{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-icymi-sen-rand-paul-sen-graham-and-hillary-clinton-stood-together-support-islamic-extremists/", "ICYMI: Sen. Rand Paul: Sen. Graham and Hillary Clinton Stood Together to Support Islamic Extremists in the Syrian Civil War", "2019-10-15", "2019", "2019-10", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nOctober 15, 2019\n\nContact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 In case you missed it, this morning on MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, U.S. Senator and Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Rand Paul (R-KY) discussed President Trump\u2019s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Northern Syria and responded to Senator Lindsey Graham\u2019s (R-SC) criticism of the move.\n\n\u201cI would say that Lindsey Graham\u2019s been wrong about almost every foreign policy decision of the last two decades,\u201d said Sen. Paul, later noting, \u201cHe\u2019s been wrong about the Syrian war from the beginning, because the neocons \u2013 Lindsey Graham and others \u2013 and actually many liberals, like Hillary Clinton, they actually all supported the Sunni extremists against Assad.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m not so sure that the Sunni extremists taking over Syria would have been better than Assad,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of Assad, but sometimes maybe you have two evils, and you really don\u2019t have to pick sides. That\u2019s why we\u2019re supposed to vote on and have a debate \u2013 a big, public debate \u2013 about when we go to war, and I don\u2019t see a national interest over there.\u201d\n\nYou can find the clip HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:39:44Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-icymi-sen-rand-paul-sen-graham-and-hillary-clinton-stood-together-support-islamic-extremists/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3706558384001255, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}