what lindsay graham is talking about in terms of almost 10,000. he is probably close to what the right number is. i am not talking about direct combat infantry units. but we have to thicken the counter defense to be successful. the second part of the strategy is failing and that is syria. in syria, isis since beginning the campaign/when the president announced the campaign isis has gained territory in syria. so despite the success at kobani the reality is isis is on the march in syria. and the problem with the syrian policy is there is disappointment in the pentagon and the white house staff over the policy and the disagreement is we have decided to support a ground force and assad is pounding it with air fire every day and we are doing nothing to stop that. we are killing them faster than we can train them. >> isn't that part of the reason for that because it took us so long to get there to support them? that is what i am reading. we have been talking about for over a year. >> that is one of the most frustrating things. what took place -- the reb

obama says that's something he's not going to do. >> lindsay graham says he's bothered by the fact that admit we're in a religious war. others say the white house takes pains to avoid using the term islamic terrorist. my question is are we -- are we in a war with radical islam? >> you know i think that the way to understand this is there is an element growing out of muslim communities in certain parts of the world that have perverted the religion have embraced a violent, almost medieval interpretation of islam. and they're doing damage in a lot of countries around the world. but it is absolutely true that i reject a notion that somehow that creates a religious war because the overwhelming majority of muslims reject that interpretation of islam. they don't even recognize it as being islam. and i think that for us to be successful in fighting this scourge is very important for us to aline ourselves with the 99.9% of muslims who are looking for the same thing we're looking for. order, peace, prosperity and so i don't quibble with labels. i think we all recognize that this is a particular p

senator lindsay graham is coming up on the show to talk about the iran factor in this. you, jack keane. good talking to you. >>> we have the audio calls from the commuter train and the car collision in new york city that killed six people. focus is turning to the driver of the suv. witnesses say she got out of her car as the gates came down got back in and toward the train. >> i need three more engines at this location. we have a fully involved train. i don't know how many patients at this point. why don't you put five ambulances on it at the moment if you can spare it. >> 15 others were injured and ntsb is now part of the investigation. you know very well known in her home town and her husband heart heartbroken as you can imagine. so a lot of sorrow after that. >>> very sad story. how about this this morning. the unemployment rate is the big headline every month but one ceo is calling the number a big lie and pulling back the curtain on how it is established. >>> and an inmate finding the easy way to break out of jail and walking out the front door and then run for it.

lindsay graham beck the begged members of the party to take the lifeline from the courts. you have people whose view of president obama and their view of how he is using his power as president they think if they do anything seems to seems seems to acquiesce in the power as the presidents pursuingpursuing it makes them a renegade to the cause. they are not going to tolerate it. >> what does this tell us abist the speaker that we already knew or don't know at this point? and secondly going forward looking at potential fights later in the year, where are we headed? >> it is not a particularly good road and i think in you are a member of john boehner's leadership team or the speaker yourself you are not happy. another case of boehner being tested. they have the new republican congress with the mandate where they said they will govern and stop having the spats and here we are again having another discussion about republicans painting themselves into a corner. >> don't spend all your money on tax reform. >> the short answer. gwen: by the time we get to the west coast here this m

you have to build a strategic approach and i think that is what lindsay graham is failing to see fromouse. they said they didn't have a strategy and now it is clear it is airstrikes and training iraqi forces that are not yet capable. it doesn't look like a winning strategy. >> thank you, pete for joining us. >> thank you. >> greg? >>> just one year until the iowa caucus and the presidential race is heating up. with mitt romney out of the running who is the top con tender in the hawkeye state? we have new numbers to show you. >> and the dramatic 911 call while a woman is in labor while driving on the highway. >> i need to get over in the the other lane. i need to push. >> you have driving right now? ae driving right now? re driving right now? [ male announcer ] approaching medicare eligibility? don't put off checking out your medicare options until 65. now is a good time to get the ball rolling. medicare only covers about 80% of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, come in. like

. >> lindsay graham has been a jag officer 33 years and co-sponsored a bill to limit the president'selease gitmo detainees. >> we are a nation without a jail when we need a jail. now is not the time to let them out of guantanamo bay. >> every american can be proud of the job our military does there every day. it is the best military di detention facility. and the islamist equivalent is a pile of heads. >> the u.s. faithfully made the annual lease payment of 4085. and the cuban government refuses to cash the checks. cuba considers the presence of america illegal. what arrangements is still up in the air. part of his plan to normalize relationship with cuba and cancel the lease agreement and close guantanamo bay through that route. >> are you linking his policy shift to the gitmo closing. >> this is my biggest fear. normalizing relationship with cuba we'll cancel the lease that allows us to it operate in guantanamo bay and thereby closing the prison. >> the issue of gitmo is a separate american decision and not part of negotiations with cuba. >> cuba long claimed that our presence is i

have been critics of the president's foreign policy all along had like senators john mccain and lindsay graham, think he has been far too part, in dealing with bashar al-assad and syria. they say she have acted sooner than this. approval ratings are very low around 20 to 30% in most major polls. but the white house says it is leading in ukraine got together the sanctions scheme against vladimir putin and against i.s.i.l. forces in iraq and syria. >> thank you mike. >>> leaders of france and germany were with vladimir putin talking about stopping the fighting in ukraine. the discussion will continue on sunday with a conference call. vladimir putin and petro poroshenko will take part. >>> houthi rebels dissolved parliament and put their own people in charge. yemen's leaders refused to recognize the new body. >> reporter: constitutionalizing their movement taken over sanaa last september. its fighters gradually capturing key government buildings including parliament and state tv. eventually forcing yemen's first dramatically elected president and his government to resign on january 21st. since th

nancy pelosi says it's an essential pooltool lindsay graham our competitor nations have banks.he chairman of ge is crucial for u.s. companies. >> it is a transfer of money from regular americans, young people, from those paying taxes to very rich people. corporate welfare should be done away with. (applause) >> justin amash is an unusual congressman because he explains his votes. he does it on social media when congress finally voted to approve the keystone pipeline amash was the only republican to vote no. the pipeline is a good one. >> what is with you people. i want the oil. pipeline is a good thing. >> but the way the bills have been written are such that one company is receiving a special benefit from the government. if you are going to improve the approval process you have to approve it for every company you can't just decide one company is going to be exempt and every other company has to follow the laws. that's what fa high backwas-- hyack was for one of my heros. >> you stated your reasons on facebook. >> why? >> it is important for people to know why we are voting on

. >> reporter: for senator lindsay graham and others the ruling by the judge is political cover and aay to avoid an impasse. >> we now have an exit sign and that is the federal court decision saying that the president's actions unilaterally are unconstitutional. >> reporter: and richelle a few minutes ago on the senate floor it appears that mitch mcconnell of kentucky may have blinked first. he introduced a bill that would decouple the department of homeland security from the president's executive orders. and today the administration filed an emergency appeal trying to block the texas judge's ruling that the new executive orders from the president could be implemented. richelle. >> reporter: mike viqueira live from the white house. thank you. >>> security drills at the mall of america today because of a video threat from the group al-shabab. hashem ahelbarra is in bloomington, minnesota this evening. how is the somalian american community reacting to this? >> reporter: it is used to being under the microscope a lot of this recruitment that has taken place over the last few years conti

senators john mccain and lindsay graham fired off an angry letter to the president. i'll read a portion. never in our memory can we recall an instance at a has our military knowingly briefed our war plans to our enemies. this could cost the lives of u.s. iraqi and coalition forces. again, the pentagon insists that no sensitive tactical information was given away. we contacted the pentagon and they had no official comment tony. >> and the plan can always be changed. jamie, thank you. >>> three school girls believed to be on their way to syria to join i.s.i.l. close friends captured these pictures on tuesday. officials hope to stop them in turkey before they cross to syria. the girls families are devastated. >>> greece's deal to extend the european bailout. word a quarter billion dollars. there were signs the plan was near falling apart but the euro zone has loud them three more mouse. john siropolous has the story. >> athens issued a statement saying this is a new era for grease a new era for its relationship with the rest of europe on a more equal footing. greece has

i had john mccain here your old friend and lindsay graham, and they were saying we need to take a veryin lindsey graham's case he would back what many generals have said we need 10,000 u.s. troops there, among others. what do you think of that? >> well, i mean, really this goes to this resolution that the president sent to congress yesterday, and -- >> did you understand that resolution? i didn't. >> i looked at it once, twice three times and i said this looks like a authorization for the use of military force drafted by a committee. there's a little bit for this -- >> a lot of lawyer -- >> right. if you go back, the last real declaration of war was the second world war, the last time congress did it and it's very direct. cites the whereases and says the president as commander in chief is authorized to take all necessary and appropriate steps to defeat the enemy. >> this president has gone on record as saying as of his -- all of his foreign policy that that period, world war ii, is not isis now. so equating them and responding to isis on the same level is wrong. >> well, it's not the w

republican senators lindsay graham and john mccain in the white house they say over turning executive action should be separate from funding dhs. a temporary shut down of the department could hurt fighting isis. they have five days until funding runs out. they were arrested for a deadly explosion in eastern ukraine. the blast killed 3 people. the bomb went off in march celebrating the removal of former ukrainian president victor backco vich. they appeared to be taking instructions from russia. russian accept par 'tises reached a cease fire one week ago. now back to greta investigates isis. >> who is one of the pr gurus of isis? we found out about a man from boston. >> should consider him to be armed and dangerous. he is a threat to the nation. >> he was charged in the boston bombing investigation. he put a catholic school boy on the fbi's most wanted terrorist list. >> these are individuals who reside in the u. united states who are radicalized on their own often times through access to jihad materials. >> is he head of the propaganda machine if so it wouldn't be the first time until

but today, lindsay graham came out forcefully advocating for u.s. boots on the ground to take the fight against isis. scott walker potential presidential contender did the sate thing. is that what's needed is u.s. combat troops? >> you're talking about two different things. graham and walker and others and include myself and also secretary hagel, he's talking about the counter offensive campaign to retake mosul in iraq. we definitely need more boots on the ground as advisors are forward line troops and also air controllers. not the 3,000 we have. most of us believe you may in fact have to triple l that to get the density you need. they would be alongside those who are doing the fighting plus apache helicopters and special operations forces to go after isis leadership. in syria until we do something about assad we're never going to be able to get the coalition powers to put the kind of boots on the ground that are needed in syria to assist the free syrian army. once we do move against assad, then you'll have saudi arabia, jordan the u.a.e. and turkey

john mccain and lindsay graham are saying whoever leaked this plan is endangering u.s. and iraqi troops. why do you think the pentagon is essentially letting the enemy know what's coming up? you think it's a misinformation war or is this about letting civilians leave mosul? >> i think it's got multiple advantages to do this. first of all, it signals the intention so you've got the iraqi government now committed to follow through on this. secondly it takes some of the heat off domestically from people in the united states saying when are you going to do something, when are you going to do something. third, you've got an advantage and may be getting civilians out. fourth you still don't have to do this. you can do a lot of things between now and then that go after isis but this fixes isis' attention on a defensive battle. when that defensive battle starts if it comes off on schedule and the iraqis are there, it will be a very tough fight because mosul is going to be very well defended. there may be other targets that are better at that time. but this is a way of maintaini

shortly after the votes hit the fan, republican senate lindsay graham went in the situation room calling on both sides to get serious. >> i want the democrats tonight to help speaker boehner not shut down dhs in five hours and then i hope my colleagues in the house will abandon this desire to shut down dhs as a way to appeal the executive order. i don't think it's going to work. we don't have the votes in the senate. let the court act. >> now over in the house side new york republican congressman peter king was just a bit blunter tweeting this morning about some of his fellow republicans. he wrote, i've had it with this self-righteous delusional wing of the party that leads us over the cliff. again, that's a republican talking about republicans. but let's talk about democrats now. joining us is new york democratic congressman steve israel. why did you vote against funding homeland security for the next three weeks? >> number one, terrorists don't fund their attacks to attack american citizens on three week budgets and we should not be defending our plans based on three week budgets. numb

people like john mccain and lindsay graham made it clear they would like to see american boots back on the ground and that is just not where the people of connecticut are. so i want to make sure we have an authorization that's tailored to obama's strategy which i think is the right one, use military power to degrade isil but rely on local partners people who have much more of a stake in the game to do the work on the ground. that's the lesson from the iraq war. i'm hopeful that this authorization will get voted on, get approved, but have some real common sense limitations. >> i'm wondering, senator, if there's been any talk on the hill among democrats or really even among maybe some republicans who were less hawkish about repealing the other authorization that's still in force, the 2001 aumf that did make incredibly broad the president's power to the point where some republicans are saying he doesn't need this new one. >> there are two authorizations still on the books. there's the 2001 authorization which provided justification for a whole range of anti-terrorism programs including th

senator lindsay graham calling the president's stance continued weakness in the face of aggression.ave some even within the administration and the state department and the pentagon. as well as the ukrainians themselves saying now is the time to arm them. because ukrainians are being killed. and they feel it would give the ukrainian as stronger voice at the diplomatic table. >> the one thing that's clear is that ukraine's military is taking a pounding communities are being lost there, thousands have been killed. so that's the obvious, the question is how to stop it let's get some perspective about what may work and what won't work. steven pifer, former u.s. ambassador to the ukraine and now a senior fellow at the brookings institution, ambassador thanks for joining us. arming ukraine. secretary kerry said he wanted to do it the white house is gettinging ready to pull. now? not so much. what do you think? >> the goal of arming ukraine, for those of us who advocated has been to change the calculus in moscow to raise the cost of aggression to the russians to the point where the kremlin

as you know the senate armed services committee chairman john mccain, member lindsay graham they saidsks the success of the mission. your response? >> well first of all, when it comes to operational briefings, that's a decision we leave up to the military. so the military makes their judgments about what information is shared about their operations whether it's their ongoing operations or prospective operations. the fact that mosul is going to be a key part of this campaign is known to everybody. we have said we want to reclaim the land that isil has taken. we want to push them essentially out of iraqi population centers. so clearly mosul was going to be a focus. there is nothing new about that. i think again, what they spoke to is the approach we have been taking which is the united states provides air power. we work with partners on the ground who are training and equipping and we are steadily going to push isil out of all these areas, not just mosul but the parts of iraq that they have moved into in the last several months. >> but the fact that the u.s. has now given isis a time li

lindsay fwramey graham wants attention. wants the limelight. wants everyone looking at him. wakes up every day and wants to be president. i don't see the path any more than mercedes does. >> isn't he a war buddy of john mccain? >> of course those two are attached at the hip. >> he was your party's nominee recently. >> it's been a long time ago. >> it's been a long time ago, chris. let's look at the more serious -- >> what has changed since '08? >> i think what's changed since '08, folks in the united states senator are concerned about sending americans overseas and putting them in harm's way and putting them on the ground. >> it's a war-wary nation. >> yes. >> they don't want another war. you look at all the poll numbers. you're talking that over 54% oppose sending troops into the middle east. in that area. and, you know, over 60% believe, yes, we need to do something against isis but definitely no troops on the ground. >> what is it we can do? we have the jordanians fired up which i'm so impressed with. fog we came back from pearl harbor saying let's go get those guys. reme

let the tribes solve their problems and if they want to get ground troops in there like lindsay graham and john mccain do, send out the south carolina reserves, the ohio reserves, and let john boehner, lindsey graham, and john mccain explain to their constituents why their sons and daughters are dying for this mess. host: chris in alabama writes on our twitter page -- let's go to joe, adams, tennessee, light for republicans. good morning, joe. caller: good morning. i've been watching your show. i spent two years with the air force in turkey. i've been in trusted -- interested in the middle east ever since. i'm very concerned about what is happening. unless we take immediate action and do what needs to be done to totally eliminate this threat they are coming over here. and some of them are already over here right now. we need to stop quibbling over the semantics and syntax, and get some action going. and totally eliminate this threat. when you put in a highly compromised leadership, all you've got is confusion. it's time to act. too much talk and too little action. host: before you go,