Grabien Stories https://grabien.com/stories/Feed Grabien recent stories en tom@grabien.com Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:48:21 -0400 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:48:21 -0400 News 60 https://images.grabien.com/logo_header.png Grabien recent stories 60 60 https://grabien.com/stories/Feed Emanuel Says He Challenged Netanyahu in 2009 on West Bank Settlements: What You’re Doing on Housing Will Lead to Perpetual Conflict and Isolation ‘If there was a prediction, I wanted to be wrong on, that was it’ grabienrecentstories599426 https://grabien.com/story?id=599426 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:29:26 -0400 Rahm Emanuel on Speech Criticizing Netanyahu at Tel Aviv University: I Laid Out a Plan That Gets Out of Israel Being a Pariah ‘It went from technological prowess to a territorial pariah’ grabienrecentstories599424 https://grabien.com/story?id=599424 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:26:22 -0400 Rahm Emanuel on His Work with Sen. Lindsey Graham: Did We Find Compromise? ‘Absolutely’ ‘We disagreed, but we weren’t disagreeable about it’ grabienrecentstories599422 https://grabien.com/story?id=599422 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:23:38 -0400 Ben Domenech: ‘The Death of Lindsey Graham Comes as a Shock,’ He Was Relentless and Always Moving at Rapid Speed ‘He has an incredible life story’ grabienrecentstories599420 https://grabien.com/story?id=599420 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:31:24 -0400 Matt Whitaker on Sen. Graham: We Had High Expectations of Our Allies in NATO, To Be Stronger and Invest in Their Own Defense ‘Graham made sure that we did play a role of being a good ally’ grabienrecentstories599418 https://grabien.com/story?id=599418 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:28:46 -0400 Amb. Matt Whitaker on Passing of Lindsey Graham: ‘It Was Shocking,’ He Wanted to Make Sure That America Was in Its Place in the Globe ‘My heart goes out to his friends and family’ grabienrecentstories599416 https://grabien.com/story?id=599416 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:26:43 -0400 Amb. Mike Waltz: We‘re Supposed to Believe That Junior Officers Went Rogue Firing on Ships, But Faced No Consequences from the IRGC ‘I don‘t think we buy it’ grabienrecentstories599414 https://grabien.com/story?id=599414 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:58:20 -0400 Amb. Mike Waltz: Iran Is Still of the Mindset That It Can Use the Global Economy as Leverage ‘What Iran is doing is in violation of international law’ grabienrecentstories599412 https://grabien.com/story?id=599412 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:41:47 -0400 Amb. Mike Waltz on Sen. Graham: I Met Him in Afghanistan on His Reserve Duty, He Drove the Pentagon Crazy ‘My heart breaks for his family’ grabienrecentstories599410 https://grabien.com/story?id=599410 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:39:35 -0400 Amb. Mike Waltz on Iran: This Regime Has Plotted to Kill Trump for Many Years, and His Cabinet Officials ‘It‘s just unacceptable on so many levels’ grabienrecentstories599408 https://grabien.com/story?id=599408 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:36:08 -0400 Donna Brazile on Lindsey Graham: It‘s Ironic That He Spent His Last Day Doing What He’s Done His Entire Career, Which Is Spending Time with an Ally ‘You could disagree with him, but you can do it with a smile’ grabienrecentstories599406 https://grabien.com/story?id=599406 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:33:58 -0400 Amb. Mike Waltz on Iran: This Is a Regime That Cheated on the JCPOA, and Is Obsessed with a Nuclear Weapon ‘Has said they will use one if they get one’ grabienrecentstories599404 https://grabien.com/story?id=599404 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:31:49 -0400 Ro Khanna: My Condolences to Sen. Graham’s Family, He Served This Country Honorably ‘Talked about having undocumented people have a pathway to citizenship’ grabienrecentstories599402 https://grabien.com/story?id=599402 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:27:13 -0400 Adam Schiff on Iran: ‘This MOU Was So Vague,’ You See the Problems with Agreeing to Agree in the Future ‘Iran has realized that it has a kind of nuclear weapon and that is the ability with minimal force to close off the Strait of Hormuz’ grabienrecentstories599400 https://grabien.com/story?id=599400 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:22:49 -0400 Sen. Adam Schiff on Lindsey Graham: We’re All Trying to Wrap Our Heads Around This Giant Loss, He Was Really Larger Than Life ‘Many of us knew him as the Trump whisperer’ grabienrecentstories599398 https://grabien.com/story?id=599398 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:19:37 -0400 Ro Khanna Slams the IDF Amid Being Held at the West Bank: They’re Lying, What Happened Was Unprecedented ‘How dare they mistreat people with an American passport that way’ grabienrecentstories599396 https://grabien.com/story?id=599396 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:35:31 -0400 Ro Khanna on Graham Platner: The Line Was Always Sexual Assault, I Was the First Person to Withdraw My Endorsement ‘I would say I got that call wrong’ grabienrecentstories599394 https://grabien.com/story?id=599394 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:31:49 -0400 PM Netanyahu on Lindsey Graham: He Believed That Israel’s Security and America’s Security Are Intertwined ‘He was absolutely fearless’ grabienrecentstories599392 https://grabien.com/story?id=599392 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:29:36 -0400 PM Netanyahu on the Loss of Lindsey Graham: In Israel It’s Grief, in ‘Iran It’s Celebration,’ Because He Never Confused Good with an Evil ‘He never waivered’ grabienrecentstories599390 https://grabien.com/story?id=599390 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:27:46 -0400 PM Netanyahu on Lindsey Graham: ‘Frankly, I’m in a State of Shock,’ as Trump Said, Lindsey Was So Vibrant ‘it’s hard to accept the fact that he is no more’ grabienrecentstories599388 https://grabien.com/story?id=599388 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:25:21 -0400 Trump on Sen. Graham Amid Passing: On the Phone He Said, I Feel Good, But I’m Tired ‘It was a long trip, many hours, he had just gotten back’ grabienrecentstories599386 https://grabien.com/story?id=599386 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:31:55 -0400 Trump on the Loss of Lindsey Graham: Everybody Loved Him, He Had Some Enemies, But He Was a Good Person ‘He was going to have a big victory’ grabienrecentstories599384 https://grabien.com/story?id=599384 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:29:41 -0400 Trump During Call with NBC’s Welker on Sen. Graham: I Got a Message from One of His People That He Had Passed Away, I Said, ‘I Can’t Believe It’ ‘He was like a member of the family to me’ grabienrecentstories599382 https://grabien.com/story?id=599382 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:26:27 -0400 CNN’s Tapper to Trump’s ‘We’re Trying to Have CNN Go in a Normal Path:’ ‘Well, I’m on a Normal Path Right Here, Sir’ ‘Thank you for calling’ grabienrecentstories599380 https://grabien.com/story?id=599380 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:47:34 -0400 Trump During Call with CNN: Lindsey Graham Was Becoming Strong on the SAVE Act, I Think He Was Going To Be There Very Strongly on the Filibuster ‘He was fine other than being tired, he was fine’ grabienrecentstories599378 https://grabien.com/story?id=599378 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:34:55 -0400 Trump Remembers Lindsey Graham: He Ran Against Me and Was Formidable, I Didn‘t Know Him Before Then ‘He was a fantastic advocate in the Senate’ grabienrecentstories599376 https://grabien.com/story?id=599376 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:33:17 -0400 Rev. Franklin Graham Praises Late Sen. Graham for Standing Against Tyranny: He Stood for Freedom, I Thank God That We Had Somebody Like Him ‘He Was a Great World Citizen’ grabienrecentstories599374 https://grabien.com/story?id=599374 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:30:53 -0400 Trump During Call with CNN Amid the Loss of Sen. Graham: ‘It‘s Devastating,’ He Was a Natural Politician and Got Along with Everybody ‘I thought he was fine’ grabienrecentstories599372 https://grabien.com/story?id=599372 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:27:41 -0400 In His Final Public Remarks, Sen. Graham Spoke in Kyiv, Ukraine, About Ending the Conflict with Russia: We Have the Formula to End This War ‘I’ve never been more optimistic than I am today’ grabienrecentstories599370 https://grabien.com/story?id=599370 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:04:10 -0400 Israeli PM Netanyahu Reflects on the Passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham: The World Has Lost a Great Human Being ‘Great American patriot and a great champion of the Israel-American alliance’ grabienrecentstories599368 https://grabien.com/story?id=599368 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:01:58 -0400 Tim Scott: More Than a Decade Ago, Lindsey Graham Ran for President and Was Aggressive Against Trump, He Wanted to Win ‘Over time, however, Lindsey Graham‘s clarity and transparency caught the attention of President Trump and as a result, they spent more time together’ grabienrecentstories599366 https://grabien.com/story?id=599366 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:45:56 -0400 Tim Scott on the Loss of Lindsey Graham: He Embodied This Notion That, When Necessary, ‘Be Strong, But on the Path to Peace’ ‘Was never because he was a war monger, it was because he wanted to see peace’ grabienrecentstories599364 https://grabien.com/story?id=599364 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:43:16 -0400 Tim Scott Remembers Lindsey Graham: America‘s Lost a True Statesman, We Don‘t Have Many Left, I’ve Lost a Friend ‘It‘s just a devastating loss for our state of South Carolina’ grabienrecentstories599362 https://grabien.com/story?id=599362 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:41:04 -0400 The W.H. Lowered Flags to Half-Staff Sunday Morning Following the Sudden Death of Republican S.C. Sen. Lindsey Graham ‘He was 71’ grabienrecentstories599360 https://grabien.com/story?id=599360 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:39:36 -0400 Rep. Russell Fry Opens Up on the Loss of Sen. Lindsey Graham: For More Than Three Decades, He Woke Up Every Day Thinking, ‘How Can I Fight for S.C.?’ ‘He certainly leaves a very large hole politically for South Carolina because of his record of service’ grabienrecentstories599358 https://grabien.com/story?id=599358 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:03:07 -0400 MS NOW: Senator Lindsey Graham Dies at the Age of 71 ‘In a statement posted on X, Graham’s office said that he ‘passed away from a brief and sudden illness’’ grabienrecentstories599356 https://grabien.com/story?id=599356 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:15:59 -0400 Gov. Mikie Sherrill: We Continue to Prevent Utility Shutoffs During ‘These Incredibly Hot Months’ ‘What we’ve done is put out for some of our lowest income residents, a program where we’re going to defray some of the costs‘ grabienrecentstories599354 https://grabien.com/story?id=599354 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:08:18 -0400 Gov. Mikie Sherrill: New Jersey Has the ‘Most Comprehensive Data Center Plan With Guardrails in the Nation’ ‘But at the same time, towns should not be left holding the bag‘ grabienrecentstories599352 https://grabien.com/story?id=599352 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:06:51 -0400 Gov. Mikie Sherrill: New Jersey Was Facing an ‘Affordability Crisis’ Driven by Rising Utility Costs ‘It was largely because between data centers and utility companies and our grid operator’ grabienrecentstories599350 https://grabien.com/story?id=599350 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:05:37 -0400 Claire McCaskill: Graham Was Instrumental in Investigating Iraq and Afghanistan Contracting Issues ‘He was helpful and kind‘ grabienrecentstories599348 https://grabien.com/story?id=599348 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:04:21 -0400 Claire McCaskill: Lindsey Graham ‘Never Met a Microphone He Wasn’t Willing to Talk Into’ ‘He was more than willing to step into the hot seat and take tough questions’ grabienrecentstories599346 https://grabien.com/story?id=599346 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:03:01 -0400 Claire McCaskill: Lindsey Graham’s Death Will Be ‘A Very Big Surprise to Everyone Who Knew’ Him ‘There was never an indication that he had any issue medically‘ grabienrecentstories599344 https://grabien.com/story?id=599344 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:00:45 -0400 Mychael Schnell: Senator Graham Was Keeping Up a ‘Rigorous, Busy Schedule’ Before His Death ‘That was just something that he always did‘ grabienrecentstories599342 https://grabien.com/story?id=599342 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:45:52 -0400 MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell: Lindsey Graham Died at 71 Following a Brief Illness ‘He served in the United States Senate since 2003, and he’s had a lifetime of public service‘ grabienrecentstories599340 https://grabien.com/story?id=599340 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:33:16 -0400 Roger Zakheim: Trump Is ‘Playing Geopolitics’ in Managing Relations With Turkey ‘President Trump loves the F-35 he wants the U.S. economy to boom‘ grabienrecentstories599338 https://grabien.com/story?id=599338 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:59:22 -0400 Roger Zakheim on Turkey: ‘It Is Not Appropriate … for an Ally to Take Our Technology and Give Our Adversaries an Advantage’ ‘It’s geopolitics that keep them in NATO‘ grabienrecentstories599336 https://grabien.com/story?id=599336 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:57:23 -0400 Roger Zakheim on the F-35 Program: ‘We Only Allow Our Closest Allies and Partners to Have Access to This Program’ ‘That was part of the design‘ grabienrecentstories599334 https://grabien.com/story?id=599334 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:43:54 -0400 Rep. Mike Lawler: ‘It Is a Choice for the American People to Make About the Future Direction of This Country’ ‘We see what Zohran Mamdani, AOC and Bernie Sanders are advocating for‘ grabienrecentstories599332 https://grabien.com/story?id=599332 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:30:58 -0400 Rep. Mike Lawler on Immigration Policy: It ‘Needs To Be Rooted in What Our Needs Are as a Country’ ‘Immigration has been a cornerstone of our nation going back for centuries‘ grabienrecentstories599330 https://grabien.com/story?id=599330 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:08:42 -0400 Rep. Mike Lawler on the Midterms: ‘This Is a Choice Between Capitalism and Marxists, Socialists, Communists’ ‘This is a choice between people who believe in the ideals and values that built America and those who want to remake it‘ grabienrecentstories599328 https://grabien.com/story?id=599328 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:39:50 -0400