mr. graham talk that talk anymore.from the patriots and the soldiers and the people sworn in to the committees that are of his employer, the congress? there is a reason that someone would say things that make himself look bad. it's clearly because the facts even as mr. graham very recently said the kind of facts that might move him, well, the facts have over taken senator graham. >> if you could show me that trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo outside the phone call that would be very disturbing. >> was there a quid pro quo? as i testified previously with regard to the white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. >> that's our fact check and our check mate tonight. coming up, we get into these historic intense hearings with serious highlights and some of the odd and zany moments. momens saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. it is nice. his haircut is "nice." this is the most-awarded m

mr. klein: thank you, happy to be here to testify. sen. graham: if you can keep it at a couple of minutes, look at your written testimony. mr. klein: i will revise downward as i go. i am the chairman of an independent bipartisan branch agency dedicated to ensuring efforts to protect against terrorism are balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties. my remarks are in my official capacity as chairman and don't reflect -- reflect the views of my other colleagues. we have talked great deal about the origins of the cdr program. i will skip recapitulating some of those. i will talk about what the board has been doing and what information we can provide. in advance of the upcoming deadline, art board has reviewed the call of detail records under the usa freedom act. the investigation involved months of fact-finding. we held a public forum to receive outside views on the program. we submitted a draft report to intelligence community for accuracy and classification. that contains a conference account of the technical and operational issu

mr. graham -- forgive me if this is inappropriate or appropriate -- i would be interested to hear what your position would be. i have just one question for you, where you would weigh in on -- commissioner walker, to your point, if we were to, let's say, not uphold it here today and send you guys back together to talk further, and honoring kind of both parties, really. one is, obviously, you need more time and exploration on a possible settlement, based on the last settlement, which i thought it was a good step forward. obviously it has to be vetted. and mr. patterson's position that he would rather not have this upheld today and give us more time to work out a deal, that works for everybody. what would your feelings be on that? >> well, to be blunt, we're going to be working on a deal no matter what happens here today. we think that the notice of violation should be upheld because it has been over a year, you know. justice becausjust because theye better plans for this building later on, it doesn't mean they couldn't have been taking care of the mold and things like that. i'm going to assur

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maria: welcome back, i'm here with chairman lindsey graham, mr.irman, there's a list that republicans want to come out and testify, david archer, fellly ohr, former contractor for fusion gps, are you planning on calling anyone to testify in front of your committee? >> first horowitz, the investigated the investigation trump campaign, this is all about state department, the foreign relations committee and the senate has jurisdiction over this but let me just say this, if the house democrats refuse going down the road and looking into whether or not the prosecutor was fired is because he's getting too close to hunter biden and joe biden and his team stepped in, that's a legitimate inquiry and i'm hoping that chairman, if the house refuses to call hunter biden and other people related in the house we would call them in the senate because that may be the only place that you hear the other side of the story. maria: in other words f house democrats fail to do their job, you are going to do it? you will call these people down to judiciary? >> yeah, well,

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mr. lindsey graham.magine as a citizen going into a courtroom and you're one of the jurors, you're going to do your civic duty and the guy next to you goes i ain't even going to read this stuff. i ain't even going to bother with it. the whole system becomes corrupted. and that's the end game here. that's what it's been from jim jordan to lindsey graham. this is all about corrupting this process so vily that the american people are turned off and turned away. >> it is such a sad commentary. and i'm only picking on my friend michael steele because i find it, it guts me that this is what the republican party's turned into, that the corruption is in the gop in washington. the corruption isn't in ukraine. i mean, i'm jealous that people like marie yovanovitch sort of walk the line and rooted out corruption. maybe they can bring her to washington and put her to work in the congress, tim. >> exactly what the president and rudy giuliani are accusing joe biden of doing is what they did in ukraine. it was rudy giu

mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. graham -- mr. graham: my objection would not be to sugar coat history or try to rewrite it. i just met with president erdogan and president trump about the problems we face in syria by the military incursion by turkey. i do hope that turkey and armenia can come together and deal with this problem. given where we're at in syria and some hope that maybe we can resolve things, i object not because of the past, but because of the future. the presiding officer: objection is heard. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: needless to say i have great admiration for the senator from south carolina. i consider him a friend. but you know, our problem with turkey -- i know my colleague has asked me several times, what are we doing about turkey? and i know he's meant that in the context of sanctions, which i obviously do support for a variety of reasons -- violates of caatsa, purchase of the s. -400, what they did in syria, the list goes on and on. but in our

with 2 questions for the both of you did you crane open investigation into the bidens mr morrison to my knowledge graham ambassador volcker not to my knowledge either did either of you ever have any evidence of quid pro quo as marson no ma'am and mr volcker i did not any evidence of bribery. and the evidence of treason. no evidence of treason without your back so all thank you mr morrison did embassador bolton want the security aid hold lifted as congressman who did you testify that ambassador bolton had a one on one meeting with president trump in late august related to ukraine security assistance is that right sir can you point to where i testified to that on page 266 you said ambassador bolton had a one on one meeting with president trunk in late august 21000 but the president was not yet ready to approve the release of the assistance to remember that there was this this is to 26 yes to 66 and to 68 but i'm asking you did that happen or did it not so i just want to be i want to be clear characterizing it ok. and you testified to that what was the outcome of that meeting between ambassador bolton and

mr. president, thank you for not pulling the plug. [applause] sen. grahamand let me say why i support it. who would have been after brett had he gone down? what conservative young lawyer would want to go through this if we had failed brett kavanaugh? so chuck was right. when you run and you get reelected one year from now, one of the main reasons is that people in the conservative world believe that you fight for judges. god bless you. [applause] pres. trump: thank you very much. we can say that for everybody here. look, i know you all very well. i don't think anyone had any thoughts of doing anything different, at least in this group. i will say that includes mike. at that time we did not know bill, he was not involved. came at a good time, bill. a tough time. i will say, and you know this and mitch knows this, plenty of other people were saying let's go to maybe another choice. they did not say it so nicely. they are people that you know very well, the people that you work with every day. but i can tell you i know all of you very well. there was nobody th

of it yet the un had heard the whole report about it and i want mr instead of justice league this commission and have a clear will graham that's why so that's all you know is nobody who we talked to including un has ever heard of this commission that was set up you say no we said it and the headed by them one minister frontier and and they've done 2 public announcement about the whole report about slavery about that is don't think it's liberty in libya and this is was afforded as simply in direct contradiction to all the reports that have pointed to it well for a city of report maybe you got only the 1st part of the report you don't follow up with the rest of the you can't even tell me where these people incomes went when you were contacted by the un and asked pacifically earlier this year where did these people go to well if you are talking and they disappeared you did not disappear and they went out of their center well they said there's more than 800000 immigrant live in libya outside the centers so you cannot claim disguised as went out of the center and they're not leaving good condition in libya. the u.s. embassy

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mr. sandy is subpoenaed, he will testify this saturday. >>> republican senator lindsey graham is once againfy in the impeachment probe. at the same time, senator ted cruz is also suggesting it is a very real possibility that the senate will call hunter biden as a witness, and reveal the whistle-blower's name. >> i will not allow to go forward with my vote unless the whistle-blower goes forward, even though they're offering hearsay, they're the ones that started this and i want to know is there as connection between the whistle-blower, and the cia, or biden or any other democrat that would cast suspicions over their motives. i want to get to the bottom of this. we are not going to let the president of the united states be tried based on an anonymous accusation and convicted in the senate based on a bunch of hearsay. >> very quickly, you are going to bring in witnesses like hunter biden, revealing the whistle-blower's name. >> look, i think that is a very real possibility. the fact that the house doesn't seem interested in listening to any. president's defense, they're simply presenting a one

to bob graham for this holiday observance it's thanksgiving here in the u.s. and it was rather important for mr carney to indicate to u.s. forces that his country is very much appreciative not just of their work but of their sacrifice given that hundreds of u.s. forces have been killed in this war which is now 18 years plus and running and can we read more into trump's decision to meet the afghan president. well certainly on a trip such as this you would think that there would be a very brief trip over to the presidential palace in kabul under extremely tight security but apart from that consider that he is still in the middle of a contested presidential election from september where he and the chief executive of dialogue or each competing to have another term as president and so it could be read that at least the u.s. administration is interested in another president. rather than seeing up to a lot duller who has tried for this post before taking on the top role it's a bit of speculation but it is interesting that the u.s. president made the effort to meet with us on this trip jordan thank you

just like we saw was senator graham from the last block our members who all were wearing different hats now than they were then. i'm sure you could hand mrs. pelosi script any republican they would be happy to read it now with the changed name change from president clinton to president trump. >> those that were in the house then andths today is republican congressman peter king. this is what he had to say december 1990 on the impeachment of bill clinton. >> this is a nation consumerer scandal. and what we are talking about in this case the president's conduct is immoral. but the fact is i don't believe n it rises and the principal setting is that in the future all of us who assumes the office of presidency is subject to civil dispositions and lawsuits and then to examine a and scrutinize , how many former presidents if this is the case if this from prior times of crisis? also i would ask my fellow republicans in the eighties we saw the abuses a special counsel as they went against the reagan administration. we saw good people like elliot abrams brought down on charges involving lying.ab we rallied against it but today somehow we are willi

mr. trump and the president and they are concerned about the things in the testimony, none of these are impeachable offenses. that is their position. they have had shiftingsi ons. lindse grahamrhaps the president's strongest defender, said if there was a quid pro quo, if the president demanded somethingra from ukine in exchange for the military aid ukraine was promised, it would be a problem. when reporters asked lindsey graham last week, he said i don't care about that anymore. they have had many nes of defense. we will see what they come up with wednesday. anchor: do you expect the hearings to change any minds? >> right now bause -- right now we don't. the president needs 20 senators to go against him to -- there is no indication it would ever happen with those 'nators. we 't know what might out in the hearings, and the expectation is there is a strong likelihood president trump will be impeached by the house which is like an indictmentnd he will be in senate trial but not be removed from office. anchor:is are the big for democrats? >> there is always a risk. everyone remembers with president clinton, he was impeached but remained popular and was popular as he was leaving

graham in texas was innocent. i believe there's enough evidence to seriously question the guilt of mr. reid.dence that you feel is convincing, if there is any reasonable doubt, you cannot convict. certainly, with some inmates saying he confessed to him, the person that reid said really did it, there's reasonable doubt to not kill him. if you are for or against the death penalty, you certainly should be against a man that clear possibility of innocence should lose his life because we put evidence or questions to the side. and take lives saying that we just go by what is in the books. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern for a new live edition of "politics nation." up next, my colleague richard lui picks up our coverage with more of today's news. >>> and good saturday to you. i'm richard lui at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. thanks for being with us. we're in the middle of week six of the impeachment inquiry. and more new reporting today. we have the republicans' list of witnesses they want to bring to the hill. that just in

graham. this while eagerly nursed the new ones in this period of increasingly result of another conflict well to discuss that i'm now joined by the boss. dodik in the express mr dodik thank you for joining us on the ship got next year will mark the turns this is anniversary of the daytona courts which back then were widely considered a diplomatic win for the clinton administration and about what the state interestingly now it's russia who insists that this agreement should be observed rather than the u.s. . how would you personally explain this ironic historical twist. russia is the only one who falls international law and the international treaty in question which undoubtedly the dayton accords are going to throw out even after clinton the north of us administration continue to dare agave the agreement and it will be in line was earlier promises to the muslims in bosnia and herzegovina worth of that they would calm down serbs that you know and subsequently make the country for muslims as they wish. they had been doing this for 24 years. in any case they have dismantled the date on the words to the extent that republika srpska used to be destroyed. of course

graham on any of those points? >> no, i think the policy being pursued by president trump and mr.iani and by ambassador sondland was quite clear. and it was resisted by a lot of the professionals in the embassy and in the state department, which is why they then had to remove the professional career u.s. ambassador. but no, i think it was quite clear, we are going to force the new ukrainian president to get political dirt on joe biden, our prospective political opponent, and he won't get military aid and he won't get the presidential visit he so desperately wants until and unless he does. that was quite clear and that's, as i said, extortion. >> we reported at the top of the show here on nbc news, msnbc, that fiona hill's attorney is accusing sondland of fabricating part of his testimony as it relates to a coffee that he had with hill. do you find that problematic? >> you know, i was one of the first to say that i thought that ambassador sondland would have to probably amend his testimony or come back to the committee of inquiry to clarify his testimony under oath. >> because you

mr. mayor, welcome. thanks for coming on. >> nice to be with you, ed. ed: lindsey graham heads the senate committee investigation, and looking at burisma and joe biden and it must be music to your ears. i've got a letter here, asking him to help you three ukrainians who want visa to come to america to talk about burisma and what would they say about that and hunter biden? >> it's simple, the case has been simple from the day that joe biden confessed to committing bribery back in january of 2018 in the counsel on foreign relations didn't note anything about it although he said precisely what was attributed to president trump a year and a half later that caused all sorts of did-- basically he committed the crime of bribery, offering something of value to an official for official action. okay, here is what joe biden says he did. he offered him a one billion dollar loan guarantee, he threatened him with a one billion dollar loan guarantee and in return for that, that's part one of bribery. part two is, he got the president of the ukraine to fire the prosecutor. ed: right, but

graham. we just received is not terribly long ago. in his statement he not only lays out the fact that on december 11th mr. horowitz will in fact appear before the senate judiciary committee. we will deliver a detailed report of what found in his investigations -- along with, there it is. recommendations as to how to make our traditional investigative systems better again. that's all coming up december 11th. meanwhile, bret, democrats have yet to invite the president, at least formally, to appear on capitol hill to take part in the impeachment inquiry, but despite his many complaints about the process, in a bit of a surprise today, the president said he wouldn't rule it out. >> to spending stomach depending on your perspective, it was either incredibly audacious or just plain inconceivable. president trump, despite bitter complaints about his fairness, tweeting his willingness to testify before the house impeachment inquiry. even though i did nothing wrong to wrong and don't like giving crowd ability to there's no due process hoax i'm a hero, i like the idea, and will in order to give congress focus again,

mr. biden thought. joining me is david jolly and that tacnatasha bertrand. how serious is this graham investigation of the bidens? how serious does it look? >> we with don't know at this point. i mean all he's ak hully done is request documents related to hunter biden and joe biden's relationship with the prosecutor, their dealings with the prosecutor and with the former president of ukraine. so it remains to be seen but what we do know from the reporting is the idea that joe biden was engaged himself in some kind of quid pro quo, the unsubstantiated allegation the going to appear when the impeachment moves to the senate. that is how the republicans are planning to defend the president essentially by -- by bringing in witnesses that can talk about this alleged, you know, extortion by the vice president that they have accused him of and by that -- by doing that kind of deflect attention away from what they're impeaching the president over. so right now i think what lindsey graham might be doing is lay the ground work for that so they have documents and witnesses that can back up this k

mr. giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states. do you think that's enough for lindsey grahamo and the point today is not that there was insufficient evidence to move republicans. the evidence today is that there is no evidence to move republicans. what has been accumulated already and certainly today in the unequivocal testimony about there being quid pro quo and everyone being in the loop. i think one outcome is it is now essentially guaranteed f it wasn't already that the house will imepeapeach donald trump a it's unclear whether any republicans will vote other than justin who's left the party on this overwhelming evidence. i think what this says is they're withdrawing from the idea that there is one common set of rules that should apply at all times to all officials, really all americans and in essence as long as donald trump is in position to give us the power to do the things we want, there is almost nothing we will not accept. this is not the last exit on the highway. if you watch the president's inclination, if he can survive this without any real indication the republ

mr. trump said today, "i expect we will work it out." the presdent also called in republican senators to meet rth erdogan, and voice th concerns. south carolina republican lindsey grahamunced erdogan. >> the purpose of this meeting is to have an american civics lesson for our friends in turkey, and there is a pony in there somewhere, if we can find it. >> nawaz: back at the capitol, the top republican in ss, expressed his worry. senate majority leader mitch haconnell: >> i my colleagues' uneasiness at seeing president erdogan honored down at the white house. >> nawaz: a bipartisan bill is now before the senate, imposing sanctions on turkey over its assault on syria. the use approved a similar measure last month. hour, i'mbs ne amna nawaz. >> woodruff: a second day of israelairstrikes blasted gaza today, killing 26 people. palestinians said most wer islamic jihad fighters, backed by iran, but at ast three were minors. the air assault left buildings in ruins, in the heaviest fighting in months. s anwhile, the militants fired hundreds of rockto israel. they caused no casualties, but drew a warning from the israelis >> these terrorists are not only ilt to kill israelis. i

mr. erdogan is playing to the home divided audience. who is president trump playing to this afternoon? kevin: senator lindsey graham. capitol hill like lindsey graham and marco rubio that he has a plan, that the trump doctrine is working, and there must be an opportunity for them to continue forward. no doubt, the state department is under intense scrutiny and the backdrop to all of this is that these hearings begin on capitol hill in a few hours. francine: overall, do people in the republican party just focus on the impeachment or do they push back against what president trump said on negative rates? kevin: that is a great question. find anyt been able to republicans aggressively hitting the president or breaking with the president as it relates to impeachment. as it relates to the economic policies, that is a different story. with regard to these impeachment hearings, the president plans to watch several parts of it. ,he white house has set up tapping into a top treasury department individual who ushered in the proposals regarding the tax issues. he will be working to set up the response for the white house. tom:

mr erdogan pulled out his ipad and made a group of senators watch a propaganda video that depicted kurds as terrorists. the meeting is reported to have involved five republican senators including lindsay grahaminst islamic 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 introduct

mr. hoagland served as a staff member and director of the senate budget committee including reporting to u.s. senator pete diminici. and he also participated in federal budget meetings, including the graham/rudman budget deficit reduction act and also the restore budget agreement. and finally, megan lynch is a director of the congressional budget process, and she joined crs in 2007 as the presidential management fellow and prior to coming to crs worked for local government in maryland and the maryland general assembly, and the witnesses are reminded that the oral testimony is limited to five minutes and your written statements will be made part of the record. mr. owens, you are recognized for five minutes to give a oral presentation of the testimony. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify before this important panel. i am encouraged that the work to modernize congress is including ways to fix the broken federal budget process. i have seen the consequences of the budget failures over the past two decades and student financial aid decisions are held up, and important medical research is delayed and long-term planning is made more complex because the congress does not prepare a budget

senator graham, then representative crist him gr-- graham in the last block, are different people than they were then did i am sure you could hand mrs's script to any republican, and they would be happy to read it now with the name changed. host: one of those members in the house then and still now was with the president at madison square garden -- this is what representative. peter king had to say. [video clip] >> we are driving good people from government. conduct wast's illegal, immoral, indefensible, but the fact is i do not believe it rises to the level of treason and bribery. the precedent it says is that anyone who assumes the office of the president is subject to lawsuits and then have that scrutinized by independent counsel. how many of our presidents would be have lost if this principal had prevailed in prior times of crisis? also, i would ask fellow republicans, throughout the 1980's, we saw the abuses of special counsel's by lawrence walsh against members of the reagan and bush administration. we saw people like elliot abrams brought down on the flimsiest of charges. today, somehow we are willing to apply a different sta

senator lindsey graham made an announcement yesterday i will have to read it into my voice. steve: need a swoosh? brian: mr. horowitz will be appearing before the senate judiciary committee on december 11th where he will deliver a detailed report of what he found regarding his investigation. along with recommendation as to how to make our judicial and investigative systems better. like making the fisa court accountable. perhaps. i look forward to hearing from him. >> he's is a good man that has served our nation well. so i imagine that means the report will be out prior and probably be out that week and then he comes front and center. ainsley: prior to what? brian: december 11th. steve: the report has been printed. people are looking at it. it's over 500 pages. ainsley: apparently it's supposed to shed some light on john durham's probe because that is now a full fledged criminal investigation. brian: right. steve: well, because what it's going to look at is looking at whether or not the fbi violated the laws by the fisa warrant with carter page, which ultimately led to the fbi watching the entire trump cam

mr. trump's pressure on ukraine's president to announce an investigation into former vice president joe biden and his son, hunter, is at the heart of the inquiry. now republican senator lindsey grahamn the bidens. in an interview on cnn, the former vice president had sharp credit sim for his former -- criticism for his former senate colleague. >> he knows there's nothing to this. trump is holding power over him that even the ukrainians wouldn't yield to. the ukrainians would not yield to, quote, investigate biden, nothing to investigate about biden or his son. and -- and lindsey is about to go down in a way that i think he's going to regret his whole life. >> a vote by the full house could come by christmas. that would be followed by a senate trial next year. >>> in britain, prince andrew went horseback riding with his mother, queen elizabeth, in a show of family unity on friday. the queen has yet to publicly comment on her son's troubles but has given andrew his marching orders. andrew and his staff were reportedly kicked out of buckingham palace following his disastrous bbc interview. in it he sidestepped questions about his friendship with the late convicted sex offender, jeffre