there has been some news michael involving lindsay graham in apparently lindsay graham is now also consideringn the race. he is being urged to do that by john mccain who was the 2008 republican presidential nominee. and a woman you know well out in california, the formal ceo of hewlett-packard, she is putting together a campaign. what do you make of those developments? >> there are a lot of people within republican circles who think that jeb bush just by announcing his presidency it was going to be a field clearer. carly certainly has a lot of money and can raise a lot of california republican money. she would be a little bit of an outsider candidate to say the least. she was not successful in a statewide run here. so it would be hard to see what her position would be unless she's trying to run for another office. lindsay graham, of course, part of that old guard republican senate. you know, he and john mccain so close, almost lock step on every issue, so it's not surprising. john mccain has said for a long time he wants his friend to run for president. this would be the year for him to do it.

lindsay graham said the tone they're setting around the rhetoric regarding cops insights crazy people. new york congressman peter king also weighed in. >> i would say if the president and mayor and others would tone down the rhetoric and not assume that the cop is guilty from day one and have a real debate, not people like al sharpton at the meeting but having intelligent people on both sides and having people understanding what the police officers are going through and people from the minority communities that feel there are problems that need to be addressed, fine. >> earlier on cnn the president said real progress is being made on race relations and he is living proof. >> it's not just about politics. i think the people are looking to our nation's leaders to give some guidance in this very disturbing situation. thank you very much. dan springer. >> meanwhile, new threats from north korea. according to one source, now saying quote, toughest counter action will be taken against the white house, the pentagon and the whole u.s. main land. these comments coming after the fbi announced i

. >> senator lindsay graham is saying this newly republican dum dominated congress has to do something and if not their race to the white house is going to be almost impossible. >> i think it as a lack of meadacy. i think party leaders recognize their party needs to do something in the near term but the question is do they need to do it now or 2017. >> do you think the hispanic community is going to let it slide and not request some sort of action? >> i don't think that republicans are necessarily going to solve their problems with latinos. there are more issues on the table. latinos are more in line with democrats when it comes to economic issues. i think if they knew it would get them more votes they would do but there is no guarantee that is the case. >> we shall see. >>> new developments in the effort to recover the bodies in the airasia crash and determine what went wrong. our next guest says it appears to have broken apart mid-air. after murder acquisitions flew the tables may have turned in the case of amanda knox as the judiciary is facing charges of trying to frame her. could

. >> lindsay graham said if we don't at least make a down payment in solving the problem and rationally dealing with the 11 million people in the country illegally, if we become the county party of self deportation in 2015 and 2016, then the chance of winning the election is -- pro immigration reform. how do they handle this? >> the fact is the republican cannot win the country if they only have the hispanic vote. cannot, it's impossible. the thing about president -- he speaks spanish, his brother did 45% of the hispanic vote. that would be a real problem for us. and by the way, the party of no i mean this is the same -- the new majority leader mitch mcconnell who has famously said in 2010 my job is to ensure that barack obama doesn't get elected for a second term. that's the party of no that's the party of a bunch of white dudes that have nothing especially to stay. >> bob, that's not a nice statement, it's also borders on -- >> i tell you what, first of all, you should ski how many nonwhite dudes were elected in november. and wait until you see how many nonwhite dudes are going to run

. >> you have the speaker boehner, and center lindsay graham telling the party the only way to win immigrationir way will lead to good politics. so i think we are seeing the debate now between the two sides of those who really want to get it done. then there's the other side like senator ted cruz again, who are a shutdown government or not. so it will be exciting. hopefully we will continue to work with both parties to modernize the system. >> another republican potential presidential candidate rick perry. how successful was his effort? >> it was useless, period. what he did was pretty much an antics for his potential presidential run. the fact that we have a governor with a machine gun, with fox news and a bullet-proof vest shows you how much this governor has been extreme on the issue, rather than sitting down and working for a settlement. unfortunately the governor is playing more of a political theater than actually solving an issue that needs to be addressed. >> cesar thanks so much for coming in. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me again. >>> in indonesia crews have resumed the sea

lindsay graham portrayed someone who prosecutes street criminals. they said i doubt i will be asking that. how much do you expect on the nomination process? >> it's an interesting question. we have seen republicans use a lot of random and sometimes weird cases against eric holder. he has been as everyone knows a lightning rod. do they take that approach with an incoming attorney general or nominee like eric holder, the first african-american attorney general who could be the second and first african-american woman? the short answer is they may not be eager to take this up and a lot of conservatives, particularly libertarians have been concerned about the misconduct and the video making it clear that there is a problem and one that people in both parties have talked about. dwle i don't know that they will not be completed in time, but the hearings will be a point of contention. >> what are are the pitfalls? >> with lo letta ridge, a prosecutor has been confirmed with republican votes twice when she was in the clinton era and now under obama. >> she s

had itber lindsay graham is our rages quote on television about how, they will come over and kill us all. but not ans a threat existential threat to the united states. the whole point is it is used by groups that do not have equivalent military force to the country they are trying to terrorize. it into context and remember these are small groups that can be dealt with. we do not have to transform our whole society in order to do it. --stuart a bolan was a use was an inspector general for iraq. .et's look at his previous for. is not well accounted hasdepartment of defense certain rules it adopted and lost it should follow and account for and it accounted through his own mechanism for the most part it is not lost. except for the $2.6 billion that were not able to account for and we will follow up and find out what happened to it. that's a larger issue. as part of the cause of the continuous changing plans -- and because of the continuous changing plans and a significant amount of u.s. money has been wasted. >> that was in 2010. how much you estimate has been lost? bowen was the only u.

. >> senator lindsay graham, a republican who supports the release of this report, supports the findings in it along with republican john mccain said that he plooefs this happened out of fear. the ci a's motivation for doing this was oit of fear after 9/11, what he considered an understandable fear. he thinks it was done by well meaning people, and it got out of control. in your peerns with the cia, would that be your impression of how this happened? >> i think there's probably an element of that. but there's also a fear of criticism. and fear of being called to yours truly. and being asked hard questions. and that can never be a defensible basis for keeping the congress uninformed about something as basic as this. >> there is a disagreement on the senate floor today between senator even if stein and senator chambliss who is the republican leader on the intelligence kmiet te. senator which i am bliss seems to be saying there was indeed intelligence obtained through these torture methods that among other things led to finding osama bin laden. senator feinstein says absolutely not. how are

here is senator lindsay graham. >> so to my good friend from massachusetts, there's something in here you don't like, welcome to democracy. you have the same right as the people over here on my side to blow up the whole place. i hope that some of us or most of us will listen to your concerns and not follow your lead. >> so who is he talking about here, when he is talking about blowing up the whole place? >> yeah, i think he is talking to the junior senator from texas. >> senator cruz. exactly. >> one of the issues here is all of this got pushed to the last minute, they dropped a massive spending bill this week that has lots and lots of tiny things that are focused on particular interest groups, and this being one of the most politically toxic. this is an argument to be made if it had been out in the open, and spend three weeks talking about it, and there's an aspect of this, and senator graham is correct, usually the compromise process takes longer than 12 hours. >> want to predict whether it's going to pass and by how much? >> first question, easy, it will pass, and by how much, look

the report sparking heated reactions on the hill and republican senator lindsay graham calling it politicallyrs, the republican from michigan said it will only inflame our enemies. the release by senate democrats in the waning days are being questioned by others. the interview with the "new york time times", the former vice president suggested this is a cover for those on the democratic side who are briefed on the program to admit that and so are going back to construct a rationale to say, they didn't tell us the truth. joining us for more on the reaction in washington, capitol hill correspondent luke russert, who is following all this. luke, what has been the predominant tone in the reaction today? >> reporter: well, i would say from the republican side, you've seen for the most part really aside from john mccain, dismissal. this was politically motivated. saxby chambliss and mitch mcconnell releasing a joint statement saying the committee disagreed with with moving forward to begin with. they cite the fact that the methodology used within this report is flawed that there weren't enough inte

. >> rose: senator lindsay graham. >> i they you remember. >> rose: i don't believe the report is accurateven then role mike morel has said. why didn't the report say that. >> full of crap meaning it's a pretty accurate report filled with facts. there was talk in there about morel's role in this case. the other condemn nation was some of the witnesses didn't get interviewed were on the compound and that's true because they were either department of defense or department of state which was beyond the jurisdiction of my committee to investigate. i think a lot of people thought this was going to be the big mother load of investigations. it was very narrowly tailored and so it did not get into those other questions and it still leaves questions open. so4ec lindsay's a good friend ofmine and i may have friendly ribbed him either a glass of wine or cup of coffee in the morning to sit down and read that report to really be worth the time. nobody comes out of this report really in great shape candidly. it isn't some you know great report that exonerates everybody as i said or doesn't dammation to

lindsay graham is a neoconservative foreign-policy hawk. he is genuinely concerned. i think his party is going in the paul direction. he wants to be a counterweight to that. i do not necessarily see him as a first tier candidate. but, you know, i've been wrong about these things many times. host: brandon from north carolina on our lines for democrats this morning. caller: happy new year to both of you. my question is, in 2016, in 2012, president obama he was willing to get the hispanic and african-american vote and the women's vote, so do you think the same thing could happen in 2015 with democrats? guest: i take it he means because the candidate will presumably not the african-american, will there be that intensity of support. not quite, but i think pretty close. if the candidate is hillary clinton, the clintons have a long record of support for and from the black community, civil rights causes, and things like that. i do not think they will lose much of that support their the latino vote is arguably a little more up in the air depending on who the republicans nomin

>> reporter: senator lindsay graham on north korea suggested china's possible involvement and pushed state spogsored terrorism list and attack their infrastructure. i can't imagine anything this massive happening in north korea without china being involved. >> reporter: and an fbi official i spoke with reiterated today, absent any additional information, the government doesn't believe any other countries are involved in the hack. >> thanks so much. we really appreciate it. thank you for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> outfront the hunt for airasia flight 8501 floux the united states maybe joins the desperate search across the java sea. where is that plane? plus the final minutes inside the cockpit. what went wrong as the pilot asked permission to climb above a massive thunderstorm. and a deadly ferry fire. passengers freezing on the deck while the fire below melted their shoes. why did their rescue take so long? let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm jim sciutto in for

. >> and here's republican senator lindsay graham with his response to that. >> so, to my good friend from massachusetts, there's something in here you don't like. welcome to democracy. >> consider this a preview of things to come. this may end up being the defining fight in american politics as we head into 2016 campaign, one leading to alliances you rarely see. just to get the bill through the house on thursday night, and barely at that, we had house speaker john boehner and president obama both teaming up, both working on their own parties to get final critical votes, and both working against and being fought by an alliance of elizabeth warren on the left and the tea party on the right. >> nobody did this unilaterally. we've done this in a bipartisan fashion, and frankly it's a good bill. >> all of the people who made this a good bill on both sides of the aisle, this why our government functions, because they're willing to compromise! >> now officially, warren looks like she's going to lose this one. the bill passed the house thursday but with 139 democrats and 67 republicans votin

lindsay graham is a neoconservative foreign-policy hawk. he is genuinely concerned.hink his party is going in the paul direction. he wants to be a counterweight to that. i do not necessarily see him as a first tier candidate. but, you know, i've been wrong about these things many times. host: brandon from north carolina on our lines for democrats this morning. caller: happy new year to both of you. my question is, in 2016, in 2012, president obama he was willing to get the hispanic and african-american vote and the women's vote, so do you think the same thing could happen in 2015 with democrats? guest: i take it he means because the candidate will presumably not the african-american, will there be that intensity of support. not quite, but i think pretty close. if the candidate is hillary clinton, the clintons have a long record of support for and from the black community, civil rights causes, and things like that. i do not think they will lose much of that support their the latino vote is arguably a little more up in the air depending on who the republicans nominate

got kicked off the stage in june so for republicans to take any credit, they deserve credit for lindsay grahamurious for both of you, hoovalon is very good. president obama respecting on the past year. what do you think he's looking at in terms of regrets, margaret? and what do you think, john, he's looking at and saying we made some headway there. >> i think the president had a tough year. the economy in some ways has gotten better. but most people aren't feeling it. the janet yellen, the head of the federal reserve says middle class americans are feeling wage stagnati stagnation. so even though some of the data shows it's better, people aren't feeling better and there was real confusion in his leadership when it comes to some of the true issues we face abroad, isis, the ebola crisis, that happened around the election and that did end up affecting some of the elections, particularly the governorship in maine. we can talk about that later. >> just to answer your question quickly. robert gibbs referred to his first year off the election as the lost year. i think this was a little bit more of th