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McCain, Graham call for greater sanctions against Russia
MSN ^ | January 8, 2017 | Erin Kelly

Posted on 01/08/2017 11:53:00 AM PST by Trump20162020

WASHINGTON — Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham pushed Sunday for greater sanctions against Russia for trying to influence the U.S. election and said President-elect Donald Trump is in danger of being in conflict with congressional Republicans if he doesn't get tougher on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The two senators, in a joint interview on Meet the Press, also said the U.S. intelligence community's evidence of Russian interference during the American presidential campaign is overwhelming, and that Trump should accept those findings.

"You can't go on with your life as a democracy when a foreign entity is trying to compromise the election process," said Graham of South Carolina. "So Mr. President-elect, it is very important that you show leadership here. Let me say this: if after having been briefed by intelligence leaders, Donald Trump is still unsure as to what the Russians did, that would be incredibly unnerving to me because the evidence is overwhelming. All I'm asking him is to acknowledge that Russia interfered, and push back."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Russia; US: Arizona; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: arizona; graham; johnmccain; linda; lindseygraham; mccain; putin; russia; sanctions; senate; southcarolina
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Please!!


41 posted on 01/08/2017 12:11:27 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Trump20162020

McQaeda and Grahamnesty are Saudi/Neocon harem whores.
Doing their masters’ bidding.

In the case of McQaeda it is also a genuine love for terrorists and a desire to see the world burn.

Thank God this psycho never became president.


42 posted on 01/08/2017 12:11:41 PM PST by SolidWood
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To: Trump20162020

Hey McGrahamnesty. Trump won because of jerks like you. And now you want to provoke Russia in to a fight because your girl lost? Get over it.


43 posted on 01/08/2017 12:12:05 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: stars & stripes forever

After 2018, if he picks up enough seats in the Senate, he should get the GOP to refuse to SEAT these two clowns as REPUBLICAN Senators.


44 posted on 01/08/2017 12:12:11 PM PST by ZULU (We are freedom's safest place!!!! #BOYCOTT HAMILTON!!! #BOYCOTT NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

I just heard Senator McConnell on radio news contradicting these two clowns saying that the bottom line that there is no evidence of Russia changing the election.


45 posted on 01/08/2017 12:12:17 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Trump20162020

I can’t stand that faggot linda.

Please have the courage to step forward, any man he abused as a child.


46 posted on 01/08/2017 12:12:46 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: stars & stripes forever

As the swamp drains the big fish will flounder.

47 posted on 01/08/2017 12:13:15 PM PST by cabojoe
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To: Trump20162020

They know what it takes for Fake CNNews to love them.


48 posted on 01/08/2017 12:13:15 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: marron

Seems like a fact-finding mission to Aleppo and Mosul are needed.

That trip could be followed with a survey of car fires in France.


49 posted on 01/08/2017 12:13:28 PM PST by ptsal
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To: Trump20162020
Yo, Juan McCainez, Sen. Lohan, if you guys are so damn smart why didn't you run for President?

Oh. Wait.

50 posted on 01/08/2017 12:13:36 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Trump20162020

Does anyone pay any attention to these two?


51 posted on 01/08/2017 12:14:47 PM PST by Savage Beast ( "You can--in fact must--shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth. J Goldberg)
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To: McGavin999

I would bet that even Sarah Palin has the dossier on McCANE. She know doubt has already given it to Trump.


52 posted on 01/08/2017 12:14:51 PM PST by hoosiermama (It is time to believe in the future: Time to believe in each other: Time to believe in AMERICA ! DT)
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To: Farmer Dean

Linseed and McNasty are just media whore and the Control-LEFT media needs sound-bites.


53 posted on 01/08/2017 12:14:53 PM PST by ptsal
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To: Trump20162020

Having Reince & Kellyanne accept the lie that Russia hacked the election did not help. Gains nothing, and keeps this BS going for years.


54 posted on 01/08/2017 12:16:02 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: marron

Are these two secretly married or something? When one speaks, the words come out of the other one’s mouth. They both need to be choked until all they can do is gurgle!


55 posted on 01/08/2017 12:16:07 PM PST by beelzepug (For English press #1; for Spanish, learn English and press #1)
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To: Red Steel

McConnell seems to have learned on which side the bread is buttered...


56 posted on 01/08/2017 12:16:51 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Savage Beast

No one outside the mainstream media.


57 posted on 01/08/2017 12:16:55 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: marron

Seriously! These yahoos want to do what?

Start a war over a simple spear phishing attempt WORKED, that requires a stupid user’s invitation to “come on in” to his own computer?

LOL!

No country is going to withdraw what it believes protects its own national security and need for information, because Mac and Linda want to play pointy fingers.


58 posted on 01/08/2017 12:17:04 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia is the farm team for more Marxists coming.... infinitum.)
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To: Trump20162020
"You can't go on with your life as a democracy when a foreign entity is trying to compromise the election process," said Graham of South Carolina.

More Progressive Republican idiocy on display. The poor fool doesn't even know our form of government is a Constitutional Republic.

59 posted on 01/08/2017 12:17:35 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: stillfree?

They probably even go to take a leak together.


60 posted on 01/08/2017 12:18:34 PM PST by patro
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