standard bearer, talking about the new president of the united states, i believe a day after the access hollywood tape. today, how bad did he beat me? i did better in the presidential race than today on the golf course. great fun, great host. it seems like there is this kind of memento sort of permanent amnesia that members have where they can find the president completely unfit one moment and then turn around and be golfing with him the next. look, what senator corker said today i think is what the overwhelming majority of members of congress believe. i m not quite sure why lindsey graham would say what he did, because previously he said some very similar things that senator corker said about donald trump. but i can tell you about my conversations with various republicans on the house floor about the president. they range from dislike to deep concern about his erratic behavior. and i think senator corker is simply articulating in public what many in congress already believe. all
how things normally happen. it is inconceivable that a chairman of the senate foreign relations committee would be having this kind of discourse or criticism against a president of his own party. i mentioned in my piece that 50 plus years ago, j. william fulbright who was the democratic chairman of the committee launched a serious critique of his president s party lyndon johnson s catastrophic policies in vietnam. but that was done with great deliberation and there wasn t something wrong with johnson that he was unfit, that he was temperamentally erratic. it was the policy. so that is something we haven t seen before. mark meadows comment, evan, was sort of amazing to me. meadows is basically saying i mean, if you disagree with bob corker, you would say something to the following. that s outages. what a slanderous thing to say about the president of the united states, who is obviously a judicious and competent chief executive of this nation. no instead he said well, you re just sa
24 hours of donald trump suffering this attack by senator bob corker saying the worst things about him that any senator has ever said about a president and still absolute silence from president trump. joining us now is jennifer reuben, opinion writer at wroes and charlie sykes, author of how the right lost its mind and a msnbc contributor. jennifer, two things to comment on tonight. one is the trump silence continues. in the face of senator corker s powerful attack against the president. and, steve bannon s attack against republican senate, he s going to run a primary if he can against every republican senator up for election except for lying ted, except for ted cruz, known as lying ted by donald trump. for some reason being lying ted
president of the united states. that was steve bannon, no doubt channelling donald trump tonight in his reaction to senator bob corker s attack on president trump. an attack about which the president has so far remained uncharacteristically silent. the washington post is reporting tonight senator corker s brutal assessment of the fitness of office, also landed like a thunder clap inside the white house where aides feared possible ripple effects among other republicans on capitol hill. trump s sunday morning twitter tirade against corker caught staffers by surprise but the president was brooding over the comment for a few days. earlier about trump s chaos endangering the nation. one trump confidant likened the president to a whistling teapot saying that when he does not blow off steam he can turn into a pressure cooker and explode. i think we are in pressure cooker territory said this
that he offers them no more political power, will cause them to break with him. they have to see among their base, among their voters, that president trump is no longer popular. and right now that s just not the case. among the trump supporters who were with trump in the primary, 95% of them still approve of the job that trump is doing, according to the latest nbc news/ wall street journal poll. that is what republicans see in their home states when they take in consideration, okay, is it time for me to criticize the president yet. peter, let s go dr. phil on the relationship then we ll move on. we remember seeing pictures of corker at trump tower. we were led to believe it was an audition or interview loosely for a cabinet spot, not just any cabinet spot. what happened, why didn t that happen for senator corker? well, he did, in fact, interview for secretary of state and in a number of prom nebt republicans supported him for that job. president trump decided, as elect trump decid