War-Torn Nations Converge on D.C. & Biden’s Confessions Exposed | 7.29.26

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A whirlwind week in the capital sees a send-off for Lindsey Graham, two high-profile sit-downs with US allies, and the highly anticipated testimony of Dr. Fauci.

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I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Wednesday, July 29th. This is Morning Wire.

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Natural disasters in Japan and Europe force hundreds of thousands to evacuate as emergency teams scramble to rescue survivors.

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And newly-released tapes of Joe Biden uncover more evidence of mishandling of classified information.

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Some of this may be classified, so be careful.

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Late Senator Lindsey Graham was honored yesterday in Washington, DC with a funeral service in the National Cathedral attended by major political figures from both the US and abroad, including Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who were also in town to meet with President Trump.

**John Bickley** (1:48)
Joining us now from the nation's capital is our DC. Bureau Chief Tim Rice. Tim, thanks for coming on.

**Tim Rice** (1:53)
Thanks for having me, John.

**John Bickley** (1:54)
So a really extensive series of memorials for the late senior Senator Lindsey Graham.
We had day one yesterday. There will be more today in his home state, South Carolina. Let's start with the services yesterday. Who was there and how did it go?

**Tim Rice** (2:11)
Yeah, it might be easier to ask who wasn't there. Pretty much all of what you might call official Washington turned out to support Senator Graham. It was a real, or to honor him. It was a real testimony to his career and his lifetime of service.
President Trump and Vice President Vance were both there and they both gave eulogies, as did Fox News host Sean Hannity. In the audience was pretty much every member of President Trump's cabinet, multiple Supreme Court justices, including Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whom Lindsey Graham famously helped get through the Senate confirmation process, as well as a number of Graham's former colleagues from the Senate and from the House. I mentioned those eulogies, they were both touching and hit on a lot of the same themes. It's not often that we see President Trump and Vice President Vance give speeches at the same time and hit the same notes, but both of them referred Senator to Lindsey Graham as a true American original, as an American icon. They talked about his dedication to public service, his dedication to promoting democracy abroad, his belief that America was the last best hope for democracy in the world, and both had to and would, God willing, survive. So a really incredible and touching testimony to a true statesman.

**John Bickley** (3:27)
Yeah, very consistent with what we've heard again and again about him from behind the scenes. Now President Trump had a couple of important meetings with world leaders as well, Zelensky and Netanyahu.
What were the goals there?

**Tim Rice** (3:40)
Yeah, so a pretty crazy confluence of things. I should also note that we did see that Zelensky and Netanyahu had a conversation with each other at Graham's funeral. Not entirely sure what they said, but there was a moment where the two of them responded off to the side conversing. And a really interesting moment for these leaders to come together because just over the weekend, Ukraine fired on a commercial Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea. The Iranian government said that this was an attack on Iran. The Kremlin immediately came out in support of Iran. So kind of an interesting happenstance that both of these leaders would be in town right after Ukraine seems to almost be getting dragged into the conflict in Iran, which just hit its fifth month.
So we don't know a ton about what Zelensky and Trump said. All we've heard from Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt is that both meetings were incredibly productive. We're hearing some reports that Zelensky, of course, asked for more funding for weapons and for aid in the war effort. Late last night, a number of senators met with Zelensky separately. We know more about the Netanyahu meeting because the Prime Minister's office released a more substantive readout. And Prime Minister Netanyahu said that this is the best conversation he's ever had with the president. Certainly a meeting coming at a crucial inflection point. Hostilities and attacks are kind of paused right now in Iran, but the president keeps saying that we might ramp back up again. So we're going to have to wait and see. But surely the president and the prime minister discussed whatever the next step is going to be in America's involvement in the region.