Face the Nation: Lindsey Graham

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"Thank you. Good morning."

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"Yes."

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"Right."

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"We had to keep the government open. We got 45 days to fix both problems."

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"There will be a com -- right.

So, we got to fix asylum. We need border security agent increases. We need more detention beds. I think there's Democratic support for major border security reform. But we have to attach it to Ukraine. To those who say we need to fix our border, you're right.

To those who say we need to help Ukraine, you're right. To those who say we need to do the border, not Ukraine, you're wrong. The vast majority of Senate Republicans would support a combination of border security, Ukraine funding and disaster aid."

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"Yes."

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"Right."

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"Yes. Well…"

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"I have been around a while. I'm wearing a pin. Do you think I would leave Ukraine hanging?

I don't believe that one bit. This same White House says we don't need to F-16s, we don't need HIMARS, we don't need tanks. I have lost confidence in their evaluation of what's going on in Ukraine? We have got a bunch of allies. They can help for six weeks.

The allies have spent more money in Ukraine than we have. And when you hear otherwise, it's just not true. It's been good burden-sharing. But I'm not worried about the next six weeks. I'm worried about next year. We will produce in the United States Senate Ukraine funding $60 billion or $70 billion, not 24, to get them through next year.

We will have a border security measure that is strong. And we will have additional disaster aid, because the nation needs it. We're going to do those three things. And I'm hoping our House colleagues will react positively to it.

I think Kevin is the right guy at the right time. The only way he loses his job is if a handful of Republicans join up with the Democratic Party to fire him. That would be a disaster for the future of the Republican Party."

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"That's not going to happen. Kevin has the overwhelming confidence of his membership.

He worked to avoid a shutdown. He will help Ukraine, but he's telling everybody in the country, including me…"

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"… you better send something over for the border for me to help Ukraine.

And he's right to make that demand."

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"A lot bigger."

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"Oh, absolutely."

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"You know why? Because we need it."

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"We spent less than 5 percent of our military budget.

Fifty percent of the Russian army has been destroyed by the Ukrainians.

They would be at Crimea already if the administration hadn't been so slow in giving weapons."

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"Senator McConnell's been great on Ukraine, but he picked a formula to lose votes for Ukraine.

To expect people like me and others to vote for Ukraine without border security is unreasonable. Mitch made a miscalculation. He's been great on Ukraine. I told him 1,000 times the key to Ukraine funding is to deal with a broken border; 107,000 Americans have died from fentanyl poisoning, from fentanyl coming across the Southern border.

We haven't lost one soldier in Ukraine. So, America is being invaded from a broken Southern border. To my Democratic colleagues, you need to take border security seriously."

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"It will not be a stand-alone."

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"When I go to South Carolina, I openly talk about helping Ukraine."

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"If you let Putin get away with this, you have a bigger war.

Well, what about our border? I promise people in South Carolina I'm going to do two things."

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"I'm going to help secure our border and keep the fight going in Ukraine to make sure that Putin doesn't get away with this."

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"I will leave it up to him to what to do."

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"Yes, well, here's what I will say about President Trump.

He did not pull the plug on Afghanistan, even though he wanted to. The biggest mistake we have made since the war on terror is withdrawing from Afghanistan.

To President Trump and anybody else, if we pull the plug on Ukraine, that's 10 times worse than Afghanistan. There goes Taiwan. To stop funding Ukraine is a death sentence for Taiwan. Putin will keep going. You missed all of World War II if you don't know how this movie ends.

To the Republicans who say Ukraine doesn't matter to us, you're wrong. Respectfully, you're wrong. The war gets bigger, not smaller. There goes Taiwan. If Ukraine can beat Russia, China's less likely to invade Taiwan, and Putin gets stopped."

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"I will be back."

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"Yes, loved her. She was great."

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"Yes. Yes."

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"Yes. Yes."

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"Well, that says more about the current state of affairs than Dianne. Dianne was saying nice things. We had like a five- second hug. And -- because she wanted to say something nice about me they thought she had to be off the committee. That's what's wrong with -- Dianne wasn't the problem, she was the solution.

And there are people on my side. It goes both ways. So, let's just do this. Let's reflect on a well-loved life. America's better for Dianne Feinstein having served our country. California is better for it. And we lost a lot. We just didn't lose a person, we lost an idea. And I want my - my contribution is to try to reinvigor the idea it's OK to be tough and kind. It's OK to be liberal or conservative, but it's even more OK to work for America. And that's what she did."

We've lost a lot with Dianne. So, the rest of us, we're going to have to up our game."

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"She was."

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"Yes, I will."

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"My bill has exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother. Forty-seven or 50 European nation - 50 European nations limit abortion from 12 to 15 weeks. Fifteen weeks, the baby can suck its thumb and feel pain. I want introduce that bill. I want America to be like the civilized world and not China or North Korea. It's a debate worthy of a great country to have this debate, and we will have it."

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"Thank you."

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