graham: fair enough. january, six months later when they find more information that could be helpful to mr. page, they lie about it. do you feel like mr. page was treated fairly by the department of justice and the fbi? mr. horowitz: i don't think the department of justice fairly treated these fisa's and he was on the receiving end of them. sen. graham: you would not want to be on the receiving end of this, what you? mr. horowitz: i would not one agents or anyone failing to put forward all the information they were obligated to come forward with. verygraham: i would be comfortable with you investigating anybody, as i think you know the difference between getting somebody and trying to find the truth. counterintelligence investigations. what's the purpose of a counterintelligence investigation? mr. horowitz: it is to identify potential threats to the nation. sen. graham: ok. this was opened up as a counterintelligence investigation, right? and we know the russians were screwing around with the democrats, r

we're watching a coming traction today in lindsey graham.'re hearing the attack that we're likely to see in the senate trial during impeachment on the origins of the case. if you make that go away, if you undermine how the fbi worked this case, you make the whole russian problem go away. it's not accurate. it's not going to work. but we're seeing a trailer, basically, on what the senate trial could look like. >> what i was thinking was you can't make ukraine go away. to the extent they're trying to reinforce, to frank's point, they've just been out to get trump. this really has nothing to do. there's nothing to see here about trump's abuse of power. what we should be doing is looking at our own law enforcement, our own national intelligence services, our own origins of democracy. i think we all agree law enforcement needs checks and balances. we need to ensure that law enforcement is not abusing its considerable power. that's why we have mr. horowitz sitting in that seat. what he has come to tell us, we're not even hearing. >> as soon as we

graham: me too. june ofst-forward to 2016. i am going to defer -- sen. graham: -- mr. horowitz: i'm going to defer on speaking about people who we do not address specifically in the report. there was a line attorney anding with the agents counterparts at the national security division on the fisa. that individual in june 2017, as the last application was being prepared and immediately following carter page going to news outlets after of the fisa hit the news media and said to the news media i was someone who works with u.s. intelligence agencies, not someone who works against them. lawyers and agents went and said we need to figure out what is the story. is that what happened? attorneyr, the ogc reached out to a liaison that the other department agency -- government agency that was at issue and asked the question -- was mr. page a source or contact of some sort for your organization? the report back into the email emailnced -- and the reference to the memorandum that agency had provided to the fbi that i mentioned in the opening statement that the fbi did not follow up

and lindsey graham has proposed legislation, graham-cassidy. you know how he came up with this bill? in a barbershop sitting with rick santorum. this guy is not someone we can take seriously. there should be a big flashing sign above lindsey graham's head that says voters beware. this guy doesn't keep his promises, he doesn't stand by his oaths, and he doesn't come back to deal with the issues that people are dealing with here in south carolina. i'm going to be different because i'm focused like a laser on the issues of south carolina and making sure that the american dream is available for all of us. >> all right. jaime harrison running for that senate seat. >> thank you, chris. >> thank you so much. still ahead, a huge smackdown for trump as a major evangelical publication calls for him to be removed from office. that's coming up. but first tonight's thing one, thing two is next. with advil liqui-gels, you have fast-acting power over pain, so the whole world looks different. the unbeatable strength and speed of advil liqui-gels. what pain? mo

>> well, part of it, chris, is lindsey graham is in for it for lindsey graham.doing it for president trump or the people of south carolina. he's doing it for himself. he wants to be relevant. for him being relevant in washington, d.c. is the most important thing. for me being relevant in south carolina is the most important thing. there are people in this state suffering every day. there was an article today that talked about north charleston being the city with the highest rate of evictions in the nation. there's so many things, we have rural hospitals closing. that's why we are building a movement focused on the people of south carolina. this is senator we have who hasn't been back home in the state in almost three years to do a town hall, and so i'm asking everybody, you want to join me to send lindsey graham home, join me. go to jamie harrison,.com because we are building a movement to change the leadership we have in the state. >> where are the votes, where the issues you think you would contrast with the record graham has amassed particularly in the trump

go ahead jump in go ahead graham. yeah i mean this is just a prime example of the democrats rather than getting it getting behind inspirational candidates with policies and platform that resonate with the majority of the american people they do this insane arguing like you tell me a lie is what that just arguing i just had to listen to as why is it any is any worse than the trump supporter who says trump never lies this is the problem i have this is why i'm an anxious or just addresses who has not inspired well he was once your he had on me was once. i destroyed her eyes because i'm against the war because i want medicare for all the right that's. why he said i do you agree that is such an important question why are you so many kind of angry go ahead karen i am not retire so i am hearing that's why you can't because you would right brian if you want to give us that ball i stick it on i think this is the heart really. really honestly this wow such a. direct a large can of everything that's wrong right now when they can

plus unseating lindsay graham. the senator's challenger who is raising big money is my guest tonight. does he have a chance? let's go out front. good evening. i'mier u. i'm erin burnett. a six-page rant from the president of the united states. president trump sending this letter to house speaker nancy pelosi just hour ahead of his all, but certain impeachment and trump knows it is all but certain. tonight he remains defiant. >> do you take any responsibility for the fact that you're about to be impeached? >> no. i don't take any. zero, to put it mildly. >> well, the president, with that stoney-faced glare speaking right before sending this letter to pelosi, and this is at times unhinged, he calls impeachment ugly and he rants that the mostly -- the people at the salem witch trial accused of being witches in the 1600s had more due process than he does. trump accusing pelosi of being spiteful and having unfettered contempt and egregious content and even worse than offending the founding fathers by continuing to say i

i want to play you the two lindsey gram grahams there was the graham in 1999 and the lindsey graham of. this is on the question of whether or not witnesses should testify in the impeachment trial. take a listen. >> the idea of not being able to call witnesses is crucial. how would you like to do this show without guests? what if you sat here and read transcripts based on questions you asked? your ratings would go down. >> if there's a witness request by anybody, i'm going to say no. i want this to end quickly. i am going to make my decision based on the trial record established in the house. >> the constitution never envisioned the house being able to impeach the president and dictate the terms of the trial in the senate and hold them back at a time of their choosing. that does create a constitutional extortion mechanism that's dangerous for the country. i don't know what's driving this idea. my speculation is that there's buyer's remorse, that the foundation of impeachment is shaky. >> i mean, there is probably no better example of pure flip 180 hypocrisy of lindsey graham. the witnes

we saw a very exercised senator graham, deeply aggrieved. much of it is absolutely valid when it comes to the carter page fisa. here is where it's invalid. we faced an unprecedented scenario in the law enforcement, we had a presidential candidate suspected of being a national security threat. the fbi followed existing rules, the ig found existing rules were followed. if senator graham is upset about those existing rules when it comes to investigating candidates, let's have the discussion and change the rules, not smear the fbi. >> you used the word upset. i don't try to quibble with our fbi analysts, but there was a different word used by senator graham and that is he is pissed, he would be pissed if he was given aa briefing. let me play that for you. >> you don't have the foundation for the weren't -- i'm seerry. go ahead. do you need to say anything else? >> i'm sorry. the incident, the event, the meeting, was a briefing and the fbi considered and decided to send the agent there to do the briefing. the agent was actually doing the briefing

but lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell, they want it short. it suggests perhaps they don't trust what might happen if there were a longer trial. but it's been intensely political the entire time. and i think it's -- it is surprising to see. now, there's norm when you talk about a trial of this kind that you would have a fair trial, that it will be deliberative, that views would be aired, evidence would be aired, that it would be taken very seriously. and those making a decision would not come out in advance of that kind of trial. but this is a different political situation. and i think what we have seen is the republicans very much on the offensive when it comes to capturing and controlling that narrative because they know it has high stakes politically and in the public imagination. . >> right. and to your point, republicans call the impeachment inquiry from the house democrats a sham. and it kind of seemed like they might be making the senate trial the same. because when they took the oath, it was during an impeachment to be an impartial jur

it's for lindsey graham -- the most important thing and person to lindsey graham is lindsey graham.cal relevance. i hear it all the time from democrats, republicans and independents in the state. what happened to lindsey graham? what happened is he saw his political fortunes will be tied to the president. he's going to do and say anything that he can in order to stay relevant, to stay important, to get re-elected. that's sad. he epitomizes what people hate in politics. they want someone with more conviction, a spine who will stand up and do the right thing even when the politics doesn't say it's the best thing to do for politics. that's what i'm going to bring to the people of south carolina. someone who has character and integrity. i grew up in rural south carolina, the son of a single mom with my grandparents. they taught me the importance of having character, integrity and keeping a promise. he can't keep his oath of office. >> leaning with your role on the dnc, there was something last night in the debate that was impossible to ignore. you heard it from andrew yang. he's the onl

and senator graham, i guess, is just saying, look, we've seen the evidence. we disagree that this has led to impeachment and i've already made up my mind. he will be open to some criticism for having said that, but i don't think it's a big surprise that senator graham's position on this is that president trump will be acquitted in the senate. if you look at the numbers, it's not hard to draw that conclusions even without senator graham's comment. >> don't senators take an oath that they swear to be impartial? won't he be breaking that oath? >> certainly they take an oath and it's not for me to say whether he'd be breaking it or not. i think if you look broadly at how this has gone over the last couple months, the democrats and the republicans are very sharply divided. there aren't -- it does not look like there will be any republicans supporting the impeachment vote in the house next week. once we get to the senate trial where the president is expecting to have a much friendlier audience because the senate is controlled by republicans, it is likely to continu

senator graham: i don't know why somebody -- motive. i don't know what other reason they would have to lie to the court on two different occasions. why would you keep the investigation going when you had ever reason to believe it was no longer legitimate? what were they thinking when the subsource told them, none of it s accurate and all hearsay and speculation and none of it is reliable. what would make people to get a warrant. you have to talk to them. but i'm to the not going to accept that politics is not part of it giving what we no. strzok and paige didn't like trump's guts. and there was political bias given what these people say. email, the man at the department at the f.b.i. who lied to the court about carter page's association with the c.i.a. is to say there is no resistance. you can't act on it. and here's what i would say. there was a million stop signs. numerous stop signs that were run. they seemed to want to get an outcome. why did they want it so badly and drove them so much to lie and turn the process upside down, i don

in another graham, senator lindsay graham was at the white house and he had a conversation with the president where he believed he was mad as hell now that the senate trial could be delayed now that nancy pelosi has not delivered the articles and something not resolved any time soon. he said the president toeldz ld he wants his day in court and soon. it and the idea that it's fine with mitch mcconnell, it is not going to be fine with the president. >> kaitlan at the white house and out front now, former legal analyst, williams, and joe lockhart during the impeachment investigation and the former director of the nixon presidential library and tim naftali. we reserved judgment on mr. trump for years now and yet they come out and he should be removed from office. this is not an argument for impeachment and this is an argument from a full removal from the senate, from a benchmark evangelical publication. >> it appears to be a big crack in the most solid voting bloc for donald trump. donald trump would not have been elected without evangelical support. they're not monolithic in a group and they've

i mean, i think senator graham set it right.was a criminal enterprise and its shameful. >> sean: gregg. >> 476 pages of damning evidence of abuse of power and abuse of the rule of law, and wait until wednesday, democrats and the mainstream media are going to see their hair lit on fire as lindsey graham goes after -- >> sean: they will stay focused on the new ukrainian witch hunt coup attempt and lie. that is the next thing. they will just say, we'll ignore this, trust me. they never want to admit they are wrong. that would take some self reflection, introspection, and a heart and a soul, and that would actually havee to blow up their psychosis, which is a rate trump every second of every minute of every hour of every day. john, gregg jarrett, take a bow. you guys were right, the mob was wrong.g. thank you. when we come back, it seems joe biden is starting to feel the pressure and crack. wait till you see another testy exchange he had with a reporter, yep, all about his son hunter is a zero experience, million-dollar gig that he

lindsey graham. he doesn't do it anymore because he cares more about washington, d.c., and being relevant in d.c. than he cares about being relevant here in south carolina. we are helping people address the issues that they're dealing with and lindsey graham is up in washington trying to be important. >> why do you think lindsey graham changed? went from being a tough critic of the president and obviously a good friend and ally of john mccain to being the exact subpoena sit overt-- opposite o past two years. why do you think that changed? >> it goes down to relevance. lindsey graham had an interview in "the new york times" early part of this year. he said the two most important things to him was getting elected and being relevant. he didn't even utter the two words south carolina in the interview. what's important to me is helping people. we started a program here in south carolina called harrison helps. we go all across the state of south carolina rolling up our sleeves, helping people address the i

you're the one that did this interview with lindsey graham. a lot of revealing stuff in there especially about he is going to throw away any ability to be impartial here. what else did he tell you? >> well, lest anyone think that the international audience, particularly that one here at the doha forum today, but anyone around this region isn't interested in the impeachment inquiry, let me tell you, i cannot overstate how eager this audience was to hear about what was going on and lindsey graham's thoughts. it was an audience from all over the region and the world. i also put it to lindsey graham, what he thought the world should know about donald trump. let's remember, he wasn't always donald trump's greatest admirer. he's a staunch ally now, of course. so i wondered whether he thought the world misunderstood the u.s. president. have a listen to this. >> he's very curious. he asks a lot of questions. he wants to know how things work and what makes people tick in the world. have i come to be so close? we play golf. we have a lot of fun. he's tr

my thought, in the hearing you had senator graham asking horowitz the inspector general, saying doess report vindicate jim comey, the former fbi director, as he's climbing this week? and horowitz says the activities we found here don't vindicate anyone who touch this. essentially, it's willful ignorance and exceptional competence, or intended misconduct here. and it's interesting to see how jim comey factors into this. when did you learn the dnc and hillary clinton campaign funded hillary clinton's work? >> still don't know that for a fact. i never knew exactly which democrats had funded. i knew it was funded first by republicans -- >> but they did not fund the christopher steele memo or dossier. >> my understanding was the activity was begun and it was first funded by republicans and then picked up -- the important thing is picked up by democrats opposed to donald trump. >> did you tell president obama who it was funded by? did you want to know i who it ws funded by? >> i wanted to know what i knew. >> you called hi the dossier unverified and salacious. so why did you -- >> that was

graham: thank you all for coming. number one, i would like to thank mr. horowitz and his team at the inspector general's office. for doing a very thorough, professional job. i think the country owes him a debt of gratitude and i look forward to hearing his testimony in detail about his findings. wednesday the first thing i would like to address is you have a statement by mr. durham, the u.s. attorney in connecticut, who is looking at potential criminal liability regarding this matter. attorney general barr and mr. horowitz. you have three different views, or i guess two of the views is that there was no lawful predicate to begin the investigation. i think mr. durham said he had more investigation than mr. horowitz. that's not my concern. three lawyers can reasonably disagree and i trust mr. horowitz to give his view. let's assume for a moment there was a lawful predicate. the bar is low to open up a counterintelligence investigation and a reasonable articulation is a low standard in the law. the point i want to make is, let's assume for a moment it starte

>> lindsey graham is speaking to south carolina voters. he wants to avoid any sort of primary whether now or in the future at all costs and his numbers among republicans have gone up significantly since he became more supportive of the president. it's not advising that he is fastening himself as an impartial juror and i think viewers wouldn't be surprised to see many senators actually be quite impartial heading into this, but there is a significant enough group that we don't know enough about yet that could make this trial interesting and could have consequences as it still plays out. >> is it a smart move by senator graham? >> well, i think what senator graham and senator mitch mcconnell the majority leader are trying to do is send a message to donald trump. you want this to be a short process. we can control it if it's a short process. while i think it's completely unethical what lindsey graham is doing and what mitch mcconnell is doing, frankly, they are just trying to get to the president and say, keep it short because we won't be able

this was lindsey graham back in 1998. and here he is back in 1998. >> i know what people want to do with this case. i know they want to get it over. i know many of them don't want the president to be impeached. but i have got a duty far greater than just getting to the next election. the problem is that i am expecting the other side to engage the facts, and they haven't. and i am just blown away by that. >> i'm going to play just one more for the congresswoman. here's another sound bite of lindsey graham back in 1998. >> some people have said i won't vote for impeachment. some house members have said i will not vote for an impeachment. let me tell you, please don't say that until you understand what you're voting on. members of the senate have said i understand everything there is about this case and i won't vote to impeach the president. please allow the facts to do the talking. people have made up their mind in a political fashion that will hurt this country long term. >> and yet in 1998, i'm old enough to remember that

do you understand why senator graham is doing what he's doing? >> no.d up for john mccain when the president put cloaks on the battleships. he's not standing up for vice president biden. that old addage if you want a friend in washington, get a dog, he's thinking of lindsey graham. but if people want a new movement, join me at jaime harrison.com. thank you, don. take care now. air wick why buy scented oil plug-ins that don't last as long? switch to air wick for fragrance that last up to 60 days. that's 20% longer than other brands. so your home smells true to nature for longer. switch to air wick aveeno® with prebiotic striple oat complex balances skin's microbiome. so skin looks like this and you feel like this. aveeno® skin relief. get skin healthy™ mucinex cold & flu all-in-one. fights... oh no. no-no-no. did you really need the caps lock? mucinex cold and flu all-in-one. a lot will happen in your life. wrinkles just won't. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair's derm-proven retinol works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. mak

senator graham ought not because the i.g. issued a report whose conclusions he does not like ought to not question what he upheld last week. the integrity, fairness, and impartiality of inspector general horowitz. the bottom line is clear. the i.g. report, written by someone who republicans repeatedly praised, embraced the trump appointed fbi director shows there is no bias for the president's absurd claim that the investigation into his campaign was a hoax or a conspiracy against him. now, this report comes at an important time. republicans on both sides of the capitol have engaged in a new defense of the president, this time developed by vladimir putin that ukraine and not putin interfered in the 2016 elections. it does not matter that it has been debunked. including testimony under both from senior officials serving and the trump administration and again by the i.g. report today. the president's defenders have repeated this conspiracy anyway, including, shamefully, several of my colleagues in the senate. in an effort to pr

nunes got it right, grassley, graham got it right. according to the report, that dossier "played a central an essential role in the fisa investigation in carter page." you will see, you don't have the dirty dossier, you didn't get the fisa application and the fisa warrant. the report is clear about that basically saying, no dirty dossier, no warrant. we long have reported that's being 29 so-called intelligence garbage. that was confirmed today as steele told the inspector general that this dossier was not a finished product. remember the interrogatory in great britain, i have no idea if any of it is true? based on one single source, a compromise of, an unreliable source with a massive ego apparently who likes to make things up. it was uncorroborated intelligence, all of it. we now know it was unbearable unverifiable.all three of the we of which comey signed, top of the fisa application verified. gets worse commenced between himself was not the originating source for any of the so-called factual information in his reporting. steele ins

son, franklin graham. the father founded the newspaper. franklin graham's been a vocal supporter of donald trump. says his father liked trump but wouldn't be happy with the editorial. i'm going to quote from what he wrote at "the washington post." he said he would have been very embarrassed that the magazine he started would call for something like this when there are no crimes committed. it's a totally different magazine than what he started. he also added, "christianity today" to decide with the democrat party in a totally partisan attack is unfathomable. i bring this up because they didn't sort of take a partisan view on this at all. they were sort of basing this on things that franklin graham may not agree with. but franklin graham is sort of signaling that this is a partisan attack by what he calls the democrat party. >> right. i mean, mark at "christianity today" is pretty clear he identifies as independent. but also, you know, franklin graham and a cadre of other evangelical supporters, head of libe

we'll talk with senator graham in a minute. the impeachment standoff is on. the articles of impeachment are now stuck in the house which we mentioned is now gone until the new year. president trump tweeted the move was done because the speaker is scared. chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel is on capitol hill looking at the political limbo. >> speaker pelosi suggested that house democrats may be too afraid -- too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the senate. >> mitch mcconnell ripping in to speaker nancy pelosi for not saying when she'll transfer the two articles of impeachment to the senate. admonishing house democrats for impeaching president trump so quickly without any republican support. >> this is by far the thinnest basis for any house-passed presidential impeachment in american history. the prosecutors are getting cold feet. in front of the entire country. >> senate democratic leader chuck schumer met with pelosi to discuss impeachment strategy and schumer appeals once again for input on senate format. >> to my republican

senator lindsey graham coming up live, straight ahead. reacting to the impeachment trial and nancy pelosi's plans for the senate, sending articles or not. senate judiciary committee chairman reacting to the abuse at the fisa court. who will graham call to testify now that the i.g. report is out? what will he tell john brennan. ted cruz is with me, what he knows about altering of the documents at fbi. why he says john durham's investigation is now criminal. house gop leader kevin

. >> graham is open to hearing directly from rudy giuliani. who met with the president after returning from ukraine. but outside the impeachment process. >> rudy, if you want to tell us what you found, i'd be glad to talk to you. >> each if some of his congressional allies question his trump. >> i didn't know why rudy was in the ukraine. >> nbc's hans nichols reporting. thanks, hans. joining me now is scott wong, a senior staff writer covering house leadership for the hill. scott, the full house is set to vote wednesday on the two articles of impeachment, likely sending them to a senate trial. what should we be looking for, how will that look and should we expect surprises? >> i think it's interesting that nancy pelosi has positioned this impeachment vote in the middle of two bipartisan big votes, one on the government funding to prevent a shutdown on tuesday, then you have impeachment on wednesday and then the bipartisan u.s.mca trade deal that both will be a victory for president trump but also for some of her moderate front liners, those wh

plus senator graham. once called trump a cook who is unfit for office. she's one of the biggest defenders. will that help or hurt his chances for reelection? i'll talk to the democratic candidate trying to unseat graham as senator from south carolina. and bucking president trump tomorrow the republican governor of georgia is expected to fill an open senate seat with somebody president trump doesn't approve of. setting off tension. we'll begin with the impeachment report and congressman nunes the ranking republican on the intel committee. >> it is i think deeply concerning that at a time when the president of the united states was using the power of his office to did dig up dirt on a rival. that there maybe evidence that there were members of congress complicit in that activity. >> i want to bring in now mike d'antonio. juliette cayenne. good evening to you. the intel report says senior u.s. officials including vice president. secretary of state. secretary of energy and chief of staff. were knowledgeable of or active participants in effort to extract the

we speak exclusively from franklin graham whose father billy graham founded the now leftist leaning show. and david hansen is here on the historic building of the supreme court. first trump and pelosi. the president delivered major gifts to the american people. whatever you might think of him, the objective record is amazing. the president's policies created an economy with the lowest unemployment in 50 years and the lowest for hispanics, african-americans and women in more than half a century. >> poverty is plummeting and confidence is soaring. america is stronger than ever before. >> [cheers and applause]. >> now that's a huge gift for all americans. >> the jobs market let the market go from shrugs to hugs. >> is the best number i have ever seen. >> and trump negotiated a free trail deal with canada and mexico. the house passed the usmca which both parties agree will make a huge difference in protecting the u.s. markets. >> he's been working for this for sometime and has been stymied. now the house democrats are coming to the table to accept this compromise trade deal. >> on the immigr

franklin graham maintains billy graham voted for president trump in 20916 and was the man for this hour in history. mark gallagher, editor and chief for "christianity today" penned this piece getting so much attention. thank you for joining me. >> glad to be with you, brook. >> reading this piece, ambiguous violate the constitution and are immoral. what exactly did you mean? >> oh, gosh. well, clearly unconstitutional in the sense he tried to influence a head of foreign state to get dirt on one of his political opponents. that's one of the articles, one of the things the constitution says a president cannot do. seems to me one thing that became pretty clear in the impeachment hearings. i mean, some people asked, wry did y why did you wait sow long to s what you say? >> i was going to ask. do you feel free to speak how you feel? >> praying i wouldn't have to write another hard editorial before i left. it did seem like we didn't address it yesterday, we were not going to address it at the magazine and thought it would be irresponsible for us not to. so there you go. the reason we didn't t

franklin graham on the "angle" exclusively next. this holiday season choose the longest lasting aa battery... (music) energizer ultimate lithium backed by science. matched by no one. >> i am making a moral judgment that he is morally unfit for people who take the words >> i am making a moral judgment that he is morally unfit for people who take the words of jesus christ seriously that we can't say in front of god and everybody that this man's character is deeply concerning to us. in my judgment has crossed a line. i no longer think he is fit to lead the united states of america. >> that's the "christianity today" editor calling for president trump's removal from office. now conservative christians are firing back. 200 evangelicals are condemning this and wrote in a letter: we are grateful that our president sought our advice as his administration protect the unborn and promote religious freedom while making our world safer. reverend franklin graham joins us exclusively to respond. mark invoked your father's name in that "christianit

and also it is a very serious matter that you have mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham saying they're actually already going to not honor the oath that they're supposed to sign when we start the impeachment process in the senate. they are supposed to sign an oath to say they are impartial and consider all of the evidence and they both said we're not doing that. so she is well within her right to say until we can have some assurance we'll have something of a fair process, i'm going to hold back and give us some more leverage. and it is such a contrast to how it was in clinton's impeachment where trent lott and tom dashel were trying to be statesman and tried to make it a more thoughtful process in the senate than it had been in the house. >> do you worry it makes her and house democrats and democrats in general look a little partisan considering she's been talking about being prayerful and she's been talking about how this is solemn and perhaps this could undercut that a bit. >> i don't. because when you have mitch mcconnell saying -- he is supposed to be the leader of this process and

graham: it doesn't matter why i agree. i don't know why they didn't tell the court about the subsource's statement in january. any normal system would have stopped. when you're told that the person who helped prepare the document will not verify it, disavows it, you need to slow down and figure out what is going on here. not only did they not slow down, they falsified the results of the interview to the court to make it look like he actually was truthful when they know he wasn't. i don't want what made them do this. i don't want to get into speculating. i'm just saying the facts are clear. the motives maybe not. but it's not a stretch when it comes to these people, when it came to trump, they were out to get him. but that doesn't matter to me. >> you looked at the dossier -- and recommended he take it. senator graham: this is a good question. >> you're ok with the fact that they did investigate -- senator graham: i'm perfectly ok with counterintelligence investigations of any of it. like dianne feinstein, she had an employ

my friend senator lindsey graham refers to the whole thing as a crock. what it boils down to is we may interfere with some tee times here, but we ought that stand up for the demeanor, the history and the tradition of the senate in terms of doing this in a proper way. >> brennan: so you don't want a short tile? >> i think what we ought to do as we did 20 years ago, let's have senator mcconnell sit down with senator schumer. trent lott sat down 20 years ago, and start this proceeding in the proper bipartisan way. that hasn't happened yet. i don't know what senator mcconnell is waiting for. margaret, let me tell you what happened 20 years ago, they decided, trend lot, that the entire senate, all 100 members would go to the old senate gallery and sit down together. we realized at that moment we were embarking on a moment that would be captured in history. this impeachment trial of bill clinton. and you have interesting alliances for him. ted kennedy of massachusetts comes together with phil graham of texas to talk about the procedures during impeachment. the

so justin amash is going after lindsey graham. if this were to come to pass, if he were one of the impeachment managers, it certainly would add some fireworks and perhaps a credibility to those independent voters in the middle who will be watching all of this proceed in the senate. but we still aren't sure if speaker pelosi will sign off on this. we'll certainly keep our eye on this, martin. >> just when you thought you knew everything that was going to happen. >> we do not. >> jeff zeleny, thank you. so what's the white house procedure going to be? let's bring in cnn's jeremy diamond. pam bondi spoke about the process today. what do you think? >> the white house is really shifting its focus to the senate where, of course, the president will face a trial if he indeed is impeached by the house of representatives. white house lawyers are busy preparing for the potential of that trial, and the senate in the white house's messaging operation is also in full force. that's where we find pam bondi, a special adviser over this impeachment

lindsay graham is the biggest hypocrite walking the planet right now.dsay graham, i remember, because i was around the '98 impeachment, he was one of the first to seay, almost emotionaly do not pre-judge and he was the one pleading with the senate to have an open mind beforehand and here he is walking in the biggest hypocritical shoes there are, i've made up my mind and i'm controlling this. you know why he's done this? he's become a trump bootlicker because he has a re-election coming up in the senate. he's up for re-election and worried about losing power and that's all this is about. there's actually a twitter account and god bless my friends at the bull work called lindsay graham's conference and they post video every day, with lindsay graham saying things about trump, the impeachment and the importance of being intellectually honest and the importantance of listening to fact and he's only doing this because he's concerned about re-election and he's only up by two percentage points right now in south carolina and i don't know how much it's working f

jillian: look at the tweet from lindsey graham but has gotten a lot of attention, quote, democrats areing impeachment as an open bar tab trying to cut them off, take their car keys way, put gop in control of the house and end this insanity. it has gotten a lot of intention. if you are someone who is not necessarily following this day in and day out and see a reference like this, hard to follow along to begin with but you wonder, people haven't made up their mind going into 2020, how are they going to do that? >> the american people need to understand about impeachment, powers given to the house, not just an unlimited power the house can exercise for any reason so what lindsey graham is saying is they are being irresponsible drivers of this impeachment charade. we need to take the keys away, take the power away from house democrats and make sure they are not allowed to exercise irresponsibly specific limited power of impeachment that is vested for the purpose the founders intended which is not so the majority opposition party can try to oust a sitting president because they know they ca

. >> senator graham pointed out earlier -- senator graham pointed out earlier, senator lee and i have worked on in trying to put in some protections in fisa, united states freedom act, and so on. but the fbi accepted all of your findings, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> and that includes where you have raised questions about the use of fisa. >> correct. >> the five investigations you review reviewed, the only application for fisa warrant was with respect to carter page, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> out of the five. the 17 errors affecting the carter page fisa application came after and, thus, did not impact the broader russia investigation, which became the special counsel's investigation, am i correct in that? >> that's correct. those occurred in october and later. >> it was not -- >> not in august when the matter was opened. >> so that came after -- >> and july. >> -- investigation came after. in the mueller report, how many pages did the mueller report refer to carter page? >> i don't recall the exact number but it wasn't a large number. >> i do know because i read

limited to the let's go live now to capitol hill where lindsey graham is actually addressing the media let's listen then that would end it i thought it was over with take our cases to the american people but i was wrong so what happened in the house impeachment driven by partisans this is unique it's the 1st impeachment in modern times anyway driven by people within the body where there is no outside counsel with the agree with clint's impeachment or not spent several years looking allegations and made a report to congress detailing abuse by president clinton watergate prosecution was done outside of the political system and that's been missing here so i think this exercise in the house. is beginning to weaponize impeachment the intel committee could did the fact finding elements of it which is unusual the process they use i think is dangerous to the presidency is an institution when it gets here my goal is to have a short trial as possible where does that translate to when 51 people are ready to vote that's when we'll vote the most likely outcome is to use the trial record. what they

mine is graham because i have been around him so much.e floor was being sworn in in 2001. and he was being sworn in with hillary clinton. they came in together. and they worked together. they got along. it was strange, but they did. they traveled together. they worked very hard together on military health reform for troops. they went to iraq together. they went on tv together. they were part of john mccain's posse. it happened before trump. it happened six years ago when he was up for re-election. it was tea party days. two words we don't use a lot. he was scared to death of a tea party challenge. he tried to out party the tea party and he became rabid. he said hillary had blood on her hands. embracing every conspiracy theory he could going after obama. but what is most disappointing, he's always been gilligan to mccain's skipper. >> yes. >> and how you can turn on your best friend after their death has been maligned by donald trump really goes to the heart of someone's soul. and it's hard to even say at this point he has a soul. and i th

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martin did catch lindsey graham on his way in.d to a question that he does have confidence in fbi director christopher wray but added you'll have to ask president trump. that comes after he served up that tongue lashing via twitter, saying he wasn't entirely sure which report christopher wray read or that he had the attitude to fix the problems within the fbi. republican also key in on that when this hearing begins. >> over the last 72 hours, this seems to have actually -- they seem to have everything that's been a response to everything that the democrats have done. they announced impeachment charges, michael horowitz report. bill barr is out there. articles are introduced. horowitz testifies today. on one hand they get exactly what they want. they create sort of confusion about mueller, the obsession to get trump. that story is out there. it seems as if this is part of a strategy the way the trump administration has used the government to respond to impeachment. >> last night in hershey, pennsylvania, i was there, covering presi

it says far more about lindsey graham than anything about this trial. and lindsey should remember, and he knows darn well this is a serious and solemn obligation. the charges against the president that the house has put together are very, very serious. and to say you won't look at the facts, look at the evidence makes no sense. we want the facts to come out. we don't want to have a dilatory trial. we don't want to have a biased trial. we don't want a trial where extraneous issues of their side or our side are brought in. what we've asked for this morning is really guided by joe friday from drag net for those who remember him, just the facts, ma'am. and that's what we want. the facts. the four witnesses we've asked for are the documents we've asked for are directly dispositive on what the actual facts were. now, the house came up with a whole lot, but there's some of my republican colleagues who say these charges are serious but i'm not sure there's enough to evidence. that's why these people should come. i hope this letter i've sent now to every one of