has too much control i guess you could say i don't know about that lindsey graham was just i guess and he's a credible person to talk about it what's funny is he actually just came out today after these statements are based said ok this is what we're talking about this is you know so for him that's a compromise i don't think you get which will change position because all he wants to do is it president obama i think you have to be your sponsor in these cases and clearly a lot of the right wing republicans have no interest whatsoever and really thinking and forward on the strategy they're there you know their rhetoric on iran has been heated their rhetoric on afghanistan so heated it just takes it on a level where as people who are in the u.s. government today even if the opposition have to be a lot more specter like lindsey graham has been i don't know wealthy i think that it might be a trend as we have two election season now that the war in afghanistan isn't popular with the public i think we might see more people starting to try to take that route as if we didn't always know that

josh, thank you for being with us tonight. >> great to be with you, as always. >> lindsey graham did tell you maybe it's time to pull the plug on the afghanistan war, didn't he take it back after he told you that? >> so interesting, you played the clip of mitt romney last june, if you listen to his comments, he has come full circle after being for it, now back around to the same position hey it's time to get the heck out of there, the difference between this time and last june, people like lindsey graham are not willing to hammer mitt romney for calling for an extended period of troop presence in afghanistan, and lindsey graham's issues are with the karzai government and they are playing with negotiations over an agreement with the united states. there is so many things wrong with this afghanistan war, a lack of trust at the local level, a lack of the trust at political level, and so many people are frustrate and in so many ways it's harder for any republican to stand up and defend intervention. the bottom line obama made the decision, we're getting out. now the debate is how much sh

and other actions just as he said in his speech there let's talk about i mean we have senators lindsey graham i always a group often group together with senator john mccain and joe lieberman often making this call to move their reserve big day on the ground in combat and i might point out. making this call reminding the americans how dangerous iran is and the import. the standing for israel what is their reason for this i think it's somewhat political opportunism because i have to admit that i can find no other focus or reason for the existence of my cards today the republican party other than the political objective of getting the president out of the white house so a lot of this is not aimed at america her security is real her security is aimed at the political prospects of the republicans who are now engaged in a circular firing squad amongst rick santorum and most other lesser rights mitt romney i'd include in that and are going to commit suicide they're going to get so beaten so badly in the fall and i think many of them know that they are desperate for opportunistic attacks on the presi

forces are one sparked protests in the country and it's one republicans like lindsey graham suggested are worth removing all troops over and then a cut and run strategy what does this really mean and what about the unresolved elements of nitrates and temporary holding pens here this process with me is joshua walker fellow truman national security project i should thank so much for joining us tonight thanks for having me it's a technological to get here and have finally reached this agreement but what would you say i mean u.s. troops will have access to all of the prisoners in thirty one of them it's going to take six months and they still get to say yes or no or basically it's a good thing though to people that afghans want to police i mean look it's a good compromise a lot of different ways it was something that president karzai made very clear that there had to be a decision by today on march ninth the u.s. was very hesitant a lot of ways to just turn over all the prisoners given the security concerns and given the record of the afghan government but the same time something had to b

democratic senator chuck schumer and republican senator lindsey graham. senator graham, let e me begin with the economy. a confession from rick santorum last night after coming off his victory in kansas, he said that the economy may be getting better and the republicans may lose their edge on that issue, is he right and what does that mean for the general election? >> well, i don't think he's right at all. this is an anemic recovery after a pretty long recession. 35 months, over 8% of unemployment. the longest streak since the great depression. last month in february, the monthly deficit in the history of the nation, when you look at the stimulus package two years ago, they projected that unemployment at 6% 5%. we're producing less oil in any time of the nation. so the economy is anemic at best and the policies of the president are going to make it impossible for this country to recover. >> so, senator schumer, to not even a glass half-full from senator graham? >> i think the republican party is on the defensive. the president was handed an awful situation

will be left after which was this year and he's got the trio of john mccain joe lieberman and lindsey graham backing him up so perhaps the question that most things we ask is why you're discussing with me it's matthew hoh former state department official in afghanistan and senior fellow at the center for international policy thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you i'm here ok so when i say he's got this trio of me came lieberman and graham back let me just read you the opening this is basically the first paragraph that they wrote in the washington post where they're talking about despite the serious tragic events that i just mentioned it's heart wrenching as these events have been they do not change the vital u.s. national security interests at stake in afghanistan nor do they mean the war is lost it is not there is still a realistic path to success if the right decisions are made in the coming months. can you tell me what this magic path to success is what they're talking about i don't dispute that. that there can be something beneficial the next few years if we make the right decis

path and fear i'm sure we're going to respond that have you think because we even saw you know lindsey graham get through this shooting maybe start to waver you would think that john mccain but it's not you have a popular position politically not. within the republican party i think for graham and lieberman and others it's simply romney it's simply because war is good politics being tough it's good politics you know wearing the bloody shirt as i said after the subpar american civil war is good politics for others for senator mccain i believe for a bastard crocker for general allen i think these gentlemen they really do believe that they are involved in some kind of historic battle that this is some kind of battle of good versus evil if you see how crocker if you see how if you see how mccain others talk about this war they reference it in terms of you know good person evil but this is some type of his still work or epic struggle that we're involved in his very words i mean that's not that people should remember me we don't like to think of personalities matter and decisions like this but they

republican lindsey graham and democrat richard blumenthal. also u.s.oldiers are targeted in afghanistan and the syrian government attacks its own citizens. we'll ask the panel how the president should handle both hot spots and our power player of the week gets ready for march madness. all right on "fox news sunday". and hello again from "fox news sunday" in washington. all eyes are on super tuesday. washington state headline its caucaus on saturday. mitt romney won 38 percent. ron paul 25 percent. and rick santorum was chose behind at 24 . newt gingrich was last. on tuesday 10 states are up with more delegates at take than all contests combined up to now. joining us from tennessee is former senator rick santorum. welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> guest: thank you, chris, good to be with you. >> chris: good to be with you, sir. ohio is the biggest prize on tuesday and it seems tailor made for you. blue collar and manufacturing and lots of rural areas and big evangelical vote. don't you have to win there, sir? >> guest: we are going to do very, very

he said lindsey graham said we all know there's a racial component to this. >> would you like to hear. >> here's lindsey graham on centimeter other network. >> we all know there's a racial component this and when the president highlights it i don't think it adds a whole lot but nobody suggests the president's insensitive to a 17-year-old if he had been white. i think the criticism of our guys was a little offbase and i don't think the president added a whole lot by interjecting himself into it. >> good for him. >> wow. >> i'd like to point out your deadon lindsey graham impression. awesome. >> those comments are rep preminutesble, gingrich in the last throes of his career. he could go out with a shred of dignity, he's choosing the latter. >> they're love on dancing on gingrich grave right now. >> i think they're afraid calista is going to return to her native mars. >> or the zoomy we we were afraid of. >> can she unclinch her alien-like jaw to consume someone legally. >> consume newt whole, that would be one bite. >> that would even take piranhas while. >> your rudeness, we'll talk to

republican lindsey graham and democrat richard blumenthal. senators, welcome to both of you. the president and prime minister will be wrestling with two questions. what are the red lines, how far each leader will allow eran to go before giving up on diplomacy and second, how committed is each to a military strike in iran crosses the red line. senator graham, what does president obama need to say to prime minister netanyahu to reassure him? >> that i'm committed to stopping iran from getting nuclear weapon not only in words but in deeds. that if necessary we will use military force and they need a common definition of what change, what kind of change would be acceptable on iran's part. >> chris: meaning the red line, how far they are willing to allow iran to go. >> there needs to be a common definition conveyed privately to iran so they know what they need to do. >> chris: does president obama need to go further than he has so far in reassuring the israelis. >> he needs to give a more specific and muscular content. to all options are on the table to say that containment is not

>> i'm not sure they expect that yet because as you know, john mccain and lindsey graham and others have been taking a harder line on that. and there are plenty of people in the republican as well as democratic party who know that this would be a very, very big challenge and a lot harder than what they accomplished in libya. libya, by the way, people don't pay attention it's falling apart it's not coming together. >> andrea mitchell, thank you, appreciate it. >>> congress woman debbie wasserman-schultz is the chair of the democratic national committee, joins us now from washington. madam chair, thank you for being with us. >> thanks, rachel, great to be with you. >> the results are as yet undecided in some of the most important places, too early to call in tennessee, too earl throw call in oklahoma, too close to call in ohio, seems like the only thing we know for sure the republican race goes on after tonight, from the perspective of somebody who leads the democratic party is a longer race on the republican side a good thing or a bad thing for democratic prospects in the fall? >> well, f

according to senator john mccain and his colleagues, senator joe lieberman and lindsey graham. they have been dubbed the three amissionos. joining me is one of those amissionos, senator john mccain the republican senator from arizona. good morning to you, senator, thank you for being with us. >> thanks. >> so curious, if you go in and you do intervene in syria, and the rebels were to take over, and it doesn't work exactly as planned what happens then? that's the flip side to this, right? >> well, one thing that would happen is that syria would be split from iran and the head of central command said that if assad failed it would be the biggest blow to iran in 25 years. cut off lebanon from iranian influence, hezbollah would probably wither. it would be a seismic event. but most importantly, look most importantly people are being massacred. children are being maimed, raped, tortured, 10,000 people estimates are 8,000 to 10,000 people have already been massacred and the united states does that have ability with other nations to bring this to a halt as we were able to do in libya.

export/import loan recipients, a big supporter of the bilko sponsored including republicans like lindsey graham, richard shelby, a number of business groups including the u.s. chamber of commerce, the business round table and the national association of manufacturers, also backing the amendment. a number of conservative groups do oppose it, arguing the export/importment as to corporate welfare. the boeing company tonight vowing to continue to press for the bank's reauthorization. as you heard a few moment. s ago. it will fall to the bottom of the list with other items including the senate agenda. which goes back to the question, what would you do? 202-626-7962. >> i'm calling from fairfax, virginia, and i would change congress by making a one issue, one vote and not allowing in different issues to be voted on in one bill and allowing accountability for each bill and each vote. >> hello. i'm calling from clearwater, florida. my name is dennis and what i would propose is that we limit the number of lawyers in both the house and the senate. because if you think about it, what do lawyers do, they s

when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for bombs away and again go back and play over you see the same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to be calm we need him and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up the military conflict in syria gee i mean is aren't the people in damascus and aleppo and the major cities they're not a revolt and why not because a number of them are very concerned about a sunni takeover and of course the arab league is mostly sunni so there's a lot more going on of the here than meets the ah i and of course the the major issue is that the united states does not want to have china or russia to have access to the middle east oil and i think they're with. what syria has also been for the u.n. security council but russia accused libya of training the syrian with the fighting government forces it was part of a broader discussion of the situation in countries with moscow also demanding nato apologize for causing civilian casualties during last year's day rates and once he's been following the me

when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for bombs away and again go back and play over you see the same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to be we need and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up for the military conflict you heard president obama say at the height of the iranian incident with netanyahu that he said you know that at this time when there is not a lot of sympathy for ron and it's only now war i syria is on the ropes we have to quiet it down a little bit. syria has also been and focus on the u.n. security council where russia accused libya of training the syrian militia currently fighting government forces and was part of a broader discussion of the situation in the arab countries with moscow also demanding nato apologize for causing civilian casualties g.'s during last year's air raids in libya artie's merino port nine has been following the meeting in new york. a new report that was quietly released by the united nations on friday that report was an investigation that found in part that nato has

queensland to the holy land from the ball field to the battlefield they are senators joseph lieberman lindsey graham and john mccain seen frequently side by side both physically and politically the call for more war a song almost on repeat for them three have a better war that they don't like they lead the charge to end up afghanistan we need more troops there are american troops attacked by the enemy have gone up about a thousand percent in the words. time is not on our side and they've been called everything from the three amigos the three blind mice and the axis of error by the website downsize d.c. dot org they started to work together as a block there kind of an accessible than foreign policy credit for getting back to that old axis of evil that we heard about that foreign policy is not just limited to bush's wars but here they are meeting with libyan president nor mortgage healthy in august of two thousand and nine at a time when it was in the u.s. interest to call him friend mccain later tweeted this calling him interesting but a year later i wanted him gone if you want to get up to go in one

when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for blogs away and again go back and play over you see this same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to because we need to and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up the military conflict and you heard president obama say at the height of the iranian incident with netanyahu that he said you know that at this time when there is not a lot of sympathy for iran and it's only now law i. is on the ropes we have to quiet it down a little bit. and still to come some world leaders just refused to take their foot off the gas want to comes to tehran israel insists a military attack on iran is still on the cards even despite the agreement between islamic state and foreign powers to renew talks on iran's controversial nuclear program. plus nuclear fears continue to spread in japan as experts accuse the government of failing to disclose information one year after an earthquake and tsunami sparked an atomic crisis. this week greece finally concluded a deal with private investors consider

when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for bombs away and again go back and play over you see the same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to because we need to and we have to use the pole in the sea in the meanwhile they're building up the military conflict and you heard president obama say at the height of the iranian incident with netanyahu that he said you know that at this time when there is not a lot of sympathy for ron and it's only now law i hear is on the ropes we have to quiet it down a little bit. the syrian conflict is also dominating talks at the u.n. security council where libya has been accused of training and preparing syria bound militants discussions also touched on nato bombing campaign over libya last year during which more than a hundred civilians fell thick time to alliance air rates and students the organization refuses to investigate archies marina is in new york with more on the meeting. a new report that was quietly released by the united nations on friday that report was an investigation that found in part

when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for bombs away and again go back and play over and see the same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to because we need to and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up the military conflict and you heard president obama say at the height of the iranian incident with netanyahu that he said you know that at this time when there is not a lot of sympathy for iran and it's only now why syria is on the ropes we have to quiet it down a little bit. to be now which is still struggling to overcome chaos after the previous regime was toppled where the help of nato forces last year on tuesday a group of tribal and militia leaders declaring partial autonomy for an oil rich region in the east of the country the central government was quick to say it is ready to use force to stop the move sara marsac a beirut based a researcher for syracuse university says that what's happening in the media today is what prompted for military intervention in the first place. the country is in chaos right no

know, you see joe lieberman, the senator from connecticut, who has been allies with mccain and lindsey graham. but there's a bit of a different tenor in the house that we saw last year with libya, and that is something that i think the speaker was referencing where there's a leariness among members in both parties to get involved in another military conflict. so john boehner is clearly saying here, you know, let's wait and see. it would be premature to go in right now. >> we're talking with russell berman. his work is available online at thehill.com. a procedural vote in the senate failed. this is a $109 billion re-authorization over the next two years. what's the status of this in the senate and i guess more significantly what's the view of the speaker of the house, john boehner? >> in the senate we're hearing we may have a deal on amendments holding up the senate bill. the underlying bill in the senate has bipartisan support. so it's a matter -- we see this a lot of times in the senate -- getting to a vote on that underlying bill and getting through amendments. so the expectation is that on

when you hear world hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for bombs away and again go back and play over and see the same scenario their heads come in and they say we have to be calm we need time and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up the military conflict and you heard president obama say at the height of the iranian incident with netanyahu that he said you know that at this time when there is not a lot of sympathy for ron and it's only now why syria is on the ropes we have to quiet it down a little bit. but what you know it's still to come for you on the program of out of israel breaking its promise to get another attack on gaza by the boston bombings in the region for more than a year. plus nuclear fears continue to spread in japan experts accuse the government of failing to disclose information one here on earth quake and tsunami sparked nuclear crisis. this week greece finally concluded a deal with private investors is considered to be the biggest debt write down in history that the agreement which reduces the greek burden by over one

when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for blogs away and again go back and play over you see the same scenario the heads come in and they say we have to because we need to and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up the military conflict and you heard president obama say at the height of the iranian incident with netanyahu that he said you know that at this time when there's not a lot of sympathy for iran and it's only how. is on the ropes we have to quiet it down a little bit. so you could have you with us today you're watching our team still to come for you shelling by israeli forces. two more palestinians killed sunday after forty eight hours of deadly air force strikes i will talk live with our correspondent for the latest from tel of the interest a few moments. plus nuclear fears continue to spread in japan as experts accuse the government of failing to disclose information in one year after an earthquake and tsunami spotted an atomic crisis. this week greece finally concluded a deal with private investors considered to

the nato secretary general comments to restore the undermined phase of the afghan people and lindsey graham and from the coalition believes this is a massively damaging for america's entire campaign in the country. the americans will try to say this is just an isolated incident but we have to remember there are a hundred thousand troops there are men. over the burning of the koran that isn't just about the offense to islam it's also about the occupation itself the airstrikes and particularly in this case we know that every night in afghanistan up to forty thousand is a rated looking for alleged terrorist in the country now if this soldier is one of the many who've been involved in these raids and it does raise many many questions as to exactly how the americans are treating the occupied population the afghan people. pine marks the end of us or of the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the country leaving more than twenty thousand missing people trying to get there at the exact moment big quake struck last march to grieve in silence. nine point zero magnitude quake left the north east

when i was there with senator lindsey graham and senator mccain and several others, i was taken aback by some of the comments that were made. and you were with us. and that was just, what, three or four weeks ago. and senator mccain made clear his concerns, crystal clear. it was an important, open, direct exchange i thought was valuable. but i've noticed that president karzai has made some additional comments of the same nature since then, and that is a cause of concern to me. what can you tell us about where we stand with regard to the president of afghanistan? >> senator, you have put your finger on the issue that there is frustration with these events. and these events in many respects have struck a blow at the core of the relationship. and this president, president karzai, has to be able to speak to the afghan people about putting our relationship in the context of the long-term relationship with afghanistan. so i understand his frustration, and i understand that if it was just one event he would have a particular view on it. but we've had several events of late -- the urination v