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>> greg: this is a red meat that drives the story line of a racist president, a racist president we all helped elect, all the networks were there. its weird, as the media pines for unity, they foment friction. go outside for a minute and everything seems fine but turn on the tv, race war is coming. by attributing the acts of ghoulish racist to a party or large swaths of america, they steer us away from civility on it toward fury. the media has different rules depending on the guy. i remember one...

And i am just curious, did you think about leaving the party? >> no. no. not at all. im a proud republican, life-long republican. and from arizona. arizona tends to elect independent-minded people and people who stand on principle. so im doing what i think my voters expect of me. but, i think, for example, in 2006 when the party in particular had given way to inappropriate spending, earmark spending, couple of our colleagues ended up in jail. if you remember the man for drain the swamp was emplo...

If you remember the man for drain the swamp was employed effectively by the democrats and describing the republican party at that time. and i think had we stood up at that time, then we wouldnt have lost those majorities in the house and the senate, and i fear that we might do the same again. >> you had strong words in that book, and yet, we looked at your voting record, and at this point, you vote more with the president than even some others in the senate whove taken the president on. accordin...

Legislative win or two away from seeing his numbers tick up and hopefully the republicans can pull it back up. >> by the way, whatever he wants to say about them, theyre mainstream, whatever nasty things implied sometimes, he needs these guys and they right now verbally have been turning on him. here are a few. >> i will agree with this president when i think hes doing conservative things and doing decent things and ill oppose him and speak up when i think he is isnt. >> i will support the presi...

Enact conservative policy. well, its pretty clear who senator jeff flake is taking aim against. that was him on "morning joe" just a little earlier firing away at the president and basically his own party, too. hes out his book, con shens of a conservative. flake is up for re-election next year. he says we conservatives have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued to carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determine...

Then they look at his voting record, which has been largely with trump, and especially last week when he voted four times in support of the obamacare repeal, in particular the skinny repeal, which made a mockery of the whole process he rips in the book, and he voted for that while the book was shipping. on the right, jeff flake has always had a problem with the base, the tea party base. he has that problem to this day. this does not make it any better. in fact, it probably makes it worse by ripp...

Republican party agreed with donald trump. >> and they also agree with jeff flake. they like trump, they have no trouble with flakes voting record or no problem with the way flake views things. >> how does this play out? >> its about character and behavior. >> if that mattered, donald trump would not have been the nominee of the republican party. he ran against the tin dolls of the beltway media. he ran against marco rubio -- >> you said trump is nice on medicaid. >> no, no, i said he understand...

Schumer turns and waves his arms apparently trying to quiet them as senator john mccain turns around and walks back to hi chamber desk all alone. >> mr. reed. >> i want to bring back my panel now. julian, i want to get your reaction to that historic moment by john mccain. really defining his moniker as the maverick. >> well, this is a defining moment. people have different opinions of senator mccain and his voting record, hi political record, but in this case, that very dramatic moment, and i lo...

The fact of the matter is, theres an unwillingness now to get anything done on a consensual basis. >> well, im sure -- i cant tell you. im not used to this environment. its frustrating as can be. i came there to do things. when i was governor of west virginia of my great state, we brought everybody together. we got things done because the people counted on it. the people are counting on us tremendously now. im going to work with everybody. if you look at my voting record, sometimes im the only d...

Contrarian. when you put him in the place where his party is going in one direction. hes inclined to go in the other direction. he was more angry at george w. bush than anyone else for a long time. then he was really angry at barack obama for a long time. right now, you know, he seems both to be standing up for principle. i think this notion of mortality is playing in to what he did the other night. obviously theres a whole bunch of antipathy he feels for donald trump. but i think more than anyt...