senator lindsey graham has taken the floor.'s listen. >> this is the anecdote that has come their way. this is a tough time for the family. john has seven wonderful children. cindy, devoted wife. really did well by john. before anything else, i want to know -- i'm going to try to make this somewhat fun even though i don't feel in a funny mood right now. the bottom line let's start off with the tie. to anybody that may be watching on television, this is the naval academy tie. i wore this today, john, to honor you and to annoy you at the same time. he would tell me, lindsey, i wish you were in my naval academy class. i said that's very nice, john. you know why, lindsey? i said no. why, john? if you had been in my class, i would be sixed from the bottom, not fifth. thanks very much, john. humiliation and affection were constant companions. the more he humiliated you, the more he liked you. in that regard, i was well-served. to my colleagues, thank you again so much for what you have done. the only way i know to put this in words t

lindsey graham. what we have been talking a lot about, senator john mccain this week, what a disappointment the new lindsey graham would be to senator mccain. >> and stewart, what do you make of what we've seen lindsey graham do just in the last couple of months, especially the last couple of weeks. somebody who said holy hell to pay if you think about firing jeff session. now lindsey graham enabling the firing of jeff sessions saying of course the president deserves an attorney general who he can have confidence in. >> well, look, it's someone who has admired senator graham, it makes my heart hurt and my head hurt. i just don't understand it. they all served with senator session. they all seemed to like senator sessions. it seems to be the sin senator sessions committed here is actually doing his job that he was appointed to do and caring more about that job than about serving a political patron, which, you know, i would have thought that the senator graham that i admire would applaud that. it is ju

you know why, lindsey? i said no, john. if you'd been in my class, i would have been sixth from the bottom, not fifth. thank you very much, john. humiliation and affection were constant companions. the more he humiliated you, the more he liked you. in that regard i was well served . to my colleagues, thank you again so much for what you have done. the only way i know to put this in words that maybe john can relate to is that after a military operation is over, after a mission is complete, the pilots come back and debrief. if there's a military operation, they do an after-action report. i thought to myself, what would it say? what would the after-action report for john mccain say? and the purpose of these reports is for lessons learned so that others will benefit and make sure that we'll remember, remember the things that went well and the things that did not so we'll be better off as a unit, as a nation. the title of the operation was pretty easy. you can say a lot of things about me but clever is not one of them. operation

lindsey graham said that well earlier. and, for me, this place, the senate, and the country for that matter is better off because of him. he dedicated his life to those liberties we enjoy as americans and he took it upon himself to defend and represent them and try to spread them around the globe. he joined the u.s. navy to protect our country, spent five years as a prisoner of war and served in the house of representatives and the u.s. senate representing not just his arizona constituents, which he did well, but, as he viewed it, the entire country. country first. now is a gesture of our nation's gratitudor the -- gratitude, senator mccain will lie in state in the capitol. john mccain was a hero in the flesh right here in this century and i feel blessed for having known him. the last conversation i remember having with john was right out here in the an telephone -- ante room. he was in a wheelchair. he had a brace on his leg necessary because of the chemotherapy and his voice was faltering. we sat and we talked first abou

lindsey graham said the president is entitled to an attorney general he has faith in and lindsey graham knows the only attorney general this president would have faith in is an attorney general that would always protect the president of the united states, which now means protect the president from his friends, michael cohen and david pecker, the friends who federal prosecutors and new york city say colluded to commit crimes with the president of the united states to effect an election. joining our discussion, jill wine-banks, brett stevens and eugene robinson. all three are now msnbc contributors. jill, i wanted to get your reaction to what we saw here today in terms of the president actually once again going after the attorney general and the weakness we are seeing in the republicans in the senate very publically now talking about the possibility of replacing jeff sessions. >> it is appalling, of course, to hear this kind of conversation. the president once again is really obstructing justice in plain sight. his tweets are constantly attacking our systems, our institutions of justice a

you know, lindsey graham is not exactly like john mccain but lindsey is another person who is very courageous. last time he ran he was viewed as the most moderate person in his republican primary but he won and came back to washington. lindsey has political courage. that's what other people should do. john mccain would never have wanted people to adhere exactly to his policies or principles. he would want them to do the right thing in their view and be people of integrity. >> thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. >> senator lindsey graham calling the relationship between president trump and his attorney general jeff sessions beyond repair. saying that the real jury is the public. primary night as we've been telling you, countdown is on your screen. we'll head over to the big board and break down the early numbers we're getting out of florida and trump accusing google of rigging his search results, saying it is a serious situation and, quote, will be addressed. >> finally, robert mueller's investigation has me thinking about ken starr in 1990. this is hardball where the action is. s har

your thoughts on what you just heard from lindsey graham. a veriariful, but determined it seems to me to continue the legacy of john mccain. >> in this moment, we don't usually see this sort of authentic emotion play out in political settings. doesn't happen very often. takes a person who could generate the loyalty, friendships, at times the controversy to make the feelings you saw displayed by lindsey graham so vivid and so important to him and other senate colleagues. this will kind of attribute is the kind of thing the mccain family wants to see going forward in terms of inspiration. can an imperfect yet honorable person as lindsey graham described his friend inspire other leaders. those thinking about politics in their future some day. those entering the arena now. those presently office holders who might see there was not always a negative price to be paid for someone in public life. if he stood up to his own party or reached across the aisle for compromise. those prices can be very steep in modern politics in terms of political bases o

this is something coming from the hill from senator lindsey graham.hough graham is a close ally of trump's and someone who golfs with him and spends time with him pretty regularly. >> we've been having this conversation. we've also just gotten word that jeff sessions is headed to the white house, but we are told this was a preplanned meeting between the president and his attorney general that mr. sessions is going there to talk about criminal sentencing reform. but one would assume, jonathan, that this is something that would likely come up between the two men. i would imagine. why wouldn't jeff sessions just say the heck to this and resign? >> i believe he believes in the job he's doing. there are many republicans, conservatives, who feel like jeff sessions has not only been perhaps the most loyal member of the cabinet but perhaps the most effective. the make america great again agenda. and of course the forced separation at the border, a month or so back, is someone who is carrying out what the president wants. he told people around him he's not goi

this is not lindsey graham changing his mind about jeff sessions. lindsey graham has decided to carry water for trump, for whatever reason. he wouldn't mind been in the trump cabinet. this is part of the trump assault on sessions. don't kid yourself a lot of republican senators decided their former colleague, jeff sessions shouldn't be there. mcconnell knows what is going on and it would be disastrous for him to fire sessions. that's why he stepped up. >> he has made public statements like that. >> mcconnell is deliberate and careful about how he speaks. he doesn't talk about full kofs in somebody if he doesn't feel that way. he doesn't want upheaval. we need to understand, when we look at candidates or senators like lindsey graham and others, some are going to have republican primaries coming up in 2020. in a state like south carolina, where the president is going to have a lot of loyal support among the republican base, it could be that lindsey graham is making sure he is on the right side of the republican primary electorate. how do you do that?

>>> senator lindsey graham fueled controversy today.emarks on the senate floor about his old friend john mccain brought tears to the eyes of many whoa heard them, not to mention his own. here is what he had to say. >> i learned that failure and success are the different sides of the same coin. that john told me i have become better from my failures because it teaches us, and i've been tempted by my success. and without my failures, i never would have been successful. so to those who are striving as a young person, remember john mccain. he failed a lot but he never quit. and the reason we're talking about him today and the reason i'm crying is because he was successful in spite of his failures. he taught me that honor and imperfection are always in competition. i do not cry for a perfect man. i cry for a man who had honor and always was willing to admit to his imperfection. if you're thinking about getting in politics, the one thing i would ask you to look at when it comes to the life of john mccain, that it's okay to tell people i screw

he would constantly tell me, lindsey, i wish you were in my naval academy class. said, well, that's very nice, john. you know why, lindsey? no, john. i would have been six from the bottom, not fifth. thank you very much, john. h humiliation and affection were constant companion. the more he humiliated you the more he liked you. in that regard, i was well served. to my colleagues, thank you again so much for what you have done. the only way i know to put this in words that maybe john can relate to is that after a military operation's over, after a mission is complete, the pilots come back and debrief. if there's a military operation, after action report. i thought to myself, what would it say? what would the after action report for john mccain say? and the purpose of these reports is for lessons learned. so that others will benefit and make sure that we remember. remember the things that went well. and the things that did not. so we'll be better off as a unit, as a nation. the title of the operation was pretty easy. you can say a lot of things about me but clever's

so lindsey graham is emotional. here he is talking about john mccain. >> this man was the conscience of the senate, at times the conscience of the nation and if i had to pick one person in this great land to explain to someone from a different planet who are these americans, it would be john mccain with an assist from mark salter. he had a romantic view of our nation to his last breath and literally almost the last thing he said to me was i love you, i have not been cheated. he was not cheated. >> so beautiful and so touching, josh, and so -- we also got to hear john mccain's words as i think lindsey graham was alluding to. i guess this whole episode, the controversy about the president struggling to memorialize john mccain, i guess after these two and a half days we can move on? >> i hope so. that's probably up to trump and whether he has more feelings about mccain that he wants to share in the hours ahead but barring that i think it's time to move on to a more appropriate way to remember john mccain. we'll see tha

>> i don't even get where lindsey is coming from here. just take the i.v. out of the arm, lindsey, take the trump i.v. out and stop it. what is this breach? tell me what is the -- that's deeper than recusing yourself from the mueller probe? what is deeper than that for trump? nothing. there is nothing deeper than that for trump with respect to this attorney general. so this is all about exactly as the question was put to him about how this president was to fire the attorney general simply for that reason. so this idea that, you know, the attorney general has done -- sessions has done something so horrible, so much worse than that. what is the only thing the president has been talking about for 18 months? how this attorney general didn't recuse himself. he's never inferred, because he can't help himself. if it's something deep, he'll tell us what it is. >> it might be what he hasn't done with respect to the other side of the coin, which is lots of republicans want the attorney general to launch investigations into hillary clinton, even though it has been inv

you could say the same about lindsey graham. lindsey graham during the time president clinton was being impeached said the american presidency has to be about honor and integrity, honor and integrity. i ask any reasonable person to consider whether what we're seeing and hearing out of the white house now have been hearing and seeing for quite some time meets the standard of honor and integrity. >> there is chuck grassley citing the idea that george washington never told a lie, and therefore there is the standard that presidents have to live by. there is not a single senator now in the senate who voted for the removal of bill clinton from office, who has said one thing this week objecting to anything they learned about donald trump in federal court on tuesday when michael cohen pled guilty. >> and that's the reason we should not underest kate donald trump going forward. he's not a knock down these last 48 to 60 hours. we're now about to found out what kind of fighter he is. while it may be unpleasant for some people, i ask that t

lindsey graham sure put a lump in your throat, you know the history, you know how close they were.n "straight talk express" in 2000, and they were together every day. >> the speech on the floor reminded me of a younger brother more than anything else. a younger senator that lost a guiding light, and they have that kind of relationship, it is particular in these times, it is still special when you see that relationship in politics. >> friendship is a beautiful thing, i'm not sure it has anything to do with politics, but lindsey graham lost a dear, dear friend and it was emotional and moving to see him talk about it. >> and they were so funny, both of them, they're so funny individually and so fun any together. and they could make fun of each other. john mccain told a few dumb jokes over and over, and we know he did, and he said the more he humiliated you the more he liked you. in that regard, i was well served, he is just capturing that friendship, and that response from senator graham harkins back to an old era in the senate where you have the smoke filled rooms and the comradery b

there's every recognition that has senator lindsey graham said the damage to the relationship between the president and attorney general is likely irrelevant represent personal. but the damage to republicans politically going given his recusal from the russia investigation is very real and a relevant concern. i will tell you this. there's also the procedural issue that the fact that senate leaders don't think they would be able to get a new attorney confirmed not because democrats would be so opposed to things but also republicans as well. so while you have sen several republicans come out and mention the idea of a new attorney general, i'm told explicitly and you heard from the majority leader top republicans right now, they don't want any part of it. >> phil mattingly on capitol hill. thank you. >>> we're following new developments in robert mueller's prosecution of paul manafort. there's been a delay in the former trump campaign chairman's second trial. the judge now granting a request by the defense to push back opening statements a week to september 24th. let's bring in our justi

lindsey graham was talking about it this morning. graham last year indicated there would be holy hell to pay if the president fired jeff sessions. now, he's saying, they have a bad relationship. maybe it is not the worst thing. here's what he added. >> this relationship is beyond repair, i think. >> senator graham, i mean, the only beef the president seems to have -- >> no. >> -- against him is he's not going to get rid of the investigation into president trump. >> let me finish the second part. it is much steeper than that. >> what are we missing? >> we won't say on the show, but it is a pretty deep breach. here's what i'm suggesting, that he's not the only man in the country that can be attorney general. >> what? what is the deep breach? >> give me a break. if lindsey graham has a breach he wants to talk about, he should talk about it, not hold out. oh, there's something else. it is not just the russia investigation. donald trump is good about telling us what's on his mind. he has for a year and a half now told everyone in the worl

senate than lindsey graham. graham is going to be here to talk about his friend up next. >> the bottom line is, folks, that the people that he served with in jail will tell you the same thing in prison that i will tell you. he is loyal to his friends. he loves his country. and if he has to stand up for his country, so be it. he would die for this country. i love him to death. it was here. i couldn't catch my breath. it was the last song of the night. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. they said i had afib. what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. my doctor and i chose xarelto® to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your body's natural blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor. for afib patients well managed on warfarin, there is limit

, most dramatically lindsey graham going from there's holy hell to pay going to it's okay with me.es in november. >> wasn't it just last week, lawrence, that the president said he didn't like flippers? he's known flippers for 30, 40 years and he doesn't like flippers. it was in a completely different context, but the fact that he is as reported personally lobbying senators to flip on senator sessions speaks to a larger issue here. senator sessions, to his mind, should never have recused himself from oversight of the mueller probe, which would not have been necessary had the president not fired the fbi director, jim comey. and in what you read about the president's not only anger ability that but about the accent and his nonivy league pedigree just speaks to how petty and small the president is. and then this idea that jeff sessions isn't a, you know, vocal defender of the president on television speaks to, after 18 months or so in office, his willful ignorance of the role of the attorney general of the united states. again, the attorney general of the united states is not the presi

hope. >> it's interesting to hear senator lindsey graham say that president trump brought it up aboutso it is beleveling hbelevel i -- bedevilling him. is this mostly because it's encroaching on don jr.? >> i know that's a meme right now or a theme or whatever word we use. i think it is certainly true that he is concerned that it will touch his son and i think that has become more concerning simply not because of some new fact set but because you had michael cohen making statements that are -- his lawyer making statements that i think became of concern to the president but i don't think it was because of some new piece of information or that mueller made some move toward don jr. that is not different. i don't think the president is in any different state of mind than he was a year ago. he might be talking about his son getting picked on but the president doesn't often say these things directly and flatly so he's not running around saying to aides i'm very worried about don jr. i think people are surmising that must be what he is thinking about and he has displayed as one person put it

he used to joke about lindsey graham and call him his illegitimate son. the way mccain showed affection was sometimes with a sharp elbow, but it's part of the reason he has been so beloved up here across the political spectrum. and that ability to reach such a diverse group of americans with his own personna was one of the other things that lindsey graham highlighted in his speech that i think was important. take a listen. >> don't look to me to replace this man. look to me to remember what he was all about and try to follow in his footsteps. if you want to help me, join the march. if you want to help the country, be more like john mccain. i believe there's a little john mccain in all of us. >> reporter: graham addressed the question of whether it's better to do something like renaming the russell building after mccain. he said, no matter what we rename after mccain, and maybe we should rename lots of things, that the point there, we should all try to be more like john mccain was the far more important takeaway. >> and you talked to him separately from th

lindsey and joe and kelly were his great amigos, none greater than lindsey. but many of us loved him well. millions of americans saw john mccain give the famous c-span thumbs down that put an end to repeal and replace. they probably did not see what happened next. having just cast what was a devastating vote for many of his colleagues, he went back to his seat, and from my seat here across the chamber, i saw john's colleagues gently start moving toward him. they may have hated his vote, but there was nevertheless this gentle flow of bodies moving to stand around and near him. his friend dan sullivan of alaska was one who came down from the back row just to stand near john in the aisle. hate the vote, love the man. this place can be complicated. john could be annoying. in munich, accepting an award for john, his beloved cindy said i love him most of the time. his temper could be explosive. i read once of a man nicknamed for a south american volcano because he constantly fumed and regularly erupted. and i thought of john. he loved a good fight and was eager to

lindsey graham had on the possibility of donald trump firing jeff sessions back then.fort to basically marginalize and humiliate the attorney general is not going over well in the senate. if jeff sessions is fired there will be holy hell to pay. >> e.j., what happened? >> you began the show with these very powerful tributes to john mccain and it's worth remembering that going back it was both john mccain and lindsey graham who said jeff sessions had a problem taking over an investigation where he was going to be the subject. john mccain also very forcefully asked a lot of questions of sessions at a hearing about that meeting with the russian ambassador and lindsey graham's flip is really a metaphor for what's happened to the republican party, that even parts of the party, most of the party had gone over to trump already and there were roots of trumpism in the earlier behavior of republicans but lindsey graham was a holdout and he is no longer a holdout. he has, if i can use the word, flipped and i think that donald trump is looking at this and saying well nixon fired a

why don't you put a button on it, lindsey. coming off of what rob said, not specific to facebook, but you have tech as an overweight sxwl you don't think there's a paradigm shift in market from growth to value. >> no, we are with growth through the second half of the year and the reason for that is tech in particular is that you're seeing a broadening out within the tech sector because if you look at the equal weight tech index and the s&p 500 weighted tech index, you're seeing the equal weight outperform the market cap wei t weighted sector. we think you're seeing some improvements in the more value areas within tech, which are the early cycles like the semiconductor equipment makers an things like that. i think that's pointing to a second run within probably the semis in the later end of the year >> all right you'll be back with us later kick around some retail earnings here's what's coming up on the halftime report. >> next up, the big call on intel. the stock is up 35% in a year. and one top analyst says take the money and

fortunes of jeff sessions at least with respect to senate republicans have fallen so dramatically lindsey graham's an odd cases in the oh absolutely because it again it's for the well and i also think he's an odd case what's striking with respect to the president and sessions as well is that sessions is largely aligned with the president on so much of the president's agenda he's sort of been the president's conscience a better term on immigration and on criminal justice reform on any new. amber of conservative issues that the president there are important to the president and so whatever it is and if you saw the interview to graham and said there's something private that we don't know about that has led to this disconnect between these two individuals it is fascinating it's an odd case where graham's coming from and what he knows about this relationship your guess is as good as mine larry great having you with us we hope to call on you again oh i would love to be back thanks a lot larry let's turn now to our political panel they are jen kearns g.o.p. strategist former spokesperson for the

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lindsey go to you first. edward reporting on the argument that the administration used to say we're in a better position to be doing this because our economy is so strong. a nabe survey came out over 90% of the economists they surveyed tariffs and trade policy would be harmful to the economy. i get the question is over time frame. are we anywhere close to being at a point where they would be, you know causing some harm we can measure? >> yeah. i mean it would definitely take time for it to be felt within the economy. you're seeing steal and aluminum tariffs by a lot of companies. we heard that with most recently quarterly earnings resolved. this is a great way to kill the momentum that we do have in the economy. because it's a tax on the consumer. the con oompher can only withstand so much, so much of an increase in prices. >> almost goes back to the earlier discussion we were having about federal reserve, adam, what will slow down the economy. you know, some would suggest maybe the president should look at h

lindsey graham borrowed a page from the president's playbook with a krcryptic warning about attorneyf sessions. >> it's a deep breach. here's what i'm suggesting -- he's not the only man in the country that can be attorney general. >> this morning, you talked about some other major breach between president trump and attorney general sessions -- >> i don't want to talk about that now -- >> can you plane at all what you -- explain at all what you were alluding to? >> nope. >> later, senator graham did. later on the hill, he said that there is not some situation we don't know about and all he meant was that disagreements between president of the united states and sessions is piling up so the breach is wider. jeff sessions isn't the only justice department official in the cross hairs of house gop today. several house members returned early why their august recess to question career doj official brews orr. they're scrutinizing orr over his relationship with the former british spy who authored the infamous dossier about president trump. we're back with the panel. alexi, michael, and ruth.

is lindsey graham giving him a nudge?n't said them because republicans on the hill have been telling him do not fire jeff sessions. the wall of protection around sessions we have seen for the past year is starting to crumble. we are on the hill -- we were on the hill yesterday talking to senators. basically, you heard from lindsey graham. there are others that think it is the president's prerogative to fire sessions. there has been a shift in tone to say don't fire him. leave him alone. to if you don't like him, you can pick somebody else. another front on this, the alabama delegation, congressional delegation, they have been sessions' top defenders since sessions is from alabama. they have been out front defending him when the president comes after him. you are hearing silence from them right now. i was speaking to one yesterday who is close with sessions. gary palmer of alabama. he has issues with sessions in terms of not firing rod rosenstein. i don't think that is good for him. it is a matter of time before the presid

we heard oren hatch, lindsey graham repeatedly say jeff sessions is a good man.s like let's wait for 80 more days and then you can can him. what happened to the being a good guy? >> i think sentence reform is what happened. the fact that he was building up against grassley and he is never happy about it. >> let's turn to the michael cohen front. david pecker who runs the parent company of the national enquirer, we have learned that he has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony before the federal prosecutors. first of all, in order for them to give him immunity he has to know a lot about hush money payments to stormy daniels, all that other stuff that michael cohen under oath yesterday before a federal judge spoke about it. >> i'm glad you used the phrase all of the other stuff. remember in the audio recording that his client recorded to himself and candidate donald trump. he said all of that stuff. in case david pecker were to be hit by a bus. the presumption has been that karen mcdugal -- all of those things can come to pass. i would never have gran

senate than lindsey graham. senator graham is going to be here to talk about his friend up next. >> the bottom line is, folks, that the people that he served with in jail will tell you the same thing in prison that i will tell you. he is loyal to his friends. he loves his country. and if he has to stand up for his country, so be it. he would die for this country. i love him to death. it was here.

over the last several decades congress has creed -- at the same time the republican senators here lindsey graham and tim scott were two who voted against a measure in congress just a few weeks ago that would have taken some of the that authority back from the president because the president has used these tariffs on the premise of national security. tim scott voted against a measure that would have called for congress to have more oversight of the tariffs. while he's going around the state here, plans like this, 126 employees are who are looking at their future with uncertainty. >> great reporting. vaun hill yard, as always. >>> up next, kansas secretary of state kris kobach now in charge of recounting votes in his own race. how is that allowed? ♪ introducing e*trade personalized investments

i was so touched by lindsey graham's tribute on the floor of the u.s.senate, whether he intended to or not to, he was paraphrasing the famous remarks of winston churchill, when churchill said, success is not final. failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. and that was john mccain. i can't think of another person in my lifetime suffered and endured so many trials and tribulations, and yet continued to persevere and to try out. it is a testament to what a fine man he was in a -- and a loving husband and father. and i think people everywhere whether they agree with him were not politically, you kind of love the guy. i always loved interviewing him because unlike most politicians he would actually answer my questions. >> yes he waited. most politicians sort of bob and weave and they do the whole muhammad ali rope-a-dope and evade the question. but john mccain wouldn't do that. >> i just want to say he would love that reference because he was a sports fan through and through and i think the last time that i saw senator mccain, he was

lindsey, the revisions is kind of a fake idea you can box jobs numbers into one month. they're a rolling number, if you revised, you bring in revisions from previous two months it does more than make up for today's loss in estimate. go ahead. >> oh, absolutely. this is pretty decent number. details underlying were very good. the u6 came down. you saw hispanic women, high schoolers, their unemployment rates dropped to lows. the three-month moving average to your point was at 220. that is very strong number. at this point in the year we're making many, adding many more jobs than last year at this time. david: peter is that just an excuse or is the economy still strong? >> that is really the story. the revisions really tell the story and as a consequence, if you look at the individual industry is though, the strength of manufacturing indicates that donald trump's strategy is paying off. david: yeah. >> that represents the investments from the tax cuts and so forth. so i think this is a very strong report. shows a lot of momentum going forward. we're probably going to have

lindsey graham in one of the most stunning reversals since the invention of video recording. it's as if he does not know that we have recordings of what he said about this last year. but lindsey graham personifies what looks like a collapse of republican support in the senate for jeff sessions. >> there's another thing they think people don't know, and that is what day it is. this is now the end of august of an election year in which the republicans are probably going to do quite badly. president trump throughout this struggle with robert mueller has had a political strategy. to defame and denounce the investigation, to try to disit, discredit it and to hold on to enough republicans to gird him against whatever mueller reveals. but that political strategy looks like it's going to pay diminishing dividends after november. the president now needs a legal strategy and he hasn't got a very good one because firing jeff sessions simply means a giant battle over the confirmation of the next attorney general before a senate that is almost certainly going to be less republican than th

lindsey graham saying this. think this president, like every other president, deserves the chance to have an attorney general they have confidence in. you have other senators like ben sasse who say don't you dare fire the attorney general. he usually follows his own tune to those types of things, chris, but bottom line, lawmakers on capitol hill signaling they may be willing to consider a new attorney general. but not until after the critical midterm elections. i don't think we're going to see any type of activity until then. president trump heads to ohio. he's attending a state dinner a little later on today. we'll have the chance if the weather holds to try to ask him some questions. >> the shift on capitol hill is fascinating. kristen, thank you. i want to bring in my panel. matt welch. zefer teachout is still here, constitutional law professor at fordham, running for new york a.g. chris wilson is a republican pollster. i want to play a little more of what lindsey graham had to say. basically -- well, maybe i