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Lindsey Graham Graham links Trump, Reagan on Syria strikes The Hill's 12:30 Report McCain, Graham applaud Syrian airstrikes MORE says President Trump's missile strikes against Syria reveal positive traits the commander-in-chief shares with former President Ronald Reagan. "All I can say about this president is he has the instincts of Ronald Reagan in many ways," Graham told reporters Friday , according to The Washington Examiner.
The Senate is unique among American political bodies in that its very rules and traditions have often been the basis for consequential oratory. Such was the case on Thursday, when South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham delivered a 3,000-word speech on the nuclear option and its devastating effect on the Senate.
President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, is headed for confirmation after Republicans tore up the Senate's voting rules to allow him to ascend to the high court over furious Democratic objections. Democrats denounced the GOP's use of what both sides dubbed the "nuclear option" to put Gorsuch on the court, calling it an epic power grab that would further corrode politics in Congress, the courts and the United States.
AIPAC's byword is bipartisanship and, as we reported this week, that's a hard sell in the increasingly polarized Trump era . Still, AIPAC remains the preeminent pro-Israel lobby and its conferences have been a reliable weathervane of where US Middle East policy is headed for the next six months.
President Donald Trump 's nominee to the high court is scheduled to appear before the committee at 9:30 a.m. on what is expected to be the last day of his hearing. While Monday was largely reserved for introductions and opening statements, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Gorsuch faced tougher drilling by committee members.
Former Nixon counsel John Dean said Tuesday that growing concerns about former Donald Trump campaign adviser Paul Manafort and his possible ties to Russia have "an awful lot of the sound and look and feel of cover-up." "People not disclosing," Dean, who was involved in the Watergate controversy of the 1970s, told Don Lemon on CNN.
Neil Gorsuch says he was just reading out of a law textbook. But a one of his former law students said he implied in class that many female job applicants unfairly manipulate companies by hiding plans to begin families.
FRIEND ME: President Trump, seen yesterday at a meeting with leaders of small community banks, is trying to forge alliances with former campaign opponents. President Trump has launched a charm offensive to rope in erstwhile rivals whose help he needs as he focuses on governing and passing legislation.
The leaders of a congressional inquiry into Russia's efforts to sway the U.S. election called on the Justice Department Wednesday to produce any evidence that supports President Donald Trump's explosive wiretapping allegation. Declaring that Congress "must get to the bottom" of Trump's claim, Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., asked Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente and FBI Director James Comey to produce the paper trail created when the Justice Department's criminal division secures warrants for wiretaps.
After appearing to project some ambivalence earlier in the day, President Trump came out strongly last night for the faltering House Republican plan to replace Obamacare. He told the group of about 20 lawmakers who will be charged with whipping up support for the legislation that he wants the Paul Ryan bill to be approved largely intact.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and President Donald Trump shared a meal on Tuesday, their first face-to-face meeting since the election. The private lunch in the White House presidential dining room might mark the re-set of a professional and personal relationship that has had its share of road bumps over the past year and a half.
President Donald Trump salutes as he stands on the tarmac after disembarking Air Force One as he arrives Sunday, March 5, 2017, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham told a rowdy town hall in South Carolina that health care is going to change in the United States. Just don't ask him for details.
U.S. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham both got emotional at times during the CNN town hall. CNN video still U.S. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham both got emotional at times during the CNN town hall.
Sen. Lindsey Graham promised South Carolina residents Saturday that he would "get to the bottom" of President Donald Trump's unverified accusation earlier in the day that former President Barack Obama wiretapped the phones in Trump Tower. "I'm very worried that our President is suggesting that the former President's done something illegally," the Republican lawmaker said at a packed town hall meeting.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Saturday that if former President Barack Obama actually wiretapped Donald Trump 's phones, either legally or illegally, it would be the biggest scandal since Watergate. Speaking at a town hall in Clemson, South Carolina, Graham addressed Trump's baseless claims that Obama eavesdropped on him prior to the 2016 election.
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse on Saturday called on President Trump to release information backing up his bombshell claims that former President Barack Obama GOP senator demands more info from Trump on wiretapping claims Vicente Fox slams Trump as a 'so-called' president Trump ratchets up Obama attack with wiretapping allegation MORE "We are in the midst of a civilization-warping crisis of public trust, and the President's allegations today demand the thorough and dispassionate attention of serious patriots," Sasse said in a statement. Sasse noted that any such wiretap would have taken place with authorization from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court , unless it took place without authorization.
This morning at a town hall with constituents in South Carolina, Sen. Lindsey Graham addressed President Donald Trump's tweetstorm in which he accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower prior to the election. The Republican lawmaker first noted that there are a couple of different reasons why these allegations could result in the biggest scandal in decades.
Senior House Democrats are calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign after revelations that the former Alabama senator did not disclose meetings he had with the Russian ambassador to the United States during his Cabinet confirmation hearing. "After lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the Attorney General must resign," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement released late Wednesday night, adding that "Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country."