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Key Senate Republicans Express Support for Mueller Probe  

Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Kennedy of Louisiana said on the Sunday shows that Mueller should be allowed to finish his investigation, as did Ken Starr and Chris Christie.
Source: Eric Thayer / Reuters

As President Trump continues to rail against Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s partisan “witch hunt,” he’s undoubtedly assessing how that’s playing with a key constituency:  Senate Republicans. When the president first started publicly toying with the idea of firing Mueller, Lindsey Graham was among the loudest of those saying, in so many words, don’t even think about it. A year ago, Graham was 100 percent behind Jeff Sessions and said Trump would face “holy hell” if he fired his attorney general.

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