mccain could splinter opportunities. at this very early moment, scott walker is viewed as the best position to do that. it's just june, but with such a crowded field keeping track of the chest match is interesting. we will see you soon. "state of the union" starts right now. >>> harley, a pig roast and politics. republican white house hopefuls swarm iowa as a crowded gop field gets even bigger. this is a special "state of the union." good morning. i am dana bash live from iowa where several of the republican presidential candidates turned out this sunday for joni ernst' inaugural roast and ride. we have rick perry and lindsay graham, and colorful moments. the former iowa senator, tom harkin, hosted his famousak

john mccain. >> we don't have somebody on the ground to identify a static moving target. >> the air force says it is right, for a dynamic target, waiting for a target to appear. limiting the number of air strikes that can be taken against i.s.i.l, the difficulty of telling enemy fighters apart from civilians in urban areas. >> 02, 057. >> both could be addressed with u.s. eyes on the ground as former commander general david petraeus told an interviewer recently. >> should there be teams of joint tactical controllers on the grounders -- >> should there be? >> i think there probably should be. there is risk of not winning this fight. >> that risk of more american casualties, has stopped martin dempsey , from assisting in a ground combat role. >> jamie mcintire, many jamie the president said, the u.s. didn't have a strategy for fighting i.s.i.l, kind uf a remark annal statement from the president. >> still drawing unplans to send troops into the air base just outside habanea. there is not so much training as advising. what the u.s. is doing at this air base is trying to whip this rag t

(cheers and applause) (laughter) i was saying, after seven years, john mccain should know not to set himself up for a palin joke! imagine park cane out jogging with an out of shape friend and say you're the most useless runningmate i've ever had! why are you laughing! but as i was saying, rand paul made it his personal mission to stop this extension. >> republican senator and presidential candidate rand paul blocked the vote. >> accused paul of cashing in on the controversy. the presidential candidate has been urging supporters to chip in to his stop n.s.a. find show down money bomb. >> jon: pretty ballsy rand. that wording probably set off five n.s.a. alerts there. the only way they would flag it more is if you turned to the kiddie bin laden bomb. joinjordan klepper is joining us! this seems like a turning point for the n.s.a. where does the n.s.a. go from here? >> hopefully much further. you can never collect enough intelligence. not just talking about phone data. the next clue could be in a pile of unopened bank statements on your kitchen table or a giant bag of tax receipts you h

he said it was a symbol of the slavery andand -- but john mccain who apologized for lying about it he won south carolina in 2008. in 2012 they held a republican debate on m.l.k. day. the subject didn't come up. it was no longer a heated question in south carolina politics. >> and that is important because there is a republican debate in february i believe. and this -- if this is not dealt with this will be a question asked of the focus standing on stage. >> the governor made clear it will be dealt with. she is going to call back the legislature if the legislature doesn't begin to act on it. you know, again having grown up there, i'm stunned to have seen that tableau that we just saw. i thought it was a hell of a speech. you know i would on many political issues disagree with nikki haley. but just again as harold said as an american i had to be proud of her today. of her performance, of what she said the way she said it. it was pitch perfect i thought. >> remember now. listen to what matt's saying and i don't disagree with you. but understand south carolina has elected an african ameri

mark: the one he and john mccain have talked about is putting ground troops in lots of places. i was surprised in this speech that -- that excerpt is representative. he talked a lot about the threat, but little about specifics. did not stake out where he might go to say to the hawkish wing of the party, i am not ted cruz not jeb bush -- i am different. john: let's go onto the next piece of video and sound. lindsey graham's speech was not all tough talk. announced his aspirations not far from the pool hall and restaurant his parents once owned, he recalled the time when, after his parents died, he and his sister relied on something many republicans do not speak fondly of -- government support. senator graham: we lost our parents when i was young man and she was in middle school. we depended on social security benefits to survive. i have been fortunate. i have done better than i ever dreamed. if i and others like me have to take a little bit less and pay a little more to help those who need it most, so be it. and younger people, you may just have to work a little bit longer. as p

john mccain says 75% of the air strike missions that the u.s. and its coalition partners are undertaking against isis right now, return without ever firing a weapon. how effective is this air war against isis? we're going to talk to the u.s. air force chief of staff stand big to join us live this hour. your credit is in pretty good shape. >>chuck, i know i have a 798 fico score thanks to experian.com. kaboom... get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. in the outback bold isn't just a word. it's how we approach everything. hurry in for our new wood-fire grilled flat iron steak. or victoria's filet portabella. starting at just $13.99 for a limited time. we let the bold flavors of the outback. speak for themselves. outback steakhouse. done right. you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do, drive three-quarte

mccain 's personal life. in both cases, by screwing up the way they did those stories they allowed those campaigns to rally their supporters against the new york times and effectively nullify and the silence the times. this is not the first time that it seems to be a matter of tactics. the times has done itself a world of damage. this should have been the first shot fired, not the previous story, which seems trivial. mark: the times has a huge place. their stories get treated more seriously than anybody else's. they did good work on this story. but for republicans and on the democratic side for the clintons, they are a publication that can be beat up. it will be interesting to see if they back off rubio or if they keep their investigation going. i suspect it will be the latter. holy schnitzel, batman. jeb bush was trying to look like president bush, but not that president bush. here is what jeb said in berlin today about peaceful resolutions -- peace coalitions and democracy. jeb bush: it will take a serious

john mccain has been a vocal critic of it. "the washington post" noted that he has paid for it among republicans. do something members of the g.o.p. fear might alienate the southern base. jeb bush to get down while he was governor of florida. he put it in a museum, something the mayor of charleston who is a democrat has called on south carolina to do. he said it since at best mixed messages and at worst for people like dylann roof, it is an affirmation. >> thank you for that international press review. ÷?÷?ñ?ñó6óñdóxóxóxóx >> for many peoples civilizations, and faiths nature, or the natural world, has been an important access point to the sacred. and as we experience the wondrous spectrum of life forms that surround us here on earth, perhaps the most urgent question of the 21st century is, how do we balance the biological needs of other species with our seemingly unending needs as humans? since all life on earth shares the same home, we find ourselves

senator john mccain proposed new legislation that would stop the pentagon from using taxpayer money to honor the military during nfl games, this comes after reports that department of defense paid over $7 million for tributes that honored american troops. >>> police in florida are looking for a man who took photos up a woman's dress. he was caught on a walmart surveillance camera crouching down next to a shopper and reaching his hand under her skirt. >>> a connecticut family had to make an unusual call for help when they had trouble getting in their home this week. >> the problem is my cat was getting too aggressive and i was inside and she attacked me and scratched me in my leg and bite me. >> you heard that right. the family cat, yeah. that person made a 911 call because their cat was being overly aggressive. turns out the cat had just had kittens and was feeling protective. >>> if you're a doughnut fan, today is your day. it is national doughnut day. to celebrate krispy kreme will give you a doughnut, a free one with no purchase necessary. participating dunkin' donuts restaurants ar

sitting with senators john mccain and jack reed. his mission to convince anyone that will listen, a military facility on his island and will have to go. >> through the air corp station, encircled by a city of 100,000 it's more than a nuisance to the people that live nearby. it's a danger. there are accidents and a helicopter crash, and crime including rape committed by american servicemen. now a stall to move the marines met with protest. a small amada of kayaks and boats take to speed at the news cycle. expanding the base would damage an eco system. mostly they want the marines off the island. >> we have a governor opposed to the land reclamation here. he was voted in by a huge margin. the people are supporting us. >> that governor campaigned against the u.s. bases and in november was elected in a landslide. more than half the 50,000 u.s. military personnel in japan are stationed on okayina way, but the island was tiny. half of the land mass. abbingin awans think it's not ware. it was rated the highest, and income the lowest. now t

john mccain, a well-known senator and former presidential candidate in 2008 tried very hard especially going up against what he framed as a neo- knee phyte in barack obama and that was in the wake of 9/11. there has to be a multi-facetted approach for presidency, and i think dram has that because he has been willing to work across the aisle on different issues. >> one of the criticisms we have heard is that he has reached across the i'll on certain issues including climate change and that has anglerred some members of his party. let's talk about the primaries. is he going to be a shoe in shoo-in in south carolina. >> absolutely he's a shoo-in. the problem is his expectation that he'll win. in iowa he'll have to finish top tier, and in new hampshire. south carolina won't matter, and a lot of people won't put resource there is and they'll move on to other states if the case is that graham is going to win or second place becomes the prize. you have to do well. >> michael shure, thank you for that analysis. >>> it will soon be easier to carry guns in texas. texan lawmakers passed allow a l

whatever the president said, it's not enough for his critics in congress, john mccain and presidential hopeful lindsey graham his wing man in congress, 10,000 is a number specifically mentioned by graham. but what the president was referring to was the pentagon review in process about this training program and exactly how many more american advisers and trainers are going to be needed in iraq in order to get the iraqi army to a place where it can effectively play back against isil. again, i thought it was remarkable that the president cited a gap in recruiting into the iraqi army by the iraqi government. so a number of very big obstacles in the way here. incidentally we've received reports that the oil refinery town of beiji has been taken back. those are unconfirmed reports according to the white house but some glimmer of good news by the president. >> i want to talk about ukraine because there were some lines that came out of the discussions on ukraine where merkel. it sounds like what the president was in essence saying was that the u.s. is on the same page with europe when it comes

>> republican senator john mccain not happy. the deposit still not getting to the bottom of that massive cyber hacking. now we're finding out the number of americans hit by it could be more than 30 million. there is a far cry from the four million the government originally claimed. china likely behind it. now it has very sensitive data to use against the u.s. steve, is the government doing anything series about it? >> as can you see from that brief clip absolutely not. the chinese are having a ball stealing it and we're dropping the ball in terms of protecting it. the attitude sort of,oh, no real big deal shocking. >> john aren't you shoktd by what the government is not doing about it? >> no. this strikes me as much ado about nothing. if it were really a threat you would see u.s. custody share prices crashing to reflect the ability of chinese intelligence to fleece us of all sorts of data. the idea that they can outfox some of the greatest technoligical minds on earth, i don't think we should take seriously. >> well i don't thin

he's a third-term senator from south carolina big on defense, he and john mccain are probably one of the biggest hawks in the senate right now what do you think of his chances? >> ease he's going to bring a big foreign policy focus. at a time when people are concerned with what is happening overseas. lindsey graham is one of those guys go back to 2006. things were falling apart a. everyone wanted to cut and run out of iraq. this guy said you have to stay the course. you have to stay there. he's going to make a case for what needs to be done internationally to put america in to a leadership role. he and marco rubio will fill that space. he is good on immigration and also fun to watch. he's an interesting guy. very witty. he has nice turns of phrase and he will be a fun addition to this race. >> dan, do you think either of these guys graham or perry could have an impact? >> yes. i think they could have an impact in the sense that both of them and rick perry says he will talk about substance. that's the thing i like about this group of candidates. by and large it is not just rhetoric. t

john mccain highlighted this the other day about jobs necessities. you have bases that support some of the programs. if you look at the map, some of the localized programs, you will think it is one spot on the map. production facilities support this in several states. each one of these states have an interest. unemployment lines monday morning if they were cut today. host: a profile piece in the new york times focusing on john mccain, his efforts in the pentagon authorization debate. noting mr. mccain has long been a critic of what he views as military acquisition systems that take too long and cost too much. his bill targets things like the f 35 strike fighter, combat ship, and his pet issue the future version of the ford aircraft carrier which suffers a $2.4 billion run. we are with derek wallbank of bloomberg "first word." good morning. caller: good morning, united states care to let a want to say about the budget, the drug war should be ended. we spend tens of billions of dollars every year on the drug war and it does no good. we just keep buildi

and in 2008, john mccain ran into trouble when jackson browne sued him for using the song "running on empty." mccain apologized but this presidential campaign already is showing one thing-- conflict between singers and candidates is far from running dry. ♪ running on empty ♪ >> reporter: jan crawford, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news” for tonight. for all of us at cbs news and around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> now at 6:00 violence at a place known for peace. the attack at a bay area monastery. ken is off tonight. i'm brian hackney. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. one buddhist monk is the victim, another is the suspects. a third one might have saved the victim's life. devin fehely reports. >> reporter: a strange story of violence in the heart of the community where where would you most expect it. they expect to live in peaceful coexistence with one another but a bizarre brutal attack left a leader of their community

and in 2008 john mccain ran into trouble when jackson browne sued him for using the song "running on empty." mccain apologized but this presidential campaign already is showing one thing-- conflict between singers and candidates is far from running dry. ♪ running on empty ♪ >> reporter: jan crawford, cbs news washington. >> p >>> donald trump today addressing his critics. has he become a laughing stock? >> as late night has a field day with his white house run. >>> american workers -- >> he's going to have to come clean about his hair. >> he's pt barnum. >> slammed on tv and the front page. >> clown runs for president. >> is the criticism trump's worst enemy? >> that sad, ugly face of hers. >>> then the first video of john stamos after his dui arrest, >> and that sean penn has called off his engagement. >> plus, why miley was left in tears. the new red carpet fight. >>> and is her new video with madonna a swipe at taylor. >>> also, move over duggars. how the singing family o

the plan falls short, though of the combat troops that john mccain and others are called for. >>> the ntsb released findings on the deadly amtrak crash this morning. they're expected to reveal whether the engineer was using his cell phone when that train sped up and derailed killing eight people. yesterday the federal railroad administration called for new safety changes including either automatic speed controls or a second crew member in the driver's compartment. >>> three jurors in the colorado theater shooting trial have been dismissed. why? they were discussing media coverage of the high-profile case something they were told expressly do not do. 21 jurors remain on the case 12 of whom will decide it. unclear if the dismissed jurors were alternates. >>> a new revelation in the world soccer bribery investigation. it involves a former vice president of soccer's international governing body fifa. jack warner is already under arrest facing extradition to the united states. they are looking now into $750,000 he helped raise for victims of the earthquake in haiti. that money was later us

john mccain had the best line. he said when he doesn't have a complete strategy maybe he will tell us the incomplete strategy. there's nothing here. the entire strategy rests on the notion that trained iraqis are going to carry the fight to isis. they tried it in mosul and ramadi and fallujah. as general dempsey said they drove out after ramadi. the idea it's a lack of training is what ashton carter said lack of will. we have a focus problem. the iraqis they are not ready, they are not trainable, they are not showing up to be recruited. they have to be more focused. focused to work. can you imagine that to be our saying? the problem with allies is the russians and the british is they are not focused on the war against germany. this is a country abandoned by obama in 2011. now we are trying to reclaim that. it cannot be done. >> mara have you seen this video of the iraqi prime minister sitting next to the president at the g7? >> no i haven't. i read about itd. >> there is a moment an awkward moment. obviously the pr

what have you learned from -- you worked for john mccain in 2008. what have you learned from being a candidate >> i build a ground game to try to push back the nonsense we get on the democratic party and who gets engaged in the political process. there's a lot of people who've disengaged from the political process. it's the flipside of this fear in the political class that we are losing our ability to influence the government. but the deeply care. people are concerned about the future of the nation and concerned that their new wives are discerned. they know the world is a more dangerous place and they want straight talk about real issues. people want to have conversations and of course politics and the policies that pursue dano that this is a complicated and dangerous world but they

he and john mccain and kelly ayotta probably the three biggest hawks in the senate right now. what do you think of his chances? >> exactly that. he is bring going to bring a big foreign policy focus to this race. and a time by the way when people voters are very concerned about what's happening overseas. lindsey graham was one of those guys back -- you go back to 2006. things were falling apart. everyone was wanting to cut and run out of iraq. i mean this was a guy who said you cannot. you got to stay the course go. to stay there. he's going to make a very strong case for what needs to be done internationally to put america back in a leadership role in terms of that he and marco rubio are really going to fill that space. he's been very good on things like immigration. and he's also just fun to watch, paul. he is an interesting guy. he's very witty. he's got nice turns of phrase. and he's going to be a kind of fun addition to this race. >> dan, do you think either of these two guys graham or perry, could have an impact? >> yes i think they could have an impact in the sense that

and in 2008 john mccain ran into trouble when jackson browne sued him for using the song "running on empty." mccain apologized but this presidential campaign already is showing one thing-- conflict between singers and candidates is far from running dry. ♪ running on empty ♪ >> reporter: jan crawford, cbs news washington. >>> the federal government releases a first of its kind full-scale inspection on metro and it's not pretty. >>> tropical storm bill sweeps through texas dropping nearly a foot of rain in some places. i'm craig boswell in dallas. i'm tell you where it's headed next. >>> i thought it was biting at my left arm. >> a terrifying encounter with a shark, but this teen's attitude will inspire you. >>> plus, distracted at work? you will not believe some of the time wasted people were caught doing while on the clock. >>> but first to that scathing report that has revealed serious safety lapses in metro's rail control center. thank you for joining us. i'm lesli foster. >>> i'm derek mcginty.

[video clip] senator john mccain: wow. we still do not have the strategy to try to counter the islamic state for ices which took control a year ago and beheaded to americans for all the world to see last summer. mr. obama announced his anti-isis strategy in a september speech promising to degrade and destroy isis. nine months later, here we are. isis has over run the gateway to act dad. u.s. bombing campaign is hesitant. now mr. obama tells us eternal of iraq is barely underway. [end video clip] host: senator john mccain critical of what the president had to say about what is happening in iraq. a few more minutes here to take your calls. some tweets. if we invade iraq all we will do is unite the shia and sunni against us. there is a force threatening the neighbors now want to fight with the usa. it has been said first casualty of war is the truth. the badness continues on. we will get back to your calls. other news with the president yesterday also reiterating in a lengthy speech his support for the difficult affordable ca

what happened was, john mccain and rand paul got into a spat over who control floor time. host: here's a bit from that exchange. [video clip] >> mr. president? mr. president? >> i want the regular order. >> mr. president? >> i would be happy to yield to the senator from arizona. >> maybe the senator from kentucky should know the rules of the senate. the gentleman has the floor and is open to response to a question. my question is, the words are powerful and accurate. >> how much time remains on the clock for the republican time? mr. president? how much time is remaining? >> i asked for the regular order. >> i think the chair has made clear this editor from indiana has the floor -- the senator from indiana has the floor. >> i know the senator from kentucky understands -- >> i would ask you, the senator from indiana, you have seen the events lately that are transpiring. isis has taken home i read -- isis has taken palmyra. destroying antiquities. remindamadi has fallen with men women and children being massacred. his this program as critical as it has ever been since its inc

john mccain, john mccain ran against george w. bush in 2000. but blake, the case you hear from people, from push bell now, we are not we are going to intimidate everybody out of the race, this field is going to be exposed in a lot of ways. a guy like scott walk aeshs lack of foreign policy experience will be exposed, marco rubio, story about his innocence, maybe going to be questions raised about marco rubio and basically months from now, people will look up republicans will look up look at jeb bush and say that is really the only responsible, mature choice we can make. ness i feel like so much of the jeb bush rationale and candidacy is not about voter, not about the issues he can connect with the voters about, the idea that's going to have a ton of money and something not entirely relevant to reaching out to voters and also something that has.been demonstrably proven yet. that's shaky ground on which to have your candidacy. and i think this idea these going to have a huge number, he may, but they had a big shakeup, don't normally have a shakeu

you don't ordinarily see the white house saying yeah listen to john mccain. >> that's right, chris. this is washington. there are only strange bedfellows in this town. the white house is sounding off on the expiration of these nsa programs warning that a temporary lapse could impact counterterrorism investigations. aides to the president are not calling out senators by name but it's clear who the white house is annoyed with this morning and that is senator rand paul. a white house press secretary josh ernest released a statement last night praising the senate for moving forward with the bill for the patriot act but there's also a thinly veiled dig at senator paul. we call on the senate to ensure this irresponsible lapse is as short lived as possible on a matter as critical as our national security individual senators must put aside their partisan motivations and act swiftly. the american people deserve nothing less. these expired nsa programs include the bulk data collection but also roving wiretaps which can keep track of terrorism suspects who change phones and this lone wolf prov

of unequality of screwed up campaign finance and there's an implicit critique in there as welch like john mccain in 2008 runs an ad saying we're worse off than we were four years ago even though it was a republican administration in effect trying to distance himself and saying i can be a change -- >> can she get away with that is the question in the sense that it's going to anger the white house when she says things like that but they sort of already accepted her as the incumbent. they get mad when she says this but can bernie sanders martin o'malley or lincoln chafee or anybody else take enough advantage of that not to draw a crowd in iowa but to draw the votes to knock her off? >> they need to. that is what they are there for. they are there to move her to the left. otherwise she has no reason to move to the left. >> moving her to the left and beating her are two different things. >> very true. it's how much enthusiasm they can whip up from that liberal base to get them out to vote for them. and that is the question of whether they can really harness that anger. >> the best of them have

kennedy: what about john mccain at his running mate. >> do you remember these people who said, mostly people in the left said if george w. bush wins in 2004, i am moving to canada, i have never been closer to packing up and buying a house in canada. this is a series of swinc serie cringe-worthiness, don't vote for me because i'm going to bomb things. kennedy: he has a strategy. i may disagree with it openly, but you think that is a quite a strength? >> what is wrong with bombing things, come on, that is what i used to do, listen, i think he at least he knows who he is, he knows who america circumstance he is a leader. my concern or hope if we were to win he would really listen to military generals and admirals who spent their lives in the military, past 12 years in these country learning you know the situation on the ground, and would listen to them, about what a strategy should be, they may not agree with him, i like he is say leader, i like he is willing to say what he thinks and project american power in the work. kennedy: i would like to see him in lederhosen then. la rusch get in

kennedy: what about john mccain at his running mate. >> do you remember these people who said, mostly people in the left said if george w. bush wins in 2004, i am moving to canada, i have never been closer to packing up and buying a house in canada. this is a series of swinch serie cringe-worthiness don't vote for me because i'm going to bomb things. kennedy: he has a strategy. i may disagree with it openly, but you think that is a quite a strength? >> what is wrong with bombing things come on, that is what i used to do, listen, i think he at least he knows who he is, he knows who america circumstance he is a leader. my concern or hope if we were to win he would really listen to military generals and admirals who spent their lives in the military past 12 years in these country learning you know the situation on the ground, and would listen to them, about what a strategy should be, they may not agree with him i like he is say leader, i like he is willing to say what he thinks and project american power in the work. kennedy: i would like to see him in lederhosen then. la rusch get in th

john mccain says rand paul is running on his own ambition than the security of his nation. phil mattingly joins us. he has no higher priority than the security of the nation. help us understand what happened. what lapsed? phil: three programs at midnight lapsed. it is three provisions of the patriot act. section 215, the bulk collection of made a data -- of metadata. there has been an issue since edward snowden. also wiretaps on lone wolf suspects are that has never been used. that will expire. there is another one on roving wiretaps. federal law enforcement officials being able to tap into phones that terrorists use. we expect in the next couple of days it will somehow kind of be re-upped. brendan: quickly, what is the word from the white house on that this morning? phil: they are disappointed. you heard from the president. the president made a point over the last couple of weeks to try and make this a big issue. it surprised some democrats what the president was saying. he started to make this including one of his own officials saying that this was like playing russian ro

you go in the way john mccain are saying a lot more on behalf of the current strategy. i think there is a third option which is change strategy. i say give up on iraq. this is a sectarian country controlled by iran. shia militias are on the loose. we're directly with the kurds. worked directly with the sunni tribes. begin to have a lather different post iraq strategy. this isn't going to work what we're doing. this is just a president, again, who i think is uncomfortable with his choices and is doing little things. these little things won't -- >> let me play devil's advocate. if the central idea is to get the sunnis to stand up fight and essentially be an army that they haven't been isn't it counter productive to get too far in? if you were to be so aggressive wouldn't they say okay you carry the burden for us again? isn't that part of the point? part of the point is to get them to carry a larger burden. but who do you mean by them? if iraq is them it's not going to work. you had the shia domination of it. the sunnis and kurds are not going to fight. and the iraqi army

charlie: that is one reason why john mccain is opposed to torture. richard: on torture, right. ask a man who knows. charlie: who are the heroes? richard: the young attorneys at the aclu who resigned when roger baldwin, the founder, who was friends with roosevelt, said they could not bring any cases that mentioned race. these young guys quit and represented these people for free for years, including the latin americans, peruvians, and whatnot that we had kidnapped and put in the camps to trade for prisoners. when the war was over, we tried to deport them as illegal aliens. they never had papers when they were brought handcuffed to america. then people stole their land, as they stole the land and money of the japanese-americans here. charlie: these are some books you have written in the kennedy years. "president kennedy, profile of power," one of my favorites, and others. there's a real interest in presidential power. richard: i think i have run out of presidents. charlie: not until i ask you about this one. what is your sense of obama as he gets, as he says, into the last stretc

. >> john mccain said, when faced with a hillary clinton presidency or rand paul it would be tough for him to decide he would think that rand paul is so soft, he would side with hillary clinton. >> i agree with him on that i would take hillary clinton's foreign policy over rand fall. kennedy: because she is hawkish. >> we need more wars. >> we do. >> we need to fight isis. >> it has done well doing nothing, watching isis go and takeover countries. kennedy: how hawkish is she? >> she is not what she was 70 years ago. in -- not 70 years ago but in the '70s, she is so fake, she claims to be the common person, whether eating at chipotle even though the average person cannot afford chipotle any more. i think there is a huge gap between average person, i feel like my generation can see through that. >> you eat what you were in '70s? >> no. >> i don't -- allen is full gung he. >gunhe. >> she is too militant. >> but her being like a legitimate presidential candidate. can. kennedy: you have a lot of democrats who are voting for her who disagree with you, she is still crushing everyone. martin o

just asking ask john mccain it can help. if it helps showcase her warm and fuzzy side, i think voters will appreciate some of the personal stuff. >> okay. every week we head down to the candidate casino. g.o.p. side, $100 in chips and see where it is shifted at all with the panel. jason, what you have got? i think it's a three horse race rubio and walk every. the "new york times" especially seems very fearful of him so he must be doing something right. i am giving a dollars to huckabee carson and cruz because they have been polling in the high single digits. i don't think they are top tier candidates but i wouldn't be surprised if one of them spent a little bit of time in the top tier. >> okay, alyssa james on twitter, she writes in: after last night's impressive performance by carlie foreign i -- forney 30 for walker, 30 for fiorina and 30 for rubio. >> i'm sticking with the same top three. i put a little bit more money into scott walker. i think is he positioning himself very well in the republican primary. i don't know th

joining me now is senator john mccain chairman of the armed services committee and senator always an honor to have you on the program, welcome. >> thank you maria. >> let's talk where we are in terms of defense spending what you are expecting out of the president. >> well, i would hope the president would reconsider his concerns about the defense authorization bill, his concern is the way that it is funded. without getting toorboring used mechanism overseas contingency operation to increase defend spending continued to decline die to sequestration enacted in 20121 a world is on fire maria, i came from asia where chinese as you know, are drastically expanding their islands, and placements in southland marina sea today we see a flare-up in ukraine again as vladimir putin will continue his aggression, and, of course, in syria, you read the front page of the "new york times," this morning, isis continues to expand to succeed this is not time to veto a defense bill over the spending mechanism. and if the president does so, i think it is going to be very harmful to our ability to defend th

the senator debated her amendment with senator john mccain and dianne feinstein. this part of the debate is a half-hour. >> the senator from new york. i rise to urge my colleagues to support my amendment number 1578. the military justice improvement act to ensure that the survivors of military sexual assault have access to an unbiased trained military judicial system. last year despite the support of 55 senators, a coalition spanning the entire ideological spectrum including both the majority and minority leaders are built for creating independent military justice systems free of inherent biases and conflicts of interest within the chain of command filibustered by this body. but as you say then we will not walk away. the brave men and women in uniform who are defending the nation deserve a vote. that is our duty. it is our oversight role. it's congress responsibility to act. our husband and wives are being betrayed by the greatest military on earth. we owe them that at the very least. over the last few years congress has forced the military to make many incrementa

even senator john mccain a a man who himself was tortured in captivity as a pow in vietnam called for its release. graphic new details of the post september 11 us torture program came to light in december when the senate intelligence committee release that 500 page summary of its investigation and the cia with key parts redacted. the the report concludes that the intelligence agency failed to disrupt a single plot despite torturing al qaeda and other captives in secret prisons worldwide between 2002 and '06 and details a list of torture methods used on prisoners including waterboarding sexual threats with broomsticks medically unnecessary rectal bleeding. the report also confirmed that the cia ran black sites in afghanistan lithuania, romania, poland thailand and the secret site thailand, and the secret side on the guantÁnamo naval base on a strawberry field. so far no one involved in the cia interrogation program has been charged with a crime except for the whistleblower who just came out of two years in prison and is currently under house arrest. well, it is so important to assess

it was one of the issues of the gop primary in 2000 when john mccain and george w. bush framed it as a states right issue. there are many calls to reassess the flag's presence across from the state capitol. >> there is no doubt south carolina has a rich and provocative history and the flag is part of the history. for some the flag represents that history. for so many others it represents a page and oppression. i am looking forward to state leaders getting together after the funerals about the next step. >> we have confederate flags up every where. it is not going to make any difference. what is going to make a difference is do we change people's hearts and minds. >> former gop president nominee mitt romney tweeted it is time to take it down. the flag bee longs into a muss em. >> there could be a bill that the legislature in south carolina line in a are discussing to have that flag removed. what's the latest? >> they plan to introduce a bill in january. it is unclear how many they may have. the law requires a super majority. >> doug mcelway live from washington. than