GOP senator urges Democrats to 'follow the Republican model' and investigate accusations against New York governor
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President, a month ago, just
pointing out
who checks the fact, Checker
Guide,
joining us with reaction,
South Carolina,
Senator Lindsey, Graham
before I get to this, I think
one of your finest moments in
the U Dot S Senate was during the
Kavanaugh hearing, and you had
had enough
now. Youve got all these new
allegations against
Governor Cuomo.
I dont know the truth of I
dont know if these things are
true,
I thought the Republican Party
frankly for once actually
handled that situation with
Justice Kavanaugh the right way:
okay,
serious allegations,
we are going to stop pause and
investigate,
and they did
we found out. A lot of lies were
told, and you had enough.
I dont know the case here.
I believe in due process.
Perception of innocence
senator
well number one. The idea
that Cuomo would appoint his own
investigator tells you a lot
about his mind set.
So the Democratic Party is now
piling on Andrew Cuomo, because
hes made a lot of enemies along
the way, but youve been
consistent and ive been
consistent.
We allowed Dr Ford to be heard
if there were five accusations
against justice. Kavanaugh three
were literally made up and when
it comes to Dr Ford, I think
something happened to her, but I
dont think Brett Kavanaugh had
anything to do with it. At all,
im asking my democratic
colleagues who believed every
word, Dr Ford said. Even before
Judge Kavanaugh spoke and we
did an investigation youre now
giving Cuomo a complete pass.
Schumer went on the floor of the
Senate day in and day out,
accusing all of us Republicans
of supporting sexual assault.
Have you heard him say one word
about this,
so the double standard is pretty
obvious, but the one thing that
I cant explain to you. I
couldnt walk three feet during the
Kavanaugh hearing without some
reporter sticking a microphone
in my face. What you think about
the new accusation
and the idea that Kavanaugh was
guilty was pervasive.
The accusation was self proving
if I havent had one person
asked me about the accusation
against Governor Cuomo from the
media, not one
serious allegations
made by Tara, Reade and another
woman out in Nevada.
Now, do we go back and take those
allegations seriously?
In other words, you had a whole.
I believe her caucus and the
risk of people- I will scroll
again that are silent. Now that
were so vocal, then is pretty
darn long, Senator
well heres. What I would
tell my democratic colleagues to
do
follow the republican model
we had a republican nominee for
the Supreme Court be accused of
something the day before we
voted
the moment before we voted.
We could have gone ahead saying
this was too late. You sat on
it, you didnt tell us. This is
not fair.
We stopped the entire process.
We had days and weeks of
hearings. We had another FBI
investigation, we took it
seriously and what should you do
as Democrats regarding Cuomo
do exactly what Republicans did
call for an independent
investigation? Take it
seriously
all right, let me
move on. We will keep scrolling
and aims because its pretty
long, so people can get the full
picture.
The presidents speech at CPAC,
no Third Party
America First agenda, make
America great again agenda
Mitch, Mcconnell to his credit
credit, said yeah. I vote for
him as the nominee
disagreements. At times,
Ronald Reagan said we agree. Eighty percent
of the time youre, not my
enemy,
is he right.
Yeah Reagan was right, and I
just talked to President Trump
just a few minutes ago and I
said: listen its not necessary
for everybody to like each
other.
I actually, like President Trump
hes, been very nice to me.
Hes allowed me to be in his
world. He allows me to give my
two cents worth about different
issues when he was president.
This is his party.
If you dont get that you
missed a lot at CPAC.
Donald Trump has the nomination
right now and nobody can take it
away from him if he wants to
run-
and I think hes got a good
chance of getting reelected
again based on what the
Democrats are doing to the
country.
But what I would tell
President trump the real test
for you and the Republican Party
is two thousand and twenty two
lets make sure we have our best
candidates on the field. Lets
dont have primaries of people
who think good republican
conservatives lets unite, and
if we will follow,
president trumps lead that we
are going to be United
Republican Party. We are going
to put our best team on the
field in two thousand and twenty two that sets the
stage for a twenty twenty four come back.
Weve got a lot of talented
people in the Party Sean.
Did you find one person at CPAC
criticize Donald Trump?
I thought it was amazing that
you had so many people wanting
to be president on our side, but
not one person would say
anything bad about him.
That tells you a lot about the
strength of president Trump.
Will you help me
draft Herschel Walker to run for
Senate Donna, Georgia.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-07.