Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham

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HANNITY: Here with reaction, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

Senator, I ask you -- how can this great country of ours support their great freedom movement against the murdering communist regime down in Cuba? Arming the resistance and the freedom fighters would not be off the table for me.

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): Well, all I can say is America is with the people in Cuba. The Squad is not America. Bernie Sanders is a Democratic socialist. I like him personally, but Castro has their tongue. They actually admire the Castro model in Cuba.

The problem is that the Squad can't speak up against communism and socialism because that's sort of where they want to take our country. This is yet another reason why we'll do well in 2022.

Joe Biden is AWOL.

Freedom needs you now, President Biden. The people of Cuba need you to speak up. You should go on television very soon and say we stand with your right to demand freedom in Cuba in our backyard. We're with you. We stand against the regime that's putting people in jail and snatching them off the streets.

This is a moment for Joe Biden to stand up for freedom in the face of oppression and communism and thus far, he's AWOL.

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HANNITY: What can we -- what can America do? What can we do to help this freedom movement, Senator? You don't win revolutions with slingshots.

This regime has murdered God knows how many untold numbers of people.

GRAHAM: Right.

HANNITY: They put the entire population in Cuba in poverty for decades.

GRAHAM: I will be introducing a Free Cuba Act that takes sanctions to a new level against the communist regime individually. I think we should put on the table cyberattacks against the regime who are using the cyberspace to suppress the Cuban people. I think we should be very aggressive in terms of regulating and controlling our backyard.

I would send a signal to the Cuban government that we're not going to sit on the sideline -- sidelines as you destroy people in our backyard. And we need to give voice to freedom. America is the symbol of freedom to most everybody in the world. To President Biden, where are you when the people of Cuba need you the most?

HANNITY: You mean like where is he in Afghanistan except leaving weapons? He's giving waivers to Putin as they commit cyberattack after cyberattack.

GRAHAM: Yeah.

HANNITY: We have the Chinese government threatening our military and reunification with Taiwan and Joe says nothing.

GRAHAM: Right.

HANNITY: Then you have the Iranians enriching nuclear material once again to make nuclear weapons and the Iranians getting weapons from the Chinese and Russia and Joe does nothing, Senator.

GRAHAM: Right. Well, so, I can say the Biden administration has been a poor defender of freedom and a weak opponent of oppression.

Various places in the world, the bad guys are getting stronger, nobody trusts us anymore. We're surrendering to radical Islam in Afghanistan. Our border is completely out of control.

The Iranians are back in the game, nobody trusts us anymore to be a valuable ally. Biden could do something about Cuba if he chose to, but he's like a deer in the headlights --

HANNITY: Let me ask you this --

GRAHAM: -- when it comes to standing up to oppression.

HANNITY: Reagan supported the freedom fighters in Nicaragua. Can America support the freedom fighters of Cuba?

GRAHAM: Not only did Reagan support the freedom fighters in Nicaragua. He actually invaded Grenada when Cuba tried to expand their communist influence in our backyard. We should declare communism dead in our hemisphere. We should stand up to it at every opportunity.

There's an opening here to destroy communism in our backyard. President Biden, take it. History will be on your side.

HANNITY: All right. Thank you, Senator. Don't hold your breath about Biden.

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