Rep. Clyburn: Lindsey Graham “Is a Totally Different Person”

REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): Well, I think Mitch was just being Mitch. He decided a long time ago that he was not going to let anything happen in the Senate, that this did not approve of. And I don’t think he’s going to let anything drop from his lips. That he doesn’t think this president will approve up. So that’s all this is. I don’t know why these, suppose the leaders, are so — put this man in front of the country. This country is too valuable to the world for us to allow any one miss-rep (ph) destroy its credibility. And I said that with all due deference to these guys who I’ve worked with, for a long, long time. I don’t understand it. I am really surprised at it. I had a long relationship with Lindsey Graham, and I just don’t recognize them as granted last three, four years. He is a totally different person than I think he was for years I knew him before. I don’t understand it. But maybe I am not old enough to understand that.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: The President-elect Joe Biden has talked, obviously, about healing, about unity, about, you know, trying to address the very serious divisions in your country. Obviously, all of this that’s happening is causing further divisions, you know, in Trump world amongst Trump supporters, and there are a lot of them. How do you think, I mean, you know a lot about healing and unity and divisions, how do you think Biden when he’s president can start this really difficult, difficult, you know, process.

CLYBURN: I think he’s already started as president-elect. He’s supposed to be speaking to the country and the world, I guess, again today. I think he’s demonstrated over the last several days the kind of leader that he would be. He said time and time again, although he was running as a very proud Democrat, he would govern as an American. And no matter who you may have supported, you will get the benefit of his energies as much as anybody else. So I think that he is showing by example, what a leader should be. I learned very early in my life that leaders lead by precept and example. We had a president who’s full of precepts, never give any positive examples of leadership. Joe Biden is showing in very short order, how leaders ought to conduct themselves. And I think he’s going to do well, because though, there’ll be lawyer. Trump is, he will never, ever accept Joe Biden. They will accept anybody else for that matter.