one like him in that sense in this generation. you think about the idea that he stayed in a prison camp and said i m not leaving despite the stature of my father and grandfather, i m not leaving til my men chris: and north vietnamese gave him, said we ll let you go because your father s an admiral. right. so at that moment you say, wow, there s a man of character, there s a guy who you want standing up. and if you want to talk about, you know, i is often hear republicans say somebody is a patriot. like, oh, he s one of us. you know what? there s a real patriot right here, john mccain. chris: gillian, as a member of the national security council staff for both bush 43 and obama, how big a player is john mccain when it comes to national security issues? he is everything. you know, as a person, i messaged meghan the other day when this became public, and i said your dad is truly an american national treasure. we don t have many of them in this country, but he s one of them. the pote
this generation. you think about the idea that he stayed in a prison camp and said i m not leaving despite the stature of my father and grandfather, i m not leaving til my men chris: and north vietnamese gave him, said we ll let you go because your father s an admiral. right. so at that moment you say, wow, there s a man of character, there s a guy who you want standing up. and if you want to talk about, you know, i is often hear republicans say somebody is a patriot. like, oh, he s one of us. you know what? there s a real patriot right here, john mccain. chris: gillian, as a member of the national security council staff for both bush 43 and obama, how big a player is john mccain when it comes to national security issues? he is everything. you know, as a person, i messaged meghan the other day when this became public, and i said your dad is truly an american national treasure. we don t have many of them in this country, but he s one of them. the potential loss of his service
are supposed to ask every morning is, what did i actually do to limit the size and scope of government in americans lives, he gets a big fat f. clayton: members of the freedom caucus felt lied to. you heard louie gohmert. he said we were told we had to roll this out in three phases in order to get more of the difficult phases done in the second and third fades. we could have got continue done in the first phase but we were lied to. how does he continue on as speaker? louie gohmert is such a trooper. a real patriot. somebody who stands that if you keep doing the same thing over and over again, you re not going to get different results. and there has been efforts to try and get rid of these establishment beltway figures who have paid lip service to limited government and then stabbed conservatives and the americans in the back every single time. maybe a new revolt against that so-called the leadership. failed leadership will finally work this time. and that has to come from
he told cnn he didn t know if any laws were broken but serious questions were raised by the times report this morning. and here s senator mccain. we know that the russians attempted to affect the outcome of the election, we know that. although we don t think they succeeded, but there is information. do you think there s any evidence of coordination between the trump campaign it s too early. but it raises serious questions. well, there s mccain. a real patriot. also today chuck grassly and diane feinstein sent a letter to the justice department requesting information about michael flynn s communications with russian officials. let me ask you about this. who wants to start with the big one? jen, i ll give you the big one. there were two campaigns last year. there was trump s campaign for president, an unlikely campaign with success. there was the russian campaign led by vladimir putin to rebuild something of the soviet empire to try to rebuild their influence to perhaps finla
they re also going to do a video link to afghanistan where there are 8,500 members serving. they will link to afghanistan so that some members of the armed forces can be a part of this. bill: it s early in the morning and afghanistan now. they have cable television and are watching all of the events. jennifer griffin is one of the driving forces behind the wheel chairs for the severely wounded vets. jennifer has done unbelievable work for them, i just wanted to tell everybody and the country that you are a real patriot, jen. everybody should know that. when we come right back, we check in with tucker carlson who rented a tuxedo and we re going