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Situation, republicans need to pass tax reform. they believe it's extremely important for them to go into the 2018 elections with some kind of legislative win. with bob corker throwing that in flux with this, they're looking at what he's doing and they're saying, it's not just that you're not running for re-election so you're sort of standing out and saying what you want, you're throwing the rest of us who want to run for re-election under the bus. >> you know, i think you're right about bob corker changing. he argues that he was hoping that after the president got him the job that he would --...

>> reporter: that's right. the reason initially for doing the interviews this morning was to try to raein him in on tax reform. he initially planned to discuss, but some of his sharp edged set the pressure a little. he is not going to hold back particularly since he's retiring this year and next year he really has no -- nothing to lose by voicing his concern. what is particularly incensing corker, john, is the president continually saying that he refused to endorse him and that he's not running for re-election because the president refused to endorse him. according to corker and other people i...

Also said that he would not -- wouldn't say if he trusted the president with the nuclear codes in addition to saying he's not a role model to children. a rather remarkable moment, one that few republican senators can say publicly but one he can because he's retiring, john. >> you have an interesting few hours ahead up there as the president makes his way to capitol hill. keep wandering the halls. let's come back in the room. we make light of this because there's great theater and great drama in the personal relationships and personal dysfunction. make light of it. this is the president of the ...

And, you know, i can only hope that eric cantor is right when he says he's going to keep on fighting for conservative values and i welcome him to that fight even though he and i will both be out of office. >> you don't think that this opened up the schism in the party that many tried to avoid with a lot of mainstream republicans winning and kind of preventing tea parties or the like from beating them? you don't think there's something bigger going on here? >> oh, i think there aent candi different positions and in some cases like mr. brat, he laid out some positions which were very popular in ...

Here. the stock markets here. and right now, everywhere. what does this mean and where does this go? amber is the former u.s. army helicopter pilot and we've also got john, the former shell oil president. amber, this looks like it's out of control and we don't have a clear strategy how to deal with it. >> yeah. our continual reliance independence on middle eastern oil has enormous threats to our national security. i mean, every single conflict, just as we're seeing with the new isi overtaking some of the cities in iraq, the u.s. has to get involved in some way or another. look at what happened...