Political World In Shock
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What happened and who reacted after Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death?
Hello everybody, I'm Jesse Waters along with Emily Campagno, Harold Ford Jr., Sandra Smith and Tom Shalhoub. It's 5 o'clock in New York City and this is The Five.
The political world in shock. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham dying suddenly at his home over the weekend with officials saying Graham suffered an aortic dissection, a sudden tear in the body's largest artery and one of the deadliest cardiovascular emergencies. About an hour ago, South Carolina's governor appointing Lindsey Graham's sister to finish his Senate term, which ends in January. Tributes pouring in all day for one of Washington's most influential foreign policy voices, who is still working right up until his death with a trip to Ukraine. His last words, according to Axios, quote, I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli Saudi normalization.
He passed away hours later. President Trump remembering Graham as a tireless worker and one of his closest allies.
He was a great guy and he was a friend. He was a worker. He was a total workaholic politician. Now, some people don't call that work. Some people call that a lot of talking. But everybody loved him. He was good on the other side. If I had if I had Democrat problems, he could solve them.
But some liberals are showing their true colors, dancing on the late senator's grave with disgraceful videos and posts, desecrating his legacy just hours after the announcement of his death. But most will remember Lindsey for his unwavering patriotism and political masterclass, like his defense of Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill back in 2018.
If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come to us. What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. You've said that, not me. You've got nothing to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell them that Lindsey said, oh, because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you've done to this guy. Boy, y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it.
Emily, you still get the chills watching that big Kavanaugh moment.
An incredible defense of the sanctity and the integrity of the process instead of diving into politicization that, unfortunately, I think has been normalized in this country. I think the late senator now represents this moral code and really just pure character that unfortunately is lost. I think he represents a bygone era, albeit passing away far too soon. Thank you so much for joining us. And for some reason, I think things have been shifted and warped now that people equate being angry or being toxic with somehow being a part of the workforce or having to get something done on the Hill. He was always joyful. He spread light everywhere he went. And even in his defense of the process of now Justice Kavanaugh, he was, I mean,
Was he angry? No, he was just fierce. And he was fiercely devoted to this country with obviously all of his decades of service, including as a colonel in the United States Air Force. And I was in South Carolina recently a few weeks ago. And even there at the next table over at dinner, the South Carolinians were talking about him. He was like the positive topic of conversation in that state. They loved him so much. And just a final point that for us as shocking, even as we have there on the Chiron that this is and for his young age, we can lose our loved ones at any point. And certainly it's important, you know, learn your family history. And if there's some some way that a test could somehow reveal a risk for you and your family, perhaps it might enable you to spend some more time with your loved ones.
But certainly we remember his legacy forever.
Yeah. Seventy one, Harold. I mean, what a shock. A lot of people. No one saw this coming. So I got elected to Congress. I was 26 years old in 1996. I met Lindsey and he got elected to the Senate several years after that. And he was close friends has been noted with John McCain. And they used to go take trips to the Middle East. My first trip to Israel and Iraq and all of the stands around Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan was with was with Lindsey and Senator Grant, Senator McCain.
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