no one seems to put this in better perspective than senator lindsey graham. and please take a look. >> i hope you win in 2020, and you said that, not me. you have nothing to apologize for. when you see justice sotomayor or and kagan, i voted for them but i would never do to them what you have done to this guy. this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. i cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. you all want power, i hope you never get it. i hope the american people can see through the sham, that you knew about it and you held it. you had no intention of protecting dr. ford. none. she's as much of a victim as you are. god, i hate to say that because these have been my friends, but let me tell you, when it comes to this, you are looking for a fair process? you came to the wrong town at the wrong time, my friend. to my republican colleagues, if you vote no, you are legitimizing the most despicable thing i have seen in my time in politics. >> sean: senator graham will join us in studio in just a moment, and after those passiona

senator graham. i am almost speechless because i am not a person who is easily impressed by rhetoric but this man impressed. i suspect, he reminded the republican members of the u.s. senate of their consciences. >> yeah, lindsey and i have had a lot of disagreements but i'm telling you what - lindsay reached down into his soul and he was righteous and he was right and he was defensive of a process. lou, i was having to handle former late dinner with a former czech republic and he had hearings and things that were going on here and he said we always look to america as that light on the hill. we do not always agree but we knew were trying to do is write and be fair. we are not seeing the light so much. lindsay got some of that light in up today. lou: the idea that - >> go ahead. lou: this business that they started with, first of all, if not all light in the senate judiciary committee. after watching this i can't even imagine what senator chuck grassley was thinking about when he had this woman doing f

>> senator graham was exactly right.witter feed i follow a wide range of people from the crazy left of the crazy right and all points in between and what i saw on twitter after senator graham's speech was the mild-mannered somewhat conservative that i follow who really show any anger were upset, they were angry, they were fired up. senator graham tapped into a nerve where a lot of republicans, this process is a sham, that brett kavanaugh was set up just like he said and unfortunately the biggest loser yesterday was the american people and the institutions we rely on to provide good government for our country. heather: the white house came out to support senator graham almost immediately, the president himself, sarah sanders tweeting with the graham has more decency and courage than every democrat member of the committee combined, god bless him. a lot of finger-pointing at this point. a good point i will bring up with you, the reflection on both sides of the aisle if democrats succeed in delaying the confirmation vote, wh

lindsey graham did a tremendous job of calling this what it was.e democrats are reduced to talk about fart jokes in a yearbook, they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. this ended up a good day for judge kavanaugh. >> lou: i mean, senator whitehouse really will never -- >> of all people to be talking about person's ferocity. he -- a person's veracity. he is a joke. >> lou: he is a joke. if he were not before he is today forever more. he was ludicrous. >> it was a comedy routine and kavanaugh played it very, very well. going, the white house, basing everything on a newspaper article that he had read about stuff that was in brett kavanaugh's yearbook. so, it was a really, really two-part day. i had to say i thought the morning was very, very bad for republicans. i could not figure out the questioning of rachel mitchell. >> lou: five-minute alternates. >> lou: that didn't work for her. and she dwelled on the little stuff. >> obviously republicans resent how the democrats handle this and they want to see who told you to get this polygraph? di

and with that, senator graham, welcome back to "fox news sunday" ." >> senator graham: you must be mean. >> chris: or i don't want to talk. what's the latest on negotiations over having this hearing? what issues have been settled? what issues are still outstanding and how close are you to getting fed up with the witness dictating to the committee the terms of her testimony? >> senator graham: chairman grassley has bent over backwards to make this happen. the offer is thursday at 10:00. she made ten conditions through her lawyer, we accepted six. we are not going to turn over to the other side how many witnesses to call. there will be two witnesses, dr. ford and then judge kavanaugh and we will hire our own counsel. they contest those two things. if they continue to contest those two things there won't be a hearing. if they really want to be heard they can be heard in a small room with a lot of security, limited press availability, the issue will be treated fairly but we are not going to turn the hearing over to her lawyers and will see. i hope she comes, i will listen if she does. >> ch

people like gop senator lindsey graham.once considered an establishment republican who would rein trump in, which is why republicans were heartened to see him developing a rapport with the president. according to woodward's book, early in trump's presidey, trump invited graham to lunch at the white house. when he walked into the oval s office, trump tting behind the resolute desk. he jumped up, moved swiftly toward graham and gave him a big hug. "we got to be friends," trump said. "you're going to be my friend." [ light laughter ] "yes, sir, "graham replied. "i want to be yourriend." [ light laughter ] oh, my god, insider accounts of this white house read like an epise of "dora the explorer. [ laughter and applause ] "youe going to be my friend. "okay, i'll be your friend." "come on, vamanos. erybody, lets go!" [ laughter ] apparently that friendship has blossomed. in fact, when trump called woodward last month to complain that woodward hadn't interviewed him for his book, woodward explained on the call, which he recorded,

i probably spend more time interviewing lindsey graham. he's in the middle of almost major controversial issue on capitol hill by his own design. that was as angry as i have heard him about anything. i got the sense, the way he parsed his comments saying kneels badly for dr. ford that she got put in this position, i got the sense that graham felt like republicans got politically out foxed here. just my read on it. democrats held this back and delivered something that republicans didn't have a good answer for. they found dr. ford to be personally credible. you heard graham say there's no corroborating evidence. you couldn't get a warrant for this anywhere. his drum beat has been that alone should not be enough to end a person's life and career. i heard in that anger that it might be. despite this push back, the republicans may not have an answer for it and the democrats might have used dr. ford, his view on it, not mine. used dr. ford effectively as a weapon at this last minute to if not derail, significantly delay this confirmation. >> let

and not just graham's words but his tone. yesterday republicans thought they had day one by yelling. they thought basically a full of old white guys yelled each other in a frenzy are and they thought they'd won the day. and today it was a quiet conversation between two friends that caused democracy to succeed and for us to have at least a semblance of a fair process here where we might get some justice. >> and can and just jump in? i think the biggest difference right here is when lindsey graham is trying to basically allude to the fact dr. ford may be purging herself. in fact she was the one who said i took a polygraph, i welcome an fbi investigation. and the person seeking the highest court said he did neither and he did not want either of those things to happen. >> thank you for starting our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> and when we come back, what can fbi investigators actually do now in the week that they have for this new investigation of sexual assault allegations against brett k

lindsey graham, congressman gohmert, i will start with you if i may. senator graham, i'm almost speechless because i am not a person who is easily impressed by rhetoric. this man impressed. he, i suspect, reminded the republican members of the u.s. senate of their consciences. >> yeah. lindsey and i have had a lot of disagreements but i tell you what. lindsey reached down into his soul and he was righteous and he was right and he was defensive of a process. lou, i was having dinner today, we had a late dinner with a former president of the czech republic. and he said he had seen some of the hearings and things that were going on here. he said, "we always look to america as that light on the hill. we didn't always agree but we knew you were trying to do what was right and be fair. we're not seeing the light so much." i'm telling you, lindsey got light in him today. he was righteous. >> i'm sorry, congressman. >> go ahead. >> lou: this business they started with. well, first of all, it's not all light in the senate judiciary committee. >> no, it wasn't.

we are here with senator lindsey graham.eard from those people and many said i wasn't at the party and don't have reckless. >> we told that to the committee. the senators would like to double-check. ms. ramirez has refused to talk to us. her allegations wouldn't be printed by the new york times for a good reason. we'll vote this coming week. the fbi supplemental investigation should be done early this week. we'll have a final passage vote later in the week. i'm highly confident he'll be conif confirmed. he's a good man. he's the best choice president trump could have made. i'll tell you what will happen next if you will allow. >> please. >> okay, this is what's going to happen. i'll ask senator grassily about how this hearing process was hijacked beyond ethical aspects. the slash and burn aspects of it and abuse dr. ford's trust. we'll start with the following concept. dr. ford said at the hearing she didn't know the committee would come to california and take her testimony in a private setting. this is what she said. i just

well, as senator lindsey graham said, yeah, it doesn't work that way. it's not up to you jeff flake and we realize that your vote is important when it comes to the full senate floor, however, it's up to chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell to work out a deal. mitch mcconnell is the majority leader, chuck schumer is the minority leader. you are neither of those and when this gets to the full senate, they can talk about it and we can see if there could be an fbi investigation. jeff flake says though if you want my vote on the full floor, this is what it's gonna take. who does he take with him? does he bring lisa murkowski of alaska? does he bring senator susan collins? does he bring those swing votes along with him if he says nope, i'm not going to vote unless you give an fbi investigation a week's time to move forward. and then there were questions. you saw. so democrats were not even clear on what this meant. dianne feinstein, what are we voting on what did i just say? i am in favor of an fbi investigation. so what does that mean? and how do we know it's j

lindsey graham's attacks, okay.minee unleashed an equal equal equally vitriolic attack on a vast left wing conspiracy that he blamed on this courageous woman, dr. blasey ford, and two other survivors coming forward. that is to disrespect and demean survivors everywhere, including these individuals. they came forth voluntarily. there was no encouragement from anyone of the democratic senators or anyone else to them in sharing their stories and they braved a lot at great cost and personal sacrifice. >> senator blumenthal, thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >>> all right. "outfront" with me now, david gergen is here, former presidential adviser to two presidents, joan walsh, the nation's national affairs correspondent, mark short, former white house director of legislative affairs for president trump, mark preston, cnn's senior political analyst, wendy murphy is here and jenny beth martin is cofounder and national coordinator of the tea party patriots. thank you all for being here. an amazing thing that we

lindsey graham.witnesses are witnesses and seeing it is believing it. >> i'm told there's a still picture from "the washington post" of republicans. this is the republican side of the committee room. closest to the lens is john, no relation, kennedy, of louisiana, and then curl around there, eventually to senator hatch on the far right. lin linda, this is a rare combination, to my question to joyce, of personality and education and intellect, what we're seeing here. >> very, very rare combination. and as joyce said, the expert witness piece within. did she take that route. did she do the psychological thing to deal with her own trauma, to help her understand why this has impacted her. it's really fascinating. >> yes. joyce, go ahead. we're just watching members of the republican caucus go back in. there's mike lee and jeff flake. >> i was going to say, one point we haven't touched on is her compelling reason for coming forward. and it's not to get revenge it and it's not to help herself, it's to do p

a democratic plot, lindsey graham would say.have to get at how gut wrenching it been for him, for his family, how unfair he feels it is. you saw some of that with his fox interview. he was slightly wooden but there were times when he was almost seeming like he was breaking down and crying and his wife was sitting there next to him. i think one of the issues he's going to have, though, are those yearbook interviews, where he does portray himself as a party boy, beach week, in the club, whatever. in the fox interview he was saying he was a choir boy, he was at church. i think if you're a democrat, you're going to go after that. >> the question i have about kavanaugh's testimony and i don't know the right answ

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senator graham versus senator flake. senator graham just like judge kavanagh, taking the advice of president trump, following the model of president trump, defiant, fight, total political war in this charged america that we're all living through and covering. and then there's retiring republican jeff flake of arizona, reluctant to embrace that kind of turn in the republican party, that kind of war mentality when it comes to american politics, unsure of how he's going to vote. it's just a split republican party in how they're coming down on this. for now it's that graham/trump approach, that aggression that's fueling senators inside the gop. when i'm talking to them in the hallways and they're mulling what to do. >> cynthia, back to something, a point you started before the break, to find for judge kavanagh, does that have to mean you believe she is crazy, mistaken, or lying? >> yeah, absolutely. >> it's that simple? >> it's that simple. because she is 100% sure. she knew him in advance. this is not a stranger situation.

turns out senator graham, you were behind that? >> no.was at the funeral didn't get invited by the family. i met with ivanka about a trip we are planning in africa earlier in the week. ivanka said nice things about senator mccain after his passing. it was not unnoticed by the family. if you wanted to invite everybody that loved john mccain you could have filled up yankee stadium. i'm hoping that cindy who has done terrific work for human trafficking of women and all things related to that issue can work with ivanka and others because that's her life's work. maybe these two can work together to help women in desperate straits. i think both would like to do that. i would like to help to the extend i could. -- to the extent i could. >> are you happy they were there? >> i was. they were sitting right behind us. >> i saw you there. >> they were positive about john mccain and i thanked them as john's friend that they would come. i thought it meant a lot. at the end i spoke to them, too. there were no complaints. they felt that the whole service

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lindsey graham is a snake here.te for trump of it's one of the ig aboute eses esese biggest 180s we've seen. he wants to go into the cabinet, trying to anger the base, deep state crowd. he became a hero on sean hannity's show. basically, joy, it's really sad but dr. ford became road kill on lindsey graham's ambition here. >> she described it as feeling like she had to throw her body in front of a train that's going where i was going anyway. that's an incredibly sad way to think about it. she became a hero to women. corrine, david, anita, thank you very much. coming up at the top of the hour, a closer look at brett kavanaugh's calendar and the role it could play in the investigation. up next more "am joy." d play in investigation. up next more "am joy." able. see, they know it's confusing. i literally have no idea what i'm getting, dennis quaid. that's why they're making it simple, man in cafe. and more affordable. thank you, dennis quaid. you're welcome. that's a prop apple. i'd tell you more, but i only have 30 sec

. >> well it quickly dissolved into a -- evolved into a explosive partisan battle with lindsey graham of south carolina going after his democratic colleagues personally. >> what you want to go is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. you said that. not me. i would never do to them what you've done to this guy. this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. and if you really want to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. are you a gang rapist? >> no. >> to my republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing i have seen in my time in politics. i hope you're on the supreme court. that is exactly where you should be. and i hope that the american people will see through this charade. >> well when the hearing today concluded, the president trump tweeted judge kavanaugh showed america exactly why i nominated him. his testimony was powerful and honest and riveting. democrats search and destroy strategy is disgraceful. and this process has been a total sham and an effo

is being blackmailed by moscow despite the fact graham is renowned for his anti russian stance in the sense they're trying to break the backs of democracies they're doing worse things in other countries they're trying to get us to fight among ourselves and here's what we should do we should tell the russians in no uncertain terms you interfere in our elections we don't care why we're going to hit you in here too hard in russia. it's not a normal country media legal analyst lytle told us the russian blackmail claim against senator graham is nothing but. the idea is so specious. they're suggesting that that the russians have this plan through blackmail they blackmail senator graham one of the most strong bunch heretofore and some cases fancy russian senator to speak on behalf of the president trumps nominee who is a republican which as he is this this is not the way blackmail works as easy as blackmail imagine me blackmailing you to say something or do something that you're going to do anyway it doesn't make any sense this is an example of how people in our country here is the so-called

senator graham joins us now. >> senator graham: i just left the circus, it's good to be with you.ur response to that first, what does that signal to you? >> senator graham: it sounds like they are making some efforts to secure an interview but it also means that mueller will not have interviews before the election. they are still negotiating about talking to the president and most likely will not get a report before the election. >> martha: implied they would like a written response and they would agree to a written response with regard to collusion but they left the door open when it came stupidest obstruction of justice. does that mean they should speak to them personally? >> i've and see no evidence of collusion and the fact means there probably is no collusion. it's almost impossible to prove that this president had a corrupt motive for firing comey because almost every democrat wanted him fired. there are plenty of democrats who told the president and the nation you need to get rid of comey because he's incompetent. >> martha: let's get to the hearing. you called it a circus,

also the white house very pleased with senator lindsey graham's performance. kellyanne conway and sara sanders tweeted about it during the hearing. white house press secretary said quote lindsey graham had more decency encouraged in any democrat member combined to god bless him. that was a turning point and so is kavanaugh's opening statement that after many the west wing considered it to be a shaky start because even they can see that dr. ford and a lot of the testimony was credible. overall kennedy president trump very pleased with judge kavanaugh today. kennedy: her credibility and herb poise is what makes it so tough for some of those senators who are on the fence. i talked to shannon and chat about at moments ago. it's the moderate republicans who feel they are confident enough to vote for judge kavanaugh i think the red state democrats do the same thing to do what is interesting is the diametric turn we have had from this point from yesterday morning when the third accuser came forward. it was heard much from her today? >> haven't heard much from her and

pete: senator graham coming up shortly.point, he was so angry at your colleagues across the aisle. how mad were you about what they had done over the last 7 weeks? >> this is been shameful the doctor ford, shameful to brett cavanagh, this has not been a search for the truth. this is about search and destroy. unfortunately here in washington that is all too common. it reminds me of what i read about the mccarthy hearings in the 50s when the question was asked have you no sense of decency? because the way both doctor ford and brett kavanaugh were treated was indecent and cruel. pete: it passes out of committee today? >> i do. pete: thanks for joining us today, appreciate it. forget his long record. many democrats were more concerned about what was written in brett kavanaugh's high school yearbook many years ago. >> don't know if it is. 's or booth? how do you pronounce that? >> a burst of flatulence, we were 16. pete: michelle mauk and his life, they made a mockery of the process. see a little blood when you brush or floss? y

kevin graham doubled down saying dr. ford was drunk.gly endorsed him by putting out his video talking about botham jean. >> he said he found himself murdered. ted cruz was out of touch in terms of how he talked about that particular case. >> we will end where we started because those who are going through this debate of whether they will be elected funnels right back into the decision that's going to be happening in the senate judiciary committee. thank you all. thank you. we will be right back. i'm ken jacobus, i'm the owner of good start packaging. we distribute environmentally-friendly packaging for restaurants. and we've grown substantially. so i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. that's right, $36,000. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees. my unlimited 2% cash back is more than just a perk, it's our healthcare. can i say it? what's in your wallet? you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedi

the lindsey graham clip and what happened to the occasionally independent minded lindsey graham. that was the phoniest sympathy trying to deny her agency, saying she is just a pawn of the democrats. no. she is someone who voluntarily came forward knowing the kind of grief -- and i'm being gentle about it -- she would take for doing so. and the mike pence clip goes to the hypocrisy of this whole process. republicans are trying to say to their moderates, this isn't about ideology. this is about a competent jurist. but there is mike pence right there saying, no, no, no. this is about ideology. we can count on his vote. that's what's wrong with this whole process. and i think you are going to see democrats pressing on the veracity issue as vernita suggested, not only about these charges, but they are going to revisit some of the things he said during the hearings they think were untrue. >> suzanne collins is also there having to be the responder. here she is responding to donald trump questioning the legitimacy of dr. ford's allegation. >> we know that allegations of sexual assault a

but graham has cozied up to the president. he's been a faithful partner in legislation and also a faithful golf partner. it is strike striking to watch this display today. you can't help but think about john mccain, who was lindsey graham's -- one of his very best friends. certainly someone who remained a steadfast opponent of donald trump and probably one who would reject some of the theatrics we're seeing today. >> we're watching some of the lions at work, hatch and leahy, the two most senior members of the u.s. senate, i believe. am i getting that wrong? yeah. hatch and leahy are right up there, going back their service dating back to the 1970s when they arrived. joyce vance, on the topic of an fbi investigation, i guess nothing is clinical and nothing can be said beyond party slant in this environment. is it disqualifying to anyone but the dems? >> i think that that's the question that we'll have to grapple with here. you know, we hear this d denegration of the fbi process. that's not entirely true. it creates a little bit

graham went to washington.re always calling for you know, bipartisanship, reaching across the aisle. as a conservative woman, i see the republicans, whether it is lindsey graham, who by the way, took a lot in his home state when he did vote for the supreme court justices but willing to work across the aisle, when is the last time you saw democrats doing that? it is so interesting. >> who isn't up for reelection in a red state? >> is the viewer tweeting is bill maher a resident of south carolina? if not is irrelevant. -- >> denise emailed, to someone who is deceased to attack another person, that is a new low even for bill maher. >> really creating brand-new low. this is someone on facebook. i love that lindsey graham passionately stood up for judge kavanaugh. it is about time. and very distasteful and disrespectful of bill maher. >> he also said i'm a white man from succulent out how to shut up i get to talk. whether you're a white man, black woman, hispanic woman it doesn't matter, we are all americans. >> les

we heard some fiery questioning from lindsey graham, from south carolina.emocrats continuing their questioning, focusing a lot on the fbi investigation that has not happened. and what moves forward. do we have judge andrew napolitano in new york? we don't, actually. but he's really good. when we bring him in. shannon, what are we looking for from the rest of the democrats, mazie hirono, kamala harris, cory booker. those are people in the past who have been pretty aggressive and likely will be today. >> i think will be interesting to look at his reaction to them because these are people who are used to prosecuting cases. they have depth and experience of doing that. they've only got 5 minutes. it's a short time. not like the 20 or 30 minutes they had the traditional hearing. i think they're going to be looking to land punches as quickly and cleanly as i can. i think he is pretty fired up and pretty wound up in feeling very much-maligned and a sense of injustice about what's happened to him because of the committee. we will see. i think it will be very combat

you mention senator graham, it's been a prosecutor for years and a judge at one point. he said he would i have never given out a warrant based on what we have heard. also a supreme court justice what senator cornyn and he said you are being accused of crimes that have the statute of limitation and you could actually be facing charges. even though it's not a trial, there are very serious legal issues in addition to this court of public opinion. >> bret: during senator graham's passion to speech, he pointed and directly referenced senator flake to his right. senator flake is one of the senators that we are waiting to hear. the senate will vote at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow and the vote will proceed after that. if they vote yes that will be a recommendation to the floor and if they don't, it will still go to the floor and we are likely looking at a floor vote sometime this week tuesday or wednesday. judge andrew napolitano wrapping up some thoughts here and obviously we said this was a roller coaster judge. your thoughts on the end of it? >> i'm in general agreement with all of my

but knowing lindsey graham, lindsey graham has been judge kavanagh's most vocal and vehement defenderver since the allegations broke publicly. he even said to me in an interview last week that he was so angry because he said, quote, this has been a drive-by shooting against kavanagh in terms of these allegations coming forward. so you sense that fury for sometime. i think that graham really wanted to make that statement while the nation was watching. and i think one by one that gave, that gave the rest of the republicans kind of its implicit permission to say what they thought. they had been holding back. these were waiting for senator jeff flake to weigh in. he's one of the key undecided senators on this vote. we were wondering if his comments would give any indication of where he was leaning or where he would lean. but it really didn't. it just talked -- he apologized to both judge ford and he apologized -- judge kavanagh and he apologized to dr. ford. leaving the room there could be as much doubt as certainty, so we really don't know where his head is at right now. and he really do

republican senator lindsey graham blaming democratssen. lindsey graham / -r- south carolina: "this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics."as senate republicans work to see if they have the votes to confirm their nominee to the supreme court -- kavanaugh emphatic he still wants the job.brett kavanaugh /supreme court nominee: "you'll never get me to quit. never."

to know the truth you sure as hell would not done what you've done to this guy however a senator graham staunch defense of brett kavanaugh has drawn criticism to american comedian chelsea handler even claim that graham is being blackmailed by moscow by graham as are known for his anti russian stance in the senate they're trying to break the bad of democracies they're doing worse things in other countries they're trying to get us to fight among ourselves and here's what we should do we should tell the russians in no uncertain terms you interfere in our elections we don't care why we're going to hit you in here too hard in russia. it's not a normal country or media legal analyst lionel told us the russia block meal claim against senator graham it's nothing but absurd the idea is so specious. they are suggesting that that the russians have this man through blackmail they blackmail him senator graham one of the most staunch heretofore in some cases the russian one senator to sneak on behalf of the president drums to nominee who is a republican as he is this this is not the way blackmail wor

. >> senator graham said he had talked to you about talking to me. now, is that not true? >> senator graham actually mentioned it quickly on one meeting. that is true. that is true. no, but that is true. mentioned it quickly. not like, you know -- and i would certainly have thought that maybe you would have called the office. but that's okay. i'll speak to kellyanne. i am a little surprised that she wouldn't have told me, that she just walked in -- i'm talking to bob woodward. he said he told you about speaking to me. but you never told me. why didn't you tell me? i would have been very happy to speak to him. all right. so what are you going to do? so i have another bad book coming out. >> it goes on. and you know, i -- what you can count on is that i've been very careful. evelyn, are you on? >> yes. >> evelyn ductee who's my assistant -- >> hello, evelyn. >> she transcribed all the tapes because with permission i taped people for hundreds of hours. >> good. >> and i think there's nothing in this book that doesn't come from a firsthand source. is that correct, evelyn? >> b

they're suggesting that that the russians have this man through blackmail they blackmail senator graham one of the most staunch heretofore in some cases the russian senator to speak on behalf of the president trumps nominee who is a republican as he is this this is not the way blackmail works as easy as blackmail imagine me blackmailing you to say something or do something if you're going to do anyway it doesn't make any sense this is an example of how people in our country here the so-called elite the intelligentsia the the shanty hollyweird the i guess the liberal if you well at your tame and arm of american entertainment factions all of a sudden they feel impelled then compelled and able to comment on issues they know nothing about. further protests something suborder has seen seven palestinians including two children killed by the israeli military on brit's more demonstrators were injured. yeah the role you're seeing here was part of the great march of return protests campaign which began back in march demonstrators are calling for the right to take over territory big plane israel h

let as listen now to senator graham. >> senator graham do you think he was moved after he was confronted by protesters on his way to vote this morning? >> no. listen, this is jeff flake. i mean, this is why i actually like about the guy, susan, all these people take it really seriously. jeff is not a lawyer. this is hard. again i've been in the legal system. you have a lot of emotional decisions to make but the fact pattern here leads itself, i'm sorry there is not enough we've got to move on, having said that, this is jeff flake, very sincere in what he is trying to do, i respect the hell out of this, democrats a week matter. some of them would. some would go own and on. a few say week longer would make it a better process he probably done -- >> republicans agreed to one-week delay. >> if i could quit talking to y'all come out. >> please do. come on back, senator. trish: all right, senator graham, talking rather optimistically about a one week delay. the hope maybe you get some democrats to reconsider and maybe they would actually vote to confirm judge kavanaugh if they had the peace of

that sounds like a conspiracy theory from senator graham. >> why do you think, jeff, that lindsey graham would do this? he chose to walk to the cameras. no one asked him this question. he chose to walk to the cameras and make this statement. why? >> well, i can't speak, obviously, for lindsey graham. but i think he and other people who are close to the president are trying to reassure the commander in chief and trying to give him other things to think about, other ways to perhaps divert his anger about this particular issue. you saw a little bit of that from the president himself at the rally last night talking about the deep state. it's just another sort of tact from an ally of the president and a way to focus attention on something else. >> thank you both. have a good weekend. nice to see you both. >>> still to come, off the sidelines and in the spotlight, president abe a obama set to un his midterm message to democrats. that's said to be a pointed critique of the president. >>> witnesses testifying for and against the president's supreme court pick, judge kavanaugh. >>> george papadop

senator graham in many ways trying to straddle two fences. i remember from the campaign, though, at the very end when it was clear from the internal polling that john mccain was not going to win that election and lindsey graham was there every day introducing him and i remember watching at some campaign event senator graham during the introduction senator mccain was watching him with this look of love like this is my buddy sticking with me right to the end. those guys got along. they were tremendous, tremendous friends. and i can't imagine that senator mccain had some reservations about the movement that his buddy senator graham had made towards the president with whom he clashed so much. >> lindsey graham said on the senate floor this week he wasn't sure he deserved the honor but he felt like a mccain as we see the mccain family now enter the national cathedral. seven children, all there, finally cindy mccain. their their father, mmyvi grandfather and great-grandfather did. ♪ all the family members have a part in one ceremony or another this