July 13, 2026 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity analyzes the political landscape heading into the 2026 midterm elections, arguing that the Democratic Party has shifted further toward its progressive wing. Pollsters Matt Towery and John McLaughlin break down the latest polling on President Trump’s approval ratings, Iran, and the issues expected to shape the campaign. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich joins the program to remember Senator Lindsey Graham, discuss his legacy in Congress and foreign policy, and reflect on South Carolina’s decision to appoint Darlene Graham as interim senator. The hour also covers U.S. strategy toward Iran, Republican messaging heading into the midterms, and the broader implications for the balance of power in Washington.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This roundup and Information Overload Hour. Here's our toll free
telephone number. It's eight hundred and ninety four one Sean
if you want to be a part of this program.
If there was one thing that was drawing me back
to this microphone more than any other story last week,
I'm not a great vacation tape person. I'm just not, Linda,
(00:21):
true or false. I'm not really good at taking vacations.
This was scheduled after America two fifty, after Mount Rushmore,
after going to Washington, DC. You know, you know, this
was my July fourth annual vacation, one week that I
ended up spending more time working than.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I ever did before. But that's separate apart, Linda, you
want to weigh in on that or not. No, I
mean this is, you know, one of those things that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Every single time you try to take time, you know,
the world blows up.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And this was no exception to that rule. All right.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So it's very interesting and how the Democrats were basically
caught selling their soul as it relates to mister Nazi tattoo,
Graham Platner, the you know, the mocking of the US soldier.
He didn't deserve to live an avowed communists blaming sexual
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assault victims, you know, on this website, used to facilitate
extramarital affairs that targeted miners. A history. He has a
controversial history with miners. That's that's the picture with him
in the towel. You know, his personal time and his
desire for self pleasure, importa potties, calling the white calling
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white people rural main people stupid and racist, the very
people he wanted to vote for him, you know, using
you know, racist stereotypes. That was a big problem, mocking
a teenage girl suicide attempt, calling cops bastards, among many
other things. And you know, on every one of these issues,
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prominent Democrats all the way across the board were supporting him,
starting with Bernie Sanders and starting with Pocahontas and Rocanna.
And there wasn't one Democrat that ever stood up to
any of these issues to say, this guy does not
belong in our party.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
This guy is too radical, he is too.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Extreme, because that's not where the party is anymore. The
heart and soul of the Democratic Party has been radicalized,
and it is now the party of Sanders and Pocahontas
and Graham Platner and Mamdani and AOC and the squad,
and you know even the likes of Hakeem Jeffries was
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supporting Graham Platner and Chuck Schumer's silence was beyond deafening,
just like his silence in the race with Mamdani from
mayor of New York City deafening because they want to
cling to power, and they know if they dare take
on the radicalized base of their party that they're perceived power.
I mean leaders or minority leaders in name only will
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be gone and it will be gone forever.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Anyway. This is now who they are. They are a
soulless party.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Remember they wouldn't stand for the families of Jocelyn Nungary
Lake and Riley Rachel Moore in when Donald Trump became president,
people that lost their children and they sat on their hands.
I said, then they lost their heart, their soul, and
their conscience. Now you can take it a step downward.
Everything they said it used to bother them. Things about
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Justice Kavanaugh for example, things about Clarence Thomas for example.
And there's one example of hypocrisy after another.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Roy Moore.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We can go all the way back every controversy that's
ever existed, Jim Jordan, etc. Everything they've ever said now
comes back to haunt them because they really don't care.
It's sort of like how you know, they don't they
care about out crime or they'll politicie only when they
can weaponize or politicize an issue of somebody that is murdered.
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But they'll ignore, you know, the dozens and dozens of
people shot every weekend in Chicago and cities all across
the country, Blue cities all across the country, because they
can't weaponize it, they can't politicize it, they can't blame Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, now none of.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
These other issues they say that they had the moral
high ground on is gone and gone forever. Here to
weigh in, our poster friends, John McLaughlin mcglock on and
associate's Matt Towery, Insider Advantage, host of The Leaderboard his
podcast Anyway. Welcome both of you. Let's first get to
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my analysis and what the polling is showing. John mcglockam
will start with you this time.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Well, the last national poll we released was right before
July fourth, and the president had his actually job approval
had ticked up a little bit fifty to forty six,
and with was an improvement, but the Republicans were still
trailing in the Stark ballot for Congress forty six to
forty three. So there's like a seven point gap between
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Trump's policy approval and where the Republicans are for Congress.
And one of the things that we noticed was when
we asked them, and this is again, this was when
the ceasefire, which is now abrogated but had passed from
what they read, you know, what they've seen in the news.
Do you approve disapprove of the ceasefire deal? Only fifty
one percent of Americans did, but only thirty four percent disapproved.
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Writ of center cable viewers, people watch your shows, listen
to your radio et cent they they supported it seventy
two to seventeen, but left the center post fifty four
to thirty five because it was Trump's ceasefire. And now
it's going back to like what we did polls in April,
when we asked them, did they approve a disapprove of
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military action to stop or ran from getting nuclear weapons? Uh,
the majority of Americans did fifty two forty and was
it warned and justified? Fifty nine percent agreed? Should we
finish the job sixty to thirty they agreed. Americans don't
like going to war, but they understand what this is about.
And when we asked in this recent most survey, which
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was released right before July fourth, when we said, do
you approve a disapprove of requiring Iran to stop funding
international terrorism against Israel and other nations, seventy five percent
to fourteen percent they did. And when we asked them
Iran must agreed and never produced nuclear weapons with American
and international inspections to verify, seventy six to fourteen they did.
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So the vast majority of Americans understand what President Trump's
trying to do in Iran, that he's trying to prevent
them from getting a nuclear weapon, that he's trying to
stop them from increasing terrorism in the region around the world.
And you know, Americans, we maybe you know, slow to
hanger like the President, but if you if you're threatening us,
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you're going to pay a heavy price. And that's what
we're seeing going on right now.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Matt Towry, let's get your take.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, there's not one thing that my colleague friends just
said that I disagree with. His polling pretty much tracks
what I've seen. I think the following. I think, first
of all, as far as the Democrats go, if it's
Trump one way or another, whether it's a ceasefire or
having to wipe the leaders off the map and Iran,
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either way, they're not going to like it because it's
it's it's Donald Trump. We all get that. But I
will say that I haven't polled this, but my take
based on all the polling I've done, and you know,
I did a lot of polling when these things first
broke out shown and they had basically the same sort
of numbers that that John had. I believe that Trump
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has a unique moment now that he can truly continue
to dismantle Ran. I think it's it's very clear that
they will never negotiate a settlement. You cannot trust what
they say. You can negotiate forever, but all they do
is stall for time. And now, in a very strategic
manner which I'm sure they're putting together, it's time to
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open up the straight it's time to do what we
have to do with the remaining leadership. We don't know
who all they are, and it's time that we make
it so that this country cannot continue to peddle the
harm that they pedal around the world and continue to
be a threat, and I think most Americans in the
end will agree with that. Let me add one other thing.
The Democrats have made one issue, remember this is their
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one issue for about a month and a half two months.
That is, oh, the oil prices are too high. And
then all of a sudden we started had we had
the MoU and things started getting better, and the oil
was flowing a little better and the prices were coming down. Oh,
they weren't talking oil as much. It happened to Donald
Trump and the US take control of the straight and
get this oil really flowing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But you know, from my perspective, you know, there definitely
is seems to be and I've actually believed to be
a group of moderates that that probably would want to
hand over the dust, give up their nuclear ambition, you know,
rebuild the great once former great Persian Empire. You know,
you've got ninety ninety four million people there that have
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been suffering for forty seven years. But there is a
group of hardliners loyal to the you know, you know,
dead former Supreme leader Ali Hamaniu. They finally had a
funeral for you know. To me, this is just a
huge opening opportunity that you know, puts all past historical
trends that favor the party out of power in midterm
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election years. You know that we're now breaking new ground here.
I don't think these old models fit and I think
this is the greatest opportunity that them embracing extremism and
selling their soul, which is what they've done, and what
they're doing gets them to the Promised Land as assuredly
as they normally might.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I think you're right, because I mean, it's Donald Trump.
He's an historic figure in American history. He's not on
the ballot this November, but the Democrats are choosing to
run against him and make this a referendum on him,
and in that case, it's putting them on the wrong
side of the Iran War? Are they actually rooting against America?
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Our brave men and women are sacrificing, you know, to
make sure that we win this conflict and Iran never
gets nuclear weapons, and they're picking the wrong side, and
you're seeing them nominate candidates, the extreme candidates that are
coming about, whether it's the three candidates for Congress, that
Mayor Mondami in New York who he supported these pro
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Hoomas terrorists in small Democrat primaries and they won. And
now you're getting Platner in Maine. But he had to
step down, and they won't let it go to a
They won't let it go to a primary.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
They want to make.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Sure that the party controls some sort of nomination process
to replace him. But then you get l s Ied
in Michigan, you get Tall Rico in Texas. I mean,
the Democrat parties are part of extremists and the Republicans
have a chance to basically.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
But now it's Colorado, it's Missouri, it's in Washington State.
It's now a cancer that has spread all throughout the
Democratic Party and now all parts of the country. So
Old Country needs to be aware of this as they
prepare to vote. I mean, there was an article of
editorial today in the New York Post. The DSA versus
America is actually over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yes, and that's why Donald Trump has decided that his party,
our party, would have a midterm convention, because just like
we did in Milwaukee, where Donald Trump personally laid out
seventeen pages of the platform that he stands for, which
also was making sure a Ran never had nuclear weapons,
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but he was able to lay out a platform that
the majority of Americans would support him. We'd sweep the
battle run states, win the popular vote, and now you're
in a midterm election where you have lower turnout, and
if we can have a contrast election. So when the
Republicans go to Dallas and they say, this is where
the Republicans for Congress stand. We're for lower taxes, We're
for secure borders. We're we're for making sure that you
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have a housing is affordable with lower mortgage rates, and
we're making it easier for people to get housing. We're
trying to lower utility rates, et cetera. The Democrats are
for the opposite of those things. They are for higher taxes.
They voted for a four trillion dollar tax increase. They
voted for open borders, sanctuary cities. They're against voter ID,
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they woult to enable fraud in elections. Let's have a
contrast election so that our voters can decide in September
and October and November, whenever they decide that they can
vote by their different states, that they can see that
the majority of Americans agree with the Republican Party, who
supports Donald Trump versus those who oppose Donald Trump and
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really oppose what the majority of Americans stand for.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You know, the impact of a radicalized Democratic Party now
mainstream in the party and dominating in their party. The
impact on the midterm elections. What about the extremism fact
that last word, Matt Towery, how does this impact the midterm?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, you know, I always believe in midterms that people
vote off of anger and off of fear. And I
hate to say that, but that's always been my experience.
And right now there is an enthusiasm gap. The Democrats
have more enthusiasm than the Republicans have. I think you
have to take the issue of what's emerging with socialism
socialism in the Democratic Party. I think you have to
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take what's emerging in terms of what they want to
do to Donald Trump and put this country through in
the next two years, is they take the House and
how much may that would take place, and then talk
about the other issues such as the fact that they
would easily led to open up the borders again. Take
that platform that the Democratic associal has just put out,
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it's insane pendant on them. Get the anger up among
the Republicans because midterms are not about anything other than turnout.
And if you don't get your turnout, you don't win.
That's what the Republicans have to focused.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
On, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Appreciate both of you, Matt Towery, John mcglocho, and thank
you both. We will have you on regularly as this
as this midterm election. You're unfolds eight hundred and nine
four one, Shawn our number if you want to be
a part of the program. Earlier in the last hour,
Henry McMaster, the governor of the great State of South Carolina.
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Kind of surprising, except Donald Trump kind of put out
the suggestion earlier before that. In fact, Lindsey Graham's sister
Darlene will be the interim senator to fill the role of.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The brother that she loved.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I've known Lindsay for years, and when his parents died young,
she was very young, and he then put everything aside
in his life and being the good hearted human being
that I knew him to be, he was a close friend.
He then took about the job, took on the responsibility
of raising his sister lady, later adopting her, and the
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number one you know, as much as he loved politics,
as much as he fought for the things he believed in.
He fought for his family even more. An incredible interim selection.
As they move forward with a very quick process that
will nominate a replacement for Lindsey Graham, but she will
step in in his stead, and I would imagine be
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as we discussed voting the way her brother would have voted,
and that would be in most cases supporting Donald Trump.
A lot of nice posts on x by a longtime
friend of this program, New king Rich, who reminded us
all that Lindsey came in the class of ninety four.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I had the honor of being at New king Rich
as MC.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I was a local radio host in Atlanta just before
I went to Fox in ninety six, and that night
was one of the greatest nights of my life to
be able to watch Republicans make history and take back
the House of Representatives and control of it, something that
had not been done in forty years. Lindsay was a
part of that freshman class and then later of course,
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became a senator, former Speaker of the House. Longtime friend
of mine personal and otherwise New king Rich is with us.
He was a warrior. He was a firecracker on day one, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
He he was?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
He was?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Who was Chris?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
And I with him for the fortieth anniversary turned to
me and he said, you know, I may have been
a bit much when I first got there, he said,
as I yet older, I realized you were a lot
more often right than I taught you.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
For her, that's Lindsay.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I mean, there are certain conversations I won't reveal they
were personal. And he said, yeah, I think I wish
I didn't do that. Yeah, maybe we shouldn't have pursued
that as harsh as we did.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, but very reflective and introspective.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Look at it, look at this way, Sean in our
two hundred and fiftieth interdustry, Lindsey is a perfect example.
He came out of very difficult child circumstances. He showed
great responsibility and taking on his thirteen year old sister.
He served in the US military, ultimately as a full
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colonel at every level. He loved life, he loved America,
and in the end he loved Donald Trump. And I
think that was probably his biggest surprise, because if you
were back and looking in the sixteen campaign, Lindsey said,
as many mean things.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh he was brutal, I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And by the way, the liberal media has been playing
it over and over again, will you please remind people
he said it in twenty sixteen when he was running
against the guy, because it's been just the opposite ever since.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Well, and you know, because we both know Lindsey very
very well, he'd he truly genuinely found Trump to be
the kind of person that he loved being with. They
golfed together. I'd really be curious how the total number was,
but my guess is it's over one hundred times. And
Lindsey just he brought the same passion to everything. Either
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it didn't matter or it was important, and he had
passion and that's sort of how he lived his life
and he post now reflect on it. Because of course
twice when he was nominated for ambassador, he was a
key player in getting her through the Senate. Effect the
second time, after Trump had gotten elected in twenty four
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Lindsey came up to her and said, look, why don't
we skip all this stuff. I'll get him the name
you I'll see if I can't get a butt through
by Evans consent, let's just get it done by Tuesday,
you know. But that was Lindsay always on offense, always happy.
He fit the Al Smith model of the happy warrior,
and he enjoyed life. He enjoyed what he did. And
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by the way, I think the President coming out earlier
today and being in favor of his sister as the
interim replacement was exactly right emotionally. And I think Lindsay
v so proud of his sister being sworn in, and
she will be so well received by the Senate, both
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Democrat and Republican, that it's a great American story, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
The only thing that I worry about, and I've spent
a lot of time. I didn't find out. I woke
up but for some reason at four four point thirty
in the morning, and I didn't stop talking all day
yesterday until about midnight. And I spent a lot of
time on the phone with her, her family, their staff.
They're devastated. They they lost, they they've they've In her case,
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she lost everything in one the parent part of him,
the brother part of him that she loved and admired.
And you know, I won't reveal more of the private conversations.
She loved her brother, they were so close and she
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you know, I'm so glad she did it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You know the only thing, you know what I worry about.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I worry about the legacy media in the halls of
Congress and elevators, you know, just probably gonna want to
harass this poor woman who's never dealt with that before.
That's that's what frightens me the most for her.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
First of all, for everybody who worries about the American system,
here is a senator who's going to come from her
own unique background, didn't get paid for by anybody, didn't
raise a billion dollars. She's here because she's the legacy
of her brother, and she is in the end going
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to be her own senator. And I'd assume she's going
to be very close to Trump because she knows how
close Lindsay was. But at the same time, if you
want an example of why America, onlike Europe and elsewhere,
is open to talent, just think of her as an
example that you can come from anywhere and have a
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chance to walk in the US Senate and be called
senator and guess what your vote counts.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Let me ask you this part because it frustrates me,
and that is the false portrayal of Lindsay as somebody
that loved war.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
No, Lindsay hated evil.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And yes he supported the president in his first term
when he defeated the Isis Caliphate. Similarly, he supported the
president taken out Solamani, the number one is terrorist in
the world, and Bagdadian associates, and even dropping the mother
of all bombs on Afghanistan. I have a hard time,
you know, understanding those that have taken the Trump doctrine
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even from the first term, and look at all those
instances and somehow conflating isolationism into the Trump doctrine, which
it never existed. People never heard the other side of
the conversation or the other vision of Lindsay. And the
President has shared that vision, and that is on the
other side all of these countries, you know, since time
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immemorial that have been in conflict with Israel, you know,
and if you want to look at more modern history,
starting from the nineteen forty eight UN partition Plan forward,
the hostility by every neighbor of Israel and their need
to fight for their very survival and having the moral
clarity to know who's right and who's wrong, and that
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to get to that peaceful point, you have to identify
evil in the process is wholly consistent with the Trump doctrine,
both in the first term and where he stands today.
And I have a hard time understanding some have turned
that into isolationism.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Well, you know, Lindsey's a good example that if you
study the lessons of history, and I think Lindsey had
the same experience that Winston Churchill had in nineteen thirty one.
They translated mind comf. Churchill read the English language version
in thirty one, may have been the only elected official
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in Britain to have read it. But he looked up
and he suddenly realized this guy is serious and he's real.
Something happened with Lindsay. That's very simone. I remember Lindsay
had a very long career in the military. He retired
as a full colonel. He was in a number of
battlefield areas where he would serve in potentially considerable danger,
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won the Bronze Star. And I think the Lindsay came
to a conclusion, probably driven as much as anything by
nine to eleven and what happened to the World Trade Center,
that these these are our mortal enemies. This is not
a problem of translation or communication. When when the Iranian
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religious dictatorship as it did this last week. Chance death
to America. They actually probably mean death to America.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And is it actual or they do mean it?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And their actions you know embody that that's right.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
And I think Lindsay was close to Trump in part
because the two of them had concluded that this is
a mortal threat to the survival of the United States
and therefore they have a duty to act before you
have that kind of a total catastrophic disaster. And that's
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why Lindsay, who still knows it, he also understood, I
candidly think even better than Trump does. He understood that
Putin is, in fact someone you have to stop. You
can't appease, you can't negotiate. In the end, Putin has
to decide that he simply can't get away with what
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he wants to do. And there's a certain symbolic reality
that Lindsay died answered his tenth trip to Kiev. That's
how deeply committed he was.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well, I mean, his travel was extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I mean to make that trip, you got to fly
to Poland, then you've got to spend ten twelve hours
on a train both directions to get into Kiev, where
he would you know spend all that time with Zelensky.
He's been to every country in the Middle East for
the purpose of preparing a road towards a recognition or
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an extension of either the Abraham Accords or agreements, and
recognition of Israel's right to exist, starting with Saudi Arabia
and every other country within the Middle East. That doesn't
sound to me like somebody that wants a forever war
with anybody. That he's looking for a path to peace
that never existed and god knows how long.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I think that's right, and I think this is of
course the key to Trump's whole vision of the region.
We're not there to have another forty years of war.
We're there to find a path that brings together people
so they can live in peace, have safety, have prosperity,
and have a better future. And I think that President
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Trump means that. I know Lindsay did. And of course
I go back far enough. I remember when Senator Graham
and Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman with the Three Amigos,
and they would go all over the planet. You show
them I'm a dangerous place. They show up and they
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really wanted to understand what's going on in the world
and what do we have to do to be safe
as a country. And the three of them were a
bipartisan group. They were a courageous group. And now Lindsey
is the last of the trio.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
It's a speaker. We always love having you. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
My favorite calls when Joe Lieberman was running as an
independent and he said, please stop saying nice.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Things about me. They're killing me with every word you use.
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I said, Oh, if you want me to start trashing you,
I'll be glad to tomorrow morning. Anyway, Speaker Gingrich, always
a pleasure. We thank you for being with us. That's
going to wrap things up at today Hannity tonight, nine
Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Senator Ted Cruz, Senator
Tim Scott obviously remembering Lindsey Graham, the great one, Mark levin,
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Ari Fleischer, Adam Carolla. We have Brionna Lyman. She is
out there doing Man on the street and we will
get to all of it news you'll never get from
the legacy media mob. All happening tonight at nine. Set
your DVR. Hannity on Fox. We'll see you tonight. Back
here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Thank you for making this show possible.
This roundup and Information Overload Hour. Here's our toll free
telephone number. It's eight hundred and ninety four one Sean
if you want to be a part of this program.
If there was one thing that was drawing me back
to this microphone more than any other story last week,
I'm not a great vacation tape person. I'm just not, Linda,
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true or false. I'm not really good at taking vacations.
This was scheduled after America two fifty, after Mount Rushmore,
after going to Washington, DC. You know, you know, this
was my July fourth annual vacation, one week that I
ended up spending more time working than.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I ever did before. But that's separate apart, Linda, you
want to weigh in on that or not. No, I
mean this is, you know, one of those things that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Every single time you try to take time, you know,
the world blows up.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And this was no exception to that rule. All right.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So it's very interesting and how the Democrats were basically
caught selling their soul as it relates to mister Nazi tattoo,
Graham Platner, the you know, the mocking of the US soldier.
He didn't deserve to live an avowed communists blaming sexual
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assault victims, you know, on this website, used to facilitate
extramarital affairs that targeted miners. A history. He has a
controversial history with miners. That's that's the picture with him
in the towel. You know, his personal time and his
desire for self pleasure, importa potties, calling the white calling
(01:34):
white people rural main people stupid and racist, the very
people he wanted to vote for him, you know, using
you know, racist stereotypes. That was a big problem, mocking
a teenage girl suicide attempt, calling cops bastards, among many
other things. And you know, on every one of these issues,
(01:56):
prominent Democrats all the way across the board were supporting him,
starting with Bernie Sanders and starting with Pocahontas and Rocanna.
And there wasn't one Democrat that ever stood up to
any of these issues to say, this guy does not
belong in our party.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
This guy is too radical, he is too.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Extreme, because that's not where the party is anymore. The
heart and soul of the Democratic Party has been radicalized,
and it is now the party of Sanders and Pocahontas
and Graham Platner and Mamdani and AOC and the squad,
and you know even the likes of Hakeem Jeffries was
(02:40):
supporting Graham Platner and Chuck Schumer's silence was beyond deafening,
just like his silence in the race with Mamdani from
mayor of New York City deafening because they want to
cling to power, and they know if they dare take
on the radicalized base of their party that they're perceived power.
I mean leaders or minority leaders in name only will
(03:03):
be gone and it will be gone forever.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Anyway. This is now who they are. They are a
soulless party.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Remember they wouldn't stand for the families of Jocelyn Nungary
Lake and Riley Rachel Moore in when Donald Trump became president,
people that lost their children and they sat on their hands.
I said, then they lost their heart, their soul, and
their conscience. Now you can take it a step downward.
Everything they said it used to bother them. Things about
(03:35):
Justice Kavanaugh for example, things about Clarence Thomas for example.
And there's one example of hypocrisy after another.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Roy Moore.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We can go all the way back every controversy that's
ever existed, Jim Jordan, etc. Everything they've ever said now
comes back to haunt them because they really don't care.
It's sort of like how you know, they don't they
care about out crime or they'll politicie only when they
can weaponize or politicize an issue of somebody that is murdered.
(04:08):
But they'll ignore, you know, the dozens and dozens of
people shot every weekend in Chicago and cities all across
the country, Blue cities all across the country, because they
can't weaponize it, they can't politicize it, they can't blame Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, now none of.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
These other issues they say that they had the moral
high ground on is gone and gone forever. Here to
weigh in, our poster friends, John McLaughlin mcglock on and
associate's Matt Towery, Insider Advantage, host of The Leaderboard his
podcast Anyway. Welcome both of you. Let's first get to
(04:43):
my analysis and what the polling is showing. John mcglockam
will start with you this time.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Well, the last national poll we released was right before
July fourth, and the president had his actually job approval
had ticked up a little bit fifty to forty six,
and with was an improvement, but the Republicans were still
trailing in the Stark ballot for Congress forty six to
forty three. So there's like a seven point gap between
(05:08):
Trump's policy approval and where the Republicans are for Congress.
And one of the things that we noticed was when
we asked them, and this is again, this was when
the ceasefire, which is now abrogated but had passed from
what they read, you know, what they've seen in the news.
Do you approve disapprove of the ceasefire deal? Only fifty
one percent of Americans did, but only thirty four percent disapproved.
(05:32):
Writ of center cable viewers, people watch your shows, listen
to your radio et cent they they supported it seventy
two to seventeen, but left the center post fifty four
to thirty five because it was Trump's ceasefire. And now
it's going back to like what we did polls in April,
when we asked them, did they approve a disapprove of
(05:52):
military action to stop or ran from getting nuclear weapons? Uh,
the majority of Americans did fifty two forty and was
it warned and justified? Fifty nine percent agreed? Should we
finish the job sixty to thirty they agreed. Americans don't
like going to war, but they understand what this is about.
And when we asked in this recent most survey, which
(06:13):
was released right before July fourth, when we said, do
you approve a disapprove of requiring Iran to stop funding
international terrorism against Israel and other nations, seventy five percent
to fourteen percent they did. And when we asked them
Iran must agreed and never produced nuclear weapons with American
and international inspections to verify, seventy six to fourteen they did.
(06:39):
So the vast majority of Americans understand what President Trump's
trying to do in Iran, that he's trying to prevent
them from getting a nuclear weapon, that he's trying to
stop them from increasing terrorism in the region around the world.
And you know, Americans, we maybe you know, slow to
hanger like the President, but if you if you're threatening us,
(07:02):
you're going to pay a heavy price. And that's what
we're seeing going on right now.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Matt Towry, let's get your take.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well, there's not one thing that my colleague friends just
said that I disagree with. His polling pretty much tracks
what I've seen. I think the following. I think, first
of all, as far as the Democrats go, if it's
Trump one way or another, whether it's a ceasefire or
having to wipe the leaders off the map and Iran,
(07:33):
either way, they're not going to like it because it's
it's it's Donald Trump. We all get that. But I
will say that I haven't polled this, but my take
based on all the polling I've done, and you know,
I did a lot of polling when these things first
broke out shown and they had basically the same sort
of numbers that that John had. I believe that Trump
(07:53):
has a unique moment now that he can truly continue
to dismantle Ran. I think it's it's very clear that
they will never negotiate a settlement. You cannot trust what
they say. You can negotiate forever, but all they do
is stall for time. And now, in a very strategic
manner which I'm sure they're putting together, it's time to
(08:15):
open up the straight it's time to do what we
have to do with the remaining leadership. We don't know
who all they are, and it's time that we make
it so that this country cannot continue to peddle the
harm that they pedal around the world and continue to
be a threat, and I think most Americans in the
end will agree with that. Let me add one other thing.
The Democrats have made one issue, remember this is their
(08:37):
one issue for about a month and a half two months.
That is, oh, the oil prices are too high. And
then all of a sudden we started had we had
the MoU and things started getting better, and the oil
was flowing a little better and the prices were coming down. Oh,
they weren't talking oil as much. It happened to Donald
Trump and the US take control of the straight and
get this oil really flowing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But you know, from my perspective, you know, there definitely
is seems to be and I've actually believed to be
a group of moderates that that probably would want to
hand over the dust, give up their nuclear ambition, you know,
rebuild the great once former great Persian Empire. You know,
you've got ninety ninety four million people there that have
(09:21):
been suffering for forty seven years. But there is a
group of hardliners loyal to the you know, you know,
dead former Supreme leader Ali Hamaniu. They finally had a
funeral for you know. To me, this is just a
huge opening opportunity that you know, puts all past historical
trends that favor the party out of power in midterm
(09:44):
election years. You know that we're now breaking new ground here.
I don't think these old models fit and I think
this is the greatest opportunity that them embracing extremism and
selling their soul, which is what they've done, and what
they're doing gets them to the Promised Land as assuredly
as they normally might.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I think you're right, because I mean, it's Donald Trump.
He's an historic figure in American history. He's not on
the ballot this November, but the Democrats are choosing to
run against him and make this a referendum on him,
and in that case, it's putting them on the wrong
side of the Iran War? Are they actually rooting against America?
(10:27):
Our brave men and women are sacrificing, you know, to
make sure that we win this conflict and Iran never
gets nuclear weapons, and they're picking the wrong side, and
you're seeing them nominate candidates, the extreme candidates that are
coming about, whether it's the three candidates for Congress, that
Mayor Mondami in New York who he supported these pro
(10:49):
Hoomas terrorists in small Democrat primaries and they won. And
now you're getting Platner in Maine. But he had to
step down, and they won't let it go to a
They won't let it go to a primary.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
They want to make.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Sure that the party controls some sort of nomination process
to replace him. But then you get l s Ied
in Michigan, you get Tall Rico in Texas. I mean,
the Democrat parties are part of extremists and the Republicans
have a chance to basically.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
But now it's Colorado, it's Missouri, it's in Washington State.
It's now a cancer that has spread all throughout the
Democratic Party and now all parts of the country. So
Old Country needs to be aware of this as they
prepare to vote. I mean, there was an article of
editorial today in the New York Post. The DSA versus
America is actually over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yes, and that's why Donald Trump has decided that his party,
our party, would have a midterm convention, because just like
we did in Milwaukee, where Donald Trump personally laid out
seventeen pages of the platform that he stands for, which
also was making sure a Ran never had nuclear weapons,
(11:59):
but he was able to lay out a platform that
the majority of Americans would support him. We'd sweep the
battle run states, win the popular vote, and now you're
in a midterm election where you have lower turnout, and
if we can have a contrast election. So when the
Republicans go to Dallas and they say, this is where
the Republicans for Congress stand. We're for lower taxes, We're
for secure borders. We're we're for making sure that you
(12:23):
have a housing is affordable with lower mortgage rates, and
we're making it easier for people to get housing. We're
trying to lower utility rates, et cetera. The Democrats are
for the opposite of those things. They are for higher taxes.
They voted for a four trillion dollar tax increase. They
voted for open borders, sanctuary cities. They're against voter ID,
(12:45):
they woult to enable fraud in elections. Let's have a
contrast election so that our voters can decide in September
and October and November, whenever they decide that they can
vote by their different states, that they can see that
the majority of Americans agree with the Republican Party, who
supports Donald Trump versus those who oppose Donald Trump and
(13:05):
really oppose what the majority of Americans stand for.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You know, the impact of a radicalized Democratic Party now
mainstream in the party and dominating in their party. The
impact on the midterm elections. What about the extremism fact
that last word, Matt Towery, how does this impact the midterm?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, you know, I always believe in midterms that people
vote off of anger and off of fear. And I
hate to say that, but that's always been my experience.
And right now there is an enthusiasm gap. The Democrats
have more enthusiasm than the Republicans have. I think you
have to take the issue of what's emerging with socialism
socialism in the Democratic Party. I think you have to
(13:46):
take what's emerging in terms of what they want to
do to Donald Trump and put this country through in
the next two years, is they take the House and
how much may that would take place, and then talk
about the other issues such as the fact that they
would easily led to open up the borders again. Take
that platform that the Democratic associal has just put out,
(14:06):
it's insane pendant on them. Get the anger up among
the Republicans because midterms are not about anything other than turnout.
And if you don't get your turnout, you don't win.
That's what the Republicans have to focused.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
On, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Appreciate both of you, Matt Towery, John mcglocho, and thank
you both. We will have you on regularly as this
as this midterm election. You're unfolds eight hundred and nine
four one, Shawn our number if you want to be
a part of the program. Earlier in the last hour,
Henry McMaster, the governor of the great State of South Carolina.
(14:42):
Kind of surprising, except Donald Trump kind of put out
the suggestion earlier before that. In fact, Lindsey Graham's sister
Darlene will be the interim senator to fill the role of.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The brother that she loved.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I've known Lindsay for years, and when his parents died young,
she was very young, and he then put everything aside
in his life and being the good hearted human being
that I knew him to be, he was a close friend.
He then took about the job, took on the responsibility
of raising his sister lady, later adopting her, and the
(15:23):
number one you know, as much as he loved politics,
as much as he fought for the things he believed in.
He fought for his family even more. An incredible interim selection.
As they move forward with a very quick process that
will nominate a replacement for Lindsey Graham, but she will
step in in his stead, and I would imagine be
(15:46):
as we discussed voting the way her brother would have voted,
and that would be in most cases supporting Donald Trump.
A lot of nice posts on x by a longtime
friend of this program, New king Rich, who reminded us
all that Lindsey came in the class of ninety four.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I had the honor of being at New king Rich
as MC.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I was a local radio host in Atlanta just before
I went to Fox in ninety six, and that night
was one of the greatest nights of my life to
be able to watch Republicans make history and take back
the House of Representatives and control of it, something that
had not been done in forty years. Lindsay was a
part of that freshman class and then later of course,
(16:29):
became a senator, former Speaker of the House. Longtime friend
of mine personal and otherwise New king Rich is with us.
He was a warrior. He was a firecracker on day one, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
He he was?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
He was?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Who was Chris?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
And I with him for the fortieth anniversary turned to
me and he said, you know, I may have been
a bit much when I first got there, he said,
as I yet older, I realized you were a lot
more often right than I taught you.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
For her, that's Lindsay.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I mean, there are certain conversations I won't reveal they
were personal. And he said, yeah, I think I wish
I didn't do that. Yeah, maybe we shouldn't have pursued
that as harsh as we did.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, but very reflective and introspective.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Look at it, look at this way, Sean in our
two hundred and fiftieth interdustry, Lindsey is a perfect example.
He came out of very difficult child circumstances. He showed
great responsibility and taking on his thirteen year old sister.
He served in the US military, ultimately as a full
(17:36):
colonel at every level. He loved life, he loved America,
and in the end he loved Donald Trump. And I
think that was probably his biggest surprise, because if you
were back and looking in the sixteen campaign, Lindsey said,
as many mean things.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh he was brutal, I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And by the way, the liberal media has been playing
it over and over again, will you please remind people
he said it in twenty sixteen when he was running
against the guy, because it's been just the opposite ever since.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Well, and you know, because we both know Lindsey very
very well, he'd he truly genuinely found Trump to be
the kind of person that he loved being with. They
golfed together. I'd really be curious how the total number was,
but my guess is it's over one hundred times. And
Lindsey just he brought the same passion to everything. Either
(18:31):
it didn't matter or it was important, and he had
passion and that's sort of how he lived his life
and he post now reflect on it. Because of course
twice when he was nominated for ambassador, he was a
key player in getting her through the Senate. Effect the
second time, after Trump had gotten elected in twenty four
(18:52):
Lindsey came up to her and said, look, why don't
we skip all this stuff. I'll get him the name
you I'll see if I can't get a butt through
by Evans consent, let's just get it done by Tuesday,
you know. But that was Lindsay always on offense, always happy.
He fit the Al Smith model of the happy warrior,
and he enjoyed life. He enjoyed what he did. And
(19:16):
by the way, I think the President coming out earlier
today and being in favor of his sister as the
interim replacement was exactly right emotionally. And I think Lindsay
v so proud of his sister being sworn in, and
she will be so well received by the Senate, both
(19:39):
Democrat and Republican, that it's a great American story, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
The only thing that I worry about, and I've spent
a lot of time. I didn't find out. I woke
up but for some reason at four four point thirty
in the morning, and I didn't stop talking all day
yesterday until about midnight. And I spent a lot of
time on the phone with her, her family, their staff.
They're devastated. They they lost, they they've they've In her case,
(20:09):
she lost everything in one the parent part of him,
the brother part of him that she loved and admired.
And you know, I won't reveal more of the private conversations.
She loved her brother, they were so close and she
(20:30):
you know, I'm so glad she did it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You know the only thing, you know what I worry about.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I worry about the legacy media in the halls of
Congress and elevators, you know, just probably gonna want to
harass this poor woman who's never dealt with that before.
That's that's what frightens me the most for her.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
First of all, for everybody who worries about the American system,
here is a senator who's going to come from her
own unique background, didn't get paid for by anybody, didn't
raise a billion dollars. She's here because she's the legacy
of her brother, and she is in the end going
(21:10):
to be her own senator. And I'd assume she's going
to be very close to Trump because she knows how
close Lindsay was. But at the same time, if you
want an example of why America, onlike Europe and elsewhere,
is open to talent, just think of her as an
example that you can come from anywhere and have a
(21:33):
chance to walk in the US Senate and be called
senator and guess what your vote counts.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Let me ask you this part because it frustrates me,
and that is the false portrayal of Lindsay as somebody
that loved war.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
No, Lindsay hated evil.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And yes he supported the president in his first term
when he defeated the Isis Caliphate. Similarly, he supported the
president taken out Solamani, the number one is terrorist in
the world, and Bagdadian associates, and even dropping the mother
of all bombs on Afghanistan. I have a hard time,
you know, understanding those that have taken the Trump doctrine
(22:12):
even from the first term, and look at all those
instances and somehow conflating isolationism into the Trump doctrine, which
it never existed. People never heard the other side of
the conversation or the other vision of Lindsay. And the
President has shared that vision, and that is on the
other side all of these countries, you know, since time
(22:35):
immemorial that have been in conflict with Israel, you know,
and if you want to look at more modern history,
starting from the nineteen forty eight UN partition Plan forward,
the hostility by every neighbor of Israel and their need
to fight for their very survival and having the moral
clarity to know who's right and who's wrong, and that
(22:58):
to get to that peaceful point, you have to identify
evil in the process is wholly consistent with the Trump doctrine,
both in the first term and where he stands today.
And I have a hard time understanding some have turned
that into isolationism.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Well, you know, Lindsey's a good example that if you
study the lessons of history, and I think Lindsey had
the same experience that Winston Churchill had in nineteen thirty one.
They translated mind comf. Churchill read the English language version
in thirty one, may have been the only elected official
(23:35):
in Britain to have read it. But he looked up
and he suddenly realized this guy is serious and he's real.
Something happened with Lindsay. That's very simone. I remember Lindsay
had a very long career in the military. He retired
as a full colonel. He was in a number of
battlefield areas where he would serve in potentially considerable danger,
(23:58):
won the Bronze Star. And I think the Lindsay came
to a conclusion, probably driven as much as anything by
nine to eleven and what happened to the World Trade Center,
that these these are our mortal enemies. This is not
a problem of translation or communication. When when the Iranian
(24:22):
religious dictatorship as it did this last week. Chance death
to America. They actually probably mean death to America.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And is it actual or they do mean it?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And their actions you know embody that that's right.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
And I think Lindsay was close to Trump in part
because the two of them had concluded that this is
a mortal threat to the survival of the United States
and therefore they have a duty to act before you
have that kind of a total catastrophic disaster. And that's
(25:01):
why Lindsay, who still knows it, he also understood, I
candidly think even better than Trump does. He understood that
Putin is, in fact someone you have to stop. You
can't appease, you can't negotiate. In the end, Putin has
to decide that he simply can't get away with what
(25:22):
he wants to do. And there's a certain symbolic reality
that Lindsay died answered his tenth trip to Kiev. That's
how deeply committed he was.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well, I mean, his travel was extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I mean to make that trip, you got to fly
to Poland, then you've got to spend ten twelve hours
on a train both directions to get into Kiev, where
he would you know spend all that time with Zelensky.
He's been to every country in the Middle East for
the purpose of preparing a road towards a recognition or
(25:58):
an extension of either the Abraham Accords or agreements, and
recognition of Israel's right to exist, starting with Saudi Arabia
and every other country within the Middle East. That doesn't
sound to me like somebody that wants a forever war
with anybody. That he's looking for a path to peace
that never existed and god knows how long.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I think that's right, and I think this is of
course the key to Trump's whole vision of the region.
We're not there to have another forty years of war.
We're there to find a path that brings together people
so they can live in peace, have safety, have prosperity,
and have a better future. And I think that President
(26:40):
Trump means that. I know Lindsay did. And of course
I go back far enough. I remember when Senator Graham
and Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman with the Three Amigos,
and they would go all over the planet. You show
them I'm a dangerous place. They show up and they
(27:03):
really wanted to understand what's going on in the world
and what do we have to do to be safe
as a country. And the three of them were a
bipartisan group. They were a courageous group. And now Lindsey
is the last of the trio.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
It's a speaker. We always love having you. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
My favorite calls when Joe Lieberman was running as an
independent and he said, please stop saying nice.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Things about me. They're killing me with every word you use.
That's nice.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I said, Oh, if you want me to start trashing you,
I'll be glad to tomorrow morning. Anyway, Speaker Gingrich, always
a pleasure. We thank you for being with us. That's
going to wrap things up at today Hannity tonight, nine
Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Senator Ted Cruz, Senator
Tim Scott obviously remembering Lindsey Graham, the great one, Mark levin,
(27:58):
Ari Fleischer, Adam Carolla. We have Brionna Lyman. She is
out there doing Man on the street and we will
get to all of it news you'll never get from
the legacy media mob. All happening tonight at nine. Set
your DVR. Hannity on Fox. We'll see you tonight. Back
here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
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