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lindsey graham of south carolina -- >> i love this. i love this.ns are against investment in infrastructure. unless you're investing in infrastructure outside of america. >> can't help himself. i was going to get there. it's all right. just gobble it all up. >> what did he say? >> okay. thank you. it is delicious though, isn't it? i can see why you can't help it. here it is. >> we can go over and help them build their infrastructure up. there's a lot of business opportunity in libya. the country has been ravaged. one of the problems i have with leading from behind, when a day like this comes, we don't have the infrastructure in place we could have. let's get in on the ground. there's a lot of money to be made in libya. let's get on the ground and help the libyan people establish a democracy and functioning economy. >> let's rebuild another country, because you know what? $2 billion a week in afghanistan, it's just not enough let's spend $2 billion in libya. let's $2 billion, because, it's kind of like the '50s. we're so flush with money. >> we're r

we'll talk with secretary of state hillary clinton and republican senator lindsey graham. then, a new phase in the 2012 republican presidential race. the candidates get down to reall campaigning. we continue our series of interviews with crum -- crum crumb michelle bachmann. and how the gop nomination shapes up. all right now on "fox news sunday". and hello, again, from fox news in washington. on friday, president obama announced he will keep a campaign promise and bringg all u.s. troops home from iraq by the end of the year. earlier we spoke with secretary of state hillary clinton and about the death of moammar qaddafi. >> they wanted 15,000 troops in iraq next year. and the white house talked about 3000 to 5000. why is president obama pulling all of the troops out. >> put it in the appropriate historical context. president obama said combat troops would leave iraq by the end of the year. and before he said that the bush administration committed to with drawing all troops by the end of this year. you have a bipartisan commitment to with draw combat troops. that was given

like senator lindsey graham, a rang member of the senate armed services committee. he went so far to stay president was giving comfort to our enemies. >> this strategy that president obama has come up with, i think is not going to defeat a determined enemy. the question is, is gadhafi determined? the strategy is confusing to the men people. only 21% believe president obama has a clear view of how the handle libya. it is demoralizing to our allies, particularly people on the ground that we're trying to help. and i think it is encouraging to our enemies. this strategy is going to lead to a stalemate. >> a stalemate. did i hear in that sound bite, senator lindsey quote a poll? let's continue. and marco rubio also jumped on the pile during a floor speech back in june. >> first we ceded most of the operation to our nato allies. god bless them for trying but they do not have the military capability to finish the job. >> there's an expert there. now with gadhafi eliminated, you would think these republican wos eat their words and give the obama administration some credit t

. >> senator lindsey graham, will you do a one-on-one with me? you know you're wrong on that. you're an air force judge. we deserve better as americans. also said the president failed in libya by not ending the operation sooner. his point was echoed by another senior republican. >> if we had imposed a no-fly zone, if we used the full weight of american air power, this conflict would have not been prolonged as long as it has. >> john mccain and lindsey graham say president obama took too long in libya where a dictator was removed in seven months and no american lives were lost and we spent $2 billion. meanwhile, they say the iraq war should continue with no end in sight. let's bring in colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff under colin powell. and currently the visiting professor at the college of william and mary. colonel, good to have you with us tonight. thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me, ed. welcome to 8:00. >> thank you, sir. i appreciate your time. i hope you can join us quite often. i find it very interesting that the bush and cheney administration

senator lindsey graham joins us.evening, sir. >> good evening. >> greta: on friday class act wouldn't do that as part of the national health care what is the class act. >> class act was an attempt to raise money to pay for obama health care. >> greta: national health care bill or separate from. >> part of the obama health care. class act would allow the federal government for the first time ever to get into long-term health care insurance business. you can buy long-term health care now. the federal government was going to sell it as a new entitlement and the money collected in policeman yums for the first 10 years of the program were going to be used to pay for obama health care to cover the uninsured. the "the washington post" -- >> greta: you mean people outside the class act or finance the class act during the -- >> -- the money collected in premiums from class act insurance sales was not going to be used in the first 10 years to pay people when they wanted their health care. it was going to be used to make obama

senator lindsey graham released a statement saying this. i feel all we have worked for, fought for and sacrificed for is very much in jeopardy by today's announcement. he added, quote, i hope i am wrong and the president is right. but i fear this decision has set in motion events that will come back to haunt our country. end quote. that from senator lindsey graham. >>> on the road to white house let's go wilton, iowa. there you see republican candidate, texas governor perry there. he's talking before a group an apparently he just moments ago said he in trying to reiterate, he is a conservative of conviction work to lower tax. let's listen in to rick perry. >> look i know how to deal with democrats and individuals who may not share my political philosophy because i've done it for the last decade as the governor of texas. but the fact is these are actions that can happen very quickly. and put americans to work. as president that's what we need to do is get america back working. but, you know our long term growth strategy requires fundamental

senator lindsey graham today warning failing to leave at least a small force will, "come back to hauntur country." in anticipation of the announcement, senator john mccain suggested this is a diplomatic failure, because the president would have kept some troops behind butlated too long to keep deal for amunety for -- immunity for u.s. troops. >> we didn't have priority to the issue and it took them until a month or so ago to decide how many troops they wanted. >> reporter: in some ways it was anticlimactic. the rise was fueled by opposition to the war in 2008. he vowed to end it in his first term. late in 2008, it was then president bush at the now infamous shoe-throwing news conference that signed an agreement to remove all u.s. troops by the end of the year. >> in the aftermath of the muammar gaddafi death and arab spring, presence of american troops in any arab country is increasingly controversial. >> reporter: after colonel gaddafi's death thursday, the president could not resist the mention of killing usama bin laden and he did it again today, using bin laden to cast the iraqi pu

last night he took a shift at rick perry, lindsey graham and michele bachmann. >> on the cover of "paradeuggestively offering the nation his nipple -- hey, hey america -- hey america, you hungry? are you hungry? do you want to suckle? yeah. that's good teat right there. suck on it get barbecue cause in your mouth. eric canter was supposed to speak today but his office canceled the appearance after learning 300 seats would be open to the public. >> oh! the public! oh! heavens to betsy. oh! see, it was our job to start it badly. we did that. we were [ bleep ] idiots. i recent this president helping to depose gadhafi without the complications and cost of a never-ending occupation. it's frankly unamerican, i won't stand for it. >> stewart reaching deep into his bag of impersonations last night. >>> still ahead on "way too early," why you're awake. your tweets, texts and e-mails are next. "morning joe" moments away. exclusive to the military. and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. fr

declaration of war and we've already we see this all the time right with john mccain which on both with lindsey graham saying bon bon bon away and you know i think that the american public does often gave into their emotions and we saw the same thing with iraq only result of a war based on lies and weapons of mass destruction so i really would like to see some truth here you know rather than just blowing steam up there abouts. right i mean if this is concocted which i have no evidence to suspect it is but if it is i think it really is a travesty in that sense that. there's no doubt that this is a further deterioration you know further down into the depths of the u.s. the runaway ship over the past three decades and and i think that it really has given a lot of thought or to washington's war hawks which would lead him to push sometimes explicitly for military strikes we had a major mainstream conservative think tank in washington the heritage foundation my colleague eli clifton wrote about it they they called for a proportional military response against iranian targets today and so you have everything

idea but i'm giving it's going to take more of the bomb iran war hocks that we know so well that lindsey graham john mccain the john bolton the bill crystal's of the world to come out and say we have to bomb iran right now we've seen john bolton say it before last time when he said that israel only had eight days to do it. yeah. absolutely i think back to cover stations i've had with ambassador bolton about this that i've never even told you the same thing that what it is that the israelis need to do or the americans needed to do was to either replace the leadership of iran or both of them so i'm not shocked if you're going to see a whole series of groups out there now say you know it's time to take out the iranians you get taking me back to this question of well we didn't get it but it is very nice and so better he's a real concern you know what i think which really important is that what the bureau needs to do what what justice department really needs to do is if these guys in fact are responsible i think about this is a criminal defense attorney who thought i prosecute them but don't prosecu

let me read to you what senator lindsey graham said.-- sorry. all we have worked for and forgot four and sacrificed for is very much in jeopardy. i hope i am wrong and the president is right, but i feel this decision has set in motion events that will come back to haunt our country. he's talking about the questions of whether iraq is really ready to take over its own security, responsibility for its own security. there's violence there, fear there's, concerns about iranian influence growing as u.s. troops pull out. that's the reason for some of this criticism and concern on the republican side. >> athena jones for us at the white house, thank you so much. >>> you can imagine how so many of the families out there reacted to this and how some of the soldiers and troops are reacting as well. take a listen. >> we have started closing our bases down and drawing down our forces months ago, so this was not an evacuation, this was a very deliberate transition. >> it's exciting for me, you know, bring our boys home. it's one less place we have t

or of words the fact even had senator lindsey graham going as far as saying that maybe we need a military response to pakistan you know completely forgetting the fact that we already have military in there and are launching drone strikes in that country what would you say that that is coming from this sudden he i mean are they starting to feel the pressure because now we have a troop withdrawal timeline at least for the surge troops and they feel like they need to pressure on. well we've had certain groups certain think tanks in washington which have actually been giving senior policymakers very bad advice there several of which have actually you know perpetuated this whole idea that we can settle afghanistan and frankly the problem is they've taken a page out of the soviet book which was insane at the time there's a group of readers which i had to before i went to afghanistan called her where went over the mountain and looked at all the mistakes that the soviet soviets did in this area and frankly a lot of us internalize that we've recognized the folly of trying to essentially modernize

of the of members of the axis of evil this is the road according to john mccain you know the lindsey graham and joe lieberman others think we need to barbara but they got it's funding these folks who are the guys who are doing business with them interesting the koch brothers companies paid four hundred million dollars in fines for violating regulations and the tea party that they fought on as you want to bring prosperity back back to america do away with regulations you think there might be a relationship it's amazing i think if you drew a venn diagram you might see a. overlaps more seriously though since one thousand nine hundred nine koch industries has been convicted of at least five crimes for bringing prices to breaking environmental regulations to lying to regulators and i want to case to what had you and i had you were i don't i would be homicide. not obvious manslaughter two teenagers died seals or taxes and. to the best right knowledge none of those people certainly david charles but you know nobody has ever gone to jail over this thing over these things why is it in america that c

are you just as concerned as lindsey graham? i assume you are. >> i'm deeply concerned.nder of the surge troops in the middle of the fighting season and now, we're seeing in iraq. general austin, the commander in iraq, has given a number of 14 to 18,000 troops would be needed to complete our mission to make sure iraq remains stable. unfortunately, what we're going to see here is iran cheering over this decision and they're going to have more control in iraq than we want them to have. >> the pentagon, i'm sure the general, wouldn't want any u.s. troops to stay there if they didn't have status of forces agreement with the iraqi government that would protect these u.s. military personnel from any prosecution. they need immunity to stay and the iraqi government said no immunity. >> i find that a little astounding that the administration couldn't negotiate this. my staff was on a conference call with dennis mcdunn today and said the administration wouldn't change its decision, so i question that a little bit in terms of the immunity. i think the administration could have push

>> we are joined li lindsey graham and ben cardin so talk jobs and fast & furious larry sabato, maybegrich, you never know. he'll also talk about why the election is so early this year, talking about the primaries, what that means for us and our holidays, of course, and awaiting a verdict in the capital trial of the man accused of the home invasion in connecticut. we'll have that breaking news on "happening now". bill: religion on the campaign, the church of jesus christ of latter day saints lead ago media launch, aimed at correcting misconceptions about mormons, after a prominent evangelical pastor out of texas called mormonism a cult. what's the church doing, alysha? explain this. >> reporter: hi bill. the church is saying this is really no connection with their ad campaign and the political calendar. what they found in research is that either a lot of people don't know anything about the mormon ligior or have huge misconceptions. here's a sample: >> i am a devoted husband, i'm a father. i am an attorney. >> one of the perceptions the mormon church is battling is there is a lack of

we'll hear from senators john mccain, lindsey graham and more. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> >>> gunfire, honking horns, celebrations in cities across libya, marking the death of gadhafi. we're following all the breaking news this hour. the man who ruthlessly ruled the country for 42 years was killed today outside his hometown of sirte. he was 69 years old. president obama said his death marks the end of a long and painful chapter for libya. >> one year ago, the notion of a free libya seemed impossible. but then the libyan people rose up. and demanded their rights. and when gadhafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by. faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi's forces in their tracks. there will be difficult days ahead. but the united states, together wi

also, you articulate a vision for foreign policy that some in your party, like under lindsey graham,ws make you a moderate in your party. are your views mainstream or are the views of republican primary voters out of step with the rest of country? >> i am pro-life. i'm prosecond amendment. with a name like huntsman you have no choice. i delivered the largest tax cut in the history of my state. /put forward the second voucher legislation in our nation's history. i want healthcare reform without a mandate. i tripled the rainy day fund. the best managed state in america based on what the pew center had to say about it. we delivered for our people. all i can say is look at our government. you can say civil unions. i'm to the right of dick cheney and right where bush was and buckley was when he wrote about it before he passed on. they're all legitimate issues to be discussing. and as members of the republican party, but you look at how i governed, in utah, and i'm a problem-solving conservative governor. results speak for themselves. >> you no doubt heard mitt romney decline to support go

senators lindsey graham and senator mark kirk.pture or death of moammar qaddafi important to america? >> it allows the libyan people to move forward and make the hardy situations about how to form a democracy out of the ashes of a dictatorship. what happens in libya in terms of the region, the oil supply, the arab spring. what happens in libya will matter to us for decades to come. with moammar qaddafi gone it will free up the libyan people to move forward. jenna: there was an editorial you wrote together in the "wall street journal." it said you would like to expand our economic ties. because of your mention of oil i'd like you to expand on that a little bit. how do we expand our economic ties with that country? >> we can go over there and help them build their infrastructure up. there are business opportunities in libya. the country has been ravaged, they are looking for business partners. and we send business people to go over and talk with the new regime. jenna: the are partnership is important, isn't it, senator kirk, it's wi

let's listen to what south carolina senator lindsey graham had to say on one of the morning shows this morning. >> not being able to close the deal in iraq is a very serious mistake. celebrating leaving with no troops behind is a serious mistake. and iraq poorly fumbled the ball but they are dancing in the streets in teheran. >> that is one of the examples of criticism. what people on the republican side are saying and not just republicans to be fair, but this is concern the u.s. isn't leaving behind a few thousand troops to help to train iraqi security personnel and the idea that once we pulled out completely will iran's influence grow? it is just a neighbor there and so by us being gone it could create a vacuum, deb. >> at the same time iraq said the u.s. was not entitled to have any troops there. they are being pulled out because there isn't another a option. the presidential candidates must be on the attack about the issue as well. >> certainly. that's what i was touching on the idea they have been talking about this for some time. the security agreements that set this end date wer

. >> john mccain and lindsey graham, joe lieberman, will say this represents a significant setback.ike let down right now because the pro-iranian group in iraq presumably will have the upper hand right now without -- there will be a significant u.s. diplomatic presence in there, a lot of civilian contractors, but you know what? no u.s. military forces and a lot of iraqis who love the united states and are grateful to the united states will feel that they've been undermined. >> right. but when maliki tells military officials that he doesn't have the votes to provide this kind of immunity for american troops, it is a huge problem for the united states. i'm sure that's what the president will be saying. but also in terms of the republicans here, you mentioned joe lieberman, john mccain, lindsey graham, how many more can you go beyond that? because when you look at the republican presidential field and you look at the sort of isolationist tendencies there, they will, some of them, applaud this. >> ron paul will be thrilled. >> maybe mitt romney will not. but on the other hand, most repu

jenna: for more, we're joined by south carolina republican senator lindsey graham. senator, where else should we look from this point on? >> well, you don't have to really be sherlock holmes to figure out what the iranians are doing, they've been trying to kill american soldiers and have been doing so in iraq for years, by putting in psts, ied devices into iraq to kill american soldiers, when the international atomic energy commission put pressure on them to find out about their nuclear program, they got hezbollah -- hezbollah, a proxy of iran in lebanon to start a war with israel, they fund hamas, the terrorist organization in the gaza strip, because they're here in our back yard, so they've been a tremendously regional power player, trying to destabilize the middle east, but their ambitions are greater, their tentacles are greater than the region of the middle east, they're now in our own back yard trying to assassination people, and if you ask me the number one national security threat the world faces it would be a nuclear-armed iran, and this is a tipping point