at odds this week as lindsay graham, after the end of the public testimony, announced he's helping to launch his own investigation into what happened in ukraine with biden he asked the state department for documents about biden and burisma. joe biden said on the campaign trail he is, quote, embarrassed for his old friend, lindsay graham what's going on here >> reporter: i don't know. it's an interesting decision by senator lindsay graham, who in november said i don't want to turn the senate into a circus by investigating hunter and joe biden. and this was at the beginning of the month. i think he said it ot november 5th. and now he is indeed at least threatening to do that look, there's plenty of people in washington that have been trying to figure out what lindsay graham is up to, is this politics, is this south carolina conservatives? whatever it is, bomb line is, i think that is a split now between lindsay graham and joe biden, probably a rift that will never get healed no matter where this heads going forward. >> lindsay graham clearly has chosen the president over his old frie

lindsay graham spoke tearfully about conversations he had with joe biden after his son died. is a huge movement from lindsay. and i don't think this is going to be -- famous last words, a huge investigation into biden. but asking for documents is significant. and we'll also see if the state department come price. >> i was just going to ask you this. the republicans are asking and the democrats have been dying for documents from the state department for a while. how can state give one chamber the docs and not another? >> there's different rules about classification and all sorts of things. i think it will be interesting to watch. >> love having you on to break it down. >>> coming up, the hot button issue of vaping takes center stage at the white house this afternoon. you have some vaping company officials and some of their most outspoken critics all in one room, all with the president as his e-cig flavored ban seems to be on ice. >>> first, president trump rather interestingly is not committing to signing a bill intended to protect human rights in hong kong. he was asked about

it feels like coming from donald trump but with lindsay graham we have somebody unprincipled in his convictions really to throw friends under the bus. you can't believe him. he'll shift positions if it serves lindsey graham's interest so what he will do even the nar tifr of the bidens even he doesn't bring them to testify is he will inject this conspiracy on the nation at a time when we're facing a very hard constitutional question in the constitution constitutional crisis and rather than hon mooring the oath he'll honoring his own self-interest in south carolina. he is the worst type of politician we've come to ex-ppe in the modern republican party. >> you already have on the house devin nunes who has furthered this conspiracy theory that it was ukraine that attacked the elections not russia. it's straight out of the gru. he didn't have the gut to do it in front of fiona hill but he seems to be wanting to further this conspiracy theory. jaul jewel has be giuliani has been trying to further the conspiracy theory and now it turns out one of his cohorts was working with nunes to push i

i give you lindsay graham. >> what i can tell you about the trump policy toward the ukraine.lk to. they seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo. >> that's your best defense? >> yeah. so i think what we're seeing is the president's defenders are in need of a defense and why they keep jumping from person to person and story to story is that the simple answer to the question was should a foreign power be asked to provide political dirt for an upcoming election is no, it's not an appropriate thing to do, so they're spinning now to come up with it. >> they're literally too dumb to do it. every person in america who has gotten a traffic ticket and speeding ticket would love to say i was too dumb to know or not paying attention. that is never a defense in the united states of america and to me it falls short in so many ways to say they were too incompetent to actually do something wrong. >> and it is undermined by the fact that there were so many, forts made to obscure what they were doing. the fact that it went through the back channel, and they tried to keep people off the

abuse of power and it's also illegal. >> it will likely come as no surprise that you that senator lindsay graham it a little bit differently. however, garrett mentioned that he was just talking about senator graham. i want to play for you an interesting part of what graham had to say. >> i've read the transcript for myself, i made up my own own, volker said there was no quid pro quo. sondland has changed his testimony to say he presumes there was. what i can tell you about the trump policy toward the ukraine, it was incoherent. it depends on who you talk to. they seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo. >> so if i'm hearing that correctly, congressman, senator graham appears to be making the incompetence argument about the trump administration, that they simply don't know what they were doing, so they could have done nothing wrong. do you find agreement with senator graham on any of those points? >> no, i think the policy being pursued by president trump and mr. giuliani and by ambassador sondland was quite clear. and it was resisted by a lot of the professionals in the embassy and in the

. >> another really dear friend of yours is lindsay graham.s almost a member of your family, traveled the globe with senator mccain. i was with harry reid recently and harry reid said that he admired lindsay graham as a john mccain republican, but that now he's become running for re-election in south carolina trying to get re-elected republican. is that fair? >> i, you know, i can't gauge a lot of this because i don't know what's going on in south carolina. i haven't really politically kept up on a lot of this stuff. lindsay's a member of our family, and i love him regardless, and he will always be -- he and i are the same age, but i feel like sometimes he's my fifth child in many ways. i love him to death. >> presumably, occasionally, you have guidance to offer your children. do you offer your fifth child advice? >> i have offered advice. >> i'm sure you won't share that. >> it isn't after the living, it's the dead. he's continued to go after senator mccain including this bizarre thing where he was in asia and the white house ordered the mili

that brings me to lindsay graham. you want to talk about counterpunch is.he president, basically questioning whether or not they had the wits about them to actually be able to carry this up. it's a curious defence. it's basically saying there can't be any renee's crime here because they are not organised. and so it doesn't exactly win over a jury. the problem is that the white house still lacks a single narrative, it lacks a legal strategy that i can discern they originally said there was no quid pro quo and now you have these diplomats and these white house officials saying, yeah, we thought it was a quid pro quo for president seemed to say, you get the military aid if you investigate the bidens. now the white house seems to be looking for terra firma, something to base a new defence on.” looking for terra firma, something to base a new defence on. i wanted to base a new defence on. i wanted to ask you about, we've got bolton not appearing, mick mulvaney being asked to appear on friday, probably not go into appear full we have got a top aide to the vice pr

. >> they're asking lindsay graham.y know he knows if he comes out against trump he has a tough road for re-election, number one. i'm disappointed and quite frankly i'm angered by the fact he knows me and knows my son and knows there's nothing to this. trump is holding power over him even the ukrainians wouldn't yield to. ukrainians would not yield to quote, investigate biden. there's nothing investigate about biden and his son. >> hannity: there's a report out they're now investigating the whole burisma thing. senator lindsey graham. joe's on tape you're not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor who was investigating his son getting paid millions and millions of dollars for zero experience. maybe i'm making this too complicated. isn't what they're accusing trump of and why's he get a pass. >> i've known him for a long time and for those who say the ukrainian connection has been thoroughly looked nothing is further from the truth. when they stopped from asking question the biden connection they're shut them

what do you say to lindsay graham and folks like him? indsey graham, they have him under their thumb. they know he knows if the truth comes out against trump he's got a real tough road for re-election. number one, i am disappointed and quite frankly i'm angered by the fact that he knows how to do this. trump is now essentially holding power over him that even the ukrainians wouldn't yield to. ukrainians would not yield to, quote, investigate biden. nothing to investigate about biden or his son. and lindsay is about to go down in a way that i think he's going to regret his whole life. >> what do you say to him? >> i say, lindsey, i just -- i'm just embarrassed by what you're doing. i mean, my lord. >> you can see cnn's exclusive interview with joe biden today starting at 2 p.m. eastern time. in the meantime, we'll be right back. copd makes it hard to breathe. so, to breathe better, i started once-daily anoro. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro conta

. >>> joe biden unloading on his former colleague and one-time friend, republican senator lindsay grahamman of the senate judiciary committee, graham opened an investigation into the bidens and ukraine, asking the state department for records related to then vice president's calls and meetings with the ukrainian leader at the time. >> i am disappointed, and quite frankly, i'm angered by the fact. he knows me, he knows my son. he knows there's nothing to this. trump is now essentially holding power over him that even the ukrainians wouldn't yield to. >> what do you say to him? >> i say lindsey, i just -- i'm just embarrassed by what you're doing for you. >> senator graham has, shall we say, evolved in his feelings about the former vice president. >> you can admire joe biden as a person. he's the nicest person i think i've ever met in politics. >> is that right? >> he is as good a man as god ever created. >> how did as good a man has god has ever kree yitd become let's get some documents? >> it's all because of the pressure from the white house. i had colleagues who talked to graham less t

that is a key point of contention for the president and his allies including the senator, lindsay graham, without the system impeachment is dead on arrival in the senate. >> the only way you can fairly deal with this issue is for us to find out who the whistle- blower is. no american can be accused of a crime based on an anonymous allegation, the whistle-blower is foundational to what they are doing in the house and the fact they don't want to call him tells you everything they know -- everything you need to know about how valid this effort is to impeach the president. >> not every republican lawmaker feels that way. several repeated their belief that the identity should be protected and that their testimony was not that important because they did not have firsthand information about the president's phone call. in washington, garret tenney, fox news. >> once again, the public hearings in the impeachment inquiry begin oned with. we will have uninterrupted -- begin on wednesday. we will have uninterrupted coverage on wednesday morning at 7:00 a.m. >>> this tuesday, the supreme court will b

. >> i don't know about this guy, lindsay graham him i think these capable of saying anything. >> i thinkis job. these chaerm of the senate judiciary committee and he said he's not going to look at the facts of the allegations against the president of the united states he worked with a foreign nation to corrupt the domestic relations in 2020. if lindsey graham is unwilling to do his job, he needs to request it the united states senate and he should hand in his bar license to the state of south clone. we will never understand why lindsey graham has abandoned the conviction of old and instead chosen to embrace donald trump. chris, this is the challenge that we face, that democrats, frankly, face. a lie is much easier to sell to the american people than the truth s. a lie can be sexy. look what they've did around the mueller report. no obstruction, no collusion. when we actually know there was obstruction. it's shown there and kudos to the democrats for leaning in on this, you are hearing them use words like betrayal, broo ibry, you are seeing them talk to the press each day because they hav

you're a republican it's more of the same and maybe you're not even reading the testimony and lindsay grahamd he's not even reading what's coming out from the transcripts from these depositions. >> i have been curious since this addendum, revised testimony came out what the reaction would be from republicans and first, we know that republican allies on the hill said there was no quid pro quo, mirroring what the president continues to say and you have mick mulvaney who blew that defense up and they moved to it's not a quid pro quo because ukraine didn't know any of the aid was held up. they no longer can say that with this revised testimony. is this troubling to you? >> i think the way most republicans see this statement today is just, it may be a smoking gun, but it's a smoking gun from the keystone cops so i don't think anybody sees it as a serious blow to the president. the reality is i think republicans see this on a variety of fronts and number one, the president has maintained that there wasn't a quid pro quo and the transcript backs that up, as republicans read it and i know other peop

. >> you mentioned lindsay graham there. we heard his thoughts on impeachment.ow is impeachment playing there? a lot of voters talking about impeachment and whether this president deserves it? >> not really, craig. when i get out on the campaign trail, most of the time folks are talking about the issues that they're dealing with. we've got farmers right now that are suffering under these tariffs here in south carolina, particularly the soy bean farmers. there's a company in allendale county where tariffs have increased from $200,000 a month to $1 million a month. it's issues like that, issues like the quality of water, lack of infrastructure, those are the things that people are really focused on. it seems like our senator wants to spend more of his time on fox news or on television just talking about impeachment. we really want him to address the issues here in south carolina. >> in your opinion, should the president be impeached and removed from office? >> craig, i think the process needs to take its toll. let the house of representatives make its case, becaus

lindsay graham said he was a part of that meeting.fter he told reporters up on capitol hill, the idea of the senate squashing potential articles of impeachment from the house is not going to happen. this is what he said in part. the idea that you would dismiss the trial before they presented the cases is a nonstarter. you're not going to get a motion to dismiss. as you mentioned the president also had lunch today with a different group of republican senators. you see one there. susan collins of maine. she is one of eight senators to come here along with mitt romney. you mentioned a couple who normally don't see eye-to-eye in some cases with president. susan collins gave a readout what she said, part of the discussion was on prescription drugs prices and vaping. impeachment was a small portion of the meeting between the president and senators. speaking of vaping, connell. tomorrow, by the way there will be a meeting at the white house between president trump and stakeholders in the e-cigarette industry. you will remember back in septem

. >> that was lindsay graham just within the last few minutes. first time we're hearing from him since joe biden unloaded over the weekend on graham for ramping up efforts of making the bidens a focus of the impeachment proceedings. >>> we're also watching today for a court ruling that might have big implications for the impeachment proceedings. a judge is set to decide whether former white house council don mcgahn must testify. the court battle started after he defied a subpoena months ago on about russia. but now house democrats are eyeing this as a possible game-changer for the impeachment inquiry now given subpoenas for testimony from other administration officials are currently in question. i want to bring in chuck rosenberg, former fbi chief of staff who is now a msnbc contributor. any signal from the judge? >> she's expressed some skepticism at the hearing so i imagine she's going to rule that this thing they're asserting, absolutely immunity, that the witness doesn't have to show up at all, isn't going to fly. >> if she does end up ruling

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republicans that say there is nothing to see here and this is a quid pro quo and lindsay graham has takend there was no quid pro quo because they weren't organized enough for it and there was a quid pro quo, but it doesn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense. they've not found ground to stand on in terms of a yunified tone. >> these will be tricky for moderate democrats and moderate republicans. >> if you look at the poll that came out earlier this week support for impeachment is under water in key battleground states in michigan, wisconsin, north carolina, arizona, and that's a problem who effectively won and handed the gavel to nancy pelosi. they are performing their constitutional duty, but also do not appear to be overtly partisan because voters back at home, i've talked to these voters and they still very much care about jobs, healthcare, trade, the environment. impeachment is not -- it is not the thing that is animated kitchen table discussion. >> and these national polls and the state polls really matter most. >> the deep dive. >> alex, thank you very much. >> season 4 of "

the meeting is reported to have involved five republican senators including lindsay graham who've been state. president erdogan is trying to avoid sanctions over the purchase of a russian missile defense system. with me is our north america reporter aleem maqbool. talk us through this, you have the senators who we understand were upset by mr erdogan bringing out this video, where was president trump and all of this? it was an extraordinary meeting in the first place. it was added to the schedule very late. of course we saw all day yesterday, donald trump standing by mr erdogan and the actions he had taken in northern syria against the kurds. but there has been pushed backin kurds. but there has been pushed back in recent weeks from washington. but that has come from congress. it was extraordinary enough that donald trump decided to bring together republican senators who had been critical of president erdogan, to come and meet him. in the eyes of many, acting as peacemaker between president erdogan and some of his own party's senators. but then, as you said in your introduction, preside

lindsay. >> lindsey graham these days was portrayed as off the rails. >> what i can tell you about the trumpthe ukraine, it was incoherent. they seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo. >> yes, the old he couldn't have committed these crimes, he's too stupid defense. >> reporter: on offense, an anti-truck pac put up a billboard in south carolina showcasing something graham once said about trump. >> i think he's a cook, i think he's unfit for office. >> graham's anti-trump sinkers linger. >> he's a race baiting, xenophobic bigot. >> reporter: now graham jokes about their rocky past. >> and he says i don't have your phone number, and i said there's a reason for that. >> reporter: the reason being, candidate trump gave out graham's number. >> let's try it, 202. >> reporter: graham responded with a cell phone destroying video. these days, they often talk on the phone and now graham has joined trump in his reluctant to read. the president wouldn't like reading those old quotes. >> you know how you make america great again, tell donald trump to go to hell. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new

honest to god i thought lindsay graham was better than this.'re now personally attacking people with completely made up lies, that -- it's just a new -- we keep sinking to new lows or i should say they keep sinking to new lows and those of ustion who are apolled shub e should bould be. >> is it an unrecognizable place and one that we can't come back from, do you think? >> things are changed but yes, i can envision this and here's why. let me lay out the case. you know, we saw actually after john mccain passed away lindsey graham admitted that relationship was personally advantageous to him. which is llying? i would also remind us and i know we like to hold up john mccain as a paragon of virtue, i'm old enough to remember when he was building a dang wall and when he after donald trump attacked him would not revoke his endorsement of him. so there is something fundamental in the water of the republican party that allows their party to be taken over and allows them to be so politically craven that judges and low taxes mean that they sell their pol

even when lindsay lindsey graham took that out first time there were nine and then public pressure gamee trump base and republicans sat there and said what you're doing is wrong, now we have three and that pressure has to continue. here is what president trump has done with his substance. over the last 10 days, he has unified the entire movement and republican party like in 2016. you've got the establishment republicans beings libertarians, the populists they are all united now to say hey, these radical democrats are not going to be able to overturn the 2016 election and not going along with the nullification project and i've canceled my european trips throughout the world to star this with all volunteers right now from the trump campaign and people that supported president trump over the years that say as volunteers , we're going to setup and take notice and say hey this is not acceptable. maria: what is your reaction to what went on this weekend in iowa. you had the democratic candidates in iowa talking about their own agenda while also trying to trash president trump. i want your tak

but i want to thank chairman lindsey graham. lindsay thank you very much. , great.applause] a very special man. a man that is so popular in this state i don't think they are going to run anyone against him anymore. they have given that up. chuck grassley, right? chuck. [applause] and also with us are senator john cornyn -- i looked at your polls, nobody is beating you, john. nobody. and you don't have to worry about beto anymore, that is for sure. from texas. he doesn't like guns, religion, or oil. >> [laughter] out allump: he knocked three categories. somehow in texas that will not work. i don't think that works anywhere. that does not work anywhere. good. john cornyn. mike lee. mike, thank you very much. [applause] senator ted cruz, also of texas. thank you, senator. thanks, ted. senator tom tillis. tom, thank you very much. senator ben sasse. ben, great, great to have you here. and senator marsha blackburn. marsha, thank you. great job you are doing. and josh hawley, our young star. he is a young star. thank you, josh. thank you. great job, everybody. in addition

. >> lindsay graham's new definition of whether or not hearsay evidence is admissible or not. -- ukraine saying i was hanging out with gordon sondland in kiev. kiev is in the ukraine. okay. >> this all might have happened, but it wasn't that big of a deal. but we can't impeach in an election year. just vote him out of office. >> if republicans had been smart from the very beginning. that is a big if, they would have jumped to the end and said it is really bad what he did. it is not an impeachable offense, but flow is a drip drip drip. day in and day out. set up a straw man, it gets knocked down the next day. americans have been seeing this in the past month now and it is having a real impact in the president's approval ratings. you dig into the numbers every day as much as everybody in america about what it will mean in the 2020 races. i'm curious what you think about the 30% that think they can still be swayed by the impeachment evidence. where will that play out not just in the presidential race but in the senate and the house races. >> interestingly enough one of the most r

graham. i said lindsay, let me ask you what do you think of that? they are charging us $100%. we'll charge them. that makes sense to me. it really does make sense to me because it's very unfair the way we are treated by certain countries. there are certain countries that the average tariff is over 100%. and we charge them nothing. and then they call it fair trade. that's not fair trade. that's stupid trade. >> [laughter] pres. trump: of course, this will be subject to regaining the house to be able to do these things. nowhere has the change in u.s. strategy been more vital or dramatic than in our dealings with respect to china. before my election, washington politicians sat by and did nothing while china ransacked our companies, stole our intellectual property, subsidized their industries at the expense of ours, and dumped their products in a deliberate strategy to close american factories all across our land. for many years, american leaders have just sat back. maybe they didn't understand what was going on? it's impossible to believe that, but they just let it happen, and it

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joe biden talking about lindsey graham's decision to launch an investigation into the former vp and his son hunter biden. joe biden responded to that. >> lindsay is about to go down in a way i think he will regret his whole life. lindsay, i just, i am just embarrassed by what you are doing, for you. kristen: he is fundraising off of this. do you think joe biden's role in the impeachment inquiry will help or hurt him in the 2020 primary? >> from the most corrupt state in the country, illinois. to have his son benefit from a position of his father is unbelievable and for democrats in the senate i'm embarrassed by them. if you are going to have a true and honest impeachment inquiry you need to bring in hunter biden, joe biden, open up, the situation does not seem right for anyone being honest. kristen: do you think this impeachment inquiry hurts biden or help him? does the fundraising help or hurt him? >> it does hurt him to have his name associated with alleged corruption but it is not grounded in evidence. people talking about hunter biden, what about ivanka trump working in the white house talking to heads of state or jared kushner, mountains

lindsay is about to go down in way that i think he's going to regret his whole life. >> carol, lindsey grahamday was talking about how much he likes and respects joe biden. it's of all people to go down a russia rabbit hole like this. >> there's layers. it's the russia piece and lindsey graham and what his views use to be in being tough on russia. there's the relationship he had with former vice president because they served in the senate together. joe biden is right. i don't know if you recall when president obama when the republicans won the senate and the white house needed to cut deals in the senate and when foreign policy issues that lindsey graham was having an issue with, it was joe biden who was dealing with him in that way. it's really remarkable to see. on top of that, lindsey graham it was plenty of years for them to go after these documents if this was an issue. >> why do it now? >> why do it now? we know the answer. >> what is surprising is that it's lindsey graham. >> that's the surprise. >> not surprising that people would go after hunter biden. he is what man skank is but he i

to investigate about biden or his son and lindsay is about to go down in a way that i think he's going to regret his whole life. >> well, today, senator graham off 18 contradiction between his prior comments about biden and his now push to investigate him. >> my conscience is clear. i love joe biden as a person, he is a really decent man. he's had a lot of tragedy in his life, but i have a conscience, very clear right now and i have a duty if the house is going to shut it down, the senate is going to pick it up. i didn't start this. >> ladies and gentlemen, michael steele and john survivor former cia senior officer. michael, here's the story. friendship doesn't mean nothing now? >> not anymore. not when the friendship has been supplanted by a relationship with donald trump. because i hope the senator knows, he doesn't have a friendship with donald trump. he has a relationship. it's a transactional engagement which trump gets the master benefit and you know he gets to say i can play golf. at the end of the day, that's what it is, what was the relationship with joe biden that had you sitting in the back of the karsaying he's the finest man you

lindsay, i just -- i'm just embarrassed by what you're doing for you. i mean, my lord. >> hmm. the former vice president obviously deeply hurt by senator graham's actions. remember lindsey graham, he is the man who just a few years ago -- this is in 2015 -- said this about joe biden. >> if you can't admire joe biden as a person, then it's probably you got a problem. you need to do some self-evaluation because what's not to like? here's what i can tell you, that life can change just like that. don't take it for granted. don't take relationships for granted. i called him after beau died, and he basically said, well, beau was my soul. we talked for a long time. he came to my ceremony and said some of the most incredibly heartfelt things that anybody could ever say to me, and he's the nicest person i think i've ever met in politics. >> is that right? >> he is as good a man as god ever created, and we don't agree on much, but i think he's been dealt a really gut blow. i think he focuses on what he's got to do, not what he lost. his heart's been ripped out, but he's going to make sure that the other members of his family is well taken care of, and he

>> i say lindsay, i guess i'm just embarrassed by what you're doing for you. i mean, my lord. >> >> reporter: now of course graham chairs the senate judiciary committee, currently requesting documents from the state department related to biden and his son, savannah. >> kristen welker at the white house for us, thank you. >>> craig joins the table now with the latest on the impeachment. >> good morning, savannah, da, good morning to you as well. moving forward with impeachment proceedings against president trump and this as a new report says white house officials trying to justify his actions after the fact gave different explanations for why that military aid to ukraine was put on hold. nbc chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details on this. >> reporter: craig, good morning, it is not a holiday week but a workweek kicking off today for house democrats. they are expected to huddle to put together that report laying out their case in this impeachment inquiry. democrats say they won't let what they describe as white house stone walling stop them from moving forward. >> they seem to be saying unless d