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most are not lindsey graham or ben sass. most will are willing to say the base likes donald trump i don't want donald trump picking on me individually i'm willing to go along to get along. i don't know what the effects of that will be politicly, philosophically morally for the party as we go into the future. the first mark be will be the 2018 election what do the american people make of this? is the donald trump republican party -- not donald trump -- the donald trump republican party trumpism what people want. >> and what i think will be interesting to watch tomorrow, the job numbers will be interesting that will come out. you talked about whether or not trump can make good on the promises. we'll see what the numbers say tomorrow. be interesting to see what business does. and they are clearly at odds with this president. a lot of businesses are. which is odd to say that for republican administration at odds with business. >> particularly this one. >> exactly. >> that was his whole pitch. >> exactly. and he is a businessman.

can you spell marocain. >> bill: the marocain in my suit is most excellent. >> shannon: lindsey grahamth the president today as james comey testifies next week. one thing he wants to know is why he never told congress -- senator graham is a member of the senate armed services and judiciary committee joins us now. i want to explain the email thing. apparently last year there were emails that surfaced that allegedly showed then debbie waser man schultz have a conversation with a political officer saying loretta lynch will have this -- whether it was made up or not. at some point were you briefed about that email and was it used as any kind of basis by then f.b.i. director james comey to get involved in the investigation? >> one, i was not briefed about the email. i don't even know if it exists. i just know what i read in the paper about the email and the reason that director comey jumped into the investigation in july of last year. but i do know this. i do know that the director briefed members of the house and the senate that the real reason he took over the investigation and decided to

lindsey graham earlier said it was a wrestling match.rtain her was a match in which there was no knockout punch. each side had its strong points. the picture of president trump that was presented by james comey even senator lankford said was very inappropriate behavior, the kind of but behavior that is just hard to imagine a president saying those things to his fbi director about an ongoing investigation. but not a knockout punch. i think everybody needs to hunker down now for a long process, this is the final take away. watching the reactions from republicans in the senate, i think it is going to be a very hard to pursue this obstruction of justice theme as long as there is a republican congress, so next year's in the midterm elections, i think in some ways it is going to be a referendum on what we heard this week. >> dickerson: susan, david makes the points that is a political court, this isn't about whether the president can be prosecuted in a court of law so those initial reactions, while people might not have joined in in the white

senator lindsey graham is here, and judge napolitano. we began with chief national correspondent ed henry on what is in this statement today. what it sets up for tomorrow. good evening, ed. >> good to see you. on top of what the president's personal attorney jumped on there, about how james comey in this testimony that is coming tomorrow will back up what the president has had all along. that on multiple occasions, the then fbi director told the commander-in-chief he was not under investigation. beyond that, there are other parts of this testimony for the president as well. for example, on february 14th oval office meeting. allegedly, set about general flynn, let this go. well, comey also testified, "i understood that we drop any investigation of flynn. i did not understand the president to be talking about the broader investigation into russia or possible links to its campaign, about collusion." with by the way, martha, there is no evidence of that. on top of that, in terms of that meeting, comey says he did not tell fbi agents about ab

in a bit, senator lindsey graham a host of issues. there are a handful of states in which lawmakers believe obamacare did not go far enough. they want the government to pay for all health care. one of the states is california, but there is a problem. lim lodge and s has the los angeles. >> i believe we should move toward a medicare for all single-payer program. >> it's an idea pushed by the left. single-payer national health insurance where the government pays all the bills directly to doctors, hospitals, drug companies. >> if you look at the financing of a single-payer system, what you find is it saves money if it's done right. >> the sales pitch: no insurance companies, no waste, no middleman. lawmakers in new york, new jersey, rhode island, and massachusetts are all trying to push through single-payer bills this year. last week the california senate passed single-payer legislation that would make every resident legal or not eligible for coverage. no premium, no co-payment, no deductible. the lure of the simplest way the idea of sin

i understand what lindsey graham wants.d be bad for democracy for a president who has a used his own fbi director of lying under oath in front of congress, the idea that trump testifying would be bad for democracy, i can't go there with him. >> 19 million people tuned in to watch jim comey testify, which is just incredible, that number. how do you explain this? how do you explain the public's level of interest in the russian investigation, in what's been going on in the trump administration and everything that happened on thursday? >> if the matters that jim comey was talking about on capitol hill this week were obscure, if they weren't the subject of -- in effect, whether the trump administration is even going to continue in office, i would say it's kind of weird that it got that much interest. but we've been building up to this kre shcrescendo for weeks about who spoke to ambassador kislyak, about the other agencies who were monitoring russian communications only once they were in the middle of the conversation did they r

met ller spoke with -- matt miller spoke with lindsey graham on that propose legislation. own to one exchange in south carolina, premiums have gone up 100%. what you have got with obamacare is you have mandated a policy that most businesses cannot afford to offer. the job coverage on their employees, they pay a fine, employees go into an exchange and commit $50,000 and you get screwed if you are a low income worker it's for free. this has been a redistribution of wealth from the middle class and upper income americans to provide health care to lower income americans for free. what i want to do is have a balanced approach. lower premiums for working people who make $50,000, meaning there has to be more efficient. the best way to lower the price of a car is former sadie's and other german car companies to be able to compete with bmw on price and quality. what's missing in medicine is price and quality. competitions more but i don't know if they pass it. if we fail, here's an idea. 10% of the people in america, people with cancer, in the bad hand of health care, cap provide .

senator lindsey graham is standing by.d you thought the opening statement by james comey was a good thing -- a day, you said, a pretty good day for the president. >> right. >> why did you say it? >> well, number one, in the statement comey said the president is not a target or subject to an investigation. counterintelligence, criminal, or otherwise, regarding russian collusion as of this moment. now, but as of right now this moment the president is not under investigation for colluding with russia and unless mueller is a complete idiot, which he is not, he's concluded there ee no obstruction of justice case because if he had concluded otherwise, comey would not testify. you wouldn't let your chief go through this process if you really believed he had a case to prosecute and mueller is a strong -- >> adam schiff strongly disagrees. i think that does not suggest anything. indeed, i would be astonished if he had been earlier. >> schiff's crazy? >> no. schiff o schiff's not crazy. the analogy is crazy. you just don't do it tha

. >> dickerson: let me ask about the previous attorney general, lindsey graham suggested she should come and the testify, do you think she did anything wrong based on what comey testified? >> i look i heard what comey said and he said he was troubled by it, i respect him a great deal but i haven't heard loretta lynch's side of the story so i won't come to a conclusion as to whether he is right or wrong or should testify. >> dickerson: in the political back and forth democrats look at not getting exercised about loretta lynch and what she may have done to be possibly meddling in that investigation into hillary's e-mail server and the republicans didn't, take everything he said about the president as gospel. doesn't that just kind of put this into the normal partisan sorting and people kind of look at this and people just say well, it is just democrats and republicans bickering again? >> well, for one thing, the investigation that is surrounding this into hillary's e-mails has had lot and a, long, long history, lots of congressional investigations and fbi investigation. and all i am saying

based on what john mccain and lindsey graham wanted to do. donald trump is -- seems to be opposing that. the american people are scratching their heads. knowing his relationship with putin, they're saying, why the heck is he opposing strengthening the sanctions? >> they're saying it's just on separation of powers concerns. >> oh, come on. give me a break.tough. they're strong. and they have supported iranian sanctions doing similar things, with iranian sanctions, i believe. the bottom line is, if donald trump wants to do something about russia and russia meddling, instead of saying obama didn't do enough, support our sanctions bill. i'll tell you this. i hope paul ryan will step up to the plate. with russia meddling in our elections, that's serious, serious stuff. if he passes it and trump vetoes it, it will be overridden by democrats and republicans. >> democrats lost another special election this week. that's four in a row. led to a lot of second-guessing by democrats. including congressman tim ryan. congressman tim ryan said, our brand is

they spied on lindsey graham, they spied on rand paul. we know this now.nce community told lindsey graham, why were they wanting him to be unmasked? all of this as donald trump is trying to push through his policies like the travel ban and getting constant resistance from the left. >> yeah, i'm not afraid of graham or rand paul. america is a melting pot, and we have people who come, and they're not willing to melt. they want us to change into them, and we can't do that. we're not going to do that, and we need to have a screening process, and that's what president trump has said from the beginning. it's not a complete ban. it's a screening process to find out do you want to be part of a melting part? do you want to be an american? if you do, we have room for you. but if you want to come and ratify america, we don't have room for that right now. maria: and that's what's going on in a number of places in corners of therance where ere are groups that are not assimilating and going by their own law, sharia law and of course we know what that means. governor, th

if this is leading up to what would i recommend to the president his folks, i think lindsey graham andisher is rigari fleischer is right, le him alone and deal with whatever comes out at the end. >> ari fleischer tweeted out this "advice for potus, you have not been vindicated, you won't be unless bob mueller says so. stop talking. you're headed into a giant perjury trap." do you agree with that? >> well, i pointed out that i think it's wiser for the president to not have his folks attacking mueller, and i think lindsey graham was right. if you leave it alone the president will be vindicated by mueller. leave him alone. don't put pressure on him to have to justify his existence by stretching things to find something wrong. >> in that case is newt gingrich wrong when he this morning tweeted "republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair. look who he is hiring. check fec reports. time to trethink." >> unfortunately, in the political world, there's no way to undo what has been done, and so i do think newt is wrong if he's suggesting dramatic action right

lindsey graham said if it doesn't go through we have to get to a bipartisan place and that's only if it's a fix not a repeal. name matters to some but not all. what matters mix, fixing obamacare or repealing obamacare? >> repealing obamacare matters and having health care coverage for american citizens matters. how we get there? we're willing to be flexible but we know obamacare doesn't work so we have to repeal that. we know we have to end up in a situation where americans have access to health care. >> if i make $20,000 a year, talk about access, talk about choices if i make $20,000 a year and i'm a mom, access and choices aren't in my vocabulary. when you have to get real, is this thing real? you have to get it through if you want to get to tax reform in september. >> we are doing what we can the president is committed, spending as much time as he can on the phone, working with senators and working in legislation. the vice president is equally committed. we are committed to getting health care and providing health care for american citizens that works, forgiving american citizens

the republican senator lindsey graham said mr. president, your tweet was beneath the office and what is wrong with american politics, not the greatness of america. as i reported, the presidential tweets were the focus on the news conference. john roberts is live at the white house. john? >> clearly, shep, there's a lot of history here, personal history and a big back story to the relationship between. trump and the two hosts of the morning show. they used to have a good relationship. there's reports that both hosts were at his new year's eve party at madison square garden. the while house is portraying this as what happened this morning was a last straw when mika suggested the president was lying about his agenda, "destroying the country." that's when the president fired off that tweet. sarah huckabee sanders at the daily press briefing giving the first question to me, i asked her, given the response from the president's backers on capitol hill if he went too far this morning. listen to her response. >> i don't think is. the presi

senator lindsey graham of south carolina earlier today that he was pushing for any sort of information if any trump associates were under surveillance. as well the senate intelligence committee going through new data turned over from the treasury department including whether or not there were financial transactions. word on the top democratic committee they are looking through two batches of documents and trying to determine whether or not there are leads to continue to chase. >>> you are learning about a new witness who has agreed to testify before the house intelligence committee. >> reporter: sources are telling me and our colleague that susan rice, the former obama national security adviser has agreed to testify behind closed doors of the house intelligence committee next month. this comes as republicans have accused susan rice of unmasking the names of officials, trump transition officials in countless reports. they believe she acted improperly and did not handle classified information according to regulations. this is something that susan rice has adamantly denied and said she ha

there is member after member, rand paul, lindsey graham, jerry moran, marco rubio, bob corker, who repeatedly have said this process, in their words and now in mine, is unfair, is truncated, is rushed. for my dear friend, the majority leader, to say we're going to have an open amendment process is turning truth upside down. i would ask our leader rhetorically, because i know the answer, can we allow at least one hour on each amendment, not two minutes? will we have more time than ten hours to debate the bill? i hope so. but if not, please don't call this an open and fair process. if you want to rush it through, admit the consequences. now, mr. president, the debate over health care has been fierce. we know that the republicans and democrats had differences when we debated the affordable care act. at least we had a debate. at least we had committee hearings and a process, and more broadly than that, at least we democrats were trying to pass a health care bill that helped more americans afford insurance and tried to bring costs down and end some of the most egregious practices of the health car

lindsey graham not a fan of trump during the campaign. since then he says i like the president.th the president. he has a good agenda. when it comes to the investigation, lindsey graham, i'm paraphrasing, wants the president to shut up. >> i like him. he's got a good jend. but he can you be a street fighter on all things and still be a good president? when you're talking about jim comey and objenot the american people you're making a mistake. here's what's so frustrating for republicans like me. you may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop inappropriately talking about an investigation that if you just were quiet would clear you. >> so what lindsey graham is trying to signal to the president, anothd other republis are we want to stick with you because we know that's good for us also and that if we go our separate ways the midterms become a grab bag and everything is in crisis but you have to help us stick with you. that's what they're telling him. help us help you. >> you're making it hard. at the moment you're making it really hard. >> yes. when y

i thought lindsey graham's comment was pressing. what he's trying to tell the president i don't think you did anything wrong. >> said that. >> but the way you are -- he's trying to encourage him by saying that, i don't believe he did anything wrong. >> this is after the president said on friday 100% in response to jonathan karl's question i'm willing to testify and come in front of congress, which i i had his lawyers saying why would you offer that up. >> that comment from lindsey gra wam was a little bit cute. republicans are concerned something inappropriate and potentially illegal did happen, right, but the way they are framing their conversation about the investigation in order to be safe within a partisan context is to say look, bob mueller is the only one with the credibility to clear you. the fact they may privately have grave concerns whether mueller will clear the president is kind of irrelevant to them at this point if they can get through a short term conversation about the investigation, and then let that investigation g

lindsey graham was saying, where is jeff sessions? he's coming in a couple hours. >> that's right, steph. yes, this is another day in the new normal that is capitol hill, where we have -- it's almost hard to describe how stunning one development is to the next. you think one day is going to top it all, then you get another one like this. so rosenstein in here being questioned, of course, by members who expected to see attorney general jeff sessions. instead, of course, we are going to see sessions later on today in front of the senate intelligence committee. there was back and forth about whether this was going to be an open hearing. it is going to be. it is likely to be a little shorter than what we heard from jim comey last week. feels like a long time ago somehow. that was just last week. i think there are a couple of key questions that these members are going to have for sessions, that tie in to what comey had to say about this. one is, of course, the potential third meeting between sessions and the russian ambassador kislyak. the

be a road block such as health care or infrastructure or tax reform. >> in fact, we heard from lindsey graham that this health care thing may not even happen this year, according to senator graham, and we know that needs to happen in order for the tax reform that's been proposed to happen. there's a trickle down effect when we have this one piece holding up the rest of the puzzle from being completed. again, we're monitoring the white house press briefing expected to start at 2:00. they are now about half an hour late. so we don't know what that is about. sean spicer expected to take the podium again, which is also interesting, right, gloria, because he had been absent yesterday and was coming off a tough week where people were scrutinizing whether he should keep his job. >> right. that's the parlor game that has sort of played every single day in washington, which is when is the president going to stop his staff? i've stopped trying to figure this out because at some point he will or he won't. aa we know he's complained to his friends and sean is among those and so is the chief of staff and

lindsey graham, mr.esident, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with american politics. not the greatest of america. and, please stop. this isn't normal and beneath the dignity of your office. susan collins saying, this has to stop. i'm reading just a couple i have written down quickly. i guess maybe the next question is, please, just stop, but this is not the first time that republicans have taken -- he's crossed the line, and republicans have gotten to the point they feel strongly to come out and condemn what the president says, but there's nothing after that. >> no. and of course, those are public opinions, making statements that they feel need to be made. right? but then i think, kate, that if we're expecting different behavior from donald trump going forward, i think the spokesperson for the first lady, the spokesperson for the president made clear this morning we should not expect different behavior going forward. >> stick with me, david. we're going to enter democratic s

lindsey graham knows the best defense is to say and do absolutely nothing. however, that does seem to be the one block that this president has. he is sort of incapable, it seems. he was about to break the tweet record for the longest time he went. two minutes. >> it was don jr. tweeting for him. are we really going to say, no tweets, 39 tweets went out. the president just didn't have his name on it. there was a jr. attached to the end. >> details. >> so the issue is, though, it's becoming frustrating because of the stuff that you follow on a daily basis. there is in theory some conservative republican agenda they would like to gets done. and it's worth reminding people, after all this reporting every single day that you do there, they have not succeeded in completing health care. they keep talking about the tax reform bill that exists nowhere but in somebody's mind apparently. and then they, last week was infrastructure week. and -- >> this week it's workforce development week. and there's a lot to talk about there. they've got $16 billion in budgets spent e

cheryl: lindsey graham weighed in on this upcoming hearing. >> the attorney general's office is a political office bad for us all. i want to get to the bottom of that. is it true what they comey said tissue created atmosphere she could not fairly render judgment on the interactions with comey. lauren: attorney general sessions expected to be asked about his meeting with russians officials. senator graham as well as senator dianne feinstein said congress need to investigate attorney general burnett allege. comey testified that he was asked to call it a matter instead of investigation. cheryl: president trump launching a series that reads of this week's trips to wisconsin taking that trip with his daughter ivanka. calling network first development week. great numbers on the economy. all of the work included the passage of bills in regulation killing executive order is kicking in. lauren: yesterday he treated democrats have no message, not in economics, not on taxes, none of jobs. only obstructionists. the president said regulations laid down 600,000 plus new jobs added unemployment down to 3.

lauren: republican senator lindsey graham on special report last night saying the president himself created conditions for a special counsel. >> i see no evidence of collusion between president trump and the russians. the reason we have a special counsel is he suggested that the reason he fired comey was the russian investigation. your words matter now. lauren: let us help you also. james comey testimony live at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. today, let's call it a warm-up. today dan coats scheduled to testify at the hearing. officials say he told associates in march the president asked him if he could intervene with jim comey to get the fbi to back off its focus on michael fnn. trained to expect some questns of course. all of this is happening as the backdrop of new reports that attorney general jeff sessions offered to resign from his post in recent weeks because of increased tension stemming from the decision to recuse himself from overseeing the fbi's russian investigation. lauren: james comey asked the attorney general to help him to keep him being alone with the president because of concern

does lindsey graham have the right to know whether he has been spied upon by various agencies? in his capacity as a u.s. senator. with fisa, the ability to listen in on foreign nationals. that's an important thing for the intelligence community to be able to do. if they are rinsing to a call of a u.s. elected official in his business dealing with a foreign leader, i think that gets into an area that's different than if you or i were calling a buddy in per rise or caracas. i'm a big civil liberties guy. i want to make sure there are checks and balances on the intelligence community. if you look at this 702 situation. there was a bad isis guy that was swept up because of this and we were able to share that information with western intelligence services and we interrupted some really bad stuff. kennedy: obviously those are the intended targets. and that's where the law is useful. unfortunately there is not a lot of transparency. and the agencies have not been transparent or completely honest with us. and there are innocent americans who can get swept up in these conversations. and

today on "face the nation", lindsey graham said james comey's testimony raised concern about the politicking of attorneys general. >> they suggested the current u.s. attorney general and the former attorney general were playing politics with the investigation. that needs to be in our committee. the me tell you this to the american people. if the attorney general's office has become a political office, that is bad for us all. i want to get to the bottom of that and it should be in judiciary. >> they still have full confidence in the attorney general. >> jeff sessions is a close personal friend of mine. he is someone whom i have a lot of confidence. i don't know what exactly happened or what meetings he had. i am confident jeff sessions would never intentionally mislead anyone or misstate the truth. >> as you mentioned he will not be alone on capitol hill. rod rosenstein is also expected to testify and he will face a lot of questions about the russia investigation. kelly: there is an investigation going on. how much are they going to be able to say about all of this in open forum? >> that woul

lindsey graham warns him not to get that support with kickbacks. >> i worry about cornhusker kickbacks, if they start doing that they are going to lose me. >> jon: we have fox news coverage on all of this today. mike emanuel has the latest on the health care from capitol hill. we begin with kevin corke, he is at the white house where sean spicer is a set to hold an on camera briefing later this afternoon. kevin? >> you are right about that, that one coming up at about 2:00, give or take, usually they run about 15 minutes after the top of the hour. that is going to be on camera. the activity that you all mentioned over in syria actually took place at a base known as shayrat airbase. it was partially damaged by u.s. attack back in april. let me share a white house statement about new activity on that very same base. saying in the statement, the activities are similar to preparation that regime made before it's april 4th 2017 chemical attack. of the united states is in syria to eliminate the islamic state of iraq in syria. if mr. assad conducts another mass murder attack using a chemical

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senator lindsey graham, mr. president, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with american politics. >> obviously, i don't see that as an appropriate comment. >> reporter: the white house has had enough. 21% of americans found the president's twitter use effective and informative. 69% say it's reckless and distracting. and also the comments toward women. the negative comments towards megyn kelly during the campaign. >> she gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. you know, you could see there was blood coming ought of her eyes, blood coming from wherever. the. >> reporter: questionable treatment of a female reporter in the oval office just this week. >> where are you from, go ahead, go ahead. where are you from? katrina, she has a nice smile on her face. >> reporter: and first lady melania trump has told "60 minutes" she's tried to rein in her husband. >> i think he hears me. but he will do what he wants to do at the end. he's an adult. he knows the consequenc

you see lindsey graham there and he is trying to get someone in judiciary and away from intelligence.> they compete for jurisdiction, i wish i didn't happen. i have so many democratic russian hawk friends. >> special counsel robert mueller was chosen to oversee the russia probe without bias but now former house speaker newt gingrich is raising concern about a possible conflict of interest. ahead, why he is calling for an end to that investigation. ♪ >> well, there are new questions over special counsel robert muller ability to stay fair in the rush investigation. this is former house speaker newt gingrich: republican to abolish the special counsel pointing to the friendship with fired fbi chief james comey as just one factor. >> comey said i deliberately leaked through intermediary to create this counsel who happens to be one of his closest friends. look who miller is starting to hire, these are people who frankly look to me like they are setting up to go after trump. i distrust independent counsel's, i think the people mueller are bringing in are dangerous people in any republican wh

. >> eboni: i think we should ask lindsey graham. president trump getting some words of caution from his friend and long-running senator. >> so frustrating for republicans like me. you may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop inappropriate he talking about an investigation that, if you were just quiet, it would clear you. frustrating for me to want to help the man who i think will do big things. no other republican would do. >> eboni: does this remind you of clients you have? please do me a favor and zip it. >> kisha: yes, every lawyer's nightmare, when you talk too much. it hurts you. >> eboni: eric, you've been consistent saying the president should keep tweeting and that his base and many people do want to hear from him. is there any validity to what senator graham is talking about? >> eric: never, not now, not five years ago, not five years from now. he is no friend of trump. he was anti-trump from the beginning. he and mccain are two anti-trump. john mccain said something about the foreign policy b

senators richard burton and lindsey graham are both indicating in the last 24 hours or so tdoubts as to whether repd replace can actually happen in the senate. the senate trying to put pressure on legislators with a tweet today that said "big meeting today with republican leadership concerning tax cuts and health care, we are all pushing hard, must get it right!" when the president had us laboratory celebratory meeting here, the senate through a great big wet blanket on that announcing shortly thereafter that they wouldn't even take up the house version of that bill. the tax reform processes in many ways depended on the success of a repeal and replace obamacare. the president's tweet storm yesterday, which has raised doubts and many people's minds whether he is hurting his own agenda. the white house thinks the president is helping to dull the mainstream media's narrative. the president tweeted -- though briefing is set for 2:00 p.m. today and sean spicer will be back in the saddle toda today. >> melissa: thank you. >> jon: president trump lashing out at members of his own administra

tune and for senators chuck schumer and lindsey graham. >> have a great day everyone. captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs >> dickerson: today on "face the nation", president trump tends most controversial week of his presidency with a promise testify under oath. >> no collusion, no obstruction. he is a leaker. >> dickerson: a defiant president trump claims he is vindicated by former fbi director's comey's testimony but the investigation into his campaign's ties to russia continue. we will sit down with republican senator lindsey graham, who is leading the senate judiciary probe into the kremlin's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. plus the senate intelligence committee republican james lankford, he questioned former fbi director james comey this week. and next week, he will question attorney general jeff sessions. we will ask the senator where the intelligence committee investigation goes next. and how are the democrats respond something. >> a cloud hanging over

lindsey graham is showing himself to be that person, and susan collins this past week.they put some pressure on donald trump, they may be helping him in the long run get through this. >> douglas brinkley, allan leichtman, we're out of time, but i appreciate you both being here. thank you very much, for the history lesson as well. >> thank you. >>> next, a crackdown in russia. protesters hit the streets all over the country. 200 different protests today taking a stand against corruption. hundreds of people arrested, including an opposition leader. a live report from moscow, ahead. dearthere's no other way to say this. it's over. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced. our senses awake. our hearts racing as one. i know this is sudden, but they say...if you love something set it free. see you around, giulia i feel it every day. but at night, it's the last thing on my mind. for 10 years my tempur-pedic has adapted to my weight and shape, relieving pressure points from head to toe. so i sleep deeply but feel light. and wake up ready

in south carolina, senator lindsey graham said mr. president, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with american politics, not the greatest of america. >> you have been elected to serve for four years. we need to ask you questions. you need to provide answers and what you did is inflammatory to people all over the country who looked at this. the president and everybody out here, everyone in the room, they are trying to do their job. >> that was a local reporter who made headlines after a heated exchange with deputy white house spokesperson, sarah huckabee sanders. he is the executive editor of the montgomery county sentinel and spoke to bruce johnson off script last night. he said he was upset with the ck said the white house was being dishonest. >> we showed them respect and they showed us no respect and that has to change. >> i have a healthy respect for the things they do. sean spicer and sarah have presented things to the media that are very valuable and have been good about some things but every day when

i think the person who had the most telling comment was lindsey graham which you just put up which says the more the president talks about this, the more he makes matter worse for himself. in political terms. but in my view, as a legal analyst, the more he talks about this, the more he makes himself in legal jeopardy. i just don't understand what's going on with him. >> it's surprising he wouldn't listen to his attorneys marc kasowitz and i'm sure all of those attorneys are saying don't say anything. >> right. we sort of laughed a little bit about the notion that the president would say 100% i will testify under oath. marc kasowitz had to be saying oh, no, oh no. >> why did you do that. >> why did you say that? >> the president says, you know, he did not ask comey to end the investigation into michael flynn. a while back he was, like, no, no. listen to what he said in the rose garden on friday. >> he did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn -- you said you hoped the flynn investigation you could -- >> i didn't say that. >> so he lied about that? >> well, i didn't say that.

it appears as if lindsey graham is leaning toward a lot of support for president trump at this point.lindsey graham is an interesting character he is kind of all over the map both on supporting the president and he has been highly critical of the president. his argument was there was nothing in the comey testimony that suggested obstruction of justice and so we're talking to him about that. he was an impeachment manager when bill clinton was impeached so i'm interested in getting his take on that because really when we evaluate any of this information it need to be thought of in what will congress do with it. because the law seemed clear cannot be prosecuted in court, so the question is then only place they can be sanctioned is in congress and so, every time we look at any of this information we have to think about what will republican who control things in congress think of it and make of it. we will talk to graham about that. chuck schumer, sees things very differently on the democratic side. >> we will look forward to the show, thanks very much, we appreciate it. >>> don't forget t

now, as i said last night, what lindsey graham and chuck grassley appear to be up to with this requestly attempting to lay bare everything the fbi is working with in their investigation, but it would appear to be part of their attempt to discredit and say it all stemmed from that famous dossier of allegations against trump and his campaign promised by buzz feed in january. graham and grassley are basically implying that dossier of material is unproven and suspect. they are implying with this letter that the fbi's whole investigation of the trump campaign is based on that dossier and therefore, it's all suspect, the whole fbi investigation is suspect. i also noted last night that conservative media have started this week to go after andrew mccabe, who is the acting director of the fbi. he has been acting director of the fbi since the president fired james comey. i gave you that heads up last night that this new strategy was taking shape, these republican attacks on the fbi, basically to give that heads up so you should know to be on the lookout for the stuff coming down the pike. even t

. >> then there's this from republicans on capitol hill, senator lindsey graham tweeted mr. president your tweet went beneath the office and represents what's wrong with american politics not the greatness of america. another said we must treat one another with decency and respect. >>> the controversial travel ban goes into effect tonight at 8:00 under the executive order people from six mostly muslim countries will be denied visas unless they can show close family business ties to the u.s. libya, somalia, sudan, and yemen. it's been tied up in the courts for months. the supreme court reinstated the bulk of it earlier this week and later this year the supreme court will consider whether the ban is constitutional. >> stay off the tracks, that is the message a virginia family is sending out like a train whistle tonight after a 13-year-old was killed by a virginia railway express train. she was walking on a bridge on wednesday over bull run near cliffton and we talked to her family. >> reporter: she was killed on a bridge just up from here. her cousin says the two of them had a

i spoke to lindsey graham, a republican senator, who referred to donald trump as a ball in a china shopbers of his own party looking at his conduct rather unfavourably. for the moment, thank you. i think we can hearfrom president trump, who is speaking in ohio at the moment. 0k, president trump, who is speaking in ohio at the moment. ok, but a good bill passed in the house, something i hope great is going to come through mitch mcconnell and the senate and we're working very hard, ican senate and we're working very hard, i can tell you, we are really working hard. if we had the best plan in the history of the world, we wouldn't get one democrat vote, just remember that. if we wouldn't get one democrat vote, just rememberthat. if we had wouldn't get one democrat vote, just remember that. if we had a wouldn't get one democrat vote, just rememberthat. if we had a plan wouldn't get one democrat vote, just remember that. if we had a plan that gave you the greatest health care everin gave you the greatest health care ever in history, you wouldn't get one democratic vote cause they are obstruct

something lindsey graham had suggested. they would not let him jeopardize his case on the russian investigation. this is why i am not that persuaded that this is anything more than an immediate generated interest but i am wondering if anything substantive come out of it in terms of indictments and prosecutions. the politics that will undermine trumps ability to govern is he needs this to go away. he says i need this to go away because i can't make deals for our country. his dealmaking is being hindered by the clout of the investigation. >> much more tomorrow and following it alive. james, thank you. >> stay with ktvu for continuing coverage and it is set to begin at 7 am. you can watch for live updates and analysis. if you want to see the complete testimony go to ktvu.com . >>> a man is free on $80,000 bail after applying for dozens of fraudulent disabled parking placards. montana late of san francisco has evidence that he forged the doctors signature. he is facing six felony counts. if convicted he faces four using prison