>> john mccain is a hero. and a united states senator who speaks his mind and somebody that we all listen to, particularly when it comes to national security matters. so yeah, i don't think -- it's probably not advisable for this line of discussion or that conversation to be going on publicly. i think the important thing is that there are things that we all agree on, things that we want to get done for the good of the country. and at some point the president is going to need senators, every republican senator, because we only have a 52-vote majority here in the united states senate, in order to accomplish this agenda. so i hope everybody can kind of dial it down a bit and keep focused on the things that unite us and that's really getting the economy growing again, creating better paying jobs, lessening the regulatory burden on businesses in this country, and looking at ways that we can strengthen our national security and keep americans safe in what is an increasingly dangerous world. >> and senator, i'm sure

let's start with mccain. feuding over comments the arizona senator made over the military raid in yemen. he has said it's a disturbance for the white house to characterize it as a success because one of our navy seals lost his life. it prompted this response from the president. "senator mccain should not be talking about a success or failure of a mission to the media. it only emboldens the enemy. he has been losing so long he doesn't know how to win anymore. look at them mess our country is. bogged down in confluence all over the place. our hero died on a winning mission, according to general mattis, not a failure. time for the u.s. to get smart and start winning again." this is the first thing, this battle. what do you make of it? >> eric: there is a lot going on this morning. a lot of twitter activity. i am finding it interesting that all day, if you watch cable news, switch channels, look all over the place, what you see is democrats outraged at donald trump for pushing back on senator richard blumenthal's

john mccain wants more raids. john mccain and lindsey graham have both been pushing harder for us to go after radical islamist terrorists. the fact that he would criticize a raid, obviously there's reason for criticism, obviously in the sense that we lost a soldier and civilians were killed. that's a very tragic thing. but the bottom line is lindsey's right, if you want more of these types of activities, don't pick a fight with the guy who is doing what you're asking him to do. but this is just -- expect more of this. >> senator, do you think john mccain was -- >> they don't like to be criticized. i'm sorry, what? >> i'm sorry, senator. do you think john mccain was picking a fight or president trump was picking the fight here? >> yes. look, this is the nature of both of them. neither of them like to be criticized. both of them like to sort of have their statements put out there and be taken as truth. and so you're going to see a lot more of this between trump and senator mccain. i would just go back to what lindse

that's a dangerous area for president trump to continue to trash john mccain. >> john mccain did say that he listens to the people that the president has hired and put in prominent positions. people like the secretary of defense, james mattis, general john kelly. it's clear, shep, that it's not likely that the president and senator john mccain are really going to get along with each other, not any time soon. >> shepard: no, it would appear that is accurate. vlad putin is in the news again today. the white house weighed in on a report that president trump talked to him about a nuclear arms treaty? >> yes, a phone call that they had saturday. another leaked transcript that comes from people that don't like what the president has to say. this is a new stark treaty. it fully goes into effect in 2018. this limits the united states and russia to 700 intercontinental ballistic missile, 750 war heads. the president according to a partial transcript reported by reuters, the president didn't like the deal too much and think it comes down too much in favor of russia. i asked the press secretary

john mccain is a republican. he does like a lot of trump's plans to deregulate the economy and stuff like that. so that's really -- that's okay with him. what he's trying to do is focus on getting this bipartisan select committee to investigate trump's ties for russia. >> does he believe he's going to find the support he needs? >> right now it's frustrating, he met with mitch mcconnell before our interview earlier last week and mcconnell reiterated that he doesn't think they need a bipartisan committee, this can be handled within the intelligence committee, as you point out, the findings are classified, the public will not see that. mccain wants to put all of this on to the public record. >> i want to take a little piece from the article, and we can read it here, this is talking about john mccain, his concerns about russia and how he feels about the leaks. he says, of course relying on the press means -- you say this, relying on the press means relying on those who leak to the press, mccain is once again at odds

he would be closer to john mccain's foreign policy. john bolton still believes the iraq war was a good idea. he still believes that regime change is a good idea. he believes that nation-building is a good idea. i think john bolton would be much closer to mccain than trump. and i think that his history of sort of acting on his own, my fear is that -- secret wars would be developing around the globe. so no, i think he would be a bad choice. >> let's turn to obamacare. you tweeted in january that the president quote fully supports my plan to replace obamacare the same day we repeal it. we have heard some mixed signals out of the white house. are you still confident that that's the case, that he still fully supports your plan? >> yes, i have discussed this with the vice president. congressman price. now secretary price. i think we need to do repeal and replace on the same day. i think we need to do complete repeal. many people are talking about a partial repeal. if you only repeal part of it and you leave in some sort of obamacare light, m

a huge fan of john mccain and bigger fan of meghan mccain. if you do have some time and i know you have a movie at 11:30 tonight. if you promise to come back, do i have your word? mateword. matt is also running cpac. >> coming you have next week. brian: judge jeanine's street justice is coming up. this man recognized by the president of the united states and invited on stage. this man will join us live next. [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette. and her new business: i do, to go. jeanette was excellent at marrying people. but had trouble getting paid. not a good time, jeanette. even worse. now i'm uncomfortable. but here's the good news, jeanette got quickbooks. send that invoice, jeanette. looks like they viewed it. and, ta-da! paid twice as fast. oh, she's an efficient officiant. way to grow, jeanette. new. get paid twice as fast for free. visit quickbooks-dot-com. >> when president trump promised all these things he was going to do for us. i my was going to do this for us. >> a star is born. brian: and he was. you just say the. president tr

a huge fan of john mccain and bigger fan of meghan mccain. if you do have some time and i know you have a movie at 11:30 tonight. if you promise to come back, do i have your word? mateword. matt is also running cpac. >> coming you have next week. brian: judge jeanine's street justice is coming up. this man recognized by the president of the united states and invited on stage. this man will join us live next. oh, how was the open house? so good! did you apply? oh, i'll do it later today. your credit score must be amazing. my credit score? credit karma. it's free. that's great! um hm. just whip bam boom, it's done. that apartment is mine! credit karma. give yourself some credit. >> when president trump promised all these things he was going to do for us. i my was going to do this for us. >> a star is born. brian: and he was. you just say the. president trump invites an un -- an unsuspecting fan up on stage after the president recognized him from news interviews earlier in the day. gene huber is with us. for those who missed it. first off let's

mccain. [applause] senator mccain: i say thanks for mentioning that i lost for running for president of the united states. i appreciate that. [laughter] senator mccain: after i lost, i slept like a baby, sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours -- [laughter] senator mccain: and did not match the number of takeoffs, but that's ok. could i tell you one brief steer. before i retired, i was at the bar, at the club and a guy standing next to me and real old-looking guy and looked a lot like charles and he was wearing one stripe on his sleeve. and i said to him, how are you? i said how long have you been in the navy. you were never promote snd no. he said i was at the first squadron, one japanese airplane used to fly over and we called him washing machine charlie and get out of our beds and into our airplanes and the all-clear siren would go off. so he said i got tired of it. he said i wasn't getting sleep and i caught this monkey and i trained him and he would get into my airplane and sta

el gobierno mexicano tampoco va a pagar el muro, afirmÓ el senador mccain, agraviando que el muro de por sÍ no detendrÁ a los inmigrantes. la Última es el trato que el presidente dio el primer ministro de australia, un aliado de washington. dicen que le colgÓ el telÉfono, enojado por un acuerdo que australia firmÓ con obama sobre refugiados. "fue es --innecesario y daÑino", aclarÓ mccain. >> estÁ tratando de decir, pensemos que una forma diferente, porque presidente trump, no tiene la experiencia. pablo: trump dijo que sÓlo simpatizaba con soldados que lo muriera en la guerra, el aviÓn de mccain se cayÓ y tuvo heridas. mccain exige una robusta investigaciÓn sobre el presunto hackeo ruso en las pasadas elecciones, tambiÉn critica la ayuda rusa al rÉgimen sirio. trump acusa a senadores republicanos como mccain de querer empezar la tercera guerra mundial, la guerra entre ellos parece que continuarÁ. >> john mccain acaba de ganar la elecciÓn, tiene seis aÑos para ser la piedra en el zapato de donald trump. enrique: polÉmica también en el proceso de nominaciÓn de la s

a huge fan of john mccain and bigger fan of meghan mccain. if you do have some time and i know you have a movie at 11:30 tonight. if you promise to come back, do i have your word? mateword. matt is also running cpac. >> coming you have next week. brian: judge jeanine's street justice is coming up. this man recognized by the president of the united states and invited on stage. this man will join us live next. [ piercing sound ] daddy! lets play! sorry kids. feeling dead on your feet? i've been on my feet all day. dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles have a unique gel wave design for outrageous comfort that helps you feel more energized. dr. scholl's. feel the energy! and this is they like lobster party.y, red lobster's lobsterfest is back with 9 irresistible lobster dishes. yeah, it's a lot. try tender lobster lover's dream and see how sweet a lobster dream can be. or pick two delicious lobster tails with new lobster mix and match. the only thing more tempting than one succulent lobster tail, is two. is your mouth watering yet? good. because the

huge fan of john mccain too and bigger fan of meghan mccain. i don't want to create problems in the halls, there are problems brewing, chris, you are right. if you have time and i know you have a movie at 11:30 tonight. if you don't mind stick around until later, we have you down on the agenda if you promise to come back. do i have your word? >> yeah. >> we want more punishment. >> right. matt's running c-pac a huge event for conservatives. >> coming up next week, brian, i'm stressed out. >> can't wait for the train tickets. >>> coming up as judge jeanine's street justice is on the line. break down the president's big day as well as big poll results. >>> and next, what a moment for if man recognized by the president of the united states and invited on stage. this man, gene huber will join people would ask me in different countries that we traveled, what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm from all nations. it puts a hunger in your heart to want to know more. is depr

senator rand paul fired back at mccain's outrageous statements saying our country that mccain is not in charge. mccain's bitterness may motivate but p his conduct of a sitting president is particularly offensive and president trump who showed he can handle all of the sling and arrows doesn't have a problem with it. he was the only republican mccain to vote against the president's choice for omb and called for an administration in to whether the trump administration had ties to russia. ties to russia? he hasn't read a paper. and slammed the president's order on extreme vetting and nerve to call australia's ambassador to reconfirm our a liiance after fake news leaks. i am sure the prime minister was much relieved. it is a good time in my opinion for senator mccain to recall that he is not our president and donald trump is thankfully and due the respect of the senator. our quotation of the evening. this from marcus on bitterness. here is a rule to remember in the future. when anything tempts you to feel bitter and not this is misfortune, but to it bear this worthily is good fortune. we'

senator rand paul said that mccain's grievances? when they don't amount to what perhaps senator mccain believes they do. >> everything he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he has runwith. >> we're lucky that john mccain is not in charge, i think we would be in perpetual war. lou: that is the commen subjecty commentary next, we're coming right back, much more this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck. oh, did i say there's only one special edition? because, actually there's 5. aaaahh!! ooohh!! uh! holy mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style. which one's your favorite? come home with me! it's truck month! find your tag for an average total value over $11,000 on chevy silverado all star editions when you finance through gm financial. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. companies across the state are york sgrowing the economy,otion. with the help of the lowest taxes in decades, a talented workforce, and world-class innovations. like in plattsburgh, where the most advanced tra

trump and mccain are on opposite sides. we need to change. we don't need to continue to have regime change throughout the world. nation-building. it's expensive. we don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're >> he said dictators get started by limiting freedom of the press. i imagine you agree with that. >> well, the thing is i don't agree with his analysis and applying that to the president. i haven't seen any legislation coming forward that wants to limit the press. i see president trump expressing his opinion rather forceful in his own disstingt way. but i see no evidence that anybody is putting forward any kind of legislation to limit the press. i think people, you know, this is colored by john mccain's disagreement with president trump. it all is. efg he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he's got running with president trump. it should be take within a grain of salt. john mccain has advocated for war everywhere. he would bankrupt the nation. we're lucky he's not in charge. i think we would b

and mccain's a feisty guy. told me a lot of mccain's folks are from one part of mississippi. he says those folks just like fighting. cheryl: well, no, he's from arizona. a state who in particular had to deal with things that he's very passionate about, including immigration. but let me ask you this. when george w. bush, he came in office, he didn't attack the media. i mean, donald trump has gone after the media and mccain -- and a lot of reporters felt this way. that we've got to keep a free press. i don't know where you sit in all of this, but journalism is tough sometimes. >> you know where i sit on this. i'm for the first amendment. i'm for free press. and free press is going to get criticized by some people. it's going to get criticized by the president when john f kennedy cancels subscriptions to the new york herald tribune. i think some of the trump backers have a good question where they say was senator mctaken talking about this when president obama's administration was violating in my view the rights of fox news' james rosen when they were threatening james of the ne

big admirer of senator mccain. he does a great job arguing for those who defend us. he's been the leading advocate for building the military and a better way to defend this. actually, his ultimate partner in that is probably going to be president trump. wouldn't argue that neither one of them have the right to say whatever they want to say. i don't know that we particularly benefit from either of them continuing this discussion. there are plenty of problems to be solved, plenty of arguments we ought to be having about how we defend the country, about the age of our ships, the age of our planes, the best material and training we can possibly have. frankly, they're both on the same side of that argument. john mccain has been leading that without a president who agreed with him for a long time. i think they'll find more to agree on than disagree on. hopefully sooner than later. >> i want you to weigh in on the back and forth for the president's pick for supreme court, neil gorsuch. you said he's a well respected juris

mccain: really? [laughter] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [indiscernible] >> the u.s. senate is in session today, debating the nomination of steve mnuchin. senatoron the floor elizabeth warren. there are speeches only today, no votes. to vote for the treasury secretary is set for 7:00 p.m. monday. then, the senate will vote on david shelton to be the new veterans affairs secretary. another, here next week. the confirmation hearing for labor secretary will be thursday live on c-span 3 at 10:00 in the morning. watch live and listen live on the c-span radio app. earlier today, new education secretary betsy devos was to jeffersongo academy in washington, d.c., a gathering organized by the washington teachers association. she was blocked by protesters and then left. >> you do not represent anything they stand for. >> buying your way into the pos

john mccain says there's enormous dysfunction. leon panetta says he's not whether or not this country can survive a crisis given the way things are right now. tony thomas, the commander of special operations, this is a nonpolitical general, made a pretty astounding statement, when he was asked about what's going on in washington right now. he said, our government continues to be in unbelievable turmoil. i hope they sort it out soon because we're a nation at war. as a commander i'm concerned our government be as stable as possible. i was surprised to see that from a general, albeit he was asked a question about it, david. i wonder your reaction, if you think it may be overblown. >> john, i was surprised as well. i did not think it was overblown. we saw in that flurry of papers in mar-a-lago as they were dealing with weekend with the north korean missile test, other countries are starting to test us now, the russians themselves have taken provocative actions in the last 48 hours, moving missiles past some of our ships, buzzing them.

, i'm going to be with mccain. but beyond that -- >> in fact, you endorsed him over then senator obama. >> i did. he's really a dear friend and i think a great public servant. second thing i want to say is take me back to the old days when a president who disagreed with a senator would pickup the poen and say, john, come on down here, let's have a drink, let's have a cup of coffee and maybe they'd yell at each other, but it wouldn't be a tweet to 40 million people because sometime before long, president trump is going to have to call senator mccain for support on something in the armed services committee or tax reform or whatever it is. on the merits, look, war is hell and there is always disappointments and failed operations in war. in this case, the administration says it gained some intelligence, it gained some other movement forward. so, okay, it wasn't a total failure, but you can't call it a success either because we lost a soldier, others were wounded and some bystanders, innocent civilians were killed. so,

senator rand paul said that mccain's grievances? when they don't amount to what perhaps senator mccain believes they do. >> everything he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he has running with president trump. >> we're lucky that john mccain is not in charge, i think we would be in perpetual war. lou: that is the commen subjecty commentary next, we're coming commentary next, we're coming right back, much more ahead,ning stay with us. you've earned your medicare. it was a deal that was made long ago, and aarp believes it should be honored. thankfully, president trump does too. "i am going to protect and save your social security and your medicare. you made a deal a long time ago." now, it's congress' turn. tell them to protect medicare. .. so tell us your big idea for getting the whole country booking on choice hotels.com. four words, badda book. badda boom... let it sink in. shouldn't we say we have the lowest price? nope, badda book. badda boom. have you ever stayed with choice hotels? like at a comfort

mccain shook his head. it's convenient for the media to say that if interpreter who is worked in iraq are not allowed in the united states, i'm going to speak up. if that makes me a nemesis of the president of the united states, you can label me as such. he's his own man, for sure. you don't think he's staking out the opposition for any other reason except that he's john mccain, the maverick? >> yeah, i think this piece was an effort to get inside the mind of republicans in washington. mccain is saying publicly what you all know he is saying privately. this white house don't know what direction they are going. mccain is, like tom cotton a fan of the national security team. but then he sees what trump tweets and says and is like this guy is out of control. it's trying to understand. john mccain is trying to hold trump accountable for the nature. >> does john mccain see this as one of the most important missions of his life? >> you know, he's -- >> checking trump's power? >> he does. he won't articulate that.

democratic senators are taking senator mccain's side. we know that because we polled a few of them over in the hallway. these democrats are telling us that they suggest mccain's knowledge of things like counter terror raids is just deeper than president trump, they think. and in a very rare show of support for someone from another party in the senate, this is what they're saying. >> i think anybody who questions john mccain understanding of the military and understanding of courage and a military context is not paying attention. >> when president trump assaults senator mccain, he better watch out because this is a guy who knows what he's talking about. and not only has he walked his talk, he's been there. >> reporter: minority leader chuck shumer brought this up on the senate floor. to say mccain is one of the most respected voices on national security, that is the first nice thing we have heard schumer say about a republican in a very long time. of course, this isn't just about complimenting people from across the aisle. it's also, for

senator rand paul said that mccain's grievances? when they don't amount to what perhaps senator mccain believes they do. >> everything he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he has running with president trump. >> we're lucky that john mccain is not in charge, i think we would be in perpetual war. lou: that is the commen subjecty commentary next, we're coming right back, much more at old dominion, we ship everything you can imagine. and everything we ship has something in common. whether it's expedited overnight... ...or shipped around the globe, ...it's handled by od employees who know that delivering freight... ...means delivering promises. od. helping the world keep promises. on mattress firmness? fortunately there's a bed where you both get what you want every night. enter sleep number and the ultimate sleep number event, going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to

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he hates mccain because mccain is standing up to him on russia and trying to associate and it won't work. >> only he can keep us safe from terrorists. only he can protect our borders. only he can win the war on terror. you are spotting a trend here. all the people who say he's a fully formed 70-year-old man are right. it's an old italian grandmother said to me, if you are born round, you don't die square. he loves twitter. most people love twitter for the thunderdome of it, the give and take. no, no, this is a one-way street. this is him talking to people who agree with him from the balcony, day after day after day. we have to stop covering this like it's the super bowl. winners and losers. the world's way more complicated than that. >> all it takes is one life to be lost. ryan's life was lost one life be lost, which ryan's life was lost. sean spicer has been on both sides of this saying this can't be a winning mission, we lost a life and yesterday hops up there, "we won, we won." what is the president doing to sean spicer as he represents the president? >> sean spicer isn't my first con

president trump sparring with senator john mccain over the deadly u.s. raid in yemen that included a tragic death of a navy s.e.a.l. senator mccain has not at all sat quiet on this questioning why the white house labelled the raid as a quote success, i have two military gentlemen here with me to discuss this. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back, you're watching cnn i'm brooke baldwin, two very different scenes playing out on capitol hill. president trump hosted a group of bipartisan senators for lunch to discuss potential support for his supreme court pick neil gorsuch. among the five democrats who attended four are up for re-election in states trump won last year, the top democrat turned his attention going after labor secretary pick andrew puzder. he has an amazing goal to have campaigned the way he did and then put this man as nominee for secretary of labor is idea that you can say one thing and do another and get away with it is in the body of andrew puzder, probably the most anti-worker nominee to the department of labor ever. >> senior congressio

is that your message to john mccain? >> that's for anybody. i don't know how much clear i can be. >> when you lose $75 million airplane and more importantly american lives are lost or wounded, i don't believe you can call it a success. many years ago when i was in prison in north vietnam, there was an attempt to rescue the pows, the prison had been evacuated unfortunately, the brave men who were took on that mission and risked their lives in an effort to rescue us were genuine american heroes. the mission failed. mr. sean spicer should know that story. >> with us tonight is our msnbc's national security kevin barron covering the military congress for some 15 years and is the executive editor of defense one. kevin, how should folks feel about this beyond the number one rule in washington, don't pick a fight in military affairs with john mccain. >> yes, that's a pretty good rule. this is a case where everyone can kind of be right in different ways. so from the initial reports of this raid, i heard from sources saying yeah, it was a tough day for

we interviewed john mccain yet on the hill. and he went offer -- rebutted what sean spicer had said. now overnight you have got the president ginning in and the president tweeting senator mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to the media. only emboldens the enemy. our hero, ryan died on a winning mission according to general mattis not failure. time for him to get smart and start winning again. are people in the white house concerned? i guess not if sean spicer carried on against mccain. >> no. during the campaign donald trump took aim at john mccain. this is a dynamic they are accustomed to. it was striking that sean spicer said that nip who questions the success of this mission owes an apology to the fallen soldier. those comments created waves. if you look at it from a different perspective, pruch has been quite critical of the iraq war for example. how does that square? and i think that argument becomes complicated. senator mccain when he was pressed by frank thorp yesterday on capitol hill

mccain: thank you. welcome and thank you for that kind introduction, and trying to follow bono reminds me of the story of the actress zsa zsa gabor's fifth husband, who on her wedding night said i know what i am supposed to do, but i do not know how to make it interesting. [laughter] sen. mccain: so, anyway. not every american understands the absolutely vital role that -- it'sand is honorable honorable chancellor, chancellor into there playing safety of the west. but i want to say thank you. in the four decades i have repented -- attended this conference, i cannot think of a time when its purpose was more necessary or important. this panel asked us to consider whether the west will survive. in recent years, this question accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. not this year. if there was ever time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now. half aestion was asked century ago, when the founders of this conference, indeed that its first why they first started coming to munich. they did not

i don't believe you can —— john mccain told nbc news. i don't believe you can we might add that 12 civilians including children were also killed. here's the president's response: @realdonaldtrump "sen. mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to the media. only emboldens the enemy! he went on to described a 'winning mission‘. these two have formed? yes, this goes back to the beginning of donald trump's presidential campaign when he questioned john mccain's heroism. john mccain of course is a decorated hero, fought in vietnam, a prisoner of war, but donald trump said, "i prefer my he was not to be captured." and prefer my he was not to be ca ptured." and at prefer my he was not to be captured." and at the same everyone thought it was ridiculous, donald trump has done it now and his presidential campaign will collapse. of course it didn't it went on and john mccain eventually came around and somewhat supported donald trump's presidential campaign but obviously there is a lot of tension and bad blood still th

senator mccain: thank you. welcome, general. i think you need to punch the -- there you go. general nicholson: thank you, sir. mccain, ranking member read, members of the committee, thank you for the honor of appearing before you today. i appreciate the opportunity to update you on the mission in afghanistan. first, i want to thank the committee for your dedication to in men and women afghanistan. we appreciate your visits to afghanistan and your support protect our homeland. you commitment also builds an enduring partner in the afghan national security defense forces. they know that we support them. it gives them the confidence they need to do their job. i would like to start by honoring the men and women who have served in afghanistan are currently deployed there. our u.s. service members, our nato allies, and by the way, the nato allies that a vote article five after 9/11, and have been buyers site ever since in afghanistan. and, the nato partners who have joined the mission in afghanistan. i want to highlig

senator mccain was a p.o.w. for six years in vietnam struck back arguing that calling it a failure did not diminish the heroic spirit if you were called in the campaign president trump said mccain was not a war hero because he was was captured in two-day trump tweeted quote senator mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of the mission to a media rate only emboldened the enemy. he's been losing so long he doesn't know how to win anymore. the question now is president trump taking a risk here? i will start with you. why are we bound to call this mission a success? why can't you take a look at something like this critically and say maybe there are some things that should have been done differently? >> there a few things. one thing that the problem is when senator mccain talks about ryan owens dying and the measure of -- a casualty does not measure the success or failure of an option. my friend brian bergdahl said it stayed measure the cost. having said that i talked to some of my friends. it is h

republican senator john mccain was critical of its<7uq%=9 and necessity in the days after the problems with the mission were revealed. now at that time white house press secretary sean spicer evoked the death of÷ú owens as way to mccain's criticism, in his interview with the miami herald, he warned the white house, to "not hide÷ú behind my son's death to prevent an investigation." at this point the white house is being careful to not be critical of the navy seal's çfather.

mccain: 8400 u.s. troops and 5000 coalition troops, i am fully aware, i know the numbers, numbers are just one parameter, it is what they do and how they do and how they are equipped, but it is an important parameter , how many more do you need to get this stalemate reversed? in. nicholson: mr. chairman, have adequate resourcing in my counterterrorism mission, in my train, advise, and assist mission we have a shortfall of a few thousand. ,his is in the nato training advise, assist mission, this could come from the u.s. and its allies. sen. mccain: shouldn't it be a concern to all of us that you now have russia, iran, and al significantaying roles, some more than the other? that wasn't the case a couple of years ago, was it? gen. nicholson: i agree there is an increase in external actors interfering in the afghan attainment of peace and stability. sen. mccain: the russian involvement? gen. nicholson: the russian involvement this year has become more difficult. first, they have become -- the gun to publi

cindy mccain, nice to have you. thank you for joining. we appreciate it. cindy: thank you. >> coming up next, emmett till's story almost 60 years later. >> i could see the jury. nobody was serious. >> a lie caused a 14-year-old's murder and the men who said they , did it went free. can america live with it? and still ahead -- >> hello, brian. >> spuds mckenzie? >> remember when ads were a laughing matter? how the superbowl of ads has become politics, seriously. plus, a web extra. the film maker behind "i am jane doe" talks to "matter of fact." soledad: the death of emmett till was a catalyzing moment in the civil rights movement. in 1955, a 21-year-old white woman accused a 14-year-old black boy of making sexual advances. two or three days later, till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, and then drowned in the tallahatchie river. the two men charged in his death were white, both acquitted by an all white male jury. they later bragged about the killing to friends. now, more than 50 years later, carolyn bryant, the woman at the center of the case, says she lied.

it's that issue that mccain has. he's worried that president trump is just not as dedicated or committed to those alliances. and so even in the critique of the president's criticisms of the press, senator mccain roots it in that issue, sort of saying, hey, this is how authoritarian regimes treat their press and treat their people, and that's not something he wants to see. all of it is rooted in a philosophical agreement i think with this president. >> also today you'll be talking to trump chief of staff reince priebus. the president insists the white house is running like a fine-tuned machine. what about the mike flynn controversy? >> i think that is the -- that's a big question because they still obviously have to fill the role of national security adviser, they're now in their first month, still having to do that. and as much as the president i think had his form of -- version of political comfort food with that news conference on thursday and the campaign rally yesterday, he temporarily shifted the focus of the fr

introduce senator mccain. ? panel on the end of the west is not one we are used to having here in >> with your, we are asking ,urselves what more financially are we seeing the beginning of the end of a western led order, of a liberal international order? we know why we are asking the question now. it's president trump, but it is also more structural than that. it has come for a very long time. the populism in europe, the explosions in the middle east. we have to ask ourselves, number one, 10 china or anyone else -- 10 china or anyone else stepping? can't, will we have an order without a leader and what does that mean? number three, to the extent the u.s. leadership is taking a big hit, can be americans get it back? there is no one better to kick it off and senator john mccain. senator. [applause] sen. mccain: thank you. thank you for that kind introduction. and may i say, trying to follow the previous speaker reminds me zsahe story of the actress zsa gabor's fifth husband who said i know what to do, i just don't

john mccain is pawn for media. they beat him up when he was republican nominee despite the fact they loved him before that. i wish he would see that he is being used here just to destroy trump. that is his only role here, that you be that republican voice against trump. steve: dan, you mentioned that pre beat upjohn mccain when running for president. we have a sound bite mon tank we'll play later on. that is exactly right. because he is inside of the president's own party, everybody wants to interview him because he is the republican who will take a shot at the guy who is his own party's standard-bearer. >> meanwhile if the shoe was on other foot, they had a democrat senator during the obama administration speaking out religiously and fervently how bad barack obama was, the media would do everything they can to brush him aside. give him five or six sections of airtime to discredit him later. this is the opposite when a republican is in control. ainsley: dan is calling the, trump saying media is enemy of the america