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excused as "telling it like it is" when it is actually just reckless, outrageous, and undignified. >> brian: he voted with the president 90% of the time. he doesn't like the president's tone.e his announcement comes after months of public sparring with the commander in chief.to he wrote a book ripping him and hours before that, bob corker escalated his own feud with the president on social media and with reporters. >> during the campaign, you supported the president. do you regret that now? >> well, i don't think there's any question but that's the case just in the way that he conducts himself. and goes to such a low level. i do.es

>> brian: we have the tallest cameraman in the world, clearly. brushing aside the criticism and focusing on the president's economic and security policies, sarah huckabee sanders.en >> the thing that people actually care about, not some petty comments from s senator corker and flake. they are more concerned about the big policy initiatives that this president is driving. >> brian: joining us now is their colleague in the senate, i think it caught him by surprise, too. senator lindsey graham. you are somebody who also sparse with the president quite often and plays golf with him too. why do these senators who votes often with the president, why are they retiring and taking on the president? what is your take? >> number one, i am sad that jeff flake is leaving the senate. he's a friend. he's smart.ng independent minded. he will do hard things. he is a problem solver. i like bob corker. very smart guy. i am trying to work with president trump. i like him.

i've had my differences. he's my president. i will help him where i can. i can do two things at once. i can like two guys and like working with the president. i love senator mccain. i really am here for a different reason. i'm here to fix the military and cut taxes, repeal and replace obamacare.fe that's what i care about the most. >> brian: you realize that if it was president hillary clinton who had the tone that senator flake and corker most would be attracted to,, they would absolutely have a tenth of the power that they currently wield and the influence. it is not correct, senator? >> if you can repeal and replace obamacare, i will give you a lot of latitude on tone. if you can cut taxes, if you build up the military -- president trump is taking the gloves off. he's got the right strategy regarding north korea and iran. there are a lot of barking dogs in washington, mr. president. you don't have to kick every one of them. sometimes you hurt yourself when you get to these fights, you punch down.

stories that get in the way of your agenda. i'm not going to abandon jeff flake or bob corker. i love john mccain but mr. president, i want to help you cut taxes and win a war we can't afford to lose. our game, how about that? >> brian: how much did today -- within minutes of senator corker's comments, senator schumer talked about the many untruths the president is known for and how many shows like cnn and msnbc had formats for these comments. if you have an objective of making things better, you do this stuff behind closed doors, am i right? >> sometimes you take it out in the street. donald trump takes most of his fights to the street. we are not going to be successful or fail because of msnbc. or cnn. most people don't watch those cable networks. most people are working for a living and don't know who bob corker and jeff flake are.

most people want president trump to succeed. a lot of people do not like his tweeting and his punching down and kicking every bark dog. mostly republicans don't like that. i'm going to be around him for the rest of his term, i hope. he has a chance to do big things on immigration. i think he has the best chance to take care of a broken immigration system. let's do what we got sent here to do. >> brian: what's interesting about you, you have a lot of pride but you have your eye on the ball. i just asked our green room, can you give me an idea of some of the exchanges between senator lindsey graham and the president of the united states? "he is one of the dumbest human beings i have ever seen. in my opinion --" >> me or the president? >> brian: the president. he is a nut job. you came just as hard on him. he didn't even commit for voting for him but you golfed with him last week. >> i did not vote for him. i've voted for a guy you would

know if he walked in the door. that's how bad it was. he won, i lost. he beat me like a drum. he beat the clinton machine. b there's a lot coming out about russia with the clintons. i'm a bit humbled. i did lose. i don't like it when he picks on john mccain. i don't like it at all. i think john mccain can help the president a lot if he would reach out to rebuild the military. it's badly broken and win a war afford to lose. he's telling this guy andaf north korea, if you go down that road, i will wipe you out. he's telling the iranians this is a terrible deal. i want a better one. i like what he's doing on foreign policy. he's got the best team i've seen in 20 years of being in washington. i want to help him fix a broken immigration system, cut taxes and repeal and replace obamacare with graham-cassidy. it is a block grant to the states. that's why i am here. >> brian: because you have a job to do.e. >> i was elected to get something done. i want this president to be. successful because god knows we

need change in this country and donald trump beat us all with the simple message. let's make america great again and drain the swamp. a lot of us need to do a little soul-searching, as to why we are so unpopular. >> brian: what kind of world are we living in when jimmy carter understands trumpll more than most politicians? when he said that hillary clinton lost because of obama's policy failed. when the world has jimmy carter making more sense than some -- what's going on? >> sometimes is the twilight -- the further you get away from the problem, the better you can analyze it. it's pretty clear that president trump causes a lot of his own problems but the media is going literally insane about this guy.t general kelly giving him some advice about how to talk to the widow of the fallen soldier, maybe he did not convey it the way he should have but i know and donald trump's heart he loves the military.ho he gets picked on about anything. he brings a lot of it on to himself but he's got an agenda

that i buy into. i want to cut taxes. i think jeff does, too. >> brian: thanks for scramblings over here. you've got a million things on your agenda. bring me inside the room today. when you had the meeting with the republicans on the hill. tell me the tone at the president's demeanor after sparring with bob corker and his interaction with john mccain. >> he picked john out a couple times saying i want to rebuild the military with you. i know it doesn't come across a lot but i can tell you one thing, donald trump admiress john mccain's service, no matter what he said in the past. he loves the military. president trump does. it was upbeat. it was lighthearted. he was funny as hell. he picked different people out of the crowd, including john. he said very complimentary things. if you saw this guy, if this guy

shows up a lot, his numbers are going to improve. he talked about his successes, what he wants to do. he talked about how his older brother convinced him not to smoke and use drugs and he wants to deal with this opioid problem -- scourge in the country. he talked about north korea. he talked about cutting taxes. he was relaxed and made comfortable in his own skin and i enjoyed it. >> brian: on top of that, opioids -- they will be talking about that, as a national crisis. when you talk about the taxha situation, do you think senator corker and flake in their lame duck and their disdain for president trump will hurt the process? >> no, i think jeff flake and bob corker will do what they think is best for the country. i working with jeff right now to find a fix to a broken immigration system. i think both are going to support healthy tax cuts. both support repealing and replacing obamacare with graham-cassidy. the state-block grant.

i think they're going to be with the president with rebuilding the military. the one thing i would say both of these colleagues -- i admire you, i'd like you, you won and beat me. i want you to be successful.ac to all three of you, knock it off. >> brian: leave me up to the next segment, the revelations about the dossier and who paid the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign and the fbi was going to extend the payments after the election. senator, you are a lawyer. put this in perspective. >> stay tuned, my friend. i said sunday. we are going to go wherever the evidence takes us on russia. everybody thought that was just tromp. the evidence is going to take us where it takes us. that's more than the trump c campaign. i see no evidence of collusionig between the russians and the trump campaign. we will keep looking but there is a lot of activity with this fusion gps group and the democratic party. comey's reason for why he jumped into the clinton investigation,r

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>> brian: breaking news on capitol hill. listen to this. a new probe into why the obama administration green-lighted the sale of 20% of america's uranium supply. didn't we go over this in peter schweizer's book last year? catherine herridge hasn't more on this story. >> two powerful house committees open investigations into fired fbi director james comey and actions he took during the 2016 campaign including a letter toto congress reopening the clinton email case 11 days before the

election. in may, days before being fired by the president, comey refused to admit any error. >> even in hindsight, this has been one of the world's most painful experiences. i would make the same decision. >> led by trey gowdy and house judiciary committee also putting the attorney general loretta lynch under scrutiny. after comey circumvented -- two months before 17 key witnesses including hillary clinton, were interviewed. lawmakers also questioned why comey went public with the email case but remained silent about the probe of trump campaign associates. democrats accuse republicans of launching a massive diversion and the national security threat that russia poses. >> this is the beginning of this probe. >> the house intelligence committee's chairman announced a joint investigation with the oversight committee into the 2010 uranium one deal.

that gave a russian company control of the largest share of the u.s. uranium supply. congressman nunez questions what the obama administration knew. >> was there a doj investigation and if so, why was congress not informed of this matter? >> the 2010 deal is under new scrutiny after an fbi confidential informant came forward claiming there is evidence russia tried to create favor with then secretary of state clinton and her husband through the clinton foundation. a gag order may soon be lifted. >> we are in contact with thee justice department to release him from a nondisclosure agreement. if that does not work out in a timely fashion, we will be able to subpoena him. >> peter king denied the investigation is being driven by politics. >> this has nothing to do with the 2016 election. it goes back to dealings that went on in 2010-2011. >> president trump's personal attorney michael cohen met with house investigators after he told reporters it went well. democrats accused republicans of

running interference. to help protect trump witnesses. brian. >> brian: thank you very much, catherine, wherever you are right now. one person that doesn't think this the big deal, hillary clinton. >> i would think it's the same baloney they've been peddling for years. there's been no credibleee evidence by anyone.ed in fact, it's been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked.e. trump and his allies including fox news are really experts at distraction and diversion. the closer they investigationn about real russian ties between trump associates and real russians, as we heard jeff sessions finally admit to in his testimony the other day, the more they want to throw mud on the wall on their favorite target, me and president obama. we are the ones they always like to throw into the cross hairs. >> brian: we will see.

i would have a bigger table with a room that size. here to discuss it, chuck rocha and gianno caldwell. thanks so much for joining us. there's a lot in that. a lot of impact. it's legitimately unfolding. it developed over the last few hours. first off, chuck, bernie sanders put the scare into hillaryhu clinton very early on. does this bother you as an american let this was going on? >> we want to get to the bottom of it. i will say this about democrats and republicans. we should always -- i say the same thing about barack obama and donald trump. it's our tax dollars to pay for all of this. i'm sitting here in washington, d.c. we can run as many investigations. let me get my taxes right. >> brian: we will be able to do it on a postcard soon. just a matter of time. gianno, first off, this is what bothers me. there's an informant out therewh that needs to come forward and

know they won't face any type of backlash. the justice department can allow that to come forward. what is jeff sessions waiting for? we can unlock a lot of these mysteries. >> i do not know what he's waiting for, either. where there is smoke, there is fire. a five alarm blaze, no question. what's particularly interesting about the -- the whole fiasco, cnn and msnbc have them talk about russia for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. but we are not hearing much about what theou clinton foundation did and what is said and done especially with this uranium one particular situation, theni clinton foundation received about $145 million. i believe that number is $145 million. when it was all said and donebe from uranium one tied executives. the executive of that particular company gave about $2 million. the bank where bill clinton gave that $500,000 speech, it was ay bank that was promoting uranium one stock.

we look at all these different things going on. we should see this everywhere. this is the biggest crime of the century. or since we are on the news, i want to make sure it's 100% accurate. from my view, this is something that should be investigated. on capitol hill. in the russia collusion. >> brian: good point, gianno. the one thing about republicansy they will go at each other's throats. they will do anything to win donald trump. you are going against hillary clinton, chuck. why didn't you bring stuff like this up, chuck? >> we wanted to see a democrat in the white house.e i was in control of lots of things in the campaign and we did not go negative. we put bernie's message out there which i think resonated with a lot of people. i am working on elections all over the country. the thing about this and what

hit the press tonight, what's been hitting the press -- there are lots of people in virginia that are going to be voting in six weeks.oi we see a lack of enthusiasm on both sides. more and more of the stuff coming up, you will see more and more regular americans who are just frustrated with the whole system. they are like they are both crooks. you've one thing, four american heroes lost in, niger? another investigation. i think we really need to focus on making sure we hold our government accountable but also doing something for the american people. >> brian: pivot if i can, gianno. i don't know if you've had a lot to look at who has paid for this dossier and the dnc, not the current dnc. but the previous one. paid for the dossier along withe hillary clinton. millions upon millions ofh dollars. the fbi was going to pick up the tab until christopher steele's

name came up after the election. picking up the tab on a private investigation. don't we do that? does this bother you?? >> it absolutely does this particular investigator has ties to ukraine. not ukraine but with russia. we think about all the things that are going on and how thisis has been played out, a source that was absolutely conclusive evidence. we know politics absolutely paid for this. people should be alarmed. we need an independent investigation for what's going on. for the fbi to have actually been a part of it, picking upat the tab with u.s. dollars?ll the same individual who was a foreign agent? that's incredibly disturbing. i just don't know what to takee from the fbi at this point. when president trump has made different comments about james comey and others, you have to sit back and say maybe there is a need to bring in somebody from the outside to really see what's

going on. who doesn't have any affiliations with the democratic party or republican party. >> brian: some of this investigation was going on in 2015 when a guy name robert mueller was running things. they got $5.6 million from the clinton camp. the dnc pledged $3.6 million. opposition research is not new. you have to do it to be successful, chuck. is this over theav line? >> i just heard about this on the way over here. t i will tell you for those of yot who don't run campaigns, it's very common to do opposition research on everything. it's also common to do self research on everything. i've never seen this go to the fact where a federal bureaucracy would use private research we do on everybody. when we were doing bernie's campaign or a senate campaign, it's something that is very common in the political process. i want to read more about this, where all this information comes from.ic >> brian: suddenly, there's something there. if we can get that informant

front and center -- chuck and gianno, very interesting. thanks, guys. weighing in on the north korea relationship, what they said about the prospect of nuclear war and the president's approach to that man. little rocket man. man. look little rocket

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on developing both our strength and capacity in the region and developing better containment, greater deterrence and trying to deal with sanctions that can really have an impact on north korea. >> brian: i like leon panetta but i think he's doing all those things along with the rhetoric. general pretorius said he was not completely concerned that the u.s. would engage in a nuclear war with north korea. >> are you concerned there would be a real nuclear war with north korea? w >> certainly concerned.l the question is how concerned. i don't think likely, no. i think all of this is a communications strategy that is trying to make sure this administration is in a a very different situation from all of its predecessors. north korea on this presidents watch could have the capability to hit a city in the united states with a nuclear weapon. >> brian: and that is my

donald trump is doing something as president that nobody else did. he's pushing for an answer and solution. no more strategic patience. michael waltz has been patiently waiting in washington to weigh in on this. are you upset by the president's language? little rocket man, tellingar secretary of state tillerson "don't waste your time." does that concern you? >> what folks need to understand is the credible use of military force is what helps our diplomacy be effective and over the last eight years and even y beyond, both the chinese and north koreans have not believed that that threat of force wass credible. look, time is not on our side here.. the north koreans are moving towards a crisis moment and when they are able to strike the united states with an icbm, they might already be able to strike our allies with a nuclear weapon. the thing is, once they are even able to do that, there

capability is still going to progress. they will be able to launch multiple muscles and move from a solid fuel -- liquid fuel to solid fuel which means they can launch them faster. they will move to mobile launchers. much more difficult for us to be able to take them out. the clock is ticking.y i think the president's right to induce a sense of urgency in our sanctions and our diplomacy and not allow the north koreans to just buy more time by moving us back towards talks.on which is what they've done in the past. >> brian: colonel, you worked for a pretty tough guy. dick cheney. he would like to lay down, too. he was criticized for it.oo among the people not upset by this language -- joe lieberman. he says he knows president trump's words are strong but he's not upset about them because we tried for years and years. with diplomatic language. where has that got us? nowhere. now we have a situation whereha they are able to manufacture their own rocket fuel.

we can't even stop them from importing because they've got it already. >> what this communication strategy is really geared towards is the chinese.y president xi just got reelecteds through the communist party convention they have every five years, president trump is on him way out to china and south korea. and you have shinzo abe get reelected in japan. this is really telling the region that we are serious this time. we will not allow an icbm to come from north korea. our ground-based missile defenses based out of california and alaska are only about 50% effective. i am not willing to roll the dice. i don't think thisef president , either. >> brian: i'd rather you not tell everybody that. because we keep on under financing our missile defense and president obama for six years dialed it back and then realized -- rumsfeld wanted to

build up. now we are in a situation where we can't stop may be our number one threat. we might have to take it out first. that's what the president is saying. make the threat real so we understand with the neighbors have to say. do you believe the president's relationship with china, the chinese leadership is better than president obama's right now? >> one thing that the president understands, people in that part of the world understand and respect strength. i don't think we have that relationship undernk president obama and that's why you saw everything from china and the south china sea to putin and the middle east pushing against the united states because they knew we would not push back. i don't think that the relationship now. i think the president will useth military force and will not be blackmailed by kim jong un with his finger on the nuclear button.

i cannot imagine a world where we are living that o way. i know our japanese allies feel the same way. they will relook at their constitution and go on the defensive. that's how the chinese will change the status quo. >> brian: there were some bizarre communication when the north korean leader reached out to australia to complain about us. maybe the sanctions are turningt up the heat a little bit. if president trump gets air force one using the stairs, remember what they did? they humiliated us as americans, and our former president, making him go to the bottom fuselage and stuck him into a small holding area. i will be interested to see how this president gets treated now. >> i also want to see him move and stand on the demilitarized zone.e >> brian: you want to see them do it? >> i think it sends the right message to the region and our

30,000 soldiers were standing on that wall and the 25,000 in japan. keeping us all safe and keeping the region stable. >> brian: i think it would be a great symbol as well, mr. president, if you are watching. it's a little windy but it will be worth the view. thanks a lot, colonel. >> all right, brian brian, thanks a lot. >> brian: coming up straight ahead, billionaire first billionaire as a hedge fund manager launches a $10 million campaign solely to impeach donald trump. all the details after we come back.. ter we come back. we're on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, it's time to wake up to keurig. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. look how much coffee's in here? fresh coffee. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the coffee and not me? do you wear this every day?

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i find this somewhat surprising considering, capri, that he hasn't done any of the things he's been accused of.g >> for example, tweeting out he wants to potentially pull the license of news organizations that he feels is putting out fake news. that being said, one of the thing i've noticed about any kind of political ad over the last decade -- when i first ran 13 years ago, you had to have a citation for every specific assertion you made in a 30-second ad. you don't that anymore. i think this is a big publicity stunt for this individual. i say this as a democrat. i've seen him do some interviews. the gentleman is from california. maybe he's looking to challenge dianne feinstein in the primary. he's someone who is very fixated on environmental policy in particular. to me, i think he's spending $10 million not at the direct of

the democratic party but more as a vanity project to set himself up for potential future runs. >> brian: he gave more money -- unless you have a different number -- and he got nothing. he doesn't have the house, white house, or senate. is this a good investment to gon after impeachment? i understand two major issues democrats have come a single-payer and impeachment. is that enough to rally the democratic base? >> that seems to be all that they have.no single-payer, a $3.2 trillion tax increase. and impeaching donald trump. that'll be the message they coalesce around. >> i don't agree with either of those things necessarily. >> brian: what do you think it should be? >> the democrats? their mission? it needs to be one of actually redefining ourselves.

we have to show the american people not just what we are against but what we are for. the reason donald trump was successful at least in part in 2016 is because he went to places like ohio that have been traditionally democrat over the years. yes, swing states but places like michigan and wisconsin, he talked about issues like trade and the economy.te if we went back to those things that frankly, president trump adopted, may be middle america would start listening to us again. as opposed to having the coastal elite leadership of the democratic party. sending out a message i think is incongruent to what i believe "real democrats" that i represent really believe in. >> brian: do you know what, kevin? the democrats have a problem and it happened last week. when bernie sanders say he's? running is running as an independent for reelection, wee know he wants to run for president. if he runs as an independent, he is on steroids. >> they've got a lot of problems. a

the 2020 primary. they've got no economic message beyond this big, big government, socialize everything, bernie sanders message. all of the energy in the party right now. then there's the impotent rage, screaming at the sky as they will be doing in boston on the one year anniversary of donald trump election. they've not gotten over the loss of 2016. they really haven't developed an economic message of their own yet. i think it will be a hard time in 2018 and 2020. republicans haven't gotten as much done as they probably should. they're still running against democrats who have gotten the message yet. >> brian: capri, if you are a democrat -- do you say get involved in tax reform or justod

back off and see if the republicans implode like last time? >> get involved. i was a state legislator for ten years. the only way you actually get things done is if you work together.y let's be adults and come together. let's have a solution. >> brian: kevin, are you siding with the corker contingent and the flake fans or are you with the president with the divide on display today? >> i am siding with lindsey graham -- he put it best tonight. look, they should work these problems out. we all hope the president keeps his tone appropriate but this is who the american people elected. we've got one meeting at a time. we should all push to get this agenda passed. >> brian: together we have a lot of problems, don't we? hopefully we will find a way to solve something. kevin and capri, great job. coming up, notorious nfl kneeler, colin kaepernick. he is writing a book. will you actually read it? will he actually write it?

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>> brian: colin kaepernick is making a play towards the literary world. notorious kneeler signed a book with random house. for more than $1 million. he's been without a team since he left san francisco last

spring, willingly, by the way. what do we think about this and who is going to read it, if anyone? or will everyone?at joining me now, scott bolden and harmeet dhillon. a quarterback making over $10 million, why is he doing it? >> he's doing it to get his record and story out. he's got to make a living entity is free to do that but he's got an incredible story. he's been in the league three or four years. he had an immediate success taking his team to the super bowl and now because of his kneeling, half the leak is -- league is kneeling to prote protest. against police brutality and social injustices and the other half are supporting each other uniting on this front. i would certainly read this book and i would urge everyone to read this book because to really get behind just what he does, and the kneeling part, investing in social justice and other things, i think it will be

educational. >> brian: do you agree? >> i do.wi [laughs] go right ahead. >> i think he does have something to say and i think americans will be interested in it but my focus is a bit different. people will be asking if you are looking for a job as a quarterback, why are you wearing t-shirts that insult a lot of the things americans care for such as t-shirts promoting fidel castro?t- why is your girlfriend compare the baltimore ravens owner to a slave owner when you are looking at a job with the baltimore ravens? he's made some questionable choices. he started his activism when his performance as a quarterback started on the decline. he chose to leave san francisco either because he was going to get fired or he wanted more money elsewhere. now he's having a hard time finding a job. maybe he will have a second career as a writer because that might be his only future occupationon now. >> brian: scott, he's not been eloquent getting his calls out.

muhammad ali, jim brown. the race relations -- they could at least relay it well, but he's been underground. he is now suing the nfl for collusion without even telling the union ahead of time. they were caught by surprise. scott, was that good move? >> look at the athletes you compared him to. they were eloquent and i would submit that if you go back and look at all of his interviews, he's quite eloquent as well. he invested $1 million in these social justice causes. he has put his money where his mouth is. the collision lawsuit, if he's got a witness or documents, it will put more pressure on the nfl to either settle with him, resolve or they will fight to the end.o the cba is important because a

shows collusion, the cba itself will be terminated. look at the players union, whether they talk to him or not. maybe they will join the lawsuit. >> brian: harmeet, the cardinals and dolphins and packers, they all passed on him. what does that tell you? >> first of all, on the collusion thing -- let me just say mark is a good friend of mine. he's a good attorney. he said he can get the evidence? it doesn't have to be a conspiracy. i'm a big believer in simple explanations. if you are the world's best pocket passer, colin kaepernick go out from practice and go into the locker room and nobody would care. the nfl as a business. they are there to make money and please their fans and get advertisers. he's just not performing any more. he can make all the excuses. they don't want him because he is a drama queen and really not ready and fit for playing anymore. >> brian: great debate. michael bennett has been sittina down for the seattle seahawks.

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