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Members of the Afghan Special Security Forces (ASSF) — the country’s primary fighting unit against the Taliban — are partnering more with American and coalition forces instead of becoming independent, a U.S. government watchdog testified recently.

The Senate passed a War Powers resolution on Thursday that would require President Donald Trump to obtain approval from Congress if he were to continue hostilities with Iran beyond 30 days.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has called out Google-owned YouTube after it blacklisted a clip of him speaking on the Senate floor, an act of censorship he calls “chilling and disturbing.” Google censored Paul because he read out the name of the alleged “whistleblower,” Eric Ciaramella.

Google-owned video giant YouTube blacklisted a Breitbart News video of a recent speech on the Senate floor by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in which Paul names the alleged “whistleblower” as Eric Ciaramella.

By unilaterally refusing to allow valid questions like this one, John Roberts is rigging the trial against Trump.

John Roberts does not have authority to block questions submitted by senators in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, said Hans von Spakovsky.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) opened Thursday’s impeachment trial proceedings with one of the first submitted questions for the record, but Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts refused to read the question to the Democrat impeachment managers and President Donald Trump’s counsel.

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to pose questions regarding the so-called “whistleblower” — the individual who sparked the House Democrats’ partisan impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump — according to reports.

In a Tuesday interview with Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggesting President Donald Trump’s children are profiting illegally off of politics.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) stated on Monday that the preview of revelations from John Bolton’s upcoming book “strengthen the case for witnesses” in the Senate impeachment trial.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) revealed Saturday he has drafted motions to subpoena former Vice President Joe Biden, his youngest son Hunter Biden, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), and the so-called “whistleblower.”

The Senate spectator gallery has remained half-empty during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, and some senators are stunned that more people are not taking note of the historical moments that are taking place in the chamber.

“His counsel might recommend against that,” Sekulow told reporters on Wednesday evening.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Wednesday that 45 GOP senators are prepared to dismiss the charges against President Trump and effectively end the Senate impeachment trial.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) affirmed in a statement on Thursday that she is open to witnesses in the upcoming Senate impeachment trial but added that she has “not made a decision on any particular witnesses” yet.

Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued there was a case to be made for President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense to be allowed to call witnesses given what has been reported about former Vice President Joe Biden, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, and his son Hunter Biden.

A U.S. government program is using more than $15 million in taxpayer money to send hundreds of foreign students to community college. Upon completion of the program, the students will “return home with new skills and expertise to help them contribute to the economic growth and development of their country.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is threatening to force the Senate to vote on subpoenaing Hunter Biden and the “whistleblower” in the event that his Republican colleagues side with Democrats and their demand for more impeachment witnesses — a move that would put some of them in vulnerable positions from a reelection standpoint.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Wednesday’s episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, where he told Kirk that if President Donald Trump is being accused for investigating the corruption surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, then he might as well investigate them in the Senate impeachment trial.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) trolled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over her climate change doomsday deadline, writing in a tweet on Wednesday that we “absolutely must do something, over the next 500 million years.”

On Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Rand Paul (D-KY) accused the Trump administration of giving “contradictory information” on why the president ordered the killing of former Iranian Quds force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

The House’s vote on a War Powers Resolution on Thursday to restrict the president’s ability to take military actions with regard to Iran does nothing of the sort.

“We caught a total monster, and we took him out, and that should have happened a long time ago,” he said. “We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy. We also did it for other reasons.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted the Trump administration’s rationale for the Soleimani strike as an “insult to the Constitution.” And stated that in the briefing with the administration, he “didn’t learn anything…that I

While speaking with CNN on Wednesday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reacted to Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) and Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) criticism of the Trump administration’s Iran briefing by stating that Lee and Paul are “overreacting,” and playing with the

Several Republicans heaped praise on President Trump’s measured response to Tuesday’s airstrikes from Iran, which targeted U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) praised President Donald Trump’s push for “peace and prosperity” with Iran as well as a better nuclear deal.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that the Iranian missile launch against Americans in Iraq was “predictable” and is “the opening salvo,” in an extended conflict with Iran. He also denounced the “maximum pressure campaign”

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) took her first act as Senator Tuesday to cosponsor Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) legislation to dismiss the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump for lack of prosecution.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) cosponsored Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) resolution Tuesday to dismiss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) articles of impeachment for lack of prosecution. 

On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned that President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iran’s Qasem Soleimani would take “diplomacy off the table” for likely a “lifetime.”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that it is “a certainty that there will be attacks” in retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani. Paul said, “I think if you ask the question, now,

Few Democrats raised objections when President Barack Obama went to war — often exceeding the boundaries of his legal authority as president.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that it was “much more likely” that Iran, its militias, and proxies will attack the United States in the wake of the death of Qasem Soleimani and reacted to President Trump sending more troops to the region by saying, “If you don’t want perpetual war, you don’t keep sending more targets over there.”

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Friday cheered the United States’ military strike against Iranian top military commander Qasem Soleimani as a victory for the safety of the American people.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted Friday to the U.S.’s deadly airstrike on a top Iranian military commander, stating that it would be “feckless” for the country to wage war against the Islamic regime without Congressional authorization.