-- embassador to the un. >> thank you. >> heather. heather: senators john mccain and lindsey graham joins us live in the next hour, outspoken to investigate the kremlin. >> folks are dreaming of a white christmas. they may get really heavy snow for the upcoming new year, instd >> a penny saved is a penny earned, right? well, maybe not so much. the cost to produce a penny is on the rise again. the u.s. spends 1.5 cents so a penny and a half to make each one of them. the first time costs have been up since 2011. many experts say, though, it's doubtful that pennies cost will ever sink back below what it is actually worth. heather: still good luck if you find one, right? okay. 2016 looks to end on a snowy note for much of the northeast as a massive snowstorm looks to blanket most of new england and great lakes. janice dean in the weather center to let us know if it's going to snow on your new year's day parade. janice: no. that's the good news. we will get the system out before new year's eve. current temperatures, yesterday we were talking 58 in new york city. the temperature has dropped to 40,

important the bipartisan senate committee, john mccain, lindsey graham, jack reed, republicans look into this, that the president ordered a national intelligence assessment of the issue. let's look into it and find out but let's not trash our professionals in the intelligence agency in the cia. >> wish we had trashed it in 2001 and 2003 and in '98. wish we had trashed it ahead of bay of pigs. >> we did trash it. but right now, neil, it is so obvious the russians interfered. >> it was so obvious a cia plan to launch an attack on cuba against castro would work. it was so obvious that the indians didn't have any any nuclear capability until they proved they did. we learned it is obvious after the fact. i am taking no sides. i applied the same standard to whoever won. >> well, look, $70 billion we spend on all our intelligence agencies. >> and i mentioned a half dozen examples it was wrong. >> they're our best vehicle to know what's going on. >> you're not even entertaining the possibility that data could be wrong or not complete or other countries could be involved. i'm not an apoll gi

sitting on the couch next to me. john mccain, lindsey graham, not people that traditionally extol with the democrats. the people saying we as americans need to put our country above party, i think barack obama's record on russia has been woeful. i think that he has fallen down, on doing something about this in the summer, not what he needed to do to make it clear that he could never do this again, for president obama to say we're going to pick a time and place of our choosing. i'm sorry, sir, you are out of office soon. you had the opportunity to do that six months ago, did you not as far as we all know. i'm by no means defending him. what i am saying is donald trump has to realize that the reason, as you pointed out, that the reason she got hacked is not because vladimir putin wanted to help donald trump. he hated hillary clinton. and so as a result, he aided donald trump maybe not purposely but he did. donald trump has to understand that the minute he stands up to vladimir putin, if put sin not punished for behavior now, he will get hacked. his offices will get hacked. for anyone her

putin and russia generally is a bridge too far given the geopolitical nature of the world. john mccain, lindsey graham, marco rubio, james lang ford, jeff flake, that's five there that expressed public concern and hope they want to learn more. not that they said no, but that signals. mitch mckonl did as well yesterday, there might be more skepticism than there would be for other republican picks. generally senators that will confirm the nominees are pretty pleased who trump put forward, but some members of congress i can tell you, haven't seen this level of public skepticism and concern with any other pick than tillerson. >> and great reporting as always on that. nina, we heard in the last 24 hours there's dissension but not too much of an issue. what's your read as more names are added to that list and more concerns are brought up and again no news conference from the president-elect talking more directly to the press about this and the public. >> i think ed is right to raise rex tillerson. tillerson i come from the world of fortune 500 ceos and magazines and conferences and i

going on with the election, this is not just something democrats are concerned b. john mccain, lindsey graham, richard burr. there will be hearings in house and senate of this and can accept the results of election still be concerned and talk about this and talk about the election way russians infiltrated our systems. we know that is possible. we need to be concerned that donald trump's attitude towards the russians and rex tillerson. bill: they're trying to make this whole thing look like it is not legitimate? >> the election, mandate question. bill: many, many republicans are already, you can't use this as a dog whistle. >> that's right. bill: to make it seem as if our democracy is on, is falling apart because of it. >> i think it is very dangerous. hillary clinton lost because of 80,000 vote in three key states. there were mistakes that were made didn't have to do with russians. spend your time in michigan, not in arizona. you win that way if you're a democrat. i think that is what we should be focusing on and refurbishing party in 2018 and 2020, we have great prospects to win seats

where that goes. we do have some serious republican players in the senate, john mccain, lindsey graham, marco rubio, asking questions already about this nomination. martha: yeah. there you have it. their concerns, they're willing to give him a very fair hearing and they want to listen. we'll see. thank you very much, byron. >> thank you, martha. bill: martha there is bipartisan push for special investigation and upcoming hearings on that cia report that russia interfered with the election and tipped scales for mr. trump. there are calls for more information about what moscow may have done in our election. arizona senator john mccain spoke with martha this morning, he says there is no proof of hacking yet, it is critical he maintains to make sure it never happens. >> i do not and, that is the reason why we need a full investigation, but, i have seen no evidence of that but we should be deeply concerned about their ability to get into almost any place they want to go. if they do that with political campaigns, can't they do it in every other aspect of america, especially our milita

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red flag to me. at least mitt romney would hopefully keep them in check. people like john mccain, lindsey graham, i'm counting on them to keep it real about the threat -- heag meag the choices are so hawkic though. it is not what i would have expected given what he ran on. i wouldn't call him an isolationists, but certainly not at the level -- >> what about bob corker? melissa: i don't know that we know what his policies really are. i think we've gone one too many commercial breaks in this reality show without coming to a conclusion. like, i'm so over it at this point. but i think mitt romney makes a perfect good cop/bad cop with donald trump where he can go in and say, to do, i know, he's crazy, but he will bomb you. they could definitely play off each other in an interesting way. sandra: all right. we are watching the movement at laguardia as the president-elect heads off to indianapolis. the so-called trump bump, it continues as a new survey finds americans' confidence in the economy soaring since the election. does the president-elect deserve all the credit for this, and how

some type of obama december surprise. republicans senators john mccain and lindsey graham expressed outrage. on the other side of the aisle, new york democrat chuck schumer joined the chorus of criticism saying, it's extremely frustrating, disappointing and confounding that the administration has failed to veto this resolution. israeli reaction has also been very the office of the israeli prime minister said israel rejects this shameful anti-israeli resolution and will not abide by it. the statement went on to say that israel looks forward to working with president trump and the future u.s. congress. >> david lee miller live at the u.n. reaction has been harsh. not just from republican. the white house moved to explain why it did what it did. kevin cork is it traveling with president obama in ohio and reports from honolulu. hello. >> reporter: you are on the money. the president made this decision by himself but not after close consultation with key members of his inner circle, including joe biden, john kerry, susan rice and u.n. ambassador samantha power. it's also important to poi

. republican's john mccain and lindsey graham signed the letter as well as the democrat chuck schumer and jack reed. >> reporter: reince priebus says the intelligence communitied ins to get on the same page and they say they're already there the cia director john brennan says there is a consensus between them, in the fbi and the director or national be generals. the difference is the fbi doesn't dethe deep analysis the cia does. the cia said that it was -- the last time we heard from mr. trump on this was on december 12 in a tweet where he wrote, quote, unless you catch hackers in a chance. why wasn't this brought up before the elect, it was brought up before the election but not to extent we have seen over the last two weeks. >> do we have a sense of what could dom crime at the congressional investigation. >> tear trying to figure out how to investigate this. the senators want a select committee. that would have more power. they can subpoena people. mitch mccome has not signed on to that yet. he said in past he had gone thinks the senate intelligence committee could handle this but a

. nothing happens in russia without his knowledge and approval. >> that's senator john mccain and lindsey graham condemning russian president vladimir putin for his alleged roll in the hacking. let's bring in new york congressman peter king, member of the house homeland security committee and chairman of the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence. good to have you here today. >> thank you, uma. happy new year. >> happy new year to you, too, sir. it's not clear if this incident of attempting to hack the electric grid is an isolated event or not, how concerned are you that russia is waging a clear effort to potentially manipulate grids around the nation and shut them down in the middle of winter? >> i doubt putin would do that. i strongly oppose putin. i think he has been attempting to carry out cyber attacks against the united states. i believe he was involved with the hacking of the democratic national committee. having said that, he would have to realize any attempt to shut down power grids in the u.s. would be an act of war. when it comes to retaliation, we can do a lot more

russia engaged in our election. john mccain and lindsey graham said -- >> they didn't say how. we need to know that. >> take the wheel. >> we need to reiterate that when we say that russia was influential in the election it would have no baring on the outcome. donald trump would have won regardless. >> i agree with that. >> regardless of the interference. they make the statement that there was this interference and it implies they were involved in hacking voting machines. that's absolutely not true. >> there's no evidence of that whatsoever. >> absolutely. think it's important to remember mind people that regardless of the interference here, which we should take seriously moving forward and donald trump should take seriously at the cyber warfare situation, this would have had no change in the election. therefore, people like obama should put his ego aside and realize they lost. >> at one point on this, i agree. we didn't have a conversation with working class americans. i agree. i don't think -- >> or a good candidate. >> fair. the e-mails did or did not play into it. i don't real

do not wish us well. >> this comes after two of donald trump's biggest republican critics, john mccain and lindsey graham, joined chuck schumer and jack reed in calling to a bipartisan investigation. senator mcconnell says it's hard to believe any republicans could in any way ever be against reviewing these russian tactics. but president-elect donald trump has called the cia's assessment ridiculous. a fact -- a statement he based on nothing. tweeting today, can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and we tried to play the russia-cia card. it would be called a conspiracy. unless you catch hacker in the act it's hard to gem who was doing the hacking. why wasn't this brought up before the election? >> it was brought up before the election. over and over and over again. u.s. officials absolutely did say before the election that russian hackers stole e-mails from democratic officials and then gave them to wick dileaks -- wikileaks. it what all in an effort to help donald trump, not just to disrupt the election but to help donald trump, and 17 national security agenci

to join in people like paul ryan, john mccain, marco rubio, lindsey graham in recognizing how serious this russian interference in our election has been. this has been very disappointing to me. >> i don't disagree with you those people that you mentioned, those republicans you mentioned are looking for more sanctions on russia. sarah, i will ask you. is president obama trying to push the divide between the trump presidency and those who have been kind of anti-trump leading up to the trump presidency? >> well, i think there is no doubt that barack obama wouldn't be taking these actions if hillary clinton were about to give her inaugural address. this is about protecting president obama's legacy. he is deeply concerned now that donald trump will come in and do what he promised, which to undo all of these disastrous regulations, policies, foreign policy in particular who is trying to throw dust in the identity theft transition team while they are trying to assemble a government. now they are going to have this chaos on january 20th to deal with. by the way, this wasn't a small an

type of obama december surprise. republicans senators john mccain and lindsey graham expressed outrage. on the other side of the aisle, new york democrat chuck schumer joined the chorus of criticism saying, it's extremely frustrating, disappointing and confounding that the administration has failed to veto this resolution. israeli reaction has also been very harsh. the office of the israeli prime minister said israel rejects this shameful anti-israeli resolution and will not abide by it. the statement went on to say that israel looks forward to working with president trump and the future u.s. congress. >> david lee miller live at the u.n. reaction has been harsh. not just from republican. the white house moved to explain why it did what it did. kevin cork is it traveling with president obama in ohio and reports from honolulu. hello. >> reporter: you are on the money. the president made this decision by himself but not after close consultation with key members of his inner circle, including joe biden, john kerry, susan rice and u.n. ambassador samantha power. it's also important to poin

. but don't forget there's a couple republicans, john mccain and lindsey graham, admittedly not great friends of donald trump, but they're taking this issue seriously and talking about it. it's a good opportunity for donald trump, who doesn't seem to want to take it right now, to go to a higher ground and support an objective investigation if congress wants to have one. >> panel, we have to take a break here. when we come back, more from our exclusive interview with the president-elect, and mr. trump takes us back to the ups and downs of election night as "fox news sunday's" "the trump way" continues. downs of election night >>> and we're back with our sunday panel to continue the discussion of what mr. trump said in our exclusive interview. george, as you may have noticed, we called this hour "the trump way." have you ever seen a transition like this one in all your years where the president-elect seems to be taking over? >> nothing remotely like this. at the army/navy game, he said to you, presidency is a daunting responsibility. he looks completely undaunting to me. >> i totally ag

for that it throws a wrench into plans to have a better relationship. >> john mccain and lindsey graham says there needs to be push back, whether it's sanctions to tell rush this is not okay. what lindsey graham is saying let's wait for a new president to do this not for this president and have it start on a fresh foot, fresh congress, fresh president. many republicans not just fortunate who wants to say to russia not okay, there will be penalties. the back and forth between obama and trump on who could have won, had they run against each other this reminds me of what little kids do when they are debating which superhero would win, batman versus spiderman, who would win the contest. it's a ridiculous argument. it's never going to happen. it didn't happen. the other thing, though, that president obama was saying in that podcast more than just an ego thing was saying to democrats do not be despondent, we lost. but our agenda and our messaging is still powerful despite the fact that we lost the presidency and during my tenure in office we lost many, many seats, under neat we're stil

don't forget there's a couple republicans, john mccain and lindsey graham, admittedly not great friends of donald trump, but they're taking this issue seriously and talking about it. it's a good opportunity for donald trump, who doesn't seem to want to take it right now, to go to a higher ground and support an objective investigation if congress wants to have one. >> panel, we have to take a break here. when we come back, more from our exclusive interview with the president-elect, and mr. trump takes us back to the ups and downs of election night [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette and her new mobile wedding business. at first, getting paid was tough... until she got quickbooks. now she sends invoices, sees when they've been viewed and ta-da, paid twice as fast! see how at quickbooks-dot-com. generosity is its oyou can handle being a mom for half an hour. i'm in all the way. is that understood? i don't know what she's up to, but it's not good. can't the world be my noodles and butter? get your mind out of the gutter. mornings are for coffee and contemplation. that was a really p

aimed at republican lawmakers, marco rubio, john mccain and lindsey graham. a all whom expressed concerns about tillerson's russian ties. the bob corker who will head the committee that takes up tillerson's nomination, lawmakers want to hear his positions on vladmir putin. listen. >> putin is not a friend to the united states. putin has not been a friend to freedom and democracy and western values and competition. i mean that is just not who he is. and people are going to want to know. it accelerated or amplified by the fact that president-elect trump has said some things relative to russia that, let's face it, is very different than where we've been. meghan: so, david i'm going to you first. >> okay. meghan: this is a little controversial, total split not only within the republican party but many facets of the country. what do you make of the rex tillerson choice. >> let me look at broad picture. i promise i get back to rex. he is hiring people that know the nitty-gritty in the fields he hired them to do. that is something different from the past eight years. past eight years we

the russians, you try because people in your own party like lindsey graham, john mccain. gregg: president obama gave an interview to the atlantic, claims he suffered, quote, concentrated vilification by will fox news, rush limbaugh, the whole conservative media ecosystem which prompted karl rove, fox news contributor to respond president obama is whiny, self-justifying and bursting with excuses. which is right? >> don't know that either is right. i will go with a journalist who looked at a lot of this. honestly i don't think he has necessarily been vilified by fox news. he has done his own vilification. >> i think it is easier to blame the other i then to own up to your own mistakes. if president obama doesn't like the way we are covering him, join the club. donald trump doesn't like it either. they have different modes of responding. gregg: the president, this is what karl rove said, rarely accept that people have honest disagreements with him. is that true? >> i don't think that is fair. president obama is a very intelligent person but he is very aloof. he doesn't like the wh

republicans, senator john mccain and lindsey graham today said you know what? when the new congress is in session we're going to lead the charge up the sanctions against russia. are they premature? >> i'm not sure what they know, eric. i mean, they may be privy to information that we don't know. but i also know that, you know, we're not interested in going to war all over the world, either. so, i think having relationships, building relationships, making things better for americans is something that president-elect trump believes in. look, you know, we have a long history with russia. ronald reagan used his relationship with miguel gorbachev to the benefit of americans across the country. ending the cold war, bringing down the wall in berlin and achieving an incredible amount of success by using relationships in order to get things done. i think that's something we are going to try to do. it's something that president-elect trump believes. in and quite frankly, it's all about putting america first and that's what we want to do and that's what he wants to do. >> mr. chairman, president-

these sorts of things in recent weeks and it is not just obama. john mccain, lindsey graham say they want stronger sanctions, lindsey graham suggested the upcoming investigation would be a big issue for someone like rex tillerson, if he doesn't acknowledge russia's role in cyberattacks he may not vote for him, and would actually go out and say something different in a different position from donald trump and these confirmation hearings. >> the position mister trump was put in by president obama, did the president of the united states suddenly decide after eight years that russia is a clear and present danger, they hacked us all the time and in the last couple weeks we should retaliate because i will be the commander in chief and i have seen the light or is it a political move against donald trump in a parting shot? >> a little bit of both. also interesting because donald trump has criticized president obama saying he is putting of roadblocks making things more difficult for the transition and imagine this is the sort of thing donald trump is talking about. >> a distraction in the fir

don't forget there's a couple republicans, john mccain and lindsey graham, admittedly not great friends of donald trump, but they're taking this issue seriously and talking about it. it's a good opportunity for donald trump, who doesn't seem to want to take it right now, to go to a higher ground and support an objective investigation if congress wants to have one. >> panel, we have to take a break here. when we come back, more from our exclusive interview with the president-elect, and mr. trump takes us back to the ups and downs of election night as "fox news sunday's" "the trump way" continues. not caused by a heart valve problem. but no matter what path i take, i go for my best. so if there's something better than warfarin, i'll go for that too. eliquis. eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis had both. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial h

positions that he's done. but look, there are people like john mccain and lindsey graham who have been doing god east work on this suggesting that they're going to put together a package of real sanctions with real teeth in it and will put it oun the president's desk. the question for donald trump is going to be is he going to side with the bipartisan group members of congress all of which agree that the russians did hack into the democratic institutions or is he going to side with vladimir putin and lift some of the sanctions and not go forward with them. that's the situation that president obama is setting up for president-elect trump. i will also say, you know, i remember back in 2000 when george bush looked into vladimir putin's eyes and saw his soul and thought he was a fantastic person. he was excused of that notion when russia went into georgia. hillary clinton tried to do the reset button thinking he could work with vladimir putin and she couldn't. donald trump will learn the same thing. he's set up a template by which the west is the boogie man and he will learn that quic

cannot confirmed by the republicans. lindsey gram and john mccain have voiced concerns on the enlige inlight of the russian hacking news. i have talked to national security experts and saying that the deputy is an important roll but john bolton is going to face scrutiny as well from some republicans like rand pall that came out as well. >> this is an extraordinary cabinet. i have taken like the generales will do an affective job. in a 52 seat margin or member, you cannot lose have many. you cannot lose any of the people and the sessions thing is going to be opened if he is confirmed, it's going to take time. i think what we have done is put in an all star cast, but we have clearly po llarized the cast. >> i think there's a question on how much donald trump will fight for the nominees. is he going to rex for that? >> well, he can't lose a fight. he has to win every fight. >> he is going have problems with betty. >> thank you so much. have a great sunday. i will see you tomorrow. >>> sparking charges of cyber bullies. >> you spoke this morning on the contract of the air force one. >> w

that has an expertise. >> 100%. >> there's a problem though. lindsey graham and john mccain bit on obama for whatever reason. it may have been -- there's a deep seeded long anti-trump vein that runs through them. they are -- as trump is non-inventionist, they are interventionist. >> they have a hate for bad acting by russia. >> absolutely. >> they don't have a love for obama either. >> the left is trying to say, if you even give donald trump a chance to make his own decisions, you must be pro-russia. that's not the case. my problem is that lindsey graham and mccain saying, we need to do more. i'm going to lead the fight before we know what's going on. they boxed donald trump in a corner. >> they are privy to all the intelligence briefings and national security issues. they have been very solid and consistent on this issue. it looks like vladimir putin is not going to allow president obama to force him to take the bait on this. >> donald trump is getting the same briefings and more that the senators are. >> the briefings next week, he announced he will meet with intelligence officia

as well as arizona republican john mccain and south carolina republican lindsey graham. the israelis are making out a short time ago, the israeli u.n. ambassador issued a statement saying, neither the security council nor unesco can sever the tie between the people of israel and the land of israel. nevertheless, an historic vote taking place moments ago at the u.n. security council for the first time in decades, the united states not using its veto power to stop a resolution critical of the jewish state. back to you. >> it's not very oftenow see senators chuck assumer and john mccain on the same side of the itch. >>> rich ed son is live we more. the obama administration and the incoming trump administration clearly have two different views on this israel issue. >> reporter: they do. and if anything demonstrates how much u.s. policy is going to change or has changed as a result of the election we just had, this really does it because you have had u.s. foreign policy run by the current administration and a much different position than what you're seeing with donald trump, the

? >> i clearly agree with that you have lindsey graham and john mccain on this anti-russian tour throughout europe. and you will see more of this. they are going to push donald trump to the right when it comes to acting and and sort of boxing in putin. what makes this very problematic for trump as i have been saying over and over again because he is also trying to deal with china, is he going to need putin to be on his side as he counter weights china. >> thank you both for being with us this morning. happy new year. >> happy new year to you, abby. >> calm before the storms, hundreds of refugees rushing into the united states before president trump takes office. more of them settlings in one particular state. more on that coming up. ♪ see ya next year. this season, start a new tradition. experience the power of infiniti now, with leases starting at $319 a month. infiniti. empower the drive. family road trip! fun! check engine. not fun! but, you've got hum. that's like driving with this guy. all you do is press this, and in plain english, "coolant", you'll know what's wrong. if

there was the fbi and the russians. hold on a second. we have john mccain, chairman of the senate armed services committee, lindsey graham, republican of south carolina saying hey we need focus on the fact that a foreign country tried to interfere with our election. that audited to be something we talk about. >> how real do you want to be? so apparently our intel community, we can what they actually said. >> greenwald segment was interesting on that. >> greenwald is no conservative for the record. >> that is right. >> it is believed russians started their hacking of the perspective committees for donald trump announced for president. >> right. >> there is constant hacking of american institutions in the private and public sectors. this is just ridiculous can i read you some numbers i think are really interesting. >> i think we ought to at least have hearings about it. >> that's fine but let's stop with mccarthyism. >> the hearings would tamp counsel. >> maybe, i don't know. since obama's election in 2008, the democratic party has lost 11 senate seats, 63 house seats, a dozen gover

. chairman of the intention committee in the house. lindsey graham, john mccain, i can go on and on. republicans and democrats all agree the russians most likely had something to do with this. the government should release national intelligence estimate as declassified as they can make it to tell us exactly what transpired. this should not be a partisan issue. one day, one day, when crump's behavior they will do the same to him. >> one day could release emails of the republican rnc. >> no doubt. >> there were disagreements, there is no overall intelligence assessment. they disagreed. barack obama came out two days after the election said there is no evidence of tampering at all. >> barack obama should have taken action long, long ago on the russians and their hacking. i'm not exexcusing barack obama on this. intelligence disagrees whether the russian government or people allied with the russian government. >> which is a big difference, right. >> actually it's not a big difference. somebody who knows something about the russian government and how they behave. just because vladimir pu

the senate are saying not so fast. lindsey graham and john mccain among them. are you on that list as well? >> i'm not going to put myself on that list. i agree with something i heard congressman sean duffy say earlier today, which is you can't fault an incoming president for trying to make nice with a major world power. that's what he's trying to do. i don't think we ought to be criticizing him for doing that. >> as you look forward towards the confirmation battles that will come, certainly the democrats are saying they are going to fight on a number of them primarily right now, rex tillerson, possible secretary of state. have you looked at that at all? do his ties to vladimir putin bother you at all? >> this is a man who has been involved in business at an international level. the fact he's been an international businessman shouldn't disqualify him from this. i haven't reviewed his entire record yet, but as of yet i don't see anything that ought to preclude him from becoming our next secretary of state. >> we'll mark you in the yay category. we know the trump folks are trying to

. you were kind enough to come on my radio show. lindsey graham said this. he said i'm a big john bolton fan. i'm in charge of the state department's budget. i get five people working for me. i don't have enough people to go in there and turn the state department upside down. john bolton knows where the bodies are buried. we need to fire people and bolton sees it for what it is and i'm a big john bottle ton -- bolton fan. if you get this job, would you do what lindsay graham wants you to do? >> i talk at length at what department.d to be made at the it's not a question of management restructuring. it needs a cultural revolution for a lot of reasons and i think that's important going forward because of the damage that's done to american interests by not having a department, which is what we need to be, effective advocating american interests. >> ambassador, would you explain for the folks at home who don't understand the swamp that is washington and the swamp that is the state department, how it operates? i mean, every couple of years you get a new secretary of state in, but approx

investigator. i say this. marco rubio. marco rubio he's not like lindsey graham or even john mccain, god bless him. they are, you know, they have their own agendas. marco rubio i think is a centerist. the reason i came out. the one public endorsement i made in the election is marco rubio. why? aside from the fact that i worked with him with the pulse nightclub and all the rest, so his wonderful -- his constituent service and how pained he was by that and other things. one of things that he said that really resonated and i want everybody to remember what he said. he said i'm not using a single sentence of any of those wikileaks about the democrats, however damaging it is to the democrats. why? because today it's the democrats. tomorrow it could be the republicans. and i think that that's what we have -- we have to be for truth, and especially us on this couch because we have so much power here. we have to be for the truth. >> sure. >> this is a tough thing and i know you got this huge journalistic background. you can be a professor at columbia tomorrow. if the stuff is real and helps

schumer, john mccain as well as south carolina republican lindsey graham all very critical of the u.s. position. back to you. >> all right. david lee miller. thank you. here now governor mike huckabee who has been deeply involved for years with issues involving israel, frequently visiting israel and meeting with the fishes at the highest levels. your response to that breaking news today. >> sandra, i'm so outraged i can't even hardly contain myself. what obama did today was extend a real nice final farewell and wave to israel and prime minister netanyahu. he just bothered to use one finger in the middle of his hand to do it. this is the most amazing position he would have taken. if donald trump gets -- the first thing he does i hope is send some jackhammers over to turtle bay neighborhood in manhattan and jackknife the united nations off into the river and float it to wherever it needs to go. this is an insult to israel and every person who loves freedom. and when people use the terms settlements, they may think of the israelis build a bunch of tents and mobile homes. these settlement

say they potentially have issues with this. >> marco rubio and rand paul, ted cruz, lindsey graham have said there might be issues there. they have not outright defeated a president's nominee for a cabinet position since 1989. that was john tower, who was president bush 41's nominee to be secretary of defense. with a 52-48 edge in the senate for republicans, it only takes a couple republicans to defect. >> also in terms of whether or not the president is willing to use up so much political capital to ram through somebody that he likes. the big easter egg question if you will, you called it a big goose egg question is the supreme court. that is something donald trump ran on hard. we have names. where is this lining up in terms of a fight? >> people don't know the. a lot of people think one of the best moves he pulled off during the campaign especially to you christian conservatives was to release that list of names. and they said okay, just only on the abortion question, we're going to go for that. people will be watching that very, very closely. think about some of these senate nom