of nashville and governor who has been out of the spotlight for eight years. typically vote republican, but he did a lot for tennessee. reporter: as a republican, do you want bob corker be in this race? i would prefer he not. i would still go with marsha blackburn. bob corker needs to step up. reporter: corker was once secretary of state. he loves you and he wants the best for you. the republican nominee for president, donald trump! reporter: but things have soured since trump took office. corker tweeting the white house had become an adult daycare center and suggested the president could set the nation on the path toward world war iii. it appears to me that it s almost deinvolving. reporter: if corker enters, it will be a test of how far a republican lawmaker can go criticizing donald trump and still be embraced by voters. if bob corker jumps in, you
tweet because he has finally discovered that bob corker has more power over him than he has over bob corker. and what the country and the world has a right to be worried about tonight is does senator corker s humiliation of president trump move us forward or backward on the path toward world war iii? joining us now, nicklas chris of the for the new york times. returned from a trip to north korea. this was his third trip to north korea and ezra klein, editor at vox and host of podcast the ezra klein show. nick, one of the things that bob corker says is donald trump does not understand how the world takes his comments. he made a point that i think a lot of people don t often consider. he said, and you have to think about these comments in translation because they have to then be translated into
could say about a president than that he s setting the country on the path to world war iii. there is nothing worse that a president could do. donald trump is the slowest student ever to occupy the presidency and so it is taking him a long time to discover that he doesn t actually have any power over senators like bob corker but tonight the president might finally be learning, learning that lesson in the most painful way possible. by having to sit there in the white house humiliated by senator corker and being unable to attack senator corker with a tweet because he has finally discovered that bob corker has more power over him than he has over bob corker. and what the country and the world has a right to be worried about tonight is does senator corker s humiliation of president trump move us forward or backward on the path toward