Washington (CNN) Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's relationship with Jeff Sessions is "beyond repair" and suggested that the attorney general be replaced.

"The President has lost confidence in Jeff Sessions. I'm telling you what everybody in the country knows, this is a dysfunctional relationship, we need a better one," the South Carolina Republican said in an interview on NBC News' "Today" show.

"This relationship is beyond repair, I think," Graham said. "I'm not asking him to be fired, but the relationship is not working."

The President's latest criticism of Sessions last Wednesday came the same week his former campaign chair Paul Manafort and his former personal attorney Michael Cohen were convicted and pleaded guilty, respectively, to various crimes, including bank fraud and tax fraud.

As one of Trump's first supporters in the Senate and campaign surrogate, Sessions was tapped to helm the Justice Department and sworn in last February. But his relationship with the President soured when he made the decision a month later to step away from overseeing the department's investigation into Russia and whether Trump campaign associates coordinated with Russia.

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