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Nation. >> welcome back to "hardball." those are republican senators warning about the threat posed by donald trump. it cant be more clear than that. trump responded of course with his own attacks. he called senator corker a lightweight, and incompetent, neither of which i think are true. and someone who couldnt get elected dog catcher in tennessee. hes been elected senator a few times. and theerz what he said about senator jeff flake. >> he came out with his horrible book, and i said who is thi...

Conservative. i would love to have a republican president but not at any cost. >> its obvious his political model and governing model is to divide and hes not risen to the occasions. i think it worst of it is the whole debasing of our nation. >> those are republican senators warning about the threat posed by donald trump. it cant be more clear than that. he called senator corker a lightweight and incompetent, neither i think are true. and someone who couldnt get elected dog catcher in tennessee....

Testimony came after fox news obtained text messages from two investigators, disparaging president. catherine herridge has more. >> deputy attorney general was here on capitol hill defending the special counsel robert mueller and the integrity of the russia probe but it was really a series of texts that garnered all the attention. lets take a look at the first one. its from august of 2016. this is a text message from fbi agent peter strzok to the fbi lawyer lisa c21 and he writes "you laid out a...

That. he appears hes said that the president actually deep valving i mean those are strong fighting words in washington the u.s. president was watching that interview and he fired off a series of tweets attacking senator corker bob corker who helped president obama give us the bad iran deal and couldnt get elected dog catcher in tennessee is now fighting tax cuts that was the first tweet that he went on to tweet corker dropped out of the race in tennessee when i refused to endorse him and now he...

That. he appears hes said that the president actually devolving i mean those are strong fighting words in washington the u.s. president was watching that interview and he fired off a series of tweets attacking senator corker bob corker who helped president obama give us the bad iran deal and couldnt get elected dog catcher in tennessee is now fighting tax cuts that was the first tweet that he went on to tweet corker dropped out of the race in tennessee when i refused to endorse him and now hes o...

As inappropriate. >> i notice that a lot of the language i dont think was befitting of the senate floor. >> reporter: she also defended the presidents fight with corker. >> hes a fighter. weve said it many times before, the people of this country didnt elect somebody to be weak, they elected somebody to be strong. >> reporter: after corker said in a round of morning television interviews that the president should leave the details of tax reform to congress, mr. trump issued a searing attack on ...

Outcome is the same. trump is going to be in a tough place when he goes to them in a week or month and says i need you on this. >> when he went after senator corker, senator corker was on the morning tv shows, said some not so nice things about the president. the president immediately responded with that tweet. isnt it sad that a light weight senator bob corker couldnt get re-elected in the great state of tennessee will fight tax cuts and then he said bob corker who helped president obama give u...

Run. it seems to me if you feel that fervently about standing up to fight then you go through your primary and you prove that you can move republicans to your direction but instead of fighting they yielded and thats i think its a victory for donald trump. >> let me ask about these tweets and whether the pushback, the counterpunch or that trump is, is effective in this environment. bob corker who helped obama give us a bad iran deal, couldnt get elected dog catcher in tennessee is now fighting ta...

Front working with leader mcconnell and others. >> then the president tore back into his twitter feud with corker writing bob corker, who helped president obama give us the bad iran deal and couldnt get elected dog catcher in tennessee is now fighting tax cuts. he dropped out of the race in tennessee when i refused to endorse them and now is only negative on anything trump. look at his record. corker fired back on twitter against the president saying quote same untruths from an utterly untruthfu...

On twitter this morning but heres what he had to say about his fellow republican senators, that he needs in order to achieve some kind of tax cut, not tax reform. he called him a man who couldnt get elected dog catcher. he said that he refused to endorse him. he said hes a lightweight senator, he said bob parker has set the united states back. he said that bob corker is an incompetent head of the foreign relations committee, and look how poorly the u.s. has done as a result. and then, of course,...