graham: no. the bottom line here is the goals set out in this email are to try to convince the american people seven weeks before an election we had done everything possible to protect our people and facilities, to underscore that the protests were rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. i'm here to tell you, and i dare anybody to show you where i'm wrong, there is no evidence of a protest outside the compound that led to an eventual attack. i have talked to the man in charge of security at benghazi. the only survivor i have been able to talk to. he told me that when the ambassador went to bed shortly after 9:00, there was nobody outside the compound that would not have let him go to bed if there would have been protesters and they would have reported up to the chain of command a protest. mr. mccain: and the next day, the station chief sent a message there was not, slash, not a spontaneous demonstration. mr. graham: that was the 15th, so i will get to that in a second. so

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but south carolina senator lindsey graham isn't going to have that problem.ordingaccording to supporterd former congressman bob. >> he is the most conservative person in the south carolina senate race. >> and with endorsements from the chamber of commerce, national right to life and the mining association no one would dare take on this conservative ideologue. >> i believe i'm the true conservative in this race. >> seriously. >> lindsey graham is not a true conservative. >> that is his candidate bill connor. what makes him think he can take on graham. >> i'm endorsed by the facebook tea party 16,000 people throughout the nation and the grandparent rights association. >> seriously? >> yes. >> there really is say grandparents rights association? >> there is. >> do they judge by how many butterscotch candies or nickles they give to grandkids over the years? >> you'll have to ask them. >> i'll be damned bill connor is the most conserve active man in the race case closed. >> the most conservative is lee bright. >> who the (bleep) is lee bright? >> the beef, the ful

will speak to kathryn joyce, author of "by grave alone: as sex-abuse allegations multiply, billy graham's grandson is on a mission to persuade protestant churches to come clean." he is uniquely positioned to go in and do investigations into sexual abuse at schools and missionary groups because they have impeccable credentials. come from aould not more storyline of evangelicals. >> then we will go to connecticut where 16-year-old transgender girl has spent the last few months locked up in solitary confinement without any criminal charges. we'll find out why. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. by the book boko haram has left several hundred people dead. residents and local officials say dozens of boko haram gunman attacked the northeast town on monday. at least 336 people were killed and hundreds of homes and vehicles set on fire. bodies were still lying in the street two days later. the town sits on the cameroon border and was targeted because some residents were assisting the nigerian army. attack comes amid

graham: no. the bottom line here is the goals set out in this email are to try to convince the american people seven weeks before an election we had done everything possible to protect our people and facilities, to underscore that the protests were rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. i'm here to tell you, and i dare anybody to show you where i'm wrong, there is no evidence of a protest outside the compound that led to an eventual attack. i have talked to the man in charge of security at benghazi. the only survivor i have been able to talk to. he told me that when the ambassador went to bed shortly after 9:00, there was nobody outside the compound that would not have let him go to bed if there would have been protesters and they would have reported up to the chain of command a protest. mr. mccain: and the next day, the station chief sent a message there was not, slash, not a spontaneous demonstration. mr. graham: that was the 15th, so i will get to that in a second. so

congressman, should lindsey graham retract that?d we go on the floor of the senate and say i'm sorry about that? >> well, in the real world he would but politics isn't the real world. you're not supposed to ever admit anything. this all makes "wag the dog" look like the bible. it makes it look like the encyclopedia brittanica. >> you are in the house where they are people to have votes on a select committee on benghazi. how do you plan on voting on that and what do you think of the idea of devoting precious time, resources and attention to the select committee? >> i'm going to vote against it and i'm going to call up a famous political consultant, fielding mellish with attribution to woody allen who created him. he would say that this committee is a travesty. a travesty of a mockery of a sham. a travesty of a mockery of two travesties of a sham. and that's what it is. it's absurd. this is ludicrous. a congressional committee did not find osama bin laden. barack obama found osama bin laden. george bush didn't find him, barack obama d

i appreciate working with senator graham on that effort. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today and to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to address this critical issue. is randall cness coleman, the assistant director of the tanner intelligence division at the federal bureau of investigation. coleman is responsible for ensuring that the fbi carries out its mission to defeat foreign intelligence threats. mr. coleman began his career as a special agent with the fbi in 1997, and has previously served as assistant special agent in charge of the san antonio division, chief of the counterespionage section and special agent in charge of the little rock division. ride to his appointment to the fbi, mr. coleman served as an officer in the united states army for nine years. we are delighted that he could themus today, and we ask to proceed with his testimony. proceed, sir. pleased to be here with you today to combat economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. the object considers investigation of theft of trade -- a

i appreciate working with senator graham on that effort. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today. and to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to address this critical issue. our first witness is randall c. coleman, assistant director of the counter intelligence division at the federal bureau of investigation. mr. coleman is responsible for ensuring the fbi carries out the mission to defeat foreign intelligence threats. mr. cole man began his career as a special agent with the fbi in 1997. he's previously served as assistant special agent in charge of the san antonio division, chief of the counter espionage section and special agent in charge of the little rock division. prior to his appointment to the fbi mr. coleman served as an officer in the united states army for nine years. we are delighteded that he could join us today. we ask him to proceed with his testimony. proceed, sir. >> good afternoon. i'm pleased to be here with you today to discuss the fbi's efforts to combat economic espionage and theft of trade

lindsey graham, will be here shortly. i just saw him on the c-span screen so i know he's on the floor and not here. i have permission from his staff to proceed. he will join us as soon as his schedule permits. i also want to recognize in the audience ed pagano who spent many a happy hour here when working for chairman leahy. good to have him back in a different capacity. we are having a hearing today that's entitled economic espionage and trade secret theft. are our laws adequate for today's threats? today the subcommittee is going to explore how we can better protect american businesses from those who try to steal their valuable intellectual property. american companies are renowned as being the most innovative in the world. companies of every size and in every industry from manufacturing to software to biotechnology to aerospace own large portfolios of legally protected trade secrets they have developed and innovated. in some cases the secret sauce may be a company's most valuable asset. the theft of the secrets can lea

lindsey graham pulled a cheney.sion of the hash tag benghazi conspiracy world is that the attack was not pulled up a with militia members or terrorists but rather by al qaeda itself. of course, there's no evidence that was the case. ultimately a comprehensive "new york times" story says it wasn't al qaeda. but when larry logan heard discredited "60 minutes" report, this is what she said. >> contrary to the white house's public statements, which were still being made a full week later, it's now well established that the americans were attacked by al qaeda, in a well-planned assault. >> you hear that? now well established. well, senator lin lindsey graham and ran straight to fox news with it. >> six "60 minutes" doesn't cover phony scandals. >> the store is our folks died as a result of an al qaeda planned attack you could see coming. >> the question you have to ask yourself, how lauren logan does not give any sourcing for the, it's now well established. who told her it was well established? she was consulting with, n

journalist graham phillips who's been reporting from. eastern ukraine has been detained his captors identified themselves as ukraine's national guard grahams current whereabouts unknown. has more. according to his source graham phillips is most likely being taken to kiev in order to be interrogated by the ukrainian security services or the s.b.u. at this point we haven't heard from graham phillips since tuesday when he has described his ordeal to r.t. and go on roughly to being detained. but i'll also say that. paul called. her and only. a small i do i. didn't. work it was going to be off. the question of course he couldn't prove money because she wanted in response or if he's plea for help here case foreign office said that they're monitoring the situation and are standing ready to provide consular assistance graham has been receiving threats on social media networks for several months now ever since he began covering the situation in southeastern ukraine in fact there was a ten thousand dollar bounty on his head by some of the supporte

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you have lindsey graham with his own committee and issa doing this. democrats need to engage in this select committee, point out the facts, answer the serious questions and be able to point out when the republicans are over playing their hand politically, which they are about to do. >> kate, what is going on on that front, the democrats? nancy pelosi has been inconclusive or not issued a conclusion, statement or decision on whether they are going to participate. what way do you think the winds are blowing in terms of that question? >> as far as i can tell, the majority of the caucus would like to participate. they want to be there and be able to be in the room to combat any republican accusations, defend witnesses. i think that's where the majority of the caucus is going. i don't think we'll have a clear answer from democratic leadership until the caucus meets after next week. pelosi clearly wants to boycott. leadership wants to boycott. they think republicans will overplay it. she's very good at listening to her members. not only is she good at liste

british journalist graham phillips who's been reporting from new crane has been detained his captors identified themselves as ukraine's national guard grahams current whereabouts unclear now let's get more on this live with arena who joins us now arena good to see you what do we know so far that. well at this point we do have information from a source. stating that it is most likely that graham has been taken to give an order to be interrogated by the security services or the now we haven't heard from graham phillips for almost twenty four hours at this point the last time we contact him contacted him was on tuesday morning when he has described via phone about what he talked about what was happening to him. roughly to him being detained in terms of on the. barlows and so. hopeful. for the cause. and only. a small idea why. he didn't mind. working arrangement on. the last call question to question the nontraditional. there has been a response from foreign office in return to our plea for help in the current situation and they have said they are standing ready to provide. closely foll

in the "crossfire" tonight, senators tim kaine and lindsey graham.uestion straight to you, doesn't she have to get down from being the celebrity and giving the big speeches and be willing to say, here's why i made the decision, here's why i defend it? >> absolutely. there was one fact in the recitation you left out, she did designate a lot of the leaders of boko haram as terrorists, and the decision that you make about whether you designate individuals as terrorists or groups as terrorists, there's a lot of calculations, one, am i enabling them to recruit, so she did designate some of these leaders, but sure she'll have to answer these questions. she'll have to, but i think she's going to have solid answers. >> senator graham, i'm guessing you have a couple of points to make here, but before i ask you the question about what you think about this, this is what john campbell, president george w. bush's ambassador said about this past weekend. i don't think the criticism of secretary clinton is fair, along with a good many other nigerian experts, at the

well here you can see armed men stopping graham and asking for his i.d. the man who filmed this is concerned for his safety and asked us to delete even his voice from the footage it is detention and disappearance came shortly after an online campaign by pro-government activists to have him deported. well we haven't heard from our colleague for twenty four hours now but artie has been working hard to find out exactly where he is our phone calls to ukraine are being redirected over and over again ukraine's interior ministry told us that he was detained by defense ministry forces when we reached them they said it was the national guard which then told us it wasn't involved at all ukraine security services who according to our sources question the journalist hung up as soon as they heard russian speech or now we're told he's on his way to the u.k. consulate in kiev but the consulate itself says it doesn't know whether he's on his way or not well we also contacted the u.k. foreign office because of course he is a british citizen and they are aware of the situa

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it sounds like your friend and mine, senator lindsay graham -- okay, maybe he's not my friend -- he's make something out of the fact that it was susan rice booked on the talk show rather than secretary clinton. is that nefarious in your mind? >> well, you know, one thing i think, senator graham has been trying to find the truth since it first started. he's been responsible about it. remember, this is also a guy who was a prosecutor in the impeachment trial for bill clinton. long-standing republican in washington. and he's been asking these questions during this entire process. so, you know, this all feels like deja vu again from the 1986, when the iran contra came up. the republicans were doing the same as the democrats saying there was nothing to it. they already aired it out. may the 5th, 1987, they formed a committee where the democrat senator and democrat house member were running the hearings on it. at the end of the day, the public got to the truth on it. 11 of 14 were indicted. george herbert walker bush pardoned them and the end of that saga called iran contra. this happens in

graham: thank you. to my good friend, we already have laws in this country banning elective abortions at the 24-week period. it's called the partial-birth abortion ban. it went through the house and senate. got overwhelming support. that bill has provisions for rape and incest that would affect the life of the mother. so does this. we're backing it up four weeks. the reason we are backing it up four weeks is because at 20 weeks people have been born and survived. i know two twins born at 20 weeks. the theory in the case is if you are this far along in the pregnancy, the government should have the right to come in and protect the unborn child from wholesale abortion because you are so far along that the medical science requires anesthesia before you operate. the question is if you're going to require a doctor to provide anesthesia to the baby before they operate to save its life, should we also have abortions at that point. "the washington post" poll just a few months ago showed that about 56% to 27% of

and i'll let senator graham speak for him sf. it wouldn't be spare for mike morell or senator graham for me to weigh in on that. i will say this susan rice's sunday morning talk show appearances went beyond those talking points. accepting that the talking points are wrong and we now know they are wrong but what i would ask mike morell is you had greig hicks in libya who never said a word about the protest. you had a station chief. why did you ignore the evidence in libya to rely on someone at langley and what evidence was that person relying upon. some of this is judgment but we're also held given accounting for our judgment in life and his judgment was wrong regardless of what his intent was. >> rose: so do you think the democrats will participate or not. >> i think they will. because their constituents still have questions too. again, i don't want to be naive, i don't think you have to be republican or democrat or have any political affiliation to realize that what happened in benghazi should not have happened. now, you can dra

we'll check in with south carolina senator lindsey graham. plus, hollywood comes to washington. the latest addition of the capital tradition. 60 years of news because this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs good morning again, there are new developments in the donald sterling controversy and they are positive ones for a team that is trying to put this scandal behind them. last night the nba announced they were starting the search for a new c.e.o. and sterling's wife, shelly, issued a statement expressing her support for the nba's punishment and the take over of the clippers. sterling is coowner of the team. there is no comment so far from sterling who has remained out of sight except to tell the magazine, i wish i had just paid her off. he is of course referring to his associate, who he made the racist remarks to. miss sat down with an interview that aired friday. >> is donald sterling a racist? >> no. i don't believe it in my heart. >> you heard him say derogatory things about minorities in general, blacks in particular? >> absolutely. >> you've heard him say der

be interrogated by the ukrainian security services or at the at this point we haven't heard from graham phillips since tuesday when he has described his ordeal to r.t. . but i won't. call. and only. a small i do i. question the question. mark. in response or at least plea for help to your case foreign office said that they're monitoring the situation and are standing ready to provide consular assistance graham has been receiving threats on social media networks for several months now ever since he began covering the situation in southeastern ukraine in fact there was a ten thousand dollar bounty on his head by some of the supporters of the current regime many cues demo working with the people they called separatists and terrorists but he was more interested in the social response and response of the people to the events that have been unveiling here in southeastern ukraine for the past several months arena reporting there now this is just the latest case in a long list anyone reporting on the conflict between the army and the anti-government movement in the east of ukraine it seems is.

may i just say this young man gowdy is right out of the lindsey graham mold. i think he is an excellent dhirm chair this committee he he is a smart young man just like his uncle lindsey graham. >> he has a big job. have you sent a letter to the white house. demanding to know where president obama was the night of september 11th, 2012. why do you want to he know that? >> the president of the united states while an ongoing tragedy is taking place our consulate being under attack, you would think that, like the video that we saw of the strike on usama bin laden, that we would see many pictures of the president attentive. all we know is that he was briefed by panetta and dempsey and they left and there was no further communication. could i say, first of all, i think it's important that the democrats join in this. when joe lieberman and i said we ought to have a 9/11 commission, the bush administration didn't want it. when abu abu ghraib happened i condemned it waterboarding i condemned it those were all under the bush administration and for them to say that this i

and he's the children they'll all part of the organization that billing graham left to don holiday >> thank you your time is up (calling names) i can't pronounce your last time i apologize. >> i'm patricia isle i've been working with joking on jack since he bought the building that's great to see how it got open the chapel includes jazz and latino music and bluegrass and rock the chapel is is community grandfathering place we hold activities tonight for example, we had the closings nights for the san francisco film fess actually and we is a casing school and the literally nonprofit coming in to do their graduation and hosted events for the latino film festival and the theater and lip earthquake is doing a major event with us as well and the san francisco entertainment commission choose it for a night time summit so we're part of the community and we have other authors there we posted public radio and west coast live there as well one of the things we're approved we try it and have a focus with the local musicians and also mission we having had a mar off ramp band for cinco de mayo an

we last heard from graham about twenty hours ago and all she's really going to show is in the region for her and the story. according to his source graham phillips is most likely being taken to kiev in order to be interrogated by the ukrainian security services or at the at this point we haven't heard from graham phillips since tuesday when he has described his ordeal to r.t. . roughly to. detain him on the. bollocks and so. called. only. respond to our. walking. off. the caribbean cruise. ship in response or plea for help your case foreign office said that they're monitoring the situation and are standing ready to provide consular assistance graham has been receiving threats on social media networks for several months now ever since he began covering the situation in southeastern ukraine in fact there was a ten thousand dollar bounty on his head by some of the supporters of the current kiev regime many cues gem of a working with the people they called separatists and terrorists but he was more interested in the social response and response of the people to the events that have been

in a general level, do you agree with senator graham? >> yes, i do. >> dr. flake, how about you? >> yes, i do. >> earlier, i think you would agree with me that there are things you would do to be supportive of the government. what with those things be? >> there are several things. as several parent mentioned, helping establish a national army that is helping to police libya'territory, rain in the militia as you begin to get political solutions to problems that will permit their disarmament. second, support and structure that helps organized civil society and elections in libya. we are doing much too little in helping libya move forward. we do that largely with examples, our own but also what all of us know about society. we know how to do this and we are just not doing it nearly enough. >> three months later, on july 3, 2011, senator john mccain stated, and i quote, "if gaddafi stays, it is a direct threat to our national security." what is your view and did you agree? >> i did not. he was a brutal dictator. but he was also about as rehabilitated as a dictator could be. the state

well in today's edition of cross talk people joined by journalist graham phillips he was recently held then released by the army in eastern ukraine. the civil war to tell you should i have to see innocent civilians lying in pools of blood you should have to see houses and apartments completely just bomb destroyed room you shouldn't have to face these things you should have to face the turn was blockaded by you create your me you should have to face no shortages of food a humanitarian crisis and i speak to people. every day i know a lot of people have fled the city of left to see someone who yawn because they get no where else to go and they say we're all scum we got i know these people these are just decent good people they didn't support your my dad they didn't support the john to that we have they just want the things that you want i want which is a normal decent life. thanks for joining us today the official campaign is to decide the future of scotland kick off today in the run up to the independence referendum later this year are to use sarah first now reporting on the stumbling bl

. >> senator graham. thank you for being here today. having a report back to the congress next year. i like to hear from the commission before we make any substantial changes. you have some things you need to do now because of the budget cuts. senator mccain asked a good question. i want to turn it around a bit. even if you had all the money you could ask for within reason, would you still want to make personnel changes? >> absolutely. we have testified to that in the past. we have a new demographic and different things. we want to take a look at all of that. >> you have to make it sustainable. we have a dilemma. we are trying to make sure that the pay and benefits are consistent as much as possible. it is good for retention and it is fair. i want to give them more and not less. tri-care, ised that correct western mark >> we have bought into it. >> more will buy into it and i think it is a good readiness and retention tool. we find that health care problems are the biggest impediments to getting people in order. having continuity of cov

i will let senator graham speak for himself it wouldn't be fair for me to weigh in on that. i will say this. susan rice's talk show appearances will be on the talking points. even accepting that the talking points are wrong, and we now know that they were wrong. what i would ask mike morel is, -- you have the station chief? why did you ignore the evidence to rely on someone at langley, and what evidence was that person relying upon? held a count of our judgment and live. his judgment was wrong. >> do think the democrats will participate? >> i think they will because their constituents still have questions. i don't want to be naÏve. i don't think you have to be a republican or democrat or have any logical affiliation to realize what happened in benghazi should not have happened. you can draw different inferences from those facts. what everyone is going to conclude, somebody ought to have thess to the witnesses and documents. so far we have had neither. >> what would satisfy you? cant that you would believe put this question to rest? as to who said what, when, and why? >> a pr

. >> we continue the conversation on ukraine with fiona hill, steve kotkin and thomas graham. >> we have a very difficult situation in ukraine. par chen co has some form of legitimacy but him being able to put together a policy to bring together the various segments of ukrainian -- of the ukrainian and get a national consensus which is needed in particular to undertake the very difficult economic reforms i think we are going to have to wait and see. it is too much early to declare this crisis over and certainly much too early for washington, brussels, or the government in can i ever to have victory. >> we include with cartoonist roz chast. >> can't we talk about something more pleasant. >> one of the main reasons i write and draw is because i am so afraid if i don't it is all going to be forgotten, you know, and it does feel that way sometimes if i don't draw it, if i don't write it down. >> life and people. >> yes. >> just everything, just everything. >> time just kind of goes on like that. >> ruthlessly. >> ruthlessly. >> and i wrote this and drew this to remember my parents, really. >

. >> mitch mcconnell, john cornyn, down in texas, lindsay graham in south carolina.problem is not that the senate, at least is not conservative enough. it's that there aren't enough republicans there and mitch mcconnell isn't running the place, that's the problem and voters get that. what's also interesting here is that voters realize it's very important in these cases, particularly in kentucky and in georgia, to feel, strong state wide candidates because the democrats in those states. the democrats are fielding strong candidates, they're in kentucky, grimes has good name id, secretary of state, plenty of money. and the same down in georgia where michelle nunn is going to be the democratic nominee, again has good name id and can raise money. >> you're saying that mitch mcconnell is the strongest candidate. i think basically he might be a point or two behind grimes, which basically means he's been an incumbent for a long time. >> it's not great, but he's typically had tough re-election rates. he's a proven conservative, he knows how to win, his name recognition, his t

it's interesting, when we go through the list of these senat senatorials incumbents, mcconnell, grahamroberts. these are guys who know how to do politics, they know how to campaign. and i think as we have been suggesting here, that the voters have decided that they want the republican circular firing squad disbanded. and secondly, to ms. grimes' point about gridlock in washington, the fact that nothing has gotten done has allowed republican voters to focus on barack obama. and they want him and the democrats out. and i think they've got a really laser-like focus on accomplishing that now which is overcoming a lot of these other concerns. >> kim, what about the next week's primary in mississippi, where cochran, who is a long-time senator and i think 76 years old, being challenged by state senator by the name of chris mcdaniel. some people are describing that as the tea party's last stand here. how is that race going? >> yeah, i think this is the one that, you know, republican party is most concerned about in terms of their incumbents. mr. cochran has been hit pretty hard, appropriate ar

graham phillips is missing in ukraine kiev says.

graham phillips the british journalist reporting for r.t. has been released by the ukrainian authorities he spent almost thirty six hours in custody while all our attempts to contact him were being bounced between cabs of various administrative offices the national guard arrested graham in the east of the country before moving him to the capital in what he described as hostage like conditions. around midday leaving mary apolo they were approaching the checkpoint the blog post started filming and then suddenly you know the soldiers were sort of over and they were interrogated and suddenly asking questions looking through the car and more depth and more detail than the done before they found the bullet proof vest i've been given is the line of duty here serving in a you know the conflict situation here and then seemed to kind of escalate things a bullet proof vest i did this and asked me who i work with and explain it was r t c russian canal and they seemed to sort of trigger something in the next we were asked to pull the car over by the side