>> i'm not going to speak for lindsey graham. >> i will. no. >> well, i think there is a really seismic political dynamic -- a political movement that's been generated by groups like every town for gun safety, moms demand action, students demand action, brady, giffords, and many other groups across the country that i think has gotten the attention of the white house as well as my colleagues in the senate. but it will be the president who has to lead or get out of the way. >> no question about it. you know he's not going to get out of the way because it's got to be about him on some level. but, you know, you talk about this is an unusual situation because you have a consensus in the country that isn't being echoed by its representatives in terms of action. now, one last question for you, senator, because there is another issue like that, but the reverse is true. there is this big impeachment vote tomorrow to give the house more tools to go forward with what seems like an impeachment inquiry. they playing with the language, they're playing wi

this lindsey graham quote is significant. n is did senator graham talk to trump before he said this? is he giving indication of what's to come from the white house when they submit proposals? or is he just freelancing? knowing that lindsey graham talks to president trump. >> i think something might be happening. jeff bennett is not just standing outside some random bus stop on capitol hill. he's out there because the republicans are about to board those buses to go to their retreat. and i know you're going to snag them, so we'll get more information from you as you get it. a beautiful day on capitol hill in washington. sam stein, amy stoddard, thanks to you guys. >>> did the president order the cover up of his bad weather forecast? this is msnbc. my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts a

that's happening like lindsey graham, if you just play enough golf games with him, you'll get him to your point of view. no, he's still going to talk to the north koreans, he's still going to talk to putin. you're not going to change his mind about those things. >> in lindsey graham's case, at least you'll get him to be on your side in a potentially tough legal battle. that one worked for lindsey graham. >>> when we come back, more on the developing story, john bolton leaving the white house. the israeli prime minister makes an announcement and there is a special election underway right now in north carolina. ston r stobl mob-- >>> a source familiar says bolton just this morning led a so-called principles meeting. that is the top security team at the administration. bolton running that meeting this morning, no indications that his ouster was imminent. that's what we're told this morning. i want to bring in admiral john kirby, our diplomatic analyst, into the conversation. admiral, you have a lot of experience for people who work in these positions. what do you make of this? >> that's

dana bash, to you because you were mid sentence when we jumped to lindsey graham. exhibit a, and i quote, to impeach any president over any phone call would be insane. the parties are laying out their political positions here and digging in. >> okay. so this is a time when you play the, can you imagine if it was president obama game. >> right. >> can you imagine if it was president obama, would lindsey graham be saying that? would doug collins, the ranking republican member of the judiciary committee in the house be saying, effectively what lindsey graham said on camera, he said in the statement, or any of the other republicans we will hear talking from the same song sheet? the answer is no. it is not. we have to call it what it is. >> let's listen to the president, dana. >> reporter: sir, how is -- >> there is no pressure whatsoever. if you take a look at the democrats, they went down to see the president of ukraine and they asked him for all sorts of things and don't go with the republicans and stay with us, like it is a political war. they shouldn't have done th

lindsey graham tweeted about the possibility of attacking those oil refineries. he just said it again. but then you have another republican, mitt romney, saying it would be a grave mistake to have u.s. intervention and escalation like this. who has the president's ear more on this ? >> reporter: well, peoppy, we ae daily trying to figure this out. mike pompeo was the first u.s. official to call iran out by name, just, you know, within hours of the attack over the weekend. the president has been more reluctant to actually 100% pin it on iran and he has sent pompeo to saudi arabia. we think he'll go fairly soon for some on-the-ground discussion. and i do not expect the president to make a final decision about what he will do and maybe not a final determination that iran is to blame until pompeo gets back. >> annegearan, thank you. >> and two former members of the president's administration and his former campaign manager have all been subpoenaed to testify today. go of those will be no shows. rick dearborn and rob porter have immunity. corey lewandowski is going to

who knows whether that is the straw. >> for example, lindsey graham, they constantly get along, but lindsey graham could not be quiet about the fact that he was not for pulling out our troops and going to the taliban coming to camp david, but they're still friends. they still get along. he was joking about john bolton. there might have been something. so you have mcmaster that he replaced. he talked too much. he was in the president's face too much. you have michael flynn that was in court today. he was the first national security adviser. you wonder who with national experience that the president could trust to be there next to him that he would honor their advice. who might be a good candidate. that's not a position you want open for too long, right? >> right. and you're right to point out the trust issue that is key in this position. it not senate confirmed. it a position the president can name. it doesn't require votes. so you can name who you want to name. and i think that it will be someone who has the president's trust. as i said, probably someone who he has dealt with inside the adm

lindsey graham talking also. they're wearing out dictionary.com. ugh. >> here is what i want you to know. any impeachment of judge kavanaugh based on "the new york times" story is dead on arrival in the senate. >> bret kavanaugh had his day and the most thorough vetting and process of any supreme court justice in the history of our country. and they have no problem with his service and these accusations in the "new york times" was exposed for what they are. yellow journalism at its finest. a disgrace to the paper, to our nation. but lindsey graham is quite right. they will never get rid of brett kavanaugh. >> bill: how the left is looking at kavanaugh. got him in their crosshairs forever? >> well again, if he is guilty of the crimes, then this is somebody that we may not want on the supreme court. i think at the same time, you know, there is no doubt that "the new york times" made a huge mistake, a critical error in leaving information out. that information is still not exculpatory. it doesn't say he didn't commit the crimes that are being -- >> you

lindsey graham is speaking now at the senate. let's listen to the judiciary chair. >> coming from the united states. there is a paper -- there is a paper trail -- there is a paper trail of concerns about providing aid the way we had in the past after the election. i know that to be true because i talked to the pentagon. and again, most americans are going to judge trump by a variety of things. but a lot of people are wondering why the vice president weighed in and threatened to cut off aid to a country while his son was receiving money from some of the people being investigated. and i love joe biden as a person. maybe a good reason to fire the prosecutor in the ukraine. but there's clearly a conflict there. >> reporter: they spoke about selling military weapons they wanted to buy and the next conversation was, we're trying to look into corruption with vice president biden. >> you read the thing for yourself. yeah, i think -- i think to suggest that this phone call was the president of the united states threatening to withhold aid

the comey report and this goes to lindsey graham and hopefully durham. >> sean: lindsey graham is next. will they find all 4 warrants obtained illegally? >> absolutely and they were warned not once but 4 times it was based on phoney evidence and they lied to the court. that's perjury. it's also a fraud. >> sean: thank you, both. ahead, lindsey graham, it will be his committee on who in the deep state should be brought to justice over this probe. later a man who lost his mother in 9-11 speaking out earlier today against congresswoman omar. some thing kind of happened by somebody. yeah, he answered that really well today. billions of mouths. billions of problems. morning breath? garlic breath? stinky breath? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath fresh breath oral rinse instantly fights all types of bad breath and works for 24 hours. so you can... breathe easy. there's therabreath at walmart. >> ♪ >> sean: a lot of breaking news with the deep state including explosive developments in the case of michael flynn and major questions looming large. when we will get the inspector general's

states would be staying in some capacity in syria, essentially pursuant to a deal that senator lindsey graham brokered at the munich security council but the day-after strategy seemed to be turn it over to the locals and hope

states will be staying in some capacity in syria, essentially pursuant to a deal that senator lindsey graham brokered at the munich security counsel that

because they disagree with the policy and quite a lot of blowback from congress senator lindsey graham said it was a stain on the owner of the united states added that it was disastrous to us last night good to how could a clever man like that in the us and so this is going to do you have got it so wrong the issue is that the president after listening to people including lindsey graham decided that he would keep a residual force on so there was a rollback. the president after listening to people that he trusted decided that. and his i was involved in these discussions including with lindsey graham and the reason is the president didn't want to have the syria advantage he thought that. as part of his overall. strategy of burden sharing that as the united states did the heavy lifting with at times $15000.00 ground combat forces in iraq and syria i'm not talking about the air power talking about helicopters army helicopters we had a major force and they were involved in considerable combat that the follow on our . stage 4 we call it the. stabilization phase could be done by perfectly comp

and his eye was involved in these discussions including with lindsey graham and the reason is the president didn't want to have the syria advantage he thought that. as part of his overall. strategy of burden sharing that as the united states did the heavy lifting but at times $15000.00 ground combat forces in iraq and syria i'm not talking about the air power talking about helicopters army helicopters we had a major force and they were involved in considerable combat that the follow on our . stage 4 we call it the. stabilization phase could be done by perfectly competent forces from other coalition countries many of whom a nato countries we know the qualities a true i i that's what he wanted he told us to go out and find a country why couldn't they come up with say 500 or 600 or few more numbers of troops not a bad question however the answer we had to tell him was they would not commit to forces unless there were some american for a case of the statement in december we have won against isis we've beaten them and beaten them badly you know isn't being borne out by defense and it was left la

where is lindsey graham? is he in charleston putting sand in bags, on phone with the governor, no he's in montenegro -- >> that was a campaign commercial. thank you. you'll never go on foreign trips if you're elected to the senate. >> it's not about that. if you got a hurricane, you saw what the hurricane did for it bahamas. >> what i know politics is. my guests are sticking with me. coming up after the democrats big night, who's leading and who's bleeding? what about that cheap shot from julian castro? here it is. >> barack obama's vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered. he wanted every single person in this country covered. my plan would do that, your plan would not. >> they do not have to buy in. >> you just said that two minutes ago. you just said two minutes ago they'd have to buy in. you said they'd have to buy in. >> if you qualify for medicare, it's automatically to be enforced. are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? >> an attempt to show dementia on the part of the leading dem

is lindsey graham. he wants to be relevant. he said it so in his own words in a "the new york times" article recently. two objective, get re-elected and being relevant. i call him the world's most powerful golf caddy because that is what he is. >> i've got another theory. those southern democrats, the old grandees, their dream was to get appointed when the other guy died, serve until they died and try to transform death into some building like the richard russell building. that's what their dream was, never to leave the senate ever. is that what lindsey wants? help me? >> the senate allows lindsey to be relevant. but at the end of the day, chris, it's not about the people in south carolina. you tell me whether they ever would have done this, coming up the coast, we evacuate, where is lindsey graham, is he in charleston putting sand in bags, on phone with the governor, no he's in montenegro -- >> that was a campaign commercial. you'll never go on foreign trips if you're elected to the senate -- >> it's n

this person who did this is a real hero regardless of what lindsey graham and others say.is not even whether this person is credible, but which, of course, the ig found he was, but what happens, what are we going to find out with respect to the facts that this person is reporting. it's not about -- >> the calls on the servers and what are they saying about those other calls. >> to you clint, steven miller says he's been in for three years and knows what deep state operatives are. what is he talking about? >> if he has been in the government for three years he should tell us who the deep state is, he's working there. >> the deep state is anybody who might have a negative thing to say about donald trump. >> anybody who doesn't share their views is labeled as a spy, part of a deep state. what we have here are people who are performing their jobs based on what u.s. law says. they are doing things according to the book. the whistle-blower complaint went very much by the book and you can tell these people are deeply worried. i want to know if as miller refers to a deep state, wh

we turn now to the chairman force senate judiciary committee lindsey graham, senator, good morning. >> good morning. >> brennan: big week here but i want to begin where nancy pelosi just left off. she lays out what she says is most problematic, the sequencing. >> right. he bs up dkedytht dnc serveup h re lays at out. and also the aid panel is mentioned. >> right. >> brennan: you have no problem with any of that? >> i have zero problems with this phone call. >> brennan: even with that sequencing. >> i just told you i have zero problems with this phone call. there is no quid pro quo here but i have a problem against nancy pelosi, if you believe that donald trump did something to hurt this country, you owe it to vote not talk about impeaching the president, the only way to open up an impeachment quir i have vote, we need a john hancock moment from democrat, quit hiding behind nance pass this, if you think the president did something wrong in this phone call, then vote to open up an article of impeachment inquiry and a lot of house democrats won't because they are afraid. >> brennan: well

maria: back now with senator lindsey graham, what is likely in terms of legislative agenda?> hoping to get the government funded and the president restored military, we need a budget deal, i have legislation that would change our laws, asylum laws are being abused, mitch mcconnell i hope would bring it up, i don't think it will pass but we need to define difference between us and democrats in terms of changing laws. maria: things have improved because of mÉxico and guatemala. >> because of president trump. if you told me president trump can get army deployed i wouldn't have believed it. the democratic party need to help the president like mÉxico is helping the president, anyway, guns, maybe, i'm hoping we can expand background checks in a reasonable way that we give grants to cops to state that is have red flag laws to keep hands out of dangers people, those are two things we might be able to do, we are very close, hope to get it over the line. maria: i don't understand why immigration can't get that done, when we first took the show to the border -- >> it's not a manufactur

lindsey graham, on the exact opposite side of that, he wants us to stay there with a transition to a new government there. things like that. and the third symptom here that i would note, this just goes to a pattern of this administration, not just the high rates of turnover, but having folks in these positions that are acting. that whether it's a senate confirmable position or not. >> andy, let's talk about north carolina. we're seeing the democrats' apparent losses there. what do their gains, though, especially in these suburban areas potentially highlight about president trump's 2020 chances? >> right, so a win is a win for republicans, right? but the president won his district by 12 points in 2016. and now almost three years later, it swung 10 points towards the democrats, not quite enough to give the democrats that seat. so republicans are holding the seat. but really this is a symptom of a broader transformation and shift we're seeing in the trump era where republicans are doing more poorly and more poorly in these suburban areas all across the country. that's something that the

also on the show, lindsey graham is warning abuse will happen again if somebody is not punished here in the upcoming d.o.j. id report on how the obama administration unleashed the power of the u.s. intelligence committee for the truck campaign. and to the new york times reporter kavanaugh story. this is a new of attack from one of the reporters. she is now trained to do anything takedown of a person are questioning the media's newsroom trying to break the sexual misconduct coverage. thank you for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. liz: thank you for joining us. you are watching the fox business network. president trump my wood world leaders at the summit today in new york city. but the showdown is with iran. here we are in d.c. with more. >> donald trump arriving at the united nations holding the meeting at every turn reporters asked the president about the whistleblower report concerning a call with the world leader. president trump says within the call the question happen in july of 2018, with the president of ukraine, it was to congratulate h

lindsey graham today says that he doesn't see anything concerning here. he says the ask is not and ask and the ask -- and and ask isn't enough. that means what when you are looking at this this broadly, which we need to keep perspective here. >> this is kind of a test and people are retreating into their corners here. the president calls it a nothing call and lindsey graham says there wasn't and ask, but as pamela just outlined to you in great detail the president has a way of asking without asking. in fact, he did say -- he did say, i would like you to do me a favor. i think that's kind of and ask, don't you? so everybody is looking at this differently. we know from covering the russia investigation and the whole mueller story that when michael cohen testified he said, you know, the president doesn't just come out and tell you when he wants you to do something. you know when he wants you to do something. he doesn't have to say it. in the context of the conversation, kate, we are having here, you have zelensky saying, we want to cooperate -- by the way, z

directly ahead, speaking of the man, lindsey graham. it will be his committee on who in the deep state should be brought to justice over this probe. later, a man who lost his mother in 9/11 speaking out, publicly, earlier today against congresswoman omar. yes, something kind of happened by somebody. yeah, he answered that really well today. ♪ when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. shipstation. the #1 here, hello! starts of onlinewith -hi!mple... how can i help? a data plan for everyone. everyone? everyone. let's send to everyone! [ camera clicking ] wifi up ther

>> he does. >> that i h >> do you think lindsey gram and do you take from his statement that lindsey grahamtecting the whistleblower. >> i nolknow lindsey gram. he's unfortunately unrecognizable to the person he used to be. you have to look to his self interest and in light of his self interest and the politician ran donald trump. this is not a conviction any longer. simply electoral convenience. where you see lindsey move and i know you were talking about fox news and other republicans in the previous segment. here is the flag to throw on the field when you know republicans are just talking to protect the president. they do one about three things. they either make the quid pro quo which is unnecessary. we don't need a quid pro quo in the united states. the president of the united states interfered inside the 2020 election or they attack the whistleblower, the credibility of the whistleblower or the white house around them. what it is is a distraction. neither democrats or any of us across the country should fall for that argument and go down that road because it is unnecessary. the preside

you're the best golfer. >> jimmy: lindsey graham is probably the closest donald trump will ever comeog. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] on friday another cabinet member, the secretary of labor, alex acosta, resigned for his role approving a very light sentence given to the accused pedophile billionaire jeffrey epstein. and this was nuts. after acosta resigned because of this the president brought him out on the white house lawn to try to show some kind of solidarity. someone asked trump if acosta was a democrat and trump passed that question along. >> are you a democrat? >> i'm not, no. >> i have no idea. you know what i know? you know what i know about alex? he was a great student at harvard. he's hispanic, which i -- which i so admire. >> jimmy: yes indeed. it takes a lot of guts to be hispanic. it really does. [ laughter ] one of the things i admire about you, guillermo. [ cheers and applause ] vice president pence on friday took a tour of two detention centers in texas, where he questioned a group of children who were being kept very humanely locked up in cells. and if you w

also senator lindsey graham indicated that the senate intelligence committee members would get a chance to look at this as well. we do expect that the house intelligence committee would review this at the same time. now, ultimate question is how much of this will be publicly releasened and the membersble able to say, how much, afterwards. new reporting where things are going on the impeachment front, plays into how democrats plan to move forward on impeachment. nancy pelosi made clear to her members she wants to keep the focus on the impeachment focus narrowly looking at the issue of ukraine. the whistle-blower complaint. how the president handled this phone call, the transcript. they believe that's the clearest message they can dliv herb eliv american public what is wrongdoing by this president. the allegations of obstruction of justice laid out in the mueller report, while still an issue to focus on by committees at large, the ininvestigation to consider, articles of impeachment looking at more specifically on what happened with ukraine. why it's so significant that this whistle-blowe

lindsey graham is absolutely right, it makes common sense. and here's the other important point. you know, the american people are really saying enough is enough. there is a seismic movement that now is determining 90% of people who want background checks and red flag or emergency risk protection orders, and that political dynamic i think is driving and mitch mcconnell ought to put these bills on the floor. >> he can't until he knows what's the president is going to sign. that strikes me odd if you're a coequal branch of government. why is he waiting until the president decides what to do before introducing legislation? >> there is nothing in the constitution that says the united states congress should pass laws only that the president says he's going to sign. in fact, on the contrary, the congress has an independent obligation and we have a historic opportunity, so does the president. it will be a presidential moment here where we should see this opportunity and save lives, which is really what the purpose is here of both background checks and the protection as well as ban on as

as you saw from lindsey graham, they're going to make up facts about him.oing to make up false rumors about him. they want to talk about hunter biden. donald trump is our president. according to the memorandum the white house released today, was on the phone with a foreign government, the president of ukraine, and asking him to do him a favor and interfere in our american election and try to dig up dirt on his political opponents. they are going to talk about hunter biden, we are going to talk about the independent special -- the independent special counsel that in fact got the whistle-blower support, a trump appointee, no less, and came out and said this is urgent and threatens national security. there are substantive issues here about the president abusing his power, about once again welcoming foreign government, attacking our democracy, and undermining our american electoral system for his own benefits. that's what is going to be the result of the election. >> martha: there's no doubt there will be a lot of digging into these business dealings. it goes w

jennifer rubin, i mean, that was -- i'm just going to leave to you assess what lindsey graham just saidwe're going to be blown away by the president's transparency and all the detail and it's going to exceed expectation. that would be new. >> right. and then he's going to show that he really was concerned about criminality in other countries and he really is a do-gooder and on and on and on. this is nonsense, of course. listen, one point that i think has to be stressed again and again, of course they were talking about trump's political opponent because if they were talking about the general interests of the united states they would have sent the secretary of state, the national security adviser, someone who worked for the government. trump sent his private attorney to do private business for him. and this was it. now that we have the other half of it, i think we're going to have a daily stream of leaks. i don't expect many if any republicans to come out at this stage, but as we get the drip, drip, drip and as we get through the house process you're going to see i think some very nervou

flonase sensimist. 24 hour non-drowsy allergy relief >>> today republican senator lindsey graham toldservative radio host hugh hewitt that america will be blown away by donald trump's transparency about his phone call with the ukrainian president where president trump allegedly pressured the foreign leader to investigate one of his political rivals. >> i would just urge the president, you know, he's talking openly about the conversation, to release as much as possible. i believe that president trump is going to blow you away with his willingness to disclose and be transparent about this phone call because i think he did nothing wrong and he has nothing to hide. get ready for some disclosures from the president that i think will exceed every expectation. >> getting ready for disclosures from the president that are going to exceed every expectation are conservative writer jennifer rubin, an opinion writer at the "washington post," and an msnbc contributor. also getting ready to be blown away is rick wilson, republican strategy exist a contributor to the daily beast. he's the author of "

up next, senator lindsey graham on the departure of john bolton as national security advisor. here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 40 in sacramento as a california democratic governor gavin newsom signs a pair of bills to try and make it harder for parents to choose not to vaccinate their children. the measures order the department of public health to investigate doctors who grant more than five medical exemptions in a year along with schools with immunization rates under 95%. fox to train in st. louis with a train derailment across the mississippi river near duple illinois. firefighters say the train was carrying ethanol. at the smoke coming from the crash scene could be seen for miles. st. clair county emergency management said there were evacuations in that immediate area. and this is a live look at miami from our fox affiliate. the big story there tonight the trial of chinese businesswoman charged with trespassing at president trump's mar-a-lago club and then lying to secret service agents. today the receptionist at the club s

already the senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham is talking about next steps. >> the senate judiciary committee will call mister horwitz and he will testify under oath about his report and we are going to pursue this in a transparent fashion, declassify as much as we can including the fisa warrant applications. >> what are your expectations? >> finally seeing accountability come home. it's not the end, it is just the beginning of the end because not only will you see this report, where we will finally see the truth of how did this fisa warrant get approved, what information did the fbi give to the course, did really rely on the steel dossier or not, we are going to see a special counsel investigation by the attorney of connecticut, the us attorney in utah and ultimately the white house can declassify all of its information is making available not just congress but the american people. i think finally we are going to see, if you believe the mueller report and there was never any collusion between the russians and the trump campaign we went on a year and a half to your wasted time of na

senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham said barr still of not have a clear answer where trump stands on background checks. they are basically work shopping ideas to bring to the president to see how he feels about them because there is anxiety among republicans in congress to pass anything that the president might not like because of his repeated strategy of hitting hard on republicans who do not walk the party line. a party line is what the .residentants if the president doesn't like it, they could feel the political heat. host: what do we know that the president will accept and when might we hear his proposal? those two things are very much up in the air right now. last week, chris murphy, to me, --toomey, and mansion thought they would hear a 24,osal from trump within 48 hours. we have gotten only glimpses of gun trump would accept as control legislation and he has been variable. he moved his position. immediately after shooting, he will come out in favor of background checks and all these gs democrats support and then we see him walk that back and retreat a litt bit usually after

yet yesterday he had a twitter back and forth with lindsey graham. the president getting back in senator graham's face and saying, no, lindsey, it's a sign of strength. it's the hawks in the republican party who don't understand what the president's trying to do here. >> they don't understand that. and there is the mike lee-rand paul wing, which has been much more sort of passive, we don't want to get engaged in too many foreign wars. they've been in the president's ear for a couple of years on this issue. the saudis themselves have had a checkered recent past with a lot of american politicians. we're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the kashoggi murder. there are people like chris murphy who have been trying to rein in our alliance with the saudis. it creates a lot of division from both parties on this front. >> we do know robert o'brien is more of a career guy at the state department. he's not out front like a john boltoore of a career operative. we do know this. he has praised the president and the president is grateful for the praise. >> t

republican senators like senator lindsey graham, one of the president's top allies, warned that you should not be doing this. we found out the office of management and budget has listed -- lifted their hold on that fund. thatacklash was so intense senators felt it prudent to -- there was a debate yesterday during the senate appropriations committee, senator durbin wanted an amendment to ensure the administration no longer tried to free up eight to ukraine. revolutionontinuing -- resolution also includes a provision preventing the president from holding up further aid to the ukraine. this has become such a bipartisan swell that lawmakers in both the house and the senate on both sides want to put gold has been -- >> give us one of the key players you're watching as the spending debate continues question mark -- continues. caitlin: the focus is on the senate appropriations chairman, house appropriations chairwoman nina. they will be the key. the house and senate has to spending bills that will provide updated spending levels for the federal government. there needs to be some kind of compromis

maria: back now with senator lindsey graham, what is likely in terms of legislative agenda?> hoping to get the government funded and the president restored military, we need a budget deal, i have legislation that would change our laws, asylum laws are being abused, mitch mcconnell i hope would bring it up, i don't think it will pass but we need to define difference between us and democrats in terms of changing laws. maria: things have improved because of mÉxico and guatemala. >> because of president trump. if you told me president trump can get army deployed i wouldn't have believed it. the democratic party need to help the president like mÉxico is helping the president, anyway, guns, maybe, i'm hoping we can expand background checks in a reasonable way that we give grants to cops to state that is have red flag laws to keep hands out of dangers people, those are two things we might be able to do, we are very close, hope to get it over the line. maria: i don't understand why immigration can't get that done, when we first took the show to the border -- >> it's not a manufactur

that's something that lindsey graham told me yesterday he was open to.lso significant given the fact that any gun legislation would have to go through his committee. but it's very important to warn the president has not signed off on this legislation. that is according to one of my colleagues who covers the white house for us. in fact, the president has not signed off on this proposal that's circulating. it's just a draft. it's just an idea. the document says at the very top "idea." so republicans are entertaining the idea of expanding background checks, but still unclear where the president stands. we know that's very important to republicans on capitol hill. >> he is key. we know that the senate won't send him anything unless he's going to sign it. >>> is 80 too old to be president? yes, says one of the men who was president. >>> plus i'll be speaking with a key progressive group that just endorsed elizabeth warren instead of bernie sanders. the candidate they endorsed in 2016. ♪ yes ♪ hey sean hey dan ♪ woman 1: i had no symptoms of hepatitis c. man 1

steyer: no more leningrad lindsey graham. [cheers and applause] mr.yer: look, this is a political convention. there are always a lot of words at a political convention. i put actions behind my words. i built one of the largest grassroots organizations in the country. i have taken on corporations in the ballot box and consistently beat them when people thought it would not happen. and i organized the largest petition drive to impeach this criminal president. that's what we've done. let's talk about what we need to do together. here's what we need to do. win big.turn out, that's what new hampshire democrats do, show up. that means do the organizing on the ground that has turned the state blue. turnout. this is going to be the biggest turnout election in anyone's life in this room. people are going to show up on both sides. we have to show up, win big. we have to beat mr. trump, but that's not nearly enough. we need a mandate for progressive change. win big. [cheers and applause] mr. steyer: that's what the democrats in this room have done , show up, tur

iran denies any involvement in the attack lindsey graham criticized the administration's response. the attack was an act of war >> i appreciate the effort of the president to be measured when it came to the drones the point i am trying to make is not what i think it is not what the iranian thinks and clearly they have not got the message. the attack by the oil refinery is an act of war matt it is attacking the world's economy. joining me now our ali arouzi. let's start with lindsey graham's comment how do you see iran interpreting the united states coming out with more sanctions? >> iran and foreign minister just tweet this is further economic warfare against the iranian people it certainly going to make any dialogue between the united states and iran and amazingly difficult. it was not easy to start with. this almost kills any prospect of dialogue. drop all the sanctions and we may talk there are no signs of that happening. this is going to definitely put the final nail in the coffin or any talks between iran or america. it is going to make iran dig in deeper the reality is sancti

election it's clear and yet today we heard from people like lindsey graham the u.s. congress saying this is just normal conversations that presidents have with other heads of state other leaders but it's not is it. correct i mean i can't imagine an example in which a democratic president would have done such a thing and republicans would have been as blind as a about it as there being about this situation how do the republicans sell this the as something that is normal because that's what it felt like today when lindsey graham was talking about well throughout trump's presidency we've seen things that would have been an abomination under obama kind of framed in a particular way so we set the stakes that this wasn't a quid pro quo he was just saying he was talking about a lot of things they included a conversation about security and it also included the conversation about corruption those 2 things may not necessarily be linked the president is concerned about corruption so you see that kind of it's all about framing the conversation in a way that this is normal for tr

ok for let's back up a little bit lindsey graham saying that you know the you didn't it was a blower didn't hear the conversation he admits that in his in his complaint he said but he's heard it from you know several white house officials the president's going on saying you know basically this whistleblower represented the conversation and totally inaccurate and fraudulent way it's just to be clear the whistle blower read out a conversation and the day before that this was released made public the white house released a basically a memo describing the call it was exactly like it's described in this complaint the other thing the president is saying that he as you mentioned deserves to meet his accuser you've heard that from republicans that's not how this works the president is not like any american this isn't a criminal proceeding this is an impeachment inquiry there are whistleblower protections now it's washington and this this citizen this government worker likely in the intelligence community we believe he is arranging with his lawyers to speak in private with committee members b