Overview
- Rep. Nancy Mace told CNN she wants President Trump to remove Sen. Lindsey Graham from the Situation Room, saying he brags about advising the president on Iran.
- Mace said she walked out of a House Armed Services briefing and vowed not to support sending U.S. ground troops into Iran.
- The congresswoman argued the reasons sold to the public for the war do not match the military objectives briefed to lawmakers.
- Her remarks followed Graham’s call to seize Iran’s Kharg Island—its main oil export hub—using Marine expeditionary units, a plan he compared to Iwo Jima.
- The Independent reported the Pentagon has ordered about 2,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne to move to the Middle East as a new poll shows more Americans oppose the war than support it.