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Freedoms and institution, the flagrant disregard for truth and decency. the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have been elected to serve. none of these appalling features of our current politics should ever be regarded as normal. >> senator flake making the stunning announcement, he will not seek re-election in 2018. that development coming after the president re-ignited his twitter war with senator corker, belittling the tennessee law maker, falsely claiming he supported...

Life under the trump presidency. the latest tweet from the president, whacky congress man wilson is the gift that keeps on giving for the republican party. a disaster for the dems, watch her in action and vote r. he may be right. this may resonate with his base but it's hard to ignore he's tweeted five times about this congresswoman and has yet to tweet about the four americans killed in niger. why? >> well i think that attacking this law maker is just something that is red meet at to his base. she comes from ideologies that have been creative of creating this idea with the liberal that is don...

>> i can't do that, but they are similar to senator corker. i can just say this, the president is not respected by many members of congress. you are seeing that play out in terms of failed legislation. you see that played out when the president goes after and singles out individual members of congress and attacks them. that's not how you build relationships. >> david, if a lot of republicans are saying this behind the scenes, why is it taking an outgoing law maker to actually speak up? >> well, you've got to remember, they're in politics, they're reelected, and break with the president at this...

Cohen nor the law maker were to speak with media after meeting with staffers for an hour t. meeting was cancelled and postponed. >> why was it postponed? >> the next question you have to ask. >> was it your request to postpone? or was it on the committee? >> what were you doing here today if you weren't meeting. >> the senate intelligence postponed. i'll be back and i look forward to getting all the information. >> what was the message you wanted to send to michael cohen? >> i didn't send a message except what we do is behind closed doors. >> cohen is set to testify behind closed doors on the ...

Already we have requests for sba loans and now you see texas which of course prides itself on rugged individualism, self rel iance and the like. the frontier spirit, kennedy. is this a conflict and do you see it as a contradictions? >> i think the big government aspect is a real stretch for this law maker. this is a a contrast in what government can do. the path to hell is littered with government failures. when people look back and they think about the devastation, they think about the storm. they think about the images and the things that really moved them, you know, tragedy and the upliftin...