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Lindsey Graham: 'Whose decision was it to pull all of the troops out... I just don’t know'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) seemingly forgot on Sunday that it was former President Donald Trump who set a deadline to end the U.S. war in Afghanistan and then began the drawdown of U.S. troops.

During an appearance on Face the Nation, CBS host Ed O'Keefe asked Graham "what kind of consequence" President Joe Biden should face for the withdrawal in Afghanistan.

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Maria Bartiromo ignorantly asks Kevin McCarthy to 'look at the 25th Amendment' to remove Biden

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday surprised some viewers when she asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy why he had not used the power of the 25th Amendment to remove President Joe Biden from office.

"Will you lead drawing up articles of impeachment? Will you look at the 25th Amendment?" Bartiromo asked. "What are your plans in terms of leadership as we are in this incredible moment of time?"

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Stephen Miller screams at 'clinically insane' Joe Biden in Fox News interview about Afghan refugees

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday called President Joe Biden "clinically insane" for allowing Afghan refugees to live in the United States.

Miller yelled at the current commander-in-chief throughout a Fox News interview after host Maria Bartiromo asked him about "refugees" that are being brought to the United States from Afghanistan.

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Biden official fires back at CNN's Tapper over accusation Taliban was handed a 'kill list'

On Sunday morning, President Joe Biden's nationals security advisor engaged in a contentious back and forth with CNN's Jake Tapper over a report in Politico that the administration had given the Taliban alist of Americans and Afghan allies that was being used as a "kill list."

Pressed by Tapper, Jake Sullivan explained how the administration was doing the best they could evacuating everyone before finally saying the report of the list, "Is flat out not correct."

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Chris Wallace slams McConnell's desire for 'full-scale war' after he calls Afghanistan a 'complete success'

Fox News host Chris Wallace questioned Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell about his desire to fight an endless war in Afghanistan.

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, McConnell argued that the Afghanistan war had been a "complete success" and that the U.S. could safely maintain an indefinite military presence in the country with just 2,500 troops.

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'Not what ending a war looks like': Biden vows new strikes in retaliation for Kabul blast

Even as he planned to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by August 31, President Joe Biden said Saturday that the drone strike that was launched Friday night in retaliation for an attack claimed by ISIS-K "was not the last."

"We will continue to hunt down any person involved in that heinous attack and make them pay," the president said in a statement Saturday afternoon. "Whenever anyone seeks to harm the United States or attack our troops, we will respond. That will never be in doubt."

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Americans in Kabul 'should leave the airport area immediately': US embassy in Afghanistan

The United States embassy in Kabul is urging Americans to immediately leave the area around the airport in Kabul.

"Due to a specific, credible threat, all U.S. citizens in the vicinity of Kabul airport (HKIA), including the South (Airport Circle) gate, the new Ministry of the Interior, and the gate near the Panjshir Petrol station on the northwest side of the airport, should leave the airport area immediately," the embassy urged.

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Extremist Republicans pushing lie about Joe Biden falling asleep in meeting with Israeli prime minister

Republican members of Congress were caught pushing disinformation online that President Joe Biden fell asleep during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) cited the video in her demand that Biden be removed from office.

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'Extremely dangerous': Biden warns another Kabul airport bombing is 'likely'

The United States took aim at the Islamic State group in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two high-level targets in a drone strike over the devastating suicide bombing at Kabul airport, as President Joe Biden warned another attack on the frantic airlift was "highly likely".

A series of urgent terror warnings have rattled evacuation efforts overseen by US forces, who have been forced into closer security cooperation with the Taliban to prevent a repeat of Thursday's carnage at one of the facility's main access gates.

Scores of Afghan civilians were killed in the bombing claimed by the regional Islamic State-Khorasan group, along with 13 US troops -- several of them just 20 years old, the same length of time as US military operations in Afghanistan.

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Dems fear 'devastating consequences' in 2022 midterms after Biden's struggles in August: report

Democrats are fearing the political aftermath of a disastrous month for President Joe Biden, according to a new analysis published online Saturday by The Washington Post.

"President Biden is mired in the most devastating month of his tenure in office — struggling to contain a deadly crisis in Afghanistan, an unyielding pandemic and other setbacks that have sent waves of anger and worry through his party as his poll numbers decline," reporters Sean Sullivan, Tyler Pager, and Annie Linksey wrote.

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Lindsey Graham ridiculed for latest attempt to 'bromance' Trump in quest to escape 'irrelevance'

In a biting column for the Washington Post, conservative writer Kathleen Parker needled Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for his continual "flip-flopping" about in order to stay in the good graces of former president Donald Trump.

Admitting that she has a relationship with Graham herself -- she hails from South Carolina and Graham hired her son -- Parker wondered what happened to the Lindsey she used to know.

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Josh Hawley’s call for Biden to resign trolled in key local newspaper

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is outraged that Joe Biden withdrew U.S. troops from Afghanistan as Hawley has long demanded.

Hawley's office has demonstrated his anger with a call for Biden to resign from office. But that message was not well received by the editorial board of The Kansas City Star.

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Kevin McCarthy demolished for trying to 'destabilize' America with Biden attack

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, Kurt Bardella -- a former spokesperson for Republican lawmakers -- launched a furious tirade at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) over his comments attacking Joe Biden, with Bardella saying Republicans want to plunge the U.S. into the type of chaos currently gripping Afghanistan.

After watching a clip of McCarthy's press conference where the Republican leader stated, "This isn't the tested leadership the president promised. It's a picture of weakness and incompetence. If you want to be president of the free world, you have to have the faith, the trust and the confidence of the American public. President Biden lost that yesterday and there will be a day of reckoning," Bardella was asked for comment by host Alex Witt.

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