why does lindsey graham have to threaten he's going to block these appointments just to talk to people that our intelligence commitee has a right and a duty to interview? >> republicans block appointments as matters of general principle. >> they also hold top secret -- >> the perfectly qualified nominee for the federal circuit patricia mill let was denied a vote because republicans wouldn't give her a vote. lindsey graham doesn't need an excuse to block obama's appointees. >> why won't the cia let these people speak to our elected representatives who need to get to the bottom of this and have that responsibility and duty and have top secret meetings all the time? >> one argument they're making while there's going to be a criminal investigation going on it could interfere with that. i talked to a cia officer earlier tonight who said that's ridiculous. that as a former undercover cia officer he used to testify all the time and his cover wasn't blown. >> do we believe that diane feinstein is incapable of holding a secret interrogation, an interview of these folks?

lindsey graham is lying. why is he lying? because he let two of the nominees he put a hold on go through. so we keep saying why is he putting a hold on janet yellen? >> yeah. >> fed chair. >> yeah. or new head of homeland security. we're not going to have homeland security because of benghazi. tea party people are saying why delaet some people go through? it shows he's lying, under a lot of pressure. lindsey graham likes to portray himself as one of the adults in washington and then john mccain going up against the wacko birds that they call, ted cruz and rand paul. but i think he really put himself into a corner on this. he was looking for some tea party-like issue to anchor himself to. but unfortunately, it's pulling him down, glug, glug, glug. >> professor, wouldn't the republican party have a little more credibility if, as a caucus, they had not voted to deny something like $300 million worth in security for international consulates and embassies? i mean, why doesn't lindsey graham stand up now, why distant paul ryan stan

politico senator lindsey graham posted on his facebook page the following. i think the dam is about to break on benghazi. we're going to find political manipulation seven weeks before an election. we're going to find people asleep at the switch when it comes to the state department including hillary clinton. you can imagine republican glee when two weeks ago cbs's "60 minutes" broadcast a story on how the situation was handled. here's that. >> cbs did this story on benghazi and i see criticism from the left where they go you're covering a phony scandal. >> and the "60 minutes" report recently that came out -- >> when i watched this report last night, i thought, well, about time. >> can you imagine if we knew these things before the election? >> can you only imagine. >> they're jumping with glee when "60 minutes" reported initially. but big development. laura logan delivered an apology for that story with a source

. >> south carolina a lindsey graham delivered the republican address focusing on the grad tude for the military -- gratitude for the military and he did mention god. >> many people spent thanksgiving day outdoors. as mike reports on this day, we found several people who said they are thankful for this country, health, and more than anything, family. >> a sprinkle of sunshine dripped through the trees providing a reflection on a day many do just that. >> we are just thankful and we're just talking about that for family and health to be able to walk through these beautiful woods. >> home to giants, to creeks, and a magnet for beauty. >> it's so great to see so many people sharing that view and coming to see it. >> it is a beautiful spot to spend your thanksgiving, but if we take you outside of the woods, you get that sense that a lot of people are grateful for no matter where they are or

senator lindsey graham is now telling fox news that he wants a british security contractor who he says saw the deadly attack on our consulate in benghazi to testify here in the united states. >> what's next is to call this man, the british contractor before the congress, so he can be questioned under oath about what he really did and what he really said. if, in fact, he did tell chris stevens and the entire system that the security arrangement in benghazi is going to fail, that the contract guard force is interior, that the militia is unreliable, that you need to beef up security or you're going to get people killed, then the people in charge, secretary clinton, and others, need to answer for that. >> four americans, including ambassador chris stevens, killed in the september 11th attack on our consulate there last year. >>> secretary of state john kerry arriving in saudi arabia this afternoon. the second stop in his nine-day tour of the middle east and

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lindsey graham's waiting to bring it and pound away with benghazi. he did it again with this. he's now attacking again on benghazi because of ending the filibuster power. >> and threatening to block janet yellen who had nothing to do with benghazi. >> weren't they over there somewhere? >> she must have been. i don't know where she was that night. so she needs to answer questions. >> unbelievable. >> it is unbelievable. that is what they're doing. and similarly on the affordable care act, there are fixes that need to be made. we've all known it. we've known it since the day after it was passed because that's what happens with big legislation. but they won't collaborate on common sense fixes. so you've got the legislative path completely obstructed. you've got the appointment path. you've got the judicial nominations held up. it's a complete breakdown. and now democrats have realized we've got to go ahead. we're going to let him make these appointments. we're going to govern as best we can. >> here's lindsey graham going at it again with the one word he's learned. this is his wo

a very good statement at the end of a sixty minutes i said you know this whole thing that lindsey graham has been noting is all b.s. i don't think it's b.s. and then senator cormann has already stated that there's twenty seven percent less cases now than they've had in the past and that's not needed there and it's a highly regulatory was short he put a republican and by the way in the two filibusters in the name i hope pops in my head in the both of the filibusters of the republicans the a.b.a. gave them their highest rating rating warrants a nice long liberal rubble after the break. people are interested but he has something to say everybody has a story on the potomac person want to sit next to one in the airport. i mean there's always in the waters and. that's whether it's a ballet dancer a ballplayer president. things that are curious to me as it is things i think about . them were not a. lot of fun your whole life should be. a pleasure to have you with us here today. plus time of the new alert animation scripts scare me a little bit. there is breaking news tonight and we are continui

a very good statement i made sixty minutes i said you know this whole thing that lindsey graham has been allowed in is all b.s. i don't think it's b.s. and then senator cormann has already stated that there's twenty seven percent less cases now than they've had in the past and that's not needed there and it's a highly regulatory was short he put a republican and by the way in the two filibusters in the name i hope pops in my head in the both of the filibusters of the republicans the a.b.a. gave them their highest rating rating more on tonight's long liberal rubble after the break. i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question or. no c.n.n. the m s m b c news have taken some knocks lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth might think. it's because when full attention in the mainstream media works side by side the joke is a

lindsey graham is a prime example here. he's facing a potentially tough challenge in a primary in a conservative state. he's been a republican that on some issues has been willing to, you know, talk to the president and be in the same room as the president. so he feels he has to do something to throw some red meat to the base. and this seems like the direction he's decided to go in to do that. >> you know, jess, lindsey graham, the senator lindsey graham said today that he wants abortion to be a midterm issue. he told the national review, quote, the goal is to have a vote in 2014 to make sure we vote on it. it's worth having this debate. the more people understand what we're trying to do, the more public support will grow over time. he wants this 2014 midterm election to be around abortion. >> and i'm sorry that he thinks women's rights and health are a political issue. these republicans are just the best at not learning stuff. i'm going to go back just a little bit. in 2012 we had a historic gender gap. more women voted fo

. >> and senator lindsey graham. >> and with election day two days away. we'll ask our sunday panel how much trouble both parties are in. >> i knew from the second what had happened, why it happened, and what it meant for the future. charles krauthammer opens up about his life changing accident. hello again from fox news in washington. it's been another tough week for obama care with continued problems on the government website and growing outrage over the hundreds and thousands of people whose policies are being canceled. healthca healthcare.gov was closed overnight again. we brought in james capretta and dr. ezekiel emanuel. welcome to "fox news sunday." let's start with that pledge from the president when he was trying to sell obama care. here it is. >> we will keep this promise to the american people. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan period. no one will take it away. >> but it turns out millions of americans are not able to keep their

if he wanted to do that, and we have seen lindsey graham have these fights over nominations. and linking it to benghazi time and time again. he did that with susan rice -- >> but that's a complete frauld. that's a complete charade. we know why he's doing it. >> yeah, we do know. here is lindsey graham, folks in south carolina, very much, at least some republicans think he's a rhino, has got some republican challenges now. and his way is to prove he's a krcht is to talk about benghazi and you have seen him do that time and time again. he did that with the hagel nomination. he wanted panetta to testify. that happened. he hasn't blocked all of these nominations. i do think some of this is theater. and you see john mccain obviously engaging in that today. whether or not this goes down to the wire and these folks don't get confirmed, hard to see that happening. this same thing again happened with hagel, tom perez. he eventually got confirmed over at labor. so i think eventually, you know, folks will get -- will get a good hearing and an up or down vote on the senate floor. >> josh

tim should focus on tim scott while lindsey focuses on lindsey graham. i wish tim well and that's what i would say if i were lindsey. >> interesting i forgot that you are both up for the same time, which is interesting for two senators a t the same time. >> i look forward to being on the show later. >> you'll be back. >>> guess how much the obama administration has already spent on healthcare.gov? more than $600 million. and that's just the down payment. getting it fixed will cost you a whole lot more. how much? a cyber security expert is here, next. >>> the obama administration just spent $600 million of your money to create a website that doesn't work. how do you like that one? my guess is not very much. you'll have to start paying to get it working. nice to see you, sir. >> thanks for having me on. >> any concept of how much this is going to cost you? >> they can't measure what they have right now with 500 million lines of code because that's what's in there. they haven't done an end-to-end security test. they have no concept of all the issues. so unt

but nothing from senator lindsey graham today. and david, how does he justify blocking every post that the president proposes? i'm talking about the head of federal reserve, all of these things that have absolutely nothing to do with benghazi. >> sure. well, you're right. they've been quiet today. at least as far as we knew by mid-afternoon, fox has not covered this story at all. what's going to happen here rather than what should happen is they're going to have some closed door hearings next week in front of a partisan committee. this source didn't work out for them. but they're going to keep looking and looking until somebody says what they want them to say. what should happen here is the republicans, "60 minutes" should apologize to the american people. they should apologize to the obama administration. and really, the real thing here is this was -- they politicized this tragedy. and an apology is owed to the brave men and women some of whom were there who died. >> i'll have to leave it there. thank you for your time tonight. >

>> senator lindsey graham only on "fox news sunday." with election day two days away we'll ask our panel how much trouble both parties are in. from our power player of the week. >> i knew from the second what had happened and why it happened. >> charles krauthammer opens up about his life-changing accident all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again from fox news in washington. it's been another tough week for obamacare, with continued problems on the government website and growing outrage over the hundreds of thousands of people whose policies are being canceled. in fact, healthcare.gov was down again for repairs overnight for at least 12 hours. are these just bumps in the road or signs of fundamental problems? we brought in two experts to debate what's really going on. james capretta, health care expert with the ethics and public policy center. dr. ezekiel emanuel is one of the architects oft obamacare. gentlemen, welcome to "fox news sunday." let's start with that pledge from the president when he was trying to sell obamacare. he

lindsey graham has a bill he's pushing to ban abortions after 20 weeks. immigration, president still pushing and the senate has passed which would ban discrimination in workplaces against gays lesbians in the workplace. which one will end up as law? >> it's interesting. this will be kind of a test for whether the republicans are going to move more towards building a broader majority for congressional elections or not. in the past with ten senate republicans, really the future of the gay rights movement is actually in the republican party. democrats have already been there. so it's one thing that actually if he would -- if speaker would let go off his majority of the majority rule, it could pass. immigration is in the same position. the country wants these things, republicans and democrats -- >> i have a minute left. >> the core problem is they show core challenge facing republicans. they need to broaden the base at the national level. house republicans are in districts that are immune to these currents. they feel little pressure to move forward even thoug

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a particularly egregious republican, yes, check, lindsey graham. now the question is, can the republicans find a strong enough candidate to beat a long-term senator? i've taken has to be a member of the united states congress to one of those isn't running against lindsey graham ya. or if one steps forward, every place i go i get a lot of speeches around the country, that candidate would get a lot of money and would win. whoever sits back now could end up losing that says he forever because senators do tend to hold their seats forever. i said it before and i like christine o'donnell, but delaware is a very liberal state. republicans really shouldn't and the special looking back on it now, it's easy to say that. indiana isn't that a liberal state. i can't blame anyone for richard murdoch, another when you started talking about race and abortion. we need to have a series of unfortunate hunting accident in some of these cases. oh, my gosh. what are you doing? you are too stupid the features of and you're running for senate? the same thing with aiken. t

lindsey graham is not going to back down, he says. >> lindsey graham says he'll hold up all the appointments unless he gets more information on benghazi. the questioning we just saw with john mccain is sort of home state john mccain, representing arizona and wanting to be able to go home and talk about more security along the border. also an important piece, if immigration, which was passed in the senate could ever move forward in the house that, border security piece is essential. this is one of mccain's sort of home state with national security implications issues and he pounded away at jeh johnson, wanting to get more of an answer. johnson saying he needs to talk to the people at dhs to know what he can provide. there's been a long frustration there. but it is the sort of second-term blues for the president with the kind of focus on nominees where the senate can use its power of advise and consent in the constitution to lemp leverage the administration on things like, this wanting to extract information. so the good friends mccain and graham are taking different approaches here, but it's

now that we know is time for sixty minutes to apologize to dan rather one minute i'd like to lindsey graham to apologize for trying to send us to war in syria but i don't think we're going to get that he's been trying to block these nominations forever what i'm most surprised about with this story is apparently they spent a year trying to get this right you know a year's worth of research went into this apparently this guy was completely you know full of it they should have seen this you're going to find interactor i mean i'll does this but this is what happens when you rely on private industry i hope. i'm glad that they apologized but it shouldn't ever happen to be get by. i mean i understand they were trying to do their due diligence but you know i'm not going to say there was a conspiracy theory since the guy's book with also through a publishing house with c.b.s. . your thoughts on this is a time for generalized that i just back up and go home and now. has a function a very important function but the thing that is important here is that while this mr davies has and has credibilit

republican senators including lindsey graham skeptical. >> if all we have left is place is what they have, has it been rolled back? you still have the capability to enrich the weapons grade. the question is, should they be allowed to enrich given their behavior at all? >> you really can't underestimate what a sea change this is for relations between u.s. and iran and the outlines of this deal, we would not have predicted them a couple months ago. looking forward, it is just a first step, but a step as the iranian prime minister said toward ending an unnecessary and sad chapter in relations between the u.s. and iran. >> jim there in geneva, thank you. we have a programming note that secretary kerry will join candy crowley at 9:00. keep it here for "state of the union." >> we want to move to iran. the president is contradicting secretary kerry. >> reza is live this morning. they say the deal does explicitliage knowledge iran's right. who is right here? can you hear us? >> i'm not sure i hear you. >> let me repeat the question. there's contradiction here between what we are hearing from

but meanwhile, what can lindsey graham and the other senators do? to rattle the cage and get the attention of this administrat n administration. gretchen, it's been well over a year and still we do not know what happened before, during, and after that terrorist attack. where was the president? what did he know? when did he know it? what are we doing to capture those people, those terrorists. and still to this day, the spokesperson for the white house refuses to use the phrase al qaeda when it comes to this terrorist attack. they believe it's almost like an isolated incident, like hillary clinton now famously said at this point, what difference does it make? it makes a lot of difference. it makes a difference to those families -- and i'm so glad we can use their names -- >> well, no doubt. we lost four americans, it's been more than a year. so many unanswered questions. and as of yet, no arrests. i think that's the most startling thing. the congressman says he believes the most explosive information is still in front of us. do you agree with that? >>

. >> senator lindsey graham was talking about blocking other nomination including yellin's. --[inaudible] section where they'll. >> you have senator graham hall talking about holding up the yellin nomination. this is a bargaining chip the minority can use. >> when will public discussed get to the point where they change the rules? >> that is a good question and maybe we will get to that someday. inord on the red sox victory the world series. are theed sox champions. click 6.5 months after the boston bombing, fansook their celebration to the marathon finish line. >> it was something that people rallied around which is something that really unites the entire city on a regular day. >> a wonderful touch. the story begins after a miserable 2012 season, the lousiest season and 47 years. >> a terrible season. what they did was very simple. they unloaded their prima donnas and said them to los angeles. overachievingse neymen players. spend with an open checkbook and they put together the chemistry. on the field they played well. they were the best team in baseball. >> there is a les

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i've toured the country with kelley ayotte and lindsey graham and met community and business leaders. i joined with our distinguished chairman, carl levin, hosted a sayers of meetings with senators -- a hosted a series of meeting with senators to find common ground. none was to be found. so here we are, my friends, with an obvious impact for next year of sequestration, which would dramatically impact our ability to defend this nation. so in desperation, i'm asking my colleagues to at least agree to smoothing out this path, which would end up with the same reductions into spending -- in spending, but at least not hit this bottom level, which will cause us to have planes that won't fly, ships that can't sail, and men and women in the military unable to train and operate. and once we reduce and impact operations and maintenance, readiness suffers and readiness incapability only shows up over time. i spent last sunday with my friend from tennessee, senator -- the senator from tennessee and i were in, at fort campbell, kentucky, where we spent some time with the men and women who are servi

lindsey graham threatened to hold up nominees for the survey vie r until provided. congress is about to compel some of them to testify. >> reporter: cnn learned a house intelligence subcommittee is scheduled to hear from cia security officers in ben goz sow who are expected to tell a much more detailed story on what went on the night ambassador chris stevens and three others were killed in a terrorist attack. the men described by sources as former navy seals, tomorrower army special forces and marines under contract to guard cia agents on the ground. the security officers were among those who responded when ambassador steven's compound was attacked on the night of september 11th. sources tell cnn they will appear behind closed doors in classified congressional hearing the week of november 11. members of congress have been trying to get access to them and to other actual cia agents, but as cnn has been reporting, those attempts at least to date have failed. sources tell cnn only one cia operative who was in benghazi during the attacks has gone before the house intell

senator lindsey graham a republican from south carolina and a key member of the senate armed services committee. good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> so, you have long been skeptical of the negotiations but you now know the interim deal. good deal, bad deal? >> well, identify seen a movie like this before called north korea did not end well. i don't think this -- what will this deal accomplish in terms of the end game? the end game is to dismantle the plutonium reactor. the end game to stop enrichment. this allows 18,000 centrifuges to stay in place and it basically suspends construction of the plutonium reactor. we're so far away what the end game should look like. i'm very worried. >> what's the alternative? >> well, we had a chance to deliver a body blow, the sanctions worked. this interim deal gives the iranian $7 billion in cash and leaves in place one of the most sophisticated enrichment programs around. there are now 18,000 sceentrce e centrifuges. we did this with north korea. when you relieve sanctions in north korea the north koreans took the money and broke out. this

. >> that report inspired republican senator lindsey graham to make a renewed call for hearings but it also inspired questions about that eyewitness. "the washington post" reported that the security agent had filed an after-action report telling a different tale. last night the security contractor dylan davies told the daily beast he didn't write the report and was smeared. joining me here in washington to help sort out that story and implication, eli lake who co-wrote that story and ryan lizza. eli, how do you evaluate credibility in a case like this where you see conflicting versions of accounts about what happened? >> it's difficult. josh and i are still trying to get another corroboration witnesses of exactly what mr. davies/jones did that evening. i would say this. what he told us about how he disobeyed orders from his superior and lied to him coheres to what he wrote in his book. this is not an explanation that comes after this memo is there. the memo itself we couldn't find the signature of davies and the fact he says he didn't write it adds more context to this story. >> does i

but he, for example, said he's going to go to south carolina and help lindsey graham in his republican primary. seems like his strategy is going to be, to be the sort of pragmat pragmatic, sane, alternative to folks like ted cruz, marco rubio, rand paul, et cetera. he's betting there's enough appetite for that in the gop primary to get him through. >> in the gop after you get through those first few states, i think that's right. he calls them college professors, the people who just like to talk about ideas. >> which i think is brilliant. republicans are not big on college professors. >> that's right. and i think they are in a stage where a good chunk of them want to start winning again. they can do that in these jer gerrymandered districts pretty well, but they don't have anybody showing them a path to do it in a presidential election year where you're going to of a democrat on the ticket who's going to get a lot of democrats. you're going to have 31% of the liberals voting for the republican. it will be a very close election. you're going to have a very different electorate. i think o

and instead, they gave it to lindsey graham, who is definitely not running for president now or ever, but who does face the prospect of an even more conservative right-wing primary challenger in his home state of south carolina. so, yeah, they want to keep pushing their ant-abortion agenda as they have been for these last few years, but they want it to be a lower profile affair. something that really only comes up in elections when only republicans are voting. like, say, south carolina republican primaries. in virginia this week, the republican party ran a hard line anti-abortion activist for governor, and they thereby lost a governorship that the republican party, by all rights, really should have won. the beltway diagnosis of what went wrong there is probably best stated in "the washington post" editorial about that election today, which called ken cuccinelli a hero to the tea party and a culture warrior of the first rank. they do not mean that as a compliment, though. they say, quote, mr. cuccinelli lost because he was among the most polarizing and provocative figures in richmond f