defeat the mccain amendment. make sure that the ability of the department of defense to work with fisher house, the red cross, and the u.s.o. is continued and authorized in law. make sure the 16,000 marines on guam have the most basic things that they need to be safe and healthy and come home and act like we want them to be, as safe as possible. that is what this is about. i urge my colleagues to vote against the mccain amendment, and i yield the floor. and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent that the time until 5:30 p.m. for debate on the mccain amendment be equally divided between snores mccain and -- senators mccain and myself oregon designees and that at 5:30, the senate proceed to a vote in relation to the mccain

, some of your past history on the subject. >> mccain did not april tend the classified briefinghazi yesterday. >> he was having a press conference calling for the select committee complaining about not getting enough information. >> jon: mr. mccain here is the information you requested. not now, can't you see i'm busy demanding the information you have in your hand and are attempting to give to me. and get off my lawn you son of a -- [laughter] senator mccain what the hell is going on here? >> we've had a massive coverup. a coverup. >> of what? >> of the information concerning deaths of four brave americans. the information has not been forthcoming. >> you said there was a lot of confusion. >> do you care david -- >> i'm asking -- i'm asking you do you care whether four americans died? >> jon: what, whoa, whoa, do you care -- whoa, stop this train! what? i say -- [cheers and applause] stopping the train with some kind of device you really don't find on trains. [ laughter ] no! mccain, you can take that wherever you are going to take it. [ laughter ] no, mccain, you don't get to

by the way, senator mccain say to me from prison. we flew the same airplane. i was in flight school and we knew the senator was in prison in vietnam. when i was all over egypt in 1973, he immediately came to my mind. i said, i am not going to eject. maybe i will crash. maybe i can come back to the safe site. anyway -- but this is what we call shared cooperation, shared intelligence. in this middle east, which is unstable and very dangerous, it is only israel that you can really count on. it is the only place that, after you'd come and get some help and materials and equipment, they really love you -- after you come and get some help and each -- materials and equipment, they really love you. we want to make the military -- and we want to make sure the military option is credible. we want to make sure the other options work. every day on the ground, there is cooperation between the two militaries and intelligence. there is ongoing dialogue between the two to see how we cope with the same threat. non-proliferation in iran is not only an israeli issue. it is a u.s

the gop has come pretty far. john mccains there are bumps in the road every five minutes, but he's ultimately optimistic. the gang of eight there, is agreement, largely around border security, and agreement there should be a pathway to citizenship, the sticky part comes in around the guest worker program, so you have on the one hand, unions and on the other hand, you have the chamber of commerce and there are lagger heads not speaking at this point in terms of what they want to see from guest workers and the ability to come into this country and for companies to hire immigrants at low wages. also, that's a real sticking point. i think you have the white house sort of, you know, looking at their watches, being like what's going on. they are careful not to want to get into this too much. but they also feel like the clock is ticking. >> so in the city of dysfunction in which both of you reside, is this going to be the one thing that gets done? we have looked at how measurable gun safety reform has been watered down or thrown in

the government. kind of put yourself in that mindset, and john mccain, of course, who was a p.o.w. am war has never been particularly happy about the jane fonda protest of decades ago, found that a ridiculous assertion. ridiculous was his word. there's a lot of history here. john mccain, lindsey graham have butted heads with rand paul on many issues, and often it comes down to a difference in belief of what the senate is supposed to be about. we have seen time and time again, thomas, where rand paul would be the one senator who would object holding up a piece of legislation. mccain in particular has felt that has hurt the senate's ability to function. there's a lot of history here, and obviously, you know, the mccain and graham sort of part of the republican party is very concerned about how u.s. military is portrayed and the u.s. of that kind of power, so they are taking issue with the conservative darling of the day, rand paul. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell, thanks for coming back to join me. aman, thank you for being here. we're going to talk a little bit about that massive filibuster

the example, but he raised, i think, some serious questions. did he go too far in terms of his rhetoric? yes. now senator mccain, here's the problem. ike with senator mccain and graham, that there's not a war they don't want to fight. there's not a battle they don't want to engage. that, i think is really exhausting, considering the heavy price and cost this country has already paid, including, by the way, a war this country didn't fight, that senator mccain led the rally for. so criticize senator paul for what needs to be criticized, but senator mccain is pushing the notion he can be justifiably -- >> you know, they're going to have people scratching their heads on that one. let's talk about rand paul and what this means to his rising star, as they were talking about it on fox news. >> i thought it was a brilliant political play by paul? >> it was genius. look. i would call it a stunt, except for the fact that he was entirely sincere, and he was entirely right. >> entirely right. you know, in that politico interview as well. rand paul was asked about his run for 2016, potential run. perry he said i think our party needs something n

front page of "the new york times." senator mccaintor rand paul in the senate elevator yesterday. after senator mccain had, well, accused rand paul of appealing to kids in their dorm rooms with his filibuster. thought bubble, steve? what do you got there? >> i said it doesn't look like his happy face to me. >> you've seen that face before, haven't you? >> i have. >> what do you think senator mccain thinks of a younger senator like rand paul coming in and doing that on national security? is this famed indignation, or is he seriously indignant? >> mccain profoundly disagrees with paul's views on this. you have this divide in the republican party that you will see widen, deepen, and become more pronounced and more vocal arguments taking place around it as we get ready for the 2016 campaign. and john mccain represents one viewpoint. it's been a dominant viewpoint. but this other viewpoint, one that rand paul represents in some of these other younger senators represent is beginning to express itself. we're going to have a big debate in the

lou: the broadcast of social media upset over senator mccain's insults hurled at rand paul with thosee filibuster in standing up with civil liberties. >> when man doesn't know he is embarrassing himself one of national stage she needs to leave office. >> oas honor his service to the country cannot performance of politics. joining us is the "a team" ed rollins, judith miller and matt, from houston and texas. good evening. [laughter] by october? i that it was a glorious moment in the senate. >> he is pulling the justin bieber. [laughter] he loves to be in the center if somebody. lou: attention? not political if the filibuster is news john mccain got angry. issues have been done with benghazi and other issues and finally it was done and he should not have been insulting. lou: rand paul blew up twitter last night, ted cruise stand with him a democrat of oregon as well. what is the reaction to mccain and lindsay gramm and dianne feinstein attacking senator crews and grand paul? >> we love ted occurs we are proud of him as a freshman senator from texas. if you watch this rate the tear -- at

are lindsay and mccain doing exactly ♪ lou: we're back with the a-team. o ed rollins. ed, just what's going on with republican party? surely, john mccain having lost a presidential election -- >> badly. lou: i'm sorry? >> badly. lou: but there should be room there for humility, and instead he's attacking the new generation of, obviously, the leaders of the republican party. >> the irony, john mccain was the maverick of the republican party ten years ago. he was against the bushes and other people. these two men, senator cruz, senator paul, are very significant leaders of the new movement. the party has always had different segments -- lou: rubio and johnson, all the others -- >> these are great young talents and, obviously, they're going to remake the republican party. john's day has come and gone, lindsey graham has got to fight to get reelected. lou: do you think he'll get reelected? >> i think he's got a tough primary. at the end of the day, it's not a bad thing to have change, but i think these young people, basically, are going to become significant l

i think rand paul did the right thing, but i think mccain has a point. u should be more worried about al-qaeda than your government. but it might change. that is -- rand paul has a good point. during the filibuster i was shocked when -- that rand paul said he could live with that. do you think it was unfair he singled you out? >> i would filibuster that. there is a point to be made about how, the filibuster was a grand symbolic gesture versus camera time. and john mccain did not make that point. the only thing missing is the word meddling. he is a scooby doo villain and he was exposed. it was kind of embarrassing. >> scooby doo villains are young people. >> i find them to be cranky and they mutter. they mutter something fierce. >> it as a typical stereo type from those who are with the people in the van. >> i am with butterfly collars and free love, man. all of these are doing nothing but bad stuff. they are ghost and goblins and what have you. >> i watched most of the filibuster -- not really, but two hours when i came home, and i thought it was pretty i

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of the two, mccain is more moderate than lindsay. chris: the cuban american guy, if you will, from his background is tougher on immigrants. >> cubans get in for free. chris: when we come back, the big question of the week, has president obama put himself at political risk if the big cuts do not chris: welcome back, this week's big question, has president obama played the sequester politics shortly, dan rather? >> yes, he runs the risk of coming out on the short end. you can't say the sky is falling, the sky is falling, and the sky is falling and if the sky doesn't fall, you're at a disadvantage. >> katty. >> the polls, people are just not engaged and interested in the story and worried about the fiscal cliff. a number of people who know what the sequester is who have heard of it are very small. the president is saying the sky is falling and they say they don't know what you're talking about -- chris: remember the o.j. jury was sequestered. >> he still runs the bigger risk if what he is saying comes true, if people find that they can't

mccain-feingold campaign finance laws. hagan, youre kay believe people have the right to marry, even though her voters do not. han is from the only battleground state president obama lost in the last election. in the last election, 51% of voters opposed gay marriage. it really is a bold decision on her part. some of these people jumping on the bandwagon right now were just reelected. they have six years. she will be a heroine to those in the same sex marriage movement. they can be a source of great campgn funds, but i think it is aisky political strategy. >> and most are democrats, although rob portman, because his son is gay, has changed his opinion. liza mikulski says her views are evolving. hashe president himself said his views evolved. i would not be so ironic using the word when applying it to republicans. aboute thing i would say the supreme court is i hope they learned the lessons of roe versus wade. ruth later ginsberg said that that decision stymied -- ruth bair ginsberg said that decision got in the way of a political process and took it out of a polit

speaker john boehner called the comments "beneath the dignity of the office he holds." senator john mccain tweeted "the remarks have no place in our party or the nation's discourse." the 79-year-old congressman apologized for those words saying "there was no malice in my heart." republican strategist danny diaz is working to change the party's image. he says this kind of talk will damage the republican brand. how much of a generational issue

you've got the mccain-graham-ayotte kind of -- we now call them the new three amigos where you can talking about defense interests. you have people like saxby chambliss that sht going to seek re-election. they've always been considered sort of cooler heads. then you've got two tea party senators, pat thoomey of pennsylvania and ron johnson of wisconsin who do not have a relationship with the president like the others because they weren't in the senate when he was here. it was an interesting mix of bringing people together who represent different parts of the republican party of the moment. it's important for them to go without the leadership. i've heard many times from republicans that this applies to democrats as well. when are you in the leadership, you have almost no running room. everything you say is, in effect, then policy for your party. when you have these other members, they do have a little more breathing room. i've talked to some of them. they really described being surprised at the seriousness the president put forward in his willingness to talk about changes to entitlements, t

that followed the president's dinner last night with a dozen republican senators including john mccain who gave the meeting, the dinner, a big thumb's up. >> fine, great, wonderful. >> meantime, on the senate floor today, senators mccain and graham both gave shall i say a thumb down to rand paul's 13-hour filibuster on drones. >> mr. paul wants to be taken seriously, he needs to do more than pull political stunts this fire up impressionable kids in their college dorms. he needs to know what he's talking about. to somehow allege or infer that the president of the united states is going to kill somebody like jane fonda or someone who disagrees with the policies is a stretch of imagination which is, frankly, ridiculous. >> to my republican colleagues, i don't remember any of you coming down here suggesting that president bush was going to kill anybody with a drone. you know? i don't even remember the harshest critics of the -- of president bush on the democratic side. they had a drone program back then. >> and as the latest drama unfolds now from one end of pennsylvania avenue to the othe

the reason mccain is upset is that this is a way to get into the issue. rand paul's opposition largely has to do with the ground -- drone attacks overseas and that is what mccain wants to protect. >> a question about osama bin laden's son-in-law. they brought him to new york and now they will try him in new york. why not taken down to guantanamo bay and squeeze every bit of information you can out of him? >> apparently they have the evidence to convict him of conspiracy and that is not recognized as a war crime, which is what you have to have taken to guantanamo. the defense department and everybody signed off on this. it posed a security problems in new york. >> the issue is not getting a guilty verdict on him. the issue is what is he now? there is a myth that iran and al qaeda, our enemies, whether it shiite or sunni -- he was harbored in iran and he was the conduit between iran and al qaeda. who cares if he ends up -- >> a deal -- >> sent him to guantanamo. instead he is in new york -- fore don't know what -- example, when he was in turkey, did the u.s

i think that's the troubling part about it. i think senator mccain hasn't come to terms with the fact he's not the president and the president as commander and chief has the role and responsibility and power to decide what the foreign policy is for the country. and senator mccain clearly has a different vision of this so this is the game they're playing. this is trying to box, you know, the president in. i just don't think it's a smart strategy and something to win over a lot of support amongst the american people. >> thank you. great pleasure having you both on. >>> we have more breaking news out of washington where a massive winter storm could add to the turmoil. several high profile house votes and hearings could be affected. the approaching storm could delay a house vote on a republican plan to avert a government shutdown but a bipartisan deal on gun control legislation announced just yesterday is still so far on track to go before the senate judiciary committee. luke russert, i'm talking about a massive storm. mother nature and political. beauti

, they were out to dinner with the president. and today mccain was one of the leading voices defending the obama administration. >> to somehow say that someone who disagrees with american policy and even may demonstrate against it is somehow a member of an organization which makes that individual an enemy combatant is simply false. it is simply false. >> mccain's anger was directed at other colleagues who said that they should know better. drone supporter marco rubio jumped into rand paul's spotlight to question the use of drones. so did republican leader mitch mcconnell. lindsey graham had to laugh at the hypocrisy of these opportunists. >> to my republican colleagues, i don't remember any of you coming down here suggesting that president bush was going to kill anybody with a drone. >> graham's point is at the heart of the disagreement with rand paul. rand paul has a problem with the republican definition of war. >> their position is that the whole world is a battlefield including america and that the laws of war apply to america. in war you don

the mccains or the rand pauls? >> well, i'm really disappointed in john mccain.by it. mccain in his younger years was a great maverick. he took on his party all the time. the idea that he's lecturing the next generation because they have the guts to stand up, which i would have thought john mccain would have applauded the news, and say, i may not agree with you in detail, but i'm proud that you're standing up with your beliefs. i don't know what's happening to john mccain but i find it very sad. >> on the substance of the issue whether or not the obama administration needed to spell out the use of drones against u.s. citizens on u.s. soil, who is right? >> if our constitution means anything, it means that your government can't capriciously kill you without the rule of law. and it was very clear from the attorney generals earlier in letters that they were reserving the right -- remember, we're not talking about combatant engaged in fighting. the minute you do that -- >> but it's okay to kill american citizens in yemen -- >> who are combatants. >> like anwar al awl

but john mccain starts walling them wacko and wacko birds. the people that were around rand paul around that. mike leigh, ted cruz. is there a change now? is john mccain too far out there and this is the new group that's going to run the senate and the gop? >> i don't know. i like rand paul. he's a very intelligent guy. he made some good points. but he does look -- i hate to say, he can look a little nutty. and anytime anybody talks for 12 hours you're going to look nutty. and it's the old guard who have been ineffective. they've lost the white house.

and mccain playing the party of an aging don quijote. only lucky he didn't confront mccain. but i think by and large a plus for rand paul. >> let's take a look at the president's weekly address, talking here about the gop meeting. take a listen. >> earlier this week, for example, i met with some republican senators to see if there were smarter ways to grow our economy and reduce our deficits than the arbitrary cuts and the so-called sequester that recently went into place. we had an open and honest conversation about critical issues like immigration reform and gun violence. and other areas where we can work together to move this country forward. >> so anna, do you think the president reaching out to the rank and final members, if you will, albeit very powerful ones in the gop. do you think that's going to do a lot to solidify the future of a bipartisan nature as a result of these meetings? >> well, certainly, both sides have come out of it saying very positive things. the republicans that were there welcomed it and he, obviously, in his

out with the old, you know, mccains and don't take offense to this, the mccain, the bushes, establishmentmneys. jeb bush was there. i know. hold on. in with rubio, in with cruz, martinez, nikki haley, jind jin. >> kimberly: out of respect he was the nominee for the party. >> dana: i don't think cpac -- like rand paul won last year. >> greg: romney did. >> dana: ron paul. >> greg: romney won the straw poll. >> dana: who won in iowa? >> greg: i don't know. reagan and g.w. bush won the straw poll. >> dana: i don't remember. can i ask about rand paul? that was something that a lot of people loved his sound bite. the g.o.p. of old has grown steal and moss covered. we have don't need to name any names but we just did. it's incumbered approach to freedom. they need to embrace liberty. it could argue on specifics but rhetorically, is it a good message? >> greg: he is talking about the me generaller iss, not the message -- he is talking about messengers, not the message. he is talking about himself. this is me walking around going gosh, tall people are so annoying. they go around vertical all the

former adviser to the 2008 mccain presidential campaign, republican strategist, steve schmidt. or of the book "life equity, realize your true value and purr sewer your passions at any stage in life," marsha blackburn. i've got great advice on leading this discussion from my wife, beth, who says just keep quiet and let others speak. so i want to raise this, and i think the thing that struck me as i really followed this this week, look at "time" magazine where sheryl sandberg is on the cover. what's the headline, "don't hate her because she's successful." facebook sheryl sandberg and her mission to reboot ffem nism. don't hate her. >> right. as we were saying don't hate -- nobody would ever say about a man don't hate him because he's successful. look, nature loves a good cat fight and she is attractive, she is smart, she is young, she's impossibly rich and impossibly successful. what's not to get the claws out. and i blame actually for a change us women, because she said something provocative. she said something worth debating, but why is it that we need to debate it by sort of ac

on the other hand you have john mccain stuffing his face for president obama. if he had core values and core con visions he did not like what rand paul stood for, go to the filibuster and call him on it. what did he do? he waited until the next day, had a nice party with president obama, fed that fat face of his and then came back to the floor and made an issue about it. i understand that john mccain is a big supporter of the war on terror. i am as well. i understand a guy who has been through guy. i have been to iraq, i've been to afghanistan. my father was killed in vietnam. i get the concept of standing up for the military, protecting our country. john mccain, if you want to protect the country, how about this, how about sticking with your pledge to build the damn fence. then we will talk! are you here? don't be afraid to get a little rowdy. make some noise. there we go! >> that is what we need. >> by the way, i'm done. >> come on back, rusty. i do want to move to that dinner that you referred to and this whole debate about the spending and the budget and the

after tough statements today, including one from john boehner, the speaker, and john mccain among others, young issued a full apology saying i apologize for the insensitive term i used during an interview in ketchi can kan, alaska. there was no malice in my heart

to make it so that they can win national elections again and there's a bat for the soul of the party. john mccains part of the battle and we'll talk about it in just a few minutes. >> first, the unemployment rate hit a low we haven't seen in years. and that has sent stocks to new record territory. every day a new record. would you look at it? that ammunition for you. if you keep hearing from everybody, everything is awful, hand them this. because it's not. >> shepard: big gains in the job market as wall street continues a winning streak to beat them all. a quick look at the dow, heading for its sixth straight gaining certification up 53 this day, and ready for its fourth straight record close. stocks are up after the jobs report came out. it beat expectations. shows that employerers added 236,000 jobs and the unemployment rate went down. this was not expected. everybody thought it would stay at 7.9%. it went down two clicks to the lowest level in four years. that it is partly because more than 100,000 folks gave up looking for work so they're no longer counted. that's always the case. and economi

the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i'm very grateful for the kind words and sentiments expressed by my leader, senator mcconnell, and i appreciate very much his kind remarks. and on this anniversary day, i still think that the greatest honor of my life was the privilege of serving in the company of heroes who inspired all of us to things that otherwise we may not have been capable of. it's been a great honor for me to serve with senator mcconnell as my leader in the senate, and i appreciate on this particular day his very kind sentiments. i yield. ms. mikulski: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. ms. mikulski: what a wonderful time. i'm proud to serve with you, senator mccain. it's -- you know, america has so few heroes. america needs all the heroes that we can get, and people that could identify -- not come mick book figures in weird costumes, but men and women who put themselves in harm's way or do daring and dashing things for the good of other people. and i.t. just an honor. -- and i

in a place they called the hanoi hilton. mccain and 107 others were released march 14 of 1973. the former republican presidential nominee was tortured repeatedly after being shot down as a naval aviator captured by the north vietnamese in october of '67. on the senator floor today his colleague mitch mcconnell paid tribute to the former naval aviator and thanked him for his continued service. >>> you may have heard the headline from a new study on breast cancer making the rounds today. the news from it was scary. radiation therapy to treat cancer may lead to an increased risk in heart disease. but the fine print is crucial here. tonight, our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman has an update, having looked at all the data. >> good evening, brian. women undergoing breast cancer treatment today need to know that the technology has evolved significantly since this study started back in 1958. doctors say it's not just the doses of radiation that are different now, but more important, how precise they are. radiation oncologists now have pinpoint accurate techniques that minimize

. >> neil: senator, some of the friction or whatever you call it between you and senator mccain, the tried to put to rest by apologizing to you and senator cruise cruz for his remarks. how railroad getting along with -- are you getting along with senator mccain? >> i have a great deal of respect for senator mccain. we disagree on some things but i respect his war service and years as a p.o.w. and he's a voice for people who believe in national security, but so do i. i don't want to say there can't be more than one way to defend the country and there's not room for military programs not used wisely. senator mccain has said the same. >> neil: have you talked to each other privately, one-on-one? >> we do. we ride in the same elevator, ride the escalator we're cordial. senator mccain and i are fine. we're going to disagree sometimes. but i also don't think that the people, even sometimes senator mccain who thinks we're so different, i don't care we are. he harkens back and says he admires reagan. well, so do i. we have a different twist on what we think reagan represented but he represent

is something in this report that is interesting and bears a discussion on both sides, repeal of the mccain-feinstei-feingoldtion of good but it hurts both to not spend money in the state. >> eric: bob, you must love that. the far right shooting to the center right and center right at the far right all weekend long. >> bob: i don't think priebus came up with off the top of his head. this is based on polling data. there is some truth to what some of the criticisms are. all you have to do is thereon cpac and you could not miss tuitions taking place in the conservative party. not the least of which is for years, national security has been the underpipping of the conservative republican -- underpinning of the con seventive republican movement. now you have ron paul and others like him and others who feel that way that it's not necessarily isolationism, but pulling back from around the world. versus the neokahns still powerful in the republican party and still want to protect american power overse overseas. that is a policy difference. >> eric: one of the things, the issues hit on over the weekend, in reince prie

the obama campaign had done more to reach out to hispanics in both languages, for example, than the mccain campaign had done during 2008. >> hinojosa: so it's really whoever wants that, wants those numbers, wants those voters, they just have to really go after them. >> there's a tremendous amount of potential, yes. tremendous amount of potential. >> hinojosa: so what do we need to be focusing on? i guess, you know, there are so many issues, so much concern. i mean, and again, you look at the big number issues. but what do you think that, on a community basis, people should be thinking about? because clearly your numbers are showing, the census is showing, that this is a very different country. >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: so... and you've lived through this yourself, you know, very personally. so kind of bring it down to one on one, individual kind of... what we need to be thinking about. >> hinojosa: this is something that a lot of the research of the center points to many different things. when it comes to education, because so many young... so many latinos are under the age of 18. many latin

the cia. so what won? rand paul or john mccain? ♪ who are you, who, who, who >> if you're sitting in a cafe and somebody thinks you e-mailed your cousin in the middle east -- >> to say we would hit them in a cafe with a hell fire missile. president obama started this. president obama is expanding this. >> as much as i disagree with president obama, i think you have been responsible in the use of the drone program. >> no one will ever forget jane fonda. >> the use of jane fonda's name does evoke certain memories with me. >> that's one thing if you want to try her for treason, but are you going to just drop a drone hell fire missile on jane fonda. >> to somehow allege or infer that the president of the united states is going to kill somebody like jane fonda is, frankly, ridiculous. >> there are some limits to filibustering, and i'm going to have to go take care of one of those in a few minutes here. ♪ i really want to know ♪ who are you, who, who, who ♪ who are you, who, who, who >> it is a very busy day in washington. john brennan, a

mccain with respected. i don't think i always get the same in return. >> so, aaron, why did mccain and lindsey graham attack him on the senate floor? didn't it hurt mccain and graham? >> it might. i think this is an area where graham and mccain have a very significant policy difference with rand paul and a lot of the new republicans who are joining the senate these days. at the same time, i think this is an issue -- you know, the rand paul filibuster got a lot of attention because it was fascinating this guy was talking for 13 hours. it wasn't necessarily that people in the republican party were embracing his message, so to speak. so, you know, i think the republican party is very much split on this issue but i don't think it's a point of emphasis. i do think it's interesting that mccain and graham are spending time making this point and mccain even calling somebody names, which is unusual for the senate. but i don't think this is going to be a big deal long term given that foreign policy is not at the top of the ticket right now. >> although, don't know, did you see that one picture of them inside the sena