graham: i'm hoping he won't. i'm hoping he will allow mark meadows to continue the transition, that he will start talking more about what he has done as president, focus on the threats from iran, finish the next 14 days in a way that will allow us to get a good start with vice president biden. it does him no good to continue to attack the legitimacy of the election, because this election was legitimate and has now been decided constitutionally. my hope is we can move forward in the next 14 days, but this will depend on what the president does. i'm hopeful the worst is behind us and we can transfer power on january 20. >> what gives you that hope? sen. graham: i talked with some people this morning. there seems to be believe we are moving in the right direction, and i am trying to reinforce that. the people around him i think have the right attitude, are giving him good advice. again, you asked me about my relationship with the president. i regret it not one bit. we have had a hell of a ride, done great things for

graham: is it ok with you all? >> [inaudible] sen. graham: ok. [laughter] there he goes, all good.magine, everybody in politics and at the federal level has asked a lot of questions about people in the media, what was yesterday like? what does it mean? rather than doing a bunch of interviews, i thought i would give my view of what happened yesterday and the way forward for the country. and try to get back to south carolina and help the transition. the first thing that stands out to me is how embarrassed and disgusted i am that the united states capitol would be taken over by domestic terrorists while we are in session, transferring power from one president to the other, that a band of people who are terrorists, not patriots, literally occupied the floor of the house, drove the senate out of its chamber, and the question for the country is, how could that happen 20 years after 9/11? be theer this year will 20th anniversary of the attack on our nation. it is mind-boggling that such an event could occur. senator schumer has called for the sergeant of arms in the senate to resign. anyo

what didn't happen is donald trump didn't change, lindsay graham lindsey graham laid into him in 2015 and then donald trump came into power and lindsey graham started realizing he enjoyed sort of sniffing the thrown and getting whatever power he could out of that. some folks said maybe it's about partisan politics. but since that primary is over, the tune hasn't changed. he can't resist sucking up to the strong man and it is a real disservice to the memory and independence of john mccain he was an advocate for for so long. >> it's amazing. enough is enough. it wasn't even a week later on air force one congratulating him on tone. it stunning lindsey graham could look at himself in the mirror and act in such a way. president obama said senator graham could be in a hoeist movie, he writes lindsey is the guy that double crosses everyone to save his own skin. that's what he thinks. does he have a point? has this changed the way that republicans in washington respect or don't respect lindsey graham? >> well, i think you can't say he's someone that will speak his mind and tell it like it is.

graham. after being so close to this president for 4 years do you think that you and other republicans had more of a responsibility to speak out both privately and publicly when he said things that were untrue when he ginned up his base do you think that that would have made a difference yesterday i think the trump presidency has been poorly covered by people in your business i think that from the time he took office there's been an effort to cover his presidency in a way that i think is not helpful to the country i have spoken up there is been an effort to believe everything that trump did was wrong before it's proven or not. all i can say is that i have shared my thoughts with the president spoken out when i thought i should but the one thing that i want you to know there are plenty of republicans believe that the trump presidency was never legitimate in the democratic party never accepted by the people in your business and it's been a constant drumbeat and i think that's taken a toll on al

chris, what do you think is the critical takeaway from what senator graham released this week?: so we had some of the ideas that some of the supervisors, not ideas, they were politically in motivation, we had senior officer who was basically the reason the agent left the task force saying that he didn't want to actually try to validate the steel dossier and he didn't want to go into it and we had peter strzok shooting down any kind of review. the whole problem here is that there was a review and spying on an incoming administration that had already won the election to try and -- try and frame them using documents, steele dossier, operation research that wasn't reliable at all. it was a bunch of rumors, third party, things that had been passed through. he wanted to leave it because he was concerned -- so concerned that there was no validation here and when he asked for validation, we need to get human sources to look through the steele dossier before we move forward, he was turned down on that. the reason is they didn't want anything to leak, sure, that makes sense but if you're

well as founder of the suits and spooks cyber security conference and in los angeles we crossed to graham elwood he is a regular on the jimmy door show is almost host of the political financial empty and you 2 are actually cross eyed girls and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it but i was going to lionel in new york i mean with this flurry of events around big tech the the banning of parlor but parlor appears to have reappeared beastly donald trump has been banned from most of these platforms and there are a lot of complaints that a lot of other conservatives are being treated the same way essential the question that is before us right now is should these big tech companies define what speech is define what does and directly what dissent is and should they have the right to . arrange and define what the public sphere is leinil well the 1st thing is i've always believed in my line of law which means that people always like behind technology the 1st thing is we have to understand these are not private organizations or private companies social media

tom: let me: graham -- let me call on graham and then general taylor. graham: thanks so much. and i think that general bridlow asked the question in chat. social media companies have to make thousands and thousands of decisions every single day on moderation that would be, frankly, very interesting and very lengthy supreme court cases. deplatforming is a policy of last resort. it builds on other terms of service that would include things like unlawful activity, incitement of violence, proving the intent to mislead, spam activity, and any number of other policies that they would try to consider first. there needs to be more transparency and accountability on what types of content can and should be moderated. i think there is a huge degree of consensus on that. there is an astonishing degree of -- degree of bipartisan consensus, which would be enough to get angst done on this set of issues come up as we know, this is not a normal moment in washington. the last point is the scale and scope of online harms today goes well beyond the policies that the united states government has a

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graham's senate judiciary committee released the transcripts of 11 interviews that graham had kept hidden unavailable from officials involved in investigating the origins of obamagate. they include interviews from the likes of former doj officials bruce ohr, all conducted before the november 3rd election, and senator graham sat on every single one of them. senator graham also continues, well, to disappoint the american people, to say the least. to deny their right to know. and he had this, this brazen remark about his document dump today. we have released as much material as possible, but some classified material has still been withheld. this, ladies and gentlemen, is one sorry excuse for a senator. joining us tonight is john solomon, editor-in-chief of "just the news," best selling author, great american. and, john, let's start with this document dump from senator graham since it is the most meet development. one of the interviews -- eleven interviews that he sat on -- >> they go back to march of last year. [inaudible conversations] yeah. it's remarkable. i think senator graham was just

here but graham and i mean during during all of the events going on on the count at all and accusing the president of incitement we can discuss that separately and if they think it was a hash tag paying a pence and out of that that trended for a long time ok i mean so i mean they don't care about that ok because it suits their political agenda and the people they're acolytes in the media which apparently is so important to them to me but i'm just saying is that if you try to avoid these arbitrary standards so you won't have double standards go ahead graham before we go to break yeah it's an excellent point because you know again like if you're going to say you can't advocate violence then that like it should be done by the letter of the law and even now going back to your point about parlor yes they spoke didn't do it but google and amazon other huge tech giant graham hold that thought we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what to do with big tech stay with r.t. . taste awful. coming. walk 2 blocks away from the apartment and i

carley: lindsey graham wondering about the security failures and how they relate to house speaker nancy pelosi, like you said, her chief of staff responded to that moment from maria's show yesterday, saying this disgraceful attempt to shift blame for the mob attack on the capitol is absurd and pathetic. he need only look in the mirror if he wants to start pointing a finger. he has repeatedly cast doubt on results of a fair election and dangerously fanned flames of right wing quackery. lindsey graham went on to talk about the people who participated in the riots, saying they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. the president should not pardon any of them, guys. jillian: okay. so blake shelton has a thing or two to say, right? carley: he's getting backlash over his latest song, it's called minimum wage. some people are calling it incentive. take a listen to a little bit of the song. we'll talk about it on the back end. ♪ you can take my truck out of the driveway. ♪ like a cadillac. ♪ making a man feel rich on minimum wage. carley: could make a man feel rich on minimum wa

carley: lindsey graham questioned nancy pelosi over the security failures that took place during the capitol riots. her chief of staff quick to bite back on twitter, saying this disgraceful attempt to shift blame for the mob attack on the capitol is absurd and pathetic. he need only look in the mirror if he wants to start pointing the finger, he has repeatedly cast doubt on results of a fair election and dangerously fanned flames of right wing quackery. quite the comment there. graham went on to say, excuse me, that those who participated in the riots should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. president trump should not pardon them. he said he is going to attend joe biden's inauguration. jillian: so some mixed messaging it appears on the southern border? carley: that's right. joe biden promised to reverse a lot of president trump's immigration policies, that's going to be put to the test quickly because there's a migrant caravan coming from hon honduras, headed to the united states as we speak. the migrants want to be welcomed into the country under a president biden but

here's senator graham seeming to say the real damage here was to his friend, not democracy. >> as to yesterday, it breaks my heart that my friend, a president of a consequence, were to allow yesterday to happen. and it will be a major part of his presidency. it was a self-inflicted wound. it was going too far. >> this from a man who back in 20 is a wh 2015 when he was running against him for president said the president's comments were going to, quote, kill my party more recently, though, this recent profile in courage had a role to play leading up to yesterday trying to get the state of georgia to reverse the president's defeat there. >> ask that the ballots could be matched back to the voters and i got the sense it implied that then. you could throw those out. really, would look at the counties with the highest frequent error of signatures. so that's -- that's the impression that i got. well, just an implication that look hard and see how many ballots you could throw out. >> remember, that's the guy the president and his supporters demonized for simiply following the law. whether i

senator graham yesterday saying there was no there there.n was pushed when it should have been stopped, and the only logical investigation is that the investigators who wanted an outcome because of their bias. both the former director of the fbi, james comey, and democrats have defended this probe. senator dianne feinstein says after multiple hearings, depositions, review, she says, quote: anti9-trump bias did not affect the fbi's investigation. now there is a separate, ongoing probe by the u.s. attorney, john durham. the question, though, is when will we get that report. the president himself has been wondering out loud in previous interviews if we were going to see this report. here's what he had to say. apologize, doesn't sound like we have that sound bite ready, but he was saying he wanted to see the report out there as soon as possible, and he still had a lot of questions about what happened. meantime the, here at the white house the president not going to be doing anything on camera today, they've already called a lilled, but there wer

>> and steph, not just that, but lindsey graham is now one of trump's only friends. he traveled with the president all day tuesday down to texas and aboard air force one they spent time together in the president's private cabin, graham was -- i interviewed graham yesterday he told me he was phoning senators one after another working down a list to try to convince them not to convict the president in his eventual impeachment trial and that they were together. he was with trump when liz cheney's statement broke, liz cheney, the number 3 ranking house republican was going to be voting for impeachment and it was graham who had to calm the president down and explain that he didn't think liz cheney's views were representative of the entire republican conference, of course fast forward a day, they were not. they were only about a dozen or so republicans who voted to impeach. >> one week and one day ago lindsey graham said i'm done with this guy. kristen, do we have any idea what type of defense the president will mount? >> well, not only is the defense strategy still being

pence and graham and others are learning that if you hunt with wild wolves it does not matter how many days you have fed them. the first day you do not is the day they will kill you and eat you. i want to bring in now a former democratic senator who served in that building who understands what has become of this. senator russ feingold of wisconsin. he's also president of the american constitution society. and juanita tolliver, democratic strategist and analyst. senator, having served in that building, your view of what happened, what is evolving now that we're learning more, i know you're familiar with more of the evidence that's coming out, and what must be done tonight. >> well, ari, thank you for having me on. i'd be less than honest if i didn't say i'm shaken like so many americans. it is even worse not only knowing all of the intricacies of the building there, but what you just said in the introduction about the information that's come out. you know, people at first it kind of looked like they were dressed like people going to a tailgate at a packer game sort of. what we didn't un

at least we can all agree they need to be responsible ok and not make decisions on a whim you know graham i mean it it's these pine crumbs they choose winners and losers i mean i mean a good part of our life is played out i'm using these plant forms directly and indirectly and if they don't like what you're doing or what you're saying they can disappear you i mean that is a major impediment to being a functioning person in society. yeah i mean it's i i totally agree it's absolutely they should be public utilities in the problem or happening is they are just you know unelected tech billionaires who are just making decisions what can be said and what can't be said and that's that's the real scary thing and they're using the events of the capital i mean the commander in chief advocating violence and neo nazis showing up with guns and that's bad thing that that needs to be addressed but just facebook is such a great example of how they arbitrarily you know they'll they'll pull down anything that's pro palestinian but they'll leave up they've left up all right posts and stuff like that and for

graham out!" except, graham back in. because yesterday, lindsay flew on air force one with the president to his speech. so, six days after taking what seemed like a stand, he hopped on the president's plane? ( as graham ) "okay, somebody stuff me in the overhead compartment. good thing my spine folds so easily and i contain less than three ounces of courage." oh, hi. we've got a great show for you tonight. my guests are sam bee and the star of "normal people," paul mescal. but when we return, "meanwhile!" stick around. broken windshield... take 1... hey guys, my windshield just got broken, i feel like i need to blow off some steam. let's go... 1, 2, 3, 4... mr. blanks? there's no need to be stressed. geico makes it easy to file a claim online, on the app, or over the phone. yeah, but what if i never hear back? that's gonna make me want to go jab...jab! nope! your geico claims team is always there for you. that makes me want to celebrate with some fireworks. 5,6,7 go... boom, boom, boom, boom boom boom boom boom boom, yea

says it appears to be more of a political dodge then an effective remedy in lindsey graham's twitter stamen yesterday getting attention. this was a democratic harassment a few moments ago say in every republican number of congress who shows doubt about the legitimate victory is committing acts that greatly damage the strength of our democracy, just some of the congressional chatter on that this morning but 15 minutes left with molly reynolds. senior fellow at the brookings institution and brookings .edu. if you want to talk about progression all rules, procedures, now is a great time to call and. brian, independent, michigan. >> caller: yes, hello. can you hear me? i want to talk about national security and talk about me so much as what i've held a top-secret compartmentalized security clearance so i worked around the annapolis and mr. tony bob linsky is almost credible people i found on television a long time and i'm wondering along the lines of national security why he has not been brought in before congress and i want to know how these investigations are going and getting back to

graham had a very complicated relationship with donald trump. he tried to be the trump whisperer to try to sometimes keep the president on the tracks and doing constructive things and helping the republican party. i think at some point the day of the inner is -- insurrection said that's enough. i'm done. but i thought he made a couple of really strong points. one is when he talked about, you know, what are we going to do, impeach a guy in florida? it's a complicated thing. i can understand why people in the capitol january 6 don't want to cut donald trump a lot of slack. they feel he was -- incited violence. even mitch mcconnell said that he provoked the violence. on the other hand, you have to ask yourself after the speech where president biden called for unity and talked about his ambitious agenda, is an impeachment trial in the senate of a former president going to get in the way of that or not? the sense of unity is in the way of that. secondly, he has an agenda. he wants the covid rescue package, $1.9 trillion passed. you have an impeachmen

but, senator graham has tried to walk that line. supporting president trump. but tonight is a clear break where he -- he, literally, said enough is enough. he said if al gore can accept a 5-4 vote that he doesn't agree with, then lindsey graham said i can accept a vote of wisconsin supreme court. >> he -- and you listen to some of the various -- you see the deep, deep

in the last 24 hours, we have seen some of his closest allies, like lindsey graham, criticize him for what's happened. i wonder what kind of support he has lost after yesterday's events. >> a lot, quick frankly. he's lost a lot of support from people like lindsey graham, one of estrada strongest supporters, who defended him through everything. even him today was backing off donald trump and condemning his rhetoric that led to these riots. the bottom line is, i think this message was to two people -- to the wider american public, but also to republicans. because ultimately, it's going to be republicans, such as lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell, that are going to decide if he stays in office for the next 13 days when a -- 13 days or not. also vice president pence, these are the republicans that have the power to potentially put the pieces into motion that would remove the president trump our. -- the president trump our -- the president from power. trying to say, you do not need to remove me from power, i've realized the mistakes i've made. i think that was his message, as well, just a

have spoken out when i thought it was necessary i cannot remember a single instance when lindsey graham really spoke out forcefully on any of the president's inflammatory comments or policies he said that he did this because he was able to have access to the president to try to influence policy and we see that a lot of people close to the president they say they try to send the message that i can still be invited to d.c. cocktail parties because you can imagine the stuff that i kept him from doing and he went on to say that the people around the president his chief of staff he said you'll never know all they did to protect this country so then another thing he seemed to equate what happened here at the capitol to the black lives matter movement which protests and in some cases riots that happened over the summer this is something you're starting to see in conservative media because i mean how can you justify the video of those people wearing their red hats and the trump flags inundating the capitol in a violent violent fashion now they're saying well look it was you know there were riot

. >>> remember how lindsey graham said he was done with the president? that didn't last long. only p. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ on all the food that makes you boogie. - [narrator] grubhub perks give you deals (upbeat music) get the food you love with perks from- - [crowd] grubhub. >>> house democrats strive to impeach president trump for his role inciting last week's riots at the capitol is putting some republicans in a bind as they weigh how to vote on wednesday. while the vast majority of republicans are expected to oppose the article of impeachment, there are several that could break ranks. cnn reported just last night there was a conference call, and talk to go her colleagues, congresswoman liz cheney, who is the number 3 republican in the house, urged them to vote their conscience on trump's impeachme impeachment. we also learned a short time ago that ted cruz's communications director resigned in the wake of last week's attack. dana bash is the chief political correspondent and gloria borger is a former gop house committee council. her latest book is called

we've already seen some legacy repair work by lindsey graham. already seen some legacy repair work by the likes of pence, mcconnell, will it work, any of it? >> i doubt it. i understand their fear, and i want to thank you for having me back. i wore a sweater for you tonight because america needs a nice big warm hug after the violent week we've barely survived. so congrats again everyone for making it to friday just so. donald trump is not merely a president or a politician or a powerful figure. he has become a cult leader, and there are millions and millions of people who have bought into the deception he has wrought that the republican party has amplified, that right wing media has empowered and enabled along with social media because it was profitable to do so. there was profit in serving up those lies and now people are living with the consequences of those lies. many of us knew it for years going in, there were chances to get off this bus at helsinki. there were chances to get off this bus at charlottesville and people said, no i'm going to

senator graham shares the judiciary committee. sen.raham: i will check and see, i don't want to speak if he is speaking. everybody ok? >> [inaudie]

graham gets specific.ys the fisa court was lied to, information was withheld on those being investigated and the leadership of the fbi under comey and mccabe was grossly incompetent or knowingly allowed tremendous misdeeds. there was a blind eye turned to any explanation other than the trump campaign was colluding with foreign powers. in these documents, what we have, bill, are 11 interview transcripts with former and current government officials who themselves worked directly on the very start of that investigation as it was launched and first getting underway. some of those officials reference the now infamous fbi debriefing of christopher steele and his sub source who we learned was under investigation by the fastball at that time. some of the interviews also talk about cambridge professor stefan halpert. he's important because he was in contact with carter page and george papadopoulos all of which had been known for several months but getting new detail now. the big picture story, bill, lots of color,

well one of the president's closest allies republican senator lindsey graham says wednesday's unrest has tarnished trump's record in office become close to the president personally i think his president has been consequential from a conservative point of view it's been an amazing 4 years in terms of judges securing the border a vaccine in record deregulating the con to me cutting taxes historic mideast peace agreements the destruction of the caliphate all on and on and on was tarnished by yesterday when it comes to accountability the president needs to understand that his actions are the problem not the solution well particle angels us live now from capitol hill i guess there are some republicans now coming out more strongly against president trump and what happened yesterday what do you make of how republicans are trying to frame all of this. i think it's the clearest indication yet that republicans are afraid that the winds of public opinion are going to go against the president and therefore themselves you seemed several members of the president's staff quit in disgust but again t

senator lindsey graham says not a good idea.e will also explain the confrontation that took place at a d.c. airport earlier today and dan bongino reacts to twitter permanentlyyyyy federal authorities are pursuing dozens of other cases. >> sean: last night, the president promised an orderly transition of power having exhausted any potential remedy as it relates to what happened in the election. democrats want another impeachment or they want somebody to invoke the 25th amendment. fox news is reporting tonight house democrats will try to launch another impeachment sham lawn the country monday. senator lindsey graham is pushing back against all the madness tweeting out "as the president stated last night, it is time to heal and to move on. speaker pelosi pushes impeachment in the last days of the term presidency, that would do a lot more harm than good grade later adding that as for the 25th amendment being invoked, i don't believe that's appropriate. and that prompted a bizarre response from the real speaker of the house, the one

take senator lindsey graham. listen to what he said after the chaos at the capitol. >> they say there are 66,000 people in georgia under 18 voted. how many people believe that? i ask, give me ten. hadn't had one. they said 8,000 felons in prison in arizona voted. give me ten. hadn't gotten one. >> hmm. so that is the same lindsey graham who allegedly called georgia's secretary of state to discuss how he could discard legally cast ballots. the same lindsey graham who repeatedly parroted the president's lies about election fraud. >> i want the computer systems in michigan that flipped votes from republicans to democrats to be looked at, and the software was used all over the country. there's a lot of shenanigans going on here. biden got more votes than obama in a few areas of the country. in only a few areas. how could that be? it's not unreasonable to ask the legislature to come back in and order an audit of the system to see if the system worked. what is unreasonable is to sit on your ass and do nothing when you

move forward with impeachment and one of the president's closest allies republican senator lindsey graham says wednesday's on race has tarnished record in office become close to the president personally i think his president has been consequential from a conservative point of view there's been an amazing 4 years in terms of judges securing the border a vaccine in record deregulating the con me cutting taxes historic mideast peace agreements the destruction of the caliphate all on and on and on was tarnished by yesterday when it comes to accountability the president needs to understand that his actions or the problem not the solution well as a result of the chaos 4 people died in 15 police officers were injured president-elect joe biden branded those responsible for the. domestic terrorists well we'll have more on president elect joe biden's reaction with christian tsunami in delaware in just a moment but 1st we go to patty cohan on capitol hill in washington patty we've had the 1st reaction from the white house since yesterday's incidents let's listen 1st to what the press secretary had t

first of all lindsey graham was on the flight with president trump down to texas for his event at the border wall touting that as an accomplishment so you wonder what was said between those 2 lindsey graham as you pointed out along so a friend of president of but who markedly said on the senate floor just last week that he was quote done with the president apparently that he's not done after all coming back to the president's defense but you also know that in this latest tweet from graham he didn't go as far as to defend the president's actions in fact not many have that the republican defense against impeachment thus far has centered around 2 arguments one that this impeachment is a right. process that should require more time and deliberation and 2 republicans say that this will so more division in the country at a time when unity is greatly needed and there is some evidence that indeed there in this country does remain just as divided today as it did when trump was impeached a year ago of a recently conducted poll by c.b.s. found that 55 percent of americans want this impeachment t

lindsey graham said he hated it to end this way, but it did. and that will be the epitaph of the trump administration. >>> i want to know what you think, go to my website @smerconish.com. answer this question. after january 20, will the gop remain the party of trump? what are your thoughts? tweet me @smerconish. or my facebook page. i'll read responses throughout the program. what do we have, kathryn? from twitter. when you say you blame the media, partisans assume it's the other media. not the one you are listening too. good response, brian. you know from me, mix up your diet. you can't be in a silo, relying on one particular outlet. here's the thing, the partnership on either side of the aisle has been adbdicated. i'm not thinking the president, 11 days forward. they're getting their direction from largely men with microphones who have a stranglehold on gop primary voters and everybody is tethering their message to what they hear on the airwaves. that's the danger. one more, kathryn. what do we have? from the world of twitter, why are you ope

kb graham was saying i'm done with trump, i'm over this? what? >> and then he got a final ride on marine one and it changed his mind. you could roll the tape with -- >> uh-oh. well, there we go. amanda, you answered the question. >> i think lindsey graham's words were count me out. he was done with it until he wasn't. and so they want to drag this this out by threatening witnesses. but they don't want to confront the question of what led to the violence. they're doing everything to avoid that question. they have 45 republicans saying we don't even want to have a trial. you have to find a way to focus them on the president's actions that led to the violence. that's it. they refuse to see it. >> all right. so john avalon took his marbles and went home, so i'll let everybody go. everyone will get a half day right now, early day off. thank you. see you soon. >>> now i want to bring in former nixon white house counsel john dean. good evening to you. so many questions about trump's actions the day of the insurrection. why didn't we hear from him