democrats say it shows how naive romney was.uance and not a global threat. they had a lot of fun with it. here was john kerry at that year's democratic convention. >> he blurted out the preposterous notion that russia is our number one geopolitical foe. sarah palin said she could see russia from alaska. mitt romney talks like he's only seen russia by watching rocky iv. >> he had not launched his invasion of crimea and before the meddling in the 2016 election here but also true, there were some troubling signs already out there in 2012. russia had already invaded the country of georgia. putin had already been implicated in deaths, in disappearances, of journalists, d d d disso dants. few would bat an eye but that was not the case in 2012 and the backdrop for what happened this week in a hearing of the house intelligence committee. testifying before that committee was madilyn albright, former secretary of state and in 2012, albright was one of those democrats who ridiculed romney. featured in an obama campaign video saying mitt ro

mitt romney comes from royalty back home.risk of voter backlash or accountability. he's got the running room of a brand new six-year term in the senate and name recognition off the charts. a lot of people have very high expectations about mitt romney becoming a national figure in this senate. garrett, do you think the indicators are still there or do you see a go along, get along indicator? >> mitt romney set the bar for himself incredibly high with that "washington post" op-ed before his first day as a senator in which he said he'd be willing to break from the president when he felt like it was necessary. so far he hasn't really done that. people have asked me for a long time whether i thought romney would be more like john mccain. i think he's going to ultimately -- he's setting up right now based on what he's done so far to be more like jeff flake, someone who has said he stands up to the president on issues of morality, he'll stand up to him on issues where they disagree but he hasn't proven yet that he's willing to reall

romney's method fascinated many people cnd thep quickly went viral.omney became a hero to the people who don't want the birthday boy or irl blowing germs all over the cake. even science about it. a 2017 study from clemson university publish in "the journal of food research" shows blowing out all the candleset once like all do probably and litting all over the place increased bacteriels on the cake by 1,400%. now you know. so it turns out mitt romney's not weird. you are just gross. >> is that really te, c willie? >> it's science. >> is that the conclusione' drawing. >> it was in "the journal of food." embarrassment nd i got from watching that video, come on, man, who is taking a tking on twinkie one by one. >> romney's awkwardness combined by the one by one. >> il take the germs. >> for the first low i'll paraphrase the old wide world of sports line. it was the thrill of victory and the agony of being punched by an onery kanroo. an australian paraglider jonathanomishop was cg in for a perdict lan after a two-hour ride over the national locals n a coup

one guy on twitter saying mitt romney is a deeply weird dude. >> later senator romney had a good explanation said he had a cold and didn't want to get everyone else sick so that's -- >> that's good. >> playing considerate. >> slt. >> you don't want to blow all over the twinkie cake. >> one by one at a time. fine. >>> david beckham, look out. this british boy has some mad soccer skills. >> this is 11-year-old soccer prodigy ramell carter on a treadmill. >> seriously. >> he even speeds it up and still keeps control of the ball. >> oh, my gosh. >> he already has an endorsement deal with nike. let's hope whatever shoes they give him, he doesn't explode out of them. >> oh, my goodness. that kid is good. >>> finally on this hump day, we all feel like this seal. >> watch him. getting a little drowsy and then dozing off in the seaweed. >> a diver off the coast of england caught this sleepy seal catching some shut-eye. he perked up and went back to dozing. >> feel that deal on sleep. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitt

. >> rino losers paul ryan and mitt romney together again.e is sharing his pearls of wisdom on the 2020 election. >> and romney's lack of common sense in full display. the "wall street journal" today, reporting that united states navy and contractor are under cyber siege by chinese hackers, in national security rhett stolen threaten america's standing at world's as world's top military power, there is no way to excuse this act of cyber terror by the chinese who are intent on becoming a dominant force on a global gail. it said united states will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country, recognize it could compel actions under commitment we have with hurt military treaty partners and reserve right to use all necessary means, asappropriate and consistent with app bliapplicable internat. and contributing to lack of american cyber security by 2021, a staggering 3. by 5 million cyber security jobs are estimated to be vacant in private and military sectors, trump administration's 2020 budget requesting 9.6

but senator romney takes the cake for consideration. want to spray my germs all over the twinkies for everybody else to eat. at least one study has shown blowing out candles can increase cake bacteria by 1400%. so to the charge that mitt romney blows out birthday candles like a serial killer, we say mitt didn't blow it, it's flu season and blowing out candles is basically sneezing on the cake. >> holy, cow! >> jeanne moos, cnn. new york. >> i know it really isn't fair, is it, mitt romney? but you know, i've got to say, though, i think he was just being polite. i would have appreciated the same kind of courtesy. gosh, a guy with the flu. thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. >>> good evening. we have a big night of breaking news, whether it's famous actors in court accused of helping cheat their kids' way into elite colleges or the federal government refusing to ground the world's best-selling airliner, even though the rest of the world now is. we'll have that and more in the hour ahead. we begin, though, keeping them honest with p

turns out senator romney loves twinkies so his staff made it creative.former nominee blows out his candles. >> those are all wishes i am getting. >> senator romney plucking those candles blowing it out one by one. his method fascinated people and quickly went viral. there is even science about it for some reason. in 2017, study from clemson university published shows blowing out all the candles at once and spitting all over the place increases bacteria level on the cake by 1400%. turns out mit romney is not weird, you are just gross. >> is that really the case? is that the conclusion we are drawing? >> it is science. >> the second embarrassment i got from watching if video, come on, he's taking the twinkie one by one and blowing it out. >> i guess you don't like science. >> i will paraphrase the old wide world of sports line. it was the thrill of victory and the agony of being punched by a kangaroo. jonathan bishop came in from a perfect landing when a couple of locals hopped in welcoming him back to earth. the local were the cokangaroos. the welcome was

( laughter ) the cake is really cool and i do get why mitt romney likes twinkies. like him, white on the outside but somehow even whiter on the inside. look, i'm not going to lie, i would love to spend the entire show talking about twinkies and at the end bring out a giant twinkie cake, but we don't have time or john oliver's money, so we have to move on to the major story that's got the n.b.a. shook. involves a basketball player threatening to beat up a fan and his wife. >> now to an ugly confrontation last night in the n.b.a., happened during a game between the utah jazz and the oklahoma city thunder in salt lake city when thunder guard russell westbrook got in a shouting match with utah fans. ( shouting, cursing ) >> westbrook said after the game the fan was considering make -- fan was making comments he considered racist. the fan said he was engaging in a playful back and forth and didn't say anything offensive. >> he's got to be a professional. she was sitting down the entire time. we were actually kind of having fun, to be honest. >> trevor: first of all russ

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that whole romney playbook was the way we used to do things.arco. he defined that as the mean election. i don't know whether he will be able to do that again. >> the economy play, though, is really interesting, because there are unfinished pieces that were really important to the states that he managed to win that carried him over, and that's the china deal. you don't know what he's going to get. there's a lot of fear, even including among people around the president, that he will take a bad deal where it will be temporary enough that you won't see the impact of a bad deal until after he wins re-election. so there's that. there's the tariffs issue. what's it like for farmers in iowa, things like that. and the way that the obama people did it, they did it early and they did it nonstop. it was relentless. and so the other question is, can they stick with it? the thing that trump is good at, not only defining his field, is getting people to move into a space of a conversation that he wants to talk about, whether it's socialism or whatever. >> you

they mocked mitt romney. >> nice try. >> they mocked mitt romney. they were soft on russia.tion. >> come on. >> everybody wants to pile on trump over this. this soft on russia started in 2012. >> oh, my god. >> we are absolutely -- no one wants to talk about it. it's there. >> i agree. that's why republicans should nominate romney this time. he was right about russia in contrast to both president obama and president trump mitt romney was right. >> no one got rich in on obama's watch. >> nor was obama destroying his meeting notes with putin. >> it will be interesting to see if the trump administration tries to figure out what happened with record to russian enter feeinterference interference. >> chute. >> was this the longest special counsel investigation in history? the mueller problem by the numbers is next. we want your sandwiches to arrive freaky fast®, so they're freaky fresh®. that's why we only deliver within 5 minutes of our stores and not... and not farther. ...he's new. if you're in the zone or in the store, you can get a freaky fresh® sandwich. jimmy john's because

look at, twinkies really are the perfect mitt romney snack.the outside, even white iron t whiter on the inside. is that not the craziest thing? he's still going. i bet after dinner, he opens the silverware drau silverware drawer and thanks all of his spoons for their service. it's also the anniversary of the world wi worldwide web. in 1992, in prescient people who had an eye on the future for us. >> hi, i'm bob saget. danny tanner from abc's "full house". and i'm here to tell you about the worldwide web. surfin' the web. think about it as a mailbox on your desk. any letter or package that you want delivered directly to in just 48 minutes. the worldwide web is a magical way to share ideas. it's also so much more than that. have you ever seen someone [ bleep ] a horse? you will on the worldwide web. you know when the magna carta was signed or what that weird rash is on your balls? just ask the web. all the answers are right here. like your own library in the sky. huh. 12:15 and chlamydia. on the worldwide web, literally anything is possible. you

sadly, i think senator romney is probably in the minority when it comes to republicans.party has largely become a following of president trump. i know when senator mccain was still alive and battling health issues and battling for his life, at rallies when the president would talk about senator mccain, the crowd was on his side, on the president's side. and so, you know, the tweet that cindy mccain was retweeting and talking about, i think that's almost par for the course. even though that's not -- so, fast-forwarding to next year, sure. i mean, i think we could see cindy mccain at a democratic convention. there are always a couple of people from sort of the other party that join. but i'm not sure it's going to change a lot of minds. >> mccain certainly under the president's skin. that's what we can tell. >> no doubt about that still to this day. >> john mccain gone but not forgotten. i want to talk a little bit about kamala harris and her rise in the polls. look at these numbers. since december, she's up ten points among democrats. up five points among independents. a b

jillian: mitt romney gets roasted on his birthday. rob: the gift that keeps on giving. "fox and friends first" continues right now. jillian: i can't read it. rob: that used to be cool. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. jillian: a little food in the last hour. thanks for joining us. the mastermind behind the college admission scandal pleads guilty to accepting millions in bribes from parents trying to get their kids into elite schools. rob: two high profile parent in hot water, actresses felicity huffman and lori laughlin. jillian: todd pyro joins us with the latest. >> reporter: this is all anyone is talking about, big-time schools targeted, yale, stanford, university of texas, usc, ucla to name a few. the fbi describing it as a sham that strikes at the core of the college admissions process, the biggest name so far felicity huffman of desperate housewives flame met with the confidential witness who said he could control and s a t test and arrange for someone to proctor her daughter's test and corrected. lori laughlin, check th

>> governor, romney? >> governor romney e? what about your gas? >> kiss my. [ bleep] for the polish people. >>> the freshman senator is mitt romney and today is his birthday. his staff posted this video of the celebration inside his temporary office. it's in the basement. there are bars on the windows. he's there while his permanent office is being renovated. the twinkies are the right height and honestly it just looked delicious and then he blew out his candles. >> hole a cow. that's fantastic. what are you guys going to have? look at this. >> very normal and very cool. something like that might have become a full-blown thing in 2012 but we have more important things to worry about. let's go to tmz. >> wondering about your technique to blow out your candles. >> i have a bit of a cold and i didn't want to spray my germs all over the twinkees for everybody else to eat and i joked that with each candle i got a new wish. so it was twofer. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for liv

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>> stephen: but the weird part is romney blew out the candles by picking them up and blowin them outhere's no way. everything he does is like an alien googled "how to do a normal." (as alien) "do i blow out the flaming wax cylinder with airflow, or am i to ingest it into my mouth region? either way... fun." ( laughter ) meanwhile, police in a small town in germany rushed to investigate a murder, only to find that the woman had reported it, she just wanted someone to remove a car blocking her garage. sounds to me like someone was gonna fess up to a murder, then had second thoughts. (german accent) "oh, did i say murder on ze phone? i meant car. oops. ich bin ein silly lady. now, if you'll excuse me, i have to go bury... an audi." ( laughter ) meanwhile, new york city mayor bill de blasio is-- for some reason that top scientists cannot fathom-- exploring a presidential run. ( laughter ) naturally, he grabbed the first opportunity to be seen publicly dancing to the music of-- ♪ ♪ that's right, r. kelly! now, see if you can spot the moment the mayor realizes he's dancing to the music of

romney has decided the fifth generation route for handle splendidly off road it's very robust on the road smooth and easy going and now with the hybrid drive it's even extremely good nama call. the new audi a seven sport bank's remarkable design sense and apart from its predecessors but how does it compare with its competitors the mercedes c.l.s. and the jaguar x f and how does it handle we tested the most powerful diesel available for the a seven three leader v six engine putting out two hundred ten kilowatts the fifty t.d.i. the four door sedan leaps from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour in five point three seconds reaching its top speed as is the norm for audi at two hundred fifty kilometers per hour the maker rates fuel consumption at five point seven leaders for a one hundred kilometers in germany the eighty seven sport back fifty t.d.i. starts in just over sixty seven thousand euros. but the goods come for on the car to surmount this current is thoroughly enjoying an extra luxury feature so often found in test cars provided to the press massage seats he pushes a button n

around four years of the fifth generation came out in twenty eight teams and romney's going to see what changes have been made and how it handles. you know. this is the first generation of the rav four to be based on the modular uni body t.n.g. a plan form that's short for toyota a new global architecture that gives the car a lower center of gravity more torsional rigidity and weight savings. the foot to get out so personally ronnie didn't much like the looks of the fourth generation and he thought it looked more like a high writing van than a real s.u.v. two soft around the edges and the new one as sharper angles lots of edges and straight lines now he thinks it finally looks like a proper s.u.v. white and brown it almost looks like. the new platform had another positive effect on this rav four making it far more distinctive that's underscored by contrast inside mir housings and plastic landing . on the rear a horizontal chrome bar connects the tail lights and underlining the new generations wider look. fully digital instruments and a seven inch touchscreen graced the neat and tidy int

and in the actual romney explains that a high definition camera is mounted at the back window and it sends its images to the mirror ronnie thinks that's quite practical because he has a much wider viewing angle of something not possible with a regular mayor. being that it took him. off the pavement the new route for proves it isn't just a lifestyle and she'll be for looks and street use only and rough terrain the intelligent all wheel drive in the trail mode setting can apply the brake to us single wheel shouldn't lose traction that enables the engine descendants torte to the wheels with contact to the ground for greater traction achieving the greatest possible for us. ronnie has decided the fifth generation route for handle splendidly off road it's very robust on the road smooth and easy going and now with the hybrid drive it's even extremely good. the new audi a seven sport bank's remarkable design sense it apart from its predecessors but how does it compare with its competitors the mercedes c.e.o.'s and the jaguar x f and how does it handle we tested the most powerful diesel avail

>>> plus wait until you see h senator mitt romney wblew out te candles on his births day cake today. it has people on social media questionteg the unusual nique here. >>> doug's tracking a major storm that will head ou wway later thk. >> yeah, guys, that storm system right now is way back to the western portion of ite country. s going to be a monster for the middle part of theoeface, bt whthat mean for our weather? >>> a construction worker buried up to his chest in dirt was rescued today in germantown. chopper 4 spotted montgomery county firefighters working to dig him out this afternoon. he was standingn a ladder in a hole that was filledt with dir when he became trapped. after nearly anhour, he was pulled to safety. we brought it to you live. we're told h was alertnd talking with rescuers when he was taken to the hospital. >>> the popularity of r. kelly and the late michael jackson isn't going away, despite kelly being charged wit molesting teenage girls and two men in a new documentary saying jackson molested them as children. leon harris is here with a closer look at how the mus

it goes to about mitt romney and it started to tail off.an interesting family. >> who do you think beto is the biggest threat to? you've know these guys. you've seen them. who should fear him the most? >> anybody who needs television coverage to survive. >> that's a cory booker. >> he can play the young bernie sort of style here. bernie's people are more committed. if you're anybody operating at like 2 or 3% in the polls and you're not a star, what are you holding onto? if you're any of those young people who want to say i'm an up and coming star, is your star that bright. >> i have a semisimil semiplisi view. the polls saby bernie and biden are the front runners. beto is the biden. >> i think that's an interesting thing. what amazes me is the disparity in the polling between the top two and the rest of them. i would say this won't hold but i keep thinking back to four years ago with the trump and the republican primary. >> if trump is the nominee, he'll never win. republicans have told me that forever. >> scott walker is going to be the no

which is fitting, like twinkies, romney doesn't age.art, he blew out the candles by picking them up and blowing them out individually. okay, that does it. he's a scroll. there's no way. everything he does is like an alien googled how to do a normal. >> i thought it was weird. it was weird at first, but then i thought he is trying to prevent germsm being spread. >> he's getting his hands, finger germs on it, too. either way, whether you blow and you kind of spit on t way. >> after all we've seen in this country, i'm going to give mitt a pass here. >>> two men in florida gave their dad a birthday present. not like this one. it's different. they turned his phone into a hot line. the sons said they couldn't decide to get him for his 62nd birthday so they got him a giant billboard that sits right outside of atlantic city and includes that photo of their dad, including his phone number with the caption, wish my dad happy birthday. it went up last week and since then their dad says he has received more than 15,000 calls, texts and facebook hit

mit012, met romney -- romney used a lot of arguments about medicare cuts saying that obamacare had cut medicare. -- the arguments that were used had to do with some of the same proposals you are seeing in the trump budget. lower payments to hospitals and doctors. one of the big differences we would see if the budget were to have a change is that doctors who work in a hospital would get the same payment as those who perform certain procedures outside of the hospital. that is one of the big changes that the obama administration had proposed. host: the health and human inretary on capitol hill front of the house energy and commerce committee was asked about these cuts. i would like you to take a listen to the exchange. [video clip] how do you reassure the american people that what they count on, what is really necessary in their lives, medicare beneficiaries, medicaid beneficiaries, that these numbers, what these numbers will do to them? these are massive cuts. >> on medicare we are putting it on a sounder footing for the future, and these are provider cuts. hospitals are not happy. the d

he came out with mitt romney's health care plan and obamacare. mitt romney would not support it.me out with john mccain's global warming control policy with cap and trade. john mccain would not support it. he came out in his attempts to negotiate and entitlements in the budget with george w. bush and yet george w. bush would not open his mouth to say that compromise is to be had. >> every time you think there is a deal to be made with the right, it doesn't happen. >> there is no deal. that is john mccain, george h. w. bush and mitt romney all decided just because they had thought that policies x, y, and z would be good policies for the country, did not mean they were willing to support those policies. if it was turned out to be the tactical political advantagethe oppose them. with that there, practically all you can do if you want to make a better america is to try to find common ground with people who actually would like to do something to drive economic recovery. get more people insured. >> good food for thought. >> try to control global warmer. >> a professor of economics at t

romney says there's a reason. he's dealing with a cold.'t want to get germs on the twinkies. >> hmm. he's still blowing the candles out in the general direction of the cake. i use the term cake loosely. >> he can go ahead and blowout the candles. because i'm not eat thag cake. >> you don't like twinkies. >> they're okay if you're 4. you know what i'm saying? that's not a cake. that's just twinkies. >> it's like a cupcake cake. >> i don't mind those. those look great. >> we used to have a policy at kids birthday policies not to eat the cake. >> don't eat the cake. >> they would blow all over the candles and the cake. >> yeah. >> let the kids eat >> absolutely. i'll stick to the adult side of the table where the pizza was and everything else. let's talk about what's going on. >> words to live by from mike nicco. >> could have used the winds yesterday and he wouldn't have had to touch anything. they're going to calm down. i wanted to show you sfo. it's going to be a gorgeous day. the breezes relax under total sunshine. clear, calm and seasona

i think senator romney is absolutely right.the way to get the attention of the chinese government on the trade issue has been to say well, if you're not going to let our products in and not going to treat our companies fairly, we are going to have to reciproc e reciprocate. what you find is suddenly they come to the table which is what's happening right now. our visit in the next short period of time, hopefully we will have resolution on that. here, we haven't even enforced our own laws. i think we have been able through our investigation over the last eight months and through a lot of interviews to be able to obtain enough information to at least be sure that the state department which does have a responsibility here in this country, ambassador galt, you're not just focused on overseas and the department of education which does have a responsibility here ought to at a minimum follow the u.s. law that's in place. i think put out new guidance. the guidance is 14 years old and was put in place when there was one confucius institu

as you heard mitt romney say, this was not about building a border barrier. this was about the constitutionality of who controls the purse strings. so this bill sometime in the next few hour to few days and he will for the very first time use the veto pen. it's not sure if it will go back for a override vote. nancy pelosi has not committed to that. she's probably 40 votes shy of overturns it. based on the senate vote, there's not the 67 votes to kill it or restore it in the senate either. the president meantime plans to keep building miles of new border barrier near the southern border. in the new budget, he's asked for $8.7 billion to build the wall. the president insisting this morn as he sat with ireland's prime minister that a lot of wall is being build now. >> a lot of wall going up. i don't know if you see it or want to see it. there's a lot of wall and a lot of contracts being let out for additional many, many miles of wall. we're going to have hundreds of miles of wall up fairly soon. >> there has been a sharp uptick in the number of people apprehende

you know i've called me a diehard but i'd love to see mitt romney sit in that chair right now i think he's got a lot more judgment and heart and i think that some of that would be the party needs to steer itself back a little bit into the into the center right lane and their work recover some of its principles and some of its underpinnings but there are an awful lot of republicans out there who are uncomfortable with donald trump and they won't say it and we're going to see which ones emerge in the coming months and years to try to reclaim that mantle why won't they see it. they are afraid that donald trump will tweet about them larry that's the bottom line they know that if he does that his mob gets turned loose on them their lives become a living hell they're flooded with death threats they're they're miserable they get nothing done because they get pinned down by this gigantic social media mob that trump owns and operates essentially and it and their lives become very difficult so that's they're afraid of mean tweets what democrat would be ok with in the white house. you know that'

and stewart stephens was the top strategist in mitt romney's question for the republican nomination and then his campaign in 2012. stewart stephens has worked on more republican campaigns possibly than he can remember at this point. so this is a very serious republican player who is going to give us a real insight about what the real possibilities are, what the impacts could be from a challenge to a sitting republican president in presidential primaries. the last time we saw that the republican president did not win his re-election. it was when pat buchanan challenged george h.w. bush in republican primaries. president bush got the nomination. buchanan didn't get the nomination. but president bush could not hold on to the white house after that challenge. we're going to hear from stewart stephens about is this the -- is this a year where we could see something like that happen again? >>> but to begin, we are finally getting closer to a very important number, and it's a big one. it's so big that it makes perfect sense why this number would have been deliberately excluded from attorney ge

mitt romney celebrated his 72nd birthday.ut it's this awkward video of him blowing out the candles one by one on a cake compiled of dwingies that has people wondering why. here to react be the host of the dana show, dana loesch. let's take this thing out to california where it's atrocious where what's going on. not on are they bringing people into the you state from 0er countries, but they are allowing convicted killers to skate. what's going on there? >> these sanctuary state, sanctuary city policies is insane. er time i hear one of these stories, i think it can't get any worse. this woman stalked by this guy. they ignored the i.c.e. detainer 9 times. after he killed someone, the tenth time they decided to cooperate. he had been deported repeatedly. his rap sheet was so long. but apparently the state of california want to prioritize the comfort and indulge those who enter the country illegally. this echos so much of what we heard. remember jamil shais shaw? all of these primary candidates endorsed these policies. they have a

. >> happy birthday to senator mitt romney. he turned 72 today and his staff made him a twinkie cake. watch this as he starts to blow out the candles. >> who blows out candles like this? it's going to be his next birthday by the time he's done. >> on "cbs this morning." >> it's the college admissions bribery scandal as i call it bribegate, scandalgate. the fbi busted dozens of rich parents for bribing colleges to accept their kids. >> you know how conspiracy theorists say everything is rigged for the wealthy and famous. well, as a wealthy famous person let me just respond by saying, you're absolutely right. >> announcer: this morning's "eye open are" is presented by toyota. let's go places. >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." we do begin with that bombshell. celebrities and business leaders are among 50 people who face criminal charges in a giant college admissions scam. more ares could come in the weeks and months ahead. actor lori loughlin and felicity huffman are two of the dozens of wealthy parents accused in the alleged sch

>> incredible. >> why is it difficult to say what mitt romney said yesterday? >> what would john mccain think of the fact that mitt romney can speak out against the president's attack but lindsey graham, who affixed himself to john mccain for a decade, can't do the same, mike? >> what does that say about lindsey graham? what does that say about his character? >> nothing good. >> and what does it say, as willie just pointed out, as you mentioned a million times, joe, what does it say about various members of the republican party in the senate and the house who know that the president of the united states, the sitting president, is a friendless, empty vessel. he is a lonely man. he is a man alone. he is what he is. he's a liar. he's cheated. he has all of these stains on his soul that are public, that people know. and they say nothing. they say nothing. >> well, we're actually going to get to this next fascinating dynamic that is related to what you're talking about, mike. >> somebody is saying something. >> exactly and there's a reason for this bafr which hehavi

the politicians they backed mitt romney, bob corker and john ensign, not a single one of these people donated to donald trump's presidential campaign. now of course nobody is obligated to donate to donald trump now or then or to vote for him it goes without saying. there is a huge split within the republican party right now and the side that they found themselves on tells you a lot. this is a class of people that is absolutely and thoroughly satisfied with the status quo. they are happy with how things have gone in america. they don't need poll police politics. they think populist politics are disgusting because they are a threat to them. they derided the middle of the country. clinging to guns and religion. they say they are bitter about the fact they are losers in the modern economy. even as they do that they have been using their power and their connection to make certain that that part of the country stays the losers in this modern economy. they tout diversity as the nation's greatest strength. they point to all the foreign workers they have hired at rock bottom wages then they ma

the stage is set for monday's historic visit to iraq by iran's president hassan rouhani it will be romney's first official visit to the country as president on sunday iran's foreign minister was in baghdad meeting his iraqi counterpart. the desire effects pressed relations between the two neighbors would improve the standard were the shooting i would like to offer to the iraqi government and the iraqi people of my best gratitude for their rejection of the unfair and illegal sanctions against the iranian people we're looking to develop these relations during the visit of president rouhani to iraq you know the white house is giving iraq a few more months to continue buying oil and electricity from tehran before the u.s. enforces sanctions against iran baghdad relies heavily on a rainy and goods but that's more now from baghdad. iran's influence in iraq can be found from the detergent and hair dye on store shelves to the power that keeps the lights on in iraq e homes and businesses at this market in baghdad there are fears that the united states will eventually ban iraq from importing all iran

mitt romney, numerous republicans like fitzpatrick in the house. this has to be a bipartisan solution. there are a lot of republicans that do want to roll up their sleeves and talk about solutions and they know there is economic possibilities. host: how far has mitt romney told you he is willing to go? he voted no on the green new deal. guest: he has not specifically talked about how far he will go. he has technologies we need to do something on the climate crisis and he is ready to talk about the climate crisis. that is as much as i know. host: arnold in tennessee, democrats. caller: good morning, how are you doing? host: go ahead. caller: i wanted to ask if you have ever heard of a man by the name of joe holden? host: who is that? caller: according to the internet, and he is all over the internet and youtube, he was the inventor of the astro burner for jets. he was a jet pilot during the korean war. foras the lead engineer rolls-royce jet engines. he has some inventions you can see on youtube that he claims will change things. it is just being ig

. >> that denounced well to the man who lost to mccain senator mitt romney. can't understand why the president woulds pairage a man as courageous as my friend john mccain. mrs. mccain comment i'dt to mick sure all of you could see how kind and loving a stranger can be. i'm posting her note so her family and friends could see. that is the level of discourse in america. >> all right. senator elizabeth warren all weighing on a plan to do away with the leblg tomorrelectoral . the democratic candidate telling a crowd they should look to the winner of a popular vote. it cannot take effect unless they get enough states to force 270 electoral votes that, of course, is the number needed to win the presidency. >> here's a job for you in alabama. starting pushing your state legislature to sign on as well. no, don't laugh. this is not a red versus blue. you can do this at the state level. look, if nothing else, you make them a little uncomfortable about it, right? >> president trump, of course, won the electoral college in 2016. and claims he would have won the popular v

mitt romney says this wasn't about border security. >> it is a question about the balance of power that is core to the constitution. this is not about the president or border security. i support border security. i support the construction of a border barrier. >> reporter: chuck schumer applauding his colleagues for daring to oppose donald trump. >> my hope is republicans see how this president is trampling on the constitution. understand it is possible, in fact courageous to stand up to him. and say there will be consequences for his actions. >> reporter: congress will vote to override the president's veto but it is not expected to have the 2 thirds majority to pass the house and senate. what remains to be seen is whether the president will harbor ill will towards the defecting dozen who face their own elections next year. rob: california's governor signed off on an executive order to end the death penalty in california despite residents of his state voting to keep it. >> i cannot sign off on executing hundreds and hundreds of human beings knowing that among them will be innocent human