This was somebody there are people who were skeptical about donald trump from the very beginning. This was Somebody Playing Ball with donald trump and was a supporter and maybe even going to be his Vice President ial candidate. So the fact that hes saying these kinds of things shows that he gave him a fair hearing, was willing to give him a try, and its become pretty clear that this is a highly problematic president. Part of the thing that is worrying to me is were starting to see everything through the prism of heres another twitter scandal, heres another bit of the crazy. How crazy. Youre talking about somebody who has more access to information about threats to america than almost any human being on earth, Senator Corker, saying hes afraid of world war iii, to the paper of record for the country. That should be a full stop, all traffic comes to a halt moment. Because this is a cry for help for the country. And yet but it doesnt come until after donald trump personally insults him on twitter. If he really is concerned about the country i thought donald trump was, you know, not a was a bad hombre a couple years ago. Do i have better insight than bob corker . Corker helped give this guy the presidency and doesnt speak out to the paper of record until hes insulted on twitter. Heres what i think. People are saying that because he supported trump in the past that he somehow cant speak out now. People can have relationships that go bad. Theres something called divorce. You can be that close to somebody and later on say, this was a bad person. Im saying its motive. I dont know that hes sort of shrouded i dont know corker, but hes my home state senator. And even as a republican ive never had a cause to feel anything other than proud of him and the decorum and the way hes conducted himself as a senator. So this is not a fire brand. This is not an irresponsible guy. When someone like him is talking about an adult day care center, you have to then read into that the level of threat and frustration he feels. This is one of our best senators, and hes saying something very serious. How do you see it . Corker is not the only senator that trump has a problem with. At any given time hes feuding with six or seven. And on top of that his strategist, steve bannon, is now recruiting primaries for six other republican incumbents. So thats 12 or 13 out of 52. Now, even you are moderately proficient at math, you can see how this is a problem for getting the republican agenda passed. Theres significant concern on capitol hill theyre not going to bad the Budget Resolution next week, which is the key to unlocking the door of reconciliation, which is the key to tax reform. We have significant policy agenda problems, and these feuds dont help. And i sit here as someone who wants the president to succeed and wants the republicans to succeed and these feuds are not getting us there. Who bears the lions share of the blame in your opinion . Is it the president for going after corker or is it corker for doing this or some combination thereof . I think theres Combination Blame in all of these kinds of feuds. Look, these people are supposed to be one big, happy family. Now, grant it, some of these people are like cousins whove never met but have to sit next to each other at thanksgiving dinner. But at some juncture, we all have to sit here and eat together and be civil until its over for the purpose of satisfying the voters who sent the republicans to run washington d. C. So thats the issue. Its trumps fault. Because donald trump this is obviously a pattern. I dont know of bob corker having a vendetta or feud with anybody else, maybe its happened. But what we do know is that donald trump, it he goes from person to person. Hes always fighting one person. Usually not all at the same time. He goes from enemy to enemy. So i think hes to blame. I think thats part of the problem. Its the sort of cascade of enemies. This cascade of scandals. So you dont actually realize when something significant happens. This is not in the overall abnormality, the absurdity we have now adapted ourselves to, this is actually scary. This is not ivana and Melania Trump having an argument today. No. Its an important point when everything gets reduced down to the same prism of, you know, hes fighting with someone. You heard an objection about this, understandably, when he was attacking the mayor of san juan, and the headlines were all, theyre in a dispute. They were not in a dispute. He was attacking this woman who was in the middle of his supporters say she was looking for a partisan fight, what have you. You look at the situation she was in, and shes wading through sewage to help people and you wonder if its a wise idea for the president to attack her. And it is an attack. What is going on with corker is so fundamentally not normal. But to vans point we are on this slow cascade downward. And its hard to realize sometimes when something i dont have the exact language in front of me, but
is this going to end up . Now were going to have senators name calling. I just think at some point you have to step back and be a grown up. It didnt work when marco rubio tried it in the campaign. Everybody else ends up a little bit degraded. Nobody survives the back and forth. Its probably not unusual for president s and members of congress to not get along all the time. But, boy, it is unusual for it to be playing out in public. And, of course, when it plays out in public and people start calling each other names, you never want to feel like, i let that guy get the best of me. So you want to come back and respond and he wants to respond. You know, where does it end . In other words, were flunking kindergarten here. Exactly. We have to take a quick break. Were going to pick this up after the break. Including a top president ial advisor criticizing the senator for tweeting. Also, later, the Vice President s protest to the nfl players protest and the controversy surrounding it. Why he walked out of the 49erscolts game and the storm he caused. Crohns disease. Alert your doctor of new or worsening problems, including headaches, seizures, confusion, and vision problems. These may be signs of a rare, potentially fatal brain condition. Some serious allergic reactions can occur. Do not take stelara® if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Were fed up with your unpredictability. Remission can start with stelara®. Talk to your doctor today. Janssen wants to help you explore Cost Support Options for stelara®. Kyle, we talked about this. Theres no monsters. But you said theyd be watching us all the time. No, no. No, honey, we meant that progressive would be protecting us 24 7. We just bundled home and auto and saved money. Thats nothing to be afraid of. But good night, kyle. [ switch clicks, door closes ] i told you i was just checking the wiring in here, kyle. Hes never like this. I think somethings going on at school. [ sighs ] hes not engaging. I think somethings going on at school. Dealership has Great Customer service. muffled voice . And has great deals . And has. Complimentary donuts. Thats the one cars. Com. Over 5 million expert and user reviews. Year after this election and still cant accept the election results, it adds to their ability and their cover to speak about the president of the United States in ways that no president should be talked about. And that happened. So back now with the panel. I mean, for i mean, the irony, of course, is for Kellyanne Conway to be saying bob corkers tweet is irresponsible and yet to completely back the president on all of his tweets. I suppose its completely bonkers. I cannot think of another word when you listen to that. I actually agree with her, as i said on the last panel, that i dont think what bob corker did was senatorial or mature and an appropriate way to respond. But neither is pretty much everything that donald trump tweets. You cant have a two standards. One is that the president can act like a maniac on twitter, and then a senator does something one time thats fairly mild she publically embraces the president s tweets. Every single time. Every single time. Theres never been a tweet that she didnt figure out some way to justify, defend, be outraged that anybody didnt understand. Its her whole schtick is getting out there and defending this stuff. So for her to wander out into the vast tundra of American Society and begin lecturing anybody about anything on twitter is ludicrous. And the idea that its because World Leaders see it. Exactly. Thats our point. Youre mad because he might be saying something about trump on twitter that may be discrediting. Trump is saying stuff himself on twitter that is discrediting of himself. You might point that out. This is always the conflict that theres a genuine frustration among the part of trumps aides, and i understand it, where they feel like he does not get the respect that has been afforded to other president s. The problem is that it never factors in whether he himself is showing respect to the office in
some of his behavior, and thats always the problem. She has a job to do. Her job is to defend the president. She works there. Absolutely. Her job isnt to go out and be a people keep looking for people who work in the white house to come out and trash the president. Thats not going to happen. It wouldnt happen in any white house. Correct. That is correct. Im worried about the long term political implications of the white house continuously being critical of republican members of congress. Especially the ones it did you know apply to corker, because hes not running. But especially the ones who are on the ballot, if grass roots republicans hear the white house saying these people are bad, theyre not loyal, theyre not worth voting for, and they dont turn out those voters dont turn out in the midterms what are the political implications of this . I think the party has to worry about this in november of next year. I think youre absolutely right. Republicans could lose the majority, they havent repealed obamacare, theyre probably not now going to do tax reform and
the last couple days havent helped. Those are actually fairly shortterm implications. I think the longterm implications are is this the new normal . Will the next president be a celebrity who attacks people on twitter . Donald trump didnt completely come out of nowhere. Weve had a degradation over time. And even things like norms violation of norms, like ross pero announcing on a tv show he is going to run for president. Not today not shocking, but will this begin something very dark in the future . Im not willing to cut kellyanne the slack youre cutting her. I dont think because you work in the white house it gives you a right to come out and say up is down, down is up. Thats what shes doing. Its this complete Alice In Wonderland insanity. Where shes just saying things that arent true. Why is this okay . This idea that somehow bob corker is the one thats problematic i dont think thats what scott was saying or i was saying. What im saying is i think there is i dont think what shes saying is any different than what the president is saying. So if you are going to take issue with the president , which many people do people can leave or not leave the white house. But i dont understand the surprise that what im saying is, if she wants to come out and defend the president , thats her job. I agree with that. She should do that. But she should do it on nonludicrous grounds. She could say, i dont think Senator Corker is doing well by his people in tennessee because he should have his eyes on tax reform, et ceterea. Shes criticizing him over twitter . Thats nuts i dont think that would just think about that for a second, though. I dont think that would sound any less ludicrous, to use your word, he should keep his eye on tax reform. People are going to say the same thing about the president. I guess, what is the line of defense that you think is worth it . Its the lecturing about twitter when she defends everything shes a very good propaganda exactly. I think its very effective. But i wouldnt have her on if i
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during the anthem. Explaining, i left the colts game because at potus and i will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our flag or the National Anthem. Then President Trump said i asked Vice President pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled. And then he returned to twitter saying the trip by Vice President pence was long planned. He is receiving great praise for leaving after the players showed such disrespect. To complete the circle on this, the president is fundraising for his Reelection Campaign on pences walkout. Were back with the panel. Was this a preplanned stunt . Yes. It was a stunt to protest the protest because this is completely off the rails. Nobody remembers this is not this was supposed to be about Police Community relations. That was the initial concern. That there was some Police Misconduct issues. They want to raise that. Its now become about free
speech for athletes, disrespect for our sold soldiers. Not one player has said one bad thing about soldiers. Its just crazy on top of crazy. Apparently its good politics because theyre raising money off of it. The saddest part for me is pence had an opportunity, if he wanted to deal with this, to say we are actually going to do something about the underlying cause of the protest. Nobody is talking about the underlying cause of the protest, even though it continues in the neighborhood these guys come from. These are guys are rich they shouldnt complain, trump is rich he complains all the time. These guys come from neighborhoods where they are still getting Text Messages from their cousins about getting pulled over. These fwies are two years, three years out of those neighborhoods. They are desperate to get something done. Were not talking about it at all. I wrote an article for the daily beast, which is i actually
do not support kneeling during the National Anthem, but i think there is a problem with police brutality. I dont think it should stop us from pursuing. Real remedies for real problems . Right. Im actually with mike pence substantively on this, but i think it was a stunt you think he went to the game with the idea he was going to walk out . Its the 49ers. If theres any team that is going to kneel i dont see it as an act of disrespect. When they were sitting there, and not standing up, that was disrespectful. The idea you take a knee, thats what you do when somebody is hurt on the field. Theyre saying theres somebody hurt in our country. I dont think thats disrespect. But the idea youre going to go to a 49ers game and nobody is going to kneel, give me a break. Mike pence could have stood with his hand over his heart and tweeted im standing up honoring our flag, our soldiers, our