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Oh, so now Lindsey Graham wants to impeach a president?

  South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham   said something amazing on Friday morning during an interview with "Fox & Friends."   Asked what he would do about Americans -- and Afghans who aided Americans over the years -- trapped in Afghanistan. Graham responded this way: "If we leave any Americans behind, if we leave thousands of those Afghans who fought along our side behind bravely, Joe Biden deserves to be impeached for a high crime and misdemeanor of dereliction of duty. If we leave one American behind, if we don't get all the Afghans who stepped up to the plate to help us out, then Joe Biden in my view has committed a high crime and misdemeanor under the Constitution and should be impeached." Oh, really? So Biden should be impeached if any American or any Afghan who helped America during our 20-year stay in the country remains there under Taliban rule? That feels like a pretty damn low bar given not just the difficulties in extricating people from the cou...

Sen.Lindsey Graham: Biden should be impeached if Americans or Afghan allies are left behind

  Sen.   Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,   said Friday that   President Biden   "deserves to be impeached" if the United States leaves any Americans or Afghan allies behind when evacuating   Afghanistan.  "If we leave any Americans behind—if we leave thousands of those Afghans who fought along our side behind bravely—Joe Biden deserves to be impeached for a higher crime and misdemeanor of dereliction of duty," said Graham during an appearance on  "Fox & Friends." Graham again clarified his statement with more precision.  "If we leave one American behind. If we don’t get all those Afghans who stepped up to the plate to help us out then Joe Biden, in my view, has committed a high crime and misdemeanor under the Constitution and should be impeached." Graham asserted that the U.S. is "duty-bound" to get every American out of Afghanistan safely, and also "honor-bound" to do the same for Afghans who fought alongside American soldiers...

The Republicans have yet to completely shut the door on new witnesses

Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; and Susan Collins, R-Maine, LINDSEY GRAHAM, R- South Carolina  are among a small group of Republicans who have yet to completely shut the door on new witnesses, wanting to hear arguments first. Democrats would need them and at least one more in order to be able to call witnesses, but Graham warned that if they get their wish, the GOP will look to call defense witnesses such as Hunter Biden. 1.  CRUZ: Well, that's right. It's kind of strange how we got here. So Democrats have been having hearings, have been doing impeachment for months in the House. They brought in all sorts of witnesses. They blocked the minority from having any witnesses. And then, as soon as we get to the Senate, the Democratic talking point is, we want more witnesses. Never mind all the witnesses they called before. They want yet more. And they're trying to delay this. They're trying to drag this out. They want this trial to go on forever, ...

Graham calls for swift end to impeachment trial - “If we call one witness, we’re going to call all the witnesses,”

The Senate trial is set to begin Tuesday. Graham had previously floated the idea that the GOP majority could immediately vote to dismiss the case before hearing any arguments, but now he states that this does not appear to be a possibility given the lack of sufficient Republican support for such action. “Yeah that’s dead for practical purposes,” Graham told “ Fox News Sunday ,” explaining, “the idea of dismissing the case early on is not going to happen; we don’t have the votes for that.” Graham remains confident that Republicans are still united enough to acquit Trump at the conclusion of the trial. How long the trial goes is still up in the air. Graham would neither confirm nor deny reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans on keeping the Senate in session for 12 hours a day so that House Democrats would be done presenting their arguments Wednesday. Well this is interesting. There is a report that Mitch McConnell has arranged for a kill switch so...