implausible. if the president of the united states used the word blank hole talking about countries in the oval office or didn t say it, i would know. i understand the question. it was an impassioned conversation. i don t recall that specific phrase being used. kristin neels essential appears tomorrow. that sets up an interesting possible face-off with dick durbin, a democrat who says the president definitely used that vulgarity. senator lindsey graham the only republican in the meeting with a different answer. he did not directly confirm or deny trump s comments but the the new york times reports graham told the president, quote, america is an idea, not a race. adding that he himself is a descendant of immigrants who came to the u.s. from s hole countries with no skills. initially statement from the white house did not deny the president made the reported comments although the president later said he did not use that specific expletive. joining us this morning from
himself in that position, amon. casey, stake with us for a little bit. we want to go back to new hampshire where hallie jackson has been with the marco rubio campaign. he s speaking there. we dipped into that a short while ago. let s talk a little bit about and we heard steve mention this, that marco rubio could benefit from lindsey graham dropping out of this race. i was wondering what the reaction has been, if you ve had a chance to gauge any reaction within the few minutes that this news has broke among some of the folks out there. so senator rubio has been on stage during this whole process and we started seeing reports graham may be suspending his campaign and confirmed it. what i m going to do after this is run incede siside and get so reaction from senator rubio. number one, as steve talked about, it s where he and senator graham are on national security. the two of them taking a hawkish position. it s become very important for the republican electorate. it s one lindsey g
can sue mayor ford for defamation. toronto s deputy mayor is running the city. mayor ford s powers have all been stripped. the deputy mayor called rob ford s comments, quote, beyond the pale, unquote, and should apologize to the reporter. some emotional testimony in the murder trial of a bride accused of killing her husband eight days after the wedding. federal prosecutors say jordan graham pushed cody johnson to his death from a cliff at glacier national park in montana in july. the associated press reports graham s teenage brother cried on the stand. graham is the woman who is accused here. and testified he was angry with her for lying about his her husband s disappears. in other words, the woman said my husband disappeared. the last time i saw him he was with some other people. i don t know what happened to him. then later we find out he went off the cliff, and the report is that the woman, also cried
we re back. joining me editor of the national review and fox news contributor, rich lowry, e.j. dionne from the washington post, charlie cook from the cook political report and erin burnett. welcome. you heard senator graham say he could support the president with a tax credit for corporation. is this what the business community wants to hear more from the administration? they do. that tax credit is very popular. likely to go through. it has a big price tag to it. they like it. they of course want to hear more. some of them along the lines of we can create more jobs if we have more tax breaks for business. it looks like the research credit is something that will be popular and get support on both sides of the aisle for that but that s as far as he ll go.
stimulus package that cut taxes and helped the unemployed and did infrastructure projects. they rejected this approach and went hard to the left and have nothing to show for their efforts but bigger government and more debt. theres was a better way. they chose not to go that way. now they own this agenda that i think has been the most liberal agenda in modern times and at the end of the day the public is not in the left ditch. they re not in the right ditch. they re in the right center of the road and the only way the president can possibly survive is come back to the middle. he s tone deaf. putting ksm on trial in new york city made no sense. interjecting himself into the mosque debate made no sense. let me ask you about troubles within the republican party. 46% negative rating right now. hardly a sweeping mandate for power. you said this to the new york times magazine back in july in terms of the state of the republican party, i ll put it up on the screen. in a previous conversat