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铁杆乌克兰支持者林赛·格雷厄姆于周六去世，此前他刚第十次前往乌克兰战区，而此时正值这位南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员最引以为傲的一项成就迎来关键节点。
我于周五与身在基辅的格雷厄姆进行了两次电话通话。他告诉我当天意义重大，他迫不及待要公布一则消息：特朗普白宫终于为国会推进他长期以来争取的法案开了绿灯，该法案将通过惩罚购买俄罗斯石油的国家，对俄罗斯实施重大金融制裁。
我问他是什么情况发生了变化，让这项法案得以推进。他表示，弗拉基米尔·普京持续不断的袭击行径让外界愈发清楚，这位俄罗斯总统“嘴上一套，行动一套”。他刚刚与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基举行了会面，并表示他认为特朗普总统如今将这位乌克兰领导人视为“更出色的赢家”。
格雷厄姆告诉我，他不想抢先特朗普表态，但他相信这套金融惩罚举措将对中国和印度这两个俄罗斯燃料最大买家形成施压。他认为这项法案会在共和党同僚中获得压倒性支持，并自豪地提及，该法案此前的版本曾获得85名议员联署。
在这个党派对立愈发严重的时代，两党合作已愈发罕见，格雷厄姆希望我知晓，康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔功不可没。他两次叮嘱我致电布卢门撒尔，确保也让他表态。这让人想起格雷厄姆与共和党参议员约翰·麦凯恩过去曾与另一位康涅狄格州议员、参议员乔·利伯曼促成跨党派合作的风格。
林赛·格雷厄姆参议员做客《玛格丽特·布伦南面对全国》节目
几乎整整一年前的同一天，格雷厄姆和布卢门撒尔曾一同做客《面对全国》节目，谈论他们通过对俄罗斯石油买家实施制裁和关税来施压俄罗斯的两党合作计划。格雷厄姆在2025年7月13日的那次采访中告诉我们，他想给特朗普递上“一把大锤，用来打击普京的经济，以及所有支持普京战争机器的国家”。
当时两位参议员刚一同出访欧洲，敦促欧洲国家停止自行购买俄罗斯石油，并争取欧洲各国支持，试图效仿相关制裁举措。
布卢门撒尔周五告诉我，他和格雷厄姆会争取到足够票数确保法案通过。格雷厄姆去世后，是否推进该法案的决定权将落在参众两院共和党领导人手中。
周五与我通话时，格雷厄姆表示，他希望能再次与布卢门撒尔一同做客《面对全国》节目。就在三周前，他刚与我们一同出镜，推动另一项重大目标：将伊朗问题的僵局转化为沙特阿拉伯与以色列关系正常化的契机。他曾与时任总统乔·拜登合作推动此事，但2023年10月7日的恐怖袭击使这项工作陷入停滞。
这项未竟的事业如今也同样悬而未决。
Margaret Brennan: I spoke with Lindsey Graham a day before he died. He was in Kyiv, working on one of his top priorities.
July 12, 2026 / 12:14 PM EDT / CBS News
Fierce Ukraine supporter Lindsey Graham passed away Saturday on the heels of his tenth trip to the warzone, and at a key moment for one of the South Carolina Republican senator’s proudest accomplishments.
I spoke twice by phone on Friday with Graham while he was in Kyiv. He told me it was a big day, and he was excited to share the news that the Trump White House had finally given him the green light for Congress to move his long-sought bill to put significant financial penalties on Russia by punishing buyers of Russian oil.
I asked what had changed to make this possible, and he said Vladimir Putin’s constant attacks made it very clear that the Russian president was “saying one thing and doing another.” He had just met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and said that he thinks President Trump sees the Ukrainian leader as “more of a winner now.”
Graham told me that he didn’t want to get ahead of Mr. Trump but he believed that this package of punishing financial measures would create leverage on China and India, the two biggest purchasers of Russian fuel. He believed this would get overwhelming support among his Republican colleagues, and bragged that past versions had gotten 85 signatories.
In an increasingly rare act of bipartisanship in these hyperpartisan times, Graham wanted me to know that Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, his Democratic colleague, deserves a lot of credit. Twice, he urged me to call Blumenthal and make sure we got him on record too. The gesture had shades of the type of across-the-aisle work Graham and Republican Sen. John McCain used to broker with another Connecticut lawmaker, Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Sen. Lindsey Graham on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
It was almost exactly one year ago to the day that Graham and Blumenthal had joined us on “Face to Nation” to talk about their bipartisan effort to pressure Russia through sanctions and tariffs on buyers of their oil. Graham told us in that July 13, 2025, interview that he wanted to hand Mr. Trump “a sledgehammer to go after Putin’s economy, and all those countries who prop up the Putin war machine.”
The two senators had just traveled through Europe together, urging European countries to cut off their own purchases of Russian fuel and building support among European countries to try to mirror the sanctions.
Blumenthal told me Friday that he and Graham would get the votes to make sure this passed. Following Graham’s passing, it falls to Republican leaders in the Senate and House to make the decision on whether to take it up.
When Graham and I spoke Friday, he said he wanted to come back on “Face the Nation” with Blumenthal once again. He’d just appeared with us three weeks ago to push another big goal: Turning the morass of the Iran war into an opportunity for normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. He had worked with then-President Joe Biden to try to get that done, but the work was stymied by the horrific attack of Oct. 7, 2023.
That unfinished business also now lays waiting.
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