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President Trump on Sunday said Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) sudden death is a “big blow to” the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, the president’s legislative priority.
Trump called in to NBC News’s “Meet the Press” and told host Kristen Welker that Graham thought the White House was going to have the SAVE America Act passed in the Senate.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was “very clear” about knocking out Iran’s nuclear program prior to his death the night before.
“We removed this immediate and present danger of Iran with nuclear weapons that would’ve posed a danger to everybody,” Netanyahu told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.” “And I think that Lindsey was unabashed. He talked to me about it. He said, ‘You know, you have to do it. You have to do it.’ He came to me and said, ‘Bibi, you have to do it. You have to knock out these nuclear weapons program before they knock us out.’ He was very clear about that.”
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Sunday alleged the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is lying about an incident in the West Bank that led to him being detained by Israeli settlers.
Khanna appeared on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” where host Kristen Welker read a statement about the incident, in which Khanna traveled to a small Palestinian village in the southern West Bank on Wednesday when armed men blocked the road and began swearing at him and his team and kicking the minibus they were traveling in.
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on Sunday said his colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died suddenly the night before, could be “loud and obvious, and sometimes even obnoxious.”
Scott reflected on his time working with Graham in the Senate during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” with Gillian Turner, saying Graham’s death left a hole in the Senate that “cannot be filled” and that it could take “many of us to step up to the plate and take on the responsibilities that he had from a global perspective.”
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U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said Sunday that Iran is “controlled by a bunch of crazy people” after escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran.
“President Trump’s a peacemaker, Jake, and he wants a deal with Iran. He wants to make sure that they never have a nuclear weapon, that they join the world as a contributor and a normalized country,” Whitaker told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
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Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) on Sunday said that the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) really felt as he was “making great strides” towards a Russia sanctions bill before he died at the age of 71 due to a “brief and sudden illness.”
“We were just in Ankara, Turkey for the NATO summit together. He came in. We met with, among others, [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr] Zelensky. Clearly, they had a good personal friendship as well,” Rounds said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Sunday said he regretted endorsing former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D), who formally dropped out of the race against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) after an ex-girlfriend came forward and alleged that the former candidate sexually assaulted her in 2021.
“I got that call wrong,” Khanna told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on NBC News. “I endorse a lot of people, but when I make a mistake I take accountability. And I think what people want is the humility, to take accountability if you make a call that’s wrong.”
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President Trump said he spoke with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) before his death on Saturday, stating that the South Carolina senator “sounded a little tired.”
“He called and he said, ‘We're all set for the SAVE America Act.’ He was pushing the SAVE America Act like crazy," Trump told NBC News's Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press." He said Graham had just landed from Ukraine and called the president around 7:00 p.m. "He sounded a little tired, but perfect, but a little bit tired. [He] had a right to be. Man, he was a worker. He was really a worker."
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Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) called President Trump’s new Air Force One “a security risk,” as the plane faces controversy for its level of security.
“The actual Air Force One, not the Qatari version, is really — it looks like a plane, but it’s got some capabilities that you wouldn’t believe,” Himes told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died suddenly Saturday night, was scheduled to appear on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” after returning from a trip to Ukraine.
“Senator Lindsey Graham was scheduled to appear on @MeetThePress this morning,” host Kristen Welker wrote on the social platform X. “It would have been his 64th appearance on this broadcast. We are sending our deepest condolences to his family and colleagues.”
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Sunday that the U.S. has “lost a true statesman” after the death of his colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
“We don’t have many left, but he was a true statesman. But I’ve lost a friend. It is a morning of mourning for me. It’s a powerful reminder that life is fleeting, that we are not here very long. If I were to tell stories about Lindsey Graham, one of the most important stories about Lindsey Graham is that when I was a new senator, he welcomed me in,” Scott told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
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