and with all due -- lindsey: whoa, yankee boy. i'm lindsey graham from south carolina. and with all due respect to my south carolina friends, get your butt to new hampshire, i need your help. ♪ mark: a granite state greeting and top of the evening to you from manchester, new hampshire. on the show tonight, budget cuts. jeb bush's struts. and lindsey graham's guts. but first, it is tuesday, it is election day in israel. we will not know for a while if prime minister benjamin “goes by b.b.” netanyahu will retain his title. the exit polls suggest the race between netanyahu and main challenger isaac herzog is as close as a shank bone is to the haroset on a passover seder plate. oy vey. netanyahu is declaring victory his pollster says he will win, but it is going to be close. if he does retain prime minister, what are the implications? and if he is kicked off the job, what are the implications? john: i want to know what a haroset is. if he ends up winning this race he has done it in an ugly way. the last couple of days, he has gone very far. he has now said he is not i

don't you think lindsey graham might be most appropriate? >> i do not agree with that at all. >> let's try sending an e-mail. it's really easy. type in any name. like hillary clinton. >> did they have a private e-mail account? >> you are right. as a senator you should stay away from personal e-mails. how about we send a test to help@senate.gov. >> i don't e-mail. >> senator, you will have to try. everybody uses e-mail. >> i have never sent one. >> sir, it is it is the only way 2015. to effectively communicate with people in real time. sure, bcc and reply all are confusing. you have to do this. >> no. >> campbell? >> i am not sure he is telling the truth. >> the internet is not a giant set of tubes. that is what he has to know. >> have a good one. we will be right back. ♪ >> we're live 24/7 on bloombergpolitics.com. campbell, what are you looking at on the site? >> a martin o'malley story and more about hillary. >> up next, we have "taking stock." it is time for both of us >> i am pimm fox and this is what i am "taking stock" of on monday,

and one of those testing the waters, senator lindsey graham. we'll ask him about his presidential aspirations coming up and it was also 50 years ago today the bloodshed on a bridge in alabama led to the naming of bloody sunday a day that would galvanize the civil rights movement. we're going to have a live report from selma where the president and others including former president george bush are scheduled to speak. and the gatlin brothers, entertaining us since they were youngsters. they're not done just yet. we'll talk to larry gatlin about what's next. >>> welcome back, everybody. well, growing concerns about a nuclear deal with iran intensifying particularly after this week's speech by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to congress. netanyahu warning that any deal will only lead to that regime developing nuclear weapons. meanwhile secretary of state john kerry now in paris continuing with his campaign to promote a deal with iran european lead ersers. joining us now senator lindsey graham with reaction to a potential nuclear deal. wel

mark: describe the company stylings of lindsey graham. lindsey: checking green. my favorites are richard pryor -- mark: do you like louis ck? lindsey: yes. jonathan winters, you could get head -- give him a spoon and he could do 20 minutes with a spoon. robin williams, there are those who can just go for hours. jerry seinfeld can do stand up without being dirty. john: how many people do you think of have had a drink? lindsey: let me tell you, i have a lot of material that nobody knows about, and that is good. [laughter] when you get loose and have one too many -- never mind. [laughter] mark: john mccain is giving you advice about this. he tells jokes over and over again. lindsey: he tells the same was over and over again. they are funny, i do not know after the 100 times we heard them but they are all in the delivery. he told me to come here, it is a battleground. i told 20 minutes of jokes at the summit -- ag summit. [laughter] [indiscernible] mark: there was a time in 2007 when you and senator dean love to watch john edwards to the i feel pretty video. have you

three of those four, lindsey graham, that means you have to vote. that means you have to vote a lot. one of the things they vote on this week and disagreed about was marco rubio wanted to increase defense spending. standing with him were lindsey graham, standing with him was ted cruz. rand paul wanted it different. yes, i'll give you money if you find it somewhere else in the budget to cut it. >> my amendment increases defense spending but pays for it with spending cuts. it is irresponsible and dangerous to continue to put america further into debt. we need a strong national defense but we should be honest with the american people and pay for it. >> so we will watch the four senators and see when there's areas of agreement, when there are areas of disagreement. that was one interesting area there. we've talked a little bit before about rand paul's interesting race on national security. they had to vote. democrats know not only do you have presidential candidates on the floor, you have a number of republican senators in 2016 who are in blue states or

. ♪ >> senator lindsey graham shock to the world sunday. he does not know how to use e-mail, today, in 2015. we call the power -- called up our tech support. >> i don't need e-mail. i never sent one. >> i am happy to set that up for you. i am accessing your screen. have you thought about a username? >>a username is nothing to worry about. typing what you would like your e-mail address to be. you have typed pr esin16@senate.gov. everyone else uses their name. >> i do not agree with that at all. >> let's try sending an e-mail. type in any name. like hillary clinton. >> did they have a private e-mail account? >> you are right. as a senator you should stay away from personal e-mails. how about we send a test to hel p@senate.gov. >> i have never sent one. >> it is the only way to effectively communicate with people in real time. sure, bcc and reply all are confusing. you have to do this. >> no. > i am not sure he is telling the truth. >> the internet is not a giant set of tubes. that is what he has to know. >> have a good one. ♪ >> where lived

"i am giving up e-mail for one day channeled lindsey graham." she joins me now from washington to tell me what she learned. jennifer thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> you're back on e-mail now. what was the experience like to go without it for one day but still try to work? >> so i thought this was going to be a fun little experiment to try to channel lindsey graham for a day. no e-mail no social media. just for a day at work. and it was not fun at all. i was in a terrible mood all day long. my co-workers were probably avoiding me. it was because i just couldn't get anything done. like the simplest tasks. like i wanted to work on a story where i would normally just e-mail a few of my sources. and instead i spent -- i don't know how long on the internet looking for their phone numbers so i could call them instead. and when i found their numbers and i called them i went straight to voicemail and their voicemail messages send to send them an e-mail. so i felt like time became a flat circle and nothing was happening. >> some poli

. >> senator lindsey graham in his third term. the 59-year-old air force veteran, a colonel in the reserves says he is exploring a run for the republican presidential nomination next year. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> the senate passed a clean department of homeland security bill funding as 30 and of the year. the house says the best they can do is short-term. how will this movie and? >> i think they will send over ada just funding bill with a 2014 order repealed. the 2012 executive order -- there are two executive orders. one cover dream act children. young children brought here as babies lip there all their lives. -- lived here all their lives. in 2014, he expanded it to 5 million additional people. i think the house will say, we fund dhs but you have to repeal the 20 order and we see what democrats do. seven democrats during their campaign said they disagreed with the 2014 order. >> but that won't be done in this context. won't you have to pass a funding bill and then come back to that issue later? >> i think the ho

his guest senator lindsey graham, republican of south carolina. >> every time a bully or an autocratic dictator gobbles up a neighbor by the force of arms all of us eventually regret it. i do believe putin could be put back in a box. >> hunt: that he will respond ultimately? >> that he will respond because benefit analysis will make him respond. he's playing poker with a pair of 2s. we have a full house. the iranians are a weak economy and weak military, they're on the wrong side of history, putin's on the wrong side of history and they're eating our lunch. >> rose: we continue with john chambers, c.e.o. of cisco systems. >> cisco systems, from when we were almost 20 years ago, we were the plumbers the people who made the internet work, and people came to cisco to say how do you use the internet to close your books, outsource manufacturing et cetera. what's exciting today is you're about to see the second generation of the internet. >> rose: we conclude with the great writer richard price, new book called "the whites." >> what i intended to do was write an utterly stripped-down totally

>> this is pretty far down on the list of concerns about lindsey graham. i'm not sure how he's running his office. >> he runs it with a butter churn. >> how does that work? but the way he's -- i think part of this reflects the concerns we saw with hillary clinton. people have difficulty managing these things. they don't want their stuff to end up in frequent information requests when it is inconvenient for them. one way around that is not to e-mail at all. maybe he does everything on a phone. that would be kind of shady if you're using it to avoid foia. everybody is looking to avoid foia. >> i think management, if you take the industry -- >> it's cybersecurity. and you have never sent an e-mail and not being familiar with e-mails seems to complicate things. >> i think management is different than expertise. we expect the commander and chief to oversee the military, but it doesn't mean that the commander and chief enters the position with a great mastery of how the weapons work. they have to then learn and manage. >> it is just e-mail. it is not weapons mas

remember, you've got several candidates in the senate rand paul marco rubio lindsey graham, ted cruz. they're going to have to accommodate themselves to the even chule shape of a budget. and you've got this intense split between the john mccain and lindsey graham faction that wants to substantially increase defense spending and those who don't. they are still going to have to pass spending bills and those would happen independently. >> what happens to the sequester? everybody agreed that wasn't a great way to go about it. >> remember that we had the ryan murray budget deal a couple of years ago which increased the sequester caps? but that expire this is year. and what that means is the caps take effect and the relief that the pentagon and domestic programs got from that earlier deal goes away. that's why the defense hawks are so upset about it. president o bottoma proposed raise -- presidents obama proposed raising the caps for defense. the republican approach is we'll raise it for budget and decrease medicare. gwen: something that will reverberate on the campaign trail. we end tonigh

i disagree with lindsey graham's assertion which is all of this is more or less explainable by the fact that we're not leading. i think kindling in that region is dry and has for some time. i think they are perfectly capable of making a sovereign mess of things on their own. a witty political scientist calls narcissist policy disorder. which is the belief that everything in the world is somehow explainable by something we did or failed to do. and i don't think that's right. >> that's it for the panel. stay tuned to see what happens when mitt romney is by himself preparing to go on tv. "ride away" (by roy orbison begins to play) ♪ i ride the highway... ♪ ♪ i'm going my way... ♪ ♪i leave a story untold... ♪ he just keeps sending more pictures... if you're a free-range chicken you roam free. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. ♪ two wheels a turnin'... ♪ i love making sunday dinners. but when my back hurt, cooking all day... forget about it. tylenol was ok, but it was 6 pills a day. but aleve

it says in a private fundraiser republican senator lindsey graham pointed to pelosi's behavior that it is better for those who support israel. did you see nancy pelosi on the floor complete disgust and said if you can get through all the surgeries there is disgust. did you say that? >> i don't know exactly what i said, but i will assume that that is accurate and apologize because two wrongs don't make a right. what i was trying to react to is her behavior in front of the prime minister. i thought it was way over the top. my attempt at humor was poor. it was in bad taste and if it offends her and i'm sure it does i apologize. one thing i won't apologize for is that the tension in this town over what to do about iran should be focused on the iranians and not the prime minister of israel. bb is not the problem. it is those that killed americans in iraq and afghanistan and caught cheating on enrichment program multiple times and vowed to destroy the state of israel and come after us. why can't our democratic colleagues understand they are the problem not the prime minister? >> i want to as

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. >> coming up tonight, c-span's road to the white house coverage of senator lindsey graham speaking at a politics and eggs event in new hampshire. then, former texas governor rick perry followed by a senate finance committee hearing. south carolina republican senator lindsey graham made his first trip to new hampshire on monday since announcing he is considering a presidential run in 2016. he spoke at the bedford village and had a politics and eggs breakfast post by the new england council. this is just over an hour. [applause] sen. graham: thank you. i feel better already knowing it is free. just remember, you get what you pay for. the national guard -- i did not know you could say it like you did but that is great. this has been a wonderful experience. if this is what it is like to run for president, it could be fun. where do i start? that panel you mentioned -- who was on it? barney and who else? >> [indiscernible] sen. graham: i would not want to be on a panel with barney. he is smart. so, anybody been to south carolina? come back, spend money. a little bit about politics and eg

senator lindsey graham joins us. >> thank you very much. we are going to override his veto. >> you can get the votes. >> absolutely. enough democrats will say the following: mr. president, you negotiate the deal, you are the commander and chief, you are the president. when it comes to lifting congressional sanctions that we have created with 100 to 0 vote we are going to have a say before you lift those congressional sanctions. >> when this corker bill i think it's next week will be voted on. >> it may slip a little bit because they are asking until the end of the month to finish the framework agreement. >> what takes so long to write these things? really? >> when you are chasing the iranians around and trying to get a deal at all costs. >> you mean the fame work -- >> -- the iranians are are dragging this out. >> but what impact does that have on your bill? all you want is your say. so, you should get your bill in. >>> democrats are saying the following we are going to allow them to the end of the month to negotiate a framework agreement t

and up next, senator lindsey graham. what does he think now about the letter he signed iranian leaders? does he stand by it or does he want a do-over? senator graham goes "on the record" next. and we are monitoring the breaking news, the hunt for suspects in the ambush shooting of two police officers. a live report from ferguson is now with the xfinity tv go app, you can watch live tv anytime. it's never been easier with so many networks all in one place. get live tv whenever you want. the xfinity tv go app. now with live tv on the go. enjoy over wifi or on verizon wireless 4g lte. plus enjoy special savings when you purchase any new verizon wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. >>> republican sneartsz are standing by. their letter to iran's leaders. 47 g.o.p. senators taking heat for running directly to iran during ongoing nuclear talks. >> my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. >> he told the congress, basically to go to hell. i wanted him the iranians in the worl

oh that has senator lindsey graham none too happy. >> if they try to go to the u.n. security council and b bypass us and leave us as the last guy standing there, will be a violent reaction against the united nations. 22% of the funding for united nations come from u.s. taxpayer. i'm in charge of that account. i will not be allowed for the united nations to get around the united states congress for a deal that affects very existence of israel and our own national security. very possible worst outcome is for iran to get a nuclear weapon. martha: senator lindsey graham is doing everything possible to stop that outfrom happening. rick grenell, great to see you again. >> you too martha. martha: talk first about the relationship between benjamin netanyahu and president obama because it looks like it couldn't be worse. what do you think? >> yeah, it is really bad. it has been i woulding for many years. no one is really surprised. we've seen the policies of the white house and the state department be anti-israel all along, you can't argue with that. there seems to be animosi

. -- i'm a big lindsey graham a fan. i think he is one of the most knowledgeable people we have on foreign policy and we need to listen to him. he is a very bright united state senator. he has carved out his niche and it is foreign policy. >> we did a poll with bloomberg on foreign-policy issues and mccain came up to me and said lindsey graham is on every single one of these issues. mr. perry: i agree. i talked to him tonight before last. picking his brain about what is going on in ukraine particular. this whole -- putin is a dangerous guy. this strategy of patience with him i don't think it is wise because the theory is with oil prices being in the tank and he has all of these economic problems and we will just outlast him and he will collapse -- you have to remember the 90's and how bad it got in russia. it is not anywhere near as bad as that now. he has $386 billion of reserves. all of this oil and gas money, he put aside. people think about what was going on in the 90's and it is a lot better now. trying to wait him

i will get by lindsey. lindsay is my buddy. i am a big lindsey graham fan. i think he is one of the most knowledgeable people we have on foreign policy and we need to listen to him. he is a very bright united states senator -- he has carved out his niche and it is foreign policy. guest >> we did a poll with : bloomberg on foreign-policy issues and someone can up to me and said lindsey graham is on every single one of these issues. governor perry: i agree. i talked to him the night before last, picking his brain about what is going on in ukraine in particular. putin is a dangerous guy. and this strategy of this strategic patience with him i , don't think it is wise because the theory is with oil prices being in the tank and he has all of these economic problems and we will just outlast him and he will collapse -- you have to remember the 1990's and how god it -- how bad it got in russia. it is not anywhere near as bad as that now. he has $386 billion of reserves. all of this oil and gas money, he put aside. people think about what was going on in the 1990's,

lindsey graham has done that this year. john mccain did it with a straw poll in 2007. the iowa republican party has changed the location of its straw poll and trying to rebrand it. people are tired of driving around the state. it is difficult strategically to navigate the place. they are spending all this time for what exactly? they get a couple of delegates out of it and they have embarrassed themselves on policies they do not want to talk about. they are asked a lot. steve king who is open and avuncular continues to make people nervous about what their nominee will look like. campbell: don't you think scott walker overacted given what she had said, the guy who worked for bush had all these sexist tweets and she told the truth. what she said. doesn't walker more than anyone have more leeway to not have to pander because he is a midwestern guy to begin with? he is not having to struggle to connect with the iowa people in the same way other candidates might. david: you are right and this is why this will have a longer tail than the average staff finding. liz was can --

what does senator lindsey graham call it? he signed the letter and is our guest next live. when healthcare gets simpler. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between people and care. martha: we're back with new reports out of iraq that iraqi forces have now pushed their way into the isis stronghold of tikrit. this is a very big development in the fight. witnesses say soldiers alongside shiite militiamen backed by iran can be seen marching into the city of tikrit that lies between baghdad and mosul, retaking saddam hussein's home town. it could be key to the future earth of them to move on and take back mosul, considered one of the big battles ahead this spring. conner powell has the very latest from this. good morning, conner. >> good morning. this is a significant turn of events here in the past few days. it isn't clear how much iraqi troops and pro government shia militia men actually control tikrit

lindsey graham, john mccain, and chuck schumer. while schumer told "new york times," quote, i like to communicate by talking directly to people. graham said i tried not to have a system where i can say the first dumb thing that comes to mind. and mccain said i am not the most calm and reserved person. i'm afraid i might e-mail something that in retrospect i wish i hadn't. one stuck with me. hank paulson. this was paulson testifying before congress back in 2009. >> do you use e-mail? >> do i use e-mail? no, i don't use it personally. >> you don't use it personally or professionally? >> no. i've never used it for any business communication. just never used it. >> while you were secretary of the treasury you never used e-mail? >> no. >> how did you communicate with people? >> telephone. >> yep. telephone. this is a guy who spent his career in the financial industry which is wider to the internet. but he knew anything hank paulson wrote down, hank paulson would have to answer for. coming up next, words on why we may want to follow hank

lindsey graham's statement i think is significant. so i think if they get the vote i think she makes it. senator menendez is under a lot of pressure now. i don't know what he's going to do. >> from the black women's roundtable and e.j. dionne thanks for your time tonight. >>> ahead, new questions about the violent arrest of a man in michigan. caught on tape. did police plant drugs in his car? that's what hi lawyer claims. >>> plus, they gotcha. a gop lawmakers gets a big surprise when she goes looking for obamacare horror stories online. >> kaboom... well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, "what else can you do for me?" i'll just take a water... get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. if you suffer from a dry mouth then you'll know how uncomfortable it can be. but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? well, the

and with all due -- lindsey: whoa, yankee boy. i'm lindsey graham from south carolina. and with all due respect to my south carolina friends, get your butt to new hampshire, i need your help. ♪ mark: a granite state greeting and top of the evening to you from manchester, new hampshire. on the show tonight, budget cuts. jeb bush's struts. and lindsey graham's guts. but first, it is tuesday, it is election day in israel. we will not know for a while if prime minister benjamin “goes by b.b.” netanyahu will retain his title.

lindsey graham once more defense spending. rand paul once less. we got a lot of no comments and nine answers from chris christie and -- black republicans reluctant to take a firm stand? mark: one of the worst things in politics today, when in the major debates of our time, how we should spend our money and what we should cut, and not one of these candidates are actually stepping up and saying here's what i like, here's what i don't like, and why. it's been for the country and the republican party, because they should be strong and brave and take positions. campbell: would you be doing the same thing? what do they have to gain? for hillary clinton, it's all upside. mark: they are going to have to say eventually what they believe in. why not get credit for courage? look at the proposals and say what they like and don't like. i understand the downside. i don't like it one bit. this is a major debate. they should step up and say what they think. campbell: i think they are a long way from having to do it why do it now when they can give you the nonansw

listen to what senator lindsey graham said on "meet the press." >> you can have every e-mail i ever sent. i've never sent one. i don't know what that makes me. scott: his confession, of sorts comes amid a big push by republicans against hillary clinton. today, some democrats were questioning clinton silence on this issue. reporter: hillary clinton in the spotlight this weekend. >> chelsea and i did a little talk on snapshot. reporter: she is not taking questions about her decision to use a private e-mail account for government business. this weekend, her boss revealed not even he knew president obama telling cbs news how he found out. president obama: at the same time that everybody else did through news reports. that is why my e-mail, from the black hairy, all those record -- from the blackberry zen etc. all those records are available. reporter: clinton is not the first secretary of state to use private e-mail. >> a lot of the e-mails that came from my personal account went to the state department system, addressed to state department employees and the domain. reporter: he told george

. >> reporter: lindsey graham? >> lindsey graham is a super nice guy. whenever i into need to know what's gaing on, call lindsey. >> reporter: you like these republicans. >> i do. i like them all very much. >> i apologize for the loser. i haven't for the liar. >> reporter: reid is known for his blunt style which gets him in trouble. he called george w. bush a loser and a liar. what does reid think about his brother jeb running for president? >> his dad was wonderful. i thought that his brother was the worst president we've ever had. i think jeb is trying to figure out who he is. he came out against xm bank. why would he do that? who would do that? that's right wing stuff at its best. he can't decide what he wants to claim a change. i don't think he knows who he is. of all the candidates we've mentioned, i hope he loses. >> reporter: why? >> for the reason i said, i don't think he knows who he is. >> reporter: not because of his name. >> well, i don't know about that. >> reporter: the truth is what's really striking about jeb bush on the campaign trail,

is that lindsey? i will get by lindsey. lindsey is my buddy. i am a big lindsey graham fan. i think he is one of the most knowledgeable people that we have on foreign policy, and we need to listen to him. he is a very bright united states senator -- he has carved out his niche and it is foreign policy. >> we did a poll with bloomberg on foreign-policy issues and in washington, and kaine came up to me and said lindsey graham is on every single one of these issues. governor perry: i agree. i talked to him tonight before last. just picking his brain about what is going on in ukraine particular. putin is a dangerous guy. and the strategy of kind of strategic patience with him i do not think is wise because the theory is with oil prices being in the tank and he has all of these economic problems and we will just outlast him and he will collapse -- you have to remember the 1990's and how god bad it got in russia. it is not anywhere near as bad as that now. >> oh, no? governor perry: because he has $386 billion of reserves. all of this oil and gas money, he put aside. people think

marco rubio in lindsey graham in particular will be more fluid in those things. as we listen to the prospects talk about foreign policy, they are all still looking to find their way in the right position. john: i totally agree with all of that. you are a student of history, and i am a student of history. there is a reason why george bush, ronald reagan. governors have an argument to make. an argument that does resonate with a lot of people. governor spent every day dealing with real lives and real people. it gives them not only a better argument for retail skills and some senators. mark: a creature watching tim. john mccain and bob dole all one denomination. -- a creature of habit in washington. john: there are a lot of donors that will give marco rubio a listen. we know that all over the place. people think it is not just positive. mark: the other thing about the senators, their washington outsiders. they can argue they are in the senate but not a creature of the senate. john: we never thought we would see the band who wrote the lyrics bring down the government

senator cardin: lindsey graham is one of the nicest guys in the senate, so i might as well call him sneezy. it is easy for all of us to get along with. mark: this is what we call in major league baseball in underhand softball. a bear, who would you pick as snow white? senator cardin: senator mikulski. everybody sort of looks to her as the person that blazes the trail, that has done everything and i am being serious. she has really been the role model for everyone to allah, so when there is a tough issue people look to barbara mikulski. phil: what do people not understand about her? senator cardin: she knows about these issues and is a street fighter, and what they do not know is l-series he she takes these issues. i have had intimate conversations with her about national issues and wildly absurd about issues that may not be popular. she is deeply concerned. mark: first time playing senators and snow white's posse, you did well. and we did not give you dopey. senator cardin: i would have taken that. i would have taken the hit or the whole team. mark: senator, thank you. you are nice to play

lindsey graham speaking on a politics and [applause] >> apta, good morning, how's everybody doing? at a great, great session already this morning, 7:30 a.m. -- who was in there eating breakfast? . all right. welcome to apta's 40th annual legislative conference and our nations capital. yesterday was some great sessions, weren't they with the mayor of washington d.c. and some great speakers and thank you all for being here. the conference comes at a momentous time in the industry. we have a lot of things to do this week. we are gearing up for a new surface transportation bill out there. this opening session really set the stage for our discussions over the next few days. in this session, oh we'll -- we will hear from the ceo and janet kovanecki with the u.s. chamber of commerce and pete bruahmn. our sponsor this morning is ralk fmatch. help me welcome joseph hills vice president for business development who will share some comments on stage. [applause] >> thank you, phil. thank you apta. my name is joe hughes, vice president for three parts of route map software, product management,

i am a big lindsey graham than. i think it's probably one of the -- i think one of the most knowledgeable people that we have on foreign policy, and we need to listen to him. he is a very very bright united states senator who has come to become he has carved out his niche and his foreign policy. [inaudible] he came up to me and said lindsey graham has run every one of these issues. >> i would agree. i think lindsey, i talked to him the night before last and just you know, picking his brain a little bit about what's going on, and ukraine in particular. putin is a dangerous guy. and this strategy of kind of strategic patience with them, i don't think is wise. because the theory is that well with oil prices being in the tank and he's got all of these economic problems, he's not going to be able we will just outlast him and he will collapse, you've got to remember the '90s and how bad it got in russia, and it's come as a matter fact -- no, no no it's not. it's not anywhere near as bad now. is got $386 billion of reserve

you know lindsey graham is my -- is my -- the one i think that knows best about national security. >> okay. thanks so much, senator mccain. thanks for being with us from arizona this morning. >> thanks for having me on. >>> and next -- is the strained relationship between prime minister netanyahu and president obama dividing american jews? congressman steve israel is here to talk about that up next. i'm brian vickers, nascar® driver. i'm kevin nealon comedian. and i'm arnold palmer, professional golfer. know what we have in common? we talked to our doctors about treatment with xarelto®. me, when i had a blood clot in my leg that could have traveled to my lungs. that's why i took xarelto®, too. xarelto® is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and pe blood clots. i took xarelto® for afib... an irregular heartbeat that can lead to a stroke from a blood clot. xarelto® is proven to reduce the risk of stroke in people with afib, not caused by a heart valve problem. hey, well i'm glad we got together. for people with afib currently well managed on warfarin there is limited i

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mark: that time lindsey graham took over our show. campbell: we reported on hillary clinton's e-mails. >> emailgate. what did she know? campbell: -- mark: the time we booked eric. campbell: that time we celebrated netanyahu's victory. mark: congratulations, bibi! campbell: hold still, you big baby. that time we talked to new hampshire democrats about hillary clinton's stuff, -- stiff competition. >> does anyone know martin o'malley? he is the former governor of maryland. mark: the time we tried to wrap like sir mix a lot-- rap like sir mix-a-lot. campbell: the time we broke bad in new hampshire. mark: it is the new hampshire voters who are not here. the time chuck schumer went back -- campbell: and the time we found our one shining moment. >> ♪ that moment you reach for the stars ♪ campbell: did we really do all that? mark: yes, we did. campbell: no wonder i am so tired. ♪ mark: we are only on the tube half an hour a day, but we are live 24/7 on bloomberg.com. campbell: griffin is meerkating this whole thing, so go to mark's twi

look at the only person that had a higher no rating, three people with higher no ratings, lindsey graham at 51%, chris christie at 57%, and donald trump at 74%. these are just among republicans. but literally and we'll let you know later in the week -- wasn't jeb bush, but he starts out with a big negative rating there of a viable candidate. the other three guys people don't talk about as viable nominees. >> nationally and in iowa. i was in iowa with jeb bush and he spoke to the ag summit and the response was fine, but it wasn't anywhere close to what some of the other folks got. his challenge there, his challenge nationally, is perception. people don't know about the record in tallahassee as governor. they view him through the prism of his last name and common core and immigration reform. he's got perception problem that he has to overcome and it is going to be a real challenge for him during the course of the primary. he'll have the money to fix it, but it ain't going to be easy. >> kathleen, do you think he can ever make his gubernatorial record part of the story or is it -- the last

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new jersey governor chris christie former arkansas governor mike huckabee snore lindsey grahame former hewlett-packard ceo carla fiorina. the list goes on. >> thank you, saddam hussein. >>> the pentagon is looking at what appears to be an islamic hit list of american military personnel. julianna goldman reports. >> reporter: the video comes from the islamic state hacking division. it was released on social media and encourages isis supporters to kill those who are lifted. the terror group claims in the video it was obtained by hacking military databases but the pentagon says it believes the information was publicly available online from news articles and even its own reports about the campaign against isis. the marine korms and air force say they're making sure everyone is notified. they're asking servicemembers to review their online footprint and to make sure privacy settings on social media accounts limit the amount of personal information available. the obama administration says the american-led military operation has blunted the terror groups emil-mentum in iraq and syria but it's

>>> and in the endgame, lindsey graham started it here on "meet the press." >> i don't e-mail -- no you can have every e-mail i've ever sent. i've never sent one. >> now the other washington politicians who admit never taking that bridge to the 21st century. i'm chuck todd. joining me to provide insight and analysis this morning are matt bai of yahoo! news, former hillary clinton press secretary karen finney, my colleague andrea mitchell here at nbc and former senior adviser to mitt romney, kevin madden. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press." with chuck todd. >> good morning. the white house is hitting back hard on the issue of iran. late last night they sent their own letter to senate republicans. the message, don't meddle and blow our chances of getting any deal. this, of course, comes after 47 republican senators warned iran's supreme leader or was it president obama they were warning, that congress could undo any deal the president makes? the gop presidential contenders were quick to endorse the letter's message. but democ