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Republicans have a very modest margin over democrats in the senate. they need it revoked and theyve now got at least two more, flake and corker joining john mccain and susan collins and ben sass who cant be counted on for their vote. that makes the politics of this make it harder to get their agenda through. i can understand why the president is happy. he now is able to put a real trump supporter probably into arizona, but i think the stakes are higher than simply the politics. they have a lot t...

The campaign trail was all of the sudden going to change? and met mother or father size in front of their eyes? >> well look, i had a lot of my republican friends tell me that they thought that yes, donald trump was problematic, but they would still be able to get things done. i dont think that folks really understood the extent to which donald trump would go to just be absolutely unfit for the office. the republicans who are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. i think now we are seein...

The occasion. and then you have a lot of these republicans who swallow hard and in my opinion, compromise their integrity in order to try to get some things passed. and one of the first things that i said the day after donald trump got elected, i wrote for cnn.com, i said yeah, bishd jumping for joy as a republican now, we have all three branches, but at what cost? and jeff flake really articulated that in a way that was eloquent and spot on. >> bob corker as well. >> bob corker as well. ive got...

House yesterday, and breitbart reflected this, good riddance, we dont need them. >> members of congress do that at their peril. there comes a point of national interests, we have never had a situation in which members of both parties, but particularly the presidents own party, in private, believe the president is unstable, unfit, generals at the top of the command are saying the same thing, and top of the intelligence community, they are worried about this presidents stability. >> and -- >> will...

That before, this is something new. i did not feel i could move ahead and run a campaign i could be proud of so thats why i am retiring. >> so lets see where republicans are in this state of play. we have republican senator, rob portman of ohio, a member of the finance and foreign relations committee. thank you for being on the show. do you agree with your colleagues, flake and corker, and do you stand with them and against what the president has said and done? >> they are friends of mine, and i...

Its draining the swamp. the swamp is biting back, but with less and less teeth because theyre not going to be in the swamp much longer. hes going to replace them. >> i have more people that to want get in. joseph you were -- >> i think its always a good thing when you have more leadership and senators that are willing to condemn it. you see what happened with the gold star widow. i think that its important for us to be able to do those things, but senator flakes a good man. i dont think that spe...

Republican primary they think its for better. >> melissa: i have listened to commentators say president trump, you are running out of friends. attacking people that are supposed to be on his side and it is going the make it harder for him to get his agenda through. if you had to compare today to the day that he took office before he tried healthcare, do you think he is in better shape or worse shape for getting his agenda through? >> he is in worse shape. the reason is because his popularity is ...

Fight -- look, if they fail on this, everything changes. >> hold your thoughts. when we come back, stick around everyone, senators flake and corker are the latest leading republicans to blast president trump, but theyre certainly not the only ones. so why now? ♪ were drowning in information. where, in all of this, is the stuff that matters? the stakes are so high, your finances, your future. how do you solve this? you dont. you partner with a firm that advises governments and the fortune 500, ...

>> lets test that a little bit. what the man says matters. how he leads matters. his sense of moral agency matters. its not just about getting things done from a legislative capacity, otherwise we would have machines doing it. when he says i will get above the twitter war, and dont you have to have a position on what the president says? thats one of the reasons you were put in office to be a leader on many levels? >> absolutely. when bill clinton was telling the country that, you know, he did or...

Response to charlottesville, the way he said both sides were at fault. flake said the white supremacy in of charlottesville does not reflect -- >> enough people saying this is enough, we expect different behavior from our commander in chief and the president of the united states, then it will change. but it hasnt yet. >> do you think, you know, were going to see enough people challenging the words or actions of the president or do you think trumps behavior will get worse? >> i think itll get wor...