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That. theres no question that they are hardly fast friends or close allies but the question is will there be a continuing of dominos falling. if you take together whats really happened in the last several hours, the president has been involved in extraordinary exchange with the -- essential h ly the elder states man. how long can that be sustained? and this is something that is happening in realtime, unfolding in realtime and well see how this impacts the midterms because it certainly will, broo...

Of freedom by clouding our institutions and failing to understand just how hard and vulnerable they are. this spell will eventually break. that is my belief. we will return to ourselves once more and i say the sooner the better. because we have a healthy government, we must also have healthy and functioning parties. we must respect each other again in an atmosphere of shared facts and shared values, commity and good faith. we must argue our positions fervently and never be afraid to compromise. ...

And i think many of my colleagues, weve just witnessed a speech from a very fine man, a man who clearly brings high principles to the office every day and does what he believes is in the interest of arizona and the country. im grateful that senator from arizona will be here for another year and a half. we have big things to try to accomplish for the american people. but from my perspective, the senator of arizona has been a team player, always trying to get a constructive outcome no matter the i...

>> mr. president? >> senior senator from arizona? >> mr. president, its very hard for me to add to the eloquence of my friend and my dear friend from arizona. but i do want to say that its been one of the great honors of my life to have the opportunity to serve with a man of integrity, honor and decency and commitment to not only arizona but the united states of america. i have seen jeff flake stand up for what he believes in knowing full well that there would be a political price to pay. i have...

Encouragingly feed debase appetites in us and leadership lives by the american creed. and american leadership looks to the world and just as lincoln did, sees the family of man, humanity is not a zero sum game. when we have been at our most prosperous, we have been at our most principled and when we do well, the rest of the world does well. these recalls of civic faith have been critical to the american identity as long as we have been alive. they are our birthright and obligation. we must guard...

Absolutely necessary that there should be a full liberty to tell the truth about his acts and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. any other attitude is both base and servile. president roosevelt continued, "to announce that there be no criticism of a president or stand by a president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the public." loyalty to conscience and principles should...