Host Charlie James discusses Lindsey Graham’s death and SC’s new Senator.

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Charlie James: All right, welcome to the program on your Tuesday afternoon, and we have got just absolute boatloads to talk about today. Lots going on. Now, I know that we have been—and rightfully so, I'm not diminishing the fact—that we have been mainly concentrating on the death of Lindsey Graham and where South Carolina goes from here. But there is a tremendous amount of stuff going on. We've still—I mean, we don't even have a budget right now here in South Carolina. We'll talk about that coming up in just a little bit. But there's a lot of news going on that you absolutely need to be aware of. Darline Graham Nordone has been sworn in as our new Senator from South Carolina—the interim Senator. She will fulfill that, of course, that's Lindsey Graham's sister. She will fulfill that office until January the 3rd, when the new Senator, the elected Senator, will be sworn in. And that's—that's—that's another whole kettle of fish that we're talking about right now. How do we get, in this short amount of time that we have, how do we get a good candidate there? Now, you heard Mark Lynch yesterday on this program announcing that he was running for Senate. He said he's not—he's not restarting his campaign, he said that he was just continuing his campaign from earlier. Then we've got Ralph Norman declaring that he is a candidate. Several other people have been mentioned. We're going to be talking about some of those folks coming up in just a little bit because, I mean, it's going to be a pretty crowded field. So not only is this going to be a crowded field, this is now getting complicated legally. Now, I'll tell you exactly what I mean by that coming up in just a little bit. But Lindsey Graham's sister has been sworn in as our new Senator. Now, a lot of people were asking the question yesterday because we all heard—we all heard that—well, we heard the dispatch call from 911. We heard that. We heard the 911 operator talking to the ambulance drivers and the EMTs. We heard that. But one of the questions was, who actually made the 911 call the night of Lindsey Graham's death? Well, that question got answered today by Senator Tommy Tuberville. I want you to take a listen to this. Tommy Tuberville, of course, Senator from Alabama. Let's take a look at what he said. Tommy Tuberville (audio clip): My former scheduler was Lindsey's scheduler, and one of my staff members was with that scheduler the night Lindsey called. Called basically said, "Listen, I'm having chest pains. You know, I need to do something." She said, "Did you call 911?" And he goes, "No, that's the reason I called you." And so she called 911. There was a restaurant downtown, watching the soccer game. By the time she got there, 911 had knocked the door down, and they were working on him. And, you know, it's just one of those things. Lindsey basically worked himself to death. You know, we all—most of us have families. He didn't have any family. And if we had a couple of days off, he went to that airport, he went somewhere to try to work out something for—for our country. And, like today, I normally walk into the 5:30 meeting. If we had a few days off, "Lindsey, where you been?" Because you knew he'd been somewhere. And we either talked golf or we talked about him going overseas somewhere and talking to some ambassador or—or some president. So, he was very well known. He was very smart. He knew foreign relations, and, uh, no, there's no conspiracy theory here. Charlie James: And of course, we've been hearing about all the crazy conspiracy theories out there. So, Lindsey Graham gets home, I guess Saturday night, after he called President Trump, talked to President Trump, told President Trump that he was tired. And of course, you know, 12-hour flight back from Ukraine. Then later on that evening, about 8:00 or so, from what we're hearing, about 8:00, Lindsey starts experiencing chest pains. And he called his scheduler. His scheduler was Tommy Tuberville's former scheduler ...

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