lindsey graham with us. lindsay, good to have you with us. >> lindsey: thank you.ou. >> neil: you are talking, i think on pbs and face the nation about, we just got to accept the pain that comes to standing up to china. we've got to get it right. i think you were saying, the greater good is keeping up the fight. but i don't know if a lot of americans know that they are going to soon be feeling that. do they? >> lindsey: i think the president knows that if you surrender to china's bidding, it would devastate our economy and the world economy over time. the price is standing up to china. i think it's a lot less than just giving into china. the tariffs are a tool. nobody likes this policy, but i don't see how you can make china change their behavior until there is a consequence to look at what they are doing. that's why we have the tariffs. >> neil: the president says that he loves tariffs. he's gotten over $30 billion because of those tariffs. what you think of that? >> lindsey: tariffs are generating revenue. he used sharing some of that money without farmers that h

we'll be hearing tonight from senator lindsey graham as well as the governor henry mcmaster and acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. we'll have live coverage of their remarks when the event begins. until then, we'll take a look at some of the democratic candidate joe biden he campaigned in detroit yesterday meeting with voters at a restaurant there. and he spoke to reporters. here's a look. cheers and applause] [laughter] crowd chatter] >> how are you, sir? pleasure to meet you. great job last night. absolutely. >> how old are you? >> 16. >> 16? -- read an article about >> i'm going home. >> my daughter. >> how are you? good to see you. >> my house, mom's rules. [laughter] >> thank you. >> hi. > hi, how are you? crowd chatter] >> all right. you hear that, mr. mayor? >> i'm in. trust me. i've got your back. > no wonder you won. >> good for you. > yes. [laughter] >> where did you go? [laughter] >> oh, yeah. >> yeah, i did. god love you. ow are things going? crowd chatter] crowd chatter] crowd chatter] >> hey, guys, once you sit down we're going to give a shot to look that way

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back to lenore and lindsey. you heard edward's report. i'm wondering if august, not a great month for stocks anyway, will be a worse month with this what if on the table as we wait for more news how negotiations progress? >> i definitely think august will be news driven. the headlines can swing the market either way. i think that for president trump, one of the biggest mistakes he made was first of all, in march, when he eliminated the deadline, the trade deadline for tariffs to increase to 25% in march. he let that weigh on until may. it made the chinese seem that they didn't have a sense of your again system you saw him flip-flop with huawei. huawei is the biggest chip. it would be better incentive in the negotiation than 10% of tariffs on $300 billion that would hit our consumer. he can really strike hard with huawei. jackie: we'll go straight to breaking news. president trump speaking to reporters on the white house lawn moments ago. let's listen. reporter: [inaudible]. >> i'm not concerned about that at all. i expect a little bit, pe

lindsey graham, fired up over cnn's hiring of andrew mccain. straight ahead. let's see, aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol extra strength. and last longer with fewer pills. so why am i still thinking about this? i'll take aleve. aleve. proven better on pain. ♪ >> sean: all right. just this week, we learned that prosecutors are nearing a decision as to whether the charges of mckay. but that didn't stop them from hiring him. what we expect coming out tomorrow or very soon. lindsey graham, senator good to see you. first, on the hiring. wasn't he fired? >> well, i told you before that compared to the coverage cnn gave the mueller report i've got some good friends at cnn who try to be good journalists. but here's what happens, sean. cnn has just hired the alleged architect against the trump campaign. how much time and attention do you think they are going to give to the harward report? >> sean: we have and are expecting different aspects of this to roll out. first will be the comey report. i expected to be around 65 pages. some of my sources are suggesting

not the president. >> jeremy bash, lindsey graham has the ability. he has the ability to pursue this. what would that look like? these questions he's raising. these names he's raising. if he is going to have an investigation like this, what would it look like? >> they want president obama to speak under oath but they were fine when president trump did not speak under oath to bob mueller. i don't understand that. putting that aside, the issue that the senator is raising, whether or not the orange investigation was predicated, whether or not there was a factual basis to believe that number one, russia was seeking to interfere in the election and number two, whether or not there were any individuals associated with a presidential campaign who somehow knew about it or benefiting from it or somehow welcomed it. and i think we now know from the bob mueller investigation that in fact, we do know that russia did interfere. that it was of benefit to the trump campaign. and that it was welcomed. in some important respects, it has been rewarded. so i think the

we continue now with congressman jim jordan and senator lindsey graham.im, g that in the house, jerry nadler and adam schiff, adam schiff, by the way, is a guy that we actually have on tape colluding with russians trying to get dirb on donald trump. we have the tape! so ironic. but we will put that aside. now the question is, now that we know this all happened, now that we know that steele, the liar, the leaker, had a conduit, bruce ohr, now we know that conduit even went as far as to trying to feed special counsel mueller's team more dirt, now the question is, what laws are we talking about likelyor broken here? jim? >> well, bill barr will get to the bottom of it. he said that three months ago. he said there was a failure of leadership at the upper echelon of the fbi. we know that's the case but we also know now that the head of the doj, the top of the doj was bruce ohr. he said spying took place. there is a basis for his concern. he use the term political surveillance and the term unauthorized surveillance. i think the big irony here, and what drives a

there's one prominent example you've surely seen, lindsey graham. >> i think he's a kook.s crazy. i think he's unfit for office. >> i am like at happiest dude in america right now. we've got a president and a national security team that i've been dreaming of. i am all in, keep it up donald. >> that doesn't add up. you can't be happy about a "the crazy kook" being president. graham works with trump a lot these days. . other republicans have gone further from running against him to working for him. >> donald trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, a toxic mix of demagoguery and mean spiritedness and nonsense. >> my hat's off to the for taking that sand and for sending a clear message around the world. >> then there's the former trump critic at the white hot center of this white house occupying a hub of trump chaos, the same position filled and vacated by reince priebus and john kelly. i'm talking about acting chief of staff mick mull mulvaney. >> yes, i'm supporting donald trump. i'm doing so as enthusiastically as i can given the fact he's a terrible human being. the

frank, i want to get your reaction to what we just played from lindsey graham there. he's basically saying this counterintelligence probe launched in the summer of 2016 about potential ties between folks in the trump campaign and russia. he's saying that had to have president obama's knowledge and apparently signoff. what's your reaction to that? >> so -- so he also said that the whole point, quote, of a counterintelligence investigation is to protect people. it's to protect the united states is what the point of a counterintelligence investigation is, not to protect the president, and so would a counterintelligence investigation involving russian meddling and interference with a presidential campaign get briefed to the white house? you bet. you bet. and guess what? all of it played out in the indictments of a couple of dozen russian operatives, including russian intelligence officers, who did mess with our election process. so i'm all for interviewing barack obama and my guess is he'll say i was briefed that the russians were trying to interfere with this election. n

congressman john ratcliffe said after labor day, and new lindsey graham adding his voice on the chorussee. stephan held -- helper, argue that government agencies have qualified immunity. to bring down the trump administration. so is he in is he not? a government agent? >> joining us tonight, hills john solomon, leading investigative report or these stories and efforts to over throw the president, great to have you here. >> good to be here. lou: start with the inspector general report, can you give us some guidance that would clear up what this cacophony of misinformation? >> yeah, feels like the thunderstorm that never arrived. there is a real the reason for the delay that is we found through foye -- foyea process in may, the new document at state department, ig was not aware of these contact between steale and catalina at state department, and conveying of information to senior fbi officials, include be one who oversees counter intelligence division. that lead to a new round of questioning, to interview of christopher steele, i think now, barring any new disclosures, t theig is on cou

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is heading this appropriately sumac on immigration you prefer a more comprehensive approach that lindseygraham would like that to become a part of appropriations but you would reject that quick. >> i am against lindsey graham's bill for i cannot imagine the house accepting any appropriations process with that bill. and he knows that. back in 2013 he took a lot of political grief and showed a lot of courage, the last major bipartisan approach of immigration and the most comprehensive and would've been the most successful. that is the answer. [inaudible] >> i never expressed concern. >> i don't know the details but at the hearing this reminds me of general flint when i saw him on tv in front of people to say lock her up. and should be acting the way he did miss is about war and peace. if we don't have the dni speaking truth to power. and in a much more dangerous world. and with that bleak picture of the senate right now but what if you put on that campaign hat? >>. >> but they are not the traditional politician the majority of the candidates are women and many have unique backgrounds many

>> >> lindsey graham, he is spot on. proponent for getting to the bottom of this. i am with him. house judiciary committee chairman nadler is certainly not going to investigate this. she too busy try -- he is too busy trying to under mine president trump. elizabeth: russian meddling wrong. this is about using u.s. intelligence community sources and assets to spy on a opposition campaign. the president said last year, he would order the release of classified documents. what documents would you like to see? we hear an october 2016 fbi e-mail chain, that may indicate that steele was a weak, not really credible source. >> i would like to see almost all of the documents unclassified. so the american people, including myself, can read what happened. and how was president obama involved? how were the clintons involved? after two years after foing after donald trump. -- going after donald trump, we now get the rest was story, a lot of things seem suspicious to me. i am looking forward to the inspecinspector general's repord ag b

. >>> rachel and lindsey, will you be my wife forever.and brian engaged. >> some people doubt these shows work, but they do. >> we talked about that. we talked about a lot. >> and the golf cart. >> riding around the universal back lot with rachel lindsey. >> i'll be the driver. scott evans picking up a friend of mine. she's beautiful, talented, smart. she's an attorney. she's the first black bachelorette engaged, said to be maried in a couple e coming? >> what up, girl? i was like, no, you're stuck with me. we go. are you going to d wantede alre. it's looking big. >> how are y

south carolina senator lindsey graham. senator, i think we are beginning now the painting the pictures filling in with the corroboration, not that we needed it, we haven't been long here. we've been way out of the car of the to great reporting of people we have on the show tonight and many others that are a mention. but these are questions now that your committee will be dealing with. to get to the bottom of it. take this news and tell us how you would interpret it. >> this is the tip of the iceberg. i know personally there's a lot more out there and the word that keeps coming up his bias. the people investigating clinton wanted her to win and trying to lose. the people who started the investigation against president trump wanted him to lose and heard a win. the chief source of the faisal warrants was mr. steele who hated trump's got so there a common theme here that the investigation of trump was very biased and the fact that mccabe has sued is very interesting to me. it gives me a chance as the chairman of the committee

who wins this fight, lindsey graham or mitch mcconnell?leader, although with lindsey graham these days you never know who he's going to side with, and i think it would be an epic battle, which is why i believe that ruth bader ginsburg is going to remain on that court. she knows what would occur. >> could you create a youtube channel with all the things lindsey graham said about the president before he was president and now he says the exact opposite. so i'm a little bit skeptical that he would continue to say we're not going to fill the vacancy, should there be a vacancy this or next year. so mitch mcconnell has known one speed when it comes to judicial nominations and that's fast. he has completely reshaped the judiciary from his perch, and he looks at it as much of a legacy issue as president trump. so there's no reason to think why they would stop, and he doesn't care if he looks hypocritical because of what happened with merritt garland. that's not his concern. >> david, traditionally republican voters have been more motivated than dem

lindsey graham will be advising general barr. sara carter sara carter, best-selling author of the witch hunt. the story of the greatest mass illusion in political history. sarah, we'll start with you. everything we've talked about. he also said he's going to get to the bottom of hillary clinton and her rigged investigation. but look at these items. christopher steele's. the 53 intel interviews. it's right up there on the screen. >> sara: joseph and all of the other people that were connected. sean, we've only seen, and john is right. i think there are 20 or 30 that we are going to be seen here. remember, the investigation. a lot of it is classified. people have not had leaks coming out of his office, because the thing is is that almost every document that has arrived to his office is highly classified. the information that is actually come out, sean, has been really just the tip of the iceberg. in fact, i was talking to john solomon about it today. we were saying that roughly 30%, maybe is what we know. the rest of it, 70%-75% is

listen to lindsey graham's language carefully. blumenthal and graham, senators both, what a federal grant system to assist the state. so as not a federal law, they are trying to encourage or states -- 17 now, and d.c. -- that have them. >> lisa: as long as it doesn't usurp the judicial review, you might see this bipartisan effort on red flag laws. we saw the week of parkland 12 states take action on red flag laws, including five states with republican governors. so i do think this is the point of agreement. i think it's illogical to try and place mass shootings are the feet of president trump. even according to the shooter himself, his positions on immigrants predated president trump's term and office. he also had weird positions on climate change, believing we need to have less people on earth. then you also look at the fact that the deaton shooter has such different --dash is so differently ideologically-driven. if the reports on his twitter activity were true, things like that. i think we need to as a country figure out why we

your colleague in south carolina lindsey graham betweened this morning he is now in favor of so-called red flag laws. do you have any anticipation senator scott that will occur, the senate will be called back this august and any legislative efforts will be undertaken whether assault weapons ban, background checks or red flag laws or should they be? >> garrett, that's a great question and i don't have a clear answer for that. it is something i will be happy to do and happily come back to washington to have a conversation about gun violence. >> garrett: right now? >> and do it in a very thorough way. i would leave together. i will go tomorrow. it doesn't matter to me this is such an important issue and issue that we sometimes only get part o part of the picture becae of the mass shootings. i heard one of your guests earlier talk about the fact we had nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths in this country. that is staggering number and when you delve into the numbers what you find is that 65 to 67 percent of those murders were self-inflicted. they were suicides. when you look at the 250 plus ma

i give you the biggest headache on the senate judiciary committee, senator lindsey graham. [applause] senator graham: thank y'all. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] thank you all very much. thank you. all of you must want to be a judge. thank you very, very much. it's been a hell of a week. i'm glad to be home. you're the most normal people i've met in six months. thank you for coming tonight. so thanks. how about a round of applause for our party chairman? [applause] i'm having the most fun i've had in politics because when with president trump anything and everything is possible. i'll let you fill in the blank. from a republican point of view, don't you think we have a lot to be grateful and thankful for? well, the first group i want to thank is the democratic party. if it weren't for them, we wouldn't be doing so well. so i may be wrong, but i don't think this is going to work. here's the deal. you lose your health care. and we give it to an illegal immigrant. i don't think that's going to work. can you believe they're saying this stuff? we're going to decrimina

lindsey graham is heading it up. we'll see what happens. >> [question inaudible] >> i'll always help our farmers. our farmers were targeted by china. our farmers, they're great patriots. i'll always help our farmers. there will be a big time when the biggest beneficiary of what we're doing with china, you're seeing it with the e.u. they couldn't do the cattle things at all. beef. they couldn't do it at all. now all of a sudden this came out of nowhere. our farmers will be the biggest beneficiaries. they know that. they're great patriots. >> [question inaudible] no, what happens is china devalues their currency and china is pouring money out. that will pay for the tariffs. it's a total misnomer. i don't say that with all countries. but with china, they're very highly sophisticated. so are we. more than anybody would understand. all you have to do is ask china. ask china. but let me just explain. so china is devaluing their currency. they're also pouring money in. their currency is going to hell. but they're pouring mo

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including lindsey or anybody else. lindsey is a part of my family. he's a good friend.be critical of lindsey. >> before you go, a little straight talk, we're going into another presidential campaign, you have seen not one but two presidential campaigns up very, very close. what's your advice to the candidates? >> oh, gosh. my advice is to not listen to the naysayers. don't let the naysayers get you down. do the right thing. you know, speak your mind. speak your heart but be civil about it. i think also enjoy it. never forget your sense of humor. you know, if you don't have a sense of humor you're not going to survive it, quite frankly. >> you're not going to endorse any candidates? >> no. i just want to watch the process. if i participate it will be on the part of encouraging civility and encouraging people to talk to one another. >> and you have said not long ago that you wouldn't be surprised to see a mccain or two get into politics? any update on that? >> well, i have several that are interested. we'll see what happens on that. we encouraged all of our kids to get in

lindsey graham has teamed up with richard blumenthal.ecticut was the first state to have these orders in place, this is something that you will see both happen. maria: you would think both sides will get together on something like. dagen: they have complicated. i encourage people to read about them. they are complicated, if you get some sort of standard, lindsey graham and blumenthal are not talking about red flag law. maria: quick break, we want to take a look at earnings in markets this morning, quick break, taking on big tech, president trump slams google over alleged political bias, what he said and what he wants done, straight ahead on that, spacex success, 3 years after the first exploded, back in a minute. stay with us. kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. most people think a button is just a button. ♪ that a speaker is just a speaker. ♪ or - that the journey can't be the destination. most people haven't driven a lincoln. discover

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schumer: i am against lindsey graham's bill. i can't imagine the house accepting any appropriations process with that bill in it. let's go comprehensive. lindsay knows that too. lindsey graham in 2013 took a lot of political grief and showed a lot of courage in putting together a bi -- it is interesting, it was the last major bipartisan approach on immigration, it was the most comprehensive, and it would have been the most successful. let's go back to it. that is the answer. reporter: i would like to ask ratcliffe d for dni, there are concerns that he patted his resume. do you think that disqualifies him? sen. schumer: i don't know the details about the padding of the resume. when i saw this man at the hearing, i said this reminds me of general flynn when i saw him on tv before a mass of people saying, "lock her up!" i said something's wrong here. , a three-star general or a congressman, a leader of the intelligence committee, should not be acting the way he is. he strikes me as extremely unqualified in every way. you know, this

speakers include lindsey graham, henry mcmaster and mick mulvaney. this is just over an hour. >> all right. well, welcome again y'all continue to eat. welcome to the 52nd silver elephant gala event. thank you for being here. we want to dedicate this event to you. i wanted to get just a few comments and talk about the party, and you know, obviously, you are here tonight because this stuff matters. we're all engaged and involved in this business of politics in some capacity or another because we care about various principles. we all share some common core conservative principles. many may car more about one issue than the other. but we've got a solid con serve active platform and we're in this because we know that politics matter when it comes to policy. ronald reagan said that personnel is policy. the type of people that we hire are the type of policys that we're going to have. and if that's the case that means that elections are about personnel. and election matters. and if elections matter, well, that means that our party matters. your being involve

dagen: which is something lindsey pointed out.erest rates that caused the inversion and this is the reverse of that. that gives you some solace here. >> it seems like the market's driving -- the yields are driving the fed, how does the fed right the ship. economic data in the u.s. is very good. even if it's worse overseas, it's not -- nothing is falling off a cliff yet. >> fed funds are two and a quarter. forward inflation expectations are 150. you do the math. that tells you the market tells you the fed is 75 basis points or three cuts or maybe two, if they use 50 basis points, too high. in the simple math terminology. the market thinks rates should be 75 basis points below where they are in fed funds and fed funds is the highest global rate on the board right now. dagen: i always say this. think about it. it costs more to borrow overnight than it does for the federal government to borrow annually over 30 years. that's how -- >> you know that well. that's a large banking org. any. dagen:organization. dagen: it turns the world ups

senator lindsey graham will be advising the attorney general barr on the rollout of the russia-trumpreaction, fox news contributor sara carter, best-selling author of now the second and what of the series "witch hunt: the story of the greatest mass delusion in american political history" fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. sara, let's start with you. we'll put up john's ten items come everything you talked about. he also said he will get to the bottom of hillary clinton and her rigged investigation. the items, christopher steele's human source reports, 53 intel interviews, stephan helper documents. it's right up there on thehe screenen. >> joseph misfud, all of the other people that were connected. sean, we've only seen -- and john is right. i think there is 20 or 30. that we are going to see. remember, horwitz's investigation, a lot of it is classified, i've spoken to sources who know horowitz, people have not had leaks from out of his office because the thing is, almost every document that has arrived to his office is highly classified. what we've seen over the last two and half

neil: let me bounce that off lindsey. the latest, last week at this time we were running at 6.5% clip earnings year over year, and now i think it's around 2.5, maybe 2.7%. i'm sure after today it contracts a little more with more earnings announcements but who knows. but they're still expecting when all is said and done a contracting quarter which was the betting going on. what do you think? >> it depends whose numbers you're looking at. for the third quarter, we are looking for a contraction, i think it will be probably about but i think more importantly, to charlie's point, when you think about 2020, you are looking at almost 12% earnings growth. that's assuming that we get past all of these tariffs. and things return to a normalized environment. that's the big risk. neil: that's the bets are off at that, right? >> well, again, i just go back to the various different sectors because if are you looking at it as a whole, earnings growth as a whole, that's very important but if you focus on specific companies like microsof

the president and -- i wouldn't call lindsey graham. >> i wouldn't call lindsey graham either. even though his rhetoric talks in favor of the demonstrators, it's falling on nancy pelosi. she said she's willing to put forward legislation that would sanction chinese officials cracking down on hong kong. the question is what impact is that going to be? i think if you look at a case such as russia, there were officials around president trump that gave him some sanctions on ukraine, other issues. president trump didn't dispute it. he let it go ahead. i think if officials were brave enough to bring something to president trump, he wouldn't say no. but again with the absence of some kind of presidential declaration, warning against china in support of hong kong, i think it's going to fall on congress and the question is what impact is it going have? >> you want to try to answer that, what impact, sflik. >> it's going to have a negative impact. he's giving them a pass to protesters in hong kong. that's the reality of it. >>> when we come back, one of the democratic party's rising stars

graham -- [inaudible] >> well, i guess that means lindsey is a tough man, okay, what else?continue selling -- [inaudible] >> no, that was reported and actually it's the opposite, hauwei, hauwei is a company we may not do business with at all and it was sort of reported i think the opposite today, i was surprised. we are actually open not to doing business with them today, i don't know who gave the report. now they have little sections of hauwei like furniture and other things that we could do but when you cut out sections it gets complicated, what is being sold, what's coming in so at this moment it looks like we are not going to do business, i don't want to do business at all because it is a national security threat and i really believe that the media has covered it differently than that, we are really looking not to do business with hauwei and we are talking about not doing any business because, again, the rest of it is not national security, but it's very difficult to -- to determine what's coming in and what's not coming in in hauwei, we will be making a decision over t

joining us now with further insight is senator lindsey graham.ched your interview, and i know you pretty well. "i want to take my time, i want to do it right, and i want america to read all of it." let me interpret lindsey graham for the american people. >> you have a lousy southern accent, by the way. >> sean: sure. i have been told by people, when everything comes out, it will shock the conscience of a nation. do you agree with that? >> well, here's what you're going to -- yeah, i think it's going to be really damning and ugly, and people did some really bad things that are dangerous for the country. but you will only find it on fox. you may find it a little bit in the paper. here's what i predict: it will be 10% of the coverage that the mueller report got. and that's a shame. so just keep doing what you are doing. here's the question, it's not what did obama know and when he know it -- who told him? and what did he do when he was told? i want to know who briefed the president about the counterintelligence investigation against the trump campai

elizabeth: senator lindsey graham not mincing words, warning that justice department inspector general- obama administration obama ra probe will not be pretty. >> will be ugly and damning regarding the department justice handling the russia probe. i want the american public to hear the story, i don't want people to believe what i say about it, i want them to read for themselves how bad it was, warrant application to fisa court i believe quite frankly was a fraud on the court, i want it all out, i people to see how off the rails should invest got. elizabeth: with us now. republican congressman tom. our reaction? >> i don't have any particular insight to what the horowitz report will reveal or the other investigation, including one by u.s. attorney john durham, only insight, is we might with mike ol horowitz, a group of judiciary members in late june, he told us they were in process of preparing a report but they had to reinterview witnesses, only reason i think they came in possession of contradictory information, i think that lindsey graham is correct. the picture that is taking form n

>> congress has more limited authority than lindsey graham or anyone else would like to believe. in the wake of these tragedies everyone is saying let's get something done but let's remember the constitution preserves and protects our individual rights and one of the specifically enumerated rights is the right to self-defense and to keep and bear arms of congress has very limited authority of what they can do and they still have to stay within the margins of the u.s. constitution because red flag laws like they are calling for have to make sure they abide by due process and our system of government does not punish individuals preemptively before they commit crimes so we can do you do deterrence, but a lot of different measures but we have to make sure it abides by due process. shannon: before we get to red flag laws i want to ask about this tweet donald trump sent out, in this tweet if we can pull it up he married gun-control laws with immigration. would that be a possibility? >> it always depends on statutory construction and this would be congress's. view. they are the legislat

the lindsey group. he was director of the active economic council under larry george bush. we have been doing this since sunday what's the tail and whats the dog here >> i think there's a lot going on and something that hasn't been mentioned is hong kong and i think that's an important place to start if you look at everything the president did on thursday, yes, he put on the so% tariff, but he also had a very interesting exchange which should have been music to gene's ears he said the conflict going on in hong kong is for china and hong kong to resolve. the u.s. wasn't going to get involved he also used the term riots rather than protest to describe what's going on. to me that was trump taking hong kong offer the table as a roadblock to further negotiations i think it had been maj record block until now. and. >> dan: >> but larry -- >> i actually think net, net, it's a plus. >> you're saying trump is acting sort of dovish in the hong kong issue saying we will not intervene, it's in china's hands. if tha

. >> sandra: senator lindsey graham over the weekend saying he believes the highly anticipated report will be released in the coming weeks urging doj to classify as much information as possible. if chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner" and fox news contributor, good morning to you. in addition to him saying he expects it to be damning and ugly for the doj, he says he is looking forward to when this report is made public. key word there is looking forward to. if you don't actually know what it's going to be released, it's been quite delayed and taken some time. does that tell you anything? >> these reports always take longer than originally estimated. that's just a rule in washington. on this one, we have gotten word that inspector general horowitz received additional evidence when he was in the very last stages of putting his report together. that sometimes happens as people realize this thing is about to come out and they have more information they want to get in it. so not a surprise but it's taking a long time. >> sandra: what is the biggest news expected to b

nbc news lindsey wolfson saw the fear firsthand. >> the ft. myers instinct was, oh, my god, this is an attack. >> reporter: there was no gun, just a motorcycle backfiring creating chaos at broadway's "to kill a mockingbird." the actor tweeting, "screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety audilive in it is our country. shoppers ran for cover at a mall, mistaking a falling sign for gunshots these preschoolers in san diego preparing for the real thing 3 and 4-year-olds in an active shooter drill. the cold war's duck and cover drills for a nuclear attack replaced by an all too real danger >> ann, thanks >>> late last night president trump and the first lady arrived back at the white house after a controversial visit to the grieving cities of dayton and el paso dozens of people were on the ground in both zis protesting his visit. but he was also met with supporters along the way in the border town of el paso, he met with several first responders who were grateful for his visit. nbc's kristen welker has the latest. >> reporter: presid

lindsey graham, mike turner, rodney davis. you go around the country, they look at the red flag laws and says there is due process. it requires a judge to make a decision based on the information that has been given. and from a federal level, all you're doing is providing federal grants to states to encourage red flag laws. so again, this is something people look at and says there is due process. i understand you are opposing it right now. i just want to put up on the screen so people see it, the 100 round drum magazine used in dayton, ohio. forgetting whether or not you want to talk about rifles, the guns themselves. >> hey, john. we can have discussions -- >> let me finish. i just want to say. >> we can have meaningful discussions. but right now let's do something that's possible. let's look at the possible right now. >> okay. but no, no, no. it's possible. mike turner, mike turner, mike turner, rodney davis, republicans we've spoken to in the past few days. that's the rifle. but the 100 round drum magazine, they said they'd

lindsey graham says, and others. >> yeah, listen, if the report is released tomorrow -- whatever data is released -- will be a damning day. if you weeks ago on your show, tomorrow will be a day to understand why james comey was fired, when you see the conduct laid out in this report, and also the report that came out in 2018 about his handling of the clinton email investigation. you will see why president trump and senior officials of the justice department felt confident they should fire james comey. it will be a day of indication, i believe, for the president and his judgment to get rid of the former fbi director. >> sean: we were right, and the media mob was dead wrong the whole time. all right, john solomon, thank you. all right, former fbi director now being called a liquor and fire by the department of justice. a criminal referral has been started. this is only the tip of the iceberg. these 65 pages, just a beginning. we will have more detail when this, the first of many revelations, likely begin tomorrow. these are huge, massive developments. sadly, they are almost completely i

graham of the well known republican senator who was also closely allied with trumpet lindsey graham has been very vocal in saying that deal was so that should not completely withdraw in fact he had an article in new york times with the former a year where survivors chief of staff jack keane in that article graham and mccain said that the withdrawal shouldn't be a withdrawal which is all which meets the conditions of the taliban and shouldn't be there for a. process which only satisfies the demands of the taliban but should satisfy the demands of america or meet the american conditions so we do have these well known figures within the united states who have clearly object to a complete with drew have been very vocal in and appears that bold trump has succumbed to those pressures. if tomorrow on friday marks 20 years since a u.n. box vote ended a bloody 8 decades long occupation by indonesian forces and paved the way for it to become an independent nation australian prime minister scott morrison has arrived in east timor capital to attend the celebrations along with other dignitaries

graham of the well known republican senator who was also closely allied with trumpet lindsey graham has been very vocal in saying that deal with should not completely withdraw in fact he had an article in new york times with the form of a us vice chief of staff jack keane in that article graham and mccain said that the withdrawal shouldn't be a withdrawal which is all which meets the conditions of the taliban who shouldn't be there for a. process which only sort of survives the demands of polly byrne but should satisfy the demands of america or meet the american conditions so we do have these war lone figures within the united states who have clearly objected to a complete withdrawal have been very vocal in that and it appears that board trump has succumbed to those pressures. a group of military experts is calling on congress to force the disclosure of the number of the us overseas bases in their letter they describe the information currently provided by the pentagon as limited and frequently incomplete they say the official number of bases could be hugely understated. the pentagon