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		</div><p>A senior US Republican senator has urged President Donald Trump to take action against Russia over allegations that Moscow interfered in the election that brought him to power.</p>
<p>US intelligence officials have told Mr Trump that Moscow tried to influence voters by hacking Democratic emails and trolling social media sites, but the President has sought to downplay Russia&#8217;s role in the election.</p>
<p>Speaking to world leaders, diplomats and defence officials at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said Congress needs to get involved to ensure there are &#8220;consequences&#8221; for the alleged hacking.</p>
<p>&#8220;2017 is going to be a year of kicking Russia in the ass in Congress,&#8221; Mr Graham said.</p>
<p>Referring to forthcoming elections in France and Germany this year and concerns of outside interference, Mr Graham said &#8220;I promise everybody in this room that Congress is going to take a long hard look what Russia did to undermine our elections, so you&#8217;ll be better prepared when they come your way.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said he planned to introduce a bipartisan motion for new Russia sanctions and it will get &#8220;north of 75 votes&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;My goal is to put it on Trump&#8217;s desk and I hope he&#8217;ll embrace the idea that as the leader of the free world he should be working with us to punish Russia,&#8221; Mr Graham said.</p>
<p>Russia denies meddling in the election. Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday: &#8220;I have seen no facts. There were just some accusations that we tried to hack some Democratic Party website.&#8221;</p>
<p>Though the allegations are that the hacking was directed at the Democrats, Mr Graham said: &#8220;We should have an Article 5 that an attack on one party is an attack on all.&#8221; He was referring to NATO&#8217;s Article 5, which states that an attack on one member of the alliance is seen an attack of the entire alliance.</p>
<p>&#8220;My biggest concern with President Trump &#8230; is that he&#8217;s never really looked the camera in the eye and said, &#8216;Even though it was the Democratic Party that suffered from Russian interference, I am now the leader of the free world and I can assure you they&#8217;re going to pay a price on my watch for trying to interfere in our election.'&#8221;</p>
<p>The conference opened on Friday with criticism of Mr Trump from another senior Republican senator, Arizona&#8217;s John McCain, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, who said &#8220;more and more of our fellow citizens seem to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticising it as our moral equivalent&#8221;.</p>
<p>Later, answering question about the ouster of Mr Trump&#8217;s national security adviser Michael Flynn for misrepresenting his contacts with Russia, Mr McCain said that the issue &#8220;is something that shows in many respects this administration is in disarray and they&#8217;ve got a lot of work to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCain, who has openly quarrelled with the president, added that Mr Trump often &#8220;contradicts himself&#8221; in his statements, and that &#8220;some of us have learned to watch what the president does as opposed to what he says&#8221;.</p>
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