immigration issues but there's an even break into your own party of people like john mccain the late john mccain lindsey graham who were horrified by the state said this executive order sends a signal intended or not that america does not want muslims coming into this country and you can go to any state united states and you have mosque there or there and if you want to open up one yourself you can do it and. point of what we were talking about when i was psyched about here is international religious freedom . and that is guaranteed here in the united states and if you can't practice in the united states you're well placed to bring any lawsuit that you would choose and to declare and to put forward that you have a 1st amendment right in the united states to do this and the by the way we are not a perfect country and we don't claim to be but we are one that do it we do believe in these rights these fundamental rights like religious freedom we do practice them and we have problems and they end up in the court system but we're going to continue to push these rights every chance and every place we can but the poli

i went there with john mccain and lindsey graham and stood right after trump got elected be but beforet inaugurated. justice department want john mccain wanted to show that despite trump said that we stood with our allies. we stood there in a blizzard on the front line with the former president and i could see as we met those widows and saw those troops what this was about. it was about them, a very small country trying to hold on to their independence against russia. and they needed america. so this idea that they don't need us, they need us, they needed our missiles, they needed our help and then for this president to go on a phone call, admit that we've been giving them a lot of help, talking about that and then tying it to favors and to bringing up joe biden and his son of which there was no merit, you know it when you see it and this was it. >> the use of the word favors is interesting. i hesitate to use it ever in conversation because if you're asking somebody a favor, it's certainly that's not in their interest or it's going to be unpleasant for them but it means something to yo

and visited ukraine with john mccain and lindsey graham and how much they depended on our country.ght after trump was elected because he knew how important it was to stand by that ally. you can just see how donald trump would be able to wield this power to try to get them to do something. that is what is reflected in this partial transcript or summary we see now. to me, i loved when you brought up the watergate thing. it is a global modern version of that. digging for dirt in a different era and then covering it up. >> earlier today before the "new york times" reported on the other people involved in the formulation of the whistleblower's report, the chairman of the judiciary committee, lindsey graham who you traveled to ukraine with, he tweeted it is imperative we find out which white house official talked to the whistleblower and why. why did not they lodge the complaint? now, it would be nice if lindsey graham had, say, a senate committee where he could convene a hearing and find out why did not they lodge a complain? which white house officials talked to the whistleblower or ab

afghanistan and iraq and bosnia, kosovo, as much as anybody except maybe my deceased friend john mccain and maybe lindsey grahame irrelevant in terms of decision -making. why not say i messed up and mixed up a few different stories during my many trips to afghanistan where i thought it was important to see these heroes and i got the details wrong. the details are irrelevant in terms of decision-making. saddam hussein has weapons of mass destruction. that's why we had a war. how could the details be irrelevant? >> what biden is trying to argue is he doesn't believe that he was intentionally misleading anyone with the details of the war story. his argument is that though he may mangle some of the details, that's not going to affect the way or his ability to serve as president. what his campaign right now is banking on is the fact that so far these mistakes or so-called gaffes haven't really stuck with voters and they think that's because people know who joe biden is and they know his long history, but i think we're going to see over the course of time how exactly this will play out and whether voters are going to

why does this not bother people like lindsey graham? john mccain his grave, but lindsay graham doesn't seem bothered by it. >>. >> because they've become a cult. their fielty is to trump and no longer the constitution. it's a shame. >> joe walsh was a republican member of congress and is now a 2020 candidate. we expect president trump will address the impeachment inquiry and the memo of his july phone call with the president of ukraine. thank you for watching. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace begins right now. ♪ >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york where we are moments away from the first presidential press conference since house speaker nancy pelosi's announcement that she would begin impeachment proceedings into donald trump. and, donald trump, if you're listening, everything you say may be used against you in the court of public opinion. donald trump manifesting his own destiny in terms of the impeachment proceedings now underway in congress by attempting to run a political hit job operation on joe biden and his son by asking a fo

the old lindsey graham, who was a friend of the dear late john mccain, would have been outraged, outragedy this. because as you say, ukraine is on the front lines. they've already been occupied in part by russia. they are an ally of ours. this whole hullabaloo with ukraine started when the west was attempting simply to establish trade and economic relations with ukraine, which the russians wanted no part of. so yes, this has put our national security interests behind, oh, wow, again donald trump's personal interests. and when you pile this on top of all the other instances in which he's put his personal interests ahead of public interests, whether it's escorting people to his hotels so he can advertise them or whether it's some other act of public policy, this is a guy who is going to look after himself. we thought he was somehow in putin's debt. no, he's willing to switch sides. he's not even loyal to putin anymore. he'll take any help from anybody he can get. so i think the republicans are going to start running out of excuses as more and more of this comes out. what happens to pat toom

i heard lindsey graham, someone i used to hold in such high regard when we worked together with john mccain, completely shilling for the president after we now know from this transcript that it was a shakedown. i couldn't be more disappointed in some of these folks. i think as the facts build, so may opinions. i had an op-ed piece in "the washington post" yesterday when i argued the democrats, should this be as bad as it appears to be, should vote impeachment because it's time to pin republicans down on a yea/nay, no more of them dodging. let's get everybody on the record. >> to david jolly, you know your former colleagues in the house republican side. where are they going to be when this inquiry opens formally, if there is a recommendation, it goes to the house floor. >> look, they're scrambling right now, andrea, for message in opposition to what the democrats are about to embark on. you've heard leaders say it's not even an impeachment inquiry. well, it is, because the house democrats have essentially said now, yes, it is. what you're hearing from them, they're going off talking points f

lindsey graham as a senator today defending trump and in the past is unrecognizable to me. i wonder what his political mentor john mccain have said about these circumstances. his -- his an imus towards trum understand withstanding because that is who lindsay graham modeled himself after. we've seen it in other episodes and we see it here and he could legitimately believe that it's not an impeachable offense, but for him not to say that this is objectionable or an abuse of power is striking to me, and i think you have a lot of republicans, again, it's worth remembering and worth pointing out let's use the hillary clinton test or the barack obama test, if they had done this what would have been the republican response? it is so clear what it would be. so this is politics. this is protecting the president and circling the wagons because they're afraid for all of the reasons charlie dent said they're afraid and because they're taking their measure and they're very carefully watching how this is dealt with and what more comes out. even mitt romney who has a lot of integrity and has his own political power base is still being