cast mail-in ballots. graham s fight to squash his subpoena went all the way to the united states supreme court where he was rejected. jill, lindsey graham has said he didn t have to testify but from what we ve heard, graham answered all of the questions that were posed to him today. what does that signify to you that there were no objections raised by his counsel under the speech and debate clause? i would say the questions were carefully crafted because the supreme court made clear he cop refuse to answer specific questions and it could go back up the chain if it related to his work as a legislator. there were very few questions that i would want to ask him that had to do with anything other than his criminal conduct
got another relationship that s causing the public policy. maybe he owes something to someone that s right. and that s going to influence the outcome of something. suzanne craig, thank you for being with us. jill, please stay with me. let s turn to georgia where one of the biggest maga allies just kwent under oath. senator lindsey gram did everything he could possibly do to evade it but today he testified before a special grand jury in atlanta, georgia. cameras never saw graham but he was inside a courtroom for more than two hours. his office stating graham answered all questions. fulton county da has been aggressively pursuing this investigation and demanded that graham appear on a pair of post-election phone calls he made to secretary of state brad raffensperger and his staff after the 2020 election. raffensperger alleges graham asked him to set aside legally
retiring well, lindsey graham has been voting for a majority so far of his judicial picks, right? yeah. but i think kavanagh and how he built on him as a supreme court nominee is different, and i don t see it. i ve been talking to a couple republican senators. you saw graham s comments yesterday. maybe a rob portman could be open. he s retiring, somebody like that. i could see being open to it, but i wouldn t count it. this could very easily be a 50/50 vote or51/49 if collins she s the one in play here. i think the messaging by the president today saying late february was kind of aimed at collins and/or murkowski. they don t want to rush. you had dick durbin, the chair of the senate judiciary committee, call collins saying you re going to have the time to do the research you need to do.
about what we heard from lindsey graham about steven miller, of course a member of the president s inner circle and regarding immigration negotiations and know understand the white house is responding. that s right. we have seen quite a shift in the past few days from senator lindsey graham on his take on how the white house is responding to the divide over the issue of immigration. and specifically how that plays into a bill that would fund the government a few days ago. graham was praising the president saying he was compassionate during tuesday bipartisan meeting here at the white house. today you saw graham essentially say that steven miller is in charge of negotiating the white house s immigration position on that issue. the white house taking exception to that. press secretary hogan putting out a statement that almost word for word copies what graham said about miller but speaking about senator graham, here is that statement now, getting ready quote as long as senator graham ch
the republicans are agreed except three. it s just senators collins, murkowski and mccain. you saw graham and heller go down to the white house yesterday and say maybe there s something we can do, they re working with the freedom caucus, i m sure paul ryan is involved, they ll make another run at this but i have yet to hear and maybe steven is a very good consultant knows what the democratic suggestion is because the only people who were happy on thursday night in the entire country were the people running against democratic incumbents like bill nelson in florida, claire mer could you skal in ms., because those three senators have to defend the original obamacare bill they have to defend not fixing it right now. i don t think that s the case at all. democrats have a very large lead now in polling everywhere on the issue on the issue of health care. it s not an issue where we re going to be on the defensive at all is the republican incumbents