he can t lose more than two on any big vote that s coming up. he also has susan collins sitting out there. his coalition to get things passed is now in some jeopardy. after giving these tough speeches it may be very very hard for senator mcconnell and others to revisit them. corker is sensitive about the size of the debt and whether tax reform bill is going to add money to the debt. he ll vote against it. he said he won t vote for one more penny than he agreed to vote to. it does give more fuel to conservative columnist who have thinking these thoughts for a long time but haven t expressed them. david, you said it was a day like no other. can you explain why you say that. well, i can t remember a time
in american history when when the loyalty to the president is such a premium, senators enter broken away from a party of you know a president of their own party and placed his agenda and n jeopardy shlgs placed his placed his presidency in some jepordy. this is extraordinary, we ve never had anything like this. we ve had drum lks grum lks and dropping before at griping before at presidents but the language they ve used. that goes beyond anything we have seen. chairman progressors do agree with david this isn t we haven t seen? i think this is very indicative of what s going on in
impact the senate majority. it s good for republicans next year. david, there s also a message that senator flake is sending, saying history s going to judge people harshly. and wen he looks back he asked the question, what did i do. a lot of critics say you re stepping aside and not remaining in the fight. sure, senator flake is obviously angry about the politics in his home state, his popularity s down 15%. he was the other republican likely to lose re-election. he s caught up on the political side of this. anderson, in the three cases we have here on mccain, corker and flake, what we have are three sflaerts who go beyond politics. they re worried about what s going to happen to the country. they re worried we re going to get led into war by
while and worked with the white house. their language today was very very different. corker certainly called the president unfit for office. flake clearly did. whether that leads to new criticism or rising criticism remains to be seen. david ks people may say this on capitol hill privately but to maggy s point, unless they plan to leave office, doesn t seem like you re going to hear a lot of people standing up and saying this. i think we probably will not hear from a lot of other republicans, anderson. but a some day like no other, does have significance. we now have two additional republican senators whose broken sharply with the president, cries from the heart, just a moral indignation with what they ve been living with and kept silent about. the president has three people who have broken with him, corker, flake and mccain.
republicans are clinging on to. there s not a exact path. joining us is maggy, jeff rogers. maggy have you seen a day like this? no. one of the take away for a lot of people today, you have two senators, bob corker and jeff flake who are saying, i m not taking any more of this and i m not running for re-election. two people who are freed to buck the president as hard as polk and as withdraw terms at possible because they are not at personal risk anymore. are there be a ground swell of other senators following him, including john mccain. there was been no evidence of that so far. corker has been a much slower and zlibt tifr burn. he was close with trump for a