senator graham: here's the deal. we'll have about 30, 40 minutes together, and you won't ambush me every five minutes in the hall. deal? i tried. the mueller report is complete. i have a phone call with attorney general barr at noon about what's next. what's next i hope will be that he'll come to the committee, release as much as possible of the mueller report. one of the things that can't be released, grand jury information is employee hibted -- prohibited by law from being released because it would compromise the grand jury process. he in his letter to me and senator feinstein and others said that he's asking the special counsel team to help him with the information that may be covered by the grand jury statute. classified information, don't know how much if any, that would be something you would have to think about. and pretty much if the administration claims executive privilege about anything in the report, that would be something i'm sure he would consider and we'll find out what the determinations are there. t

>>> also just coming in, senator lindsey graham speaking about his meeting with president trump today. cnn's manu raju is live on capitol hill with more of those details for us. manu? >> reporter: that's right. i just talked to lindsey graham who met with president trump earlier today along with doug collins a ranking republican on the house judiciary committee, graham's the chairman of the senate committee. part of their meeting was about immigration and border security, the issue about the democratic investigations into the president came up and compromised about 10% of the meeting, according to lindsey graham, and the president was concerned about the, quote, harassment stuff according to graham. graham said to me that the president was concerned because he just believes they are out to take a wrecking ball to his life. he's referring to democrats. they'll go nuts referring to the president. he challenged democrats to fix problems and he believes the president should consult with his attorneys about whether to

graham: i tried. is played. report i have a phone call with attorney general william barr at --n about what his next food at noon about what is next. what's next i hope will be that he will come to the committee and release as much as possible of the mueller report. one of the things that can't be released, prohibited by law of being released, compromise the grand jury process. he in his letter to me and senator feinstein and others said he's asking special counsel team with information that may be covered by the grand jury statute. classified information, i don't know how much if any. that would be something that you would have to think about. pretty much if the administration claims executive privilege about anything in the report, that would be something i'm sure he would consider, we will find out what the determinations are there. but those are sort of the broad outlines in my view of the limitations of sharing the information with the public. my desire is for the public to get as much of the report as poss

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senator lindsey graham and a few other republicans went to the white house last night. they barged in, according to senator lindsey graham, during a dinner with president trump and made some last-minute hail mary pitch to president trump to try to save this vote and lower those deflections including senator graham telling president trump he should potentially try to save mike lee's resolution that would limit the president's thought over future national emergency declarations. here's senator graham this morning. >> i don't expect you to give up any powers, mr. president, that you think is necessary, but if you could find a way to sit down and bridge the gap here perspectively, it would be in everybody's interest. >> and senator graham saying if president trump was open to changes, that would certainly minimize the defections in his words dramatically. we're pushing it for 2:15. we'll see the final numbers. we know enough are voting against president trump on this

senator graham going to continue there. we're going to listen closely to what he's talking about, perhaps go back when he starts to take some questions from reporters. for now, let me bring in democratic congresswoman karen bash, a member of the house judiciary committee. he's taking questions now. congresswoman, stand by for a moment if you can. i want to listen to the questions. >> the lawyers into making cases are not making cases business. all i can tell you is that when it comes to obstruction of justice, mr. barr and rosenstein concluded that the facts did not justify a charge. not the idea you can't indict a sitting president. in his memo, mr. barr was about a statute. it is very problematic to bring an obstruction case, in my view, from making a personnel decision. if he fired a u.s. attorney somewhere, does that lead to an obstruction argument because you have a political difference with that attorney general who is not serving your agenda? what mr. barr said at the hearing was that nobody, including the president,

graham. mr. toomey. mr. johnson. mr. perdue. mr. brawn. mr. scott. mr. kennedy. mr. kramer. mr. sanders. ms. murray. mr. wyden. ms. stabenow. mr. white house. mr. warner. mr. merkley. mr. kaine. mr. van hollen. ms. harris. mr. chairman. senator enzi: no. the clerk: mr. chairman, 11 nays and eight yeas. senator enzi: the amendment is defeated. next one is kennedy number one. any opposition? sensing you are ready to vote. those in favor say aye. opposed. t carries. two recorded noes. three recorded noes. any other? moving on to wyden number 2. any further explanation? asking for opposition on this one? equest for a roll call vote. we'll have a recorded vote. clerk will call the role. >> mr. grassley. mr. crapo. mr. graham. mr. toomey. mr. johnson. mr. perdue, mr. brawn. in scott. mr. kennedy. mr. cramer. mr. sanders? ms. murray. mr. wyden. ms. stabenow. r. whitehouse. mr. warner. mr. merkley. mr. kaine. mr. van hollen. ms. harris. mr. chairman. senator enzi: no. ms. sanders: senator whitehouse, ou might want to vote on this. enator enzi: wyden number 2. >> i would vote aye. mr. wy

i have to play lindsey graham today, and lindsey graham four years ago. here he is today. >> my job is to represent the people of south carolina. they want me to work with the president where i can. i have to know the president, we have a good working relationship. i like him, i don't like when he says things about my friend john mccain. >> here is lindsey graham in 2015, the first -- after the first time that the president attacked john mccain. >> how could anybody wanting to be commander in chief suggest that john mccain and people like him are anything less than heros. he is a train wreck, a car wreck, and he showed why he will not make it through this process. >> but that is the two lindsey grahams. >> and it is pathetic. i understand that he is running for reelection next year, but

senator graham: for nonviolent offenders. senator graham: mr. lee, you wrote a lot as a young person. mr. lee: i did. senator graham: why? mr. lee: when i entered college as a 17-year-old, i took interest in current events and started reading newspaper olumns, watching television, "the mclaughlin group" and radio. senator graham: as a kid? that stuns me, but keep going. mr. lee: when -- i started to become interested and started writing about these issues. when you are 18 or 19, you think you know everything, even though you really don't. senator graham: when did you realize you didn't know everything? mr. lee: by the time i was 20's.mly inly -- my low senator graham: did having kids help you understand? mr. lee: being married and having kids, i have become more empa thet particular. senator graham: you have written about affirmative action and have opinions and compelling life story, what shaped your views about the concept of diversity and affirmative action in our law and society. mr. lee: when i wrote pieces on affirmative action, it was in

graham is specifically interestinged in this concept in the topic of red flag laws. this is the kind of law that he thinks could have prevented a shooting in parkland. basically these laws would allow a family member or local law enforcement official in a community to go to a judge and say someone that we know has either indicated to us or on social media that they might hurt themselves or hurt other people and then a federal judge can decide if that person should temporarily for their guns taken away and would prohibit them from purchasing guns. lindsey graham thinks this is a calmb ground that he can work with his democratic colleagues on.

>> so graham said that when mccain got this dossier, mccain showed it to graham and said what do i doith this, lindsay? and graham says we don't know whether this is true, whether it's garbage. you have to show it to somebody. graham says he supported mccain turning it over to the f.b.i. what he says happened then was mccain employees but not mccain himself after the election then leaked that information and that started the -- our industry the presses' attention to i well, i go back to that comey meeting there were a parently news organizations for that presidential briefing to happen in order to run with the details of this unverified dossier because if the intelligence community and the f.b.i. director are raising it with the president, then we are able to report it. and, you know,, there's a lot of debate about those decision and reporting decisions. it's not for me to question them. but that is the chain for how we got to where we got. and this apparently began or at least the mccain staffers played a role in that. plind say gram was playing golf with the president this weekend.

>> so senator graham also said that trump asked him if mccain really was his friend and graham says heied, yeah. and he really was my friend. what does that tell you about both men? >> well, trump's never had a friend of that sort in his life. and i think lindsey graham is a pretty poor friend if he's waiting this long to come to the defense of a deceased comrade who he supposedly loves. what took him so long? well, this is political opportuni opportunityism. >> i don't think donald trump understands friendship. i think it mystifies him. and this was a great opportunity for lindsey graham to educate him on friendship by rising really, really fully to mccain's defense. >> having said that, this was his response last week. and people thought it was pretty week. he said just a couple of tweets praising mccain for his service. there it is right there if you can put it up. for his service to the country. no mention of the president's attack. but now he says he's very direct that trump this week, i was his friend, and i told him to give the dossier over. >> i was very direct with trump priva

senator graham headed to the podium right now. in fact, let's listen in. >> here's the deal, we're going to have about 30/40 minutes together, and you won't ambush me in the hall, deal? >> probably not. >> i tried anyway, didn't i? okay. so the mueller report is complete. i have a phone call with attorney general barr at noon about what's next. what's next, i hope, will be that he'll come to a committee, release as much as possible of the mueller report. things that can't be release is grand jury information, prohibited by law to be released, compromising the grand jury process. he in his letter to me and senator feinstein and others said that he's asking the special counsel team to help him with the information that may be

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lindsey graham was a key player in that.e said when lindsey graham flipped, why did he do this? part of it was to ward off a primary challenge in 2020. >> this is why. it shows lindsey graham's political astuteness to do what he has to do to get re-elected but not necessarily living up to the principles of john mccain and this weekend he spoke out. it seems so formulaic how those responses go and there is not much push-back to presidential attacks. >> you can put up on the screen here, the president tweet aid number of things about senator mccain this past weekend. we understand the president is upset that john mccain did not vote with him on health care. john mccain died seven months ago. the president again, on new zealand weekend, decided to tweet all this stuff about last in his class, other stuff about john mccain. you expected lindsey graham to push back at the president. he didn't push back at all. he says, john mccain stepped forward to protect his country, defending john mccain, but not one word about, president tru

the dossier. >> lindsey graham admitted that publicly.ike he played golf with the president on sunday and he was basically trying to encourage the president to be happy and take the victory lap and be quiet. he said the president is incredibly frustrated and lindsey graham told me that he promised trump that he would do an investigation of the fisa process and the origins of the mueller investigation. we should expect him in his capacity as senate judiciary chair to do that investigation effectively on trump's behalf. >> so what are you hearing, jonathan, from white house sources about the trump administration's plans here now going forward after the mueller report was released. >> they don't really have a plan which is the usual situation. i have heard people say they have this great plan of retribution. it's not. it's a bunch of instincts drawn together. instincts for vengeance and payback. they're in a booking frenzy. the trump campaign and outside groups in the white house, surrogates are putting people on tv. they're wanting to flood

chair graham: ok. ms. wilcox, do you think it would have mattered in your daughter's case if a law existed at the time? ms. wilcox: i believe the law could have saved her life. those around scott thorpe, the man who killed my daughter, were very concerned about him. he actually had been evaluated for what we call a 5150 hold in california, the involuntary, 72-hour mental health hold. and he was able to hold it together and not meet the criteria for the mental health hold. but this would have empowered his family members to take action to remove the firearms. chair graham: given the tools. ms. wyatt, how money people are in the state of washington? ms. wyatt: i might get in trouble for this one. can you hear me? ok. i believe, i'm not quite sure, i believe it is either 6 million or 7 million people. in king county, where i am from, there is about 2.2 million and growing. chair graham: how many people are affected by this? ms. wyatt: by the extreme risk protection order? i don't know the numbers statewide. i

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lindsey graham. >> picture of himself of course. >> lindsey graham said couldn't agree more.f questions, i hope jim comey has to answer all of those questions. i know lindsey is eager to bring him in. i think we'll see that in the coming weeks. >> sandra: he will be holding a press at the top of the hour. we'll hear from him himself. >> bill: next hour on "america's newsroom" we'll go into this more with south carolina republican congressman chair of the house oversight committee trey gowdy. we'll talk to him about what's next on the mueller matter coming up next on "america's newsroom." >> sandra: new fox poll in the state of the 2020 race which candidate is in the lead? who has the most traction and who stacks up the best against president trump? >> bill: several candidates calling for the release of the entire mueller report. we've heard from many already. donna brazile former head of the dnc will join us on that. is that a winning strategy? a lot more coming up next on "america's newsroom." >> it is not often that i agree with richard nixon. but he was right to say that t

more with senator lindsey graham. >> okay.an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. we're the tenney's and we're usaa members for life. call usaa to start saving on insurance today. we're finally going on the trip i've been promising. because with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. ♪ so even when she outgrows her costume, we'll never outgrow the memory of our adventure together. unlock savings when you add select hotels to your existing trip. only when you book with expedia. maria: we are back with senator lindsey graham. senator, you were actually with the president a week ago when the report had just been released to the congress, the summary from the a.g., what was the president's mood? were you guys talking about it? >> well, he was very pleased that everything he'd been saying for two years proved to be right. if you know president trump, and i've gotten to know him pretty well, there is no way he sat down with the russians and came up with a plan and followed it. he doesn't come up w

and chairman graham's march 27th, 2019 letter, which addressed the investigation of special counsel robert s. mueller iii and the

senator graham referenced.he white house are just feeling, get it out there, and we are cool, we are fine with the results. >> shannon: in the meantime, the last 24-48 hours have been calls for apologies. jason, this one is directed at republicans. david brooks writing in "the new york times," "republicans might also approach at this moment with an attitude of humility. and honest self-examination. for two years, they have been a spreading libel that it is all a deep state conspiracy, a swamp. they should apologize for peddling the deep cynicism that undermines our country's institutions." since you had a best-selling book by the name of "deep state," i thought i would posed that to you. speak at next step is actually that a report will be issued about the highest echelons in the department of justice and how they dealt with the pfizer abuse. how did this whole fiasco started in the beginning? there is plenty of evidence that people potentially misused their positions of power. i mean, the ig has already put ou

even lindsey graham had a proposal, graham-cassidy, which didn't get enough support in his own caucusf obamacare gets repealed. >> nothing is getting passed on the 115th congress. it doesn't matter what proposals democrats or the president comes up with. nothing is getting passed in congress. it's about positioning the arguments for 2020. what will be the president's plan and the democrats' planted i guess i disagree with you today. republicans run scared off and on health care and on these major issues and if this president has taught everyone anything for two years, it should be not to run. >> john: one of the big stories out of the support for the district court case in texas is that there was a real difference of opinion, if you will, behind closed doors of the white house. you had mick mulvaney on one side. you had alex azar and william barr on the other side and it got kind of heated apparently. they were discussing this. the president eventually sided with mulvaney. >> we don't know the degree to which mulvaney was extricating e president's well. i was skeptical about mulvaney'

thank you very much. >> wrapping up with chair lindsey graham on the mueller report. we joined it in progress. if you missed any of what he had to say see it on our website c-span.org and also if you would like to read attorney general william barr's letter go to c-span.org. and we'll go back now to that hearing on migrant family separation policy. we join it in progress. >> come to order. the chair will recognize herself for five minutes for questioning. >> i wanted to start with you, because i wanted to ask you about this point that commander white made, about the court ordering the reunification of the families. and what i wanted to -- and what he said is that because of the different agencies that are involved in that process,

to the president and the president, according to lindsey graham, said that the veto will be sustained. he said that graham said to trump that they want to find a way forward in october when they'll have to deal with this fiscal fight to look at ways to change the national emergency laws which is what a number of republicans were urging him to get behind, a possible change to future use of the national emergency. they were urging him to do that to avoid significant defections. the president refused initially to get behind that. one reason you saw a sizeable number of republicans, 12, who announced they voted against the president. those 12 include people like marco rubio and rob portman, people who are up for re-election like susan collins, lisa murkowski. mitt romney, lamar alexander, roy blunt who's a member of the republican leadership and rand paul the conservative, mike lee and other conservatives and a kansas republican jerry moran. these republicans not comfortable with the pitch that the white house was making behind the scenes, the president was making publicly urging them to

>> and if that's a test, perhaps lindsey graham is passing a loyalty test with president trump. this is the tweet, the tweet that he put out in response to the president. zis pair raging once again the late senator noting as to senator mccain and the devotion to the country, he stepped forward to risk his life for his country, served honorably under difficult circumstances and as one of the most consequential senators in the history of the body. nothing about his service will ever be change order diminished. true. but there was no pushing back at all on what the president had to say there. there was really not, david, he wasn't standing up for his friend. >> no. look, i think a lot of people look at lindsey graham and say what has happened to him? why -- first why isn't he defending his friend but why isn't he taking on president trump more directly? i think he's made a calculation that the way to deal with trump, the way to be relevant, the way to have influence is not to go after him in response to something like this and attack him on twitter. it's to do what he does, you kno

it's not clear yet if lindsey graham will sponsor this legislation again.eartened by the fact that graham will hold this committee hearing. he told me yesterday this was blumenthal. he said i think his taking this step is profoundly important not just because it will help advance legislation, but it indicates his strong personal sympathy to the idea of a red flag statute. realistically, this kind of bill and legislation if it became legislation wouldn't pass in the senate, but it is significant that lindsey graham is working across the aisle with his colleagues and will hold this public hearing. >> graham famously said the parkland shooter did everything but take out an ad, public comments should have been alarming. >> great reporting. >> thank you. >>> still to come, a new strategy for facebook that includes privacy and encryption. imagine that. what changed? how do you get skin happy aveeno® with prebiotic oat. it hydrates and softens skin. so it looks like this... and you feel like this. aveeno® daily moisturizer get skin happy™ might mean a trip back to

, and the president was concerned about the, quote, harassment stuff according to graham.ham said to me that the president was concerned because he just believes they are out to take a wrecking ball to his life. he's referring to democrats. they'll go nuts referring to the president. he challenged democrats to fix problems and he believes the president should consult with his attorneys about whether to comply with some of these requests, but ultimately they'll have to try to move forward on some other issues. i asked lindsey graham, is there anything the president directed you to do to fight back? he said that it's not really clear what he could do but he wants to investigate the foreign intelligence surveillance act, what he believes are abuses under that law, something that conservatives in particular have criticized during this whole russia probe. that's something that graham plans to pursue going forward and he also said that the president discussed his emergency declaration at the border, something the president is facing bipartisan opposition over here in the senate,

that's not what senator graham is talking about. he's asking questions.imate questions and the senate, not a prosecutor, is the right forum for addressing those questions. >> shannon: all all right, thank you all very much. good to see you tonight. we have breaking news on president trump's border wall and the fate of obamacare. it's next. about 50% of people with evesevere asthma k? have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. fasenra is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. fasenra is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. fasenra is proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, improve breathing, and can lower oral steroid use. fasenra may cause allergic reactions. get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth, and tongue, or trouble breathing. don't stop your asthma treatments unless your doctor tells you to. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection or your ast

the chair, senator lindsey graham, is taking his seat.hairman graham: there will be a robust due process component. we will have a witness to talk about how you make a determination. thiseason we are having erring is because of senator blumenthal. nobody has been more passionate about trying to find a solution. it is not the solution he would prefer sometimes, it is just doing something rather than nothing. and senator durbin has been that way about immigration for years, so i believe senator blumenthal, that after today we can define the problem. a lot of people may be worried that the governor is going to take -- that the government is going to take your guns, and the answer is no, nobody's going to take a gun from you. but there will be a process for law enforcement and family members to petition a court to say that somebody in your neighborhood, or somebody down the street or across town is about to blow. i'm a big fan of the second amendment. i own firearms and try to be responsible with my ownership, but every right has limits. what

look, i think a lot of people look at lindsey graham and say what has happened to him? why -- first why isn't he defending his friend but why isn't he taking on president trump more directly? i think he's made a calculation that the way to deal with trump, the way to be relevant, the way to have influence is not to go after him in response to something like this and attack him on twitter. it's to do what he does, you know, on the golf course and private meetings with him to try to have the most influence. and think that's where he's tried to position himself whether people like it or not. >> the way not to get primaried in your next election in south carolina is to also do that. >> it was announced just this morning the local press in south carolina reporting that vice president pence is going to come down at the end of this month and headline a couple of big events rolling out senator graham's re-election campaign. but i do think david's right. i guess maybe for all of those reasons. it is almost sort of a page out of the pence playbook too. graham's approach, in terms

jeffries: lindsey graham spent years as a sidekick to john mccain. and then donald trump gets elected and donald trump continues to bash john mccain. in reprehensible ways. and lindsey graham on the issue is in the witness protection program. so he should resolve that issue before he wants to lecture democrats on our responsibility as a separate and co-equal branch of government in the house. ms. clark: i would just like to add to that, i think say to lindsey graham, 37 indictments. 37 indictments coming out of this investigation. i think that he should proceed with caution if he really wants to examine this entire investigation again and put his president that he defends, through thick or thin, back in the spotlight with his involvement. it's part of the reason that we need to see this full report, to understand the evidence that went into this, but when this investigation yielded 37 entitlements, many of those, at least six or seven of those, the closest advisors to this president, we welcome that scrutiny. mr. jeffries: let me also just add, 17 di

>> i have the greatest respect for senator graham. is a great man and a great public servant but that's what the justice department do its job and i agree with what alan said, let's quit criminalizing but that is not what we are talking about. he is asking questions. my view is those are legitimate questions and the senate, not a prosecutor is the right forum for addressing those questions. shannon: thank you for weighing in. good to see you tonight. breaking news on donald trump's border wall and the fate of obamacare is next. decision for our business. i love the custom ink design lab because it's really easy to use. they have customer service that you can reach anytime. t-shirts help us immediately get a sense of who we are as a group. from the moment clients walk in, they're able to feel like part of the family. - [spokesman] custom ink has hundreds of products for your business and free shipping. upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com. upload your logo or start your design today plants capture co2. what if o

i heard senator graham and it's an amazing idea.ry state. >> what you said is not medicare for all. that's bernie sanders plan. >> no, i don't support that. >> one of the many hopefuls have endorsed the plan. they also endorsed the green new deal. they were either present or no vote. they weren't there. it got a big thumbs down. something you said makes no sense. >> it doesn't make any sense. it costs trillions of dollars. we can never afford it because of the nature of it. you can't call it a plan of whatever it is. you can't keep the same form of capitalistic government that we have to do. let me talk about medicare. if our seniors are worried about medicare they should worry if we have medicare for all. we need to make sure we supply it. tray on the muller report is up ne ♪ limu emu & doug what do all these people have in common, limu? [ paper rustling ] exactly, nothing. they're completely different people, that's why they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual. they'll only pay for what they need! [ gargling ] [ coin

so, jonathan, why did senator graham do this? >> well, i think maybe we're looking at it backward here a little bit. >> okay. >> i think the president was willing to tweet that all the republicans should vote for transparency because he knew that when it came to senate that this was not going to go forward. so, why not tweet that it was perfectly fine with him that the house republicans all said that the mueller report should be made public. i mean, this is a president who said that the mueller investigation shouldn't have happened in the first place. this is not somebody who wants the mueller report made public. this is someone who's been calling it a witch hunt from day one, someone who has not treated this as something that was going to exonerate him. if it is something that does exonerate him, at the end it will end up looking like very bad strategy to have not embraced it in the first place. so, i think perhaps he didn't see around the corner that lindsey graham would be able to help him by blocking this in the senate or tha

and the only thing i can conclude about lindsey graham is when lindsey graham was running for president thought he could beat donald trump, it was easy and convenient to attack him. now that he's running for reelection in south carolina where trump has a lot of supporters, he's doing the expedient thing. that's not leadership. at some point republicans would do well if they were saying, look, i'm willing to lose my seat and go back and be a citizen. it gets really tiresome that the only people speaking out are those who aren't running for reelection and are retiring. >> jeremy, does it come down to that in your view for lindsey graham? he's been relatively transparent in saying, i need president trump on my side if i want my seat in d.c., like being there. >> that's absolutely right. donald trump won that debate about the future of the republican party. he won it for now, i don't know what the republican party looks like three or four years now. but for now the republican party is his. evidence of that is the fact that lindsey graham needs to worry about a primary from somebody whom vot

lindsey graham said what is so magic about next week? here is the challenge for democrats.o policy? people in the democratic caucus want to continue these investigations. the mueller report did not say what many democrats thought. checks and was asked a question earlier today, what if the mueller report came to different conclusions? would democrats be hammering on that are talking about healthcare and public policy issues? you have the democratic freshman congresswoman rashida sleep -- rashida tlaib want impeachment but it is off the table. when you have a member thing we want to impeach and others, what is the scope of the table? i asked steny hoyer and they call the shots in the house of representatives and that means impeachment is off the table. shannon: it doesn't mean freshman will stop talking about it or maxine waters or others. the president uses first veto a few days ago. today there was an attempt to override it. >> the national emergency stands because they were unable to override the veto. it has only happens 111 times. they were 38 votes short of 236, they ne

john mccain and lindsey graham were best friends. lindsey graham was devoted to john mccain. how did lindsey graham respond to his friend, his fallen dear friend being attacked by the president months after his death? he put out a milquetoast tweets. i should give him credit for two. he said as the senator john mccain showed did he votion to his country, he stepped forward to serve his country and served honorably and wads one of the most consequential service to the body. nothing about his service willing change order diminished. do you think had lindsey graham been attacked by the president like that that john mccain would have put out a tweet as mild as that? >> i don't. think mccain's tweet would have been much more forceful than that. mccain, you know, well throughout the trump -- president trump's time in office was not afraid to criticize the president. and graham himself during the campaign was a fierce critic of trump. but has since morphed into an ally of the president and really i think that what we can take from that is that it's probably for political reasons. gr

senator graham: facebook, oogle, all this stuff, i'm a flip phone guy. do you know what you are getting, signing up for, is it really free. basically they are selling you. behavioral advertising, 90% of the advertising money in the world goes to two companies. internet, social media has been enriching our lives. the privacy area is going to be addressed so the consumer can better understand what is happening and how much your life is shared because you want a question answered on google or you want to talk to somebody's grand kid. the other thing is content, a lot of conservatives that the people policing do not share your values. maybe monopolies by choice but taking down radical thought, there are no guidelines. somebody needs to look at that when it comes to taking down content. the last thing is how the systems can be hijacked by foreign powers and terrorist roups. and we have got to deal with all this. one example about intellectual property. if you google tomorrow say "green book," they'll push you to a site where you can watch it for free. now goo

i agree with that and lindsey graham spoke of that as well. to say it's not compliant with the statute or not consistent with precedent, that is wrong. >> you talked about potentially changing the law. there's been a bit of chaos about that in the last 24 hours. i know that your colleagues, including lead by senator mike lee has been trying to do that. the president tweeted he's open to congress rewriting the law that allows for this national emergency declaration and others, but before he said the opposite. so what do you think his stance is in real, senator. >> i think congress should handle this through regular order. it should go through committee, members of both parties even though it's constitutional legal and addresses a significant problem, which is the crisis at the border. go through the regular order and see if the status quo is appropriate. i would like that tightening of the law, but on the other hand it's different than saying what he's doing now is not defensible when it is. >> one last question. assuming regular order does not

no conspiracy, no collusion. >> neil: lindsey graham saying he wants to get to the bottom of it. is there an appetite for another investigation to go to the source of this and many are saying it's not just for president trump, but to protect all future presidents from something as preliminary -- something like this going down this path again? >> lindsey graham is a pit bull and will dig in and foo -- fight hard to see what generated all of this. my focus continues to be job, national economy, legislating. there's so much we need to do. we have a crisis at the border i'm focussed on as well. so there's the select committee on intelligence chairman burr is working on with lindsey graham and the judiciary committee. i think they'll get to the bottom of it as well. >> speaking of jobs. lots of controversy on the green new deal and folks said it's very 12 years left before the planet implodes are against any vote on this. would it be a political gimmick or the way to let americans know where people stand on this? >> it's important to let the public know where democrats and the preside

>> robert: i was just responding to lindsey graham.y responding to lindsey graham. >> harris: william barr is in charge and he said he will make as much as possible. >> robert: and only responding to lindsey graham. i'm not dodging the question. >> harris: don't you want to know what happen customer will be wrong with a foreign and wide look at what was going on with that server situation with hillary clinton? >> robert: i have no issue of the fbi and is part of justice feel that they have to investigate what happened with the server while she was secretary of state. then they should do that. to me it's very much yesterday's news but i know that people here don't think that. >> kennedy: that's a talking point. >> robert: i think it's yesterday's news. >> kennedy: still a talking point. >> robert: it still talking point. >> kennedy: all of the elements here that have gone awry are on acceptable. i don't care who is in office or what office they were seeking. when you have the top people at the fbi who were told that they can't look into

>> lindsey graham said we have to. i know he will be on later. he said we have to and he's 100% correct. t there something else fundamental, you said it. it start to the dossier, which we all know is salacious and unverified. who said that? james comey. what do we have -- >> sean: that was in january of 2017. he signed the fisa warrant in october of 2016 saying the opposite to the fisa court. that's a broad! >> exactly. that's exactly what is going to then you have the fisa warrants say. on top of it. y the whole impetus was this dossier, this counterintelligence investigation regarding collusion.im and guess what? after 2800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants -- 300 search warrants, 500 witness interviews, 13 countries, no collusion, no obstruction. >> sean: you and your team performed a service for the country. i thank you on behalf of all the people that want free, fair, open elections. no president should ever have to go through this again. i'm going to address that now. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, sean. >> sean: i want to welcome

graham calling the meeting an honor.>> explain to us what was graham doing in moscow? >> that's an excellent question. if he responded to my question, i may have a better answer for you. we do know he was there this month. he decided to be a good idea to have a sit-down meeting an individual who's close to vladimir putin for years. and he's currently the speaker of the russian parliament, in sanctions by the u.s. for the last five years. mr. graham had a meeting to discuss strengthen ties of the american congress and parliament. >> obviously franklin was not a member of congress. according to him, his trip was sanctioned by vice president pence. >> that's exactly right. we don't know any members was aware that he was there. he had a booster in the white house. he called vice president pence ahead of time and said vice president pence was more than happy to have graham over. >> do we know any follow-up conversations with pence and graham after the meeting? >> we do not know. why were they aware and why did they say it was

joining me now, the head of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham. right, senator, the theme of repercussions, and both of these cases, can we expect the doj's full involvement? >> yeah, i think so. i think bill barr is a man at the department of justice, this has been his life's work and i think he's disappointed and concerned by the way the fbi handled the fisa warrant application, the counterintelligence investigation, and he's going to be very supportive of looking to find out how this got off the rails. >> laura: a lot of folks when roey approach me and i'm traveling around the country i'm sure you get the same thing. people say how did hillary's people managed to smash blackberries, unmask all these americans probably for dubious reasons. the u.n. ambassador unmasking samantha power. how is this all happening? there's never any repercussions. what do you say to them on that score? >> one, let's find somebody to prove that it did happen that we all trust. mueller, i stood behind him because i thought he was a fair guy. a lot of people on our sid

shannon: do they have to turn over the information senator graham requested?talk about it with the new website, welcome to you both. a broader quote from chairman graham's letter, the committee is deeply concerned with these discussions and whether they indicate two of the highest-ranking law-enforcement officials were discussing what amounts to a coup against the president, referring to mccabe's assertions they talk about the 25th amendment or those willing to go along with it. >> me first? it was a remarkable, dramatic episode and maybe we do need to learn about it. it is politically slanted. wasn't just the two of them. johnson appreciate this atmosphere of crisis all over the department and real concern about the irregular behavior of the president and comey. and stunning as this was, it is going to be a real battle about whether it gets turned over, in fact whatever assertions of privilege the executive makes won't prevail in this will see the light of day. shannon: the senator wants to know everybody in the meeting. and other names float around. he was g