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Lets go back to the conversation. you wanted to jump in on something. i guess it goes to, what should jeff do about it? >> youve been sounding the alarm. >> fight. what are you not fighting for? >> i think theres about five or six republican whos can really change the direction of the agenda right now. without those three republican whos oppose health care. corker and flake, nothing gets done. so let they will push it in a more centrist direction. >> thats policy. >> if their issue is behavior, ...

Trump gives fox news something to talk about 24/7. this is literally the cue for their program. they cover a different universe in which hillary clinton is still the center of all scandal. whether it is this or the iranian scandal, there is net boring of buzz trump throws up so that his followers have a different story line to follow. >> i have people who i correspond with, who believe the democrats cooked up the whole russian conspiracy and this is the proof. >> it goes to what jennifer was say...

Armed services committee joins me as well. this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. good evening. im chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." in case you didnt notice, one heck of a fight going on now inside the republican party. folks, the fight is looking more and more like a rivalry between a hammer and nail. a pair of retiring senators, bob corker, jeff flake, dramatically blasted their partys leader as a threat to our safety and democracy. if it was a call for fellow re...

Personality. think tanks or other lobbying organizations thought he would have action to power if a republican won and trump dids it without them so they dont have that access and are burning bridges hoping hell fall and they can take back control as gatekeepers of the party. >> why celebrate flake and corker leaving? two people that are basically fairly reliable votes for the presidents agenda. if they end up being replaced -- if all this -- its a democrat that replaces them. and this in-fighti...

Immigration, flake rails against. or trade, neither of those two senators are happy about. what seemed to push corker and flake over the edge wasnt the policy differences but how the president acts. there is a huge divide in the party over the presidents behavior. a lot of elected leaders cant stand it. whether tweeting, vulgarity, name-calling, brawls or threats. same time, you could argue this style of grievance politics drives the trump base and is arguably the reason steve bannon is celebrat...