Here next. And closing in. Michael flynn stopped sharing information with trumps legal team. I would be concerned if i were perhaps in the white house. Is flynn ready to flip . Former u. S. Attorney weighs in on that. Plus, irritated democrats. An ad Campaign Calls for trumps impeachment. This president is a clear and present danger. And the democratic mega donor behind it doesnt care if the party wants him to stop. Its not some place i think we should go. Playing into the president s hands . Well ask him live. Hello. Im dana bash in for jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is stuffed. This morning, President Trump is wrapping up his thanksgiving break at his maralago home in florida. He played with pros tiger woods and jack nicolas. This afternoon, the president returned right here to washington where hes facing what might be the busiest real estate most defining month of his first year in office with no major legislative accomplishments to date, President Trump and Congressional Republicans are now racing to pass tax reform before the end of the year. Complicating matters, the Controversial Senate election in alabama on december 12th and theres also a looming Government Shutdown. If congress is not able to pass the spending bill by midnight on december 8th. Lets get right to two leading members of the u. S. Senate, republican senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and the number two democrat in the senate, dick durbin of illinois. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me this weekend. I want to start with taxes. Senator graham, first to you, President Trump has promised tax reform by christmas. Right. Some of your colleagues, senator corker, senator flake, for example, theyve expressed concerns that this bill is going to make a bigger hole in the deficit than there is now. Are republicans going to have the votes by the end of the month . I think so. What they are concerned about is the personal tax cuts expire in 2025 and thats a bit of a gimmick but well get there because failure is not an option when it comes to cutting taxes. The fate of the party is in our hands as well as that of the economy. The economy needs a tax cut and the Republican Party needs to deliver. So i think well get there. Senator durbin, the tax bill would double the standard deduction for it would double to 24,000 for a married couple and increase the Child Tax Credit to 2,000 per child. Those provisions would help working families, would they not . For the rest of the story, though, theres a real problem. A trillion and a half added to the deficit, threatening medicare and social security, tax breaks for the wealthiest people in america and the biggest corporations. Meanwhile, the tax breaks for working families, half of them will see a tax increase, half a tax break. Those disappear, as senator graham just mentioned. The tax cuts for wealthy people are permanent. Thats why people are skeptical about this tax plan. Gentlemen, i want to turn to something that is looming. Unless congress acts, the federal government is going to run out of money in less than two weeks. Senator durbin, members of your party are threatening to not vote for the bill unless they protect dreamer children who were brought to the u. S. Illegally by their parents. Is this contingent on finding a legislative solution for dreamers . There are a number of things we have to do by the end of the year. We heard on an earlier program right here on your network that we face the end of the Childrens Health insurance program. The Community Health care clinic program, thats also expired. But we believe, senator graham and i do, that we have a fixable priority in the dream act. A bipartisan solution to this problem to make sure that these young people have a chance to earn their way into citizenship. We can do this and we can get it done before the end of the year. Will that be a demand . Will you demand that that gets done in order to get your vote on funding the government . Let me tell you, im not prepared to go home for the holidays until we get our work done. Is that a yes . Ill just leave it at that. I just want to make sure our viewers know what were talking about. It sounds like youre willing to risk veterans benefits, pay for workers around the holiday in order to get a daca fix. Heres the read that you should have. Weve done precious little this year in the United States senate. You know that, dana. You follow this day to day. Now we have three or four weeks to get real work done. We believe the dream act, we can put together a Bipartisan Coalition to pass it and make that part of the end of the year effort. Senator graham, your fellow republican senator tom cotton said that republicans have definitely ruled out attaching d daca to the spending bill, period, end of story. You and senator durbin do have Bipartisan Legislation to protect dreamers. What is the hold up . The way i look at the end of the year bill is a chance to do good for the country as a whole starting by funding the Defense Department more adequately. Im not going to vote for a spending bill that doesnt dramatically increase defense spending and im willing to increase the nih, the corps of engineers, the fbi, cia. We need Border Security. So theres a deal to be done. Dicks right about this. For the dream act, i think you could get Strong Border security and a break in chain migration. If you can put those three things together and put it on the end of the Year Spending bill, that would be a heck of an accomplishment for 2017. Senator durbin, would you go with that, if the Republican Leadership agrees to put in protection for dreamers, would you go to Border Security and migration . When it comes to Border Security, we signed up for that. Senator shchumer said that monts ago. When it comes to chain migration, bottom line, ive spoken to senator cotton about this, is when these dreamers become citizens, they are not going to be secondclass citizens. They are going to have the same rights as others in the United States. Thats something that the even senator cotton and i agree on. Senator graham, do you think a Government Shutdown is possible over this daca issue . In congress, anythings possible. I think it would be sad to miss this opportunity. The president has talked very warmly about the dream act kids. Everybody believes the militarys in the world of hurt. John mccain points out that the training accidents are no accidents because weve underfunded the military for so long. Everybody believes we need more Border Security. I think most people believe we need to go from chain migration, familybased immigration to meritbased immigration and most want to give the dream act kids a more certain life. Lets do it in december for the good of the country and lets take care of a lot of problems at one time to show the country we actually can function. Im rather excited about the possibilities of legislating in december. Another thing, senator graham, coming up in december is a special election in alabama and this week President Trump seemed to offer support for the Alabama Senate candidate roy moore, the republican, who is being accused by four women, including a 14yearold girl at the time, of sexual assault. Didnt rule out campaigning for him and senator graham, just this morning, the president sent a tweet on this issue. He said, the last thing we need in alabama and the u. S. Senate is a Schumer Pelosi puppet who is bad for the military and bad for our Second Amendment and wants to raise taxes to the sky. Jones would be a disaster. Jones being the democratic candidate. Youve called on moore to step aside and said that he should be dealt with severely. Do you think the Republican Party leader, the president of the United States, should be telling voters to support roy moore . Well, thats a political decision by the president. Hes definitely trying to throw a lifeline to roy moore. From a Republican Point of view, i dont see i dont know what winning looks like for roy moore. If he wins, you get the baggage of him winning and it becomes a story every day about whether or not you believe the women or roy moore. If you lose, you give the senate seat to a democrat. The moral of the story is, dont nominate somebody like roy moore who could actually lose a seat that any other republican could win and from a party perspective, weve got to long long term, not short term. What i would tell President Trump, if you think winning with roy moore is going to be easy for the Republican Party, youre mistaken. So yes or no, is the president making a mistake here . Thats up to him. Im not going down the road hes going. Thats up to the president. Senator durbin, i want to ask you about multiple women now coming out and accuses your Democratic Senate colleague al franken of groping. Franken released a statement saying that he crossed a line, he said that he understands that this is a problem and that hes sorry. Now that more women have come forward, should franken resign . Al franken has acknowledged what he did was wrong and it was wrong. Hes also submitted his whole case to the Senate Ethics committee. I think that was the right thing to do. Lets have a hearing, an investigation. Lets let this reach whatever conclusion its going to reach but through a due process. That to me makes sense. Other who is have tried to run away through charges, you have to say al franken has chased it and hes done it in a responsible way. A couple of quick questions for you both top of the news. Senator graham, you have been very outspoken about the need for sanctions against russia in response to meddling in the u. S. Election. The president signed a bill that was passed in a bipartisan way in august. The deadline to impose those sanctions came and went. The administration appears to be dragging its feet. What are you going to do about it . Push him to impose sanctions. Russia is up to no good throughout the entire world. 982, 972 i think was the vote in the senate. The house was supportive of russia interfering in our election and they need to pay the price so i would urge the administration to impose the sanctions passed by the congress because if you dont, youre creating a problem for yourself at a time that you need to focus on solving problems. Theres confusion about who is running the Consumer Financial protection bureau. Mick mulvaney was appointed by President Trump. Who do you think is in charge . You can turn to dodd and frank, the cosponsors of the legislation and ive read the provision. It says when the director steps aside, the Deputy Director shall be in charge of the agency. Not may. Shall be in charge. Theres an effort by Mick Mulvaney to take away their power. Remember, this was the agency that fined wells fargo 100 million for defrauding the people who were creating phony accounts. Its a watch dog agency. Wall street hates it like the devil hates holy water and the statute is specific. Its clear and it says that the deputy shall take over. Senator graham, finally, who do you think is in charge of the Consumer Protection agency . I think the president s own good ground here to appoint somebody under the vacancy statute. In terms of the agency, its the most out of control, unaccountable federal agency in washington. Really no oversight at all. They can get into everybodys business. I dont think they added a much at all to the Consumer Protection. They added a a lot to increasing pp costs that has no, sir thing to with the financial collapse. We ended on a bipartisan note there but we appreciate the two of you coming on together. It was a great discussion. Thanks very much and happy thanksgiving. Thank you. Is former National Security adviser Michael Flynn working on a deal with Robert Mueller and should the white house be worried . Former u. S. Attorney Preet Bharara is here. Plus, now that thanksgiving is over, the president is ready to make christmas great again. 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Lets plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. Prudential. Bring your challenges. Welcome back to state of the union. Im dana bash. A source says Michael Flynn had notified President Trumps legal team that they are no longer able to discuss special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation. This first reported by the New York Times could indicate that flynn is cooperating with prosecutors or negotiating a deal. President trumps legal team is pushing back saying, no one should draw a conclusion that this means anything about general flynn cooperating against the president. Here to discuss this is former u. S. Attorney Preet Bharara. You said, if youre dead to rights, flipping on the prosecution is the only sane, rationale move and if you can provide substantial assistance higher up in the food chain. What did you mean by that . The Trump Lawyers are correct in a sense that no one can draw a final conclusion as to what has happened because its happening hirnd closed doors. On the other hand, the cost benefit analysis, if theres a lot of evidence of having committed a crime, its exactly this. That if youre dead to rights and a lot of the reporting suggests that Michael Flynn has a consider bible amount of exposure based on his dealings with russia and not disclosing some of those dealings and, even more significantly, some of the dealings hes had with turkey and arrangement he had for official action he might have as National Security adviser after the inauguration and if all of that is true, he has considerable legal liability, the way to get him off the hook, not only himself but his son who is involved in some of this, the only way to do that is to assist with the prosecution. It doesnt mean that hes withdrawn from the Defense Agreement that that will happen but my view is based on how things used to operate in my office and the way the world works, that theres a substantial likelihood that there are discussions with regard to cooperating. That could fall apart because hes trying to protect and minimize and the prosecutors decided not to sign him up to a deal but the likelihood is that that is what they are talking about. Lets assume that there is a deal in the works if not already, how much further up the food chain can the prosecutors go with flynn . Its unclear but obviously the prosecutors are looking at everything. Some of the things that we know about include the dealings with turkey, as we discussed, but the other things that are going on here are has to do with traction. Michael flynn was being investigated by the fbi but he was fired by the president of the