john mccain wants more raids.cain and lindsey graham have both been pushing harder for us to go after radical islamist terrorists. the fact that he would criticize a raid, obviously there's reason for criticism, obviously in the sense that we lost a soldier and civilians were killed. that's a very tragic thing. but the bottom line is lindsey's right, if you want more of these types of activities, don't pick a fight with the guy who is doing what you're asking him to do. but this is just -- expect more of this. >> senator, do you think john mccain was -- >> they don't like to be criticized. i'm sorry, what? >> i'm sorry, senator. do you think john mccain was picking a fight or president trump was picking the fight here? >> yes. look, this is the nature of both of them. neither of them like to be criticized. both of them like to sort of have their statements put out there and be taken as truth. and so you're going to see a lot more of this between trump and senator mccain. i would just go back to what lindsey said.

>> john mccain is a hero.o speaks his mind and somebody that we all listen to, particularly when it comes to national security matters. so yeah, i don't think -- it's probably not advisable for this line of discussion or that conversation to be going on publicly. i think the important thing is that there are things that we all agree on, things that we want to get done for the good of the country. and at some point the president is going to need senators, every republican senator, because we only have a 52-vote majority here in the united states senate, in order to accomplish this agenda. so i hope everybody can kind of dial it down a bit and keep focused on the things that unite us and that's really getting the economy growing again, creating better paying jobs, lessening the regulatory burden on businesses in this country, and looking at ways that we can strengthen our national security and keep americans safe in what is an increasingly dangerous world. >> and senator, i'm sure you want to get judge gorsuch c

brian: john mccain should know that. think about what he said there and think about what he said thursday, this war with the media. can you understand this frustration? >> i understand his frustration. but this does not help him expand from the 39% of americans approving of his performance. if he wants to get that number up he needs to start acting more presidential and less like a candidate. it may have worked during the crazy race when there was an opening for him. but now he has to govern. he's talking to 52 senators in his own party that are becoming concerned about the direction of the country. brian: he will go out on the campaign trail when he has his new tax plan and the re-placement for obamacare and that will be something you don't have to take out of your campaign funds. you tell the program just like barack obama did the with obamacare. then donald trump could get the best of both worlds. >> ronald reagan shows us how to do this. he busted out of washington, d.c. and away from the bubble around the white hous

huge fan of john mccain too and bigger fan of meghan mccain. i don't want to create problems in the halls, there are problems brewing, chris, you are right. if you have time and i know you have a movie at 11:30 tonight. if you don't mind stick around until later, we have you down on the agenda if you promise to come back. do i have your word? >> yeah. >> we want more punishment. >> right. matt's running c-pac a huge event for conservatives. >> coming up next week, brian, i'm stressed out. >> can't wait for the train tickets. >>> coming up as judge jeanine's street justice is on the line. break down the president's big day as well as big poll results. >>> and next, what a moment for if man recognized by the president of the united states and invited on stage. this man, gene huber will join people would ask me in different countries that we traveled, what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm from all nations. it puts a hunger in your heart to want to know more. is depr

john mccain a loser when it comes to a the military? and blumenthal? there was a white house guy there with him and he confirmed it. trump is just flat out lying about it, number one, which is something he does automatically. talk about stepping on messages. if tax reform is going to happen, which i doubt, let's assume it does and he steps on the message today, he has a habit of stepping on messages everything a day. the good news gets buried under things like this. the guy should put that twitter away and learn but he can't because he still thinks he's the ceo of a company and he makes all the decisions. guess what, you don't. >> kimberly: he does. he's the president. >> eric: he is called the commander-in-chief so he's making the calls unless he gets pushed back by republican senators. >> greg: we don't work for him. he's not our boss. he works for us. >> eric: as does mccain. >> bob: do you think it was okay for him to take him on like that? >> eric: there has been a war between donald trump and john mccain for a year and a half. he's not going to s

john mccain says there's enormous dysfunction. leon panetta says he's not whether or not this country can survive a crisis given the way things are right now. tony thomas, the commander of special operations, this is a nonpolitical general, made a pretty astounding statement, when he was asked about what's going on in washington right now. he said, our government continues to be in unbelievable turmoil. i hope they sort it out soon because we're a nation at war. as a commander i'm concerned our government be as stable as possible. i was surprised to see that from a general, albeit he was asked a question about it, david. i wonder your reaction, if you think it may be overblown. >> john, i was surprised as well. i did not think it was overblown. we saw in that flurry of papers in mar-a-lago as they were dealing with weekend with the north korean missile test, other countries are starting to test us now, the russians themselves have taken provocative actions in the last 48 hours, moving missiles past some of our ships, buzzing them.

john mccain ambivalently agonizingly takes on the president. today, gabe. >> great to be here. >> it's an amazing piece, number one, talk to me about why mccain is feeling like he's all alone on this. >> it's really a fascinating tight rope he's walking. and know, he's getting flak from the left for voting for trump's cabinet picks. what he's trying to do in my conversations with him i think is play the long game. for him the long game is russia. and he doesn't want to expend a lot of political capital fighting trump. john mccain is a republican. he does like a lot of trump's plans to deregulate the economy and stuff like that. so that's really -- that's okay with him. what he's trying to do is focus on getting this bipartisan select committee to investigate trump's ties for russia. >> does he believe he's going to find the support he needs? >> right now it's frustrating, he met with mitch mcconnell before our interview earlier last week and mcconnell reiterated that he doesn't think they need a bipartisan committee, this can be handled within

he would be closer to john mccain's foreign policy. john bolton still believes the iraq war was a good idea. he still believes that regime change is a good idea. he believes that nation-building is a good idea. i think john bolton would be much closer to mccain than trump. and i think that his history of sort of acting on his own, my fear is that -- secret wars would be developing around the globe. so no, i think he would be a bad choice. >> let's turn to obamacare. you tweeted in january that the president quote fully supports my plan to replace obamacare the same day we repeal it. we have heard some mixed signals out of the white house. are you still confident that that's the case, that he still fully supports your plan? >> yes, i have discussed this with the vice president. congressman price. now secretary price. i think we need to do repeal and replace on the same day. i think we need to do complete repeal. many people are talking about a partial repeal. if you only repeal part of it and you leave in some sort of obamacare light, my

that's a dangerous area for president trump to continue to trash john mccain. >> john mccain did say that he listens to the people that the president has hired and put in prominent positions. people like the secretary of defense, james mattis, general john kelly. it's clear, shep, that it's not likely that the president and senator john mccain are really going to get along with each other, not any time soon. >> shepard: no, it would appear that is accurate. vlad putin is in the news again today. the white house weighed in on a report that president trump talked to him about a nuclear arms treaty? >> yes, a phone call that they had saturday. another leaked transcript that comes from people that don't like what the president has to say. this is a new stark treaty. it fully goes into effect in 2018. this limits the united states and russia to 700 intercontinental ballistic missile, 750 war heads. the president according to a partial transcript reported by reuters, the president didn't like the deal too much and think it comes down too much in favor of russia. i asked the press secretary

that was arizona senator john mccain taking a big swipe at president trump after trump continues to lash against the media over the weekend. well, mccain claims that trump is trying to put a muzzle on the press. but get this. fellow republican senator rand paul says mccain's beef with the president is more personal than it is political. >> i think senator mccain's perspective is colored by his disagreements with president trump on foreign policy. if i were to look at foreign policy, i would say john mccain's been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades. cheryl: ouch. okay. joining me now washington examiner senior political analyst michael. michael, do you think john mccain and donald trump are ever going to be able to get along? this has been going on since the campaign. >> well, it reminds me a lot of the relationship between john mccain and george w. bush 16 years ago at this time when president bush was in his first year or two of office and john mccain was a big critic on a number of issues. he run against president bush in the primaries. he pushed through his camp

you can see that with john mccain now, he has long been a battle with john mccain, now john mccain is time when it comes to legislation and getting down on capitol hill. barack obama was oftentimes criticized for having a chilly relationship with capitol hill and not doing much to bring democrats on his side. republicans are starting privately to the aunt of the reporters and people on capitol hill to say donald trump is doing the same thing. he is not getting allies, not building alliances, not forging coalitions yet. obviously, it is very early, but that stuff is not happening yet. >> jon: and has been suggested, and this is nothing more than a rumor really come against a rumbling, it has been suggested -- >> we like rumblings. >> jon: reince preibus was brought aboard as chief of staff because he's the former head of the republican national committee, he has deep ties to these republican leaders who already are there on capitol hill. is it his job to try to mend some of these fences? >> it is everybody's job. the white house-legislative liaison job to lobby for the initiation, but

is that your message to john mccain? >> that's for anybody.on't know how much clear i can be. >> when you lose $75 million airplane and more importantly american lives are lost or wounded, i don't believe you can call it a success. many years ago when i was in prison in north vietnam, there was an attempt to rescue the pows, the prison had been evacuated unfortunately, the brave men who were took on that mission and risked their lives in an effort to rescue us were genuine american heroes. the mission failed. mr. sean spicer should know that story. >> with us tonight is our msnbc's national security kevin barron covering the military congress for some 15 years and is the executive editor of defense one. kevin, how should folks feel about this beyond the number one rule in washington, don't pick a fight in military affairs with john mccain. >> yes, that's a pretty good rule. this is a case where everyone can kind of be right in different ways. so from the initial reports of this raid, i heard from sources saying yeah, it was a tough day for our

we interviewed john mccain yet on the hill. and he went offer -- rebutted what sean spicer had said. now overnight you have got the president ginning in and the president tweeting senator mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to the media. only emboldens the enemy. our hero, ryan died on a winning mission according to general mattis not failure. time for him to get smart and start winning again. are people in the white house concerned? i guess not if sean spicer carried on against mccain. >> no. during the campaign donald trump took aim at john mccain. this is a dynamic they are accustomed to. it was striking that sean spicer said that nip who questions the success of this mission owes an apology to the fallen soldier. those comments created waves. if you look at it from a different perspective, pruch has been quite critical of the iraq war for example. how does that square? and i think that argument becomes complicated. senator mccain when he was pressed by frank thorp yesterday on capitol hill

john mccain not only won new hampshire, he won by a loat. he beat george w. bush in new hampshire by 18 points. uh-oh. the next big primary was in south carolina and that was worrying to the bush campaign because south carolina is a big military state, tons of veterans. john mccain the not only a veteran but a legitimate nationally famous war hero. john mccain had been sort of favored to win in south carolina because of those things and that would have been one thing if it was a oneoff, if that was the one state he was goi to get but in context because john mccain just upset bush in new hampshire, well, then if he goes on to win a second big state after that that would have been a huge deal in terms of the momentum in the race, changing the narrative, upending expectations. the bush campaign absolutely knew that so they went into win at all costs mode in south carolina. that primary election in south carolina in 2001 still famous to this day for now dirty the dirty tricks were that were played against john mccain. including the viciously racist flyers about h

john mccain is pawn for media.en he was republican nominee despite the fact they loved him before that. i wish he would see that he is being used here just to destroy trump. that is his only role here, that you be that republican voice against trump. steve: dan, you mentioned that pre beat upjohn mccain when running for president. we have a sound bite mon tank we'll play later on. that is exactly right. because he is inside of the president's own party, everybody wants to interview him because he is the republican who will take a shot at the guy who is his own party's standard-bearer. >> meanwhile if the shoe was on other foot, they had a democrat senator during the obama administration speaking out religiously and fervently how bad barack obama was, the media would do everything they can to brush him aside. give him five or six sections of airtime to discredit him later. this is the opposite when a republican is in control. ainsley: dan is calling the, trump saying media is enemy of the american people. i'm not th

you have people like john mccain, who has taken no time to give this president much credit at all. you're also hearing from democrats, highly ranking democrats, praising this pick. the only criticism they can find is how much independence will this person really have, which is a warranted question. to ali's point, during the confirmation hearings, the pig -- biggest questions were what kind of independence can you show on these issues? trump did praise the differences that they have saying i respect their opinion. the question still remains what kind of latitude do they have? the president of the united states is still the president shaping domestic and foreign policy. i think that question remains as the vice president is abroad, what kind of power he has. >> robert costa, before i let you answer, i want to ask you to join us in listening to the words of senator lindsey graham at a gathering in germany on the subjects of donald trump and russia. >> if you're worried that we're not going to look long and hard at what russia did in our election because trump won and republicans are

but also you're not suggesting that a sitting senator, john mccain, doesn't have a right -- >> i'm a big admirer of senator mccain. he does a great job arguing for those who defend us. he's been the leading advocate for building the military and a better way to defend this. actually, his ultimate partner in that is probably going to be president trump. wouldn't argue that neither one of them have the right to say whatever they want to say. i don't know that we particularly benefit from either of them continuing this discussion. there are plenty of problems to be solved, plenty of arguments we ought to be having about how we defend the country, about the age of our ships, the age of our planes, the best material and training we can possibly have. frankly, they're both on the same side of that argument. john mccain has been leading that without a president who agreed with him for a long time. i think they'll find more to agree on than disagree on. hopefully sooner than later. >> i want you to weigh in on the back and forth for the president's pick for supreme court, neil gorsuch. you sa

several people saying this is the highlight of john mccain's career. >> this was the best of mccain.n is an imperfect vehicle for this. remember, he chose sarah palin as his running mate. that ushered in the age of trump. >> yeah. >> he's an imperfect messenger. he's trying to do the right thing. >> this is not a new thing for him. he was critical of president obama and george w. bush. even reagan in beirut as well. has he always looked at himself as the guy to poke the chief executive? >> i think so. they were policy debates. i think this is deeper. this is about values and america's role in the world. he sees trump and steve bannon, he thinks, you know, basically has a fundamentally dangerous world view about this america first isolationism. the mccain/trump fight is bigger than a policy fight about the direction in the war in iraq. >> beneath the policy, there's the personal. trump likes big personalities, so does mccain. do they have personal repore at all? >> he said he only met trump once or twice in his life at a frund raiser. trump called and asked for suggestions for defense

significance of john mccain speaking out. >> look, it goes to the larger issue that john mccain has with president trump is that he fears president trump essentially wants to shake up the 70-year sort of world order that the united states has led when it comes to western alliances, and he is concerned -- it's also why john mccain is the biggest critic when it comes to russia and he has such concern about the russia issue, because russia, the torture keurkeys of world, these authoritarian dictators, you've seen the free press get almost shoved out of the country. that's where john mccain is coming from. he's saying donald trump is not there yet, but there is a fine line between press criticism and press delegitimization. i think he's afraid trump has crossed that line. >>> let's go to the kennedy space center where a spacex rocket is making a second attempt of launch after aborting its mission on saturday. nbc's kerry sanders is live there for the launch. kerry, good morning. >> good morning, willie. there are high hopes the second time is the charm. the liftoff was scrubbed yesterday jus

john mccain. ran for thewhen he president, somebody needs to look on the website of the aeronautical companies arms weapons sales. he got major contributions from sales.rms from those people. mcdonnell douglas and all the big aeronautical companies. because the more weapons that he can -- that the arms committee can convince the president that they need, the better the sales for the aeronautical companies. host: thank you. trump obviously has been really involved in the defense industry. he has gotten involved directly with the coo's of boeing and lockheed martin. we have to wait and see how the deals play out. host: as a military contractor looking through these increases, what goes through my mind? guest: the industry is excited. the prospect of a bigger defense budget is certainly exciting to ism because the military also aging and they will be looking to buy new things that will need to be built. but it is unclear how quickly the industry will be able to ramp up after a couple of years of not

i don't believe you can —— john mccain told nbc news. ilians including children were also killed. here's the president's response: @realdonaldtrump "sen. mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to the media. only emboldens the enemy! he went on to described a 'winning mission‘. these two have formed? yes, this goes back to the beginning of donald trump's presidential campaign when he questioned john mccain's heroism. john mccain of course is a decorated hero, fought in vietnam, a prisoner of war, but donald trump said, "i prefer my he was not to be captured." and prefer my he was not to be ca ptured." and at prefer my he was not to be captured." and at the same everyone thought it was ridiculous, donald trump has done it now and his presidential campaign will collapse. of course it didn't it went on and john mccain eventually came around and somewhat supported donald trump's presidential campaign but obviously there is a lot of tension and bad blood still there and as soon and bad blood still there and as so

from another party in the senate, this is what they're saying. >> i think anybody who questions john mccain understanding of the military and understanding of courage and a military context is not paying attention. >> when president trump assaults senator mccain, he better watch out because this is a guy who knows what he's talking about. and not only has he walked his talk, he's been there. >> reporter: minority leader chuck shumer brought this up on the senate floor. to say mccain is one of the most respected voices on national security, that is the first nice thing we have heard schumer say about a republican in a very long time. of course, this isn't just about complimenting people from across the aisle. it's also, for democrats, ab creating problems for the president. heather? >> heather: all right peter doocy, thank you very much. for more on this, we are joined by a republican on the judiciary committee from the great state of texas. just down there for the super bowl. you throw a good party. >> home state was having a good time. >> heather: let me ask you about this, about senator j

senator john mccain, over whether the raid in yemen was a success or failure. within the hour, trump tweeted, senator mccain should not be talking about success of failure of the media. he's been losing so long, he doesn't know how to win anymore. just look at the mess our country is in, bogged down in conflicts all over the place. our hero ryan died on a mission, not a failure. time for the u.s. to get smart and start winning again. back with me is the panel. i want to point out donald trump put this on twitter where he has millions of followers. what he was criticizing john mccain for in terms of talking to the media, winning, losing, it is what donald trump is doing. what is your take? >> american hero, john mccain, versus american zero, donald trump. >> okay. stop. >> draft dodger, the guy with the outchief first dares to tell senator mccain, war hero, he should not be commenting on military missions. this isn't about the failed raid in yemen. this is about the fact that senator mccain went on the senate floor yesterday and ripped donald trump a new one for

and said john mccain is the man who couldn't get it done in 2008. any comment? >> he's a mentor of mine. a dear friend, and i think he's a national hero. and he's entitled to them, have they been battling? absolutely. and what i suggested to my former colleagues and others and spoke here on fox is they need to do what president obama did. they need to sit down and close the door and air out their differences because what you know what? you know who's hurting? it's the american people by constant bickering not only between the parties, the democrat and the republicans but between the republicans kind of themselves. and i respect rand and his opinion but, you know, that's the beauty of politics. we're americans first, and i'm hopeful we'll put that agenda first. adam: i will give you the last word and keep listening. thank you very much. i used to sell pizza there as a kid. boston pizza over at the pier. you'll have a good time. take care, sir. >> all right. adam: two sisters intensely loyal to president trump. they were at saturday's rally. they'll t

. >> including john mccain. >> including john mccain. . i'll not accusing anybody of anything. know there's a steep learning process. >> no. >> i just want to say this is dangerous language just like it's dangerous language when you say that somebody has betrayed america because they don't interpret your version of law the way you want them to. or when you call court decision outrageous. these are the words of autocrats. i'm not assigning any intent. >> no, but we have to look at this. >> at this point, i'm just going to say it's sloppy. >> mike? at day 20, it's more than sloppy. >> it's got to stop now. it's got to stop now! >> on the last point that you raised, joe, the s.e.a.l. team six raid in yemen, i don't know whether sean spicer or the administration is aware of the fact there are after action reports, what they call them. after action reports on every contact situation like that in the war in every war. in the after-action report will be clear and brutal and it will be truthful. and so we will get a good reading on the exact status of that raid as soon as that after-ac

president trump sparring with senator john mccain over the deadly u.s. raid in yemen that included a tragic death of a navy s.e.a.l. senator mccain has not at all sat quiet on this questioning why the white house labelled the raid as a quote success, i have two military gentlemen here with me to discuss this. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back, you're watching cnn i'm brooke baldwin, two very different scenes playing out on capitol hill. president trump hosted a group of bipartisan senators for lunch to discuss potential support for his supreme court pick neil gorsuch. among the five democrats who attended four are up for re-election in states trump won last year, the top democrat turned his attention going after labor secretary pick andrew puzder. he has an amazing goal to have campaigned the way he did and then put this man as nominee for secretary of labor is idea that you can say one thing and do another and get away with it is in the body of andrew puzder, probably the most anti-worker nominee to the department of labor ever. >> senior congressio

months after the election, and all kinds of elites still don't get that. >> i want to talk about john mccainident's agenda will go. mccain was in munich, talking on "meet the press," he -- i am sorry? we had -- producer of talking. abby: like the secret service we have things in our ear. >> anyway, senator mccain in munich talking about what he sees as a problem right now with the president, president and press, saying that he has hallmarks of dictates o -- dictp what do you make. >> the question of whether he was a war hero, but he did not want to real up trump voters, he has been reelected, he has sycamor6more years in senate. i believe that joh john mccain does not believe what president said. i am talking big picture. what happened to not criticizing commander in chief when you are overseas, itens at wart's edge. now you -- it ends at waters' edge, now they have fellow republicans attacking them overseas. >> why do people go to de dicta. >> john mccain trying to set himself up as conscience. and suggesting that dictator, while i have great respect for senator mccain this is remarkable. a

having lots of conversations with everybody from john mccain and lindsey graham to many of the senatorst are sitting on the committee. we understand the united states of america was attacked in a very serious way. they went after undermining our elections, spreading fake news, injecting propaganda into our internal systems. in addition to that, within these hot spots where we're trying to bring about peace, you have russia acting in egregious ways in areas like syria, or attacking ukraine and encroaching on their borders in grieve us ways. sat down with ambassadors from ball tick countries, estonia, latvia, lithuania yesterday to see the fear that their country has because they are experiencing serious russian interventions, trying to undermine their democracies. this is one of the worst actors on the global stage that is doing very serious things. now not just globally where in the european parliament is taking action, but also here in the united states. and we need to treat it that way. i do not understand, i have no explanation why our president seems to be cozying up to someone who

there is john mccain's disagreement. it all is.d by personal dispute by president trump and taken with a grain of salt. >> the president also used twitter over the weekend to defend administration saying the things are, quote, running very well at the white house. it's day 32 and it's monday. heather: all right, griff, thank you so much and a holiday for some. clayton: president trump hard at work this president's day weekend holding back to back meeting for security adviser. heather: he's that's not all. a revamp of the immigration order this week. clayton: good morning, kelly. >> good morning to you both. president trump is looking for the right person to replace his former national security adviser michael flynn, the position is one of the most important and senior jobs in the white house in terms of dealing with foreign policy and national security. at his home in mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida, the president spent sunday interviewing four candidates to be his new national security adviser, president trump interviewed lieute

including senator john mccain, republican critic of trump. more from cnn's sara murray at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, boris and ana. president trump capped off a weekend in mar-a-lago by naming lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster for the job. >> h.r. mcmaster will become the national security vikurecurity . he is highly respected by everybody in the military. we're very honored to have him. >> i would like to say what a privilege it is to continue serving our nation. i'm grateful for that opportunity. i look forward to joining the national security team and doing everything i can to advance and protect the interests of the american people. >> you will do a great job. >> reporter: donald trump's pick came a week after he fired his first adviser michael flynn for misleading vice president mike pence. i'm told by the senior official that president trump respected his combat duty and intellectual drive. president trump will turn the page and focus on other matters today. he is expected to visit the african-american museum. >>> a new

at times when the republican is suffering, john mccain is a guy you want on your side. you have to scratch little to get him to do this, and he talked a lot more after that. he even said that his daughter meghan with whom he is not usually on the same political side even threw him some respect given what's going on. he also made reference to the 31-year-old steven miller. we've passed that this weekend. he did that series of television interviews where he said the president's authority will not be questioned. so we have two problems. a narrative over here which is what's russia's involvement not just in the election which we believe they were involved in, but in this administration, and the second narrative about the president not being questioned, not answering questions, and creating this misdirection campaign as this russian story gets closer and closer to the president who we know knew about michael flynn's situation as early as january the 31st. he doesn't want to take any questions. push it to the media. push it to leaks. push it to everywhere else, and i think he

i think people, you know, this is colored by john mccain's disagreement with president trump. it all is. everything that he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he's got running with president trump and should be taken with a grain of salt because john mccain's the guyed guy who has advocated for war everywhere and we're lucky john mccain is not in charge because i think we would be in perpetual war. >> their comments come a someday after president trump lashed out the media. >> misrepresentations and false stories. they could not defeat us in the primaries and we'll continue to expose them for what they are and, most importantly, we will continue to win, win, win. >> president trump's travel ban executive order caused some protests in times square. adam, what is the message there? >> reporter: alec, the title is "i'm a muslim, too." diversity is what makes america great and if you're going to attack one person, whether it be a muslim or anyone else here in america, you're really attacking everyone. joining me now is an organizer of this event. good

john mccain joked with his contentious issues with the media. he said dictators get started by attacking the press. >> i hate the press. i hate you, especially. the fact is we need you. we need a free press. if you want to preserve democrat ty as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. without it, i'm afraid we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. that's how dictators get started. >> the cnn reporter who won for his reporting on watergate. >>> and a pillar of the republican tax plan may be dead in the water. with president trump promising pro pose al in the next few weeks, what does this mean for tax reform? a central part of the gop plan is a tax on imports into the u.s. opens oppose this. including the big retailers. reports of just many republican lawmakers don't want it either. this import tax would pay for the tax cutlering the rate from 25%. the import tax would offset that cost by $1.2 trillion and republicans have no back up plan to try to balance this budget. so donald trump has not sai

i would rather see john mccain meet with the president. we need john mccain. he has great wisdom.is a statesman, a war hero. he could do a great service to this president by coming inside of the tent if you will, especially helping him in the senate. so, my hope is that john mccain will seek a meeting with the president and air grievances and bury the hatchet -- neil: do you know behind the scenes what is going on? it is very clear the two of them, certainly many argue it might have started with comment then candidate trump made about john mccain not being a legitimate war hero. maybe it just grew and festered from there. but, have you known either to try to make an offer to break bread or to meet with each other or anything? >> n but i think that is where perhaps an intermediary can step in. maybe a fellow senator or cabinet official but these guys have to come together. neil: it won't be lindsey graham. lindsey graham appears to dislike the president more than john mccain. >> yeah. neil: whatever the bygones in the past how do you get them to be bygones period? he made amends, t

dagen: i want to ask about john mccain and taking shots. you couple the dictator reference with the speech he gave over the weekend and he's definitely going after trump. what's the end game there? is he bitter? >> john mccain has been a bitter man for a long time. this guy was said by trump to not be a hero. he bailed out of a plane in hanoi and was in prison in hanoi for six years hang by his shoulders. dagen: publishers are worried about offending readers with what might be offensive material in books. god help us. dagen: if you were hoping the clinton family would get out of politics and go away forever. here is bad news. turns out the grandchildren are getting in the business. over the weekend chelsea clinton tweeted, thank you for all who organized the rally today. charlotte's first protest rally. she brought her 2-year-old to an anti-trump protest rally. when will the clintons get the message, just go away. jimmy failla and kmele foster. have you don't math on when this lovely child may run for congress? >> i don't think you should t

dagen: i want to ask about john mccain and taking shots. you couple the dictator reference with the speech he gave over the weekend and he's definitely going after trump. what's the end game there? is he bitter? >> john mccain has been a bitter man for a long time. this guy was said by trump to not be a hero. he bailed out of a plane in hanoi and was in prison in hanoi for six years hang by his shoulders. dagen: publishers are worried about offending readers with what might be offensive material in books. god help us. this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck. oh, did i say there's only one special edition? because, actually there's 5. aaaahh!! ooohh!! uh! holy mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style. which one's your favorite? come home with me! it's truck month! find your tag for an average total value over $11,000 on chevy silverado all star editions when you finance through gm financial. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. dagen: if you were hoping the clinton family would get out of politics and go away f

republican senator john mccain says neither in the case. earlier this morning here on nbc 10 i asked "meet the press" moderator chuck todd about that gop split. >> does this and other criticisms from mccain put a target on his back, and will we see other republicans follow suit and speak out? >> well, it's interesting. you have to remember where john matt delucia cain is coming from. his base reason for criticizing this president has to do with foreign policy philosophy. senator mccain roots it in this issue, saying this is how authoritarian regimes treat their press and their people. that's not something he wants to see. all this is rooted in a philosophical disagreement with this president. >> you can see chuck totd's exclusive interview with senator john mccain and his exclusive interview with former defense secretary leon panetta plus a discussion with white house chief of staff reince priebus on "meet the press." that comings up in just a few moments at 10:30 right here on nbc 10. >>> it's 10:30 on this sunday. stripping down to the be