what he s saying, they should be ashamed of themselves? you know, these are revelations, but they re not revelations about donald trump s character. it is very consistent with the donald trump that we got to know in the last five years. and so no matter how loyal people like lindsey graham and mike lee were to him, for years they were his acolytes, his rubber stamps on so many issues, they were by his side, lindsey graham was practically his mini m me, a symbiotic twin, regardless of that, the minute they turn on him, the minute they re not willing to cross a bridge that is a bridge too far because it is about destroying democracy and based on lies, then they re not loyal. then he turns on them and he turns all the cannons on them. i think it explains some of lindsey s some of lindsey s actions after the election when we saw him quickly try it go to mar-a-lago and try to make up with him. but it is just it is crazy.
wellbeing, then that s her decision. and we should support it. and i think, honestly, the best thing that he is come out of this is that we re having these conversations about mental health. um, and i applaud her for that. the idea that pain is pain and that we re used to seeing it, lindsey s got a bad acl. i get that. i had a bad acl. you know, we see casts. we see crutches. we see that type of stuff. it makes it real. um, pain we can t see is, therefore, discounted. but do you believe it can be every bit as real? absolutely. and, you know, again, just because we don t feel that it s real doesn t mean it s not real to that person. i mean, simone has gone through so many injuries, that we haven t seen. i mean, she s competed with broken toes, sprained ankles, you know, all of those things that she hasn t, necessarily, talked about. so, it s not that she s not tough. you know, don t don t misconstrue that. but i think that, you know, again, what we view as pain, you
tonight s round, susan pace washington bureau chief. dana mill bank, political columnist look, first of all, there is no doubt dr. ford is going to help the democrats because she was the most likeable public event in american politics in i don t know how long. they believed her to be authentic, they didn t think she was political. oddly enough that helps one side because she didn t look to be a politician. and i think the other guy, i guess lyndsay fired up this strange moment of scream for help kind of thing. despite everything he does, i find that i do like lindsey graham. can t quite explain why i do because i ve known him a long time and i do like him. i don t think they re equal. there s no comparison to me to how effective she was compared to his desperate cry for help. lindsey s. i do think it s helpful for democrats because women who have been on fire for about two years have got more fuel on that fire. the primaries. i think it s also helpful for
in and it got all turned around only a few years later. there were problems of lie riots during mayor lindsey s that was another thing. i m just saying there s something going on. i don t know how it is by you, but, i mean crime is on the rise in major cities. some major cities a double-digit rise. should we worry or is this a passing phenomena? it s a terrible phenomenon. it has spirely to do with the mainstream media which has taken on the cops humiliated the cops. write that down. tried to make them the bad guys. mainstream media, it s the criminals who are called criminals for a reason. cops are called the police for a reason. police are protecting us. criminals are threatening us. stop beating up on the police. they re our heroes. adam? this is a nonsense story line that i m going to blame charley for, not ben, but thank you. what s nonsense, that you liberals out there
political reality of the president s victory. so we ll wrestle with all of that as we go forward but i want to see and insist that this money be used to reduce the deficit if there is any revenue coming in. martha: i want to ask you this one more time. when you look at the statements by senator lindsey graham and senator sachs by chambliss who basically said i m willing to revisit the tax pledge but only if we get real commensurate spending cuts, what do you think about that posture from them? well, lindsey s, he is a member of the budget committee which i m ranking republican on. lindsey has said that before. this is not new. he believes and this is correct if we don t alter the course of the surging entitlements those programs are not sustainable. he is conditioning any tax increase fixing these programs, social security and medicare particularly, making sure they re sound for future. so that is lindsey s position. he has talked about