The president spent a sunny Sunday in D.C. continuing a weekend tweetstorm against the impeachment proceedings and his perceived foes.

President Donald Trump is predicting a GOP Senate victory in Alabama following Democrat Doug Jones' vote at the impeachment trial. “So good to see that Republicans will be winning the Great State of Alabama Senate Seat back,” Trump wrote. Lizzie Grams, a spokeswoman for Jones' campaign, said the senator declined to comment.

NBC News interviewed dozens of Utah residents to find out what they thought about their senator bucking the GOP on impeachment.

Trump ally cautioned information from president’s personal lawyer ‘could be Russian propaganda’ Senator Lindsey Graham has said Department of Justice officials have created a “process” enabling Rudy Giuliani to provide them with “information from Ukraine”, for further investigation.Graham, a top ally of Donald Trump who was part of the successful vote to acquit him in his impeachment trial last week, cautioned that this information from the president’s personal lawyer “could be Russian propaganda”.“The Department of Justice is receiving information coming out of the Ukraine from Rudy,” Graham said, explaining that the US attorney general, William Barr, “told me that they’ve created a process that Rudy could give information and they would see if it’s verified”.Giuliani was deeply implicated in Trump’s efforts to get Ukrainian officials to help his 2020 re-election bid – the matter at the heart of the impeachment trial. Trump was impeached in the Democratic-led House after witholding military assistance, as well as a White House meeting, while calling for Ukraine announcing investigations into potential 2020 rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter.Trump also wanted Ukraine to announce an investigation into the conspiracy theory that Ukranian actors, not Russians, meddled in the 2016 election.Almost immediately after Trump was acquitted by the Repulican-led Senate last week, Republicans returned to investigating the unsubstantiated corruption allegations against the Bidens. There is no evidence of wrongdoing.“Rudy Giuliani is a well known man. He’s a crime fighter. He’s loyal to the president,” Graham also said. “He’s a good lawyer. But what I’m trying to say – to the president and anybody else – that the Russians are still up to it.”In Graham’s interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, he revealed that his conversation with Barr took place earlier Sunday morning. He also spoke with the Senate intelligence committee chair, Richard Burr. Both “told me: ‘Take very cautiously anything coming out of the Ukraine against anybody.’“After talking to the attorney general and the intelligence chairman that any documents coming out of the Ukraine against any American, Republican or Democrat, need to be looked at by the intelligence services, who has expertise I don’t, because Russia is playing us all like a fiddle.”Graham said “no” when asked if the justice department had been ordered to investigate the Bidens.Graham also said the possibility of conflicts of interest involving the Bidens should be examined, but once again emphasized caution, saying: “When it comes to documents coming out of the Ukraine, to Republicans and Democrats, be very cautious turning … anything over you got over to the intel community.“I’m telling Rudy, you think you got the goods? Don’t give it to me, because what do we know? We know that the Russian disinformation campaign was used against President Trump,” Graham also said. “They hacked into the DNC system. Not the Ukrainians, and they’re on the ground all over the world trying to affect democracy all over the world.”“Who’s paying Rudy Giuliani?” host Margaret Brennan asked.“ I don’t know,” Graham said. “Here’s my message to Rudy: if you’ve got something coming from the Ukraine, turn it over to the intelligence people, the Department of Justice, to any Democrat.”Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Twitter this morning, Giuliani alluded to “two smoking gun documents” in a post urging people to subscribe to his podcast.

President Donald Trump and his supporters have floated several inaccurate and misleading theories about what impeachment means.

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It was a busy day for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, both of whom made the Sunday television rounds. One common question that came up was their opinions on the other's stance about billionaire donors.Sanders said the fact that Buttigieg accepts contributions from wealthy donors, especially those tied to the pharmaceutical industry, makes it tough to believe he'll stand up to "powerful entities and represent working people" if he's elected president. Sanders said he, on the other hand, can be trusted to take on the likes of Wall Street, insurance companies, and the fossil fuel industry.> Senator Bernie Sanders on big money, campaigns, and whether Buttigieg's donors will prevent him from effectively representing the American people. FNS FoxNews pic.twitter.com/posdKEREzw> > — FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) February 9, 2020Buttigieg said he's far from an "establishment powerhouse" and he's "never hesitated to stand up to industry," noting that as mayor, South Bend sued pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis. At the same time, he said he welcomes anyone who wants to contribute to his campaign and help defeat President Trump no matter their income-level.> .@PeteButtigieg on @BernieSanders' criticism of "billionaire" donor support: "If somebody is ready to help us put together the campaign that's going to defeat Donald Trump, then I welcome that support...no matter if they've got a lot of money or not" https://t.co/JtNKORMvEO pic.twitter.com/JpEbEhI0DC> > — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 9, 2020He also referred to Sanders' own income, quipping "Bernie's pretty rich and I would happily accept a contribution from him."More stories from theweek.com 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's impeachment acquittal For better pasta sauce, throw away your garlic Vanguard is an anomaly in the investment world. Can it stay that way?

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has no issue with President Trump's decision to reassign Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council.Vindman complied with a congressional subpoena and provided damaging testimony against Trump during the House's impeachment inquiry last year. After Trump was acquitted in a Senate trial, the White House dismissed Vindman from his post in what many consider an attempt to exact revenge. Graham is not among them. During Sunday's edition of Face the Nation on CBS, he said he respects Vindman's military service, but he said he's learned over the last two years that the State Department, Justice Department, and U.S. intelligence agencies have a political agenda and take the "law into their hands" since Trump took office, which he aims to put a stop to.Graham said people in Vindman's chain of command were "suspicious" of his "political point of view," arguing it's possible he may have been the one to leak the contents of Trump's now-infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment saga. Host Margaret Brennan countered by saying National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien had previously told her he was "confident" no leaks came from within the council."Well, I am not," Graham said, bluntly. > .@LindseyGrahamSC on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's ouster from the White House: "I think his reassignment was justified. I don't think he could be effective as the NSC." https://t.co/Bu1zxgliQV pic.twitter.com/p1wsI0Sojd> > -- Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 9, 2020More stories from theweek.com 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's impeachment acquittal For better pasta sauce, throw away your garlic Every single film nominated for a 2020 Oscar, ranked

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claimed on Sunday that Attorney General William Barr has now “created a process” for Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to feed him any dirt he’s dug up on former Vice President Joe Biden during his Ukrainian smear campaign.In the wake of President Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal, the president has not only spiked the football but has also begun to exact retribution on those he feels are responsible for the investigation into the Ukraine scandal. Besides ousting impeachment witnesses from their government posts, Trump has publicly pressed Congress to probe Democrats and impeachment investigators.Appearing on Sunday’s Face the Nation, Graham claimed that what the president was really interested in was getting to the bottom of the FISA warrant system. At the same time, however, he said that information coming out of Ukraine should be looked at even if it should be taken “very cautiously.”GOP Base Is Hot to Probe Biden, Senate Republicans Not So Much“Here's what I want to tell the president: I’m not going to be the Republican Christopher Steele,” he stated. “So Rudy Giuliani last night said he’s got the goods on Hunter Biden. I called the attorney general this morning, and Richard Burr, the chairman of the [Senate] Intel Committee, and they told me to take very cautiously anything coming out of the Ukraine against anybody.”He went on to say that if Giuliani has any additional information out of Ukraine, he needs to turn it over to the Department of Justice.Host Margaret Brennan, meanwhile, wanted to know if the DOJ has been ordered to investigate Biden and his son Hunter. The president had been accused during his impeachment of withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to pressure them to open investigations into the Bidens.“No, the Department of Justice is receiving information coming out of Ukraine from Rudy,” Graham noted.“Already?” Brennan, taken aback, responded.“He told me that they had created a process that Rudy could give information and they would see if it’s verified,” the South Carolina senator said. “Rudy Giuliani is a well-known man. He’s a crime fighter. He’s loyal to the president. He’s a good lawyer.”“What I’m trying to say to the president and anybody else, that the Russians are still up to it,” he continued. “Deterrence is not working, so let’s look at Hunter Biden’s conflict. Let’s look at Joe Biden.”Brennan went on to say that a channel being opened between Giuliani and Barr sounds a lot like a “taxpayer-funded research operation against Joe Biden,” adding that this would appear to be what was at the heart of the impeachment probe in the first place.“No, not at all,” Graham insisted. “There are plenty of people being contacted by folks from the Ukraine.”Later in the interview, when asked directly who is paying Giuliani to do his dirt-digging operation in Ukraine, Graham replied “I don’t know” and quickly changed the subject.Giuliani, meanwhile, appeared on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures to peddle more dirt on Biden, just days after The Daily Beast reported that the network’s own research team warned their colleagues not to trust Giuliani’s claims or “disinformation” on Ukraine. Throughout his Sunday interview with Trump-boosting host Maria Bartiromo, the former New York City mayor said Trump should “100 percent” investigate the former veep while claiming he has “smoking gun” evidence that the Biden family was “monetizing Joe’s public office.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

Iowa might be knocked from its perch next election cycle.Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday the Democratic Party will have a "conversation" about Iowa's role as the first state to vote in the primaries going forward after the 2020 Democratic caucus turned chaotic, suggesting it may move down the lineup in the future.> .@jaketapper: “Is Iowa about to lose their first-in-the-nation caucus status?”> > DNC Chair Tom Perez: “Well, that's the conversation that will absolutely happen after this election cycle” https://t.co/KHdSVpS1Eh CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/xgaGtZlce7> > — State of the Union (@CNNSotu) February 9, 2020But Perez acknowledged there's not much he can do about the state's decision to hold a caucus instead of a primary. "One of the challenges and the reason we didn't do that in our most recent conversation about this is that you need to pass a state law to have a state-run primary," Perez said during his appearance on State of the Union. "There are some state that still have caucuses where I'm not sure the Republican governor would sign the law to have the election."More stories from theweek.com America's pig problem Vanguard is an anomaly in the investment world. Can it stay that way? 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's impeachment acquittal