Republican senator says comments he would ‘step in’ over Biden intel briefings were misinterpreted

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Sen. James Lankford says former Vice President Joe Biden should start getting intelligence briefings in the interest of national security but says his words last week were misinterpreted when he said he would “step in” if the sessions had not started by Friday.

His comments triggered a slew of headlines that he was planning to intervene to ensure Biden got briefed coupled with criticism from Trump loyalists that he was prejudging the result of an election being challenged in the courts.

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