you would never know that listening to lindsey graham or john mccain. >> laura from seabring florida.t do you think? >> 0, every time i turn the t.v. on and i see his face, i want to -- >> lipped see graham. >> lindsey graham. he is the worse worst. >> it's not just his face. it's his voice. >> like chalk -- your nails on a caulk board. >> absolutely. but the thing that got me upset the other day when i was watching him, he looks around when he is talking to them. he looks around the room like does anybody listen to what i am saying? he has to be the center of all attention >> bill: that's why he does the shows. do you hear what outrageous thing i am saying right now? >> caller: look at me. he got all of his answers. what more does he want? >> bill: the idea that they are beating the dead horse now everybody else has moved on. everybody understands. ambassador christopher stephens was murdered. it was garagic. there was not enough security there. one of the reasons, the republicans veto any request to secure or embassies but whatever happened, it happened, and the idea that lindsey gr

let's talk about lindsey graham.guy who had already recanted his argument about the power of the israeli lobby, obviously enormously influential lobby like the nra, heavily funded, heavily activated, strong people with strong minds, everybody knows they're influential, that's why they're there. to say which senator do you know that was bought by them, controlled by them, intimidated by them. obviously there's no answer to that question. so what was the purpose of that exchange? what i would submit is it wasn't an interview. it wasn't even an interrogation. it was almost a star chamber attempt to incriminate the guy. in other words, there is no right answer to the question. had he named a name of somebody who had come up and said i was going to vote for that but somebody got to me and said i better not, if somebody had said that to him, he would have been dead in these hearings. i'm just saying what the questions were along the lines of, have you stopped beating your wife? there was no informative answer. >> you're ca

i want you to watch something by lindsey graham here.ey graham has been all over the place doing bad work i think the last couple days. here he is warning that cuts to police budgets, talk about republicans going crazy, are one reason citizens need guns with high capacity magazines. in other words, you got to reproduce the local police department. let's listen here. >> right. >> because of the fiscal state of affairs we have, there will be less police officers, not more, over the next decade. response times are going to be less, not more. there can be a situation where a mother runs out of bullets because of something we do here. >> now we have a new pearl harbor slogan, cut the police, pass the ammunition. i mean, it's unbelievable, ron. >> well, it's ironic, too, because republicans have been promoting these slashing of local budgets that results in fewer police on the streets here, and there's an unstated irony in this as well. that lindsey graham knows full well, wayne lapierre knows full well, gayle trotter knows full well and sheld

it was about lindsey graham grandstanding for the five minutes he gets.here's a whole other story about how congressional hearings have really gone downhill over the last 10 or 20 years, five-minute questions you don't get to develop a train of thought, you don't take in the answer and have a real discussion. you saw yesterday far more talk about what hagel might have said about israel a couple years ago than about afghanistan. >> they wanted recantation. they wanted him to recant like -- excuse me, ecclesiastical proceeding. turn the candled upside down. >> they feel he turned on them, turned on the neocons and they want him to cry uncle. the neocons who are led in the senate by john mccain and lindsey graham, they see chuck hagel as the human road block and the symbol that barack obama, that president obama is not going to let them have their war in iran, and that is their problem with chuck headachel. >> i think our brains are connected. i say that again, joy. you're so smart. because i agree with your words as you speak them. they're brilliant. i'm se

okay, charles, we heard that senator lindsey graham on the reasoning behind his vote.he reason whether why he o delay this. others have different reasoning. your thoughts on this and how it plays. >> as you said, there are a variety of reasons. i think the main one right now for the delay, it looks as if it's just a delay, it's not a denial until the end of time, of a vote on his nomination. it's to look in to the speeches, the income that he hadn't disclosed, in response to a question from senator ted cruz, who asked about that and hadn't received a response. i think the republicans are on good grounds of demanding information. they are required to give advice and consent. in the case of john boltton, nominated by the bush administration to be u.n. ambassador, he was actually stopped completely from the nomination from getting a vote. because of, you know, of a protest by democrats about lack of information. ultimately, the bush administration had to give them a recess appointment. so it is a perfectly legitimate maneuver to, "a," get information and let's actually se

reunio esta tarde en casa blanca con dos senadores republicanos del grupo de los ocho, maccaine y lindsey grahamandatario después del 2009. >>no hicieron comentarios en cámara. graham dijo que fue una de las mejores reuniones que ha tenido con el presidente. >>los republicanos quiere ver si el presidente esta serio, que quiere una victoria y no un asunto político >es importante, porque sabemos que con solo un acuerdo entrre demócratas y republicanos podemos tener una reforma migratoria >>es importante que el presidente se reuna con los líderes que historicamaente avanzaron una reforma migratoria. >>el portavoz de otro negociador no invitado, marco ru bio no invitado dijo, nos alegra que se reunan, este tipo de discusion es constructivo >>el portavoz de casa blanca dice que esta idea surgio entre una conversacion del presidente con maccaine. así y todo ,el presidente ha dicho públicament que de no avanzar el proyecto, él presentará su propio plan. >>y el impacto de recortes se siente ya en centros de detenciones de indocumentados. >>se ha ordenado poner en libertad a centenas, en houston ya salie

este dijo posteriormente que la conversacion fue excelente >>lindsey graham dijo que fue excelente reunionestán optimistas >>yo creo que los republicanos quieren ver si el presidente es serio. >>y el presidente quiere ver si puede atraer el apoyo republicanos >>solo con el apoyo democrata y republicanos podremos lograr una reforma migratoria >>es importante que se reuna con líderes que han avanzado en una reforma migratoria, estos son macaine y lindsey graham, quien no fue invitado, dijo que es bueno que haya este tipo de discusion que es constructivo >>la idea de la conversacion surgio de una comunicacion telefonica del presidente. >>el presidente ha dicho que de no avanzar el proyecto en el senado, presentará su propio plan. >>el impacto de los posibles recortes federales se siente en los centros para detencion de indocumentados. >>ya se han liberado a varios, en houston ya salieron en libertad varios >>manuel pérez estuvo varios dias detenido en livingstone, texas, >>que si teniamos familiares afuera, que no pagaran nada. migracion nos iba a dejar salir. >>así lo muestran estas imágenes

should they give something to lindsey graham, and what should it be? >> is there much to give i should add? >> well, it wib timeline or something of presidential involvement, which is beyond the scope of what would normally be the confirmation process. the other issue that was raised by ted cruz and some of the other hagel critics was what money he may have made in private speeches and the suggestion that cruz made publicly that he may have taken money from rogue regimes which there doesn't seem to be any foundation for that. that's what inspired john mccain, kelly, who is a critic of hagel's to come back to his defense against this freshman senator from texas who is raising the suggestion that he had taken money even from pyongyang or from iran. >> well, what's interesting about mccain's position here is that he has said very clearly that he does not believe that chuck hagel was the right choice in this instance. he believes his performance at his hearing was poor. he took real issue with his fellow republican ted cruz of texas and said that chuck hag

. >> here's lindsey graham. badgering hagel. badgering is the word for it. whether the iranian revolutionary guard should be termed a terroristic organization. i think this is aimed directly at south carolina's right wing. let's listen. >> if there was a vote on the floor of the senate this afternoon to label the iranian revolutionary guard, the people who have killed our soldiers in iraq, some of the most vicious people to the people of iran themselves, if there were a vote tomorrow or this afternoon, would you still vote no? >> i would want to know from the president what they were doing again. >> i mean you read the paper, watch tv. do you very in doubt what they're doing? >> if you had a chance tomorrow, today, after lunch, to vote to say the revolutionary guard was a terrorist organization, would you still vote no? >> well, the reason i voted no to start with -- >> well, i know why. you told me that. my question is would you reconsider and vote yes this time or vote no? >> times change, i recognize that, yes, i would reconsider, but the whole theory. >>

who is lindsey graham describing here? >> exactly.re's an old and ugly tradition in this country of vilifying and creating these nightmare scenarios of roving basically black young men and brown young men as this violent, crazy criminal element and you have to arm yourself because gangs of them -- >> people like your husband, like your children. >> exactly. >> people like my children. >> exactly. meanwhile, brooklyn is one of the most gentrified communities in this country. places like redhook and places that used to be really impoverished and difficult areas are becoming quite gentrified and the people who live there are more yuppies, but even if they still were communities of color that were largely poor, demonizing those communities as necessarily inherently violent does have an ugly component to it with a long history. lindsey graham knows about it given the region he's from and wayne lapierre is trying to top into it. this crazy -- these are the rafings of a truly addled mind and it ran in the daily caller where the audience for

yeah i do want to go and address what lindsey graham senator graham said you know he put this number out there and then he goes on to say you know sometimes we kill innocent people unfortunately. that's what happens when we're at war he says but that's the cost that the side effect i guess of taking a very senior members of al qaeda and he's not the only one that kind of defends the president's drone campaign saying that it's this tactical. it's a tactic that's used to kill precisely target military. what do you say to that argument these people and then there are many of them that defend the use of drones and the way that the obama administration has been conducting this campaign. you know he's right about one thing it is it is a tactic but i think that doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to investigate whether it is backfiring susan collins a couple weeks ago in the brennan hearing actually asked that question and a pretty and satisfactory answer so there are there is at least one senator who's asking the question about efficacy is it working or is it causing more backlash and till w

eric why is lindsey graham doing all this?oning to a party to a base that di pieces him? >> it's clear that it's some sort of audition. he's doing it because he doesn't want to be primaried in south carolina republican. you know, it's not just graham. susan rice. there were senators who said the same thing. we're going to hold up any nomination for anything because we don't like susan rice. all of this is unprecedented. it's unprecedented obstructionism. and i think they get a pass from the press. if you read the reports today this is what graham is going to do this is the filibuster that they might do and then there is one sentence, oh, this has never been done in the history of the united states. >> john: they've done it before to this president. why are john mccain and sendly graham are so you ubiquitous? >> they want to block everything. what they're doing now is the equivalent of being on the schoolyard playing ball and they say we're not playing until billy gives me some of his ice cream. >> john: it's the screw you guys

you have senator lindsey graham, first he said i won't allow you a vote until leon panetta testifiesut what happened in benghazi. panetta testified. then it was we want to hear from secretary clinton. senator clinton did testify. then it was a request put out to the white house tuesday asking for specific information about where the president was and was doing on september 11, 2012 after the raid in benghazi. now, the white house pointed out that all this information is public record, that as this was happening in realtime, we were learning about secretary clinton at the secretary's request was speaking to labor yes. the following day the president himself called the president of libya. senators were still insisting that the white house put to them in writing this very same question. they got that this morning. they said their concerns are satisfied. as we know, there are other senators looking for more information. cenk: one last thing here. look, you know first of all hagel has nothing to do with benghazi. he wasn't in the government. it's abstored begin with on that note. again, i

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why is lindsey graham really leading this charge against chuck hagel?ely it is not because he thinks he is going to win. he's terrified about being primaried by a tea party that can't stand him correct? >> i think that's part of it. the other is that lindsey graham is an active member of the military. he's an officer in the military. he travels to afghanistan and iraq and everywhere else he can. he considers himself a member of the armed services. so he takes particular umbrage at chuck hagel who obviously was not for the surge. he argued as a republican senator with the bush policies and so this is a two-fer for him. he gets to go after a guy he doesn't like and it does polish his tea party credentials. >> john: beyond leading the charge to impeople president clinton, lindsey graham unlike hagel has never seen combat, correct? >> that would be correct. >> john: what is the state of the g.o.p. in south carolina? if an elected representative shows a glimmer of moderation, are they facing a primary? >> they are. we have a very active and very aggressive t

politics. >>> president obama met today with two of his biggest rivals, senator john mccain and lindsey grahampic, illegal immigration. after the meeting senator graham heaped praise on the president telling reporters it was one of the best meetings i've ever had with the president and he thinks we will have presidential leadership in a very productive way on immigration reform. and with that we have a very good chance of doing it this year. john mccain echoed his colleague calling it an excellent meeting. wow. mccain and graham are the senior republicans on the so-called gang of eight that's been working on fixing illegal immigration in this country. what good news for everybody. we'll be right back. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! ♪ wow. [ buzz ] delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? bee happy. bee healthy. with clusters of flakes and o's. oh, ho ho... it's the honey sweetness. i...i mean, you...love. >>> we're back. when presiden

lindsey graham. famous trying to humiliate democrats, trying to do the same thing now.he vapors. >> lindsey graham is my favorite tennessee protagonist. stephanie: and here he is, doing his catherine help burn impression. >> this is showing a chip on one shoulder about israel, an unhealthy statement to say the least and i think patently false but unnerving to a guy like me. >> all right thanks. stephanie: pardon me? >> summer's eve could sell lindsey graham, he's like brick in cat on a hot tin roof. >> that's not the character i was thinking of. stephanie: the thing we're all wondering, what is jay think? >> people are trying to say that and blame me as being the bad guy causing a filibuster. that's not the case at all. stephanie: just when you think he reached the last level level douche baggery. he was saying there's nothing icky in their entire family tree like divorce or homosexuality. >> that just dares you to run to ancestry.com. stephanie: or go to break up one of their marriages. you got a divorce. oscar lance from fire island, wait a minute. that's one inho oh

to take this position because lindsey graham is getting possibly primaried, and they need to be defiant south carolina girl, and i know folks in south carolina aren't happy with linsey graham. they feel like he is a rhino. every once in a while redskinsy fwram has to prove his -- >> every lots in a while. >> he is drawing john mccain into this drama who, of course, has all these old grievances with hagel, but i do think going forward what does this mean for hagel? does he assume this position, like we think he will, and is he damaged? is this just the beginning of more fights that he is going to have with the senate? is this going to damage his -- >> there is a question about all of this. the obama fiction of the democratic party has been very good for the democratic party. the obamafiction of senate republicans has been bad for them and the republican party. whether it is chuck hagel or colin powell or bob gates, this is a president who has worked with republicans on major issues, senior posts, foreign policy, and the republican party's reaction has been to spaz out, and it makes them

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lindsey graham is trying to say i want to make sure you do the right thing, lindsey graham. to do that i'm going to put this bind around you in the future. but you can always just vote how you're going to vote in the future, right? i've seen this with people who tried to quit smoking or drinking. >> like padlocking the refrigerator door. >> it's exactly like that, padlocking the refrigerator door. then you go out to the corner bar or buying a pack of cigarettes and throwing out the pack and smoke one cigarette. then you buy another pack, right? they keep trying to bind their future behavior. the problem is that they had the exact same political incentives in every single moment. >> what that is is terrible leadership in the congress. they didn't use to do this. there's no leadership. boehner's problem is not the fact that he's a terrible speaker. i don't think he is. his problem is that he will not stand up to the radical right wing of his party. >> he has to create these hostage situations to get people in line. >> and lately it's gotten worse for him. if that keeps on he w

i mean lindsey graham went on a sunday show, and he quoted a blog, and he held it against chuck hagel and his reputation. what about that? >> look at what ted cruz did on the committee. ted cruz was saying, well, he might have thought this, or he might have done this. they are -- they are going in to areas of idle speculation about bizarre things. and this roots back to something, ed. we really have the better part of 30 years within the republican party of saying that you can't believe any mainstream media. and as a result, there is a tendency to reject "the new york times," "washington post," cbs, nbc, any mainstream media, they say that's just bias. so they push themselves further and further to the right for their sources of information. even rush limbaugh is suspect to some of these folks because he is too moderate. >> john nichols, washington correspondent of the nation. great to have you with us tonight. thank you so much. >>> granny get your gun. next i'll explain exactly how radical gun laws across america have deadly consequences. >>> some members of the beltway media are fl

is it lindsey graham? who is speaking?ecause john mccain has decided, on capitol hill, what the republican party's position's going to be on foreign policy. i'm not saying that i disagree with him on a lot of things. i think syria has been misplayed. i think that is a tragedy. i think we're going to look back and we're going to be -- there are going to be a lot of questions asked. but he's a neocon, through and through. and most republican senators that i talk to and mika talks to, they're not comfortable with that position. you look shocked that mika talks to republican senators, but she does. >> one on one. i have joe there, too. >> i'm amazed. one on one, joe there, too. >> yeah, two. >> i'm in the back taking notes. >> you know, usually it's fascinating what we can gather behind the scenes on the hill. >> they're not neocons. they're more realists. >>> coming up, former deputy campaign manager for the obama campaign, stephanie cutter, will be here. also nbc latino contributor, dr. victoria defrancesco soto. and up next

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chairman, you just heard what lindsey graham and jack reed were talking about there. e people in the house don't vote on the confirmation. that's the senate's business. but senator graham sounds pretty-- pretty set that he's going to do everything he can to block this unless he gets some answers. >> well, i do think answers appropriate. there was catastrophic failure in the decisions from a security perspective from the state department on keeping the ambassador and the employees in benghazi safe. that to me is clear. we've done our intelligence investigation in the house, some 4,000 cables cables and documents. it was clear the threat stream was very real, which is why i think the secretary of defense panet said yesterday they knew that night and the joint chiefs said in testimony yes they knew that night it was a terrorist attack just by the sheer volume. the question here is what happened? why did the state department fail those people that were in the field in benghazi? that is not clear yet and i think the american people deserve at least to understand what failur

lindsey graham is the perfect example. pure self-force. his friend john mccain relates to it because that's how he ran his re-election campaign, pure self-interest. not anything of substance. this isn't about chuck hagel but a republican party in a lot of was is broken. maybe you're right, don't want to get to guns or talk about uncomfortable things like immigration reform. this is so bad, such a bad precedent it's hard to believe someone like john mccain who claims to love the institution of the senate would do it. >> particularly when we just had this. what's maddening about this, to watch harry reid complain about it is a little much. he had a chance to do something and he bailed. he basically had this gentleman's agreement with mitch mcconnell. the president is saying we now have this de facto 60-vote rule. exactly. that's what advocates o reforming the filibuster in a muscular way you write in the rules are saying this is the tendency that there is nothing to interrupt this tendency right now. there's nothing in the norms of the insti