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While questioning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) slammed the hearing as an "unethical sham" and accused Democrats for using the event for political purposes.

Senator Lindsey Graham accuses Democrats of an 'unethical sham,' says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has nothing to apologize for, urges fellow Republicans to vote to confirm Kavanaugh. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) accused Democrats of playing politics with Christine Blasey Ford's allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The all-male GOP senators of the Judiciary Cmte. already scheduled a Friday morning vote for Brett Kavanaugh before hearing from his accuser on Thursday. Plus, Trump attacks one of Kavanaugh's accusers. Philip Rucker, Carol Lee, & Jonathan Lemire react. »…

On 'The Story,' Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham reacts to the Mueller report, Kavanaugh proceedings and McCain's successor. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The…

Washington (CNN)Washington luminaries, former presidents and the family of John McCain gathered Saturday at Washington National Cathedral to honor and remember the late senator in a grand display of pomp and unity in the nation's capital. Among the tributes -- including from former McCain rivals and Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- was an emotional remembrance from McCain's daughter Meghan that included several pointed and unmistakable references to Trump. "We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness. The former President acknowledged the contrast between himself and McCain, saying, "We were standard-bearers of different American political traditions." But Obama spoke of a deep respect for the late senator. "For all our differences, for all the times we sparred, I never tried to hide, and I think John came to understand, the longstanding admiration that I had for him." He said that the late senator responded with some impatience, saying: "That's the point Joe ... You're a Democrat, I'm a Republican, we could give our country the bipartisan leadership it needs for a change." Sarah Palin, who was McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential election was not invited to any of the memorial services. The service followed a public procession that brought McCain's body from the US Capitol to the cathedral. On Sunday, a private service will take place at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and then his body will be laid to rest in the US Naval Academy Cemetery.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and former Sen. Joe Lieberman, two former friends of Sen. John McCain, say Meghan McCain's pointed criticism of President Donald Trump in her speech at the Arizona Republican's memorial service on reflected the character of her…

Donald Trump’s name was never mentioned but Barack Obama delivered a broadside at the president when he spoke at the memorial service for John McCain in Washington on Saturday and decried “insult and phony controversies” in politics and public life. John McCain: bipartisan leaders gather to say farewell to senator Read more Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Republican Senator from Arizona who died last Saturday, also issued blistering criticism of Trump’s politics when she spoke at the event at America’s national cathedral. He called on us to be better than that.” Play Video 0:50 At the start of the service, Meghan McCain had delivered a tearful, bitter denunciation of Trump’s politics to the gathering of the Washington elite, including the president’s own daughter, Ivanka Trump. He fought a rancorous public feud with Trump until his last breath. Most dramatically, he sank his own party’s attempts, not long after Trump took office in 2017, to repeal Obama’s flagship Affordable Care Act that allowed millions more Americans to have health insurance. Trump was not at Saturday’s memorial service, at McCain’s own discretion. Instead the president, who has said only a few grudging words about the Arizona senator all week, reportedly left the White House while the event was under way, not even watching on television. As Bush and then Obama, by McCain’s invitation, gave eulogies, the White House reported that Trump had arrived at his golf course. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisers, and several members of the administration were at the cathedral. Obama also said: “While John and I disagreed on all kinds of foreign policy issues, we stood together on America’s role as the one indispensable nation, believing that with great power and great blessings, comes great responsibility.

It did not quote the president directly about Sessions being safe until November. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to lead the investigation, which Trump has called a “witch hunt”. Trump also told Bloomberg he viewed the Russia investigation as “illegal”, and said he would “see what happens” if Mueller issued him with a subpoena to secure an interview. “Great scholars” had said “there never should have been a special counsel”, the president was quoted as saying. Some Republicans have predicted Trump will replace Sessions, a former senator from Alabama, after the elections on 6 November. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina senator who is close to Trump and a defender of Sessions, said last week he believed the president would appoint a new attorney general but should wait until the elections. Bloomberg said Trump also spoke approvingly of Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization who agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their investigation of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer. The campaign finance charges concerned Cohen’s facilitation of payments to women who claim to have had affairs with Trump. He’s a wonderful guy.” Weisselberg’s cooperation, the president added, was related to “a very limited period of time”. “I put a man in there who I like and respect,” Trump said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham sits down with CNN's Dana Bash and reflects on his friendship with Sen. John McCain on what would have been the late senator's 82nd birthday.