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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, (R-SC) confirmed in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News that he is sending a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting the transcripts of three phone calls the senator said then-Vice President Joe Biden had with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

"I want to know are there any transcripts or readouts of the phone calls between the vice president and the president of Ukraine in February [2016] after the raid on the gas company president's house," said Graham.

"After this raid, Hunter Biden kicks in. Hunter Biden's business partner meets with [then-Secretary of State] John Kerry, and Vice President Biden on three occasions makes a phone call to the president of Ukraine and goes over there in March and they fire the guy, and this is the same man that the ambassador wanted investigated in 2015."

Graham added he found it "odd" that instead of lauding the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, for investigating the Burisma chairman, he was instead relieved of his duties.

He said that in 2015, President Obama's ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, said in a speech he wanted Shokin to be more forceful in his investigation of domestic corruption.

"The one person he named as being a sleazebag was the president of Burisma," Graham remarked.

President Trump tweeted that the Navy "will NOT" take away the trident pin, an emblem signifying membership on the elite SEAL team, from embattled Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher.

Ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales said he has "zero doubt" that a mechanical failure that occurred on a helicopter he was traveling on last month was an "assassination attempt" and no accident. Morales said the incident - apparently a mechanical fault with the tail rotor - happened while he was flying to the opening ceremony for a new road.

The socialist leader pinned blame for the alleged assassination attempt on Air Force General Jorge Gonzalo Terceros Lara, who he said had "changed completely" in recent times. He also pointed to the fact that coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho had announced on the same day that Bolivians were about to "witness Evo's fall" and that it would be "captured on video."

"When the news came that we survived the crash that night, those who expected the president to die in it were disappointed," he said. Over the following days, Morales recalled, police began to join protesters on the streets.

On a visit to Chimoré that Saturday, Morales said one police officer showed him "numerous text messages and phone calls offering 50 thousand dollars" for capturing him. The officer warned him to be careful, to double up on security and go back to the capital La Paz.

Morales on Wednesday called on the UN to intervene and denounce the coup and subsequent massacre.

The Organization of American States played a key role in deposing him, and that Bolivia's huge reserves of lithium had spurred on the coup, had engineered his downfall.

"Nowhere did it say that there is fraud," he said of the OAS' report on Bolivia's October elections, which found "irregularities" at the polls, despite contradictory reports from other expert groups. "The OAS made a decision and its report is not based on a technical report, but on a political decision."

The coup against him, Morales continued, was aimed at installing a right-wing leader who will open up Bolivia's lithium reserves - some of the largest in the world - to exploitation by industry. Morales had planned on nationalizing the extraction of lithium to secure the country's economic future. "In Bolivia we could define the price of lithium for the world...Now I have realized that some industrialized countries do not want competition."

Tesla, whose electric cars use lithium in their batteries - saw its stock jump following Morales' departure. Companies that manage to get a hold of Bolivia's lithium stocks - estimated at around 900 million tons - stand to make a lucrative profit. Worldwide demand for the element is expected to more than double by 2025, Bloomberg noted last year.