Senator, is your refrigerator running? Sen. Graham's hoax calls with Russians

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🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Nerdcast has a stacked show this week as we get Natasha Bertrand to take us inside two prank calls to Sen. Lindsey Graham that fly in the face of his recent comments on Turkey, the Kurds and Syria. Plus, Nancy Cook, Holly Otterbein and Daniel Strauss join guest host Charlie Mahtesian to chat about what's new in impeachment and why next week's Democratic debate might actually be kind of fun. Please note this episode contains an explicit word. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Senator Graham you are connected.
0:02.0	Hello?
0:05.0	Hello?
0:06.0	Hello.
0:08.0	Hello. Hello.
0:09.0	This is Politico's Nurdcast. Good day, Mr. Senator.
0:14.0	Well, thank you for taking my call.
0:17.0	I met with the president.
0:19.0	I spent the weekend with him and we played golf yesterday and had dinner over the weekend and we talked
0:25.6	about our friends in Turkey and I told him I my desire was to change the conversation.
0:35.0	That was Senator Lindsey Graham, and I'm your guest host, Charlie Matessie,
0:39.8	sitting in for Scott Bland this week, who has a cold. We've got a jam-packed episode for you. in to what to watch out for in Tuesday's Democratic debate.
0:56.4	First, we have National Security reporter Natasha Bertrand
0:59.7	who's here to tell us about a prank call
1:01.5	that Senator Lindsey Graham received.
1:03.4	Well, I really appreciate you calling me. Thank you for calling me.
1:07.0	Me too. Thank you for taking the time to have such an important conversation.
1:12.2	Yes, I want to make this a... have such an important conversation.
1:16.0	Yes, I want to make this a win-win if we can.
1:20.0	So, you Natasha, thanks for being here. Hi.
1:21.0	Natasha, you've got this amazing scoop today about this prank phone call that South Carolina
1:25.7	Senator Lindsey Graham got.
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