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Bipartisan pushback from the president s own defense of his son s very controversial meeting they took last year, wolf. good work on capitol hill. senator graham was pretty blunt in discussing his best friend, senator john mccain, noticing that he had been, before the surgery, somewhat forgetful. yeah, maybe more blunt than they might have been expecting in john mccain s office. we ll see what happens with that because certainly the initial word that we got from mccain s office was a blood clot in his eye and it was a lot less specific and focused on the notion of it having to do with his memory and so forth. i was surprised to hear him say that, but the good news is that we re all human beings, whether you re a u.s. senator or anybody else, and he got something checked and it sounds like he got it taken care of, and that s really all that matters. we know he has a history of various issues, including ....
Yesterday and said he noticed a measurable difference after surgery, essential a brick bat was taken to john mccain s head, those are lindsey graham s words, but he said it was a successful surgery and he believes it may have helped john mccain in the issue of memory and attention. here s what he said. i think it s a routine check but john had not been feeling good. he had been traveling a lot, wrote it off to being tired, that he was being forgetful just traveling around the world. i m glad they found what i think was the cause. you think this was the cause of whatever? yes, i think so. i talked to him sunday just like the old john mccain and much more engaged in conversation. now, an interesting note to hear lindsey graham say he was getting forgetful. we all remember that exchange that senator mccain had with james comey during the senate intelligence committee hearing, a confusing exchange between ....
Old john mccain after surgery, wolf. we wish john mccain a speedy recovery. another interesting note in your conversation with with senator graham. you had the opportunity to ask about kushner s security clearance. tell us what he said. he didn t want to go as far as the democrats have gone in calling for jared kushner s security clearance to be revo d revoked, he said he wanted to look into it further, but he took the opportunity to criticize the president s tweets suggesting that the meeting that donald jr. had with russian officials was normal. he said he does not want the president to encourage this kind of behavior given what we now know, that donald trump jr. went to this meeting after being told that the russian government wanted to help his father in that campaign. lindsey graham saying that is not the message you want to send to campaign officials of any stripe that this is an okay meeting to take. so continuing, wolf, this ....
Mention of the fact that many of the products sold or used by the trump family businesses are manufactured abroad, including clothing marketed under the donald trump and ivanka trump names. senate republicans, meanwhile, they will put off a vote on their health care bill until senator john mccain is well enough to return to washington after surgery for a blood clot. the bill may not advance without him and even with mccain s vote, there may not be enough republican support to push it through. they re asking that they use the delays to hold hearings on the bill which was crafted in secret. a new poll shows only 36% of americans approve of president trump s performance. the president says it s not bad, but it s the lowest approval rating at the six-month mark of any american president in 70 years. i ll talk with senator chris murphy in the foreign relations committee, and our correspondent and guests, they re standing by with full coverage of today s ....
one of the problems for the white house has been the evolving explanations for this meeting a year ago june. there have been several different explanations. almost every day there are some new arguments. there is no revolving explanation. if you look at black and white, the e-mail says i m interested in information derogatory that comes from a hostile foreign power. by the way, if the president says this is okay, let s make sure we understand what that means. that means we encourage the hostile foreign powers to collect information on american politicians. i don t know what to say. that s like clear the swamp, pump in the pond scum. what are we going to get out of it? everybody, stand by. we re getting more information about senator john mccain. monu is up on capitol hill. what are you learning? i just spoke with senator graham who is john mccain s closest friend in the senate. gra graham actually spoke to mccain ....