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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) vehemently disagrees with CNN’s Dana Bash about why former President Obama pulled troops out of Iraq. Source: CNN

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that withdrawing US troops from Syria could directly result in the deaths of Kurdish people there and that he plans to make a case to President Donald Trump today to reconsider his plans. Source: CNN

General Motors will end production of six sedans by the end of 2019. Here are the cars GM is offing. Source: CNN

Paul Manafort was pressured by a former Russian associate to pay back millions he owed during the time he was running Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to a new report from Time magazine. Source: CNN

Sen. Claire McCaskill has some advice for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incoming freshman who has rapidly risen from obscurity to one of the most well-known figures in the Democratic Party: Talk is cheap. Source: CNN

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers’ pay for 2019, following through on a proposal he announced earlier in the year. Source: CNN

CNN’s Victor Blackwell uses gumballs to represent The Washington Post’s count of President Donald Trump’s false and misleading claims since taking office. Source: CNN

As departing senators said their goodbyes to Washington, a number of Democrats and Republicans took the opportunity to express concern about the state of the Senate and the political climate. Source: CNN

A recent committee job posting reviewed by CNN asked for legislative counsels with a variety of expertise, indicating House Democrats are looking to hire a batch of attorneys as they prepare for what may be the largest congressional investigation of a sitting president in modern history. Source: CNN

Outgoing Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) offers advice to his party and warns against progressive policies such as “Medicare for all” when trying to win over red states in the 2020 election. Source: CNN