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in kabul, republican senators john mccain and lindsay graham call the string too risky. they say it could put american troops and their mission in jeopardy. the white house is standing by its plans saying successes on the ground especially the kills of osama bin laden have made it a viable one. >>> the duke and duchess of cambridge, william and kate, resume their tour of canada today with an official welcome to prince edward island. they arrived yesterday after leaving quebec city where they encountered some anti- monarchist protesters. they leave canada for a trip to california this friday. >>> still ahead, will mother nature allow your holiday picnic to go on? marty has the answer. >>> the stock market is closed for the fourth of july holiday. copd makes it hard to breathe,, so i wasn't playing much of a role in my own life, but with advair, i'm breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-act

. >> reporter: senators joe lieberman and lindsay graham and together on fox news sunday from kabul,fghanistan, graham taking issue with the aggressive troop withdrawal timetable. >> it is seen as an effort to withdraw rather than transition. you hope and pray this works out well. it came at a critical time. >> if we don't succeed here and the taliban comes back into power, we'll be attacked again and there could be no greater threat to our security and our freedom, the freedom that we celebrate on july 4th. >> reporter: melanie alnwick, fox 5 news. >>> as house lawmakers resume tomorrow, the "washington post" is reporting that the republican leadership has done away with bills that honor symbolic gestures including ones in the past which had declared the bald eagle an inspiring symbol. last year, the house passed more than 250 such bills. the gop says they distract from the real work of congress. >>> two local amusement parks are paying tribune another to military families this holiday. kings dominion and six flags america are offering free admission to active duty and retired milit

white house advisor david plus appears opposite lindsay graham on abc's this week. >> i think it's been healthy debate. i think the american people understand more about the deficit, about there is no easy answers. it's been a healthy debate here in washington. any long term deficit reduction is going to include revenues and smart entitlement reform. >> we have not achieved entitlement change. we not reduced the size and scope of government. we are bloing going in the wrong direction and that is not winning. >>> you can see that neither party is particularly happy or will be celebrating any political victory even if a debt limit compromise is reached in time to head off the impending financial crisis. california in the montana is making preparations in case the tentative deal falls through. state senator mark leno says lawmakers have to budge. >> compromise is what is necessary right now. president has put forth proposals and democratic legislative leaders have put forth compromise proposals and that will mean unpleasant cuts we'll feel here in california but tax revenue that we used to

. >> reporter: senators lieberman and lindsay graham appeared together on fox news sunday from kabul, afghanistan. graham taking issue with president obama's more aggressive troop withdrawal timetable. >> it has created risk. it has changed the momentum. it is seen now as an effort to withdraw rather than transition. and i hope and pray this works out well. it came at a very critical time, and we will see what the future holds. >> if we don't succeed here and the taliban comes back into power, we'll be attacked again. and there could be no greater threat to our security and our freedom, the freedom that we celebrate on july 4th. >> reporter: melanie alnwick, fox five news. >>> the former head of the international monetary fund may have a political future in france. a new poll shows nearly half of those surveyed in france believe strauss-kahn should return to political life in france. 46% said no. the rest didn't answer the question. strauss-kahn is charged with sexually assaulting a manhattan hotel housekeeper. prosecutors say her credibility may now be in question. >>> a gaza bound a

what is what lindsay graham is calling speaker boehner's debt limit plan. why is he opposed to it. good evening, sir. and you are opposed to the boehner bill? >> yeah, senator mccain i think nailed it. the only way washington will change is a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. i know it is frustrating for republicans to put one plan up after another and the white house never put their plan. the jay carney quote that i gave you. >> greta: actually, i have the jay carney. >> i don't know where it is at. >> greta: i will give it to you. just a minute. >> senator mccain going to love this. >> say there's is no plan offered in the last several months about which more detail is known. jay core any at carney dated . >> i thought jalen mow said but that is jay carney. >> greta: does he have a plan? >> no. you know why republicans are having a problem is that we are trying to solve a problem by ourselves and that is not fair to the republican party. >> greta: what is his -- if he doesn't have a plan, i admit i haven't seen it. >> he doesn't want to make anybody mad. he won't lea

they will have to explain any compromises to their constituents of course, and here is senator lindsay graham what do i tell people at home that say what did you do about getting us out of debt. i slowed down how much detearoriation you add. instead of $10 trillion, we add 7. i slowed down the growth of government but you it grows every year. >> says that half of the congress in the republican house will have to be onboard for a deal to go through. senator mitch mcconnell saying both the house and senate are going to need bipartisan support. >> do you think that speaker boehner, he has to depend on nancy pelosi to get democratic votes over there in the house to get this passed? >> we have to get democratic votes in the senate as well. neither party has a hammer lock on the entire congress and we have to work together to get this job done for the american people. >> and despite any tough sell negotiators are cautiously optimistic. greg? >> the global markets set to open in just a few hours, keeping a nervous eye on capitol hill and after that a battered and bruised wall street will begin tradi

the fire brig grade, grown-up, mcconnell, john mccain, lindsay graham and john boehner and the democrats. trying to put out the fire. i'm not saying pelosi, and prying to win their side. grown-ups say stop fighting over this, protect our nation's economy from default and you don't want to join that. you want to join the crazy protesters. >> terrible thing to say. you're saying the motivation of the tea party, whatever you say about these people, it's unpopular what they're doing, getting beat up. standing by their principles. >> they are seeing the economy suffer. >> crazed leaders are telling them, people like bachmann and steve king saying you don't have to worry about default, because there won't really be any. that's the problem. disillusioned. >> playing fire with other people's lives. tea party patriots. >> prices will be paid for this, but not by them. >> okay, pat. otherwise known at mrs. o'leery's cow. just kidding, of course. you are a patriot in your own strange way, pat buchanan. >> america first. >> oftentimes it has been. >>> the most powerful man americans probably never h

he goes on and so i want to welcome congressman rogan to the committee and he stared at lindsay graham for five seconds and said mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of part-time. it was time to collect the campaign memorabilia, helped me out. i wasn't on the committee very long when newt gingrich called and said he had a homework assignment for me and he gave it to me because he had been a prosecutor and judge, we don't know what will happen with this special prosecutor, kenneth starr is working on. before this whole monica lewinski thing he was investigating whitewater, travelgate and all these things to pay to former staffers that went to prison and rented the lincoln bedroom and all these things that judge starr was investigating and now he has to pick up the monica lewinski issue as well. the speaker came to me and said i need somebody to draft the protocol. what do we do if a report recommending impeachment of president comes? we don't know what he has got or what to do. i want you to go out and track down an interview with former members of congress, democrats and republicans

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senator lindsay graham, one of those senators who was criticized yesterday from south carolina becauses a senator. he came out publicly and opposed the g.o.p. house plan but he criticized the president. listen. >> i'm very upset with the democratic-run senate. we should be a body trying to f fix america's problems. why does it have to fall on john boehner's shoulders? >> he's been successful with that line. he's put his spokesperson out there every day and asked numerous times by the press corps, where's the president's plan on paper and he's been able to get away with saying he's given his plan but it's not on paper. >> republican talking point. >> that's right. that's what he said. >> no paper trail. don't put it down on paper. >> which we've been saying on this show for the last couple of weeks, that's the strategy, doesn't want to be held accountable for anything on paper. john mccain says president clinton was a better leader? >> he was much more engaged. i mean, he didn't give a lot of speeches, he gave some but he was totally engaged, if you remember, i mean, he was -- one thing

it's not going to fool anybody like moody's or s&p and every republican from senator lindsay graham considerederate by some say we can't vote for this. >> why do we listen to moody's and s&p, they're the same organizations that got us in trouble with the subprime thing, remember? and triple a rating on the mortgage debt the day before, it collapsed. why listen to them? >> ok, that's one thing. but also, the big political question is which party would be held responsible. if the debt talks collapsed, if the august 2nd date comes and goes, if somehow the u.s. inches closer to default, which party is held for responsible? cbs news released a poll yesterday that had some stunning results and that is, apparently, 71% of the respondents and by the way, that's a little suspect which we'll get to in a moment say they would hold the republicans in congress more responsible than anybody. only 48% say they would hold president obama responsible. now, the reason it's a little suspect is because they polled adults rather than likely voters or registered voters and if you don't vote, you know, you sort of d

john mccain, lindsay graham both out on the sunday programs criticizing the president's decision.in the military supports this decision. is that true? >> well, look it, i asked a lot of troops and, of course, they're not going to say what they think about it on the record. off the record, there's a lot of concern that it's going to be too fast and you're going to pull out too many before the afghan national security forces are ready. the good news is they're a lot better off today than they were when i was out there six months ago -- >> tell bus about your experience, what was that like? >> we spent a lot of time with the national military training operations run by nato. we went through the afghan national army and national police and national air forc training programs and lived with a partnered unit. totally partnered. american's battalion out of camp lejeune, north carolina, j.d. harold is the battalion commander, he's got a battalion of marines that are totally partnered with their afghan counterparts from the police and the army. they're doing a magnificent job in some of th