{"id":97435,"date":"2026-07-13T23:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rcp-podcast-lindsey-grahams-legacy-rahms-warning-to-israel-the-end-of-reading\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:42:49","slug":"rcp-podcast-lindsey-grahams-legacy-rahms-warning-to-israel-the-end-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rcp-podcast-lindsey-grahams-legacy-rahms-warning-to-israel-the-end-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"RCP Podcast: Lindsey Graham’s Legacy, Rahm’s Warning to Israel, The End of Reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth discuss how the Trump administration is reacting to the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham with WH correspondent Carolina Lumetta, the latest developments in the Iran War, and Democratic presidential hopeful Rahm Emanuel’s remarks in Tel Aviv last week. Plus, a look at “teen takeovers” taking place across the nation and a new Atlantic article declaring “the end of reading.” Listen live weekdays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly Channel 111, or on Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, or other platforms. <\/p>\n

00:00<\/a> – Opening: Lindsey Graham’s Legacy, McConnell’s Proof-of-Life<\/b> RCP White House correspondent Carolina Lumetta joins Walworth, Cannon, and Bevan to discuss the passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham and what it means for the U.S. Senate and American foreign policy, and the strange disappearance of Sen. Mitch McConnell. Watch: Trump: “Lindsey Graham Was A Great Politician… You’ve Probably Never Heard Me Say That About Somebody”<\/a><\/b> Jonathan Martin, Politico: The Many Lives of Lindsey Graham<\/a><\/b> Mike Waltz, NY Post: Lindsey Graham: Senator, Soldier and Statesman<\/a><\/b> “He believed that projecting American power was not for conquest, but to promote the values of democracy around the world and ultimately make America safer and the Middle East safer,” Cannon said. “He’s going to be missed by people who adhere to that worldview because he had President Trump’s ear.” “He’d been a staple in the Senate hallways for years,” Lumetta said. “Lindsey Graham was kind of like the honey badger of senators. He just didn’t care about all these different criticisms against him. He was in it for the love of the game.” *** 22:00<\/a> – Iran Ceasefire Is Over<\/b> The panel turns to the latest development in the Iran War as the U.S. has resumed bombing. Is there anything the Trump administration can do to get a deal? Watch: Trump: Iranians Had Agreed To Everything, Then Changed Their Mind<\/a><\/b> “We’re losing ground, not gaining ground,” Carl Cannon said. “The hard-liners are ascendant.” “We’re back to bombing, which might be the only way to end this thing: to decimate the IRGC,” Walworth said. “They’re the ones who are dug in. They’re the ones who are the most fanatical and the most willing to make this thing a kamikaze mission. I’m sure we’ll be talking about Iran from now until the election.” *** 29:30<\/a> – Rahm Emanuel’s Warning to Israel<\/b> The group looks at Democratic presidential hopeful Rahm Emanuel’s remarks in Tel Aviv last week regarding U.S.\/Israeli relations. Watch: Rahm Emanuel in Tel Aviv: America Will Not Back A “Greater Israel”<\/a><\/b> “If you’ve lost Rahm Emanuel, you’d better wake up in Israel,” Andrew Walworth said. *** 37:15<\/a> – Teen Takeovers<\/b> The group looks at recent coverage of teen takeovers in cities and towns across America, including incidents in Raleigh and Chicago that turned violent. “It is kids with too much time on their hands, not enough parental supervision, and social media,” Bevan said. “The police will end up arresting a few people, but they really haven’t done a good job of laying down the law ahead of time and letting people know, if you do this, you’re going to jail, and you’re going to pay a serious price for it.” Walworth added: “This isn’t like Marlon Brando saying, ‘What are you rebelling against?’ ‘What have you got?’ This is serious violence on a major scale that we haven’t seen before in the United States.” *** 43:43<\/a> – The End of Reading?<\/b> The episode ends with a conversation about a new Atlantic article on how social media and smartphones have ushered in the end of reading. The Atlantic: The End of Reading Is Here<\/a><\/b> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to RealClearPolitics weekdays at 11 a.m. Eastern on SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly Channel 111, or on Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, or other platforms. Subscribe for more RealClearPolitics analysis, interviews, and political commentary.
\nRealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth discuss how the Trump administration is reacting to the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham with WH correspondent Carolina Lumetta, the latest developments in the Iran War, and Democratic presidential hopeful Rahm Emanuel’s remarks in Tel Aviv last week. Plus, a look at “teen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21305,293,5059,6253,14433,29877,2086,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}