Graham pours water on Senate voting on border deal before next recess

BY MIRANDA NAZZARO 

Greg Nash

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday expressed doubt the Senate will vote on a hard-fought border deal before the upper chamber departs for a two-week recess later this month, arguing such a bill has substance that is “too important.”

“Well, it’s a process that is the oldest game in town is to bring an important piece of legislation right before a holiday or right before break,” Graham said during an interview with “Fox News Sunday." “So process-wise, we’re not going to deal with this next week, it’s too important.”

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Sinema outlines details of border deal negotiations

BY LAUREN SFORZA

Sinema, a top negotiator in the discussions, detailed some of what is being hashed out on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” She said proposals include ending the practice of “catch and release,” which allows migrants without proper documents to be released in the United States as their cases play out in court.

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Speaker Johnson says he has not been briefed on Senate border talks

BY MIRANDA NAZZARO 

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday revealed that he has not been offered a briefing on the bipartisan Senate border talks taking place but said that some negotiators said they would "send [him] something... that's palatable."

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Haley says Trump is ‘playing politics’ on Senate border negotiations

BY LAUREN SFORZA

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Sunday that former President Trump is “playing politics” in trying to sink a bipartisan border deal in the Senate.

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Trump mentions Tim Scott, Kristi Noem when asked of VP pick

BY MIRANDA NAZZARO

Former President Trump on Sunday further fueled speculation over his pick for a 2024 running mate, dropping the names of Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) when asked about who he is favoring.

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Trump says he ‘heard’ McConnell wants to endorse him

BY MIRANDA NAZZARO

Former President Trump on Sunday claimed that he has “heard” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) “wants” to endorse his White House bid despite the frequent tension between the two men.

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Biden adviser calls Speaker Johnson’s response to Middle East strikes ‘somewhat strange’

BY MIRANDA NAZZARO

White House National Security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday pushed back on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)’s suggestion that the administration waited too long to retaliate for the killing of three U.S. troops in the Middle East last week.

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Graham slams Biden on Middle East strikes: ‘The only Iranian we killed… is some dumba–’

BY MIRANDA NAZZARO

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday dug into the timing of President Biden’s response to last week’s deadly drone strikes, arguing the U.S. gave Iraq and Syria a “weeks notice,” that only served to kill “some dumbass,” who did not know the counter-attack was coming.

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Sullivan says US retaliatory strikes in Middle East ‘not the end of it’

BY MIRANDA NAZZARO

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday confirmed the United States “intends” to launch additional strikes and action against Iranian-backed groups following its two rounds of strikes over the weekend in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

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Clyburn downplays Biden losing support among Black voters

BY LAUREN SFORZA

“I think the answer is emphatic yes,” Clyburn said when asked whether Biden has maintained a strong standing among Black voters based on the South Carolina primary on Saturday. “And the best illustration of that, he got 96 percent of the vote in this primary, but its largest percentage — over 97 percent — was in the town of Orangeburg where there are two HBCUs and a community college.”

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CNN’s Dana Bash presses Haley on whether Trump ‘has a problem with women who challenge him’

BY LAUREN SFORZA

“Well, I challenged him a lot and he actually handled it very well and was very respectful. If I saw him doing something wrong, I showed up or I called him and I would say, ‘You cannot do this, but instead, you know, do it this way, this way or this way,'” Haley said.

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