and i won't talk about lindsey graham who had like one point. you ever seen this guy on television? he is nasty. >> former vice president dick cheney will support trump. house speaker paul ryan will meet with him next thursday. president obama weighing in saying trump's record needs to be examined and statements he has made need to be taken seriously. >> i just want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times. this is not entertainment. this is not a reality show. >> cnn's jim acosta both in oregon where donald trump is about to address supporters and there we go with pictures of that rally tonight. a lot of drama in the gop tonight. what is donald trump saying about it all? >> reporter: he seems to be enjoying the spectacle. they are not sweating inside the trump campaign and donald trump was brushing off attacks from lindsey graham and jeb bush earlier in the day. you heard that donald trump is going right after lindsey graham about the gop race and the disgrace but in a statement earlier in the day he said lindsey graham has zero credibility and went back to his old

lindsey graham is a different story.n't think he ever thought lindsey graham was ever going to be in this camp. notice he gave jeb bush a pass. jeb bush came out in the same position as lindsey graham, a little low energy jab but basically said i can understand the bushes. i was really tough on them. >> including brother, president george w. bush. >> that's right so i think he has a different standard depending who it is. this is a long bat well lindsey graham starting last summer and clearly the two were never going to be close. >> take a look at this tweet that donald trump put out earlier today, obviously feeling a little slighted by paul ryan, the speaker of the house. paul ryan said i inherited something very special, the republican party. wrong. i didn't inherit it. i won it with millions of voters. he's responding to paul ryan's stunning statement yesterday. >> that statement is not accurate. you won't don't win a party. you become the head of the party but in this role you have a unique responsibility in trying t

relationship than it was 24 hours ago. >> thanks to lindsey graham, thanks to donald trump lindsey graham a new phone to take that call on evidently. i think what's happening with lindsey graham, paul ryan, i think, is another example. there is a growing sense because of the reality, this is a choice. the republicans will have a choice. it is donald trump. it is hillary clinton. the idea of a third party person, there is still buzz out there. it's really not going to happen. binary choice. donald trump. even though a lot of nasty things. he has made fun of me. destroyed my cell phone. you name it. >> whether you agree with donald trump or not, and i'm not telling people to agree with him or not, when you sit down with him one-on-one, is he a very sort of different person than when is he at these rallies and someone flings something at him and someone in the media says you are a jerk, what are you and then he responds with a nuclear weapon. >> there is clearly a lot of theater going on here. the point about the cell phone, tell a truth about lindsey graham which is he didn't really destroy

a perfect example of that is lindsey graham. most conservatives are not fans of lindsey graham. they do not like him. that's why he did so poorly in the presidential election. if you want to keep the narrative alive that you're anti-establishment and that we are the outsiders and we're going to change washington then attack lindsey graham. i'll support you in that. but you really don't want to go to war with speaker of the house paul ryan. i think it's a bad decision and i think he needs to take the lead because he is the presumptive nominee. we're going to have a meeting, fix this make it right and assure everybody at the rnc, we are going to run a campaign that is on a higher level than what it's been during the primaries. >> let's listen in. he's talking about hillary clinton right now. >> it wasn't supposed to happen because after we won, which was a little unexpected to do it that quickly, we had such great, incredible victories, those last victories, new york landslide. won everything. landslide. and that's with three candidates almost 62%. that's with three candidates. yo

john: i also think lindsey graham -- there are not many republicans that are as acute as lindsey grahamising the minimum wage is a political winner. more republicans would be smart if they embraced it. graham was notably more pointed when talking about trump's standing with hispanic voters. john: what is more dangerous to the future of your party, donald trump winning or losing? sen. graham: it depends on how he loses, and what he did if he won. the demographic problems we have in 2012, he has made worse. we did an analysis of the 2012 campaign. how did obama win, when every indicator was that he should lose? we did well with young white women, with hispanics. what happened? when you ask hispanics, what don't you like about the republican party? it's not conservatism, it's just this illogical impractical solution to immigration. if you told me in 2013 that 2016 would be running on forced deportation, we've got problems. to this hispanic community, i get it why you don't like us. who is going to vote for someone that is going to deport your grandmother? mark: i think this is the area tha

good for lindsey graham. >> good for lindsey graham.huffpo made a decision to cover trump as a ent tan taner the entertainment area. we have a screen grab here today. this is i believe under the politics section now and counted at the time, an hour ago, more than ten pictures of trump on the page. so now, now that he is officially the presumed nominee, that then shifted for you editorially? >> no, no, no. we have been covering him in the politics section since he proclaimed to ban an entire religion from the country because from then on -- >> that was the change for you? >> yes. a clear and present danger. every story we do, every single story there is an editor's note at the bottom that says we want to remind the readers that donald trump called for the banning of an entire religion. he's a birther. he's an xenofoeb. a serial liar, et cetera, et cetera. we see our responsibility to remind voters every day who donald trump really is so that they stop treating him as an entertaining figure and treat him as the clear danger he would be fo

truly when you consider what lindsey graham has said about donald trump.outfront" now republican -- you said you'd never vote for grown up. you said we actually need a grown up in the white house not a 3-year-old. you heard what lindsey graham had to say. did you change your mind today? >> i think that donald trump is trying as hard as he can to unify as many people as he can in the republican party. he's got a lot of work to do with many of us because his language has been so incendiary and flat out childish. i can say certainly he's not going to be able to get me to be able to support him because of it. i don't know that he's got the right temperament to be the most powerful politician in the world. >> obviously today senate leader mitch mcconnell, john boehner coming out and spoetiupporting . the bottom line question, is there anything, congressman, that would get you to support donald trump? are you a definitive no under any circumstances? >> i'm a definitive no under any circumstances. and the reason being is that this country has got major problems t

i think the look lindsey graham, they're not many republican who is are as acute as lindsey graham. >> graham was notably more pointed when talking about trump's standing with hispanic voters. >> what's more dangerous to your party? donald trump losing or donald trump winning? >> depends on how he won. the demographic problems we have in 2012, he made worse. we did an anl assist of how did we lose. how did obama win when every indicator said he should lose. romney went to self-deportation. if you told me in 2013, by 2016, we would be running on forced deportation and that megyn kelly was a bimbo, i hope he adjusts. to the hispanic community, i get why you don't like us. who will vote for somebody who will deport their grandmother. i don't give a crap about your financial plan is if you're going to deport my grandmother. >> i think this is the area that paul ryan will raise as well, if not tomorrow, along the way. they must change trump's tone to have a fighting chance to win the general election and not set the party back in its image amongst non-white voters and hispanic voters. >> l

what did trump have to say about lindsey graham's comments today? he really spared few words. >> he did, john. took him about 12 minutes to go after lindsey graham which is probably showing restraint for donald trump's usual sort of mean of speaking. remember that unity pledge all the other candidates signed hoping it would keep donald trump in the party? now the others who signed it are being called out for that. that was in donald trump's mind there. he went after lindsey graham aggressively for changing up his positions, his supporters throughout the race. let's listen to what trump said just a little bit ago. >> he fails with his campaign horribly. he then endorses somebody else and then endorses bush and endorses everybody. he's like bad luck. as soon as he endorses the people, they drop out. and then i see him on television knocking me. you're supposed to be coming together. >> and then in the next breath he also talked about jeb bush saying i'm not going to say he's low energy but he's low energy. familiar refrains but also took a bit of a sw

says more about lindsey graham more than donald trump. i think some of these people have to watch how much of their own credibility they may be losing here. no one has been farther out there on the limb being a skeptic as lindsey graham and for him to suddenly change his view, i think we are seeing things shift here. i would start by something paul ryan said yesterday in janesville, wisconsin, we're beginning the process of discussing what unity in the party looks like, that's about three steps toward unification but for paul ryan it's about issues. i don't think he cares about these shiny object things. if donald trump holds the line on some issues he thinks it's fine but i'm not sure any of this matters. donald trump does not need lindsey graham. he's going to win south carolina. it's more important for house members and senate members than it is for the people with donald trump. >> he needs there not to be a third party candidate. >> no doubt. >> he needs there not to be ben sass or someone running from the right and jill "the washingt

lindsey graham had given donald trump his cell phone number and then this happen. >> so lindsey graham says to me, please, please, whatever you can do. i'm saying to myself, what is this guy, a beggar? he's begging me to help him with fox and friends. i say okay, i'll mention your name. he said could you mention my name and he gave me his number and i found the card. i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the writing number. let's try it, 202-[ bleep ]. i don't know, maybe it's -- e three, four years ago. >> which then led to senator graham posting -- yeah, it was the right number. this was a problem for him. and i'll leave you with a tease, dr. carson. something related to this is discussed between yours truly and mr. trump in your sit down that airs next tuesday at 8:00. >> we're looking forward to it. should be fun. >> we'll leave it at that. great to see you, sir. >>> while republicans try to draw up support, new leaked comes today regarding facebook and who the social media giant has a bias against conservatives. how could this play leading up to the november election. we'l

very strong words from lindsey graham. n the national political reporter for the "washington post" and cnn political director david khal yon with us as well. senator graham, one of the 17 republican candidates. didn't work out for him. and then backed jeb bush and reluctantly, ted cruz saying the party needed to defeat donald trump. is this a surprise? >> it's not a huge surprise, obviously. senator graham was very outspoken about how he felt about donald trump even before he came this close to clinching the nomination but i think it underscore what is we see happening in the party which is just remarkable. there's a real khalicleaving ha right now. we see republicans having incredibly difficult hard arguments with one another and soul-searching conversations about what they're going to do in the run-up to the november elections. >> it follows the very dramatic announcement yesterday, david, from the house speaker paul ryan saying, it's pretty amazing when you think about it, he's the speaker of the house of representatives

lindsey graham. a total dope and he's constantly on television. knocking me. i said wait a minute. now he signed a pledge and the pledge says we will guarentee you're going to endorse everything else. i signed it. so jeb bush is not an honorable person. lindsey graham is not an honorable person because when you sign a pledge that's supposed to mean something, right? it didn't mean anything. but the good news is most everybody has endorsed me other than paul ryan. i don't know what went wrong there. paul ryan. and here's the thing, folks, look, we brought millions of people into this party. it's the highest vote the party has ever gotten. i'm the highest individual in history. millions and millions of people. >> donald trump the presumptive nominee on the republican side speaking right now in washington and making comments against senator lindsey graham that just yesterday said he is not going to be supporting donald trump as the nominee saying i don't think he's reliable republican conservative. i don't believe that donald trump has the temperament and judgment to be commander and

paul ryan, jeb bush, lindsey graham.thick of the week. everyone is mad in washington at trump because he criticized the iraq war and yet, now, dick cheney, who prosecuted that war is basically in charge of it is endorsing trump? so, how crazy can trump's views be if dick cheney is voting for him? >> i have to think this is going to help donald trump in the long run. when you have some major candidates including mitt romney saying i'm not going to the convention and support this guy, i think those establishment republicans split from donald trump. >> he should just say lindsey graham, i wish him well. i'm the nominee, who cares what he thinks or mitt romney who cares? be magnanimous. >> is he a new yorker. not easy to do. [ laughter ] >> apparently not. >> so, elizabeth warren, she is back in the news right now. she has been on this flurry of tweets against donald trump using pretty expolitical police sit language. >> late last night. >> she did the donald trump thing. >> middle of the night. took to twitter to say we saw

and i won't talk about lindsey graham. he fails with his campaign horribly. he then endorses somebody else. and then he endorses bush. and then he endorses everybody. he's like bad luck. >> but one person not forgotten but also not exactly in the same line of fire, house speaker, paul ryan, who says he cannot support trump, at least not yet. trump responding to ryan for the first time in front of one of his big rallies. that's tonight. >> paul ryan, i don't know what happened. [ booing ] >> i don't know. he called me two or three weeks ago, was a very nice conversation. he was congratulating me. this was before we had the ultimate victory, but congratulating me on doing so well. i figured routinely he would be behind it. and the other day did a big surprise. >> so now all eyes are on a meeting between the two. just announced, for thursday in washington. at the very same time trump's list of supporters just got a big boost. former vice president, dick cheney, throwing his support to the front runner, despite his former boss

>> one of his biggest critics has been lindsey graham.l not endorse him for president and we all talk about where he would no longer be taking to twitter and will he become more quote/unquote presidential? him coming to washington today was a sign that he was becoming presidential. him reaching out to lindsey graham, one of the sharpest critics, presidential. the question is, can he maintain this? and if he does maintain this, this whole talk about unity and the republican party is going to make it easier for republicans to go and support donald trump. >> a lot of these are republicans in private meetings saying in a small group like that, trump can be very, very charming if he wants to be. jeffrey, even those who are very opinionated trump haters in the u.s. senate, i'm talking about the republicans, they still hate senator ted cruz even more. after the trump meeting, cruz joked with colleagues that he didn't want to come back and senator mccain said we don't want you to either. here's a question. does it make supporting trump easier? be

lindsey graham has taken every pot shot. a phone call and graham admitting he asked some pretty decent foreign questions. unsurprising he's still not going to be voting for trump. >> i'm going to rule out that lindsey graham will say trump is the best choice. >> coming in and covering this one, i'm amazed at how much the republican party can trash donald trump, call him dangerous, say he's untrustworthy and shouldn't have the nuclear codes and an idiot which is what they have been calling him and saying we're going to support him. >> part of it is you meet the guy and he's incredibly charming. he's a celebrity for a reason. politicians get elected and become celebrities. he as a very regal way about him. that's what's going to be happening more and more and more. he's the ultimate salesman. he knows how to make somebody feel special. i wasn't voting for trump. i said something about he might win iowa. he calls me up. you're one of the people who talked me into running. i'm like what, i never talked to you. by the end of the c

every time i see lindsey graham spew hate during interviews.wonder why they never ask how i destroyed this hapless runt for president. who did not receive even 1% of his own state. i don't think that's a professional wrestling. think that one is real. gary johnson back with us now, the libertarian candidate for president. who is getting a lot of interest from republicans, who see him as a third-party alternative to the choices that are out there. governor, very good to have you. i apologize for the problems before. can you hear me? >> i can hear you and of course, the only things that bother us are the things we let bother us, so stuff does happen. >> you have a great deal of interest or curiosity-seekers kicking the libertarian tires. what do you make of that? how much has your phone been ringing? email been popping? what. >> it's all been ringing off the hook. i think legitimizing the attention is the fact that the libertarian party is going to be the only third party on the ballot in all 50 states. i hope to be the libertarian nominee, by ex

melissa: i see chris christie on your list, lindsey graham and a lot of interesting choices. we will know soon enough. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it.jon: this mysterious crash of egyptair flight 804 is sparking securities are concerned in the us. what officials are telling fox news about homeland security official jay johnson's involvement in the response. plus, as investigators be together exactly what

guest: considering how much the two men have gone through, donald trump and lindsey graham, and lindseytaken every potshot he could add trump. graham even admitted he asks some pretty decent foreign-policy questions. but he will still not be voting for trump. mark: i'm not going to rule out that lindsey graham is going to say, you know what, trump is the best. katy: you know what is surprising for someone who has not covered political campaigns before -- i am surprised a much the republican party can call them dangerous, call him untrustworthy, that he is an idiot basically, and then come out and say, you know, we are going to support him. donny: you have been following donald trump around. part of it is you meet the guy and he's incredibly charming. he's a celebrity for a reason. politicians get elected and they become celebrities, ok? this happened organically. he has a very regal way about him. we are all humans and that is what is going to be happening more and more and more. he is the ultimate salesman and he knows how to make somebody feels peschel -- feel special. i was thinking

donald trump's convention manager paul manafort and south carolina senator lindsey graham will also be here. plus look at washington's big weekend with the press. >> i don't want to spend too much time on the donald. following your lead i want to show some restraint. >> dickerson: all coming up on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs good morning, welcome to "face the nation" i'm john dickerson. we begin with the republicans, donald trump now has 80% of the delegates needed to win the nomination. efforts to stop him seem to be phasing and we sat down with ted cruz earlier and asked him whether he thought it was time for republican to make their choice known whether they're for donald