talking as lindsay graham, that was the old lindsay graham a little bit, maybe, and i said to him, i was sort of surprised by it, and i said we are sitting at 1,000 people, and it's not off the record, but i said you know you are on the record, and he said save the tape. he will be held to that if this situation arises. that was an interesting moment. >> it was. the papers are up in the senate right now in a vault and senators will begin examining them at 8:00. we heard from a number of people on both sides and i don't know how many minds will be changed by what is in here. it seems republicans are not going to ask questions about whether kavanaugh was honest during the hearing or not, they just want rock solid proof. they want an admission from brett kavanaugh that will never happen that he assaulted professor ford, and he says it didn't happen. >> i will tell you we had senator flake at the festival the day before, and he, as you well know, is somewhat tortured by all of this, tortured by the tribalism in politics, and the impression i got from senator flake is he still will vote f

senator lindsay graham, going to be joining news a few minutes with senator ted cruz. he also deserved a lot of credit. his powerful moment lit a fire for truth, justice, and decency in the country. many democrats proclaim their opposition to judge kavanaugh within seconds of his nomination. others up ended the hearings with endless interruptions, grandstanding, the worst of the worst. works the of all, many democrats actually went along with accusing brett kavanaugh of even being a ist, a -- a rapist, a gang ist. no -- rapist. drugging girls routinely at parties. they called him evil. compared him to bill cosby. men were told to sit down and shut up. zero corroborating evidence. based on 36-year old claims that were backed up by nobody. the republicans took this rightly serious, it's a serious topic. lawmakers, some of them didn't care. they wanted to ruin a man's life and his reputation forever. and i'm pretty certain tonight, brett kavanaugh, his wife, his two young daughters, i'm sure they'll never be the same again. we as a country, could not reward this madness,

senator lindsay graham, going to be joining news a few minutes with senator ted cruz. he also deserved a lot of credit. his powerful moment lit a fire for truth, justice, and decency in the country. many democrats proclaim their opposition to judge kavanaugh within seconds of his nomination. others up ended the hearings with endless interruptions, grandstanding, the worst of the worst. works the of all, many democrats actually went along with accusing brett kavanaugh of even being a ist, a -- a rapist, a gang ist. no -- rapist. drugging girls routinely at parties. they called him evil. compared him to bill cosby. men were told to sit down and shut up. zero corroborating evidence. based on 36-year old claims that were backed up by nobody. the republicans took this rightly serious, it's a serious topic. lawmakers, some of them didn't care. they wanted to ruin a man's life and his reputation forever. and i'm pretty certain tonight, brett kavanaugh, his wife, his two young daughters, i'm sure they'll never be the same again. we as a country, could not reward this madness,

lindsay graham seemed to be suggesting a regime change or the removal of the crown prince. would you support that? >> we need to give the president the chance to conclude the investigation that is called for and make his recommendation to congress on whether or not there will be sanctions forthcoming in the administration, and i agree with different senators, a number of us on the foreign relationships committee called for re -evaluation. we have had a number of hearings and conversations and ultimately confrontations over the saudi conduct of the war. i do think we should be looking at our precision of armourments, and we should be looking closely at the next round of saudi arms deals. president trump miss cited it as being $110 billion, and it's nothing like that. >> he's not wrong in the sense of saudi arabia has been seen as a counter weight to iran, and even though they are providing useful assistance in the struggle against iran, and the crown prince might be taking action against islamist inside saudi arabia? >> that's right. saudi arabia has been an american ally fo

lindsay graham has said it needs to be the crown prince. this is a bad guy. you need to take this guy out and restore the original line of succession, but you got to give us something here you got to give us some cover because what you've done is heinous and it's sort of like when a parent is talking to a child and is trying to talk them out of the trouble they've got themselves into. are you sure it wasn't an accident? are you sure you didn't put it here? kennedy: it sounds like helicopter parenting and that's why we're culturally in the mess we're in because parents don't letter to tell their children no which is so incredibly necessary and i don't believe in this sort of economic appeasement with saudi arabia, from before 9/11 but certainly it peaked on 9/11, and beyond, and they have not given good explanations and if it means that we have to embrace new technology as only this country can, and get off their dirty oil, i'm fine with that. >> this administration loves the saudis. this is -- kennedy: they all do. the bushes love them, obama loved the saudis

[laughter] is never a good indicator, but lindsay graham and bob corker really does represent the centerpublican party. you are seeing bipartisan consensus and i do not know that in the end, trump is going to be able to for him to do something on this against the saudi's that is meaningful. know now that goldman sachs partner gina powell is no longer in the runs are place nikki haley as the u.n. -- as the haley a u.s. ambassador. playing -- how important will this new person be when they take the job? eli: we do not know who it is going to be but it is a very important position. envoice about some of the hypocrisy that goes on in the u.n. and the fact that they overlook many abuses. inside the a rot united nations system for decades. the trump administration is served well by somebody in that haley mode because she did get a lot done even though the overall iedmp approach really wear u.s. allies. she was able to get important resolutions at times as well as a re-budgeting of the entire approach to u.n. peacekeeping. shery: eli lake, thank you. and alley -- and ali cina r, thank you. serv

y algo que me sorprendiÓ mucho fue ver a lindsay graham que estuvo en la audiencia contra la doctora.era suficiente. asÍ que vamos a estar muy pendientes de esa votaciÓn porque podrÍa ser todo por un puÑado de votos. carolina: exactamente. son cinco senadores que en este momento estarÍan en la mira para ver exactamente cÓmo van a votar. antes de que termine esa investigaciÓn del fbi no pueden decir si van a votar a favor o en c borja: vamos a seguir al lado del presidente trato porque el departamento de impuestos de nueva york abriÓ investigación sobre las acusaciones publicadas en the new york times segÚn las cuales trump participÓ junto a sus hermanos en esquemas de impuestos dudosos de los aÑos 90. esto lo habrÍa ayudado a ganar riqueza adicional en el negocio de bienes raÍces que fundÓ su padre. el portavoz de este departamento dijo que se estÁ buscando enÉrgicamente todas las vÍas de investigaciÓn apropiadas. carolina: solamente algo rapidito. cuando el presidente trump tenÍa tres aÑos de edad ya tenÍa una fortuna en bienes raÍces equivalente a 413 millones de dÓlares. borja: hay

lindsay graham, trump guy now, and susan collins.was a surprise to a lot of people. >> it was a great speech. >> another fighter who deserves a lot of credit not only for the bret cavanagh situation but also for anthony schooley's seat is mitch mcconnell. >> absolutely two he has been critical where he needs to be, which is another thing that i personally love about the trump administration. you actually have a republican-controlled congress and a republican-controlled white house and they're not in lockstep together. they fight and they argue about things and that's what the founders intended but it's completely gone by the wayside. >> they say the secret to democracy is courage. we saw that in the last few weeks. >> you know there's unity in the republican party with steve bannon. >> that's right. that's a moment. i want to talk about the culture. what are the effects of the culture, the broader culture of how we live, patrick monahan, the guy who introduced me as one of my confirmations, i was confirm 90 - 6, that's pretty good. n

senators lindsay graham, john cornyn, orrin hatch, mike lee, ted cruz, ben sasse, jeff flake, mike crapo, thom tillis and john kennedy. [applause] >> thank you also to rob portman, sitting right here. thank you, rob portman. [applause] >> and finally we are indebted to senator susan collins, for her brave and eloquent speech and her declaration that when passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy. how true, how true. [applause] >> brett kavanaugh is a man of outstanding intellect, a brilliant scholar, and his credentials are unsurpassed. a graduate of both yale college and yale law school, he has taught at harvard, yale, and georgetown. when he's not working or with his family, he's giving back to his community. he spent 26 years in public service, and just like justice gorsuch, he clerked for justice kennedy. for the past 12 years, brett was a judge on the d.c. circuit court of appeals, widely regarded as our nation's second highest court. during his tenure, he authored over 300 opinions, distinguished by their masterful and impartial reasoning. known as a judge's judge, h

>> senator lindsay graham said over the weekend that the u.s.d end its relationship with the crown prince. >> i cannot do business with a current leadership, nbs, he's done to me. >> obviously this is one of the president's closest allies in the senate. quickly, what do you think the trump administration should do? >> that's not going to happen, from day one, this country has sacrificed values for relationships. we might censure or sanction the saudis, but ten years down the line, wie're still going to hav a relationship with him, you don't avoid it. >> you can see the rest of that interview with kushner on saturday right here on cnn at 7:00 p.m. >>> details of the possible trump administration plan that brought these protesters to the white house today. stay with us. up here at the dewar's distillery, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. it's the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. dewar's. double aged for extra smoothness. i was thinking...d clot could there be another around the corner? or could it turn out different

. >> lindsay graham is promisingro to investigate dianne fienstein it's office. >> i'm now going to call for an investigation about what happened in this committee, did prayed >> judge kavanagh denies the allegations. meantime dr. blasey ford's legal team told the "new york times" they have reached out to the fbi and are waiting for a response. >> cornel, thanks, after the invests was announced the senate -- the republicans need 51 votes to confirm if arizona senator jeff flake remains in support of kavanagh, there will be 48 pledged republicans. senators suzanne collins and lisa murkowski have said they are undecided. senator mike en . >>> california has become the first state to require that women be included on boards of directors. the law requires at least one female director on the board of companies the by the end of the next year. the companies would need three directors by the end of 2021. they'll be fined if they don't followthrough. brown issued legal concerns but said the law was necessary. brown has until midnight tonight to sign off on the remaining bill from the past legisl

lindsay graham, trump guy now, and susan collins.as a surprise to a lot of people. >> it was a great speech. >> another fighter who deserves a lot of credit not only for the bret cavanagh situation but also for anthony schooley's seat is mitch mcconnell. >> absolutely two he has been critical where he needs to be, which is another thing that i personally love about the trump administration. you actually have a republican-controlled congress and a republican-controlled white house and they're not in lockstep together. they fight and they argue about things and that's what the founders intended but it's completely gone by the wayside. >> they say the secret to democracy is courage. we saw that in the last few weeks. >> you know there's unity in the republican party with steve bannon. >> that's right. that's a moment. i want to talk about the culture. what are the effects of the culture, the broader culture of how we live, patrick monahan, the guy who introduced me as one of my confirmations, i was confirm 90 - 6, that's pretty good. ne

here is what lindsay graham says to me last week in terms of the senate. watch this congressman. >> well the house promises to impeach the president and kavanaugh and i think republican s are going to continue to try to hold the fbi and department of justice accountable for abuse of power. if i'm the chairman of the judiciary committee next year we hold the senate i promise you we're going to find out about the simpson fusion gps problem. i promise you we're going to get to the bottom of how they used a dossier prepared by foreign agent paid for by the democratic party to get a warrant against an american citizen. we're not going to turn our back on this. if i'm chairman we're going to get to the bottom of this and the only way for me to be chairman is for us to hold the senate. maria: so congressman, i mean, this feels like the biggest scandal of our time. are the american people going to understand what took place here and what are the prospects for the mid-term elections? do you have a plan b in terms of keeping this investigation going >> well i will t

would this be something lindsay graham suggesting he may introduce legislation. if so, how do you think you would vote on it? >> i would vote in favor of lindsay's legislation, he's doing something the president wants him to do. i think it's the right thing to do. and if there's a way to figure out how to do it, i tell you, lindsay is the guy that will word it in such a way that it should be something that can pass. we'll find out. the main thing, we want to make sure that we get, you got to get the wall built. that's the real key thing that the president has said over and over again. and the popularity of that, that notion, is very, very -- it sets up pretty high right now. and people, people say, charles, that building the wall, paying for the wall is a problem. it's not a problem. that's why introducing legislation today, that will address that. and will overcome that problem. and i feel very good about that. >> sir, defense secretary james mattis was asked about sending troops to the southern border and if it was, quote, a stunt. here's the exchange. >> is thi

bush, you have ted cruz, you have lindsay graham, susan collins, soap people who have at times had very terse words with president trumpal coming together. you have never-trumpers coming together to say this man belongs on the supreme court. it's bringing republicans together, a good thing. >> shannon: well, not everybody is happy about this. you know, juan, i'll let you weigh n i know how you feel about judge kavanaugh and the hearings. i want to read you something from lindsay graham, a big supporter of the judge, what he said about susan collins' speech. he said unlike most kavanaugh critics collins took the time to do her job. she read his opinions, she had indepth interviews, she listened to the accusers and applied a process of the rule of law versus the rule of the mob. juan? >> wow, the rule of the mob? first let me say i thought senator hirono was on target, all of our institutions including the congress are very low trust, getting very low approval from the american people and i think there's going to be damage to the supreme court. anything that judge kavanaugh touches, you w

here is what lindsay graham says to me last week in terms of the senate. watch this congressman. >> well the house promises to impeach the president and kavanaugh and i think republican s are going to continue to try to hold the fbi and department of justice accountable for abuse of power. if i'm the chairman of the judiciary committee next year we hold the senate i promise you we're going to find out about the simpson fusion gps problem. i promise you we're going to get to the bottom of how they used a dossier prepared by foreign agent paid for by the democratic party to get a warrant against an american citizen. we're not going to turn our back on this. if i'm chairman we're going to get to the bottom of this and the only way for me to be chairman is for us to hold the senate. maria: so congressman, i mean, this feels like the biggest scandal of our time. are the american people going to understand what took place here and what are the prospects for the mid-term elections? do you have a plan b in terms of keeping this investigation going >> well i will t

. >> reporter: the president's close ally lindsay graham defended judge kavanaugh, but not the president. >> i don't like what the president said last night. i'm the first person to say i wanted to hear from dr. ford. i thought she was handled respectfully. i thought kavanaugh was treated like crap. yeah, well, boo yourself. >> all right, mary bruce with us live from cop toll hill tonight and mary, the white house could learn of the fbi findings and those goes reports any time now. will those reports be sent to the senate judiciary committee? and will the public get a chance to see them? >> reporter: all 100 senators will have a chance to review these reports, and i've talked to members on both sides of the aisle who say they want some version of this to be made public. but republican leader mitch mcconnell has yet to agree with that, stressing that it's never been done before. david? >> mary bruce on the watch on capitol hill for us. mary, thank you. >>> now, to another developing story right now. what appears to be a major break in that ricin scare. suspicious envelopes, among them let

lindsay graham thing i thought was kind of interesting because. the the american intelligence community had other candidates and i think lindsey you know i think tucker carlson to the new and improved to lindsey graham these would be the cabin or hearings but now lindsay is back with his neo con ideas and i think that is it's not because of the tragedy in in this incident because something else clumsy exists that they're embarrassed by by now their relationship with saudi arabia and that's what's bothering them. more than the death of psyche i think they would be happy to see. and replaced with mohamed bin i-f. the former crown prince who was the kind of the cia's man in saudi arabia have been openly said that he wanted he wanted and got well you know jobs around and the boys have to do it you know what i'm going to do the man's name here but i think that if saudi or if the king sticks by his guns and refuses to remove his son then they will quietly be paypal that papered over i don't expect us supporting yemen to decrease i don't expect the u.s. o

>> yeah, i saw lindsay graham this morning.s going to sanction the hell out of them i think was the word he used. we have to be real careful how easily we toss that around. sanctions are a blunt instrument that rarely accomplish what we want. if we are looking for actual leverage to actually promote american interests, we need to take a look at our support for saudi arabia in the yemen war, because that does nothing for our interests and frankly doesn't even prevent iran from doing anything because there are so many poor people there and it's just not affecting our interests. i think that's the place we should look to put a little leverage. neil: i just wonder, you know this region so much better than i. i wonder whether they are just playing us. that is, that they feel in the end the united states won't turn their backs on us, they need us a lot, they need us for the stability we can help provide or the cover we can provide in the middle east. they don't have too many friends, that is the united states, in this region. we can

when you look at what happened, susan collins and lindsay graham , two of the most moderate senatorsually exploded in anger over the democratic tactics, they were after all the targets for all of these tactics , the idea was to win over republican moderates and instead, they condemned the democratic tactics, go through the facts, and in fact, i think that it particularly lindsay graham quite angry about the whole thing and they represent moderate voters generally in the country and you know, with all of the noise done on the left and the right, never forget that it's the moderate voters who actually will decide things and why there could well be some backfire here in this strategy compared to having been a responsible, opposition. it would have come out probably the same, maybe those votes, lindsay graham, and susan collins would have switched. flake could well have switched but in this atmosphere, they held firm. neil: you know, we'll never know what we do know is that it's a nasty environment. everyone is talking about the judge's tellerment when he returned to testify after all th

are already doubting the explanation put out by the saudis here's what were public and center lindsay graham tweeted to say that i'm skeptical of the new saudi narrative about mr bush is an understatement we're told mr supposedly left the consulate and there was a blanket denial of any saudi involvement now a fight breaks out in these kill.

senator lindsay graham tweeted: "to say that i'm sceptical of the new saudi narrative about mr khashoggi is an understatement." many believe that this killing could only have happened with the permission of this man, the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman. and critics will see the saudi explanation as an attempt to shield them from any blame. there is now no dispute that jamal khashoggi died after going into the saudi consulate behind me, but how he was killed and who is ultimately responsible still hasn't been answered. when the turkish police release their report, they may well see things very different from the saudis. martin patience, bbc news, istanbul. a man's appeared at newcastle crown court charged with making false claims of child sexual abuse and murder against establishment figures. prosecutors say the defendant, who is not being named for legal reasons and is known publically as "nick", falsely told police he was abused as a child in the 1970s and 1980s by senior people in public life. they say he also falsely claimed he witnessed the murders of three young boys. two sp

you see of displeasure from people like lindsay graham, who is higuty concerned a this, particularlyen the explanation coming from the saudis tonight. you have thede pre -- he just said today in arizona, he wants congress to be heavily involved in whatever this sort of nebulous, severe punishment against the saudis he may impose. but he's also potentially opening the door to sanctions, although our reporting is that is maybe unlikely here. there's also another administration figure w plays into this. that's treasury secretary steven mnuchin. he may have cancelled that trip and he did.e shington post reports he is still going. and i'm told by a senior white is becauseial, tha it relates to counterterrorism. that's where the center is. that's wheret happens be. he's got to go. dt what signal -- the question is, what signals its send to the saudis if a top cabinet member n t hours and days after this news comes out, ends up taking this trip? >> so that's a great point. you've got the secretary of t treasury saying, abby, that he was not going to go to the conference but he's still going

well i agree i think he did a wonderful job and so did lindsay graham in defending him of course someone is going to be angry when they've been accused of things that are false and so if you go in with the assumption that she's telling the truth we're going to have one attitude about his reaction but if you think in the end he's innocent of these charges of course he's going to be outrage and i too was really please i think it's absurd to think that all of the change in the tone of our discourse has been due to donald trump i think he's the reaction to this letter has been out of control for really almost twenty years now the attacks on george w. bush were outrageous comparing him to hitler and so forth. i think there was a huge amount of real nastiness there coming from the left exclusively and it wasn't until trump's candidacy that someone on the right started punching back so i think trump is the response to all of this he's not the cause and gavin again going flipping through the. the channel c.n.n. emmis n.b.c. as this whole ford story collapses they don't seem particularly interest

of course establishment figures such as lindsay graham and mcconnell, none of those guys wanted trump to be the nominee. they've all really stepped up helping to push kavanaugh over the confirmation finish line. maybe they are closer, all of them come up to recognizing that the time is up on the old g.o.p. and it trump's policies are actually bearing fruit. all the excitement is with trump, let's face it. all the momentum is with his ideas. there is too much on the line for intraparty squabbles any longer. the choice for voters is now really simple. mob rule, or the rule of law. perpetual rage, or real results? demonization, or due process? as an example, this is what the anti-trump rage machine was up to over the weekend. protesters in portland blocked a major thoroughfare causing needless disruptions. when a driver dared to push through the blockade, this was the reaction of these open-minded and tolerant leftists. [screaming and yelling] >> laura: it's like a scene from homeland or something from benghazi. the far left, let's face it, is now running the democratic asylum. >> presid

senator lindsay graham tweeted: many believe that this killing could only have happened with the permission, the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman. and critics will see the saudi explanation as an attempt to shield them from any blame. there is now no dispute that jamal khashoggi died after going into the saudi consulate behind me, but how he was killed and who is ultimately responsible still hasn't been answered. when the turkish police release their report, we may well see things very different from the saudis. martin patience, bbc news, istanbul. i'm joined now by marco vicenzino, director of the global strategy project. he's a global affairs analyst. good afternoon. what do you make of what the saudis are now saying about what the saudis are now saying about what happens? this is the single disc diplomatic rightists that saudi arabia has faced since 911 when saudi citizens attacked the us. the difference here is it seems to be emanating from the top of the saudi monarchy and they have been in crisis defence mode in the last few weeks but they seem now to have settled on a strategy

senator lindsay graham tweeted: many believe that this killing could only have happened with the permission man, the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman. and critics will see the saudi explanation as an attempt to shield them from any blame. there is now no dispute that jamal khashoggi died after going into the saudi consulate behind me, but how he was killed and who is ultimately responsible still hasn't been answered. when the turkish police release their report, we may well see things very different from the saudis. martin patience, bbc news, istanbul. i'm joined now by our turkey correspondent mark lowen. where does this take us in terms of what the saudis are saying now compared to what they said before? it isa compared to what they said before? it is a radical change of story. for i7 it is a radical change of story. for 17 days they were saying that nothing happened inside the consulate, initially he said that he left the consulate building —— they said that he left the consulate building. the saudi media said this was a building. the saudi media said this wasa campaign building.

in a tweet-- republican senator lindsay graham responded saying quote "to say that i am skeptical of the new saudi narrative about mr. khashoggi is an understatement."several investigations are still underway-- but some u-s lawmakers say the evidence is clear. sen. chris van hollen, (d) maryland: "our intelligence agencies are increasingly confident that the crown prince himself culpable here" (jrs) that was kim hutcherson reporting. the saudi government has denied the crown prince's involvement. and they have not said where khashoggi's body is located. (j.r.) if you are headed to or from solano county tonight or tomorrow night plan for backups like you see here. there is a repavement project going on and crews have section of the interstate down to one lane at times in both the westbound and eastbound directions. this is all happening just east of the carquinez bridge and is part of a major state project. this is what it looked like late friday night. there were major delays coming into the east bay. the same work will continue through the weekend. the project is expected to take at

when lindsay graham was shouting he was talking about process, but he has to be talking about professor's ford credibility. now you have the president saying she's not credible, and you had chuck grassley with the letter questioning the veracity of some of the things professor ford says. it seems politically now what you are getting from republicans is a much more direct attack in these waning days before the vote about just what professor ford is saying in saying she's not credible. >> i think you can't reconcile that ford and kavanaugh said two different things. ford said it was kavanaugh that assaulted her at that house party in the early 1980s, and kavanaugh said 100% it was not me, and both stories cannot be true. in addition to dr. ford, senate republicans have really escalated their attacks again on some of the other accusers that have come forward. there was an extraordinary release from the senate judiciary committee last night that released details about swetnick, and in the final days of the kavanaugh nomination we are expecting mitch mcconnell to take procedural steps later to

this way, look, the much maligned established wing of the republican party, mitch mcconnell, lindsay grahamve it or not george h. w. bush and george w. bush really stood the line and they are the ones that sort of willed this through along with the president. let me say something about when it comes to judges. and president trump knows this. it is the one issue within the republican party that unites all wings. when we are talking about federal judges and we are talking about president trump having the fastest record, the best record within two years of appointing two supreme court justice and 26 federal appellate court justices that is something that all republicans can get behind. that's why when he's talking about judges, he's winning. charles: can this newfound, you know, g.o.p. unity last? >> i hope it does continue because our country really does need to come together. we're so polarized and so divided right now. so perhaps this could be the beginning of something to continue. i do agree with ford, we will see what happens. charles: we will see what happens. of course there are a lot

that's advocating leadership formerly known as the free world and it leads to a country -- >> lindsay grahams there will be hell to pay. >> something tells me you don't have great confidence on that? >> what is he going to do? walk slower on the 8th tee? what can they do? >> what the senate can do is invoke an act, and the president has 120 days to investigate this. this is exactly why the ma anyone 63 act was put in place. it can compel sanctions. there's a long walk and as you know the president and other politicians bet on short attention spans. >> there's been brett kavanaugh and hurricane michael, that we have lost the thread of where everybody is with the mueller investigation. now the latest development we just learned is president trump's lawyers are preparing answers to mueller's questions, written answers, i assume. what do we know about where robert mueller is? >> on one level i think what this suggests is mueller has decided not to press forward with what could become a full-blown constitutional and legal confrontation with the white house to demand something more than merely wri

republican senator from south carolina lindsay graham joins us to weigh in. you are busy. >> good to help a nice man like brett kavanaugh get on the supreme court. >> democrats don't think he is so nice. this started on twitter is so many fights in washington do. from the senate judiciary committee yesterday, nowhere in any of these reports referring to the previous background checks the committee has reviewed on a bipartisan basis was there ever a with of any issue at all related in any way to inappropriate sexual behavior or alcohol abuse but dick durbin's is this is not accurate, he sent a letter, the democrats on the committee didn't sign it. the senate judiciary committee tweets back nothing is inaccurate or misleading, the committee standbys statement which is truthful. more baseless innuendo. what are they referring to? >> no idea what durbin is referring to but i can tell you the facts. brett cavanagh was nominated in 2006, has been on the court for 12 years. there have been 6 background checks because he works for president bush as his secretary, not

senator lindsay graham was asked what would happen. he pulled a page from mcconnell's playbook and said let the voters have a say. >> i would renominate him and i would take this case to the american people and ask voters in indiana and missouri and north dakota and other places where trump won saying who he would nominate if he got to be president. saying if voters want to appeal the verdict of the senator. >> even if the fbi comes up with nothing new on kavanaugh, republican john kennedy of louisiana believes every senate democrat will still oppose him. he is making the point as only he can. >> if you think this is a search for the truth, you should put down the bong. it's not a search for the truth. democratic colleagues have accused judge kavanaugh of being a rich drunk, lying sexual predator. and the six fbi investigations that he's been through did not support that. >> senator kennedy has a way with words. he's been accused of many things, but the president got a laugh in the rose garden after sharing he does not have the love of

if anyone had told me a month ago that i would be praising lindsay graham and mitch mcconnell and susanu were crazy, but that's the other magnificent thing that occurred. hopefully with people having an open mind, this shift has actually happened and people that we may be necessarily didn't trust came through because whatever it is that president trump has engendered in everyone, it was there. i also would like the fact that we did come together. george w. bush, condoleezza rice calling on justice kavanaugh's behalf, the fact that trump was there for him, imagine what we can do if we come together. if the gop establishment can put down its fist and actually find this framework of how we can move this reformation forward, it would be a magnificent reformation that will move through the next generation. we will have a bit of that, susan collins will disappoint us again, but let me tell you, all of us are going to be for these three people no matter what it is they do with whatever it is they need. >> but when it mattered, she didn't unbelievably courageous thing. she knew planned parentho

lindsay graham said it the other day. the senate majority leader mcconnell when we talked with him a few hours ago said the same thing. this has unified republicans in a way that democrats -- or that republicans themselves really couldn't have done. we think about so called never trumpers, brett stevens who writes for the new york times and he describes hymn -- describe himself that way. he said i'm grateful because trump has not backed down in the face of slipperiness hypocrisy. doug to you first, how long does that unification stick? >> well, i think that's a good question. it's how long the unification stings but also will 30 days from now people be voting on the kavanugh confirmation. i had felt for the republicans it actually would have been politically better, electorally if kavanugh was not confirmed, but we will see. certainly david is not wrong to say that there are signs of momentum for republicans in the four states he mentioned and others. but again we're talking about races, shannon, that are within the margi

those are guidelines of preference, those are not binding rules, but it's the gold standard as lindsay graham said, of a evaluation of judicial candidates. and there's also yelling you have ever blacked out. >> you don't think rginsberg asked if you ever blackout? >> that's a larger culture -- >> can you imagine john roberts yelling at sitting senators? >> remember, sotomayor was really pressed, was she a racist? serious and ugly questions, and her response was quite different. >> i know you are mad about me and laughing -- >> i love the opportunity to point out wet blanketness. >> i should have done what you wanted me to do, as always is the case, however i will know what cut through was the kavanaugh yelling part, what cut through on the soccer fields and the places i was at this weekend are people saying even if they think perhaps a sexual assault was not proved in that hearing, they felt -- people told me i am not sure brett kavanaugh was telling the truth overall about other things. there are really two separate issues right now, if the fbi is going to investigate the issue of sexual ass

. >> laura: lindsay graham was on last night and talked about the need for repercussions against the wrong doers, let's watch. >> i believe dianne feinstein didn't leak it but i don't know about her staff. her staff recommended to ms. katz, activist leftist lawyer, recommended to ford. >> laura: why not secure the e-mails and texts -- >> we're going after them. here's what i'm going to do. anybody who did this, is going to pay a price. >> laura: will they pay a price i think it will be vet investigated. but -- investigated. but it didn't work. the most important thing to note, these tactics didn't work. >> laura: people need to pay, you don't want to go through this again. >> we're prepared to go through it again, they aren't going to intimidate us and tell us how to vote. they helped us win this vote. their tactics actually helped us unify our people and win this vote. they're going to help us win a month from now on november 6, too. >> laura: do you think you'll pick up senate seats? >> i hope so. this underscores how important it is. we have a close margin. very close margin. i'd

winners griff, what do you think >> griff: winners, susan collin , mitch mcconnell, lindsay graham ander] pete: i would do reverse order exactly, trump, graham, collins showed up at the last minute and you have to give chuck grassley his due, he gives a ton of credit. rachel: i might add rachel mitchell there was a lot of criticism of her but i think in the end her slow, deliberate process showed. pete: the report that came out that no one wanted to report on was also very powerful. rachel: absolutely so here are the losers, the protesters, the protesters, dianne feinstein, and michael avanati, who by the way on the internet, is actually people are saying that maybe he was a double act that he was actually helping the republicans griff: maybe. pete: feinstein, you brought it up i'll steal it from you corey booker, that's going to come back but the whole mob mentality the rule of law was a winner, a mean a loser and winner was ultimately of the process. griff: adding one more winner and that is senator cassidy who just moments ago held out senator booker. rachel: one more loser george s

lindsay graham, the senator from south carolina, said, and i quote, we should sanction the hell out of the saudis. >> right. well, if you want to go ahead and do that, then you can put some of our weapons contracts on the line, you can put oil on the line, you can potentially have the unravelling of global oil markets. these are things that i'm not sure the united states is prepared to do. not even a very angry bipartisan congress. again, i think the trick here is to find a way of punishing saudi arabia that's meaningful but not in a way that's going to come back and hit us in the face. liz: well, they can threaten to weaponize oil, but we just hit a record when it comes to domestic production, 11.2 million barrels a day of output. that's certainly encouraging, is it not? we still import 800,000 barrels a day of saudi oil. the more we change the balance here, the better it is. we don't want to continue to be dependent entirely on fossil fuels, even if we find them here. >> that's right. i think, look, if people are really looking to break this relationship, and i'm not sure that's a gr