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To my friends over in the freedom caucus, mr. meddles and i have had discussions. frankly very, very far apart. he once was a deficit hawk, apparently no long ser a deficit hawk. and quite willing to run up a huge deficit. we are talking about perhaps as much as $3 million of tax cuts over the next decade. that's $300 billion a year. 80% of that goes to the top 1% of taxpayers. these are the super wealthy americans who are going to get 80% of that two or $3 trillion offer the next decade. that's terrible for the american economy. this is going to make this income and inequality issue worse, pa...

Dollars in tax loopholes? >> joe, you're spot on, and everything you just said, i wouldn't disagree with a single thing. i can tell you i've met with senator corker on a number of things. he is, indeed, a deficit hawk. i went over to meet with him and talk to him about really this budget agreement that they have in the senate. but you're right. i mean, we have already started to see, but we are going to see legions of k street lobbyists coming in. that's why it's important for members of freedom caucus to make sure their voices are heard. we believe our lobbyists are the millions of forgotten ...

You're starting to change the tax code to give tax cuts to one group or take tax cuts away from one group, that is when the most intense lobbying comes. it's why we're going to be talking to bob corker about, mark meadows is right. he's a deficit hawk. and i personally, i don't know how they get the votes to close $4 trillion in tax loopholes. if they can do it, god bless them, but i don't think they can. >> all right. bob costa, you have new reporting on the republican civil war that's already shaping next year's midterms along deeply personal lines. allies of mitch mcconnell are engaging in ...

Resentment is not a governing philosophy. and at some point, you actually have to govern, and you have to have competencies in governing. and you move ahead with certain policies that really have animated the party for generations. and i think until we return to that, we're going to be -- we're going to be in trouble electorally. >> joining the discussion now, e.j. dionne, opinion writer for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst and co-author of the new book "one nation after trump." and jonathan alter is back with us. e.j., the question now is what will jeff flake do in the senate...

So what does jeff flake do now? i don't mean two years from now when he is not a senator. i don't mean the next stop in his career. i mean, what does he do now in the united states senate? jeff flake has been a reliable trump vote so far in the senate vote. but now that he doesn't have the pressures of a republican primary election in arizona, what does he do? jeff flake is a member of the senate foreign relations committee, where his chairman, bob corker, now stands accused by donald trump of trying to block the republican tax bill, which senator corker just might do, because he says he's not...