james graham is an acclaimed british dramatist and playwright. been central to his work since his first big success in 2012 with this house which was a critical insight into the workings of british politics. he's gone on to produce many film and television dramas on contemporary culture. and lysa john is secretary—general of civicus, that's the world alliance for citizen participation, and she's based in johannesburg in south africa. and civicus is the organisation that's dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society around the world. lysa has spent more than 20 years working on grassroots advocacy including socialjustice, human rights, and poverty. great line—up, welcome to you both, and also to my audience members. and remember you too canjoin the conversation at... solitary round of applause from me to you all. now, let's get through our first question straightaway and it is from borneo in malaysia and dylan jordan tan. dyla n. hi, there. so, with the current health crisis that we are in, unemployment and hunger have increased. s

lindsey graham, the senator, asking her. "james didn't let you know certain things before it was happening. did he go rogue?" imagine how frustrating it would have been for anybody working at that point for him, and her position, not to know the important things that were happening before she would be held culpable. and she is held accountable for this, isn't she? >> harris, she signed off on every single one of those fisa warrants that were submitted to the court. >> harris: now she says she wished she hadn't. >> clearly. she's got to say that, right? otherwise she'll have submitted knowingly false information, false documents to a federal court, which come in and of itself, is a crime. she is in a very tough position, but, frankly, facts are stubborn things. there is no explanation. when she walks out of that january 5th meeting with obama, with biden, and the rest of the crew, she sits down and says -- how can you not turn to jim comey and say, "what the attic is going on here?" you report directly to me, jim. how is it that i d

senator lindsey graham says james comey, andrew mccabe, also expected to testify next month.me back to the show the attorney for general flynn, sidney powell. great to have you back on, sidney. what do you think will come out of this hearing and what would you ask sally yates? >> i would have a lot of questions for sally yates, liz. not least of which get details how she was briefed by the fbi immediately after her interview of michael flynn because we know now from the records that they told her they believed general flynn. that he was forthcoming. that he answered their questions as best he could to his recollection at the time. showed no indication of any sort of deception and believed he was telling the truth and they believed he thought he was telling the truth. which completely eviscerates any sort of crime. yet the very next day she runs to the white house not once, but two times, on day after that also to try to get general flynn fired. it is absolutely inexplicable. there is of course the extense sieve conversation in the oval office on january 5th. we now have peter

lindsey graham is looking at september to hear from james comey, deputy director andrew mccabe and possibly others. republican senator from south carolina lindsey graham joins us, good to have you back. sally yates comes before your committee on wednesday. my understanding is the key area you want to talk about is months and years passed, would she stole sign off on any of those documents? is that the answer you're looking for? >> he signed the warrant application in january of 2017. we know there was no there there, the dossier was garbage and the fbi found out the russian sub source reported a bunch of hearsay. i want to ask if she knows that what she knows now would she have signed the warrant, rosenstein said no. also want to ask about the january 5th meeting in the oval office with donald trump. susan rice was there, comey, brennan, clapper and herself talking about surveillance of general flynn. shannon: what do you think happened in that case? now it is going to one sector of the supreme court for this hearing of the dc circuit, do you think general flynn gets cleared? as the doj req

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. >> sandra: lindsey graham slamming former f.b.i. director james comey after former deputy attorney general sally yates testimony on the russia probe saying she was irritated to comey after he interviewed michael flynn without her authorization. what else did we learn during her testimony? >> well, we learned a lot starting with the admission of sally yates telling lawmakers the former f.b.i. director failed to follow procedures in the flynn interview. >> i was upset that director comey didn't coordinate that with us and acted unilaterally. >> did comey go rogue? >> i would use that term, yes. >> she defended the f.b.i.'s questioning of flynn out of a counter intelligence concern based on his contact with the russian ambassador. >> legitimate basis for the interview? >> yes, i do. >> what was the basis? >> we had evidence the russians were attempting to influence the election. >> the election was over. >> she was grilled about her knowledge of the steele dossier to show fisa warrants that led to the surveillance of carter page. >> do you regret the

you want to subpoena christopher wray, you want to subpoena james comey, why aren't you? why is it lindsey grahamas subpoena power? >> well first of all i have the authority to subpoena 33 different individual, james comey, clapper, brennan, those folks are on the list. what has delayed my interviews of those individuals is we don't have the documents. how can you sit down and conduct a thorough interview when you don't have, for example, the two documents that were just revealed over the last week. so we absolutely need those documents that is what the fbi has been so successful at hiding the ball on, and maria , i've been saying this for a number of years. how do you investigate the investigators? they know how the game is played this to me has been an enormous diversion operation to cover up their wrongdoing, has been a successful diversionary operation but now the chickens are coming home to roost. we're finally starting to learn this but we are running out of time. nobody could out-frustrate me trust me. i was raked over the coals earlier this week by a radio talk show host. nobody can out-f

james comey. >> did comey go rogue? >> reporter: lindsey graham questioned yates about her appearance at an oval office meeting with residents obama and comey, national security adviser michael flynn and his potential contacts with russia. >> this was the first i had heard about the calls with kislyak. i was surprised, frankly irritated with director comey. >> reporter: she confirmed the suspicions of senate republicans and other allies of the president, comey a new more than he was willing to share even with his boss, sally yates. senators grilled yates about her knowledge of the steel dossier. a document she says was used to issue a fisa warrant on carter page. >> nobody appears to know anything in this government and yet somehow a federal court was deliberately and systematically misled, so severely they can't trust anything the fbi did. it calls for cleaning of house. >> reporter: democrats took shots at the trump administration. >> today marks the second time the trump administration testified -- some appearances equal the total number of tim

senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham pushing for former fbi director james comey and his deputy andrew mccabe to testify in the coming weeks this after former deputy attorney general sally yates told lawmakers comey went rogue when the bureau interviewed then incoming national security advisor michael flynn back in 2017. >> jim comey has become radioactive. people are running away from him like he's got the plague. rosenstein said no, i wouldn't have signed the warrant if i knew then what i know now. sally yates threw him under the bus that he went rogue, that he set up general flynn for as you say to manufacture a crime. >> when are you calling comey? >> in september. jon: congressman guy reschenthaler, member of the house judiciary and foreign afirs committee. -- affairs committee. it appears we will hear from jim comey in front of a senate committee in september, but he's a lawyer and a smart one. do you expect anything he says is somehow going to implement himself? >> john, we saw sally yates basically throw jim comey under the bus. i want to see what jim comey has to

senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham says he is looking at september to hear from james comey, former if you bfbi deputy director andrew mccabe and possibly others. what is the chairman hope to accomplish? lindsey graham joins us, good to have you back, senator. sally yates comes before your committee on wednesday, my understanding is the key area you want to talk to her about is knowing what we all discovered now months and years passed, would she still sign off on any of those carter page fisa documents, is that the answer you're looking looking for on wednesday? >> she signed the warrant application in january of 2017, now we know there was no there there and the dossier was a bunch of garbage in the russian sub source reported a bunch of hearsay so i want to ask her if she knew then what she knows now, would she signed the warrant? i also want to ask her about the january fifth meeting in the oval office with president tru president trump, i think susan rice was there, james comey, clapper and herself, they were talking about the surveillance of general flynn. >> wha

senator graham says he also wants former fbi director james comey to testify.is back to virtual school for florida students. but with face-to-face instruction set to start as early as next week, the orange county teacher's union is putting up a fight in court. >> it just seems like such a risky and unwise and really wreckless decision to go back to face-to-face. you can make up lost academic time. you can't make up a life. todd: could the outcome of this case set a precedent nationwide. bob bianchi joins us. does the lawsuit have any chance? >> the lawsuit is based on two things it's important to understand. the first part is they're saying they have not been given information that is vital for them to be able to protect themselves and that the school district has been nontransparent with regard to where there have been covid-19 outbreaks and that they are forced to file the lawsuit so they can understand where the outbreaks are and what the plans for the school district are to reopen. that's part one. part two is, as the lady just indicated, that we should not

electorally from russia's interference. >> in addition to yates agreeing with chairman graham's assessment, his statement that jamesrogue she also said in the january 5th meeting in 2017 she herself was irritated with james comey because he hadn't shared with her all the information that he had about michael flynn's interactions with the russian ambassador. >> sandra: we'll continue to monitor that hearing happening on capitol hill right now. gillian, thank you. >> you bet. >> trace: emergency response officials from several nations now headed to the lebanese capital of beirut to help locate survivors in the rubble of buildings destroyed. live pictures here where you can see the smoke still rising talking about 24 hours later by yesterday's massive explosion. it ripped through the city's port killing at least 100 people injuring more than 4,000. a priest in beirut had to run for cover when debris fell from the ceiling during mass. over half the city was damaged. investigation is underway to find the exact cause of that explosion. >> sandra: stimulus stalemate. what are the sticking points with getting something don

if you want to find common ground between hillary clinton and donald trump and lindsey graham we all think james corrupt investigations in the history of the fbi. he was rebuked by the fisa court , the investigation was, and he signed a warrant against carter page in april of 2017, and i find it hard to believe that the director of the fbi did not know that in january and march of 2017, the russian sub source disavowed the reliabil ity of the dossier, so you've got a lot to say, james comey come in under oath and say it. brian: you have an fbi lawyer who admitted guilt to changing a document to get a fisa warrant and no one even brought that up on face the nation. unbelievable. lastly, you came outlast night, you were at a law enforcement function and you were asked about what was going on in wisconsin and you said i'm wondering why jake blake didn't yield to police. in terms of the shooting. >> yeah, i want to know what happened. mr. floyd was subdued. he was in custody. he was defense less and they just put the knee on the neck. well i want to know what happened. why was the guy, mr. blake, st

. >> chairman lindsey graham dove in headfirst, grilling sally yates about the now infamous oval office meeting with president obama and fbi director jamesomey on january 5, 2017. >> did comey go rogue? >> you could use that term, yes. >> that wasn't the only criticism yates had for comey. she claims he blindsided her by failing to share information about michael flynn, a key figure in crossfire hurricane and his conversations with the russian ambassador. >> this was the first i'd heard of the calls between flynn and kislyak. i was really surprised. i was frankly irritated with director comey. >> yates claim comey never offered a full explanation and she saved her harshest criticism for flynn himself, accusing him of neutering president obama's foreign policy towards russia and insisting that the fbi was right to interrogate him. >> what we were about was that he was undercutting obama policy and he was covering up. >> it was the tale of two hearings. democrats and republicans failing to agree on even what they were supposed to be investigating. >> the mueller investigation uncovered more than 120 contacts between the trump campaign and

james comey and others from her high position in the department of justice. political crime of the century and she had no idea what they were doing. chairman grahamand andrew mccabe testify in the coming one saying perhaps september. 's for flynn's casey remains in legal limbo. until a federal appeals court will hear arguments over the doj decision to dismiss the case against flynn next tuesday. both tardy parties were told to answer questions over judicial impartiality. finally don't forget yesterday's hearing comes as john durham is wrapping up his investigation into crossfire hurricane expected by the end of summer, the power to criminally in charge if they see fit so more to come. shannon: more to come. griff jenkins live, thank you. >> let's get into that a little more. what does yates's testimony mean for john durham's, pro. marsha blackburn was at the hearing and it is a sign individuals need to be punished. >> we are going to get the durham report and that is fair. was we were able to do was begin to break apart this, she is saying i did nothing wrong. basically. but was we know is there had to be people giving her information that were d

about dirty can't james comey and others from her high position in the department of justice, the political crime of the century and she had no idea what they were doing. chairman grahams intends to call comey and andrew mccabe in the next month or so. we will see where that leads. all this as john durham wrapping his investigation into the russia probe, that is expected by the end of the summer and durham investigation, the power to commonly charge individuals if they see fit so we will see where that goes. shannon: >> sally yates testimony raising questions and concerns about the conduct of james comey. jillian: joining us is hans, thanks for joining us. what was your stand up moment yesterday? >> i was shocked, sally yates said james comey a goner rogue but not rogue in conducting an investigation of michael flynn when there was no evidence of any kind that he had broken the law. she was upset that he hadn't coordinated, conducting an unjustified investigation of michael flynn. that this is shocking to me, such a lack of judgment, the top official at the justice department. >> interesting to hear all the stuff. they made a big deal about flynn at one point talking t

judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham will reveal them fresh of his grilling of sally yates when the former deputy attorney general dropped the bombshell about james comey. >> when you heard about the interview you got upset didn't you? >> i was upset that director comey didn't coordinate that with us and acted unilaterally yes i was. >> did comey go rogue? >> you could use that term, yes . maria: joining me right now is senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham who promised right here on the program to subpoena yates before his committee and senator it's always a pleasure to see you thank you for being here , sir. >> thank you. thank you very much. maria: i want to get back to the sally yates hearing in a moment. let's talk about what we have here fresh, breaking news. these are retracted documents here, this is a senate intel committee brief and this brief is from the fbi, were they basically telling the senate in march of 2018, senator, this is actually dated february 14, 2018 , that the sub source was reliable. tell us what these redacted documents tell us. >> well, here they are. it took me forever to get them. i want to thank attorn

that she could have known so little of dirty cop james comey, the political crime of the century and he had no idea what they are doing. next up chairman graham we await for the investigation to wrap up. we expect that by the end of the summer which should be season and the investigation has the power to criminal charge vims if -- if they see fit. pete: for 3 and a half years there was an entire investigation going on based on poison tree and the media was obsessed with it. russia, russia. the president was a russian agent. every single day. we fast-forward to a hearing where the people involved with it and hopefully hear from comey as well are saying, you know, reregret it, our bad. we didn't know the material wasn't legitimate and we shouldn't have applied for the application. would the news media, you think, right, you have to account for that mistake, they would come on the evening news programs and cover that very testimony, well here you have it, abc, cbs, nbc gave coverage of yates testimony, zero seconds each. narratives don't change when you commit the sin of omission, brian, and you never tell your audience, what we told you for 3 y

loss of conviction with someone like billy graham from someone who doesn't believe any of this at all. i have reason to think that there was a canadian in was jamesempleton to the point that he realized that was complete nonsense. can you really don't want to say this is too late to start now. so that is the case surprisingly larger amounts i know a lot of people religion means everything you know that don't try to profit from it. that with racketeering some religions simply are like scientology for example for like a successful con job but it cannot be entirely with reduced to that so there can be any entertainment because they don't know any more than you do if they say i believe that they believe in something the what are they asking us to believe then to take something i think somebody wants me to believe that then i will then they go against themselves. >>host: is billy graham evil? >> yes. discussed - - disgustingly evil. he is a sick person there are some types of predators it is an intellectual means and lethal with the nixon on tape and went see you got over that revelation which wasn't for me to be like president nixon was i a new that