, it would have been some of this
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may be classified. Careful, that's sure. I know the more classified.
I just found all the classified stuff downstairs. I wrote
the president. I handwritten forty page memorandum.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Sounds like a lot of fun spending the day with
Joe Biden. Huh, it really sounds like a lot of fun.
I wish i'd been there. This is you, Potus. I
gotta tell you something. Oh gosh, I can't remember what
it was. Imagine a whole afternoon of that. I hope
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this guy was getting paid a lot of money to
ghost write this book. But you hear him clearly say,
be careful. This is classified. You're not supposed to show it.
You're not even supposed to have it. You're not supposed
to be showing it to somebody a book, right, So
he's clearly committed a crime there. Did he pardon himself
on the way out the door? I don't think so,
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So he could be charged anyway. Let's take some calls.
Let's go to Julie in Utah. Julie, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, Hi, Mark, thanks for taking my call. I actually
called in while you guys were still talking about Fauci.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Now I could tell you from Utah. You know you
sound so friendly. You sound so warm and sweet. Hello,
how are you? You know if it was from New York,
it'd be how are you? No, it's great, you sound great.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
From your neck of the Wits. Anyways, I'm so sorry.
I'm going back to Fauci. Yes, mine, A lot of
the pundits and the people I've heard giving their expert
opinion is that he's immune from prosecution because of federally
because of Biden's auto pant But I doubt that would
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hold up internationally, even if it was a legitimate a pardon,
which we kind of all know it wasn't. So could
someone internationally some country since it's an.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Interesting idea, but you can't. You can't really do that.
You can't prosecute in another country. It just doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Well, if if Mom Domi is after net Nyahu with
the ICC, I mean, what is the difference between all
the deaths of Vauci caused, Well.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Even Mom Donnie had to admit it doesn't apply. The
ICC charged net Yahoo with crimes, but they have no
jurisdiction here. We don't even recognize them. So Mom Donnie
had to admit the charges don't apply here. But I'm
glad you keep thinking, keep thinking of a way to
get this worm. Fauci. Where are you in Utah? That
little evil weasel.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
He needs to pay, but he probably never will.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
All right, where are you in Utah?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Just north of Salt Lake?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Very nice. What's the temperature there now?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Too hot?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I think it's supposed to be possibly one oh seven.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Whoa. I don't like that.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
It's a it's a desert. Everybody thinks we're a ski town.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, no, I was picturing green mountains and grass and trees.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
We're a desert. We're by the mountains, but we're a desert.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
One hundred and seven.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Oh, it's a.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Hot, hot summer.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
All right.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Hey, thanks for your time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
All right, great call, Julie, thank you for calling. Let's
go to uh Let's go to Deborah in Pennsylvania. Deborah,
Welcome to the Sean Hannity show. Y.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So, I have a question. I'd have thought if every
single person was affected somehow by this debacle. I'm not
saying Fauci should not be accountable, but should maybe the
government give reparationss I like that because he did I'm
not he he does work. He worked for the government.
There shouldn't be like, give us some compensation. Everybody was
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somehow affected by it.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, I like that, reparations for all of us. We
uh will put in for that. The last thing we
need to do is more government spending though. But it's
a good idea. Deborah, thanks for calling. Let's go to
John Is in South Carolina. John, Welcome to the Sean
Hannity Show.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Mark, I appreciate you taking my call. I appreciate what
you do. Also taking over from Sean.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
You had a session earlier on data centers. Yeah, earlier
in the show. Yeah, I have researched. I used to
work for the military. They are buying small nuclear reactors
from three companies. I'm not going to advertise who they are.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
No, I know those companies. Go this is like the
coming thing. By the way, these tiny nuclear reactors you
can use in the power a factory and power things.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Those they could route a whole data center.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, well but that is part. They are working on that,
and they are talking about doing that. So it's a
good idea.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I had not heard that.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, they're working on Hey, John, thanks for calling. This
is a big thing of the future, small tiny nuclear reactors,
and you put them on the top of your building.
It'll power your I mean it could be a big
U factory. It'll power your entire factory. And there's a
couple of companies making this. This is going to be
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like the most used thing in the world in the future.
In fact, I don't remember the names of the companies,
but you'll want to buy stock in those companies. Gonna
be a big, big business. So they're talking about that.
For the data centers, you know the data center nightmare.
The fear is if it opens near you, it's going
to use up all the power and all the water. Well,
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the answer will be, these little nuclear reactors will power
the data center. They won't have to touch the local
power supply. And as far as the water, they're developing
a technology where they recycle the same water over and
over and over again, so they won't need very very
little water. So that's not the only other problem is
the noise. Apparently they're pretty noisy. They do make a
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lot of noise. They opened one down in Virginia, but
it was near Dulles Airport, which is a good idea
because you might say this's's noisy, It's going to be
noisy in the middle of night in my neighborhood. You're
next to Dulles Airport. Who are you going to call it?
You can't complain about noise airport. Noise will drown it out.
But hey, we'll take some more calls. Eight hundred and
nine to one. Sean other stories to get to and
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we'll get back to the dirty little Weasel. Anthony Fauci
and Moore coming up. Mark Simone here, Hey, follow me
on Instagram. It's Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. Mark Simone
NYC at Instagram. Of course, check out Hannity dot Com
and Sean will be back tomorrow on the Sean Hannity Show. Hey,
(10:33):
welcome back. It's the Sean Hannity Show. It's Mark Simone
here for Sean other news today, the big announcement was
President Trump Shawn Duffy, Transportation Secretary Oval Office. They're going
to rebuild Dulles Airport. That's the big international airport outside
of Washington, DC. They're going to rebuild the whole airport.
And you're very lucky that you got the best builder
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around in the White House to watch over this. Normally
it would be one hundred billion dollar project. Under Trump,
it'll be twenty two billion dollars to rebuild the whole airport.
You remember here in New York, our crazy awful governor
Cuomo at the time rebuilt one terminal at LaGuardia and
that was twenty billion just for one terminal. So you're
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not going to see the usual government waste that you
would see here. What else, Gavin Newsom, ooh, this is
not good. He's already fading away. But his mistress, you know,
he had an affair with his best friend's wife. She's
now writing a book, a tell all book. It's not
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good at all. So you remember, not very long.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Now I heard it's very short, just a couple pages. Oh,
not a lot to tell.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, but there's some juicy stuff in there, hot tub
stories and all of this. And apparently what inspired is
he wrote a book of his life and totally mischaracterized
everything that happened between the two of them. So she
wanted to set the record straight. But that is kind
of weakly. Sleeping with your best friend's wife not a
good thing to do. He's admitted to this and all
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of that. But hey, let's see one more from the
hearings today. If you missed it, cut nine, let's Listen
to this. This is Rand Paul fou She took the
fifth one hundred and eleven times. Listen to Rand Paul Auchie.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Would you like to at least answer this one question
for us today and let us know whether or not
you've changed your mind on whether or not the benefits
of gain of function research outweigh the risks on.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
The adviceive Council.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
I respectfully declined to answer based upon my rights under
the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The Chairman has denied
your assertion of privilege and directed you to answer them,
but you nonetheless refuse and stand on privilege despite the
existence of the pardon. The committee will have to consider
them after this hearing. What appropriate action should be taken
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against you for the failure to testify after being direct
to do so. It's against the law to obstruct an
investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions to your refusal
to testify today.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Let's hope. So, Linda, what do you think will they
ever get this guy?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
I think it's impressive that a guy who is a
doctor is giving legal advice to him in front of
his six attorneys. I kind of love that, But yeah,
I really do. I think he's going down, And I
think everybody who got on that ship, all of those
people who said that people who didn't get vaccinated should
be excommunicated, shot, hung out to dry, not allowed to
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go anywhere. You couldn't go. You couldn't go, you couldn't
have prom you couldn't walk in your work building, your
school office, see a movie, go anywhere, you couldn't kiss
your loved ones goodbye. Every single person who supported him
is complicit in this because they helped to propagate the lie.
So I think everybody needs to go down with the ship.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Okay, I agree, FATCHI a very very very bad guy
of forcing everybody to take the vaccine. You know, if
you read the diary, he got the vaccine and then
had some serious problems, serious side effects from it, like
three months later, which he puts in the diary. There's
a lot of stuff in there. If you haven't read it,
go online and actually read the diary. And when he
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was locking everybody down and not allowing you out of
your house, where were you, no kings people, Well, when
was you protesting that at the time?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
But Mark, we have to ask the question. I see
people driving around in their cars along with a mask,
one like the sy up and the psychosis of these people.
I'm like, oh my god, guys, it's enough already. You
have to know that it was all a lie. It
was just to see if they could control you. And
guess what they could.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, there was that famous sixty minutes interview earlier in
the pandemic. We said, masks don't do anything, they don't
mean anything.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
He kept flipped on and that the six feet was arbitrary.
There was absolutely no science behind it, not one bit.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, and that contact tracing. At some point they had
to explain to him, you don't contact trace when it's
an airborne virus that's heard immunity.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
That was a big mystery to him. Mister doctor Vauci,
give me a break.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And we never had to hear the word congregate again.
All I heard from him was when in you're in
congregate settings, don't Well, we're done with Fauci for the day. Hey,
when we come back. This is It was quite a
powerful service yesterday, the memorial service for Lindsey Graham. And
you know, President Trump had become very close to Lindsay
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Graham and he gave this a very moving eulogy, so
we'll take a listen to it coming up in the
next half hour. It's really something to hear, so don't
go away. It's Mark Simone here on the Sean Hannity.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Show, exposing the Pelosi Party's chaos and corruption all day,
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every day.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
This is the Sean Hannity Show. Hey, welcome back. It's
Mark Simone. Sean at the well in South Carolina. The
funeral today of Lindsey Graham. The burial takes place in
South Carolina. Yesterday, quite an amazing ceremony, National Cathedral, Washington,
d C. Sean gave a really powerful eulogy and a
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really amazing one from the President of the United States,
Donald Trump, very very close with Lindsey Graham, and it
was quite powerful him saying goodbye to his great friend.
And I thought we'd take a listen to it. His
President Trump yesterday, National Cathedral.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Thank you very much, Vice President Vance, members of the Cabinet,
members of the House and Senate, distinguished guests, Darlene and
the entire Graham family love you all. Today we gather
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in the deepest gratitude and profoundest sorrow to honor a
beloved friend, a devoted brother, a respected statesman, a giant
of the United States Senate, and a true American original
who left us much too soon. And that can only
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be the one and only Lindsey Graham. By the strength
of his steadfast convictions, the force of his magnetic personality,
and the goodness of his noble soul, Lindsay roads from
a small town in rural South Carolina, place he loves
so much to become a constant fixture and politics at
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the highest level, and it forced to be reckoned with
all over the world.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
For more than thirty.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Years, Nothing of consequence happened in his capital without Lindsay
Graham knowing about it. Nothing of significance happened anywhere in
the world without Lindsay Graham having a view on it,
And no bill became law in the most exceptional republic
in human history without Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Having a say in it. He was a man who.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Gave America the full measure of his good and mighty
heart until that heart itself just gave out.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
But even though Lindsay's life was.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Cut short, well, he was still so full of vim
and vigor. There can be no doubt that he lived
absolutely to the fullest. He died doing the work he
was born to do. He was truly a great politic,
serving the country he loved to serve so deeply. He
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went out of the peak of his career at the
top of his game, as a legend that everyone of us,
many of us here today blessed to know him, and
a friend that none of us will ever forget. There
was truly nobody like Lindsay Graham. It was his hometown
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of central South Carolina that Lindsay first learned the art
of politics. His parents ran a bar and pool hall
on Main Street with a room in the back where
the family spent and had to do. As Lindsay said,
his father taught him the key to being a successful
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bar owner is that you have to be funny enough
that people will keep coming back, and.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
That you have to be tough enough that you.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Can stay in business and thrive, very difficult combination. For
his entire storied career, that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Who Lindsey Graham was.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
He was the first person to make you laugh and
one of the last people that you've really ever wanted
to fight. These were the traits that made him into
one of the great figures in Senate history, few like him.
As a boy, Lindsay also learned his first lessons in
diplomacy when the wife of one regular patron called the
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bar asking for her husband. She demanded to know where
is he. The man instructed Lindsay, tell her I'm not here,
and young Lindsey nodded and said into the phone to
the wife, he said, to tell you that.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
He's not here. That was Lindsay.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
When Lindsay was just twenty years old, he lost his
mom to cancer. Fifteen months later, he lost his dad.
Their deaths left his thirteen year old sister, Darlene, an orphan,
but in God's mercy, she had her wonderful brother to
take care of her.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
On top of it.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
All, Lindsay became her guardian while still in college and
helped raise her. He later said that for all his achievements,
and he had many, his single proudest accomplishment in life
was how well Darlene turned out. He had total respect
and love for Darlene. Nothing could be more fitting than
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that woman, who was Lindsay's proudest legacy now continues his
legacy of service in the US Senate, a place that
he cherished. And I have no doubt that he's looking
down today beaming with pride at his sister, Senator Darlene Graham.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Senator Lindsay first stormed into Washington with the Republican Revolution
nineteen ninety four, becoming the first Republican to win his
House district in one hundred.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
And twenty years. That was Lindsay.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
In twenty oh two, he ran for the Senate in
what should have been a loss, and he swept to
an easy victory. Lindsay quickly became a master at maneuvering
in one of the world's great legislative bodies. He secured
record funding for our military. As a Budget Committee chairman,
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he delivered the largest investment in border security and history.
And last year he shepherded the passage of the largest
tax cuts in American history. The Great, Big, Beautiful Bill
had a lot of Lindsey goodies in there too, i
can tell you. And of course, he was also a
great champion of the United States Supreme Court. His impassioned
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defense of a wonderful person, a great gentleman, Justice Kavanaugh,
ended a disgraceful attack on this very good man and
gave us one of the greatest moments the Senate has
ever seen.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It was a truly monumental moment in Senate history.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I believe it was Lindsay's perhaps finest hour. But no
matter how heated things got in Washington, virtually everyone Republican
or Democrat liked Lindsay.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Well, not everybody, but he sounds good. Not everybody.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
He was a tough cookie. Okay, I have to be
I have to vere from this versa. He was a
tough cookie, Darley, but he was beautiful. But he was
also ready with a joke and a gleam.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
In his eye.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
After being lectured on the excruciating details of patent law
by a fellow senator during a flight, Lindsay declared that
he had discovered a new form of enhanced interrogation and
torture for the one town of Obay area. He said,
this is really bad stuff and boring. And while he
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was an incredibly hard worker, he was not exactly an
early riser, as many of you know. When Senator Tim Scott,
a great gentleman in his own right, I can tell you,
invited him to prayer breakfast at eight thirty am, Lindsey
told him, Tim, if Jesus himself comes back before.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Ten am, I ain't going yet.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
While he was always quick to laugh, and no one
ever doubted the gravity of his mission, Above all, Lindsey
Graham believed in a strong America, wanted a strong America.
He had unwavering faith in the righteousness of American power
and prayer. And he was extremely hawkish. I will tell
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you he never saw a war that he didn't like.
Only his true friends would understand that. But he wanted
it for the good of our country. He felt in
his bones that our destiny is to win, and that
his job was to do everything he could to ensure
our enemies would lose. It was this conviction that led
him to serve thirty three years in uniform in the
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Air Force and Air Force Reserves and Air National Guard
even while he was in office. And it was this
conviction that took him as a Senator to almost every
country on Earth, confronting America's adversaries and standing up for
America's friends.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
He had tremendous friendships all over the world.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
It's a testament to his towering impact that among those
mourning him here today, our leaders, presidents, prime ministers from
all over the globe, sitting right here before you. Lindsay
met countless world leaders, yet wherever he went, he was
always the same Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
When he met Libyan dictator.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Omar Kadaffi in a tent in the desert, he told
him I expected something out of the Arabian nights. This
looks more like a Winnebago. That was not a good
statement to make at the time. And when he met
the Dali Lama, Lindsay looked him straight into the eyes
and said, so, can you really levitate? Dhali Lama was
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not happy with that, But no matter how high he rose,
he never forgot where he came from. There's probably not
a single town in South Carolina where Lindsay did not
help repair a bridge, expand to school, and prove a hospital,
or recover from a disaster. He was a force of nature,
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and I will miss him greatly. As you remember, Lindsay
and I did not exactly get off to the best
of starts running against each other. Back in twenty sixteen,
Lindsay said something rather nasty on his flight to becoming
the next President of the United States. So naturally I
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did something that I shouldn't have done. I shared his
personal cell phone number with the millions of people that
happened to be watching that particular day.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
As I made a speech, a very important speech.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
And I remember the number two O two two two
eight two nine two if anybody wants to give it
a shot, his phone exploded. He said, I had that
number for twenty years, his phone totally. I don't know
what he did with it, but it exploded. That was
the beginning of a friendship in a way. But it
was Lindsay who had the last lap because while I
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blew up his phone for one day, we became great
friends and Lindsay did not stop calling me for the
next ten years.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
It was not he's.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
I always sharis the memories of our golf games, and
only because of his really, and I will say this
more oil service. It's so hard to say memorial service
on Lindsay.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
It's hard to say, but I'll.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Admit that one time Lindsay Graham and Anica Sorenson actually
beat me and Gary Player together.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Can you believe that Anica played very well that day?
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Actually, But right to the end, Lindsay carried in his
golf bag the putter that once belonged to his dad,
and he carried it with him with class and with
a ring that was so beautiful of his mother. And
they were laying right at his bedside the night he died.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
They were there. He had him with him at all times.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
From that pool hall where his parents raised him, to
the halls of the United States Senate, where he was
respected and loved, the son of South Carolina became one
of the most important men in the most important country
or earth. In a city where politicians often become jaded
and Seneca, Lindsay Graham never lost the old fashioned American
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idealism that brought him to the highest levels of government
and life. He took his duty seriously without taking himself
too seriously. He was unwavering in his principles, but always
willing to listen. He always wanted to listen. And one
thing about Lindsey that we all know, he never quit.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
You wanted him to quit, you waited for him to quit,
but he would never quit.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Above all, Lindsey Graham loved America and he believed in
the American people. If you shared that view, you had
a friend in Lindsay. If you didn't share it, there
was no fiercer or more constant opponent. Our nation needs
more men and women like that great person sitting laying.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Wherever he may be. I think I know where.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
He is, and I think he's up there. I think
he's watching us. I'm pretty sure of it. Scripture tells
us that blessed is the man who remained steadfast under trial,
for when he has stood the test, he will receive
the crown of life. For seventy one years, Lindsey Graham
was strong and steadfast as a brother, a senator, a warrior,
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and a patriot. He withstood every last test, every single test.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
That you can go through in every trial.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
And now he wears the crown of life and heaven
reunited with his parents and reunited with his Lord. I
end by saying something very very special, Lindsey. We love you,
God bless you. We will always be with you. And
you were very very special. Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Well that's from yesterday. That was quite a ceremony. National Cathedral, Washington,
d C. Lindsey Graham a great figure in America. It's
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Hey, it's Mark Simone here on the Sean Hannity Show.
Normally I'm on our big flagship station WR in New
York and then on the iHeart app. Sean will be
back tomorrow. He's been in South Carolina today. Funeral of
Lindsey Graham. The burial took place today. You know, yesterday
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was a moving ceremony memorial at National Cathedral. President Trump
gave quite a eulogy. We'll play a bit of it
a little later on this hour. You should stay tuned
for that. So they were talking about Anthony Fauci, the
dirty little worm, but we forgot our other criminal. Joe Biden,
Old Sleepy Joe committed what appears to be a crime,
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and he recorded it. Actually, he was working on his
book and he had a ghost writer, and Joe Biden's
meeting with the guy, the writer stuff for his book,
his auto biography, and the guys recording the conversations, and
as he's talking to him at home, he's showing him
(01:06):
classified documents and he actually says to him things like
these are classified. You know I'm supposed to see that.
I I shouldn't be showing this to you. It's actually,
first of all, in the case of Donald Trump, there
were a couple of classified documents at mar A Lago.
All those boxes you saw, those were not classified documents.
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You remember the fake Jack Smith, if that's really his name,
put out all these pictures of hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of boxes. Well it turned out in the end,
after they went through mar A Lago and searched every
inch of it, all they found were thirty five classified documents.
If you put them in a folder, the folders about
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an inch thick, so one inch of one box was
classified documents. All the rest were not. And the important
point is, as president of the United States, the classified
documents belonged to him. He can classify them, he can
unclassify them anytime he wants. He has full authority to
take those documents anywhere he wants as president. And remember
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when he got to mar A Lago, he was still president.
Remember Biden was being inaugurated. Trump didn't stay for the inauguration,
He left a couple hours early and was at mar
A Lago, So he was still president when he brought
those documents. They're legally his now. Joe Biden at the
time of his documents was a vice president he was
a senator, he had absolutely no authority to take classified
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documents anywhere, so he had them in his house illegally. Now,
he later tried to blame it on the staff that
they moved it, but we know from her report page
one point fifty three that Biden personally supervised the packing
of the documents in the moving of them. So they
were all over his house. They were in his garage,
they were in his basement, they were in his den.
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So he's meeting with the guy that's going to write
his book and sent to this as he shows in
the classified documents.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So this was high early on.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
In nine.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I just found all the classified stuff downstairs. I was,
I gonna ask you something else. Oh gosh, I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Think of what is.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
This was a big meeting the CIA and everyone.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
On it was.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Was that a July meeting?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
And it looks like it is.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
It says I've changed pins, so it's got to be
after the seventeenth of June.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And then it's a long meeting.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Where the know de brief at dear d COTUS Air
Force two two thirty pm. It was a big me down.
In a situation, it would have been some of this
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may be classified. Careful, that's sure. I know the more classified.
I just found all the classified stuff downstairs. I wrote
the president. I handwritten forty page memorandum.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Sounds like a lot of fun spending the day with
Joe Biden. Huh, it really sounds like a lot of fun.
I wish i'd been there. This is you, Potus. I
gotta tell you something. Oh gosh, I can't remember what
it was. Imagine a whole afternoon of that. I hope
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this guy was getting paid a lot of money to
ghost write this book. But you hear him clearly say,
be careful. This is classified. You're not supposed to show it.
You're not even supposed to have it. You're not supposed
to be showing it to somebody a book, right, So
he's clearly committed a crime there. Did he pardon himself
on the way out the door? I don't think so,
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So he could be charged anyway. Let's take some calls.
Let's go to Julie in Utah. Julie, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yeah, Hi, Mark, thanks for taking my call. I actually
called in while you guys were still talking about Fauci.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Now I could tell you from Utah. You know you
sound so friendly. You sound so warm and sweet. Hello,
how are you? You know if it was from New York,
it'd be how are you? No, it's great, you sound great.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
From your neck of the Wits. Anyways, I'm so sorry.
I'm going back to Fauci. Yes, mine, A lot of
the pundits and the people I've heard giving their expert
opinion is that he's immune from prosecution because of federally
because of Biden's auto pant But I doubt that would
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hold up internationally, even if it was a legitimate a pardon,
which we kind of all know it wasn't. So could
someone internationally some country since it's an.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Interesting idea, but you can't. You can't really do that.
You can't prosecute in another country. It just doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Well, if if Mom Domi is after net Nyahu with
the ICC, I mean, what is the difference between all
the deaths of Vauci caused, Well.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Even Mom Donnie had to admit it doesn't apply. The
ICC charged net Yahoo with crimes, but they have no
jurisdiction here. We don't even recognize them. So Mom Donnie
had to admit the charges don't apply here. But I'm
glad you keep thinking, keep thinking of a way to
get this worm. Fauci. Where are you in Utah? That
little evil weasel.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
He needs to pay, but he probably never will.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
All right, where are you in Utah?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Just north of Salt Lake?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Very nice. What's the temperature there now?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Too hot?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I think it's supposed to be possibly one oh seven.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Whoa. I don't like that.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
It's a it's a desert. Everybody thinks we're a ski town.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, no, I was picturing green mountains and grass and trees.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
We're a desert. We're by the mountains, but we're a desert.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
One hundred and seven.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Oh, it's a.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Hot, hot summer.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
All right.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Hey, thanks for your time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
All right, great call, Julie, thank you for calling. Let's
go to uh Let's go to Deborah in Pennsylvania. Deborah,
Welcome to the Sean Hannity show. Y.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So, I have a question. I'd have thought if every
single person was affected somehow by this debacle. I'm not
saying Fauci should not be accountable, but should maybe the
government give reparationss I like that because he did I'm
not he he does work. He worked for the government.
There shouldn't be like, give us some compensation. Everybody was
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somehow affected by it.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, I like that, reparations for all of us. We
uh will put in for that. The last thing we
need to do is more government spending though. But it's
a good idea. Deborah, thanks for calling. Let's go to
John Is in South Carolina. John, Welcome to the Sean
Hannity Show.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Mark, I appreciate you taking my call. I appreciate what
you do. Also taking over from Sean.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
You had a session earlier on data centers. Yeah, earlier
in the show. Yeah, I have researched. I used to
work for the military. They are buying small nuclear reactors
from three companies. I'm not going to advertise who they are.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
No, I know those companies. Go this is like the
coming thing. By the way, these tiny nuclear reactors you
can use in the power a factory and power things.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Those they could route a whole data center.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, well but that is part. They are working on that,
and they are talking about doing that. So it's a
good idea.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I had not heard that.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, they're working on Hey, John, thanks for calling. This
is a big thing of the future, small tiny nuclear reactors,
and you put them on the top of your building.
It'll power your I mean it could be a big
U factory. It'll power your entire factory. And there's a
couple of companies making this. This is going to be
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like the most used thing in the world in the future.
In fact, I don't remember the names of the companies,
but you'll want to buy stock in those companies. Gonna
be a big, big business. So they're talking about that.
For the data centers, you know the data center nightmare.
The fear is if it opens near you, it's going
to use up all the power and all the water. Well,
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the answer will be, these little nuclear reactors will power
the data center. They won't have to touch the local
power supply. And as far as the water, they're developing
a technology where they recycle the same water over and
over and over again, so they won't need very very
little water. So that's not the only other problem is
the noise. Apparently they're pretty noisy. They do make a
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lot of noise. They opened one down in Virginia, but
it was near Dulles Airport, which is a good idea
because you might say this's's noisy, It's going to be
noisy in the middle of night in my neighborhood. You're
next to Dulles Airport. Who are you going to call it?
You can't complain about noise airport. Noise will drown it out.
But hey, we'll take some more calls. Eight hundred and
nine to one. Sean other stories to get to and
(10:11):
we'll get back to the dirty little Weasel. Anthony Fauci
and Moore coming up. Mark Simone here, Hey, follow me
on Instagram. It's Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. Mark Simone
NYC at Instagram. Of course, check out Hannity dot Com
and Sean will be back tomorrow on the Sean Hannity Show. Hey,
(10:33):
welcome back. It's the Sean Hannity Show. It's Mark Simone
here for Sean other news today, the big announcement was
President Trump Shawn Duffy, Transportation Secretary Oval Office. They're going
to rebuild Dulles Airport. That's the big international airport outside
of Washington, DC. They're going to rebuild the whole airport.
And you're very lucky that you got the best builder
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around in the White House to watch over this. Normally
it would be one hundred billion dollar project. Under Trump,
it'll be twenty two billion dollars to rebuild the whole airport.
You remember here in New York, our crazy awful governor
Cuomo at the time rebuilt one terminal at LaGuardia and
that was twenty billion just for one terminal. So you're
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not going to see the usual government waste that you
would see here. What else, Gavin Newsom, ooh, this is
not good. He's already fading away. But his mistress, you know,
he had an affair with his best friend's wife. She's
now writing a book, a tell all book. It's not
(11:38):
good at all. So you remember, not very long.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Now I heard it's very short, just a couple pages. Oh,
not a lot to tell.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, but there's some juicy stuff in there, hot tub
stories and all of this. And apparently what inspired is
he wrote a book of his life and totally mischaracterized
everything that happened between the two of them. So she
wanted to set the record straight. But that is kind
of weakly. Sleeping with your best friend's wife not a
good thing to do. He's admitted to this and all
(12:05):
of that. But hey, let's see one more from the
hearings today. If you missed it, cut nine, let's Listen
to this. This is Rand Paul fou She took the
fifth one hundred and eleven times. Listen to Rand Paul Auchie.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Would you like to at least answer this one question
for us today and let us know whether or not
you've changed your mind on whether or not the benefits
of gain of function research outweigh the risks on.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
The adviceive Council.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
I respectfully declined to answer based upon my rights under
the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The Chairman has denied
your assertion of privilege and directed you to answer them,
but you nonetheless refuse and stand on privilege despite the
existence of the pardon. The committee will have to consider
them after this hearing. What appropriate action should be taken
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against you for the failure to testify after being direct
to do so. It's against the law to obstruct an
investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions to your refusal
to testify today.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Let's hope. So, Linda, what do you think will they
ever get this guy?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
I think it's impressive that a guy who is a
doctor is giving legal advice to him in front of
his six attorneys. I kind of love that, But yeah,
I really do. I think he's going down, And I
think everybody who got on that ship, all of those
people who said that people who didn't get vaccinated should
be excommunicated, shot, hung out to dry, not allowed to
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go anywhere. You couldn't go. You couldn't go, you couldn't
have prom you couldn't walk in your work building, your
school office, see a movie, go anywhere, you couldn't kiss
your loved ones goodbye. Every single person who supported him
is complicit in this because they helped to propagate the lie.
So I think everybody needs to go down with the ship.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Okay, I agree, FATCHI a very very very bad guy
of forcing everybody to take the vaccine. You know, if
you read the diary, he got the vaccine and then
had some serious problems, serious side effects from it, like
three months later, which he puts in the diary. There's
a lot of stuff in there. If you haven't read it,
go online and actually read the diary. And when he
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was locking everybody down and not allowing you out of
your house, where were you, no kings people, Well, when
was you protesting that at the time?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
But Mark, we have to ask the question. I see
people driving around in their cars along with a mask,
one like the sy up and the psychosis of these people.
I'm like, oh my god, guys, it's enough already. You
have to know that it was all a lie. It
was just to see if they could control you. And
guess what they could.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, there was that famous sixty minutes interview earlier in
the pandemic. We said, masks don't do anything, they don't
mean anything.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
He kept flipped on and that the six feet was arbitrary.
There was absolutely no science behind it, not one bit.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, and that contact tracing. At some point they had
to explain to him, you don't contact trace when it's
an airborne virus that's heard immunity.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
That was a big mystery to him. Mister doctor Vauci,
give me a break.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And we never had to hear the word congregate again.
All I heard from him was when in you're in
congregate settings, don't Well, we're done with Fauci for the day. Hey,
when we come back. This is It was quite a
powerful service yesterday, the memorial service for Lindsey Graham. And
you know, President Trump had become very close to Lindsay
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Graham and he gave this a very moving eulogy, so
we'll take a listen to it coming up in the
next half hour. It's really something to hear, so don't
go away. It's Mark Simone here on the Sean Hannity.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Show, exposing the Pelosi Party's chaos and corruption all day,
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every day.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
This is the Sean Hannity Show. Hey, welcome back. It's
Mark Simone. Sean at the well in South Carolina. The
funeral today of Lindsey Graham. The burial takes place in
South Carolina. Yesterday, quite an amazing ceremony, National Cathedral, Washington,
d C. Sean gave a really powerful eulogy and a
(16:37):
really amazing one from the President of the United States,
Donald Trump, very very close with Lindsey Graham, and it
was quite powerful him saying goodbye to his great friend.
And I thought we'd take a listen to it. His
President Trump yesterday, National Cathedral.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Thank you very much, Vice President Vance, members of the Cabinet,
members of the House and Senate, distinguished guests, Darlene and
the entire Graham family love you all. Today we gather
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in the deepest gratitude and profoundest sorrow to honor a
beloved friend, a devoted brother, a respected statesman, a giant
of the United States Senate, and a true American original
who left us much too soon. And that can only
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be the one and only Lindsey Graham. By the strength
of his steadfast convictions, the force of his magnetic personality,
and the goodness of his noble soul, Lindsay roads from
a small town in rural South Carolina, place he loves
so much to become a constant fixture and politics at
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the highest level, and it forced to be reckoned with
all over the world.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
For more than thirty.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Years, Nothing of consequence happened in his capital without Lindsay
Graham knowing about it. Nothing of significance happened anywhere in
the world without Lindsay Graham having a view on it,
And no bill became law in the most exceptional republic
in human history without Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Having a say in it. He was a man who.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Gave America the full measure of his good and mighty
heart until that heart itself just gave out.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
But even though Lindsay's life was.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Cut short, well, he was still so full of vim
and vigor. There can be no doubt that he lived
absolutely to the fullest. He died doing the work he
was born to do. He was truly a great politic,
serving the country he loved to serve so deeply. He
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went out of the peak of his career at the
top of his game, as a legend that everyone of us,
many of us here today blessed to know him, and
a friend that none of us will ever forget. There
was truly nobody like Lindsay Graham. It was his hometown
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of central South Carolina that Lindsay first learned the art
of politics. His parents ran a bar and pool hall
on Main Street with a room in the back where
the family spent and had to do. As Lindsay said,
his father taught him the key to being a successful
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bar owner is that you have to be funny enough
that people will keep coming back, and.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
That you have to be tough enough that you.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Can stay in business and thrive, very difficult combination. For
his entire storied career, that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Who Lindsey Graham was.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
He was the first person to make you laugh and
one of the last people that you've really ever wanted
to fight. These were the traits that made him into
one of the great figures in Senate history, few like him.
As a boy, Lindsay also learned his first lessons in
diplomacy when the wife of one regular patron called the
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bar asking for her husband. She demanded to know where
is he. The man instructed Lindsay, tell her I'm not here,
and young Lindsey nodded and said into the phone to
the wife, he said, to tell you that.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
He's not here. That was Lindsay.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
When Lindsay was just twenty years old, he lost his
mom to cancer. Fifteen months later, he lost his dad.
Their deaths left his thirteen year old sister, Darlene, an orphan,
but in God's mercy, she had her wonderful brother to
take care of her.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
On top of it.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
All, Lindsay became her guardian while still in college and
helped raise her. He later said that for all his achievements,
and he had many, his single proudest accomplishment in life
was how well Darlene turned out. He had total respect
and love for Darlene. Nothing could be more fitting than
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that woman, who was Lindsay's proudest legacy now continues his
legacy of service in the US Senate, a place that
he cherished. And I have no doubt that he's looking
down today beaming with pride at his sister, Senator Darlene Graham.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Senator Lindsay first stormed into Washington with the Republican Revolution
nineteen ninety four, becoming the first Republican to win his
House district in one hundred.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
And twenty years. That was Lindsay.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
In twenty oh two, he ran for the Senate in
what should have been a loss, and he swept to
an easy victory. Lindsay quickly became a master at maneuvering
in one of the world's great legislative bodies. He secured
record funding for our military. As a Budget Committee chairman,
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he delivered the largest investment in border security and history.
And last year he shepherded the passage of the largest
tax cuts in American history. The Great, Big, Beautiful Bill
had a lot of Lindsey goodies in there too, i
can tell you. And of course, he was also a
great champion of the United States Supreme Court. His impassioned
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defense of a wonderful person, a great gentleman, Justice Kavanaugh,
ended a disgraceful attack on this very good man and
gave us one of the greatest moments the Senate has
ever seen.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It was a truly monumental moment in Senate history.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I believe it was Lindsay's perhaps finest hour. But no
matter how heated things got in Washington, virtually everyone Republican
or Democrat liked Lindsay.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Well, not everybody, but he sounds good. Not everybody.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
He was a tough cookie. Okay, I have to be
I have to vere from this versa. He was a
tough cookie, Darley, but he was beautiful. But he was
also ready with a joke and a gleam.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
In his eye.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
After being lectured on the excruciating details of patent law
by a fellow senator during a flight, Lindsay declared that
he had discovered a new form of enhanced interrogation and
torture for the one town of Obay area. He said,
this is really bad stuff and boring. And while he
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was an incredibly hard worker, he was not exactly an
early riser, as many of you know. When Senator Tim Scott,
a great gentleman in his own right, I can tell you,
invited him to prayer breakfast at eight thirty am, Lindsey
told him, Tim, if Jesus himself comes back before.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Ten am, I ain't going yet.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
While he was always quick to laugh, and no one
ever doubted the gravity of his mission, Above all, Lindsey
Graham believed in a strong America, wanted a strong America.
He had unwavering faith in the righteousness of American power
and prayer. And he was extremely hawkish. I will tell
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you he never saw a war that he didn't like.
Only his true friends would understand that. But he wanted
it for the good of our country. He felt in
his bones that our destiny is to win, and that
his job was to do everything he could to ensure
our enemies would lose. It was this conviction that led
him to serve thirty three years in uniform in the
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Air Force and Air Force Reserves and Air National Guard
even while he was in office. And it was this
conviction that took him as a Senator to almost every
country on Earth, confronting America's adversaries and standing up for
America's friends.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
He had tremendous friendships all over the world.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
It's a testament to his towering impact that among those
mourning him here today, our leaders, presidents, prime ministers from
all over the globe, sitting right here before you. Lindsay
met countless world leaders, yet wherever he went, he was
always the same Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
When he met Libyan dictator.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Omar Kadaffi in a tent in the desert, he told
him I expected something out of the Arabian nights. This
looks more like a Winnebago. That was not a good
statement to make at the time. And when he met
the Dali Lama, Lindsay looked him straight into the eyes
and said, so, can you really levitate? Dhali Lama was
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not happy with that, But no matter how high he rose,
he never forgot where he came from. There's probably not
a single town in South Carolina where Lindsay did not
help repair a bridge, expand to school, and prove a hospital,
or recover from a disaster. He was a force of nature,
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and I will miss him greatly. As you remember, Lindsay
and I did not exactly get off to the best
of starts running against each other. Back in twenty sixteen,
Lindsay said something rather nasty on his flight to becoming
the next President of the United States. So naturally I
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did something that I shouldn't have done. I shared his
personal cell phone number with the millions of people that
happened to be watching that particular day.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
As I made a speech, a very important speech.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
And I remember the number two O two two two
eight two nine two if anybody wants to give it
a shot, his phone exploded. He said, I had that
number for twenty years, his phone totally. I don't know
what he did with it, but it exploded. That was
the beginning of a friendship in a way. But it
was Lindsay who had the last lap because while I
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blew up his phone for one day, we became great
friends and Lindsay did not stop calling me for the
next ten years.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
It was not he's.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
I always sharis the memories of our golf games, and
only because of his really, and I will say this
more oil service. It's so hard to say memorial service
on Lindsay.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
It's hard to say, but I'll.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Admit that one time Lindsay Graham and Anica Sorenson actually
beat me and Gary Player together.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Can you believe that Anica played very well that day?
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Actually, But right to the end, Lindsay carried in his
golf bag the putter that once belonged to his dad,
and he carried it with him with class and with
a ring that was so beautiful of his mother. And
they were laying right at his bedside the night he died.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
They were there. He had him with him at all times.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
From that pool hall where his parents raised him, to
the halls of the United States Senate, where he was
respected and loved, the son of South Carolina became one
of the most important men in the most important country
or earth. In a city where politicians often become jaded
and Seneca, Lindsay Graham never lost the old fashioned American
(28:59):
idealism that brought him to the highest levels of government
and life. He took his duty seriously without taking himself
too seriously. He was unwavering in his principles, but always
willing to listen. He always wanted to listen. And one
thing about Lindsey that we all know, he never quit.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
You wanted him to quit, you waited for him to quit,
but he would never quit.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Above all, Lindsey Graham loved America and he believed in
the American people. If you shared that view, you had
a friend in Lindsay. If you didn't share it, there
was no fiercer or more constant opponent. Our nation needs
more men and women like that great person sitting laying.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Wherever he may be. I think I know where.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
He is, and I think he's up there. I think
he's watching us. I'm pretty sure of it. Scripture tells
us that blessed is the man who remained steadfast under trial,
for when he has stood the test, he will receive
the crown of life. For seventy one years, Lindsey Graham
was strong and steadfast as a brother, a senator, a warrior,
(30:16):
and a patriot. He withstood every last test, every single test.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
That you can go through in every trial.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
And now he wears the crown of life and heaven
reunited with his parents and reunited with his Lord. I
end by saying something very very special, Lindsey. We love you,
God bless you. We will always be with you. And
you were very very special. Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Well that's from yesterday. That was quite a ceremony. National Cathedral, Washington,
d C. Lindsey Graham a great figure in America. It's
Mark Simone here on the Sean Hannity Show. Sean will
be back tomorrow.
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Sean Hannedy, the busiest man in media, right here for you,
three hours a day, right in your information that no
one else.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
Will lock it and leave it.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
It's the Sean Hannedy Show.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Hey, Mark Simone here for Sean. Thanks, thanks for all
of our great guests. Thanks to you for calling. And
Sean will be back tomorrow. That's the great news. And
I want to thank you Ray for listening. Normally you
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