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Happened, why they were not disclosed earlier and what happens next and if they can be held to this account. now the issue here, though, is theres already been a tone set here, steph. last week you remember there was the social media hearings and a lot of questions were not answered so a big question is whether equifax and yahoo! will deliver this morning. >> all right, jo ling, thanks so much. were going to take a break. up next, trump had a contentious call with senate democrats over tax ref...

You can call it a retirement speech, senator jeff flake said what we cannot accept any longer. watch this. >> in this century a new phrase has entered the language to describe the accommodation of a new and undesirable order. that free that phrase being the new normal. we must never adjust to our new dialogue with the tone set at the top. we must never regard as normal a undermining of our democratic norms and ideals. we must never accept the daily -- the personal attacks, freedoms and instituti...

Problems he laid out clearly on the senate floor. take a listen. >> its time for our complicity and accommodation of the unacceptable to end. in this century a new phrase has entered the language to describe the accommodation of a new and un-desire bl order, that phrase about new normal. we must never adjust to the present courseness of our dialogue with a tone set at the top. >> hes made this point a lot but its best known the senate republican senator would sit on the senate floor and make a s...

Set at the top. >> anderson, i know you guys have made this point a lot, but its worth noting again. the idea that a sitting republican senator would go onto the senate floor and make a speech like he did regarding a sitting republican president is simply unprecedented. a number of senators i spoke with after today called it historic, they never expected to see anything like they did on the senate floor. but there was also a somber mood how this came about and the recognition they were losing a ...

Regret because of the courseness of our leadership. we must never adjust to to the present courseness of our national die lock with the tone set at the top. the personal attacks the threats against principles, freedoms and institution, the flagrant disregard for truth and decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have been elected to serve. none of these appalling feat...

Considered so unbearably boring. so the "mr. president" jeff flake was technically speaking to today was john hoeven, a republican senator from north dakota, who will never be president. but no one in the senate, and no one in the country for one second made the mistake of thinking jeff flake was directing his comments at john hoeven. this was the most powerful anti-trump speech yet given by a senate republican. and of course the name "trump" was never mentioned. >> there are times when we must ...

It is a duty traditionally given to junior senators because it is considered so unbearably boring. so the "mr. president" jeff flake was technically speaking to today was john hoeven, a republican senator from north dakota, who will never be president. but no one in the senate, and no one in the country for one second made the mistake of thinking jeff flake was directing his comments at john hoeven. this was the most powerful anti-trump speech yet given by a senate republican. and of course the ...

Sunday shows and trying to defend president trump calling for nfl players to be fired. you know, clearly looking as if he were in physical pain, but something he had to do, its something the president said, therefore, it must be right. and that sort of attitude on you know what can go wrong with that? well, everything. >> yeah, pretty much everything. what can get done, nick, if this is the tone set in the white house? its not as if this is an effective leader that has commanded the respect of t...

The energy, the tone for the unit. so whats the tone being set for our country? whats the tone being set for our air force? for me, what was the tone set for the marine corps and the tone set right now? you know, a lot of things are going on. gays are being able to serve in the military. i never thought i would see that in my lifetime. now we have things going on with the transgender brothers and sisters. you know, we had the first woman to graduate from infantry officer school. so there are ste...

Process, that is our focus. thats what we will continue do. people first, paperwork second. the president has empowered all of his agencies to go forward with that mindset and thats what well continue to do. >> i saw secretary price was here for an event with the first lady. did the president have the chance to sit down and talk to him about this issue of his private jet use or has he had a one-on-one conversation with the secretary about that? and when you said that the white house ordered a ha...