but lindsay graham and chris christie have not declared their intention is yet but are expected to join the fray. u.s. foreign policy under president obama is dangerously out of whak, they can whack, they can agree. >> everybody but rand paul can do better. >> they are the lap dogs for president obama and they are sensitive to that. >> rand paul thinks america should isolate itself from foreign conflicts and cut off all aid to boot. ted cruz would think more forcefully around the world, so force thafl he would order the united ful that he would order theunited states to bomb iran. jeb bush insists he is his own man on foreign policy, different enough from the controversial policies of his brother george w. bush. speaking of president 43, first time since leaving office in 2009 he lashed out. bl lindsay graham who's ready to announce his own candidacy soon, pulling out in 2011 a strategic blunder. obama's critics from the left are cuchg nothing but a continuation of president bush's foreign policy especially in the middle east. republicans of course call this absurd. lawrence korb is a s

we have mike huckabee and looks like lindsay graham will get into this thing next month.poke to folks in south carolina, and they think he will bring one liners to the debate stage and a focus on foreign policy, and john mccain has endorsed him several sometimes, and he may pick up some of the john mccain infrastructure in south carolina, and there was a recent poll that showed 20% were much more likely to vote for lindsay graham in the primary when he gets into this thing. he will be interesting. i don't think he has much of a future in terms of a long hall, but he will add wit. >> we have been tracking water, and california has water shortages, a terrible drought and restrictive measures being imposed by the government, and this is something that gets political and gets to your ideas of how intrusive the government should be in your lives and how much the government should regulate you, and you can touch it in a way you can't touch climate change, necessarily. i am not saying the presidential candidates will debate water policy in 2016, but that may be part of the clima

we have more than lindsay graham's expected announcement. >> reporter: he's been described as a leading hawk of the republican party lindsay gram the senator from south carolina. >> if i'm president of the united states and you're thinking about joining al qaeda or i.s.i.l. anyone thinking about that? i'm not going to call a judge, i am going to call a drone, and we will kill you. >> reporter: like other republicans, gram wants limited government and reduced spending. it's his former policy experience and blunt style that endears him to senate colleagues. >> do you agree with me when russia says there's no russian troops or weapons in the ukraine their lying? >> yes >>> lindsay graham was born in south carolina, to blue-collar parents, the first to go to college erping an undergrat ute and law degree. he went into the air force, and joined as a lawyer working in court marshall proceedings. >> in 1994 graham ran for a seat in the us house and won. four years later he was one of the most outspoken house republicans urging the impeachment of president clinton. >> we believe he assaulted ou

david shuster joins us with more. >> lindsay graham said he will make a formal announcement on june 1sthe is considered something of a hawk. he has expensive experience in military affairs. this morning on cbs he explanned the rational for his candidacy. >> i'm running because i think the world is falling apart. i have been more right than wrong on foreign policy. it's my ability in my own manned to be a good commander in chief and to make washington work. >> graham's closest friend is john mccain, the 2008 republican presidential nominee. he has been urging senator graham to get into the race for months. he has engaged in talks with the obama white house on climate change, and closing guantanamo bay. >> in my view the democrats and republicans work together too little snp hostage. and when it came to radical islam, i would go after them before they come back here. >> he said the united states should send 10,000 troops and advisors back into iraq to help government troops launch a counter offensive against isil including the areas of anbar province. graham will be something of a long sh

it's not jeb bush but lindsay graham. >> president bush w.information everybody else in the world did and made the best decision he could. and if anybody thinks saddam hussein was a good guy, then you need to go back in time and check out the facts. >> so there it is. there's the flip side of it you will hear from lindsay graham. they say look there may not have been wmd but there was a tyrant, a butcher. so something positive came of it. >> and you will continue to hear that line from him. no doubt he and mccain are very closely aligned on these. when pambarack obama was considering military force? the phone lines on capital hill melted down because people in republican and democratic districts were saying please don't do this. we are war we're ree. i think both parties are really aware of this and they are looking at all of the same polls we are. and people are afraid when they see somebody beheaded on television. >> yes, while you may have people distances themselves right now from decisions made in 2003 and 2004, if you listen to the spee

there are support to people like lindsay graham, so that has bipartisan support. if you look at the economic messages, more than 90% of gapes, there's a lot of frustration about the number. that message, the economic message the immigration message that it makes sense in terms of where the country is. the experience that americans had gives mrs. clinton room to say the deck is stacked in favour of those at the top. i couldn't handling hearing her say that in 1996. >> i think the economic messages are extraordinarily important message, and if you want to tie it to the raw politics of presidential races, there's a lot of research and reports right now that you have a lot of white southern voters, white males in particular that are leaving, that are not voting for democrats that are starting to look at republicans, who are not voting at all, because departments are not paying tapes to the economic -- attention to the economic messages. they would like to see and heard, especially in the 2014 mid term elections, i think the message is right. she has the opportunity to

. >>> lindsay graham has confirmed he is running for president. he will make a formal announcement on june 1st. he will join a crowded field of gop candidates including florida senator marco rubio and carly fiorina. rick santorum, jeb bush, and chris christie are expected to run as well. this will be perry's second run at the white house after an unsuccessful run in 2012. >>> they will release 55,000 pages of e-mails stored on hillary clinton's private e- mail server by january of next year. the release of the e-mails is in subject to a freedom of information lawsuit. they will take time to carefully review the the e- mails. the contents of clinton's e- mails have been a topic of interest since it was revealed she conducted all of her correspondence. >>> flying cars could become a reality. at least four companies are planning to produce, sell, and deliver flying cars. one of them aeromobile which will start accepting to buy the cars in 2017. some say that timeline is wishful thinking because the cars have to prove a number of tests to prove they a

we have rich perry, the former governor of texas, and senator lindsay graham who is saying that up to0,000 soldiers are needed on the ground. but the reality is unless the situation deteriorated really quickly and really massively, then barack obama, the white house are not considering troops on the ground. in that point emphasized by susan rice in a newspaper interview published, in which she says that is just not something they are willing to do at this stage. they think this is a war that will be fought by the iraqis themselves. they will give them support, training and weapons, but they will not put boots on the ground to fight this battle for them. >> the u.s.-lead coalition strikes have been going on for nine months now. there is criticism of president obama's strategy in light of this. are they highlights some of the previous concerns? >> of course the whole aim was to retake mosul, and the idea was there would be a program, a plan to go into mosul, but if you lose anbar, then you lose access to mosul, and so this has been a huge setback for that idea. there has been criticism

lindsay graham, considered a foreign policy expert has been urged to run by closest friend senator johnain, the 2008 republican nominee. former senator rick santorum won the iowa caucuses and has been hawkish about strands of islam. >> if i.s.i.s. want to establish a 7th century cal fate, let's oblime them by bombing them back to the 7th century. >> and chris christie is the best at one on one retail politics, but at teems he's been overshadowed by his temper. as evidenced by a heckler. >> sit down and shut up. >> joining me now from new york is al jazeera's david shuster. sit down, but do not shut up. isn't this what the party said after the 2012 race, it wanted to avoid. a huge and possibly well-funded field that could go deep into the primary season. >> that's the issue. we hear a number of republican officials, there's nothing we can do about it. so many looked up and saw what president obama did. maybe i can catch lightening in a bottle. maybe i could be like hillary clinton and get exposure, and a great job. maybe i can be like mike huckabee, in 2008. he came in third. even losing

john kasich is anybody polling on -- lindsay graham? will they start? if he declares he's running for president, will they poll on him? a polling threshold depends on the preferences of the pollsters in terms of who they put on the list. and the more people they put on the list the less likely any candidate will hit any reasonable threshold. the nbc poll that came out last night, a great poll the answer not sure beat out both rick perry and carly fiorina. carly got 1%. rick perry got 2%. not sure got 3%. does that mean rick perry and carly if i orina shoonts be allowed into the debates? that seems hard to believe. today in "time" magazine squeak miller reports the prospects we have for the republican candidate, one metric the party is considering using for who gets in the debate and who doesn't is money fund-raising. ech. which maybe is practical politics in terms of who might have a chance of getting into the white house, but it seems somehow fundamentally wrong that the literal size of your campaign bank account will determine whether or not people ar

people very influential jonathon cane, the senator of the armed serves center, applauding lindsay grahamso a member doing the same, and jack reed the top democrat on that committee. all approving of the president's nomination, the president's pick here, so it appears at this point he would sail through the confirmation process. >> thank you mike, at the white house. isil is reportedly claiming it was behind sunday's shooting at a controversy art show near dallas. it would be the first attempted isil attack on u.s. soil, but there's no evidence yet to confirm isil's involvement. elton simpson were killed after opening fire on security guards one of these men has been on the watch list for years p he becomes the first secretary of state to visit that country. historic trips comes as the u.s. tries to help the nation rebuild. from two decades of war. more now. >> it was the first visit ever by a u.s. secretary of state to somalia. john kerry's mission was too communicate the obama administration support for this democracy just three years old. as somalia gets ready for parliamentary electio

. >>> that was republican strrt and likely candidate lindsay graham. >> hillary clinton lost the primarythe south and the racial overtones stood up after controversial comments by husbands bill clinton. >> perhaps it's understandable now that after appearing before an audience of women, she'd use a southern twang to get personal. after spending years in arc sea. she has -- arkansas she has an ear for the twang. there's a danger that changing your vice and top will have voters thinking you are pannedoring. perceptions that you are -- pandering. perceptions that you are fake may sting as hillary clinton may be learning from the ridicule she is facing today. >> hillary clinton is the favourite for the democratic nomination. why would you run against her as these are doing, if it seems like a no-win proposition, what about the long shot republicans jumping into the g.o.p. race. why would george pataki for example, bother to sweat it out? coming up, what candidates win when they lose. >>> george pataki's entry in the 2016 race to the white house made one thing clear - if you can't take the he

lindsay graham, who we didn't mention before has been a clear and consistent supporter of a path to citizenship. but putting that aside, she is absolutely positioning herself to appeal both to latino 0-2 -- voters who have had skepticism about her over the years and are used to getting shafted politically, honestly. jeff: with the changing demographics of the country, how will this helper -- her? she was making that speech in neff. coincidence? laura: i do not think that's a coincidence. nevada has 18% of its eligible voters latino. it is one of the states that's been competitive the last several times lnned that the hispanic vote really matters. she really is looking ahead to that and the republicans are in such a mess over immigration, they know they have to improve their standing with the hispanic voters. mitt romney did very bl with white voters but it wasn't enough to overcome how poorly he did with minorities. there is so much hostility that is viewed -- against anything that is viewed as amnesty that they don't feel they can really fully come out for it. >> she has to constantly keep ans

lindsay graham is running. a staunch opponent of the president's foreign policy. joining a growing list of republicans. huckabee, paul, ben carson and -- >> the golden state warriors' chance for the nba championship is continuing tomorrow. a large part of the fan base hadn't been born the last time they made it to the finals. >> tonight's game plan, laying out a shirt for every fan in the crowd. hoping the strength in numbers will carry it to a nba win. >> warriors in five. >> they have excellent coaching, a great bench. excellent camaraderie. . >> they used to play at the palace. >> owning a museum with warriors memorabilia. and remembers watching them at the cow palace in 1975, the year they took the title. >> got it. the final seconds tick off. golden state warriors are champion of the world. >> all different articles and the pictures and stuff. i assume we can remember. a lot of people weren't born yet. >> including most of the staff and stars including the splash brother. some say this team has what it takes to bring glory back to the bay. >> game one is tomo

. >>> well, there are two different people who also weren't there mike huckabee, and lindsay graham. >>> you asked about jeb bush, you know, going to liberty university and making a speech, is both an excuse and an opportunity. >>> it excuses him from going to south carolina, where his ideas are not popular with the republican party and it gets him in front of conservatives. so i think it was a win. mike huckabee, took a loss and rick rick rick santorum was there, and mike is trying to take things away. >>> all right do a lot of the candidates focused on pretty much bashing president barak obama? he's not running. so why report they going after hillary? >>> carlie was the only one who came out and talked about hillary and that's surprising because you think they will have they're running against hillary, not president barak obama, and they're running against his policies and but having carlie there and having a woman, who can speak against hillary clinton does wonders. i don't think there are very many people that she is going to be the next president. it runs a little bit of interfe

now we have christie and lindsay graham. they are floundering about the iraq war. even the republican electric is that hawkish and it is that against thinking of the patriot act in a different way. >> some government -- i don't know. regulation on how to collect private data. i don't know any republican who think it is okay. >> those in favor of reforming the patriot act right now. >> one on one can't be done. a new survey found in some offices on capitol hill women can't be alone with their mailboxes because it may gift the wrong impression. several aids were bared from closed door pleaings and driving along with their congressman or appearing ate vipts without a male staffer president. >>> one woman said appearing in so man with her congressman is not appropriate. matt do i look threat thig to you? >> it is the belly. i have to keep moving. >> i wonder how much is -- they are worried about a hey rase meant -- harassent in suit. the police officers will -- professor will never, ever have the door closed for the student, male or female. then then i don't know what

. >> senators john mccain and lindsay graham have sent a letter to president obama urging him to create a safe zone in syria. >> internal displacement monitoring center found in alt 38 million people around the world have been forced from their homes. at least 11 million of them in the last year alone. more than 70% come from just six countries. syria with the most more than 7,600,000 displaced. colombia more than 6 million. iraq and sudan have more than 3 million displaced people each. democratic being republic republic of congo more than 1 million. >> at least according to the u.n, there is 140,000 that have fled the recent fighting and have ended up in baghdad and other areas but what the report doesn't get into is the fear a lot of people are feeling here. there is fear that anbar residents, revenge attacks against anbar residents we have seen eight bodies in the last two alone in the streets of baghdad also across social media. there's been a huge fear that anbar residents are attacking shia residents here in baghdad. if you speak to people here if you get their stories what they'l

two of the poll's 1 percenters south carolina lindsay graham and rick perry who is making his second white house run launch their campaign next week. on the day pataki made it official and the day after santorum made his announcement. rubio and rand paul trailing by 4 points each. >> bush walker louisiana governor bobby jindal are expected to enter the race in june or july. the biggest block at 20 percent is undecided. in washington carl cameron, fox news. >>> the candidates keep on coming. spell binding combi tiggs that is makesings h-i-s-t-o-r-y. it ended in a tie for the second year in a row. they will share the title after being head to head for 10 rounds. 10 exhausting rounds. the exhausting list of 25 championship words before it all came down to this. s-c-hsh -- >> for the record because i know that you actually already know this scherenchinatoc is the art of cutting paper and nunatak is a mountain surrounded by glacial ice. >> we already knew that. >> the video that is hard to watch. an elementary school girl is attacked on a school bus. how that family is now fighting back.

. >> reporter: senator mccain and lindsay graham issued a statement saying quote: but administrationfficials including secretary of state john kerry speaking in soul south korea insisted ramadi would be quickly retaken. >> it's possible to have the kind of attack we have seen in ramadi. but i'm absolutely confident in the days ahead that will be reversed. >> reporter: that's small comfort to the estimated 25,000 who fled the fighting and packed the road to baghdad amid reports isil fighters were executing government sympathizers. the pentagon says there's no reason to change u.s. strategy, which is to pound isil from the air, while relying on u.s.-trained iraqi forces to do the dirty, dangerous, close combat on the ground and a spokesman argued this was not a case where poorly motivated iraqi troops cut and ran, noting that isil surrounded ramadi a year ago, and the iraqi forces fought to the end. the coalition conducted 32 air strikes over the past three weeks like this one last friday on isil fightered holed up in the building. eight air strikes were carried out in the last day as

republican senator john mclane and lindsay graham enthusiastically praised him >>> a note sent to the judge who ordered them to work in the dzhokhar tsarnaev trial. authorities to the defendant objected to the decision. jurors are tired and finished. the 1979 distance of ayton payes let to the increased awareness about missing whig in the united states -- children in the united states >>> i.s.i.l. could be behind an it atake on a base. it happened near the border with gaza. there has been fighting in the area for months. the egyptian military presence cut down on the violence but relations are getting worse. >> reporter: this is what many buildings in the town of rafa look like. buildings, including schools were bombarded by the military between egypt and gaza. egyptian security forces have stormed areas in rafa and evacuating houses. they want to expand the buffer zone to control areas in egypt and prevent cross-border smuggling. despite the deployment attacks are happening. one policeman was killed after an attack. 14 were injured when fighters struck a camp. in military videos like

. >>> lindsay graham, add him to the growing list of republican presidential contenders and graham told cbs he plans to make an official announcement next month and the 59-year-old senator says he'll be running because, quote the world is falling apart. graham has been a fierce critic of president obama's foreign policy particularly in the middle east. he wants u.s. ground troops sent into iraq and syria to combat the islamic state. >>> elian gonzalez, the boy who found himself in the middle of a tug-of-war between the u.s. and cuba is breaking his silence. jim avila spoke to him and he was just 6 years old when he was thrust into the spotlight after escaping from cuba on a raft. his mother drowned trying to bring him to the u.s. federal agents then took gonzalez from his extended family and he says he'd like to come back to america. >> so you want to visit the united states? >> si. i want the time to give my love to american people. >> gonzalez just got engaged. abc news producers helped him snap his first selfie. he said he would like to use it as his profile picture to open up a face

your colleague and friend lip lindsay graham he thinks it's time for u.s.gree with that? >> well we had a meeting, and there were two that convinced the president to reduce the troops. >> how many troops? >> i would say 10,000. but they have to be on the ground. 75% of the flights, the combats are returning to the base without dropping a weapon. do you know why? because they don't have anybody on the ground to give them the targets that they need. this is an inae tpebg khau annual air campaign. if we don't have military presence with these units they will continue to disintegrate particularly the iraqi government army and the iraqi army which is now nonexistence. >> you agree with lindsay graham that there should be 10,000 troops on the ground. we had george pataki on "new day" this week and he also agreed and he said you go in quickly and take out the training facilities and you get out, and that sounds nice and that's always the goal but we have seen how hard that is to accomplish. how long do you believe ground troops would have to be in iraq to fight is

the most significant call has come from senator lindsay graham who is a big friend of john mccain, andid the u.s. needs around 10,000 troops on the ground. he believes that would help. the reality is unless the situation in iraq changes remarkably, very quickly, the white house has no intention of putting u.s. troops on the ground there. in fact that point has been reiterated in the last 48 hours by susan rice who says for the u.s. they are simply not in that game. they intent to continue with that strategy of training the iraqi forces providing weapons where they have to but not getting involved on the fighting on the ground. >> thanks much. alan fisher there. >>> much more still to come here on al jazeera. things aren't so golden working under the golden arches the fight for higher wages by mcdonald's workers spreads to more american cities. >>> i'm in the skies over lithuania, as nato increases their rhetoric over the russia threat to the baldtic states. >>> lee brown james helps his team in the series. details coming up. ♪ >>> well security forces are out on every street corner in

he decided to basicallically go into like a safe space where he could argue saying that lindsay grahamons that isis -- >> it doesn't seem that safe. brit hume goes on to say it's hard to believe any republican majority is going to go for this position and yet that's where he stands. >> britt is right, there will be a small strain that do support rand paul and that will save him for a knew morse weeks. >> thank you. up next what happened after hillary clinton visited a waffle restaurant in south carolina. >> you're right ychl running to live again at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. feel secure in your dentures... feel free to be yourself all day. just switch from denture paste to sea-bond denture adhesive seals. holds stronger than the leading paste all day... without the ooze. feel secure. be yourself. with stronger, clean sea-bond. introducing the first ever gummy multivitamin from centrum. a complete, and tasty new way to support... your energy... immunity... and metabolism like never before. centrum multigummies. see gummies in a whole new light. just stay calm and move as quietly as poss

opinion met with an eye roll from senate colleague and soon to be republican presidential candidate lindsay grahamp is not necessary. the government can and should get a warrant for specific information when they need it. the was agrees. but it is not only the phone data issue that will expire june 1. the government won't be able to as easily gather business records. conduct roving wiretaps, when a person keeps switching cell phones or keep tabs on potential lone wolves not necessarililinged to an identified terror group. -- necessary linked to an identified terror group. >> today, the third largest cable provider in the u.s., expected to announce buying time-warner cable and bright house network. if regulators approve, charter would quadruple subscribers for cable and internet serviced to 34 million. >> time-warner cable is the second largest provider in the u.s. used to be part of cnn's parent company time-warner but they split in 2009. bloomberg reports that charter intend to pay $195 a share for time-warner cable. >> now, chile has one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws. >> up next why

. >>> lindsay graham confirms he is running for president.id he will make a formal announcement june 1st. he is a republican senator. he will join a crowded field of republican candidates including florida senator marco rubio and carly fiorina. rick santorum, jeb bush, and chris christie are also expected to run. and rick perry says he will announce next month whether or not he will join other republicans running for president. this would be governor perry's second run for the white house after an unsuccessful attempt in 2012. >>> it is now 5:47. traffic could be getting a little busier around the bay area. let's check in with sal. >> a little busier. yeah. just a little bit. one of the things i have noticed guys and dave was i cutting you off? >> not at all. i'm paying attention. >> okay good. thank you, dave. let's take a look at what we have with some of the these commutes. it will be a little slow as pam eluded to. this is a look at interstate 880 in oakland and it will be slow if you are driving through up to downtown but southbound is s

what do you make of the calls we've been hearing from republican circles george pataki, senator lindsay graham saying we need to send thousands more u.s. troops to the region? >> we tried that jake with painful results, with a lot of dead americans and a lot of americans still suffering without limbs and with ptsd. no i think the 3,000 americans we have there could be better utilized if the president allowed them as central command wants to do let them go to the front and act as advisers near the front with ford air controllers calling in air strikes. we've got 3,000 americans there. that's more than enough. our job is not to fight it on the ground but to help them fight it on the ground with intelligence air support and air cover. >> james comey said isis presents the most urgent threat to america than any others. do they have the capability of carrying out a large-scale attack here in the united states? >> we don't know. it's at least possible. al qaeda is still around, too, particularly in yemen now. we have to imagine that both al qaeda and isis want ultimately to do that. we can't let dow

hopefuls ted cruz lindsay graham.l be worried that ads like this could isolate him from the g.o.p. base. >> he's a little isolated. he didn't put the ad out. there's the snack down guys, sounds like my 10-year-old watching television. this is a fun ad. you see ted cruz labelled as a canadian. the first time i have seen that that is historical. that is what the republicans are trying to do with president obama, with kenya. i don't think rand paul will embrace this ad a lot. >> thank you, we'll leave it there michael shure, live from la tonight. thank you so much >>> there are reports that i.s.i.l. fighters blew up a major prison complex in historic syrian city of palmyra. a group monitoring the civil war said they could see smoke coming from the central syria location. the prison was empty at the time of the explosion. the detention center is not among the legendary ruins, but syrian officials are concerned i.s.i.l. fighters will destroy what is left of the artefacts. >> more than 70 people have been killed when barrel

and lindsay graham calling for 10,000 u.s. the ground in iraq. >> i think 10,000 troops would allow us to train the iraqi army at a faster pace and give them capability they don't have. if i thought we could protect america without sending one soldier back to iraq i would do it but we cannot. we don't have enough forces to help the iraqis and no strategy in syria, and let me tell you as bluntly as i know how, and if we don't put isil on the run and disrupt their operations they will hit us here at home. it will take thousands of american soldiers over there to protect millions of us here back at home. >> who is to blame? >> senator graham says he blames president obama for the need for ground troops at the moment and it's obama's fault iraq is falling apart and he adds president bush is not to blame. in an attempt to take the politics out of the war, i will talk with two men that fought in iraq. cnn analyst, commander mark hurdling and i many joined by cnn military analyst, colonel peter mansoor, a former aid to petraeus. >> t

some like lindsay graham senator mccame, they say bring it up to 10,000. maybe even more. you say -- >> well what we've done is we played a card game by giving cards out and have very few options left. we watched isis go from a few hundred to as many as 30 or 40,000. we watched iran enter our play was air operations alone which is not effective. we've seen the results. so i think at this point we shore up the sunni tribes willing to fight against isis and provide support in terms of intelligence and ground forces provided that we support our ground forces. sprinkling a few isn't going to be enough because we know what happens, would happen if one of our soldiers or sailors, airmen or marines are captured. burned alive in a cage. you need sufficients for, medical. as many as 10,000 if e are going to degrade and destroy isis. >> stand by congressman. more to discuss. we're only just beginning with congressman ryan zincy. he's a former navy s.e.a.l. served in iraq. he's a member of the armed services committee. much more when we come back. this is my body of proof. proof of l

in fact, when he goes south, even though he did well there the last time around, that's where lindsay grahamming into the picture and why he's getting into the race. >> i would say no, he's not -- ben carson company win, huckabee has a very narrow window, but he's not -- i don't want to say never with him, but he's at least won elective office before, but he's a much more serious candidate than ben carson is. >> thank you so much, cokie roberts, thank you nedra pickler. when we return, choosing your weapons. fascinating stuff in politics. you're watching "hardball" the place for politics. >>> we finish tonight with a question of weapons. some believe national security and terrorism should constitute the top issues facing our country. who is going to protect this country? the candidates, the republican candidates seem to be on the same page. it's hard to see them nominated a candidate that is not a hawk through and through, someone ready to lead the first against our terrorist anmies. the only dove is rand paul which makes him an interesting long shot. hillary clinton opened her national camp

south carolina senator lindsay graham making it clear he's running for the republican presidential nominationgraham says he'll announce officially on june 1st. but in an enter view this morning he used the phrase, i'm running. graham is a fierce critic of president obama's foreign policy and says he believes more american troops will have to die in iraq and syria to prevent terrorists from attacking the u.s. >> graham refused to answer questions about whether it was right to invade iraq back in 2003. he said it's more important to take military action to stabilize the middle east. >> on the heels of a deadly chopper crash in nepal the u.s. ma ren core is now dealing with another deadly crash. this time in hawaii. hard landing killed one marine and injured 21 others yesterday at bellows air force station. i would say that's a hard landing. look at the smoke and flames. military says marines were inside an mv22 osprey. it can take off and land like a helicopter but fly like a plane. >>> no explosion. there was no noise. we didn't hear any sound. we just saw the smoke and that caught our attenti

. >> congressman, i want to ask you this because you heard fellow republicans, senator lindsay graham and john mccain talking about a proposal to send roughly 10,000 troops into iraq and primarily to do training and provide intelligence and that sort of thing but not to fight house to house in combat situations. what do you make of that proposal? does that sound reasonable to you? what do you think? >> yeah it's reasonable. i am not sure of the exact number but let's think about where we have been here and the question is are we winning against isis? 18 months ago i called for bombing isis at the time they moved into falluja, and at the time i thought it was al qaeda, and i was accused of wanting to start iraq 3, and then isis grew and people got engaged and wanted to destroy them. we are seeing the movement continue to grow, and i think at this point we have to understand that everyday that goes by where we don't push this cancer back and we allow them to put car bombs in allies and ieds in towns that they occupy right now, every day that goes by the cost of liberating iraq or the co

in fact, when he goes south, even though he did well there the last time around, that's where lindsay grahamand why he's getting into the race. >> i would say no, he's not -- ben carson company win, huckabee has a very narrow window but he's not -- i don't want to say never with him, but he's at least won elective office before, but he's a much more serious candidate than ben carson is. >> thank you so much cokie roberts, thank you nedra pickler. when we return choosing your weapons. fascinating stuff in politics. you're watching "hardball" the police for politics. our world-class service earned usaa the top spot in a study of the most recommended large companies in america. if you're current or former military or their family, see if you're eligible to get an auto insurance quote. you could sit at your computer and read all about zero-turn mowers. click. scroll. tweet. or you could just sit on a john deere z435 eztrak and feel its power. you'll know it'll get the job done fast. when it's time to pick a mower, you've got to get on one. visit your local john deere dealer for a test drive toda

the claim is it as plausible as rand paul's outburst that republican internationalists like lindsay grahamslamic state. and then it goes on to later say an aide might want to remind senator paul which party's nomination he is seeking. a lot would say st. paul an isolationist who doesn't want to enter into these issues. how will it course correct rand paul in his approach to the white house? >> it's an interesting question and interesting balancing act for rand paul. he and his advisers and supporters say he's not an isolationist. they say he does support a strong defense. he thinks it's the most important facet of government. at the same time, he very much does take the more inward looking approach on foreign policy. he's supported defense cut or at least that they be offset elsewhere. and so for him, it's sort of that question of how does he talk about sort of reining in national security powers. the patriot act, for example he prior sizes civil liberties. how do you -- prioritizes civil liberty. how do you balance that with showing are you tough enough on national security, terrorism iss

senator lindsay graham the united states senate will consider legislation regarding the president's negotiationsthe nuclear program. i know you have strong feelings about this. tell us what you expect the senate to do. but more broadly, the subject here is global risk. the president says if we don't do a deal with iran and there is no deal, and negotiations break down, that could lead us to war. i understand your position to be that the deal itself is risky. talk about that. >> the first thing to our japanese friend i understand you better than prime minister. [laughing] >> thank you. >> is it just me or does he talk funny? [laughter] so, what were we talking about? iran. number one, the senate will overwhelmingly approve the corker legislation this week that says for the president to lift congressional sanctions we created he is going to have to , come to congress to get permission and that will get a lot of bipartisan support. as to a deal versus no deal. the president says if we don't get a deal it is the best chance of avoiding war. the consequences of a bad deal worry me more. if you like a

lindsay graham is going to announce.oth sides it was i wish we didn't have to go through some of the stuff. >> the real question is though joe, you know you're going from one profession. he is one of the most renowned surgeons in the entire world. and he's retired from that and now coming into an arena where the instincts, the culture, the folk ways are entirely different. that is appealing to some voters. but it's a very challenging thing under the campaign to try to really break through and make it without turning a lot of voters off. he already had some controversial statements and some back lash from that. we'll see whether he can survive. >> all right, john thanks. we got to go. appreciate it. >> you bet. >>> ten-year treasury yields are down following an eight day winning streak. our next guest believes that u.s. fields have peaked. we're used to saying it's not here it's what's happening over there. and this seems to be a corollary of that to some extent. rates have been rising over in europe and it's almost like

it's going to be an interesting debate and you are going to see chris christie on one side and lindsay graham. what he is doing is smart, because that's his niche and principle and conviction, and it's a way of him distinguishing himself from the rest of the pack, and when you have a pack that is going to be 14 15 to start with him carving out a niche is a smart political strategy. >> and he is more of a peach melba guy, and that's important to note. >> peach was my stage name. >> what kind of stage we won't discuss. the important thing to extend the eating metaphor this rand paul is eating your lunch a little bit when it comes to security because the left is known to be on the privacy side of this issue, so what is the move? >> i think that's what makes it interesting. as a substantive matter you are right, the right and the left meet up in criticizing the bulk direction of data and concerns the government is spying on the calls we make, and the challenge for senator paul will be for to take that and use it to expanded the electorate. if he just uses that, let's see if we can get leftist to