President Donald Trump should 'tell us as much as he can, without compromising executive privilege, so that we can understand what happened,' the South Carolina Republican told a conservative radio host.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham implored President Donald Trump on Monday to be"as transparent as possible" and release more information about a phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president that is at the center of a new controversy.
Trump has admitted that he pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25 phone call to investigate potential wrongdoing involving Ukraine, former Vice President Joe Biden, who is a top 2020 presidential candidate, and Biden's son.
Senator Lindsey Graham listens to U.S. President Donald Trump make an announcement at the White House on November 14, 2018, in Washington, D.C. The Republican lawmaker from South Carolina has urged the president to be transparent in the face of a new whistleblower controversy."I think you're going to find more about that phone call in the coming days," Graham said."You're going to be surprised about the level of transparency regarding that phone call.
"We want to make sure that country is honest. It's very important to talk about corruption," he told reporters."If you don't talk about corruption, why would you give money to a country that you think is corrupt?"
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