nominee neal gorsuch made the rounds on capitol hill today visiting with south carolina senator lindsay graham. brena williams shared the moment on twitter. the senator spoke to reporters after their meeting. >> the list of 21 was vetted before the election. [inaudible conversations] o move would pay for the supreme court. in then they came to theire vote. i will vote for him might not trying to play a game instead do like yours thought. i will not perjure somebody.y. but to my democratic colleagues i voted for were the picks under the above midterm and the would not have chosen but it was a great pick by a democratic president and now pick negative say republican president seems to be devoted. >> we will go down that road, scalia being replaced by a solid conservative background. i think there are enough democrats in the body to build under pressure and realize that is not the route we could take. i would say he is not qualified and it is just a disservice and you are minded -- blinded by this. [inaudible investigation] >> long standing relationship. if politics -- the president off key. the

nominee neal gorsuch made the rounds on capitol hill today visiting with south carolina senator lindsay graham. brena williams shared the moment on twitter. the senator spoke to reporters after their meeting. >> the list of 21 was vetted before the election. it is very unusual, i think, for the person running giving you a live of who they would pick for the supreme court and you can look at it and think about it. 1-5 people said the supreme court mattered when it came to the election. i am vote for him. the vice president came into my office and gave me the list of 21 and said we would like to have you look at the list. i picked three people and he was one of the three. i will not not vote for someone i recommended. no doubt he is qualified. i voted for the candidates in obama and thought they were well qualified. they were not someone i would chose but it was a great pick by a democratic president. and i think this man is a great pick for a republican president. the thing i like most is he seems to be devoted. >> we will go down that road, scalia being replaced by a solid conservative backgro

i want you to listen to what senator lindsay graham said about russia and what this year will mean for congress as it relates to russia. this is what he said in munich. let's watch. >> i hope he will embrace the idea that as the leader of the free world he should be working with us to punish russia, and to my friend, i hope you finally suffer consequences of what you and your regime has been doing to democraciedemocracies, and 2 going to be a year of kicking russia in the ass. >> it's interesting, isn't it? here is lindsay graham, a republican, and this is a line that, i think, you know, behind the scenes you will hear a lot of senate republicans agree with that sentiment, but not enough that are ready to go out there publicly just yet, and meanwhile you have lindsay graham and john mccain saying we are going to drill down on you. you have to remember, we have three investigations on going three different committees look into this right now, and to russia's interference in our elections, so yeah, this is a threat from him going out there. and it's putting the administration on notice,

you will have lindsay graham on cnn tomorrow night. he's a big advocate of the military and state department of what is called soft power, and a lot can be done to prevent confrontations through diplomatic means. we will see what the actual numbers are, and the epa, and you talk about cutting the epa, a lot of epa numbers goes to the states, and can you talk about shifting expenses going to the states when you talk about cutting the epa. >> president trump just sat down with our friends over at fox and he spelled out how the math is going to work in his mind. let me play this for you, senator. >> sure. >> if you cut all the money from epa and the state, that's about $50 billion? >> i think the money will come from a revved up economy, and you look at the numbers we were doing, we were probably a gdp of a little more than 1%, and if i can get that up to three or maybe more, we have a whole different ball game. it's a whole different ball game. and that's what we are looking to do. >> senator, what do you think of that explanation, if he

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republican senator lindsay graham: >> the russians were involved to hurt clinton. the bottom line is it is now time to punish russia. >> but the president said he would focus on other matters once he returns to washington tomorrow, including signing a new executive order on immigration. after the courts struck down his initial travel ban. demarco. >> morgan: john dickerson joins us now from washington, john always good to see you. >> great to be with you. >> morgan: we heard chief of staff reince priebus defend the president's declaration that the press is the enemy. is this now part of their strategy? >> well, it's kind of always been part of donald trump's strategy. he used it very well in the campaign. this is a little bit something new, i mean the idea is to have an opponent. he no longer has a campaign opponent so the press is very useful. the press helps him do that at times by writing stories that then have to be retracted. it's certainly something that thrills his supporters. it's not new for administrations, this has certainly happened in history before, b

and even republican foreign policy hawks like senators john mccain and lindsay graham said this. we fear that this executive order, they were talking about the muslim ban, will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism. there are a cascade of rulings you've already heard about that clearly show that this executive order is unconstitutional. we're glad to be leading that fight in washington state with our attorney general's temporary restraininged orer that went up to the ninth circuit for a favorable, unanimous decision. and we intend to, as democrats, continue to fight against executive orders that not only harm our country, harm the vision of who we are as a democratic society, a refuge for so many around the world, but also harm our national security. with that, i'm so proud to turn it over to our leader. ms. pelosi: thank you very much. thank you to our colleagues. just so you know, of course the chair of the hispanic caucus, congressional hispanic caucus, spoke with such knowledge, all of them did, the depth of their commitment, extent of their knowledge,

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the reality is that putin has a lot of tendencies that our thuggery, as lindsay graham has called himeality is respecting putin is a different matter, and working with putin is a different manner, and condoning putin and saying he's accurate -- similar to us is not accurate at all. >> this goes back to the beginning of the presidential campaign. trump has always been deferential towards russia and putin, and he previously has been creating a moral equivalence between the united states and how it operates in the world and how russia operates in the world, so this is nothing new. the president doesn't hesitate to get tough rhetorically with other u.s. adversaries, china in particular, and there's nothing wrong with taking an adversarial tone at all, and so i think the question here that the president needs to answer once we get past all of this, sort of, you know, fury, is of course we want a good working relationship with a major power. that is sort of necessary for us in our position in the world, but on whose terms is the question that needs to be answered. if we are dealing with rus

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and just today we heard from senator lindsay graham talking about the budget ask the steep cuts that the current form proposes. >> it is a budget proposal that will meet the same fate as obama's proposals. i think in seven, eight years, it got one vote. the bottom line is i increase the the, i appreciate continue crease in military spending but you're undercutting the war. >> then there is division within the republican party about how to replace the repeal and replace after a draft leaked out. and there were some responses not everyone agreed with. of course, the back drop is the president attempting to set the table many front of the joint session of gong what his administration will do. about what the next four years will look like. here's what we can expect. a very large focus on the economy. what has already been done and what is still to come under what the president has called his america first policy. and then expect immigration to figure prominently on the portion of the speech about national security. it is still unclear whether his talk on immigration will be about a more

democrats have been threatening to filibuster this selection, but senator lindsay graham among others told me if they do so it would be a great disservice to the senate. back to you. >> peter alexander live at the white house for us. be sure to check out peter's full report coming up next on the " and here's a closer look at neil gorsuch's background. he's a 49-year-old from denver and gorsuch has local ties as well. he attended georgetown prep while his mother led the environmental protection agency under president reagan and she was the first woman to hold that job. he is a graduate from harvard law school. one of his classmates former president barack obama. but he has ties to the current supreme court. he was a clerk for justice kennedy before going to oxford for a philosophy degree. if confirmed he would not change the makeup of the court since he would be replacing justice scalia who was also a conservative. >>> there could be another major vote today on a senate nominee. they'll try to take up a vote on senator jeff sessions. he's the pick for attorney general. it was originall

and it is offensive to democrats and republicans and we haven't heard yet from mick cane and lindsay grahamve been sitting here. >> not yet. >> you'll hear a lot more about russia. >> like many thing, if i may, that donald trump says there's context for it and that is this is a president who criticized america for being too expansionist and too many wars and less of an interventionist than predecessors. >> you cannot forgive the murder. >> he was not well expressed. >> it was more than not well expresseded. >> let's talk about the style -- now everybody will know, you were born in australia. so i'll make you our australian expert here. >> thank you. >> if you make the australian people mad there is a long-term issue here if suddenly australia decides china should beware and not the united states. >> first of all, let me sound my most australia. australia will not trn to china. australia and america are allies d that will not change whether it's trum bul or trump is president. i don't think they would have said to donald trump that he's a terrible person and he would pause on australia. i do

being the chairman of the rnc where we had everything from ted cruz to rand paul to jeb bush to lindsay graham. we had them all at one time, 17 of them, on the stage, trying to compete. and he kept the party together. he is taking that skill set and now he is using it in the white house to kind of keep it together when the pressure cooker, the pressure cooker of action is the greatest. i don't know. i think he is doing a pretty good job you. >> heard randy, jamie. lay in. last thought. >> rhines preeb success a great guy. i did a big profile on him. we spent a lot of time behind the scenes with him. but he has never done this particular job before. and i don't think we've ever had a president fair to say, like donald trump before. so i think the challenges here are beyond what anyone could imagine. >> imagine. jamie, rappy, thank you all very much. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >>> coming up here, when north korea launched its missile over the weekend, the president openly discussed strategy in a crowded dining room of his home down in palm beach, which is certainly raising some e

lindsay graham this morning was talking about the potential need for a new select committee to investigate whether these contacts existed. bob corker of the foreign relations committee had tough words for the trump administrati around this topic. the pressure will come on republican leaders, and mitch mcconnell told the "morning joe" team they will keep the investigation in the intelligence committee, and they also spoke this morning with paul ryan, the house speaker. take a look at how he answers questions about this just a few minutes ago. >> we already had been doing this. it's not as if the intelligence committee has not been investigating this. they have been and will continue to do that, so it's not as if this has not been thoroughly investigated. >> at this point, and this jives with everything we talked about. yesterday and what i spoke to official about here, they want to keep these investigations in the senate and house intelligence committees. there are benefits to that. they have access to more classified information, the traditional committees, but there are also things for go

. >> sandra: simon i want to get lindsay graham's most comments on iran in here. he is basically saying this is all a big test of the trump administration. listen to this. >> yeah, i don't know what that means. here's what i would do. i would try to rally the world and try to punish iran through sanction. they deserve to be sanctioned. they're testing president trump. the russians are testing president trump. >> sandra: simon, your thoughts? >> yeah. listen, it would be better to have a global coalition than acting unilaterally. i think lindsey graham is correct about that. one of the reasons we're able to get the iran nuclear deal, whether you thought it was a good deal or not is because there had been punishing sanctions done in concert with our allies for a long period of time. so i think what's important is for us to act with our ally, with congress, to do this together. one of my great concerns about the early days of the trump administration is their willingness to sort of do things out of the white house without significant consultation with even members of

and all of those republican senators, we're talking about people like lindsay graham, john mcgame, do not take this lightly and do not want a commercial relationship with the former soviet union. they want an adversarial one. because it it is basically still a competition, though the economies are very different size, and the militaries don't compare, it's still very much a competitive mindset. and so there is no interest in a commercial relationship with the russia. but you get the sense that the president's entire prism, to be kind, is commercial. >> yeah. >> and that's just not where his party is ever going to be. let's go around, last round, andrea, what are you looking for the rest of the week, this month, what is most concerning to you, what should folks be paying attention to? >> i would like to see how general mcmaster takes control of a national security council process. they're supposed to have their first real meeting with the president and the cabinet secretaries on friday. does he take the step of trying to reverse the presidential memo that put steve bannon at the princi

certainly the lindsay graham john mccain wing of the party is not fond this president's policies. the fact that russia is the key core substantive value here, we could see that. let's take the other side and say that the president did not know. i think it's equally troubling and shows there is a wandering and a lone wolf policy there in the white house that allows aides to do whatever he or she may want to do. they have got to professionalize the white house, professionalize the defense department, professionalize the nsa staff and the state department for a start. if that doesn't happen in the next few weeks. if you are advisinge ining xi i or china, which i'm not. let's test this president. there seems to be disarray. whether you believe what rick is saying is true or the opposite side it's not good. >> you obviously have conversations with people still working up there on capitol hill. what is the feeling behind the scenes privately about how this admistration is going? >> a crisis of incompetentent tense. harold is right. the reason you have leaks from the white house is dislo

and so, we have seen hopeful signs from senators lindsay graham and john mccain and others. the more we hear from both sides of the aisle, discussions about the place of pre-political commitment. this isn't beating the administration but something is happening here that is threatening our basic institutions and the things that we put before our policy preferences, these investigations will take a long time and as people require some political fortitude and what remains to be seen is whether or not congress has that sense of courage and responsibility to discharge its constitutional duty here. and we have seen some good signs and bad signs. it will not be -- a note of caution that this will not be a short process, and talking about these investigations for a very long time. where are the question will be, what they find will be shared more broadly. and i think there's going to be a lot of pressure on them, both from the media, from the hill to share that information. so there may be more that is learned about what they actually learn. >> two more questions. yeah. >> i'm a jun

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you already had john mccain and lindsay graham and darryl issa who had a very tough election this yearaid there needs to be a special prosecutor. i think the key is do more republicans in congress say we've got to get to the bottom of this. >> and in the limited time that we have left, my headline is going to be how have donald trump's joint session speech, how much will it deviate from all of the others that came before him. will he go for laughs and will he go for substance? will he go for both? and also, just how long will it last? we're used to president obama or president clinton where they can go on for more than an hour. the inaugural address was how long? 16 minutes? so we could see a joint session speech that is shorter, less substance filled and maybe even funny. i don't know if the american people are ready for that, but we will find out tuesday night at the joint session speech. thank you to eric bowler, jennifer rubin and e.j. dion. that's it for today. joy will be back right here next week. check her out on realtime with bill mauro hbo this friday and next saturday she'll

ornd you have senators like john mccain and lindsay graey graham telling people this is a very serious story. when a party is split on one thing to do, that's never good news because it shows their flank is potentially exposed on this. >> mark murray, always good to see you. >> we'll be right back with my interview with three democratic governors. they just met with the presidt. we'll be right back. will your business be ready when growth presents itself? american express open cards can help you take on a new job, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. thing to do, that's never good we'll be right back. news because it shows their thing to do, that's never good we'll be right back. thing to do, that's never good we'll be right back. [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette and her new mobile wedding business. at first, getting paid was tough... until she got quickbooks. now she sends invoices, sees when they've been viewed thing to do, that's never good we'll be

senate republicans including the leadership was in last night's audience at the white house where lindsay graham>> it would be sad to me if we have to go that route with a man like this. but he's going to get confirmed. you know, i have taken a lot of cap voting for obama's judges, and i thought they were qualified and i tried to be fair the best i could be, and i didn't think garland should have been picked in obama's last term. this president won, and he deserved the right to pick qualified people, and this is one of the most qualified people i ever met. >> and cashow ugly is the fight going to be on the hill? >> there's always going to be bad blood because of what happened with merrick garland, but leaders are prepared to say we want to fight another day. this doesn't change the ballot supreme court and we are not replacing a liberal justice, and this is not an inflammatory pick, and this is not somebody who is outside of the judicial mainstream or the establishment mainstream, i should say, but chuck schumer had protesters outside of his house last night in brooklyn urging him to try and blo

select committee -- >> no, we have an intelligence committee ov in the judiciary committee, and lindsay grahamt russian involvement and the u.s. election, and we know they were messing around with it and don't think they had impact on the outcome but we are not going to ignore something like that. >> let's bring in a member of the foreign relations committee, and senator, it's very good to have you on the show. i would take it that we heard from republicans coming into this segment ae kweuf indicating some of the investigation of the ties with russia. do you agree the problem is solved with flynn? >> ae kweuf indicating is a kind word. this drip, drip, drip of revelations of the white house is making them uncomfortable. you heard the house intelligence committee is more interested invest tkpwaei investigating the leaks than the russian scandal, and so clearly there's not a satisfactory investigation happening in either intelligence committee, and there's a real urgency to getting to the bottom of this. why? because it's potentially affecting u.s. policy, and there's no theory of international