take a listen to one of them >> eric cantor and senator lindsey graham need your thanks for supporting amnesty for undocumented illegal immigrants on election day next tuesday. both eric cantor and senator graham have indicated they support barack obama's kind of plan to give amnesty to tens of millions of illegals. >> now, cantor faces tea party-backed economics professor, dave bratt, in the richmond area seventh district. and though bratt has raised virtually no money and cantor is expected to win comfortably today, cantor has decided to spend more than $1 million to defend himself against attacks, particularly on the issue of immigration. >> tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are pouring across the border, on the promise of eric cantor's amnesty. >> many of us have been shocked to read eric cantor's lies about his own pro-amnesty record. eric cantor saying he opposes amnesty is like barack obama saying he opposes obamacare. >> dave brat, by the way, will join me in just a moment. just miles away in virginia's suburban washington eighth district, seven candidates are competing i

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senator john mccain and lindsey graham. often called the two amigos. r graham said he was in favor for dialogue with iran. >> it is not as bad as hitler. iranians can provide some assets to make sure baghdad doesn't fall. we need to coordinate with iranians and turks need to get into the game and get sunni arabs back in the game and form a new government to out malaki and yes i don't want them to dominate iraq. let us save baghdad so there is a chance at a second government. >> figure that one out. work with iran but don't let them win. the height of falling to believe that the iranian regime can be our partner in managing the deteriorating situation or security situation in iraq. u.s. and iranian interest do not align in iraq and greater iranian intervention would make the situation dramatically worse. clarence page is a column nest and john furry is a strategist. clarence, everybody you talk to says that iran is all over iraq now they are acting like, boehner, let's talk turkey politically. no one in politics want to be caught in bed with iran, which

but then you have people like lindsey graham.eople are looking at it from the national level who say, look, demographics are changing, there is no way we're ever going to elect a president if you can only get 27% of this fast growing demographic. >> how many press releases i've gotten from people running for congress this week who are claiming to be the next dave brat, everyone is trying to claim the mantle of dave brat. immigration was his big issue, bigger challenge far eric cantor was not the fact that he was for immigration reform or gin it but that people didn't really know where he stood. first he came out very forcefully against immigration, then he said he was for it for the kids. then he backed 'weigh from that when it looked like that was unpopular. the challenge for him in his district not just that issue but number of issues they weren't -- >> you probably know more about this than the rest of us. but this is going to bring new meaning to faculty politics. it turns out that democrat in this race is also a professor at

you point out south carolina where lindsey graham is having a much better time of it. ink to graham's advantage, he saw this coming, he wrkd on it it he had a positive message going out to tea partiers. lindsey graham said you and i may not agree on everything, but on the things we do agree on, do i a darn good job on foreign policy and things like that. meantime, eric cantor went negative on dave brat, attacking him with some attack ads that were of some questionable veracity and brat, as you say, a college professor, and here is something interesting. his opponent in the general election, jack tramel is also a professor at the same small college, randolph macon college north of richmond. how about that? >> so, at the same college? >> same college. >> that makes for an interesting walk down the hallway there. >> that will be interesting at faculty senate meetings. it tells you this. when you have a small district. when you are talking about a congressional district like this. the will of individuals is much more easily felt because it's harder to deliver pig money in a

host: you brought up senator lindsey graham, this is from twitter. enator graham hasn't in a foreign he wants to avoid. our foreign affairs issues an issue in this primary? guest: not really. it's whether or not graham is conservative enough. you have to understand the graham -- his committee assignments lends itself to getting involved in those kinds of issues. he works a lot with john mccain, they'd travel a lot. he is on the armed services -- he actually has an ad up with some servicepeople thanking them for getting him the right equipment in afghanistan. those committees lend itself to that, so yes, he gets involved a lot. meddling, i'm not sure i'd use the word meddling. host: states are having a primary on tuesday, we were just talking about iowa being a state with competitive house races. also a state with a competitive senate races well. battle creek iowa, on our line for democrats. caller: it's michigan. host: sorry. also competitive race in michigan. caller: i was wondering two things, one, what is the effect of the koch brothers spending an

let's watch lindsey graham go nasty on benghazi, threaten impeachment. is there anything graham won't do to save his seat in the u.s. senate? and another school shooting. this time in oregon. just two days after that horrific ambush in las vegas. i want to know why these shootings keep happening here in the u.s. and not in other countries it seems. finally, let me finish in my prediction. in an unpredictable world, that hillary and bill clinton aren't going to stop their quest. this book tour is the start of something big. seeing the world in reverse, and i loved every minute of it. but then you grow up and there's no going back. but it's okay, it's just a new kind of adventure. and really, who wants to look backwards when you can look forward? [ female announcer ] we eased your back pain, you turned up the fun. tylenol® provides strong pain relief while being gentle on your stomach. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®. >> take a look at this new pugh poll on the public's opinions on the prisoner exchange for bowe bergdahl. 43

you asked the guy about lindsey graham in south carolina. lindsey graham was for immigration reform. he crushed this guy down in south carolina. i don't think immigration is bad. i think the people of virginia just got sick of cantor. this is news to me that people can cross over and vote. if what she is saying is true and the fact the president won virginia in the election, i think she is right. the tea party shouldn't be crowing because they didn't throw their hat in the ring. let's see what the outcome is. i think it is a good thing for america that they throw this guy out because i agree with the lady. boehner and all the republicans are just having no idea. when you hear the republicans talk, are you listeners, what are they selling you as an alternative? what is the alternative to the affordable health care act? nothing. what is the alternative to immigration? they have no ideas. it is just no, no. they love keeping the country stuck in mud and having these endless hearings from benghazi to the irs and now to the prisoner swap. they ha

lindsey graham beat, what, i think five or six tea party candidates? he got more votes than all of them combined. he won by 100,000 votes. in virginia, eric cantor lost by, what, 5,000, 10,000 votes. i look at this and say this has a lot to do with the effectiveness of relative campaigns, but also major issues. people are upset about what's happening with the failure of the president to carry out our immigration laws. they're seeing what's happening at the border and i think that probably -- >> but this is within the party, governor. is the tea party populism driving the republican party, what it believes, what it stands for, and will that continue through 2016? >> well, it certainly didn't drive what happened in south carolina, where in a very conservative state, lindsey graham won in a landslide. so you're seeing different voices in different parts of the country. i actually think it's healthy for us to have a debate on important issues. you're seeing that right now. i think our party is becoming stronger. we got a lot of great candidates running for

lindsey graham won. not that he's a bum. >> that's true. also if you look at the mississippi race will be interesting to watch. you have to look at somebody like mitch mcconnell. ann coulter earlier on your program talked about. he defeated the tea party challenger but took him seriously from the beginning. so i think the picture is still murky. however, i think the republicans now have a decision, should they choose somebody a little different out of the box? maybe like a kathy mcmorris rogers of washington state to be the new majority leader. >> what a statement that would be especially given the democratic message about the so-called gop war on women. dana thank you for being here. thank you, lady. >> bye-bye. >> we'll be right back with final thoughts of our panel, awaiting the actual remarks of dave brat on camera. in a few minutes you'll have a >>> you know, i know there's a lot of long faces here tonight, and it's disappointing, sure. but i believe in this country. i believe there's opportunity around the next corner for all of us. s

lindsey graham won. how divided is the republican party right now?> it's not divided at

senator lindsey graham. thank you so much for being here. >> glad to be with you. >> you know, it's a conservative state, south carolina. you beat them all back. so here's the softball. what did you right that eric cantor did wrong? >> i think i defined myself in a very good way. i had an air game and a ground game very coordinated. politics is war in another form, we had a lot of money but 5200 precinct captains. we prepared the ground game. nobody saw that coming. we really overwhelmed them on the ground. but i was a conservative leader who gets things done. >> well, you also talked about immigration. and your state of south carolina is conservative. you're for immigration reform. you do not run away from it. you defended it. how did you manage to win doing that? >> 65% of the south carolina republicans support an earned pathway to citizenship. if you secure the border, have more legal immigration and control who gets a job, 65% of south carolinans say, learn the english language, pay a fine, get in the ba

his reaction of watching kantor's loss was, my race is going to be more of lindsey graham's win thanric cantor's loss, comparing himself that, like lindsey graham, she spent a lot of time in his home state. he spends over half his nights sleeping in tennessee, not washington, d.c. an aide told me after mitch mcconnell won in kentucky, the tea party opponent to lamar alexander pinned the blame for that loss in kentucky on the tea party groups in washington. the tea party groups in washington saw that and are probably unlikely to help the guy in tennessee who is challenging senator alexander. >> virginia was a surprise. we'll wauch tennessee in case. juana? >> earlier this week, tenured teacher and tenured laws are depriving students of their constitutional right for a good education. what's really fascinating is if you dig into this ruling, the judge made solutions to brown versus the board of education which turned six years old last month. we're expecting to see a lot of copy cat lawsuits on teacher tenure out of states like colorado and new mexico. we'll be watching for a ripple ef

lindsey graham won. not that he's a bum. >> that's true.o if you look at the mississippi race will be interesting to watch. you have to look at somebody like mitch mcconnell. ann coulter earlier on your program talked about. he defeated the tea party challenger but took him seriously from the beginning. so i think the picture is still murky. however, i think the republicans now have a decision, should they choose somebody a little different out of the box? maybe like a kathy mcmorris rogers of washington state to be the new majority leader. >> what a statement that would be especially given the democratic message about the so-called gop war on women. dana thank you for being here. thank you, lady. >> bye-bye. >> we'll be right back with final thoughts of our panel, awaiting the actual remarks of dave brat on camera. in a few minutes you'll have a nobody told us to expect it... intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. the problem isn't likely to go away... ...on its own. so it's time we do something about it. and there's help. p

and what it's essential to it, i did have conversations with lindsey graham.port the senate version of immigration reform. he defended it before his voters and his voters resoundingly reelected him. >> laura, what did you accomplish here, though, those who pushed cantor out? you now have a more moderate majority leader coming in, in kevin mccarthy, and brat has been elected. ph.d. in economics. who can't tell us his position on minimum wage. >> what we know now the issue of immigration is a critical issue in american politics. i'm not running the gop. this is -- let me tell you something, jonathan, if the results last week were that cantor won by 11 points, you would be doing "this week," saying greenlight to immigration reform. you wouldn't picking out jokes at a rally saying this got really personal. it would be eric cantor is going to be working with people like luis gutierrez. on immigration reform. >> we have to take a quick break. we don't have time for our powerhouse puzzler but we'll be back with more of our powerhouse roundtable. roundtable. so i want

lindsey graham won. not that he's a bum. >> that's true.resting to watch. you have to look at somebody like mitch mcconnell. ann coulter earlier on your program talked about. he defeated the tea party challenger but took him seriously from the beginning. so i think the picture is still murky. however, i think the republicans now have a decision, should they choose somebody a little different out of the box? maybe like a kathy mcmorris rogers of washington state to be the new majority leader. >> what a statement that would be especially given the democratic message about the so-called gop war on women. dana thank you for being here. thank you, lady. >> bye-bye. >> we'll be right back with final thoughts of our panel, awaiting the actual remarks of dave brat on camera. in a few minutes you'll have a in a few minutes you'll have a upgrade to the philips norelco shaver series 8000 for the most advanced shaving experience. with gyroflex 3d technology, you can get to those hard to reach places for the ultimate shave wet or dry. guaranteed. visit

lindsey graham won. not that he's a bum. >> that's true.ssissippi race will be interesting to watch. you have to look at somebody like mitch mcconnell. ann coulter earlier on your program talked about. he defeated the tea party challenger but took him seriously from the beginning. so i think the picture is still murky. however, i think the republicans now have a decision, should they choose somebody a little different out of the box? maybe like a kathy mcmorris rogers of washington state to be the new majority leader. >> what a statement that would be especially given the democratic message about the so-called gop war on women. dana thank you for being here. thank you, lady. >> bye-bye. >> we'll be right back with final thoughts of our panel, awaiting the actual remarks of dave brat on camera. in a few minutes you'll have a live hannity so don't go away. and i loved every minute of it. but then you grow up and there's no going back. but it's okay, it's just a new kind of adventure. and really, who wants to look backwards when you can look f

and lindsey graham liked it. behold. m's best friend, john mccain, he also went to the briefing. john mccain has a habit of usually leaving briefings early. so he can complain about them on television. but perhaps because he had faced some criticism for doing that recently, today senator mccain had the decency to actually go to the briefing and sit there through it before he went on tv to complain about it. and lindsey graham may have loved this briefing that he got today, but john mccain naturally hated it, he said it was worthless. >> what did you learn? >> nothing that isn't published information as is the case with every briefing i've ever attended. >> stupid briefings. senator john mccain, the republican voice of god on foreign policy, says he has never learned anything from any congressional briefing ever in the history of him going to congressional briefings. but despite their differences about whether or not having the state department brief the senate today on iraq, despite their differences about whether that wa

so i have a simple question for people like lindsey graham. what is the plan? do you want to keep these people there until their last dying breath? do you realize what that means for americans captured elsewhere whose captors can point to guantanamo as precedent to justify keeping those americans in captivity until they die. i really feel strongly you cannot criticize the terms of the deal if you do not provide your own plan about how you deal with the folks in guantanamo. you don't get to just say bad deal, lindsey graham declined our offer to answer that question. senior fellow, former assistant secretary of defense joins us now. what do you think the plan is? what do we do with the category of people that were taliban fighters picked up on the battlefield to get them out of guantanamo? >> i think that's something i wish the president had thought through more when he made the promise to close it. it was the first conversation that bob gates relates that he had with the incoming administration that they had underestimated how difficult it would be to close gua

arguing newsome ben cohen and horace cooper and let's get back to it senator john mccain and lindsey graham have played a key role in getting prince bandar to hustle millions out a rich saudis to arm rebel groups in syria and while the money was supposed to be funding moderate rebels it turns out as steve clemons was reported over the atlantic that they've also funded more extreme groups like the al nusra front and isis the same group that is taking over iraq right now so my question to you all of steve clemons is reporting accurately john mccain and lindsey graham bear a lot of responsibility for what's going on in iraq right now should they be investigated or perhaps prosecuted by the justice department or by congress. i'll say this i don't know if they're what they're talking if this is this bears say you know an investigation but it does bear a little bit of you know a little bit of contrition to really think about this because this is a very complicated issue i mean over and over again over again in the middle east the united states has found itself. different sides of an issue go back

lindsey graham called for evacuating the u.s. embassy.act that it is being fortified should please him, but it is doubtful this president could please lindsey graham at this point. >> do you know what's interesting, wes, is they are bringing out an old attack that the president is too busy playing golf. listen to this. >> this is a crisis. it calls for a response other than going to palm springs for a fundraiser. >> there is a lot of criticism for the president taking a four-day holiday for father's day golfing, doing fund-raising. >> this as the president golfs. >> they want to talk about golfing. where was the right wing outrage after the infamous moment from president bush in 2002? watch this. >> i call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. >> thank you. >> now watch this drive. >> isn't that the point they are trying to just act as though all of the outrageous stuff that happened during bush's involvement with iraq didn't happen? >> it goes back to, frankly, a tired argument. you know, about how t

not a new idea, not a lindsey graham conspiracy. senator harry reid, in his quiet, furious way, harry reid made the same point today in the u.s. senate. watch. >> let's assume he was in vibrant health and faking all of this. he is an american soldier. he's been in captivity for five years them war's winding down. let's bring him home. >> nor reid spoke in his patented angry whisper today about how the republicans have been denying they knew anything about this deal that has been public for years and thou the same republicans criticizing the president for getting bowe bergdahl home beat the administration up for not doing enough to get bowe bergdahl back. senator reid today read republicans past statements calling on the administration to get bowe bergdahl home and called them out for their hypocrisy, now they are criticizing the administration for in fact getting bowe bergdahl home n. terms of what happens next, carl levin says there will be a full briefing on tuesday. i think that will be a classified briefing ark closed briefing w

. >>> tuesday is primary day for south carolina senator lindsey graham dominating in polls against a dozen opponents, but if he doesn't top 50% he faces a runoff. we'll bring in digital politics edit editor, chris, thank you for being here. >> it's been interesting because it looked like a couple of the candidates early on would make gain contraction, but it looks like the opposition to graham has not left behind any one of the six challengers. >> that is true, but that's not necessary. the name of the game in most southern states or a lot of southern states is they have runoffs, so the goal is not to win outright but to force the incumbent into a runoff as we're seeing in mississippi now. lindsey graham has done a way better job, there is a lesson in all of this for incumbents, for the republican party. lindsey graham made immediate and it would seem to be they take him sincere, outreach to the running. he said, look, you and i don't agree on everything. i'm not going out there in a tri-corner hat, but on the places where you want me, you need me. and things like what's been going o

lindsey graham is a really good retail politician.to be something he wasn't, either. right? he had voted for the senate bill. and he didn't really try to hide from that. and eric cantor was, well, i'm really for enforcement and this dave brat guy is he a radical professor. that didn't pass the straight face test that lie really caught up with eric cantor especially in the last 15 days of the campaign. he seemed really smug in the closing hours as well. >> all right. laura, thanks as always. we appreciate it going to have our mad as hell segment this evening. because of all the breaking news we have to postpone it when we come back, ms. megyn kelly on why things are going so badly with the obama administration. megyn is next. he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male an

lindsey graham i should say declined to come on our show and offer to answer that question. senior fellow, former assistant secretary of defense joins us now. ben, i'll start with you. what do you think the plan is? what do we do with the category of people that were taliban fighters picked up on the battlefield to get them out of guantanamo? >> well, not to be trite about this, but i actually think that's something that i wish the president had thought through more when he made the promise to close it. mainly -- and this is the first conversation that bob gates relates in his book that he had with the incoming administration, that he felt they underestimated how difficult it would be to close gitmo. from my perspective, it's a priority but not the number one priority. >> what is the number one priority? >> i think it's american national security. 2/3 you end up in a situation where you do have to keep camp x-ray open until some of these people die in the same way you kept nazi prisons open in the wake of world war ii until rudolph hess died in the '80s, i think that's somet

lindsey graham is a really good retail politician.t trying to be something he wasn't, either. right? he had voted for the senate bill. and he didn't really try to hide from that. and eric cantor was, well, i'm really for enforcement and this dave brat guy is he a radical professor. that didn't pass the straight face test that lie really caught up with eric cantor especially in the last 15 days of the campaign. he seemed really smug in the closing hours as well. >> all right. laura, thanks as always. we appreciate it going to have our mad as hell segment this evening. because of all the breaking news we have to postpone it when we come back, ms. megyn kelly on why things are going so badly with the obama administration. megyn is next. with my friends, we'll do almost anything. out for drinks, eats. i have very well fitting dentures. i like to eat a lot of fruits. love them all. the seal i get with the super poligrip free keeps the seeds from getting up underneath. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc

lindsey graham, a huge critic of the administration on that issue. going to be a good show. >> back to you. >> it will be indeed. thank you very much, dana bash, gloria borger. you can catch dana and gloria in for candy crowley on "state of the union" at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> three teens have vanished from the west bank. the israeli prime minister is blaming a terror group. who took them? >>> plus chelsea manning breaking her silence and accusing the u.s. military of outright lying about the iraq war. ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing good around ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ [ female announcer ] fiber one. marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious, and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber. from phillips. >>> israeli soldiers have detained about 80 palestinian suspects in the s

i am lindsey graham and humbly ask for your vote on tuesday. >> nonthe poll for lindsey graham is 50% none of his challengers are befor into the double digits. >>> lawmakers have been attacked with attack ads like this. >> even though 88% of americans are for medical marijuana. >> you know we've reached an e an new era when marijuana groups are doing the attack ads. >> some gun owners say they're going too far. both sides of the open carry debate next.vé >> texan republics are holding their convention this weekend. many are encouraging delegates to carry an open carry message for their platform. >> reporter: their automatic rifles and shotguns have been banned from restaurant like chipotles, starbucks and chilis. even the nra h considered this weird and taken back. chris miller is a mechanic who is engaged. he said he's just a regular guy who really doesn't want to carry his ar-15 for protection. he's just doing it to make a point. >> i just feel that as free citizens we have the option to conceal or open carry. when you can open carry a shotgun, you can get arrested for open carrying

so an update to what senator lindsey graham was just saying.e. the fox news political insiders are hear and you can join in on the conversation on twitter at harris faulkner at fn insiders #frw for fox report weekend. john bootlier, pat ka dell, doug schoen. >> i'm going to go to you first. you were with president jimmy carter as the negotiations were opening up to try to free our hostages that iran had taken. now we're talking about a situation where the president may open dialogue as reported by the wall street journal with tehran. talk to me? >> well, i don't know why he doesn't just call putin. this is, i mean, putin is one who runs the world anyway and he might actually be able to do something. we're going to call the people we're negotiating with nuclear weapons who are violating those and who already invade iraq to help us because essentially what we have here is 1975 occurring right before our eyes. this is the collapse of vietnam. the president and by the way, i want to say harris, i blame the neo-cons on the right, including a place t

lindsey graham said. no why would anybody in their right behind release the leaders with the the taliban with american blood on their hand who have sworn to go back to the fight to realign with al qaeda to attack our country yet again? when the president said one of the principles he follows closely is to never leave a man behind on the battlefield. this is the same president miss on the night of the benghazi attack. this is the same president who never picked up a phone and intervened in libya to try to get our rescue out of benghazi so they could go help the people under siege. this is the same president will not account for his time during the attack of september 11th, 2012. so, if you are really that dedicated to protecting our people, come clean with what you did during the benghazi attack, mr. president. >> all right, senator, we also want to ask you about the accusation of president obama intentionally bypassed congress to release the five taliban prisoners back in 2008. presidential candidate obam

right now so my question to you all of steve clemons is reporting accurately john mccain and lindsey graham bear a lot of responsibility for what's going on in iraq right now should they be investigated or perhaps prosecuted by the justice department or by congress. i'll say this i don't know if they're what they're talking if this is this bears a you know an investigation but it does bear a little bit of you know a little bit contrition to really think about this because this is a very complicated issue i mean over and over again over again in the middle east the united states has found itself on different sides of an issue you go back to back in the shah in the overthrow in iran and then all of a sudden you see a supporting saddam hussein in fighting the you know what i'm about told in the early eighty's continues we were always on either side in which talking about very complicated issues in you know the say this the libertarian in me continues to want to say you know what this is something that we continue to we continue to lose treasure in american blood on in these conflicts we need t

been given exorbitant attention to these two gentleman the senator senator mccain and senator lindsey graham as if they speak for the entire congress remember it was the entire congress that threatened not to endorse the u.s. bombing syria over the chemical weapons and therefore it's one of the reasons why obama withdrew from that notion unfortunately the russians came in and arranged a negotiated kind of exit but the pet fact is that these these individuals who are crying out for blood all the time do not represent the sentiments of american people and therefore give a much distorted image to the rest of the world about where american thinking is on these kind of issues john how much does iraq could be playing at some good job and jump in go ahead i just i want to add something on the air strikes issue because. something that hasn't been commented on i think in the in the last few days is how we got to this point with respect to the conduct of the war itself the u.s. war in iraq. you know by my calculations the calculations of epidemiologists who have studied this there were between a half

our democratic friends have put us back in the game. >> schieffer: lindsey graham. we'll be talking more about politics and republican party in part two of our broadcast. go back now to this news from overnight in iraq. perhaps nobody at cbs news spent mr. time in iraq over the years since first gulf war than cbs news correspondent than laura logan. this thing seems to be working all too well. it seems to be as these invaders came down on this march toward baghdad, everything seems to be clicking on all cylinders. well coordinated, who is running this thing? >> it's a very good question. because the leader of isis is the poet and floss fear and spiritual man, he's the one driving the vision of the state and governance that they want to institute. on the other side of that the military masterminds. there are number of them but among them there's the -- who we hear very little from who seems to be very powerful. then one of the others is man known as abu al iraqi who was hold, when he was released went over to the syria. but in syria has become a powerful force for is

and lindsey graham may have loved this briefing that he got today, but john mccain naturally hated it, he said it was worthless. >> what did you learn? >> nothing that isn't published information as is the case with every briefing i've ever attended. >> stupid briefings. senator john mccain, the republican voice of god on foreign policy, says he has never learned anything from any congressional briefing ever in the history of him going to congressional briefings. but despite their differences about whether or not having the state department brief the senate today on iraq, despite their differences about whether that was a stupid waste of time or the best briefing ever, senator john mccain and best friend forever senator lindsey graham and also senator marco rubio who also spoke about this today at the same event, they all apparently do agree on one thing. which is that whatever the united states is going to do militarily in iraq, it's not their responsibility. >> when the president asked -- >> i think the president doesn't need our approval to make these decisions. >> senator, do you

lindsey graham says we have to work with iran we will. john mccain says what are you smoking. >> did he say -- >> no. he said, you're crazy. last week john mccain got on the senate floor and gave a speech about how everyone on the national security team of the president should be fired immediately. what was the big idea? we should call david pe tray us and ask what to do. >> lindsey graham on a sunday show, the one that's on oh earliest before "meet the press," he said we have to go in an and bomb isis. then go to syria and get involved militarily there. are we going to shoot everybody? >> yes. >> start with bomb isis. sounds great. bomb the crazy people. they happen to be in the middle of civilian populations. there is no neat way the to bomb them and not civilians and turn the -- >> there is no frenchen man on the ground saying over here, over there. no targeter. >> how can we engage with a partner like the malaki government we can't trust. they can't even hold onto their own uniforms. >> what brought the neo-cons back? i thought this w

>> i cannot fathom why he sat in the oval office and told me and lindsey graham that he is going to do me to do what is necessary to reverse what is necessary on the battlefield in syria and turned around and strike after chemical weapons were used. i believe this president does not understand that if america doesn't lead, then lots of other people are going to to and they are bad people. these individuals who are just released will pose a direct threat to the lives of american men and women who have serving in this military. therefore, it makes it totally unacceptable. >> you spent five and a half years as a pow. any thoughts about sergeant bergdahl, what he is facing coming back. >> i have great sympathy for sergeant bergdahl. i'm glad that he is home. there are allegations concerning the way that he became a captive of the taliban. i will let others who know a lot more about that than i do make a comment. but there is also no doubt that we went to extraordinary lengths trying to find him after he was missing. i mean, you have guests that will tell you that and so, but, this deal and

host: you brought up senator lindsey graham, this is from twitter. graham hasn't in a foreign he wants to avoid. foreign affairs issues an issue in this primary? not really. it's whether or not graham is conservative enough. you have to understand the graham -- his committee assignments lends itself to getting involved in those kinds of issues. john mccain,t with they'd travel a lot. he is on the armed services -- he actually has an ad up with some servicepeople thanking them for getting him the right equipment in afghanistan. committees lend itself to that, so yes, he gets involved a lot. meddling, i'm not sure i'd use the word meddling. are having a were just tuesday, we talking about iowa being a state with competitive house races. also a state with a competitive senate races well. iowa, on our line for democrats. caller: it's michigan. host: sorry. also competitive race in michigan. caller: i was wondering two things, one, what is the effect of the koch brothers spending and americans for prosperity? money in been spending this race. recently, the

as to graham, i wanted to make a point that we were talking about how lindsey graham survived on a day whom were fairly weak. i think that if one of south carolina's members of congress, house members or tea partiers had run against him, they probably could have forced him into a runoff. graham got 56%. you needed 50 to clear the runoff threshold and then maybe he would have been in real trouble. i think the quality of the opposition helps explain graham's victory more than anything else. >> more than graham himself. in part the opposition, we talked about this previously but i want to come back to this and that is that david brat was running but he was running with at least a little bit of national profile provided by laura ingram. i want to listen to what she was saying and that this was actually about a national trend. let's listen to her. >> because we're slowly losing her country. >> amen. >> because the establishment has had its way for election cycle after election cycle. have kicked the electorate to the curb. sold out our values, misrepresented our views, looked down upon the