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I think this is going to get more complicated now in arizona. and i think makes chosen candidate is now the weakest in the possible field. so on one hand, he can claim part of a scalp on senator flake. on the other hand, we see what happens on primary night. it may be a short-lived victory for steve bannon. >> mike murphy, thank you. senator jeff flake will be on cnn tomorrow morning during the 7:00 a.m. hour. make sure you tune in. when we come back, our breaking news. a source says hillary c...

Meaning the nativist, hard right wing, you know, is in the white house. that presents a giant problem to republicans like jeff flake. and i dont think, don, that youre going to see flake disappear. people are acting like hes quitting politics. hes -- >> what, 19 months? >> yeah, and he may end up running for president in 2020 as a conservative, challenging trump, or a third party conservative movement, which would kill a trump re-election campaign. flake is here to play ball. i didnt see today a...

>> i want to ask you then, because someone mentioned -- douglas brinkley said that this could -- flake could be setting himself up for a run in 2020. who knows? he doesnt necessarily think this is a retirement speech. >> yeah, and i think the same thing for bob corker. both have impeccable conservative records. this is more about ideology and more about character, where the president has raised big doubts about his character. people say how come so few are talking about it? it is amazing for eve...

Fudge a little in politics and exaggerate, but donald trumps not doing white lies. those are just blatant lies all the time and the problem is what is what happened to nixon. he won by a landslide in 72. but by 72, goldwater went to nixon and said you lied to me and i dont back liars. that started the beginning of the end of nixon. >> all right. thats got to be the last word. before we go, i want to read this from an op-ed from "the washington post" tonight from senator flake. it says, there is ...

And i think going forward, this is not a speech that can just be a one-day event and then the republican party moves on. every republican in congress is going to have to grapple with these words and this argument. he used a word today. he talked about complicity. he said republicans are complicit in the coarsening of the culture. every republican up there is going to have to respond to this at some point in the next few weeks. a lot of them are going to say, well, we want to get this tax cut thi...

The chief counsel asking senator mccarthy this. >> you have done enough, have you know decency, sir, at long last? have you left no sense of decency? >> in an op-ed published tonight in "the washington post," senator jeff flake remembers those words by saying this. the moment was a shock to the system. a powerful dose of cure for an american democracy that was questioning its values during a time of global tumult and threat. we face just such a time now. we have again forgotten who we are suppos...