calling lindsey graham an idiot. giving out his personal cell phone number. >> i thought it was after lindsey graham called him a jackass. >> well exactly, exactly. saying that rick perry wears glasses to make him look smart. >> he gave out lindsey graham's personal cell phone number. >> right. said that -- has already said that john mccain is a loser. this is not the kind of political debate the republican party was hoping to have. these are ad hominem attacks. more like a high school twitter war than anything else and in long run the question is whether remembers who support him are angry enough to say, okay yeah it's fine to call lindsey graham an idiot, it's fine. >> but donald trump, david, he's very community have about this. if somebody slaps him, he's going to slap harder, he's going to really punch back. that's the way he's been throughout his career and if lindsey graham calls him a "jackass" he's going to come back and hit him hard. >> which is why we're getting foreshadowing for what this debate will look

the call was forwarded to an answering service that said lindsey graham was not available. graham admits he never even sent an e-mail seems to be changing his number. telling supporters in a tweet probably getting a new phone, iphone or android. so much for ronald reagan's 11th commandment to speak no ill of any other republican. now it's a race where the name calling, dirty tricks and mud slinging are out in the open nasty, ugly and caught on camera. >> i supported him. he lost and let us down. he lost. i never liked him as much as that. >> the party is fretting the gop's point this election is getting ig norpnored. >> these comments are inappropriate. >> reporter: joe johns, cnn, washington. >> thanks. >>> also "outfront" dug high served as director communications for the republican national committee and former regan white house political contributor. gentlemen, great to see you. doug you and i have known each other for a long time. you've been through a lot of campaigns, idiot, lightweight, stiff and then to top it off, reading out a candidate's personal cell phone numbe

then enough guy lindsey graham, a total lightweight. here's a guy in the private sector he couldn't get a job, believe he. couldn't get a job. he could don't what you people did. you're all retired as hell and rich. he wouldn't be rich, he'd be poor. but lindsey graham, now they say donald your language is inflammatory. i when the to the wharton school of finance, i was a great student, i built a fortune. i've had many best-seller, "the art of the deal" is the biggest selling book of all time. did a show everybody said is going to fail called "the apprentice" and it was a tremendous success. by the way, 15 copies of "the apprentice," everyone one of them failed. then they renewed it. they thought i was going to do it. i said no, you don't understand, nbc. the head freedom nbc and comcast came to my office and said -- recently, like a few months ago -- they said "please, please don't run. we've renewed "the apprentice."" it did great and we had a good last season, even after 12 years, 14 seasons. had a great season. and all these copies,

lindsey graham 1%. does it help lindsey graham.bouncer in this. >> these guys are competing to get on the debate stage, august 6. lindsey graham is calling him a jackass and everything else. and a train wreck. and done aldald trump fights back. i don't think he would ever change. just for the record. i think he is incapable of that. this work for lindsey graham. >> he is fund-raising off of it. it works for rick perry. >> talking about it. >> wreck perrick perry wants to look presidential compared to donald trump. a little more dicey for the folks who know they're going to be on the stage with donald trump. talking to one of the campaigns today. they believe that trump's people are more message loyal than personally loyal to trump. so they want to figure out a way. >> to tap into the message. the anti-politician message that jeff was talking about. without becoming donald trump. >> what about what we heard lindsey graham the standout part of his interview. he said donald trump is a political car wreck. he said people slow done to l

here's how he fired back at lindsey graham today after graham called him a jackass. >> he gave me his number, and i found the card. i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. 202 -- [ bleep ]. it's three or four years ago. maybe it's an old number. >> you know, liz, whatever you think of the destructiveness of his nature, he's like an old hit pitch man on the atlantic city boardwalk. he's selling the japanese steak knives. whatever he's got on the counter, he's selling. he's selling ab old phone number. i got the piece of paper here. the glasses that rick perry's wearing now and says you can see right through it. it's all visual graphic show biz. your thoughts? are there any limits to this? is it going to get worse and worse and worse? >> i think it's just if there's no repercussions, i think it will get worse and worse. donald trump has replaced bed bugs as america's number one pest. he just won't stop. and to announce lindsey graham's phone number? the irony of announcing lindsey graham's phone number is i think john mccain might answer it. >> that

my name is lindsey graham. i don't think the senator is happy about this being the way he has to run or this being the way fox news says republicans have to run for president this year. i don't think he likes it. at least he understands that this really is how the presidential nominatinging contest worked this year in the united states of america. >> it's a methodology that excluded how you perform in iowa, south carolina, new hampshire, where all 16 of us go. so nationalizing the terms of entry into the debate, marginalizes the effect of the early prime ary states. we have polling based on iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. it's one place we can compare to each other. so the nationalization by the rnc and fox network is going to basically over time erode the early primaries. if i have a choice i have to bump up my numbers. i look at focusing on getting the numbers up, coming to new hampshire. >> if i have a choice i have to bump my numbers up. where do i spend money, time. i will focus on getting the numb

lindsey graham i didn't even know who he was. he wanted to know whether or not i could give him a good reference. he wanted to know would i do that. then, of course he wanted to know whether or not he could come and see me for some campaign contributions. >> and then trump did something i've never seen a public figure do. >> he said could you mention my name. i said yes. and he gave me his number. and i found the card. i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. [ [ bleep ] ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] i don't know maybe it's three, four years ago, it's an old number. i don't know. give it a shot. >> just when i thought i heard it all, he gives out a sitting senator's personal cell phone number on live tv. senator graham had a sense of humor about it. tweeting, probably getting a new phone. iphone or android? but what donald trump's doing to the gop field isn't funny for the party. he has all the attention. nobody's talking about the other candidates. and, oh by the way, this happened today, too. >> i a

lindsey graham. i didn't know who he was. he goes mr. trump, this is senator lindsey graham. i wonder if it would be possible for you to call fox. >> he wanted to know whether or not i could give him a good reference on fox and friends. i'm saying what is this guy? a bigger? he's begging me to help. i said okay. and i'll mention your name. he said could you mention your name. i said yes. and he gave me his number. and i found the card. i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. 202 -- [ bleep ] i don't know. maybe it's three, four years ago. so maybe it is an old number. >> have you ever seen a better get-back on a campaign. i mean if you are going to get called a name like that you might as well even the score. that is the twitter world campaign style mentality i think that's attracting some folks to donald trump. we learned that was actually his number. earlier today the producers called to confirm. >> your call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system. >> lindsey graham. >> is not available. the mailbox is full and cannot

this time taking aim at hometown senator lindsey graham. >> then i watch this idiot lindsey graham on television today -- >> reporter: for saying this on cbs. >> i don't care if he drops out. stay in the race. just stop being a jackass. >> reporter: in return trump read graham's personal cell phone number to the packed crowd. >> 202 -- >> reporter: and while graham tweeted "probably getting a new phone," his campaign fired back. "donald trump continues to show hourly that he is ill prepared to be commander in chief." but lindsey graham wasn't today's only target. >> i see rick perry the other day, and he's so -- you know, he's doing very poorly in the polls. he put glasses on so people will think he's smart. >> reporter: trump is still leading in the most recent national poll by double digits. but now headlines like this and this "des moines register" editorial calling for trump to end his campaign, accusing trump of "coarsening our political dialogue and cheapening the electoral process." after the billionaire questioned senator john mccain's war hero status -- >> the mccain veteran

i think rick perry is probably smarter than lindsey graham.ick perry said i shouldn't be debating because my spirit is wrong for america. all i want to do is make everyone rich and save your social security and i have bad spirit. he said i should be allowed on the debate state. -- stage. on -- having stake in twitter is like owning a newspaper without the lawsuits. i tweeted that rick perry should have to have an iq test before getting on the debate stage. today, i am called a jackass by this guy. didn't this guy call me four years ago? i didn't even know who he was. lindsey graham says mr. trump, i wonder if it would be possible for you to call fox. they are great people. [applause] he wanted to know whether or not i could give him a good reference on fox and friends. then he wants to know if he could come see me for some campaign contributions. i give to everyone. when i want something, i get it. that's part of the problem with our system. until a couple of months ago, i could have anything, believe me. when i need something, i call. part of

lindsey graham. gwen: while established senators governors and repeat candidates search for a way to break through. >> we are going to take the lessons of the heartland and straighten out washington, d.c. and fix our country. >> i keep going back to iowa and keep hustling and campaigning. >> if we embrace this language of divisiveness and ugliness, we'll never win. we'll never win. gwen: and democrats look on in glee. >> yes. donald trump. finally a candidate whose hair gets more attention than mine. gwen: we examine why it was never this way with these two guys. covering the week, dan balz, chief correspondent for "the washington post." michael duffy, executive editor of "time" magazine. and jonathan martin, national political correspondent for "the new york times." >> award-winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. from our nation's capital, this is "washington week with gwen ifill." corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we ask people to tell us something

lindsey graham fires back. the candidate's first interview since donald trump gave out his personal cell phone number. now trump is doubling down in a new interview with cnn. we'll get graham to respond. >>> shocking new dash cam video shows a white police officers threatening an unarmed african-amer

him talking with lindsey graham. it's really emotional.nd what they are talking about is vice president joe biden. vice president biden a democrat and lindsey graham a republican and republican candidate for president. but vice president biden and lindsey graham are friends. you hear about that happening in washington but rarely hear somebody talking, you very rarely hear somebody talk about it in terms this human and honestly this moving. i think this is just incredible. >> if you can't admire joe biden as a person, then probably you got a problem. [ laughter ] >> you need to do some self-evaluation because what is not to like? is what i can tell you. that life can change just like that. don't take it for granted. don't take relationships for granted. i called him after beau died, and he basically said well, beau was my soul. we talked for a long time. he came to my ceremony and said some of the most incredibly heart-felt things that anybody could ever say to me, and he's the nicest person i think i've ever met in politics. >> is that rig

but lindsey graham wants to bomb everybody.s a nod toward your feeling that we should have more troops in there, more american presence on the ground which you know is unpopular with the american public. >> yeah. i don't think it's unpopular with the american public to stop radical islam from coming back to our shores. isil is not being degraded and destroyed. we've trained 60 people from the free syrian army to go and fight isil. president obama's strategy to degrade and destroy isil is not working. and i think radical islam wants to hit us here at home and syria is a great launching pad. if i were president of the united states we would have more troops inside iraq to destroy isil. and we've go in on the ground in syria and we'd have to be part of that regional army to destroy the califate. there's no way i know to defend america without some of us going back over there to do the fighting. >> the problem is clear. but you want to give a nod to the complexity of the solution. president obama wanted to bomb syria. you guys held

lindsey graham. i watch this idiot p lindsey graham on television today. and he calls me a jack ass. he called me three four years ago. lindsey graham. i didn't know who he was. i said what's this guy a beggar? he's bigegging me to help him with, fox and friends. and gave me his number. and i found the card. >> you just can't not play that sound. there are so many parts of that to unpack. first he's in south carolina maligning south carolina's senator. >> republicans. >> republican senator. says he's never heard of lindsey graham four years ago and then proceeds to reveal the man's personal cell phone which apparently was the correct number. lindsey graham tweeted out moments ago, probably getting a new phone. iphone or android? donald trump is not cowed. >> he may not be but he's going to get bulled eventually. the thing is he probably bumped lindsey graham up about five points in the next poll. it is like the shanghai stock index of the republican field. the summer time. people are bored. i think we're reading way too much into this guy's candidacy. he's

lindsey graham i didn't know who he was. he goes mr. trump, this is senator lindsey graham.an, i had the little thing -- just for fun. "fox & friends" are great. brian, steve, elisabeth. they're great people. he wanted to know whether or not i could give him a good reference on "fox & friends." he wanted to know would i do that. he wanted to know if he could come see me more campaign contributions. he gave me his number. i found the card. i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. 202 -- >> it was the right number. >> do you regret giving his phone number out sm. >> -- number out? >> not at all. the guy has going going. i don't think he's popular in his own state. you heard the applause i was getting. i did it for fun. everybody had a good time. we had a beyond pack aed house. the place was amazing south carolina. amazing. i don't regret it at all. he calls me names. you have to fight back. i want to be nice. i'm a nice person. everybody is calling me names. i guess since i went to number one in the poll, they're having a field day on me. >

lindsey graham called him a jackass. he fought back. al and replace obamacare. they didn't control the border. they do do a lot of talking and don't get a lot done. >> rick is right. we are going to get to the point where we're start talking about issues and it will be great. as what we have seen so far anyway is that donald trump is very good at debating. he's very good at fighting. he's very good at speaking plainly in a way that a lot of voters especially republicans, but also independents who are very frustrated with the system frustrated with the professional politicians, he has a way of reaching those voters in a way that none of these professionals know how to do. that's a tremendously positive thing for republicans or conservatives. we need a voice like that. also he's also talking about vitally importance issues like illegal immigration that we wouldn't be talking about without him. >> good point. rick? >> the problem with that point is he's not debating now. he's yelling with a bull horn. he's got the media following him around

he gave out lindsey graham's personal phone number on live national television.ch. >> he gave me his number. i found the card. i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. 202-228-0292. i don't know. maybe it's three or four years ago. maybe it's an old number. 202-228-0292. so give it a shot. >> graham said on twitter, probably getting a new phone. probably not a bad idea. this is as trump is surging at the polls. he has a double dig get lead over jeb walkerscott walker and jeb bush. while graham received the worst of trump's wrath he attacked jeb bush for being in favor of common core and week on i amak on immigration. trump's rhetoric is hurting the party's chances on winning the white house. >> if we embrace this ugliness and divisiveness we will never win. we will never win. we have to appeal to people's higher aspirations or we will lose elections over and over and over again. that's my problem with mr. trump. >> the first republican debate is the fox news debate on august 6th. remember there are only 10 spots for 16 republi

lindsey graham. by the way, he's registered zero in the polls. zero. then i watch this idiot lindsey graham on television today. he couldn't do what you people did. you are all retired and rich. he wouldn't be rich. he actually, probably seems to me not as bright honestly as rick perry. i think rick perry is smarter than lindsey graham but what do i know? >> wow. yesterday we wrote a list of all the times he called john mccain -- i was writing this down right before we came on the air. you know i always told my staff, you can fight somebody in politics, but you better only have a one front war. you've got to pick your battles carefully. donald trump went to south carolina where lindsey graham is a very popular republican politician. and he gave out his cell phone, attacked him. he attacked the most important newspaper in iowa "the des moines register." i don't care how many caucusgoers work at the "des moines register." of course we had john mccain this weekend. "the new york times" has a story about

it was mccain that attacked donald trump and said his supporters are crazies. >> sure. >> lindsey graham back. and i've got to be honest. charles, i look at graham and mccain as part of the problem. they didn't repeal or replace o'bamtacare. they didn't control the border. they do do a lot of talking and they don't get a lot done. >> and rick is exactly right. we are going to get into this point where we start talking about issues and it's going to be great. but as what we have seen so far anyway is that donald trump is very good at debating and he's very good at fighting and he's very good at speaking plainly in a way that a lot of voters especially republicans but also independents who are very frustrated with the system frustrated with the professional politicians, he has a way of reaching those voters in a way that none of these professionals know how to do. and that's a tremendously positive thing for republicans or for conservatives because we need a voice like that. and also he's also talking about vitally important issues like the illegal immigration -- >> quick answer rick. >> -

thanks. >>> lindsey graham he is now changing his cell phone number after trump revealed it on live tv the most shocking and bizarre moments of this campaign thus far. graham appearing in this video seems to be making the most of this feud with the donald as he calls him. ♪ >> if all else fails, you can always give your number to the donald. this is for all the vets. >> donald trump's campaign manager. corey, your candidate is saying he will change his tone as president. in the five weeks that he has -- since he announced he is running, we have heard what seems like nonstop insults in that tone and it's not changing. he prides himself in that. how do you expect voters to believe he is going to be different in the white house? >> what i think is the american public is ready for a leader. not politicians. someone willing to stay and do what it takes to make our country great. we see evidence in the latest polls, the last two polls has him the frontrunner in the gop race. i see it when we stop places like yesterday in south carolina where people say thank you for telling the truth. we nee

i feel for lindsey graham. at donald trump and other people getting to the debate while this lofty senator, who cares about national security matters is out because he is down in the polls. i feel bad for him. i think using the national polls when candidates are focused on individual states is not a good indicator. i think letting fox news be the determine natter of this important thing is bad for the public, bad for the republican party, bad for the rnc and bad for at least half of the candidates. the rnc mess ed up doing this. it is a disservice to its party and they will have to revisit it down the road. >> i think the great benefit here in terms of using national polls for this qualification any way is that you don't have to go out to iowa and say silly things about ethanol and new hampshire to say specialized targeted things for small groups of voters. joy reid, as we know, the demographic composition of iowa and new hampshire does not reflect the united states of america. there's all sorts of voters who a

that's why you see people like lindsey graham going directly after donald trump. graham is a veteran senator, he is at the bottom of the game. they really want someone who has won, what is it three elections in four years. those are good number. >> how is he going to break through with all this rhetoric out there? >> scott walker is polling quite well. he does well with early voters in states like iowa and new hampshire and has a strong national name because of his recall election several years ago, and he has a donor base to match that as well name recognition. he is a strong republican contender, just like jeb bush. >> we'll see how it plays out. time is ticking and more and more are jumping in. thank you, jane. just ahead, dave letterman comes out of retirement to take aim at none other than donald trump. i could call angie's list if i needed work done around my house at a fair price. you heard right, just tell us what you need done and we'll find a top rated provider to take care of it. so i could get a faulty light switch fixed? yup! or have a guy refinish my

start it with lindsey graham. i couldn't care less about lindsey graham. he's registered at zero in the polls. by rick perry from texas up in my office a few years ago looking for support. he was up -- people are saying, i call it a hypocrite, but they are saying horrible things like i don't even know these people and they are saying these -- am i supposed to just say, oh it's okay for them to say, i guess it was lindsey graham who called me a jackass, so am i supposed to say that's okay. you have to fight back. the country has to fight back. everyone's pushing our country around. we can't allow that anderson. >> is it presidential though? >> i think it is presidential. >> you gave out a personal phone number. >> that was a whole story. you have to see the way it morphed. where he wanted to get on "fox and friends" and called me up out of the blue. then he wanted to come in for campaign contributions. and then he started hitting me years later and i happened to have this crazy phone number and held it up and said

cell phone number is great for lindsey graham, right? he's not going to get in the debate unless something radically changes about lindsey graham, his national profile right now. well, donald trump him connects their two name in the headlines. it allows donald trump to responsible with this strange, he has to destroy his phone because donald trump gave out his number how many else will lindsey graham make national news? >> i see rick perry the other day. and he is so, you know, he's doing very poorly in the polls. he put glasses on so people let's he's smart. and it just doesn't work. people can see through the glasses. but he has the glasses, the whole deal. >> that insult toward rick perry is the single best thing that ever happened to rick perry's presidential ambitions. rick perry got to hold his big twr anti-trump speech today. not in south carolina but washington, d.c. what matters for him is the national press. the national press tends to hang out in washington, d.c. in order to compete this year, you need national attention. the

fellow candidate lindsey graham.ham called trump a jackass. >> they say they didn't like the way -- i'm a little loud. i'm a little too strong. they don't like it. and then i watch this idiot lindsey graham on television today. >> so a new poll shows trump with his biggest lead yet in national polls. take a peek for yourself. 24% in a new poll. however, that same poll came with a major caveat. support fell significantly on the one night voters were surveyed following the comments about senator mccain. trump has not apologized specifically to john mccain but he had this to say last night in. an interview on fox news. >> i have respect for john mccain. i used to like him a lot. i supported hism and raised a lot of money for his campaign against president obama. certainly, if there was a misunderstanding, i would totally take that back. but hopefully i said it correctly and certainly shortly thereafter i said it correctly. >> so let's get to the trump campaign in south carolina. jane, let's talk about the crowd. what wa

the number is 202 -- >> jon: trump giving out lindsey graham's cell phone, good news for lindsey grahamno matter how he responds seems like a reasonable candidate. >> graham's response wednesday was to release a video showing him destroying cell phones in various ways. >> jon: i guess i'm probably late to this, but you know you just have to change your number. i mean, what you did seems leak you thought your t-mobile was cursed by a gypsy. i must drive away the evil spirits and put a stake in my phone! he's not just entertaining he's also crushing everyone in the polls, maybe because he's filling all the roles everyone's supposed to fill. the guy who says crazy (bleep) the dumb guy, bully the hair. it's like the breakfast club was rolled into just one guy. 15 bad meals in one! donald trump is the candidate version of the hot dog-crust pizza. you don't want it! you never ordered it you can't believe someone came up with it but now it's all you want! and you know what? i'm tired of fighting it. it's the summer. why can't we have fun? we'll get serious in the fall about our future. but unt

lindsey graham. by the way, he has registered zero in the polls. you register zero in the poll, what the hell, they have nothing to lose, right? >> ohio governor john kasich was the big victim of the trump noise machine for the republican presidential campaign. his announcement had to compete with donald trump giving out lindsey graham's phone number and doing his insult routine about republican presidential candidates. >> i see rick perry the other day. he is doing very poorly in the polls. he put glasses on so people will think he's smart. it doesn't work. people can see through the glasses. i tweeted that rick perry should have to have an iq test before getting on the debate stage. >> joining us now nina turner, the former state senator from ohio. you were at john kasich's announcement today. have you switched parties? >> i was, lawrence. oh, please don't get that rumor started out there. i was there to listen to the governor and also to provide some commentary for the democratic party. it was a sight to see. there were a lot of folks there, wal

add, i was listening to every word dana bash i was just told from my producers in control room lindsey graham just tweeted, probably getting a new phone, iphone or android. so that is senator graham's response. you are a political veteran here at cnn, or one of them. you've been in many a room like this. you've heard so many different speeches. have you ever seen anything like this before? >> reporter: no. i really haven't. i was watching and thinking that same thing. i was also watching the crowd to see how they were reacting. maybe on television it didn't look like a really raucous crowd. it was like a one-man show. they were sitting in a theater and they were mesmerized. there was a few moments where they stood up and applauded but for the most part they were just enjoying the show and that's a big part of donald trump's appeal. he knows that and he tried to stoke that today. >> dana bash thank you very much in bluffton south carolina. let me push forward and have a bigger discussion. i'll bring in s.e. cupp. welcome. s.e. you're up to bat first because let's just put the cell phone bit aw

why did you read lindsey graham's cell phone number? n maybe get something done but he won't be able to. >> reporter: graham unable to be reached by cell responded through his campaign manager saying donald trump continues to show hourly that he is ill prepared to be commander in chief. all this amid a back and forthwith iowa's largest numb, the des moines register whose editorial board called for him to pull the plug on his bloviating side show. trump talked about the sales. he appears to be buoyed by the politics of personal warfare. that and crowds like this. all told some 1,100 peel in the main auditorium and in overflow room trump visited after his speech. many at this retirement community waited online for hours to get in. >> he is a doer. >> i think he is terrific. he tells the truth. >> reporter: not everyone who came was a supporter. >> he scares me. >> he scares you but you're still here? >> i want to see him. he is a celebrity. >> reporter: despite. so controversy about john mccain's war service, some veterans here in military

he gave out lindsey graham's cell phone number. this is great.h this. >> didn't this guy call me four years ago? yes. he called me four years ago. lindsey graham. i didn't know who he was. he's begging me to help him with "fox and friends." so i say okay, and i'll mention your name. he said could you mention my name. i said yes. he gave me his number. i found the card. i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. 202 -- >> i think that is the funniest thing i've ever seen in a presidential campaign. >> i can totally relate to donald trump in the sense both of us are like jump yard dogs. you can kick us but then your foot is going to get bit. you push, you're going to get pushed back. and people understand that. i think it has in a sense muted some of the criticism against trump. until there becomes critical mass. in the scandal about the pow's, there was critical mass. in other words, one guy can't take on the big bully, but if everybody feels the same, everybody comes together and they come on our pack, we can sn

donald trump and lindsey graham escalating their war of words. reality show star front-runner fired back not only calling graham an idiot and a stiff, but also broadcasting the south carolina senator's cell phone number on live television. dana bash is there. let's get more from her right now. >> reporter: there is an old saying, politics ain't being bad but it usually isn't a schoolyard brawl either and that is what this republican presidential race is right now. donald trump, here in south carolina calling his fellow republican presidential candidate lindsey graham and stiff, after graham called him a jackass first and then trump did something that is kind of unbelievable. he held up lindsey graham's personal cell phone number and read it on, what turned out to be national television. >> i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. 202 [ bleep ] i don't know. maybe -- it's three or four years ago so maybe it's an old number. >> reporter: it is something that everybody kind of looked at and said, is this really ha

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and then i watch this idiot lindsey graham on tv today and calls may jackass. tinues to show hourly he is ill-prepared to be commander in chief. the two people most excited about donald trump's candidacy are barack obama and hillary clinton. >> hmm. you know -- >> your response to this karen finney spokesperson for hillary clinton and the campaign. >> i will be serious in the answer here because i think donald trump's rhetoric i think is very dangerous. i think the things he said for example, about immigration are pretty despicable. but i think he is a challenge to the republican party and they know it because he is going to challenge all the others running to stand up against some of the rhetoric that we have heard from him. right in any time he goes out and he says some of these things, they have to decide am i going to respond or afraid of angering the base of my party? so, that would be my response. i leave that choice and decision to the republican candidates in this race. i think they were a little bit slow to respond talking about rapists and murderers fr

lindsey graham did that ad to get attention. to get into that first debate., the governor of ohio, has to get into that first debate. the problem is that stage is now set for outlandish behavior. few opportunities to get their name out there and try to compete with donald trump's behavior. i would say that, if i were advising somebody, i would confront donald trump in a very thoughtful, critical way. don't criticize his voters, don't go after his voters. don't do what john mccain did and called them crazies. you need those voters. but go after donald trump in a very critical, thoughtful way. >> you're close to jeb bush, ana, do you think that's what he's going to do? >> saying he's not representative of my values, he's not representative of the republican values, yet recognizing that there are legitimate frustrations, legitimate concerns, legitimate fears among the american people with the dysfunction in washington. i agree with you that the voters have legitimate frustration that is being channelled through trump. but at some point, you have to be the adult

lindsey graham called him a jackass. he fought back. at the graham and mccain as part of the problem. think didn't repeal or replace obamacare. they didn't control the border. they do a lot of talking and don't get a lot done. >> rick is exactly right. we will get to the point where we are going to talk about issues and it will be great. as we have seen so far anyway that donald trump is very good at debating. he's very good at fighting. he's good at speaking plainly in a way that a lot of voters especially republicans but also independents who are frustrated with the system. frustrated with the professional politicians. he has a way of reaching the voters in a way that none of these candidates know how to do. we need a voice like that. he's also talking about vitally important issues like illegal immigration and sanctuary city we wouldn't be talking about without him. >> the problem is he is not really debating. he's yelling with a bull horn. he has the media following him around because he's sucking all of the oxygen in the room. he i

republican presidential candidate, senator lindsey graham. featuring the 8g band.nd now, here he is, seth meyers! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doin' tonight? [ cheers and applause ] good to hear. big news today. i don't know if you saw it. i don't know if you read it. the u.s. and iran signed or they've agreed to a deal that will limit the nuclear capabilities of iran and it's good news, you know? some think it is good news. according to the new poll, 55% of americans do not trust that iran will abide by the terms of the nuclear deal. 55%. it's the same 55% who are running for the republican nomination. [ laughter ] a lot of people -- a lot of people running adds up to 55% really fast. according to new nationwide polls, donald trump -- [ light laughter ] donald trump now leads all other republican presidential candidates. but come on, if we elect him, you know he's just going to leave us for a younger country. [ laughter ] that's how it happens. [ cheers and applause ] i want you