what is your responsibility to lindsey graham?ays in no world, absolutely not would i be supportive of this subpoena. >> i understand that a number of my republican colleagues don't like this idea. but the point is, the point that senator graham made, and that is we don't know what the president agreed to in this meeting. the information we're getting about what was said is coming out of the russian government, the minuistry of defense in russia is where we've heard what they agreed to. it is incumbent on the administration to let the american people and congress know what was agreed to. we have an oversight responsibility so we need to get this information. >> but the push back is, and to be candid, lindsey graham wants answers on russia. he called the trump administration naive on russia. so he is no apologist for the trump administration. but his point is that if you do that, you have a chilling effect, right? i mean that there has to be some privacy to these things, some ability for translators just to be translators. listen t

after helsinki, lindsey graham said you showed weakness. >> let me just-- i totally disagree. i think i did great at the news conference. you have people that said you should have gone up to him and walked up and started screaming in his face. we're living in the real world. >> glor: all that and much more, right now. >> glor: good evening. i'm jeff glor. and this is our western edition. we are going to begin with our interview with the president late this afternoon. in our conversation at the white house, mr. trump for the first time in public as president blamed vladimir putin directly for meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. the president had drawn a lot of criticism for not doing that on monday when the two men held a joint news conference in helsinki. yesterday, after he returned to washington, he did say he accepts the finding of u.s. intelligence that russia interfered, but the questions continued. we worked to get more information on all of this, starting with what the president and putin talked about face-to- face behind closed doors. you say you agree with u.s. intell

if it continues. >> in fact, this is lindsey graham on that very issue.isten. >> just have sanctions that can fall on russia like a hammer. do not meet with this guy from a position of weakens. we need to harden the electoral infrastructure, you need to be the leader of that movement. and you need to work with congress to come up with new sanctions because putin is not getting the message. >> one has to wonder whether the president is going to take that advise because so many in the circle say he doesn't really take advice. so is that lindsey graham speaking on behalf of he and congress who agreed to put new sanctions on russia last year even though it took many months for those sanctions to be enacted. >> that's right. i think you're right to be skeptical about whether president trump is listening to lindsey graham or anybody else. in fact, lindsey graham said in that interview also, i thought it was really important, he still doesn't know, as do apparently the rest of the government what was actually said or agreed to in the private meeting between pres

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i think lindsey graham agrees with cornell.re. >> the president cfirmed it on friday he is not going to specifically ask where she's candidates are. he doesn't have to. they wouldn't be on the list if you didn't already know where they stood on that particular issue. one way that i have heard that people close to the president are trying t a inoculainst some of that is push him towards picking a woman. the president has said he's leaning towards selecting twoo women are on the short list of maybe five to seven. incling amy barrett. as one person put it to me last night, she wa dinged by dianne feinstein in her confirmation hearing for the circuit judgeship. there is a calculation that some people close to the president are making. i've also heard the president himself said essentially i'm not going to think about gender politics. i wantic to the best candidate. if that's a man, it's a man. >> kimberly, she getting to something i think both sides are torn on this. do they want the fig or not? i don't know. i think it's a worthy

my guests this morning, lindsey graham and maria cantwell. but giant killer a political unknown topples a house leader. a sign of a changing democratic party. alexandria ocasio-cortez is here this morning. and president trump says there's no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. but nbc news reports north korea is increasing its production of nuclear fuel post-summit. is the u.s. being deceived again by another north korean leader? joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief corresponde correspondent, hallie jackson. cornell belcher. david brody, and kimberly atkins, chief washington reporter and columnist for the boston herald. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: the longer running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. happy july. the announced retirement of justice anthony kennedy this week helped make one political reality clear, despite his overall unpopularity, president trump is winning and the democrats are reeling. the supreme court, mr. trump

you're this clear from senator lindsey graham in your interview.e clear with president vladimir putin that the united states sees him as an antagonist and someone who's stirring the .and in directly supporting iran's support of terrorist organizations. so this is not in our interest. the question is how do you break that linkage. making it clear to them.the second part is, you've got to be quite direct about interference in our elections. we can't get president trump yet to say directly, hey, stop it. >>dana: what did you make about questions about turkey what the congress might do? >> on the one hand, we delivered i believe 2f 35's, on the way to 100. turkey is now signaling they want to purchasethose as for s. it's multidimensional chassis. going back tojuan's point. the president needs to have a good working relationship but people want to see him take a much tougher stance with vladimir putin single cat metal with our elections but can't be doing what you're doing in syria and we will stand our ground. right now, you've seen some president trum

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lindsey graham was one of them. he has been one of the sharpest critics of the president's handling of russia, but when i asked him specifically whether or not they should ask this translator to come before capitol hill, he said this -- >> absolutely not. that will be the last time you ever have a foreign leader meet with the president of the united states privately. and i can tell you there may be times where we need to do that, so i can't imagine how that would affect future presidents in terms of their ability to talk to foreign leaders. >> reporter: so, kate, that is not to say that lindsey graham has been praising the president's performance this week. there have been other significant amount of criticism that he levied against this president and others have joined as well saying that the president that significant lily misjudged proout and he w misjudged vladimir putin and he was not prepared for that summit. >> when it comes to russia, it has been a bad week and it is imperative that he understand that he is

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this is bizarre, and lindsey graham is absolutely right. what foreign leaders are going to sit down with the president united states one-on-one for an off record conversation and said that it would not be off record. >> harris: we had a problem early in the presidency with all of the elites of the phone calls at the president was having with the world leaders. but this is why specifically i ask you about the president in this instance given all that is happened in the last few days, he can flip the switch loudly and say, you know what's, i'm going to give you the notes to the american people, nobody has to interpret anything and nobody has to sit down, let me tell you about what came out, and he is either lying or he is not, but do not listen to him, listen to me, i am the person that you elected. >> ari: this is a normal matter of business, they have the responsibility to tell people what they are up to you in private meeting. that is a presidential prerogative. but this idea of subpoena of the translator is pernicious. i spent 15 years on

i expect his confirmation to go well. >> shep, you mentioned lindsey graham. osed to this nomination, lindsey graham said that if the democrats want to stop it, they should win elections. back to you. >> shepard: what are you hearing from democrats? >> you talked about chuck schumer in the press conference. they're doubling down on the message they're going to try to stop to use the nomination. they're going to shift from abortion to healthcare. they're going to be hitting the judge on whether he supports the retention of coverage from pre-existing conditions to obama. here's what schumer had to say about it. >> we're going to force judge kavanaugh to come clean. will he protect pre-existing conditions? will he protect medicaid? will he protect medicare? we're not going to let him hide behind this i'll respect existing law. we've been burnt too many times. so to sum this up, the democrats are in a tough spot. they have to retain three of their senators that could very well vote in favor of the confirmation. states up for re-election and states pro trump and con

lindsey graham said they are playing the same game with you they played with every other president. will, thank you. >>> 15 minutes past the hour. president trump escalating trade threats against key allies and one of the most powerful ceos thinks that is bad policy. i spoke to jamie dimon in chicago. dimon said the president is right to target china on trade, but not much else. >> the way to look at trade. the president has raised serious issues that are accurate around china that need to be fixed. we want nafta done. i think mexico is a wonderful neighbor. we want nafta done. to torture mexico in this way is dead wrong. it should be fixed. we thought what the president should do is work with mexico and canada and do tpp. work with the european allies and japanese allies and go to china with a common front. this is the way the modern world deal was trade and ip and state enterpris enterprises. now we have a little bit of a trade war or battle with allies and china. the president is doing a great job, maybe we would have a great outcome. the president's team said there will be no re

. >> don't worry, lindsey graham has a statement that says there's no bus for lindsey graham, don't worry. i've just been reassured unequivocally by the white house legislative team that the president's response to shouted questions was not intended to suggest that president trump doubts the intelligence community's assessment that russia is continuing to attack our critical infrastructure in the 2018 elections. i'm very pleased to hear this and stand ready to work with the administration to harden our electoral system against all foreign interference, including russia. >> that's because lindsey graham is trying to keep the government together to resist this russian threat and not score political points right now. the problem for trump is that this issue is not going away. george will calls them helsinki republicans. and they are going to have a real problem with what is now becoming increasingly known as the helsinki humiliation. these issues, unlike a lot of the other issues that relate to donald trump, do not respond to his teflon. in other words, this is a vel cr cro not a teflon issu

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joining me from clemson, south carolina, republican senator lindsey graham just back from a trip.e glad to have you here. if we could start with north korea. the obvious improvement in relations because you have kim jong un used to say president trump -- now he's actually engaging on policy but it probably doesn't surprise you that much that the north koreans issued a statement yesterday saying the meeting was regrettable, saying they were robber-like and really pouring cold water on it. what do you think of it? >> senator graham: ith to see china's hands all over this. we are in a fight with china. we buy $500 billion worth of goods from the chinese, they buy 100 billion from us. they cheat and president trump wants to change the economic relationship with china so if i were president trump, i would not let china use north korea to back me off of the trade dispute. we've got more bullets than they do when it comes to trade. we sell them 100 billion, they sell is 500 billion, we can hurt them more than they have heard us and all we are looking for is for them to stop shooting when

here is what lindsey graham said on the sunday shows regarding north korea. >> mr.orth korea is playing the same game with you they played with every president. you are tough on china and you should be and china is pulling north korea back. >> interesting tactic there from republican sfenator. will the president listen? >> probably not. you have him speaking through television to the president. that means he doesn't have his direct ear. president trump does what he wants on foreign policy. he is a renegade leader. it is hard to get his ear. i don't think graham can influence him. >> let's talk about fire and fury, iran edition. the president talked tough about north korea. now the president is using the same tactic with iran. is this a dangerous game to play here? all capital letters? we're going to unlike anything you have ever seen before. >> it is extraordinarily dangerous. one tweet away from a really big mistake that ends up with a huge conflict. we shouldn't take this kind of diplomacy or the opposite of diplomacy lightly. hopefully there is a plan to handle i

other members of congress who put out critical statements like senator lindsey graham.ip that you played of president trump is probably the most disappointing thing that happened today. he was saying, it is our fault too. for the things that are gone wrong with russia. somehow equating what the u.s. is not with the transgressions by russia. >> we still don't know. i asked him today of maryland, a democrat, somebody from your land, what was the reset? what did it accomplish? obama's recent? >> what i am talking about, what did the u.s. do that is equivalent to russia interfering in our election to russia annexing crimea, russian fighting in the ukraine. >> rebecca do you want to end so that? >> bret baier said earlier on in your show, this is moral equivalency. >> ryan talks about that too. >> even though i said i was disappointed that the president missed an opportunity there, if you look at -- there was no capitulation on the matter of policy coming out of this meeting. president trump did not say that we are going to get seat on any major policy point that is importan

that's why you have someone like lindsey graham sponsoring a bipartisan bill as congress has already done to pass new sanctions on russia that the president cannot overrule. in effect tie his hands because they clearly don't trust him. it's interesting if you look at the graham/menendez proposal, they also require senate approval requiring -- for u.s. withdrawal from nato. they wouldn't put that in legislation if they weren't concerned about the president's public comments about nato, which at least our nato comments say weakens the u.s. position towards russia. we know what pompeo will say. we know what the president will say. we've been tougher than anyone. but even the republicans don't trust their position. >> the fact that graham and menendez are working together to impose tough new sanctions against russia, very, very significant indeed. everybody stand by. there's other breaking news we're following here on cnn. ivanka trump is shutting down her fashion company. we have new information. you're going to hear what she's saying about that. we have that and a lot more right after

and rrp senator lindsey graham sent out several messages about the summit writing -- missed opportunity by president trump to firmly hold russia accountable for 2016 meddling and deliver a strong warning regarding future elections. this answer by president trump will be seen by russia as a sign of weakness and create far more problems than it solves. senator graham also tweeted, finally, if it were me, i'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the white house. senator graham referring to the soccer ball that president putin gave to president trump during the joint news conference. you can watch all of the news conference. we're going to show it tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. in the meantime, here are some of their remarks. watch part of the news conference between the two leaders before the house gavels back in. we begin with one of the questions from a reporter. reporter: thank you. mr. president, you tweeted this morning that it's u.s. foolishness, stupidity and the mueller probe that's responsible for the decline in .s. relations with russia.

. >> harris: senator lindsey graham says they will live in no matter who the president choose chooses. >> republicans are holding for lottery tickets and all of them are winners. every republican should embrace these picks. >> harris: chief white house correspondent john roberts live for us outside the white house. what you looking at their? >> i keep on looking at the west wing entrance to see if the marines suddenly gets posted which means the president is not yet in the oval office which means that whatever ruminating he is doing at the last minute here in the closing hours on the supreme court picked, he is likely doing from the residents but we are expecting a tweet at any moment now for the president yesterday when he was departing morristown new jersey for washington, d.c., said that he would likely make his decision by noon today. here's -- i can imagine that the president is amused at watching all of the speculation about this this morning. indulge me while i amuse him a little bit more. the president tweeting this morning "i have long heard that the most important decision a

you have lindsey graham coming out and calling this a missed opportunity. jeff flake even stronger in his words saying this is shameful. those are, of course, two republican lawmakers. we'll continue to get strong reaction throughout the day. a couple other headlines. you heard president putin essentially float the idea of some type of joint investigation allowing bob mueller's team to come to russia to talk to the 12 russian individuals indicted on friday. that was striking. will that ever happen? likely if you talk to foreign policy analysts. that is going to be pretty unlikely. we'll have to track that closely. but then also president trump say, look, there's blame on all sides. essentially going back to his talking points that americans bear responsibility as well. and then really wanting to make the case that the russia probe is over. that mueller finished his investigation saying this had nothing to do with anyone from my campaign when the reality is, as you and i know all too well, a number of his former campaign officials have either been indicted o

we begin today with south carolina republican senator lindsey graham. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> this morning the president is again accusing the justice department and the fbi of misleading courts in illegally surveilling his campaign and pointing to these documents just released about carter page who was campaign associate and admitted to having advised the kremlin at one point. you sit on senate judiciary, is the president wrong? >> no. i think the whole fisa warrant process needs to be looked at. the warrant on cart supported mostly by a dossier that came from michael steele who was being paid by the democratic party to do opposition research and the dossier was collected i think from russian intelligence services and if you asked the fbi today, how much of the dossier on trump has been verified? almost none of it. >> you say mostly not entirely so therefore was the surveillance justified? >> 0 no not at all in my interview if the dossier is the reason you issued the warrants the a bunch of garbage, the dossier is proven to be a bunch

lindsey graham doesn't see it that way. >> if i were president trump, i would not let china use north korea to back me off the trade dispute. we have more bullets when it comes to trade. no doubt in any mind the chinese are pulling the north koreans back. >> let's bring in andrew stevens. andrew, what is the reaction from the region? >> reporter: good morning, dave. china has just reacted saying it is groundless to suggest that china is in any way influencing the talks with north korea and the united states. they say their role is always to be constructive and urge more dialogue with with the key parties. -- dialogue with the key parties here. here in south korea, it is ba c basically reaction is a bit rocky, but still positive at the blue house which is equal to the white house in south korea. they say really because there is a strong relationship with donald trump and kim jong-un, this will happen. denuclearization will happen. foundations are strong they say. they quoted a proverb. if the foundation is strong, it means t

. >> i want to read a tweet from lindsey graham. missed opportunity by president trump to firmly hold russia accountable for 2016 meddling and deliver a strong warning regarding future elections. this answer by president trump will be seen by russia as a sign of weakness and create far more problems than it solves. not exactly a blast by lindsey graham against president trump but, you know, one republican at least mildly criticizing, i guess. >> right. the first republican aside from ben sasse who is also a republican senator who is not a fan of president trump, also sent out a statement saying that this press conference was bizarre and flat wrong. the u.s. is not to blame. jeff flake just texted me and also just tweeted that i never thought i would see the day when our american president would stand on the stage with the russian president and place blame on the united states for russian aggression. this is shameful. jeff flake is retiring. ben sasse has been a long-time never trumper. lindsey graham was critical but certainly not a

lindsey graham joins us to weigh in on that. articles of impeachment against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it is about to happen. the president and his allies fighting back over leaked conversations about possible payment, the story of a playboy model alleging an affair with the president. pá he thinks that is all about. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with mike pompeo's appearance on capitol hill, lawmakers from both parties expressing frustration with and lack of information about the summits. late today his top diplomat tried to reassure them, mike emanuel has this report from capitol hill. >> i made clear there will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic process. >> reporter: he has been firm with moscow saying sanctions won't be eased. >> no relief of sanctions and so russia returns control of crimea to ukraine. >> reporter:t? the foreign relations chairman put pompeo in an awkward spot by criticizing donald trump's behavior. >> what is it because the president purposely to create distrus

then you had a visit from senator lindsey graham who left turkey who was saying andew brunson would be released. then the turkey president was trying to find a way out of all of this after he left. the details we are learning this morning according to reports confirmed by israeli officials is there was a deal for release of pastor brunson and it involved israel in a phone call with president trump and prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel on july 14th. the american president asked israel to release a turkey woman held on terrorism charges with links to hamas. saying this would help in the release of brunson. israel deported her to turkey a day later. brunson was not released. it seems turkey did not fulfill its end of the deal. a couple of days after the court session on july 18th, he was moved to house arrest. something that enraged u.s. officials and released the barrage of threats of sanctioning a fellow nato country. cornering president erdogan, he doesn't react well. dave. >> jomana karadsheh live for us this morning in istanbul. >>> let's get a check of cnn money. global st

. >> after helsinki lindsey graham said you showed weakness. >> let me just -- i totally dier.ohave pe s ould hgone up to him and you shad and temi i his. wee ngn the d. now. >>> we are going to begin with our interview with the president late this afternoon. in our conversation at the white house mr. trump for the first time in public as president blamed vladimir putin directly for meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. the president had drawn a lot of criticism for not doing that on monday, when the two men held a joint news conference in helsinki. yesterday after he returned to washington he did say he accepts the findings of u.s. intelligence that russia interfered, but the questions continued. we worked to get more information on all of this, starting with what the president and putin talked about face to face behind closed doors. you say you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. >> yeah, but -- and i've said i have said that numerous times before. and i would say that that is true, yeah. >> but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do

lindsey graham was asked what sort of justice he would prefer to replace justice kennedy. senator graham said, not crazy, solid like a john roberts type. he said he is not picked. president trump ran the idea of who he would pick, and he gave the list. people on the list are highly qualified. let me ask this part of the question. brian from georgia, what sort of justice would you like to see replace justice kennedy on the court. caller: thank you for taking my call. i think it was about time for justice kennedy to retire. i don't know why all the democrats are crying that they blocked one of obama's picks. his first two years when he was president. they are crying he did not get a third pick? that is a bunch of baloney. he got his first two election your picks. dams -- dems are never trumpeters and he can never do right. thank you. our linerida on democrats. go ahead. caller: good afternoon. first of all, i would like to say this is the first president of the united states, that i really have tremendous difficulty, not so much even approval of what he does, but in presenta

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you have seen, and members of congress with foreign-policy hawks, like the lindsey graham zenda johns, they have -- the lindsey graham's and john mccain's, they have sought to tight in menstruation hands when it comes to easing sanctions. there is an effort by congress to exert -- to tie up their hands when it comes to easing sanctions. there is an effort by congress to exert that, but in the end, it will be president trump with president putin in the room alone and you don't know what will come out of the. david: great to be with you -- come out of that. david: great to have you at this bill fairies. shery: coming up, a confirmation to find how republicans can push for a swift vote on judge kavanaugh before the midterm elections. we will talk with the former rnc chairman, next. if you have a bloomberg terminal, turn to tv to rewatch any of the interviews you might have missed. that would be tv . this is bloomberg. ♪ retail. under pressure like never before. and it's connected technology that's moving companies forward fast. e-commerce. real time inventory. virtual changing

senator lieberman: i agree with my good friend lindsey graham.s not only a missed opportunity. coming after the contentious meetings that president trump had with our allies in nato, particularly directing criticism at one of our great allies in germany, angela merkel and prime minister may of the united kingdom, which is our closest ally in the world, to see this press conference was not only a missed opportunity but i thought the president's performance today wastoday was disappointint profoundly troubling. we know that the russians did in america'sle elections in 2016. they tried to determine who would be the next president of the united states. it is fundamental to our democracy that the people of the united states choose their only heirs. -- their own leaders. will you make america great again f a foreign power can determine the winner in our elections? me, i am saying is not just it is based on the conclusion of my former republican colleague in the senate from indiana, today the director of national intelligence in america, put there by pr

what lindsey graham said when they had four lottery winners. that may be true. the losers, the american public. should any of the justices get confirmed. i think this highlights the point that when mcconnell and when the republicans killed the filibuster, they changed the senate and that essentially says over 140 million people, we don't care about your thought or your perspective. i think that's a dangerous territory that we're in right now because we can't trumpet this america first and the democracy mantra and under this administration, every branch of government is chipping away at the core democratic values. you have to challenge voters. i don't see a lot of leverage from democrats to stop this court, unfortunately. you have to focus on the house and the senate. you can't have a trump administration control congress and the courts. that is disastrous for the american public. i would argue that none of these justices are qualified. if they're thinking about overturning roe v. wade. it's not just that. the other pol sthas could inevitably land before this cou

thanks for coming in. >> glad to be here. >> you heard lindsey graham. substance of the dossier garbage. what do you say? >> i would say an awful lot of material in the dossier has been corroborated by events and information that we have come to see since. other parts are still unknown whether they're going to be corroborated or not. major elements of the dossier -- i don't know any that have been disproven. >> you have known christopher steele for years. you wrote very publically in an op-ed, the relationship, how you came about the information in the dossier and so on and so forth. do you trust his information over the years? >> well, while i was at the state department, he provided me some 120 documents about russia and ukraine, entirely unrelated to the u.s. political system. it wasn't about democrats or republicans or anything partisan. it was about russia -- about what russia was doing in the national security area that was relevant to the united states. these documents were well received by the people doing russia full-time within the department o

to attack him personally, they will do it in a way where they don't alienate the president. >> lindsey graham used to hang out with john mccain. they weren't afraid to speak their mind. let's do a then and now with lind jay graham and donald trump. >> i don't believe donald trump is a reliable conservative republican. good luck with paul ryan trying to find a conservative agenda with this guy. i don't think he has the judgment to be commander-in-chief. >> donald trump convinced analytic and china he's serious about bringing about change. if this happens, donald trump deserves the nobel peace prize. >> he argucskiesed george h. w. bush of lying to the people about the iraq war. the president believes the russians stolen males from the dnc. you know how to make america great again? tell donald trump to go to hell. the trump movement is real. i'm trying to work with him to harmonize the party. he'll be our nominee. i'm confident of that. i'll support him. >> try to pick on senator graham but he's a particularly -- because he the likes media and out there all the time, he's a particularly there y

abby, this comes a day after republican senator lindsey graham called the trump administration naiveem. how interesting is that to see? >> well, popty, interestingly it's somewhat regular thing for a lot of these republicans to criticize the president. i think that's the sort of pattern here is that there's a willingness to criticize and an unwillingness or maybe they don't believe that there's anything to do and unwillingness to do anything about it. i think in the case of will hurd, he is in the middle of a really tough re-election bid and been a constant critic of the president on a number of other matters including at the border and seeing republicans spooked here because they see a president when's acting perhaps in his own self interest, perhaps not in the interest of the party writ large. there is a risk here going into november that what all of this chaos can do is turn off voters who in the middle who maybe are giving the president the benefit of the doubt of foreign policy issues and see him acting in a way that is in the words of lindsey graham naive and erratic in some wa

>> i think senator lindsey graham said it accurately this morning in his television interview when he said the president frequently con flats the issue of collusion with that of russian's meddling in the election. i think what the president is getting at today is the collusion issue. he denied the collusion ever occurred as it related to his campaign. that there hasn't been any evidence shown. that he's not a target of the investigation, that there has been no showing or any evidence that there was collusion. on the other hand, there is all kinds of evidence and everyone agrees in the intelligence community that there was meddling by the russians in this election. and i think senator graham said it perfectly today. the president needs to be bullish with russia as it relates to sanctions so they know this is not tolerated by the united states. >> julia, do you share that take away from the president's tweet? >> i don't think the president is allowed to be confused over a year of his presidency. a 5-year-old can figure it out. i think people like lindsey graham and i understand jim are

-- there is meddling going on, a constant attack and then lindsey graham said he believes this versioncall him and say, no, no, in. >> if you need more proof he didn't mean, hey, get out of the room, i'm not taking questions, look at sanders asked repeatedly of attacks and wouldn't answer it in present tense. she said, this is what we have done to prevent. we know that the threat exists and not answer it directly and all the proof you need if you needed at all. >> jeffrey, you are a legal expert. they refused over at the white house to rule out the possibility that the u.s. might let russia question a former u.s. ambassador to russia as well as another american citizen because they have questions about these guys and it wasn't simply flatly rejected immediately. >> well, i mean, again, this is all this solicitude for putin. over at the state department they gave a briefing and the -- michael mcfaul the former ambassador that putin hates and the state department quite properly said this is an absurd idea but over at the putin fan club at the white house, it is like, well, we'll think ab

senator lindsey graham this morning on fox news sunday calling it a win-win no matter who the president picks. >> republicans are holding four lottery tickets and all of them are winners. if you're a conservative republican, the four people named, particularly thomas hardiman, i'm glad he's on the list, are all winners and every republican should embrace these picks. there is nobody that president trump could nominate from a conservative vent that will get many democratic votes but this is a nightmare for red state democrats to oppose a highly qualified nominee. >> garrett tenney live at the white house with more. garrett, good evening. is president trump still expected to reach a decision by tonight? reporter:mike, certainly possible he could reach a decision tonight. this is a huge decision, he is giving himself a bit of wiggle room on the deadline. when he was departing from bet minister new jersey, he will know who he is going to select either by tonight or noon tomorrow. >> i'm getting very close to making a final decision, and i believe this person will do a great job. but i'm ver

senator lindsey graham joins us to weigh in on that and much more. then breaking tonight, house republicans introduced an article of impeachment against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. will they vote before breaking for august recess? it's about to happen. we will ask thomas and ron desantis. the president and his allies fighting back at his longtime lawyer michael cohen overlaid conversation as they are discussing a possible payment over the story of a "playboy" model alleging an affair with the president. former governor of arkansas mike huckabee is here to tell us what he thinks. that leaked tape is really all about. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. we begin with second of state mike pompeo's appearance on capitol hill. some lawmakers from both parties are exposing frustration with president trump's foreign policy and a lack of information about that recent trump-putman helsinki cemetery late today, his top diplomat tried to reassure them. chief congressional correspond mike emanuel has this report

even lindsey graham who says this is already into settled law so it should stay there. erin, you first. >> i think this supreme court pick is going to be a nasty fight. it is not going to look like it did with neil gorsuch. if you remember back in 2005, president george w. bush nominated harry meyers who was his counsel at the white house, sotomayor, who so many said she was not up to the job, and leo. leo especially was a nasty fight. whoever the president picks this time, it will be a nasty, drag-out fight. >> agreed, john? >> i think it will be a fight with the outcome predetermined. i think we know this nominee from the president is going to be approved. we've gotten signals from people like jeff flake and susan collins that they're not going to let the prospect of a deciding vote on roe, which susan collins says she agrees with that decision, lisa murkowski, too, i don't think that's going to stop them. we know this is the best chance republicans have had to knock out roe, and i think the president has a preselected list of people who the republicans who advise the

i think lindsey graham is right to say we should be suspicious of michael cohen, for somebody who is probably the most loyal person to the president, to say he was secretly recording his client, which is probably not illegal but a scummy thing to do, we should definitely be questioning his credibility and wondering why he's changing his tune now that he's under his own legal problems. >> amber athy with the daily caller. you will be back discussing the challenges facing republicans and democrats ahead of the november midterms. >>> well, fox news alert, we have learned that a sixth person has been killed in a car fire burning in northern california. that fire already destroying hundreds of homes near redding. one of 17 fires burning up and down that state. in southern california crews are starting to get a handle on the cranston fire east of los angeles. take a look at this. new video of the car fire in the north jumping over the sacramento river. cal-fire division chief urging everyone to take evacuation orders there seriously. >> we're having large damaging fires, more often than no

i want to get your opinion of what lindsey graham just said about michael cohen., or do you think it's the president that loses in the credibility department? >> i think that michael cohen, rudy giuliani and donald trump have about the same amount of credibility. they all use at best situational ethics but probably more likely they just lie constantly and they're all three pathological liars. >> okay. well, that's saying something. i want to play for you what rudy giuliani said about michael cohen here from an interview earlier. >> and the man is a pathological manipulator, liar. i didn't know that. i didn't know him well. i would have been surprised back then, but now that i know all this about him, it seems to me his default position is to lie. he's a bad liar. >> it looks like you took some of the words from giuliani's mouth right there in reference to cohen, but a few weeks ago it was a different tune. giuliani and the president were singing michael cohen's praises. they were saying how great a guy he was. what happened? >> well, i think things changed, the si

but lindsey graham responded to this whole suggestion today on capitol hill. >> naive and absurd.there is no rule of law in russia. there is the rule of putin. the courts are not independent. the intelligence services are there for one purpose, to keep him in power. i can't imagine a scenario where it would be in our national interest to allow russia to have access to our intelligence community or people defending our nation. >> so lindsey graham made it very clear he and a number of other republicans certainly see this as a red line. you have had your own experiences with vladimir putin. during the uprising in ukraine, you were seen handing out bread to the protesters in kiev. >> and to the police who were ordered to abuse the protesters. that was a gesture of solidarity that there shouldn't be violence in this circumstance. >> and we have a picture of that up. do you think that that's what engendered the hacking of your communications by putin's intelligence agencies? >> well, putin obviously ordered a full court press to try to discredit my diplomacy and discredit president oba

senate erlor lindsey graham, ita missed opportunity to hold russia accountable and deliver a strong warningre elections. it is imperative that congress holds hearing on the extent and scope of any cooperations with syria. if it were me, i would check the soccer ball and never allow it in the white house. this was senator flake who tweeted. i would never thought i see a day where the president of the united states standing on the stage with putin and blaming on the united states. ben sass, this is bizarre and flat out wrong. this is bizarre and flat out wrong. when i caveat these statements and remind our viewers that republicans have criticized our president before on the issue of tariffs in strong language. the question remains what are they going to actually do about it. will they do anything about it and we are going to be hearing from the democratic leader of the senate, senator schumer this is what he said, they'll be holding a press conference at 2:30 this afternoon. schumer writing what we can expect to hear from him, in our entire history, we have never seen the president of the uni