>> thank you, lindsey.g in that position there just shows that one of our very own worked very hard and grew up like one of us and, you know, made their way to the top and here we have deb is going to be our interior secretary and it brings great joy. also we'll give you a different perspective of how to take care of our land. and this climate team, this energy team shows that this new administration is recommitting the faith in our relationship with mother earth. native american s throughout th country have been fighting for protection of grand canyon, oak flat from fracking and natural resource exploitation and even uranium development and i know that with deb haaland being the secretary will also protect these lands and also give a seat at the table for native american leaders throughout the country to have input on the joint management of federal lands to protect our lands for us now, not just native americans, but all united states citizens and into the future. so, this cabinet is shaping up to be a ve

lindsey piegza joining us from chicago.oblem that persists yes, the pandemic relief plan provide some help, but we will still have these problems and it will hit the biden administration had on. matt: yeah. on the other hand -- and i know we keep going back to larry -- there op-ed piece is a lot about this recession that is very different from the 2008 recession. he makes the point that, back then, consumers were putting everything on credit cards, deep in debt, nothing in there accounts, and retail spending dried up. now we are looking at a holiday season where retail season bounced 20% compared to last year. in 2008, it dropped 3.5%. so some things are very different, especially the average bank account. it is a different look this time than it was in 2008. carol: different. areorate balance sheets different and individual bank accounts. we have seen the numbers. savings are up dramatically, so it is different. as larry summers points out, and others have pointed out, people cannot go out and spend money. you cannot go to

i'm lindsey reiser in for ayman mohyeldin. it's the final day of 2020, a grueling year that's been defined by the coronavirus crisis. even as we say good-bye and frankly good riddance to 2020, the pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down. a record-breaking 125,000 americans are in the hospital with coronavirus. a dire scenario for health care workers around the country. just in the last hour, president trump returned to washington, skipping his annual new year's eve party in palm beach. it does not appear to be related to this ongoing health kriecris. the white house offered no explanation as to why the president cut his vacation short. senator josh holly said he would disrupt the certification of president-elect joe biden's victory. on that very same day thousands of the president's supporters are ex president elected to flood the streets of washington. just after the house voted to override the president's veto on a national defense bill, senator majority leader mitch mcconnell has all but closed the door on the presiden

vonnie: thank you for your time today, lindsey piegza.his is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: this is bloomberg markets. i'm vonnie quinn. time for a look at the biggest business stories in the news right now. the most famous commodity trader is calling it quits. the ceo of glencore will retire next year. he presided since 2002. he will be succeeded by the company's head of coal assets. u.s. mortgage lenders having their best year ever thanks to the fed's low interest rates and bond purchases. 4.1s were originally trillion dollars, beating the record in 2003. nine lenders that have gone public this year or planning to do so in the coming months. between are increasing mcdonald's and its u.s. franchisees. the fast food chain rolling out a series of changes that will result in bigger bills for the restaurant owners. mcdonald's says it will allow them to make investments that will benefit them eventually. now it is time for our stock of the hour. being trapped indoors has changed a lot of businesses, and beauty care is one of them. abigail doolittle is

congressman clyburn has worked with lindsey graham for years and sees it now. graham is egging on the president as the president tries to overturn the election. this is not a small thing. this isn't a ha, ha, ha, ha. this is the fate of the republic we're talking about. >> i look forward to interviewing senator graham when this is all over after january 20th and seeing what he says. >> all right. as we sit here this morning millions of people in california under stay-at-home orders as coronavirus hospitalizations soar. we're going to talk about the consistency and the science behind some of these new restrictions and questions about all of it next. ♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. under stay-at-home orders as when you switch to xfinity mobile, you're choosing to get connected to the most reliable network nationwide, now with 5g included. discover how to save up to $400 a year with shared data starting at $1

lindsey, kendis?d cori, you don't have to walk far here in new york city to see that a lot of people are getting tested. in fact, new york has seen the highest surge of testing since the pandemic began. are facilities being able to adjust to all of this volume? >> reporter: yeah, they're trying to as best they can, kendis. and you know, there's this notion that has come up with the holidays that, okay, if i get tested and i'm negative, i can go home and see my family or see my friends. and reality is, we've been saying this for weeks now, it's just not that simple. doctors warn still not to receive people, and i'll let them fully explain the science behind why you could actually still be positive, but it really is leaving new york testing sites completely overrun. for example, bellevue, where we're at here, a four-hour line reported this past weekend, right before the holidays. and guys, they're now going to do a queue system, similar to the dmv, right? you're going to sign up online, figure out where

lindsey graham flipped out because they gave people an extra $600. he acts like it is coming out of his pocket. and theyon artist, don't care if trump -- they want trump out of office. they can't wait. host: lindsey graham come as you may have heard yesterday on the show, according to the washington post, he flew down to florida to golf with the president on christmas day and try to convince him to ultimately sign the 908 alien dollar covid relief -- the $908 billion covid relief bill to keep the government running, and it was him along with senator runofferdue, facing a january 5, and others convinced him. so now you've got some senate republicans -- lindsey graham, josh hawley, the two georgia senators, and marco rubio -- who are saying they would support the cash act. said,: well, like i lindsey graham is a little suck up is what he is. he could care less about that. the $600.to pass he is not for the $2000. he wants to get something out there because he's got his eyes on the presidency in the future. the way trump treated him, you ,now, before tr

very, very distraught over mona and lindsey's disappearance. and very helpful.n, he was very gracious in whatever we wanted. >> reporter: so it's "thank goodness we have lou at the helm here," huh? >> exactly. you know, he didn't work. so he seemed to have plenty of time. he seemed to know everybody. they knew him. we were grateful that there was somebody that was -- had taken control and was keeping us in the loop also. >> reporter: at a gathering of lindsey's school friends in support of the search, lou seemed especially popular with all the girls. >> oh, they were mesmerized by him. >> was he telling them stories or jokes or -- >> uh-huh, laughing. he knew them all quite well. we could tell. >> reporter: was there something a little creepy about it? i don't want to plant an idea here that -- that didn't exist. >> they all knew lou, but they didn't know lindsey's mom. i just -- i just found that strange. >> reporter: six weeks after the plane went missing, lisa and cody got the news they were dreading. the wreckage had been found. there were no survivors. so t

i'm lindsey reiser in for ayman mohyeldin.ng down. a record-breaking 125,000 americans are in the hospital with coronavirus. a dire scenario for health care workers around the country. just in the last hour, president trump returned to washington, skipping his annual new year's eve party in palm beach. it does not appear to be related to this ongoing health kriecris. the white house offered no explanation as to why the president cut his vacation short. senator josh holly said he would disrupt the certification of president-elect joe biden's victory. on that very same day thousands of the president's supporters are ex

>> good morning, kendis and lindsey. you know, we already knew this was going to be a logistical challenge distributing this vaccine. remember, this is still really good news that we have this vaccine, but getting the vaccine to the most vulnerable individuals is going to really be key. we've already identified months ago that resident -- i'm sorry nursing home residents are definitely one of the most vulnerable. the highest risk for severe illness and death. so we really need to reach the most vulnerable in a way that's really organized and efficient, kendis. >> dr. azar, let's talk about people who might be inoculated as early as this week. it's my understanding they will take the first shot, correct me if i'm wrong, three weeks later they go in for a second booster shot, and then when can they essentially start going to social gatherings again or seeing some of their family members? >> we know that after one shot there's about 52% efficacy in terms of protection. after the full two shots here, it's 95% -- >> let's put

mona, her boyfriend and her daughter lindsey had perished in the plane crash.sh had drowned in the swimming pool and now brian had been crushed to death beneath a car he was working on. while all the deaths were deemed to be accidents, really, he wonder how could any family be so unlucky? what baffled him most was he didn't who know this central man looks castro, really was. rifling through angel's landing trash cans hadn't worked. what do you do next? >> one day when i was out on a day off, i happened to see lou castro with a female in an suv vehicle. and i followed them to a restaurant on the north end of town. >> goodwin sat in the restaurant, watched and waited. >> and then after they had finished, i contacted the manager and asked him if i could collect the dishes and the glasses that they had used at that table. >> the idea was to get fresh finger prints that could maybe i.d. castro. >> that's a pretty cool move. did it work? >> it didn't work west tried every piece of dinner ware on the table. >> he's still a mystery man as far as i.d. >> that's right. >

lindsey graham seems to know it he's thrilled about it. graham's enthusiasm this morning. >> pakistan is a place i really worry about. 85 countries a woman can't open up a o bank account without her husbands signature, she can't inherit property. if you're a young girl in pakistan, life is pretty tough, so we're trying to to make life betterak for women throughout te world. >> tucker: soo lindsey graham is worried about a lot of things, but he's really worried about pakistan. he's not worried but the fact that pakistan has built a vast nuclear arsenal that happened during the clinton administration. graham was in congress at the time actually. that's merely a minor concern given that pakistan is an unstable country locked in a permanent state of war with india. lindsey graham can't handle details like that, most statesmen can't. what concerns are most, what he is "really worried about" is ths state of gender roles in pakistan.n graham, who's never had a family, now imagines he's an expert on how the people of the country 7,000 miles away,

hey, lindsey. look, in any other year, republicans would not be losing near this much sleep about a pair of senate races in georgia, but there's two reasons why that's really different this time around. one, there's the fact that president-elect joe biden just won the state of georgia, showing the changing trends politically in the state. and the second is that president trump is denying republicans in georgia the very best argument that they could be making, which is, you'd better send kelly loeffler and david perdue to the senate to give republicans a senate majority to be the last thing standing in the way of president-elect joe biden enacting a progressive agenda that republicans in georgia and elsewhere might not want to see. now, that argument, a very potent political argument for republicans to get out their base, doesn't work if president trump is still claiming that he could be president come january and still claiming that the results of the election are not accurate and that there was fr

lindsey graham seems to know, and he is thrilled about it.ch gram's enthusiasm this morning. >> pakistan is a place i really worry about. 85 countries, a woman can't open up a bank account without her husband's signature. she can't inherit property if you are young girl in pakistan, life is pretty tough, so they we are trying to make life better for women throughout the world. >> tucker: so, lindsey graham is worried about a lot of things, but he's really worried about pakistan. he's not worried about the fact pakistan has built a vast nuclear arsenal, that happened during the clinton administration. graham was in congress at the time. that's a minor concern given that pakistan is an unstable country in a permanent state of war with india. most statesmen can handle that. concerns and most, what he is "really worried about" is the state of gender roles in pakistan. now, graham, who has never had a family, now imagines he is an expert on how the people of a country, 7,000 miles away, whose language he does not speak, whose culture he does not u

lindsey? >> now, are we getting any information about a possible motive here? we're seeing some video of these agent taking evidence out of that home. do you think we'll ever know why warner did this? >> well, it's anyone's guess at this point. investigators say they certainly hope to nail down the exact reasoning that yet don't know why he parked that hv in such close proximity to the at&t data facility. it caused such extensive damage to the building, it caused outages for at&t as far as rural parts of georgia, kentucky, alabama, people living in those areas weren't able to have any service on their cell phones, their internet went down. and that's proven to be a significant problem that at&t says should be for the most part rectified by the end of today. they are hoping to interview any associate of warner and encouraging any member of the public with any useful information about him to come forward, stressing this is an active investigation, and they, of course, hope to nail down a motive.

i think people would prefer lindsey graham over bernie sanders. thank you, good luck to you, merry christmas, and happy new year to you and your family. straight ahead, lindsey graham and what is happening in washington this weekend what he thinks about the all important runoff races in georgia. and later, legendary football coach lou holtz on why sports are so important, even in the midst of this pandemic. stay with us. ♪ ♪ sanctuary music (kids laughing) (dog barking) ♪ sanctuary music it's the final days of the wish list sales event sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. ♪ >> trey: earlier today mitch mcconnell blocked efforts by senate democrats when they tried to bring the hospital to the senate floor. that house bill boosted direct payments to $2,000 for certain americans in need. and while majority leader mcconnell says he will bring the president's request for more aid, president trump had strong words for republicans in the upper chamber earlier today. president

i'd say they were threatening calls, but it's impossible for lindsey graham to sound threatening.e of a guy offering to redo your veranda. "i for one can't enjoy an ice tea on my porch swing if i'm looking at chipped paint." this is the trademark trump defense, their only explanation for their bad behavior is more bad behavior graham's like an arsonist defending himself in court by saying, what about all those other houses i burned down you didn't seem to care about that, maybe you're the ones who need to look in the mirror and lindsey, we might take your word at face value, and i mean might if you hadn't promised to never support the appointment of a supreme court justice in an election year, and then this year when that was put to the test with amy coney barrett, told reporters, "i've said a fib before, but now i ain't fibbing, now i'm saying my for real thoughts." so that was their attempt to steal georgia and they fell flat on their faces then there's pennsylvania where the trump campaign is suing for reasons. it's impossible to keep track of their bull [ bleep ] it's like you

this bears repeating that lindsey graham has urged the president himself that holding that up is a deathr republicans. on lindsey graham has said fox urging mitch mcconnell to put that up for a standalone vote, there's $2000 checks. we could see that change. 5.2 million people need to figure out a way to put food on the table and pay the rent. it doesn't seem like the time to play political games. carol: many would ask where was the president and other republicans over the summer. the democrats certainly would've said we are all in. we are seeing this debate continue when we could probably in terms of policy makers to it out. in the spring we were up to 6.9 million as the economy shut down. we have to put this to our next guest, whether or not she is worried when it comes to seeing more jobless claims from week to week. matt: let's bring her in right now. , let mes. economist start with the devil's advocate with the other side of this. the u.s.oint does spend too much money? at what point does the u.s. take on too much debt? there isn't really a magic money tree, right? at some point you

i think people would prefer lindsey graham over gbernie sanders. thank you. good luck to you. merry christmas, happy new year to you and your family. straight ahead, lindsey graham on what is happening in washington this weekend what he thinks about the all-important runoff races in georgia. later, legendary football coachh lou holtz on why sports are so important, even in the midst of this pandemic. stay with us. ♪ ♪ >> trey: earlier today, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked efforts by senate democrats when they tried to bring a house built of the senate floor. that house bill moves to direct $2,000 payments to certain americans in need. while majority leader mcconnell says he will bring the president's request for more aid and focus, president trump had strong words for republicans in the upper chamber earlier today. the president tweeted, and i quote, "unless republicans have a death wish and it is also the right thing to do, they must approve $2,000 payments asap. $600 is not enough. also get rid of section 230. don't let big tech steal our country, don't let t

i'm lindsey reiser.ere's late news of a possible wrench in the agreement of a covid relief bill that is long past due. a midnight sunday deadline looms in an i temattempt to get congro actually pass something. >> the american people cannot feed their families or pay their bills with congress' good-faith discussions. they need us to act. we need to conclude our talks, draft legislation, and land this plan. >> you can use whatever football analogy you want, we're on the 5 yard line or the 1 yard line or whatever. the truth is simple -- we're close to an agreement but we need to finalize it. >> what is absent from covid relief negotiations, the covid crisis and so much more, a president willing to lead rather than focus on baseless election fraud claims. today president trump did finally weigh in on a massive cyberattack on the u.s. government, but it wasn't to confront the country believed responsible.

i'm lindsey riser in new york. the wait for desperately needed stimulus checks continues for millions of americans as the president threatens to derail the $900 billion covid relief deal that also funds the government into next year. a bill that his advisers helped negotiate and that the white house said he would support. today, house democrats tried to fast track a stand-alone bill that would increase stimulus checks to $2,000 per person as the president is now demanding, but the effort was blocked by republican republicans. republicans then tried and failed to fast track another of the president's demands to revisit the foreign aid portion of the government aid bill. without this bipartisan bill being funded government aid will be delayed and the government will shut down on monday. leaders on capitol hill are simultaneously grapple with the president's veto of a massive and overwhelmingly bipartisan defense bill to fund the military which congress will soon try to override. and in addition to the chaos on capito

>> good morning, lindsey.on the conversation that i was just having last week about what was happening on the ground in cobb county. and this is exactly what is happening in our election cycle. and voters raised their concern, raised their voices and changed what was happening on the ground here and this is exactly what we saw in the new voting locations being added in cobb county. people speaking up. it is not just about one election cycle or one activation. people are engaged here on the ground and raising their voices. and now with president-elect joe biden coming to town, and the energy on the ground, the rally that we're going to have next weerk, to show how important this race is, not just to georgia but to the entire country, it is something that i'm looking forward to, and he's going to make the case. he just won the state, donald trump, no matter how many recounts he did, continued to lose the state of georgia, and our 16 electoral college votes that we're going to officially give to president-elect j

and lindsey i will let you take all three of those questions. about washington and franklin and virtue. >> sure lots of questions, which is great because i think it's something that is really we're seeing this is a an important part of politics. do we want our politics to be virtuous, especially in times of crisis like we are facing today. i think that washington was not a particularly religious person. he had a deep sense, that there was some kind of providence how you know it wasn't providence like god like we think of today, it was providence in the sense of faith almost. but he had a conviction that he had a certain role that he was destined to play. so he had to better himself to fill that role. to fulfill that destiny. so i don't think it's a particularly biblical approach to virtue, but it's more of a deep sense of who he was supposed to become. so in terms of his personality, he definitely wasn't as outwardly colorful as franklin. but it did not mean that he was boring. we tend to think of him as the marble busts, for the pitcher on the

>> reporter: it sure did, lindsey. then the same issue that has been a sticking point for about 24 to 48 hours just will not go away. senate republicans held a conference call at 1:00 where senate majority leader mitch mcconnell told his members that he is standing behind the republican position and that is what is blocking some sort of deal. democrats and republicans can't agree on what is called the toomey provision introduced by pat toomey, a republican of pennsylvania. democrats say it has nothing to even do with covid relief and it will tie the hands of the next -- the biden administration to lend and help the economy. what it does is it closes all doors for the federal reserve and the treasury department to reopen any sort of lending program, one that was created during the current pandemic that's supposed to expire at the end of the year. so, you know, this is a $900 billion bill. there's a lot of provisions in here to help people who are struggling, the unemployed, people who are threatening, getting kicked out

weeks ago, zucker instructing fans to a lindsey graham, that he needed to go well after lindsey grahamrget the guys we don't like. >> if we make any mistake is that our banners have been too light and we need to go well after lindsey graham. there is a lot of news out there, and lindsey graham briefly deserves it. >> sean: cnn prospects saying didn'tcite any laws allegedly violating it. he is the ceo, founder of project veritas, james o'keefe is with us. any time you have been sued as any one done it successfully? >> noel, sean. we won every single lawsuit at project air test. i know they say that cnn legal's expert may say this is a felony, we have legal experts at project veritas and we think that jeff zucker is very mad i will be exposed. >> sean: we are going to release more tapes every week so we can focus in on what we are going to release every day. so they peddle this russian ally for three years over there. they never apologize, never corrected the record, and they reported fake, phony news, and advanced conspiracy theories. is this a news organization to you? >> no, sean penn

lindsey? >> all right, msnbc valerie castro, thank you for that report. >>> let's talk politics now and some of the biggest names in politics have joined in the senate runoff cam pains in georgia as republicans and democrats hold vanes this week. josh letterman joins us from washington, d.c. where he has been following the developments including the president set to go to georgia. >> reporter: that's right, kendis and when the stakes are this high, political parties want to head into an election united around a common message to their supporters. that's the opposite of the case of what's playing out for republicans right now in georgia. on the one hand, you have president trump who has been blasting the state's republican governor brian kemp, charging, without any evidence, that there's massive fraud that denied him an election victory in georgia. and on the other hand, you have people like lynn wood, a prominent republican leader and sidney powell president trump's former campaign lawyer, in

allied chief investment strategist lindsey bell with with us.es it tell you about the action today? does it tell you you should be taking chips off the table after a strong year. >> i look at the last couple months. november was such a strong month, up 13%. i think it is a little bit natural here to take a bit of a pause in the marketplace, especially given the uncertainty that there is around stimulus as well as how the deployment of the vaccine is actually going to play out, what the speed of that is going look like and how it is actually going to impact economic activity just at a point in time when we are starting to see a lot of different cities and states add on restrictions to businesses the consumer. i think a pause here makes a lot of sense. that doesn't mean i necessarily think we are going to follow off a cliff going into the end of the year. but i do think the market wants to be some headlines on stimulus being passed sooner rather than later. >> chris in your most recent note you had the phrase it was short-term overbought but that'

senator lindsey graham with us.e been saying what, we better get it right or else. >> what newt said, and they are doing the same thing and expecting a different result. president trump can't screwed over. the audit is finding out one way or another. if you don't audit the signatures in the presidential race, i've no confidence in the outcome. people in georgia can do this if they want to. here's what i think, if you're not fighting for trump now when he needs you the most as a republican leader in georgia, people are not going to fight for you when you ask him to get reelected. there is a civil war brewing in georgia, for no good reason. they asked the legislature to come back in an order and audits of the signatures in the presidential race to see if the system works. it's not unreasonable to change the law of while you can so stacey abrams can steal another election. what's unreasonable is to sit on your and do nothing when you've got the chance to save the country. >> sean: okay, so, this is a no-brainer to me,

. >> senator lindsey graham was at the white house today. i want to play how he reacted to that presidential propaganda video last night. watch this. >> to the trump legal team, you're making all these claims. you gotta prove it. doing a video is not proof. you need to take these claims into a court of law and get relief. >> yamish, is the trump team listening to lindsey graham, who is one of the most loyal members of the senate that has been very close to this president throughout all this? >> the trump legal team is taking the -- the claims to court. the problem is they're losing. lindsey graham is saying take the evidence you found into a court of law. let the judges decide. the issue is the judges are already deciding. you've seen in two dozen cases the trump campaign in wisconsin, michigan, arizona, georgia go to judges, including to some appointed by president trump and each time they're smacked down. the president yesterday, he called it his most important speech. it was one of his most dishonest speeches. he pulled out charges that d

what's your message to lindsey graham this morning, congressman? >> get a grip. get a grip.eality. >> reporter: so the big question right now is what the president ultimately does because a number of top senate republicans say after next monday it is over, even though it's been clear what the result has been for weeks. top republicans like chuck grassley as well as senator john thune and john cornyn told me it's over for the president but if he continues to get encouragement from the right and house conservatives, the president will continue to use that to push his case even though it stands virtually no chance of succeeding here. >> it's a political game, let's call it what it is. it does create doubts in the minds of tens of millions of americans. thank you very much. >>> already strained lab technicians are sounding the alarm as the demand for more testing, not talking about vaccines here, but testing grows. i felt like... ...i was just fighting an uphill battle in my career. so when i heard about the applied digital skills courses, i'm thinking i can become more marketab

lindsey graham is supporting that man, now. over a man he once considered one of his closest friends. >> if you can't admire joe biden as a person, it's probably you got a problem. you need to do some self-evaluation because what's not to like? 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. >> with tears. with tears. joe biden's as good a man as god ever created. lindsey. let me stop, before i go too far. y'all know. y'all know. rand paul called him a delusional narcissist. >> donald trump is a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag. dirt is way more qualified to be president. >> they all had trump's number, not so long ago. they knew. they still know. oh, they know. and we were warned about something like this. warned, by some of the people who know him the best. like, his former fixer, and keeper of secrets, michael cohen, who told congress this. >> i fear that, if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition

icu nurse, sandra lindsey is one of the first people in the united states to get the covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial. emergency medicine dr. eve durasou. >> felt great. didn't feel any different than any vaccination i received in the past. >> reporter: workers loaded pfizer and biontech vaccine for shipping to medical facilities and hospitals around the country. a historic day that arrived in record time. cnn was there the moment university of michigan medical center staff got the vaccine. a box, filled with dry ice and 390 viles. each vile has 500 dose. once thawed and added with saline. >> the really important thing is that we can now see the horizon. we can see how this is going to end. >> reporter: for michigan medicine to tampa general hospital in florida, something to cheer about finally. after a year of devastating loss, more than 300,000 covid deaths in america. to medical staff at ohio state university. >> 3, 2, 1, vaccinate. >> it's momentous. i feel honored to receive it. humbled to receive. it is a really wonderful day. >> reporter: the complex task of figurin

lindsey graham-- lindsey graham, a friend of yours, he has said things about you nicer than anything that's been said about me. i wish somebody would say the things about me that lindsey graham said about you. do you think you guys can patch it up and work together? >> lindsey's been a... personal disappointment, because i was a personal friend of his. but, look, i don't think-- i think that-- i think i can work with the republican leadership in the house and the senate, i think we can get things done, and i think, once this president is no longer in office, i think you're going to see an impact on the body politic fade, and a lot of these republicans are going to feel they have much more room to-- to run and cooperate. >> stephen: the first time you and i ever spoke together was on the old show, and it was in 2010, and i asked you a question, in character, but it left a real impression on me what your answer was. the administration has got some critique, some criticism from me and my conservative friends that you have not given enough credit to president bush. would you like to take

lindsey graham now supports it.o what in the world is going on here and do you think the gop is going to get on board with the president's demands? >> what's going on, john, is the very thing that the president wanted which is chaos. he lost the election and now reverting to his prior businesses as a commercial operator and a game show host which you kind of at the last minute walk away from the deal or threaten to blow up the deal even if it's one that you yourself negotiated. that is what he's doing. so donald trump gets the number one thing that he wants which is all of us asking what is it that donald trump wants. so he's put himself back in the middle of the negotiations. center stage of politics, even day by day, he gets closer to having to leave the white house and leave power forever. so this is the way he operates. this is the way his game show would sort of proceed here, you know. you're kind of on pins and needles waiting to see what will happen. the unfortunate part of all of this, of course, it's going

"go well after lindsey graham post quote.e guys we don't like. take a look. >> frankly if we've made any mistake it's that our banners have been too polite and we need to go well after lindsey graham. there is a lot of news out there and lindsey graham really deserves it. >> sean: cnn responded claiming that o'keefe may have committed a felony, but didn't offer any specifics or cite any laws allegedly violated. now is the ceo, the founder of project veritas. james o'keefe is with us. all right, every time you've been sued, has anyone done so successfully? >> no, sean, we won every single lawsuit a project veritas and i know they said "this is cnn communications, legal experts say this may be a felony," we have legal experts and we think jeff zucker is just very mad and embarrassed here for what we have exposed. >> sean: so you are going to be on this program all week and we are going to release more tapes per week so we can focus in on what you're going to release every day. now, they peddled this russia live for three years

period. >> martha: lindsey graham, good to have you here tonight. we will see where it goes. apparently david purdue is in favor of the senate judiciary committee. you're saying that's not how it's going to work. >> now, i'm not a federal judge. i can't get relief. i can't change georgia law. by the time the senate acts up here, the senate will be over. the statehouse in georgia can change it, i can't. federal judges can get relief, i can't. go to court with a case that makes sense, change the law where you can to require bipartisan -- i'm not trying to tip it to republicans, i'm trying to prevent them from being cheated by a system that is ripe for fraud. >> martha: it's amazing. you need to have a fair election. having people on both sides witnessed the process should be baked in the cake. the fact that it does not i think it's just shocking to people across the country. senator graham, always good to see you. thank you for being here tonig tonight. >> thank you. >> martha: joining me now, democratic congresswoman from michigan. she sits on the house homeland security and a

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lindsey. let me stop before i go too far. [ laughter ] y'all know. y'all know. rand paul called him a delusional narcissist. >> donald trump is a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced wind pabag. a speck of dirt is way more qualified. >> they all had trump's number not so long ago. they knew. they still know. oh, they know. and we were warned about something like this, warned by some of the people who know him the best, like his former fixer and keeper of secrets, michael cohen who told congress this. >> i fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. >> michael cohen said that. predictive. how would michael cohen know? because he was with him for years, his fixer. his ghost writer on "the art of the deal" who said he will never concede. >> he will never concede. he won't attend the inauguration. he can't -- he can't concede because to concede for him is to accept that he is a failure. and that is an intolerable thing for him. so, he has to keep this delusional idea alive that he was cheated. >> and you'r

we know that lindsey graham has no moral compass when it comes to donald trump. tv tomorrow and praise the president and explain why the president has the power to pardon manafort. that's the type of man lindsey graham is. that's the type of party the republican party has become. they have to own that. they have to live with that. so sadly, donald trump is not loyal to the members of his party, but sadly they're loyal to him, something that louise many democrats scratching their head because time and time again donald trump has changed his mind in the middle of the stream, and they've had to go in front of the voters and the american people and looking like hypocrites time and time again. donald trump will continue to make money and grift the american public, and republican legislators will have to rebrand their own reputations. that's on them, but that's four years they've abandoned the american public and weakened the two-party system where they should be working on behalf of the the american people and not on behalf of donald trump. >> melissa, zoom out for me

sarah, president trump's $2,000 proposal is getting a new key endorsement from senator lindsey graham, just days after he initially opposed it. so why the flip flop to saying $600 is no longer adequate? >> reporter: why, fred, is the million dollar question here. it's one republicans themselves are still trying to answer. because the $600 amount for individual checks is what the white house brought to congressional leaders and said this is what we want to see in the bill. so when republicans, like lindsey graham, voted for that bill earlier this week, they believed they were doing so with the backing of the white house. trump came out and opposed the amount for the individual stimulus checks after that bill had already passed both chambers of congress with a veto-proof majority, putting republicans right now in a really difficult spot. many gop lawmakers were kind of hoping this would blow over and the president wouldn't bring his opposition to the level of a veto threat. but it's really unclear at this moment what the white house plans to do. i want to read you what senator graham tw

>> lindsey graham is exactly right. what we seen from democrats in the past, there is no fear of running the debt up to the moon. i think that what will happen, if we lose those senate races in georgia, they will come back with a bill that will not only have the $2,000 which is what i think the majority of americans want, they also put the elimination of student loan debt. they probably have more than has ever been put on a bill in the history of america so i think the best thing for the taxpayers right now is to try to get the stimulus passed and then set the example, let's start having regular order in congress. let's have one vote per one bill and not try to jumble a bunch of different bills onto one vote. stimulus bill didn't have a lot of the stuff in it that i see a lot of my friends post on facebook, but you combine so many different bills onto one vote, it confused the americans. if you are confusing intelligent people about what congress is doing then you are not doing your job in leadership, so i hope that we

>> reporter: he's doing so via tweet this morning, lindsey, calling out what he is deeming weak and tired republican leadership. specifically on the defense bill. now, we know the president has expressed his issues with that bill, specifically he actually changed and moved the goal post. he started out saying this summer he didn't want that to pass because of the issue of the confederate bases that would be renamed, the military bases named after confederate generals. then he said, actually, i don't want this to pass. i want, instead, the repeal of section 230 which does give some liability assurance to giant tech companies such as facebook and twitter. he tried tieing those things always to the critical defense bill that really does important things like give a raise to troops and other issues of national security. but he is really setting the stage here for what is already going to happen. we saw it in the house, and likely when the senate takes it up, which is obviously the first override of a veto of his presidency. and it comes just on the heels of what he did this weekend. he says r

many of these republicans like lindsey graham know better, but are not willing to say so. clearly what is obvious to the american people, especially now after the electoral college voted. >> john harwood, what did you hear in president-elect biden's speech last night? >> what i heard from joe biden was twofold, one, a bit of the same message that he had been communicating for several weeks, which is one of unity and trying to calm the passions of the election, but also a bit of impatience creeping in. you know, we are now well over a month after the election. this effort by republicans to challenge the election has been garbage the entire time. they haven't come up with anything. i think what joe biden was trying to say, now that the electors have voted, this garbage stinks so bad that there is no justification for any of these republicans to continue holding out and yet as you were just discussing with abby, so many including mitch mcconnell are trying to slip slide their way into this new reality without ever having to take a stand, without ever having to say anything, w

so all of the things that from the president's calls to lindsey graham, it's all rhetoric.t to ask you about actual action and if anything is even possible at this point because you've got joe biden winning pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes, the pennsylvania assembly is out of session, so despite all of these phone calls that the president is making, is there anything that the pennsylvania legislature can even do, you know, to even make this attempt at something that will not happen? >> well, first of all, a number of states amounting to more than 270,000 electoral votes have already certified joe biden as the winner of the election in those states. they have appointed their electors. today is what we call safe ha harbor day which means congress is supposed to treat that as final. there are extremely remote pockets we could speculate about, but none of them are realistic. there is going to be a fight in congress in january when the elector -- the electoral votes arrive. we now have indications some senators and representatives, republicans, may object to the votes from

lindsey graham's warning to republicans to get the job done in georgia. ♪ ♪ for every trip you've beeng of, expedia has millions of flexible booking options. because the best trip is wherever we go together. ♪ ♪ >> just five days ago before the crucial runoff election, which party controls the senate, even if democrats win the majority, president trump's tax cuts could be here tuesday. hillary vaughn has more. >> hi, without a democratic controlled congress to undo president trump's tax cuts, he's in a tricky spot and that means a lot is that state in georgia for all taxpayers. the democratic candidates, rafael, they talk on the trail, making it clear if they get in office, they want more money to pay for biden's agenda. >> when they congress passed a $2 trillion tax giveaway to the richest of the rich, i began to say, to the elected officials, a budget is not just a physical document, it's a moral document. >> have you noticed there is always money for tax giveaways, but when he talked about making college affordable for young black people, the country has no resources suddenly. >> he

the issues for lindsey graham are even more stark there.ut of the majority in the united states senate if the democrats win. >> well, you know, this is a classic case of somebody trying to cover something up and they talk too much. in an interview that senator graham gave, he said i really wasn't calling about president trump's election, i was really trying to talk more about what to do about the upcoming senate runoff. and so i'm concerned that there may be some concerted effort to disenfranchise the voters or to somehow come in and see if there's not a way that they can throw out perfectly good ballots. we're literally sort of in the belly of the beast down here right now as you can probably guess from the senate runoffs. i think you got to remember, too, this is not like getting a call from somebody in ludawissi, georgia, this is a powerful man in the united states senate calling, clearly putting pressure, at least the secretary feeling pressure about doing his official duties. >> former georgia u.s. attorney michael j. moore, thank you

. >> senator lindsey graham was talking about this on fox. i want to play a bit of what he said about the stimulus checks. >> so to my fiscal conservative friends, i understand your argument, but i think the facts on the ground throughout the country would require us to do more than $600. $600's not enough. s it $2,000 is about right in my opinion. i'm willing to vote. >> monica, it's interesting, because the other day i said someone on the show. we know lindsey graham is one of the president's closest golfing buddies. maybe if mitch mcconnell took a page out of lindsey graham's book and he got on board as well. overall, where are we on this? is this where lindsey graham has taken a page from the president? >> we do know he was with him over the weekend, down here in south florida golfing. what is also notable, yasmin, there's no more golf on the schedule at least here for the time being. the president is going to be leaving florida in the next 45 minutes or so, and heading back to washington, d.c., so potentially he could be having more conv

graham right now, but lindsey graham is fully in donald trump's tank at the moment. so the president is not even getting pushback from republicans on this. >> no, there's absolutely no pushback coming on this. and ultimately what's going to have to happen is people will really need to think about this and view it not as a political issue but as a rule of law issue. this notion that today it was donald trump, but do we want to set this precedent down the road where if we should happen to have another president who engages in this kind of behavior, another richard nixon, that they will feel free to protect themselves from legal consequences. i love mike's phrase, living above the law, because it reflects so much so well what trump tried to set himself up to do. the question for the american people is, are we going to tolerate that or do we need to hold the president accountable to the standard the founding fathers meant to live within the law? >> that is the conversation that we have to have moving forward. this is no longer a piece of history. we expected this to happ