GOP Senator Graham Addresses Voters At Town Hall
WHITFIELD: Obamacare and the GOP's failure to repeal and replace it will likely be a big topic of a town hall expected to get underway at any moment now. This is a live look right now at the event where Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina will take questions from his residents there in his home state. A few weeks ago when Graham held one of these town halls, it turned into quite a raucous meeting. CNN's Polo Sandoval is there for us today. So Polo, what's expected today?</s>SANDOVAL: Fred, quite a grab bag of topics that officials here and some of the folks who are attending this town hall hope to hear from Senator Graham. A lot of it has to do with country's past, present and future. For example, they certainly want to hear about yesterday's attempt to repeal Obamacare, what will happen next with respect to the current -- of course, the current investigation into the Russian meddling of the November election is something that many of the attendees here want to hear about as well. When it comes to the future, for example, tax reform. Columbia, South Carolina, is home to many small businesses. There are a lot of small business owners inside the venue here. So they are hoping to hear what will come next in this next round of legislation in Washington. And of course, we have seen already several hundred people. I checked the crowd counter, close to 400 folks filled inside the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center as they wait to hear from the South Carolina senator. The process is fairly simple here. They hope that things will stay relatively civil. So of course, they handed out a green card and a red card if they agree with what the senator is saying, of course, use the green one, and of course, if they don't, the red one. Many people I've spoken especially in light of yesterday's development in Washington and the shelving of this attempt to repeal Obamacare expect to use that red card a lot more. But again, many of the people I've spoken to, they are very open to hearing from the senator as well. What they did take some issue with was one of the senator's latest tweets which suggested that the next step for legislators would be for Obamacare to essentially, quote, "collapse and then be repealed." Many of the people that I've spoken to both Republican and Democrat feel like that this is not the answer. That ultimately if this is not work out, then that certainly will lead to issues for really hundreds of thousands of individuals. Many people anxious to see what will happen, but as you mentioned, last time we were earlier this month when we heard from Senator Graham, things got very heated very quickly.</s>WHITFIELD: Right, Senator Graham always very candid so expect the fireworks today. Polo Sandoval, thank you so much in Columbia. We'll check back with you. All right, while the FBI investigates whether the Trump campaign collaborated with Russia to influence the election. Three former Trump campaign aides have volunteered to talk to the House Intelligence Committee. We'll discuss that next.