lindsey graham.aid to other countries unless there are, quote, strings attached. so there it is in a nutshell. a guy lindsey graham who built his career and being a defense hawk talked a lot about how important it is to support ukraine, to be a stalwart against russia and europe. now, because donald trump puts out this post on truth social, completely reversed everything he ever believed, particularly this bill, to listen to somebody like speaker johnson say we are not going to pass it in the house until you do something about border security. of course, as we just said, the senate did something it hadn't done on a bipartisan basis in a generation, which is to provide over months of discussion and deliberation a bill on border security. >> republican james langford put together in a bipartisan way the toughers border security bill in the past 30 years. some say the toughest border security bill ever. and they were going to pass it and then donald trump told them not to pass it, and so lindsey graham

but lindsey graham knows, mark cornyn knows.bout foreign policy, and yet it's just appalling their capitulation to a very, very dark reality for the people of ukraine. >> it is appalling, and, in fact, it is breathtaking. and to mark's point i think this is really crucial, this is not a position the republicans reasoned themselves into. there has not been this long rethinking of america's place in the world. this is this knee jerk reaction to donald trump. it has been donald trump's obsession. the really troubling thing is there are still republicans like mitch mcconnell, and, you know, in the senate who understand the immediate stakes and who are trying to, you know, stand up to vladimir putin. but look at the generational shift in this party. i mean a lot of this is donald trump, but what's the trajectory here? what is more likely to be the future of the party? people like j.d. vance and marco rubio, or people like mitch mcconnell? it feels like they are kind of the last line, the old guard trying to remind people what republi

. >> we will hear from both of south carolina's republican senators, tim scott and lindsey graham aboutheir recent trip to the u.s.-mexico border and how the death of putin critic alexei navalny will impact it all. >>> jim clyburn was key to biden's win. we will hear whether he has any concerns about president biden's re-election. >>> finally, on this presidents' day weekend, a discussion on leadership, character, and american values. it's all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >>> good morning. welcome to "face the nation." margaret is on today. congress is on a two-week recess. but there is an urgent push among some lawmakers to do more to fund ukraine. this weekend, another major ukrainian city fell to russian forces. at an annual security conference in munich, president zelenskyy pleaded for more help from the u.s. and from allies around the world. >> do not ask ukraine when the war will end. ask yourself why is putin still able to continue it. >> the path forward for more u.s. aid remains uncertain. last week, the senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill that included money for

least one of the 26 republicans who voted against the aide, that senator being south carolina lindsey graham. even though senator graham previously bragged on twitter that he received a menstrual way to learn that his commitment to ukraine had drawn the eye of pool's regime he voted against the package and is backing up the loan proposal. it is another gift just days after donald trump sided with russia over the treaty bound nato allies and invited to invade european countries that do not pay up on their membership. just today, the national security adviser to trump is retired general keith kellogg told reuters he was suppose a tiered system. this could result in some nations losing protections against an outside attack. all of this you consider it together proves why it is so dangerous that republicans are falling in line with donald trump's america first appeasement of vladimir putin. at the white house president biden said failing to pass the foreign aid would play directly into putin's hands. >> for republicans in congress who think they can oppose funding for ukraine and not be held acc

i guess it's not surprising that lindsey graham takes a knee to donald trump when, you know, when pushs mixing metaphors. but wow, on russia. there are no sacred cows. >> yes. i mean, you having watched graham's sycophancy you wouldn't think you'd be surprised anymore. but this is genuinely shocking. if you step back from the clownish-ness of donald trump, what we're seeing is a seismic shift in the republican party. this is an abandonment not just of reagan foreign policy, but of a century of republican foreign policy. and yet, the party is going along with it. and it's not just the rhetoric. the other context here is the republican party in the house of representatives is in the process of blocking aid to ukraine, handing vladimir putin a victory that he was not able to win on the battlefield. so it is extraordinary to watch the republican party go along with rhetoric that would've been considered absolutely beyond the pale and reckless, even a few years ago in trump's first term. but i also think we need to step back from the political implications of this. because this is the forme

have imagined that lindsey graham would go from supporting ukraine's fight against vladimir putin, to following donald trump. there are people inside the senate, republicans inside the senate outraged at lindsey's flip-flopping. and, the fact that, he actually voted against -- and it made a difference to them. if lindsey had voted with them, then there would have been at least half of the republicans or majority of republicans in the senate voting for this ukrainian aid package. but he voted against it. and to thank, that that one guy called himself john mccain's friend, and saw mccain as a mentor for him. it is just ridiculous. and, it would make senator mccain really side. >> yeah senator graham always fancied himself as a defense hawk, the guy who would stand in the breach and helped democracy survive. push russia back, he taught like that until trump told him not to. and it goes back to the thing we talk about all the time, is there anything that these republicans will not do for donald trump if he asked them, if he tells them. you can say no once in a while, to maintain your rela

i'm not lindsey graham. i have spent eight years fighting two wars over there.less about it today than i did when i was 18 i think. it's not that i want us to go to war with iran. a administration that is so decisive, well planned, that before our own dead make it home, we have settled the score and discourage them from doing it again, or -- and this is a lot to ask for -- still so decisive and strategic that we never had both sides -- 170 attacks that happened. >> can i ask you what you think about the decision, on the timing of telegraphing that there was going to be a response for several days, and that the irg seat pulled all of its leadership out of syria yesterday. >> i think that president biden truly believes, this is not against him, but i truly believe that the president biden administration, their strategy from the beginning, and they are sticking to it, they can get their way out of a potential crisis or more. i have felt much better about it then back then. >> you are in georgia. i spent my weeks in texas. everyone that you know, the polling shows a

more and that with lindsey graham. the white house announced that joe will finally make a trip to east palestine, ohio, almost a year after the toxic train derailment. the mayor of the town is asking what is the point? he will join us later. >>> bite and's border crisis is causing chaos across the entire country including in the heart of new york city's times square where a mob of illegal immigrants were caught in a very disturbing video. look at this saturday night. beating up new york city police officers. you can see it right there. four suspects were arrested and charged with assault. but according to sources, they were reportedly released back onto the streets without bail. of course new york city and new york state has no bail laws. think about this for a second. no bail for a mob of people beating up cops. >>> the new york post is reporting that illegal immigrants are now forming pickpocketing crews in the big apple causing new headaches for an already strained nypd. more people are leaving than they ever have i

is there any part of that with lindsey graham saying please don't indict me to fani willis?you know, i don't know about. that i don't think he was -- there was a lot of exposure there. but you know, you never know, politicians can be pretty ingratiated to advance their own personal political and i guess potentially legal interests. we really don't know. it's hard to get inside his mind. >> yes, okay, michael, we have jordan fuchs, the 30 year old republican operative, georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who reported the infamous call. she was in florida, a two party consent state. you say this about her. quote, fuchs did what was arguably the gutsiest most consequential act of the postelection battle. more than anybody she was keenly aware of the dangerous raffensperger faced when talking to trump with the presidents well habit of inventing reality to suit his political needs. in the moment, fuchs decided she would protect the boss. without telling raffensperger or been, house she taped the call. what did you learn about her decision to do it in the legal ramific

in fact, i don't agree with most of what lindsey graham says. to continue to try warmonger more things with ne-yo conservative approach for ukraine or iran. this is a guy who says hit them hard fight them there i don't think that's necessarily the right response. i will say the political percent cushion of one his opponents, navalny, which we know is very clearly going to be a murder that occurred think is a guy who in 2021 sentenced to 19 years for extremism and then sent to the most highest max security prison right there by the artic circle to mysteriously disappear. political persecution is something that we definitely look at. again, that's going right here at home if you think about it. look at $355 million just levied in new york. i don't know that we can continue to point fingers whenever we are actually utilizing the biden administration political persecution to come after their opponents. >> todd: congressman cory mills, thank you, "fox & friends" begins right now. >> steve: thank you very much, todd. it is 6:00 on thst

lindsey graham has been bulking on it.or foreign aid essentially as being a loan rather than money. the other thing about all this money to ukraine that looks like a gigantic number but i have heard a number of people say a lot of that money actually stays in the united states. >> brian: because they buy our weapon systems we replenish. buy from american companies. >> ainsley: let's bring in chad pergram fox news senior congressional correspondent knows all of these players and so well versed on what is happening there on the floor. chad, what do you expect to happen now in the house? pass the senate and now it goes to the house. >> yeah. we don't think that this is going to come up right away in the house of representatives. house speaker mike johnson sent a statement last night saying that the status quo from the senate was unacceptable. he wanted some border provisions attached to this bill. remember that was the plan that was the ask. that was the demand by republicans when president biden made this initial request to

in a moment we will talk with jon kirby from the white house or republican senator lindsey graham.first return to treyt live in tel aviv but the latest on the series of u.s. strikes in the middle east. >> shannon, good morning the middle eastern means on the brink of a much broader conflict after the u.s. response to continued attacks from houthis forces in yemen and the response to that drone attack last weekend that killed three american soldiers. friday evening the united states striking back against iran and its proxies in iraq and syria. eighty-five locations hits with 125 precision munitions. according to u.s. central command. the targets control centers and weapons storage facilities. some affiliated directly with iran's revolutionary guard corps forces other with ironic back to militia and a statement overnight u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin hinted at further retaliation saying quote the president has directed additional actions to will the eye rgc and affiliated malicious accountable for their attacks on u.s. and coalition forces. this will unfold at times and plac

senator lindsey graham said the point here is to you, in trump's way, to get people to pay. simply being the warning bell for our allies. that is where the republican party is on russia right now. it's either see no evil, hear no evil, or threaten our allies to cough up some cash or throw them to russia. that's the party line. so while we still do not know what exactly this mystery threat is that the republican sheriff the house intelligence committee is warning everyone about, the fact that it is a russian threat, and that he, a republican, is the one flagging it, is significant. not because congressman mike turner might single-handedly changed the republican position here, but because the republican position has gotten so extreme that calling out the threat posed by a nuclear armed authoritarian feels like some kind of rebellion against republican party orthodoxy. that is how tight donald trump's grip on the gop is right now. we're gonna talk about what that means for both republicans and for democrats, coming up next. coming up next. are you still struggling with your bra

they would bring people like myself in her lindsey graham. on the nato piece, i think what he is saying if i could try to translate it. he is very transactional, trump is. what he is saying we will not support a nato country if they don't meet their obligations of 2% gdp. that's his forceful way of saying you guys have to step it up, it's here backyard. since that speech he gave when he went to nato. he did scare them. if you want everybody to love you you want them at least to fear you or respect you. with trump you just don't know what is going to do. with nato, the majority of countries have stepped up to 2% and now with sweden and finland it's above 2% and they have a great military might to bring to the table. the rest of the countries are on track to come up to 2% by the end of this year. once they have met that threshold a lot of americans look at why are we paying for this? to curb russian aggression and they need to pay their fair share. >> would you be willing to serve in trump's administration? rep mccaul: if asked, i don't know if

the crowd stage tonight, south carolina governor henry mcmaster, lindsey graham.'t get the warmest reception but tim scott did, he's one of the crowd after the former gop competitor and here's what he had to say to the crowd. >> let me ask one survey question and you better answer it loud and clear. is south carolina trump country? [cheering] >> a lot to choose. so waiting on the vp pick, is being teased a bit as it was tonight. the term campaign put out a memo saying they predict in the next two to three weeks the trump will have secure enough delegates to secure the nomination. >> looking ahead, great to see you. charlie hurt, president trump again, your thoughts about the evening? >> very early. obviously there are still divisions in the party and as you would expect early in a primary but the real unity and the republican party is on the issues and these are the issues donald trump brought to the table so while obviously there are lack of unity when it comes to trump personality, as we go forward, much of that will get taken care of. this is a seminal moment t

absolutely said lindsey graham. william from ohio. caller: hi greta, good morning. just an old tennessean and i've always said crooked politicians have their own three ring circus and the only time they need us is when they want money during election time. i wouldn't waste my valuable time to vote for any one those critics. i feel so sorry for my great grandkids they won't stand a chance of the hot water. it is a shame that we have let these croaks take over. i knew they would take the world the first time they came out and now we have bitcoin, is just one thing after another. host: on facebook, are we g regulating websites when the biggest threat to children guns? so tired of performative politics. in washington dc, how do you answer this question? caller: when you get a cell phone facebook is automatically on the cell phone. there is nothing you can do to remove the app because if you do is says it will reset your phone. i have a really big issue with facebook just slogging out of the account permanently. facebook is so huge that on any android device, it is autom

lindsey graham is making very forceful criticism.e're trying to get him either on the phone or on the show, but we're not sting thing iran. there's reports of explosions inside syria. i presume they're air a bombing, i don't know that for a fact yet. we're getting information on the fly. but, yeah, we can hit some militia, but the militias aren't the pay masters. the mull shahs aren't the puppet masters. the militias are not the people running terrorism in the middle east and around the world who hate america. >> you know, larry, look, i'm not being cavalier about this. i've been involved in military operations before, you know, kind of put it on the line as well. i understand the risk involved. i understand when you put young men if women in harm's way in the military. but when you look at a national security level, you are trying to do something. and what we are trying to do is establish deterrence, reestablish deterrence in the region which we had. and until you do that, these attacks will continue, and americans and others will b

why is lindsey graham doing a complete one? and ad just to mimic donald trump eva? >> well, it shows you the significant hold that trump has on this party. it's not only lindsey graham, but many senators making this calculation, how much do i want to distance? my cell phone crump is what they're asking themselves. but listen, senator mcconnell, he's also very far apart from many members of his own conference. they have been really vocal. senator hawley, senator vance senator lee, many others. they've been really vocally opposing him traditionally, senators that went up against mitch mcconnell, who to be clear, still holds the purse strings in terms of fundraising for republicans. they've been quiet about their disagreements. but in recent days, they've really been fully hopefully, against this foreign aid, but mcconnell and the other republicans that supported this, they say, listen, this is a matter of national security. what happens in ukraine is ultimately going to impact america. and that this investment is worth it. essentially, phil you and i sat in many a gag

obviously, nikki haley is in that camp with lindsey graham for war. and i'm personally not certain where we're trump would fall on this issue and, and the current post jo biden's administration is certainly taking a pretty aggressive posture i would say, against iran. what's your read on how this plays out in 2025 after. and now your ration day a you know, i think it's, it's very hard for me to foresee that we're going to be an essentially this situation in, in january of 2025 1000000 just like trumps. i just, i'll, i'll in the, or a ukraine war 24 hours. i don't think that will be going on in january 2025. i can be wrong about both. both of those. um, you know it's, it's hard to read truck cuz remember, you know, his, he always says i, i could have stopped this for the i had it wrong in the box. i'm big gun tough. these things. what happened on my watch? well, let's remember all of this stuff brewed under his watch. we arms ukraine to the teeth. under his watch, we basically threatened everybody in the middle east to put pressure on the run. under hi

we've heard the likes of john bolton, lindsey graham, and for years before his passing, we heard from john mccain all rail on iran, explicitly calling for war with iran. do you foresee that happening as well? that's going to be a tough a. uh i, i tend to doubt it. uh, i tend to doubt it only because that what creates such a quagmire for us. and i, i'm hoping that there might be divine intervention someplace that can avoid that. but um, uh, the way things are moving its homeless. i i hear nothing. yeah. who constantly trying to a guess into it. yeah. and, and pushing us into it. and basically netanyahu is guiding us policy right now. it has for years and, and we always look at the middle east of the prism of, of israel anyway. and which is wrong. and unfortunately, there the, if it goes to a, to a, to a higher level of, of low kinetic warfare out there, then, then exists. now the iranians will follow through. they will attack they, even though we created all these bases for deterrence. the charts has gone, the harder turns is gone. now these have these bases now become our achilles hee

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it was interesting to me to hear the boos that lindsey graham god.pproval ratings in south carolina have been on the decline even among republicans. right now, it is barely above 50 and in the state in general it is barely above 30. i expected he would not be beloved but to hear the actual boos -- gavin: he said, a little further to the left talking about lindsey graham. i did see a donald trump rally in pickens last year -- everywhere on had a couple of moments there to talk also. we did not hear him say anything about nikki haley. she continued to hammer him about his speech in new hampshire on election night. and she mentions that he talked about her dress that night and all he did was talk about revenge and attacking her and never about the country. but you did not hear him mention nikki haley tonight. it seemed he is pivoting to more of the general election tone. scott: this was definitely a pivot away from the primaries. we are going on to super tuesday and michigan and the next state but the fact is he is clearly running now for president of t

of what lindsey graham says. lindsey wants to continue to try warmonger more things with ne-yo conservative approach for ukraine or iran. this is a guy who says hit them hard fight them there i don't think that's necessarily the right response. i will say the political percent cushion of one his opponents, navalny, which we know is very clearly going to be a murder that occurred think is a guy who in 2021 sentenced to 19 years for extremism and then sent to the most highest max security prison right there by the artic circle to mysteriously disappear. political persecution is something that we definitely look at. again, that's going right here at home if you think about it. look at $355 million just levied in new york. i don't know that we can continue to point fingers whenever we are actually utilizing the biden administration political persecution to come after their opponents. >> todd: congressman cory mills, thank you, "fox & friends" begins right now. >> steve: thank you very much, todd. it is 6:00 on the eas

lindsey graham made this great argument about what victims should be allowed to sue these platforms. watch this. >> the representative so south carolina, -- got caught up in a sex extortion ring in nigeria using instagram. he was shaken down, paid money, and killed himself using instagram. do you think he should be allowed to sue you? >> i -- i think that they can sue us. >> well i think he should and he can't. >> lindsey graham is making that statement, people are going right, on bullet talk about how he votes. because in 2005 when he had a chance to allow americans to suit gun manufacturers, he voted to give those manufactures immunity instead. so what do you actually expect to come out of this? jake? >> you know, i think, steph, one thing that has in the past always been very frustrating to those of us who look to sit across these tech ceos and ask tough questions, has been the performative nature of it. you have the senators up, there want to turn the cameras and lights on, everybody is performing. there isn't an exchange of ideas, questions are asked but they don't allow them to

let's br pronounce outgoing senr lindsey graham a trump surrogate center, great to have you on the program[laughter] know we are all thinking about chick-fil-a. >> i am thinking about chick-fil-a. [laughter] good luck to trump. i'm going. [laughter] >> nikki haley's i was pulling out of the race. she is vowing to stay on through to super tuesday why do you think that is considering the polls? works there a lot of people around her making a ton of money if you been watching tv here every 30 seconds is a nikki haley ad. i think she believes she has a mission here. the people of her home state will speak tonight it will be a pretty loud resounding statement that they want trump i have got nothing gets nikki i like her a lot she is a wonderful family. i am not looking at who can beat biden i think trump can for sure i'm looking at who can turn the world around and i think that's trump better than anybody. biden is an absolute disaster's commander-in-chief this poor girl that got killed in georgia because of illegal immigrants the world is on fire in so many places we stopped exporting natural

but i do want to play sound from senator lindsey graham of south carolina.out support for a bipartisan border deal, and a border national security -- . just listen to this man. >> i am saying that the house proposal, it depends on how it is written, makes perfect sense to me. i think you'll pick up 6 to 8 republicans who want to help ukraine, but believe that the bipartisan border bill was not sufficient enough. president trump says less -- on the border with all due respect, we cannot wait. it is a national security nightmare. >> stuart, help me understand, for all of the reporting i have seen, senator graham was at the negotiating table for the bill that he then voted against. and the bill that he says, it depends on how it is written, is the one that is the 60 something billion dollar bill. that's a nice little caveat there, it depends on how it is written. can you believe anything that comes out of senator graham's mouth anymore, these days? >> you know, it's really really difficult to find a more pathetic example of public -- then lindsey graham. i mean

after a busy day ofth ridiculous delays on the hill, senators kyrsten sinema and lindsey graham helpedte the deal.hat >> when too many people approach the border asking to come in, we're mandatingg that governmenast shut down the border if those numbers get to $5,000 a day. but we're permitting the government to actually sdown shut down the border when it only gets to 4 thousandch approacheses day, we want to be able to shut down the system when it getsth overloaded. >> oldest game in town to spbring an important piece of le legislation this is a real change inange expedited removal. >> griff, to you first, one thing they mentioned that everyone is eig tore see, a asr arbitrary 5,000 people cross in a single day, i want to put things iny perspective.ial 10,000 babies are born in united states ofings day, about 8 thousand americans die ofat day. that is a ni 100t of 2 thousand increased to our population. however now we're saying that is okay we can still have 5,000 asylum seekers, i think to 211 of bill they talk about it they said,to 1 secretary may activate the border emergency if du

and of course, the usual hawks in washington, lindsey graham and nikki haley from paying for blood. when the real estate side is convinced that us boots on the ground are a good idea. maybe the fact that american troops are now being targeted across the region is a less than simple reminder that uncle sam has worn out his welcome in the neighborhood . if we do not see conflict, then let's get the troops out of the, then not welcome. they are not needed the indefensible targets for anyone in the region who wants to prove that conflict. get them out. and well, moderating voices are shouted down in washington. war words, you're going to hear a lot more off. is iran? every scripted narrative need a bowl game on i don't, right now you're radians. are most definitely if, of course, rather than actually engage in dialogue with a run, or it's supposed proxies the who these us as yet again decided to resort to military escalation. meanwhile, the uranium and who the positions are quite clear, the military campaigns of the us and the u. k. in their attacks on the countries of this region are t

right now, lindsey graham is siding with the enemy. west, but he is siding with vladimir putin. and with communist china. >> so are many house republicans. >> with communist north korea. because lindsey voted no to supporting israel, to supporting ukraine. he voted no to supporting taiwan. oh, my god, the message that sends to communist leaders across the world who want to destroy us, it's just shocking. >>> jonathan lemire is still with us. joining the conversation, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. nbc news and political analyst, former u.s. senator claire mccaskill. she and jen palmieri are co-hosts of the msnbc podcast, how to win 2024. and host of the podcast "on brand with donny deutsch," donny deutsch is with us, as well. >> claire, you know, i was just talking about lindsey. i served with him in the house starting in '94. you served with him in the u.s. senate. you know, lindsey is lindsey. you know, we know he kind of goes with the wind, but i think, you tell me if you don't feel like me, i mean, i'm sure you're even sur

i mean, this is not who lindsey graham, we knew lindsey graham to be before >> he wouldn't show his face in munich this time. after years and years going with john mccain to the conference celebrating the nato alliance would even go up and that you thank you. that bolsters the point that i'm making and you're seeing a shell of who tim scott really is. he's not the rah-rah. this is trump country will hire let's go do this. i mean, at the end of the day, i mean, what does he get from this? i mean, there's the presidency, maybe even if this is what is he hud director or not from south carolina and one of the most respected republicans in the country. but he's losing but what he's losing know not either way my point and i think van's point and everybody else's point is that you're losing respect day by day by going out here and there's a little segment of republicans who are more bye-bye what tim scott through and we are definitely the minority you're absolutely right, scott. but there are some of us where we thought you were one of the good ones we thought you're going to tell the truth. i

>> bret: as far as jen, you had lawmakers like senator lindsey graham and senator john cornyn saying there should be strikes inside tehran, inside iran proper. no indication that that's going to happen, right? >> absolutely. we have talked to u.s. officials that is not in the cards in this first round of strikes. and the u.s., of course, would like to avoid a broader conflict. but, again, the enemy gets a vote. and the problem is things could escalate and nobody is ruling anything or out. >> bret: last thing, jen. you say this is the beginning, and that's what they are telling us. but we don't have any sense of, you know, how long this is going to go, do we? >> i'm told it will be days, possibly weeks. but this is a campaign. it's a campaign that has been put together with targets by centcom. you saw 58 targets tonight. and they're leaving out the houthis. so if the houthis decide to escalated attacks, that's a whole -- that's a different part of the campaign. so, again, they are hoping that iran and its proxies get the message. we're hearing some reports that one top commander of a

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. >> you know, along those lines, republican senator lindsey graham, he's described the u.s. national security in freefall, to use his words. he and other lawmakers in the u.s., they have been calling for a more forceful response by the u.s. in the middle east, including striking iran. i know you touched on it a little bit. how dangerous would that move be when the u.s. and iran are clearly both trying to avoid another war. but just along those lines of thinking, what would a more forceful response look like before getting, of course, to an actual direct strike on iran? >> yeah, what lindsey graham is proposing and frankly has been proposing off and on for years now is something much more direct on iran. and it's important to understand how provocative this would be because this would be an attack, an invasion, if you will, of iran. iran has not attacked the united states. this drone did not come from iran. it came from a militia that's based in iraq and syria. so, it would be, in that sense, a escalation by the united states, in a sense unprovoked if you think about the orig

>> it's great to have lindsey graham here. thank you so much for being here. it's all right to try to lessen tensions. we've been stuck in that region for so long. that said, they're really hitting them in military installations, intelligence areas and other areas. i think what happens, unfortunately, is we get pulled back in again and again and we're not able to pull out. so i suspect it's also linked to ukraine, all these places where we have to show a show of force, so we don't have to show force later in a much more significant way. >> the reason that iran's proxies are striking u.s. forces is, they say, because of u.s. support for israel in its war in gaza. lulu, should the u.s. get tougher with israel to either end or to limit its war against hamas? >> i want to say, first of all, the fact of iran goes back to the trump administration when they pulled out of the nuclear deal, and that has actually desta destablized the region quite a bit. and the second thing i would say -- >> i hartily disagree. >> yes, i think at this point it is all to do with netanya

lindsey graham is also up for reelection.r republican, people actually boo lindsey graham, but donald trump knows it does not hurt to have him in his corner on the senate. you have heard from nikki haley on the stump talking about how she didn't care about those endorsements, you can keep lindsey graham and tim scott -- you have to live with your decision at some point. it is interesting to see how this will play out, because she is pushing to be the last person standing against donald trump, because she is convinced he will lose the election come november if he is the nominee against joe biden. she is trying to say, you guys are going to own this decision should this happen in november and should joe biden win. guest: and she's set -- host: and she has said she will be staying in the race, but if she loses in south carolina, it could be really embarrassing for her. are you hearing anything about her dropping out before the south carolina primary on the republican side? given how much of a spread, how much she would lose by?

lindsey graham is also up for reelection.r republican, people actually boo lindsey graham, but donald trump knows it does not hurt to have him in his corner on the senate. you have heard from nikki haley on the stump talking about how she didn't care about those endorsements, you can keep lindsey graham and tim scott -- you have to live with your decision at some point. it is interesting to see how this will play out, because she is pushing to be the last person standing against donald trump, because she is convinced he will lose the election come november if he is the nominee against joe biden. she is trying to say, you guys are going to own this decision should this happen in november and should joe biden win. guest: and she's set -- host: and she has said she will be staying in the race, but if she loses in south carolina, it could be really embarrassing for her. are you hearing anything about her dropping out before the south carolina primary on the republican side? given how much of a spread, how much she would lose by?

it and the type of people negotiating this young joe biden, chuck schumer and kyrsten sinema, lindsey graham are not people in any way as people who care about securing the border. nicole: can i add one more thi thing, would you talk about a number, 4000 or 5000 or 8500. of the 4000 days that we just had in the 508,500 days, none of them, maybe a handful qualified to meet the threshold of credible fear to get the asylum court date in the notice to appear release that they got. there is nothing in here to the administration and they have tougher asylum restrictions but that is not forcing the administrations hand to deny people who crossed illegally and immediately turned back around to mexico if they failed to meet a credible fear threshold. >> the whole thing is a complete sham these people are fundamentally ridiculous. it's been 38 years since 1986 immigration the last 1986 immigration bill, these people 40 years which is the entire time joe biden has been in washington to address these problems, they have failed to do it, the only reason that they are playing the charade game right now an