biden and sayingt that there was no -- nothing to thedea of a possible corruption from vice president emden. as theocrats were pursuing that case which is something that many republicans want to see investigated on its own,pu watching the ricans, most of them were stone-faced, a few of them were kind oughing to emselves, smiling in aso dismissive of rolling their eyes, saying i can't believe democrats are making this argument, dismissing it, some waving their hands like nator tom cotton. lindsey graham, one of the president's strongest allies, rned his back to the reen as some of the sound bytes were being played on this issue. joe biden, he said, is a friend of his, bute wants this investigated. one other note, senator lindsey graham, as nick reported,ap ared in the democrats' case, that 199sound byte of him. he was not in the chamber when that sound byte was played. i think he may have actually known that was coming if he looked at the packet of o terial. hardy if it was a cones den -- coincidence or not. he was not there to see his 1999self say something very different than his present s