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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Big Breaking News.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Former special counsel Jack Smith allegedly tracking the private communications
and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican senators as
part of quote his investigation into the January sixth, twenty
twenty one issue. A document review by Fox News Digital,
this is all part of what we've been describing as
Operation Arctic Frost, allegedly now tracking the phone calls of
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GOP Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marshall Blackburn, Ron Johnson,
Josh Hawley, Cynthia Lumis of Wyoming, Bill Haggerty Tennessee, Dan
Sullivan Alaska, Tommy Turverville of Alabama, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania,
and anyway. The document discovered by the FBI Director Cash
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Mattel Cash will be on Hannity tonight as well as
Senator Lindsay Graham is going to join us here in
a moment is titled CAST Assistance and it refers to
the FBI Sell You Analysis Survey Team. It has the
names of the FBI agents involved redacted. At this point,
it marks the case I d as Arctic Frost quote
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Election Law Matters, Sensitive Investigation Matter CAST, and the document
states the names of the lawmakers that an FBI special
agent on Smith's team conducted preliminary poll analysis. In other words,
they knew who made a phone call to who, where
they made the phone call from, and where the person
that received that phone call was. I mean unbelievable. I mean,
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you want to talk about weaponization. Here's Lindsey Graham bringing
up this issue. Can you tell me why my phone
records were sought by Jack Smith's agents? Why did they
ask to know who I called and what I was
doing from January fourth to the seventh? Can you tell
me that? And this is him asking the Attorney General
Pam Bondi today.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
How in the hell can two FBI agents interview a
man who says the document you're using against a sitting
president to suggest he may be a Russian agent or
Carter Page that is now no longer reliable.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
How does that not get to the court? Can you
tell me how that doesn't get to the court? You can't,
ken you, I can't, Senator. Can you tell me.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Why my phone records, when I'm the chairman of the
Judiciary Committee were sought by the Jack Smith agents?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Why did they ask to know who I called and
what I was doing?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
From January fourth to the seventh.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Can you tell me that.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
No senator and there were eight senators in.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Total, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Joining us now is South Carolina Senator front of the program,
Lindsey Graham, Senator of Welcome Wowell. Oh what fireworks today?
I thought I thought the Attorney general was on fire today.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Oh my god. Yeah, she let him have it. And
you know, they're over one hundred thousand legal immigrants in Chicago.
Now what does that matter to the rest of the country.
Anytime you have a sanctuary city like Chicago where people
come of over one hundred thousand, it entices others to
come thinking, if I can get to place like Chicago,
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I'm home free. So sanctuary cities are magnets for legal immigration.
The gangs have consolidated. Their crime is on the rise,
the murder rats, fife time sire in Chicago that it
is in New York. Trump promised us when we ran
for president that he would deal with the invasion that
happened on Biden's watch. And the only way you can
deal with that is going to these sanctuary theories and
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start expelling the legal immigrants. And that's what he's doing.
And the National Guard is helping that endeavor, particularly protecting
ICE agents against assault.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You know, I listened to JB. Pritsker, and you know,
just a big wind bag that he is. And do
you realize that since he's been governor of that state
of Illinois, over four thousand people in Chicago are dead
and untold thousands have been shot. On any given weekend,
you could predict with a with pinpoint accuracy almost how
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many people will be shot, shot and killed. And now
we have these protests in light of what happened, especially
in Dallas where ICE agents are being targeted. You see
what's happening in Portland, over one hundred plus ninth straight
of never ending attacks against you know, ICE facilities. We
had the incident this weekend where you know, in Chicago
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where you know, ten cars surrounded ICE agents. They had
to call Chicago police for assistance, and there's some questions
about whether that was withheld or not.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I mean, what is going on here?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, I thank you. Just put it in a context
of the what happened for four years under Biden. The
border was obliterated. Under Biden, eleven million people plus poured
into our country legally going to places like Chicago and
other blue cities and they left there to go the places.
President Trump rent on the idea, I will shut the
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border down our a gain control. He has checked that
block and then some We went from having the most
largest number of legal immigrant crossings to the lowest in
eight months. Now, if you want to deal with the
legal immigration in the invasion, eleven million, and you have
to start deporting people that came here. So this is
not like he just woke up one day and say
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I want to send ice into all these cities and
counties that are you know, sanctuary cities and states. He
is trying to fulfill a promise that I will start
mass deportation of people that came in here through mass invasion.
And he's doing that and it is disruptive, but I'd
rather deal with it now. The gang members being arrested,
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the crime, the criminals being sent back and put in
jail will make Chicago safer. But the President Trump is
doing what he promised to do to deal with the
invasion created by Biden, and people in Chicago should be
welcoming to help, not fighting it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
A lot of people don't know that you are president.
One of President Trump's closest friends and I know that
you have a lovely relationship and he gives you a
hard time sometimes, but you are somebody that plays golf
with them regularly, You're you're best friends with them. I'm
not sure if people know how close you are and
I feel, and I want to I want to kind
of dovetail into not only the success that he's had
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with the border and the success that he's having with
deportations and the lies that we were told in the
last four years, but what he's done with the economy,
but more importantly, the political capital that he's expended worldwide
for the for the cause of peace. Now, a few
lot of amazing developments, especially as it relates to the
Middle East, have happened here, things that I'd be very frank, Senator,
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I wasn't sure i'd ever see in my lifetime. And
I feel like many people that even support President Trump
don't understand the Trump doctrine. I never thought in my
lifetime that, you know, all these decades, Arab nations have
rejected any and all efforts to involve themselves in the
conflict in the Middle East because they've never wanted to
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absorb or be a part of, or have an indoctrinated
population of Palestinians out of Gaza come into their countries
because they're brainwashed and indoctrinated from the time they're little
with cartoons in their earliest years in school. And Donald
Trump's been able to get these Arab countries on board
now and they want peace in the region once and
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for all. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They have in
their charter the call for the destruction of Israel. Okay,
we know that part, but the fact that Arab nations
have got on board, I'm sure it was a big pill,
the twenty point plan for Prime Minister net and Yahoo
to swallow to release all of these people that are
really sworn enemies of Israel. But he's willing to do
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it in the name of peace, to get BB on
board and basically give Hamas one last chance. Either you
will be decimated as to use his term, and obliterated
to use his term, or you're going to go along
with this deal. And it looks like the odds are
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we're probably on the verge of the hostages being released
both dead and alive. There's about twenty we expect to
be alive, and that there might be a path to
piece for the first time in how many years?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Thousands of years?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah, I mean, I hope people absorb what you just said.
Let's break it down a bit. As to President Trump
and myself. Yeah, I was one of sixteen or seventeen
people run in twenty sixteen. If you don't remember me running,
that's not your fault. It didn't last that long. I'm
probably the only guy got a T shirt out of it.
But after he won, he called me over after the
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election and when he got in office in twenty seventeen,
and he said, I'd like you to help me, and
I said I'd be glad to and he was surprised
it would be that quick. I said, listeners, President one,
I lost aim. I say, nobody listened. You're the president.
I want you to be successful. And we had lunch
and he said, do you play golf? I said yeah,
And we played a lot of golfs. And I've got
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to know him very well. The first thing that happened
is by.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The way, behind your back, you didn't know he makes
fun of your golf game.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, well he has got a lot to work with, so.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Same here. Don't worry. I can barely play.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's there for the taking. All you got to do
is do it. But anyway, the bottom line is he's
earned my respect. He inherited a mess. When America is
strong and reliable, the world is safer. When we pulled
out of Afghanistan, we lost reliability in the eyes of
the world, and it made us look weak. So Pootin
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invades Ukraine and on and on and on. So he
comes into office with an absolute nightmare on his hand.
Eleven million people invade our country, gang members, drug dealers,
you name it. And he's been trying to dig out
of that mess ever since. So that's twenty four elections.
But go back to twenty sixteen. What I saw was
a guy that could do things that nobody else could do.
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You mentioned something that just sort of goes over people's heads.
Ever since I've been involved in this business, this has
been a while now. You can never get the Arabs
to want to own the Palestinian file. They would complain
about them behind their backs, behind their backs, and do
very little help them in public. President Trump told the
Arab world, you need to take ownership of your own backyard.
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I want to work with you. But for the first
time ever, the Arab world is embracing a solution for
the Palestinians that not only will give them a brighter future,
but will lead to safety and security for Israel. Israel
can't change Palestine. I can't change Palestine. Only the Arabs
who speak the language and understand the culture. This is
his biggest accomplishment by far, in my view, is to
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take the air world that's been indifferent to make them
have ownership of the future of Palace Elstein consistent with
security for Israel. Now, why ISVB deferring to him on
things that he probably wouldn't do for anybody else. He
trusts Trump to always have Israel's back. He bombed Ron
nucle facilities and joint operations with Israel. He recognized Israel
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of Jerusalem's capital, of the Jewish State, which it is.
He recognized to go lie to be part of Israel,
which secures their nation, unlike any declaration anybody's made in
a long time on that part of Israel. So he's
earned the respect of tv BB. Trust Trump, and he's
willing to do things that he wouldn't do for any
other president. This is a winning combination Israel being willing
to compromise in a smart way the Arabs taken ownership
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of the Palestinian file to give a solution that's never
existed before. If this happens, it will be because of
Donald Trump. Everybody says, I like Trump's policies, He's just
too much for me. Let me tell you, it's his
personality and the strong horse nature of who he is
that has attracted the Arab world to him to look
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on the Iranian skill Soleimani and bomb the Iranian nuclear facility.
These Arabs that I've got a real friend I've never
had before. Nobody in Israel doubts Trump's commitment to the
state of Israel. If we pull this off, or the
hostages are released and a Moss one day lays down
their arms and they are no longer part of Palestinian life.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
By the way, that's got to be a key component.
They can't they can't have arms, they cannot have these weapons,
and Israel can't be under a constant threat of rockets
being fired. I've been to one city's throat, a border city,
ten thousand rockets in ten years.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Senator, Yeah, no, that's exactly right. But if we get
the hostages out, Israel pulls back, you can't pull back
much further until there's a commitment to disarm by Hezblah,
I'm excuse you about Hamaso come back and we got
to do with Hesblain Lebanon, and I've talked to Trump
about that. But the long story short, what's going on
in the Midiest is a direct result of the larger
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than life personality of Prosdent Trump talking to people in
a common sense way, setting side traditional norms and trying
to get outcomes that make America stronger. What makes America
stronger when the Israeli Arab is to an end. If
Sardi Arabia recognizes as Israel, we're safer. That ends the
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air of Israeli conflict. That makes the Mid East a
better place to do business. When find a solution to
the Palestinian problem, Israel can live with, and that's a
home run. So President Trump has got people to do
things that nobody else has been able to do. What
do you like him? You like his tone, you like
his word. What he's done is historic and he should
get the Nobel Peace Prize about three times ago. I
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don't know how this ends, but we're closer than we've
ever been, and it's due to the Trump personality and
the Trump doctrine. I will help you, but you got
to help yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm telling you that these are transformational, consequential times. If
you have a few more moments, I'd like to hold
you over. Senator Lindsay Graham, South Carolina. I just I
want to go back to the fact that you were
spied on by our own government and the way this happened,
and how this can't happen again, and how the FBI
and the DOJ can no longer be weaponized, and we
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must restore both the FBI to its former greatness and
our intelligence communities to its former greatness. Senator Lindsay Gramm
is with us toll free, our numbers eight hundred and
ninety four one Sean, if you want to be a
part of the program. We continue now with South Carolina.
Senator Lindsay Graham. I want to get to Ukraine in
a second. Now that we've talked about the Middle East,
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let me ask you one last question on the Middle East.
Do you what do you put the odds at that
this is going to get done?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Fifty to fifty are better, which is pretty good odds
in the Mid East, And again they wouldn't be at
the table if Trump had pushed everybody. He's pushing the airs.
You know, all I can say is the best chance
I've seen in the last two years. Today's the anniversary
of the October seventh attack. It was designed a stop
sorry Arabia from recognizing Israel, which is Iran's worst night.
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Mere Hamas was an instrument of Iran, and so let's
just pray. Hope it works.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I hope it's better than fifty to fifty. I think
the word obliterate probably got Hamas's attention. I did, oh,
I'm sure it did. What do you make of the
rise of virulent anti Semitism. We hear it in the
halls of Congress where you are. We hear it, you know,
on college campuses. It's growing worldwide. I mean, I couldn't
believe European leaders, you know, siding with the wrong side
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in this conflict. We hear it in the punditry class.
You know, I'm not sure what part of you know.
The murder of the equivalent based on their population size
versus ours, the equivalent of murdering forty thousand Americans in
a day. People don't understand, but murder kidnapping, torture, rape, beheadings.
I'm not sure what part of that people don't understand.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Well, I could just say this, when our country was
viciously attacked in December the seventh, nineteen forty one, but Japan,
we joined forces with Allies, Britain and others to fight
Germany and Japan. We felt like it was a war
we couldn't afford to lose, and we sent means of
Americans off to foreign battlefields to protect American Over half
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of me and died, and we wound up dropping two
atomic bombs on Japan to end the war, to prevent
an invasion of Japan that could have lost to me
in American lives. Did anybody suggest that was disproportional to
the task at hand. No, So the Vatican, you know,
God blessed the Pope, but the Secretary of State for
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the Vatican, the head diplomat, said the slaughter needs to
end in Gaza, that Israel's slaughtering people. The response needs
to be proportioned to the cardinal. What is a proportionate
response when your country's attacked. Twelve hundred citizens are slaughtered,
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babies are burned alive, women are raped in front of
their family. People have had their heads got off, and
they promise to do it over and over again. That's
just one threat. Hasblah has the same goal iron chance
death to Israel every day and they mean it. What
is their appropriate response? I'm sorry there have been so
many people killed in Gaza, particularly children. Why because Hamas
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uses them as human shields Anti Semitism. It's always there,
and you know when it pops up when Israel is strong.
There's something about a strong Jewish state that drives the
world crazy. How dare the Jews stand up and fight?
How dare them be so strong? That's what I think
this is. It's always there, but it pops up in
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an ugly way when Israel is strong and fights back.
You know, the days of killing Jews without consequence are over,
and the Jewish state survives and thrives simply because it's
determined to do so. The day that we pull our
support for Israel is the day we will be in
disfavor with the God. I believe that. But more equally important,
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it's the day that we'll lose a great ally with
common days. I can't think of one group that wants
to destroy Israel that doesn't want to destroy US. So
I'm on Israel's side without apology.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You see, the President did everything he could do to
entice Vladimir Putin to stop the killing and the murdering
and the attacking and the invasion of Ukraine. I'll be honest, Senator.
When this conflict first started, I thought it would be
over very quickly. I just thought that Russia would roll
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over Ukraine. Now, I didn't like how it evolved into
a proxy war between the US and Russia, and I
blame Joe Biden for that part. I also blame Biden
for putting handcuffs on the Ukrainians in terms of, you know,
restrictions about how they can fight a conflict, and they
He wouldn't even let them have MiGs that were being
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offered by Poland in the very beginning. He wouldn't let
them use certain bombs. But now the handcuffs are off.
Now President Trump has basically said, Okay, you don't want peace.
He's now going after the lifeblood of their entire economy,
which is energy. And now the Ukrainians have been striking
and it's it's not gotten a lot of press, but
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they've hit dozens of refineries, in Russia. My understanding is
there actually are shortages of gasoline inside of Russia, which means,
you know that that's how they fund their war MA sheet.
I mean, Western Europe was buying all this energy from Russia,
funding you know, the war against Ukraine. It's insane. And
now the president put a fifty percent tariff on India
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and he's you know, negotiating hard with China. Stop buying
Russian oil, and that I think will bring Vladimir Putin
and Russia to its knees. And they're going to say
and yet then they're going to give up, and they're
going to eventually come to the table and really talk
about a real peace deal.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
No? I think you're dead right. And so what if
we say earlier on the world is in a better
place when America is strong and reliable. Now, can anybody
fault President Trump for not trying to end this war
through diplomacy? He invited food in too Alaska. I could
care less if he goes on vacation with Putin as
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long as we end the war in an honorably and
just way. He's reached out in the Mideast, unlike any
president I've ever known, and it is beginning to pay dividends.
So what did he do after he realized that Putin's
going to keep attacking. He upped the cost to the attacks.
He's allowing Ukraine to use weapons they've never had before
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in an unlimited fashion. Biden restricted the airplanes and the
tanks long range artillery because he didn't want to be provocative.
Biden prevented me from having pre invasion sanctions, telling Putin,
if you go in Ukraine, here's what happens on day one.
They didn't want to be provocative. Trump has taken a
different route. He's reached a hand the peace out, but
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he's also told Putin, if you keep this war going,
it's going to cost you more. I'm going to go
after your customers who buy your oil, like India and China.
Now I'm also going to empower Ukraine to hit you
harder than they've ever been able to hit you before.
And the goal is to get into the table to
end this war. President Trump has made a decision to
help Ukraine by selling weapons, not giving weapons to Europe
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for the benefit of Ukraine. He's taking the gloves off
in terms of how they can use these weapons. There
are gas lines in Moscow right now because Ukraine has
taken it to the oil and gas infrastructure of Russia.
And this is due to a change in policy by
President Trump. I do believe that Putin will come to
the table if we keep the pressure up.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It seems to me.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Even fellow conservatives don't have a grasp of what the
Trump doctrine is. They're interpreting the president's commitment to know
forever wars is never using military force, and his track record,
you know, proves just the opposite. This is the same
Donald Trump that beat the Isis Caliphate, the same Donald
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Trump that took out Solamani on a tarmac, Donald Trump
that beat bag Daddy in associates and dropped the mother
of all bombs on Afghanistan. And I think the biggest
military feet of all has taken out a Ram's military facilities,
which I don't think any other person on Earth would
have had the courage to do. And thank god he
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did it because they were too close to getting nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
We had talked about that for years.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Trump twenty twenty eight, Now you asked me what happened
here between men?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Here we go that that's going to be the headline
of the whole interview.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Trump two as long as he can hang in there.
Why because this man, through sheer force of personality, being
smart and clever, is used force in a way to
foster peace. Don't you think the Arabs are willing to
help us with Palestine because we took a run on
I believe that don't willing to accommodate some compromise because
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they trust Trump unlike any other president. Don't you think
Putin now is understanding he probably overplayed his hand with Trump.
Don't you think China is reevaluating what they're going to
do with America on his watch? I can tell you
they are being strong makes us safer. Venezuela, the days
of sending drugs through the Caribbean and speedboats, or if
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you're in the Caribbean, you better have a Trump flag
on your boat because you're in the world to hurt.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
By the way, the cartels are going to put Trump
flags out there thinking that they can well.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I got a way to tell a true one from
a segue. But the bottom line here is this display
of force and strength to protect America from poisoning by fentanyl,
to increase the cost of Putin's aggression to stand firmly
with Israel. What asked him to compromise where they can
To tell the Arabs, You'll have no better friend than Trump,
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but you've got to up your game in your own
backyard is leading to historic opportunity. That's why I am
such an admirer of his outcomes and his work product.
I've become close to the President personally. We have a
lot of fun together and we do disagree on occasion,
but he knows I have his best interests at heart.
I thought for Kavanaugh because I thought it was a
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great pick. And we'll talk in a minute here before
we leave. A hope of this effort to destroy Trump
and everything, including his family in twenty sixteen and twenty
twenty four, what he went through at home, I hope
no one ever goes through at home again, in terms
of having his government turned against him and now find
out about me. But as to foreign policy, it's a
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breath of fresh air. He's a combination of Ronald Reagan
and P. T.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Barnum.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He has some Jews, he has some swagger that I've
never seen before. And as to the benefit of the
American people, so miss President you're a man of piece,
but you should not be trifle. Will a lot of
people that would like to tell you how strong President
Trump is, but they're dead.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Quick break right back more with Senator Lindsay Graham, South
Carolina on the other side. Eight hundred and ninety four one,
Shawn our number. If you want to be a part
of the program.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
The final hour of the Sean Hannity Show was up next.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Hang on for Shawn's conservative solutions. All right, we continue
now it's South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham. We only have
about two minutes left. Let's get to the issue of weaponization,
what they've done to him, and how Jack Smith tracking,
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you know, private communications, including you nearly a dozen Republican senators,
and how this ends.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Okay, well, let's go through a timeline real quick. I'll
try to make this quick. President Trump announces he's running
for president nove than fifteenth, twenty twenty two, that he's
going to run in twenty twenty four. Three days later,
Garland appoints Jack Smith as special Council. In March of
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twenty twenty three, he's indicted in Manhattan, where they take
misdemeanors and combine them in a fashion to create a charge,
to make it a felony that no person's ever been
charged with in the history of Manhattan. Alvin Bragg just
to get Trump. He was charged with thirty four felonies
and these are business records misdemeanors that they rig the
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system to go after him to create a felony condition
in March or twenty twenty three. In June of twenty
twenty three, he's indicted on thirty seven charges related to
handling classified information. Apparently taking a hammer to hard drive
and using bleach bit to wash away emails doesn't make
the cut. And that's what Hillary Clinton did with classified information.
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And August he's indicted on four counts of trying to
overturn the twenty twenty election in DC. In August of
twenty twenty three. In August of twenty twenty three, he's
in charge for the RICO violation in Georgia. Now September
twenty seventh, twenty twenty three, they look at my phone
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records and my phone calls about what happened in twenty twenty.
I am in the fight with Trump. I was the
first senator to endorse him. So the investigation in twenty
twenty two and twenty twenty three about what happened in
twenty twenty wasn't about bringing justice to bear based on
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what happened in twenty twenty. It was to beat him
so he couldn't get elected in twenty twenty four. And
Jack Smith tried to release in October of twenty twenty
four his memo accusing Trump of all these crimes to
make it public. There's a doctrine in the Justice Department
you don't bring charges close to an election. And October,
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in September of twenty twenty four, Jack Smith was trying
to fill up the newspapers with bad press for Trump.
And this was an effort to beat him in twenty
twenty four. The investigation in twenty two and twenty three
wasn't designed to write wrongs in twenty twenty. It was
to undercut him in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Unbelievable. That is the grand conspiracy that I keep talking about.
I know we took a lot more of your time
than we planned.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Senator.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You also are going to be on Hannity tonight. We
have a really good show tonight. Looking forward to seeing
you and talking to you.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Then, Thanks Pal, you take care