here is lindsey graham. this is in 2016. graham talking about trump. >> i'm not going to try to get into the mind of donald trump because i don't think there's a whole lot of space there. i think he's a cook. i think he's crazy, unfit for office. >> what confirms me about the american press is this endless, endless attempt to label the guy as some kind of cook, not fit to be president. >> one more thing. here is lindsey graham talking about that he would not comply with subpoenas if he were trump. take a listen. >> if i were the president, i wouldn't cooperate with these guys at all. schiff, nadler and pelosi impeached this president in 48 days. i wouldn't give them the time of day. they're on a crusade to destroy this man, and they don't care what they destroy in the process of trying to destroy donald trump. i do care. >> you know who is on a crusade to impeach bill clinton back in 1998, put that up. lindsey graham was on a crusade to impeach bill clinton for lying about a sexual affair and full nated fully about it. in sou

he said that was a direct quote from lindsey graham. indsey, in my opinion, has sold his mother to keep his job. that's from his law partner. for more, i'm joined by jamie harrison, the person looking to take graham's job. the top democratic candidate now for the united states senate in south carolina. mr. harrison, so i'm going to ask you dr-- >> happy new year, chris. >> happy new year. i want to have you on now to ask you a question. i always ask people, what is it you don't see about the television, what is about the room, the aroma, the feeling of that room. what is it that you can tell us about lindsey graham that we haven't seen in his jumping back and forth on every side of both issues, whatever, the kiss butt performance of him over the last several months with this president. is that as bad as it gets, which is pretty bad? >> chris, i read that "rolling stone" article and i just shook my head. you know, i was one of those people who actually had tremendous respect for lindsey graham and i thought he was fighting for us. this is

and senator lindsey graham saying he was briefed. he was happy he was briefed on this potential operation. the question is, was he briefed before the president made the decision to go through with this or after the president made the decision. we do know that lindsey graham was here at mar-a-lago right behind me over my shoulder on monday and tuesday. he was sown een on the golf cou with the president. they were in the same golf cart riding together, speaking closely. you often see them on the links together but what is unusual is now that lindsey graham saying he was briefed on this ahead of time. there are going to be questions from other members of congress about being briefed on this. we're still waiting to hear more on that. as you heard from secretary pompeo, he was quiet on some of the details when it came to when the president made this decision and who was notified about this. those are still things we're waiting to learn. we didn't see that in the statement from the pentagon last night which is the only thing we heard from

and i go back to senator lindsey graham who spoke earlier. and it didn't -- i don't believe it was retaliatory. but i want to understand if it might have been. it was definitely a shot. wait until republicans are in the position opposite a democratic president. i am paraphrasing him, but the experience of what he said is right in these words. he said you know, looks, do you really want to start this? you want to go on down this road? i would hope that i would take the high road. >> david: much of that also during the clinton impeachment. let's keep in mind with this whole deal with ambassador bolton that "the new york times" is not the referee here. they are not an interested observer. >> harris: are they ever? >> david: they have a side that they are on. and we know about john bolton's book from an accept that they have decided to give us. we don't know what the next page says. we don't know what john bolton had said in this. and beyond that, you wonder -- democrats always in the last hour try to throw out these bombshells. yesterday, eliot

senate, and the speaker withheld sending the articles over precisely because mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham, the chair of the senate judiciary committee, were essentially saying they were working with the defendant in the case, and lindsey graham was saying, i don't care about the facts. i don't care about the evidence.

>> i think joe scarborough was cutting lindsey graham a break.ality is that lindsey graham just a couple years ago was describing donald trump as a race baiting xenophobic religious bigot, said he was the isil, the islamic state man of the air. no one has eviscerated ld trump more than lindsey graham pitt why he switch this into a synthetic to sycophantic way. >> martha: people realize people over time and the president has not grown on the folks at morning joe. i think there is this guttural reaction, the suggestion that you can compare the two presidents. what i'm saying is that we have to look at policy. we actually did a similar segment the other night on this show, not comparing it to the "tear down this wall" speech, but is there a comparison in the way their strategy works? the president is american first, strong defense, bulked up the military, also ronald reagan, and red line. if you cross the red line, there consequences. >> tell that to the kurds who president trump deserted and turned over northern syria to iran and to russia on top o

lindsey graham sounding very unlike the lindsey graham that we come to know. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a thursday night. >> good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,092 of the trump administrati administration. that means we have 292 days to go until the 2020 presidential election. donald trump's impeachment trial is underway right alongside his reelection campaign and even as we continue to sort through a mountain of new potential evidence from a man initially described as a bad man for rudy giuliani lev parnas. parnas has been indicted in the southern district of new york, the feds in new york on campaign financial charges. in his telling of what happened and what he was up to. what he's describing and off the book shadow foreign policy run by a former big city mayor at the direction of the trump white house, it reads if true like elements of some sort of criminal enterprise, yesterday parnas talked to rachel maddow, last night he described in great details how trump directed him through rudy to pres

as far as lindsey graham, i want to introduce him to the tea party.on't know if he remembers 2010, but people like mike lee, people like rand paul, people in the house, justin amash, ran for office saying they were constitutional conservatives first, republicans second. they in the beginning became a huge amount of trouble for the regular order warmongering republicans like lindsey graham and the other pretending to be tea party but sick fantasies like marco rubio, the party men, they made a lot of problems for john boehner in the house. they are difficult to control when they're on an issue they care about. they were fine to take the knee because donald trump is a republican. tax cuts, all that stuff is fine. but war is one of those issues that they actually have opinions on. so good luck trying to make them be good boys. they're not going to be. >> and ned price, what we were hearing -- by the way, all of our information about what happened is coming from these republican senators. democratic senators were reluctant to make any reference to what hap

as we go to a break, a reminder of what lindsey graham said in october. and our special coverage will continue. >> if more comes out you could support impeachment? >> sure. i mean, show me something that is a crime. if you could show me that, you know, trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing. bing >>> this new republican party has spent a lot of time slandering me and my only surviving son. repeatedly. and by the way, did anyone see what joni ernst said the other day? she spilled the beans, didn't she? they're smearing me to try to stop me. and they know if i'm the nominee i'm going to beat donald trump like a drum. >> five days away from the iowa caucuses. in less than 24 hours let's not forget president trump lands in des moines for a campaign rally to get out his own message before the caucuses on monday. still with us, david jolly, karine jean-pierre, joyce vance, clint watts. karine, i'm looking at you. because this has to do with democratic politics. do you care to make any predictions abou

i'm back now with senator lindsey graham.e waiting on nancy pelosi to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. what are you expecting in the way of a senate impeachment trial this week or next week? >> well i hope to have the trial over by the end of january. we used the clinton model, you take the record established in the house, let the house managers appointed by pelosi make the argument. let the president make his argument, why the two articles are flawed. then we'll decide whether or not we want witnesses. this should be done in a couple weeks. i find it a political stunt for nancy pelosi not to send the articles over. mitch mcconnell, is not going to let her run the senate trial. her time is over. it is now time for the senate to dispose of the impeachment articles. with a trial in senate. all i can say about the two articles, they're dangerous to the presidency, obstruction of congress in this case is at that the president chose to seek executive privilege in court and they punished him for wanting to go to cour

lindsey graham. mcsally. tim scott. the rest i don't have to bother with. >> the man of the hour the number one witness on the democrats list with republicans under enormous pressure to vote him down. his allegations from his up come book tla trump told him the freeze on aid to ukraine was indeed linked to the investigations of all things biden rocked the impeachment trial. starting just after midnight. this morning there was this why didn't john bolton complain about this non-sense a long time ago when he was a very publicly terminated. he said not that it matters, nothing. a few hours later if i listen to him we would be in world war 6 by now. writing a nasty and untrue book. soon after that and out loud, trump ally lindsey graham issued a statement with what seemed to be a warning for the president writing in part quote i'm concerned when bolton's credibility is attacked. it makes it more likely some will feel to need to call him as a witness. chairman of the house foreign affairs committee a conversation he had with

being a rubber stamp works for lindsey graham possibly. didn't work for her.erable. >> they don't get a primary challenge just because they vote for witnesses. it's hard to imagine a conservative saying i'm running against this incumbent in this primary because he or she voted for witnesses. >> it may bring up a vote for four witnesses and it might be that a senator decides i'm only going to vote for one. but if that one is bolton, that might be enough. >> remember, jonathan turley said to do it. sorry. >> it's brian's turn to work. joy reid and jonathan alter, thank you. joy reid sort of gets the last word. "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> tonight, even republicans are slamming what they heard today from trump's military team, back filling the reasoning behind why the u.s. chose to kill a bad guy out of the blue a decision by trump that will have ramifications for years. suddenly congress has a problem with him reining in his war powers. >>> the american people president appears a to step back from the

a republican and a very very close ally of the president donald trump in fact lindsey graham was just in mar-a lago with the president and he actually might still be there with the president he just tweeted i want to read you what he said this is from lindsey graham the u.s. senator wow the price of killing and injuring americans has just gone up drastically major blow to iranian regime that has american blood on its hands so lamont he was one of the most ruthless and vicious members of the ayatollah his regime he had american blood on his hands i appreciate president donald trump's bold action against iranian aggression to the iranian government i say if you want more you will get more. so this kind of summarizes a little bit of one side of what we're hearing from. some lawmakers that are sort of if you will taking a victory lap applauding donald trump for this for this strike but we're also seeing others in washington on twitter and elsewhere also really worried about how this could escalate and what comes next but clearly you're seeing there from senator lindsey graham sort of

you've heard some senators like lindsey graham say that it was cogent, sharp.ard new things, but overall, it seems like they are holding back -- >> well, we don't know. there are about a half of a dozen still out there. collins has said that she is inclined, not a definite commitment, but that she is inclined to vote to hear witnesses. two votes. one is to hear witnesses, and you might ge get a bunch to says to that, but then they have to vote on a specific witness. well, do you want to call john bolton? that raises questions of national security and privilege. i want to hear witnesses, but then the specific witness that comes up, they vote no. i have to say all morning i have been thinking of the great bill murray movie where at 6:00 a.m. every day, the radio alarm clock goes off, and you hear sonny and cher singing "i got you, babe." and it is "groundhog day." we are only in day number three, and it is beginning to feel like "groundhog day." we have got two more days. today and tomorrow for the democrats to make their case. and they have made -- you can say -

lindsey graham can say that all he wants, but there is going to be a trial. at some point depending what the package looks like, depending on what mcconnell has gathered his 53 republican votes to set up, there probably be a chance for democrats to force a vote on whether or not witnesses actually have to testify. >> you have done important trials, eastern district, as i remind folks, is one of the these places where you go after gangsters, el chapo, terrorists. short question and then a longer one. when you have a trial about a week or two away, do you usually have the lawyers doing the oral argument set? >> usually you have your trial team set. i'll tell you, you don't always have your evidence set. >> but you usually know who is arguing the darn case. >> yeah. >> this is the about biggebigge donald trump's life. his supporters find it exciting and his detractors find it incredibly disorganized, both on a matter of state, the clumsiness of rapiran, or his o case. let me read the debates still going on, trump's defense team will include the white house counc

records, involved getting the requests for the visas somehow. >> so you're saying senator graham, lindsey grahamfforts in ukraine? >> absolutely. just like i said. first of all, senator graham was involved before even i got involved with mayor giuliani. so he had to have been in the loop and he had to know what was going on. i was with giuliani every day. that was what was happening. >> you firmly believe that lindsey graham knew that you and giuliani, or at least giuliani waurgs undertaking this effort to dig up dirt on the bidens in ukraine ukraine. >> only a percent. rudied me that he spoke to lindsey graham. i don't know how deeply involved. i didn't speak to lindsey graham. i don't have text messages with him. we didn't interact. i can only speak from what rudy told me. >> as of now, we don't know if there are enough votes to call in this trial. do you have more evidence that could you release or will release or turn over to investigators that might change the calculus at all? >> we turned over more materials recently. there was another round of production. there is a little less than 40-mi

lindsey graham. what say you?arkable how many times we can play sound bite from lindsey graham a few years ago and lindsey graham today and house he's done 180 degrees on his former positions, with no shame. with no -- >> no shame. >> none at all! no sense of kind of, well, maybe, you know, i was wrong then but now i'm right now. no. i mean, look, this is total expediency. mitt romney is the only republican, the only crack so far in this trump-built wall of republicans, is mitt romney whose perhaps most important job so far in american politics is that senator of utah coming forward to say actually we do have to hear from witnesses. that's a good idea in the trial. otherwise what is the point of ever having a senate trial where there are witnesses? somebody like lindsey graham saying we never need witnesses. the system is built to have witness witnesses. is he effectively saying we never need witnesses in a trial like this? certainly not he was saying back in 1999. >> he said every senate trial ever in impeachment

and the question about lindsey graham being even briefed is a question of whether he was in the right place at the right time. he came down here to palm beach on monday. he was seen golfing with the president and he was also at the president's club on tuesday when the president was there. he said he had not golfed that day but had had a briefing on the middle east. of course, that was as those protesters were storming the u.s. embassy in baghdad. so that's raising big questions about whether or not congress was left in the dark here and just how imminent this threat was that pompeo says was being posed by this commander and why they carried out the attack so quickly. of course, they didn't offer a lot of specifics on what that threat looked like. so those are going to be the questions that lawmakers have going forward. why wasn't there congressional authorization? why weren't they briefed? as of last night there had been no formal gang of eight briefing and then lindsey graham is saying this morning he was pleasantly surprised he was brought in and that he was briefed on what it was t

i sit next to lindsey graham on the senate and in terms of what's going on on the floor. we're amazed at how many times joe and hunter biden's name came up in the last hour. talking about what happened, the money that hunter biden had taken, the issues with joe biden astonished to just how the focus is there. i'll tell you, today in our senate lunch, lindsey graham went through a litany of what had happened with joe biden, hunter biden, john kerry's son-in-law, all of the connections there and the issue of ukraine and corruption. >> bill: the reason i think this is important is because if you forecast the way this trial is being laid out, when it comes to the question of witnesses, that could be the make or break moment as to whether or not you go to the articles and vote up or down. if i'm reading the schedule right, that could be a week from today. what is your sense among your colleagues? do they want to hear from witnesses or not? >> this is a vote about removing the president of the united states from office. something that has never happened, a president has never b

that was lindsey graham. he was the one who confirmed to reporter and thereby to the public the first time for some mysterious reason he didn't even know, this long-standing and increasingly troublesome hold on aid to ukraine had finally been lifted overnight. what he doesn't talk about now and what has been somehow lost in the sauce of this impeachment scandal is that the reason reporters were asking him, lindsey graham, is because he lindsey graham had taken a stand on this issue. lindsey graham and democratic senator dick durbin that very day had been working together on an amendment that would have confronted the trump white house on why that aid was being held up. the amendment essentially would have forced their hand to make them release it. so lindsey graham was getting asked about the aid finally getting freed up because lindsey graham was a key part of the effort to force the aid out, to force the white house to do the right thing, to confront the white house on this hold they had put on ukraine's ai

a lot of lindsey grahams. carolinians, got to be concerned about which lindsey they're getting at the election because he changes all the time. but majority of americans i don't think they think it's "a lynching." they don't think it's people going out -- the overwhelming majority of americans want a fuller trial, want a fairer trial, want relevant witnesses, believe donald trump obstructed this investigation, believe that donald trump abuseded powers of his office 63% of people under 30 in america think donald trump should be impeached and removed from office. i say all this just to say, to follow-up, willie, what i said yesterday. they're living in an echo chamber like the romney campaign lived in an echo chamber in 2012, and it's going to end really, really badly for them, and all the little trumpists that are running around trying to -- to play to an audience of one. th this ends badly, willie. all you have to do, look at the polls in front of our faces to see that. >> lindsey graham is not alone on the lis

let's not play games of the kind that lindsey graham has put forward. i do think if we do not work this out what you're going to see is what we've been seeing the last two weeks, four weeks, actually, five weeks, from the iranians, and that is the north koreans and others are going to commit mischief and probe and try to find the weaknesses in the u.s. and try to push us. then you're worried about looking weak. it could have a larger conflagration. i really think the country needs to be seriously focused on what's going on in the middle east, get this other thing done in a reasonable way and move on. >> gloria borger, is there any constituency now on the hill, mcconnell, other republicans perhaps, to delay an impeachment trial in consideration of the fact that you have an international crisis at hand right now? >> no, i mean, look, everyone's just coming back into town. i have not heard that. and i would agree with david that in a way, it's in everyone's effort -- in everyone's interests to get this moving, because you won't be have other issues that yo

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lindsey graham. where is lindsey? he may be having a news conference right now.ng over to his news conference!" i said, "i'd rather have you at the news conference, don't worry, we'll take care of it." the young, brilliant guy who has done very well and is respected by everybody. senator josh hawley. [applause] josh, term it is. i think he's another one, he doesn't want to come over here right now. where is john? you can try this. thank you, john hoeven. senator james lankford. he is a terrific person. we were just together on a very special day. wright, james? kelly loeffler. congratulations, kelly. really great. they already like you a lot. that's what the word is. thank you, kelly. martha mcsally. [applause] good, great. jerry moran. jerry, thank you, jerry. you did a great job. in a lot of different ways, and another one is james risch. james, fantastic jobs you do. and mike rounds. where is mike? mike, thank you. [applause] he's always there, mike. he's fantastic. tim scott, mr. opportunity zone. i think he's over there fighting. he is saying, "just read the

we begin with lindsey graham followed by donald trump's personal attorney j sekulow and mark warner. >> okay. what do i do, just talk? >> first on obstruction of congress. what is your reaction to the obstruction of congress charge? >> i think it is a dangerous charge against the presidency as an institution. the reason i came is i want to echo what adam schiff said, manager shift, i went every american to put themselves in the shoes of the body. if you are the vice president of the united states you are in charge of ukrainian corruption efforts and your son winds up getting $3 million from the most corrupt entity in the ukraine, burisma, what you expect people to give you are passed. to the average american, the first payment he got was 87,$000. do you expect anybody to ask questions about that. is what i can tell you. if the shoe were on the other foot and this were liz cheney or texas's son doing this in the ukraine, adam schiff would be leading the charge for an investigation of what happened because it is bad government, it is a clear conflict of interest, it undermines any effo

this is lindsey graham today. we'll talk about it when we've heard it. >> he's saying somebody needs to be looking at the bidens. he told me that yesterday. the president believes that what the -- what happened in the ukraine with the bidens was inappropriate. the president believes that the ukraine interfered in our election. i can tell you without any doubt it was the russians who hacked into the dnc. it was not the ukrainians. >> eugene, where does that leave us? >> i don't know. i don't know, you know? >> is the president right about the bidens but wrong -- >> wrong about -- i don't know exactly what senator graham was trying to say tonight, you know. yesterday after the session he was -- i think the technical term is hooting and hollering in an angry way. >> he got energized. >> and that to me -- yesterday's eruption reminded me of the way he had -- he erupted at the kavanaugh hearing, right, and he sort of really changed the weather inside that hearing room. >> he did. >> and in a sense carried the day. and,

when he was asked about lindsey graham's posture right now. >> i have to tell you, i'm really pointed. i'm not very good at holding grudges, that's what i get criticized a lot for. i know lindsey knows better. i know he knows better. i don't know quite frankly what has gotten into lindsey or what happened but i don't have any time to hold a grudge. >> senator feingold you worked so closely with lindsey graham's best friend in the senate on campaign finance law overturned by the supreme court. tell me your take on lindsey graham. i'm sure you know him very well, knew him very well. what would john mccain be saying to? >> i went with him to iraq and worked with him on campaign finance reform. i, along with joe biden, i'm shock head would say he's not going to be impartial. he urged us to be impartial. he was wonderful in his presentation as a house manager to the point i actually was the only democrat to vote to hear witnesses in the trial because i thought they made a good enough case witnesses have to be heard. we've never had an impeachment trial in american history that's gon

this time, senator lindsey graham was read in before the strike. >> the last of the people you want to talk to about this is democrats in congress, republicans in congress. all the democrats but his eyes to be president, i was aware of what his options were.

between you and lindsey graham and others, we are talking about the president. this is not a game. they have lowered the bar fort. impeachment to spitting on the sidewalk or jay walking. thanks for being with us. reaction house judiciary committee member and a fox news contributor. jason, we gave gates my radio microphone. we can't pay him. he did it for free. >> i loved it. >> sean: you did great. what i want to know jason, this is the game they are playing. they want to be able to hold this in perpetuity. the senate can't allow the house to dictate the terms?e >> no, the constitution says they have the sole power to

yes one of his staunchest supporters senator lindsey graham took to twitter almost immediately after the speech calling president trump's remark a home run speech calling them measure it and. republicans were also saying that this was an excellent speech what we're seeing from the democrats is that they seem to be holding back a little bit senator. feinstein said on twitter that she was pleased to see that both the u.s. and iran are looking to invite void father escalation but senate. minority leader chuck schumer was sort of skeptical saying that he remains cautious and concerned and that americans do not want a war with iran president trump does not have the oath to start one and he was clearly pointing to the fact that the democrats want president trying to seek the consultation of congress for any father future actions ok that's a perspective there in washington tyson what do you think it does seem like this escalation for now is deescalating at least in the case that iran specifically here avoided inflicting casualties in these missile strikes but seems to be the case i mean 1st

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it is fire say, how would lindsey graham know because graham is one of the senators who our spies tell us was out of the room for chunks of the arguments. rand paul was doing a crossword. cory booker seen with his iphone in the cloak room. many senators from both parties were m.i.a. at times despite rules that require them to stay put. this is the senate. they hold themselves in such high esteem. you barely have to ask and they'll blurt out they're the greatest deliberative body in the world. just don't ask them to sit and listen. if they did, they might learn something. louisiana republican senator john kennedy said, i think most, if not all senators, are hearing the case by the prosecution and the case by the defense for the first time. if you polled the united states senate, 9 out of 10 senators will tell you that they have not read a transcript of the proceeding in the house and the tenth senator who says he has is lying. >> all right. joining us now, we have cnn senior political commentator david axelrod and cnn contributor john dean, former nixon white house counsel. okay, david,

i want to play something that senator lindsey graham said about senator lee and senator rand paul being dissatisfied with the security briefing. so you'll hear senator graham first, then senator paul's response to him on wolf blitzer's program. >> i think they're overreacting, quite frankly. go debate all you want to. i'm going to debate you. trust me, i'm going to let people know that at this moment in time, to play this game with the war powers act, which i think is unconstitutional, is whether you mean to or not, you're empowering the item. -- enemy. i know you don't mean to, but live in the real world here. so, debate all you want. this is a constitutional democracy, but get ready for a lively debate. >> you know, i think it's sad when people have this fake sort of drape of patriotism and anybody that disagrees with them is not a patriot. he believes in this unitary theory of the executive that presidents can do whatever you want. the only way you can stop them is by defunding a war. that's not what our founding fathers said, it's not what the constitution says, and he insults the c

senator graham, ally senator graham, alan dershowitz, you know, lindsey graham, alan dershowitz.e's got alan dershowitz in there and he's got kenneth starr and they're using sound bites from all of them. how is that going to play out once the republicans come -- >> it's interesting you've mentioned people that have flipped over time. one of the big themes today was hypocrisy. i think they were trying to show donald trump and his enablers as a bunch of hypocrites. you also said something about the tv lawyers. as trump was assembling this team of lawyers, the white house was developing its strategy we kept on getting really good reporting from white house reporters who were saying donald trump and people around him would ask the question, we know how this person is as an attorney but we don't know how this person is on tv. it's a fair question for a televised trial, but it was also such a great, great distillation of the trump ethos. what does it play on tv, what are the optics? that's the way trump nav git gaits the world. >> is that a bad strategy? >> in this instant it might hel

lindsey graham saying -- >> it doesn't matter.ause you said what if there's audio of trump saying this. it doesn't matter because they've gone to, oh, well, it doesn't matter anyway. either way, they get to their predetermined conclusion. >> pat cipollone showed old video of democrats arguing against the clinton impeachment. >> they were right then, and they're right now. i'll leave you with some of those words. >> there must never been a narrowly voted impeachment, supported by one major party and opposed by the other. >> by these actions, you would undo the free election that expressed the will of the american people in 1996. >> the republicans are crossing out the impeachment standard of high crimes and misdemeanors, and inserting the words any crime or misdemeanor. >> the constitutional provision for impeachment is a way to protect our government and citizens, not another weapon in the political article. >> history will show we've broken the seal on this extreme penalty so cavalierly, it will be used to fight political battles

lindsey graham is carrying the sword for the white house here. i guess you would figure that would be the case. what happens next within the republican caucus should be something at the republican senators themselves figure out and certainly lindsey graham is telling mike lee what the white house wants him to tell mike lee. but the white house is really treading on, and you know this well, difficult ground here. if they look like they are dictating every single thing to every single republican, it certainly has been the experience of this white house they can get anything they want from republicans in congress at almost any time. there's been so little descent. where you have seen descent has really only been on foreign policy issues. we saw it surrounding russia, ukraine and, really, now, to see it happen here means at the the white house is going to have to rely on the likes of lindsey graham to rally and bring people within the circle. >> thank you both for spending some time with us. after the break, more on nancy pelosi, the articles of impe

convictions to join the five to say send it over. >> you have been listening to republican senator lindsey graham, a close ally of president trump, talking about war powers resolution up today in the house as well as impeachment, frankly. senator graham doing what we have heard already from senator mcconnell, trying to use some words of some democrats to bolster the republican argument that house speaker pelosi should simply transmit the articles over to the senate now. i want to play you what senator mcconnell had to say right now. watch. >> the speaker has refused to let her own allegations proceed normally to trial unless she gets to hand design various elements of our senate process. >> we have this covered from every angle starting with geoff bennett. we just saw colleague eric haake in the hallway. jeff, let me start with you here. speaker pelosi this morning actually responded to some of that democratic criticism. the pressure that seems to be building on her. as we get ready to hear from her really in about 30 or 40 minutes here. >> yeah. in the sense among democrats, some democrats, thos

chris: we'll sit down with senator lindsey graham chair of the judiciary committee, a close ally of theresident. only on "fox news sunday." we'll talk with congressman hakeem jeffries one of the house impeachment managers arguing the case against mr. trump. it is a "fox news sunday" exclusive. plus -- >> i think you called me a liar on national tv? >> what? chris: a hot mic captures a exchange between elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. we'll ask the panel how the split shakes things up two weeks before the iowa caucuses. our power player of the week. doctors said he would never walk normally again. now he is pushing the limits of human potential. all on "fox news sunday". ♪. chris: hello again from fox news in washington. the senate impeachment trial of president trump is set to begin in just two days. but we still don't know exactly what the trial will look like or how long it will last and whether we hear from witnesses. we will hear in a moment from lindsey graham. >> chris, president trump is spending part of his weekend here in florida but scheduled to fly to swifted land for an

just ask old lindsey graham or old mitch mcconnell or a lot of other people involved in trials. the new reporting is a sign that the time that has been passing seems to be going towards more of a trial and less of a slam dunk dismissal. with that, we turn to our two experts tonight, people you will recognize that we have come to rely on on this evolving story. chuck rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor, senior fbi official, former acting head of the dea, an msnbc analyst, and "new york times" reporter, i should say "new york times" contributor, michelle goldberg, you write for the opinion page, and i know you as a long time writer as well. thank you for joining me on this friday night. >> thank you. >> michelle people who read you in the "new york times," who have seen you on this and other programs know that long before it was fashionable in washington to say force impeachment and force trial you advocated that on substantiative grounds, not a political thing, but you thought it was warranted. with that in mind, i wonder what you think about susan collins and others making ne

that's where lindsey graham was yesterday in defending the president.effrey goldberg, the picture painted by not just mike lee, but rand paul and others, was of a briefing from pompeo and gina haspel and secretary esper where for 75 minutes they said here's what happened, this is not open for debate, we don't need you in front of tv cameras arguing with us about this. as mike lee put it, senator lee said go be good little girls and boys and defend the president effectively is how he summarized it. every once in a while we get a glimmer from a republican in congress, a principled glimmer of someone who says, i'm not going to just rally behind the president, i'm not going to defend him when i come out. when i see something wrong and violates the spirit of the constitution and the way our government is supposed to run, i'm going to say something. >> you know, one of the things that surprised me yesterday about that was that senators have healthy egos. everybody in the senate believes he or she should be president. we know that. >> right. >> when you talk d

earlier i spoke with senate nor lindsey graham. thanks so much for being with us. it's been a momentous week. we have the house passing a war powers resolution. they think preventing the president from going to war with iran. but it is basically a meaningless resolution, is it not? >> it's a concurrent resolution. it has no effect of law. all they are doing is embowled s emboldening the enemy. congress has the power to declare war. that doesn't mean the commander-in-chief can't use military force to protect the country without congress. we have had military engagements hundreds of times. the president took out soleimani who was planning another attack against american forces in iraq. he has all the authority he need to protect troops in the field. the war powers act is blatantly unconstitutional. you can't have 535 commander in chiefs. can you imagine what our nation would look like if elizabeth warren and aoc and you con defend the nation. judge jeanine: as opposed to congratulating the president for essentially bringing iran to it's ins, and identifying a real th