senator graham. senator graham: we talked about this, mr. chairman as something we should be looking at as a nation. if you put a cap of 2% on this deduction, that raises $955 billion. what it will do, is it will put pressure on every governor and every legislative body in a state to reform their tax structure because the federal government is no longer going to allow writing off excessively high taxes at the state level. it will bring a march towards more fiscal responsibility at the state level and the people who get the benefit of this come from affluent areas, wealthier ocations and they itemize. eliminating this deduction would generate a lot of savings to the federal government and would do something that i think needs to be done. it would shed light on parts of the country that seems to have no limit in terms of taxation of their citizens. and from a south carolina point of view, we're tired of subsidizing states that have anormally high cost of living and tax everything and everybody and we are helping foot the bill. o we'd like to e

chairman graham: less than 1%? >> we're not in the content business. >> we're not in the content business. senator stretch: this is a mr. smith, this is a post brother vided to the committee by mr. smith it's on the islamic state's niger news telefwram messenger channels. i hope they're out of business now. it encourages islamic state supporters to distribute islamic state propaganda on facebook, twitter and google. s to these are your domains, supports of the caliphate. can you give me your -- do you all agree it's bad for business that the american public perceives you as being able to have your platforms hijacked by terrorists to radicalize meshes? that's bad for business, right? >> it's beyond bad for business, senator. there's no place for terrorism on facebook. >> we would agree with that. our technology take downs 95% of terrorist accounts, 75% of them before their first tweet. >> i agree with that proposition. senator graham: on may 22 in manchester, there's a suicide bomb, the man in question killed 22 peo

lindsey graham, twice a week he's playing golf with him. that's somebody with deep serious ideological policy differences with the president and he hat been shy about expressing those shoes both as a candidate against trump and as a senator in the last few months. >> your most recent article senator ted cruz said the gop could face watergate blowout if tax reform are not accomplished. what does that mean? >> you're seeing republican donors, strategists and lawmakers increasingly raise alarm bells about what might happen next year and they're saying look, we might lose the house, we might lose the senate. we might see a historic wave election against this. i was at a donor meeting in new york where senator cruz made the remar remarks. the donors are nervous too saying look, if we don't get tax reform down, the base is going to be depressed. they might not show up at the polls and we might not write checks for incumbents. there's a lot of concern in the republican par that if they don't have a sweeping achievement to run on they could be look

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senator graham: thank you.house: i think we can all agree that the russians did interfere and metal in the 2016 elections. your observations are consistent with what our intelligence community reports. is that correct? >> that is correct, senator. looks correct. >> that is true. senator whitehouse: ok. and i gather that all of your companies have moved beyond any notion that your job is only to provide a platform and whatever goes across it is not your affair? >> senator, our commitment to addressing this problem is unwavering. we take this very seriously and are committed to investing as necessary to prevent this from happening. >> absolutely agree with mr. stretch. this kind of activity creates a bad user experience and distressed with the platform, so we are committed to working to get better at solving this problem. >> same for google. we take this very seriously. we have made changes and will continue to get better. senator whitehouse: ultimately, you are american companies and threats to american election

>> graham: this is dr. hummel. he'll be caring for dina. >> dr.l: what are the patient's vital signs? >> ashley: are you associated with him? because if you are, i don't want you anywhere near my mother. >> graham: let him do his job. >> ashley: i'm not letting you near my mother. >> graham: this is dina's private personal physician. he has -- >> ashley: i am her daughter. i am the one who has say about her medical care. please, back away. we need a doctor! where the hell is a doctor? >> graham: do you want your mother to get the best care or not? >> dr. hummel: ma'am, there is no time to waste. i'm familiar with your mother's medical history. i will take excellent care of her. you have my word. >> ashley: okay! >> dr. hummel: we're good? >> graham: we're good. go. >> ashley: yes! go! mother, jack and traci are on their way! we're gonna take good care of you, i promise. you! get the hell out of here. >> graham: i'm not going anywhere until dr. hummel informs me about her condition... >> ashley: you are leaving now! >> graham: ...and we make a plan

he is the graham cassidy but he also has collins cassidy. i'm sure there are things that he would want to put on the table. bernie sanders is on the committee he has a single pay your bill. that problem is wanting to gymnast through without votes. use the committee process because as you know, this committee, lamar was a governor and knows medicaid. he was the university of tennessee president. patty is a fantastic negotiator. you have doctors on the committee, another governor, maggie hassan. you have people on the committee that are doctors, run medicaid programs, insurance commissioners. now is the time for big ideas to come to the table and be discussed in a deliberate, careful way with transparency. mr. allen: is a long road what it you think the time is right. senator kaine: i do. the more and more that people constituents are saying, i live out here in rural colorado, rural anywhere in there's just no options for me. i don't think that we are going to long tolerate big parts of the population not being able to buy insurance on the ind

the graham-cassidy bills turns this over in 2020. there's no way to transition from obamacare to a block grant in a year. two, three years will be required. what do you do in the interim? create the least amount of chaos as possible. the president knows that. paul ryan is for that. he is for graham-cassidy. >> president mitch mcconnell? does he have the juice to get this through in the senate? >> here's what we have to decide. is the house in a position to make changes until we can replace obamacare with graham-cassidy. if they're not in that mindset, there's nothing that mitch mcconnell can do. the president is in that mindset. he's willing to continue the payments until we replace obamacare with graham-cassidy if he can get flexibility for the payments in the interim. not throw good money after bad. clearly alexander murray is not selling in the house. can senator johnson come up with a better deal? we're talking about a temporary deal. whether there is one or not, how much flexibility can you get for two or three years of csr paym

and lindsey graham is pretty smart as is rand paul. thank you so much.t, what do you take me for? an excellent reporter which is what you are. garrett, thank you. >>> we are going to take a break. why? because when we return we must talk about puerto rico. it has been three weeks and 85% of the island without power. next we'll show you how some of the country's most prominent bi billion airs are stepping up to help the island recover. take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. when food is good and clean and real, it's ok to crave. and with panera catering, there's more to go around. panera. food as it should be. throughout my career, i've been fortunate enough to travel to many interesting places. i've always wanted to create those experiences for others. with my advisor's help along the way, it's finally my turn to be the host. when you have the right financial

how about billy graham hanging out with richard nixon. talk about that relationship and the beginning of a politicalization of evangelicalism. >> billy graham liked powerful people. he always did. they were extremely helpful to him because they would make his revivals much easier to accomplish and they would get this shining glow around them and he would seem even more important than he was by having senate leaders, democrats and republicans alike. he became very attached to richard nixon long before nixon iran for president. that was kind of his downfall because he became too close and he changed his views to nixon's views and started to defend the nixon administration so that when the vietnam war came to its terrible climax he was part of one of the people to be blamed for it. and later for watergate which he did not denounce early enough. >> as i read your book, i thought of billy graham as a foreshadow, he was foreshadowing what happens after him. he was one person, a larger-than-life figure but by the late 1970s, you have an entire o

similarly missouri would get billions more under graham cassidy.e said this was a partisan bill. i just listened two states represented by democratic senators but i could also list maine, florida, wisconsin, indiana and others would do far better under graham cassidy than the status quo and represented by democratic senators. >> 2018, the same congress, the same players, you don't have the votes. >> a couple things, some people complaining about that complaint about the process. we now have more time for a better process. i would like to think we could socialize it among our democratic colleagues, they've shown willingness to give a little bit on the aca and so they have given a little bit and this deal senators murray and alexander worked out show maybe now, they say my state gets billions more for working families, families who cannot afford insurance now. maybe i need to look at this more closely not through the lens of partisan politics, but there is a lens of what is best for the families in my state. if that is the case. >> i will come to you

edward graham's sons could finally be with their father.eased that he has the dignity of a proper resting place and i am delighted that it is here amongst all his comrades. it is a day that will live with me forever and, yes, it is the end of the trail. robert hall, bbc news, at catania in sicily. robert reporting on that very moving ceremony held today. a reminder that newsnight is on bbc two. here is evan. it was one of those days for the prime minister, everyone talking about the unplanned mishaps, not the planned message. we will try to dissect what happened this week, not just in the conference hall today but where exactly is the conservative party going? join me on bbc two. conservative party going? join me on bbc two. here on bbc one, hello and welcome to the programme — plenty to come but lets start the world cup qualifiers loom for the home nations, we hearfrom the camps ahead of tomorrow's ties. another retirement announcement from tyson fury, as he takes to twitter to declare he will not renew his boxing licence. and, where rain

graham: there's two parts to graham-cassidy, medicaid reform because it's unsustainable. by 2027 we'll be spending more on medicaid than the department of defense. medicaid is growing about twice the race of every other program in the country. if you want to preserve medicare, reform it before it takes the entire federal budget down wit. when you take medicare and medicaid combined, that's all the revenue will be spent on those two brames 2040. when it comes to obamacare dollars it doesn't give 35% of the -- 35% of the money to poor states, it does it in an even fashion. you take the block grant from obamacare and apply it to medicaid. i oppose this amendment because it destroys creativity. r. enzi: all time has expired. >> by my clock i think senator wyden had 7 1/2 seconds left. mr. enzi: i think you used it. next amendment, sanders number 34. mr. sanders: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, this amendment establishing a -- establishes a deficit neutral reserve fund to allow for a constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united and reform our broken campaign fin

you have been talking to lindsey graham. lindsey graham hasn't always been a big fan of the president but today it seems like he is trying to smooth over the tensions between the president and congress. >> i think that is right. lindsey graham struggles empreliminae emblematic but recognize that he remains the president of the united states and the leader of their party and someone who needs to be on the team if they are going to get things done. i interviewed senator graham and he said he did not agree with bob corker's description of president trump as someone putting the united states in danger but also went out of his way to say that corker's complaints aren't without base in the sense that lindsey graham and corker are part of never tweet caucus and think the president would be better off if he would stop getting in the fights. i should probably let lindsey graham explain it. >> it doesn't matter what he says about corker or what corker says about him. i don't think it is good and healthy. i like them both. bob corker,

yes graham-cassidy but also as collins -cassie. there's a lot of that you want to put on the table before the committee. bernie sanders is a member of the committee. he's got a single-payer bill. he want to put that on the table. nothing wrong with big artistic. what's wrong is tied to jam them through with no committee process, the public hearings. use the committee process because as you know, this committee, lamar was governor, he knows medicator he was president of university of tennessee. patty is a fantastic negotiate. you have doctors on the committee to give another governor maggie hassan said people on the committee for doctor severn medicare programs, been insurance commissioner. now is the time for big ideas to come onto the table and to be discussed in a deliberate, if away with a lot of transparency. >> it's a long road but you think the time is right? >> i do. the more and more people constituents are saying i live out here in rural colorado, rural virginia, rural anywhere and there's just options for me. i don't thin

movement. >> billy graham like powerful people, he always did. they were extremely helpful to him, the rich and powerful politicians, because they would make his estate revivals much easier to accomplish and they would be with him, and they would get a shining glow of billy graham and around them. he would seem even more important than he was by having eminent leaders, democrats and republicans alike. he became very attached to richard nixon, long before nixon ran for president. so that was his downfall, because he came too close and changed his views to nixon views and when the vietnam war came to its terrible climax, he was among the people to be blamed for it. he did not denounce early enough. >> as i read your blog i thought of billy graham as a foreshadowing of almost novelistic, he's a foreshadowing of what happened and was a larger than life figure if i delete the 1970s, you have an empire organized movement to make a marriage has been between conservative evangelical and the republican party as we know in the christian right, and a lot of

i think we've got a good chance of getting votes on graham-cassidy next spring.my needs to grow and the only way we are going to grow is by a tax cut. >> harris: you mention senator mccain and people wanting to get back to regular order, words like stability and can we get it done? and you get one thing done and work on the regular order later, cannot work like like that? >> i think we are going to have some democrats come aboard for the tax cut. there are some democrats in red states, this tax cut is good for the economy, good for working people. lower the corporate rate so people don't have to leave america because of high corporate taxes. we are trying to streamline the tax code. i am willing to increase the minimum wage when the bill gets from the senate to the house, i think people at that level, hardworking people, young people, seniors need a pay raise, too. i'm hoping we can find a handful of democrats to buy into the idea that a tax cut is good for america. >> harris: you said president obama, that was in the mix there. let's talk -- >> i'm glad he's gon

chairman: senator graham. sen. graham: for the record, that was more than a little bit. chairman: i thought it was important enough for senator whitehouse and senator sessions. maybe it will shorten it for other people. sen. graham: it was important, but it wasn't a little bit. chairman: i ought to be able to define a little bit. sen. graham: i'm joking. chairman: joking, ok. [laughter] give him back his time. sen. graham:'s is speaking back -- so speaking of letters not answered, august 30, senator grassley and i sent a letter to the department of justice wanting information related to drafting of memos exonerated -- exonerating secretary clinton before the july statement of director comey. we have got nothing back. do you think we will ever get an answer to that letter? a.g. sessions: do you need an answer or explaining why can't be answered? sen. graham: either way. a.g. sessions: i will take that make sure it happens. sen. graham: apparently on the fbi's website, they have got emails with no content suggesting that comey in may was talking and the title of this thing

chairman: senator graham. sen. graham: for the record, that was more than a little bit. chairman: i thought it was important enough for senator whitehouse and senator sessions. maybe it will shorten it for other people. sen. graham: it was important, but it wasn't a little bit. chairman: i ought to be able to define a little bit. sen. graham: i'm joking. chairman: joking, ok. [laughter] give him back his time. sen. graham:'s is speaking back -- so speaking of letters not answered, august 30, senator grassley and i sent a letter to the department of justice wanting information related to drafting of memos exonerated -- exonerating secretary clinton before the july statement of director comey. we have got nothing back. do you think we will ever get an answer to that letter? a.g. sessions: do you need an answer or explaining why can't be answered? sen. graham: either way. a.g. sessions: i will take that make sure it happens. sen. graham: apparently on the fbi's website, they have got emails with no content suggesting that comey in may was talking and the title of this thing

graham: dumbfounding.or sure it doesn't -- didn't happen in the bush administration or the clinton administration. basically you have to have somebody whom the chinese president personally and whom woman the chinese president and they have to go, and without restraints. not just tell, here's my demands. without restraints explore options. charlie: i guarantee you that barack obama said we had that conversation. we had that conversation with xi jinping. we had that conversation in california and other place. i guarantee you they had that conversation. graham: i would say they began that conversation but my strong view i think from both the american and chinese side -- if you go back and look at now the ranscript of the henne-choinli conversation is declassified and you go back and look at it. the chinese were assistant that we were going to have to somehow shift our focus when we thought of china from taijuan, which we had recognized, which he had a military aligns with, to beijing. that could be characteri

as the president solicited support he was seen golfing with senator lindsey graham. the pair went golfing for the second time in this past week. kelly o'donnell has more. what all came out of that meeting? >> reporter: we haven't gotten a specific readout about the president's time with senator graham. we will try for that again today and this week. it is significant that the president is reaching out todey is very much a part of the republican establishment. it was set against the same day where the president's former chief strategist was taking on the republican party declaring war. he says he is a fighter in the ring and what he is doing is pitting the trump style outsiders against the republican party. president trump invited critic republican senator lindsey graham for another round of golf. his former chief strategist steve bannen. >> this is not my war. this is our war. >> reporter: was taking a swing at republican party elites. >> there is a time and season for everything. and right now it's a season of war against a gop establishment. >> a civil war to be wa

lindsey graham, republican, schumer a democrat. both on the same page. >> i can say this to the families. they were there to defend american. i didn't know there was 1,000 troops in niger. john mccain is right to say because this is an endless war without boundaries, you've got to tell us more. >> he didn't know we had 1,000 troops in niger. did you? >> no, i did not. >> let's deal with how terrible this is. it is is their job to vote on these. they haven't held a vote since 2002 for the iraq war. why aren't they to blame for what happened in niger? you want to look at trump and how he deals with the families of the fall especially, fine. they won't hold a debate. they did one in 2002 for the iraq war. they have never touched it again. they got burned. lawmaker after lawmaker will say we're going to take it up. we're going to talk bit. they never do a damn thing. obama put the troops in there in 2013. schumer didn't know? graham talks about our role around the worrell all the time. he didn't know? why isn't it on them? >> it is is

we turn now to sec republican lindsey graham. start with the iran question, are there enough votes there to get this amendment to the iran deal? >> i hope so. i'd hate to be democrat defending the sunset clause. hundred agreement after 15 years of the iranians can do anything they want in terms of enrichment and reprocessing, doesn't matter if they are still the largest state sponsor of terrorism or building our cbms with death to israel on the weapon under mere passage of time they dock whatever they want to with enrichment. democrats will have hard time justifying denying inspections of military bases. >> dickerson: here is how they would justify it. they would say that in fact the sunset provisions are stacked so that they can't move right to a nuclear weapon and that if they started to -- inspectors watching the international community would be one them right away where as what the president is offering is getting out of an agreement that was worked with patiently with the international community and actually is a step backwa

similarly, missouri would get billions more under graham cassidy. i just listed to states represented by democratic senators. i can also list maine, florida, wisconsin, indiana, and others that would do far better. it's the same congress, mostly the same players, you don't have the votes, would you do about that? >> some people complaining about voting no, they complained about the process. we now have more time for a better process. think we canto socialize it among our democratic colleagues. they have finally showed a willingness to give a little bit aca.ca -- on the senator murray's and alexander's worked out. they get more for working families, families who cannot now.d insurance maybe i need to look at this a little bit more closely, not through the limbs of policy -- policy politics. senator, what difference did jimmy kimmel make? kimmel, a couple things. his son --how can you not feel for this? he was born with a congenital heart disease -- >> your wife's a doctor? >> yes, retired breast cancer surgeon. i can imagine what happened. the child

you've got to tell us more. >> you're with senator graham. he didn't know we had 1,000 troops in niger. did you? >> no, i did not. >> now, the pentagon says that they regularly brief congress on its military operations. and president trump, in june, sent a letter to congressional leaders, saying that the u.s. had about 1,000 troops in niger and neighboring cameroon. now, again, though, members of congress want to know more, want to learn more, and they're raising the prospect of hearings, both on this particular event, ambush in niger and u.s. military posture in west africa overall. john and poppy? >> ryan brown at the pentagon. thank you for that reporting. let's talk about all of this. with us, cnn contributor, bee ana, lynn sweet of the "chicago sun-times," and colonel warren. lynn, let me begin with you. the president this morning chose to respond to this and chose to essentially say in his tweet, if we can bring it up, that that's -- that the widow is not telling the truth, because his words are, "i had a very respectful conversation wi

edward graham's sons could finally be with their father.gnity of a proper resting place and i am delighted that it is here amongst all his comrades. it is a day that will live with me forever and, yes, it is the end of the trail. robert hall, bbc news, at catania in sicily. more on that and all the news at any time on our website. thank you for watching. good morning. the farmers may well have ploughed fields but that hasn't stopped our weather watchers from posting photos of the harvest moon. it has clouded over. not quite a full moon. 98%. we will see the full moon tonight. the time being, the cloud has arrived and we will see strong winds and rain but the next few hours and then that eases away through the south—east corner. it would be a damp old start first thing thursday morning. if you are travelling to work there will be outbreaks of rain and still pretty blustery. behind it, quite a clearance and some decent spells of sunshine to look forward to. not a bad start through northern england, northern ireland and scotland. scattering of

edward graham's sons could finally be with their father.gnity of a proper resting place and i am delighted that it is here amongst all his comrades. it is a day that will live with me forever and, yes, it is the end of the trail. robert hall, bbc news, at catania in sicily. a reminder of our main news, police in las vegas now say that stephen paddock who shot dead 58 people on sunday may have been playing a planning an earlier attack. his girlfriend, who was in the philippines at the time of the attack, is now back. she was met by the fbi at the airport and has told them she had no idea what he planned to do. police say they he intended to do. police say they he intended to survive and it is unlikely he acted alone. good morning. the farmers may well have ploughed fields but that hasn't stopped our weather watchers from posting photos of the harvest moon. it has clouded over. not quite a full moon. 98%. we will see the full moon tonight. the time being, the cloud has arrived and we will see strong winds and rain but the next few hours and t

lindsey graham was absolutely right. lindsey graham said this isn't just about one guy.t elected. we may not like elected. what are those folks looking for? >> i think it is hard to talk about restoring americans faith in the government when you have representatives of the government standing in front of the american people and telling false stories. i think tom is completely right that general kelly lost a huge amount of credibility when he said what he did about representative wilson and that just takes away -- you see the white house bleeding out this credibility issue. >> when i was at the capital this week i talked with some senators on the republican side. a lot of them echoed senator graham saying privately they are in lock step with president george w. bush and respect president obama's comments. they believe the country in part because they told me about the obama and bush perezancies has lost faith in the institutions and national political parties and because of rising poli feel able to navigate this moment. >> why can't you have this populism and anger withou

this one's called the "graham- cassidy bill." and south dakota senator john thune paid one of its authors the ultimate compliment, saying, "i just told bill cassidy he's kind of the grave robber. this thing was six feet under, and i think he's revived it." actually-- this is interesting-- grave robbing is a big part of the new plan. you know, get yourself a new hip or some dentures, or something like that. it offers complete shovel coverage. but the g.o.p. needs to move fast because, due to senate rules that i refuse to learn they're facing a september 30 deadline. it's a race against the clock. they've got ten days to overhaul the healthcare system, or everybody lives. ( laughter ) in fact-- ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: they all lived. i'm ready to live. i'm ready. >> stephen: so, thank you. we're all gonna die! in fact, this is being done in such a rush that "the congressional budget office won't estimate the full effects of obamacare repeal until after the vote deadline." well, that there is just good health care. like when

lindsey graham, corey booker, does that show that maybe th defenses word? >> it's all about influencing the jury. suppose there and observing you'd want to say these are credible people coming in just to be with him. that may have some traction. sometimes is getting one juror to buy into that. >> it looks like he's doing the same thing as the murphy. >> is the ultimate political theater. the jury is really the audience not the voters. >> is this why you don't trust lawyers and politicians? did the guy committed crime or not? >> shakespeare said were all good actors. while the world to stage. in reality it's true but it's a fact of life. >> if he's acquitted to see win reelection? >> no. >> there's a lotats cans lined u. >> that's check in with our meran.on sunday the fifth anniv of sup storm sandy llvering from that another b aded our way the >> the only valid co be made is thee,s year is be ay weather day with rain and wind. the overall atmosphere set up he impact is not near as sa still a big storm a nasty day we'll talk more about that in second. we do n

that doesn't exist in cassidy-graham. aren't definitions of key terms like "adequate" or "affordable." and i don't know if you've met the guy who will be signing this bill, but i'm not sure we should go by his definition of affordable. [ light laughter ] so the bill takes money away from vulnerable people on medicaid and strips away protections for people with preexisting conditions. now you might think, how could any senator vote for such a monstrous bill? well, the answer is, they either don't know or don't care. the website vox interviewed gop senators and asked them basic questions about the bill, and their answers were baffling. take, for example, this exchange with kansas senator, pat ros. things better? what is this doing? roberts -- look. we're in the back seat of a convertible being driven by thelma and louise and we're headed toward the canyon. that's a movie that you've probably never seen. reporter -- i do know "thelma and louise" sir. [ laughter ] roberts -- so we have to get out of the car and you have to ha

. >> this is the graham-cassidy bill. really, for all intents and purposes is a final hail mary here for republicans on health care. >> republicans pushing ahead with a hail mary plan. >> this hail mary option. >> they're referring to it as a hail mary, essentially. >> there is the last-ditch, furious hail mary effort -- >> seth: of course, if this thing passes, a hail mary might be the only health care option some people can afford. [ light laughter ] hail mary, full of grace, does this mole look weird to you? but that's right. they're throwing another hail mary. except republicans aren't exactly tom brady or aaron rodgers. they're more like jay cutler. >> he's going to launch it. and that was way out of bounds. incomplete. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: now, the main sponsors of this new bill are senators bill cassidy and lindsey graham. and they are trying to rush it through for a vote as early as next week. now, as you may recall, republicans complained repeatedly about the process democrats used to pass obamacare

presence in nigeria key lawmakers including senators lindsey graham of south carolina new york schuck schumer who said they were not even aware that the united states had to station in nigeria or what the mission there is meanwhile the pentagon said it has kept congress regularly informed about troop movements including those in nigeria so what's going on the some of that with congressman steve russell republican of oklahoma decorated army combat veteran retired lieutenant colonel presently serves on the house government oversight committee and the armed services committee he joins me from capitol hill all right congressman what do you make of this did you know about this in nigeria while i did you know the training missions were special forces go away and help host countries to deal with their own internal battles and strife is as old as special forces itself since its inception in the early one nine hundred sixty s. these missions have been a core part of what special operations forces and in particular special forces do so i'm baffled by any lawmaker. that would say that they had n

even has people in niger in fact at one point our buddy lindsey graham said quote to. be seized that i didn't even know there was a thousand troops in niger this is from the man who sits on the senate armed services committee thankfully senator rand paul of kentucky sudden would need to be said about lindsay's apparent amnesia when rand paul tweeted out that you know you are into what he wars and what he places when even more monger lindsey graham can't keep track of anymore so what exactly is the u.s. mission in niger or the rest of africa for that matter well according to the united states africa command website yes they actually have a website the united states military is in niger because a safe stable secure and prosperous africa is and during united states interests niger is an important partner to the u.s. . because ladies and gentlemen nothing says friendship more than teaching your friends how to kill extremists and their families now let's start watching the hawks. get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you but i got. the. older ones are the harks i am tir

edward graham's sons could finally be with their father.f a proper resting place and i am delighted that it is here amongst all his comrades. it is a day that will live with me for ever and, yes, it is the end of the trail. robert hall, bbc news, in sicily. time for a look at the weather. here's alina jenkins. if you were looking for a sunshine, you would have found it at opposite ends of the country. pleasant in devon and once the showers cleared in scotland, sunshine here as well. in between, a lot of cloud and rain feeding into northern ireland, the southern and western parts of scotland, england and parts of wales and this process continues this evening. the rain will become heavy in northern ireland and then our ice turn to the strength of the wind, particularly through wales, the midlands and east anglia. a blustery end to the strength of the wind, particularly through wales, the midlands and east anglia. a blustery end of the night, but a milder night, between eight and 12 degrees. the strength of the winds overnight give us some the

those include rand paul and lindsey graham. and president trump does not care for mitch mcconnell either. and i would not be surprised at all if you see more actions of this type, more maneuvering around mitch mcconnell in a way that puts him and his status as a majority leader in a bit of political peril. >> that has to be uncomfortable considering mitch mcconnell's wife elaine chao is in the president's cabinet. josh, i know you write this week with respect to the economy and president trump's takes, why republicans don't see that the trump tax cut hurts the middle class, and the president overstating the impact of the stock market. can you explain those? >> so the republicans rolled out this tax plan drawn up by the white house, the president is talking it up as a big tax consult. 12% of taxpayers would face an increase, and by 2026, a quarter more people would pay more under the plan. the reason is because of changes they make to the personal exemplifie exemptions. the new system would take away those exclusions, a middle c

lindsey graham was absolutely right. graham said this isn't just about one guy. he got elected. we may not like it. but he got elected. what are the folks looking for? >> i think it's hard to talk about restoring american's faith in the government when you have the representatives of the government standing in front of the american people and telling demonstrably false stories. i think tom is completely right that general kelly lost a huge amount of credibility when he said what he did about representative wolfson. that takes away -- i mean, you see this white house constantly bleeding out this credibility issue. >> when i was at the capitol this week i a talked to -- i talked to some senators and council members and a lot echoed senator graham. privately they're in lock step with george w. bush but they believe the country in part because they told me about the obama and bush presidencies have lost faith in the institutions of the national political parties and because of this rising populism and rising frustration, those in washington don't feel able to navigate the moment. >>

senator graham in his office. quite a commotion. as there tends to be when a member of the administration comes here to the russell building. so he had mattis waiting in there. we don't know exactly what the meeting is about. >> i'm curious, when you said -- when you were saying that mattis seemed to tell you on the stairs when he walked down, he's fairly pleased with the coverage coming out about what happened in niger, but there's been a lot of push back from the defense department on whether or not there was a communication breakdown a reconnaissance breakdown, there was not enough of surveillance being done in that area. they have pushed back dramatically on that. yet we know from testimony on capitol hill in march that the generals were saying, look, we need more resources on the ground in niger if we're going to do our jobs properly. in march they said they needed more resources. now when they're being pushed if they had more resources, the answer is yes. >> and something else that mattis was talking about. we'll have to check