lindsay graham is the biggest hypocrite walking the planet right now. lindsay graham, i remember, because i was around the '98 impeachment, he was one of the first to seay, almost emotionaly do not pre-judge and he was the one pleading with the senate to have an open mind beforehand and here he is walking in the biggest hypocritical shoes there are, i've made up my mind and i'm controlling this. you know why he's done this? he's become a trump bootlicker because he has a re-election coming up in the senate. he's up for re-election and worried about losing power and that's all this is about. there's actually a twitter account and god bless my friends at the bull work called lindsay graham's conference and they post video every day, with lindsay graham saying things about trump, the impeachment and the importance of being intellectually honest and the importantance of listening to fact and he's only doing this because he's concerned about re-election and he's only up by two percentage points right now in south carolina and i don't know how much it's worki

plus unseating lindsay graham. the senator's challenger who is raising big money is my guest tonight. does he have a chance? let's go out front. good evening. i'mier u. i'm erin burnett. a six-page rant from the president of the united states. president trump sending this letter to house speaker nancy pelosi just hour ahead of his all, but certain impeachment and trump knows it is all but certain. tonight he remains defiant. >> do you take any responsibility for the fact that you're about to be impeached? >> no. i don't take any. zero, to put it mildly. >> well, the president, with that stoney-faced glare speaking right before sending this letter to pelosi, and this is at times unhinged, he calls impeachment ugly and he rants that the mostly -- the people at the salem witch trial accused of being witches in the 1600s had more due process than he does. trump accusing pelosi of being spiteful and having unfettered contempt and egregious content and even worse than offending the founding fathers by continuing to say i

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graham i just referenced. it will be interesting to see that they asked him and what the next steps they take after that. i think right now everybody is waiting to see what he says before the senate judiciary committee before they move forward with whatever they want to do. but whatever is going to happen is going to happen at the senate level because in the house they roe focused on impeachment controlled by the democrats thinandthey are certainly not go callwi him to testify. >> host: we heard from the attorney general yesterday a he never comes out and talks and ashe's never spoke about his investigation. this is the first glimpse we've got him in the investigation so that in itself is amazing. the other thing that is interesting as he came out tealmost immediately and said he disagreed with one of hisdi conclusions. at the beginning it was justified but there was evidence to open an investigation to look into the matter. i thought it was interesting as he also took a little swipe at him because in his stat

we heard lindsay graham say i want to vote and get it out of there. they want a vote on convict or a quit. they don't want to be sitting there for days taking all of these tough decisions. >> and the president several days ago was tweeting i want witnesses. he has not been doing that. he appears to be listening for now. the president's defense, he calls democrats the party of hate and still insists his ukraine dealings were perfect. and as we go to break a little then and now on the politics of impeaching a president. >> my fear is that when a republican wins the white house, democrats will demand payback. >> some day there will be a democrat president and there will be a republican house and i suspect they're going to remember it. >> announcer: "inside politics" is brought to you by salonpas. try it for your pain. ievers t. salonpas lidocaine patch blocks pain receptors for effective, non-addictive relief. salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu. the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technolog

. >> saturday, trump ally senator lindsay graham, who served as a house prosecutor during the clinton impeachment, argued that a trump trial needs no witnesses called >> i don't need to hear from hunter biden, i don't need to hear from joe biden. we can deal with that outside of impeachment. >> perhaps the biggest strategic difference between the clinton and trump approaches to impeachment, clinton's contrition. >> i want the congress to know that i am profoundly sorry for all i have done wrong in words and deeds. >> versus the trump defiance. >> nothing was done wrong. zero was done wrong. >> reporter: and well after midnight the president tweeted about the new jersey congressman who is expected to switch parties, saying he's always heard jeff is very smart and this morning there's also some questions coming from the two military academies, west point and the navel academy, say they are looking into concerns raised when some students were seen on television with a hand gesture, just a few cadets involved and the concern is that some consider this hand gesture, including groups like t

some of whom are up for re-election and lindsay graham, for instance and there are people like mitch mcconnell who are institutionalists and mitt romney and you think of susan collins and lisa murkowski and the most independent-minded folks up for re-election particularly someone like susan collins. they want a trial and an event in the senate that is befitting the institution of the senate, right? remember what the senate is known as. it's known as the cooling chamber, right? if passions run hot in the house as what we saw there, it will be cooled off in the senate. it doesn't really do the senate as a brand and mitch mcconnell is someone who is an institutionalist do them any good to let this turn into a circus, but i do agree with david. they'll certainly try to change public opinion and probably continue to try to make a dent into biden, but listen, there are risk for that, too, because if you're trying to call biden as donald trump wants to do, then what about mick mulvaney and folks like that. >> democrats want to hear from joe biden, and the house intel chairman and democrats

lindsay graham says he's mad at hell while his daughter ivanka said he's been energized by everything that's happened this week. but he's mad as hell according to republican senator lindsay graham because what house speaker nancy pelosi decided not to do. she decided not to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. she wants to ensure a fair trial in the senate. mitch mcconnell said it's not up to her. and president trump, he simply wants to put all of this over with. he wants the trial to start as soon as congress gets back from winter break. but, neil, it will almost certainly be delayed days, weeks, perhaps even longer. >> neil: perhaps longer part. that scares a lot of folks. thank you very, very much. we'll outthis with tim scott, and democratic south carolina congressman, the pros and cons of this, 10:00 a.m. eastern time, realtime, the fallout tomorrow, here's "the five." bef >> juan: i'm juan will williams along with emily, jesse, dana, and gregory. it's 5:00 in new york city. happy holidays this, is "the five." a democratic slug fast while the candidates mixed it up in

in another graham, senator lindsay graham was at the white house and he had a conversation with the president where he believed he was mad as hell now that the senate trial could be delayed now that nancy pelosi has not delivered the articles and something not resolved any time soon. he said the president toeldz ld he wants his day in court and soon. it and the idea that it's fine with mitch mcconnell, it is not going to be fine with the president. >> kaitlan at the white house and out front now, former legal analyst, williams, and joe lockhart during the impeachment investigation and the former director of the nixon presidential library and tim naftali. we reserved judgment on mr. trump for years now and yet they come out and he should be removed from office. this is not an argument for impeachment and this is an argument from a full removal from the senate, from a benchmark evangelical publication. >> it appears to be a big crack in the most solid voting bloc for donald trump. donald trump would not have been elected without evangelical support. they're not monolithic in a group and they've

the sound from lindsay graham. the remarks that he made over the weekend about how he has clearly made up his mind at this point. so there's a little bit of a trip down memory lane you can take not wujust with senator graham. i want to play for you what he said back during 1988 during the clinton impeachment and what he's saying now and i want to pause and show you something else. here's senator graham. >> members of the senate have said i understand everything there is about this case and i won't vote to impeach the president. please allow the facts to do the talking. i have clearly made up my mind. i'm not trying to hide the fact that i have disdain for the accusations and the process. so i don't need any witnesses. >> but then if you're going to look at how senator graham compares to senator graham then and now, you've got to look at senator schumer as well. here's what he said in 1988 and today. >> a vote for chuck schumer is a vote not to impeach the president. >> based on the present evidence, that is correct

mcconnell may have other ideas, some republicans including south carolina's lindsay graham will wrap it up quickly.. as part of the process democrats have to decide who the impeachment managers will be in these are the house members that essentially act as prosecutors to make the case against the president. back to you. >>> is bay congressman eric falwell said he is focusing on the upcoming impeachment vote in washington and he met with his constituents at an event go cocoa with your congressman of pleasanton and the event was mostly his supporters a handful of people who support the president were there and protest, falwell served on the house intelligence and judiciary committees in both played a key role in the impeachment hearings the past few weeks. >> it is no longer about what the president did, i think it is clear and he admitted to it, it is about what we do meeting will we allow this as a country or will we say no one is above the law and we will seek to hold them accountable. i hope this is the first in a number of steps going forward that holds the president accountable.

plus unseating lindsay graham. the senator's challenger who is raising big money is my guest tonight. does he have a chance? let's go out front. good evening. i'mier u. i'm erin burnett. a six-page rant from the president of the united states. president trump sendi

if you go back in history a few years, you will see the hypocrisy, a few years ago you had lindsay graham calling trump a racist and now they are just tap dancing for him as much as possible. these are the folks who are really enabling where we are right now. it's extremely ugly. they're like the dumb and dumber of 21st century politics. >> in the meantime, let's pick up on your bad. because your bad had to do with the upcoming -- was it the debate or upcoming election? >> it's this idea of these billionaires buying their way into being part of the election season. you know, tom steyer and the mayor michael bloomberg, buying their way in. i've heard folks say just don't vote for them. but what's happened in 2020 is folks are being pushed out. folks aren't getting the media coverage and they don't have the access to be billionaires in our elections. it's disturbing. >> danny, bad? >> my bad was -- again, not the biggest story of the year, but the moment when donald trump walked on stage to a s.e.a.l. that had been doctored up to look like a russian eagle holding the gulf clubs. now, upon f

jon: your lindsay graham, he's fighting to make it die a quick death in the senate. i guess, one can ask what is the point there's no going to be the attitude to convict in the senate. white house going through with it. >> the democrats have responded to that. the leaders of the impeachment process on the democrats i have said they're doing this because it's a constitutional duty. and despite the fact it is unlikely to be lead to a conviction since they still have a responsibility to their oath of office into the constitution to do with the hard doing. so that is there response republicans on the other hand for this entire process very political and president trump has dismissed it as a witch and a sham. jon: posting a look at the latest fox news polls on whether americans believe that this impeachment process should begin. there's really been very little change since early october. it's about 50 percent favor impeachment and removal of the president. versus 41 this is shouldn't have been and 41 percent i should see who should happen. democrats, they don't have the v

graham question adam schiff in a senate trial. that, actually, would be worthwhile. and i think lindsey graham needs to participate in a very big way. remember, he was an impeachment manager in the 1990s. lou: you know, there was a speaker of the house who did nothing in his three years, paul ryan. there is now a chairman of the senate judiciary committee who, unless chuck grassley, the former chairman, returns to the post, i mean, he will be a do-nothing chairman of the judiciary at a time of, you know, open warfare by the democratic party without response from anyone in the senate. it is, it is to say the least disappointing. >> we are frustrated. however, the amount of federal judges that this person, that the senate has put through is tremendous -- lou: no, i understand. this president has historic achievements, but that isn't the point. the response has to assure that the second terminals historic. david, thanks so much. >> thank you. lou: david bossie, president of citizens united. >>> up next, joe biden's campaign in a biza

graham talked to him late in the week at the white house, he told reporters that trump is, quote, mad as hell that they are holding back this trial and not getting him the senate trial that he believes he deserves. so we'll see how much of that pressure builds up over the next couple of days. >> and we know from history she gets under his skin. so we will see how this place up. >>> up next, the president praises republican loyalty and trashs the democrats who voted to impeach him. the president snows this stain is permanent. >> do you think obama seriously wants to be impeached and go through what bill clinton did? he would be a mess. he would be thinking about nothing but. it would be a horror show for him. it would be an absolutely embarrassment. it would go down to his record permanently. >> announcer: "inside politics" is brought to you by salonpas. try it for your pain. i apply topical pain relievers first. salonpas lidocaine patch blocks pain receptors for effective, non-addictive relief. salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu. if your glasses aren't so will we.

lindsay graham doesn't want to see any evidence. they don't want witnesses. charles schumer, the majority leader in the senate said he would like to have people come forward with firsthand knowledge. >> jesse: who cares. they investigate in the house and the senate judges. isn't that how it works. >> juan: the senate can set its own terms. they're going to have john roberts, the supreme court chief justice there. >> jesse: schumer doesn't control the senate. >> juan: i agree. republicans. democrats control the house, republicans -- but there is a requirement, i think, that you have some sense of fairness and honesty. >> jesse: there wasn't fairness in the house, juan. juan can't explain why it's a brilliant strategy. why? because they're going to keep them in nancy's pocketbook for the rest of the year? >> greg: i think the idea -- we dismissed the idea of we demand more witnesses. if your case is so strong, why you demanding more witnesses? and why wouldn't you capitalize on the momentum of the great achievement? why? the momentum is going in reverse. they k

lindsay graham is blasting democrats on twitter. what's the difference between prosecution and persecution when the minority leader insists on denying president trump to go to court and execute executive privilege on the witness list? president trump's trial should mirror who president clinton face in the late '90s. the senate laid out the ground rules over the trial and the fight over the witnesses came later. karl rove put on an op-ed this week saying, quote, americans deserve a dignified conclusion with the impeachment as the senate gave them with mr. clinton. impeachment inflicts trauma on the nation. we can accept that. but the country should not accept the continuation of the democrat-led circus. his hands on tied until the house sends the impeachment articles. when that's going to happen really is anyone's guess at this point, jason? >> thank you very much. tim scott of south carolina and congressman lee shelden of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for being here. i got to serve in congress with both of them. it

lindsay graham -- >> that guy is in a class of his own. i would argue professor turley if you go back and look at his testimony, he testified in 1998 that if congress does not think something rises to the level of impeachment they make that decision which democrats were arguing it will vastly expand executive power and we will regret it forever. >> i think these things are two totally different things because i argued in 1998 that it didn't rise to an impeachable offense because it was a very personal mistake he made. it was wrong and he apologized for it and he cooperated. he testified. >> the sexual lies and it wasn't an abuse of power. >> this was using the office was precedence toe try to get a foreign country to influence our elections and that was what the main takeaway was. this is the worst thing a president has ever done, worse than nixon. >> so what you're saying is now it could be completely consistent with what he believes now. senator, look, you know well things can change when the shoe is on the other foot. do republicans rea

just the way they told -- lindsay graham made this analogy just the way they told that dianne feinstein that somebody on her staff was compromised and leaking information to the chinese. paul: especially because we know according to this bill barr who said this this week that the u.s. went to the russians, john brennan, the cia director went to the russians and said hey we know you are doing this. cut it out. but you don't tell the candidate? so i mean, what obligation did the fbi have to inform other people in the justice department, because one of his findings was, the inspector general's findings was they didn't really keep senior justice officials informed. >> they had an obligation to point out to everybody at a senior level, meaning the deputy attorney general and the attorney general what was going on with this investigation and in particular, that the facts alleged to have justified a fisa wiretap and to objectify this entire investigation were very much in doubt. in fact many of them were directly contradicted. paul: as they found out information that contradicted the steele do

but where i think he goes a little bit astray is in thinking that those rules are lindsay graham. but really what has to happen here is republicans need the votes of 51 senators to impose these rules on the proceedings. and although they hold the majority of 53 votes in the senate, at least lisa murkowski, possibly others, have expressed some misgivings about not having a fair process in the senate. there are vulnerable republican senators up for re-election. so ultimately mcconnell will have to be able to bring all of these senators who may have concerns on the margins along if they're going to have this cram-down sort of a process that he and senator grassley seem to envision. i think the jury is still out on what the rules look like. >> and i guess the question might be, meredith, senator kennedy softening the ground, if you will, for let mitch mcconnell make any decision he would like to do, it's his game? is that what senator kennedy might be doing? >> certainly, and so far the needle really hasn't been moved in terms of any conversation between schumer and mcconnell on layin

graham just keep going. just keep going. [ laughter ] later on the inquiry, senator john kennedy made some odd claims about how he felt while reading the report >> i haven't read the entire report i'm about 70% the way through, but i'm going to finish it after about 15% of the way through, it made me want to heave. after about 25% of the way through, i thought i dropped acid [ laughter ] >> steve: what [ laughter ] what >> jimmy: "at 40% i felt, like the peyote and the bath salts had kicked in, you know? [ laughter ] i'm sorry, what were we talking about again? where am i?" [ laughter ] >> jimmy: some 2020 news here. i read that joe biden has privately told staffers, if elected president, he would only serve one term, since he would be 82-years-old. he said, "at that point, i'll hand things over to my young vice president, bernie sanders." [ laughter ] well, "time" magazine just announced their 2019 person of the year, and they chose 16 -year-old climate activist greta thunberg [ cheers and applause greta --

graham and others that have clearly shown they're anything, but impartial. if this were a normal trial and they were looked at in the voir dire process they'd be dismissed from jury because they're not impartial. they had to take an oath. >> it's a political trial. >> it's a trial, kate. it's a constitutional trial. they take a second oath to be impartial. why do you think they take that oath? it's not a game. it's not something to be discussed. >> do you believe some of the democratic senators in the senate are impartial? elizabeth warren is going to be impartial? bernie sanders is going to be impartial? >> i believe every senator has an obligation by the constitution to look at the evidence presented and conduct at a fair and impartial trial and arrive at a hopefully fair and impartial verdict. >> let's talk about the process because it is important. you mentioned lisa murkowski and let me play how they ran this in the house. >> spookeaker pelosi was very cr and direct that her goal was to get this done before christmas. if there was such urgency that it n

take a listen to senator lindsay graham. >> the system not only got off the rails, but in my view became a criminal enterprise, to defraud the fisa court, to deny american citizen carter page's constitutional rights, and to continue an operation against president trump as president of the united states. i think what's fundamentally flawed and unlawful. >> now some republicans are going yet another step further saying these process mistakes by the fbi undermine and delegitimize the entire report. here's republican mark meadows. >> the president was correct when he talked about the fbi spying on the trump campaign. we see systemic failures over and over again, intentional failures. >> now, we're hearing from key intelligence sources that republicans on the committee are considering calling for chairman schiff's resignation. they believe schiff knew of the obama administration's fisa abuses in 2016, but failed to take action. thus violating his oversight responsibilities. now, liz, we'll get an opportunity hopefully to hear a lot more from the inspector general himself on this report on wed

. >> as long as ari is admitting that mitch mcconnell is not impartial and lindsay graham has directly said he's not impartial, it goes both ways. does he have a point? >> i don't think democrats will spend a lot of times worrying about fox news analysts' advice. if they do, they're crazy. the point is that it is political, and you need leverage to get what you want. nancy pelosi has created out of nowhere, some leverage by driving the two republican sides into opposite corners because ultimately she and the democrats want one thing. they want mick mulvaney under oath and they'll negotiate all of that, but those two people they decided have the last two pieces of the puzzle to show just how corrupt this administration is. >> to be clear, if they waited to do that on the congressional side they could have waited many months. >> it wasn't important to get it then, that was disingenuous, but they could force it now. >> and this is the first time ever in the history of impeachment that one party doesn't control boeing houses. this has never happened before. and every other impeachment case

graham was on the people absolutely hillside. his outburst at the final confirmation at the reset i voted for them and you are not following that standard. these foster frustrated that simply isn't the standard of same policy. i think there should be the qualifications are clearly important. as an invite to consult role the senate has to play and that the traditional philosophy is from that. a second oath of the senator to uphold the constitution pretty scanning and the senators that someone is going to be an oral justice of the supreme court, somebody who uphold the constitution pretty clearly mean someone who is going to look at the text of the constitution as it is written and i believe that they have entirely like state but a great degree of leeway to play with the constitution then this. the second circumvents our constitutional process. amendment process that went out and not amended by five votes. i think that is something that is fair game to debate. personal destruction is more becomes a real problem. it's absolutely off

folks like lindsay graham, and as you correctly point out, folks like the man who is now the chairman of this committee. and this is a very vocal republican minority on this committee. >> reporter: yeah, that's absolutely right. you've got some of the president's biggest defenders here. doug collins, who a lot of people thought might be appointed to the soon to be open senate seat in georgia as the ranking member here. he's somebody who really knows how to use the parliamentary tools that are available to him to slow things down, gum up the works here. but you've also got matt gates, some of the president's more hard core defenders. these are folks who have been on the trump train for as long as that has been a thing. not to mention jim jordan, who people got a thorough taste of when he was substituted into the intel panel. he's back now on the judiciary panel and he's a regular member of that body. you're going to have some of these much louder and perhaps more comfortable being bomb thrower defenders of the president here on this committee. likewise for democrats. they've got some o

as senator lindsay graham now chair of the senate judiciary committee said when he was a member of the house on the verge of impeaching president clinton. the day richard nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment, as we took the progress away from congress and he became the judge and jury. that is a perfectly good articulation of why obstruction of congress is impeachable. the president's defiance of congress is all the more troubling due to the rational he claims for his obstruction. his arguments and those of his subordinates, including his white house counsel in his october 8th letter to the speaker and three committee chairs boil down to the assertion that he is above the lawsuit. i won't read that letter here. but i do want to disagree with the characterization in the letter of these proceedings, since the constitution expressly says, and the supreme court has unanimously affirmed that the house is the sole power of impeachment and might that like the senate the house has the power to determine the rules for its proceedings. the president and hi

it now looks lindsay graham may have blundered which is if we're not going to a senate trial, that means we won't be hearing from hunter biden, from joe biden, from this man who was involved the ukrainian embassy to help democrats get dirt on trump, i think that makes it worthwhile to get this information out. if the g.o.p. is not going to have a trial on this, it makes it that easier, lowers the price for the democrats in the house to vote for impeachment. i think if they do, republicans will remind those people, members of congress from those 31 districts that were won by trump in 2016, and they are going to get hounded all yearlong if they vote for impeachment. jackie: great to see you, guys thank you very much. talk to you again soon. >>> coming up next, how you can own the rolex worn by hollywood legend marlon brando. plus what is being done with the new england patriots spy gate, 2.0. we have that. jackie: a record breaking ipo is set to start trading tomorrow on the saudi stock exchange, through be investors see it as -- but will investors see it as a buy? joining me to discuss is

but both senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and senate judiciary chairman lindsay graham have said explicitly their only goal is to end the trial as quickly as possible, call zero witnesses, and take their marching orders directly from the president himself. >> i don't need any witnesses at all. >> okay, and then in terms of -- >> i am ready to go. my goal is to end this as soon as possible. for the good of the country. >> i wasn't in any doubt at this point. >> i'm not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here >> everything i do during this, i'm coordinating with white house counsel. there will be no difference between the president's position and our position as to how to handle this. >> seth: they're supposed to be the jury, and they're literally going on tv admitting they're not going to be impartial. and they're going to take their orders from the president. only in the senate can you openly brag that you're not pretending to be a fair jury lindsey graham sounds like a dude who is just making stuff up to get out of jury duty. "i can't serve on a jury my grandma's sick, and i'm

and when he doesn't get that, because he's not expected to get that as lindsay graham has made quite clear, the president has to be able to and wants to be able to distance himself from that and say i wanted those people but it was up to the senate and the senate voted not to give them to me. i thought they should have testified. >> it is a pleasure to have you all on this christmas eve. thank you for being with us and rolling with some of this stuff. i want to bring in now chris lewis, senior white house aid to president obama, before that deputy chief counsel of the house oversight commit. both of you have unique insights in how this might go down. chris and brennan, i want to play for you a little bit more of what the president said this morning specifically as it relates not necessarily to how he and plans have been treated, because we know the president thinks he's been treated unfairly, democrats say something differently. but about his support for mitch mcconnell in this process. watch. >> they treated us worse than anybody has been treated from a legal standpoint in the histo

graham said no, that won't fly. jeff said no, so we got the hearing. then senator flake was in the elevator after he told me it was the most sleepless night he spent in the senate he woke up in the morning deciding he was going to vote to confirm judge kavanaugh to the supreme court. senator coons to have an fbi investigation. it could happen quickly enough, kavanaugh could still be confirmed if nothing came up in plenty of time. so famously, despite all of his colleagues gathering around him trying to get him to change his mind and president was trying to reach him, judge kavanaugh, senator flake demanded an fbi investigation. he was backed up and that by senator collins in the votes were essential so i write in the book that behind the scenes, judge kavanaugh wanted an investigation. he was insisting no, don't do that. it will open a can of worms. we only need to warn about one thing. the vice president could break the tie. when i decided to do the investigation, the question was, what could be of the investigatio

lindsay graham is a friend of his, an ally, very close. he was at the white house yesterday, late last night. and i want to play for you what the senator had to say. >> i just left president trump. he's mad as hell that they would do this to him and now deny him his day in court. the reason they're denying him his day in court, they know their case sucks. >> he wants a trial and he wants one now. he wants to be able to go back to his rallies, the president does, and say they acquitted me. and the longer it's going to take him to be able to say those words, i think the angrier you will see him get. >> and there's a need for him to communicate that he wants this over. because he can say they're being unfair and not sending it over, this is ridiculous. the trump administration, the trump campaign raised $5 million off of the impeachment vote. so for them, this is a get out the vote effort, this is galvanizing the base. it's pushing people to get pumped that he's running in 2020. so for them, they're like of course they're going to convey that

graham just indicated, expediently dispensed with. >> we might be watching two different stories because the two articles of impeachment the democrats rolled out closely track with the story line thas they've been pursuing since the polls suddenly shifted in their favor. and polls have shown they haven't moved a ton after they moved big at first, but they consistently showed that half of the american people favor impeachment because of the things that they outlined in the two articles today. >> do you think that what you heard from some of those donald trump supporters could be a potentially troubling omen for whoever is going to end up the 2020 candidate in pa? >> i'm sure those voters were on the fence before they saw what the democrats were doing. i'm saying that sarcastically. i think trump has a hard core base of supporters that are going to support him no matter what. i always go back to what he said about being able to shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue. i don't think the base is large enough to carry him to victory. >> the lieutenant governor of pennsylvania just said ei

other republicans like lindsay graham said they won't pretend to be fair. the timing of the trial will depend on nancy pelosi who says she will not send articles of impeachment until she's convinced there will be a fair trial. in a pre-christmas message she focused on democrats' accomplishments to increase americans' pay and clean up government. >>> britain's embattled prince andrew made a rare public appearance this christmas morning. he was seen walking with prince charles attending a church service. he did not attend a later service with queen elizabeth and other members of the royal family. they're covering the royal christmas wrapping up a year as the queen described as quite bumpy. >> reporter: good morning from where the royal family are enjoying their traditional christmas day service in the church behind me and there has been huge speculation about which members of the royal family would attend today. prince philip, the queen's husband has just been released from hospital and he didn't come today. prince andrew, the queen's son with the headlines w

lindsay graham was a republican from south carolina one of ouse and he was the managers of the case because he had been on the house jew chair -- jew tkeuudiciary he gave passionate theches about the idea that president had violated his oath office and impeachment was a way to cleanse the office. debate that were pwaoefplt was not envisioned by he framers to cleanse the office. that is what voters do. at the is what he felt time because the report from ken st tarr had come to the republicans with details involved and the president's obstruct justice which he was obviously impeached for, that this ongly needed to move forward. from umpers as a senator arc -- arkansas, a democrat was the candidate nd by arguing that he was many despicable andas poor judgment and he asked the senators here are some of my had a long list f negative adjectives for what president clinton will done with an intern as president but he impeachable ot because he said whenever you say it is not about section it is about section and e said it was a perform behavior and he -- personal behavior and he said we are all and

senate judiciary chairman lindsay graham has also said they don't need to do the house's work for them. they can just hold the trial, which could be as little as opening statements from the house managers, serving as prosecutors, and the white house lawyers. eric: meanwhile, the washington post reporting that the president, you know, he's been supposedly of course angry over this, and he wants witness or so they say. do you think it is likely there could be any witnesses if the president would prevail or it is more in his interest to have something short and in the republicans view get it out of the way? >> well, i think senate republicans led by mitch mcconnell are trying to tell the president that it is in his interest to have as brisk a trial as possible, deal with opening statements and essentially have a summary judgment without going through additional evidence, but if democrats were to win approval, a simple majority of the senate, 51 senators would be able to call witnesses, if they choose, or set rules to call witnesses. for that to happen, democrats would need at least four r

graham had to say earlier today on a trip overseas. >> this thing will come to the senate, and it will die quickly, and i will do everything i can to make it die quickly. >> reporter: but senate democrats are demanding lawmakers hold off on any judgment. this is a statement from senate minority leader chuck schumer. if articles of impeachment are sent to the senate, every single senator will make sure the senate conducts a fair and honest trial that allows all the facts to come out. it is paramount. >> reporter: we thought we may hear from the president as makes his way up to pennsylvania. he's decided to take the motorcade, so we're not going to hear him on the south lawn. but he has been tweeting and talking a lot about impeachment today. leland? leland: mark her divot, we'll check in with you as the president makes his way north. thank you, sir is. molly? molly: joining us now from nashville, republican tennessee senator and member of the senate judiciary committee, marsha blackburn. senator, thanks for joining us today. we early appreciate your time. >> absolutely. molly: the presi

. >> and even lindsay graham commented on that. doom and gloom is predicted. >> and let's be clear, tulsi gabbard obviously she voted present and she has not been, but listen, it's hard to be a democrat these days and go against impeachment and both yang and gabbard have been the few exceptions to that. neil: thank you all very, very much. a black eye for boeing yet again. this time it was trying to take attention off the 737 max by focusing what it's doing in space and it stumbled in space. what now? after this. >> oh, my god! holy (bleep)! going to hit us next. neil: he's going to hit us next. frightening moments for pat jearse on two cruise ships in mexico. and they were trying to dock, and trying to understand how that happens in slow motion. six people were hurt and carnival says that both ships will continue operating as normal. no word what caused that. and cxs train derailed at harper's ferry, west virginia, two ended up in potomac river. luckily, no one was on board except for the conductor. things not better in the skies

lindsay graham used to say that trump is a racist big got and now he kisses up to him all the time. mulvaney said he was a terrible person. now he kisses up to him. so we know that's what -- that's the road the republican party is on. but the real question is, what about these people like har wits who has stood up to trump and what about durham? will he stand up to him? god is testing brother durham. >> the reality is that the record isn't good as cynthia just laid out. the record suggests that all these people will give in eventually and that means, your former boss, former attorney general eric holder has called william barr unfit to be attorney general. he's also dangerous because he has the power to send people to jail on things he just invents. should we now expect that he's going to have durham, make his guy come up with a report next summer that pretends that people in the fbi are criminals who went after the trump campaign? because that's what he wants. >> yeah, i think that's exactly right. first let me say i'm from west texas so i enjoyed hearing cynthia repeat some of our

according to lindsay graham, sometimes floats ideas that he wants the president to embrace or the president wants him to float. so anywhere from a couple of weeks to when you listen to marcia blackburn, she wants more vindication, she seems to be from her statements be more on the longer end. ultimately i suspect it's a decision made by mitch mcconnell and he and the president in close coordination and saying there's not a lot of daylight between the two of them. when we press kellyanne conway yesterday on how appropriate it is to have essentially the defendant control this, talking about the schedule and calendar and all to assume up to this point. >> if history is an indication, one and a half to two months. thank you. >> reporter: thank you. >>> the highest court in the land will decide if president trump keeps the financial documents private like the tax records. they require the accountants to turn over documents to prosecutors. the supreme court announcement comes after six lower courts ruled against president trump's efforts to keep those records secret. joining me now to help us wal

that's where senator lindsay lohan graham comes into play. he demanded to know why investigators didn't tell trump his campaign was being investigated. maybe because his campaign was being investigated? isn't that how it usually works? but then graham did some role play to diminish the report, reciting saucy text messages between fbi lovers lisa page and peter strzok. >> march 3rd, 2016. page -- god, trump is a loathsome human. strzok. oh, my god, he's an idiot. march 16, 2016. i cannot believe donald trump is likely to be actual serious candidate for president. july 16th. we're getting closer to when this thing opens. and while donald trump is an enormous dousche. a lot of people agree with that. >> and then lindsey defending the president took his performance to heights previously unseen in the senate. >> the first thing is about the golden shower. about the sexual encounter that president trump supposedly had in a ritz-carlton hotel in russia. >> jimmy: oh, thanks for reminding us about that. i almost forgot about it. the phone ringing was

i have heard lindsey graham was terrific and his statement. i like that. i could also -- i do whatever i want. look, we did nothing wrong. so i will do long or short. i have heard mitch, lindsay, i think they are very much in agreement on some concept. i will do whatever they want to do. it does not matter. i would not mind a long process, because i would like to see the whistleblower, was a fraud. the whistleblower wrote a false report. i really blew it up when i released the transcript on the call. -- schiff gets up, and i blew him up to. he made a statement that was totally false. when he got caught, he said, ody, parody. he is a corrupt politician and a disgrace. because of the fact he is in congress, he has immunity. he went up there and that a totally false statement. the whistleblower wrote a totally false statement. it is a fraud. then i said, who where is the informer? you know why he disappeared? because i released the transcript. not released the transcript, we would have had an informer, another whistleblower. where is the second whistleblower?

i have heard mitch and i've heard lindsay. i will do whatever they want to do. i would not mind the long process because i would like to see the whistleblower -- the whistleblower wrote of false report and i blew it up when i released the transcript of the call. then adam schiff gets up and i blew him up, too, because he went up in front of congress and made a statement about what i said that was totally false. and then a long time after i met him, when he got caught, he said that was a parody. adam schiff is a corrupt politician and a disgrace. because of the fact he is in congress, he has immunity. he went up there and a totally false statement. the whistleblower wrote a totally false statement. it is a fraud. where is the informer, the one that informed the whistleblower? he had informer. he disappeared. you know why he disappeared? because i release the transcript. had i not release the transcript, we would've had informer, we would've had another whistleblower. remember the second whistleblower? where is the second whistleblower? much of the media is corrup

>> i heard lindsey graham was terrific and i heard his statement and i like that. i will do whatever i want. we did nothing wrong. i will do -- long or short, i've heard mitch, i've heard lindsay, i think they are in agreement toward some concept. i wouldn't mind a long process because i'd like to see the whistle-blower, who is a fraud. the whistle-blower wrote a false report and i nearly blew it up when i released the transcript of the call and then adam schiff gets up and he -- i blew him up, too, he went up in front of congress and made a statement about what i said that was totally false and all long time after he made it when he got caught he said oh, that was parity, parody. he's a corrupt politician and a disgrace. because of the fact that he's in congress he's got immunity so we can't do anything. he went up there and made a totally false statement. the whistle-blower wrote a totally false statement so it's a fraud. then i say where is the informer, the one that informed the whistle-blower? he had an informer. he disappeared because i released the transcrip