hubo muestras de apoyo, uno de los primeros fue su colega lindsay graham.n va a pelar con cada fibra de schuster". -- de su ser". trump dijo: "mccain siempre ha sido un luchador". aquÍ en arizona hay quienes estÁn agradecidos por el apoyo que aseguran ha dado a sus hispanos. >> siempre nos dio oportunidad para hablar con Él sobre los temas. temas difÍciles como temas de inmigraciÓn o algo bueno que apoya a nosotros para hacer trabajos con la comunidad. reportero: aunque aclara que no siempre han tenido las mismas opiniones. >> john mccain habrÁ muchos ha sido defensor de los emigrantes, para otros un republicano con una doble cara. >> hay muchas cosas atrÁs de la cÁmara, las noticias y la prensa de que john mccain como el senador y su esposa, en la comunidad. reportero: pasÓ cinco aÑos y medio como hubo prisionero de guerra en vietnam, y tuvo dos veces cÁncer de piel. el senador john mccain fue sometido a una cirugÍa el viernes pasado para removerle un coÁgulo de sangre arriba de su ojo izquierdo. el senador se recuperen su casa y dijo que espera volver a t

y es por eso que el senador lindsay graham propuso una versin alternativa.r lindsay graham, (r-sc) (nat) que explic dara dinero a los estados para que ellos mismos decidan si cambiar o eliminar "obamacare" tanto su version como la del liderazgo republicano (gfx) obliga a las compaÑas a asegurar personas con condiciones pre-existentes. no cobra penalidad a los que no compran seguro y mantiene los impuestos a los ricos. esta semana el lider republicano mitch mcconnel atras el receso de agosto en el senado para que los polticos sigan trabajando sobre la medida. s/randy serrano el liderazgo en la cmara baja tambin ha dicho que atrasara su receso en agosto si es que el senado logra aprobar un proyecto de ley top vo cesar - gracias al programa "daca", 216mil jvenes inmigrantes en california han recibido autorizacin de trabajo y alivio de deportacin desde 2012. - siendo california el estado con ms protegidos bajo el programa, pero tambin el que ms teme que el presidente trump provoque su fin. - terminar este programa tendra un fuerte efecto en la economa del estado

you have lindsay graham and others coming out and not only distancing themselves from the white housebeing openly critical about it. and on capitol hill. they're trying to blame things on the democrats for not moving forward. everybody knows the republicans control the white house. the house and the senate. the problem with moving policy forward isn't the democrats. behind -- especially on ited - healthcare. >> let me ask you. we're out of time. i'm just curious, what do you thinking is going on with robert mueller as he's looking at this investigation when you're looking at it from your perspective >> he hasn't even gotten started. the amazing thing we got this amount of information, nobody issued subpoena, no interviews have been done by mueller. they haven't started the grand jury. once he gets going, they turn up? >> i don't know. >> thanks so much for joining us >> good conversation, thank you all. >> hopefully we'll have you back. >>> how much does the russian investigation matter to the general public >> ronica went out to get the pulled of the people. >> reporter: i always thi

but just the appearance of it lindsay graham was saying it's awkward. it is what it is but flies in the face that donald trump jr. had made in the past that there were no such meetings and turns out he arranged it. as a prior guest said, it was just a bad move. how far do you think it goes? do you worry about it distracting -- >> first, i'll say, if there were a similar situation where derogatory information was offered to the clintons, they would have accepted the information. i bet you any day of the week and twice on sunday they accepted that information. so take that as you will. in terms of how that will affect on our agenda, look, any time you have republicans in control of the congress and the white house pursuing an agenda, it's like playing a road game on the sec. washington, the town is against you, the media is against you and the democrats are against you. so you have to work hard to block out all of the hooting and hollering from the crowd and drive the ball down the field and punch it into the end zone. so i think we can do that? a lot of

>> you don't have to have many references to lindsay graham. he was one of the impeachment back in the '90s against president clinton. this is not his first rodeo there on a congressional committee. i think the president does not want to come to terms with the fact that the russians hacked the election, he views it as something that undermines his own success last year. but you've got a formidable, bipartisan coalition of russian hawks in the congress that view russia as our enemy. where i'm fascinated by, dan, is not just the fbi, but what do they do on the sanctions? there is a huge, overwhelming support in congress to come down hard on russia. and the administration has signalled to the hill, water down this sanctions bill. what is going to happen? >> no question about that, and i would just tell you that my colleague who spoke to dianne feinstein has said yes, she's going to vote for him. so something huge has to happen for him to not be confirmed as the next fbi director. this is a very, very important job. in any context. but particularly

lindsay graham / (r-sc) 20-23 (d-ca) house minority leader 30-33 sarah sanders / white house press secretary 45-48 (president trump) juliet evancho 1:19-1:21 emily rau / abc news 1:37 attorney general getting some support from members of congress amid growing scrutiny from president trump. sessions was at the white house yesterday for what officials call a routine meeting. president trump was not there. but the meeting from the president over several issues, including his decision to recuse himself from matters pertaining to the russia investigation into the trump campaign. now gop senators are coming to his defense. despite the criticism, the white house says president trump has no plans right now to fire sessions. and the attorney general says he has no plans to resign. some good news this morning about house majority whip steve scalise i. the louisiana republican -- now out of the hospital! scalise was seriously hurt when a gunman opened fire on a congressional baseball practice last month. he'll now begin rehab. doctors at med-star washington say he's in good spirits and looking forward

>> and you heard lindsay graham today essentially saying this is weak sauce from the president. not firing lindsay graham and having him twist in the wind and basically sort of mouth off on twitter, if he wanted to fire the guy, he should fire him, rather than just sort of trash talk him in the press. i think the question is, what sort of -- i mean we have seen this backlash, obviously from conservatives, you see trump trying to rebrand sessions as something sort of other than conservative, and somebody who's not cracking down on leaks, somebody who's going on easy on hillary clinton, i think the problem is conservatives know sessions, they know sessions more than they know donald trump. >> he's a very conservative attorney general, and when he was a senator from alabama, from, very, very concern, his fellow alabama senator richard sherman defending him, very, very strongly. listen to. >> he's a strong guy, a man with integrity and purpose, and i told him to hang in there, she will i hope, he deserves better than this, he's not the president's personal lawyer, he's an attorney g

. >> that was lindsay graham responding to president trump on sunday regarding president trump's plano pair up with vladimir putin to form a cyber security unit. thank you for joining us. let's talk about this grand idea for a joint cyber committee, the president may have scotched it himself last night after hearing from lindsay graham and others. what was your take? >> i thought it didn't make sense. i used the analogy of letting the fox guard the hen house, but i thought it was like the roadrunner trying to ban the chickens from the hen house. the russians are basically seeking to undermine truth and democracy. this is about delegitimizing the institution of democracy because when people believe their voice can't be heard through voting, when they believe that that's at risk, they lose faith in the whole idea of the constitution. and president putin is playing the game to erode that faith. he obviously saw the reaction, i don't know what president trump was thinking in tweeting it. but i felt compelled to speak out because it was kind of a ludicrous idea. >> what do you think about

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lindsay graham saying the president's efforts to pressure sessions to resign instead of firing him is a sign he says of weakness. the white house insists the president is not trying to push sessions out. we get more now from abc's pierre thomas. >> the attorney general, under intense scrutiny. capturing jeff sessions leaving the white house after what they're calling a routine meeting. president trump was not there. what sessions is facing is hardly routine. the president again, hammered sessions with a tweet. why didn't ag sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe. this after calling sessions beleaguered and weak in recent days. >> i am disappointed with the attorney general. >> the white house pressed why fire his attorney general, if he is so unhappy with him. >> look, you can be disappointed in some one. still want them to continue to do their job. that's where nay are. >> we're learning the two men haven't spoken in days. >> make america great again. >> a stunning reversal for the first u.s. senator to endorse candidate trump. sources tell abc news, session has no intent

senator lindsay graham saying it's a big approvement. >> lets offer a version makes sense. >> and it keeps some obama care taxes on the wealthy and puts aside $70 million that could help americans cover high premiums and $5 billion to help fight the opioid epidemic. >> senator what do you think? >> i don't know, i'm going to read it. >> the the new bill allows insurers to offer plans that don't offer mental health, maternity care or ambulance service. but deep cuts to medicaid projected to be $800 billion. >> we are working to assure that people that are getting coverage under expanded medicaid have options that are accessible and affordable. >> president trump is applying pressure to get this bill passed. saying senators need to do what is right for the people. in washington, channel 6 "action news." emily thank you. >>> back here a pennsylvania state trooper has died after a crash this morning in western pennsylvania, it happened along route 711 in ling township. a state police vehicle collided with a garbage truck and 26-year-old trooper, michael stewart was killed. >>> a young ma

lindsay graham, (r-sc) (nat) algo que pagara trump a un alto costo, le dijo este senador republiano as/estuardo rodriguez, analista "est amenazando a sessions que tiene gran apoyo de senadores republicanos. cmo va a contar con ellos? como l va a esperar que haya esa confianza y esa disposicin de trabajar juntos?" sessions por su parte dijo este jueves, segn la prensa asociada, que va a seguir sirviendo en el gobierno hasta que el presidente quiera. blanca --agentes de ice, no solo detienen a indocumentados o criminales, cualquier persona puede ser detenida y deportada durante sus operativos. --as sali a relucir en un comunicado de prensa sobre la detencin de 114 personas en nueva york, en el que se indic que los operativos seguirn. --el departamento de seguridad nacional endureci la persecucin de indocumentados e inmigrantes criminales o prfugos, a fin de deportarlos. vo cesar -- uno de los sobrevivientes del camion de la muerte en san antonio, texas afirma que bebi anticongelante para mitigar la sed en el interior del trailer en el que murieron 10 personas el pasado fin de semana. --

lindsey graham, (r-sc) el senador republicano lindsay graham dijo que esos jvenes han sido criados aquses. afirm que ellos aportaran a la sociedad si tuvieran un estatus legal permanente. el y este demcrata presentaron este jueves la propuesta que les ofrecera a los soÑadores residencia permanente y un camino a la ciudadana si cumplen con ciertos requisitos. como haberse graduado del colegio, pasar una revisin de antecedentes y no haber cometido ningn delito entre otros. es msica para los odos de luis aguilar quien calificara. s/luis aguilar, "dreamer" "no tuviera ese pensamiento de que se siente ser indocumentado. y dos, no me preocupara por ser deportado". pero la propuesta tendra que ser aprobada por ambas cmaras las dos con mayora republicana. all muchos legisladores estn en contra de la propuesta y otros como marco rubio aun indecisos. s/ senador marco rubio (r-fl) "yo no estoy preparado para apoyarla en este momento porque hasta este momento yo no creo que haya sido necesario. creo que si puede ser parte de un esfuerzo ms amplio, eventualmente yo creo que la solucin est en una le

including lindsay graham who says he doesn't want him to quit. >> i do not think humiliating him in publichich is a sign of weakness. i appreciate your service but you need to be fired. he's trying to get sessions to quit, and if the president wants to fire him, fire him. >> jon: if a president is unhappy with somebody, this president has chosen to publicly humiliate jeff sessions. is he trying to force them to quit? >> i think so and it's a big mistake. he's angry with jeff sessions because he recused himself about russian meddling investigation. there is a federal law that requires him, for recusal's and one of those says that if it involves a political campaign, they have to recruit stomach recuse themselves. this is like bobby kennedy. he had to recuse himself. this is the same rule when john ashcroft refuses himself. this was expected and it had to happen. this is the big important thing. if the president forces him out, you can kiss the next six months goodbye if he forces out jeff sessions. if he forces him out because of the recusal, why did you do that because he did the right thi

just take a listen to this from senator lindsay graham.ssions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. any effort to go afterjeff mueller could be the beginning of the end of the trump presidency. tonight, jeff sessions is appearing on fox news, the network says that he will be responding to criticisms from president trump. anthony ‘s care is in washington for us, the president putting pressure on the attorney, but he will be fighting back tonight on prime—time television? yes, andi on prime—time television? yes, and i have seen some excerpts from his interview, apparentlyjeff sessions will say that he was hurt by donald trump's criticism, but he goes on to defend donald trump, saying he is a strong president. i thinkjeff sessions walks a fine line, he wants to stay on as attorney general and does not want to resign, he wants to diffuse the situation somewhat. he has support in the senate, there have been people like lindsey graham who had come to his defence. they have been there for 20 years, they know him and trust him. they have suppo

. >> lindsay graham wouldn't have it. >> the director of the fbi so here is what i want- you to tel every politician. if you got a call suggesting that a foreign government wants to help you, by disparaging your opponent. tell us all to call the fbi. >> to the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state, is the kind of thing the fbi would want to know. >> wray is poise ford easy confirmation. even republicans ak nol s ackno the job of fbi director is strewn with landmines as utah's orrin hatch put it, wray will have an interesting life over the next several years but not sure it is a nice life. >> sure is. thanks, nancy. coming up next, a person of interest rearrested as mystery of four missing pennsylvania men deepens. hundreds of dollars on youmy car insurance. saved me huh. i should take a closer look at geico... (dog panting) geico has a 97% customer satisfaction rating! and fast and friendly claims service. speaking of service? oooo, just out. it was in. out. in! out. in! what about now? that was our only shuttlecock. take a c

. >> south carolina's lindsay graham said the trump campaign should have reported the encounter to the fbi, right away. >> you have an e-mail suggesting that the russian government wants to help the trump campaign. you have a response from, from, don jr. saying, i love it. trump jr. insist he's had to listen if the russian lawyer had info about an opponent. i asked florida's marco rubio who ran for president last year himself what he would have done. >> very suspicious. i'm very anti-putin. be very suspicious. >> would you report it to the authorities? >> i think i would have. >> the trump team's changing stories about who they met with and when, have left few republicans willing to go to bat for them on russia. oklahoma jim inhoff is one of them. >> you guys trying to spend all of your, every breathing moment, trying to, destroy trump. >> on capitol hill today, but took no questions. his office says that he was unaware of this controversial meeting and that, he is no longer focused on the campaign, especially the part that took place anthony before he joined the ticket. >> nancy. than

lindsay graham and sheldon whitehouse is working on legislation without judicial review and it's unclearn it will be introduced. >> and republican senator echos similar thoughts on the senate floor. >> if you are thinking of making a recess appointment to push out the attorney general, forget about it. the presidency is not a ball, and this country is not a china shop. >> sessions told the associate the press he will continue to serve as long as the president wants him to. president trump made no mention of firing him but disappointed in him for recusing himself from the russian probe. more on the top store whys from washington including efforts to protecting special council. watch that after "action news" at 6:00. >>> news from the city's bustleton section where an 89-year-old pedestrian was injured when a car ended up on the sidewalk. investigators say a 62-year-old woman was driving east on grand avenue when she lost control and struck two vehicles and drove on to the sidewalk where she struck the elderly woman who was walking and the pedestrian is listed in critical condition. still

. >> lindsay graham wouldn't have it. >> the director of the fbi so here is what i want you to tell every politician. if you got a call suggesting that a foreign government wants to help you, by disparaging your opponent. tell us all to call the fbi. >> to the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state, is the kind of thing the fbi would want to know. >> wray is poise ford easy confirmation. even republicans acknowledged the job of fbi director is strewn with landmines as utah's orrin hatch put it, wray will have an interesting life over the next several years but not sure it is a nice life. >> sure is. thanks, nancy. coming up next, a person of interest rearrested as mystery of four missing pennsylvania men deepens. it says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. this. here? no. have a little fun together, or a lot. k-y yours and mine. two sensations that work together, so you can play together. no matter who was in there last. protection. new lysol power & fresh 6 goes to work flush after flush for a just-cleaned feeling that lasts

now, lindsay graham and cassidy and others are talking about a straight up block grant and send it back to the states. maybe that's going to catch fire. i think it might. the point of this though is that i believe, like you, that it's president trump's agenda that won the election in november. it's the thing the president's been talking about for 30 years. so it's not like someone just came up with this. he's been talking about this stuff for decades. and that's the agenda that everyone needs to be rowing in the same direction on. i gave the speech that the president gave in youngstown to the senior staff the other day, and i said, this is the president's agenda. everyone should read this speech, learn it, and do everything you can to enact these promises that the president talks about has crowds coming out of the woodwork for. this is where the focus needs to be. >> all right. stay right there. we'll have more of reince priebus after the break straight ahead. ♪ so being cool comes naturally. hmm. i can't decide if this place is swag or bling. it's pretzels. word. ladies, you know when

and listen to part of this here, including lindsay graham, one of the things saying that jeff sessions was very weak. >> the weakness is that the president is trying to not use his power, he's trying to get sessions to quit, and i hope sessions doesn't quit. and if the president wants to fire him, fire him. >> we don't have to sit around and say we like what's going on, and we like somebody that's obviously being brutalized when he shouldn't be and he doesn't deserve it. >> and i think it would be incredibly disruptive and make it more difficult for the president to accomplish his agenda. >> the number two senate republican disrupted, more difficult to accomplish your agenda. they're having a hard enough time doing anything anyway. and senator is shelby is from jeff sessions home state of alabama, brutalized? that's a senior republican senator saying that the republican president is brutalizing the top law enforcement officer of the united states. >> what's really interesting about this is the irony is this drawn out humiliation of a former united states senator, his first and for the

. >> if i got a call from somebody that said the russian government wants to get lindsay graham elected and has dirt on his opponent. should i take the meeting. >> i would seek a lawyer. >> the interview coming the same day don jr. released the -- to help the campaign. and an acquaintance said that the russian lawyer had incriminating evidence about hillary clinton and this obviously high level and sensitive information and part of russia and the government's support for mr. trump and don jr. responds if it's what you say i love it. and now they are talking to his son-in-law and white house adviser at the time who was in the meeting. >> the president tweeting his strong support for don jr. tuesday morning writing he was open, trance parents and innocent. this is the greatest witch hunt in political history. sad. >> two democratic congressman formerly introduced an article of impeachment saying he impeded justice. the white house responds calling it rid ariclous. >> and christopher rey told lawmakers he would never let politics get in the way of the agency's mission. rey fielded question

can lindsay graham just shut up and let the investigation go? the first thing he does, he's the first one in all the time. he tweeted against the set well >> harris: i have to jump in with the g.o.p. against president trump because we saw the establishment and the struggles early on in the campaign. >> eric: this is the swarm, i wrote about it in the book. i republicans calling me about why did you put me in the book? because you're just like them, you're part of the problem. can you imagine that we are in our fifth investigation of the russian collusion and we have not found one street of evidence and republicans are still playing ball with them? these are all republican senate and house committees. >> rachel: eric was 100% right. it's ridiculous. the senate is broken, they can't pass anything and they're having these stupid hearings -- they should have no hearings. let mueller do it, shut down the hearings, shut on the russia stuff and gets the work of the people. >> harris: mitch mcconnell is speaking right now. he was called out earlier by r

that idea brought this response from republican senator lindsay graham.e's got a blind spot, and to forgive and forget when it comes to putin regarding cyber attacks is to empower putin and that's exactly what he's doing. i am dumbfounded, i am disappointed, and at the end of the day he's hurting his presidency by not embracing the fact that putin's a bad guy who tried to undercut our democracy and he's doing it all over the world. also voicing concern was us republican senator marco rubio, who tweeted: joining us now is former national security advisor to george w bush, stephen hadley. i will assume when you were national security adviser to president george bush who and like this in the white house? we are an unprecedented space in so many respects. this is a president who ran as a political and surgeon president who ran as a political and surgeon to shake up washington and thatis surgeon to shake up washington and that is what he is doing. how damaging is this to national security in america? we are an early daysin security in america? we are an early

senator mccain spoke on the phone with one of his best friend, senator lindsay graham after doctors made the diagnosis discovering the tumor while removing a blood clot above his eye. >> god knows how this ends, not me: but i do know this. this disease has never had a more worthy opponent. >> mccain's office says it is not clear when he will return. his family is currently reviewing treatment options which would likely include radiation and chemo therapy. upon the news we spoke the head of neurosurgery about senator mccain's diagnosis. >> it is critical that as much of this tumor, if not all of it be removed safely, and i think that's really the first step, if he has only had a biopsy city then, he's going coneed more surgery because that clearly is in his best interest. >> senator mccain's office released a statement saying he's recover prosecuting the surgery, amazingly well, and that his underlying health is excellent. >>> time is now 7:37. president trump will not speak at the naacp national convention in baltimore the white house say it is president declined an invitation. president

lindsay graham is selling his backup plan. >> how about this good simple republican idea?ake all the money around obamacare and all the policy, get it out of washington, send it back to the states so south carolina can come up with its own way of dealing with healthcare for south carolinians. california can do something else. >> a key piece of information will come with that congressional budget office analysis next week, shep. >> shepard: what is the latest from the democrats? >> they're making a case that there's some aspects very bad for the american people. the senate leaders going after the majority leader for cutting august recess short. >> leader mcconnell needed something. his bill was so unpopular. needed a shiny object to divert attention. he said we're going to stay here for two more weeks. the problem though is not the amount of time. they've had six months in this session of congress and seven years since obamacare passed. >> tension is high. i'm told a lot of these senate officers are hearing from constituents and outside groups urging them not to support the

south carolina republican and oldest man in an elementary school picture, lindsay graham, is warningsident not to mess with sessions. >> i'm 100% behind jeff sessions. there will be no confirmation hearing for a new attorney general in 2017. if jeff sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay. >> stephen: "holy hell. holy hell. i do declare. holy hell. if you persist, i will whip you with my fiddlesticks. holy hell. and graham went on to warn: >> any effort to go after mueller could be the beginning of the end of the trump presidency. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: yes, and-- again, if he doesn't go after mueller that's also the beginning of the end of the trump presidency. so either way, things are looking up. and graham is not the only republican standing upo t trump. chairman of the senate judiciary committee and ancient idol carved from potato, chuck grassley, tweeted, "everybody in d.c. should be warned that the agenda for the judiciary comm is set for rest of 2017. judge's first subcabinet, second a.g., no way." wow, i did not know chuck grassley was into slam poetr

senator lindsay graham all. ought 2:15 of meetings, tillerson and trump are ready to forgive and forget when it comes to cyberattacks on the american election of 2016. >> on face the nation, senator john mccain said russia still needs to be punished. >> yes, it is time to move forward. but there has to be a price to pay. >> why does there have off to be a price? awe author wise he will be encouraged to do so again. >> saturday reported that donald trump jr. and jared kushner met with a russian lawyer with connections to the kremlin on june 9. donald trump jr. released a statement, confirming about russian adopting programs and asked to attend by an acquaintance but was not told the name of the person beforehand. as the the senate heads become to work, the president faces a divide within his own party over the promise to replace obama care. the current senate bill not expected to get enough votes. leaving republicans with a choice between repealing the law without a replacement or, working with democrats on a new

lindsay graham here. >> i would not hire somebody that i do not believe could serve me well, rather thanrying to humiliate them in public which is a sign of weakness. he's trying to get sessions to quit and i hope sessions doesn't quit. if the president wants to fire him, fire him. >> harris: there is no gray area there. you just said the president is weak if he doesn't fire the sky. >> john: full disclosure, i've known sessions since 1986 and he was nominated. i was in charge of legislative affairs of the justice department, i thought he was slandered for the democrats, accused of being a racist and other things when it's the farthest thing from the truth. i go back with him a long way. i think what could still happen and what should have happened a long time ago, the two of these men need to sit down together alone and have it out. the trunk and say whatever he wants, sessions can say whatever he wants , may be sessions resigned, maybe he's fired, but if you do this in private and vent and everybody gets their say and then you move on. >> sandra: why is that on happen? >> john: i don't

today, on the sunday show, lindsay graham and john mccain were lambasting president trump, saying that -- and rex tillerson -- saying let's forgive and forget for what russia did in 2016. the fact of the matter is, the president of the united states is constantly talking about putin. i'm in texas. we are a more powerful state down here economically than russia, but he's so russia focused, donald trump, and now with all this talk of russia, it takes the new york times to discover that donald trump jr. called paul manafort the campaign manager for donald trump, in the heat of the campaign, for a secret meeting with the lawyer to try to get information. none of it fits. and so this story is just going to explode as other news organizations confirm it, if indeed the new york times is correct. >> bob, in a statement donald trump jr. does not say who his acquaintance was who they learned was this russian lawyer. we do know the acquaintance came from the 2013 miss universe pageant. he doesn't mention that that pageant was in moscow that year. from an intelligence perspective, does that matter

and lindsay graham saying there would be hell to pay, and the entire republican party joined the democratic party to sanction russia, and have tough sanctions, something the president supposedly didn't want, and i do think that there is no fear this president right now. >> and chuck todd, it should be a packed show. we will look for much more on "meet the press." >>> to other headlines. starting with the potential terror plot foiled in australia. that country's prime minister said police arrested four people believed to be planning to bring down an airplane. the four men arrested in a series of raids in sidney have not yet been charged but police recovered a considerable amount of material and the plot appeared to be a lab rut conspiracy. south korea after the latest missile test. two bombers and two japanese and south korean jets flew over the korean peninsula in response to the missile launch by north korea. also overnight, the >>> also overnight, the u.s. military said it successfully tested a weapons system off of alaska that could shoot a ballistic missile out of the sky. >>> and then

lindsay graham was in there and lindsay had john on the phone.e was telling us the amendments he would accept and the ones he wouldn't. even though he's in arizona, he's still with us. he's concerned. he's part of the united states senate. you're not going to keep him down. we said a prayer as a group when we heard about it. he's in our prayers, but if there's anybody out there that's willing to give cancer a battle, it's john mccain. he's truly an american hero. >> today, senator mccain was still tweeting after the washington post reported that the cia covert program was canceled that battled the assad regime. he said the reports that the government is ending the program is irresponsible, short sided, and plays into russia and assad's hands. do you agree with him? >> just because he's not in washington, dc doesn't mean he's not going to express his opinion. he's going to hang right in there. like i said, he's a tough guy. he believes in it. this is his life. he has given his life to the united states. he's going to express that opinion. i think

chuck todd will have an exclusive interview with lindsay graham, plus he'll talk with the chairs of thec and republican national committees. that's this sunday on your local nbc station. >>> next, what is the goal of the white house's voting commission? i'll talk with one of its members, and with one of its critics. keep it right here. discover card. how can i help you? oh, you're real? you know i'm real! at discover, we're always here to talk. good, 'cause i don't have time for machines. some companies just don't appreciate the power of conversation! you know, i like you! i like you too! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and talk to a real person. >>> welcome back. there's extensive bipartisan pushback today to the commission set up by the white house of widespread voter fraud. remember, mr. trump tweeted in november, in addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, i won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. we'll remind you that recorded instances of voter fraud are extremely rare. a study showed the rate

he got that one round of questioning from lindsay graham where he was pressed on a lot of ideas about donald, jr., and what donald trump, jr., and the things that happen in the past couple of days, i'm not sure the rest of it was that. you brought up the idea when we were talking about the firm that he has worked for and their connection to russian oil companies, he wasn't asked about that or did i miss that part? >> zac: i'm a little disappointed in the fact that the democrats have not brought this up yet,'s because it's a pretty big deal. they represented to state-controlled oil companies that are based in russia that have connections to putin. we don't know whether he was involved or not. there are a number of people i could be put forward in a number of them don't have any interests or potential conflict of interest. >> from both sides of the political aisle, he's been somebody who doesn't make mistakes and gets the job done. they had another sentencing that was belated now with other types of fines, that was in the last half hour or so. that is one of the ways that people may kno

lindsay graham and cassie and others are talking about is straight up with a block grant and send the money back to the states. maybe that's going to catch fire. i think it might. the point of this is that i believe like you that if president trumps agenda that won the election in november, the things of the president has been talking about for 30 years, so as not like somebody just came up with it, he's been talking about the stuff for decades, unless the agenda that everyone needs to be rolling in the same direction on. i gave a speech at the president gave in youngstown to the senior staff the other day and i said this is the president and his agenda. everyone should read the speech. learn it, and do everything you can to enact these promises that the president talks about and has crowds coming out of the woodwork four. this is where the focus needs to be. >> sean: stay right there. we will have more reince priebus after the break straight straight ahead. i'm ryan and i quit smoking with chantix. everything i did circled around that cigarette when i started taking the chantix that

the "skinny repeal" bill, there were a lot of senators who had that concern, including i think lindsay grahamut those were sways for most of them, but for john mccain, he was not going to trust that to happen, and i think the prospect of 15 million people losing their health care, costs going up 20%, if that's bill once there, it would have been devastating, i think that senator lindsey graham called it a catastrophe, a joker, a sham of a bill. so i think mccain that just couldn't get past all of that. do you to my stomach >> julie: do you believe that there were a lot who had voted for it and are now breathing a sigh of relief, what did john mccain do last night essentially, speak all right, i think it shows that they are not serious about repeg obamacare, it shows that they ld it to the american people for nearly a decade about their intentions, and they pretended that they were serious about it, when in fact, they were not, and i understand that john mccain's point, that's a lot of the discussion surrounding this bill were in secret, and it excluded a lot of individuals who should be inclu

what does that look like senator lindsay graham saying it's close to the dumbest idea he's ever heardesident trump has already walked it back >> that's a high bar with senator graham to be [ inaudible ] probably heard a lot of dumb ideas. i mean the poor secretary mnuchin hung out to dry. he must bety fide it was -- mortified, he said it was a great idea and trump says it's a bad idea this is a bad situation. i sometimes ask people, you know, here at the aspen institute we do the counter factual, imagine if it happened the other way around, and imagine vin weber said this, a republican leader, said last night at one of the dinners, imagine that the russians had hacked our election system and had gotten in it and it happened hillary clinton and that hillary clinton had not told the truth about various meetings that she and her campaign people and family had had with the russians they would be calling you know for hillary's impeachment. we have to come together as a nation and say whatever party gets hacked we can't allow russia to do what everybody knows it did, which is try to influen

host: headline in "the washington times," lindsay graham, there will be holy hell to pay if sessions -- graham tweeting over the weekend saying attorney general jeff sessions has a good ring to it. highly qualified, committed to the rule of law, tough on crime and fiercely independent. e also said d.h.s. secretary sessions doesn't sound right, doesn't feel right, bad idea. he is talking about john kelly now moving over to be the chief of staff at the white house. some have floated the idea of ff sessions taking over as d.h.s. secretary. south carolina, thomas on the democrats line, welcome. caller: how you doing? i am calling about the question that came up earlier about the cost of living, the paycheck keeping up with the cost of living. now, i am self-employed, and i would like to know how can we keep up with the cost of living if they're hiring the foreign people over top of us because mexicans' money is a lot cheaper living in mexico than it is over here. so therefore they get an opportunity to make -- work for less money but at the same time, they are still making the same money

. >> lindsay graham asked the fbi director candidate if donald trump, jr. should have taken that meeting. >> if i got a call from somebody saying the russian government wants to help lindsey graham get re-elected, should i take that meeting? >> senator, i would think you would want to consult with some good legal advisers before you did that. >> the answer is, should i call the fbi? >> i think it would be wise to let -- >> you're going to be the director of the fbi. so here's what i want you to tell every politician. if you get a call from somebody suggesting that a foreign government wants to help you by disparaging your opponent, tell us all to call the fbi. >> to the members of this committee, any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state, or any non-state actor, is the kind of thing the fbi would want to know. >> do you believe the president's nominee to heed the fbi is wrong about that or is right, that this is something that donald trump, jr. should have called the fbi about and as to your claim about ukraine involvement w

mccain doing that meant people like lindsay graham and jeff flake didn't have to make that decision.hat decision because the spotlight is on them or what they did a good amount of time. back to the regular order, this isn't the way to do thing but there are things he wants from the president even if they're not totally with him. >> the heat of moment after one big collapse or the begins of something that will continue. sit tight. from policy to baseball. chris christie caught on tape shouting down yet another baseball fan. no peanuts. no crackerjacks, big shot. that's mom taking care of business. but who takes care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, filler paper just one cent with five dollar minimum purchase. ♪taking care of business. parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. medicare doesn't cover everything. and

. >> rose: including a sense, senator lindsay graham said he had been tired and feeling more fatigued, as i said over the last several weeks. >> your body talks to you. when that conference is there, it's not just a cancer but it causes inflammation. that pushes pressure in other areas of the brain. so when they take it out that information abates and classally patients feel a lot better. >> rose: i know you and everyone else in america is hoping for the best not only for senator mccain but also in recognition of the fighting spirit that he has exhibited in his public and private life. david, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: we'll be right back. stay with us. >> rose: o.j. simpson will be released after serving nine years for armed robbery. a board queue in an mustily voted to shorten his hearing. the football player previously faced trial in 195 for the murder of his exwife nicole brown simpson and the murder of his friend ronald goldman. o.j. simpson was acquitted in the most watched court case in history. here is the report from the cbs evening news this ev

i ask you if you're paul ryan and lindsay graham, are you going to take this sitting down and say, yes, legally, technically, he's allowed to do this? if there's one way to describe this administration it's opportunity lost. republicans have all of the power you could possibly hope for and mired into this? >> i think you ask it well, the home boy -- >> a legal term. >> we just explained why you can do it. then you go to what american democracy is always all about, what should you do? and in this case, if you pardon someone with the power of the presidency, what you are saying is they've committed a federal crime. if you pardon yourself and these are ifs, i want to be clear, talking about a "washington post" discussion, you included in our fair coverage. if you pardon yourself which is probably not legal and we can get to that, even if you try to pardon yourself, you're confessing to a federal crime. >> as you noted in one of your notes explaining this, alexander hamilton wrote about this in the federalist pam papers, that a president should not be able to be charged once in office but

lindsay graham says if that happened it could be disastrous and a demise of the presidency.hat can do you to block this if this is the president's game plan? >> well we're ready to stay here and make sure he makes no recess appointments. we're working with our colleagues across the aisle and we applaud them when they say things to us or to the press that they won't toer late getting rid of jeff sessions. so we need to continue to have a very loud voice, be on our toes to make sure he has no opportunities here. >> you're also working with your colleagues across the aisle on sanctions. earlier today the president 'new head of communications anthony scaramucci said, well, the president may support this, maybe he'll veto it, maybe he'll negotiate tougher sanctions. do you buy that? >> listen, anytime you can get something out of the senate 98-2 think there that was the vote, we're not just talking about russia here, we're talking about iran and we're talking about north korea. so just like in this tweet about the military, it's almost like the president says something, doesn't k

david, i want to hear what -- this is what senator lindsay graham said earlier then you want to get youran we play that? >> skinny bill's policy is a disaster. the skinny bill as a replacement for obamacare is a fraud. a vehicle to getting conference to find a replacement. it is not a replacement in and of itself. not only did we not replace obamacare, we politically own the collapse of health care. i'd rather get out of the way and let it collapse than have a half-ass approach where it is now our problem. >> david drucker, what do you say? >> well, it's their problem whether they like it or not no matter what they do. let's step back for a minute. normally a conference committee is where the senate and house go in and fight for their bill then kind of hash out a compromise between the two of them. what mitch mcconnell here is doing here in a sense is jamming his own members because if he didn't force them to vote, they wouldn't want to vote because they can't reach consensus. what he's saying is i'm calling a vote no matter what. he's trying to get them to vote for anything to keep this