lindsey graham were trump appointees to the appeals court. then on friday, lindsey graham filed an emergency appeal to the united states supreme court knowing, knowing that the supreme court justice, assigned to handle emergency appeals from the 11th circuit, is clarence thomas. clarence thomas should have immediately recuse himself from that case. but he did not. instead today, clarence thomas became the first federal judge in this case to rule in favor of senator lindsey graham, knowing that lindsey graham's testimony to the grand jury could include possible questions about clarence thomas 's wife. it would be reasonable to ask lindsey graham who he communicated with about the results of the 2020 presidential election. in court filings, she has made it clear that she wants to ask lindsey graham about his phone calls to georgia's secretary of state asking him about the presidential election in georgia. it is reasonable to ask lindsey graham whether he spoke to donald trump before or after donald trump's call to georgia secretary of state. th

and of course, voted for by lindsey graham. >> the irony! the irony! the irony! >> lindsey grime has fought to do this with every out in his quiver. just this year, and he will testify. >> he will have to do it. thank you, alex. >> thanks lawrence. >> today, donald trump's lawyers have proved that they don't know why they asked for a special master to examine the documents seized by the fbi with a search warrant a donald trump's residence in florida. we finally have tonight specific legal claims about some of those documents being made by the trump lawyers in the appropriately titled case donald j trump versus the united states of america. those claims appear in a justice department filing with the special master tonight that justice department filing describes to the special master, renaming disputes regarding 15 documents. a filing includes a table listing every one of those documents and every dispute. for example, document number one shows a dispute about the categorization of the documents with donald trump calling it a personal record, and the justice depart

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it's lindsey graham's completely sort of an adine comments about, you see him? you see him, he's black, you see how black he is? that proves we're not racist. there's a black man standing there. look at him. you see how black he is. it's the disrespect they have for black people, and their belief that black people are essentially a prop, that when you place one in front of america, they will associate republicans with anti-racism, just because there's that -- look at him, he plays football. he's athletic. ain't that black? he got a lot of kids he didn't claim. ain't that black? he's everything black is supposed to be and he's going to do what we say. i found it offensive, but you're the black man on the panel. what did you think of this? >> i watched that with the same gut-wrenching feeling. because herschel walker shouldn't need a white man to come to his defense. he should be able to stand on his own two feet and make his case. but he can't. and that's the problem. and they know he can't. because he hasn't. and so they trollop out lindsay, you know, who's goin

friend and partner in trying to overturn the presidential election results in georgia, senator lindsey graham graham is fighting a subpoena to testify before fulton county district attorney fani willis' grand jury investigation for some reason. justice thomas has temporarily blocked a lower court's order requiring graham to answer questions about the phone calls he made to georgia election officials in the weeks after the 2020 race was called. oh, and get this. the ultimate decision as to whether graham will have to testify could be made by justice thomas himself, or he could bring it to the other justices on the 6-3 supreme court, to decide. and joining me is glenn kirschner, legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. i saw harry lipman tweeting about this and it was sort of a calm you down tweet. it sure is suspicious looking for clarence thomas to be the one to rescue lindsey graham from having to testify. talk me down. is this something i should be concerned about? >> joy, i can only talk you down in part because it seems like the supreme court is willing to embrace the stench of illegi

anyone has that right that would look horrible for lindsey graham. i suspect he would be reluctant do to do that. lindsey graham was dealt a legal setback today. he cannot dodge this subpoena. he droes have to testify. graham argued he was immune under the speech and debate clause which says sitting members of congress can't be forced to answer questions outside of congress. however, the court today said most of what senator graham was doing was not legislative, coordinating with the trump campaign, making public statements, dealing with georgia state legislators to try to pressure them. all of that is fair ground, and l lindsey graham will have to answer questions about those topics. >> so what does it tell you about the fulton county's d.a.'s investigation. what we know about it so far, do you have a sense so far of how quickly it's moving? >> this thing has gone from zero to 60 in a snap, anderson. let's remember, the d.a. didn't even get a grand jury seated for about a year and a half until this past summer that is an awful long time to wait goat

and then you have lindsey graham introducing something that would do a blanket abortion ban. and that's not what the average american wants. they do want exceptions. i do hear your point about what are democrats rules. i think the line for them is it's women's choice, and let it be between her and her doctor. >> i, mean polling will show there is a big swath in the middle the country that believes there should be always be able to have an abortion in certain circumstances, but there should be limits on what point. >> yes. >> and it's a big conversation, and a big group of people to have. to your point, what republicans have screwed up, is we've always said we want to be the reasonable ones, let states has some reasonable restrictions. and when we just, like, in states where you're going to six weeks or zero weeks, or -- it's contradictory to what we've been saying for years and years and years about why should be able to trust us. >> the thing about, it i mean, the one way to solve this, right, roe v. wade did have those limitations. >> the viability framework essentially. a

>> i suspect that lindsey graham's case is going nowhere and going nowhere fast. raham is arguing that article 1 section 6 of the constitution provides him immunity from having to testify and comply with the subpoena, which is something you and i would have to do everidy of the week. he's saying he was acting as a legislator when he was working with trump to try to find those 11,780 votes. this is, to put it mildly, not a plausible story. and last week, the court of appealing in atlanta with two -- three judges, two of whom were appointed by donald trump, said there's no merit to this whatsoever. so lindsey graham's attorneys then rushed to the supreme court and said, hear our case, hear our case. and all that happened today was justice thomas put a temporary pause for a few days and said, look, don't interview senator graham now while these papers are coming into the u.s. supreme court. but he -- they haven't stopped graham from testifying for all time. i suspect that is almost certainly unlikely just given the fact that lindsey graham has, you know, a typical bad

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made, some people have interpreted those phone calls as being problematic for lindsey graham,lly had to testify but he didn't have to testify about anything having to do with his job as a senator. for instance, anything having to do with certification of vote, right, or his role on the senate subcommittee. but the district court and the appeals court said he would have to sit for testimony for anything having to do with, say, communications that -- where he's not protected because he's not talking in his official capacity. the court said exactly communications and coordination with the trump campaign regarding post-elect efforts. graham says he doesn't have to answer any questions, the constitution protects him under the speech of debate clause and that has gone to the supreme court and it went to clarence thomas who has jurisdiction. but, again, his -- clarence thomas did issue this temporary stay but just like what kagan did, it's really meant just to get the justices -- give them time to get read in here so it's too soon to see how the justices will rule on the merits but,

he was on the trail yesterday with south carolina republican senator lindsey graham. lindsey graham, like walker and his campaign, are implying that this latest allegation is politically motivated. jose? >> and shaquille, in wisconsin, both candidates are hoping for a boost from major political figures on both sides of the aisle. >> that's exactly right. today it will be secretary marty walsh out campaigning with governor tony evers. they're going to kick off a bus tour in milwaukee. this is part of a flood of surrogates who have come to the state of wisconsin and are coming in the future dates. tomorrow, pete buttigieg, friday -- saturday, former president barack obama, and senator elizabeth warren campaigned with tony evers and we saw glenn youngkin with tim michels, the republican candidate for governor. it was at that rally where we got a sense of what the priority will be for michaels if he's elected governor. this is a state where both candidates say the national implications are how elections are going to be administered. the democrats talk about the certificat

[ding] cha-ching. >>> new tonight, supreme court justice clarence thomas siding with lindsey graham just as thomas temporarily freezing a lower court order that had forced graham to testify in the georgia investigation into trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. now, this ruling was a one-justice deal. thomas had 100% of the power because he has jurisdiction over this lower court. let's go straight to cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez first here. evan, talk more about justice thomas' role in just a moment. but what happens now for senator graham who had been seen very important in what has been dubbed a crucial case in georgia? >> yeah, look. he is an important witness, and the district attorney there in fulton county, she wants his testimony, she says she is trying to finish receiving testimony of important witnesses by the end of the year, erin. so this ruling or this temporary stay here by justice thomas is just really a couple more days. he's asking for the district attorney to respond by thursday. and so we'll get a sense how much longer the supreme court is goin

that would look horrible for lindsey graham and i think you'd be reluctant to do, it but he was dealt a legal setback today. he cannot dodge the subpoena. he has to testify. graham eigen argued he was immune after a provision called the speech and debate clause which says that sitting members of congress can be for us to answer questions outside of congress. but the court today said most of what senator graham was doing was not legislated. coordinating with the trump campaign, making public statements, dealing with georgia state rÉgis later is to try to pressure them. all of that is fair ground and lindsey graham will have to answer questions about those topics. >> what does it tell you about the da's investigation in fulton county? what we know about it so far, do you have a sense of how quickly it is moving? >> this thing has gone from zero to 60 in a snap. let's remember, the da didn't even get a grand jury seat for about a year and a half until this past summer. that's an awfully long time to wait to get a grand jury seated. but since then the da has been moving at an incredibly r

clarence thomas as temporary blocked a subpoena to lindsey graham. they want to question lindsey graham as to possible interference in the 2020 election. let's get started with -- katie bennett is here, pulitzer prize-winning reporter. david, and covering the trump family and its business interests. he won a pulitzer prize for covering them too. and barbara quaid, a veteran federal prosecutor in eastern michigan. he she worked with the -- she is now a professor at the university of school of law. katie let's turn to you first. tell us about this new reporting for trump aides getting pressured to testify? >> yes, so we see the justice department moving into a new phase of its investigation. it's documents, it's gathered material, and it's gathered video material that happened inside mar-a-lago related to the documents that belong to government. now it is trying to do is get people who were involved in moving those documents around, and who might have an understanding of what donald trump may have been thinking while he was wrangling with the justice d

i personally think that lindsey graham's arguments are without merit. he should be held to account, just as anyone else should. no one is above the law, not lindsey graham, not donald trump, that's the benin. but in this, case we have a supreme court justice who has in many ways, in my view, flooded what ordinary people think of a conflict of interest, a very serious conflict of interests with his wife. >> again, it's mind-boggling that he would have any say with any case that involves anything to do with the 2020 election news, when his wife is front and center in this alleged plot. lisa graves, jessica levinson, thank you both, we appreciate your time and insights. up next, election workers are being there and, borders are being intimidated and republicans want to make it even worse going forward. i am going to discuss how we can push back on the nevada secretary of state candidate, cisco actually are. cisco actually are ♪ (customer) save yourself?! money with farmers. (burke) that's not wrong. when you bundle your home and auto policies with farmers,

neil, let's talk lindsey graham. he tried, he tried again, but he is now lost in his repeated attempts to avoid testifying in georgia. what happens next? will he continue to fight or does lindsay have to show up and talk? >> you can try to take the supreme court. but it is a loser. the court of appeals, basically, sudden lindsey graham you've got to play by the same rules that every other american. does that, if, you have a subpoena to testify before grand jury. you can just blow it off, you gotta actually do it. this is become, in georgia, a very serious criminal investigation. and even more serious, yesterday, because the federal judge in california, david carter release some emails showing that trump -- i sure looks like these emails intentionally lied about the vote counts in georgia to a court, under penalty of -- so the investigation is serious, lindsey graham has tried to block and not go testify to tell the truth and for the grand jury because he is a certain constitutional privilege. now i want to read an ar

let me also ask you about what is happening with lindsey graham. supreme court, i'm gonna read this because i want to make sure i'm getting this right here, asking for a response specifically joyce from georgia officials and senator lindsey graham's request to hold the subpoena that would compel him to testify on that criminal probe at fulton county potential interference in the 2020 election, we don't know necessarily what this means yet when it comes to justice -- possibly making a referral. but what do you think? >> so this is much like the matter we were just discussing last week. where president trump and tried to -- mar-a-lago in the 11th circuit, lindsey graham is now asking the supreme court to keep him from having to testify in front of the fulton county da, his grand jury and this is the same sort of situation. clarence thomas could read the briefs he's requested, and dismiss the request out of hand. he could referred to the full court, in which case it would most likely be decided on the shadow docket. but the 11th circuit a three judge

tonight lindsey graham is still fighting that subpoena.is now appealed to the supreme court, put in an emergency request asking them to block the subpoena. now we wait for the supreme court. >> we will wait and see what they decide. thanks very much, sara. stay with us. i want to bring in cnn's chief political analyst gloria borger and our senior legal analyst, former u.s. attorney, preet. let's get to the historic subpoena actually delivered today to trump's lawyers. does this almost read, and i've read all these pages, does it almost read like a criminal indictment of the former president? >> well, there's a lot in there. there's a lot of information in there that was unnecessary. there's a phrase that we use in federal practice called a speaking indictment. an indictment does not need to contain all the probable cause that you bring to bear through the grand jury to bring a case against someone. but sometimes prosecutors feel the need to speak in the indictment and to put down facts and to connect the dots. and you rarely see -- excuse

and lindsey graham has sued and appealed and appealed and take continue all to the supreme court.stay, not a final word, but a stay on his testimony, and what's the reaction? >> well, this is a stay now pending, and another filing from the georgia d.a., essentially to make their case on why they want lindsey graham to testify, and as you can imagine, particularly house democrats have been furious about, this they argue that this is the exact kind of issue on which they tried to pursue judicial ethics reforms over the course of this last congress. of course, clarence thomas' wife ginni thomas is very much involved in the greater stop the steal effort who testified behind closed door with the january 6th committee. they argue, of all people, clarence thomas, should not be the one to make a decision like this. but again it is likely the full court that makes the final decision on whether graham has to testify. and i can tell you as someone who talked to lindsey graham in the immediate aftermath of the election, he doesn't defend what he was doing as the work of a senator. he kind of

stuart: lindsey graham, senator, feuding with elon musk about the war in ukraine.elon musk tweeted how do we get a piece plan with ukraine, either you redo the election under you and security or give up crimea. the russians saw that and are using it to their advantage, lindsey graham is weighing in, all due respect to elon he needs to understand the fact of the russian invasion of ukraine suggestively end the invasion by simply giving parts of ukraine up is dumb and an affront to the bravery of the ukrainians. then gives his solution, if you want peace in ukraine simply demand russians honor the boundaries they agreed to in 1994. ukraine gave us its nukes in exchange for territorial authority in crimea and donbas. you have an honest polite exchange on social media between a senator in the world's richest man at it makes the world's richest man look bad because the russians interpreted his tweet as support for them to further the war. stuart: another headline from musk. made the news again. not a good one either. poland is asking the us for nuclear weapons. ashley w

jurors. >> the supreme court justice clarence thomas has agreed to temporarily pause senator lindsey graham's probe in georgia. if this is a temporary move, what's next for graham and the graham jury's investigation? >> yeah, i do think this is a brief delay to allow the supreme court to hear both sides before ruling. it still takes four justices though to hear a case, to hear the appeal. i think they won't. i would be shocked if they took the case and then they overturned the lower court because the lower court is the 11th court circuit of appeals where a unanimous panel used sound reasoning to rule for the da. two of the three judges on that panel were trump appointees. i do believe lindsey graham is going to have to testify. it does not shield him from the fulton county grand jury subpoena. you can't make those calls in a state that you don't represent. >> thank you, sir. >> thanks for having me back. >>> a teenager who killed four students and wounded seven others at a michigan high school last year is pleading guilty to all 24 charges against him. ethan crumbly admitted to one count of t

these are the kevin mccarthy's these are the lindsey graham's. these are the rudy's these are the marco rubio's. and ted cruz's and people who over a four or five year period basically wave the white flag and allowed him to run fairly roughshod over a lot of our institutions. so the working title, this book, as i was working on it, was they all knew better because they did i talked to all of them pretty much one of the defining strains of all of these conversations was there was always a major, major between what they were saying privately, contemptuously, often about the president and what they were saying publicly, which was adulation, which was, you know, complete capitulation, submission, whatever you want to call it. one of the challenges this book, by the way, was finding fun synonyms for like words like this. my favorite, by the way, was the brigade know, the dutiful brigade of republican turd polishers. that was from sykes of the bulwark. i shot him out in the book for being the author of that, but no mean this was the central dynamic of

he responded to one of his critics in republican senator lindsey graham, who completely rejected the idea that russia would give away ukraine's participation elon musk noted that eastern ukraine is pro-russian because russians live there and published a map with the results of the twelfth ukraine in the majority voted for the pro-russian party of regions, it is obvious that not everyone who voted for the pro-russian party. wanted to join russia, but also to say that no one wanted this, elon musk already summed up incorrectly. and europe again reminded ukraine that it would not be accepted into nato, at least as long as hostilities are ongoing on its territory . this was stated by the eu commissioner for the internal market of the breton series in an interview with the bfm tv channel, zelenki asked for ukraine to join nato, but as you know, questions of joining the alliance cannot be raised during the period of hostilities on the territory of the country. while it is difficult to say when the hostilities will be completed, the european commissioner. noticed the announcement of joining

clarence thomas has put a temporary freeze on a lower court order requiring republican senator lindsey grahamify in an atlanta area grand jury probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. cnn's senior justice correspondent, evan perez, is joining us right now. georgia investigators clearly want to question graham about phone calls he made to state election officials. so is there still a chance that this process -- we'll actually hear from him? >> it is still possible. there's still a chance that the fulton county grand jury will hear from senator graham. what justice thomas has done, he has jurisdiction over this circuit, over this court that had ruled that there is very limited -- there are very limited protections for the senator to prevent questions from the georgia grand jury with regard to some of his communications with georgia lawmakers over the 2020 elections. if you remember, he was trying to figure out how to get the number of votes the former president trump said that he had to win georgia. so what we expect now, wolf, is that the grand jury, the district attorney i

so, lindsey graham was mad.ly, there were discussions, and i learned this from the book, to try to impeach trump right then and there, but who stopped it? >> the democratic leaders. they were afraid of pushing that full force. basically. look, we have this moment where even the people who have shown themselves to be trump'is bigget defenders, they were not thinking of the politics. they were feeling the rage in that moment. that night, a group of rank and file democrats in the house wrote impeachment articles and when the house and senate came back to actually finish certifying the results of the electoral college, they presented them, first going to steny hoyer, saying, let's do this tonight, while everybody's angry, while the moment is right, while the iron is hot. and were basically told no, that hoyer, pelosi decided, we're not going to do this and it took days later, they were still trying to hold back the tide. and in that -- those days, people like graham started to feel the pressure from trump supporters

supreme court justice clarence thomas sides are republican senator, lindsey graham, freezing an order for him to testify before a special grand jury, at least for now. we're following the decision and what it means for the investigation efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia. and doctors are warning about a potentially very, very dangerous triple health threat. the flu, covid, and respiratory illness. any americans with babies around the country, especially vulnerable. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." an epic battle for control of congress is heading into the final stretch tonight. with only two weeks until election day and miles to go for the candidates out there on the campaign trail. let's get right toe hottest battlegrounds. pennsylvania. where the senate race could be decisive for democrats. cnn's chief national affairs correspondent is there for us. >> on the eve of a critical debate, all eyes are on pennsylvania. in the fight for control of the senate. as democratic jo

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he's backed senator lindsey graham's bill for a national abortion ban after 15 weeks.ng exceptions for rape and incest, budd told the raleigh news and observer, quote, every life is precious and i think let's focus on the law enforcement there. and expanded on that this week in an interview with a north carolina nbc station. >> much rather it be like what the supreme court said, it needs to go back to the states. in the exceptions for life of the mother, rape? >> i always -- i'm pro-life and i have been long before politics and i have always been about supporting life, including the life of the mother. >> exception for rape? >> about the life of the mother. >> he made that clear. joining me is sherry piecely, the democratic nominee for juice nat for north carolina. let's talk about that, because i do feel gaslit at this point that you have a media narrative that says that women don't really care about abortion. women don't really mind if the states control their bodies. they just care about the price of milk. is that what you're experiencing when you're talking to wome

now we can talk about lindsey graham's bill, that is a four-month band.hat is more lenient than every country in europe, except for two countries. the extremis on abortion in their campaign, congress woman demings, she supports no restrictions, no limitations of any kind. she voted against a four-month band, she voted against a five-month band. she supports taxpayer-funded abortion on demand for any reason at any time, up until the moment of birth. that is what she supports, that is the extreme position. i am showing a willingness to work with people who are saying i'm for innocent human life. she opposes any limitation and no one ever asked them about that. ms. demings: how gullible do you really think floor the voters are? -- florida voters are? number one, you have been clear that you support no exceptions. even including rape and incest. as a police detective who investigated cases of rape, no, senator, i do not think it is ok for a 10-year-old girl to be raped and have to carry the seed of her rapist. no, i do not think it is ok for you to make decis

i'm thinking of lindsey graham.aham went to the airport to go back to south carolina, and he was mobbed by angry, very angry trump supporters. and then lindsey graham started attacking back. i wonder if this is, there's, i wonder, in your conversations, that you get from any of the republican lawmakers, that they are scared, to condemn them, because they're scared for themselves? >> well, there's two things to make a point about that, katy. there's two levels of being scared, right? there's the level of scared where you're worried about your own personal safety, which i think there are both republicans and democrats that are worried about their own personal safety. and then there's also the level of scared about your political future. and it's become very clear that there are certain aspects of the republican party where you cannot criticize the individuals that support republican candidates that inhabit these conspiracy theories as it relates to q-anon, the election being stolen, all of these things that have been

>> well, key very well raise the same -- he could very well raise the same issues as lindsey graham,n the delay in his testimony. i don't know that necessarily he's going to be able to forestall testifying entirely, katy, but these gentlemen are raising issues so they don't have to show up. and i imagine that ultimately fails. for much the same reason. grand juries have the right to people's information. they have the right to truthful information when they're investigating crimes. and so you can try these things, you can try the speech or debate clause, which is what senator graham is doing and what mr. meadows is lakely going to do but in the end, i think the grand jury will get most of what it needs whether they like it or not. >> chuck rosenberg, thank you very much. >>> breaking news about a sitting senator. we will go there. and we also have this story. just as samuel alito wrote the decision to overturn roe v. wade, a new book reveals what he told senators in private about abortion during his confirmation hearings. >>> also, will there be enough workers to staff polling sites?

the lindsey graham bill protects babies who are four weeks and older. fully formed babies who can feel pain and it provides reasonable exceptions. if you can't support legislation like that, you are making the united states the more barbaric pro abortion regime anywhere in the entire world. you can have some minimum national standards which is my view while also allowing the states to make up their minds. california will have a different view than ohio. that is totally fine. i want to save as many lives as possible. that is the principle that guides me. >> you would vote for lindsey graham's 15 week ban? >> as i said, i think it is totally reasonable to say you cannot abort a baby especially for elective reasons after 15 weeks of gestation. no civilized country allows it. i don't want the country to be an exception. >> i think that president trump should be afforded all of the rights that every other american citizen is afforded. he should respond to the subpoena. he should come clean. we know there has been a call from the white house to somebody parti

don junior, hope hicks, dan scavino, senator lindsey graham, all in the room.n't surprise you that i think some of the most revealing moments are trump on trump. so as an example, this is an exchange when woodward asks trump, where do you get your ideas for your speeches? >> did somebody help you? >> yeah, i get -- i get people that come up with ideas, but the ideas are mine, bob. mine. >> and -- >> want to know something? everything is mine. >> classic trump. everything is mine. and, look, trump loves it. you hear this over and over. there are certain word, everything is cool. he loves it when foreign leaders call him tough and he never stops boasting about how he took on north korean dictator kim jong-un. listen to this. >> he's going to get us into a war, remember, they were screaming. >> yes, my nuclear gun is bigger than yours. >> that's right. i said -- yeah, he talked about the button, right. he said point button on my desk. i said my button is bigger than yours and my button works and yours doesn't. stuff like that. >> so just finally, john, in the epil

. >> let me follow up on that with the lindsey graham developments.ow-up, there is the possibility of obstruction, which is named in the subpoena, in which there seems to be a lot of evidence. we have lawyers being asked to attest to things, and refusing to do so. we have an email, i think, coming out today from eric herschmann saying, i would not say that everything is not classified here. so, i think there is really willful obstruction to dissent, and to hide tests from them. is that a way to square the circle? >> there are other possible charges here, but also, just a presidential record. mishandling of government possibilities. neither of those would require the government to actually prove up the national defense information quality of the materials that were taken. so, two things are happening here. the imperative to bring the case, and it gets greater when we see how sensitive as it were. it needs to be intentionally making that a feasible option. >> let's talk about lindsey graham, and on his subpoena today, to get that speed here. this is a c

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so does lindsey graham. he just also compared putin to hitler. >> i hope we'll also send a very clear signal here that we're going to have more aid in the -- if we do an omnibus in december, which i hope we will, to fund the government, we'll have a robust package of military support taking ukraine into 2023. have we learned nothing from the last century? what should we have learned? that when it comes to bullies and crazy people who want to, you know, put the world under their thumb, like hitler, they should believe what they say, stand up to them sooner rather than later. >> will: that was lindsey graham. standing next to him, democratic senator richard blumenthal. why are both parties trying to provoke russia into using the bombers? we'll ask colonel doug mcgregor, a retired u.s. army colonel who joins us now. colonel, great to see you this evening. a whirlwind whiplash of news today when it comes to russia and ukraine. what should we make of it? >> well, not quite what senator graham had to say, or for t

[booing] lindsey graham culvert abortion bill that criminalizes doctors and nurses that provide servicesor their patients in need. if republicans get their way, it will not matter where you live. let me be clear. if such a bill were to pass in the next several years [indiscernible] we cannot let it pass -- in the next several years, i will veto it. after dobbs came down i signed an executive order to protect the access to reproductive health care, but to protect a woman's right to travel from a state that prohibits abortion to a state that allows it and protect the privacy of sensitive health information, preventing states tracking women from seeking health. as i said, we are fighting a battle. i would repeat it again. the only sure way to stop these extremist laws that are put in jeopardy women's health and rights is for congress to pass a law. i have said before, the court got rope right nearly 50 years ago and i believe congress should codify roe once and for all. [applause] right now, we are short a handful of votes. if you care about the right to choose that you have to vote. that i

you have lindsey graham who really tried to rally consensus around a 15 week band.abortion advocates say they need to come up with the position not only lawmakers but their 2024 presidential candidates can rally around. >> president biden has also said that he will push to codify row if democrats keep the house in the senate. he talks about codify grow. >> what he was referring to, i believe, goes way beyond row. premised on the idea that states could craft their own laws. it created a floor. the bill in congress is basically a wish list of what people wanted row to be geared that legislation, if it is enacted, would not only federalize abortion but gold light years beyond row. >> we will wait to see which party is in the driver seat of either one of those. i want to talk about twitter. elon musk has officially taken over. twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. no account reinstatements will happen before that counsel reconvenes. a lot of people disappointed. he says that this will not turn into a hells gate. >> the most