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Decisions and to vote. the president has every right to lobby against bobs amendment. he even threatened to veto it, but bob deserves a vote. >> help me think it through, senator, because if youre saying you hear lots of positive thin the corker amendment, but theyre not bringing it up for a vote, it seems to validate what hes saying. which is unless youre on your way out, which corker is, right, which flake is, which gowdy is

There may be some of my colleagues who are leary of alienating them. but were in office to make hard decisions and to vote. the president has every right to lobby against bobs amendment. he even threatened to veto it, but bob deserves a vote. >> help me think it through, se saying you hear lots of positive things about the corker amendment, but theyre not bringing it up for a vote, it seems to validate what hes saying. which is unless youre on your way out, which corker is, right, which flake is...

What we did on health care and the rest. it wasnt abo saying, as the president does, this is what i want, vote on it, yesr no. we built it from our caucus and our consensus and then we go forward in a unified way and have the votes. now, one of the things i would say, because i think its instructive about one comparison or another, when we did the affordable care act, this was major. were talking social security, medicare, medicaid, the affordable care act. pillars of economic and health securit...

The exchange between senator bob corker, who is a republican and chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and the president, in which corker described the white house has an adult daycare center and said that he was concerned that the president might be leading us to world war iii with his intemperance. >> a daycare center where the director was off that day. >> yes, you followed the -- >> i thought it was quite interesting that a senior republican leader in the senate would say that a...

Decades. also with me maggie haberman. >> maggie, the president does seem to have the habit particularly on weekends of getting on the twitter machine and going for it. >> yeah. its usually times when hes isolated either by himself in the residence or whatever reason or if hes at work, but when there are fewer people around, fewer activities. in this case its not clear precisely what set him off, but most people in the west wing think it was some combination of watching fox news on sunday where ...

About and that they stood between the white house and chaos. and the president saw that talked about on television, i presume, and took it as the personal insult that it was and then started tweeting about the senator. and it became very personal, because he said that the senator begged him to endorse him if he were to run for re-election and then the senator responded because thats not the way he tells the story. he told the president that he wasnt going to run for re-election, according to cor...

To win that one. well ask her about that. also the feud the president is having with tennessee republican senator bob corker continues. the president over the weekend said that corker had asked for his endorsement. the president wouldnt give it to them so corker dropped out. the president said corker quote, didnt have the guts to run, to which corker answered on twitter that the white house has become some sort of adult day care center and that somebody clearly missed their shift. and later on i...