Senate Judiciary Committee member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. joins 'Hannity' with reaction
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Now, once again, the
now, once again the
Democrats impeachment
backfired on Capitol Hill.
We have shown you earlier
tonight the Democrats, violent
reckless rhetoric over the
last four years, violates the
own standards.
They themselves would be
guilty of inciting
insurrection
and, furthermore, the only way
the Democrats can make their
case against Donald Trump is
to deceptively, as they have
been editing his remarks and
lying about what he said on
January. Six.
This impeachment trial is
devoid of facts, devoid of any
compelling evidence, devoid of
any constitutional basis
here, to react to all of Us
South Carolina Senator Lindsey,
Graham,
and if you compare the words
that we played of Stacey
Abrams and Hillary Clinton,
and you intersperse comment of
the managers with the
insurrectionist language of
the left, guess what
it suits perfectly.
It fits perfectly doesnt. It
yeah.
I hope the defense team is
watching your show,
but let me your viewers, the
not guilty vote, is growing.
After today,
most Republicans found the
presentation by the House
managers offensive and absurd.
We all know what happened at
the capitol was terrible.
I hope everybody involved that
broke in the capitol goes to
jail,
but I dont remember any of
the house managers saying a
damn thing when they were
trying to break in my house
and going after Susan Collins
and spitting on all of us.
If this is a problem for a
politician to give the speech
that President Trump did
well, then Kamala Harris has a
real problem because she
actively engaged in bailing
out rioters.
Here is what I suggest.
If you are a politician trying
to raise bail for people
accused of rioting, you are
inciting more riots,
something that nobody talked
about. That is important.
If there is preplanning there
is no incitement.
Do you agree with that?
Yes, sir
youre asking that
here is what the managers
did im asking you.
People said I didnt pay
attention today they are wrong.
They are wrong.
The managers have got this
cockamanie idea that they were
monitoring the proud boys and
the far right websites, and
they knew it was going to
happen and they encouraged it
that looney tunes.
They are saying that because
if the president didnt Know-
and it was preplanned- he is
not guilty,
so they are trying to create a
story line that he was in on
it before it happened that he
was monitoring the proud boys
and the crazy websites, and he
knew they were come to
Washington with the violence
on their mind and he
encouraged it.
This is not evidence.
This is a democratic, liberal,
novel presented as evidence
im watching all of
this and im applying the
language and the standards
that the Democrats are using.
In this case
now they are saying that the
president is challenging
election results.
Hillary Clinton still never
accepted to this day that she
lost to Donald Trump
same with Stacey Abrams in
Georgia.
The reason I think you tell
me if im wrong, they have
to go backwards. To lay the
foundation is because the
exact words of the president
did not incite violence. Nor
did anybody ever know
now that we know people were
plotting scheming.
Steeper
you go.
Can I say something quick
you bet
new evidence makes you do
that.
The only reason they are
trying to create a bizarre
story line that Trump was in
on it with Dan Scavino, because
we now know after impeachment
done without a lawyer or
hearing or without witnesses,
that the F dot Bi and the
Capitol Hill police actually
now understand. This was
preplanned.
They were planning bombs the
night before
so the whole story line that
Donald Trump caused this by
the speech has fallen apart,
good to the good law
enforcement activity.
What did Nancy Pelosi know and
when did she know it
if it was widely known by the
F dot Bi and the Capitol Hill
police people were planning to
come to Washington before the
6th to create violence?
Did he is know about that?
The whole story line was that
Trump created this from the
speech.
Now we know they had it on
their mind. He spoke and they
are playing a game of trying
to get trump in on it before
January six.
This is why you dont want
snatch. Impeachments
evidence does matter
evidence matters
big time, because its now
coming in
all right
now walk us through the rest
of the process. Here
you get sixteen hours to prosecute
the case.
The president lawyers dont
need sixteen hours.
Do it in three or four max
walk us through
what happened?
Okay,
so here is what I would do
take all of your videos.
Literally,
you have got the democratic
politicians being silent or
encouraging acts of violence.
You have a sitting vice
president, as a: u DOT S senator
telling people they are not
going to stop, they shouldnt
stop and trying to bail them
out.
If I were the Trump team, I
expose the hypocrisy here and
go after the argument. It was
preplan and the idea that the
president was in on it is
absurd.
This is collapsing before
their eyes,
not guilty vote growing,
so it will be over by Sunday.
I hope for the good of the
country,
the constitutional
argument. It was preplanned,
meaning he couldnt have
incited it
and the insurrectionist.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-07.