Graham says he'll ask FBI director about report of investigation into whether Trump was working...
Source: The Hill
Graham says he'll ask FBI director about report of investigation into whether Trump was working for Russia
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 01/13/19 09:45 AM EST
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday he intends to ask FBI Director Christopher Wray whether the bureau opened a counterintelligence investigation regarding the possibility that President Trump was a Russian agent.
The senator, who serves as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called a New York Times report that the FBI launched an inquiry into whether Trump was working for Russia after the president fired former bureau chief James Comey "astonishing," but cast skepticism on its findings.
"I, for one, don’t trust what I read in The New York Times," he said, arguing the source of the story may have an agenda.
"Having said all that, I‘m going to ask the FBI director was there a counterintelligence investigation opened up regarding the president as being a potential agent of the Russians," Graham continued. "I find it astonishing, and to me it tells me a lot about the people running the FBI, (former Deputy Director Andrew) McCabe and that crowd.
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Graham: Trump's 'not going to give in' on shutdown fight
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 01/13/19 09:30 AM EST
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that he's urged President Trump to open up the government for a short period of time so lawmakers can attempt to broker an end to the ongoing government shutdown, but was adamant that the president is "not going to give in" on his demands to fund a border wall.
Graham said on "Fox News Sunday" that he spoke with Trump on Sunday morning, when the president indicated an emergency declaration to construct his desired wall along the southern border is a last resort.
“I would urge him to open up the government for a short period of time, like three weeks, before he pulls the plug” on a legislative solution, Graham said.
Graham, who has said he would support Trump declaring an emergency, voiced frustrations that Democrats have in the past voted in favor of funding barriers along the border, but have refused to support Trump's wall.
"It really does perplex me how you expect this to end when you tell the president of the United States, 'you can't get ... $1 for a wall when in the past Democrats have appropriated billions for the wall,'" Graham said.
"What’s he supposed to do, just give in?" Graham added. "He’s not going to give in."
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might not get the answer you are looking for.
But he trusts what Trump says. 
That kind of puts a crimp in whatever credibility Graham may ever have had.
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((Rep. Nadler)))✔
@RepJerryNadler
Read my statement following reporting in @NYTimes that the FBI opened an inquiry for national security concerns into whether President Trump may have been working on behalf of Russia against American interests. As Chair of @HouseJudiciary, we will take action on this matter.
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5:54 PM - Jan 12, 2019
The era of total GOP rule in Congress is over!
