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but it could just be lindsey graham is running for re-election. last year, lindsey graham was surely terrified by a south carolina poll that showed him with only a 51% approval rating among republicans in his state. that's the kind of number that could invite a republican primary challenge from an avid trump supporter, but then lindsey graham decided to become that avid trump supporter and now his approval rating in south carolina is 72% and so now lindsey graham is a lot less likely to face a primary challenge in south carolina next year. and lindsey graham is the most emphatic supporter of president trump's emergency declaration to build his wall. joining our discussion now is former senator claire mccaskill and former senate staffer, adam gentleson, whose op-ed piece in "the new york times" says that mitch mcconnell has surrendered the republican senate to donald tru trump. senator mccaskill, i want to give you an opportunity to revise and extend your remarks about senator graham, as they say in the senate. is he crazy or is he running for re-e

and lindsey graham is trying to get the u.s.rick shanahan, acting secretary of defense rolling in from afghanistan and iraq and he meets with congressmen and senator and they ask him, okay, are you on board and he says well, the president told me we're getting out, i think we're getting out and lindsey graham goes off. and not only lindsey graham, all of the other congressmen and this meeting becomes everybody screaming at patrick shanahan like we can't do this, you have to help us convince the president and patrick shanahan stands there, quote/unquote, like a dear in the heer in the . the meeting descends into chaos, congressmen and senators are thinking to themselves okay, well i guess this guy patrick shanah shanahan, do we want him to be secretary of defense if he is not on board with these things? they're looking for someone like mattis to stand up to the president when he does reckless thing. >> that's extraordinary color, josh rogin that you got from this schnitzel filled conference. >> it was delicious. >> good to know.

it is my honor to introduce the speaker for today's afternoon address, senator lindsey graham. senator graham has represented south carolina in the u.s. senate since 2002. prior to serving, he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives in 1994. the first republican from the third congressional district of south carolina in over 100 years. before his election, he served as a judge advocate general in the u.s. air force and later in the south carolina air national guard and air force reserves. just weeks ago, he was elected as chairman of the senate judiciary committee, a committee with broad legislative jurisdiction and oversight of the department of justice and homeland security. the committee is of course, also test with a consideration of all article three judicial nominations including nominees to the supreme court. the senate judiciary committee manages a historically blistering pace and confirmations over the past on it for months under senator grassley. senator graham's inheriting a fair amount of momentum. he has pledged the confirmation of judges will be one of his

join me in welcoming senator lindsey graham. [applause] sen. graham: thank you all. i'm late. i was talking to the turkish president about syria. this is a coveted world we live -- complicated world we live in. thank you for the kind introduction. i will try to do the best i can. we had some bumps in the road. let's get right into it. what is happening on the committee? judges -- more judges, and hopefully some legislative breakthroughs on things we need to do as a country. about picking judges. i have been here since 2002. i have had six votes for supreme court nominees. i have voted for them all. i thought kagan and sotomayor were qualified. i wouldn't have chosen them, but it was pretty clear to me they were qualified. they represent people that the democratic president would pick from. as to the four nominated on the republican side, i found them equally qualified, and exactly the type of person that a republican president would choose from. which takes us to the federalist society. you are organized around the idea of constitutional principles that i share, and it should

not lindsey graham. that's kind of where we are. >> people in south carolina for years have wondered how lindsey graham wins primary races down there. for years. republicans say can i not believe that guy keeps winning republican primaries. and this is all about lindsey graham winning the republican primary. he has proven there is nothing he will not do, there is no value he will not throw over the side of the boat. there is no former friend or mentor that he will not betray to win that primary. and if you don't believe it, just look at what donald trump has said about his dead friend and how lind john mccain. >> it's really shocking. he has deech stieded that in order to win his next primary, he has got to not on go along with donald trump but be out front and be the most vocal supporter of the president. he's decideds that what south carolina republican primary voters want and that that's what he's going to give them. is just -- it's just shocking. it's just amazing. maybe his calculation is correct bu

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a lot more with senator lindsey graham, when we come right back. stay with us. maria: welcome back in omarosa back with senator lindsey graham looking ahead to the meeting between president trump and kim jong-un in vietnam this upcoming week. senator what can we expect from your standpoint, what would be a victory here, because i know that maybe north korea has been quieter, no missile launches but the idea there has been denuclearization, that just hasn't happened, so what should we expect in terms of a victory? >> a roadmap to get to denuclearization. a roadmap to change the north korean economy to make it more prosperous and to give the assurances to chairman kim he needs to give up his nukes. how does this end? a peace treaty between the united states, china, south korea, north korea. they give up their nukes, we help them develop their economy, and all ends well. the goal is to get a roadmap to accomplish those tasks. maria: senator there is word this morning that he could back off from an earlier demand that north korea fully denuclearizes and that's befor

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i would ask who is this lindsey graham?e a mullet in the inner state mullet toss for 'bama contest for years now. he flips and flops and flips and flops. sam stein, to declare a national emergency as lindsay graham just did, or to say he's not -- we've got a national emergency when i will say again, what we say every day, donald trump's three arguments are just fucious, no marshall emergency because we have the lowest number of illegal crossings in half a century in 50 years ago since lindsey graham was in grade school. >> right. >> drugs. we keep hearing drugs are pouring over the border as we say and chris wallace say 80-to-90% say they come through legal ports of entry. there is absolutely nothing steven miller and donald trump can do to change those statistics which comes from their government and finally crimes. crimes are committed by a much higher percentage of people who are native born like steven miller and lindsey graham than from immigrants coming to the united states. uncontrovertible. again, from donald trump'

there is a new attorney general, bill barr, who is now on the job, and senator lindsey graham is now in the chairmanship of the judiciary committee. so where does all of this head next? >> that story is not over. mccabe may with gone, rosenstein is heading toward the exit, but this whole notion about this 25th amendment and whether there was a conversation to try to oust the president and see if there was support to oust the president, republicans will continue in that vein. it's interesting, it looks like lindsey graham as chairman of the judiciary committee will pick up right where house republicans left off when they lost the majority and democrats took over, you know, before the past two years, republicans in the house have sort of been doing this investigate the investigator sort of inquiry about whether there is bias at the f.b.i. or the justice department. that has gone away. they have red cross their subpoena power. and graham is showing he's not only going to pick that up, he potentially will go even further by telling you that he is willing to subpoena rosenstein and bring

gunman, lindsey graham who has his own views on this issue. and shanahan who is trying to gain the president's favor. number two, this munich conference is antithetical to the president's world view. it celebrates big alliances. and number three, this is another illustration about how whoever gets to the president last is going to have his ear and is going to help shape his policy. >> kourtney, while we're talking about military issues, there's a medli headline that caught our attention. he said moscow would have no choice but to respond to such a move. it would cut the time it took u.s. missiles to reach russia. >> he was talking about the interimmediamediate range missi. it prohibits the total number of intermediate range missiles that can be deployed. the thing that was particularly jarring to me about his declaration was that it's not just that he would go after allies where the u.s. might have the missiles stationed overseas but he would also go potentially after the united states, presumely the homeland, not just u.s. assets. >> this is

this is one that involved the lindsey graham congressional delegation.ouple dozen bipartisan group of senators and members of congress. they had a briefing by acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan. it got really heated when lindsey graham kept pressing him and pressing him about this planned withdrawal of all u.s. troops from syria. so shanahan said, well, they're still on track to withdraw all troops by the end of april. and graham, getting angry unleashed a series of expletives of how he felt about the plan. at the time end he said if this is your plan, then consider me your adversary. >> shanahan is the acting defense secretary. what might this mean for his future? >> so, for some time now he's been in the role for nearly two months now since secretary mattis, james mattis resigned just before the end of the year. for some time we've been hearing this is secretary shanahan's job to lose. and he's been auditioning for it. he went on his first big international trip last week going to iraq, afghanistan, brussels to nato and to munich for the secu

let's cut through trees nonsense because what he's just done is just accused for example senator lindsey graham a republican a close ally of donald trump and the cia of being allies of iran in a conspiracy to try to pull the u.s. out of yemen let's get to what the real point here is i think that u.s. agencies and u.s. congress will not be able to go after him b.s. they won't be able to hold him responsible but where you might see the effect is this because many cars. us men are so angry and the agencies are so unsettled by what trump is not there may be a move for legislation which will cut u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that troponin astrachan approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. for

now i want to play you a little bit of lindsey graham. lindsey graham used to sound like charlie sykes when he would talk about the constitution and the powers of the various branches of government and here is lindsey graham today. >> border security, democrats are pushing this resolution. will you vote with them? >> absolutely not. i'm 100% with the president. >> how many republicans do you believe will vote with them? >> a handful, but here's the point. i think he's got all the authority he needs. there will be enough to sustain a veto. >> okay. he said a handful, jennifer, not enough to -- >> right. >> give us a guess. how many? how many will vote with the democrats? >> oh, i think the over-under in the senate is probably about five. this is the same lindsey graham a week or so ago was saying to the president, don't do it. then changed and said go ahead and do it. the reason i was smiling earlier on is that in the earlier press conference that nancy pelosi gave on friday morning with joaquin castro, who is shepherding this thing throug

lindsey graham called the allegation beyond stunning.ham is promising congressional hearings to quote get to the bottom of it. >> good reporting by "60 minutes." there's an allegation by the acting fbi director that time that the deputy attorney general was basically trying to take the president down to the 25th amendment process, the deputy attorney general denies it. so i promise your viewers that we will have a hearing about who's telling the truth, what actually happened. >> mccabe says he ord investigations into mr. trump the night comey was fired. >> i'd never been to a meeting in the oval office before. i'm a career fbi agent, government worker. >> reporter: ooval office was above your pay grade? >> it surcertainly was. >> and he went with on an almost gleeful position of what went on with infiring of comey and that people disliked jim comey and they were very happy about this and it was a great thing. >> reporter: he was telling you what the reaction was inside the fbi? >> he was. it was very different from the reaction i had see

according to the report, acting secretary patrick shanahan and lindsey graham got into a heated argumente 'president's plan to withdraw all u.s. troops from syria. graham reportedly unleashed a string of expletives and called himself shanahan's adversary. joining me now, nbc's national security and military reporter courtney kube, co-author of the story and someone who was in munich for all the action last weekend. courtney, this is very tense, you don't want to lose lindsey graham if you're the acting defense secretary already being criticized by many for not being up for the job, not having any military background, coming from the defense community of boeing, he basically was a corporate executive in boeing as a contractor rather than as anyone with anyone, you know, experience with boots on the ground. >> that's right. so secretary shanahan, i don't think anyone disputes that he understands sort of the defense industrial base side of the job, of the pentagon. and a lot of people might argue that as the deputy secretary of defense, the job that he had under secretary of defense jim mat

let's cut through trees nonsense because what he's just done is just accused for example senator lindsey graham a republican a close ally of donald trump and the cia of being allies of iran in a conspiracy to try to pull the u.s. out of yemen let's get to what the real point here is i think that u.s. agencies and u.s. congress will not be able to go after him b.s. they won't be able to hold him responsible for where you might see the instructors is because many come. most men are so angry and the agencies are so unsettled by what trump is not there may be a move for legislation which will cut u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that troponin astrachan approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. f

lindsey graham/ (r) judiciary committee "how can i not, if that's what it takes?"ccabe detailed just how far rosenstein was allegedly willing to go to get evidence that could set the 25th amendment into motion. andrew mccabe/ former fbi director"we talked about why the president had insisted on firing the director and whether or not he was thinking about the russia investigation and did that impact his decision. and in the context of that conversation, the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said, 'i never get searched when i go into the white house. i could easily wear a recording device. they wouldn't know it was there.' now, he was not joking."rosenstein has issued several statements distancing himself from the idea...but he has never outright denied the discussions happened, only saying, through a doj spokesperson, he "never authorized any recording" nor was he "in a position to consider invoking the 25th amendment."mccabe also insists rosenstein was unsettled by how the president consistently tied james comey's firing....to

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cut through the trees nonsense because what he's just done is just accused for example senator lindsey graham a republican a close ally of donald trump and the cia of being allies of iran in a conspiracy to try to pull the u.s. out of yemen let's get to what the real point here is i think that u.s. agencies and u.s. congress will not be able to go after to be yes they won't be able to hold him responsible but where you might see the effect is this because many come. most men are so angry and the agencies are so unsettled by what trump is not there may be a move for legislation which will cut u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that trungpa ministration approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s

and tara, lindsey graham vowing to open an investigation into mccabe's claim? >> reporter: tom, graham says he plans to subpoena mccabe and rosenstein, unless they voluntarily agree to testify. tom? >> tara, thank you. >>> sticking with politics, president trump preparing to defend his declaration of a national emergency at the border. stephen miller signaling the president will veto any congressional motion disapproving of the action. democrats and some republicans are angry over the decision to bypass congress to obtain billions in funding for the border wall. it would be president trump's first veto. >>> next to new details about the factory massacre in aurora, illinois. we're learning more about the five victims killed by gary martin, a convicted felon, who was not legally allowed to own a gun. the community turning out in the snow and cold to pay respect to those victims. zachary kiesch is in aurora. >> reporter: tonight, many in this illinois community still grappling with how a longtime employee could walk into this factory and kill five of his co-worker

leland: annan is what lindsey graham is talking about.appreciate your insight and expertise as always. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. kristen: now to one of the more bizarre stories of the week. attorneys for jussie smollett are pressing on claims of the actors staged his own assault after police released two men from custody that they say provided new information that change the course of their investigation. mike tobin joins us from chicago with more. what are you hearing? >> despite all the anonymous sourcing in this case, the official police spokesman told me last night that jussie smollett is no longer considered a bit done. as i suspect at least not yet. please want to get into the station asking more questions. a statement that came out last night that information received from individuals questioned by police early in the case has in fact shifted project tree of the investigation. we reached out to the cast members attorney to request a follow-up interview. individuals are a couple of brothers from nigeria. one of them wo

they have not. >> they're trying to make it sound like and lindsey graham is.what all presidents have done. i am holding an argument which pertains to our guest which this never happened. the only time the president used executive authority was an overseas construction for the military, meaning to house them. this is not to house military because you are not allowed to house the military. >> steven miller was not the only person who could not come up with an example. jim jordan was making his round on the sunday show and he could not come up with an example. they asked him -- well, i don't have that. >> when you stop the average person on the street and ask them this question, they don't know. for the million of people who only read the president's feed, this is new to them. >> he comes out saying his initial assessment is legal. based on what? did he do a full study on it that day? what happens to mike lee being constitutional conservative. it is simply now a donald trump sharing section. rightly or wrongly, they think their political survive al depends on no

stephen: tell me about the zooropature. >> i was like, "oh, my god." >> stephen: that's too bad lindsey grahamves bono, and he loves the work bono has done. >> stephen: he just doesn't care for what bono has spent most of his life doing. >> he just hasn't memorized all the lyrics of all u2 songs like i happened to beto do, perhaps it was that. but, no. that's -- >> stephen: i promise not to talk about politics. i will only talk about his favorite bands. margaret, lovely to see you. >> that's not the normal "face the nation" banter in the green room. we normally talk about important things like borders and politics. but that was just me. it's all fun. "face the nation" airs sundays on cbs. margaret brennan, everybody! we'll be right back. ♪ all the ways, all the ways ♪ ♪ tell me all the ways ♪ and he said ♪ ♪ girl, you take care of me ♪ ♪ you are my thera♪y ♪ the better half of me ♪ say it again ♪ ♪ if you love me, love me, love me ♪ like you say ♪ ♪ darling tell me all the ways ♪ tell me all the ways ♪ now, we're bringing you all the ways to get what you need. target run & done. ♪ with imagina

lindsey graham up for reelection likely to face some kind of challenge from his right. that is one thing we talked about the president's weakness with republicans now that we're beginning to see that he also continues to have some strength. >> well, he does but if you're a republican senator,or sit heari -- you're sitting there and here are your alternatives. you're going to have this shut double pla shutdown, you're not going there or this emergency declaration that will put you in a worse position or you're going to have the wall go down. if you're a republican senator, none of those are a good choice. >> michael, this is yet again -- i was just going to say one of my favorite activities is going out and talking to people who ask me when i stopped becoming a conservative because that allows me to basically repeat my 1994 campaign agenda and i'll say free trade. where are you on free trade? i'm still for it. balanced budgets? where are you because i'm still for it. nato, russia. you just go down the list of the 20 things i ran on in 1994. you know another one? an out-o

lindsey graham tweeted this, i stand firmly behind donald trump's decision to use executive power to2020 presidential candidate kamala harris is declaring a national emergency over a vanity project is ridiculous. we don't need a wall, we should address the actual emergencies facing our country, everything from gun violence. there is concern among republicans this could set a bad precedent. a lot of people on social media feel democrats forced his hand. dances it is decades of both parties playing immigration games, trump is doing what he has to do, how quickly we forget obama's executive order for daca. the latest poll indicates the border the was increasing, neck and neck, 46% support, 50% oppose. rob: we have another mascot issue. >> reporter: students at george washington university, getting would've colonials mascot. the student who started this, let's decide if the colonials are the best identity for community school spirit. we are back in colonial times, wouldn't have been represented or treated equally for fear of something based on the quality. look at the reaction this has s

concerning lindsey graham.e fbi but like a hostile takeover run by putin inc. the more evidence that comes forward in all of these different avenues of the mueller and other investigations is why i think lindsey graham is trying to do basically what the house did prior. prior to 2018. run obstruction, run interference involving the investigation. >> we didn't need a book from andrew mccabe to tell us trump is a threat to national security or jeff sessions is a racist. as a lawyer, sessions being head of the largest law enforcement agency in the land, the doj, the fact his racism was really that, just intuitively -- viscerally strong. does mccabe's book suggest session is definitive -- i'm relieved exposes the true racist versus what we thought anyway. >> and adam schiff, of course, making rounds on the talk show circuit. he had said something about a smoking gun. >> the full story is not in the indictment, that it is very possible the best evidence is yet to come. that, in fact, here there were search warrants

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for senator lindsey graham an important moment. chairman of the senate judiciary committee. one of trump's strongest allies, although he has broken with the president on a small handful, but a handful of important matters and having hearings with rosenstein and mccabe would be a moment for him to make huge headlines and potentially do some of the oversight that house republicans had been wanting to do. wanting to go after some of these senior doj officials they allege engaged in a coup attempt against president trump. lindsey graham, gives him a chance to be the white knight, ride in and take trump's former foes from the justice department to task. >> correcting, rod rosenstein hasn't left yet. all indications he will at some point. and congressman adam schiff chairman of the house intel committee, and eric engle, focused in trying to find out what exactly took place in those private conversations between vladimir putin, russia's president, and president trump. tried everything to get the note of the translator and what have you. h

reporting in washington i am allison barber. >>> lindsey graham said today that he will investigate explosive claims by the former deputy fbi director. >> andrew mccabe told 60 minutes that way at one point the justice department talked about removing president trump from office. >> we will have all hearing about who is telling the truth, what happened, and mr. mccabe was dismissed from the fbi for linking information to the press. you have to think about the source here. >> it was alarming that there were people at the highest level, they were wondering if the president was fit to serve. >> the discussion talks about the 25th amendment which allows for the removal of a president unfit to serve. and there are concerns about his relationship with russian government leaders. >>> the empire after is not officially a suspect into the investigation with the attacked to the actor, smollett. it is headed to a grand jury, next month. he said he was attacked by two meant that shouted racial slurs and port a chemical substance on him and then tied a noose like rope around his neck. the actor refused to

. >> reporter: reaction was harsh, lindsey graham saying bias against donald trump and rosenstein about case, rosenstein wanted to wear a wire around the president. >> i imagine if the shoe were on the other foot my democratic colleagues would want to know about that conversation if it involved a democrat. >> doug collins says the scheme is right out of hollywood. >> this is worse than a 60s movie, the time in which we see the department of justice using the full force of its power to contemplate nothing less than a coup. >> reporter: even though vp rejecting claims about doj meetings where kicking out trump was discussed. >> i never heard of it. i never heard of any discussion of the 25th amendment and i find any suggestion of it to be absurd. >> the president's former attorney saying we need a hard-core investigation of the investigators and we need it now. >> we need a special federal grand jury instituted by the attorney general and appointed the toughest prosecutor he can find and call them all in. no more inspector general, no more kicking it down the road. >> reporter: the intent

lindsey graham vowing to investigate what he called an administrative coup and if necessary he will subpoenaten to graham and then koouns. >> an allegation by the acting director at the time the acting attorney general was basically trying to do an administrative coup, take the president down through the 25th amendment process. the deputy attorney general denies it. i promise your viewers the following. that we will have a hearing about who is telling the truth. >> it is alarming there were apparently folks at the highest levels of our government considering whether or not our president is unfit to serve. i don't think that this frankly rises to the level of some deep state conspiracy. >> no word yet on when graham my call for the hearing but expect pretty soon. >> bill: thank you. john. >> heather: with more on this marc thiessen joins us resident fellow at the american enterprise institute. let's begin with declaring this emergency over the border wall or funding for border security. >> basically at every point along the way president trump has made the wrong decision when it comes to the

lindsey graham was with me yesterday on sunday morning futures.uesday. he did a fantastic job during the hearing. you've got to remember, he's the former attorney general for bush 41. he was confirmed with a voice vote, not even a roll call was needed. ehe's been the deputy attorney general by voice vote. he's been the general counsel for the cia by voice vote. he's a steady hand. he did not get one democratic vote in the committee. i'm disappointed in that. but he will make it confirmation this week on the floor. he'll pick up a handful of democrats and he will be an outstanding attorney general for this country. maria: once he gets the confirmation this week, if that's in fact where it's going, what's the time line in terms of him getting in the job? and do you see any scenario where this doesn't get done? >> no, i think senator graham who by the way in just a couple of weeks as the chair of the senate judiciary committee has been spectacular with respect to clarity and efficiency and getting things done, as well as transparency. even allowing d

what do you make of lindsey graham's proposal, wait until they write the damn thing as he says?to see this very quickly. the government runs out of money here at the end of the week. so it's not a lot of time, i think, that the senator is trying to give the president some space. but clearly, as you saw there at the top, as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell wants to get this done. >> yeah. they do. house and senate negotiators want it done. they said they reached the deal. the question is this a deal that the president would sign? they agreed in principle to provide $1.37 billion for 55 miles of fencing. that's less than the $6 billion appropriated last year and a drop in the bucket for the $5.7 billion the president has been demanding. how is this a deal? >> like a lot of deals, it's about the art of what is possible. here in washington, you've had democrats and republicans come together. they are giving him money. they didn't do anything crazy or drastic when it comes to ice or limiting that kind of situation. so we saw earlier the president grumbling about this. it wasn't

republican senator, lindsey graham going as far as to call it an attempted takeover. >> the deputy attorney general was basically trying to do an administrative coup, take the president down through the 25th amendment process, and the deputy attorney general denies it. >> reporter: senator lindsey graham says he plans to subpoena mccabe and rosenstein unless they voluntarily agree to testify before the senate judiciary committee. tara palmeiri, palm beach florida. >>> the community of aurora, illinois is coming together to honor the victims killed in a factory shooting. these five were gunned down by a disgruntled co-worker. turns out, that co-worker was a convicted felon, who was not legally allowed to own a gun. on a snowy and cold day, the community paid respear thekiash graping with how a long-time employee could walk into this factory and kill five of his co-workers. he knew he was getting fired when he brought a loaded pistol, outfitted with a laser to work on friday, but he shouldn't have had that gun. police revealing that background checks missed his prior felony conviction, which

mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham are all in.d precedent and potentially unconstitutional. what will. political fallout be for the president eats emergency declaration. the party panel is back. so, anthony fisher, i will start with you. rand paul said i'm all for strong border security but this is a horrible idea. do you agree with that in. >> ?>> i think it's a horrible . but anybody remember when barack obama said i've got a phone and a pen. people are outraged by executive orders np is a leap beyond executive orders. kennedy: it is. democrats love this. there have been several say really, this is all you need to do? i've got some things that are important to me, i would grab a bunch of money and go ahead and use it any way i wish. >> i think the democrats are simplifying it a little much by extending it to all of these things they declare emergencies. mike lee said it's legal, bad, unconstitutional but it's congress' fault for succeeding their power to the ebbing ex tif branch. congress hads not done their duty to fix this pro

it is up to lindsey graham to do that but he is a very discredited witness. >> sandra: lindsey grahamit should have happened particulars months ago. between trey gowdy and john ratcliffe that with the lack of leadership on the republican side of the aisle in the house, you know, jordan, meadows, gowdy, ratcliffe wanted to see this guy and see rod rosenstein, by the way. but leadership wouldn't back them up. consequently they never saw them. i think lindsey graham has the political guts to do it and i think it will happen. >> sandra: more from andrew mccabe on the reasons for opening the counter intelligence investigation into donald trump. >> we had a number of very concerning things that we were considering at the time. one of them was the fact that the president in our view had gone to extreme measures to potentially impact, negatively impact and possibly turn off our investigation of russian meddling into the election and russian coordination with his campaign. >> sandra: he has shut down all the talk that he decided to go at this himself. this is his team, the recommendation of hi

lindsey graham talks about his priorities as chair of the senate judiciary committee. judiciary house committee holds a hearing on gun violence prevention. on was a, president trump dominated -- nominated david malpass. he currently serves as treasury secretary for international affairs. you must be approved by the world bank's 12 member executive board. president trump: high, everybody. everybody. we are dealing with a very special man, a very special person. it is my pleasure to announce my choice for the next president of the world bank, mr. david malpass. i have known david for a long time. very extraordinary man. with us today, are his wife, adele, as all of his -- as well as his three children. i want to thank you all for being here and i want to congratulate you will. thank you very much. [applause] where please to be joined today by secretary steven mnuchin, wilbur ross, alex acosta, ben carson, as all --ambassador bob lighthizer, as well as ambassador bob lighthizer. how are you doing, bob? how are you doing, china bob? it is going well. and treasurer jovita,

we asked the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, lindsey graham, about it. >> the underlying accusation is beyond stunning. >> brennan: all this analysis on the news of the week is just ahead on "face the nation." >> brennan: good morning and welcome to "face the nation." we have a lot to get to today, d we're going to begin with senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham. he joins us from germany where he is attending the munich security conference. ht this conversation. my colleague scott pelley had on "60 minutes" with former acting f.b.i. director andrew mccabe where he described a conversation about the 25th amendment, the mechanism through which to push the president out of office, and he said it was brought up to him by the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. >> discussion of the 25th amendment was simply rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. >> rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority of a cabinet that would vote to remo

the concern here is that if only senators rand paul and lindsey graham who are opposite on the spectrum in terms of foreign policy, national security, were just giving their best advice to the president all morning in unstructured time, that would be fine. the fear is by shunning intelligence and his own advisers and the facts, he is seeking input from tv anchors and old buddies in real estate, and, therefore, could end up on his unsecured phone line, be influenced by people who have agendas through foreign actors because there's no longer a check either from general kelly or a regular briefing by the intelligence officials and experts who he actually is engaged with. he's just turned it off. >> well, i got no problem with the tv anchor part of that. let's look at it the opposite way. let's look at the brain equity that he has to call on across the intelligence community, these desk officers, civil servants and more who have devoted their lives, nonpartisan, they stay in they're jobs from administration to administration studying iran to name one. that's brainpower. that's advice. that'

it's like really, lindsey graham? you know what terrible precedent this sets. it's going to get caught up in the courts anyway. there's not going to be an ounce -- an inch of wall built while this is going through the courts because it has to be litigated. i hope republicans go on record. they need to go on record, who was for this and who wasn't. this is a major constitutional issue that is bigger than just the immediate politic aa aal expediency for this it's a constitutional power. >> i know you want to get back in, ben. i'm so sorry. i'm short on time. >>> breaking news. top u.s. commander makes an unannounced visit to the middle east. why the commander says this is not the time to pull u.s. troops from syria. >>> breaking news into cnn. andrew mccabe detailing the time rod rosenstein, quote, offered to wear a wire into the white house. stay with us. you're live in the cnn newsroom. ♪ ♪ you don't need to go anywhere dad, this is your home. the best home to be in is your own. home instead offers personalized in-hom

we have already heard from lindsey graham who has the gavel.ioning under oath and have them testify. you heard the same thing from republicans of course in the house who don't have control or subpoena powers. but i certainly think we weren't going to be hearing from andrew mccabe and possibly rod rosenstein. and there's renewed questions about the fate of rod rosenstein. conservatives tried to impeach him but were talked off the ledge by paul ryan. they were concerned about whether it could put moderates in a tough spot before the midterms. there is a new head of the justice department. william barr was just confirmed. of there are a lot of questions about both men going forward on capitol hill. >> let's talk quickly here about paul manafort. how has the white house reacted to mueller's new sentencing proposal for paul manafort. >> this is a lengthy sentence given his age and deteriorating health. the white house has maintained all along that paul manafort and his crimes that he is being accused of have nothing to do with the campaign. they hav

. >>> republican senator lindsey graham vows to investigate fired fbi director andrew mccabe's claims there were discussions to try to remove president trump from office. >> a discussion of the 25th amendment was rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. i didn't have much to contribute, to be perfectly honest in that conversation, so i listened to what he had to say. but, to be fair, it was an unbelievably stressful time. i can't even describe for you how many things must have been coarsi coursing through the deputy attorney general's mind at that point. it was something he threw out in a very frenzied chaotic conversation about where we were and what we needed to do. >> rachel back with us and we'll bring in former prosecutor for the southern district of new york jennifer rogers. rachel, i want to start with you because senator lindsey graham saying he wants to hold hearings into this claim by mcdhab there were conversations about invoking the 20 5th amendment. nothing more serious th