Marshalling the moves in new york, the ground controller with the little bit of extra. Do get in touch with us. Welcome. Christian fraser is in london. Donald trump says he is any lovefest with republicans, which may seem odd after the last 2a hours. To republican senators have rounded on the government. One is stepping down because he feels he has a duty to stand up against mr trump. It came after his colleague said the president is dbase thing america. Today the senator said other republicans will speak out. Here is pa rt republicans will speak out. Here is part of what he said on the senate floor. Reckless, outrageous and undignified behaviour. This has become excused as telling it like it is. It is actuallyjust reckless, outrageous and undignified. When such behaviour emanates from the top of government, it is something else. It is dangerous to the democracy. So, to senators have now criticised the president. Just as noticeably, the president. Just as noticeably, the other 50 have not. The president insists his party is united. In the past hour he gave us this description of the lunch yesterday with the senators. I called it a lovefe st. With the senators. I called it a lovefest. Maybe it was a lovefest. We have standing ovation is. There is great unity. If youll get the democrats with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, that is a mess. There is great unity in the Republican Party. As he was saying if you minutes ago but if you look at the polls, his supporters still do seem to love him. A paul found 78 a p prove do seem to love him. A paul found 78 approve of the job he is doing. His overall rating is 42 . It has barely shifted through the summer. Numbers far better than republicans in congress. We have been speaking with the republican congressmen for illinois, who fought in afghanistan and iraq with the us air force. You have been critical of donald trump on occasion. I was just wondering what you made of the comments in the senate yesterday. He is a principled person and i think he meant what he said. Ithink person and i think he meant what he said. I think it is not helpful for oui said. I think it is not helpful for our party to have this big food fight in front of everybody. That happens on all sides. The president with twitter and some of the comments from the senate. We have a lot of things he went to achieve internationally and as a republican to wake up every day and see this spread all over the national and world media is disheartening sometimes. Look, everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I will be supportive of the president a nyway will be supportive of the president anyway i can and when i must i will be critical. That is my job. Lets talk international. You served in the airforce in iraq and afghanistan. If you were in service now, would you be concerned that there is disagreement in the party was hampering in any way the ability of america to do its job around the world 7 of america to do its job around the world . Maybe a little concerned. You know, any time you have fights within a party or anything to do within a party or anything to do with Foreign Policy issues, they can bea with Foreign Policy issues, they can be a hamstring. What do you mean by that . Because decisions. If the president makes a decision overseas, used to be that nothing was partisan. Now it can turn into a big internal debate here at home. Let me say this, the american military, and i served the British Military in iraq, the art of people and they have one mission and it is not something people like to hear, it is to take out the bad guys. If the military and the civilian leadership of america and the uk ask them to do it and they are good at it. A lot of the times these debates can be disheartening but the military goes way beyond that. It is bigger than that disputes. We like to discuss between ourselves that we are really good at what we do when we are overseas. When you are in the military, what is important is the temperament of your leaders. What the senator was talking about yesterday as he doesnt think this president has the temperament. Do you . That president has the temperament. Do you . That is president has the temperament. Do you . That is a tough question to answer. I you . That is a tough question to answer. Lam not you . That is a tough question to answer. I am not going to get in the middle. I do not like some of the things he puts on twitter. Every morning you wake up and you cringed as you log into twitter to see what he put. That is not exciting. I do think some of the tweets on International Issues can actually be beneficial. Look at north korea. You have reports that they have reached out to republican consultants to say, what is donald trump made of . That can be some benefits but the american presidency has always been eager than moments and bigger than partisan debates, even though the debate tv mac engaged partisan debates, even though the debate tv mac engaged in partisan debates. That is something i worry about. It is important what World Leaders are thinking. When they look at today when he says, yesterday i got standing ovations. There was a lovefest. That is the sort of language we are used to hearing from different leaders, not the president of the united states. Yes, look, as isaid, it of the united states. Yes, look, as i said, it is like white . Please do not. At the same time, interesting leaders, colourful leaders in the past, and you see that and you say, the relationships of countries go beyond what leaders say. They can be damaging but we always have a relationship that goes beyond it. The president. Like i said, there are lots of things that i agree with. The tone i dont. Frankly, we are lucky because he has a lot of great people around him and he does tend to allow them i think to help him make decisions when it comes to things like what to do in syria, iran, etc. Thank you very much for joining us. Goodbye. What do trumps supporters make of all this. Joining us now is matt schlapp who chairs the american conservative union. Thank you for coming in. You heard a congressman they are seeing each wishes he would tone it down and stop treating. Do you reporters tv mac supporters feel the same . think it is unorthodox. It really worries the people who are the establishment in dc. This is not the way they have seen a president operate before. He goes around in america. Most of the media favours the democrats and he tries to go around them. It is a real strategy to top two americans and get around the media. Some of his tweets hit the media. Some of his tweets hit the target and some do not. Lets talk about the senator from arizona. He has now said it is not the Republican Party for him. He is a conservative republican. Pretty conservative. 95 Approval Rating on conservative. 95 Approval Rating on conservative rating. He is not a liberal. We can get into a ratings that. The high 90s to the high 70s. He is not a liberal republican. Not at all. If there is not room for him, what future do they have . He says there is not room, that is why he is leaving. I sell the speech and i thought it was compelling. He is leaving because he would lose any primary. That is not what he says. He is at 18 . He told me this personally. Bob corker, why is he being so nasty . Because he could not win ina being so nasty . Because he could not win in a primary in tennessee. She would not have got through a primary. There is nothing about what jeff has just primary. There is nothing about what jeff hasjust said primary. There is nothing about what jeff has just said that you would agree with in terms of the criticism of the nature of this presidency . That, i think there is no. There are republicans that are uncomfortable with some of the aspects of the readership. I would acknowledge that but i would also say that most conservatives in this country, they want a republican president who will fight hard and thatis president who will fight hard and that is the part of donald trump they like, his conservative agenda and he fights back. Conservatives tend to not fight back. When the media pitches back, the crowd go undera media pitches back, the crowd go under a rock. This guy does not do that. For your grassroots members, they want things doing and these two senators, bob corker and jeff flake are going to be around untiljanuary 2019. They could are going to be around untiljanuary 20 19. They could vote are going to be around untiljanuary 2019. They could vote against the agenda. Not only them but others, these are guys who do not see id either the president. What happens if the dig their heels in . People like ben, he is 100 rating. If the dig their heels in . People like ben, he is 10096 rating. He is going to do the conservative thing each and every time. He does have a personal disagreement with the president and he takes them on. I thinkjeff flake president and he takes them on. I think jeff flake i president and he takes them on. I thinkjeff flake i know and i respect, i do not think he will let his personal animosity get in the way for voting for the tax bill. I think he will do right by the country. Stay with us because were going to talk about Hillary Clinton and we would like to get your thoughts on it. Hillary Clintons Campaign helped pay for whats become known as the steele dossier research by a former british spy that claimed russia was trying to get donald trump elected and that moscow had compromising evidence against trump. The dossier was put together by christopher steele, who was recently interviewed by special counsel bob muellers team. But who exactly commissioned it has always been a bit of a mystery. Now the Washington Post is reporting that it was Hillary Clintons campaign, along with the Democratic National committee. A brief time ago President Trump addressed the issue. I understand they paid a tremendous amount of money and Hillary Clinton was denied it. The democrats always denied it and now only because it is going to come out in a court case they said yes, they did it and the admitted it and they are embarrassed by it. I think admitted it and they are embarrassed by it. I think it admitted it and they are embarrassed by it. I think it is a disgrace. It isa very by it. I think it is a disgrace. It is a very sad commentary on politics in this country. Were joined now by one of the authors of the report. Thank you very much forjoining us. How damaging is this to Hillary Clinton and her campaign . how damaging is this to Hillary Clinton and her campaign . I think it isa clinton and her campaign . I think it is a lot of political fuel. 0ne clinton and her campaign . I think it is a lot of political fuel. One of the big arguments the republicans have been making is this whole Russian Investigation is basically a witchhunt based on a false premise. Obviously the more you can show that this began with political opposition research, democratic money, the more they think they can beat back the political issues about this investigation. Look, at this point, the investigation is up and running with the special counsel. Ben miller and his people have known for a time what the origins of this document were. From their point of view, doesnt really affect them that much. They need to figure out what facts they can confirm. To some extent. Sorry to interrupt. One of the interesting things in the report is that you are saying that after the election the fbi agreed to continue gathering evidence on trump and russia but pulled out when his name became public. Right, we have reported that before. The issue became the fbi. If you think back to november of last year, the fbi was still interested in trying to figure this out and understand it better. They were willing to pay him to keep working. What happens in after that is the whole issue started to blow up is the whole issue started to blow up in is the whole issue started to blow upina is the whole issue started to blow up in a sense because people. More bits and pieces from within the dossier are coming out and it is ha rd dossier are coming out and it is hard to be very good spy when you are in allthe papers. Hard to be very good spy when you are in all the papers. Just to jump two steps ahead because this is obviously political, the Republican Party are saying this is all phoney and this has been trumped up by the dossier. The dossier did not lead to the councils investigation, did it . It is part of it. It is part of it. It is part of it. It is part of it. It partly led the investigation. There is no question that some of what the dossier talked about became issues of investigation for the fbi. Look, we are in a practical and legal sense, we are well past that iiow. Legal sense, we are well past that now. Whatever the origins of this thing are, it has now come to look at obstruction ofjustice and finances and all sorts of things that are beyond simply what was in that are beyond simply what was in that document. Thank you very much for joining that document. Thank you very much forjoining us. Im keen to get Matt Schlapps perspective on this he chairs the american conservative union. It doesnt undermine the nature of the investigation, does it, the fact that Hillary Clinton funded this dossier . No, but you have to rememberat the dossier . No, but you have to remember at the beginning and end if you have a president in a question of whether he would have charges brought against him, impeachment and the house of representatives, it is wrapped up in politics. The american people, they are fair. A lot of this looks like politics to start with, it helps donald trump. If it looks like this. How this dossier came about helps make the case that it isa came about helps make the case that it is a lot of people making political charges. Is that not the problem for the republicans, they lied about it. The campaign lied that they had funded this and now it came out that they did. Christian, he is the truth, if Hillary Clinton did not have such bad poll numbers oii did not have such bad poll numbers on her character and honesty, i think she could be the president. She really has stopped tool on this basic question of character over and over again. Basic question of character over and overagain. I basic question of character over and overagain. Lam basic question of character over and over again. I am going to disagree with you. I do not think people will be surprised that Hillary Clinton did not straight shoot with where this came from. Thank you very much for joining this came from. Thank you very much forjoining us. Great get your thoughts. It is so interesting to get matts opinion there and all of the noise we have been hearing out of the senate. We keep going back to the poll numbers and have not moved much. Donald trumps base is still very strong and that paul gave us numbers that show that people did not like his leadership, his views on race, some of his attitudes. That has also been true for a long time that the still elected him and are sticking with him. What about this and were goes in the senate . We we re and were goes in the senate . We were asking that they are about the various senators who have expressed concerns about donald trump, to others, out . Jeff flake says they will. I will be interested ifjeff fla ke would will. I will be interested ifjeff flake would be providing any names of the senators who might possibly come out. You and matt were talking about some of them earlier, susan collins. We might get some but i would be surprised. I would be surprised if we got a floodgate. It is worth reminding our years, john mccain has brain cancer and jeff fla ke was mccain has brain cancer and jeff flake was up for a real election. We felt some kind of liberation to talk perhaps. This is not the beginning and of the Republican Party abandoning President Trump. You know when we are in a sorry state when the shrimp fishing industry has been divided by politics. Yes, you heard that right. A lot of this people in the industry voted for donald trump hoping he would bring backjobs. What will his policies on the environment mean for the fragile ecosystems in which the fish . We have been to mount pleasant, South Carolina, to hear from have been to mount pleasant, South Carolina, to hearfrom both sides. A lot of people got out of the industry because there is no money to put back into boats or make a living, really. There are very few of us left. One of my grandfathers was a fisherman and my dad was one of the first shrimpers. Started going out when i was four years old. You can see the shrimp boats over here. It used to be 3 d and four on the side. Now we have sailboats, yachts and sports boats. That is something you do not want your son or daughter to get into an out the get used to be. Imports from china, vietnam and the other places have affected the market. It drove the price down and flooded the market. You have all these warehouses full of froze n you have all these warehouses full of frozen shrimps. I think donald trump isa of frozen shrimps. I think donald trump is a businessman and i am a businessman and he looks out the businessman. We are in the right direction. Stay local, by local. Keep america first. Lets unify the country. Lets stay with the programme. I am not optimistic that trump can make the economy better. I know there are many people in South Carolina who disagree with us. The shrimp have been less abundant this year than they have in years past. When he degrades the environment, it will affect the shrimping communities and fishing communities. Demolishing the protections that we, as the country, have spent so long trying to fulfil. We have seen just through development is degradation of the marshes, which are the estuaries for shrimp. That is not going to get better by listening protections. We do not think the Trump Administration is representative of us or our interests. Great pictures. When you have the fishing industry divided like that and you realise bringing back jobs. Like that and you realise bringing backjobs. W