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Alter the deal or place new sanctions on iran which could essentially scrap the entire agreement. here in israel, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu praised president trump for recognizing the flaws in the agreement. >> im focused on the goal. the goal is to prevent iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, and you could achieve it either by fixing this bad deal or by nixing it. i dont particularly care which one, but it is the result that we want to have. >> now, not everyone here in isr...

I spoke to ehud barak, the former defense and prime minister of israel, a hawk all his life, who said, yeah, of course for us its a bad deal. we would want everything in the deal, missiles, terrorism, everything about iran that bothers the international community they would like in a neat basket to tie up. thats the perfect scenario. but all those who spent the years and months negotiating know that neither in no scenario was that going to be possible. its important to remind people and go back ...

Tomorrow? >> i wont get an ahead but well have a read out, as we always do, about meetings. >> how do you think the ongoing fights with republicans on capitol hill help the presidents agenda? tax reform first and for mows. >> first and foremost. >> hes looking and congress to get their jb done. they are on another vacation right now. i think we would be a lot better off if they stopped taking vacations and stay here until we get things accomplished chlgt the president is here and committed to wo...

Thats what im dealing with." earlier today the president asked about this and he said he doesnt think it will have an impact on the issue of tax reform. >> i dont think so. i dont think so. the people of this country want tax cuts. they want lower taxes. >> at the press briefer, sara sanders asked what good this does for the president to openly feud with a member of his party and trying to get several items of his agenda passed. sanders say its corker that needs to live up to his past promises. ...

A readout. >> how do you think these on going fights with republicans on capitol hill help the presidents agenda? tax reform first and foremost. >> the presidents very committed to getting tax reform done. hes calling on congress to get their job done. theyre on another vacation right now. i think that we would all be a lot better off if the senate would stop taking vacation and start staying here until we actually get some real things accomplished. the presidents here and is committed to workin...

Do about meetings. >> how do you think the ongoing fights with republicans on capitol hill help the presidents agenda? >> the presidents very committed to getting tax reform done. he is calling on congress to get their job done. they are on another vacation right now. i think that we would all be a lot better off if the senate would stop taking vacations and start staying here until we get real things accomplished. the president is here and committed to working with them to do that. >> how speci...

Daca. but this is one of the classic stories that really demonstrates the pearls of covering president trump in this era in washington because you know, is this some kind of grand strategy where as you get at hes starting by being sort of hawk and hes going to bargain to some kind of compromise or are we giving him too much credit for a grand strategy and it really is just him making it up as he goes. not always clear. ill tell you what senator corker said to me yesterday. he said this idea of g...

Alienating corker at a time when the president needs to pass tax reform with a slim majority in the senate. as the "ap" reported, corker, a fiscal hawk, is holding the gops feet to the fire on tax legislation, declaring that hes going to oppose any measure that increases the national debt by a single cent. so, lets talk about this. joining us on set -- im taking a nice little pause there because you are on set with us, and we appreciate that, politicos daniel littman, co-author of "the political...

Corker. he said senator corker is a valuable member of the senate caucus and is also on the budget committee and important player as we move to the floor on the budget next week. and he is an important part of our team. so republicans are going out of their way to not at least directly engage them selves in this arguments. in part because of the clout corker has in these fights, which we can talk more about in a minute. >> garrett, when the senate comes back from recess, presumably, they will be...

Exactly right, senator bob corker, the chair of the foreign relations committee uncorking a real dagger at the president, responding to his criticism from president trump. he wrote its a shame the white house has become an adult day care center, someone obviously missed their shift this morning. those are the words of senator bob corker as you have been talking about on this broadcast right now. there are reasons why this feud is important. weve talked on this broadcast routinely about all the e...